The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1807-01-17 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM. (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 80.]
RICHMOND, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1807.
[VOLUME 3.]
A GOOD BARGAIN.
FOR SALE. THAT well known TRACT OF LAND, THE SAPLING GROVE, thirteen miles below the town of Abingdon, in Washington county, Virginia, containing one thousand six hundred acres, and including the plantation whereon the late general BEAN SHELBY lived. The whole of this tract is level; great part of it is equal in quality to any land on the Western waters, has many very fine springs upon it, and a stream running through it, suitable for any kind of Water Works, at all seasons of the year. As a purchaser would choose to view the premises, any farther description of the Land, or of the valuable Farm thereon, is unnecessary. The title is indisputable. To prevent trouble, the price is ten thousand dollars, payable in three equal annual payments. Likely slaves will be taken for any part of the purchase money. ISAAC SHELBY. Lincoln County (Ky.) Nov. 23. 1806.
GIVE ATTENTION. THE subscriber offers for sale a truly valuable TRACT OF LAND, containing by estimation 1781 ACRES, (700 of which, as he supposes, are in woods) lying in the fork of Nottoway river, and in the county of Nottoway, 4 miles from the Court-house, and within 3 miles of one of the best manufacturing Mills in the State of Virginia. The plantation is now in nice order for cropping. It is divided into three fields, each under a good fence and of sufficient size to work 15 hands to great advantage. There is on the land a new and valuable GRIST MILL, a comfortable Dwelling House, and every convenient and necessary house for the deposit of a crop, good Orchards, &c. &c. The soil is well adapted to the culture of Tobacco, Corn, Wheat and Oats. A farther description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed the purchaser would wish to see the lands previous to the purchase. Persons wishing to see the lands, will apply to Mr. John Haynes, generally on the premises, or to GRIFFIN LAMKIN. December 11. 6t. oawtf.
FOR RENT. And immediate possession given. A THREE storyed HOUSE, smoke-house, garden, &c. on the Basin, occupied the preceding year by Mr. Chancellor H. Saunders. This house is well calculated for a boarding or a genteel private family, having four rooms and a passage on each floor, and two kitchen and two cellar rooms on the ground floor. For terms apply to Mr. Thomas Underwood, jr. at the public ware house, or to Mr. Leander Hughes at Mellis, Sharp and Luckes, opposite the Market. ARCHER LAUGHS. January 10. oawtf.
The subscriber will also dispose of a part or the whole of a valuable half acre water LOT on the Basin, No. 409 with six small Tenements thereon, and a half acre LOT No. 396 with a good Dwelling-House thereon, handsomely situated for a private dwelling. A credit of five or ten years may be had for three fourths of the purchase money, by giving satisfactory security and paying the interest thereon, annually. If the above property is not disposed of at private sale, by the 2nd day of March, it will on that day, if fair, if not, the next fair day, be disposed of at auction, to the highest bidder on the premises. For terms, apply to Mr. Leander Hughes, in Richmond, or the subscriber living in New-Kent, near Bottoms Bridge. Jan. 10. A. H. oawtf.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD. RAN away from the subscriber, living in Caroline County, near the Reed Mill, on the 19th of July last, two negroes, Prince and Maria. The former is a black fellow about 27 years old, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, talks (when spoken to) very quick; is a good shoemaker's tool, and perhaps may follow that business. Having a variety of clothes, chiefly of home manufacture, 'tis thought he will attempt a description. Maria, is a bright mulatto girl, 18 years old, 4 feet 10 or 11 inches high; legs and knees remarkably well, and has always been used as a house servant; she also took away many clothes; and I have no doubt she, as well as the other, will endeavour to pass, as free people. As Prince has a brother, living with Gilliat and McKinder of Norfolk, I am induced to suppose he or perhaps both, are in that Borough. I forewarn all persons from harbouring the said negroes; and all masters, or commanders of vessels from carrying them out of this State. The above reward will be given for the delivery of the above negroes, or if confined in any jail so that I get them again, or in proportion for either. SAM. NORMENT. Caroline, January 3. (Vax. Supp.)
JAMES WORRALL, HAS lately received a general and carefully assorted stock of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Patent Medicines, &c. &c. which he offers for sale, at the first corner store, above the Eagle Tavern, lately occupied by Messrs. Pickett, Pollard and Johnson. His articles have been selected of the first quality, and will be put up with the greatest care and exactness, on the lowest possible terms. The whole of his compound medicines, have been made by himself, with the most scrupulous attention, to the directions of the different Pharmacopoeias. Physicians favouring him with their prescriptions, and country Merchants with their orders, may depend on their being executed punctually and with dispatch. N. B. He has lately received from Dr. Solomon's agent, at New-York, a fresh supply of those invaluable medicines, the Balm of Gilead and Anti Impetigo. November 23. oawtf.
TO be sold to the highest bidder on the premises on Tuesday the 10th of February next, agreeably to the will of Lynn Stockford, decd. THREE hundred and seventy acres of LAND, lying in the upper part of Mathews County, pleasantly situated on the Piankatank River, commanding an extensive view of the Chesapeake, and affording the finest Fish and Oysters in abundance. The Land is of good quality, level, well watered and the form almost a regular square, two sides of which are bounded by the river and a navigable Creek, so that one half of the Land may be said to be enclosed by water. The improvements are a commodious Dwelling-House, two story high, Kitchen, Smoke-House, Overseer's House, Barn, &c. a very handsome young Apple Orchard of about four hundred trees of well selected fruit. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchaser on giving bond with approved security to carry interest from the date which shall be remitted on punctual payment. WM. CHAMBERLAYNE, Execr. N. B. Any person wishing to view the above, will apply to Mr. Spark, residing on the Land. Dec. 11. 1806.
Having been disappointed in selling my Land in Surry County, some time past advertised in this paper, I NOW offer for sale the FARM whereon I live, containing six hundred acres, situated on the fourth bank of James River, five miles above Smithfield, and thirty-five from Norfolk. The elevated situation of this place gives a prospect of the River ten miles across and thirty miles on the opposite shore, and perhaps intrudes it to the most beautiful water prospect on any river in the State. The advantages and luxuries, that, with very little trouble, can be drawn from this source in abundance, are not only convenient but substantial to a large family. There are extensive orchards of well chosen apple trees on the Land, and a well selected assortment of Spring and summer fruits, grafted and incubated. Ten years residence on this place with a large family has proved it as healthy as elsewhere, and for two or three years past, we have been much more so. I flatter myself that a view of the improvements and soil will not disappoint any person desirous of making a permanent settlement on the River, (for such are not often offered for sale.) The terms will be made accommodated to the purchaser. RICHARD COCKE. Isle of Wight, Dec. 20. oawtf.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed by August Duderick, William Hargreaves, to the subscriber, for the purpose of securing a debt due to Walstab Hallcomb from the said Hargreaves, together with the interest accruing on said debt, and the expenses attending said Deed Trust. I WILL be sold to the highest bidder, for cash, at Mr. Thomas A. Morton's Tavern, in Farmville, on Thursday the 29th day of this month, a very fine young MARE, now in foal by a Diomed Horse. THOMAS ANDERSON, Trustee. Farmville, Jan. 5. 1806.
COOK SHOP, AND OYSTER HOUSE. GEORGE WATSON, has removed from the House adjoining the Union-Tavern, leading to the first Cross-Street above the Eagle-Tavern, leading to the Basin, where he has opened a COOK SHOP and OYSTER HOUSE for the refreshment of his friends and customers, at all hours of the day, and till 10 o'clock at night. Having procured a good French Cook, he will furnish good Soup, Beef Steak, Mutton Chops, &c. &c. &c. and the best OYSTERS that can be procured in Richmond. Nov. 14. oawtf.
TO be hired from the first of February to the first of January next, a Negro MAN, who is an excellent Cook, provided application is made to the Editor by the 15th. January 5. oawtf.
SELLING OFF CHEAP. M. B. Myers, intending to decline the retail business, offer for sale, at reduced prices, the whole or any part of their present stock of DRY GOODS, Consisting of a variety of useful and fashionable articles—to wit:
IRISH LINENS, Flanders Sheetings, Ornambrugs, Hefians, Long-lawns, Linen and Cotton Cambricks, Superfine and Second Broad Cloth, and Kennebecs, Blankets, Coatings and Plaids, Bennets and Fancy cords and Velvets, Swansdown and Molakins, Rich figured Satins, Silver-Muffs, Saracens; Italian Lutestring, Cotton and Silk Chambays of very handsome patterns. A few excellent Silk Petticoats, Gloves and Hosiery, elegant Plumes, wreaths and fancy Head Ornaments, a variety of handsome Ribbons, Table Cloths and Napkins in sets, 3-4, 7-8 & 10-4 Diapers. A few sets of China in boxes of 40 pieces. Sets of Cut Glass Decanters, Wine and Tumblers, glass Bowls, specie bottles, Hall Lamps, &c. &c. Those who buy with cash, will be allowed a very liberal Discount, which will be increased according to the augmentation of the amount of their purchase at any one time. On any sums of consequence, a credit if required, will be given of three to six months. The purchaser giving approved negotiable paper. For sale, also, as usual, a complete assortment of Dutch Bolting-Cloths. Dec. 11. eptf.
JOHN ALCOCK, INFORMS the Citizens of Richmond, and the public in general, that he has moved to the City of Richmond, where he has opened a complete assortment of Merchandise, next door to Messrs. Prosser and Moncure's Vendue Store, and opposite the Eagle; consisting partly of the following articles:— LONDON Spring, Panel and hand-Saws, Casteel and German do. Casteel Files of every description, Till Locks, bras and iron, Wood Screws of every size, 3d. 4d. & 6d. wrought Springs, 10d. & 20d. wrought Nails, 2d. & 3d. fine drawn Clouts, Saddler's Tracks of every size, Brass Nails, Straining & Girt Webb, Plated Brille Bits assorted, Do. Stirrup Irons do. Brass mounted steel blade Squares, Brass and Iron chamber door Locks of every size, Stock Locks of all sizes, Looking and Ladies dressing Glasses, Plated Moulding, Silver mounted Whips of every size, Carpenters & Joiners Tools of every description. Also, an assortment of DRY GOODS. Superfine Cloths and Callimeres, Bannet's Velvet and Patent Cord, Manchester Stuffs, Fashionable Silk Hose, Rose and Daffel Blankets, Coarse Linens and a number of other articles too tedious to insert; all of which will be sold low. December 13. tf.
JOHN ALCOCK, INFORMS his friends and the public, that he still carries on his CABINET MANUFACTORY in all its branches. He has removed his Ware-Room in the front house of William Alt's, Esq. and adjoining the Fire Insurance Office, where he has a large quantity of ready made work on hand, which he will sell low. He flatters himself that if any persons are in want of anything in the Cabinet line, they may be supplied. I am determined to have good warranted work done on the lowest terms. Any orders left at my Ware-Room with Mr. John Gray, my foreman, or at my store, shall be punctually attended to, and great care taken in delivering the furniture. December 13. tf.
MAY be purchased on a long credit, and low terms, the TENEMENT on which the subscriber lives, situated on Church-hill, within about one half mile of the Richmond market—containing 2 acres of ground, well enclosed and highly improved. The buildings consist of a large and well constructed Dwelling House, Laundry, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke-House, two Stores, Brick-Office, Coach-House, Barn and Stable. All these buildings are well heated and in complete order for the accommodation of a large and genteel family; who may have easy access to all the advantages of the city, and live as retired as they could wish. JOHN ELLIS. January 6. tf.
REMOVAL. THE Subscribers have removed their COMPTING HOUSE, from the Main-Street to one of David Bullock's Brick Buildings, at the lower end of the Basin, between the Tenements occupied by C. and T. Saunders, and Norvell, Wirt and Bullock—where they continue their purchases of wheat as usual. They also keep for sale a regular supply of Flour, Corn Meal, Hominy and Bran. THOMAS & AMOS LADD. 10 Mo. 3d, 1806. eptf.
THE Subscriber, has taken the Store lately occupied by Granberry and Hancock, where he offers for sale at reduced prices, 3 Bales blue Cloths } A consignment from the 1 Bale assorted Flannels } Manufacturer. Also—A few bales of India piece Goods. JAMES SMITH. October 28. tf.
BURR MILL STONES, of all sizes; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [eptf.]
A VALUABLE FARM—FOR SALE. I AM disposed to sell that valuable tract of LAND, whereon I at present reside, situated in the County of Amelia, on Snacks Creek, containing by estimation about 600 acres: on this tract is about 150 acres of high wood Land, well timbered, and of good quality, also about 50 acres of low ground heavily timbered, and of prime quality, for Tobacco or grass. The improvements consist of a neat & well finished Dwelling-House with two rooms and a passage both below and above stairs, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke-House, Barns, &c. &c. It is deemed unnecessary to give a minute detail of all the advantages of this Land, it being presumed & requested, that those disposed to purchase will first view the premises. TERMS.—One third cash and the balance in 2 equal annual instalments. Possession will be given in time to sow a crop of wheat in the ensuing fall. Application to be made to the subscriber on the premises, by letter or otherwise. JAMES T. ROYALL. Amelia, Dec. 13. tf.
EDUCATION. JAMES OGILVIE, will continue during the ensuing year, in the village of Milton, Albemarle, to prosecute with his pupils the course of Education they have commenced, and is desirous to receive ten or fifteen more, provided they can be accommodated with the classes, of which, at this time his school is composed. The senior class are engaged in the study of Geometry, Natural Philosophy, History and Metaphysics. The second class will devote their attention to the Latin and French Languages, Euclid's Elements, and the philosophy of Rhetoric. The junior class will continue to study the Latin Language, Geography, Arithmetic and English Grammar. Exercises in Criticism, Composition and Elocution constitute essential parts of the course of instruction he pursues. His charge for tuition will be fifty dollars per annum. Every pupil will also be expected to pay two dollars and a half to defray the expence of rent, fuel, &c. The school will be opened on the 19th day of January 1807. December 5. tf.
JUST RECEIVED, A FRESH Assortment of Claret Wines, Champagne, Moufoux by the box, Burgundy, Sautern, Vin de Grave, Lafitte, Muscat of Frontignan Wine Bitters—and also, a fresh supply of Olives, Capers, Anchovies, Camayon Pepper, Mustard, Prunes, Raisins by the box, Almonds and Filberts. All kind of West-India Sweetmeats; all kind of Confectionery—and different articles of Perfumery. For Sale by ALEXANDER PLAINVILLE. Richmond, Oct. 17. (2aw6m)
THE LAND whereon I now reside, containing 550 acres is still for sale by private contract and immediate possession given if required. JOHN KELSO. Dec. 27. 1awtf.
TO BE RENTED— The Tenement where I now reside, and possession given in time. J. PENN. April 11. tf
THE subscriber, having disposed of his Apothecary establishment, requests that all persons indebted to him, will call and settle their accounts. November 21. D. WILSON. (cof.)
JOHN SOUTHGATE, At the house lately occupied by Messrs. Thomas and Amos Ladd, and directly opposite the Union-Tavern, offers for sale, a pretty general assortment of FALL GOODS, Well worth the attention of country dealers.—Cash, country produce, or approved paper will be received in payment. ALSO FOR SALE, AS ABOVE, London Particular, Madeira Wine in pipes; and a few boxes Martinique Cordials. October 22. (tf.)
PICKLING VINEGAR. Of superior quality, made from two years old cider—For sale by WILLIAM BURT. Opposite the State House.
ALSO, SALT, loose and in sacks. 50 Barrels cut HERRINGS, Brown SUGAR in barrels and by retail, COFFEE, TEA and other Groceries, Philadelphia bottled PORTER, Do. Draft BEER. September 19. eptf.
NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Pendleton, eq. late of the City of Richmond, decd. are requested to exhibit them to either of the subscribers as speedily as possible. GEO. PICKETT, ROBERT POLLARD, CHS. JOHNSTON, N. SHEPPARD. Administrators. November 18. tf.
A GREAT Bargain offered in 735 acres of LAND, lying in King & Queen county, one & a half miles from York River, and bounded by Poquoson Creek, the Lands of captain William Shackelford and Zachariah Shackelford. This land is level, fertile and well timbered, with tolerable good buildings and excellent water. The abundance of fish and oysters at the very spot, may also be mentioned as a great inducement to any person wishing to purchase. This Land may be had low for cash, or good bonds at short payment. For further particulars apply to John H. Smith, or to the subscriber. JOHN TEMPLE. Wickham, September 22. tf.
TO RENT, THE STORE & CELLAR of the lowest Tenement of Mr. Truchet's new buildings—For terms apply at this office. January 8. 2w.
FARMER'S HOTEL. A. BROCKENBROUGH, having purchased the houses of Dr. McCouchie in this town, formerly the property of Messrs. Ritchies, is determined to convert them into a TAVERN for the accommodation of the public; he has provided himself with an excellent cook, and has made arrangements for a constant supply of the best Fish, Oysters, Wild Fowl, &c. in their respective seasons; no exertion on his part will be wanting to render the time agreeable to those gentlemen or ladies who may think proper to favor him with their company—he expects to meet with encouragement from the public adequate to his exertions. Tappahannock, January 5.
TAPPAHANNOCK JOCKEY CLUB. Tuesday the 20th of January, is the day appointed for the meeting of the subscribers to the Tappahannock J. Club, to form the rules and regulations for the said Club. From the present number of respectable subscribers, I have no hesitation in stating that this club will be equal to any in the State. Gentlemen that wish to become members before the meeting, will please forward their names, and those gentlemen that have subscription papers will be so good as to send on the names of those that have subscribed since they have had a paper. ARTHUR S. BROCKENBROUGH, Proprietor of the course. January 6.
A SIZE OF BREAD for the city of Richmond, from the 6th inst. until further orders (Superfine Flour being 7 Dollars and 34 Cents per Barrel) viz. A single loaf made of Superfine Flour to weigh 23 ozs. for 4 1-2 Ditto of Common Flour 24 " 4 1-2 Double the above wt. respectively 9 EDW. CARRINGTON, Mayor. January 6. tf.
FOR SALE, A VALUABLE Lot of GROUND in Buckingham county, containing sixty two acres lying on James River and adjoining the town of Dugdale. The Land is rich and has one of the most valuable Mill sites on it, of any in the upper country. Also a new and excellent manufacturing Mill in the county of Campbell about six miles below Lynchburg and in good condition for manufacturing flour, &c. This property is rendered more valuable inasmuch as it is situated in the heart of a very rich country, & to those who wish to turn their attention to the manufacturing flour, &c. it is an object worthy their consideration. For further particulars reference may be made to Col. Wm. J. Lewis of Campbell, (who will show & negotiate for the above property,) or the subscriber. JASC. ANTHONY. 1aw2w & oaw3w. January 3.
Pursuant to a deed of trust executed to us on the 26th of November 1805, by Fleming Cayce, to secure money due to John Lockland & Co. we shall proceed to sell to the highest bidder for ready money, at Cumberland court-house, on Saturday the 31st day of January 1807, ONE Negro Man named Stepney (a good Black Smith) and the residue of a Negro Woman, Nancy, and her three children, Anne, Harriott and Sally—after a former deed, covering them for the benefit of John Gilliam & Company, is carried into effect. BERNARD LEWIS, Surviving Trustee. Cumberland, January 1. tf.
WANTED immediately, ten ton of clean Merchandise Hemp, for which a liberal price will be given in cash. PROSSER & MONCURE. Dec. 20. eptf.
THE FARMER'S VIRGINIA ALMANACK, for the Year 1807, printed by Thomas Ritchie, is now for sale, by the gross, dozen or single, at the ENQUIRER Book-Store. Also—A General Abstract of Lawyer's and Sheriff's BLANKS, just printed. J. PENN.
FOR SALE, THE LOT and HOUSE whereon John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul, resides: on it are a three story Dwelling-House, an Office and Kitchen, and other necessary Houses for family use; a Well of good Water, newly fitted, and a Garden lately pailed in, a Ware-House and Cellar under it; the remains of a Wharf, which will make a good foundation to build on; with all the privileges of lots situated on the river, of extending a wharf. Also—2714 Acres of well timbered LAND, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Mason's Creek, where the best of Oysters and Fish can be conveniently taken. Also—A LOT in Smithfield, between Mrs. Purdie's and Captain Todd's lots. For terms apply to THOMAS NEWTON. August 22. (tf.)
THE subscriber adopts this mode of informing his friends, that he intends to practise LAW in the District Chancery Court of Williamsburg. CARTER BRANTON. King & Queen, Dec. 20. tf.
MARSHAL'S SALES. By virtue of a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth circuit in the Virginia district, pronounced at the May term, 1806. John Somerville, against David Ross, D. ft. WILL be sold to the highest bidder, for ready money, so much of a TRACT OF LAND, lying on James River, in the county of Chesterfield, and commonly called and known by the name of the Falls Plantation, as will raise the sum of seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and thirty-seven cents, and the costs. The sale will be had on the premises on the 20th day of January 1807. JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. Dec. 18.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD, FOR apprehending a negro man named WILL STUART or STUART. He left my house three weeks ago, is 6 feet three inches high, long meagre face, red eyes, speaks rapidly and with great confidence, aged about 50 years. He may attempt to pass for a free man as formerly. The above reward will be paid on delivering him here—or ten dollars for securing him in a country goal. Wm. LONG. Nov. 14. tf.
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TUESDAY, Jan. 6. Mr. Early called for the order of the day on the bill providing for the punishment of CERTAIN CRIMES against the UIMES against the U. States. Mr. Eppes moved to recommit the bill to a select committee. He said he trusted that the bill in its present shape would not pass. The object contemplated by it, was to give the same powers to prevent or punish an expedition against the U. States, that was already provided in the case of an expedition against a foreign power. This would be found by consulting the message of the President, delivered at the commencement of the session. The President observes—"Where an enterprise is meditated by private individuals, against a foreign nation, in amity with the United States, powers of prevention, to a certain extent, are given by the laws. Would they not be as reasonable, and useful, where the enterprise preparing is against the U. States?" This is the recommendation of the President; this is the provision deemed necessary by him. Let us compare it with the provisions of the existing law. In the 3rd vol. of the laws of the U. S. 5th section, we find the following provision: "That if any person shall within the territory or jurisdiction of the United States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for any military expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign prince or state with whom the United States are at peace, every such person so offending, shall, upon conviction be adjudged guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall suffer fine and imprisonment at the discretion of the court in which conviction shall be had, so as that such fine shall not exceed three thousand dollars, nor the term of imprisonment be more than three years." This is the provision at present in force in respect to an enterprise against a foreign nation. But in addition to this, the committee are for giving the following power. Mr. E. here read the first section of the bill under consideration, as follows: "Be it enacted, That if any person or persons shall within the territory or jurisdiction of the U. States, begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for any military expedition or enterprise, with intent of taking possession of any fort, arsenal, magazine, dock, navy yard, or any public vessel of the U. S. or of invading or occupying with an armed force any part of the U. S. or the territories thereof, or with intent, in any other manner, of levying war against the United States, or of adhering to the enemies of the said states; or who, with intent, as aforesaid, shall combine or conspire together, or shall counsel, advise, or attempt to set on foot, provide or prepare the means for any such military expedition or enterprise, or to procure any insurrection, unlawful assembly, or combination, for such purpose, although such expedition or enterprise shall not be carried into effect, and whether such conspiracy, counsel, advice, or attempt, shall have the proposed effect or not, every such person or persons so offending, shall upon conviction, be adjudged guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall suffer fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court in which the conviction shall be had, so as that such fine shall not exceed three thousand dollars, nor the term of imprisonment be more than three years, or less than one year; and further, at the discretion of the court, be held to find sureties for his, or their good behavior, in such sum, and for such term, as the said court may direct: Provided always, That nothing herein contained, shall be construed so as to prevent the trial and punishment of any person or persons guilty of treason, murder, or any other offence punishable by any law or laws of the U. S." Mr. E. said the objection he had to this bill was this. It introduced a description of offences which could not be defined, or reduced to any known standard. What was a combination or conspiracy, but just what a court may please to make it? He had another objection. In the first section the committee who reported the bill had adopted the very words of a statute which had ever been considered odious and oppressive, and which he never wished again to be adopted in whole or in part. He alluded to the memorable sedition act. And that gentlemen might see the affinity of this bill to it, he would call the attention of the House to its first section, which was as follows: "Be it enacted, That if any person shall unlawfully combine or conspire together with intent to oppose any measure or measures of the government of the United States, which are or shall be directed by proper authority, or to impede the operation of any laws of the United States, or to intimidate or prevent any person holding a place or office in or under the government of the United States, from undertaking, performing or executing his trust or duty; and if any person or persons, with intent as aforesaid, shall counsel, advise, or attempt to procure any insurrection, riot, unlawful assembly, or combination, whether such conspiracy, threatening, counsel, advice, or attempt shall have the proposed effect or not, he or they shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction, before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, and by imprisonment during a term not less than six months nor exceeding five years; and further, at the discretion of the court, may be held to find sureties for his or their good behavior in such sum, and for such time, as the said court may direct." Here then we have the very offences, designated in that statute, a combination and conspiracy; and all that is necessary to make this act precisely the same with the sedition bill, is to introduce the words, navy yard and arsenal. Mr. Eppes said these were his objections to the first section. He had yesterday fully explained his objections to the second section; and although some attempt had been made to obviate them, he believed it would be impossible in a committee of the whole, so to arrange the wording of the section as to prevent an interference of its provision with the principles of the constitution. He had another ground for recommending the bill—the entire omission of what he conceived

an important provision. He would again recur to the message. "While adverting to this branch of law, it is proper to observe that in enterprises meditated against foreign nations, the ordinary process of binding to the observance of the peace and good behavior, could it be extended to acts to be done out of the jurisdiction of the U. S. would be effectual in some cases where the offender is able to keep out of sight every indication of his purpose which could draw on him the exercise of the powers now given by law."
He believed this a valuable provision, and one which might be so framed as not to infringe the rights of the citizen. If indeed the provisions of the bill were made conformable to those of the act providing against expeditions against foreign powers, it would in his opinion suffice. That act constituted such offence a high misdemeanor, gave to the executive the power to use the armed force for the purpose of its suppression, and authorized the binding over to good behavior. For these reasons he hoped the motion to postpone the bill would be rejected, that the committee of the whole would be discharged from its further consideration and that it would be referred to a select committee.
The question was then taken on postponing the bill till to-morrow, which was disagreed to; Ayes 44; Noes 61.
Mr. Eppes then offered his motion to discharge the committee of the whole from the further consideration of the bill.
Mr. Dawson said he was at a loss to know what advantages would result from such a course of procedure, unless the bill should be recommitted to a different committee from that which introduced it. It had been already recommitted; and the committee to whom it had been recommitted had reported it unanimously. As an answer to some of the objections of his colleague, he would observe that the committee in reporting this bill had only reported in part; and that they had it in contemplation to make the provision he had alluded to in a special bill. He did not consider it the duty of a committee to draft - bill in precise conformity to the ideas of the President, but in correspondence with their own sentiments. As to the objection that the bill was similar to the first section of the sedition act, Mr. Dawson observed that if his colleague had been in the House when that bill was passed, he would have known that the section read by him had not been objected to by any one, and that it was only the second section which had been opposed. He hoped, if the bill were recommitted, it would be sent to some other committee than the one which had introduced it.
The question was then put on discharging the committee of the whole from the further consideration of the bill, and passed in the negative - Ayes 50 - Noes 50 - the Speaker declaring himself in the negative.
Mr. Southard from the committee appointed on a memorial of sundry citizens of Washington, presented a bill authorizing the President to lease the public ground in the city of Washington, which was referred to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 7. On motion of Mr. Mumford the petition of Samuel Beecher, heretofore presented, was referred to the Committee of Ways and Means. The House resumed the consideration of the report of the Committee of the Whole on the bill to prohibit the importation or bringing of slaves into the U. S. after the 31st of Dec. 1807.
Mr. Early after some preliminary remarks offered the following amendment: - In all actions, suits, or informations, which shall be brought under the 3d, 4th and 5th sections of this act, the burden of proof shall lie on the claimant, or party sued or prosecuted, where probable cause is shown for the seizure or prosecution, to be judged of by the court before whom the seizure or prosecution shall be tried. After a few remarks from different members, this amendment was agreed to.
Mr. Bidwell moved to amend the 3d section which prescribes the forfeiture of any vessel, importing persons of color into a state where slavery is permitted, together with her cargo - by striking out the word "cargo."
The Yeas and Nays were called on this amendment, and were - Yeas 39 - Nays 77. Mr. Bidwell moved to add a proviso to the end of the 7th section, of the following tenor: "Provided that no person shall be held as a slave by virtue of this act."
On this amendment a debate of considerable interest arose. Messrs. Barker, Findley, Quincey, Varnum, Smilie, Conrad, Sloan, Chandler, Bidwell, Bedinger, Southard and Ely supported; and Messrs. J. Clay, Alston and Early opposed the amendment.
The advocates of the amendment observed that they could never agree to sanction the existing provisions of the bill, which authorized the sale of persons of color imported into the U. S.; that while they respected the sentiments and feelings of the people of the southern states, so far as to be opposed to adopting any course which would be injurious to them, they claimed an equal respect for the sentiments and feelings of their constituents, which were so repugnant to slavery that no consideration whatever could induce them to give it their sanction; that nothing could be more abhorrent to their feelings than the legal authorisation of the sale of persons as slaves, and the drawing money into the public treasury from such sale; that indeed, such a provision, so far from inhibiting the trade, would in a measure tend to its encouragement; that as the bill stood, without the proposed provision, persons forfeited would be sold under the authority of the U. S. a title be given to the purchaser by the U. S. and the sale be for the benefit of the U. S. The object of the provision was to prevent this. Its advocates declared that they did not mean by it in the least to interfere with the existing laws of the states on the subject, much less to turn persons of color imported into the states where slavery was permitted. Should the present provision be adopted, it might become necessary to recommit the bill to a select committee for the purpose of introducing into its details, a provision for the disposition of the persons who may become forfeited to the U. S. that this might be done by binding them out for terms of years, or transporting them to a foreign country; and that it forfeited in states where slavery was allowed, provision might be made for their removal to states where different laws existed. The power of the general government might not, it was admitted, be competent to their liberation in the former states; but becoming by their forfeiture the property of the U. S. they would possess the right of removing them to those states with whose laws there would be no interference.
The opponents of the amendment contended that the plan contained in the bill was the only effectual and practicable one, that could be devised for preventing the importation of persons of color; that their forfeiture to and sale by the U. S. was an essential provision, as without it, no person would be found to give information of the infraction of the act, and that without such information the act would be a dead letter, as in the indirect trade with the adjacent provinces of European powers, it would be altogether impossible to render the vessel or master importing them liable to be seized, from the inability of reaching them.
They also contended that Congress did not possess the right to say that persons of color brought into the southern states should not be sold as slaves, because as soon as they became the property of the U. S. by their forfeiture, the U. S. in character of owner, became equally subject with an individual to those laws, which in several of the states directed their sale as slaves as soon as introduced into them, with which laws consequently the proposed provision directly interfered. They said they were also opposed to the amendment, because the principle on which it was advocated went to affect nine-tenths of the property of the southern states, and might in its effects strike at all the property held in slaves; that consequently it became their duty to resist it. The friends of the amendment claimed an equal respect to their feelings; but this declaration came with a bad grace from those who on a former occasion had supported a motion to turn these people loose in a state of freedom in the southern country. This was disavowed by Messrs. Smilie and Sloan.
The question was taken on the amendment by yeas and nays, which were yeas 60 - nays 60. The Speaker having declared himself in the negative, the amendment was lost. On motion of Mr. Ptkin, the authority given in the Secretary of the Treasury to remit fines and forfeitures was struck out - Ayes 74. Several other amendments were made in the details of the bill, when it was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow - Ayes 74. Mr. J. Randolph, from the Committee of Ways and Means, on so much of the message of the President of the U. S. as relates to the repealing of the acts laying a duty on salt, and to the continuance of the act imposing certain duties which constitute the Mediterranean fund, presented a bill, repealing the acts laying a duty on salt, and continuing for a further time the first section of an act, entitled an act "further to protect the commerce and seamen of the United States against the Barbary powers," which was referred to a committee of the whole on Friday.
Mr. J. Randolph likewise presented a bill authorizing the President of the United States to accept the service of a number of volunteer companies, not exceeding 30,000 men, which was referred to a committee of the whole on Monday next.
THURSDAY, Jan. 8. Mr. Early, from the committee of commerce and manufactures on the petition of Edmund Briggs, jun. made a favorable report, in which the House concurred, and instructed the committee of commerce and manufactures to bring in a bill.
On motion of Mr. J. Clay the message of the President, enclosing the laws of the Michigan territory, was referred to a select committee.
Mr. Mumford presented a memorial from the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of New-York, praying for the more effectual fortification of that port.
Referred to the committee on so much of the message of the President as relates to fortifications. The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, transmitting a statement exhibiting the amount of duties and drawbacks on goods imported into and exported from the U. S. in the years 1803, 1804, and 1805.
Mr. Wickes presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of Sag Harbor, praying for a bounty on salt manufactured in the U. S. States in case the duties on the importation of that article be repealed, which was referred to the committee of the whole to whom was committed the bill for repealing the duty on salt.
Mr. Elliot offered the following resolution, with the view of obtaining a more concise and plain statement of the progress made in the payment of the national debt, as well as of ascertaining whether the secretary of the Treasury had not made a mistake in some of his statements. Resolved, That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to lay before the House of Representatives a statement of the amount of the debt of the U. S. on the 1st day of April, in the year 1801, and on the 1st day of January in each year since that period respectively , distinguishing the respective amounts of foreign and domestic debt, and of each species of those descriptions of the debt, and exhibiting distinct statements of the quarterly as well as annual payments, so far as the same may be practicable.
Mr. Burwell said that he approved of the resolution, but wished it extended so as to obtain information of the relative state of the debt from the year 1791; and moved to amend it by inserting 1791 in lieu of 1801.
Mr. Elliot and Mr. J. Clay suggested their disapprobation to the amendment on the ground of the delay it might occasion in acting on the bill before the House relative to the discharge of the debt.
Mr. Burwell's amendment was agreed to - Ayes 87.
On motion of Mr. Alston the resolution was further amended, so as only to require quarterly statements from April 1801.
On motion of Mr. J. Clay it was farther amended by adding after "respectively," "on the 1st day of April, 1801."
So amended, the resolution was agreed to. Mr. G. W. Campbell said it would be recollected that at the last session the President had laid before the House, after its ratification, a treaty made with the Chickasaw tribe of Indians; that an act had passed the House for carrying it into effect, but had failed from a disagreement of the two Houses on certain amendments. The consequence was that the government was unable to make the stipulated payments, and that considerable inconvenience was likely to ensue. Some of the chiefs of this tribe had been here last year; they had relinquished their land, and were greatly dissatisfied at not receiving the sums stipulated to be paid to them. It was almost impossible to make them sensible of the policy of the U. S. on this subject. To obtain the attention of the House to the subject, Mr. C. moved the following resolution:
Resolved, That provision be made for carrying into effect the treaty made between the U. S. and the Chickasaw tribe of Indians on the 30th day of July 1805. Referred to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.
The bill to prohibit the importation of slaves into the U. S. was read a third time. Mr. Bedinger moved to recommit the bill to a select committee.
On this motion a long debate ensued - Messrs. Bedinger, Sloan, Bidwell, Findley, Quincey, Ely, Smilie, J. Clay, Gregg and Alexander supported; and Messrs. Early, Masters and Holland, opposed the motion, which was carried, Yeas 76 - Nays 46 - and the bill recommitted to a committee of seventeen members.
FRIDAY, Jan. 9. Mr. Dawson presented a petition from a number of citizens of Alexandria, Columbia, praying that jurors may receive a compensation for their services, which was referred to a select committee.
The bill for the relief of Anthony Benezet was recommitted.
The House again resolved itself into a committee of the whole - Mr. Varnum in the chair - on the bill providing for the punishment of certain crimes against the U. S.
Mr. Bidwell proposed a new section in the following terms, viz.
Be it enacted, That if any person, for whose keeping the peace and good behavior a recognizance shall hereafter be entered into, in pursuance of the laws of the U. S. shall during the term of such recognizance, without the limits of the U. S. carry on or aid in carrying on, or begin or set on foot, or provide or prepare the means for a military expedition against any foreign prince or state at peace with the U. S. such recognizance shall thereby be forfeited.
This motion was supported by Messrs. Bidwell, N. Williams, Sloan, and Burwell, and opposed by Messrs. Quincey, Dwight, Dawson, Ely, and Dana; and carried - Ayes 52 - Noes 48.
Further progress was made in the details of the bill, when the committee rose and reported it - and the House, without taking order on the report, adjourned to Monday.
We shall in our next paper give a full view of the proceedings and the debate on them, as well as on the new section offered by Mr. Bidwell.
SENATE UNITED STATES.
MONDAY, January 5. Gen. Smith submitted the following resolution:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what additional force is necessary to the military establishment of the U. S. States.
He observed that he was one of those who in 1802 were of opinion that the present military establishment was sufficient for the then existing state of the nation. At that time we were at peace with the Indians, of course few men were necessary for the western frontier, and at every point of the Atlantic shores, we were prepared for resistance by the strength of our militia - that the late acquirement of territory, gave us an exposed frontier, which could not be secured speedily by the militia of the union; he therefore conceived an addition to the army as indispensably necessary.
At a meeting of the Inhabitants of the City of Washington , convened on Friday evening the 9th inst. at Myer's hotel, pursuant to public notice, to receive and consider the report of the committee appointed on the 5th inst. to draft an address to the President of the United States, approbatory as well of his Administration, as of his private character as a citizen, and requesting him to permit his name to be held up as a Candidate on the ensuing election for Chief Magistrate of the United States.
The committee according to order, made a report, and after due consideration, the meeting unanimously agreed to an Address to be presented to the President of the United States, & appointed a committee to present the same - Whereupon,
Resolved unanimously, That although the inhabitants of this city are deprived of any participation in the elective franchise by a constitutional arrangement, yet feeling an identity of interest with their fellow citizens generally, and conscious that the national interest, happiness and prosperity may be greatly promoted should the President of the United States comply with the request of the many respectable bodies who have addressed him to stand as candidate on the ensuing election, for the Chief Magistracy of the union, they cannot refrain on this important occasion from also soliciting him, whose long and faithful services, as well as his public and private virtues so eminently qualify him to administer the general government, to gratify the ardent wishes of his fellow citizens on this occasion.
GEORGE ANDREWS, Chairman. THOMAS HERTY, Sec'y.
Europe.
TRANSLATED FOR THE CHARLSTON TIMES.
BERLIN, October 24. Marshal Davoust has his head-quarters at Potsdam; the Bavarian envoy Chevalier de Bray, and the Dutch charge d'affaires M. Bordeax, are gone from here to said place, to recommend the welfare of this city - the ministers of neutral princes, and their subjects, who are here, are free from all war charges. General Hulin, who commands here, was last year also French commandant at Vienna.
ANCLAM, Oct. 28. The theatre of war, which was till now in the environs of Mark, draws nearer and nearer to the boundaries of Pomerania; there was a battle near Templin; a cannonade was heard here this day - a war treasure arrived here to day.
STETTIN, October 23. The corps of Hohenlohe, and the French troops, came, according to report, to action yesterday, near Neustadt-Oberwald, from whence the news is expected - the French troops are expected here to-day or to-morrow. The English Consul has left this place.
VAXEL, October 28. The Baron Von Reeden, lieutenant-governor of this place, is this moment returned from the head-quarters of Gen. Daendels, and brings official accounts, that the Duchy of Oldenburg is to remain completely neutral.
WESTPHALIA, Oct. 29. The county of Lingen is taken possession of for his Majesty the King of Holland; not by military force, but by an address from the administrative College at Munster - all the Prussian eagles, and other arms, are also taken down by order of Gen. Michaud, and no Prussian uniform dare to be worn any longer. A requisition is made on the county of 120 horses, 60 head of cattle, and it is said that a larger demand will be made - it is likewise reported that Embden and Minden are in possession of French and Dutch troops.
BRUNSWICK, Oct. 30. The French have taken possession of this Duchy, as a conquered country. Gen. Massena is commander of Brunswick - Quadlinburg is also in possession of the French.
NORFOLK, January 12. To the attention of our correspondent at Bordeaux, we are indebted for Paris journals, containing the 13th and 14th bulletins of the grand army; the former dated at Witebsk the 23rd, and the latter at Kopfland, the 24th October, at which places the imperial head-quarters were each day respectively. There had been no other battle since those stated in the preceding bulletins already published.
The 16th bulletin states that English goods had been seized at Leipzick to the amount of sixty millions of francs (twelve millions of dollars) that the emperor had ordered each officer a complete suit, and a great-coat and coat for each soldier of his army. The marquis Lucchesini, (Prussian Minister) had been some days at the head-quarters of Napoleon, but who had refused to see him - this minister, however, was permitted to have frequent communications with Duroc, the master of the palace. French columns entered Potsdam on the 23rd and Berlin on the 24th October.
The duke of Brunswick's minister was treated with the most marked indignation. Ledger.
Domestic. From the Aurora of January 10. FACTS. The following are but brief abstracts of a long and interesting letter from Natchez. Our readers may rest on the assurance that it comes from an honorable and as true an American as breathes - and as much above fraud or deception.
"After general observations on the conspiracy; the design of the conspirators now appears to be to unite Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, the Floridas, and part at least of Mexico, into an independent empire; and that the Spanish government of these provinces, are to act in conjunction with the conspirators, under the PROTECTION OF GREAT BRITAIN; and that they expect a BRITISH FLEET to aid them, which is to arrive at the mouth of the Mississippi within two or three months at farthest. Col. Burr, general Wilkinson, and Daniel Clarke, the deputy in congress, from Orleans, are at the head of this conspiracy, to separate the western country from the union."
"Several officers in the United States service have resigned, refusing to serve under Wilkinson - he wishes to carry all the arms and stores at Fort Adams to Orleans; but was not permitted."
"Wilkinson left this place on the 20th, in company with major Minors a Spanish officer."
"No men could be more alert, nor more attached to the union, than the people of this territory."
What say the British agents to the above damning verification of the Aurora anticipations?
What say the admirers of the Cambrian frigate's outrageous violence?
What say the advocates for the suspension of the non-importation law?
Is major Jackson ready to turn out again? English as well as Spanish or French?
One and all; what say you, who are friends of 1776.
Extract from the Aurora of the 18th Dec. relative to our negotiations with England.
What was the result when the latest advices came away, we have certainly heard - we have been in possession of some time - we hinted as much before - and we will state the facts now - we shall state them now, because we mean to point out to public attention, the conduct and declarations of emissaries paid by England, and residing here for the express purpose of influencing the people of the United States against their government and in favor of England.
Our readers may rely on the following information as authentic - it is not official, nor derived from any official source by us, but we can undertake to vouch for it, that in substance it is the real truth.
Our differences with England, were very amply discussed by Mr. Munroe, and the basis of the principles upon which our government insisted were laid before that government, before Mr. Fox came into the administration; and Mr. Munroe finding the measures procrastinated under official presents resolved to return home.
Our government might perhaps, have been without a minister in England, had not the death of Mr. Pitt, and the elevation of Fox to the cabinet, unfolded new hopes; Mr. Munroe then determined to remain, and he renewed in a suitable manner, his former representations, and in the most decisive and dignified tone.
The measures taken on this side of the Atlantic, were necessarily founded on the acts of the government of England, as they appeared and were declared to be, by the conduct of her ministers there, her ships on the high seas, and her emissaries here; but it was determined to exhaust the cup of forbearance, and to demonstrate to the world, that it was justice alone we sought - an additional minister with fresh complaints, and a catalogue of new injuries and aggressions, were joined in the mission with Mr. Munroe - the liberality of Mr. Fox - and the intelligence of the commercial body were called fourth, by the appearance of a new minister - reinforced by a law, which being only an indication of what might be contemplated, acted much more effectively than a fleet of 20 sail of the line, or than a battle of Trafalgar, or of Jena - The result has been -
That our differences with Great Britain were not only admitted to be a justifiable cause of complaint, but such as required redress.
Nay even the negotiations go not only to the practice of that government under their construction of the law of nations, but to the principle also.
The differences that have arisen in any stage of the negotiation, are, unless on one point, of a secondary and comparatively in consequence character.
The great point, and the only important point unsettled, was the question how shall the neutral flag protect persons.
The principle contended for by Mr. Munroe from the beginning, and by both the American ministers at the last advices, was involved in the word persons - our ministers contending that the flag protected all persons sailing beneath our flag.
The British ministers offered to recognize the principle, that the flag should protect American citizens.
Upon this point there would have remained no difference, or further debate, were the explanations, and constructions of the English negotiators, as explicit and unreserved as ours had a right to expect.
Our ministers aware of the doctrines of the English diplomatics and jurists, that allegiance is perpetual - that they hold, that no man born a British subject can alienate himself, or become a member of another state, although some of our tory lawyers (as Elsworth in William's case) have had the audacity to recognize a principle so repugnant to civil liberty, and human rights, our government never has nor ever
can adopt it; Mr. Munroe, who from the particular constitutional provisions of his native state of Virginia, which admits and specifies even the form of alienation, and no doubt would contend for the prime and right of alienation; did insist on the protection of every citizen; whether born foreign or before the revolution; or naturalized according to the constitutional ordinances of the union.
The main question in dispute then was, shall the flag protect all persons sailing under it? Because the word persons is the only one which would render negotiation decisive and superior to all other cavils and subterfuges of the long robe.
The English negotiators appeared disposed when they sat in September last, to give such an explanation of the word citizen, as would embrace the naturalized as well as the neutral born citizens - here alone the negotiations were not closed as to principles; on every other point they had been mutually and on the common satisfaction of both sides, agreed in the principles.
And on this point it is probable they may agree, or had agreed in October or November; that is, if the English ministers are as sincere as they have appeared to be, and professed to be, and as their actions during the negotiations certainly indicated, here then is the point at which the negotiation had arrived.
NORFOLK, January 12.
On Saturday last, his Britannic Majesty's ship Leopold, of 50 guns, arrived in Hampton Roads from Bermuda - Yesterday Rear Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, in the Ceres of 84 guns, accompanied by the Triumph of 74 guns, and the La Topaze frigate, all from Halifax, anchored in the Bay, and yesterday the Melampus frigate 50 under way from Hampton Roads, and went down to join the Admiral. Ledger.
Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron arrived at Portsmouth on the 4th of November, after an unsuccessful cruise in search of the French fleet on the American coast.
General Assembly of Virginia.
Extracts from the Journal of the House of Delegates.
Saturday, January 10.
Mr. Gholson presented, according to order, a bill, "To amend the act, entitled, "An act to incorporate two companies for the purpose of cutting a navigable canal from Roanoke river to Meherrin river; and another navigable canal from Nansemond river to Bennett's creek in the state of North Carolina" - which was received and ordered to be laid upon the table.
Monday, January 12.
An engrossed bill, "To amend an act concerning grand juries, petit juries and veniremen," was read a third time and a blank therein being filled up, was passed.
An engrossed bill, "To amend an act, to continue and amend an act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, "An act for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors," was read a third time, and passed.
Resolved, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act "To amend an act to continue and amend an act for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, "An act for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors."
An engrossed bill, "To amend the act, entitled, "An act to amend the penal laws of this Commonwealth," was read a third time, a blank therein filled up and the title amended.
Resolved, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act "Concerning the internal regulations of the Penitentiary house."
Tuesday, January 13.
A communication from the Senate by their clerk; The Senate have received from their fourth amendment proposed to the bill, "To amend an act, entitled, an act, to amend the several laws concerning slaves," to which the House of Delegates disagreed.
They have passed the following bills, to wit:
A bill, "Giving the assent of this state to an act of Congress, for laying out and making a road from the Potomac river to the state of Ohio" - and,
A bill, "Annexing the county of Albemarle to the district for which a chancery court is directed to be holden in Staunton."
They have also passed the bill, "Concerning the abatement of suits and executors and administrators" - the bill, "Concerning the militia of the city of Richmond" - and the bill, "Extending Bath street in the borough of Norfolk," with amendments, to which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments to the two first named bills, and the same being twice read, were, on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the House.
Ordered, That the clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments proposed by the Senate to the last named bill, when,
On motion, Ordered, that the further consideration of the said bill, with the amendments, be postponed to the 31st day of March next.
An engrossed bill, "To empower the executive to appoint persons to collect the arrears of taxes;" was read a third time, and passed.
The Speaker laid before the house a letter from the mayor of the city of Richmond, in the following words:
Richmond, 13th January, 1807.
Sir,
It is thought by the Court of Hustings for the City of Richmond, now sitting, that Mr. George Summers, a member of your honorable house, is a material witness in a prosecution now depending in that court for a felony; to obtain the benefit of his testimony they have had him regularly summonsed, but he has refused to attend; they have directed me to make you this communication, and to request of your honorable body that Mr. Summers' privileges may be suspended until the aforesaid trial is over, that he may be compelled by compulsory process to attend.
I am Sir,
With great respect,
Your obedient servant,
E. CARRINGTON, Mayor.
The hon. Peter Johnston, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
On motion, Resolved, that Mr. Summers, a member of this house, have leave to attend the court of Hustings of the city of Richmond, as a witness on behalf of the commonwealth.
On motion, Ordered, that the said letter be laid upon the table.
The house proceeded to consider the bill, "Imposing taxes for the support of government" (which bill with several amendments as reported from the committee of the whole house on the state of the commonwealth, lay upon the table) - The second amendment proposed by the committee is in the following words: "On that portion of the capital stock of the bank of the U. S. which is deposited in the branch bank at Norfol - a tax of - per centum."
A motion was made to amend the said amendment by adding to the following words to wit: "On the capital stock of the bank of Virginia, a tax of - per centum."

And the question being put on the proposed amendment, it passed in the affirmative Ayes 127—Noes 12. The question being then put on the amendment as amended, it was agreed to by the house.
Richmond, January 8, 1807.
The Council of State have unanimously re-appointed the Hon. Alex. M c Rae, president of Council, and of course Lieutenant Governor for the present year. They have also re-appointed Daniel L. Hylton and Samuel Coleman Clerks of the Council. And also Maj. John Clarke Superintendent, George Williamson and Daniel Atherton, master Armouers, and George Dabney Clerk to the manufactory of Arms.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Chillicothe, (Ohio) to the editor, dated Dec. 19, 1806.
"I assure you that the infamous Burrites are putting on long faces; they are few in number in this quarter; and the militia from 15 years of age and upwards, are ready at a moment's warning, to suppress the efforts of the traitors. It is said young Nevels, Butler and Robinson , are on their way, with a banditti of 40 men, to join the standard of the quid emperor; if so, they will soon find that one pair of heels is worth 1000 pair of piffoles. All the militia want, is a light of the traitors."
Pittsburg Commonwealth.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 17th JANUARY.
No. 1.
To the Editor of the Enquirer,
The Legislature of Virginia being about to close its session, the proper time has arrived to comment, on such of its conduct, as invites the particular attention of the public. The subjects of state policy, which have been agitated in it, are numerous and important: but the opinions, and sentiments on national subjects, expressed by that body deservedly command our most serious contemplation.
In no other state in the union, has the legislature displayed in its debates, an evidence of the existence of any germ, of the party which has been emphatically called the republican  feudalism . But I fear that the history of this session has but too clearly evinced, that in Virginia, the views and measures of that party still have their advocates. In the early part of the session, two resolutions introduced into the house of delegates, drew forth the strength of the existing parties. The latent energies of the minority, were obvious in debate. The discussions in both houses were interesting, but in the house of delegates no direct attempt was made to defend the measures which had been advocated in Congress by the minority. It is supposed that a display of a disposition to do so, in the speeches on the first resolution (which from a spirit of conciliation, which actuated the select committee, to whom was referred Doctor Blake's resolution, was expressive only of an approbation of the President) produced the second, which imported an approbation of the measures pursued towards foreign nations. The friends to the administration deemed it a duty, after doubts were expressed, no longer to leave it in the power of its enemies, to infer a change of opinion in the people of Virginia, when it was well known, that such change had not taken place.
The second resolution was purposely calculated, by assimilating its terms and language to that of the last session, to ascertain the fact, whether the more popular branch of the Legislature, "so lately emanating from the people" brought with them sentiments, different from those which existed antecedent to the republican schism.
The immediate voice of the people founded in their ears, and they obeyed it.
This resolution was carried to the Senate, where it met with an able support from the speaker of that house, and several other republican members. It was opposed with great ability by Mr. Daniel, who not only contended against the expediency of the resolution, but defended the measures of the minority in Congress. His speech which was published in the Enquirer of the 8th inst. demands the attention of the people of Virginia, and perhaps of America. It has been so far left to operate the effect, it is to eminently calculated to make on the public mind. The author of these remarks will principally confine his observations to principles and opinions detailed in the speech of this honorable member of the senate, and he expresses the undigested feelings of his heart, when he regrets that an able pen has not been employed in this necessary task. He is impressed with an opinion, however, that he speaks although in homely terms the sentiments of Virginia, and therefore, does not apologize for using the language he has selected.
The right and duty of the state governments to express their opinions on subjects of national concern, is derived from the constituent power of the states, in the organization of the federal government; and from the continued dependence it has on the states, for the renovation of its vital principles. Such an expression of opinion becomes proper, when it respects subjects of general and great importance. It becomes particularly a duty, when the measures pursued by the general government, are deemed dangerous to the welfare of the community; or when that government, in pursuit of a course, which commands the approbation of the country, is assailed from without with terms of reproach and subjected from abroad to unprovoked attacks. The resolutions of the Virginia assembly made in the year 1798, '99 & 1800, were of the first of these descriptions. Those of 1805 and the present session, are of the other. Of the latter description too, are the resolutions and addresses of several other states, in the late and present sessions of their Legislatures, which have in the strongest terms, expressed their confidence in, and determination to support the measures of the present administration. In Virginia only, has a contrary disposition been discovered, and supported by a minority whose opinions are now to be examined.
The circumstances with respect to foreign relations under which the Legislature of Virginia of the last year adopted a resolution, in approbation of the conduct of the general government, were similar to those which are now preferred. With England and with Spain negotiation has been protracted: The most earnest endeavours for peaceable adjustment have been used. The events are still uncertain particularly as to Spain, and if last year the voice of Virginia, was necessary to proclaim to foreign nations, the union of sentiment which pervades this country, and our high confidence in, and determination to support the measures of the administration of the U. States, that necessity has not ceased to exist: Has any one denied that those were the objects of the resolutions of the last year adopted by the Assembly of Virginia? Or can it be denied, that
there is yet equal cause to express our adherence to the administration? What then is left for discussion? Nothing fir, but the naked question whether the Legislature could in justice to its conditions, adopt the resolution on which in the language of that, they adopted twelve months ago, expressing an approbation of the firm, just, and liberal policy of the administration of the government of the U. S.
I hoped indeed that in Virginia, this would not have been a question at this day; why has it become so? Because fir, we had learned before, and again, in the speech made in the Senate by Mr. Daniel, we have heard, that there are men, who are opposed to the policy which we have said was just and wise; who would have adopted a different one, and changed the course of the administration. It is true the honorable member of the Senate tells us he has no information on the subject of our foreign relations. But I ask how he more when he gave his vote, a year ago, that the policy of the government, was firm, just, and liberal, towards foreign nations? I cannot accuse him of forgetfulness and therefore I refer with more certainty to the supposition, that he has changed his opinions of the measures of the administration. "He will not sing praises where his heart and his tongue are not attuned to the subject." For this I commend him, this is manly language; but to ask for information at this time on a subject which twelve months ago it was his pride, and his pleasure, to act on, with promptness, and decision, implies something more than a want of knowledge: it must imply a charge of opinion. We are told that "the question is will the Senate censure the minority?" I frankly say, fir, that was I a member of that honorable body, I should be for expressing the opinions of the people in support of the measures of the government: if in doing this, censure alight on the minority in Congress, it is a consequence to which their conduct has subjected them; as a friend to the resolution, the Legislature was under no obligation to destroy its effect, by involving it in contradiction. But while this resolution is said to convey a censure on the conduct of the minority, let me not be supposed, to say that it will operate as an impeachment of their motives; was I called on to express an opinion of those motives, (which is by no means implied by the language of the resolution) I would say, my powers are not inquisitorial; I would not infer guilt, nor is it my business to have anything to do with suspicion. The Senate was told, it was called on by the resolution to censure men of independence, because they dared to differ from the administration on unimportant points: What is the history, and what the facts of this difference? A gentleman high in political reputation, tells the world that the minority were required to compromise their principles "to betray their duty to themselves, their constituents and their country, in order to enjoy the countenance of the administration" &c. What principles, fir? Those founded in a mere trifling difference of opinion? Betray their duty! for what? To enjoy the countenance of an administration, which is thus said to be willing to betray its duty: is it a difference in opinion on any subject, that either advocates, betray their trust? No. I will not do such an injustice to the memory of Washington. I will not imolate his honest fame, on the shrine of such sophistry; the blow aimed a deeper wound, it has recoiled, and fallen harmless: but while the hand was uplifted, the suspense was awful. In the animated tone of eloquent invective, the nation is told that an officer to whom the highest trust had been delegated, had betrayed his duty; had shrunk from the responsibility of his station; and assailed the nation with one plan, while his influence was used in effecting another of a different cast: That the honor of our country was prostrated. But the charges are specified, the people are appealed to, and what is their decision? Those measures of the administration, the subject of the resolution defused in the Senate, have been appropriated. Those which were charged with a war tendency have produced peace. Those which it was said would irritate G. Britain to "sweep our commerce from the ocean," have had a contrary effect.
But, fir, we must say nothing, which shall convey an opinion adverse to the prosperity of a virtuous republican minority. Because, indeed, the honorable member of the Senate tells us, that it is only on a republican opposition we could rely. "The federalists will not be believed." Sir, I cannot deem so contemptuously of the spirit of independence, which governs this country. I will rely, as on the best hope of republicanism, that the people of America have that political discernment which will enable them to discriminate, when a charge shall be made on men or measures, and that they can judge of it, let the sound come from what quarter it may; nor is that system of political justice less strange to my mind which would lead us to fancy the principles, altho' we could not applaud the act, of an ungrounded opposition, because it originated with republicans. Could we suppose with the gentleman, that a spirit of servility, could by possibility exist with the majority, even, that dishonourable as is the supposition, would be scarcely less dangerous, than the convulsions of anarchy, arising from the support of plausible, groundless accusations made by a popular leader. The remark derives its authority from the pages of republican history. To preserve us from the extremes of both, our only reliance is on the virtue and discretion of the people; the support which wise measures ought to have, and from whence those inimical to our peace and security ought to meet an indignant frown. I talk in the name of common sense, if the idea is correct, that an opposition is to be cherished, although founded in principles destructive to the interests of this country, because its members are professions of independence, and republicanism if an opposition on those principles must be fostered by the people, although it has offered and has not supported, charges against the government, which had a tendency to bring it into disgrace at home and contempt abroad?
But the House of Delegates have been accused of an attempt to influence the Presidential and Congressional elections—And why? When a resolution twelve months ago, in similar terms with the present one, was introduced, what was then the motive? It was the ostensible one exhibited on its face, of which I have no doubt, the same reasons still exist, the same cause of support and encouragement are still required: does not the gentleman see how open he has laid himself to retort? When we hear him in a most respectable branch of the Legislature of Virginia say, we will "appeal to the people," this, fir, was said by another before. In his speech, I presume, is his appeal, and I do not rate his understanding so lowly, as to say his appeal is not by himself intended to have an effect; but what does his record of this appeal exhibit? Two questions only; the one, the necessity of supporting a minority at all events, the other, a defence of its principle on the merits. The first is already examined. One word more on it before I take my leave of this part of the subject. I will never discourage the exercise of calm, deliberate investigation in public bodies; I will encourage
the public centinels to be watchful at their posts; but if the watch which I have placed to protect the citadel, has become restless in their duty, or in a phrensy of impatience fire their alarm guns and throw the garrison into confusion, I would at least reprimand them, and although I should admire their spirit, I would neither commend nor encourage them—nor could I, to use a famous congressional allegory, admire the watchfulness of those "tip-top-gallant boys" who would mistake a harmless speck of a sail upon the ocean, for a head land or a rock, and by their clamours would jostle from the helm, the experienced navigator who launched our first political ship; and now, fir, let us, (invited by the argument of the honorable member) enter into an investigation of the merits of this opposition; and see whether he is correct in saying that the measures of the administration do not deserve the epithets of "firm just and liberal."
ONE OF THE PEOPLE.
COMMUNICATION.
On Monday evening, the SCHOOL OF REFORM OR HOW TO RULE A HUSBAND, was played at the Richmond Theatre.
This Comedy will not stand the test of a rigid scrutiny. In the first place, there is not a unity of action; and in the second, there is a confusion of incidents; but as I have as entire a disgust for "the cant of criticism" as ever Sterne had, I shall say no more in the way of censure of this play, but give it the merit, to which it is certainly entitled, of being, upon the whole, an agreeable and interesting comedy.
With respect to the representation of the piece, one general censure applies to every actor and actress on the stage. They transposed the collocation of the words, and mutilated the language of the author, uniformly to the injury of the force and meaning of the play.
Mr. Barret sustained the character of Lord Avondale with great judgment, force of expression and appropriate gesture. This is a very natural character—it is a compound of virtues and vices—it is not one of those "fruitless monsters which the world never saw," that we too often see on the stage; but although it is one of those characters that we see every day, yet is it on that very account, the more difficult to perform; for as it is much easier to draw a monster than a natural portrait,—as it is much easier to write bombast, and fulian, than to write with the plain, unadorned sweet simplicity of a Swift or a Goldsmith, so it is much easier to rant in tragedy, or be a buffoon in comedy, or by affectation, and levity, where the character does not require it, so excessively to overact the part, that it not only ceases to be interesting or amusing, but gradually becomes odious and disgusting, than to perform a natural character. Mr. Barret did perform a natural character, and to my taste, with great excellence.
Mr. Comer represented General Tarragon with considerable success. The character was well suited to the actor, and the actor to the character, which I have observed to be the case often with Mr. Comer than any other performer on the stage; for I do not think this gentleman possesses a flexibility of manner, or versatility of talent, calculated to please in different and opposite characters; Mr. Comer's tone of voice is monotonous, and his style of performance, to use the expression, too uniform and unvarying; but his gesture is generally suited to the meaning of the words he utters. Since Mr. Comer's first appearance on the Richmond stage, he has improved extremely; but after arriving at a certain point, whether from indolence, and want of study, or that nature has denied him farther excellence, it remains for him to show—He stops short, and has continued pretty much the same for the several last past seasons.
Mr. Collins did not succeed in the character of Mr. Ferment. It is one of the commonest things in human life for persons to overrate themselves; and this is Ferment's prominent weakness; and it brings him into ludicrous situations; but if I understand the author, he did not intend that he should overrate himself so very far, as Mr. Collins made him. He was represented as a very dolt—a creature in the unfortunate situation, of being unable to excite either admiration, pity or laughter. Ferment should have appeared much more respectable and dignified than he did, at the same time that his hobby-horses, his plans and his weak points, should have brought him into embarrassing and ludicrous situations, the mortification of which should have made his own self-love perceive and feel most poignantly, that to my apprehension, was the point of character to which Mr. Collins was not up. But Mr. Collins is a young & different man; good voice, genteel appearance; always has his part perfect; & if, as I have heard, he continues to devote himself with assiduity to theatrical studies, I think that he will one day arrive at considerable eminence in his profession—a profession, the influence of which upon the morals and manners of civilized society, and upon every species of excellence in forensic and senatorial elocution, has been so little understood, and so badly appreciated. It requires only that the lives of the actors and actresses should not be spent in the shameful dissipation that they too often are, and that they should perform none but good plays to render the stage more efficacious in "raising the genius and mending the heart" than the pulpit itself.
Mr. Spear in the character of Frederick was very unequal in his performance; sometimes he supported the part tolerably well; but in general, the manner of his acting, was tame and uninteresting; with a thick voice, mumbling every word; and his gesture altogether strained, awkward and unnatural.
Mr. Green did not support Tyke with his usual judgment. The serious parts of the character were done with considerable interest; but the ludicrous were not: Mr. Green could not make Tyke a greater scoundrel than he was; but he certainly made him a much greater fool than the author intended. The word "yea" is constantly spelled as it should be; but Mr. Green uniformly pronounced it ees ; although from Tyke's acquaintance with "Jockey Lords," it might have been presumed that he would know how to pronounce a word so perpetually in use. Mr. Green is very far from being exempt from the general censure passed upon all the comedians, in the commencement of these remarks—if he did not "make free with the King's English," he certainly made very free with Mr. Morton's.
Mr. Huntingdon supported his character of the Old Man very well. This performer seems to stand upon a middle ground of eminence in his calling, from which he is never jostled, either by the laughter of comedy or the frenzy of tragedy; he is never very low in his style of performance; and he is certainly never very great.
Mrs. Barret in the part of Mrs. St. Clair, was much more correct in her performance, than she generally is in serious characters; patient, melancholy and refined grief were what Morton intended, and what Mrs. Barret exhibited.
Mrs. Green failed to excite any great degree of interest in the character of Julia; she has, to a great degree, that fault, from which I have seen few, very few performers exempt: They seem to suppose that, when they have spoken the words written down for them in the play, that they have done enough, and relapse into that or Mrs. such-a-one, until they have to speak again, and then they endeavor to resume the character they had thrown off. They represent scarcely half the character when they permit these vacant intervals, in their performances: they know not, or if they do, they avail not themselves of the knowledge, that the assuming a particular cast of countenance, and exhibiting appropriate gesture, often speak the language of the passions more forcibly than words themselves.
Mrs. Wilmot performed the character of Mrs. Ferment. This is the all-important character in the under plot of The way to rule a husband , and was most properly assigned to Mrs. Wilmot. Never for a moment, in look, gesture, or word, did Mrs. Wilmot, relapse, into Mrs. Wilmot; Mrs. Ferment alone was seen, heard or understood; the hearty laugh of good-natured ridicule at the weaknesses of a husband, was so naturally put on by Mrs. Wilmot, that one cannot but believe that for the time, she actually felt as she appeared to feel. I presume that Horace's maxim will apply as well to mirth as to grief— Si vis me flere, &c. "If you would have me weep, begin the strain." Mrs. Wilmot would have us laugh, and she began the strain; nor could the warmest wishes of her friends, nor her own self-love, desire greater success than she obtained. Conscious that she is performing to admiration, she seems fearfully to thank the audience for that debt of applause which she knows they are obliged to pay her. Added to Mrs. Wilmot's natural and acquired talents for the stage, she is wise enough always to make herself mistresses of her part; no improper pauses, no hammering, no tragic treading across the stage to get nearer the prompter, until he has benumbed and deafened the audience with his hollow sepulchral reminiscences.
The Editor has been informed by the U States Attorney for this district, that he has received a letter, dated 29th ult. and bearing the Post-Office mark of Martinsville, from Charles Green, upon whose evidence, and that of Capt. Vaughan, of Norfolk, James Phillips and Thomas Hall were convicted and sentenced to the Penitentiary at the last session of the Circuit Court in this City, of passing counterfeit notes, of the bank of the U. S. In this letter, which the editor has seen, Green states that he has been again attacked by some of the associates of the prisoners, that he is wounded in his left arm and right side, and was left by the assassins upon a supposition that he was dead; that his horse was stabbed in two places and his harness cut, and that in the attack upon himself, he heard Captain Vaughan threatened with the same fate.
The editor has been informed that Green was prevented from attending the Circuit Court at the May term, in consequence of the violence done to his person while he was on his journey as a witness. He stated this fact in giving his evidence in November last, and farther deposed, that after the arrest of Phillips in Norfolk, upon his information, he was at one time shot at in the night, at another way-laid and beaten, and that finally his horse was burnt, and much of his property destroyed; notwithstanding these terrors, this man had the firmness to attend at the last Circuit Court, and give evidence as above mentioned.
Green had been informed by a letter, which he supposed to be genuine, that the court would sit on the 22d October, and he came to Richmond on that day or on the day before. As the distance beyond the Alleghany at which he lived from this place made it difficult for him to return home and back again to Richmond before the 22d November, he staid in this city upwards of a month, at a considerable expense for himself and his horse, which expense the court did not think itself authorized to reimburse, by paying for his attendance prior to the 22d of November. While he was here, waiting for the sitting of the court, several attempts were made by persons whom he did not know to seduce and to intimidate him, from giving evidence.
This man, Green, the Editor understands, after being a shop-keeper in Norfolk, is obliged to gain his livelihood as a pedler.
The object of this representation is to make known to the world this instance of integrity and firmness, & to present it particularly to the consideration of the directors of the Bank of the United States. The Editor will be happy to be the medium of any communication which those interested in the circulation of U. S. bank notes, may think proper to make to Mr. Green on this subject.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
It were endless to compliment where compliments are so frequently due—The following lines are from the pen of one of the Poets of Peterburg.
TUNE—THE HUMOURS OF GLEN.
How sweet on the mountains when heat-bells are glowing, To wander and list to the busy wild bees; Or stray through the grove where the wild flowers are blowing, And catch the rich odours that float on the breeze! Tho' sweet be the breeze from the bosom of roses, Enchanting the hum of wild bees on the hill, O Mary, my Mary, far sweeter than those is, Far purer than dew-drops that shine o'er the rill. Nor the glow of the pink, nor the snow of the lilly, Can match her soft cheek—O the beam of her eye! When she flies on the wings of a Sylph thro' the valley, To glad the poor cottage where misery lies. O daughter of beauty, companion's fair blossom! Can pity, soft pity alone thy heart move? O come and repose thy young cares in my bosom, I'll cherish them there, till they bloom into love.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
I have perused every number of the "IMPARTIAL OBSERVER," a weekly paper published in Richmond by Mr. Samuel Brooks: the genuine republican principles which that paper inculcates and enforces in my opinion, ought to be liberally encouraged by all those who wish to preserve and transmit our republican institutions, pure and unimpaired to posterity.
Mr. Brooks has given undoubted proof of his integrity, and from several specimens of his literary abilities which I have seen, I am convinced that he is well qualified to discharge the duties of a Newspaper, with honor to himself and great advantage to the public.
To the labours of the press we are chiefly indebted, for most of the civil and political advantages which we enjoy; and whilst the enemies of liberty are now so actively engaged in corrupting the sources of information, by erecting and amply supporting a number of presses, for the purpose of weakening, or destroying the public confidence in our republican institutions, it becomes a duty in real republicans to cherish those presses, which form the only effectual means to rebut their arguments, and counteract their anti-republican tendencies.
I take a pleasure in recommending to the notice and patronage of true republicans, the paper published by Mr. Brooks, called the "IMPARTIAL OBSERVER." Should that publication meet with the support to which I think it is entitled, I have no doubt of its becoming in the hand of its present editor, a valuable acquisition to the public; and a vigilant watch upon the conduct of the enemies to liberty.
JOHN PAGE.
January 16, 1807.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
On Thursday, the House of Delegates passed the revenue bill, with the following new taxes: A tax of one per cent upon the capital stock of the U. S. bank, deposited at Norfolk: One half per cent upon the capital stock of the Virginia bank: One per cent upon the profits of toll bridges, and wharves: 50 dollars upon race fields: 5 per cent upon the rent of taverns, when occupied by a tenant; when occupied by the proprietor, the rent to be ascertained by commissioners; but the rent is not to be less than about 12 1-2 dols. An additional tax upon auctioneers' licences, when granted by corporations.
The same bill was yesterday discussed before the Senate, and rejected by a considerable majority. The principal ground of opposition is presumed to have been the scheme of taxing the Virginia bank under existing circumstances.
Yesterday the House of Delegates adopted the bill making a new arrangement of the senatorial districts.
CHARLESTON, Jan. 7.
On Friday last, the crew of the British Ship Creyde , Williams, anchor in this harbour, mutinied, and the captain fired upon them, and wounded two of the seamen, of which one is said to have since died, in the Hospital, of his wounds. The seamen in the harbour manifested, on Saturday, a disposition to be riotous, and to commit some outrage upon other British vessels in the port; the Creyde having gone to sea on that morning. In consequence, the Governor ordered on a very strong military force to preserve the peace of the city; it gives us pleasure to state, that the troops evinced the most prompt obedience to the Governor's orders, and gave the most decisive proof of the alacrity with which they would do their duty whenever their country shall demand their services. (Courier.)
The public will be pleased to learn that the resolution in favor of making a complimentary present to George W. Mann, for his gallant conduct at Dene, unanimously passed the general assembly of Maryland.
Baltimore American.
On Friday, the 2d inst. the following resolution was read in the house of delegates of this state:
Whereas the general assembly of Maryland, viewing with sensations of the greatest pleasure, the brave and gallant conduct of Charles Gordon, John Trippe and John Davis in the several attacks on the enemy's gun-boats off Tripoli, whereby they rendered to themselves immortal glory, and gave a brilliant lustre to the navy of the U. States. And whereas this legislature feel an anxious wish to bear the most honorable testimony to the bravery of those manly defenders of their country; therefore resolved, that the governor and council be, and they are hereby authorized and required to procure three elegant swords and belts, with an appropriate engraving and motto, emblematic of the glorious actions fought off Tripoli, and cause the same to be delivered to the said Charles Gordon, John Trippe and John Davis, in testimony of the high sense of approbation the legislature of this state entertain of their gallant conduct.
Baltimore paper.
VOCAL & INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC,
AND
MINIATURE PAINTING.
P. A. Peticoles, professor of music & miniature painting, returns his sincere thanks to his friends and the public in general, for the encouragement he has already received, in his profession; and expects from his endeavours to please, a continuance of their favors.
Master Edward Peticoles, will also take likenesses in Miniature, on moderate terms.
N. B. P. A. PETICOLES, tunes Piano Fortes, & teaches that art. He has for sale a grand piano forte, in the best order, and concert pitch, Strings, Hammers and Tuning Forks, of the best quality, at his house, near Mr. Coplands, on Shockoe-Hill.
Jan. 17. 34
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
PURSUANT to a decree of the Worshipful Court of Hulings for the City of Richmond—the subscribers will expose to sale, on the twenty-eighth day of February next, on the premises, for Cash, the HOUSE & LOT, in said city, formerly the residence of Jas. Rind, dec. and for some time occupied by Jedediah Allen. On this lot, which is well enclosed there is a very good Dwelling House, which has recently undergone a thorough repair, a new Stable, other convenient Offices, and a very good Garden, all which render it a desirable habitation for a family. Previous to the sale, Mr. Allen who lives on the premises, will show them to any person desirous to become the purchaser.
Edmund Randolph, John Adams, Philip N. Nicholas, John Foster, eptsd. Commissioners.
A TUTOR WANTING.
A Gentleman who can teach the English Language grammatically, and can come well recommended, will meet with liberal encouragement in the neighborhood of Hanover-Town. H. T. Jan. 17. oaw3w.
FITZWYHLSONN & POTTER.
Have just received a large supply of the very best English writing Paper, —CONSISTING OF—
Super Royal, Royal, Medium, Folio & Quarto Pst. For Merchants and Account Books. Which they offer for sale either wholesale or retail.
They have on hand a general assortment of Paper of AMERICAN manufacture; Blank Books and Stationery; a collection of printed Books and Music, to which, additions will constantly be made; and a handsome variety of Paper Hangings for rooms.
Orders from the country carefully executed. Jan. 17. oaw3t.
JUST PUBLISHED.
(AND MAY BE HAD AT SAM'L PLEASANT'S PRINTING-OFFICE & BOOK-STORE): PART I. VOL. I. OF HENNING & MUNFORD'S REPORTS. January 17. 34.
NOTICE.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed by Robert Woodcock, the subscriber will offer for sale to the highest bidder on the premises, on Monday the 2nd of March next.
THE TRACT OF LAND wherein the said Robert Woodcock resides in Chesterfield county, containing two hundred and four acres of land, more or less, and adjoining the Lands of Samuel Farmer, Ephraim Garthright, Henry Woodcock, Thomas Gregory, John Hancock, Enoch Adkins, Mark Farmer and Daniel Farmer. This sale is made to satisfy a debt of two hundred and ten pounds, with interest from the 10th day of March 1806, due from the said Robert Woodcock to Major Winfree.
THOS. GRAVES, Trustee.
January 17. 2 p.

FRENCH DOCUMENTS, CONCLUDED. SECOND NOTE OF M. KNOBELSDORFF TO THE MINISTER FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS.
The Undersigned Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty the King of Prussia, received yesterday the Note addressed to him by his Excellency the Prince of Benevento, Minister for Foreign Affairs. In this communication, the Undersigned has found again, with extreme satisfaction, the assurance formerly given, in the Note of the 15th of September, that his Majesty the Emperor and King would fulfil the engagement which he had made to wait the result of the explanations given to M. De Lucchesini and the Gen. Knobelsdorff, before taking any measures respecting the Constitutional Notification, which would put all the forces of the French Nation at the disposal of Government, he has learned, with infinite pain, that his Majesty should have had any regret at that engagement; and that, in fulfilling it, he thinks it necessary to order all the measures and all the movements of troops, which can be taken without previous notification.
The Undersigned hastens to reiterate to his Excellency M. the Prince of Benevento, the assurance that his Majesty the King of Prussia, far from ever having had an idea of renouncing his relations of amity, with France, participated in that respect all the sentiments of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, expressed in the communication to which this Note is an answer; that far from having entered into a concert with the enemies of France, his Prussian Majesty has always fought to calm all resentments, for facilitating the re-establishment of a general peace; in fine that far from menacing the French armies in Germany by his armaments, these only took place, in consequence of the advice received at Berlin, and which was so alarming, that it was not possible to neglect measures of precaution, demanded by prudence for the welfare of the state.
The Undersigned is pleased, in renewing to his Excellency the Prince of Benevento the assurance, that in taking these measures his Majesty the King of Prussia has not renounced for a single instant, the assurance of seeing the clouds dispersed that have been raised between him and France; and General Knobelsdorff is persuaded that such will be the result of the explanations that have taken place. In begging M. the Prince of Benevento to make known to his Majesty the Emperor and King this answer to his communication, the Undersigned has the honour to renew to his excellency the assurance of his high consideration.
(Signed) General KNOBELSDORFF. Paris, Sept. 20, 1806.
Second report addressed to his majesty the emperor and king, by the minister of foreign relations, Oct. 6.
SIR: When in the report that a few days back I had the honour to address your Majesty, I established, that if Prussia had any personal reasons which led her to make war, it could only be from a desire to enslave Saxony, and the Hanseatic Towns. I was far from perceiving, that she would ever dare avow such a motive. It is nevertheless, an avowal which she has not feared to make, and to express in a note that M. de Knobelsdorff has sent me from Metz, and which I have the honour to address your Majesty. Of the three demands which that note contains, the first and the third are only made to disguise, if it be possible, that no real importance may be attached to the second.
Prussia, after having seen with a tranquil eye the French armies in Germany during a year, could not be alarmed at their presence when their numbers were diminished—when they were dispersed in small bodies in distant cantonments—when, above all, your Majesty had solemnly announced, that they should return to France as soon as the affair of Cattaro, the cause of the prolongation of their stay in Germany, should be settled by an agreement with Austria, and that already the order for their return was given.
Prussia, who speaks of a negotiation to fix all the interests in question, knows well that there is no point of interest whatever in question between the two states; the amicable discussion which should definitively fix the fate of the Abbeys of Essen and Werden has not been deferred by any delay of the French cabinet. The French troops have evacuated those territories which the Grand Duke of Berg had caused to be occupied, in the perfect persuasion that numerous documents had given him, that they made part of the duchy of Cleves, and that they were comprehended in the cession of that Duchy.
Thus the demands of Prussia, on these different points, and others of the same nature, and the pretended grievances which she seems to indicate, do not offer the real mind of the Cabinet of Berlin. It does not reveal it. It lets its secret escape only, when it demands that no further obstacle whatever shall be made, on the part of France, to the formation of the Northern league, which shall embrace, without any exception, all the States not named on the fundamental act of the Confederation of the Rhine.
Thus to satisfy the most unjust ambition, Prussia consents to break the bonds that united her to France, to call down new calamities upon the continent, of which her Majesty would wish to circumscribe the wounds and to assure the tranquility, to provoke a faithful ally, to put him under the cruel necessity of repelling force by force and once more to snatch his army from the repose which he aspires to make it enjoy, after so many fatigues and triumphs.
I say with grief, I lose the hope of the ability to preserve peace, from the moment it is made to depend upon conditions that equity and honor equally oppose—proposed as they are in a tone and in terms that the French people endured in no time, and from no power, and which it can less than ever endure under your Majesty's reign.
(Signed) C. M. TALLEYRAND. Mayence, Oct. 6, 1806.
NOTE.
The Undersigned minister of his Prussian Majesty, by the same Courier who brought the letter to his Imperial Majesty, which he had the honor to transmit to day to his Excellency the Prince of Benevento, has received orders to make the following communications. Their object is to have the relations of the two Courts no longer in suspense. Each of them is so intimately interested in remaining no longer in doubt upon the sentiments of the other, that the King flatters himself that his Majesty the Emperor will applaud his frankness. His Prussian Majesty has expressed in the letter mentioned above, his entire thoughts, and the whole view of the subjects of complaint, which from a faithful and honest ally, have made him become a neighbor alarmed for his existence and necessarily aroused for the defence of his dearest interests. The painful of it will recall to his Majesty the Emperor and King what Prussia was for a long time to France. Will not the remembrance of the past be for her the pledge of the future? And what judge would be blind enough to believe that the King could have been for nine years towards France so confident, and perhaps so partial, in order to place himself voluntarily with her in a different relation—he who more than once might have ruined her, and who knows now only too well the progress of her power?
But if France has in her recollections and in the nature of things, the pledge of the sentiments of Prussia, it is not to with the last power: her recollections are made to alarm her: she has been careless, neutral, friendly, and even in alliance. The destruction that surrounds her, the gigantic increase of a power essentially military and conquering, which has injured her successively in her greatest interests, and menaces her in them all, leaves her now without a guarantee. This state of things cannot last. The King sees almost nothing around him but French troops or vassals of France, ready to march with her. All the declarations of his Imperial Majesty announce that this attitude will not change. Far from that, new troops if
free from the interior of France. Already the journals of his capital indulge themselves in a language against Prussia, of which a sovereign, such as the King, can despise the infamy, but which does not the less, the error of the Government that suffered it. The danger grows every day. It is necessary to be heard at once, or be heard no more.
Two powers who esteem each other, and who fear each other no more than they are able, without ceasing to esteem themselves, have no need to go about to explain themselves. France will not be less strong for being just, and Prussia has no other ambition than her independence and the security of Allies. In the actual position of affairs, both one and the other would risk every thing in prolonging this uncertainty. The Undersigned has received orders in consequence, to declare that the King expects with justice from his Imperial Majesty,
1. That the whole of the French troops which are called by no fair pretence into Germany, should immediately repass the Rhine without exception, beginning their march on the very day that the King expects the answer of the Emperor, and continue it without halting; for this immediate and complete retreat is the only pledge of security that the King can receive at the point to which affairs have been brought.
2. That no obstacle shall be raised on the part of France to the formation of the league of the North, which shall include, without any exception, all the states not named in the fundamental act of the confederation of the Rhine.
3. That a negotiation shall be immediately opened, to decide in a permanent manner on all the points in dispute, and that for Prussia its preliminary basis shall be, the separation of Westel from the French Empire, and the re-occupation of the three Abbeys by the Prussian troops.
The instant that his Majesty is assured that this basis is accepted, he will resume that attitude which he has quit with regret, and will become to France that frank and peaceable neighbor who for so many years has seen, without jealousy, the glory of a brave people, for whose prosperity he has been anxious. But the intelligence of the march of the French troops compels his Majesty to ascertain immediately what he is to do. The Undersigned is charged to insist on an immediate answer, which at all events must reach his majesty's head-quarters by the 8th of October; his Majesty will hope that it will arrive there time enough, that the unexpected and rapid progress of events, and the presence of the troops, should not put either party under the necessity of providing for his safety.
The Undersigned is particularly instructed to declare, in the most solemn manner, that peace is the sincere wish of his Majesty and that he only requires that which can contribute to make it permanent. The cause of his apprehensions, the claims which he had for another connexion, from France are unfolded in the letter of his majesty to the Emperor, and are calculated to obtain from that monarch the last permanent pledge of a new order of things. The Undersigned embraces this opportunity to renew to the Prince of Benevento the assurances of his high consideration. Paris, Oct. 1, 1806. (Signed) KNOBELSDORFF.
The Senate referred the communication to special Commission.
FROM THE NEW-YORK AMERICAN CITIZEN. COMMUNICATION.
Of the English Navy.—The boasted navy of England has been the ruin of England.—This may appear strange to a set of stupid foreigners, who have no more foresight than a mole under ground or they would not abuse France as they do; but strange as it may appear it is nevertheless true, and a little reflection on the case will show it.
The expense of that navy is greater than the nation can bear; and the deficiency is continually supplied by anticipation of revenue under the loans, till the national debt, which is the sum total of those anticipations, has amounted, according to the report of the chancellor of the exchequer to the English parliament the 28th of last March, to the enormous sum of 609, 924,000 pounds sterling; and the interest of the debt at that time was 24,900,000 pounds sterling.
What are called loans are no other than creating a new quantity of stock and sending it to market to be sold, and then laying on new taxes to pay the interest of that new stock. The persons called loaners, or subscribers for the loan, contract with the minister for large wholesale quantities of this new stock at a low price as they can get it, and all they can make by re-selling it in their profit. This ruinous system, for it is certain ruin in the end, began in the time of William the third, 118 years ago.
The expense of the English navy this year, as given by the chancellor of the exchequer last March, is 15,281,000 pounds sterling, above sixty eight millions of dollars. The enormous expense of this navy, taken on an average of peace and war, has run the nation into debt upwards of five millions sterling every year for the 18 years since the system of what are called loans began. And it is this annual accumulation of more than five millions sterling every year for 118 years that has carried the English debt to this enormous sum of 609,924,000 pounds sterling, which was the amount of the debt in March last.
If it be asked what has this mighty navy done to balance this expense? It may be answered, that comparatively speaking it has done nothing. It has obtained some victories at sea, where nothing was to be gained but blows and broken bones, and it has plundered the maimed vessels of neutral nations, and this makes the short history of its services.
That the English government does not depend upon the navy to prevent Bonaparte making a descent upon England is demonstrated by the expensive preparations that government puts itself to by land to repel it. And that the navy contributes nothing to the protection of commerce is proved by the fact that all the ports on the continent of Europe are shut by land against the commerce of England. Of what use then is this navy that has incurred such an enormous debt and which costs more than sixty eight millions dollars annually to keep it up, which is three times more than all the gold and silver that the mines of Peru and Mexico annually produce. Such a navy will always keep a nation poor. No wonder then that every wealthy person in England is a pauper, which is the fact.—The number of paupers now is 1,200,000. Another evil to England attending this navy, besides the debt it has incurred, is, that it drains the nation of specie. More than half the materials that go into the construction of a navy in England are procured from Russia and Sweden; and as the exports of English manufactures to these places are but small the balance must be paid in specie. If Bonaparte succeeds in all his plans, I hope he will put an end to navies for the good of the world.
COMMON SENSE.
PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 8.
Extract of a letter from Camden, dated May 20th, 1806. The Sadrone are in great force and daily increasing in numbers, and I should not wonder if some attempt was made this year on some of our small strips, as no doubt were they aware of their own strength and the weakness of our ships it would have been done long since.
By the China Packet, from Calcutta, we learn, that an attempt had been made by a strong party of natives to liberate the children of Tippoo Saib. The fortresses in which they were confined was attacked, & would have been carried but for the timely appearance of a company of dragoons, who, without discrimination, cut down the assailants.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 5.
A letter from the governor, enclosing a copy of the act of Congress, for laying out a road from Port
Cumberland to the Ohio, the report of the commissioners appointed to lay out that road, and a request of the president, that the general assembly will consent to the cutting of the same through the state, were read.
To the Editor of the Federal Gazette. WILLIAM'S-FORT, 9th Dec.
SIR, The commissioners under the law for locating a road from Cumberland to the state of Ohio, have determined on the principal points to be embraced in the route as follows:—To begin at a stone at the corner of Lot No. 1, in Cumberland, near the confluence of Will's Creek, and the north branch of Potomac river, thence extending along the street westwardly to cross the hill laying between Cumberland and Gwynn's, at the Gap where Braddock's road passes it, thence near Gwynn's and Jaffe Tomlinson's to cross the Big Younghogan near the mouth of Roger's run, between the crossing of Braddock's road and the confluence of the streams which from the Turkey foot, thence to cross Laurel hill, near the forks of Dunbar's run, to the west foot of that hill at a point near where Braddock's old road reached it, near Guett's old place, now col. Isaac Mafey's, thence through Brownsville and Bridge-Port, to cross Monongahela river below Jofiah Crawford's ferry, and thence on as straight a course as the country will admit to the Ohio, at a point between the mouth of Wheeling creek and the lower point of Wheeling Island; and desirous of preventing speculation to the injury of the uninformed, they request that, among others to whom they have made a similar address, you will have the goodness to make this as generally known in your quarter as possible. In behalf of the commissioners, I am your obedient servant, ELIE WILLIAMS.
January 5. A gentleman from Annapolis informs us that a resolution was introduced into the House of Delegates on the 30th ult. authorizing the Governor and Council of Maryland to procure and cause to be presented to George Washington Mann, a handsome sword, with an engraving and motto emblematic of the action at Derne, as a testimony of respect for his gallant conduct.
IN A FEW DAYS WILL BE PUBLISHED BY SEATON GRANTLAND, No. 1. OF THE "AMERICAN GLEANER; AND VIRGINIA MAGAZINE," A Periodical Miscellany, to contain 16 Octavo Pages, issued once a fortnight. PRICE, THREE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
THE first number of this Magazine will contain MEMOIRS of the late GEORGE WYTHE. Equire, with an excellent likeness, engraved by one of the best artists in America—Essays and Poetry, Original and Selected. The Biography of our deceased countrymen who were eminent for talents, patriotism, and the social virtues, will be a favorite subject in this work; and the first number of each volume will be embellished with an engraved likeness of some distinguished American. Twenty-five Numbers will form a Volume; and with the last number of each Volume, a general title page, index, and the names of subscribers, will be furnished. Communications from Literary Characters in every part of the state, will be received with gratitude. Gentlemen of talents should recollect, that by communicating their lucubrations to the press, the state of literature in this country may be greatly improved, and society much benefited: The publication of the Edinburgh "Mirror" is said to have produced a very perceptible change in favor of Scottish literature, and to have had no inconsiderable influence in polishing the manners of the Scots: May not similar effects be expected from the same cause? Virginia has been styled the "Athens of America;" let her sons be careful that she continue to merit, as well as preserve that proud title.
January 15. tf.
TO RENT,
For three or five years, THAT valuable TAN-YARD, of the late Mr. Jacob Bockius, and now occupied by the subscriber, situated on the Main-Street of this city, between the capitol and basin of the canal; its conveniences are superior to any other in this place. A large Currying-Shop, Cellar and drying loft, a spacious Bark-House, two Bark-Mills and Houses, a Beam House & every other requisite for the tanning of from 2 to 3000 hides a year, exclusive of skins. Also, on the same Tenement, a convenient Dwelling House, Kitchen, Smoke-House, Stable and Garden. The renter may be accommodated, with about one hundred cords of excellent Spanish and Black Oak Bark, now in the Bark-house, at a fair price. Proposals for the above will be received in all this and next month; and if not disposed of, within this time, it will be offered at public auction on the premises the 15th of March next.
Bond with approved security will be required and possession given on the first of April next, of the bark-house, bark mills, beam house, limes, pools, bates, handlers and part of the vats. And the dwelling-house and residue of the tenement on the first of May next. The rent assigned for offering the foregoing property for rent, is the ill state of health of the subscriber, to pay that attention the business requires. MARCUS ELLICAN. Jan. 15. taw 15m.
THE SUBSCRIBER wishes to associate with himself in his professional pursuits, a gentleman well qualified to teach the Latin and French languages and Mathematics. The pecuniary compensation will be liberal, and, there are peculiar circumstances, which will render the situation singularly eligible and attractive to a person of studious habits, and at all attached to the business of education. Any application from a person possessing the qualifications previously mentioned, addressed to the subscriber in Milton, Albemarle, will be immediately attended to. JAMES OGILVIE. January 15. tf.
FOR SALE.
THE HOUSE & LOT occupied by Messrs Robert Neilson & Co. opposite to Messrs Gilliat & Kirby's. The situation of this property is equal to any in Richmond for business, and possesses every accommodation for a family. Enquire of— THOS. NORVELL. Jan. 15. tf.
MARSHAL'S SALES.
Will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, under a decree of the court of the United States for the 5th circuit in the Virginia District, between Pinnas-Bond, attorneys for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross, and other defendants.
THREE valuable PLANTATIONS in the counties of Pittsylvania and Bedford, upon Staunton and Pigg rivers, stated in the deed of trust in the proceedings mentioned, to contain three thousand acres, more or less, but supposed to be considerably more extensive, comprehending all the Lands that on the 5th day of June 1795 belonged or appertained to the three plantations known by the name of the Mountain plantation, mouth of Pigg River plantation, and the Frying Pan plantation. A more particular description of which will be given on the day of sale. The sale will take place at the Eagle-Tavern in the city of Richmond, on Tuesday the 24th day of February next.
ALSO at the Oxford Iron Works in the county of Campbell, on Tuesday the third day of March next, will be sold under the said decree, upon the same terms, a number of very valuable SLAVES. BENJ. MOSBY, D. M. for JOS. SCOTT, M. V. D. Jan. 8. eptfd.
By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Mr. John Pendleton, deceased, to secure a debt therein mentioned, due to the estate of William Dandridge, dec'd. I shall proceed to sell on the premises, upon the 26th day of the present month,
FOUR hundred acres of LAND, lying within the fork of the river road and the three chocked roads near Wetham, and in the county of Henrico. By consent of the executor of the said Dandridge, the terms of the sale will be as follows viz: One third payable in one year, one third in two years, and the residue in three years, the whole to carry interest from the date of the sale. The interest to be paid half yearly—and in case of failure to pay the interest punctually at the end of each half year, the principal to become due and payable on demand. The purchaser to execute a deed of trust on the property and to execute a bond with one approved security and to execute a bond with one approved security and with the like consent, I shall on the 26th day of the present month, offer for sale at public auction at the door of the Eagle-Tavern, fifteen likely slaves consisting of men, women and children, or so many thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy and pay any residue of the aforesaid debt, interest and the expenses accruing under the trust, which the Land aforesaid may not be sufficient to discharge. On the sales of slaves a credit of one year from the date of the sale will be given. The purchaser paying interest half yearly, and giving bond with two approved securities. JONH ADAMS, Trustee. Jan. 5.
In pursuance of a Deed of Trust, executed by John Pendleton, to the subscriber, to secure the payment of a debt to John A. Cleavelle, therein mentioned, and the expenses of the trust.
Will be sold on the premises, on the 26th of this month, one hundred and fifty acres of WOOD LAND, including a Saw-Mill lately erected, situated between the Three Notched and River Roads, on Wetham creek, in Henrico county, about 4 or 5 miles above Richmond. By permission of Mr. Chevalie, a credit of twelve months will be given on one half of the purchase money, and eighteen months on the balance. Bond with personal security, to be approved by Mr. Chevalie, to bear interest from the day of sale, and a deed of trust to insure punctuality in the payments will be required of the purchaser. J. HOPKINS, Trustee. January 5.
In pursuance of authority given me by the heirs of John Pendleton, deceased, by their deed bearing date the second day of January, 1807, to sell the property mentioned in a Deed of Trust, executed by John Pendleton, in his lifetime, to Thomas Norvell and John Pax, to secure the payment of a debt, therein mentioned, to Pickett, Pollard and Johnson, which becomes due the first day of April next.
I shall offer for sale, on the 26th of this month, on the premises, to the highest bidder, one thousand acres of LAND, lying on the north side of the Three Notched road, about four miles above Richmond. The terms of sale are, one half of the purchase money on the first day of January 1808, and the balance on the first day of January 1809, on personal security, to be approved by Pickett, Pollard and Johnson, and a deed of trust on the land, to insure punctuality in the payments, the purchase money carrying interest from the first day of April next. The land will be laid off into lots of one hundred acres, in order to render it convenient to persons inclined to purchase a less quantity than the whole tract. A considerable part of this is wood land, and will no doubt form persons residing in town, who like to have farms convenient thereto. A plat of the land will be shown on the day of sale, with a description of each lot. The Turnpike established from Richmond to the Deep run Coal pits runs through a part of this land.
On the 29th of the same month, on the premises, the Brick House in Richmond, and one half of lot No. — being the house between the one now occupied by Mr. James H. Lyuch and Mr. Orris Paine's house, occupied by Mr. Emenard. This property will be sold on credits of 3, 6 and 9 months, the purchaser giving the same sort of security as is required on the land, and the purchase money to carry interest from the same time; and on the same day, will also be sold on the premises, the lot No. 631, on which there is a Wood House partly finished, and just above the one above described. A credit of three months will be allowed on about 530 dollars of the purchase money—six months on about 525 dollars and nine months for the balance, the whole bearing interest from the day of sale. Bonds with security, to be approved by Spottwood Lipcomb will be required on the two first payments, and a bond with security to be approved by Pickett, Pollard and Johnson will be required on the last payment, and a deed of trust as on the other property.
Will also be sold in pursuance of the same authority, at the Eagle-Tavern in Richmond, on the 30th of the same month, twenty likely slaves, consisting of men, women and children, among these are some very likely young men and women, some of whom are said to be capable of making valuable house servants, also some elderly women said to be pretty well acquainted with house business, washing, cooking, &c. A credit till the first of October next, will be given on these sales the purchasers giving notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with indorsers to be approved by Pickett, Pollard and Johnson. The purchase money to bear interest from the first of April next, which interest is to be added to the principal, and included in the notes. GEO. PICKETT, Commissioner. January 5.
Will be sold at the Eagle-Tavern, in Richmond, on the day mentioned in the above advertisement, for the sale there, such of the slaves of John Pendleton, deceased, as are not sold under the deed of trust alledged to in that advertisement, or any deed of trust by which they are conveyed. These slaves are generally of the description mentioned above, and will be sold on a credit of twelve months, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the day of sale.
Will also be sold on the day the land mentioned in the above advertisement is sold, at the plantation of the said John Pendleton, deceased, a small flock of Cattle, six Mules, a Wagon and sundry Plantation Utensils, and such Plank and Scantling belonging to the estate, as may remain unsold. A credit of twelve months will be given for all sums above ten dollars, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the day of sale. GEO. PICKETT, ROBERT POLLARD, CHAS. JOHNSTON, N. SHEPPARD. January 5, 1807.
JAMES STRATTEN.
Taylor and Habit Maker, from PHILADELPHIA, BEGS leave to inform the gentlemen and ladies of Richmond and the country, that he intends carrying on the above business in all its various branches, being well acquainted with the newest fashions, he hopes from punctuality and assiduity to business, to deserve a little of their patronage, as nothing shall be wanting on his part to render satisfaction to customers; and for near workmanship, he pledges himself to have it done in the neatest manner. JAMES STRATTEN, N. B. His residence is on the Main-Street Richmond, next door to David Logans. Oct. 17. 2awtf.
FOR SALE,
MILITARY CERTIFICATES: BEARING 6 per cent interest, receivable at the Treasury in discharge of taxes, due previous to the year 1795. Apply to THOMAS WILSON. Dec. 9. tf.
TO BE SOLD OR RENTED,
A CONVENIENT Dwelling HOUSE, on the Capitol square, adjoining the tenement of Mr. Edmund Randolph. Possession may be delivered immediately—Enquire of the printer. January 8. 2aw3w.
FEMALE EDUCATION.
THE Subscriber having employed a young Lady to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, English Grammar and Geography in his family, is willing to receive 10 or 12 girls as boarders. The School will be opened on the 15th of the present month. Terms—For board and tuition, each finding her own bedding, 100 dollars per annum, paid quarterly. The situation is healthy, and no pains shall be spared to render it pleasant and advantageous to those who may be placed at it. HUMPHREY HILL, Caroline, Mountairy, January 8. 4tf.
NOTICE.
That in virtue of a Deed in Trust, executed by Meriwether Jones, Esq. for the purpose of securing two several sums of money, therein mentioned, and which is due to Thomas Wilson, of the City of Richmond, see full on Monday the 19th day of the present month, before sale by public auction, to the highest bidder, for ready money.
THAT beautiful seat, called Mansfield, near the city of Richmond, and on which the late Lord Teyneld, containing five acres and twenty nine poles or so much thereof, as may be sufficient to pay and satisfy the sum of 1250 dollars, with interest thereon, from the first day of the present month, and the costs and charges of the sale. Mansfield is now in neat and complete repair, and well stocked. The sale will commence on the premises at 12 o'clock. BENNETT TAYLOR, } Trustee. BENJ. SHEPPARD, } Jan. 8. tf.
JAMES RIVER COMPANY.
WILL BE RENTED, to the highest bidder, until the 31st Dec. 1808, on the premises, on Monday the 19th instant, at 12 o'clock, all that part of LOT, No. 426, which is occupied by Mr. Orris Paine as a Coal Yard, lying on the margin of the Basin, and belonging to the James River Company. The rent to be paid on the 30th June and 31st December in each year. ROBERT POLLARD. January 13.
JAMES RIVER COMPANY.
Proposals will be received until the 25th this month; for supplying about 30 hands with meal, in the service of the James River Company, until the 31st of December next, to be delivered at such times and in such quantities as may be required. Payments therefor will be made quarterly. ROBERT POLLARD. January 13. taw tf.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
WILL positively be sold, at public auction, on Wednesday the 21st inst. if fair, if not the next fair day thereafter, two new BRICK TENEMENTS, on the Main Street, on Shockoe Hill, adjoining the tenement at present occupied by Mr. Jos. Carter. They are well calculated for Groceries, and are supposed to be as good funds for business as any in that part of the City. The property will be shown on application to John B. Wynn, living adjoining the premises—The terms of sale will be four, six, and nine months credit. TAYLOR & BROWN, Audrs. Jan. 12. 4. (75c. p.
ADDITIONAL NOTICE.
THE SUBSCRIBER has employed as an Assistant in his School, the present year, a young Gentleman (Mr. W. Nelson) who possesses a classic education, and is qualified to teach the Latin and Greek Languages, Mathematics, &c.
The qualifications of his Assistant, and the salary he is to receive, are considerations which induce the Subscriber to extend the limits of the number of his pupils to 25, (beside his own two sons) a number which will no doubt be considered sufficiently moderate. Price for board and tuition, for such as attend to Latin, Greek, or Mathematics, £30, independent of the age of the student. ANDREW BROADDUS. January 10, 1807. taw. 2w.
BELL TAVERN!!
THE Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has taken the house in Manchester, formerly called the Rising-Sun-Tavern, and occupied by Mrs. Leah, and having furnished himself with good Beds and the best of Liquors, Grain, &c. he flatters himself from paying particular attention, he will be able to give general satisfaction. ROBERT M. TYRE. N. B. A Wagon and six Mules, a good Riding-Horse, and a Jack of good stock—for sale. Manchester, Dec. 2. R. M. tf.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF LESUEUR & SAUNDERS,
Inform their friends and the public, that they will continue the COMMISSION business, lately done by G. T. Saunders. They promise the strictest attention to the interests of those who may favor them with consignments. They are now receiving a general and extensive assortment of GROCERIES, which will be offered for sale Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms and upon credit, in the store lately occupied by Messrs. Williams McKenzie & Co. opposite the Vandal Office of Messrs. Prosser & Monure—among which are the following articles:
BROWN SUGAR of Bar Iron, German, Craw- Superior quality, ley's & Bittered Steel, Ditto ditto second ditto, Antigua & Jamaica Rum, Best Green Coffee, Very Old Antigua Rum, Salt in Sacks, Holland Gin, Molasses and Treacle, Cogniac Brandy, of very Pickled Salmon, superior quality, Scotch Barley, Race Ginger, Pepper, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Pimento, Nutmegs, Malaga Wine, Mace, Cloves & Cin- Fresh Mucated Raisins & namon, Currants, Fresh London Mustard, Soft Shelled Almonds, in small boxes, Coppers, Best Florant Indigo and Saltpetre, Fig Blue, of superior English F F Gunpowder, quality, in boxes of Patent Shot, well assorted, 20 lbs. each, Hubbert's Brown Stout and Porter, Fresh Gunpowder, Best Spanish Sugars, Tea in Canners, Caldwell, Fraser & Co's Dittos by the Superfine Chocolate, Young Hyson Co. of the New York Candles and first quality, Soap, N. England & Bull's Spermaceti Candles, Candles.