The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1808-05-19 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 5.]
RICHMOND, THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1808.
[No. 5.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
DOMESTIC.
PUBLIC DOCUMENTS.
PART III.
(CONTINUED.)
From Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney Ministers extraordinary and Plenipotentiaries at London, to Mr. Madison, Secretary of State.
LONDON, October 22, 1807.
SIR, We have the honor to transmit inclosed a duplicate of our joint letter to you by doctor Bullus, together with a copy of the project of alterations to which it refers, and which could not be prepared in time to be sent with the original. We also enclose a printed copy of the act of parliament, relative to an intercourse by sea between the United States and the British North American colonies, of which a manuscript copy has already been transmitted.
Since the departure of doctor Bullus, communications have taken place between Mr. Canning and ourselves, with which it is proper that you should be made acquainted.
On the 15th instant, we received from Mr. Canning a note requesting a conference on the following Saturday, (the 17th,) accompanied by a note of which a copy is inclosed explanatory of the purpose for which a conference was desired. Our reply was merely that we should wait on him at the time proposed. Mr. Canning opened this conference by observing that, before he stated the view which his government had taken of the subject to which his note alluded, he had to request, if we saw no objection to it, an explanation of that part of our official note of the 24th of July, which speaking of the written declaration of the British commissioners of the 31st of December last, suggests an opinion that the occasion which produced it "does not now appear to exist as then supposed." He then read the concluding paragraphs of the declaration, and observed that it was with a view to the reservation contained in them, that his inquiry, which we might be assured had the most friendly motive, was made. We replied, by stating with exactness the real foundation of the opinion in question which, as we seemed to wish it, we promised to repeat in a note to be sent to him without delay. A copy of the note afterwards delivered to him in pursuance of this engagement, being among the enclosures, we beg leave to refer to it for the substance of what was stated by us upon this point in conversation.
Mr. Canning closed this interview by saying, that he feared it would be necessary to postpone what he had rather to communicate, until another opportunity, and requested us to meet him again on Monday the 19th. Supposing that he was not in town on Sunday, and that nothing would be gained by sending in our promised note, before the time appointed by our adjourned conference, we took the note with us, and delivered it ourselves, on Monday. Mr. Canning appeared to be satisfied with the explanation, to which we thought it our duty strictly to confine ourselves; but he did not seem to be prepared to proceed with the conference, and intimated that he would be glad to meet us again, for that purpose on the Thursday or Friday following, and would give us notice which of these days would be most convenient.
A proclamation, relative to the searching of the national and merchant vessels of neutral powers for British seamen, having appeared in the London Gazette, on the 17th, with which the newspapers already forwarded, and now sent, will make you acquainted, we thought this a suitable occasion, of which it was incumbent on us to take advantage, for leading to an explanation of that proceeding. We began by expressing a hope that this paper was not intended to shut the door against negotiation and concession, on the subject of impressment, on board the merchant vessels of the United States, upon which Mr. Canning already knew the opinion and feeling of our government. Mr. Canning replied, that the proclamation was not intended to have that effect, that it was simply a statement of the principles and practice, upon the points to which it relates, which the British government understood to be warranted by public law, and long established usage, that such a statement did not exclude the idea of amicable discussion and adjustment with a power which favored a different doctrine, and sought for the introduction of a different practice; that as it did no more than declare with truth and precision the past and actual state of their rules upon these interesting points, no more was done by it to shut the door of negotiation and arrangement with the United States, than would have been done without it by the mere operation of the rules themselves, of which it was declaratory; that while in this view it could have no inconvenient effect, it was manifestly useful and imperiously required in another; that it was indispensably necessary for the information of their naval commanders, especially upon distant stations, who after what had lately happened, would, without some such guide, be at a loss to know how to regulate their conduct, and would thus be exposed to the perpetual hazard either of falling short of their duty or of exceeding it, in matters of the highest moment, that it was so far from being meant to wear an unfriendly appearance, or to increase the difficulties in the way of a good understanding with our country, that it was believed by his majesty's government to exhibit their disposition to conciliation in a way not to be mistaken, and to facilitate the establishment of such an understanding, that the proclamation had been prepared nearly three months ago, but had not been published until it was ascertained that the subject of it could not be affected by any negotiation of which the result could soon be known; that the effect of Mr. Rose's mission, whatever might be hoped, could not appear for some months, and that in the mean time it seemed to be proper, that without changing the state of things to the prejudice of either party, their duty on subjects of such delicacy and importance, upon which so much had occurred to produce misconception and irritation; that it was impossible to consider in connection his (Mr. Canning's) first note to Mr. Monroe, upon the receipt of intelligence of the affair of the Leopard and Chesapeake; the promptitude with which the king's government had disavowed an intention of asserting a claim to search national ships for deserters; the explicit prohibition of such a practice in the proclamation, at a time when it was very generally maintained by the press, and notoriously countenanced by public opinion, as lawful, expedient and essential; and the mission which was about to proceed to the United States; without being persuaded that, in the transaction in question, the views of government were of the most friendly character.
These explanations were followed by others of a less satisfactory description. He said in the progress of the conversation, that he ought not to leave us under the impression, that there was any prospect that the government of Great-Britain could recede from its declared pretensions relative to searching on the high seas, the merchant ships of neutral nations for British seamen; that the present state of the world, and the nature and mode of that hostility which France was now waging against this country; of which the great instrument was avowed to be the systematic exclusion of the trade, productions, and manufactures of Great-Britain and her colonies from their usual market, rendered it to the last degree hazardous, if not absolutely impracticable to stipulate for the abandonment of a practice to which the navy and the people of England attached so much importance, even although the government should itself be persuaded that it might be done with safety.
We endeavored to impress upon Mr. Canning, the unfortunate influence which such views and sentiments could not fail to have upon any negotiation which might be attempted, in whatever form, between the two countries; but although his manner was as conciliatory as it could be, he did not allow us to believe, that these sentiments would be relinquished or consequently that Mr. Rose would have powers upon the general topic of impressment.
We have not since heard from Mr. Canning, but we are every moment in expectation of an appointment for another interview.
We deem it to be so important, that you should be in possession of the foregoing details, before the government of the United States takes its course, relative to Mr. Rose's mission, that we have determined to send this dispatch by Mr. Rose himself, who is so good as to offer to take charge of our letters. As he sails immediately, in a frigate, now at Portsmouth, the presumption is, that he will arrive before Mr. Monroe who will sail in a few days in the Augustus for Norfolk.
We shall add in a postscript, any thing that shall occur, before Mr. Rose leaves town. We have the honor to be,
With the highest respect & consideration, Sir, Your most obedient humble servants, (Signed) JAMES MONROE, WM. PINKNEY.
P. S. Mr. Canning's note (erroneously dated on the 17th, instead of the 15th instant,) of which a copy is enclosed, states the existence of a mutual understanding between him and us, "by which, on the receipt of the first accounts of the unfortunate encounter between the Leopard and the Chesapeake, we agreed to confine our official discussions to that single subject, until it should be finally adjusted." It may not be improper to mention, although the fact is of no real importance, that this statement is inaccurate. Upon the receipt of intelligence, that the proposed treaty of December last, was not likely to be accepted by our government, there was an understanding (as heretofore explained to you) that it might be necessary to suspend our proceedings, until the arrival of more precise information upon that point, and perhaps until the arrival of our instructions. Mr. Canning confounds that epoch, with the more recent one to which he alludes. His conduct in forbearing to press our negotiation after the affair of the Chesapeake was known, was undoubtedly such as we approved and desired; but it did not arise out of any agreement with us.
P. S. October 24, we received yesterday evening, a note from Mr. Canning, dated the 22d, transmitting the answer of this government to our note of the 24th July. Copies of these are enclosed. (Signed) JAMES MONROE, WM. PINKNEY.
Mr. Canning to Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney. FOREIGN OFFICE, Oct. 17, 1807. GENTLEMEN,
The mutual understanding by which, on the receipt of the first accounts of the unfortunate encounter between the Leopard and Chesapeake, we agreed to confine our official discussions to that single subject, until it should be finally adjusted, has alone prevented me from returning long ago an official answer to your note of the 24th of July.
The nature of Mr. Monroe's instructions has unfortunately precluded that settlement which his majesty's government so anxiously desired, of the question respecting the Chesapeake by negotiation between that gentleman and myself. But that question being now in a train of separate adjustment, by the appointment of a minister on the part of his majesty to proceed to America for that special purpose, and the return of Mr. Monroe to America making it necessary that you should be apprized of the sentiments of his majesty's government as to the state in which the treaty signed by you and his majesty's commissioners, on the 31st of December last, is left by the refusal of the President of the United States to ratify that instrument, I have to request a conference with you for that purpose, previous to Mr. Monroe's departure.
I have the honor to be, With the highest consideration, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) GEORGE CANNING.
Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney to Mr. Canning. LONDON, Oct. 18, 1807. SIR,
In our interview of yesterday, you requested that we would explain the ground of opinion which is expressed in our letter to you of July 24, that the occasion which induced the British commissioners to present to us the note of the 31st of December preceding had ceased to exist. We hasten to comply with that request, as we shall do to give an explanation of any other passage in that letter which you may desire. We were of opinion at the time when the British commissioners presented to us that paper, that the decree of the government of France to which it related, ought not to be considered applicable to the U. States, because such a construction was plainly repugnant to the treaty subsisting between the U. States and France, and likewise because the decree might be understood to relate only to France and the dominions subject to her arms. We alluded, however, in our letter of July 24, to circumstances which had occurred since the date of the decree as fixing unequivocally an interpretation of it which we at first supposed to be reasonable.
Great anxiety having been excited by a different construction which many believed the decree to be susceptible of, the minister of the U. States at Paris requested of the minister of Marine, who was charged with its execution, any explanation of the sense in which it was understood by his government, who assured him that it was not intended that it should in any degree interfere with the provisions of the treaty of 1800, between the U. States and France.
We relied also upon the fact, not only that no countenance had been given by any practice or judicial decision, in France, to a different construction, but that the practice was in precise conformity with the view above suggested, and that in a cause, in which the question had been formally brought into discussion, the court had sanctioned the conclusion, that the treaty between the two nations was to be exactly fulfilled, and that the decree was to be so construed as not to infringe it.
We think it proper to confine ourselves to the explanation which you have desired of the passage alluded to in our former letter, and not to enter in this communication, in any other respect, on the subject of the paper with which it is connected.
We have the honor to be, With the highest consideration, Sir, Your most obedient servants, (Signed) JAMES MONROE, WM. PINKNEY.
Mr. Canning to Messrs. Monroe & Pinkney FOREIGN OFFICE, October 22, 1807. Gentlemen,
The considerations which have hitherto suspended our communication on the subject of the treaty, returned from America, having ceased, by the termination of the discussion between Mr. Monroe and myself, respecting the encounter between the Leopard and the Chesapeake; I have now the honor to transmit to you the answer which I have been commanded by his majesty to return to your note of the 24th of July.
I have the honor to be, With high consideration, Gentlemen, Your most obedient humble servant, (Signed) GEORGE CANNING. Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, } Cc. Cc. Cc.
The undersigned, his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, in returning an answer to the official note with which Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney have accompanied their communication of the copy of the treaty, which has been sent back unratified from America, is commanded in the first place, to inform the American commissioners, that his majesty cannot profess himself to be satisfied that the American government has taken any such effectual steps with regard to the decree of France, by which the whole of his majesty's dominions are declared in a state of blockade, as to do away the ground of that reservation which was contained in the note delivered by his majesty's commissioners at the time of the signature of the treaty; but that, reserving to himself the right of taking, in consequence of that decree, and of the omission of any effectual interposition on the part of neutral nations to obtain its revocation, such a measure of retaliation as his majesty might judge expedient, it was nevertheless the desire and determination of his majesty, if the treaty had been sanctioned by the ratification of the President of the United States, to have ratified it on his majesty's part; and to have given the fullest extent to all its stipulations.
Some of the considerations upon which the refusal of the President of the United States to ratify the treaty is founded, are such as can be matter of discussion only between the American government and its commissioners; since it is not for his majesty to inquire whether, in the conduct of this negotiation, the commissioners of the U. States have failed to conform themselves, in any respect, to the instructions of their government.
In order to determine the course which his majesty has to pursue in the present stage of the transaction, it is sufficient that the treaty was considered by those who signed it as a complete and perfect instrument. No engagements were entered into on the part of his majesty as connected with the treaty, except such as appear upon the face of it. Whatever encouragement may have been given by his majesty's commissioners to the hope expressed by the commissioners of the United States, that discussions might thereafter be entertained, with respect to the impressment of British seamen from merchant vessels, must be understood to have had in view the renewal of such discussions, not as forming any part of the treaty then signed, (as the American commissioners appear to have been instructed to assume) but separately, and at some subsequent period more favorable to their successful termination.
But the alterations proposed by the president of the United States in the body of the treaty, thus formally concluded, appear to require more particular observation.
The undersigned is commanded distinctly to protest against a practice, altogether unusual in the political transactions of states, by which the American government assumes to itself the privilege of revising & altering agreements concluded and signed on its behalf, by its agents duly authorized for that purpose, of retaining so much of those agreements as may be favorable to its own views, and of rejecting such stipulations, or such parts of stipulations, as are conceived to be not sufficiently beneficial to America.
If the American government has a right to exercise such a revision, an equal right cannot be denied to others, and it is obvious that the adoption of such a practice by both parties to a treaty, would tend to render negotiation indefinite, and settlement hopeless; or rather, to supersede altogether the practice of negotiation through authorised commissioners, and to make every article of a compact, between state and state, the subject of repeated reference, and of endless discussion. The alteration of particular articles in a treaty, after the whole has been carefully adjusted and arranged, must necessarily
re-open the whole to renewed deliberation. The demands of one party are not to be considered as absolute, nor the concessions of the other as unconditional.
What may have been given on the one hand in consideration of advantage to be derived, in return, from accompanying stipulations, might have been refused, if those stipulations had been less favorable, and must necessarily be withdrawn, if they are changed.
It cannot be admitted that any government should hold those with whom it treats, to all that has been granted by them in its favor, relaxing at the same time, on its part, the reciprocal conditions for which its own faith has been engaged, or that, after having obtained by negotiation, a knowledge of the utmost extent of concession to which the other contracting party is prepared to consent in the conclusions of a treaty, it should require yet farther concession, without equivalent, as the price of its ratification.
The undersigned is therefore commanded to apprise the American commissioners, that although his majesty will be at all times ready to listen to any suggestions for arranging, in an amicable and advantageous manner, the respective interests of the two countries; the proposal of the president of the United States for proceeding to negotiate anew, upon the basis of a treaty already solemnly concluded and signed, is a proposal wholly inadmissible. And his majesty has therefore no option under the present circumstances of this transaction, but to acquiesce in the refusal of the president of the United States to ratify the treaty signed on the 31st of December, 1806.
The undersigned requests Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney to accept the assurances of his high consideration.
(Signed) GEORGE CANNING. (PART III. CONCLUDED)
PART IV.
LETTER
From Mr. Monroe to Mr. Madison. RICHMOND, February 28, 1808.
SIR, It appears by your letter of May 20th, 1807, which was forwarded by Mr. Purvance to Mr. Pinkney and myself, at London, and received on the 16th July, that you had construed several articles of the treaty, which we had signed with the British commissioners, on the 31st of December, 1806, in a different sense from that in which they were conceived by us. As the course we were instructed to pursue, by your letter of February 3d, with regard to that treaty, which was confirmed in that of May 20th, was in no degree dependent on our construction of any of its articles, or on the political considerations which induced us to sign it, we deemed it unnecessary to enter into any explanation in reply, either of our construction of its articles, or of the political considerations alluded to. We thought it more consistent with our duty to look solely to the object of our instructions, and to exert our utmost efforts to accomplish it; and we acted in conformity to that sentiment. The result of those efforts was made known, by the documents which I had the honor to present to you, when I was lately at Washington, being copies of a joint dispatch which Mr. Pinkney and I had forwarded by Mr. Rose. We had flattered ourselves, that it might have been practicable to obtain the amendments of the treaty which the president desired, as the state of affairs in Europe had become more favorable to such a result; but in that we were disappointed. We found no difficulty in accomplishing the other object, of setting it aside, as we were instructed to do, in case the proposed amendments were not acceded to.
At this time there is no objection to such an explanation, that I am aware of, and there are many reasons why it should be given. You will be sensible that, so far as an unfavorable estimate is entertained of that transaction, it must, in the degree, tend to injure those who gave it the sanction of their names—and you will be equally sensible, that if the United States are in any degree interested in it, at this time, it must consist in its being viewed in a just, rather than an unfavorable light. In retiring from the station which I have lately held, this is the last act of public and private duty, which I have to perform, in relation to it. It is to me, in many views, a painful duty, but still it is one which it is highly incumbent on me to execute.
It is far from being my desire to compromise Mr. Pinkney, in this letter, in the slightest circumstance. In the management of the business which was entrusted to us jointly, we acted with the greatest harmony, and exerted our best efforts to accomplish the object of our instructions. I am not aware, that in speaking of any part of the treaty, I shall give it a construction in which he would not concur; but that presumption is founded altogether on what took place between us in the course of the negotiation. To this communication he is not a party, nor indeed does he know that such a one will be made. In every view, therefore, it is improper, and would be unjust, that he should be considered as having any concern in it.
The impressment of seamen from our merchant vessels is a topic which claims a primary attention, from the order which it holds in your letter, but more especially from some important considerations that are connected with it. The idea entertained by the public is, that the rights of the United States were abandoned by the American commissioners in the late negotiation, and that their seamen were left by tacit acquiescence, if not by formal renunciation, to depend, for their safety, on the mercy of the British cruisers. I have, on the contrary, always believed, & still do believe, that the ground on which that interest was placed by the paper of the British commissioners of November 8, 1806, and the explanations which accompanied it, was both honorable and advantageous to the United States; that it contained a concession on their part in favor of Great-Britain, on the great principle in contestation, never before made by a formal and obligatory act of the government, which was highly favorable to their interest; and that it also imposed on her the obligation to conform her practice under it, till a more complete arrangement should be concluded, to the just claims of the
United States. To place this transaction in its true light, and to do justice to the conduct of the American commissioners, it will be necessary to enter at some length into the subject.
The British paper states, that the king was not prepared to disclaim or derogate from a right on which the security of the British navy might essentially depend, especially in a conjuncture when he was engaged in wars which enforced the necessity of the most vigilant attention to the preservation and supply of his naval force; that he had directed his commissioners to give to the commissioners of the U. States the most positive assurances that instructions had been given, and should be repeated and enforced, to observe the greatest caution in the impressing of British seamen, to preserve the citizens of the United States from molestation or injury, and that immediate & prompt redress should be afforded on any representation of injury sustained by them. It then proposes to postpone the article relative to impressment on account of the difficulties which were experienced in arranging any article on that subject, and to proceed to conclude a treaty on the other points that were embraced by the negotiation. As a motive to such postponement, and the condition of it, it assures us that the British commissioners were instructed still to entertain the discussion of any plan which could be devised to secure the interests of both states without injury to the rights of either.
By this paper it is evident that the rights of the United States were expressly to be reserved, and not abandoned, as has been most erroneously supposed; that the negotiation on the subject of impressment was to be postponed for a limited time, and for a special object only, and to be revived as soon as that object was accomplished; and in the interim that the practice of impressment was to correspond essentially with the views and interests of the United States. It is, indeed, evident, from a correct view of the contents of that paper, that Great-Britain refused to disclaim or derogate from what she called her right, as it also is, that as her refusal was made applicable to a crisis of extraordinary peril, it authorised the reasonable expectation, if not the just claim, that even in that accommodation desired, would be hereafter yielded.
In our letter to you of November 11, which accompanied the paper under consideration, and in that of January 3, which was forwarded with the treaty, these sentiments were fully confirmed. In that of November 11, we communicated one important fact, which left no doubt of the sense in which it was intended by the British commissioners, that that paper should be construed by us. In calling your attention to the passage which treats of impressment, in reference to the practice which should be observed in future, we remarked that the terms "high seas" were not mentioned in it, and added that we knew that the omission had been intentional. It was impossible that those terms could have been omitted intentionally with our knowledge, for any purpose other than to admit a construction that it was intended that impressions should be confined to the land. I do not mean to imply that it was understood between the British commissioners and us, that Great-Britain should abandon the practice of impressment on the high seas altogether. I mean, however, distinctly to state that it was understood that the practice heretofore pursued by her should be abandoned, and that no impressment should be made on the high seas under the obligation of that paper, except in cases of an extraordinary nature, to which no general prohibition against it could be construed fairly to extend. The cases to which I allude were described in our letter of November 11. They suppose, a British ship of war and a merchant vessel of the U. States, lying in the Tagus or some other port, the desertion of some of the sailors from the ship of war to the merchant vessel, and the sailing of the latter with such deserters on board, they being British subjects. It was admitted that no general prohibition against impressment could be construed to sanction such cases of injustice and fraud; and to such cases it was understood that the practice should in future be confined.
It is a just claim on our part, that the explanations which were given of that paper by the British commissioners when they presented it to us, and afterwards while the negotiation was depending, which we communicated to you in due order of time, should be taken into view, in a fair estimate of our conduct in that transaction. As the arrangement which they proposed was of an informal nature, resting on an understanding between the parties in a certain degree confidential, it could not otherwise than happen that such explanations would be given us in the course of the business, of the views of their government in regard to it. And if an arrangement by informal understanding is admissible in any case between nations, it was our duty to receive those explanations, to give them the weight to which they were justly entitled, and to communicate them to you, with our impression of the extent of the obligation, which they imposed. It is in that mode only that what is called an informal understanding between nations can be entered into. It presumes a want of precision in the written documents connected with it, which is supplied by mutual explanations and confidence. Reduce the transaction to form and it becomes a treaty. That an informal understanding was an admissible mode of arranging this interest with Great-Britain is made sufficiently evident by your letter of February 2d, 1807, in reply to ours of Nov. 11, of the preceding year.
Without relying, however, on the explanations that were given by the British commissioners of the import of that paper, or of the course which their government intended to pursue under it, it is fair to remark on the paper itself, that as by it the rights of the parties were reserved, and the negotiation might be continued on this particular topic after a treaty should be formed on the others, Great-Britain was bound not to trespass on those rights while that negotiation was depending; and in case she did not trespass on them, in any the slightest degree, the United States would be justified in breaking the negotiation, and appealing to

“Bonneville had arrived at Copenhagen, but it is said that about four thousand French troops had got over to Zealand, and that more were daily crossing the Belts.”
REPORT OF THE F. MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, RELATIVE TO PORTUGAL. DATED October 21.
“Published in the Paris Moniteur , Jan. 24.”
“There is no sovereign in Europe who does not acknowledge, that if his territory, his jurisdiction should be violated to the detriment of your majesty, he would be responsible for it. If a French ship were seized in the port of Trieste or Lisbon, the government of Portugal and the sovereign to whom Trieste belongs, would have to consider that violence and damage done to your majesty's subjects as a personal outrage: they could not hesitate to compel England, by force, to respect their territory and their ports; if they adopt a contrary conduct, if they became accomplices of the wrong done by England to your subjects, they would place themselves in a state of war with your majesty.”
“When the Portuguese government suffered its ships to be visited by English ships, its independence was violated by its own consent, by the outrage done to its flag, as it would have been, had England violated its territory and its ports.”
“The enemy ought to be placed in a state of interdiction, in the midst of the seas to which he pretends to reserve to himself the empire. In this position, all powers could and ought to expect from each other a mutual support.”
“And at what moment did Portugal betray the cause of the continent? Ought England to expect still to have an ally, when, exercising her violence on every sea, she menaced the new world as well as the old, attacked, without any motive of aggression, the flag of the Americans, and dyed their own shores with their blood; when, scandalously famous by the disasters of Copenhagen, which she surprised in the midst of peace, she sought in the pillage of her arsenals, for softe sad bloody spoils?”
“But the scandal of this understanding between the Portuguese government and England may be traced to other times.—When England meditated, in 1806, the re-kindling in Europe that war which your majesty has so gloriously terminated, she sent a fleet to Lisbon; the ministers had conferences—time has developed the object and the result.”
“Have not the English squadron sent to the River Plate, touched at Janeiro? Did not the troops sent to Buenos Ayres & Monte Video receive provisions from the Brazils? These distant succours may have escaped the attention of Europe; but she saw Portugal receive and victual in her ports the English ships destined to blockade Cadiz, to attack Constantinople and Egypt; those which were to land troops in Naples to stir up revolt—these which were to introduce English merchandise upon the coast of the Mediterranean; though Portugal knew that all the ports in the south were shut against them.”
“A French consul, whom Portugal had acknowledged and admitted to the exercise of his functions in the port of Faro, has been taken by the intendant of the customs, sent to prison, taken out only to be exiled, & the Portuguese government refused for three months to repair the outrage.”
“Professions of neutrality ill concealed this hostile conduct. The court of Lisbon should have explained itself without shuffling. Your majesty proposed it to accede to the system of the continent, and had it done so, you would have forgotten every thing.”
“Far from deferring to your majesty's proposal, the Portuguese government had no other solicitude than that of informing the court of London, of tranquilizing England relative to her interests, of guaranteeing the safety of the English, and their property in Portugal. It had neither protected the French nor their commerce; the persons and trade of their enemies have continued free and favored. Portugal promises to join the cause of the continent, even to declare war against England; but she wished to make war, if I may use the expression, in concert with her, to furnish her, under the appearance of hostility, with the means of continuing her trade with Portugal, and through Portugal with the rest of Europe; a kind of ware equivalent to a perfidious neutrality. Succours were demanded of England, and to gain time, attempts were made to deceive your majesty by vain declarations; scruples were alleged upon some of the consequences of the war, when none were entertained upon the war itself, which breaks all ties.”
“In vain did your majesty, deigning to condescend to these pretended scruples, modify your first demand; the same refusals were renewed—Portugal made promises, but delayed the execution under different pretexes. At one time it was the prince of Beira, a child of twelve years old, who was to be sent to the Brazils to defend that colony; at another time it was a fleet expected from the Mediterranean which it is wished to have in safety in the Tagus.”
“Thus Portugal embarrassed in her artifices, making with the court of London engagements real and useful to the English, with France vague and pretended engagements, waited for succours and advice from England, sought to delay the measures of the Cabinet, and humiliating herself before both, blindly committed to the chance of events the interests, perhaps the existence of a nation, which unanimously desired her not give them up to a power so fatal to all its allies.”
“The epoch which your majesty had fixed for the expected determination, which you had consented to prolong for a month, arrived. Portugal decided her own fate. She broke off her last connections with the continent, by reducing the French and Spanish Legations to the necessity of quitting Lisbon.”
“Portugal has placed herself in a state of war with France, notwithstanding the benevolent disposition of your majesty towards her: War with Portugal is a painful but necessary duty. The interests of the continent, from whence the English ought to be excluded, forces your majesty to declare it. Longer delay would place Lisbon in the hands of the English.”
From letters received in New York.
A letter from Rotterdam, dated March 8th, says, “ships coming bona fide from America are admitted, even after having touched at a British port. Markets very high.”
Another letter, dated March 22d, says, “the embargo is not yet raised, and it appears that the Emperor has determined to detain all American vessels until the United States shall have declared for one or other of the contending powers. Six of the first
merchants at Antwerp have been seized and sent to the Temple for having held a communication with England. Similar measures have been adopted at Ghent. We hear this day that there has been an insurrection of the farmers in Prussia, headed by some Prussian officers, against the French soldiers quartered there. The particulars have not yet reached us.”
The Forester sloop arrived yesterday at Yarmouth, with an account of two Dutch frigates having sailed from Goree, and of two French frigates having arrived there on the 19th from Flushing.
It appears from accounts laid before Parliament, that the real value of all imports into Great Britain for the last three years was, for 1805, 53,582,146 l. for 1806, 56,621,707 l. and for 1807, 55,500,990 l. That the real value of exports, for the same three years was; for 1805, 51,102,109 l. for 1806, 55,028,881 l. and 1807, 50,432,661 l. That the total real value of all imports from America was, for the year 1805, 4,076,892 l. for 1806, 4,360,742 l. and for 1807, 6,531,410 l. and that the real value of exports from Great Britain to America for the said three years was, for 1805, 11,446,093 l. for 1806, 12,865,551 l. and for 1807, 12,097,943 l.
FROM LEGHORN.
The ship Augusta, Captain Chever, arrived at Salem on the seventh inst. in 40 days from Leghorn—a gentleman who came passenger in her, informs that they had no accounts of the French and Spanish fleets having arrived at Porto Ferrajo—nor was there any account of them; it had been reported that a large fleet had passed Sicily; where bound, unknown.—Off Cape de Gar, fell in with Capt. Felt, who sailed in co. with him, and informed that he fell in with a British squadron off Majorca, who were watching a small French fleet, at Port Mahon, & had captured 4 store ships bound to supply them.
WEST-INDIES.
TRINIDAD, April 1.
Distressing Fire! —Between ten and eleven o'clock, on the night of the 24th ult. the inhabitants were suddenly awoken by the drums beating, and bells ringing the alarm. Fire was soon found to be the cause, and the house of doctor Shaw, in Frederick street, one of the narrowest, most populous, and built altogether of timber, the focus from whence the conflagration issued, threatening by its impetuosity, devastation all around.
The fire from the inflammable and combustible materials in Dr. Shaw's shop in which were stored quantities of nitre, sulphur, ether and other rarified spirits, and essential oils soon raged with inconceivable violence and diverging from that focus in every direction, the whole of that street, together with Henry street on the east, Chace street on the west, and King and Queen streets on the north and south, were soon enveloped in the devouring element; and to those who had time to reflect afforded the melancholy presage of the total destruction of the town. The terror which took possession of the unfortunate tenants and proprietors of this neighbourhood is not to be described, or can fancy paint a scene of such astonishment & dismay.
They were roused from their sleep to behold the very flames bursting into their chamber windows, and had but sufficient time to abandon all and save their lives—The screams of the women and children running distractedly through the streets in search of a place of safety—the neighing or rather squealing of the horses and mules many of which were burnt to death in their stables; and the loud and frequent reports of butts of spirituous liquors and of gun powder, as the fire reached them, altogether formed an assemblage of horror as awful as it was terrific. Of lives we have not heard of any being lost, except a negro of Mr. Sander, the vendue master, whose house was contiguous to the spot where the fire originated, and a grenadier of the 57th who generously devoted himself to save the life of a child, succeeded in the attempt, but was so scorched as since to have died of his sufferings.
When day broke, and the clouds of smoke which lay on the ground and could not ascend from its own density, and cleared away by the morning breeze, a view of desolation presented itself to us not to be described—a large and populous town which, but a few hours before, bore the second rank in our windward island possessions, had vanished and nothing remained but stacks of chimneys and walls in ruins; not an atom of anything inflammable escaped, and in many places bottles and glass ware, and even potential were found to have been in a state of fusion.
On taking an account of the extent of the damages with the plan of the town in hand, we find that 12 squares or blocks, have been entirely consumed, and 9 partially, making an ensemble of 456 principal houses or stores, with the fronts to the streets, besides back stores and out offices, which may be estimated at four times that number at least, and the whole at a moderate calculation, worth 3,500,000 dollars, the lodging or property of about 4500 persons who are now in the streets, and numbers of them totally destitute—of the value of merchandise, produce and effects destroyed, we can at present form no idea; government has called for the account of every person's loss upon oath, it will, however, exceed we think, half a million sterling.
Of the public buildings not one has been saved; the government house, the custom-house, the hospital, the protestant church, the goal, the town hall, and a part of the public archives and the treasurer's office, all have fallen a sacrifice to the flames; most fortunately the commissaries stores & king's provisions were by great exertion saved, and to this source of life, many now owe in great measure their subsistence. It having pleased his excellency to proclaim martial law, and with his usual goodness & humanity, to order rations to be issued to the militia as in times of actual warfare, and all the tents which could be spared in the garrisons, have been pitched in Brunswick square, to lodge the unfortunate sufferers who have neither house nor home, and they are numerous.
On the part of government, every measure that could contribute to alleviate the public misery has been taken, with a precision and promptitude which does his excellency infinite honor. Expresses have been sent to the neighboring colonies, to the Spanish Main, and to the United States, for supplies.
ANTIGUA, April 16.
The London and Cork fleets have arrived at Barbadoes. Of the former five were captured by two French frigates, four of which were burnt,
and the fifth has been recaptured and arrived at Barbadoes.
The ship Sir Samuel Auchmle, from Surinam to London, was taken the middle of last month, the day after she sailed, and carried to Guadalupe. Produce is so abundant at Guadalupe, and the conveyance of it to other countries difficult & hazardous, that it is no uncommon sight to see large quantities of sugar, in hogheads, lying on the beaches without any person to watch or take care of them; so low is the estimate, under existing circumstances, of this valuable article.
Last Evening's Mail.
NEW-YORK, May 14.
At a late hour last evening the ship Alleghany, captain Morris, arrived at this port in the remarkably short passage of 52 days from Greenock. The Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has received by her Glasgow papers to the 8th ult. containing London news of the 5th, from which the following articles (which appear on a cursory perusal to be the most interesting) are copied.
LONDON, April 4.
Captain Duncan, who for some time has had a command in the Portuguese naval service, had the good fortune, about the end of February, to escape on board the Russian squadron in the Tagus; from whence he further succeeded in getting on board a vessel of our blockading fleet, and is now arrived in England. This officer remained on board the Russian squadron till the 13th ult.; he of course had ample means of ascertaining the state of opinion, and disposition, of the Russian officers there. Capt. Duncan states, that they are anxious to leave that uncomfortable station, could they do it with safety.
The Russians had suffered greatly from the want of necessaries of all kinds. Junot had forbidden any supplies being sent to them; nor had they been enabled, for some time, to procure from the stores of Portugal an ounce of fresh provisions of any kind. In the mean while, the inhabitants of Lisbon were reduced to the necessity of making bread of pease, beans, and all the inferior sorts of grain, which, when mixed together, were scarcely eatable; and even of this kind the supply was scanty.
Several councils had been held on board the Russian squadron, to consider of the measures to be pursued at such an emergency. At one time, it was proposed that the Russian fleet should put to sea, consisting of nine sail of the line and a frigate, and risk an engagement with the British; but, on reflecting that every one of their ships were damaged in their masts, the plan was abandoned as impracticable. Besides this, the crews for want of proper nourishment, were in a very icky state.
The plan that had met the sense of the majority, as the less evil of the two, was that of laying up their ships in the Tagus, and of marching their crews over land to St. Petersburg. This project had not been carried into execution on the departure of captain Duncan; but he is of opinion that it must soon take place from necessity.
It was a prevailing notion among the crews that the withholding of relief from the Russians was a measure of policy on the part of the French, in order to induce them to abandon their ships and proceed to St. Petersburg—but when the real scarcity in Lisbon became apparent, they began to judge more favorably of the conduct of Junot. When the Russian squadron first arrived, Junot showed great attention to the officers, and invited them to dine with him on shore; but these civilities ceased after a time. It is said that offence was given by the Russian officers omitting to toast Bonaparte, after General Junot had drank the health of the Emperor.
Some accounts have been received from the French coast, which speak of a fresh assemblage of troops on the heights of Boulogne. The huts which form the encampment in that neighborhood, appear to have been newly painted as they were last spring, and their number considerably increased within the last month—the flotilla in the harbour, however, remains in statu quo.
During the late unfortunate campaign in Germany, the number of Prussian prisoners who were sent to France, amounted to little short of 100,000. By the treaty of Tilsit, it was stipulated that they should be immediately restored; but various pretexts were urged for not executing the article, until nearly the whole of these people were induced or enforced into the service of France.
April 5.
No farther accounts have been received of the reported victory in the Mediterranean; and the rumours that have been circulated on that subject are sinking into discredit. Had any real accounts been received, the names of the parties, the mode of communication, every circumstance, would have transpired before this time—by no possibility could they have been concealed; but on the contrary, every thing like authority that has yet been quoted has vanished, when attempted to be ascertained.—As we have repeatedly observed—from the known situation of affairs in the Mediterranean, it is more than probable that an action has taken place in that quarter before this time. On this probability, we doubt not, the rumour has been fabricated, for its rests on no authority.
Star.
Price of stocks, this day at 1 o'clock: consols—64 3/4, 5 per cent 96 7-8.
GLASGOW, April 4.
Mr. Nourse, and Lieut. Lewis in the Osege, from America, are arrived at L'Orient. This information is brought to-day by a letter from Guernsey, dated 29th March, in these words:—“The American government has sent two persons to treat with France and Great Britain. The Phoenix privateer, of this place, spoke to them going into L'Orient; and brought Philadelphia Papers of the 26th ult. which mention the circumstance.”
“It is also said, in other letters from Guernsey, that by American papers received there they have been informed, that the Prince Regent of Portugal had arrived at the Brazils.”
We have been politely favored with the following extract of a letter, received in Glasgow this morning.
LONDON, April 1, 1808.
“A letter is said to have been received by a merchant in this place, from his brother, an officer under Sir R. Strachan, and, if genuine, confirms the following facts.”
“That Sir R. Strachan, with eight sail attacked the Rochefort and Carthagena squadrons consisting of 12 sail of the line in Palmas Bay, Majorca; that he took or destroyed nine sail, at the expense of his own life, two captains and 1800 killed and wounded. One of our ships blew up, and one was sunk by the batteries.”
April 8.
No intelligence of any kind has been received from the Mediterranean since the
publication of our last paper; and so far from having in our power to confirm the reports we then gave, we are sorry to state, that considerable doubts and even disbelief, has been thrown on all the accounts, which we then considered as conclusive, of an engagement and victory at Majorca. Under the London head we have laid before our readers the opinions and reasonings of the leading news papers there: after a careful examination of the subject, we can find no evidence of any action having taken place further than what is founded on the information of the sailors from Flushing; although from the known situation of the fleets, we are sanguine in our hopes of speedily communicating intelligence, from an official authority, of some brilliant achievement.
LATEST FROM SPAIN.
Captain Lovett, who arrived at this port last night in 36 days from St. Lucar, informs that the Prince of Peace was beheaded on the 5th of April: and that the Prince Ferdinand was proclaimed King on the 7th.—Bonaparte was momentarily expected at Madrid with 50,000 troops. St. Lucar was blockaded by 8 or 10 sail of the line. Provisions were very high; flour 15 dollars, and rising.
A vessel we understand, will be dispatched from this port by Government about the 24th inst. for Rio Janeiro and St. Salvador; and that HENRY HILL, Esq. of this City, (lately consul at Havana) is appointed to proceed thither in the above vessel as agent of the government.
N. Y. L'Oracle.
The President of the United States left the city of Washington on Friday last, on a visit to Monticello. The President returns by the 8th of June; Mr. Madison has also gone to Virginia to return at the same period; the secretary at war and secretary of the navy remain at Washington; and the secretary of the treasury will remain for some time.—Aurora.
In Rhode-Island, Governor Fenner, a republican, is re-elected, and we believe the complexion of the legislature continues republican.
ENQUIRER OFFICE, MAY 19, 1808.
We were favored last evening with the perusal of several London prints, principally the “Courier,” just received at N. York by the Alleghany.
Among them is the Courier of April 6th a London date one day later than those received at New York.
There is no news of importance. The papers are filled with speculations and rumours of a victory in the Mediterranean, Palma bay in the island of Majorca—by Sir Sidney Smith or Sir Richard Strachan, over the combined fleets of France and Spain. The government is said to have replied to all the enquiries on this subject: “that an action with the enemy's squadrons was highly probable, from their relative situations, but that no certain intelligence of the fact had been received.”
[This account, however, seems to be contradicted by late arrivals in this country:—See the accounts in our last, stating that admiral Collingwood had sailed from Palermo with 18 sail of the line, to blockade this combined fleet in Porto Ferrajo, near Leghorn—and also an account in this paper under the head of Leghorn, contradicting this one.]
Extracts from the LONDON COURIER, April 6th.
LONDON, April 6. We are still without any dispatches from the Mediterranean, or any arrival, from France or Holland. As the Osege is hourly expected with Mr. Nourse, the American Messenger, some decisive intelligence with respect to the different squadrons in the Mediterranean may be brought by her. She was, as our readers know, to land a Messenger at L'Orient with dispatches for Mr. Armstrong at Paris, and then proceed to this country with Mr. Nourse. She was seen going into L'Orient by the Phenix of Guernsey.
The East India fleet, whose arrival we announced yesterday, left our India possessions in complete tranquillity. An expedition had sailed from Madras on the 11th of October, under Sir Edward Pellew, supposed to be destined against Manila, one of the Philippine Islands. The detachment consisted of four men of war, and the Worcester and the Lord Duncan Indianmen, used as transports for conveying troops and stores. There were on board six companies of European regiments (the 32d or 33d).
The expedition directed its course towards the East, and it was known that the ships were to call at Penang, for an European Regiment. Unfortunately, soon as they set sail, the vessels encountered a gale of wind, by which they were separated. The Lord Duncan was compelled to return to Saugor Roads. The home bound fleet passed the Walpole between the Reefs; she had lost her mizen, and appeared to have been roughly handled in a gale: upon inquiry, it was found General Hewett, the new Commander in Chief, was on board, enjoying excellent health.
The Channel Fleet has come into Torbay.
PLYMOUTH, April 4. —The Mail Coach this morning came in dressed in laurels, on account of the victory said to have been gained by our fleet under the gallant Rear Admiral Sir R. Strachan, K. B. in Palma Bay, Majorca, over the combined squadrons of France and Spain; but the joy for this glorious victory, was greatly damped by the news brought with it of the death of our native Primouth hero, the gallant Strachan, who it is said, fell in the moment of victory.
There can be little doubt, that a majority of Republicans is elected to the Legislature of New-York. That this majority is less than it was during the last session, can scarcely be disputed, though we have no correct data for ascertaining the causes of this revolution in the counties where Federalism has triumphed. Yet it may possibly be ascribed to some of these causes:
In some of these counties, an idle competition has existed between two or more republican candidates; thus giving a majority to the federal candidate, according to the old maxim “united we stand, divided we fall.” It is believed, that this remark applies to one or two of the congressional districts.—Experience will cure this defect.
It cannot be concealed that the Embargo too, has been productive of some influence—but this is not so much to be ascribed to its injuring the interests of the people as to the misrepresentations of its causes, which have been imposed upon the minds of the people; as its being dictated by French influence and causes equally ridiculous. This imposition was circulated through the federal prints, & in the letters of Pickering, Hillhouse, &c. before a refutation by the public documents could be employed.—This cause is but of transient existence; as it cannot survive the light of public factation
diffusing itself over the public mind, nor a knowledge of the daily and ultimate benefits resulting from the Embargo. A 3d. cause is, that not only the federal prints, but the once leading democratic paper of New-York increased the delusion. The Editor of the American Citizen , who is now bewailing the revolution in New-York, and declaring that this state has disgraced herself, was the very man to denounce the President and Congress for acting under the secret influence of France .
In this paper, we have completed the III. PART of the Public Documents—and commenced the IVth PART, containing Mr. Monroe's vindictive letter.—We have gone through that portion of it, which relates to the impressment of seamen.—In our next, we shall finish the letter, which will then complete the whole of the Public Documents.
We are authorised to state, that “James G. Laidley and James H. Neal, decline serving on the Monroe committee for the county of Wood.”
We are informed through the same medium, that Col. Hugh Phelps declines serving on the Madison committee for the same county.
A company is about to be established in Petersburg, with a capital of 50,000 dollars, for the “Carding and Spinning of Cotton and Wool, Fulling, Weaving of cotton Shirts, Cambricks, Dimities, Ginghams, Nankeens, Kerseymers, Velvets, Velveteens, Patent Cords, Burrys, Grandurells, Tickings, Hosieries, and all other articles of Cotton and Wool.—And also the manufacture of Iron Ware, such as Nails, Hoes, Spades, Scythes, &c. &c. or such of the said enumerated articles and manufactures as the society shall, from time to time, find to be the most productive, and as the calls for consumption may demand.”—[The Prospectus shall be published in the Enquirer as soon as possible.]
THE GREENLAND HUNTER.
BY MR. AMPELLETT.
Cold are the breezes on Greenland's coast, Where breakers of ice meet the billow; But Love is the Greenland Hunter's host, His pole-star, his pilot, his plow.
Joyous he welcomes the solar ray, Dancing the twilight all away. When the sun o'er his hazy horizon rides, In his radiant course thus surrounding; In his fur-clad sledge thro' the valleys he slides; Where the Bear and the Beaver are bounding: Here jovial he sports of a Greenland day, Hunting the six months' Sun away!
Pale is the light of the polar star, From the chase that directs him so weary, When the sun in the ocean sinks his car, And consigns him to darkness so dreary— Then how sweet in the arms of his love to lay, Slumbering the six months' night away!
THOSE GENTLEMEN who have borrowed FILES of the ENQUIRER, BOOKS, or PAMPHLETS at this Office, will please return them as soon as possible.
SALES AT AUCTION.
ON Thursday the 19th instant, will commence at the Vendue Office of the subscribers, the sale of the following assortment of GOODS, positively without reserve, amounting at cost to not less than 6,000 dollars:
30 pieces Striped Blankets, containing about 500 Blankets; 5 Rose do. containing about 80 pair, 5 Point do. do. 80 do. Rental Cottons, Kerseys, Plains, Coatings, Cloths, Cassimeres, Princes Cord, Manchester, Baizes, Flannels, Half Thick, Molekin Waistcoating, Florentine, Swansdown, Cambric, Dimity, Marcellines, Cotton Shirting, Chambray Muslin, Madras Handkerchiefs, Tamboured, B & K and Jacquet Muslins, Bombazets and Callamacoos, Linen Handkerchiefs, Fancy Velvets, Ratinnett, Dowlas, Brown Holland and Rolls, Men's fine and Coarse Hats.
A very general assortment of HARDWARE, and a variety of other articles which are too tedious to enumerate.
Terms of Sale—5 months credit for all sums amounting to 50 dollars and upwards, under 50 dollars, cash—for credit purchases approved endorsed Notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia, will be required. The sale will commence at 9 o'clock and be continued until 7 P. M. if not sooner closed.
PROSSER & MONCURE, Auc'rs. May 19. (11)
SALES AT AUCTION.
ON Wednesday the first day of June next, at the late dwelling house of Marcus Elcan, dec'd. will be sold, positively without reserve, his Stock of LEATHER, &c. Consisting of—30,000lb. Seal Leather, different qualities, A quantity of bridle and harness Leathers, A quantity of horse, hog, & lambkins, dressed, 75 sacks Salt, Coffee and Sugar, An excellent saddle Horse, Saddle & Bridle, One negro Man and two Women, A large parcel of Ropes, Rigging, &c. And two years lease (commencing the 1st inst) of that valuable TAX-YARD belonging to the estate of Mr. Boekius, lately in the occupancy of Mr. Elcan.
Also—All his HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, &c. in excellent preservation, consisting of—Mahogany Tables, Wardrobe & Bedsteads, Chairs, Beds, Mattresses, An elegant set of Cut-Glass Ware, A handsome new Brussels Carpet, Patent Glass Lamps, And a number of useful or ornamental Articles. At the same time will be hired until Christmas next two valuable NEGRO men, one of whom can be particularly recommended for his attention and activity.
Terms, (except for sales of furniture, &c.)—Cash for all purchases under 50 $—above 50 $ and under 100 $ 90 days credit—above 100 $ and under 300 $, six months credit, and above 300 $, twelve months credit.—Approved endorsed notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia will be indiscriminately required of the purchasers. For sales of furniture 6 months credit will be given on all sums above 50 $, for approved notes as above mentioned—under 50 $ cash.
By order of the Executors JAMES BROWN, Jr. Auc'rs. May 19. (ods)
STOLEN from the stable of John Marshall, Esq. Richmond, on Monday night, 16th instant, a Chestnut Sorrel HORSE, between six and eight years old, having a star in his forehead, and several spots on his back produced by saddle scuds, a mane hanging (near the shoulders) on the wrong side—He is nicked and his tail long, no shoes behind and those before of long standing—The Horse is lengthy and about 13 hands high, trots and canters well. Whoever returns the horse or gives information where he may be obtained, shall receive any compensation within the limits of reason. May 19. (1avtf)
THE subscriber is compelled by an urgent occasion to visit the western country immediately, during his absence he has confided his professional business to the management of his friends Samuel Taylor and Richard B. Goods, Esq.—Suits will be commenced and carried on by either of these gentlemen until his return. PETER F. SMITH. Manchester, May 19. (law2w)

LAW OF THE UNITED STATES. AN ACT
In addition to the act, entitled "An act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States," and the several acts supplementary thereto, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That during the continuance of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, no vessel of any description whatever, and whatever bound, whose employment is confined to the navigation of bays, sounds, rivers, and lakes, within the jurisdiction of the United States, (packets, ferry-boats, and vessels, exempted from the obligation of giving any bond whatever, only excepted,) shall be allowed to depart from any district of the United States, without having previously obtained a clearance, nor until the master or commander shall have delivered to the collector or surveyor of the port of departure, a manifest of the whole cargo on board, including articles of domestic growth or manufacture, as well as foreign merchandise.—And it shall also be the duty of the owners, agents or master of every such vessel, to produce within two months thereafter, to the collector of the district from which the vessel departed, a certificate of the landing of the whole of such cargo, in a port of the United States within the bay, sound, river or lake, to which the navigation of such vessel is confined, signed by the collector or surveyor of the port where the cargo shall have been landed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, and of the several acts supplementary thereto, no ship or vessel of any description whatever, other than those described in the next preceding section, and wherever bound, shall receive a clearance, unless the lading shall be made hereafter, under the inspection of the proper revenue officers, subject to the same restrictions, regulations, penalties and forfeitures, as are provided by law for the inspection of goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, upon which duties are imposed, any law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided , That nothing herein contained shall be construed to effect vessels laden in whole or in part on the receipt of this act by the respective collectors. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any vessel described in the first section, shall depart from any district of the United States without a clearance, or before the manifest of the cargo shall have been delivered to the collector or surveyor, in the manner therein prohibited, or if a certificate of the landing of the cargo shall not be produced within the time and in the manner therein provided, such vessel and cargo shall be forfeited, and the owner or owners, consignee, agent, factors, freighters, master, or skipper of such vessel, shall respectively forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars: Provided always , That nothing herein contained shall be construed to bar or prevent the recovery of the penalty on the bond given for such vessel. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, and of the several acts supplementary thereto, it shall be the duty of the master or person having charge or command of any vessel, flat or boat, intended to enter that part of the river Mississippi which lies between the southern boundary of the Mississippi Territory and the river Iberville, if going down the said river, to stop at Fort Adams, and if going up the river, to stop at Iberville, and at each place, as the case may be, to deliver to an inspector of the revenue, to be stationed there for that purpose, a manifest of the whole cargo on board, and also to produce to the same officer, within two months thereafter, if going up the river, a certificate of the landing of the same in some part of the district of Mississippi, and within the jurisdiction of the United States, which certificate shall be signed by the collector or one of the surveyors of the district of Mississippi, or if the cargo shall be landed more than thirty miles from the place of residence of any such officer, by a state or territorial judge, having jurisdiction at the place of such landing. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any vessel, flat or boat, shall enter that part of the river Mississippi, as prescribed in the next preceding section, without stopping and delivering a manifest in the manner therein provided, or if a certificate of the landing of the cargo, shall not be produced within the time and in the manner therein provided, such vessel, flat or boat, and cargo, shall be forfeited, and the owner or owners, consignee, agent, factors, freighters, master or skipper, of such vessel, flat, or boat, shall respectively forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding five thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That no ship or vessel, having any cargo whatever on board, shall, during the continuance of the act laying an embargo on all the ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, be allowed to depart from any other port or district of the United States, adjacent to the territories, colonies, or provinces of a foreign nation; nor shall any clearance be furnished to any ship or vessel bound as aforesaid, without special permission of the president of the United States. And if any ship or vessel, contrary to the provision of this act, proceed to any port or district adjacent to the territories, colonies, or provinces of a foreign nation, such ship or vessel with her cargo, shall be wholly forfeited; and if the same shall not be seized, the owner, owners, agents, factors and freighters of such ship or vessel, shall for every such offence, forfeit and pay double the value of such ship and cargo, and the master and commander of such ship or vessel, as well as all other persons, who shall knowingly be concerned in such prohibited voyage, shall each respectively forfeit and pay, not exceeding three thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred dollars, for every such offence, whether the vessel be seized or not. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the commanders of the public armed vessels and gun boats of the United States shall, as well as the commanders or masters of the revenue cutters and revenue boats, be authorised, and they are hereby authorised to stop and examine any vessel, flat, or boat, belonging to any citizen of the United States, either on the high seas, or within the jurisdiction of the U. S. or any foreign vessel within the jurisdiction of the U. S. which there may be reason to suspect to be engaged in any traffic or commerce, or in the transportation of merchandise of either domestic or foreign growth or manufacture, contrary to the provisions of this act, or of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States, or of any of the acts supplementary thereto, and if upon examination it shall appear that such vessel, flat, or boat, is thus engaged, it shall be the duty of the commander to seize every such vessel, flat, or boat, and to send the same, to the nearest port of the United States, for trial. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the comptroller of the treasury be, and he hereby is authorised to remit the duties accruing on the importation of goods of domestic produce, or which being of foreign produce, had been exported without receiving a drawback, which may have been or may be re-imported in vessels owned by citizens of the United States and which having sailed subsequent to the first day of October last, and prior to the twenty second day of December last, may be or have been stopped on the high seas by foreign armed vessels, and by reason thereof, have returned, or may hereafter return into the United States. And the said comptroller is likewise authorised to direct the exportation bonds given for foreign merchandise exported with privilege of drawback, in such vessel, and re-imported in the same manner aforesaid, to be cancelled, the duties on such re-importation being previously paid and on such other conditions and restrictions as may be necessary for the security of the revenue. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That during the continuance of the act laying an embargo on all ships & vessels in the ports & harbors of the U. States, no foreign ship or vessel shall go from one port in the United States to another; and should any foreign ship or vessel, contrary to this section, go from one port of the United States to another, the vessel with her cargo, shall be wholly forfeited, and the owner, or owners, agents, factors, freighters, and master of such ship or vessel, shall forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding three thousand dollars, nor less than one thousand dollars. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That no vessel, flat, or boat comprehended in this act, shall be obliged to pay more than twenty cents for each clearance. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the collectors of the customs be and they are hereby respectively authorised to detain any vessel ostensibly bound with a cargo to some other port of the United States, whenever in their opinion, the intention is to violate or evade any of the provisions of the acts laying an embargo, until the decision of the President of the United States be had thereupon. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That if any unusual deposits of provisions, lumber, or any other articles of domestic growth or manufactures shall have been or shall be made in any ports of the United States, adjacent to the territories, colonies, or provinces of a foreign nation, the collector of the district shall be and he hereby is authorised to take the same in his custody and not to permit such articles to be removed until bond with sufficient sureties shall have been given for the landing or delivery of the same in some port or place of the United States. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That any ship or vessel, owned by a citizen or citizens of the United States, loaded or in part loaded with the produce of the United States, before the act laying an embargo was passed, and by said act detained in any port of the United States may be permitted to proceed to any other port of the United States, and there to remain with such cargo on board, subject to such other restrictions and bonds as are prescribed in the act laying an embargo, and the several supplementary acts thereto. Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That all penalties and forfeitures incurred by force of this act, may be mitigated and remitted in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to provide for mitigating and remitting the forfeitures, penalties & disabilities accruing in certain cases therein mentioned," & all penalties & forfeitures, which may be recovered in pursuance of this act, in consequence of any seizure made by the commander of any public armed vessel of the United States, shall be distributed according to the rules prescribed by the act, entitled "An act for the government of the navy of the United States," and all other penalties and forfeitures arising under this act, shall be distributed in the manner prescribed by the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That nothing in the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States or in the several acts supplementary thereto, or in the act to prohibit the importation of certain goods, wares and merchandise, shall be construed to prevent the exportation by land, or inland navigation, from the territories of the United States, into those of Great-Britain, and by them purchased from the Indians, or to prevent the importation by land or inland navigation, from the territories of Great-Britain, into those of the United States, of merchandise the property of British subjects and by them imported solely for the use of the Indians aforesaid. J. B. VARNUM, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate, pro tempore. APPROVED, April 25, 1808. TH: JEFFERSON.
ENGLISH GOODS.—APPLETON & Co. By the John Adams, St Johns, from Liverpool, 16, Caleb-Street , have received their regular supply of GOODS calculated for the present and approaching season. Cambric and Common Calicoes, Plain and striped Dimities, Printed Marseilles Vesting, White Jeans, Furniture Chintz, Do. Dimities, London Superfine Broad Cloths, Do. do. Cassimeres, Yorkshire fine Cloths and Cassimeres, Patent Nankeens, Cords, Grandurells, Cotton Cassimeres, 6-4 and 4-4 Cambric Muslins, Japan, Haricot and Check do. Plain and Figured Mull do. Leno, Victory, Riddle, &c. do. Colored do. do. 4-4 Plain Book do. Gingham, Silk do. Sattins, Persians and Saranets, Bonnet Silks, Silk Gloves, Silk Handkerchiefs, Fancy Shawls, Cotton Umbrellas, Do. Brace. Do. Laces and Footings, Do. Quiltings, English Kid Gloves, Cotton Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Fringe and Bed Lace, Cotton and Linen Checks, Buttons, Birmingham Ware, &c. &c. In store, a few dozen gentlemen's best Beaver Hats, from Marseilles. These Goods will be sold low for cash, or undoubted paper at 60 days. Baltimore, April 19. (10n)
TUITION OF YOUNG LADIES.—Mrs. BARBOUR , who has lately become a resident of Richmond, proposes on the 1st of May to open a School for the tuition of Young Ladies, in the house lately occupied by Mr. Warden; in a very healthy and agreeable part of this City. She will teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic & the English Grammar—Her price for these will be eight dollars per quarter, payable in advance. Likewise the Elements of Natural Philosophy, Natural History, History of Nations, Geography and Belles Lettres, at $12 and fifty cents per quarter, and in advance. Young Ladies will also be boarded—the price for tuition, boarding and washing will be one hundred and sixty dollars a year, payable quarterly and in advance. Mrs. Barbour will zealously and ardently devote her whole attention to her School, and if she meets with sufficient encouragement, her plan will be enlarged, and proper persons will be employed to teach music, drawing, the French language, and other branches of polite and useful education. Those who may be dissatisfied with the progress of their children, will be at liberty to withdraw them at any time. Richmond, April 19. (Law6w)
RICHMOND TILE MANUFACTORY.— The subscriber having procured the exclusive right to manufacture in this and several other states Harwood's much improved Patent Tile for covering houses, and at considerable expense erected the necessary buildings, &c. for carrying on that useful business extensively, now offers to supply, at a short notice, any quantity that may be required, at the moderate price of thirty-five dollars per thousand, delivered at his Factory. He can with confidence, founded on actual experiment, in the covering of about 20 houses in this city, assert, that houses can be covered with this tile as cheap in the first instance, as with shingles of the first quality, and when the security against fire, the difference of insurance, the durability and particular construction of those tile to resist the most penetrating rains and snows are considered, he cannot doubt of meeting with considerable encouragement. It requires only the examination of a well covered roof to convince the most prejudiced mind of their superiority to any other tile heretofore made, or to the best of slate, and will cost less than the latter, after paying the expense of water carriage to almost any part of this continent. Particular attention will be paid to orders from other towns, and in all cases where they are shipped, he will deliver them whole and sound, along side the vessels, at the expense of cartage only to the purchasers. Any person skilled in the art of tiling, will put on those tile with great facility, but where they cannot be procured, he can engage a few here who have had some experience, and will go a moderate distance, if the job is of sufficient magnitude and their travelling expenses paid. BENJAMIN DUVAL. Richmond, March 22. [ep2w&law6f] N. B. I wish to sell Patent Rights in several other States. B. D.
NOTICE.— persons All having claims against the estate of Cunningham Burton, dec'd. are requested to produce them at the next June Hastings Court for the City of Richmond, properly authenticated, as the court will then proceed to make distributions amongst the creditors. JOHN F. PRICE, Curator. Richmond, April 22. [law12dM.inj]
ENGLISH GOODS.—APPLETON & Co. By the John Adams, St Johns, from Liverpool, 16, Caleb-Street , have received their regular supply of GOODS calculated for the present and approaching season. Cambric and Common Calicoes, Plain and striped Dimities, Printed Marseilles Vesting, White Jeans, Furniture Chintz, Do. Dimities, London Superfine Broad Cloths, Do. do. Cassimeres, Yorkshire fine Cloths and Cassimeres, Patent Nankeens, Cords, Grandurells, Cotton Cassimeres, 6-4 and 4-4 Cambric Muslins, Japan, Haricot and Check do. Plain and Figured Mull do. Leno, Victory, Riddle, &c. do. Colored do. do. 4-4 Plain Book do. Gingham, Silk do. Sattins, Persians and Saranets, Bonnet Silks, Silk Gloves, Silk Handkerchiefs, Fancy Shawls, Cotton Umbrellas, Do. Brace. Do. Laces and Footings, Do. Quiltings, English Kid Gloves, Cotton Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Fringe and Bed Lace, Cotton and Linen Checks, Buttons, Birmingham Ware, &c. &c. In store, a few dozen gentlemen's best Beaver Hats, from Marseilles. These Goods will be sold low for cash, or undoubted paper at 60 days. Baltimore, April 19. (10n)
RAN—AWAY from the subscriber on the 16th day of November last, a Mulatto woman named ALICE—said negro was purchased by me on the 14th day of the above month, being sold under execution—she belonged to the estate of Edward P. Chamberlayne, dec'd. Said negro is about five feet high, supposed to be nearly forty years of age, she is in some measure grey, though looks young and likely. She formerly belonged to William Bailey of New-Kent county, where she has some children. I incise to think she is in the city of Norfolk, Petersburg, or Richmond, where she may attempt to pass for a free woman. When this woman ran off, she was well furnished with clothing of good quality. I will give ten dollars reward to any person who will have said negro confined in any public jail so that I get her again. WILLIAM NEWMAN. King William, May 6. [law3w4]
TRUST DEED.— By virtue of a deed of trust executed to William F. Carter and Shelton Crosthwait, by Alexander B. Rose, to secure the payment of a debt due to Murphy Brown & Co. as therein expressed, will be offered for sale, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Amherst court-house, on Saturday the 4th day of June next, all the Tract of LAND lying in the county of Amherst, on Tye River and Hat Creek, whereon the said Alexander B. Rose now resides, supposed to contain two thousand five hundred and thirty acres, adjoining the Lands of Thomas Massie, David S. Garland, Thomas Fitzhugh, Henry Rose and Philip Ryan. The subscribers being trustees for the benefit of others, they will only warrant the title of the above mentioned land as to themselves and those claiming under them. WILLIAM F. CARTER, SHELTON CROSTHWAIT, } Trustees. May 10. (3w)
THE TAPPAHANNOCK RACES will commence on Wednesday the 25th of May, 1808. 1st DAY.—The Jockey Club Purse of four hundred dollars, four mile heats. 2d DAY.—The Jockey Club Purse of three hundred dollars, three mile heats. 3d DAY.—A Sweepstakes for three years old Colts and Fillies, two mile heats, fifty dollars entrance; the subscription will remain open until the 25th May. *Weights as follows:—Aged horses 130lbs. 6 years old 120lbs. 5 do. 110lbs. 4 do. 100lbs. 3 do. 86lbs. under three years, a feather. Mares and Geldings allowed 3lbs. In consequence of the following resolution of the Club, there is no doubt the members will be punctilious in paying their subscription, as the money on each day will be placed in the hands of the Judges. Resolved, That the Secretary shall have the Rules of the Club printed and furnish each member with a copy, and that a list of the members shall be handed to the Club on the first day of each race, to be read in the dining room, stating who has and who has not paid their subscription. ARTHUR S. BROCKENBROUGH, Secretary and Treasurer. N. B. The entrance money in the Sweepstakes is reduced in consequence of sundry applications to the Secretary. March 25. [ep25thM]
JUST PUBLISHED, and for sale at S. Grantland's Printing Office, opposite Dr. Duval's Medicine Store, MILITARY TACTICS, or THE SOLDIER'S COMPANION.—Teaching how to form companies—with directions for the formation and exercise of a battalion and regiment, and the various forms of reports, &c. Likewise, evolutions for the Cavalry and Artillery, with explanations and improvements upon Baron Steuben.—By SAMUEL J. WINSTON, Brigade Inspector for the second Brigade. Subscribers will receive their Books at the Printing Office of Seaton Grantland, where they are requested to call or send for them. May 3. (3w)
FOR SALE, 124,000 acres of LAND in Kenawha county, in the forks of Great Sandy river: 24,000 do. in Tazewell county, on the waters of Clinch river: 20,000 do. in the county of Wythe, on Reed and Peak creeks: 1,000 do. in Randolph county, on the waters of Cheat river: Also, 30,000 acres of Virginia Land Warrants. The above will be sold very low, and great accommodation given in the payments. To RENT, a Brick House, on Shockoe-Hill, in a good neighborhood, and possessing every accommodation for a family. THOS: NORVELL. Dec. 19. tf
THE HEALING SPRINGS , situated in the lower end of Louisa County and but thirty-one miles from Richmond, will be in readiness on the 1st of June next for the accommodation of boarders. The medicinal virtues of those waters have been proved in a great variety of instances; they derive their name from the power they possess of healing most kinds of eruptions, and it is believed, that in bilious cases they have never failed to afford relief. There are several small houses detached from the main building, intended for single families who may apply in time, and the terms for board will be six dollars a-week. Healing Springs, Louisa, May 3. (1fJu.)
FOR SALE—30 ton Country and Swedes Iron assorted, 2 ton Nail Rods, a few Nails, Northern Whiskey, and a few Bales prime Cotton. Likewise, just receiving 27,000 weight of choice Bacon, among which are 750 hams—All of which we will dispose of on reasonable terms, for cash or a short credit. RUSSELL & WALLACE, Left corner of street leading to Byrd's Warehouse. April 22. [ep1m9]
NOTICE.— persons All having claims against the estate of Cunningham Burton, dec'd. are requested to produce them at the next June Hastings Court for the City of Richmond, properly authenticated, as the court will then proceed to make distributions amongst the creditors. JOHN F. PRICE, Curator. Richmond, April 22. [law12dM.inj]
SIMPSON MORRIS , opposite the Eagle-Tavern, respectfully informs the public that he still continues selling off under cost and charges till the whole of the stock is sold and wishes the public not to lose this opportunity as goods are daily raising.—The stock consists of the following articles, viz: 7-8 and 4-4 Irish Linen, Kenting, Linen and Cotton Cambrics, a large assortment of India & British Muslin, corded and cambric Dimity, a large assortment of silk & cotton Hose, Ladies silk Gloves, Damask Silk, Shawls, Black twilled Saracens, Florentine silk, printed Calico, Linen & Cotton Cheque, Linen & cotton Cambric hks. white & Black French laces, whiteand colored Marseilles and Janes, India Cotton and Wildboar, Bennet's patent Cord, Cassimere, Broad Cloth, Flannels, Dressing Boxes, and a number of other articles too tedious to enumerate. April 5
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Robert and George Turner, and Ann the wife of the said George, duly recorded in the Hustings Court of Richmond; made to secure the payment of fifteen hundred dollars, to Daniel Couch, according to the terms of said deed: Will be sold by the subscribers, to the highest bidder, for ready money, before the door of the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Saturday the 4th of June next, all that Lot, Piece or Parcel of Ground, situate in the said city, on the east side of the cross-street leading from the Bell Tavern to the river, and now under lease to Russell and Wallace (subject to a ground rent of £10 per annum forever,) together with the following NEGROES: George (the Cook) Peter (the Barber) and Aggy; or so much of the said property as will be sufficient to raise the sum of seven hundred and fifty dollars, together with all costs attending the said sale. ANDW. STEVENSON, } Trustees. C. ANTHONY, } (tds) May 10.
WAR DEPARTMENT, April 13, 1808. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN. That separate proposals will be received at the Office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until 12 o'clock, at noon of Monday the 20th of June next, for the supply of all rations that may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October, 1808, inclusive, to the 1st day of June, 1810, within the states, territories and districts following, viz: First, At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chicago, and in their immediate vicinity, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the territory of Michigan. 2d, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the states of Kentucky and Tennessee. 3d, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Ohio and the Indiana and Louisiana territories, except Fort Wayne and Chicago and their immediate vicinity. 4th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Mississippi and Orleans territories. Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January 1809 inclusive, to the 1st day of June 1810, within the several states following, viz: 5th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the district of Maine, and state of New-Hampshire. 6th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Vermont. 7th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Massachusetts, the town of Springfield excepted. 8th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the states of Connecticut and Rhode-Island. 9th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of New-York, Niagara and its dependencies excepted. 10th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of New-Jersey. 11th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Pennsylvania. 12th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the states of Maryland and Delaware. 13th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Virginia. 14th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of North-Carolina. 15th, At any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of South-Carolina. 16th, At Ocmulgee Old Fields, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the limits of the state of Georgia. 17th, Proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations which may be required by the United States, for the troops which are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts; and for the armors and other persons employed in the United States' Army at that place, from the 1st day of January 1809 inclusive, to the 1st day of June 1810. A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef, or three quarters of a pound of pork, eight ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whiskey or brandy, & at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, & one pound and a half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration shall be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid, as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit and Chicago, for six months in advance; and at each of the other ports on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places or ports, to call for, at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper. It is understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed. The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies, which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued, until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed; and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the sea board, or Indian frontier, not exceeding three months. H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. May 14. [ep3w]
THE Subscriber has opened tavern in Manchester in the House lately occupied by Peter Leath, dec'd. now known by the sign of the Bell, and called the Bell-Tavern. He pledges himself to his friends and the public at large, that no attention shall be wanting to give general satisfaction.—He is constantly supplied with the best liquors, and his stable well stored with provender, good beds and handy waiters to attend those who may please to call, and in order to give complete satisfaction to his country customers, keeps a constant supply of the best fodder for stable use. His prices are (in the present difficult times) as follows, viz: Cents. For Dinner with plenty of good Toddy 50 For Lodging per night . . . . . 17 For Breakfast or Supper . . . . . 37 For keeping Horse 24 hours . . . . . 67 His spirits are sold but little higher than in stores. Great allowance will be made to those who may put up with him for a week or longer at a time both for man and horse. He would be glad to take 12 or 15 Boarders to Breakfast and Dine, at $135 per annum, and pledges himself they shall have no cause of complaint. NATHL. CHILDERS. May 17. (6d)
JOSEPH MARK & Co. have on hand an assortment of German Oznaburgs, Tickenburgs, Dowlas and Towingll, by the bale, box, or piece. Cogniac Brandy, Molasses, Sack Salt, coarse and fine, which they will sell for cash, tobacco or approved paper. May 17. (tf)
WANTED TO HIRE IMMEDIATELY. A WOMAN who understands sewing, particularly of the tailoring kind.—Enquire at this Office. May 17.
NOTICE.— All persons indebted to the Estate of Marcus Elean, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment, and creditors to present their claims without delay. C. J. MACMURDO, } Ex'ors. JOS. MARX, } (tf) Richmond, May 17, 1808.
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.— At a meeting of the directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, on Saturday evening the 7th of May, 1808. Resolved, That the shares of all delinquent stock-holders in the company be sold on Saturday the eleventh of next month, at the Bell Tavern, in the city of Richmond. A Copy. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. The stock-holders in the above Company are hereby notified that their annual meeting will be held at the Bell Tavern, in Richmond, on the first Monday in next month, which is the day fixed by the charter for their meeting. N. SHEPPARD. May 10. [11th June]
TO MR. JOHN HOPKINS—Sir.— Please to take Notice, That I shall, on the 8th day of June next, between the hours of 8 o'clock in the forenoon and 6 o'clock in the afternoon, at the Bell Tavern, in the city of Richmond, commence taking the depositions of sundry persons to be used as evidence in a suit now depending and determined, in the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond district, (and to adjourn from day to day, until the same are taken:) In which said suit, myself and others are plaintiffs and you are defendant. THOMAS BURLING. Richmond, May 6, 1808. [tf]
THE MILLING BUSINESS which has heretofore been carried on under the firm of LADD & WEBSTER, was dissolved on the first instant. THOMAS & AMOS LADD, ISAAC WEBSTER March 18. [tf]
NOTICE.— By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Joseph Pollard, jr. bearing date the 15th day of November, 1804, and recorded in the county court of Spottsylvania, for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt or debts due from the said Pollard to Edward Bullock, will be exposed to sale on the premises, for ready money, on Thursday the 16th day of June next: one moiety of the mill commonly called and known by the name of Rogers's mill, in the lower end of Spottsylvania county—together with one moiety of fifty acres of Land adjoining thereto, and the houses and other appurtenances thereon erected, together with fifteen Slaves, as named and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust, or so much of the aforesaid property as shall be sufficient fully and completely to carry the said deed of trust into effect, according to the true intent and meaning thereof. CHARLES SMITH, } Trustees. FREDERICK HARRIS, } (law5w) May 10.
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS.— The subscriber respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, in the above line of business and solicits their patronage. G. GREENHOW. Dec. 15. [law6w]
WANTED TO HIRE, a good Cook, Washer and Ironer, in a small family.—Enquire at the Office of the Enquirer. May 14. (law6f)
THE Creditors of Humphrey Dalney are hereby notified, that a second dividend will be made at the house of Ralston & Pleasants, on Monday the 6th of June next. GABL. RALSTON, } Trustees. HENRY HOVEY, } (ent6th June) Richmond, May 12.
NOTICE.— The Co-partnership of Thomas Rutherford and Co. will be dissolved on the 30th June next: All those therefore, who may have claims against the said firm, or either of the partners, are invited in the mean time to apply for payment, and they earnestly request those indebted to them to settle their respective accounts as speedily as possible. THOMAS RUTHERF. RUTHERFORD, FREDERICK ARGYLE. Richmond, May 6. (First July)
WILL BE SOLD, on the second day in June 1808, one acre of Ground which formerly belonged to Nimean Wyse who is now deceased, lying near Colonel Adams's saw mill, which acre of ground I have a part in as a legatee. I wish to sell it and let his widow have her part, and for me to get my part, to go as far as it will in paying debts that I am security for the said Nimean Wyse, Deceased. Terms, cash. J. TROWER, Administrator. May 10. [law3w]
NOTICE.— By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Robert Woodcock, the subscriber will offer for sale to the highest bidder, at Chesterfield Court-House, on Monday the eleventh day of July, 1808, the Tract of LAND whereon the said Robt. Woodcock resides, in Chesterfield county, containing two hundred and four acres of Land, more or less, and adjoining the Lands of Samuel Farmer, Ephraim Garthright, Henry Woodcock, Thomas Gregory, John Hancock, Enoch Adkins, Mark Farmer and Daniel Farmer; this sale is made to satisfy a debt of two hundred and ten pounds, with interest from the 10th day of March, 1805, due from the said Robert Woodcock to major Winfree. THOMAS GRAVES, Trustee. May 3. [law3w]
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS.— The subscriber begs leave to inform the Citizens of Richmond, and the public at large, that he has established himself in the above line. Any business entrusted to his care will be done on the most liberal terms. D. DORRINGTON Richmond, Feb. 26. [law6f]
BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THE OFFICE.