Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1804-08-22 00:00:00

THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[Vol. XII.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1180.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1804.
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FOR SALE,
By Edward Hallam,
At his Grocery Store, opposite the Swan Tavern. 5000 Wt. excellent Salt Petre Bacon. Patent Shot, by the bag or 100. Madeira, Teneriffe and Sherry Wines. Antigua, Jamaica and New-England Rum. Cogniac Brandy and Whiskey. Philadelphia Porter, by the bbl. 5 doz. each. Coffee by the bag—Molasses by the hhd. Loaf & brown Sugar—Hyson & Imperial Teas. 9 by 11 and 10 by 12 Window Glass. Bar Iron, Irish Potatoes, &c. The above articles will be sold low for ready pay. April 28, 1804. wtf
FOR RENT,
And immediate possession given, a Convenient Tenement, Pleasantly situated.
FOR RENT, IN COLUMBIA, MY TENEMENT,
It being one of the four central lots in the plan of said town; its situation is high and airy, and possesses a very commanding view. It affords two large dry cellars, the walls of which are rock, four chimneys, eight fire places, seven rooms, one of which in the second story is very large and well calculated for assemblies; it is well ventilated and lighted, having 398 panes of glass, besides two large passages and the garret—Also a framed kitchen 32 16 feet, now putting up. When the constant and safe navigation from this place, the establishment of the Staunton mail stage by this place, and the expectancy of a turnpike road by this is considered, it is reasonable to expect it will become a place of increasing business. Those who may be disposed to rent, had better give early information, as the house is finishing within, and may be adapted to different purposes. Also, for Sale or Rent,
400 Acres of Land,
In the lower end of Louisa, on the South fork of Elk creek, adjoining the lands of Robert & James Dickinson. This land is really good, its growth is generally red oak and hickory. For terms apply to the subscriber. J. WILLIS. Chatham, Fluvanna, July 28, 1804. wtf
WORTH THE ATTENTION OF BUILDERS AND OTHER IMPROVING GENTLEMEN.
Stephen Brown,
GUN-SMITH, &c. NORTH MARKET STREET, RICHMOND:
HAVING purchased Kenely's patent right of using and vending to others to be used in this city, and the counties of Henrico and Goochland, his invention and improvement of fastening raising and supporting Window Sashes by Springs and Knobs; proposes to supply gentlemen upon the shortest notice, with any number of those patent springs, with their latest and most complete improvements, at the price of fifty cents a piece, ready fitted and adjusted to the sash; or at thirty-four cents, if taken from the shop. This abatement of sixteen cents is allowed to any gentleman who may prefer to have them set in by their own workmen, as the work is trifling; the abatement will be found to be liberal. Builders and others, who may require a quantity of those patent springs, will be accommodated with a generous allowance, on taking them by the gross. The above invention, for its utility, convenience and cheapness, will instantly convince any person who may examine it, that there was never any thing invented for the purpose, which could in any degree bear a competition with it. The former manner of fastening sashes by small bolts, and raising and supporting them by pulleys and leaden weights, was not only exceedingly complex, difficult and expensive; but was also liable to many accidents, as the wearing or breaking of a cord or pulley, &c. would prevent the whole machinery from performing its expected functions, and would require more expense in repairing alone, than would purchase the new invented patent spring. This spring will act as a safe bolt to prevent the window from being opened by rising from without, and by just touching the spring it may be raised from within to any convenient height, where it will rest with as much safety, as if it were supported by a pillar. It is not surprising that an invention so useful, which is at once so simple and so convenient, should prove a temptation to some thoughtless workmen, who had not considered the consequences, to vend a spurious kind without authority. Such a mean conduct I have already detected, owing to the extreme hardness of the work; and to complete the pitiful fraud their trash has been set into the windows in my name!! But as I have paid ONE THOUSAND AND FIFTY DOLLARS for the exclusive right to use and vend this patent within the city of Richmond, and the counties of Henrico and Goochland, I shall not fail to prosecute to the utmost rigour of the law, any person who shall in future attempt such a contemptible fraud. In order to secure gentlemen from any imposition in the above articles, the initials of my name (S. B.) shall be struck on the white metal knob, affixed to each of the springs, and those who are engaged to fix them in for me, shall be furnished with a written authority, and every such spring shall be WARRANTED by me. STEPHEN BROWN. N. B. Any orders for the above, will be received and punctiliously attended to if left at my shop as above, or at Mr. Pritchard's Book store, where the model may be seen. Old Weights and Pulleys, or any Old Metal, will be received in payment. S. B. July 9, 1804. ti
Morocco Pocket Books
Just received and for sale at this Office.
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Valuable Land for Sale.
The subscriber wishes to sell the TRACT OF LAND , whereon he now resides, in Chesterfield county, situate ten miles from Richmond, within two of James river, and about fourteen from Petersburg. This tract, independent of the many advantages arising from its local situation, has particular claims to the attention of any gentleman who may wish to obtain an agreeable seat contiguous to either of the above named towns. It contains about one thousand acres; four hundred of which are supposed to be cleared, and have been for some years in cultivation. The soil, in point of fertility, is equal, if not superior to that of most of the land in the neighbourhood. The buildings are a large and well planned two story dwelling house with wings, an excellent kitchen and every other necessary out house sufficient for the accommodation of a large family.
The terms of sale will be one fourth of the purchase money in hand, and the balance in three annual instalments. Bond and security, together with a deed of trust on the property, to ensure punctual payments, will be required.
ARCHIBALD BOLLING. Chesnut Grove, Aug. 1st, 1804. wtf
THE history of England is a chequered narration of oppression, revolution, and ruin. The gallant sons of Erin have alternately struggled in attempts at liberty, and in the agencies of execrable for treason. Unfeeling and miserably degraded must be that mind, which can view without shuddering, valor, genius, and honor, prostrate before the omnipotence of power. In this devoted country, anarchy is the rule of order—penury and persecution the reward of virtue. The laborer goes forth to his work, and returns to a starving family, the mournful messenger of accumulated want. The mechanic and the manufacturer seek in their ingenuity the comforts of competence, while extortion deprives them of the necessaries of life. Humanity weeps under the distresses of Ireland. There does despotism sway unlimited her iron sceptre. There does inhumanity languish in Dungeons, and the Gallow's mark patriotism for its peculiar victim—But faint, and feeble, and unmeaning, must be our description, compared with the animated and glowing picture, pourtrayed by the matchless genius of Curran—The pencil of Curran can alone do justice to the interesting scenes, on which it is employed. Well may he be impressive, for deeply has he drank in the cup of his country's sorrows. The execution of thousands of his fellow countrymen, the sacrifice of an intended son in law—the amiable, the
accomplished, the intelligent and patriotic Emmet, the consequent disappointment and distraction of a daughter, would have roused his feelings from the most torpid indifference—But the sensibility of Curran needed not such increments—Liberty had chosen him for her own, and in the destruction of this idol of his hopes, every sentiment of his soul seems agitated.
In presenting to our readers the subsequent display of splendid, independent, and dignified eloquence, from this unrivalled Orator, we bear to comment on the causes which produced it. Upon such subjects, language must indeed lag behind the rapidity of feeling—Let it be remembered, however, that a government, which could authorise, and a judicature, which could sanction these savage proceedings, impiously assumes the attribute of justice, and boasts of mercy in its administration! This inimitable effusion of glowing and splendid eloquence was produced in defence of Mr. FINNEY. FINNEY was printer of the celebrated paper called the "Press," the only one that then dared to speak for the people, and to denounce their oppressors. He was prosecuted for "bringing the government into contempt," by publishing a statement of the trial of WILLIAM ORR, who was sentenced to the scaffold, upon the evidence of a perjured common informer. Curran did not expect to take any part in the trial; nor did he receive licence, 'till the jury were sworn.
"FEW men see, at once, that they can not be hurt so much as they think by the mere battery of a newspaper. They do not reflect that every character has a natural station from which it cannot be effectually degraded, and beyond which it cannot be raised by the bawling of a news-hawker. If it is wantonly aspersed, it is but for a season, and that a short one, and it emerges like the Moon from a passing cloud to whatever original brightness it possessed. It is right, however, that it is law, and that you should hold the strictest hand over this kind of animadversion, that forces humility and innocence from their retreat into the glare of public view; that wounds and terrifies; that destroys the cordiality and the peace of domestic life; and that without eradicating a single vice, or a single folly, plants a thousand thorns in the human heart."
"The learned counsel has been pleased to say, that he comes forward in this prosecution as the real advocate for the liberty of the press, and to protect a mild and merciful government from its licentiousness; and he has been pleased to add, that the constitution can never be lost, while its freedom remains, and that its licentiousness alone can destroy that freedom. As to that, gentlemen, he might as well have said, that there is only one disease of which a man can die; and when he comes forward to extinguish this paper in the ruin of the printer by a state prosecution, in order to prevent its dying of licentiousness, you must judge how candidly he is treating you, both in the fact and in the reasoning. Is it in Ireland, gentlemen, that we are told licentiousness is the only disease that can be mortal to the press? Has he heard of nothing else that has been fatal to the freedom of publication? I know not whether the printer of the Northern Star may have heard of such things in his captivity, but I know that his wife and his children are well apprized that a press may be destroyed in the open day, not by its own licentiousness, but by the licentiousness of a military force. As to the sincerity of the declaration that the state has prosecuted in order to assert the freedom of the press, it starts a train of thought, melancholy retrospection and direful prospect, to which I did not think the learned counsel would have wished to commit your minds. It leads you naturally to reflect at what times, from what motives, and with what consequences the government has displayed its patriotism by these sorts of prosecutions. As to the motives; does history give you a single instance in which the state has been provoked to these conflicts, except by the fear of truth, and by the love of vengeance? Have you ever seen the rulers of any country bring forward a prosecution from motives of filial piety, for libels upon their departed ancestors? Do you read that Elizabeth directed any of those state prosecutions, against the libels which the Divines of her times had written against her Catholic Sister, or against other libels which the same gentlemen had written against her Protestant father? No, gentlemen, we read of no such thing; but we know she did bring forward a prosecution from motives of personal resentment, we know that a jury was found time-serving and mean enough, to give a verdict which she was ashamed to carry into effect. I said that the learned counsel drew you back to the times that have been marked by these miserable conflicts. I see you turn your thoughts to those pages of governmental abandonment, of popular degradation, of expiring liberty, of merciless & sanguinary persecution, to that miserable period, in which the fallen and abject state of man, might have been almost an argument in the mouth of an Atheist and the Blasphemer, against the existence of an all just and an all wise First Cause, if the glorious era of the Revolution that followed it, had not refused the impious inference, by showing that if man descends, it is not in his own proper motion;
that it is with labor and with pain, and that he can continue to sink only, until by the force and pressure of the descent, the spring of his immortal faculties acquires that recuperative energy and effort that hurries him as many miles aloft. It is at that period, that the state seeks for shelter in the destruction of the press; it is in a period like that, that the tyrant prepares for the attack upon the people, by destroying the liberty of the press; by taking a way that shield of wisdom and of virtue, behind which the people are invulnerable; in whose pure and polished convex ere the lifted blow has fallen, he beholds his image and is turned into stone. It is at those periods, that the honest man dares not speak, because truth is too dreadful to be told. It is then the proud man scorns to speak, but like a physician baffled by the wayward excesses of a dying patient, retires indignantly from the bed of an unhappy wretch whose ear is too fastidious to bear the sound of wholesome advice, whose palate is too debauched to bear the salutary bitter of the medicine that might redeem him, and therefore leaves him to the felonious piety of the slaves, that talk to him of life, and strip him before he is cold."
"Let me suppose that you had known the charge upon which Mr. Orr was apprehended, the charge of abjuring that bigotry which had torn and disgraced his country, of pledging himself to restore the people of his country to their place in the constitution, and of binding himself never to be the betrayer of his fellow-laborers in that enterprise; that you had seen him upon that charge removed from his industry, and confined in a goal, that through the slow and lingering progress of twelve tedious months you had seen him confined in a dungeon, shut out from the common use of air and his own limbs; that day after day you had marked the unhappy captive, cheered by no sound but the cries of his family, or the clinking of chains; that you had seen him at last brought to his trial; that you had seen the vile and perjured informer deposing against his life; that you had seen the drunken, and worn out, and terrified jury give in a verdict of death, that you had seen the same jury, when their returning sobriety had brought back their consciences, prostrate themselves before the humanity of the bench; & pray that the mercy of the crown might save their characters from the reproach of an involuntary crime, their consciences from the torture of eternal self-condemnation, and their souls from the indelible stain of innocent blood. Let me suppose that you had seen the respite given, and that contrite and honest recommendation transmitted to the seat, where mercy was presumed to dwell; that new, and before unheard of crimes, are discovered against the informer, that the royal mercy seems to relent, and that a new respite is sent to the prisoner, that time is taken, as the learned counsel for the crown has expressed it, to see whether mercy could be extended or not! that after that period of lingering deliberation passed, a third reprieve is transmitted; that the unhappy captive himself feels the cheering hope of being restored to a family that he adored, to a character that he had never stained, and to a country that he had never loved; that you had seen his wife and children upon their knees, giving those tears to gratitude, which their locked and frozen hearts could not give to anguish and despair, and imploring the blessings of eternal Providence upon his head, who had graciously spared the father, and restored him to his children. "Alas! nor wife, nor children more shall be behold, nor friends nor sacred home!" No seraph mercy unbars his dungeon, and leads him forth to life and light, but the minister of death hurries him to the scene of suffering and of shame; where, unmoved by the hostile array of artillery and armed men collected together, either to secure or insult or disturb him, he dies with a solemn declaration of his innocence, and utters his last breath in a prayer for the liberty of his country. Let me now ask you, if any of you had addressed the public ear upon so foul and monstrous a subject, in what language would you have conveyed the feelings of horror and indignation? Would you have stooped to the meanness of qualified complaint? Would you have been mean enough; but I intreat your forgiveness—I do not think meanly of you; had I thought so meanly of you I could not suffer my mind to commune with you as it has done; had I thought you that base and vile instrument, attuned by hope and by fear into discord and falsehood, from whose vulgar string no groan of suffering could vibrate, no voice of integrity or honor could speak, let me honestly tell you, I should have scorned to fling my hand across it; I should have left it to fitter ministers; if I do not therefore grossly err in my opinion of you; I could use no language upon such a subject as this, that must not lag behind the rapidity of your feelings, and that would not disgrace those feelings, if it attempted to describe them.
Gentlemen, I am not unconscious that the learned counsel for the crown seemed to address you with the confidence of a very different kind; he seemed to expect a kind of respectful sympathy from you with the feelings of the castle, and the griefs of chided authority. Perhaps, gentlemen, he may know you better than I do; if he does he has spoken as he ought; he has been right in telling you, that if the reprobation of this writer is weak, it is because his genius could not make it stronger; he has been right in telling you that his language has not been braided and sesquipedalian as it might; that he has not pinched the miserable plates of Phraseology, nor placed his patches and feathers with that correctness of millenary, which became so exalted a person. If you agree with him gentlemen of the Jury, if you think that the man who at the hazard of his own life, to rescue from the deep the drowned honor of his country, must not presume upon the great familiarity, of plucking it up by the roots. I have no more to say; do a courteous thing. Upright and honest jurors, find a civil and obliging verdict against the printer! and when you have done so, march through the ranks of your fellow-citizens to your own homes, and bear their looks as you pass along; retire to the bosom of your families and your children, and when you are presiding over the morality of the parental board tell those infants who are to be the future men of Ireland, the history of this day. Form their young minds by your precepts, and confirm those precepts by your own example; teach them how discreetly allegiance may be perjured on the table,* or loyalty be forsaken in the Jury box; and when you have done so, tell them the story of Orr; tell them of his captivity, of his children, of his crime, of his hopes, of his disappointment, of his courage, and of his death; and when you find your little hearers hanging from your lips, when you see their eyes overflowing with sympathy and sorrow, and their young hearts bursting with the pangs of anticipated orphanage, tell them that you had the boldness and justice to stigmatize the monster—who had dared to publish the transaction!
"Merciful God! what is the state of Ireland, and where shall you find the wretched inhabitant of this land! You may find him perhaps in a jail, the only place of security; I had almost said of habitation; you may see him flying from the flames of his own dwelling; or you may find his bones bleaching on the green fields of his country; or he may be found tossing upon the ocean, and mingling his groans with those tempests less savage than his persecutors, that drift him to a returnless distance from his family and his home. And yet with these facts ringing in the ear and staring in the face of the prosecutor, you are called upon to say, on your oaths, that these facts do not exist. You are called upon in defiance of shame, or truth or honor, to deny the sufferings under which you groan, & to flatter the persecution that tramples you under foot.
"I speak of what your own eyes have seen day after day, during the course of his commission from the box where you are now sitting; the number of horrid miscreants who avowed upon their oaths that they had come from the very seat of government;—from the castle, where they had been worked upon by the fear of death and the hopes of compensation to give evidence against their fellows, that the mild and wholesome councils of this government are holden over these caracombes of living death, where the wretch that is buried, a man, lies, till his heart has time to fester and dissolve, and is then dug up as a witness.
"Is this fancy or is it fact? Have you not seen him after his resurrection from that tomb, make his appearance upon the table,* the living image of life and of death, and the supreme arbiter of both? Have you not marked when you entered, how the stormy wave of the multitude retired at his approach? Have you not marked how the human heart bowed to the supremacy of his power, in the undissembled homage of deferential horror? How his glance, like the lightning of Heaven, seemed to rive the body of the accused, and mark it for the grave, while his voice warned the devoted wretch of woe and death; a death which no innocence can escape, no art elude, no force resist, no antidote prevent; there was an antidote—a juror's oath—but even that adamant chain that bound the integrity of man to the throne of eternal justice, is solved and melted in the breath that issues from the informer's mouth: conscience swings from her mooring, and the appalled and affrighted juror, consults his own safety, in the surrender of the victim:—
Et quae sibi quisque timebat, Unus in miseri exiti non convenerat tulere,* —* In the Irish Courts of Justice, the "table," is the stand for witnesses.
READY MADE PENS For sale at this Office.

EXAMINATION OF GEORGES.
Extract from the registry of the special and criminal tribunal of the department of the Seine, sitting at the Palais de Justice in Paris.
This day 18th Ventose 12th year of the French Republic:—Before us Jacques A. J. Thuriot, Judge of the criminal and Special tribunal of the department of the Seine, instituted by order of the citizen President, dated the 16th of the present month to investigate the said conspiracy; assisted by Andre Etienne Fremyn, Register; appeared a man who was arrested from among the number of those concerned in the conspiracy against the first consul and the safety of the country, having been conducted hither by a detachment of the military, commanded by citizen Jean Barrière, captain of the second regiment of the municipal guard of Paris. The said appeared having been requested to declare to us, his name, age, condition and place of residence—answered, Georges Cadoudal, aged 35 years, without habitation or place of residence.
Q. How long have you been at Paris? A. About five months past I came here, but the whole time I have been in this city does not exceed 15 days.
Q. Where have been your lodgings? A. I will not discover them.
Q. Why do you refuse to make it known?
A. Because I will not add to the number of victims.
Q. What induced you to come to Paris?
A. I came hither with intention to attack the first consul.
Q. What was the designed method of attack?
A. By force of arms.
Q. Where did you expect to find that force?
A. Throughout France.
Q. There is then in France an organized force at your disposal and that of your accomplices?
A. That is not to be understood by the force above mentioned.
Q. What is then to be understood by the force you speak of?
A. A reunion at Paris.
Q. Where does this reunion exist?
A. It is not yet organized, it would have been as soon as the attack had been definitely concluded on.
Q. What was then your project and that of the conspirators?
A. To fix a Bourbon in the place of the first consul.
Q. Who was the Bourbon designated?
A. Charles Xavier Stanislas, ci-devant Monsieur, acknowledged by us to be Louis XVIII.
Q. What role was to have been played during the attack?
A. A role which one of the ci-devant French princes (who was to be at Paris) had appointed.
Q. The plan then was concerted and was to have been executed in conjunction with the ci-devant French Princes?
A. Yes citizen judge.
Q. Have you then conferred with the ci-devant Princes in England?
A. Yes, citizen.
Q. Who was to furnish funds and arms?
A. I have had along time funds at my dispositions, arms I had none.
Q. Was not Pichegru concerned in this conspiracy?
A. I have no knowledge of any such thing.
Q. Was not Moreau?
A. I have never seen or known him.
Q. Have you had any correspondence with Pichegru?
A. I have seen him two or three times in London, but never spoken to him concerning the design I have now made known to you.
Q. Have you not travelled with him in France, and have you not seen him in Paris?
A. No, citizen, I have neither travelled with him nor seen him at Paris.
Q. In what part of Paris was you arrested to day?
A. I know not the place, only that it was said to be near the Odeon.
Q. What transpired at the time of your arrest?
A. I was in a chaise, and when one presented himself to arrest me, I was provided with two loaded pistols; I fired twice; after the first fire on a man who held the bridle of my horse, I left the chaise, another man ran after me, I fired a second time, and was charged with killing the man, I know not whether it was so.
Q. What motive could have induced you to fire on a man?
A. The necessity of self defence.
Q. Was it not from conviction that it was impossible your plans should remain undiscovered, and that you might be kept out of the reach of the Arm of Justice?
A. I fired without reflection.
Q. What is become of the pistols?
A. I do not know, I believe they are lost.
Q. Why were you provided with those two pistols?
A. For my personal safety.
A poniard was shown him having an ebony handle, tip'd with silver, the blade of four edges, and gilt; a silver sheath, &c. he was called on to declare if he knew the same poniard.
A. Yes, citizen; I had it when arrested.
Q. Was this poniard made in England?
A. Yes, citizen.
Q. Have not all the chiefs of the conspirators such poniards?
A. I know no other chief than myself. Q. Have you not for your domestic, Louis Picot?
A. I have no domestic.
Q. The officers of the military concerned in the conspiracy, have they similar poniards?
A. I know no soldiers of the pretended conspiracy.
Q. Instead of an attack by force of arms, was it not with a poniard of this nature, seconded by the conspirators, that you proposed to assassinate the First Consul?
A. I should have attacked him with arms like those of his own guard.
Q. Was not a uniform provided for those of the conspirators who should assemble and embody, and was not the requisitoire of civil war to be sounded?
A. I have ordered no uniform, if others have done it, that is nothing to me. I observe to you, a proof that I did not wish to engage in civil war, is, that I came to execute the plan at Paris; when at the same time it was possible for me to have armed the citizens against each other in other parts of France.
Q. Have you not travelled in Bretagne a short time since?
A. No, citizen.
Q. How many voyages between France and England have you made within two years?
A. I have been once into England and have returned into France.
Q. Was you not in England at the head of an armed corps, and paid from the treasury of England?
A. No, citizen, several officers whom I commanded in the west have passed into England, but were not employed there, neither was I. A poniard was then shown him, the scabbard of massy silver, the belt of green Spanish leather, embroidered with silver;—
Q. Do you acknowledge this?
A. No, citizen.
It was observed to him he did not speak the truth, for by his order it was brought from a sworn cutler at Paris, and paid for by him—A. It is not so.
The interrogations were read to him and his answers, and demanded of him if true; to which he s ill answers in the affirmative, and then assigned his signature together with the clerk of the registry, who is entrusted with the poniard and sabre to deposit in the registry of the tribunal.
Signed, GEORGES CADOUDAL. Thuriot, Fremyn, Legros, Oudard.
PARIS. May 16.
In the coronation of the emperor it is expected that several hundred of our clergyman, who have proved themselves patriots as well as christians, will be nominated members of the legion of honor!
The French officers and soldiers continue to marry Hanoverian girls. During the month of Germinal alone 460 marriages took place. We hope our countrymen will improve the human race by mixing together the French vivacity and the German phlegm.
LETTER FROM PICHEGRU To his Majesty Louis XVIII. King of France and Navarre.
PARIS, Feb. 24.
"Moreau is already in the temple, and a dungeon is there waiting for me. The same scaffold, as the same prison, will probably soon contain us both, and for ever remove two generals whom the foreign usurper of your majesty's throne regards as the only rivals of his military fame; whose probity is a reproach to his guilt; and who, I am proud to say, have, set him, as well as future conquerors, an example of virtue and moderation; who entered the career of danger and glory, poor, and left it poor."
"Sir, for the last time a faithful subject addresses his beloved sovereign. When the grave is dug, and ready to swallow up its victim all flattery ceases, all hypocrisy is laid aside. Even a villain in that situation would act and speak with sincerity. In a short time, sir, I must be out of the reach of the vengeance of my country's tyrant; and even your majesty, my country's lawful king, will not have it in his power either to pardon past errors, or to reward services performed."
"Sir, from what I have read in the history of former times, and from what I have observed of the actions and opinions of my contemporaries, I am firmly convinced, that legal and monarchical government can alone make subjects happy, and their sovereign safe. Excuse, therefore, sir, the frankness of a soldier, when he acknowledges, that it was neither as the heir of seventy kings, nor your personal talents and virtues, that made me desire to see your majesty quietly seated on the throne of your ancestors. No sir, though I was born in your majesty's dominions, I was nearer related to my fellow subjects than to my prince, and their welfare and the welfare of mankind, has always been regarded by me as superior to all other considerations. I would never have been a rebel against my king, but I would neither have assisted him to return to power, had not his hereditary rank and supremacy been not only closely connected with, but inseparable from, the comforts and liberty of my countrymen, and from the tranquility of the world."
"Sir, the time cannot be distant, when your majesty will again rule in France. The prosperity and interest of all civilized nations demand it. Please, sir, then to remember the poor relative of a general, who, like Bonaparte, might have usurped your majesty's authority, enriched his fa-
mily, promoted his accomplices, enslaved his country, and tyrannized over it with Europe. Remember him, sir! he was dutiful when rebellion was fashionable; he was honest when infamy was a recommendation and he was disinterested when egotism excluded consummunity, as well as patriotism and royalty!
"My last breath shall be a prayer to the Almighty for my king and for my country, &c."
"CHARLES PICHEGRU."
Letters between Madame Bonaparte and Madame Moreau.
Les Nouvelles a la Main, Ventose an XII. No. III. or Paris, March 20, 1804, contains what follows:
"In a preceding number we published a letter from General Moreau to the First Consul. We are now informed from good authority, that it was authentic, with the exception that General Moreau instead of acknowledging himself guilty of the pretended conspiracy, says, that had he conspired with Pichegru, Georges and others, such would have been his plan, &c."
"The letters we now lay before the public are known to all Paris, and have been admired even by some female citizens, who have not been inactive in our revolution. The one is written by a lady, near 50, sharing a throne; the other by a young beauty of 22, who has been refused to share a dungeon with her husband. We guarantee their authenticity. They want no comments. They speak for themselves."
To Madame Moreau. Paris, 22d Ventose, Year XII. "March 11, 1804."
Madame, "Though the crimes of your husband are great, the clemency of the first consul is greater; and my friendship for you, and my compassion for a person so dear to you surpass both. Apprehend, therefore, nothing for General Moreau's life. By the very constitution which he intended to overturn, the chief magistrate possesses the power of pardon; and I promise you, that it shall be employed in this affair. Do not, however, by any ill-advised indiscretions of yourself and of your friends, aggravate the enormity of your husband's guilt. They alone can shut the door of mercy for ever, and bring General Moreau to the scaffold."
"I salute you cordially. Josephine Bonaparte."
Madame Moreau to Madame Bonaparte. "Grosbois, March 14."
"Madame, "I cannot be called indiscreet in saying, that your assertion, that declares my husband guilty, is rash, ungenerous and cruel. I do not wish to enter into a discussion unbecoming myself and my husband, who is the criminal, he who, disinterested and without stain, has served his country; or he who served France, only to become the tyrant over Frenchmen. He, whose victories pacified Europe; or the foreigner, who made those victories subservient to organize his oppressions over France and all nations; he, who in the most corrupted country, dared to be honest, and had the courageous modesty to confound himself in the crowd, after he had resigned the supreme command; or he, who owes every advancement towards authority, to some new crime, and has therefore, no other choice left, but power or death—a throne or a scaffold. But let general Moreau appear before impartial judges, and not before pensioned assassins! Let him be tried by men whose lives are as pure as his own, and not by persons accomplices in the atrocities of gen. Bonaparte, and whose past crimes answer for their present obedience; and I promise you, that justice, in pronouncing his honorable acquittal, will dispatch an order for the arrest (unmandat d'arret) of the really culpable of high treason against France—against the world."
"Cease, madam, to mock humanity, and to insult my feelings, by taking of your husband's clemency and mercy!—Gracious God! how canst thou suffer without inflicting chastisement, the profligation of these worlds? The clemency, the mercy of that cruel man, who even in his youth, had the ferocity to inundate the streets and squares of Toulon and Paris, with the blood of innocent men, women and children! who ordered those soldiers, who, in Italy, with their blood, earned his laurels, to be drowned or buried alive! who, in Syria, in the same city, poisoned his wounded companions in arms, and butchered his disarmed prisoners! who hired an assassin to stab one rival, general Kleber, in Egypt; and who invents plots, and bribes tribunals to dishonor or murder in France, another rival general, whom he could find no banditti audacious enough to pierce!!"
"General Bonaparte's reign of crime and of terror may be prosperous, but cannot be long. Success attended Robespierre; but in a short time, the guillotine punished his barbarity—Providence is always just—the same in 1804 as in 1794. My husband and myself are as resigned to the will of the Almighty, as we are firm in a belief of an hereafter—terrible for assassins, poisoners, atheists, and tyrants, but consoling to suffering innocence upon earth."
"I salute you. "Julia Moreau"
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
To the Legislatures of the respective States.
LETTER FIRST. IN a period of peace and prosperity, the public attention is naturally directed to your deliberations. The United States have heretofore, in a great de-
gree, been contending for their existence as an independent nation. Having claimed her rank among the nations of the earth, she has happily vanquished all the obstacles which a mistaken interest had opposed. Rising above all these, she now occupies the commanding eminence merited by the purity of her principles and the virtuous direction of her resources. Bold in these principles, and fortified by increasing power, she has nothing to fear from the violence or the intrigue of her external enemies. Indeed most of those nations, who, from the force of early prejudice, from ignorance or from ambition, have heretofore indicated marks of hostility or distrust, have yielded to a more enlightened and liberal policy, and have at length perceived that mutual benefit will be the result of an interchange of good offices. What share of this amicable spirit is owing to the wise conduct of those who administer the general government, and what part of it arises from the force of events, we shall not pretend to say. All that is necessary, for us to know is that we have a government that, protecting the circumstances that spring up, as a means to promote a permanent good understanding with foreign nations. Under the auspices of such motives and talents, we may confidently rely on a continuance of peace and external prosperity.
The security of these great objects is the duty of the national government—to promote the interior interests of the great duty of the governments of the states. While the former are in hazard, it is right that every resource should be engaged towards their attainment. Once secured, other objects, worthy of the best patriotism, offer themselves for accomplishment.
For the accomplishment of these objects the propitious season has arrived; and let me add that season too, which, if neglected, may never return. Need I awaken your minds to a sense of their importance? Their accomplishment involves the intelligence, the morals, the republicanism, the wealth and the strength of the nation. These, your national government may provide, but it cannot create; and such is the structure of our political institutions that a decay of state virtues, will necessarily produce a destruction of the whole superstructure that rests upon them.
People of America! By the regard you feel for your children, by your attachment to liberty, by your abhorrence of tyranny, by the honorable pride inspired on contemplating the great prospects before you in case your resources be efficiently developed, I conjure you to ponder on the advice, which a duty as pure as your own hearts, prompts me to offer. I feel that I possess no peculiar claims to give the advice. Age has neither sprinkled my brow, nor wisdom shadowed on me her choice endowments. But I ever have felt an ardent love of my country, since my understanding has been capable of appreciating the value of liberty; and I trust that this affection after constituting the solace of my life, will descend with me to the grave. It is not because America is my country, that I love her; but it is because SHE IS FREE.
LETTER SECOND.
The great objects of state legislation are, 1. Education. 2. Internal improvements. 3. The security of property; and the 4. Punishment of crimes.
On the manner in which these objects are accomplished must eventually depend our liberties, our personal happiness, and the wealth and respectability of the community.
It is to awaken the attention of the legislatures of the several states to the accomplishment of these objects that I have undertaken to make this address.
1. On the subject of EDUCATION little can be said, which has not been said already. There is not, there cannot be a dissenting voice on its importance. It would seem to be sufficient to shew, what no man has denied, that a free state cannot exist without that wide diffusion of knowledge which can alone flow from education, to awaken every mind to its magnitude.
"Knowledge," says General Washington in one of his earliest official addresses to Congress, "is in every country the surest basis of public happiness. In one, in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community, as in ours, it is proportionably essential. To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways. By convincing those who are entrusted with the public administration, that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people: And by teaching the people themselves to know, and to value their own rights; to discern and to provide against invasions of them; to distinguish between oppression and the necessary exercise of lawful authority; between burthens proceeding from a disregard to their convenience, and those resulting from the inevitable exigencies of society; to discriminate the spirit of liberty, from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy, but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect for the laws."
That governments directly rising on principles calculated to ensure the preservation of equal rights should be indifferent to such a vast object can only find a solution in the complicated machinery of human actions. When too are added the inducements growing out of personal convenience and economy, our surprise naturally rises.
In exploring the causes of this indifference we shall probably discover the most efficient means of overcoming it.
They are principally found in the erroneous impression that a general system of education, under the direction of the public, involves a great and unnecessary expense; and in the want of individuals disposed, with becoming zeal, to devote their minds to devising suitable plans, and carrying them into execution.
That a greater expense is incurred under a general system of education, than that at present incurred, is not true. This will abundantly appear from a view of the great number of schools at present in existence, from the little time which is too often devoted by the teacher to instruction, by the small number of his pupils, from the imperfect style of their education, and
from the excessive expense in many cases incurred by individuals in the education of their children—When all these circumstances are taken into consideration, it will be found not unsafe to affirm that more money is at present laid out on the education of youth, imperfect and limited as that education is, than would be sufficient to provide for the establishment of a general system, so comprehensive as to embrace every child in the country.
But there are other additional sources of expense which, though not usually regarded in examining this subject, merit the first place in our reflections.
In a country where labor is at all times convertible into money, it is a great expense unnecessarily to consume time. The time, at present taken up, owing to the unskillfulness of instructors is generally twice as much as is necessary. When, therefore, the child has attained that age, that gives a value to his services, the whole of this value is so far destroyed, as his time shall be uselessly consumed. Let the cultivators of the soil, those who are the most reluctant to come into a general system of instruction, seriously weigh this consideration, and they will not fail to perceive how deeply, even on the score of gain, they are interested in its accomplishment.
The distance at which common schools as well as respectable seminaries of learning are placed, from those who send their children to them, are sources of great, of almost incalculable expense; so great as frequently to impoverish those whose enlarged minds, induce them to give their children the advantage derived from them. Hence the unfortunate state of things which virtually disqualifies the poor and even men in moderate circumstances, from properly educating their offspring; whereby the advantages of education are monopolized by the rich. And hence the long train of political evils that threaten the subversion of all governments indissolubly connected with the enjoyment of equal rights, only to be maintained by a wide diffusion of knowledge.
Let us, in order to test the accuracy of this statement, enquire into the probable expense of a system of education that should embrace all the male children at present within the United States between the ages of ten and sixteen. The number of children between these ages is taken because it constitutes a class in the last census, and because it is considered that a good system of education, conducted during that period, would be adequate to giving all the necessary elementary knowledge. The number of male children between 10 and 16 years old in the United States, at the taking of the Census appears to have been about 340 000. A well qualified preceptor, with the assistance of a young man between the age of 18 and 21, could easily teach reading, writing, arithmetic and geography, to three classes, each consisting of thirty pupils. Such a preceptor and assistant might be got for a salary of 550 dollars. Add fifty dollars for the rent of a school room; making all together six hundred dollars. The education of 340,000 youth would require 3,771 schools, the establishment of which, being computed at 600 dols. each, would cost, in the aggregate, 2,266 200 dols. This sum sounds large; but on comparing it with the magnitude of the object, and with our numbers, it, at once, appears, very moderate. If it should be raised by a poll tax it would not exceed from each person in the United States more than fifty cents; and if assessed on property would not impose a burthen of more than thirty cents on a hundred dollars. Families would pay on an average four dollars a year.
There is one view of the subject, evincive of the lightness of this imposition, which must be conclusive with all men of sound judgments. Such are our habits that we pay from choice on single imported articles of consumption sums as great or greater than would be required for the attainment of this important object.
On Spirits we pay above four millions of dollars which is double the estimated expense of education.
On Sugars above four millions, also double.
On Wines about two millions and a half. Here then are three articles of consumption, two of them are absolute luxuries, and the other not a necessary of life, for which individually we pay, without a murmur, more than would be enough to educate all our children, and for which, in the aggregate, we pay five times as much. And will any rational being say that the gratification of the animal appetite can be put in competition with the education of a whole nation?
It is not then because the establishment of a system of general education would impose intolerable burthens upon the people that it has not been yet adopted. No. It is because, no man has hitherto taken the pains to investigate the subject, to analyse it, to lay it before the people in the plain and popular aspects of which it is susceptible. Occupied almost exclusively with party considerations, our great men have not condescended to exert their powers on subjects so unimportant as the diffusion of knowledge, though of all the instruments of individual happiness and true national glory, it is the mightiest! Much may be said in apology for this apathy. During our revolution all was action. Then indeed, it was the duty of the patriot to concentrate every atom of resource into exertion. The triumph of our political principles depend upon the strength of our arms. Since the revolution we have had much external, and not a little internal danger to guard against. Let us then drop the curtain upon the feeble efforts which have heretofore been manifest-

ed on the subject of education! Over- looking the past, let the present and the future command our whole attention. NOW is the TIME for doing that which duty commands. Addressed to the peo- ple, these remarks are feeble. However disinterested or philanthropic the views of the writer, they are not supported by that weight of character, or surrounded with that lustre which he, whose talents and vir- tues unite the affections of a nation, stamps upon whatever he suggests.
To such men then I address myself. Does the zeal, you have heretofore so con- spicuously exhibited for the welfare of your country, still glow in your breasts? Does that country, in proportion as it rises to im- portance, animate & invigorate your attach- ment? Do you feel a more tender love for it, from many of its best blessings owing their origin to your labors & sacrifices? By all these proud feelings, I conjure you to seize the auspicious moment for accom- plishing that great work which by educating the whole nation, by equalising and dif- fusing knowledge, shall give the stamp of immortality to your labors. All great men are ambitious! Be yours the ambition of doing that good whose effects shall be im- perishable! Say not the people are pre- judiced, and the plan will be unpopular! If they were prejudiced, it would be your pec- uliar duty to enlighten them, and banish their prejudices. But they are not prejudi- ced! They are sufficiently liberal to ap- preciate the value of knowledge. Give them but the means, and they will bestow its blessings on their children! They are a rich mine, fraught with precious ore be- neath the surface, however rugged to the eye. Dig deep and you will find it. Give them an object worthy of their liberality, and you will not be troubled with their pre- judice. Does the expenditure of ten an- nual millions, to support the credit and defend the interests of the country, and of many more millions on its interior con- cerns, excite their prejudice? Will then the expenditure of an infinitely smaller, on an object equally great, fail to gain their approbation?
NEW-YORK, August 11. Yesterday the brig Eagle, from Bordeaux, was fired at, off the Hook, by the British ship Leander, but she prudently stood in shore, and saved them the trouble of overhauling her. Passenger, Mr. Boardman of Boston.
Mr. Livingston - A London paper of the 15th June, says "we are authorised to contradict the report of Mr. Livingston having during his residence in London, uttered sentiments disre- spectful towards this country."
Mr. Jones - A British naval officer and brother to Lord Ranclagh, for striking a superior officer has been condemned to be shot, but so strong are the recommendations to mercy, that it is confi- dently believed it will be received at his majesty's hand.
August 14. Yesterday the Grand Jury, now in session, much to their credit, after patiently hearing a mass of testimony for three days, unanimously brought in a bill of indictment against Aaron Burr, V. P. of the United States, for sending a message or challenge, inviting Gen. Alexander Hamilton to be killed by him in a duel, and against William P. Van Ness and Nathaniel Pendleton, for acting as seconds. By this in- dictment, if confirmed by the competent Tribunals (of which we have no doubt), Mr. Burr, Mr. Van Ness, and Mr. Pendleton, are by the last law a- gainst duelling, passed by the legislature of this state, completely disfranchised, and of course dis- qualified from holding any office of honor or pro- fit, or voting in this state, for the term of 20 years. The murder of Gen. Hamilton, having been committed in the state of New Jersey, the Grand Jury did not feel authorised to take cog- nizance of it; but we are informed from the first legal authority, that a prosecution will lie under the verdict of the Coroner's Jury.
PHILADELPHIA, August 13. Arrived at New York on Saturday, ship Pro- fessor, 63 days from Gote - Passengers, Mr. Thomas Wharton, of Philadelphia; Mr. B. Seaman, of New York, and capt. James Cox, of Norfolk.
Messrs. Wharton and Seaman, on their pas- sage from Leghorn and Marseilles, on the 22d of May, off Toulon, passed the English and French fleets engaged in action, night coming on prevent- ed their knowing the result.
FROM NEW-ORLEANS, July 7. "In my last I believe I mentioned something relative to a meeting held here for the purpose of authorising a representation to Congress; and, I think, added, that it would most probably prove abortive - The spirit however has mounted high- er than I imagined. On Sunday last a meeting was held in the public Ball-room to hear and deli- berate on a remonstrance to be signed by the in- habitants, and forwarded to Congress by two Depu- ties. Although I did not feel myself interest- ed in the project, I attended, and heard the docu- ment read. It is the production of much inge- nuity, and as such was cordially received. I can only pretend to give you the principal points of the remonstrance. It requires that the act pas- sed by last Congress for the government of Loui- siana be annulled, and particularly that part res- pecting the Slave trade: - that the French lan- guage be preserved in all our judiciary and civil proceedings; that we be immediately acknow- ledged as a State, and enjoy as such the privilege of appointing our own Executive council, and making our own laws. Such are the objects of this procedure. The merit of the remonstrance is given to Edward Livingston, Esq. To morrow there is to be another meeting, for the purpose of choosing the two delegates, who are to proceed immediately to the seat of government, loaded with the grievances of the people of Louisiana."
"The 4th inst. was celebrated here with great enthusiasm."
"There is below an English Guineaman, with 250 head of slaves."
AUGUSTA (Georgia), August 4. Last Sunday some negro fellows killed a RAT- TLE SNAKE, which a few miles of this city, on the Savannah road - it measured seven feet, exclusive of the rattle, and was upwards of twelve inches in circumference - it was an old serpent, being twenty years of age. Mr. Chat- field, who has got the skin, intends making a present of it, we understand, to the University at Athens.
On Thursday last Mr. William Appling and Mr. John Roe, both of Columbia county, passed over to Carolina to settle an affair of honor. On the first fire, the former gentleman fell, having received a fatal ball in the head.
The Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1804.
RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT. CORRECTED WEEKLY.
 Tobacco, 37s Cash.  Wheat, (new) 7s do.  Flour, fine, (new) 59s do.  Flour, superfine, (new) 42s do.  Corn, 28s do.  Hemp, (clean) £ 50 do.  Iron, £ 34 do.  Bacon, 8d do.  Whiskey, 4s do. 
We some days since attracted the attention of the public to a subject which we then deemed it important to investigate - the alleged suppression of the works of Dr. Franklin. No elucidation ha- ving been made, the subject has acquired additi- onal consequence. From the silence with which the enquiries made have been treated, the suspi- cious then afloat have derived considerable con- firmation. If they are well founded, the transac- tion to which they relate is of so criminal a hue as to require the severest animadversion; and if they are untrue, it is of some importance to relieve innocent men from aspersion. We trust, there- fore, that the new notice, now about to be taken, will draw forth information that shall guide the public in the formation of a correct decision.
It was some years ago confidentially reported that Temple Franklin, the grandson of the Doctor, to whom was bequeathed his books and papers, re- paired to London for the purpose of publishing his life and writings, including several unpublis- hed tracts. It is certain that Benjamin Bache, then residing in Philadelphia, repeatedly stated that a complete edition of the Doctor's works was com- piling by Temple Franklin, with a view to pub- lication at London to supply the European de- mand, and that a co-temporaneous edition would be printed in Philadelphia to supply the demand in this country. This was at least seven years ago. About that time enquiries were often made when the work was to appear; to which it was answered that it might be looked for daily. From that day to this no life of Franklin, or any of his performances unpublished while he lived, have appeared; nor has any reason been assigned by Temple Franklin for their non appearance. It was also reported some years since that Mr. Dilly, an eminent London bookseller, had bought the copyright of the Doctor's works from Temple Franklin for a large sum; on which terms was not stated; - but that instead of publishing them, he had afterwards disposed of them for a larger sum to the English ministry, who bought them with a view to their suppression, and that they have been been accordingly suppressed.
In ascertaining the truth of this statement not only the friends of the character of Franklin, but likewise his country and the whole literary and po- litical world are interested. If it be true, it ma- nifests a turpitude that will be but inadequately punished by the severest reprobation.
No man enjoyed a wider field for acquiring cor- rect political information respecting the American revolution than Dr. Franklin. He possessed the confidence of his own government, and likewise, in an unusual degree, that of the courts to which he was sent. No one, from natural penetration, and from the access which his great reputation gave him to the great, was more qualified to trace the secret springs of action. Hence the strong curiosity excited by the expected publication of his works! In France, the focus of information, he occupied the highest reputation, and was in the confidence of all descriptions of persons, en- joying equally the respect and society of the vota- ry of pleasure and ambition. His share in the great events of this country is known to all; and it is likewise known that no man among us was better qualified, from the strength of his judgment, and a happy knowledge of men, to develop motives and impartially to record events.
We trust that those who possess the means of satisfying these enquiries will deem it unim- portant to give that information which alone can or ought to allay the national sensibility already excited.
National Intelligence. We commence, in the paper of this day, a se- ries of letters addressed to the Legislatures of the respective states, on subjects of great importance. Though addressed to the legislatures, they are equally meant for the people. Indeed, this se- son is chosen for their publication, in the hope that in selecting proper candidates, some attention will be paid to the important views submit- ted. All reference to party topics have been care- fully avoided; and it is hoped that the federal prints, as well as the republican, which feel a zeal in promoting the great interests of the country, will aid the contemplated effects of these produc- tions by extending their circulation.
FROM THE AMERICAN CITIZEN. British Amity - Will it never cease to be our duty to record British aggressions committed in our harbour? It would be less unpleasant to repel them than to record those insolent attacks. It is more agreeable to an individual and honorable to a nation to resist than to suffer indignities.
On Friday last the ship Cicero, Morgan, mas- ter, arrived from Liverpool. In sight of the white Buoy (half a league N. E. of the Hook) the Cicero was fired at by an armed vessel. As the latter approached she fired a second time, without halting. The second shot was in a di- rect line, but struck the surface of the water a- bout 10 rods from the Cicero. The armed vessel was the Leander by which our harbour has been several weeks blockaded. Compelled to heave to, the Cicero was boarded in our waters. The language of the boarding officer was insolent, and his conduct rude. Capt. Morgan says, that the boarding officer of the Leander declared that their object on the coast was "to annoy the Americans."
The conduct of the Leander in respect to the ship Live Oak, Dyer, master, from London, is still more exceptional. Capt. Dyer, was treated with a rudeness but little compatible with our ideas of civilization. Fired at in our own wa- ters without being hailed, he was afterwards dragged on board the Leander, insulted by the foul language of Skaine, commander, abused by his officers and ordered among his men! They ransacked his trunks for letters, and broke them open; not permitting those which had been writ- ten to him by his wife to escape the hand of vi- olence. They ordered on board Mr. Ludlow, son of Mr. Cary Ludlow of this city, merchant, but after detaining him some time they suffered him to return to the Live Oak. Mr. Ludlow bears a commission in our navy. The passengers of the Live Oak were ordered on board the Leander, of whom SEVENTEEN were IMPRESSED. The fol- lowing communication is from those who were so lucky as to escape impressment.
Ship Live Oak, Dyer, master, at anchor off the quarantine ground, August 1804.
"We, the remaining passengers now on board said ship, from Londonderry, feeling
for the cruel treatment of our unfortunate fellow passengers, now prisoners on board his Britannic majesty's ship of war Leander, Skaine commander - Think it a duty incumbent on us to publish a few of the numerous cruelties exercised on them, in hopes that some American will interest himself on their account."
"We sailed from Ireland the 23d of June, and after an agreeable passage, arrived in sight of Sandy Hook the 3d inst. all in good health, and highly elated at the near pros- pect of a happy termination of our voyage; but about seven o'clock we were brought to by the Leander, who fired at us. On her coming along side of us and asking the captain a few questions, they ordered him to heave to, and they would send their boats on board - this was done, and a lieutenant, attended by two or three midshipmen and two boats manned, board- ed us. We were now ordered on deck to be examined, the lieutenant taking charge of our ship. At the same time he obliged our captain to go on board the Le- ander, and take away every paper and let- ter, whether belonging to his ship or of a private nature, that he had in his possessi- on; as also the ship's letter bag and the mate's log-book - using the most abusive language to our captain and officers."
"Our names were then called over, and every male passenger on board, without distinction whether of age or otherwise, with the exception of four or five was for- ced into the boats, and taken on board the Leander. They were thus torn from their mothers, wives, and sisters, who were left in distress that cannot be described, and this with a roughness and cruelty usual among Algerine corsairs - Arrived on board, they were again examined and con- fined without either meat or drink, or a bed to lie on. If you have a son, a bro- ther or a friend whom you esteem, think, reader, what would be your feelings on having him forced from you in such a man- ner? We however entertained a hope that they would be returned to the Live Oak the following morning - alas, it was a vain hope."
"We had supposed that as we were un- der the protection of the United States' flag; in one of their ships, and we may add in one of their ports, that they would not dare to detain any of us, especially as the officers of the Leander said they were in no want of men."
"The visiting gentlemen of the Le- ander, tumbled every box, chest, and trunk on board in the greatest confusion, and e- ven had the meanness to steal some of our clothes when searching."
SUMMARY.
The state of British politics is by no means such as might have been predicted from the na- tional alarm. The freedom of the national cha- racter is not concealed in the greatest dangers, and it is able to surmount them. Mr. Pitt has a pow- erful opposition. For him are 219 against him 169, giving a majority to him of 50. The po- lity of England has never given an inclination to encourage Slavery, and as great a majority of British subjects would probably be opposed to the slave trade, as of the United States of Ame- rica. In France, no change of Government has ever changed the spirit which it maintains respec- ting England. The nations are rivals still, and all the appearances of hostilities remain. Some- thing like this has appeared in the Christian world. No political changes have ever reconciled the communions of the east and west, and it is well known that the claims of pre-eminence have been next to those of infallibility. In the religious world, the most serious evils were threatened at Mentz from the inquisitorial language of a hermit respecting prayers for the destruction of heresy. The Protestants took alarm, and the President as well as the Bishop were obliged to employ their greatest influence to quiet the apprehensions. The Holy Father at Rome was at the Observato- ry to observe an Eclipse, and was pleased to ex- press himself favourably of astronomy in regard to its use both in science and religion. Charles Villiers has excited attention in France by the an- swer to the prize question upon the spirit and in- fluence of the Reformation under Luther. On the last holy Thursday, the Emperor at Vienna in the presence of the whole Court performed the usual ceremony of washing the feet of 12 poor men. Isaacus, a Greek Prelate, born at Bethle- hem of Judah, aged, and begging alms, was per- mitted at Paris to perform the Communion service according to the rites of the Greek Church. Ca- tholics, Jews and Lutherans have received favour from the Emperor of Russia in such places, in which they make a great part of the population, and are distinguished by their love of the public quiet. Carlo Oppizzoni, Arch Bishop of Bou- logne, is made a Cardinal.
From the City of Washington we learn that improvements are continued, and that if he first expectations are not answered, an attention is paid to the increasing prosperity of the city. A wharf is provided, and some wholesome regu- lations have obtained. In the police great regard is paid to the licences granted for the sale of spi- rituous liquors. Only annual licences are to be granted, by common retailers, not tavern keep- ers, not less than one pint is to be sold, and no liquors to be used, when sold in such houses. They who retail less than one pint pay yearly 20 dollars for a licence and are not allowed to sell to slaves or apprentices, or to admit gaming in- to their houses. All pedlars also are to be li- cenced. We have reported several such saluta- ry laws in the United States.
The Potomac Bank association has publish- ed its rules. The copartnership is to continue for 21 years, and the capital is to be 500,000 dollars. The payments are separate, but the whole sum to be paid in 210 days from the first payment, and all delinquent persons forfeit their first payments. The business is to be done in Alexandria by 12 Directors and a President, and the joint stock is rendered responsible, excepting that when any dividend impairs the capital stock, all concerned in such dividend are liable for such diminution in their individual capacity. The company neither directly nor indirectly is to be engaged in Commerce. Forty persons holding 500 shares may call a meeting, 100 dollars being a share. In Washington on the 17th of June a board of Directors was chosen for the Theatre. In Maryland, is an Orphan Lottery with 20,000 Tickets x 10 dollars each, subject to a deduction of 12 1/2 per cent.
From North Carolina we learn that a Court of conference had decided against some sales made by the university of that State in their own wrong. Where the proscribed person had sold lands and taken bonds, he recovers on the bond. It is expected that the University will not finally
suffer, as the Legislature can secure this Seminary by other than confiscated property. In Bun- swick county, N. Carolina, a late Methodist camp meeting was held, and the ministers publicly at- test to the success, under their signatures. These meetings are sometimes held by ministers of dif- ferent communions, but most commonly they are employed by ministers in separate communions, and probably with equal success. They do not appear to have a lasting influence, their future consequences we do not venture to predict.
We have a most favourable account from Co- lumbia College, New-York. At the Commence- ment on the first instant, 29 Bachelors of Arts received their degrees, with exhibitions favoura- bly received on the occasion.
On the 4th of July, the College of William and Mary paid public honours to that memor- able day, by joining with the citizens in the com- memoration. A prayer, which Bishop Madison addressed to heaven, exalted the devotion of the day, and several orations from the students, well written, well adapted and well delivered, united with proper music, had all the effects which pa- triotism can claim. Increasing attention is paid to the Academies at Raleigh and Fayetteville in North Carolina. The last has 100 pupils, the expenses at first are paid at 16 dollars a year.
Attention is now given to the history of our atmosphere. The sufferings of our great cities has excited it, and curiosity has indulged it.
From a table given at Norfolk for the first 15 days of July, we find the mean of the observa- tions at sunrise 73, and at three in the afternoon, at 86. The lowest in the morning 75, and the highest 83. At three o'clock, 76 lowest, and 91 highest. Rain on the 16th, and the wind at S. W. By Dutton's excellent table for July, at New-London, Conn. at noon and 3 hours before and after noon, the mean was 70, 72, 74, the low- est 63, and the highest 85. Rain on 19th and 22d, and showers on 10th and 15th. Prevalent winds westerly. Few out winds at Norfolk. In Sa- lem, the mean at morning noon, 3, P. M. and evening, was 70, 75, 76, 73. The lowest 61 on the 21st, and highest 90, on 30th day. Rain on 15th and 22d, and showers 6 times. Eleven days the winds were at different points from those at New-London, but only twice was the wind easterly for any considerable time.
We hear much of lightning and of injuries to trees, but few cases in which the loss of life is mentioned. The same weather has been felt in Europe. A Storm at Bath, on 5th May, and at Manchester, England, on the 7th, and in Mont- gomeryshire on the 4th, is mentioned with damage.
The health of the United States continues. In Baltimore, in the last week of July, the deaths were 26, 7 adults and 21 children. In the same week, in Philadelphia, 47 deaths, 16 adults and 31 children. In New-York, 12 adults, 34 chil- dren - 45 deaths - 8 of consumption, and 15 of relax and dysentery. In Boston, 14 deaths.
The attempts to reoccupy the lands for set- tlements, which are for sale, assist much in the history of our country. The Lands at Pine Creek settlement, Lycoming county, Penn. are named as valuable. A South Carolina paper mentions cloths as reported at the sessions, for public approbation and encouragement.
(Salem Register.)
NORFOLK, August 13. Yesterday evening, captain Bowers, of the brig Commerce, in 44 days from London, furnished us with files of London papers up to the 30th of June; and what is rather extraordinary, notwith- standing they are very late from Europe, they contain scarcely a line interesting to the Ameri- can reader - We shall, however, give some ex- tracts in our next.
It must afford great consolation to Mr. Pitt, now that he enters the lists once more with Frenchmen, that, instead of Jacobins, Infidels and Democrats, he has to contend with Christi- ans, Imperialists, and one of the Lord's Anoint- ed!
The people of France and England seem to contend at present, not who shall be the freer, but who the greater slave to the nod of a tyrant! The one cannot live without a King, and the o- thers would be wretched without an Emperor! There are but few in America, we imagine, who envy either one or the other.
MARRIED - On Thursday the 16th inst. by the Rev. JOHN D. BLAIR, Mr. JOHN RU- THERFORD, of Charlotte county, to Mrs. ELIZA PRICE, of Henrico county.
Died, at his house in Charleston (S. C.) JOHN NEWVILLE, Esq. Commissioner of the Conti- nental Loan Office for that state. He was seized on the 27th of June last, with some semblance of palsy. By importunity he consented to the physician's aid; on the 29th doctor Ramsay was called; but he soon rejected medicine and it was with difficulty he could be prevailed on to take nourishment. Fever ensued and the case became arduous, for no preparation of bark could be ad- ministered, and his advanced age, embittered com- plaints and helpless state precluded the thought of tormenting him with blisters; having by an unfortunate fall broke one of his hip bones in Au- gust 1801, a distressing wound was the conse- quence of being able to lay on only one side. His speech failed the three last days - all human assiduous to save a valuable life were unavailing, and he expired without a groan and scarcely a sigh - He raised and educated a large family. His love of freedom and the rights of mankind made him a zealous and active advocate in our revolutionary struggles. Being of the privy council and a member of the existing committees, the success of our cause animated and engrossed his mind. He embarked his fortune, which was very considerable and lost it all. A grieved im- prisonment, exile and sufferings he shared with his brave companions, and with them the issue of the contest and a restoration to his native home, gladdened in virtuous poverty.
Unsolicited and unthought of, he received from general Washington the Commission of Loans; his fellow citizens well knew with what integrity he conducted himself in office, as well as in his private walk of life. On the day he was arrested by the messenger of death, he conversed a little with brigadier general Washington on official busi- ness; and until that period, notwithstanding lameness prevented his walking, or being moved but in a chair with rollers, he attended to his duty. He had an excellent constitution, preserved by temperance, was 45 years without taking a dose of physic, and rarely seen on a sick bed. His age was 75 years and 9 months. The late presidential election greatly agitated his mind, as he was fearful if the general voice of the people did not prevail, his country would have been in- volved in the calamities of civil contention; but the happy result restored the calm and wonted equanimity. He died contented.
Committed to the jail of
Albemarle county, a Negro Man who says he belongs to Mrs. Ragland in the county of Louisa, near the Green Springs, and that he was hired out to a Mr. Miller at the Iron Works over the Blue Ridge. The owner is requested to prove pro- perty, pay charges and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs.
THOS. WILLS, Jr. Jailor Albemarle county. July 28, 1804.
The following description of SYMPATHY is from the Temple of Nature, by DARWIN.
THE seraph, sympathy, from heaven descends, And bright o'er earth his beamy forehead bends; On man's cold heart celestial ardor flings, And showers affection from his sparkling wings; Rolls o'er the world his mild benignant eye, Hears the lone murmur, drinks the whispered sigh; Lifts the chas'd wretch of pale misfortune's door, Ope's the clench'd hand of avarice to the poor, Unbars the prison, liberates the slave, Sheds his soft sorrows o'er the untimely grave; Points with uplifted hand to realms above, And charms the world with universal love. O'er the thrill'd frame his words assuasive steal, And teach the selfish heart what others feel, With sacred truth each erring thought conceal; Lends sex to sex and mingle soul with soul; From Heaven, he cried, descends the moral plan, And gives society to savage man.
* * The gentlemen who have been so good as to receive subscriptions to "THE TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS THE YOUNGER IN GREECE," are requested to forward to the subscriber, as soon as possible, an account of the number of names on their respective lists. They will please to retain the subscrip- tion papers in their hands, which may be kept open upon the original terms till further notice. -The first vol. of this work will be ready for de- livery on the 1st of September.
S. PLEASANTS Jr. Aug 15, 1804
NOW PUBLISHED, By G. DOUGLAS, BALTIMORE, FORENSIC ELOQUENCE.
SKETCHES OF TRIALS IN IRELAND, FOR HIGH TREASON, &c. Including the SPEECHES of Mr. CURRAN at length: - Accompanied by certain papers illustra- ting the history and present state of that country. As the subscribers to this book are much scattered over the continent, and as the expense attending it has been considerable, and as the expense respectfully hopes that they will take the earliest opportunity of sending for it.
Baltimore, August 9th, 1804. * * Those who subscribed for the above book at this office, are informed, that it will be ready for delivery early in September.
YOUNG FRIDAY.
THIS very beautiful and very valuable horse will stand in or near Cartersville on James river the season of 1805. The terms and other particulars will be made known in due time.
RICH'D D. PINCHAM. July 27th, 1804
Loyal Company.
A MEETING of the persons interested in the Loyal Company Grant, or a majority of them, is desired at Orange Court-house on the first Thursday in September next; as without it a settlement and division of the money collected cannot be made, nor other business of importance to the company adjusted.
August 4th, 1804.
Notice.
By virtue of two deeds of trust, executed to us by Robert Priddy, to secure the payment of debts due to John Bowe and William Priddy, will be sold on the premises, for ready money, on Wednesday the 22d of August next,
The Tract of Land,
Whereon the said Robert Priddy now resides, containing upwards of four hundred acres, lying on the Three

Scotville Jockey Club. On the second Thursday in September, will be run for over the Scotville course, the Jockey Club Purse of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS , three mile heats; weights as follows: Aged Horses, lbs. 133 Six years old, 128 Five ditto, 117 Four ditto, 106 Three ditto, 90 Mares and Geldings allowed three pounds. 10* WILLIAM ARCHER, Sec'y.
200 Hhds. Tobacco, Wanted on Freight, to a port in France, for  THE SHIP  VIRGINIA, Capt. JAMES PETRIE. As it is an object to get this ship early to sea, a moderate freight will be accepted, and the ship warranted to sail by the 20th September next. The Virginia is a very fine ship, built of Teak wood and coppered to the bends. For terms apply to  BROWN, RIVES & CO. Richmond,  JAMES CAMPBELL, Petersburg, or to JOHN NEWELL, Jr. Norfolk. Richmond. 10th August, 1804. 3w
Notice.....The office of supervisor of the revenue, for the district of Virginia, being discontinued, and the unfulfilled balances in the said office transferred to me—the collectors of the direct tax & internal revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjusted and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay and pay the balances due to the United States—And those whole lands have been sold in the district of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress of the United States for non-payment of the Direct Tax, may redeem such lands, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal, costs and fees as the law directs. As most of the abovementioned lands were sold in Dec 1802, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next. The money received by me for the redemption of the said lands will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 25 per cent. per annum on the purchase money, to the day on which it may be paid to me.  JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. June 27th 1804.
To be let, on building Leases, three beautiful, airy and elevated situations for dwelling houses. To any gentleman in the mercantile line, or other occupation, who wishes a pleasant and agreeable residence for his family, either of these sites would be truly desirable, as they are contiguous to the scene of active business, at the same time that they are removed from the dust and bustle of the town. Enquire at this printing office. An experienced, sober and industrious GARDENER will hear of an advantageous situation on application as above. None of opposite character need apply. tf April 23, 1804.
4439 Acres of valuable LAND, In the south of Kentucky, the greater part military, will be SOLD for good bonds, or exchanged for property in the state of Virginia.—Enquire of the printer. Dec. 26th, 1803. tf
Plaster of Paris. I have just received from Nova Scotia, a cargo of PLASTER OF PARIS , said to be of the best kind, which I will sell on reasonable terms.  SAMUEL PAINE. May 14, 1804. tf
A Tract of LAND, in the county of Goochland, containing 190 acres, on which there is a good dwelling house, kitchen, smoke house, &c. This place was formerly the property of Mr. Radford, and purchased of him by Mr. Elias Langham who now lives on it and has authorized the subscriber to dispose of the same. The terms of sale, one half cash, the other half payable in 18 months, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. Any person or persons having any claim or claims against the above property are desired to make them known on or before the day of sale.  JOSEPH MOREN. New Canton, 2d July, 1804. 2m
The House and Lot Near the river bank, at present in the occupancy of Mr. John Taylor, and distinguished in the plan of the city by number eight: the property of the estate of Patrick Wright dec. which, if not disposed of privately before the 1st day of September next—will on that day, at four o'clock in the afternoon, be sold on the premises, for one half cash, and the other half on a credit of ninety days, for an approved endorsed note.—An indisputable title will be made before the money is received.  PROSSER & MONCURE, v. ms. Richmond, July 17th, 1804. (ids.)
MADEIRA WINE, Of a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hoghead and quarter cask.  GIBSON & JEFFERSON Richmond, 13th July, 1804. (tf)
Family Flour. A CONSTANT supply of FLOUR, of a superior quality, for family use, kept for SALE, by  GEORGE WATT. Richmond, 5th March, 1804. tf
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.  BOOKS BOND For Sale at this Office.
Notice to Distillers.  WANTED, a MAN who understands the Distilling Business in all its various branches—for such a one great wages will be given. For further particulars apply to the Editor of this paper. N. B. A Single man will be preferred. tf
BANK OF VIRGINIA.  AT A GENERAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS. RESOLVED, that until Certificates for the Stock held in this Institution be issued under the bye laws hereof, the Scrip or evidence of Shares held herein be transferable by Indorsement or Assignment, and that all the Shares standing in the name of any Stockholder shall be transferred in the Books of this company to the person or persons producing the Scrip or evidence of such shares, regularly endorsed or assigned." RESOLVED, that the President of the Bank at Richmond be directed to call a meeting of all the Stockholders (which meeting shall be in the City of Richmond, on the first Monday in September next) for the purpose of adopting such bye laws, rules and regulations as shall be deemed necessary for the government of the Institution; and considering other subjects important to its interest." A true extract from the proceedings of the General Meeting of Stockholders, on Saturday July 7th, 1804. Teste, WM. DABNEY, Secretary.
The Stockholders are requested to attend a General Meeting, at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, on the first Monday in September next, for the purposes stated in the foregoing resolution. ABM. B. VENABLE, Pres'dt.  BY VIRTUE of a Decree of the Court of the United States for the 5th Circuit in the Virginia District, bearing date the 3d day of December, 1803, in behalf of John Glassell, against William Walker, James Walker, Merry Walker and John Walker, will be sold, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Kenhawa courthouse, on the 24th day of August next, the following TRACTS OF LAND , viz:—One granted to Wm. Walker on the 3d of May 1736, containing 112 1/4 acres, on Elk river, a branch of the Great Kenhawa, about 6 miles from the mouth, opposite to a survey made for Leonard Cooper and Wm. Morris, at the mouth of the Sciona creek that empties into Elk on the south side—One other tract granted to said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1738, containing 500 acres, on the head waters of the left hand fork of a creek emptying into Elk river, on the north west side at the shallow ford, about 4 or 5 miles from the mouth of said river, adjoining a survey made for said Walker—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1738, containing 770 acres, on Elk river, on the south east side, about a mile from its mouth—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 27th of May 1738, containing 200 acres, on the north side of Elk river, the third bottom above the mouth of Sandy creek—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 27th of May 1738, containing 100 acres, on the north side of Elk river, the fourth bottom above the mouth of Sandy creek on the same side of the river—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 26th May 1738, containing 1000 acres, on a left hand branch of a creek emptying into Elk river, on the north west side opposite to the first land on said river—One other tract granted to the said Wm. Walker on the 26th of May 1738, containing 200 acres, on the south side of Elk river, the third bottom on the river above Wm. Arbuckle's land, opposite the mouth of Sandy creek.  The whole of the above mentioned land at the time it was surveyed lay in the county of Greenbrier, all of which will be sold, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to raise the sum of four thousand one hundred and ten dollars 38 cents, with interest on dollars 2736 78, at 5 per centum per annum, from the 22d March, 1799—the costs of suit and carrying this decree into effect. tds BEN. MOSBY, Acting Commissioner.
FOR SALE,  A Tract of Land, Lying in the North Garden, in Albemarle county, containing 1000 acres, adjoining the Lands of Stephen Moore, William Wood, and the late William Cole, dec. within eighteen miles of Warren, and the same distance of Milton. There is on this Land a new Barn, 48 by 24 feet, a good Overseer's House, and Houses for the accommodation of fifteen or twenty Negroes. The Overseer's House, with a little expense, may be rendered very comfortable for a small family. About half the Land is cleared, the greater part of which is in good order for cultivation, and a considerable part of it fresh and well adapted to the culture of corn, wheat and tobacco. Any person inclined to purchase, by application to the overseer on the premises, will be shown the Land. The terms of sale will be, one fourth part of the purchase money paid on the first day of June, 1805, and the balance in three equal annual payments from that day, each instalment to carry interest from the day of sale, if not punctually paid. Bond with approved security, together with a deed of trust on the Land, will be required of the purchaser, to secure the payment. For further particulars apply to the subscriber, living at Scotch-Town, in Hanover county. If the above Land is not sold before, it will be offered at Public Sale, to the highest bidder, on the terms before mentioned, on the 23d day of August next, if fair, if not, the next fair day. In either case, the purchaser will have leave to seed wheat as soon after that time as he may choose, and may be furnished with the crop of Corn, &c. that may be made on the plantation this year—say from two to three hundred barrels.  JOHN M. SHEPPARD. Scotch-Town, May 30th, 1804. tds
The survey by which the turnpike road from Staunton to the Point of Fork is run, goes immediately through the land above mentioned, convenient to a handsome situation for building, and good water.  J. M. S.
Mediterranean Passports.  NOTICE is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passports of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State. 23d of May, 1804. 3  The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six weeks; and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. June 1. tm
Colechester, July 29th, 1804.  SIR,  BELOW is a list of three hogheads of TOBACCO, which have lain in this Warehouse upwards of two years without being claimed, which the law requires shall be advertised to be sold at the expiration of three months, at our Courthouse, Fairfax county. You will please advise it accordingly. I. H. No. 225 642 115 527, April 8, 1801 M. F. G. 370 1135 135 1000, June 13, 1801 Do. 372 1118 122 996, June 13, 1801  COULTER & HAMPTON, Inspectors at Colechester. To the Printer for the Public. 3m
CASH SALE OF LAND, IN ALBEMARLE. ON September 15th, will be SOLD in Charlottesville, to the highest bidder, for Cash, the TRACT OF LAND , lying on the east side of Rivanna, over against Charlottesville, containing about 600 acres, with a new commodious Dwelling-House. Two years of a lease under good restrictions have to run after this. The land is all of the South West Mountain quality, and though much injured in parts, is in general still very good, and all reclaimable. The sale proceeds from a deed of trust to indemnify against loss as security and bail, which was executed in December, 1802, by William Bache of Pennsylvania, to THOMAS M. RANDOLPH. July 25. tds
AT a Convocation of the Visitors and Governors of William & Mary College, held at the Council Chamber within the said College, the seventh day of July, 1804. RESOLVED, That the Visitors of William & Mary College will, on the 28th day of September next, proceed to the appointment of a PROFESSOR OF MATHEMATICS ; and that notice thereof be immediately given in the public papers. A Copy—Teste.  W. RUSSELL, o. c.
HART and SOUTHGATE, Grocers and Commission Merchants, In the store lately occupied by Mr. BOULTON, opposite Mr. PLEASANTS' Printing-Office,  MAIN STREET, RICHMOND, Respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have laid in a general assortment of Groceries and Liquors of the first qualities, which they are selling very low for ready money or produce at cash prices. Also, Queen's Ware, Patent Shot, Gunpowder, Indigo, &c. and Hare's Philadelphia bottled Porter, of which they have a constant supply, by the dozen or single bottle. They have for sale, on Commission, CUT NAILS (from 3d to 2d) by the cask or small quantities; also, PEACH BRANDY by the barrel, and a pair of COLOGNE MILLSTONES, 3 feet 11 in. August 8, 1804.
FOR SALE—THE FINEST OLD Madeira & Sherry Wine, In Butts, Hhds. and Quarter Casks. Also, a few hundred hushels CADIZ SALT.  BROWN, RIVES & CO. Richmond, 6th Aug. 1804. 3w
N. B. Wanted to purchase, BANK SCRIP of the Virginia Bank.  B. R. & Co. The full blooded English Stallion, and most complete running horse.  TICKLETOBY Will stand the next season, at my stable in the upper end of Chesterfield county, five miles from Good's and Bevil's Bridges and twelve from Genito—The terms, his pedigree and performance will be made known before the season commences.  THOMAS BRANCH.
On the 22d day of September next, will be SOLD, at Dismal Bridge, to the highest bidder, for ready money.
A TRACT OF LAND, Containing about 425 acres, lying partly in New-Kent and partly in James City county, on each side of Dismal creek, and extending below the bridge, whereon Lewis A. Pauly, esq. formerly resided.—The dwelling house thereon is large, new and commodious one; the store house, granary and various other houses are all in good order. The quality of the soil is such as is usually found on Chickahominy, and both a tavern and store, it is believed, may be kept there to advantage. This valuable property is to be sold at the request of John L. Dormoy, esq. under a deed of trust made to the undersigned by Lewis A. Pauly, esq. to secure the payment of £ 500 with interest to the said Dormoy—the deed is recorded in the General Court. In the same deed a moiety of a LOT in Richmond is mentioned, belonging to Mrs. Pauly, but as she did not execute the deed, that will not be offered for sale, and should she survive her husband, she will be entitled to a dower in the said tract of land, whereof it was deemed necessary to apprise those who might be induced to purchase. The sale will take place at one o'clock, or thereabout.  CHAMPION TRAVIS.  JAMES SEMPLE. Williamsburg, Aug. 6, 1804. 3w
At a meeting of the President and Directors of the BANK OF VIRGINIA, on Thursday the 2d of August, 1804— RESOLVED, that the President and Directors will proceed to appoint the following officers on the 30th current, viz: "TWO TELLERS." "ONE DISCOUNT CLERK." "ONE RUNNER." "ONE PORTER."
RESOLVED, that the first Teller shall be allowed twelve hundred dollars; second Teller nine hundred dollars; Discount Clerk nine hundred dollars; Runner six hundred dollars, and the Porter four hundred dollars per annum." Teste, WM. DABNEY, Clerk. 1304
WANTED TO HIRE OR PURCHASE,  A WET NURSE Without, a child of her own.—Enquire of the Printer. Auditor's Office, 16th August, 1804.
THE Commissioners of the Revenue are requested to send, as soon after the fifteenth of September as possible, to this office, by post, a list of licences granted to merchants in their respective counties or corporations. (4w) SAML. SHEPARD, Aud.
PRIVATE TUTOR. A YOUNG MAN qualified to teach the Latin, Greek, and French languages, who can be well recommended, wishes to undertake the tuition of a small school, in some genteel private family.—Further particulars may be known by letter directed to Lindsay's Post Office, Albemarle county, and addressed to F. M. 7th August, 1804. (tf)
Valuable Medicines, JUST received, and for sale at the Book Store of S. PLEASANTS, Jr.—who is appointed the only agent for Richmond—Sold wholesale and retail by RICHARD LEE, No. 56, Maiden Lane, New York. The following remedies have for six years past been celebrated for the cure of most diseases: to which the human body is liable, and are in high esteem, and general use throughout the United States, many of them being sold cheaper than the drugs of which they are compounded could be purchased at a retail store, for Worms, Tooth-Ache, Coughs & Colds, Corns, Itch, Ringworms, Tetterys, &c Rheumatism, Inward Weaknesses, Sprains, Nervous Disorders, Palpy, Female Complaints, Head Ache, Hooping Cough, &c. For the prevention and cure of Bilious and Malignant Fevers, is recommended  DR HAHN'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS. This medicine has been attended with a degree of success highly grateful to the inventor's feelings, in several parts of the West-Indies and the southern of the United States, particularly Baltimore, Petersburg, Richmond, Norfolk, Edenton, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah. The testimony of a number of persons in each of the above places has been added, who have reason to believe that a timely use of this salutary remedy has under Providence, preserved their lives when in the most alarming circumstances. They are excellently adapted to carry off superfluous bile, and prevent its morbid secretions; to restore and amend the appetite; to produce a free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds, which are often of fatal consequence. A dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance—They are celebrated for removing habitual colic, flatulency, sickness at the stomach, and severe headache; and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate. They have been found remarkably efficacious in preventing and curing disorders attendant on long voyages, and should be procured and carefully preserved for the use of every seaman. The medicines prepared by Richard Lee, have been in high estimation and general use throughout the United States for upwards of six years; many of them are sold for less than the drugs of which they are compounded, could be purchased at a retail store.
THE SOVEREIGN OINTMENT FOR THE ITCH, Which is warranted a certain remedy at one application, and may be used with perfect safety by pregnant women or on infants a week old, not containing a particle of mercury or any dangerous ingredient whatever, and is not accompanied with that tormenting smart which attends the application of other remedies.
INFALLIBLE ACUE AND FEVER DROPS, For the cure of Agues, remittent and intermittent fevers. Thousands can testify of their being cured by these drops, after the bark and every other medicine has proved ineffectual; and not one in a hundred had occasion to take more than one, and numbers not half a bottle.  THE GENUINE PERSIAN LOTION, An essential and safe cosmetic, in great celebrity for clearing the skin and beautifying the complexion, and has always been found effectual in removing ringworms, tworms, tetterys, pimples, &c.  HAMILTON'S ELIXIR, For the cure of coughs, colds, and approaching consumptions, and a certain remedy for the Hooping Cough.
HAMILTON'S ESSENCE AND EXTRACT OF MUSTARD, In great repute for the cure of rheumatism, palsy, gout, sprains, white swellings, &c.  DR. HAHN'S GENUINE CORN PLAISTER.  DR. HAHN'S EYE WATER. The number of extraordinary cures recently performed by this medicine in Philadelphia, as well as other parts of the United States, render any account of its virtues now unnecessary.
RESTORATIVE POWDER FOR THE TEETH AND GUMS?  TOOTH-ACHE DROPS. The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
HAMILTON'S GRAND RESTORATIVE; A sovereign remedy in Nervous disorders, Obtinate Glects Consumption, Relaxations Flour albus, or whites, Inward weakness, &c.  THE DAMASK LIP SALVE.
THE PATENT INDIAN VEGETABLE SPECIFIC, For the cure of a certain dreadful disease.  HAMILTON'S WORM LOZENGES. This Medicine has received the approbation of respectable gentlemen in every situation in life, and in all parts of the United States: it has stood the test of six years extensive experience, and it is believed on good grounds, that nearly Two Hundred Thousand persons have received benefit therefrom—from the infant to the aged of both sexes, and under every circumstance; and notwithstanding the attempts of several envious persons to impose counterfeits on the public, yet the present demand for Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges is much greater than it has been at any former period; and it is probable that no advertised medicine ever acquired an equal reputation.
It is an inconsiderable evidence of the utility of our remedies, that during the above period, numerous imitations of every article (the productions of ignorance and inexperience, urged by envy and penury) have intruded on the public, seen a day, and then perished—others now succeed them, which in like manner are fast descending to that tomb of the Capulets, while our remedies become more generally used, and acquire a daily accession of well earned celebrity.
To prevent the imposition of worthless or dangerous preparations, purchasers are requested to remember, that an engraved label, with the signature of Richard Lee (to counterfeit which if felony) is affixed to each of the genuine medicines.
Doctor Wilson, HAS taken (as a temporary residence) the house lately occupied by Doct. Adams, opposite the Bell-Tavern, and intends to combine the Apothecaries business with the practice of Physic. He is now opening a part, and expects by the next arrivals from Philadelphia, a fresh and very general assortment of  MEDICINES, And other articles in the Apothecaries line, which will be sold on the lowest terms. Orders from the country, Recipes, &c. will be carefully attended to. Richmond, 25th June, 1804. w6m
TO Mr. HENRY BOOKER, Amelia, SIR, I AM sued by Mr. Outlaw in Cumberland Court, and will thank you to interpose and stop the suit. I regret that I cannot otherwise inform you of the circumstance. With confidence, &c. I remain your friend.  GEORGE MAYO. Cumberland. w4t
LAND and NEGROES FOR SALE. Two hundred and ninety eight acres of land in the county of Cumberland, lying on both branches of Tearwater run, about two miles above the courthouse—about one third of this land is well timbered, and equal in quality to the best high land in its vicinity, it is well supplied with good water, and the situation is remarkably healthy; the buildings on it are tolerably convenient and at a small expense might be made comfortable for a family—there is a remarkable fine apple and peach orchard, and several other kinds of fruit trees thereon, which seldom miss bearing, and on the main road from north to south, which passes through it, there is a large distillery, malt-house, cellar and granary, well connected to carry on the distilling business extensively. Also, for sale a Distiller, a Man Cook and some other valuable Slaves, together with the stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, Carts and Farming Utensils, with some Household and Kitchen Furniture. If the above property is not disposed of by private sale before the 25th day of September next, the whole will on that day be set up on the premises, to the highest bidder, at public sale. Cash will be expected for all sums under twenty dollars, and on all purchases exceeding that sum, a credit of twelve months will be allowed, on giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date, which will be remitted on receiving punctual payment of the principal—a deed of trust on the land will be required to secure the payment for it. If agreeable to the purchasers, the Distiller, Still, &c. and forty acres of Land adjoining, will be sold separately—but if not sold in this way, the Still, Boiler and Distilling Utensils will be set up separately, to the highest bidder, on the same terms as the other property. The premises will be shown to any person wishing to purchase, by Lawrence Carile, who resides thereon.  LAWRENCE CARILE.  JOHN & ED. CUNNINGHAM. July 2d, 1804. w8t
TRAVELS IN GREECE. PROPOSALS, BY JACOB JOHNSON, OF PHILADELPHIA, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE TRAVELS OF  ANACHARSIS THE YOUNGER, IN GREECE; During the Middle of the Fourth Century, Before the Christian era; WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES.
BY THE ABBE BARTHELEMY, Keeper of the Medals in the Cabinet of the King of France, and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. First American, from the Fourth European Edition, IN FOUR VOLUMES.
The work now offered to the American reader exhibits a complete view of the Antiquities, Manners, Customs, religious Ceremonies, Laws, Arts and Literature of Ancient Greece at the period of its greatest splendor. A knowledge of these has hitherto been only attainable by a laborious perusal of writers who have been little solicitous to join entertainment with instruction. The Travels of Anacharsis, on the contrary, are so written, that the reader may frequently be induced to imagine he is perusing a work of mere amusement, invention and fancy; till his eye glances to the bottom of the page, when he perceives there is scarcely a sentence, and not a single fact or circumstance, but is supported by the authority of some ancient author. The amazing number of these quotations may, perhaps, at first sight, seem to have been unnecessary, and to have more the appearance of a parade of erudition, than to be of any real utility; but it is to be remembered that, at the same time that they must be highly acceptable to the man of real learning, by enabling him to refer immediately to the original Author, they are extremely useful, nay, we may say, absolutely necessary, even to such readers as can never be supposed to have any intention to consult the authorities quoted; as they clearly show that such an idea, or such a circumstance is not merely a decoration or the offspring of the fancy of the author, but immediately taken from some ancient writer, and therefore perfectly accordant to the general scope and plan of the work.
TERMS. I. The first Edition in America of Anacharsis's Travels, will be comprised in four volumes octavo. II. It shall be printed on handsome wove paper and a new type casting for the purpose. Each volume will contain about 400 pages. III. The price to subscribers per volume bound and lettered, will be two dollars: in boards 1 dollar and 75 cents, to be paid on delivery of each volume. The European edition sells at 12 dollars per set. IV. There shall be a handsome map of Greece given with the first volume, to be executed by one of the first engravers. Subscriptions received at S. PLEASANTS' printing-office and bookstore, Richmond.
Westham Iron Foundry, NEAR RICHMOND.
THE subscriber takes the liberty of informing the public that he has taken a lease and is at present working the above foundry; and having procured the best artists in that line from New-York and George-Town, together with Pig Iron of the first quality: Proposes to cast—Mill gudgeons & Inks of every description; also, cast iron wheels for the machinery of mills; Rumford, registered and plain grates; grate front and bottoms, for Rumfordizing fire-places; large and small stoves; caissons and cabin stoves; Franklin stoves for wood or coal; kitchen grates, with crane and range complete; coach warmers; plain stoves and maul'd plates; cast railing of every pattern; plow shares and plow boards; cast waggon, coach, phaeton and chair boxes; scale weights from 1 to 60 lb; sash and clock weights; patent taw irons for smiths, on a very approved plan; backs, jams and back lays; nail cutting machines with screws complete; wheel-barrow bowls; garden ditto; cast iron anvils; fire dogs and hand irons of every description—together with any other article in the casting line, to a given pattern, at the shortest notice, by application at the furnace, or to  JAMES DUNLAP, in Richmond. 25th June, 1804. w8m
P. S. Old Iron purchased by application as above.  NOTICE. Application will be made to the next General Assembly, praying that an act may pass to vest in the subscriber, the right of the Commonwealth to a lot in the town of Charlottesville, No. 38, which formerly belonged to Thomas West, dec.  FREDERICK GAUDER. Charlottesville, July 20th, 1804. [w3m]
Poole's & Letter Paper For Sale at this Office.