The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1804-12-13 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
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THURSDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 13, 1804.
[VOLUME I.]
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Auction Sales.
THOMAS TAYLOR & Co.
WILL in future sell at the store occupied by M. W. Hancock & Co. on Wednesdays in each week; and at their office, on Tuesdays and Fridays as usual. Dec. 1, 1804. epf
Sales at Auction.
WILL BE SOLD by the subscribers, at the late dwelling house of D. M. Randolph, Esq. on Friday the 14th inst. a variety of valuable Household and Kitchen FURNITURE; among which are, some fashionable and substantial Plate, lately imported; mahogany tables, fine board and basin stands of superior quality; a well assorted collection of the most useful kitchen furniture; sets and parts of sets of table and tea China, &c. &c. &c. &c. Also—A very large superb Carpet, and a very superior Time Piece. Terms of sale—Cash for all sums of 50 dollars and under; over that sum, a credit of 60 and 120 days will be given. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock. In the mean time, ladies and gentlemen are respectfully invited to view the articles; in expectation of which, attendance by the proprietor will be given every morning until 11 o'clock. THOMAS TAYLOR, & Co. Auctioneers. Dec. 5, 1804. (epf)
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold for cash, on Saturday the 15th instant, LOT NO. 715, handsomely situated on Shockoe Creek, and adjoining the lot of Mr. John Scott Moore. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock on the premises. AT PRIVATE SALE, Lot No. 206, in the town of Manchester; for terms apply to THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. V. M's (epf)
Sales at Auction.
WILL be sold at public auction, for ready money, on Wednesday the 19th day of December next, the HOUSE & LOT near the mouth of Shockoe Creek, at present occupied, by B. J. Harris, and commonly called the Shot Factory—the title papers may be seen at any time by applying to THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. V. M. Nov. 24. epf
Sales at Auction.
WILL be held, on Saturday 22nd. inst. at the Eagle Tavern, that handsome HOUSE and LOT on Shockoe, at present occupied by Mr. Benjamin Motby. The terms of sale will be 1/2 payable 1st January next—1/3 1st March, and 1/3 1st July. ALSO, TWO new Brick HOUSES on the street near the Canal, and adjoining the property of Mr. M'Kim. Terms of Sale—90 days—Notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia. Will also be sold at the same time and place: 16872 acres of MILITARY LAND. T. TAYLOR & Co. V. M's (epf)
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE AT RITCHIE & WORSLEY'S BOOK-STORE: THE RAINBOW, SERIES FIRST; Originally Published in the RICHMOND ENQUIRER.
AN association was formed during the last summer, by a few gentlemen, of whom some are now, and others have been, inhabitants of this city, for the purpose of composing a series of Miscellaneous Essays for the Richmond ENQUIRER. These Essays were regularly published every Saturday, during the months of August, September, and October. The first number appeared on the 11th of August, and the last on the 20th of October. These numbers, taken together in the order in which they were published, will constitute the first series of the RAINBOW; and it is this first series which is now presented by the proprietors of the Enquirer to the amateurs of Literature, and to its patrons in Virginia. The second series will probably be communicated to the public in the present form, as soon as it shall be completed by the members of the association. Richmond, Dec. 11th, 1804.
FOR SALE. BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber by David Gillispie, senr. of Albemarle county, to secure the payment of a debt due Brown, Watson and Co. and J. M. Watson, will be exposed to public sale, to the highest bidder for ready money, on Tuesday the first day of January eighteen hundred and five, at Mr. Credie, Higginbotham and Co's store, ten miles above Charlottesville, the tract of land whereon the said Gillispie at present resides, containing one hundred and seventy-five acres, be the same more or less. WILLIAM WOOD, Trustee. Albemarle, Dec. 8.—(3w.)
FOR SALE. BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber by Walter Watson of Albemarle county, to secure the payment of a debt due Brown, Watson & Co. will be exposed to public sale to the highest bidder for ready money, on Tuesday the first day of January eighteen hundred and five, at Mr. Credie, Higginbotham and Co's store, ten miles above Charlottesville—The TRACT OF LAND whereon the said Watson at present resides, containing two hundred and sixty-four acres, be the same more or less. GEO: GARRETT, Trustee. Albemarle, Dec. 8. Sw
THE SUBSCRIBER.
INTENDING to close all his former transactions with the termination of the present year, requests all those who have demands against him, either by bond, note or open account, to leave with Mr. Samuel Jones, at the Toll-Bridge, a memorandum of the nature of their claims and the amount, in order that directions may be given for the speedy payment of them. It is hoped that this notice will be attended to by all who are concerned, as it will be pleaded in bar to claims which may at a future distant day be exhibited against him or his estate. JOHN MAYO. Dec. 11. [24]
Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Debate in committee of the whole, ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE. Monday Dec. 2.
Mr. Varnum in the Chair.
The reported articles were read. Mr. Elliott. It will be recollected, Mr. Chairman, by every member of the committee who was present at the close of the last session, that upon the report of the committee of inquiry, recommending the impeachment of Judge Chase, no member but myself thought proper, to deliver his sentiments. I feel no inclination to retrace the ground which I then occupied in solitude; especially as the opinions which I then advanced remain unaltered. Nor have I a disposition to embarrass the proceedings. I will, indeed, to simplify them. But I feel it my duty to suggest that course of proceeding, and that mode of decision, which I believe to be demanded equally by our duty to the person accused, to our own consciences, and to our country; and I shall suggest them with confidence rather than with diffidence, because they are so extremely obvious. I believe it to be our duty deliberately to investigate the principles involved in the report, some of which are certainly novel, and to take distinct questions upon each general head of accusation. Because I think Mr. Chase ought to be impeached for two or three misdemeanors, I cannot give my vote in favor of articles accusing him of eight high crimes and thirty or forty misdemeanors. If I should be so fortunate as to be seconded in the opinions which I entertain upon this subject, I will move to amend the report upon the table by striking out that part which relates to the conduct of Judge Chase on the trial of John Price, and which is now comprised in the first article. The motion being seconded, Mr. Smilie asked if the motion was in order, observing that the report consisted of a number of distinct propositions which he conceived were to be considered in the usual way article by article and the question would be either to concur or non-concur. The gentleman (Mr. E.) might gratify his zeal in this way as well as in the mode he had proposed for striking out, and the result would be the same—it would furnish an opportunity for every member to speak for or against each article, as well as to amend any. Mr. Elliott replied that he was not tenacious of form. His only object was to obtain distinct questions. If the committee of the whole were disposed to pursue the course pointed out by the gentleman from Pennsylvania, he would withdraw his motion. The Chairman gave it as his opinion that the proper mode of proceeding would be to take the report up by articles. On the first article being read, Mr. Elliott moved to strike it out. The Chairman said the motion to strike out the first section was in order, and was usual in the case of a bill in order to decide upon its merit—but in independent articles like the present it would be preferable to take the question on concurring, so that the opinion of the committee might be ascertained on each article. Mr. Smilie expressed an indifference as to the mode of decision, but he believed what he had suggested was conformable to all former rules and practices. Mr. J. Randolph, (after a short pause,) said that the question of concurrence with the select committee in his opinion ought to be taken on each article, separately, and for his part he had no objection to take it upon each separate member of each article, if any gentleman wished it to be taken in that way. Mr. Nicholson observing that there was no question before the committee, conceived that one ought to be presented for their decision. He therefore moved that the committee of the whole concur with the select committee, and agree to the first article. Which being seconded the question was put by the Chairman, a division was called for, and 78 members rising in the affirmative, it was carried without reverting the question—71 being more than a majority of the whole House had all the members been present. The 2d article under consideration. Mr. Dandridge. This mode of proceeding incurs some difficulty which might be prevented by the motion to strike out, as in the latter case the principle upon which the article is grounded would be tested, and if the principle, and if the principle was adopted the phraseology might be varied & amended as might be thought proper. Chairman. The committee has already determined to proceed in a different manner, it therefore does not rest upon the discretion of the Chair. Mr. Smilie forgot the propriety of reading the evidence in support of each article, as there were many gentlemen here who were not present at the last session when the testimony was both read and printed. Mr. Findley seconded the motion. Mr. Nicholson. Reading the testimony will occupy the whole day, it constitutes the volume in my hand (a volume of apparently 200 pages.) Mr. Smilie would not call for its reading on his own account; he had already perused the testimony, but there were several gentlemen now present who were not here at the last session, who perhaps have not had an opportunity of seeing the documents, and he believed gentlemen generally voted with more satisfaction on subjects with which they are well acquainted than on those where doubts or apprehensions are entertained. Besides he deemed it more safe and dignified to proceed with caution and due deliberation on so serious a question as that
of impeaching a person holding one of the most important stations in the government.
Mr. Nicholson. The manner of proceeding in the business of impeachment at the last session, was, to read such parts of the testimony upon the call of a member as related to the particular article under consideration. He recollected upon the impeachment of Judge Pickering that the gentleman on the other side of the House from New-Hampshire called for reading the particular part of the testimony, most likely to extricate the officer impeached, or produce a conviction in the minds of others such as he felt himself—he hoped the same course of proceeding would be adopted by the committee, and such portions would from time to time be read as members required. The Chairman put the question on reading the testimony generally, which was lost on the division, being only 40 in the affirmative, & 54 in the negative. The second article being under consideration. Mr. Boyle moved to amend the latter part of the article by striking out the words in Italic & inserting those in parentheses—“John Basset one of the Jury who wished to be excused from serving on the said trial because he had made up his as to (that) the publication from which the words charged to be libelous in the indictment were extracted (was within the statute of the United States upon which the said Gilex was indicted) &c.” Making the allegation in this way you will find it fully supported by the testimony, for they are the words of the testimony itself; it is said that the 8th Juror acknowledged that he had formed an unequivocal opinion that such a book as “The Prospect Before Us” came within the sedition law. Mr. Nicholson supported that the rule adopted by the committee against the reading of the general testimony would not prevent particular parts as they apply to particular points from being read, he before called for reading so much of the evidence as related to the Juror mentioned in the 2d article. Mr. Nicholson mentioned page 183 of the depositions of the witnesses on the part of the United States as the place where the clerk would find what the gentlemen wanted. Which being read as follows: “Perhaps it is not improper here to observe, that the eighth juror answered when the previous question was put to him, that though he had never read or heard the charges in the indictment, and knew not what the traverser had published, yet he had formed an unequivocal opinion, that such a book as “The Prospect Before Us,” was, came within the sedition law: But no objection was made to him, and he was sworn like the rest.” Mr. J. Randolph referred to page 56 near the top for other corroborative evidence. The clerk read the following: “One of the jury, John Basset, stated that he was unwilling to serve, having made up his mind as to the book called “The Prospect, &c.” but as he acknowledged that he had not formed and delivered an opinion concerning the charges in the indictment, because in fact, he knew not what they were, his objection was overruled.” And also from page 61, as follows; “It is to be observed that Mr. Basset who had been summoned on the jury, seemed to have considerable scruples at serving, and stated that he had expressed some opinion as to the “Prospect Before Us.” Judge Chase however declared Mr. Basset a good juror, and he was sworn and acted as a juror.” Mr. J. Randolph thanked his friend from Kentucky for every suggestion tending to improve the report of the committee, confident that his motives were highly commendable. The report has been referred by the House to a committee of the whole for the purpose of obtaining by a full, fair and free discussion, two objects; first, to determine whether the charges exhibited are such as the House are willing to prefer against the person impeached, and in order if they be found incorrect to make them as perfect as possible. On both these points I invite discussion in the name of the select committee, who brought in this report. At the same time I wish to suggest to my friend (Mr. Boyle) the propriety of re-examining his idea, and ascertaining whether the eighth juror alluded to in the account of Callender's trial is the juror mentioned in the testimony of Mr. Hay, and of Mr. Nicholson. These gentlemen mention the juror by name. Mr. Robinson's account of the trial mentions him by number. Now if it should appear that the eighth juror was not Mr. Basset, must not the article fail to the ground if the proposed alteration should take place. I think it one of the strongest circumstances in this article that a juror was compelled to serve after stating that he had made up his mind as to the criminal offence on the question he was about being sworn well and truly to try. The committee will perceive a considerable variation between the testimony in page 183 & 56. In the first the writer introduces “with a perhaps it is not improper here to observe,” that the eighth juror answered when the previous question was put to him, that though he had never read the indictment, yet he had formed an opinion that such a book as the “Prospect before us” came within the sedition law. This I believe is the amount of what is said in that page, and it appears from this to be an incidental circumstance only; whereas if you turn to page 56 it is there stated with the clearest precision, that he was unwilling to serve because he had made up his mind on the book called the Prospect. It does not appear to be drawn from him by the previous question, but it does appear fully and unequivocally to bespeak his own mere motion, a conscientious scruple to try what he had already past judgment upon. In my opinion the report is better as it stands than it would be with the alteration, and I submit to my friend from Kentucky (Mr. Boyle) whether it would not be better to let the article stand, rather than fail before the senate, if it should turn out that the sixth juror and Mr. Basset are different persons. Mr. Boyle had heard no objection but which might be obviated by another amendment, that was to strike out the name of John Basset, and then it would apply to the juror who had used the expression; in that case the House might rely in sustaining their impeachment before the Senate upon the evidence as well of page 183 as that of 56. He moved to strike out “John Basset.” Mr. Nicholson did not think it necessary that the words proposed to be stricken out should be struck out. He thought that under the words contained in this article as it stood it would be perfectly regular and proper even on
a trial proceeding before the Senate to give in evidence the testimony alluded to in page 183. And he had no doubt but the Senate would admit all evidence of this kind to have its proper weight, because it seems to be universally admitted and has been long understood, that in proceedings by way of impeachment that technical precision is not required, which is required by our courts of law on indictment, if however gentlemen are embarrassed about having this testimony directly pointed, this may be easily come at. They can add to the article as another count is added to a bill of indictment. This mode is very well known, and may be adopted by those who think it necessary; for his part he did not think it necessary. Mr. Boyle withdrew his motion for the present. The question was now taken on the second article and carried, eighty members rising in the affirmative. The third article before the committee. Mr. J. Randolph read the following testimony in support of this article, viz. “When the trial commenced, Col. John Taylor, of Caroline, was introduced as a witness for the prisoner. I believe he was sworn. The counsel wished to interrogate him. This they were not permitted to do, until they had stated the points to which his evidence related. They were then obliged by Mr. Chase, to reduce the questions, which they wished to propound to Col. Taylor, to writing, and then to submit them to his inspection, that he might determine whether they should be propounded or not. “Col. Taylor's evidence was rejected. “The ground of this opinion as stated by Mr. Chase was this, that Col. Taylor could not prove the whole of one charge. The charge was, the judge (Chase) said, “that the President was a profligate aristocrat—that he had proved faithful and serviceable to the British interest.” Proving half, he said, was doing nothing; both facts must be proved. It was contended, on the part of the prisoner that if it was necessary to prove both facts by the same witness, the charge in both points would be proved by the testimony of Col. Taylor. He would prove that Mr. Adams had professed aristocratical opinions; and that he had proved faithful and serviceable to the British interest, in the way meant by “the Prospect, &c.” by voting against the sequestration law, and the law suspending all intercourse with Great Britain. The judge (Chase) repeated that the evidence was inadmissible, that the counsel knew it to be so, and that they only wanted to deceive and to mislead the populace.” And afterwards he added the following viz. “Interrogatory 4th.—Did Mr. Chase refuse to the prisoner the testimony of a witness, because he, the said witness, could not prove the truth of all the facts set forth, and upon which the indictment was grounded? “Answer.—After the jury in Callender's case were sworn, col. Taylor, of Caroline, who attended as a witness, in consequence of a subpoena served upon him on behalf of Callender, was called to the book and sworn in the usual form. Judge Chase at this moment asked, with considerable haste and eagerness of manner, what the counsel expected to prove by the witness? He was informed that they meant to ask him whether Mr. Adams had not avowed in his presence, sentiments inimical to a republican form of government, and whether he did not, whilst Vice-President, give the casting vote in the Senate, against the sequestration of British debts, and against the suspension of intercourse with Great Britain. Judge Chase demanded that the counsel should state in writing the questions meant to be asked. The counsel for the defendant opposed this, because, although a number of witnesses had been examined on the part of the United States, no similar requisition had been made with respect to them, because it was contrary to the practice in the state courts, and because also it was unreasonable in itself, and calculated to subject every question of fact to the control of the court. Judge Chase, however, insisted that the questions should be submitted to his previous decision. They were accordingly put in writing, and were as follows, to wit: “1. Did you ever hear Mr. Adams express any sentiments favorable to monarchy or aristocracy—and what were they? “2. Did you ever hear Mr. Adams, whilst Vice President, express his disapprobation of the funding system? “3. Do you know whether Mr. Adams did in the year 1794, vote against the sequestration of British debts, and for stopping all intercourse with Great Britain? “After having examined the questions, judge Chase declared that Col. Taylor's evidence was inadmissible. He declared that no evidence could be received that did not justify the whole charge. The charge, said he, is, that the traverser said of the President, he is a profligate aristocrat and has proved faithful to the British interest;—now you must prove both points, or you prove nothing; and as your evidence relates to one only, it cannot be received—you must prove all or none. This was in substance, and it is believed the precise words in which judge Chase stated his objection to Col. Taylor's evidence. The Counsel asked the judge whether they could not be allowed to prove part of a charge by one witness and part by another? To this judge Chase replied, that if the counsel could prove the whole of any one charge by Col. Taylor, they might do it, otherwise they should not examine him. The counsel contended that Col. Taylor's evidence applied to the whole of the charge which the judge had stated in his opinion—that they meant to prove by him, that the President had professed anti-republican sentiments, and had proved faithful and serviceable to the British interest, in the sense in which those expressions were used in the Prospect. The judge, however, adhered to his determination to exclude the evidence; and Col. Taylor retired from the Court with evident marks of astonishment.” The question was taken upon the third article without a division, and carried. The fourth article being before the committee, it was considered by paragraphs. Mr. J. Randolph. The testimony in support of the first paragraph has been read on the preceding article; in it is that part of Mr. Nicholson's testimony stating the demand of judge Chase that the counsel should state in writing the questions meant to be asked. The Chairman proceeded to read the second paragraph, and Mr. J. Randolph read in its support, the following affidavit:
City of Richmond, to wit: This day James Thomson Callender, made oath before me, a magistrate for the said City, that Wm. Gardner, Tench Coxe, Judge Bee, Timothy Pickering, Wm. B. Giles, Steven Thomson Mason, and gen. Blackburn, he believes to be material witnesses in his defence, against an indictment found against him during the present term of the circuit Court of the U. States for the middle circuit, Virginia district;—That Wm. Gardner, aforesaid, resides, he believes, in Powhatan, in the state of New-Hampshire;—That Tench Coxe, aforesaid, resides in Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania;—That judge Bee resides, the deponent hath understood, in South-Carolina, but in what part of the state he knows not;—That Timothy Pickering, aforesaid, resided of late in Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, but where he resides at this time the deponent doth not know;—That Wm. B. Giles, aforesaid, he hath understood, since he hath been furnished with a copy of the indictment, and since the said Giles hath left town, resides in the county of Amelia, and that Gen. Blackburn resides in the county of Bath.
“The said James Thomson Callender further declares, that he expects to prove by the said Wm. Gardner, and that he verily believes that he shall prove by the said Wm. Gardner, that the said Wm. Gardner was commissioner of loans for the state of New-Hampshire, under the government of the United States, and that he was turned out of the said office of commissioner of loans, because he the said Gardner refused to subscribe an address circulated in the town of Portsmouth, in New-Hampshire, and presented to the President of the United States in the year 1798, at the instance of several inhabitants of the said town; in which address an unequivocal approbation of the conduct of the said President in the administration of the United States is expressed.
“2d. The said James Thomson Callender further declares on oath,—That he verily believes that he shall prove by the evidence of Tench Coxe aforesaid, that he, the said Tench Coxe, in the year 1798, held an important office under the government of the United States, to wit, commissioner of the revenue, from which office the said Coxe was ejected by the present President of the United States; because he did not approve the measures of his, the said President's administration, or the principles on which it was conducted.
“That he verily believes he shall be able to prove by the evidence of Judge Bee, that he did receive from the President of the United States in the year 1799, a letter in which he the said President did advise and request the said Judge Bee, then acting in his judicial character, to deliver to the Consul of the British nation in Charleston, Jonathan Robbins alias Thomas Nath, who had been apprehended and carried before the said judge on a charge of murder committed on the high seas on board the British frigate Hermione.
“He further deposes on oath, that he verily believes that he shall be able to prove by the evidence of Timothy Pickering, that the President of the United States was in possession of dispatches from Mr. Vans Murray, American minister in Holland, containing assurances on the part of the French republic, that ambassadors from the United States would be received in a way satisfactory to the people and government of the United States, many weeks while Congress was in session, before he communicated the same to Congress.
“The deponent further saith, that he verily believes that he shall be able to prove by the evidence of Stephen Thompson Mason and William B. Giles, that John Adams President of the United States, has unequivocally avowed in conversation with them, principles utterly incompatible with the principles of the present constitution of the United States, principles which could not be carried into operation under any political institution without the establishment of a direct, powerful and dangerous aristocracy; that he declared in express terms to the said Stevens Thompson Mason that he had no more idea of the present federal constitution could, for any length of time, control the people of the United States, than that it could control the motions of the planets; that he also declared to the said Stephens Thompson Mason, that he had no more idea that a political society could exist without a distinction of ranks, than that an army could exist without officers; and also that he can prove by the said Wm. B. Giles, that the P. of the U. S. has avowed in conversation with him a sentiment to this effect, that he thought the executive department of the U. S. ought to be vested with power to direct and control the public will.
“That this deponent verily believes that he shall be able to prove by gen. Blackburn that he did, on the day of _____ in the year 1798, receive an address from John Adams P. of the U. S. in answer to the field officers of Bath county, in which the said President does avow, that there was a party in Virginia which deserved to be humbled into dust and ashes before the indignant frowns of their insulted, & offended country.
“And this deponent further saith, that he is advised and believes that it is material to his defence by the indictment aforesaid that he should procure authentic copies of sundry answers made by the President of the United States to addresses from the inhabitants of the U. States in various parts thereof, which authentic copies he cannot procure, so as to be in readiness for trial during the present term.
“He also saith, that he is advised and doth believe that a certain book entitled “An Essay on Canon and Feudal Law,” or entitled in words to that purport, ascribed to the President of the United States, and of which he believed the President is the author, is material to his defence, and that he cannot procure a copy of the same, and evidence to prove that the said President is the author thereof, without being allowed several weeks and perhaps months for the purpose. “He further saith, that he is told by the counsel who means to appear for him, that they cannot possibly be prepared to investigate the evidence relating to the several charges in the indictment, even if all the persons and documents wanted were upon the spot.
WM. DUVAL. May 28th, 1800. District of Virginia, ss. I certify that the foregoing is truly copied from the original in my office. WILL. MARSHALL, Clk. Ct. of the United States, 8th Circuit, V. D.

The committee proceeded to consider the third paragraph of the 4th article.
Mr. J. Randolph. Under another paragraph, part of the testimony has been read, but the following should be added:
Mr. Hay says, "The counsel, who associated with me, in Callender's defence, attempted to address the jury on the unconstitutionality of the law, on which the indictment was founded. They were interrupted, and obliged by Mr. Chafe, if not ordered, to sit down. I then addressed Mr. Chafe himself, with a view, to satisfy him, that I had a right to discuss this point before the jury. I told him that what I was then about to say, was intended for the court alone. He interrupted me; he asked some question which was answered: in a very short time, after I had resumed my argument, I was interrupted again, by Mr. Chafe. How often I was interrupted I know not, but I was interrupted, rudely interrupted several times. Having been in the course of this trial what I had never been before, having felt what I never felt before, and what I certainly expect never to feel again, and being impressed with a belief that Mr. Chafe was determined to silence me, if he could, my mind was overwhelmed with conflicting sentiments, and I quitted the bar, my client and the court."
When the question was about to be put on agreeing to the whole of the 4th article.
Mr. Mott rose and remarked that he was not here when the committee on this subject reported at the last session, and of course did not get a copy of the evidence, he had however seen a part thereof in the newspapers and examined so much of the subject as to have satisfied him, that it was proper to vote in favour of two of the articles, to wit; the first and third, but as he had not an opportunity since coming to this place of comparing the articles of impeachment with the testimony on which they were founded, and since he could not make up his mind in hearing the evidence partially read, and as the House have refused to put it off for a short time, and he was not allowed to make the examination for himself, he was obliged to inform the committee, that he was not satisfied to vote in favour of the 4th article, whereas had he been allowed time he might join a vote with the majority.
Mr. Nicholson said all the evidence on the subject of this article had not been read, he would therefore read it himself as the clerk was indisposed with a hoarseness—He read the following:
"The additional deposition of Philip Norborne Nicholas taken before George Wythe and Joseph Scott, Esquires, under the authority of the House of representatives of the United States."
"The said Nicholas being asked by the said commissioners what was the general deportment and manner of Judge Chafe during the trial of James Thompson Callender, answers—"
"The general deportment and manner of Mr. Chafe during the said trial, appeared to the said Nicholas to be marked with great violence and precipitation; and that Judge Chafe manifested a solicitude for the conviction of the prisoner, which, in the estimation of said Nicholas, was improper in a judge sitting in a criminal prosecution.—The said Nicholas further states, that the deportment of Judge Chafe to the counsel, who appeared for Callender, was rude and overbearing, and calculated to prevent that full and free defence, without which it is impossible for them to do justice to their client."
PHILIP NORBORNE NICHOLAS. Richmond Feb. 7. 1804.
"The additional deposition of George Hay, who being asked what were the manners and deportment of Samuel Chafe, during the trial of James Thompson Callender, deposes and saith—"
"That it appeared to him at the time of the trial, and he yet believes that the manners of Mr. Chafe were intentionally rude and insolent. The deponent thought and still thinks, that Mr. Chafe was determined that Callender should, if possible, be convicted; and that to accomplish this purpose, he endeavoured to intimidate, to depress, and to silence his counsel. He interrupted them frequently, with wanton rudeness. He ordered one, if not more, of them to sit down. He charged them with advancing doctrines which they knew to be illegal, and which they advanced, he said, only to deceive and mislead the populace.—The patience of the deponent was at length exhausted, and he quitted the court and the cause, under a belief that further exertions would only tend to cover himself with still greater shame, to subject him to still greater humiliation."
"The deponent believes that there did not escape from him during the trial, a word or gesture, that could have given offence to the judge. The conduct of his associates was, he believes, equally guarded: he does not therefore ascribe the intemperance of Mr. Chafe to irritation, occasioned by the conduct of the bar."
"The deponent is under no apprehension, that his judgment has been much mised, by the circumstances attending his own situation. He knows, and can now name men, whose politics then differed from his own, who expressed their abhorrence of Mr. Chafe's conduct in terms as strong as language affords.—In fact the public mind was very much excited, and apprehensions were entertained by many, that some serious disturbance might take place. Mr. Monroe, then governor of Virginia, was so completely convinced of the danger, that he not only earnestly recommended moderation and forbearance to those who were daily crowding about him, but kept his eye constantly on the capitol, that he might be ready to command the peace, at the first appearance of commotion.—To him Mr. Chafe is probably indebted for the safety of his person during his residence in Richmond."
"The solicitude of Mr. Monroe to preserve order, arose from a most unconnected with Mr. Chafe. The character of the state, he observed, had never been tarnished by any opposition to the laws, or any outrage on persons clothed with its authority. The preservation of this character at that period, (May 1800) was in his estimation a matter of infinite importance, he therefore urged and intreated those, whom he supposed might come into collision with the judge, to be patient, under every outrage."
GEORGE HAY. Richmond, Feb. 7. 1804.
The question was taken on the 4th article and carried without a division.
The fifth article was then taken into consideration.
Mr. J. Randolph stated the circumstances upon which this article was grounded; by the 3rd section of the act of Congress establishing the judicial courts of the United States, it is provided that for any crime or offence against the United States the offender shall be arrested, imprisoned, or bailed, agreeably to the usual mode of process in the state where such offence may be found; and it is provided by the laws of Virginia, printed in a volume commonly called the Revised Code of 1794, that the manner of proceeding against persons charged with crimes shall be in one of these two modes, the
first in capital cases such as treason or felony, the second in cases not capital. The Virginia Laws authorize expressly the issuing of a Capias on which the body of an offender may be taken and committed to close custody in the first species of offence. In the other case, that is of offences not capital, this process is not warranted by our laws which require a different process, viz: a fummons, which the court may order the clerk to issue returnable to the next ensuing court. In the case of Callender who was presented and indicted for a crime not capital, the circuit court did issue the process which is only warranted in capital cases. To convince the committee on these points, he read the 5th section of the Law of Virginia, page 110, respecting the trial and punishment of crimes, and also section 28, page 112. From these regulations he said there could not remain a shadow of doubt that the process which was issued against Callender, by order of the circuit court, and which annexed to the articles of impeachment, and which commands the marshal of the Virginia district, to arrest the body of J. T. Callender, and bring him forthwith before the judges of the court, was illegal, being contrary to the laws of Virginia, and of course contrary to the laws of the United States.
The question was taken on adopting the 5th article, and carried 71 voting in the affirmative, and 30 in the negative.
The sixth article under consideration. Mr. J. Randolph said the law of Virginia, relative to this point having just been read, he would only point to the words which are repeated from that law by the article of impeachment, they evince that the authority of Congress as well as the laws of the state of Virginia had been both disregarded and contemned.
On the question to agree to the sixth article the committee divided, there being, 70 in its favour and 22 against it; it was carried.
The seventh article before the committee.
Mr. J. Randolph said it was extracted almost word for word from the deposition of George Read, Attorney for Delaware district; the deposition is as follows:
"First. To the first interrogatory this deponent saith that he was present in the character of district attorney of the United States of America, in and for the Delaware district, at a circuit court of the United States, held at New Castle, on the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth days of June, one thousand eight hundred, in and for the said district, by and before Samuel Chafe, one of the judges of the supreme court of the said United States, and Gunning Bedford, district judge of the United States aforesaid, for the said district."
"Second. To the second interrogatory this deponent saith, that he was present in court on the first day of the said court, mentioned in this deponent's answer to the first interrogatory, when the grand jury then and there attending, after having received a charge from the said Samuel Chafe as presiding judge, retired to their room, and also when they returned to the bar of the said court."
"Third. To the third interrogatory this deponent saith, that the grand jury, through their foreman, upon being asked by the clerk the question stated in the third interrogatory, did answer, that they had found no bills of indictment nor had any presentments to make."
"Fourth. To the fourth interrogatory this deponent saith, that the said Samuel Chafe, did, on receiving their answer from the grand jury, mentioned in this deponent's answer to the third interrogatory, observe to that body in his hearing: "That he had been informed or heard, a highly seditious temper or disposition had manifested in the state of Delaware, among a certain class of people, particularly in New Castle county, and more particularly in the town of Wilmington, where lived a most seditious printer, unscrupulously by any principle of virtue, and regardless of social order.—That the name of this printer was" (here the learned judge paused for a moment and then observed) "Perhaps it might be assuming too much to mention the name of this person, but it becomes your special duty, and you must enquire diligently into this matter." That although this deponent will not undertake to say that every word as here set forth is precisely what the honorable judge expressed—yet he is perfectly convinced that the language is for the most part, what was used by the said judge, and the ideas conveyed by him at the time, precisely what the context imports."
"Fifth. To the fifth interrogatory, this deponent saith, that several members of the grand jury on the behalf of themselves and their brethren, did as soon as the said judge had closed the observations detailed in the answer to the fourth interrogatory, then and there earnestly request the court to dismiss them from further attendance on that duty, mentioning to the court, as a reason for the request, that they were generally farmers, and it being the season of harvest, their personal attention was most requisite on their farms—to which the judge replied, "that the business to which he had called their attention, was of a most urgent and pressing nature and must be attended to, that he could not therefore discharge them until the ensuing day, when further information should be communicated to them on the subject he had referred to" or words to that effect—but this deponent did not at the time hear the judge say that his detaining the grand jury was for examining a file of papers published by the said printer."
On the question to agree to the seventh article, it was carried without a division.
The eighth article under consideration.
Mr. Mott rose to move an amendment, which was to strike out the words declaring that the House "laved to itself the liberty of exhibiting at any time hereafter any further articles or other accusation or impeachment against the said Samuel Chafe"—and further, that part which saved to the House "the right of applying to any such articles, impeachment or accusation, which shall be exhibited to them." It seemed to him unfair that the House should reserve such a right to themselves, if there is anything more with which he ought to be charged, it ought to be now brought forward, and the accused should be informed at once how far we mean to go, in order to enable him the better to make his defence.
Mr. J. Randolph hoped the gentleman (Mr. Mott) would not insist on the amendment. He believed the article stood very well as it was; but if it be faulty, it has however one thing in its favor: it is fortified by precedent, which is of some importance in cases of this nature. He hoped the gentleman who was a decided friend of the American people, and of the rights of this House, did not wish to abridge the liberties of the one, or the privileges of the other, as they had been granted by the people, and had been received by us from our predecessors. He hoped it was not intended that our powers should be less than those who sat here before us, and yet the amendment would be a tacit avowal that they were wrong in making this reservation, in the case of the impeachment of Blount, and that we ourselves were wrong in doing, in the case of judge Pickering. He trusted the House would not agree to the amendment, if it was persisted in by the gentleman.
Mr. Mott. If precedents are wrong, they ought not to be our guides, and if we have such precedents, the sooner we establish new ones on other principles, the better. He thought it cruel, as well as unjust, to bring new articles of impeachment against a man when on his trial: a sudden attack when a man is unprepared, may defeat the best talents and convict an innocent man. He concurred, if the House had a design to bring other articles, they ought to do so at the present time; but if they had not a design, he would ask why do you reserve a power you do not mean to exercise? He knew it was the practice to make this reservation, and had seen it in Jersey, but for all that he thought it improper and unjust.
The question on adopting the amendment was taken and lost.
The question was next taken on agreeing to the eighth article and carried in the affirmative. There were for it seventy six members, which are more than a majority of the whole House.
Mr. Elliot. Mr. Chairman, as I have voted in opposition to every one of the articles, and shall of course
vote in the negative when they are considered in the aggregate, it is indisputably necessary that I should make a few observations, in order to refuse myself from the imputation of voting, on this occasion, in a different manner from what I did at the last session; although I am already sufficiently justified to my own conscience.
My cool judgment tells me that were I to vote in favor of the present impeachment, in its present form I must forfeit in my own estimation that political character as a republican, which it has been the study of my life to acquire and preserve, and which has hitherto secured me the confidence of a people as truly republican as ever have existed in any age or nation. It is upon republican principles that I oppose the report. At the last session I declared myself in favor of the impeachment so far only as related to the conduct of judge Chafe upon the trial of James Thompson Callender. I considered the conduct of the judge upon that occasion as amounting to a denial of important constitutional privileges to Callender, the privileges of compulsory process for witnesses, and of trial by an impartial jury of his country and had the committee taken that strong ground, I would have given it my support. They have, however, abandoned it; and I am decidedly of opinion that if the conduct of the judge did not amount to a violation of the constitution, it ought to be considered as a mere error in judgment. And for errors of judgment a magistrate is not impeachable.
It is not upon any trifling or minute distinction between form and substance that I found my objections to the second and third articles, but upon what I consider as strong and solid ground. But to the fourth article there are a variety of objections. After having stated in the second and third articles, every thing which it was necessary to state, when the strong ground of the constitution was abandoned, we are presented with the blackest catalogue of judicial crimes that has ever been invented. This article will forever form a phenomenon in the history of impeachments, and command admiration by its wonderful display of the powers of invention, amplification, and embellishment. Never have I been more completely convinced that genius is capable of creating any thing whatever; that it possesses even magic powers. We are here presented with a stupendous pyramid of judicial guilt, of which manifest injustice forms the pedestal, and indirect solicitude constitutes the apex. Judge Chafe is accused of manifest injustice, partiality, intemperance, rudeness, vexation, solicitude, &c. &c. If this horrid list of the crimes of a judge is to be crowned by "solicitude," if "solicitude," is to swell the list of new transgressions; I must still be permitted to believe that its decay or indecency has very little connexion with the essence of its criminality. Besides, the conduct of the judge was different at different stages of the trial, and were I to consider his supposed solicitude as criminal, I could not consider the report as consistent with truth unless amended so as to read in this manner: "In manifesting, in the early part of the trial, an indirect solicitude , and, at its later stages, a very direct solicitude for the conviction of the prisoner, &c." Solicitude is a mere mental operation. Had the judge displayed an anxiety to save the prisoner, he might with equal propriety have been impeached as guilty of sympathy or pity .
I cannot vote for the last article without a violation of my political principles. I do not believe that the expression of political opinion is a crime in a republican government. I have repeatedly declared that I considered it improper in a judge to read political lectures from the bench; and I have also had frequent opportunities, both on former and recent and recent occasions, of expressing my conviction that judicial officers ought not to be punished for declaring their political opinions. We ought not ourselves to practice what we reprobate in others, and it is always desirable to carry our own theories into practice.
With these powerful considerations, others of a different nature have naturally mingled themselves, in my own mind, while reflecting upon this important subject. Is there no danger that the feeling and views of party have, imperceptibly to ourselves, involved themselves with our reflections, and that they will improperly influence our conduct? For myself I am disposed to look upon a member of our highest judicial tribunal, upon whom, with correct motives, such an irresistible torrent of public opinion is precipitated, with a favorable eye. It is our duty to endeavour to realise the ancient idea of the blindness of justice. Let us be blind as it respects the man, blind to his political opinions, but eagle eyed as it respects his crimes. The pure fountain of justice ought not to be polluted with a single muddy particle of the spirit of party.
I have said enough to explain my sentiments and views upon this subject, and I will not trouble the committee with a repetition of any of my arguments at the last session.
Mr. Nicholson enquired of the Chairman whether it would be in order to move an amendment to any of the articles now they have been severally agreed to.
Gen Varnum (chairman) said the amendments might be moved in the House on agreeing to the report of the committee of the whole or in the committee by a vote to reconsider.
Mr. J. Randolph thought it of importance that if amendments were necessary they should be brought forward in committee of the whole, to give gentlemen an opportunity of fuller discussion. In the House members were trammelled by the rule permitting them only to speak twice on the same question, but here we are free to discuss and debate at pleasure—if an amendment is wished, he would move to reconsider the first article—and he did move it.
It was carried without opposition.
Mr. Nicholson then observed that part of the misconduct of judge Chafe which was complained of, had taken place previous to the trial. He would therefore move to make it read by the insertion of the words in italic "the said Samuel Chafe antecedent to and on the trial of John Fries" to as to cover the whole ground.
Mr. Nicholson proposed a similar amendment to the fourth article. "That the conduct of the said Samuel Chafe was marked during the whole course of the said trial as well as antecedent thereto," "with manifest injustice, partiality and intemperance."
The amendment was lost. After some deliberary conversation it was agreed that the amendment to the first article be altered, by inserting the words in relation thereto, instead of those in italic, and a similar amendment was agreed to in the fourth article.
The committee of the whole rose and reported the articles as amended. Adjourned.
WEDNESDAY, December 5.
The articles of impeachment against Judge Chafe were brought in enrolled.
Mr. Grosvenor from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, stated the necessity of making some provision for carrying into execution the 10th article of the Spanish treaty, which related to vessels forced into the ports of the United States by stress of weather, providing for the remission of duties upon entry, and that they may reload their cargoes on other bottoms to foreign ports without being subjected to duties; whereupon it was ordered that the committee have leave to report a bill on this subject.
The house resumed the unfinished business of yesterday, viz. the appointment of managers to conduct the impeachment of Samuel Chafe one of the associate justices of the United States, and having directed that the number should consist of seven the House proceeded to ballot for the same and upon examining the ballots the following six members were elected having a majority of the whole number of votes, viz.
Mr. J. Randolph, Mr. Rodney, Mr. Nicholson, Mr. Early, Mr. Boyle, and Mr. Nelson. The House then proceeded to ballot for the seventh manager, and it appearing that Mr. G. W. Campbell had the plurality of votes given in, but not a majority.
Mr. Speaker, supposing that the rule of the House in the case of committee chosen by ballot was applicable
to that of managers, declared Mr. G. W. CAMPBELL duly chosen.
A conversation arose respecting the precedents on this subject, in which it was apparent that on all former occasions a majority of the votes had been given in favor of each manager; but this appeared in the instance of the impeachment of judge Pickering rather from the recollection of gentlemen who spoke on the subject from the Journal. Mr. Speaker had not recollected how the election was conducted, but he should not regret an appeal to the House on his decision.
Mr. J. Randolph impressed with respectful feelings of the understanding and integrity of the Speaker, would be the last man to appeal from his decisions but for the purpose of preventing what either has heretofore taken place, or what may hereafter take place, in case of such decisions involving the House or individual members in very unpleasant situations, he would move an appeal to the House from the decision of the chair.
The question was immediately taken and twenty five voted in favor of the Speaker's decision, fifty voted against it, of consequence the decision was reversed.
And the House proceeded to ballot a third time, but no member had a majority.
At a fourth ballot the result was the same.
On the fifth ballot Mr. G. W. Campbell had a majority, and was declared to be duly elected.
On motion of Mr. Nicholson it was Resolved, That the articles agreed to by this House be exhibited in the name of themselves and all the people of the United States, against Samuel Chafe in maintenance of their impeachment against him for high crimes and misdemeanors be carried to the Senate by the managers appointed to conduct the said impeachment.
It was also resolved, That a message be sent to the Senate to inform them that this House have appointed managers to conduct the impeachment against Samuel Chafe and have directed the said managers to carry the Senate the articles agreed upon by the House to be exhibited in maintenance of their impeachment against the said Samuel Chafe. And that the Clerk do go Adjourmed.
THURSDAY DECEMBER 6.
Mr. Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Governor of Virginia, including document relative to the election of Alexander Wilton to a seat in the House—Referred to the Committee of Elections.
Mr. J. Clay presented the petition of Stephen King praying he may receive the draw back on goods shipped from Philadelphia but which were not put on board the George Washington until she passed the Delaware line in the year 1804.
Mr. Claiborne from the Committee appointed, presented a bill making further provision for the payment of the debts due by the United States—Referred to the committee of the whole on Monday next.
Mr. Nelson from the Committee appointed on S. Carlson's petition reported in favor of allowing his application, and recommended that a bill be brought in for that purpose—Referred to the same Committee.
A message from the President informed that he had approved and signed the bill making further appropriation for the contingent fund, and made them also a communication in writing, including the report of the Superintendent of the public buildings at Washington.
The House went into committee of the whole on the bill for preserving peace in our ports and harbours, and waters under the United States jurisdiction. Mr. Dawson in the Chair.
After some time spent in debating and amending the same the committee rose, reported progress, and obtained leave to let again.
Domestic Intelligence.
NEW-JERSEY
A bill has been passed by the house of representatives of the state of New-Jersey, for forming a canal between the rivers Raritan and Delaware. Merc. Adv.
ELECTION OF PRESIDENT & VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
PENNSYLVANIA.
We are informed, by a Gentleman who left Lancaster yesterday morning, that the Senate and House of Representatives of this state were duly organized on Tuesday last.
SIMON SNYDER, Esquire, was unanimously re-elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
The Governor had informed the joint committee of the two Houses, that he would make his Communication to the Legislature on Thursday (yesterday) at twelve o'clock.
General MONTGOMERY, one of the Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, being unable, from indisposition, to attend at the seat of government, the Members of the Senate and House of Representatives met in convention, and made choice of his son, ROBERT MONTGOMERY, Esquire, to supply his place.
On Wednesday morning the twenty Electors assembled; and, after having fit appointed CHARLES THOMPSON, Esquire, President, and TIMOTHY MATLACK, Esquire, Secretary, they proceeded to vote for a President of the United States:—The ballots being counted, it appeared, that THOMAS JEFFERSON had twenty votes for the office of President, and GEORGE CLINTON the like number for the office of Vice-President. Paulin.
The subject, of the forced trade to St. Domingo becomes generally interesting: it is probably the discussions, which may be expected to take place very soon in congress will command for it an increased degree of attention. We have been informed of one instance of a particular kind of commerce with St. Domingo, the policy, and humanity of which must be doubted by every man whose God is not gain, and whose bible is not his ledger. We are assured that a vessel from this port exported to St. Domingo 70,000 pounds of gun powder, for which one dollar per pound was obtained; that the blacks made part payment with the plate which had belonged to the whites who had been massacred, and that the plate has been brought to this city. Aurora.
MARYLAND.
We have been favored by a valuable friend at Annapolis, with the issue of the presidential election, it has terminated as had been predicted and two-electors have voted against the almost unanimous will of the people.
The following is the result:— Electors who voted for THOMAS JEFFERSON as President and GEORGE CLINTON as Vice President:—
 Joseph Wilkinson, John Johnson,  Edward Johnson, John Tyler,  Prisby Tighman, Tobias E. Stanbury,  John Gilpin, William Glevaves,  Perry Spencer—9   Electors who voted for CHARLES COTESWORTH PINCKNEY as President and RUFUS KING as Vice President:—   John Parrisham, Ephraim King Wilson,  American. 
N. CAROLINA. Raleigh, Nov. 29.
We learn by the members of the General Assembly, from Cabarrus county, that the proprietors of the land containing the Gold Ore, continue to find considerable quantities, though no lump any thing like so large as the one dug last year of 23 lb. has been discovered.
A gentleman from Baltimore has lately purchased a Tract of Land adjoining that on which the Gold is found, at six times the intrinsic value of the soil, in expectation of finding Gold thereon, and as the Gold Creek runs through it, it is expected he will not be wholly disappointed.
pointed. But whether sufficient will be found to render his purchase valuable is very doubtful.
GEORGIA. SAVANNAH, Nov. 29, 1804.
The Bill for the Establishment of a new Bank in this city, has passed the Lower House, 25 to 23.
KENTUCKY. LEXINGTON, November 16.
The resolution which passed the house of representatives of this state, for the suspension of the sale of non-residents' lands six days, was negatived in the Senate.
Information has been received at Vincennes, (I. T.) that the Shaw nation of Indians have killed three American citizens, between the Missouri and Mississippi; and that the chiefs refused to deliver up the murderers.
LOUISIANA. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 2.
The Honorable J. B. Provost, Esquire, arrived here on Sunday last, and we are informed will open a Court on Tuesday next.
It is supposed the Council which was summoned to open their session on Monday the 12th inst. will not be able to form a quorum.
His Excellency Don Vicente Folch, Governor of West Florida, arrived here last evening from Baton Rouge, in a Galley, accompanied by several officers of his C. M. His arrival was announced this morning by the discharge of Federal guns from Fort St. Charles. Louis. Gaz.
CAPT. STEPHEN DECATUR, whose gallant exploit, in burning the Philadelphia frigate, has been the subject of frequent notice, is among those who have again signalized themselves in the attack on Tripoli—but the name of his brother, Lieutenant James Decatur, is in the list of those who have fallen; as are also the names of Lieut. Dorsey of Maryland.
N. T. Mor. Chron.
LIEUT. CALDWELL, who perished before Tripoli, in the second attack on the 9th August, by the blowing up of the gun boat of which he had the command, is, we understand, a son of the late Mr. Samuel Caldwell, of Philadelphia. Mr. Dorsey, who fell by the same accident, is likewise of Philadelphia, and it is said is a son of Doctor Dorsey, formerly a surgeon in the navy during the revolutionary war.
Byacourts from Guadalupe, we learn, that a French frigate from France, was lately captured and sent into Barbadoes. This is said to be one of the three that failed with troops for Martinique; one of which got into Trinity, (Mart.) and has since got into Port Royal; and one other (the President) after landing the troops at Guadalupe, arrived at Annapolis, with the French Minister to the United States. N. T. Mor. Ad.
Letters from the Havanna, received at Salem, advise that a proclamation is issued by the government, whereby horses will not be a passport for the admission of American vessels after the 1st of December, and that those only that have slaves on board will be admitted. Phila. Gaz.
W. INDIES.
By a gentleman from St. Thomas, we understand that just before he left that island (about 18 days ago,) a vessel had arrived from Jeremie, with information that the French had abandoned the town of St. Domingo, and had surrendered themselves prisoners to the English.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD
WILL be paid to any person who will deliver to the subscriber in this city, a runaway Negro Boy, named CLAIBORNE, about 17 years of age. He has a long and smiling countenance, small legs, is round shouldered, his colour is between black and Mulatto. He has been always employed as a house servant, and does not understand any other kind of business. He had a great variety of wearing apparel, all of excellent quality, much better than is usually given to servants. There is great reason to believe that he has been decoyed or inveigled away by the master of a northern trading vessel, and it is probable he will endeavor to go to Norfolk or Hampton for the purpose of Hampton for the purpose of getting on board; and as he is well acquainted on the stage road, and has very good address, he will probably pass for a free man.
THOMAS GILLIAT. December 18th.
TO BE SOLD,
At Dunkirk, in the County of King & Queen, on Monday the 9th instant, if fair, if not the next fair day, about
25 or 30 LIKELY SLAVES;

The Editor deems it proper to observe, that the following Essay on Roads, and the two others which preceded it on the same subject, were not written by himself—Had the author devolved upon him the investigation of this important subject, he certainly should have contemplated it in a very different aspect.
TO THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE. LETTER 7.
No. 3—ON ROADS.—Besides the benefits which have been explained, it is evident that such a road would immediately be used by all travellers; a line of stages would soon be established; other roads from different quarters would communicate with it, all having inevitable tendencies to elevate Virginia from that state of commercial dependence, with which she has been heretofore overwhelmed.
In the preceding remarks, the writer has recommended to his fellow-citizens, the execution of a work, which will cost a large sum of money: this is, or will be, the only objection. Every man will admit the general utility; will acknowledge the practicability, and will also say that he wishes it would be accomplished. If a majority of the people are influenced by parochial considerations, then let it be established as a turn-pike-road; if on the other hand it is deemed more suitable to the interest or dignity of the commonwealth, that the road should be made at public expence and to be free from toll, then it behoves us to ascertain what resources should be used as a provision for the expence. Taxes will be necessary. This is a delicate and difficult part of the case. It is not expected that immediate success will attend any proposal which will increase the public burthens, until the public voice has first justified it. This, therefore, is all that will now be attempted. After public opinion shall loudly call for the measure, the taxes will not be denied. Observations upon this part of the subject, and a general detailed plan, will be hereafter published.
Ye patriots of Virginia, and ye friends of mankind, with what sensations of delight will you behold or anticipate a road so good and so direct that a line of stages may be established from the city of Richmond to the Ohio; so that travellers may perform the journey in about four days, nay in less time? Such a road will certainly cost a great deal of money, but the cost will bear no comparison to the benefits.—After a while, even the savings of a single year in waggonage may be equal to the whole cost. Such a road, as can be made and ought to be made, will enable teams to carry more than double their usual burthen—lands in the interior will be cultivated; tobacco, hemp, &c. will be transported to your capital from that which is now a wilderness. Our western brethren when they perceive that the people of Virginia have adopted such liberal measures for their convenience, that we almost solicit an intercourse with them, will be doubly united to us by interest and by gratitude.
In preferring the south side of James river for the site of the road, the writer has acted, not only upon his own observations as to the fitness of the ground, and the opinion of others whose information is superior to his own, but because the road being on that side of the river, will facilitate communications with the south western inhabitants who can by cross roads from different quarters, intersect where it may be suitable, and it will sooner or later be the means of opening a similar communication from Lynchburg or Crows-Ferry with the inhabitants of Tennessee—so that it is not unreasonable to expect that the market of Richmond will be supplied with hemp from the rich bottoms of Tennessee as well from those of Kanawha and Ohio. But as the utility of their roads does not depend so much upon these prospects as upon the advantage of the state of Virginia as a commercial thoroughfare, not only for the inhabitants beyond the Ohio, but likewise for those who reside on the waters of Cumberland and Tennessee, his expectation that the great object will not be forgotten, because the writer may express some opinions which are too sanguine.
The rapid increase of population in the western country, the pecuniary advantages which the commonwealth of Virginia will derive by opening an intercourse which can never be rivaled by any other, affording a safe and short communication between the two countries, will open to the rich, to the industrious, and to the enterprising an infinite variety of objects which the most prophetic mind cannot entirely embrace, but which in a general view may be foreseen. In spite of all the advantages which the northern states derive from their commerce, their capitals and their combinations, and in spite of that fatal blindness which has so long obscured the understandings of the Virginians concerning objects of internal policy as well as all commercial relations, the connections now alluded to, will operate with irresistible influence, and this state must rise into majestic importance, not merely from her extent, her fertility and her population, but from her wisdom, moderation and virtue.
Among those evils which may be avoided, the diffusion of the states will be among the most important. The western people, except those very low down the rivers will see that a close and friendly intercourse ought for ever to be cherished by them and the northern calumniators, when they perceive that the Virginians can form a system, whereof their own capital will be the centre, and which will afford employment for numberless persons of all descriptions—a system which if properly cherished may extend to the western ocean; I say when our calumniators judge dispassionately concerning these things, it is very probable that they will find it more prudent to cultivate the confidence and friendship of those, concerning whom they have heretofore written, printed and spoken with so much unprovoked indecorum.
The writer of this is totally unqualified to express to its extent the importance in which he views the perpetual union of the states. He looks to a dissolution with such unpleasant sensations, that he always hastens to draw a veil over the subject, and sincerely regrets that anything should exist to make even this superficial view necessary. But as it is impossible to shut his eyes and ears against facts whose existence is as evident as the difference between light and darkness, it behoves him to show the evil and to recommend an everlasting remedy.
Let us suppose that these discontented calculators and deformed who try all questions in the money scale, should accomplish their designs, then the people of Virginia will find the importance of their situation, when with one arm stretched into the Atlantic and with the other opening the door for a commercial intercourse which may extend to the western ocean. I say then we may in the enjoyment of our own natural rights multiply the blessings of civilization and perpetuate the advantages of commerce by a combination of things which will be as far beyond the reach of cunning and intrigue as it will be superior to envy and malignant discontent.
In presenting these things to public consideration, the writer has not the vanity to expect that in all cases the most perfect idea has occurred to his mind; he knows that in the investigation of new subjects, as well as countries, the first adventurers seldom have the fortune to obtain the advantages which are afterwards discovered and enjoyed by their successors. In a case where public benefit is so much the object, in which every Virginian is interested, and concerning which every aid will be acceptable, he hopes that none will hesitate, none will procrastinate, who believe that their popularity, their wealth or their talents can give the smallest assistance—If there ever was a case in which all the best attributes of man ought to be united—in which moderate exertions were necessary to insure important and lasting national benefit; this seems to be peculiarly that one. Here we see the means for greatness, for happiness and for prosperity, not by depriving others of their rights and their liberties; but by plundering the helpless and ignorant, but by a pursuit equally great and good, one concerning which every man who affords the smallest assistance can say, "I have done something, not only to serve my country, but to benefit the human race."
The weakest understanding can appreciate the advantages which the commonwealth will derive from the improvements, which are recommended. Permanent credit will be established—commerce will be invigorated—lands will rise in price—industry will be rewarded—the arts will flourish—the people will be more firmly united—our capital will support an easy and permanent communication in every direction, and Virginia may become not only the pride and glory of America, but likewise the envy of nations.
SQUADRON OFF TRIPOLI.
THE States of Barbary will exhibit to the eye of some future historian a curious and disgusting scene. An assembly of states shall arise before him destitute of much useful or honorable industry, though possessing the most favorable means of displaying its resources. Their soil, though in some places barren, is in others extremely productive; and yet he will see their landscape a rude and uncultivated waste. Their geographical position will not escape him; tho' inhabiting the coasts of the largest maritime inlet on the globe, the earliest seats of civilization and wealth, and the finest repositories of the carrying trade of the rich nations that live around its borders; he will see them destitute of flourishing towns, merchants and shipping. He will discover a poor, ignorant, and inactive race, trampling without shame upon the mouldering ruins of ancient Carthage, conducted by her commercial spirit to wealth, to political power, and to a dubious rivalry with a nation, who was once proud to call herself the mistress of the earth. Unaffected by the splendid example which is before them, and regardless of the mighty resources which nature has placed within their power, he will perceive them maintaining a languid and limited commerce by their caravans with the tribes of the continent, or trading in their rude and inactive vessels with the opposite coasts of the Mediterranean sea. A singular and horrible feature in the policy of these states, will now present itself to his notice. He will find them to be hordes of pirates, and the Arabs of the ocean. That industry which might have been so successfully employed in the cultivation of their lands, or in the operations of commerce, is made to display its greatest energy, in the most unlicensed robbery. There exists not a nation whose merchant vessels are not liable every moment to become the victims of this universal rapacity.
Such a view of the states of Barbary is well calculated to excite our contempt and indignation. But enlightened writers have not hesitated to extend this indignation even to the civilized governments of Europe. They have asked them how they could for a moment endure to be persecuted and plundered by a collection of states, a close combination of which would be in every respect inferior to their own individual strength. They have invited them for a moment to suspend their wars against each other often irrational and always ruinous, and to turn their collective force upon these universal foes to commerce and civilized nations. They have represented their defenceless harbours, their injudicious armaments, their ignorance in the arts of fortification and defence, and they have concluded with undeniable proofs of the facility with which these pirates might be utterly extirpated, or at least eternally awed into an obedience to the laws of civilized nations. They have calculated the expence which all the commercial nations sustain in losses of captive vessels and their cargoes, or in periodic tributes, which they contribute to purchase a precarious and inglorious immunity; and they have then compared this accumulated expence with the entire cost of a single armament, contributed or paid by all the nations of the Christian world. The saving of expence and the superiority of glory, would seem to furnish an incitement to exertions which the policy of civilized nations would find irresistible.
The history of Europe has however disappointed these rational expectations. When a ridiculous superstition had erected her banners; when the pope of Rome had invited all the Christian cavaliers of Europe to undertake a long and dangerous pilgrimage to the walls of Jerusalem, and to rescue the cradle of the church from the rude and prophane contamination of infidels; his voice was heard with reverence; and the enthusiasm of an impostor was obeyed as the inspiration of a minister of God. It was then that the crusaders, those disgraceful but splendid monuments, of a zeal powerful, yet perverted; of a combination active, yet disappointed. But when reason announces her divine decree, when the commands all civilized nations to collect their forces, and root out or awe the pirates of the Mediterranean; no Peter appears to preach her doctrines; no cavaliers take up the helmet and the lance; no collective armaments are formed, to save civilized nations by one great effort from the losses of piracy, or from the dishonor and expence of stipulated tributes. They have done no more in the pursuit of this admirable policy than they have done to execute the romantic project of the poet; or joining their fleets and navigating the polar seas to the equator, that these frozen seas may once more be open to the industry of the seamen, and the beams of the sun. So far from executing such a scheme as this, and so far from uniting their forces to remedy a common evil, they have even been mean enough to profit by its existence. They have even attempted to enlist some of three freebooters on their side; and to play them off against each other.
All the exertions which have been really made have been produced without combination and by individual powers. The expeditions of the emperor Charles V. in 1541, of the English in 1635 and 1670, of the French in 1688, of the Spaniards in 1775 and 1784, against the Algerines, and accompanied with various success, have been the most illustrious example of this species of warfare.
Like the nations of Europe, the United States have felt the contemptible power of these piratical states. Like them, it has been her vessels seized and her inhabitants dragged
into captivity; and like them too it has consented to purchase an uncertain immunity by the payment of an annual tribute.
At this moment, however, a more honorable policy invites our attention. Our captive citizens in Tripoli demand their deliverance, and an American squadron lies before that town to compel its savage Baslaw to surrender them on moderate terms. Already have we heard of two attacks being made by our brave countrymen; and we are now anxiously waiting for the unfolding of the catastrophe.
During the whole course of the campaign, they have indeed displayed a bravery, most honorable to themselves and to our country. Under the very guns of the forts of Tripoli, we have seen Decatur and his intrepid companions setting fire to the Philadelphia, and leaving it in ruins. On the 3d of August, we see 6 gun-boats and 2 mortar boats advancing into the harbour and attacking 17 gun-boats moored in a line in the front of the batteries, and a brig of 16 and a schooner of 10 guns to aid and cover their boats. Two of the Tripolitan gun-boats are boarded & taken. Lieutenant James Decatur is killed in the act of carrying the third. Lieutenant Troup, who carries the second receives eleven wounds. On the 5th of August, a new attack is made, and an example of heroic energy is displayed, that is scarcely to be excelled, in the annals of any war, and at the recital of which that man's pulse must indeed be cold and insensible which does not beat with new emotion. The quarter-deck of gun-boat No. 9 blew up, and destroyed a part of its little crew: "and the brave surviving few gave three cheers as it went down!" Yet these gallant tars were preferred, and a momentary panic in the task was succeeded by redoubled vigour.
I know that there are some among our most enlightened politicians, who are opposed to an extended navy. But I know also, that these men have approved of the destination of our small squadron before the harbour of Tripoli. On this point therefore our country has but one heart and one sentiment. We shall be unanimous in offering the full tribute of our respect and gratitude to the Americans of the Mediterranean squadron. We all know that their exertions will strike an awe into the pirates of Barbary. We may hope that our annual tributes may be diminished; and the emancipation of our unfortunate countrymen in Tripoli, may be effected without an exorbitant ransom. Let us wait until the object of their mission is completely accomplished. Let us see the proud Baslaw of Tripoli delivering them up on moderate terms; then let the gratitude of their country alight upon her gallant sons; then let the sparkling bowl be poured out in honour of the heroes of Tripoli!
Last night's Mail brought no papers farther north than Alexandria.
We have been favoured with the following extracts of letters, received from respectable sources, relating to the appearance of a New Prophet in the kingdom of Algiers.
Nat. Int. Algiers, June 27.
This day the Dey [of Algiers] sent out two chooners and two gun-boats, to search for a Moor, who styles himself a Marabout, or Holy man, who has collected a number of persons about him, to join him and has taken fifty four Frenchmen, who were fishing for coral near Calle, and carried them into captivity. He is declared a rebel by the Dey, and the French commissary general here has made a strong remonstrance, and demanded the men of the Dey.
Algiers, July 16.
A report prevails that the Marabout, who had taken the Frenchmen (at Constantine) had compelled them to become Mahomedans, and that he had attacked the city of Constantine with 30,000 Carabes; but had been repulsed with great loss; and that the Dey had sent in cash 10,000 Marabouts to Constantine and a promise to relieve the country from some taxes for four years.
Tunis, Aug. 7.
The new Prophet has occasioned much disorder, in different parts of Algiers: he made but a short stay at Constantine; but perfectly stripped that place; taking with him arms, ammunition, clothing, horses and a vast number of cattle; retiring again to the mountains. I learn that his army at this moment consists of one hundred and eighty thousand men, and is daily increasing; All communication between this and Algiers is stopped.
Legislature of Virginia.
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
THURSDAY, December 6th, 1804. Communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The Senate have agreed to the resolution of the house of delegates, to proceed on Thursday next, by joint ballot, to the appointment of a public printer to this commonwealth for one year.
The order of the day on the state of the commonwealth being read; Ordered, that the same be put off till tomorrow.
The order of the day for the house to proceed on this day by joint ballot with the Senate to the choice of a public printer, for one year, being read;
On motion.
Ordered, That the said order be postponed until Monday, the 17th inst.
Ordered, That Mr. Johnston do acquaint the Senate therewith, and desire their concurrence thereto.
On motion.
Resolved, That this house will to-morrow, proceed by joint ballot with the Senate, to the choice of a Governor or Chief Magistrate of this commonwealth for one year.
Ordered, That Mr. Barbour do carry the said resolution to the Senate, and desire their concurrence thereto.
On motion.
Resolved, That this house will to-morrow proceed by joint ballot with the Senate, to elect a Senator to represent this state in the Senate of the United States, to supply the vacancy which will be occasioned by the expiration of the term of service of William B. Giles, on the third of March next.
Ordered, That Mr. Barbour do carry the said resolution to the Senate, and desire their concurrence thereto.
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill, "To abolish the office of public printer, and for other purposes," and that Messrs. Johnston, Woodfin, Smyth, (Wythe) E. Harrison, Edwards, Miller, (Powhatan) and Dixon, do prepare and bring in the same.
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill, "To lay off the several counties within this commonwealth into hundreds or districts, for the more convenient holding elections, and for other purposes, and that Messrs. Henning, Ker, Fleming, Coleman (Caroline) Byrd, Kinney, Dashiell, Callaway, Prunty and Cabell, do prepare and bring in the same.
On motion.
Resolved, That so much of the standing rule of this house, as confines the number of a select committee to seven, be rescinded, and that such committees be composed of some number not less than five nor more than thirteen.
On motion.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the present state of the navigation of James river above tide water; whether the James river company have complied with the conditions on which they hold their charter; whether any, and if any, what provisions are necessary to compel them to comply with those conditions; and whether it is expedient to compel them at this time, to make a communication by locks or otherwise, between the upper navigation and tide water, and that they be directed to report by bill or otherwise.
And a committee was appointed of Messrs. Cabell, Perrow, Otey, Lefwich, Baker, Hatcher, Du-Val, Yancey, (Campbell) Grigsby, Garland, Miller, (Powhatan) Smyth, (Wythe) and Burwell.
A petition from the Library Company of Prince-Edward, praying that they may be incorporated under certain regulations and conditions in the said petition stated;
Also a petition from the trustees of Abingdon Academy, in the county of Washington, praying that certain lands in the said county may be vested in them and their successors for the benefit of the said Academy;
Also a petition from a number of the inhabitants of the city of Richmond, praying an extension of the limits of the said city according to certain boundaries in the said petition stated;
Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee for courts of justice.
A memorial and petition from a number of the inhabitants of the counties of Montgomery, Wythe, Washington, and Russell, was presented and read, praying the passage of a law, which may repeal all acts or parts of acts, passed since the year 1776, which function, or appear to the Loyal Company, in the year 1749, for reasons stated in the said memorial and petition.
Ordered, That the said memorial and petition be referred to Messrs. Dixon, Smith, (Wythe) M'Ferran, Edmiston, E. Harrison, Ellington and M'Farlane; that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same, with their opinion thereupon, to the house, by bill or otherwise.
Petitions from the counties of Chesterfield and Powhatan, were received, on the subject of the James river navigation, above and through the great falls and its communication with tide water, being complained by the James river company, according to the original design of the law incorporating that company.
Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee appointed to examine into and report upon that subject.
Petitions from a number of the inhabitants of the Counties of Montgomery, Ohio, Harrison and Randolph, on the subject of the claim of the Indiana Company, were received.
Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to the committee to whom was referred the memorial of George Jackson, on the same subject.
Friday Dec. 7.
A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The senate have appointed a committee on the part of their House, to examine, jointly with a committee appointed on the part of the House of Delegates, the expenditure of the executive department, during the last year.
They have also agreed to the several resolutions of the House of Delegates, to proceed on to-morrow, by joint ballot with the Senate, to the choice of a Governor of this commonwealth, for one year, next ensuing, and to the election of a Senator to represent this state, in the Senate of the U. States, to supply the vacancy which will be occasioned by the expiration of the term of service of Wm. B. Giles on the 3d March next.
The house according to the order of the day, proceeded by joint ballot with the Senate, to the choice of a Governor or Chief Magistrate, of this commonwealth, for one year; and the members having prepared tickets, and deposited the same in the ballot boxes, Messrs. Johnston, Downing, Baytop, Miller, (Gooshland) Clarke, Mills, Simmons, Walker, (Charles City) Perrow, Upshaw, and Taylor, (New-Kent) were named a committee to meet a committee from the Senate, and jointly with them, examine the ballots and report to the house, on whom a majority of votes should fall; the committee then withdrew, and after some time returned into the house, and Mr. Johnston reported, that the committee had, according to order, met a committee from the Senate, and jointly with them, examined the ballots, and had found a majority of the whole number of votes in favor of John Page, Esq.
The house, according to the further order of the day, proceeded by joint ballot with the Senate, to the choice of a Senator, to represent this state, in the Senate of the United States, to supply the vacancy which will be occasioned by the expiration of the term of service of William B. Giles, on the third of March next; and the members having prepared tickets and deposited the same in the ballot boxes, Messrs. Barbour, Edwards, Coleman, (Pittsylvania) E. Jones, Southall, Hudgins, Ingles, Leake and Cheatham, were named a committee to meet a committee from the Senate, and jointly with them, examine the ballots, and report to the house, on whom a majority of votes should fall. The committee then withdrew, and after some time returned into the house, and Mr. Barbour reported, that the committee had, according to order, met a committee from the Senate, and jointly with them, examined the ballots, and found a majority of the whole number of votes in favor of William B. Giles, Esq.
Leave has been given to bring in bills; to prevent slaves being brought into this state; further to amend the penal laws of this Commonwealth; to extend the jurisdiction of the justices of the peace; to amend the act to prevent the circulation of private bank notes; for the relief of special bail in certain cases; for the relief of insolvent debtors and for other purposes.
A petition from a number of the inhabitants of Botetourt, Monroe, Greenbrier and Bath counties, praying that a new county may be formed out of certain parts of the said counties, was presented and read.—Also a petition from a number of the inhabitants of Montgomery county, praying that a new county may be formed out of the western end of the said county, including a small part of the counties of Monroe and Tazewell.—Referred to the committee of propositions and grievances.
A petition from a number of the inhabitants of the counties of Fairfax, Loudoun, Fauquier, Hampshire, Culpeper and Prince William, was presented and read, praying for an augmentation of the capitol stock of the bank of Virginia, and the establishment of an office of deposit and discount of the said bank in that part of the county of Fairfax immediately adjacent to the town of Alexandria. Referred to a select committee.
Saturday, December 8.
A motion was made, that the house come to the following resolution:
Resolved, That agreeably to the present laws relative to contested elections, the individual against whom the complaint of an undue election is lodged, is entitled to notice by the speaker, if he be absent, before the subject can be investigated by the committee of privileges and elections.
A motion was then made to amend the said resolution, by inserting the word, "not," before the word, "entitled," so as to make it read, "is not entitled," &c. which passed in the affirmative:
And the question being put upon the resolution as amended, it passed in the affirmative.
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill, "To amend the several laws concerning appeals, and to extend the power of the superior courts in granting writs of supersedeas;" and that Messrs. Davison, Henning, Mallory, Campbell, Johnston, Burwell and Cabell, do prepare and bring in the same.
Ordered, That the committee to whom was referred the memorial of George Jackson & others, on the subject of the claim of the Indiana Company, be discharged from the further consideration of the said memorial, and that the same be referred to a committee of the whole house, on Monday next.
Petitions on the subject of extending the capitol stock of the bank of Virginia, from the counties of Westmoreland and Augusta, were received and referred to the committee to whom was referred the petition on the same subject from Fairfax and other counties.
A petition from a number of the inhabitants of the town of Lynchburg, was presented and read, praying that the said town may be incorporated;
Also a petition from John Lynch and others, inhabitants of the town of Lynchburg, praying that certain lots adjoining the said town which have been laid off by said John Lynch may be annexed to the said town, and that there may be no time limited for the improvement of the said lots;
A petition of Louis A. Pauly was presented and read, stating that he has obtained a judgment against the Commonwealth of Virginia in the court of appeals, and praying that an appropriation may be made to discharge the same;
Also a petition of Edward Burgess, stating that he was committed to the Penitentiary for four years, which term of confinement he has undergone; and under the then existing law, created a debt against the Commonwealth of one hundred and seventy seven dollars; but that on his discharge he received only thirty dollars, the sum allowed by the law of the last session of Assembly, repealing the former law on that subject, and praying that he may be allowed the balance of the sum of 177 dollars, deducting the thirty dollars, as the debt was actually created, before the repeal of the law.
Monday, December 10.
On motion.—Resolved, That a committee be appointed whose duty it shall be to enquire into the revenue and expenditure of the last year; to ascertain how much of the public debt has been redeemed since the first of October, 1803; and to prepare an estimate of the expences and revenues of the ensuing year; and a committee was appointed of Messrs. Miller, (Powhatan) E. Harrison, Dillard, Barbour, Madison, Simmons, E. Boyd, Ker, Lightfoot, Mercer and Semple.
On motion.—Resolved, That the Executive be requested to lay their Journal before the General Assembly.
On motion.—Resolved, That a committee be appointed whose duty it shall be to enquire whether the salary or compensation, allowed by law to the physician attending the public guard, and the convicts in the penitentiary, is adequate to his services, and that they report thereupon to this house by bill or otherwise; and a committee was appointed of Messrs. Semple, Peake, Blake, Jones, (Nottoway) Sower, Pate, Dalany, Ker, Hawes and Dashiell.
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in bills—To amend an act, entitled an act, reducing into one the several acts of assembly for the inspection of tobacco; Concerning jailors, their fees and duties; For making allowance to witnesses attending on the part of the Commonwealth in civil suits; To amend the several laws concerning proceedings in chancery, in the county and other inferior courts, and for other purposes; To amend the act, entitled, an act concerning the high court of Chancery; To authorize widows in the counties of Nansemond, Isle of Wight and Southampton, to get tar and turpentine on their dower lands; To amend the act, entitled an act, reducing into one the several acts concerning wills, the distribution of intestate's estates, and the duty of executors and administrators.
THE public is requested to take notice, Mr. Stuart's Lyceum will open in future at the hour of six, instead of seven in the evening.
Richmond Theatre.
TO-MORROW EVENING, December 14, Will be presented (for the second time here) the new COMEDY, called
HEARTS OF OAK.
To which will be added, the Farce of ALL THE WORLD'S A STAGE.
Doors to open at half after 5 o'clock, and performance to begin at 6, precisely.
Admittance—One Dollar.
Nights of performance will be on Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday's.
December 13.
NOTICE.
BANK OF VIRGINIA.
Richmond, Dec. 12, 1804.
A GENERAL meeting of the Stock-holders will be held at the Bank-House, on the first Monday in January next, for the purpose of electing directors for Richmond, Norfolk, Petersburg and Fredericksburg; and for other purposes relative to the affairs of the corporation.
In order that a list of the share-holders may be exhibited, those persons who have not sent in the receipts granted by the commissioners for receiving subscriptions, are requested to transmit them by the day above mentioned, together with the cashier's receipts for the second instalment, when new scrip will be issued, in lieu thereof, by the president.
(signed) JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, Cashr.
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 18th inst. SEVENTEEN PIECES IRISH LINEN, for the benefit of the underwriters.
THOMAS TAYLOR, & Co. Auctioneers.
December 11, 1804.
PHILADELPHIA BOTTLED PORTER.
ORDERS forwarded to the subscribers (if accompanied with cash) will be promptly complied with for the above article, put up by experienced bottlers, under their particular direction, at the rate of one dollar eighty seven and an half cents per dozen, bottles included.
ISAAC MORRIS, & Co. Proprietors, Peap-street, Philadelphia.
12th mo. 13.

The Governor's Letter to the Legislature of Virginia, was accompanied by 17 Documents; one of which only has yet been presented to the public consideration. Some of these Documents are by no means interesting at the present time, as the substance of several of them has already been communicated to the public thro' other channels; and as some of them relate merely to private and local concerns. Hence, in speaking of all the papers of this class, it is sufficient to make a very general and distant reference. There remain a few, however, which are calculated to convey some original information on subjects of general importance. All the papers of this class, will therefore be presented in their entire form.
The Paper No. 1.—Is the public notice required by law of the result of the Election of Electors, for choosing a President and Vice President of the United States.
No. 2.—Contains the resignation of Wilson C. Nicholas, and A. B. Venable, as Senators of the United States.—The vacancies thereby produced were filled by a temporary appointment by the Executive Council, of W. B. Giles and Andrew Moore, which have been lately confirmed by the present Legislature. These letters will deserve publication, both on account of the high character which their authors have acquired, and because the event which they separately announce is probably the most interesting incident of their lives.
Norfolk, May 22d, 1804.
Sir, When I passed through Richmond on my journey to this town, I should have presented to your Excellency the resignation of my seat in the Senate of the United States, had I formed the resolution that I have now taken.
The President of the United States having offered to my acceptance the post of Collector of Norfolk, I came hither to decide, after a more accurate view of the subject, what measure I ought to adopt. The high honor that has been conferred upon me by my country, has never ceased to be duly appreciated, with the fullness of gratitude which it so justly demands; and were I not conscious that a successor can readily be found more competent than myself to the duties of a Senator of the United States, nothing would induce me to ask permission to relinquish that respectable station. As it is, however, I trust that I shall not be considered as abandoning that affectionate attachment which I have always professed, and will never fail to prove on any occasion, to my native state, when I enter into an office under the General Government.
Let me entreat your Excellency to receive this as my resignation; and when you communicate it to the General Assembly, suffer me to request them, fir, through you, to receive my warmest acknowledgements for their kindness, and to be assured of my devotion to those principles, which have drawn forth their successful efforts towards the establishment of our present happy system of affairs.
I have the honor fir to be, with the highest respect and personal esteem, Your Excellency's most obed't serv't, (Signed) W. C. NICHOLAS. His Excellency John Page, Richmond. A Copy.
Richmond, July 5th, 1804.
Sir, A variety of considerations have made it necessary that I should resign my situation as a Senator of the United States. You will please to accept this as a notification, in order that the vacancy may be filled, if it should be deemed necessary, by the Executive, before the next meeting of Congress. I cannot help on this occasion, expressing the great regret I feel on relinquishing an office conferred on me by the General Assembly, before the term of service contemplated, had been completed; but the great length of time that I have been in the public service, has so far disabled me from attending to my private affairs, as to make this measure rather a matter of necessity than of choice.
Be pleased to accept assurances of my high respect, and believe me to be, with great regard, Your obed't serv't, (Signed) ABM. B. VENABLE. His Excellency John Page. A Copy.
No. 3.—Is the letter from Mr. Monroe, which has already been published.
No. 4.—Is a notification of James Madison, the Secretary of State, of the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution of the United States, respecting the manner of voting for President and Vice President. This notification has been already published.
No. 5.—Is a letter from the Governor of Massachusetts, with certain resolutions of the Legislature of that state, proposing an amendment to the Constitution of the United States.—These are commonly called Ely's amendments, and were published soon after their adoption in June of the present year. Mr. Bidwell's Speech in the Senate of Massachusetts, which was concluded in the last No. of this paper, was intended to expose the fallacy and destructive tendency of these celebrated resolutions.
No. 6.—Contains a resolution of the General Assembly of Kentucky, proposing a co-operation on the part of Virginia, with that state, Pennsylvania and the state of Ohio, in opening the rapids of the river Ohio.—The best mode of carrying on the commercial communication between this western country and the ocean, is perhaps at this time one of the most curious and important problems in the political economy of the U. S. Whether the expence of transportation through the Mississippi and its branches is greater or less than the expence of transportation through the waters which empty into the Atlantic ocean, appears to be the simple subject of enquiry. All experimental researches, which are intended to elucidate this question; & every political measure which is adopted to facilitate either mode of transportation, are consequently entitled to our consideration. It is on this account that we copy at full length the proceedings of the Kentucky Legislature.
Frankfort, 23d May, 1804.
In compliance with the request of the Legislature of this state, I have the honor of transmitting to your Excellency the inclosed resolution of the General Assembly, and am, with high consideration, Your Excellency's most obed't serv't, (Signed) JAMES GARRARD. His Excellency John Page, Governor of Virginia, Richmond. A Copy.
State of Kentucky.
In General Assembly. WHEREAS it is important to the citizens of this state, and of the several states bordering on the river Ohio, and who depend on the channel for the conveyance of their produce to market, that the rapids of the said river should be opened, so as to make it more safe for the passage of vessels ascending and descending the said river: Wherefore Resolved Unanimously, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Governor of this state be requested to correspond with the Governors of the states of Virginia, Pennsylvania,
and Ohio, to ascertain what assistance can be obtained from those states in opening the rapids of the Ohio river, and the amount of the sums either of those states will pay (if any) for that purpose; and the Governor will report the same to the next Legislature.
Approved, December 9th, 1803. A true copy from the original roll, HARRY TOULMAN, Sec'y of State. A Copy.
(To be continued.)
By Authority.
RESOLUTION expressive of the sense of Congress of the gallant conduct of captain Stephen Decatur, the officers and crew of the United States keel Intrépide, in attacking in the harbour of Tripoli, and destroying a Tripolitan frigate of forty four guns.
Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President of the United States be requested to present, in the name of Congress, to captain Stephen Decatur, a Sword, and to each of the officers and crew of the United States keel Intrépide, two months pay, as a testimony of the high sense entertained by Congress of the gallantry, good conduct, and services of captain Decatur, the officers and crew of the said keel, in attacking in the harbour of Tripoli, and destroying a Tripolitan frigate of forty four guns.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. November 27, 1804. APPROVED. THOMAS JEFFERSON.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT Making an appropriation to supply a deficiency in an appropriation for the support of government during the present year, and making a partial appropriation for the same object during the year one thousand eight hundred and five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That to make good a deficiency of the appropriation for the contingent expenses of both Houses of Congress, authorised by an act of the fourteenth of March last, the further sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That towards defraying the expence of firewood, stationery and other contingent expenses of both Houses of Congress, during the year one thousand eight hundred and five, the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same hereby is appropriated: which several sums shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars reserved by the act "making provision for the debt of the United States." NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. A. BURR, Vice-President of the United States, and President of the Senate. December 6, 1804. APPROVED. THOMAS JEFFERSON. [BY PERMISSION.]
BURR & HAMILTON.
Is now opened at Mr. HALLAM's Washington Tavern A NEW COLLECTION OF WAX FIGURES;
SUPERIOR to any in America; among which are a striking likeness and representation of the late unfortunate DUELIST, fought between Col. AARON BURR, Vice-President of the United States, and Gen. ALEXANDER HAMILTON, wherein Gen. Hamilton is supported by his second after receiving the mortal wound, while Col. Burr is led from the field by his second—a striking representation of the place where the duel was fought, upon scenery, which adds much to this interesting representation, &c.—and a number of SELECTED FIGURES, chosen from the best selections in America.
ADMITTANCE.—50 cents for the first admission; and no person is admitted the second, without paying half price—25 cents. December 6. eptf.
ASTONISHING INVISIBLE LADY.
THE ACOUSTIC TEMPLE, Incomprehensible Crystal, and reflecting Mirror, Is now exhibiting in Richmond in the cross street leading from the Main Street between the Eagle and the Union Taverns, at the house lately occupied by Mr. Pollard, and since by Mr. Warren, as the Profile Office.
THE amateurs of science and curious experiments will find in this exhibition the most surprising phenomenon that has ever been discovered in acoustics; the proprietor therefore presumes to flatter himself that the enlightened and liberal public will honor his performance with the same degree of applause which has so uniformly attended it in Paris, London, Liverpool and New-York.
This inexpressible Auricular and optical Illusion, Which professes to expose the practices of artful impostors, pretended magicians, and sorcerers, and to open the eyes of those who still foster an absurd belief in ghosts, witches, conjurations, demoniacs, &c. will enable the attentive observer to form a just idea of the artifices by which they imposed on the credulous and superstitious, in this and former ages; and afford also to the spectator an interesting and pleasing entertainment. Description of the Exhibition. In a temple, representing those where the Egyptians delivered their oracles, is a small altar, and a crystal (as described by Dr. Dee, &c.) for consulting spirits. From this proceed the oracles for conveying questions and answers. The whole apparatus is unconnected apparatus is unconnected with surrounding objects. A conversation may be held on any subject—singing, laughing, breathing, &c. close to the ear of the audience; describing their number, dress, motion, &c. without any visible interference of agency, and so completely deceiving the senses, as to appear to be the effect of magic.
The above wonderful and incomprehensible exhibition, which has excited the astonishment and gratified the curiosity of the amateurs of science and the public in general, in London, &c. is now exhibiting, with improvements, as above described. Hours of Exhibition, from 9 o'clock till 1, and from 2 till 6, and from 7 till 9 in the evening. Admittance 75 cents.—Children 50. Nov. 4. (eptf)
T. SULLY, Portrait and Miniature Painter.
SPECIMENS of his work may be seen at his rooms above Dumfure & Turner's Grocery, Main-Street, Richmond. December 4. (eptf)
John Linen and Madera Wine.
JOHN HENRY has imported in the ship LATONA, captain Thurston, from Liverpool, a few small boxes of well assorted 4-4ths RUSSET LINEN, purchased in Dublin in July; which, with fine old London particular MADERA WINE, in pipes and half pipes, he offers for sale on moderate terms. Nov. 7. eptf.
BROKEN'S OFFICE.
THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Anna Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with full fidelity. THOMAS NORVELL. October 3. eptf
FALL GOODS.
WILLIAM TEMPLE has received by the ship Edward and Charles, from London, AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF GOODS, suitable to the approaching season. He expects an ADDITIONAL SUPPLY, in complete his assortment, by the ship Sally from London, and Laona from Liverpool; which he will dispose of on his usual low terms. Sept. 3. eptf
ENOCH SULLIVAN, JEWELLER & HAIR-WORKER, (First door below the Eagle Tavern.)
BEGS leave to inform the public that he has for Sale, A FASHIONABLE ASSORTMENT OF JEWELRY & SILVER WARE; Also, A HANDSOME SUPPLY OF LADIES ELEGANT COMBS, POCKET BOOKS, &c. Dec. 8. eptf
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and BURR PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [eptf.]
W. COWAN,
WATCH AND CLOCK MAKER, one door below the Eagle Tavern—repairs Watches and Clocks of every description, at the shortest notice.
W. C. returns his grateful acknowledgements to his friends and customers, and hopes to merit a continuance of past favours. N. B. He has on hand a few good Watches, with a variety of Chains, Seals, Keys, &c. Which he will dispose of low for cash. December 4. (eptf)
EDUCATION.
J. WOOD has opened, at his room, formerly the school room of Mr. Harris, opposite to Mr. Copland's, AN EVENING CLASS, from the hours of seven to nine, for the arts of Drawing and Painting, and the several branches of the Mathematics, including the higher parts of Arithmetic, Geography, Astronomy and Surveying. Evenings of tuition Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. The Students who attend are at liberty to devote the whole of the two hours to either of the above arts and sciences, or to apply both to Drawing and Mathematics, the latter being taught by lecture. Terms Two Dollars and one half per month, paid at entrance Nov. 21. (eptf)
With to employ a man without a family as an Assistant in my School at the Hot-Springs, in the county of Bath, who can come well recommended for his sobriety, morality and integrity; and qualified to teach Arithmetic and Surveying. Such a person will meet with encouragement by applying to the Rev'd Mr. Blair, or Mr. Peter Tinley, in the city of Richmond; Capt. John Beale, in the county of Botetourt, or the subscriber at this place. FRANCIS CRUTCHFIELD. Hot-Springs, Nov. 21. (ep3w)
FOR SALE—at Rocketts.
THE LOT, and two story BRICK HOUSE, containing three tenements, which the subscriber purchased at the sale of George Nicholson, deceased. The lot is well situated for a warehouse, and the brick building for a bake-house, lumber-house, or Tobacco Factory. November 14. JOHN ELLIS. eptf
BATES'S ALMANAC—FOR 1805—Published by Messrs. Davis & Courtney, may be had at the Office of the Enquirer. September 19. eptf
SADDLERY.
JOHN MENERY, SADDLER, respectfully informs the public in general, and his friends in particular, that he has just received an elegant and well chosen assortment of Saddlery, Coach and Harness Mountings, Whips, Spurs, &c. &c. &c. laid in under his own inspection, whereby he is enabled to offer them on the most reduced terms. November 21.
TO RENT—For the ensuing year,
THE WHITE HOUSE at Hanover Court-house, together with the lots adjoining thereto, that are not attached to the Tavern. The house is a very commodious one with all the necessary offices. Also, for rent, a field containing about an hundred acres adjoining the premises, well calculated for the cultivation of corn. The above property will be rented separately or together, as may best suit those wishing to rent. Terms will be made known by the subscriber living at the Court-house. BARBARY O. THILMAN. Dec. 1.
WASHINGTON TAVERN.
THE subscriber has taken a lease of this tenement for a number of years, and has put it in a state of repair which renders it not inferior to any in this City. Besides the Tavern he has detached buildings, well calculated to accommodate those who are anxious of greater privacy than a tavern usually affords. These tenements adjoin the public square, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have decided advantages over any other houses in this City, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good STABLES and a constant supply of the best FORAGE. He tenders his services to his friends and the public, and offers them, that no unlawful gaming, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to destroy the peace of his house, will ever be permitted. EDWARD HALLAM. Richmond, September 26.
NOTICE.
THE office of Supervisor of the Revenue for the District of Virginia being discontinued, and the unfinished business of the said Office transferred to me; the Collectors of the Direct Tax and Internal Revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjusted and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay, and pay the balances due to the United States.—And those whole lands have been sold in the district of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress of the United States for non-payment of the Direct Tax, may redeem such lands, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal costs and fees as the law directs. As most of the abovenamed lands were sold in Dec. 1802, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next. The money received by me for the redemption of the said lands, will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 25 per cent per annum on the purchase money, to the day on which it may be paid to me. JOSEPH SCOTT. Marshal V.D. July 7. ep-ef.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the late firm of BUCHANAN, DUNLOP & CO. of Petersburg, ROBERT POLLOCK & CO. of Richmond, and DUNLOP, POLLOCK & CO. of Manchester, are hereby notified, that James Dunlop, late a partner in the above concern, has become purchaser of the outstanding debts; they will therefore be pleased to make payment to Mr. John Tompkins residing in Richmond, or the subscriber residing in Petersburg, who alone are authorized to make collections and grant discharges.—Suits will be indifferently commenced against all who do not make payment before the first of February next. JOHN DUNLOP, Attorney For JAMES DUNLOP. Petersburg, Nov. 15, 1804. eptf
J. TOMPKINS
RESPECTFULLY informs those concerned, that he has removed the books and papers of the late concern of Robert Pollock & Co. and Dunlop, Pollock & Co. to a new Brick House near the Basin, and directly opposite to the Scale-House. Where he has for sale, a few pipes of OLD COGNAC BRANDY, of superior quality. December 11.
LAND FOR SALE.
THE SUBSCRIBER offers for sale a tract of Land, containing six hundred and thirty acres, lying on Black Water, in Mathews county, adjoining Mr. John Peyton's, Philip Tabb's and Humley Gayle's lands, well known by the name of the Battery Tract. The fertility of soil is equal, if not superior, to any land in the county. The situation is remarkably pleasant and healthy; the land is well watered and heavily timbered. On it there are three tenements; the houses are tolerably comfortable, and the fences generally good; at one of those places there is a very good Peach and Apple Orchard, and the Battery itself is a most capital stand for a store and tavern, being halfway between Gloucester and Mathews courthouses, and the inhabitants generally wealthy and punctilious in their dealings. The whole of the land being immediately on the river, where the best fish and oysters are caught, renders it a most desirable situation. Any person inclined to purchase will be shown the premises, and terms made known, on application to Capt. James Gibson, at the Battery, or GEORGE E. DUDLEY. Mathews County, December 6. ep2w
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. B—round the Calf. C—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 flick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. June 30. eptm.
PETER BELLETT,
NURSERY and SEEDSMAN, at Williamsburg, intending to remove to the state of New-York, offers FOR SALE, his NURSERY; containing 20 acres of rich manured Land, with about 100,000 TREES, of which 25,000, consisting as follows, are fit to be transplanted this season. 44 Sorts of Apples at 6d. per Tree. 44 Do. of Pears 1/6. do. 30 Do. of Peach 9d. to 1/6. do. 10 Do. of Nectarine 1/6. to 1/6. do. 10 Do. of Apricot 1/6. to 2/ do. 3 Do. of Quince 1/6. to 2/ do. 19 Do. of Cherries 1/6. to 1/6. do. 18 Do. of Plums 1/6. to 2/ do. 4 Do. of Almond 3/ do. 5 Do. of Mulberries 1/6. to 4/6. do. 2 Do. of Figs 1/6. do. 7 Do. of Rabberry Bushes Lombardy and Balsam Poplars Currants, Gooseberries and Strawberries of sorts, Grape Vines of sorts, Artichokes and Asparagus Roots, together with a variety of flowering shrubs, Flower Roots and Seeds and Rose Bushes, and a small quantity of Garden Seeds of this year's growth. ALSO—may be had with the nursery 8 Negroes, 3 of which are well acquainted with Gardening and Nursery work. ALSO—3 Horses, 5 Steers, 4 Cows, and the nursery and farming utensils, which if not sold by the 1st day of May next, will be set up at Public sale on that day, until which time he will continue to sell Trees &c. &c. &c. on lower terms than usual. Orders left with Mr. George Greenhow at Richmond, Messrs. John and Sam. Pownall at Petersburg, will be duly attended to with dispatch. Williamsburg, Nov. 24. ep1M.
NOTICE.
To be sold to the highest bidder, on the fourth Wednesday in December next, at Hanover Court-House. THE Seat whereon the subscriber now resides, containing between three and four hundred acres of valuable farming land. This situation combines as many natural advantages, as most in the county. It is believed to be equally healthy with any in its vicinity; the neighbourhood is opulent and agreeable, and navigation almost at the door. It is peculiarly adapted to a professional gentleman; being within twenty miles of the city of Richmond, six of the courthouses, two of Hanover town, six of New-Castle; and four of an excellent manufacturing mill. On this farm is a very spacious dwelling house (somewhat out of repair) but in tolerable good condition for the reception of a large and genteel family; a new kitchen almost finished, a large barn in very good repair, and a most excellent apple orchard, with a variety of other fine fruit.—The terms of sale will be, one third of the purchase money paid on the day of sale; one third, on that day twelve months; and the second third in six months, from the period at which the second payment becomes due. The bonds to bear interest from the date, if not punctually paid; and a deed of trust on the land, to secure the payments of the two last instalments. Any person who may wish to view the farm, will apply to the subscribers, or in his absence to Messrs. Lany Jones, John Anderson, or Edward Hundley, who reside near the premises. BAITHURST JONES. Hanover County, Nov. 14. (td.)
THREE DWELLING HOUSES TO BE RENTED.
ONE situate at the foot of Adams' hill, and but a small distance from the Masons Hall, lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Underwood; on this lot there is a very good and well enclosed garden, a well of excellent water and other conveniences. One other situate in the alley between the street leading to Shockee warehouse, and that leading to Mayo's Bridge, lately occupied by Mr. John Robbins. The other situate in the back street near Harris's Tobacco manufactory, and the Rock landing—having a large garden well enclosed, and at present occupied by Mr. Henry Tompkins. Possession of the two first described may be had immediately, and of the other on the first of January next. Apply to JOSEPH GALLEGO. WHO HAS FOR SALE, A light Coach, nearly new, with plated mounted harness, complete for two horses. 13th October. (eptf)
Fall and Fashionable Goods.
ROBERT JOHNSTON is now opening a general and well selected Assortment of FALL and FASHIONABLE GOODS, which he will sell on moderate terms for Cash, Produce, or at a short credit, by Wholesale or Retail; AMONG WHICH ARE: Superfine & coarse cloths Ruffs and Irish sheetings. Collimeres & coatings German Osnaburgs and Manchester and patent Ticklenburgs cords Chintzes, Calicoes and Cambricks Swan-downs & Bannels India Luteerings and Satins Rofs, point & duffil blankets. Boys Morocco caps homongery & Cutlery Ladies shoes &ippers Gun Powder and Patent Steel backboards and celars Shot. Oil cloths & oil stones Looking Glasses & Thermometers Irish linens and brown Whips, Spurs, &c. &c. &c. Hollands Nov. 7. eptf
JUST RECEIVED,
A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF HATS AND SHOES. Gentlemen's New-York Ladies' spangled, lace- and London manufac- trimmed & plain, white tured blk. & drab Bea- and coloured Kid Slips vers, Caltors, and Ro- and ties. rums. Do. Morocco do. Do. leather do. Servants' plazed, Camel's Alibee's Kidd and Morocco hair and wool do. do. Slips. Youths' & Infants' do. Children's Morocco Caps. Children's Morocco Slips. Gentlemen's superfine Shoes and Pumps. Do. Swatow Beets. and trimmings. FOR SALE, two doors above the Eagle Tavern, by JUDSON & BURR.
ON CONSIGNMENT, One trunk Calicoes, Gillas, and silk & cotton Shawls. Two tons best country refined iron. December 4. eptf
P. A. PETICOLAS & HIS SON AUGUST,
PROFESSORS OF MUSIC,
RESPECTFULLY inform the Ladies and Gentlemen of the city of Richmond and its vicinity, that they intend to teach MUSIC on the PIANO FORTE or HARPISCHORD. Orders, from Ladies or Gentlemen, left at Mr. Fletcher's (the Riding-School) or at Mr. Gamble's Store, will be particularly attended to. P. A. P. TUNES INSTRUMENTS. MINIATURE PAINTING; good likenesses, warranted by himself. Dec. 1. T. & S. eptf
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Matthew Branch, deceased, of Chesterfield county, are requested to come forward and establish them, that I may make provision for paying the same, before I make a close of my executorship of said estate. ARCHIBALD WALLACE, Execr. Chesterfield, Dec. 6. eptf
THOMAS COURTNEY—TAYLOR:
VERY respectfully begs permission to acquaint the public, that he still continues to occupy the house on the Main-street opposite the Bank, and immediately above Mr. Davis's Printing-Office. He tenders his most grateful acknowledgements to those gentlemen who have been so obliging as to favor him with their custom; and assures them and the public generally, that no exertion shall be wanting to ensure a continuance of patronage. Two or three good workmen would meet with employment by applying as above; and a couple of active lads are wanting as apprentices. Dec. 1. eptf
CHOICE LANDS—FOR SALE.
A DIVISION of the famous Saura Town Lands having taken place between the heirs of James Park Farley, Esq. dec'd. and Col. John S. Farley and his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Morson, the subscribers, Robert Taylor of Norfolk, and Charles Duncan at Roslin, near Petersburg, are fully empowered by the said Col. Farley and Mrs. Morson, to dispose of their proportion, containing 12,832 acres, which are surveyed and laid off in eight lots, containing from 500 to 2800 acres, agreeable to plots in the possession of the said Duncan. The four largest lots are of excellent quality, each containing a considerable proportion of the richest low grounds, which produce tobacco of the very first quality, as has been experienced by one of the subscribers, who shipped it for a number of years. These lands lie on Dan and Smith's rivers, in Rockingham county, on the borders of North Carolina, about 170 miles from Petersburg and Richmond. As there are seldom such lands for sale, they must be an object to those who want to purchase such as will produce fine tobacco, hemp and small grain. One third of the price must be paid in ready money, one third in twelve months, and the other third in two years, the purchaser giving bond with unexceptionable security bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid. Those who wish to purchase will be shown the lands by Doctor John C. Cox, living at Leekville, near Rockingham Court-House, and the terms made known by ROBERT TAYLOR, or CHARLES DUNCAN. Petersburg, Nov. 24. eptf
Insurance against Fire.
Planix Fire Office, London, May 1, 1804.
THE numerous and destructive Fires which have happened within the period of the two last years, in different parts of Europe and America, (more particular in the towns of Liverpool in England, Gothenburg in Sweden, and Norfolk in Virginia,) render it proper to remind all persons who possess property in the United States of America of the utility of insurance. The Phoenix Office of London, is an institution sufficiently known by the very large and important losses it has paid, in consequence of the extensive conflagrations in the cities and towns of America to such sufferers as have had the prudence to protect their property, by insurance.—The Phoenix Company deeply regret that, owing to the expensive offers of other continued losses, upon the buildings and stores in the timber towns, no alteration nor remission on such risks can be made at present; but the Directors hope from the increase of brick and stone buildings, and other improvements of security, that the period is not far distant, when they will be able generally, to mitigate the rates of insurance in North America; and they confidently presume that the promptitude and honor with which they have uniformly fulfilled their extensive engagements, have unequivocally established the solidity, credit, and good faith of the Company.
The Phoenix Company grant insurances upon buildings, goods and ships, whilst in dock or in harbor, from loss or damage by fire, upon the most moderate and equitable terms; and persons desirous of securing their property by policies from this company, are requested to transmit their orders to their correspondents in Great Britain. Nov. 5. eptf.
BILLS OF LADING, SHERIFFS' BLANKS
BLANK BONDS, &c. &c. FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
Printing, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE of the ENQUIRER.