The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1804-10-20 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE...AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM...payable in advance.
NUMBER 48.]
SATURDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 20, 1804.
[VOLUME 1.]
CONDITIONS.
 I. THE ENQUIRER will appear twice a week...During the session of Congress and the Virginia Legislature, either a third paper or a supplementary half-sheet, during the week.  II. Terms of payment FIVE DOLLARS per annum, in advance.  III. ADVERTISEMENTS, from those who do not subscribe to the paper, should they not exceed a square in length, shall be inserted for seventy-five cents the first time, fifty cents for each time during three weeks, and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents; long ones in the same proportion.  IV. SUBSCRIBERS shall have their advertisements inserted for fifty cents the first time, and thirty-three cents for every additional insertion. 
NOTICE.
THE partnership, heretofore subsisting between the subscribers, under the firm of Ross & Ford, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. Those who have unsettled accounts with the said firm are respectfully informed that they must apply for settlement to Messrs. Wm. Jones of Philadelphia, or Neil McCoull of this city.
DAVID R. ROSS. BENJAMIN B. FORD.
October 17. 54. etc.
BY virtue of a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth circuit, in the Virginia district, bearing date the 6th day of June, 1804, in behalf of Princess Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, against David Ross and others,
WILL BE SOLD.
To the highest bidder, for ready money, at Goodland Court-House, on the 24th day of November next,
A TRACT OF LAND.
In said county, on Beverdam creek, containing fifteen hundred acres, more or less, including the land whereon the Court House is situated, bounded by the lands of Samuel Woodfin and others, and commonly called Ross's Goodland Court House Tract; or so much thereof as may be sufficient to raise the sum of ten thousand Dollars, and the expenses attending the sale.
BEN: MOSEY, D. M. for Joseph Scott, M. F. L. (ad.)
October 17.
WILL BE SOLD.
On Thursday, the 15th of November next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day:
A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, in Gloucester county, on York river, near Cap-pahatchie ferry, commonly known by the name of Withers's ; containing by estimation Two Hundred Acres: its situation, as to the convenience for all of every sort, is inferior to none; with a good Dwelling House, Kitchen, &c.
Also, all the Personal Estate belonging to the estate of the late William Withers , dec'd.
A credit of nine months for all sums above five dollars, on the purchasers giving bond and such security as the administrator may approve of.
All persons having claims against the estate of the said Wm. Withers , dec'd, are desired to bring them in previous to the above sale, in order for settlement, and that provision may be made for the same by the administrator as soon as possible.
ISAAC ANDREWS, Adm'r.
October 13.
IN HANOVER COUNTY COURT.
October 20th, 1805.
Charles Lindley against Richard Richardson & Daniel Richardson, Dfts.
THIS day came the complainant by his counsel, and the defendant Dudley Richardson , full failing to appear and answer the bill of the complainant, on the motion of the complainant, is decreed and ordered, that unless the defendant Dudley Richardson , (having been served with a copy of this order) shall file his answer on or before the next term, that then the complainant's bill be taken for confessed, and the matter thereof decreed accordingly to him.
Add the defendant Richardson 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 county, on the motion of the complainant, it is further decreed, and ordered that the defendant Richard Richardson , do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in one of the Virginia Gazettes for two months successively, and that any copy be posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county.
A copy, true.
THOMAS POLLARD, D. C. U. C.
October 17. (y)
WHEREAS doubts are entertained, whether the corporation of the city of Richmond, have authority to appoint a mathematical surveyor, to prescribe and regulate his duties and fees; and it is also doubted, whether a street has been established, communicating from the Shoemaker's on the north-west side of Shockoe-Creek to the north-west corner of the old town of Richmond; and thence along the south-west boundary of said old town to the south-west corner thereof, and thence to Rocketts upon the margin of the river, or otherwise in one continued and direct course; and doubts also exist, whether there be any street established on the north-west boundary of the said old town by the Market-house ; and it be so deemed expedient that such doubts should be removed, and such streets (if none exist) established:
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, That a petition from the President and Common Council of the said City, will be presented to the next General Assembly of this Commonwealth, praying them to explain existing laws, or enact such others, as may most effectually obviate the said doubts, establish (if necessary) the said streets, and authorize the appointment of a surveyor.
ANDREW STEPHENSON, C. C. C.
October 17. (epW.)
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, to establish a FERRY from the lands of Parker Rust , in Richmond County , to the said Rust's lands in Eliz. County .
September 15. (Smeg.)
Printing.
IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE of the ENQUIRER.
FALL GOODS.
WILLIAM TEMPLE has received by the ship Edward and Charles , from London, AN EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF GOODS, suitable to the approaching season. He expects an ADDITIONAL SUPPLY,
to complete his assortment, by the ship Sally from London, and Leicester from Liverpool; which he will dispose of on his usual low terms.
Sept. 3. epW.
OLD MADEIRA, DRY LISBON, & PORT WINE.
ROBERT GORDON & Co.
HAVE received by the Juliana from Madeira, 50 pipes selected old WINE , which they offer their friends prices to be excellent. They have also a few pipes lemonade and quarter-casks DRY LISBON and PORT WINE, imported by themselves direct from Lisbon and Oporto.
FALL GOODS. They have received by the Charles and Edward from London, part of their FALL GOODS, and daily expect from Liverpool and Glasgow an extensive assortment of nearly every article usually imported.
September 22. epW.
THREE DWELLING HOUSES TO BE RENTED.
ONE situate at the foot of Adams hill, and but a small distance from the Masons Hall , lately occupied by Mr. Thomas Underwood; on this lot there is a very good and well enclosed garden, a well of excellent water and other conveniences.
One other situate in the alley between the street leading to Shockoe warehouse , and that leading to Mayo's Bridge , lately occupied by Mr. John Robbins.
The other situate in the back street near Harris's Tobacco manufactory , and the Rock landing —having a large garden well enclosed, and at present occupied by Mr. Henry Tompkins.
Possession of the two first described may be had immediately, and of the other on the first of January next.
Apply to JOSEPH GALLEGO. WHO HAS FOR SALE, A light Coach, nearly new, with plated mounted harness, complete for two horses.
19th October. (epW.)
WASHINGTON TAVERN.
THE subscriber has taken a lease of this tenement for a number of years, and has put it in a state of repair which renders it not inferior to any in this City. Beside the Tavern he has detached buildings, well calculated to accommodate those who are anxious of greater privacy than a tavern usually affords. These tenements adjoin the public square, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have decided advantages over any other houses in this City, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good stables and a constant supply of the best FORAGE. He renders his services to his friends and the public, and assures them, that no unlawful gaming, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to disturb the peace of his house, will ever be permitted.
EDWARD HALLAM. Richmond, September 26.
N. B. About THIRTY MEMBERS of the next ASSEMBLY may be well accommodated, if cabin rooms have already engaged. E. H.
TO LIKELY NEGROES.
ANY person wishing to purchase about 70 Likely Negroes, may hear where he can be accommodated by applying at the Office of the Enquirer.
October 3. if
BROKER'S OFFICE.
THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office in one of the apartments above Mr. Burr's Store. All business confided to him, will be transacted with great fidelity.
THOMAS NORFELL. October 3. if
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Capt. Thomas Nelson, late of King William County, are desired to bring them in, properly attested, to the subscriber, who has qualified as executor of his father's will; and he takes this occasion to assure the creditors, that as soon as their accounts are liquidated and the balances ascertained, he will make ample provision to meet every just demand, as speedily as possible.
THOMAS CARY NELSON. King Wm. Oct. 3. 1m
FOR SALE.
At Louis Court-house, on the first Wednesday in December next,
182 VALUABLE SLAVES.
CONSISTING of Men, Women, Boys and Girls, belonging to the estate of Christopher Smith, dec'd. Among them is a valuable TANNER , regularly bred to the business. The subscriber has refused to sell any of them privately, and they will certainly be offered at public sale at the time above mentioned. A credit till the 10th of February, 1806, will be given, on the purchasers giving bonds with approved security, to carry interest from the date; but if the principal is punctually paid, the interest will be remitted.
CHARLES SMITH, Acting Executor of Christopher Smith, dec'd. October 3. (epW.)
DATES'S ALMANAC—for 1805—Published by Messrs. Davis & Courtney, may be had at the Office of the Enquirer.
September 19. epW.
BANK OF VIRGINIA.
AT a meeting of the President and Directors of the Bank of Virginia, on Thursday October 4th, 1804.
“Resolved, That the Bank commence Discounts on Tuesday next.
“Resolved, that the President, Cashier and other officers of the Bank, proceed to business on Monday next, in the Senate Room of the Capitol.
“Resolved, that it is expected, that any House or firm, consisting of more than one person, shall make a declaration of the names and surnames of the persons who compose such firm, and that each of the persons who compose such firm, in Richmond or Manchesters, composing such firm, shall subscribe the Virgin Book , and insert therein the names of his partner or partners.”
J. BROCKENBROUGH, Cashier.
N. B. Persons applying for discounts must lodge their Notes at the Bank on the Monday and Thursday of every week.
J. B.
ALL BILLS OF LADING, SHERIFFS' BLANKS, BLANK BONDS, &c. &c. FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
JUST RECEIVED BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, FOR PRIVATE SALE.
THREE Bales of INDIA COTTON, either by the bale or single piece—which if not disposed of before, will on Thursday the 1st day of November next, be sold privately without reserve for cash.
FROSSER & MONCURE, V. M's.
October 10. 14.
Mediterranean Passports.
NOTICE is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the 1st day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passport of which the may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange: and that, by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805; after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use.
Department of State, } 29th of May, 1804. }
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of five months, and the Collectors of the customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices.
June, 2.
NEGROES—FOR SALE.
A LIKELY NEGRO WOMAN, about 35 years old, with three children; two Girls 13 and 8 years old, and a Boy 5 or 6. They are now living with Mrs. Brewer in Bedford county , and will be sold low for cash. Apply to the Editor of The Enquirer, or the subscriber.
LAURENCE MUSE. Tappahannock, Sept. 29. (f)
A GREAT BARGAIN.
THE subscribers are authorized to sell by private sale, on liberal terms, and if not disposed of by the second Monday in December ensuing, will on that day, at the Eagle Tavern , in the City of Richmond, positively be sold at public auction, without reserve, for cash, the moiety of a valuable TRACT OF LAND, containing 1080 acres, in Spotsylvania county , within twenty miles of of Fredericksburg . The tract is commonly known by the name of Garnett's , and adjoins the lands of John Kenney , John Mitchell , Thomas Tolson , and others. The moiety is that part nearest the town of Fredericksburg .
ALSO—Two hundred acres LAND lying in Fluvanna county , adjoining the Lands of Hez. Stone , Richard Wyatt , and John Manly , which we will dispose of on the same terms of the above.
FROSSER & MONCURE, V. Ms. September 22. [2am etc]
NEAL NELSON,
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER,
MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND,
MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use.
Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale.
Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot.
A—the length of the Boot...C—round the Calf...B—the pitch of ditto...D—round the heel and instep...E—round the instep...G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures.
June 30. epW.
A WET NURSE.
WANTED to hire or purchase, a Wet Nurse without a child of her own. Enquire of the Printers.
August 8. (f)
WANTED ON HIRE;
A WOMAN, without a Child, who is a good Cook, Washer, and Ironer. Liberal wages are offered for one who can come well recommended.
Also—A GIRL, from 12 to 16, who has been accustomed to wait in a house. Apply at the Enquirer Office. Sept. 8.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
MEMOIR, IN JUSTIFICATION OF GENERAL MOREAU.
[FOURTH CHARGE CONTINUED.]
We continue to state the denials of General Moreau.
He denies having assented to receive the first visit of Pichegru at his house; and independent of tergiversations of Lajolais, probability alone will satisfy any one that it was not with his consent. Lajolais even from his first interrogation has declared that this visit was at a time when general Moreau was surrounded by his friends. According to the custom for some late years prevalent in the principal houses in the capital, the general had appointed one day in each week to entertain a kind of periodical society. On this day Pichegru made his first visit. Surely had Moreau appointed the time for a meeting, we will not say with Pichegru the conspirator, but Pichegru the proscribed, to whose safety every degree of precaution was necessary, he never would have named this day in particular, and designated the very hour, when, by the laws of fashion, his door must have been crowded by the influx of company. It is at least aconclusion for general Moreau, that, almost in every instance, the act of nomination, as it concerns him, is at open war with common sense.
It is this common sense that again gives the contradiction to Roland, when he assures that Moreau had assented to the second interview with Pichegru, and had sent his secretary to conduct him. Moreau on the contrary asserts that he refused to grant this interview, and that to free himself from the solicitation of Roland, he sent his secretary to enquire what was the will of Pichegru in requesting it. Which of
these opposite assertions will be credited? That which does not offend against probability; that of Moreau.
What was the business of Roland with Moreau? to ask a rendezvous for Pichegru? it is granted. Is any thing more simple than the conclusion that follows. Roland asks Moreau to permit the visit of Pichegru; Moreau assents; Roland goes away contented; Pichegru comes at the appointed time, either alone, for he already knew the way, or with Roland from whom he had no concealment: Where then the necessity of employing M. Fesnier? Why should he bear to Pichegru a message which would have been more safely entrusted to Roland? It was necessary that Pichegru should be known by as few persons as possible. If then the intermediacy of a fourth person was resorted to, it must have been because it was rendered indispensable by some purpose for which Roland was unfit; it was because general Moreau not wishing the visit of Pichegru, who, according to Roland, had something serious to communicate, and desiring to be at once rid of all importunities, sent his secretary to receive his communication. Every conclusion of reason and logic on this point, is in favour of the assertion of Moreau, and against Roland. It is then Roland who is untrue.
He is untrue on a point still more important. We must now speak of that monstrous charge of which he is the author, and the bare allusion to which makes the foul recoil with horror.
We must remember that according to the declaration of all the accused, not excepting either Lajolais or Roland, the royalists in calculating on Moreau found themselves deceived. Of this they were convinced from the very first attempts to discover his sentiments. From the reception of the insinuations of Pichegru, they had rejected every idea that, should we unhappy lose our pilot and the storm again return, they could derive any aid from him. We are informed that Pichegru, perceiving this invincible resolution, in his political conversation with Moreau, and not being able to account for it on any other principle than that of personal ambition, exclaimed in a moment of extreme discontent—I see that that b... has sufficient ambition. Roland bore a confirmation of this sentiment from his conference the next day.
Let us here pause for a moment.
Since, as it appears, Moreau neither wished the success of the Bourbons nor of the Royalists, it is thence evident—
That he could not have been their accomplice:
That he made no proposals to them in London:
That he never promised them his support:
That he did not invite them to France:
That his plotting with Pichegru is imaginary:
That the mission of Lajolais must be a false:
That his concerting with Georges is a calumny.
That in a word, whatever may be the offences of Moreau towards the government, there is a real, palpable, and monstrous absurdity, in bringing him to judgement as a conspirator with the royalists.
But whence the necessity of a train of reasoning to prove that a man did not plot the ruin of his own country? If the name of Moreau is celebrated in Europe, it has become so by the disasters of the house of Bourbon: by victories acquired over its allies and protectors: by its present disgrace, which makes it every way improbable, that it should ever again be restored to power! Yet do not those tremble at the bareness of the charge, who suppose that Moreau wished its return to France! What honour, what recompence could be thence derived? Then indeed might he expect to be reproached and arraigned as a traitor. Then would he himself be obliged to bury all his trophies, and never again to recall any of his glorious military achievements; which, from the moment of its re-establishment, would be declared rebellion, and must mark him out as the most distinguished of rebels!
Yet of what else is general Moreau accused? He casts his eyes around him, on those crowded and fatal benches; Whom does he there perceive? Far be it from his intention to insult their misfortunes; through the struggles in which we have been involved, the lot of preferring a pure character has fallen to very few; yet he cannot refrain from observing, that there he does not perceive one republican, not one soldier, with whom he ever held a communion of conduct or sentiment. He beholds only determined royalists, who have with a fanatic and unbroken faith, continued their attachment to their party. He looks for his accomplices and meets only adversaries and enemies. He is the only republican who there occupies a seat; nor dare one of those on either side claim him as their associate. All that any of them has ventured to say, is that he wished them to enter into his personal resentments, and to abandon their own cause to promote his.
And who even thus far accuses him? Roland.
Where are the proofs to support the charge?
In the word of Roland.
How did Moreau discover his conspiracy?
In a conversation.
What accomplices, what partisans, did he name?
None.
Have none of those with whom he plotted been discovered?
None.
All his domestics, and many of his friends have been arrested, have none of those suffered the secret to escape them?
None.
All his papers have been seized; has none of them betrayed the features of this plot?
None.
Indeed! What is then the nature of this wonderful conspiracy, without associates, without witnesses, without evidence, without support, and above all without conspirators?
Learn from Roland.
Roland says that Pichegru, who intrigued for the royalists, not having been permitted to explain himself to Moreau, at their last interview, and feeling all his insinuations disregarded or repelled, sent Roland to make the famous overture (we use his own words.) It had not then been made; and consequently at this time Moreau had not been associated in any of their plans, as their confidence had not then been given to him. Roland adds that he made his proposition, and that Moreau absolutely refused to take part in any movement in behalf of the Bourbons.
Moreau, therefore, is not guilty of any conspiracy whose object was their restoration. Roland goes on to say, that at the same time Moreau proposed that Pichegru should change his
plan, that he should first remove the confidant and the governor of Paris, and then Moreau would avail himself of a party in the senate to obtain the dictatorship, and would act according as opinion should direct.
Roland at the trial, when pressed by his conscience, though he let one part of his former testimony remain, retracted others. He there confessed and the governor of Paris was disappeared; that Moreau speaking to him, on his pretensions to power or authority, had said, that before he could receive it, the confidant and all those possessed of public dignity must be no more.—Judge now what credit should be given to a witness who is capable of varying his testimony on a point of such importance; and on what tenure do our best citizens hold their lives and honour, if they depend upon the construction on which every wretch shall please to affix to a real or imagined conversation.
A conversation! The very idea that a conversation, however seditious it may be, could constitute the crime of high-treason, is repugnant to every principle of justice. Moreau is not reproached with having performed one single treasonable act. His conduct is at least pure, whatever his heart may be. He has taken no steps, seduced none to be his accomplices, in this supposed plot. But, as we are assured by Roland, he spoke seditiously; and we are to believe that Roland neither heard indistinctly, misapprehended, nor forgot any part of

Consequently, all the proof of the conspiracy which Moreau is charged with having contrived or approved, being found in the solitary declaration of one in the predicament of Roland, Moreau ought to be absolved.
(To be Continued.)
ROYAL NEGOCIATION.
From a late London paper.
Last year a proposition was made through the medium of the king of Prussia to his majesty Louis XVIII. to renounce his rights to the throne of France in favor of Bonaparte. Upon that occasion his royal highness monseigneur, brother to the king of France and Navarre, published and distributed among the emigrant nobility and clergy, and several members of the diplomatic corps, a declaration, stating to the effect made to Louis XVIII. his majesty's dignified refusal, and the adhesion of the several branches of the Bourbon family to that determination. That statement appeared in the star of the 26th of July, 1808; but at that time a part only of this interesting transaction was known to the public. With the reasons urged by the Prussian Agent, the president De Meyer, in support of the proposition, and the noble and generous letter of the king of France to the king of Prussia, which we this day lay before our readers, we were then unacquainted.—They will no doubt be read with interest by those who are not intemperate to the sufferings of unfortunate princes, and who detest the unprincipled means by which the Corsican usurper adds insult to injustice.
STATE PAPERS.
LOUIS XVIII. THE KING OF PRUSSIA, AND BONAPARTE.
Friday, the 25th February, 1805, the king was informed by M. the Abbe Edgeworth, that M. the president de Meyer, who arrived from Berlin, was charged with a mission to him upon the part of his majesty the king of Prussia. The object of this mission was to obtain the renunciation, full and entire, of the whole house of Bourbon to the throne of France, as also to all the denominations which they had possessed. As the price of this sacrifice, Bonaparte would secure to them indemnities, and even a brilliant fate of life—(existence.)
Saturday morning, the 26th, the king received M. the president de Meyer. After the alliance of tender interest, which his Prussian majesty felt for M. the count de Lille and his family, M. the president explained the subject of his mission. He observed that Bonaparte had not overturned the throne of France; that he had no part in the horrors of the revolution; that he had put an end to it; he expatiated upon the good he had done for France, and even for all Europe.
"He said, that the revolution was consolidated more by factions within, than by war without. All reaction was impossible, because a want of repose is wanted, every where are felt interests created by it, and incompatible with the return to the ancient order of things; religion has consecrated the new; foreigners of Europe have acknowledged it; a political system, common to all nations, is established upon this case, and the kings will maintain it from conscience, from duty, from interest."
"The consequence was, that the house of Bourbon remained without support, and without means of existence for the future; because the favors which they have received from Russia may at last fail the children and successors of the count de Lille; that in a few years Bonaparte would no longer find an advantage to set a value upon resignation; that it would be more wise to take advantage of the present moment, seeing their rights were not yet proscribed, to act honorably, usefully, and securely."
"Usefully, because the first benefit to the family of the Bourbons would be a brilliant state (fort.) Securely, because Prussia, Russia, and the other powers of Europe would guarantee the treaty. Honorably, because that family would consolidate the repose of France, and of all Europe, by its sacrifices."
"If the most touching ability and interest could have prevailed over the honor, over the duty, over the sentiments, which he preferred for his country, the king would have been shaken. Without stopping to discuss the motives which were presented to him, and which established his rights far from weakening them as such a step revived his hopes, far from destroying them; his majesty answers:
"I do not confound monseigneur Bonaparte with those who have preceded him. I esteem his valor, his military talents. I give him credit for several acts of his administration, for the good they have done to my people will be always dear to me. But he deceives himself, if he thinks to induce me to abandon my rights. Far from it, he would establish them himself, if they could be questioned by the step which he has now taken. I know not the intentions of God, respecting my family and myself; but I know the obligations which he has imposed upon me, by the rank in which he has been pleased that I should be born. As a Christian, I shall discharge these obligations until my last sigh. The descendant of St. Louis, I shall learn from his example to respect myself even in irons; the successor of Francis the first, I will, at least, to be able to say, like him, 'We have lost all except honor.'"
Monday, the 28th, the king sent to M. the president, de Meyer, this answer in writing, sanctioned with the adhesion of his royal highness, the duke of Agouleme, in these terms:
"With the permission of the king, my uncle, I adhere with heart and soul to the contents of this note. (Signed) "LOUIS ANTOINE."
And a letter for his majesty the king of Prussia, of which the copy follows:
"His serene and Christian Majesty, "I have thought it my duty to give in writing my answer to the offers which it has pleased your majesty to make to me, and I request M. the president de Meyer to transmit to you. But I cannot avoid to add to this letter, in the first place, to thank you for full expressions of friendship for me, which you have ordered M. de Meyer to use in the discharge of his mission. Secondly, to deposit in the bosom of your majesty some reflections which I did not think proper to make in my answer."
"Not only would the present step of M. Bonaparte establish my rights, if it were necessary, but it farther reveals his apprehensions, and I congratulate myself upon seeing them in so august hands. I know all the advantages that I could take of this acknowledgement, but I would rather maintain silence if I were not compelled to break it. This is a respect which I think I owe to a generous sovereign, who grants me an asylum in his states.—The great mind of your majesty is too well known for me not to distinguish its thoughts of measures which its relations appear to dictate."
"Kings, to spare their subjects the horrors of war, have yielded to imperious circumstances. Misfortunes support me. I am alone. It is for me to maintain the rights of all, by never overturning every throne."
Monseigneur Bonaparte may march to glory, he has preferred the route that leads to celebrity; but if ever, listening to the voice of duty, and
of his true interest, he should have courage to entrust himself to my word, then I would see with joy, your majesty become a mediator between us, and give loyalty as a security of our reciprocal engagements.
"I shall fend, (as I have already done, with regard to my nephew) to my brother, and to the other branches of my family, the overture which has been made to me."
"Your majesty may see the answer of my nephew. I shall lay the rest before you as soon as I have received them."
"I pray your majesty, &c."
SHERIFF'S, COURT, DUBLIN, July 14.
JUDGEMENT BY DEFAULT.
CATHARINE BYRNE, v. CHARLES FRAZER FRL. ZEL, ESQ.
This day a trial of very novel and singular circumstances, and great public expectation, was determined before Luke White, Esq. high sheriff of the county of Dublin, and a most respectable jury, selected from a panel comprising all the rank, fortune, and character in the county. It was for the purpose of asserting the damages in the cause of Catharine Byrne, against Charles Frazier Frizel, against whom judgement was obtained by default last term, in an action of replevin, for that on the 3d of February last, the defendant with ensign Colly, and several soldiers under his command, broke into the plaintiff's house at Rathfarnham, and did there commit several outrages, and did assault the plaintiff, for which he laid her damages at £500.
Mr. McNally, for the plaintiff, Mrs. Byrne, opened the pleading with the accustomed formalities.
Mr. Curran stated the case of the plaintiff in one of the most eloquent and animated speeches ever delivered by him; he observed, that herself very great pleasure in seeing that laudable anxiety which the high sheriff of the county attended here on this occasion. That this was one of the most atrocious, the most insolent, and the most execrable pieces of wickedness that ever a fashion was guilty of since the creation. It was thought by letting a silent judgement go against them by default, they could have a jury cooped up before the sheriff, and thereby avoid the odious public atrocity which would be otherwise generally attached to their characters. He then stated that the plaintiff, Mrs. Byrne, was poor, old, and feeble; the defendant, young, rich, and strong; that Mrs. Byrne keeps a house in Rathfarnham where the curries on some little business, by which she obtains an honest livelihood: the Revd. Mr. Ledwich, the parish priest, her relation, lodged with her, of whose character, for mildness, benevolence, and generosity, too much could not be said. On the day stated in the declaration, he returned early from his duty, a duty which, unfortunately from his ill state of health, he is by no means calculated to undergo. At about ten at night he was in his chamber preparing to go to bed when hearing a confused noise of voices, in the street, he went to his window and asked, was not that Mr. Frizel, who answered that it was, and desired him immediately to come down, and go with him to the guard house; he replied, that being inarm and asthmatic, it would be next to death to him to go out in the night air; but in the morning he knew where to find him. In drawing his head from the window, which was low, there was a stroke made at him by the defendant with a sabre, which fortunately did not reach the destination; but the blow struck deep into the window frame, which was intended for the skull of this inoffensive man; the guards were then sent for, and with Frizel and Mr. Costly at their head, fired many volleys through the windows and doors of the plaintiff's house.—Mr. F. the lawyer, full of those precepts he had learned in his study, and Mr. C. the soldier favoring the king's coat on his back, and the king's sword in his hand, with that extraordinary valour, broke open the door of this defenceless old woman, and after having thus destroyed every article of furniture she had in the house, the defendant with frantic violence, levelled a blow, with his sword, at Miss Ledwich, niece to the priest, a young woman, in whose face we need but look to be inspired with far different passions, than the desire of murder; the blow was fortunately warded off by the musket of a private soldier.
Three women had been praying in an adjacent room, and preparing for that instantaneous death that they thought inevitable—bullets were fired through the priest's bed—the ticking was pierced with swords, conceiving him to have been there after he made an escape over the marquis of Ely's wall, fifteen feet high and glassed on the top, to save his life, and remained there on a frosty night, with an habitual asthma, until morning, that he returned to his lodging, and perceiving the havoc that was made, thanked God the people did not, fired with indignation, attempt anything contrary to the law; that he had no doubt, but the government would use every effort, would strain every nerve to bring to punishment the perpetrators of this execrable wickedness; but to his utter astonishment, nothing was done, not a single proclamation was issued, not a single step was taken. The grand jury did as they ought—they immediately found the bill; but other people did not behave as they ought. I can tell you, said Mr. Curran, "how it was received at the other side of the water, when they heard that a man, with a capital felony charged against him should be admitted to bail; but to it was—such is the age in which we live. He took his trial—he did not attempt to prove any thing in palliation of his crime—he appeared, as a mourning penitent, by his tears, to expiate his guilt. There was a verdict of acquittal, the jury, immortal may they be! scarcely waited for their names to be called over, but almost sprang out their verdict of acquittal. What was their reason for doing such a thing? It was because, from religious bigotry, which has been the bane of this country, and which no man was ever possessed of but a few or none, they thought it a victory. They being themselves of one party, thought it a decisive victory gained over the other. The plaintiff has brought an action against Mr. Frizel; as to Mr. Costly we all know what was his sentence; but I can tell you more—he is to be liberated. It is thought that a spirited young man like him should not be doomed to long confinement; he is to be liberated, and thereby give another victory to that party who think they have already gained one by the acquittal of Mr. Frizel. It is only waited for until you shall deem yourselves by giving a verdict similar to the first, for three or four pence, perhaps the price of a pot of beer, that he may be liberated, and the whole affair may then rest in total oblivion. You are now standing your own trial. You have it in your power to debate yourselves like the former jury, or to atone, by this your honest verdict, for the degradation of the name of jury. Let me give you my advice, I say advice, for I think I am at liberty to give it, I have had it in my power to tie you up in bundles, to bring you to market, and raise myself by the sale; but I think rather to stay amongst you. On this occasion I think I have a right to give you my advice. You can give but 500. You cannot again indict the offender; it is past. You cannot retract the verdict of acquittal, it is past. You cannot prevent the pardon and promotion of Mr. Costly, that is past; for you might as well attempt, by putting your foot upon the earth, to stop its circumvolution, as to stop the determined and well-earned pardon and promotion of that most excellent young man. I do hope therefore, that as much as is in your power you will give, that is, to the full amount of the damages laid in the declaration."
Mr. D'Artois, in speaking to evidence, conjured the jury to avoid, if possible, suffering their minds to be warped, or their intellects fascinated by the eloquent statement made to them—they were to discharge every political idea from their contemplation, and return a verdict commensurate to the damages which the house of Mrs. Byrne had actually sustained. A verdict against his client they were bound to give, but it was for them to regulate their consciences, and guard against a vindictive one.
Mr. McNally in reply, took a new and accurate species of review of this transaction, contrasting it with the outrage committed on the house of Mr. Wilson, under a spurious instrument of legal authority, making the liberality of a British jury in all cases where
the house, or as the law says, the castle, of the proprietor is outraged or invaded. We hope this transaction may serve as a beacon to reawaken zealots of all descriptions how they may presume to grapple with the laws of this country, free as air for the peasant as well as the peer!
At four o'clock the jury retired; and after having been locked up for four hours, at eight found a verdict for the plaintiff—250L damages, and six pence costs.
DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.
PHILADELPHIA, October 12.
Letters from New-Orleans, to the 26th of August received yesterday morning by the Mail, announce the prevalence of the usual autumnal fevers, which had proved fatal to a number of strangers.
WASHINGTON CITY, October 15.
A decree, determining the extent of the coast of St. Domingo, possessed by the French, and likewise that part of it, which ought to be considered as being soon freed by the rebels.
L. FERRAND, General of Brigade, Commander in Chief, Captain General pro tem.
Considering that the French being actually masters of a great part of the department of Cibao, and of some districts west of the department of L'Ozama, formerly occupied by the rebels; such changes render necessary certain modifications of the regulations, contained in the order, relative to the territorial extent in article 1st of his decree of the 10th Ventose, 12th year (1st March, 1804,) concerning vessels taken in contraventions, has decreed, and decrees.
Art. 1st. The 1st art. of the decree of general Ferrand dated 10th Ventose 12th year, is repealed so far as relates to the territorial extent of the coast of St. Domingo.
2nd. The territorial extent of the coast of that part of St. Domingo, occupied by the French, is actually from Porto Cavallo, on the north coast, as far as Cape De la Beate, on the south coast, extending to the eastward. Consequently neutral ships navigating these coasts, are not to be considered as being in contravention, unless upon examining their papers, it should appear that they had cleared out for the rebel ports or that they were returning from those ports.
3rd. The coasts occupied by the Brigands are comprehended between point Ithelique, on the north coast, as far as Faux Cap on the south coast, extending to the west. Neutral vessels found only on this coast, at the distance pointed out in the decrees of Generals Le Clerc, Rochambeau and Ferrand, may be captured as being in contravention.
4th. Ships under the flag of an European neutral nation, and coming from the ports of Europe, are not to be comprised in the regulations ordained by the former article, and by the 1st article, of the decree of gen. Ferrand of the date of the 10 Ventose last. It must appear before such ships can be captured, either that they were found trading with the rebels, or upon examining their papers that they are bound to the ports occupied by the rebels, or are going out of those ports.
5th. The orders contained in article 2nd and 3rd, of the present decree, shall be in force on the 15th Fructidor next.
6th. Copies of these decrees shall be forwarded to the minister of the marine and of the colonies. They shall likewise be forwarded (with a request to give them the greatest publicity) to the governors of the neighbouring colonies, to the captains general of the French windward islands, and to the minister of France near the United States of America.
The present decree shall be printed, published, and posted up in the city of Santo Domingo, and likewise in all the ports of the Island of St. Domingo occupied by the French. It shall be registered in the bureau of inspection of the marine and likewise in the register of the provisional commission of justice, and in that of the special commission of prizes.
Head quarters at Santo Domingo, the 8th Thermidor, 12th year.
Signed, L. FERRAND.
FROM THE PHILADELPHIA REGISTER.
TO THE MARQUIS DE CASA YRUJO.
SIR, To your acknowledged attempt to corrupt my fidelity as a citizen, by engaging my services to support the reasonings of a foreign minister, you have dared to add the atrocity of impeaching the truth of my declaration, which had been made under the sacred obligations of an oath.
In the nature of your employment, and the paucity of your means, you might have found an excuse, as well as a motive, for the former part of your conduct; in the mortification of your failure only, can even the shadow of a cause be traced for this last departure from all that is honorable, just, and true.
The guarantee of the nation will protect your person; but, as that guarantee cannot in this country, be extended, by any construction, to invest a foreign minister with the privilege of falsely charging a citizen of the United States with perjury, and of promulgating that charge through the medium of a newspaper, neither your office, nor all the fashions of diplomacy shall restrain my refutation of the deliberate falsehood, nor prevent the refutation being made through the same channel.
In your belief that "political intolerance" had prepared me to receive with "less reluctance" the communication of your proposals, you may have exhibited a correct view of your own mind, however grossly you are deceived in the analogy which it suggested.
The "circumstances of that communication were faithfully and correctly detailed in my deposition, and, on a careful review of that statement, I solemnly assert that every part of the deposition is true." I shall therefore leave you to enjoy the honor and the benefit of the evasions and contradictions which you have attempted. By those contradictions you have endeavored to invalidate the disinterested oath of a man, who, in the relations of private character, would deem himself degraded by a comparison with the Marquis de Casa Yrujo.—A man, Sir, who holds testimonials of personal worth, and public service, from different chief magistrates of his nation, which will obtain equal consideration with your boasted nobility, for they are certainly quite as honorable, and even of more ancient date than the title you bear.
You doubtless presumed that you had only to contradict "the Editor of a newspaper, whose fleets," (notwithstanding you had selected them to disprove your calumnies!) "are scarcely to be seen across the waters of the Schuylkill and the Delaware, who is without a place in the government, and without a personal influence," effectually to dissipate all that he had stated under the obligations of his oath. In this presumption, however, you have only betrayed "a wicked heart and a miserable head."—Where we are both known, it is not, I hope, an undue assumption to suppose that I should obtain equal credence with Mr. Yrujo, abstracted from the fondness of my oath.
On the present occasion your malignity has forced me to a course of proceeding, in the vindication of my truth, of which, under all the "political intolerance" you have mentioned, I had heretofore scorned to avail myself. By the nature of your infamous imputation, I am compelled for the information of those to whom I may be unknown, to exhibit such documents as, in connection with the facts I have stated, may establish my claims to belief against the contradictions, with which you have unblushingly dared to attack me.
When my fellow citizens of the United States, and the people of other countries, shall have examined these vouchers of character, the publication of which has been thus extorted from me; when they have reflected that on the part of Major Jackson there could not have existed a single motive for misstatement or departure from truth in framing his deposition; when they shall likewise have reflected that on the part of the Marquis de Casa Yrujo every motive arising out of mortification, every with to avert the consequences of his unsuccessful attempt, were combined in the
most forcible degree, to prompt his perversion of the truth; when these refusals are dispassionately considered, there will remain but one opinion on the subject.
Yes, Sir, I even persuade myself that your own conviction, thus informed, will pronounce that you have prostrated the dignity of your office, and violated moral obligation.
Your idle threat of "demanding the punishment" of said Jackson from the government" I laugh to scorn, and consign to its merited contempt. It is not in this country that a citizen can be punished for obeying the laws by dictating the designs of a foreign minister. Nor is it within control of any government to prevent a citizen of the United States from repelling such a charge as you have brought against him, nor of giving his refutation of the calumny through the same medium, with that you have chosen for its promulgation, a public news-paper; could any other doctrine prevail, our citizens would indeed become the miserable vassals of "distinguished flaves" about whom you have prated.
W. JACKSON.
Philadelphia Oct. 9th, 1804. [The documents accompanying this address, consist of two friendly letters from General Washington, one from Gen. Lincoln, and an introductory letter from Mr. Jefferson, which, being entirely personal, are here omitted.]
DELAWARE ELECTION.
General Nathaniel Mitchell, the federal candidate for Governor; had in the county of
Table with 2 columns: County, Votes. Rows: Sussex—2127, Kent—1862, New Castle—902, Total—4391.
Joseph Haslet, the Democratic candidate for governor, had in the county of
Table with 2 columns: County, Votes. Rows: Sussex—1041, Kent—1035, New Castle—1974, Total—4050.
Mr. Bayard, the Federal candidate for Congress, had in the county of
Table with 2 columns: County, Votes. Rows: Sussex—1050, Kent—1017, New-Castle—1971, Total—4038.
PENNSYLVANIA ELECTION.
Table with 5 columns: County, Leib, Clay, Richards, Penrose. Rows: City of Philad., N. Liberties, Southwark, Moyamensing, Passunk, Delaware County, Buffalo District, Blockley and Kingsessing, Germantown, Roxborough & Bristol.
Total, 3992 7427 7021 8685
Majorities for Leib:
Table with 2 columns: County, Votes. Rows: City of Philadelphia, Northern Liberties, Southwark, Moyamensing and Passunk, Germantown, Roxborough and Bristol.
Majorities for Penrose:
Table with 2 columns: County, Votes. Rows: Blockley and Kingsessing, Buffalo District, Delaware County.
Total for Leib, 875
Total for Penrose, 558
Majority for Leib, 307
AUGUSTA, (G.) October 6.
The following returns of the General Election, held on Monday the 30th inst. for Members to Congress, Representatives to the State Legislature, have come to hand. [Those only are given in our paper which relate to the congressional election.]
RICHMOND.
Table with 2 columns: Congress, Votes. Rows: Early 308—Bryan 231—Mead 208—Meriwether 176—Spalding 163—Carr 113—Jones 96.
COLUMBIA.
Table with 2 columns: Congress, Votes. Rows: Bryan 549—Early 540—Meriwether 524—Mead 265—Carr 219—Jones 40—Spalding 15.
BURKE.
Table with 2 columns: Congress, Votes. Rows: Mead 426—Early 318—Bryan 304—Meriwether 218—Jones 82—Spalding 28—Carr 3.
JEFFERSON.
Table with 2 columns: Congress, Votes. Rows: Meriwether 489—Bryan 478—Early 339—Mead 221—Spalding 140.
WARREN.
Table with 2 columns: Congress, Votes. Rows: Bryan 725—Early 666—Meriwether 478—Mead 385—Carr 381—Jones 102—Spalding 77.
WILKES.
Table with 2 columns: Congress, Votes. Rows: Meriwether 1079—Early 1073 Spalding 811—Bryan 667—Mead 390—Carr 326 Jones 44.
OGLETHORPE.
Table with 2 columns: Congress, Votes. Rows: Early 694—Bryan 673—Meriwether 601—Jones 290—Spalding 269—Mead 167—Carr 32.
ELBERT.
Table with 2 columns: Congress, Votes. Rows: Meriwether 745—Bryan 670—Jones 622—Mead 490—Early 397—Spalding 34—Carr 13.
CHARLESTON, October 10.
Yesterday the poll for the election of a member of Congress for Charleston District, and Representatives from the City to the State Legislature, was closed. Only 747 votes were given—of these
Thomas R. Smith, the Federal Candidate, received 306
Robert Marion, the Democratic Candidate, 414
Doctor of Laws was conferred on JACOB RUSH, of Pennsylvania; that of Master of Arts on twenty-one, and that of Bachelor of Arts on thirty-eight gentlemen.
We understand that gen. BROWN is re-elected to congress for Northampton county.—Mr. Ross, his opponent, was of the quid school—one of those to whom the opposition to the amendment of the constitution was confided by senator Tracy.
The intrigues which were set on foot in Washington county in the western part of this state, have terminated against the quids.—We understand that Mr. John Isaac, (son of Mr. Israel Isaac of this district) was put forward there by the quids in the opposition to Mr. Hoge, but the thing would not work, and Mr. Emnilion a republican, was taken up for congress at Mr. Hoge's desire.—[Aurora.]
A road from Burlington, Vermont, intended to connect with the Second New-Hampshire Turnpike, we understand is forming; and a road is contemplated from Amherst, N. H. to Boston. These roads, it is said, will greatly promote the travelling from Boston to Canada. N. T. paper.
FROM THE WEST-INDIES.
Late accounts from the West-Indies state, that the black army of General Dessalines had begun their march for the purpose of besieging the city of St. Domingo.—The same accounts add, that the British have blockaded the city of Aux Cayes.
From Nashville, (Tenn.) Sept. 27.
Letters from New-Orleans, late in August advise us of the existence of the yellow fever in that city. H. B. Trist, Esq. collector of the port, had fallen a victim to its malignity, and it had proved fatal to our more northern and eastern brethren. Governor Claiborne was ill of the fever, at the date of our letters, but we are happy to state was on the recovery. Mrs. Claiborne was also very ill, but was supposed to have passed the crisis of her complaint.
MORAL PHENOMENON!
The following is the account of the murder of Isaac Lane, by David Willis, as given in a Canandaigua paper.
His mother being a widow, married a second husband with whom she now lives, and with whom David lived, but for whom he left all affection, for reasons we do not say are well founded. About the age of 15, David was one day, much against his will by order of his step father, detained from school for the purpose of assisting in business about the farm. On this day, by accident, a log rolled on and injured one leg, that it never could be restored to much use; and since that time, by some other accident, he has been injured in the other, so that he has become a cripple to that degree that he cannot walk a mile in a day.—At this misfortune he continually repining, blamed the step father for keeping him that day from school, whereby he received his wound, and mortified at his appearance among his mates, some of whom, he says ridiculed him, he became weary of life, and determined to end his misfortunes and his life; for this means suicide and murder presented themselves to him, the first awhile appeared the most eligible, but it brought to him the horrors of appearing by his own violence before God, who would not pardon him, and he was induced to abandon that for the latter, which would offer a better excuse to God; besides, death by hanging, by other hands than his own was desirable. He familiarised this mode by dwelling much on it; he became attached to it as a very pleasing scene to pass through. The consideration of the crisis it must occasion his mother at times almost unbit his resolutions; but the idea of its being a sweet revenge on his step father, aroused his resolution to the act, and bore down every other consideration.—Thus determined, the next thing was a subject on whom the deed might be committed. A grown person or a child was the question.—The former he concluded must be under sin and guilt, therefore by sudden death and unpreparedness, his damnation might be chargeable to him, and he be doubly guilty; the latter being more innocent, he might avoid that charge, and resolved on it; but no one in particular occurred to him at any time until five minutes before he committed the deed, a period of about six months. All the morning of the day and until he executed his plan, he felt an irresistible desire to murder, a desire as he expresses it, "like one hankering after fruit." Ira, a twin son of Mr. Lane, gathering plums alone, and the parents being absent, afforded a favorable opportunity and subject

VIEWS ON THE RUBICON.
NO. 3.
The respect which is due to the rights and interests of Spain is not, however, the only, or the most important reason for our avoiding a precipitate declaration of war.
Should we enter into a war with Spain, we should immediately lose most of the profits of a lucrative trade with that country.
If we engage in war with Spain, we should immediately lose the profits of our commerce with the Spanish West India Islands, and of her South American dependencies.
A war with Spain would be accompanied not only with an interruption of the trade, which we carry on with her, but with a considerable diminution of the trade, which is maintained with some other countries.
A road from Burlington, Vermont, intended to connect with the second New-Hampshire Turnpike, we understand is forming; and a road is contemplated from Amherst, New-Hampshire, to Boston.
We are authorized to state, that capt. Lovel, commander of the Gun Boat, number 1, has reported her to the executive of the state, agreeable to the directions of the secretary of the navy.
Winchester, Oct. 9.
The Court of Oyer and Terminer commenced its session in this town on Saturday the 29th ult. On Tuesday last came on the trial of Larkin Sawyer, charged with passing bank notes, knowing them to be counterfeit.
Yesterday David Hubert was tried for a like offence and found guilty-verdict of the Jury-four years imprisonment in the Penitentiary House.
Almost every arrival from the west Indies (says the N. York Gazette) brings dreadful accounts of the havoc there by a hurricane, which extended northward and southward, taking in its course all the West India Islands and a greater part of the seacoast of the U. States.
By an arrival yesterday we have received melancholy news from Turks Island. Almost all the American vessels there were driven on shore; some of them lost with their crews. Many of the shipwrecked crews after being thrown on the island, were robbed by negroes.
GREENSBURG, Oct. 6.
On Tuesday last a mail started from this borough, by the way of Armagh, Beula, &c. to Alexandria in Huntingdon county, (Penn) for the first time.
A number of Swiss families arrived in this place on Wednesday last. We understand that they design purchasing and settling on the Holland company's lands, east of the Allegheny, in Armstrong county.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
ON Thursday the 20th December next, at my store house, 2 miles above Genito bridge, to the highest bidder, will be sold ten valuable YOUNG NEGROES, consisting of WOMEN and BOYS, among the former are two excellent house servants, one of whom is a good seamstress, and in all other respects well versed in the duties of this occupation, aged 18 years, the other 15 years old, & uncommonly expert, the rest very likely, but accustomed only to the field, BOYS from 4 to ten years of age.
Also a valuable DIOMED STUD HORSE, (DIOMEDES,) four years old, upwards of fifteen hands high, and most elegantly formed. From the few experiments made with this horse on the turf, it is reduced to a certainty that he is a capital runner, and in the estimation of judges one of the fleetest horses on the continent.
Also a valuable DIOMED STUD HORSE, (DIOMEDES,) four years old, upwards of fifteen hands high, and most elegantly formed. From the few experiments made with this horse on the turf, it is reduced to a certainty that he is a capital runner, and in the estimation of judges one of the fleetest horses on the continent.
Also a valuable DIOMED STUD HORSE, (DIOMEDES,) four years old, upwards of fifteen hands high, and most elegantly formed. From the few experiments made with this horse on the turf, it is reduced to a certainty that he is a capital runner, and in the estimation of judges one of the fleetest horses on the continent.
Also a valuable DIOMED STUD HORSE, (DIOMEDES,) four years old, upwards of fifteen hands high, and most elegantly formed. From the few experiments made with this horse on the turf, it is reduced to a certainty that he is a capital runner, and in the estimation of judges one of the fleetest horses on the continent.
Also a valuable DIOMED STUD HORSE, (DIOMEDES,) four years old, upwards of fifteen hands high, and most elegantly formed. From the few experiments made with this horse on the turf, it is reduced to a certainty that he is a capital runner, and in the estimation of judges one of the fleetest horses on the continent.
now modified their former character. They have now imbibed more of the military spirit. A desire for territorial and commercial conquest will begin to mingle itself with their reflections on the policy of our government.
Let us then avoid such important sacrifices, by a determined adherence to the maxims of peace, where that peace may be preferred on honourable terms.
Infurmountable impediments may however, oppose the wishes and interests of our country. A pacification with Spain may be impossible to be obtained without the sacrifice of our equitable rights, or the violation of our national honour.
When a nation engages in a war, its first principle should be, that the object for which it fights is legitimate; and the second principle should be, that it should employ such expedients only as may lead to the shortest and surest attainment of this object.
We shall not contend for large acquisitions of territory, to which we have no equitable claim. We shall not contend for new privileges of commerce, or for distant colonies, over which we may extend the reign of monopoly.
It is from no fear that the existing Balance of Power should be destroyed; that our own resources may be becoming too small, or another's too extensive.
We shall contend for more equitable and less important objects. We shall direct our efforts to the attainment of two obvious desiderata: the extension of the Eastern boundary of Louisiana to the Perdido river, and the recovery of claims due to our merchants, for illegal captures.
Far be it from us to enlist under our banners the merciless savages of the Spanish frontier.
Far be it from us to equip large and expensive armaments at sea; or to levy numerous & powerful forces on land.
Far be it from us to engage in any "entangling alliances," with any of the powers of Europe.
Should we enter into a war with Spain, we should be compelled to multiply all the instruments of war.
Should we engage in a war with Spain, we shall likewise introduce into the administration of our present government, an important system of measures, with which hitherto been unacquainted.
Should we engage in a war with Spain, we shall likewise introduce into the administration of our present government, an important system of measures, with which hitherto been unacquainted.
Should we engage in a war with Spain, we shall likewise introduce into the administration of our present government, an important system of measures, with which hitherto been unacquainted.
Should we engage in a war with Spain, we shall likewise introduce into the administration of our present government, an important system of measures, with which hitherto been unacquainted.
Should we engage in a war with Spain, we shall likewise introduce into the administration of our present government, an important system of measures, with which hitherto been unacquainted.
Should we engage in a war with Spain, we shall likewise introduce into the administration of our present government, an important system of measures, with which hitherto been unacquainted.
The Southern States are reproachably charged with irregularities. This accusation is palpably groundless. Not only the God of the Christians, but many of the Pagan Divinities, are worshipped with exemplary devotion.
The Virginians are accused of being peculiarly addicted to profane swearing; but, sir, this charge proceeds from an ignorance of the customs and manners of our people.
The Virginians have been accused of an excessive fondness for Spirituous Liquors; but this arises from their devotion to Bacchus.
Those who make these charges surely forget, that in this enlightened country, all sorts of religion are tolerated; that these are only modes of worshipping the peculiar divinities they adore.
WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
THE Lectures on LAW and POLICE at the College of William and Mary, will commence on the 20th of November.
NOTICE.
WILLIAM JONES of Philadelphia, and NEIL MCCOULL of Richmond, being appointed to settle the business of Roys and Boyd, the collection of the debts devolves on Neil McCoull.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED OR STOLEN, FROM A LOT IN THIS CITY, ON THE 14th inst.
A GREY MARE, about five years old, four feet nine inches high, extremely well gaited, and branded on the left buttock with the letter B.
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TAKEN out of the subscriber's shop, between Monday morning and Wednesday evening a BLUESURTOOT COAT, with velvet cape and Blue pockets. Any person who gives such information that I get it shall be rewarded with one half its value.
led motion. The other side insisted he lay where he tumbled, and that he grew up from being a spal until he was fat and fit for London.
The learned Judge, having patiently heard these deep disquisitions, very shortly observed, that the Legislature by 21 of G. III. c. 51. had made the taking of oysters from the lanes a misdemeanor.
PHILADELPHIA, October 5.
SCHUYLKILL WATER WORKS.
The following abstract of the cost, annual expense, and present income of this most useful establishment will be interesting to many readers of the Register.
The annual rent of extra power of the Schuylkill Engine, increases every 7 years, until it amounts to 2,500.
William Henry Harrison, esq., Governor of the Indiana territory, has published a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, by which it appears.
1st. That the land granted by the Governor and which has been laid off under their directions, is not to be re-surveyed at the expense of the proprietors.
2d. That no other title paper is to be recorded when the claim has been confirmed but the patent or other evidence of the confirmation.
3d. That all the grants made by the Governor, are to be recognized, excepting such only, as may have been "fraudulently and fraudulently obtained, through the false representations of the party."
Several Apple trees, belonging to Mr. Nathan Graves, at Westmoreland, were on the 19th of August last, scorched by fire, so that the apples were roasted on the trees; and within about four weeks after the same trees were discovered in as full blossom as in Spring.
Yesterday, (October 1,) AARON BURR, VICE PRESIDENT of the United States, arrived in this city.
The Vice-President has received the most respectful attention from the republicans of this city, and has been waited on by all our public characters.
Col. Burr set out from this city on his way to the seat of government, on Friday last.
Savannah paper, October 9.
The manufacture of felt, in N. London, C. by evaporation and crystallization by the heat of the sun and frost, we are happy to learn, succeeds and flourishes.
We are informed that a scheme for profiting the subula fishery is also set on foot by an enterprising character at New London, and 8,000 dollars already subscribed for the purpose.
To the Editors of the Boston Chronicle.
Through your extensively circulating and useful paper, I wish to communicate the impressions made on my mind by the military review at Waltham Plains , on Tuesday last.
Gen. Hull, who, as the Major-General reviewed the troops, appeared with his aids, Majors Hunt and Sullivan, in elegant uniform.
Gen. Hull addressed the troops drawn up in close order, in a patriotic and pathetic manner.
To Gen. Hull, the State of Massachusetts, nay, all America, is indebted, for his noble exertions to form and train the militia of his country.
Fellow-Citizens, I saw you on the Plain of Waltham.
While his address impressed on their minds his approbation of their exertions, and attention to discipline; his language filled them with sentiments of their own importance to their country, and the unexampled service they had rendered it by their attention to discipline and soldier like conduct.
To Gen. Hull, the State of Massachusetts, nay, all America, is indebted, for his noble exertions to form and train the militia of his country.
Fellow-Citizens, I saw you on the Plain of Waltham.
While his address impressed on their minds his approbation of their exertions, and attention to discipline; his language filled them with sentiments of their own importance to their country, and the unexampled service they had rendered it by their attention to discipline and soldier like conduct.

On the Establishment of Charity Schools; respectfully addressed to the good sense of the people of Virginia.
MOST of those, who have hitherto described to you the condition and the claims of the poor, have generally contented themselves with addressing their sensibility, and moving your compassion. Their imaginations have conducted you to the shades where poverty and ignorance reside; where the finest endowments of nature are fettered at their birth, or perverted in their progress. They think they have done enough, when they have exerted their pathetic eloquence in impetrating you to relieve those distresses, from which they are fortunately exempted; and when they have succeeded in drawing forth one sympathetic sigh or one tender tear, they please themselves with thinking, that they have obtained the greatest and most useful triumphs of which their cause is susceptible. They observe indeed, that too frequently is the "tear forgot as soon as shed," and that the sigh which is given to the passing woe, has more than once relieved the painful sympathies of the bosom, from which it escaped. But then the means of consolation are easily to be met with. They perfume themselves that it was from no want of paths, or the most impressive elocution that this melancholy change took place. In the sickleness and imbecility of human nature, they will readily find the most ample means for explaining the lamentable change, and soothing their own disappointment. To such sublime exertions I should not venture to wing an uncertain flight. I know too well that it is not every fancy which can create, every eye that beams, or every tongue which can express the conceptions of eloquence. It is not every poet that can "wake to censure the living lyre."—And yet, even if such affecting efforts were completely within my power, I should almost disdain to employ them on an occasion like the present. When arguments so various and so luminous are thickly strewed before me, it would surely be improper to wander from the high road of the understanding, and go in search of the meretricious arts of supplication. It is not for me to draw before your imagination the weeping form of Charity, surrounded by her disconsolate family, who, with uplifted hands and broken voice, petition you for a teary relief. I choose rather to bring before you the venerable figure of JUSTICE, bearing aloft the indistructible balance, in which are weighed the most comprehensive measures of nations, and the minutest actions of individuals. I mean not that subordinate Justice, who writes in the statute-book, and presides in the courts. I speak of that general Justice, who extends her vigilance to all the concerns of man; who decides upon all those private actions, which the law is not able enough to embrace; who criticises the very laws of the state; and re-judges the judgments of the judge. May I, venerable Divinity! expect to escape thy disapprobation, while I dare to expound thy holy nature, and employ thy principles for the use of those who most want thy aid: of the heart-broken, the ignorant, and the poor.
No man in society stands alone. There is not an individual, who has not drawn out and fastened his lines of connection to innumerable others, by which like the divergent rays of a spider's web, he communicates and receives ten thousand sensations. There is not an individual, whose talents, temper and employment have not a certain influence upon the happiness of others. The very meanest and lowest of mankind have their circles to fill up; a family to felicitate or disturb, some little friendships to cultivate, or some petty resentments to revenge. But if we wish to see the extent and attenuation of this influence completely unfolded, we must seek it in the history of those extraordinary characters, "who have filled a vast space in the eye of mankind." We must look for it in the history of rulers, who have depopulated whole provinces by their ambition, or ennobled their country by a virtuous administration. We must seek it in the volumes of authors, who have dispelled the errors of science, or enlarged her truths, whose works have traversed the countries of the earth or defended through ages.
This influence may be various in different individuals; & yet it is equally clear, that there is one only way, in which this influence can be best exerted. The capacities of any thing can receive but one direction, that is productive of the greatest possible happiness. Apply it to a different purpose, and you pervert its proper tendency; you so far injure the welfare of society. Would any prudent man consent to "few blocks with a Razor"? Should a man, whose endowments are rare, admirable and extensive, whose wisdom might enlighten the ignorance of his countrymen, and "scatter plenty o'er a fruiting land," should such a man be doomed to languish under the labours of the oar, and perish amid the damps of a mine? Could any one approve of the destination of capacities even less useful in degree, to purposes even less improper in their tendency? I ask whether such a perversion could be considered as moral? May I not then be permitted to say, that no man's influence can be regarded as perfectly moral, that is not exerted to produce the greatest possible happiness, with which he is sufficiently acquainted; and that his actions only become so, when they tend to that object?
In this sense, morality may be defined the economy of the general happiness. It is then that the moralist puts on the most august attributes, with which the human character can be adorned; when he strives to fulfil this sacred function. Like the curious bee, he becomes active, laborious, and persevering. No fortunate combination of events can elapse him in which he does not perceive and gather its most hidden sweets. Prosperity furnishes him with new means of enlarging the sphere of his beneficence; and even from the bosom of adversity he extracts the writings of experience and the lessons of philosophy. He submits without a murmur to the sacrifices which may be required of him by the general welfare; for he finds in the habitual energy of his moral principles, and in a vivid perception of the happy tendency of his actions, a sufficient compensation for the generous sacrifices.
I am not here drawing the picture of a moral monster, who surrenders up his days to penance and mortification, in the pursuit of an imaginary good. Nor am I describing the hero of a moral romance, who makes himself completely miserable from a fear that others should not be completely happy. To such moral abortions I mean not to refer. I speak of a man whose personal happiness, amidst his contributions to the general welfare, sustains little diminution, whilst it may sometimes receive an incalculable augmentation. Should this system of liberal morality, for example, procure the approbation and sanction of the virtuous and the wife, the sum of his real enjoyments may be immensely extended. To day he has perhaps some article of property in his possession which may be less serviceable to him than to his benevolent neighbour. He postpones his own gratification, and obeys
the calculations of morality. To-morrow perhaps his neighbour has another instrument of happiness in his possession, which may be susceptible of a less fortunate application in his hands, than in those of our moralist. The pleasure, which he had received, is now reciprocated; and thus a mutual liberality succeeds in giving birth to a greater mass of enjoyment than what would have arisen from their contracted selfishness. Should there even be no one else to assist and partake of his beneficence; should his be the only open bosom in which this system may seek a friendly asylum; even then the personal happiness of our moralist is secured from deflection. The same consideration which impels him to promote the welfare of others, is due to his own. The very principles by which he is wont to regulate his conduct to others, would now justify a greater degree of attention to his personal welfare; and even for the stranger which his principles may then recommend, he will enjoy the resources of an unbounded consolation. The sympathy of those on whom he has conferred a voluntary benefit, the approbation of the disinterested persons who disapprove even of his principles, the consciousness of an unfulfilled integrity, all elevate him above the domination of selfishness, and the turbulence of the passions.
Such is the man of general Justice. Such is the man who calculates all the consequences of his actions, and denominates them just or unjust, according to the general happiness or misery which will most probably attend them. How would a man of this character support the claims of the poor to greater refinement and instruction? By what arguments might he wish to vindicate the propriety of establishing schools and elemosynary houses for the attainment of these interesting objects? Perhaps he might reason in the following manner:
Every civilized society produces more than enough for the subsistence and comfortable accommodation of its members. The earth, when properly solicited, amply repays the toils of the husbandman. The employment of machines greatly supercedes the use of manual labour, and renders the industry of man astonishingly productive in the arts and manufactures. Hence every individual will have more of his own work to enjoy, and more to exchange for the labour of others. The necessities and conveniences of life will thus increase in quantity and extend in circulation. Many of those finer arts too, which embellish society, which awaken the ingenuity of the mind or furnish the instruments of philosophical research, will invite the labour & obtain the patronage of men. Yet after all the various deductions from the general wealth, which the consumption of those various articles must occasion, there will always remain in the hands of certain individuals, a supernumerary fund of considerable amount, whose particular destination will attract the anxious and vigilant attention of the friend of Society. Shall it go to the support of an useless number of servants in the Houses of the rich? Shall it maintain splendid equipages, or raise magnificent palaces? Shall it minister to the follies of the young, or the vices of the old, to the triumphs of pride, or the schemes of ambition? Or can it receive a more useful destination?
Here a more particular view of society will readily suggest to us a more fortunate application. Although every civilized country contains a great abundance of the necessities and conveniences of life, they do not always receive an equal or nearly equal distribution. Adverse situations have exposed many individuals to 'the dings and arrows of fortune.' The want of industry, the want of prudence, unexpected misfortunes or unjust persecution, have heaped upon their heads disease, poverty and disconsolation. Many have been disabled in the battles of their country: And many an unhappy female, who has wandered from the path of propriety has enlisted the agonies of want under the banners of infamy. Shall these misfortunes pass by without the necessary relief? And yet these abodes of misery will frequently contain more unfortunate objects, who have even a greater claim upon our Justice. Let us enter their houses. You will observe their children with tattered garments and pallid countenances. Conversing with them, & perhaps you may find the spirit of useful curiosity, lumbering, or their minds awake only to young debauchery and cunning prudence. When a deformed child was born among the ancient Spartans, it was their barbarous policy to expose it to an early death. 'Tis true that civilized society, does not murder the children of the wretched, yet how often does she subject them to imbecility and disease, by frequent abstinence, and insufficient support! A tribe of the old Germans used to relieve their deformed children for the mental purpose of drawing their vehicles. Civilized Society, 'tis true, does not turn the children of the wretched into brutes, yet how often do they wear the form of man, divested of all pretensions to the dignity of his nature! And yet let the capacities of these unfortunate children be impartially analysed. Will not their frames be found as complicated and subtle, as those of the rich? Are not their senses as susceptible of impression? Can they not see and hear, and smell, and taste and touch as delicately? Is memory wanting? Cannot they compare, reflect and reason? Has no individual on whom "Fortune frowned unfeeling at his birth," ascended afterwards to the heights of distinction and Science? Was it simply the inspiration of an ardent genius, or was it not rather the imposing lessons of experience, which dictated to the pathetic poet of the country churchyard his most affecting strains? When we accompany Gray to this melancholy receptacle of the dead, & when like him we meditate over the mouldering remains of the poor; what visit that gives a more thrilling sensation to the soul, than the contemplation which our imagination is so prone to indulge, of what these humble inhabitants of the hamlet formerly were, with what they were once capable of becoming? Even at that moment, when not an object meets our senses but "some frail memorial" of departed life, and extinguished intellect, even then we secretly acknowledge the capacities of the poor. Even then we fancifully retrace the incidents of each one's life, and conceive how much of fortune & some their native genius might have enabled them to attain, had a more fortunate star shone upon their birth.
We have thus a simple picture of the intellectual condition of the poor; of mind struggling in its very birth for the means of unfolding its finest energies. For these lamentable misfortunes we have found also an adequate cure. Would society cultivate these capacities; would she exert a maternal affection for their support and improvement, the would scarcely fail to raise them up into useful and respectable children. But should she suffer them to protract a miserable existence, surrounded as they too often are by thoughtless debauchery and wild intemperance, stimulated by poverty and degraded by contempt, what security can she have that she will not hereafter find in them an active nuisance calculated to interrupt her order, and disturb her repose?
Compare now this complicated chain of consequences with those which may be expected to arise from the different destinations that were imagined to be given to the supernumerary fund of society; compare the subsistence, the clothing, and the information of the poor, with the injurious superfluities of the rich: & to which
side, let me ask, may not the greatest happiness be expected to fall? It is now that Justice weighs them in her golden balance, and pronounces her impartial decree: Let Society fulfil the Claims of the Poor.
We might here go on to enquire into the different means of accomplishing this desirable object. I might compare together the respective consequences of a legislative provision and individual contribution, and show the distinguishing advantages which the latter possesses over the former. Yet at present I must decline these important researches.
We might also enquire into the propriety of the different systems, which have been proposed for the support and instruction of the poor. I might here investigate the various ways, by which they ought to be fed, clothed and lodged, with the different species and degrees of knowledge, in which they should be initiated. But this too is an investigation, which at the present moment, extends beyond the measure of my strength.
Already have I accomplished enough, if I have succeeded in placing upon its true basis the rights and privileges of the sons of the poor. Here then is an object which is eminently worthy of the most energetic exertions of the friend of justice. In the selfish passions of other men, he may no doubt expect to find the most stubborn impediments to the execution of any plans which are destined to the improvement of the children of the poor.
Yet even these will sometimes give way to the exertions of the man, who is not willing to indulge a premature despair. The more he meditates upon the principles which direct his efforts, upon the various details of his benevolent system, and the different expedients which he may be able to employ, the nearer will he approach the goal of his laudable ambition. Tho' this desirable object may seem to swell beyond his immediate grasp, it becomes him never to lose sight of its possible attainment. The aeronaut, who now soars among the clouds, would never have ascended above the earth, if the aspirations of his fancy had not long before anticipated the researches of reason. R.
* Note.—See 4th book of Cæsar on the manners of the Suevi.
MISCELLANEOUS.
[The curiosity of the Editor as at length been gratified by a fight of almost all the original poems of Mr. Moore, under the title of the "poetical works, of the late Thomas Moore Little esq."
From the specimens which he had already seen of Mr. Moore's poetical genius, he had formed the highest expectation of the elegance simplicity and tenderness of these compositions. He had hoped to have seen a perfect bouquet of sweets in which the meanest flower would have breathed the same delightful fragrance, which he had so much enjoyed in his Verses on a Lady's dream, or in his wanderer on the banks of the Schuykill. But the best verses have been already culled from this collection, and circulated in the public prints. Most of those which remain, have the same airy elegance, and the same "simplex mundiciis," but not the same pathetic power or bewitching tenderness of which he is sometimes an unrivalled master. The manner of viewing his objects is not always calculated to excite the tenderer emotions; and his verses do not always expire, & then.
Love seems to be the "ruling passion" of Moore. His Poems are no more than various ditties; scarcely even partaking of the sublime the beautiful, the ludicrous, or the tenderness of any other passion than that of Love. In most of the descriptions which he has given us of this sentiment itself, he sometimes indulges in gross and sensual images. It is not always the delicacy of that emotion which he describes. It is too often the grossness of debauchery, and the revelry of the passions. Most of the admirers of poetry must indulge a melancholy reflection that such a genius as Moore's, so capable of painting the beautiful or sublime of nature, with the purest or most exalted sentiments of the soul, should waste itself in such idle and pernicious excursions. Of the few fine verses which this poem contains, we shall now and then present some specimens to our readers. The following lines are the last in the poems.]
THE NATAL GENIUS—A DREAM.
TO ———, THE MORNING OF HER BIRTH-DAY.
IN watching slumbers of the night,
I dream'd I was the airy sprite,
That on thy natal moment find'st;
And though I wasted on my wing
Those flowers, which in Elysium spring,
To crown my lovely mortal child.
POETRY OF HAMILTON.
We are happy to inform the citizens of Philadelphia, that Mr. Dixey of New-York, who has just completed a mould from the celebrated bust of Hamilton, by Ceracchi, is now in this city, and will, this day, exhibit the cast which has been finished, at the Merchants Coffee-house with the view of receiving subscriptions. Having seen several letters upon the subject from gentlemen of the first respectability in New-York, and having also seen the cast which Mr. Dixey has with him, & with the utmost confidence invite the patronage of the lovers of the fine arts, in general, as well as of those in particular who revere the memory of Hamilton; and make no doubt but the citizens of Philadelphia, will manifest at once their good taste & their liberality by promptly encouraging the undertaking.—We can in no way so well defer the merits of the original bust and of the cast taken from it, as by inserting the following article from the New-York Evening Post.
[U. S. Gaz.
When Ceracchi, a celebrated Italian sculptor, was in this country, about twelve years ago, he took a model of General Hamilton's head for a bust, which, in 1794, he executed in marble in Florence, and sent to General Hamilton, in whom the possession it continued during his life, and by whose desire it will doubtless
be preferred by the most sacred care.—All who have ever seen this wonderful piece of art will recollect the emotions of pleasure and surprise at the striking resemblance it bore to the illustrious deceased; its perfect delineation of every feature; its correct exhibition of character: the friends and admirers of this great man will therefore bear with the liveliest satisfaction, that a mould from this bust has just been completed, under the direction of Mr. John Dixey, of this city, and that one cast is finished from it in plaster of Paris, which preserves in the greatest perfection all the characteristics of the original. These casts may be multiplied to an extent that will enable all who set a proper value on his unequalled talents, virtues, and eminent public services, to gratify themselves with a perfect likeness of Hamilton.]
A young gentleman of sprightly parts and very respectable poetical talents, has lately commenced the study of law; but finding the authors of that department rather rugged in their style, he has undertaken to remedy this defect by translating them into heroic verse. He has begun with Coke's Institutes and has succeeded most admirably, as will be evident to our readers from the following specimen, which we insert for their amusement:
'Tenant in fee—
Simple is he,
And need neither quake nor quiver,
Who bath his lands,
Free from demands,
To him and his heirs for ever'
We sincerely hope for the good of the profession, that this gentleman will persevere in his undertaking. The plenis admirable & when completed, must immortalize him. It will diffuse endless charms over a science the study of which has hitherto been remarkable for its dryness; it will clear it from obscurity, render it susceptible of musical embellishment, and while it frees it at once from that dull monotony, which is so wearisome to bye-standers, and frequently lulls even the judges to sleep, it will have the pleasing effect of keeping the attention fixed and lively, while it disperses that heavy atmosphere of fatness & gravity, which at present hangs over the jurisprudence of our country. Lon. pap.
EARLDOM OF MOIRA.
That this noble family is of great antiquity, appears from the title deed of their estate, granted by William the Conqueror, part of which estate, with the mansion house, the Earl of Moira still enjoys. The following lines are taken from the original deed:
"I William, King, the third year of my reign,
Give to Paulin Roydon Hope and Hope towne,
With all the bounds both up and downe,
From heaven to yearthe, from yearthe to hell,
For thee and thine therein to dwell.
As truly as this king-rythe is myn,
For a croffe-bow and an arrow,
When I fall come to hunt on Yarrow.
And in token that this thing is sooth,
I bit the whyt wax with my tooth,
Before Meg, Mand, and Margery.
With my thurd son Henry!"
Lon. pap.
A cheap and expeditious method to make excellent vinegar.—Take any quantity of ripe apples, (the sweeter the better) mash them as fine as you can, put them into a tub or barrel, (with one head open at a barrel) and let it remain lightly covered in the vessel, till it ferments and smells sharp and sour; then press out the liquor, put it up in a cask, and hang it up. As soon as it settles it will be fit for use. It is best to let your apples be previously kept in the house till they are mellow, before you begin your operation; let no rotten ones be used, as they would give the Vinegar a bad taste.
THE FINE ARTS AT ROME.
A letter from Rome, dated the 10th of last July, addressed to a correspondent of the writer at Aix, and lately printed in the Magazine Encyclopedique, observes, that the Cardinal Borgia is publishing a Descriptive Catalogue of the Coptic Manuscripts, now in his possession, the number of which amounts to three hundred. This Catalogue is the production of the learned Zega, editor of the well known work upon Obelisks. The author does not content himself with giving a note upon each of the manuscripts; he likewise inserts long fragments of the text, with a Latin translation in the margin. He has now arrived at the forty third manuscript. The Vatican Library had a considerable number of similar manuscripts, all of which have been removed by the French. The Cardinal, a little before the arrival of the French at Rome, had fortunately caused exact copies to be taken of them, and with those his Catalogue will commence under the title of Codices Memphitici.
Next to these follow such as have been found in the cities of Syrene, Thebes &c. We find here not only Bibles, Acts of Councils, Acts of the Martyrs, but likewise historical treatises of different countries, and a number of memoirs relating to the fine arts. The Pope ordered considerable subterranean researches to be made at Olinu, during the winter and spring of last year, which have led to the discovery of several fine statues. The immediate heat of the summer having interrupted the career of these labours the Government has employed the workmen likely to prove equally useful. They are now busy in the employment or site of the city, in removing the earth and ruins which cover the bases of the most considerable and important monuments, such as the Coliseum, the Arch of Titus, of Severus, &c. &c. This labour will produce the same effect as that which took place respecting the Column of Trajan, under Sextus V. The pedestal of that column was buried in the earth, but was afterwards exposed to view; and a large fosse was constructed, paved and encircled with a wall, on which an equestrian or gallery was made for the purpose of making the tour of the column. Already one part of the base of the Arch of Septimius Severus is open to view, and they have discovered some pedestals of columns, decorated with bas reliefs of great beauty. The superintendence of this undertaking is assigned to the celebrated Canova, the sculptor. This artist is well known for three beautiful statues—Perseus, an Athleta, and a Hercules, which the Pope has caused to be placed in his Museum—Perseus is represented at the moment when he has just cut off the head of Medusa, and stands in the niche, where the Apollo of Belvidere was placed.
The present Pope shows every inclination, as far as his slender revenue will permit, to encourage the arts. Canova's Perseus has been placed in the Museum of the Vatican. Engravings have besides been made of a number of ancient statues and bas reliefs, which have hitherto been neglected. The subterraneous researches at Olinu go on with considerable success; besides a number of pillars, statues, and pieces of Mosaic work, 800 coins have been found, chiefly bronze and for the most part of the times of Trajan and Adrian; amongst them are two very rare ones of Pertinax. Architecture, it is also expected, will receive a rich accession from the antiquities of the same age, in the discovery of some of those very rare porphyry stones, near Antioch.
New researches have also begun to be made at the foot of the Capitol, and the Triumphal Arch of Septimius Severus. At the depth of twelve feet, the bases of the pillars have been laid open, and are discovered to be adorned all around with the most beautiful bas reliefs. Similar researches have been begun around the Temple of Faustina, and other parts of the Campo Vaccino. Amongst the foreign artists at present resident in Rome, the Danish statuary, Throwaldson, has peculiarly distinguished himself, and is likely to prove a dangerous rival to Canova. He has seen there for the last six years, and has in that time sent several small pieces into England; but his last work chiefly established his reputation as a great artist.—This piece is a Jason, as large as the life at the moment he has got possession of the golden fleece; and it is looked upon as one of the most beautiful pieces of sculpture in modern times. He has now begun upon the same figure again in a beautiful block
of marble for Mr. Hope, of Amsterdam, who has agreed to give 800 ducats for it. He is besides employed on a bas relief, which represents the taking away of Brises from the tent of Achilles. The rooms in the galleries at Florence, which have been for some time past shut, have again been opened, and the statues and paintings which had been carried away from them have, as far as possible, been restored.
A composition for dying oak and pear wood of mahogany colour. BY M. J. C. DANNEMAN, jun.
This composition is made by boiling together Brazil wood and Roman alum; and before it is applied to the wood a little potash is added to it. As a durable varnish for wood Mr. Danneman recommends a solution of amber in oil of turpentine, mixed with a little linseed oil.
BORDEAUX THEATRE.
A letter from an American gentleman at Bordeaux, speaking of the public amusements, says, The Grand Theatre is a superb building. The outside, in particular the front, is a master piece of workmanship, and bears a most majestic appearance, from its vastness and dignity of structures. The grand stair case and the corridor to which it leads are of beautiful architecture. But the painting of the interior is in a poor state, it is also much soiled and faded. I have been twice at that Theatre to see La Fond, one of the most distinguished tragedians, and a competitor of the celebrated Talma. La Fond is a young man, and not, like Talma, a veteran. He has a handsome commanding figure, tall and majestic, his motions are graceful, and his countenance is extremely expressive. His voice is well toned but his lungs seem rather weak.—This occasions his voice to fail and become hoarse, sometimes in his latter scenes, when fatigued with violent exertion. He is however a noble fellow, and made me regret severely my slight knowledge of the language, which would not permit my enjoying the excellence of his performance. La Fond is now ordered to Paris, to supply the place of Talma, who is gone by permission on a professional visit to Peterburgh.
The rest are poor machines, and as to actresses, they cannot show such a woman as Mrs. Johnston, at any of the theatres in Bordeaux. As the plays I saw were both tragedies, I had not an opportunity of viewing any variety of their scenery. The time scene continuing throughout both pieces. It was the inside of a palace, and superbly executed. The dresses are very rich, with great attention to costume.
We complain very much at New-York, of a want of light in the theatre. The grand theatre of Bordeaux is much larger than that of New-York, yet the audience part is only lighted by a chandelier suspended from the dome, nor is the stage so well illuminated as ours.
The theatre of next importance is the Theatre Francaise. It is about two thirds as large as that of New-York, but by no means comparable to it for scenery or performers. There are two or three other theatres of inferior merit. One of the lowest order has a Jack putting on a stage in front of the house, to attract the multitude by his tricks.
The other public amusements of Bordeaux, at this season of the year (July) are a garden called Vauxhall, open only on Sundays, when they give fire works, and the Circus Francaise.
It is calculated that during the late German fairs at Frankfort, Leipsic, &c. French actresses, actors, dancers, musicians, ballad singers, &c. have according to the registers of the police, gained no less than 2 millions of livres.
Died at South Kingstown, honorable Samuel T. Potter, Senator in the Congress of the United States, and late lieut. governor of Rhode Island aged 54 years. Phil. pap.
FOR SALE.
Will be offered for sale, by way of Public Auction, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday the first day of next month:
THE HALF ACRE LOT OF LAND and TENEMENT lying at Rocketts, late the property of Robert Omberston, deceased. The buildings on this Lot are convenient and valuable, and the lot itself, it is believed, admit of a partition into three tenements; so partitioned, the whole or two parts at least will be sold, and a complete title made in fee simple. Approved notes of persons residing in Richmond, payable at Sixty days, will be received in payment by the subscriber. WM. BROWN. October 15. ids.
EDUCATION.
The Trustees of Wm. Belfer Academy acquaint the public, that the Latin, Greek and French languages, together with Writing, Arithmetic, Geography, the use of the Globe, Euclid, and the practical branches of the Mathematics, are taught in the Academy, by the principal master and his assistants.
The school is provided with Globes and Maps, for the use of the lower class; with Telescopes and an Electrical Machine; with an Air-pump, Endometers, and other parts of a Chemical and Philosophical apparatus, for making the usual experiments on Air, and exhibiting the properties of the different elastic fluids.
In their examinations of the school, the Trustees have been highly pleased with the plan of teaching and the proficiency of the Pupils; and are extremely happy in adding, what they believe will greatly increase the utility of the institution, that Judge White will, in future, deliver in the Academy, a Course of Lectures on the Laws and Constitutions of this state, and the United States.
These Lectures will commence annually on the first Monday in December, and continue until the last of the succeeding March, and it is confidently believed, that every exertion in his power, will be made by that gentleman, to render his Lectures beneficial to his Pupils, and worthy of public patronage.
JOHN SMITH, President of the Trustees. September 22. (cp—5no.)
NOTICE.
THE office of Supervisor of the Revenue for the District of Virginia being discontinued, and the unfinished business of the said Office transferred to the Collectors of the Direct Tax and Internal Revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjusted and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay, and pay the balances due to the United States.—And those who hold bonds have been filed in the district of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress of the United States for non-payment of the Direct Tax, may redeem such bonds, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal costs and fees as the law directs.
As most of the above-mentioned bonds were filed in Dec. 1809, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next.
The money received by me for the redemption of the said bonds, will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 25 per cent per annum on the purchase money, to the day on which it may be paid to me. JOSEPH SCOTT. Marshal V.D.
July 7. ep—45.
We have received a small additional supply of MADEIRA WINE, Of a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hoghead and quarter-cask. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. July 18. epif.