The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-06-03 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM... (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 8.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
Richmond Prices Current.
   Dolls. Cts.     Tobacco, 5 25   Wheat, 1   Flour—superfine, 6   fine, 5 50   Corn Meal—per bushel, 75   Beans—per lb. 12   Bar Iron—per ton, 120   Whiskey—per gallon, 58  
MARSHAL'S SALE.
Take notice, for ready money, under a decree of the court of the United States, for the fifth circuit in the Virginia district, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Roff and others, defendants, in order to raise the sum of 11,450 dols. 94 cts. due and payable on the 1st June last, that valuable and well known estate in the county of Botetourt, called
FORT LEWIS,
situated by the said Roff to contain 2608 acres.
THE sale will take place on the premises on Monday the 14th day of July next. This estate having been before advertised and the sale postponed, it is deemed necessary to apprise the public, that though the sales previously announced were postponed, on account of payments received from the defendant Roff, the sale last advertised would have taken place but for a mistake in the advertisement. The subscriber has no reason to suppose that the one now advertised will not take place, and if, contrary to his expectation, it should again be put off, the earliest public notice will be given, that those who are disposed to become purchasers, may not be put to any unnecessary trouble.
BENJAMIN MOSSY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D.
May 30. 4t
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
BEING anxious to discharge all my just debts, I will sell a great bargain in two new BRICK TENEMENTS, on the Main-Street, on Shockoe-Hill; these are well calculated for stores and private families, and considered to be as good lands for business as any in that part of the city; they will be sold separately or together, to suit purchasers. If this property is not sold by private contract before Tuesday the 24th day of June next, it will, on that day, be sold at public auction. Any person wishing to purchase, will be shown the property, and may know the terms, (which will be very accommodated), by application to the subscriber living adjoining the premises. I will also dispose of, by private contract, my half acre LOT in the neighborhood of Gen. Mosely, on which there is a two story Brick House erected, 44 feet long by 22 feet wide; this house is not finished in the inside, but can be finished to suit the purchaser. For terms apply to
J. B. WINN.
May 30. 4t
NOTICE.
I intend to leave the state in a few days.
JAMES KIRBY.
May 30. 4t
LANDS IN CUMBERLAND FOR SALE.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, bearing date the 11th April, 1801, recorded in Cumberland Court-Office, to me executed by James Deane, Francis B. Deane, and Thomas M. Deane, to secure a certain sum of money, due by them to Joseph Gallego, I will offer for sale, will offer for sale, to the highest bidder, on the 28th day of May next, at Cumberland Court, TWO TRACTS OF LAND, being part of the property, thereby conveyed, viz.
One Tract containing one hundred and thirty-seven acres, more or less, situate in the county of Cumberland, six miles above the Court House, being a tract purchased by the said Deane, from Parson Clapton, as will appear by reference to the deed of sale on record, in the said County Court.
One Tract containing two hundred and five acres, more or less, situate in Cumberland, on the fourth side of the road, leading to the Court House, one mile distant below the same, bounded by lands of William Beverly Langhorne, and by lands of John Ford.
The first of the above Tracts, is said to contain prime tobacco land, and valuable timber; the other is nearly half cleared.
N. B. By the consent of all parties interested, the sale will take place on the 28th day of May next, as above stated, and the terms of payment will be one and two years credit, the purchasers to give bonds bearing interest and approved security.
M. B. POTTIAUX.
April 15. 4t
TO RENT.
THE HOUSE on the Main-Street, lately occupied by Mr. Henry McCarty, and situate between Messrs. Ellis & Allan and Mr. Manuel Judah. Also—A HOUSE on the Main-Street Shockoe Hill, a few doors below Mr. Bootwright's and nearly opposite to Mr. Benjamin Wolfe. Possession of both Houses to be given immediately. Enquire of
JOSEPH GALLEGCO.
May 30. 4t
JOHN ALCOCK.
INFORMS the public that he has lately established a CABINET SHOP in the city of Richmond, on the Cross-Street leading up from Prosser & Moncure's Vendue-Room, and near the Fire Insurance Office; where he intends manufacturing all kinds of Cabinet Ware in the most modern style; he flatters himself that those who may favour him with their commands, will find his work equal to any made in the state, as he has provided himself with the best of materials.
He will sell his furniture low for prompt payment only, as his situation will not admit of giving a credit.
ALSO, FOR SALE:
A quantity of elegant and substantial WINDSOR CHAIRS, of every description; and several elegant SETTEES—low, for cash.
January 30. 4t
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and
PLASTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY
WILLIAM DAVIDSON.
near the Market. 4t
Dec. 4.
FOR SALE—on the lowest terms:
2500 sacks of LIVERPOOL SALT, and 90 crates of LIVERPOOL EARTHEN WARE of superior quality & well assorted, just arrived in the ship Merchant, Captain JOHNSON, from Liverpool, at Bermuda Hundred—
Which ship will take in Tobacco to the address of JAMES MAURY, Esq. of Liverpool. She has excellent accommodations for passengers. For terms apply to Messrs. PICKET, POLLARD & JOHNSON of Richmond, the Captain on board, or the subscriber, OVERTON ANDERSON. 4t
May 23.
WILLIAM GALT,
Has just received, by the ship Protege from London, and by the ship Intrepid just arrived from Liverpool, his usual assortment of SPRING GOODS, which is now falling at his usual low prices for cash or country produce, also to punctilious customers. 4t
May 16.
SPRING GOODS.
THE subscribers have just received by the ship Protege from London, a part of their Spring Goods, the balance are daily expected by the Intrepid from Liverpool. 4t
May 6. 4t
IRISH LINEN.
JOHN HENRY has just received, by the ship Monticello from Liverpool—7-8ths and 4-8ths wide IRISH LINEN, in well-assorted packages, each containing about 30 pieces; which he offers for sale at a low advance. Also, very fine 4-8ths wide ditto, by the piece. 4t
May 16.
LONDON PARTICULAR MADEIRA WINE in pipes.
April 25. 4t
FOR SALE—By the Subscriber:
 20 Hogsheads NORTHERN RUM,  20 Barrels do. do.  10 Hogsheads MOLASSES,  10 Quarter Casks SHERRY WINE,  15 do. do. MALAGA do.  12 Tierces Prime GREEN COFFEE,  20 Barrels LIVER OIL,  153 Boxes MOULD CANDLES,  80 Ream WRITING PAPER,  100 do. WRAPPING do. 
THOMAS WHITE. 4t
May 9.
NOTICE.
THE partnership of John Butler & Co. at Cartersville, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. The collection of all debts due to that concern, is committed entirely to William M'Kenzie the acting partner of William M'Kenzie & Co. and to him alone or to any one he may appoint is payment to be made. JOHN BUTLER, Wm. M'KENZIE & Co.
April 10. 4t
MILITARY LAND FOR SALE.
 4000 acres on Trade Water route of Kentucky.  3000 do. Deer Creek & Green River do.  1000 do. Highland Creek do.  1000 do. Little Miami state of Ohio.  2033 do. Bull Creek do.  1000 do. West Fork of Sciota do.  666 do. adjoining the last tract do.  400 do. Pittman's Creek do. 
THOMAS NORVELL. 4t
N. B. 15 SHARES in the JAMES RIVER COMPANY, are also offered for sale. 4t
April 25.
FOR SALE,
At public auction, on the premises, on Wednesday, 10th September next, (if not previously disposed of by private contract),
FIVE hundred and fifty acres LAND, situated in the upper end of Cumberland county, eighteen miles from the Court House, three from Farmville, and one from a good manufacturing mill on Appomattox, now navigable, almost to Petersburg.
This LAND lies handsomely, is in good order and inferior in quality to none east of the mountains; there is 10 or 12 acres meadow, handsomely set with timber, and about 20 acres more prepared for sowing next spring; in addition there is an extensive bed of Coal which to a person of capital would be highly valuable; one third the purchase money will be required in hand and the balance in two annual installments. JOHN KELSO. 4t
May 23.
STAUNTON STAGE.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs the public, his STAGES will regularly, during the season of the Springs, leave the Bell-Tavern in this city, on Tuesday's at 5 o'clock in the evening; & on each Saturday at the hour of 10 o'clock in the morning, and will arrive at Capt. Edmonson's Tavern in the Town of Staunton; where passengers, going on to the Springs, may be furnished, at all times, with Hackney Coaches, and other private conveyances, from thence. Much pains and expense has been taken by the proprietor in the selection of good horses, carriages and careful drivers—and confidently assures the public, he is in possession of as good as any in this state. RICHARD TERRELL. 4t
May 23.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Washington, May 3d, 1806.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT sealed Proposals will be received by the Treasurer of the United States, as Agent for the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund, until the 13th day of June next inclusive, for the purchase of the following species of the public debt, viz:—Eight per cent: Old Six per cent: and Deferred Six per cent: Stocks, with the Dividends payable on the first of July next off.
Such persons, as may be desirous of contracting for the sale of any portion of the above-mentioned stocks, are requested to transmit their proposals sealed up, under cover to the subscriber, specifying therein, the unredeemed amount and Species of said Stocks, and the lowest price they will accept for the same; which proposals will be opened on the 14th day of June next, in the manner directed by law.
In all cases where the terms are approved of, payment will be made immediately after the stocks thus purchased, shall have been transferred to the subscriber in trust for the United States. 4t
TH. T. TUCKER.
Treas. Un. States. 4t
May 8. 4t
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY.
AT a meeting of the Board of Directors on the 10th of May, 1806—
Resolved, That the Stockholders be required to pay into the hands of the Treasurer, the further sum of four dollars on each share, on or before the 14th of June next.
Resolved, That the Clerk be instructed to call a meeting of the Stockholders, to be held at Mr. Brooks's tavern, on Saturday the 14th June next, for the purpose of deciding on business of consequence to the company. Extract from the minutes, JAMES BRANDER, Clk. 4t
May 13.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD,
RAN AWAY from the subscriber in December last, two negro men by the names of HARRY and DICK; Harry is about 5 feet 6 inches high, of a ruddy complexion, 23 years of age; Dick 5 feet 6 inches high, and very black, with large white teeth, wide apart, projecting out of his mouth, 19 years of age. When they went away, they had on home manufactured breeches and old grey jackets. I have been informed they are now dressed in blue jackets with sailor's trousers, and are making their way to Maryland with a free pass. They have relations at Reuben Baile's, Esq. of Richmond county, and Mr. John Turbeville's quarter in Westmoreland, where it is probable they may lurk until they can procure a passage across the Potomac. Whoever will deliver them to me, or secure them so that I get them again, shall receive the above reward, or the proportion for either. ELLIOTT MUSE. Buckingham lodge, Middlesex county. March 4. 4t
THE subscriber having relinquished all idea of removing to the Western Country, deems it necessary to inform his friends, that he intends residing in the courts of Richmond county, Essex, King and Queen, and in the district of King and Queen, in the Chancery Court of Williamsburg. JOHN HORACE UPSHAW. 4t
April 29.
TO BE RENTED—The Tenement where
I now reside, and possession given in time. J. PENN. 4t
April 11.
TO RENT,
THE HOUSE and LOT belonging to Mr. Wm. Dandridge's estate, next above Mr. Wm. Price's large building. For terms apply to NATHANIEL SHEPPARD, Agent for the execr. 4t
April 15.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, a Negro LAD about 22 years of age, about 5 feet ten inches high, with very thick lips, and very black; had on a checked Virginia cloth short coat and waistcoat, his pantaloons of plain purple, the same manufactured. Any person who will deliver the said Lad to me in Powhatan, shall receive the above reward. ISHAM RANDOLPH. 4t
April 11.
TO MR. THOMAS BRADSHAW,
SIR, You are not an inhabitant of this state, and I have not any agent therein, known to me, to whom a notice can be given, be pleased to take notice, that on the last Saturday in June next, I shall, at the dwelling house of Nicholas Vaughan, in the county of Nottoway, between the hours of eight in the morning and seven in the evening of the above mentioned day, take the depositions of the said Nicholas Vaughan, of Jacob Seay, Nathan Fowles and Peter Knight, to be read as evidence in a suit depending in the county court of Prince-Edward, wherein you, and others are plaintiffs, and I am defendant. BENJAMIN BORUM. Prince-Edward county, April 22. 4t
April 22.
ALL persons having claims against the estate
of John Hoomes, dec'd. of the Bowling-Green, are requested to make them known, that provision may be made for a final settlement. And those indebted must make immediate payment to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOLFFOLK, Executors of John Hoomes, dec'd. 4t
Jan. 23.
MARSHAL'S SALE.
TO BE SOLD, for ready money, under a decree of the Court of the United States, for the 5th circuit in the Virginia District, between Phineas Bond attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards plaintiff, and David Roff & others defendants, in order to raise the sum of 11,450 dols. 94 cts. due & payable on the 1st day of January last, that valuable and well known estate in the county of Botetourt called Fort-Lewis. The sale will be made on the premises on the 5th day of June next. BENJ. MOSSY, D. M. for, JOS. SCOTT, M. V. D. 4t
April 18.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on Thursday night the 1st inst. a negro man named LEWIS, he is about five feet nine or ten inches high, stout and well made, has a scar on one of his hands (I believe his right) occasioned by a burn when small; he wore away a home-spun short coat and pantaloons dyed of a light olive colour, took with him a black broad cloth coat and vest, but I expect he will change his name and clothing, and attempt passing as a free man, and will attempt to make his escape to Norfolk by water. Masters of vessels and all others are forewarned from harbouring, employing, or taking him away at their peril. The above reward will be paid on delivering him to Joseph Traylor, Jr. in Blandford, or the subscriber. ARCHER TRAYLOR, sen. 4t
N. B. I have understood that he was seen in the city of Richmond during the Broad Rock Races, dressed in black. I think it is probable it is he still lurks about there. He has a part walk, good countenance, very active and fond of waiting on gentlemen. A. T. 4t
Chesterfield, May 27.
TO BE RENTED,
THE large THREE STORY HOUSE on the Main-Street east of the Market, formerly occupied by Cohen and Isaac, and lately by Capt. John S. Pleasants; it is a good stand for business and suitable for the accommodation of a large family. 4t
Also, the HOUSE (formerly known by the sign of the bird in hand) at the corner of the street leading to church hill: to both of these tenements gardens are attached. The terms will be moderate, and made known on application to James Whitelaw, sergeant of the City, or to
JACOB I. COHEN. 4t
February 25.
Domestic Intelligence.
FROM THE UNITED STATES' GAZETTE.
To the Honourable the Senate and house of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled,
THE MEMORIAL
Of Samuel G. Ogden of the city of New-York, Merchant,
(Concluded.)
Your memorialist further respectfully represents, that on the first day of March last he was arrested on a warrant, issued by the honourable Matthias B. Talmadge, Esq. judge of the district court of the U. S. for the New-York district, and thereupon was carried before the said judge, whom he found attended by the district attorney of the U. S. and some other officers of the court—that your memorialist was informed that he was then before the court in two capacities; that in the one he was to be examined as a person charged with the offence mentioned in the warrant; and in the other as a witness against others who were parties to the same offence—that he would be at liberty to answer or not, as he should think proper, such questions as should be put to him in the first capacity; but that the court would compel him to answer the interrogatories that would be put to him as a witness.—That your memorialist was first examined by the said judge and attorney as a party accused, which examination having been reduced to writing, was signed by your memorialist.—That your memorialist was then sworn as a witness; and the judge having informed your memorialist that he would then be compelled to answer such questions as should be put to him, your memorialist remonstrated with the judge as to the legality of obliging your memorialist to answer in any capacity, whether as a witness or as an accused party, questions which might tend to criminate himself—that the judge thereupon informed your memorialist, that he was not bound to make answers by which he would be criminated; but notwithstanding questions were immediately put to your memorialist, the answers to which must directly exculpate or criminate him; and among other questions of this character, your memorialist was asked of what the cargo of the ship Leander, which had lately failed from the port of New-York consisted, and to what port or place she was bound; that on these questions being put, your memorialist said, that he did conceive that by law he was bound to answer, and finally refused to answer them; whereupon the judge ordered your memorialist to be committed, and directed a warrant to be made out for sending him to prison; that your memorialist being ignorant of the laws, and not being certain how far he was justifiable in refusing to answer the questions that were put to him, prayed that the examination might be postponed for a little time, that he might have an opportunity of considering whether he ought to make the answers required of him. But the judge insisted on your memorialist's answering immediately; that your memorialist then prayed leave to send for counsel; but this prayer the judge peremptorily refused. That your memorialist finding that he should be sent to prison if he persisted in his refusal, and that if he should be so, that it would be ruinous to his mercantile concerns and distressing to his family, did answer the questions that were put to him, not however without objecting from time to time to such questions as your memorialist thought were illegal, but which were always insisted upon by the district attorney and judge; that the testimony thus given by your memorialist was reduced to writing and signed by your memorialist, and your memorialist was required again to swear to the same, and upon his objecting to do so, he was threatened with imprisonment, and thereby compelled to swear a second time. He was then required to give security as a principal for his appearance at the next circuit court of the U. S. for the New-York district, himself in ten thousand dollars, with two sureties each in ten thousand dollars, and as a witness himself in five thousand dollars with two sureties each in five thousand dollars, and this being done, after a detention of about eight hours, your memorialist was set at liberty.
Your memorialist is persuaded that no comments are necessary to set these proceedings in their true point of light. If they are authorised by the laws of the U. S. then indeed has the inquisition found a sanctuary under their dominion. But your memorialist is advised that these proceedings against him were as illegal as they were oppressive and tyrannical, that there is no law by which a magistrate of the U. S. can force a citizen to be a witness out of court in case of misdemeanor, that the laws of this country do not permit a citizen either by threats of imprisonment or by any other species of torture, to be compelled to answer interrogatories before any secret tribunal in the absence of the accused, much less interrogatories, the answers to which may tend to criminate himself, when the laws shall delegate to a magistrate or to an executive officer, holding his place at the will of the President, powers in anywise analogous to those that have been exercised against your memorialist, there must be an end to that liberty which is the boast and blessing of Americans, and which the constitution of the U. S. professes to secure; one view of the subject will be sufficient alone to show the enormity of the power that has been assumed in the case of your memorialist. If a magistrate may examine an accused person on interrogatories, and should be actuated by feelings of gratitude for his appointment, or allurements of prospects of future promotion, he might will, and seek to criminate the very man whose conviction might appear necessary to shield his patrons from reproach and infamy. In such a case, a magistrate so corrupt, would put such interrogatories only as would serve to convict the accused, but would be silent as to such questions as might draw forth answers tending to exculpation or excuse. Your memorialist is advised, that by the law of England, a magistrate is authorised to take the examination of felons, and the information of those who choose to accuse them. But that neither by the laws of that country nor of any other where the life and liberty of the citizen is not at the mercy of the rulers, has a magistrate power to extort partial testimony by the way of answer to such interrogatories, as he may think fit to propound. Your memorialist further respectfully represents, that the honourable judge Patterson being sick and unable to attend at the last circuit court of the U. S. held for the district of New-York, the court was opened on the first day of the present month by the honourable Matthias B. Talmadge, Esquire, who alone presided during the term; that on the first day of the sitting, your memorialist was surrendered, by his sureties. Whereupon the district attorney moved the court that your memorialist might be committed; upon this the counsel of your memorialist prayed that the warrant upon which your memorialist had been charged by what authority he had been held to bail; but this the court refused to order, and without giving your memorialist any opportunity to be heard or examine for what cause he was to be committed, the court made an order in the words following. "At a stated circuit court of the U. S. held for the district of New-York, on Tuesday the first day of April, 1806, at 11 o'clock A. M. Present, the honourable Matthias B. Talmadge, Esquire, judge of the district of New-York. The U. S. of America vs. Samuel G. Ogden, Samuel Murgatroyd, and Samuel Gouverneur, the sureties for the defendant, to appear and answer, having come into court, and by their counsel prayed leave to surrender the defendant in discharge of their recognizance, which being ordered by the court—thereupon on motion of the attorney of the district in behalf of the U. S. that the said defendant stand committed to the custody of the marshal of the district; which being opposed by Mr. Colden, Mr. Hoffman, and Mr. Emmott, of counsel for the defendant, it was thereupon ordered by the court that the said defendant stand committed to the custody of the marshal of the district." Upon this order your memorialist was committed to the custody of the marshal. The counsel of your memorialist then, not knowing what other course to pursue, applied for a habeas corpus to be directed to the marshal to bring up your memorialist with the cause of his commitment; which writ was granted by the judge, although your memorialist then stood before the court, and had been just committed by its own order. That the habeas corpus was returned immediately by the marshal, with a copy of the above mentioned order as the cause; and thereupon the counsel for your memorialist moved that your memorialist might be discharged, because it did not appear by the return of the marshal that your memorialist was charged with any crime. But the court ordered that your memorialist should be remanded to the custody of the marshal, unless he should give security to abide the order of the court, himself in ten thousand dollars, with one surety in twenty thousand dollars; and although the counsel for your memorialist warmly remonstrated against such excessive bail being required in such case, the court refused to lessen the sum; and your memorialist was also bound in another recognizance in five thousand dollars for his appearance as a witness.
Your memorialist further respectfully represents, that in order to bring before the court the manner in which he had been examined before the magistrate and to prevent such illegal testimony from being made use of against him, your memorialist made an affidavit stating the most prominent circumstances of that examination as they have been herein before set forth, and thereupon the counsel for

on affidavits, which were then before the court, and which have been herein before mentioned to quash the indictment; but this was also refused by the court on the former principle. And your memorialist was compelled to plead in chief to the indictment; but on application of the counsel of your memorialist, and an affidavit stating the absence of material witnesses, and that your memorialist expected to have the benefit of their testimony by the month of September, the trial was postponed, and a special circuit court ordered to be held for the trial on the 14th day of July next. On the day before the adjournment of the court, the grand jury brought in a presentment against Matthias B. Tallmadge, esq. judge of the district court, whereby they preferred the conduct of the said judge, in taking the examination and deposition of your memorialist in the manner before mentioned, as unusual, oppressive, and tyrannical. Thus has your memorialist laid before your honorable body, a detail of these unparalleled circumstances, prompted to do so, not only by a hope that by your interference with the executive, your memorialist may be saved from unmerited punishment, but also by a belief that it was his duty as a citizen, to expose the illegal and oppressive proceedings of a magistrate of the U. States, to those who alone can make him account for his conduct. Your memorialist submits his case to your wisdom, and prays such relief as the laws and constitution of his country and your wisdom and goodness may afford him, and as in duty bound will ever pray. SAMUEL G. OGDEN. New-York, April 18, 1806.
To the honorable the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled.
THE MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM S. SMITH, late surveyor of the port of New-York, Respectfully Represents,
That your memorialist is accused as having been a party to the offences, with which Samuel G. Ogden is charged, as mentioned in the preceding memorial, to which the circumstances of gen. Miranda's arrival in this country, his visit to the city of Washington, his communications with executive officers of the government of the United States and his correspondence with your memorialist while there, your memorialist prays leave to refer and to confirm the facts stated in the said memorial. Your memorialist further respectfully represents, that his acquaintance with general Miranda has been of very long standing. That general Miranda arrived in this city from England, in the month of November last, and informed your memorialist that he came with an intention to visit his native country, and hoped to find in the United States the resources necessary to carry his plans into effect.
Your memorialist recommended, as it was a question of great national importance, that general Miranda should first communicate those plans to the president of the United States and secretary of state; and if their permission was obtained your memorialist would agree to accompany him in their execution.
That the subsequent communications were made to the administration, as stated in the preceding memorial; but no actual leave having been granted, your memorialist being a public officer declined accompanying general Miranda, but was fully convinced that his views met the approbation of the administration.
That under these impressions your memorialist was induced to give every facility in his power towards the execution of these plans, which he considered under the sanction of the president of the United States and secretary of state. That your memorialist never had cause to suspect that he was in error, or that the administration had changed their modus agendi , until he was waited on by the deputy marshal, on the first day of March last, at about eleven o'clock in the morning, when your memorialist was arrested by virtue of a warrant issued by Matthias B. Tallmadge, Esq. judge of the district court for the New-York district, which warrant after reciting that there were strong and violent grounds to suspect that your memorialist had within the jurisdiction of the United States, provided and prepared the means of a military enterprise to be carried on against the dominions of some foreign prince, or state then unknown, with whom the United States were at peace, commanded the persons to whom the said warrant was directed, to arrest your memorialist and to bring him before the said judge. That after your memorialist was taken on the above mentioned warrant, he was told by the officer who had him in custody that he had been ordered not to suffer your memorialist to consult counsel or have communication with any person whatever. That your memorialist was conducted by the said officer to the place where, as your memorialist understood, the district court or the judge of the said court was sitting. But on his arrival there he was informed that the judge, or court, was not then ready to receive him. That he was then conducted by the officer who had him in custody to the office of the clerk of the district court, where he was detained till six o'clock in the evening, when a messenger from the said judge gave information that the court was then ready to receive your memorialist. That thereupon your memorialist was conducted before the said judge, whom he found attended by the district attorney of the United States for the N. York district and some other officers of the court. That upon your memorialist appearing before the said judge, he was informed that he was to be examined touching the offences mentioned in the warrant. That upon your memorialist inquiring whether the judge or court had authority to compel him to submit to the examination they proposed to make, and to enforce answer to questions which might tend to disclose important secrets of state, your memorialist was answered in the affirmative, and informed that he would be compelled to answer all such questions as should be put to him. That your memorialist then told the judge that it would be unnecessary to put questions, as without them, under those compulsory circumstances, he would detail all he knew respecting general Miranda, and his late expedition from the port of New-York, which your memorialist understood was to be the subject of inquiry. That thereupon your memorialist gave a full & faithful relation as he had declared he would do; which relation was reduced to writing, and styled the voluntary examination of your memorialist. But your memorialist declares that the said examination was no other respect voluntary than it was made by way of narrative, rather than as answers to interrogatories. That the declaration of your memorialist, having been signed and sworn to by him, he was at about eleven o'clock at night required to give bail, himself in five thousand dollars as a principal, and two sureties in five thousand dollars each; and himself in twenty-five hundred
dollars each, for his appearance at the next circuit court of the United States for the district of New-York. That previously to the sitting of the said court your memorialist was removed by the president of the United States from his office of surveyor of the port of New-York, and his affairs becoming much embarrassed in consequence of that removal, he is arrested in civil process and confined in the jail of the city and county of New-York. That upon the sitting of the court the recognizances of your memorialist and of his sureties were vacated in the production of a certificate from the sheriff of the city and county of New-York, that your memorialist was in his custody; thereupon a bench warrant was issued by the judge of the district court against your memorialist; that the sheriff of the city of New-York having refused to deliver the custody of your memorialist to the marshal on the warrant, the judge of the circuit court then caused a habeas corpus ad testificandum to be issued against your memorialist, although at the time no issue was joined in any case in which your memorialist could testify. That when brought into court on this writ, the marshal was directed to serve his warrant, and he having thereupon returned that he had taken your memorialist, an order was made for his commitment to the custody of the marshal; but whilst the order for this commitment was making out, the sheriff took your memorialist out of court and put him in the city prison out of the reach of the marshal. That on the 8th inst. an indictment was found against your memorialist, charging him in substance with the offences set forth in the above mentioned warrant. That the proceedings were thereupon had in the circuit court of the United States for the New-York district, in all respects similar to those stated in the preceding memorial of Samuel G. Ogden, to which your memorialist prays leave to refer.
Your memorialist further respectfully represents, and doth most solemnly declare, that in all he did in respect to the expedition of gen. Miranda, he did believe that he was acting with the approbation of the president of the United States and of the secretary of state—and so far from thinking that he was subjecting himself to penalties under the laws of the United States, he thought his conduct would hereafter gain the applause of his fellow citizens whom he had the best reason to believe would derive the greatest advantages from the enterprise which was carried on with the approbation of their executive government. Your memorialist submits his conduct to the consideration of your honorable body, and prays such relief as you in your wisdom shall think proper to grant. W. S. SMITH. New-York, 18th April, 1806.
BOSTON, May 20. On the 3d April, in the British House of Commons, Mr. Rose withdrew his motion against the West-India trade.
Extra from a letter from Liverpool, April 5. We learn in addition to what we have already communicated respecting new duties in France, that it is the intention of that government to require each vessel bringing a cargo from the United States, to take a cargo of equal value in French produce or manufactures. The effect here on the cotton market, of the embargo on Prussian vessels will be very considerable.
Extra of a letter from an American gentleman at the Cape of Good Hope, dated March 10th. All the American vessels that put in at this place since its capture by the British, underwent a long and tedious examination, before the several Commanders of the different ships of war, composing his Britannic Majesty's squadron in the Bay, who by appointment of the Commandant, Sir Home Popham, formed themselves into a Committee of Enquiry or Prize Committee. These characters, being apparently unacquainted with mercantile laws and customs, were totally unqualified for the task of investigating commercial transactions, and discharged the trust in the most awkward manner, utterly void of every species of regularity and with a supercilious indifference, whereby many Americans suffered infamous insults and abuse. The interrogatories put to several masters and supercargoes of American vessels, were preposterous and insignificant, and their importunity is in many instances insufferable. The pocket-book was taken from the pocket of a supercargo, from Philadelphia; the captain of whose vessel, for independently speaking in behalf of his property, was abruptly told that "THE AMERICANS WERE ALL A SET OF WORTHLESS DAMN'D RASCALS." Officers were sent on board some of the American vessels, with orders from their commander to take charge, without consulting or giving any information to the agents of the property, why or wherefore; upon application to the committee, no satisfaction was given: one saying, for instance, the ship was to be sent to England for adjudication, the other contradicting it, turning to some frivolous subject, going out of the room and leaving the enquirer alone, amazed at their fatiduous impudence. In this trifling manner, many of the Americans have been ridiculously treated; their property left in the most dangerous state of suspense, to encounter the impetuosity of the eastern gales that daily threatened the ships with imminent danger, without being looked after either by the owners or captains, and as though 2 or 3 thousand dollars was not worth their notice; by representing this precarious situation, the sufferer runs a hazard of being egregiously insulted with the most appropos language. An elderly master of a ship, of Philadelphia, whose apparent age alone commanded respect, when complaining of the perilous situation of his ship, was harshly told to go to hell. No redress for their grievances could be obtained; the squadron was frequently absent, and the secretary to the committee, who was left on shore, acknowledged he knew nothing!! The ship Union, of Philadelphia, immediately on her arrival was taken possession of by order of the commander of one of his majesty's ships, and an officer stationed on board; Mr. Robinson, the supercargo, repeatedly applied for the plea of this proceeding, obtaining no satisfactory answer, he waited on the commandant, as the creator of this committee, who replied, "You might as well ask the king a question regarding the court of admiralty!" After which he addressed a note to the committee, demanding a determined and decisive answer, whether the ship was to go to England, and upon what pretext; a few days after, the secretary informed Mr. R. officially, that the ship was to be sent to England for adjudication. The only supposed cause of the detention of the ship, is, her having failed from Amsterdam to Batavia. In this scandalous and unwarrantable style, many Americans have been trifled with; in such cases where the nature of the business was too evidently clear to bear inspection, they assumed the means of scoffing and animadverting upon the form and shape of persons before them, with the utmost indecency and disrespect, who, owing to their then dependent circumstances were obliged to submit to the offence.
On the 17th inst. the coasting schooner Susan and William, captain A. Luce, bound from Boston to Baltimore was boarded by "his majesty's" frigate Cleopatra, and Thomas White, belonging to Portsmouth, N. H. was violently impressed and carried off to "serve the king." At the time this outrage was committed, the land was in light, Cape Henry bearing North, distant 25 miles. Balt. pap.
BALTIMORE, May 28. Natchez papers to the 27th ult. were received yesterday. No mention is made of the Span-
A letter from the American Consul, at Cowes, (England) to a merchant in Boston, dated April 5, 1806, says, "I have a letter the day before yesterday from Mr. Lyman, in London, to advise, that the disputes between this country and the United States are in a train for amicable adjustment speedily—on which I congratulate you."
The United States brig Hornet, bound to France, with dispatches respecting the Floridas, was spoken April 10, in lat. 43, long. 30. It is probable the arrival by the 20th of April. Boston Palladium.
We perceive from the late London prints, that the performance entitled, "An Examination of the British Doctrine, which subjects to capture a Neutral Trade not open in time of peace," has been republished in England.
This is a favourable symptom. We have little doubt of a correct judgment being formed on the important principle elucidated in this essay, by those who shall dispassionately peruse it, and that it will produce on the other side of the Atlantic, in no inconsiderable degree, the same conviction that it has almost universally produced in this country. Nat. Int.
On the 8th of April last, our minister at London received from the British government a formal notification that the entrances of the Elms, the Weser, the Elbe, and the Trave, were blocked; and that from that day, all vessels attempting to enter any of those rivers in violation of such blockade would be proceeded against as the law of nations in such cases direct. Bal. Post.
Mr. BUTLER, post-master at Northampton, a federalist, has been removed, and Mr. WRIGHT, appointed. (Boston pap.)
NEW-YORK, May 23. In the fch. Sloop came passengers, Geo. Huxham, Tho. Dyer, and James Oswald, two seamen, belonging to the British ship Imperial of Liverpool, which was captured on the 19th April, by the French privateers L'Esperance and Proteleur. The Imperial belonged to the homeward bound Jamaica fleet. The above privateers captured on the same day the ship Ceres, of London, off Cumberland Harbour, but both were retained by the Atlas of 74 guns. The seamen above mentioned were robbed of every thing and landed at Cumberland Harbour, then marched to St. Jago de Cuba; and while there the Henry of London, belonging to the fleet, was brought in by a privateer; the crew having mutinied, flogged the captain, and ran the vessel out of the fleet. The fleet consisted of 100 sail, under convoy of the Malabar, Scott, of 50 guns; Atlas, of 74; Echo sloop of war, and 2 or 3 others. May 8th, off Crooked Island, spoke the same fleet again, 26 of whom were missing, 6 of them having been sent to Jamaica, and retaken.
At the approaching trial in July next, of Messrs. Ogden and Smith, it is understood, Mr. Madison will be summoned as a principal evidence in behalf of the defendants. Phil. True American.
It is said, that the fch. Bee, of this port, which joined Miranda's expedition at Jacquesmel, was purchased for the purpose of being dispatched to New-York immediately after the success of the enterprise shall have been ascertained. She may therefore be daily expected to arrive. Id.
Extra of a letter from a gentleman in New-Orleans, dated April 19, to his friend in Baltimore.
"We have nothing new to communicate from this quarter, except an increasing disaffection amongst the natives. Our harmless congressmen peaceably disposed as usual, let whatever dangers or insults threaten; and by their amicable meekness, this country, the richest and by far the most valuable part of the U. S. is left totally unprotected, and liable to incur all the evils resulting from the machinations of discontented citizens, and the invasion of a jealous neighboring foe. The effective number of all the United States troops in all Lower Louisiana, does not amount to 500 men. What a pity that such a pullulanious government should possess such a country as this! They do not deserve it. Their unparadisable neglect has drawn on the administration and on the government in general, the sovereign contempt of its inhabitants. Pardon the severity of these remarks. They flow from a lively sense of our exposed and unprotected situation. We will send a file of papers containing the extraordinary proceedings of our heterogeneous legislature. A bill is now before the house to introduce or rather to make the French language the only one to be used in all public business; and some very influential members have gone so far as to say in private circles and caucuses, that the knowledge of the English language by a native of the country ought to be considered as sufficient to disqualify him for office. A law has also been talked of to prevent foreigners from marrying natives of the country, under a residence of 7 years. These things are ridiculous in themselves. They serve to show the ignorance of their authors, but they also serve to show their inveterate and irreconcilable disaffection towards the government of the U. S. From these considerations, and knowing that a large portion of the natives of the country would immediately rally to the standard of any invading foe, and having our ears and our feelings daily insulted by the grossist and most contemptuous abuse of our native country and its government, good and happy beyond a parallel in the history of man, we do not believe that our remarks are too severe respecting the extreme remissness of congress."
The great events that are passing in Europe are strangely astonishing, but as you are no doubt in possession of later dates than we are, we shall make no comments thereon, except the too great probability that the commencement of a general peace there, will be but the commencement of trouble here."
On the 17th inst. the coasting schooner Susan and William, captain A. Luce, bound from Boston to Baltimore was boarded by "his majesty's" frigate Cleopatra, and Thomas White, belonging to Portsmouth, N. H. was violently impressed and carried off to "serve the king." At the time this outrage was committed, the land was in light, Cape Henry bearing North, distant 25 miles. Balt. pap.
BALTIMORE, May 28. Natchez papers to the 27th ult. were received yesterday. No mention is made of the Span-
iards having taken Fort Adams, nor of any acts of hostility being committed by them. Consequently we must discredit the account given in the letter from St. Louis, published yesterday. Telegraphe.
Extra, dated New-York, 24th May. We have not yet received all our election returns, but the probable result for congress will be as follows: Old members re-elected—Mumford, Verplanck, Masters, Clinton, Van Rensselaer, Van Cortland, Thomas, Blake, Russell. Decided republicans elected—Riker, vice Wickes; Kanallen, vice Livingston; Humphreys, vice Tracy; Thompson, vice Salley; Sward, vice Sammons, a republican, not known as to quidism.
Kirkpatrick vice Williams; Gardiner, vice Schuneman; Lewis, vice Halsey.
We have every reason to believe that we shall have a large majority in our state senate and a handsome majority in the assembly, in defiance of the united powers of federalism and quidism. Feds. + quids. Those without stars or daggers are democrats. Aurora.
ALEXANDRIA, May 26. Extra from a Journal on board brig Active, in Carlisle bay, and on the passage homeward, &c.
April 18th. By a neutral from Cayenne intelligence was brought of four Spanish frigates having put in there to water, being on their way down to the Carracas coast, to oppose, it was said, the operations of general Miranda.
19th. Two heavy sloops of war were dispatched from Carlisle bay to reinforce the British cruizers on that coast.
20th. A neutral arrived with intelligence of having been spoke by four large French frigates, to the eastward of the island, and so near to it, that before he lost sight of them, he made the high lands of Barbados quite plain. Admiral Cochrane immediately dispatched three frigates and a heavy sloop of war in search of them.
24th. A neutral from Alexandria arrived in the bay who informs that he was boarded by the said four French frigates, in latitude of Deleda, they pretended to him to be Englishmen; they were fleeing west, under easy sail. That in a few hours after losing sight of them, he fell in with the Canada 74, and two frigates, who immediately crowded all sail after them.
27th. A packet boat arrived from Dominica with some private dispatches to the governor; various conjectures were put upon them; but it was chiefly believed they contained information of an expedition being fitted out in Guadaloupe, and that 7000 troops were in readiness for embarkation; that orders had been issued for baking an unusual quantity of bread; and no doubt remained but that men of war were expected, of which the abovementioned 4 frigates were the forerunner. The Welverine sloop of war, was dispatched immediately to England. The same packet boat brings the news of the French frigates having made their escape—one into Point Petre, and three into the Saints, where they were closely blockaded; and as the Saints produce no fresh water, it was expected they would soon be under the necessity of giving themselves up for the want of that necessary article. The Saints is strongly fortified, and secure from attack, but entirely dependant on rain, or Guatoupe; for water.
By the last packet from England news was received that orders had been given to release all impressed American seamen. Admiral Cochrane's orders prior to that were to impress no American seamen that had proper protections. During our stay in Carlisle Bay, several very hot impressments took place, but the Americans were not meddled with or molested.
By a running ship arrived at Surinam, is brought the important news, that in lat. 23, 30, N. long. 18, W. he fell in with Sir John Borlase Warren, and the squadron under his command, having in his possession the famous admiral Linois, and his fine ship the Marengo, together with the superb frigate Belle Pool, after his harassing the British trade for 4 years in India, and cutting to pieces their Guinea trade, this last season, on the coast of Africa. He was on his way home to France, and was supposed to have a vast treasure on board.
Two of the second London provision-fleet had arrived, the rest were hourly expected. It was thought in Bridgetown that these four French frigates had been lying in wait for this fleet, but a remarkably strong lee current had been running for several days, which had, no doubt, drifted them unexpectedly too near the land, of course it was unnecessary for them to remain any longer on that station, after being once discovered.
Mr. Randolph's famous speech had made its appearance in the Bridge-town Mercury, and had given great satisfaction to the inhabitants of Barbados.
The last fleet from London and Cork had so completely glutted and gorged the market in Barbados, that not one particle of American produce was wanted, except flour, and even that they were very indifferent about, and only gave their own price for. Their warehouses are full of beef, pork, tongues, rounds, hams, tripe, butter, cheese, porter, potatoes, fish, loaf sugar, tea, and in fact every article of living that England or Ireland produces; also a very large supply of biscuit for the navy.
NORFOLK, May 29.
The Theatre opened on Tuesday evening with the Tragedy of "Venice Preserved," and the Norfolk audience was at last gratified with the fight of the celebrated COOPER, in the character of Pierre. Great as expectation was it has not been disappointed. The most sanguine returned with all their expectations more than realized—His voice is attuned to the softest melody—his gesture graceful and more variant than we ever beheld—his countenance beaming intelligence, and strongly portraying all the passions of the human heart—his person symmetry—No wonder, with such qualifications, that we recognized, as soon as he appeared, the gay, the frank, the gallant, the intrepid Pierre. If any preference could be given to one part of his performance over another, it was in three particular situations. In his first interview with his friend Jaffier, when he proposes to him to join the conspiracy against the state, his lamentations at the slavery of his country, his indignation at her wrongs, and that none could be found to redress them, were all painted visible to the eye, and sunk deep to the heart. In the assembly of the conspirators, when one of them attempts to excite their suspicions against the friend he had introduced, and it is proposed to assassinate him—his manly and courageous defence of his friend, his indignant reproach of their mean and unfounded suspicions, marked him as the only man who could assimilate the discordant mate.
rials of his faction associates, and one who could almost rule the destinies of the world. In the scene when he found he had been betrayed by his friend Jaffier—his sorrow that the mighty ends he proposed—the liberty of his country—his contempt and indignation of the traitor who had thwarted his plans—accompanied at the same time, with as much indifference for his own fate, were all portrayed with a masterly hand. We are sorry to add, that with the exception of Mrs. Wilmot and Mr. Green, COOPER was wretchedly supported. Mrs. Wilmot still retains all her fascinations; Green is always pleasing.
CHARLESTON, May 24.
Extra of a letter from London, dated April 3, 1806. "Lord Selkirk, (not Mr. Erskine) who has been in America, and made some settlement in Upper Canada a few years ago, is now appointed our Minister to the United States. He will, I am informed, enter for Washington as soon as some pending matters between this country and America are arranged. "You will notice, from what has passed in Parliament, that our new Ministers are speaking handsomely of America. Hence, it is to be supposed, all will end in bonds of mutual affection; indeed I have reason to believe this from better authority, upon which I can depend."
Foreign Intelligence.
[Selections from the latest dates.]
LONDON, April 8. Mr. Jackson, we understand, left town at five o'clock on Sunday morning, with dispatches for Berlin. The French flag of truce, which we announced yesterday, arrived at five o'clock in the morning, off Dover. It came over with a packet for Mr. Fox, from the French minister, M. Talleyrand; in the boat was a captain in the French army, who had the care of the dispatch, which it is said, was brought by a courier from Paris: the officer had direction to give it to the first of our cruizers he met with, and it was accordingly, in Dover Roads, delivered to captain Tidly, commanding the Diligence armed ship of war, and forwarded by him to Lord Keith at Ramsgate. The boat set sail with the officer on his return to Boulogne yesterday, soon after seven o'clock. The former circumstances encouraged a hope, that hostilities with Prussia may be avoided; and the flag of truce has been relied upon, in corroboration of the opinion, that a negotiation between this country and France is in train.
AFFAIR OF HONOUR.—The Austrian General Nostitz, has sent a challenge to the Russian Prince Dolgoruky, in consequence of the latter, in his bulletin of the battle of Austerlitz, having asserted that that general did not do his duty. The terms of the challenge are, that the duel shall end only by the death of one of them, and on these conditions the prince has accepted it.
The Russian forces on the frontiers of Moldavia and Wallachia, have been considerably reinforced by Cossacks from the shores of the Black Sea.
HOLLAND.
AMSTERDAM, March 7. The Hague Journal of the 6th having stated, that a Declaration of War by the United States of America was to be expected every day, the American Consul, Mr. BOURNE, has publicly declared in the Courant, that he felt himself called upon, by the importance of the subject of that article to his country, to insist upon knowing what authority it was grounded upon; as he had received no information of that nature, but trusted, on the contrary, that the measures adopted by the American Government would have the effect of preferring peace with all the Belligerent Powers of Europe.
LEIPSICK, March 28.
The vague reports which have been spread upon the formation of a kingdom of Saxony, seem to take more consistency. It is tho' that the different Ducal houses of Saxony, all issued from the Ernestine line, would willingly acknowledge the sovereignty of the elector of Saxony or of the Albertine line, referring to themselves the full and entire enjoyment of the revenues which they now draw from their respective possessions. The counts of Reuss, of Schomburg and of Schwartzburg, who are already in the dependence, either of the elector of the dukes of Saxony, not only from the position of their principalities, but even by different feudal ties, would gladly exchange a precarious dependence against the advantage of seeing their possessions better secured. In fine, Prussia would cede the territory of Erfurt against the districts contiguous to the great mass of the Prussian monarchy.
The new kingdom of Saxony would thus comprise the following states: Electorate of Saxony with Lusatia, &c. 1994 square leagues, 2,150,000 inhabitants; Saxe Gotha, 144 square leagues, 165,000 inhabitants; Saxe Weimar, 99 square leagues, 114,000 inhabitants; Saxe Cobourg, 50 square leagues, 61,000 inhabitants; Saxe Meiningen, 57 square leagues, 52,000 inhabitants; county of Schwartzburg, 120 square leagues, 100,000 inhabitants; county of Reuss, 58 square leagues, 70,000 inhabitants; county of Schomburg, 56 square leagues, 52,000 inhabitants; territory of Erfurt, 30 square leagues, 42,000 inhabitants. All this would form a total mass of 2,850,000 inhabitants, upon an extent of 2618 square leagues.
BOSTON, May 22.
Extra of a letter from New-Bedford, dated May 18, 1806. "Arrived this day, ship Huron, Captain Clark, 27 days from Nantz—Capt. C. brought no papers, but says nothing of much importance had lately occurred. He understood, that an army of 80,000, were about to march from Paris for Denmark; their object to have the Baltic shut against the English. On the 20th ult. saw two English cutters, spoke one, and was informed they were then in chase of a Prussian vessel, and that for fifteen days previous, they had sent in all the Prussians they met with. Capt. C. heard however, nothing of a war at Nantz, between England and Prussia."
Captain Bartlett, from Bayonne, arrived at Boston, informs, that Louis Bonaparte has been declared Sovereign of Holland by a decree of the government.
In pursuance of a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery, for the district of Richmond.
WILL be held on the first day of July next, at the Tavern of Mr. Zachariah Brooks in the Town of Manchester, the LOT & appurtenances in said town, lately occupied by Mr. William Robinson. The sale will be on twelve months credit, the purchaser to give a bond, with security, to bear interest from the date.
JOHN MINOR, Commissioner.
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MOTION OF THE WORLD.
M. BENZENBERG, professor of physics and astronomy at Dusseldorf, has given an account of twenty-eight experiments made with balls well turned and polished, which were caused to fall from a height of 262 French feet. At a medium, they produced five lines deviation towards the east according to the determination of the plumb line, and the theory gives four lines and six-tenths. These experiments were made in the coal mines of Scheibnitz and are an additional proof of the rotatory movement of the earth.
The Iron Manufactory at Carron, in Scotland, is the greatest of the kind in the world. The Weekly consumption of Coals amounts to 11,000 Tons, at 4 shillings per ton, and the consumption of each day is equal to that of the city of Edinburgh for a week. As many Coals therefore, are consumed in the Carron Foundry as would suffice to supply a city of 700,000 inhabitants. One thousand workmen are daily employed in the Manufactory, whose wages amount to 700l. a week, and 36,400l. per annum.
The Indian Gazette of the 12th ultimo, relates a surprising instance of the dreadful effects of superstition among the Indian tribes. It is as follows: A Shawanoe Indian informed the chiefs of his tribe that the Great Spirit had appeared to him, and commanded him to acquaint the red people that he was determined to destroy them, unless they would forbear to drink whisky, and that it was his pleasure that the persons who were in the habit of practicing witchcraft, should either give up their Magic Bag, or be punished with death. The chiefs determined to obey what they supposed to be a Divine mandate, and the impious person was called upon to designate those who were the object of the Great Spirit's anger-these were made immediately to surrender the implements of their art. Thus the affair ended with the Shawanoe.
East Florida.—About 9 months ago the Coffee Plant was introduced from Cuba, and planted at Cape Florida. It has succeeded beyond the most sanguine expectations, and no doubts are entertained, that it will become the staple article in East Florida. This information was given us by a gentleman, who is lately arrived here from Cape Florida.
Charles. Courier.
From a late Vermont Paper.
Suicide-Text"> SUICIDE! Among the many instances of Suicide, which we are frequently recording, we have heard of none in extraordinary, or so affecting as the following, which happened in Middletown, in this county, the last week. A young man by the name of Lemuel Stoddard, of that town, had paid his constant addresses to a young girl, whose parents were neighbours, for a considerable time, till at length matrimony was mutually agreed to: content of parents was given, and the day was fixed, when the young wedlock was to be united in marriage. But here, we must record the doleful tale.—The day arrived when their parents and their friends expected to witness a pleasant scene. But a trivial excuse was made for the delay. In the evening, the young man paid his female friend a usual visit, at her father's house—when and where he related to her that he had for some time been suspicious that her attachment to him was indifferent, that her chastity was not inviolate, and that a friend of his had now convinced him that his suspicions were not groundless. He continued to observe, that as nothing could dissuade him from the opinion he had formed, and that if he should marry her he should be miserable, and his attachment to her was still so fixed that he could not live happy without her. What next—Suicide, he thought was the only alternative!—He proposed that she should depart with him, intimating that a far better world would receive them, where their spirits would dwell together in the same bonds of affection, which would distinguish them here. The young man then said he had procured laudanum sufficient to effect what he had proposed, and handing the credulous female a vial and taking one himself, both swallowed the dose!—But, the girl fainted & a discharge from the stomach saved her from a dreadful end—The sleep of her anticipated companion was eternal. He died about one o'clock in the afternoon, of the following day. Mr. Stoddard was about 20 years of age. The foregoing particulars are as near as possible, the substance of what our informant related, and which, he says, was mostly from the mouth of the surviving female, who, it is thought, is innocent, as to the charge, which the deceased alleged against her.
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FEDERALISTS IN OFFICE.
No. 2.
The office of vindicating an administration like the present from the charge of having already made improper appointments, is comparatively much easier than the task of laying down one fixed principle that will apply to every possible case of appointment or removal. Instances of the first sort are rare. Mr. Jefferson has hitherto made but few objectionable appointments. Two only have we already attempted to justify, because on these the minority of the last congress have attempted to raise the unfounded charge, that he has actually departed from the principles which put him into power.
But the latter question is far more difficult, from the wide range which it embraces. What an immense patronage is attached to the federal executive! What an innumerable number of appointments & removals it is possible to make! These various cases are discriminated by such a variety of circumstances, that to decide upon any one principle, applicable to all, without much previous investigation, would become only a man who possesses a great deal of genius or a great deal of party spirit.
It is necessary to remind the readers of the distinction which has been already taken between an appointment to and a removal from office. There is still another which it becomes us to develop.
There is this important distinction among offices; that some have a direct influence upon the politics of a nation, whilst others merely give an indirect influence to their incumbents. A secretary of state, for instance, is connected by his very office, with the principles of an administration. He touches it in a variety of points: He has questions continually before him which involve some political principle. But how different is the office of a collector! A Chinese, completely ignorant of politics, would make as good a one as Ethanam himself. Let him but have honesty enough to take care of the public money, knowledge enough to deliver and receive the proper papers; and regularity in discharging his duties; and what more is necessary to the composition of a collector? All that he knows of the distinctions between republican or federalist, may be left behind him at the door of his office.
But it is therefore to be supposed, that no indirect influence whatever is attached to the person of a collector? Is his salary nothing? Is the superior and artificial station, that it gives him in society, nothing? Do not these give an air of much greater consequence to his political opinions, than they would intrinsically deserve; or his own arguments could command?
Some officers therefore are political, others merely ministerial. Some require political knowledge; others, demand the observance of a regular routine. The last gives only an indirect influence to the principles of the incumbent. The first gives not only an indirect but direct influence; not merely an influence flowing from the extrinsic consequence of the appointment, but from the very nature of the functions which it practices.
Every office within the gift or nomination of the Executive, may therefore be arranged according to the degree of influence which they confer. Those which have directly connected him with politics, will of course occupy the first rank.
On the very front of this list stand the heads of departments. Next follow members of the judiciary department, with not only the means of exerting political powers of great importance, but who hold these powers during good behaviour.
The next in order, are our ministers abroad, with all our foreign relations to negotiate; treaties to establish; in difficult times, even the question of peace or war, depending upon their intelligence, vigilance and patriotism.
Then follow in succession the governors of our Western Territories, particularly of Orleans and Louisiana, with the subordinate list of office and patronage, that are vested in their hands.
Can there be the smallest doubt, in making all these appointments, that the politics of the candidate ought to be an indispensable consideration? With what consistency is a federal candidate to be promoted to a political office? The present administration represents republican people. It was not positively stipulated at the period of their election, that they were to appoint only republicans to office; but it was tacitly understood that they were to spare no honourable efforts to promote the republican cause; for that cause was believed to be the cause of their country. But can you promote the republican cause by conferring political powers upon the very men who oppose it? Would you induce a Mussi into a christian church? A federalist would not, if he could, advance the interests of the administration. Not that he would sacrifice his reputation or his office, by a wilful violation of his duties. But there is an immense difference between the honesty of an officer who will coolly discharge his duty, and the zeal of one, who will grasp at every opportunity to extend the measure of his services. A Mussi might mumble over the Litany or a sermon: But it is a christian minister alone, who will zealously step out of his way to benefit his flock.
When the present administration therefore was elected, they went in upon the tacit pledge of appointing no federalist to a merely political office. Will they then break their faith with the public? It is not in the most remote degree insinuated that they have done so; or that they will do so; but the questions were, ought they to do so, and would they not, by making such appointments. But this is by no means the most cogent argument against them: How would Mr. Jefferson expect to promote the republican cause by appointing its opponents to political offices?
How could he confide in them for the mere discharge of the very functions embraced by their office?
How could the officers confide in the administration?
Would not this mutual mistrust induce each of them to suppress opinions and facts that would lead to an enlightened discharge of their duties?
But why press a proposition which almost every man has reasons to support? Why attempt to show, that no man but a republican should be appointed to an office, that was connected with the politics of the government? Why even attempt to show that even where these offices had been already filled, it was the best policy of the administration to remove the incumbent; that the particular exceptions which may exist in the class of mere ministerial officers, do not apply to these; that the interest of the republican cause is here at
least paramount to every other consideration? But the reasons which justify this right of removal, will be more fully explained when we arrive at the class of ministerial officers; such as Post-masters, and collectors.
At this moment, perhaps, the Department of State furnishes a case in point! It is true that the offices to be noticed are not recognized by the constitution; they do not impinge upon those who hold them, any political functions; but it is no less true that they are intimately connected with the department of state, its important functions, its most secret arrangements. Their incumbents do little as politicians, but is not their knowledge power? Let the reader judge, whether the author has in this instance pushed his principle too far!
The first clerk in the department of state is a Mr. Waggoner, who held that office under the last administration and continues to hold it: a man, whose official qualifications are not more inconteſtable than his political principles; a man, who has not shrunk from the ridiculous and refuted assertion, that Mr. Jefferson was chargeable with a defalcation of not less than 30,000 Dollars, when he was secretary of state!
And yet this gentleman still holds his office under the very government, which he has suspected and abused. The second clerk in that department, is a Mr. Brent, who is said to have been once the first clerk and the favourite pupil of Alexander Hamilton himself. But these clerks are not mere ministerial officers under the government; not like your Post-Masters, with scarce aught to do, but to handle letters and newspapers, or like your Port-collectors with their manifests and registers. No. These men are often entrusted with the most confidential secrets of the government. They have access to the dispatches from and to our foreign ministers. They know the negotiations which have terminated with foreign governments and those which are depending. Nothing passes through their hands, but what is connected with the interests of the state; the politics of an administration to which they are opposed; and those measures which if they do not intend to thwart, they can scarcely be expected to promote to the utmost of their power.
Far be that ungenerous logic, that would ascribe this misplaced indulgence of Mr. Madison to a direful from his republican principles! No man feels greater gratitude than the author of these reflections, for the ineffable services which Mr. Madison has rendered. Few men think more highly of the abstract purity of his republican principles. But it is not here that the fault exists. It is in the extreme liberality of his nature. It is in that manly sensibility, that generous disgust at everything that looks like persecution, which has uniformly marked his conduct. Yet Mr. Madison has in this instance carried it to an excess. He should recollect that when aurgeon has dangerous excrescences to lop off, he will not find the most generous sympathy and tears half such serviceable instruments as the caustic or the knife.
It no doubt is a painful duty to dismiss any officer. But could there be a more ridiculous apology for omitting to discharge this public duty? Penelon has said "that a virtuous prince, "must be the most unhappy man in his dominions." The remark is a just one, and is altogether inapplicable to a President with regal powers. Who ever thought that such a being was to lie upon a bed of roses? Let us grant that a feeling heart is an endowment worthy of any nation; still would a patriotic President sacrifice to it, the good of his country?
We admire the sensibility, which Mr. Jefferson displayed towards the wife of the unfortunate Logwood, who last year met him on the road from Bedford, and solicited the release of her husband. It was a delicate tenderness of heart, which covered his name with praises and thanks even in the very family, whose most earnest wishes he was obliged to refuse. But who would have so much admired his conduct, had he through a refined feeling, granted a petition, which ought to have been enforced by a previous recommendation from the executive of Virginia? A magistrate should recollect that his first duty is justice; the next is mercy. But this maxim, has scarcely less force, when there are political heresies to arrest, than where there are crimes to prevent; and it is no less applicable to a secretary of state, than the president of the union.
TO THE HONOUR OF SOUTH-CAROLINA
be it known, that the following is a correct list of all the imported slaves advertised in one Charleston paper, of the 15th inst.
May 1. Zanzuebar slaves, - - - 230
2. Mandingo negroes, - - - 241
12. Young negroes, - - - 75
15. Gold Coast slaves - - - 124
Slaves 740
Seven hundred and forty slaves, exposed to sale within the short period of fifteen days! Let it be noted too how their ingenious avarice has given a new range to their depredations. The western coast of Africa no longer abounds in their "curled thirst of gold," they have struck up a trade with the East. The 230 slaves in the foregoing list are from Zanzuebar, on the Eastern coast of Africa, said to be from the natives of the Gendo, Mocoa, and Swahyie tribes. They are much esteemed by the planters of Mauritius.
It is a folly to dwell upon the immorality, the injustice, the crying sin of this abominable traffic; but it is not surprising that avarice should be a stronger principle than self-preservation? Know not the inhabitants of South-Carolina, how many enemies they are introducing into their own bosom? They had enough of them before; why are they adding to their number? Do they recollect the execrable warfare which the British were desirous of carrying against us during the revolution? They raised the Indian tomahawk upon our borders; but there was an enemy within our own bosom, whom they attempted to raise into rebellion. They completely failed; but for what reason? Are the people of S. Carolina ignorant that the same course is to be pursued by the very next European enemy, who invades us? On what point, think they, will this descent be made? will it be to the North or to the South? Suppose a French army were to land among the Southern inhabitants; we would meet them; there is little doubt that our patriotism would triumph over this worse than Russian coalition; but the time would then have come for learning this melancholy truth, that the strength of a state is not always increased by an increased population. But why should we only learn this lesson under the ferule and the lash? Had any of the Germanic States thus willingly weakened the military resources of the whole, it is not ungenerous to say, that she would have deferred to have been put under the Bann of the Empire.
It is known that the constitution positively prevents Congress from prohibiting the slave trade, till the year 1808. When that time arrives, let the most solemn and irrevocable prohibition be put upon it. A law of Congress might prevent it; but another Congress more corrupt, than they, might possibly change it.
Let it then be placed even beyond their control. Let it be solemnly engrafted into the body of the constitution itself, that the slave trade is to be no more.
From a short ride into the country two days since, we were led to think that the caterpillar among the wheat had completely disappeared. Our mistake arose from visiting the field at an improper time of the day. There is little doubt however, that these ravages will be much less fatal than was at first supposed and for two obvious reasons:
1st. The fun is too hot for them, during a great part of the day, when they retire into the earth or under any kind of shelter. Of course their ravages are not always going on.
2dly. Because in no long time they are all likely to undergo the changes incident to their race: that is, the caterpillar changes into a chrysalis, and the chrysalis into a fly. Many of these are already undergoing their first transformation. A gentleman yesterday showed us several in the chrysalis state. By keeping them in earth, he will discover, how long it will be before they turn to a fly and what kind of a fly it is that lays the eggs of the caterpillar.
It is said that this caterpillar is the same with the cotton-caterpillar which so much injured Georgia and S. Carolina two or three years past.
MARRIED
On Wednesday the 28th ult. by the Revd. Mr. Ford, of Hanover, CHARLES F. BATES, esq. attorney at law, of Goodland, to the amiable Miss MARY HEATH MILLER, eldest daughter of Heaths Jones Miller, esq. of the same county.
Last Evening's Mail.
NEW-YORK, May 28.
The regular trading ship Fanny, captain Taylor, arrived at this port yesterday in the remarkably short passage of 24 days from Greenock; and captain T. has favoured the editor of the Mercantile Advertiser with Greenock papers to the 2d of May, inclusive, containing London news to the 29th.
LONDON, April 9.
"Statesman Office, 3 o'clock, P. M. "We are this moment informed that a flag of truce landed at Dover at 5 o'clock this morning. The bearer was an officer of the artillery, and of the Legion of Honour. He would not deliver his dispatches to Lord Keith, as his orders were to give them personally to Mr. Fox."
April 20.
Near Betzefe, a new Russian army of 100,000 men is assembling. Twenty regiments of Cossacks were, at the date of the last accounts, hourly expected there. At Robryn, all the tailors, shoemakers, &c. were put in requisition to provide clothing for the Russian troops, and were paid most liberally.
The Emperor of Germany allows the exportation of provisions, cattle, &c. from his dominions, for the support of the Russian army; and Russian Commissioners have been accredited throughout the Hereditary States. M. Rochefoucauld has remonstrated on the occasion, but the supplies are continued.
April 21.
Government this morning received the following important information: Copy from the Log Book of the American ship Dorothia, dated 4th Feb. 1806.
"At two o'clock, A. M. discovered a fleet to the North West, which gave chase to us, in finding fails and hove to. At three, the headmost ship, the Patriot, came up with us, and proved French. After examining us she carried us up to the admiral; and after asking many questions relative to English convoys, they allowed us to proceed. We counted six sail of the line and one frigate, lat. 15, 29, lat. 18, 25, West. The Patriot informed the captain of the Dorothia that they had failed from Brest on the 14th of Decr. 30, 18 sail in number, but had separate divisions: they had taken 3 English ships with troops on board. They denied that they had any troops on board, although the admiral's ship appeared full of troops—The ships were; Eole, 74; Majestic, 74; Impetueux, 74; Foudroyant, 74; Veteran, 74; De Caster, 74; Valenciennes, 41; all French—Admirals Guillaume and Jerome Bonaparte. St. Helena, East 130 leagues.
April 28.
We learn from Constantinople, that the Turkish troops upon the Russian frontiers are considerably increasing, which, with other circumstances, has induced M. Italiki, the Russian Minister, to demand explanation relative to these preparations, and that he was informed by the Reis Effendi that such preparations were necessary for restoring and preserving peace in the interior of the Turkish empire. A considerable Turkish fleet is fitting out.
The promises and threats of France and Prussia to induce Denmark to exclude our flag from the Baltic, have been hitherto unavailing—the Danish Ministry insist on a rigid neutrality; and it is probable that she will succeed in maintaining it.
The recent movements of the French on the Austrian frontiers and the reinforcement of their corps in Bavaria, have created much uneasiness at Vienna. On the arrival of a courier from Berthier, the French Minister at Vienna communicated to the Imperial Cabinet the determination of his master to retain possession of Brannau until the affairs of Dalmatia were adjusted. Prince Schwartzenberg was immediately despatched to Paris, with a strong remonstrance on this violation of the treaty of Presburgh.
The hostility of France towards Austria, which has recently manifested itself on numerous occasions, was lately insinuatingly expressed towards the Imperial Minister Count Stutterheim. The Count on his return from Paris, whither he had been sent on a special mission stopped at Munich; but on the following day he received orders from the Bavarian Government for his immediate departure; and an adjutant of Gen. Berthier attended to see the order enforced. It was the general opinion in Holland, that the peace will be of short duration. France appears desirous to strike a blow, before the extensive military arrangements now carrying on, under the orders of the Archduke Charles can be organized; and it is certain, that the unceasing accumulation of Russian troops on the Austrian frontiers is the occasion of the most serious solicitude to Bonaparte.
There was a report on Saturday that General Mack had been convicted of high treason, and condemned to suffer the pain of death.
The trial of Lord Viscount Melville commences tomorrow morning.
GREENOCK, May 2.
Permission, as it is called, is said to have been granted to the French to pass through the austrian territory, and 40,000 men are on their march towards Dalmatia.
Private letters from Hamburg, are said to state, that Austria has declared in favor of Russia. This report is not sanctioned by any of the German Papers.
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BURK'S HISTORY OF VIRGINIA.
We hasten to lay before our readers the following extract from the second Volume of this elegant and instructive History, which has just issued from the press at Petersburg. Perhaps the only copy to be found in Richmond is at this time in our possession.
The first volume brought down the history of Virginia to 1624, when the proprietary government was dissolved and a royal rule established upon its ruins. The present volume extends it to the year 1710, and embraces the history of little less than a century, of events that are not much calculated to interest and astonish the reader. The author has indeed candidly confessed, that he would "refuse his strength for occasions where it may be more properly applied and exerted." A no less candid reader would confess, that he has made as much as possible of the barren era which he has described.
In the volume before us, we meet with many ingenious reflections; many of the embellishments of eloquence. What then may not be expected from Mr. Burk's pencil, when the progress of his journey shall present him with far more interesting scenes for its employment!
Bacon's Rebellion is by far the most striking event in the present volume. The author has subjoined all the documents on which he has compiled his narrative. They are said to be of unquestionable authority, and completely to differ from every other account of this singular event. Bacon, he represents as a man of uncommon capacities; with much more of the patriot, than of the traitor, in his composition.
In producing this history, the author has had access to a document, of which perhaps there is one copy only in existence. It is a manuscript copy of the Records of State, preferred by the pious care of Col. Byrd, of Westover.
We have already presented our readers with the life of Pocahontas, from the first volume. The life of Opechancanough is perhaps the most dramatic incident in the volume before us. The first is already woven into a small story by a Mr. Davis, who has promised to write a series of such Indian Tales. The Massacre of the Virginian Planters, contained in the following extract, is to be the next in succession.
1622-40. THE difficulties in the colony, although they eventuated in an improvement of its general condition, were productive of a calamitous disaster, which had well nigh rendered it useless. During the agitation produced by the excesses of Hervey, and their efforts to free themselves from their tyranny, the attention of the colonists was all at once withdrawn from Indian affairs, at the moment when new and urgent circumstances required an increase of vigilance and circumspection. The vast grants procured during the administration of Hervey, had given occasion to various encroachments on the territories secured to the Indians, by the treaty of 1616; and this people, already driven by the tide of emigration from the sea board, and the rich and delightful valleys adjacent to the rivers, found themselves exposed to fresh aggressions from the unjust claims of land speculators, at the heads of the rivers, whither they had retired for subsistence and security.
It was not enough that they had abandoned their invaders, the delightful regions, where their fathers had been placed by the bounty of heaven; and where, before the coming of the English, their days had rolled on in an enchanting round of innocence and gaiety—where they possessed abundance without labor, and independence without government. The little that remained of their possessions was attempted to be wrested from them by the insatiable avarice and rapacity of their enemies. But it was not only their property that was insecure; they were about to be bereaved of their independence, the noblest attribute of a human being.
How sad and melancholy was the change from their former to their present condition! Until the year 1616, they were engaged in an incessant war with the English, in which, although they sustained a constant, although gradual diminution of their strength. Every inch of ground was disputed with desperate valor and inimitable address: But alas, savage valor and savage address, were of little avail, against the dreadful combinations of the white man's genius. They had indeed proved, that their enemies were mortal; but they were mortals, who combated with the arms of the Gods. But although they felt the superiority of their enemies, they disdained to listen to the suggestions of despair. They brooded in secret over their wrongs, waiting for some favourable occasion when they might fall with their united strength on their oppressors.
Opechancanough, from his retreat at the head of York river, witnessed with secret pleasure the progress of these discontented, which his influence and discourse had principally contributed to excite and exasperate. His sagacious mind quickly discovered, in the divisions of the colony, the occasion, which he had long waited for with impatience and anxiety; and he lost no moment in concerting measures for improving it to the purposes of his patriotism and revenge.
Although now grown old, his conduct exhibited on this occasion, the union of a burning ardor and an indefatigable industry; and his orders were conveyed with electric rapidity during the silence of midnight, to the remotest tribes of the confederacy.
The Pamunkeys and Chickahominy, who were immediately under his influence, together with the Paspayheys, Warrasquas and Mattaponies, as well from their situation as their courage; and their experience of the English mode of fighting, were looked upon as the main strength of the confederacy: And with these, Opechancanough resolved to make the principal onset in person. The more distant tribes were assigned to the principal war chiefs of the several tribes: And thus a war, which raged from the mouth of the Chesapeake, to the heads of all the great rivers, which discharge themselves into it, was so simple as to render confusion impossible. The leaders were simply directed, at a fixed hour, to attack the English settlements with their whole force and the utmost fury.
But few particulars of this war have been transmitted to our times; so that the day, or even the year, of its commencement, is known with little certainty. Berkeley seems to think, that it took place in 1630, during the administration of Hervey; and he asserts, that there was no peace or truce after this, with the Indians, during the life time of Opechancanough. There is complete evidence on the face of the Ancient Records of this State, that this chief was at peace with the English in 1640 and 1641; so that if the latter portion of this historian be correct, it must have broken out subsequent to this period. In the former of these years, the punishment of John Burton, who had been found guilty of the murder of an Indian, was remitted at the intercession of Opechancanough and his great men; and in the latter end of 1641, Thomas Rolfe, the son of Pocahontas, petitioned the governor for permission to visit his kinsman Opechancanough, and Cleopatra, the sister of his mother. These circumstances prove incontrovertibly that the war occasioned by the massacre, and which was marked on both sides by the most ferocious and vindictive spirit, had not yet commenced.
There is reason to believe that this event took place in the winter of 1641, or the early part of the following year, before the colony had regained its tranquillity, under the mild and able administration of Berkeley. But in whatever way this question shall be decided, it is certain that most of the frontier settlements were broken up by the fury of this irruption.
Left of the colonists left five hundred persons, English, who mutilated and bleeding bodies, scattered over the earth, gave a dreadful proof of the fury and inextinguishable hatred of their enemies. In
addition to this severe loss, several were hurried away to a captivity worse than death. The habitations and corn; the instruments of farming, and household utensils; in a word, every thing that was essential to their comfort or convenience, was consumed with fire; while the minds of the survivors were appalled by the fears of famine, and the gloomiest preludes of future calamities.
This irruption had been decisive of the fate of Virginia, but for the operation of circumstances which Opechancanough could have no control. The wise measures devised by former assemblies, had prohibited all trade and intercourse with this people, except at stated markets on the frontiers; and it was absolutely necessary that the frontier should be forced, before the interior and the seat of government could be assailed. Time was thus afforded the inland counties to arm in their defence; to prepare for which, they had timely notice from the fugitives, who had been able to effect their escape from amidst the ruins of their houses, and the dead bodies of their murdered countrymen.
The massacre fell with the greatest weight on the plantations on the south side of James river, and the heads of all the rivers; & it was particularly destructive at the source of York or Pamunkey river, where, since the massacre of 1624, Opechancanough had retired with his own tribe, and where on this occasion, he commanded in person.
March 22. A calamity so dreadful & unexpected Sir Wm. Berkeley and the ungodly exertions of a mild and to the Indian able administration were unable to reconstruct. Sir William Berkeley, on his arrival, had set on foot various projects for the improvement of the commerce, manufactures, and staple of the country; and the promise of royal bounty was solemnly pledged to the author of so useful and successful experiment. Warmed by the genial ray and fostering hand of a liberal patronage, the genius of the colony was beginning to peep out and expand itself; but the terrors of an Indian war suspended the labors of the loom and the plough, together with the speculations of the closet. All, who were able to bear arms, were embodied as a militia for the defence of the colony; while a chosen body, comprising every twentieth man, commanded by the governor in person, marched into the enemy's country.
The operations of this war, which raged henceforth without any intermission till the death of Opechancanough, are not detailed by any historian. The early records of the state, which might have supplied this defect, are silent on the subject. The relation of Berkeley, unsatisfactory and imperfect as it is, contains every particular, which has survived the ravages of time, and the inaccuracy of the original reporters.
We are told, that Opechancanough at this time was so decripit by age, as to be unable to walk; but that his spirit, rising above the ruins of his body, directed from the litter on which he was carried by his Indians, the onset and the retreat of his warriors.
He survived this difficult and laborious service, completed the wreck of his constitution: His flesh became macerated; his sinews loit their tone and elasticity; and his eyes were so heavy, that he could not see, unless they were lifted up by his attendants. In this forlorn condition, he was surprised by Sir W. Berkeley, who pursued him close with a squadron of light cavalry, & carried in triumph to James-Town.
To the honor of the governor it should be recorded, that his conduct to his illustrious & venerable captive, was invariably marked by great tenderness and humanity; and the members of the council and assembly partook in the interest and pity excited by his majestic and manly appearance. In general too, the feelings of the colonists did honor to their nature on this occasion: They saw the terrible enemy, who had been the author of so many mischiefs to Virginia, now a captive in their hands, bending under the load of years, and shattered by the hardships of war; and they generously resolved to bury the remembrances of their injuries, in his present melancholy reverse of fortune.
As for him, his deportment was suitable to his former glory, and the lofty spirit and maxims of an Indian hero. He declined to utter any complaint, or to manifest the slightest uneasiness and instead of deprecating the tortures, which he calculated were preparing for him, his language and demeanor bespoke the most absolute contempt and defiance: But for the moll part, his spirit was thrown in a haughty and disdainful reserve. So consummate was his real or affected indifference and apathy, that he rarely permitted his eyes to be lifted up, as if he was desirous of showing his enemies, that there was nothing in their possession, which he conceived worthy to excite his apprehensions, or attract his curiosity.
He is in this state he continued several days, wounded by attended by his faithful Indians, who one of his begged to be admitted to the honor of guards. Sharing his fate and performing those offices about their beloved chief, which his merits and infirmities required: But neither his undaunted spirit, nor the generosity of his enemies, could preserve his life. He was basely shot through the back by one of the soldiers appointed to guard him, without any other provocation, than the recollection of injuries, which should have been forgotten; and the apprehension of escape, which it was his duty to prevent.
His approaching death was unbroken, and the nearer death approached, the greater caution he used in concealing his dejection, and preserving the dignity and serenity of his aspect. A few moments before he expired, he heard an unusual noise in his prison: Having ordered his attendants to lift up his eyelids, he discovered a number of persons crowding round him, for the purpose of gratifying an unfeasonable and cruel curiosity. The dying chief felt this indignity with a keenness of sensibility the more violent, as it was new and unforeseen. It was a built of passion, a momentary ascendancy of nature over the habits of education; and its exhibition and effect must be acknowledged to correspond with the greatness of the occasion. Without deigning to notice the intruders, he raised himself from the earth, and with the voice and tone of authority, commanded that the governor should be immediately called in. When he made his appearance, Opechancanough scornfully told him, that "had it been his fortune to have taken Sir William Berkeley, prisoner, he should not meanly have exposed, him as a show, to his people."
His death. It is said, that Sir William Berkeley intended sending him to England, with the view of augmenting his reputation by the present of a royal captive, who could call into the field, ten times as many Indians as there were English in Virginia.
The appearance of this chief, now nearly an hundred years old, would be attended with another beneficial effect: It would refute the slander industriously propagated against the salubrity and healthiness of the climate.
So little is known with certainty of the history of this people, that we remain utterly at a loss to decide whether this chief was the brother of Powhatan, or an adventurer who had come from another people, and established himself alone by his courage and ability.
And elsewhere. It is asserted by some, I know not on what authority, that he came originally from the mines of St. Barbara, or some of the tribes bordering on the empire of Mexico. But whatever variance may exist on this head, there is an universal concurrence as to the character of his mind and understanding. He is represented to have been bold, crafty, insinuating, insincere; a perfect master of all the arts of simulation and dissimulation: In short, he was the Hannibal of Virginia.
During the life time of Powhatan, although his talents as a war chief and counselor were universally acknowledged, the concentration of authority in the person of the emperor; the veneration inspired by his aged and majestic figure, and the memory of his achievements, threw at a distance all competition and rivalry. But when the aged founder of the Powhatan confederacy had paid the debt of nature, and his
authority devolved by inheritance on a feeble and decrepit successor, Opechancanough rose immediately to his natural elevation, in spite of the imposing influence of descent and inheritance.
OPIATAN retained indeed the nominal authority: The Indians, however, and just to each other, had no objection to his title of great werowance, or to any other title he thought proper to assume. But their attendance in war or council is to be completely discretionary, that a single member of a tribe, may reject the determination of the whole nation, and refuse to take part in any projects they have adopted. Before such judges, the active and enterprising Opechancanough had every thing to hope. The whole confederacy were jealous of the English and anxious for their destruction: He seconded the national impulse, and offered to direct their vengeance. The address and courage displayed in conducting the massacre, and in his subsequent enterprises, justified the public confidence; and among the English, he was universally regarded as a more formidable antagonist, than even Powhatan.
But whatever judgment shall be pronounced on their respective merits, after a candid review of their actions; if it shall be thought that the palm should be adjudged to Powhatan, by reason of the imputed glories of his youth and his manhood, which, although they were achieved before the coming of the English, lived in the tradition of all the tribes, and were confirmed by the respect and reverence his presence, and even his name, every where inspired. However the decision shall go as it regards their general actions, it must be admitted that no single feat of Powhatan, can match with the death of Opechancanough. History informs us by innumerable examples, that great actions may be easily achieved by the association of numbers, the ardor and incentive of example, and the prospect of power: But it is reserved for the truly great soul to preserve its poise and stature in the gloom of dungeons, and even in the embraces of death.
The death of Powhatan was comparatively happy. His country was at peace: He was surrounded by his family: He could transmit his power to his descendants; and he was assured that his remains would be deposited with the proper ceremonies, in the barrow of his tribe.
Opechancanough lived to see the destruction of his people; and for any purpose of glory or security, might have justly considered himself as at the last of his race. He labored under the tortures of a mortal wound, embittered by the infirmities of age, and aggravated by a sense of his deplorable condition, in the midst of enemies he detested and excluded from the fight and consolations of his brave companions: Yet not all the gloom of his adversity, could shroud the majesty of his mind.
At the age of one hundred years; blind, unable to stand; wounded, and a captive; Opechancanough continued to be an hero. Then it was, as if all his faculties were roused and collected for the purpose of shedding a glory on his latter moments, that he uttered the noble reproof against Sir William Berkeley, for suffering his infirmities to be insulted by the gaze of vulgar curiosity. The Spartans or the Stoics have produced no equal to this situation.
I am aware that the bare attempt to paint the moral qualities of an Indian, will be derided by the squeamishness of civilization. It will be objected, that Opechancanough was a savage; that all savages have the same character, the elements of which are cunning, treachery, ferocity and superstition; that these furnish an appearance by far too simple and uniform for the varieties of character; and that every thing beyond them is added by the imagination of the author. These objections are specious, but that is all.—The American Indian is a different order of savages, as far removed in his moral qualities from the people of the other quarters of the globe, as he is in his person and complexion; and I am satisfied, that the history of this people would form the most instructive chapter in the history of man.
Disillusion. The death of this great leader was the signal for the dissolution of the famous Powhatan confederacy, which had been formed by the genius of Powhatan, and which had been cemented by the coming of the English, and the superior mind of Opechancanough. Having lost their leader, the several tribes relapsed into their former state of patriarchal government, which, as being less complex than that of federation, was more congenial to their habits and principles: Possibly too, there was no war chief in their estimation worthy to be the successor of the chief of Pamunkey. The pressure of war, and the difficulty of raising provisions amongst a people, whose providence never looks beyond the moment, were additional motives for this separation.
By Authority.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT
To regulate and fix the compensation of clerks, and to authorize the laying out certain public roads; and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the secretaries of state, treasury, war, and navy departments, shall be, and they are hereby authorized to apportion the compensations for clerks in their respective departments, in such manner as the services to be performed shall, in their judgment, require: Provided, That the whole amount of ordinary compensations for clerks in the said departments respectively, shall not exceed the following sums annually, that is to say:
For the department of state, seven thousand one hundred and fifty dollars: For the treasury department, forty four thousand two hundred and twenty seven dollars and twenty eight cents, that is to say; in the office of the secretary of the treasury, ten thousand two hundred and eighty nine dollars and eighty one cents; in the office of comptroller of the treasury, nine thousand and sixty seven dollars; in the office of the auditor, eight thousand eight hundred and eleven dollars; in the office of the treasurer of the United States two thousand eight hundred and seventeen dollars, forty five cents; and in the office of the register of the treasury, thirteen thousand two hundred and forty two dollars and two cents:
For the department of war, sixteen thousand five hundred and forty dollars, that is to say; in the office of the secretary, six thousand three hundred and forty dollars; in the office of the accountant of the war department, eight thousand five hundred dollars; and in the office of the purveyor of public supplies, one thousand seven hundred dollars:
For the department of the navy, twelve thousand nine hundred dollars, that is to say; in the office of the secretary, four thousand nine hundred dollars; and in the office of the accountant of the navy department, eight thousand dollars.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the postmaster-general of the United States, shall be, and hereby is authorized to appoint such number of clerks in his office, as he shall judge proper, and to apportion their compensations in such manner as the services to be rendered by each, shall in his judgment require: Provided, That the whole amount of ordinary compensations for clerks in the said office, shall not exceed the sum of nine thousand three hundred and forty five dollars annually.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the director of the mint be, and he is hereby authorized to allow to one of the clerks employed in his office, seven hundred dollars per annum; and the said director is hereby authorized to expend the further sum of one thousand dollars annually, in clerk hire, in such manner as his discretion shall direct. And the surveyor-general is hereby allowed to expend twelve hundred dollars annually, for clerk hire.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be allowed to the commissioners of loans, in the states of Massachusetts and New-York respectively, not exceeding five clerks, at the rate of five hundred dollars each, per annum: to the commissioner of loans in Connecticut, not exceeding two clerks, at the rate
of four hundred dollars each, per annum: to the commissioner of loans in Pennsylvania, not exceeding six clerks, at the rate of five hundred dollars each, annually: to the commissioners of loans in Virginia, and South Carolina, respectively, not exceeding two clerks, at the rate of five hundred dollars each, annually: the aggregate of compensations for clerks employed by either of said commissioners, to be apportioned among them at their discretion. And there shall be annually allowed in lieu of clerk hire, to the commissioner of loans in the state of New-Hampshire, three hundred and fifty dollars; to the commissioner of loans in the state of Rhode Island, four hundred dollars; to the commissioner of loans in the state of New Jersey, three hundred dollars; and to the commissioner of loans in the state of Maryland, two hundred and fifty dollars.
Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the compensations allowed by this act to clerks, shall commence with the year one thousand eight hundred and seven; and it shall be the duty of the secretaries for the departments of state, treasury, war and navy, and of the postmaster-general, and surveyor general, and of the commissioners of loans in the several states, to report to Congress, at the beginning of each year, the names of the clerks they have employed respectively, in the preceding year, and the sum given to each; and whether the business for clerks increases or diminishes in their respective departments, that Congress may be enabled to make further arrangements by law, respecting clerk hire. And it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury particularly to report, whether the business in the loan office of Pennsylvania, shall from year to year, continue to require the additional sum of two thousand dollars allowed by this act for clerk hire, in consequence of the removal of the treasury office from Philadelphia, in eighteen hundred, to the permanent seat of government; and likewise, he shall report the necessity, if such shall continue, of employing clerks on the business belonging to the office of the late commissioner of the revenue.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That hereafter, in case of the removal of any public office, by reason of sickness which may prevail in the town or city where such office is located, a particular account of the cost of such removal shall be laid before Congress, that they may be enabled to judge of the propriety to be allowed for the same.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the President of the United States be, and he is hereby authorized to cause to be opened a road from the frontier of Georgia on the route from Athens to New Orleans, till the same intersects the 31st degree of North latitude: Provided, he shall not expend more than six thousand four hundred dollars in opening the same; and to cause to be opened a road or roads through the territory lately ceded by the Indians to the United States, from the river Mississippi to the Ohio, and to the former Indian boundary line which was established by the treaty of Greenville: Provided, he shall not expend in opening the same, more than six thousand dollars. And to cause to be opened a road from Nashville in the state of Tennessee, to Natchez in the Mississippi territory: Provided, he shall not expend more than six thousand dollars in opening the same.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That to defray the expense authorized by this act beyond the appropriation for the support of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and six; there is hereby appropriated a sum not exceeding twenty eight thousand dollars, payable out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. And that the act entitled "An act to regulate and fix the compensation of clerks," which passed on the second day of March one thousand seven hundred and ninety nine, shall from and after the first day of January next be, and the same is hereby repealed.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. S. SMITH, President of the Senate, Pro tempore.
April 21, 1806. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust executed by Archibald McCall, of the town of Tappahannock, and county of Essex, to Archibald Dick and David Buchanan, bearing date the 25th day of May, 1789, for sundry purposes therein mentioned; will be sold in the said town of Tappahannock, on the 21th day of June next,
THREE LOTS, known in the plan of the said town by No. 1, 2, and 73, whereon the said McCall at present resides; on these lots are very valuable improvements, consisting of a Dwelling House two story high, with three rooms and a passage below, and three rooms above stairs, three rooms in the cellar, with a fire place in every room, and several out-houses, consisting of a Kitchen, Smoke-house, Stable, &c. all of which are pleasantly situated on the river bank, and command an extensive view of the river above and below. A few articles of household furniture will be sold together with these lots and houses, &c.
Will be sold on the same day, on the premises, A TRACT OF LAND, the property of said McCall, situate in the county aforesaid, on Holkins's creek, adjoining the said town of Tappahannock, containing by estimation, five hundred and two acres, be the same more or less, together with the water grist mill adjoining, which is at present out of repair, but may be rendered very valuable at a small expense, being one of the most valuable and convenient mill sites in all that part of the country, having a large & convenient mill-house two story high, built of stone, brick and wood, calculated for manufacturing on an extensive plan, situate on a never-failing stream, within one mile of tide water; belonging to this mill are two very convenient houses for the accommodation of a miller, cooper, &c. This tract of land is generally of good quality, lies well and is well timbered.
Will likewise be sold on the 28th day of the same month, (June) in John Miller's Tavern, in the said county of Essex,
A TRACT OF LAND, the property of said McCall, situate near said Miller's Tavern, adjoining the lands of Thomas Allen and Joseph Mann, containing by estimation, one hundred and seven acres, be the same more or less, being the land the said McCall purchased of Richard Jeffries. This is good farming land, lies well and is well timbered.—Twelve months credit will be given, upon the purchaser or purchasers giving bond, and in every case a Deed of Trust on the property will be required to secure the purchase money, by
GEORGE POTTIE, and CHARLES THOMPSON, Attorneys in fact for the creditors of Arch. McCall.
Louis, April 18. (adv.)
STOP THE RUNAWAYS.
RANAWAY from the subscriber, in Campbell county, on Big Otter river, 15 miles west of the court-house, JIM & SALLY; Jim is about 35 or 40 years of age, a low, thick, well set fellow, inclined to be a little bald on the top of his head, also a fear over his right eye-brow, little bright complected, can read and write a little, and I do expect a pass and will endeavor to pass as a free man and wife; Sally is about 13 or 14 years of age, slim and delicate made, her hair growing low down on her forehead, tolerably bright complected. Any person bringing said negroes or apprehending them so that I get them, shall be handsomely rewarded by the subscriber, WIATT ARNOLD.
May 27. THE subscriber has extended his practice to the Superior Court of Chancery, for the Williamsburg district.
PATRICK HENDREN, Attorney at Law. Shirley, Charles City, March 7. (law 9m.)
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
ENTERTAINMENT.
PETER MOSELEY, most respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has taken the lease of the house in this city commonly called the UNION TAVERN, & Coffee House, lately occupied by Mr. Lynch, where he proposes to carry on the business of a Tavern-keeper, and likewise to provide coffee in the evening. He is also provided with an excellent stable.
Those who have heretofore favored him with their company and commands, he conceives will require no further assurances; to others, he will only say that he will diligently and faithfully discharge the duty, which he has undertaken. May 13. oaw8t.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or STOLEN, from the Commons of the City of Richmond, on Sunday, 27th of last month, a large DARK GREY HORSE; he had been lately trimmed, except his ears; was fresh shod all round; had a spot on his left thigh whiter than the rest of his colour, and had on the left side of his legs a small lump, which is not very perceptibly undeformed if closely examined. Whoever may deliver the said horse to me, at the Public-Ware-House, shall receive the above:—ard.
May 20. THOMAS UNDERWOOD, jr. (oawf.)
In King-William County Court, March 30th, 1806. John M. Kim, jun. Plff. In Chancery. John Mitchell, jun. Dft.
THE defendant 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 the defendant is not an inhabitant of this state; on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said dft. do appear here on the fourth Monday of August next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks, previous to and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county.
A Copy. Teste, ROBERT POLLARD, C. C. April 4. (law 9m.)
WILLIAM HART,
Opposite the State House, KEEPS constantly on hand a large quantity of BOTTLED PORTER and ALE, which he can recommend as of the first quality, having purchased Mr. BILLINGTON'S stock, and seeing every bottle filled himself. Families supplied with Draft BEER by the barrel or retail.
Also for each or country produce only, a general assortment of Groceries, among which are—
One favored transparent Rum Shrub. Bobs Tea by the chest or lb. A quantity of New-England Cheese and a few Bushels of Irish Potatoes, very cheap. April 22. etaw & oawf.
The Subscriber being desirous to remove to the Western Country, will offer for sale at public auction, in the Town of New Canton, on the third day of July next,
THAT valuable TRACT OF LAND called Bear Garden, containing by estimation nearly five hundred acres, one hundred and forty-nine of which are low grounds of very superior quality. The extraordinary and well known fertility of this Land makes it useless to say much about it, it is without doubt among the most valuable spots on James River.
At the same time and place will be sold, a complete Grist Mill and distillery, with about one hundred acres of Land, including nine acres of low ground at the ferry, which has once sold for thirty pounds per acre: this tract is adjoining the one above mentioned, and will be sold either with or without it to accommodate purchasers; the two united would make a most complete establishment. The terms of sale for either or both, will be one fourth of the purchase money in hand, another fourth on the first day of January next, when a legal title and possession will be given, and the balance in two annual instalments, secured by a deed of trust on the property. Mr. Johnson the overseer will show the Land to any person disposed to purchase. April 22. PEYTON HARRISON. et dft.
LAND—FOR SALE.
THE subscriber is authorised to dispose of between two & three thousand acres of LAND, situate in the county of Prince George and known by the name of Old-Town, on the following terms, to wit: One-fifth of the purchase money to be paid down, and the balance in four annual instalments, to carry interest from the time of sale—the payment whereof must be secured by bond and mortgage on the land. This land is distant from the town of Petersburg about 14 miles; from James river 4 or 5 miles, and about 1 1/2 from Nubie's Creek, which is navigable for boats up to Peachy's mill. The soil is remarkably well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and tobacco, and the greatest part of the tract is covered with fine timber. It will be sold in Lots to suit purchasers, and will be shown to any person desiring to view it, by Mr. Drury Livelay, who resides on it. Prompt attention will be paid to any communication on the subject, directed to the subscriber at Shirley in Charles-City county, by post to Granville Mills. PATRICK HENDREN, Agent for Charles Carter of Shirley. (law 9m.) March 7.
STOP THE SWINDLER!
ON the 5th last month (April) a certain WILLIAM HILL, by trade a Butcher, and professes to know something of the Silver-smiths business, made his elopement from Hungry Town, in Lunenburg county, and took with him a negro boy named JAMES, the property of the subscriber. I will give Fifty Dollars to any person who will deliver said boy to me, or for such information as may enable me to get him again; and Fifty Dollars for the apprehension and delivery of said Hill at the before mentioned place. Hill is about five feet high, light hair and wears it short, thin visage, sallow complexion, and an uncommon large roman nose rather inclined to be hooked at the end, dresses very genteelly, and has much the appearance of a gentleman; he took off with him two horses, one a grey, the other a sorrel. I am apprehensive that Hill is not his real name, and if it is, that he will change it; he says he was raised in the state of New-York. The boy is about 13 years old, well grown and likely, rather inclined to a yellowish complexion, though not a mulatto. I expect Hill has induced the boy to believe that he has purchased him, as the boy was conditionally hired to him, and had been in his possession some time previous to his elopement. The said Hill has gone off considerably indebted to almost every person in the neighbourhood. The public are cautioned against being taken in by such a villain. GERMAN Y. STOKES. Hungry