Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1808-04-05 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVTH YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No 1447.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—Paid in Advance.]
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 1808.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
Richmond Price Current.
   (CORRECTED WEEKLY.)     Tobacco, $ 3 50 CASH.   WHEAT, new, 0 67 do.   FLOUR, super fine, new, 4 25 do.   FLOUR, fine, 3 75 do.   CORN, 2 do.   Hemp, clean, (her ton) 160 00 do.   Iron, 110 00 do.   Bacon, 10 do.   Whiskey, 37 do.  
At Private Sale,
At the Subscriber's Auction Store, FIRST quality GREEN COFFEE, Muscovado and Loaf Sugars, Molasses, old Madeira and London P. Tenneriffe Wines, Holland Gin, Demijohns, Glass-ware in boxes, containing tumblers, wine-glasses and decanters; and an assortment of the best quality DUTCH BOLTING CLOTHS.
M. M. MYERS.
March 25.
United States Court, Fifth Circuit & Virginia District, November term, 1807.
Edward Scott & Charles Scott, executors of John Scott, deceased, plaintiffs,
AGAINST
John Tyndale Ware, executor of William Jones, deceased, who was surviving partner of Parcel and Jones, defendant.
THE defendant John T. Ware, not having entered his appearance and given security according to a rule of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this district; On the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney, It is Ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said city.
A copy—Teste, WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clk.
United States Court, Fifth Circuit & Virginia District, Nov 23, 1807.
James Ritchie and Company, plaintiffs,
AGAINST
Mary Brent, widow of George Brent, Daniel Brent, Robert Brent, John Cook, Bailey Washington, William Brent and Robert Brent, Mary Brent and George P. Brent, infant children of George & Mary Brent, defendants.
THE defendants Daniel Brent, Wm. Brent, and Robert Brent, not having entered their appearance and given security according to a rule of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this district; On the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, It is Ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said city.
A copy—Teste, WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clk.
Ten Dollars Reward.
RUN away from this city, about the 12th of last November, a negro man slave named CÉSAR, the property of the subscriber; he formerly belonged to Mr. Robert Alexander of Campbell county, and was bought from him a small boy in the year 1789; he is now about 6 feet high his big toe on his right foot is very remarkable, being split with an axe thro' the nail and nearly as high as the second joint, by that it is much broader and larger than the other. He was accustomed to run James river above the falls, and was seen on the 16th of the same month, November, going thro' the locks in a bateaux, with a negro man slave named Abram, who was head man, and belongs to the estate of Col. John Harris, decd. If César is not concealed by the said Abram he is gone up the river in some other bateaux. On delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again, shall be paid the above reward by Robert Mitchell. City of Richmond, 25th Jan. 1808. wtf
VIRGINIA:
At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, the 15th day of February, 1808.
John S. Moore, Pff.
against
John Magee and John Harris, Dfs.
THE defendant John Magee not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on motion of the plaintiff by counsel it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on 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 newspaper published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the capitol in the said city. A copy—Teste, Peter Tinsley, C. C.
STOLEN, on Wednesday 23d instant, from near the Basin, in Richmond, a dark Chestnut Sorrel Mare, very heavy with foal, (Saddle and Bridle.) She is nine years old this spring, one if not both hind feet white to the hoof locks, a small star in her forehead, a lump on her back, occasioned from a hurt of a saddle. She is about four feet nine or ten inches high. I will give ten dollars to any person who will deliver to me or at the Union Tavern to Mr. P. Moseley, the aforesaid mare, and ten dollars to any person who will apprehend the thief, so as he may be convicted. The man I am informed, is thin visaged, of a dark complexion, for a white man; he had a blue coat on with a blue spencer over it.
JOHN FORE.
Chesterfield, March 25th, 1808. w41*
P. S. I am rather inclined to believe that he made up the river road towards Tuckahoe.
THE noted and much admired ENGLISH HORSE KNOWSLEY,
THE handsomest and one of the best sons of Sir Peter Teazle, now unquestionably the best stallion in England, imported in 1801, by William Lightfoot, Esq., and now the property of Messrs. Woods, of Albemarle, will stand the ensuing season at our stable, in Charlotte county, four miles above the courthouse, the same distance below Rough Creek Church, and ten miles from Coles ferry; & will be let to mares at Six Guineas the season, which may be discharged by the payment of Five Guineas, if paid by the first day of January next, or Twenty Dollars will be received as full compensation if sent with the mare or paid before taken away, and Forty Dollars to ensure a mare to be in foal; one dollar to the groom paid in hand, will be required with each mare; notes of hand payable as above, will be expected in every instance where the money is not sent with the mare. The season will commence the first day of March and expire the first of August. We shall be enabled to furnish five hundred acres of excellent pasturage (gratis) well enclosed in three separate fields, affording a variety of high and low grounds, well set with clover and green sward. Servants will be boarded at nine shillings per week, and grain furnished mares, as directed, at the lowest market price. We assure gentlemen who entrust their mares to our care, that the most pointed attention and strictest justice shall be rendered to every one, and all possible precaution taken to prevent accidents or escapes, but cannot be liable for any that may happen. KNOWSLEY is a fine bay, 15 hands three inches high, full of bone and muscle, with elegant points, remarkable for uniting great strength with an uncommon share of beauty; 12 years old last spring, and now in great perfection. It is deemed unnecessary to publish at full length, either the performance of Knowsley himself or his colts, as every gentleman conversant with the turf must be fully satisfied of his superior worth; let it suffice to say, that no horse ever imported into the state has produced more winning colts, from the number tried than Knowsley. In 1806, nine of his colts started, seven proved successful in winning eleven prizes. In 1807 we have only heard from five, two of which were winners, the other three run with great credit, and were always second best, beating several fine horses. WILLIAM GAINES. MARTIN HANCOCK. P. S. Any mares which were put to Knowsley last season, and did not prove with foal, shall be ensured the present year for the season money. PEDIGREE. Given by Lord Derby in the following words, viz. "I do hereby certify, that the bay horse called Knowsley, late the property of the Prince of Wales, was bred by me. He was got by Sir Peter Teazle, out of Capelia, and was six years old last May, and no more." Signed. DERRY, (Seal.) Knowsley, June 15, 1801. CAPELIA was bred by General Parker, foaled in 1773, and got by Herod, out of Miss Cape by Regulus, Black Eyes by Crab, Warlock, Galloway. Sir Peter Teazle was got by High-Flyer; High-Flyer was got by Herod, and so on he may be traced through a noble line of ancestors, for ages past, without a single flaw in his genealogy, either in the male or female side. lawtm
Advertisement.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by William Hutchinson to the subscribers, on the 24th day of October, 1805, which deed hath been since duly proven and recorded in the county court of Henrico, and in conformity to a request in writing, made by Charles Ellis, for whose benefit the said deed of trust was executed. The subscribers will, for the purpose of raising a sufficient sum of money, to discharge the amount due on two bonds, (given by the said Hutchinson to the said Charles Ellis) mentioned in the said deed of trust, and for other purposes therein specified, proceed to sell at public auction, for ready money, on the premises, on the 5th day of May next, all that Tract of Land in the deed aforesaid mentioned, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the debt aforesaid and other objects of the trust. The said Tract of Land is situate in the upper part of Henrico county, on the waters of Tuckahoe Creek, being the same Land on which the said Charles Ellis formerly resided, and is particularly described in the deed of trust aforesaid, and in the deed by which the said Charles Ellis conveyed the same to the said Hutchinson, both of which deeds, or copies thereof, will be shown on the day of sale. JOHN PATTERSON. STEPHEN ELLIS. 26th March, 1808. w3*
Just Received at this Office,
Numbers 1, 2, 3 and 4, of
The American Military Library.
THE SUBSCRIBER
Being by a power of attorney, duly authorised to settle the accounts and collect the balances due to the following co-partners formerly of this city, viz. Montgomery & Allen; Alexander Montgomery & Co. Montgomery's, Henry & Co. and Montgomery's & Henry, requests all those who remain indebted to either of said firms, to call and pay their respective balances to him. GEO. WATT. Richmond, 26th March, 1808. law6w
TO BE SOLD,
By public auction, for cash, on Monday the 25th April, next, at Cumberland court house, being court day.
Two tracts of Land,
In the county of Buckingham, formerly belonging to Mr. Peyton Saunders, viz. one tract of 400 acres, adjoining the lands of Reiny Chastain and John Harris. The other tract lies on Buffalo creek, five miles from the town of Cavi, containing 238 acres, adjoining the lands of Eleanor Bowling, John Brum, John Lipscomb and James Hudgins. Mr. Edw. W. Trent will be invested with free power to act for me, he being at court on that day. CHAN. H. SAUNDERS. Richmond, March 26, 1808. wtd
REMOVAL.
WE have removed our Countinghouse to the house immediately below, and contiguous to the one we have hitherto occupied, where we have for sale, Muscovado Sugar by the hogshead or barrel, Sherry Wine, in quarter casks, and a few cases Old Claret of superior quality. ROBERT & ALLAN POLLOK, & Co. March 8, 1808. (tf)
I AM desirous to exchange the following property, or any part thereof, as may be agreed on for a small tract of good Land, in a healthy situation, with a dwelling house and other improvements, a good spring of water, and an agreeable neighborhood, at a distance of 30 to 100 miles up the country. To say for Houses in this city—Lands in Henrico county, joining the acacia lands, and near this city—2,000 acres on Richland creek, in Lincoln county, Kentucky—1,000 acres on the waters of the Ohio, in Mason county—and two tracts of Military Lands on the river Tennessee, each 800 & 3 acres. Robert Mitchell. Richmond, Feb. 6, 1808. tf
10 Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the Subscriber on Friday last, a Negro Man named JOHN, a carpenter by trade. He is six feet and upwards high, very likely, of insinuating manners, extremely polite when spoken to. For three years past he lived with Mr. Anderson Barrett. He has a free mulatto woman for his wife, in Richmond, living near the work house, where I expect he will stay. He took with him several articles of husbandry; amongst them, a pair of iron wedges, marked with the letter P. I will give a reward of ten dollars, if delivered to me in the lower end of Hanover, or eight if confined in jail, and I apprised of it. He is called by the negroes John Russell. ARMSTEAD RUSSELL. Hanover, January 24, 1808. tf
NOTICE.
I WILL DISPOSE OF MY TRACT OF LAND,
LYING in Powhatan county, containing 500 acres, of which there is 80 or more prime low grounds, which never is overflowed by the river Appomattox. There is also a fine mill seat, the dam nearly completed, and timbers ready to go to complete the mill, upon a never failing stream. The terms will be one-half cash, the balance in 12 months. I will sell or treat with any one between this and the 1st July next, otherwise it will be sold upon the premises, to the highest bidder, together with other property. The terms of the personal property will be made known on the day of sale. January 5, 1808. John H. Saunders. tds
Partnership Dissolved.
THE partnership carried on under the firm of A. Foster, & Co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All those indebted to the concern are requested to make immediate payment to A. Foster, who will also settle all just claims against said firm. Archibald Foster. John Johnston, by A. Mccaskey, Atty. N.B. The business in future will be carried on by A. Foster. Richmond March 9, 1808. law6w
To be Sold
TO the highest bidder, for ready money, on Thursday the 21st instant, April, at the house called Napier's Tavern, in the town of Columbia, a
Tract of Land
whereon Abraham Shepard now lives, on the Rivanna, in the county of Fluvanna, containing by a late survey, 334 acres, more or less, adjoining the lands of Charles Adams, Richard Adams, Pleasant Bybee, and others, being land sold by David Ross to said Shepard, and conveyed by him, Shepard, to us in trust, to secure a debt due to said Ross, as stated in said trust deed, which said debt has since been assigned by said Ross to Henry E. Coleman—We sell on right as trustees only. George Holman, William Pasteur, Jacob Myers, } Trustees. 1st April, 1808. tds
Documents accompanying the Message of the President of the 22d March, relative to the Chesapeake.
(Continued from our last.)
FROM MR. CANNING.
Foreign Office, Oct. 23d. 1807. 1-2 past 10, P. M.
SIR, I have to acknowledge the honor of your answer to my letter of yesterday evening. It appears to me to be so important to have a clear understanding on the subject, to which that letter refers, that I cannot forbear requesting you to have the goodness to call at the foreign office to-morrow at two o'clock, if that hour should suit your convenience. I have the honor to be, with great consideration, Sir, Your most obt. humble servt'e. (Signed) GEO: CANNING. James Monroe, esq. &c. &c. &c. London, Oct. 28, 1807.
SIR, I have the honor to send you a copy of a correspondence with Mr. Canning, touching a difficulty, which he supposed Mr. Rose might experience in entering the bay of Chesapeake, in consequence of the proclamation of the President. In the interview invited by his last note, I expressed my surprise, that any doubt should exist on the subject of it, and assured him, that Mr. Pinkney and myself would be responsible for Mr. Rose's prompt admission into our harbors, and arrival at Washington, without suffering the slightest molestation; on the contrary, that he should receive every attention and facility on the route which he might require. I told him, that no document from us would be necessary for that purpose; but that to put the question beyond all doubt, we would give him a passport, which should go to every object in detail, and that we would also give him letters of introduction to the governors of Maryland and Virginia, the states through which he would pass, to be taken advantage of, if he found that they would be useful. With this explanation and arrangement, Mr. Canning was satisfied. I also send you a copy of a letter from Mr. Rose, senior, and my answer, relative to the mission of his son to the United States. Although Mr. Rose's letter is unofficial, I have thought it proper, in consideration of his near connection with the minister, and station in the government, to communicate it. I leave this to-morrow, to meet in the channel the Augustus, the ship in which I propose to sail with my family to the U. States. She has left this port, and is on her way to Portsmouth, where she will receive us. Mr. Rose, by going in a frigate, will most probably arrive before me, and even before Doctor Bulus. It is important that you should possess all the information which I can give respecting the business in which I have lately been engaged with Mr. Canning, and of Mr. Rose's mission, at the moment of his arrival. I have therefore thought it advisable to commit to him this letter, and a copy of my correspondence with Mr. Canning, as Mr. Pinkney and I have done our joint dispatch. I expect to be at sea in a week from this date, and shall proceed to Washington immediately after my arrival in the United States, to communicate to you such further information as I may have, relative to the important concerns of our country in which I have been employed. I have the honor to be, With great respect, &c. (Signed) JAMES MONROE. No. III. Correspondence between Mr. Madison and Mr. Rose. Washington, January 26th, 1808.
SIR, HAVING had the honor to state to you, that I am expressly precluded by my instructions from entering upon any negotiation for the adjustment of the differences arising from the encounter of his majesty's ship Leopard and the frigate of the United States, the Chesapeake, as long as the proclamation of the President of the United States, of the 2d of July, 1807, shall be in force, I beg leave to offer you such further explanation of the nature of that condition, as appears to me calculated to place the motives, under which it has been enjoined to me thus to bring it forward in their true light. In whatever spirit that instrument was issued, it is sufficiently obvious, that it has been productive of considerable prejudice to his majesty's interests, as confided to his military and other servants in the United States, to the honor of his flag, and to the privileges of his ministers accredited to the American government. From the operation of this proclamation have unavoidably resulted effects of retaliation, & self assumed redress, which might be held to affect materially the question of the reparation due to the United States, especially inasmuch as its execution has been persevered in after the knowledge of his majesty's early, unequivocal, and unsolicited disavowal of the unauthorized act of admiral Berkeley,—his disclaimer of the pretension exhibited by that officer to search the national ships of a friendly power for deserters, and the assurances of prompt and effectual reparation, all communicated without loss of time, to the minister of the United States in London, so as not to leave a doubt as to his majesty's just and amicable intentions. But his majesty, making every allowance for the irritation which was excited, and the
misapprehensions which existed, has authorised me to proceed in the negotiation upon the sole discontinuance of measures of so inimical a tendency. You are aware, sir, that any delay, which may have arisen in the adjustment of the present differences, is not imputable to an intention of procrastination on the part of his majesty's government; on the contrary, its anxiety to terminate as expeditiously as possible the discussion of a matter so interesting to both nations, has been evinced by the communication made by Mr. Secretary Canning to Mr. Monroe, before that minister of the United States was even informed of the encounter, and now, by the promitude with which it has dispatched a special mission to this country, for that express purpose. I can have no difficulty in stating anew to you, with respect to the provisions of my instructions, calculated as they are to insure an honorable adjustment of the important point in question, and to remove the impressions, which the late cause of difference may have excited in the minds of this nation, that I am authorised to express my conviction, that they are such as will enable me to terminate the negotiation amicably and satisfactorily. Having learnt from you, sir, that it is solely as a measure of precaution, the provisions of the proclamation are now enforced. I must persuade myself, that a due consideration of his majesty's conduct in this transaction, will remove as well any misapprehensions which may be entertained respecting his majesty's dispositions towards the United States, as the grounds upon which that enforcement rests, and the more so, as it has long been a matter of notoriety, that the orders issued to the officers of his majesty's navy, in his proclamation of the 16th October, 1807, afforded ample security, that no attempt can again be made to assert a pretension, which his majesty from the first disavowed. I may add, that if his majesty has not commanded me to enter into the discussion of the other causes of complaint, stated to arise from the conduct of his naval commanders in these seas, prior to the encounter of the Leopard and the Chesapeake, it was because it has been deemed improper to mingle them, whatever may be their merits, with the present matter, so much more interesting and important in its nature; an opinion originally and distinctly expressed by Mr. Monroe, and assented to by Mr. Secretary Canning. But if, upon this more recent and more weighty matter of discussion, upon which the proclamation mainly and materially rests, his majesty's amicable intentions are unequivocally evinced, it is sufficiently clear, that no hostile disposition can be supposed to exist on his part, nor can any views be attributed to his government, such, as requiring to be counteracted by measures of precaution, could be deduced from transactions which preceded that encounter. In offering these elucidations, I should observe that the view in which I have brought forward the preliminary, which I have specified, is neither as to demand concession or redress, as for a wrong committed; into such the claim to a discontinuance of hostile provisions cannot be construed; but it is simply to require a cessation of enactments injurious in their effects, and which, if persisted in, especially after these explanations, must evince a spirit of hostility, under which his majesty could not authorise the prosecution of the present negotiation, either consistently with his own honor, or with any well founded expectation of the renewal or duration of that good understanding between the two countries, which it is equally the interest of both to foster and to ameliorate. I have the honor to be, With the highest consideration, Sir, Your most obedient and Most humble servant, (Signed) G. H. ROSE. (Copy.) Department of State, March 5, 1808. SIR, I have had the honor to receive and lay before the President, your letter of the 26th January, in which you state, that you are "expressly precluded by your instructions from entering upon any negotiation for the adjustment of the differences arising from the encounter of his Britannic majesty's ship Leopard, and the frigate of the U. States, the Chesapeake, as long as the proclamation of the President of the 2d of July, 1807, shall be in force." This demand, sir, might justly suggest the simple answer, that before the proclamation of the President could become a subject of consideration, satisfaction should be made for the acknowledged aggression which preceded it. This is evidently agreeable to the order of time, to the order of reason, and it may be added, to the order of usage, as maintained by Great Britain, whenever in analogous cases, she has been the complaining party. But as you have subjoined to the preliminary demand, certain explanations, with a view doubtless to obviate such an answer, it will best accord with the candor of the President, to meet them with such a review of the whole subject as will present the solid grounds on which he regards such a demand as inadmissible. I begin with the occurrences from which the proclamation of July 2d, resulted. These are in general terms referred to, by the instrument itself. A more particular notice of the most important of them, will here be in place. Passing over then, the habitual but mi-

nor irregularities of his Britannic majesty's ships of war, in making the hospitalities of our ports subservient to the annoyance of our trade, both outward and inward, a practice not only contrary to the principles of public law, but expressly contrary to ordinances enforced during maritime wars, to which she bore a neutral relation, I am constrained, unwelcome as the task is, to call your attention to the following more prominent instances.
In the summer of the year 1804, the British Frigate the Cambrian, with other cruisers in company, entered the harbor of New York. The commander, captain Bradley, in violation of the port laws, relating both to health and revenue, caused a merchant vessel, just arrived, and confessedly within the limits and under the authority of the United States, to be boarded by persons under his command, who, after resisting the officers of the port, in the legal exercise of their functions, actually impressed and carried off a number of seamen and passengers into the service of the ships of war. On an appeal to his voluntary respect for the laws, he first failed to give up the offender to justice, and finally repelled the officer charged with the regular process for the purpose.
This procedure was not only a flagrant insult to the sovereignty of the nation, but an infraction of its neutrality also, which did not permit a belligerent ship thus to augment its force within the neutral territory.
To finish the scene, this commander went so far as to declare, in an official letter, to the minister plenipotentiary of his Britannic majesty, and by him communicated to this government, that he considered his ship, whilst lying in the harbor of New York, as having dominion around her, with in the distance of her buoys.
All these circumstances were duly made known to the British government in just expectation of honorable reparation. None has ever been offered. Capt. Bradley was advanced from his frigate to the command of a ship of the line.
At a subsequent period, several British frigates under the command of captain Whitby, of the Leander, pursuing the practice of vexing the inward and outward trade of our ports, and hovering for that purpose about the entrance of that of New York, closed a series of irregularities, with an attempt to arrest a coasting vessel, on board of which an American citizen was killed by a cannon ball which entered the vessel, whilst within less than a mile of the shore.
The blood of a citizen thus murdered, in a trade from one to another port of his country, and within the sanctuary of its territorial jurisdiction, could not fail to arouse the sensibility of the public, and to make a solemn appeal to the justice of the British government. The case was presented more over to that government by this, in the accent which it required; and with due confidence that the offender would receive the exemplary punishment which he deserved. That there might be no failure of legal proof of a fact sufficiently notorious of itself, unexceptionable witnesses to establish it, were sent to Great Britain at the expense of the United States.
Capt. Whitby was, notwithstanding, honorably acquitted; no animadversion took place in any other officer belonging to the squadron; nor has any apology or explanation been made since the trial was over, as a conciliatory offering to the disappointment of this country at such a result.
A case of another character occurred in the month of September, 1806. The Impetus, a French ship of 74 guns, was aground within a few hundred yards of the shore of North Carolina, and therefore visibly within the territorial jurisdiction and hospitable protection of the United States, was fired upon, boarded and burnt, from three British ships of war, under the command of capt. Douglass. Having completed this outrage on the sovereignty and neutrality of the United States, the British commander felt no scruple in proceeding thence, into the waters near Norfolk, nor in the midst of the hospitalities enjoyed by him, to add to what had passed, a refusal to discharge from his ship, impressed citizens of the United States, not denied to be such, on the plea, that the government of the United States had refused to surrender to the demand of admiral Berkeley, certain seamen alleged to be British deserters; a demand which it is well understood, your government declines any right to make.
It would be very superfluous to dwell on the features which mark this aggravated insult. But I must be permitted to remind you, that in so serious a light was a similar violation of neutral territory, by the destruction of certain French ships on the coast of Portugal, by a British squadron under the command of admiral Boscawen, regarded by the court of Great Britain, that a minister extraordinary was dispatched for the express purpose of expiating the aggression on the sovereignty of a friendly power.
Lastly presents itself, the attack by the British ship of war Leopard, on the American frigate Chesapeake, a case too familiar in all its circumstances to need a recital of any part of them. It is sufficient to remark that the conclusive evidence, which this event added to that which had preceded, of the uncontrolled excesses of the British naval commanders, in insulting our sovereignty and abusing our hospitality, determined the president to extend to all British armed ships, the precaution heretofore applied to a few by name, of interdicting to them the use and privileges of our harbours and waters.
This was done by his proclamation of July 2, 1807, referring to the series of occurrences, ending with the aggression on the frigate Chesapeake, as the considerations requiring it. And if the apprehension from the licentious spirit of the British naval commanders, thus developed and uncontrolled, which led to this measure of precaution, could need other justification than was afforded by what had passed, it would be amply found in the subsequent conduct of the ships under the command of the same captain Douglass.
This officer, neither admonished by reflections on the crisis produced by the attack on the Chesapeake, nor controlled by respect for the law of nations, or the laws of the land, did not cease within our waters
to bring to, by firing at vessels pursuing their regular course of trade; and in the same spirit which had displayed itself in the recent outrage committed on the American frigate, he not only indulged himself in hostile threats, and in indications of a hostile approach to Norfolk, but actually obstructed our citizens in the ordinary communication between that and neighbouring places. His proceedings constituted in fact, a blockade of the port, and as real an invasion of the country, according to the extent of his force, as if troops had been debarked, and the town besieged on the land side.
Was it possible for the chief magistrate of a nation, who felt for its rights and its honor, to do less than interpose some measure of precaution, at least against the repetition of enormities which had been so long uncontrolled by the government whose officers had committed them, and which had at last taken the exorbitant shape of hostility and of insult seen in the attack on the frigate Chesapeake? Candor will pronounce that less could not be done; and it will as readily admit that the proclamation comprising that measure, could not have breathed a more temperate spirit, nor spoken in a more becoming tone. How far it has received from those, whose intrusions it prohibited, the respect due to the national authority, or been made the occasion of new indignities, needs no explanation.
The president having interposed this precautionary interdict, lost no time in instructing the minister plenipotentiary of the U. States, to represent to the British government the signal aggression which had been committed on their sovereignty and their flag, and to require the satisfaction due for it; indulging the expectation that his Britannic majesty would at once perceive it to be the truest magnanimity, as well as the strictest justice, to offer that prompt and full expiation of an acknowledged wrong which would re-establish and improve, both in fact and in feeling, the state of things which it had violated.
This expectation was considered as not only honorable to the sentiments of his majesty, but was supported by known examples, in which, being the complaining party, he had required and obtained, as a preliminary to any counter complaints whatever, a precise replacement of things, in every practicable circumstance, in their pre existing situation.
Thus in the year 1764, Bermudians and other British subjects, who had according to annual custom, taken possession of Turk's island for the season of making salt, having been forcibly removed with their vessels and effects by a French detachment from the island of St. Domingo, to which Turk's island was alleged to be an appurtenance, the British ambassador at Paris, in pursuance of instructions from his government, demanded, as a satisfaction for the violence committed, that the proceedings should be disavowed, the intention of acquiring Turk's island disclaimed, orders given for the immediate abandonment of it on the part of the French, every thing restored to the condition in which it was at the time of the aggression, and reparation made of the damages which any British subject should be found to have sustained, according to an estimation to be settled between the governors of St. Domingo and Jamaica. A compliance with the whole of this demand was the result.
Again:—In the year 1789, certain English merchants having opened a trade at Nootka Sound, on the north west coast of America, and attempted a settlement at that place, the Spaniards, who had long claimed that part of the world as their exclusive property, dispatched a frigate from Mexico, which captured the two English vessels engaged in the trade, and broke up the settlement on the coast. The Spanish government was the first to complain in this case, of the intrusions committed by the British merchants. The British government, however, demanded that the vessels taken by the Spanish frigate should be restored, and adequate satisfaction granted, previous to any other discussion.
This demand prevailed: the Spanish government agreeing to make full restoration of the captured vessels, and to indemnify the parties interested in them for the losses sustained. They restored also the buildings and tracts of land, of which the British subjects had been dispossessed. The British, however, soon gave a proof of the little value they set on the possession, by a voluntary dereliction, under which it has since remained.
The case which will be noted last, tho' of a date prior to the case of Nootka sound, is that of Falkland's islands. These islands lie about 100 leagues eastward of the straits of Magellan. The title to them had been a subject of controversy among several of the maritime nations of Europe. From the position of the islands, and other circumstances, the pretension of Spain bore an advantageous comparison with those of her competitors. In the year 1770, the British took possession of Port Egmont, in one of the islands; the Spaniards being at the time in possession of another part, and protesting against a settlement by the British. The protest being without effect, ships and troops were sent from Buenos Ayres, by the governor of that place, which forcibly dispossessed and drove off the British settlers.
The British government looking entirely to the disposition by force, demanded as a specific condition of preserving harmony between the two courts, not only the disavowal of the Spanish proceeding; but that the affairs of that settlement should be immediately restored to the precise state in which they were previous to the act of dispossession. The Spanish government made some difficulties; requiring particularly a disavowal on the part of Great Britain, of the conduct of her officer at Falkland's Islands, which, it was alleged, gave occasion to the steps taken by the Spanish governor; and proposing an adjustment by mutual stipulations in the ordinary form.
The reply was, that the moderation of his Britannic majesty having limited his demand to the smallest reparation he could accept for the injury done, nothing was left for discussion but the mode of carrying the disavowal and restitution into execution; reparation losing its value if it be conditional, and to be obtained by any stipulation whatever from the party injured.
The Spanish government yielded. The violent proceedings of its officers were disavowed. The fort, the port, and every thing else were agreed to be immediately restored to the precise situation which had been disturbed; and duplicates of orders issued for the purpose to the Spanish officers, were delivered into the hands of one of the British principal secretaries of state. Here again it is to be remarked, that satisfaction having been made for the
forcible dispossession, the islands lost their importance in the eyes of the British government, were in a short time finally evacuated, and Port Egmont remains with every other part of them in the hands of Spain.
Could stronger pledges have been given, than are here found, that an honorable and instant reparation would be made in a case, differing no otherwise from those recited, than as it furnished to the same monarch of a great nation, an opportunity to prove, that adhering always to the same immutable principle, he was as ready to do right to others, as to require it for himself.
Returning to the instructions given to the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London, I am to observe, that the President thought it just, and expedient to insert, as a necessary ingredient in the adjustment of the outrage committed on the American frigate, a security against the future practice of British naval commanders, in impressing from merchant vessels of the U. S. on the high seas, such of their crews as they might undertake to denominate British subjects.
To this association of the two subjects, the President was determined, 1st, by his regard both as resting on kindred principles, the immunity of private ships, with the known exceptions made by the law of nations, being as well established as that of public ships; and there being no pretext for including in these exceptions the impressment (if it could be freed from its enormous and notorious abuses) of the subjects of a belligerent, by the officers of that belligerent. The rights of a belligerent, against the ships of a neutral nation, accrue merely from the relation of the neutral to the other belligerent, as in conveying to him contraband of war, or in supplying a blockaded port.
The claim of a belligerent to search for and seize on board neutral vessels on the high seas, persons under his allegiance, does not therefore rest on any belligerent right under the law of nations, but on a prerogative derived from municipal law; and involves the extravagant supposition, that one nation has a right to execute at all times and in all cases, its municipal laws and regulations, on board the ships of another nation, not being within its territorial limits.
The President was led to the same determination, 2dly, by his desire of converting a particular incident, into an occasion for removing another and more extensive source of danger to the harmony of the two countries: And 3dly, by his persuasion that the liberality of the propositions authorized with this view, would not fail to induce the ready concurrence of his Britannic majesty; and that the more extensive source of irritation and perplexity being removed, a satisfactory adjustment of the particular incident would be the less difficult. The President still thinks that such would have been the tendency of the mode for which he had provided; and he cannot therefore but regret that the door was shut against the experiment, by the peremptory refusal of Mr. Canning to admit it into discussion, even in the most informal manner, as was suggested by Mr. Monroe.
The President felt the greater regret, as the step he had taken towards a more enlarged and lasting accommodation became thus a bar to the adjustment of the particular and recent aggression which had been committed against the U. S. He found however an alleviation, in the signified purpose of his Britannic majesty, to charge with this adjustment a special mission to the U. S. which, restricted as it was, seemed to indicate a disposition from which a liberal and conciliatory arrangement of one great object at least might be confidently expected.
In this confidence, your arrival was awaited with every friendly solicitude; and our first interview having opened the way, by an acquiescence in the separation of the two cases insisted on by his Britannic majesty, notwithstanding the strong ground on which they had been united by the President, it was not to be doubted that a tender of the satisfaction claimed by the U. S. for a distinguished and an acknowledged insult, by one of his officers, would immediately follow.
It was not, therefore, without a very painful surprise, that the error of this expectation was discovered. Instead of the satisfaction due from the original aggression, it was announced that the first step towards the adjustment must proceed from the party injured; and your letter now before me, formally repeats, that as long as the proclamation of the President, which issued on the 2d July, 1807, shall be in force, it will be an insuperable obstacle to a negotiation, even on the subject of the aggression which preceded it; in other words, that the proclamation must be put out of force, before an adjustment of the aggression can be taken into discussion.
In explaining the grounds of this extraordinary demand, it is alleged to be supported by the consideration that the proceeding and pretension of the offending officer has been disavowed: that general assurances are given of a disposition and intention in his Britannic majesty to make satisfaction; that a special minister was dispatched with promptitude for the purpose of carrying into effect this disposition: and that you have a personal conviction that the particular terms, which you are not at liberty previously to disclose, will be deemed by the U. S. satisfactory.
With respect to the disavowal, it would be unjust not to regard it as a proof of candor and amity towards the U. S. and as some presage of the voluntary reparation which it implied to be due. But the disavowal can be the less confounded with the reparation itself; since it was sufficiently required by the respect which Great Britain owed to her own honor; it being impossible that an enlightened government, had hostility been meditated, would have commenced it in such a manner, and in the midst of existing professions of peace and friendship. She owed it also to consistency with a disavowal on a former occasion, in which the pretension had been enforced by a British squadron, against the sloop of war Baltimore, belonging to the United States, and finally to the interest which Great Britain has, more than any other nation, in disclaiming a principle which would expose her superior number of ships of war, to so many indignities from inferior navies.
As little can the general assurances that
reparation would be made, claim a return which could properly follow the actual reparation only. They cannot amount to more than a disposition, or at most a promise, to do what the aggressor may deem a fulfillment of his obligation. They do not prove even a disposition to do what may be satisfactory to the injured party who cannot have less than an equal right to decide on the sufficiency of the redress.
In dispatching a special minister for the purpose of adjusting the difference, the United States ought cheerfully to acknowledge all the proof it affords on the part of his Britannic majesty, of his pacific views towards them, and of his respect for their friendship. But whilst they could not, under any circumstances, allow to the measure more than a certain participation in an honorable reparation, it is to be recollected that the avowed and primary object of the mission was to substitute for the more extended adjustment proposed by the United States, at London, a separation of the subjects, as preferred by his Britannic majesty; and you well know, sir, how fully this object was accomplished.
With respect to the personal conviction which you have expressed, that the terms which you decline to disclose, would be satisfactory to the United States, it is incumbent on me to observe, that with the highest respect for your judgment, and the most perfect confidence in your sincerity an insuperable objection manifestly lies, to the acceptance of a personal and unexplained opinion, in place of a disclosure which would enable this government to exercise its own judgment in a case affecting so essentially its honor and its rights. Such a course of proceeding would be without example; and there can be no hazard in saying that one will never be afforded by a government which respects itself as much as yours justly does; and therefore can never be reasonably expected from one which respects itself as much as this has a right to do.
I forbear, sir, to enlarge on the intrinsic incongruity of the expedient proposed. But I must be allowed to remark, as an additional admission of the singular and mortifying perplexity in which a compliance might involve the President, that there are in the letter of Mr. Canning, communicating to Mr. Monroe the special mission of the United States, pregnant indications that other questions and conditions may have been contemplated, which would be found utterly irreconcilable with the sentiments of this nation.
If neither any nor all of these considerations can sustain the preliminary demand made in your communication, it remains to be seen whether such a demand rests with greater advantage on the more precise ground on which you finally seem to place it.
The proclamation is considered as a hostile measure, and a discontinuance of it as due to the discontinuance of the aggression which led to it.
It has been sufficiently shewn that the proclamation, as appears on the face of it, was produced by a train of occurrences terminating in the attack on the American frigate, and not by this last alone. To a demand, therefore, that the proclamation be revoked, it would be perfectly fair to oppose a demand that redress be first given for the numerous irregularities which preceded the aggression on the American frigate, as well as for this particular aggression, and that the effectual control be interposed against repetitions of them. And as no such redress has been given for the past, notwithstanding the lapse of time which has taken place, nor any such security for the future, notwithstanding the undiminished reasonableness of it, it follows, that a continuance of the proclamation would be consistent with an entire discontinuance of one only of the occurrences from which it proceeded.
But it is not necessary to avail the argument of this view of the case, although of itself entirely conclusive. Had the proclamation been founded on the single aggression committed on the Chesapeake, and were it admitted that the discontinuance of that aggression merely, gave a claim to the discontinuance of the proclamation, the claim would be defeated, by the incontestable fact, that that aggression has not been discontinued. It has never ceased to exist; and is in existence at this moment. Need I remind you, sir, that the seizure and appropriation of the seamen belonging to the crew of the Chesapeake, entered into the very essence of that aggression; that with an exception of the victim to a trial, forbidden by the most solemn considerations, and greatly aggravating the guilt of its author, the seamen in question are still retained, and consequently that the aggression, if in no other respect, is by that act alone continued and in force?
If the views which have been taken of the subject have the justness which they claim, they will have shewn that on no ground whatever can an annulment of the proclamation of July 2d be reasonably required, as a preliminary to the negotiation with which you are charged. On the contrary, it clearly results, from a recurrence to the causes and object of the proclamation, that, as was at first intimated, the strongest sanctions of Great Britain herself would support the demand, that previous to a discussion of the proclamation, due satisfaction should be made to the U. States; that this satisfaction ought to extend to all the wrongs which preceded and produced that act; and that even limiting the merits of the question to the single relation of the proclamation to the wrong committed in the attack on the American frigate, and deciding the question on the principle that a discontinuance of the latter, required of right a discontinuance of the former, nothing appears that does not leave such a preliminary destitute of every foundation which could be assumed for it.
With a right to draw this conclusion, the President might have instructed me to close this communication, with the reply stated in the beginning of it; and perhaps in taking this course, he would only have consulted a sensibility, to which most governments would, in such a case have yielded. But adhering to the moderation by which he has been invariably guided, and anxious to rescue the two nations from the circumstances, under which an abortive issue to your mission necessarily places them, he has authorised me, in the event of your disclosing the terms of reparation which you believe will be satisfactory, and on its appearing that they are so, to consider this evidence of the justice of his Bri-
tannic majesty as a pledge for an effectual interposition with respect to all the abuses against a recurrence of which the proclamation was meant to provide, and to proceed to concert with you a revocation of that act bearing the same date with the act of reparation to which the U. States are entitled.
I am not unaware, sir, that according to the view which you appear to have taken of your instructions, such a course of proceeding has not been contemplated by them.
It is possible, nevertheless, that a re-examination, in a spirit, in which I am well persuaded it will be made, may discover to be not inflexible to a proposition, in so high an event, the President will have manifested his willingness to meet your government on a ground of accommodation, which spares to its feelings, however misapplied he may deem them, every concession, not essentially due to those which must be equally respected, and consequently will have demonstrated that the very inelastic posture given to so important a subject in the relations of the two countries by the unsuccessful termination of your mission, can be referred to no other source than the rigorous restrictions under which it was to be executed.
I make no apology, sir, for the long interval between the date of your letter and that under which I write. It is rendered unnecessary by your knowledge of the circumstances to which the delay is to be ascribed.
With high consideration and respect, I have the honor to be, Sir your most obedient servant.
(Signed) JAMES MADISON. GEORGE H. ROSE, Esq. His Britannic Majesty's Minister, &c. &c. &c.
Washington, March 17th, 1808. Sir,—Being deeply impressed with the sense of his majesty's anxiety, that full effect should be given to those views of justice and moderation, by which his conduct has been regulated through the whole of the unfortunate transaction whence the present differences have arisen; and of the disappointment with which he would learn the frustration of his just and equitable purposes; I have felt it incumbent upon me, on the receipt of the letter which you did me the honor to address to me on the 5th instant, to apply anew to this matter the most ample and serious consideration. It is with the most painful sensations of regret, that I find myself on the result of it, under the necessity of declining to enter into the terms of negotiation, which by direction of the President of the United States, you therein offer. I do not feel myself competent, in the present instance, to depart from those instructions, which I stated in my letter of the 26th of January last, and which preclude me from acceding to the condition thus proposed.
I should add, that I am absolutely prohibited from entering upon matters unconnected with the specific object I am authorised to discuss, much less can I thus give any pledge concerning them. The condition suggested, moreover, leads to the direct inference, that the proclamation of the President of the U. States of the 2d of July, 1807, is maintained either as an equivalent for reparation for the time being, or as a compulsion to make it.
It is with the more profound regret, that I feel myself under the necessity of declaring, that I am unable to act upon the terms thus proposed; as it becomes my duty to inform you, in conformity to my instructions, that on the rejection of the demand stated in my former letter, on the part of his majesty, my mission is terminated.—
And as his majesty's government in providing me with those instructions, did not conceive that after the declaration of his sentiments respecting the affair of the Chesapeake was made known to this government, the state of any transactions pending or unterminated between the two nations, could justify the perseverance in the enforcement of the President's proclamation, I can exercise no discretion on this point.
As on a former occasion I detailed, though minutely, the motives for that demand, on the part of his majesty, which I with so much concern learn to be deemed inadmissible by the government of the U. S., I should here abstain from an exposition of them, which visibly can have no further effect upon the negotiation, if I did not deem it essential that they should not be left under any misapprehension, which I might be able to remove. I shall therefore take a short review of the transaction which has given rise to these discussions, in order the more correctly to determine the soundness of the principles upon which that demand is made.
Certain deserters from his majesty's navy, many of them his natural born subjects, having entered into the service of the U. S. were repeatedly and fruitlessly demanded by the British officers, of the recruiting officers of the U. States; but were retained in their new service. As it was a matter of notoriety that several of these deserters were on board the frigate of the U. States, the Chesapeake, they were demanded of that frigate on the high seas, by his majesty's ship Leopard, and all knowledge of their presence on board being denied, she was attacked, and four of them, one avowedly a native Englishman, were taken out of her. Without being deterred by the consideration of how far circumstances hostile in their nature, had provoked, though undoubtedly by no means justified, this act of the British officer, his majesty's government directed that a positive disavowal of the right of search asserted in this case; and of the act of the British officer, as being unauthorised; and a promise of reparation, should be conveyed to the American minister in London, before he had made any representation by order of the U. S.
This disavowal made on the second of August last, was transmitted by him to his government, before the 6th of that month; but before Mr. Monroe had received his orders to demand reparation, his majesty learnt, with what surprise it is needless to dwell upon, that the President of the U. States had interdicted by proclamation, bearing date the 2d of July, 1807, the entry of all their puffs to the whole of his navy; this surprise was certainly increased, when in the letter delivered by that minister, to require redress for the wrong, although

it went into details unconnected with it; not only no concern was expressed on the part of the U. States, at having felt themselves compelled to enact measures of so much injury and indignity towards a friendly power; but no mention was made of the causes of such measures being resorted to, or even of the fact of their having been adopted. In addition to the embarrassment arising from these circumstances, and the insufficiency of the explanations subsequently given to Mr. Cannings; the introduction of a subject foreign to that of the complaint, because the main impediment to the success of the discussion which took place in London. When I had the honor to open the negotiation with you, sir, as I had learnt that the President's proclamation was still in force, it became my duty, conformably to my instructions, to require its recall, as a preliminary to further discussion; had it not been in force, I was not ordered to have taken it into consideration in the adjustment of reparation; and it was considered as hardly possible, that it should not have been recalled, immediately upon the knowledge of his majesty's disavowal of the attack upon the Chesapeake, as an unauthorised act.—But his majesty could not suffer the negotiation to be carried on, on his behalf, under an interdiction, which even if justifiable in the first moment of irritation, cannot be continued after the declaration of his majesty's sentiments upon the transaction, except in a spirit of hostility.
It might have been fairly contended, that in the first instance, the exercise of such an act of power, before reparation was refused or unduly protracted, was incompatible with the purposes and essence of pacific negotiation, and with a demand of redress through that channel; but such have been his majesty's conciliatory views, that this argument has not been insisted on, although it might now be the more forcibly urged, as it appears that the government of the U. S. was from the first sensible that, even had hostility been meditated by the British government, it would not have commenced it in such a manner. But the exception taken, is to the enforcement continued up to the present time, of measures highly unfriendly in their tendency, persisted in, not only after the disavowal in question, the promise of the proffer of suitable reparation, and the renewed assurances of his majesty's amicable dispositions, but, after security has been given in a public instrument bearing date the 16th of October, 1807, that the claim to the seizure of the deserters from the national ships of other powers, cannot again be brought forward by his majesty's naval officer, it is unnecessary to dwell upon the injury and indignity to which his majesty's service is exposed, both as touching the freedom and security of correspondence of his agents, and accredited ministers in the U. States, or as resulting from a measure, which in time of war, excludes the whole of his navy from all their ports; which ports are completely open to the fleets of his enemies. It will be sufficient to observe, that even where exemptions from it are granted, they are made subject to such conditions, that of the three last British ships of war, which have entered these ports upon public business, two of them, his majesty's ship Statira, having on board a minister sent out for the adjustment of the present differences, and a schooner bearing dispatches, in consequence of their inability to procure pilots, were obliged to enter their waters without such assistance, and were exposed to considerable danger. Great Britain, by the forms established, could repair the wrongs committed, even to the satisfaction of the United States, no otherwise than by the channel of negotiation; yet she avowed distinctly, that a wrong was committed, and that she was ready to make reparation for it; it cannot therefore be contended, that the unavoidable delay of actual reparation, subjected her to the imputation of persisting in an aggression, which was disclaimed from the first; if this is true, however much she will regret any impediment in the adjustment of a difference, in which the feelings of this nation are so materially interested, can she consistently with a due care of her own honor and interests, allow it to be concluded on her part under an adherence to a conduct, which has a decided character of enmity in the proceedings held towards her by the other party.
I know not in what view the perseverance in the President's proclamation, up to this moment, can be considered, but in that of a measure of retaliation; or of self assumed reparation; or a measure intended to compel reparation; unless it be that which, if I rightly understand, you define it to be, a measure of precaution.
If, when a wrong is committed, retaliation is instantly resorted to by the injured party, the door to pacific adjustment is closed, and the means of conciliation are precluded. The right to demand reparation is incompatible with the assumption of it. When parties are in a state of mutual hostility, they are so far on a footing, and as such they may treat. But a party disclaiming every unfriendly intention, and giving unequivocal proofs of an amicable disposition, cannot be expected to treat with another, whose conduct towards it has the direct effects of actual hostility. If then, the enforcements of the President's proclamation, up to the present moment, is a measure of self assumed reparation, it is directly repugnant to the spirit and fact of amicable negotiation; if it is a measure to compel reparation, it is equally so; and by the perseverance in it, Great Britain is dispensed with the duty of proffering redress. But if it is a measure of precaution, in order to secure reparation, or in order to compel it, it falls under the objections I have just stated. If it is a precaution adopted as a guard against acts of violence apprehended on the part of his majesty's naval officers, it surely cannot be considered as being as effectual a security as that arising from the renewed assurances of his majesty's friendly disposition, which imply a due observance of the rights of nations with which Great Britain is in amity, by all persons holding authority under his majesty's government, from the disavowal of the pretension of the search of national ships; and from the further assurance of that disavowal, given in his majesty's proclamation of the 16th of October last. Neither under these concurrent circumstances can the plea of necessity be maintained, and if such a proceeding has not the plea of necessity, it assumes the character of aggression. If these concurrent securities against such an apprehension have any value, the necessity no longer exists; if they are of no value, negotiation cannot be attempted, as the basis upon which it rests, the mutual confidence of the two parties, would be wholly wanting.
From the moment after the unfortunate affair of the Chesapeake, that his majesty's naval commanders, in these waters, had ascertained that they were safe from the effects of the popular fury, under which the most glaring outrages were committed, and by which they were very naturally led to the supposition that they were objects of particular hostility, and that a state of war against them, requiring precautions on their part had commenced, no conduct has been imputed to them, which could vindicate the necessity of maintaining in force the President's proclamation.
(Remainder of Mr. Rose's letter in our next.)
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
NEW YORK, March 28.
By the fast sailing ship Oliver-Ellsworth, which arrived at this port on Saturday evening from Liverpool, the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has completed his files of London papers to the 22d February, inclusive, Liverpool papers to the 24th, and Lloyd's Lists and Pricers current to the 19th.
The papers are principally occupied with the debates in the Imperial Parliament of Great Britain on the late orders of Council against neutral commerce; the expedition to Copenhagen; the proposed mediation of Austria between England and France; the negotiation with Portugal; the expedition to the Dardanelles; and the improper use which his majesty has made of the Droits of Admiralty, by granting the sum of 20,000, sterling to several of his profligate children, at a time when the pressure of the public burthens became almost intolerable to the great mass of the nation.
For the late orders of council the ministry have had recourse to a bill of indemnity. In the House of Peers, when the subject of these orders was under consideration, Lord Erskine (the late Chancellor) observed that they must lead to the most calamitous consequences—America, it was generally acknowledged, was the main source of British commercial prosperity, and these measures would inevitably dry it up, and compel the people of the U. States to turn their thoughts to a navy and manufactures, contrary to the advice of the great and good Washington, and thereby fix permanently their attention on what may ultimately ruin England.
On a motion in the same House for an "Address to his majesty praying for the production of official information touching the execution of the French decree of blockade previous to the 11th November," the ministry were left in a minority of 9.
A bill was before parliament at our last dates, for "more effectually carrying into execution certain orders in council made for the protection of the trade and navigation of Great Britain, and granting duties of customs on certain goods exported from Great Britain;" and a meeting had been called, by twenty-two of the most respectable houses in Liverpool to petition parliament against its passing into a law until the objects of the order should be explained or modified. Among other articles of taxation, the bill proposed an export duty of 2s. 6d. sterling per bushel on salt, which is considered as a staple branch of the export trade of Liverpool. This port, it is computed, carries on three-fourths of the trade between the United States and Great Britain; and some idea of its importance may be collected from the fact that the annual exports of British manufactures to the U. States, exceeds ten millions sterling, and the demand constantly and rapidly increasing. In the port of Liverpool alone, during the year 1807, entered 480 American vessels, averaging 255 tons and paying a tonnage duty of $6.968. In addition to which, the amount paid in duck duties, port charges, and dibursement a month, the trade of Liverpool, is estimated at 140,000, exclusive of any charge or expense on the cargo.
Flour was getting at Barbadoes on the 18th ult. at 17 dollars per barrel—and vessels laden with provisions were restricted by the government from leaving the Island. (Mar. 28.)
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ARGUS OFFICE, April 5th, 1808.
AIMING at nothing in conducting this paper but TRUTH, and public utility, which by nothing else but TRUTH can be promoted, we are always ready to correct our own errors, when we discover them, as well as anxious to detect and defeat those of our antagonists. We therefore candidly acknowledge an inaccuracy in the editorial remarks in the last Argus; which appear to convey an idea that the documents now publishing prove that Col. MONROE has expressly declared his approbation of the rejection of the treaty.
We prophesied that it would appear from those documents that "he approved of the rejection;" but were led to say so, from our own belief that such are his sentiments, and our own expectations that his letter written since his return to this country would be found to contain enough to warrant that belief. We are now assured by such respectable authority as we cannot discredit, that such is not the case, and that the letter contains no such EXPRESSION.—We still believe, however, that no opposite sentiments will be found in it; and that, if Mr. Monroe does not mention his approbation, neither does he his disapprobation of the conduct of the President in rejecting the treaty.—When the letter itself appears, the public will judge how far we were incorrect.
THE publication of the documents relative to the attack on the Chesapeake is concluded in this day's paper, except a small part of Mr. Rose's last letter. In the next Argus the interesting correspondence between General Armstrong, our Minister at Paris, and M. Champagny the French minister, will appear.
The public will then see how little foundation there has been for the sandless clamor of Timothy Pickering and others, concerning concessions to France, and French influence, exerted on our government. Mr. Armstrong's letters breathe the noble spirit of a firm and independent American, and Mr. Champagny's terrible answer, (which the Federalists, and other enemies of the administration, supposed to contain arbitrary commands to the President and Congress of the U. S. and to have accomplished nothing less than making this country a province of the French empire,) turns out to be only a civil and unimportant note! Such is the great sagacity of Timothy, and the deep penetration of the Essex-junto! Let them (if capable of shame) hide their heads in confusion, from the frowns and sneers of an insulted and indignant people.
MR. PLEASANTS, BEING convinced myself that the MEDALS, of which such a pompous account was given in the Virginia Gazette of Friday last, are altogether spurious and counterfeit for the purpose of answering the party views of the person who communicated the pretended discovery; (which indeed may be gathered from his signature, in which, inadvertently, he acknowledges those medals to have been delineated by himself;) I shall submit to the public a few observations upon them.
Mr. DELINEATOR states that "these valuable curiosities will be exhibited on Monday the 12th instant, at the courthouse of this city." I presume he meant, not that his own precious medals, but that the gentlemen, whose characters he has misrepresented, will be exhibited to the people on Monday next. On that occasion I trust the freeholders of this city will, for themselves, "fairly examine the merits of both the originals" from which his medals were fabricated, having too much good sense to take from his hands their impressions concerning them. They will then, in comparing their persons with his pictures, observe that the looks of EDWARDUS AGAMEMNON "convey to the eye full as much of pride, and aristocratic hauteur," as of "dignity and conscious worth." His front is rather that of the king of men, whose name he bears than that of "Jove himself," the king of the Gods; at least if the face of the latter had any thing pleasing in it. There is also, (unless the occasion should induce even him to unbend his features a little,) an appearance of sternness and moroseness, which is somewhat repulsive: neither is there aught which evinces the man of genius, the acute comprehensive mind of a legislator, who ought to be able to do something more than say only "AYE" or "NO." When they view the fine, open, intelligent and pleasing countenance of the other original, they will see conspicuous in it that bright and powerful genius which qualifies its owner to fill almost any station, with honor to himself and advantage to his country. They will also see that amiable and pleasing expression which springs from unaffected philanthropy (the genuine and natural trait of a good REPUBLICAN,) together with that animation and fire which bespeaks the man who is ardent in the cause of his country, and ready to lay down his life in her service. The head of the former is, indeed, the most ancient of the two: yet the latter has not the appearance of raw and inexperienced youth, but, rather, of a man in the prime of life, who has now arrived at that season, when his faculties are in their greatest perfection, and his judgment fully matured.
So much for the busts themselves. With respect to the inscriptions, (which are written I own with some ingenuity,) the good people of Richmond will not fail to observe that, in the character of EDWARDUS AGAMEMNON, the most important circumstance (so far at any rate as respects his qualifications to serve the people in General Assembly) has been omitted; to wit, his staunch and determined FEDERALISM! He was one of those who applauded the administration of JOHN ADAMS; and, during that administration, superintended the collection of the stamp tax, the still tax, the carriage tax, the land tax and the house tax. He has also always been counted in the ranks with the opponents of the present administration.
All this Mr. Delineator chose to forget; but I trust that the people, on Monday next, will not forget it.
His honor and honesty will not be denied; his attention to his duty as a magistrate, will not be forgotten; but in electing a legislator, his political opinions ought to be considered; and those who differ with him in opinion, will surely do right to prefer to his competitor; whose integrity is equal to his; whose decrees, while he acted as a chancellor, gained universal approbation; whose REPUBLICAN PRINCIPLES are pure and unquestionable; and whose TALENTS no candid man will deny to be greatly superior to those of EDWARDUS AGAMEMNON.
The character of GULIELMUS CAUSDICUS, as portrayed by Delineator, is truly a shameful caricature. No person who knows that he was elected Chancellor of the Williamsburg District by the spontaneous vote of the Legislature, attracted only by esteem for his merit and obtained without any solicitation on the part of himself, or of his friends, will believe that he is a "nimium gaudens popularibus curiis," that is to say, too fond of popularity. His writings and speeches, (which are before the public, and with delight will be read by posterity, when the squibs of such scribblers as Delineator, have long been forgotten,) will forever prove, that he is not a feeble "polisher of phrases," a "trifler in taste" and "incorrect in judgment." If Mr. Delineator has sense enough to fathom "the whole of his acquirements," or "to compute the sum total of his capacity," he must be a clever fellow than I take him to be.
This, in truth, is not an easy task, to any man who will consider the great variety of excellent observations, and pleasing ornaments of fancy, thrown out with profusion, yet arranged in admirable order, in his elegant writings; the extent of LAW-LEARNING, the energy of thought, the force of logical argument, the fire of eloquence and beauty of language displayed in all his orations; particularly, in those which unmasked and confounded Aaron Burr and his adherents, making conscious TREASON tremble before him.
His being willing to serve as a general in these times, is certainly no proof of his wanting patriotism and courage, and the respectable number of votes bestowed upon him is no insignificant evidence of his being worthy of the appointment.
T admit his having been a native of Maryland, was a great and irreparable misfortune, but, as he surely was not the cause of it himself, no person but the evil and unprincipled Delineator would have imputed this to him as a fault. Of one thing the freeholders of this city may be certain; that, if elected their delegate, he will serve them with zeal and fidelity, and prove an active, useful and influential member of the general assembly; whereas his competitor Agamemnon, (however wise he may be on the bench, however skilful in supervising tax-gatherers, and faithful in paying money when collected,) would be a mere cypher in the House of Delegates of Virginia. When they consider this, and take a rational view of the whole subject, they cannot hesitate to prefer GULIELMUS CAUSDICUS, even to the great EDWARDUS AGAMEMNON.—These at any rate, are the sentiments of A REPUBLICAN.
FOR THE ARGUS.
A Dialogue between Eusebius a Christian, Theocles a Deist, and Ascheb an Atheist.
Eusebius. WELL, gentlemen, what relief have "scorn and spite" afforded you from your remaining scruples and doubts; and from your fears in the dark, and especially in sickness, and when in danger of death?
Ascheb. A delightful temporary relief I assure you, and that is enough.
Theocles. Truly temporary, I confess, and stings behind them. But unhappily having groans under the security against even sores, and bagno diseases, as far as we have reimbursed a "woman" and when to "wine we fly" the purse, and body, (or head at any rate) severely pay for all the relief bestowed and indeed leaves us, Ascheb, beset by blue devils, who plague us as much as Eusebius and his prices tell us the old-black cloven-footed Devil will plague us as last.
Eusebius. An honest confession, Theocles! but Ascheb, is a temporary relief, however delightful, to be put into competition, by a philosophical mind, with a sure and lasting remedy for every evil which can befall us in this world, and with a passport to infinite and endless bliss in the world to come?
Ascheb. Aye, but this is mere rant, enthusiastic dreaming; you would have me look to another world, no one knows where it is, and when it will be found, and quit all the delights of this blessed and blessing world, in which we live, and where, if there be a God who made it, he certainly must think me a fool if I do not enjoy all the good things he has strewed in my way.
Eusebius. There is a God all nature proves; and for aught you can prove to the contrary, he has offered you this temporary transient good things of this world, mingled with the evils, which the candid Theocles acknowledges, are inseparable from them; and the pure and everlasting happiness of a future state for your choice—the condition is fairly made known, and it seems like madness to refuse the offer of future eternal bliss and to accept in its stead, a transient, momentary, delusive mimicry of happiness. What can you really lose, gentlemen, if I am mistaken? and what will you not substantially lose if you should be mistaken: and what will you not gain if I am not mistaken, as it is impossible I should be, as has been proved a thousand times, and above a thousand years before you were born.
Gervase Storrs and Nathaniel Selden, Esqrs are elected to represent the county of Henrico, in the next General Assembly of this Commonwealth.
** Our readers will please to note the following error in the piece under the signature of Eusebius, published in Friday's Argus, vis 2d page, 3d col 30th line, for "Richard Rose," read ROCHLAEV.
ELIEZER WILLIAM WEBB, of the county of Gloucester, departed this life the first day of last month, in the 61st year of his age. He was pastor of the Dover Baptist Church of Christ for upwards of thirty years—His zeal for the cause of God, his unwearied diligence in the ministry, and his success in the dissemination of the Gospel, has rendered his memory dear to the church of God.
On the 19th of March, in Powhatan county, JOSEPH MOSBY Esq. a worthy and respectable member of society.
Sales at Auction.
THIS DAY, at two o'clock, at my Auction Store, to close a consignment, will positively be sold without reserve, 44 Bags of Coffee, 2 Barrels and 1 hhd. Sugar. M. M. MYERS, Auctioneer. Tuesday, 5th April, 1808.
Cash Sale.
By virtue of a deed of trust from John Boatwright to the subscriber bearing date the 17th day of August, 1805, and recorded in the county court of Cumberland, to secure the payment of sundry debts therein specified; WILL BE SOLD, at the front door of Nelson's Tavern, near the court house of the said county, on the fourth Monday in April next, (if being court day) One Hundred Acres of Land, adjoining the lands of Alexander Trent, Sec. and others, six head of horses, one cow, and one yoke of oxen, twelve head of cattle, twelve head of sheep, five feather beds, with their furniture, and all of the said Boatwright's Household and Kitchen Furniture, or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to discharge the covenants in the said deed and the charges for carrying the same into effect or so much of the Stock, &c as shall be produced to the trustee on the day of sale. Henry Bell, March 12, 1808.
March 12, 1808
RAN AWAY on Wednesday last, from the Subscriber residing in the city of Richmond, a negro boy named BILLY, about 12 or 13 years of age, remarkably black, with short curly hair, and a sensible countenance. He is noted for smiling when spoken to. He had on when he went away, a brown drah jacket, the sleeves of which were ragged, puffed at the same, patched in several places with light grey cloth, and an India cotton shirt; but was barefooted and without a hat. Any person who will deliver him to the subscriber, or to his apprehender in this city, shall receive a reward of five dollars; and if elsewhere, of ten dollars; and reasonable expenses paid. He has relations at Shirley in Charles city county, and may perhaps have gone to that place; or he may have gone into Chesfield, or farther South, as a gentleman says he believes he saw him on Thursday last, following a waggon on the Manchester or Tunpike Road. There is reason to believe that he stole, and has either sold or thrown away, accompanied with him the following valuable articles: a large miniature picture set in gold, with hair in the back and a pin, the gold a little dented in consequence of a fall; being the likeness of a young lady dressed in white, of fair complexion, black eyes, and light curling hair parted on the forehead and flying on the shoulders, with red and white beads around the neck; also a small miniature picture (set in gold with a pin) of a young lady with black hair and eyes, and a beautiful face; the frame in the shape of an Octagon, and beat a little on the side, in consequence of having been trodden upon; also a small gold breast pin intended for hair, which was never put in, but black silk in its stead. Whoever will bring either of the said articles to the subscriber shall receive a liberal reward. ANNA BYRD. Richmond, April 1, 1808.
Map of Virginia
For Sale at this Office.

The Celebrated English Stallion  BEDFORD, WILL stand this season at my house, in Chesterfield county, five miles distant from Gooch and Bevil's bridges, on Appomattox river, and 25 from Richmond and Petersburg. The following terms will be attended to:—FORTY DOLLARS are required for the season; the same to be secured by a note, to be sent with each mare, but the note may be discharged by the payment of TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS at any time within the season, which will expire on the last day of July. The groom-fee will be ONE DOLLAR per mare. Should any mare sent to this horse not prove to be in foal, the owner, provided he retains possession of the same mare the succeeding season, may be permitted to put her to Bedford gratis. The mares will have the benefit of safe and extensive pasturage, but no responsibility for escapes or accidents. They will be supplied with provender on very reasonable terms, provided the money is sent to make the purchase. Servants who attend the mares, will be boarded at the rate of ten shillings and six pence per week.
BEDFORD, from his performances and his real character, ought to stand at his former season price of fifty dollars, but the distressed situation of the country, as to money matters, induces the subscriber to reduce the sum, and to make the payment of it as easy as possible to those who may think proper to raise from this elegant and valuable stock.  BEDFORD is a fine blood bay, nearly 16 hands high, with great bone and muscular power; his colts are equal if not superior to those of any horse in America. He is the sire of the following distinguished runners:—Fairy, it is believed, out of thirteen races (4 mile heats) she won twelve, and is the only nag that ever beat Leviathan—Gallant, Nancy Air, Dungannon, Peggy, Lottery, Cup Bearer, Volunteer, Nestor, Dutchess, Kulus, Whiskey, and many other fine horses are the immediate descendants of Bedford.  BEDFORD was imported by the late col. John Hoome, bred by Lord Grosvenor, was got by Dungannon, the best son of Eclipse, his dam Fairy by Highflyer, his granddam Fairy Queen, who was also the granddam of Citizen, by Young Cade, Ruth's Black-Eyes by Crab, Warlock Galloway by Snake, Bald Galloway, Curwin Bay Bard.  THOMAS BRANCH. March 4, 1808. (w3m)
The Famous High Blooded English Horse  HAMBLETON, BRED by the Duke of Grafton, a beautiful bright bay, near 16 hands high, of high form and elegance, rising 16 years old, in good health and great perfection, imported by Wm. Lightfoot, Esq., of Charles City county, will stand the ensuing season, at my plantation in Hanover county, 20 miles from Richmond and 2 from Hanover Town and New Castle, to cover mares at 5 guineas the season, for which a note will be required, dischargeable by the payment of 20 dollars at any time before the first of August next, when the season will expire, with one dollar to the groom for each mare, paid at the stable door. Ten dollars the single leap, and 40 dollars to insure a mare with foal. Good and extensive pasturage, well enclosed, with branches running through the flat land adjoining as good forward pastures as any in this part of the country, gratis. Servants that may be sent with mares will be boarded for two dollars per week, and mares fed, if required, on reasonable terms. The greatest attention will be paid by my overseer, Mr. John Hog, but no liability for escapes or accidents.  * Any gentleman putting 6 mares to Hambleton may send one gratis.  GEORGE BLAKEY. February 15, 1808.
PEDIGREE. Hambleton was got by Dungannon, sire of Bedford and one of the best sons of O'Kelly's famous Eclipse, who was esteemed to be the best horse in England of his day, and covered at fifty guineas—his dam by Snap, sister to Jupiter, bred by Mr. Cross, 1793—her dam, Young Mark's dam, by Blank, Stirling, Miss Meynell, by Partner, Greyhound, Curwen Bay Bard, Lord D'Arcy's Arabian, Whitsworth, Old Montague mare. Thus it appears he descended from the best running stock in England.  PERFORMANCES. This horse ranks very high as a racer, both for speed and bottom, as he proved successful in 20 races before he left the turf, 4 of which he walked over, none venturing to start against him. In '94 at Hambleton, Yorkshire, on Wednesday, May 14th, he won a sweepstakes of ten gs each, for 3 year olds. 6 subscribers, 2 miles, beating Mr. Beethel's b f by Magnum Bonum, Pierce's b f by Young Marske, Turner's Confederacy, and Craddock's ch c Leicester. At York he won 30l. for 3 year olds, beating Lowther's b c Griffin, Crompton's ch c Ambush Sheppard's Madcap, Clifton's b c Cedar, and Garforth's ch c—even betting on Ambush against the field. At Manchester, in June, he won 50l. for 3 year olds, two mile heats, beating Foreigner and Loyalist. At Stockton, Sept. 20, he won a sweepstakes of 20 gs each, 5 subscribers, then Sir W. Williamson's property, formerly Mr. Hutchinson's, beating Fletcher's Highflyer, out of Wren and Turner's Delphine—In 1795, Hambleton won 5 times, to wit: a handicap plate of 50l. 2 mile heats, at 4 years old, beating Insect, Blackleg, and Warthin's b c 5 years old. At Edinburgh, July 20, he won his majesty's plate of 100 gs 4 years old, 4 mile heats, beating Greyhound's b h Archer, 6 years old, Mr. Peacock's ch g Farmer, and Mr. Wilson's Greeping Kate. At Dumfries in Oct. he won 50l. beating Lord Darlington's b h Constant. In 1796, Hambleton won at Kelso, Oct. 5, a purse of 50 gs beating Mr. Ball's Black Cock. In 1797, he won 8 times, to wit:—at Middleham, in Yorkshire, a sweepstakes of ten gs each, 5 subscribers, 3 mile heats, beating Mervy Lad and Arthur. At Edinburgh, on Wednesday the 26th, 50 gs for all ages, beating Eliza Fox and Betsey. On Friday the 28th, the ladies subscription purse of 50 gs beating Fletcher's Jane. At Montrose, in Scotland, August, he walked over the ground for a 30l. plate, and also walked over the ground for a subscription of 50l. At Kelso, Oct. 16 for a plate of 50 gs he walked over the ground—and also his majesty's 100 gs given to the Caledonian Hunt, for any horse, &c. carrying 12 st 4 mile heats, then 6 years old, he won against Mr. Wentworth's Trimbush, Piermont's Trimmer, aged, and Kinlade's Hector, aged—and Saturday following, a purse of 50l. given by the Hunt, free for any horse, &c. beating Farewell and Roliker. At Carlisle he won 160 gs of Mr. Sitwell, beating his b f by Meteor. In 1798, he won at Edinburgh, August, 50l. for all ages, beating Maxwell's Arab, and Mr. Maule's Hippopotamus. At Montrose he won a plate of 50 gs for all ages, beating Pifothore and Contrador. See the racing Calendars for the foregoing years.  Wm. LIGHTFOOT.
Colt's Performances—London. Hambleton's colts also rank very high as racers, both for speed and bottom, as they proved themselves good runners in England. In 1805, at Catterick bridge, on Thursday 18th, Wentworth's b c Silverheels by Hambleton, two years old, won a sweepstakes of ten gs 8 subscribers, two miles, beating Mr. Riddle's b c by Overton, dam of Spadille; Mr. Lonsdale's ch c by Piper dam by Master—Lord Strathmore's g f by Overton, dam by Deiphini—Several others also started but were not placed.—Durham, Wednesday, 24th, a Maiden Plate of 50l., given by the country members, for all ages, 3 mile heats. Sir H. Williamson's b c by Hamilton, 2 years old, run 4 heats, and proved second best—and 4 others started and proved themselves good runners.
CERTIFICATES. London, 17th February, 1806. William Lightfoot, Esq.
Dear Sir,—Hambleton ought to stand very high with you, as his colts in this country turn out excellent runners, &c.  Charlotte, 10th May, 1806. Ro. Crew.  I put five mares to Hambleton, and they all proved in foal, and the colts fine and large—I also have a mare which has bro't me four colts, one by Diomed, one by Dragon, one by Seagull, and another by Hambleton, and the Hambleton colt has the preference of either: I think her one of the finest fillies, both in size and figure that I ever saw.—Given under my hand.  Henry Lester. Lunenburg, 5th May, 1806.
This will certify that I put a mare to Hambleton in 1804, when he stood at Mr. H. Lester's in Charlotte county, and am as well pleased, if not better, with the colts by him, than with any the same mare ever had—she previously bred by Coeur de Lion, Diomed, Quicksilver and Dion.  Charlotte county. Theobald Lester.  In the year 1804 I put a mare to Hambleton, then kept by Mr. H. Lester of this county, and am fully persuaded that it is the best colt the mare ever had, and is in my estimation the best colt I ever bred from any horse.—I moreover never have heard of any complaining of their colts from that horse.  Thomas Read, Jr. Hanover County.
I herewith certify that Mr. Wm. Lightfoot's horse Hambleton, stood at my stable the last season, and that he has proved an excellent foal getter: his colts would do credit to any horse on the continent. Mr. Wm. Morris of this county and I put five mares each, all of which proved in foal. Given under my hand this 7th day of May, 1806.  John Thornton. Albemarle county, Temple Hill, (Va.)  I do hereby certify that Mr. Wm. Lightfoot's English horse Hambleton, stood at my stable two seasons, viz in 1806 and 1807; and I consider him to be an excellent sure foal getter, as any horse that I have been acquainted with—I have seen a number of his colts; I consider them large, fine and handsome—Not one that I have seen was indifferent—I have previously put my fine mare Lady Slipper to Precipitate, Knowlesy and Hambleton, and she brought a colt by each, the Hambleton I consider much preferable. Given under my hand 10th December, 1807.  James Kinsolving. Charlotte County, 6th May, 1806.
We the undersigned subscribers had colts dropped last season by Hambleton, and they are esteemed by us and we believe by the neighbours generally, to be remarkable good colts; being for the most part large, fine and handsome. We also believe that the season he stood in this country, he got as many colts as any horse could get with the same number of mares.  William Mitchell, James Lamkin, Clement Smithson, Overton Pettus, Thomas Pettus, Wm. L. Morton, W. B. Lester.
The imported Horse  PAUL, Formerly St. Paul, IS a beautiful sorrel, 15 hands 3 inches high, remarkable for his elegance, beauty, strength and fine bone, will stand the ensuing season at my plantation, in Powhatan county, on James river, 3 miles above the Manakin Town ferry, and about the same distance below Jude's ferry, to cover mares at 25 dollars the season, but, but may be discharged by the payment of 18 dollars, or the price of 18 bushels of wheat at Dover mill in Goochland county, if paid by the first day of December next, with half a dollar to the groom. As good and extensive pasturage as any in Virginia gratis, and mares fed with corn at the market price; if the money is sent with them; and servants boarded at six shillings per week, and the greatest attention paid to the mares, but no liability for escapes or other accidents.—The season will commence the first day of March and end the first day of August.  This beautiful horse PAUL, was raised by the Prince of Wales, & got by his horse Saltram, who was got by O'Kelly's Eclipse, his dam Virago, by Snap; Paul's dam Purry, was got by Matchem; her dam the Old Squirt mare, of as great fame as any mare in the kingdom.—Paul's colts are equal to any horse's in Virginia, and he is a sure foal getter; several of his colts may be seen at his stand.  THOMAS HARRIS, Jr. epiAwtioj Millwood. Powhatan, Feb. 29, 1808.
At a Court held for Louisa county on Monday the 8th day of February 1808. Robert Yancey, & co. vs. William Meriwether and Robert Dickenson, Defendants.  THE defendant Wm. Meriwether, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state; therefore, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, it is ordered and decreed by the court, that the said defendant Meriwether do appear here on the second Monday in May next, and answer the plaintiffs bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of the court-house of this county, on some court day.  A copy—Teste, John Poindexter, C. L. C.
TO RENT, A GOOD TENEMENT on Market Alley, opposite the Market House; it is among the best stands in the neighborhood for a grocery. For terms apply to the subscriber or to Harry Tompkins.  ISAAC WEBSTER. February 19.
Thenoted & much admired  ENGLISH HORSE  Jack Andrews; IMPORTED by W. Lightfoot, Esq., of Charles City county, and now his property, full 15 and a 1-2 hands high, a blood bay, finely formed, in high health, vigor and spirit, the most active and best bottomed horse ever imported into this country, now rising 14 years old.
Will stand the ensuing season at Temple Hill, on Mechanic's river, in Albemarle county, ten miles above Charlottesville, within 1 mile of German's mill and 2 miles of the brick tavern, and will be let to mares at five guineas the season, which may be discharged by the payment of 20 dollars if paid by the 10th day of August. Gentlemen's notes will be required with their mares for 5 guineas discharged as above; 3 guineas the leap, and 40 dollars to insure a mare to be with foal, and one dollar with each mare to the groom; the leap and groom money to be paid when the mare is delivered. Provided the mare is changed the owner shall be liable. The season will commence the first day of March and end the first day of August. Extensive low and high ground pasturage, well enclosed, in three separate fields, gratis. Servants will be boarded at $2 per week, and grain will be furnished at the market price and given in manner and quantity agreeably to direction, and all possible care taken to prevent accidents and escapes but will not be liable for any that may happen.  JAMES KINSOLVING, For William Lightfoot.
This celebrated horse's performances in England, has not been inferior to any horse there, except his brother Dick Andrews, who is considered now the best horse in that country, giving 7 pounds—Jack Andrews won twice in 1797, then Mr. Lord's property—See Racing Calendar for that year.  At Worcester, July 5th, a maiden plate of £50 for 3 years old, 6 st one, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Darling's ch f Miss Edwin, 4 years old; Mr. Atkinson's ch m Priscilla, aged; Sir W. W. Wynne's b c Sweet Botherer, 5 years old; Mr. Hardin's b c Eglantine, 4 years old.  Stafford, October 7th—The town purse of £50 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, 3 year old, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Betterton's Lites Pickle, 4 years old; Mr. Barlow's Roderick, 4 years old; Mr. Denham's Honest Tom, 6 year old; Sir W. W. Wynne's b h True Blue, 5 years old.
In 1798, at Norwich, Thursday, July 8th—£50, for 3 and 4 years old, he won, beating Mr. Bayley's ch c Cannon, 4 years old; Stamford's b f Scotella, 3 years old.  Denby, August 15th—He won £50, free for any horse, beating Lilly of the Valley, Falconer and True Blue—in 1799, he won twice, to wit: At Ludlow, on Friday, the 4th of July, 4 mile heats, free for all ages, beating Lord Oxford's ch c Dart at 3 heats.  At Worcester, August 8th—He won the city and county subscription of £50, 4 mile heats, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Arlley's filly Dutchess, 5 years old; Mr. Coventry's b h Integrity, late Partner; Mr. Snell's ch g Hocks, 5 years old—after the first heat 4 to 1 on her; after the second heat 4 to one on Jack Andrews.  In 1800 he won 6 times, to wit: At Lewes, then the property of Major Rookes, August 12th, he beat Lord Sackville's b h Laborie, 4 mile heats for 50 guineas.—At Oxford, the town purse of £50 in August, was won by Jack Andrews, 4 year old, beating Sir F. Poole's ch m Dutchess of Limbs, 5 years old. Lord Deneham's b h Wrangle distanced the 4th heat—September, at Warwick, he won the town purse of £50, 4 mile heats, beating Mr. Tharm's b h Marquis, Mr. Brooke's b h Sheshire, Mr. Edwards' b m Dutches.
At Abingdon, Tuesday, September 16th, the members' purse of £50, for all ages, 4 mile heats was won by Jack Andrews, at 3 heats, beating Sir F. Poole's b m Miscreant, 5 years old, Mr. Whaley's ch b Expectation, Mr. Frazey's b h Cupid—six to four on Miscreant.  In 1801, Jack Andrews at New Market, April 20th, received forfeit from Mr. Hethercoat's Symmetry, 8 st one, 5 lb, 200 guineas, half for foil.  Bebury, June 16th—The Bebury stakes, a handicap of 100 guineas each, half forfeit, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, aged, beating Lord Sackville's b h Expectation, 5 years old, Sir H. T. Vane's Cock fighter, 5 years old, Mr. R. Hethcoat's Hippopotamus, aged, his royal highness the Prince of Wales's b h Dick Andrews, Mr. Hethcoat's Popinjay and Cox's Edwin.  June 17th, a sweepstakes of 5 guineas each, 20 subscribers was won by Jack Andrews, beating col. Grosvenor's Lady Catherine, Mr. Howorth's Snuff Box.
Bedford, September 10th—The Woburn Stake of 10 guineas each, 4 miles, 5 subscribers, was won by his royal highness the Prince of Wales's b h Jack Andrews, aged, beating Mr. Watson's b h Triumvir, Mr. Gidding's b c Skyrocket.  Endfield, September 23, £50, for all ages, 4 mile heats, was won by Jack Andrews, aged, at 3 heats, beating Mr. Frazey's gr g Ploughboy, Velvet Horse Little Thought Of, Hephæston and Contester—See Racing Calendars for these years. It would swell an advertisement to too great length to mention all the races he has won.  Sweepstakes of 20 guineas each, 2 miles, 5 subscribers, Mr. Rookes's Jack Andrews, aged, 11 st 7 lb, walked over.—See Racing Calendar for 1802, page 385.  At Lambourn, in Sept. Wednesday 10th, he won the £50 gift of Lord Craven, 4 mile heats, at 4 heats, beating Mr. Coventry's ch h Sacripant, Mr. Bacon's b m Snap.  WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT.
PEDIGREE Jack Andrews was got by Joe Andrews, his dam by Highflyer, his granddam Cardinal Puff, his great granddam by Tartar, his great grand granddam by Snip, his great grand grand granddam by Lord Godolphin's Arabian, his great grand grand grand granddam by Stanyan's Arabian, which mare was own sister to Frazey's White Neck, full sister to the Minbury Galloway, great great great great granddam by Sauce Box, a son of Gegg, sire of Croft's Old Partner.  JAMES LORD. (Seal.) I do hereby certify that the above pedigree is a true copy from the original one sent me by Jas. Lord. Given under my hand and seal this 23rd of December, 1804.  WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT, (Seal.)  Joe Andrews was got by Eclipse, his dam Almandra by Oranien, her dam Cloudy by Blank—Crab, Weddington mare by Partner—General Stud Book, page 6, printed in 1803, by James Wheatley.
SIR HARRY, THE handsomest and one of the best sons of Sir Peter Teazle, (unquestionably the best stallion now in England & inferior to none ever bred in that country,) will stand the ensuing season at my stable, in King and Queen county, about 40 miles from Richmond, 7 from Dunkirk and 12 from Tappahannock, at 50 dollars the season, notes for which, and half a dollar for the groom, must be sent with the mares or before they are taken away. The 50 dollars may be discharged by the payment of 40 dollars cash, (and in the event of the embryo continuing, one war, by 30 dollars) on or before the expiration of the season, which will commence on the 1st March and end 1st August. Extensive high and low land pasturage, as good as any in Virginia, gratis. Mares may be fed with corn at the market price, and every attention will be paid to them, but no liability for escapes or accidents of any kind. Mares and foals will be kept by themselves.
Sir Harry was imported in the fall of 1804, from London, is now 12 years old, in high health and vigor, 15 hands 3 inches high, full of bone and muscle, fine points, elegant form and beautiful brown color. He has covered three seasons in this country, has proved himself a sure foal getter, and his stock are equal to any in the world. He was one of the best racers in England, both for speed and bottom, with very heavy weights, and probably cost more money than any horse ever imported into this country (standing the owner within a trifle of £1200 sterling when landed) and in the estimation of good judges, is equal, if not superior, to any that is now, or ever was in the state. As the universal practice here, is to run heats, it is needless to point out to those who have fine mares, the advantage that may result from sending them to this horse.  His dam Matron, (foaled in 1785) was got by Alfred, granddam (dam of Pilot) by Marsk, great granddam by Regulus, great grand granddam (dam of Wildair and Vamper) by Steady, great grand grand granddam by Falconer, Greyhound, Makeless, Counsellor, Brimmer, Place's White Turk.  Alfred was got by Matchem (foaled in 1770) out of a Snap mare (the dam of Conductor, Dictator, Georgiana and others) bred by the duke of Kingston, foaled in 1762; her dam by the Cullen Arabian; Griswold's Lady Thigh, by Partner; Greyhound; Sophonisba's dam, by the Curwan Bay Bard; Lord D'Arcy's chesnut Arabian; Whitsworth; Old Montague mare.
Matchem was got by Cade; Cade (own brother to Lath) was got by the Godolphin Arabian; Marsk was got by Squirt; Squirt was got by Bartlett's Childers; Regulus was got by the Godolphin Arabian.  Sir Peter Teazle was got by Highflyer, out of Papillon, by Snap; Snap was got by Snip; Snip was got by the Devonshire Childers, out of a Basto mare; Highflyer was got by Herod, out of Rachel by Blank; Herod was got by Tartar, out of Cyprian, by Blaze; Tartar was got by Partner, out of Meliora, by Old Fox.  January 15, 1808. John Hoskins. N. B. It is not probable that Sir Harry will ever again stand to the northward of his owners in the neighborhood of Petersburg.
The thoroughbred imported horse,  GOUTY, WILL stand the ensuing season at my plantation on Rucker's Run, 5 miles from Amherst courthouse and 12 from Warminster, and will cover mares at 25 dollars the season, 13 dollars the leap and 40 dollars insurance with one dollar to the groom in either case. The leap money to be paid at the time of service, the season on first day of August, and the insurance on first day of March. 1809. Crop tobacco inspected at any of the warehouses on James river from Lynchburg to Richmond will be received in payment at 5 dollars per 100 lb. if tendered on or before the day it becomes due. Pasturage gratis but no liability for accidents or escapes.—Gouty is a beautiful bay, 11 years old, 5 feet 3 inches high, elegantly formed, and of great strength. He was got by Sir Peter Teazle, and came out of the celebrated Yellow Mare, she was got by Tandem, her dam Perdita by Herod out of Fain Forrester by Sloe, and so through the best stock that England has produced as may be seen by reference to the general stud book.—Sloe was the most distinguished racer of his day, & was never beaten. Gouty's colts are running with great credit in England.—In 1807 four only started, of which one was a winner and when losing they came in with great credit, beating the get of Buzzard, Precipitate, Oscar, Sir Peter Teazle and others of the first character in England.—In 1807 Mr. Weatherby (author of the Racing Calendar) writes to me under date Sept 12th, at which time the racing for that year was not over, that several of Gouty's colts were winners, and one of them had the misfortune to break his shoulder, or it was supposed he would have been the best of his year in England. The season will commence on first March and terminate first August.  R. RIVES February 10, 1808. row
May be purchased on a long credit, and low terms.
The Tenement, ON which the subscriber lives, situated on Church Hill, within about one half mile of the Richmond market—containing two acres of ground, well enclosed and highly improved.—The buildings consist of a large and well constructed dwelling house, laundry, kitchen, dairy, smoke house, two stores, brick office, coach house, barn and stable. All these buildings are well finished, and in complete order for the accommodation of a large and genteel family: who may have easy access to all the advantages of the city, and live as retired as they could wish.  February 4, 1808. John Ellis.
Valuable Lands. THE subscriber will sell, on a credit, or exchange for Property in Richmond or its neighborhood, the following LANDS, to wit: 822 acres in the state of Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th day of October 1797, lying and being in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on Little Barren river.  Also, 1000 acres, in Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th October 1797, likewise lying in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on the north side of Little river, a branch of Cumberland river, and about two and an half miles from the mouth of Little river.  Also, 450 acres of Land in the county of Mason, state of Virginia, on Old Town creek, about 8 miles from Mason courthouse.  Indisputable titles will be made to the above mentioned lands; and plots of each tract may be seen on application to the subscriber residing in Richmond.  THOMAS BOHANNAN, January 23d, 1808.
Lands for Sale. AT next Buckingham court, being the 11th of April, and the day of election, will be Sold, to the highest bidder, on a credit of twelve months, two Tracts of Land, belonging to the estate of Thomas Anderson, dec. viz: one lying on the waters of Rock Island Creek, containing 147 Acres, more or less; the other lying near James River, adjoining the lands of Col. Wilson C. Nicholas, and Price Perkins, containing 41 Acres, be the same more or less, both in the aforesaid county; the purchasers giving bond with approved security to the  March 23d, 1808.  EXECUTORS.
Landing this day From the Schooner Richmond, Isaac Seaman master, at Lester's wharf, seventeen hogsheads best  GREEN COFFEE, and twenty hogsheads MOLASSES; for sale by  GEO. WATT. Richmond March 28, 1808. COUNCIL CHAMBER, March 26, 1808.
PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive, on the 8th day of April next, for furnishing the public guard with clothing for the present year. Also, at the same time proposals will be received for furnishing the diet of the convicts in the penitentiary, for one year, from the 17th day of April next.  DANL. L. HYLTUN, Clerk of the Cl.
The House and Lot, AT present occupied by Mr. Hezekiah Mosby pleasantly situated on Shockoe Hill and very convenient for the accommodation of a family.—Possession may be had on the 3d March next, when Mr. Mosby's time will expire.  Thomas Elliott. Richmond, 29th Jan 1808.
For Rent, THE House on the Main Street, next to Messrs Ellis and Allan, and now occupied by Mrs. Phebe. Possession will be given on the first of January next—apply to  JOSEPH GALLEGO. Richmond, Dec. 27, 1807.
Just Published and for sale at this Office,  MEMOIRS  WILLIAM SAMPSON, Including particulars of his adventures in various parts of Europe; his confinement in the dungeon of the Inquisition in Lisbon, &c. &c.  SEVERAL ORIGINAL LETTERS, Being his correspondence with the ministers of state in Great Britain and Portugal.
100 Dollars Reward. RUN AWAY about the first instance, from the service of Mr. William Rawleigh, (to whom he was hired,) a BLACK MAN , named JACKSON , a House Carpenter by profession, of thin, consumptive appearance, about 40 years of age, five feet eight or nine inches high; from circumstances attending his elopement, it is believed, he intends making his way to one of the Eastern States, and has been provided with false papers of freedom.—If taken within the State, and delivered to me here, or secured, that I get him, I will give Fifty Dollars, or if taken out of the State, One Hundred Dollars.  Robert Gamble, Jr. Richmond, Dec. 24th, 1807.
FOR SALE. MY Dwelling House, and Four Half-Acre Lots of Ground, in the Town of Manchester, as formerly advertised: On receiving a part in cash, I am disposed to give a considerable credit, for the balance of purchase, or I will take young Negroes at a fair valuation, and Land in the State of Ohio, Tennessee or Kentucky, on such terms as may be agreed on.—If the said property is not sold between now and Christmas, it will be leased to an approved tenant for a term of years.  ARCH'D CAMPBELL. Manchester, Nov. 30, 1807.
For Sale or Rent, THE HOUSE, OFFICE & STABLE, with an excellent garden, all in good order, and at present occupied by Mr. Samuel P. Parsons, joining major Prior, on the Hay-Market square; For particulars apply to  JASPER ROBBINS, at Mr. JOHN MCENTY'S. Feb. 24, 1808.
Will be Sold FOR ready money, on the premises on the fourth day of June next, in obedience to a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery, for the Richmond District, made on the ninth day of February last past, in the suits in said Court, viz:    Brown, Rives, and Company, Merchants and partners,  vs.  William Alcock, Andrew Hart, Robert Alcock, James Barbour, and Martin Dawson,    against   William Galt,    against   William Alcock, Andrew Hart, Robert Alcock, James Barbour, Brown, Rives & Company, Martin Dawson & David Anderson,    ONE TRACT or PARCEL of LAND, in said suits mentioned, lying and being in the county of Albemarle, in the North Garden, on the head waters of Hardwire river, containing SEVEN HUNDRED AND EIGHTY FOUR ACRES , be the same more or less, and adjoining the lands of James Garland, Husey R. Morris, William Woods, &c. subject to the life estate of the defendant Robert Alcock and Mary his wife, in the lower moiety thereof.  MARTIN DAWSON. March 21, 1808.
BLANK BONDS For Sale at this Office.