Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1809-01-27 00:00:00

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Congress.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Friday, January 13.
Mr. Lewis reported a bill to incorporate the trustees of the Presbyterian church of Alexandria. Twice read and referred. A bill from the Senate amendatory of the act for the establishment of an uniform militia (by establishing a marine militia) was referred to the committee on our military and naval establishments.
Mr. G. W. Campbell presented two memorials on the subject of the batture at New Orleans, which were referred.
ADDITIONAL DUTIES.
Mr. G. W. Campbell from the committee of ways and means reported a bill for imposing additional duties on all goods, wares and merchandise imported into the United States, from any foreign port or place; which was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole. [The bill is blank as to the amount of duty.]
Mr. Burwell, from the committee appointed to enquire into the propriety of providing for a supply of salt, reported, in part, a bill authorizing the President of the U. States, to permit vessels to depart from the U. States for the purpose of bringing in salt. The following letter from the Secretary of the Treasury was also laid before the House:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, January 7th, 1809.
Sir, I had the honor to receive your letter of the 27th ult. requesting such information as I may possess respecting the means of obtaining immediate and permanent supplies of salt from the establishments of the U. S.
The annexed statement A shews the annual consumption of imported salt for each of the calendar years 1802—1807, after deducting the quantities used for the cod-fishery, and also for pickled fish and salted provisions exported from the United States.
The annual average is almost three millions of bushels, weighing each 56 lbs. equal to 75,000 tons, and requiring in fact 125,000 tons of shipping for its importation. It must also be observed that the deductions abovementioned being calculated by the allowances on fishery and drawbacks; and the allowance being in fact greater than the amount of duty on salt employed in the cod-fishery, the quantity of imported salt actually consumed in the U. States is greater than appears by the statement.
The statement B is intended to shew the gross amount of salt annually imported for the years 1802—1807, and the countries from which imported. The manner in which the accounts are kept at the treasury has rendered it more convenient to give the amount in this instance for the years ending the 30th Sept. than for calendar years.
It will be perceived by the statement A that the domestic establishments have not increased, even in the same ratio as the population of the United States, for the average of their consumption of imported salt is greater for the last than for the first years of the statement. Considering also the regularity of the importations and the well known fact that the article has been principally imported as ballast from England, there is reason to believe that the quantity of salt now in the country is very inadequate to the supply of the present year; and I am confident that there can be no reasonable expectation of the deficiency being supplied for that year from internal resources.
I am therefore clearly of opinion, that every encouragement should be given to immediate importations, and that measures should at the same time be adopted for the purpose of insuring for the succeeding years a supply from domestic establishments.
The only means of promoting immediate importations, appear to be, 1st, either to except salt from the operation of the non-intercourse act, or to put off the general operation of that act till the first of July next; which last alternative appears in every respect the most eligible; 2dly, to authorize the President to permit American vessels to proceed, during the continuance of the embargo, to such foreign ports as may be designated by law, for the sole purpose of bringing in cargoes of salt.
The internal resources must be drawn from either the salt springs in various parts of the Western states, from the Onondaga springs in the state of New-York, or from the Atlantic shores.
The high price of salt in the Western states does not arise from the actual expense incurred in manufacturing the article; for it does not cost more than 75 cents per bushel at the Indiana or Wabash Saline; and yet its market price has not been less than two dollars. It follows,
that the price is kept up by reason of the quantity made being much less than the actual demand, and therefore that no considerable addition can be expected from that quarter; none certainly beyond the wants of that part of the country.
The quantity of salt made at the Onondaga springs may certainly be considerably increased. I have been informed that about three hundred thousand bushels are now annually made; and that the amount might, perhaps, be increased to 600 000. On that subject, however, I cannot form a positive opinion; but am satisfied that the most sanguine calculations fall very short of the annual consumption of the U. States, and that the principal resource to be relied on is the increase of establishments on the sea shore. These may be multiplied in numerous places from Massachusetts to Georgia; and although the repeal of the law laying a duty on importation has checked their progress, experience has proven that capital may be advantageously employed in that manufacture. I think that nothing more is necessary to induce at present, the application of a capital sufficient in a short time to produce an adequate supply than the certainty of not being ruined by the competition of large importations at reduced prices. But it is doubtful whether it would be most eligible to effect that object by a bounty on the domestic manufacture, or by a renewal of the duty on the importation, to take place after the first of January 1810, and to continue for years. A combination of both would perhaps be best calculated to ensure success, and also most equitable. But a duty on importation alone is the easiest to execute, and is not liable to any constitutional objections.
The encouragement thus given to domestic establishments may indeed, during the number of years to which the duty or bounty would be limited, increase the price of salt. But that temporary inconvenience should be cheerfully submitted to, if any adequate supply of that necessary article may thereby be ever after insured on reasonable terms, and from internal resources not liable to be affected by war or by any other interruption of commerce.
I have the honor to be, &c. ALBERT GALLATIN. Honorable William A. Burwell, Chairman, &c.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole—Mr. Macon in the chair—on the amendments of the Senate to the bill for employing seamen and marines.
Mr. J. Montgomery moved to strike out the first amendment of the Senate (requiring the President to cause to be manned & employed all the armed vessels and gunboats of the U. States) and insert a provision leaving it discretionary with the President to employ them whenever in his opinion the public service may require it.
A division of the question was called for, so as to take it first on striking out the words in the amendment of the Senate.
On this motion a desultory debate of three or four hours took place, in which Messrs. J. G. Jackson, G. W. Campbell, Sloan, Smilie, Southard, Bacon, Gardner, Gholson, Dawson, Newton, Lloyd, Mosely, Love, Lyon and Van Dyke partook.
The motion to strike out was carried 58 to 42; and the motion to insert negatived, 55 to 47.
It was understood that this vote destroyed the first amendment in committee of the whole; but that the House might disagree to the report of the committee.
The question was taken separately on each of the other amendments from the Senate (for adding to the number of midshipmen, corporals, seamen and marines;) and carried by majorities of four, five and six votes.
The committee then rose and reported to the House their disagreement to the first amendment of the Senate, and their agreement to the remainder. And the House adjourned.
Saturday, Jan. 14.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.
The documents from the Senate on the subject of the naval establishment, were ordered to be printed.
The House agreed now to take up the report of the committee of the whole of yesterday on the amendment from the Senate, 43 to 39.
Mr. Nicholas moved to postpone the consideration of the subject till Monday, that the documents might be printed—54 to 31.
DISTRESSED SEAMEN.
The House resolved itself into a committee of the whole, on the bill for the relief of sick, disabled and distressed seamen—Mr. Desha in the Chair.
The blank for the sum to be appropriated for the purpose, was filled with 200,000 dollars, 68 rising in the affirmative.
The committee rose and reported the bill. The question on concurrence with the committee in filling the blank, having been stated—
Mr. Burwell said he should vote against this, because he did not consider this class of the community as particularly entitled to relief from the government; and even if it were proper, there were no security in the bill that the money would be properly applied. He did not believe that there
was any such distress among the seamen as represented.
Mr. Newton explained that the Secretary of the Treasury had the direction of the fund for the relief of distressed and disabled seamen, which had heretofore been supplied from a tax on their wages. This fund was now exhausted; and the Secretary of the Treasury said, if money were not appropriated, the doors of the hospitals must be closed against them, an office which the Secretary did not wish to perform. He had therefore recommended an appropriation of 200 000 dollars for their relief. Mr. Newton then stated the peculiar hardships attached to the seaman's situation, &c.
Mr. Holland considered this a novel measure. The seamen who were in distress, he conceived, entitled to relief from the respective states in which they might be, who were bound to support their poor. Indeed this money could not be applied to the use of the embargoed seamen generally, because it was only for the relief of those who were subject to the municipal regulations of the state in which they may be.
Mr. Quincy observed, that the fund for the support of distressed seamen had heretofore been derived from a tax on the wages of the seamen. This fund, which had heretofore been sufficient, having been destroyed by the suspension of commerce, he asked whether the general government was not pledged to do something for these men, who would not have suffered but for its measures?
Mr. Smilie was in favor of the bill.—The funds heretofore established for the relief of our seamen had been destroyed by a measure which had been deemed necessary for the good of the country; and he thought assistance ought to be given to them. Mr. S. called for the reading of the Secretary of the Treasury's report on the subject.
Mr. Talmedge said, that every gentleman who attended to the reading of the report of the Secretary of the Treasury could not fail to be convinced of the rectitude of his statement, and the conclusion on which he had drawn from it. The general government had destroyed the service, by which the seamen had heretofore been supported; in doing which they had thrown a burthen on the community in the same ratio as the service had been destroyed.
The Secretary of the Treasury had fairly and candidly told the House, that the fund for the support of the distressed seamen was destroyed. What should be done? Should nothing be appropriated from the funds of this government to support the establishment? He hoped and trusted that there would. For the information of the gentleman from Virginia, (Mr. Burwell) who did not know that this class of men was more distressed than any other, Mr. T. said, he would mention that he had letters from different parts of the union, particularly from Philadelphia, from one of the most respectable merchants in this city, informing him that the merchants had formed a fund for the relief of these persons, which had been exhausted, the seamen being in the greatest distress, without a stick of wood in this severe weather even to cook their victuals; and requesting him as a member of the general government to exert himself for their relief. Mr. T. said he would venture to declare that this was the case in all the ports of the United States; and he thought it most unquestionably became the government to grant some sort of relief to these citizens. He believed that the appropriation proposed was proper; and that less than that would be too little for the purpose.
Mr. D. R. Williams thought the object of the bill very laudable, but he wished a modification of the principle. He was willing to advance the 200 000 dollars, subject to be refunded, from the funds hereafter to be received for the support of this establishment. He thought this amendment would be highly proper, because from a document in his hands, he found that the funds of the establishment for the relief of sick and disabled seamen, had always been more than sufficient for its support. In June 1802, the balance of the fund was 76,188 dollars, in 1803 the balance was 67,448 dollars. This shewed that the funds arising out of the 20 cents a month tax on the seamen's wages, was more than adequate for the purposes for which it had been established, and that the fund would hereafter be able to refund to the government the monies now about to be appropriated. Considering the commercial prosperity of this government since 1803, it was fairly presumable, he said, that at the time of the imposition of the embargo, the balance on hand was greater than at the former period. Under this view of the subject, though he had not the slightest
wish to delay the bill, he moved that it lie on the table till an amendment could be prepared.
Mr. Newton said that the fund heretofore derived from the tax on seamen, had not been more than adequate to their support. In the town in which he lived, persons had not been admitted into the hospital who were acknowledged to be entitled to relief. In consequence of the construction put upon the law, a great many of the very people who had paid 20 cents a month out of their wages had been thrown upon the community as paupers and supported by the community at large.
Mr. D. R. Williams replied that the result of the amendment which he contemplated would be, that if there never was a balance in the funds, the monies appropriated would never be repaid.
Mr. Story deprecated the delay which would result from the bill lying upon the table. The means of supporting this fund were destroyed by a law of the U. S. and he thought that the general government should, by giving an aid to it, supply the deficiency. He represented the peculiarity of the seaman's general character; having no thought for tomorrow, when deprived of his monthly pay he was of course subjected to distress. In the protection of the general rights of the community, the general government had been compelled to subject the seamen to a particular calamity. He therefore thought that an additional aid for the support of the sick and disabled should be afforded by Congress.
Mr. D. R. Williams withdrew his motion for postponement, with a view of moving an amendment.
Further debate took place on this subject, in which Messrs. Sloan, Alexander, Quincy, Story, Smilie, Newton and D. R. Williams advocated the principle of the bill, and Messrs. Holland, Boyd, Gardner & Macon opposed it.
Mr. Gardner started a constitutional objection to the bill; he said that there was no power given under the constitution, by which either House of Congress could be converted into an alms-house; it was assuming the exercise of the legislative powers of the states, which had never even been proposed to be given to the general government. He said he thought he saw a disposition in a certain part of the government to encroach upon the rights of the states; and in however pleasing forms those encroachments were dressed, they ought to be guarded against. To this it was replied by Messrs. Quincy and Story, that as under the sanction of a law of the U. States hospitals had been erected, and they laboured under a temporary embarrassment, it was in the power of the general government to afford them temporary assistance. If the general government had a right to establish marine hospitals (which question had been settled and acted upon for many years) and the funds for their support should fail, it was in the power of Congress, under the general clause of the constitution, to provide temporary funds for their support.
The question on inserting 200,000 dollars, was taken by Yeas and Nays, and carried—Yeas 69.
Mr. D. R. Williams moved to add to the clause making the appropriation, the following words: "and that the same shall be refunded into the Treasury of the United States out of such sums as may accrue to the fund for the relief of disabled seamen." This amendment was modified, on the suggestion of Mr. Quincy by adding to it the words—"At such times and in such manner as may not defeat the general purposes for which such fund was established." The amendment, as modified, was agreed to.
Mr. Stedman moved to add to the bill the following sentence, which he conceived would make the bill conform to the Secretary of the Treasury's letter on the subject: And shall be expended therein in proportion to the amount collected in each (port) on account of the fund for the relief of sick and disabled seamen during the year 1807. This was objected to by Messrs. Macon, D. R. Williams and Newton, who declared that it would defeat the object of the bill; and if adopted would compel many to vote against the bill. Mr. Stedman, desirous that
the bill should pass, withdrew his amendment.
And on the question "Shall the bill be engrossed for a third reading?" there were
In favor of it 54 Against it 24
Majority 30
The bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday.—Adjourned.
TUESDAY, Jan. 17.
The engrossed bill for the relief of Edward Beemont, was read a third time and passed.
PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION.
Mr. Seaver presented a petition from 88 inhabitants of the town of Franklin—and Mr. Green a petition from 212 inhabitants of the town of Barnstable, remonstrating against the mode in which the late election of President and Vice-President, of the U. States, was conducted.—Laid on the table.
MR. CANNING'S LETTER.
The message of the President, given in the National Intelligencer of Wednesday last, having been read—
Mr. Burwell moved, that 5000 copies of the message and documents be printed. He said, whilst up, he could not refrain from expressing his regret that the Executive had not taken a different course to counteract the effect of Mr. Canning's letter, than the one which he had chosen. It was impossible that any new evidence should have been wanting, to prove that our government had acted with justice & moderation. But it is so perfectly plain (said he) that we are waging a war of honor & candor against treachery and intrigue, that it is surprising that a stop has not been put to it. Why is it that our presses are teeming with treachery? A regular system is going on to overthrow the government. How is it that men high in the government say, that no formal offer was made to Great Britain to repeal our embargo on the revocation of her orders in council, when there are documents before us, proving directly the contrary? Yet sir, it was asserted by men high in office in this country, that our minister had acted only in his individual capacity, long before this British minister's letter was published. But what does this singular letter amount to? Mr. Canning wishes to prove that the offer to repeal the embargo was made in an unofficial manner, when there is a formal letter from himself in answer to the official note of Mr. Pinkney, making the proposition as from his government. Why did not Mr. Canning meet him? This letter of his is but a continuation of that infamous system of misleading the people of this country, so long persisted in. Recollect the speech of Mr. Canning on the floor of parliament on the 24th day of June last. Sir, I am sorry to mention this subject here, but when I see the rights of my country insulted, and public sensibility worked upon as it has been, I cannot restrain my feelings. It is time to put a stop to this underhanded system. Can it be forgotten where the sentiments of the people of America, when the famous Genet commenced his appeal from the President, who properly put a stop to it? Why does Canning contend that the orders in council were not known to us at the time that the embargo was laid? It is to meet the feelings of the country, and to support views taken in this nation. I hope that 5000 copies will be printed, and that this is the last time we shall be under the necessity of counteracting these insidious appeals to the people.
Mr. Nicholas observed, that the letters which had just been read furnished another evidence of the fidelity and ability of the public servants; and another signal to warn the people of this country of the danger which hangs over them, to shew that the British government is in a course of intrigue for the purpose of separating the people from their government. I want no other evidence of this (said he) than the letter of Mr. Canning, which has just been read. How did that letter get into the papers of the U. S. It must have been sent here by the British government—for what purpose? It is an appeal by the government of Great Britain to the people of

America. On what ground is this appeal made? On the ground of justice, of truth or of sincerity? Neither, sir; it is for the purpose of deceiving the people of this country with the most ungentlemanly, and unmanly misrepresentations. God forbid, that I should believe that G. Britain, has many adherents in this country; but that she has some, this business is to my mind full demonstration. How is this production received? How is it ushered into the public view? Have the printers who first gave it publicity shown even a common impartiality between their own government, and that of a foreign nation? Have they shown a desire to hear what their government could say before they passed sentence of condemnation upon it? No, sir; they have taken the letter at first blush as complete evidence of the criminality of their own government. Can these men be Americans? No, sir; they are British partisans, pleading the cause of the British government against their own. Mr. N. said, he had before him a paper called the Boston Centinel, containing some comments on Mr. Canning's letter. [Mr. Nicholas here quoted some passages from these comments stating this letter of Mr. C's, to be evidence of a partiality in the government of the U. S. to France, &c. &c. This is an American print (said Mr. N.) and this letter is exultingly given to the American people, as tending to show that their government has practised a deception upon them!]
Mr. Troup said, he believed that the publication of this letter was intended by the British government to influence the people; and in order that the whole truth might be widely disseminated, he moved that 10,000 copies be printed.
Mr. Gardener concurred most heartily in the motion for printing, and also in the proposition for the largest number of copies. Assuredly if there was a matter upon which it was important, that the people of the U. S. should be correctly informed, it was the subject which the message of this morning placed before the house. I for one (said he) cannot help regretting deeply, that the public confidence in the administration of the government should have been so shaken, by some cause or other, as that gentlemen of the first respectability and no common influence in this House, should be driven to the necessity of combatting on this floor the calumnies of the editor of a newspaper. Are these publications of newspapers the topics fit for discussion in the House of Representatives of the U. S. States? Is it come to this, sir, that a Representative of the people, to protect his government from public odium, thinks it necessary to array the Representatives of the nation, against the humble editors of a news paper? I feel humiliated that the affairs of this country should be brought into such a condition, that it should be necessary that the editor of a newspaper, for the first time, should be refuted by a member of this house in his place. I had thought that these calumnies passed by the government, as an idle wind which heeded not. But if the government is brought, either by its own weakness or the machinations of a foreign nation, to such a situation that it cannot stand a paragraph in a newspaper, it is brought to a low pass indeed. But the remarks of this editor have been introduced into the house. I do not wish at this time to go over the ground and admit or deny, the proposition which he conceives he has established. But I regret that this humble editor should have been made the subject of such severe remark, not only because I wish that he should have been unnoticed in this house, but because I confess that in the material matter of fact, I can see nothing of harm which this poor Editor has done. He has printed the letter of Mr. Canning to Mr. Pinkney; and it appears that he has published a document which the administration had not thought proper to communicate, but which was genuine and true. From these facts, now established beyond all controversy, this editor has undertaken, for the amusement and instruction of his readers, to make certain comments which appear to his mind proper. If the fact be as the editor has stated it, his comments are of no importance, especially at this moment, when newspapers on both sides have given themselves up to such misrepresentations. Whether his inferences be correctly drawn or not is matter for the people to decide. Those remarks are but reflections upon a document, which on all hands is conceded to be matter of fact—and why should gentlemen be alarmed, if his inferences be absurd or ridiculous? If the integrity of the administration opposes that impenetrable shield to the shafts of its enemies which it always should do,
whence this alarm? I am fearful that the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Nicholas) whose known prudence and good sense I cannot avoid respecting, saw some thing more in all this than the mere usual efforts of the editor of a newspaper; and in the same proportion as he attaches importance to them will the people do the same. It is unfortunate for the administration that this course has been pursued; it will awaken remark and mischievous curiosity among the people. Probably if mention had not been made of it, it might have passed without notice; but now I fear that suspicions will be entertained which but for this mode might never have been excited by the editor of a newspaper. After all I must confess that I do not find a great deal of fault with this editor of a newspaper for the publication of a document, and his remarks are out of the question. The people of the United States cannot know too much.—However the administration may have thought it of little importance to communicate the documents heretofore, yet it can do no harm to the good sense of the people to read all that has passed. I see no danger in it; and whether it comes from the cabinet of G. Britain or from our own, I have that confidence in the people of the United States that I am willing to trust them with it. If circumstances throw no blame on the administration, they need not fear it. I am for publishing the whole, because I am desirous that the people should know every thing, and shall always be thankful that a necessity (for whatever reason) does exist for informing them. And if I have cause of regret on this subject, it is not from the same source as that expressed by the gentleman from Virginia. My regret is that this communication should not have been made before this time, and that the necessity of making these documents public should in this manner have been brought about. As a representative of the American people I feel humbled by this; and whatever importance may be attached to it, am sorry that the administration has not heretofore seen the necessity of laying before the public every thing relating to their proposition to repeal the embargo; for the whole argument in favor of the continuation of the embargo has turned very much on the rejection by the British government of our candid offer. It is of importance that the people should be apprized of every thing connected with that matter, because it is the pivot on which the embargo has turned, and I regret exceedingly that the President of the United States should not have seen the importance of making these documents public; that he should have seen it only when one of the letters was published. If I understand the message of to-day, the reason why this communication is made, is, that Mr. Canning's letter is calculated to make an impression unfavourable to the character of the government, and the answer is necessary to set them right. It would have been a much better reason for communicating it heretofore, that the people ought to be fully informed. I know not whether the strongest sensation of regret which I feel is, that it has not before been made public by the administration, or that this House should be made the organ of communication, for the purpose of preserving to the confidence of the people. Let gentlemen remember, that as long as the liberty of the press exists, it will be licentious; that as long as the republic exists, there will be parties, those in power and those out. It is to be expected that they will assail each other frequently, ungenerously and with much calumny; and administrations may again fall as they have fallen. It is one of the evils attending the invaluable liberty of the press. If the printers publish untruth, I have no objection to punish them; but I do not like these denunciations of a printer who will laugh at them. He does not care; he acquires new vigor and those who participate in his sentiments will like him much better for the publicity given to his name.
Mr. Love said, as he presumed from his observations that the gentleman from New York was not in the House when the message was read, he rose to state that the answer of Mr. Pinkney was not in the possession of the government when the formal correspondence on the subject was published. Whether or not it was correct to notice newspaper effusions on the floor, it was certainly quite as correct for one gentleman to comment upon them as for another to rise in their defence. The statement which he had seen in the newspapers was not correct, and could only be intended for deception and to mislead the people at this critical moment.
Mr. Macon said, notwithstanding the licentiousness of newspaper editors, he was against any law for curbing them. Let them run their whole length, said he; I only ask the liberty of buying such of their papers as I like. As long as the press is free, newspapers will make their own comments; and a great many will make those which I do not approve; but it is really to be regretted that I do not know a paper in the United States that takes up both sides. I wish there was such a one. On the subject of this message, to be serious, it strikes me in a different point of view from that in which it has appeared to any other gentleman. Compare the fact of the extraordinary mode of the publication of Mr. Canning's letter in New York, (some say first in Boston) with several late transactions, as, the invitations to our citizens, to violate our laws, the vessels on our coast, forcing a trade, &c. and I can consider them in no other light than as appeals to the people of this country by the British ministry. Instead of alienating the affections of this people from their government, it will more strongly attach them to it. That Great
Britain should address this runaway proclamation to our people, is not surprising. We are a people made up of emigrants and descendants from different nations, and there are some men amongst us who are not as virtuous as a Cato or Aristides. This circumstance will induce European governments always to make attempts of this sort. Mr. Canning's letter has struck me in a curious point of view, compared with the documents heretofore communicated. At one time he wants conversations and at another time written communications. The letter read to day completely satisfies my mind on this subject. At the very time that this letter of the British minister is published at Boston, a public armed ship appears on the coast of Georgia, cruising after cotton. Sir, nothing can be stronger evidence to me of the efficiency of the measures which this nation has taken in relation to Europe, than a fair examination of the conduct of Great Britain towards us since. Why the proclamation encouraging evasions of our laws? Why these publications? Why the ship or ships on the coast of Georgia, sir? Facts speak, stronger than words, the efficacy of our measures. Can it be possible that a proclamation inviting violations of our laws, would be issued, that armed ships would be sent on smuggling expeditions on our coast by any civilized nation which did not feel our measures? The worst government that ever existed, as well as the worst man that ever existed, is desirous of maintaining a good character with the world. This proclamation was not issued whilst we had any thing left afloat. When they cannot plunder you, they will harbour you runaways. That is the plain English of it. On the subject of the embargo, as it has become fashionable, I will state my impressions of circumstances as they existed at the time of its passage. As well as I recollect, there were reports in circulation that the British orders in council had issued. I cared not for it. I was satisfied that they would be if they were not issued, under that impression I voted for the embargo. I am glad, sir, that we had so gaily sufficient to be so quick upon their heels that they caught no plunder by their orders. I must here say, because it is my opinion, that the administration have not acted in respect to the embargo, as they should have done, because they offered that to Great Britain, which they did not offer to France. Instead of partiality to France, the documents prove that they have displayed a partiality to Great Britain. I would have offered the same to both, altho' Great Britain is the greatest tormentor, because she has a navy, whilst the other has not. The gentleman from New York (Mr. Gardener) seems to think that it is necessary to publish these documents in order to strengthen the administration. I much doubt, sir, (and it is well known that on a difference of opinion with the administration I have come out and opposed them with as much zeal as any man in this house) if you ever have another administration in these times of confusion, which will go out as popular as this. Every new administration will naturally carry with it some men who are willing to sing Hozannas to the powers that be, to pay their devotions to the rising sun. This will always happen; but no administration going out will be as popular as the present. Sir, I care not with what view these documents were sent to us—I am glad they are come. But I think that the gentleman from New York is mistaken in one statement he made—that this was the first time that a newspaper had ever been commented on in the house of Representatives. I have seen a paper called the Aurora, repeatedly brought into this house, and commented on to prove the necessity of passing a sedition law. Perhaps there are some gentlemen in the house who may recollect the circumstance. [Mr. Gardener said that this was before his time.] With the gentleman from New York, sir, I am willing to trust the people; and I believe truth wants but half fair play to prevail, for I have seen her prevail when she could not speak—when she had a pockmark on her mouth. Truth will prevail, and it is the interest of every administration that acts honestly to publish all. I should wish to see the administration of this government lay as de the practice of giving a little at a time, and come out at once and say, I wish to do this; and then, if we will not consent to do it, there is an end of it. With respect to our government playing cunning against any other government, it is idle; it can never do good whilst they have untold millions of secret service money against our single cent. I should therefore wish that foreign nations had no ministers here, nor we any there. Instead of giving ministers 9,000 dollars to go there, I would rather give them 50,000 to come home. I wish the whole proceedings of our administration to be at the door of every man in the nation; that every man should have a copy for himself, for his wife, for each of his children; and indeed for all his household. Had this been done heretofore, the present crisis would have been nothing like what it is. They would there have seen truth, & facts precisely as they exist, neither curtailed or exaggerated by this or that party paper.
(Debate to be Continued.)
Friday, Jan. 20. EXTRA SESSION.
The House were engaged the whole of this day in warmly debating the bill to alter the time of the next meeting of Congress.
The motion pending when the House yesterday adjourned for striking out "the 4th Monday in May," was negatived by a large majority.
Messrs. J. G. Jackson, Bacon, G. W. Campbell, Rhea and Gardener supported the bill, and Messrs. Quincy, D. R. Williams and Macon opposed it. It was passed at near 7 o'clock, by Yeas and Nays as follows—Debate in our next.
YEAS—Messrs L. J. Alston, W. Alston, Bacon, Bibb, Blake, Boyd, Boyle, Brown, Butler, Calhoun, Champion, Clopton, Cook, Cutts, Dawson, Deane,
Deshler, Ely, Eppes, Findley, Fick, Gardener, Gardner, Gholson, Goldsborough, Goodwyn, Green, Harris, Helms, Holmes, Howard, Haley, J. G. Jackson, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Kenan, Key, Kirkpatrick, Lambert, Lewis, Love, Marion, Masters, McCreery, Milnor, D. Montgomery, J. Montgomery, N. R. Moore, T. Moore, Jer. Morrow, J. Morrow, Moseley, Mumford, Nelson, Newton, Newbold, Nicholas, Pitkin, Porter, Pugh, Rea, (P.) Rhea, (T.) J. Richards, M. Richards, Seaver, Smilie, J. K. Smith, Southard, Storer, Smelt, Taggart, Taylor, Van Allen, Van Horn, Whitehill, Wilbour, A. Wilson, N. Wilson, Winn—80.
NAYS—Messrs. Bassett, Blackledge, Blount, Chittenden, Clay, Davenport, Franklin, Gray, R. S. Jackson, Kelly, Lyon, Macon, Quincy, Randolph, Rowan, Sloan, Stanford, Stedman, Sturges, Tallmadge, Trigg, Upham, Van Cortlandt, Van Dyke, Wharton, D. R. Williams—26.
SENATE, January 16.
The Senate resumed the consideration of the bill making further provision for the corps of Engineers.
Mr. Mitchell moved to strike out the following section: "And thereafter the said corps of engineers, constituting the military academy, shall be removed under the direction of the President of the U. States from West Point, and stationed at Washington in the district of Columbia."
The Yeas and Nays were taken as follows, and the motion rejected.
YEAS—Messrs Gilman, Goodrich, Hilihouse, Howard, Kitchen, Matthewson, Mitchell, Parker, Robinson, Smith of Md. Smith of N. Y., Turner—12.
NAYS—Messrs. Anderson, Bayard, Bradley, Condit, Crawford, Franklin, Gailard, Gregg, Meigs, Milledge, Moore, Pope, Smith, of Ten. Sumner, Tarsitano, White—16.
Mr. Smith of Md. submitted the following motion for consideration:
Resolved, That the President be requested to direct the proper officers to report to this House, the measures which have been adopted to carry into execution the act of Congress of 21st Feb. 1806, appropriating two millions of dollars for defraying any extraordinary expenses attending the intercourse between the U. States and foreign nations; particularly whether the said two millions of dollars, or any portion thereof, was sent in specie or by bills of exchange, to either France, Spain, Holland or any other country, for the purpose of carrying into execution the said act, and also to what object the sums so remitted have been applied, or were authorised or intended to be applied.
January 17.
The resolution, offered yesterday, by Mr. Smith of Maryland, calling for information relative to appropriation under the act of 21st Feb. 1806, was agreed to.
The Senate then took up the message from the House of Representatives, stating their disagreement to the amendments of the Senate to the bill authorising the appointment and employment of an additional number of officers, seamen and marines, and resolved to insist upon them. Yeas 23, Nays 7, asked a conference, and appointed Messrs. Bradley Giles, and Hilihouse, managers on their part.
NEW-YORK, Jan. 18.
Government have chartered the ships Mentor and Pacific, the former to proceed from this port for L'Orient, and the latter to Falmouth, with despatches. It is intended that they shall sail in seven or eight days.
Capt. Cornwell, a passenger in the brig San Antonio, from Cadiz, informs us, that 2 days before he sailed, intelligence was received, stating, that the Spaniards had evacuated Bilboa—No news of any recent battle having taken place, had reached Cadiz on the 18th of Nov.
January 19.
At a Meeting of the Republican Citizens of the City and County of New York, for the purpose of expressing their sentiments on the measures of the General Government; in the square in front of Mr. A. B. Marling's, opposite the Park, on Wednesday, 18th Jan. 1809. COL. RUTGERS was chosen Chairman, and
COL. FEW, Secretary.
The following Resolutions were read and carried unanimously.
WHEREAS it is the indispensable duty of good and patriotic citizens to afford their firm support to a virtuous government and to their country's cause, and considering that we should not permit our sentiments and feelings to be misrepresented, and thus by producing a belief that we are dissatisfied with, or disapprove the measures of the administration of the general government, encourage hostile powers to persevere in their aggressions, we do therefore
Resolve, That we continue to repose full confidence in the patriotism and talents of the President, Vice-President and the republican majority in both houses of congress of the U. S. That viewing without partiality and with equal indignation the hostile acts of both of the belligerent powers, we entirely approve of the embargo and a rigid enforcement thereof, and believe that while it affords an opportunity to the aggressors, peaceably to discontinue their violations of our rights, its immediate tendency has been to preserve American property, to vindicate the freedom and protect the persons of our mariners, and while we lament that the violence and injustice of foreign nations have rendered it a necessary measure, we decidedly
resolve that it meets our hearty approbation.
Resolved, That we will support the government of the U. S. in its present honorable struggle to maintain the national dignity and independence together with the commercial rights of our country, for which we pledge "our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor."
Resolved, That we view with becoming indignation the repeated acts that have been committed to evade and violate the embargo laws of the U. S. that we expressly consider the violators of those laws as public enemies, and that we will use our best exertions to support, and enforce those laws, and to detect and expose the infamous violators thereof—and we do earnestly recommend to the friends of our national rights and independence throughout the U. S. particularly those residing in the counties on our frontiers, or bordering on the sea coast to form associations for the same laudable purpose.
And much as we respect the just liberty of the press.—Resolved, That those public prints which in a contest between our country and European governments, have manifested a foreign partiality, endeavored to weaken the confidence of the people in our administration, and by encouraging hostile states to persevere in their aggressions, have prolonged our difficulties, and endangered the peace of our country, deserve our severest reprobation.
Resolved, That in our opinion the conduct of the party opposing the measures of the present administration, is calculated to involve us in a war with the belligerent powers, inasmuch as it tends to exhibit us as a people divided, even on questions involving our national independence, and to induce a belief that there exists in our country, a party which will force our government to abandon the honorable ground it has taken, thereby encouraging them to persist in measures which leave us no alternative but War, or a surrender of our national independence.
Resolved, That the unremitted efforts of our government to preserve peace, is conformable to the true interest of the U. S. and the dictates of humanity, but the just propositions made to France and England having been by both rejected, we prefer an honorable War, in defence of our rights, rather than submission to their tyrannical decrees and orders.
Resolved, That in our opinion, war with all its concomitant horrors will no be destitute of a measure of benefit to our country, inasmuch as it will excite into action the latent energies and resources of the nation as it regards the establishment of domestic manufactures, and thereby render us more independent of foreign supplies. That by thus destroying the interest of foreign merchants, agents and foreign emissaries, to resort hither to resell a comparatively small amount of our own materials manufactured and charged with an immense amount for foreign labor, they will not have the opportunity or inducement to intermeddle with the internal concerns of our government. Hence the greatest source of that rancorous party spirit which has too long been a scourge and disgrace to the nation, will be annihilated.
Resolved, That war, should we be constrained to engage in it, will have the effect to rid our country of the many foreign emissaries and domestic traitors who infest our sea port towns, and who use their utmost endeavors to alienate the people from their government with the hope of rendering both subservient to the views of their employers.
Resolved, That our republican brethren in the respective counties in this state, be and they are hereby respectfully requested, to assemble and express their opinions of the measures of government, in regard to the belligerent powers.
Resolved, That it be recommended to all the printers of the U. S. who possess sufficient patriotism and liberality, to publish the proceedings of this meeting in their respective papers.
Resolved, That the chair appoint nine of our republican fellow citizens to be a corresponding committee, to communicate with our republican friends in this and other of the U. S. on the interesting concerns of our country, and that they continue in session until the next general meeting of the republicans of this city, when the farther pleasure of such meeting shall be taken thereupon.
The chairman in pursuance of the above powers has appointed the following persons to constitute the corresponding committee,
HENRY RUTGERS, WILLIAM FEW, TUNIS WORTMAN, JONAS HUMBERT, SAMUEL LAWRENCE, JOHN HAFF, JOHN BINGHAM, JOHN MILLS, ABRAHAM BLOODGOOD,
It was at the request of a great number of republican citizens, that Col. Rutgers consented to serve as a member of the Corresponding Committee.
HENRY RUTGERS, Chairman. WILLIAM FEW, Secretary.
NORFOLK, Jan. 23.
A fine new schooner, named the Martha and Susan, commanded by capt. Betts, with a valuable cargo of corn, flour, &c. was brought into this port on Saturday last, prize to the revenue cutter Surveyor, commanded by the lieutenant officer capt. Brigg. She was captured on the 14th inst. off Great Choptank, having no clearance or papers.
Extract of a letter from St. Croix, dated the 1st of Dec. last.
"We are all in anxiety here for the event of your embargo. If continued, it will be ruinous to this as well as every other island and depending on you for lumber. One-

third of the estates have not materials in the lumber way. I am now delivering pitch pine scantling to be converted into staves. I hope soon to see the American colors again in our harbor.—Prices quoted, viz: "Flour per cargo, 21 to 22 dollars, by retail 25 to 30, "Prime Beef, 24 dollars. "Pork 36 to 40. "Candles, 8 bits or 64 cents per lb."
Robbery of the Mail detected. —We are very happy to learn, from the information of a letter from Edenton that a discovery has been made, which accounts for the frequent robberies of the mail, between this place and Newbern, which have been committed for some months past. These robberies appear to have been committed at an inconsiderable post office at Lee's Mills, between Edenton and Plymouth, by a person by the name of Stubbs, who has unfortunately made his escape. The letter adds, that should he be apprehended, but little doubt remains, that there will be sufficient proof, to effect his conviction.
From the Public Ledger. [In going over our late London papers, we omitted the following article; no intelligence had been received to the date of our last papers to refute or confirm what is therein stated.]
LONDON, November 18.  Important Intelligence from Spain. We have been favoured with the substance of the official reports of the late actions in Biscay, as transmitted to the Spanish government. They establish a very important fact, namely, that general Blake attacked the enemy on the 5th instant, and not on the 4th, as has been stated, and completely defeated them. The extent of his victory was not ascertained, as there are no later accounts from him than of the morning of the 6th, when he put the whole of his army in motion in pursuit of the enemy. They also dispel the regret which we felt in consequence of the rumour that 700 of the Spanish troops from the Baltic had been cut up to pieces. There was not a regiment of these engaged in the battle of the 31st. They did not join general Blake's army until after its retreat from Bilboa.
The following is the substance of the official account from which we are enabled to establish the preceding facts.
"On the 31st of October, four divisions of general Blake's army was attacked by 25,000 French. After fighting as became valiant Spaniards during the whole day, general Blake, in order to prevent being surrounded, determined to fall back and to form a junction with the divisions of the Asturians and the Marquis de la Romana. The retreat was conducted in the best order, without the loss of cannon, colours, or prisoners. They halted during the night of the 1st of November, at Bilboa. General Blake having resolved to take post at Valmaseda, the army marched on the 2d for another position, where it was joined by the Asturians, the troops of the North, and the fourth division of Galicia; a small detachment having been left at Bilboa. On the 2d, the French appeared before that city in great force, and the few troops that were there evacuated it in good order, and fell back on Valmaseda.
"In the action of the 31st, all the divisions displayed the greatest gallantry, in maintaining their position against a very superior force during the whole day, with unexampled energy, and left the field of battle with reluctance; the enemy, notwithstanding his superiority, was unable to gain a foot of ground. The loss of the Spaniards was considerable, but that of the French much greater; so that they were incapable of molesting the Spaniards in their retreat, which was effected in the most orderly manner, without the loss of a single knapsack.
"The army being concentrated at Valmaseda, general Blake received information, on the 4th, that a division of the enemy, consisting of 10,000 men, was marching on the heights of Ontario, with a view of cutting off a division of his army posted in that place. He therefore put his troops in motion at day break of the 5th, and at one o'clock attacked the enemy. After obstinate battle, which lasted till dark he completely put them to the rout, with great slaughter, and the loss of many prisoners, one howitzer, two ammunition waggons, and a considerable quantity of provisions. Till eleven o'clock of the night of the 5th, when the dispatch was sent off, prisoners and baggage continued to be brought in. The number and rank of the prisoners cannot be exactly stated, as our troops continued the pursuit, and there were the best founded hopes they would be able to capture a great part of the French division, who finding their retreat by the high road cut off, defiled by the edge of the mountains, skirting the valleys, in which direction they were closely pursued. On the morning
of the 6th, all the army marched forward, and earnestly solicited permission to enter Bilboa at the point of the bayonet. We anxiously await the result of this enterprize, which, there is every reason to hope, will prove successful."
The army under general Blake was inferior to that of the French, but displayed a degree of steadiness, resolution, and valour, which afford the most flattering prospect; and those who are incredulous with respect to the comparative numbers, may have their doubts cleared by a reference to the return of this army, published in the supplement to the Madrid Gazette of the 21st of October, as transmitted by general Blake himself; from which it appears, that the number of effective men on the 9th of October was short of 23,000; the sick, absent, servants, the artillery of reserve (a marine battalion), and those appointed to train the recruits, amounting to more than 3000 men, which joined to the above number, constitutes the whole of the strength generally assigned. In this are not included the division of the Asturians, amounting to 8000 men, and the troops from the North that have since joined. It is therefore obvious, that in the action of the 31st general Blake had only 17,000; for deducting from the 23,000 the 4000 of the 4th division who were not in the action, those who garrisoned Bilboa and the out posts in the rear and on the flanks, there remain only 17,000; and these were destitute both of cavalry and artillery, the nature of the country not allowing that description of force to act.
The above is an authentic account of the occurrences from the 31st October to the 6th instant. We shall only add, that major Carol, in his despatches to government, affirms, that no troops ever conducted themselves with greater valour and inrepidity than the Spanish soldiers; and as a proof of the patience with which they endured privation and fatigue, he states, that during the above time the Spanish army had no other supply of provisions than a scanty ration of bread, furnished them at Bilboa on the night of the 1st, and some articles of provisions which they collected in the neighboring mountains; notwithstanding which, the greatest regularity and cheerfulness prevailed: their minds being wholly intent on attacking the enemy, and calling on the general to lead them to Bilboa, to carry it at the point of the bayonet.
The illustrious Blake, who has acquired so much glory since the commencement of his operations, was present in the hottest parts of the battle, exposing his person like a private soldier, wherever necessity required, and cheering and animating the troops. He would not entrust to any one else the command of the division which covered the retreat, but conducted it in person. In the same manner he superintended on their arrival at Bilboa, the distribution of the scanty ration furnished to the troops; his own food consisting only of the common rations; and this rule he observed so strictly, that from the 1st to the 3d, during the temporary scarcity, he was the last to receive his allowance, and his only sustenance was a piece of ammunition bread given to him by his servant.
Major Carol states, that the retrograde movement on the 1st, besides the object of forming a junction with the divisions in the rear, was also adopted with a view to the concerted operations of the armies of the centre and the right, and that the Galicians expected to return in a few days to recover the ground they had lost, which expectation was fulfilled by their march forward on the following days.
RAGS.
THE SUBSCRIBER WILL PAY THE HIGHEST PRICE FOR CLEAN LINNEN or COTTON RAGS;
AND will contract with country Storekeepers for all they may be able to collect, which will be paid for in cash, on delivery at my store, near the Courthouse; where may be had a general assortment of GRUCERIES, BOOTS, SHOES, & PA TENT NAILS.
WILLIAM FARR. Richmond, 22d Jan. 1809. w12m
NOTICE
I hereby give, that I forewarn any persons or persons from trespassing on the shore from the upper lock gates belonging to the Columbian Mills, and from thence below, to where the water from the basin comes into the river. Any person offending herein will be dealt with according to law.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD, will be given to any person or persons giving information of any villain or villains who turned a boat loose belonging to the said mills on the night of the 24th inst.
SAMUEL LEECH, Acting for John Granbery. Columbian Mills, Jan. 27, 1809. 2
To Aaron Burr,
Who is absent from the State of Virginia TAKE NOTICE, that by virtue of a commission from Henrico County Court in a suit therein depending wherein I am plaintiff and you are defendant, I shall proceed on the first Monday in April next at the house of Isaac Watkins, Shelbyville, Kentucky, between the hours of eight in the forenoon and six in the afternoon and between the same hours of each succeeding day until all the testimony is taken, to take the depositions of Abraham O'Vings, J. Winlock, Stephen Smith, and Wingfield Bullock, to be read in evidence in said suit.
Henry Schroeder. January 24, 1809. w4t
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND: FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1809.
To the obliging attention of a merchant in this town (says the Washington Federalist) we are indebted for the following prices current at Liverpool Nov. 21st, 1808.
  Cotton { Sea Island 4s 6d 6 lb. sterling.   Good and Middling 3s 2d 3s 8d   Stained and ordinary 2s 7d 2s 8d   Upland bowed 2s 5d 2s 7d   New Orleans 2s 9d 2s 11d   Wheat American 14s 7d 15s per 70 lb.   Ashes Pot, New York old 7s 6d 7s 8d per ton.   Montreal new 8s 3d 8s 4d   York and James R. 21d 25d per lb.   Tobacco { Rappahannock 17 22   Potomac none   Georgia and Carolina 15 18   Stemmed Maryland 27 30   Maryland 10 12 13 
It is with pleasure (says the Democratic Press) we announce the determination of General MOREAU, the Hero of Hohenlinden, to become a citizen of this State. He has purchased an estate in Bucks county, and forwarded a petition to the legislature, praying that a law may be passed to authorise him, he being an Alien, to receive a legal title. In his petition he states his intention of becoming a citizen of Pennsylvania.
Yesterday (says the Winchester Gazette of the 14th inst.) passed through this place, on their march to Baltimore, from Woodstock, the company of U. S. Infantry, commanded by Capt. Nimrod Long. Also, a detachment of 34 dragoons, recruited by Lieut. Lyle at Montgomery Court-house, which were joined here by a detachment of 17 dragoons, commanded by Cornet Kean—the whole destined for N. Orleans.
Arrived here a few days since, from Orleans, a recruiting party, whose appearance reflects the highest honor on their commander (Capt. Simon Owens) who, we understand, was ordered to this place, to recruit a company, to which rank he has lately been preferred. All patriotic young men are invited to join in defence of their country's rights.
The following communications have been laid before the House of Representatives of the United States. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
I communicate for the information of Congress, the report of the director of the mint of the operation of that establishment during the last year.
TH: JEFFERSON. January 5, 1809.
From the statement of the treasurer of the mint, it appears that during the last year there have been struck at the mint:    Dollars.   1,368,000 pieces of silver coin, amounting to 684,300   58,288 pieces of gold coin, amounting to 284,665   And, 1,509,000 pieces of copper coin, amounting to 13,000   2,935,888 pieces, amounting in the whole to $ 982,055 
The gold and silver bullion at this time in the mint, deposited for coinage, amounts to upwards of 250,000 dollars. There is good ground to believe that even in the present embarrassed state of commerce, the banks of the city of Philadelphia alone, will be able to furnish an ample supply of bullion for a long time to come.
Treasury Department, January 4, 1809.
SIR—I have the honor in compliance with the resolution of the House of Representatives of the 20th ult. to transmit a statement of the sums annually received at the treasury of the United States since the commencement of proceedings under the constitution; and also, a statement exhibiting the annual amount of the respective branches of the customs and the charges thereon.
I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, sir, Your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN. The honorable the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Aggregate amount of the annual receipts of the United States from the commencement of the present government:
   Dollars. Cts.    1791 4,771,342 43  1792 8,772,438 76  1793 6,450,195 15  1794 9,439,855 66  1795 9,515,738 59  1796 8,740,329 65  1797 8,758,780 90  1798 8,179,170 80  1799 12,546,813 81  1800 12,423,978 34  1801 12,945,455 95  1802 14,995,793 95  1803 11,064,097 63  1804 11,817,307 38  1805 13,560,793 20  1806 15,559,931 7  1807 16,452,839 44   Dolls. 135,998,802 29  
Nett amount of the customs for each year, since the establishment of the present government.
 1791 6,534,263 34  1792 4,614,924 63  1793 6,073,212 50  1794 6,633,513 86  1795 7,939,409 70  1796 7,368,120 94  1797 8,258,111 43  1798 6,112,443 22  1799 9,035,348 1  1800 9,551,346 96 
 1801 13,362,702 40  1802 3,327,295 3  1803 11,322,427 39  1804 14,996,965 3  1805 14,979,880 49  1806 16,015,317 66  1807 16,492,889 7   Dolls. 167,568,241 25 
WORTHY OF IMITATION.
The Honecutt Theory reduced to Practice. The following circumstances took place at the present session of the supreme Judicial Court, sitting in this town—viz—Two respectable tradesmen having a controversy relating to the boundary line of an estate, came into court to defend their cause, in opposition to a formidable phalanx of three lawyers, employed by a merchant in defence of his claim. The pleadings were conducted with the greatest propriety by the two citizens who observed to the Judge, (Parker) that the expenses of seeing counsel were too great for them to continue—and as they had paid for this service at the last trial, and lost their case, they should now confide in the justness of their claim, and were willing to trust to the decision of an impartial jury on the evidence they should produce in court, and the plea they should offer for it. The trial commenced on this apparent odds of the contending parties, and was finally decided by the jury in favor of the tradesmen.
We the more readily notice this judicial proceeding, as it may prove beneficial to the citizens in their future appeals to the laws of their country. Many estates are swallowed up by the exorbitant charges and fees of lawyers, but the same practice was pursued by the citizens in general as in the present instance, a great deal of money might be saved and in general, a great deal more justice would be obtained—The delay and quibbles of lawyers, and the sophistry and nonsense of their pleas, serve only to increase the expenses of their clients, and to perplex the jury in their decisions. To effect a radical reform in the judiciary, let every citizen follow the example of these highly respected North-End Tradesmen.
(Boston Chronicle)
On the 21st of November, in London, the price of FLOUR was 90 shillings per sack, equal to 63 shillings sterling the American barrel. COTTON, 3 shillings 6d. per lb. TOBACCO, 2 shillings 10 3/4 2 1/2d. per lb.—No Jobk Ledger.
Virginia Legislature.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
TUESDAY, January 17. An engrossed bill "To incorporate the Petersburg Manufacturing Society," was read a third time, several blanks therein filled up, and passed.
WEDNESDAY, January 18. A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The Senate have passed the bill "Making provision for opening and improving a wagon road from the Hot Springs to the confluence of the Cow Pasture and Jackson's river; also for repairing the main road from the Warm Springs across the Warm Spring mountain and Mill mountain;" and
The bill "Authorising the remission or damages in certain cases," with amendments, to which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates;—and
Their committee have examined several other enrolled bills, which being found truly enrolled, have been signed by their Speaker.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments proposed by the Senate to the first named bill, and the same being twice read, were agreed to by the House.
The House proceeded to consider the amendments proposed by the Senate to the second named bill.
On motion, Ordered that the said bill with the amendments be laid upon the table.
Mr. Wirt presented, according to order, a bill "For the relief of Sarah de Pass, which was received and read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time."
On motion, Resolved, That all the scrap iron and scrap steel now in the armory belonging to the public be forthwith delivered to the keeper of the penitentiary, and that he be directed to use the same in any manner most likely to contribute to the public benefit; and that a report be made to this House of the quantity, quality and description thereof.
Ordered, That the Clerk carry the said resolution to the Senate and desire their concurrence.
THURSDAY, January 19. A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The Senate have passed the bill "Concerning certain lands supposed to belong to Drysdale parish," with an amendment, to which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.
The House proceeded to consider the amendment proposed by the Senate to the said bill, and the same being twice read, was agreed to by the House.
Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
MARRIED—On Thursday evening, the 19th inst. Mr. WILLIAM PROSSER, of this city, to the very agreeable Mrs. LETITIA RING, of Tuckerman, King William county.
Same evening, by the Rev'd. JOHN D. BLAIR, Mr. ROBERT POLLARD, Jun. of King William, to the truly amiable and much admired Miss EVELINE CHAMBERLAYNE, of Henrico.
DIED—In Woodstock, on Saturday morning the 7th inst. COLONEL WILLIAM H. DWLANEY, for many years an inhabitant and practicing physician of that place.
NEW-YORK STATE LOTTERY, COMMENCES DRAWING IN THE CITY OF NEW-YORK IN APRIL NEXT.
THE HIGHEST PRIZES ARE: 1 prize of 30,000 Dollars, 1 prize of 20,000 Dollars, 2 prizes of 10,000 Dollars, 2 prizes of 5,000 Dollars, &c. &c. &c.
TICKETS & SHARES for sale at eight and a half dollars each at G & R. WATT's truly fortunate Offices in New York, where was sold in the last New York Lottery the three highest prizes.—Distant adventurers by inclosing the cash, may have tickets and shares forwarded with punctuality and despatch. During the drawing G. & R. Watt will send their weekly prize list to the printer of this paper.
GOLD MINE.
THE subscriber wishes to sell or exchange for property in Richmond, his plantation in Hanover, called
GOLD MINE,
On the South Fork of Pamunkey River, opposite to Col. Charles Dabney's, and adjoining Colonel Syme's Rocky Mill tract, containing by a late survey 809 1-2 Acres. On his tract is an excellent and commodious dwelling house, with seven rooms and a large passage, &c. The out houses are all convenient and in good repair, all together insured against fire at $2500. There are from three to four hundred acres of wood land, some fine low grounds, a pretty good orchard, &c. but a minute description of the and is deemed unnecessary. Those therefore who feel inclined to purchase or exchange, are invited to view the premises. The terms will be made known on application to the subscriber near Goodland court house.
Daniel Couch. January 25, 1809. w4t/p
30 Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from Benjamin Moore's in Buckingham County near the Courthouse, about the 14th of August, 1807, A NEGRO MAN, named TOM; he is about twenty-nine or thirty years old, five feet seven or eight inches high, rather of a yellowish complexion, has a scar on his right cheek, occasioned by the tooth ache; he has rather a down countenance when spoken to; and was purchased from Edward G. Hill of Spottsylvania County, by Benj. Moore, who gave him to his son William Moore, of whom I purchased him. It is very probable he has obtained a free pass, and is at this time in Spottsylvania, where I expect his relations and acquaintances are, or lurking about Richmond. He ran away about twelve months before his last employment, and crossed the Blue Ridge, and was apprehended in Berkeley County, & put in Martinsburg Jail. He may have aimed for that course again, but I think it most probable from some circumstances that he has gone below where he was raised. Any person that will deliver the said negro to the subscriber living in Waminster, Nelson County, or Capt. Benjamin Moore, living in Buckingham County near the Courthouse, shall receive from me the reward of 30 Dollars to any person who will apprehend and secure him in any jail, and give me such information as to take him again. All masters of vessels are forewarned from carrying him out of the state at their peril.
Robert Moore. Nelson County, Janua. 2d, 1809 w4t
Negroes for Sale.
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Mr. Wm. W. Wbourne, on the 21st day of May last, for the purpose of securing to Mr. Coltin M'Rae, the sum of £190 10s 11d which debt has been assigned by said M'Rae to Mr. John G. Glearist, of the town of Manchester, we shall, at Powhatan court-house, on Friday the 20th January, 1809, proceed to sell, the following slaves, viz: David, Biley, Anthony, & Frank, or so many of them as will be sufficient to raise the said sum of £190 10s. 11d with interest from the 25th inst. and all costs incurred by carrying the same into effect.
WM. MOSELEY, JOHN HASKINS, } Trustees. December 30, 1808.
N. B. William Wbourne having failed to produce Frank, on the day of sale, we shall, on Friday the 17th February proceed to execute the trust in us reposed, by selling said slave Frank; also David & Anthony, agreeably to the tenor of the above advertisement, deducting £82 10s. being the price given for Biley, by valuation of the commissioners.
Wm. Mosely. John Haskins. January 27, 1808. 3w
NOTICE.

WANTED TO PURCHASE,  10 or 15 Young Negroes. Enquire of the Printer. November 30 1808. tf  Penitentiary Store. SHOES at the Manufacture of the Penitentiary have been lately REDUCED, considerably below their former prices.  D. J. BURR, Agent. 10th May, 1808. tf
FOR SALE, On private contract, the fine, high bred running horse  DOCTOR, Late the property of Doctor A. T. Dixon, out of Phil Box, by Pantaloons. Also, A FILLY, 3 years old, by Precipitate, out of the same mare, of the best and purest blood in Virginia. Doctor was by Play or Pay, is in high health and perfectly sound, six years old, a beautiful bay and 15 hands high. This horse has proved his bottom and speed in many trials, having from three years old been successful, except in two instances, which accident prevented. The filly is untried, but she would be highly valuable to a gentleman whose wish is to raise from a good stock. Apply to  John Tyler, Green Way, Sept. 6, 1808. tf
MAITRESSES OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond.  J. S. PLEASANTS. May 31, 1808. tf
Deserter. DESERTED from the service of the United States, on the 6th inst. a private in the 5th Regiment of Infantry, named Daniel L. Bradley, 19 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, dark complexion, hazel eyes, and dark hair. He was born in Charles City county, Virginia, and is a farmer by profession. The said Bradley had on at the time of his desertion, the uniform of the United States Light Infantry. A reward of ten dollars will be given to any person who will deliver the said deserter to me, or to any officer in the service of the U. States.  EDWARD DILLARD, Capt. 5th U. S. Reg't Infantry. November 23, 1808. tf
FOR SALE, A SECOND HAND  Coachee, Large and strong-built, well calculated for a public stage or hack. Also a pair of well-broke, gentle  Bay Horses. They will be sold low for cash, or on a credit of ninety days, the purchaser giving an approved negotiable note. Apply to the printer. tf
For sale or Rent, An eligible situation for a Tavern and Store, situated 17 miles above Manchester on the Buckingham road - known by the name of Hallsborough; the survey contains 114 acres, with a good dwelling house, store house and out houses. For terms apply to  Jacob Fackler, Richmond 12 Jan. 1809. tf
Cabinet Making Business, THE Subscriber having furnished himself with an elegant assortment of mountains and other materials; begs leave to inform the public that he has commenced the upon an extensive scale, in the house near Shocoe bridge, next door to Samuel P. Pessants, Jr's, printing office, where he will keep a constant supply of furniture for sale upon reasonable terms - and where furniture in his line will be made upon the shortest notice, and in the most approved fashions, or upon any model which may be directed. The subscriber will also keep on hand, a constant supply of Fancy and Windsor CHAIRS of all descriptions, for sale upon reasonable terms.  Capt. M. PERRY. Richmond. November 29th. 1808. (tf) N. B. Coach and Sign Painting, done at his shop on the shortest notice and in the very best manner.
WILL BE SOLD, To the person who takes the same for the shortest period, and pay two thousand dollars, with legal interest thereon from the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and seven, and the costs of executing the trust, that  Brick Tenement, On the South side of the Main Street, adjoining the lot of ground sold by the said Younghusband to Joseph Marx, and extending from the said Main Street back to the alley which extends through the square, it being the lower tenement of those two belonging to the said Younghusband's estate, under the same right. The sale will take place on the premises, on Monday the sixth day of February next, at the hour of 12 o'clock, and the lease executed to the purchaser on the payment of the said sum of money, by  WILLIAM MARSHALL, Trustee. January 5th, 1809. 2m
One Thousand Pounds  WANTED, FOR the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is returned. Nearly 100 acres are now in cultivation, lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer. September 8, 1808. tf Just received at this office, Part 2d of vol. 9th - or No. 18 of  Dr. Rees' New Cyclopaedia. Subscribers to the above work are requested to apply for their books. Subscription still open.
Blank Notes AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY, used in depositing stock in the Bank of Virginia; for sale at this office.
Gerard Banks, HERETOFORE the Editor of the Virginia, has opened a SCRIVENER'S OFFICE in the house immediately opposite the Market. Writing of every description will be executed with correctness. Besides the usual instruments which may be required, he offers to draw Bills of Injunction, &c. at a moderate price.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,  Mr. Giles' Speeches DELIVERED ON The resolution of Mr. Hillhouse, to repeal the Embargo Laws.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale by S. PLEASANTS, Richmond,  THE GENTLEMAN'S  Pocket Remembrancer, FOR THE YEAR 1809, CONTAINING an almanack, ruled pages for memorandums and cash accounts, government of the United States, executive, legislative and judiciary, federal courts of law, departments of the federal government, territorial government of the U. S. patents, intercourse with foreign nations, diplomatic department, ministers, consuls, &c. from foreign powers to the U. S. navy, marine corps, navy yard at Washington, post-office establishment, coins, duties on imports, drawbacks, bounties, custom-house of Philadelphia, wardens of the port, officers of the customs of the U. S. light-houses, tables, &c. &c.
The Ladies' Pocket-Book Contains a view and description of the natural bridge in Virginia an almanack, ruled pages for memorandums and cash accounts, select pieces in prose and poetry, new and celebrated songs, and several useful tables. The above books are neatly bound in red leather with pockets. tf
Waller Ford, Trustee. January 6, 1809. Pursuant to a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber by Robert M'Tyre, for the purpose of securing a sum of money due John Baker, ex'or of Solomon Gordon, dec. will be sold, to the highest bidder [according to the tenor of the said trust] on Saturday the 4th day of February next, at the LOT in Manchester including all its appurtenances called LEATHER'S OLD TAVERN, now occupied by Nathaniel Ghiders. Terms ready money. Nath. Childers, } Trustees. Thomas Cheatham } Manchester 10, Jan. 1809.
Select Speeches. Just received by S. PLEASANTS, jr. RICHMOND,  SELECT SPEECHES, FORENSICK AND PARLIAMENTARY, With Prefatory Remarks. BY N. CHAPMAN, M. D.
NOTICE. I wish to employ a Deputy in the County-Court Clerkship of Amherst. As none are wanting excepting those who are well qualified in every respect to conduct the business of the office, it is presumed that no other but of this description, will make application. To such liberal wages will be given.  Wm. S. Crawford. 3v
Post Master, At Warren, Va. January 24, 1809. 3v
One Negro Girl named Cate, to satisfy the said debt, with the interest and cost incurred by carrying this deed of trust into effect.  Peter Rison, Trustee. Perkinsonville, Jan. 14th, 1809. 12 & 11
JUST PUBLISHED, BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, And for sale at his Printing Office, Richmond, by the gross, dozen or single,  The Virginia Almanack, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD  1809: Being the first after Bissextile or Leap Year, and thirty-third of American Independence. Adapted to the latitude and meridian of Richmond. Calculated by Benjamin Bates of Hanover County, Virginia. Containing, in addition to the Astronomical Calculations, a great variety of useful and entertaining matter.
Blank Notes AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY, used in depositing stock in the Bank of Virginia; for sale at this office.
Dr. TISSOT'S Celebrated  GOUT & RHEUMATIC DROPS. A certain cure for the Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, weakness of the joints and all kinds of Sprains; for gleet, be they ever so long standing, and for the stone and gravel; it is perhaps the most active, penetrating, and effectual remedy in the world; in the cramp and all kinds of pains in the head, face and body, it is without equal. This medicine [which justly claims a pre-eminence over all others, as being decidedly adapted for the speedy removal of those complaints above mentioned] owes its discovery to the celebrated Tissot, a physician of most exalted eminence in his profession and is chiefly the extract of an herb, peculiar to Europe, to whose powerful, healing, restorative and balsamic qualities this great man, by the administering, owed much of his fame. It is peculiarly excellent for most disorders attending warm climates, and keeps for any length of time. Bottles, at two dollars each, with copious directions. The following are a few, of the many respectable certificates, which the proprietor has in his possession.
CERTIFICATE OF  GENERAL RIDGELY, of Hampton. I certify, that having received a blow on my knee, which induced severe pain and swelling, I was advised to apply Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatic Drops, and on bathing the part with them only a few times, agreeably to the directions, they effected a perfect cure. At another time my wrist was affected with Rheumatism to such a degree as rendered my hand for the time useless, when on making application of the same remedy in like manner, the disorder in the course of 24 hours was entirely removed. I therefore from the experience I have had of the efficacy of said medicine, consider it as a beneficial act to recommend it in similar cases to others. Signed,  C. RIDGELY, of Hampton.
CERTIFICATE OF  MR. THOMAS CAMPBELL, Harness maker. It would be an act of injustice to withhold my testimony of the salutary effects of Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatic Drops, as I have experienced a very unequivocal instance of their virtue and efficacy. I was affected with two severe attacks of what is usually called dead palsy, from which I partially recovered, but was obliged to use crutches to aid me in walking when I left home, to this were joined violent Rheumatic pains, the result of the affliction, and I had feared the disorder would accompany me thro' life, but providentially was soon rendered to apply at G. Dobbin and Murphy's for Dr. Tissot's Drops, and after using only one bottle, found myself perfectly liberated from my disorder, and am now, thank God, as free from pain as if I never had been affected; finding this medicine operates so powerfully on myself, I determined to apply it internally to my child [a boy only eleven months old] who was then reduced almost to a skeleton, with the bowels complaint, after administering it four or five times to him, his complaint was entirely removed, and he is now recovering his strength with great rapidity. Signed,  THOMAS CAMPBELL. Baltimore, July 22, 1806.
CERTIFICATE OF  MR. THOMAS KELSO, Butcher. About three weeks since I was very violently attacked with Rheumatic pains throughout my whole frame, in so severe a manner as not to be able to turn in my bed without assistance, proceeding, I suppose from a severe cold; on being advised by a friend to apply Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatic Drops, I accordingly obtained from the agents, (Messrs G. Dobbin and Murphy) two bottles, the application of which (under God) have perfectly restored my health. I am therefore induced with confidence to recommend this medicine at a certain cure for the above disorder. Signed,  THOMAS KELSO. Baltimore, July 22, 1806.
AFFIDAVIT OF  MRS. ANNE FIFER. No. 107, Green-street. Old town, Baltimore. Being ever desirous of rendering assistance to my fellow creatures, as far as my abilities will permit, and also give additional credit to DR. TISSOT'S GOUT AND RHEUMATIC DROPS, which from their powerful efficacy, I have received such surprising benefit, are the only motives for my offering a statement of my case to the public, under the following attested affidavit. Upwards of five years I had been afflicted with Rheumatic pains, which were seated principally in my loins, shoulders, and right arm; which at last I lost the use of, so that for a considerable time, I could not lift it to my head; at one period it confined me to my bed, in which I could not turn without assistance, and from the violent and agonizing pain in my loins, my cries could often be heard by the neighbors. Every remedy that I could think of, or prescribed by my friends were tried; I also had medical assistance both in French and English, but they gave relief only for the moment, so that I despaired of ever being cured, and had resigned myself to be a cripple during life, when I was advised by a friend to make trial of DR. TISSOT'S GOUT & RHEUMATIC DROPS, I accordingly applied at Love's Drug and Patent Medicine Store, No. 16, Sign of the Moriar, Centre Market-space, where I purchased a bottle for two dollars, from which I do positively declare, I received more benefit than I had from all the remedies attempted for 5 years past; but fearing a relapse, I procured another bottle and was perfectly relieved. ANNE FIFER Sworn before me this 17th day of November 1806. JAMES WILSON. Witness, James Norris, Jan.
CAUTION. No Gout and Rheumatic Drops being known excepting those invented by Dr. Tissot - The public are requested to notice that none are genuine unless the names of Dr. Tissot, and the proprietor Henry Ward, are cut in the glass of the bottle, and the outside cover of each bottle signed by the said proprietor himself. Sold by H. WARD, sole proprietor, Philadelphia, and at the Book-Store of S. PLEASANTS, jr. Richmond.
Dr. TABB'S  Nature's Restorative Balsamic Cordial. The certificates attached to the bills which inclose each bottle of the above medicine, are from characters of respectability, on whose testimony the fullest confidence may be placed by those who labor under complaints of the Gout, Rheumatism, &c. also those of consumptive habits, general debility of the nerves and various other complaints incident to the human body.
Fifa & Casa Executions, For sale at this office.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, And may be had at Jacob Johnson's book-store, adjoining the Market Bridge,  PART 3, OF VOL. 1, OF  HENING AND MUNFORD'S  REPORTS, CONTAINING The Decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, at the October Term, 1807, and completing the first volume. At the same place may be had the said volume (of 656 pages) elegantly bound, in calf. Price to subscribers $3 - to non-subscribers $6.
The size of the volume having far exceeded the limits at first contemplated, (which were 500 pages only) the authors have been induced to furnish it to subscribers at the above price, which is considerably less, in proportion, than that mentioned in the prospectus. Gentlemen who take these Reports in numbers, will be permitted to return them at any time within six months, and receive a volume, for which numbers they will be allowed the original cost in part payment for the volume. Richmond, Oct. 29, 1808. wtf
Royster & Bohannan, Have For Sale, at their Store near the Market Bridge, Richmond,  A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF  Groceries, AMONG WHICH ARE - Brown Sugar in hds & bbls, Whiskey by the bbl, or tierce Loaf Sugar, in do French Brandy Best Green Coffee Salt by the Sack Imperial, and A quantity of excellent Young Hyson TEAS, Lard by the firkin Chocolate, by the box A large assortment of Pimento Iron Castings, every description Pepper An assortment of Stone Ginger Ware Rice Queen's Ware Mustard Soap and Candles by box W. I. Rum Leiper's Snuff Jamaica do Writing Paper N. England do Whipping do Molasses by hhd Decanters -Sherry and Malaga Tumblers -Wine Wine Glasses Holland and Country Bed Cords, &c &c &c Gin Leading Lines Spanish Segars by box or retail Together with a number of other articles too tedious to enumerate - which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or approved paper in town. It is earnestly requested that those who have long standing accounts, will settle them immediately, as no longer indulgence can be given.
NICHOLAS HALLAM, (NEAR THE SWAN TAVERN,) Is in hourly expectation of a further supply of the  Best Philadelphia Leather, Which will be continued, and for sale, on equally good terms as heretofore. Wax and fair Calf Skins First quality Cossack boot legs do. do. Long, three quarter and half, draft, calf skin and Cordovan, do. Calf and Cordovan roundings and binding skins Bridle and sole leather, &c. &c Boots and Shoes.
Nails of all kinds. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF  WELL CHOSEN GROCERIES. Boots and Shoes made to measures at short notice, and rips mended gratis. A few thousand wt. of Hams and Middling
BACON. The above articles may be had low for cash, produce, or approved paper at short credit.
Virginia : At a Court held for Halifax county, on Monday the 26th day of December, 1808. John Wimbish, Plaintiff. AGAINST Gardner Mayes and Isaac Medley, deputy sheriff for Thomas Watkins, sheriff of Halifax, Defendants. THE defendant Gardner Mayes, 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 this state; on the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered , that the said defendant, Mayes, do appear here on the fourth Monday in March next, and answer the plaintiff's bill; that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy - Teste  SAMUEL WILLIAMS, D. C. H. C.
For Sale at this Office, A FEW DOORS BELOW THE BELL TAVERN. [PRICE TWO DOLLARS.]  A SYSTEM OF  Military Tactics, CONTAINING THE  PRINCIPLES  OF  Discipline & Movements, CHIEFLY ADAPTED TO  INFANTRY; WITH THE  RULES AND REGULATIONS, DESIGNED FOR THE  FORCES OF THE UNITED STATES, TO WHICH IS ADDED  THE VARIOUS FORMS OF REPORTS
ILLUSTRATED BY 16 COPPER-PLATES, SHEWING UPWARDS OF ONE HUNDRED MOVEMENTS. BY DANIEL FISHER.
New Law Books. The 8th vol. of East's Reports, and the 5th vol. of Espinasse's Reports are just received and for sale by S. PLEASANTS.
JUST PUBLISHED, BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUN. RICHMOND, THE  SECOND VOLUME OF THE  Revised Code, (Containing 500 pages super-royal octavo, bound to match the first vol. - Price to subscribers $5 - to non-subscribers $6.) BEING A  COLLECTION OF ALL SUCH  ACTS OF THE  General Assembly OF  VIRGINIA Of a public and permanent nature as have passed since the session of 1801: TO WHICH ARE ADDED  APPENDICES, CONTAINING A compilation of the several laws for the establishment of the James river, Potomac, Appomattox and Dismal Swamp Canal Companies, Laws concerning the Northern Neck, Titles of acts authorising the establishment of Turnpike Roads, and the erection of Toll Bridges, A compilation of the several acts concerning the Mutual Assurance Society against Fire on Buildings, Acts and resolutions of a general nature, which were omitted in the revisions of 1794, and 1803, Laws concerning waste and unappropriated lands on the eastern and western waters, Laws establishing ferries, Laws concerning the public guard, Titles of private and local acts - And A table of fines, forfeitures, penalties and amercements; designating such as are to the use of the commonwealth; such as go towards lessening the county levy; such as belong to individuals; and such as are appropriated to any particular object. With a complete Index to the whole.
Published pursuant to an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, passed the seventh day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven.
20 Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on the 13th of this month, a NEGRO FELLOW, named George, about 32 years of age, of ordinary stature, yellow complexion, very bushy hair, and thick lips; when engaged in any business, he has a very singular manner of chewing his tongue. This fellow has been accustomed to wait in a dining room, and is very capable of performing any of those duties which are required of a male servant at a house. He is indeed very expert at almost any kind of business. He had on when he went away a suit of blue plains about half worn, but he carried also a suit of brown color, to make him a coat, and had a variety of clothes besides; some of which he may have taken with him. It is probable he may go to Norfolk, where he has many acquaintances, having been once apprehended there, when he ran away about six years ago, or to Albemarle, where he has some relations. It is not improbable that he has been furnished with a free pass by some mulattoes, of whom there is a great number in this neighborhood, and may attempt to go out of the state. - this is the more to be expected, as he went off without the slightest provocation, and it appears had meditated the elopement for some time. Whoever will apprehend this fellow and secure him in any jail so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward, provided he is taken up out of the county - if within the county, 10 dollars will be paid. All persons are forewarned against harbouring this fellow or carrying him out of the state. TH: MILLER. Powhatan, January 17th, 1809. w3t
Boarding for Youth. THE subscriber having rented a large and convenient portion of the tenement in which the youth, composing Mr. Gerdin's academy are instructed, intends boarding young gentlemen on very moderate terms. No exertion that can be reasonably expected, shall be omitted to render the accommodations satisfactory. The morals of the young boarders shall be under the peculiar care of Mr. Doyle, who is himself to board with the subscriber, and Mr. Gerdin likewise promises to extend his attention to a point so truly important. Application to be made either at the school, or with the subscriber. PAUL G. G. JONES. January 19 1809.
WANTED to employ by the 1st day of March next, fifteen or sixteen MILL-WRIGHTS, for the purpose of building Threshing Machines. Enquire at the next door to the stage office, in Petersburg. BENJAMIN B. BERNARD. January 23d, 1809. 3t
For sale at S. PLEASANTS' printing office  HENING'S  New Virginia Justice, CONTAINING The Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease and re-lease, mortgage, trust, &c.
Pamphlets,  CARDS,  HAND-BILLS,  LAWYERS,  CLERKS & SHERIFFS BLANKS, &c ARE NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY PRINTED AT THE  ARGUS OFFICE.