The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-11-01 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 51.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 1, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
JUST RECEIVED.
THE 4th Vol. of Marshall's LIFE OF WASHINGTON. —Subscribers to this work are particularly requested to call for their respective books at William Prichard's Book and Stationary Store. Wm. Prichard begs leave to inform the public at large, that he is now selling off his stock in trade, at reduced prices. October 28. tf.
IRISH LINEN & SHEETING
WELL assorted in boxes containing 26 to 96 pieces, purchased in Dublin last July, and imported in the ship George from Liverpool, for sale by the box and piece by JOHN HENRY. Who has also on hand, a few boxes of GERMAN OSNABURGS, imported direct from Varel. October 29. 5wp
Amberst August Court, 1805.
IN CHANCERY.
John Profit, Randolph Profit, Jesse Profit, Rowland Profit, Elizabeth Profit and Nancy Profit, children of David Profit, dec'd. and Duncan Cameron and Molly his wife, late Molly Profit, a daughter of David Profit, dec'd. and David Profit and Austin Profit infant children of Austin Profit, dec'd. who was a son of the said David Profit, dec'd. by John Profit their guardian and next friend. Comp'ts. Against
William Jolin and Sally his wife, Joseph Wilcher and Susanna his wife, and David Profit, which said Sally, Susanna, and David are children of the said David Profit, dec'd. Def'ts.
ON the motion of the complainants by their attorney, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendants Wm. Jolin and Sally his wife, Joseph Wilcher and Susanna his wife, and David Profit are not inhabitants of this state and without the jurisdiction of this court: It is ordered that the defendants do appear here on the third Monday in November next, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper published within this Commonwealth for eight weeks successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of this county on some court day. Copy Teste, W. S. CRAWFORD, c. e. cur. Sept. 24. epw.
FOR SALE,
THE Tenement belonging to the James River Company, where the manager formerly resided, lying about half a mile above the city, and contiguous to James river, and commands a prospect equal to any site within the vicinity of Richmond. The tenement contains one acre of land, whereon is the manager's house and an excellent spring of water.
The sale will be made on the premises, on Tuesday the fifth of next month, at public auction, on a credit of twelve months, the purchaser to give bond with approved security, and the title not to be conveyed until the payment of the money. By order of the President and Directors, ROBT. POLLARD. (tds.) October 15.
TO PROPRIETORS OF LAND IN TENNESSEE AND KENTUCKY.
THE subscriber will, about the first of January next, set out for Nashville in the state of Tennessee, where he means to reside and to engage in the practice of the law. Persons holding lands or having business of any kind to transact either in Tennessee or Kentucky, are informed that he will undertake to visit lands in either of these states to ascertain their value and quality, to have the taxes on them regularly paid and to execute any sort of agency which will not require an absence of more than 3 or 4 weeks from the place of his residence. Those who think proper to employ him may rely upon his paying a diligent attention to the business committed to his care. Letters addressed to him in Fredericksburg will be duly attended to, or he may be seen at General Minor's office until the 15th of December next. HENRY MINOR. Fredericksburg, October 22. (oaw4w.)
DOCTOR J. WORRALL,
HAVING taken the first brick house on the right hand side after passing the corner of the Cross-street, leading from the Brick-Row to the head of the Basin, offers his services to the citizens of Richmond and its vicinity in the different branches of the MEDICAL PROFESSION. Families residing in the country, requiring his assistance, may depend on the most prompt and assiduous attention. October 22. (oaw2m.)
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or stolen from my pasture two or three weeks past, a valuable PLOUGH HORSE. He is of a bay color, sturdy and well set, has a large body, and one of his eyes (I believe his right) has been injured by a blow which divided his upper eye lid, and has almost if not entirely deprived him of sight in that eye. He has a switch mane and tail; gallops, trots, and paces, and would answer as well for the cart as for the plough. I have some reason to believe he was brought to Richmond about the time of the Fairfield Races, and either exchanged or sold. I will give the above reward, and pay all reasonable charges to any person who will deliver him to me, and I will give twenty dollars for the detection of the thief, if he has been stolen. W. BROCKENBROUGH, Hanover, October 22. tf.
RUNAWAY NEGRO.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD, if taken within fifty miles of Richmond, and one hundred Dollars if taken beyond it, will be given to apprehend a negro man named LEWIS, about thirty years of age, who last night ran away from the subscribers. He is very stout made, and about 5 feet 10, or 5 feet 11 inches high; has a masculine countenance—had on when he went away, a Russia Drill Drab Coat and Pantaloons; but has a variety of other clothing.—He was formerly the property of Mr. Edward Hallam of Hanover Town, where perhaps he may be gone.—All matters of vessels are forewarned from harboring or carrying him away, under the penalty of the law. GILLIAT & KIRBY, September 6. (tf.)
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO BE SOLD, for ready money, in pursuance of a decree of the court of the United States, for the fifth circuit in the Virginia district, between Phoebe Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards and David Ross, and other defendants, in order to raise the sum of 4200 dols. 26 cents, with the expenses of sale, a number of very valuable slaves now at the Oxford Iron Works. The sale will take place at the said Works, on the 16th day of November next. BENJ. MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. October 4. (cp1ds.)
This Day is Published, And For Sale at the Book-store of the Enquirer, and the Minerva Office:
THE VIRGINIA ALMANACK, For 1806: PRINTED FOR T. RITCHIE AND COOK & GRANT, LAND—containing A considerable variety of matter; Political, Agricultural, Medical and Miscellaneous. Among others, an Essay on the Oratorical Character of Curran, attributed to the author of the British Spy. October 25.
ELLIS & ALLAN
Have just received by the Ships Prestons and George from Liverpool, and Suffolk from London,
A SUITABLE and well selected assortment of FALL GOODS.
 Duffel and Point Blankets.  Rose Blankets from 6-4 to 11-4  Napped Cottons  Ketleys white and coloured  Plains do. do.  Yarn and Plaid Hosiery  Nails from 3d to 30d  Crown window glass 10 by 8, 11 by 9 and 12 by 10  Puty and Glue  Boiled Linseed Oil in Jars  English White Lead ground in oil  Yellow Ochre  Spanish Brown  Verdigris in pots  Bellows, Anvils, Vices and Smiths hammers  Liverpool Filled Salt  London Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, single and double Mill'd  Patent Woollen Cords  Velvets, Hunters and Constitution Cords, Corduroys and Thicksets  Ladies London Kid and Morocco Shoes and Boots  Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hose  Silk Bath Robes do.  White Angola Hose, very fine  Gentlemen's Silk, Cotton, and Worsted Hose  Angolas and Lambs Wool  Lambs Wool Half Hose  Real Italian Saracens plain and checked  Chambray Muslins  Plain and Tamboured Jacquet Muslins  Colonade, Piquet, & Laced Colonade & Cambric do.  Coloured Cambries and Calicoes  Elegant Silk Shawls, do. Cambric do.  Brussels and Kidderminster Carpets and Carpeting  Gentlemen's Real Beaver, Fashionable Hats  Patent do.  Ladies Trimmed do.  Rich Black Mouselin  Rich figured do.  Guns and Pistols  Elegant Fowling Pieces  Seine Twine  6-8 and 10-4 Diaper and Damask do.  8-4, 10-4, 10-18 Damask and Diaper Table Cloths  Irish Linens and 5-4 1/2 Sheetings.  Which will be sold on moderate terms.  October 25. tf. 
NEIL MCCOULL
HAS received, by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, his usual supply of FALL & WINTER GOODS. October 22. tf.
BY Virtue of a deed of Trust,
executed to the undersigned, by Stephen Hughes, to secure a debt due to James Lewis, as expressed in said deed: will be exposed to sale for ready money, on the first Monday in December next, at James Lewis's Tavern in the town of Charlottesville, 40 acres of LAND, including a mill seat lying on the waters of Moore's Creek or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy said debt, interest and cost. BENJAMIN BROWN, Trustee. October 25. (pp3w.)
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY,
8th REGISTRATION.
THE Shareholders in the Manchester Turnpike Company, are hereby required to pay to James Brander, Treasurer, the further sum of ten dollars, on each share, on or before the 15th of November next. By order of the directors, JAMES BRANDER, Clk. Manchester, October 11. 18N.
OYSTER HOUSE.
GEORGE WATSON,
HAS commenced his former and well known occupation of furnishing OYSTERS, BEEF STEAKS, COLD SNACKS, and RELISHES, at the white House near the Union Tavern, wherein the Post-Office was lately kept. He begs leave to assure those who may favor him with their company or commands, that nothing shall be neglected on his part which promises to give satisfaction. October 15.
FALL GOODS.
THE Subscribers are receiving by the ships Intrepid, Proteus and George, from Liverpool, and the Suffolk from London, their supply of merchandise for the fall, which (especially in the Hardware line) is very extensive and general, and will be held by the piece or package. They have also on hand a few Quarter Casks London Particular Madeira Wine, Cogniac Brandy, Raisins, Pepper, Allum, &c. All of which they offer for sale on the most moderate terms. JOHN & ROBT. GAMBLE, Jun'r. October 11. (oaw4w.)
FALL GOODS.
THE Subscriber is receiving and opening a general assortment of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, which he offers for sale on his usual low terms. WILLIAM GALT. October 11. 4w.
JUST RECEIVED AT JOHN PUMEREY'S,
BOOK-BINDER AND STATIONER.
TWO hundred and fifty Reams of FOOL SCAP POTT and POST WRITING PAPER.—He has also on hand an extensive stock of BLANK BOOKS of all descriptions, manufactured from materials of the first quality, and every other article in the Stationary line. Tickets for sale in the Second Class of the Richmond Academy Lottery. October 11.
THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR
CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAGS.
THE Co-partnership of the subscribers, under the firm of THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. will dissolve by mutual consent, on the 11th inst. THOS. TAYLOR, JNO. SATCHELL.
The subscribers, under the firm of
TAYLOR & BROWN,
Offer their services to the public as AUCTIONEERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, at the stand lately occupied by Thomas Taylor & Co. where they have on hand a large stock of Dry Goods and West-India Produce, most of which will be disposed of at private sale on very low terms for cash or approved negotiable notes. THOMAS TAYLOR, JAMES BROWN, Jun'r. (tf.) October 11.
MILITARY CERTIFICATES.
FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrearages of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Dan'l. Genl. M. A. S. May 10. tf.
FOR SALE,
A TRACT OF LAND in Surry county, containing about 1600 acres, within 3 miles of James river, and a mile and a half of a navigable part of Gray's creek. There is land cleared on different parts of the tract, to work six or eight hands in three distinct farms; and the improvements are sufficient for the accommodation of a genteel family, with every necessary house for farming. This tract will bear dividing into three parts, and may have a sufficient proportion of very rich low grounds to each; but would be more valuable to a single purchaser, as it abounds with timber, both of white and red oak, (fit for slaves) pines, poplar and ash, and there is a very advantageous site for a grist and saw mill, nearly in the centre of the tract—it is unnecessary to say more, than that it is a healthy, airy situation, and abounds in good springs; has an apple orchard now in perfection, of 800 grafted fruit of the most choice kinds. The quantity of the lands, will be best judged of by those who are desirous of purchasing, and will take the trouble of viewing the premises—part of the purchase money being paid down, the balance may be paid in two, three or four annual payments—giving approved security. For terms apply to RICHARD COOKE. Me of Wight, near Smithfield, September 15. } F 7w.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RUNAWAY from the subscriber, on Saturday night last, a negro man named PRINCE, he is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, stout made, and when spoken to, has rather a down look; his apparel when he went off was a drab broad cloth coat with a yellow cape, waistcoat of the same, and pantalettes of Manchester stuff, he also took with him a short jacket and pantalettes of Virginia cloth dyed brown, and a yellow Merisais waistcoat; it is presumable he may attempt to get to Petersburg or Richmond, and go from thence to Williamsburg or Norfolk, as he was formerly the property of Samuel Griffin, Esq. of Williamsburg. Whoever will deliver the said fellow to me, five miles below Nottoway Court-house, or secure him in jail, so that I get him again, shall be entitled to the above reward—Masters of vessels and others, are cautioned against carrying him off. RICHARD EPES. Nottoway, October 18. (ep3w p.)
NOTICE.
A Petition will be presented to the General Assembly of Virginia, at the next session, praying for an act may pass to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting a Canal on the fourth side of the Falls of James River, or otherwise improving the navigation of the river for the passage of Batteaux; and also for the establishment of a Bank in the town of Manchester. August 13. (epmL)
FROM THE AURORA.
From the latest advices, the long menaced invasion of England appears to have been suspended by the necessary preparations for a continental war. Which, nevertheless, appears not so probable in the course of the present year, as in the succeeding spring. The marches of the Russian armies in 1798, to the frontier of the seat of war, were not accomplished in less than four months; and the campaign of Italy did not open until April, 1799. No advices of the march of the Russians had been received in England or France in the early part of September last; and scarcely two months were then left for any adequate military movements on the part of an invading army, which must be presumed to carry its baggage, provision, and train of artillery. The tardiness of their operations would induce an opinion that the armies were marshalled to negotiate rather than to fight, and that in the intermediate time of preparation, measures may be on the tapis for a reformation of peace, upon some new principles of partition or plunder; in which, as in preceding wars, the allies of the chief belligerents may pay the price of pacification. Russia may now obtain a footing in the Moraea, by which she may approximate the magnificent projects of Catherine II. on the Turkish empire; she may obtain Malta; and the republic of the Seven Isles, already possessing but a nominal existence as an independent state, may be added to those vast and dispersed acquisitions of Russia, which form so strong an evidence of her ambition, but so weak an argument in the French note of replication to Novoziltzoff. The British monarch may make it a matter of grace to cede to Prussia her rights and title to Hanover and their other territories in Germany already in possession of the French armies. Austria, on the other hand, may be soothed with new acquisitions on the Turkish frontier, and may perhaps be so far favoured as to round off her dominion, by the addition of Albania, Turkish Dalmatia, and Styria, and the countries which fill up the vast space between the Adriatic and the Danube, by which acquisition Hungary would no longer form her actual frontier, and the inland commerce by the numerous rivers Drina, Morawa, Bona, &c. &c. with the shores of the Adriatic, might give new resources to the growing spirit of commercial activity in the German empire. But these after all may be mere reveries; nothing renders them absolutely absurd; because experience has repeatedly realized occurrences much less probable: the partition of Poland, and the sequestration and cession of Venice, were events much more extraordinary than any of these which we have surmised, or than others which we could anticipate as appendages to such a court of events.
On the other hand, should hostility actually re-commence on the continent; it is to be presumed that the winter will be occupied in preparation, and the arrangement of systems and means of attack by the combined powers. If Russia determines to act, Austria cannot be neutral; as the passage of an army of Russia unrestricted, will be considered as a violation of the neutrality. It is not the interest of Austria to engage, but her situation renders her involvement inevitable. The war would then be carried into the heart of Germany, and the Danawouls, Soultz, Marmonts, and Augereaus of France, would emulate the glories of the Jourdans, and the Hoches, and the Moreaus, on that celebrated theatre of military devastation. The plains of Italy would once again feel the tread of hostile legions, her valleys reverberate the tones of horror, and her rivers blush with human blood. The efforts of the grand moving power would necessarily be directed to keep the war as remote from Great-Britain as practicable; as most congenial to her views of policy and commerce, and as most pernicious to France. The countries on the Mediterranean would therefore be the principal theatre of war unless the French chief determined to attack her rival at home, should endeavour to make a diversion either by a feigned descent or an actual invasion of Ireland; a measure by no means impracticable, though certainly not so desirable by the people whom it would be professedly intended to succour as heretofore. An invasion of Ireland at this time though it would certainly find allies in the despair of the people of that oppressed nation, would not obtain so cordial, general, & confident an aid as when the banners of France waved only in the name of a free nation. The Irish could expect no better fate under the present rulers of France than Holland or Switzerland; and perhaps the people after all their struggles under the hope of emancipation from their tyranny of 600 years, might find themselves reduced to a more inveterate bondage (if possible) as the price of peace and concession. One trait appears palpable in all the proceedings of the French ruler. He has turned his attention to the marine. Reference to the wonders performed by Colbert in the organization of the French marine, under Louis XIV. has been constantly made by politicians, Gallican and Anti-Gallican. It took Colbert four years to collect fifty ships of war of all descriptions. But there had been a previous effort made by Richelieu, in the preparation of materials and artificers from Holland. The French rulers of the present day have retrieved disasters unprecedented in the annals of the world, in a shorter space.
The French marine may be said to have lost its vital power by the defection of its naval commanders. The destruction of the naval arsenal at Toulon and the battle of the Nile, seemed to render all the expectations of France from her navy for ever hopeless. Yet by a system novel and bold, men have been formed to the rudiments of seamanship without quitting her harbours. We allude to the construction of gun-boats, praams, &c. and the discipline introduced in the management of these craft. In this contrivance, the variety of objects which have been obtained are no less remarkable than the general effect of forming a class of men prepared with habits of activity on the water, to be removed to the more enlarged sphere of naval discipline. In accomplishing this main object—these have been likewise accomplished; workmen in naval architecture have been formed; the fruits of their industry have been distributed in the bosom of the society to which they belong; and they have kept their adversary in a constant state of alarm and at an expense little short of an actual warfare. During this period, thirty seven sail of the line, have been launched and a greater number are at this moment on the stocks, many near launching; and by the junction of the navy of Spain, the system of blockade appears to be rendered totally fruitless and nugatory. The system of French tactics on the ocean, appears to be of the Fabian kind; and from some hints thrown out in the Moneur , it would seem, that every object was expected to be achieved by delay and by distracting the adversary; while the progress of naval discipline and the encrease of ships of force were pursued with a zeal incessant and astonishing. The only apparent hopes which the combined powers can entertain, must not be from their prowess in the field, nor from their successes against such a system on the ocean; nor from the colonies of France, which are no longer remote obstacles to her enterprises nor deductions from the unity of her force—but from some hopes of organizing a force within the bosom of France which may co-operate with the powers combined; or from some calculations that may be made upon the dormant but not the destroyed love of liberty, which certainly largely prevails in the armies of France. Of the first ground of hope we can only say that they have been before repeatedly entertained and baffled. Of the latter we offer no opinion.
From the Baltimore Evening Post.
I send for insertion in your paper, a precious morsel, an important extract from the writings of the famous PETER PORCUPINE, the favourite champion of the anglo federalists, the God of their idolatry, who was to overturn republicanism and re-establish kingly government in his majesty's colonies. I request that every American may read it with attention, and compare dates, and times, and circumstances. This man was once a most conspicuous character in the United States; he abused the people of America to their teeth; he insulted their government; and he reviled their character in the centre of their chief city: taking care to contrast and exalt the kingly government of England, and the superior wisdom and purity of its ministers, Pitt, Dundas, Windham, &c. This language was so very agreeable to a certain party, and their patronage of the man was so obvious, that it began to be strongly suspected that certain characters then high up in Congress, not only understood his drift, but assisted in his machinations. The well-known diplomatic dexterity of the then English minister, Mr. Linton, gave good grounds for the suspicion "that certain portions of the English secret service money had found their way across the Atlantic." But, mystis mutandis, every thing is subject to change. Messrs. —, —, —, &c. no longer figure in Congress, nor in high places. Dundas is impeached for speculation, and Pe-
ter Porcupine becomes the accuser of Pitt himself! In Philadelphia, Peter extolled that minister as the greatest man in the universe—in London, he charges him with imbecility of conduct and impurity of principle! But let Peter speak for himself—
Mr. Cobbett, in what he calls his "examination of Mr. Pitt's case," after having censured, in very strong terms, the financial abilities of that gentleman and the celebrated Mr. Dundas, just while he conducted a newspaper in Philadelphia—"Well do I remember the time when Mr. Pitt was making his fine declarations in Parliament—I was then in America, and the friends of England in that country will recollect the exultation with which I repeated his assertions, and circulated his reproof of those who dared to dispute the solidity of his financial system—Little did we imagine, that, at that very time, he was propping up his system by the miserable expedients which are now brought to light—Little did we imagine, that, to prop his system, he had lent the public money to members of parliament without interest!—In short, we believed all that he said!—I dare not look at the volumes, I have written in praise of Mr. Pitt's virtue and talents, particularly his financial skill and his political purity!—God forgive me, how have I lauded his American opposition, like so many hounds, for representing Mr. Pitt and Dundas as men who supported their power by accommodating members of parliament!—What blows did I deal the writers who had, I thought, the impudence to assert, that the financial fabric of England was rotten; that bank notes would soon begin to depreciate, and that the same fate as Congress paper-money; that the loans to government were paid in paper, and sometimes in paper belonging to the public—in short, that the whole machine was moved by the minister and a knot of law men engaged in the trade of paper money—What blows did I deal them, at the very time that the minister and old George Rex was clubbing their wit to cheat the world with a pamphlet on the subject!—when the minister and a Jew broker were fabricating wind bills to meet the demands upon the public!—The Americans well knew what wind and accommodation paper is, &c. &c."—See Cobbett's Weekly Register, 23d June, 1805.
It is needless to make reflections on this important document; the language is so full, clear and explicit, that it must strike every man, even of the meanest capacity; "he that runs, may read."—If this bold man blushes for his conduct, who was only an emissary, what should they do, men of America, who either openly or secretly abetted and encouraged his schemes humbly suggest to all good federalists, (or many men of that party were certainly misled and deceived,) that as their fide leader has changed his tune, it is full time that they alter theirs—When the chief of the toy writers confesses his faults with a blush—think, reader, of Peter Porcupine's blushes!—it can be no shame for others to follow the example. One word more—Although Peter Porcupine has left the country, it is strongly suspected that there are other Porcupines labouring in the same vocation—and with the same views, i. e. to divide, to degrade, and to overturn the republican government of the United States. What else can we think, when we read certain publications in Boston, New-York, Philadelphia, Charleston, and other towns? If English gold made its way amongst us during the beloved days of Mr. Adams, why not try its influence in the hated administration of Mr. Jefferson? The object is the same; first to divide, and then to govern. But whatever grounds venal men may now take, they can no longer deceive us with their praises of the purity of Pitt, or the integrity of Dundas. INVESTIGATOR.
None of these papers are more virulent and injudicious than the Port Folio , and this is a favourite work with all legalists.
European Intelligence.
FROM OUR ENGLISH PAPERS.
HAMBURGH, Aug. 15.
A continental war seems now more likely than ever. The Imperial recruiting parties have received the most positive orders to use every exertion for obtaining men, and the bounties are actually increased. No recruit can purchase his discharge as formerly, without finding two men, and they must pass the regiment before he can obtain his liberty.
The Danes and Swedes are also recruiting very briskly, but only enlist those of their own nation. The other petty sovereigns are no less busy in taking measures to augment their armies, but are afraid to do it openly, in case of questions being asked which they dare not answer.
The sudden recall of the Russian Minister has caused great sensation in Germany; and it appears beyond a doubt that the two Imperial Courts are making the most active preparations. The French Commander in this ill-fated country continues to demand the most exorbitant contributions, yet affects to preserve a kind of mock discipline amongst his troops, which, for the moment, calms the minds of the unfortunate victims of his duplicity, and, by means of threats and promises, succeeds in encouraging them to pursue their usual industry, no doubt, with a view of reaping the fruits of it.
You will hardly believe me, when I acquaint you, that he has compelled the magistrates of the different districts to levy a certain sum quarterly, as head money, upon those within their jurisdictions; and his treasury is at this moment so wretchedly in want of the needful, that he caused bills to be drawn upon them, at 8 months, which they must accept, and which the merchants are under the bitterest necessity of discounting. The soldiery are extremely dissatisfied, and desert in great numbers; twenty-seven went off from one battalion a few days ago, but notwithstanding the most particular search have not been found. Where they can find an asylum God knows; perhaps the Imperialist may enlist them; the Danes and Swedes won't; and it is not to be supposed the Prince of Hesse will.
The reason of Bonaparte's former marks of distinction to that Prince is now sufficiently cleared up, by his late overtures for borrowing five millions of dollars upon Hanoverian security, which has been refused, notwithstanding

the flattering expressions of friendship used upon the occasion. The refusal has given great offence, and it is even feared the same blockading measures will be adopted towards the Hanse Towns. It will not be a difficult matter to cramp the commerce of Hesse Cassel, and the countries adjacent, in such a manner as to render it absolutely impossible to avoid advancing something. The Review of 2,500 infantry, and 800 cavalry, at Verdun, the 3d inst. caused a vast crowd of visitors to assemble there from the adjacent country, and Bernadotte was pleased to signify his particular satisfaction, upon being informed, that the inhabitants were likely to profit by the conjecture; and as a proof of his sincerity, some of his friends were kind enough to say that they did not suppose his Excellency would take it amiss, should he be presented with some small token of their respectful gratitude.
LONDON, Aug. 17. PUBLIC OFFICE, BOW-STREET. HAYMARKET THEATRE.
Yesterday morning the office was crowded with many persons of distinction, who were witnesses of the riot occasioned by the journeymen tailors opposing the representation of the Farce entitled The Taylors, or a Tragedy for Warm Weather . Mr. Bond, the Sitting Magistrate of the day, being informed that Mr. Graham had attended at the Theatre, and had, by his exertions, been the cause of suppressing the riot, requested his assistance, which Mr. G. readily consented to, and attended the Office in a short time after. The following list of prisoners were brought to the Office, six at a time, from the Brown Bear public house. James Thompson, James Farthing, James Taylor, John Francis, John Wright, Benjamin Ireland, Samuel Robins, William Jenkins, Thomas Wilson, Timothy Joice, John Roberts, James Gascogne, Thomas Farrel, William Fletcher, Andrew Whiting, William Price, Henry Crossley, George Tate, John Proctor, John Bullock, Walter Fitton, James Gilchrist, Hugh Black, John Upton, John Eaton, William Camp, John Ashton, Richard Phillips, John Wyatt, William Carroll, James Gorman, Jeremiah Clinton, and four others. The first witness examined was James Wilson, a proprietor of the Theatre, who stated that, on Wednesday, he received two anonymous threatening letters, saying if the piece called The Taylors, or a Tragedy for Warm Weather , advertised to be acted for Mr. Downton's Benefit, was performed on Thursday evening, 17,000 taylors would attend to oppose it; and there would be 10,000 more taylors to assist, if necessary. On Thursday morning he received a similar letter, but in more violent language, and it was signed "Death." He shewed the letters to Mr. Downton, and it was agreed that, if any violent opposition should be offered, the piece should not be acted. In a short time after the doors were opened in the evening, the pit and galleries were filled—and it was very remarkable, that in the two galleries, there were only two women.
As soon as the curtain drew up, a noise began, and every thing was opposed by the audience, but principally by the galleries. Mr. Palmer, jun. and Mr. Ellison, by his desire, endeavoured in vain, to gain a hearing. They exerted themselves to assure the audience, that if any part of the performances announced for that evening were objectionable, particularly the latter piece, entitled Taylors , should not be performed, and the Farce of The Village Lawyer should be substituted. No answer could be obtained to the proposition. The performers attempted twice to go on with the Comedy of The Birth Day , but in vain. The opposition continued very violent, and there appeared to be a determination in the audience to prevent any performance from going on that evening, and he was fearful that the disturbance would become of serious consequence, having been informed by the door-keepers of the Theatre, that the doors were surrounded by a great concourse of people, he determined on sending for a Magistrate, and sent one of his messengers for Mr. Graham.
James W. the Messenger, said he was standing behind the scenes, when Mr. Downton went on to play "him," but could not tell a pair of scissors fell near "him." Mr. Downton picked them up, and went to the front of the stage, and offered twenty guineas reward for the apprehension of the offender. Aaron Graham, Esq. the Magistrate, said, in consequence of the application from Mr. W. in person, he went to the Theatre, and on his arrival there, he found the audience in a great uproar. He requested the Manager to recommend to him six or eight stout able men belonging to the Theatre, whom he would swear in to be special constables, which was accordingly done.—He then directed them to be distributed in different parts of the Theatre, to assist the Bow-street officers. He directed the whole of the officers to keep the peace, and to take into custody all such persons as found riotously disposed. He went on the outside of the Theatre among the crowd, and found the doors completely blocked up. In consequence of which, he sent a letter to the Commanding Officer of the Life Guards on duty at the Horse Guards, requesting him to be in readiness, with a full guard of them, in case he should want them to assist him in keeping the peace. The Officer, with a numerous party arrived in a short time after in the Haymarket. He then considered himself sufficiently prepared against any violence, and advised the Managers to persevere in proceeding with The Taylors , and other performances as advertised which they accordingly did, and the prisoners were apprehended for joining in a riotous opposition, and conveyed to St. Martin's Watch-house.
William Downton, the Comedian, said, since he had advertised the Entertainment The Taylors, or a Tragedy for Warm Weather , for his benefit, he had received a great number of threatening and imprudent letters, some anonymous, and some with the parties names; one of them was signed by a man named Riley, who brought the letter himself, and he saw him. He made use of so many threats, was so imprudent, that he had lamented since he had not secured him. Another letter was dated from one of the journeymen tailors, called the Fountain Tavern, in Clare-street, Clare-market, and signed by a clerk, as an act of the society. When he was upon the stage, in the character of Captain Bertram , in The Birth Day , a taylors thimble and a pair of scissors were thrown at him, the latter so alarmed some ladies in the stage-box, that he left the stage at their request. The Police Officers gave a particular description of the riotous behaviour of some of the prisoners. Among them were Thompson, who, Adkins said, upon some of the prisoners being taken into custody, he arose and said, d—n them, don't go, knock them down, at which several of the officers were assaulted. Sixteen were admitted to bail, in 50l. each, and two sureties in 40l. each; four were remanded for want of bail, and the rest were discharged.
charged. The prisoners all taylors, except one who is Richard Philips, a carver and gilder.
BALTIMORE, October 26. Captain Manning, of the John and Joseph, arrived last evening, from Amsterdam, via Portsmouth, Eng. politely favored the editor with London papers to the 6th, and the Portsmouth and Chichester Advertiser of the 9th September. The rumor of invasion had subsided, and the troops encamped at Boulogne had marched towards the interior. Russia and Austria continued making great warlike preparations, but nothing decisive has been received as to the measures they mean to adopt. The combined fleets were at Cadiz the 23d August—Adm. Calder, it was expected, would arrive off that port by the 25th or 26th and join Adm. Collingwood, and effect a blockade of the French and Spanish fleets should they not put to sea before that period. The London Jamaica fleet had nearly all arrived in the Downs.
The following are the most interesting articles we could select at the lateness of the hour at which the papers were received. American.
LONDON, September 5. This morning the following notice was transmitted from the Admiralty to the Master of Lloyd's. "Admiralty Office, Sept. 3. "Information is received from Admiral Cornwallis, that on the morning of the 30th ult. his Majesty's frigate the Melampus, with the Wasp sloop, and a gun brig, cruising off the Peninsular, were chased by a French squadron, consisting of 10 sail of different descriptions, which stood S. S. E. and supposed for Rochefort. A squadron of four line of battle ships, four frigates, and two brigs, are stated to have failed from Vigo on the 18th, and appears to be the same as above."
September 4. It appears by the dispatches which have reached government from Lisbon, brought to Falmouth on Sunday by the Auckland packet, that the Combined Fleet fell in, on the 18th ult. on their passage to Cadiz, with the Halycon brig, of 16 guns, and a small convoy from Gibraltar, consisting of three vessels. The Halycon escaped by using her sweeps, but the convoy were captured and instantly burnt. They were vessels of no great value, having been employed as light transports, which had delivered their cargoes, and were then proceeding to Lisbon.
We are happy to be able to announce that the Prince of Wales packet, captured on the 13th ult. by the Prince of Peace, Spanish privateer, belonging to Vigo, was recaptured two days afterwards by his Majesty's sloop La Poulaine, Capt. Dunbar, and has arrived safe at Falmouth. Letters are received from Gibraltar, of the 2d of August. At that time the inhabitants and garrison were in perfect health. The Spanish camp seemed to be daily increased; the tents and marquee within sight of the garrison amounted to about 700, and it was calculated that they contained about 18,000 men. No fear, however, was entertained of any speedy attack. These letters were brought by the Mediterranean fleet arrived at the Motherbank, under convoy of the Prevoyante. The vessels arrived are the Julia, Rook; Mount Royal, Drewe; Hope, White; Providence brig, and two light transports. Sir Richard Bickerton arrived at Gibraltar, on the 26th of July, with four ships of the line, his own ship, the Queen, included. Sir Richard, being under the necessity of leaving his station off Cartagena, for want of water, went to Oran; but was unable to get any there, in consequence of the disturbed state of the country. The Carthagena squadron, eight sail strong, never stirred from their harbour so long as Sir Richard continued in the neighbourhood, came out as soon as he had withdrawn. On the 27th ult. at five o'clock a division of 17 Spanish gun-boats formed in a line at some distance from the garrison, threw two shells and a few shot among the shipping, which did no injury, and then retired.
It afterwards appeared, that the attack was conducted by the Spanish Admiral Don Bruno de Ezpeza in person, in full hopes of being able to burn Sir Richard Bickerton's squadron, by means of red-hot shot; but in loading with red-hot shot the second time, an officer and two men were blown to pieces on board of the gun-boats, which struck such a panic into their whole line that no persuasion of their officers could induce them to try any further loading with red-hot shot, which was the cause of their precipitate retreat. The same accounts add, that since their return to Algeciras, four men more have lost their lives in practising the firing with red-hot shot, which has so damped the spirits of the crew of the gun-boats, that it is very doubtful whether they will ever attempt that mode of attack again.
The French corvette La Torche, is captured by the Goliath. She is since arrived at Plymouth. There were found on board of her 66 of the gallant crew of the "Blanchio." The Goliath has joined the Channel Fleet, having left the Raisonable of 64 guns, in chase of La Torche frigate, another of the squadron which captured the Blanchio.
September 5. We received yesterday the Paris papers to the 28th, and Dutch Journals to the 31st ult. One of the latter states, that the troops were disembarking in the Texel, and that numerous detachments from the army upon the coast were immediately to be marched towards the Rhine. Bonaparte remained at Boulogne on the 24th, and no time appears to have been then fixed for his departure. From Russia and Austria we find the military preparations are continued with great activity. The troops of the former are marching in great numbers, and the fortifications of the latter are repairing, and receiving in every direction considerable reinforcements of troops.—We have already stated, that our arrangements with Russia and Sweden are completed, and we have no doubt of being shortly able to announce the accession of Austria and Denmark to the Convention. A confederacy will thus be formed, which, from the liberal and enlightened principles on which it is to be established, will, we trust, have the glory of restoring the balance of Europe, a glory so much founded on justice and humanity.
September 6. Price of Stock this day at one o'clock: Consols, for money 58—for acc. 58 1-4-5-8; Reduced, but—Omnium 6—Exch. Bills, par. 15 3/4.
The dispatches by the Cameleon sloop, to which we yesterday alluded, announced that the combined fleets of the enemy remained in Cadiz on the 23d ult. and the Carthagena squadron in that port on the 15th of the same month.
the Cameleon were yesterday at the 25th ult. August, with dispatches from Admiral Sir Richard Bickerton. A few hours after she sailed she fell in with Ad. Collingwood's squadron, who had been joined by Admiral Knight with four sail of the line, making eight in the whole with his former force; the squadron was then steering for Cadiz. On the next day she fell in with Sir Robert Calder's squadron, about twenty five miles North West of Cape St. Vincent, steering direct for Cadiz. Admiral Calder would arrive on the 25th or 26th, with eighteen sail of the line. The enemy, however, had still a day or two, if they meant to try an escape, which appears still probable they would do. They might intend to take the Carthagena squadron with them to Toulon, the whole force of which reinforcement it would require to enable them to face the 25 sail of the line that would be in pursuit of them. If, however, they brought out the Spanish ships from Cadiz, they would, with the Carthagena fleet, eight sail, be at least forty sail of the line. If they did not sail immediately, they would be effectually blockaded on Sir R. Calder's arrival.
The fleet off Cadiz is at present under the command of Admiral Collingwood, who, tho' a Captain of the same year with Sir Robert Calder, is senior to him, by a few weeks. His command, however, is but temporary, as Lord Nelson is to take the command of that station, and in the Mediterranean. If the chances against the enemy coming out, are considerable at present, they will become quite desperate, when they are apprised that their custody has been assigned over to that great Commander.
From Malta dispatches were yesterday received, dated the 23d July, stating, that the Expedition under Sir James Craig, had safely arrived there on the 17th July. The troops have the full enjoyment of good health and spirits; and the voyage has already injured them to the change of climate. It is to be hoped, that they will not long remain inactive; but whether to aid the Russians in Corfu, or to make a landing for the protection of Egypt, we shall not pretend to determine.
Government have received intelligence, on which they can rely, that a great part of the troops which were encamped at Boulogne have been marched away, without question towards the Rhine.
This information was obtained by the capture of one of the enemy's gun boats. It is, however, only what we had prepared our Readers to expect. We have, for some time, suspected that the assembling so large an army had, for its object, the overawing of the continental powers more than any serious intention to invade this country. The following letter on the breaking up of the camp at Boulogne, is from an officer of one of the vessels in the Downs, dated the 4th inst.
"We this day came in from Boulogne a great change has taken place there. Not a vessel is to be seen outside the Pier, nor could we see any soldiers upon the heights around. As we were reconnoitering round the bay they fired shot and shells at us in every direction, before we came within range. This plainly shews they wished to keep us from watching their motions. The fact is, I have no doubt, that almost the whole of the army is marched away from Boulogne."
Three Homburgh mails arrived last night. The complexion of the intelligence which they brings is similar to what we have been receiving for a week or two past from the continent. Every where the Russian and Austrian troops are in motion, and every movement indicates approaching hostilities. They do not, however, confirm the statement brought by the Gottenburg mail, of an action having taken place between the Russian and Prussian troops.
It will be a little time yet before the intentions of the great powers will be developed completely by their movements. But the period cannot be distant.
The Turkish empire seems so much convulsed in every part, that it would be no way surprising, should it not survive the war in which the Continent is about to be engaged.
Letters from Corfu state, that the Russian troops there have been increased by a year's recruiting throughout all the Ionian Islands, to 36 or 38,000 men, and will be still farther augmented by the inhabitants who join them, many of whom are volunteers.
September 7. Admiralty Office, September 7. Copy of a letter from Captain Baker to Admiral Cornwallis, dated Phoenix at sea, August 13. Sir—I cannot but exult in the honor of imparting to you the extreme good fortune of his Majesty's ship under my command, on the 10th inst. lat. 43 deg. 16 min. N. long. 12 deg. 14 min. w. in the capture of La Didon, a remarkable fine, and the fastest sailing frigate in the French navy, of 44 guns and 330 men, which had failed but a few days from Corunna, and was upon a secret cruise. The action commenced at a quarter past 5 in the morning (La Didon having waited my approach to leeward,) and lasted 3 hours, never without pistol shot, during which all our ropes were cut to pieces, our main-topmast yard shot away, and most of our masts and yards severely wounded. The necessity for our engaging to leeward, in order to prevent the possibility of the enemy's escape, exposed us to several raking broadsides before it could be prudent to return the fire; and the superiority of La Didon's sailing, added to the adroit manoeuvres of Captain Millins, convinced me of the skill and gallantry I should have to contend with, which has been fully evinced by the stubborn defence of his ship until she became a perfect wreck, and his subsequent honorable comportment. Owing to the lightness of the wind, & La Didon's attempt to board, brought our starboard quarter in contact with her larboard bow, in which position we remained full three quarters of an hour, subject to a galling fire of musketry, that robbed me of such support of officers and men, as there could be no compensation for but in complete victory. With sorrow I transmit you a list of the killed and wounded; and have the honour to be, &c.
Killed and wounded. Phoenix—13 killed, 28 wounded. La Didon—27 killed, 44 wounded.
Names of officers killed and wounded on board the Phoenix. Killed—J. Bounton, Lieutenant; G. Donelan, Master's-Mate; John Fowers, Quarter-Master. Wounded—H. Steel, Lieutenant of Marines, dangerously; Aaron Tozer, Midshipman, ditto; E. B. Curling, Midshipman, badly.
The court of Vienna has received official information of the conclusion of a new treaty of alliance between Russia and the Porte.
The accounts from Vienna positively state, that envoys from Switzerland had arrived there, to claim the protection of Austria against France.
The French papers contain an account of the late affair between Admiral Cornwallis and the British fleet; and are bold enough to claim the victory!
Intelligence has been received at the Admiralty, that the Rochefort squadron chased the Wasp and the Growler gun-brigs on the 30th and 31st. The brigs escaped by throwing over their guns, and the Rochefort squadron on the
Stirling was detached to scour the coast on the 31st, with five sail of the line.
A neutral vessel reports, that Sir R. Calder joined Admiral Collingwood on the 25th ult. It is strongly reported, that the Topaze has been captured by the Raisonable of 64 guns, and sent into Lisbon.
Paris Journals to the 1st inst., and Dutch Gazettes to the 4th, are arrived; in some of which it is stated, that the Austrian Ambassador (Count Cobentzel) has quitted Paris, and that the French army has crossed the Rhine, & hostilities have actually commenced in Suabia. This intelligence, however, rests on no very good authority. The troops at the Helder, and Helvoetsluys, are certainly disembarked; and 30,000 men are stated to have marched from Boulogne, to Mentz, as the first division meant to re-inforce the French troops on the Rhine. Bonaparte was still at Boulogne on the 27th. The levy of the Conscription for the year 14 being 50,000, which are to be raised to complete the army to its establishment, & the 30,000 destined to remain as a reserve, or to raise the army to the war establishment, are to be immediately put into active service. Austria is adding a new levy to her troops, to the extent of 100,000 men. Some arrangements are said to have been proposed by the imperial minister at Munich, for the occupation of part of Bavaria, whenever hostilities shall commence. M. Novosiltzoff arrived at Peterburgh on the 1st ult. and had an audience of the Emperor, which was followed by a Grand Council of War. The Russian forces, in readiness, to march are stated at 280,000 men, and the Russian fleet in the Baltic at 28 sail of the line, with a due proportion of frigates, and a great number of transports. The French funds have fallen to 59 f. 10 c.
It appears by some accounts from Italy, that Bonaparte has projected a marriage between young Beauharnais and the daughter of the Elector of Bavaria. A small French squadron, consisting of two frigates, one corvette, and two brigs, has put to sea from Genoa, under the command of Jerome Bonaparte.
Orders were on Tuesday last received at the Head-Quarters in Canterbury, from the Secretary of war, directing that the several regiments, in the Southern District, should hold themselves in readiness for immediate embarkation on foreign service. The number of cavalry under orders, amounts, it is said, to 12,000 men. Transports, upwards of sixty in number, are already arrived in the Downs, for the purpose, it is said, of receiving them.
His Excellency the Swedish Ambassador has desired and authorized the London papers to contradict, in the most positive terms, the statement which was copied into the English from the Foreign Journals, of Suedish Pomerania having been entered into for the occupation of that Province by Russian troops—no such arrangement having been concluded, or has ever been in contemplation .
This intelligence is very important, as it will remove much of that apprehension which has been entertained, of Prussia taking an active part in the war, as the ally of France.
A gentleman from Madeira informs us that the British ship of war Raisonable , of 74 guns, arrived at that island the latter end of August, bearing marks, as they allowed, of the heavy well directed fire of the combined fleets, in her masts, sails and hull, in the action under command of Sir Robert Calder. After being repaired she failed about the 10th September, as was said, to cruise for the British East-India fleet, which she was to convoy to England.
The day previous to captain Mead's leaving the Havanna, an order was issued by government, that no vessel was to leave the Havanna for any of the out ports to load as formerly.
True Amer.
NEW-YORK, October 24. The ship Susan and Sarah , capt. Mariner, is arrived at Newport in 35 days from Bordeaux. A passenger from her reached town yesterday morning, and informs us that at the time of her sailing (September 12th) it was reported that a continental coalition, consisting of Austria, Russia, Sweden, and the Porte, and which would probably be joined by Prussia, had been formed against France, and that preparations on an immense scale were making for commencing hostilities; that the camp at Boulogne had broken up; that the Emperor of Russia was marching 150,000 men into Italy, and that all the troops stationed in the south of France had received orders to meet them without delay; that Austria had sixty millions of florins in her treasury, and 300,000 troops in readiness to act at a moment's notice; and that Bonaparte had returned to Paris; and that the French army had taken possession of Venice and Naples. Our informant adds, that the Breft fleet was blocked up in port, and that the combined fleets remained in Cadiz. He learned, whilst at Paris, from high authority, that the differences between the United States and Spain were in a favourable train of adjustment. Left at Bordeaux the ship Thomas , of this port, to sail in five or six days.
Mer. Adv.
By the ship Louisiana , Captain Thompson, which arrived at this port last evening in 36 days from Bordeaux, the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser has received French papers to the 12th September. Translations will be given to-morrow. Capt. T. informs that the Emperor of Russia, King of Sweden, and Austria, had declared war against France, and that Bonaparte has taken all his troops from the coast (which was intended for the invasion of England) with him into Italy.
NEW-YORK, October 25. Captain Bunker left Malaga the 14th September, and informs, the left accounts from Cadiz, stated that the combined fleets were in port, and were blockaded by a British fleet; the Carthagena fleet were also in port; and capt. B. understood that our affairs were likely to be adjusted with Spain. The United States frigate Constellation , failed in co. with capt. Bunker, for the United States. Mer. Adv.
Captain Hammond, from St. Peterburgh, informs, that the Russians were making every preparation for war—that five sail of the line were hauled outside of the Mole at Cronstadt, and ready to sail at a moment's warning—that there were in the harbor about 20 sail of the line, most of which were getting ready for sea—that one ship of the line and two frigates were launched at Peterburgh the latter part of July—that three Russian frigates were cruising in the Baltic—and that at present, the Russian army consisted of 600,000 men. A war with France was considered inevitable. A number of British ships had been taken up for the conveyance of troops to Lubec.
We have carefully examined our files of Bordeaux Papers by the Louisiana , which are to the 12th September; and though we have not discovered that a continental coalition had been formed at that date, or that war had actually broken out between France and the powers supposed to have coalesced, yet, from the articles we have translated, the reader will perceive that such an event is apparently not very remote.—France has withdrawn into the interior, to act as circumstances may render necessary, a great
of England; Russia is marching her hordes towards the Austrian territories; and the Emperor of Germany is embodying his legions in great numbers, to co-operate, as it is supposed, with Russia. All is bufile and warlike preparation; and a few days later intelligence from Europe will most assuredly furnish us with matters of high political importance.
(Translated for the Mercantile Advertiser .) PARIS, September 1. The Count de Cobentzel, ambassador from Austria is here daily.
They write from Madrid that the king has rendered public the recipe of Doctor Lafuente against the yellow fever. It consists of taking from eight to ten ounces of quinquina, within the first 48 hours after the attack; the disorder thereby loses all its malignity. The doctor has given a volume of cases attested by the public authorities.
The immediate return of the Emperor to St. Cloud is announced, but it is not believed that he will remain long there.
September 2. His excellency the minister of Foreign Affairs arrived at the imperial camp at Boulogne in the night between the 11th and 12th Fructidor, and on the morning of the 12th transacted business with the Emperor.
That part of the imperial guard stationed at Paris has departed for Strasburgh; the companies of chasseurs will march to day, and the grenadiers to-morrow.
His excellency Marshal Massena is gone to Italy, to take the command of the French army. It is reported that a body of French troops has entered Naples.
September 3. Yesterday at two o'clock, an extraordinary sitting of the conservative senate was held under the presidency of the arch-chancellor of the empire. His majesty the Emperor arrived at Malmaison this morning.
September 4. It is generally believed that the Senate on Monday discussed the propriety of restoring the old Calendar after the 1st day of January next.
September 5. The division under General Oudinot, of 8000 grenadiers, composing the advanced guard, passed by forced marches on the 2d inst. through Cambrai; and was followed by four other divisions of 9000 men each. By an imperial decree of the 9th Messidor the island of Elba is re-united to the department of Corsica.
The combined squadrons left Ferrol on the 16th Thermidor, and entered Cadiz on the 4th Fructidor. Admiral Collingwood, with four ships and a frigate entered the roads the same morning.
On the 14th inst. (Sept. 11) the first division of the armed body commanded by Marshal Davoust, arrived at Lille, and continued on the day following their march towards the Rhine. Three regiments of horse chasseurs and two regiments of hussars have also passed through that city on the same destination.
STRASBOURG, August 30. The new organization of the Austrian troops has been successfully effected. All the regiments of infantry will be composed of five battalions and one of grenadiers. The last will have 600, and each of the other battalions 900 men.
According to the German papers the negotiations between France and Austria continue without interruption. The same papers speak continually of the great movements making by the Russian troops in the direction of Poland. They state as certain that an army is forming there; but of its number, its object, or by whom it is to be commanded, they are uninformed.
September 1. They write from Ratisbon that the French charge d'affairs, on the 25th August, transmitted to the ministers and envoys resident in that city a note the substance of which is that the Emperor of the French has found it necessary to direct his attention to the movements of the troops and the reassembling the armies in Tyrol and on the frontiers of Italy; that he wishes to preserve his confidence in the pacific sentiments of Austria, but that he cannot dispense with demanding an explanation of the movements which are in agitation; that if this explanation should be unsatisfactory, a French army shall pass the Rhine, but that the princes and states of Germany may reckon upon the friendship of France, which has been manifested upon every occasion, and of which so many proofs have been given, &c.
We are assured that the note by which these explanations have been demanded has been presented to the court of Vienna, whose answer we wait for with the utmost anxiety. In the mean time we know generally that the Austrian army formed at Wells, near Linz, in Upper Austria, has crossed the Inn, and taken military positions in Bavaria. We know also that the court of Munich has been officially informed of this measure.
PETERSBURG, August 10. It is confirmed that our troops are taking a direction towards the provinces dependent on the house of Austria, and in particular towards Galicia and Silesia, and that they are assembling in the environs of Troupau and Jazerdorf. They speak also of bodies of troops which will be embarked, and that they will be joined by a foreign force.
FLORENCE, August 17. An Austrian courier arrived here from Naples brings intelligence that the court had quitted the capital, and had retired to Palermo. At the departure of the same courier a considerable fleet lay before Naples, but he was ignorant to what nation it belonged. The armed force under the orders of General Saint Cyr is concentrated in the two Abruzzes.
We are assured that the King of the Two Sicilies on being solicited to take a part in the differences, which exist between France and England, has renewed his former declaration that he will observe the most scrupulous neutrality. Several couriers passed through this city within these few days, from Peterburgh for Naples, with all possible expedition.
GENOA, August 24. We have received news from Toulon of the arrival in that port of the squadron under the orders of M. Jerome Bonaparte. His progress has been retarded by tempestuous weather.
BOULOGNE, August 31. That part of the French army on the sea coast which has departed from the Rhine, marched in columns, in the same order which is practised in the camps; so that, when they arrive, on the theatre of war, they will be found all formed and disposed for the operations of the campaign. A finer army was never seen, one more impatient for battle, or more animated with the presage of certain victory.
A letter from Constantinople, July 10, says:
"On the 24th of June, his Majesty's frigate Juno, anchored in this port, having on board his excellency Charles Arbuthnot, the British ambassador, his lady, family, and suite, consisting of 80 persons. His excellency was detained at Corfu a week owing to the different conferences between the English resident there, and the Russian minister. The garrison of Corfu consists of about 12,000 men; general D. Rep commands the garrison, and commodore Greig the fleet, which consists of 9 sail of the line, and 6 frigates. Great preparations are making to render the public audience of the English ambassador as grand as possible. There is no French ambassador here at present, only a charge d'affairs. The Porte is extremely active in getting the fleets and armies in a good state. The captain Pasha has failed into the Archipelago, with eight sail of the line, in fine condition, to collect the annual tribute. This day Mr. Ross one of his Britannic majesty's messengers, arrived in this capital, with dispatches to the English ambassador from his majesty's re

came by the way of Mellemgeer, Corfu, Janina, in Albania, and Salonica. The robbers are out in great bodies in Romelia. All that part of Malgara, Roadstone, and Silivri even up to the eight miles of the capital, is totally invaded. The Porte is making every preparation to disperse them. There is not the least symptom of the plague in this capital, all being now perfectly healthy.
The house of Peers met yesterday, pro forma, when parliament was prorogued to the time stated in the late proclamation. The noblemen who attended were, the Lord Chancellor, and lords Harrington and Mulgrave.
General Lord Hutchinson has, in General Orders just issued, been directed to act upon the Staff, in case of invasion, and his services are to be particularly attached to the person of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales.
There are at present in the River upwards of two hundred thousand quarters of foreign wheat; a greater quantity than was ever known; and sales are in a great measure at a stand, the dealers waiting anxiously to see what the weather will turn out; since, if it becomes fine, the price of wheat will fall still further. (Lon. Pap.)
Captain Thorndike, arrived at Salem from Corunna, informs, that the combined fleet of France and Spain, consisting of 38 sail, failed from that place on the 18th August, on a secret expedition.
Capt. Howe, arrived at Boston from London, on the 12th Sept. after the French coast, saw the British fleet under the command of Admiral Cornwallis; then consisting of 25 or 30 sail of the line.
From the above information it appears that the British fleet was safe at its moorings at the above date; and that the fleet under Ad. Calder, consisting of 24 sail of the line, which had been detached by Ad. Cornwallis to look after the combined Fleet, continued absent. It is therefore probable that it caught the French and Spanish fleets at Cadiz, and commenced the blockade of that place.
Domestic Intelligence.
AFFAIRS WITH TRIPOLI.
SPRINGFIELD, (Mass.) Oct. 15.
Extract of a letter, received by a gentleman in this town, from GENERAL EATON, dated on board the United States frigate Constitution, at sea, June 17, 1805.
"After a tedious and perplexing march of fifty days through the desert of Lybia, I arrived on the 25th of April, and took post at the head of Hamet Basha's army in the rear of Derne. Our movements in Egypt had induced Joseph Basha to send an army to the defence of the province, which was within fourteen hours march of the place when we arrived. The governor of Derne was also ordered, and determined, with a garrison of Turkish soldiery and about one third of the city in his interest to resist our approach. Commodore Barron had sent to the coast, to assist our operations, the brig Argus, the ffrs. Nautilus, and the sloop Hornet; also two pieces of field artillery. On the morning of the 25th, I sent a flag to the governor with overtures of friendship, on condition of non-resistance and allegiance to Hamet Basha, which he sent back with this laconic answer, "my head or yours!" The next day we attacked him by sea and land, and after a sharp contest of two hours and a half, carried the place by charge of bayonet. The governor took refuge in a sanctuary, and most of his adherents fled and either joined the advancing army of Joseph Basha, or took the desert. The few christians I had with me, suffered severely in the action; nearly one third of them were either killed or wounded; because our Arabs not having been accustomed to this kind of close decision, left us the burthen of the day. I had the misfortune to receive a musket ball through my left wrist, just below the joint, which I fear will deprive me of the use of my hand. I immediately began to fortify myself by reversing the embrasures of the battery, linking a line of intrenchments, and raising a parapet without the fort. Hamet Basha opened his fire at the late governor's palace in the city, and the inhabitants universally and with apparent dissatisfaction recognized him.
"On the 15th May, the enemy's army advanced and attacked us with all its force, in hopes of recovering the place. But after an action of four hours with various success, they gave way and retreated precipitately to their camp behind the mountains. We were too weak in our number of Christians to pursue this success, the Basha's people seemed not to have full confidence in themselves; and our Saracen militia and newly acquired allies at Derne, resolved to act no longer offensively without a pecuniary consideration; of this we were destitute. Each party therefore held its post, with small skirmishing 'till the 28th, when a party of the enemy, of fifty or sixty foot, covered by a troop of cavalry, descended the mountain, fell on the right flank of our Arab camp, and drove off several camels and cattle. A detachment of the Basha's people pursued these marauders, overtook them at the foot of the mountain, killed three of them & recovered the plunder. While this was transacting, I made a sortie with five officers and thirty rank and file, Americans and Greeks, volunteers, took a ravine undiscovered, and gained the summit of the mountain before the enemy. We received them on the point of the bayonet. They made a short resistance and then fled. We pursued them within a short distance of the camp, killed their captain and five men, and wounded a greater number; then retired in plain view of the whole army without receiving the least injury. They apologize for this cowardly inactivity by choosing to believe we aimed to draw them into an ambuscade on disadvantageous ground. The next day their commander in chief offered by proclamation, 6000 dollars for my head; double that sum for my prisoner; and fifty dollars a head for my Christians. This little affair put an end to skirmishing.
"On the 10th instant, the enemy having received reinforcements, again moved down and attacked. But after a well fought battle, of upwards of four hours and a half, they were put to flight with great loss both in men and horses. On this occasion we calculated the numbers actually in the field of both parties, to have been about five thousand. The Basha deserves the merit of this victory—I had little to do with it; arrangement, and could not render him any assistance in arms, but from the fire of a single field piece. The vessels had a better position, and occasionally galled the enemy with their heavy metal; but the fact is, I doubt not the propriety of further offensive operations, have been officially informed that a negotiation was pending between the U. States and Joseph Basha.
"The next day the Constitution appeared and came to anchor in the offing. No sooner was she seen by the enemy, than they decamped irregularly, leaving most of their heavy baggage, and took up a precipitate retreat towards the desert, under an apprehension that the brot-
BOSTON.
We conversed with Mr. Rowe, one of our hardy seamen lately returned from the Mediterranean scenes of warfare. He went out in the Constitution with Commodore Preble, and returned in the President, lately arrived at Washington. He was in the attack made by Gen. Eaton, upon Derne. He states the particulars of that affair, and the subsequent victory over the Basha's troops, on the 9th June, as have before been detailed. He says the General and the Ex-Basha discovered traits of genuine bravery, coolness, and intelligence. Gen. Eaton had determined to pursue his march towards Tripoli, on the 11th June; but, on the 10th, he received information by the Constellation, of 38 guns, capt. Campbell, of the conclusion of peace, and the order to cease all operations against Tripoli.
He was on the quarter deck of the Hornet when he received the intelligence: he appeared astonished; and, striking his hand against his thigh, exclaimed, "My God—What shall I do with the poor fellows who have followed my fortunes through the desert?" In this situation he stood some minutes, "unconsciously the tear which trickled down his cheek." The Ex-Basha and a few Greek officers embarked on board the squadron, which was out of sight of land the next day. General Eaton, he says, was almost adored by the natives; and was in high repute for his enterprize and bravery, with all the American seamen and most of the officers. But a coolness subsisted between him, the Commodore Rodgers, and Mr. Lear—At Syracuse, Mr. Eaton told them, in the hearing of our informant—"it is your turn now; but it will be mine when I arrive in the United States." The navy consider him as having been ill supported; and had he only been allowed the money he asked (60,000 dollars) he would have added a brilliant page to the history of the present administration. Mr. Rowe frequently saw the Ex-Basha after his arrival at Syracuse; and describes him as an amiable princely person; of correct habits; but of melancholy cast of mind. Centinel.
INFORMATION FROM BOSTON.
Information from Boston, relative to the number of this number, 107 are republican, and 74 federal—16 towns remain to be heard from; from these towns the representation would last year, 6 republicans and 10 federal—calculating from which, there is a majority of 39 republican members in the General Assembly, out of 197 towns.
CONNECTICUT ELECTION.
The freemen of the state of Connecticut have made choice of Timothy Pitkin, junr. and Lewis B. Sturges, Esqrs. Representatives to the next Congress of the United States, in the place of Messrs. Griswold and Goddard, who had declined a re-election. N. York E. Post.
NEW-JERSEY ELECTION.
The prospect of the result of the ensuing election in New-Jersey, is in a high degree pleasing and auspicious. The number of Federalists in the Legislature will be so small, that their opposition to the adoption of Republican measures, or the appointment of Republican officers, can avail nothing; of course we may calculate upon harmony in the deliberations of the Members—and dispatch in their business. If our estimate is correct, there will be in Council eleven Republicans to two Federalists, in Assembly, thirty-six Republicans to four Federalists—and in joint Meeting forty-seven Republicans to six Federalists.
With such majorities, if true to their principles and to one another, (of which we have no fear) the Republicans can have nothing to apprehend either from the intigues or the strength of their opponents—and may proceed in promoting the best interests of the state, and giving permanency to Republican principles, without embarrassment or hindrance. Trenton True Amer.
From a late London paper.
The Young Roscius, has been followed at Newcassle with as much eagerness as in every other place where he has exerted his powers. The following is an account of the receipts of the Theatre on every night of his appearance. He commenced his engagement on Monday the 19th inst.—
Table with 3 columns: Day, Douglas, Price. Rows: Monday £147 19 6, Wednesday £139 11 6, Thursday £110 19 6, Friday £181 7 6, Saturday £117 13 0.
The Saturday's performance took place at Sunderland; and, according to his engagement with the Manager, his profits for the week were near £501. Mrs. Stephen Kemble performed Sigismunda and Ophelia, with him, and the boy was, it seems, not a little gratified in playing with so excellent an actress.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 1st NOVEMBER.
EUROPEAN AFFAIRS.
The war has at length commenced in Europe. A few vessels destroyed, a few lives lost; ports blockaded and colonies thrown into alarm; armies arrayed against each other without encountering, and fleets engaged in inactive skirmishes: have hitherto formed its principal figures. But the scene is now about to be reversed. A continental coalition threatens to assail the gigantic power of Bonaparte, and involve the most formidable nations of Europe. Even now calculating upon the solid interests of Russia and Austria, we can scarcely believe that they will rush into hostilities; but should such be their determination, who is there bold enough to predict the consequences of the encounter?
No doubt the north of Italy will be the principal theatre of the war. It is the interest of Bonaparte, to occupy Venice, Tuscany, Naples, and every point on the coast, which is accessible to Russian re-inforcements on the side of the Mediterranean. By this manoeuvre, he will nearly cut off all those advantages, which Russia might expect to gain by the free navigation of the Black Sea, the command of the Mediterranean, and the occupation of Corfu. The only route which will be consequently left to the Russian armies will be the same, which they pursued in '99 under Suwarow; through Poland and the states of Austria. But another object will mark out Italy as the great theatre of the war. The design of Bonaparte must be, to strike a terror into the court of Austria, by marching towards the gates of Vienna. It is necessary therefore, that he should approach the capital by the south, whilst another French army crosses the Rhine, to facilitate its operations. In the same proportion, will it be the interest of Austria to anticipate its approaches, contend for every inch of the ground, arrest the French army before it enters Tyrol, and encounter the torrent on the plains of Lombardy. Unfortunate Italians! to what a deplorable destiny are they consigned! For ever fated from their geographical position to behold their country a fighting-ground for Austria and France; insensitive in their own dispositions, to be the eternal victims of the ambition of a Bonaparte, and the jealousy of Ferdinand. Let the fawning eulogist of Emperors and Kings; of monarchical government and military grandeur; cast his eyes upon the desolated plains of Lombardy, and blush for his misfakes!
Should a continental coalition really take place, we cannot be presumptuous enough to predict all the consequences of the war. It is plain that Great Britain will be disburthened of a calamity, under which all her resources have been palled. All fear of an invasion will at once be over. Her troops which have been idly stationed on the coast for the purposes of defence, may now be sent back to the profitable employments of peace, or may be dispatched to distant scenes to act on the offensive. Meanwhile the truth cannot escape us, that independently of the expense of supporting her own fleets and armies, Great Britain has not failed to advance considerable subsidies to her allies on the continent. It is, however something more than a paltry compensation of this kind, that has prompted the Emperor of Russia to become her ally. To what purpose let us ask, is he willing to forego the apparent interests of his empire and the solid advantages of peace? Is it any thing to him whether the Family of the Capets or the Bonapartes sits on the throne of France? Of what mighty consequence is it to him, whether Bonaparte extends his empire to the gulf of Genoa, when so large a space of ground separates their two kingdoms, and when he would himself be ready to pardon the usurpations of France, if France would be willing to tolerate his own acquisitions? Russia has gone into the present war, for none of these purposes. It is from no sympathy towards the burthened inhabitants of Genoa; it is from no enlightened regard for the general interests of Europe; but from a con-
of power, but more completely to overthrow it. It is because the present unsettled state of the nations of Europe, holds forth the splendid opportunity of dismemberment and acquisition; and because the virtue of an emperor is unable to resist the temptation.
"The balance of power, says Bell's Weekly Messenger, as established by previous treaties, from that of Westphalia downwards, had hitherto been considered as the public law of Europe; each state was considered as having its separate boundary, and each increasing equally, as by the same means, that of the natural course of things, it was wisely believed, that this established equality would long remain. It resulted as a necessary principle from this system, that no power should ever be allowed to retain its conquests. Hence a most salutary limitation to the frequency, the duration, the spoil and therefore the temptations of war. The partition of Poland terminated this system. Hence the present pretensions of France and the ruin of Europe, in the annexation of her conquered provinces to the republic of France."
At no previous period however, have the means of aggrandizement been so various in their nature. Holland, Switzerland, the whole of Italy, the vast and ill-cemented empire of Turkey from the Black Sea to the boundaries of Ethiopia; Malta; and may we not add the kingdom of Spain and even of Portugal? are all thrown into one promiscuous heap, to be scrambled for by the settled governments of Europe. Each is anxious to take a ticket, in a lottery where the prizes are so rich. The feast of carriage and partition is spread out: and the defectors of France, Prussia, Austria, and Russia, are the greedy cormorants who struggle for the prey. The very circumstance therefore which invites these powers into a war, is the very one to let bounds to its devastation. The very object, that gives rise to a coalition between such formidable monarchs, will be found most active in breaking down the confederacy. If the present war be a war of partition and plunder, the Emperor of Russia will be the first to march off with the booty which he has acquired. Not dreading the power of Bonaparte, he will attempt to profit by his benevolence. The gold of England will have no weight in his calculation, when France shall be willing to recognize his valuable conquests: and the very suspicion of Russia's having formed such a design, will produce a coldness and jealousy, on the part of Austria, that will prevent a hearty and effectual co-operation. Such was the expedition under Suwarow; and such is likely to be the effect of the present coalition.
One consequence has probably resulted from the present state of Europe, which cannot effect us with two great exultation. We have found in the Russians and the Austrians most excellent negotiators. We have every reason to believe, that the terrors of a continental war have contributed with the exertions of our own ministers to bring about a most favorable adjustment of our differences with Spain. Now then is the moment, for reducing the cabinet of Great-Britain to a proper sense of the duties which it owes to us. On this very day, the British cruisers are once more turned loose upon our vessels. Not an American bottom, laden with the colonial produce of France and Spain will henceforth escape their rapacity. Once let us tolerate this encroachment, and we may have every reason to tremble for the preservation of our dearest commercial privileges. The present pretension will be made use of as a precedent for more intolerable outrages; and G. Britain in her eagerness to annihilate the commerce and the resources of her enemy, will scarcely hesitate to aim the most mortal blow at the commerce of neutrals.
Now then is the time for teaching those haughty islanders, that we will not submit to their usurpations. Let us call into action our most efficient means of defence. An accommodation of our affairs with Spain has left us free to act and to exert all our energies. We have nothing to expect from Great-Britain: let her expect nothing from us. Let us show her, that if she will not respect our own seamen and vessels, we will impose such restrictions upon her commerce, as will drive her manufacturers into rebellion, and will dry up the principal sources of her revenue.
Of the 42 counties in Pennsylvania, complete returns have been received from thirty-five. The votes were for McKean 42,428; for Snyder 37,412. Majorities for McKean 19,711; for Snyder 8,263. The Aurora conjectures that the whole majority for McKean will not exceed 1800.
We have attempted to compress in the preceding columns all of the important European Intelligence which has come to hand.
Corrigenda in the piece signed Pacificator, published in last Tuesday's Enquirer:
In the 4th par. 1st col. a comma at countries, instead of a period. In the 1st par. of 2d. col. read opinion. In the 2d par. 11th line, read her for their. In the same, a full stop at France in 17th line. In the same, 2d line from the bottom, read importer for imports. In the 3d col. 3d line from the top, read Dalmatia, Tyrol, &c. In the same col. 4th par. 2d line, expunge not.
THE subscribers offer for sale, their reversionary right in a new fire-proof warehouse on Maxwell's wharf in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Doctor John K. Read, dec'd. as his upper-moss warehouse. In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate.
MERIWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. It is probable that I may leave this state ere long: in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorised to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ. November 1.
TO RENT, for a term of years,
A Part of my LOT immediately on the bank of the Canal, between the shop of Mr. Hughes and Mr. McCall's Nail Factory; being thirty or forty feet in front, forty yards back, as may be agreed on; 'tis a very advantageous situation for a lumber house. Terms will be made known by application to me on the premises, or my mother in my absence. JAMES BILBORY. November 1.
NOTICE.
A Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that the County Court of King William may hereafter be held on the first Monday, and the Court of Hanover on the fourth Monday of every month. O.G. 8. T.W.
WHEREAS I executed a deed of trust to Lance Minor, Richard Tompkins, and John M. Herndon, bearing date the 7th day of March, 1805 for certain purposes therein mentioned, which said deed was acknowledged: I therefore take this method of giving Notice, that I hereby revoke and make void said deed. WILLIAM MINOR. Hanover, O.G. 8. T.W.
Tomorrow, at 11 o'clock, will be sold, before the door of Mr. Wright Southergate's Store:
FIVE BALES WOOLLEN, marked W. S. No. 1, 2, 3, 37, 38, 39; and One bale OSNA-BURGS, W. S. No. 36—all damaged on board the Suffolk, Capt. Bryant, and sold for the benefit of the Underwriters. Prosser & Moncure, V. M's. Nov. 1.
Sales at Auction.
Will positively be sold, at the Eagle Tavern, by Messrs. Grady & Peacock, on Saturday the 9th inst., at 12 o'clock:
ABOUT 200 acres of LAND, in the county of Henrico, only four miles from Richmond, and adjoining the road to Four-Mile-Creek. A particular description of the premises and the terms of sale, will be made known on the day of sale. Any person wishing to see the Land previous to the sale, will please apply to the Auctioneers. November 1. eptst
TO BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, for ready money, on Thursday the 14th inst. at Amelia Court-house:
FIVE likely Negro fellows, to wit: Harry, Joe, Pectrum, Phill and Abram, conveyed to us, as trustees, by the late Joseph Cooke, to secure the payment of a debt due Spencer Atkinson of two hundred and fourteen pounds sixteen shillings and nine pence, with lawful interest thereon from the 24th January 1805, till paid, and the expenses of executing the said trust. William A. Baldwin, James Atkinson, Trustees. Amelia, Nov. 1. Frip
PAINTS FOR SALE, CHEAP.
WHITE LEAD, dry and ground in oil, Spanish Brown do. do. Yellow Ochre do. do. Venetian Red do. do. Verdigris by the lb. sack or hundred weight. Spirits of Turpentine, Copal Varnish, Turpentine do. &c. &c. A considerable quantity of the above articles have just come to hand, and as the season for painting is far advanced, they will be sold below the current price. Apply at the Apothecary Shop on the lower floor of the Bell-Tavern. November 1. (2aw2w.)
NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition will be presented to the next general assembly of Virginia, praying that an act may pass to authorise the sale of a TRACT OF LAND, belonging to the estate of Wm. Steproe, dec'd. late of Henrico in Middlesex county, for the benefit of his infant children and his other legal Representatives. Nov. 1. T.W.
WARDLAW, has received his fall supply of Medicines, by the ship Rolls from London; also a great variety of Paints, Varnishes, Sutures Instruments, patent Medicines, &c. &c. And by the ship George from Liverpool, a large supply of vials and shop glass—Those who favor him with their custom may depend on being supplied with every article in his line on the most liberal terms. The citizens of Richmond are requested when they apply at his shop by a child or servant to put the name of the article wanted on paper to prevent mistakes. Nov. 1. ff.
NOTICE.
THE Lands in the county of King William, called the Lower College, having been already disposed of, the sale of those known as the upper College, will commence on the 2nd Monday in November next, at the Tavern of Mrs. Drury, and continue from day to day until the whole are sold. There are of these Lands about 10,000 acres, divided into 60 tenements; situate in a healthy thriving neighbourhood, 18 or 20 miles from Richmond: and include some of the best Pamunkey Lands. 15 or 16 of the tenements are believed not to be under lease. The payments, heretofore advertised, to be made at three annual periods from the first of January next, will, to those who wish it, be extended to five annual payments, the interest being yearly paid; indeed when this is regularly done, it is probable that the principal may lie as long in the hands of the purchaser as he chooses. WILLIAM COLEMAN. Agent for the College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Oct. 28. tdf.
P. NOWLAND,
Ladies and Gentlemen's Hair Cutter and Dresse: BEGS leave to inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of Richmond, that he has opened a shop next door above the Swan Tavern, where he cuts hair in the most fashionable and becoming style.—Ladies or gentlemen wishing to be attended at any time at their residence, will be waited on. He makes Ladies Wigs and Prizettes of the latest fashion; Gentlemen's fashionable and natural Wigs made on the shortest notice on elastic bails; He has for sale, Balsamic Butter of Soap; to soften the hands or face and maintains the complexion, soft, red and fair, and is also superior to any kind of Soap for shaving. Honey water, and Hair Brushes, to curl the hair and give it a fine gloss, and many other articles in the Perfumery line. November 1. Stp.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
WILL be prepared to accommodate thirty members of the next Assembly, be flatters himself, in a manner more convenient and agreeable to them, than heretofore; having two buildings detached from his Tavern, which he intends exclusively for their accommodation. Also his dining room, which before was but small and inconvenient, is now large, and very convenient. To those unacquainted with this situation it would be unnecessary to state the decided advantage it has over any other in this city, being within two hundred yards of the Capitol, and adjoining the public square. He pledges himself to keep his stables well supplied with Clover, Hay, Fodder, Oats and Corn; and offers an assurance that the strictest attention, will be paid by an experienced white Oiler. ED. HALLAM. November 1. eptmL
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD,
To apprehend NIM, a small mulatto fellow, who ran away from me the 18th ultimo; he is twenty-two or three years old, but has a very young appearance; he took with him a stout blue cloth coat, corduroy pantaloons, and a drab great coat; he is a very cunning artful fellow; his business has been that of taking care of horses and driving a carriage. The above reward will be paid if he is caught in jail. JOHN COLES. Albemarle, November 1. (cp3wp)
BOLTING CLOTHS.
M. B. MYERS have just received a fresh supply of Dutch BOLTING CLOTHS, of the best quality which renders their assortment complete. They have also received their assortment of FALL & FANCY GOODS, and a quantity of best three tiered PRINE TWINE. October 29. T.W.

CRITICISM.
[FROM THE EDINBURGH REVIEW.] SCOTT'S LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL. The Lay of the Last Minstrel: a Poem. By Walter Scott, Esquire, 4to. pp. 313. Edinburgh, Constable & Co. London, Longman & Co. 1805.
[Concluded.] After a very picturesque representation of the military establishment of this old baronial fortress, the minstrel proceeds:
'Many a valiant knight is here; But he the Chieftain of them all, His sword hangs rusting on the wall, Beside his broken spear. Bards long shall tell How Lord Walter fell! When startled barons fled, afar, The furies of the Border war; When the streets of high Dunsedin Saw lances gleam, and falchions redden, And heard the drum's deadly yell— Then the Chief of Brankburne fell.'
Can piety the discord heal, Or launch the death-feud's enmity? Can Christian lore, can patriot zeal, Can vainly of blest charity? No! to each other, to each other, In mutual pilgrimage, they drew; Implored, in vain, the grace divine For chiefs, their own red falchions flew, While Cessford owns the rule of Car, While Ettrick boasts the line of Scott, The slaughtered chiefs, the mortal jar, The havoc of the feudal war, Shall never, never be forgot! In sorrow o'er Lord Walter's bier, The warlike forefathers bent; And many a flower and many a tear, Old Teviot's maids and matrons lent; But, o'er her warrior's bloody bier, The Ladye dropped no fresh nor tear! Vengeance, deep brooding o'er the slain, Had locked the source of softer woe; And burning pride, and high disdain, Forbade the rising tear to flow; Until, amid his sorrowing clan, Her son lifted from the nurse's knee— 'And, if I live to be a man, My father's death revenged shall be!' Then fast the mother's tears did seek, To dew the infant's kindling cheek. p. 12—15.
There are not many passages in English poetry more impressive than some parts of this extract. As another illustration of the prodigious improvement which the style of the old romance is capable of receiving from a more liberal admixture of pathetic sentiments and gentle affections, we insert the following passage, where the effect of the picture is finely assisted by the contrast of its two compartments:
'So passed the day—the evening fell, 'Twas near the time of curfew bell; The air was mild, the wind was calm, The stream was smooth, the dew was balm; E'en the rude watchman, on the tower, Enjoyed and blest the lovely hour. Far more fair Margaret loved and blest The hour of silence and of rest. On the high turret, sitting lone, She waked at times the lute's soft tone; Touched a wild note, and all between Thought of the bower of hawthorns green; Her golden hair streamed free from band, Her fair cheek rested on her hand, Her blue eye sought the west afar, For love's sake the western far.'
'Is on the far o'er Pechry-Pen, That rises slowly to her ken, And, spreading broad its wavering light, Shakes its loose tresses on the night? Is yon red glare the western far? O, 'tis the beacon-blaze of war! Scarce could the draw her tightened breath; For well she knew the fire of death!'
'The warder viewed it blazing strong, And blew his war-note loud and long, Till, at the high and haughty sound, Rock, wood and river, rung around; The blast alarmed the feudal hall, And startled forth the warriors all; Far downward on the castle-yard, Full many a torch and crest-gleam; And helms and plumes, confusedly tossed, Were in the blaze half seen, half lost; And spears in wild disorder shook, Like reeds beside a frozen brook.'
'The Seneschal, whose silver hair Was reddened by the torches' glare, Stood in the midst, with gesture proud, And issued forth his mandates loud— 'On Pechry-Pen's glowing bale of fire, And three are kindling on Priethwaite-wire,' &c. p. 83—85.
In these passages, the poetry of Mr. Scott is entitled to a decided preference over that of the earlier minstrels, not only from the greater consistency and condensation of his imagery, but from an intrinsic superiority in the nature of his materials. From the improvement of taste, and the cultivation of the finer feelings of the heart, poetry acquires, in a refined age, many new and invaluable elements, which are necessarily unknown in a period of greater simplicity. The description of external objects, however, is at all times equally inviting, and equally easy; and many of the pictures which have been left by the ancient romancers, must be permitted to possess, along with great diffuseness and homeliness of diction, an exactness and vivacity which cannot be easily exceeded. In this part of his undertaking Mr. Scott therefore has fewer advantages; but we do not think that his success has been less remarkable. In the following description of Melrose, which introduces the second canto, the reader will observe how skillfully he calls in the aid of sentimental associations to heighten the effect of the picture which he presents to the eye.
'If thou would'st view fair Melrose aright, Go visit it by the pale moon-light; For the gay beams of lightsome day Gild, but to flout, the ruins gray. When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white; When the cold light's uncertain shower Streams on the ruined central tower; When buttress and buttress, alternately, Seen framed of ebony and ivory; When Silver edges the imagery, And the scrolls that teach thee how to live and die; When distant Tweed is heard to rave, And the owl to hoot o'er the dead man's grave; Then go—but go along the while— Then view St. David's ruined pile; And, home returning, footly swear, Was never scene so sad and fair!' p. 25, 26.
In the following passage he is less ambitious, and confines himself as an ancient minstrel would have done on the occasion, to a minute and picturesque representation of the visible object before him.
'When for the lists they sought the plain, The stately Ladye's lilen rein Did noble Howard hold; Unarmed by her side he walked, And rudi in courteous phrase, they talked Of feats of arms of old. Cassly his garb—his Flemish ruff Fell o'er his doublet shaped of buff, With satin slashed, and lined; Tawny his boot, and gold his spur, His cloak was all of Poland fur, His hose with silver twined; His Bilboa blade, by Marchmont felt, Hung in a broad and rudded belt; Hence in rude phrase, the Borderers fill Called noble Howard, Belted Wull' p. 141.
The same scrupulous adherence to the style of the old romance, though greatly improved in point of brevity and selection, is discernible in the following animated description of the feast, which terminates the poem.
'The spousal rites were ended soon; 'Twas now the merry hour of noon, And in the lofty-arched hall, Was spread the gorgeous festival: Steward and squire, with heedful haste, Marshaled the rank of every guest; Pages, with ready blade, were there, The mighty meal to carve and share. O'er capon, heron-thew, and crane, And princely peacock gilded train, And o'er the boar's-head, garnished brave, And cygnet from St. Mary's wave; O'er ptarmigan and venison, The priest had spoke his benison. Then rose the riot and the din, Above, beneath, without, within! For, from the lofty balcony, Rung trumpet, shalm, and psaltery; Their clanging bowls old warriors quaffed, Loudly they spoke, and loudly laughed; Whispered young knights, in tone more mild, To ladies fair, and ladies smiled. The hooded hawks, high perched on beam, The clamour joined with whistling scream. And flapped their wings, and shook their bells, In concert with the flag-bound's yell. Round go the flasks of ruddy wine, From Bordeaux, Orleans, or the Rhine; Their tasks the busy servants ply, And all is mirth and revelry.' p. 166—67.
The following picture is sufficiently antique in its conception, but the execution is evidently modern.
'Ten of them were sheathed in steel, With belted sword, and spur on heel; They quitted not their harness bright, Neither by day, nor yet by night; They lay down to rest With cordet laced, Pillow'd on buckler cold and hard; They cared at the meal With gloves of steel And they drank the red wine through the helmet barred.'
The whole scene of the duel or judicial combat, is conducted according to the strict ordinances of chivalry, and delineated with all the minuteness of an ancient romancer. The modern reader will probably find it rather tedious; all but the concluding stanza, which are in a loftier measure.
'Tis done, 'tis done! that fatal blow Has stretch'd him on the bloody plain; He strives to rise—Brave Mufgrave, no! Thence never shalt thou rise again! He chokes in blood—some friendly hand Undo the visor's barred band, Unfix the gorget's iron clasp, And give him room for life to gasp! In vain, in vain—haste, holy friar, Haft, ere the dinner shall expire! Of all his guilt let him be shriven, And smoothe his path from earth to heaven. In haste the holy friar sped, His naked foot was dyed with red, As through the lifts he ran: Unmindful of the shouts on high, That hailed the conqueror's victory, He railed the dying man; Loose waved his silver beard and hair, As o'er him he kneeled down in prayer. And still the crucifix on high, He holds before his darkening eye, And still he bends an anxious ear, His faltering penitence to hear; Still propens him from the bloody sod, Still, even when foul and body part, Pours ghostly comfort on his heart, And bids him trust in God! Unheard he prays; 'tis o'er! 'tis o'er! Richard of Mufgrave breathes no more.'
We have already made so many extracts from this poem, that we can now only afford to present our readers with one specimen of the songs which Mr. Scott has introduced in the mouths of the minstrels, in the concluding canto. It is his object, in these pieces, to exemplify the different styles of ballad narrative which prevailed in this island at different periods, or in different conditions of society. The first is constructed upon the rude and simple model of the old Border ditties, and produces its effect by the direct and concise narrative of a tragic occurrence. The second, sung by Fitztraver the bard of the accomplished Surrey, has more of the richness and polish of the Italian poetry, is very beautifully written in a stanza resembling that of Spencer. The third is intended to represent that wild style of composition which prevailed among the bards of the northern continent, somewhat softened and adorned by the minstrel's residence in the south. We prefer it, upon the whole to either of the two former, and shall give it entire to our readers, who will probably be struck with the poetical effect of the dramatic form into which it is thrown, and of the indirect description by which every thing is most expressively told, without one word of distinct narrative.
'O listen, listen, ladies gay! No haughty feat of arms I tell; Soft is the note, and sad the lay, That mourns the lovely Rosabelle. —Moor, moor the barge, ye gallant crew; And, gentle ladye, deign to stay! Rest thou in Castle Ravenheuch, Nor tempt the stormy frith to-day. The blackening wave is edged with white; To ille and rock the sea-foams fly; The fishes have heard the Water-Sprite, Whose screams forebode that wreck is nigh. Last night the gilded keel did view A wet shroud round round ladye gay; Then stay thee, fair, in Ravenheuch: Why cross the gloomy frith to-day?'— 'Tis not because Lord Lindesay's heir To-night at Roslin leads the ball, But that my ladye-mother there Sits lonely in her castle-hall. 'Tis not because the ring rides well, And Lindesay at the ring rides well, But that my fire the wine will chide, If 'tis not filled by Rosabelle.' O'er Roslin all that dreary night A wondrous blaze was seen to gleam; 'Twas br—ter than the watch-fire light, And br—ter than the bright moon-beam. It glared on Roslin's castle rock, It reddened all the copse-wood glen; 'Twas seen from Dryden's groves of oak, And seen from caverned Hawthornden. Seemed all on fire that chapel proud, Where Roslin's chiefs unconfined lie; Each Baron, for a false sabroud, Sheathed in his iron panoply. Seemed all on fire within, around, Both vaulted crypt and altar pale; Shone every pillar foliage bound, And glimmered all the dead-men's mail. Blazed battlement and pinnit high, Blazed every rose-carved buttress fair— So fill they blaze when late is nigh The lordly line of high St. Clair. There are twenty of Roslin's barons bold Lie buried within that proud chapel; Each one the holy vault doth hold— But the fea holds lovely Rosabelle! And each St. Clair was buried there, With candle, with book, and with knell; But the Kelpy rung, and the Mermaid sung 'The dirge of lovely Rosabelle.'
From the various extracts we have now given, our readers will be enabled to form a tolerably correct judgment of this poem; and if they are pleased with those portions of it which have now been exhibited, we may venture to assure them that they will not be disappointed by the perusal of the whole. The whole night-journey of Deloraine—the opening of the wizard's tomb—the search of the English battle—and
the parley before the walls of the castle, are all executed with the same spirit and poetical energy, which we think is conspicuous in the specimens we have already extracted: and a great variety of short passages occurs in every part of the poem, which are still more striking and meritorious, though it is impossible to detach them, without injury, in the form of a quotation. It is but fair to apprise the reader, on the other hand, that he will meet with very heavy passages, and with a variety of details which are not likely to interest any one but a Borderer or an antiquary. We like very well to hear 'of the Gallant Chief of Otterburne,' or 'the Dark Knight of Liddesdale,' and feel the elevating power of great names, when we read of the tribes that muster'd to the war, 'beneath the crest of old Dunbar, and Hepburn's mingled banners.' But we really cannot so far sympathise with the local partialities of the author, as to feel any glow of patriotism or ancient virtue in hearing of the Tayside or Teviotdale clans, or of Elliot, Armstrong, and Tindall; still less can we relish the introduction of Black John of Ailsa, Whithorn the Hawk, Arthur-five-lips-brae, Red Roland Forrester, or any other of those worthies who
sought the breves, that made their broth, In Scotland and in England both, into a poem which has any pretensions to seriousness or dignity. The ancient metrical romance might have admitted these homely personalities; but the present age will not endure them; and Mr. Scott must either sacrifice his Border prejudices, or offend all his readers in the other parts of the empire.
There are many passages, as we have already insinuated, which have the general character of heaviness, such as the minstrel's account of his preceptor, and Deloraine's lamentation over the dead body of Mufgrave: but the goblin page is, in our opinion, the capital deformity of the poem. We have already said that the whole machinery is useless; but the magic studies of the lady, and the risted tomb of Michael Scott gave occasion to so much admirable poetry, that we can on no account consent to part with them. The page, on the other hand, is a perpetual burden to the poet, and to the reader: it is an undignified and improbable fiction, which excites neither terror, admiration nor astonishment, but needlessly debases the strain of the whole work, and excites at once our incredulity and contempt. He is not a 'trickly spirit' like Ariel, with whom the imagination is irresistibly enamoured, nor a tiny monarch, like Oberon, disposing of the delinients of mortals: he rather appears to us to be an awkward sort of a mongrel between Puck and Caliban, of a fickle and brutal nature, and limited in his powers to the indulgence of petty malignity and the infliction of despicable injuries. Besides this objection to his character, his existence has no support from any general or established superstition. Fairies and devils, goblins, angels and witches, are creatures with whom we are all familiar, and who excite in all classes of mankind emotions with which we can easily be made to sympathise. But the story of Gilpin Horner was never believed out of the village where he is said to have made his appearance, and has no claims upon the credulity of those who were not originally of his acquaintance. There is nothing at all interesting or elegant in the scenes of which he is the hero; and in reading these passages, we really could not help supposing that they did not stand in the romance when the aged minstrel recited it to the royal Charles and his mighty ears, but were inserted afterwards to suit the taste of the cotterers among whom he begged his bread on the Border. We entreat Mr. Scott to inquire into the grounds of this suspicion, & to take advantage of any decent pretext he can lay hold of for purging 'the lay' of this ungraceful intruder. We would also move for a Quo Warranto against the spirits of the river and the mountain; for though they are some of a very hardy lineage, we do not know what lawful business they could have at Brankburne castle in the year 1450.
Of the diction of this poem we have but little to say. From the extracts we have already given, our readers will perceive that the verification is in the highest degree irregular and capricious. The nature of the poem entitled Mr. Scott to some licence in this respect, and he often employs it with a very pleasing effect; but he has frequently exceeded its just measure, and presented us with such combinations of metre, as must put the teeth of his readers, we think, in some jeopardy. He has, when he pleases, a very melodious and sonorous style of verification, but often compensates with inexcusable negligence and rudeness. There is a great number of lines in which the verse can only be made out by running the words together in a very unusual manner; and some appear to us to have no pretension to the name of verse at all. What apology, for instance, will Mr. Scott make for the last of these two lines—
'For when in studious mood he paced St. Kenergen's hall.'
Or for these— How the brave boy, in future war, Should tame the unicorn's pride.'
We have called the negligence which could leave such lines as these in a poem of this nature, inexcusable because it is perfectly evident, from the general strain of his composition, that Mr. Scott has a very accurate ear for the harmony of verification, and that he composes with a facility which must lighten the labour of correction. There are some smaller faults in the diction which might have been as well corrected also: there is too much alliteration; and he reduplicates his words too often. We have 'never, never, several times'; besides 'tis o'er, 'tis o'er.'—'in vain, in vain'; 'tis done, 'tis done'; and several other echoes as ungraceful.
We will not be tempted to say any thing more of this poem. Although it does not contain any great display of what is properly called invention, it indicates perhaps as much vigour and originality of poetical genius as any performance which has been lately offered to the public. The locality of the subject is likely to obstruct its popularity; and the author, by confining himself in a great measure to the description of manners and personal adventures, has forfeited the attraction which might have been derived from the delineation of rural scenery. But he has manifested a degree of genius which cannot be overlooked, and given indication of talents that seem well worthy of being enlisted in the service of the epic muse.
The notes, which contain a great treasure of Border history and antiquarian learning, are too long, we think, for the general reader. The form of the publication is also too expensive; and we hope soon to see a fairer edition, with an abridgement of the notes for the use of the mere lovers of poetry.
NOTICE.
THE subscribers, being desirous of closing their administration on the estate of William Wilson, deceased, call upon all those who have claims against him, to make them known before the second Monday in November next, when they intend to render an account of their administration to the court of sessions, for the city of Richmond: after which no claim not previously given in, will be attended to, but this notice will be plead in bar thereof. All persons indebted to the deceased, are desired to make immediate payment, as no indulgence can be given. EDWARD CARRINGTON, J. A. GHEVALLIE. September 18. (F ff.)
TO BE RENTED.
MY HOUSE and LOT, upon Stocke-Hill, in an airy pleasant situation.—For terms, apply to Mr. Samuel M'Graw, who is fully authorised by me, to treat for the same, or to the subscriber. Possession may be immediately had. WILLIAM MANN. August 30. (F ff.)
GEORGE WILY, BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT,
Near the Basin, BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, Lands, Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for Sale, LOTS No. 141, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition.—There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family. July 23—25.
BENJAMIN STETSON, INFORMS his friends and the public in general he has for sale, 400 gallons Holland's Linseed Oil, White Lead and Spanish Brown ground in Oil, Patent Green ground in ditto. Verdigrise and Spanish Brown, dry; 8 by 10 Window Glass, & Put- ty; 3d, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, and 20d Nails, two Casks Spike Nails, Bar Iron, German and Blistered Steel; general assortment of Iron Hollow Ware; 10Hds. Molasses, French Brandy, West-India and New-England Rum, Tea, Coffee, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Chocolate, Men, fine and coarse Shoes, La- dies Kid & Morocco and Leather Slippers; 8 Boxes Cotton and Wool Cards assorted; half pint and quart Tumblers, small invoice elegant cut glass, stone ware, German Ozenburgs, 50acks Salt, Novascotia Grind Stones, and many other articles in store, which he will sell cheap for cash or country produce. April 2.—(1aw12m.)
BENJAMIN DUVAL, AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR RICHMOND, HAS just received a very large and extensive as- sortment of fresh MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS and DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUT- TY, &c.
Also a complete assortment of HATTERS' MATERIALS, CONSISTING OF Hatters' Irons Crude Tartar Logwood Bafon Irons Coppers Bow-Strings Virdegreafe Linings Fullick Galoons Spanish Indigo Taffet Bands Oil of Vitriol Rubbing Dishes Aq. Fortis Stampers Quicksilver Trenchers, &c.
Which added to his former stock, completes an as- sortment that was never equalled in his line of busi- ness, in this city. He thanks his customers for past favors, and hopes to merit a continuation of their custom. His former attention to the quality of his Medicines, importing them in their crude state, that he might be able to judge of their quality, and powdering and preparing them under his immediate inspection, have contributed to his present establishment; and opposition he pre- sumes will not relax his exertions to give general satis- faction in future. His experience for more than 12 years past, as Ap- othecary and Druggist in this city, added to a small stock of Medical Information acquired before, enables him, he thinks, to form a tolerably correct judgment as to the quality of Drugs and Medicines, although he cannot boast of honors conferred on him, greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable custo- mers.
In regard to his wholesale prices, he promises to furnish each of his wholesale customers with a printed price current, as soon as possible, and feels himself con- fident in their approbation, knowing that no one in this state can afford to under-sell him. This he in- tends to do, not to get others' customers from them, but to secure his own. Any articles that may be ordered, and not approv- ed of as to quality, may be returned if in good order, and in a reasonable time. June 7. (3w&tf)
PAINTS FOR SALE.
WHITE LEAD, YELLOW OCHRE, } Ground in Oil SPANISH BROWN, } VENETIAN RED, }
Together with a general assortment of PAINTS, have just come to hand, and will be sold low at the APOTHECARY SHOP on the lower floor of the Bell Tavern. Where may also be had, every article of MEDI- CINE in common demand, of the best quality and at a fair price. The owner of this shop may possibly be commit- ting himself very much in thus publicly disclosing his object, but he candidly owns, that having a smaller number of customers than he could wish, his object is to get as many more as he possibly can, as well as to secure the few which he already has. October 18. Pff.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. [spcf.] Dec. 4.
LAND—FOR SALE.
IN the county of Lunenburg, lying within one mile of the Court-house, on Couche's creek; this tract contains seven hundred and fifty acres, one hundred and fifty of which is cleared; comfortably improved for the accommodation of a family. This land is well suited to the cultivation of Tobacco, Corn and Wheat. A great bargain may be had in this land. The terms may be made known, by application to Major Grief Green, of Nottoway, who is duly authorized to dispose of it, or the subscriber living on the premises. JOSEPH SMITH. Lunenburg, August 2.—(epf.)
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND,
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fash- ion, equal in point of MA- TERIALS and WORKMAN- SHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a dis- tance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot. C—round the Calf. B—the pitch of ditto. D—round the heel and instep. E—round the instep. G—across the ball of the foot. F—the heel against a perpendicular, and flicks a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the dif- ferent measures. January 1. epf
FOR SALE,
EIGHTY-EIGHT acres of LEVEL LAND, a- bout 2 1/2 miles below Rockets, on the Wil- iamburg road, well situated for a tavern.—Also, six half acre LOTS in Maj. Duval's new plat. The above will be sold very low—for particulars enquire of THOMAS NORVELL. October 15. tf
FOR SALE,
A TWO STORY BRICK HOUSE, in the town of Lynchburg, at present occupied by col. John Watt, to which there is one half acre of land attached, the House is entirely new and well finished with a cellar under the whole House, which is divided in two rooms, one room and a passage below stairs and two above, the House is thirty feet in length and twenty feet wide. On the third lot is a good garden en- tirely new, a clover lot is also included, a smoke house, stable, and corn house with every convenience for the reception of a family. For terms apply to Mr. Wan- Brown, Lynchburg, or the subscriber THOS. CREWS. Amherst, October 4. epf
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
B & CALLIS NAIL MANUFACTORY, ON THE CANAL, RICHMOND. WROUGHT and cut nails of a superior quality, are sold at present for the following pri- ces, by the barrel. WROUGHT NAILS. Spikes, 40d. 30d. and 20d. Nails, 12 3/4 Cts. per lb. 12d. Nails, - - - 13 10d. Ditto, - - - 14 8d. do. - - - 14 3/4 6d. do. - - - 7 3/4 per m. CUT NAILS AND BRADS. 24d. 20d. & 12d. Cut Nails & Brads. 11 Cts. per lb. 10d. Ditto, - - - 11 8d. do. - - - 11 3/4 6d. Nails, - - - 12 3/4 4d. do. - - - 13 3d. do. - - - 14 Retail price, one Cent and a half per lb. higher, Wrought and cut spikes of every size. All kinds of Blacksmith's work will be done at the said manufactory, and a constant supply of Bar Iron, Hoop Iron, Nail Rods, Steel, &c. for sale. October 15. tf.
FOR SALE ON PRIVATE CONTRACT, GREEN-WAY; the seat on which I now re- side, including Mous-Sacer, & the Court-House Tenement, containing in all 1200 acres of fertile le- vel farming land (reserving one acre of consecrated ground). The whole is bounded by two navigable creeks, emptying into James River before the dock and forming a bay, therefrom 1400 yards only—5 1/2 miles to Petersburg by water, 30 to Richmond by land and 28 to Williamsburg.—The Court-House Tenement—on it a large enlarged Tavern, with six rooms; one of which is 32 feet by 20 in length and breadth, arch'd in the middle and used for entertain- ments; all other necessary out-houses, a good garden and a fine Well of water, dry cellars, stores &c. for the use of a commercial business, which are now oc- cupied to advantage in that line. This is an excellent place for stock, fish and fowl in their season; and enough of corn, wheat & oats may be made by com- mon industry for the consumption of the Tavern. This Tenement has 200 acres of land annexed to it, and rents for £100 a year. GREEN-WAY contains 500 acres well improv'd. On it, is a genteel well finished dwelling house, con- taining six rooms; all wain-scoted, chair board high, with fine dry cellars, the full length of the house which is 56 feet: also every other building which a reasonable person could wish or desire, to wit: a handsome study, Store House, Kitchen, Laundry, Dairy, Meat House, Spinning House and an Ice House within the Curtilage, a Barn 40 by 34 feet, two gran- aries, two Carriage Houses, 20 stalls for horses, a quarter for house servants, a handsome Odeon Pige- on House well flock'd, and several other houses for slaves, a well of water, (so excellent that I can drink it with delight after returning from a mountain cir- cuit) a large fertile garden abounding with a great va- riety of shrubs, herbs and beautiful flowers, well en- closed. The buildings new and well cover'd with shingles.
MON-SACER contains five hundred acres more or less, on which is a neat small dwelling, a mill begun on a never-failing stream, one mile from James River and emptying itself therein. This farm is remarkably level and highly improvable, is in a fine settlement for wheat and timber, so that the manufacturing busi- ness may be carried on to great advantage, as also the fawing of timber now so much in demand. About half this estate inclusive is under fine fire wood and timber and scarcely a gall nor a wath on any part of it. The age and fever has not visited a white per- son for 20 years that I recollected. In short there can- not well be conceiv'd a more agreeable situation in all respects than this estate taken together. UTOPIA. I will also dispose of—This little estate lies in James City county; is an Island surrounded by navig- able water near the mouth of Chickahominy river, containing 746 acres of high land and hard marsh suf- ficient for the support of 1000 head of cattle in the month of May. The high land is rich and produces four and five barrels of corn to the acre. There are 100 acres of good timber adjoining the same. In the center of this Island is a very handsome hill, on which a small but comfortable dwelling is built, affording a fine prospect over James River for many miles. Here every necessity of life can be had and many of its luxuries with little trouble. It over- flows with milk and honey when sufficient stock is furnished to go upon. It is remarkable for fine fruit, as the frosts seldom or never affect it; and no place in Virginia surpasses it for fish and wild-fowl. From this place quantities of hay might be transported by water to Richmond, Norfolk or Petersburg. Any kind of public securities will be taken for the above property, or if more agreeable to the purcha- ser or purchasers, I will receive part in cash and the balance at convenient periods. Thirty or forty slaves and flocks of every kind may be had, if the estate is purchased all together. My lands on Clear Creek, Big Licking and Triplett in Kentucky I will also sell or exchange for property in Richmond. It may be now enquired why I should in an ad- vanced stage of life part with an estate so convenient and agreeable in all respects? In the first place, in a little time I shall be compelled by the unerring voice of nature to "quit this mortal coil," and it is right I should so adjust all my matters as to leave nothing for litigation after my death. My years of regret will be therefore but few on that score. Secondly, it is the best mode I can adopt for a fair division of what I possess among my children; and lastly I am desirous of obtaining a situation, more convenient and cheap for the education of my sons, which the savings from a narrow parsimonious salary, and the profits arising from a much neglected estate, in consequence of my attention to public duties, can never support. August 24. JOHN TYLER. (1wtf)
At a court held for King & Queen county, at the court-house on Monday the 9th of Sept. 1805. UPON AN INJUNCTION IN CH