Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1805-04-06 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS
[VOL. XII.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1144.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum....paid in advance.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1805.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
(By Authority.)
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the support of government, for the year one thousand eight hundred and five.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That for the expenditure of the civil list for the present year, including the contingent expenses of the several departments and officers; for the compensation of the several loan officers and their clerks, and for books and stationary for the same; for the payment of annuities and grants; for the support of the mint establishment; for the expenses of intercourse with foreign nations; for the support of light-houses, beacons, buoys and public piers; for defraying the expenses of surveying the public lands in the territories of Indiana and Mississippi; for the unexpended balances of former appropriations, defraying the expenses of the second census, and the purchase and erection of wharves and stores under the quarantine law; and for satisfying certain miscellaneous claims, the following sums be, and the same hereby are respectively appropriated; that is to say,
For compensations granted by law to the members of the Senate and House of Representatives, their officers and attendants, estimated for a session of four months and a half continuance, one hundred and ninety eight thousand, nine hundred and sixty five dollars:
For the expense of firewood, stationary, printing, and all other contingent expenses of the two houses of Congress, including the sum of three thousand dollars appropriated by the act of the sixth of December, one thousand eight hundred and four, twenty eight thousand dollars:
For defraying the expenses incidental to the dismantling the late library room of Congress, and fitting it up for the accommodation of the House of Representatives at the ensuing session, seven hundred dollars:
For expenses of removal of the library, all other contingent expenses of the same and librarian's allowance for the year one thousand eight hundred and five, nine hundred dollars:
For the expense of labelling, lettering, and numbering five thousand seven hundred volumes of laws and journals of the old Congress, directed by the act of the present session for the disposal of certain copies of the laws of the United States to be deposited in the library, five hundred and seventy dollars:
For compensation to the President and Vice-President of the United States, thirty thousand dollars:
For compensation to the Secretary of state, clerks and persons employed in that department, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars:
For the incidental and contingent expenses in the said department, four thousand two hundred dollars:
For printing and distributing copies of the laws of the second session of the eighth Congress, and printing the laws in newspapers, eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
For printing the laws, and other contingent expenses of the government of the Indiana territory, in consequence of the union with it of that of the territory of Louisiana, three hundred and fifty dollars:
For special messengers charged with dispatches, two thousand dollars:
For compensation to the Secretary of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, including those engaged on the business belonging to the late office of the commissioner of the revenue, thirteen thousand, four hundred and forty-nine dollars and eighty-one cents:
For expenses of translating foreign languages, allowances to the persons employed in receiving and transmitting passports and sea-letters, stationary and printing, one thousand dollars:
For compensation to the comptroller of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand, nine hundred and seventy-seven dollars and eight cents:
For expense of stationary, printing and incidental and contingent expenses in the comptroller's office, eight hundred dollars:
For compensation to the auditor of the treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, twelve thousand two hundred and twenty dollars and ninety-three cents:
For expense of stationary, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the office of the Auditor of the treasury, five hundred dollars:
For compensation to the treasurer, clerks and persons employed in his office, six thousand two hundred and twenty-seven dollars, and forty-five cents:
For the expense of stationary, printing, and incidental and contingent expenses in the treasurer's office, three hundred dollars:
For compensation to the register of the
treasury, clerks and persons employed in his office, sixteen thousand and fifty-two dollars:
For expense of stationary and printing in the register's office, (including books for the public stock and for the arrangement of the marine papers,) two thousand eight hundred dollars:
For compensation to the secretary of the commissioners of the sinking fund, two hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation of the clerks employed for the purpose of making drafts of the several surveys of land in the territory of the United States, north west of the river Ohio, and in keeping the books of the treasury in relation to the sales of lands at the several land offices, two thousand six hundred dollars:
For fuel and other contingent expenses of the treasury department, four thousand dollars:
For defraying the expenses incident to the stating and printing the public accounts for the year one thousand eight hundred and five, one thousand two hundred dollars:
For purchasing books, maps and charts, for the use of the treasury department, four hundred dollars:
For compensation to a superintendent employed to secure the buildings and records of the treasury during the year one thousand eight hundred and five, including the expense of two watchmen, and for the repair of two fire engines, buckets, lanterns; and other incidental expenses, one thousand one hundred dollars:
For the erection of a fire proof brick building for the preservation of the records of the treasury; the cellars in which they have hitherto been kept, being found from their dampness improper for that use, nine thousand dollars:
For compensation to the secretary of war, clerks and persons employed in his office, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
For the expenses of fuel, stationary, printing, and other contingent expenses of the office of the secretary of war, one thousand dollars:
For compensation to the accountant of the war department, clerks and persons employed in his office, ten thousand nine hundred and ten dollars:
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the war department, one thousand dollars:
For compensation to clerks employed in the paymaster's office, one thousand eight hundred dollars:
For fuel in the said office, ninety dollars:
For compensation to the paymaster of public supplies, clerks and persons employed in his office, including a sum of twelve hundred dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second day of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, and for expense of stationary, store rent and fuel for the said office, four thousand six hundred dollars:
For compensation to the secretary of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, nine thousand one hundred and ten dollars:
For expense of fuel, stationary, printing, and other contingent expenses in the office of the secretary of the navy, two thousand dollars:
For compensation to the accountant of the navy, clerks and persons employed in his office, including the sum of one thousand one hundred dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars:
For contingent expenses in the office of the accountant of the navy, seven hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the postmaster general, assistant postmaster general, clerks and persons employed in the postmaster general's office, including a sum of four thousand, five hundred and ninety-five dollars, for compensation to his clerks, in addition to the sum allowed by the act of the second of March, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, thirteen thousand nine hundred and fifty-five dollars:
For expense of fuel, candles, house rent for the messenger, stationary, chests, &c. exclusive of expenses of prosecution, portmanteaus, mail-locks and other expenses incident to the department, these being paid for by the postmaster general out of the funds of the office, two thousand dollars:
For compensation to the several loan officers, thirteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the clerks of the several commissioners of loans, and an allowance to certain loan officers, in lieu of clerk hire, and to defray the authorised expenses of the several loan offices, thirteen thousand dollars:
For defraying the expense of clerk hire in the office of the commissioner of loans of the state of Pennsylvania, in consequence of the removal of the effects of the
treasury department, in the year one thousand eight hundred, to the permanent seat of government, two thousand dollars:
For compensation to the surveyor general, and the clerks employed by him, and for expense of stationary and other contingencies of the surveyor general's office, three thousand two hundred dollars:
For compensation to the surveyor of the lands south of the state of Tennessee, clerks employed in his office, stationary, and other contingencies, three thousand two hundred dollars:
For compensation to the officers of the mint:
The director, two thousand dollars:
The treasurer, one thousand two hundred dollars:
The assayer, one thousand five hundred dollars:
The chief coiner one thousand five hundred dollars:
The melter and refiner, one thousand five hundred dollars:
The engraver one thousand two hundred dollars:
One clerk, at seven hundred dollars:
And two, at five hundred dollars each:
For the wages of persons employed at the different branches of melting, coining, carpenter's, mill-wright's and smith's work, including the sum of eight hundred dollars per annum, allowed to an assistant coiner and die-forger, who also oversees the execution of the iron work, six thousand five hundred dollars:
For the repairs of furnaces, cost of rollers and screws, timber, bar-iron, lead, steel, pot-ash, and for all other contingencies of the mint, two thousand nine hundred dollars:
For compensation to the governor, judges, secretary, and legislative council of the territory of Orleans, nineteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars:
For incidental and contingent expenses of the legislative council, and of the secretary of the said territory, two thousand dollars:
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Mississippi territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars:
For expenses of stationary, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars:
For compensation to the governor, judges and secretary of the Indiana territory, five thousand one hundred and fifty dollars:
For the expenses of stationary, office rent, and other contingent expenses in the said territory, three hundred and fifty dollars:
For the discharge of such demands against the United States, on account of the civil department, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in a due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, two thousand dollars:
For additional compensation to the clerks of the several departments of state, treasury, war and navy, and of the general post office, not exceeding, for each department respectively, fifteen per centum, in addition to the sums allowed by the act intitled "An act to regulate, and fix the compensation of clerks," eleven thousand eight hundred and eighty five dollars:
For compensation granted by law to the chief justice, associate judges, and district judges of the United States, including the chief justice, and two associate judges of the district of Columbia, and to the attorney general, fifty-five thousand nine hundred dollars:
For the like compensation granted to the several district attorneys of the United States, three thousand four hundred dollars:
For compensation to the marshals of the districts of Maine, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Kentucky, Ohio, east and west Tennessee, and Orleans, one thousand six hundred dollars:
For defraying the expenses of the supreme, circuit, & district courts of the United States, including the district of Columbia, and of jurors and witnesses, in aid of the funds arising from fines, forfeitures, and penalties, and likewise for defraying the expenses of prosecution for offences against the United States, and for safe keeping of prisoners, forty thousand dollars:
For the payment of sundry pensions granted by the late government, nine hundred dollars:
For the payment of an annuity granted to the children of the late colonel John Harding, and major Alexander Trueman, by an act of Congress passed the fourteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred, six hundred dollars:
For the payment of the annual allowance to the invalid pensioners of the United States, from the fifth of March, one thousand eight hundred and five, to the fourth of March, one thousand eight hundred and six, ninety eight thousand dollars:
For the maintenance and support of
light houses, beacons, buoys and public piers, and stakeage of channels, bars and shoals, and certain contingent expenses, one hundred and fifteen thousand two hundred and nine dollars and thirty-six cents:
For fixing buoys in Long Island sound, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for the object, three thousand dollars:
For erecting beacons in the harbor of New-York, in addition to the sums heretofore appropriated for that object, six thousand dollars:
For erecting beacons and placing buoys near the entrance of Savannah river, being an expense incurred under the act of the sixteenth day of July, one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight, the balance of a former appropriation for the same object, having been carried to the credit of the surplus fund, two thousand four hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-nine cents:
For reviving so much of unexpended balances of appropriations granted by an act passed the sixth of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, and which have been carried to the surplus fund, to wit:
For erecting public piers in the river Delaware, five thousand eight hundred and eighty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents:
For erecting certain light-houses, and fixing buoys in Long Island sound, nine thousand six hundred and seventy-eight dollars and thirty-eight cents:
And for building a light-house on Cumberland South Point, four thousand dollars:
For completing the light-house at the mouth of the Mississippi, and the light-house at or near the pitch of Cape Lookout, in addition to the sum heretofore appropriated to those objects, by the act of the twenty-sixth of March, one thousand eight hundred and four, twenty thousand dollars:
Towards completing the surveys of public land in the state of Ohio, and in the Indiana and Mississippi territories, forty thousand dollars:
For the discharge of such miscellaneous claims against the United States, not otherwise provided for, as shall have been admitted in due course of settlement at the treasury, and which are of a nature, according to the usage thereof, to require payment in specie, four thousand dollars:
For defraying certain expenses heretofore incurred in the war and navy departments, and which in due course of settlement in those departments have been adjusted, and cannot be discharged out of any existing appropriation, twenty thousand dollars:
For the expense of taking the second census of the inhabitants of the United States, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the surplus fund, fourteen thousand one hundred and sixty-two dollars, and seventy-seven cents:
For the expense of wharves and stores for quarantine of ships and vessels, being the balance of a former appropriation carried to the credit of the surplus fund, seventeen thousand one hundred and forty-three dollars, and one cent:
For the expense of returning the votes for President and Vice-President of the United States for the term commencing the fourth day of March one thousand eight hundred and five, one thousand six hundred and twenty four dollars:
For defraying the contingent expense of government (the unexpended balance of a former appropriation for the same object, being carried to the credit of the surplus fund) twenty thousand dollars:
For expenses of intercourse with foreign nations, fifty seven thousand and fifty dollars:
For the expenses of the intercourse between the United States and the Barbary powers, including the compensation of the consuls at Algiers, Morocco, Tunis and Tripoli, sixty-three thousand five hundred dollars:
For contingent expenses of intercourse with the Barbary powers, two hundred thousand dollars:
For the relief and protection of distressed American seamen, five thousand dollars:
For the salaries of the agents at Paris and Madrid, for prosecuting claims in relation to captures, four thousand dollars:
For payment of demands for French vessels and property captured, pursuant to the Convention between the United States and the French Republic, the balance of a former appropriation for the same object, by the act of the third of April, one thousand eight hundred and two, having been carried to the surplus fund, twenty-one thousand dollars:
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations herein before made, shall be paid and discharged out of the fund of six hundred thousand dollars, reserved by the act "making provision
for the debt of the United States," and out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOS. ANDERSON,
President of the Senate pro-tempore.
March 1, 1805.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
C O N G R E S S.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, January 31.
DEBATE ON THE GEORGIA CLAIMS.
(Continued.)
Mr. Findley, said that he claimed the attention of the House for a short time; but from viewing the unusual turn some of the arguments had taken and the nature of the subject, he found it a matter of some delicacy to know how to proceed. He was opposed to the amendment under debate and in favour of the resolution, but he observed some members with whom he had generally voted and for whose talents he had the highest esteem, and in whose integrity he had the utmost confidence, take the other side with such ardent zeal and in a mode of arguments so unusual in public bodies, that on observing this he had hesitated and had voted in the last session for the postponement which took place. He had done this in hopes that the House would in this session meet the case in a temper more becoming their own dignity and the importance and delicacy of the subject. In deciding on this case, they did not act solely in their usual legislative character, which was to make rules for the future conduct of the citizens. In this case they were in the very delicate situation of both parties and judges, in addition to that of legislators—a situation always to be avoided if possible, and when it cannot be avoided it should be conducted with the greatest decorum. Aided by this situation, Mr. F. said he had again and again viewed the subject in every aspect in which it presented itself to him, and examined it by the rules of equity, of expediency and policy, with as great attention as he had ever done any case on which he was called to act, and excited by the unprecedented attacks made on the motives and character of the members in opposition to the amendment, when fair and candid argument failed; for his own disinterestedness in the question, he would take the liberty of appealing to the God of judgment, to whom he was to be accountable for the honesty of his decision in this and every other case, and on whose subordinate throne of judgment on earth, he considered the House in the present decision to be seated and acting. So tedious an introduction was not usual to him, but on this occasion he thought there was a cause.
By these circumstances he was convinced that on this occasion it was his duty to mention to the House, at least some of the reasons for the vote which it was his duty to give on this question, but would give them in as few words as it was in his power to render them intelligible to the House; for this purpose he might a narrative of the facts was in the first place necessary.
He said he would begin with the message of the President near the close of the session in February, in the year 1795, informing Congress of two laws made in Georgia, one in December and the other in the month of February 1795 (the same message mentioned by the member from Virginia, Mr. Randolph.) The message was referred to a select committee of which he had the honor of being a member with other very intelligent members from both south and east (Mr. Nicholas, Mr. Ames, &c.) It had long been the opinion of men well informed that the title of Georgia to the extent of territory she claimed was doubtful, and that it was too great for any one state to possess in connection with the federal union. The old Congress frequently called on Georgia to make a cession of her unsettled territory agreeable to the stipulations on which the confederation was agreed to, but when Georgia did propose a cession, the terms on which it was made were rejected. Other states made cessions of lands to which they had no title or else had appropriated the lands to individuals before the cession was made; so that on the whole but a small quantity of land unencumbered, came to the benefit of the United States. But to return; the committee in February 1795, examined the title of Georgia as far as they had information, the bounds not being certainly known, the unsettled territory of Georgia was believed to be larger than France or Germany or any other European nation, except Russia, whose Asiatic dominions extend to the Pacific ocean; hence they concluded that such an extent of territory

impeached, not any of the members of which it was testified that they had received bribes, or were shavers in the spoil were indicted, but still enjoy the confidence as much as they otherwise would have done, of that state. Not one of them were removed from office, or in any official manner consigned to infamy, by the courts of that respectable state, or by impeachment. The lands sold at Boston were yet in possession of the Indian tribes, and the Indian war but lately extinguished, while at the same time the funds in Pennsylvania were sold, the first rate at one shilling & sixpence, the reputed second rate, but in fact equal if not superior in quality and situation, at one shilling the acre, and what remained unsold in the old settlements, at sixpence, and in New-York, still cheaper the acre, while the Georgia purchase with all its disadvantages is stated and admitted to have been sold rough & smooth, good and bad, and of which a large proportion is allowed to be bad, at something above fifteen pence an acre on the amount reserved. Certainly such a speculation if it was one, was such as he would not have had any share in, and therefore no proof of the superior cunning ascribed to them by his colleague and others. Mr. F. said that so far the bargain and sale were fair and legal, whether it was a good bargain or a bad one was the look out of the purchasers, if it was a bad one, government would have given them no relief. Had nothing extraordinary or out of the common road taken place, he believed the attention of Congress would never have been called to the subject. Soon, however, after this contract was made, the legislature of Georgia declared the contract & the law under which it was made, to be void or annulled; and in a short time after a convention of that respectable state disapproved of the constitutional act of the legislature; but as long as we pay respect to constitutional obligations and the distribution of the powers of government, and as long as we respect the federal constitution which expressly asserts that no ex post facto law or law impairing the obligation of contracts shall be made, we must agree that one session of a legislature cannot annul the contracts made by the preceding session. If that could be done the patent for his own plantation might also be set aside, for he acknowledged it is worth more now than the price he paid for it. This doctrine had never been entertained even in the revolutionary period. At that solemn period all contracts were protected. Mr. Findley said that he cheerfully acknowledged that the amount of land sold under the law of Georgia, of 1795, was so enormous as that if that state had been a separate and wholly independent government, would have justified in some degree an agrarian law, and if the fraud and corruption attested by ex parte testimony was true, would have justified the most exemplary punishment of those who suffered themselves to be corrupted or who defrauded the commonwealth, and this would have proved a defect itself in the contract; but no such thing appears to have taken place. The judge who is said to have received 13,000 dollars for his vote, was not impeached, nor the members who are said to have given or received bribes indicted. It appears to have been so contrived that the state citizens of Georgia should suffer no loss; — the loss and reproach should be transferred to people at the greatest possible distance. He gave credit, however, to the legislature of Georgia, which met in the year 1796, for making an extraordinary exertion to free themselves from an extraordinary evil. It was a laudable testimony against corruption and fraud, but no court of justice had yet, by deciding on it, acknowledged it to be law, and it was too slow for warning others at a distance against titles originating under the law of 1795. The annulling law of 1795 had all the effect that any citizen at that period could have wished. Congress took possession of the government of the western parts of Georgia — the parts in which the lands in question lay, and erected a territorial government, without the consent of that state, and passed a law authorising the President to enter into a negotiation with Georgia, on the principles of compromise, for the right of soil. The compromise eventually succeeded, and an act of cession took place between the United States and the state of Georgia. In this act of cession or convention, it was provided that the claims in the county of Bourbon and Washington, bordering on the Mississippi river, &c. should be protected, and that five millions of acres or part thereof, should by the United States be applied to satisfy, quiet, or compensate the claims now before the House, and that if they were not so applied they should revert to the state of Georgia. On these conditions, Mr. F. said, did Georgia surrender her right of soil. Agreeable to these conditions were the commissioners of the United States authorised to make and receive proposals, but the commissioners were not authorised to conclude the agreement, they did report to Congress, & in that report they state that the claimants cannot in their opinion recover by law. This is well founded, because no action can be brought against the U. States, nor since the amendment made to the constitution respecting the suability of states, against a state. Therefore this fund, viz. the five millions of acres set apart by the convention of Georgia, to quiet, satisfy, or compensate these claims, must be either applied to that purpose or revert to the state of Georgia, or the faith of the United States must be sacrificed. (To be continued.)
Latest Intelligence.
By the arrival of the Liverpool Packet, in 43 days, London and Liverpool papers to the 9th February, are received at the office of the Morning Chronicle. — In one of the latest we find the following particulars: — Through the same channel which some weeks since enabled us to be the first to announce the discussions which had arisen between France and Austria cordon formed on the Italian frontiers, we now learn that neither these discussions, nor the most angry remonstrances of the French cabinet, for a moment suspended the execution of that measure. On the 19th December the line comprised 42,000 men; other troops were on their route for the same neighborhood; and we can further assure our readers, that the Austrian corps forming in Hungary, Transylvania, the Banat, Slavonia, and Croatia, amounted at the date of the last accounts to nearly one hundred thousand men, assembled under pretence that the troubles in Belgrade and Servia rendered a cordon on that frontier necessary, to prevent aggression on the part of the insurgents. This had been made the occasion of fresh remonstrances from Paris, on the ground that the Imperial cabinet had not deemed such precaution necessary during those periods of insurrection in which the tranquility of the Austrian provinces was more exposed than at present; that therefore the assembly of the troops in question justified suspicion, and the more so, as their number greatly exceeded the alleged occasion. We have strong reason to believe the recent march of French troops into Italy, and the orders which we understand to have been issued for the formation of an extensive French camp in Alsace early in the ensuing spring, to be immediately connected with the above movements of the Austrian troops. We have seen a private letter from Vienna of the 16th ult. which states that some days before two couriers arrived within the space of a few hours, with dispatches from count Cobentzell at Paris; those dispatches are represented as being of the greatest political importance, that three extraordinary conferences of state ensued, and that orders were immediately after given for reinforcing the Austrian troops in Italy. CORX, January 31, 9 P. M. — Nothing, it seems, in all this bustle about an enemy being on the coast: the alarm arose from a ship not answering signals. The fleet which sailed from Rochefort, consisted of one ship of 120 guns, two of 84, and three of 74, besides several frigates; each of which has on board as many soldiers as could be received; besides a number of artillerymen, and 200 pieces of ordnance. The probability that Ireland might be the destination of this squadron, was not overlooked by our naval administration, who sent off dispatches on Friday night to lord Gairdner at Cork, and adm. Drury, at Beershaven, with advice of the enemy having left that town. Letters from Genoa state, that the French fleet still lay at Toulon the 28th Dec. — the report that it had put to sea was premature. Adm. Nelson, with 18 ships of war, sailed from Cagliari, (Sardinia) the 21st Dec. where he had taken in water and provisions, while adm. Bickerton's squadron was cruising off Minorca. We are concerned to state the loss of his majesty's ship Doris, of 36 guns, capt. Campbell, which struck on a rock on the coast of Spain, while in chase of an enemy's brig. The officers and all the crew were saved. The vessel that brought the above account, brings also the melancholy intelligence of the death of Capt. Jarvis, (nephew and heir to the titles and estate of earl St. Vincent) of the Tonnant of 80 guns, who was upset in his barge in going from that ship to the admiral; one man perished with him. Government have just issued instructions to our naval commanders not to molest any neutral vessel going with supplies of grain to Spain, during the present distresses of that unfortunate country, even though the grain should belong to an enemy. Private letters from Madrid of the 11th ult. mention the receipt of very unpleasant accounts from Mexico. Some serious troubles had broken out there, and the inhabitants generally are represented as being extremely dissatisfied at the conduct of the present Viceroy. Since the cession of Louisiana to America, the people of Mexico have evinced a strong disposition to a like union with the United States, and the American government is accused of having sent emissaries to foment their existing discontent. The Spanish army at St. Roche was, according to Madrid letters of the 7th ult. to be augmented with all possible dispatch to 50,000 men. A French auxiliary corps, commanded by a field marshal, is expected there early in the spring, till which period the intended operations of the Spaniards are to be deferred. On the 14th ult. a French corps, of 18,000 men, was stationed between Cevigno and Godio, waiting orders to enter the Neapolitan territory. Advices from Embden of the 16th ult. mention, that the idea of an expedition against England is entirely given up by Bonaparte, and that within these last three months upwards of 3000 men of the army placed on the coast of the Channel have fallen victims to diseases, particularly fevers. It is stated, therefore, to have been resolved in a council of state to order a dislocation, and 40,000 men will, it is said, be sent to Italy. The diseases were particularly prevalent among the Italian troops, who were on this account sent home about six weeks ago. Admiral Cornwallis, in the Ville de Paris, with the Neptune, reached Ushant on the 28th ult. at which time his squadron composed only 14 sail of the line. The Gazette of last night contained a proclamation for the regulation of prizes made by Spain, similar to that issued on the breaking out of the war against France and H. A Spanish Lieutenant General, named Fiangerie, has arrived at Ferrol, to take the command of the troops in the garrison (10,000 in number;) and he is to have at his disposal 700 seamen, commanded by French officers. The inhabitants are also organised into a corps for the defence of the town. In the Madrid Gazette, of Dec. 24, it is asserted that the day on which the declaration of war was published in that city, the king signed a treaty of alliance with Portugal, in virtue of which, the latter government declares itself an ally of Spain, and an enemy of England. The Spanish ambassador is still detained at Harwich by contrary winds. Six ships of the line, and several gun boats, carrying 48 pounders, have been fitted out at Cadiz, to protect the entrance of the harbor against the English. The last letters from Semlin, of the 1st inst. state, that the peace between the Seravs and Turks has only been of a short duration. A Turkish Pacha from Bosnia having marched against the Seravs, they advanced with 8,000 men to Drsha to repulse him. Since that moment all the friendly relations between the Turks and Christians have ceased. The Africaine is preparing for a secret expedition, and will be ready about the middle of the month. A hurricane lately occurred off the Spanish coast, by which 17 merchant ships, and a French corvette, were stranded near Cadiz; and an Austrian brig, having on board 300 men, was sunk, when they all perished. The Spanish Manifesto, on the subject of the rupture with this country, we are assured was written by the French minister Bourneville: he presented the draft of this declaration, the day after his arrival, to the Prince of Peace: the cabinet, however, objected to many parts of it, and the delay which occurred in the issuing of it arose from the discussions to which it gave rise. Bourneville, after protesting against the various modifications which had been made, waited on his Catholic majesty on the 27th November, when he persuaded his majesty to sign it without further alteration. Bourneville demanded the arrest of all the British in Spain, but the king ordered a decided refusal to be given on the subject. A letter from Cadiz, of the 29th ult. states Minorca to be in a very weak condition, both as to the numerical force of its garrison, and to its general appointment. Spain lately possessed a very extensive trade in the Mediterranean, all the commerce of France, Genoa, Etruria, &c. being carried on under the Spanish flag, which likewise gave protection to the French intercourse with the Levant and Black Sea. America will doubtless seek to avail itself of this carrying trade; but we hope the vigilance of our citizens, and the energy of our government, will prevent any flag becoming the mere cover for the commercial enterprise of our enemies. There are reports of two more Spanish vessels having been captured by our cruisers, one from Lima, and the other from Montevideo, having on board a million and a half of dollars. The merchants of Cadiz alone are stated to have on its homeward bound passage treasure to the amount of twelve millions of piastres. The negotiations in which Prussia has embarked, with a view of settling the differences between Russia and France, are said to have already made considerable progress. It is certain that the cabinet of Berlin has made strong remonstrances to Russia against the North of Germany being made the theatre of war; and we are informed that each party gave way to a great degree of warmth in the discussion of some points connected with that question; and that, after a conference of this nature, the Russian ambassador, at Berlin, immediately sent off his secretary of legation, Baron Lowenstein, with dispatches to St. Petersburg. The Paris accounts, of the 16th ult. state, that Bonaparte has consented to permit his brother Joseph to accept the crown of Lombardy, though he has refused it himself. The court of Naples, Spain, Portugal, and Berlin have, it is said, given the consent to this charge. From Austria, however, not answer has, as yet, been received. It was also generally reported in the French capital, that, owing to the mediation of Prussia, the harmony between the cabinets of St. Petersburg and Paris would soon be restored. Orders have been sent to the transport board, that all the private property belonging to the officers and men of the captured Spanish frigates, whether in money or goods, should be forthwith restored to the owners. The monthly report of the ships in commission in the British navy, state them to be 697, of which number 105 are of the line; 24 of 50 guns, 137 frigates, and 431 sloops of war; besides these there are a great number building and re-
pairing, receiving ships, smaller vessels, &c. making in the whole a grand total of 905 sail. Letters received on Thursday from Holland, represent that country to be in a state little short of Bankruptcy. The taxes have now reached so nearly to the whole amount of all private incomes, that nothing but the new impost upon capital can be relied upon for any emergencies of the state. Several vessels which had arrived laden with British colonial produce had been seized by the French; and some British subjects have been arrested. All the private letters & papers brought by ten mails which have arrived from Hamburg, agree in stating, that the obstacles which have occurred in the mediation on the part of Prussia, in the dispute between Russia and France, still continue; and that Bonaparte is much concerned at this circumstance. Austria, Prussia, and Russia, are also represented as being far advanced in negotiation, of which it is the object to maintain the peace of the continent, and to guarantee it against encroachments upon the part of any other power. An article from Madrid says, that notwithstanding the war, the paying off the national debt still continues. On the 1st of January, vales to the amount of 6,006,423 reals de vellon, were to be destroyed. A new order of knighthood, it is said, will be instituted at Vienna, which will bear the name of St. Leopold. A convention has been concluded between the Porte, and Ismael Pacha, by which he is confirmed in the government of Acre, under condition of restoring to the Porte, the treasure of the late Ghez-zar Pacha. A minister from the republic of the Seven Islands, arrived about the end of November at Constantinople, for the purpose of representing to the Porte, that his government is not in condition to pay the three years arrears of the annual tribute of 70,000 piastres, on which the Grand Seignor has reduced the tribute, for the time elapsed, to 40,000 annual which has been paid. An insurrection had nearly taken place in Constantinople the beginning of December, in consequence of the troops having received no pay for more than two months. As soon as this was known the Grand Seignor demanded of the merchants, and other persons of property a forced loan of three millions of piastres, and ordered that the troops should be paid double their arrears. The report that lord Nelson has taken Minorca is repeated by every advice from the continent. The emperor of Russia has assigned the city of Kiow for the future residence of the count de Lisle. An article from Italy, dated Dec. 24, says, the king of Sardinia has received new proposals of the indemnities, which annihilate the sovereignty of the republic of the Seven Islands. He has communicated these offers to a great northern court, by which they have been disapproved. A great number of ships have been wrecked in the Black Sea in some late storms, by which the Insurance Company at Trieste has lost to the amount of 100,000 florins. Some late French papers assert that it is now determined to attempt the invasion of England early in the spring. Bonaparte and the pope are said to be going to Milan, to assist in the coronation of Joseph Bonaparte as king of Lombardy. The late French papers are filled with speculations on the probability of peace. It is asserted that England has accepted the mediation of Prussia; that a new Austrian ambassador is to arrive at Paris; that one of the German princes has presented a plan for a general pacification; and that the sultan has cut off the vizier's head, for being friendly disposed towards the English, &c. &c. HOLLAND. — A Rotterdam paper of the 29th ult. was received in town yesterday, containing the important intelligence, that, on the day preceding, the assembly of the states had passed a decree, that the Dutch government was reduced to the necessity of stopping payment of the public annuities. The decree states, as the cause of their bankruptcy, that they have been, unhappily, through their connection with France, involved in the present war with Great Britain, and they must have either called on the public for a contribution of at least one per cent per month, or of suspending their payments. They preferred the latter, as the least of two evils, and accordingly all payments of the public dividends are stopt. The French had put up to public sale a great quantity of coffee, confiscated under the pretence of its being British property, but not a single bidding was made for it. House of Commons, Feb. 2. — Mr. Pitt presented the additional papers relative to the Spanish war, a number of which, he said, had been printed for the use of the members. LONDON, Feb. 18. The Right Hon. Thomas Maitland, has been appointed to the government of Ceylon. Price of Flour the 4th Feb. — Fine flour 90 to 95s. Seconds 85 to 90s. Price of Stocks, this day at 12 o'clock. Consols 58 1-2 to 59. Notice. I INTEND leaving the United States for a few months. RICHARD MASON. Surry, March 28, 1805.

The following persons have been duly elected magistrates, and members of the common hall, for the city of Richmond, for the year 1805, viz.
 William Du-Val, Mayor.  Edward Carrington, Recorder.  Henry S. Shore, Alexander Quarrier, Samuel Pleasants, junior, William Goodwin, William Richardson, David Lambert, and Anderson Barrett, Aldermen.  Robert Mitchell, President.  George W. Smith, Benjamin Tate, Humphrey Dabney, John Dixon, George Pickett, Samuel Paine, Charles Copland, William M. Kim, Robert Pollard, Thomas Underwood, Benjamin Wolfe, Samuel McCraw, Joseph Gallego, and John Robinson, Common Pleas. 
A Boston paper says: "the vessels at Malaga, mentioned in our last, were all ready for sea, and we suppose left there on the 3d or 4th of February, there being a brisk wind—Capt. German excepted, who was not quite ready. The ship Martha, of Philadelphia, O'Brien, late Consul at Algiers. He was on his way to America with his family; he came passenger to Malaga in a polacre brig under Imperial colors, he said he was bound for the City of Washington; but having an opportunity to take charge of the ship Martha, for Philadelphia, late commander capt. Glenn, and no opportunity to take passage for the Chesapeake, he concluded to go to Philadelphia."
In the Madrid Gazette, of December 24, it is asserted, that on the day which the declaration of War was published in that City, the King signed a Treaty of Alliance with Portugal, in virtue of which, the latter Government declares itself an ally of Spain, and an enemy of England.
A London paper mentions the loss of the British East-India ship Earl of Aber-gavenny, Capt. Wadsworth, of 1200 tons, on the Owers, near the Wight. Out of 400 persons on board, 300, including the capt. and first mate perished. The above ship was outward bound.
To the Editor of the Argus.
Sir, Your known attachment to the cause of religion, induces me to offer the following extracts, not doubting you will give them a ready and cheerful insertion in the Argus, which ought to be equally watchful of our eternal, as well as temporal welfare. They are taken from a novel, entitled, a Tale of the Times, which may be warmly recommended to all your female readers. They are intended as an answer to an objection, often and strongly urged by those professing Deism, against the divine origin of the scriptures—Tho' short, they appear to me extremely impressive, and will, I make no doubt, produce a similar conviction on other minds as on my own.
"You forget, said Fitzosborne, triumphantly, the merit annexed to the extirpation of the Canaanites, and the extinction of Amalek. Such pretended injunctions from the beneficent parent of the universe, are with me, a conclusive proof against the entire inspiration of the Old Testament."
"I read in those commands, replied Powerscourt, an incontestible mark of divinity. I recollect the state of society at that time, and I venerate the merciful severity which imprinted upon the minds of a small portion of mankind, a renewed abhorrence of that cruel and degrading idolatry prohibited by one of the first commands which was imparted to the father of the post-diluvian world. Surely, you, sir, forget the maxim of a poet, whose mis-directed muse is often quoted by our present deists to establish principles from which he would have shrunk with horror. If
"The great first cause, Acts not by partial, but by general laws." He is not bound by those rules of conduct which determine the equity of the actions of imperfect, short-sighted, perishable man. He, in whose hands are the issues of life and death, cannot be called upon by his creatures to answer for the operations of any of his instruments of punishment, be they famine, pestilence or war. To fulfil some vast design, perfected perhaps centuries after its formation—the Jewish babe may bleed at Bethlehem, or the Cabirian infant be engulfed with its parents by the desolating earthquake, without impeding the justice of the Creator, with whom a thousand years are but a day. We finite creatures, standing on a little speck of time, cannot comprehend the plans of infinitude, which extend to eternity. Admit a future state, and every idea of particular severity vanishes. He who exists for ever can recompence the unoffending children of the idolatrous worshippers of Moloch with an happy immortality. He who knows the heart can crown with perpetual bliss the conscientious assertors of a declining persuasion, whom the more pestilent fanaticism of infidelity immolated upon the banks of the Loire. The giver of eternal life can reward the patience he exercises, and amply repay the premature privation of temporal existence.
"Cowardly lady Monteith! Why fear to drive the mean dissimulator from the affected decency of Deism into the bold audacity of Atheism, by asking how ani-
mated dust and ashes can presume to question the power which called it into existence, demanding, "Why hast thou made me what I am?" How intelligence confessedly finite, can charge the counsels of that mind which pervades infinitude, and extends through eternity, with inconsistency in prescribing a rule of action to probationary beings, without, at the same time, compelling observance? Nay, bid him not stop at the moral world; but say, why earth is not heaven, and man an incorporeal essence, such as we believe the blessed inhabitants of that better region."
VIEWS OF THE THIRD PARTY.
It must be premised, that the rise of the third party is not to be attributed wholly to any single cause; but to a combination of causes; the principal of which have been. The secret ambition of some individuals: The disappointment of some others: The universal influence of the Yazoo speculation: And the effort of a party to realise the burthen of the federal song "Rule New-England—New-England rule the states," &c.
A separate development of these leading causes would occupy more space than we can at present spare—but they may become at a future time subjects of more ample and particular discussion, we shall, at this time only touch generally what goes to shew, that the Gaz. of U. S. though it has attempted to give the fact another color has really stated a fact.
That fact is, that intrigues were really set on foot prior to the decision on the candidates for president and vice-president, which had in view all and every of the leading objects above specified, and which were brought to favor and sustain each other. Fortunately the project was commenced too late—the instruments employed were incompetent—and some of those whom they attempted to decoy and betray, were roused to indignant resentment and repulsion.
Among other things which leads us to think the Gaz. of U. S. editor has been led into the secret; the plan of intrigue appears to have originated with some gentlemen from Connecticut, and the politicians of that state were ready to surrender their federalism, to promote the "union of honest men"—the union of Yazoo and quiddity.
Among the features of this union one was—That two of the federal members of Congress should go out by resignation; and that two of those who in Connecticut call themselves republicans, were to go into Congress from that state.
One exception only was made in this choice; the "honest men" who were to join the federalists, were to have had the right of nominating any two men, so that Pierrepont Edwards, should not be one of them.
It was understood that Gideon Granger was to be one of the new representatives, and it was to be calculated and confidently declared, that Congress could not resist his irresistible eloquence.
Among other particulars of this project, it was considered as essential that some southern members, and some western members should be secured; and that the Pennsylvania members should be kept divided among themselves. Among the southern members Mr. J. H. Nicholson of Maryland was considered as of the greatest importance to be secured; and accordingly the overture was made to Mr. Nicholson, to take upon himself the lead in political affairs in congress, and that he would be supported by "the union of honest men."
Mr. Nicholson indignant and disgusted with the detestable offer, which opened to his view an intrigue which had not been by him suspected, spurned at the insult.
We have been thus particular on those two points of the Connecticut policy—and the attempt to dishonor Mr. Nicholson, in order to account for the cast of the article in the Gaz. U. S. and particularly for the asperity thrown out against Mr. Nicholson in that paper, and in other papers of the same politics.
As to the aspersions on Mr. Randolph, they are to be accounted for in the same way, and by the same causes; the tactics of this new eastern party, this "union of honest men," is like that of the wherry man, who rows one way and looks another; or of him who cries out "stop—stop thief," in order that he may not be suspected himself; the cry has been with this union of honest men against—"Virginian domination—Virginian influence," while the true meaning of this cry is that this faction means to rule; and the talents, integrity, and resolution of Randolph, are terrible to this phalanx; and they cry out against Randolph because beside his virtues he is proud of being a Virginian; and the pride ought to be reciprocal.
The conduct which has been exhibited towards this great and good young man, the public have no conception of;—delicate of constitution, and subject to extreme ill health, perhaps seven-tenths of the year, his sensibility is well known and to be connected with the loftiest ideas of personal honor and courage. The fashion to whom he has been a terror, have contrived with a degree of malignant ingenuity, to operate upon his health, by wounding his feelings! Every man whose skirts have been assailed by the teeth, and ears annoyed by the barking of a village cur-dog—who has been annoyed by the surly barking of a mongrel mastiff, may form an idea of the coarse pursued towards Mr. Randolph. Instead of the solemn argument, or the splendid eloquence, which should dignify
the chambers of congress and to which the arguments and eloquence of Mr Randolph are entitled, a system has been pursued of subjecting him to the contumely of a reply from Elliot of Vermont, or Lyon of Kentucky.
A word more, and we shall close this article—the strength of "the union of honest men" is to be tried at the next session, upon the choice of a speaker—Macon is not to be seduced by the Yazoo, though he is far from being a rich man,—and it is intended by the union of "honest men" to set up a candidate in opposition to him. The readers of the Aurora may at first sight question, whether all these matters are dreams or ingenious fictions?—Time which has so frequently testified to the information conveyed by this paper, will establish these facts, and more than these hereafter. (Aurora.)
SWEARING.
A moment's calm consideration will convince any rational person of the impropriety of this custom; which is inexcusable and vulgar.
It is inexcusable. There is less temptation to this vice than to any other. Some vices are excused by calling them constitutional; but as Archbishop Tillotson observes, "no man is born with a swearing constitution." It cannot procure credit to an assertion, because it is oftener used to confirm a rash and doubtful saying, than a plain truth. The man who swears seems to doubt his own veracity, and well may others suspect; for how can we believe he is true to man when he is false to God? Besides, the custom of swearing to truths may insensibly lead a man to swear falsehoods. Persons addicted to this practice seldom know when they swear; and some when reproved for it, have sworn they did not swear.
It is vulgar. That some gentlemen swear, is too true; but it can never be deemed the mark of a gentleman: for it is a vice common to the vilest characters in the lowest rank of society. It produces the most disgraceful equality; it puts the honorable, the learned, the polished and the delicate, upon a level with the most ignorant and depraved.
Besides these horrid oaths which insult every decent ear, there is a vicious habit, indulged by many persons, otherwise moral, among these even ladies, of a thoughtless profanation of their Maker's name, on occasions the most trivial, such as Good God! God forbid! God bless us! O Lord! &c. &c. This is inexcusable conduct, and from want of that reverence to the best of Beings, which is essential to true religion, as is direct a violation of that commandment, "Thou shalt not take the name of thy God in vain," as the most vulgar profane oaths.
Lots for Sale.
IN consequence of the badness of the weather on Saturday the 30th ult. the sale of the LOTS on the turnpike road just above the town of Manchester at the place called Buck-Hill, is postponed till Monday the 29th of this month; the sale will commence at the Toll-Gate, at ten o'clock, A. M. on the terms mentioned in the former advertisement. JAS. CLARKE, Attorney in fact for the proprietors. April 4, 1805.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Mr. John Turner, the 13th July, 1804, to secure the sum of one hundred and sixty-seven pounds five shillings, due Mr. Wilshire M. Lewis, exr. of Francis Lewis, will be sold, for cash, on the premises, on Wednesday the 27th March next, TWO IMPROVED TENEMENTS, in this city, opposite the courthouse. Also, one other TENEMENT in said deed, opposite Rockets warehouse, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to pay the aforesaid sum of one hundred and sixty-seven pounds five shillings, with interest thereon from the 21st day of Feb. last, together with the expense attending the execution of said trust. Richard Adams, } Trustees. John Prosser, } Richmond, Feb. 25, 1805.
The above sale is postponed till Tuesday the 9th instant, when it will certainly take place. April 6.
Notice.
WHEREAS myself, Robert Boyd & Patrick Boyd, executed a bond to John Sea of Halifax county, Virginia, in payment for land I purchased of him, bearing date, if I mistake not, the 27th day of September, 1803, for the sum of ninety nine pounds fifteen shillings, Virginia money, and on demand the first day of May 1805; hands of William Blackwell of said county of Halifax for collection when it becomes due; I do hereby forewarn all persons trading for the above mentioned bond, as neither myself, Robert Boyd, or Patrick Boyd intend paying one cent—the said John Sea not having made me a good and lawful right to the land, unless the same be recovered by law. JOHN PURYEAR. 30th March, 1805.
TAKEN from a negro boy last evening, a gift WATCH, made by Richard Dyle, London, No. 600. The owner may get the same by applying to the printer hereof and paying the expense of this advertisement. 2d April, 1805.
CONSIGNMENT of the following Articles, just received, are offered for sale at very low prices for cash, flour, or on a credit of 60 days for notes negotiable at the Bank, viz:
 10 Pipes Arb proof Cogniac Brandy of a superior quality  10 Hhds Rum—9 Hhds Molasses  40 Boxes New-York Gametes—Loaf Sugar  White Race Ginger—Cotton and Wool Cards.  The subscriber also offers for sale on the above terms only, a general assortment of genuine and well chosen GROCERIES, at his store 2d door from the market-house, main street. H. DABNEY.
N. B. All persons indebted to the subscriber are requested to make speedy payment; or suits will be instituted indiscriminately against those who do not comply with this request. H. D.
THE subscriber desirous to close his business, in this place as soon as possible, is induced to offer for sale, the following
Valuable Property, viz:
A convenient two story dwelling house, 24 feet square, having one room and a passage on the lower floor, two rooms on the second floor, and two good rooms in the garret, a cellar with plank floor, and divided into three apartments, one used for cooking; the yard inclosed with a brick wall, seven feet high, the whole in good repair. This tenement is situated near the Bell Tavern on the cross street, leading to the rock landing, and is insured in the mutual insurance company against fire in the state of Virginia, and the premiums paid.
Eleven unimproved half-acre lots on Shockoe Hill.
600 Acres military land in Kanawha county, on the waters of old town creek, a branch of Ohio River, being part of a grant made to George Mule, Adams Stevens, Andrew Lewis and others, in the year 1772.
25 Tracts of land in Montgomery county, containing 32,172 1/2 acres, the whole patented in my name, viz:
4,000 Acres, surveyed 3d April, 1786, in Montgomery county, on Cole River.
3,080 Acres, surveyed 24th July, 1786, in the same county, on 16 mile creek, adjoining the late General Washington's survey, on Kanawha river.
3,064 1/2 Acres, surveyed 23d July, 1786, in same county, on the Loop waters of New river.
1,080 Acres, surveyed 13th May, 1786, in the same county, on the Ohio river
3,210 Acres, surveyed 5th April, 1786, in same county, south of a creek running into Cole river.
2,138 Acres, surveyed 21st Feb. 1787, in same county, on Cole river.
520 Acres, surveyed 3d Feb. 1787, in same county, on the waters of Cooper's creek and Little Blue Stone.
1,300 Acres, surveyed 16th Feb. 1787, in same county, on the head waters of the fourth fork of Cole river, that heads against Guyandott.
95 Acres, surveyed 16th Feb. 1787, in same county, on the head waters of Glade creek.
78 Acres, surveyed 8th Feb. 1787, in same county, on a branch emptying into Glade creek, on the south side of the same, and about one mile above the ford of the said creek.
500 Acres, surveyed 10th Feb 1787, in same county, on the north fork of Mud river, that heads against the Guyandott.
1,500 Acres, surveyed 12th May, 1786, in same county, on Ohio river.
2,000 Acres, surveyed 8th May, 1786, in same county, on Great Kanawha.
1,000 Acres, surveyed 16th May, 1786, in same county, on do.
263 Acres, surveyed 9th Feb 1787, in same county, on the head of Glade creek.
214 Acres, surveyed 7th Feb. 1787, in same county, on the waters of Glade creek, on the south side thereof.
135 Acres, surveyed 6th Feb. 1787, in same county, on the west end of Joe's Ridge, and on the waters of Glade creek.
154 Acres, surveyed 6th Feb. 1787, in same county, on Joe's Ridge.
228 Acres, surveyed 6th Feb. 1787, in same county, on Joe's Ridge and the waters of Glade and Cooper's creek.
414 Acres, surveyed 22d Feb. 1787, in same county, on the second fork of Cole river, on the road crossing from Piney river, to Guyandott.
2,000 Acres, surveyed 26th Feb. 1787, in same county, under the big Pipe Stem Knob, and running down both sides of the creek.
416 Acres, surveyed 4th Feb. 1787, in same county, on the waters of Cooper's creek and Joe's Ridge.
380 Acres, surveyed 3d Feb. 1787, in same county, on the head waters of Cooper's creek.
3,333 1/2 Acres, by survey 20th Feb. 1787, in same county, on the south fork of Cole river.
1,345 Acres, by survey 2d Feb. 1787, in same county, on the head waters of Little Blue Stone, about half a mile north from the white oak Lick.
Three tracts of land in Monongalia county, patented in my name, viz:
350 Acres, by survey 1st June, 1796, in Monongalia county, adjoining Matthew Rukey's land, and the Randolph county line, on the waters of Cheat River.
400 Acres, surveyed 20th Oct. 1797, in same county, adjoining lands of Abner Harper, above the mouth of White Day creek.
400 Acres, surveyed 15th Nov. 1797, in same county, adjoining Peter Drage, on Finche's ran, to include an improvement made in the year 1773.
1000 Acres, in do. on the west of Cheat river, above the lands of Thomas Butler.
800 Acres, in do. on Buffalo creek, on a pre-emption right of David Gray.
250 Acres, a Greenbrier county, on Little Deer creek, adjoining the lands of Joseph McClurg.
891 Acres, in Montgomery county, surveyed 1st August, 1787, on the waters of Piney river, and Paint creek, waters of the Kanawha river.
435 Acres, in Montgomery county, surveyed 30th June, 1786, joining the lands of Joseph Eaton, Richard Muse and James McCorkle.
230 Acres, in Wythe county, surveyed 4th Nov. 1795, on the Lead Mines Mill creek.
180 Acres, in Albemarle county, patented 5th July, 1787, on William
Hill's creek, waters of Buck Island creek. One undivided moiety of five lots in the town of Winchester, Nos. 89, 90, 100, 101 and 109. The above will be sold very low, and the terms made known, on application to Wm. AUSTIN. Richmond, April 4th, 1805. W. A.
Ten Dollars Reward.
RUN away from the subscriber living in Goochland county, a likely man to be named MARTIN, about 20 years old, 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, rather thin in visage. It is supposed he has gone towards Prince Edward or Charlott. Any person who will deliver the said fellow to the subscriber, or secure him in any jail so that he may be obtained, shall receive the above reward. JOSEPH WOODSON. April 6th, 1805.
THE public are respectfully informed, that it is the intention of the subscriber to re-commence the publication of The Political Repository, previous to the next session of the General Assembly of Virginia. The paper will probably appear on the first day of December next; and will be printed twice a week at five dollars per annum, to be paid in advance. ROBERT RICHARDSON. Richmond, 1st April, 1805.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by Joshua West and Mary West, for the purpose of securing a debt therein specified, to Andrew Woolley, will be SOLD, by me at the Bell Tavern, in the City of Richmond, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 27th day of this present month (April)
The part of a Half-Acre LOT, Known and distinguished in the plan of the said city of Richmond by the number 50, and lying on the east side of Shockoe creek, at the corner of the cross street opposite the courthouse; bounds as follows, to wit—beginning at the northeast corner of said lot, thence running up the back street 90 feet, thence at right angles running into said lot 52 feet, thence at right angles to the cross street 90 feet, forming a square of 90 feet long and 52 feet wide, including a small house and a well of excellent water. EDW'D WINSTON, Trustee. 1st April, 1805. The above to satisfy a security debt.
The Celebrated Warm Springs IN VIRGINIA.
THE subscribers have taken a lease of ten years, of the highly celebrated, MEDICINAL SPRINGS in the county of Bath, called the Warm Springs, so justly famed for their great cures & general relief in many complaints. They are now preparing every necessary comfort and accommodation to suit the amusements of those who have health (and to promote the recovery of those who want it,) and it is deemed necessary to make these things widely known, because complaints have heretofore been made against the entertainment which has been offered. Preparations are made for at least one hundred constant boarders, besides transient guests, for the accommodation of which, the subscribers will make all possible exertions; and they flatter themselves, that those who may place confidence in this advertisement, will not find the smallest cause for regret or complaint. Robert & George Turner. March 28, 1805.
TO JOHN MAGEE.
A person not residing within the commonwealth of Virginia, and having no known agent or attorney therein—
TAKE NOTICE, that by virtue of a commission issuing out of the court of chancery for the district of Richmond, in a suit depending in the said court, wherein I am plaintiff and you are defendant, the depositions of John Gray, John Woodson and Chapman Stewart, and sundry other witnesses will be taken at the shop of Nathaniel Dandridge, near his dwelling house, in the county of Hanover, on the twentieth day of March next, and that if necessary, the said commission will be adjourned over to the 21st & 22d days of that month; the depositions so to be taken, to be read in evidence in the said case. JOHN HARRIS. Feb. 7, 1805.
Government Security.
NEW-YORK LOTTERY.
No. III. for the encouragement of Literature, Begins Drawing on the EIGHTH DAY of APRIL next.
 25,000 DOLLARS,  10,000 DOLLARS,  5,000 DOLLARS,  HIGHEST PRIZES.
The Scheme contains 35,000 Tickets, of which 9,913 are Prizes, less than two and a half blanks to a prize—Deduction fifteen per cent.
At the session of the Legislature of the state of New-York, on Monday the 12th Nov. 1804, a Resolution passed the Senate, and was concurred in by the House of Assembly, that the drawing of the said Lottery be postponed until the Second Monday in April next, in consequence of the defalcation of one of the managers, and that the Legislature will GUARANTEE the PAYMENT of ALL the PRIZES in said Lottery.
TICKETS
And Halves, Quarters & Eighths, ARE TO BE HAD AT G. & R. WAITE'S PERMANENT LOTTERY OFFICES, No. 64, MAIDEN-LANE, & No. 38, MARKET-LANE.
AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES. Whole Tickets Dols. 8 | Quarters, Dols. 2 3/4 | Halves, - 4 25 | Eighths, - 1 80 But as the tickets and shares, have met with such an extraordinary rapid sale throughout every part of the United States, they will speedily advance in price
Distant Adventurers, by inclosing BANK NOTES of ANY DESCRIPTION, may have tickets forwarded them by post, to any part of the Union, by G & R. WAITE, with the utmost punctuality; and the earliest intelligence of their success—CASH advanced for prizes as soon as drawn, or warranted undrawn tickets exchanged for prizes during the drawing.
For the satisfaction of adventurers in Richmond and its vicinity, G. & R. Waite will forward to the printer of this paper, the Managers' Official List of Prizes, as soon as printed, where any gentleman can examine his own number.—Letters (post paid) will be duly attended to. New-York, Nov. 23, 1804.
CURRAN'S SPEECHES
FOR SUBSCRIBERS, Are just received at this Office.

(By Authority.)
AN ACT
For the relief of George Scoble and Alexander Cameron.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That George Scoble, late a corporal in the fifth Maryland regiment, in the army of the revolution, be placed on the pension list of the United States, and receive from the fifth of March, seventeen hundred and ninety, a pension of the half pay of a corporal, for and during his life.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Alexander Cameron, late a soldier in the second regiment of the North Carolina line of the army of the revolution, be placed on the pension list of the United States, and receive from the first day of January last, a pension of the half pay of a private for and during his life.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOS. ANDERSON, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 3, 1805.—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
To amend an act, entitled "An act for imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles, and also for levying and collecting light money on foreign ships or vessels, and for other purposes."
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the sixth section of the act entitled "An act for imposing more specific duties on the importation of certain articles; and also for levying and collecting light money on foreign ships or vessels and for other purposes," shall not be deemed to operate upon unregistered ships or vessels owned by citizens of the United States, in those cases where such ship or vessel is in possession of a sea letter, or other regular document, issued from a custom house of the United States, proving such ship or vessel to be American property: Provided however, that upon the entry of every such ship or vessel from any foreign port or place, if the same shall be at the port or place at which the owner, or any of the part owners reside, such owner or part owner or part owners shall make oath or affirmation, that the sea letter or other regular document possessed by such ship or vessel, contains the name or names of all the persons who are then owners of the said ship or vessel; or if any part of such ship or vessel has been sold or transferred since the date of such sea letter or document, that such is the case, and that no foreign subject or citizen hath, to the best of his knowledge and belief, any share, by way of trust, confidence or otherwise, in such ship or vessel. And if the owner or any part owner shall not reside at the port or place at which such ship or vessel shall enter, then the master or commander, shall make oath or affirmation to the like effect. And if the owner or part owner, where there is one, or the master or commander, where there is no owner, shall refuse to swear or affirm as aforesaid, such ship or vessel shall not be entitled to the privileges granted by this act.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOS. ANDERSON, President of the Senate pro tempore. March 3, 1805.—APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
LAND.
I have in Louisa county about 600 acres of land, lying in the heart of the Green Spring neighbourhood, adjoining the lands of Col. Richard Morris and Maj. James Watson—there are good orchards, a grist mill with 2 pair of stones and a bolting cloth—the land is good for the culture of corn, to-acco, and remarkable for wheat, with tolerable good buildings, and good title and remarkably healthy, lying very near the Green Spring—I would exchange the one half of the above lands for such lands as I might like (the title founded on military claims) in Kentucky, in the counties of Logan, Christian, Warren or Henderson; the other half in cash. Possession given at next Christmas, or in April 1805,—to accommodate the purchasers I would sell the mill with 140 acres of land, or I would sell the whole in 100 acre lots.
TURNER ANDERSON. 22d March, 1805. wtf
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES
Are for sale at Dr. Wilson's Apothecary Shop opposite the Bell Tavern, to wit: Red and white Lead, Verdigris, Spanish Whiting, Spanish Brown, Umber, Naples Yellow, Blue Smalt, Brown Pink, Rose Pink, Flake White, Gold Leaf, Liquid Gold Size, Copal and Spirit Varnish, Camel's Hair Pencils, Yellow Ochre, Litharge, Sugar of Lead, &c. &c. Also a quantity of Salt Petre.
He wishes to rent a stand for an Apothecary's Shop in the neighbourhood of the cross street leading to Mayo's bridge. 26th Dec. 1804. wtf
Amelia county, 28th Feb. 1805. Committed to the jail of this county on the 12th of this month, a negro woman, appears to be 30 years of age, spare made, says her name is SUEY, and that she belongs to one Woodfork of North-Carolina, purchased by Woodfork of a Mr. Fulcher in Richmond. The owner is requested to come forward, pay charges and take her away, or else she will be dealt with according to law. w2m
A GREAT BARGAIN
MAY BE HAD IN A Likely Negro Fellow, About twenty-six years of age. Enquire of Mr. Henry Toler in the city of Richmond, or the subscriber in Hanover county. JOHN PARKER.
Valuable Medicines.
PUBLIC confidence has never been more liberally and firmly reposed, and perhaps in no instance more justly, than it appears in the efficacy of HAMILTON'S WORM LOZENGES, prepared and sold, wholesale and retail, by REED AND LEE, no. 56, Maiden-lane, New York and in Richmond, (only) at S. Pleasants' Printing-office.
The proprietor has lately presented to the public eye the testimony of the Hon. A. C. Hanford, Chancellor of Maryland, the Rev. Mr. Moulder, and of other distinguished and respectable characters. The following cases, of more recent occurrence, are now respectfully submitted.
Copy of a letter from Mr. Henry Ackerman, Bricklayer, Magazine-street, near Broadway, Jan. 24, 1804. SIR—It would be ungrateful were I to withhold my testimony in favor of Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges. I had been between five and six years past much indisposed, and latterly often tormented with severe griping and pains of the bowels, troubled with offensive breath, and with violent feverish fits, and other obvious symptoms of worms; but frequently hearing your Worm Lozenges recommended in cases similar to mine, I determined on a trial of them, as my last resource. The first dose evacuated twelve or thirteen feet of a tape worm; two other doses were taken which brought away a quantity of matter like broken skins and pieces of worms. I suppose the tape worm voided at different times must have exceeded forty feet. The almost incredible benefit I received from this medicine, induced me to give a dose to a child of mine who was pining and sickly: it produced the same good effect in this instance, expelling a worm of a different kind, from nine to twelve inches long, and at the same time restoring a good state of health. I remain, Sir, yours, &c.
HENRY ACKERMAN.
FOR SALE AS ABOVE.
Hamilton's Essence and Extract of Mustard. A safe and effectual remedy for acute and chronic Rheumatism, Gout, Rheumatic Gout, Palsy, Lumbago, Numbness, White Swellings, Chilblains, Sprains, Bruises, Pain in the Face and Neck, &c. "AN OUNCE OF PREVENTION IS WORTH A POUND OF CURE."
For the prevention and cure of Bilious and Malignant Fevers is recommended.
Hahn's Anti-Bilious Pills.
The operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used with safety by persons in every situation, and of every age.
Hamilton's Elixir,
A sovereign remedy for Colds, Obsolete Coughs, Asthma, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumptions. To Parents who may have children afflicted with
The Hooping Cough.
This disorder is of the first magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, checks the progress, and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable. The Elixir is so perfectly agreeable, and the dose so small, that no difficulty arises in taking it. From LUTHER MARTIN, Esq. attorney general of the state of Maryland. GENTLEMEN—I comply with your request in stating my opinion of Hamilton's Elixir. It has been used in my family for two or three years past with uniform success, whenever colds, coughs, or similar complaints have rendered medicine necessary. I have myself found it an excellent and agreeable remedy for a very painful and troublesome affection of the head, accompanied with soreness, and with obtunded and difficult breathing. On these accounts, I do not hesitate to recommend Hamilton's Elixir as a valuable medicine, and deserving public attention.
LUTHER MARTIN. HAMILTON'S
Grand Restorative,
Is recommended as an invaluable medicine for the speedy relief and permanent cure of the various complaints which result from dissipated pleasures—juvenile indiscretions—excessive indulgence in the use of tea—frequent intoxication, or any other destructive intemperance—the unskillful or extensive use of mercury—the diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life—bad lyings in, &c.
Hahn's true and genuine German Corn Plaster,
An infallible remedy for corns, speedily removing them, root and branch without giving pain.
The Genuine Persian Lotion.
So celebrated among the fashionable thoroughbreds of Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and repellant minerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin, of every kind—particularly freckles, pimples, inflammatory redness, scurfs, tetter, ring worms, sun burns, prickly heat, &c.—The Persian Lotion operates mildly, without impeding that natural, insensible perspiration, which is essential to health; yet its effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately soft and clear, improving the complexion, and restoring the bloom of youth—never failing to render an ordinary countenance beautiful, and a handsome one more so.
The Restorative Powder for the Teeth and Gums.
HAHN'S GENUINE RYE WATER. A sovereign remedy for all diseases of the eyes whether the effect be natural weakness or of accident, speedily removing inflammations, defluxions of rheum, dullness, itching and films on the eye; never failing to cure those maladies which frequently succeed the small-pox, measles and fevers, and wonderfully strengthening to weak sight. Hundreds have experienced its excellent virtues when nearly deprived of sight.
Tooth-Ache Drops,
The only remedy yet discovered, which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe instances.
The Anodyne Elixir,
For the cure of every kind of head-ache.
The Damask Lip-Salve.
Infallible Ague and Fever Drops, For the cure of Agues, Remittant and Intermitting Fevers.
Thousands can testify their being cured by these drops after the bark and every other medicine has proved ineffectual: not one in a hundred has had occasion to take more than one, and numbers not half a bottle.
The Sovereign Ointment for the Itch,
which is warranted an infallible remedy at one application, and may be used with the most perfect safety by pregnant women, or on an infant a week old, not contain a particle of mercury or
any dangerous ingredients whatever; and is not accompanied with that torturing smart which attends the exhibition of other remedies. For the cure of a certain deplorable Malady, The Indian Vegetable Specific.
The Medicines prepared by Richard Lee, have been in high estimation and general use throughout the United States, for upwards of six years; many of them are sold for less than the drugs of which they are compounded—could be purchased at a retail store. It is no inconsiderable evidence of their utility, that during the above period, numerous imitations of every article (the production of ignorance and inexperience, urged by envy and penury) have intruded on the public, seen a day and then perished; others now succeeded them, which in like manner are fast descending "to the tomb of the Capulets," while our remedies become more generally used, and acquire a daily accession of well earned celebrity. To prevent the imposition of worthless or dangerous preparations, purchasers are requested to remember, that an engraved label, with the signature of Richard Lee's (to counterfeited which is felony) is affixed to each of his genuine medicines.
Lee's Infallible Ague Drops.
Recent Cures. A child of Mr. William Lozier, grocer, corner of Hudson and Jay Streets, was sick about five or six weeks with ague and fever, and in so violent a degree, as for the hot paroxysm to terminate frequently in most alarming convulsions. A variety of medicines, recommended by sympathising neighbors, were administered, without alleviating the disease; at length hearing of the uniform efficacy of Lee's Ague Drops, a bottle was procured, of which three doses only were found necessary to perfect a cure. Five weeks have elapsed without any return of the complaint.
Mr. James Joyce, assistant in the warehouse of Mr. — Pearl-street, was severely afflicted with an intermittent, but after taking Lee's Ague Drops, was cured in two days. At the recommendation of Mr. Joyce, a friend, Mr. Terence Tole, who had suffered much from an obstinate intermittent upwards of a year (with few and trifling intervals) was cured by a few doses of the same Medicine. At the recommendation of Mr. Joyce, a bottle was procured by M. P. Skooley, who was likewise harassed with an obstinate intermittent. A small portion completely removed every symptom of the complaint (which may surprise those who regard the bark as the only specific) — Four persons of Mr. Skooley's acquaintance was by the remaining part of this single phial, cured of the prevailing malady.
The above narrations may suffice to prove the usefulness of this medicine; but if the assertion of the proprietor, and the fact of an annual demand for several thousand bottles have any weight, the public will believe that this preparation has never failed, effecting a cure, and may without effort be termed INFALLIBLE. Prepared and sold by Richard Lee, No. 50 Maiden-lane New York, and at S. Pleasants' Printing office, Richmond. Oct. 1, 1804.
THE Copartnership of DANIEL COUCH & CO. is this day dissolved. Those having claims against the concern, will present them to CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY, Jr. for settlement—and those indebted thereto are requested to make immediate payment to him. DANIEL COUCH. CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY, Jr. Goodland, March 15, 1805. wtf
CHRISTOPHER ANTHONY, Jr. & Co. Will in future carry on the business, and expect to receive in the month of April, a general assortment of SPRING GOODS.
Amelia County Court, January 24, 1805.
Richard Foster, complt. Joshua Atkinson, Henry Estridge In Chancery. Samuel Ward and Watkins Johnson, defts.
THIS day came the complainant by John Lane his counsel, and the defendant Atkinson, not having appeared and giving security agreeable to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the said defendant Atkinson, is not an inhabitant of this state: Therefore, on the motion of the complainant by his counsel aforesaid, It is ordered, That the said defendant appear here on the first day of May court next, and answer the bill of the complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse on two several court days. A Copy—Teste, James Townes, jr. c. a. c.
At a Court held for Washington County, the 16th day of January, 1805.
James White, complt. Joseph Acklin and Andrew Davidson, defendants.
THE defendant Acklin, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of the commonwealth of Virginia: On the motion of the complainant, It is ordered, That the said defendant Acklin, do appear here on the third Tuesday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be inserted in some public newspaper published in this state for two months successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the courthouse of the said county. A copy—Attest, D. CAMPBELL, d. c. w. c. VIRGINIA:
At a Court held for Halifax County, the 25th day of February, 1805.
John Griffin, complt. Daniel Sizemore, George Sizemore, Solomon Sizemore, John Sizemore, William Sizemore, Miriam Sizemore, Mary Sizemore and Joseph Sizemore, heirs and representatives of John Sizemore, dec. James Baird and William Baird, defendants.
THE defendants John Sizemore, William Sizemore and William Baird, not having entered their appearance and given security agreeable to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the fourth Monday in August next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy—Teste, John Barksdale, d. c. h. c.
At a Quarterly Court, held for Prince Edward County, March the 18th, 1805.
Archibald Fuqua, plaintiff. Against William and George Walker, executors, &c of George Walker, dec. and the said William, David, Ben, Jacob and Nancy, and their mother Priscilla Walker, and John Atwell, defendants.
THE defendants David, Ben, Jacob, Nancy and their mother Priscilla, not having entered their appearance and given security according to an act of the General Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendants, David, Ben, Jacob, Nancy and their mother Priscilla, do appear here on the first day of July court next, and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the public newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and also posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy—Teste, BENJ. WATKINS, d. c.
Fisher & Lesueur,
HAVE JUST RECEIVED A LARGE SUPPLY OF
GROCERIES, viz. Muscovado Sugar to, Cloves, Nutmegs, Best Green Coffee Mace and Cassia, Double and Single re- Madder, Brimstone, fined loaf Sugar Allum & Copperas Retail molasses & trinkle Spanish and Bengal Old Antigua, Jamaica, Indigo Santacruz, St. Kitts and N. E. Rum Old Cognac Brandy Pickled Salmon and Holland Gin C. dish Madeira, Port, Sherry, New York Candles & Teneriffe and Malaga Soap Cale Wine Gun-powder Bottled Port & Claret Patent Shot from 1 to Caldwell Frasure & co's B B superfine Chocolate Thomas Leiper's Snuff Young Hyson, Souchong, Imperial, and a few canisters containing 1 1/2 lbs. Gunpowder Tea Scotch Barley Fresh Oil and Olives Basket Salt Fresh Mustard Spanish Segars Martinique, Noyau & Bordeaux Cordials Box Raisins & Almonds Race and ground Ginger, Pepper, Pimento.
German Oznaburgs & Ficklenburgs.
All which were selected for this market, by James Fisher, and will be sold, wholesale and retail, on moderate terms. Richmond, March 27, 1805. wtf
THE Copartnership of TOMPKINS & HARRIS, was dissolved on the 16th inst by mutual consent. Those indebted are requested to make immediate payment; and those who have claims will call for their adjustment. HARRY TOMPKINS. HENRY HARRIS. Richmond, 28th March, 1805.
THE business heretofore carried on by Tompkins & Harris, will be continued by the subscriber, who will be glad to furnish his friends as usual. The debtors to the several firms in which he has been engaged are earnestly requested to make payment, to enable him to close those partnerships. The balances due to John & Harry Tompkins, and to Tompkins & Thornton, have stood too long to entitle their debtors to further indulgence. HARRY TOMPKINS. Richmond, 28th March, 1805. wtf
ADVERTISEMENT.
I WISH to sell my tract of LAND and water grist MILL thereon, situated in King and Queen county, about two or three miles from Dunkirk, formerly known by the name of Todd's warehouse. The tract contains at least 900 acres, and is believed will, when surveyed, considerably exceed that quantity—the land is valuable for the cultivation of grain, and well adapted to tobacco when manured—the buildings thereon are somewhat out of repair, but still tolerably comfortable—the mill (which has been lately rebuilt) is considered as one of the most valuable in that part of the country. A further description is declined, as I presume any person inclined to purchase will view the premises, which will be shown by Mr. Robert Brooking, residing thereon. The land is so situated as to admit of being divided into several parcels, which may be done to accommodate purchasers, if required, and considerable credit allowed on the sale thereof—but particulars will be made known on application to Mr. James Webb, of Essex county, who is fully authorised to sell the same. Vivion Brooking. Amelia county, March 1, 1805. (wtf)
Tobacco Land for Sale.
IN Amherst county, on Horsley's creek, 509 acres of rich tobacco land, formerly the property of Dr. Daniel Warwick, and known by the name of Wincanton—This land has the advantage of lying on the main road leading from Amherst courthouse to Waugh's ferry on James river, is a valuable stand for a country store, with a framed house for that purpose, entirely new and sufficiently large, having two rooms below and two above stairs, with a good brick chimney, and well underpinned with brick: also a lumber-house 16 feet square, with a cellar of its full size walled up with stone—there is also a taylor's and saddler's shop, and other out houses; likewise a tolerable good dwelling house, with three rooms below and two above stairs; a kitchen, dairy and other out houses within a mile of the store, suitable for a private family. On this tract of land there is a bout 75 acres cleared, all of which is fresh and in good order for cultivation; it has also the advantage of being only 7 miles from Bethel, where there is an inspection of tobacco, and within 18 miles of Lynchburg. As it is presumed no person will be inclined to purchase the above without reviewing the premises, they will be shown by Messrs. Taliaferros & Loving, who live within a few miles of Wincanton, and fully empowered to make sale, and the terms of payment may be known from them; as also on application to Gilliat & Kirby. Richmond, March 20, 1805. (wids)
The above tract of land and improvements, will be offered for SALE, at Amherst courthouse, on Monday the 15th July next, (being court day) on a credit of six, twelve and eighteen months—a deed of trust will be required on the premises, or satisfactory security for punctual payment. Gilliat & Kirby.
WHEAT FAN & WOVEN WIRE MANUFACTORY.
No. 7, Bridge-street, four doors north of Griffin's Bridge, Baltimore:
WHERE are made and sold, WHEAT FANS, first quality; ROLLING and other SCREENS, for wheat, barley, flax-seed, &c.; HAND RIDDLES and SIEVES, for corn, corn, barley, wheat, rye, oats, meal, brick dust, flax-seed, clover seed, cockle, lime, sand, &c.; SHAKES for Indian meal; WIRE SAFES & WOVEN WIRE for windows, &c. &c. AMOS SMITH, (Formerly WEST & SMITH.)
N.B. A good assortment on hand. Any of the above articles will be delivered in Richmond, (on short notice) at the same prices as at the manufactory (exclusive of freight) on the orders being left with SAMUEL PARSONS & SON, Near the Basin, of whom the prices may be known—who have now on hand, Wheat Fans, Wheat and Lime Sieves, and Meal Sieves, &c. of a superior quality. P.S. WIRE SAFES, and a few tons BAR IRON on hand. 11th Mo. 1st, 1804. wtf
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from Dr. C. Christian's in New Kent county, in the month of December last a grey (or roan) MARE, with a blaze face, about fourteen hands high, five years old this spring, shod all round, paces, trots and canters tolerably well, but is not fast of pacing; she is very compact. Whoever will deliver the said mare to Dr. Christian or to the subscriber or give such intelligence to either that she may be recovered, shall receive the above reward. GEO. CHRISTIAN. Buckingham, March 9th, 1805 wtf
FOR SALE,
One Moiety of a Brick Tenement, IN a central part of the city of Richmond, consisting of a two story house with a store and counting room on the lower floor, and five rooms above (conveniently plan'd for a family) with a passage leading to them (making all the rooms private) and a cellar under the whole house—a three story Lumber-house, Kitchen, Stable, &c. A considerable credit will be given for two thirds of the purchase money.—For further particulars enquire of the printer. wtf
The Beautiful Imported Horse HAMBLETON, BRED by the Duke of Grafton, a fine bright bay near sixteen hands high, of high form and elegance, the property of William Lightfoot, Esq. of Charles City county, will stand the ensuing season at my stable in the Forks of Henrico, ten miles above the courthouse, and one mile below Mr. Edmund Taylor's tavern, to be let to mares at six guineas the season, for which a note will be required to be sent with the mares payable the first of October ensuing, but the six guineas may be discharged by the payment of twenty dollars to the subscriber, and one to the groom in every instance, by the first of September. Three guineas call the leap. The season to commence the first of March and end the tenth of August. Good and extensive pasture well inclosed gratis, and every attention paid, but no liability for accidents or escapes. Servants sent with the mares to be dited without charge to their owners. Gentlemen wishing to have their mares fed, by sending the money will be accommodated with grain at the market price. JOHN THORNTON, Sen. February 18th, 1805.
PEDIGRE E.
HAMBLETON was got by Dungannon (one of the best sons of O'Kelly's famous Eclipse, who was esteemed to be the best horse in England of his day, and covered at fifty guineas) his dam by Snap, after to Jupiter, bred by Mr. Cross, 1773, her dam (young Markes's dam) by Blank, Stirling, Miss Margaret, by Partner, Greyhound, Curwen. Bay Bard, Lord D'Arcy's Arabian, Whitehurst, old Montague mare. Thus it appears he descended from the best running stock in England.
PERFORMANCES.
This horse ranks very high as a racer, both for speed and bottom, as he proved successful in twenty races before he left the turf, four of which he walked over, none venturing to start against him. In 1794, at Hambleton, Yorkshire, on Wednesday May 14th, he won a sweepstakes of ten guineas each, for 3 year olds, six subscribers two miles, beating Mr. Bethell's b f by Magnum Bonum, Pierce's b f by Young Marske, Turner's Confederacy, and Craddock's ch c Leicester. At York he won 50l. for three year olds, beating Lowther's b c Griffin, Crompton's ch c Ambush, Sheppard's Madcap, Clifton's b c Cedar, and Garlorth's ch c even betting on Ambush against the field. At Manchester, in June, he won 50l. for three year olds, two mile heats, beating Foreigner and Loyalist. At Stockton, September 20th, he won a sweepstakes of twenty guineas each, five subscribers, then Sir H. Williamson's property, formerly Mr. Hutchinson's, beating Field's Highlander, out of Wren, and Turner's Delpine. In 1795, Hambleton won five times, to wit—a handicap plate of 50l. two mile heats, at four years old, beating Insect, Blacklegs, and Watkins's b five years old. At Edinburgh, July 20th, he won his majesty's plate of 100 guineas, four years old, four mile heats, beating Eyebald—and on the 23d walked over the ground for 50l. all ages—and on the 24th 50 guineas for all ages, four mile heats, beating Gregson's b h Archer, six years old, Mr. Peacock's ch g Farmer, and Mr. Wilson's Creeping-Kate. At Dumfries in October, he won 50l. beating Lord Darlington's b m Constant. In 1796, Hambleton won at Kelso, 5th October, a purse of 50 guineas, beating Mr. Bailler's Black Cock. In 1797 he won eight times, to wit—at Middleham, in Yorkshire, a sweepstakes of ten guineas each, five subscribers, three mile heats, beating Merry Lad and Arthur. At Edinburgh on Wednesday the 26th, 50 guineas, for all ages, beating Eliza Fox and Betsey. On Friday the 28th the ladies subscription purse of 50 guineas, beating Fletcher's Jane. At Monrose in Scotland, August, he walked over the ground for a 50l. plate—and also walked over the ground for a subscription of 50l. At Kelso Oct 16th, for a plate of 50 guineas, he walked over the ground—and also his majesty's 100 guineas given to the Caledonian Hunt, for a ny horse &c. carrying 12 stone four mile heats, then six years old, he won against Mr. Wentworth's Trimbush, Piermont's Trimmer, aged, and Kincaid's Hector, aged, and Saturday following a purse of 50l. given by the Hunt, free for any horse, &c. beating Farewell and Rotiker. At Carlisle he won 100 guineas of Mr. Sewell, beating his b f by Meteor. In 1798, he won at Edinburgh, August, 50l. for all ages, beating Maxwell's Arab, and Mr. Maule's Hippopotamus. At Monrose he won a plate of 50 guineas, for all ages, beating Pitfourte and Contractor. See the racing Calendars for the foregoing years. wtf William Lightfoot.

VIRGINIA ARGUS EXTRA.
[VOL. XII.] A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE. [No. 1144.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum...paid in advance.]
SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1805.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
Valuable Property for sale.
WILL be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on the premises, on the third day of April next, at 12 o'clock, an undivided moiety in the two LOTS OF GROUND, formerly the property of Andrew Ronald, dec. fronting the basin of the James River Canal, near the centre of the city of Richmond, with an undivided moiety of all the valuable buildings thereon, consisting of a large three story brick building, eighty feet in length, with four separate tenements, twenty feet wide and forty-five feet in length, with fire places on the first and second floors, roomy garrets in each, with large wheels fixed for hoisting and lowering packages, &c. with dispatch and ease, good dry cellars with fire places in each; this house has been lately built and in good repair; adjoining is a well finished two story framed dwelling house, thirty-eight feet square, with two good cellars, with fire places in each for cooking—in this house on the first and second floors are eight rooms and six fire places—also, a small two story Brick House with four rooms, with fire places in each, convenient for a store or small family—Likewise, a small Wooden Building with a cellar built for a kitchen, and may be used as a shop—Also, two Stables and a Carriage House. The buildings except the kitchen, stables and carriage house are insured in the mutual insurance company against fire in the state of Virginia, and the premiums paid; the loss front the basin on one side, and are bounded by Cary's street and the cross street leading to shoe-koe warehouse on two other sides of them, and are as convenient for commercial or other business as any in the city. The terms of sale will be seventeen thousand dollars in ready money, the residue payable the fifth day of August next, for which residue bond with approved security will be required. It is deemed unnecessary to state the great value of the above property to those who reside in this city, but for the information of strangers, the subscriber begs leave to state, that the aforesaid property is immediately opposite the lower part of the basin of the James River canal, where all the produce of the upper country is landed, and to any person desirous of carrying on the commission business extensively, perhaps is superior to any other place in this city.
WILLIAM AUSTIN. Richmond, 4th February, 1805.
From circumstances not attended to when the above valuable property was advertised for sale, the subscriber has postponed the day of sale, till Wednesday the eighth day of May next, when it will certainly take place, at 12 o'clock, on the premises, when one fourth of the purchase money only will be required in hand, and a credit of three, six and nine months given for the balance, the purchaser to give bonds and security to carry interest from the day of sale, and a deed of trust on the property to secure the payment.
W. M. AUSTIN. 22d March, 1805.
TO BE RENTED,
For one or more years, and possession given the 15th of April next—a convenient Store & Dwelling-house, With three rooms below, and two above, with a fire place in two of the lower rooms, with a good dry cellar under them; a kitchen, smoke-house, garden, and two acres of land adjoining enclosed, part of which is well set with red clover. This tenement has been occupied for some years past by Messrs. Alban Gilpin & Co.; it is situated in a healthy and agreeable neighbourhood, is a fine stand for a country store, about 25 miles from Richmond, and not more than half a mile from the river, and in the midst of a fine wheat country.—For terms apply to the subscriber.
SAM. PLEASANTS. Powhatan co. 4th Mar. 1805.
The Scottsville Spring Races, WILL commence on Monday the fifteenth day of April next.—First day will be run for the Jockey Club Purse of £100, three mile heats—Second day the Proprietor's Purse of £50, two mile heats—And on the third day a Sweepstakes, for three and four years old, two mile heats, entrance fifty dollars. The subscription will remain open until the evening preceding the first day's race; any person wishing to enter may do so either in person or by letter directed to Mr. Samuel Marshall.
Carrying the following Weights. 7 years old, 133 4 years old, 100 6 do. do. 126 3 do do 90 5 do. do. 117 3 lbs allowed mares & geldings. JOHN HASKINS, Treasurer. March 9th, 1805.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
BROKE away last evening, a large stout made blood bay HORSE, upwards of five feet high, 7 years old last spring, was shod all round about two months ago, but some of the shoes may now be off; he has a large head and small eyes, trots and gallops; if he has any other marks by which he might be distinguished, they are not recollected. He had on a saddle a good deal worn, with a hogskin seat and plated stirrups. The above reward will be paid on delivery of the horse and saddle to the subscribers.
Pickett, Pollard & Johnston. Richmond, March 5, 1805.
BY virtue of a deed of trust made to the subscriber by Nathaniel Burton, the 8th day of February last, for the purpose of securing a debt due to Arthur Nunnery, and all charges attending the execution of the trust—will be sold, to the highest bidder, at Buckingham courthouse on Saturday the 20th day of April next, for the best price that can be obtained in cash or paper of Nicholas's inspection, or its value in money at the current cash price.
A certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, Lying in the county of Buckingham, on both sides of the great creek of State river, containing two hundred and twenty five acres, and adjoining the lands of Nathaniel Burton, Barnett Nunnery, Elizabeth Sanderson, Edward Massey and Benjamin Burton.
JAMES MURPHY, Trustee. March 15th, 1805.
A NEAT ASSORTMENT OF Morocco Pocket Books Is just received and for sale at this Office.
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NOTICE
is hereby given, That separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until 12 o'clock at noon of the first Wednesday in June next, for the supply of all rations that may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October 1805, until the 30th day of September 1806, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz. First, At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Fort Wayne, Chickago, Swan Creek, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of Ohio, and territory of Michigan, and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude. Second, At South West Point, Tellico, Knoxville, Nashville, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Kentucky, & Tennessee. Third, At the garrison near Vincennes on the river Wabash, at Fort Massac, New Madrid, Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez and Fort Adams, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited in the Mississippi territory, except the county of Washington, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory south of the 41st degree of north latitude & fifty miles east of the Mississippi river. Fourth, At St. Louis, St. Charles, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, & at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the territory of Louisiana north of New Madrid, and at any place or places in the Indiana territory within fifty miles east of the Mississippi river and south of the 41st degree of North latitude, Fort Massac excepted. Fifth, At New Orleans, Plaquemines, Point Coupee, Oachita, Natchez, Appalousa, Attakapa, Fort Stodder, Fort St. Stephens, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the territory of Orleans, or in the county of Washington in the Mississippi Territory, and at any place or places on the west side of the Mississippi river below Arkansas.
Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of January 1806, to the 31st day of December of the same year, both days inclusive, within the several states herein after mentioned, viz.
Sixth, At Fort Wilkinson, Cockspur Island, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia and the Creek nation.
Seventh, At Charleston, Rocky Mount, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the states of North and South Carolina.
Eighth, At Norfolk, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Virginia.
Ninth, At Fort McHenry, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Maryland and the district of Columbia.
Tenth, At Fort Mifflin, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania, east of the river Susquehannah, and within the states of New Jersey and Delaware.
Eleventh, At Pittsburgh, Carlisle, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Pennsylvania, west of the river Susquehannah.
Twelfth, At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of New York, Niagara and its dependencies excepted.
Thirteenth, At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Fourteenth, At Fort Independence (Boston harbour) and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited, within the state of Massachusetts, the town of Springfield, and the district of Maine, excepted.
Fifteenth, At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched, or recruited within the state of New Hampshire and the district of Maine.
Sixteenth, Proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations, which may be required by the United States, for the troops which are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the town of Springfield in the state of Massachusetts, and for the armourers and other persons employed in the United States armoury at that place, from the 1st day of January 1806 to the 31st day of December in the same year, both days inclusive.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of Beef, or three quarters of a pound of Pork, eighteen ounces of Bread or flour, one gill of Rum, Whiskey or Brandy, and at the rate of 2 quarts of Salt, four quarts of Vinegar, four pounds of Soap, and one pound and a half of Candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration shall be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid, as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price of the whole ration. The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, and Chickago, for six months in advance; and at each of the other posts on the western waters, for at least three months in advance, of good and wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the commandants of fortified places and posts, to call for, at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in case of urgency, such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the commandant shall be deemed proper.
It is understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredations of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or
more persons of creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies, which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued, until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed; and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the seaboard, or Indian frontier, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. March 8. (1m)
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE SUBSCRIBER HAS Opened a Broker's Office, Opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amos Ladd. All business confided to him will be transacted with strict fidelity.
THOM. NORVELL. Richmond, October 3, 1804.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the late firm of Buchanan, Dunlop & Co. Of Petersburg; Robert Pollok & Co. Of Richmond; and Dunlop, Pollok & Co. Of Manchester,
Are hereby notified that James Dunlop, late a partner in the above concerns, has become purchaser of the outstanding debts; they will therefore be pleased to make payment to Mr. John Tompkins, residing in Richmond, or the subscriber, residing in Petersburg; who alone are authorised to make collections and grant discharges. Suits will be indiscriminately commenced against all who do not make payment before the first of February next.
JOHN DUNLOP, Attorney for JAMES DUNLOP. Petersburg, Nov. 15, 1804.
The subscriber wishes to sell for cash, or on credit till the first day of January next, the
Two Brick Tenements, Adjoining the house of Mr. Benjamin Mosby.
JOHN PENDLETON. City of Richmond, Nov. 10th, 1804.
PRECIPITATE,
IMPORTED by Mr. Lightfoot of Sandy Point, last winter, full 15 hands and a half high; will stand at my stable in Chesterfield county, Appomattox river, 15 miles above Petersburg, to be let to mares at ten guineas a mare, two of which will be remitted if paid within the season, which will commence the 1st of March, & expire the 1st of August next. Board of servants gratis; mares may be fed with grain at two shillings per day. I have large and extensive pasturage, divided in five different inclosures, that mares with foals may be kept distinct from barren mares. One dollar to the groom. No liability for accidents of any description.
PRECIPITATE was bred by Lord Egremont, foaled in 1787, got by Mercury (a son of Eclipse) dam by Herod, his granddam Maiden by Matcham, out of Mr. Pratt's old Squirt mare; her dam by Mogul—Camilla by Bay Bolton—Old Lady dam of Sterling by Puffine's chesnut Arabian—Rockwood Bustler.
PERFORMANCE. In the first spring meeting, 1790, at New-Market, when 3 years old, he won the first class of the princes stakes of 100 guineas each, beating Thunderbolt, Chanticleer, and Sir Pepper, four having paid the forfeit. In the same week he won the Bolton stakes of 50 guineas each, beating Chamboe, Dragon and Pallas; 7 paid forfeit. Second spring meeting he won the 3d class of the princes stakes of 100 guineas, beating Thunderbolt; 7 paid forfeit. And in the same week he received 100 guineas forfeit from Lord Grosvenor's Radamanthus.
In 1792 he won £50 at Guildfield, beating Doge, Thunderbolt, Samagapam and Stork; the next day £50 at the same place, beating Cardock and Griffin. He also won the king's 100 guineas, at Lewis, beating Skyscraper at 3 heats, the 1st being a dead heat. After which he was so highly esteemed that he became a stallion in his Lordship's stud at 12 guineas a mare. This horse is the sire of the following running horses in England: Johnquill, Petworth, Matrana, Rosalba, Chesnut colt out of Bobtail, Chesnut colt out of Rosemary, Humburg, Lazarus, Raghier, Apollo, Gulliver, Tag, Louisa, Tipstaff, Mr. Heathcote's filly out of Reeves, Alchymist, Clodhopper, Grey filly by R. H. Lampadusa, Mars, Mary, Matrance, Bay filly by Brown's, Grey filly by Radcliff's, Tax, Tipstaff and Bobtail. Feb. 20, 1805. THOMAS GOODE.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the subscriber about the end of Nov. or early in Dec. a black servant named SAM, I believe about 19 or 20 years of age, very strong and likely for a man of his age. He was seen in the neighborhood of this place some time after he absented himself, but from his connections I have reason to suppose that he may be lurking about, or concealed by those connections in the counties of Powhatan or Cumberland. I will give the above reward if he is brought to me in this place, or ten dollars if secured in a jail so that I may get him.
Arch'd. Freeland. Manchester, March 16, 1805.
THE SIXTH AND LAST VOLUME OF WARNER & HANNA'S
Select Plays
Is just received at this office—where a few complete sets of the work in elegant binding are for sale.
FROM SOUTH AMERICA.
THE BEAUTIFUL SPANISH HORSE,
APPALUSIA,
WILL stand the ensuing season, at my plantation Chickahominy, near the new bridges, and will be let to mares at the moderate price of ten dollars the season, payable the first of Oct. next, but notes (to be sent with the mares) may be discharged by paying eight dollars on or by the 1st of August, when the season will end. Insurance fifteen dollars (notes sent as above, payable 1st March, 1806.) And four dollars each the lease. Mares will be fed with clover and lucerne gratis, and corn if required, at the following price. I have so spare falls in a strong new stable, with substantial locks, where they may be kept of nights, but will not be answerable for escapes. APPALUSIA is lately from South America, about ten years old, 15 hands high, of a beautiful snow white colour, and most elegantly formed. It is unnecessary to point out the great superiority of this excellent breed of horses for the saddle, harness, &c., as it is generally known that they are well fitted, gentle, and the most hardy and thrifty horses in the world, and many live to be upwards of 50 years old.
APPALUSIA stood in Augusta the season before last, where he proved to be a certain foal getter, and many of his colts would have sold for ten dollars each at a day old. A few mares were put to him the last season, (having bought him late) all of which proved with foal.
HENJAMIN DUVAL. February 15th, 1805.
WRANGLER,
IMPORTED last summer was two years from England. This horse, so justly celebrated for his beauty, size, blood and performances, it is believed is not surpassed by any horse ever imported into America. He is a fine bay and only ten years old last spring; he will stand at my stable in Prince Edward county, nine miles below the courthouse and two from Elisha Bets's, formerly Moore's, ordinary, to cover mares at fifteen pounds the season, twenty shillings of which will be remitted if paid within the season, and forty dollars to insure a mare with foal, payable immediately, if the mare is parted with, with one dollar to the groom with each mare. The season will commence the 1st of March and expire the 1st of August. Good and extensive pasturage, well inclosed, gratis. No liability for accidents or escapes of any kind, but great care will be taken to prevent either. Notes will be expected with the mares. Gentlemen who leave their mares may have them fed with grain at the market price, if required.
BLOOD.
He was bred by Sir Thomas Charles Bunbury and was got by old Diomed; his dam by Charlie, Sedley's famous mare Fleecetooth, by Goldfinder; granddam by Squirrel; great granddam by Bally brother to Blaze; great great granddam by Lath, out of a full sister to Snip; she was got by Childers, out of the old Bally mare, sister to Sorrelcheek. Let it be recollected, that Fleecetooth, the dam of Wrangler, was decidedly the best mare of her day; she is the granddam of col. Roomer's Lady Bull.
PERFORMANCES.
Wrangler at three years old, won a sweepstakes at Alpton, in Sussex, beating Mr. Durand's Johnny, Proferpine, Snake and others. He won a match for 100 guineas a side, beating Lord Egremont's Broomstick; and he also won the town plate, beating Rofe, &c. At four years old, Wrangler won at New-Market second spring meeting, a sweepstakes of 800 guineas, beating Centinel, Deplorable, Fugitive, Plover and Cumberland; and at Brighton meeting, a sweepstakes of 100 guineas, beating Bugle and Jonquil, and was second to Magic for the Petworth stakes, beating Bennington, Johnny, Play or Pay, Montezuma, &c. He won at Bedford, four mile heats, free for all ages; he beat Reluctance a match, and he won a plate at New-Market, in the Houghton meeting, beating Fidge, Bennington, Humburg, Outlands, Hornpipe, &c. At five years old, for the ladies' plate at Lewis, he beat Magic, Gohanna, Worthey, brother to Waxey. He won a plate at Bedford, at four mile heats, winning the second and fourth heats, and won at Egham, and he also won a sweepstakes at New-Market, beating Lady Bull, Spoliator, Speculator, Philbert, &c. At six years old, for the great Oxford stakes, he beat Telegraph, Astram, Vandal, Hornby Lass and Stamford. At New-Market first spring meeting, he won a plate, beating Paymaster and Boaster; he also won a sweepstakes of 25 guineas each, giving six pounds and the year to Paymaster, beating at the same time, Expedition and Boaster. In the month of August, 1800, he was purchased by col. O'Kelly, who won two matches with him for 50 guineas each, beating Grey Hound. At seven years old, he beat Jack Andrews a match, three miles and a half, over New-Market, for 100 guineas; he also beat Hornby Lass across the flat, for 50 guineas; he was next horse to Sir Harry and beat the Prince of Wales's by King Fergus, and by Mr. Muffet, Jack Chance and Pando. He had occasionally run ruffive; about this time that disposition increased, and he could be obtained, and he was purchased to be imported to Virginia. He is in high health and vigor, not a blemish about him, and his limbs as clear as those of a colt; but his best recommendation will be a view of him.
THOMAS HASKINS. Prince-Edward, February 4, 1805.
NOTICE.
I do hereby forewarn any person or persons from taking an assignment of my bond or note, given to Elijah May, for one hundred dollars, as I will not discharge the same. JOHN R. PERKINS. Fluvanna co. 6th March, 1805.
The full booted English stallion and most complete running horse,
Tickle Toby,
A DARK brown, elegant formed, 16 hands high, will stand the ensuing season at my stable in the upper end of Chesterfield county, near Goode's and Bevil's bridges, to be let to mares at six guineas the season, which may be discharged by the payment of 21 dollars within the season; three guineas the lease to be paid down, and 10 guineas to insure a mare being in foal, with a dollar to the groom in the two latter cases. Extensive pasturage and the board of boys gratis, but I will not be responsible for accidents or escapes. Gentlemen wishing their mares fed, must send the money with them to purchase grain. The season will commence immediately and expire the last day of July next. THOMAS BRANCH. 10th March, 1805.
Pedigree, taken from the general stud book of England—TICKLE TOBY was got by Alfred, one of the best sons of old Matchem, his dam Celia, by Herod, his granddam Prasperine, full sister to Col. O'Kelly's famous Eclipse.
Races won by Tickle Toby.
At York, August meeting the first time he started, he won a sweepstakes of 200 guineas each, (3 subscribers) beating Mr. Bullock's Toby, Mr. Farnier's Telescope, and Mr. Peirse's Financier. He also won the 70 guineas at Lincoln, beating Sir F. Poole's Mentor, and Mr. Brewster's Put. At York spring Meeting he won the stand plate, beating Mr. Doderworth's Abby Thule, col. Ratchiff's Mousetrap, and Mr. Garforth's Harold. The day following he won 50i. for all ages, beating col. Ratchiff's Pigeon, Lord A. Hamilton's brother to Restless, and Sir W. Vavassour's Hope. The York August meeting following, he won the great subscription, (though five years old) for six years old and aged horses, beating Lord A. Hamilton's Walnut, Prince of Wales's Traveller, Mr. Wentworth's Gustavus, Mr. Baker's Cavendish, and the Duke of Norfolk's Dubskelter; this was universally allowed to be one of the finest races ever run, and the only time Walnut was ever beaten. Tickle Toby won the 70 guineas at Lincoln, beating Lord Scarborough's Valiant and Mr. Wilks's Liberty. He won the Corporation Plate at Doncaster, carrying 4 lbs. extra, beating Mr. Garforth's Camilla, and Lord Scarborough's Valiant, which were the only times he run that year. The York spring meeting following, he won the stand plate, beating Mr. Garforth's famous mare Rosalind. The August meeting he walked over for the King's Plate; and won the great subscription for six years old, and aged horses, beating Mr. Wentworth's Tamerlane, Lord A. Hamilton's Walnut drawn. He won 50 gs. at Kelso, beating Mr. Baird's Rattler. The York spring meeting following, he received 150 guineas forfeit from Sir W. Maxwell's Scorpio, 4 miles, at 12 stone each. The August meeting, he again won the great subscription, for six years old and aged horses, beating Mr. Wentworth's Hubby, Lord A. Hamilton's Restless, Mr. Hutchinson's Overton, and Mr. Baker's Cavendish. He also won the 100 guineas at Dumfries, beating Gustavus, and 50 guineas at Kelso beating Mr. Baird's Louisa, at one heat. The year following he won the Corporation Plate at Chester, beating Mr. Fox's Miles-plover, & Mr. Wray's Grog, and 50i. at Newcast, beating Mr. Lowther's Minimus, showing him 25 lbs. And the 100 gs. at Newcastle-upon-tyne, beating Mr. Baird's Lucy, Mr. Peirse's Rosalind, and Lord Tyrconnel's Hermes. He also won the gold cup at Chester, beating Lord Donegal's Joe Andrews, Mr. Taylor's Helmet, Mr. Tatten's Beesey, and Mr. Rathbone's Tommy. And also received the premiums at several places, no Horses entering against him.
The high bred English Stallion,
ARCHDUKE,
IMPORTED from London by John Hoomes, esq. of the Bowling Green. Was got by Sir Peter Teazle, (the first stallion now in England) his dam Horatia by old Eclipse (grandmother to the first stallion of his day) his granddam Countess by Blank, a famous son of the Godolphin Arabian, with many other excellent crosses. A horse of better blood than Archduke was never raised; he is full brother to Mr. Teazle and Stamford, both in high repute, and so are the whole flock. Countess (his granddam) has bred some of the best horses that have appeared on the British turf. She is the dam of Vizard, Celskar, Achilles, Greyhound, Horatia and Delfini, all capital. This is well known to every gentleman acquainted with the racing calendars and general stud book of England. Archduke is a dark brown horse, full fifteen hands high, has a deal of bone and great powers, a good share of beauty and in the prime of life. He made his appearance on the turf at 3 years old, and did not run after that year. He won a sweepstakes at 100 guineas each, beating several good horses; also the Derby stakes, beating Lord Egremont's Gifford, Sir F. Handley's brother to Spread Eagle, Mr. Heathcote's Viridi, Mr. Cookson's Expectation, the Duke of Grafton's Vandal, Lord Oxford's Dart (now his Lordship's) Lord Grosvenor's colt by Poets, out of Snipton's filly, and several other very fine colts. The Derby stakes are considered the first in England, and gives the winner great credit. He fell lame shortly after and was red, run two races more with very good horses and although he was beaten, he came in well. The above is the whole of his racing.
ARCHDUKE will stand the ensuing season at my stable in Orange county, about 6 miles below the courthouse, at twenty dollars, with half a dollar to the groom, for each mare. The season will commence the 15th day of March next and end the 1st day of August following. A great abundance of the best of pasturage gratis. Boys boarded at 10s. 6d. per week and corn furnished at the market price for the mares that are to be fed, for which the money must be sent. Great attention paid the mares, but no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes for twenty dollars must accompany the mares. FRANCIS TALLIAFERRO. February 15, 1805.
JUST published and for sale at this office, the PENNSYLVANIA FARMER, Being a selection from the most approved treatises on Husbandry, interspersed with Observations and Experiments.
By JOE ROBERTS. w 10:

Private Entertainment. The subscriber has taken a lease of five years, for the well known and commodious house in the city of Richmond, long occupied by Mr. Richard Crouch, which is situated on the street leading from the main street by the Governor's, and is near the corner of the Governor's and Monroe. He is provided with an excellent stable, which shall be constantly supplied with forage of the best quality, where he will receive Horses at Livery, and the utmost attention shall be paid to those horses which may be committed to his care. The long experience which the subscriber has had in this kind of business, and the general satisfaction which he has given to those who have favored him with their custom at Manchester and other places, authorizes him to hope, that he will not only continue to receive the patronage of his former friends, but likewise the countenance and favor of the public at large. He also proposes to take in about 20 BOARDERS, on reasonable terms, and begs leave to assure those who may favor him with their patronage, that every attention and exertion shall be used to give entire satisfaction. And the subscriber also offers his services to sell horses on commission—in all cases where he may be employed to do so, he will charge the owner no more than the actual cost for the support of such horses. PETER MOSELEY.
Advertisement. TO BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, on a credit of twelve months, FIVE TRACTS OF LAND, belonging to the estate of Thomas Anderson, dec. viz:—One in Campbell county, of 400 acres, lying on both sides of the main road, on the branches of Beaver creek; this tract to be sold at next April Campbell court, being the 8th day of the month. One in Buckingham county of 160 acres, lying on Canawhatchie creek; this tract to be sold at next April Buckingham court, being the 11th day of the month; these two tracts to be attended by Mr. Anthony Dibrell, who is hereby fully authorized to act for the executors of the said Thomas Anderson. One of 400 acres, one of 147 acres, and one of 50 acres, lying in Buckingham county, the two former on the waters of Rock Island creek, and the latter one on Living's ferry road. These three last tracts to be sold at next May Buckingham court, being the 13th day of the month. Bond with approved security will be required, to be paid interest from the date, but if not paid at the date interest shall be remitted. NATHAN ANDERSON, & ROBERT RIVES, Exrs. of Thos. Anderson, dec. Albemarle county, Feb. 18th 1805. tds
Notice. THAT Mr. Anthony Dibrell of Buckingham county, is hereby fully authorized to make sale of one TRACT OF LAND, in Patrick, containing 5000 acres, lying on Dan river—three ditto in Grayson county, lying on the waters of Little Red Island creek, one of a thousand acres each, & one of 500 acres; the said Dibrell will attend at next April Grayson court for the sale of the said lands for and on behalf of NATHAN ANDERSON. Albemarle county, Feb. 18th, 1805. tds
WILL BE SOLD, At Public Auction, on Saturday the 20th day of April next, at the Rawleigh tavern, in the city of Williamsburg, that valuable plantation, called YARMOUTH, Lying in James City county, on Chickahominy river, ten miles from Williamsburg. The improvements are, a two-story brick house with two rooms and a passage above and below, porticos on each side, a large and capacious barn, and 3 other out houses. The whole tract including an island in view of the house, high and low land, with marshes, contains about 9700 acres, scarcely one third of which is cleared. Two islands of the island are arable, which, with the land adjoining the houses, is of superior quality. Adjacent to the island are two bold and navigable creeks with a convenient landing to each. The range for cattle is very extensive and the marshes and meadows will support an abundance of hay. Fish and fowl, in their respective seasons, may with ease be obtained at your door. The orchards, consisting of the greatest variety of all kinds of fruit selected with care, are now in their prime. The terms of sale are one third cash, the balance in one, two and three equal annual payments. PEYTON RANDOLPH, Jr. For Eliz: IRENE. tds
BANK OF VIRGINIA. THE Shareholders are hereby notified, that the fourth installment will become due on Saturday the 6th of April, and will be received at the Bank, and at the Offices of Discount and Deposit at Norfolk, Petersburg and Fredericksburg. Certificates of Stock will after that day be issued on application at the Bank. March 6, 1805.
The Tract of Land, Which belonged to the said Richard L. Lacy at the time of his death, on which Edmund B. Lacy at present resides. This land is situated about 5 or 6 miles below Providence Forge, and within one mile of Chickahominy river, on an eminent hill, where you have an extensive view of the river—the tract contains by estimation one hundred and ninety-six acres, the land to be received by the purchaser be the quantity more or less; there are a tolerable dwelling house and out houses on the land. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock. John H. Christian, Trustee. March 9th, 1805. tm
HATS & SHOES. AN ASSORTMENT just received and for sale by JUDSON & BURR, Second door above the Eagle. ALSO, 3 Bales INDIA COTTONS, 1 Case 4-4 fine IRISH LINENS, 3 Tons country refined BAR IRON. March 26, 1805. 6t
Upper Appomattox Company. In pursuance of an order of the Trustees, at their last meeting, the 14th Sept. 1804—Will be SOLD, at Powell's Tavern, in Petersburg, the 15th day of April next. ALL SHARES of the first subscription, on which a balance may be due at that time, without discrimination. T. PAIDE, Clk. & Receiver. 9th March, 1805. tds
MAP OF VIRGINIA. PROPOSALS, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, A MAP OF VIRGINIA, FORMED FROM ACTUAL SURVEYS, AND THE LATEST AS WELL AS MOST ACCURATE OBSERVATIONS. BY JAMES MADISON, D. D. PRESIDENT OF WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE. To which will be added, A MAP of the greater part of the state of Ohio, from actual surveys, including the whole of the Virginia military tract;—with all that part of the state west of the Ohio river, to the Indiana boundary line. The north-east corner of the Map will be ornamented with an interesting View of the City of Richmond. The size of the MAP will be five feet six inches in length, and three feet eight inches in breadth. An ingenious and skillful engraver is engaged to execute the work, in a style not inferior to any similar work in the United States. CONDITIONS. The price to subscribers will be eight dollars, newly mounted, colored and glazed.—One dollar, (to lighten the great expense of publication,) to be paid on subscribing. To non-subscribers, the price will be ten dollars. [COPY-RIGHT SECURED]
In offering the above work to the public, the proprietors are sensible that excellence is not often attainable; but with candor and truth, equally remote from arrogance and partiality, they can say, that they conscientiously believe it has a just claim to the confidence and patronage of the people. A Map of Virginia has been long and anxiously looked for: None has been published, on the plan of the one now offered, for many years. The labor, expense, and apparent difficulties, in accomplishing so interesting a work, have deterred several from the arduous undertaking. The proprietors, finding that most of the other states had recently given encouragement to similar productions, and entertaining a high sense of the real dignity and importance of Virginia, embarked in the business, from a well-grounded belief, that the magnitude and utility of the work, would insure, if accomplished, a remuneration. And while Virginia is powerfully stimulated with the love of science and virtue, they hope and believe she will view domestic productions, which prove pre-eminently useful, with a generous pride. Those gentlemen who take subscription papers, are requested to return them to the subscriber, in Petersburg, by the first day of May. The maps will be ready for subscribers in the course of the ensuing summer. WILLIAM PRENTIS. (15A) Petersburg, February, 1805. * Subscriptions received by S. Pleasants, jun. and others with whom subscription papers are lodged.
FOUND, on Saturday the 2d inst. a Red Morocco POCKET BOOK, which the owner may get by applying to the subscriber and paying for this advertisement. James Bootwright. Richmond, March 4th, 1805.
RUN away from the subscriber about the 13th January last, a negro man named ADAM, about 23 years of age, of a dark complexion, about 6 feet high, has a small scar on his forehead; had on when he went away an osnaburgs shirt, short coat and pantaloons of blue plaids, and common felt hat; he had sundry other clothing which it is supposed he carried with him, as they have not been seen since he escaped. He was purchased of Mr. Gabriel Tutt near Culpeper courthouse, by Mr. John Mullins, about 18 months past, of whom the subscriber purchased immediately afterwards; the said fellow has a wife at Dr. Claggett's, who resides at Culpeper courthouse; it is probable he may be harboured by his wife at this place. Whoever will deliver the said fellow to the subscriber living in Albemarle county near Charlottesville, shall receive a reward of Thirty Dollars, or if secured in any jail so that I get him again Twenty Dollars. JOHN CLARKSON. 25th Feb. 1805. if
To Undertakers. THE subscriber proposing to erect some Brick Buildings on the Market Square in the course of the present year, invites proposals from undertakers until the middle of April next; the plan of said buildings and the mode of payment will be made known on application. JOHN SEABROOK. 11th March, 1805. tms
The large white House, At Rocketts, formerly occupied by Mr. William Fenwick, and afterwards by Mr. Braxton Craddock. For terms apply to Gallego, Richard & Co. FOR SALE, TWO LOTS, HANDSOMELY situated in the town of New-Canton, on James river; on both are new and well built dwelling houses and offices; on one an excellent garden well enclosed, and the other containing one acre, with a good post and rail fence.—For further particulars enquire of Messrs. William Anderson and James Ren of said place, who are legally authorised to sell and convey the same. ROBERT HILL. New-York, 1st Feb. 1805. if
NOTICE. INTENDING to take my departure for London, on or before the 30th April next, all those who have any claims against me, will render them to Gilliat & Kirby for adjustment and payment. Thomas Gilliat. March 9th, 1805. (Im)
Richmond Academy Lottery. THE subscriber being appointed by the Trustees to collect all monies due on the sales of Tickets in said Lottery, requests those indebted for the same to make immediate payment to him at the Land Office. Prizes will be taken in discharge of any money due the Trustees, or for tickets in the second Class.—He is authorised to pay all prizes after the 15th May next. WILLIAM PRICE. March 22d, 1805.
Gloucester Low Grounds FOR SALE. WILL BE SOLD, on the premises, for ready money, on the 24th day of May next, under a decree of the court of Gloucester county, two hundred and seventy seven acres of LAND, lying in the parish of Abingdon, and county of Gloucester. This land joins the lands of Colonel Thomas Lewis and John Seawell, Esq. is of excellent quality for the production of corn and barley, lies extremely convenient to the Severn river, where fish and oysters are both abundant and excellent. Thomas Lewis, John Seawell, John Lewis, Joseph Cluverius, Commissioners. March 20, 1805. 2m
Geo. Watt HAS removed from the store he formerly occupied to a brick house on the cross street leading from the main street to Shockoe warehouse, where he has on hand and offers to dispose of on moderate terms, by wholesale, The following Articles, viz: Loaf and Muscovado Sugars, N. England, W. Island, and Antigua Rum, Cogniac, Barcelons and Apple Brandy, Sherry and Malaga Wine, Coffee of a superior quality, Molasses, Ginger and Fig Blue, Young Hysan and Imperial Tea, 400 Sacks Liverpool Salt, Patent Shot, assorted sizes—And The remainder of his Stock of Dry Goods, consisting principally of articles suited to the present and approaching season, which he will either sell on a credit of 3, 6 and 9 months, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorser, or barter for Tobacco, Flour or Hemp. Cash given for Tobacco. Richmond, 22d March, 1805.
NOTICE. THE subscriber intends shortly to leave this state for Europe, where he means to spend the summer months. He invites those persons who may have claims against him to call for payment—he also urges the necessity of closing all outstanding accounts due him, and therefore requests those indebted to him to discharge their respective accounts without delay. L. Wercq. [BY AUTHORITY.]
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY. CLASS No. II. 4000 Tickets at 10 dollars each. dolls. 40000 1 Prize of - - - dolls. 10000 1 of - - - 5000 5 of - - - 1000 10 of - - - 500 20 of - - - 100 50 of - - - 50 100 of - - - 25 227 - - - 40000 First drawn ticket after 500 are drawn, dolls. 500 after 1000 - - - 500 after 1500 - - - 500 after 2000 - - - 1000 after 2500 - - - 1000 after 3000 - - - 1000 after 3500 - - - 1000 after 3950 - - - 10000 The above Lottery will certainly commence drawing the first Monday in November, or sooner, if the tickets are sold.
Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale eleven hundred and ten acres of LAND, lying on the waters of Cunningham and Briery creeks, in Albemarle and Fluvanna. This land is well timbered, and the turnpike road from Richmond to Staunton runs nearly through the centre of it. Also, another TRACT, surveyed in the year 1755, containing two hundred and thirty five acres, lying on Careys creek, in Fluvanna. As there is a good Mill Seat on this tract which is well timbered with pine, &c. a Saw Mill might be erected on it with ease, and attended with considerable profit. It is situated near the Pook Ordinary and within six or eight miles of New Canton. Great bargains may be had in these lands and the payments made easy, by giving bonds with approved security. D. M. WHARTON. Powhatan C. H. March 24, 1805. if
Valuable Lands for Sale. I WISH to sell a HALF SHARE in the Dismal Swamp Company—also, SHARES in the Canal from Albemarle sound to Elizabeth river—also, One Tract of three Tracts of LAND, lying on Nansemond river near Suffolk, the three tracts amounting in the whole to about 1200 acres. Any person inclined to purchase may be informed of the terms of sale by directing a letter to the subscriber, living near the post-office at Lindsay's store, Albemarle county. FRAS. WALKER. 6t
Alexander Plainville, CONFECTIONER, RESPECTFULLY informs the inhabitants of Richmond, Manchester and their vicinity, that he has rented the HAY-MARKET GARDEN, For the summer season, where he intends to make it his study to try and please those who may favor him with their custom. Plainville being acquainted with the distilling of Cordials, making of Ice-Creams, &c. flatters himself that those who favor him with their custom will be entertained in a manner far superior to that in which they have been heretofore. All kinds of Wines, Liquors, Cordials, Ice-Creams, Syrups, &c. of the first quality, and moderate charges.—Tea-Parties accommodated with every thing suitable to please both the taste of the ladies and gentlemen.—Relishes, Cold Snacks, &c. at the shortest notice.—Barbecues occasionally as it may best suit those gentlemen who choose to subscribe for them.—Fire-Works, Music, &c. occasionally. The other entertainments as usual, with some alterations for the better. Ladies and gentlemen wishing to be accommodated with Ice-Creams, Cordials, Syrups, &c. without going out of the city, may be supplied at his house on the main-street, where he has made every preparation requisite for their reception. The Hay-Market Garden to be opened every day at 2 o'clock, Sundays and Holidays excepted, when it will be opened in the morning, and continue open all day. Price of admittance 25 cents. P. S. ICE for sale at his Confectionary on the main-street. if March 30. Just published, and for sale by S. Pleasants, Jr. in an elegant pocket edition, WATTS PSALMS, HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS.
NOTICE. All kinds of Wines, Liquors, Cordials, Ice-Creams, Syrups, &c. of the first quality, and moderate charges.—Tea-Parties accommodated with every thing suitable to please both the taste of the ladies and gentlemen.—Relishes, Cold Snacks, &c. at the shortest notice.—Barbecues occasionally as it may best suit those gentlemen who choose to subscribe for them.—Fire-Works, Music, &c. occasionally. The other entertainments as usual, with some alterations for the better. Ladies and gentlemen wishing to be accommodated with Ice-Creams, Cordials, Syrups, &c. without going out of the city, may be supplied at his house on the main-street, where he has made every preparation requisite for their reception. The Hay-Market Garden to be opened every day at 2 o'clock, Sundays and Holidays excepted, when it will be opened in the morning, and continue open all day. Price of admittance 25 cents. P. S. ICE for sale at his Confectionary on the main-street. if March 30. Just published, and for sale by S. Pleasants, Jr. in an elegant pocket edition, WATTS PSALMS, HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS.
PSALMS, HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS. Just published, and for sale by S. Pleasants, Jr. in an elegant pocket edition, WATTS PSALMS, HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS.
Surry county, 25th March, 1805. COMMITTED to the jail of this county on the 24th day of Feb. last, a negro man by the name of BOOKE, who says he belongs to Mr. Ezekiel Walden of Northumberland county in the state of Maryland, which place he left, as he says, last April in pursuit of his wife who had been sold—he is a stout well made fellow, about 22 years old, and appears to have gone by water—The owner of said runaway is requested to come forward, prove property, pay charges and take him away. DAVID PRICE, Keeper of the jail, Surry courthouse, Va.
Hymns and Spiritual Songs. THE subscribers to the Book of Hymns & Spiritual Songs, intended to be published by J. Courtney, Jr. are respectfully informed, that, notwithstanding a severe indisposition which totally put it out of his power for the space of many weeks to attend to any kind of business, in addition to many unavoidable delays, the work is now in the press, and from the number of hands which are employed, he can with certainty say, that in the course of a few weeks the book will be ready for delivery. On a perusal of this valuable collection, the reader will readily perceive, that great pains have been taken to render it one of the most useful books of the kind now extant. A number of people, preeminently for their piety, prefer the Hymns and Spiritual Songs of Dr. Isaac Watts—Others prefer Rippon's, whilst many admire Wesley's and Lady Huntington's hymns. To these it may be necessary to observe, that, in the present selection, partiality has been carefully avoided, while the beauties of all the foregoing authors have been collected, so as to render this book suitable to every denomination of Christians, either for private or public Worship. In this publication there will appear a large and beautiful selection of Spiritual Songs, which, at considerable trouble, and some expense, have been obtained from almost every state in the Union. It is the design of the subscriber to strike off several thousand copies of this work, which may be attended with almost too great a risk for an individual in his circumcribed situation. But, from a desire of affording every one an opportunity of perusing this book, and from a sincere wish to see the prosperity of Zion, he thus ventures his all, while he hopes that his labors will not fail to meet with a suitable reward. The book will contain upwards of three hundred and fifty pages, handsomely printed, on good type, and on paper of a superior quality. JOHN COURTNEY, JUN. Richmond, March 20th, 1805.
TRIAL OF JUDGE CHASE. It is the intention of the editor of the National Intelligencer, to publish in a volume the proceedings on this interesting trial at full length, with as little delay as circumstances will admit. The extent of the work cannot at present be ascertained with any precision. It will, however, probably exceed 300 pages octavo. It shall be published in boards, at a price not exceeding 50 cents for an hundred pages. Gentlemen desirous of securing copies are requested to leave their names with the editor—and the printers of newspapers will confer a favor by inserting this advertisement a few times. March 15 (3t)
TO RENT, AND possession given the 8th day of March next, a commodious dwelling HOUSE, now occupied by Mrs. Galt.—For terms apply to David Lambert. February 22d, 1805. (tf)
TO BE SOLD, Pursuant to a deed of trust executed to me by the late Henry Randolph, Esq. to secure the payment of certain sums of money in the said deed, acknowledged to be due from him to Lyle and McCredie, merchants. A Parcel of Land, Situated in the county of Chesterfield, within the distance of four miles from Manchester, and estimated to contain about three hundred and fifteen acres. This land, commonly known by the name of Scott's tract, or the Camp tract, will be set up for sale, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday, the first of May next, between the hours of eleven A. M. and two P. M. at Zach. Brooks's tavern, in Manchester, on the following terms, viz: one third of the purchase money to be paid down one third in six months, and the remaining third in twelve months from the day of sale.—Bond and security will be required for the partial payment of the credit instalments, on which payment being made, a proper conveyance will be executed by JOHN HEVENINGHAM. Chesterfield, March 15th, 1805. tds
Patent Medicines. Just received and for sale at S. Pleasants' Book-Store, near the Bridge, THE FOLLOWING GENUINE Patent Medicines. Hill's Balsam of Honey | obstinate eruptions, &c Turlington's Balsam | British Oil Godfrey's Cordial | Hooper's Female Pills Essence of Peppermint | Anderson's Scotts do. Steers Opoedeldest | The celebrated Specific Oriental Cerate, for the cure of outward piles, scolds, sore legs, burns, &c. | Pills, for the cure of the outward and inward Piles.
TUCKER'S BLACKSTONE. This day is published and ready for delivery to subscribers, in Virginia, at S. Pleasants' Book-Store, Richmond: BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES, WITH Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States, AND OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; IN FIVE VOLUMES. With an appendix to each volume, containing tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a systematic view of the Laws of Virginia as a member of the Federal Union. BY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Professor of Law in the College of William & Mary, and one of the Judges of the General Court, in Virginia.
Bail and Delivery Bonds For sale at this office.
NEW PUBLICATION. Just received at S. Pleasants' Printing-Office and Book-Store, [PRICE ONE DOLLAR,] A FAMILY TOUR THROUGH THE BRITISH EMPIRE; CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF ITS Natural and Artificial Curiosities, History and Antiquities, INTERPERSSED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES, Particularly adapted to the amusement and instruction of Youth, (with a large Map of the British Empire.) By FRISCILLA WAKEMFIELD.
WONDER, REPORTED last fall was 12 months in the ship Mentzelio; will stand at my stable the ensuing season, and be let to mares at Six Guineas each the season, and a Dollar to the groom; but may be discharged with five provided they are paid by the first day of October next. As good pasture as any in Virginia (with separate inclosures for mares and colts) gratis, and the greatest attention shall be paid them, but I will not be answerable for accidents or escapes. PERFORMANCES. In 1796, Wonder, then two years old, won the sweepstakes at York of 50 guineas each, for two years old colts, 8 stone, 7 stone 12 lbs six subscribers, beating lord A. Hamilton's brother to Rattenon, and Mr Lowther's b. c. by Diomed, out of Tulip, twenty to one against the winner. In 1797, when 3 years old, carrying 8 stone 7 lbs at Doncaster, he beat Mr Sitwell's Commodore, 8 stone, the last half mile, for 100 guineas each, 2 miles. The same day he received forfeit from Mr Baker's g. c. Hap Hazard, 8 st each, 200 guineas each, 2 miles. In 1798, he won the great produce stakes at York of 200 guineas each, 3 subscribers, 4 miles. In 1799, he won the sweepstakes at Stamford, of ten guineas each for all ages, beating Mr Heathcote's Warner, 8 subscribers, 2 miles. The same year he ran second in a sweepstakes at York, for 20 guineas each, 7 subscribers, 2 miles, beating lord A. Hamilton's colt by Walnut, out of Nun, sir Thomas Gascogne's Maid of the Mill, and Abraham Newland, now called Cockfighter. In 1800, for the York Outlands, of fifty guineas each, he ran second to Cockfighter, allowing him seven pounds, beating Mr. Cookson's Sir Harry, eleven subscribers, two miles. The same year, at Doncaster, he beat Sir George Armitage's Tartar, one hundred guineas each, four miles—The same year, he challenged Mr. Johnson's Sir Solomon, offering five pounds, five hundred guineas each, two miles. WONDER was lamed in training in 1801, and has never since started. He was bred by Lord Fitzwilliam, is fifteen hands three inches high, ten years old last spring, full of bone, very handsome, and free from all natural blemishes—He is a dark chestnut, and is unquestionably as fine a horse as was ever imported to this country, and of as good a stock—and as a runner he certainly has exhibited well, having beaten Warner, Cockfighter, and Sir Harry, three of the best horses on the English turf. It will be observed, that his dam was got by Diomed, and he is perhaps as nearly like his grand sire, as it is possible for one horse to be like another. WONDER covered two seasons in England, the first at two and the last at five guineas, which strongly indicates his growing reputation as a foul getter. PEDIGREE. He was got by Phenomenon, out of the dam of Lord Fitzwilliam's Brown Fanny, by Diomed—grandam by Marske, Young Hag, J. Alnham's dam by Skim, Old Hag, Hydria's dam by Crab, Ebony by Childers, out of Old Ebony by Batoon—Phenomenon was got by King Herod—his dam Frenzy by Eclipse, her dam by Engine, grandam by Blank, Lass of the Mill by Traveller Miss Makeless by Young Greyhound, Partner, Woodcock, Croft's Bay Barb, Makeless, Brimmer, Dickey Pierson, son of Doldworth, Burton Barb mare. Taken from the General Stud Book. RICHARD BLAND. Prince George, February 14, 1805. 6w
TO RENT OR LEASE, FOR TEN OR TWELVE YEARS, A Lot of LAND, No. 81, in the town of Manchester. Enquire of Dr. B. Du-Val, or Wm. Richardson, Jr. February 22.
To be sold for ready money, in pursuance of a decree of the circuit court of the United States, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross and others, defendants, in order to raise the sum of dolls. 7000 40 cents, with the expense of sale. A Number of Slaves, And so much of that Valuable Estate, in the county of Campbell, known by the name of the OXFORD IRON-WORKS, as shall appear sufficient to raise the said sum of money and the said expenses, the said land being now in the occupation of the said David Ross, and the slaves aforesaid being on the said land. The sale will take place at the Oxford Iron-Works, in the county of Campbell, on Thursday the 11th of April next. The slaves are represented to be very valuable. The land is so well known as to render a description unnecessary. Ben Mosby, D. M. For Jos. Scott, M. V. D. February 25, 1805.
THE members of the DISMAL SWAMP CANAL COMPANY, either in person or by proxy, are requested to meet at the Hotel in Norfolk, on the first Monday in May next, to elect a President and Directors, and on other business of importance to the company.—Notice is also given to those who are delinquents in the payment of the quotas heretofore called for, that unless they make payment of their respective balances on or before the said day, that their shares will be sold on the Tuesday after the above day of meeting. Thomas Newton, President, Aug. Slaughter, William Vaughan, Richard Blom, Directors. Norfolk, 11th March, 1805. id
NEW PUBLICATION. Just received at S. Pleasants' Printing-Office and Book-Store, [PRICE ONE DOLLAR,] A FAMILY TOUR THROUGH THE BRITISH EMPIRE; CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF ITS Natural and Artificial Curiosities, History and Antiquities, INTERPERSSED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES, Particularly adapted to the amusement and instruction of Youth, (with a large Map of the British Empire.) By FRISCILLA WAKEMFIELD.
TO BE SOLD, Pursuant to a deed of trust executed to me by the late Henry Randolph, Esq. to secure the payment of certain sums of money in the said deed, acknowledged to be due from him to Lyle and McCredie, merchants. A Parcel of Land, Situated in the county of Chesterfield, within the distance of four miles from Manchester, and estimated to contain about three hundred and fifteen acres. This land, commonly known by the name of Scott's tract, or the Camp tract, will be set up for sale, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday, the first of May next, between the hours of eleven A. M. and two P. M. at Zach. Brooks's tavern, in Manchester, on the following terms, viz: one third of the purchase money to be paid down one third in six months, and the remaining third in twelve months from the day of sale.—Bond and security will be required for the partial payment of the credit instalments, on which payment being made, a proper conveyance will be executed by JOHN HEVENINGHAM. Chesterfield, March 15th, 1805. tds
Patent Medicines. Just received and for sale at S. Pleasants' Book-Store, near the Bridge, THE FOLLOWING GENUINE Patent Medicines. Hill's Balsam of Honey | obstinate eruptions, &c Turlington's Balsam | British Oil Godfrey's Cordial | Hooper's Female Pills Essence of Peppermint | Anderson's Scotts do. Steers Opoedeldest | The celebrated Specific Oriental Cerate, for the cure of outward piles, scolds, sore legs, burns, &c. | Pills, for the cure of the outward and inward Piles.
TUCKER'S BLACKSTONE. This day is published and ready for delivery to subscribers, in Virginia, at S. Pleasants' Book-Store, Richmond: BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES, WITH Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States, AND OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA; IN FIVE VOLUMES. With an appendix to each volume, containing tracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a systematic view of the Laws of Virginia as a member of the Federal Union. BY ST. GEORGE TUCKER, Professor of Law in the College of William & Mary, and one of the Judges of the General Court, in Virginia.
Bail and Delivery Bonds For sale at this office.
NEW PUBLICATION. Just received at S. Pleasants' Printing-Office and Book-Store, [PRICE ONE DOLLAR,] A FAMILY TOUR THROUGH THE BRITISH EMPIRE; CONTAINING SOME ACCOUNT OF ITS Natural and Artificial Curiosities, History and Antiquities, INTERPERSSED WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ANECDOTES, Particularly adapted to the amusement and instruction of Youth, (with a large Map of the British Empire.) By FRISCILLA WAKEMFIELD.