Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1807-11-13 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1406.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—paid in Advance.]
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1807.
12 1-2 Cents Single.
HARDWARE, IRONMONGERY, and CUTLERY STORE.
BREAM & FOLLEF.
At the sign of the Anvil, Main street, Richmond, have received, by the latest arrivals from London and Liverpool, a very large and general Assortment of
Hardware, Ironmongery, Cutlery, &c.
Which will be sold low for Cash, or on a short credit—Amongst which are—
Carpenters', joiners', coopers', shoemakers', and other mechanical Tools; sheet iron, sheet copper and copper bottoms, tin plates, iron, brass and copper wire; building materials, nails, tackles, bands, locks & hinges, house bells, bell wire, iron castings, surveyors' compasses, chains & cases of mathematical instruments, gun locks and pistol flints, bear, wolf, fox, rat and mouse traps, shot, bar and sheet lead, pots and kettles, bake pans, tea kettles, chafing dishes, block tin coffee pots, Britannia metal tea pots, table and tea spoons, knives and forks, powder dishes, plates and basons, dish covers, plate warmers, plate baskets, tea kettles with lamps and cocks, candlesticks and snuffers, fire irons, andirons, coal hods, cinder sifters, fenders, trays or footmen, smoothing irons, gridirons, seamers, patent lamps, house lanterns, small hand lanterns, clock pins, curtain holders, brass nails, fish hooks, jews horns, brass cocks, knitting needles, Bartlett's old patent needles, ivory and horn combs, button moulds, japan'd ware, scissors, pen and ink knives, razors and razor strops, razors, shaving boxes and brushes, curling tongs, curriers' knives and steel, specialties & cases, coffee mills, corn mills, scale beams & weights, money scales, steel yards, cork screws and wire sieves, vertical jacks and screens, mill, cross cut and pit saws, jack screws, German steel, weeding & garden hoes, garden rakes, scythes and sickles, straw knives, grind stones, mallets with a great variety of other articles too tedious to enumerate.
40 Nips FF gun powder, double baffle canister powder, liver and paint oil, boiling chains, blue 15 nips 4th proof coquille brandy, window glass, paint, &c., plaster diamonds, best swine twine, wrapping twine, patent Windsor shaving soap, Spanish segars, prime pork New-Orleans, old firm corn, a few pieces low priced blue coths and yellow and white flannels, and a few more best Naffey & Anchor Gin Richmond, November, 1807.
Will be Sold,
To the highest bidder, on Wednesday the 16th of December next, (if fair, if not, the next fair day), all the Household & Kitchen Furniture, STOCK of all kinds, the SOW of GOOSE, FODDER, &c. belonging to the estate of Peter Baker, deceased, among which are some very valuable high blooded Cows, an excellent large Horse Clock, and a Ten Plate Stove. The sale will take place at Dover, (the late residence of the deceased)—Terms of sale will be, six months credit on all sums above ten dollars, the purchaser to give bond and security to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid—for all sums under ten dollars cash will be required.
CHRISTENIA BAKER, Exxr. Dover, Goochland, Nov. 10. 1807.
Night School.
At the sixth door below the Old City Tavern will be taught by the subscriber, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Book-Keeping, Geography, the perfect use of the Globe, the French language, Surveying, Navigation, or any of the branches of Natural Philosophy, Latin, Greek &c.—The first three of the above at five dollars per quarter, and the rest at eight.
Pupils find their own candle—Tuition from six to nine.
Commencement of the above institution will take place on Monday the 16th instant.
N.B. Discount will be made for Christmas Holidays.
HUGH WHITE, A. M. November 10. 1807.
Notice,
THAT the following articles, manufactured at the Penitentiary, with the prices thereof annexed, are constantly kept for sale at the store of Nicholas Hallam, agent for the commonwealth, a few doors above the Swan Tavern in the city of Richmond, viz.
CUT NAILS.
   Wholesale. Retail.     3d. 13 cents. 14 cents per pound.   4d. 12 1-2 13 1-2   6d. 11 1-2 12 1-2   8d. 10 1-2 11 1-2   10d. 10 11   12d. 10 11   20d. 10 11  
CUT BRADS.
   8d. 10 11   10d. 9 1-2 10 1-2   12d. 9 1-2 10 1-2   20d. 9 1-2 10 1-2  
WROUGHT NAILS.
   6d. 13 14   8d. 12 1-2 13 1-2   10d. 12 13   12d. 12 13   20d. 12 13   20d. 12 13  
Spikes of all sizes the same price as 30d nails.
Men's line shoes from 12 1-2 to 13 1-2 6d
coarse do from 7 1-2 to 10 1-2
Women's fine do from 7 1-2 to 9 1-2
Boys & Misses do from 8 1-2 to 9 1-2
Negr. do shoes from 7 1-2 to 9 1-2
Richmond, November 4th. 1807.
TO BE LEASED for a
term of years, the TAVERN, STORES, and two hundred acres of LAND at Charles City Courthouse—An excellent situation for the mercantile business, in a rich neighborhood and on James river 25 miles from Peter burg, 30 from Richmond, and 28 from Williamsburg. For terms apply to
John Tyler. Green Way, Nov. 10th. 1807.
Circuit Court.
MOTION FOR COMMITMENT.
TUESDAY, October 5.
Evidence of Major James Bruff.
(Continued.)
I then left the Attorney General and Secretary at War together, and stopping down to the post office, found letters from St. Louis, detailing the operations of col. Burr; and of a party from St. Louis and St. Geneve, the common friends of gen. Wilkinson and col. Burr, who attempted to join him with twelve thousand weight of lead. (Mr. Wirt. Who was the letter from? A. Samuel Hammond.) That letter offered proof that the party sent by gen. Wilkinson to Santa Fe, was connected with, and a part of col. Burr's plans.—As that letter related to the subject which we had been talking on, I sent it to the Secretary at War, and the Attorney General; and another letter, which came on with it to the same point from Judge Easton. They wrote that Major Wirt and Dr. Stoll had left St. Louis and were joined by a Mr. Smith, Dodge, &c. from St. Geneve, who attempted to join col. Burr near the mouth of the Ohio. The Secretary at War returned the letters and thanked me; but I have been surprised after offering proof, and naming gentlemen who knew that a connexion existed between gen. Wilkinson and col. Wilkinson and col. Burr, that none of them were summoned to the Grand Jury. Maj. Bruff was here asked who those gentlemen were, and he mentioned gen. Adair, Judge Easton, and Major Kibby, who would prove the object of the expedition to Santa Fe, also Mr. Province. He then stated that he had seen a letter from gen. Wilkinson to gen. Adair, in which gen. Wilkinson urged him to come on, and that he could not go without him, and then asked if he was assumed to serve under a Spanish conspiracy. Gen. Wilkinson. When was that letter dated? A. I do not recollect when. Gen. Adair read it to me, he offered me a copy, which made me the less particular about its date. Q. Where was the letter received? A. It was at Washington in March last. A. It was the letter which induced gen. Adair to go to Orleans, as he said. Gen. Wilkinson pressed him to come on; said that thirty thousand troops would be sufficient to effect their purpose; as they would have little more to do than to take possession of the country; that they would have to divide them into three columns, and gen. Adair was to have the command of one of them. Mr. McRae. What country were they to take possession of? A. I cannot say; but my impression was the Spanish country. The general then chided him for the caution he used in writing; asked him if he was afraid to trust his friend or ashamed to serve under a Spanish conspiracy. At the bottom of the letter were these words: "We shall certainly have a Spanish war." Ch. Justice. Do you know the hand writing of gen. Wilkinson? A. I do very well. I sat by gen. Adair when he read the letter; and appeared to be the hand writing of gen. Wilkinson; but I did not take it up to compare it. Mr. Martin. Do you remember the date? A. I cannot tell the date or the place from which it was written. Mr. Hay. Did it appear as if it was of ancient date or modern? A. Recent. Gen. Adair complained bitterly; he said that this letter had induced him to go to New-Orleans, where he was seized by gen. Wilkinson. Mr. Wirt will you name all the witnesses, who could give evidence of the connection between col. Burr and gen. Wilkinson? A. Judge Easton was the projector of gen. Wilkinson's expedition, and his connection with col. Burr; Major Timothy Kibby the person whose deposition has been printed, and Pierre Province who could prove the connexion between gen. Wilkinson and col. Burr, and who was the common friend of both; col. Samuel Hammond with whom gen. Wilkinson had a conversation nearly similar with the one held with me, and Samuel Hammond, jun. I believe I did not mention col. Dupiester, to prove the designs of the party, as to the establishment of a Western Empire. I think col. Dupiester was mentioned as the friend of col. Burr, and as I am informed, came to St. Louis, as his agent, and brought with him commissions and proclamations. Mr. McRae. Did you see him at St. Louis? A. I did. A colonel's commission it is said was offered to col. Chotan, who attempted to throw it into the fire. Mr. Hay. I am whom did the proclamations and commissions come? A. They were said to be from col. Burr. Mr. Hay. Who was to have commanded the horse? A. Mr. Delony, who had been an officer of the horse in the French service, and it was said, was offered a distinguished command in col. Burr's army. A col. Dupiester, it was said, brought on letters, one to Province and another to Timothy Kibby, the common friend of col. Burr and gen. Wilkinson. Chief Justice. Did you see these letters? A. We had a little democratic club intended to counteract these gentlemen. A Mr. Wherry to whom Province showed the letter, took a copy of it, and brought it down to us. Mr. Wirt. What was in the letter? A. Something to this purport: "He was ready; hoped they were ready; and that the expedition would begin to move about the 15th Nov." Mr. Martin. How long have you been in the American service? A. I bore arms in 1775 against the Tories, had a 2d
Lieutenant's place in 1776, and continued in service throughout the war. Q. Have you been in the service ever since? A. I entered the service again in 1794, under an expectation of bearing arms against the British; for having been taken a prisoner during the war, and not well treated by them, I could not love them. Q. What was your grade when you left the army? A. Major of Artillery. Mr. Wickham. Did you see such a deposition as that of Timothy Kibby in the hands of the Attorney General, or Secretary at War? A. No. I gave them the letter already spoken of; I expected that all the gentlemen whose names I have mentioned would have been summoned. It has been said that I came on here as a volunteer. Certainly should have come on in any event; but I was surprised that those gentlemen should not have been summoned, and that the enquiry should be on one side only. Mr. Wirt. Is the Samuel Hammond you have mentioned the same person who had a commission in the time of Genet? A. The very same who is said to have had one. Mr. Hay. I think you said it was in June 1803 that gen. W. disclosed to you this important secret? A. Not in June; some time in the summer. I think in July. Q. What was the impression on your mind at the time: did you suppose it was some project hostile to the U.S.? A. He said he had some grand project in view.—I expected that he would have made the disclosure without my saying that I wished him to make my fortune. I did not intend to come under any obligation or to commit myself. Q. When was the first time that you made any communications to the government or any of its officers, with respect to these projects? A. I have a letter here dated Jan. 3, 1806, in which I say: "I have no confidence in the patriotism of gen. W. and as a man I think of him with horror." Mr. Wirt. To whom is that letter addressed? A. To the Secretary at War. Gen. W. Were you under arrest at that time? A. No, I was not—(looking at his papers.) It does not appear from this letter that I was under arrest at that time. Mr. Hay. I want to know the interval between your arrest and the trial by Court Martial? A. I believe 8 or 10 days, but I am not certain. Mr. McRae. Had you not been in expectation of an arrest? A. I had expected it for some time. In my conversation with the general, about my saying that he would not be in service six months, he got very warm and said, "this is self-evident." I replied "then arrest me." Mr. Hay. At what time did this conversation take place about Cold Water, when you stated by my evidence your ruin was decided on? A. I think in September 1803. Then commenced a system of persecution, which terminated in my arrest. I was charged among other things with contempt to the general; that I never denied. I was found not guilty of all the other charges, except that one—Major Bruff then said that the sentence of the Court Martial had been disannulled by the President of the U.S. and his pay and emoluments, which had been suspended, by the sentence, restored. Gen. W. I understood that was by stipulation: What is the date of the President's reversal? A. I believe it was on the 12th of March last, and my pay and emoluments being restored, is equivalent to a reversal. Major Bruff proceeded.—The Secretary at War observed that the President was disposed to do me justice; but it was a delicate point, and there was no precedent where a sentence confirmed by the Commander in Chief, was afterwards reversed by the President. I answered that I thought it was not very delicate in gen. W. to approve a sentence when it was a mere personal thing between us. I understood that it was about the 15th Nov. when the expedition was to have commenced, and the Mexican Standard, (an emblem of the Sun,) to have been raised. This delayed my departure from St. Louis. I expected to have seen Knights of the Sun, and Lords of Mexico, among the Chiefs of those chosen Spirits.
(To be continued.)
EXPOSE
Of the situation of the French Empire—1806 & 1807.
(Continued.)
The laws everywhere executed with fidelity and without any effort, the privilege of good laws, the contributions regularly acquitted, the roads travelled with safety, the administrators redoubling their zeal, our young soldiers setting out with joy upon the road of honor, the national guard watching round our habitations, and showing themselves by the regularity of their service, by their attitude and their discipline, equally fit for the double functions of protector of public order and defenders of the state, all the branches of the service performed with facility, public opinion constantly faithful to the institutions which its wishes had recalled: such is the spectacle that presented itself to your eyes in your respective provinces, and to which we may here call your testimony; such is the spectacle exhibited by that France, which henceforth her enemies despair of agitating, as they despair of vanquishing. At the period at which we are arrived, if we still have to detain you with some new institutions, we shall much more have to show you the fruits of the institutions which exist: this function is not less pleasing; in confirming the past, it gives a new guarantee to the future. The electoral councils, and the general councils of departments,
have shown themselves animated with the best spirit: they have seen in the choice which the emperor has made of the men called to preside over them, how desirous he is that these functions should be as much honored as they are honorable in themselves. The general councils must be assured that there is not one of the wishes which the sentiment of the public good inspires them with, but becomes the object of the particular attention of government, and is consulted with care in the examination of the affairs to which it relates; the administration of the communes, that administration which his majesty looks upon as one of the most important for the welfare of his people, has been improved in several respects: its commission of accounts has received more expeditious and more enlightened forms. The emperor hopes that they will prevent in future every arbitrary measure and all embezzlement; that the expenses will be rigorously conformable to the budgets; that the receipts will not be misrepresented; that the accounts, being drawn up with clearness and dispatch, will no longer be a subject of discussion. It is his pleasure also that the charters, that principal source of the communal wealth, be administered for the interest of the towns, to the advantage of those who inhabit them, and that the prefects, who are not to direct their administration, shall nevertheless exercise an active and enlightened watchfulness over them. The emperor, who looks upon himself as the father of his subjects, will not lose sight of those municipal administrations, charged to provide their first necessities, and will never tolerate either faults of negligence or enterprises of cupidity. Government has in general been satisfied with the conduct of the mayors, not only of the mayors of great cities, whose functions his majesty has been pleased to extend by repeated testimonies of his confidence, but of all the mayors, where noble devotedness, whatever be the sphere in which it exercises itself, rises to the height of their duties: he has known and appreciated their services, and it is his intention to surround with a just consideration, the exercise of that paternal magistracy, by which the action of his power reaches the great majority of his subjects. Equal honor are rendered to those respectable administrations, who from one extremity of France to the other, devote themselves to the relief of misfortune, to comfort the afflicted! It is grateful to one's feelings, upon this solemn occasion, to render homage to the zeal of those fathers of the poor, who, in doing good, seek no other reward than the pleasure of having done it. They will do still better; the emperor expects it from their zeal; every day, they will improve the order that should reign throughout the hospitals, and the economy that should be observed in the expenditure of their incomes; they will find new resources in labor, seconded in a becoming manner by those charitable congregations, the pious messengers whom religion sends to mission-tune, whom for some time persecution excluded far from affliction, whom the restorer of France has reinstated in that affecting dignity. You see these congregations multiplying in proportion to the wants which invoke their relief, and providing for future wants by the pupils whom they bring up. To what a degree is not private beneficence eager to second administration thus directed! The bequests or donations made in behalf of the hospitals, have augmented, in capital, during the course of 1806 alone, to two millions three hundred thousand francs, authorised by five hundred successive decrees; the endowment of these establishments has further increased by a new blessing of His Majesty, to a capital of fifteen millions six hundred thousand francs, by their being provisionally put in possession of several domains of the state assigned for the replacing of their estates which were alienated during the revolution; a grant which you will be called upon to ratify during the course of this session by a definitive concession. The ancient founders of hospitals have been re-established in the enjoyment of their dearest rights. A noble emulation has taken possession of generous minds; it has opened schools, and opened workshops; the voice of morality has made its way into the prisons, preceded by the relief of beneficence; the laborious classes of society, guided by some virtuous men, have formed among themselves several useful associations, which serve for their improvement, at the same time that they prepare resources for them in times of misfortune. It was necessary, however, to provide against the advantage which greedy and hypocritical speculators might take of so respectable a disposition, or the errors which an imprudent zeal might lead to, and it has been wisely regulated that the establishments which employ the funds of the subscribers to take charge of a certain number of unfortunate persons, cannot contract such an engagement without the approbation of the public authority. The manufactories have been put in the enjoyment of several kinds of revenues, the priest's houses restored; numerous donations have augmented their resources. The victims of the maritime war and of the violence of the enemy have received indemnities from his majesty, as soon as he was made acquainted with their losses. The public salubrity has been the object of continual vigilance. Some epidemical diseases have manifested themselves in several parts. The zeal of the physicians sent by the prefects and sometimes from the capital itself, from the first symptoms of the evil, has put a stop to its progress; the medicine chests sent by government
have secured resources for the treatment of the poor. The Monte de Piete of Paris has been organised; others have been established in other parts of France. Government begins to occupy itself with completing the plan for the repression of mendicity. The Abbey of Fontevrault and Ursulines of Montpellier are fitted up for the reception of depots from several departments; that of Villiers-Cotteret, which is almost finished, will serve for the wants of the capital and its environs. Work continues to be successfully introduced into these depots as well as in the prisons; when it furnishes new resources for the internal economy of those establishments, it corrects the morals of that class which society has justly discarded, and renders punishment useful to those who have deserved it. In almost all the houses of confinement and reclusion, places of worship have been re-established and chaplains appointed for the service of the chapel a measure which no less tends to effect this salutary reform. The administration attaches a real glory to the complete execution of this system. If the persons are not yet what government wishes them to be, if the theoretical views which noble sentiments had inspired in the constituent assembly, were found to afford no means of being put in practice, these sentiments are too generous and too humane for government not to have been constantly animated with them and not uniformly to tend to the aim which they point out. The different classes of malefactors will, as much as possible be kept separate, and he who by the error of a moment has exposed himself to the severity of the laws without incurring the indignation of society, will not be confounded with them. Attention will above all be paid to the salubrity of the places of confinement and to the care which the health of the prisoners requires. The succession of so many years during which to neglect or to destroy what was best known and what was most ambitious, has left in this respect an immense work which has been going on for these six years, and the completion of which will be one of the best blessings of peace. The prisoners of war or rather the captive armies which victory sends us, employed in useful labors, have made their hands serve to fortify that bond which they thought to conquer. Public works, bridges and highways. The general system of public work, applied at once and in so many ways over all parts of the empire, is, pursuing with a perseverance and an activity which the external circumstances do not slacken. In the last four years, four hundred bridges have been in different places kept up and repaired at the expense of the treasury; the twenty-seven principal roads which lead from the capital to all the frontiers of the empire, have been the special theatre of these operations. The two greatest works executed for several centuries past, the roads of Mont-Cenis and of Simplon, the monuments of the art, worthy of those monuments of nature which art has vanquished, are accomplished after six years labor. Among the roads of another order that from Spain to Italy, by Mount Ceneri, continues to be on, and the branch which is to extend it to the department of the Isere, will afford a considerable part of France a more rapid and easy passage across the Alps. The Apennines in their turn are becoming the seat of active labors, which reach from Piedmont to the Mediterranean, and complete the union of Liguria with France. The salutary regulations which proportions the breach of one wheel to the weight of the carriage, is in activity, and its good effects are already felt. The weigh-bridges necessary for the execution of this regulation are all arrived at their destination, and their service begins in a few days. Eighteen principal rivers have had their navigation improved or lengthened even by success; their tow-loads restored or their course confined by dikes executed upon the Loire and the Charente. The navigation of the Po, is freed from all impediments. The Rhine is become the object of particular attention. The charter of navigation put in force upon every point, secures the means of delivering that fine river from the obstacles which impede its course. Four bridges have been finished during this last campaign, or are on the point of being so. Ten others are in great forwardness; among this number are those of Roanne and of Tours. That from Strasbourg to Kehl is beginning upon an ingenious plan, which will admit of its being taken down and set up again at pleasure with speed and economy. The Pont Saint Esprit, which could not afford a passage for any loaded carriage, has recovered the full utility of its service by the widening it has received. The Pont Saint Nicholas near Belfort, and that of Amboise upon the Vienne, are nearly finished. That of Avignon has been contracted for; government has purchased that of Monteleone, at the confluence of the Rhone and the Saone. The canals, almost all begun under the reign, are digging without interruption. Among this number, that of the Oureq, is already carried three fourths or four fifths of its length. The two cuts of that of St. Quentin, which joins the Seine to the Scheldt, Paris to Belgium and Holland are made; they will be finished in eighteen months, and the problem of that subterraneous navigation is resolved. All the works of art of that canal may be looked upon as finished; that of the north, which joins the Scheldt to the Rhine without passing

through Holland, is begun in the port which extends from the Scheld to the Meuse: it will unite Belgium to the departments of the Rhine, one conquest of France to another conquest, and these two countries astonished perhaps at finding themselves under the same dominion, will not be less so at a communication which their former possessors never would have executed, and which will not be the least benefit of their union to the empire. The works of the Canal Napoleon, destined to join the North Sea to the Mediterranean by a communication, which embracing the course of the Rhone, the Saone and the Rhine, runs through France in her greatest length; these works, I say, are undertaken and already in great forwardness along the whole line. The canals from Nior to la Rochelle; from Lisle to la Reine, are in great forwardness; Blavet advances rapidly; that from Aigue-mortes to Beaucaire has just been finished—the part of the canal of Bourges, from Dijon to the Saone, will be navigable this year. Several others have been resumed or repaired; all of them will be continued until they are entirely finished.
(To be Continued.)
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, Nov. 4, 1807.
The following gentlemen compose the committee to whom was referred the letter of Gen. Eaton, published in this day's paper, viz. Messrs. Thomas, John Smith, Holland, Taylor, D. Montgomery, Taggart, and Ly-on.
Mr. R. Nelson presented a petition from a number of inhabitants of the election district in the state of Maryland, alleging that Philip B. Key was improperly returned as a member of the House of Representatives from that district, and praying that his seat be vacated. Referred to the Committee of Elections.
Mr. Southard moved that the petition of Jonathan Snowden, presented at last session, and a report made thereon by the Committee of Claims, but not finally acted upon, be now referred to the Committee of Claims. Agreed to.
Mr. Quincy presented the petition of Joseph White, praying for a draw back on a certain quantity of sugar exported, but which he could not now obtain, from the omission of a slight formality in the claim. Referred to the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Messrs. Cook, Johnson, Van Allen, Seaver, Morrow (O.) each made motions for reference to the Post-Office Committee, of certain petitions and resolutions for establishing or abolishing post roads in their respective districts—which were agreed to.
Mr. Van Allen presented the petition of H. Dootittle, praying for compensation for his services in the revolutionary war. Referred to the Committee of Claims.
Mr. Chandler moved that the petition of Reuben Colburn, praying the allowance of a sum of money due him for services in the revolutionary war, which had been presented at a former session, be referred to the Committee of Claims. Agreed to.
Mr. R. Nelson did not know whether the motion he was now to make was in order, or not. He had been instructed to move that the memorial of Sir James Jay, presented at a former session, and referred to the Secretary of State, together with the Secretary's report thereon, and the report of a select committee upon that report, be now referred to a committee of the whole House.
Mr. Southard doubted the correctness of referring the report of a committee of a former House to a committee of the whole. The usual mode was to refer a report of a former Congress to a select committee; that committee would report to the House, and their report might be referred to a committee of the whole.
Mr. Nelson had no objection to any course the House thought proper. Perhaps a reference to a select committee would be best.
The petition and documents were accordingly referred to a select committee of five members, consisting of the following gentlemen: Messrs. Jones, Stanford, Van Allen, Upham, and Heister.
Mr. Seaver presented the petition of John Cartter, of Boston, praying for compensation for his services as a cooper in the commissary department during the revolutionary war; which was referred to the committee of Claims.
Mr. Lewis said, that, as at the present period of the session, there was very little, if any business of national importance before the House, he took the liberty of reviving a subject of some importance of the people at large, and particularly interesting to the inhabitants of the district of Columbia. About four years ago, petitions were presented to the House, praying for the erection of a bridge across the Potomac; and the subject had been revived at every session since. A bill had passed by a large majority in this House, to effect this desirable purpose; but the other branch of the legislature, from considerations which it was not necessary for him to detail, had postponed the bill. In order to bring this subject again before Congress, he moved that the petitions which had been presented for and against this measure, should be referred to a select committee, with leave to report by bill or otherwise. Agreed to, and Messrs. Lewis, Rossey, Swart, Bard, and Franklin were appointed a committee.
Mr. Mumford presented the petition of Philip Turner, late of Connecticut, but now of the state of New-York, praying for compensation for his services as a physician and surgeon in the Revolutionary army. Referred to the Committee of Claims. Adjourned.
Thursday, Nov. 5.
Mr. Gardner said, that in examining the printed sheet of the Journal laid upon the table this morning, he observed his name was altogether omitted in the Yeas & Nays taken on the question deciding the mode of appointing the standing committees. It was no doubt, in the recollection of the House, that in calling the names of the mem-
bers, the Clerk had, by mistake, placed him amongst the yeas, instead of the nays, and that he desired at the time to have the error corrected. But instead of that being done, he found that his name was altogether omitted. In order to correct this error he moved the following resolution:
"Resolved, that the Journal of this House of the 28th October, be amended by placing the name of Barent Gardenier amongst those who voted in the negative on the amendment proposed by Mr. Blount to the resolution appointing standing committees."
This motion occasioned some debate, as a question of order. It was opposed on the ground of its being a dangerous precedent to suffer the Journal to be corrected several days after a question had been decided; it was said that if this were to be allowed, the alteration might sometimes change the decision of a question; that any mistake in the Journal ought to be corrected immediately after the entries are read; that errors in the yeas and nays should be rectified at the time they are called over; and that all other errors should be corrected on the morning of the succeeding day when the Journal is read to the House.
On the other hand, it was contended, that the member from New-York had taken the earliest opportunity which had offered of correcting the error, as until the printed Journal was laid upon the table, he had no opportunity of ascertaining it, the yeas and nays never having been read since he attempted to correct them at the time the notes were taken; that he had a constitutional right to have his name on the Journal on this question, and therefore demanded it; that the fact was known to be as stated, and that no danger could therefore arise from the precedent.
The motion was supported by Messrs. Gardenier, Ely, Quincy, Desha, Pitkin, Williams, and Talmadge; and opposed by Messrs. Smilie, and Asten. It was finally adopted, with a preamble moved by Mr. Talmadge, stating the grounds of the motion.
Mr. Poindexter moved that the petitions of John Baker, William Coleman, James Collinworth, James Caller, Young Gaines, the grand jurors of Washington county, Edwin Lewis, Samuel Mims, and John Pickering, all of the Mississippi territory, presented at a former session, be now referred to the committee on public lands. Agreed to.
Mr. Dana said, it was well known, that during the last Congress, an act was passed for the relief of persons claiming pensions; the object of the act was to grant relief to some whose cases were not embraced by the former act, and to grant an increased allowance to others who had not as yet received sufficient. This act provides for taking depositions before the district judge, in cases where the claimants have never been placed on the pension list, as well as for examination of the claims of those who apply to have their pensions increased. Whether any compensation should be allowed for issuing commissions, or for making the examinations required, is not declared by the act. A difference of practice he understood, had taken place: in some cases commissions were issued gratuitously by the district judge: in other cases these poor solicitors were obliged, from their small pittance, to pay for these services. If any compensation were to be allowed for this service, he thought it should be paid from the public treasury; whatever be the mode adopted, he wished it to be fixed by law; for this purpose he offered the following resolution:
"Resolved, that a committee be appointed to enquire what compensation shall be allowed for issuing commissions, giving authority for taking testimony, or examining evidence relative to claims or applications under the act to provide for persons who have been disabled by known wounds received in the revolutionary war."
Mr. D. said he had intended to have had this resolution referred to the committee of claims; but finding the chairman of that committee opposed to it, he would move a reference of it to a select committee. Agreed to.
Mr. Findley, from the committee of Elections, made a report in part; which was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. G. W. Campbell, from the committee of ways and means, reported a bill for making further appropriations for the support of the navy of the United States during the year 1807; which was twice read, committed to a committee of the whole, and ordered to be printed, with the documents accompanying it.
A message was received from the Senate informing the House that they had appointed a committee on enrolled bills; which the House concurred with, and appointed a committee on their part.
Mr. Fisk, presented the petition of Daniel Buck of the state of Vermont, praying for an increase of pension and payment of arrearages for his services as a soldier during the revolutionary war; which was referred to the committee of Claims.
Mr. Quincy, after some prefatory remarks, submitted to the House the following resolution:
"Resolved, That the committee to whom was referred so much of the message of the President of the United States as relates to aggressions committed within our ports and waters, by foreign armed vessels, to the violation of our jurisdiction, and the measures necessary for the protection of our ports and harbors, be instructed to enquire into the circumstances of the attack made on the frigate Chesapeake in June last, and the pretext or causes assigned for making it, and to report the same to the House."
This resolution occasioned considerable debate. It was supported by the mover, Messrs. Dana, Upham, Alexander, and Gardenier; and opposed by Messrs. Burwell, Blount, Smilie, Nelson, Sloan, Newton, G. W. Campbell, and Fisk. It was finally rejected 93 to 24.
The friends of this resolution contended that this step was necessary, in order to obtain a full statement of all the facts relative to the attack on the Chesapeake; that though this attack had been the cause of the earlier meeting of Congress, it was doubtful whether the subject had yet been referred to any committee; they wished therefore specially to instruct the committee named in the resolution, who had several other subjects referred to them, to make a full report on this subject—a subject which had excited so much sensation in the public mind, that it became Congress to obtain for
the people, as early as possible, all the information that it was in the power of the government to give.
In reply to these arguments, it was stated, that the committee to whom this subject has been referred, had already entered upon, and were preparing with all diligence, materials for a report. The chairman of the committee (Mr. Blount) read a letter which he had just written to the Secretary of State for the information required by this resolution; that the members of this committee were deeply impressed with the importance of the subject and stood in no need of special instructions to direct them to their duty; that no doubt had ever existed in the minds of any member of the committee as to the reference of this subject to them; that they had considered it as the most prominent business placed in their hands, and had therefore given it their first attention; that a motion of the kind proposed could be considered in no other light, than as casting a censure upon the committee. They hoped, therefore, the committee would be permitted to proceed with their enquiries, without any additional instructions, which were altogether unnecessary.
The debate, with the Yeas and Nays, will appear in the next National intelligencer.
Adjourned.
IN SENATE, Nov. 5, 1807.
Mr. Tiffin offered the following resolution.
"Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the U. States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following section be submitted to the legislatures of the several states, which when ratified and confirmed by the legislatures of three fourths of the said states, shall be valid and binding as a part of the Constitution of the United States in lieu of the first section of the third article thereof."
The judicial power of the U. States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges both of the Supreme and inferior courts shall hold their offices for years, shall be removed by the President, on the address of two thirds of both Houses of Congress requesting the same, and shall at stated times, receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office.
Which was ordered to lie for consideration.
Mr. Michell offered the following resolution: "Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire whether any and what alterations are necessary to be made in the laws respecting insurrections and violations of the public peace and authority, as well as the laws respecting the conspiracy or enterprise of private individuals against foreign nations in amity with the U. S. with leave to report by bill or otherwise."
Which was ordered to lie for consideration.
The following memorial has been presented to Congress.
To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled—
Since the adjournment of the first session of the ninth Congress, I have received, at different times, communications from Hamet Caramelli, ex-Bashaw of Tripoli, stating his distressed situation and imploring relief from the beneficence of the U. States; which communications have been transmitted to the proper department. I have the honor to offer, for the consideration of Congress, a translated copy of the last address from him, (the original in Italian is in the office of the department of state) which is evidently intended for the representatives of the people of the U. States, and is as follows:
To their most Serene Highnesses, In the depth of my misery my only consolation has been the reliance I placed on the powerful support of a republic so distinguished throughout the world for that justice which protects and sustains whoever confides himself to her patronage. This credulity resigned me wholly to her discretion. But I could never have thought that this my confidence should work out my individual destruction. I have sacrificed all my means, and exposed my life in the service of the United States. It was impossible for me to expect, by way of recompense, an exilment in Syracuse; far from my family and deprived of every convenience of life. I hoped to be recompensed by an equivalent to my usefulness and to my sacrifices. The promises made to me admitted no suspicion that so much time should have elapsed and that hope not yet realised; or that I should not have yet found repose. Public ships of war have been bearers of my communications. Seeing myself nevertheless unnoticed, I suspect my letters have been miscarried; for it is impossible to persuade me, my circumstances and wants being known to them, that the U. S. would abandon me.
My situation does not enable me to undertake a long voyage for the purpose of making a personal representation of my deplorable condition. I hope the exalted republic will not require this of me, in order to awaken their feelings to my just expressions of solicitude and concern for myself: it would be unjust to neglect my complaints—and severely felt by those who occasion them.
I have lost my family:—I have lost my inheritance—my acquisitions, and my fair prospects are lost also! I have indeed sacrificed my claim to the confidence of a faithful ally, whom I abandoned through my partiality to the Americans. I had no right to apprehend that my devotion and complacency would overwhelm me in bottomless ruin.
To my own individual sufferings I ought to annex also those of my faithful people, whose attachment to me has involved in the same wretchedness; who suffer with me the same sequestration from their country, from their families, and from their property: all which they have left through violation of those whose duty it was to sustain them.
* Ely Bey.
I will not, like the world, reproach the representatives of the American nation with ingratitude. I rather implore their commiseration towards me; at least so far as to restore to me my family, and to grant me a competence.
It is yet possible that, absent from my own country, I may become serviceable to the U. States. My former subjects are ever ready to devote their lives to my service: mine with theirs I will hold ever ready to devote to that of the exalted republic.
And am, for ever, Most Serene Highnesses, (SEAL) Hamet Bashaw Caramelli, son of Ali Bashaw, &c. &c. &c. Syracuse, 18th Feb. 1807.
Some expectations have been lately entertained by our government, from the representations of consul Davis, that provisions would be made by the ruling Bashaw of Tripoli for the subsistence of his exiled brother. But upon information directly from Syracuse by George Dyson, Esquire, navy agent of the U. States, now in this city, it is rendered certain that no relief can be relied on from that quarter; and probable that whatever encouragement of this nature had been held out by the usurper, it had no other object than to betray his brother to destruction.
Having had myself the chief influence, as an agent of the U. States, in drawing the ex-Bashaw from his situation in upper Egypt; and having in conformity to treaty arrangements been instrumental in reconciling him to the unparalleled reverse of abandoning his flattering prospects; of relinquishing forever his hopes of recovering the kingdom wrested from him by treason, and now apparently within his grasp; and of receding from victory, like a prisoner, to a land of strangers—having effected this by the assurances, which I was authorised to make to him, that his wife and family should be restored to him, and that a manly respect to his future wellbeing would be had by our country, it may not be deemed inconsistent with the dictates of commiseration towards the supplicant, nor with my duties of respect towards the honorable body to whom his supplications are addressed, if I indulge a remark on the occasion.
It is remarkable, for it is an incontestible truth, that, whether the claims of the ex-Bashaw go to the justice or the generosity of the U. States, the use which was made of his services contributed much, if not wholly influenced, the overtures of peace on the part of the ruling Bashaw; for it was negotiated at a time when no coercion of our squadron then in the Mediterranean had as yet been attempted to be tried upon him and when the infirmities of Commodore Barron placed such an experiment at an incalculable distance. That no serious impressions had, from any quarter, been made on the apprehensions of the enemy after the transfer of the squadron from Com Preble to Com. Barron, except what were impressed by the capture and subjugation of his eastern province, the internal revolution of his kingdom, and the annihilation of his army through the influence and co-operation of Hamet Bashaw. That the U. States alone enjoy the advantages resulting from those events, while the ex-Bashaw, as he has truly represented, reaps no other benefit from his confidence and exertions than privation and exile but a little better than captivity.
It cannot be contested that Hamet Bashaw has two fair claims on this nation. To be re-instated in a situation as eligible as that from which he has been drawn—and to have his family restored to him. The former guaranteed by honorable promises; the latter by the solemnity of treaty stipulation—and, it is firmly believed, the people of the U. S. are liberally disposed to see these obligations cancelled.
From a country, blessed beyond the common lot of nations, rich in the means, and proud in the righteousness of her dispositions, does not honor, justice, humanity, give the world a right to expect that the hand of charity at least should be opened to a friend, whom, without his fault or free agency and from causes so notorious, incident, has thrown into misery so profound as this unfortunate prince now suffers?
It ought not to be concealed from Congress also that there are at Malta and elsewhere, sundry foreigners, Frenchmen, Greeks, and Mahometans, whose wounds received in the service of the U. S. in the province of Derne, render them incapable of acquiring a subsistence, and to whose cases no provisions made by law can be extended.
Most respectfully submitted, Nov. 3d, 1807, WILLIAM EATON.
NEW-YORK, November 5.
POSTSCRIPT
To the Boston Chronicle of Monday. Yesterday, after our paper had gone to press, the ship Aristides arrived here from Liverpool, bringing papers of that city to the 16th September, and London to the 14th. Their contents are of the highest importance, as will be seen by the subsequent extracts, which are all we could prepare in season for this day's paper. Copenhagen had not surrendered on the 14th September, nor did it appear that it would soon do so. Our differences with England were discussing by authorized agents, and some of the papers anticipated an amicable issue.
EVACUATION OF SOUTH-AMERICA. Sept. 12.—The Saracen sloop, of 18 guns, arrived yesterday at Portsmouth, with dispatches from lieut. gen. Whitelocke, dated the 10th of July, containing the ungrateful intelligence, that the British forces under his command had made an attack upon Buenos Ayres, but had experienced so much resistance from the numerous forces of the enemy, that, after having gained possession of part of the town, it was thought prudent to enter into a capitulation, by which it has been agreed to evacuate not only the part of Buenos Ayres, of which our troops had gained possession, but Monte Video, Maldonado, in fine, the whole of South-America, within the short space of two months. The following Bulletin was sent from the Admiralty to the Lord Mayor, and, by his order, posted on the Mansion House, and communicated to Lloyd's:
"Downing-street, Sept. 12, 1807."
"Lord Castlereagh has the honor of acquainting the Lord Mayor, that dispatches have been received this morning, from lieut. gen. Whitelocke, dated July 10, by which it appears, that in an attack upon the town of Buenos Ayres, his Majesty's troops experienced so much resistance from the tumultuous force of the enemy, that after gaining possession of part of the town, with severe loss, on the 5th July, the lieut. gen. thought it prudent to enter into a negotiation with general Liniers who commanded the enemy's forces, by which he agreed to evacuate South-America within two months, upon condition that all prisoners taken in the attack, as well as those captured at the surrender of Buenos Ayres, should be restored. The total loss amounts to killed 516, wounded 674, missing 208."
"To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor." It thus appears that our loss, in killed, wounded, and missing, amounts to 1,260 men. The remainder according to the terms of the capitulation, are now upon their way home.
COPENHAGEN.
A Gottenburgh mail arrived yesterday with intelligence to the 31st. Letters of that date say, that a courier had arrived there whole Copenhagen on the evening of Saturday the 28th, at which time, in consequence of the bombardment by our sea or land forces, the town was on fire in different places; and it was said that the arsenal was on fire. This is three days later than the dispatches, and then the town was not taken—Thus we find that our troops have been landed a fortnight and nothing effected. Indeed, after the Danes have had so much time to prepare, and they have been allowed to recover from their first apprehensions, and to calculate their means of defence, the success of the attempt upon Copenhagen appears questionable. The delay of the attack by the land may be supposed to be justified by the expectation of the certain success of the slow mode of operation; but the delay in attacking the naval line of defence renders the victory much more doubtful than it would have been; and it seems to be that now, that the place must be taken by land, and that our fleet could, from the preparations made by the Danes, make little impression, where they were formerly victorious under Nelson.
Dispatches have arrived from admiral Gambier, but they are not of so satisfactory a nature as was expected. They are dated the 20th, and were brought by the Ernest gun-brig, which sailed on the 27th. The accounts given out by the messenger is, that up to that time no change of consequence had taken place. The letters from the fleet represent the siege of Copenhagen as likely to continue three weeks.
Indeed some private letters have been received, which lead us to conclude, that the accounts received by ministers are unfavorable. It stated in them, that an unsuccessful attack was made upon the 23d, and that a good many men were killed on board our ships. It is stated also, that the Danes had driven our troops from a redoubt near the town where a battery had been erected, and that they were twice repulsed in attempting to retake it. They have burnt part of the suburbs to facilitate their defence, and determined to hold out to the last extremity.
There were reports in the city yesterday, of admiral Gambier being killed, and Sir Home Popham having lost a leg, and our fleet having, on the whole, suffered considerably. These were certainly unfounded, though it was said that several officers have fallen, which indeed seems to be corroborated by the rumors brought by the Gottenburgh mail.
RUSSIA AND SWEDEN.
It is stated in a letter from Stockholm of the 27th of August, that the Russian ambassador had delivered a note to the Swedish government, in which it was declared, that if assistance were rendered to the British fleet, or any part of it admitted into the ports of Sweden, it would be considered as a declaration of war, and that the Emperor of Russia would march an army into Finland.
EXPEDITION AGAINST MADEIRA.
Preparations are now making to take possession of the Island of Madeira. The force intended for this service, is reported to be about 3000 men. A number of transports, which are to be victualled for three months, have been ordered to assemble at Portsmouth, where the embarkation is to take place; the troops are to be provided with camp equipage. A deputy adjutant general, a deputy quarter master general, an inspector of hospitals, two physicians, and two surgeons, are to form part of the staff. This expedition is expected to sail in the course of a few days.
From the Boston Gazette of Monday.
Sunday, 1 o'clock.—The Aristides, capt. Williams, has this moment arrived from Liverpool, in 44 days.... Her latest London dates, which are to the 14th Sept. announce the following intelligence.
"That the points in controversy, between the United States and Great Britain, had been discussed, by the respective ministers; and that such an amicable adjustment of them had taken place, as to warrant a notice, from both parties, "that Peace and Friendship might be considered as being again restored between the two countries."
The Revenge Cutter was expected to leave England, with dispatches, about the 20th of September.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 7.
The public ought to be constantly guarded against the villainous and corrupt intrigues of the British government. Is there a man in America who believes that the English ministers will abandon to us, pretensions which she has sent a fleet to Copenhagen to maintain? If there is such a man, and he is not a downright knave, let him suspect the soundness of his head hereafter—the question will not hold water.
(Aurora.)
The gall traps that have been so often thrown out with the view to impose upon the public, and especially upon congress, ago to swarm, and will swarm upon every new arrival, but any man who has a

common understanding, must see through them. Surely our government are as likely to learn early, and to communicate as early, any matter that is of importance to the public, as any English haberdasher of small wares ; and surely more to be relied on than the insidious hirelings of G. Britain in our sea-ports.— ib.
The object of the various rumors set on foot, is to paralyse the country—to seduce congress from its duty—and to leave the country exposed to the mercenary armies which Great Britain is throwing into her colonies to the north; and to the depredations of her buccaneers on our seaboard. But congress is not composed of borough mongers nor lords of the bed chamber.— ib.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 7. A resolution has been offered in the Vermont legislature, to instruct their Representatives to procure an amendment of the constitution of the United States, making the judges of the Supreme court removable by the President, on the address of a majority of the House of Representatives, and two thirds of the Senate. Why two thirds of a Senate should be necessary to secure the removal of a corrupt judge, no man can give any good reason. Experience is against it; common sense is against it. The first, plainest maxim of republicanism—that a majority should govern—is against it. Did not the judges in Pennsylvania escape the punishment which their guilt merited—although a majority of the Senate voted them guilty? Did not that living example—that charming pattern of judicial purity—the surviving example of fidelity to Congressional duty during the revolution—the modest, mild and unassuming CHASE, break over the wall of justice—because two thirds of a Senate, then bent upon carrying an enormous land-jobbing scheme, would not condemn him? A SENATE, is a body, more apt to be corrupted than any other legislative branch; because they remain longer in office, are farther removed from the people, and less responsible on that account.—Does history confirm or confute our positions? It confirms their truth. Then, in God's name let us follow his warnings. It is the safest guide. A majority ought to rule.— Whig. November 9.
Yesterday at 12 o'clock, the officers, and a number of the gentlemen belonging to the 26th regiment, waited on gen. WILKINSON; and after saluting him, delivered an address, expressive of their feelings and high respect for that distinguished defender of his country; to which the general delivered an eloquent and truly patriotic answer; both of which we hope to present to our readers to-morrow.
FOR SALE, My Dwelling House, In the town of Manchester, built of brick, two stories high, with 7 rooms, and 7 fire places, with a complete square of land of two acres, under a fence, and much improved with a variety of choice trees, both fruit and fruit. This property will be sold on a long credit, with a small proportion of the purchase money paid at the time the title is made, which is clear of any kind of encumbrance. I expect the 30th day of this month, for the sale thereof, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at Mr. Brock's tavern door, at public auction, should it not be disposed of before at private sale—and on Monday next, the 19th instant, I mean to sell at my house, all my Valuable Furniture, and an elegant Chariot and Harness, completely finished and varnished, on a credit of 9 months for all sums above ten dollars; disc. 10 per cent. where I owe on any known sum. This is a rarement in my affairs. I am disposed to make a fair loss my family has sustained, intending to live at my plantation in Chesterfield, six miles above the town of Manchester.
Archibald Campbell. November 13th, 1807
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by John H. Saunders, junior, of Powhatan county to secure two debts, one due to Alban Gilpin & Co. and the other due to Gilpin, Cooke & Co. of said county, amounting to ninety-one pounds sixteen shillings and six pence, with interest from the date of said deed; will be sold, one NEGRO MAN, Sam, the property of said Saunders, to the highest bidder for ready cash, on Saturday the fifth of December next, at Powhatan Courthouse, to satisfy the said debt, together with all costs and charges attending the execution thereof.
John Archer, } Trustees. Wm. Royall, } Nov. 9th, 1807. 3w
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by Archibald Guy Randolph of Goochland county, to secure the payment of a debt due Samuel Harris of Powhatan county, amounting to one hundred and fifty three pounds eighteen shillings, with interest from the date of said instrument; will be sold, the following PROPERTY, viz. one Negro Woman, Nelly, and her son John, and a Negro Girl, Priscilla, the property of said Randolph, to the highest bidder, for cash, on Friday the fifteenth of January, 1808, at Jefferson, to satisfy the said debt, together with all costs and charges attending the execution of said trust.
Alban Gilpin, trustee. Nov. 9th, 1807. rds
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1807.
FOR THE ARGUS.
NUMBER III.
THE love of pleasure, of ease and fame, in short, self-love, will retain its influence over the firmest mind. Even the great, the intrepid Marshall, in the trials which have lately closed in the Federal Court, became alarmed, and shrunk from the great object which he ought to have pursued. The dread of having the examination of the witnesses withdrawn from before him, and continued at the Washington Tavern; by means whereof, his impartiality or rectitude might be called in question, was a responsibility which excited his fears. The horror of an impeachment, the dread of censure, or the fear of exciting alarm, was an obstacle too great to be surmounted, even by our Chief Justice.—Vain alarm! Might not experience have taught him that a federal Judge, has but little to fear, from an impeachment? Did he not know, that the friends of federalism and energy, were sufficiently numerous in the Senate, to have shielded him from punishment or disgrace? The shock produced by the LETTERS OF CURTIUS, who once attributed, what he called, "his bad eminence," to the energy of his mind, and the violence of his zeal, seems not to be forgotten. The impetuous ardor of his eloquence, and the vigor of his style, have left an impression on his mind, which time itself, it is to be feared, cannot efface. The solemn appeal, which Curtius made to the public, and the ardor with which he undertook to demonstrate, that his principles were dangerous to the constitution, and liberties of his country, are still recent in his mind. His denunciations, and the fervor with which he undertook to prove him guilty of insincerity and artifice, still ring in his ears, or torture his mind. That rash and daring democrat, but great orator, when he pronounced, "that there was hardly a man in the world, who would advocate pernicious and monstrous opinions, when they assumed the form of abstract principles; but that it was when those principles were applied to particular cases, in which the prejudices are excited, and the passions interested, that our opinions become perverted and monstrous;"—it was, I say, at the moment when the great Curtius applied this allusion to the present Chief Justice, that he felt a chill which benumbed the very faculties of his mind. I have called the departed Curtius great: It is a tribute which is scarcely due to his exalted talents, to his extensive information, to his impressive eloquence, and the qualities of his heart. A man must be lost to every great and noble sentiment, who is incapable of doing justice to the merits of even such a political opponent. But when dead, the Chief Justice ought no longer to have feared him. All of Curtius that was mortal, is buried forever in the silent grave! Let not then, the memory of Curtius, palsy the efforts of the friends of energy, altho' he has left behind him his suspicions, and painted with a pencil of fire, if I may use the expression, the glowing sentiments of his heart. But perhaps, I may be wrong, to blame the Chief Justice, for the commitment of the illustrious Burr. He has acquitted him of treason, and perhaps more ought not to have been expected.—The great writer, whose hallowed name I have used, suspected his motives, on account of the greatness of his talents: he stated, "that the gross errors of a mind like his, excited the mingled emotions of suspicion and wonder; that it was difficult to believe that genius and knowledge, could seriously adopt, the monstrous opinions of imbecility and prejudice; that when we hear a man of uncommon understanding, advocate absurdities, which are palpable to the plainest capacities, we cannot help suspecting the sincerity of his declarations, and the purity of his motives." In those very talents which drew upon the Chief Justice, the censure of the above writer, we ought, perhaps, to place our confidence and hopes. The schemes pursued by a man of his profound genius and capacious mind, may be veiled from the sight of a common observer. Let not then, the gloom which overspreads the mind of Eubulides, communicate its contagious fears to his friends: let them rather look forward to brighter scenes, and to more propitious times, when the ardent and aspiring ambition of our leaders, may be crowned with all the success which their fondest wishes can paint. External objects may retard for a while, the accomplishment of our designs, but the natural course of events, may bring us at last to the great point which we have so much at heart. Much is in the power of the Judiciary—The latitude of construction before spoken of, aided by the force of precedents, may establish an order of things, quite unexpected at the present day, and calculated to rescue the nation from that imbecility, that want of energy, and want of dignity by which it is characterised. What a folly is that ideal notion of liberty and happiness, which the people are to enjoy, by an exemption from a public debt, an exemption from direct taxes, and by the responsibility of public officers, &c. What! shall Tom, Dick and Harry, presume to dictate to the well-born, the policy which they are to pursue, the laws which they are to enact; when they are to be at peace, and when they shall go to war? Shall the natural aristocracy, the best blood of the country, be doomed to stoop forever to the multitude, to listen to their insolence; and if they should owe a debt to a mechanic, be subject to be told by him, that they have violated an engagement, or acted perhaps in a rascally manner? We may yet hope, for a better order of things, and our federal courts may greatly assist in bringing it about. When an opinion has been once given about these judges, it forms a precedent forever after, for courts who shall decide on the same points. Thus by degrees, their opinions may cover the whole field of legislation, and bid defiance forever, to any specification or limitation of their powers.
ers. What a glorious precedent has our Chief Justice established! I fear, I may have been a little captious, and have found fault with him unjustly? He certainly took great pains in delivering his opinion, to lay great emphasis on such parts of the evidence, as tended to exculpate our great leader from treasonable designs, and said very little of that mass of evidence, which the prosecution had been at so much trouble to collect. The present Chief Magistrate is not altogether so inactive, and destitute of energy as was calculated on. He is the most formidable foe, which federalism has ever encountered; he is such a smooth-tongued philosopher, and supports his opinions on such plausible grounds, and with so much simplicity and perspicuity; if we are not active, diligent, persevering and bold, he may long continue a thorn in our sides.
EUBULIDES.
There is a difference between the news from England furnished by the Boston Gazette and that published in the Boston Chronicle, which leaves the mind in doubt whether the American and British negotiators had made definitive arrangements of a pacific nature; or were only in the way of making such arrangements. We apprehend if the former had been the case, any "notice" of the event from the negotiators would have reached this country in letters, and indeed in an official form, by the same arrival that brought the newspaper account. We shall be glad, indeed, to hear that a friendly adjustment has been made, and that a treaty on a liberal, solid basis, is nearly concluded. The evacuation of South-America, (the expected conquest of which recently so much elated the mercantile and shipping interest of Great-Britain,) and the slow progress made by the English forces before Copenhagen, will certainly not procrastinate so desirable a result: But there can be no harm in the exhibition of a little patience till news more positive, more direct, and more official than newspaper assertions or surmises, are received. The demands which have been made upon the British government, though strictly just, are such as assail the pride and interest of that nation. We ought not, therefore, to yield too easy faith to unofficial statements of her acquiescence. (Baltimore American.)
Burr and his associates have arrived in Philadelphia. We do not understand where they are going to, or what is the object they are in search of. As Russia has been celebrated for giving an asylum and pensions to unfortunate monarchs and exiled nobility, it is probable that on application to the Emperor Alexander the "weary travellers" may find a snug home in that country; unless England should take on herself the future care of the Imperial Band of choice spirits.— ib.
Di-patches are said to have been received from our Minister at London of as late a date as the 3d of September. The recall of Admiral Berkeley is stated as certain.
GEN. WILKINSON has arrived at Baltimore.
From the English papers we collect that the nation is fully sensible of the power of France and that every measure they have taken to lessen has increased it. They were not without great concern for the event in Denmark, particularly should the expedition not succeed before the aid of the French could be obtained. They appear strangely uncertain of the operations of the French respecting Spain and Portugal.—They entertain no hopes of saving Portugal, and in despair represent resistance to be in vain, assistance impossible, and submission necessarily absolute. But they think the French have something in view beyond Portugal, and they discover in themselves the jealousy of weakness. Perhaps Gibraltar will be attacked.—But as it is impregnable, what have they to fear. It is true parties speak differently on these subjects, but all discover that they feel alike. And if our country has any thing to hope, it is from the fears of England. Essex (Salem) Register.
Relative to our affairs with England, we have many tales in a channel which renders them suspicious. That the President allowed the English court but four days, was current in Europe and America, but it is now contradicted at Washington. Other reports are put in circulation, upon confidential letters, without the true history of the communications. We have been imposed upon so often that we should be upon our guard. The English will involve us in a war, if they can find it to their interest. Our preparations will assist to decide upon that interest.— ib.
It is often remarked, that if names were not employed instead of things, we should never be able to find a distinction for some persons in the United States. At one time they are all in clamour against the want of spirit, in not resenting things of little consequence and which find their own remedy. But as soon as it suits their humor, they are upon their knees very humble, least resentment should carry too far the men that were represented to have no zeal, no honor, and no spirit.— ib.
A number of vessels from European and West-India voyages have been lately boarded from a variety of the British ships of war, who have, in almost every instance, that we have heard of lately, treated our captains with marked politeness. One of them asked, from whence proceeds this unusual politeness? To which the British officer replied, new orders! One of our captains was told in Jamaica, that they had new orders which enjoined them not to press an American that had a protection; and he adds, that it was observed, that the British officers did not search, nor even enter the American vessels in Jamaica, to look for men as formerly. Phil. True Amer.
Militia of New-Jersey. By a report of Adjutant-General Hunt, laid before the house on Tuesday last, it appears that the Militia of this state amounts to 33,360 men.— True Amr.
BRITISH FRIENDSHIP. The Swedish schooner Gustavus Vasa, (says the Baltimore Evening Post,) from Hispaniola for Baltimore, was captured in September last by his majesty's ship Adamant; John Sillies, master, and carried into Jamaica. Elijah Davis, who went out in the Gustavus Vasa, as second mate and pilot, was ordered, previous to their arrival at Jamaica, to do ordinary duty on board the Adamant, which his feelings as an American freeman, induced him peremptorily to refuse; stating that he would not perform any duty under English colors. He was consequently ordered by the said Sillies to be flogged in an infamous manner, and survived but a few days.
Mr. Davis was born in Patapsco Neck, Baltimore county, and was for many years a pilot in the Chesapeake Bay, and at the time of his murder had his certificate of branch pilot in his possession. [But this was only an amicable deposit —like the deposit of Jonathan Robbins and of John Wilson, &c. &c.]
FROM THE ESSEX (SALEM) REGISTER.
Continued attempts are made to represent to the farmers and merchants what losses they may sustain by the war. New channels of business are imagined, and it is even expected that we shall have more food than we can eat. In telling these wonderful tales, no notice is taken of the rights we claim, nor of the real advantages we lose forever in submitting to injury. Such tales were told before the American war, but all the vast extent of our commerce has arisen from circumstances which our independence gave us. The Dutch, before they asserted their independence, were told of their narrow limits and scanty means. But they asserted their liberties, and taught the world how to get riches. The first thing a man has to do is his duty. His right he ought to claim.—He does no violence in asserting it. And if he does it with firmness, he may obtain it without the contest, which his weakness would be sure to oblige. We are all strangers to futurity. But he that lays in a ditch and prays, will lay in a ditch and pray.
The Boston Centinel has given us an awful picture of the power of France, when it shall have advanced in its progress sufficiently to reduce the pride of England. Such pictures are easily drawn, and they may terrify the weak—but are they entirely dissimilar to those shown to us before our revolution? We had been told of the power of France, and of the danger of our alliance. The success of that alliance has never been questioned. The English consented to peace. A peace may be again established. The claims of France are our own claims. The freedom of the seas would be as beneficial to the French as to us. They claim no privileges we disclaim. These privileges must be obtained. They will be obtained more easily by the power of France than our own. We must see these happy days, or our commerce cannot be safe. Are we to consent to give up our lawful claims from one nation, because unlawful claims can arise from another. It is not more reasonable to join with every other nation in their just demands? If, upon the change of power, they institute the claims they have abandoned, the more sure will be the refutation, and the more successful the resistance to those claims. In such a state of Europe, a victory over America is not sure. The pencil which has drawn the figure of despair, has not added victory to the group. Many things will be necessary for conquest abroad, as we see in a French colony. Many things must be guarded at home. New combinations arise in great dangers—and victories have their end, as the history of great events can explain. No cause exists at present which gives us any thing to fear from the assertion of every right. No safety can be promised while any nation exists with unlimited claims. We should have courage to defend every right, and then we cannot deserve our national calamities.—And while the national soul is firm, Heaven will bless it.— ib.
A late London paper mentions, that Major-General Grant has announced the discovery of the longitude by a mathematical instrument, which shews the rate of a ship sailing continually with the greatest accuracy.—This instrument is connected with others, which point out the rate of the ship, her latitude and longitude, in direct or oblique sailing.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Zachariah Lankford, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, due William Howard, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises, on Monday the 9th day of November next, the TRACT OF LAND, whereon the said Zachariah Lankford now resides, containing seventy-seven acres more or less, in the county of Henrico, adjoining the land of Jesse Smith and Bernard Reynolds. Daniel Burton, } Trustees. Robt. Priddy, }
October 27. 1807. 3t
In consequence of the badness of the weather, the sale of the above mentioned land is postponed until Saturday the twenty first of this month, at which time it will certainly be sold. Daniel Burton, } Trustees. Robt. Priddy, }
November 9th, 1807. 3t
Holland Linen. JUST received, an Assortment of HOLLAND LINEN, from 3s 9d to 12s per yard. BOHN & HUBNER. November 12, 1807. 3w
For Rent, A HOUSE and LOT, with a stable, a smoke-house and a good garden well enclosed, on Shockoe Hill, wherein Mr. John Peale lived the present year. Thomas Elliott. Richmond, Nov. 9th, 1807. rf
FOR SALE: And may be seen at the Bell Tavern, one of the most elegant pair of Full bred Bay Horses, that has ever been exhibited in the city of Richmond—one of them 5 and the other 6 years old. Nov. 12. tf
FITZWYLLSONN & POTTER, BOOK BINDERS AND STATIONERS! WE have just received a few copies of a Treatise on Military Tactics; in which are fully explained the duties of a Soldier and the movements of an army, with rules and regulations designed for the forces of the United States, illustrated with copper plates, blank forms &c. At a moment like the present, when the national peace is involved in uncertainty, and the necessity of war in a great degree probable, it becomes us to prepare for that event, and this treatise offers to the young officer such lessons in the military science and principles of discipline, as highly merit his attention. F & P have also received a large collection of new Vocab; Rudbeck, Post and other Writing Papers; some excellent Pen-Kalves; Space tables for ladies, &c. &c. N B Blank Books of all kinds, Pocket-Books; School-Books, and a general assortment of Stationery for sale. Richmond, Nov. 10, 1807
Lands for Sale. The subscriber wishes to sell the Lands and Plantation whereon he at present resides; containing 800 acres well watered with several excellent springs, and convenient to four several manufacturing mills.—Also a tract of Land lying two miles from the above, on Fine creek, containing 430 acres, about 30 of which is meadow of superior quality.—The lands shown and the terms made known by application to Horatio Turpin, Powhatan, 12th Nov 1807
VIRGINIA: At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in Richmond September 22d 1807. William Dinguid and Lucy his wife, John M. Walker administrator with the will annexed of John Christian, deceased and Joyce Christian widow of the late John Christian, and James Paterson, plaintiffs. Against Elizabeth Paterson executrix and George Christian executor of Peter Paterson, and Martha Paterson, Elizabeth M. Reynolds, Charles Paterson, Peggy Paterson, Polly Paterson, Peter Paterson, Jenny Paterson, Henry Paterson, Fanny Paterson and Charles Paterson, and Charles Bacon, son and heir of Nancy Bacon late Nancy Paterson children and heirs at law of Charles Paterson deceased and devisees of the said Peter Paterson deceased, Mary Ann Paterson widow of John Paterson deceased, Charles Phillips and Molly his wife, Lewis C. Dawson and Lucy his wife, Samuel P. Christian and Nancy his wife, Samuel Paterson and John Paterson infants by the said Samuel P. Christian specially assigned their guardian, heirs of the said John Paterson deceased, defendants.
In this cause on motion of the plaintiffs by counsel, the court without now deciding any of the matters in controversy in this suit, doth direct the commissioner to whom the account between the parties had been referred, to make a supplemental report to the one heretofore returned by him, in which he will reform the accounts as either party may require, or he may think proper, and also advise any other items of debit or credit which may be claimed, and report his proceedings to the court with any matter thought pertinent by himself or required by the parties; but this order is not to delay the hearing of the cause. A copy—Teste, Peter Tinsley, c. c.
Commissioner's Office, Richmond, 5th Nov 1807. THE parties will take notice, that I have appointed the eighteenth day of January next to carry into effect the foregoing decree of the court; on which day there will be an attendance required at my office in this city with their accounts and vouchers ready for examination and settlement, and with copies of the court papers. Samuel Greenhow, M. C.
ST. MARY'S COLLEGE GRAND LOTTERY, BALTIMORE, Authorised by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland; the scheme of which lottery is the most brilliant ever offered to the citizens of the United States, containing besides a large number of other good prizes. 1 Prize of 30,000 Dollars, 1 do. of 15,000 Dollars, 3 do. of 10,000 Dollars, 2 do. of 5,000 Dollars, 8 do. of 1,500 Dollars, 7 do. of 1,000 Dollars. Not two blanks to a prize, and the lowest prize twelve dollars. The scheme contains only 21500 tickets, 1000 of which are actually sold to a company of gentlemen in New York, to whom the managers have obligated themselves to commence the drawing in the city of Baltimore. On Thursday the 31st day of December next, And to draw 500 tickets per day. TICKETS & SHARES Are now selling in a variety of numbers and very rapidly at Ten and a half dollars each for a very short time, at G. & R. WAITE'S Truly fortunate Lottery Office, corner of Markes et and Charles Street, Baltimore. The grandam of the Scheme of the above Lottery, together with an assurance from the managers that it will positively commence drawing on the 31st day of December next, have been a sufficient inducement for the subscribers to come to the city of Baltimore for the express purpose of facilitating the sale of the tickets. G & R WAITE
One of the above firm will personally attend the drawing daily, to take down the numbers correctly, as will also one of their clerks. The next New-York Lottery will come on the drawing till April next—Tickets of which Lottery may be had at Waite's Offices, Maiden Lane, New-York. N. B. Distant advertisers, accompanying their orders with Bank Notes of any description to either of Waite's Offices in Baltimore or New York, may have tickets and shares forwarded to any amount with the utmost punctuality, and the earliest advice sent them of their success. All prizes sold by G. & R. Waite will be paid by them.—A list of all prizes drawn will be sent to the printer of this paper, for the information of adventurers. October 14th, 1807. 183m
Sales at Auction. Will positively be SOLD, at the Vendue Office of the subscribers, on Monday the 16th instant, An Elegant CHARIOT, With Harness complete. Terms of sale: six months credit, for an approved endorsed negotiable note at the Bank of Virginia. Prosser & Moncure, Auc'rs Nov. 10, 1807. 9

FALL GOODS.
TOMPKINS & MURRAY, Are now opening in the house opposite the Post Office lately occupied by Messrs. Bohn & Huener, an extensive assortment of FINE GOODS, Received by the ship Calpe from London. They have been selected with much care and attention. Among them they would particularly recommend their Assortment of London Superfine Cloths, Casimere, Talinets and Hats, All of a very superior quality. Also, an elegant assortment of Fashionable ROBES, MUSLINS, LACES, &c. They have also on hand, a large assortment of Coarse Woollens, Hardware, &c. Received by the ships Hesperus, and John & Charles from Liverpool. The whole forms a complete assortment well worthy of attention, which they offer for sale on liberal terms. Richmond, 10th Oct. 1807. tf
Now Landing and for Sale, 20 hogs Leaf Sugar 20 hogs first quality 20 hogs Rye Whiskey 15 hogs second quality 17 hogs Antigua Rum 25 boxes cotton Cards 10 Hogs prime green 10 cases Malaga Wine Coffee 2 ton patent Shot. In Store, 40 bags Green Coffee 20 hogs N. E. Rum 20 bags Pepper 15 pipes 4th proof Cognac 50 hogs 8 by 10 Glass 100 Brandy 20 hogs Shot 20 kegs Hamilton's 2 gun-barrel Lead Sulf. Terms liberal, and made known on application HENRY HOOPER. October 29, 1807
Land for Sale. ON the second day of November next, will be sold, on the premises a TRACT OF LAND, in the lower end of Goochland County, containing 200 Acres, being the Land whereon Gideon Hatcher, late Sheriff of said County, lived and died. There is on said Tract of Land, a good Dwelling House, Barn, &c. Apple and Peach Orchard. The aforesaid Tract of Land will be sold by the Censor to satisfy a debt due the public for cash, or on three months credit. THOMAS MILLER, Acting Adm r of Gideon Hatcher, Dec. Goodland, October 16th, 1807. tf
NOTICE is hereby given, that the following Slaves, to wit, Rachel and her two children, named Edmund and George; Charlotte, Judy, Davy, Jany and Violet, or so many of them as will satisfy the balance due on a deed of trust executed by Benedict Crump to me as trustee, for the benefit of Robert Christian, and transferred to Thomas Cliborne by said Robert Christian; will be sold, on the 23d of November next, at New Kent court house, for ready money. JONES R. CHRISTIAN, Trustee. October 16th, 1807. tf
Fifty Dollars Reward. RUN AWAY from New Kent, when living in King William county, in the year 1791, on the first of January,
A Negro Man, By the name of NEPTUNE, who formerly belonged to the estate of John Hales, dec. living then in the lower end of Henrico—he is a tall, pure fellow, stoops in his shoulders, or you may say round shouldered, high forehead, his hair packed up each side of his forehead, flat nose, large white teeth, draws his words when he talks, or rather talks through his nose, and has a scar some where in his face, about forty-five years of age—it is supposed he is now passing as a free man in the city of Richmond, as he thinks himself so. There never has any efforts been made to apprehend him—he has a wife at John Hales, dec. living in the lower end of that county, and a mother—perhaps he may be harbored there. Any person, that will discover him to William Clifton, in Cumberland, or secure him in any jail, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward. ELIZABETH CLOPTON, Cumberland county, Aug. 13, 1807. tf
NOTICE is hereby given, that the following Slaves, to wit, Rachel and her two children, named Edmund and George; Charlotte, Judy, Davy, Jany and Violet, or so many of them as will satisfy the balance due on a deed of trust executed by Benedict Crump to me as trustee, for the benefit of Robert Christian, and transferred to Thomas Cliborne by said Robert Christian; will be sold, on the 23d of November next, at New Kent court house, for ready money. JONES R. CHRISTIAN, Trustee. October 16th, 1807. tf
Five Dollars reward. RUN away, the 19th September, 1807, from the subscriber, residing in the county of Chesterfield, a black Negro Woman, named Celia, about thirty years of age; she is a small bright complexioned negro, was raised in Chesterfield near Manchester, has a large scar on her forehead about the edge of her hair, & likewise on her neck and shoulders. If any person or persons will return her to me, or give me any information so that I can get her again shall receive the above reward. Benjamin Marshall. 11th October, 1807. tf
FALL GOODS.
FIRBY, DRAKE & TAYLOR, Are now receiving by the ship Bellona, from London, a large and handsome assortment of FASHIONABLE GOODS, (selected by a partner of the house) Among which are London Superfine Cloths, Casimere, and Talinets, of superior quality. Gentlemen's Patent Silk and Beaver Hats. Children's Talinets and Pelisse do. Bignon Leno Petticoats and Sewed Muslins. Do. Robe and Dressers. Colored Italian Crapes for Ladies' Dresses. Silk, Cotton, and Worsted Hosiery. Linen Cambrics, Lawns and Sheetings. 4-4 Cotton Shirting, very fine. Ladies' Kid Gloves. Cambrics, Cambricks, Chambrays, Cotton and Linen Laces, &c. And in daily expectation of receiving by the Pallas from Liverpool, a large assortment of COARSE WOOLLENS, and all of which will be sold very low, wholesale and retail, for cash, or on a short credit to punctual customers. Richmond, September 29, 1807. tf
Potomac Company. NOTICE is hereby given, that application will be made to the General Assembly of Virginia at their next session, to allow the Potomac Company the further time of three years, to be computed from the expiration of the term already given, to complete the navigation of Shenandoah river. Alexandria, October 10th, 1807. 4w
William M'Cay, Watch-Maker, Main-st. Richmond, Returns his thanks to his friends for the encouragement he has met with in his profession, and hopes for a continuation of past favors. W. M'CAY has a general assortment of Gold and Silver Ware, made by the best workmen, which he has taken pains to obtain, consisting of warranted gold and silver Watches, Ladies' ornamented and plain Combs, mounting, fancy and plain Ear-rings, mounting, fancy and plain Finger Rings, mounting and fancy Lockets, Miniature Settings, Necklaces plain and ornamented, mounting and fancy Breast Pins, Bracelets, Neck Chains, gold, gilt, steel and steel Watch Chains, gold, gilt, glass and steel Seals, gold, gilt and steel Keys, pocket and ring Cases, gold, silver and steel Buttons, table, desert and tea Spoons, soup and punch Ladles, sugar Tongs, salt Shovels, scissors, Chains and Cases, Thumb and pencil Cases—with a variety of other articles; all of which he offers at the most reduced prices. tf Clocks and Watches of every description repaired by him. October 14, 1807. 6w N. B. Two Boys who can come well recommended will be taken as Apprentices to the above business.
TO BE SOLD, At Farnville, in Amelia county, on Monday the 29th of December next Extraordinary valuable Black-smith Belonging to the estate of Richard Eggleston, dec. on a credit of six months. Bond with approved security will be required of the purchaser. THE EXECUTORS. October 11, 1807. tf
At Private Sale. NEGRO COTTONS White, Green, Brown and Blue Duffles Sagathys and Kerseys, in bales Coarse Cloths, Flannels and Rose Blankets— A great variety of Muslins, India and German Goods, &c. Also— Brown Sugar, in hds. Cognac and Apple Brandy Hollands and Country Gin Northern and Mountain Whiskey Molasses Havanna Sugar London Particular Madeira Wine Black Pepper Bar and Rod Iron Northern Candles and Soap, &c. Darmsdatt, Foster & Satchell, Auctioneers. Sept. 23. 2m
FOR SALE, Opposite Colonel Mayo's new Buildings, 4th, 3rd and 2nd proof Antigua Rum, in hds. of the crop 1805—Imported early 1806 New England Rum in hds. and barrels 1 pipe very Superior Holland's Gin Rye Whiskey in barrels Loaf and Brown Sugar in Ditto Coffee by the barrel or bag Beef and Pork in barrels Irish Potatoes in ditto, suitable for table or planting Potomac Shad and Herrings, Stone Lime in large and small casks. And a general assortment of GROCERIES, &c. which will be sold low for Cash, good paper, or exchanged for country produce, by JOB GREENE. Richmond, 27th May, 1807.
LAND In the state of Ohio—For Sale: THE subscriber wishes to SELL a valuable TRACT OF LAND, in the state of Ohio, containing 1000 acres. This tract is of excellent quality, as the subscriber has understood from most respectable information. It lies on Deer creek, a branch of the Sciota, about 16 miles from Chillicothe, in a well settled neighborhood, and is very convenient to the trade of the Ohio. He will dispose of it for cash, or on a short credit, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia; or will exchange it for property in the city of Richmond. An unquestionable title, with general warranty, will be made to the purchaser. WM. MUMFORD. Richmond, Sept. 24, 1807. tf
ADVERTISEMENT. Just Received, a General Assortment of Dutch Bolting Cloth, Of a superior quality. J. Darmsdatt. Oct. 22, 1807. tf
FOR CASH, TEN or fifteen likely young NEGROES, consisting of men, women, and children. For terms apply to Mr Daniel Mayo (above the court house) where they may be seen, or the subscriber. JOHN CRUMP. Powhatan, October 14, 1807. tf
Lands and Negroes FOR SALE. Will be offered for SALE, on the premises, to the highest bidder, on the 24th day of November, (if not previously sold) the TRACT OF LAND whereon the subscriber resides, lying in the county of Prince Edward, on the waters of Buffalo. Containing between 2500 and 3000 acres; a considerable portion of which is valuable CREEK LOW GROUNDS, well adapted to the culture of Tobacco, Corn and Grass. Persons wishing to purchase, will apply to the subscriber on the spot. ALSO FORTY NEGROES, of different ages and sexes. One third part of the purchase money will be demanded on the day of sale, and the remainder to be paid in twelve months from that date. Bond and security will be required, bearing interest from the date, if not punctually paid. At the same time and place, the Imported Horse MUFTI, Will be offered for sale on a liberal credit, and if not sold, will be farmed out for the ensuing season. Richard K. Randolph. N. B. The terms on which the land is offered, will be made known on the day of sale. September 11, 1807. oais, w.o. ep N.
FOR SALE. On the 1st day of December next, on the premises, a very valuable Tract of Land, Belonging to the estate of William Ragland dec. lying in the neighborhood of the Green Springs, in Louisa, on the waters of Foster's creek, containing about 400 acres. This plantation is in excellent repair for cropping, the buildings are also in good repair, and such as are worthy the reception of a genteel family. The terms are one third of the purchase money in twelve months from the day of sale, the balance in two equal annual payments. Bond and approved security will be required with interest on the two last payments from first December, 1808, till paid, also will be required a deed of trust on the premises to secure the payment of the purchase money—There will also be sold at the same time and place, about twenty likely NEGROES, on a credit of 12 months. Bond and approved security will also be required, to be returned from the date if not punctually paid by THE ADMINISTRATOR. October 27, 1807. Sw a
NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition will be presented to the next Virginia Assembly, praying that the lands whereof John M'Murry died seized, may be sold for the purpose of satisfying his just debts, he having no heir or legal representative to inherit the same. Wm OVERTON, Adm r de bonis non, of John M'Murry. Prince Edward, Oct. 27, 1807. 2m
GERMAN GOODS. BOHN & HUENER, Have just received from Bremen, a general Assortment of German Goods—consisting of Osnaburgs Rowans Sheeting Ticklenburgs Pavillas Brown Rolls Brown Holland Holland Downs, and Danzig Rolls Bielefeld Linen Sacking
Glass Ware. Quart, Pint and half pint Decanters. Pint and half pint Tumblers—All of which they will sell on reasonable terms. N. B. They have removed to the new brick tenement, the door below Messrs. Taylor and Brown's Vendee Office. Richmond, 2d November, 1807. 4w
PURSUANT to a deed of trust executed by James H. Marshall of the county of Buckingham, to the subscriber for the purposes therein expressed, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, or on a credit of six months, at the dwelling house of said Marshall, on the first Monday in December next, four head of HORSES, six head of CATTLE, and twenty head of HOGS, and sundry articles of HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE; or so much of said property as may be sufficient to satisfy the purposes of this trust. RICHARD NOWELL, Trustee. Wachaprequee, October 28, 1807. 1m
FOR SALE, By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers on the 30th day of April last, by Peyton Saunders, for the purposes therein mentioned, will be sold, at the front door of the Eagle Tavern, on Monday the 7th day of next month, between the hours of 11 and 1 o'clock, for ready money, two valuable TRACTS OF LAND, lying and being in Buckingham county, one of them containing two hundred and thirty-eight Acres, this tract is adjoining the lands of Linnæus Holling, John Drun, John Lipscomb and James Huggens, on Buffalo creek—The other tract containing four hundred acres and adjoining the lands of John Harris, Raney Chastain, Nancy Allen and Charles Cault—We shall convey our title to said lands, only as trustees. THOMAS LADD, } Trustees. JOHN TOMPKINS, } 11th Mo. 4th, 1807. tds
Cavalry Discipline AND New Sword Exercise. JUST published by S. Granland, and for sale at his Printing office, "A Treatise on the Discipline of the Cavalry; reaching the necessary evolutions on a parade, on a march, and in the face of an enemy: To which is added, The "New Sword Exercise for Cavalry." Illustrated with Copper-plate Engravings. The whole examined and approved by an intelligent and valuable officer of the Cavalry during the Revolutionary War." This work has been pronounced by a very competent judge, to be the best on the subject heretofore published in this country. Every Member of the Cavalry should possess a copy. A liberal discount to wholesale purchasers. Printers of newspapers will oblige the publisher by inserting the above, and the favor will be returned when required. Richmond, 5th Nov. 1807. 3t
A LIST of one Hnd. Tobacco remaining in Henderson's Warehouse, upwards of two years, inspected in the names of Joseph Towne, marked L. T. No. 128—124—1192, and if not claimed will be disposed of according to law. Oglesby & Sharp. Milan, October 31, 1807. 3w
Land for Sale! PURSUANT to a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by John C. Miller, for the purpose of securing the payment of sundry debts therein mentioned, will be sold upon the first Monday in January, 1808, for cash upon the premises, a TRACT OF LAND, mentioned in said deed, lying upon the waters of Becketts and Harris' creek, in the county of Prince Edward, and supposed to contain between six and seven hundred acres. We shall make such title as is transferred to us by said Miller, saving all former encumbrances. The improvements upon this land are such as are usual upon snug plantations in this part of the country, but better fenced than usual. CHARLES WOODSON, } Trustees. JAMES MADISON, } Prince Edward, 16th Oct. 1807. 10w
Drugs & Medicines. Daniel Wm. Sackerider & Co. Have this day opened a general assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES, And a great variety of valuable PATENT MEDICINES, which they are determined to sell on reasonable terms. DANIEL WM. SACKERIDER offers his services to the citizens of Richmond and its vicinity as a practitioner of Physic, Surgery, &c. &c. He has every reason to believe his professional services will be satisfactory to those who will honor him with their confidence. Richmond, July 20th, nearly opposite Doct Foushee's. 12m
Buckingham County, August Term, 1807. Joseph Fogg, Stephen Fogg, Moses Fogg, Aaron Fogg, John Fogg and Mary his wife, and Erasmus Jones and A. M. his wife, plaintiffs. Noah Fogg, administrator of Elizabeth Fogg, deceased, and John Fogg and Judith his wife, defendants. ON the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, and it appearing to the court that the defendants John Fogg and Judith his wife are not inhabitants of this state; It is ordered, that unless they appear here on or before November next and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to them, and decree the matter thereof accordingly; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and a copy thereof be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy, Teste, R. Eldridge, jr. d. c.
At a Court of Quarterly Session, held for Cumberland County, the 29th day of July, 1807. George Bernard & Co. Plaintiffs, } In Against } Chancery. Joshua Glover, Howell Thomas and Walter Jones, Defendants. IT appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that one of the defendants, Joshua Glover, is not an inhabitant of this state; on the motion of the said complainant by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said Joshua Glover, do appear here on the 4th Monday in October next, to answer the complainants' bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Virginia Gazettes, for two months successively, and published at the door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy, Teste, Miller Woodson, jr. D. C.
The Imported Horse Bedford, So noted for getting capia racers, will stand the next season at my stable in Chesterfield county. Further particulars will be made known before the season commences. THOMAS DRAPER. 14th October, 1807. wtf
NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition will be presented to the next General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Virginia, praying that the right of the said commonwealth to the real estate of Wm. F. Ast. dec. who died intestate, may be released for the benefit of his Nephew, Henry J. Arnolds, who is an alien, having only resided three years in this state, the whole of that time in this city, who prays to become a citizen under the same act. Richmond, October 12, 1807. wtf
Royster & Bohannan, Respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received a general assortment of GROCERIES, Which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or good notes at sixty days— AMONGST WHICH ARE— 1200 sacks Liverpool Salt } 1 pint, } 10 hds W. I. RUM } 1/2 pint, } Tumblers, 5 do N. E. } 3/4 pint, } 10 casks Sherry } 6 pipes Molasses 10 do Lisbon } 20 tiers Whiskey 10 do Malaga } 10 tiers Y. Ryson 3 hds Teneriff } 10 tiers Imperial 24 hds Sugar } 20 bags Coffee 14 hds Load ditto } 1 case Cutlery Ware 50 boxes N. Y. Candles } well assorted 50 do best yellow Soap } Powder and Shot 100 reams wrapping Paper } Window Glass 50 do writing ditto. } Coppers Soft shelled Almonds } Leyser's Snuff by quantity } Brimstone 12 boxes Chocolate } 20 boxes best Spanish 30 crates well assorted } Sugars Earthen Ware } Mustard by box 12 cases Glass Ware, } Nutmegs by quan } Together with a number of other articles, which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or good acceptances in town. Richmond, October 28, 1807. wtf
GERARD BANKS Has it in view to establish a NEWS-PAPER in Richmond, to be published twice a week— The Title THE VIRGINIAN. THE Editor has been always attached to Republican systems. The present Administration, in his view, is well calculated to ensure the happiness of the people; and any Administration which may succeed, pursuing the same general course, will be supported. Foreign and Domestic details will be noticed. Besides this, the public will, time after time, be apprised of the affairs of the public institutions, and particularly of the course of the Bank, its managers, its influence, its defects and imperfections. The usurpations of this dangerous institution will be noted; the Attorney which grows from its management will be exposed. This course will be pursued with a temper and firmness, which will yield neither to the blandishments of flattery, nor the frowns of power. Stock jobbing and favoritism, Twin Demons, will be arrested when ever they appear. 300 Subscribers at 5 dollars per annum each, one half in advance, are necessary to the commencement of the paper. (ef) GERARD BANKS
By virtue of a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond, the subscribers will expose to sale on the premises, to the highest bidder, for cash, on the 20th day of July next, the residue of a TRACT OF LAND, lying in Pittsylvania, on Bannister river, estimated to contain 1717 acres more or less, whereon the widow of John Markham and others now reside, or as much thereof as will be sufficient to raise the sum of £371 3 5, with interest from the 10th day of June, 1806, on £405 13 6 part thereof until payment, and interest on £400, also part thereof during the same period, the expenses of sale and the costs of suit. Robt. Haskins, son of Ewd. Thos. Wooldridge, senior. Edward Friend. Allen Whitworth. June 25, 1807. The sale of the above property is postponed until Monday the 7th day of December, next, when it will certainly take place. Robt. Haskins, son of Ewd. Thos. Wooldridge, senior. Edward Friend. Allen Whitworth. November 6, 1807. wtf
Sale of Negroes. IN pursuance of a deed of trust executed to me by John Ogilby of the county of Person, N. Carolina, for purposes therein expressed, I shall on the 31st day of the present month, proceed to sell, at the Red House, in Caswell county, N. C. to the highest bidder, for ready money, the following SLAVES, to wit, James, Davy, Tom, Adam, Bob and Major, or as many of them as will be sufficient to answer the purposes of said deed. William S. Archer. October 13th, 1807. wtf
The sale of the above property is postponed until Monday the 23d of November, when it will take place agreeably to the terms above mentioned. Wm. S. Archer, Trustee. Lands, Negroes, Stock, &c. FOR SALE. To be sold, at Public Auction, on Monday the eleventh day of January next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at my Plantation called the Goose-Ponds, and continue from day to day until all are sold—The following Property, viz: TRACT OF LAND, on Pamunkey River, about one hundred acres of which are low grounds, lying partly in Caroline and partly in King William, called the Goose-Ponds, containing 842 acres, more or less. The quality of the Land, the buildings, beauty of situation, water and neighborhood, renders it an object worthy the attention of any gentleman wishing to purchase; a crop of Wheat is sown thereon—Also, a Tract of Land in the State of Kentucky, on the waters of Lewis's Creek, a branch of Green-River, about one mile from the same and about sixty miles above the mouth, containing 1803 3/8 acres, more or less, to which there is an undoubted title.—Terms of sale, one fourth in ready money, and three annual instalments for the balance, to be secured by deeds of trust upon the Land, with bonds and approved security, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid—Also, two other tracts of Land, the one lying in Henry county, containing 2100 acres, and the other supposed to lie in Greenbrier county, containing 2000 acres, conveyed by Thomas Hooper to Wm. Morris.—Terms of sale and other information, will be made known on the day of sale.—Also, about forty likely Negroes, about one half or two thirds for cash, the balance at twelve months credit, for which bonds and approved security will be required, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid—Also, the Stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Plantation Utensils, the crops of Corn, Fodder, &c, for which six months credit will be allowed for all sums above twenty dollars, on receiving bonds with approved security—and for all sums under twenty dollars, cash. Those having legal claims against me may perhaps find it to their interest to attend this sale. BENJAMIN TOLEP. September 4, 1807. wtf
At a Court of Quarterly Session, held for Cumberland County, the 27th day of October, 1807. James Koper, plaintiff, } In vs. } Chancery. Benj. Sims & Wm. Sims, defts. THE defendant William, not having entered his appearance and given security according to law, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state; on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said William do appear here on the 4th Monday in February next to answer the complainants' bill, and that the defendant Benjamin do not pay, convey away, or secure any debt by him owing to, or effects of the said William in his hands until the further order or decree of this court; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Virginia Gazettes, for two months successively, and published at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy—Teste, Miller Woodson, jr. d. c.
Twenty Dollars Reward. RUN away from the subscribers on the eleventh inst. two mulatto men, one about twenty two years old, about five feet eight inches high, stout and well made, having on his under lip a natural mark of a reddish color, also a mark on his forehead by a stroke, likewise a cut on his right foot by an axe. The other also stout and well made, about twenty years of age, about five feet ten inches high, grey eyes, has something reddish and tied when he was away. Any person finding them and confining them in any jail so that we get them, shall be entitled to twenty dollars reward, and for one of them ten dollars. John Henly, Martin Franklin, Monroe county, Red Sulphur Springs, State of Virginia, Oct. 24, 1807. wtf
Lands for sale in Albemarle. THE subscriber being desirous of removing to the western country, offers for sale his TRACT OF LAND, in Albemarle county, on the North river, four miles from Charlottesville, containing a thousand acres—two hundred or two hundred and fifty acres of which are valuable bottoms. Payable in the following manner—one third when possession is given in cash; one third in negroes between twelve and thirty years old at a fair valuation, and the balance in lands situated in the lower part of Kentucky or in West Tennessee, whose soil, situation and title may be approved by him, or if more agreeable to the purchaser the third if not exchanged for western lands, will be divided into three equal annual payments, with interest from the day possession is given, if not punctually paid, to be secured by a deed of trust upon the land. Presuming that no person will purchase without viewing the land, further particulars are deemed unnecessary at this time, but will be made known by application to the subscriber living on the premises. SAMUEL CARP. October 1st, 1807. wtf