The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1808-10-21 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 5.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1808.
[No. 50.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE UNION TAVERN, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
State of Ten- Granbery & Han- IN EQUITY, neessee, Wash- cook's Sept. Term, inson district. David Ross deft. 1808.
THE complainants having filed their Bill in this Court, and therein stated, that both the said complainants and defendants are citizens and inhabitants of the state of Virginia, that the said complainants have recovered in said state of Virginia, against said defendant, two several judgments: The one for the sum of four thousand six hundred and twenty five dollars, with interest thereon from the first day of July, 1807, until paid, besides cost of suit. The other, for the sum of five thousand six hundred and thirty eight dollars and three cents, with interest thereon, from the first day of April, 1807, until paid, besides cost of suit; that those judgments were recovered upon contracts, made in the said state of Virginia, and that upon each of those judgments, a writ of fieri facias had issued, and been returned, that there was no property of the defendant found, out of which to satisfy said judgments - and praying that the property of the said defendant, which lies in the state of Tennessee, may be made liable to the payment of said debts. It is therefore ordered, by said court, That the said David Ross appear here at a court of equity, to be held for this district, at the court house in Jonesborough, on the first Monday of March next, and answer the bill of the said complainants, otherwise the same will be taken pro confesso. It is also further ordered, by said court, That a copy of this order be published for six weeks next, immediately after the rise of this court, in some news paper printed in Knoxville, in this state, and that a copy thereof be twice published in some news paper published in the city of Richmond, in the state of Virginia. A Copy. Teste, JAS. V. ANDERSON, Clerk and Master in Equity. [24]
VALUABLE LAND for sale.-By virtue of three several deeds of trust, executed by Edward Bolling of the county of Goochland, as follows, (to wit.) one executed to Frederick Harris and Wm. Miller, on the 14th day of July, 1806 - one other executed to Charles F. Bates & Wm. Miller, on the 20th day of October, 1806 - And one other executed to Wm. Miller and Joseph Shelton, on the 22d day of June, 1807, and all of them of record in the county court of Goochland - Will be exposed to sale, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at the front door of Goochland court house, on Friday the 18th day of November next, the tract of LAND whereon the said Edward Bolling at present resides, lying on James River, in the county aforesaid, about three miles above the court house, or so much of the said tract as shall be sufficient to satisfy the several sums of money in the said deeds mentioned, or the balances thereof, which are still due, with all interest accruing thereon, and all costs and expenses as specified in the aforesaid deeds of trust, by THE TRUSTEES. October 18. [lawids]
NOTICE - Cash given for Northern & Southern Bank NOTES at a moderate discount by SIMPSON MORRIS. (ff) Richmond, Sept 14.
LAND AND NEGROES to be rented and hired - On Monday the 19th day of December next, if fair, if not the next fair day, I will let for the term of three years, a tract of LAND in the county of Louisa, known by the name of the Healing Springs, containing about 1300 acres - On this tract there is about 800 acres of open land, in good order for cropping, 120 acres of which are creek and river low-grounds, of prime quality - 120 bushels of bearded wheat will be immediately and carefully seeded, one half of which will be sown in tobacco land. The Mineral Springs on this tract were much frequented when kept as a public place, their virtues are attested by Physicians of the first eminence, and some late and surprising cures, have, beyond all controversy, established their value and their powers. There are several roomy and convenient houses, all of which (except one small house or chamber kept for my own use,) will be let with the land. At the same time and place, will be hired 20 valuable crop hands, consisting of Men, Women, Boys and Girls. I am willing to divide the land in parts, and hire the negroes separately, but should be better pleased, and would make some abatement, if I could meet with any proper person who would undertake the whole. At the same time and place, will be sold 12 valuable work Mules, the stock of Cattle, Sheep & Hogs, plantation Tools, 200 bbls. of Corn, Taps and Blades, 300 bushels of Oats, and some Hay, one light Coach, with harness for two horses, one Sull, several articles of valuable Furniture, consisting of Mahogany Tables, Chairs and Couch, sundry Walnut Tables & Windsor Chairs, large Looking Glasses in gilt frames, a quantity of China, Queen's and Glass Ware, Kitchen Furniture, &c. &c. &c. to be enumerated. For all purchases under 15 dols. each will be required - for all between 15 and a 100, twelve months credit will be given - and for all purchases over 100 dols. I will wait two years, but in every case, bonds with the most undoubted security will be required, bearing interest from the date, unless punctually paid. GEO. FLEMING. Healing Springs, Oct. 7. [ff]
BANK NOTES, as below described, were put into the post office at this place on 27th May last, enclosed in a letter addressed to Messrs John Warder and Sons, Philadelphia, and which letter has never been received; it is therefore apprehended that the bank notes may have fallen into improper hands; and should such appear in circulation, we earnestly request that they may be stopped. Any satisfactory information regarding them will be thankfully received, and if required, liberally rewarded. BUCHANAN & POLLOCK. Petersburg, July 5. (ff)
Bank of Virginia payable at their Office of Discount and Deposit Petersburg, to Robert Birch President thereof or Bearer.   B No. 342 9th February 1805, $ 100  C 896 6th July, 100  D 153. 7th February, 100  394 9th - 100  700 6th May, 100  753 7th - 100  788 - - 100  $ 700 
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS - The subscriber respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, in the above line of business and solicits their patronage. G. GREENHOW. Dec. 15. [lawids]
A FEW boxes of 18 by 12 Window GLASS, of the first quality for sale - Enquire at this Office. Oct. 14. [ff]
EUROPE.
Continuation of Foreign Intelligence from London Papers to the 26th Aug. received at the Office of the Mercantile Advertiser.
LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, Wednesday, Aug. 24. Admiralty Office, Aug. 23.
Dispatches of which the following are copies, have been this day received at this office, from Rear Adm. Keats, addressed to the hon. Wm. Wellesley Pole:
Superb, of Sproe, in the Great Belt, August 13, 1808. SIR - I have the honor herewith to transmit a copy of my letters to Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, relative to the escape and embarkation of great part of the Spanish army serving in this part of Europe; an event produced as well by the honor, patriotism, and talents of its distinguished chief, as by the assistance and protection which I was directed by their Lordships' orders to afford it.
If the weather proves moderate, I hope to disembark on the greater part of the island of Langeland this day, where we have already a post of two thousand five hundred men.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) R. G. KEATS. To the Hon. W. W. Pole, Secretary, &c. Superb, off Sproe, in the Great Belt, August 11, 1808.
SIR - I have the honor and satisfaction to inform you that by an immediate and zealous pursuit of the measures recommended in the duplicate of instructions received by the Musquito on the 5th instant, his Excellency the marquis de la Romana, and nearly six thousand of the Spanish troops under his command, were embarked this morning at Nyborg, which place he took possession of on the 9th.
By a combination of the same plan, more than one thousand have joined us this morning by sea, from Jutland, and another thousand are thrown into Langeland, to strengthen the post held by the Spanish forces, in that island, where it is proposed to land the remainder the moment circumstances of the weather will permit of our moving. The arrival of the Spanish officer in the Edgar, on the 5th, of whose spirited escape to the squadron you were informed by capt. Graves, greatly facilitated our means of communication.
No doubt could be entertained of the honor and patriotism of soldiers, who indignant at the proposal of deserting their allegiance, tho' surrounded by hostile battalions, planted their colours in the centre of a circle they formed, and swore on their knees to be faithful to their country. All were equally anxious of returning to it. But one regiment in Jutland was too distant and too critically situated to effect its escape; and two in Zealand, after having fired on the French, Gen. Frison, who commanded them, and killed one of his aid-de-camps, have been disarmed.
Some untoward circumstances having occasioned suspicion, and made a premature execution of the plan necessary, the wind & current being adverse, I left the Superb on the 8th, and went in my barge to the Brunswick, off Nyborg, and two hours after my flag was hoisted. On the 9th the General took possession of the town.
Although the Danish garrison yielded, to circumstances, an armed brig of eighteen guns, the Fama, and a cutter, the Salorman, of twelve, moored across the harbour near the town, rejected all remonstrance on the part of the Danes, and every offer of security made by the General and myself. The reduction of these vessels being absolutely necessary, and the Spanish general unwilling to act hostily against Denmark, such small vessels and boats as could be collected were put under the command of captain M'Namara, of the Edgar, who attacked and took them. On this occasion I have to lament the loss of Lieutenant Harvey, an officer of much merit of the Superb, and two seamen wounded; the enemy had seven killed and thirteen wounded.
I should have noticed that the Spaniards, irritated at the opposition their friends who came to their support met with, departed in some measure from the General's intention, and fired some shot at them before they struck.
Expedition being deemed of the greatest importance, I shifted my flag to the Hound in the Harbour; and as neither of the three ships of line, from circumstances of the weather, could be brought near in, 57 sloops or doggers, found in the port, were fitted by the seamen into which great part of the artillery, baggage, and stores, were embarked that night and the following day, and removed to the point of Slysham, four miles from Nyborg, where the army was embarked safely, & without opposition, this morning notwithstanding the very unfavorable state of the weather, & they are now under the protection of his majesty's ships at the anchor off the island of Sproe.
Some sacrifices of horses and stores were conceived necessary by the general; and as I considered it right, under the peculiar circumstances, to enter into the views and wishes of the Marquis de la Romana, every avoidable act of hostility was rigidly abstained from, for I did not consider it any to bring away the brig & cutter that rejected our offer of security, & forcibly opposed our entrance into the port; and I even undertook to liberate the vessels employed as transports, provided no interruption was made by any to the peaceable embarkation of our friends.
I should be unjust to the meritorious exertions of the officers and seamen employed on this short but fatiguing service, if I neglected to represent their merits on this occasion to you; capt. Graves's services were required at capt. M'Namara's of the Edgar, undertook the equipment of the transports, with the embarkation of the stores, was made under the direction of capt. Jackson, of the Superb, and capt. Lucier of the
Hound; capt. Smith, of the Devastation, and capt. James of the Kite, were indefatigable in their exertions in the various duties I assigned them. Many circumstances having combined to make an attack on the rear probable, great precaution was necessary.
Such guns as could be brought against us were spiked, and the embarkation was covered and most effectually protected by the Minx gun-brig and by the two prizes; and by the very judicious disposition of the gun-boats, under the command of Capt. May, of the royal artillery, who volunteered, and whose services on this and other occasions were highly useful.
It is not easy to express the joy and satisfaction felt by every class of the army at this event; and no circumstance, I believe, could have afforded more real pleasure to us all. One, the regiment of Zamora, made a march of eighteen Danish miles in twenty-one hours.
I have the Honor to be, &c. (Signed) R. G. KEATS. Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, &c. &c.
NOTE - Since this letter was concluded, we entertain some hopes that part of the regiment in Jutland, we thought lost, has escaped to the post of Langeland, by the Western Channel.
PROCLAMATION
By sir Charles Cotton, bart. admiral of the blue, &c. commander in chief.
Inhabitants of Portugal. Deputies having reached me, from all parts of the kingdom, soliciting succour, aid, and assistance, and stating to me the loyal, brave and manly determination of the people of Portugal to establish the government of their lawful prince, and emancipate their country from French oppression.
I send, agreeable to your request, ships, troops, arms, and ammunition, and have directed the standard of his royal highness the prince regent of Portugal to be reared, round which every loyal Portuguese is hereby invited immediately to rally, and take up arms in so just and glorious a cause.
To be successful, Portuguese, you must be unanimous; and joined by your brave neighbors and friends, the Spaniards, you must not be intimidated by menaces, nor seduced by promises.
Some months' experience must have convinced you of the effect of French friendship; it is now to British aid and assistance, aided by your own energy and efforts, that you will, I trust, be indebted for the restoration of your prince and the independence of your country. (Signed) "C. COTTON."
Hibernia, off the Tagus, July 4th. The Editor of the MERCANTILE ADVERTISER is indebted to his Boston correspondent for Halifax papers to the 30th of Sept. received yesterday, from which the following articles are copied:
HALIFAX, Sept. 27. On the 25th arrived his majesty's ship Euridyce. She left Plymouth, E. on the 17th of August - arrived at Oporto on the 24th - off Lisbon on the 31st, and on the morning of the 1st instant, took her departure for this place.
The intelligence she has brought is very important.
SURRENDER OF THE FRENCH ARMY. On the 19th of August near Maira, there was a partial action between the British army, under the command of Sir Arthur Wellesley, and the French under Gen. Junot, in which the former lost upwards of 400 men and two field officers: one of whom it was said was col. Lake of the 29th regiment, which with the German legion suffered severely.
On the 21st, a general action took place; Junot's army was completely defeated, with the loss of 5000 men, in killed, wounded and prisoners; our loss was 800. On the night of the 22d, "an agreement for the suspension of hostilities between the British and French armies, preparatory to an arrangement of a convention for the evacuation of Portugal by the latter," was entered into. - On the 30th, the convention was completed: Junot and his army were to march out of Lisbon with the honors of war and to return to France in British transports, which were assembling in the Tagus. The French, while the outlines of the convention were in discussion, urged that the Russian ships should be permitted to return home, which was refused, and their surrender, we have no doubt, was made early in the present month. Junot's army, at the time of its surrender, amounted to 15,000 men.
The troops under the command of Sir Henry Burrard were landing at Peniche during the action of the 31st. Joseph Bonaparte is said to have taken a strong position at Burgos, about 117 miles from Madrid, with 40,000 men.
The following copy of a letter from Sir A. Wellesley to capt. Malcolm of his majesty's ship Donegal, was received by the Euridyce:
CAMP AT HOWELLA, 23d Aug. 1808. SIR, I have the honor to inform you that an agreement for the suspension of hostilities, between the British and French armies, preparatory to an arrangement of a convention for the evacuation of Portugal by the latter, was signed last night by direction of the Commander in chief.
The commander in chief has directed me to inform you, that he has received orders to send to England all the horse ships now in Portugal, with the exception of those which will have brought out the 18th, Light Dragoons; and he concludes you will receive orders from the Admiral to send them to England without loss of time.
He wishes however, that all the other transports, whether in the Mondego River, at Oporto, or off Mondego, should be brought to the mouth of the Tagus, without loss of time, and he has desired me to request, that you will give directions that they may be sent to that station. - I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) A. WELLESLEY. To Capt. Malcolm H. M. ship Donegal.
NEW-YORK, October 15. VERY LATE LONDON NEWS. Last evening arrived at this port the British Packet Lord Chesterfield, Gibson, in the remarkably short passage of 31 days from Falmouth, via Halifax, in 7 days from the latter port. Passeengers, Mr. Davie Bethune, merchant in this city; captain Burke, of do. Mr. Chepnel, of Petersburg Virginia, Mr. Baily, Mr. Hiatt and lady, Mr. Alexander Halliday, Mr. Jolly, and captain Andrew Pinckham, of Nantucket: the latter gentleman took his passage from Halifax in a schooner or Boston.
Mr. Bethune left London on the 7th of September, and is the bearer of Dispatches from Mr. Pinckney, our minister at the court of St. James, to the Secretary of State.
We learn verbally by the packet, that our affairs with Great Britain, were likely to be amicably settled, and in a short time; - and that a French Senatus-Consultum had petitioned the Emperor Bonaparte to withdraw his troops from Spain, and leave the kingdom to the Patriots.
The Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser, has received by the Packet, London papers to the 10th of September, (14 days later than any previous advices) from which the following articles are selected. They compose a very small part of the great mass of intelligence which these papers contain, and which we shall continue to detail from day to day, until every interesting circumstance has been given to our readers.
LONDON, Sept. 1. A mail from Gottengburgh arrived this morning. The only article it has brought is the following; but, the report of an action between the British and Russian fleet is, we understand, unfounded.
GOTTENBURGH, Aug. 19. General Armfeldt did not resign the command of the western army to General Cederstrom, as was first reported.
Private letters of to-day's post from Stockholm report, that the Russian fleet, which appeared off Oldensholm on the 6th August, was met on the 12th, by an English fleet and totally put to the route. This appears rather incredible, as we cannot conceive that a sufficient number of ships for the purpose could have been so high up in the Baltic at that time.
The Brest fleet is said to have put to sea again. The postscript to a letter from an Officer of the Minuoca frigate, says briefly - "the French fleet are again out." So great is the distress of the Islands of Guadalupe and Martinique for provisions, that every effort will be made to relieve them. This, of course, will produce on our part the most active measures to prevent them. It is true that the Toulon squadron put to sea with troops on board, it may be that the West Indies, and not the Atlantic Islands was their destination. - But it is probable that Martinique and Guadalupe will fall before any succours can reach them from Europe.
The expedition against Bilbao is said not to have been undertaken with the view of keeping possession, but of plundering it. - After the houses and inhabitants had been pillaged of their most valuable property, the French banditti are reported to have evacuated the town and retired to Vittoria.
Our commerce with Spain is already become very considerable. One house in London has received an order from that country for coarse woollens, sufficient to clothe 20,000 troops. Trade is looking up in the West Riding; and the intercourse between this country and Spain is already of great advantage.
Very considerable supplies of arms and ammunition have been sent from the ports in the Northwest of Spain, to the Biscayans.
September 2. COMPLETE DEFEAT OF GENERAL JUNOT, AND PROPOSALS FOR THE SURRENDER OF HIS ARMY. The glorious intelligence we have to announce, will delight every heart, though we are persuaded that every one of our readers was prepared to expect it. The British arms have been eminently victorious over the French in Portugal in two battles, and long before this time, to use the words of General Castanos after the surrender of Dupont, we have no doubt, "that not a Frenchman remains in arms throughout the kingdom of Portugal."
The Park and Tower guns were fired this morning at 8 o'clock, in honor of these great victories. The glorious intelligence was brought about 8 o'clock last night to Lord Castlereagh's Office by capt. Campbell. It was soon after communicated by his Lordship to the Lord Mayor.
COPY. Downing Street, September 1, 1808.
"MY LORD - I have the honor to acquaint your Lordship, the Captain Campbell arrived this evening with dispatches from Lieutenant General Sir Arthur Wellesley, dated Vimiera, the 22d ult. giving an account of two victories obtained over the French arms in Portugal - the first on the 17th at Zambujeira, over the Advanced Corps of the French consisting of 6000 men, commanded by Generals Laborde and Brenier, in which the French were defeated with the loss of 1500 men, killed wounded, and prisoners; the second over the whole of the French Army in Portugal consisting of 14000 men, commanded by General Junot, where the French were completely defeated, with the loss of 13 pieces of cannon, 23 tumbrils of ammunition, and about 3,500 men, in killed, wounded, and prisoners.
"In consequence of this action, General Kellerman arrived with a flag of Truce at Head-Quarters on the 22d, to treat for terms.
"Lieutenant General Burrard landed, and arrived in the field of action after the battle had commenced on the 21st ult.; but he generously declined taking the command from Sir Arthur Wellesley. On the 22d, Lieutenant General Sir Hugh Dalrymple landed, and took the command.
I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) CASTLEREAGH. To the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, &c."
Private letters are said to have been received in town this morning, stating that the ports of Holland are open for the exportation of all goods except leather, bark and salt.
September 5. A transport which left Massena on the 26th, is arrived at Penzance; she brings accounts that Sir John Moore's army was there with the Audacious 74 guns; that our army nor the French had made any change of position subsequent to the 23d; that an armistice had been agreed on, and that a General officer had been detached to Sir C. Cotton with particulars.
Accounts have been received, which state, that in consequence of some movements which had been observed among the French troops, our commander in the Baltic had found it necessary to remove all the Spanish troops from Langeland, which had been effectually done, and they were conveyed to Gottengburgh, (9,000 men and 200 women,) where the transports for bringing them to England are arrived by this time.
Orders had been received at Deal for the immediate embarkation of the brigade of Guards there. This brigade at Chatham is also to embark - other regiments will join them, and this fresh embarkation will consist of about 10,000 men.
The embarkation at Cork, has been suspended.
A private letter we have received from Sicily, dated the 13th July, mentions an insurrection to have broken out at Rome. - We shall not be surprised to find insurrections break out in every part of Italy. Twenty thousand men might be advantageously employed in that quarter at present.
The opening of the Ports of Holland is a most important fact. It is conjectured that this has been done by Bonaparte for the purpose of supplying the colonies of Guadalupe and Martinique with provisions and other necessaries, of which they are in the greatest need. Others conjecture that he fears disturbances will break out in Holland, and thinks that by opening the ports he shall conciliate the Dutch and keep them quiet. - At any rate the measure furnishes a further proof of the wisdom of the policy that dictated our Orders in Council.
Saturday morning the Thunderer, of 74 guns, capt. Talbot, was released from quarantine at Portsmouth. She sailed from Palermo on the 27th of July. On her passage to Gibraltar, she spoke a Spanish boat, which told her that four of her ships of the line were at anchor to the eastward of Barcelona, and that they had destroyed a convoy going with troops from Toulon to Barcelona. - Dupont arrived at Cadiz on the 13th ult. On his arrival, the mob insisted on searching his baggage, in which they found vast quantities of church plate. He was badly wounded by the mob. - The Thunderer took from Palermo to Gibraltar, Prince Leopold, second son of the King of Naples. He is sent by his father to claim the Regency of Spain as next heir to the crown of Spain.
We mentioned a rumour on Saturday, circulated on the authority of a letter from Oporto, that there had been another action after the glorious victory of Vimiera, in which the French general Loison, with five thousand men, had been killed. Junot and Lefebvre prisoners on their way to Coimbra and Oporto, as the British General would not concede to them any honors; that 38 waggons loaded with plunder had been taken; that the Russians, as soon as the French left the capital, hoisted Portuguese colours, and that there had been a naval engagement, in which the English destroyed a French squadron, which was conveying to Portugal Prince Eugene, (our King's) with several thousand men to reinforce Junot.
No such intelligence has been received by government, and no credit is to be attached to the rumor.
Some letters from Holland, received on Saturday, mention that many members of the Confederation of the Rhine had manifested reluctance to assemble their quota, conformably with the spirit and stipulations of the celebrated league. In Wirtemberg, it is said, the inhabitants rose en-masse to resist a conscription which the king had recourse to for furnishing his contingent.
Letters from the British squadron off the Tagus mention, that a deputation from Lisbon had a conference with Sir C. Cotton on the subject of a general rising on the French, and that he dissuaded them from it until the British troops should have landed and approach the town.
A letter from Cadiz contains the following summary of the plunder taken by the Spanish armies from Dupont:
Seven thousand suits of military clothing; 37,000 muskets packed up; 120 pieces of cannon; 36 mortars; 185 coaches; 2000 excellent horses; 2,000 ammunition carts; 6,000,000 of hard dollars and the military chest; all the plate stolen at Cordova, and the other places through which the French army marched, had been melted into bars.
September 6.
The intelligence brought by the transport which is arrived at Penzance from Massena, was not official intelligence brought to government. - Ministers have not received any accounts from Sir Arthur Wellesley later than those contained in the Extraordinary Gazette - But the Portuguese Ambassador is understood to have accounts, dated the evening of the 25th, and the transport left Massena on the 26th. - The landing of Sir John Moore at Massena, in the rear of the French army, would quicken the surrender of the enemy. The British army was on the 25th at Torres Vedras; the Portuguese at Mafra; and the French in the same position to which they had retreated after the battle of the 21st. General Kellerman continued in the British camp until the evening of the 24th, when he set out for the head quarters of General Junot, with the terms of capitulation, as signed by him, for the sanction of his Chief; and in the mean time an armistice was agreed upon, the duration of which was to depend upon the decision of General Junot, in respect to the terms upon which it was proposed he should surrender his army.
The officer who had been sent from our army to Sir Charles Cotton, is reported to have been the bearer of the terms of capitulation; Sir Charles' sanction being neces-

sary on account of the surrender of the Russian fleet in the Tagus, being one of the Articles of the Capitulation.
The removal of the Spanish troops from Langeland was deemed prudent in consequence of Bernadotte being in Fünen, with 9000 troops, with which it was supposed he would attempt to pass over to Langeland. Immediately after the arrival of the Spanish troops at Gottenburg, eighteen victuallers arrived from England.
The two Spanish regiments in Zealand, have laid down their arms, and expressed their determination not to fight against the English.
A letter we have received from an officer of a ship in the Great Belt, gives us some reason to expect, that an action will take place with the Russian fleet in the Baltic.
We are in expectation of receiving news of importance from Italy—a descent upon Naples is said to be in contemplation. In a letter we have received from Sicily, there is a passage which mentions the frequent exchanges of flags of truce between Naples and Sicily.
The following are the goods permitted to be exported from Holland:—Butter, geese, geneva, earthen ware, rushes, flower roots, tiles and pans, hoops, dried hides, cambricks, leather, plants, pepper, pipes, Sach. Saturni, ground bark, bricks, starch, tobacco, faras, flax, fruits, clover, garden and flower seeds;—madders.
September 7. The Musquito sloop arrived at Yarmouth yesterday, with the intelligence of the Russian fleet of 11 sail of the line being off Stockholm—Sir James Saumarez was on the 22d ult. at Carserona, and our squadron which had on the 19th received information of the Russians being at sea, were making every effort to give them the meeting.
A letter received from on board the Conqueror, off Lisbon, dated the 23d ult. says, that our fleet were clearing for action, expecting every moment to see our troops on the hills above Lisbon.
That war between Austria and France is on the eve of breaking out, there can be little doubt. Three French camps that have been ordered to be formed in Bavaria and Saxony, have been commanded to hold themselves in readiness. The French troops have been withdrawn from Silesia, and Bonaparte is certainly expected at Strasbourg. The preparations of Austria correspond with the importance of the occasion; and the Archduke Charles is to have the command in chief with unlimited power. The Archduke John and the other Princes are to have separate commands; and Austria seems resolved to bring into this contest all her resources; to corpore regni . If Germany catch the spirit that has animated Spain, we may expect to see victory declare against France on the Banks of the Danube, as well as on the Banks of the Ebro or the Guadalquivir; and the French may be doomed to find in Germany, not another Ulm and Austerlitz, and Jena, but another Baylen, Valencia, and Saragossa.
According to accounts lately received in Holland from France, Bonaparte is not disposed to abandon his design of establishing his brother upon the throne of Spain. The protection of the coast of France has been hitherto confined to a description of troops who were unfit for more active service. These, we understand, have lately received orders to march for Spain. The more efficient part of this army he reserves for other purposes.
Another of these revolutions, which are so frequent in Turkish history, has taken place at Constantinople, and the Sultan Selim, who “waded through slaughter to the throne,” has been deposed and murdered. His nephew has been elevated to the dangerous dignity, to possess it a less time than his predecessor, and to meet probably with the same fate. Forty thousand of the inhabitants of Constantinople are said to be in arms.
The supreme Junta of Catalonia, to supply the present necessities, and provide for the army which has been raised and organized in that province, has ordered that the estates situated in it, lately appertaining to Don Manuel Godoy, shall be sold by public auction or let out at rent. Thus the immense property and riches, acquired at the expence, and by the sacrifice of the Spanish nation, by the most foolish and ambitious of men, will ultimately be rendered useful to it. The following letter, received by the last vessel from Spain, though it contains no new event, narrates some circumstances not so fully known before:
Gijon, Aug. 24. “Permit me to congratulate you and your country upon the prosperous state of affairs in Spain. You have, of course, learnt the defeat of Dupont. I have not yet heard of any official account of the French loss—The Spaniards made it 17,000. Be this as it may, the blow has been great, and the consequences may prove extensive.
“The French have abandoned Burgos. On the 12th inst. they have concentrated in that point forty or 42,000 men, including the army of Bessieres from Leon, which had just arrived. Joseph left Burgos the same day, and slept at Vittoria on the 13th, and Moncey remained at Burgos with the rear guard—On the 17th Burgos was evacuated and Joseph had returned to Brihuega.
On the 2nd inst. the city of Bilbao rose, and sent to Maj. Roche, requesting him to go thither, & bring what assistance he could. According to the sail on board the Seine, with 150,000 dollars, 5000 stand of arms, some light guns and ammunition. Unluckily on his arrival he found the French, on the 16th, in actual engagement with the Biscayans. The enemy had sent a strong detachment, 400 cavalry and 6000 infantry, from Vittoria. They were opposed at a bridge half a league from the town, by less than 2000, who were at length, (after losing two generals killed, one of the name of Castanos, brother to the Andalusian) obliged to fly. The French have committed horrid atrocities in the city.
“Major Roche, I understand, landed at Casto on the 18th, five leagues from Bilbao, in order to try to rally the people; it is expected the enemy will abandon the city as soon as they have plundered it. Saragossa has sustained many formidable attacks from the French, which it has hitherto nobly resisted. The enemy were actually besieging it, but retreated on the approach of 15,000 Spaniards.
“General Castanos is said to have left Madrid on the 5th inst. for Valladolid in order to join Cuesta, who is said to have about 2000 cavalry.
“Fifteen thousand British infantry, I understand, are shortly expected at Gijon, & 5000 cavalry at Corunna. Gen. Blake is with 30,000 Galicians at Leon, and when united with the cavalry from Corunna, he will have
nothing to fear. He may safely advance to Regua; and if the British land at Santander, the two armies can form their junction at the same place.
“The Duke de Infantado, and Lieut. Colonel Doyle, went to Madrid on the 17th from Leon. Capt. Carroll remained with General Blake. The Asturians have 12,000 men ready to march, and upwards 6000 more, with which they mean to maintain the 12,000 already recruited; the forces of this principality, are soon to be augmented to 24,000, besides which, their prudent measures taken for calling out the mass of the people in case of emergency. The news from Catalonia, I understand, are very favorable. The Spaniards are besieging Barcelona with every prospect of success.”
ITALY. The statement in our paper of Monday, relative to the meditated attack of Gen. Stuart upon the Neapolitan territory, is corroborated by letters from Palermo, which state, that the French had evacuated both the Calabrias; that General Sir Jas. Stuart had embarked for the Peninsula of Italy, with 8000 British regular troops, 8000 Sicilians, &c. and 4000 armed peasantry; and it was supposed the Neapolitans, on our approach, would rise en masse.
Notice was yesterday received from Yarmouth, that some vessels from Riga were in the Offing. If this intelligence be correct, some relaxation must have taken place in the Franco-Russian system of opposition to British commerce.
Price of stocks this day at one o'clock. Consols for money, 65 15-28—acc. 67—Rec. shut. Excheq. Bills, 6s. prem.—Omnium 3 dis.
DANTZICK, Aug. 2. His Excellency General Rapp, the Governor of this city, died here after a long illness.
From the London Gazette Extraordinary. DOWNING STREET, Sept. 2. Extract of a letter from Lieut. Gen. Sir Arthur Wellesley, dated head quarters at Caldas, the 16th of August 1808. I marched from Lyria on the 13th, and arrived at Abobaca on the 19th which place the enemy had abandoned in the preceding night; and I arrived here yesterday. The enemy, about 4,000 in number, were posted about ten miles from hence, at Borja; and they occupied Brilos, about three miles from hence, with their advanced posts. As the possession of this last village was important to our future operations, I determined to occupy it; and as soon as the British infantry arrived upon the ground, I directed that it might be occupied by a detachment, consisting of four companies of riflemen of the 50th and 95th regiments. The enemy consisting of a small piquet of infantry and a few cavalry, made a trifling resistance and retired; but they were followed by a detachment of our riflemen to the distance of three miles from Brilos. The riflemen were then attacked by a superior body of the enemy, who attempted to cut them off from the main body of the detachment to which they belonged, which had now advanced to their support; larger bodies of the enemy now appeared on both the flanks of the detachment, and it was with difficulty that major Gen. Spencer, who had gone out to Cebidos when he had heard that the riflemen had advanced in pursuit of the enemy, was enabled to effect their retreat to that village. They have since remained in possession of it, and the enemy have retired entirely from the neighborhood. In this little affair of the advanced posts, occasioned solely by the eagerness of the troops in pursuit of the enemy, I am concerned to add, that Lieut. Panbury, of the 2d battalion of the 95th, was killed, and the Hon. capt. Pakenham wounded, but slightly; but we have lost one rank and file killed, 5 wounded and 21 missing.
Head Quarters at Villa Verde, Aug. 17. MY LORD. The French General Laborde having continued in his position at Roleia since my arrival at Caldas on the 15th instant, I determined to attack him in this morning. Roleia is situated on an eminence, having a plain in its front, at the end of a valley, which commences at Caldas, and is closed to the southward by mountains, which join the hills, forming the valley, and about eight miles from Roleia, is the town and old Moorish fort of Cebidos from whence the enemy's piquets had been driven on the 15th, and from that time he had posts in the hills on the sides of the valley, as well as in the plain in front of his army, which was posted on the heights in front of Roleia, its right resting upon the hills, its left upon an eminence, on which was a windmill, and the whole covering four or five passes into the mountains in his rear.
I have reason to believe that his force consists of at least 6000 men of which about 500 were cavalry, with five pieces of cannon; and there were some reasons to believe that Gen. Loison, who was at Rio Major yesterday, would join Gen. Laborde by his right in the course of the night. The plan of attack was formed into three columns; the right consisting of 1200 Portuguese infantry and 50 Portuguese cavalry, destined to turn the enemy's left and penetrate into the mountains in his rear; the left, consisting of Maj. Gen. Ferguson's and Brig. Gen. Howe's brigades of infantry, 3 companies of riflemen, and 20 British and 20 Portuguese cavalry, was destined, under the command of Major Gen. Ferguson, to ascend the hills at Cebidos, to turn all the enemy's on the left of the valley, as well as the right of his post at Roleia; this corps was also destined to watch the motions of General Loison, on the enemy's right, who I had heard had moved from Rio Major towards Alcoentre last night. The centre column, consisting of Maj. Gen. Hill's, Brig. Gen. Nightingale's, Brig. Gen. Crawford's, and Brig. Gen. Fane's brigades (with the exception of the riflemen detached with Major Gen. Ferguson) and 400 Portuguese light infantry, the British and Portuguese cavalry, a brigade of nine pounders, and a brigade of six pounders, were destined to attack Gen. Laborde's position in front.
The columns being formed, the troops moved from Cebidos about seven o'clock in the morning, Brig. Gen. Fane's riflemen were immediately detached into the hills on the left of the valley, to keep up the communication between the centre and left columns, and to prevent the march of the former along the valley; and the enemy's posts were successively driven in. Major Gen. Hill's brigade, formed in three columns of battalions, moved on the right of the valley, supported by the cavalry, in order to attack the enemy's; and Brig. Gens. Nightingale and Crawford moved with the artillery along the high road, until at length the
former formed in the plain immediately in the enemy's front, supported by the light infantry companies, and the 45th regiment of Brig. Gen. Crawford's brigade, while the two other regiments of this brigade (the 50th and 91st) and half the nine pounder brigade were kept as a reserve in the rear. Major Gen. Hill and Brig. Gen. Nightingale advanced upon the enemy's position, and at the same moment, Brig. Gen. Fane's riflemen were in the hills on his right; the Portuguese infantry in a village upon his left; & Major Gen. Ferguson's column was descending from the heights into the plain. From this situation the enemy retired by the passes in the mountains with the utmost regularity and the greatest celerity; and notwithstanding this rapid advance of the British infantry, the want of a sufficient body of cavalry was cause of his suffering so little loss in the plain.
It was then necessary to make a disposition to attack the formidable position which he had taken up. Brig. Gen. Fane's riflemen were already in the mountains on his right, and no time was lost in attacking the different passes, as well to support the riflemen as to defeat the enemy completely. The Portuguese infantry were ordered to move up a pass on the right of the whole; the light companies of Maj. Gen. Hill's brigade and the 15th regiment, moved up a pass on the right; and the 95th regiment supported by the 9th, under Brig. General Nightingale, a third pass; and the 45th and 82d regiments passes on the left. These passes were all difficult of access, and some of them were well defended by the enemy, particularly that which was attacked with the greatest impetuosity, and reached the enemy before those whose attacks were to be made on their flanks; the defence of the enemy was desperate and it was in the attack principally that we sustained the loss which we have to lament; particularly of that gallant officer the Hon. Lt. Col. Fane, who distinguished himself on this occasion.
The enemy was, however, driven from all the positions he had taken in the passes of the mountains, and our troops were advanced in the plains on their tops. For a considerable length of time, the 29th and 9th regiments alone were advanced to this point, with Brig. Gen. Fane's riflemen at a distance on the left, and they were afterwards supported by the 5th regiment, and by the light companies of Major Gen. Hill's brigade, which had come up on their right; and by the other troops ordered to ascend the mountains, who came up by degrees. The enemy here made three most gallant attacks upon the 29th and 9th regiments, supported, as I have above stated, with a view to cover the retreat of his defeated army; in all of which he was, however, repulsed; but he succeeded in effecting his retreat in good order, owing principally to my want of cavalry, and secondly, to the difficulty of bringing up the passes of the mountains with celerity, a sufficient number of troops and of cannon, to support those which had first ascended. The loss of the enemy has, however, been very great; and he left three pieces of cannon in our hands.
I cannot sufficiently applaud the conduct of the troops throughout the action. The enemy's positions were formidable, and he took them up with his usual ability and celerity, and defended them most gallantly. But I must observe that although we had such a superiority of numbers employed in the operations of this day, the troops actually engaged in the heat of the action were, from unfavorable circumstances, only the 5th, 9th, 28th, the riflemen of the 94th and 60th, and the flank companies of Major Gen. Hill's brigade; being a number by no means equal to that of the enemy; their conduct therefore, deserves the highest commendation.
I cannot avoid to take this opportunity of expressing my acknowledgements for the aid and support I received from all the generals and other officers of this army. I am particularly indebted to major general Spencer for the advice and assistance I received from him; to major general Ferguson, for the manner in which he led the left column; and to major general Hill and brigadier gens. Nightingale and Fane, for the manner in which they conducted the different attacks which they led. I derived most material assistance also from Lieut. Col. Tucker and Lieut. Col. Bathurst, in the offices of deputy adjutant and deputy quartermaster generals, and from the officers of the staff employed under them. I must also mention that I had every reason to be satisfied with the artillery under Lieut. Col. Robe. Inclosed herewith is an account of the killed, wounded and missing.
I have the honor to be &c. (Signed) ARTHUR WELLESLEY. Total officers, non commissioned officers, rank and file and horses, killed, wounded and missing, 432.
[Here follows a letter from gen. Wellesley, dated Lavrinha, August 13, stating the arrival of the brigades under gens. Ackland and Anstruther; and stating his belief that Junot was assembling his whole force at Torres Vedras; and a letter from Sir Harry Burrard, dated head quarters, Maceira Aug. 21, which serves as an envelope of the following letter from Gen. Wellesley, which is addressed to Sir Harry Burrard:]
VIMIEIRA, August 22.
SIR, I have the honor to report to you, that the enemy attacked us in our position at Vimiera, this morning. The village of Vimiera stands in a valley, through which runs the river Macara; at the back, and to the westward and northward of this village is a mountain, the western point of which touches the sea, and the eastern is separated by a deep ravine from the heights, over which passes the road which leads from Lourinha and the northward to Vimiera. The greater part of the infantry, the 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, and 6th brigades, were posted on this mountain, with 3 pieces of artillery: major general Hill's brigade being on the right, major general Ferguson's on the left, having one battalion on the left, separated from the mountain. On the eastern and southern side of the town, is a hill, which is entirely commanded, particularly on its right, by the mountain to the westward of the town, and commanding all the ground in the neighborhood to the southward and eastward, on which brig. gen. Fane was posted with his riflemen and the 5th regiment, and brig. gen. Anstruther with his brigade, with half a brigade of 6 pounders, and half a brigade of 9 pounders, which had been ordered to the position in the course of last night. The ground over which passed the road from Lourinha, commanded the left of this height, and it had not been occupied excepting a piquet, as the camp had been taken up only for one night; and there was no water in the neighborhood of this height. The cavalry and the reserve of artillery were in the valley, between the hills on which the infantry stood; both banking and supporting brigadier gen. Fane's advanced guard.
The enemy first appeared at 8 o'clock in the morning, in large bodies of cavalry on our left up on the heights on the road to Lourinha; and it
was soon obvious that the attack would be made on our advanced guard, and the left of our position; and major gen. Ferguson's brigade was immediately moved across the ravine to the heights on the road to Lourinha, with 8 pieces of cannon—he was followed successively by brigadier gen. Nightingale with his brigade and 8 pieces of cannon; brig. gen. Ackland with his brigade, & brig. gen. Bowes with his brigade. These troops were formed (major gen. Ferguson's brigade being in the first line; brig. gen. Nightingale's in the second; and brig. gen. Bowes and Ackland's in column on rear) on those heights, with their right upon the valley which leads into Vimiera; and their left upon the other ravine, which separates these heights from the range which terminates at the landing place at Maceira. On these last mentioned heights, the Portuguese troops, which had been in the bottom near Vimiera, were posted in the first instance; and they were supported by brig. gen. Crawford's brigade.
The troops of the advanced guard on the height to the southward and eastward of the town were deemed sufficient for its defence; and maj. gen. Hill was moved to the centre of the mountain on which the great body of the infantry had been posted, as a support to these troops and a reserve to the whole army. In addition to this support, these troops had that of the cavalry in the rear of their right. The enemy's attack began in seven columns upon the whole of the troops on this height; on the left they advanced, notwithstanding the fire of the riflemen, close to the 50th regiment, and were checked and driven back only by the bayonets of that corps. The 2d battalion, and 43d regiment were likewise closely engaged, with them in the road which leads to Vimiera; a part of that corps having been ordered in a church yard to prevent them from penetrating into the town. On the right of the position they were repulsed by the bayonets of the 97th regiment, which corps successively supported by the 2d battalion of the 52d regiment, which by an advance in column, took the enemy in flank. Beside this opposition given to the attack of the enemy on our advanced guard by their own exertions, they were attacked in flank by brig. gen. Ackland's brigade in its advance to its position on the heights on the left, and a cannonade was kept upon the flank of the enemy's columns by the artillery on those heights.
At length, after a most desperate contest, the enemy was driven back in confusion from this attack with the loss of seven pieces of cannon, many prisoners, and a great number of officers and soldiers killed and wounded. He was pursued by the detachment of the 20th light dragoons, but the enemy's cavalry was so much superior in numbers, that this detachment suffered much, and Lieut. Col. Taylor was unfortunately killed. Nearly at the same time, the enemy's attack commenced upon the heights on the same road to Lourinha. This attack was supported by a large body of cavalry, and was made with the usual impetuosity of French troops. It was received with steadiness by major gen. Ferguson's brigade, consisting of the 36th, 40th and 71st regiments; and these corps charged as soon as the enemy approached them, who gave way, & they continued to advance upon him supported by the 22d, one of the corps of brig. gen. Nightingale's brigade, which as the ground extended, afterwards formed a part of the first line; by the 29th reg. and by brig. gen. Rawe's, and Ackland's brigades, while brig. gen. Crawford's brigade and the Portuguese troops in two lines, advanced along the height on the left. In the advance of major gen. Ferguson's brigade, 6 pieces of cannon were taken from the enemy, with many prisoners, and vast numbers were killed & wounded.
The enemy afterwards made an attempt to recover part of his artillery, by attacking the 71st and 82d regiments, which were halted in a valley in which it has been taken. These two regiments retired from the low grounds in the valley to the heights, where they halted, faced about, fired, and advanced upon the enemy, who had by that time obliged him again to retire with great loss. In this action, in which the whole of the French force in Portugal was employed under the command of the Duke D'Abrantes in person, in which the enemy was certainly superior in cavalry and artillery, and in which not more than half of the British army was actually engaged, he has sustained a signal defeat, and has lost 13 pieces of cannon, 23 ammunition waggons, with powder, shells, stores of all descriptions, and 20,000 rounds of musket ammunition. One general officer (Beniere) has been wounded and taken prisoner, and great many officers and soldiers have been killed, wounded and taken.
The valor and discipline of his majesty's troops have been conspicuous upon this occasion as you, who witnessed the greater part of the action, must have observed; but it is a justice to the following corps to draw your notice to them in a particular manner, viz. The Royal Artillery, commanded by Lieut. Col. Robe; the 20th Dragoons which had been commanded by Lieut. Col. Taylor; the 50th Reg. commanded by Col. Walker; the 2d Bat. 95th. Foot commanded by Major Travers; the 5th Bat. 60th Reg. commanded by Major Davy; the 2d Bat. 43d, commanded by Major Hill; the 2d Bat. 52d, commanded by Lieut. Col. Ross; the 97th reg. commanded by Lieut. Col. Lyon; the 36th, commanded by Col. Burne; the 40th commanded by Col. Kemmis; the 71st commanded by Lieut. Col. Pack; and the 82d, commanded by Major Eyre.
In mentioning Col. Burne, and the 36th Reg. to you upon this occasion, I cannot avoid to add, that the regularity and orderly conduct of this corps throughout this service, and their gallantry and discipline in action have been conspicuous.
I must take this opportunity of acknowledging my obligations to the Gen. and Staff officers of the army. I was much indebted to Maj. Gen. Spencer's judgement and experience, in the decision which I formed with respect to the number of troops allotted to each point of defence; and for his advice and assistance throughout the action. In the position taken up by Maj. Gen. Ferguson's brigades at its advance upon the enemy, that officer showed equal bravery & judgement; and much praise is due to Brig. Gen. Fane, and Brig. Gen. Anstruther, for their gallant defence of their position in front of Vimiera, and to Brig. Gen. Nightingale for the manner in which he supported the attack upon the enemy made by Major Gen. Ferguson, Lieut. Col. G. Tucker and Lieut. Col. Bathurst, and the officers in the Department of the Adjutant, and Quarter Master Gen. and Lieut. Col. Yorrens, and the officers of my personal Staff rendered me the greatest assistance throughout the action. I have the honor to inclose herewith, a return of the killed, wounded and missing. I have the honor to be &c.
A. WELLESLEY.
N. B. Since writing the above, I have been informed that a French Gen. officer, supposed to be Gen. Trebault, the chief of the Staff, has been found dead upon the field of battle. A. W.
FROM HALIFAX.
By a gentleman who left Halifax 14 days ago, and arrived here in the sloop Elizabeth, capt. Damperell, from Deer Island, we have the following information:—The preparation of the apparent important expedition which has been in agitation for some time past is now nearly completed; the time is improved with the greatest diligence to facilitate their departure. The ships now in readiness for the secret object are 19, most of which are of the Line and 100 transports with flat-bottomed boats built on a new construction, for the purpose of landing troops in shoal water, 80 of those are completed and others preparing with the utmost dispatch; 15,000 troops are ready to embark and wait
ing the arrival of a reinforcement, which sailed from Portsmouth the 5th of August under convoy of a party of ships, with equipments for flying artillery attended with infantry, & camp equipage for 30,000 men were all embarked prior to the 20th ult. There are various conjectures relative to the destination of the fleet: the opinions of many are that the object is New Orleans or the Floridas.
Every stranger is strictly scrutinized and arrested, if a passport cannot be produced designating his business.—Eastern Argus.
DOMESTIC.
From the N. Y. Public Advertiser.
FEDERAL AID.
Neither Cheetham or Masters having, that I have heard, denied the facts stated in your paper some time since, will I think be considered by you good proof of the truth of the statement I made. I will therefore mention another fact, which you can make such use of as your discretion may direct. During the last winter, a family connection of the vice-pres. resident, Mr. James T. George, was at Washington, and lodged at the same house with the vice-president. After having been there some days, he informed a person he had ascertained “that the Randolphs and Pederaists would support the vice-president for the presidency at the next election.” I mention this in consequence of its being denied by the Clintons that they have any understanding with the Federalists, or expect from them any support.
A MEMBER OF CONGRESS.
[* If any person doubts the truth of this fact—we advise them to examine the calculations of the man in the mask. After giving the votes of New-York to his candidate, he has deliberately, and as a matter of course, added every federal vote to the statement. The nomination of C. C. Pinckney is a mere cloak to cover the COMPROMISE entered into between the leaders of the faction and the federal delegation, lately convened in this city. Were we not deterred by the sacred respect we entertain for private correspondence, we would expose the meaning of this COMPROMISE. Indeed, it is a question with us—whether it should be withheld from the public? If duty and a just regard for the liberties of our country should hereafter deem the exposure necessary, “We can a rold unvarnished tale deliver.”]
When the caucus at Albany failed to cajole the legislature into an improper nomination, at their last sitting, the editors of this paper were attempted to be silenced by threats. However, the person commissioned in this business over shot himself, and in his zeal to close up the only avenue to correct information, he forgot the injunctions of his employers and exposed the secrets behind the curtain; the sanctity of a seal ought to be inviolable.—The man who stole the letter at Steele's thought otherwise.—Editor of P. A.
NEW-ORLEANS, Sept. 19.
FRENCH EMISSARIES.
Extract of a letter from a citizen of Natchitoches, to his friend in N. Orleans, dated August 1. Gen. D'Alvimar arrived at Natchitoches about ten days ago. The officer commanding there had heard twenty days before his arrival that he was coming, and had received orders to turn him back by the same route; but the same day or the next that order was countermanded by an order to detain him till further orders, and not to suffer him to proceed any further.—He is much offended, and has written a very insolent letter to the government at St. Antonio. He was going to Mexico, he says, by an order from the emperor of Spain and king of Italy, but has nothing from France. His views are no doubt revolutionary.
[Courier]
NEW-YORK, Oct. 14.
The United States frigate Chesapeake, commodore Decatur, sailed from this port yesterday morning on a cruise.
The British packet Lord Hobart, captain Hamilton, sailed from this port for Falmouth yesterday morning.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
DIED of a consumption on the 9th instant, in the county of Brunswick, the Hon. Doctor JOHN CLAIBORNE, aged 51 years, lately a member of the House of Representatives of the United States.—On the 11th his remains were interred in the family burying ground of the late Parson Jarratt of Dinwiddie, and an appropriate and eloquent funeral discourse was delivered by the Reverend Wright Tucker.
Upon the memory of a departed friend, it is too customary to bestow much commendation, whether it be merited or not. The author of these lines is no Panegyrist. He is averse to adulation, and indulges only the honest effusions of his heart, in saying, that mortal man never yet possessed a more extensive range of exalted virtues, than inhabited the bosom of Doctor JOHN CLAIBORNE. This sentiment has not emanated from the ardor of affection borne towards the deceased—a correspondent opinion pervades the whole circle of his numerous acquaintances.
In moral and social points of view, Doctor Claiborne, was a specimen of the highest degree of human perfectibility. With a son generous and benevolent, a disposition placid and uniform, a manner dignified and possessing, he commanded the respect and admiration of all who knew him.—As a literary character, he was not only classical, but profound. As a genuine Republican politician, he united with the most copious and accurate information, the most discriminating judgement. In the Medical department, he was an ornament to his profession.
Amongst his other rare qualities Doctor Claiborne possessed one peculiar to himself. It was that of conciliating universal esteem. He had not an enemy. No man has lived more beloved, or died more regretted!
From the nature of his disease he experienced a long and severe affliction, which he sustained with that patience, fortitude, and equanimity for which through life he was so remarkable. He was attached to no religious sect, yet believed firmly in the doctrine of revelation, and departed triumphant over the fear of death, conscious that he should enjoy “rest in heaven.” 12th October 1808.
FIVE dollars Reward.—Strayed or stolen from the Subscriber, living in the Forks of Hanover county, the first of last June, a small bay MARE, about four feet five inches high, 4 years old last spring; she is very sway-backed, and has a number of white spots on her belly and sides, was bred in Halifax county, and do suppose she will make for that place, if not stolen or confined. SAM. DAY. Oct 21.

To MESSRS. GEORGE HAY, EDWARD C. SYMANS, WILLIAM ROBERTSON, AND JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, members of the Monroe Corresponding Committee.
GENTLEMEN,
Your last Address to the Citizens of Virginia, is worthy of a Reply. If your former Address to the People has not met with the respect to which it was entitled, it is the fate, which every writer who comes before the bar of the public, has reason to expect. If it has met the severity of rebuke and the harshness of political condemnation, it was because the principles, which it set forth, appeared in their consequences hostile to the honor and interests of the American people. If it has seemingly subjected you in any one case to the imputation of entertaining views hostile to that honor and those interests, it was because in that one case the serious irony which was levelled at the consequences of your opinions, was mistaken by yourselves for a serious "charge" upon the views and motives of the Committee.
But, why do you complain of proscription and insult? Admitting your complaints to be just, are you the only persons, Sirs, who have felt the "envenomed sting" of Calumny? Has no "abuse been heaped" upon the illustrious rival of Monroe? Has none been lavished upon his friends? Listen to the conversations of some of his opponents; read their compositions, as far as they have dared to see the light; and then to your plaints and complaints "with what appetite you may." There is scarce a man who occupies a distinguished post in the Madisonian ranks, that has not been abused and insulted by their adversaries. Who has denounced Wilson C. Nicholas? Surely none of you, gentlemen, nor any of your friends, followers or supporters. Who has vaunted that he would hunt down "Mr. Giles and that whole gang" of private robbers or public plunderers, we suppose? Surely none of you, gentlemen, nor any of your friends, followers or tipstaves.
But before we take a final leave of this grievance of proscription, it would be as well to direct one glance at the Principals in this business. You will not deny, Sirs, that Mr. Monroe has been treated throughout this contest, in a spirit of unparalleled liberality and tenderness. Although he had contributed to form a British treaty, even worse than Jay's so much abused treaty—although he has suffered his name to be used for the purposes of a schism among the republicans, and a covert attack upon the measures of the administration; yet have the public halls & the public prints been respectful of the feelings of the patriot and the man. No animadversion has been volunteered against him; nothing has been published, but in self-defence. Can the friends of Mr. Monroe say as much? Was it not John Randolph, the firm and polished friend of James Monroe, who some time past commenced this system of proscription, played the part of Robespierre in the National Convention, and publicly arraigned the talents, the virtues and the pretensions of James Madison, on the floor of the H. of R.?
In defiance of the common rules of Chivalry, and in the spirit of an impious Enthusiasm, have not the recesses of his family been ransacked, and the feelings of a Lady, been most cruelly and publicly wounded? Go, gentlemen, and pursue the polished compositions of Falkland; Conon, and Powhatan, and then to the complaints of your own grievances "with what appetite you may." Point out a single attack upon Mr. Monroe or any of his friends which equals the following effusion addressed by Falkland to Mr. Madison: "When robbery has been committed, murder is too apt to suggest itself as an expedient for concealment and iniquity; and in the spirit of a hardened offender, you and your accomplices have aimed to assassinate the character of those by whose intrepidity your attempts upon the public property were exposed & defeated." And yet, this elegant Jeux d'Esprit was traced by the polished pen of Mr. Randolph, the firm and fast friend of Mr. Monroe.
There is one little thing, gentlemen, in which you must permit me to set you right. You have ingeniously conjured up a charge against yourselves, which really was never urged by your opponents, and have put words upon their lips, which they would disdain to have uttered. You are mistaken, gentlemen, as to the source of the objections or "charges," as you are pleased to have it, which have been made against you. "The foundation" of these objections was not, as you have asserted, "the wish which you avow to see Mr. Monroe President of the United States." No, gentlemen; no man of any pretensions to liberality has censured you for your preference of James Monroe. It is not your supporting that gentleman, but your supporting him under the circumstances, and on the suspicious grounds, on which you have placed his pretensions. It is your indirect concurrence with the federal clamour, on the subject of the "difficulties in which we are involved." It is your implied opposition to the Embargo. It is your ungenerously employing the embarrassments in which we are involved, as a kind of political hobby-horse, for conducting your candidate into office. It is your opposition to the course of the Administration, at a time too, when it most requires the aid of every disinterested friend of this country.
But you, Sirs, will "say nothing of the causes which led to the present state of things." You are too generous to "enquire whether it might not have been prevented." You are perfectly right in the caution which you have used. All your dispositions upon causes would have been very unavailing to your cause, gentlemen. It would have been unavailing to you, to have dragged the rejected treaty from the "tomb of the Capulets;" and to have attempted to have shown us, that this diplomatic parchment would have prevented the British Orders in Council, the Embargo, and our consequent embarrassments; because the official note attached to that treaty would have been in your way. That very note had reserved to the British government the right of enacting such impositions.—Because the Orders of January would have been in your way. Those very Orders were issued within 20 days after the signature of the treaty, and in direct contravention of its original provisions.—And because the change of the British ministry, from bad to worse, from January to November, would have been a stumbling-block in your way, which all your ingenuity, in the philosophical pursuit after causes, could not have surmounted.—But while
you were displaying all this generosity, gentlemen, it would perhaps have been as well to have ascribed our embarrassments to the injudicious use of the belligerent powers of Europe, as to the misconduct or omission of our own government.
But you still resort to the vague and suspicious objections which you have urged against Mr. Madison in your former Address. You still repeat, that he "stands fixed and committed on every question involved in our foreign relations." When I took up your last Address, gentlemen, it was under a full persuasion that it contained an explicit explanation of your sentiments on these subjects. The world had called upon you for light; and it was my full persuasion, that every difficulty was now to be cleared up; and every anxious doubt removed. But how great was my astonishment to find the same vague and suspicious insinuation, which distinguished your former eloquent effusion. Not one explicit word about those points and facts on which Mr. Madison is said to stand committed. Not one word about your own project. If Mr. Monroe is neither for war nor an Embargo, not one hint is offered as to the course which he would pursue.
As to Mr. Madison's commitment, you should have shown us, gentlemen, in what respect those points and facts are at variance with the rights and honour of our country. And you should have shown us too, Sirs, how this objection is not equally applicable to Thomas Jefferson himself.—Mr. J. is as completely fixed and committed on questions, involved in foreign relations, as Mr. Madison can be. If this competition then, had been between Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, you would have been compelled by your principles to abandon the former.
But how stands Mr. Monroe himself as to these points? You, gentlemen, have not condescended to inform us; nor for any thing that we know, has he ever condescended to inform you. But if you ask your countrymen to desert a candidate whose principles they approve, in order to support another whose principles are unknown to them, you are completely mistaken in the use of the elective franchise. No constituent should vote for a representative whose sentiments on these interesting questions are not fairly before him. If you ask your countrymen, to trust to the "known opinions, conduct and character of Mr. Monroe" for a prosperous result, the reply is, that his opinions on these points are not known, for he has not committed himself; and that if the allusion is made to the general course of his speculative opinions, his opinions and policy in the case of the British Treaty are far from being favorable to the doctrine of implicit trust and blind acquiescence.—But if, gentlemen, you should happen to urge, that Mr. Monroe has a specific cure for all our evils; that he is able to remove our present embarrassments without incurring either the evils of War or the Embargo; that his late treaty is to be his political Panacea; and that the first act of his administration would consist in sending a minister to England for the purpose of re-proposing that obnoxious instrument—the question would be put at rest forever. The people of this country will never accept a President, whose destiny is to be connected with such an unfortunate instrument.
Whence you derive your information, that "Mr. Monroe's interest is rapidly encroaching in the other states as well as in Virginia" I am at a loss to conceive.—That the Federalists of Richmond and Manchester have come out in his support, is certain—but there is as little doubt that his cause is daily becoming more unpopular among the republican majority of this commonwealth.—That a "great change" seems to have taken place in some of the other states, is equally certain; but these are revolutions which should touch the bosom of a republican with sentiments of the most profound regret. These changes are federal. Are you then, gentlemen, willing to confess that Mr. Monroe is to be indebted for his ascendancy to the triumphs of the federal party? But on this ground you may find yourselves disappointed. If the federalists in the other states have the least chance of electing a candidate of their own, you may be assured that it is C. C. Pinckney and not James Monroe, who will be the God of their Idolatry.—As to the Federalists of Virginia, we are very willing to believe that no "coalition" has been formed with them. But if there be no coalition, there is at least a co-operation, and what is infinitely worse, a co-operation on federal grounds. Each of you perhaps believes, that Mr. Monroe's "course of proceeding, in regard to our foreign relations, will be more agreeable to the sentiments of the federalists." Though there be no express understanding between you, yet perhaps it is pretty well understood, that the Election of Mr. Monroe will be productive of something very much like a change of measures.
It is idle, gentlemen, for you to vindicate yourselves from the charge of "producing a schism among the republicans," by such arguments as you have employed. Why refer to the caucus at the Bell-Tavern? You, gentlemen, were in this City at the moment of that meeting. You had the real springs of this event before you. You must have known, that this exclusive caucus at the Bell-Tavern was really dictated by a desire to avoid this very schism. You must have known, that it was not to avoid "a fair and public investigation of the merits of the candidates," as you have insinuated; but to avoid that fear, discord and altercation which would have been inseparable from such a public investigation, under the circumstances which then prevailed.—But, gentlemen, admitting that you are right in your opinion, why do you on this occasion say any thing of the causes which led to the present state of things? Why do you "enquire whether it might have been prevented?" Why "undertake to say, what course might have been pursued?" Surely, gentlemen, "this inquiry would be now as unavailing" in this case, as it would have been in some others. The only course which a sound and dispassionate judgment should have pursued, would have been to confine itself "to the actual condition of our country." The only question should be, whether now finding themselves in an acknowledged minority of the republican party and even of the nation, it is not incumbent upon the friends of Colonel Monroe to withdraw from such an unavailing contest.
As to the consequences of such a schism, you, gentlemen, can speak of it with much more philosophic phlegm than I can.—"This charge about a schism," it seems, "is a mere delusion, as it relates to the presidential election."
It seems that "the only effect of the division may be to throw the election into the hands of the states in congress assembled."—Why, gentlemen, this is the com-
pletest mockery, that you could play off upon the understandings of the people. At the very moment, when you have traced your favorite system to one of the most ghastly evils which could present itself to your imagination; when the next thing we expect is, that you are preparing to prove, that this "only effect" is really a very trifling evil, and that it forms no serious objection to your favorite system of division; you suddenly fly off to some other disquisition.—Why, gentlemen, did you shrink from the contemplation of this "effect," which you modestly avow, is "the only effect" likely to accrue from your schisms and secessions? Why did you not pause upon the consequence which you had thus started, and depict it to the eyes of the people in all those dark hues and gloomy terrors, in which it must have presented itself to your own imaginations? Permit me to say, you dared not. You were conscious, Sirs, that if even this one, poor, solitary effect had been described with those embellishments only, which truth and experience would have given to it, this picture alone would have excited the most serious objections to your system.—You would have been obliged to have shown us, gentlemen, that a congressional election by states entirely prostrates that favorite principle of the will of the majority, of which you have spoken so much. You must have shown us, that the election is then made by a majority of states, and not a majority of the people; that the decision is made without the smallest reference to numbers; that the comparative size and population of the large states are completely done away; and that the state of Virginia is sunk to the same level of importance with the state of Delaware. You would have been led to have portrayed the same scene of intrigue, the same chaffering and alteration, the same disregard of principle and blind pursuit of interest, the same daring spirit of encroachment upon the constitution, and perhaps the same attempt to introduce a state of interregnum, and a Chief Magistrate, not the choice of the people, as agitated the public mind during the portentous contest of 1801.—You would have been obliged to have confessed, as you, Mr. Chairman of the committee, have done, that "you have no wish to see another of these elections." Rather than risk an evil of this description, who would not discard all schisms & divisions? What patriot would not rather wish to proceed in harmonious concert with his brethren, than that each man should strike out his own path? Who would not rather make a magnanimous sacrifice of his private wishes, than be "weak enough to be more solicitous about men than principle?" Who would not rather even acquiesce in the nomination of the caucus at Washington, where some show of respect is paid to the will of the majority, and the votes of each state are in some proportion to the number of its representatives?
But, gentlemen, your imaginations must be dull indeed, if they do not portray other effects and other evils, which may grow out of this schism.—Is it no evil, that at a crisis like the present, when our flag and our trade are the objects of incessant insult and encroachment, when "the great high-way of the nations of the Earth" is beset by unprincipled plunderers, when the wise measures pursued by the administration to counteract these aggressions are opposed by an outrageous party in our own bosom, when not a man can be spared from the support of the rights of his country—is it no evil, at such a time, to break down the unity, and strength, and solidity of the republican party by intestine divisions?
Is it no evil, that some of this party, instead of rallying around the administration with greater force and fire than ever, should be unwarily tempted by the seductions of an electioneering scuffle to conciliate rather than counteract the federalists? Is it nothing, that these politicians, instead of bending all their force to support the measures of the administration and the rights of the country, should be unwarily tempted to hark in with the opposition, and resist the cause of the administration on Fed. grounds? So true is it, gentlemen, as you have asserted, "that the whole force of the republican party has been employed in support of the republican cause."
Is it nothing, that schisms are produced, which are calculated under certain circumstances to lead to abuse, recrimination and proscription? Yet, you, gentlemen, have been the most eager in your remonstrances on this head. You cast the firebrand into your dwelling, and then complain of the fury of the flames.
Is it no evil, gentlemen, for you to take an honest and excellent man for the subject of your experiments, treat his character like "mice in an air-pump," first bring him forward for an exalted office, & then place his pretensions on such grounds, as are not only calculated to persuade his political opponents, that "his course of proceeding will be more agreeable to their sentiments," but to expose him to the suspicion and distrust of the people?
Would it be no evil, gentlemen, to subject this man and his principal supporters to all the consequences of a disappointment? The sound sense of James Monroe may defy the demons of disappointment, resentment and pique. But will the election of James Madison suffice to soothe the passions, excited during the course of this contest, in the bosoms of some of his supporters? From being the heated opponents of his election, will not some of them become the warm and systematic opponents of his administration? You have insinuated, gentlemen, that an "objection has been urged to your conduct as having a tendency to promote the election of a federal President." But, Sirs, you do not state this objection in all its lights. The objection also extends to the election of a republican candidate, who owes his success to the votes and interposition of the federal party. Such a man is supposed in the present instance to be in a decided minority of his own party. Yet you, gentlemen, are for pressing his pretensions under such un auspicious circumstances. You are for teaching the federalists how to divide the republican party by the promise of their aid. You are for exposing the successful candidate to the dangerous temptation of retaining the suffrages of those who elected him, by adopting such a course of administrative measures, as may be "agreeable to their sentiments." Are these no evils? Is it no evil thus to maintain "Division," even after the election?—Yet the elections of Pennsylvania and New-York will furnish you, Sirs, with many a monitory illustration of these alarming truths.
I have done, gentlemen. There are some other points of your address which are worthy of an answer—but I must confess that I
* Letters of Franklin, p. 21. † Hortensius. ‡ Franklin p. 13.
fly from this disquisition with pleasure.—This subject is calculated to excite melancholy emotions in my bosom.—I regret to see the talents, which you have displayed, so thoroughly wasted in a vain & unprofitable contest. I regret to see so able and excellent a man as James Monroe, crucified and wounded by the imprudent enthusiasm of his friends. I regret to see men like you devoted to the propagation of opinions, which however well intended, will most probably prove unfriendly to the prosperity of my country. If this be called denunciation & proscription, gentlemen, I should deserve & desire the imputation, which it conveys. While I live let me bear the name of a Denouncer, and let the name of DENOUNCER be written on my tomb.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
When in the midst of profound peace, and at a moment when he was enjoying all the benefits of our hospitality, the perfidious and ungrateful Briton suddenly attacked our defenceless ship the Chesapeake, and amidst the murder of our Citizens, degraded and prostrated the flag of our country—the prompt and universal emotion excited by the outrage, proclaimed us an United People. Glorious, my Countrymen, was the exhibition of American character on that occasion! and grateful to every bosom, that British gold has not corrupted, must be the recollection of the patriotic flame that spread with electric rapidity over the continent.—Britain saw with terror and remorse, the bright blaze of our patriotism, diffused from the eastern limits of Maine to the distant coasts of Georgia, and the still remoter shores of the Mississippi. "How grand, how sublime a spectacle. (says an American, then in Europe) It seemed as if the hills and woods and streams of our country, by some wonderful influence, had kindled into sudden conflagration, and, across the illumined waves of the Atlantic, offered to astonished & admiring Europe, a phenomenon, as awful and portentous to Tyrants, as interesting and consoling to the friends of Liberty and Virtue."
In recalling your attention to this illustrious era of popular enthusiasm, and inviting you, Fellow Citizens, to dwell with emotions of virtuous triumph on so glorious a scene of Union and Patriotism; I design, not only to revive your sensibility, and keep alive your resentment for injuries past, but to prepare your sympathy for a fresh burst of indignation at an equal, if not a greater insult, recently offered to our national pride. I mean the general and continued hiss, with which the toast of "The President and United States of America" was received by the numerous assemblage of Ministers, Noblemen, and merchants at the late London dinner, given to the Spanish deputies.
Can any American read this intelligence unmoved? Is there a spirit among us so fallen, so degraded, as not to feel excitement at such an affront? I trust not; I hope that even the cold, calculating disciple of mammon, feels the hectic of a moment tingling on his sallow cheek, as he reads the account. What then must be the sensations of the genuine lover of his Country, when he sees the name of America, thus treated with contempt, and her President and People hooted from the presence of so respectable a circle?—a company, such as the experience of fifty years had never seen equalled in point of respect. My own impressions authorize me to pronounce, that in the breast of every true and faithful American, this transaction will inspire emotions scarcely less powerful than those excited by the outrage on the Chesapeake; and if any Sceptic friend of humanity, anxious to preserve unbroken our friendly relations with all the world, was willing to consider that aggression as the act of an individual, and not as an evidence of the hostility of his Government, let him now see and acknowledge his error; let him behold, in this dinner exhibition, an unequivocal proof, not of the rancour of an individual, but of the hatred of a whole ministry, and of the aggregate body of the merchants of Great Britain, towards America. Will it be said by the advocates of that hostile assemblage, that the disapprobation they expressed at the offered toast, was levelled at the personal character of our President, and not directed towards the nation generally?
It were a false and insolent suggestion; false, because the toasts were distinctly expressed in printed bills, evincing the contrary, and insolent in the highest degree, by implying that either the British ministry, or the merchants of that country, possessed the right to asperse and insult the individual, whom the confidence and affection of his fellow citizens, had invested with the office of Chief Magistrate of the U. States.
What are the British to throw-hat us out of the President of our choice? Are they to dictate whom we are to elect? and are we not, as an independent State, to be treated with common decency, unless we place some Pickering at the head of the nation? Citizens of Massachusetts, of Boston, would you wish to supply us with a President on such terms? Will you not rather consign to merited infamy the corrupt apologists of Britain; and emulating the patriotic spirit that lately actuated the citizens of Baltimore, in destroying the pipes of Gin which had been contaminated by submission to the British "Orders of Council," show that you are the worthy descendants of your tea-destroying ancestors. Awake! revive, return, ennobled citizens of Boston, to the patriotic ardour, that animated you on our revolutionary struggle. Resemble the station you then maintained in the Union.—When Massachusetts and Virginia, the eyes of the nascent republic, stood like two towers, awing our enemies without, and animating the patriots within. Shall I say, that you have fallen from this glorious height?—No, your patriotism only sleeps, and the hiss of those execrable serpents shall awaken, not the energy of an Infant Hercules , but the maturity and vengeance of his manly strength.
I return to the impression which the transactions of this celebrated London dinner, are calculated to make on the patriotic citizens of the United States.—And first, I venture to predict, that never again will the king, or the country of Great-Britain, be found in the list of our festive salutations and convivial recollections. No bribed minion of Britain will in future dare to prolate the ears of an American circle with such a toast, and British hirelings will hereafter reserve for the secret entertainments of cautious and guarded apostasy, the duty of drinking his Majesty's health. The dubious and sneering editor of a federal print tells us, we shall retort upon the city of the London Tavern at our next St. Tammany's dinner. No, Mr. Editor; we will not wait for
St. Tammany's day. Long before the era of our annual homage to St. Tammany's, we shall have opportunities to make the retort you allude to, and remind Great-Britain of the insult she has offered us. When a virtuous President, followed by the approving gratitude of his fellow citizens, shall voluntarily retire from office; and when another favorite chief, the imitator of his virtues, the friend of his principles and the advocate of his measures, shall enter upon the duty of presiding over our political destinies; on these, and on many other occasions, we will remember what we owe to the polite example of London ministers and London merchants.
I will notice in one more point of view, the subject of my present address. Did the assembly at the London Tavern, deem the sovereigns whom they toasted, more friendly to the cause of the Spanish patriots, than the President and United States of America? They were never more egregiously mistaken.—We exult, we glory in the success of those revolutionary heroes.—Our bosoms throb with unaffected emotion in their cause.—Ours is not the selfish and interested, the spurious zeal of British advocates; it is the genuine, unadulterated glow of virtuous satisfaction at beholding successful resistance to oppression. The heroes of Spain, know that we are, from principle, their friends; but they suspect every movement of the British, and never, never will those patriots place confidence in the insidious allies whom interested motives alone, they well know, have attracted to their aid.
DELA.
COMMUNICATION.
A friend has intimated to me, that possibly my remarks on the conduct of the federalists in regard to A. Burr, which were published in the last Enquirer, might be misconceived; that ingenuity might construe that paragraph into an attempt on my part to place Col. Monroe, on a footing with the traitor Burr. Although I think it hardly possible, that dotation itself could put such a construction upon any part of that communication, I will, to prevent even the possibility of such a thing, declare, that I had no such intention; and God forbid! that I should ever think of placing Col. Monroe on a footing with A. Burr. I only meant to point out to Col. Monroe the extreme lengths to which the federalists carried their opposition to the government; that, in fact, their support of him was not from motives of personal regard for his character, but merely because they (the Federalists) thought, that through him they might oppose the government with greater effect. Col. Monroe now sees that the federalists are seriously supporting him. Would it be too much to ask Col. Monroe or his friends, if he should be elected president, whether he intends to administer the government upon principles agreeable to the views and wishes of these new friends of his or not?
AUTHOR OF THE COMMUNICATION.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
SIR, I find, without any previous acquiescence on my part, that the friends of Col. Monroe, have placed my name on his Electoral Ticket. As I am satisfied that at the present crisis, every effort to elect Col. Monroe to the presidential chair, will be unavailing and injurious to the public weal—I cannot permit my name to remain on the Ticket of Electors, as announced in Mr. Stansbury's paper, and you will very much oblige me, if you will be pleased to state in your next paper, that I do most peremptorily decline being considered as a candidate for the office of Elector, as stated in the Ticket which has been published in one of the papers of your city. With sentiments of very sincere respect,
I am, Dear Sir, Your Ob't Serv't. RICHARD BRENT. Dumfries, Oct. 13, 1808. * Mr. B. had been nominated in place of D. C. Brent, Esq. resigned.
APPOINTMENTS.
The Council of State have appointed GEN. PRESTON, Treasurer, and DAVID S. GARDLAND Esq. of Amherst, Register of the Land Office of this Commonwealth.
The President of the United States has appointed BENJAMIN HARRISON, Esq. of Charles City, Commissioner of Loans for the State of Virginia.
Report was afloat yesterday in this city, said to have originated from a summons , that a letter was received, from a merchant of the north, stating, that "the British government had acceded to the demands of ours in a formal and official manner." We have endeavored to trace the fountain head of this report without effect; and are disposed to believe, from our enquiries and information, that the report is without foundation.
The U. S. Gaz. of Philadelphia (Fed.) has abandoned the election in Pennsylvania as hopeless. It is calculated, that Snyder will have a majority of a few thousands.—The election in New Jersey is also said to be going on well.—
Reflections on Spanish Affairs &c. in our next.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to us by Edwin Land of the county of Amelia, and recorded in the court of that county, to secure a debt therein mentioned to David Ratray: Will be sold, for cash, on the premises, the tract of LAND, lying in said county, containing about 200 acres, on which the said Edwin Land now resides, subject to a deed of trust, executed for the benefit of Th: Perkins, and a mortgage to John Lane, recorded in Amelia court. The sale will take place on the 3d day of next month. A. T. TOWNES, } Trustees. JOHN T. LUGH, } [45]
Oct. 21.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers, by Robert and George Turner, and Ann the wife of the said George, duly recorded in the Hustings Court of Richmond: made to Daniel Couch, according to the terms of said deed: Will be sold by the Subscribers, to the highest bidder, for ready money, before the door of the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Saturday the 12th Nov. next, all that Lot, Piece or Parcel of Ground, situate in the said city, on the east side of the cross-street, leading from the Bell-Tavern to the river, and now under lease to Russell & Wallace (subject to a ground rent of 10£ per annum forever, together with the following Negroes: George (the cook) Peter (the barber) and Agrey, or so much of them as will be sufficient to raise the sum of 160 dollars, together with all costs attending the said sale. ANDREW STEVENSON, } Trustees. C. ANTHONY, } [46] Oct. 21.

POLITICAL.
TO THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA.
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, MEMBERS OF THE MONROE CORRESPONDING COMMITTEE, TAKE LEAVE, ONCE MORE, TO ADDRESS YOU:-
It is well known to you that we were appointed by that portion of the legislative body, which convened at the Capitol on the 22d day of February last, to make the arrangements proper and necessary to ensure the success of the Monroe electoral ticket.
Finding that there was a difference of opinion on the subject of the election, not only in this state, but in the United States generally, we conceived that when we were about to announce our ticket, we might take the liberty of submitting to the public judgment, a few arguments, which seemed to us entitled to great consideration and influence. We thought, that in a free country, on a subject so interesting, and at a period so critical, honest men might publish their real opinions to the world, without fear of insult or proscription. We did publish our real, our honest, our independent opinions, and we expressed them in terms to which we were well assured no exception ought to be taken. We did nothing more than exercise our indisputable right: a right without which, free government cannot exist: and we think that the manner in which it was exercised, was perfectly compatible with the respect due to the public, to our opponents, and to the candidate in whose behalf they are so much excited. For this conduct on our part, fellow-citizens, for this exertion of an essential and indisputable right, for this performance of an important duty, for this avowal of our real opinions, in support of a man, so long and so well known to you all, we have been, with that intemperance which marks the character of an American Gazette, charged not only with a departure from the republican principles to which we are most sincerely attached, but with entertaining views hostile to the honor and interests of the American people.
In reply to this last charge, we will not enter into any explanation. We disdain to do so. We know that our motives are pure: and we affirm that our solicitude for the honor and welfare of the United States, is as ardent & sincere, though perhaps not so enlightened, as that of the president himself, or either of the patriotic men who have been named as his successors. On this subject we are perfectly at ease.
But the foundation of this charge, is the wish which we avow to see Mr. Monroe President of the United States. We acknowledge again, before the nation, that the election of James Monroe, to the presidential office, is in our opinion, a matter of the highest moment to the prosperity of this country. You all see and feel the difficulties in which we are involved. Our trade is at an end, and our people prohibited from carrying the produce of their land and labor, on the great highway of the nations of the earth. We say nothing of the causes which led to this present state of things. We enquire not whether it might have been prevented, nor will we undertake to say what course ought to have been pursued. This enquiry would be unavailing now. We confine our remarks to the actual condition of our country. It is known to you all, that Mr. Madison stands fixed and committed on every question involved in our foreign relations, and we therefore ask you, whether you can think that his administration holds up to us that hope of relief, which may be anticipated from the known opinions, conduct and character of Mr. Monroe?
It is very possible, that on the subject of this election we may be in a minority; but at this moment, no man can say with confidence, what the issue will be. A great change has taken place in the public opinion within a short time past, and who has good reason to believe that Mr. Monroe's interest is rapidly increasing in the other states as well as in Virginia. We therefore call on his friends to be firm and active, and not to suffer themselves to be intimidated by denunciations, from any quarter whatever, from delivering their opinions and exercising the unquestionable rights of free and independent citizens. The delusion produced by the caucus at Washington, is now nearly at an end; and every man, who will open his eyes, may see, that the members composing it, did not invariably speak the sentiments of their constituents. But admit that we may be in a minority, we shall at least have the satisfaction of knowing that we have acted with firmness and independence, and that we have done our duty to our country and to ourselves.
Indulge us for a few moments longer—The friends of Mr. Monroe are charged with producing a schism among the republicans. We deny the accusation to be true. We do not hesitate to say that the friends of Mr. Madison, are alone responsible, because they adopted the measures from which it sprung. They withdrew from their political friends at the Capitol. They announced their intention to hold, and did hold a caucus, from which the friends of Mr. Monroe were excluded: they refused to engage in a fair and public investigation of the merits of the candidates; and they now denounce their opponents as schismatics, because they have not tamely acquiesced in a decision in which they were not permitted to participate.
But this charge about a schism is a mere delusion, as it relates to the presidential election. The person chosen president, must have a majority of the whole number of the electoral votes. He who has them, will be elected, whether the remaining votes are given to one, or divided among many. If the objection be urged to our conduct as having a tendency to promote the election of a federal president, it is obviously fallacious: because the whole force of the republican interest is employed in support of the republican cause, though not in behalf of the same person. The only effect of the division, may be to throw the election into the hands of the states in congress assembled. But if the objection be urged with a view to show that our conduct in not acquiescing in the nomination at the Bell-Tavern is improper, because it leads to schisms and divisions among the republicans, we must repeat that we disapprove the caucus there held, for the reason already given, and further urge that the objection goes to the subversion of the most precious of our rights, of that right, without which, the freedom of election is but an empty sound.
We have been charged also with forming a coalition with the federalists. We solemnly and upon our honor declare the accusation to be false. Those who make it cannot seriously believe it—There has not been, nor is there now any understanding, arrangement or compact between the federalists and the friends of Mr. Monroe.
The federalists perhaps mean to vote for him. They have a right to do so if they please. They are free citizens of the country, and may exercise their rights as they think proper. Are we to abandon Mr. Monroe, because the federalists knowing that they cannot have a president of their own party prefer him? Would not such an abandonment be equally cruel and absurd? and if we really and conscientiously believe that Mr. Monroe ought to be president, is our regard for the welfare of our country, to give way to that libelous jealousy, which tells us not to vote for the man of our choice, because he has the suffrages of our political opponents?
In the conduct which we have observed, in relation to the approaching election, we have done what we conceive to be our duty, and followed the dictates of our best judgement. We have done no more than to exercise our unquestionable rights, and we are confident that the conduct which we recommended, is calculated to promote the real prosperity and happiness of this nation.
We expect however, from past experience, that insult and abuse will be heaped upon us. All this we must bear. Conscious of the rectitude of our motives, and solemnly impressed with a belief, that the election of James Monroe, will be more conducive to the public welfare, than the election of any other citizen in nomination, we shall hear with perfect indifference the calumnies which this address will not fail to excite. If the public voice shall decide against us, if the people shall proclaim Mr. Madison president, their "will be done." We shall acquiesce, but until the will of the nation is ascertained, by a formal declaration, in the way prescribed by the constitution, we shall, without hesitation, adopt every fair and honorable means to ensure the election of James Monroe.
GEORGE HAY, EDWARD C. STANARD, WILLIAM ROBERTSON, JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, (JOHN CLARKE, Absent.) Oct. 17, 1808.
There is one very important consideration, which ought to address itself powerfully to the people of N. York.
If the electoral votes of that state be given to Mr. Clinton for president, they must be given to some one else for vice-president.
As the republicans in the other states will either universally, or for the most part, vote for Mr. Clinton as vice-president, it may follow, owing to New-York not so voting for him, that he will lose the Vice-Presidency, and it may like wise happen that that important station may be filled by a federalist.
If it should happen from this mode of voting, that Mr. Clinton should be president, and Mr. King Vice-President, the U. States will exhibit the extraordinary spectacle of having its two highest officers from the same state, which the constitution appears to have viewed with so much jealousy, as to have made the special provision, that the electors of the respective states should vote for two persons "of whom one at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves."
This, however, will be a very unimportant result, compared with another that will inevitably ensue.
Saying nothing of the weight of the Vice-President in the Senate, which ought not to be lightly estimated, on him will devolve the functions of the President in the event of his "removal from office, of his death, resignation, or inability to discharge the powers and duties of said office." These are the precise terms of the constitution. Now let us briefly notice these several events.
1. "Removal from office." This may be by impeachment. Suppose the federalists should have sufficient strength in Congress successfully to conduct an impeachment against a republican Chief Magistrate, would they hesitate about doing it? Can we ever have a Chief Magistrate, who will more faithfully discharge his duty than Mr. Jefferson has done? And yet is not he threatened with an impeachment by the federalists, even in the impotency of their power? Can there then be a doubt of their actually doing that in its plenitude which they now menace?
For this there will be an additional and most powerful stimulus. In case the President be convicted on an impeachment, on his consequent removal from office, the federal Vice-President will assume the reins of government.
The House of Representatives may impeach by a bare majority. Suppose they have this majority, but cannot command two-thirds of the votes of the Senate, which are requisite for a conviction. Suppose they impeach the President. Will not this, pending the trial, produce "an inability to discharge the powers and duties of his office"? If it does, they will devolve on the Vice-President. Should this construction not be considered as a thing of course, then the Congress may, according to the constitution, "provide for the case of removal, death, resignation or inability." I do not say that this would be the legitimate construction of the constitution, but I do think it extremely probable that it would be taken up by the federalists, had they a bare majority of the two branches of the legislature.
2. "Death." In case of Mr. Clinton's death, Mr. King would become President. Now, by consulting the best tables of the chances of life, it will be found that the probability is, that of three individuals of the age of seventy, one will die within the period of four years. Supposing then, Mr. Clinton to be seventy years of age, there is one chance out of three that he will die during the Presidency. Are the republicans of the United States willing to incur this great risk? This circumstance very satisfactorily accounts for the impression that is understood to exist, that the federalists, if they cannot carry a man of their own, will prefer Mr. Clinton to either of the other candidates, because they are much younger men.
3. "Resignation." Just in proportion to a man's age, is the chance of his resigning a station full of care and trouble, which, it is acknowledged, in times like these requires the most active powers. Here then, the chances of the federalists are double: first, by Mr. Clinton's advanced years, and secondly, by having a Vice-President, on whom, on his resignation, the duties of President will devolve.
4. "Inability to discharge the powers and duties" of President. We mean no reproach on Gen. Clinton , when we say that generally just in proportion to a man's years, after a certain period of life, becomes his inability to discharge great and important duties. That the chances of such inability in case of his being President are greatly multiplied, there can be no doubt. This therefore, presents a strong inducement, on the part of the federalists to prefer him to any other republican candidate, and more especially in case by making him President they gain the Vice-President. But this is not all. Although there may be no inability in Mr. Clinton , during the term for which he is elected, to discharge the duties of his office, may not the federalists allege that there is? Will there not be the strongest motive to allege it, when by substantiating the allegation, they will be able to get rid of him, and thereby make way for their Vice President? Should they possess a majority in the two houses of Congress, is there not a great probability of their doing so? For, although the constitution does not in express terms vest this power in Congress, yet, in declaring that in the case of the inability of the President to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the same shall devolve on the Vice-President, a necessary implication is involved of some body or individual being the judge of such event; and who can be this judge besides the Vice-President, or Congress? If it be federal, it is evident, that with a federal Vice-President, the cards will be entirely in their own hands; and that they would under such circumstances play them most dexterously, cannot admit a doubt.
Such are some of the considerations which it behoves the republicans of New-York solemnly to weigh; and we are greatly mistaken if they do not involve principles and effects infinitely more momentous than personal gratitude and respect or local partialities.... Nat. Int.
Anecdote of Wm. Smith, Esq. the historian of New-York, and late Chief Justice of Lower Canada : recommended to American historians. This eloquent man having been an adherent to the royal cause during the revolution, left the city of New-York in 1783, with the British troops; and was afterwards rewarded, by his sovereign, with a high judicial office in Quebec. Judge Smith, although thus removed from the place of his origin, always contemplated the politics of his native country with peculiar solicitude.
One evening, in the year 1783, when Dr. Mitchell was in Quebec, and passing the evening at the chief justice's house, the leading subject of conversation was the new federal constitution then under the consideration of the states, on the recommendation of the convention which sat at Philadelphia, in 1787. Mr. Smith, who had been somewhat indisposed for several days, retired to his chamber with Mr. Grant, one of the members of the legislative council, at an early hour.—In a short time Mr. Grant came forth, and invited Dr. M. in Mr. S's name, to walk from the parlour into Mr. S's study, and sit with them.—Mr. Mitchell was conducted to a sopha, and seated beside the chief justice, before whom stood a table supporting a large bundle of papers. Mr. Smith resumed the subject of American politics and united his papers. After searching awhile, he insided a certain one, which he said was written about the time the colonial commotions grew violent in 1775, and contained a plan or system of government sketched out by himself then, and which nearly resembled the constitution afterwards proposed by the federal convention of the United States. He then read the contents. The piece was long and elaborate; and written with much beauty and spirit. "This, sir," added he, after finishing it, "is a copy of a letter sent by me to a member of Congress in 1775, who was an intimate friend of General Washington. You may trace to this source the sentiments in favor of a more energetic government for your country, contained in the committee of the whole, circular letter, and from the "letter, there can be no doubt that the citizens of all the states derived their leading hints of your new form of government. Thus, you see, the great first original outlines of your national constitution, were drawn by a man, whom the laws of his native land proscribed, and forced away from its shores."— Merc. Adv.
ATTENTION! —Lost on Monday the 3rd of October, one Tobacco NOTE, inspected at Ricketts' Warehouse, the 23d Dec. 1807, No. 141, weight 1405—This is to caution all persons whatsoever, from purchasing or trading for the said Tobacco Note, as the legal steps will be taken to procure a duplicate, and this notice will be plead in bar against any person who may claim of me the value of the Tobacco so purchased. JOSEPH SWIFT. [law24f]
TO be sold for cash, to the highest bidder, at Thos. Perkins's store, on Friday the 21st inst. by virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to me by Miller Waddill, and recorded in the county court of Prince Edward; Two Negro Girls, named ELIZA & SUKE ; for the purpose of discharging a debt due Thos. Perkins, specified in said deed, and costs accruing. PETER RISON, Trustee. [oaw3w]
NOTICE. —By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Joseph Pollard, jr. bearing date the 15th day of November, 1804, and recorded in the county court of Spottsylvania, for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt or debts due from the said Pollard to David Bullock, will be exposed to sale, on the premises, for ready money, on the 4th Nov. next: One moiety of the Mill, commonly called and known by the name of Rogers's Mill, in the lower end of Spottsylvania county—together with one moiety of fifty acres of Land adjoining thereto, and the houses and other appurtenances thereon erected, together with fifteen Slaves, as named and conveyed in the aforesaid deed of trust, or so much of the aforesaid property as shall be sufficient fully and completely to carry the said deed of trust into effect, according to the true intent & meaning thereof. CHARLES SMITH, } Trustees. FREDERICK HARRIS, } September 30. [oaw4w]
N. B. This property has been often advertised, but will now certainly be sold, unless the amount due at this time be paid.
NOTICE. —I shall petition the Virginia Assembly, at their next session, to vest me with the right of erecting a dam across the Rivanna river, in the county of Fluvanna, for the purpose of working a water Grist Mill, from my lands on the North side of said river, to the lands of George Pickett, (late the property of David Ross,) on the opposite shore. The public are informed that the petitioner, will erect the proper locks, so as not to impede the safe navigation of said river. JOHN ASHLIN. Fluvanna, Oct. 4. [oaw4w]
BATES'S VIRGINIA ALMANAC , For the year 1809, is just published by SEATON GRANTLAND, and for sale at his Printing-Office, by the gross, dozen or single; containing sketches of the early life of PATRICK HENRY, Esq. a variety of entertaining matter, and many useful tables, beside the usual astronomical calculations—Price five dollars per gross, fifty cents per dozen, or six cents single. Also, just published, and for sale as above, THE DEVOUT MONITOR, a work deserving the attention of Christians of every denomination. SEATON GRANTLAND. Richmond, Sept. 23. [1aw4w]
The subscriber, agent for the Battersea Paper-Mills, near Petersburg, will give the highest price for clean linen and cotton RAGS, delivered at his Printing-Office.
VALUABLE MEDICINE FOR SALE by Moses Davis, at his store, a short distance above the court-house in Richmond. Moses Davis begs leave to inform his friends & the Public generally, that he has purchased at an advanced price from the Patentee, Dr. LOZARUS'S PATENT ANTIPHLOGISTIC STOMACH CORRAL , justly estimated as one of the most valuable medicines in the whole materia medica. The heretofore great and rapid Sale, with the increasing demand for this invaluable cordial; the high esteem it is through every part of Virginia, and some other of the United States; together with its singular and uncommon virtues in restoring weak and decayed constitutions, with those complaints so very common in the Spring and Fall, such as Autumnal and Billious fevers, dysentery, &c. proclaim too loudly its intrinsic worth, to admit even of doubt. It will be sold at the reduced price of one dollar per bottle, & a lengthy dissertation on its peculiar properties furnished gratis.—And when taken, to be well shaken. Richmond, August 23. [ep1m&law1m]
BENJAMIN & SARAH HARRISON , beg leave to inform the public, that their BOARDING SCHOOL will commence on the 15th January next, in Mecklenburg county, Virginia, within one mile of Safford's bridge, on Mechen river, near the road leading from Haskins's ferry to Petersburg; where they have erected a new and commodious dwelling-house for the reception of boarders: together with suitable and separate school-houses for pupils of both sexes. They will teach the English language grammatically, Arithmetic and needle work in its various branches. The boys will lodge in a separate house from the young ladies. The situation is healthy and agreeable. Particular attention will be paid to the health and morals of the children that may be entrusted to their care. Each boarder must be furnished with a pair of sheets, a bed, blanket, one towel and a Counterpane. Terms as follows:—Board and Tuition 21 1/4 per annum; 5 dols. of which must be paid in advance—5 dols. more at the commencement of the vacation, viz. in the first July, and the balance at the expiration of the year. N. B. The vacation will continue four weeks. Sept. 27. [oaw5w]
In consequence of a Circular Letter from a Committee of the officers of the late Pennsylvania line, addressed to me as well as to several other officers of the late army; it has been suggested to me as a proper measure, to call a meeting of all the officers of the former continental line, who continued in service to the end of the Revolutionary war. I have therefore appointed Monday the 13th day of December next, at the capitol in the city of Richmond, for such meeting; being the day to which the society of Cincinnati stands adjourned. JAMES WOOD. Sept. 20. [law18d]
ELLIS & ALLAN have received per the ship Hero, a supply of fall GOODS, making their assortment consist of napt Cottons, Plains, Forest Cloths, Duffil and Rose Blankets, best superfine London Cloths and Kerseymere, double and single milled, Swansdowns and Toiletens, Flannels, Baze, coatings and Frizes, gentlemens' new Shirts and drawers, gentlemens' and ladies Angola and lambs wool hose, ladies very fine cotton and silk hose, Muslins, Cambric, Dimities & printed Muslins, Calicoes, and a few pieces furniture Chintz, silk Shawls, elegant Muffs and Capes, Veils and laced Turbans, thread and cotton Laces, English Lustrings, Satins and Florentines, very fine black Bumbazene, elegant worked Robes, a few Irish damask Table Cloths, Irish Diapers, 5-4 Irish sheeting, a few pieces very fine 4-4 Irish Linen, Ivory Knives & Forks, Smiths' Bellows, Anvils, Vices and Hammers, Cannon Mills with fly wheels, brass and iron Rim Locks, &c. &c. &c. A few casks Hibbert's best brown Stout, Hartham's Stout, No. 9, of superior quality, a few boxes gentlemens' fashioned London made Hats, gentlemens' and ladies Gloves of very good quality, best steel plate, mill, pit and cross cut saws, 3-4 4. 6. 8. 10. 12. & 20d. nails, and 20d. flooring Brads, sack Salt (Liverpool filled) White Lead, Yellow Ochre, and Spanish Brown. Wheat and Tobacco will be received in payment, at liberal prices. Sept. 27. [eT8w.]
NOTICE. —A RETITION will be offered to the next General Assembly of Virginia, to authorise the sale of that tract of Land, which was used as a Glebe for the parish of Drysdale, lying in the parish of St. Stephens, and county of King and Queen. Sept. 20. [oaw5w]
IN CHANCERY. —At a Court continued and held for Albemarle county, 1st day of August, 1808. Alexander Garrett, Complainant—Against William Cornelius and Joseph Bishop, Defendants.
The defendant William Cornelius not having entered his appearance, & given security according to the act of Assembly, & the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state—On motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered by the court, that the said defendant do appear here on or before the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some news-paper published in the city of Richmond two months successively and posted at the front door of the court house of said county. A Copy. Teste, JOHN NICHOLAS, C. C. September 2. [1aw8w]
ADVERTISEMENT. —Notice is hereby given, that a PETITION will be presented to the next Session of the General Assembly of Virginia, to have the lower part of Northumberland county (it being a very narrow neck of land) adjoined to the county of Lancaster. Sept. 27. [oaw4w]
DESERTED. —From the service of the United States, on the 8th instant, a Private in the 5th regiment of Infantry, named JOHN FERGUSON—30 years of age, 5 feet 5 1/2 inches high, sallow complexion, dark hair, blue eyes, had a sickly appearance.—He was born in Delaware county, state of Pennsylvania—by profession a shoemaker. The said Ferguson had on at the time of his desertion, a round sailor's jacket, slash sleeves, dark drab colour, blue striped Virginia cloth vest, and Corduroy Pantaloons, torn on the knees—Virginia cloth shirt; and an old pair of half boots, bound with cord, which he generally wore under his pantaloons. Also:—Deserted on the same day, GABRIEL JONES, 21 years of age, 5 feet 8 1/2 inches high, fair complexion, hazel eyes; auburn hair—when spoken to has a down look.—He is a countryman, Va.—bred a Farmer—He wore a way around striped Virginia cloth coat, white home spun pantaloons, and vest of the same. Whoever will apprehend the said deserters, and deliver them to me, or to any officer in the service of the United States, shall receive twenty dollars reward,—or ten dollars for either. EDWARD DILLARD, Capt. 5th U.S. Reg. Infantry Rendezvous, Petersburg. Sept. 16. [if]
WILLIAMSBURG, September 1, 1808. —The Subscribers have entered into partnership, under the firm of COLE & HENDERSON , and have supplied themselves with a general and well selected assortment of superfine and fine Cloths, Woollens, Manchester stuffs, Cambrics, Hosiery, Hardware, Sadlery, Stationery and GROceries; which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or on short credit to customers who are punctual in their payments. ROSCOW COLE, JAS. HENDERSON.
N. B. For the accommodation of the Students and Scholars of William & Mary College, they will keep a constant supply of the Books used in that Seminary. C. & H. Sept. 13. [epf]
FOR SALE , 3000 acres of LAND, in the county of Henrico, 6 miles from the city of Richmond, on the waters of the Uffham Brook, and on each side of the stage road, leading from Richmond to Fredericksburg. On the above Land is a Manufacturing Mill, with two pair of stones, one of Burr and the other of Cologn, on an excellent stream—517 acres in the county of Amherst, on the waters of Tye River, first rate tobacco. Col. Jos. Shelton will give every information as to this Land. Terms of sale—One third in cash—13 1/3 nine months—and the balance in 18 months; or they will be varied to suit the purchaser or purchasers. The Land in Henrico will be laid off in Lots, for the accommodation of purchasers—and any information as to price or situation, will be given on application to THOS. H. PROSSER. Oct. 7. [if]
NEGROES FOR SALE. —By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to us, by Miller Waddill, of Prince Edward county, bearing date the 16th of May, 1808, for the purpose of securing to Sterling Smith, and to Sterling Smith and Co. sums of money therein expressed:—We shall on Wednesday the 16th day of November next, at the dwelling place of the late Miller Waddill, deceased, proceed to sell for ready money, the following SLAVES, to wit, Lucy and her children, Wmney and Taylor, or as many of them as may be sufficient to discharge the purposes of said deed. JAMES DICK, Jr. } Trustees. WM. WHITE, } Oct. 7. [epf]
FOR SALE —650 Sacks Salt, 25 hds of prime Molasses, 24 Crates well assorted Eastern Ware; with a very general assortment of Groceries, which will be sold low for cash, Country produce, or approved paper. WHITE & SHELTON. Sept. 23. [ep1m]
SAMUEL MYERS , has removed to the store lately occupied by Richard Brooke, opposite to J. Brown's vendue office, where he carries on the business of a COUNTRY PRODUCE. Richmond, Sept. 23. [F10w]
BOARDING, LODGING, AND ENTERTAINMENT. The subscriber is now keeping a boarding house in the commodious and conveniently situated house, formerly occupied by Major James Gibbon, on the main-street opposite to Harris's brick building, where she will accommodate Ladies and Gentlemen by the day, week, month, quarter, or year, with genteel board, lodging and entertainment.—No exertions shall be wanting on her part to give satisfaction to those who will favour her with their company. ANNA BYRD. Richmond, Sept. 30. [epf]
FOR SALE , a valuable plantation in Dinwiddie County, four miles from Petersburg, containing 232 acres of Land. It is under good fences—the improvements are handsome, commodious and in excellent repair; it has besides, the advantages of an agreeable neighborhood, good water, &c. &c. &c.—Apply to THOMAS NORVELL. Richmond, Sept. 20. [if]
NOTICE. —I shall petition the next General Assembly, to be exempted from keeping up the Causeway opposite my Ferry and through the Marsh of Moore Fauntleroy, deceased. LAURENCE MUSE. Tappahannock, Sept. 20. [if]
GERMAN GOODS. —The subscribers have for sale a general assortment of German Goods, consisting of Osnaburgs, Ronans Sheeting, Tickenburgs, Brown Holland, Hessians, Plillias, Brown Rolls, Bed Tyke, Dantzic Rolls, Damask Table clothes Dowlas, Fine Shirting, Linen, Liquor Cases, Quart, Pint and half Pint Decanters, and a General assortment of Looking Glasses. ROHN & HUBNER. September 13. [ep1stn.]
RANAWAY from the subscriber's Farm, near Charlottesville, in Jefferson county, in April last, a Negro Man called JOHN ROMAN —he is about 27 years of age, about five feet six inches high, well made, and has a small scar between his eyes; he wore a blue cloth long coat and pantaloons, a striped cotton waistcoat, shoes and black woolen stockings, and is, by trade, an excellent black smith and gun-smith. I purchased him of Major Scott of the city of Richmond; he formerly belonged to Mr. David Ross, and lived (I am told,) at Columbia on James river, employed at his trade. He was apprehended in Maryland in May, and in my absence, was brought home and placed by my overseer, in the jail of Jefferson county, from which he made his escape a few days. He had, when apprehended, a forged pass, and I am since informed, can write tolerable hand. I will give a reward of twenty dollars, to any person who will apprehend and secure him so that I get him again. BENNETT TAYLOR. Charlottesville, Jef Co. Va. Oct. 4. [F5w]
NOTICE. —In the year 1793, a request was made by letter from a gentleman in Virginia, (through Mr. Joseph Johnson, Consul in London) to Mr. Thomas Digges, then in England, to make enquiry for the heirs or the family of a Mr. Abraham Milnes, * who, when a youth, left Briggshouse near Huddersfield in Yorkshire, for America, and was a clerk to a merchant in Virginia, afterwards kept a store of his own, had a partner in trade, & die unmarried, about the year 1753, leaving landed and other property. Unfortunately, by the loss at sea, of the Ship Jane and Rachel, capt. Dade from London to Alexandria, in the year 1798, the letters of request and other papers and memorandums were lost, and even the writer's name, which is supposed to be Farly or Farley, as well as his place of residence has been forgotten, but is guessed to be near Petersburg in Virginia. The subscribers, or either of them, will be much obliged to any one, informed of either of the parties above alluded to, or can give any traces as to their residence, or informed of any landed or other property of said deceased Abraham Milnes, by letter directed to the subscribers as below; and they will thankfully pay any costs for ascertaining the names, places of residence, or effects of said deceased, &c. &c. GEO: MILNES, Merchant Boston. THOS. DIGGES, Fort Warburton, Potomac, Maryland. * His name was spelt Mills or Milnes.
GEORGE W. RIGGS , George-Town. October 14. [3m]
RUNAWAY from the Subscribers, on Tuesday night, the 4th inst. an apprentice boy to the shoemaking business, named MATTHEW ROACH . He is 19 or 20 years of age; 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high; rather dark complexion, dark hair. He had on dark mixed pantaloons, light cloth coat, black hat and Surrarway boots—he has several implements of his profession with him. It is supposed he has gone towards Norfolk. Ten dollars reward will be given any person apprehending the said runaway, so that we get him again. KEWIN & ALLEN. Richmond, Oct. 14. [3c]
LANDING from the Scl's Richmond Packet, capt. Le Port, 14 bales coarse Woollens, consisting of Kendal Cottons, Striped Blanketing, Plains, Kerseys, 3-4 and 6-4 Cloths. IN STORE —34 hds. Molasses, 12 hds. Antigua Rum, 5 hds. brown, and 3 hds. loaf Sugar, 15 tiers green Coffee, 4 pipes best Holland Gin, 10 qt. casks Sherry Wine, and 400 bgs Liverpool Salt, of 2 bushels to the bag—for sale by GEORGE WATT. October 11. [1aw1f]
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY. —At a meeting of the directors of the said Company the 20th September, 1808. Resolved, That the shares of all delinquent Stockholders in the Company be sold at auction, at the Swan Tavern in Richmond on the 25th of next month at 4 o'clock in the evening of that day. Resolved, That a call of three dollars on each share of the Stockholders in the company be paid to the Treasurer on or before the 25th of next month. A Copy. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. Sept. 23. [125h0]
VIRGINIA , to wit.—At a Chancery District Court held in the city of Williamsburg the 25th day of July, 1808. John Baird Plaintiff—Against Wyatt Walker, Robt. Walker, Freeman Walker, Beverley Clayton & Lockey his wife, Eliza Lacey, Wm. Graves and Tabitha his wife, which said Wyatt Walker, Robert Walker, Freeman Walker, Lockey Clayton, Eliza Lacey & Tabitha Graves, are children of Sarah Walker, dec'd. and Wm. McWhorter, Defendants.
The defendants Robert Walker, Freeman Walker and Eliza Lacey, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the acts of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this country, on the motion of the plf. by his counsel; It is ordered, that the said def's. do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plf. and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some news-paper of the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. A Copy. ANTHONY ROBINSO, o. c. September 27. [oaw3w]