The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-10-24 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 6.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1809.
[No. 48.]
Published by Thomas Ritchie, nearly opposite the Globe Tavern, Richmond, Virginia.
CONDITIONS. —Five dollars a year, to be paid annually in advance. Those who wish to be considered as annual subscribers, must hereafter designate it at the time of subscribing, otherwise their papers will be discontinued at the expiration of the first year. No paper can be stopped until all arrearages have been paid off—Good acceptances, in Richmond only, will be received in payment. The same rule as to Advertisements.
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE: The 5th Volume of the ENQUIRER, compleat, bound in boards.
VIRGINIA DEBATES, in the Convention, bound in calf, sheep and boards.
BURR'S TRIAL, for Treason and for a Misdemeanor, in boards—By D. Robertson.
LETTERS on the Subject of THE CATHOLICS. —By Peter Flymley—from the 11th London Edition.
BLANKS, for Lawyers, Clerks, Sheriffs, Constables, Merchants, &c. &c. which will also be printed according to any form exhibited, at the shortest notice.
ALL persons having any demands against the subscriber, will bring in their accounts; and those indebted to him, are requested to make settlement.
I wish to sell five half acre LOTS, in the city; a Woman and three Children.
October 20. Y. H. JUDAH.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. —Strayed or stolen from my lot in Farmville about the 1st of September last, two mules—One a bay & the other a black with long bob tails—The above reward will be given for taking them up and returning them to me.
October 17. MAURICE LANGHORNE, Jr.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. —Runaway from the Subscriber, in the early part of April last, near South-West Point, in Tennessee, a negro man, named MOSES: we suppose him to be about six feet high, well made, a little inclined to be knock-kneed, of a dark complexion, speaks slow when spoken to, and inclines to lisp a little; his clothes cannot be described, as he took off a number, and of various kinds. The said negro was purchased by the subscribers, (in February last,) of Martin Turner, of this City, and generally calls himself Moses Turner. He has a wife in this place, and it is supposed he is now lurking some where in this Town, as we have been informed he has been seen here, previous to our arrival. The above reward, besides legal charges, will be given to any person who will deliver the said Negro to Richard Terrel or J. A. Grant, or secure him in any Jail so that they get him again.
Sept. 15. R. TERREL, J. A. GRANT.
All persons are strictly forbidden from harboring or employing the above Negro. Also, all Captains of Vessels, or any other person, are forbidden from taking the said fellow out of the State under the strictest penalty of the Law.
R. T. & J. A. G.
TO THE PUBLIC. —The subscribers, executors of John McRae, dec'd. will, on Tuesday, the seventh day of Nov. next, offer, at public sale, before the tavern of Mr. James Durrell of this town, the following PROPERTY, viz: Twenty-five or thirty Slaves, among which are several good carpenters, distillers, bakers, cooks and house servants: Two brood Mares, one of which is the celebrated running mare Carolina, with a Florizel colt by her side, and now in foal by Sir Harry: the other a high bred mare also in foal by Sir Harry, together with six or eight saddle and work horses, three milch Cows, carpenter's tools, plantation utensils, &c. The terms of sale will be, for the slaves, a credit of one, two and three years, and for the balance of the property, a credit of twelve months; in all cases, bonds with approved security will be required, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid.
RICHARD McRAE, and DANIEL EPPES, Exec'rs of John McRae, deceased. Petersburg, Sept. 29. 104
All persons having claims against the estate of John McRae, dec'd. are requested to bring them forward for adjustment, and all who are indebted to the said estate, to make immediate arrangements for the pay, as no indulgence can be given.
R. McR. & D. E.
LAND FOR SALE. —The subscriber offers for sale that valuable estate on which he formerly resided, lying on James River, near the Town of Warminster, in the County of Nelson, lately Amherst. This tract contains nearly two thousand acres—The low grounds are of the most valuable kind, and the highlands immediately adjacent thereto are very fertile and uncommonly level—It might be divided into two plantations to advantage, or continued in one, as might suit the owner. The houses are new and ample for the comfortable accommodation of a family—A more minute description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed the purchaser will view and judge for himself. The subscriber will only observe that the place is very healthy, lies in a fine neighborhood, and commands, perhaps, as many advantages as any other situation that is offered for sale in the state. One fourth of the purchase money will be required on the first of January, when possession will be given; and the balance will be divided into nine equal annual installments, without any charge of interest if the principal be punctually paid—A large crop of small grain will be sown in good order, and the purchaser may be accommodated with corn &c. sufficient for a year's supply. Letters directed to Buckingham Court-House, or to Warminster, would be soon received and attended to. In my absence, my brother Mr. Joseph C. Cabell will show the land to any person desirous to purchase.
September 1. WM. H. CABELL.
GEORGE WATT has just received, and offers for sale, Sack, Madeira, and Sherry Wine, by the Hhd. and Qr. cask, Green Coffee, Old as Sugar by the Hhd. German Platillas, Stumpes by the piece or case, half pt. Glass Tumblers in cases of 1000 each, and New York Soap & Candles.
ON HAND, Madeira Wine, Orleans and Muscavado Sugars, Green Coffee, Molasses, Prime Pork, Liverpool and Stone Ware, Sackings, Hay, Corn, Skin, and Gunpowder Tea, Spanish Segars, Raisins, Almonds, Nutmegs, Windows Glass, Men's & Women's Shoes, which he will dispose of by wholesale on reasonable terms.
July 22. WM. H. CABELL.
THE Partnership of BREAM & FOLLET is this day dissolved by mutual consent—All debts due to and from the Firm, will be settled by James Bream.
JAMES BREAM, FRANCIS FOLLET. Richmond, Sept. 18.
JAMES BREAM respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that the partnership of Bream and Follet being dissolved, the Business will be continued by him—he expects shortly to receive a fresh supply of articles in the Ironmongery and Hardware line, which with his present stock in hand, he will sell low for cash, approved paper, or country produce.
Sept. 18. tf
TO ALL whom it may concern.—RICHARD SMYTH, a native of Ireland, departed this life on the 18th of June, 1809, without leaving in this State, or in the United States, any relation by consanguinity, and possessed of some Estate in Lands within this Commonwealth, of which, as well as of the United States he had long been a Citizen. His intent was to give the whole to the subscriber, as his Nuncupative Will, now of Record, will sufficiently prove; but the Subscriber hath been advised, that a Will of that kind cannot effect a conveyance of Lands, how far soever it may prove the intent of the Testator, and that the Lands, late of the said Richard Smyth do of consequence, escheat to the Commonwealth, though a contrary to his intent of bequeathing them to a citizen thereof. For that reason, the subscriber shall request the General Assembly, at its ensuing session, by Petition, to carry the intent of the said Smyth into execution, by releasing the Interest of the Commonwealth in the Lands whereof he was possessed, or entitled to within the same, to the Subscriber.
August 25. DAVID DOYLE.
THE subscribers offer for sale, a very general assortment of GROCERIES, which they will dispose of on moderate terms, for cash, country produce, or approved paper.
Also, 62 Kegs F and FF Brandy Wine Gun-Powder.
October 10. WHITE & SHELTON.
A LADY capable of teaching fine NEEDLE WORK, and EMBROIDERY, is wanted, as an Assistant, in a Female Academy, in the country. Respectable recommendations are required. Reference for further information, may be had at the Office of the Enquirer.
October 13. tf
HOUSES FOR SALE.
BY VIRTUE of a decree of the honorable Superior Court of Chancery, for the Richmond District, in a suit between George Pickett, plaintiff and the subscriber defendant, will be sold to the highest bidder, at public auction, on Saturday, the 4th day of November next: Two brick HOUSES, with the out-houses belonging to them, situated on the cross-street, leading to Shockoe Warehouse, in the city of Richmond. The sale will take place, on the premises; and the terms, agreeable to the said decree, will be twelve months credit; the purchaser to give bond with approved security, for the payment of the purchase money, and the title to be retained until the money is paid.
DANIEL CALL, Executor Of the last Will and Testament of ROBERT MEANS, deceased. October 17. tf
A HOUSE (upon the Basin) FOR SALE.
BY VIRTUE of the last will and testament of Robert Means, dec'd. will be sold, on the premises, on Saturday, the 4th day of November next, to the highest bidder, a tenement upon the basin, adjoining the tenement of John Purse. The terms of sale will be, twelve months credit, the purchaser to give bond and security, and a deed of trust upon the property to secure the payment of the purchase money.
DANIEL CALL, Executor Of the last Will and Testament of ROBERT MEANS, deceased. October 17. tf
HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE.
AT A meeting of the Board of Trustees, on the 29th day of September, 1809.
Whereas, it appears, That many misrepresentations have been circulated, and many misapprehensions entertained by the public, respecting a regulation lately adopted, prohibiting the students of this seminary, from attending at the court-house, on court days, and other public days; On motion, it was ordered, That the said law be published in one of the Gazettes printed in the city of Richmond.
Resolved, That a report of the students of this seminary, to public meetings, at the court-house, on court days, Musters, &c. is a loss of time, generates vice and a corruption of morals, and ought not to be tolerated.
It is therefore ordered, That after the commencement of the next session, no student shall be permitted to go to the court-house on court days, or on days of Muster, unless when compelled to attend by legal authority.
Teste, DRURY LACY, Clerk. October 17. 4w
ADVERTISEMENT. —Will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 16th day of November next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the late dwelling house of John Carr, (L. U.) dec'd. The crop of Corn, Fodder, Oats, and Hay, plantation Tools, household and kitchen Furniture, a Wagon nearly new, two Ox carts, Horse cart and the stock consisting of Horses, Hogs, Sheep and Cattle including of a yoke of Steers.—On the same day, and at the same place, will be sold the tract of Land on which Joel Bennett resides, about 4 miles above Charlottesville, containing about 500 acres—the tract called Johnson's tract adjoining Wm. Fitch, jr. about 2 or 3 miles north of Milton, containing about 400 acres—the tract called Hall's tract lying between Micajah Carr's and John Roth Wells, containing about 292 acres—and about 500 acres Oak-Land, a considerable part of which, from its fertility is adapted to the production of Tobacco, and what is opened is fine for Corn and Wheat: this last mentioned tract adjoins the lands on which the dec'd. lived, and in an excellent neighborhood—all of the aforesaid Tracts of Land, lie in the County of Albemarle, and will be sold on one and two years credit, equal instalments—the other property on twelve months credit—It will be required of the purchaser of any of the above property, to give bond, with approved security, and if not punctually paid, to carry interest from the date for all sums above ten dollars; under that sum the money will be demanded. As I am anxious to close my executorship as soon as possible, I earnestly request all those who are indebted to the Estate to make payment—and all those to whom the Estate is indebted are solicited to come forward, and receive their due.
Albemarle, Oct. 17. THOMAS CARR, Ex'r.
FOR SALE. —As I intend to move to the Western Country, I will sell my plantation, on Chickahominy Swamp, and on the stage-road, leading from Richmond to Fredericksburg, about 11 miles from the former place. This tract contains about 500 acres, a large portion of which is equal to any land on the Swamp, having between 50 and 100 acres of prime meadow Land, which may be reclaimed at a very moderate expense. As this Land is so generally known, I consider any other description unnecessary. I will take, in part, a good tract of land, in the state of Kentucky. Apply to Thomas Norvell, in Richmond, or to the subscriber, near Half Sink.
WILLIAM WINSTON. Hanover, Oct. 17. tf
NOTICE. —The partnership of Saylor & King, Tanner, near Prince Edward court-house, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All those indebted to the concern, are requested to make immediate payment to George King, who is authorised to receive payments and settle all accounts of the company.
MARTIN SAYLOR, GEORGE KING. October 17. 4w
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.
BY VIRTUE of the last will and testament of Edwin Motley, dec'd. will be sold to the highest bidder on Wednesday the 15th of November next, (or if not fair, the next fair day.) A Tract of Land called Booth's in Gloucester County, situated immediately on Portopotomac Creek, and within about one mile of York River, containing between six and seven hundred acres; this land is of the most valuable kind, and has an excellent mill-seat on it: persons inclined to purchase and wish to see the land, will be shown it by Mr. Wm. Gates who resides on it.
Also on Thursday the 23rd November, will be sold on the same terms a tract of Land situated in the lower end of Spottsylvania County near Thornton's Springs. A credit of one year will be given for one half the purchase money, in each case, and two years for the last payment, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, the bonds to be divided so as suit the payment of certain legacies, devised in the will of said dec'd.
ELIZABETH MOTLEY, Administratrix with the Will annexed of EDWIN MOTLEY, dec'd. King & Queen County, Oct. 13. 2w
P. S. For Sale a quantity of excellent old Peach and Apple brandy. E. M.
A CARD. —DOCTOR LEWIS, lately from the West-Indies, has opened his Office, at Manchester, in the house of Mr. L. Bishop, for the practice of Physic, Surgery, and Midwifery. He hopes from his success and experience, to merit the patronage of a liberal public.
N. B. Private families may be supplied with Medicines, with suitable directions. Advice for the poor, gratis. September 26. tf
Europe.
From Bell's Weekly Messenger, Aug. 13.
PROGRESS OF THE EXPEDITION.
The progress of the Expedition has not been what was expected—or at least, as far as the details have reached this country.—The truth appears to be, that the Expedition had originally two objects—the one to burn the shipping in the Scheldt, the other to act as a diversion in favor of the Austrians, and withdraw a portion of the French armies from the Danube. From the precipitate misfortunes of the Austrians, the latter which was in part the main object of the expedition, became impossible. So great a force however having been accumulated, it was necessary to attempt something. Under these circumstances the Expedition was sent—not so much on any precise object, as to attempt or execute any thing which may fall in its way. We are convinced that this is the true state of the case—and that the expedition would never have been sent into the Scheldt, had it not been originally prepared for more extensive objects.
When we say this, however, we are very far from imputing any blame to the government of the country. The attempt to assist Austria was polite and magnanimous. The Ministry are not to be blamed that the Austrians were defeated before they could bring their division into the field. The Ministers are not to be blamed for the apparent delay of the Expedition. Whatever is long in preparation—whatever is open to the eyes of all during every stage of this preparation—whatever is anxiously watched and impatiently expected, will always appear long; and natural duration will be confounded with delay. Let justice be done to the Ministers as well as to other men. It was impossible that such an Expedition could be collected with greater dispatch. The shipping—the Victualling—the artillery—the marching of different regiments to one depot—all these things are not the affair of a day or a week, and so much we deem it necessary to say, that the Country has seldom if ever sent a more complete Expedition than the one now in the Scheldt.
Under such circumstances the people will be grossly deceived if they expect too much from this expedition. To attack the French in Flanders is to seize the bull by the horns. All that the expedition can be expected to do, is, to seize a town or two on the islands of the Scheldt, and by a rapid march up the river destroy whatever shipping the enemy may have collected.
As to the precise point of the Expedition, we believe that ministers themselves have fixed upon nothing. The original object of the expedition, as we have above said, was diversion, and the plan proposed was then to burn, destroy and push forwards, so as to excite alarm, and to call off the French troops from the Danube, by marching them on a naked quarter. This diversion having become impossible—the plan is now, we should suppose, merely to burn and destroy as far as we can with safety advance, and where the perils exceed the work of the service to retire.
As to the permanent possession of the Island of Walcheren—we question both its possibility and its utility.
In the first place, we believe it to be impossible, because the Channels which divide it from the other islands and the main land of Flanders are so narrow, that it will be
impossible for us to prevent the passage of the French armies, and so much we think will not be denied, that we cannot spare sufficient force from the home defence of the country to protect Walcheren permanently against the French armies. We give this however as conjecture, as we do not know the ground, and form our conclusions only from a valuable collection of the best Maps.
As to the utility of keeping permanent possession of Walcheren, we have no doubt at all that it will not be worth one fourth of the cost of maintaining it. If we are to burn the ships in the Scheldt, where is the utility of having a blockade at its mouth?—The ships in the Scheldt, and the flotilla are in fact already blockaded up enough.—When have they ever been at sea? It is not necessary to have Walcheren to keep them in their harbors. It is not necessary to incur such an expense to block up a few old ships and a few new boats. Besides, if the Expedition have any success, these boats and ships will be burned.
As to a commercial view, by which we may pour goods on the continent, this is very absurd. We can only pour in such goods by smuggling, and the French will take good care to prevent that by lining the opposite coasts with their soldiers. The Dutch are more experienced smugglers than we are, and we may as well leave that business where it is—It is at present in the best possible hands. The subject is not worth many words, or we might briefly observe, that it is not very consistent with the dignity of a nation, to set up as a smuggler, and that it is certainly not very polite to create and encourage a kind of traffic which may grow up to our own ruin, and against which in individuals, such severe laws are pointed.
Upon the whole, we conceive it necessary to say, that our expectations from the Expedition are not very great. Whatever can be effected by gallantry, will be done by British sailors and soldiers; but we must not rashly run our heads against fortified cities. Flanders is a land of iron and steel. When the Dutch are put up to it; when they see their towns and houses in flames, they will fight with their usual obstinacy.—Whatever we may think of the French, we must not condemn the Dutch. They have a very strong resemblance to ourselves.—How did they fight at Camperdown? How have they always fought when the odds have not been too strongly against them, and when they have fought with good will? It is most absurd to believe that they will take part with us, whilst we are bombarding their cities, and destroying their loved property. If they had merely to choose between the French and the English, they would certainly choose the latter; but when choice is between having their towns burnt to the ground and expelling the English, will they hesitate which in such circumstances is the most immediate enemy? Why will people lose their common sense?
Boston, Oct. 13.
Extract of a letter from Rotterdam, of the 25th of July—received in London August 9.
The news is known, that the Emperor has declared to the American ambassador that he would not enter into any treaty until the United States declared war against England, thus probably a war between France and America."
Two uncommon papers on public affairs were published in the Court Gazette, at Amsterdam, July 25 and 29.
After depicting the horrors produced by the French Revolution, which is described as "that terrible convulsion, which spreads death, despair, and mourning over the finest region of the world, and finally brought in their train that greatest of all misfortunes, a state of bankruptcy," the Dutch are stated to derive some consolation from the consciousness, that "they have not had to submit to the caprice of an arbitrary Government, nor to groan under the despotic insolence of a conqueror." This language needs no commentary to explain it. They even go on to say, "The King (Louis Bonaparte), has already openly declared against the conscription, in the face of all Europe." Foreseeing & deprecating the punishment which is about to be inflicted on him for such an avowal, and anticipating his deposition, they add, "Let us, then, all unite our efforts, to shew our king that true Dutchmen wish to protect him who labours for them! May we thus ever merit the care and the love of a King, who gives us unceasing proofs that he is less our sovereign than our First Magistrate, and the man of the nation!"
SALEM, Oct. 13.
Captain Stacey, arrived at Marblehead on Wednesday last from Gion, (in the north of Spain, & the province of Asturias) which he left the 19th of August. When he sailed great rejoicings were held at Oviedo, the capital of the province, on account of the supposed possession (which our later accounts show not to be true) of Madrid on the 13th, by the combined armies. Persons recently from St. Andero, St. Sebastian's, and Bilboa, said, that all the Americans in those ports had been taken up and imprisoned by the French; that at St. Andero they had once been released through the influence of Madam O'Brien, but were again imprisoned. It was stated, that the French had only 4000 troops in St. Andero, and only as many hundred in Bilboa—that the Spanish lines extended to the former place, and that the Spaniards expected shortly to regain possession of it, as well as of Bilboa.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 17.
The Harmony, Snow, of Boston, was at Amsterdam July 20. She was direct from the United States, and had not become liable to any existing French or Dutch Decree; and had only American produce on board; but she was taken by a French privateer, when she had a pilot on board, and her papers are sent to Paris. There were 10 or 12 other Americans at Amsterdam—none had been permitted to sell or land their cargoes, except in the King's stores. The favourable Decrees seem to have been mere traps.
NEW LONDON, Oct. 11. The schooner Fortitude, Captain Robert Gray, from Martinico, belonging to General Wm. Williams, of this city, has been taken by a French privateer, and carried into St. Martin. Letters from captain Gray, say, no reasonable hopes can be entertained of saving her, for all vessels bound to or from an English port, which fall into the hands of the French privateers, are condemned under the Milan Decree.
A ship carried into Grenada, from St. Martin a short time previous to the capture of the Fortitude, was immediately on arriving stripped of her rigging, her cargo landed, and a copy of her papers sent to Guadalupe; where she was tried and condemned. The crew had been plundered of all their clothing, part of the cargo was sent to other places in the night, and the rigging of the ship sent to St. Barts to sell; so that if she had been cleared, it would have cost as much to refit her as she was worth.
NEW-ENGLAND MILITIA.
The Connecticut Mirror gives an interesting account of the Review of the first Brigade of the Militia of that state, at East Windsor on the 20th, 21st and 22d ult. The Brigade of Infantry, a Regiment of Artillery and a Regiment of Cavalry, encamped on the ground 3 days, and performed all the exercises of War. Major Gen. Cowles and Brigadier Gen. Burr, reviewed. After taking out a small number for a guard, a part of whom only were in military dress, every man, Officers and Privates, were in complete uniform and perfectly equipped. They were extremely exact in their discipline, and their manoeuvres exhibited a grand and delightful spectacle. More than six thousand persons were assembled to view the scene, among whom were all the beauty and fashion of the country.
NEW BEDFORD, Mass. Oct. 13. [Note from Captain Dennis, of scur Little Dick from Demerara.]
Sept. 11, was boarded by his H. B. M. brig Bellona, treated politely, and dismissed; at the same time Guadalupe bearing N. E. distant 5 or 6 miles, wind being very light, saw a brig in shore, which proved to be a British brig of war, who spoke me at 7. P. M. the captain very politely asked me if I had any information of the French row boats taking the Americans—and informed that he saw five making for me that he directly made for them, and on seeing the brig they were obliged to quit it, otherwise I should certainly have been taken. I was extremely obliged to the gentleman for saving my vessel at this time; but his generosity did not stop here; he told me that he should keep by me all night, that I might shape my course and he would follow me, which I accordingly did, and by his protection saved my vessel and cargo from condemnation, myself and hands from capture, plunder and abuse.
AMOS DENNIS.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 13.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Havana, to another in this city, dated September 27.
"I beg leave to inform you that by a royal order this day communicated, this port is shut entirely to every kind of foreign commerce—the regulations to that effect are placed upon the same footing as in times of peace. Only negroes and plantation utensils can from this day be admitted, even in vessels belonging to the most favored nation; and Spanish colonial vessels, are prohibited from going to any but national ports. This for your government; as soon as I can procure further information upon this subject, I shall advise you."
"This intelligence has occasioned an instantaneous rise in the price of all kinds of provisions, and I have no doubt that the fall in the produce of the island will very shortly be in proportion; only Molasses will keep up, as that article gets exceedingly scarce."
Capt. Smith left Havana, on the 1st inst. His B. Majesty's ships Ethalia, capt. Cochran, and Undaunted, capt. Maitland, and two Spanish 74's, with specie, had arrived from Vera Cruz. The port of Havana was shut against all nations—there were several American, Danish and British vessels lying off, but were not permitted to enter.
The Herschel, Lewis, and Dove, Charleston, from this port are captured and sent into Christiansand.
NASHVILLE, (TENNESSEE) Sept. 22.
IMPORTANT DISCOVERY.
About thirty miles from Charthage, on the Cave Fork of Cumberland river, a Mr. James Bryant has discovered a very extensive Alum and Copperas Cave—capable of being wrought to an extent sufficient to supply the whole consumption of this state, and can be afforded at retail in Nashville for half the price the imported copperas has heretofore sold for. This discovery which was hinted at some time since in a public paper is of the greatest importance. The cave that has been wrought lies in Warren county, within 2 miles of a boatable stream, there is also a fine road from it, and the copperas we have seen is not quite so fine as some of the imported, but appears to be much stronger and looks very well. Mr. Bryant has experienced considerable difficulty in acquiring a proper knowledge of the cheapest and most productive process by which to separate the copperas from the alum—heretofore he has been obliged to destroy the alum to save the copperas—any person who is acquainted with the method or the manner of making either, will confer a favor on the infant manufactures of our state, by communicating the same to the editor of the Clarion, that Mr. Bryant may save us the importation of copperas and alum. Mr. Bryant has only made about 200 weight of copperas as yet, but a Mr. Coats to whom he gave permission to try what he could make, he made about 800 weight. He is convinced that the different caves that he knows of in that neighborhood, will be sufficient if properly worked, to supply every call for copperas and alum in this state.

Resources of France and Britain. —We have excluded from this day's publication a variety of domestic intelligence, as well as original articles, in order to lay before our readers the interesting letter of William Cobbett, addressed to the king of Great Britain: It is worthy an attentive perusal—the immense resources of France and the effectual manner of their application, are perspicuously explained, and the spirit of the late Thos. Paine of the administrators of the British government 'right by chance, wrong by system,' made evident.—N. Y. Pub. Adv.
COBBETT'S LETTER TO THE KING, On the Maritime War against France.
LETTER I. SIR, When every eye in the nation, at the end of 16 years of war, which has given rise to the income tax; which has caused a part of every man's estate to be alienated, under the name of Redemption of Land Tax, which has banished guineas from the land, and made bank notes a legal tender—which has seen the Habeas Corpus, or Personal Safety Act for many years suspended; which has drained the kingdom of its youth and its vigor, leaving the next generation to be the offspring of decrepitude, deformity and imbecility; which has thus entailed upon the nation ugliness and weakness, and disease; and which, while it has robbed the land of thousands upon thousands of the best of its laborers, in order to convert them into defenders of Sicily, and other foreign countries, has introduced thousands and thousands of foreigners to defend the same land. At such a time, when every eye in the nation, is anxiously fixed upon the great, and, in all probability, the last attempt, about to be made against the enemy, it appears to me, that it may be useful publicly to state certain facts, relating to the mode of carrying on a war of such wearisome length and such desolating consequence; and that this statement may, from its manner, lose none of its intrinsic importance, if for the second time in my life, I presume to address myself directly to your Majesty, taking care that, in this instance, no keeper of official papers shall, as in recent ones, have it in his power to garble, or to suppress any part of that which I write. That your Majesty is not well informed as to the great and interesting matters upon which I am addressing you I, without the smallest hesitation, conclude; first, because the measures of your servants, thro' whom your information must come, are in no way calculated for the real state of things; and, secondly, because supposing those servants to possess both talents and zeal sufficient for all the purposes of their respective stations, their time has, from the moment they entered those offices, been almost wholly engrossed by endeavors to defend themselves, and to annoy and degrade their own political enemies and your Majesty's late servants. As men may be blinded by too much light, so a people may be kept in error, may be deceived and ruined, by the means of the press, which, unpervaded, is so well calculated to ensure the constant triumph of truth; and I have for my part, no doubt, that with all our parade of publicity, with all our ostentation of unreserve, there is, in the whole world, no people who, in proportion to their magnitude, understand little of their public affairs as is understood by the people of this kingdom. Were not the case, Sir, it would be impossible that the enemy should be in his present flourishing state, with respect to his internal and other resources, while England possesses such means of cutting off those resources.
The general opinion in this country is, that France is in a miserable state—that the people are starving—and that as to commerce there is no more of it going on in the dominions of Napoleon than upon any of the islets in the Thames, about Windsor, or Hampton Court. This too, I conclude, be the opinion of your Majesty; because a before observed, your information as to such matters, must be derived from your servants and those servants prove, by their express declarations, as well as by their conduct, that such is their view of the situation of the empire of France. As to whether the subjects of Napoleon like or dislike his government, or whether they be better or worse off now than they were under their former sovereigns; these are questions which we can discuss to no profit, because we possess no facts whereon to reason—but with regard to the commerce of France, and that sort of commerce which is the only valuable one, I possess from the best possible source, quite a sufficiency of facts to shew, that upon that subject at least, this has been the most deceived of nations, and your Majesty the most deceived of sovereigns.
The sort of commerce to which I allude, is what we in England, call the coasting trade; but in the dominions of Napoleon, or countries under his sway, it is to be considered as something much more important than it is with us. There is no doubt that the trade between London and the coal mines of a million times more value to England than all her foreign commerce put together; but if we cast our eye over the map of Europe, we shall see, that the coasting trade of Napoleon embraces climates; and that a maritime communication between his several countries must be, not only of vast benefit to him, but in some cases, necessary to the existence of the people.—Some of these countries must supply others with corn. Without the oil and the wine, and the silks, and the cotton, these countries might exist; but the southern could not, in many cases possibly exist without the necessaries of life from the north; and of carrying on this commerce there are no means other than those of a maritime nature.
The extent of this commerce, in the dominions of Napoleon, is scarcely to be credited by those who are not acquainted with the facts. Along the coast of Naples, Tuscany, Genoa and Piedmont: from the southern provinces of France and Marseilles, thro' Cetté, and the grand canal of Louis XIV. to Bordeaux, and thence along the Atlantic coast of France, the whole of the coast of Holland, & into the Elbe; in short, from the Baltic to the southern point of Italy, all the countries are connected by a chain of commercial intercourse as complete, perhaps as ever existed in the world, and as advantageous as it is extensive. This commerce is, by your Majesty's servants, spoken of under the degrading appellation of "a mere coasting trade;" but this is precisely that trade which is really advantageous to a nation. If England were cut off from all communication with foreign nations, she would in point of strength and happiness, suffer nothing at all. But, cut off be communication between London and the coal mines,
the inhabitants of London must perish or disperse. There are several branches of our coasting trade, of a degree of importance, not, indeed, approaching nearly to this, but still of greater importance to us, than all our foreign commerce put together. If, for instance, only one year's interruption were to take place in the exchange of coals for timber between Cumberland, on the one part, and Hampshire and Sussex on the other part, the woods of these latter countries, must be burnt to keep the people from perishing, whereas by the exchange now going on, these woods are preserved, the people have fuel in plenty, and that fuel, after having given comfort in that capacity, becomes a valuable manure for the land.—One year's interruption of this exchange, would do England more harm than would be done by the sinking of all foreign countries to the bottom of the sea. This is, however, only one instance out of hundreds which might be enumerated; and, with out any thing more being said it must I think, be as clear as the sun at noon day, that if the enemy were able to put a stop to our coasting trade, it might at once be asserted, that he had it in his power to reduce us to his own terms, be they what they might.
It is not then worth the while of your Majesty's servants—it is not worth the while of those, who are entrusted with the conducting of the war, to enquire what is the extent of the coasting trade of the French empire, and to inform themselves as to the means of destroying, or, at least, interrupting that trade? To attack, or to oppose Napoleon in Spain, Naples, Sicily, Sweden, Denmark, Hanover or in the East or West Indies, is what it would be far an enemy to attack us in Nova Scotia, Canada or in any of our colonies where, though a defeat might produce mortification, it would not seriously effect us either in our comforts or in the sources of our national strength. We should regret the loss of Canada, perhaps, or of a West India Island; but the loss, like that of a child out of a numerous family, would not be felt in our affairs. We should still be as rich and as strong as before; but cut off the means of sending corn and timber, and iron, and tin, and coal, along our coast, from one part of the kingdom to the other, and the distress is instantly felt. In fact, the different parts of the kingdom can no more dispense with the coasting trade, than the farmer can dispense with the aid of the blacksmith and the wheelwright.
This, it will, perhaps, be said, is not the case with the countries under the dominion of Napoleon. But will it then, be asserted that those countries, though extending almost across the whole of the European continent, and including such a variety of climates, are nevertheless, so circumstanced as to be able to exist, and contentedly too, without any commerce with each other; that is to say, without any exchange of natural productions, or of manufactures?—
The truth is, that the commerce between the several parts of this vast empire is so great that convoys of eighty, a hundred, and even of two hundred sail, are frequently seen and by your Majesty's fleets too, carrying on this trade in perfect security. These consist chiefly of luggers, or zeebs, of a light draught of water, from 80 to 120 tons burthen, and are navigated by a proportionate number of seamen. There are employed in this commerce, from the river of Bordeaux alone thirty three thousand seamen and upwards. The coasts of the Mediterranean teem with this commerce. Its ports, harbours and bays swarm with vessels; and at no time was the commerce so great between France and Italy on the one side, and between France and Holland and the North, on the other side, as it is at this moment, while your Majesty's servants are boasting, that they have a navy that scours the ocean, and that "England engrosses the commerce of the world." While they amuse themselves, and the nation, with this empty vaunting the commerce of France, and her vassal states, carried on almost with in the reach of the naked eye of our Admirals, far exceeds, in the means of contributing towards national strength, the commerce of England and of all her allies. The general persuasion here is, that all the people under the sway of France, are suffering under causes almost similar to those which effect the inhabitants of a besieged town; that the people of the North can get no wine or oil, and that those of the South can get no corn; that there are no materials to make goods of any sort, and that all is decay and misery, and that surely, the poor, beggared, pinched people must, surely they must soon be reduced to desperation; must revolt, and must tear Napoleon and his government to morsels. This has been the expectation for years, in like manner as, for years before, Mr. Pitt, and the Foreign pensioner Sir Francis D'Ivernois kept alive the constant expectation, that France would become a bankrupt and won't then be compelled to submit to her enemies. As the nation was deceived then, so it is deceived now; and so, I greatly fear, it will continue to be deceived, until a knowledge and belief of the truth will come too late. One thing, indeed, has staggered many of even the credulous part of the nation; and that is the fact of France being able still to re-editions. For this astonishing power of creating a maritime force is altogether incompatible with the assertions of your Majesty's servants respecting the ruined state of the commerce of France. The commerce of France being "annihilated," we cannot help wondering that the ports of Brest and Rochefort should be continually sending forth their squadrons;—we cannot help being surprised and somewhat vexed at seeing a squadron of ten or twelve sail of the line come out of the ports of France in the space of a few months, after we have been congratulated upon the destruction of the last of the enemy's ships. The fleet in Basque Roads is said by one of your Majesty's servants, to have been worth several millions of pounds sterling, and that the Calcutta alone was worth six hundred thousand pounds being full of military and naval stores.—
To have effected the destruction of the whole of this fleet would have been a subject of great joy; to have effected the destruction of part of it was a subject of joy; but, in our haste to express such joy, we forgot to ask, how all these stores came to be found in the port of Rochefort so many years after we had "so completely annihilated the commerce of France," agreeably to the ten thousand times repeated assurances of your Majesty's servants. The fact is, that not only from the Elbe and the Scheldt are the ports of France supplied, by the means of the coasting trade, with an abundance of naval stores, but also from that part of Spain lying near the Atlantic coast; whence they receive iron, pitch, tar, rosin and ship timber of various sorts, and in vast quantities, at a rate much cheaper than some of these articles can possibly be brought to the arsenals at Portsmouth and Plymouth. If this be the case and it must be so, what are we doing? What is the use which your Majesty's servants are making of the immense means which the industry and patience of your people put into their hands? If there be a commerce, such as I have described, carried on between the different ports of Napoleon, of what use, are the means of keeping him in check, are the thousand ships of war now employed? Of what use is it, if this commerce is to go on uninterruptedly; and of what use is it that the sea is covered with your Majesty's ships, and that history will record the valor of your seamen? Of what avail is it, that we destroy French ships of war, while we leave in full vigor, all the means of creating others to supply their place? If this be the way of making war, it must be clear to every one that we can never have peace, without being exposed to imminent danger; for it will require but a short space of time for France to raise a navy equal, in number at least, to any that we can possess.
The security of this extensive and most valuable commerce of the French dominions arises in great part from the use of land signals, or telegraphs, so constructed, placed and managed as to keep the vessels upon the coast at all times correctly informed of what is passing upon the whole line of coast. From Flushing to Bayonne a report is exchanged four times a day; at light, ten o'clock in the forenoon, two o'clock, and just before sun set. So that at Flushing they know, four times during the day, what is passing at sea, within sight of the highest hill in the neighborhood of Bayonne, and of course they are informed of what is passing at all the intermediate ports of the coast. The same system is established along the coast of the Mediterranean, from the Gulf of Spezzia to Rosas. The coasting vessels thus instructed how to move; thus kept constantly in a state of perfect knowledge as to the situation of our fleets or cruisers, are able to sail in safety, carrying on their trade in as much security as if those ships were not in existence; and this only as I shall hereafter prove to your Majesty, from causes which prevents the necessary exertions from being made, and which causes may instantly and easily be removed.
The advantages to the nations (for they are many) which carry on this commerce, are not greater than they are to Napoleon himself in his views of conquest and dominion. From this commerce, notwithstanding our opinions to the contrary, he derives no small part of his revenue through the means of a stamp-tax, imposed upon every article exported or imported; and hence he is able to dispense with direct taxes which are always odious, and which are, indeed, those which have uniformly ended in exciting the feelings and producing the acts, under which so many governments have perished. This is a great point. By the means of this commerce, he disguises from his people the burdens which they bear. It is, indeed, a gross imposition to tell a people, that commerce pays taxes, the fact being that those taxes all fall upon the people themselves; but as your Majesty must have observed, it is an imposition, it is a fraud, it is an act of duplicity and knavery, the success of which, in other countries, warrants the belief that it must be greatly useful to your Majesty's implacable and powerful enemy. Very much then, are your Majesty's servants deceived, when they suppose, that the Emperor Napoleon has no custom house, whereat to collect duties. His scale may not be so noble as to afford him Dukes for receivers; he may not have Marquisses for Collectors, Barons for wharfingers, and Knights of the Eagle for wine tasters; but I am of opinion that his custom house yields him a much greater clear revenue than is derived from any similar establishment in the world—and that it affords him the means of drawing upon other sources of taxation with so sparing a hand, that his people, especially within the ancient boundaries of France, have reason to congratulate themselves upon the comparative lightness of their burthens. A great many of your Majesty's subjects including some in high station, have at different times expressed their astonishment, and indeed their vexation, that the people of France should be slow in rebelling against their Emperor with whom your Majesty made a treaty of peace and "amity" only about seven or eight years ago; but if they had been informed of the facts here stated, relative to the commerce of France, and especially relative to the revenue yielded by that commerce, together with the relief given thereby to all the other sources of taxation, itself not appearing as a tax; if they had been duly informed of these facts, and had been possessed of but a very moderate portion of that sort of knowledge which enables men to trace popular discontent to their real causes—they never would have entertained a hope of seeing a rebellion in France.
But great as are the financial advantages of this commerce, Napoleon derives from it still greater advantages attending such a nursery of seamen. It has been most clearly proved, over and over again, that for our navy the nursery is our coasting trade.—
There requires, therefore, nothing more to satisfy us, that from a coasting trade such as I have described, the advantage to Napoleon is so great as to excite well-grounded alarm in the mind of every reflecting Englishman. It is from this copious source that the Emperor of France has drawn those hundreds of thousands of seamen with whom he has manned his fleets and squadrons for many years past, and which fleets and squadrons, though always hitherto defeated, and in many instances captured and destroyed, by the superior skill and valor of your Majesty's fleets, answer the terrible purpose of causing us to keep up a force by land as well as sea, so immense, so disproportionate to our population and our pecuniary means, that the country is stripped of its youth and its vigor—the fields are left to be tilled by the poor and the decrepid—and the taxes are so general and so heavy, and the anticipations upon them so great—that Hope, which alleviates all other burthens, here refuses her sustaining hand. Year after year, we not only see the taxes and tax gatherers increase—we not only feel their immediate pressure, but we see mortgaged, deeper and deeper, the very seeds of property; we see taken from us, for the purposes of current expense, that which was held out to us as the sure pledge of permanent relief. Could we once be sure that it was out of the power of Napoleon to send a fleet to sea, how different would be our situation! But this assurance we can never have, so long as he has the command of the seamen necessarily employed in such a commerce. How often, within the last 14 years, have we annihilated the navy of France! how often have we swept
the ocean! But still France, in the midst of all this annihilation, finds the means of sending out fresh squadrons and fleets, and proves beyond a doubt, that she possesses, in spite of all we have hitherto done, the means of forming a navy in a very short space of time. (To be continued)
SEVILLE, July 26. Under date of the 14th inst. the following Royal Order was communicated to the Intendant, sub delegates of Rentas, and capt. general.
The Supreme Junta of the kingdom keeping in view the means to contribute to the alleviation and to provide for the subsistence of the unfortunate Spanish subjects compelled to inhabit the places occupied by the enemies, and wishing to combine the interest of said persons with those trafficking with our colonies, notwithstanding the orders issued to cut off all communication or commerce with places occupied by the enemies, to permit sugar, cocoa and bark, may be remitted to said places and sold there with the conditions that such clearances shall be given only to persons exhibiting TESTIMONY OF PATRIOTISM, who shall be subjected to an examination and search; to avoid their conveying letters and papers prejudicial to the just cause defended by the nation, or any other goods besides those expressed in their clearances.
Our former orders remain in full vigor & force for all other articles, excepting those of sugar, cocoa and bark.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 19. By the ship Helena, capt. Miller, arrived at this port yesterday in 44 days from Londonderry, (with 105 passengers, all in good health) have been received a number of Dublin and Belfast Papers to the latter end of August, from which the following selections are made:
DUBLIN, Aug. 23. French papers to the 5th, and Spanish to the 1st inst. have reached this office exclusively. We have translated such parts of them as appeared interesting, and this evening present them to our readers. The order of the day, dated Madrid, July 26th, we think eminently entitled to notice. It will be perceived, that the account, which this order contains, alludes to the driving in of the out posts of the English and Spanish armies; and from the composition and style of this very curious document, it is manifest that his most Catholic Majesty Joseph, however inferior he may be to his most Christian Majesty Napoleon, in all the great requisites of generalship, yet possesses in a high degree those talents for the bombastick, for which the illustrious house of Ajojo hath been long distinguished. "The king continues to pursue the enemy. The result of this brilliant success will be the expulsion of the English, and the termination of the calamities of Spain." We request our readers to compare this fustian dispatch with the modest account given by our illustrious countrymen of the glorious battle of Talavera.
MADRID, July 26. Order of the Day—On the 26th inst. his Catholic Majesty, at the head of the 1st and 4th corps of his reserve, fell in with the English, Portuguese and rebel army, assembled in great numbers in the plain near Santo Domingo. To attack, defeat, and completely rout it, was the work of a moment. The King continues to pursue the enemy.—The result of this brilliant success will be the expulsion of the English, and the termination of the calamities of Spain.
The Governor General of Madrid.
We have accounts from Paris, that Mr. Armstrong, the American Ambassador, with his family and suite, is preparing to quit that city. They are to proceed from the French capitol to Holland, from which they are to sail for their native country. War between France and the republic of the U. States was considered as inevitable. Such it seems has been the result of the very cavalier declaration of the Corsican, that he would allow of no neutrality to exist, and that America must make choice of France or England for her enemy. Without any reference to justice or policy, it is manifest that the power, which has the insolence to make such a declaration to a neutral state, has thereby committed the first act of hostility, and should be treated accordingly.
The Irish legion serving under Bonaparte, is said to be commanded by a person of the name of O'Meara, and not by Arthur O'Connor, as generally supposed, who lives retired about three miles from Paris. O'Meara has distinguished himself in several actions, and on the particular and personal recommendation of general Clarke, was appointed by Bonaparte to the command of his countrymen.
LATEST FROM CADIZ.
The brig Corporal Trim, Capt. Elwell, arrived at Boston on Saturday the 14th in 36 days from Cadiz. Capt. E. left the city on the 8th Sept but brought no papers:—He reports, that Gen Cuesta had resigned his commission, and left the Spanish army; that Sir Arthur Wellesley was retreating towards Portugal, for the purpose of re-embarking on board a fleet of transports, which was said to have arrived on the coast. Capt. E. did not learn that any battles had been fought inferior to those already known in this country.
It was also reported at Cadiz, that the cause of Sir Arthur Wellesley's falling back toward the sea coast, was the total want of provisions, and not through fear of the enemy: that the Central Supreme Junta had not dissolved; but on the recommendation of the British commander in chief to have the provisional authority of the country placed in the hands of the Bishop of Toledo, as Regent, it was expected some change would take place in the government.—Boston Gazette.
Communicated for the Mercantile Advertiser.
LEIGHORN, June 30, 1809. The Chamber of Commerce of Porto Portu, has finally condemned the whole of the cargo of the ship Vermont, captain Lyman, with the trifling exception of 118 bags pimento and 18 puncheons rum, after a tedious litigation of two years.
The interested in her cargo, may see the particulars, by applying to Mr. Wilson.
Domestic.
HARTFORD, Oct. 16. On Thursday last, the General Assembly of this State met at N. Haven. On Wednesday His Hon. Lt. Governor Treadwell was met at Hamden, by a number of the citizens of New Haven, who accompanied him to this city. At three miles from the town, the Governor's company of Horse Guards, commanded by Maj. Munson, received him, and escorted him to Clark's Tavern. On Thursday His Governor's Foot Guards, commanded by Maj. Atwater, the Horse Guards, & the company of Artillery,
commanded by Maj. Stakes, escorted the Lt. Gov and Council to the state house, where the session was opened in the usual manner. The appearance of the troops on this occasion, was very brilliant, and gave great satisfaction to a numerous collection of people. The guards wore crepe as a badge of mourning for His Excellency Governor Trumbull. The House of Representatives made choice of Lyman Law, Speaker, and Wm. T. Williams, and Noah B. Benedict, Esqrs. Clerks.
[His Excellency Lt. Governor Treadwell then addressed the Legislature in a speech of some length; but as it is chiefly local, we shall only publish the following extract:]
"The astonishing revolutions which, in rapid succession, have of late years, convulsed Europe, have given another head to the ancient Western Roman Empire, which exercises a despotism more relentless and bloody, than either of the former; and while we contemplate, with awful reverence the hand of God in these events, it becomes us to stand aloof from the nation which is the chief agent in producing them, and whose policy is to allure only to devour. Most of the embarrassments, which our republic has, of late years, experienced, have, it is believed, originated in an undue bias in her favor. May the fate of other nations, which she has seduced, and conquered, prove a warning to us to escape her snares, and to cultivate, by honorable means, the proffered friendship of that power which, more than any other, stands between her and universal empire."
NEW YORK, Oct. 17. We learn that Mr. Jackson, the English Minister, is actively engaged in a negotiation with our government. From the circumstance of the British Packet being so long detained for his dispatches, it is presumed something of importance is taking place—whether favorable or unfavorable, time will disclose. We also learn that Mr. Erskine will sail immediately from Norfolk for England in the Africane frigate with the original dispatches that are preparing by Mr. Jackson, and that copies will go by the Packet.—N. Y. Gaz.
Lord Erskine has written a pamphlet, explanatory of his son's conduct while Minister to the U. S.—Ib.
We understand that the Spanish envoy, Don Onis, left Baltimore yesterday morning for Washington. We learn that he will certainly be refused a reception. Fed. Rep. Oct. 17.
NEW-YORK, Oct. 19. A letter from Capt. Coot, of the ship Chase, from Hull, to his owner in this city, dated Gotterburg, Aug. 19th, says, "I arrived here yesterday on my way to the Gulf. We shall sail as soon as the wind comes fair, with a large fleet, under a strong convoy, which is essentially necessary to counteract the activity of the Danish privateers, who, are very numerous. There are now here eight hundred sail of shipping bound up and down the Baltic, of whom about 25 are Americans."
WASHINGTON, Oct. 20. Extract of a letter from the Havana, dated 26th Sept. 1809.
"A brig being upon the point of departure for Baltimore, I have only time to enclose to you herewith three of the last papers, and to say that I have been informed, that by a late royal order received here, all the ports of this island will from henceforward be shut against all foreigners. It is said at the order will be promulgated this evening or to-morrow, and I'm time I will forward to you a copy thereof.
"I cannot think it will take effect immediately, but it is said it will and that it actually passed the heads of departments this morning, who ordered the same to be promulgated and carried into execution.
"A rapid rise has taken place in every article, and no person will sell at any price until the extent of this order is known. As to the interest of the merchants of the United States, I do not believe that it will be much injured by this measure, as the losses sustained by those largely concerned in the trade since the embargo was raised are great."
Extract of a letter dated Havana, 27th Sept. 1809.
"The enclosed order is of such importance to the commerce of the United States, that I embrace an opportunity offering this moment for Baltimore to forward to you a copy thereof."
ORDER.
The President, Governor & capt. General & the Intendant of this Island, in a consultation yesterday, resolved that the royal orders of the 10th July last should be complied with, in which is enjoined an observance of so much of the Laws of the Indies as forbids foreign vessels to trade in the ports of the Indies—which is communicated to the public.
Havana, 27th Sept. 1809. A copy from the original posted this morning at the door of the Custom-house.
It is said that two conspicuous junto characters in Boston, who have a connexion in London, have lately sailed from London, direct for Holland. Query? Is it probable she has gone without a Licence, and special indulgence from the British government?—Salem Reg.
NORFOLK, Oct. 18.
The Francis and Mary from Virginia to London, was captured by a French privateer on the 29th July, and sent into Dieppe.
Two other American vessels, one of them laden with 502 bds. of Tobacco, have been taken in the English channel by French privateers and carried into Dieppe.
PETERSBURG, Oct. 20.
Major Clark's Muskets...Again!
We have been furnished with an official estimate of the number of Arms distributed to the 59th Regiment, and the result of the experiments which were some time since made on the same by order of the Executive. The Muskets were tried with such portions of powder and ball as were deemed necessary to a correct demonstration of their real capacities for actual service. It will be seen that while the Muskets manufactured in other places, have nearly all proved sound & serviceable, almost one half of those made at the Richmond Armory, either bursted, or were declared unfit to be retained in the hands of the Militia.
The number of arms distributed to the 59th Regiment, (of which the battalion of Petersburg forms a part,) was 695; of which, 448 were made at the Virginia Manufactory, & 249 at other places. The number which bursted of the former, was 208, and of the latter, 6. There are at present in the hands of the Regiment, 107 Muskets out of repair, and 373 fit for use—total 484. Making a clear loss to the State of 231 stand of Arms, in one Regiment alone! If the results of the experiments in the other regiments, have been equally inauspicious, the State of Vir-

gins will have lost by its Armory at Richmond, at the lowest possible calculation, two hundred thousand dollars!!—This is arming the militia with a vengeance.... Intelligencer.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, OCTOBER 24, 1809.
NEW-JERSEY ELECTION. A correspondent in New-Jersey, has sent us the following, as the result of the election in that state, viz:   FEDERAL. REPUBLICAN.  Assembly. Council. Assembly. Council.    Bergen 3 1 1  Essex 0 0 4  Morris 0 0 3  Sussex 0 0 1  Somerset 3 1 4  Middlesex 3 1 0  Monmouth 0 0 0  Hunterdon 0 0 0  Burlington 4 0 4  Cumberland 0 0 2  Salem 0 0 1  Gloucester 1 1 2  Cape May 1 1 0  15 6 25  
Papers and letters were received in London, on the 22d August from Paris, which mention that the American minister had set out on a journey to Amsterdam, but with the declared intention of returning to Paris, in 3 weeks.... Merc. Adv.
A seizure for the violation of the laws of the United States, of a fish ship and cargo, was made yesterday. The villainy of the Jamaica Doctor, it is to be presumed, will be a useful caution to the public officers, and render a more exact attention to those disciplines of discord and disgrace to national reputation and laws.... Aurora.
SPANISH AMBASSADOR. His excellency Don Louis de Onis, ambassador from the Spanish Junta, arrived on Tuesday last, and took lodging at Mr. Crawford's, in this town. He has not yet presented his credentials to the President.... George Town Ind. Am. Oct. 18.
TO THE EDITORS.
EXTRACT—DATED, "Washington, Oct. 12, 1809." "Mr. Jackson has frequent interviews and conferences with the Secretary of State—but I suspect the prospect before us, in relation to English affairs, is dark and clouded: possibly, presently, some rays of hope may begin to beam upon us."
"I have no idea that the Minister of the Spanish Junta will be received and recognized. This is a delicate case, which calls for prudence and circumspection. In the present state of Spanish affairs, we are not, certainly, required by the established laws and usages of nations, to commit ourselves to the one or the other party; in doing so, we would directly counteract our true national policy, that is, a pacific one.".... N. Y. Pub. Adv.
"GARRISON ORDERS,"
"N. Orleans, Sept. 5, 1809." "No citizen is to pass into the garrison by any route, unless passed in by an officer; & it is expected that no gentleman will introduce a stranger, or a man, who, from the tenor of his general line of conduct, may be deemed hostile to the government of the U. States."
"No citizen, unless holding a commission civil or military, under the government, is permitted to enter Fort St. Charles, under any pretext whatsoever."
"Z. M. PIKE, Major Commandant."
NORFOLK, Oct. 18. The Africaine frigate, on board of which Mr. Erskine is to embark for England, remains in Hampton Roads. Her departure we understand from good authority depends upon the arrival of Mr. Jackson's dispatches from Washington. As she has already remained longer than was expected, it is surmised that Mr. Jackson has commenced his negotiations with our government, and detains this ship in order to advise his government of the progress or probable result of those negotiations. It is said that dispatches from our government for Mr. Pinkney, which were sent down to go by the Africaine, have been returned. Ledger.
MERINO WOOL.
The following is an extract of a letter from Chancellor Livingston to Elkannah Watson of Pittsfield, Mass. on the subject of this important article:
"Lebanon Springs, Sept. 12."
"DEAR SIR, On the subject of cotton, on which we conversed fully when at your house, I will suggest an idea, which is striking, to show how easy it will be for the northern states to rival the southern in substituting the value of the cotton by our Merinos. One million of Merino sheep will give five millions pounds of fine wool, supposing them to be composed of ewes and wethers in equal proportions. Five million pounds of fine wool are worth now ten millions of dollars; and even at the peace price in England, 7 and a half millions of dollars."
"Fourteen million pounds of cotton (the quantity exported in one year from South Carolina and Georgia) taking the short and long staple together at the utmost, is not worth five millions of dollars at the London Markets. The states of New York and Massachusetts either of them, without any material change in their agriculture, except a substitution of Merinos for other sheep, can raise as much wool as shall equal in value to the export of cotton. But how easy it would be once at that point, to double all our Merino flocks—thus leave a larger quantity of wool than we now have from the same number of sheep, for domestic purposes, of fine wool instead of coarse—and all the surplus for exportation or to go into future home manufactures!"
"A Virtue of a Deed of Trust, from William S. Pickerton to the Subscriber, bearing date the 10th day of May 1809, and recorded in the County Court of Northumberland, for securing a certain sum of money therein mentioned: Will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 1st day of December next, before the front door of Mr. Joseph Rogers's tavern, at Northumberland courthouse, a part of the tract of Land whereon the said Pickerton now lives, lying in the county aforesaid containing fifty acres, or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to meet the intention of the said deed of trust."
The said sale will be made in conformity with the directions in such cases of the act of the General Assembly, passed the 31st day of January 1809, entitled "An Act concerning executions and for other purposes."
SAML. BLACKWELL, Trustee. October 24.
TRIBUTE OF PUBLIC RESPECT.
Mr. Jefferson, the late President of the U. S. having visited this City—on some Law concerns—a meeting of the Citizens was called to testify their respect by a public address.
It is evident, that addresses to such men as Mr. Jefferson are not liable to those objections, which apply to similar manifestations to men in power. They do not consume the time, which ought to be devoted to public concerns—They call for no official commitment on subjects, which are blended with pending negotiations—And they are more safe and breathe less the air of adulation, than when they are addressed to men, who have not yet passed the ordeal of power, and who are still armed with all the allurements of patronage.
The following is the official account of the proceedings of this meeting;
On Friday last the Citizens of Richmond having been informed in the morning, that THOMAS JEFFERSON our late illustrious President, had arrived in town the preceding evening, a meeting was held at the Capitol;
Dr. WILLIAM FOUSHEE, Senr. President, WILLIAM MUNFORD, Secretary.
The following Resolutions were unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That this meeting are penetrated with the highest respect and admiration for the exalted character, as well as the sincere gratitude for the distinguished services of THOMAS JEFFERSON late President of the U. S.
Resolved, That a Committee be appointed to prepare and forthwith to report to this meeting an address to Mr. JEFFERSON, who is now in this city, expressive of the sentiments contained in the foregoing Resolution.
Philip Norborne Nicholas, William Wirt, Andrew Stevenson, Thomas Ritchie, William Robertson, Peyton Randolph, and William B. Hare, were appointed a Committee for that purpose, and accordingly reported the following Address, which was unanimously approved, and directed to be transmitted to Mr. JEFFERSON by the President of the meeting:—
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, Esq. Late President of the United States.
SIR, A number of the citizens of Richmond, being informed of your arrival in this City, have assembled to testify their respect, and to welcome you to the Metropolis of your native state.
Deeply impressed with a conviction of the important and distinguished services which you have rendered to your country, this meeting would deem itself as deficient in principle as in gratitude, were it not to avail itself of this occasion to give expression to its sentiments. In reviewing the incidents of your political life, this meeting sees its whole course marked with wisdom, with patriotism and an ardent zeal in defence of the liberties of the people. At the dawn of the Revolution we behold you in the public councils one of the earliest and ablest asserters of the rights of your country, and one of the firmest and most undaunted opposers of the tyranny by which she was assailed. From your pen proceeded that masterly and incomparable exposition and Declaration of the rights of Independent America, which is justly regarded as the magna charta of the U. S. which every good citizen must revere as sacred, and which he will hazard his life to preserve inviolate.
From the Congress of the U. S. you were translated to a foreign court, where you labored successfully to interest foreign nations in the welfare of your then infant country, which contributed to give confidence to her efforts and permanence to that independence which you had assisted to establish. Amidst the splendors of a court, you never ceased to cherish that ardent attachment to human rights by which you have ever been distinguished, and you brought back that same republican purity of character, which was worthy of the struggle for liberty in which you were so important an actor.
On your return to your native country, you filled several high offices under the federal Constitution, with no less honor to yourself than utility to the public; until you were called on to preside over the affairs of the American people. The events of your administration, have passed recently before our eyes. We approved of your measures, at the moment when they were adopted, and time and reflection have but served to confirm our original opinions. History will record that administration as characterised by Economy in the management of the public resources, the diminution of patronage, the abolition of useless offices, steady and successful efforts to discharge the public debt, an impartial and wise conduct to foreign nations, a solicitude to maintain peace with all the world on honorable terms, and above all by a scrupulous observance of the provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and an ardent attachment and respect for the rights of the people.
The well earned glory, which you acquired by managing the public concerns on the principles which have been stated, could only receive additional lustre, from your voluntary and disinterested relinquishment of the highest office in the union, that you might thus illustrate by your practice, the sacred principles, for which you have always been the advocate.
But, Sir, we enjoy a heartfelt consolation for the loss of your services, in the acquisition of a successor, the friend and the associate of your labors, whose principles and views are concurrent with your own, and who will not fail to exhibit the same impartiality towards foreign nations, the same disposition to meet them on terms of reciprocity and friendship, and the same firmness in resisting their oppressions, which have uniformly marked your own administration. With such a man at the head of our Executive, we will breast the storm which seems to hover over us. We view without dismay the spectacle of injustice, of open assault, of chicanery and secret intrigue, which is presented by foreign nations. We will make any sacrifices to preserve the rights and honor of our country, and for these in every exigency, we trust to the spirit & virtue of the people.
May you, Sir, in the bosom of your family, surrounded by affectionate friends, and hailed by the plaudits of a grateful country, long, very long, continue to enjoy that tranquillity and happiness, which are the unceasing fruits of an approving conscience, and the just and appropriate reward of a life devoted to the promotion of the public prosperity.
Resolved, That William Foushee, Senr.
Philip Norborne Nicholas, William Wirt, Andrew Stevenson, Thomas Ritchie, William Robertson, Peyton Randolph, and William B. Hare, be appointed a Committee to make the proper arrangements for a dinner to be given to Mr. JEFFERSON at the Eagle Tavern to-morrow. Teat. WILLIAM FOUSHEE, President. WILLIAM MUNFORD, Secretary.
The above Address was included by Doctor FOUSHEE, to Mr. JEFFERSON, in the following letter:
RICHMOND, Oct. 20, 1809.
SIR, With much pleasure, as the organ of a meeting of the citizens of Richmond, I comply with their request, in transmitting to you the enclosed expression of their feelings, on your arrival in the metropolis of your native State, after so long an absence.
Permit me to add my most perfect accordance with the unanimous expression of the meeting.
And am, Sir, With the greatest respect, Your most ob't. WM. FOUSHEE.
The following Reply was received from Mr. Jefferson:
RICHMOND, Oct. 22, 1809.
SIR, The expressions of esteem and approbation with which I am addressed, by the meeting of the citizens of Richmond, through yourself as their organ, and the testimonies of respect with which they have been pleased to welcome my visit to the metropolis of my native State, are highly flattering to me, and I pray you to convey to them, and to accept for yourself, the assurances of my great thankfulness.
I am sensible of the indulgence with which they have reviewed the various acts of duty to our country, which have been incumbent on me, in the course of its long struggles to recover and to establish its rights and liberties. The object of these struggles was of a character to command every effort which the love of our country, or the sense of its wrongs could inspire. I claim no other merit than that of having, with my best endeavors contributed, together with my fellow citizens, at large, to the establishment of those rights, without which, man is a degraded being: And I am happy in meeting here, those who have been fellow labourers in the same holy cause, and who have marked their way, through all the trying scenes of our contest, by a steadfastness of purpose and of principle superior to all events.
Should the injustice of nations still destine us to further trial, my own confidence in the well-proven spirit and virtue of my fellow citizens, in their readiness to make every sacrifice for the rights and honor of our country, confirms your assurances that they will, without dismay, breast the storm which hovers over us, and prove that we are able to maintain, what we have been able to acquire.
Under circumstances like these, it is indeed a great consolation, that the enlightened choice of our country has confided its highest trusts to a citizen, so distinguished by his valuable services, whose exact impartiality towards foreign nations, whose disposition to meet them on terms of reciprocity and friendship, and firmness in resisting their oppressions, are a pledge to his country, that no wrong will be offered, and no right surrendered, to any power whatever.
I am particularly thankful, sir, for the interest which my fellow citizens are so good as to feel and to express, in the tranquillity and happiness of the remaining scenes of my life. Nothing will contribute more to this than the possession of their good will: And to those for their personal welfare, I add my sincere prayer for a continuance of that prosperity so visible in the growth and aspect of the city of Richmond, and so confidently to be augured from the enterprise of its citizens, and the advantages it has received from the hands of nature.
TH: JEFFERSON.
Dr. WM. FOUSHEE.
On Friday the 20th, the officers of the 19th Regiment were attending their Drill-Muster, on the Capitol Square. It was not known to them until about ten o'clock in the morning, that Mr. Jefferson had arrived in town on the preceding night. With one consent it was determined that a deputation of officers should wait on him, on behalf of the whole, and invite him to dine with them at four o'clock on that day. The invitation being accepted, at the hour for dinner, Mr. Jefferson, (accompanied by the Governor, Dr's. Hare and Jones, of the Council; Col. Monroe, and Col. Skipwith, Mr. Thweat and Mr. Baker,) was escorted from the Swan, by 4 officers, received and conducted thro' the files of the officers to the dinner. The Commandant of the Regiment presided, assisted by Maj. Tompkins. —During, and at the close of the repast, the following volunteer Toasts were drunk:
The President of the U. S.—The guardian of our national rights and honor. The Spirit of '76—While we cherish that, we shall continue to honor our fathers. The Memory of General Washington. Our Revolutionary Victories—Whilst humanity bled, a Tyrant trembled. By Mr. Jefferson. The Militia of the U. S.—The bulwark of our Independence. Mr. J. having retired—by the P. sident. Our illustrious guest, Thomas Jefferson, late P. of the U. S. and one of the surviving Fathers of our Republic.
On Saturday, a Public Dinner was given at the Eagle, in honor of Mr. Jefferson. A large and brilliant company attended.
The guests invited, were Mr. Jefferson, the three Judges of the Court of Appeals, Col. Monroe, Judge Cabell, Messrs. Jerman Baker, & A. Thweat, and Col. Skipwith. Governor Tyler presided—Dr. William Foushee acted as Vice President.
After an excellent dinner, the cloth was cleared and the following toasts were drunk, accompanied with music from the Band of the Rifle Company, and discharges from the Artillery Company:
1. The People of the U. States. 2. The Union of the American States. 3. James Madison, President of the United States—May his firmness perpetuate the government which his wisdom contributed to establish! 9 cheers. 4. George Clinton, Vice-President of the U. States, the venerable Patriot of the Revolution. 6 cheers. 5. Neutrality—Let our dignified forbearance be the pledge of energetic defence. 6. Our Army and Navy—May they ever be as ready for defence as they are averse to aggression!
7. The memory of George Washington—
The soldier of liberty, the hero of the revolution, and the friend of man. 3 cheers.
8. Dr. Benjamin Franklin—The first star in the East, as benignant in influence as glorious in splendor.
9. The Patriots of the Revolution—While the independence they achieved is valued, their services and sufferings will endear them to their countrymen.
10. Freedom of the Press and of Religion—Truth will ever triumph, where investigation is free.
11. Our altars and fire sides—May it be the determination of every American to measure the continuance of his life, by the continuance of their unviolated sanctity!
12. Foreign Intrigue—Whilst its efforts reflect indelible disgrace on its authors, may they serve to strengthen the attachment of the people to their own government! 3 cheers.
13. The State of Vermont—We hail her return to the fold of Republicanism—May our other sister states of New England imitate her example!
14. The State of Maryland—She stooped only to rise with renovated vigor.
15. The republicans throughout the United States—"A long pull, a strong pull, & a pull all together." 6 cheers.
16. The next Congress of the U. States—Firm yet pacific—neither to be seduced by insidious intrigues nor awed by open violence, from asserting the rights of their country.
17. The Social Affections—They form the earthly paradise of man; long may they bloom in their only appropriate climate; the climate of equal liberty! 3 cheers.
VOLUNTEER TOASTS.
By Mr. Jefferson. The Freedom of the Seas. Jefferson's March. 1 gun, 9 cheers.
By Judge Roane. The diffusion of knowledge, a free Press, and frequent elections. In the science of free government, these are "the law and the prophets."
By Col. Monroe. National honor is National property—Its protection is among the first duties of Freemen.
By Judge Cabell. National Gratitude—Who does not feel that it is a Republican virtue?
By Judge Fleming. All true Patriots, & oblivion to party distinctions.
Mr. Jefferson having retired, Thomas Jefferson—First in the hearts of his Country.
By Mr. Wirt. Unity, Friendship, & Love. On the Governor's retiring.
By Dr. Foushee. The Governor of Virginia—The warm and undeviating Republican.
By Archibald Thweat. Domestic Manufactures—Their prosperity, an additional pillar to the Temple of Liberty.
By William Munford. The true Republican, whose practice illustrates his principles.
"One good turn deserves another"—If Lord Wellington has made the Bishop of Toledo, Regent of Spain—it is not too much to expect, that the Regent will yield the Cadiz Fleet to the importunities of his patron.
We understand, that a duel was fought on the 13th on the Maryland shore by Bernard Hose, Junr. Esq. and Mr. Kemp both of Prince William County. Mr. K. was once a member of the House of Delegates, and Mr. H. last spring elected to the Senate of Virginia in the room of Richard Brent, Esq. —The first fire took effect in both, Mr. H.'s wound proved mortal and he died the same evening. This duel took its rise in some political dispute.
Mr. JEFFERSON left town yesterday morning for Monticello.
Richmond Theatre.
On Wednesday Evening next, October 25, 1809, will be performed Grand Melo Drama , call'd TEKELI:
THE SIEGE OF MONTGATZ. In Act I. A Forest, in which the disguised Tekeli and Wolf escape from the Austrian soldiers.
In Act II. The inside of the Mill of Ketien, with a bridge across the Torza, in the background.
In Act III. A view inside of the Fortress of Montgatz, changes to the ramparts, with a grand battle between the Hungarians and Austrians, in which Tekeli, assisted by Alexina, who, in single combat, vanquishes an Austrian officer, is victorious and Montgatz saved.
End of the Play, a Ballet Dance to be performed by Children, call'd JACK IN DISTRESS.
THE SAILOR'S LANDLADY. To which will be added for the first time here, a FARCE, CALLED PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT.
OR A PORTRAIT OF CERVANTES.
Box 15—Gallery 75 cents—Children half price—Tickets to be had at the Theatre, & from Mr. Davis, at his printing-office.—Doors to be opened at 7 past 5—Curtain to rise at 7 past 6, precisely—The public are respectfully informed, that Smoking Segars, in the Theatre, is prohibited. October 25—11
WANTS EMPLOY.
A Young Man who writes a fair hand, and understands Book-keeping and Mercantile Transactions, wishes for a situation in a Counting Room or Office as Clerk. Enquire of the Printer. October 24.
WAS Committed to the Jail of Northumberland County on the 17th day of May last,
a negro Fellow who calls himself Billey: he is about five feet, ten inches high, of a jet black complexion, he was sold from this County about fifteen years ago by Griffin Forester to a Mr. Jones of Bedford, and by him to a Mr. Scott of Hawkins County in the State of Tennessee. The owner is requested to apply, prove property, pay charges, or he will be sold to pay his prison fees according to law. JOSEPH ROGERS, Jailor. Northd. County, Oct. 24.
BARTLETT STILL has opened an Office at the Bell Tavern, in the City of Richmond;
Where he offers his services to the Public, to transact General Commission business in the Sale or Purchase of the different articles current in this Market, viz. Tobacco, Flour, Hemp, &c. He will also, negotiate notes on liberal terms, and is willing to undertake the collection & liquidating Merchant's and other Accounts, in and near the city—His long experience in business inclines him to hope to give general satisfaction, as he always will consider it his duty faithfully to observe the interest of those who may honor him with their confidence. All kind of goods and produce, stored in a fire proof house, and delivered on the shortest notice. October 24.
ON the 21st day of December next, if fair, or not the next fair day, will be sold, at the welling-house of the late George Garner, in the county of Westmoreland, about sixteen likely NEGROES, and the present year's crop of corn, &c. which property will be sold pursuant to a deed of trust, made by George Garner for the purpose of securing the payment of his debts. The sale will be on a credit of twelve months, the purchasers giving bond with approved security. If the negroes and crops do not sell for a sufficient sum to pay the debts of the said Garner, the subscribers will, on the day after the sale of the negroes and crops, sell all or so much of the land conveyed in trust for the above purpose, as will make a sum sufficient for the payment of the debts of the said George Garner. All such creditors as may exhibit their claims to the subscribers before the said 21st of December next, properly authenticated, and which the subscribers may consider legal and just, may purchase at the said sale, and shall be allowed a discount of their claims, against their purchase.
THOS STOWERS, } Trustees. JAMES COX, } Westmoreland County, } October 24. } tds
BY AUTHORITY OF THE STATE. A SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, To Enlarge and Improve THE BALTIMORE HOSPITAL.
FIRST CLASS.   Prizes. Dollars. is Dollars.    1 Prize of 25,000 is 25,000  1 15,000 15,000  1 10,000 10,000  2 5,000 10,000  2 2,000 4,000  5 1,000 5,000  12 500 6,000  20 200 4,000  52 100 5,200  100 50 5,000  2,350 30 70,500  2,555 Prizes amounting to $ 160,000  5,444 Blanks  8,000 Tickets at $ 20 each is $ 160,000  
Fifteen per cent discount, leaves for the institution and expenses $ 24,000
STATIONARY PRIZES OF THE ABOVE.
First drawn Ticket } 1st day 1,000 at on the } 2d do 500 3d do 500 4th do 500 5th do 1,000 6th do 500 7th do 500 8th do 500 9th do 5,000 10th do 500 11th do 500 12th do 2,000 13th do 500 14th do 500 15th do 500 16th do 15,000

MIDDLESEX MEETING.
Yesterday there was a numerous meeting of Freeholders, at the Mermaid, in Hackney, to consider of Resolutions to be offered on the subject of Parliamentary Reform.
Mr. Sheriff SMITH stated to the meeting, the object for which it was summoned. It was to take into consideration such propositions for Reform as would secure the reality and the use of representation in the Common House of Parliament.
Major CARTWRIGHT then came forward. He supposed that many had been disappointed when they considered the length of time which had elapsed since the requisition was originally signed. This subject was, however, of a nature and importance which required the most mature consideration, both in the manner and the time for bringing it forward. It was necessary also to consult those men who had taken their stand in Parliament upon the rock of the Constitution, and who had felt and proclaimed the necessity of resisting and waging war against the wicked despotism of the faction of the borough-mongers—a faction, which, for their own private ends, trampled alike on the liberties of the people, & on the authority of the king—(applause.) He felt it necessary, in the beginning of his address, to take notice of what had fallen from a Noble Lord, (Lord Selkirk,) who had chosen to stand forward as the champion of the faction of the borough-mongers. That Noble Lord had stated in his pamphlet, “that no such reform was necessary; that Parliamentary Reform was not the road to any practical improvement; that what was stated of its necessity was not only not true, but that it was the very reverse of the truth.” He also stated, that all the exertions in favor of Parliamentary Reform, were “experiments to throw down the landmarks of the constitution.” If the reasoning of this champion of the borough-monger faction were to be considered, and it were to be asked, what was that he called the “landmarks of the constitution,” it would be found that he meant nothing but the rotten boroughs. It appeared to him, however, that such landmarks resembled the ruins of Rome and Athens, or merely shewed where great and free nations had once existed, but were destroyed by the corruptions of their governments—(applause.) Of such landmarks there were abundance; but they were not the landmarks of the liberties of the country, but of its slavery—(great applause.) Our old constitution consisted of two branches, the military and the civil. The military branch of it consisted of all the people of England, trained to the use of arms, under the direction of the nobility and gentry of the country. Of this ancient military Constitution not a vestige now remained, and in the place of it we saw nothing but barracks, many of which were filled with German soldiers. Even German officers had been appointed to the command of English Regiments. He therefore considered that all the landmarks of the antient Military Constitution of the country had been completely removed. As to the civil branch of our antient Constitution, the great feature of it was the representation of the people in the Commons House of Parliament.
Upon the principle of free and equal representation, the people of England would be now entitled to 658 representatives, fairly and freely chosen. Instead of that number, it appeared, however, that in close boroughs, the borough-monger faction possessed 352 of these seats; that they had removed so many landmarks of our liberties, and made them landmarks of our despotism—(applause.) Besides the close boroughs, there were fifty seats filled by the most notorious venality and corruption on the part of the electors. It therefore appeared, that a most decided majority of 658 members of the House of Commons were not chosen, as the Constitution intended, by the free and fair election of the people! That was not the whole of the grievance. Even after the members had so entered the house they were bribed by pensions and places from the government. It appeared by a late report, there were no fewer than 112 pensioners and placemen in the house; and that there were seventy-eight more, who, being officers in the army and navy, were entirely dependent upon Ministers, for hopes of promotion in their profession, and of opportunities to gain rank and distinction; so that out of the 658 landmarks of the constitution to which the people were entitled, 615 had been removed. In Holy Writ, it had been said, “Cursed be he, that removeth his neighbor’s landmark.” So much solemnity had been given to this curse, that it was to be pronounced publicly before the people, and all the people were to say “Amen.” (Loud applause and cries of Amen.) Now, if a curse so solemn was ordered to be denounced against the man who would defraud his neighbor of a few yards of land, by removing his landmark, how deep a curse ought to light on those traitors, who, by removing the landmarks of our freedom and our constitution, had done the most essential injury to millions of their countrymen. (Applause.) The House of Commons had been represented by Mr. Burke, and many distinguished writers, as representing a Jury in many respects. It had lately been contended, that it was absolutely necessary for Ministers and Placemen to have seats in the house, in order to give information. If it were necessary for them to sit there to give information, it appeared to him, that they should have a bench to themselves, and not be entitled to vote. As givers of information, they were in the light of witnesses; but although it was necessary in Courts of Justice that there should be witnesses, and sometimes culprits, yet what would be tho’t if the witnesses, after giving their evidence, and the culprit, after making his defence, were immediately to enter the jury box, and give their opinions on the verdict? (Loud Applause.) By the same means which deprived the people of their liberties, the King was also deprived of his authority and independence, and obliged to be dependent on a vassal to, the faction of the borough-mongers. His revenues, which used to be furnished to him by the free votes of his loyal subjects, were now given at the pleasure of the borough-mongers; and he was dependent upon them for every shilling of his revenue. If it were asked who were those borough-mongers, it would be answered, that their number was so inconsiderable, that they would hardly fill a corner of the hall in which he was then speaking; and that they were able to impose upon his Majesty whatever Ministers they thought proper, and they were able to dictate to those Ministers such measures as they thought proper. It had been common hitherto to say, that the business of Parliamentary Reform was extremely difficult. It appeared to him, however, to be only difficult, because the people had hitherto been so inattentive to their own interests. If the country could fairly exert itself, the cause of reform must succeed. He had, for above 30 years, constantly denied the sovereignty of the borough-monger faction, and had set them at defiance; & yet they were not able to hurt a hair of his head. He was convinced that if the people would assert their rights, they would, without any danger, trample upon those reptiles who had so long trampled upon their liberties. He had heard a great deal said of temperate & moderate reform. He conceived, however, that in a case where principle was concerned, to be temperate was to be dishonest. (Applause and murmurs.) Not to be guilty of excess, was temperate enough, and it was sufficient moderation not to demand anything but what was their right, and what was just. The advantages of unanimity were often much spoken of; but it was impossible to have actual unanimity without going back to the first principles of the Constitution. He thought it necessary to make some observations on the
vents which had recently occurred on the Ban-quet. It was highly probable that the Conqueror would entirely away the Continent of Europe, and that he would offer peace to England. The peace which he would offer would appear to him to be completely ruinous to the country, unless it was preceded by a Parliamentary Reform, which alone would place us in a situation of security against his power. He concluded by moving a variety of resolutions, stating, in substance “that in the year 1793, it had been offered to be proved at the Bar of the House of Commons, that 154 individuals returned 107 members of that house; that a large portion of the members of that House were Placemen and Pensioners; & that thanks should be voted to Sir Francis Burdett, for calling the attention of Parliament to the subject of Reform; and that he should be requested to bring it forward early in the next session.”
Mr. HARE TOWNSEND rose to second these Resolutions. He stated that he was a farmer, and was fully sensible of the immense pressure which the country sustained, in consequence of the corrupt system of its representation. He had a farm at Godalming, which, if he were to let, would not bring him a greater sum than 160l. per annum, and yet the annual burdens amounted to 1571 18s. The land-tax was 16l. the property tax 31l. the poor-rates 471 5s. the tax for the highway 10l. the church rates 11 13s. the great tithes 30l. and the small tithes 11. He then read a long letter which he had written to the inhabitants of Godalming upon the subject, in which he stated, “that he conceived the bow was so far bent that it could go no further; that as to tithes they were formerly divided into four parts; the first was for the bishop, the second was for the maintenance of the church, the third was for the support of the poor, and it was only the fourth part which was pocketed by the rector. The rector, however, now pocketed all. He thought that it was impossible that any parliament, fairly chosen could tolerate such an abominable opposition & oppression upon the people.” After some further observations, he concluded by seconding the resolutions; and stating that it was his intention to move a petition to Parliament.
Mr. MALLEY rose, to speak more to the form of the proceedings than to the substance of what had been proposed. He thought the proper mode would be to address the King not to issue any longer his writs to rotten boroughs. The measures which had been proposed in Parliament for reforming what he should never call the House of Commons, were most ridiculous. As to oaths, there would be no use in them, unless the penalty of perjury were to be attached. He considered one party in the House of Commons as equally hostile to the liberties of the country as the other party. It was under the Foxes, the Grenvilles, the Erskines, and the Howicks, that the press was prevented from publishing Lord Melville’s trial while going on, and he conceived it a great insult to the people of the country, to say that they were not capable of suspending their judgment until they heard the whole of the case. He thought there were no reasons to hope for anything from the Parliament as it was now constituted; but that the only mode of redress was to beseech the king no longer to summon Representatives from the rotten boroughs. There were many of them hardly large enough to hide the infamy of the Mayor and corrupt Corporation; and yet these were the delicious retreats to which rich stock-jobbers and contractors resorted, and from which they came up equally prepared to serve their country in the upper or the lower House. As to the ascendancy of Bonaparte on the continent, he thought that that man had never yet conquered any country, whose subjugation was not first prepared by the corruptions of its own government. His success might at least teach an useful lesson to the people of this country.
Mr. BENTLEY went over at considerable length some individual abuses (principally in the fees in public offices) which he thought could not have existed under a fair Representation of the People. He concluded by observing, that now for the first time, this country had no resident or Ambassador in any Court in Europe. The man who was known among the populace at Westminster, by the name of the Green coated Orator, then attempted to address the Meeting; but as he did not pretend to be a Freeholder, he was not allowed to proceed.
Mr. WATHMAN observed, that although there was hardly a spot in Europe where a British ambassador could appear; yet we had in this country no less than thirty persons enjoying pensions for life, as having heretofore served the country in a diplomatic capacity; a circumstance which could not have existed but under the present parliamentary representation. He then commented on the practice resorted to by the enemies of parliamentary reform, to endeavor to discover some flaw in the more natural course of its supporters, and so abuse the cause by traducing its advocates: this shewed only that the cause must be strong indeed, against which no other argument could be offered. Much had been said of the dangerous encroachments of Bonaparte over the kingdoms of Europe; but he was convinced that conqueror had subjugated no country that was not previously subjugated by the corruption of its own government; and he would venture to assert, that, previously to the invasion of Spain by Bonaparte, had there been in that country a band of patriots bold enough to assert, and to demand from their Government the restoration of their ancient rights and liberties, no Frenchman would have dared to disturb the security of that nation. It was, therefore, the duty, of Englishmen to assert and exercise this right while in their power, and they might set the world at defiance—He concluded by declaring his opinion in favor of a Petition to Parliament.
Mr. CLIFFORD supported the Resolutions, & thought the only way of rendering them effectual, would be by a recommendation not only to all the counties but to the parish of Mary-le-bone, the Tower Hamlets, the great towns, such as Wolverhampton, and all the close boroughs, to adopt these Resolutions and petition Parliament. Thus the general sense of the people would be ascertained, and would be irresistible. It was to this sense, that Ministers yielded in the dismissal of the Duke of York; more good was to be expected from the fears of tyrants and dealers in corruption, than from their sense of justice.
The Resolutions were then put and carried with only one or two dissentients.
Mr. HOLT WHITE read the petition proposed by Mr. Hare Townsend, which was adopted; and upon the motion of Mr. White it was resolved, that Mr. Byng and Mr. Mellish, the Representatives for the county, be instructed to present and support the same.
Mr. BYNG declared his hearty support to the Resolutions; he avowed himself to be the steady friend and supporter of Parliamentary Reform, as proposed in 1793. He decidedly tho’t the House of Commons, as at present constituted, was not a fair and constitutional representation of the people. He thought the Members of that House should be elected by the Freeholders, Copyholders, and Householders of the county, paying direct taxes to the support of the Government, and not by borough-mongers. He professed himself at all times ready to comply with the instructions of his constituents, whose servant he was, as the best means in his power of making his sense of the honor of their good opinion and support.
Mr. MELLISH rose, and it was some time before the tumult of groans and hisses opposed to him subsided. He said, that should this question come before Parliament, he should attend in his place, and to do his duty. If the proposed reform coincided with his sentiments, he should vote for it: but if not, he did not conceive his constituents had a constitutional power to compel him to vote contrary to his own sentiments.
(The elder of disapprobation became loud and long.)
Major CARTWRIGHT then rose to propose a petition to his majesty; and after it was determined by the meeting under the requisition of the Sheriff; a petition to his majesty was not irrelevant to the object of the meeting, he read the petition; it was of very great length, and embraced, not only all the topics of the preceding Resolutions, but a variety of historical points so far back as the last Edward.
The worthy Major preceded this reading, by a short remark, in answer to the opinion of Mr. Mellish, on the duty of a Representative in Parliament; observing, that in the old law books, members were styled the attorneys of their constituents; and comparing the representatives in Parliament with the commissioners sent by the king to announce his assent to, or dissent from, the bills laid before him by Parliament.
Mr. TOWNSEND and Mr. WATHMAN, both professed the highest respect for the worthy Major, yet felt themselves obliged to oppose going at present into the merits of a Petition so voluminous, embracing so many topics, or calling on the meeting precipitately to pledge themselves by signing it; as advantage might be taken of some inadvertent phrase or word, by their opponents, to their disadvantage. The Petition, therefore, was for the present withdrawn.
Mr. WATHMAN then expressed high approbation of the conduct of Mr. Byng, and proposed the thanks of the meeting to him for his uniform support given to Parliamentary Reform. He should have been ready to propose a similar vote to his colleague, Mr. Mellish, had he, on this occasion, acceded to the wishes of his constituents; and to thank him for a literary act of propriety, which might have covered a multitude of his political sins. But notwithstanding the delicacy of the honorable gentleman’s conscience, in declining to vote by the sentiments of his constituents when opposed to his own; he was pretty confident, if Lord Castlereagh or his colleagues had instructed him how to vote, he would feel no hesitation in surrendering his own sentiments in compliance to the instructions of such constituents. He concluded by moving a vote of thanks to Mr. Byng, which passed unanimously; and for which that honorable gentleman politely expressed his gratitude.
The thanks of the meeting were then voted to the Sheriffs, and to Major Cartwright, who severally expressed their grateful sentiments.
The Resolutions, signed by the Sheriffs and freeholders present, were ordered to be published in the morning newspapers; and the meeting was adjourned.
TRIUMPH MISPLACED! MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS FROM LATE LONDON PAPERS.
BRIGHTON, August 15.
A very numerous party, including nearly the whole of the nobility, who had partaken of the hospitality of the Pavilion on the birth day, again dined with the Prince and four of his royal brothers, yesterday the Dukes of York and Sussex having previously departed for Oatlands—During dinner, dispatches by express arrived for the Prince, acquainting him by his royal highness with the glorious victory obtained by Sir Arthur Wellesley, in Spain. The prince himself anxiously read them aloud at the dinner table. It is impossible to describe the effect which this information had upon all present—the loudest acclamations of joy were spontaneously uttered. The table cloth removed, his Royal Highness, Lord Erskine and Mr. Sheridan were particularly eloquent, the two latter raising themselves with their feet on the bottoms of their chairs, for the purpose of being more distinctly heard. The scene of hilarity that succeeded, may be better conceived than expressed—it lasted until near 11 o’clock, when their Royal Highnesses and the party collectively, removed to
THE BALL AT THE CASTLE.
The rooms, as early as ten o’clock, were prodigiously crowded, many families having arrived there from Worthing, Eastbourne, Rottingdean, Lewes, and other parts of the country. Dancing commenced about ten o’clock; but their Royal Highnesses’ approach being announced, the graceful exercise was instantly discontinued, and an avenue, formed by the company for their passage to the centre of the room, the elegantes all standing, and the music playing “God save the King.”
The prince with his usual dignified condescension, conversed with all that he knew, and communicated the gratifying intelligence he had received without reserve, and the Royal Dukes followed his example. To the Earl of Chichester the Prince seemed particularly attentive: “Lord Chichester,” said his Royal Highness, on coming up to his Lordship, “I am glad to see you—this is glorious news! if you have any wish to see me my dispatches, you will find Col. Bloomfield, and tell him he has my permission to shew them.” The scene was now truly inspiring; the gallant conduct of Sir Arthur Wellesley, and the British heroes he commanded, being the only topic of conversation. The prince was habited in a blue coat, white waistcoat, black silk small clothes and hose, with the garter and star, and a round hat. The Duke of Clarence was in a similar costume. The Duke of Kent was in regimentals, with the star, &c. and boots. The Duke of Cumberland was attired in a blue coat, white waistcoat, white kerseymere small clothes and silk stockings, with a star, a garter, &c. All were in high spirits and excellent health. The ladies, many of them, among whom were the Countess Berkeley, the Duchesses of Leeds, &c. were most splendidly dressed with the most expensive display of diamonds. Earrings, necklaces and bracelets were very generally worn. The dresses were all very much open at the bosom, with long trains—but the waists were not so short as usual. White and straw colored silks were very generally worn although plain, flowered, gold and silver sprigged muslins, had their admirers.
At 12 o’clock the supper rooms were thrown open three in number—the ornamental decorations of the tables being formed in the most striking and interesting style, and the whole reflecting the highest credit on the taste and talents of the inn-keeper, Mr. Tilt. About five hundred supped, the assemblage altogether being about six hundred and fifty. The Royal brothers all supped in one room, the Duke of Clarence taking the head of the table, the Duchess of Leeds being to his right, and the Countess of Berkeley to his left—The Prince and the Dukes of Kent, Cumberland and Cambridge, were each between belles of beauty, some on one side the table, and some on the other. The private band of the Prince in their splendid new uniform, played select pieces of music, in a very fine style, during supper.
The first toast they drank was “The Prince.” The acclamations that followed in every room at the same instant might have been heard to a considerable distance, the ladies waving their handkerchiefs, and by miles the most fascinating evincing how grateful the toast was to them. The supper apartments were abandoned for the ball room at about half past one o’clock, at which time further dispatches respecting the victory in Spain, arrived for the Prince, which his Royal Highness himself read aloud.
The Prince and the Royal Dukes retired to the Pavilion soon after two o’clock—but dancing was continued for about two hours after. The rooms were not entirely deserted till near five this morning.
The Prince and all the Royal Dukes as early as eight o’clock this morning, set off from the Pavilion for Oatlands. The departures have since been very numerous.
VIRGINIA INN.—THE SUBSCRIBER having disposed of his interest in the EAGLE-TAVERN, respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that he has leased for a number of years, the old CITY HOTEL, of Mr. Crouch—considerable expence this well known house is rendered as comfortable as any in Richmond. All the most unpretending attention, the best Tables, Liquors, Stables and Water, can be produced to public patronage, the Subscriber pledges himself that these shall not be wanting. A few genteel Boarders can be accommodated at 40 pounds per year. RATES, &c.—Gentlemen putting up at this House will be charged one dollar per day—Horses at livery, 50 cents per day—All other charges equally moderate. J. S. SMITHERS. RICHMOND, Sept. 29, 1809. wif
STOLEN From the Subscriber, near Prince Edward court-house, in the night of the 22d Sept. a 4 year old gelding, about 4 feet 8 inches high, well formed, in full plight, and handsomely spotted, his mane and tail in their natural state. It is believed his handsome spotted body, must attract the notice of those who may see him. I have therefore to request, among my friends, the aid of the owners of ferries, and if information of him can be obtained, from their boatmen, that they can be so good as to advise me by post. FRANCIS WATKINS. wswf
FOR SALE—A small tract of LAND, lying in the county of Prince Edward, on Bush river, joining the land on which I now reside, and containing about 400 acres. Also, a few likely NEGROES—For terms apply to Wm. Randolph, in Richmond, or the subscriber, in Prince Edward. PEYTON RANDOLPH. wim
FOR SALE, 459 acres of LAND, in the county of Powhatan, lying on the waters of deep creek, adjoining the lands of Jno. Swann, sen. and John Swann, jun. about 5 miles below Cartersville: Also, 200 acres, lying within 4 miles of Cartersville, on the waters of Muddy creek, and in the aforesaid county of Powhatan, adjoining the lands of John Logwood and Mrs. Mary Stratton. The subscriber will exchange these lands for likely young negroes, should it suit purchasers better than money, and any person desirous of purchasing, may, by paying a considerable part of the money, have a reasonable credit on the balance, by giving a deed of trust, to secure the payment thereof. THOS LOGWOOD. Buckingham, Oct. 17. wswf
WILL BE SOLD.
ON Thursday, the 7th December next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day, at the late dwelling-house of Thomas Cobbs, (J. R.) dec’d, in Buckingham county, eleven likely Virginia born SLAVES, consisting of men, women & children; the stock of HORSES, Cattle, Sheep, and Hogs, household and kitchen FURNITURE, and plantation Utensils, the crop of Corn and Fodder, &c. Twelve months credit, will be allowed the purchasers for all sums above twenty dollars, on their giving bond with approved security to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid; (creditors are requested to attend the sale, with their claims authenticated)
They also offer for sale, the tract of Land, on which the late deceased resided, containing seven or eight hundred acres, lying on Rock Island creek, joining the land of Wilson C. Nicholas, near his saw and grist Mill, it affords a great portion of good creek low grounds, and a valuable Vill. Seat, and has on it a plantation sufficiently large to work eight or ten hands to advantage; a proportionable part of which is fresh, and under a good fence, with a comfortable dwelling house, nearly finished; a more minute description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed the purchaser will view and judge for himself: The subscribers will only observe, that the place is very healthy, affords good water, well timbered, and has a good range for stock. Possession will be given next fall, time to seed. The terms will be, three or four equal annual payments, secured by deed of trust upon the land. For further information, apply to Samuel Shelton, of Albemarle, John M. Cobbs, of Richmond, or Lewis Nevil, who resides on the premises. One other tract lying in the upper end of the same county, on the waters of David’s creek, containing four hundred and five acres, in a good neighborhood, and well worth the attention of one with a small family. For terms apply to the subscribers, or John T. Boocock, who is fully authorized to sell the same. SAMUEL SHELTON, } Executors. JOHN M. COBBS, } October 17. w3.4
ON Wednesday, December 27, 1809—At the late dwelling-house of Nathaniel Lancaster, dec’d, about ten miles above the court-house, in Prince Edward county, on Appomattox river: Will be sold, to the highest bidder, the following PROPERTY, belonging to the estate of the deceased, a valuable stock of Horses, Cattle, Hogs and Sheep, the plantation Utensils, household and kitchen FURNITURE, too tedious to mention. Also: Nine valuable NEGROES; also, the crop of Corn, Wheat, Oats and Fodder. A credit of twelve month will be given the purchasers, on their giving bond, with approved security. All those who have legal claims against the estate of the deceased, will be pleased to exhibit them duly authenticated, on or before the day of sale, to enable the administrators to make provision for their payment. All those who are indebted to the estate, will see the necessity of immediate payment, as it must be evident no indulgence can be given. JOHN LANCASTER, } Adm’rs. ROBERT LANCASTER, } August 18. wif
EDUCATION—The subscribers propose opening a Boarding School, on Wednesday the 10th day of January next, at the late dwelling of their father, the Rev’d. Matthew Maury in the county of Albemarle, where they will instruct Young Gentlemen, in the Latin, Greek, French and English Languages, upon the following terms: Their price for board will be eighty dollars, for tuition, $33 1-3, and for washing and mending $12, payable half yearly, each boarder finding his own bedding. The qualifications of one of the subscribers have been proven by five years experience in this line of business. The other has been educated in the same School, and wants nothing but a few months experience to render his qualifications fully equal. The advantages of the situation are manifestly great, it being in the heart of a healthy and polished neighborhood, and far removed from very inactive vice and dissipation. The subscribers, deeply impressed with the great importance of the duties which they have assigned themselves, pledge all their powers for their performance. They have a tolerably extensive and well selected historical Library, which shall, (during the winter nights,) be used under their superintendence, for the benefit of their pupils. Should any of those gentlemen, who have patronized the labors of F. Maury, at the Green Springs, in Louisa, choose to place their sons or wards with the subscribers, their bedding, books, &c. shall be removed to this place gratis. Communications directed to the subscribers, Lindsay’s Store, Albemarle county, will be immediately attended to. THOMAS W. MAURY, FRANCIS F. MAURY. wif September 12.
COLUMBIAN MILLS—THE subscribers having purchased the Columbian Mills, beg leave to inform the public they are giving cash for Wheat and Corn. P. MARSHALL & Co. September 5.
ABSCONDED from the Subscriber, on the night of the 7th July last, a Negro man named Stephen 20 years old, five feet, eight or nine inches high, of a tawney complexion, with a very remarkable scar, on the right side of his forehead, occasioned by a burn; he carried with him sundry clothes among them a black duraniz coat, constitution cord pantaloons and two cotton shirts. The above negro was purchased of Mr. Joseph Deshield of Northumberland County, to which place I suspect he will endeavor to get, as his parents live in that county. I will give twenty dollars to any person that will apprehend or secure him in Jail, so I get him again, or forty dollars for his delivery to me living in Brunswick County. PETERSON RAWLINGS. August 22. w3m
HALIFAX COUNTY, October 10, 1809. THE subscriber wishing to remove to the Western Country, offers for sale, in this county, 625 acres of Land, whereon he at present resides. This land is equal in quality, to most of the high land in the neighborhood, and superior to a considerable portion of it; is well adapted to the culture of grain of all kinds, tobacco & cotton, and highly improved with houses, enclosures, &c. and favored with excellent springs of water; altogether affording one of the most pleasant, and healthy situations in the county. The dwelling-house is sixty four feet in length, composed of a centre part 24 by 22 feet, two stories high, and wings of twenty by eighteen feet, covered with heart pine feather edge plank and shingles: the underpinning and chimneys of brick, neatly laid, with convenient fire places, windows, &c. in the several apartments. Stair cases, &c. in suitable style. The kitchen is 28 by 16 feet—a meat house 12 by 10 feet, and a dairy 10 by 8 feet, are all framed houses, neatly built, and covered with feather edge plank and pine shingles, underpinned with brick; plank and brick floors, as they severally require; with a large brick chimney in the kitchen suitable for cooking, a starar case and upper room, with other finishings. These houses are all new and cost upwards of $2,000; there are also a number of other houses of considerable value and convenience. About 100 acres of the land is cleared, enclosed, & divided into different fields of from 10 to 20 acres, with excellent fences, and in good order for cropping. The residue, except a small part, is wood land, and generally of better quality than that heretofore cleared, and finely timbered the whole lies well, is within two miles of Halifax court-house, and upon the large trading road to Richmond, and Petersburg, which renders it a most eligible stand for any person wishing to turn his attention to public business. The price required is only six dollars per acre in cash—but if time is wished, it can be given to an extent not exceeding three or four years, upon payment of legal interest. The sale will be made privately, and possession given when required, on application to BERTMAN GREEN. Oct 10. w8w
COMMITTED to the Jail of the county of Middlesex, the 6th of June last, a negro man, who calls himself HENRY FOX, and says he was born free and raised in the town of Norfolk: He is about thirty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, well proportioned, of a very dark complexion, and marked in his face, very thick with pits of the small-pox, had on when taken up, a light coloured waistcoat, Virginia Cloth Coat, a striped Virginia Cloth Waistcoat, and blue nankeen pantaloons, but has with him a number of other clothes. As the said Negro is supposed to be a runaway, the owner is requested to come forward, prove his property, pay charges and take him away, otherwise, he will be dealt with, as the law directs. TH: BEALL, Sheriff of Middlesex county. August 11. w3m
PUBLIC SALE, of NEGROES & STOCK. On Monday, the 11th day of December next, will be exposed to sale, at the Oaks, in the county of Halifax—120 NEGROES, belonging to the estate of the late Judge Lyons, 1st. amongst whom are carpenters, sawyers & laborers, young and healthy.
A credit of 12 months will be allowed the purchasers, on their giving bond with the most unexceptionable security to the trustees. On Wednesday, the 13th day of the same month, at the late dwelling house of the deceased: will be sold, the household Furniture, with the crop of corn, stock and farming utensils. On Friday, the 15th, will be sold, at the plantation called the Fork, the crop of Corn, the Stock and utensils: And on Monday, the 19th, will be sold at the Mangohick plantation, in King William county, the crop of corn, stock, &c. The corn and pork will be sold for cash; the other articles on a reasonable credit. All persons indebted to the estate are requested to make payment before the first day of Jany. 1810; the money being appropriated to uses which will not admit of indulgence. BY THE TRUSTEES. Oct 10. w11D
IN Chancery.—Amelia County, August Court, 1809. Grief Truly, plff. Against Thomas Perkins and Joseph Brown Defs. This day came the plaintiff by John Lane his Council, & appearing to the court that the defendant Joseph Brown is not an inhabitant of this Court; It is ordered on motion of the plaintiff’s Council, That said Brown do appear here on the 2nd day of next November term, and answer the bill of the plff. and give security according to the act of Assembly in such case made, and it is ordered, that a copy of this order be forthwith published for two months successively in some newspaper published in the City of Richmond, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the Courthouse of this County. A Copy. Teste JAMES TOWNES, c. k. September 5. w3w
THE subscribers wish to purchase immediately, Black Walnut TIMBER, sufficient for the making of two thousand gun-stocks. Any person wishing to contract for furnishing the said timber, will apply to us at our shop, opposite the government-house. STEWARD, QUARRIER & KERNES. October 10. if
The above subscribers wish to employ six good Workmen at the gun-smith business, to whom liberal wages will be given: Also, five or six boys will be taken as apprentices. THE subscriber wishes to employ two good Workmen in the wheelwright business, to whom good wages will be given. The workmen may be at liberty to work by the piece. Also, two apprentices are wanted to the wheelwright business. A. QUARRIER. October 10. if
NOTICE—All persons concerned are required to take notice, that we have sold the debts due to the late concerns of Robert Pollock and Co. of Richmond, & Dunlop, Pollock and Co. of Manchester, to Messrs. Tompkins and Murray of Richmond, and that payments hereafter are to be made to them alone, or to those whom they may empower to collect. JAMES & JOHN DUNLOP. Petersburg, Sept. 5.
THOSE indebted to the late concerns of Dunlop, Pollock and Co. of Manchester, and Robert Pollock and Co. of Richmond, are now requested to come forward and settle their respective balances, as longer indulgence cannot be granted: lawyers and agents having the collection or settlement of debts due either of the above concerns, will be pleased to forward us statements of the business in their hands. TOMPKINS & MURRAY. Richmond, Sept. 5. ep2m