The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-12-24 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE AT RICHMOND, FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE).
NUMBER 63.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 24, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
Richmond Prices Current.
   D. C. D. C.     TOBACCO : : : : : 5 — 5 30   FLOUR : superfine : : : : 7 00   — fine : : : : : 6 50   — middlings : : : : : 5 50   WHEAT NEW : : : : : 1 25   INDIAN CORN : : : : : 3 50 — —   WHISKEY : : : : : 58 — 62 —   BACON : : : : : 13 — — —   HEMP : : : : : 170 — 190 —   BAR IRON : : : : : 110 — — —  
GENERAL OFFICE OF INSURANCE.
THE members of the Mutual Insurance Company against Fire on Goods and Furniture, in the state of Virginia, are requested to take notice, that in accordance to the fourth article of the Regulations of the said Company, a general meeting will be held at this office, on Wednesday the 8th day of January next. It is hoped that the meeting will be full, and that those who cannot make it convenient to attend in person, will not fail to appoint proxies in time.  Wm. H. Fitzhugh, P. Agent. December 24.
BY Virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber, by Josiah Thompson, to secure a debt due to James Garrot, as expressed in the said deed: Will be exposed to sale for ready money, on Wednesday the 15th of January 1806, at Itham Ball's Tavern in Powhatan county, 100 acres of LAND lying near the said Tavern, in the county aforesaid, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy said debt, interest and costs.  JOHN NUNNALLY, Trustee. December 24. S8m.
NOTICE.
I WHO have heretofore subscribed my name, knew the northern and eastern boundaries of Sym's Clarke School, in Elizabeth city county, as well as I knew the limits of my bed-chamber, in the year 1787, and before, and when the purchasers of that land, if they transfer those boundaries, nor otherwise, that I will assert my title to it, which, however, I am willing to release on just terms. I likewise inform those purchasers that I have prepared a bill in chancery, which shall be filed in the court and at the time that are proper, in order to disestablish of these boundaries.  GEORGE WYTHE. December 24. Itp.
Will be sold, at Powhatan January court, being the 15th, to the highest bidder.  A Valuable TRACT OF LAND containing 1200 acres, on Deep Creek, in the said county, either alone, or in lots to suit purchasers. The value of this land will be best known by an accurate view of the different lots, to which are attached rich low grounds, which will be shown by Mr. Hatcher, on the premises, with whom is left a plan, by a late survey. There is a good crop of wheat sown thereon. Twelve likely hands will be hired, which are under an overleaf, engaged for the ensuing year, with every thing prepared for a crop.  One-fourth of the purchase money will be required on taking possession, and the remainder in three annual payments, to carry interest from the date; but good bonds, properly secured, of residents within the districts of Richmond or Petersburg, will be accepted for the different payments.  WILLIAM MAYO. Powhatan, Dec. 24. S&th
AT A MEETING
Of the Trustees for the New Glasgow Academy, held in the town of New Glasgow, the 27th day of November, 1805:  RESOLVED, That William S. Crawford, David S. Garland, James M. Brown, Edmund Penn and Hudson M. Garland, or any three of them, be appointed a committee to make engagements with any person as a Teacher of the Languages and the Modern Branches of the Mathematics, and that they cause notification of this Resolution to be inserted in such public newspapers as they shall think proper, and that they make report to the board.  Copy, Teste. S. GARLAND, Clerk. December 6. T8w
BUCKINGHAM, J.
TAKEN UP, by Julius Coleman, a Dark Bay MARE, about four feet eight or nine inches high, has some white hairs on her hind foot lock, and branded on the near shoulder and thigh thus (S or G) appraised to 40 dollars.  A Copy, Teste, R. ELDRIDGE, J. D. C. Dec. 10. T8w
FOR SALE,
THREE valuable Slaves, viz. a male and female house servant, and a yardkeeper; their characters are unexceptionable. For further particulars apply to the printer. Nov. 29. T4w
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY on the nineteenth day of May last JESSE, a likely negro man nearly white, and upon a slight examination would pass as such. He is about six feet high, rather slender legs for his height, is about twenty five years old, by trade a Cooper, at which business he is very expert; he is a very ingenious handy fellow, and can turn his hand to almost anything. I expect he will pass by the name of Jesse Cottrell, as he has frequently assumed that name. His clothing I know nothing of, but knowing he has a variety, it would be unnecessary to undertake to describe his dress. I will give the above reward, if delivered to me in New-Kent county, or twenty dollars to have him secured in any jail so that I get him again.  TURNER CHRISTIAN. New-Kent, December 12. (T4wp.)
A STRAY COW.
TAKEN UP, by John Roach, left in the county of Charlotte, a Brindle Cow; she has a crop in her right ear, and a white spot over her right eye. Supposed to be about five or six years old. Appraised to 12 dols.  JOHN ROACH. December 5. T3w
WILL BE SOLD,
On the 27th day of January next, at King William courthouse, (being court day.)  THE remaining NEGROES, belonging to the estate of Byrd Chamberlayne, dec'd. For cash. All those having bonded claims against said estate, not yet settled, are requested to bring them in, as with to close my administration.  EDWARD P. CHAMBERLAYNE, Adm'r of Byrd Chamberlayne, dec'd. December 17. T2p.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
BLANKS,
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
NOTICE.
THE Surveyors of the Stage Roads from Richmond to Charlottesville, are requested to take notice, that repeated complaints have been made to me, of the danger to which the passengers in the Stage have been, and still are subjected to, from the badness of the roads, resulting most materially from the inattention or negligence of those, who ought to see them regularly repaired—therefore if on any further complaint of the difficult passage of the Stage, or obstruction as above, I shall proceed in the law against the most exemplary punishment on those who are in default. The general good of society, the dispatch necessary for the conveyance of the public Mail, and my own interest, are motives alone sufficient for such a determination.  RICHARD TERRELL. (overv.) December 17.
BENJAMIN DUVAL, AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR
HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of fresh MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS and DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUTTY, &c.
Also a complete assortment of HATERS' MATERIALS,
   Hatters' Irons Crude Tartar   Logwood Baton Irons   Coppers Bow-Strings   Viridegrease Linings   Fustick Galoons   Spanish Indigo Taffet Bands   Oil of Vitriol Rubbing Dishes   Aq. Fortis Stampers   Quicksilver Trenchers, &c.  
Which added to his former stock, completes an assortment that was never equalled in his line of business, in this city.
He thanks his customers for past favors, and hopes to merit a continuation of their custom. His former attention to the quality of his Medicines, importing them in their crude state, that he might be able to judge of their quality, and powdering and preparing them under his immediate inspection, have contributed to his present establishment; and opposition he presumes will not relax his exertions to give general satisfaction in future.
His experience for more than 12 years past, as a Apothecary and Druggist in this city, added to a small stock of Medical Information acquired before, enables him, he thinks, to form a tolerably correct judgment as to the quality of Drugs and Medicines, although he cannot boast of honors conferred on him, greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable customers.
In regard to his wholesale prices, he promises to furnish each of his wholesale customers with a priced current, as soon as possible, and feels himself confident in their approbation, knowing that no one in this state can afford to under-sell him. This he intends to do, not to get others' customers from them, but to secure his own.
Any articles that may be ordered, and not approved of as to quality, may be returned if in good order, and in a reasonable time.  June 7. (3w&tf)
BANK OF VIRGINIA.
THE Stockholders are hereby Notified, that the Annual Meeting for electing Directors, will be held on Monday the 6th January.
Power of Attorney for voting by proxy for Directors:
Know all men by these presents, That I of the county of _____ do hereby appoint _____ to be substitute and proxy, for and in my name and behalf, to vote at any election of a Director or Directors of the Bank of Virginia, as fully as might or could were personally present. In witness whereof have hereunto set hand and seal, this _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and _____  Signed and delivered in the presence of
Power of Attorney for receiving Dividends:
Know all men by these presents, That I of the county of _____ do hereby constitute and appoint _____ lawful attorney for and in my name and behalf, to receive and give receipts for all dividends now due, or which may become due on shares to me belonging in the capital or to which I may be entitled in the Bank of Virginia, Directors and Company of the Bank of Virginia. In witness whereof have set hand and seal this _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and _____  Signed and delivered in presence of  Nov. 19. T18J
WILLIAM MCCAY
RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his numerous friends and customers for the liberal encouragement he has received, and informs them that the business will in future be carried on under the firm of
MCCAY & COWAN
WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS:
Who tender their services to their friends and the public in the line of their profession, and hope from unremitted attention, to merit the confidence of their customers—Repair watches and clocks of every description. M. and C. have just received a large and fashionable assortment of jewelry, consisting of large, fancy, mourning, plain and set Ear-rings, Gold and gold set Necklaces.
A handsome assortment of ornamented Tortoise Shell Combs, Mourning, fancy, wedding, plain and plain set Finger Rings, Mourning, plain and plain set Breast Pins, Gold Miniature Settings and Chain, Mourning and plain Bracelets and Neck Clasps, Mourning and fancy Lockets, Ladies and gentlemen's gold, gilt, steel and silk Watch Chains, Gold, gilt, pebble, and glass Seals, Gold, gilt and steel Keys, Gold, silver and tortoise shell Sleeve Buttons & Studs, Silver Thimbles, Salt Spoons, Netting Needles, Tooth Picks and Shoe Clasps, with a variety of other articles.
They have likewise on hand a few good Watches, all of which they offer on the most reasonable terms. N. B. Miniature Settings and Hair-Work executed in the neatest manner.
WILLIAM COWAN
Returns his acknowledgements to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement he has received since his commencement in business, and flatters himself from his present connection to merit their future confidence.
N. B. Persons who have watches remaining in his hands will please call at the shop of McCay & Cowan. November 23. ep3m
DOCTOR J. WORRALL,
HAVING taken the first brick house on the right hand side after pulling the corner of the Cross-street, leading from the Brick-Row to the head of the Basin, offers his services to the citizens of Richmond and its vicinity in the different branches of the Medical Profession. Families residing in the country, requiring his assistance, may depend on the most prompt and attentive attention. October 29. (new 2m.)
JOHNSON & REAT,
JEWELLERS, SILVER-SMITHS & GILDERS, A few doors above the Bell-Tavern, Richmond: RETURN the public in general their thanks, for the liberal encouragement they have received, and with confidence of giving general satisfaction, they hope for a continuance of it.
They have now on hand, a handsome assortment of work, consisting of the following articles, viz: Table, Desert and Tea Spoons; Soup, Toddy, Sauce and Mustard Lades; Salt Shovels; Sugar Tongs; Tooth and Ear Picks; Pencil Cases; Pincussion Chains and Reams; Scler Chains; Silver Thimbles; Tortoise Shell and Pearl-handled Penknives.
Miniatures drawn and set upon the shortest notice; Mourning and Fancy Lockets; Rings ditto; Bracelets ditto; Breast Pins of various Sizes and shapes, mourning and fancy; Gold, Silver, Pearl and Conk Sleeve Buttons; Gold and Hair Watch Chains; gold Seals and Keys of different sizes and shapes; an elegant assortment of fashionable Tortoise Shell Combs, ornamented, of various sizes and shapes, just from Philadelphia; Ear-Rings of the most fashionable forms and sizes; Gold and Gold Mounted Jet Necklaces; Ladies and Gentlemen's Morocco Pocket Books; Gentlemen's Paste Knee Buckles—& many other articles too tedious to enumerate—all of which they offer on the most reasonable terms.
Persons willing to purchase by the quantity, will be allowed a reasonable credit by giving approved security in the city. Orders will be strictly attended to, and discharged with dispatch, by the subscribers.
JOHNSON & REAT. N. B. The highest price given for Old Gold and Silver. Nov. 19. ep3m
A NEW TAVERN.
REUBEN BURNLEY respectfully informs the public, that he has opened a House of Entertainment in that commodious new building west of the Court-house. Attached to the premises is a new stone stable interior to none in the state; and that he is in every respect, well provided for the accommodation of genteel company.
N. B. Very liberal wages will be given for a good Cook—a male would be preferred. Charlottesville, Nov. 22. ep2m
HUTTON'S newly invented PATENT METALLIC HONE, may be had at Mr. Geo' Greenhow's store, opposite the Eagle Tavern. The utility of this machine for setting Razors and other instruments which require a fine edge, renders it an object worthy the attention of every individual who may have occasion for its use. December 12. tf.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and
PLASTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. [ep3f.] Dec. 4.
FOR HIRE, the ensuing year:
A BLACKSMITH, perhaps inferior to none in Virginia. He has been brought up to execute the iron work of the carriage making business. Enquire of Wm. B. PAGE, Shackoe Hill. December 14. ep3c
ELLIS & ALLAN
Have just received by the Ships Proteus and George from Liverpool, and Swift from London, SUITABLE and a well selected assortment of FALL GOODS. Amongst which are:
   Duffel and Paint Blankets   Rose Blankets from 6-4 to 11-4   Napped Cottons   Keysey white and coloured   Plains do. do.   Yarn and Plain Hose   Neils from 3d to 8d   Crown window glass 10 by 8, 11 by 9 and 12 by 10   Purdy and Glue   Boiled Linseed Oil in Jars   English White Lead ground in oil   —Yellow Ochre   —Spanish Brown   —Verdigris in pots   Bellows, Anvils, Vices and Smiths hammers   Liverpool Filled Silt   London Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, single and double Mill'd   Patent Woollen Cords   Velvets, Hunters and Constitution Cords, Corduroy, and Thicksets   Ladies London Kid and Morocco Shoes and Boots   —Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hose   —Silk Bath Intep do.   —White Angola Hose, very fine   Gentlemen's Silk, Cotton, and Worsted Hose   —Angolas and Lambs Wool   —Lambs Wool Half Hose   Real Italian Saracens plain and checked   —Chambray Mullins   Plain and Tambooured Jacquet Mullins   Colonade, Piquet, & Laced Colonade & Cambric do.   Coloured Cambricks and Calicoes   Elegant Silk Shawls, &c. Cambric do.   Brussele and Kidderminster Carpets and Carpeting   Gentlemen's Real Beaver, Fashionable Hats   —Patent do.   Ladies Trimmed   Rich Black Molekin   Rich figured do. do.   Guns and Pistols   Elegant Fowling Pieces   Sine Twpne   6-8 and 10-4 Diaper and Damask do.   8-4, 10-4, 10-13 Damask and Diaper Table Cloths   Irish Linens and 5-4 Irish Sheeting.   Which will be sold on moderate terms.   October 25. tf.  
Seat of Government.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, December 16.
Mr. Crowninshield, from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, to whom had been recommitted the bill for the relief of Theodore Armelead, submitted a detailed report, stating the hard circumstance of the case, recommending immediate relief, and reporting the recommitted bill without amendment.
The report and bill were referred to committee of the whole to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Smilie. Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of so far amending the act entitled an act to provide for mitigating or remitting the forfeitures, penalties and disabilities accrued in certain cases as to extend the powers vested in the district judges of the U. S. to the judges of the judicial courts of the several states, and that the committee be authorised to report thereon by bill or otherwise. Committee of five members appointed.
The act of the legislature of South-Carolina authorising the city council of Charleston with the consent of Congress, to impose certain duties on tonnage, before the House at the last session, was referred to a committee of five members.
Mr. Crowninshield, from the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures, made a report on the petitions of Edw. Toppan, George Jenkins and William Currier, concluding with a resolution that the prayer of the petitioners is reasonable and ought to be granted; which was referred to a committee of the whole on Thursday next.
On motion of Mr. Varnum, the House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. J. C. Smith in the chair, on the standing rules of the House.
Mr. Alston moved to strike out the following words in one of the rules:
"It shall be the duty of the committee of accounts to audit the accounts of the members for their travel to and from the seat of government, and their attendance in the House."
This amendment was supported by Messrs. Alston and Dawson, under the impression that the new mode of settling the accounts of the members would be extremely inconvenient, if not impracticable.
It was opposed by Messrs. J. Clay, Findley, Varnum, Elmer and Badwell; who stated that, under the former practice of the House, which devolved the duty on the Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms, errors had been committed; that these would in future be best avoided by a standing committee; that this would relieve the Speaker and Sergeant-at-Arms from a burthen at the close of the session when other pressing business necessarily engaged their attention, and would guard the reputations of members from insinuations to their discredit.
During the discussion the Speaker, without expressing any opinion on the propriety of the amendment, made a minute statement of the practice which had heretofore prevailed on this point, in which he observed that but one instance within his knowledge had occurred since he had filled the chair, of a member who had received a greater compensation for his attendance than he was entitled to; and that this circumstance must have arisen from accident, as it involved his receiving pay for one day more than the length of the session, an error which was immediately after the hurry of business detected. He further stated that with respect to the mileage account, that was entirely made out in conformity to the representation of the members.
Mr. Alston's amendment was disagreed to—Ayes 33.
Mr. J. Clay moved to strike out the words in Italic in the following rule:
"When a question is under debate, no motion shall be received, unless for the previous question, to postpone it indefinitely, to postpone it to a day certain, to lie on the table, to commit it, to amend it, or to adjourn."
Mr. Nicholson supported and Mr. Varnum opposed this motion, which was disagreed to—Ayes 44—Nocs 51.
Mr. Smilie moved an amendment, prescribing that if the previous question shall be decided in the negative, "the consideration of the main question shall not be resumed during the same session."
Messrs. Smilie, Findley and J. Clay spoke in favor of, and Messrs. Varnum and Quincy against the amendment, which was disagreed to—Ayes 32.
On the motion of Mr. Nicholson the following new rule was adopted—Ayes 30.
"When a question is postponed indefinitely, the same shall not be acted upon during the session."
Mr. Smilie moved to strike out the words in Italic in the following rule:—"On a previous question, no member shall speak more than once without leave;" and insert in lieu of them, "there shall be no debate."
Messrs. Smilie and Nicholson advocated, and Messrs. Bidwell, G. W. Campbell and Varnum opposed this motion, which was disagreed to—Ayes 35.
Mr. Findley suggested the propriety of instituting a permanent committee to be charged with whatever respects the lands of the U. S. and moved a rule for the appointment of a standing committee of seven members, to be styled, "A Committee respecting the lands of the United States;" which motion was agreed to—Ayes 59—Nocs 31.
The committee then rose, and asked leave to sit again, which the House granted.
TUESDAY, December 17.
On motion of Mr. Mumford, the memorial of the manufacturers of hats in the city of New-York, similar to that presented from the haters of Philadelphia, was referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures; and the petition of the custom house measurers of the city of New-York, praying for an increase of compensation, was referred to the same committee.
Mr. Stanton moved the following resolution: Resolved, That the Committee of Revival & Unfinished Business be instructed to enquire into the expediency of suspending for a limited time, so much of an act regulating foreign coins, and for other purposes, as is contained in the 2nd section thereof, with authority to report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Alston observing that this subject was under the consideration of the Committee of Revival and Unfinished Business, who would probably soon make a report upon it, the resolution was disagreed to—Ayes 29.
Mr. J. C. Smith, from the Committee of Claims, made a report on the petition of the crew of the late frigate Philadelphia, unfavorable to the petitioners, which was referred to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
The House again went into committee of the whole—Mr. John C. Smith in the chair—on the standing rules of the house.
After making a slight amendment in one of the rules

from the English and French papers in our possession, we learn,
That Lord Nelson; with 30 sail of the line, was off Cadiz on the 4th of October, for the purpose of attempting something against the combined fleets;
That, supposed to be with the intention of affixing his lordship's operations, transports had been sent to order the troops under the command of Sir James Craig to return down the Mediterranean;
That a Russian squadron, consisting of five sail of the line and a frigate, had passed through the Downs for Portsmouth, intended ultimately to co-operate with Lord Nelson;
That the Rochefort squadron, which had got into Ferrol, had burnt the English ship Calcutta, that she might not retard their progress into port, she having received so much injury in the engagement which terminated in her capture, as very much to impede their sailing;
That the English secretary of state has directed notice to be given to America, Denmark, and the other neutral powers, that British vessels captured by the enemy, and purchased by Americans, Danes, &c. will not be admitted to entry in any of the ports of Great Britain;
That the Imperial Parliament will convene on the 21st of January; and
That an important change was in all probability about to take place in the Spanish Government—many of the nobility, connected with families who have remonstrated against the measures which produced the late riots at Madrid, having been expelled from the court and capital of Spain, through the influence of the Prince of Peace.
From London papers to the 29th October, received at the office of the Mercantile Advertiser.
LONDON, Oct. 19.
The American newspapers are full of animadversions on the decisions that have recently taken place in our Courts of Admiralty respecting captures of vessels colourably the property of that country. They complain indeed of all the European powers in different ways, but principally of this country, against which they even threaten reprisals.
It has been the practice of the Americans to navigate vessels from the colonies of countries with which we are at war, to touch at some American port for new papers, and then proceed for Europe, as with American property. This trick has been seen through, and for some time past all captures under such circumstances have been held legal in our courts of law.
The Americans complain that the principle on which these decisions are given, has not been followed till lately, and that the introduction of it ought not to have been so sudden as to expose their property to seizure, without their even knowing the risk to which they are now exposed.
A strong memorial has been presented by the American Minister to Lord Hawkesbury on this business; and his answer, as transmitted a few days ago, was, that it was a case of such importance as to demand time for serious investigation. We trust it will receive serious investigation, and also a candid and fair answer.
October 26.
We stop the press to announce that accounts have been received we believe officially, which state that a large Prussian force is now marching against the French.
October 29.
Price of Stocks this day at one o'clock. Consols for money, 53 1-4 for November 1-2. Reduced 53 3-8—Omnium 4 3-4—Exchequer Bills par.
In a letter from Frankfort of the 20th, inserted in the Dutch papers, the action which took place on the 10th at Gunzburg is mentioned. The capture of Ulm is also stated, but only as a report. The day of the victory is not mentioned, but the first attempt is stated to have taken place on the 11th, when the French were repulsed with considerable loss.
The same letter mentions the circumstance stated in the Monitor of the 23rd, as the reason why the official account of the capture of Ulm had not reached Paris. The Archduke Ferdinand with a considerable force crossed the Danube on the 13th at Ulm, with which force he took positions at Heidenheim, Aalen, Gemund, and Geissen, in the Wurtemberg territory, still keeping up his communication (we presume) with the main army on the Iller. It was probably the capture of this corps which intercepted the couriers from the Imperial head quarters, and cut off from the Monitor, for four days the regular supply of intelligence for the issue of the daily Bulletins. Whether this movement was made for the purpose of turning the right wing of the French, or withdrawing the greater part of the Austrian army from the position at Ulm, with the design of attempting a retreat through the Upper Palatinate, we have not the means of deciding; but the subsequent fall of Ulm could not fail to bring this division of the Austrian army into imminent danger of being cut off.
An article from Rotterdam states, that the French were thrice repulsed in their attempt to carry Ulm by storm, but that they succeeded on the fourth attack. The slaughter on both sides was great, both in officers and men, and several Generals are reported to have been among the number. The accounts from Germany are stated to be so confused that it is difficult to come at real facts. The French, however, were victorious; and we fear, from a comparison of such facts as these journals afford, with the accounts we have received from the coast, that it has been followed by a most serious disaster to the Austrian grand army.
Our Correspondent at Dover writes us, that Sir Sidney Smith, who is at present there, received at 8 o'clock on Sunday night, an express from the officer who commands our flotilla off Boulogne, informing him that a boat had been sent out to the mouth of the harbour, and then allowed to drift, without any person on board. This boat was picked up by the Immortalite frigate, and on board was found a letter, stating, that the French had had an action with an Austrian army, consisting of one hundred thousand men, which they had entirely put to the route, having killed, wounded, & taken prisoners nearly the whole, the Commander in Chief being among the number!
The intelligence just stated was transmitted immediately to Lord Keith, who yesterday afternoon communicated it to the admiralty, where accounts have also been received, that at Boulogne, on Saturday morning last, there was a general discharge of the artillery on the batteries, probably announcing the receipt of the intelligence there.
To all that we have stated we have to add, that a private letter from Holland, dated on Saturday, and received in town last night, states that the action took place on the 19th instant; that it was long and obstinately contested, but at length terminated in favour of the French, who have entirely annihilated the Austrian army, the whole having been killed, taken prisoners or dispersed. General Mack, with the whole Austrian Staff, being among the prisoners.
It is extremely probable that these accounts are exaggerated; but that the fate of the campaign is already decided, we have but too much reason to fear. Yet still, dreadful as those tidings are respecting the Austrian army, we trust the hardy men of the North coming forth on the victorious French, will yet moderate, if not check their career. Bonaparte, we trust, will find that Swedish and Prussian soldiers are not such feeble supporters of the Austrians as the unwarlike states of Italy proved in the last war. But, much as the aid of Prussia may throw into the scale, we look to the present crisis of affairs with a degree of anxiety that will not suffer us to forbear addressing our countrymen on the serious thoughts which ought now to occupy their minds. It is no time now to hear any one subject in our hearts, but the fate, the undecided fate, of our country. England was never yet menaced with half the dangers that now impend; never, since the era of her existence, was it necessary for Englishmen to summon up their virtues, to collect their understandings, and to prepare, from this instant, for the serious defence of their country.
The troops which were to have marched yesterday from Shoreham to Ramsgate to embark, were ordered to remain in barracks, and the troops already embarked are expected to be disembarked in the course of a few days, except the German Legion which it is believed will proceed to their destination. We believe the fact to be, that the expedition is for the present abandoned!
Translated for the Mercantile Advertiser, from the Official Bulletin.
OFFICIAL INTELLIGENCE,
Announcing the defeat of General Mack, the reduction of Ulm, and the taking of more than 40,000 prisoners.
PARIS, 2d Brumaire.
On the 22d Vendemaire (14th October) Marshal Soult seized upon Memmingen, where he has made 6,000 prisoners.
In the mean time his majesty surrounded Ulm with the main body of his army.
The Austrians had concentrated in the neighbourhood of Ulm the whole of their forces, with the exception of 20,000 men commanded by Prince Ferdinand, who endeavoured to get into Bohemia.
In the night of the 25th to the 26th (17th and 18th October) the town of Ulm capitulated; Gen. Mack, 17 generals, and 20,000 men, have been made prisoners of war.
Prince Murat reached on the 29th the rear of the column which had left Ulm on the 21st; he made 3,000 prisoners; on the 26th the whole corps laid down their arms.
Bavaria is entirely evacuated: Marshal Bernadotte has removed his advanced posts to the Inn. It was believed at the head quarters to his majesty the Emperor would set off from Ulm to Augsburg on the 28th.
The official relation will give details of these great events.
Moniteur.
We are assured that his excellency Marshal Massena has received from his majesty the Emperor a letter of which the following is an extract:
"The Austrians retire continually before the Grand Army; they will be beaten from post to post, as well as the Russians, as soon as we can come up with them. I am sorry that our movements and our success diminish the number of troops you have to combat; there shall remain less for you to conquer."
Address of the Emperor NAPOLEON to his Soldiers.
The evening before the surrender of Ulm, the Emperor issued the following proclamation:
"Soldiers, a month ago we were encamped on the shores of the Ocean opposite to England; but an impious league compelled us to fly towards the Rhine.
"It is a fortnight since we passed that river, and the Alps of Wurtemberg, the Neckar, the Danube, and the Lech; those celebrated barriers of Germany have not retarded our march a day, an hour, or an instant.
"Indignation against a Prince whom we have twice defeated on his throne, when it depended entirely on our pleasure to hurl him from it, supply us with wings. The enemy's army deceived by our manoeuvres and the rapidity of our movements, is completely encircled. It now fights only for its safety. It would bring home; but it is now too late. The fortifications which it erected at great expense, along the Iller, expecting that we should advance through the passes of the Black Forest, are become useless since we have approached by the plains of Bavaria.
"Soldiers, but for the army which is now in front of you, we should this day have been in London; we should have avenged ourselves for six centuries of insults, and restored the freedom of the seas.
"But bear in mind, to-morrow, that you are fighting against the allies of England; that you have to avenge yourselves on a perfidious Prince, whose own letters breathed nothing but peace, at the moment when he was marching his army against our ally; who thought us cowardly enough to suppose, that we should tamely witness his passage of the Inn, his entry into Munich, and his aggression against the Elector of Bavaria. He thought we were occupied elsewhere; let him for the third and last time learn, that we know how to be present in every place where the country has enemies to combat.
"Soldiers, to-morrow will be an hundred times more celebrated than the day of Marengo, I have placed the enemy in the most position.
"Recollect, that the most remote posterity will remark the conduct of each of you on this memorable day. Your progeny, five hundred years hence, who may place themselves under those eagles around which we rally, will know in detail every thing that your respective corps shall achieve to-morrow and the manner in which your courage shall confer on them eternal celebrity. This will constitute the perpetual subject of their conversation; and from age to age, you will be held up to the admiration of future generations.
"Soldiers, I wished only to conquer the enemy, I should not have thought it necessary to make an example of your courage and your attachment to the man who is doing nothing worthy of either you or your emblem; it is necessary that not a man of the enemy's army shall escape; that that government, which has violated all its engagements, shall first learn its catastrophe on receiving this fatal intelligence, its conscience, that it has betrayed both its solemn promises of peace, and the first of the duties bequeathed by its ancestors, with the power of forming the rampart of Europe against the eruption of the Cossacks.
"Soldiers, who have been engaged in the affairs of Wertingen and Gunningen, I am satisfied with your conduct. Every corps in the army will emulate you, and shall be able to say to my people—Your Emperor and your army have done their duty, perform yours and the 200,000 conscripts whom I have summoned, will hasten by forced marches, to reinforce our second line.
(Signed) NAPOLEON."
"By order of the Emperor and King, the Major-General of the grand army, BERNEZIE."
NEW-YORK, December 17.
By the Neptune, which arrived last evening in 23 days from Liverpool, the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has been favoured with London papers and Lloyd's Lists to the 7th of November, and Liverpool papers to the 9th inclusive.
They are principally occupied with the operations of the French and Austrian armies in Germany, of which we cannot until to-morrow give even an outline.
The intelligence of the defeat of the combined squadrons before Cadiz, in which the gallant Nelson lost his life, is of so much importance that we have excluded almost every other article of news to lay before our readers the official details of this very interesting subject. We shall proceed in our next with a regular series of the events which, since our former advices, have occurred upon the continent of Europe.
Of Marshal Bernadotte nothing further is known than that on the 19th of October he occupied a position between Munich and the Inn, the Austrians there being on their own side of that river. Bonaparte, with the whole of the army, would join him about the 25th or 26th, when the farther operations against the Austrians and Russians would be commenced.
The army of Italy, under Massena, passed the Adige on the 18th of October, after an action in which the Austrians had 1500 killed and as many taken prisoners. The report of Massena's defeat by the Archduke Charles was received in London by way of Catalonia, and relied on no official authority.
LONDON, October 31.
AMERICAN BOTTOMS.
The following official communication will be read with much interest by the commercial world. It relates to a subject of much importance, and embraces consequence of the greatest magnitude. We shall offer no remarks on it at present.
"Great Cumberland Place, Oct. 28, 1805.
"SIR—I have the pleasure to enclose you a copy of a Note from Lord Mulgrave, containing information that his Majesty has thought fit to relax in certain respects the blockade of the ports of Cadiz and St. Lucar, which is now formed by his naval forces.
"As the modification which is given to the blockade of these ports by this declaration of his Majesty, may be of importance to the United States, I have the honour to request that you will be so good as to communicate it, without delay, to their consuls at the several ports that their citizens may have advantage of it. I have the honour to be, Sir, your very obliged servant.
"(Signed) JAS. MONROE."
"General William Lyman, Consul of the United States, &c. &c."
TO JAMES MONROE, Esq.
"Downing-Street, Oct. 27, 1805.
"The undersigned, his majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has the honour to inform Mr. Monroe, that the King having been pleased in conformity to the Note transmitted by the undersigned to Mr. Monroe on the 27th April last, to direct that the necessary measures should be taken for the blockade of Cadiz and St. Lucar, and such ports having been, and being now blocked, the undersigned is commanded to acquaint Mr. Monroe, that his Majesty is pleased to declare that such blockade shall not extend to prevent neutral vessels from entering into and sailing from the said ports of Cadiz and St. Lucar, provided that the vessels so entering and sailing from the said ports, shall not be found to have on board, or to have carried to said ports any warlike or naval stores, or any article or articles intended to be, and usually converted into warlike, naval stores, or provisions of any kind whatever excepting such as may be fairly deemed sea stores, for the use of the crews of such neutral vessels. The undersigned is therefore commanded to request Mr. Monroe to apprise the American Consuls and Merchants residing in England of this determination of his Majesty. The undersigned requests Mr. Monroe to accept the assurances of his high consideration.
"Signed, MULGRAVE."
November 7.
The vanguard of the second Russian army, amounting to 20,000 men, arrived at Bohemia about the middle of last month, and there is every reason to believe that a few days afterwards they formed a junction with the troops on the Inn. The remainder of the second Russian army might be expected to have wholly joined the troops on the Inn by the latter end of last month.
Captain Langford arrived at the Admiralty this afternoon, accompanied by a Russian officer, bringing with him most important dispatches from the Elbe.
These dispatches bring a Treaty of Alliance which has been concluded between this country and the Prussian Majesty, whose army of eighty thousand men was actually on its march against the common enemy, when the dispatches were sent off.
The Emperor of Russia had been to Berlin to hold a conference with his Prussian majesty.
The same emperor is hurrying to the scene of action, at the head of an army of sixty thousand men; and his imperial brother of Germany is also marching at the head of another army.
Government yesterday morning received the intelligence that the combined Russian and Prussian forces have entered Hanover, where every thing is again put upon its former footing. Six thousand French have thrown themselves into the fortress of Hameln, where it is supposed they will be blockaded.
The number of Prussian troops who were to be assembled at Hildesheim by the 25th ult. is stated in a letter from that place, at 58,000 men; and the number of those which were to repair to the provinces of Franconia at 50,000.
The Prussian troops on their march to Franconia and Westphalia are to be joined by 24,000 Saxons and 20,000 Hessians.
PRICE OF STOCKS.
Consols 58 1-2 5-8—Red. Ann. 58 5-8 1-2.
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY.
Admiralty-office, Nov. 6.
Dispatches of which the following are copies, were received at the Admiralty this day at one o'clock A.M. from Vice Admiral Collingwood, commander in chief of his Majesty's ships and vessels off Cadiz.
Euryalus, off Cape Trafalgar, Oct. 22.
SIR,
The ever to be lamented death of Vice Admiral Lord Viscount Nelson, who in the late conflict with the enemy, fell in the hour of victory, leaves to me the duty of informing my Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, that on the 19th instant, it was communicated to the Commander in Chief from the ships watching the motions of the enemy in Cadiz, that the combined fleet had put to sea as they failed with light winds westerly, his Lordship concluded their destination was the Mediterranean, and immediately made all sail for the Straits' entrance, with the British squadron consisting of 27 ships, 3 of them 64's, when his lordship was informed by capt. Blackwood, (whose vigilance in watching and giving notice of the enemy's movements, has been highly meritorious) that they had not yet passed the Straits.
On Monday the 21st instant, at day light, when Cape Trafalgar bore E. by E. about seven leagues, the enemy was discovered six or seven miles to the eastward, the wind about west, and very light: the Commander in Chief immediately made the signal for the fleet to bear up in two Columns, as they formed in order of sailing; a mode of attack his lordship had previously directed, to avoid the inconvenience and delay in forming a line of battle in the usual manner.
The enemy's line consisted of 33 ships (of which eighteen were French and fifteen Spanish) Commander in Chief Admiral Villeneuve; the Spaniards under the direction of Gravina, were, with their heads to the northward, and formed their line of battle with great closeness and correctness; but as the mode of attack was unusual, so the structure of their line was new; it formed a crescent converging to leeward, so that, in leading down to their centre, I had both their van and rear afloat the beam; before the fire opened every alternate ship was about a cable length to windward of her second a head and a stern, forming a kind of double line, and appeared, when on their beam, to leave a very little interval between them; and this without crowding their ships.
Admiral Villeneuve was in the Bucentaure in the centre, and the Prince of Asturias bore Gravina's flag in the rear: but the French and Spanish ships were mixed without any apparent regard to order of national squadron.
As the mode of our attack had been previously determined on, and communicated to the Flag Officers and Captains, few signals were necessary, and none were made, except to direct closer order as the lines drew down.
The Commander in Chief in the Victory led the weather column, and the Royal Sovereign which bore my flag, the lee.
The action began at twelve o'clock, by the leading ships of the columns breaking through the enemy's line, the commander in chief about the tenth ship from the van, the second in command about the 12th from the rear, leaving the van of the enemy unoccupied: the succeeding ships breaking through in all parts, after their leaders, and engaging the enemy at the muzzles of their guns; the conflict was severe; the enemy's ships were fought with a gallantry highly honourable to their officers, but the attack on them was irresistible, and it pleased the Almighty disposer of all events, to grant his Majesty's arms a complete and glorious victory.
About three P.M. many of the enemy's ships having struck their colours, their line gave way; Admiral Gravina, with ten ships joining their frigates to leeward, stood towards Cadiz. The five headmost ships in their van tacked, and standing to southward, to windward of the British line were engaged, and the sternmost of them taken; the others went off, leaving to his Majesty's squadron nineteen ships of the line (of which two are first rates, the Santissima Trinidad, and the Santa Anna) with three flag officers, viz. Admiral Villeneuve, the Commander in Chief, Don Ignacio Maria D'Aliva, Vice Admiral, and the Spanish Rear Admiral Don Baltazar Hidalgo Cifneros.
After such a victory it may appear unnecessary to enter into encomiums on the particular parts taken by the several commanders: the conclusion says more on the subject than I have language to express; the spirit which animated all was the same; when all exert themselves zealously in their country's service, all deserve that their high merit should stand recorded; and never was high merit more conspicuous than in the battle I have described.
The Achille (a French 74) after having surrendered, by some mismanagement of the Frenchmen, took fire and blew up, 200 of her men were saved by the tenders.
A circumstance occurred during the action, which so strongly marks the invincible spirit of British seamen when engaging the enemies of their country, that I cannot resist the pleasure I have in making it known to their lordships: The Temeraire was boarded by accident, or design, by a French ship on one side, and a Spaniard on the other; the contest was vigorous, but in the end the combined ensigns were torn from the poop, and the British hoisted in their places.
Such a battle could not be fought without sustaining a great loss of men. I have not only to lament in common with the British navy and the British nation, in the loss of the Commander in Chief, the loss of a hero, whose name will be immortal, and his memory ever dear to his country; but my heart is rent with the most poignant grief for the death of a friend, to whom by many years of intimacy, and a perfect knowledge of the virtues of his mind, with inspired ideas superior to the common race of men, I was bound by the strongest ties of affection, a grief to which even the glorious occasion in which he fell, does not bring the consolation which perhaps it ought; his lordship received a musket ball in his left breast about the middle of the action, and sent an officer to me immediately with his last farewell, and soon after expired.
I have also to lament the loss of those excellent officers captains Duff of the Mars, and Cooke of the Belleroophon; I have yet heard of none others.
I fear the numbers that have fallen will be found very great, when the returns come to me; but it having blown a gale of wind ever since the action, I have not yet had it in my power to collect any reports from the ships.
The Royal Sovereign having lost her masts, except the tottering foremast, I called the Euryalus lying within hail, made my signals, a service captain Blackwood performed with great attention; after the action I shifted my flag to her, that I might more easily communicate my orders to, and collect the ships, and towed the Royal Sovereign out to seaward. The whole fleet were now in a very perilous situation, many disabled; all shattered in thirteen fathom water off the shoals of Trafalgar, and when I made the signal to prepare to anchor, few of the ships had an anchor to let go, their cables being cut us through such a gale of wind which aided by the wind shifting a few points, and drifting the ships off the land, except four of the captured disabled ships, which are now at anchor off Trafalgar, and I hope will ride safe until those gales are over.
Having thus detailed the proceedings of the fleet on this occasion, I beg leave to congratulate their lordships on a victory, which I hope, will add luster to the glory of his majesty's crown and be attended with public benefit to our country.
I am, &c. Signed C. COLLINGWOOD. Wm. Marlden, Esq.
The Order in which the ships of the British squadron attacked the combined Fleets, on the 21st October, 1805.
VAN. REAR.
Victory, Royal Sovereign,
Temeraire, Mars,
Neptune, Belleisle,
Conqueror, Tonnant,
Leviathan, Belleroophon,
Ajax, Colossus,
Orion, Achilles,
Agamemnon, Polphemus,
Minotaur, Revenge,
Spartiate, Swiftsure,
Britannia, Defence,
Africa, Thunderer,
Euryalus, Defence,
Sirius, Prince,
Phebe, Dreadnought
Naiad,
Pickle Schooner,
Entrepenante cutter,
(Signed) C. COLLINGWOOD.
GENERAL ORDER.
Euryalus, October 22, 1805.
The ever to be lamented death of Lord Viscount Nelson, Duke of Bronte, the Commander in Chief, who fell in the action of the 21st, in the arms of victory, covered with glory, whose memory will be ever dear to the British navy and the British nation, whose zeal for the honour of his King, and for the interest of his country, will be ever held up as a shining example for a British seaman, leaves to me a duty to return my thanks to the Right Honourable Rear Admiral, the Captains, Officers, Seamen, and detachments of Royal Marines serving on board his Majesty's squadron now under my command, for their conduct on that day; but where can I find language to express my feelings.
December 24.
NOTICE.
HAVING commenced the BURR MILL STONE MAKING, in September last, at my shop, near the Basin of the Canal, I have now finished for sale stones of 3 feet 4 inches and 5 feet diameters of best quality and workmanship. I have a large proportion of Cloke Pard Burrs, suitable for grinding corn, and will shortly receive additional supplies of good materials. Those who please to favour me with their commands, will be served faithfully on reasonable terms. I will choose bolting Cloths for those who desire it, suitable to their purposes. I tender my thanks to the public for past favours, and hope for future encouragement. JOHN MOODY.
December 24. TS&SW.
THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAGS.

Domestic Intelligence.
FROM THE BALANCE, PUBLISHED IN HUDSON, N. Y.
AMERICAN CAPTIVES IN TRIPOLI.
Extracts from the Journal of Dr. Cowdery, kept during his captivity in Tripoli.
[CONCLUDED.]
May 22. I was informed, that in a letter which the Bashaw received the evening before, it was stated that Hassan Bey and his army, were taken in Derne, by the Americans and Sidi Hamet, the Ex-Bashaw. I was desired not to mention it, because it was a great secret; and the Bashaw did not wish to let his people know it. I was also informed, that the Bashaw called a council of his chiefs, and proposed to put all the American prisoners to death, but it was agreed to postpone this measure for that time.
May 23. Twenty-five of our men were sent with a cart for timber into the country. The wind from the desert was very heavy and hot. The men almost perished in the sand, which flew and drifted like a snow-storm in our country. They stopped through fatigue, and asked their driver, who was a Turk, for liberty to drink at a well which was near them. The Turk replied, that they were Roma kelps . (Christian dogs) and said they should have no water. He gave them all a severe beating with a large club which he always carried with him to drive them with, and made them go on with the cart, which the poor fellows had to drag, loaded with timber, through the burning sand. They returned towards night almost perished.
May 24. At night the Bashaw dispatched a boat with powder, musket-balls, and money, for his troops who were collecting to oppose the approach of his brother Hamet, the Ex-Bashaw. The eldest son of Hamet was confined in the castle by order of the present Bashaw. The Bashaw was so much agitated at the news of the approach of his brother, that he this day declared, that if it was in his power now to make peace and give up the American prisoners, he would gladly do it, without the consideration of money. His funds were so low, that his reward run in debt for the supply of the kitchen. He gave his Mamalukes and domestics, & myself, but one meal per day. The rich Turks in town took turns in supplying his few troops. He heartily repented for not accepting the terms of peace last offered by our country.
May 26. Three frigates in sight. At about 11 A. M. the smallest came near in, and hoisted the banners of peace. The Bashaw asked his head men of the town, who were with him in his gallery, whether it was best to hoist his white flag. All except one (the charge d'affaires for Algiers) declared in favour of it, and of making peace if possible. They expressed great contempt towards the Algerine consul for his advice, and said that whoever would advise the Bashaw not to hoist the white flag at such a critical moment, must be his foe, and not his friend. The Algerine consul disappeared and left the castle. The Spanish consul soon after came to the castle; and the Bashaw sent him in one of his handsomest boats, with Sirous Hammet to the frigate. They returned at evening with the joyful news of a prospect of peace. There was a visible change from gloominess to joy in the countenances of all the Turks.
May 27. Both Turks and Christians were all anxiously looking out for the frigates. It was said that Col. Lear had promised to come on shore this morning, and that the Spanish consul was preparing a dinner for the gentlemen who were expected to come with him. We were all agitated alternately by hope and despair. The terraces and every eminence in town, were covered with people of all classes and ages, who were looking for the wished-for peace-maker. But not a frigate nor a sail hove in sight during the day.
May 28. All looking out again for our squadron. A brig hove in sight in the morning, which we all at first thought was the flag ship. On closer observation it was a brig, a gloominess again appeared on every countenance. The Turks began to think that the frigate had gone to fetch the whole fleet, which they had heard consisted of sixty sail of different sizes. They thought that the flag of truce was only a plan of the Americans, to find out the force of Tripoli, &c. But at sunset three frigates and a brig appeared, which revived our hopes. The Bashaw showed the greatest anxiety for peace. He was sensible of the danger he was in from the loss of his funds and the dissatisfaction of his people.
May 29. Three frigates and a brig bore down upon the town and displayed the ensigns and signals of peace, which were immediately answered from the castle. The Spanish consul, Don Juan , and several Turks went on board, & did not return till late at night, when it was reported that negotiations for peace were going on rapidly.
May 31. The Spanish consul and Sirous Hammet went on board the commodore , and returned at night. The Bashaw sent me to inform Capt. Bainbridge, that peace was agreed on, which I did to the great joy of the officers.
June 1. The truce continued. Capt. Bainbridge went on board the commodore , and returned at night. Our men were still drove to hard labour, and our officers kept confined.
June 2. I received a letter from Capt. Bainbridge, stating that the terms of peace were agreed on, and that we should soon go on board the squadron . I immediately read this letter to our crew, who were so overjoyed that many of them shed tears. They were still drove to hard work and many of them flogged.
June 3. The articles of peace were signed, and salutes fired from the frigates and batteries.
June 6. I bid the Bashaw a final adieu, at which he seemed much affected.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.
The wood used in Tripoli, is brought in on Jack-Asses; six of them carry about half a cord.
There are many remains of antiquity in Tripoli. There are nine pillars to the portico of the house in which the American officers lived. They are of marble, and have the appearance of great antiquity. There are many columns of Roman and Grecian architecture, wrought into the corners of some of the houses, without form or regularity. The streets of Tripoli are narrow and dirty, & the houses present a dead wall. Many of the houses are partly composed of broken marble, full of engravings and inscriptions, mostly defaced.
Marriages are proclaimed in Tripoli, by one or two old women, who run through the streets, making a most hideous yelling, and frequently clapping their hands to their mouths, similar to the American Indians in their pow-wow .
The following principal articles of faith, constitute the religion of the Turks:—That there is but one God, and that Mahomet is the Messenger of God. Their commandments are but five in number, viz:—
1st. To pray five times a day.
2nd. To give alms, and perform works of charity.
3rd. To go on a pilgrimage to Mecca.
4th. To keep the body clean.
Four other points are deemed of importance though not of absolute necessity to salvation, viz:—To keep Friday as Sabbath; to be circumcised; to drink no wine; and to abstain from swine's flesh, or things strangled. Many of the inhabitants of Tripoli strictly adhere to this religion.
[We have now completed the publication of all the extracts we have made from Dr. Cowdery's journal. These have occupied considerable portion of the paper for some weeks; but they have been of too interesting a nature to be tiresome. Dr. Cowdery has it in contemplation to publish a pamphlet or small volume, to be entitled "The American Captives in Tripoli, containing the particulars of the capture of the Philadelphia frigate—a general description of Tripoli, with the adjacent country, its curiosities, &c. and a sketch of the customs and manners of its inhabitants; to which will be added, the journal at full length, kept during his captivity, and an appendix containing the treaties and general relations between the United States and the Barbary powers." Some accurate views and drawings will be attached to the work. [Edit. Bal.]
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 24th DECEMBER.
ELECTION OF COUNCILLORS.
The Legislature proceeded, on Saturday, to the election of three gentlemen, to supply the vacancies in the council for the ensuing year. The ballot was first taken to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Grymes. The following is the statement of the three highest votes:
Table with 4 columns: Candidate, 1st B., 2d B., 3d B., 4th B. Candidates: William Aylett, Wm. W. Henning, Lewis Harvie.
A ballot was next taken to supply the vacancy occasioned by the removal of Wm. Foushee, Esq. after the May next, when the following was the state of the three highest votes given:
Table with 4 columns: Candidate, 1st B., 2d B., 3d B., 4th B. Candidates: William Aylett, John Woodward, Lewis Harvie.
On filling up the vacancy occasioned by the removal of William Brockenbrough, Esq. the following was the result similarly stated:
Table with 4 columns: Candidate, 1st B., 2d B., 3d B., 4th B. Candidates: John Woodward, Lewis Harvie, William Munford.
TAX ON LAND.
House of Delegates, Friday Dec. 20th. Mr. Harvie solicited one moment's patience of the House. He had to bring a measure before them, which he deemed of incalculable importance. It related to the Land-Tax of Virginia, which threatened in its consequences to involve the most tremendous calamities. It was understood to be a sound principle in criminal jurisprudence, that the punishment ought in every case to be apportioned to the offence. It was for no other reason than this, that the laws of Draco had been declared to be written in human blood. Such was the law of 1803, which like the fated bowl of Circe, would in one hour reduce a man to ruin and degradation. If the House needed any specific proof of the fatal consequences of such a law, he would beg leave to refer them to the instructive volume of Experience. He would hold up to them the law for the United States, which provided for the collection of the direct tax. The provisions of these two laws are in fact different in this respect: that under the United States' law the land was put up to the highest bidder, and its unfortunate proprietor had some chance of recovering a part of the produce of the sale; but under the act of Virginia, every acre, every cent, every atom of the property, was swept away. In principle, however, these two laws are the same. They have this fatal resemblance; that under the administration of both, immense tracts of land would be swept away for the non-payment of taxes.
Here Mr. Harvie read the following list of tracts of land sold under the United States' law, to show the wide scope of speculation which such a law opened:
Table with 3 columns: Quantity sold, Amount of sales. Lists for Harrison City, Ohio City, Randolph City, Rockbridge City, Hardy City, Rockingham City, Bath County.
Such (continued Mr. Harvie) would be the operation of the land tax of Virginia. When this law was passed, there were numbers who did not hear of it; there were others, who ne-
ver read it; and the commissioners under the law, however stimulated by the feelings of humanity, were unable to mitigate its severity. What a wide theatre then is here displayed for the indulgence of the spirit of speculation! Unfortunately there exist men who are never disturbed by the compunctious visitations of virtue. There are men, who armed with the sting of legal quibbling, wander where they will, and extract their aliment from every quarter. Those blood-sucking harpies, who live upon the spoil of private and public misfortunes, know too well how to scut in the tainted breeze, the approach of their appropriate prey.
Mr. Prunty here rose and complained, that the gentleman was pointing his finger at him. He has begun (says he) with the county of Harrison and—
Mr. Harvie most solemnly assured the gentleman from Harrison, that he had made no allusion to him, and he would say the fame of all the members present.—To give the House an idea of the scene, that this law was likely to develop, he gave a history of a transaction that took place in this city last summer, relative to the construction of Byrd's patent. In the statement of these facts, we shall not pursue Mr. Harvie, as our readers will find them already told and investigated at some length in our paper of August 9th.
This nefarious rapine (observed Mr. H.) was arrested in time by the loud clamours of public indignation. The solid phalanx which was then formed, was fortunately broken down; but will such always be the fate of these voracious combinations? If the present law passes into operation, the original titles to all the lands in the commonwealth may receive a wound. The honest proprietor will be driven from the soil, which he has inherited from his ancestors, or acquired by his own industry. Our courts of justice cannot refuse to enter any judgment for any sum, that is due; but will the legislature consent that the proprietor's land should be wrested from him for a petty sum, not equal perhaps to a thousandth part of its value? Was it not the duty of a good government to represent instead of encouraging those hateful passions, that are engendered by permitting individuals to prey upon each other? Who were they that would take advantage of the provisions of this act? Will the honest farmer condescend to trip his neighbour of his possession? No. He would disdain the deed. They would be men of a far different character. They would be men of those abandoned principles, which fit them, like hungry Hyenas, to clutch at every prey. Sometimes they form a hungry combination, whose resources are thrown into a lump and whose concerted artifice nothing can elude. Even the integrity of Sheriffs may not unfrequently be drawn beneath the seductive temptation. Sometimes it may happen, that they will not call upon the large landed proprietor; in some cases they may return them delinquent. Let this law go into operation, and there is no man can say how long he may rest in quiet under his own fig-tree. The father who contemplates his cherub children with heart-felt joy, will have his feelings turned into doubt and anxiety. Let then the legislature step forward to arrest this evil. Though the treasury should be somewhat curtailed in its resources, there was no comparison between that and the private misfortunes which would be engendered.
Mr. Prunty heartily concurred with the gentleman last up. He regretted that any man's land should be taken from him. Mr. Harvie's motion was adopted; agreeably to the intimation which we gave in the last Enquirer.
On Friday, Mr. Miller from the committee appointed to take into consideration, the resolution relative to the federal administration, reported it with amendments. By comparing this resolution as it is below, with the original resolution which we published in the Enquirer of the 12th inst. the reader will at once perceive the amendments which were introduced by the committee. Let him however at the same time recollect, that the word "congress" in that paper was not in fact in the original resolution:
"At this important crisis, in the affairs of their country, the Legislature of Virginia, think proper to express the following sentiments:— They have seen with admiration and pleasure in the intercourse of the present administration of the government of the United States with foreign nations, that just, rational and liberal policy, which should ever characterize the acts of a government resting on the will, and maintaining the rights and interests of a free and enlightened people. With real mortification have they discovered, that from all nations, the same correct and dignified conduct may be looked for in vain.
They have viewed with indignation, our ports blockaded, and seamen impressed, and other injuries, which power and ambition making the most erroneous calculations on the strength and policy of the United States, have insisted on the fair commerce and immutable rights of our fellow citizens. With astonishment they have seen the most rational principles in the laws of nations, disregarded and contravened by governments pretending to act on that liberal and enlarged justice, which it behoves every enlightened nation to pursue. They have beheld with corroding emotions, Spain evading the most equitable contracts on frivolous pretexts, and declining too to enter into a fair adjustment of our differences. They have learned, with still more unpleasant feelings, that inroads have been made by the regular officers and soldiers of that government, into parts of the territories of Orleans and the Mississippi, which had been delivered up to us; and that our citizens have been seized and our property plundered:
"Resolved therefore, That the Legislature of Virginia, have the highest confidence in the wisdom, virtue and firmness of the President of the United States; and that they are ready, whenever Congress shall direct, to join in a contest with any nation that has injured us, and "try which party can do the other the most harm."
The resolution being reported to the house, Mr. Burwell rose and observed, that when the resolution was first brought before them, he had expressed an unwillingness to act upon it, until he could have an opportunity of seeing the documents promised in the President's Message. Those documents, however, had now been published. They had satisfied him that the administration was completely entitled to his confidence. It was with the highest satisfaction, therefore, that he should vote for the present resolution.
Several members proposed amendments. Among others, Mr. Mallory moved to strike out the word "governments" in the 4th sentence & insert the words "the government of Great Britain." He was anxious (he said) that the legislature should express their indignation for the injuries inflicted upon us by that nation.
It was urged in reply, that the President's Message has not introduced Great Britain by name, however strongly it might have alluded to it; and that no official documents had yet been published, to prove that she had been guilty of the injustice with which she was charged by this amendment. The amendment was rejected.
Mr. Harrison (Amelia) moved to add the word "unanimously." He hoped that taking into view the real spirit and intention of the resolution, no man would be willing to oppose it.
Mr. Noland called for a division of the resolution. However ready he might be to join in any contest which might arise with any foreign nation at the present time, he could not express his confidence in the wisdom, virtue and firmness of the President of the U. States.
The resolution was accordingly divided into two sections, 1st. Resolved therefore, That the Legislature of Virginia, have the highest confidence in the wisdom, virtue and firmness of the President of the United States.
The Ayes and Noes being called for, Mr. Tazewell hoped that the call would be agreed to. He was anxious that the world should see how small a portion of the legislature of Virginia could be found, to refuse their confidence to the President of the U. S.
Upon taking the Ayes and Noes, they were found to be as follows: The names of those who voted in the affirmative are, Messrs. Read, Henning, J. Yancey, Randolph, E. Harrison, Garland, Kinney, A. Anderson, Brown, Given, Leftwich, Hance, Ruffin, McFerrin, Beale, Edington, J. Harrison, Macklin, E. Jones, Pittman, Clarke, Perrow, Coleman (Caroline) Woodford, Walker, Price, Cheatham, Starnard, Hatcher, Baker, Roberts, Hawes, Goodwyn, Robertson, Westwood, Mallory, T. Wood, Jr., Hunt, Love, Summers, Packer, Barraud, Singleton, Callaway, Burwell, Tonkins, Baytop, Miller (Goochland) Blair, McKenzie, F. Hill, Richardson, W. Yancey, Snyder, Donaldson, B. Jones, Prunty, Coplin, Storr, J. Solomons, Waller, Eft, Lightfoot, Byrd, Purdie, D. Morgan, Wood, T. G. Smith, Gaines, Aylett, Gregory, Hoos, Stuart, Shearman, W. L. Ball, Sharpe, Daniel, H. Pendleton, Winn, Chappell, Clendinen, Bennett, Madison, R. Hill, Hudgins, Field, Goode, Mufe, Blakey, Roeder, D. Evans, Woodward, Logue, Lewis, Riddick, Dabell, Taylor, King, Lindsay, J. Miller, Jr., J. Jones, Kincaid, T. Evans, J. Morgan, White, Penn, Davis, Coleman (Pittsylvania) Wooding, Miller (Powhatan) Woodson, Mosely, Cornick, Kemp, G. Alexander, C. B. Harrison, Kittle, S. Ball, Ruff, Yerby, Grigsby, A. Alexander, Gambill, D. Smith, McFarlane, Etll, Strickler, Gatewood, Edmunds, J. C. Gray, Mercer, Minor, Brooke, Moncure, Sebrell, M. Selden, Jarrott, Thompson, Neel, J. Jones, Burnham, Dixon, Tavenor, Laidley, A. Smyth, Graham, Southall, Peck, Harvie, Tazewell and Semple—151.
And the names of those who voted in the negative are, Messrs. Morrow, Simon, Fisher, Noland, J. Gray, Watkins, Harnanson and Bailey—8.
2nd. Resolved therefore, That they are ready, whenever Congress shall direct, to join in a contest with any nation that has injured us, and "try which party can do the other the most harm."
The preceding resolution was unanimously agreed to.
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Monday, December 16.
A petition of a number of the inhabitants of the counties of Orange and Spottsylvania, was presented and read, praying the passage of a law, to incorporate a company for the purpose of forming a turnpike road from Orange court house to Fredericksburg.
Mr. Smyth (Wythe) presented (from the committee to whom it was committed) a bill, "establishing a turnpike road from the head of Roanoke river over the Alleghany mountain," with an amendment, which he handed in at the clerk's table, where the same was read and agreed to by the house; and the bill with the amendment, Ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.
Tuesday, December 17.
On motion, Ordered, That 250 copies of certain documents, furnished by the auditor and treasurer to the committee of Finance, be printed for the use of the members of the General Assembly.
Wednesday, December 18.
An engrossed bill, "Establishing a turnpike road from the head of Roanoke river over the Alleghany mountain," was read a third time and a blank therein filled up.
Resolved, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act, "Establishing a turnpike road from the head of Roanoke river over the Alleghany mountain."
Petitions from a number of the inhabitants of the counties of Henry and Patrick, were presented and read, praying that measures may be adopted by the Legislature for calling a convention to amend the state constitution;
On motion; Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to a committee of the whole house on the second Monday in January next.
Memorials from sundry persons were received, on the subject of opening a communication by a canal between the waters of Roanoke and tide water at Petersburg, and ordered to be referred to the committee to whom were referred the memorials heretofore presented on the same subject.
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill, "To incorporate the Bank of Potomac and establish the same," in that part of Alexandria in the county of Fairfax, called West End; and that Messrs. Love, Summers, Kemp, Singleton, Noland, Powell, Brooks, Pendleton (of Berkeley) and Ruffin, do prepare and bring in the same.
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill, "To explain and amend the 21st section of an act, for carrying into execution the constitution of the Mutual Assurance Society against fire on buildings of the state of Virginia, lately adopted at a general meeting," and that Messrs. Harvie, Tazewell, Smyth (of Wythe) Snyder, and Semple do prepare and bring in the same.
Thursday, December 19.
Mr. Brooke from the committee for Courts of Justice, made the following report: The committee for Courts of Justice, have, according to order, had under their consideration, the petitions of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Fairfax, Fauquier, Frederick, Hampshire, Jefferson, Loudoun, Prince William, Stafford and Westmoreland to them referred, and have come to the following resolution thereupon:
Resolved, That it is the opinion of this committee, that the said petitions, praying that a branch of the bank of Virginia may be established in that part of the county of Fairfax adjacent to the town of Alexandria, and that the capital stock of the said bank may be increased, is reasonable.
The said resolution being read a second time, was on the question put thereupon, disagreed to by the house.
Resolved, That the said resolution be rejected.
A petition from the president and directors of the bank of Potomac, was presented and read, praying that a charter of incorporation may be granted to the stockholders of said company;
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee appointed to bring in a bill on that subject.
On motion, Resolved, That in all cases of joint ballot by both houses, for the election or removal of any officer, if on the first ballot no person shall have a majority of the whole number, on the second ballot, the person who had the smallest number of votes, shall not be balloted for, and so on in each succeeding ballot 'til some person shall have a majority of the whole: Provided, however, that if all the persons except the highest on the list shall have an equal number of votes, then on the second ballot the same persons may be again ballotted for.
Ordered, That the clerk carry the said resolution to the Senate and desire their concurrence.
We have to apologize to Mr. Burwell for several inaccuracies, which appeared in printing his speech in our last paper, in some of the forms and some of the expressions. On account of the absence of the Editor, many of these were not corrected before a part of the impression was worked off from the Press. We trust that the good sense of our readers is of itself sufficient to correct them.
A hymn, intended to be sung at the Episcopal Church in Richmond, on Christmas Day.
RECITATIVE. What streams, what floods of radiance shine, On Bethlem's awe-struck plains! See! in, you cloud, what forms divine! Hark! what excited strains! Glad tidings of a Saviour's birth, Cherubic heralds bring; God's highest glory—peace on earth; A host of Seraphs sing.
CHORUS. O joy inspiring theme sublime! Let nature learn the welcome lay, And thro' all worlds, in ev'ry clime, Proclaim redemption's natal day.
DUET. The price of peace, so long foretold, In David's city reigns; And at his beauteous feet, behold, In adamantine chains, The monster sin; and tyrant death; Their last dominions fall; His ruthless host, her baleful breath, Shall never more prevail.—CHORUS.
DUET. With pity glistening in his eye, The infant King of Kings, Thro' man's abode, bids Mercy fly, With healing in her wings; With arms outstretch'd from pole to pole, From Indus to the west, Embracing each beholding soul, And giving—endless rest.—CHORUS. December 10, 1802.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
THE DEATH OF CUTHULLIN.
Continued from last Thursday's paper. The bard retired with his songs, Old Carril's harp the notes prolong, Pleading and sad the sounds arise, Like memory of former joys. The ghosts of bards, hear and reply; The silent vales of night feel joy. So when he sits beneath a tree, The humming of the mountain bee, Strikes Ossian's ear, in some lone vale; Tho' often drowned by the gale, The pleasant sound returns again; Alist the fun looks on the plain. Cuthullin bids his bards to raise A song in noble Fingal's praise; "The song which Fingal hears by night, When from the oak the glimmering light, On Selma's walls but dimly gleams, And misty footes the hero's dreams, Or let the grief of Lara rise; That I may hear Alcletha's sighs; When Calmar fell on Lena's plain, And on his hills was sought in vain. Far distant lay the hero low, And in his hall was hung his bow. O Carril! hang my shield on high; And let my beamy spear be high, Then loud the sound of war may rise, When morn shall light the eastern skies." On Semo's shield the hero lies; From Carril's harp soft notes arise. He raised the song of Lara's grief; He alone is near the chief. The hundred bards are silent round. Pleading and mournful is the sound. "Mother of Calmar, cor-borne chief, Grey are thy locks, and great thy grief. Why dost thou eye the heathy plain? To see thy son thou look'st in vain: For that is but the distant grove, Where thou believ'st his warriors move; And that is but the wind's loud noise, Which thou believ'st thy Calmar's voice." "Who bounds across dark Lara's stream, Say, daughter! for my eyes are dim, Sure I behold the hero's spear 'Tis Matha's son, my Calmar dear." (To be continued.)
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DOCUMENTS Accompanying a MESSAGE from the PRESIDENT of the United States. Comprising all papers as previously inserted in the Enquirer.
(G) Declaration of John Evans, master of the ship Eliza, of Norfolk, and of Charles Simmons, jun. and Edward Lowrie, seamen belonging to said ship.
Before me Henry Hill, jun. consul of the United States of America, for the island of Cuba, resident at Havana, on the day of the date hereof, personally came and appeared John Evans, master of the ship Eliza, of Norfolk, and Charles Simmons, jun. & Edward Lowrie, seamen belonging to said ship, who being by me severally duly sworn upon the holy evangelists of Almighty God, did depose and say, and first the said John Evans.
That he sailed from Norfolk, in the said ship, on or about the 12th day of October last, with a cargo on board consisting of staves and provisions bound for Kingston (Jamaica) the said cargo being the sole property of Conway and Fortescue Whittle, merchants of Norfolk and citizens of the United States; that he arrived in and with said ship on or about the fifth day of November following, when the said cargo was sold for and on account of the said Messrs. Conway and Fortescue Whittle.
That from Kingston he proceeded in and with said ship to Anotto bay, on the north side said island of Jamaica, for the purpose of loading his said ship with a cargo, where he actually purchased and loaded on board said ship a cargo consisting of one hundred and seventy-nine puncheons of rum, for the whole account and risk of the aforesaid Messrs. Conway and Fortescue Whittle.
That he failed from thence in and with said ship with said cargo, on or about the 21st day of March following bound to Norfolk aforesaid, with all the necessary and usual documents on board to prove the said ship and cargo bona fide American property belonging to citizens of the United States.
That on the twenty-seventh day of same month, while peaceably and lawfully navigating his said ship for the port of Norfolk aforesaid, then being in sight of the Isle of Pines, on the south side of this island of Cuba, he was met with, boarded, and unlawfully captured by a privateer under French colours, called the Vigilant, commanded by one Amado Dejan, as he understood, who forcibly and unlawfully deprived this deponent of the possession of his said ship and cargo, & placed a prize master & men on board the said ship, in the privateer, & with force and violence took this deponent out of his said ship, together with Orell Danson, first mate, and Richard Thomas, second mate thereof, and six of the seamen of his said ship, and landed them on the west end of said Isle of Pines with only one day's provisions, and without the means of subsistence.
That this deponent with his said mates and crew, remained at said part of said island, which is entirely uninhabited, about two weeks and suffered themselves on fish which they caught, there being no other food or subsistence to be procured; at the expiration of which time, that he, with his said mates and crew, took passage in a Spanish vessel which actually touched there, and were transported to the east end of said island of Pines, where there are some inhabitants; from whence this deponent, with his said mates and crew, after remaining four or five days, took passage in a Spanish vessel and proceeded to Batabano, in this island of Cuba, from whence they proceeded by land to this city of Havana.
That after being some days in this city, this deponent heard his said ship had been taken into Batabano, and soon after saw the prize master here who was put on board his said ship, who gave to this deponent the following papers of said ship, declaring at same time that he considered the said ship and cargo American property, that the captain of said privateer had abandoned and left him without support, and that he had no idea of pursuing her as lawful prize, and had abandoned her; that the papers which were delivered to this deponent were the following.
1. The Mediterranean pass of said ship. 2. Sea letter. 3. Clearance from Norfolk. 4. Articles of agreement between master and mariners of said ship. 5. Certified list of crew. 6. Bill of health, &c. 7. Ship's log-book.
That the said ship had a register and certificates of property of cargo, bills of lading, invoices, &c. at the time of capture, which were taken from him and which were not delivered up with the other papers, and which this deponent understood, and has reason to believe, were unlawfully and wantonly destroyed. That this deponent, after ascertaining that his said ship was in Batabano aforesaid and after receiving the said papers, did, on the seventh day of May last, present to his excellency the marquis of Somervelos, captain general of said island of Cuba, a memorial, wherein he stated the capture of the said ship, and prayed that he might be restored to the rightful owners, from whom he had been unlawfully captured.
That not having any reply to his memorial, he shortly after again memorialized his excellency, praying that he would order his ship to be restored; that not having any reply to this his second memorial, and understanding that a part of his crew, who were captured, remained on board at the time of capture, were detained as prisoners on board in the said port of Batabano, and were suffering for the want of the necessaries of life, and that the Frenchmen who remained on board, and the Spaniards from shore, were daily plundering from his said ship and cargo, and wishing to know the state thereof, and to grant some relief to his crew, he proceeded to Batabano, without a passport (the captain general having refused him one) with intent to go on board his said ship. That on his arrival at Batabano he was presented by the commandant there from going on board his said ship, and was ordered by him immediately to return to this city, or that he would send him back prisoner under a guard of soldiers. Wherefore this deponent was obliged to return.
That on the fourteenth day of June he again memorialized his excellency, presenting therewith all the papers of the aforesaid ship, delivered up to him by the prize master aforesaid (except the sea letter which was presented with his first memorial). In consequence of which, on the day following a decree was given, ordering his said ship and cargo to be restored and delivered him, and a pass or grant for him to proceed to Batabano and take possession thereof.
That for this purpose he proceeded to Batabano, and on his arrival there, the 22nd June, he presented his pass or order to the commandant there, who sent with him an officer and two soldiers to execute the said order and give him possession of his said ship. That accordingly, on the 25th day of June, he received possession of his said ship, and on examination thereof and of her cargo there was a deficiency of the following articles, which had been plundered from her since the capture aforesaid, to wit: Two boats, a fiding cable, three anchors, two new top sails, a new fore sail, four standing sails, two royals, several parts, all her spare running rigging, all her cabin furniture and water casks, besides blocks and many other small articles, and from her cargo 96 whole puncheons of rum, there being only eighty-three remaining on board, and many of these wanting from ten to fifty gallons, so that this deponent conceiving that the contents of the said eighty-three puncheons would not more than fill fifty.
That an account was presented to him at Batabano against said ship, of upwards of nine hundred dollars, for various articles which had been taken up, upon the credit of the said ship, by the Frenchmen who captured her, which this deponent was obliged to satisfy before he was suffered to depart with his said ship.
That on the 12th day of July inst. he departed in and with the said ship from the bay of Batabano, and arrived at this port of Havana, on the 25th day of July inst. without any material damage happening, and came to anchor at the harbor, not being permitted to go on board said ship, for the purpose of supplying with the necessary stores,
cables, &c. to proceed on his voyage to Norfolk aforesaid, whither he is bound.
And the aforesaid Charles H. Simmons and Edward Lowrie depose and declare, that all and every the matters and things set forth and declared by the said John Evans in the preceding declaration, relating to the capture of the said ship, and to the deficiency therein stated of cargo, apparel, furniture, &c. are to their knowledge just and true.
That they were detained on board said ship after the capture, and held prisoners on board, frequently waiting for the necessaries of life until she was given up to the said captain Evans, as stated in his declaration.
That before the said ship was taken into Batabano, she was brought to anchor by the said privateer upon the coast of Cuba, about ten leagues to the west end of said part of Batabano, where they took from her cargo a number of puncheons of rum, and put them on board of a schooner.
That the said ship was again brought to anchor before her arrival at Batabano, about one league from the port, where the said privateer also took from her cargo a number of puncheons of rum and put them on board a Spanish vessel, which these deponents understood belonged to the king's pilot at Batabano who assisted the said privateer in the robbery.
That on the said ship's arrival at Batabano a number of puncheons of rum were there taken out of said ship and carried on shore by the said privateer, which they drew from the puncheons on board into small kegs. That the said Frenchmen and Spaniards daily plundered the rigging and furniture of said ship and were very abusive and gave much ill treatment to these deponents.
Signed, JOHN EVANS, CH. H. SIMMONS, Jun. EDWARD LOWRIE.
And the said John Evans having applied to me the said consul to make this his protest in the premises, I have granted this public certificate thereof to serve and avail him and all in the premises aforesaid as occasion may require.
Wherefore, the said John Evans in behalf of himself, the freighters, owners and others concerned in the said vessel and cargo, doth, and I the said consul at his desire, do by these presents protest as against the commander, officers and crew of the aforesaid privateer, as against all and every person and persons concerned therein, for the capture of the said vessel, and the robbery and plunder committed upon the said vessel and cargo, for all damages, losses, costs and expenses, already sustained or which shall or may hereafter be sustained, suffered and incurred in the premises on account thereof.
Done and protested in the city of Havana agreeably to mercantile laws in such cases used and approved.
In testimony whereof the said deponents have hereunto subscribed their names, and I, the said consul, have hereunto set my hand and affixed my consular seal, this second day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the independence of the United States the thirtieth.
(Signed) HENRY HILL, jun.
Extract of a letter from John Evans, Esq. Consul of the United States at St. Jago de Cuba, to the Secretary of State, dated 12th June, 1805.
The brig Trio of New-York, from Liverpool for New-Orleans, cargo dry goods, has been wholly unloaded & is now offered for sale. After taking all the dry goods out of the ship Governor Strong of Alexandria, Clark, master, her captors have returned her to the captain.
Since the last evacuation of Hispaniola, more than one thousand American seamen have been landed in this port, most of them without clothes, and all without any means of support, but such as they received from their own government.
Extract from the same to the same, dated 17th July 1805. The scene of robbery, destruction, evasion, perjury, cruelty and inhumanity, to which the American captured by French pirates and brought into this, and the adjacent ports, have been subjected, perhaps has not been equalled in a century past.
Here follows a list (received in Mr. Blakey's letter of 17th July, 1805) of vessels captured by Spanish privateers, designating the name of the vessel captured, of what place, absence sailing, where bound, name of Master, cargo, &c. some of which particulars are here omitted.
.    Vessel. When Captured. Privateer.     Sch. Maria, 1805.   Brig Builla, March 14. Jalouise.   Sch. Tickler, Plundered March 14. Languille.   Brig Alert, April 4.   Sloop Little Jack, 2 Regulator.   Sch. George, 1 L'Esperance.   Ship Gov. Strong, 1 Not believed.   Brig Trio, 1 Languille.   Sch. Arta, April 27. Regulator.   Brig Ohio, May 6. Delire.  Ship Ann, 6 Do.   Brig Fame, April 25. Independent.   Brig Fanie, 6 La Lize.   Sch. Mary Browning, 23   Brig Sally, 25 Jalouise.   Brig Savannah, May 22. La Lize.   Ship John and James, April 11. L'Esperance.   Sch. Harriet, June 4. Renard.   Brig Clarissa, May 29. La Lize.  
St. Jago, (Porto Rico) Sept. 12th, 1805. James Madison, Esq. Secretary of State of the U. S. of America.
SIR, When depredations on neutral property by powers at war, became the order of the day, when no respect is paid to existing treaties, I conceive it a duty incumbent on every individual to note every such infringement, and to give advice of it to the executive of that government to which he belongs.
As I am unacquainted to a forensic style I shall simply relate my own case, and whatever came under my immediate observation during my short stay in this island. I left Norfolk on the 18th June last in the brig Catharine, bound for the island of Antigua, laden with a cargo of provisions and lumber. where I arrived, and sold said cargo. I left the island of Antigua on the 29th July, with a return cargo, bound back to Norfolk. On the 4th August in lat. 23 deg. 10 min. N. and lon. 65 deg. west, was captured by the French brig called General Blandford, John Baptiste de Brule, commander, and sent into one of the ports at the west end of this island. The privateer plundered me of my stores and ship's provisions and part of the cargo. The vessel was immediately stripped of her sails and rigging and sent on shore, my people taken out, put on board of another vessel and sent out of the island. Under these circumstances I came to this city and applied to the governor requesting his interference, stating to him that my papers were perfectly regular and that my capture was of course illegal; and I likewise requested him to order security to be given for the amount of my brig and cargo, as the agent of said privateer was a resident merchant of this city. But all my representation has been to no effect. He has absolutely refused to take cognizance of my business. My papers remain in the hands of Mr. Duabon the agent of the captors. I may be detained here many months to come and the vessel and cargo exposed to a total loss. My trial, if any I am to have, must be by the determination of this government either at Martinique or Guadalupe: this under the present circumstances this island may become the asylum of pirates and robbers. No pretence has been given for any capture, as I came from an English is-
land I might have English property on board. At the time of my capture, my cabin boy was carried on board the privateer, and put in irons, threatened with severe chastisement unless he would declare that specie was deposited in some part of the vessel. This attempt proving fruitless, I now, (in all probability) must be the victim of measures dictated by men without principles of honesty or honor. Thus far as relates to myself, I shall now take the liberty of relating to you some other particulars that have come under my observation. At my arrival at the port of my entry on the west end of the island, I found at anchor the brig Suffolk of Portland, (Me.) the captain's name I do not recollect; said brig arrived the day before and prize to the same privateer; the was from Portland bound to Jamaica and was taken on her outward bound passage with a cargo of fish and lumber; said brig was immediately unloaded and ballasted with sand, and without more ceremony the captain and crew of my own vessel, together with the mate and crew of my own vessel, were shipped off with a very scanty supply of provisions, and left to search for the first port they could make. On the 4th inst. arrived the brig Polley of Truro (Mass.) captain Trip; and the 5th inst. the schooner Mary Ann of Boston, captain Anthony, and bound to the island of Barbadoes, loaded with cattle and horses and provisions under deck. They are prizes to a Spanish Xebec from Cadiz bound to Vera Cruz. The captains live on board with their crews, and many remain so for many days to come, while the captor and his agent are prosecuting every measure to effect the condemnation of said vessel as lawful prizes.
I am, &c. (Signed) JOSEPH LEONARD, Native of New-Hampshire and resident of Virginia.
(To be continued.)
PRIVATE ACADEMY.
DOCTOR HALLER will open his Seminary in Richmond, on the first day of January, 1806.—His course of instruction will commence every morning, (Sunday's excepted), at 9 o'clock, and continue till one; and from 3 till 5 o'clock in the afternoon. These are the hours appointed for public tuition, which will comprehend the following branches of learning, viz: Latin, Greek, English Syntax, Rhetoric, Rudiments of Taste, Composition, Arithmetic, Book Keeping, Geography, Civil and Natural History, Hebrew, Mythology, Algebra, and those branches of Mathematics which are most applicable to real life in life. Also Philosophy, Logic, some parts of Metaphysics; Practical Philosophy which comprehends Political Economy, &c. These branches of learning shall be taught systematically to the respective classes. The charge for this public tuition will be 15 dollars per quarter; besides five dollars entrance money for each scholar, who must be entered on or before the first day of January next, as during the ensuing course of study, which will last for several months, no scholar will be admitted into this institution, on account of the inevitable arrangements, which Dr. H. is to conform precisely to the actual number of his pupils, not only in engaging a proportionate number of assisting teachers, but also in offering to each class a curricular course of study—which might become abortive by admitting new members in the intermediate course of the intermediate course of his instruction. The following branches of learning will be taught only at particular days, and at those hours which are not included above. An extra charge will be made for such private tuition. For the Lectures on Natural Philosophy and Chemistry, with experiments and the use of the philosophical apparatus, 20 dollars per quarter, each scholar. For teaching the French language, 10 dollars per quarter. Italian 15 do. Spanish 16 do. Only children of parents residing in Richmond, will be admitted as Day Scholars; all others, whose parents reside at any distance, must live in the buildings of this institution. His charge for Boarding, Lodging, Candle and Fire, (the fees for tuition not included), will be 20 dollars per quarter, to be paid in advance, as customary in all institutions of this nature. Each boarder must furnish himself with his own bed. But any person without entering this institution in the quality of a regular student, may at any time be permitted to join a class in the private tuition, for the purpose of learning any particular branch of science or language, in which the class shall be at private hours engaged; Provided, the respective fees be paid in advance. Dr. Haller's plan of education and discipline is left for the inspection of the respective parents and guardians, with the Editor of the Enquirer. Richmond, Dec. 10.
CHINA WARE, &c. THE subscriber has just received a handsome assortment of China, Glass, and Liverpool Ware, amongst which are some elegant sets of Tea China with burnished gold, and a great variety of inferior kinds in complete and broken sets, China Bowls assorted, China and China glazed dining, breakfast, & defer Plates, and China glazed Pitchers of various sizes, also, Tea Pots, Sugar Dishes and Cream Urns of the pearl and Wedge wood kind. His glass chiefly consists of sets of Decanters, wine and claret Glasses, Tumblers and Gobblers, oval cream Bowls, Sweet Meats and Salts handsomely cut and engraved, cafer and liquor Bottles in morocco frames, and a pretty general assortment of German plain Glass. His Liverpool ware is generally assorted, from which he can pack assorted crates to fit country retailers at a very moderate advance. He continues to keep a general assortment of groceries for retailing, of the best quality, and has now on hand, brown Sugar by the hoghead and barrel, Rum by the puncheon and bill. Coffee by the bag, New-York Candles by the box, Imperial Tea by the chest, Salt by the sack, and Catings well assorted, by the ton or smaller quantity, all of which articles will be sold reasonable for ready money or negotiable paper.
DANIEL TRIPLETT. December 3. (ep4w.)
MILITARY CERTIFICATES.
FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrears of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Genl. M. A. S. May 1. cf.
THE subscribers offer for sale, their reversionary right in a new fire-proof warehouse on Maxwell's wharf in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Doctor John K. Read, dec'd. as his uppermost warehouse. In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate.
MERIWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. It is probable that I may leave this estate are long: in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorized to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ. November 1.
OYSTER HOUSE.
GEORGE WATSON, HAS commenced his former and well known occupation of furnishing OYSTERS, BEEF STEAKS, COLD SNACKS, and REFRESHMENTS, at the white House near the Union Tavern, wherein the Post-Office was lately kept. He begs leave to assure those who may favor him with their company or commands, that nothing shall be neglected on his part which promises to give satisfaction. October 15.
WANTED ON RENT.
A COMMODIOUS HOUSE and LOT, with the building attached thereto.—The vicinity of the town would be preferred. Apply to the Editor of the Enquirer. December 10. TUS 1p
NOTICE. —If Francis Lightfoot, a native of the county of New-Kent, and formerly a resident of the state of Virginia, be now living, or has any legal heir, or descendant living, either in the United States or elsewhere, by applying either in person or by special agent, and producing sufficient evidence of their being such legal descendant, to Wm. or Nicholas Lightfoot of the county of James City, to Geo. or Lightfoot Poindexter of New-Kent, or to James Poindexter of Powhatan, will hear of something highly important and much to their advantage. The Printers throughout the U. S. are requested to insert the above twice, in their respective papers, and transmit their accounts to the Editor of the Enquirer. Nov. 19. ep2m
EDUCATION.
THE course for the ensuing year will commence on the 10th January and end on the 15th of August. The annual commencement of the course in future will be on the 1st of October, the fall vacation beginning the 16th of August preceding and expiring that day. The course of instruction will comprehend the Latin, Greek and French languages, Mathematics, Geography with the use of the Globes, History, English Grammar, Elocution, Logic, Composition, Moral Philosophy, and some of the most useful and curious branches of Natural Philosophy, &c. &c. The expences of a student for a course are as follows, viz. Board from 1st Oct. to 15th Aug. following 88 Washing, candles, &c. 15 Tuition 30 133 To some, these charges may appear extravagant, but by comparing them with those of Wm. and Mary (which by the last statement published amounted to 230 dols.) it will appear that the expences of a student at the Rumford Academy for near 12 months are little more than half those of a student at Wm. and Mary for 9.—The expences of the present course will be in proportion to the above statement. G. H. DEVENISH. King William, December 14.
GEORGE WILY,
BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT. Near the Basin. BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, and Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for Sale, LOTS No. 141, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition. There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family. July 23.—cf.
DOCTOR LARUS,
BEGS leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of this city, and the Public generally, that he will continue, as formerly, to practice as a DENTIST. Those who may please to employ him in the line of his profession, may rely on the nicest attention by him to give satisfaction. December 13.
NEAL NELSON,
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND.
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot—C—round the Calf—B—the pitch of ditto—D—round the heel and instep—E—round the instep—G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. ep1f
ENOCH SULLIVAN,
SILVER, GOLDSMITH AND JEWELLER, Returns his grateful thanks to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement afforded him in his line of business, and hopes by his punctilious attention to the business, to which he was bred, to insure a continuation of the favor of a liberal public. He offers now for sale at his shop adjoining the Eagle Tavern, a general assortment of silver ware and jewellery of the most fashionable kind, consisting of silver Tea Pots, cream Urns, Tumblers, Spoons, and mourning and fancy Ear-rings, Lockets, Finger Rings, and Breast Pins, jet, white and coral Necklaces and Ear-rings, a general supply of Combs, plain and ornamented Pocket Books, thread Cakes, Miniature and ring Cakes, gold and gilt Seals, Keys and Chains. Highest price given for old gold or silver. December 3. cf.
FOR SALE,
THE HOUSE and LOT at present occupied by Mr. John Isambard on Shockoe Hill. One fourth of the purchase money will be required in hand, and great accommodation will be given for the balance. Enquire of THOMAS NORVELL. December 17.
WARDLAW,
Wardlaw, has received his fall supply of Medicines, by the ship Rolla from London; also a great variety of Paints, Varnishes, Surgeons Instruments, patent Medicines, &c. &c. And by the ship George from Liverpool, a large supply of vials and shop glass. Those who favor him with their custom may depend on being supplied with every article in his line on the most liberal terms. The citizens of Richmond are requested when they apply at his shop by a child or servant to put the name of the article wanted on paper to prevent mistakes. Nov. 1. cf.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE,
IN the county of King William, belonging to the estate of William Brooke, dec'd. lying on Mattaponi River, two miles above Fraziers ferry, within four of King-William Court House, and about four miles from King and Queen Court House. This tract contains by a late survey 162 acres of highland and about 100 of valuable wild salt marsh, abounding with a variety of wild fowl in their season. The buildings on this land are a new barn and stable and other buildings for the accommodation of an Overseer and negroes. A further description is deemed unnecessary, as those who are disposed to purchase will undoubtedly view it. The sale will take place at Fraziers ferry on Saturday the 28th of the present month, at which time the terms of sale will be made known; should this land not be sold on that day, it will be rented for the ensuing year. RICHARD BROOKE, Executor. December 21. 4f.
MCCABE & WALKER,
WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS, At the corner house opposite Messrs. Gamble's Store Richmond.
OFFER
OFFER their services to the public. From strict attention to all commands appertaining to their business, and the pains that will be bestowed in the execution of their work, they have full confidence to hope for a continuance of the favours they may receive. Great care will be taken in repairing all kinds of watches and clocks. December 14. cf.
FOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBER:
WEST-INDIA & N. H. English Rum, 1000 pair Men's thick Shoes, 500 pair Men's thick Shoes, Men's & Boys' fine Shoes, Ladies' Kid, Morocco and Leather Slippers, A small invoice of Table Linen, Irish Sheeting & Carpets, Duff Spanish Indigo, Ground and raw Ginger, 120 Sacks co. & 1000 pair Salt, Smoked Salmon and Herrings, A small invoice of dry goods, viz: Bear Skin, Blue and Mixed Plaid and Thickets, Writing & Printing paper, Wrapping Paper & Paper Board, Cotton & Wool Cards. One Nice Piano Forte, one Cigarre Top Chaise, One Nice Tub Organ, one little Gigs. The above will be sold cheap for cash or country produce. BENJAMIN STETSON. December 19. TUS 1f
HAY MARKET GARDEN.
THE proprietor of the Hay Market Garden, respectfully notifies the citizens of Richmond, Manchester, and the public generally, that the garden will be kept open during the session of the General Assembly. Musical and other agreeable entertainments rendered under his own direction. Having made an engagement with an excellent Musician, Frederick August Schwicker, late from Zurich, in Switzerland; no disappointment will take place in future as to music. Mr. Schwicker will give lessons on the Piano Forte, Flute, Violin, Tenor, Violoncello, Balloon, Clarinet, French Horn, Trumpet and Guitar, for account of the proprietor; specimens of his performance on each of those instruments, may be seen and heard at any time in the Ball room of the garden, and Piano Forte tuned. The garden now enlarging, and otherwise improving, may be rented for one or more years or seasons by a person qualified to give satisfaction to the visitors. An excellent Ice house may be annexed to the garden. The Dwelling House (unconnected with the public garden) may be rented for one or more years for private residence. December 12. th 4w.
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
I AGAIN offer for sale, that valuable and well known Estate, in the Forks of Hanover, called BULFIELD, containing by estimation and old surveys 1670 acres, be the same more or less. There are cleared of this tract about or above 850 acres, laid out into three fields, including 150 acres of Lots, most of which are well set with clover. On this plantation is fowed about 400 bushels of wheat and barley; of the former 360, upwards of 100 of which is on sown and manured land, and very well put in. The plantation is in pretty good order—has some valuable Meadow Land, which, at much labor and expense has been prepared and just getting into use—a tolerable dwelling house, and convenient houses for negroes, with barns, corn house, stables, &c. &c. If this estate is not sold at private sale on or before Monday the 20th of January next, it will be offered at public auction, on that day, if fair or the next fair day, at which time and place will likewise be offered for sale, between 80 and 90 VALUABLE LABOURERS, consisting of men, women, boys, girls and children, to be sold in families, together with all the stock of every description of cattle, sheep and hogs; seven brood mares, a number of blooded colts, 1, 2, and 3 years old, 11 excellent well-broke mules, and some work horses, and all the plantation utensils, and the crops of corn, fodder and ryu, now on the land, of from 900 to 1000 barrels. Should a sale of the land not take place, then only about 60 negroes will be for sale, and part only of the corn, and the stock, and plantation articles. The square of lots, with the appurtenances, at present in the occupancy of John A. Chevallie, Esq. but possession will not be given until the 1st of August next, unless it shall be sooner convenient. A life estate in the tenement at present in the possession of Mr. John Banks, on Church Hill. 3 pipes of Madeira Wine, which cost £4 sterling, imported by myself, nearly two years ago. I likewise wish to sell, part of about 20,000 acres of Military Land, lying in