The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-05-21 00:00:00

Garratt Manus
The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM... (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 4.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 21, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
Richmond Prices Current.
   D. C. D. C.     TOBACCO : 5 50 4 6   FLOUR : Superfine : 9 50 4 10   fine : 8 50 4 8   middlings : 8 50 4 8   WHEAT : 1 1 1 75   INDIAN CORN : 5 1 5 85   WHISKEY : 50 1 4 60   BACON : 13 1 1 1   HEMP : 180 1 200 1   BAR IRON : 110 1 1 1  
Sales at Auction.
On Wednesday the 22d inst. will be sold,  THE HOUSE and LOT on Shockoe Hill, formerly belonging to the late Mr. Samuel Dobie. The terms of sale will be one half cash, the remainder in two annual payments, to secure which, a deed of trust upon the property must be given by the purchaser.  THOS. TAYLOR & Co. V.M.'s. May 7. (epds)
FOR PROVIDENCE,
Rhode-Island. The regular trading Sloop Sally , will sail on the 22d inst. For freight or passage, having good accommodations, apply to B. D. Jones , opposite Messrs. Gilliat & Kirby's, or to the master on board, at Lester's upper wharf. May 17. 2t.
FOR LIVERPOOL,
The ship Dumfries , Richard Beard, master, now lying at Norfolk, will sail in all this month. 100 Hds. Tobacco will be taken on freight, if early application be made to Donaldson, Thornburn & Co. Norfolk, Markland and Christian, Peterburg, or to  WILLIAM MACKENZIE, & Co. May 10. (ep2w)
Spanish Hides.
FOR SALE , a Large Quantity of PRIME SPANISH HIDES, on moderate terms. Also, LOAF SUGAR , by the hhd. bbl. or single loaf, direct from Pennington's Manufactory, Philadelphia. MICAJAH DAVIS. 5th No. 17th, 1805. (ctrf)
MILITARY CERTIFICATES.
FOR SALE , Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrears of taxes, prior to the year 1798.  WILLIAM PRICE , Cashr. Genl. M. A. S. May 10. (tf)
NOTICE.
The co-partnership of ROBERT GAMBLE & SONS , will be dissolved by mutual consent, on Saturday, the 11th instant. All persons indebted to the said firm, are earnestly entreated to make immediate payment to either of the subscribers. A compliance with this request will prevent the painful necessity of resorting to coercive measures. The books will be placed in the possession of Messrs. John and Robert Gamble jun. who are authorised to settle all accounts due by, or to the concern.  RO. GAMBLE.  JOHN G. GAMBLE.  RO. GAMBLE, jr. Richmond, May 6th, 1805.
The subscribers take this method of informing their friends and the public, that they intend carrying on the mercantile business, under the firm of  JOHN & ROBERT GAMBLE JUN. They are now receiving by the ship Rolla , a choice selection of LONDON GOODS, and daily expect from Liverpool, a general assortment of HARDWARE, &c. suitable for the season—which will be sold by the piece, package or dozen, on the most moderate terms, for cash, merchandise or country produce, or the usual credit to substantial and punctual customers. They have on hand Madeira & Sherry Wine, Cogniac Brandy, West-India Rum, Whiskey, Sugar, Pepper, Allum, Copperas and Brimstone, (in pipes, hhd. and casks) Cotton and Wool Cards, Patent Shot, Steel, Bar Iron, Hollow Iron Ware, German Scythes, Cutting Knives and Winchstones, Oznaburghs, Ticklenburgs and Brown HOLLANS, Snuff, Cut Herring &c. &c. They also possess large and convenient Brick warehouses, covered with slate, for receiving and storing Flour, Tobacco &c. Those gentlemen who favor them with consignments, will find their charges reasonable, and may rely on their best exertions to afford satisfaction. The highest rates given for Bees-Wax, good Bear, Deer, and Otter skins, and other shipping Furs.  JOHN G. GAMBLE.  ROBERT GAMBLE, jr.
The subscriber (Robert Gamble, sen.) avails himself of this opportunity to thank his numerous friends for the very large share of patronage he has received in the Mercantile line—and hereby tenders to the public his future services as a Commission Merchant . He flatters himself, his long experience (with other circumstances unnecessary here to mention) entitles him to the confidence of those who may have business of that nature to transact in this city—assuring such of his best exertions to merit approbation. Those who yet remain indebted to the late firm of Gamble and Greville , of Stanton , of Gamble & Temple , Robert Gamble & Co. and Robert Gamble of the city of Richmond, are once more earnestly requested to make immediate payment of their respective balances. Such as continue regardless of this last notice cannot expect longer indulgence.  RO. GAMBLE. Richmond, May 10, 1805. ep5w oawtf.
TO MR. WILLIAM TAFF: TAKE NOTICE, That on the 10th day of July next, at the Tavern kept by William Montague in the county of Essex, I shall proceed to take the depositions of John Montague, William Montague, Leonard Jackson, Spencer Clark, Thomas Palmer, Robert Palmer, Travis Taff, Beverly Cloudas and Rachel Cooper, by virtue of a commission issued from Essex County Court, in a suit therein depending in Chancery, in which you are Plaintiff and I am Defendant.  PETER TAFF. Essex County, April 30. (ep4w)
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amos Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity.  THOMAS NORVELL. He has for sale—A FEW SLATES IN THE MANCHESTER TURNPIKE. Also—Old State Certificates, bearing six per cent interest. March 12. tf
ELLIS & ALLAN
Have received by the Ralla from London, part of their  SPRING GOODS. amongst which are the following articles:  LONDON —Superfine Cloths and Cashmeres, Quiltings and Dimities, Handsome fashionable worked & laced Mullins, 3-4, 8-4 and 10-4 Diapers, 8-4, 8-10 and 10-16 Damask Table Cloths, Gentlemen's white and brown Cotton Stockings, Ladies' elegant laced white do. Do. Tortoise-shell Bent and braid Combs, Chintzes, Calicoes and Furniture. Gentlemen's black fashionable Hats, Do. drab beaver do. Do. patent silk do. Umbrellas, Boy's Morocco Caps, plain and fur'd, Best Hemp Ropes, English White Lead, Spanish Brown, Yellow Ocre, ground in oil, and Verdigris, Prussian and Blue Jars, Best Boiled Oil in bales, Durham Mustard, &c. &c. Which, added to their present stock, and those expected (daily) from Liverpool, will render their assortment general. May 7. (eptf)
WILLIAM TEMPLE
Has imported in the ship Rolla , Captain Cotile, from London—An Extensive Assortment of  SPRING & SUMMER GOODS , which he offers for sale on liberal terms, by Wholesale and Retail—And by the ship Shepperds , from Liverpool, daily expected, he will receive a very extensive and general assortment of HARDWARE & CUTLERY. April 30. (ep6w)
FOR SALE OR LEASE:
THAT large and convenient TAVERN, situated in the centre of the town of Lynchburg, at the corner of the street leading to the court-house and jail, and not more than thirty yards from both, opposite Lynch's ware-house and the street leading from the ferry in the said town. The Tavern contains four rooms and a bar on the first floor, including two very large rooms suitable for a ball and dining room, with a sliding partition to the ball room. The second floor contains six rooms, one the size of the ball room and the others suitable for lodging rooms, with an excellent garret. This Tavern has a large portico the full length of the house, also a good dry cellar, and a well opposite the door, together with a kitchen, smoke-house, dairy and a stable with twenty-two stalls therein, with a spacious garden and yard leading to the stable. Other improvements will be made to suit the purchaser or lessee. It is deemed unnecessary to state the great value of the above property, or say more as to the advantage arising from its central and eligible a stand for a Tavern, as it is presumed no person would be inclined to purchase or lease the above property without viewing the premises, there being no doubt but they would be better satisfied after seeing the convenient situation, than any information they could get from this advertisement. A liberal credit will be given any person desirous of the purchase or an advantageous lease. For further particulars, apply to William Rose, jun. Richmond, or the subscriber, residing about three miles from Lynchburg. April 30. SAMUEL SCOTT.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER,
MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND.  MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported BOOTS and SHOES, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, 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. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. eptf
LAND FOR SALE.
A TRACT of about 850 acres, lying on James River, adjoining the town of Lynchburg; one hundred and forty of which is low ground, and said to be of the first quality; a considerable proportion of the high ground lies well, and well adapted to the culture of tobacco and grain. It has an excellent road and rock fishery on it; a small apple orchard, a good dwelling house and convenient out-houses; a mill seat, supposed to be superior to any in that part of the country—the mill house would set within thirty-six poles of the river, on navigable water. Likely negroes would be received in part pay, and a generous price allowed for one or two blacksmiths that are under 36 years of age, and good workmen. For further particulars, apply to the subscriber on the premises, or Mr. William Brown, merchant, in Lynchburg.  LEWELLEN JONES. March 1. (eptf)
NOTICE.
THAT by virtue of a Deed in Trust, I shall (as the assignee of John Barret, Esq. of Louisa county) on the first Monday in June next, being Henrico court day, expose to sale by Public Auction for ready money, before the door of the said Court-house, A TRACT OF LAND containing one hundred acres more or less, lying and being in the county of Henrico, on the Three Chopp's Road, being the same land, on which the late Thomas Ginnett, dec'd, resided in his life-time. This sale will be made to satisfy a debt with the interest due thereon, by Thomas Ginnett, dec'd to John Barret, as surviving partner of Reid & Barret, together with the costs of executing this trust.  SAMUEL MCRAW , Assignee of the said trust. May 7. (epds)
COMMITTED to the jail of Powhatan county, on the 3d day of April, a Negro Woman who calls herself JENNY . She says she was raised by Wm. Gathright, of the county of Henrico, who sold her to Mr. Fulcher, the butcher, of Richmond, and by him sold to one Williamson, who sold her to one Webber, of Buckingham, who sold her to a Mr. John Campbell, of King & Queen county, who left her at Lewis Fortine's, a free Negro of this county; from which last place she eloped. She appears to be about the age of 16 or 17, is very black, and has lost some of her upper fore teeth. The owner is desired to come and prove his property, pay the prison charges, and take her away, or she will be dealt with as the law directs.  MOSES N. CARDOZO , Jailor. Powhatan Courthouse, May 17. 2t.
JAMES SEABROOK, TAYLOR.
RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his friends and the public, for their liberal encouragement, and informs them, that he continues to carry on his business in all its various branches, nearly opposite the Post Office and next door to Ritchie & Worley's Printing-Office—And as he has established a regular correspondence in Philadelphia, gentlemen may depend on having their clothes made in the newest fashion. May 14. (e'tf)
N.B. A few good YOUNG MEN wanted, to whom liberal wages will be given.
Pleadings of Counsel,
ON THE  IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20. [Mr. Early's Speech, concluded.]
The second, third and fourth articles, exhibited by the House of Representatives, charge the defendant with a course of conduct upon a particular trial which affords many grounds of accusation. In this case it is true no unfortunate individual was charged with an offence which demanded his life as an expiation; yet, Sir, there were other rights involved equally sacred in the laws of a free country. The liberty and the property of the accused were the price of a conviction.
In calling our eyes over the ground upon which the different scenes of the transaction now about to be examined are spread, we are struck with a feature not usual in the history of human concerns. It would seem that even the restraint of appearances was no longer felt. We find the respondent setting out with a conduct, which seemed to prove that the fate of the accused was fixed. We find him pursuing a system of conduct throughout, which wrested from the accused some of his best established & most valuable privileges. We find him endeavoring to heap shame and odium on those who occupied the station of advocates, because they would not tamely yield to his unwarrantable invasion of long established rights.
Mr. President, notwithstanding the laboured attempts made by the defendant in his answer to exculpate himself from imputation in compelling Mr. Basset to serve upon the jury in the trial of Callender—yet, Sir, I must be permitted to say that those attempts appear to me to be only the exertions of a mind conscious of impropriety, and seeking to impose upon the understanding of others. The test adopted, by which to try the impartiality of the jurors, in that case may possibly by some be held a correct one; but the manner of applying that test as then practiced upon, is what I believe can be accounted for upon no other supposition than that of a determination on the part of the judge to procure the conviction of the accused.—Upon what other principle can it be accounted for, that the jurors should be asked "whether they had formed and delivered an opinion upon the charges laid in the indictment, when they knew not and were not suffered to know what those charges were? Why else could it be laid down by the judge, that because the individuals called to serve upon the jury, did not know what charges were in the indictment (having never seen it nor heard it read) that therefore they could not have formed and delivered an opinion upon the subject? And why else did the judge, when this monstrous logic was contradicted by the fact of one of the jurors delivering in open court an opinion upon the whole subject of those charges, without having seen, or heard the indictment read; why else did the judge, in the teeth of this damning fact, order the juror sworn.
Every juror sworn, might, like Mr. Basset, have formed and delivered an opinion which concluded the conviction of the accused, and yet because they did not know that the subject matter of such opinion constituted the charges in the indictment, having neither seen it nor heard it read, the expression of such opinion, created no disqualification. Unworthy evasion! An evasion which prevents the doctrine of disqualification in a juror from receiving any practical operation. An evasion which effectually puts at nought that principle of the constitution so often adverted to in a former part of the argument, "that the accused shall enjoy the right of a trial by an impartial jury." Upon this point I beg leave to read two authorities. Mr. Early here cited 3 Bac. Abr. 756 and C. L. 1571.
But we are told by the respondent in his answer, that the declaration made by Mr. Basset, did not disqualify him, because it contained no direct opinion as to the guilt of the traverser . This I understand to be the amount of all the laboured reasoning and nice distinctions drawn by the respondent upon this point. There is, Sir, a plain common sense rule to govern us upon this subject, which in my opinion is as safe in its application as it is reasonable in its principle. A juror must be indifferent . How can he be indifferent? What kind of indifference is this which is made necessary? The manner in which Judge Chase has stated and explained this rule is certainly calculated to confuse and mislead. "The juror, says he, must be indifferent between the government and the accused as to the subject matter."
Must the juror in reality be indifferent between the parties as to the subject matter of prosecution only? Will not a prejudice against the accused, flowing from other causes, create a disqualification? I address myself to those who well know that partiality, arising from a variety of relations in society, as well as prejudice arising from a variety of causes, destroys that character of indifference necessary to render a juror competent, and that this partiality or prejudice need not relate to the subject matter of prosecution.
So also I apprehend that this character of indifference is as effectively destroyed by a prejudice as to the subject matter, without any prejudice as to the person. I mean the prejudice of a prejudication of the criminality of the subject matter. We meet with the rule every day, that it is good cause of challenge to a juror that he hath expressed an opinion upon the subject matter of prosecution. Wherefore then the manner of stating the rule, which we find, adopted in the answer? Most evidently to suit the respondent's case. What, Sir, must a juror, to be so prejudiced as to be disqualified have expressed an opinion not only that the subject matter of prosecution was criminal in law, but that the person prosecuted was the author of the crime? Yes, Sir, according to the doctrine of the answer, he must have prejudged both law and fact. In other words, although Mr. Basset had formed and delivered an opinion that such a book as "The Prospect Before Us," came within the sedition law, yet not having said that Callender was the author or publisher, he was still a competent juror. Suppose a man indicted for murder, in a case where there is no dispute as to the fact of killing (and there was no dispute as to the fact of publishing) but the defence set up was that he was excusable. A juror has given his opinion, in reference to the act, that such a killing does amount to murder, but without saying that the person prosecuted was the murderer; will any man say that this expression would not disqualify him? I am bound to presume not. Sir, in the case of Callender, although Mr. Basset did not say that the person prosecuted was guilty, yet he did in effect say that whoever wrote or published the book was guilty. And give me leave to remark here that in prosecutions for libels, the question of law, as to their criminality, is generally the only question of dispute. The fact of publication is one about which there seldom occurs any difficulty, and has to be proven merely because not admitted. To have expressed an opinion then upon the question of law in such cases is substantially to have prejudged the whole case. A juror under such circumstances cannot be called impartial. As well might it be alleged that Judge Chase himself was impartial, as to the case of Fries, after he had delivered the opinion which we have before discussed.
We are told in the answer that the guilt of the traverser was not prejudged by Basset, for another reason; that as the charges to make them criminal must have been false, so Callender might have exculpated himself by proving their truth. But, Sir, the traverser was at liberty to rest his defence either upon a justification or want of criminality in law, or upon both. He was not bound to disclose which, nor could the judge officially know which. Both and each of these grounds were proper for the jury to determine under the plea. The acquittal of the traverser then did not depend exclusively upon the proof of the truth of the charges.
Again we are told that the juror barely expressed his opinion upon the book, as the contents thereof had been represented to him. The same may be said of almost every other case. Few, very few jurors are spectators of a murder, or an act of treason. Any opinion they may have formed and delivered of the actual guilt of the person charged must be in nine cases out of ten, from representation. Few, very few of the jurors who were summoned in the case of Fries, had been spectators of the acts which were alleged to have been treasonable; probably not one of them. Yet we learn from the answer of Judge Chase, that in that very case several were repelled from serving, because of the opinions which they acknowledged they had given. Such opinions must in nine cases out of ten be bottomed upon representation. There are numerous secret crimes, which from their very nature preclude the possibility that an opinion concerning them, however positive, and however decisive of the conviction of the accused, should be founded upon any previous knowledge of fact. And yet, Sir, I presume no person will deny that in such cases, a juror may nevertheless so express an opinion as to disqualify himself from serving.
But, Sir, the scene rises upon us. We have now to examine a part of the transaction for which, I had supposed, human invention might be tortured for a parallel in vain. I allude to the rejection of Mr. Taylor's testimony. The reason assigned for that rejection was, that the witness could not prove the truth of the whole of any one charge. Let us for a moment examine the consequences of this doctrine. According to the judge's own decisions then, as well as his doctrine now, each charge laid in the indictment must have constituted a separate offence. For it is explicitly declared both by Mr. Hay and Mr. Nicholas, that when an application was made to continue the case, because of the absence of some material witnesses, the application was rejected upon the ground, that it did not appear from the affidavit filed, that the witnesses so absent, could prove the truth of all the charges. That proof of the truth of a part only, would be of no avail, and that the whole must be proved to entitle the traverser to an acquittal. Each charge in the indictment then must have constituted a separate offence : for the charges cannot be made to help each other out. One charge, however, it seems might consist of different facts. This was the case with several in that indictment. It was particularly the case with the very charge, the truth of which Mr. Taylor was called to prove. "The President was a profligate aristocrat. He had proved faithful and serviceable to the British interest." Here was a charge made up of two distinct facts; so distinct in their nature, that the knowledge of their truth might not only rest with different persons, but was extremely likely not to rest with any one witness. But the case of a man charged with any offence, murder, theft, or any other crime you please: There may be a string of facts upon the proof of which the defence may depend; some within the knowledge of one man; some within that of another. Was it ever heard of before, that because one witness could not prove the existence of all those facts, that therefore such witness should not be examined as to what he did know? Or if some of the facts depend upon written testimony, was it ever heard of before, that therefore a witness should not be examined as to those resting in oral testimony? To these questions no man will answer in the affirmative. Why then was an unheard of and palpably absurd doctrine brought to bear in Callender's case! Was the defence of justification, under the sedition law of the United States, such an anomaly in its nature, that none of the established rules of jurisprudence would apply to it? Was it a thing so entire in its nature, that it could not consist of different parts? I have always been taught, and the respondent's answer confirms the principle, that a defence must apply to the whole of a charge. If then a charge consist of different parts, surely so must the defence. But according to Judge Chase, be the parts ever so many, they shall not be proven, unless the proof can all be made by one witness, or unless it appear that the defendant has proof in reserve to establish all. I ask this honorable court how it can appear that the defendant has proof in reserve applying to all the parts of a charge? Suppose a witness called to substantiate one part, is it to be known to the court whether there is or is not other testimony
behind in the power of the party, by which the residue of the charge may be established? We are told by the respondent, that none of the questions propounded to Colonel Taylor had any application to the charge, except the first, and this only to a part of the charge: and that this question was repelled because no proof was offered as to the residue. I answer, Sir, that the judge had no right to know nor were the counsel bound to disclose whether there was such testimony in reserve or not. It is a new doctrine, Sir, that the legal admissibility of testimony is to depend upon what the party can afterwards prove by other testimony. It is the right of the party to establish his defence as far as he can, and if he fail in establishing it completely, the evil is to himself alone. And permit me here to add, Sir, that whether he succeed in establishing his defence or not, is a question for the jury to determine, and not the judge. The judge possesses no right to determine even after the testimony is finished, whether that testimony has or has not established the defence; till less then can he before it is heard, determine that it will not make good the defence.
We are told in the respondent's answer that his rejection of Colonel Taylor's testimony can be no proof of a determination on his part to oppress, as such an intention might have been gratified by the conviction of the traverser upon other articles. This is true, very true, upon the principle that the judge and not the jury was to determine the question of law in criminal cases. If the criminality of the charges in point of law, was to be settled by the judge, his conclusion is certainly correct. But, if as I apprehend, the criminality of the charges was to be exclusively determined by the jury, then it was not entirely certain, that the judge might have been sure of his object, notwithstanding the tenth charge had been proved. For aught he knew, or ought to be presumed to have known, the jury might have been of the opinion that the other charges did not come within the sedition law, and might have therefore given a verdict of acquittal.
But Mr. President, this apart, it is a novel proof of innocence to me at least, that a man should have the magnanimous boldness to disregard appearances. It is a novel proof of innocence that a man should possess a spirit daring enough to insult the common sense of mankind. Yes, Sir, I yield to the respondent the full share of glory, which he is desirous of accumulating from this source.
The last of the three articles now under examination goes on to charge the defendant with various acts of injustice, partiality and intemperance, highly derogatory to his character as a judge, and equally injurious to the reputation of the American bench. Without fatiguing the patience of the court with an enquiry into the proofs of these allegations of the criminality of all the particulars enumerated, I beg leave to call their attention to one part of the judge's conduct, which appears to me to stand pre-eminent for its open defiance of all justice, and its flagrant violation of the constitution of this country. I allude, to the refusal to continue the cause. The reasons assigned for that refusal, were, we learn, that it did not appear by the affidavit exhibited, and upon which the motion for a continuance was founded, that the witnesses, whose testimony was wanted, could prove the truth of all the charges laid in the indictment. This conduct, Mr. President, strikes me as being of the same family with the rejection of Mr. Taylor's testimony. The charges in the indictment are in number many. They embrace a numerous collection of facts, some of them assimilated, others extremely variant in their nature: many of them involving legal difficulties as to their criminality. Under the plea of not guilty, to the indictment, it was competent to the traverser not only to prove the truth of the charges in point of fact, but also to prove that any of the charges were not criminal in point of law. It was competent for the defendant to prove the truth of a part of the charges, and to contend that the rest were not seditions. Both these grounds of defence were proper for the jury, and the jury possessed the right to pass without control upon both. With what propriety then could the judge pronounce from the bench that to entitle the traverser to a continuance, it must appear that he could prove the truth of all the charges? What, Sir, was the question of law as to their criminality, a point which the judge here again arrogated to himself the exclusive right to determine, and that too before the traverser was heard? Indeed it would appear that in this case as in the case of Fries, the law was to be wrested from its proper organ, the jury, and to be exclusively passed upon by the judge himself. What other construction can be given to his determination that the truth of all the charges must be proven? There surely could be no necessity for this, unless they were all seditions within the act of Congress. By determining then, that all must be proved true, the judge did determine that all were seditions. This, Sir, it was the exclusive right of the jury to determine.
The constitution of this country has most wisely provided, that "the accused shall have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor." Of what avail is this provision if time be not given for their attendance? Of what avail to grant the process, and, before the witnesses can by any physical possibility reach the place, force the traverser to trial? This conduct, Sir, is worse than mockery. It is an insult to the common sense of mankind. It is high treason against the majesty of the constitution of a free country. The constitution of the United States gives to the accused the right of process to compel the attendance of his witnesses. But Judge Chase so administered the accused is indicted, arrested, tried, convicted and punished, all in the same term, whilst his witnesses are distant hundreds of miles.
After all this, Mr. President, surely we shall not be asked for proofs of corrupt intent. They are too thick upon every feature of the transaction one which have been examined. The defendant is on all hands acknowledged to possess an acquaintance with the laws and constitution of his country, which yields not to that of any other man in this nation. He is on all hands acknowledged to possess talents which might do honor to any tribunal. With such knowledge and such talents, permit me to ask, if it was within the compass of possibility that he should mistake in points so familiar as those in which he is charged with criminal conduct? Although all things are possible, yet there are things the extreme improbability of which defies belief. Among those I rank the supposition

of mistake on the part of judge Chase in the trial of James T. Callender. We might just as well be asked for proof of malice in a case where a man wilfully and without provocation kills another. In such a case as in the one now under consideration, the answer is that the criminal intent is apparent upon the face of the act. And there is a question, sir, which strikes me as applying itself with almost irresistible force to the present discussion; can it be that such outrages should be committed upon the most ordinary principles of law and justice, and yet the conduct of the judge not be influenced by corrupt motives? Can it be that every thing should be done to favor the prosecution and stifle the defence, and yet justice be administered "faithfully and impartially and without respect to persons?" But if all this be insufficient, I pray this honorable court to recollect the declarations of the judge in relation to the case, as attested by several witnesses.
The fifth and sixth articles rest upon grounds so extremely simple, and so easily comprehended, that it appears totally unnecessary to fatigue the patience of the honorable court, by dwelling upon them.  The seventh article is as follows:  "That at a circuit court of the United States, for the district of Delaware, held at New-Castle, in the month of June, one thousand eight hundred, whereat the said Samuel Chase presided, the said Samuel Chase, disregarding the duties of his office, did descend from the dignity of a judge, and stoop to the level of an informer, by refusing to discharge the grand jury, although entreated by several of the said jury for so to do; and after the said grand jury had regularly declared, through their foreman, that they had found no bills of indictment, nor had any presentments to make, by observing to the said grand jury, that he, the said Samuel Chase, understood, "that a highly seditious temper had manifested itself in the state of Delaware, among a certain class of people, particularly in New-Castle county, and more especially in the town of Wilmington, where lived a most seditious printer, unrestrained by any principle of virtue, and regardless of social order; that the name of this printer was"—but checking himself, as if sensible of the indecorum which he was committing, added—"that it might be assuming too much to mention the name of this person, but it becomes your duty, gentlemen, to enquire diligently into this matter;" or words to that effect; and that with intention to procure the prosecution of the printer in question, the said Samuel Chase did, moreover, authoritatively enjoin on the district attorney of the United States, the necessity of procuring a file of the papers to which he alluded, (and which were understood to be those published under the title of "Mirror of the Times and General Advertiser;") and by a strict examination of them, to find some passage which might furnish the ground-work of a prosecution against the printer of the said paper; thereby degrading his high judicial functions, and tending to impair the public confidence in, and respect for, the tribunals of justice, to essential to the general welfare."
The respondent stands here charged with a conduct, than which, in my opinion, nothing could be more at war with his official duty—nothing more tarnish his official character. The constitution and laws of this country certainly intended in erecting high judicial tribunals, that those who might be appointed to minister therein, should be impartial dispensers of justice between such as might resort thither for an adjudgment of their differences. In public prosecutions, more especially was it intended that such dispensation should be made without respect to persons. In these, above all other cases, ought a judge to stand aloof from influence, free from predilection towards one, or prejudice against the other. Most peculiarly here is it his duty to stand firm at his post, resisting the overbearing influence of a powerful public, and protecting the rights of the accused in no unequal a contest. But judge Chase, disregarding these principles, always held sacred in a land of laws, converts himself into a hunter after accusations. He who, in the humane language of the laws, should be counsel for the accused, becomes himself an accuser. He whose duty it is impartially to decide between the prosecutor and prosecuted, becomes himself the procurer of prosecutions.  I have always been taught that the character of an informer, in any station of life, was deservedly considered as the reverse of reputable. What then, shall we say of him, who descends from the judgment seat of the nation, to inform against, and direct the prosecution of one, against whom he avows the strongest antipathy, and over whose trial he himself has to preside? Surely, sir, his thirst for punishment was great. Surely it was extreme indeed, when he could not wait for the tardy motion of the public prosecutors. If our judges are thus to turn informers; if they are thus to seek after objects for themselves to try, and themselves to punish; then indeed must this country, heretofore considered an asylum from oppression, become itself the nursery of oppression in its most odious form. And this government, heretofore the pride of humanity, will be held up as an object of scorn and derision to the nations of the earth.
The eighth article is in these words:  "And whereas mutual respect and confidence, between the government of the United States and those of the individual states, and between the people and those governments, respectively, are highly conducive to that public harmony, without which there can be no public happiness; yet the said Samuel Chase, disregarding the duties and dignity of his judicial character, did, at a circuit court for the district of Maryland, held at Baltimore, in the month of May, one thousand eight hundred and three, pervert his official right and duty to address the grand jury then and there assembled, on the matters coming within the province of the said jury, for the purpose of delivering to the said grand jury an intemperate and inflammatory political harangue, with intent to excite the fears and resentment of the said grand jury, and of the good people of Maryland against their State government and constitution, a conduct highly censurable in any, but peculiarly indecent and unbecoming in a judge of the supreme court of the United States; and moreover, that the said Samuel Chase, then and there, under pretence of exercising his judicial right to address the said grand jury, as aforesaid, did, in a manner highly unbecoming, endeavour to excite the odium of the said grand jury, and of the good people of Maryland against the government of the United States, by delivering opinions, which, even if the judicial authority were competent to their expression, on a future occasion, and in a proper manner, were at that time, and as delivered by him, highly indecent, extra-judicial, and tending to prostitute the high judicial character with which he was invested, to the low purpose of an electioneering partisan."  It is not my intention, Mr. President, to trouble the court with many observations upon this article; not because of any opinion that it is unimportant. I believe it equally important with any in the catalogue. I believe it possesses a
peculiar importance, in affording, from the testimony by which it is supported, a part of the spirit by which judge Chase was usually governed in his official conduct.  There are features too in that part of the judge's official conduct charged in this article, which place him in a point of view awfully grand. We have heretofore been viewing him as bringing his talents to bear upon individuals. Here we see his genius rising in the majesty of its strength, to far higher objects. Here we see him confining over whole governments to the scourge of his own avenging wrath. Whether forever he turned his eyes, whether to the state constitution and laws, or to the laws and constitution of the whole union, they were equally exposed to the whip and the rack.  Mr. President, there is no truth more forcible than that expressed in the language of this article, that "mutual respect and confidence between the government of the United States and those of the individual states, and between the people and those governments respectively, are highly conducive to that public harmony, without which there can be no public happiness." Indeed, sir, it may with truth be said, that this respect and confidence are essential to that harmony without which we can enjoy no public happiness. What words then can describe in its proper colours, the conduct of an officer of the highest judicial tribunal of the general government, who abuses the duty and perverts the privilege of his station to destroy the confidence and excite the odium of the people, against not only their state government, but that of the United States? He who was seated on the judgment seat of the nation to execute the laws of the union, converts that very judgment seat into a forum from whence to pronounce a philippic not only against the state government with which he there had no right to meddle, but against that very government under whose authority he was there sitting, and whose laws he was sworn there to execute. Not content with endeavouring to excite discontent and odium against the government of the state of Maryland, the Congress of the United States must be held up as sacrilegious destroyers of the national constitution.
Mr. President, I have taken those views of this subject, which presented themselves most forcibly to my mind. I have finished all I intend to say, upon the argument. There has, in my opinion, been established against the respondent a volume of guilt, every page of which calls for punishment at the hands of this nation. I leave the case and the respondent in your hands. I leave them where the constitution of this country has placed them. I leave them where I hope, and I believe, there will be found a different measure of justice from that which judge Chase has been accustomed to administer. I leave them where justice will be administered "faithfully and impartially, and without respect to person."
European Intelligence.  NEW-YORK, May 11.  The ship New-York Packet, which arrived at this port yesterday from Bristol, put into Milford Haven, where she remained until the 25th of March. She brings no other London paper than one of the evening of the 22d March (three days later than any former advices from that quarter) from which the following articles, comprising all the political intelligence it contains, are copied:  Merc. Adv.  LONDON, March 22.  PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.  Cons. for money 58 13-8—for acc. 58 1-2—Omnium 44 1-4.
Early on Wednesday morning the whole of the Channel Fleet got under weigh from Torbay, and stood down the Channel with a fine breeze at E. N. E.  Mr. Pitt last night described the outlines of his plan for the augmentation of our disposable force, by the more speedy reduction of the militia. The number of men to be thus obtained is to be 17,000, leaving 40,000 as the amount of the militia establishment for England, and 8,000 for Scotland. The number of volunteers from each regiment is to be regulated by the amount of the quotas for each country. Lists are to be transmitted to the respective commanding officers, and if four-fifths of the original numbers volunteer for the regular army, the country is to be freed from all further charge. In this case, the whole business is left to the commanding officer. If such a number should not, in the first instance, be obtained, the commanding officer is to divide his regiment into two equal parts; the one half is to be wholly exempted from the operation of the bill, and out of the remaining half, volunteers to the amount of four-fifths of the whole number are to be obtained.  On Wednesday, government sent orders to Gravesend, Portsmouth, and the Downs, to detain all China and Madras ships, which were ready to sail from these places, in order to embark troops on board of them. Ships of the largest size are to carry two hundred and forty men each, and the others two hundred or less, according to their dimensions. The China ships are to disembark their troops at Madras. The whole number of troops sent out will be between four and five thousand. The 69th regiment failed from Spithead the 8th of March, in the fleet convoyed by his Majesty's ship Hindostan, for the same destination. These troops have been ordered to India in consequence of the unpleasant intelligence lately received from that quarter.
The following are the regiments which are going on the secret expedition, as it has been called, but which is generally believed, to be destined for the Mediterranean:—Four troops of the 20th Light Dragoons, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Taylor: the 39th, 44th, 48th, 58th, and 81st regiments of Infantry from England; the 25th, 28th, and another regiment of Infantry, from Ireland; several companies of Artillery, Engineers, Ordnance, &c. General Sir James Craig is to be commander in chief. Under him General Sir John Stuart, and two Brigadier-Generals, Brigadier-General Campbell, Adjutant General to the expedition; and Colonel Bunbury, Quarter-Master-General. That the Mediterranean will probably be the scene of some enterprise, seems pretty evident from the quantity of stores lately sent to Malta; and there it is probable, the Russian auxiliaries will first be employed.
The expressions made use of last night by Mr. Pitt in the House of Commons, seems to hold out a hope that we shall soon have the co-operation of some of the continental powers.  Add to this, that more Russian troops, according to letters by the Hamburg Mails, which arrived this day, are daily expected at Corfu.  We have received Paris Journals to the 17th, and Dutch papers of the 20th inst.  The latter contain the plan of the new constitution prescribed to Holland by Bonaparte. It is, however, of little importance by what name or under what form Holland may be ruled, while a foreign state dictates every measure that is adopted. It will be seen that the legislative body is to be now modelled, and the ancient title of "Their High Mightinesses" restored to it. Of the "High and Mighty Lords" there is to be nineteen; and the Executive Power is to be vested in the hands of the pensionary, who of course will act as a kind of Vice-Roy to Bonaparte. Schimmelpennick is the person appointed to fill this latter situation. He is to have a council of state; the fees and emoluments are to be at his disposal; he is charged with the supreme police, and is to have the sole direction of the Treasury. Their High Mightinesses, in whose name he is to act, may approve or reject his plans, but they must not alter them.  An article from Frankfort, of the 15th, contains the following interesting particulars respecting what
is said to have lately passed between the courts of Berlin and Stockholm, with regard to the negotiations carried on by Sweden with England:—  "The court of Prussia, as has been already stated, has declared, that in case Sweden should conclude a subsidiary treaty with England, the Prussian forces would occupy Swedish Pomerania. Mr. de Brinkmann, the Swedish Minister at Berlin, transmitted, upon this subject, a letter, written in his sovereign's own hand, to Mr. Hardenburg, the Prussian minister. In that letter his Swedish majesty declares, that as a sovereign power he did not think himself forced to give any account to other powers of the alliance which he might think proper to conclude; that, in case any foreign troops should enter his territories, they should be treated as enemies, and that, at the same time, he should claim the assistance of the Russian auxiliary troops, conformably to the treaty concluded with Russia, October 29, 1799."
General Brune is arrived at Paris from Constantinople. According to letters from the latter city of the 25th of January, every exertion was making by the Ottoman Porte to place the army and navy on the best footing, and to provide for the regular pay of both. The navy is to be new modelled, on the plan of that of England.  A letter from Vienna, of the third instant, in the papers of the same date, mentions that the Bays of Egypt have gained a decisive victory over the Arnauts, commanded by Mohammed Aly, within 70 days journey of Cairo. The Arnauts, though superior in numbers, are stated to have lost in this contest about 9000 men, killed and wounded. Ibrahim attacked them in front, while they were flanked by Berdizi Bey, and assailed in the rear by Elfi Bey.  The French Funds on the 15th were 59 f. 100.  Lord Gardner is appointed to the command of the Channel Fleet.  Flour is in large supply, and may be named 5s. per sack less. Sales of all articles appear at a general declension.
LITERARY PROHIBITIONS. —The governments of the continent of Europe seem to think it the best means of preserving proper principles among their subjects, to keep them in entire ignorance of what is done or thought among other nations. As the press is the most dangerous of all instruments for the propagation of knowledge, the different governments of the continent of Europe are, and long have been, employing all their efforts to counteract the possible effects of this formidable weapon. There is, I believe, not a single sovereignty in Europe, Great-Britain excepted, where a literary censorship is not busily engaged in crushing the freedom of the press. The court of St. Petersburg has lately published a long edict, containing such regulations with regard to the circulation of literary productions of all sorts, both those printed at home and those imported from abroad, as must render it impossible that the people should know by the medium of the press a single circumstance which the court does not wish them to know. Amongst other articles it is decreed that all works relating to religion, music, previous to publication, be examined and approved of by a censorship composed of members of the established church. All journals, and even the hand bills of the theatres, must be submitted to the censors appointed to examine them.
Bonaparte has long shown himself the determined enemy of the freedom of the press. He has both reduced it to complete slavery at home and stifled the severest decrees against the importation of journals from Great-Britain, the only country in Europe where men dare to write what they think, and to print what they write. His prohibitions, however, are not confined to British productions. Afraid lest a ray of freedom should be reflected from the unprohibited atmosphere of Germany, he has prohibited the importation into France of even the journals printed on the left bank of the Rhine.
The king of Sweden has determined not to be outdone in this display of authority. He has strictly forbidden the importation into his dominions of all French books, journals, and in short, every thing that has issued from the French press. This decree has been distributed with the greatest diligence, and read in all the churches of the Swedish dominions.  Even the timid and subservient court of Spain has taken the alarm at the propagation of French principles about religion, and has ventured to prohibit the circulation of Peralta's discourse on the conclusion of the Concordat, as being "full of dangerous principles."  A German journal remarks on this occasion; "The French wonder at this prohibition of Spain; but the Germans would have much more reason to wonder at the numerous prohibitions of France, such as that of the journals of the left bank of the Rhine, &c. &c. if it were not, that amidst the great wonders of our times, such little wonders pass altogether unnoticed. If France and the other continental nations had entered into a mutual agreement to do the utmost in their power to aggrandize Great-Britain, they could not have fallen upon a more effectual mode than to prevent the circulation of knowledge in their own dominions, while it is diffused free and unrestrained over every part of the British Empire."
[U.S. Gazette.]  ELECTION. —One of the warmest electioneering contests ever known, took place during the last summer in the city of London between Sir Francis Burdett and George Boulton Mainwaring, esq.—the latter the ministerial, the former the popular candidate. Mr. Mainwaring was declared by the sheriffs of Middlesex duly elected by a majority of five or six votes. The following proceedings took place on the subject in the House of Commons on the 5th March. Subsequent accounts mention that Messrs. Cox and Rowland the sheriffs of Middlesex had been committed to Newgate by order of parliament for corrupt and illegal conduct in their return of Mr. Mainwaring.  House of Commons, March 5.  Lord Marham appeared at the bar, and reported from the committee, that George Boulton Mainwaring, esq. was not duly elected knight of the shire, to serve in the present parliament for the county of Middlesex.
2d. That the committee had determined Sir Francis Burdett, Bart. was duly elected a knight of the shire to serve in the present parliament for the county of Middlesex and that he ought to have been returned.  3d. That the petitions against the return of G. B. Mainwaring, esq. did not appear to be frivolous or vexatious; neither did the opposition to those petitions, shown on the part of Mr. Mainwaring, appear to be frivolous or vexatious.  The report was brought up, and an order was made for the clerk of the crown to attend the House to-morrow, in order to amend the return by erasing therefrom the name of George Boulton Mainwaring, esq. and inserting in its stead that of Sir Francis Burdett, Bart.
NEW-YORK, May 15.  The Favorite, Hoyt, which arrived on Friday at New-York, from St. Lucar, brought dispatches from Mr. Munroe for our government. We have not been able to learn the nature of their contents, but it is probable they relate to the blockade of Cadiz, which is carried on with the greatest rigour. Some letters have lately passed between Mr. Munroe and Sir John Orde, commander of the blockading fleet, relative to this important subject. The object of the minister was to have the blockade reduced, so as to allow vessels in port to fail, but it has not been attained. If a vessel were ballasted with salt, it would be a sufficient cause of capture.—D. Adv.  Mr. Mungo Park, the gentleman who has attained to a high degree of celebrity, for his travels into the interior of Africa, failed from Portsmouth, Eng. the beginning of March last, in the Eugenia, capt. Webb, on another journey of discovery to that quarter of the globe. The object of this voyage is to establish, if possible, commercial connections with some of the principal African towns and G. Britain. His course will be towards the Southern parts of the continent.
CORONATION CEREMONY.  OF HIS IMPERIAL MAJESTY  NAPOLEON THE FIRST,  (Ci-devant Brutus Aly Bonaparte.)  By the Grace of the Bavarian, Emperor of the French, King of the Lombards, &c.  [FROM THE BRITISH PRESS.]  The felicity of the day was announced by the firing of the cannon opposite the church of St. Roch, and afterwards proclaimed by Heralds, dressed in five coloured jackets, in honor of the five constitutions which France has sworn to preserve within these last twelve years. That the good Parisians might distinctly see the ceremony, the Prefect of the Police had ordered a general illumination for twenty-four hours, from sunrise of one day to the sunrise of the next. Instead of Aix-la-Chapelle or of Rheims, to avoid giving offence either to the shades of Charlemagne, or to those of the Boncons, the Conservative Senate had decreed that the coronation should be performed at Biotre , the ancient family residence of the Bonaparte family.
The procession set out from the Thuilleries in the following order: Eight running footmen, a Frenchman, a Dutchman, a Swiss, an Italian, a Spaniard, a Portuguese, a Prussian, and a Bavarian, each leading an ass richly caparisoned; six Lords in waiting, an Austrian, a Russian, a Swede, a Dane, a Saxon, and an American, all packed up in the same state carriage, on which, instead of a coat of arms, was painted the Temple in perspective; five banners, General La Fayette, dressed a la Pantonale , carrying an urn, with the ashes of the Rights of Man, general Charles Lameth, dressed a la Harlequin , carrying the Tree of Liberty, reduced to a walking stick; the Senator Fouche, dressed a la Sans Culotte , with a wooden basin, containing the ashes of the Bible burned by him in 1793, at Lyons, in a republican auto da fe : the Tribune Carnot, dressed a la Carmagnole , with a cloak a la Tartuffe decorated with a Jacobin cap, covered with black crape, with the inscription Refarguer and citizen Barrere, dressed in a Corsican livery, carrying a guillotine freshly painted with the blood of the Duke of Enghein.
Seven banner carriers, each having in his hand a bamboo pole, with a paper flag nailed to it, on which were painted the dates of the respective republican constitutions, with these words, Fidels to the Constitution, or Death : the Senator Abbe Sieyes carried the Constitution of 1791; the Senator Bishop Gregoire, that of 1793; the Senator Boissy d'Anglas, that of 1795; the Senator Francois de Neufchateau, the Constitutional variations of 1797; the Senator Volney, the Constitution of 1799; the Senator Roderer, the Constitutional variations of 1802; and the Senator Joseph Bonaparte, the Imperial Republican Constitution of 1804.
The Mameluke Rostan carried the Swords of State and of Justice, before the Grand Judge, Regnier, who was attended by a numerous suite of one hundred Special Military Commissioners; fifty thousand Jailors; twenty-five thousand Executioners; and fifteen hundred thousand Spies; headed by Citizen Melchior, Spy-in-Chief of the French Republic.
Ten millions of members of the Legion of Honor, carrying with them nine millions nine hundred and ninety-nine reprieves, from the gallows, from the galleys, from the hulks, from the pillories, and from the houses of correction. They all wore the new Imperial Order of St. Guillaume, suspended in a tricoloured ribband. The collars of this order were chains highly finished, interwoven with guilloines, daggers, and bayonets; the robes of the order red, velours du sang , lined with the skins of tigers, foxes, and monkeys.
General Abdallah Menou, in full regiments, carried the Alcoran, escorted by a corps of Mamelukes and Arabs; and the Bishop of Autun, Talleyrand, in his episcopal dress, carried the Bible, escorted by the Italian Consular Guard.
His Imperial Majesty, Napoleon the First, then followed, having in one hand a domiglobe in the form of a bowl, and in the other a sceptre, with two sharp points, one of which was poisoned. The bowl, as well as the sceptre, was of the Jaffa manufacturery. His Majesty's carriage was drawn by 116 horses, representing the 116 departments of his dominions, and mounted by deputations of the Senate, of the Tribune, and one of the Legislative Body dressed like Mountebanks. General Berthier acted as coachman; the two Consuls as lacqueys; and Cardinal Caprara, with the four French Revolutionary Cardinals, as porters.
Immediately after the Emperor's coach, followed in a balloon, Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Josephine La Pagerie, Beauharnais, Barras, Bonaparte, &c. She was accompanied by a battalion of maids of honour on horseback.  Arrived at Biotre ,* Their Majesties were met by a deputation of Muffies, Chiefs, and of the other revolutionary clergy, repeating Domine, salvum fac Imperatorem domi bajus ; to which all the adive citizens of Bicotre answered, Amen !  After the Mussulmans had finished their readings of the Alcoran, Abbe Sieyes ascended the pulpit, and delivered a pathetic sermon, informing the audience of the great honour and eminent services which the new Emperor had done the French nation, during the massacres at Toulon, in 1793, in those at Paris in 1795, in those in Italy during 1797, and in those at Jaffa in 1799.
In the absence of the Pope, the Bishop Talleyrand, performed the coronation ceremony. To preserve the republican simplicity, the Imperial Crown had been made at Luxemburg, of gilt paper, and received the blessings of Bishop Gregoire and Abbe Sieyes.  Madame Talleyrand performed the coronation ceremony on Madame Bonaparte. Her crown was similar to that of her Imperial consort, with the exception that Madame Talien and Madame Recamier, had read prayers over it.  To gratify the curiosity of the people, the procession returned on foot. But the conspiracies of the Chouans are not yet at an end; their accomplices in the clouds poured down a hail storm, which washed away the Imperial Crowns & the Constitutional Codes, and wetted, besides, their Imperial Majesties to the skin.  Except this accident, every thing passed on with the greatest regularity.
SENATORS.  We have appointed our son-in-law, Eugene Beauharnais, arch chancellor of state of the empire. Of all the acts of our power, there is no one more grateful to our heart.  Brought up by our cares, and under our eyes, from his infancy, he has rendered himself worthy of imitating, and by the aid of God, of one day surpassing the examples and lessons we have given him.  Although still young, we consider him from this day, by the experience we have had of him, under the greatest circumstances, as one of the supporters of our throne, and one of the most able defenders of the country.  In the midst of the cares and solicitudes inseparable from the high rank in which we are placed, our heart has stood in need of the softer affections in the tenderness and constant friendship of the child of our adoption; a consolation no doubt necessary to all men, but more eminently to ourselves, whose every instant is devoted to the affairs of the people.  Our paternal benediction will accompany this young prince throughout his career, and seconded by providence, he will be one day worthy of the approbation of posterity.  At the palace of Thuilleries, 12th Pluviose, year 13.
Signed, NAPOLEON.  By the Emperor, The Secretary of State, Signed, H. B. MARIT.  The above two messages being read, the senate decreed as follows:   That the message of his imperial majesty be inserted in this day's process verbal and printed, as also the speech delivered by his serene highness the arch chancellor of the empire, at the opening of the sitting over which he presided.  That an extraordinary sitting of the senate be fixed on, for the purpose of receiving the senatorial oath from the two new grand dignitaries.  That a deputation of eleven members of the senate be appointed to congratulate T. T. S. S. H. H. on their nomination.  That in reply to the emperor's message, another be drawn up to his majesty, to the following purport: 
"SIR,  "Two names were wanting to the list of grand dignitaries of the Empire. Your imperial majesty has just placed on this list two men whose virtue called them to the rank of princes, as it rendered them worthy of titles already so respectable, the one of your brother-in-law, the other of your son-in-law.  "Nothing can be more affecting and more ardent than the motives of these two nominations, mentioned in your message, just read to the senate.  "It participates your sentiments and has reflected immediately to transmit to your majesty the recital of the impression it has experienced. The talent of those who govern consists above all in the art of choosing for all places, the men best qualified to fill them; and this discernment becomes more difficult in proportion as the posts are more considerable and the dignities more sublime. Your majesty gives a new proof of this art of genius by the appointment of T. T. S. S. H. H. the grand admiral of the Empire and the arch chancellor of the state.  "What a magnificent recompence, for services rendered to the country! What a title is that of child of adoption, given to one of the new princes, appointed by your majesty! The whole senate hastens to applaud your justice; the whole senate congratulates itself on the prospect of seeing in its body members so distinguished, and it is certain that its acclamations will be repeated by all France.  The President and Secretaries.  (Signed) FRANCOIS, de Neufchateau, President. COLAND & PORCHIER, Secretaries.  Seen and sealed, The chancellor of the senate, (Signed) LAPLACE.
West-Indies.  [Conclusion of Extracts from Cobbett's Political Register on Jamaica Complaints.]
Some persons have talked (I do not know that they have ever ventured to commit their opinions to paper) of supplying Jamaica and the rest of the islands from our own dominions. Upon the face of the matter, let me ask any man, if he thinks we could supply them from England and Ireland? If he really thinks we have any quarter loaves to spare? And, if we had them, if he imagines, that the planters of Jamaica could find the means of purchasing them? No; but might not the islands be supplied from British North America ? With timber, scantling, boards, shingles and slates they might, if in British North America , there were hands enough to prepare those materials. They might, too, thence be supplied with salt haddock, herrings, salmon, and cod; but, there wants the hands to catch and cure, and the vessels to convey them. But as to provisions; as to flour, biscuit, Indian meal and corn, peas, pork and beef, whoever talks of the West Indies being supplied with those articles from British North America is a dreamer. Our possessions in North America are; Newfoundland; Nova Scotia; New Brunswick; and Canada; all of which, I believe, the last excepted, are so far from being able to supply the West Indies with provisions, that they themselves are indebted for a considerable part of their provisions to the United States ! Canada can export but very little indeed of either flour or beef; and, let it be recollected, besides, that whatever comes from that province must descend the St. Laurence, the navigation of which, from Quebec to the mouth, requires, upon an average, a space of time equal to that required in a passage from Virginia to Jamaica. Indeed, to talk of supplying the West Indies from our North American colonies is an absurdity to be treated with silent contempt.—The whole of the food of the inhabitants of the West Indies does not go from the United States . A part, particularly beef and butter, goes from Ireland; but, this is comparatively small; not exceeding in amount, a tenth part, perhaps, of what is supplied by the American States . The islands, too, produce a part of the food necessary for the support of their inhabitants. It would be difficult to come at a very exact estimate of the amount of the supply from each source respectively; but, of the share which the American States has in it some idea may be formed from the contents of a return, presented to the legislative assembly of Jamaica in December last; from which return it appears, that the quantity of American provisions, purchased for the use of the king's troops, and for the king's ships upon that station, in the space of three years, ending in September last, was to the following enormous amount. For the troops: 27,453 barrels of flour, amounting to 103,881. For the ships: 46,687 cwt. of biscuit; 20,545 barrels of flour; 1,422 barrels of beef; 1,559 barrels of pork; 12,582 bushels of peas; 152,042 lbs. of rice, and 90,958 lbs. of tobacco. All this in the space of only three years, and to the king's forces too; to those who are to be supposed to be ever under the special care of the government at home, and whom care is, in fact, always taken to supply, in part at least, with provisions from the mother country! Let any one judge, then, of the degree, in which the inhabitants of Jamaica are supplied from the American States , and of the ruin which an interruption of the present intercourse, must occasion to the former.—Such being a true representation of the case, what can

COMMUNICATION.
I have read with some surprise, a parcel of letters written by Mr. Elliott of Vermont, to his constituents. The game of fast and loose which this gentleman has been playing, will unquestionably lessen his reputation as a politician...
In one of the letters alluded to, the following remark is made. "In forming the constitution, immense sacrifices of weight and power were made by the small states and none at all by the large states." This observation is drawn from the writer, in that part of his epistle in which he seems to conceive, that the discrimination in balloting for President and Vice President, was calculated to impair the influence of the small states.
In vain do we boast of our ascendancy in the house of representatives—when a bill has received the just weight which we can throw into the scale, it marches up to the senate, and its progress is instantly impeded. Away with your nominal advantage! exclaims the senator from Delaware. What care I for your boasted acres and population?
COMMUNICATION.
It is confidently reported and believed, that the President of the U. S. will serve in his PRESENT OFFICE, no longer than his present term. The reason, which has been supposed to influence his determination, will cast no disgrace upon the previous lustre of his life. Mr. Jefferson is the friend of rotations in office.
The subject of the Jamaica Complaints is particularly entitled to the consideration of American statesmen. To assist the reader in forming a comprehensive judgment on this important point, we shall attempt to present him, in our next paper, with Mr. Jefferson's celebrated report in '93 on the state of our commercial relations with foreign countries.
To be Published in a few days, BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY AND A. DAVIS: [In one large vol. 8vo.] THE DEBATES AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION.
The following Preface will serve to explain the interesting contents of the work, and the amendments which have been introduced into the present edition. ALMOST immediately after the revolution, the inefficiency of the confederation, and the necessity of a better system of general government for the United States, were universally admitted.
land." But have we endeavoured? Have those endeavoured to lessen them or to prevent them for the future; those who have been the constant supporters and panegyrists of your friend, Mr. Pitt?
But, be the cause what it may, the sad effect is before us. There are a million of our own country people in misery, and nearly one half of the million have fallen into this state since Mr. Pitt and you first agitated the questions relative to negro slavery.
NEW-YORK, May 13.
Extract of a letter from the Island of St. Thomas. "On the 4th of April Gen. Ferrand was informed, by his spies, of the intentions of Desalines, to storm (at 10 o'clock at night) the walls of the city of St. Domingo, with all his army, composed of about 13,000 men.
"Letters from the city of St. Domingo to St. Thomas, state, that the blacks have raised round the walls more fortifications in a few days, than General Ferrand and his garrison can destroy in a month.
VIRGINIA.
At a Chancery District Court held in the city of Williamsburg, the 6th day of April, 1805. Helen Gilmore, widow and relict of Robert Gilmore, deceased, and John Morton Gilmore and Robert Gilmore, only children of the said Robert Gilmore, deceased, Plaintiffs.
Against Bogle Somerville and company, and Bogle Jameson and company, and James McGregor, John Robertson and Cunningham Corbett, trustees for the creditors of the aforesaid companies, and Gavin Lawson, Defendants.
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that the defendant Gavin Lawson, since the institution of this suit, has left this country, and the said defendant not having given security according to the acts of assembly and the rules of this court—on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is ORDERED, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city.
A Copy. Teste, ANTY ROBINSON, C. C. May 21. VIRGINIA. In the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond, Between Thomas Price and John Sandridge, Plaintiffs. And Alexander Outlaw, senior, and Alexander Outlaw, junior, Defendants.
ON motion of the defendant, Alexander Outlaw, junior, by counsel, this cause is ordered to be re-docketed; thereupon the said defendant filed his answer, to which the plaintiffs replied generally, and commissions are awarded the plaintiffs and the said defendant, to examine and take the depositions of their witnesses; and on the further motion of the said defendant, the court referreth the accounts, between him and the plaintiffs in this suit, to one of its commissioners, to be by him examined, stated, settled, and to the court reported with any special matters thought pertinent by himself, or required by the parties to be specially stated. A Copy. Teste, PETER TINSLEY, C. C. COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, Richmond, 15th May, 1805. THE parties will take Notice, that I have appointed the twenty-ninth day of July next, to commence the account directed by the annexed decretal Order of the Court—on which day they are requested to attend at my office in this city, with the accounts & vouchers prepared, and ready for examination and settlement—and with copies of the court papers. SAMUEL GREENHOW, M. C. May 21. LINSEED OIL. Quantity of Dutch Boiled LINSEED OIL, For Sale by THOMAS WHITE. May 21. 25v
men distinguished statesmen, orators and patriots, in order to provide some remedy for the evil; which could only be effected by amending the old , or devising a new federal constitution.
This was a spectacle, which the political annals of the world had never before displayed. Almost all the governments which had preceded it, had been the offspring of force, or fraud, or ill-digested policy.
The work of so august a body, all the members of which were of very respectable, and some of pre-eminent talents; necessarily commanded great respect—it was no sooner published, than it became the general topic of discussion everywhere throughout the United States.
The people being thus informed, every state selected some of its ablest citizens to convene for the purpose of deliberating on the merits of the proposed constitution. Virginia was in this respect, second to none of her sister states.
The talents of these statesmen were scarce inferior to their independence. They had been culled from the mass of the people, to represent their most important interests; and the people, regarding the importance of the trust, had selected their most enlightened friends to decide upon the constitution.
Though they are much more detailed than such debates usually are, and though he was governed by the most sacred regard to strict justice and impartiality in taking and transcribing them; the peculiarity of his situation, must have rendered the publication imperfect, and perhaps in some (the hopes few) instances, have occasioned a misconception of the meaning of the speakers.
WANTED, A smart active LAD, about the age of 14 or 16 years, as an assistant in the retail dry good business. Enquire at this office. May 21. ep4w
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust executed to me by John Dowdy, late of Cumberland county, to secure the payment of a debt due from him to Tarlton Cox, WILL BE SOLD, on Saturday the 15th day of June next, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Mofes Treadway's tavern in Powhatan county, One WAGON and CLOTH, for the purpose of satisfying said debt. GERMAN LESTER, Trustee. May 21. 2tp
By Last Evening's Mail
NEW-YORK, May 14.
By the arrival of the ship Union, Johnson, last evening, in 34 days from Liverpool, London dated to the 5th ult. have been received. Events of considerable importance to the European world have occurred since last advices.
Captain Gibbs from Mantanzas informs us that Vincent Gray, Esq. American consul, has been displaced and imprisoned in Moro; and that the French fleet was daily expected. N. Y. Merc. Adv.
BALTIMORE, May 17.
To the politeness of an attentive and valuable correspondent, the editors of the American are indebted for the following extract of a letter, dated
"CADIZ, March 25, 1805."
"Notwithstanding the vigour of the blockade, sundry neutral vessels, with cargoes, have entered this bay. On the 18th a Danish ship sailed from this port with a cargo of flax, and was ordered back by the English, which is a proof that they will allow no useful to sail with such cargoes, and only with ballast of sand or stones.
Table with 2 columns: Prize of, dollars. Rows: 1 of 10000, 5 of 5000, 20 of 1000, 50 of 500, 100 of 250. Bottom: 227 40000. Below table: First drawn ticket after 500 are drawn, 500 after 1000, 500 after 1500, 1000 after 2000, 1000 after 2500, 1000 after 3000, 1000 after 3500, 1000 after 4000, 1000 after 4500, 1000 after 5000.
The above Lottery will certainly commence drawing the first Monday in November, or sooner, if the tickets are sold.
DOCTOR WILSON
HAS removed his Apothecary Shop to the lower floor of the Bell Tavern, where he has a general supply of MEDICINES, PAINTS, & OTHER ARTICLES IN THE APOTHECARY LINE. He takes the liberty to observe, that he has not an article of medicine but such as he uses in his own practice.
100 DOLLARS REWARD.
At a meeting of the Fairfield JOCKEY CLUB, held at the Eagle-Tavern, on the 8th day of May, 1805: Mr. Taylor proposed the following resolutions, which were seconded, and unanimously adopted. WHEREAS a most cruel and unprincipled act has been perpetrated by some person or persons unknown, in wantonly slashing and killing the Valuable Imported Horse WRANGLER, at the residence of Mr. Haskins, in the county of Prince Edward; and whereas it becomes manifestly the interest of gentlemen of the turf, and breeders of horses, to bring to justice the perpetrator or perpetrators of an act so infamous, and so injurious to the community—Resolved—That a reward of one hundred dollars be paid by this club, to any person or persons, who shall give such information to the Secretary, as shall bring to conviction the perpetrator or perpetrators of this barbarous and malicious act.
Resolved—That the secretary of this club be requested to communicate to the secretaries of the different Jockey Clubs in this state, and to the secretary of the club in Washington, the resolutions of this club relative to the atrocious killing of this valuable horse, with a view to their co-operation in making a discovery of, and bringing to punishment the base and malignant offender. Extracts from the Club Book, MERRIWETHER JONES, Secretary. [1st.]
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
LOST, on Saturday last (in Henrico Court-House, or in the streets between that and the residence of the subscriber) A BUNDLE OF PAPERS, marked "Henrico May term, 1805." Within this bundle, were manifests for twenty hogsheads tobacco, sundry accounts, notes and other documents, relative to suits depending in that court, and were subdivided into six bundles, and marked 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. Those papers cannot be of any possible utility to any one except the subscriber and his clients—the tobacco mentioned in the manifests having been some time since delivered by the Inspectors at Shockoe warehouse, and shipped. Upon a delivery of those papers I will give the above reward, and ask no questions in relation to them. But if stolen I will give ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for such information as may lead to a conviction of the culprit. Richmond, May 17. SAML. MCRAW. The subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public at large, that he has obtained a commission for the exercise of the duties of a NOTARY PUBLIC, in and for this city; and that any business committed to him shall meet with prompt dispatch. Richmond, May 21. SAMUEL MCRAW.

SPECULATIONS ON THE PERCEPTIVE POWER OF VEGETABLES.
BY THOMAS PERCIVAL, M. D. F. R. S.
From the Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society at Manchester.
These are not idle, philosophic dreams; Full Nature teems with life.
Thomson's Spring, Sec. 6. line 156.
IN all our enquiries into truth, whether natural or moral, it is necessary to take into previous consideration, the kind of evidence which the subject admits of; and the degree of it, which is sufficient to afford satisfaction to the mind.
I. Vegetables bear no near a similitude to animals in their structure, that botanists have derived from anatomy and philosophy, almost all the terms employed in the description of them.
II. Instinct is propensity, or movement to seek, without deliberation, what is agreeable to the particular nature, actuated by it: and to avoid what is incongruous or hurtful.
These examples, of the instinctive economy of vegetables, have been purposely taken from subjects familiar to our daily observation.
furnish better illustrations of this acknowledged power of animality; and I shall briefly recite the history of a very curious exome, which has been delivered to us from good authority; and confirmed by the observations of several European botanists.
The Dionaea Muscipula is a native of North Carolina. Its leaves are numerous, including to bend downwards, and placed in a circular order; they are jointed, and succulent; the upper joint consists of two lobes, each of which is semi-oval in its form with a margin furnished with stiff hairs, which embraces each other, when they close from any imitation.
III. If the facts and observations, which have been adduced, furnish any presumptive proof of the instinctive power of vegetables, it will necessarily follow, that they must be endowed with some degree of spontaneity.
Several years ago, whilst engaged in a course of experiments to ascertain the influence of fixed air on vegetation, the following fact repeatedly occurred to me.
The regular movements, by which the sunflower presents its splendid disk to the sun, have been known to naturalists, and celebrated by poets, both of ancient and modern times.
"But one the lovely follower of the sun, Sad when she sets; flushes up her yellow leaves, Drooping all night; and when she warm returns, Points her enamour'd bosom to his ray." Summer, lines 216.
IV. Nature has wisely proportioned the powers of motion, to the diversified necessities of the beings endowed with them. Corallines and Scapens are fixed to a spot, because all their wants may be there supplied.
The powers of chemical stimuli, to produce contractions in the fibres of this plant, may perhaps lead some philosophers, to refer them to the vis insita , or irritability, which they assign to certain parts of organized matter, totally distinct from, and independent of any sentient energy.
vidently a selectivity, and reduces itself. For the presence of irritability can only be proved by the experience of irritations, and the idea of irritation involved in it that of feeling.
But there is a species of the order of Dacnaria, which constantly and uniformly exerts a self-moving power, unassisted either by chemical stimuli, or by any external impulse whatever.
I have thus attempted, with the brevity prescribed by the laws of this society, to extend our views of animated nature; to gratify the mind with the contemplation of multiplied accellions to the general aggregate of felicity; and to exalt our conceptions of the wisdom, power and beneficence of God.
* See Encyclopaedia Britannica, Art. Hedysarum .
† It has been estimated that our globe contains 20,000 species of vegetables; 1000 of worms; 12,000 of insects; 200 of amphibious animals; 2,600 of fishes; 550 of birds; and 200 of quadrupeds. (Vid. Linn. Amoen. Academ. and Stillingfleet's Miscellaneous Tracts , page 125.)
EDUCATION & POLITE ACCOMPLISHMENTS, FOR YOUNG LADIES:
AT WILLIAMSBURG, VA.
WHILST the enlightened period in which we live dawns with benign influence on female improvement, and parents every where become emulous to obtain for their daughters, the advantages which polite education confers, an establishment calculated to gratify this purpose is now offered.
As the seat of a justly celebrated university, and the residence of many families of the first distinction in our country, Williamsburg presents a scene, propitious in the highest degree to mental and personal accomplishments; and with a view, particularly, to the general improvement of young ladies, no place has superior claims to attention.
The severity of the past winter occasioned a temporary suspension of the exercises of the school, but they are now resumed; and parents, who wish to benefit by this establishment, may obtain further information, on application by letter, or otherwise, to Mr. L. Anderson, Postmaster, Williamsburg, Va. April 26. ep2w&eTt.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, will be exposed to sale for ready money on the first day of July, being Albemarle court day, at the house of James Lewis, in the town of Charlottesville: The interest of John Henderson in the following Negroes, to wit; Ned, Titus, Harry, Cloe and her children, Cate, Annaka, Selia, Fanny and Rachell, with their increase from the 31st day of March, 1802, or so many thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy a debt due Thomas Garth, senr. with the legal interest and costs of advertising &c. attending the sale. JAMES LEWIS. THOMAS GARTH, junr. Albemarle, April 30. et3w.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, will be sold for ready money on the first day of June next, at the house of James Lewis, in the town of Charlottesville: The interest of John Henderson in the following Negroes, to wit; Tiller, Milley, Biddy, Gid, Jemmy, Caroline and Gerry; together with their increase from the 31st day of March, 1802, or so many thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy a debt due Thomas Garth, junr. with the legal interest and cost of advertising, &c. attending the sale. JAMES LEWIS. THOMAS GARTH, junr. Albemarle, April 30. et3w.
BURR MILL STONES, of ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. near the Market. Dec. 4. [epit.]
CASH WILL be given for 12 or 15 BOYS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers. Dec. 12. [epit.]
TO BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the last Saturday in June next, So much of the LAND, whereon John Kello lives, in the county of Cumberland, late the property of Peter Francisco, as will pay the balance claimed of him, by Samuel G. Adams, of L. 160, with its interest, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to me, by the said Peter Francisco, for that purpose. CREED TAYLOR, Trustee. May 17. [epit.]
CASH WILL be given for 12 or 15 BOYS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers. Dec. 12. [epit.]
PUMFREY & FITZWYLLSONN, BOOK-BINDERS & STATIONERS,
MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND:
HAVE now on hand, and offer for sale, on the very lowest terms, a general assortment of STATIONERY, consisting of— All kinds of Writing Paper, Ink Powder, Japan Ink, for records, Quills and ready made Pens, Sealing Wax, Wafers, Shining Sand, Pounce and Sand Boxes, Penknives of the best quality, &c. &c. &c. Also, a great variety of BLANK BOOKS, adapted to the purposes of MERCHANTS, TRADESMEN, SHERIFFS, PUBLIC OFFICES, And Private Gentlemen. Made of the very best materials, in a handsome and substantial manner, and warranted. May 7. (T46)
FRANCIS FOLLET,
Has removed to the store lately occupied by Mr. George Watt, nearly opposite the Eagle Tavern—where he offers for sale, low for cash, an assortment of
HARDWARE, JEWELLERY, &c.
AMONGST WHICH ARE—
GOLD, gilt silver, plated, japan'd and Cutlery Ware; gold and silver Watches, Watch Materials, ladies' and gentlemen's Morocco Pocket Books, Glove Ties, elastic Garters and Girdles; Coral, Wax and Glass Beads; Ivory, bone and wood Chess Men; Buckskin Tables, Battle Doors and Shuttle Cocks, Flutes, Fifes, Guns, Gun Locks, Pistols, Swords, Sword Belts, Sword Knots, Epaulettes, Military Feathers, Sportsman's Bags and Knives, and common and agate Flint, Whips, Canes, Umbrellas, Boot Jacks, Spurs, Razor Hones and Straps, Shaving Boxes and Brushes, Curling Toongs, Powder Bags and Puffs, Violet and Shaving Soap, Pomatum, Tooth Powder and Essence; gentlemen's Mahogany dressing Cases and travelling Desks, Reeves' Colours for drawing and painting of different sizes, hair, lead and slate Pencils, Slates, Ink Powder, Wafers, Quills, Paper Folders, Counting House Seals, Ink Stands; Ivory, horn and tortoise shell Combs; ladies' ornamented tortoise shell Dress Combs, Sleeve Buttons, Jews Harps, Fife Hooks, Pins and Needles, elastic and common Knitting Needles, Tambour Needles and Cases, Thimbles, Spectacles and Cases, surveyors' Compasses and Chains, and mathematical Instruments, in Cases, Pocket Compasses, Dials, Glass Globe Lamps for halls, elegant Brass And-irons, and Shovels, Tongs and Pokers, Coal Scoups, Bellows, Smoothing Irons, Grid Irons, Copper and Iron Chafing Dishes, Soft and Hard Waffle Irons, post and Box Coffee Mills, Iron and Brass Candlesticks, Key Rings, Cork Screws, Cloak Pins; floor, hearth, scrubbing, white wash, doats, tooth, and shoe Brushes; Britannia metal Table and tea Spoons, Britannia metal Tea Pots, Frying Pans, Pots and Kettles, Fire Grates, Mill Saws, Hand and Panel Saws, Turkey Oil Stones, Gimblets, Shoemakers' Tools, Brick Trowels, Shovels and Spades, Locks, Hinges, Screws, Nails, Tacks—With a great variety of similar ARTICLES, too tedious to enumerate. ALSO, FOR SALE, Kid, Morocco, and Leather slippers; Men's fine and coarse shoes and Bootees; Hair and Leather Trunks, Fancy and Windsor Chairs; Earthen Ware, in crates, assorted; Spanish Florent Indigo; Patent Blue; Powder and Shot; prime Pork, New-York Inspection; pickled Herrings in small kegs, of a superior quality for family use. [eaw2w.]
IN CHANCERY.
Williamsburg Holdings Court, February 25, 1805.
John Coke, administrator de bonis non of
Samuel Coke, dec'd. } Plaintiff.
Against
Robert Coke and Samuel Coke, } Defendants.
THE Defendants, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of this court, that they are not inhabitants of this state; on the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of June Court next, and answer the bill of the complaint, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Enquirer printed in Richmond, for two months successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the Court-House of this city. A Copy, Teste, WILLIAM RUSSELL, c. c. March 28.—(eth3m).
VIRGINIA.
At a superior court of Chancery, held in Richmond the 23rd day of March, 1805.
Between
James Anderson and Philip Thurman, merchants & partners under the firm of James Anderson and company. } Plaintiffs.
And
Bernard Markham, & Francis Osborne, executor of George Markham deceased. } Defendants.
THE defendant, Bernard Markham, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the 29th day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said city. A Copy, Teste, P. TINSLEY, c. c. March 26. (e tu 2 m.)
IN CHANCERY.
At a court of quarterly session, held for Cumberland county, the 25th of February, 1805.
William M. Allen, and James Cody, merchants and partners acting under the firm of Allen and Cody, } Plaintiffs.
Against
Joseph Bradly, John Bradly, Martin S. Devenport, executor of David Devenport dec'd. Francis Devenport, & Jesse Dowdy. } Defendants.
THIS day came the plaintiffs by their attorney, and the defendants Joseph Bradly, & John Bradly, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and rules of this court, that they are not inhabitants of this state; On the motion of the complainants by their counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants, Joseph Bradly and John Bradly do appear here on the first day of April court next, to answer the complainants bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-House of this county. A Copy, Teste, SAMUEL HOBSON, s. s. c. c. March 26.—(e tu 2 m.)
TO BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the last Saturday in June next,
So much of the LAND, whereon John Kello lives, in the county of Cumberland, late the property of Peter Francisco, as will pay the balance claimed of him, by Samuel G. Adams, of L. 160, with its interest, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to me, by the said Peter Francisco, for that purpose. CREED TAYLOR, Trustee. May 17. [epit.]
VALUABLE PROPERTY.
The subscriber desires to advise that business in this place as soon as possible, is induced to offer for sale, the following valuable property, viz.
A CONVENIENT two story dwelling house, 24 feet square, having one room and a passage on the lower floor, two rooms on the second floor, and two good rooms in the garret, a cellar with plank floor, and divided into three apartments, one used for cooking; the yard included with a brick wall seven feet high, the whole in good repair. This tenement is situated near the Bell-Tavern, on the cross street leading to the Rock landing, and is insured in the Mutual Insurance company, against fire in the rate of Virginia, and the premiums paid.
Eleven unimproved half acre Lots, on Shockoe-Hill, 600 acres Military land in Kanawha county, on the waters of Oldtown creek, a branch of Ohio river, being a grant made to George Mule, Adam Stevens, Andrew Lewis and others, in the year 1772.
27 tracts of Land in Montgomery county, containing 32,172 3/4 acres, the whole patented in my name, viz.
4000 acres surveyed 9th April, 1786 in Montgomery county, on Cole river.
3850 acres surveyed 28th July, 1786 in same county, on 16 mile creek, adjoining the late General Washington's survey on Kanawha river.
3624 acres surveyed 23rd July, 1786, in same county, on Loop waters, waters of New-river.
1000 acres surveyed 19th May, 1786 in same county, on the Ohio river.
3210 acres surveyed 5th April, 1786 in same county, south of a creek running into Cole river.
2135 acres surveyed 21st February, 1787 in same county, on Cole river.
320 acres surveyed 3rd February, 1787 in same county, on the waters of Cooper's creek and Little Blue Stone.
1300 acres surveyed 16th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of the South fork of Cole river, that heads against Guyandott.
95 acres surveyed 10th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Glade creek.
78 acres surveyed 8th Feb. 1787 in same county, on a branch emptying into Glade creek on the south side of the fame, and about one mile above the ford of said creek.
500 acres surveyed 10th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the north fork of Mud river, that heads against Guyandott.
1500 acres surveyed 12th May, 1786 in same county, on Ohio river.
2000 acres surveyed 25th May, 1786 in same county, on the great Kanawha.
1000 acres surveyed 15th May, 1786 in same county and on ditto.
263 acres surveyed 8th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head of Glade creek.
214 acres surveyed 7th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the waters of Glade creek, on the south side thereof.
135 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the west end of Joe's Ridge, and on the waters of Glade creek.
154 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county on Joe's ridge.
228 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county, on Joe's ridge, and the waters of Glade and Cooper's creek.
414 acres surveyed 22nd Feb. 1787 in same county, on the second fork of Cole River, on the road crossing from Piney river to Guyandott.
2000 acres surveyed 26th Feb. 1787 in same county, under the big pipe stem knob, and running down both sides of the creek.
416 acres surveyed 4th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the waters of Coopers creek, and Joe's ridge.
880 acres surveyed 3rd Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Cooper's creek.
3338 acres surveyed 20th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the fourth fork of Cole river.
1345 acres surveyed 23rd Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Little Blue Stone, about half a mile north from the White Oak creek.
Three tracts of land in Monongalia county, patented in my name, viz.
350 acres by survey 1st June, 1796 in Monongalia county, adjoining Matthew Richey's land, and the Randolph county line, on waters of Cheat river.
400 acres surveyed 20th October, 1797 in same county, adjoining lands of Abner Harper, above the mouth of White Day creek.
400 acres surveyed 15th Nov. 1797 in same county, adjoining Peter Drago, on Pinche's run, to include an improvement made in the year 1778.
1000 acres in same county, on the west of Cheat river, above the lands of Thos. Butler.
800 acres in same county, on Buffalo creek, or a preemption right of David Gray.
250 acres in Greenbrier county, on Little Deer creek, adjoining lands of Joseph McClung.
891 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed 1st August, 1787, on the waters of Piney River & Paint creek, waters of Kanawha river.
435 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed 30th June 1786, joining the lands of Joseph Eaton, Richard Mule, and James McCrindle.
230 acres in Wythe county, surveyed 4th Nov. 1795, on the Led Mine Mill creek.
180 acres in Albemarle county, patent dated 5th July, 1787, on William Hill creek, waters of Buck Island creek.
TWO HALF ACRE LOTS.
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed by Jon, Evans of Fluvanna county, to the subscriber for the purpose therein mentioned, will positively be sold at Public Sale, at the Swan Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Saturday the 25th inst. at 12 o'clock, two half ACRE LOTS adjoining, lying on the north side of Bacon Quarter Branch, and known by the Numbers of 141, and 144, in the plat laid off by William Du-Val, Esq. being one half of the square of two acres, sold by him to Mr. Fleming Ruffel, on Shockoe-Hill.
The purchaser will be intitled to three months credit from the day of sale, by giving an approved note, negotiable at the Bank of Virginia. RICHARD REID, Trustee. May 14.—[tds.]
LAND CONVENIENT TO RICHMOND, FOR SALE.
ON Saturday the 25th of this present month, will be sold to the highest bidder, for ready money on the premises: Two hundred and thirty three acres of LAND, more or less, adjoining the lands of Thomas H. Prosser, John Williamson, sen. and Col. Nathaniel Wilkinson, about six or seven miles from town; which land was formerly the property of Mr. Thomas Williamson, dec'd, and is now the property of Mr. Dabney Williamson, and conveyed by him to me in trust, to be sold for the purposes of satisfying debts in the trust deed, mentioned. A satisfactory title will be made on payment of the purchase money. BENJ. SHELPAED. [tds.] May 14.
MOUNT SION FOR SALE.
THE subscriber offers for sale, his Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of MOUNT SION. The above tract contains about 500 acres, all of which is equal to any land in that part of the country for fertility of soil, and has every requisition to make it a desirable plantation for a genteel family. There is on the land an excellent brick dwelling house, with every convenient out house; it is situated on the navigable waters of the Potomack, and commands an elegant view of the river; it is very convenient to ships, oysters, &c. and is within one day's sail of Alexandria, Norfolk, and Baltimore. Terms of the sale will be made known by application to Mr. Henry Ball, who resides on the land, or to the subscriber. JESSE L. JONES. May 8. [qf.]