The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1807-01-24 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM... (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 83.]
RICHMOND, SATURDAY MORNING, JANUARY 24, 1807.
[VOLUME 3.]
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. PURSUANT to a decree of the Worshipful Court of Hullings for the City of Richmond...
January 17. Edmund Randolph, John Adams, Philip N. Nicholas, John Foster, esqds.
A TUTOR WANTING. A Gentleman who can teach the English Language grammatically, and can come well recommended...
JUST PUBLISHED. (AND MAY BE HAD AT SAM'L PLEASANT'S PRINTING-OFFICE & BOOK-STORE): PART I. VOL. I. OF HENNING & MUNFORD'S REPORTS.
THE subscriber, having disposed of his Apothecary establishment, requests that all persons indebted to him, will call and settle their accounts. D. WILSON. (self.)
NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Pendleton, esq. late of the City of Richmond, dec'd. are requested to exhibit them to either of the subscribers as specially as possible. GEO. PICKETT, ROBERT POLLARD, CHS. JOHNSTON, N. SHEPPARD. Administrators.
A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. I AM disposed to sell that valuable tract of LAND, whereon I at present reside, situated in the County of Amelia...
It is deemed unnecessary to give a minute detail of all the advantages of this Land, it being presumed & requested, that those disposed to purchase will first view the premises. TERMS:—One third cash and the balance in 2 equal annual installments. Possession will be given in time to sow a crop of wheat in the ensuing fall. Application to be made to the subscriber on the premises, by letter or otherwise. JAMES T. ROYALL. Amelia, Dec. 13.
BURR MILL STONES, of all sizes; and a PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS usual, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON. near the Market. [septf.]
THE LAND whereon I now reside, containing 530 acres is still for sale by private contract and immediate possession given if required. JOHN KELS. Jewf.
SELLING OFF CHEAP. M. & B. Myers, intending to decline the retail business, offer for sale, at reduced prices, the whole or any part of their present stock of DRY GOODS, consisting of a variety of useful and fashionable articles to wit:
IRISH LINENS, Flanders Sheetings, Osnaburgs, Hollans, Long-lawns, Linen and Cotton Cambricks, Superfine and second Broad Cloth, and Kerseymeres, Blankets, Coatings and Flannels, Benners and Fancy cords and Velvets, Swansdown and Molekins, Rich figured Satins, Silver-Muffs, Saracens, Italian Lutestring, Cotton and Silk Chambrays of very handsome patterns. A few excellent silk Pelisses, Gloves and Hosiery, elegant Plumes, wreaths and fancy Head Ornaments, a variety of handsome Ribbons. Table Cloths and Napkins in sets 3-4, 7-8 & 10-4 Diapers. A few sets of China in boxes of 40 pieces Sets of Cut Glass Decanters, Wine and Tumblers, glass Bowls, perfume bottles, Hall Lamps, &c. &c. Those who buy with cash, will be allowed a very liberal discount, which will be increased according to the augmentation of the amount of their purchase at any one time. On any sums of consequence, a credit if required, will be given of three to six months. The purchaser giving approved negotiable paper. For sale, also, as usual, a complete assortment of Dutch Bolting-Cloths. Dec. 11. epf.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, Having taken a House a few doors below the Bell-Tavern, offers for Sale, under the firm of WHITE & SHELTON, A GENERAL assortment of GROCERIES, which they will dispose of on very moderate terms, for Cash, Country produce, or approved paper. ISAAC WHITE, JOHN S. SHELTON. December 23. epf.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Hoomes, dec'd. of the Bowling-Green, are requested to make them known, that provision may be made for a final settlement. And those indebted must make immediate payment to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of John Hoomes, dec'd. Jan. 29, 1806.
A GREAT Bargain offered in 735 acres of LAND, lying in King & Queen county, one & a half miles from York River, and bounded by Popopontic Creek, the lands of captain William Shackelford and Zachariah Buckley. This land is level, fertile and well timbered, with tolerable good buildings and excellent water. The abundance of fish and oysters at the very spot, may also be mentioned as a great inducement to any person wishing to purchase. This Land may be had low for cash, or good bonds at short payment. For further particulars apply to John H. Smith, or to the subscriber JOHN TEMPLE. Walston, September 26.
FARMER'S HOTEL. A. BROCKENBROUGH, having purchased the houses of Dr. McConchie in this town, formerly the property of Messrs. Ritchie, is determined to convert them into a TAVERN for the accommodation of the public; he has provided himself with an excellent cook, and has made arrangements for a constant supply of the best Fish, Oysters, Wild Fowl, &c. in their respective seasons; no exertion on his part will be wanting to render the time agreeable to those gentlemen or ladies who may think proper to favor him with their company—he expects to meet with encouragement from the public adequate to his exertions. Tappahannock, January 5.
TAPPAHANNOCK JOCKEY CLUB. Tuesday the 20th January, is the day appointed for the meeting of the subscribers to the Tappahannock J. Club, to form the rules and regulations for the said club. From the present number of respectable subscribers, I have no hesitation in stating that this club will be equal to any in the State. Gentlemen that wish to become members before the meeting, will please forward their names, and those gentlemen that have subscription papers will be so good as to send on the names of those that have subscribed since they have had a paper. ARTHUR S. BROCKENBROUGH, Proprietor of the course. January 6.
A SIZE OF BREAD for the city of Richmond, from the 6th inst. until further orders (Superfine Flour being 7 Dollars and 54 Cents per Barrel) viz. A single loaf made of Superfine Flour to weigh 23 ozs. for 4 1-2 Ditto of Common Flour 24 4 1-2 Double the above wt. respectively 9 EDW. CARRINGTON, Mayor. January 6.
FOR SALE, A VALUABLE Lot of GROUND in Buckingham county, containing sixty two acres lying on James River and adjoining the town of Dugdaleville. The Land is rich and has one of the most valuable Mill sites on it, of any in the upper country. Also a new and excellent manufacturing Mill in the county of Campbell about six miles below Lynchburg and in good condition for manufacturing Flour, &c. This property is rendered more valuable inasmuch as it is situated in the heart of a very rich country, & to those who wish to turn their attention to the manufacturing of Flour, &c. it is an object worthy their consideration. For further particulars reference may be made to Col. Wm. J. Lewis of Campbell, (who will show & negotiate for the above property,) or the subscriber JAS. C. ANTHONY. taw2w & oaw3w. January 3.
THE FARMER'S VIRGINIA ALMANACK, for the Year 1807, printed by Thomas Ritchie, is now for sale, by the gross, dozen or single, at the ENQUIRER Book-Store. Also—A General Assortment of Lawyers' and Sheriffs' BLANKS, just printed.
FOR SALE, THE LOT and HOUSES whereon John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul, resides: on it are a three story Dwelling-House, an Office and Kitchen, and other necessary Houses for family use; a Well of good Water, newly fitted, and a Garden lately pailed in, a Ware-House and Cellar under it; the remains of a Wharf, which will make a good foundation to build on; with all the privileges of lots situated on the river, of extending a wharf. Also—27 1/2 Acres of well-timbered LAND, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Mason's Creek, where the best of Oysters and Fish can be conveniently taken. Also—A LOT in Smithfield, between Mrs. Purdie's and Captain Todd's lots. For terms apply to THOMAS NEWTON. (tt.) August 22.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD, FOR apprehending a negro man named WILL STUART or STUART. He left my house three weeks ago, is 6 feet three inches high, long meagre face, red eyes, speaks rapidly and with great confidence, aged about 50 years. He may attempt to pass for a free man as formerly. The above reward will be paid on delivering him here—or ten dollars for securing him in a country goal. Nov. 14. WM. LONG. tt.
NOTICE That in virtue of a Deed in Trust, executed by Meriwether Jones, Esq. for the purpose of securing two several sums of money, therein mentioned, and which is due to Thomas Wilson of the City of Richmond, see shall on Monday the 19th day of the present month, expose to sale by public auction, to the highest bidders, for ready money, THAT beautiful seat, called Mansfield, near the city of Richmond, and on which the said Jones resided, containing five acres and twenty-nine poles or so much thereof, as may be sufficient to pay and satisfy the sum of 1230 dol. with interest thereon, from the first day of the present month, and the costs and charges of the sale. Mansfield is now in neat and complete repair, and well included. The sale will commence on the premises at 12 o'clock. BENNETT TAYLOR, BENJ. SHEPPARD, } Trustees. In consequence of the badness of the weather, the sale as above intended is postponed until Friday the 30th inst. when the same will certainly take place at the Eagle-Tavern, in the city of Richmond. B. TAYLOR, B. SHEPPARD. January 20, 1807. dtf.
TO RENT, FOR one or more years, and possession given the first of May next. A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE, in the town of Lynchburg, at present occupied by Messrs. William and James Morgan. The said house is an excellent stand for a store and capable of accommodating a genteel family; for terms apply to the subscriber living in Amherst county, near New-Glasgow. Thomas M. Cock of Lynchburg, or Mr. Daniel Warwick of Richmond. LINDSEY COLEMAN. (gn.) Jan. 20.
ON CONSIGNMENT. 74 sacks Liverpool salt. 12 hogsheads molasses. AND 20 barrels Nova-Scotia potatoes which are generally thought superior to the imported Irish potatoe—for sale by JOHN SOUTHGATE. Jan. 13th. (tt)
THE SUBSCRIBERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF LESUEUR & SAUNDERS, Inform their friends and the public that they will continue the COMMISSION business, lately done by C. & T. Saunders. They promise the strictest attention to the interests of those who may favor them with consignments. They are now receiving a general and extensive assortment of GROCERIES, which will be offered for sale, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms and usual credit, in the store lately occupied by Messrs. William McKeanie & Co. opposite the Penins Office of Messrs. Prewer & Moncure—among which are the following articles:
BROWN SUGAR of superior quality, Dittto ditto second ditto, Belt Green Coffee, Salt in Sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled Salmon, Scotch Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wine, French Muscatel Raisins & Currants, Soft Shelled Almonds, Copra, Saltpeetre, English F F Gunpowder, Parent Shot, well assorted, Hibbert's Brown Stout and Porter, Belt Spanish Segars, Caldwell, Frafer & Co's Superfine Chocolate, New-York Candles and Soap, Spermaceti Candles, Bar Iron, German, Crawley's & Blistered Steel, Antigua & Jamaica Rum, Very Old Antigua Rum, Holland Gin, Cognac Brandy, of very superior quality, Race Ginger, Pepper, Pimento, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves & Cinnamon, Fresh London Mustard, in small boxes, Belt Flotation Indigo and Fig. Blue, of superior quality, in boxes of 20 lbs. each, Fresh Capers, Oil, &c. Fresh Gunpowder, Tea in Canners, Ditto by the lb. Young Hyson do. of the first quality, N. England & Bullock's Chees. JOHN L. LESUEUR, C. H. SAUNDERS. October 10.
DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP. THE COPARTNERSHIP of C. and T. Saunders, is dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due by the concern will be adjusted and paid by Lesueur and Saunders, who are alone authorised to settle all claims due to and by the concern. C. H. SAUNDERS, TARTLON SAUNDERS. N. B. Those indebted are requested to make immediate payment as no further indulgence can be given. LESUEUR & SAUNDERS. Nov. 22.
FEMALE EDUCATION. THE Subscriber having employed a young Lady to teach reading, writing, arithmetic, English Grammar and Geography in his family, is willing to receive 10 or 12 girls as boarders. The School will be opened on the 15th of the present month. TERMS.—For board and tuition, each finding her own bedding, 100 dollars per annum, paid quarterly. The situation is healthy, and no pains shall be spared to render it pleasant and advantageous to those who may be placed at it. HUMPHREY HILL. Caroline, Mountairy, January 3. 4t
JAMES RIVER COMPANY. WILL BE RENTED, to the highest bidder, until the 31st Dec. 1809, on the premises, on Monday the 19th inst. at 12 o'clock, all that part of LOT No. 426, which is occupied by Mr. Orris Paine as a Coal Yard, lying on the margin of the Basin, and belonging to the James River Company. The rent to be paid on the 30th June and 31st December in each year. ROBERT POLLARD. January 13.
JAMES RIVER COMPANY. Proposals will be received until the 25th this month, for supplying about 30 hands with meal, in the service of the James River Company, until the 31st of December next, to be delivered at such times and in such quantities as may be required. Payments therefor will be made quarterly. ROBERT POLLARD. January 13. taw tf.
BELL TAVERN!! THE Subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has taken the house in Manchester, formerly called the Rising-Sun-Tavern, and occupied by Mrs. Leath, and having furnished himself with good Beds and the best of Liquors, Grain, &c. he flatters himself from paying particular attention, he will be able to give general satisfaction. ROBERT MCYRE. N. B. A Waggan and 4x Mules, a good Riding-Horse, and a Jack of good stock—for sale. R. M. Manchester, Dec. 2. tt.
REMOVAL. THE Subscriber have removed their COMPETING HOUSE, from the Main-Street to one of David Bullock's Brick Buildings, at the lower end of the Basin, between the Tenements occupied by C. & T. Saunders, and Norwell, Watt and Bullock—where they continue their purchases of wheat as usual. They also keep for sale a regular supply of Flour, Corn Meal, Hominy and Bran. THOMAS & AMOS LADD. 19 Mo. 3d, 18 6. epf.
EDUCATION. JAMES OGILVIE, will continue during the ensuing year, in the village of Milton, Albemarle, to prosecute with his pupils the course of Education they have commenced, and is desirous to receive ten or fifteen more, provided they can be associated with the classes, of which, at this time his school is composed. The senior class are engaged in the study of Geometry, Natural Philosophy, History and Metaphysics: The second class will devote their attention to the Latin and French Languages, Euclid's Elements, and the philosophy of Rhetoric: The junior class will continue to study the Latin Language, Geography, Arithmetic and English Grammar. Exercises in Criticism, Composition and Elocution constitute essential parts of the course of instruction he pursues. His charge for tuition will be fifty dollars per annum. Every pupil will also be expected to pay two dollars and a half to defray the expense of rent, fuel, &c. The school will be opened on the 19th day of January, 1807. December 5.
TO BE SOLD OR RENTED. A CONVENIENT Dwelling HOUSE, on the Capitol Square, adjoining the tenement of Mr. Edmund Randolph. Possession may be delivered immediately—Enquire of the printer. January 3. WANTED immediately, ten tons of clean Morristown Hay, for which a liberal price will be given in cash. ENQUIRE of MONCURE. Dec. 20. epf.
JOHN ALCOCK, INFORMS the Citizens of Richmond, and the public in general, that he has moved to the City of Richmond, where he has opened a complete assortment of Merchandise, next door to Messrs. Prewer and Moncure's Vendue Store, and opposite the Eagle; consisting partly of the following articles:— LONDON Spring, Pannell hand-Saws, Cast-steel and German do. Cast-steel Files of every description, Till Locks, brads and iron, Wood Screws of every size, 3d. 4d. & 6d. wrought Springs, 10d. & 20d. wrought Nails, 2d. & 3d. fine drawn Clouts, Saddler's Tacks of every size, Brafs Nails, Straining & Girt Webb, Plated Bridle Bits assorted, Do. Stirrup Irons do. Brafs mounted steel blade Squares, Brafs and Iron chamber door Locks of every size, Stock Locks of all sizes, Looking and Ladies dressing Glasses, Plated Moulding, Silver mounted Whips of every size, Carpenters & Joiners Tools of every description. Also, an assortment of DRY GOODS. Superfine Cloths and Callimeres, Bennet's Velvet and Patent Cord, Manchester Stuff, Fashionable Silk Hosiery, Rose and Duffel Blankets, Cardiac Linens, and a number of other articles too tedious to insert; all of which will be sold low. December 13. tf.
JOHN ALCOCK, INFORMS his friends and the public, that he still carries on his CABINET MANUFACTORY in all its branches. He has removed his Ware-Room in the front house of William ARP, Esq. and adjoining the Fire Insurance Office, where he has a large quantity of ready made work on hand, which he will sell low. He flatters himself that if any persons are in want of anything in the Cabinet line, they may be supplied. I am determined to have good warranted work done on the lowest terms. Any orders left at my Ware-Room with Mr. John Gray, my foreman, or at my store, shall be punctually attended to, and great care taken in delivering the furniture. December 13. tf.
MAY be purchased on a long credit, and low terms, the TENEMENT on which the Subscriber lives, situated on Church-hill, with about one half mile of the Richmond market—containing 2 acres of ground, well enclosed and highly improved. The buildings consist of a large and well constructed Dwelling House, Laundry, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke-House, two Stores, Brick-Office, Coach-House, Barn and Stable. All these buildings are well finished and in complete order for the accommodation of a large and genteel family; who may have easy access to all the advantages of the city, and live as retired as they could wish. JOHN ELLIS. January 6. tf.
TO RENT, For three or five years, THAT valuable TAN-YARD, of the late Mr. Jacob Beckius, and now occupied by the subscriber, situated on the Main-Street of this city, between the capitol and basin of the canal; its conveniences are superior to any other in this place. A large Currying-Shop, Cellar and drying loft, a spacious Bark-House, two Bark-Mills and Houses, a Beam House & every other requisite for the tanning of from 2 to 3000 hides a year, exclusive of skins. Also, on the same Tenement, a convenient Dwelling House, Kitchen, Smoke-House, Stable and Garden. The renter may be accommodated, with about one hundred cords of excellent Spanish and Blackock Bark, now in the Bark-house, at a fair price. Proposals for the above will be received in all this and next month; and if not disposed of, within this time, it will be offered at public auction on the premises the 15th of March next. Bond with approved security will be required and possession given on the first of April next, of the bark-house, bark mills, beam house, limes, pools, barks, handlers and part of the vats. And the dwelling-house and residue of the tenement on the first of May next. The reason assigned for offering the foregoing property for rent, is the ill state of health of the subscriber, to pay that attention the business requires. MARCUS ELCAN. Jan. 15. taw 15m.
THE SUBSCRIBER wishes to associate with himself in his professional pursuits, a gentleman well qualified to teach the Latin and French languages and Mathematics. The pecuniary compensation will be liberal, and, there are peculiar circumstances, which will render the situation singularly eligible and attractive to a person of studious habits, and at all attached to the business of education. Any application from a person possessing the qualifications previously mentioned, addressed to the subscriber in Milton, Albemarle, will be immediately attended to. JAMES OGILVIE. January 15. tf.
FOR SALE, THE HOUSE & LOT occupied by Messrs Robert Neilson & Co. opposite to Messrs. Gilhar & Kirby's. The situation of this property is equal to any in Richmond for business, and possesses every accommodation for a family Enquire of THOS. NORVELL. Jan. 15. tf.
MARSHAL'S SALES. Will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, under a decree of the court of the United States for the 5th circuit in the Virginia District, between Phineas Bond, as surety for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross, and others, defendants:— THREE valuable PLANTATIONS in the counties of Pittsylvania and Bedford, upon Staunton and Pigg rivers, stated in the deed of trust in the proceedings mentioned, to contain three thousand acres, more or less, but supposed to be considerably more extensive, comprehending all the Lands that on the 30th day of June 1765 belonged or appertained to the three plantations known by the name of the Mountain plantation, mouth of Pigg River plantation, and the Frying Pan plantation. A more particular description of which will be given on the day of sale. The sale will take place at the Eagle-Tavern in the city of Richmond, on Tuesday the 24th day of February next. Also at the Oxford Iron Works in the county of Campbell, on Tuesday the third day of March next, will be sold under the said decree, upon the same terms, a number of very valuable SLAVES. BENJ. MOSBY, D. M. for JO. SCOTT, M. V. D. Jan. 8. epf.
TO BE RENTED—The Tenement where I now reside, and possession given in time. J. PENN. April 12. tf.
Europe.
SIXTEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
The duke of Brunswick has sent his marshal of the palace to the emperor; this officer was charged with a letter, in which he recommended his states to his majesty. The emperor said to him, "If I should cause the city of Brunswick to be demolished, and if I was not to leave one stone upon another, what could your prince say? Does not the law of retaliation permit me to do at Brunswick what he wished to do in my capital? To announce the project of demolishing cities may be a folly, but to wish to destroy the honor of a brave army, and to propose to it to leave Germany by fixed stages, (journées d'étapes) on the single summons of the Prussian army, is what no power will scarcely believe. The duke of Brunswick ought never to have suffered himself to commit such an outrage; grown grey under arms he ought to have respected military honor; besides, in the plains of Champagne, this general was not able to acquire the right of treating the French standards with such contempt; such a summons can only dishonor the soldier who was capable of making it; it is not on the king of Prussia that this dishonor will rest, it is on the chief of his military council; it is on the general who, in these difficult circumstances, he gave the care of his affairs to it; it is, in short, the duke of Brunswick that France and Prussia will accuse as the cause of the war. The frenzy of which this old general gave the example, has inflamed a turbulent set of young men, and caused the king to act contrary to his own opinion and his intimate conviction." "Always, fir, say to the inhabitants of the country of Brunswick, that they will find in the French generous enemies; that I wish, as regards them, to soften the rigors of war, and that the evils occasioned by the passage of troops is contrary to my will; say to the duke of Brunswick, that he will be treated with all the regard due to a Prussian officer, but that I cannot acknowledge a sovereign in a Prussian general."
"If it should happen that the house of Brunswick loses the sovereignty of its ancestors, the cause must be looked for in the author of two wars; in one of which he wished to sap even to its foundation, the great capital; and by the other, pretended to dishonor 200,000 brave men which might be conquered, but which will never be found out of the road of honor and glory. Much blood has been shed within a few days, great disasters weigh heavily on the Prussian monarchy; how worthy of blame is this man, who in a word could have prevented them, if like Nestor, raising his voice in the midst of the council, he had said— "Inconsiderate youth, be silent; women, return to your work-bags and to the interior of your families; fire, believe the companion of the most illustrious of your predecessors, since the emperor Napoleon does not wish for war, do not place him between war and dishonor; do not engage in a dangerous struggle with an army that has honored itself with fifteen years of glorious labors, and which victory has accustomed every thing to submit to."
"In place of holding this language which agreed so well with the prudence of his age and the experience of his long career, he was the first to cry—to arms! He consumed even the ties of blood, by arming a son against his father; he threatened, to plant his standards on the palace of Stutgard, and accompanied these steps with imprecations against France; he has declared himself the author of the foolish manifesto which he had disavowed for fourteen years, though he did not dare to deny that he had fashioned it with his signature."
"It was remarked that, during this conversation, the emperor, with that warmth with which he is sometimes animated, repeated often—"to overthrow and destroy the habits of peaceable citizens, is a crime which can be repaired with time and money; but to dishonor an army by desiring it to fly out of Germany before the Prussian eagle, is a baseness, that he only who could counsel it, could commit."
"Mr. De Luche's is always at head-quarters; the emperor has refused to see him; but it is offered, that he has frequent conferences with the grand marshal of the palace, Duroc. The emperor has ordered, that a present shall be made out of the great quantity of English cloth found at Leipzig, of a complete suit for each officer, and a coat and cap for each soldier. The imperial quarters are at Kropstadt."
SEVENTEENTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
Potsdam, 25th Oct. 1806. The corps of marshal Lannes arrived at Potsdam, on the 24th. The corps of marshal Davoust made its entry at 10 o'clock in the morning into Berlin. The corps of the marshal prince of Ponte-Corvo is at Brandenburg. The corps of marshal Augereau will make its entrance into Berlin to-morrow, the 26th. The emperor arrived yesterday at Potsdam, and alighted at the palace; in the evening, he went to visit the new palace of Sans-Souci, and all the positions which environ Potsdam; he found the situation of the castle of Sans-Souci very agreeable; he remained some time in the chamber of the Great Frederick, which he found furnished in the same way it was at the time of his death.
Prince Ferdinand, brother of Frederick the Great, has remained at Berlin. We have found in the arsenal of Berlin 200 pieces of cannon, many millions of pounds of powder and an immense quantity of small arms. General Hulin is named commandant of Berlin. General Bertrand, aid-de-camp of the emperor, has repaired to Spandau; that fortress defends itself; he has made the investment with the dragons of the division of Dupont. The grand duke of Berg has repaired to Spandau, to put himself in pursuit of a column which defiles from Spandau on Station, and which they hope to cut off. Marshal De Febvre, commanding the imperial foot guards, and Marshal Bihneres commanding the imperial horse guards, arrived at Potsdam on the 25th; the foot guards made 15 leagues in a day. The emperor remained the whole of the day of the 25th at Potsdam. The corps of Marshal Ney blockades Magdeburgh.

The corps of Marshal Soult has passed the Elbe, a day's journey from Magdeburgh, and purges the enemy on Saale.
The weather continues to be superb; it is the finest autumn that has been known.
On his road, the emperor being on horse back to repair from Wittenberg to Potsdam, he was surprised by a gun and alighted at the house of the grand huntsman of Saxony; his majesty was much astonished to hear himself called by his name by a handsome woman; she was an Egyptian woman, the widow of a French officer of the army of Egypt, who had been in Saxony for three months. She resided with the grand huntsman who had received and treated her honorably; the emperor settled on her a pension of 1200 francs, and has taken charge of her son. "It is the first time" said the emperor, "that ever I alighted on account of a gun. I had a presentiment that a good action attended me there."
It is remarked as a singularity, that the emperor Napoleon arrived at Potsdam and alighted on the same day and nearly at the same hour, that the emperor of Russia did last year, when he made that journey which has been so fatal to Prussia. It was from that moment that the Queen left the care of her domestic affairs and the great occupations of the toilet to meddle in the affairs of state, to influence the king and to spread every where the flame with which she was possessed.
The considerate party of the Prussian nation consider this journey as one of the greatest misfortunes which has happened to Prussia; there can be no idea formed of the activity of the faction to make the king declare for war in spite of himself. The result of the celebrated oath made on the tomb of Frederick the Great on the 4th of November, 1805, was the battle of Auerstedt and the evacuation of Germany by the Russian army by fixed bayonets—they made 48 hours after on this subject an engraving which is found in all the shops and which excites even the countrymen to laugh. You there see the handsome emperor of Russia, near to him the queen, on the other side the king raises his hand on the tomb of the great Frederick; the queen is dressed in a shawl something like the engravings of London represent lady Hamilton; she supports her hand on her breast and with a tender air, looks at the emperor of Russia. We cannot conceive how the police of Berlin suffered the spreading of so pitiful a farce. The shade of the Great Frederick could not but be indignant at this scandalous scene; his mind, his genius and his will were with the nation to much esteem, & of which he said that if he was king, there should not be a cannon fired in Europe without his permission.
Domestic.
OYER AND TERMINER.
The People vs. Eleanor Rankin.
On Saturday come on the trial of Eleanor Rankin, a negro girl, for poisoning her mistress, Margaret Smith, the wife of William H. Smith, of this city.
It appeared by the testimony of Mr. Smith and his daughter that some ratbane had been procured by Mrs. Smith about the 20th of August last for the purpose of killing rats, and had been mixed with some meal. The prisoner was supposed afterwards to have purchased some more. It was placed in the garret where the prisoner slept. Three or four days afterwards, the coffee was so disagreeable that the family could not drink it, and it was thrown away. On the morning of the 27th they breakfasted between 8 and 9, and at 11 o'clock, Mr. Smith was taken very sick. He came home at 12 and found his wife and daughter unwell.
They were all exceedingly sick at their stomachs, and sent for Dr. Onderdonk. They were confined 10 or 12 days, when all of them were recovering. On the 14th of Sept. they were all taken sick again in the same manner, and Mrs. Smith died in about four days; Mr. Smith has not yet recovered from the effects; the daughter is well. There was no other servant in the family. All the family except the prisoner were sick both times, and the same symptoms took place in both cases.
Dr. Onderdonk and Dr. Post, were examined. They both described the effects of arsenic when taken in the stomach, and they expressed an unequivocal opinion that Mrs. Smith was killed by poisoning with arsenic.
It appeared also that the prisoner was a very subtle, perverse girl, and that in being taken to Bridewell the day before her trial, she acknowledged her guilt.
The district attorney then offered the confession of the prisoner as taken regularly by the public clerk. Mr. O'Brien proved that it was taken with great care and accuracy, and was perfectly voluntary. It contained, as was stated in court, a full and circumstantial account of the means taken by the prisoner to poison the family, and which agreed in every essential point with the facts disclosed by Mr. and Mrs. Smith. Here the counsel for the prisoner interposed and produced Abraham Curtis one of the marshals to prove, that the confession taken by the police clerk had been made in consequence of threats used by himself in bringing her to the office. Curtis swore that he had said that if she did not tell all she knew about the business, she should be put in a dark room and banged. The court adjudged that under these circumstances the written confession could not be read. The consequence was the prisoner was acquitted.
This ought to be a caution to druggists to whom they sell deadly poison, to the heads of families to be careful how they use them, and to subordinate officers not to employ threats or promises whereby the solemn examination taken by the police magistrates shall hereafter be defeated. N. Y. Gazette.
BALTIMORE, January 19.
COLONEL BURT.
Many persons have been not a little surprised at the promptitude which Mr. Burt's Dranghe have been accepted in New-York. The whole of this business is now in a fair way to be publicly known. We would not unadvisedly impeach an individual speculator, nor rashly denounce, as a swindler, any private citizen; but we owe to the honest part of the community and especially to the mercantile world, every effort which can tend to their safety. We are authorized to declare that the dranghes accepted by Mr. Burt—Ogden (drawn by Mr. Burt) will not be paid. Our informant, a respectable merchant of this city, is no small sufferer. We sincerely hope the number of his fellow sufferers, who in receiving these mock-payments for goods, forget the necessary inquiries, may be very limited. (Gazette)
NORFOLK, January 12.
On Saturday last, his Britannic Majesty's ship Leopard, of 50 guns, arrived in Hampton Roads from Bermuda. Yethered Rear Admiral Sir Richard Strachan, in the Cesar of 64 guns, accompanied by the Triumph of 74 guns, and the La Fayette frigate,
all from Halifax, anchored in the Bay, and yesterday the Melampus frigate got under way from Hampton Roads, and went down to join the admiral.
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
FRIDAY, JAN. 16.
MR. J. RANDOLPH. In the President's message, at the commencement of the session, he announced to us as follows:
"Having received information that in another part of the United States a great number of private individuals were combining together, arming and organizing themselves, contrary to law, to carry on a military expedition against the territories of Spain, I thought it necessary, by proclamation, as well as by special orders, to take measures for preventing and suppressing this enterprise, for seizing the vessels, arms, and other means provided for it, and for arresting and bringing to justice its authors and abettors."
So long, said Mr. R. as the illegal movements of these persons were supposed to be directed against a foreign nation, although the interest of the U. S. and their honor too required that prompt and decisive measures should be taken for suppressing their designs, yet I believe there is no gentleman in this House, but will agree with me in the opinion that the U. S. and this House in particular, could not feel so deep and lively an interest against a conspiracy of that kind as against one for the subversion of the union, and perhaps of the liberties of those who compose it. I have waited with anxious solicitude for some information in relation to this subject, that might be depended upon;—for some official information. I contented myself for a long time with the belief, inasmuch as no information had been given to the House, that there were imperious reasons connected with the public welfare which forbade a disclosure; but the aspect which affairs have taken on the Mississippi is such, that I can no longer reconcile it to my sense of duty, as the independent representative of an independent people, to rest satisfied in that state of supineness and apathy in which the House has been satisfied to remain for the six or seven weeks past. Sir, from the information I have been able to collect, and it is such that I am obliged to place great, if not implicit reliance on it; it does appear to me, that if the government of Spain is in any wise concerned in these measures, it is concerned not as the defendant, but as the plaintiff;—as the aggrieved party, and not as the party on whom the aggression is made. So long as I was induced to believe that by withholding correct information from the legislature, the substantial interests of the nation would be more essentially subserved, than by laying it before them, so long, though not without reluctance, I acquiesced in its being withheld. But from the hostile appearances on the Mississippi, it seems to me that the state of things is such as requires the most prompt and efficacious measures for securing the union. The bubble is said to have burst, and there no longer remains any reason why the information in the possession of the executive ought to be withheld. But to guard against all possible objection I have endeavored to frame the motion, as to do away any objection arising from this consideration. It does appear—from the newspapers it is true—but under a much higher sanction than is generally attached to information received through such a channel—it does appear in evidence under the sanction of an examination before the legislature of Kentucky, that ever since the peace of 1783, Spain has incessantly laboured to detach the western people from the union; that subsequently to the treaty of San Lorenzo she has carried on intrigues, and in the most faithless manner withheld acceding to its stipulations, in order to excite a spirit in the western country subversive of the union; and that she subsequently made a proposition of the most flagitious kind to several leading characters in Kentucky, and as I believe elsewhere. It appears, indeed, that she has never lost sight of this object; and I believe she will never lose sight of it so long as she shall find materials to work upon, or a shadow of hope that she will succeed. It appears to me that she has found those materials; that they are of the most dangerous nature; that they are now in operation; and that, perhaps, at this moment while I am addressing you, at least for a time, the fate of the western country may have been decided.
Sir, this subject offers strong arguments, in addition to the numerous reasons presented during the present session of Congress, to justify the policy avowed by certain gentlemen during the last session, so highly condemned; and if I am correctly informed, the other branch of the legislature are now acting on that policy so condemned and despised.
[Mr. Speaker said it was not in order to allude to the proceedings of the Senate.]
MR. J. RANDOLPH—I shall say no more on that point, but I will say this in relation to our own proper business. We have had a bill before us authorizing the President to accept volunteers. A member of the committee, with whom this bill originated, and with whom I had the pleasure of concurring, intimately connected and domesticated with the secretary of war, did make a proposition before that committee substantially the same with that rejected the last session—to augment the military forces to meet the pressing exigencies of the times, & which I presume must have had the sanction of that officer. Is there a man in this House, who at this day doubts, that if the government—I mean the executive and legislature—had taken a manly and decisive attitude towards Spain, and instead of pes, ink, and paper, had given men and arms—is there a man who disbelieved that not only Spain would have been overawed, but that those domestic traitors would also have been intimidated and overawed, whose plans threaten to be so dangerous? Would any man have dreamt of defending the Mississippi at the head of an unprincipled banditti, if New Orleans had been fortified, and strong fortifications erected in its neighborhood? What did we then hear? Money, dollars and cents! Is there not now every reason to believe, especially when we consider the superintendence under which the expenses are incurred, that the living of the campaign on the Sabine, and the living of the costly measures taken, by the commander in chief on his own responsibility, would have been equal to the expense of raising and maintaining for one year the additional forces proposed at the last session to be raised. There can be no doubt but that on the principle of economy, without taking into view the effect on the union, the U. S. would have been gainers. A spectator, not in the habit of reading our public prints, or of conversing with individuals out of doors, but who should draw his ideas of the situation of the country from the proceedings of this House during the present session, would be led to infer that there never existed in any nation a greater degree of peace, tranquility or union, at home or abroad, than in the U. States at this time; and yet what is the fact? That
the U. States are not only threatened with external war, but with conspiracies and treasons, the more alarming from their not being defined. And yet we sit and adjourn, adjourn and sit, take things as school boys, do as we are bid, and ask no questions. I cannot reconcile this line of conduct to my ideas of the duty of a member on this floor. Among the state authorities, there appears to be one that has acted with a promptness and decision that does it great honour. Yes, the youngest member of the federal family has been found to be the first to ward off the impending danger, while the eldest members are sleeping, snoring and dozing over their liberties at home. Under this view of the subject, I beg leave to offer the following resolution:
Resolved, That the President of the U. States be, and he hereby is requested to lay before this House any information in possession of the Executive, except such as he may deem the public welfare to require not to be disclosed, touching any illegal combination of private individuals against the peace and safety of the union, or any military expedition planned by such individuals against the territories of any power in amity with the U. States; together with the measures which the Executive has pursued and proposes to take for suppressing or defeating the same.
MR. CHANDLER said he had the honour to be a member of the committee alluded to by the gentleman from Virginia, and he believed from the propositions that were made by him he was the member referred to. He believed he had made a proposition in the committee to augment the number of the present forces by adding to each company such a number of men as would enlarge it to an hundred instead of 80. He made this proposition, because from the extension of our territory he thought it necessary, and because he thought by thus adding to the number of our troops, without increasing the officers, the public would be as well served without incurring the expense attending the creation of additional officers. He believed the proposition went farther, and authorised the President to raise a certain number of troops, provided the public good in his opinion required it. He presumed however that the secretary of war had never known that such a proposition was made or intended to be made, and much less had fancioned it by his opinion. Mr. Chandler said he barely mentioned this circumstance, to show that the secretary of war did not communicate information in this way.
(Here follows a long and interesting Debate, which we shall take the earliest opportunity to lay before our readers. The result is as follows.)
The Yeas and Nays were then taken on the first member of the resolution, which was agreed to—Yeas 109—Nays 14.
MR. J. RANDOLPH then moved to strike out of the second member of the resolution the words, "and proposes to take;" which was agreed to without a division.
When the question was taken on the second member, which was agreed to—Yeas 67—Nays 52; and Messrs. J. Randolph and Lloyd named a committee to carry the resolution to the President.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 24th JANUARY.
THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE—adjourned on Thursday.
We have excluded a considerable portion of original matter, to make room for a general view of their proceedings; a list of the private acts passed, a summary of the acts of a general nature, and a rapid view of our public institutions, and of revenue and appropriations.
The bill for the abolition of the Public Guard, is repeated till the 1st of January next.
Acts of a private nature passed at the Session 1806—7.
 1. An act granting to Alex r . Burton the duplicate of a lost certificate.  2. Making an appropriation for the payment of a public debt due to the representative of Dr. Thos. Walker, dec d .  3. Establishing several inspections of Tobacco.  4. Altering the court day of Caroline county.  5. For adding part of the county of Ruffel to the county of Tazewell.  6. To prevent obstructions to the passage of fish in the river Staunton.  7. Concerning James Johnson.  8. Concerning the Glebe land of Martin's Brandon Parish.  9. Concerning William Britton and William G. Payne.  10. Concerning Wm. Farris.  11. For removing the district court from the Sweet Springs, in the county of Munroe, to Lewisburg in the county of Greenbrier.  12. For the appointment of other trustees of Abingdon academy, and for other purposes.  13. For opening a road from Point Pleasant in the county of Mason, to Clarkburg in the county of Harrison.  14. Concerning the election of members of the court of Husting and Common Hall of Fredericksburg.  15. Altering the court days of certain counties.  16. Authorizing the erection of flood gates across the Back Creek in Norfolk borough.  17. Establishing an inspection of Tobacco, on the land of Thomas Lewis in Albemarle county.  18. Authorizing the appointment of a Mathematical Surveyor in the Borough of Norfolk.  19. Establishing an inspection of Flour on the land of Thos. Lewis of Albemarle.  20. For including certain lands in the town of Wheeling.  21. Exempting Wm. Chaplin from erecting a lock in his mill dam across Wheeling creek in the county of Ohio.  22. Increasing the rates of ferryage across the Rivanna river, opposite the town of Charlottesville in the county of Albermarle.  23. Concerning Jas. Vaughan.  24. For opening a street in the town of Petersburg.  25. Incorporating a company to open and improve the navigation of Rivanna river, from Milton to Moore's ford, opposite the town of Charlottesville in the county of Albermarle.  26. Increasing the pension of Joseph alias Joab Miles.  27. Concerning Elias Edmunds.  28. Concerning Wm. Breeden.  29. Concerning David Hunter.  30. To alter the Husting court of the Borough of Norfolk.  31. Concerning John Walsh.  32. Divorcing Daniel Rote from his wife Henrietta.  33. Further continuing an act appointing commissioners to view the way for a navigable canal from Roanoke to Appomattox.  34. To amend an act concerning the James River company.  35. Providing for the collection of certain militia fines due in Norfolk borough.  36. Concerning Joseph Mayes.  37. Authorizing Thos. Wilson to erect a wing dam from his land in the county of Mecklenburg, extending from the fourth bank of the Roanoke river into the same.  38. Concerning the town of Liberty in the county of Bedford.  39. Placing Jacob Payne and John Carter on the pension list. 
 40. To amend and explain the act authorising the county court of Lee to erect a turnpike or toll gate, on the road leading from Mockerion gap to Cumberland gap, through the said county.  41. To alter the court day and the time of holding quarterly courts in the town of Fredericksburg, and to alter the time of holding a quarterly court for Northampton county.  42. Establishing an inspection of tobacco on the lands of Christian Gilliam, Mary Eppes and Archibald Eppes in the county of Prince George.  43. An act concerning the northern boundary of Norfolk borough.  44. An act concerning Haze Kelly.  45. An act providing for the pavement of the streets of Norfolk borough.  46. Making certain amendments to the act, authorising mill dams to be built across the Monongahela river.  47. Concerning certain claims against the commonwealth.  48. Concerning the militia of the town of Petersburg.  49. Concerning Andrew Lewis.  50. Increasing the powers of the trustees of York town.  51. Establishing several towns.  52. An act to establish an academy for female education in the city of Richmond.  53. Incorporating trustees of the Hallerian academy.  54. Establishing several ferries and increasing the rates of two former ones.  55. An act authorising Samuel Pleasants, jr. to publish a collection of certain public laws of this commonwealth, and for other purposes.  56. Authorizing John Nuzam to build a toll bridge over Tyger Valley river in the county of Monongalia.  57. Authorizing a company to build a toll bridge over Great Hunting creek, in the county of Fairfax.  58. Establishing the widths of certain streets in the City of Richmond, and for other purposes.  59. Legalizing the proceedings of the court of Pennsylvania county and for other purposes.  60. Concerning John Williamson and Elijah Franklin, inspectors of tobacco at Rockett's warehouse.  61. Concerning Philip Woodson.  62. Releasing to William Somerville the right of the Commonwealth to a certain lot of land in the town of Lexington.  63. To repeal an act entitled an act for clearing and repairing the wagon road from the state road to or near the mouth of Little Kanawha river.  64. Giving the assent of this state to an act of Congress for laying out and making a road from Potomac river to the state of Ohio.  65. Annexing the county of Albemarle to the district for which a chancery court is directed to be held in Staunton.  66. Concerning the militia of the city of Richmond.  67. Suspending further a judgment obtained on behalf of the commonwealth, against the administrators of Benj. Branch, and for other purposes.  68. Changing the manner of electing common councilmen of the city of Williamsburg.  69. An act to amend an act concerning the navigable canal from Roanoke to Meherin in North-Carolina, &c.  70. Authorizing the county court of Lee to appoint persons to solemnize the rights of matrimony.  71. Concerning the Dismal Swamp Canal Company.  72. For paying the officers of the General Assembly, &c.  73. To amend the several laws concerning the Nottoway tribe of Indians.  74. Authorizing Robert Caldwell and John Coulter, to erect a mill-dam at the lower end of Willow Island, &c.  75. Beg g Peggs Giles on the pension list.  76. To appropriate the public revenue.  77. An act imposing Taxes for the support of Government.  78. Concerning the militia of the town of Portsmouth.  79. For disbanding the Public Guard, after the 1st day of January 1808. 
ACTS
Of a Public Nature, passed at the Session 1806—7.
 1. An act concerning the attendance of witnesses in the Inferior Courts. The clerks of the county and corporation courts are empowered to administer the oath, and receive and enter the attendance of witnesses at such courts, and to grant orders of attendance, in the same manner as clerks of district courts may now do, as to witnesses attending those courts. (To commence the 1st of March next.)  2. An act to amend the several acts empowering securities to recover damages in a summary way. When any court shall hereafter render judgment, on motion, in favour of a security or his representatives, for any sum of money or quantity of tobacco; such court shall allow interest from the time such money or tobacco shall have been paid by the security, till the judgment is discharged.  3. An act further to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace. When any debt or penalty exclusive of interest, or the subject in controversy in trover and conversion or detinue, shall not exceed 20 dols. any one justice may determine it and give judgment, according to the principles of law and equity, for principal and interest, or the value of the subject in controversy with damages and costs, and award execution to be directed to any constable or other officer within the commonwealth, against the goods and chattels of the party, to be executed and returned as other writs of fieri facias; but no execution against the body shall be granted by a justice: Provided, That no justice shall take cognizance of an attachment where the sum demanded shall exceed 10 dols. The cause of action shall be stated in every warrant for debt, detinue or trover; which warrant shall be returnable before the same, or some other justice, at a certain day, not exceeding 30 from the date. On judgments exceeding 10 dols. exclusive of costs and interest, execution shall be stayed 40 days, on the parties giving such security as the justice rendering the judgment shall approve, for the payment thereof with interest till it is satisfied. And if it is not paid within that period, execution shall be granted by such justice against the party and his security jointly, to which no security shall be taken. Either party, where the debt, or subject of trover, or detinue or damages exclusive of interest shall exceed ten dollars, or the sum demanded on any penal statute shall exceed 5 dols. may, within 5 days from the rendition of the judgment, enter an appeal to the next monthly term of the county or corporation court, giving such security as the justice rendering the judgment shall deem sufficient for the payment thereof, and all costs and damages in case it shall be affirmed. The verbal acknowledgment of any security required to be taken by this act shall be sufficient, and the endorsement of the justice of the name of such security upon the warrant, on which the judgment is rendered, shall be conclusive evidence of such acknowledgment. Appeals shall be tried in a summary way without pleadings in writing on the day to which they are returnable, unless good cause for a continuance be shown; and the courts shall decide thereon according to the principles of law and equity. 
Upon an affirmation, the judgment shall be entered against the principal and his security jointly, for the amount of the original judgment and costs of appeal, with damages after the rate of 10 per cent. per annum upon the whole amount of the original judgment and costs from the date thereof till payment and execution. And if the judgment be reversed the appellant shall recover full costs.
Every justice from whose decision an appeal is prayed, shall on or before the day to which it is returnable, transmit to the clerk the original warrant, with the judgment and name of the security endorsed thereon. And the clerk shall docket it; and be entitled to the same fees upon such appeals as are allowed to clerks of district courts for similar services.
Any person who shall be compelled to pay money as security under this act, or his legal representatives, shall have the same remedy against the principal, and his representatives, by motion for the amount paid with interest and costs, as other securities are entitled to.
When the constable or other officer to whom an execution shall hereafter be directed by a justice shall not be able to find goods and chattels to satisfy it, he shall make return thereof to the clerk of his county or corporation, who shall docket the same. And the party shall be entitled to such writ or writs of execution for the amount due, as if the judgment upon which such execution issued had been rendered in court. And the same proceedings shall be had upon executions to be issued by the clerks under this act, and they shall have the same fees for their services, as in the case of executions founded upon judgments rendered by a court of law.
Every justice shall have power to issue executions and subpoenas for witnesses to be directed to the constable or other officer of any county within the commonwealth, where the party or witness resides. If any constable or other officer shall fail to make return of any execution to be directed under this act, on or before the return day—(which shall in no case exceed 60 days from the date) any justice, on 10 days notice, upon motion of the party injured, may fine such constable or other officer, in any sum not exceeding 5 per cent. a month, upon the amount of such execution, counting from the return day.
Whoever shall bring any action or suit, if it shall appear, either by his own showing, or the verdict of a jury, that a justice had cognizance under this act, shall be non-suited.
Lawyer's fees, upon appeals under this act, shall be the same as heretofore allowed upon petitions and summonses, to be taxed in the bill of costs.
If any constable or other officer shall hereafter receive any money or tobacco upon any execution hereafter to be directed by any justice, and shall not pay the same to the party entitled, on the return of such execution, the party injured or his legal representatives shall have the same remedy, by motion, for the sum received with interest and costs, against such constable or other officer and his security or securities, his or her or their executors and administrators, to which he would have been entitled against a sheriff for money received on an execution issued upon a judgment of a court of law. And the court of the county or corporation in which the bond of such constable or other officer is, or shall be deposited, shall have power to hear such motion, and to render judgment thereon. Every court reversing the judgment of a justice, shall pronounce such final judgment, as, in their opinion, such justice ought to have rendered.
All acts contrary hereto, and particularly so much as relates to petitions for small debts, &c. are repealed. But all petitions under-terminated before the commencement of this act, shall be proceeded on, as if this act had not been made. (To commence the 1st day of June next.)
4. An act declaring the law in cases of discounts and offsets.
5. An act to amend the act for reducing into one the several acts prescribing the oath of fidelity, and oaths of Public officers. Any person refusing to take an oath in the manner the same hath heretofore been usually administered, and declaring religious scruples to be the true and only reason of such refusal, if he or she shall use the solemnity and ceremony, and repeat the formulary observed on similar occasions, by those of the church or religious society of which such person professeth to be a member, or to join in communion with, or shall use the solemnity and ceremony, and repeat the formulary which, in his or her opinion, is or ought to be observed on such occasions, according to the religion in which such person professeth to believe, he or she shall thereupon be deemed a competent witness, or be as duly qualified to execute an office, or perform any other act, to the function whereof an oath is or shall be required by law, and shall be subject to the same rules, derive the same advantages, or incur the same penalties, or forfeiture as if he or she had sworn—All acts within the purview of this repealed. (To commence from the passing.)
6. An act to punish certain Theft and Forgery. If any person shall fraudulently obtain, or aid or assist in obtaining from the Bank of Virginia, or any of its offices of discount and deposit, any bank or post note, or money, by means of any forged or counterfeited check or order whatsoever, knowing the same to be forged or counterfeited, every such person on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary, not less than two nor more than ten years. If any person shall forge or counterfeit, or aid or assist in forging or counterfeiting, or keep or conceal, or aid in keeping or concealing any instrument for the purpose of forging or counterfeiting the seal of the bank of Virginia, every such person, on conviction, shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary, not less than five, nor more than fifteen years. If any person shall steal or take by robbery from another any bank or post note, every such person, on conviction, shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary, not less than three nor more than ten years. [To commence from the passing.]
7. An act concerning Idiots and Lunatics. When the court of directors of the Williamsburg hospital shall for want of room or any other cause, refuse to receive any person sent to the said hospital, under the law now in force, the officer and guard to whom such idiot or lunatic, or supposed idiot or lunatic was entrusted, shall carry him back to the magistrates before whom the examination was had, who are to give to the said officer and guard a certificate of the services performed, and of the distance he was sent; which certificate shall authorize the auditor to issue his warrant for the said services and travelling expenses, allowing five cents a mile for going to and returning from the hospital, besides ferryage, and allowing further to such officer four cents a mile for going and the same for returning for each idiot, &c. be-

after his nomination, or given bond within two months after his appointment, see Rev. Code Pl. ed. p. 129. In case of a vacancy in the office of sheriff or sergeant, the coroner is authorized to perform all the duties of their office, except the collection of taxes, levies, fines, forfeitures, amercements and officers fees: and for neglect of duty is liable to the same penalties and proceedings, as in case of the sheriff. (The third section authorizes the deputy sheriff, in case of the death of the high sheriff, to collect and make distress for any levies, fines, forfeitures or amercements which may be due at the time of his death, and also all officers fees, which may have been received by such high sheriff, or any of his deputies, and moreover gives the county court the same power of appointing a collector in case of the death of the high sheriff and his deputy, and imposes the same penalties, &c. on such collector as are prescribed by law in relation to taxes. See Rev. Code, Pl. ed. p. 132, sect. 29, 30, 31.)
The same remedy is given against the securities and representatives of sheriffs, sergeants and coroners as is given against the sheriff, officer or under sheriff or securities of such under sheriff for further continuing and amending an act reducing into one the several acts concerning executions, and for the relief of insolvent debtors." See Rev. Code, Pl. ed. ch. 151, p. 305—See also, same book, ch. 175, sect. 8, p. 325—See also, acts 1803, ch. 109, p. 71.
15. An act to amend the act entitled, "An act to reduce into one the several acts concerning mills, mill-dams and other obstructions of water courses." (The first section of this act authorizes the same proceedings to be had, by a person desirous to build a mill or other engine useful to the public, where the middle of the water-course is the dividing line between him and another, as if it wholly belonged to him or the Commonwealth.)
The ninth section of the act to which this is an amendment, with the proviso thereto is repealed.—See Rev. Code, Pl. ed. ch. 105, p. 198. All millers shall well and sufficiently grind the grain brought to their mills for the usual consumption of the persons bringing it and their families, and in due time as brought, and may take one eighth part for toll where it is ground into meal, and one half that toll where it is ground into hominy or malt. And every miller or occupier of a mill, who shall act contrary hereto shall forfeit 2 dollars, and 50 cents to the party injured, recoverable before any justice of the county where the offence is committed. And if the miller be an indentured servant or slave he shall, in lieu of the forfeiture aforesaid, receive for the first offence ten lashes, and for the second twenty; but upon a third conviction the master of such servant or slave, or his overseer or agent shall pay 2 dollars, and 50 cents, for every offence afterwards committed. Provided, that every owner or occupier of a mill shall have a right at any time to grind his or her grain for the consumption of his or her family; and provided also, that no miller shall be obliged to run more than one pair of stones for the consumption of the person bringing the grain and their families. (To commence from the passing.)
14. An act to amend an act entitled, "An act to amend the several laws concerning slaves." When any inhabitant of this state shall have left, or may leave it, with an intention of returning, and shall have carried or may carry any slave with him, he shall be at liberty to bring such slave back with him, on his return.—Any person whose land extends across the boundary line of this state, or who cultivates land adjoining upon both sides thereof, may work and remove his slaves on either side at his pleasure: but no slave owned in another state, and so to be employed in this state shall be sold, or otherwise employed therein. And any person an inhabitant of this state on the 25th of January last, may within six months after the passage of this act bring into this state any slaves and their increase since that day, whereof he was then and is now the real owner.
Any inhabitants of another state may employ their slaves in conveying their produce to market or as traveling servants through this state. (All acts contrary hereto are repealed.) (To commence from the passing.)
15. An act concerning the abatement of suits, and executors and administrators. If either party in an action at law or suit in equity now or hereafter depending, shall die before final judgment or decree, such action or suit shall not abate if it were originally maintainable by or against an executor or administrator, but the plaintiff or his executor or administrator may have a scire facias against the defendant or his executor or administrator, to show cause generally why the action or suit should not be proceeded into a final judgment or decree, and if the executor or administrator upon the return of a scire facias executed shall not enter an appearance, the court may proceed to a final judgment or decree as if they had appeared. And if the executor or administrator shall appear upon the return of the scire facias executed, or without a scire facias , voluntarily enters himself a defendant, in either case he may plead de novo , any plea which an executor or administrator may lawfully plead; or as the deceased party might have pleaded. And if such executor or administrator should not wish to plead de novo , or if no issue should have been joined or pleadings entered before the death of his testator or intestate, or if any interlocutory judgment or decree should have been entered in the life time of the decedent; and the executor or administrator shall refuse to plead or not desire to set aside the interlocutory judgment or decree, the court shall proceed to a final judgment or decree for or against the executor or administrator in the same manner as if the original writ had been issued against him de novo . And the costs shall remain in his place on the issue or appearance docket, as the case may be; but the defendant, being an executor or administrator shall be entitled to a continuance to the next term after that to which a scire facias shall have been returned executed, or at which a voluntary appearance was entered. Provided, that no executor or administrator, shall be liable to answer any debt or damage, out of his own estate, beyond the assets which may have come to his hands, in consequence of any false pleading, mispleading or non-pleading, in any action now depending or hereafter to be brought. Nothing in this act shall prevent the court in which any such suit is tried from rendering judgment as heretofore, when it shall be found that the defendant hath sufficient assets, or for so much as shall be found to be in his hands. All acts contrary hereto are repealed. (To commence from the passing.)
16. An act to amend an act reducing into one the several acts concerning the court of Appeals. The vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Paul Carrington, Esq. is not to be supplied; and the court is to consist of four judges till another vacancy shall occur, after which it is to consist of three. As the seat of a judge becomes vacant, his salary is to be equally divided among the remaining judges; who are to hold
three terms a year, the first to commence on the 1st of January and to continue 45 days, the second, 1st of June to continue 36 days, and the third on the 8th of Oct. to continue 45 days, unless the business shall be sooner decided. No appeal on a forthcoming bond is hereafter to be allowed, from a District court of common law or chancery, but a writ of error or supersedeas may be awarded as heretofore; except that in no case shall an appeal or writ of error be granted in open court.
17. An act concerning the proceedings in Chancery, and for other purposes. The judges of the chancery district courts may in vacation, direct an account to be taken; and decide any points on which the committee-counsel, except by consent of parties—No appeal shall be granted in any chancery cause till a final decree, unless the court should deem it necessary, in order to prevent a change of property, under an interlocutory decree.—If the record, of appeal from an inferior to a superior court of chancery be not sent up, before or during the second term after granted, it shall be dismissed with costs unless good cause be shown.—If the defendant, in a chancery district court, does not file his answer within 3 months, after bill filed, having been served with a subpoena; at least 3 months the bill may be taken for confessed, and proceeded on, as upon an attachment executed.—In suits against absent defendants the court may order publication in any newspaper, in the commonwealth. The May terms of the Chancery District Court of Richmond, shall hereafter commence on the first day, and the September term on the 5th.—Commissioners in Chancery are allowed the same fees for copies, (where no special allowance is made by the court) as the clerk of their court to be taxed in the bill of costs, and collected as clerks fees. Clerks of the Chancery District courts, are also allowed the same fees for executions and taxing damages and costs, as clerks of the District courts of law. [To commence the 1st of April next.]
18. An act to amend the act concerning Grand Juries, Petit Juries and Venue men. In addition to the present allowance, the court may direct each venire-man to be paid a sum not exceeding dol. 1.25, for every day he is detained over the first. All allowances heretofore made by the courts for the expenses of venire men detained shall be liquidated by the Auditor, and a warrant granted on the treasurer for the amount. [To commence from the passing.]
19. An act giving power to the county courts to establish Post-Offices. Transfers to that tribunal the powers heretofore exercised, on that subject, by the Legislature—The application must be advertised at the Court-House door for two successive courts, and divided by a majority of the whole justices of the county. The details of this act are too minute for insertion.
20. An act to empower the Executive to appoint persons to collect the arrears of taxes. This act authorizes the Executive to appoint agents to collect the arrears of taxes, &c. prior to 1802, and to allow them not less than 7 1/2 nor more than 25 per cent. commissions.
21. An act concerning district courts, and assignors of bonds, &c. provides that when the General Court fails to sit and allot the judges to the districts the former allotment shall prevail. Where a cause is removed by habere corpus or certiorari , it is to be proceeded on from the stage in which it stood in the inferior court—An action is given by an assignee against a remote assignor of a bond &c. but the defendant may avail himself of any defence which he might make against his next immediate assignee—The Richmond District Court of Common law, shall hereafter commence on the 28th of March and August, and sit fifteen days. (To commence the 1st of April next.)
22. An act concerning executions &c. directs that the courts, in May and October annually, shall fix the allowance for supporting slaves and live stock taken in execution; provided that the daily allowance for a slave shall not exceed 20 cents, for each horse or mule 17 cents, for each head of cattle or hog 9 cents, and for each sheep or goat 6 cents—A person taking the prison roles for 12 months shall be recommitted to close jail, unless he pays the debt, or is discharged under the insolvent debtor's act. (To commence the first of May next.)
23. An act concerning the "penitentiary" abolishes the board of inspectors, and vests in the Executive the power heretofore exercised by them. It also repeals the law allowing a commission to the keeper upon the purchase or sale of articles; but authorizes the executive to contract for the clothing, diet and materials necessary, and to allow a reasonable compensation. The physician is to attend, at stated periods, and make out the sick list, and none are to be exempted from labour except such as he places thereon. (To commence from the passing.)
24. An act "respecting the militia &c." authorizes the officer to whom an application is made for an arrest to determine whether the offence is cognizable before a military tribunal, and directs that the charges shall be supported by affidavit; it also limits the arrest to acts committed within two years before the application. A conviction of an officer of felony, or misdemeanor punishable by stripes or confinement in the penitentiary; or of perjury or forgery vacates his commission.—Where the officers of cavalry, artillery, light-infantry or grenadiers have or shall fail to keep the number of their company equal to one half; for the space of a year, the executive may supersede them by issuing commissions to others—Officers of artillery and cavalry are hereafter to attend the training of the officers. None of the volunteer companies hereafter enlisted shall consist of more than 75 men.—An officer hereafter commissioned who does not qualify to his commission within one month after he receives it, shall be considered as having vacated it.—(The remainder of this act respects the collection and distribution of the public arms, under the act of the last session, where it has not already been done. It also makes provision by which officers shall account with their successors for arms placed in their hands for distribution.—Additional penalties and a more summary mode of proceeding is prescribed for the non-delivery or destruction of public arms.)
25. An act to amend the act "more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes on lands, &c." declares that on the non-payment of the taxes, they shall be forfeited to the commonwealth, but not subject to location; and may be redeemed by the former owner, within three years after the forfeiture, by paying the taxes and 25 per cent interest the first year, 50 per cent the second, and 100 per cent the third.
26. An act "concerning the distribution of public arms" directs that all the arms at Richmond, except 3000 muskets, and a small proportion of rifles and cavalry arms, shall be distributed by the executive. Additional fines are imposed upon those who refuse to receive arms; or suffer them to be lost.
REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE OF FINANCE AS AMENDED BY THE HOUSE. Estimate of the expenses of the government, for
one year, commencing on the 1st of October, 1806, and ending on the 30th of September, 1807. inclusive, and of debts for which appropriations have been made during the present session:
Table with 2 columns: Item, Amount. Rows include: Expenses of G. Assembly at the next session, 40,000 00; Officers of Civil Government, 58,000 00; Officers of Militia, 4,000 00; Criminal Prosecutions and Guards, 35,000 00; Slaves executed and transported, 5,500 00; Lunatic hospital, 6,500 00; Richmond Public Guard, 15,000 00; Building Manufactory of Arms, including unfinished claims, 4,000 00; Expense of Manufacturing arms, including officers' salaries and unfinished claims, 51,000 00; Foundry and Boring Mill, 7,500 00; For repairs to the James R. Canal Warehouse, 100 00; Expense of Public Warehouses, 5,000 00; Expense of removing convicts to the Penitentiary, and of their confinement therein including officers' salaries, 8,000 00; Public services of District Court Clerks, 2,300 00; Interest on the Public debt registered, 5,900 00; Interest due persons who paid money into the treasury for British debts, 3,000 00; Pensions, 50,000 00; Expense of representation to Congress and the State Senate, 400 00; Interest on State Shares in the Bank of Va., 30,000 00; Interest payable to the Bank in Jan. and July next, 9,000 00; Commissioners of the Revenue, 13,500 00; Contingent Fund, 13,750 00; To discharge the debt due to the representative of Doctor Thomas Walker, 3,529 57; For the payment of Warrants that may be drawn on the Militia Fine Fund, 400 00; For payment of sums which may be directed by special acts of the present session, 625 00; For upper Appomattox company, To pay the debt due the estate of R. Tucker, 19203 33. Total: Dollars 347,207 90.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Amount. Rows include: One year's Revenue tax, and tax on mercantile licenses, 275,380 00; Surplus on Tobacco exported, 18,000 00; Tax on law Process, &c., 16,000 00; Register's Fees, 2,500 00; Probable dividend on the State shares in the Bank, on the 1st Jan. and 1st July 1807, 24,000 00; Probable receipts from Slaves transported, 9,000 00; Probable dividend on state shares in James river company, 2,500 00; For fines and penalties, 3,000 00; Probable receipts from the sale of lands in the county of P. William, formerly belonging to Robert Britton, 12,000 00. Total: Dollars 355,380 00.
Resolved, That a tax be levied to increase the permanent taxes of this Commonwealth.
THE PERMANENT TAXES APE.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Amount. Rows include: On lands, for every 100 dollars value according to the equalizing law, 00 43; On every slave above 12 years old, except those exempted as heretofore, 00 44; On every stud horse and jack ass, twice the price of the season, 00 12; On all other horses, mules, mares and colts, each, 12 50; On every ordinary license, 1 25; On every 4 wheeled riding carriage, except phaetons and stage waggons per wheel, 00 84; On every phaeton and stage waggon, per wheel, 00 43; On every other riding carriage with 2 wheels, per wheel, 1 56; On lots and houses in town, for every 100 dollars of rent, 40 00; On every merchant selling by wholesale & retail, for each store, 15 00; On every retail merchant, for each store, 20 00; On every hawker and pedlar, 1 56.
*The Revenue Bill substitutes a new tax upon ordinances of five dollars upon every 100 of rent: the tax not however falling short of 12 1/2 dollars.
PENITENTIARY SYSTEM.
Table with 2 columns: Criminals received, Crimes for which the culprits are now confined. Rows include: In 1800—1, For murder in 2d degree, 14; 1801—33, Grand Larceny, 22; 1802—41, Forgery and Counterfeiting, 3; 1803—55, Burglary, 8; 1804—41, Horse stealing, 2; 1805—50, Misdemeanor, 3; 1806—59, Total, 233. Discharged—152, Rape, 1; Escaped—5, Highway robbery, 1; Died—14, Infraction, 1; Remaining—112, Felony, 91; Stabbing, 1; Maiming, 1; Misdemeanor, 19.
Of whom there are 86 white men; 20 black men; 2 white women; 2 black women. Since the institution went into operation five have returned for new offences. Balance against the institution last year, from inferior operations, Dols. 5000 25.
MILITIA.
Table with 2 columns: General Staff, Field Officers. Rows include: Major Generals, 4 Lieut. Col's, 98; Brigadier Generals, 10 Majors, 189; Adjutant General, 1 Total of officers, 73144; Aid-de-Camp, 8 and privates of, 2556; Brigade Inspectors, 19 the Infantry, 1012; Cavalry, 2556; Artillery, 1012. The last returns are very incomplete, four regiments in the 3d division, and two in the 4th being deficient. The artillery returns are deficient more than one half, and the cavalry very imperfect.
OPERATIONS OF THE VIRGINIA MANUFACTORY OF ARMS.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Amount. Rows include: Articles manufactured in the year ending with the 30th day of November, 1806, with the prices annexed to each. 1265 Muskets with short bayonets, 10 86 5; 205 Do. with long bayonets, 11 1 0.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Amount. Rows include: 579 Pistolets, 7 52 0; 852 Cavalry Swords, 5 29 6; 440 Fixed bayonets for carbines, lined with wood, 2 73 4; 161 Artillery Swords, 4 30 5; 158 Set artillery sword tips for carbines, 59 2; 84 Rifles, 17 3 6; Ammunition, at the above prices, to dols. 23,393 84; Component parts of arms, on hand, November 30th, 1806, value, 37,738 59; Stock of un wrought materials, on hand, same date, 18,763 62. Total: dollars 84,896 5.
Against which the Institution is to be debited as follows, viz:
Table with 2 columns: Item, Amount. Rows include: For component parts of arms, on hand, November 30th, 1805, dols. 25,521 27; Un wrought materials, on hand, same date, 8,399 76; Expenses of the year ending 30th Nov. 1806, 50,875 02. Total: dollars 84,896 5.
A PREDICTION.—John Wood, the ci-devant editor of the "Western World," has removed to Washington, where he has begun the publication of the "Atlantic World." The first No. of this paper came to hand, by the last Evening's Mail.—Every thing announces that it will have an ephemeral existence.
The very principle, on which the "Atlantic World" sets out, is sufficient to condemn it. Who is there prepared to acquiesce in the opinion that "the plan of col. Burr is not against the interest of the union;" the "testimony produced at Frankfort" to the contrary notwithstanding?
Who will agree, that "there cannot be produced in the annals of France, an act of chimerical power, superior to the late arrestment of six or ten boats on the Ohio, which were laid to belong to col. Burr." For thus does the A. W. condemn an act which covers the legislature and governor of Ohio with immortal honour?
How ridiculous will the following assertion appear to our readers, who considered the important letter published in our last paper! "Let it however be remembered for the present, that I pledge myself to prove that the Executive are in possession of no facts tending to criminate Col. Burr, but those which they have received from these two men, General Wilkinson and Joseph Hamilton Davis." What then becomes of Mr. G.?
The first number of the "A. W." is principally levelled at Mr. Davis, who being the executor of G. Nicholas, Esq. is asserted to have been early acquainted with the "Kentucky Spanish association," and to have concealed in his breast the most detestable treason for several years." He is charged with having been actuated by "ambition and revenge;" and with having weaned J. W. Street from his partner, and his independence. The reader will observe, that we are not the apologists of Mr. D. nor of the acts which are attributed to him by Mr. Wood; nor are we the apologists of Mr. S. for having suffered the publication of Mr. D's confidential letter which expressly directs him to "burn" it; nor of Mr. Wood who could dare to publish it without Mr. S's consent.
One more remark!—We pronounce the paper, which would at this moment dare to vindicate the conduct of A. Burr, or weaken the spirit of vigilant investigation into the machinations of a villain, as unworthy of the support of an enlightened nation!
French Bulletins.—We have now extended them to the 16th and 17th, received by the way of Charleston. The last is dated at Potsdam on the 25th of October. Bonaparte had not yet arrived at Berlin. Potsdam is situated on an island 10 miles in circumference, formed by the rivers Spree and Havel, 12 miles W. of Berlin.
There is no account of any new engagement.—The manufacturer of Bulletins must have been very much distressed for want of facts, when he weaves in such absurd anecdotes as are recorded in the 17th Bulletin. Such summary is unworthy of a great man!—The only indication of any consequence is the refusal to acknowledge the duke of Brunswick in any other character than as a Prussian officer. He is no longer a sovereign. Such is likely to be the fate of his royal master. "Je ne connois pas le roi des Prussiens."
The Members of the Mutual Assurance Society, against Fire on Buildings of the state of Virginia, have unanimously, at their annual general meeting, reappointed the following officers to transact the affairs of the Fire Insurance Society, for the present year. Alexander M'Rae, Esq. President. Alexander Stuart, Esq. Robert Mitchell, Esq. George W. Smith, Esq. Directors. William F. Ab, Esq. Principal Agent. Wm. J. Price, Esq. Cashier General.
Sales at Auction.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Amount. Rows include: On Tuesday next, (the 27th inst.) will be sold at the residence of the subscribers. Pipes and 3 half pipes, Genuine? On 4 months credit. 1st quality Madeira Wine, 50 Pieces fine Calicoes and Chints, negotiable notes with approved endorers will be required. Also—8 cases of felt and plated Hats, for the benefit of the owner or owners, unknown, and a small invoice of Coatings, Forest Cloths, Superior 7-4 Cloths, Manchester Stuffs, Bombazette, Dimity and 40 pieces India Cotton. TAYLOR & BROWN, v. m. edl. Jan. 24.
TO RENT, OR FOR SALE.
A HOUSE situated on the Main-Street, over the creek, with a bale house adjoining—Enquire MOSES DAVIS. Also for sale: A small PLANTATION containing 90 acres, about 6 miles from the city, with a good orchard, and Dwelling-Houses. Apply as above. Jan. 24.
FITZWILYSONN & POTTER.
Have just received a large supply of the very best English writing Paper, consisting of— Super Royal, Royal, Medium, For Merchants and other Account Books. Folio 3 Quarto Post, Which they offer for sale either wholesale or retail. They have on hand a general assortment of PAPER of American Manufacture; BLANK BOOKS and STATIONERY; a collection of PRINTED BOOKS and MUSIC, to which, additions will constantly be made; and a handsome variety of PAPER HANGINGS for rooms. Orders from the country carefully executed. Jan. 17.

LITERARY INTELLIGENCE.
A new work has lately been published, and may be had at the Printing Office and Bookstore of Samuel Pleasants, Jr. in this city, written by Messrs. Wm. W. Hening and William Munford, entitled "Reports of cases argued and determined in the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia; with select cases, relating chiefly to points of practice, decided by the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond district." Part 1. Vol. 1. containing 392 pages large Octavo.
The object of this work, which appears to be to diffuse the knowledge of the laws of our country as extensively as possible, by giving the earliest and most correct information of the decisions of the courts, in which the principles of those laws are considered and settled, must certainly render it very interesting and useful to every citizen of the commonwealth; but particularly to magistrates and gentlemen of the bar.
The authors have assured the public, that the publication of these reports shall be continued, according to their original proposals, which were to furnish a pamphlet, as speedily as possible after the end of each term of the Court of Appeals. In the present number they have had every advantage, which could be derived from the notes of the Judges and Counsel. The opinions of the former are given at full length, and the arguments of the latter, together with the statements of Cases are carefully abridged, as far as regard to perspicuity and accuracy would admit; with an endeavour to communicate nothing but what is really useful.
The following very important case is selected as a Specimen; in which two points were decided, viz: 1st that the commonwealth is not responsible for the nominal amount of money paid into the Loan Office in discharge of British debts; but only for its value according to the scale of depreciation. And 2d; that the scale, in such cases, is to be applied at the time of the payments: of the payments: not at the date of the governor's receipt for the certificates of those payments.
THE COMMONWEALTH against WALKER'S EXECUTOR.
Thomas Walker on the 28th of November, 1777 and 3rd of April, 1778, paid into the Loan-Office certain sums of money, and obtained the proper certificates; for which the governor gave him a receipt on the 25th of May, 1779, in discharge of a British debt. After the act of 1796, upon the subject of such payments, his executor applied for certificates for the said sums and interest; but the treasurer insisted upon reducing them by the scale of depreciation of May 1779. This was at first objected to; but as the treasurer persisted, the executor received certificates for the amount according to the scale; expressly declaring, however, that it should not prejudice his claim to the original sums and interest. He afterwards applied to the auditor for a warrant for the difference between the sum received and that to which he conceived himself entitled, but was refused it; in consequence of which he appealed to the High Court of Chancery; where it was decreed that the Auditor should issue warrants for the value of the sums according to the scale at the times when they were paid into the Loan Office: from which decree an appeal was taken to this court.
Attorney General, for the commonwealth. The question to be decided by this court is, whether the scale of depreciation is to be applied at the time the money was deposited in the Loan Office, or when it was paid in the discharge of British debts, by taking the governor's receipt for that purpose.
It will, indeed, be contended by the counsel on the other side, that the debt ought not to be scaled at all. This is an important question, but it is one on which all men seem to have agreed. During our revolutionary war the property of British subjects, in this state, was sequestered, and by an act passed in 1777, citizens of his commonwealth owing money to a subject of Great-Britain were allowed to pay it in the Loan Office, taking a certificate in the name of the creditor, with an endorsement of the commissioner of loans, expressing the name of the payee, which certificate was to be delivered to the governor and council, whose receipt should discharge the debtor for so much. In 1796, after the decision of the United States that those payments did not discharge the debtor from the demands of his creditor, the Legislature passed an act authorizing the persons who had thus paid money into the Loan Office to receive a certificate from the treasurer for the amount according to the scale of depreciation at the time the payments were severally made, together with interest. It will not, perhaps, be contended that because the money was due from the state, the debt was not to be scaled, for that point was settled in the case of the Commonwealth and Beaumarchais. But it will be insisted, that because it was paid under the faith of a law, the commonwealth is bound to release the debtor.
I will not question the motives of the federal court, but have no hesitation in saying their decision was wrong. Virginia, being a sovereign state, had a right to pass the law in question; and a mere treaty, after the passage of the law, could not annul it. Although treaties are declared by the federal constitution to be the supreme law of the land, yet they cannot have a retrospective operation, so as to annul the acts of sovereign states: nor has the judiciary of the U. States any such power.
It may be said that the application of the scale was a hardship on those who owed British debts; but they cannot complain; because the principle established by the legislature is perfectly equitable as between individuals, and they are placed on the same footing as all other persons. Ours was not an ordinary transaction. Young and inexperienced in the art of war, helpless in the means of carrying it on, and contending with one of the most powerful nations in the world, we were compelled to resort to every expedient authorized by the law of nations to annoy our enemy and promote the success of our cause. Large quantities of paper money, which has emphatically been called "the shield of America," were emitted. All classes of citizens suffered more or less by its rapid depreciation; & every individual had to make some sacrifices; but this, with other evils incident to a state of war, was only purchasing our liberties at a cheap rate. From the necessity of the case, this paper money was finally called in, at a great reduction from its nominal value; and a scale of the depreciation established for the adjustment of debts contracted during its existence. This was affected by positive legislative acts, and, in many instances, operated as injuriously on individuals as the reimbursement according to the scale, on those who owed British debts, would now do. If it is admitted that the legislature has power to pass laws, the debtor, in this case, can only claim in a manner in which they are authorized to be paid; that is, by the scale of depreciation.
The only question is, when ought the scale to be applied? The money was paid into the loan office in 1777 and 1778; but not transferred to the sequestration fund till 1779; and the act of 1796 expressly says that the money shall be repaid according to the scale of that time: which was originally paid on account of the British creditor.
But it may be said that this is not a common case; and for that sole reason the scale ought not to be applied. The scale ought to be applied at that time, and not when it was paid on account of the British debt. When the loan office certificate was deposited in the sequestration fund, it ceases to exist; and the receipt of the governor and council was the only evidence that it was paid in discharge of such debt. The contract then, for the first time originated with the government; and it would have been the same thing if money had then been paid. The case of the commonwealth vs. Newton, decided a few days ago, is analogous to this. There the bonds were due by the state long anterior to the revolution; but Newton having taken out warrants for the interest, in 1778,
in the form of loan office certificates; those warrants were subjected to the scale.
The decree is also erroneous in directing warrants to issue by the auditor, and not certificates by the Treasurer.
Call, for the appellee. As to the principal point in the cause, I have not formed any very deliberate opinion. The petition of appeal from the decision of the Auditor stated that my client was entitled to the full sum paid into the treasury on account of the British debt, and it is my duty to contend for it.
The commonwealth entered into an agreement with her citizens, that for whatever amount they would make payments to her on account of their British creditors, she would discharge them. How could they be discharged, if they were afterwards liable to pay? On every principle of contracts, it was the duty of the commonwealth to exonerate them; because she received a valuable consideration. It was no argument to say that the state might have enforced the payment into the loan office of those debts. She did not think proper to do so. If then she chose to become a contractor, instead of exercising her sovereignty, she was bound to perform her contracts.
It may be said that the citizens were not compelled to pay the amount of their British debts into the treasury; they were only invited to pay them; but, when it is considered that the object of the government was to prevent succors of any kind from going to the enemy, this invitation imposed a moral obligation on the citizens to comply with it. It was also the policy of the state to adopt this mode, because those indebted to the British might not otherwise have been known. This class of citizens ought not alone to fall sacrifices to the calamities of war. In many instances they have been ruined by making those payments, because that circumstance furnished evidence of the debts, which could not otherwise have been proved. Considering the engagement of the state as a contract of indemnity, she was bound to perform it in its full extent. In no instance has the scale been applied to such contracts. Mills vs. Bell , in this court establishes this principle. I do not mean to contend that because it was a public debt, it was not to be scaled; but I rely on the case of the Commonwealth vs. Beaumarchais, cited by the Attorney Genl, to prove that claims against the commonwealth were to be decided on the same principles, as those between individuals; and, this being a covenant to indemnify, the scale could not be applied to it. There is also an additional reason. All other creditors of the state, who held loan office certificates, were permitted to exchange them for money. But those who became creditors by depositing their money in payment of British debts, were expressly prohibited from drawing it out again. (Ch. Rev. p. 82.) Thus they were deprived of the use of the money, and prevented from applying it to the payment of other debts.
But it is said that those who made such deposits can only claim as they are authorized by particular laws. These laws are ex post facto ; and, although there is no positive provision in our constitution declaring that they are not valid, yet this court has uniformly decided against them. Besides, it is not in the power of the public, by its own ipse dixit , to alter its contracts with individuals. The general law for scaling debts, applied to all persons; but the act of 1796, is partial and violent in its operation, and made by one of the contracting parties only. Thus Philip II, king of Spain is said to have abolished all his debts, by his own act.
But, if I am mistaken on the main point, the Attorney General was equally mistaken on the other. The Chancellor fixed the scale, at the date of the payment into the treasury; which was surely right. In Pleasants vs. Bibb the court decided that, where it appeared from the documents that the contract was of anterior date to the bond, the scale should be applied at the time of the contract. The governor's receipt, in this case, refers to the loan office certificate; and like the certificate to Mills vs. Bibb , where the bond was to carry interest from a prior date. The governor had no power to receive the money: he could only give a receipt, founded on those of the treasurer in 1777 and 1778, which alone was evidence of the payment.
It is said that this point was settled in the case of the Commonwealth vs. Newton; & that the appellees are not entitled to a warrant, except under the act of 1796. I am of a different opinion, and consider that case as conclusive authority in our favor. Newton merely received his warrant for interest, without receiving a right to contend for further compensation, as in this case. There, too, although the act of Assembly said he should receive his principal debt out of a particular fund, yet, that fund proving unproductive, the court said his interest should neither be extinguished, nor the debt considered as paid. So here, if Walker cannot obtain justice by receiving payment under the particular provisions of the act of 1796, the court will look into the original transactions in order to effect it.
Rendelph, in reply. With respect to the grand principle involved in this case, Walker's executor is not the only person interested. Hundreds of others are now waiting the event of this decision, and should it be in favor of the appellee, the whole revenues of the state for many years to come would not be sufficient to satisfy their claims. I know that this circumstance will have no weight with this court; nor was it intended that it should. Public inconvenience, however, ought always to be a great obstacle to granting any claim; and nothing but the injunctions of particular laws can justify the granting this, which will be attended with such extraordinary consequences.
Not a law can be produced which gives the Auditor power to act upon this case. In 1777 and 1778, the money was paid into the treasury; and it could not be drawn out again until it was authorized by the act of 1796. By this law the scale was directed to be applied in a particular manner; and the officers of the government could only act under its positive laws.
But on the merits, the commonwealth was not bound to pay the full amount. Virginia, a sovereign state, and not even bound by the confederation, might well say to her citizens, "if you you will pay to me the money due from you to my enemies, I will protect you as long as my sovereignty continues." After this, a confederation of the states was formed, which being found inadequate, the people, (of whom the appellee's testator was one,) in their sovereign character, organized a new government, by which treaties were declared to be the supreme law of the land, and a judiciary was established, whose decisions, by virtue of a treaty subsequently made, annulled those payments. Can any thing be more unreasonable than the present claim? The sovereignty of the state would have been faithful to its contracts; but was prevented by an act to which the claimants were parties, which act took away that sovereignty.
If this case is considered on the ground of indemnity; Virginia is only answerable for damages. Where an individual undertakes to do a particular thing, and is prevented by a positive law, nothing more could surely be expected, than a retribution, according to the rate of the injury. What is the quantum of damage sustained by the appellee's testator? He paid money into the treasury in 1777 and 1778, far less valuable than specie. We are willing to pay the worth of this money, but not an imaginary value. The case of Mills vs. Bell , related to land , and is now within the reason of this case.
Groton and Puffendorf have been quoted, as if this question was now before the legislature. This is not the first time that the President of this court has been addressed as if he was sitting in the Speaker's chair, surrounded by the members of the general assembly.
Call. Mr. Randolph has mistaken the second point. The money was entirely paid in 1777 and 1778, for the British debt, and the certificate carried to the governor and council in 1779. With respect to the disability of the date, it is still lawful for the commonwealth to indemnify. Not so in the case of individuals.
Rendelph. The commonwealth said to her citizens, "by virtue of my jace , your payments shall operate as a discharge of your British debts." As far
as the law has said, Virginia shall not perform her contract in the manner in which she undertook.
Cur. adv. vult.
Thursday, Nov. 18th.—The Judges delivered their opinions.
Judge ROANE. This is an appeal from a decree of the Chancery Court for the Richmond District, rendered in favor of the appellee, upon an appeal from a decision by the Auditor. The testator of the appellee had paid into the treasury certain sums of money in November, 1777, and April, 1778, on account of a British debt due by him, and delivered the certificates thereof to the governor, who, on the 25th of May, 1779, granted his receipt for the same. Subsequent to the act of 1796, upon the subject of such payments the appellee applied for the said sums with interest but the officers of the commonwealth insisted on reducing them by the scale as on the 25th of May, 1779, and not as on the days when the aforesaid sums were paid into the treasury. The Chancellor decreed for the appellee the sums produced by the application of the scale, as on the days last mentioned. The appellee now insists that the Chancellor ought moreover to have decreed him interest from the days aforesaid. He also insists that those sums ought not to be scaled at all, but be repaid to him at the nominal amount, alleging, that he has been obliged to pay up in specie the whole of the British debt aforesaid, under a decision of the Supreme Court of the United States, on that subject.
This last question is extremely important, and, although not much pressed in the argument, must now receive the decision of the court. The act of 1777, ch. 9, under which those payments were made, strongly purports that such payments should operate a discharge of the British debts. At that time Virginia was a completely sovereign, and although she did not confiscate the British debts, she placed herself in the shoes of the creditor, and plighted the faith of the nation that the debtor should be thereby completely discharged. Nothing but the transfer of the sovereignty of Virginia into other hands, the extremity of state necessity, or the unparalleled circumstances and distresses of the revolutionary times, could justify that breach of the public faith, which gave rise to the present application. The situation of this state and of the other states in the union was such, however, during the revolution as scarcely to find a parallel in the history and events of other nations. The necessity for emitting large sums of paper money, caused an enormous depreciation in its value, and the commonwealth was unable to make good its engagements to the holders of that currency, which stipulated a redemption thereof in Spanish milled dollars. In various other views also, the plighted faith of the nation was violated in relation to all descriptions of our citizens, and eventuated in results which nothing but the most imperious and invincible necessity can excuse or justify. Subsequent events, arising from our treaties with Britain and regulations in favor of British subjects have exhibited this remarkable spectacle, that such subjects have been completely sheltered from those calamities which, resulting from the abolition of paper money, overwhelmed and ruined many of our citizens! Our political history has exhibited the rare phenomenon of a nation yielding greater attention to the interests of foreigners than of its own people, not only in relation to the British debts now in question, but in the institution of certain courts, principally with a view to the dispensation of justice, in cases wherein such foreigners are parties.
During the paper money era, payments actually made to creditors, operated a complete discharge of the nominal value; and the debtors to British subjects were only deprived of that advantage by the absence of the creditors. That circumstance has since been remedied by the act of 1777, had not the policy of the nation been afterwards retracted by stipulating a re-payment of the British debts in specie. It must be confessed however, that the value of the paper money paid into the treasury was far below what its nominal amount purported. It must also be admitted, that those debts have ever been gained by such payments in cases where they were not themselves indebted to others, or were prevented by any causes from making payments to such other persons in depreciated paper. In these cases, the money would have continued to depreciate in their hands, and have caused to them a total loss. Considerations of this kind tended to alleviate the regret the commonwealth must feel at the unavoidable rejection of the enormous claims of persons similarly circumstanced with the present appellee.
The act of 1777 does not confiscate the British debts; it only sequesters them, and places the commonwealth in the situation of a receiver of the money due to British subjects. The act indeed declares that the payments into the treasury shall discharge the debtors for so much as should be paid in; but, considering that the act does not confiscate the debts, and that consequently none, perhaps but the creditors could give regular discharges for them; the act ought, I think, to be considered as a covenant of indemnity to the debtors. It ought to be considered as a stipulation on the part of the then sovereign commonwealth of Virginia, that neither by any law, nor any treaty formed with another power, should that payment be affected, nor the debt be considered (in relation to the debtor) otherwise than as completely discharged. But the sovereignty of Virginia, as then existing has passed into other hands; first, into those of the government of the confederation, and lastly, into the hands of the present government of the U. States. All the citizens of this commonwealth were parties, and assenting to that change; and the covenant above spoken of, (if it now exists at all,) is obligatory on the general government only, whose laws and treaties, and the decisions of whose courts, have violated the faith of the commonwealth of Virginia, plighted by the act of 1777, to the injury of the present appellee. Nothing is more clear than that a sovereignty succeeding to another, also succeeds to all its just engagements, and that a nation shall not be held to a first performance of its contracts, after its power and character as such had passed away.
The liability of nations to revolutions and changes of this kind is always contemplated in contracts or agreements with individuals or others; and the case before us is the stronger against the appellee in the present instance, in that the changes now in question, was effected to by him in common with the other citizens of America. If, therefore, any redress exists for the appellee, touching the premises, it is to the government of the United States that he must apply, and not to the commonwealth of Virginia.
With respect to the question concerning the application of the scale in the case before us, I am of opinion that the Chancellor's construction upon the subject is correct. The act of 1777, confers the payment of the money into the loan office, as the payment on account of British debts, and the receipt of the governor has relation to such payment, and is an acquittance for so much as is paid by the debtor. I have examined a receipt by the governor in a case of this kind, which, though posterior in date to the certificate of the treasurer, recognizes the payment into the treasury as of a preceding day, on account of a British debt. The agency of the governor is limited to the receiving and preserving the evidences of payment, and to granting receipts thereupon pursuant to the act of 1777. Nothing is the act of the 3rd of January, 1788, or in that of the 19th December, 1796, referring thereto, gives any new rule on the subject, or varies that construction which existed independently thereof.
As the paper money was in a state of progressive and rapid depreciation, it is evident that the commonwealth has received more value in the case in question, than she would repay by applying the scale as on the 25th May, 1779. I am clearly of opinion that the same value (with interest) should be repaid, as was received by the commonwealth, which can only be by applying the scale at the respective dates when the monies in question were paid in. The sums produced by such application, with interest, (deducting the payment already made by the commonwealth) is what the appellee is entitled to receive, and with this variation as to interest, I approve of the Chancellor's decree.
Judges FLEMING, CARRINGTON and IYONS concurring, the following decree was entered.—Decree of the Chancellor reversed. And the Auditor directed to state and settle an account between
Walker and the commonwealth, crediting the payments made into the Loan Office by Walker for Farel and Jones, according to the scale at the respective days of payment with interest on each payment to the date of the payment made to his executor by the Treasurer, then charging such payment, and after deducting it, issue a warrant to the executor on the Treasurer for the balance then due, with interest from that date.
By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Mr. John Pendleton, deceased, to secure a debt therein mentioned, due to the estate of William Dandridge, deceased, I shall proceed to sell on the premises, upon the 26th day of the present month,
FOUR hundred acres of LAND, lying within the fork of the river road and the three chopped roads near Witham, and in the county of Henrico.
By consent of the executor of the said Dandridge, the terms of the sale will be as follows: One third payable in one year, one third in two years, and the residue in three years, the whole to carry interest from the date of the sale. The interest to be paid half yearly—and in case of failure to pay the interest punctually at the end of each half year, the principal to become due and payable on demand. The purchaser to execute a deed of trust on the property and to execute a bond with one approved security.
By virtue of the same deed of trust and with the like consent, I shall on the 30th day of the present month, offer for sale at public auction at the door of the Eagle-Tavern, fifteen likely slaves consisting of men, women and children, or so many thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy and pay any residue of the aforesaid debt, interest and the expenses accruing under the trust, which the Land aforesaid may not be sufficient to discharge. On the falls of slaves a credit of one year from the date of the sale will be given.—The purchaser paying interest half yearly, and giving bond with two approved securities.
Jan. 5. JOHN ADAMS, Trustee.
In pursuance of a Deed of Trust, executed by John Pendleton, deceased, to secure the payment of a debt to John A. Chevallie, therein mentioned, and the expenses of the trust.
Will be sold on the premises, on the 26th of this month, one hundred and fifty acres of WOOD LAND, including a Saw-Mill lately erected, situated between the Three Notched and River Roads, on Witham creek, in Henrico county, about 4 or 5 miles above Richmond. By permission of Mr. Chevallie, a credit of twelve months will be given on one half of the purchase money, and eighteen months on the balance. Bond with personal security, to be approved by Mr. Chevallie, to bear interest from the day of sale, and a deed of trust to insure punctuality in the payments will be required of the purchaser.
Jan. 5. J. HOPKINS, Trustee.
In pursuance of authority given me by the heirs of John Pendleton deceased, by their deed bearing date the second day of January, 1807, to sell the property mentioned in a Deed of Trust, executed by John Pendleton, in his lifetime, to Thomas Norvell and John Fox, to secure the payment of a debt, therein mentioned, to Pickett, Pollard and Johnson, which becomes due the first day of April next.
I shall offer for sale, on the 26th of this month, on the premises, the highest bidder, one thousand acres of LAND, lying on the north side of the Three Notched road, about four miles above Richmond. The terms of sale are, one half of the purchase money on the first day of January 1809, on personal security, to be approved by Pickett, Pollard and Johnson, and a deed of trust on the land, to insure punctuality in the payments, the purchase money carrying interest from the first day of April next. The land will be laid off into lots of one hundred acres, in order to render it convenient to persons inclined to purchase a less quantity than the whole tract. A considerable part of this is wood land, and will no doubt suit persons residing in town, who like to have farms convenient thereto. A plat of the land will be shewn on the day of sale, with a description of each lot. The Turnpike established from Richmond to the Deep Run Coal pits runs through a part of this land.
On the 29th of the same month, on the premises, the Brick House in Richmond, and one half of lot No. — being the house between the one now occupied by Mr. James H. Lynch and Mr. Orris Paine's house, occupied by Mr. Emmett. This property will be sold on credits of 3, 6 and 9 months, the purchaser giving the same for security as is required on the land, and the purchase money to carry interest from the same time; and on the same day, will also be sold on the premises, the lot No. 631, on which there is a Wood House partly finished, and just above the one above described. A credit of three months will be allowed on about 520 dollars of the purchase money—six months on about 525 dollars and nine months for the balance, the whole bearing interest from the day of sale. Bonds with security, to be approved by Spotwood Lipcomb will be required on the two first payments, and a bond with security to be approved by Pickett, Pollard and Johnson will be required on the last payment, and a deed of trust as on the other property.
Will also be sold in pursuance of the same authority, at the Eagle-Tavern in Richmond, on the 30th of the same month, twenty likely slaves, consisting of men, women and children, among these are some very likely young men and women, some of whom are said to be capable of making valuable house servants, as also some elderly women said to be pretty well acquainted with house business, washing, cooking, &c. A credit till the first of October next, will be given on these falls the purchasers giving notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with indorsers to be approved by Pickett, Pollard and Johnson. The purchase money to bear interest from the first of April next, which interest is to be added to the principal, and included in the notes.
Jan. 5. GEO. PICKETT, Commissioner.
Will be sold at the Eagle-Tavern, in Richmond, on the day mentioned in the above advertisement, for the sale there, of the slaves of John Pendleton, deceased, as are not sold under the deed of trust alluded to in that advertisement, or any deed of trust by which they are conveyed. These slaves are generally of the description mentioned above, and will be sold on a credit of twelve months, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the day of sale.
Will also be sold on the day the land mentioned in the above advertisement is sold, at the plantation of the said John Pendleton, deceased, a small flock of Cattle, six Mules, a Waggon and sundry Plantation Utensils, and such Plank and Scantling belonging to the estate, as may remain unsold. A credit of twelve months will be given for all sums above ten dollars, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the day of sale.
Jan. 5, 1807. N. B. The sale of the above Land will commence at the Mill on Witham creek.
JOHN TOMPKINS, HAS received an assortment of GOODS Consisting of FLANNELS, Coatings, Blankets, Role and Duffel, Drabs, Prizes, Kerseys, Peanought, Cloths, Carpets and Carpeting, Bombazettes, Swansdown, Patent Cord, Powder and Shot, Dowlas, Sheetings, Kerseys, Calicoes and Muslins, &c. &c. which he will dispose of on very liberal terms, by the piece or package. Nov. 14.
TO RENT. For the present year. An excellent House SERVANT, who can be recommended for his honesty, sobriety and attention to his business. Also a BOY about thirteen, accustomed to be with children and wait in the House, Enquire of the Editor, or at the Loan Office. January 22.
FOR SALE. A TENEMENT, being part of Lot No. 196 adjoining Mrs. Sarah Lutter's at Rocketts; lately occupied by captain Benjamin Colver; it is a commodious Dwelling House, in good repair. For terms, apply to Mr. Richard Young, near the premises, or to the subscriber at Baltimore. STEPHEN COLVER. Jan. 22.
In pursuance of a Resolution of the Common Council for the City of Richmond, passed at a called meeting thereof, on the 20th of January, 1807, NOTICE is hereby given, that the Common Hall will proceed, at the next monthly meeting, to appoint a Captain of the Night watch for the city. N. SHEPPARD, C. C. H. January 22.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to me, for the purpose therein mentioned, by Gideon Hatcher, dec'd, of the county of Goochland, bearing date the 14th day of February 1804, will be sold at public sale for ready money, on Saturday the 14th day of February next, in the county of Goochland, at the place generally known by the name of the Little Stone.
TWO very likely NEGROE MEN, one by the name of Elijah, the other by the name of Daniel. Wm. GATIS. January 22.
NOTICE. THE Subscriber requests all indebted to him by bond or on open account, to discharge their respective debts. This notification is given in consequence of his declining the Mercantile business in Manchester, and intention to remove, therefore the necessity of an immediate compliance with it by those who wish to avoid law suits. COLLIN MCRAE. January 22.
MCCAY & COWAN, HAVE received by the late arrivals from London, a large and fashionable assortment of Gold and Silver WATCHES, with a variety of articles of Jewellery and Silver Work. Also, an assortment of Watch Makers TOOLS and materials; which, with their former stock, renders their assortment very general. All of which they offer at the most reduced prices for cash. December 13.
ANDREW JAMIESON'S ALEXANDRIA CRACKERS, Now Landing, A CONSIGNMENT by Mr. Jamieson, direct from the Bakery, of his far-fam'd excellent Crackers, in barrels, half bbls. and kegs. Also superfine Pilot-Bread, in bbls. and for sale, (at the Bakery price in Alexandria, and charges,) at the store lately occupied by Messrs. Granberry and Hancock, by JAMES SMITH. Who has in store, low-priced blue back lit. Cloth, and assorted Flannels, which he will sell at a bargain. Also—India Piece Goods—cheap. Dec. 2.
VIRGINIA MILITARY WARRANTS! THE owners of these warrants are respectfully informed, that by an act of Congress passed the 23rd March 1804, the time of locating is proscribed to the 23rd March next, and that there are doubts whether the time will be prolonged. The Subscriber offers his services to the holders of such warrants (either where they are unlocated or where the locations are doubtful) to locate, survey, and procure the patents, at his own expenses, for such as may employ him—for which services he will expect an equal fourth part of the Lands; and should there be any dispute, or defect in the title, which may arise in that part of the business done by him, he will take the part disputed or defective. From the general acquaintance he has with the territory referred, and his great exertions to discover the true situation of the claims therein, he flatters himself, that his locations will be equal to those of any other locator. Where claims are doubtful, he will undertake to furnish the best information respecting them, and act as their owner may direct; for which services he will expect a reasonable commission out of the Land when secured. Persons wishing to employ him will forward proper powers, directed to him at Chillicothe, Ohio, his place of residence.—Letters intended to meet him at the office before the 23rd March, will be addressed to him at Middle-town, Jefferson County, Kentucky.—Persons writing to him, and not employing him, need not expect answers. JOSEPH KERR. January 22.
FOR SALE. A GOOD BILL on Louisville, Kentucky, for $ or 900 dollars.—APPLY TO B. W. COLEMAN, Bowling Green, Va. Jan. 22.
FOR SALE, By the Subscriber, Brandy, Molasses, Loaf & Brown Sugar, Coffee and Chocolate, Best Imperial and Hyson Tea, Pepper, Race and ground Ginger, Nutmegs & Cloves, Windsor shaving Soap, Linseed and Lamp Oil, White Lead and Spanish Brown, Yellow Ochre, Patent Green ground in oil, 8 by 10 & 10 by 12 Window Glass, 2d, 3d, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d & 20d Nails and Spike do. Barr Iron of all descriptions, square, flat and round Plowshares, German Steel, Fire dogs & Skillets, Powder and Shot, Liverpool Salt for pork, best Bales Salt for Pork, Saltpeetre & Brimstone, 600 pair Mens thick Shoes, men's fine shoes, boys do. Ladies Kid and Morocco Slippers, Table Linen and Table sheeting, Bare Skin, blue and mixed Plains, Patent Cord and Thicksets, Writing and Wrapping Paper, Paste Board, Cotton and Wool Cards, a few barrels Mackarel, Nova Scotia Herrings, do. Grindstones. Also, just received from Boston. One Piano Forte, one elegant Piano Forte with additional keys. The above articles will be sold cheap for cash or country produce, or 60 days note at the bank. BENJ. STETSON. Jan. 22.
FOR SALE—OR RENT, MY TENEMENT in Manchester, pleasantly situated on the hill, which overlooks the Falls Plantation, and containing suitable accommodations for a family.—At any time when I may be out of town, application may be made to Mr. Henry L. Bibb. JAMES WENDERSON. January 22.
THE Subscriber, has taken the Store lately occupied by Granberry and Hancock, where he offers for sale at reduced prices, A consignment from the Bales assorted Flannels Manufacturer, Also a few bales of India piece Goods. JAMES SMITH. October 26.