Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1805-11-27 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS
[Vol. XIII.]
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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1805.
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BENJAMIN DU-VAL, At the sign of the Golden Mortar, Richmond,
HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of fresh MEDICINES, SURGEONS' INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS & DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUTTY, &c.
Also, a complete assortment of HATTERS' MATERIALS, CONSISTING OF
  Hatters' Irons  Crude Tartar    Logwood  Bason Irons    Coppers  Bow-Strings    Vinegar  Linings    Putty  Galoons    Spanish Indigo  Tassel Bands    Oil of Vitriol  Rubbing Dishes    Aq. Fortis  Stampers    QuickSilver  Trenchers, &c.  
Which added to his former Stock, completes an assortment that was never equalled, in his line of business, in this city.
He thanks his customers for past favors, and hopes to merit a continuation of their custom. His former attention to the quality of his Medicines, importing them in their crude state, that he might be able to judge of their quality, and powdering and preparing them under his immediate inspection, have contributed to his present establishment: and opposition he presumes will not relax his exertions to give general satisfaction in future.
His experience for more than 12 years past, as a Apothecary and Druggist in this city, added to a small stock of Medical Information acquired before, enables him, he thinks, to form a tolerably correct judgment as to the quality of Drugs and Medicines, although he cannot boast of honors conferred on him greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable customers.
In regard to his wholesale prices, he promises to furnish each of his wholesale customers with a printed price current, as soon as possible, and feels himself confident in their appreciation, knowing that no one in this state can afford to undersell him. This he intends to do, not to get others' customers from them, but to secure his own.
Any articles that may be ordered and not approved of as to quality, may be returned if in good order, and in a reasonable time.
Richmond, May 30, 1805. (3w&wif)
LAND FOR SALE, IN ALBEMARLE.
ON the 4th day of December next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, will be sold, to the highest bidder, at the late dwelling house of Richard H. Allen, on Mychunk Creek, the Land whereon he lived, containing about 730 acres, a considerable part of which is excellent bottom, some now in tobacco, and about 20 acres adjoining the present meadow may be cleared & put into grass. The plantation is now in good farming order, having upwards of 200 acres of cleared land, the greater part of which has lately been cleared, and cultivated in regular rotation. There is on this farm a small bearing apple orchard of choice winter fruit. The improvements are all good, and calculated for the accommodation of a genteel family. The houses are assured against fire, and a very good well of water in the yard. This farm is situated in a genteel & sociable neighborhood, within 3 miles of the S. W. Mountains, 9 of Milton and the Rivanna river, 15 of Charlottesville, 30 of Columbia, and 2 of the Merry Mills; it also lies adjoining a valuable range for stock, and near a vein of limestone. It will be sold on a credit of five years, in four equal payments, the first to fall due two years from the day of sale, and the balance in three annual payments from the day on which the first payment falls due. Good personal security will be required on one fourth of the purchase money, as also a mortgage on the property for the amount of the purchase. This land will be shown by the executors or by the overseer on the farm.
On the same day and at the same place, WILL BE SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on 12 months credit, all the CROP of corn, wheat, tobacco, oats, hay, fodder, and STOCK of every description—among which are some valuable horses, colts and mules, cattle and sheep, some pork, and young hogs, every species of household and kitchen FURNITURE, a new Waggon and Gear, plantation Tools, &c.—Bonds with approved security will be required, to bear interest from the date if not punctually paid.
DABNEY MINOR. } Exrs. ALEXANDER GARRETT, } October 8, 1805. (1D)
DOCT. JAMES WORRALL,
HAVING taken the first Brick house on the right hand side after passing the corner of the Cross street leading from the Brick Row to the head of the Basin, offers his services to the citizens of Richmond and its vicinity, in the different branches of the MEDICAL PROFESSION. Persons residing in the country requiring his assistance, may depend on the most prompt and assiduous attention. Richmond, Oct. 21, 1805. w2m
LAND & NEGROES, for SALE.
WILL be sold, on Thursday the ninth day of January next, at Cumberland courthouse, two TRACTS of LAND, one tract adjoining the lands of Wm. Daniel, sen. and others; the other tract adjoining the lands of Wm. Coleman, sen. containing about 600 acres each; the situation of both tracts is such as may be divided to suit purchasers; the soil is adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and tobacco, and well timbered; there is a sufficiency of land cleared on each tract to work six or eight hands to advantage; distant 15 miles from Catersville, 8 miles from Caira, and 3 miles from Cumberland courthouse. A further description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumable those who wish to purchase will first view the premises. The terms of sale are four equal annual payments, with bonds and approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. Also fifteen likely Virginia SLAVES, on a credit of 12 months. Bonds with approved security will be required to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid.
Wm. A. ALLEN. October 7th, 1805. wids
** Subscribers to the DEBATES of the VIRGINIA CONVENTION, and to GIBBON'S HISTORY of the DECLINE and FALL of the ROMAN EMPIRE, are requested to apply at this office, where their copies are now ready for delivery. (1f)
NOTICE. A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly to grant a charter to a company entitled the Richmond Aqueduct Company, for carrying Spring Water through the said city. Richmond, Oct. 22d, 1805.
NOTICE. A PETITION will be presented to the General Assembly of Virginia, at the next session, praying that an act may pass to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting a Canal on the south side of the falls of James River, or otherwise improving the navigation of the river for the passage of Batteaux; and also for the establishment of a Bank in the town of Manchester. August 13.
WILL be sold, to the highest bidder, on the first Monday in December next, in Caira, 11 likely Virginia born SLAVES, consisting of men, women, boys and girls, on a credit of 12 months, the purchasers giving bond with approved security to bear interest from the date if not punctually paid. Jesse Higginbotham, Adm'r. Caira, 7th Nov. 1805. tds
NOTICE. IF FRANCIS LIGHTFOOT, a native of the county of New-Kent, and formerly a resident of the state of Virginia, be now living, or has any legal heir or descendant living, either in the United States or elsewhere, by applying either in person or by special agent, and producing sufficient evidence of their being such legal descendant, to Wm or Nicholas Lightfoot of the county of James City, to Geo or Lightfoot Poindexter of New-Kent, or to James Poindexter of Powhatan, will hear of something highly important and much to their advantage. 2
Land & other Property FOR SALE.
ON Wednesday the 11th day of December, 1805, will be exposed at public sale, to the highest bidder, upon a credit of one and two years, that valuable & well known tract of LAND belonging to the estate of Goodrich Crump, dec. in Powhatan county, situate on the Buckingham road, 6 miles from the courthouse, 38 from Manchester, and 1 1-2 from Appomattox river. The improvements are a small and convenient dwelling house, with 2 rooms below and 2 above, a kitchen, dairy, smoke house and every other out house in good repair, and calculated for the accommodation of a genteel family. It is unnecessary to state all the advantages this tract of land has, as it is presumed no one will purchase, without first viewing it, farther than to say, that it is in the centre of one of the most opulent, healthy and agreeable neighborhoods in this state and contiguous to several mills—sufficiently large to work 10 or 12 hands to great advantage, with 120 bushels of wheat well put in.—Any person wishing to view the above land before the day of sale, will apply to Mr. John Crump, the present occupant.
At the same time and place, will also be SOLD, upon 12 months credit, for sums exceeding 10 dollars, all the
Household & Kitchen Furniture, Together with the STOCK of every description—horses, hogs, sheep and horned cattle, among the latter of which are several good pair of work oxen—plantation utensils, two carts, a waggon, two pair of cart wheels, &c. &c.—For all sums under ten dollars cash will be required. Bonds to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid.
Those who have claims against the estate of Goodrich Crump dec. are requested to bring them forward to Richard Crump, properly authenticated, by the first of April next.
Wm HICKMAN, } Exrs. of Good. RICHARD CRUMP, } Rich Crump. Powhatan, Nov. 20, 1805.
WANTED TO HIRE,
TWO SERVANTS, a Man and Woman; the Man must have been accustomed to wait in a house, as he will be wanted for that and to assist as Porter in a Store.—The Woman must be a good plain Cook and Washer, clearly in her person, and every thing she does; and to have no followers. They must be strongly recommended for their honesty and sobriety.
Two of the above description will meet with a good place and liberal wages, by applying at this Office. November 23, 1805. (1f.)
SALES AT AUCTION.
Positively without reserve, for approved endorsed Negotiable Notes, at 30 Days, for all sums above 20 Dollars.
ON Wednesday next, at 11 o'clock, at the Vendue Office of the Subscribers, will be Sold, Isaac Delyon's remaining
STOCK OF GOODS,
Consisting of a very good seasonable assortment. At the same time and place, will be Sold, a LIKELY NEGRO GIRL, About 15 years old, for a Negotiable Endorsed Note, at 120 days.
PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M. Richmond, Nov. 20, 1805. (2)
WILL BE SOLD,
ON the 6th day of December next, at the plantation that James Martin formerly lived at, in Powhatan county, the said TRACT of LAND, together with part of the crop of Corn, Fodder, Horses, Hogs & Cattle, amongst which are some excellent work Steers, two Wagons, a set of Blacksmiths' Tools, and a variety of Plantation Utensils, belonging to the estate of Anthony Martin, dec.—At which time will be rented the MILL of the said decedent—the MILLER also will be sold or hired, who is a very capable miller. The credit will be made known on the day of sale, by
The Executors. November 15th, 1805. 2*
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NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against the Subscriber as Executor of the estate of George Baskerville, deceased, are hereby notified, to bring them forward, properly authenticated, in order that provision may be made for the discharge of the same. And all persons, who are indebted, are earnestly requested to make immediate payment, as no indulgence can, or will be granted them. JOHN BROWN, Ex'r. GEO. BASKERVILLE. Cumberland, Nov. 16, 1805. 2*
BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA. A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS the infectious and malignant disease which lately prevailed in the cities of New York and Philadelphia, the West India Islands and other places, has subsided, and the advanced season of the year, concurs in rendering unnecessary a further interruption of the commerce of this commonwealth, with the cities, islands and other places aforesaid. I have therefore thought fit, with the advice of the Council of state to issue this proclamation, hereby revoking that issued on the 21st of September last, for the performance of quarantine.
Given under my hand as Governor, with the seal of the Commonwealth annexed, at L. S. Richmond, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the Commonwealth the thirtieth. Signed, JOHN PAGE.
LATE AND IMPORTANT.
NEW-YORK, November 17. The ship Swift, capt. Murphy, has arrived in the offing, in 40 days from Bordeaux. A gentleman who came out in her, reached town yesterday morning, and has furnished the editors of the New-York Gazette with Paris papers to the 3d of Oct. They furnish much important matter. WAR on the continent is no longer doubtful. Read the Extracts.
IMPERIAL DECREE.
S. Cloud, 2d Complemental day, year 31. Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, have decreed and do decree what follows:
TITLE 1.—Art. 1. There shall be formed three bodies of army of reserve, the first shall have its head quarters at Boulogne, & shall be commanded by Marshal Brune; it shall extend from the Somme to the Scheld, & shall comprise the departments of the Somme, of the Pas-de-Calais, of the Nord & of the Lys.—The second shall assemble at Mayence, and shall be commanded by the Senator Marshal Lefebvre, it shall comprise the departments of the 20th and 26th military divisions; the third shall unite at Strasburg, and shall be commanded by the Senator Marshal Kellerman; it shall comprise the departments of the 5th and 6th military divisions. 2. All the corps destined to make a part of these three bodies of reserve shall be carried to the complement of war, by means of the reserve.
TITLE 2.—3. There shall be formed at Rennes, a flying camp of Grenadiers, under the orders of the General of Brigade Boyer. There shall be formed a second flying camp of Grenadiers at the town of Napoleon, under the orders of a General of Brigade. There shall be formed a third flying camp of Grenadiers, at Alexandria, department of Marengo, under the orders of a General of Brigade. 4. There shall be attached to each of these bodies a division of light horse, and a division of light horse artillery. 5. These bodies are destined to march whenever their presence shall be necessary. 6. The minister of war is charged with the execution of the present decree.
(Signed) NAPOLEON.
By the Emperor,
The Secretary of State, H. B. MARAT.
An Imperial decree orders that there shall be formed a corps of Horse Velites, of 830 men. This corps of Horse Velites shall be composed of conscripts of the three last years, at the rate of six for each department, to be taken from among those who shall offer themselves voluntarily; or in default of such, to be designated by the prefect. The Velites must be of sound constitutions and must have of their own, or from their relations, a secure revenue of 300 fr. a year.
H. M. the Emperor and King, set off for the army on Tuesday last.—Moniteur. The Gazette de France, adds, that the Empress set off with the Emperor.
A Paris paper of Sept. 23, contains a very lengthy Exposition of the reciprocal conduct of France and Austria from the peace of Luneville, read by the minister of foreign affairs in the Senate, on the 22d. The subsequent remarks close this Exposition:
"After such an act on the part of the court of Vienna, the Emperor could have nothing more to ask of it. It became evident, that even that congress proceeded with such an imperious tone, and with
views so visible hostile to France, was only a new snare laid for her faith: that Austria irrevocably decided upon war, would not return to pacific ideas, and that she was even no longer free to return to them. The exchange of all places evidently proved that a part of the sums granted to the English ministry, to serve their ends on the continent, were arrived at its destination, and the power who had just trafficked with her alliance, could no longer spare the blood of her subjects, the price of which she had just received. All further explanation with the court of Vienna being thus henceforth impossible, the way of arms is henceforward the only one compatible with honor."
Let England applaud herself upon having at length found allies: let her rejoice that blood is about to flow on the continent: let her flatter herself that her own country will be spared: let her hope to find her safety in the discord of other states—her joy will be of short duration—her hopes will be in vain—and the day is not far distant, when the rights of nations will be at length respected.
The Emperor, obliged to repel an unjust aggression, which he has in vain endeavoured to prevent, has been constrained to suspend the execution of his first designs. He has withdrawn from the shores of the Ocean those old bands so often victorious, and he marches at their head. He will not lay down his arms before he has obtained full and entire satisfaction; and complete security both for his own states and those of his allies.
The Emperor's Speech in the Senate.
SENATORS,—In the present circumstances of Europe, I feel the necessity of appearing in the midst of you, and of making known to you my sentiments.
I am about to quit my capital to put myself at the head of the army, and carry a speedy succour to my allies and to defend the dearest interests of my people.
The wishes of the eternal enemies of the continent are accomplished: war has begun in the heart of Germany. Austria and Russia have united with England, and our generation is drawn anew into all the calamities of war. A few days ago, I still hoped that peace would not be disturbed; menaces and outrages found me immovable; but the Austrian army has crossed the Inn, Munich is invaded, the Elector of Bavaria is driven out of his capital; all my hopes are vanished.
It is at this instant that the wickedness of the enemies of the continent has unveiled itself. They were yet apprehensive of the manifestation of my profound love of peace; they were apprehensive lest Austria, at the sight of the abyss which they had dug under her footsteps, should return to sentiments of justice and moderation; they have hurried her into war. I am grieved at the blood it will cost Europe; but the French name will obtain a new lustre from it.
Senators, when at your desire, at the voice of the whole French people, I set the imperial crown upon my head, I received from you, from every citizen, the engagement to maintain it pure, and unsullied. My people have given me in every circumstance proofs of their confidence and their love. They will fly under the colors of the Emperor and of his army, which in a few days will have passed the frontiers.
Magistrates, soldiers, citizens, all wish to maintain the country free from the influence of England, who, if she prevailed, would grant us only a peace surrounded with ignominy and sn me the principal conditions of which would be the burning of our fleets, the filling up our ports, and the annihilation of our industry.
All the promises I have made to the French people, I have kept. The French people, in their turn, have taken no engagement with me that they have not surpassed. In this circumstance so important for their glory and mine, they will continue to merit that name of Great People with which I saluted them in the midst of the fields of battle.
Frenchmen! your Emperor will do his duty: my soldiers will do theirs: you will do yours!
FRIEBURG, in Brisgaw, Sept. 16.
On the 7th inst. the Austrians crossed the Inn at Braunau.—One column took the road to Muhlendorf, and directed its march towards Landshut, where it arrived on the 10th. No intelligence has yet been received of its further progress: but it is conjectured that it will march, or has already marched, towards Ingolstadt, thence to proceed to Donawert, where it will take post.—The other column marched by the way of Wasterbourg towards Munich. It is thought that its intention is to take the position of Lansberg and Eribourgh, upon the Lech, positions which it occupied in the last war.—This army, designated, until its entrance into Bavaria, under the name of army of the camp of Weis, and which appears to have now taken that of army of the Rhine, is commanded by the Arch-duke Ferdinand, having under his orders the Quarter Master General
Mayer; but no other commander in chief directs it at this moment, and each column makes its movements according to particular orders. Its force appears to be between 45 and 50,000 men.—Another body of troops of about 20,000 men, making a part of the army of Tyrol, is now at Bregenz, under the command of General Hohenburg, having under him the Generals Rohan and Aspremont. This body, hitherto inactive, has just made a movement; two thousand men of the advanced guards have marched towards Rovensburg in Swabia; other corps are following them and are marching towards Ulm, under the orders of General Wrade; but the Austrians missed their blow, and Gen. Wrade was able to retreat towards Frensicula, and form his junction with the other Bavarian troops which are already assembled there, or on their march thither, and which will then form an army of 30 or 22,000 men.
FRANKFORT, Sept. 11.—Our last letters are of the 3d September; they give the news that on the 3d a general order of the day announced to the army that the new commanders of the troops have been officially nominated. It is therein said, that the Emperor will repair in person to the army, having under him Gen. Mack and the Count de Greenville. His Majesty will set off for Lintz on the 3d September. On the same day the Arch Dukes and the other Generals are to repair to the armies in which they are employed. The Arch Duke Charles is appointed commander in chief of the Austrian army in Italy and in the Tyrol. The Arch Duke John his brother, is his assistant in the command, and Baron de Zach is to perform the functions of chief of the General Staff, a post which he has already occupied in the army of Gen. Melas, under whom he served in the battle of Marengo, where he was taken prisoner; the General Baron de Hohenburg is also to have a superior post in the army of the Tyrol, under the orders of the Arch Duke Charles.
The chief command of the army in Upper Austria is given to the Arch Duke Ferdinand, the son of the present sovereign of Brisgaw and of the Archduchess, cousin-german to the Emperor. General Mayer is chief of the Staff of his army.
During the absence of the Emperor, the Elector of Salsburg, his brother is charged with the direction of business.
Sept. 5.—Letters from Vienna announce, that a part of the baggage of his Majesty the Emperor and of their Imperial and Royal Highnesses the Arch Dukes is already set on for the army. The Monarch will first repair to the camp of Weis.
The Paris papers also mention, that the Prussian regiments had received orders to put themselves on a war footing, for the purpose, it was said, of covering the frontiers of the Prussian States during the present conjuncture.
An article from Carlsruhe of the 18th Sept. states, that the Austrian troops, from Brenitz, entered Biberach (a former free town) on the 15.
The Archdukes Ferdinand and Maximilian had left Vienna. The first will command in chief the army of Germany; the other repairs to the army of Italy. The Archduke Charles was to set out the 18th Sept. to take the command in chief of the latter army.
The French government have published the state papers relative to the late negotiations with the Austrian cabinet.
The Paris papers also contain addresses to the Tribune, by orators of the Council of state, with the answer of the President, and other public bodies, all relating to the rupture with Austria and Russia. These addresses, &c. are filed with inévitables against England and Austria; & extol the happy Genius of Bonaparte. In future papers we may probably give some of them.
CONTINUATION OF TRANSLATIONS,
From French papers received by the ship Eliza, Capt. Smith, at the office of the Norfolk Public Ledger.
STATE PAPER.
Note of the Cabinet of Vienna. This and the following state paper were delivered to the minister of foreign affairs, by Count Philip Cobentzel, (12th Sept.)
The court of Vienna yields without hesitating to the demand which has been made on her on the part of the Emperor, of the French, to explain herself categorically upon the intentions and the motives of her armaments. She has no other intention than to maintain peace and friendly relations with France, as also to maintain the general repose of the continent; no other desire than to see the intentions of the Emperor Napoleon correspond with her own. But the maintenance of peace between two powers does not alone consist in not attacking each other. It consists, at least, essentially in the accomplishment of the treaties upon which peace is established. The power who infringes them in essential points, and who

refuses to do justice to remonstrances, is quite as much the aggressor as if she attack the other unjustly. The peace between Austria and France depends upon the treaty of Luneville, one of the conditions of which stipulates and guarantees the independence of the republics of Italy, as also of the Helvetic and Batavian republics, and secures to them the liberty of choosing their governments. Every enterprise to oblige them to adopt a government, a constitution, or a master, otherwise than by their free choice, otherwise than by preserving a real political independence, is an infraction of the peace of Luneville, and Austria has the right to claim and pursue the redress of it.
The desire of maintaining mutual friendship, of quieting distrust, of preserving the public repose from greater dangers, may, in the midst of critical and delicate circumstances, engage the claiming party to be circumspect, to use great moderation in pursuing its grievances, to refer the discussion to subsequent negotiations; but the regard of friendship cannot make it its duty to renounce the stipulations of treaties, and the power who after having infringed them, declines explaining himself upon it, refuses to negotiate and substitutes threats for negotiation, offends as much against the laws of friendship as against the sacred rights of peace.
As to the maintenance of public repose, it requires that each state shall remain within its own limits and shall respect the rights and independence of the other states, strong or weak. This repose is troubled when a power attributes to itself rights of occupation, protection and influence, which are avowed neither by the law of the nations nor by treaties; when she speaks of the rights of victory after the peace that has extinguished them; when she employs force and fear to dictate laws to her neighbors, to oblige them to assimilate their constitution to hers, or to wrest from them alliances, concessions, acts of submission and of incorporation; when she pretends that her dignity is offended by well grounded representations, whilst her own journals successively attack monarchs; in fine, when she sets herself up as sole arbiter of the late and common interest of nations, and wishes to exclude other powers from all participation in the maintenance of the general tranquility and equilibrium, some because an arm of the sea separates them from the continent, opposing to the remonstrances of the nations the nearest to the danger evasive answers, assemblages of troops upon their frontiers, and menaces of rupture if they put themselves in a state of defence.
It is she then who provokes the other powers to arm themselves, to help each other, to unite in fine, if necessary for the maintenance of their own, and of the public safety.
It is thus that the armaments of the court of Vienna have been gradually provoked, both by the armaments of France and by the insufficiency of conciliatory means, to assure herself of the maintenance of a true peace and of a quiet futurity.
All Europe has perceived the sincerity of the pacific dispositions of his majesty the emperor in his exactness to fulfil the conditions of the treaty of Luneville, in his great condescension upon the subject of the extensions, hurtful to his interest, given to the execution of that treaty in Germany; in his moderation not less great at the time of the first deviations of the French republic from the said treaty, relative to the other republics.
Attributing these deviations to the wish of guaranteeing from all internal danger, the development of the plan formed for the re-establishment of the monarchical government, his majesty made no difficulty in acknowledging the state of things established in Italy towards the end of the year 1802. His confidence in the views of the First Consul, the engagements entered into by the latter with the new Italian republic upon the temporary duration of his presidency, the public and solemn assurances which attended and followed his elevation to the Imperial dignity, of his entertaining no views of aggrandizement or any wish to encroach on the independence of the Italian states; in short, the engagements subsisting on his part towards the sovereign of Russia, more particularly on the compensations to be granted to the king of Sardinia and on a common arrangement of the affairs of Italy; all these motives have concurred to give birth to, and nourish in his majesty's heart, the hope that the consolidation of the new empire of the French would bring back in a little time the policy and measures of his government to relations compatible with the equilibrium and safety of Europe; and when, some time afterwards, the first rumors of new, and approaching changes in the state of Lombardy induced the ambassador of Vienna at Paris, to demand explanations upon this head, his majesty was still further confirmed in his hopes by the official assurance, given in the name of the emperor Napoleon, that the Italian republics should not be united to France, and that no innovation should take place in them contrary to their political independence.
Europe will judge whether these assurances have been fulfilled. The emperor has not ceased to reclaim them, as the correspondence will prove which took place thereon between the two sovereigns, and the official and ostensible relations which the ambassador count Philip Cobenzel was instructed to make; and although the letters by which the emperor Napoleon communicated to his majesty his dispositions
for the establishment of a kingdom of Italy were attended with threats of armaments; although every thing at that time revealed what the event has since proved, that the emperor of the French was resolved on supporting these innovations by force; nevertheless his majesty never recognised dispositions which were only announced to him as a provisional arrangement: he confined himself to repelling the charges which served as the pretence for threats, and to manifesting the hope that this principle of separation and independence consecrated by the treaty should be maintained by definitive arrangements, which the emperor Napoleon made to depend on further negotiations with the court of St. Petersburg and London, at the period of the re-establishment of peace.
These negotiations were in fact the only hope H. M. had left, to succeed by conciliatory modes, in consolidating peace and at length to restore calm to Europe, alarmed from the north to the south, by enterprises, the number and extent of which increased every instant.
H. M. the emperor of the French had taken towards the King of England, a preliminary, pacific step, still continuing, however, to wish to exclude him from the right of participating, in the major interests of the continent.
This restriction, combined with the relations which existed between the courts of London and St. Petersburg, induced H. Britannic majesty to have recourse to the emperor of Russia, who, notwithstanding the interruption of his official relations with France, did not hesitate to interpose his good offices, to send for that purpose a negotiator, and to cause his admission to be asked for of the Sovereign of France.
But the hope, founded on all these pacific steps was not long in vanishing. New blows were aimed at the political existence of other independent states of Italy, at the very moment when the passport which had been demanded for the Russian negotiator to proceed to France, was sent to him; the emperor Alexander conceived himself henceforth authorised to look on his mediation as compromised; on the other side, French armies were suddenly assembled in Italy, notwithstanding the promise given not to arm.
A camp of thirty thousand men assembled in the plains of Maringo was followed by another camp of forty thousand men, in the frontiers of the Tyrol and the Venetian Provinces of Austria. H. M. was then constrained to provide in an effectual manner for his own security. He then acquired the conviction that the pacific, friendly and moderate principles he professed, met with no such sentiments in return from H. M. the emperor of the French, as could authorize him any longer to neglect preparing necessary measures for defence and maintenance of the dignity of his Empire.
Such is the cause of his present armaments. But the same sentiments which have so induced H. M. to wish to avoid having recourse to such measures, have also determined their end. The emperor arms, not with hostile views, not to make a diversion to the descent on England, the execution of which after two years threats, should not appear reserved for the moment, when France has provoked both Austria and Russia. He arms for the preservation of the peace, without which this peace would be merely an illusion, in order to succeed in an equitable accommodation, founded on the moderation of all the interested powers, and calculated to insure the equilibrium and permanent tranquility of Europe. The step by which H. M. invited at the same time the principal courts interested to renew the interrupted negotiations, which his interposition has just experienced from H. M. the emperor of the French, does not make him averse to renewing it.
He has been more successful with the emperor Alexander. This monarch who fills a distinguished place in the Cabinets of the European powers, whose equilibrium and general welfare, are the objects of his constant cares, displays in the annexed reply which he has just caused to be delivered to H. M. an equal desire for the conclusion of an equitable and moderate arrangement. He is equally convinced of the necessity of an eventual armament and believes himself obliged in consequence of the encroachments spoken of, in order to contest the right and consequence of his intervention, to send forward a part of his troops, in order to secure to this intervention all the weight and efficaciousness of so great a power.
In order completely to prove the rectitude of the intentions of the two imperial courts of Austria and Russia, it is here solemnly declared in the name of both: that they are ready to negotiate with the court of France for the maintenance of the continental peace, on the most moderate terms compatible with the general repose and security.
That, whatever be the issue of the negotiation, and should war inevitably break out, they mutually engage to abstain from all enterprises, which might tend to interfere in the internal affairs of France.
To alter the state of possession and the relations now legally established in the Germanic Empire; or in the least to injure the rights and interests of the Ottoman Porte, whose possessions and integrity they are on the contrary ready to defend, as far as it depends on them.
Finally that Great Britain has caused them to be informed that her sentiments are perfectly analogous to theirs.
And dispositions equally moderate for the re-establishment of peace with France.
His majesty hopes that the frank and sincere explanations, into which he has just entered, will be found calculated to remove the doubts which may exist in the mind of H. M. the emperor Napoleon, concerning the intentions and motives which animate him; and all his wishes will be fulfilled, if these explanations can contribute to prevent misfortunes which it does not depend on him to spare to humanity.
Annexed to the foregoing, and transmitted at the same time.
A copy of the Declaration delivered to the said cabinet, by the court Rosoumowsky, ambassador from his Imperial majesty of all the Russias.
It would be superfluous in this place to go back to the motives which have determined his majesty the emperor of all the Russias to recall the plenipotentiary he had dispatched in concert with his Britannic majesty, to treat for peace with the chief of the French government.
These motives are too just and too evident not to be appreciated by all Europe. They have been laid down in the note delivered to the ministry of his Prussian majesty by M. Novosiltzoff on the 28th June, (10 July) and the resolution which they have provoked is only a consequence of the same sentiments and the same principles which have constantly induced his Imperial majesty to employ his assiduous cares towards the re-establishment of general tranquility.
Since the rupture between England and France, his majesty has beheld with surprise and grief, the major part of the continental states successively forced to support the burden of a war, purely maritime in its principle, and foreign to their direct interests; but he could no longer preserve the hope that a frank and friendly negotiation would suffice to put an end to this afflicting state of things, when he learned that without any regard for the solemn steps which tended to re-establish peace, and at the very moment when Russia offered to treat for its conclusion, new states were deprived of their independence.
If then his Imperial majesty has resolved on recalling his plenipotentiary, it is merely because he has acquired the full certainty that the mission of the latter would not produce a satisfactory result, and not because his ardent wishes to restore peace to Europe are in any manner diminished.
The most striking proof that the emperor can give of it, is, that he still adheres to the demand which has just been made by his Imperial and royal majesty at the same time to France, Prussia and Russia, for the purpose of procuring the renewal of the interrupted negotiation.
Nevertheless his Imperial majesty cannot at the same time conceal the probability that a conduct on the part of the French government similar to that which has already forced the emperor to retract his first steps towards a negotiation for peace, may also render abortive that which Austria purpose to renew.
The painful apprehension, but which is justified by experience, of seeing new encroachments made at the very moment when the negotiation may be accepted, or during its course; the apprehension that greater dangers will arise for Europe from a step which has no other end in view than to save it; the certainty that they will be inevitable as soon as the just demands of the continental powers, as well as those which the French government wishes to uphold as a consequence of its successive invasions, cannot be satisfied in any part; the obligation more particularly, which the emperor has taken in circumstances as calamitous as they are difficult, to come to the succour of his allies whose safety, whose very existence is eminently threatened, and to offer them in short, not a delusive assistance, but a real, immediate and effectual one; all these considerations united, mark out the only line of conduct which it behoves his Imperial majesty to adopt. Russia can now no longer resume the interrupted negotiations, but by putting herself in a state to succour her allies, whenever they shall be attacked, and thus guaranteeing Europe from a further overthrow. He must combine his measures so as to procure to himself a well grounded hope that the negotiations for peace will promise much happier results than those which have been hitherto taken, and which unfortunately have only failed through the want of respect which the French government has shown to the pressing solicitations and representations of Russia, and the other continental powers, and by a repeated increase of the dangers of Europe.
It is in consequence of every thing which has just been alleged, that the undersigned has orders to communicate to the ministry of his Imperial and royal majesty, in reply to the note which the ambassador count Stadion delivered to the cabinet of Saint Petersburg on the 20th July, (7th August,) that his majesty the emperor of all the Russias has taken up on the contents of the following determinations:
To adhere to the demand of renewing the negotiations of peace, broken off by the call of Mr. Novosiltzoff, and to proceed thereon as soon as the chief of the French government shall have manifested a similar disposition.
To cause to advance immediately two armies of 50,000 men each, across Galicia towards the Danube, for the purpose of combining with the negotiation such a powerful armament of mediation, and observation, calculated to prevent further encroachments during the pacific negotiations, and of securing in its issue, Austria
and the neighboring countries from every attack on the part of France.
To invite his imperial and royal majesty, and also other powers to co-operate on their side in this salutary measure, of which the French government, if it judges with impartiality, must acknowledge the propriety.
The undersigned, in acquitting himself of this office towards his imperial and royal majesty, conceives it his duty to add, that it is merely the sincere desire of restoring peace to Europe which regulates his conduct on this occasion; that Russia will bring to the negotiation for peace, the means best calculated to procure their successful issue, and she solemnly declares herself ready to withdraw her troops as soon as this desirable result shall have been obtained by sufficient sureties for all the states of Europe.
H. I. M. formally invites H. I. & R. M. to unite with him in the measure he has adopted, and the undersigned is authorised to concert with his ministry on every thing relative to this important object.
Vienna, Saturday, August 12. (Aug. 31st 1805.) Signed G. A. DE ROSOUMOUSKY.
CONSERVATIVE SENATE. Exposition of the reciprocal conduct of France and Austria, since the peace of Luneville: read by the Minister of Foreign Affairs.
All Europe can testify that during the war, in the midst of the most decisive and signal success, the emperor of the French has never ceased to manifest his desire for peace; that he offered it repeatedly to his enemies; that after reducing them to the necessity of receiving it as a favor, he granted it to them on terms such as they never dared to hope for; and which have rendered his moderation no less eminent than his victories. He feels the high value of glory acquired by conquest in a just and necessary war; but there exists a glory more dear and flattering to his heart; its first wish, the constant aim of his efforts, has ever been the tranquility of Europe and the peace and happiness of its inhabitants.
This object was attained, this wish fulfilled by the treaty of Amiens. The emperor did all in his power to render it a lasting one. It would still have subsisted, but for the growing prosperity of France, which has limited its duration. At first it was made nugatory by the artful measures, and finally broken by the undissembled perfidy of the cabinet of St. James.
Peace, however, still reigned over the continent, the flimsy and counterfeit pretexts made by England, in justification, were easily penetrated, and her real views exposed to Europe. England dreaded to see the French colonies, which had once been so flourishing, and which might again become so, rise from their ruins, and as it were, spring up out of their own ashes; her jealousy prompted her to stifle, or arrest at least in its progress the spirit of French industry, reanimated by the peace; she cherished the senseless design of interdicting the French flag in those seas where it had appeared time immemorial with such éclat; or at least reducing it to a state of debasement, incompatible with the rank which France holds amongst the nations of the world. But these were not the only motives which actuated England; she was moreover stimulated by her insatiable avidity to covet a monopoly of the commerce of the world, in all its branches, by that extravagant pride which persuades her to believe herself the sovereign of the seas, and which is the solitary foundation of the monstrous despotism she exercises upon the ocean. The cause then which France had to defend, was the cause of Europe, and it was natural to suppose that neither the intrigues of England, the gold with which she recompenses the instruments of her ambition, nor that her fallacious promises would have engaged in her interest, one of the continental powers. Not one in reality appeared inclined to listen to her propositions or her intrigués.
Satisfied as to the intentions of the continent, the emperor turned his attention towards maritime warfare, in undertaking which he had every thing to create. Fleets were constructed, ports were made, camps were pitched on the shore of the channel, the emperor concentrated in one spot all the forces of the empire, and his troops forming themselves under his eyes to military operations altogether novel to them, prepared for new triumphs.
England saw the dangers which menaced her, she thought to avoid them by crimes; assassins were landed on the coast of France; the English ministers at the courts of neutral powers, became the directors of a war, not less infamous than atrocious; a war of conspiracy and assassination. The emperor was apprised of the miserable plots, he despised them and continued to offer peace on the same conditions on which it had before been made. This excess of generosity seemed to increase, rather than to calm the fury of the cabinet of St. James.
Its reply evidently proves that it tho't of peace, only after it had lost the hope of desolating the continent with blood and carnage. But it was sensible to accomplish such a design, it was not sufficient only to associate in its views a power almost as remote by its position to the continent as England itself—that having nothing to hope on the part of Prussia, whose sentiments were well known, its expectations would be vain as long as Austria continued faithful to her neutrality. Austria, who had experienced twice on the conclusion of two unsuccessful wars,
at the periods of the treaties of Campo Formio, and Luneville, to what excess France gloried in evincing generosity to a vanquished foe, had not adhered to those treaties with the same religious fidelity which distinguished France in her observance of them—Notwithstanding the formal obligations which they had entered into, the debt of Venice remained unpaid, it was even declared to be annihilated. The emperor knew that his subjects of Milan and Mantua were denied justice, and that the court of Vienna did not pay a single debt of this nature, in contempt of the solemn engagements by which she was bound. He knew likewise that the existing commercial regulations of his kingdom of Italy, and the hereditary estates were greatly fettered, and that both his French and Italian subjects, met with a reception in Austria, very different from what, from the existence of peace between the countries, they had a right to expect.
In the partition of indemnities in Germany, Austria had been treated with a favour surpassing her desires and exceeding her hopes. Notwithstanding this, the nature of her proceedings discovered that her ambition was still unsatiated; she employed alternatively flattery & threats to induce the petty Princes to cede to her such of their possessions as suited her. It is in this manner she has acquired Lindau on the lake of Constance, and in the same lake the island of Menau, which puts into her hands one of the keys of Switzerland. She compelled the Tenonic order to yield up Altkon, which made her mistress of that important Post, the cost of the Ripinau. She had added to her territory by an accumulation of other acquisitions; she even invaded others.
She did not fear to employ palpable usurpations, as the means of aggrandizement, which she sought to disguise under the formalities of law.
Thus it is, that under the pretence of a right, which she had expressly renounced by treaty—the exercise of which, was prohibited by a decree of the Germanic Empire, she appropriated to herself possessions, which she feigned to believe were without heirs, or legitimate proprietors, altho' the decree formerly provided that they should serve as indemnities.
In this manner she disappointed several of the Princes of those indemnities, which had justly been assigned them, under pretext too of this very right of escheat which, relatively to the Swiss she called the right Direkmarche , she wrested from Helvetia several considerable towns. In Bohemia, she sequestered the territories of a neighbouring Prince, under the plea of exacting the compensation due to the Elector of Salzburg, and in which office (contrary to all rights,) she constituted herself sole Umpire , she insisted, with threats, on the right of retaining and recruiting officers in the Bavarian Provinces in Franconia and Swabia, while she obstructed by every method in her power the conscription for the Electoral army—Abusing in this manner prerogatives formerly granted to the chief of the Germanic Empire, for the common benefit of the States composing it, but since fallen into disuse; she caused them to be revived, to disturb the neighbouring Princes in the exercise of their sovereignty over the possessions which had fallen to their lot, and thus to deprive them of that additional influence in the Diet, which arose out of their new possessions.
The decree of the empire, founded on the previous provision of the treaty of Luneville, had for its object, independently of the reparation by indemnities, the establishing by this very reparation in the south of Germany, a balance of power, which should secure its independence, and prevent all possible causes of misunderstanding, which the contiguity of the territories of France and Austria might frequently give rise to. Such was the wish of the Mediators and of the Germanic empire, it was the wish of justice, of reason, of political sagacity and strictly conformable to the true interests of Austria herself.
Austria defeated then, what had been so wisely guarded against by the treaty, when by her acquisitions in Swabia, she weakened the barrier which was designed to separate her from France, when she extended her pretensions to interposing between France and the principal states in the south of Germany, and when by a system combined of sequestration, claims, caresses and threats, she unremittingly endeavoured to acquire an arbitrary, universal, and exclusive influence over that part of the German empire; by these measures she violated evidently the treaties, and each of them may be considered as an infraction of the peace.
Since the rupture of the treaty of Amiens, Austria has more than once proved her partiality to the cause of England; she recognized in fact, that pretended right of blockade, which the cabinet of St. James has arrogated to itself, and agreeably to which a simple declaration of the British admiralty is sufficient to put the whole seaboard of a country in blockade.
She had submitted without reclamation or complaint to the repeated violation of the neutrality of her flag, greatly to the injury of France, against whom all violences offered to neutrals, were evidently directed.
These several facts were well known to the emperor, many of them excited his solicitude, they were evident wrongs, and might have served as just grounds for war, but the emperor from a love of peace, not only abstained from complaint, but gave the court of Vienna fresh testimonies of his respect.
He had made a point with himself to avoid giving to Austria the slightest cause of umbrage.
When called by the wishes of his people to Italy, he repaired to Milan, troops were assembled and camps formed with the view simply of mingling military pageantry with religious and political solemnities, in order that the sovereign majesty might appear surrounded with a magnificent retinue so pleasing to the people. The emperor confesses, moreover, that he was sensible of the pleasure of seeing his companions in arms assembled together in a country consecrated by victory, but wishing to obviate the inequities of the court of Vienna, if it were possible for her to have conceived any, he caused her to be satisfied of his pacific intentions in declaring that the camps which had been formed should in a few days be broken up, and this promise was faithfully fulfilled.
Austria replied by protestations equally amicable and pacific, and the emperor quitte Italy under the pleasing persuasion that peace would be maintained on the continent.
What was his astonishment, when scarcely returned to France, being at Boulogne, hastening the preparations of an expedition just on the eve of execution, he received on all sides intelligence that the Austrian government had ordered all its forces to move, that they were advancing by forced marches towards the Adige, in the Tyrol, and the banks of the Inn, that the reapers were called in, that magazines were forming, arms manufacturing, and horses levied; that the passes of the Tyrol were fortifying; Venice fortifying, and in short, all their preparations announced an approaching war.

The emperor could not at first believe that Austria was seriously inclined for war, or disposed to commit to new dangers, or expose to fresh calamities her people, wearied by so many reverses, and exhausted by so many sacrifices. Twice possessed of the power of depriving the house of Austria forever of her hereditary states, the emperor was far from wishing to diminish her power, he had augmented it. If he could not count on her gratitude, he thought he might rely on her regard to interest. In leaving his continental frontiers unarm'd, and ungarri-soned, he had given the strongest mark of confidence in his power. He thought Austria inca-pable of abusing confidence, because he knew himself to be so. There are certain suspicions which can never enter a generous heart, or find a place in a reflecting mind. The emperor took pleasure in strengthening these favourable sen-timents, and scrupled not to evince to what a degree he wished them to prove well founded. The court of Vienna, omitted nothing to prolong the illusion. She multiplied the assurances of her pacific dispositions; she authorized her am-bassadors to make the most encouraging declara-tions; she sought in fine, both by plausible ex-planations, and formal abjurations, to dissipate every suspicion which her measures were calcu-lated to inspire.
The activity and extent of the preparations for hostility increasing every day, it became more difficult to justify them. The emperor or-dered the Austrian minister, M. the Comte Phi-lippe de Cobentzel, to be invited to new confe-rences, and that the dispatches of his majesty's diplomatic and commercial agents should be communicated to him. For four successive days, M. De Cobentzel, waited on the minister of foreign affairs, who placed before him the ante-rior dispatches received, and those which arriv-ed in succession from the different parts of Ger-many and Italy. The cabinets of Europe will find in their archives few examples of similar communications, made under circumstances where suspicion was so natural. The emperor could not furnish a more convincing proof of his good faith. The ambassador from Vienna ac-quired the most positive and incontestible intelli-gence, which on all hands announced the certainty of an approaching war, long since prepared, and carefully concealed.
What answer could he make? Peace was even now loudly professed by his court both at Paris and Vienna, but on all the frontiers war was publicly organized. The emperor could not at once renounce a hope of accommodation: he persuaded himself that Austria might be led away by foreign sug-gestions, he resolved to leave nothing undone to restore her to a sense of her real interests; he represented to her that, were she not inclined to war, all her preparations were without object, since all her neighbors were at peace; that she promoted contrary to her intention, and without knowing it, the cause of England, by making in her favor a diversion not less powerful and in-jurious to France than war would be. If war were decided on, he would represent to her its probable consequences. Superior to every con-sideration which governs weak minds, he did not dissemble that he feared war; not that af-ter the battles fought in three parts of the an-cient world, it were possible for him to dread dan-gers so often braved, and so often surmounted; he feared war rather on account of the blood which must be shed, on account of the numerous sacrifices it must cost Europe, and by the effect perhaps of an excessive love of peace, he conjured Austria to lay aside preparations which in the present state of Europe, and the particular situa-tion of France, could be considered only in the light of a declaration of war, and the result of engagements conceived with England.
More than this, he desired that similar rep-re-sentations might be addressed to the court of Vienna by all the neighboring powers, who, al-though strangers to the cause of war, were sure of becoming its victims.
The conduct of the court of Vienna, dimin-ished every day our expectations of peace. Far from ceasing, she increased her preparations. She terrified the people of Bavaria and Swabia, by her armaments. Helvetia dreaded lest the peace restored by the act of mediation should be wrested from her. All invoked France as their protector, and as the guarantee of their rights. Nevertheless she still dissembled, as a pledge of her pacific disposition, she proposed a sort of interposition difficult to characterize, but which, considering only its apparent aim, was both idle and futile.
The emperor of Russia had demanded pas-ports for one of his chamberlains, whom he in-tended to send to Paris. The emperor was un-acquainted with the views of the cabinet of Pe-tersburgh. They were never communicated to him, officially; but always disposed to profit of any circumstance which might lead to an accom-modation, he had granted the passports without delay or explanation. All Europe knows what was the reward of his complaisance.
The emperor learned afterwards through indi-rect channels, and also by the rumors circulating in Europe, that the design of the court of Rus-sia, had been to make an experiment by way of conference, to introduce at Paris a very singular plan of mediation, agreeably to which, she was at the same time to have made stipulations in behalf of England, for which she had full pow-ers (which proves the entire reliance England had on her) and to negotiate for herself, so that as mediator in name she would have been a principal in reality, while bearing two different titles. Such was the object proposed by Russia in her projected intervention, and which she her-self renounced, doubtless because a reconsidera-tion of it opened her eyes to all its inconvenien-ces. But it was precisely the renewal of this mediation on which the good offices of Austria should have been employed. It was not likely that France would allow herself to be placed in a situation in which her real enemies under the in-sidious name of mediators, should dare to impose on her outrageous and hard conditions; but the cabinet of Vienna, without expecting her good offices would be excepted, found a great advan-tage in offering them, that of imposing longer on France, by making her lose time, and gaining it herself.
Austria, in short, taking off the mask, has de-clared in a ready reply by her language, what she had announced by her preparations; she has answered the representations of France by accu-sations. She has become the apologist of Eng-land, and announcing that she had opened her States, to two Russian armies, loudly proclaim-ed the concert with which she acted with that country in favor of England. This reply of the court of Vienna, replete with injudicious allega-tions, menaces and falsehoods, ought naturally to have excited the emperor's indignation; but im-agining he saw through this tissue of injuries and threats, some reasons for conjecturing an accom-modation to be still practicable, the emperor made his natural dignity bend before considera-tions which exerted such powerful sway over his heart.
The interest of his people, that of his allies and of Germany, which was about becoming the Theatre of war, the interest moreover which he took in the fate of a Prince, who repelling with an honorable constancy the insinuations, the in-treaties, the reiterated offers of England and of those she has seduced; who had shown himself ever ready to concur by his good offices in the
work of establishing and maintaining peace, these united motives induced the emperor to sus-pend his resentments. He determined to demand of the court of Vienna explanations relative to the grounds on which negotiations might be proceed-ed upon. The minister for foreign affairs was ordered to prepare a note to that effect; the Courier appointed to carry it was departing, when the emperor learned the invasion of Bava-ria.
The elector had been summoned to join his ar-my to that of Austria, and as his foreseen refusal to a common cause with Austria, by whom he has been invariably ill-treated, against France, from whom he never received any injury, has been on the part of Vienna a legitimate cause for war, the Austrian army without any previous declaration, in contempt of the duties which bind the Austrian emperor in his quality of emperor of Germany, in contempt of the Germanic con-stitution, and of the Germanic Empire itself, in short, in contempt of the most sacred and respect-ed rights, passed the Inn, and invaded the terri-tory of Bavaria at a moment of general peace.
After such an action, on the part of the court of Vienna, the emperor could have nothing fur-ther to propose to him. It was now clear that the congress so imperiously proposed and with views so palpably hostile to France, was intend-ed only as a new snare on its credulity, that Aus-tria irrevocably decided on going to war, would no longer listen to any arguments for peace and no longer found herself at liberty to be influenced by them, whatever might be her inclination.
The general change which took place, proved to demonstration, that a part of the sums grant-ed to the English minister, to aid him in his designs on the continent, had reached its destination, leaving to the power which had thus made a traf-fic of her alliance, no other alternative than that of spilling the blood of her people, the price of which she has just received.
All further explanation with the court of Vienna, having thus become impossible, the voice of arms is the only one which can henceforth be compatible with honor.
Let England at length applaud herself on the success of having found allies; let her rejoice that the continent will again be deluged in blood; let her flatter herself that her's will not flow; in imagining that her own safety will be most ef-fectually secured by existing discord in other countries, her joy will be evanescent; her hopes vain, and the day is not distant when the violat-ed rights of nations shall be amply avenged.
The emperor obliged to repel an unjust ag-gression, which he has vainly attempted to pre-vent, finds himself under the necessity of suspend-ing the execution of his first design; he has withdrawn from the sea coast, his victorious ve-terans, and put himself at their head. He will not lay down his arms, until he shall obtain full and ample satisfaction, complete security to his own territory and that of his allies.
HEREIMER, (N. Y.) Oct. 29. UNCOMMON WEATHER. We have had three snow storms since our last—one on Thursday night when it was judged three inches of snow fell; another more moderate, on Saturday; but being unattended with much frost, the snow lay on the ground but a few hours. The third fall of snow was the heaviest and continued almost the whole of Sunday (and remained on the ground till yesterday noon) so that we have had perhaps a foot already.
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 19.
REVOLT IN HAYTI. The following extract of a letter contains apprehensions, which if realized must prove highly injurious to American property in this ill-fated island:—
Extract of a letter from Maraguane, (His-paniola,) Sept. 14.
"I am but a few days released from a state of much anxiety; the mountain ne-groes have been very troublesome, the troops and inhabitants here, have had an action with them, and numbers fell on both sides. This place is in a very confused state, and how far the insurrection may spread is uncertain; many here think it will be general throughout the island."
STATE OF OUR COMMERCE.
A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce of this city, was held last even-ing for the purpose of taking into considera-tion the present state of American com-merce. After mature deliberation, it was agreed to appoint a committee of that body to collect information relative to the various instances of violence and wrongs committed on our trade; a statement of which together with a remonstrance or petition, is to be forwarded, with all dis-patches, to the department of state. This committee consists of Messrs. T. Fitzsimons, T. W. Francis, Robert Waln, Sa-muel W. Fisher, John Craig and James Yard.
WASHINGTON CITY, Nov. 20.
The following letters, the contents of which are derived from a correct source, exhibit, in lively colors, the deplorable state of the Algerine nation. Altho' we have so lately experienced the effects of their barbarous injustice, we cannot avoid commiserating the abject and dreadful condition of a nation consigned by despot-ism to the lowest pitch of misery.
Extract of a letter from Algiers, dated Ju-ly 28th, 1805.
"In my last I mentioned the murder of the great Jew Busnach by a Turkish sol-dier in this city the 28th ult. and the next day the soldiers rose in a body and killed every Jew they met with and plundered their houses. From that time to this the city has been in a perfect state of rebelli-on—the soldiers setting the Dey and all authority at defiance. To add to this state of wretchedness, the whole country of Moors, (from Fremezen to Constantine) have risen up in arms against the Turks, being determined to shake off their yoke."
"The city of Fremezen has long since been taken by the Moorish army, and ac-counts state that Oran cannot hold out much longer, being out of provisions, and deprived of the necessary supply of water. Every vessel that goes there the Dey de-
tains, to be ready to take off the Turks when they can hold out no longer."
"The city of Algiers has given Oran a partial relief at times with grain; but can do no more for the present, as the want of that article here is the source of the great-est troubles. Nothing of the provision kind can be had from the neighborhood of the city of Algiers, as the Moors are all in arms waiting the fate of Oran; after which, it is beyond doubt, they will turn their whole force to this place; therefore all the grain that can be found near the city is conveyed in by the orders of the Dey.—The Turkish soldiers to a man left their barracks the 25th inst. and marched out of town contrary to the orders of the Dey, where they held a secret conference of three hours and then returned to town again."
"On the 27th inst. the soldiers as before held another conference—the result is un-known—but the Dey, Divan, &c. are in the greatest alarm for their own safety, and are constantly in session in the pa-lace."
"Tis conjectured the soldiery intend to destroy the present, in consequence of the Dey having strangled two principal Turkish soldiers, for outrages committed on the Jews, and create a new set of rulers. The conduct of the Dey, &c. establishes this idea in the strongest point of view, as they have taken great care of themselves by doubling the palace guards, &c. and closing all the street gates at sunset—these are never shut but in times of real danger—the city gates are always shut at dark; but these precautions will not an-swer the end intended—destruction is on the wing. Thus, sir, you may see what Algiers is at present—beset within and without by her own subjects, it is supposed a short time will bring to pass such a scene of horror as is unknown even in history."
Extract of a letter from Gibraltar, dated September 9, 1805.
"By our accounts from Alicante I find that six new Dey's were successively mas-sacred at Algiers, also the Jews Bacary and Bossinaco, their families and other principal Jews. They wanted to proclaim the Mical Hudge as a seventh Dey, but he made his escape and got to Alicante!"
Extract of a letter from Philadelphia, dated Nov. 17.
"This moment, the schooner Rebecca is arrived here in fifteen days from Ha-vanna, and brings the interesting informa-tion that the schooner Letitia, Capt. Frank-land, had been liberated by the Spanish go-vernment without trial, and privateer or-dered to pay costs. The Letitia having been captured on her voyage from hence to New Orleans; I have thought the in-formation of her release, of sufficient im-portance to trouble you therewith."
LAND FOR SALE.
IN pursuance of a decree of the High Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, to sat-isfy a debt due from the estate of Benjamin Lewis, dec. to Lucy Crouch, administratrix of John Crouch, dec., will be sold at Public Auction, on the premises, on Friday the 20th day of De-cember next, for ready money.
The Tract of LAND; Whereon Mrs. Lucy Crouch now resides, lying and being in the lower end of the county of Goochland, containing 350 acres, be the same more or less.
The Commissioners. November 26, 1805.
TAKEN from a Negro Man (sup-posed to have been stolen by him) a small PIECE OF CASIMERE. It will be restored to the owner on proving property and paying the expense of this Advertisement. Apply to the Printer.
REMOVAL.
H. DABNEY, begs leave to inform the pub-lic, and his friends in particular, that he has Removed to the New Brick building oppo-site the Market; where he offers for sale on the most reasonable terms, a complete assortment of well chosen
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TICKETS & SHARES To be had at the permanent and fortunate Lot-tery Offices of
G. & R. WAITE, No. 64, and at No. 38, Maiden Lane, New-York.
Where was sold in the last Lottery, and for-warded in letters by post, the 25,000 dollar prize to a gentleman in Baltimore; another of the Capitals to a gentleman in North-Carolina; another in Virginia; another in Georgia; an-other in Long-Island (N. Y.) and another one to a gentleman in Massachusetts, besides several in former Lotteries to persons in different parts of the union.
Present price of Tickets & Shares. Whole Tickets 7 00 Quarters 1 87 Halves 3 62 1-2 Eighths 1 00 But will advance to Seven Dollars the first week in November.
Distant adventurers, by inclosing Bank Notes (post paid) to G. & R. Waite, may have tick-ets forwarded to them in any amount with the ut-most punctuality, and the earliest intelligence out of their success. New-York, October 2d, 1805. 8w
VIRGINIA ARGUS.
RICHMOND:
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1805.
RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
 Tobacco, 33s Cash.  Wheat, 7s 6d do.  Flour, fine, 42s do.  Flour, superfine, 45s do.  Corn, 24s do.  Hemp, (clean) £ 50 do.  Iron, £ 33 do.  Bacon, 15d do.  Whiskey, 3s 9d do. 
FROM NEW-YORK, Nov. 18.
DECLARATION OF WAR. —The ship Swift, which arrived yesterday from Bordeaux, brings Paris news to the second Oct. con-taining the important intelligence of the emperor of the French having declared war against Russia and Austria. This event took place about the end of Sept. Not having received our French papers we are unable to present the particulars in this day's publication.
The following extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability, contains some facts not generally known.
"I can now state to you positively, that the ex-bashaw in a formal note to Mr. Eaton, has expressed his acquiescence in the treaty, and in strong unequivocal lan-guage has made his acknowledgments for the services rendered him by the Ameri-can government, admitting at the same time that, failing in every thing that was expected on his part after they had reach-ed Derne, he could not reasonably and therefore did not expect a continuance of their co-operation. His note concluded with thanking the chief of America and all his servants for their friendly aid and intentions. This note was sent to — in order to defeat any insinuations injuri-ous to the honor of the United States in their relations with the ex-bashaw."
With respect to the ransom, Mr. Lear held out ten days, and until it was finally believed that without it the three hundred prisoners would not be released. The Ba-shaw admitted that he would not contend with such a force, and that he should be compelled to abandon his city, but repeat-edly and vehemently declared that if the Americans were bent upon destroying his town, his fortifications, his shipping, his fame, and every thing Tripolitan, they must expect in return that he would destroy every thing that is American with-in his power—adding and repeating in a ferocious manner that having killed his fa-ther and a brother, he shall not have any scruples in killing a few infidels.
The officers I have seen, who were pri-soners, are clear and decided in the opin-ion that the Bashaw could not consistently with his own safety have delivered up the prisoners without ransom; and that if Mr. Lear persisted, very little resistance would have been made to our squadron; but amidst the desolation of the bombard-ment and cannonade, the prisoners would all have been massacred.
Other facts.—A few years since, the Ba-varian republic paid to Tripoli for conti-nuation of peace, and when there was not a prisoner to be redeemed, 50,500 dol-lars. Admiral De Winter, who was the negotiator, was at the time before Tripoli with five ships of the line.
Denmark paid about three years since 60,000 dollars for a peace. Sweden paid lately 170,000 dollars for a peace; and these powers pay besides consular pre-sents tributes, &c.— Nat. Intel.
The emigration to the state of Ohio, (says the Chillicothe paper of the 7th inst.) the present season, far exceeds all rea-sonable bounds of calculation. We are informed by a gentleman who arrived in town last evening from Wheeling, that he passed not less than 80 waggons with families, from various quarters of the At-lantic states, bound to different parts of this state.
The many things respecting Spain have not such full credit as they seemed at first to obtain. The credit of them is much less, from the absence of all vouchers for them. The terror of a war with Spain has been proclaimed, and if we have peace, which we probably may, it is to be obtained, we are told, by sacrifices of national honor. We may pay something, or give up something, but nothing of this kind, say some, is so honorable, as to lose much by fighting.— Salem Reg.
The many paragraphs in the Gazettes of the United States upon the subject of Office seekers, removals, and promotions, have eventually done the Republic much good. Such as were in office, and have been licentious in their censures, have acquired more discretion from a knowledge of their dependence, and from a full conviction that the administration would not suffer its best measures to be frustrated by the men who were appointed to assist them. Room enough was left for all conscientious men to resign. The appre-hension of removals has prevented the necessity of them, so that the number of changes has been comparatively small considering the necessary changes made in the relative importance of the offices themselves. And such has been the sta-bility of those who held the most lucrative offices, hardly any competition has arisen, on expecta-tions of promotion, but in its safest forms been encouraged. The tranquility is indeed much indebted to the public sentiment, but it has not been unassisted by the reflections which the vio-lence of party obliged.
We have, for some time, been in possession of a fact, which may not be uninteresting to the readers of novels. The novel under the title of " The Sorrows of Werter ," has generally been supposed to be a fic-
tion; but it is a real history of events which did actually take place. A gentleman from abroad, has related to us, that he was well acquainted with Lieutenant Immermann, of his Britannic majesty's 60th regiment of foot, who is a full cousin to Charlotte—Lieutenant Immermann informed him, that the events, as related in " The Sorrows of Werter ," were strictly true, ex-cept that Charlotte, was not so handsome as she had been there represented—and that she is still living—while Werter's mother in the dust. The above may be relied on. The gentleman who related it, is of undoubted veracity; and sev-eral German officers of his acquaintance, in the British service, also assured him of its being strictly true, they having known the parties. ( Phil. Freeman's Journal. )
DIED —On Thursday the 14th inst. Mr. MOSES TREDWAY , of Prince Edward county.
NOTICE.
THE Members of the Mutual Assurance Society, against fire on build-ings of the State of Virginia, are hereby request-ed to attend their annual General Meeting to be held on the first Monday in January next, which is the sixth day of the said Month. Any Member which doth not attend, at the said Meeting, in person or by proxy duly author-ised, will be represented by the member of the State Legislature; or the County, or the senator of the District, wherein such absentee resides. W. F. ASK. Principal Agent M. A. S.
Richmond, Nov. 25, 1805.
The Printers in this Suite are requested to in-sert the above once a week for four weeks.
A Valuable FARM for Sale.
WILL be offered for Sale, to the highest bidder, on Thursday the 28th day of next month (December) 350 acres of LAND, in the county of Hanover, about 2 miles above the Courthouse, and 4 from the Gales. There is up-on it, a Dwelling-house containing 5 rooms be-low and 2 above stairs, with convenient closets, and cellars under the whole; other useful houses, a variety of fine Fruit Trees, consisting of Ap-ples, Peaches, Cherries and Plums. The situa-tion is pleasant and healthful, and convenient to market; the quality of the land (about 250 acres of which is supposed to be cleared) is well adapted to grain, and produces the Red Clover in good perfection, and it is surrounded by a most extensive and valuable range for cattle and hogs. Also, one WAGGON, with gear com-plete; 6 young Mules and 4 Horses, some Cat-tle and Hogs, and sundry farming utensils, &c. Terms of sale of the land—half cash, or stock of the Virginia Bank, or notes with approved endorsements negotiable in the Bank of Virginia at 60 days—residue in 6 and 12 months, secured by trust on the land. The other property will be sold for cash or notes as aforesaid. George W. Smith. November 24, 1805. 1
LAND FOR SALE.
BY virtue of a decree of the County Court of Louisa, will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the premises, on the twenty fourth day of De-cember next, for ready money, part of a Tract of LAND, belonging to the estate of Major Thomas Johnson, dec. known by the name of the Old Mill Tract, lying on both sides of Har-ris's Creek in Louisa county, near the Court house—Containing about six hundred and fifty acres, adapted to the culture of Corn, Wheat, and Tobacco. This Land is to be sold to satisfy a debt due the estate of Thomas Johnson, sheriff deceased, for money paid by said Thomas Johnson, sheriff, dec. as security for said Major Thomas Johnson, dec. Purchasers may be accommodated with divisions of this land into lots, if it should be found likely to benefit the Sale.
The Commissioners. November 14, 1805. 1m.
Propagation of the Gospel.
To all who love the prosperity of Zion, and are dis-posed to aid in propagating the Gospel among the Heathen.
THE subscriber lately returning from a voy-age to the East Indies, touched in Europe, and was in London in August last, where he received from the Baptist Missionary Society in England for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen, one thousand guineas, to be sent in the spring to the Missionaries in Bengal, for the purpose of printing the Sacred Scriptures in one of the languages of that country. There are se-ven languages that the Missionaries there aim to translate and publish the Scriptures in: They have made such progress in three of them, that it is expected the above sum will enable them to complete the work. This money is now in the hands of Robert Ralston, Esq. of Philadelphia, who will forward it in due time. Should any individual society, or congregation of people in the U. States of America, be disposed to contrib-ute to this good work, Mr. Ralston will gladly receive whatever may be sent to him for that purpose, and add to it the above sum to be for-warded to the Missionaries at Seramore, near Calcutta.
Benjamin Wickes, sen. Philadelphia, Nov. 4 1805. 3:
FOR SALE,
BY THE SUBSCRIBERS,
 First quality Jamaica sugar New-York Candles & Soap  Second do. Santa Cruz Madeira, Port, Sherry, Tenaciffe and Malaga Wine  First and second quali-ty loaf ditto China Bowls from 1 to 6 quarts  Best green coffee Tea and coffee Cups & Saucers  Old Antigua Rum Cut jelly Glasses  New England ditto Pint, half pint and gill Tumblers  Cogniac Brandy Quart, pint and half pint Decanters  Beach ditto Green and white Quart and pint Pocket Bot-tles  Holland Gin Henry the VIII and Merry Andrew Casks  Caldwell, Frasure and Co's superfine Choc-olate Imperial, Young Hy-son and Souchong Tea  Fresh London mustard FF and F Gun Powder  Barbary, Salts, Pepper, White Ginger, Fimento and Nut-megs Patent Shot assorted  Martinique Noyau Thos. Leiper's Snuff  Box Malaga and Cur-rants Patent Night Lamps  Citron Liverport Stowed Salt in Sacks and Loose  Soft shell Almonds Pickled Salmon and Mackerel in half bar-rels  Brimstone Madder & ground Ginger in small legs A general assortment of STONE & EARTH-EN WARE.  Logwood EXPECTED.  Turkey Cotton A quantity of common N. E. and Bulcks CHEESE.  Best fluted Indigo Fisher & Leasour.  November 25th, 1805. 1m. 
Fisher & Leasour. November 25th, 1805. 1m.

Fall & Winter Goods. The subscribers have received, and are now opening a considerable part of their WOOLLENS; Among which are Bales of assorted Rose & Duffil Blankets, Do. Nap'd Cottons, Do. Yarn & Plaid Hose, Do. White & Coloured Plains, Do. Kerseys & Halfthicks, Do. 6-4 & 7-4 Coatings, plain and strip'd, Do. Cloths, assorted colours and prices, Do. Forrest Cloths, Boxes Men's Hats assorted prices, Irish Linens, Long Lawns, Diapers, &c. Also--An assortment of HARDWARE, CUTLERY and NAILS. In addition to which, they daily expect on the arrival of the Sloop from London, a large assortment of FASHIONABLE GOODS, Which will be offered for sale on their usual terms. GILLIAT & KIRBY. October 4, 1805.
Geo. Watt HAS removed from the store he formerly occupied to a brick house on the cross street leading from the main street to Shockoe warehouse, where he has on hand, and offers to dispose of on moderate terms, by wholesale, The following Articles, viz: Loaf and Muscovado Sugars, N. England, W. Island, and Antigua Rum, Cognac, Barcelona and Apple Brandy, Sherry and Malaga Wine, Coffee of a superior quality, Molasses, Ginger and Fig Blue, Young Hyson and Imperial Tea, 400 Sacks Liverpool Salt, Rice, Shot, assorted sizes--And The remainder of his Stock of Dry Goods, consisting principally of articles suited to the present and approaching season, which he will either sell on a credit of 3, 6 and 9 months, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorsers, or barter for Tobacco, Flour or Hemp. Cash given for Tobacco. Richmond, 22d March, 1805.
TO LET, A COUNTING ROOM, STORE ROOM and CELLAR, in a brick building near the Basin and next door to Messrs. Hart and Southgate's. Enquire of the printer. 18th Sept. 1805.
Lands for sale in Buckingham county. The subscriber offers for sale the following tract of Land, viz--1000 acres beginning where Maj. Charles Yancey's line joins his on James river, and extend out to include the above quantity, so as to leave out the low grounds, with sufficient timber to support it--Also, two tracts on Sycamore island creek and its waters, of four hundred acres each, adjoining the lands of Maj. Yancey and the subscriber's; those two tracts were formerly the property of col. John Hopkins of Goochland; on the lower tract is not to be a good mill-seat--Likewise a tract on Meredith's creek of three hundred & eighty eight acres, adjoining the lands of col. Wm. Perkins, on which is a plantation sufficient to work five or six hands to advantage, a thriving young orchard in bearing one or two years, an excellent creek running thro' the plantation on which might be erected a convenient mill in a wealthy neighborhood: the above land abounds with very good pine for buildings--Also a tract of two or three hundred acres below John Bagby, senr's on this there is a small plantation with excellent fruit trees, and a good situation for a mill, a fresh brook the dam and left the house which is two stories high, and at a small expense may be put in grinding order. The above lands lay convenient to Warrington, and will be shown to any person wishing to purchase, by the proprietor, and the terms made known. JOSEPH CABELL. Buckingham, Ripton, 9th Sept. 1805.
THE subscriber purposes practicing LAW in all the Courts held in the City of Richmond;--also in the County Courts of King William and Hanover, wherein any business confided to him shall meet with prompt attention. And'w. Stevenson. Richmond, Nov. 8. 1805.
GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA. THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA will meet in the Mason's Hall in this city, at 6 o'clock in the evening of Monday the 9th day of December next. W. H. Fitzwhylson, G. S. Richmond, Nov. 8, 1805.
For Sale at Public Auction. ON Tuesday the 2d day of December next, (if fair, if not the next fair day) at the late dwelling house of Robert Lewis, dec of Halifax county, Virginia, a valuable stock of HORSES, among which is the celebrated stud horse, DEMOCRAT, the stock of CATTLE, among which are several yoke of Oxen; the stock of Hogs and Sheep; the present crop of Corn and Fodder; some Small Grain; the Household and Kitchen Furniture, the Plantation Utensils, &c. Twelve months credit will be allowed for all sums above five dollars, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date, but the interest will be remitted if punctually paid. All persons having claims against the said estate of Robert Lewis, are requested to bring them forward properly adjusted, that provision may be made for their discharge.--And all those indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, or otherwise they may expect suits indiscriminately. John Ragland, Adm'r. 29th October, 1805.
NOTICE. A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that a law may pass for establishing Inspections of Butcher, Lard, &c. Oct. 5.
BOLTING CLOTHS. M & B. MYERS have just received a fresh supply of Dutch BOLTING CLOTHS, of the best quality, which renders their assortment complete. They have also received their assortment of Fall & Fancy GOODS, And a quantity of best three stranded SEINE TWINE. Oct. 20.
WILL be Rented, on Saturday the 21st December, 1805, to the highest bidder, the FARM, formerly the property of Samuel Scherer, dec. in Hanover county, for 6 or 8 years--on it there is a commodious dwelling, 2 barns and other convenient houses, &c--it is deemed unnecessary to say any thing of the soil, as no one it is presumed will rent till they have examined it. There is 30 bushels of wheat sowed. On the same day will be offered for sale, all the STOCK belonging to the farm, consisting of horses, mules, cows, sheep and hogs, a Carriage, some Furniture and a complete set of Farming Tools. The terms of the sales will be six months credit for all sums exceeding 10 dollars; bond and approved security will be requested. Hanna Scherer, } Adm'r. George Scherer, } November 1, 1805.
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying them to pass a law, authorizing the court of this county to levy money, for the purpose of bringing up the records thereof, from March 1788 to March 1802. Southampton, Sept. 2, 1805.
JAMES TERNAN, Has just received a supply of fresh & good MEDICINES, PAINTS and HATTERS, COLOURS-- opening at his Corner Shop, opposite Col. Gamble's, with which he shall be happy to serve his numerous friends, on the most moderate terms.--He returns his sincere thanks for the favor of their custom. (d) Sept. 4.
WANTED, as House-keeper in a large family, an elderly Lady, who can come well recommended. Liberal wages will be given. Enquire of the printer. Nov. 6, 1805.
A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it appears to the Executive that David Phenix, late of the county of Brunswick, stands charged by indictment before the District Court held in the said county of Brunswick, with the murder of Thomas Reid, of the county aforesaid, and that the said David Phenix hath fled from justice: I have therefore thought fit with the advice of the Council of State to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person or persons who shall apprehend and convey to the jail of the District Court aforesaid, the said David Phenix. And I do moreover enjoin all officers civil and military, and exhort the good people of the Commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the aforesaid District Court jail the said David Phenix. Given under my hand with the seal of the Commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 2d day of November, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the Commonwealth the thirtieth. (Signed) JOHN PAGE.
David Phenix is a young man about twenty years of age, 5 feet 8 or 10 inches high, stout made, knock kneed, has a very awkward walk, a bad, down look: black hair with a very notable (remarkable) white spot on the forehead of his head, I believe on the right side: dark eyes, his eye brows meet, his dress is chiefly homespun. He went off on a sorrel mare, in low order, 9 or 10 years old, 4 feet 8 or 10 inches high.
TO be SOLD, at Warren, in Albemarle county, on the 10th of December next,--One Hundred PRIME NEGROES, Consisting of men, women, boys and girls. A credit of one, two and three years will be allowed, upon the purchasers giving bond and approved security. On account of the length of credit more than ordinary attention will be paid to the securities that will be required. Wilson Cary Nicholas. Warren, Oct. 31, 1805.
THE subscribers offer for sale, their reversionary right in a new Fire proof Warehouse on Maxwell's wharf, in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Dr. John K. Read, dec. as his Uppermost Warehouse. In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate. MERTWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. Oct. 26, 1805.
Valuable Property for Sale. By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Richard and Dabney of King William county, to the subscriber, to secure and satisfy a debt due from the said Richard to Cornelius Dabney, administrator for the will annexed, of Owen Dabney, dec. will be offered to SALE, on Friday the 6th day of December next, at Hanover Town, to the highest bidder, for ready payment, in current money, SUNDAY SLAVES, consisting of men, women and children; one Brood Mare, about 8 years old, by Lamplighter; two small horse Colts, about 2 years old, by Americanus; the noted Stud Horse called Hanover; one Waggon and Geer, and 3 Horses, one excellent chaise horse about 9 years old, and one bay mare Colt, by Americanus. Geo. Wm. Smith. Richmond, Nov. 7th, 1805.
S. JACOBS Has just received a handsome and well selected assortment of FALL GOODS; Among which are-- Cloths, Coatings and Cassimeres, Plains, Kerseys half Thicks, Rose, Duffie and Point Blankets, Flannels, scarlet, crimson, white & yellow, Velvets, Thicksets & Constitution Cords, Bennet's real patent Do. Fancy Waistcoats & Swandowns, Calicoes, Muslins & Cambrics, Real Silk Chambrays & Irish Linens, Elegant Silk Shawls & Hosiery, &c. Together with other articles in the fancy way, all of which are offered at the most moderate prices. GUN POWDER of superior quality, by the Keg. S. J. flatters himself that from his attention in procuring this article only of an excellent quality and the reasonable rate at which he sells it--he will not only merit a continuation of his customers, but be enabled to supply (much to their satisfaction) all those who are in the habit of retailing it. October 29th, 1805.
NOTICE. THE subscriber has just received, direct from France, a large supply of the first quality of BURRS, who continues to carry on at his manufactory the MILL-STONE BUSINESS. From the quality of the Burrs and his knowledge of the business he is enabled to inform willers and the public, that they can be supplied on the shortest notice with Mill-Stones of any dimensions, equal to any in the United States. Also, on hand, a supply of PLAISIR PARIS, fresh STONE LINE, IRISH POTATOES, and an extensive assortment of GROCERIES; all of which he will dispose of for cash or country produce. He solicits those indebted to him for Mill-Stones, or otherwise to make immediate payment. I will rent the house and STORE at present occupied by me, & possession will be given the 12th December. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. November 15th, 1805.
TUCKER'S BLACKSTONE. This day is published and ready for delivery to subscribers, in Virginia, at S. Pleasants' Book-Store, Richmond: BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES, WITH Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States, AND OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA: IN FIVE VOLUMES. With an appendix to each volume, containing tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a systematic view of the Laws of Virginia as a member of the Federal Union. By ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Professor of Law in the College of William & Mary, and one of the Judges of the General Court, in Virginia.
THE FOLLOWING GENUINE Patent Medicines. Hill's Balsam of Honey Purgington's Balsam Godfrey's Cordial Essence of Peppermint Steers' Opodeldoc Oriental Cerate, for the cure of outward piles, scalds, sore legs, burns obstinate eruptions, &c British Oil Hooper's Female Pills Anderson's Scour do. The celebrated Specific Pills, for the cure of the outward and inward Piles.
JUST PUBLISHED, By SAMUEL PLEASANTS, Jr. and for sale, by the gross, dozen, or single, at his Printing-Office and Book-Store, Richmond; The Virginia Almanack, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1806; Being the second after Bissextile or Leap year. Adapted to the Latitude and Meridian of Richmond. Calculated by BENJAMIN BATES, Of Hanover county, Virginia. Great allowance made to wholesale purchasers. Oct. 11. Manchester Turnpike Company.
DELINQUENT Shareholders on the 8th Requisition, are hereby notified that such shares on which the said requisition shall remain unpaid, will be sold, on the 21st day of December next, at Mr. Brooks's Tavern, in Manchester, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon. James Brander, clk. Manchester, 16th Nov. 1805.
ANNUAL MEETING. THE annual meeting of said Company will be held at Mr. Brooks's Tavern, on the first Monday in December, when it is expected the members will attend punctually, and convene by 10 o'clock in the forenoon. J. B. clk. 12d.
YOUNG LADIES ACADEMY. MRS. O'REILLY respectfully informs the inhabitants of Richmond, that she has opened an Academy on the Capitol hill, adjoining Major Du Val's, for the education of Young Ladies in the following branches, viz: The English and French languages grammatically; writing and arithmetic; history, geography and globes; music, drawing and all kinds of work, viz--embroidery in chenilles, gold, silver, silks, &c comprising figures, historical and ornamental, landscapes, flowers, fruit, birds, &c. maps wrought in silks, chenilles, gold, &c. print work in figures or landscapes; cloth work in fruit, birds, flowers, &c. filagree and varnishing in vases, pyramids, baskets, tea caddies, epergnes, &c. grotto and shell work, artificial flowers, tambor and Dresden, cross stitch, tent stitch, tapestry, &c. bugle and pearl work, painting on velvet gauze, silk, vellum, &c. Terms for Boarders and Day Scholars made known at the Academy.
LOST or mislaid, about the 25th of September, a NOTE for one Hogshead of Tobacco, inspected at Columbia, in the name of Holland Goodridge, weighing 1070 as well as my recollection serves me. Thos. Barbour, jr. November 18, 1805.
Notice. THAT the Trustees of the late firm of Daniel and William Guerrant, late merchants of New-Canton, will, on Thursday the 19th of December next, meet at the house occupied by the subscriber in the said town, in order to make a dividend of monies collected, agreeable to the deed of trust. All those who have claims against the said firm, are requested to attend on the above day, personally, or by agent, properly authorized to receive and grant discharges for their respective dividends. By order of the Trustees. William Guerrant. October 30th, 1805.
TAKEN UP, by Edmund Barker in Hanover county, about 6 miles from Newcastle, a small iron grey MARE, five years old next spring, 4 feet 4 inches high, her two hind feet white up as high as her hock, and appraised to fifty dollars. Given under our hands this 9th day of October, 1805. G. M. Dogle, R. M. Dogle, W. Vines.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Edward Winston late of Hanover county, dec. are requested to bring them forward without delay--and those indebted to the estate are required to make payment to the subscriber. And'w. Woodkey, Adm'r. Smithfield, Isle of Wight, } 13th Nov. 1805 }
THE subscriber expects to commence the PRACTICE OF PHYSIC about the first of January next, at the plantation of Capt. William Fendley, in the county of Chesterfield, on the road leading from Bevil's Bridge to Petersburg, about one mile above Mr. Thomas Watkins's mill. Nov. 11th, 1805.
For jaundice & bilious complaints, WHEATON'S Genuine Patent Bitters, Price only 58 cents. Secured to him by Letters Patent from the President of the United States.
A MEDICINE extremely useful and efficacious for curing jaundice and bilious disorders, and removing that sinking, faint and distressed feeling at the stomach, difficulty of breathing, loss of appetite and sleepy, dull heaviness in the forehead of the day, weakness and trembling of the limbs, dizziness of the head, and yellowness of countenance, complaints so common to jaundice and bilious people. Also, removing obstructions of the bowels, and of urine, cholicky complaints, pukings and purgings, indigestion, sick head ache, rheumatic complaints, &c. which arise from a collection of four bilious matter in the stomach, and at length restoring the constitution to strength and vigor. They are also found very effectual to carry off worms, and to cure rickety children, and may be used with safety in all constitutions, ages and sexes. The many cures that have been effected in New England, by the above medicine (as may be seen in the bills) prevent the necessity of further recommendation. LIKEWISA.
WHEATON'S patent Itch Ointment, Price only 50 cents. The only medicine in the world which will certainly cure the ITCH, without having in it anything either dangerous or disagreeable; it being composed mostly of ingredients never before discovered or used in that disorder. One box cures a person, and there need be no washing after the use of it, as the skin is generally left cleaner and smoother. ALSO,
Rawson's celebrated Bitters & Lee's genuine Windham Antiphlogistic Pills. The above medicines are for sale at this office.
BANK OF VIRGINIA. THE Stockholders are hereby notified that the annual meeting for electing Directors will be held on Monday the 6th January. Power of Attorney for voting by proxy for Directors. KNOW all men by these presents, that of do hereby appoint to be substitute and proxy, for and in name and behalf, to vote at any election of a Director or Directors, of the Bank of Virginia, as fully as might or could, were personally present. In witness whereof have hereunto set hand and seal, this day of in the year Signed and delivered } in the presence of } Power of Attorney for receiving Dividends. KNOW all men by these presents, that do hereby constitute and appoint of lawful attorney, for and in name and behalf, to receive and give receipts for all dividends now due, or which may grow due on shares to belonging to the capital or joint stock of the President, Directors and Company of the Bank of Virginia. In witness whereof have set hand and seal this day of in the year Signed and delivered } in the presence of } Nov. 16th, 1805.
VIRGINIA: At a superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond the 28th day of September, one thousand eight hundred and five. Between James Dosewell, } And Benjamin Brown and Samuel M. Smith, } Walter Leigh, Henry Jones and William } Jones, executors of John Brown, deceased, } defendants. THE defendant Samuel M. Smith, Walter Leigh, Henry Jones and William Jones, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this country; on the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the capitol in the said city. Peter Tinsley, c. c.
AT a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Mutual Assurance Society against Fire on Buildings of the state of Virginia, held at the General Office, on the 16th of November, 1805. It appearing to the Board that the time heretofore allowed the Special Agents of this Society to complete the Revaluation of those Buildings which had been insured in the Towns and in the Country prior to the 30th day of January last, is insufficient for that purpose. Resolved therefore, that the said Agents be allowed till the 31st day of December next, to complete the Revaluation of all Buildings which have been insured as aforesaid within the Districts and Towns for which they may have been severally appointed. ALEX'R. MURAE, President M. A. S. Teste, LEWIS M. RIVALAIN, Ck. B. D.
LAND FOR SALE. WILL be sold, on the premises, to the highest bidder, on Monday the 2d day of December next, a TRACT OF LAND, belonging to the estate of Berryman Johnson, dec. containing between 4 and 500 acres, lying in the lower end of Louisa, near the Southside river, adjoining the lands of Thomas Anderson, David Johnson, Wm. Chick and others. Twelve months credit will be given for one half of the purchase money, and two years for the balance, upon the purchasers giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date if not punctually paid, and a deed of trust upon the property as an additional security. Purchasers may be accommodated with suitable divisions of this land into small lots if necessary. AUGUSTA A. JOHNSON, Adm'r. With the will annexed of Berryman Johnson. Oct. 23, 1805. wtds [son, dec.]
Just received and for sale at S. Pleasants' Printing Office and Book Store, Richmond. AN ACCURATE HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN IRELAND, IN THE YEAR 1798, &c. CONTAINING An impartial account of the proceedings of the Irish Revolutionists, from the year 1782, until the suppression of the same: with an APPENDIX to illustrate some facts; and a PREFACE, containing a reply to the observations of Sir Richard Musgrave, (who wrote the government account) on this work.
By the REV. JAMES GORDON, Rector of Killegny, in the Diocese of Ferns, and of Cannaway, in the Diocese of Cork.
THE peculiar advantage which the present work possesses, is that the author, though opposed by the force of government, dares to come forward and state facts with impartiality, making TRUTH his guide, whether exerting his lash on the oppressors of the government, or the excesses of the Revolutionists. We here quote his own words: "To write a book determinedly and exclusively in favor of the ruling party, is an easy business: An author, with such intentions, will feel no dearth of story, style or phrase. The fiery stream of volcanic matter will be poured copiously around him; and the only danger is, that he may, perhaps, be overwhelmed by the lava. Neither will he want purchasers among the dupes of his party, if his object be present gain, without regard to future infamy." "Many of the violent partisans of the British government, have declaimed against my work; several of whom I have asked, whether the accounts were false? They answered no; but that they were such as a Protestant clergyman ought not to have published!"
The hearts of many respectable and brave Irishmen, must beat high at the recapitulation of those struggles which have been made for the emancipation of their country; and, with such, this work will be deeply interesting. Those, approving of the rising of the people, will have an opportunity of seeing their side of politics ably defended, against the accounts published by the agent of the government, Sir Richard Musgrave, in a large quarto volume. And even those, who do not feel prejudiced in favor of either party, may view this publication as an impartial record of the distressing scenes occasioned by an attempt at a revolution.