The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-08-16 00:00:00

Robt Mansel
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RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 16, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
Pleadings of Cause, ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 23.
MR. MARTIN, in continuation.
But let me ask this honourable court whether there is not great reason to believe that the sentiments my honourable client expressed with respect to the conduct of the counsel, and their object was just and correct? What was the conduct of Callender's counsel? Was it not such as immediately tended to inflame the minds of the bye-standers, and to excite their indignation against the court, and highly insulting to the judges? In the first place, they endeavoured to obtain a continuance of the cause to the next court, merely with an intention to procure delay, and to prevent the cause being tried before Judge Chase, acknowledging that they had no hopes or expectation from any testimony to save their client if the law was determined to be constitutional; and yet they brought forward their client to swear just what they pleased, in order to procure this delay, with respect to the necessity of witnesses, whose testimony they acknowledged they were conscious could be of no service to them, and yet they wished the bye-standers to consider the court acting highly improper in not granting that continuance! Was this even to serve Callender? No, they avowed they did not appear to serve him, but to serve the cause. Sir, it appears from their own evidence that Callender would have submitted to the court, but for their interference, that they volunteered on the occasion not for him, but for their cause, and yet the volunteers wanted the court to give them another opportunity to prepare themselves, & made Callender swear what they pleased to effect their purpose. They said they were not well acquainted with the law upon libels, and therefore wanted time to examine the subject; but surely when persons undertake to volunteer their services on any subject, they ought to be masters of it, and are entitled to no indulgence of delay. And as they declare they had formed the determination, on the first instance of an indictment under the sedition law, to come forward and volunteered their services for the false not of the man, but of their cause, common decency to the court, and a proper respect for themselves, ought to have dictated to them in the interim to have made themselves fully acquainted with all the law relative to that subject in which they had thus determined officially to interfere.
In the next place, when the jury were about to be sworn, they challenged the array in order to set aside the whole panel. Such challenge can never be made correctly, but for the jury being returned by an officer not authorised, or for unfair and partial dealings in the officer who summons the jury. The reason assigned was, that one of the jurors who was returned has expressed sentiments inimical to Callender. This, if true, might be a good cause to challenge the individual juror for favour, but no boy, who had read in an office six months, would have supposed this a sufficient cause to have challenged the array, unless it had been further alleged that the marshal knew the juror had expressed such sentiments before he had summoned him, and had summoned him for that reason, which was not suggested. Is it possible to believe that legal characters of so great estimation, that one of them was then the attorney general of the state of Virginia, another almost immediately after appointed attorney general of the United States for the district of Virginia, and the third, appointed one of the chancellors of that state, should have been so utterly ignorant of the law relative to the challenge of the array, as to have made the motion they did? If not, it must be presumed their conduct was influenced by a wish to embarrass the court; to hold up the prosecution as oppressive; to excite public indignation against the court and the government, who endeavoured to enforce it, by attempting to impress a belief on the public mind, that even their marshal had, in the very beginning, violated his duty to gratify the wishes of an oppressive government, and that for that purpose he had unfairly packed a jury. Was not this immediately, was it not designedly done for the purpose of exciting public indignation? What was the conduct of the same counsel when the court desired them to reduce to writing the questions they meant to propound to Col. Taylor? They have declared they hesitated whether they would do it; and before they did comply with the court's direction, they made a direct effort to hold up to the bye-standers that the court was acting with oppression and partiality to the prejudice of Callender, by imposing on his counsel difficulties and impositions which the court had not imposed upon the counsel for the prosecution! Whereas in fact the counsel for the prosecution had freely stated the testimony he meant to offer, before he produced his witnesses, having no desire that the jury should be surprised with improper evidence,—whereas the counsel for Callender wished to have witnesses examined to the jury without the least previous disclosure to the jury or court, of the evidence meant by them to be given; most evidently that they might have testimony illegal thus imposed upon them; and because they were, by the correct interpretation of the court defeated in this object, they could not consent even to let this act of the court pass, without a direct attempt to impress upon the bye-standers, that it was another instance of the unfair and oppressive conduct of the court, which ought to excite their indignation! And here let this honourable court remember that Callender, in his Prospect Before Us, had in the most solemn manner appealed to the state of Virginia, that it ever the time should come, when the government of the United States should attempt to prosecute him and make him a victim under the sedition law, that state was bound under every principle of interest, of justice, & of the claims he had upon them, to come forward, and at all risks and by all means to protect him. Is there not, Sir, great reason to believe, that the object of counsel was to second this appeal made by Callender, and to induce the people of Virginia to come forward to save their client from the pretended oppression of government,—to rescue him from their fangs?
One of the gentlemen who was the counsel of Callender, has told me, that whenever a prosecution should be attempted under the sedition law, he had formed the determination to come forward to prove its unconstitutionality. That
in consequence of this determination in Callender's case, and only for that purpose, he did appear in order to argue its unconstitutionality. He has told us further, that he had no hopes of convincing the court, and scarcely the faintest expectation of inducing the jury to believe that the sedition law was unconstitutional; but yet that he wished to argue the question, with a view of making a proper impression upon the public mind; and yet he has disclosed to us upon his oath, that when the court had charged him with wishing to address himself to the populace and not to the court, he denied the charge, and told the court he only wanted to address himself to and be heard by the court, and did not wish to be heard by the jury and by the bye-standers! When at the same time he knew he could not be heard by the court, without also being heard by the jury and the bye-standers, unless they had all been, a thing unknown, sent out of the courthouse; or what is equally unknown, had their ears stuffed with cotton, or filled with wax; and yet the same gentleman has said on oath, notwithstanding that declaration, that it was his chief, almost his sole object upon that subject, to be heard by the bye-standers, and on them to make proper impressions! What barefaced, what unequalled hypocrisy doth he admit he practised on that occasion! What egregious trifling with the court? But, I would ask this honourable court, what were the impressions which Mr. Hay was so solicitous to make on the people? Was it merely to convince them that the sedition law was unconstitutional, and ought not to be enforced? Had not the legislature of his state some time before denounced this law as unconstitutional, and destructive to liberty? Had they not circulated the denunciation throughout every part of their own state, and sent it to every legislature in the union? Do not let me here be understood to censure that honorable body, or to question the propriety of their conduct, or the rectitude of their motives; far be it from me to doubt that they honestly believed the law to be unconstitutional, and fraught with all the evils which they suggested would flow from its execution; and therefore that they thought it a sacred duty to act as they did. I am not in the habit of questioning the motives which influence public or private bodies; it is my duty to leave that question to their own consciences and to their God; I myself view them in the most favourable light. I only mean to state as a fact, a transaction of notoriety; but can it possibly be supposed after this, the people of Virginia wanted a speech from Mr. Hay, to induce them to consider the sedition law unconstitutional, or could he expect that those who doubted after being so well acquainted with the sentiments and conduct of their legislature, would be made converts by any thing they should hear from him? No, Sir, no person can think it. What then was his motive? Was it not to impress on the people, that, not only an unconstitutional, oppressive law, was about to be enforced; but also that the court, in order to enforce it, was acting in the most unfair and oppressive manner, as well as the marshal; and thereby to inflame the resentment and indignation of the populace against the court? I will not say that he really wished so far to have excited their violence against my honorable client as to have endangered his life; but it is impossible that I should doubt that it would have given him pleasure, that their violence should have been so far at least excited, as to have intimidated the court from executing this obnoxious law.
(To be continued.)
Miscellany.
Communications from a Member belonging to the "Bloomsbury and Merion Society, for promoting Agriculture and Rural Economy," to that Society.
Published by order of the Society, SAM. CLAPHAMSON.
A few observations on the importance of the use of Potatoes and the Lima Bean.
POTATOES. I am a farmer truly on a small scale, possessing only 26 acres of land, nevertheless I raise annually a considerable quantity of Potatoes, a vegetable which I conceive occupies the very first rank in the whole Vegetable Kingdom, as to the various and excellent uses to which it may be converted.
I have seen the Potatoe made use of in all the following ways, and nearly all of them in my own family.
 1st. A Potatoe roasted or boil'd, for the use of man, women or child, is a most delicious and salubrious repast.  2d. Potatoe Bread is not only very palatable, but makes the finest toast.  3d. Potatoe pye and pudding, both exceedingly good.  4th. Potatoe YEAST deemed very good, but will not keep long as it soon becomes an acid.—The method of making Yeast:—Two handfuls of hops, boiled as usual, the Hop-water must be boiling hot, and mixed with some rye flour to make a batter—  A spoonful of Molasses } Do. of ground Ginger } Do. of Salt } One Egg }  This is to be mixed with the batter, when about milk-warm, to which must be added some leaven or ridings—This will produce Yeast of a superior quality and equal to the best Brewery.  5th. Potatoe Starch excellent.  6th. Potatoe Hair-Powder equal to any if kept quite dry and prepared with Bergamot.  7th. Potatoes boil'd and mashed fine being mixed with the water in which they were boiled with a handful of Indian meal makes an excellent swill either for a sow with a litter of pigs, or the first stage of fattening hogs.  8th. On potatoes which were raw and cut, being first well washed, I hatched a cow that had a most remarkable quantity of gut-far. Also, a cow fed on raw potatoes will yield copious pails of the sweet and richest milk.  9th. Raw potatoes with a handful of Indian meal if sown during the whole winter by a horse, without a single fear of hay, provided they are washed clean so as to leave no earthy particle about them and cut fine to a potatoe knife in the shape of an S with a proper handle, will in the spring of the year exhibit this noble animal much fatter than any of the neighbouring horses, with a fine flock found, as though he had all the time lived upon young laurel branches. My high, and his health and spirit, vastly superior to those of a horse that lived on and had a superabundance of the best Clover Hay all that time—this I have known by experience.  10th. Within a few days past I have heard of Potatoes being used as an excellent substitute for Coffee, in the following manner—viz. 
Wash your Potatoe clean, and cut it with the skin on, into small pieces, then run a needle and thread thro' each piece, and thus form a bunch of pieces, hang them up to dry, or put them into a Dutch or other oven for that purpose, and when sufficiently dried and not burnt, grind them as you would coffee, grind them in like manner and use them.
I can safely say then, under all the circumstances herein stated, that the first source of the Uniyase, from whom all our bonanzas and blessings flow has not furnished the great table of mankind with so delicious, useful and healthy a vegetable as a Potatoe.
NOTE. —It is not almost an incredible fact, that only 12 years ago, Potatoes were not known in the Duke of Bavaria's Dominions, until introduced by that eminent and distinguished Philanthropist Count Rumford.
Lima Bean.
I conceive this vegetable to rank next to the potatoe in point of utility—it may be planted much earlier than is usually practiced and will yield, as it were, a succession of crops, until very late in the Fall, when severe frosts will necessarily check its further progress—indeed the earlier this bean is planted the better, if the season is not too wet and cold, because there will remain a greater abundance of ripe or seed beans upon the vine, after those which were green and tender are all used. This day I pulled a number of excellent ripe beans, perfectly found and which we used in soup which gave a high relish to it, and also added to it a very nutritious quality. I observed a singular circumstance in picking these beans—in one of the rows there stood a young peach-tree between ten and twelve feet high, to which one of the vines had run, on the top of which were collected a handful of excellent beans, perfectly found, which remained there all autumn and winter from whence I deduced, that very long poles would bear fruit this species of Bean, much longer however than are generally used, by which arrangement I imagine not to say that our crops would be doubled. The Lima Bean in many countries is only used after it has become perfectly white and consequently dead ripe—in the island of Madeira the ripe Lima Bean sells extravagantly high—A young gentleman of respectability and credit, whose name I do not at this time recollect, informed me that he sold five bushels of them well cured, that is, perfectly dry and void of any rotteness or worms, for one quarter a cask of the best Madeira Wine, which afterwards, was termed "London particular" and which he actually sold for £25, the currency he did not mention whether British or American—I know not whether I shall be considered correct in my suggestion, but my belief is, that this vegetable might with proper attention and care in raising large crops of it, become an object of exportation highly advantageous to the farmer and honourable to our country. I say honourable on the principles laid down by the eminent and learned Dean of St. Patrick, viz. that where a farmer shall raise "two layers of grass where only one grew before, he will render more benefit to mankind than the greatest Philosopher in the world."—Not having the Dean's works before me, perhaps the quotation may not be exactly in his own words, but I am well assured this is his sentiment.
July 26, 1805.
Prince Ypsilanti and the Brahmins.
The following is given as the substance of a late letter from an high authority in France to a gentleman in New-York.
"The vaccine contagion can be preserved by keeping the crusts of the pustules, pulverizing them and diluting them for use in a little cool water. In this method I have succeeded in giving the preventive disease to twenty-four subjects, keeping the crusts eighty-three days wrapped in paper. A prince or leading man in India, has composed a memoir on Vaccination, by which he proves that the Brahmins were acquainted with the cow-pock a great while ago, and actually performed the operation of vaccination on the children of those who consented to undergo certain religious ceremonies under the protection of a Female Deity of the Indian Olympus, called Bloomaney . This piece was printed in the Courier of Bombay, and it is said the practice is progressing rapidly in the eastern parts of Asia."
"Yesterday Prince Ypsilanti, hospodar of Wallachia, the most learned and accomplished gentleman in the Ottoman Empire, has interested himself much in this business. He has sent to Dr. De Carro of Vienna, a letter with rich presents to that excellent Austrian, for his zeal in the cause of vaccination. Prince Ypsilanti has no hopes of finding the vaccine infection a preventative of the plague. The symptoms of this latter disease, he says, as a curative remedy in all cases, is by no means to be expected in the present state of society and living. He has in that letter written with greater ability, and thrown more light on the subject than all other writers who have treated on this distemper."
DYSSENTERY.
A letter from Bridgetown, Cumberland county, to the editor of this paper, says—
"That dreadful disease, the Dysentery, is making great havoc in different parts of this country, but more especially in Bridgetown and its vicinity; no age is exempt from its attacks or fatality, though children under ten years of age appear to be its favorite victims."
"We would ask, have those attacked employed the remedy mentioned in our paper some weeks since, namely, a strong tea or decoction from the roots of the running blackberry or dewberry?—This has been tried in several neighbourhoods since we published it, and has been found efficacious in most cases. Tea from the leaf of the common flowering blackberry brier, has also been found extremely useful. These berries ought not to be despised. An experiment with them is at least safe, and may be the means of saving many useful lives."
(From a True American.)
European Intelligence.
Continuation of news by the Osiris , arrived at New-York.
EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH.
LONDON, JUNE 4.
IF it be asked, why have the French, once so proud of their Kings, so attached to the House of Bourbon, consented to fix the Imperial Diadem upon the brow of the Corsican, the following considerations may afford a satisfactory answer:
 1. The purchasers of national property fear, that if Louis XVIII. were to ascend the throne, they should be stripped of all their acquisitions. Bonaparte has declared them irrevocable; and inviolate.  2. According to an estimate made by the Tribunate, the number of the purchasers of national property amounts to two millions. We may therefore estimate, in this class, the supporters of the Imperial authority of Bonaparte, at 2,000,000. 
The influence of the officers upon the soldiery, the promises made to them, and particularly the payment of one month's arrear of pay, have secured an unanimity of votes in the armies by land and sea, which, including the national gendarmerie, soldiers on leave of absence, &c. amounts to 450,000  The new clergy, miserably provided for, but to whom promises have been made of more liberal support, may be estimated at 100,000  Persons employed in civil offices, in the collection of the revenue, &c. 200,000  Public functionaries, and other members of government, who hold their places at the pleasure of Bonaparte 200,000  Conversators, inspectors, and sub-inspectors of forests 2,241  Renters, influenced at once by the hope of regular payment if they support Bonaparte, and by the dread of bankruptcy if they do not 225,000  Persons not military enjoying pensions 64,000  If to this number be added all the persons who solicit pensions or employments, all the families who ask for their children places in the Lycees; exemption from contributions, dispensations, &c. the royalists in the interior, who are in a state of surveillance , or marked as suspected, all the returned emigrants, who have received the benefit of the amnesty, or are soliciting it; the number of signatures, which is the result of the examination of all the registers, may be easily anticipated. Yet such is the ground upon which Bonaparte has announced, with so much emphasis, that he has been called to the throne by the unanimous voice of the people, of the Senate, and of the Army, although neither the people nor the army have been, in any manner, consulted upon his elevation to the Imperial dignity, and their vote has been expressly submitted to the single question of the inheritance of the Crown; a question the more indifferent, as there was not one among the voters, the Mamelukes excepted, who is not persuaded, that as Napoleon has been the first, so will he be the last of his family who shall ever occupy the throne of France.
LONDON, June 8.
We have, in a preceding part of our paper, given the report of the select committee of the House of Commons on the case of Sir Home Popham. Every friend to the service will be rejoiced to find, that the report, on the whole, is not only highly favourable, but redounds, in an eminent degree, to the honor and credit of that valuable and meritorious officer.
We are happy to hear from the most respectable quarter, that the Roman Catholics of Ireland are highly pleased with the very calm and temperate manner in which the prayer of their petition has been rejected by the members of Administration. We are well assured, that so far from betraying any symptom of ill blood or ill temper at the issue of that discussion, that on the contrary that large and respectable class of the community never seemed more disposed to look kindly on their superiors. The only regret that appears to be expressed is at some of the assertions made by Lord Redesdale on that occasion. We understand that the Catholic Bishops of the Southern Province have been applied to on the subject of the information, stated to have been communicated to his Lordship relative to excommunications, and that they solemnly disavow the charge; and we further understand, that it is their intention to publish an instrument to that purpose. Indeed it were as well that no such topics had been so emphatically and so authoritatively dwelt on.
June 9.
A new religious sect has sprung up in the western parts of India and extend their doctrines by fire and sword. Their leader, Shah Azza, is cruel, crafty and enterprising, and his success has obtained him numerous followers on the borders of Guzzurat and on the borders of the desert.
Several children of Devonshire, who had been inoculated for the cow-pock, have been covered with an entire and violent eruption, doubtless proceeding from some disorder with which the subject from which the vaccine matter originally taken had been afflicted.—The circumstance, however, has created a great alarm; and, we are sorry to add, a temporary suspension of vaccination.
By a recent return made to the Court of Denmark, it appears that 28,906 persons have been inoculated for the cow-pock since the introduction of this practice, without a single instance of mortality occurring from it.
June 10.
The interesting Madame Jerome Bonaparte was yesterday in Kensington Gardens, accompanied by her brother and a party of friends; and those by whom she was recognized, were highly gratified by contemplating the innocent simplicity of her countenance, and sympathized in the infamous treatment she has experienced. It is understood, that she is to be present this evening at the Grand Oriental Gala given at Vauxhall; and no event, we may venture to promulgate, would prove a greater source of attraction.
June 14.
The importance of the French papers which arrived on Wednesday, is less derived from the facts they communicate, than from the hints, the intimations, the comments and the reflections they throw out upon the situation of Great-Britain and the Continent, the events of the war, and the views and designs of the parties engaged in it. Though published in the form of detached notes upon the English papers, they may be fairly considered as an official exposition of the views and objects of the French government, and may be divided and discussed under three heads.
 1. The means which France possesses of annoying our commerce and possessions, by detached squadrons and expeditions.  2. The improbability of a Continental war.  3. A glance at the objects which France expects to accomplish by the war, and some hints and suggestions of a pacific tendency.  Throughout the whole of this exposition there is an air of triumph and disdain, of menace and of intolence, of superiority and dictation, which the dignity of the British character may well despise, and which, indeed, may be considered as so many tributes to the superiority of our resources, the extent of our means, & the greatness of our power. Slightly indeed of a more haughty & insolent tone than usual must be pardoned in a Government
ment not yet recovered from the exultation & surprise which the late return of the first squadron they had dared to send to sea, after two years of war, was calculated to produce.
1. It is the safe return of this squadron that has made the enemy flatter themselves on a sudden, that they can cope with us; and because they can fend ships to sea, which sometimes escape capture, by not falling in with our fleet, they imagine that they have become a great Naval Power. It would have been better to have waited till all those blows, with which they threaten us had been struck; but as perhaps they thought it just possible that the boaster might beat, they were rejoiced not to lose the only opportunity which might be afforded them of holding a lofty and triumphant tone. They tell us, "that we knew not of the departure of the Rochefort squadron till it had taken Dominica, not of the departure of the Toulon fleet till it had passed the Straights, and that we shall hear no more of it for some months; the departure of a second Rochefort squadron has not been spoken of, and there are several large frigates which are to do great mischief upon centres which we think are little known to their masters." We quote these expressions not for the purpose of paying attention to the menaces they contain, but of hazarding a conjecture upon the destination of the expeditions. When they say that we shall hear no more of the Toulon squadron, for some months, do they mean from the time it passed the Straights, or from the present period? If they mean the former, upwards of two months have already elapsed, and if it be gone to the West-Indies we shall hear of its operations or arrival in all probability by the end of this month. But the phrase seems applicable to a more distant voyage than the West-Indies. Some time ago we supposed it very probable that the combined fleets would separate in a certain latitude, and that the French would proceed to the East Indies, and the Spaniards to the West. The intelligence we communicated yesterday seems to favour that supposition. A Spanish squadron, of four sail of the line, was spoken in lat. 18. N. long. 40. bearing a S. W. course on the 8th and 9th ult.—Undoubtedly this was the Spanish squadron from Cadiz, which it seems probable separated from the French immediately after leaving Cadiz; for on the 9th April; they came out; on the 10th the French were out of sight, but on the 11th and 12th, the Spanish squadron of five sail of the line, were seen bearing to the eastward, having perhaps, lost sight of the French in the night of the 10th. We are, therefore, of opinion, that the Toulon squadron is gone to the East Indies—indeed the French talk of the blows they will strike in both the Indies. The injury they are to do on those coasts which we thought were unknown to them, are said to be the coast of Canada, Hudson's Bay, and New-foundland. Perhaps the second Rochefort squadron are gone thither. But our readers of course will not fail to see that the French, in the articles we have extracted, mix up, deligently of course, much that is absurd, a great deal of influence and menaces. We trust that we shall furnish them with a few facts in return, and that we shall have to republish their notes with some valuable comments by Lord NELSON.
2. It is with reluctance that we abandon the idea of producing a confederacy of continental powers against France, but the hopes of any powerful co-operation on the part of Russia grow fainter and fainter every day.—We might have disbelieved the articles from Peterburgh in the Monitor ; but the fact of a Russian Negotiator being on the point of proceeding to Paris, cannot be doubted.—That the object of his mission is to notify an Ultimatum agreed to by Russia and Great Britain confidently we do not believe. We do not believe it, because we know that the approximation between Russia and France has been produced by the king of Prussia, who would not have interfered had he suspected that Russia had an intention of notifying, through an Ambassador, for whom he had procured passports, that unless certain conditions were acceded to, the Courts of Peterburgh, London and Stockholm, would make common cause against France. That the sentiments of Russia have experienced a change within these three months is not to be doubted. If it were worth while to enter much into an investigation of the causes of that change, it would not, we believe, be difficult to prove that it has been produced in a great degree by the belief so industriously circulated throughout Europe, that parties were too equally balanced in this country to render it likely that Mr. Pitt's power would be permanent, and that a change of Administration would in all probability lead to the adoption of a diametrically opposite system of politics with respect to France. Russia & the other powers were not to learn that Mr. Fox had reprobated the war as unnecessary and unjust, and had approved of the treaty of Amiens. To have made a common cause therefore with a country whose system towards France might have changed with a change of Ministry, was a policy which under such circumstances, they must have felt disinclined to adopt.
Yet at the time we are expressing our disbelief, at least our strong doubts, whether Russia or any of the Continental Powers, will co-operate with us against France, it is proper we should state, that the last accounts from Vienna are by no means pacific in their language towards France; and it is a fact that the Funds at Vienna fell, within this month, four per cent. in one day. But we hardly think that the Austrian Government will yet depart from its system of neutrality.
3. The chances of a continental war being feeble, it remains to be enquired whether there is any stronger chance of peace being established between this country and France? The Monitor says, the object of Russia is to interfere as far as she can, for the purpose of restoring general peace. If, indeed we thought the Monitor's views in the angry tone it assumes, and inflexibility it sets forth, we should abandon every idea of peace. But we find that these pretensions vary almost daily, and that one day the Monitor hints upon nothing but the Treaty of Amiens, and the next intimates, that if that Treaty be departed from, there must be reciprocal restitutions—Upon the nature and object of these requisitions, the Monitor has thrown out some idea which shall be the subject of a separate article on a future day. At present we shall conclude by saying, if France expects that we shall consent to such reflections as the Monitor is, she will find herself completely mistaken—the will find herself equally mistaken if she supposes that we shall accept the Treaty of Amiens.

the whole Treaty of Amiens, and nothing but the Treaty of Amiens.
June 17. The Pope, we are told, baptized a child of the new-born royal of France. It were devoutly to be wished, that he was now called in to administer extreme unction to the head of the family.
A Corsican Baronet, who piques himself upon his agility, exclaimed, the other day, in a tone of exultation to a witty friend, "It is strange, Tom, that I should be so uncommonly active, isn't it?" "It only proves," dily answered the wit, "that two opposite qualities are combined, the form of the bear, with the alertness of the monkey."
Jerome Bonaparte, says the Morning Post, of June 17, still resides at Genoa; his unnatural brother, who has so cruelly obliged him to separate himself from his amiable and interesting spouse, not having yet permitted him to approach his Royal person.
According to some communications received yesterday from Lisbon, the American minister has left Madrid, in consequence of the abrupt termination of the negotiations which have been so long pending between His Catholic Majesty and the United States. Through the interference of France, however, it is thought that all differences between those two Powers will soon be effectually adjusted.
The proceedings now to be instituted against Lord Melville, will be as follows:—A motion will be made in the Commons for an address to his Majesty, praying that he will direct his attorney general to prosecute, criminally, Henry Lord Viscount Melville, for a misdemeanor, on a charge which the Commons will in duty bound, prefer against him. This motion, and the order thereon, will pass as matters of course; and in consequence, the attorney general will be directed to file an information ex officio. A rule of the court of King's Bench will then be served upon the Noble Lord to show cause, which may be argued the ensuing Term; and if such rule be made absolute, the cause will probably be tried by a Special Jury the next Sittings.
PHILADELPHIA, August 8.—Yesterday arrived, the ship Annawan, Holmes, 60 days from Liverpool—June 22, long. 21, 30, was brought too by the British frigate Cerberus of 40 guns, and boarded by an officer, who informed us, that off the western Islands they had engaged and captured the new French frigate, Ville de Paris, of 24 guns and 350 men, after a action of three and a half hours, and sent her for England; the Cerberus had suffered considerably and lost 17 men killed and 25 wounded, amongst the killed was the first lieutenant, and they wounded the captain.
FRANKFORT, June 2.
In a Riga newspaper of the latter end of April, is inserted a very polite letter from the emperor of Russia to the chevalier French General Moreau, at Cadiz; in which his majesty informs him he has appointed him a general of the infantry, with the pay attached to that rank; and moreover granted him the sum of 12,000 rubles to defray the expenses of his journey to Russia. Among other expressions used by his imperial majesty on this occasion, are the following: "Discharge your duty in my service, and I will do justice to that fame which you have acquired in Europe."
NEW-YORK, August 10.
We lay before the readers of the Mercantile Advertiser this morning, European Intelligence to the 25th of June, from London papers to that date & Liverpool papers to the 27th, with which we have been favoured by Captain Duplex, who left Liverpool on the 28th in the ship Hercules, Bradford, for Philadelphia; but on the 4th August, in lat. 59, 57, long. 67, was taken on board the ship Adriana, from Cadiz, for New-York, and arrived here yesterday.
Captain D. informs us that the ship Neptune, Stanton, for New-York, and several other American vessels for different ports in the United States, failed the day before the Hercules, July 13th, in lat. 44, long. 31, spoke ship Hard-ware, Matlack, out 18 days from New-York, for London; and in lat. 40, long. 76, the Schooner Hamilton, 5 days from Boston for Barbadoes.
LONDON, June 21.
By a person who left the squadron off Boulogne on Sunday last, we learn, that it is computed there are in the harbour, and the adjacent ones, nearly two thousand vessels of various descriptions ready for sea, in every respect, except men; and that prams, doggers, and loggers, continue to arrive daily.
Letter we are on Thursday received from our squadron off Fret, dated the 13th instant, at which time there were ten sail of the line, under Sir R. Calder, blockading the enemy's ships in that harbour, consisting of twelve sail of the line, which for some time past have been a strong intention of putting to sea. Five sail had been dispatched to look out for the Rochefort squadron regaining that port, but were quickly obliged to return, in consequence of the wind changing favourably for the enemy to come out of Fret.
A private letter from Hamburg, brought by the last mail, contains the following information relative to the further preparations of the enemy in the Mediterranean:—According to advices from Lyons of the 30th ult., a second naval armament is fitting out at Toulon, which is to consist of six sail of the line, exclusive of frigates and other armed vessels. The utmost activity prevailed at Toulon and all the other French harbours, to put the French navy on a most formidable footing. The letters boast, that in less than four years the naval force will consist of 150 sail of the line. A body of troops is collected near Toulon, in order to embark on a secret expedition; and near Rochefort, a camp is formed for the same purpose.
Report now states, that the French expedition has for its object, first to seize the Brazils; secondly, to occupy the Cape of Good Hope, ceded to France by the Dutch; thirdly, to take by surprise the Island of St. Helena, which is well known not to be fortified with a completeness adequate to its importance. Masters of the Brazils, the Cape of Good Hope, and St. Helena, as well as of the Isle of France, they would possess the keys to all our East India possessions and the halfway houses, if one may use the expression, of our Indian Commerce.
There was a report yesterday that Government had received intelligence of another Spanish squadron of six sail of the line having escaped from Cadiz previous to the blockade being renewed.
June 25.
On Wednesday the following message was delivered to the Commons, and a similar communication was made to the Lords.
GEORGE REX. His Majesty thinks proper to acquaint the House of Commons, that the communications between his Majesty and some of the powers of the continent, have not yet been brought to such a point as to enable his Majesty to lay the result of them before the House or to enter into any further explanation with the French government, consistently with the sentiments expressed by his Majesty at the opening of the present session. But, as his Majesty conceives that it may be of essential importance, that he should have it in his power to avail himself of any favourable circumstance for giving effect to such an earnest wish with other powers, as may afford the best means of restoring the maritime ambition of France, and may be most likely to lead to a termination of the present contest on grounds consistent with the permanent safety and interests of his Majesty's dominions, and the security and independence of Europe. His Majesty therefore recommends it to the House of Commons to consider of making provision for enabling
his Majesty to take such measures, and enter into such engagements, as the exigencies of affairs may require.
A Riga newspaper of the latter end of April contains a polite letter from the Emperor of Russia to General Moreau, offering him the situation of a general of Infantry, with the pay attached to that rank, and 12,000 rubles to defray his expenses to Russia. Among other expressions used by his Imperial Majesty on this occasion are the following: "Discharge your duty in my service, and I will do justice to that fame which you have acquired in Europe."
June 24. This morning we received a series of Moniteurs from the 8th to the 15th, and Dutch Journals to the 20th inst. They announce, what we have long expected, the incorporation of the Ligurian Republic with the French empire. In the thing itself there is little to excite interest; for Genoa, her people, and her dependencies, were before as much at the disposal of Bonaparte as if they had been French; it is the manner in which the act originated and was carried into effect that calls for attention. The refusal of Great Britain to recognize the republic is assigned as the motive of this consolidation, although no doubt can be entertained that the real cause has been the ambition of the Emperor Napoleon. His answer to the Doge and Deputies of the Senate and people of Genoa evinces new proof of his despotism of the English Government and nation. Not content with coupling us with the pirates of Algiers, of Tunis, and Tripoli, he seems desirous of throwing out additional obstacles to the re-establishment of peace. He declares his determination never to acquiesce in the principle upon which this country has at all times acted with respect to the system of blockade. The arrival at this crisis of the claim that no right of blockade can be exercised against such places as are actually blockaded by land as well as by sea, may induce many to think that Bonaparte will endeavour to make the discussion of the principle enter into any negotiation which may be opened.
A third constitutional code, supported by a new order of honour, the Iron Crown, has been promulgated for the kingdom of Italy, and the care of the monarchy is left to the wisdom of Eugene Beauharnais, who is to hold his vice-regal court at Milan. In Bonaparte's address to the Italian Legislature he accuses the King of England with insulting the French nation by making public his proposals for negotiation. The official print contains a pompous display of the activity of the Court of Madrid in its naval preparations, and we are assured that there are at Cadiz, Carthagena and Ferrol, 30 ships of the line, and upwards of 40 frigates, in complete readiness for sea. Stocks this day at 12 o'clock, 3 per cent. consols, 59 3/4—Omnium 59 3/4, 4 prem.
[Notwithstanding we doubt the veracity of the following, (although it is not improbable) we give it a place.—It was received here on Sunday by an arrival from Barbadoes.]
Bridge-Town Gazette Extraordinary, Four o'clock, Tuesday afternoon, 23d July.
DEFEAT OF THE BREST FLEET. A report has just reached us, received by L'Esclair King's Schooner, from St. Kitt's and which has been communicated to Rear-Admiral Cochrane, of the DEFEAT OF THE BREST FLEET by Admiral Gardner. This is stated to have been derived from Martinique, where it was communicated by a frigate in 22 days from France, and inserted in the Gazette of that Island—and was confirmed by a corvette which arrived the day following, stating that Admiral Gardner had taken six sail and sunk three of the line. L'Esclair spoke an American vessel from Martinique, which corroborated these accounts, and added, that it was generally believed at Martinique.
FROM THE AURORA.
THE EAST-INDIES.
In a recent packet of English newspapers, we find a number of articles concerning the state of Hindustan, and the rise and progress of the wars in that country, during the last two years. It appears that the French naval squadron in the Indian seas, had taken among several others, a ship on board of which was a variety of dispatches, public and secret, and of private correspondence—these having been forwarded by general Decaen from the Mauritius to France, have been published in the MONITEUR—from which Gazette the English papers have made some partial, though interesting selections.
No apology is required for placing before our readers these papers so far as we have obtained them—the concerns of Asia appears to obtain more than common attention among civilized nations—there appears to be a growing thirst of curiosity concerning its remote history, learning and science and an anticipation that it must at no remote day exhibit a phenomenon equal in magnitude, originality, and importance to the revolution of America. Such an event will inevitably arise—it is an event to be desired by mankind—but we are about only to report what has been written and published elsewhere, and to afford our readers a little variety of foreign interesting matter to temper the warmth and acerbity of local politics.
The Paris Moniteur of the first of May, and subsequent papers contain a number of intercepted papers, and dispatches, captured on the British ship Hope—subsequent papers also contain extracts of a report made by a sub-lieutenant Muller, who appears to have been sent for the purpose into Hindustan, and who gives very circumstantial accounts down to a recent date, of the military operations in the Mahatta country; and it appears that Decaen had subsequently succeeded in sending a number of staff officers, engineers, and two well appointed companies of light artillery, to re-inforce the army of Jufnunt Rao Holkar.
The first article which we find is not a complete document; the whole was published in the Moniteur, but the English prints garble it, and such only can we give it. It is a dispatch of the 13th July, 1804, from the supreme council at Calcutta, to the secret committee of the court of directors, and signed by the Marquis Wellesley, Geo. H. Barlow, and J. L. Udney and is described as extending to the bulk of a large pamphlet, giving a circumstantial and inimorous view of the British interests throughout India, the policy of the different princes, their history, delinquencies, &c. In this dispatch Wellesley's motives for the war against the Mahrattas are developed—the following are the extracts:—
"The immediate cause of the war arose from the refusal which the confederate Mahratta chiefs had made to divide and withdraw to their usual stations, upon their respective territories, the armies they had collected and concentrated upon the frontiers of our ally the Nizam of Hyderabad. After having declared that the intention of that union was to decide, whether there should be peace or war with the British government and its allies."
The north west frontier of India is considered the most feeble part of the vast empire of Britain in Asia. The power of the Seyks, as well as of the Mahrattas, and the Rajpoots and other petty states, affords a considerable advantage to the invasion of an enemy coming from the most distant parts of the north west of Asia, or the banks of Indus; and it will be superfluous to remark to your excellency, that the enterprising spirit of France, or the ambition of Russia or even the violence or rapacity of the Afghan Tribes, or the Asiatic nations, which inhabit the northern and western countries of Asia, may have conceived plans of invasion in that part, an invasion which
would have extremely embarrassed the British power in India.
The local position of the territories of Scindeh, the situation and nature of its military forces in Indostan, and the bad & corrupt counsels of that feeble chief, arrogant and faithless, will afford serious danger to the British interest. The territories of Scindeh between the Jumna and the Ganges, interrupt our line of defence on that side, and some of its principal posts are pushed to the centre of our states, whilst the possession of Agra, Delhi, and the western and southern banks of the Jumna, places him in a condition to command almost the whole line of our north west frontier.
"In case of some considerable increase of the power of Scindeh, or in case he should form some connection with France, or some other enemy of the English, the present position of his territories and forces in Indostan, will furnish him with great advantages in the attack he might make upon the establishment of the company."
The dispatch states, that the war being commenced, one of its first objects was to reduce the power of Scindeh, which consisted at its commencement, in relation to his means of being able to affect the security of the British empire in India, in the following branches of military and political resources:
"In the imposing situation of the military establishment of Scindeh, under the direction of European officers, and particularly in the formidable force of his regular infantry and artillery, under the command of those officers."
"In the possession of a rich and vast territory, different forts, magazines, foundries and arsenals with a considerable provision of ammunition and military necessaries deposited in convenient situations upon our frontiers, adjoining the weakest part of the British states in Indostan."
"In the passive situation of his majesty's person, Shah Allum, which was under the immediate power of the armed force commanded by French officers, in the service of Scindeh, and in the exercise the nominal authority of the Mogul, by those French officers."
"In the ascendancy established by the agency of French officers, having command in the troops of Scindeh, in the north west of Indostan, over the Rajpoots, chiefs of Jeynagur and Jodepore and other states and chiefs in the northern and western provinces of Indostan and over several Seyk chiefs and others who occupy the territories from the Jumna to the banks of the Indus; and in the facility which the advantageous posts of M. Perton's army procured to effect an invasion of the British states upon that point."
"In the facility afforded by the position of the maritime part of Baroach, to augment the military establishments of Scindeh, by receiving there French or other European officers, ammunition, provisions, and perhaps a body of auxiliary, French or other European troops."
The dispatch then enumerates many other facts, showing the greatness and danger of Scindeh's power to the British empire in India, connected as he is with France, under the influence of French officers, situated on the north west frontier, ready to receive any invading army, whether French, Russian, or Asiatic, and having a convenient extent of sea coast, north of Bombay, to enable him to receive a French army, or supplies by sea. The policy of the Rajah of Berar, and of the other princes is then explained, as well as that of Scindeh; and it is shown, that the result of the war has been to diminish the power of those princes, and to consolidate that of the British empire. The dispatch then proceeds to explain the necessity of the second, or present war with Holkar, and the advantages to be derived from it.
The English prints infer from these publications, that the fleet of Villeneuve was bound for the East Indies, and not for the West-Indies.
From the Paris Argus of May 4.
The publication of the papers which we give to day, affords information still more important and no less hurtful to the interest of the English government. The world may behold in these papers to what a degree that British power, in appearance so formidable, is incessantly undermining; how the war becomes from day to day more painful and expensive to support. We see that the whole attention of the governor of India was employed in preventing European individuals from penetrating to the Mahrattas left they should teach them the art of war; but that in spite of so many efforts, the resistance of the natives grow every day stronger, and the success of battle more uncertain. Whatever may be the issue of the war which Holkar has undertaken for the deliverance of his country, the British empire, more flourishing for a moment, will not be the better secured for the future, because its only basis is terror, blindness, and slavery. The eternal principle of the troubles and wars, is in the enormous disproportion subsisting between the extent of domain and the small number of possessors. This truth has been generally acknowledged even by the company's agents, notwithstanding the progressive avidity so natural to the spirit of commerce. This has been the principle of the divisions between the directors and marquis Wellesley, whose ambitious and prodigal spirit they blamed.
Affairs of India—Col. Darsonal, arrived from the Isle of France, on board the Corvette la Diligent, has brought dispatches from the captain general Decaen.
Among the prizes made by rear admiral Linois, one was found to contain several official dispatches. We detect the wretched custom of printing the letters found on board the ships; but that custom having been introduced by the English who have not blushed to print private correspondence, nay, even letters from husbands to their wives, written from Egypt, experience has proved that such a monitor as England must be attacked with the same arms it makes use of; without which it makes of it an exclusive right. The greater division prevails among the English in India. Their finances are in the utmost disorder. The war they support is disastrous for them and fills it full force.
The European army of the English in India does not at present amount to 12,000 men, so great are the losses it has sustained. The letters of Marquis Wellesley are extremely curious, and show the great embarrassment the company is in.
West Indies.
We learn by Capt. Williams of the pilot boat fshr. Greyhound, that his imperial Majesty the Emperor Delfine arrived at the Cape on the 17th ult., from Port-au-Prince; and that on the 4th of July three British sail of the line and six frigates passed the Cape for Martinique, to form a junction with the other British forces.
Merc. Adv.
BOSTON, August 8. Capt. HARDING, who arrived here yesterday from Jamaica, informs, that the English fleet of merchantmen which have for some time been detained on account of an embargo, fitted on the 3d of July for Europe. On the 10th, in lat. 21, 48, Cape Antonio, bearing W. by N. 2 miles distant, capt. H. saw a Schooner on fire—a short
time after was boarded by a Schooner from the Jamaica fleet, and was informed that the above-mentioned vessel was the Sally, of New-York that she was taken by a Spanish privateer that morning about 6 o'clock, that the privateer finding it would be impossible to clear the fleet, they then being close down upon her, ran the Schooner ashore on the Cape, and, by her fast sailing, got clear of the fleet, and put into one of the by-ports—the captain of the English fshr. then, in order to defeat the expectation of the Spaniards, took the master and crew on board, and set fire to her. The fleet at the least calculation was supposed to amount to 130 sail.
Democrat.
NEW-YORK, August 10.
Captain Barber from Havana, informs us that a number of French and Spanish privateers infest the coast of Cuba, and have made sundry captures of vessels from England bound for New Orleans. They have also made some captures upon the north side, and carried them into Porto Carenas, a small port 20 leagues to leeward of Havana, where they plundered them of all the valuable part of the cargo, & then burn the vessels. When he failed there were in the harbour of Havana 10 or 12 small privateer Schooners under French colours, in readiness for sea. Their destination unknown.
Merc. Adv.
A letter to a commercial house in Norfolk from Antigua, under date the 16th ult. states, that there is little danger to apprehend in those seas, the British had a force of six ships of the line, and their enemy not one. This letter further states, that the Underwriters at Lloyd's, had consented to protract the time of the departure of the Convoy until the 15th of this month.
Norfolk Ledger.
Domestic Intelligence.
BOSTON, August 5.
Capt. Jenkins arrived here yesterday in 33 days from Cadiz, informs, that he understood at that place, that the United States gun-boat, No. 5, was cut out of Gibraltar by the Spaniards, on the supposition of her being an English vessel; but on discovering their mistake, she was immediately given up. Capt. J. also informs, that Gen. Moreau and family had a quality taken prisoner on board the ship New-York bound to Philadelphia, to fill next day.
Capt. Jenkins heard nothing of any rupture between this country and Morocco.
The Busy, British armed brig, of 18 guns, Capt. Clinch, has been engaged in pressing British subjects at St. Johns, N. B. and its press gangs have been driven from that city, by the citizens. She carried in with her, the Marblehead Schooner, mentioned some time since as having drifted from the harbor of Passamaquoddy, without her papers; but the collector refused to enter her, and she was sent to Halifax. These high-handed measures are justified by the Busy's officers, on the plea of "imperious necessity." A representation of the detention of our countrymen has been transmitted to Government, which in time, will doubtless take some measures to remedy or prevent the evil—by refusing any longer to recognize this plea.
Boston paper.
DIED.
In Salem, on the 30th July, very suddenly, of a violent nervous fever, attended with convulsions—Mr. WILLIAM CARLETON, aged 33 years, Editor of the Salem Register. By his industry and devotion to the Constituted Authorities of our nation, he originated, and preserved in increasing reputation, that excellent paper. By every sincere friend of his country, he will be regretted as an honest, upright, and worthy member of society.
IL.
Capt. Howland, of the ship Washington arrived at New Bedford on the 28th ult. informs, that General Moreau was still at Cadiz, and it was said that he would remain there as long as he could with safety; he did expect to have come out in the Washington, and went so far as to get the terms, and had his lady on board to take the accommodations, but on receiving a letter from Paris gave up the voyage.
The petit Censeur, however, of this city, says that the general has actually failed from Cadiz in the ship New-York, for Philadelphia, and that the house of Mr. Leguen has been taken for him at Morrisville, near Trenton, N. J.
Merc. Adv.
SALEM, August 5.
We are happy to learn, that the Fishermen who had been impressed on the Banks have been liberated. Six of them have arrived in this town. Every generous effort was made for their recovery, and with success. The British consul in Boston, gave his official aid, and the vessel was sent for this town, & the papers addressed to the Governor at Halifax. Such persons as were discovered to be citizens of the United States, have been given up. The poor fishermen have no redress for detention, and the loss of the season.
NEW-YORK, August 9.
We have the pleasure of announcing, on the authority of captain Waterman, that the United States frigate John Adams, from this port, with seven gun-boats under her convoy, arrived in safety at Algiers, and sailed from thence on the 18th of June, to join the squadron in the Mediterranean.
The ship Mary, (supposed to be the vessel commanded by capt. Brown, and owned by Messrs. Minturn and Champlin) is captured on her passage from this port for Liverpool, by a Spanish privateer, and carried into Bilboa, on suspicion of having French property on board.
Aug. 10.
By the ship Adriana, Ricketson, from Cadiz, we are informed, that Gen. Moreau, and family were to leave Cadiz, in 6 days for Philadelphia in the ship New-York, capt. Gouree; that gun-boat No. 5, which was captured by the Spaniards had been condemned, after having a trial: that a rupture between America and Spain was supposed to be at no great distance, and that Cadiz was closely blockaded, no vessels being permitted to enter with provisions. The ship Centurion, Lord, of New York, failed in co. for Barbadoes.
Merc. Adv.
In the ship Otis, arrived yesterday from London, came passengers Joel Barlow, and Mr. Patterson of Baltimore, brother to Madame Jerome Bonaparte.
From the Philadelphia Daily Advertiser.
CHEVALIER DE FORONDA.
Consul General from his Catholic Majesty to the United States, informed the merchants and others whom it might concern, through the medium of the American Daily Advertiser of the 7th of June last, that all vessels trading to the Havana, Santiago, and Trinidad de Cuba, &c. that is, to the ports of entry in the said Island, should have manifests of their cargoes attested by the respective Consuls. He has now to inform, that the intendant of the Havana has issued the following decree:
Havana, July 3, 1805.
"SENIOR DON RAFAEL RODRIGUEZ, intendant General of this Island, has determined, in a decree of the 28th of June last, that the regulations pointed out in the manifest ordinance, of the 8th of Feb. anterior, for the general administration of the revenues of the
marine, for the commerce of neutrals, receive the following addition:
"The Consuls of Vice-Consuls of the neutral ports from whence expeditions are made (and in the case of there being no Consuls resident therein, the persons authorized by the minister plenipotentiary of his majesty) first certify to the accounts or invoices, with the expedition of the particular port of the island to which they are directed; with an individual relation of the number, weight, measure, quality and value of the kinds and effects comprehended in the cargo, under the intelligence or knowledge that whatsoever shall be discovered that was not included in the invoice, will be confiscated without any indulgence."
A duplicate of the invoice and manifest will be required, in order to remain in the Consular office, which will be opened from ten o'clock till two in the afternoon, every day, Sundays excepted, and such other holidays as are prescribed by the Catholic Religion; Also, it is desired, the merchants will endeavour to have their papers presented the day previous to the sailing of their vessels, so that they may not experience any detention from the necessary business of the Consulate.
They are likewise desired to take notice of the publications which appeared in this paper of the 21st May last, which fixes: Dry goods, liquors and provisions, will be admitted in neutral vessels, under similar restrictions as those imposed on the commerce of Spain; offering, as an indispensable circumstance, in order to be admitted to an entry, that such vessels must have clearances disert for said port.
Consular office, Aug. 8, 1805.
We have been a letter from a gentleman in Leghorn, which contains an extract of a letter from one of the American captives in Tripoli, dated as late as April 9, giving the following very agreeable information: "A fair prospect opens to our view of being restored to the arms of our country & friends." Altho' we do not know the particular causes which gave rise to this pleasing expectation of our unfortunate brethren, we are persuaded, from the character of the writer, that some occurrence has taken place to justify us in congratulating the friends of the captives and the country, on the prospect of a speedy release.
Phil. Gaz.
GEORGE TOWN, (Col) August 6.
Yesterday dropped down from the Navy-Yard in Washington, the U. States frigate Adams, captain Murray. She reached Alexandria last evening—it is probable she will not stay longer there than part of to-day—when she will sail on a cruise off our coast, for the purpose of protecting our commerce from the roving corsairs which have plundered our citizens of their hard earnings—infested us in our own harbors—and interrupted our intercourse with others.
ALEXANDRIA, August 8.
FATAL DUEL.
It is with regret we announce the sacrifice of a victim at the shrine of the sanguinary practice of duelling. Yesterday morning, at 6 o'clock, a duel was fought between Mr. Enach M. Index, of this town, and Mr. John F. Boeni, of Piscataway, Maryland, at Johnson's spring, about six miles from this town, on the Virginia side of the Potomac. They exchanged fires at fifteen foot distance; when unfortunately Mr. Index received his antagonist's ball a little below the right breast, the ball passed through his liver, and he expired a few minutes past eleven o'clock yesterday.
Daily Adv.
John A. Burford, the person apprehended on suspicion of wounding and robbing Mr. Peter, on Tuesday underwent his final examination before the magistrates, and was committed for trial at the next court, which commences on the 4th Monday of November next.
IL.
Report confidentially assures us, that six seventy-four gun ships are immediately to be built, and that Mr. Fox is now collecting the timber for the one which is intended to be built at the seat of government. The more than suspicious conduct of the court of Spain, may probably justify this measure, but we sincerely hope and believe that no measures tending to widen the breach, with that monarchy, will be taken by our government until all these means have failed, which may be expected from the wisdom, coolness & prudence of the present administration.
[Alex. Exp.]
Mr. Gahatin, Secretary of the National Treasury, is at New-York. He has taken a view of the harbor; and several improvements have been proposed in the beacons and buoys.
N. E. Palladium.
Died, at Harrisburgh, (Penn.) Gen. John Andrews Hanna, for several years a member of Congress.
At Newport, the Hon. Paul Munford, Lieutenant-Governor of Rhode-Island.
FROM THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
NORFOLK, Aug. 7.
List of vessels belonging to this port, captured by French and Spanish privateers, during the present war, with an estimate of their value.
 Ship Eliza, valued vessel & cargo—dolls.
25,000    <

gate this upon a more extensive scale, viewing it as applicable to the United States. I take it for granted that the West-India trade of the United States is injured within them, of consequence that, in such proportion the United States are injured in its capital, by capture. Taking then one twentieth from the 200,000 dollars, above stated, and there will remain 190,000 dollars. If then the whole commerce of our country has experienced depreciation in proportion to that of Norfolk, we have only to find out the whole commerce of the country, and we shall then see what the whole will lose, if the war should last five years. This I own is difficult to ascertain; but let us make some attempt. Suppose we divide the whole commerce in twenty parts, and give Norfolk one, (though I am confident it is more than her proportion) and see what will be the result. The amount of loss sustained the last year in this place and injured in the United States is 100,000 dollars; it follows then that our whole commerce has been injured to the amount of three millions eight hundred thousand dollars the last year; if the war should last five years longer, then our whole loss will be TWENTY TWO MILLIONS EIGHT HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS!
I have said nothing of captures made by the British, nor do I say that we possess the means of repelling them; but I believe to think that if we were to show that we should command more respect from Britain, during the last war, when we armed against France, Britain and all the world respected us more. It is but fair to conclude that what has before happened, may again happen.
Having Mr. Editor, brought this subject to view, I leave the comments to be made by those more versed in political economy than
NAUTICUS.
The Naval Agent at Norfolk we are informed, has received instructions to open a rendezvous for the enlistment of seamen for the Adams frigate, which our readers will observe is on her way down the Potomack.
Ledger.
Most of our readers will recollect the capture of the ship Golden Grove from Norfolk to Liverpool in May last. There have always existed strong suspicions that the privateer which captured her, was fitted out in this country, which suspicions are now confirmed. It appears that the Golden Grove went out in company with a number of vessels; among others, a small Schooner which was observed in Hampton Roads for six or eight days, of which no notice was taken, until Capt. Henry bore S. W. distant about five miles, when the Schooner ran along side of the Golden Grove, hoisted Spanish Colours, fired one gun, and a volley of small arms, and boarding made prize of her. It now appeared that the Schooner had four men, which had been concealed by throwing bils over them, and 37 men, most of whom were concealed in the hold. The privateer was commanded by an American, one Hooper, there were also many other Americans on board, who the Captain and officers of the Golden Grove recognized, as having been in this place, going on board the different British vessels under the pretext of inquiring for passengers, but with a view to ascertain their force and time of sailing.
FROM CHARLESTON PAPERS.
COPY.
Of the South Carolina Insurance Company, CHARLESTON, 22d June, 1805.
SIR, I have the honour to enclose a Memorial of the President and Directors of the South Carolina Insurance Company, and of the Merchants and others, interested in the commerce of the city of Charleston; and am, fir,
Your most obedt. servant, THOMAS CORBETT, President of the South Carolina Insurance Company. The Hon. JAMES MADISON, Secretary of State of the United States of America.
MEMORIAL.
To the Hon. JAMES MADISON, Esq. Secretary of State of the United States.
The MEMORIAL of the President and Directors of the South Carolina Insurance Company, and of the Merchants, and others interested in the commerce of the City of Charleston,
Respectfully represents,
THAT your Memorialists are deeply affected by the recent capture, at the very entrance of this port, of the American ship Two Friends, by a British privateer. This event has excited among all classes of Citizens, the strongest sensations, not only because the said ship was captured without any colour of pretence, within sight of land, but because she is our only regular London trader, and had on board a full supply of spring and summer goods. The distress and anxiety occasioned by these circumstances, are greatly enhanced from our having been hitherto deprived of our spring supplies, and from an anticipation of the consequences likely to be apprehended from a continuance of similar outrages. It should not the most prompt and effectual measures be adopted for the protection and security of our commercial interests.
Your memorialists are authorised to add (although the fact be not detailed in the protest) that it appears, from an abetted authority, that the magnitude of the prize was the motive to the above-mentioned capture, the captors having said that they would release the Two Friends, in the event of their filling in with many other valuable prize, which might be more worthy their notice.
This most extraordinary capture in direct violation of our treaty with France, as appears by the accompanying documents, has already been followed by events less alarming—our harbour being at this moment completely blockaded by three French privateers, (and more are daily expected) which examine all vessels coming in and going out of this port, and either detain or release them, according to their value or the cupidity of the captors.
This degrading state of our harbour has necessarily raised the premium of insurance, thus forcing an additional tax from the pockets of our citizens—has advanced the price of every commodity, and created a distressing stagnation of our exports; for the merchants, not receiving their goods from abroad, are incapacitated from purchasing the produce of our country. Among these deplorable effects of a defenceless and humiliated condition of our commerce, may be moreover enumerated the immense loss of duties—those on the ship Two Friends alone, being estimated by the Collector at 45,000 dollars.
Your memorialists have the best reasons for believing that this early success, extended by these British privateers, will immediately allure others in swarms to our coasts and to the total ruin of private mercantile coasts, and the most fatal defalcation of the public revenue.
Your memorialists have no less ground for apprehending that British cruisers, availing themselves of the absence of domestic protection, will, under the colour of expelling the French, assume and occupy their ground, and either retain us in the same degraded state, harassing our vessels by searches and detentions, or subject us to the disgraceful and mortifying obligations of gratitude for alien favour and relief.
Your Memorialists are the more alarmed at these depredations, because much valuable property is still expected this summer, from other quarters than London, and considerable importations will be looked for in the fall, for our winter supplies; and should there not be an early check to these aggressions; should our full importations be also intercepted, the calamities of the last year, produced by the hurricane and other causes, in which this City has largely participated, would be aggravated to such an extent, as to eventuate in general ruin—and these great alarms and apprehensions of our memorialists are heightened by the well known circumstance of many of the cruisers which infest our shores, belonging to St. Domingo, Cuba and Barracoa, in which receptacles our vessels and their cargoes, with the knowledge of the government of Cuba, are invariably seized, without even the formality of a trial, or any condemnation whatever, thereby precluding every future probability of redress.
Your memorialists avail themselves of this occasion to notice a late decision of the district court within this state, grounded on an act of Congress, whereby the territorial jurisdiction of the United States is limited to the short distance of three miles, or a marine league, from the coasts or shores, which, by the said court, is construed to mean three miles from the land; consequently, the middle channel of our bar, being more than three miles distant from the nearest land, is pronounced, by judicial authority, to be without the jurisdiction of the United States! The very entrance of our harbor, in full sight of the City, where vessels are frequently obliged to anchor while waiting for a tide, and with a pilot on board, is, by our own tribunals, acknowledged to be without the protection of our government!
Your memorialists refrain from commenting on the pernicious effects of a system of policy so pregnant with dishonour and ruin to the trade and navigation of the Union at large, but more particularly to those of Charleston, from the Geography of whose shores, and peculiar local situation of whole bar and harbour, every vessel, in her ingress and egress, is thus subjected to search, detention or seizure. We content ourselves with a bare statement of the above grievance, superadded to so many others, not doubting that the President will take the same into consideration, and being duly impressed with the necessity of some early remedial arrangement, either of a legislative or diplomatic nature, will recur to such as may appear most conducive to the desired end.
Your memorialists having thus exhibited but an imperfect view of their ruinous, unproductive and degraded situation, rely with confidence on the prompt interposition of the President, to obtain, by representations to the minister of France, and of Spain, (in the event of the Two Friends being carried into a Spanish port) restitution of the said ship and her cargo, and to cause a stop to be put to similar depredations. And your memorialists further most earnestly solicit some immediate and effectual naval protection for our harbour and shores, together with such other measures as the national councils, in their wisdom, may deem expedient, as well for prevention of the renewal of the outrages we have sustained, as for the permanent safety and protection of our commercial and navigating rights and interests.
Charleston, South Carolina, June 22, 1805.
COPY.
Department of State, 10th July, 1805.
SIR, I have received your letter of the 22nd ult. including the memorial of the insurance company of which you are President, and of the merchants and others, interested in the commerce of Charleston.
Having been before made acquainted by the Collector of the Customs, with the circumstances of the capture of the Two Friends, I lost no time in stating it to the French minister, who has replied, that the communication made to him respecting this affair, by the commissary of his nation at Charleston, had enabled him to anticipate my desire, by requesting the Captain General of the French colonies, to all of whom he had written respecting it, to obtain satisfaction for this violation of the convention between France and the United States.
The observations contained in the memorial respecting the local situation, and the protection necessary for the port of Charleston and the adjacent coast, have been weighed by the President, and in connection with other information, will promote such measures as the nature of his functions, the existing laws, and the public good, may be thought to admit and require.
I have the honor to be, fir, Very respectfully, Your most obedt. servt., JAMES MADISON. THOMAS CORBETT, Esq.
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
I am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee, the whole or so much of the property in the trust deed conveyed, bearing date the 27th February, 1801, consisting of the following slaves, viz. JACK, a lad, TOM, a boy, KATE and her children, BILLY, SALLY and HENRY; SUCKY, and her two children named FANNY and JEFFERSON; as also MOLLY, a girl; in order to satisfy a debt due from said David Paterson, Junr. to Benjamin Fletcher, agreeably to the tenor of the said deed; which sale will certainly take place on the 28th day of September next, at the dwelling house of the said David Paterson, in the town of Manchester.
GEORGE McCREDE, Trustee. Manchester, August 13. (epids)
TO BE SOLD, FOR CASH.
I am requested by David Paterson, Junr. to expose for sale, as trustee, the whole or so much of the property in the trust deed conveyed, bearing date the 16th day of April last, consisting of the following slaves, viz. JACK, a lad, TOM, a boy, KATE and her children, BILLY, SALLY and HENRY; SUCKY, and her two children named FANNY and JEFFERSON; as also MOLLY, a girl; in order to satisfy a debt due from the said David Paterson, Junr. to Tyle and McCrede, agreeably to the tenor of the said deed; which sale will certainly take place on the 28th day of September next, at the dwelling house of the said David Paterson, in the town of Manchester.
JAMES F. LEITCH, Trustee. Manchester, August 16. (epids)
THE publisher, anxious to discharge every just debt which he owes, will at the same time and place offer for sale, for ready money, the residue of his property for the benefit of his creditors; consisting of HOUSEHOLD and KITCHEN FURNITURE, two good HORSES and sundry other articles. DAVID PATTERSON. Manchester, August 16. (epids)
THE GAZETTE.
RICHMOND, 16th AUGUST, 1805.
MISSOURI AND COLUMBIA RIVERS.
In laying down the commercial connection which may hereafter subsist between the eastern and the western oceans, or the shortest route which the American travellers may at the present time be pursuing towards the west, it is proper to bring before our readers some of the difficulties of such a trade and such a tour when carried on through the Missouri and the Columbia rivers. In what part of the Rocky mountains or what degree of latitude each of those rivers takes its rise, has never yet been determined by travellers, nor is it indeed very material to the present explanation. It is sufficient that we recollect the account of M'Kenzie, drawn partly from his own observation, and partly from the representation of the natives, that the Columbia river runs nearly south throughout its whole course, and is therefore nearly parallel with the ocean; and that Vancouver places its mouth in the 46th degree of lat. With respect to the Missouri, it is enough for us to recollect that according to Capt. Clark, Fort Mandan is in the 47th degree of lat. and that the river beyond its falls changes its course and boldly verges towards the south. Putting these facts together, it is not altogether improbable that the mouth of the Columbia and the head of the Missouri are nearly in the same degree of lat. and that the distance of the Missouri to the nearest navigable point on the Columbia is scarcely less than the distance to its mouth or to the ocean. Should this idea therefore be correct, the main branch of the Columbia cannot afford to the trader or traveller, whose route is from the Missouri to the ocean, all that facility of communication which he might have expected. It is possible that such a connection may be formed by some of the smaller branches of the river, which rise in the Rocky Ridge, much nearer to the head waters of the Missouri; but the existence and the extent of such streams are as yet merely matters of speculation; M'Kenzie has not having descended the river so low, or Vancouver ascended it so high, as to discover its various branches.
Should no such branches exist; and should all the streams, which rise in the Rocky mountains, be like the Columbia, southerly in their course, and nearly parallel with the ocean, the idea of a communication by water between the Missouri and the sea, is not therefore to be abandoned. The Rocky Ridge, which sends off so many rivers towards its northern extremity, is said to extend much farther to the south than the mouth of the Columbia. Are we to suppose that nature has been less bountiful to the inhabitants of the south than to those who live farther to the north? Are there no rivers emptying into the sea between the mouth of the Columbia and the Peninsula of California, which have their origin in this Rocky Ridge more contiguous and convenient to the head waters of the Missouri than to the nearest points on the Columbia? But ideas of this kind, though not unworthy of a modest consideration, are still to be ranked among the dreams and speculations of the closet, until they have been confirmed by actual observation. To these observations, therefore, we must have recourse, if we would determine the existence and extent of any such communication. No one has more completely examined the coasts of the Pacific in these latitudes than Vancouver, and to the voyages of Vancouver we must therefore refer for the best information which is to be found on this subject.
This correct navigator traversed the whole coast from the mouth of the Columbia south to the mission of St. Domingo "the southernmost of the Spanish settlements in New-Albion," in the 30th degree of latitude. Throughout this whole space, there was not any inlet of the sea or a stream of fresh water from the land, the bearing and extent of which he did not attempt to explore. The result of these observations is already before the public. In this whole line of coast, he discovered but a single river which was wide and deep enough at its outlet to receive his notice, or to promise an extensive inlet into the inner country, and even this river is not spoken of in the most favourable terms. He mentions it as a violent stream into a bay in latitude 24° 57', longitude 229° 43'. "This appeared to be the largest flow of water into the ocean we had yet seen, excepting that of Columbia river; but the breakers that extend across its entrance, seemed to preclude the possibility of its being navigable even for boats. In the Spanish charts it is called Rio de St. Balardo," vol. 2. 447. Whether this river rises in the Rocky Mountains near to the head waters of the Missouri; whether there are any other rivers emptying into the sea which the foggy state of the weather prevented Vancouver from observing, or whether the Columbia river is still to be considered as the only means of communication between the Mississippi and the sea remains for future travellers to determine. No doubt the tour of Messrs. Clark and Lewis, will shed additional light upon this curious subject.
How far these enterprising travellers will assist us in extending the far trade of the interior, was the second branch of this discussion which we proposed to investigate; but it is unnecessary and perhaps improper at present to go into it at any length. Such as feel anxious to anticipate the progress of events would do well to refer to the preliminary memorial and concluding reflections in Mr. M'Kenzie's travels on the far trade for several interesting views of this subject.
SHORT DIALOGUES FOR THE USE OF FEDERAL EDITORS.
Dialogue 1st: On Declaration of Independence. Between the Editor of the B. Repository and a Democrat.
Rep: What an imposture! Must this instrument then be eternally attributed to the pen of Mr. Jefferson?
Dem: Truly is said to be eternal.
Rep: But not imposture! An enlightened genius will always arise, to strip the visor from the impostor's face, and expose him in his native deformity.
Dem: You then are to be the enlightened genius, while we have been the infamous impostors. Perhaps the encomium is just as much merited as the reproach. Make good then your boastful pretensions; but beware that the same malignant genius, which has hitherto prompted all your virulent attacks upon the private character and public administration, of Mr. Jefferson, does not like the demon of Barabas, mislead you in your present pursuit. You have stripped Mr. Jefferson of every social virtue; you and your infallible junior from Virginia. While the voice of Europe was sounding his public services to full chords, you have absurdly attempted to fling in your discordant notes. And now as if unwilling to leave him a single merit or unable
to injure him in any other way, you are attempting to rob him of his literary laurels.
Rep: Yes! I insist upon it that Mr. Jefferson is not the author of this celebrated declaration.
Dem: You admit then that if he was not the author, the work itself would be worthy of commendation. You feel that it has considerable merits; and you are therefore solicitous to rob him of his pretensions. You will admit then that if Mr. Jefferson be the author, he is entitled to all those laurels of which you are ambitious to deprive him? Why, then do you believe that he is not?
Rep: "Because I have in my possession an exact copy, verbatim et litteratim , of Mr. J's draught of the Declaration of Independence, and had it been adopted without the many alterations it underwent, in some instances by retrenching largely, in others by considerable additions, I will venture to say, it would have been a very injudicious publication at the time and would have reflected disgrace on the American Congress for ever."
Dem: You have then been a copy ? & you assert an exact copy? How are you certain that the impostor is not some where else to be found, and that even your enlightened genius is not made the dupe of his artifice? Which am I to believe; you or the corrod editor of the National Intelligencer? You who only saw the copy and he, who examined the original itself? You who attempted to magnify and wire-draw the many alterations which it underwent; and he who could discover no more than eight or ten alterations in the original composition; not one of which "materially varied" the spirit of the piece?
Rep: "But would any serious politician have made the existence of the African trade, a serious cause of going to war with the mother country?"
Dem: Mr. Jefferson then introduced this grievance into his original declaration and it was expunged by Messrs. Franklin and Lee? And you think such a complaint, so truly worthy of the uniform humanity of Mr. J. so honourable to the liberalised temper of the American Congress "would have reflected a disgrace upon it for ever"? On this point Sir, we differ, as I hope we do on most other political subjects. Had it been my good fortune to have been the associate of Mr. Jefferson on that occasion, I would have joined heart and hand with him in arresting the inundations of this African trade. I would not have risen against the mother country because the bad tolerated this evil, but because the suited it to exasperate. If there was no other way of lopping off this trade with Africa, I would at once have severed my connection with the mother country.
Rep: But how is it possible that Mr. Jefferson can be the author of this declaration? The works of every artist are not equal but they are uniform. Now show me any production of Mr. J. which breathes the same spirit, the admonishing animus vis animi , which animates this composition.
Dem: In most of the pieces of Mr. Jefferson, there was no occasion to introduce the same energetic style of sentiment. He has generally written on subjects that principally demanded comprehension and clearness of thought. Hence he is rather a didactic than an eloquent writer. But do you find no beauty or energy in his Notes on Virginia? In his description of the Potomac breaking thro' the Blue Ridge, and his remarks on religious toleration? But I need wander no farther from the present subject, to prove him competent to the work. If you have seen his "Summary View of the Rights of British America," you could no longer presume to entertain a single doubt. The Declaration of Independence is in fact a mere text, on which that work is a most luminous and eloquent comment.
Rep: You argue in vain. You may change my convictions, but not my convictions. If I do not have recourse to error; how can I expect to support the cause which supports me?
Dialogue 2nd: On the acquisition of Louisiana. Between the Editor of the Phi: Register and a Republican.
Rep: What an incongruous writer is our most worthy President! In his last message to congress he affirms that the "objectionstakenly Spain to the validity of our title to the Country of Louisiana have been withdrawn: its exact limits however remaining to be settled between us." Now let me ask, how those objections could have been withdrawn; when it was deemed necessary to dispatch a special minister to the Court of Madrid, to obviate those objections; and when we know that the minister has actually failed in removing them?
Dem: Pithier is it you or Mr. Jefferson, who mixes incongruities together? When a man sets before you vice and spirit, and you employ them both for the same purpose; who is guilty of incongruity? he who places them separately before you, or you who mix them for the other? When Mr. Jefferson spoke of objections was it his fault or your misfortune, that your intellectual taste confounded all kinds of objections together, & made them appear as one?
Rep: I ask you, has not Mr. J. first declared that all objections were withdrawn and are we not now told that objections are raised by the court Madrid? How can you reconcile this presidential assertion with such a "diplomatic rebuff?" Am I to be indebted to the acuteness of your plate, for discovering this discrimination between things which are essentially the same?
Dem: It requires little acuteness indeed to point out this distinction; and I am sorry by undertaking this simple task to pay so poor a compliment to your understanding. The objections which Mr. J. mentioned were really of two sorts, though if you again turn to his message, you will find that he used this term only once; Objections to the validity of the title itself and objections to the exact limits, covered by that title. 'Tis so uncommon a case even among individuals, for them to agree upon the purchase of a tract of land, and afterwards to differ upon its boundaries? Such disputes are even frequent tho' the courses & distances of the lines are even laid down by a written deed; how much more litigious then must be the controversy, where whole countries are transferred from one nation to another, where the boundaries have never been run by a surveyor, & where they are only to be ascertained by constructive clauses of treaties or a prescription that is eternally changing? You have been, Major Jackson, the collector of the Port of Philadelphia?
Rep: I once had that good fortune.
Dem: Did you then never differ with a merchant about the exact amount of duties due to the government, at the very time when he admitted that he was the debtor of the Treasury?
Dialogue 3rd: Spanish affairs. Editors of Philadelphia Gazette & United States Gazette.
P. Gaz: Ten thousand shames upon our government! The mock and slave of the humblest & most pusillanimous nation on the Globe! From the occasion of the port of N. Orleans down to the present moment, the Catalogue of Spanish wrongs has been increasing in number and magnitude. Our ministers neglected or i-
fulted; and now, as if the aggravation could not be too heinous, an offensive attack has been made on its regular armed force.
U. S. G. In the mean time our government is silent. Notwithstanding our extensive commercial connections, our merchants know not what steps to take, for the government keeps every thing a secret. Was there ever a people professing to be free, that has so small a share in the management of their affairs?
Dem: You put me in mind, gentlemen, of one of Virgil's pastoral; where two simple shepherds are setting up their pipes, and contending who should sing the prettiest and the loudest. But even your reward, I fear, will be worth less than a beechen bowl. One of you declares, we ought to go to war because we have been injured by Spain; and the other that we may not be injured by sudden hostilities. One of you declares, we ought to break off the negotiation between our government and the Marquis d'Yrujo, by plunging into a war; the other, by divulging its details.
P. Gaz: I would not even have entered into a negotiation for Louisiana, would have taken N. Orleans by force.
U. S. G.: And I have so much respect for the people, that I would not even have kept the Negotiation secret.
Dem: And prithee what would each of you have got by your plans? You would have dishonoured your nation by going into war before you had referred to Negotiation: You would have acted worse than a tyrant; for even with him, force is but the ultima ratio ; you would have held N. Orleans by a feeble tenure, and you would never have acquired Louisiana; while you would have lost it by divulging the negotiation.—If we must have a war with Spain, let us at least take care to begin with justice on our side. Depend upon it, our armies will meet it with a holier spirit, when they find that it was impossible to preserve an honourable peace. First let the cabinet seek it by negotiation; when that fails, it will be time enough to erect our camp.
U. S. G.: But can we trust to the energy of the President? Will you go to war, if you cannot negotiate an honorable peace?
Dem: It is ridiculous for you, gentlemen, to usurp to yourselves all regard for the honour of our country. Our bosoms are no less patriotic than your own and not less vigilant; and depend upon it, you will find us not less ardent in prosecuting war than we are in preserving peace. Not let's ridiculous is it for you to express a doubt of the energy of the President. For depend upon it, that man's reputation is too deeply involved, for him ever to put it to hazard by a crouching and pusillanimous policy.
P. Gaz: But at such a Crisis as this, we think a foreign point of action for the feelings of our citizens might possibly tranquillize our domestic tumults and consolidate into one uniform system, the views of all good men of all parties.
Dem: An union of all bonnet men! Is this then one of your inducements for a war? Say rather then that you wish for hostilities, because they may possibly promote your own political interests.
Dialogue 4: American Captives.
Editor of A. Daily Advertiser and Democrat.
D. A. Let us ransom our countrymen. If government will not, let us appeal to the feelings of the people. If they have left all their sympathies, let natural affection no longer be suppressed. The father needs no appeal to contribute to the ransom of his children.
Dem: And would you then degrade your Country? Would you rather see your brave Countrymen delivered by the insinuation of Gold, than the force of Iron? If their ransom is not to be effected by the sword, depend upon it there is not an individual in the union, who will not cheerfully open his purse. But even this would be a dangerous experiment: It would only serve to raise the immediate demands and future cupidity of these corsairs.
D. A. Are you then romantic enough to hope, that our arms will be successful? Many experienced men and some of our own officers have given a very different opinion.
Dem: Ale rather whether the experienced Preble is a romantic visionary? "I have no doubt but my successor will be able to effect their release, and establish peace on such terms as will reflect the highest honor on himself and his Country." Remember too we have a new ally! Remember the definition of Eaton!
DIED—On Monday last, at his seat in Hanover County, Br. 75, Mr. NATHANIEL THOMPSON, sen. —a man remarkable for his firm integrity, and universally beloved by his acquaintance.
JOHN TOMPKINS.
HAS just received a fresh supply of OLD COGNAC, NICA BRANDY, a part of the same shipment of his former parcel.
Also, a few hds. of ANTIGUA RUM, of good quality. He has on hand, a parcel of BEST FRENCH CAMBRICKS. The whole of which, he offers for sale very low for each or on a liberal credit. August 16. (18N)
PICKLING VINEGAR.
GROCERS, Tavern-Keepers and Private Families may be supplied with VINEGAR of a very superior quality, by the barrel, gallon or less quantity and at an uncommonly low price by HART & SOUTHGATE. Opposite the State House. ep2w&1awt. August 16.
FOR RENT.
THE HOUSE and OUT-HOUSES in the Town of Manchester, late in the occupancy of Richard Baugh, deceased—the house is adapted to the accommodation of a small family, with a kitchen, stable and smoke house—attached to the buildings are a good garden, and a spacious yard well enclosed; and an advantage of grazing on the luxurious commons of the Town, which surround the premises.—The situation is pleasant, and has been ever considered as healthy.—The property will be Let on Lease for one or more years, and possession given the 25th December next.—For terms of rent or lease, application may be made to George McCrede, of Manchester, or the subscriber, JOHN CRINGAN. August 16.
T. BRUFF, DENTIST.
INVENTOR and patentee of the perpendicular extracting instruments, from Washington City, having met with good encouragement, continues to offer his service a little longer, to the ladies and gentlemen of Richmond and its vicinity, as his only opportunity of serving them. Persons in the country who wish to supply themselves with his dentures are requested to make timely application as he sells from 3 to 4 boxes almost every day. As the public have been often imposed on by practitioners who did not understand their business, the certificate of doctors Currie and Foushee, which those gentlemen have favoured him with, will be prominent, facts that who may want information of his ability. He has a room at the Swan, where a list of his prices may be seen at the bar. August 16.

HOUSE AND LOT—FOR SALE. The subscribers offer for sale, the House and Lot, in the neighborhood of Mr. McCreary, and Lewis Underwood, on the Hill, which they lately purchased of Mr. John S. Moore, in which a bargain may be had. This lot has just been newly inclosed, and all the buildings are in a good state of repair, with a good cellar for cooking, and a look room adjoining, a kitchen and smoke-house, have undergone a complete repair, and are fit for the accommodation of a genteel family. The terms of sale—one third in six months, another third in 12 months, and the balance in 18 months. Bonds with approved security, with a deed of trust on the property, to secure a partial payment of the instalments as they become due, will be required. If it is not sold, any person inclined to rent, may be accommodated. N. B. & J. SHEPPARD. Approved bonds or notes due or to become due from persons residing in Richmond or Henrico, will be taken in payment for the above property, should any person prefer that way of purchasing to the above. July 19.—if
FOR SALE. THAT valuable TRACT OF LAND, in the county of King & Queen, late the property of Wm. Campbell, dec'd. called the Taylor's Bridge Tract; containing about four hundred acres, a large proportion of which is rich low ground, abundantly stocked with good timber, and well adapted to the cultivation of grain. It will be sold on the premises, on the 15th of September, if fair, if not, the next fair day, and may be divided to accommodate purchasers, on a credit of six, twelve, and eighteen months. Bonds with approved security, to bear interest from the date, if not punctually paid, together with alien on the land, will be required. WM. & WILY CAMPBELL, Ex'rs. King & Queen, July 12. (cp3w.)
IN pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of this commonwealth, entitled, an act authorizing the appointment of a mathematical surveyor of the city of Richmond, and for other purposes, passed the eighth day of January, 10th of January, 1805.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in virtue of a writ of ad quod damnum issued from the court of the county of Henrico, and to me directed, I shall on the 15th day of August next, with a jury, meet on the lands through which the common council of the city of Richmond, propose to extend the cross street of said city to James river, to connect that part of the town lying on the east side of Shockoe creek, with that on the west side thereof, by a continuation of the several streets already laid out across the said creek till their junction with each other; and to lay out and extend the way now used as a street from the northern boundary of the city of Richmond, to run by Tate's tan-yard to the market-house, and from thence continued along Robert Mitchell's Tenement to the river, and extend the street from the old hat factory near the margin of the river to Rockets landing as the same is now used—and then and there to view the lands and carry into effect the said writ of ad quod damnum . N. SHEPPARD, Deputy for William Mayo. July 19. 1805.
THE SUBSCRIBER Has lately received from Philadelphia: A HANDSOME assortment of TEA CHINA , in full and broken sets; Cut and Plain Glass Ware , Printed and China glazed Ware , which may be purchased by the crate, or in small assortments made up to suit retailers. He has also this day received an assortment from Norfolk ; Brown Sugar , of good quality, in hogs , and Ubs. Which he will sell reasonably for cash or negotiable paper, at 60 days. He continues to keep a general assortment of GROCERIES of the best quality for retailing, and has on hand, Antigua , W. India and N. E. Rum , by the Ubs.  Cognac and Apple Brandy , by the Ubs. and barrels ; Spanish Segars by the box, and Chicouang Tobacco of good quality, by the pound. DANIEL TRIFLETT. July 19.—cp3w.
VALUABLE COAL LANDS, To be let upon a lease for years. THE Coal Lands at Dover in the county of Goochland, joining Doctor John Adams's coal pits and Mr. Graham's, belonging to the subscribers. The situation is uncommonly advantageous for coal works. The distance from Manikintown ferry, on James river, about 800 yards—the hope is advantageous as to render it extremely easy to construct wagon ways for transporting the coals to the river at little or no expense. There is a very fine landing on the river bank, belonging to the estates, for depositing the coals, from whence they can be conveyed into the boats by a wooden trunk, with great expedition and ease. The situation is such as to enable the coal-master to carry on the works for many years without interruption from innumerable water to trouble some and expensive at coal pits. The body of coal is considered very abundant, and not in the smallest degree exhausted, as there has been only one small shaft made on the edge of the land, and works so far as to prove the excellent quality of the coals and the ease with which they may be raised. We will attach to the colliery a SMALL FARM , if required, within one mile, with useful improvements. For further information apply to the subscribers at the city of Richmond. DAVID ROSS, JAMES CURRIE. (4w.) July 19.
MOUNT SIGN FOR SALE. THE subscriber offers for sale, his Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of MOUNT SIGN . The above tract contains about 500 acres, all of which is equal to any land in that part of the country for fertility of soil, and has every requisite to make it a desirable situation for a genteel family. There is on the last an excellent brick dwelling house, with every convenient out house; it is situated on the navigable waters of the Potomac, and commands an elegant view of the river; it is very convenient to a ship-yard, &c. and is within one day's sail of Alexandria, Norfolk and Baltimore. Terms of the sale will be made known by application to Mr. Henry Ball, who resides on the land, or to the subscriber. JEKILL JONES. May 3. cp3w.
TO RENT. A BRICK LUMBER HOUSE on the Basin, German Oldenburg, by the piece or bale. Gen. Macock Claret, of vintage of '01 1/2 in boxes of 6 Sotars Wine of the vintage of '01 1/2 30 b. each. A few dining and desert sets of elegant French China. The above Wines are such as can be particularly recommended, having been laid in 1st September at Bordeaux by one of the partners then on the spot, who took uncommon pains in the selection. PICKETT, POLLARD & JOHNSTON. July 23. cp4w.
NOTICE. THE subscribers having purchased from Christian a Vetusen the exclusive right of making, using and vending to others to be used, within the United States, his PATENT METALLIC HORN , do hereby forewarn all persons from making or vending the said Patent Horn , without authority from them. They also beg leave to inform the public that they carry on the business under the firm of JEFFREY COBB & Co. in the town of Warrenton, Albemarle county, Virginia, where orders would be thankfully received and faithfully executed upon the Patent Horn . JOHN STAPLES, JEFFREY COBB, DAVID COBB. Warrenton, July 2. (law8t. 4)
FOR SALE, THE PLANTATION whereon Major Thomas Collins now resides, and formerly the residence of Mr. David Anderson. This land is in the upper part of Hanover county, and near the Louisa line. The tract contains about four hundred ACRES, is remarkably healthy and well adapted to the culture of Corn, Wheat, and Tobacco. It is 38 miles from Richmond, and 30 from Hanover town. If this plantation is not sold by private contract before the 1st of September next, it will on that day be sold at public auction on the premises. One half of the money will be expected in hand, the balance to be paid on the 1st day of August 1806. For terms apply to Meriwether Jones, Esq., or to the subscriber living in this place. WILLIAM G. COLLIS. August 6. cp4d.
BY Virtue of a deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber by John Williamson, jr. of the County of Henrico, to secure the payment of sundry debts therein acknowledged to be due to satisfy sundry executions, for which Capt. John Williamson binds himself as security, together with the expense necessary to carry the trust into execution; WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises, on the twentieth of August next, one Hundred acres of LAND, being a part of the tract whereon the said Williamson now lives, and adjoining the land of Samuel Browning, about one mile above William Young's mill, and between five and six miles from Richmond. August 6. 3t. ELISHA PRICE.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. [spcl.]
MILITARY CERTIFICATES. FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrearages of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Genl. A. A. S. May 10. tf.
GEORGE WILY, BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Near the Basin. BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, Lands, Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for Sale, LOTS No. 141, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition.—There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family. July 23.—tf.
BROKER'S OFFICE. THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Ames Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transferred with strict fidelity. THOMAS NORVELL. HE HAS FOR SALE, VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, on a credit to suit purchasers. July 26. tf.
NOTICE. ON the 23d day of May last the co-partnership of WM. M. ALLEN & JAMES CODY, under the firm of ALLEN & CODY, of Ca Ira, was dissolved by mutual consent.—All persons indebted to Allen & Cody are desired to come forward and close their accounts by bond or otherwise—and all persons having demands against them, are requested to make them known, that they may be adjusted for payment. Either of the partners at Ca Ira are authorized to settle accounts or to make and receive payments. WILLIAM M. ALLEN, JAMES CODY. Cumberland, July 9. (cp3t.)
TO BE SOLD, At Public Vendue, at Gully's Hotel, in Alexandria, on Monday the 16th day of September, at 12 o'clock, at noon: ALL that TRACT OF LAND, late Presly Thornton, Esquire's, situated in Northumberland county, Virginia, lying immediately on the Potomac River. The following description is given of this property by persons well acquainted with it:—It contains 2,500 acres, 1,700 acres of which are the most valuable low grounds on the river, between 3 and 400 acres heavily timbered, and the remainder very high land, extremely productive. The soil of this tract is equal to any in the state for the cultivation of corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and small grain of all kinds. On this tract are a large commodious Brick Mansion House and two Offices, a Many Brick Stable, Valuable Barn, Cow-House, and many other out-houses. The Orchards and Garden contain a variety of valuable fruit trees, and the waters abound with excellent fish and oysters. It is situated about a day's sail from Baltimore, Alexandria, and Norfolk. There are two good mill sites for grist and saw mills on the estate, and plenty of cedar and chestnut timber, for which an excellent market may be found at the City of Washington. The terms of sale are—one-fourth cash, one-fourth in one year, one-fourth in 18 months, and the residue in two years from the day of sale. The payments to be secured by bonds, with mortgages on the premises, and to be on interest from the day of sale. For further information, application may be made in behalf of the subscriber, Thomas Robinson, to Richard Peters, Jun. attorney at law, in the city of Philadelphia, or to William Lewis, in the same city. (Philadelphia.) THOMAS ROBINSON. W. LEWIS. July 23. cp12S.
LAND—FOR SALE, IN the county of Lunenburg, lying within one mile of the Court-house, on Coach's creek; this tract contains seven hundred and fifty acres, one hundred and fifty of which is cleared; comfortably proved for the accommodation of a family. This land is well suited to the cultivation of Tobacco, Corn and Wheat. A great bargain may be had in this land. The terms may be made known, by application to Major Grief Green, of Nottoway, who is duly authorized to dispose of it, or the subscriber living on the premises. JOSEPH SMITH. Lunenburg, August 2.—cp3t.
NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against the estate of Thomas Bowles, dec'd. are requested to bring them properly proved, in order that provision may be made for payment; and those indebted to the said estate are earnestly requested to make immediate payment to the subscriber, as I with a settlement of the said estate to take place on Tuesday the first day of October next. Be it remembered that those who do not bring in their claims against the said estate on or before the above date, I shall not pay any claims after that time, and this notice will be plead in bar. JEMIMA BOWLES, Administratrix of Thos. Bowles, dec'd. Hanover, August 9. (cp3t.)
AS I find considerable leisure in my time, which I will devote to the most useful purposes, I shall be glad to take upon myself the TUITION of ten or twelve young gentlemen, from nine to twelve years old, in the principles of the Latin Grammar, Geography, use of the Globes, History, writing and Arithmetic. The terms will be moderate, and the greatest care and attention shall be paid to their morals. JOHN HEATH. August 9. (3t.)
NOTICE. A PETITION will be presented to the General Assembly of Virginia, at the next session, praying that an act may pass to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting a Canal on the fourth side of the falls of James River, or otherwise improving the navigation of the river for the passage of Batteaux; and also for the establishment of a Bank in the town of Manchester. August 13.
To the Hon. the Speaker and Gentlemen of the House of Delegates. THE Petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Manchester respectfully represents: That one among the great blessings of the government they live under and enjoy, is the right of representing their grievances to the legislature. That before the James River Company progressed with the improvements of the navigation of that river, so far as to entitle them to the receipt of tolls, under their act of incorporation, Manchester, as a commercial town, was but little, if any, inferior to the City of Richmond; but since then, all the means in the power of that Company, have been profited to the advantages of the latter, and to the injury and ruin of the former. This was not intended by the legislature. The God of Nature has given to both equal advantages. The legislature has fixed them opposite on the same river—the full benefit of which Manchester now claims. It cannot be the policy of the legislature to promote the commerce of one place in preference to another equally entitled to its protection. The great difficulties that existed in the navigation of the great falls to Richmond, preferred themselves in the navigation of the same to Manchester. If this circumstance was sufficient to procure the charter, of the James River Company , for cutting what is called, the Richmond Canal , is it not sufficient to entitle the people of Manchester, to a similar right, in making a like Canal , on their side of the river, to avoid the same falls? The fostering hand of the legislature, should be alike extended to every branch of the commerce of its country, and in every direction. A convenient commerce is felt by all descriptions of men. A commercial competition between towns can never fail to produce great advantages to the particular interest of the surrounding country. Manchester drops while Richmond rears her head. These facts are too obvious to require proof. Let every member of this honorable house, to satisfy himself—look at the two places—Richmond rising like a new east of custom—Manchester declining like a deserted village. And to what is this principally owing? but to those advantages which the former has obtained over the latter, by means of the James River Canal ; advantages afforded by the legislature, of which your petitioners will not complain, provided they can derive equal advantages, from a source of the like nature.
Your petitioners therefore respectfully beg leave to represent, to the honorable members of this house, that a Canal on the fourth side of the falls, from the lower point of the upper navigation, to pass through Manchester, into tidewater, is much more practicable than the Richmond Canal was, & can be completed for a sum far less than that expended by the James River Company , at this time. That should it be the pleasure of this honorable house, to incorporate a company, for cutting the proposed canal, Manchester will be soon restored to her former commerce. The moment the canal is completed, the people of Manchester, will be able to renew their commerce with the upper and lower country which, for the want of such a canal, has dwindled into almost nothing—owing to the great inconvenience of crossing the river, besides the expense and trouble when there. The advantages derived by the people of Richmond from their Canal are seen on every hand. Give to Manchester a like Canal , and like advantages will result to the people of that place, and to all the agricultural interest of the country; and as far as the Tennessee and Kentucky lines west; and as far as the James River Company can have no reasonable objection: they have omitted to do, what long since, for the benefit of the community, they should have done, that is, to communicate with tidewater: their charter might have been claimed, upon the ground of forfeiture, but for the benign spirit of the legislature in promoting a work of such great public utility.
Hence your petitioners acting under an impression, that there is too much justice in their application, to be denied, respectfully beg leave, for the attainment of a measure, so much calculated to promote the public good, to state the outlines of a proposed charter. That those who shall subscribe for the stock hereafter mentioned shall be incorporated by the name of The President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , with the usual rights and privileges of other corporations: that their capital stock shall not exceed dollars: that a share in the said stock shall not exceed 50 dollars: that subscriptions for the said capital stock shall be opened in the town of Manchester under the direction of or a majority of them, and continued until shares are subscribed for in person or by proxy, but no person shall subscribe for more than shares, nor shall he at any time vote upon any greater number: and the said subscriptions shall be further kept open for the term of 90 days, for the benefit of such persons as may chuse to subscribe for not more than two shares: that the state may direct the treasurer for the time being, to subscribe for shares: that the James River Company may subscribe for shares: that no other subscriptions shall be received, until they have subscribed, or refused at the instance of the commissioners: that the property of the Manchester Canal Company shall be conducted by thirteen directors, who shall be stock holders and citizens of Manchester or Richmond, of whom the Treasurer for the time being, if the state shall subscribe for any shares, shall be one ex-officio : that as soon as the Capital stock shall be subscribed for, the commissioners shall convene the stock-holders on a certain day to be named, and at a certain place, in the town of Manchester, and they or a majority of them in person or by proxy shall proceed to appoint twelve directors, in case the treasurer is one, and thirteen, if he is not, who shall form a board, and proceed to the appointment of a President, Cashier and other officers and servants. All elections or appointments shall be by ballot. Removal from Manchester or Richmond shall vacate the seat of a Director, unless he be from one of those places to the other. All vacancies whether by removal, death, or resignation, shall be supplied by the other Directors for the time being: that the Directors, so to be appointed, shall continue in office until the first day of January, succeeding their appointment, which is hereby declared, to be the day for the annual meeting of the said stock-holders, in the town of Manchester, on which day in every year shall a board of directors be chosen as aforesaid, who shall in like manner proceed to appoint their President, Cashier, and other officers and servants: all of whom (except the President) are at all times to be amenable to the President and Directors of the said company: shall in proportion to their annual tolls, as soon as their canal is complicated, assist the James River Company , in the improvement of the upper navigation: that at the annual meeting of the stock-holders, a full and fair statement of the books, exhibiting the whole transactions of the said Company, (except private accounts of individuals in the use of the surplus funds hereafter mentioned) shall be produced for the inspection of the stock-holders: that the commissioners aforesaid, as soon as the President and Directors are chosen, shall deliver over to them the books of subscriptions, to the said Capital stock: that the stock-holders at their first meeting, and at every annual meeting thereafter, shall have power and authority to make all such bye-laws, rules and regulations, for the better government, of the said President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , their officers, and servants, and all other matters and things of and concerning the rights and duties of the said company, in making the said Canal, or in any other matter or thing concerning the interest of the said Company, as the said stock-holders in person or by proxy may deem proper—notwithstanding upon the laws of the United States or of this state: that all tolls or other payments, necessary for answering the
ends of this act, in case the said company shall not be able to agree with the owner or owners thereof, shall be valued by a jury, to be ordered, on application to the superior court of chancery, for the Richmond district, or to the judge thereof in vacation; that upon the report of the said jury, if the same shall be allowed, the said company shall pay the amount thereof to the person or persons entitled thereto: and thereupon the said lands, stones, or timbers, shall be absolutely vested in the said company; that all the surplus capital belonging to the said company or that may accrue to them, in the purchase of public or other stock, or in any other monied transactions or operations shall be applied by the said company, in any way they may think proper, any thing herein contained, or contained in any existing law, to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said company to acquire or hold, any real estate, but for the purposes before mentioned: Provided also, that the said company shall not be liable for any mismanagement of the President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , of their surplus capital, or that which may accrue to them, in the purchase of public or other stock, or in any other monied transactions or operations, but in proportion to her interest in the said corporation or company; that it shall be lawful for the President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company to call upon the stock holders respectively, from time to time, as they shall think proper, for all sums by them subscribed, or any part thereof with the said commissioners, as the said President and Directors shall think proper, under pain of forfeiture on the part of the said stock-holders, of their shares, and of all previous payments thereon; that the said President and Directors shall provide their necessary offices in the said town of Manchester, and shall always convene there, for the purposes of this act; that the Canal aforesaid shall be begun and completed in ten years from the meeting of the first board of the said President and Directors: And provided also, that until the said Canal shall be begun and prosecuted for at least six months with industry, in order to ascertain what the probable expense will be, that the amount of the supposed surplus capital may also be known, no part thereof shall be used by the said President and Directors of the Manchester Canal Company , in any other way, or for any other purpose, than prosecuting the work of the said Canal, and in case the said Company shall at any time before the said Canal is completed relax, in the execution of their plan, the use of their supposed surplus capital, in any other way, or for any other purpose, under this act, shall for that time, be forfeited upon pain of forfeiture of their charter; that for any injury which may be done to the public works of the said company, the persons so offending on conviction thereof in the ordinary course of law, shall pay three times the amount of the verdict, in every such case, with double costs of suit, and judgment shall be entered accordingly: that if any person, shall forge, or counterfeit, any note, bill, or receipt, of the said President and Directors, purporting on the face thereof to pay to any one, or bearer, any sum of money, or shall aid, or abet, in forging or counterfeiting any such note, bill, or receipt, he or she, shall on conviction thereof be confined in the jail and penitentiary house at hard labour, for not less than ten years, and not more than twenty years; that all the stock fulfilled for the said company, shall be held and conveyed as real estate; that so much of the Charter hereby granted to the said company as allows them to use their supposed surplus capital, which they may have, in any way they may think proper, except as herein before excepted, shall expire with the charter of the Bank of Virginia , unless at or before that time, the same shall be renewed by the legislature; that no taxes shall be imposed upon any of the stock; that the corporation shall not be dissolved by the failure of any meeting of the stock-holders, or of the President and Directors; but they shall still meet in the manner to be provided for by the bye-laws of the said corporation. These are the outlines of the proposed charter, which your petitioners have respectfully asked leave to submit; but they beg leave to observe, that any other plan which may occur to this honorable body, is left calculated to injure the said proposed, will be readily accepted of in their place. To whatever shall be the decision of this honorable house—your petitioners shall patiently submit—but as in duty bound they shall ever pray.
BENJAMIN DUVAL, AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR, RICHMOND. HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of fresh MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS and DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUTTY, &c. Also a complete assortment of HATTERS' MATERIALS, CONSISTING OF Hatters' Irons Crude Tartar Logwood Baton Irons Coppers Bow-Strings Viridegrafe Linings Fulvic Galeons Spanish Indigo Taffel Bands Oil of Vitriol Rubbing Dishes Aq. Fortis Stampers Quickilver Trenchers, &c. Which added to his former stock, completes an assortment that was never equalled in his line of business, in this city. He thanks his customers for past favors, and hopes to merit a continuation of their custom. His former attention to the quality of his Medicines, importing them in their crude state, that he might be able to judge of their quality, and powdering and preparing them under his immediate inspection, have contributed to his present establishment; and opposition he presumes will not relax his exertions to give general satisfaction in future. His experience for more than 12 years past, as Apothecary and Druggist in this city, added to a small flock of Medical Information acquired before, enables him, he thinks, to form a tolerably correct judgement as to the quality of Drugs and Medicines, although he cannot boast of honors conferred on him, greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable customers. In regard to his wholesale prices, he promises to furnish each of his wholesale customers with a printed price current, as soon as possible, and feels himself confident in their approbation, knowing that no one in this state can afford to under-sell him. This he intends to do, not to get others' customers from them, but to secure his own. Any articles that may be ordered, and not approved of as to quality, may be returned if in good order, and in a reasonable time. June 7. (3w&tf)
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 best 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.—F—the heel against a perpendicular, and H—a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. cp4
FOR LONDON, The last sailing Ship Sey , now at Norfolk, and ready to receive a cargo immediately at the moderate freight of £. 4 per hhd. and 5 per cent. primage. Apply to Messrs. Christian, Peterburg, William Hartshorne, jun. Norfolk , or to THOMAS & AMOS LADD. Richmond, August 13. (cp4t.)
NOTICE. THE subscribers, having been appointed administrators on the estate of the late Mr. William Williamson, all persons indebted to the said estate, are desired to make payment to John A. Chevallie, acting administrators, and those having claims against the Estate, will be pleased to render their accounts to him, for adjustment. E. CARRINGTON. J. A. CHEVALLIE. August 13.
THE subscriber, begs leave to acquaint his friends in Richmond, that he has commenced business since last April, in New-York, and will be happy to receive consignments of produce, and transit consignments of business, upon which occasional advances will be made. DAVID WALLIE. The subscriber will remain in Richmond, until the 10th next month. Any person willing to communicate with him, will please to apply to Mr. William Long, Bridge-street. August 13. (cp1m.)
THE subscriber proposes to practise law, in the Court of Appeals, and wishes his friends to concourse. He will continue his practice in the common-law, and Chancery District courts of Staunton, and in the quarterly terms of the county courts, which he now attends. As soon as he can finish his little business, in the monthly terms, he will decline attending them. CHAPMAN JOHNSON. Staunton, August 13. (3t law.)
EIGHT DOLLARS REWARD. RUN AWAY on Friday the 9th inst. a negro woman by the name of ELSE, of a middling size, dark complexion, has a mile on her circumference when spoken to. She will probably appear in a black silk or white Muslin gown, as she has many very good clothes, and is fond of dress. She will, I expect make towards Hanover town, or King William, where she is well known and acquainted. The above reward will be paid on her delivery to the subscriber in Richmond. EDWARD HALLAM. August 13. (tf.)
ROBERT GORDON, & Co. HAVE imported by the Jason, just arrived from Madeira, and now landing at Rockets, a quantity of Wine from Murdoch, Macdonald, & Co. the house from which they have heretofore had their supplies of this article—also, a parcel from Scott, & Co. They have every reason to hope that both these parcels will prove to be very fine, being assured by the shippers, that better never has been sent to the United States. They are likewise just receiving a few pipes, hds. and qr. casks of Red Port, of the best quality; and have on hand a parcel of dry Lisbon Wine, both imported by themselves—direct from Oporto and Lisbon. Their general assortment of goods is very complete, amongst which they have—12000 lbs. of Copper, in bottoms and Sheets of all dimensions, and weights suitable for sails; a fresh supply of Bolting Cloths, from No. 2 to 7; a quantity of Superfine Blue and Black Broad Cloth of first rate, at 8 dollars per yard; & Irish Linens, from 5/ per yard, to 10/ per yard. August 13.—(cp2w law 4w.)
ELLIS GALAN, HAVE JUST RECEIVED, PER THE SHIP MARY, FROM LIVERPOOL: Four hundred Sacks of SALT, Liverpool filled.—Also, a few dozen BALL SHOVELS and SPADES ; which, with a number of articles in the hardware line, renders their assortment pretty general. August 2. (law 4w.)
TO BE LET. GENTEL apartments, between the Basin and Main-street, suitable for a commission merchant or professional gentleman—respectable school or any other purpose, where a central situation and unobstructed light and air are requisite.—Enquire of Hart and Southgate, grocers, opposite the scale house, July 23. law4w. In Henrico County Court, July 1st, 1805. IN CHANCERY. Fortunatus Sydnor, Compt. Against Jeffe Smith, Robert Sydnor & William Garland Sydnor, Defs. THIS day came the complainant by his counsel, and the defendants, Robert and William Garland Sydnor, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, in such case made, and provided and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the complainant by his counsel aforesaid; it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the first Monday in October next, and answer the bill of the said complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers, published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the Court-house door, of this county. Teile, ADAM CRAIG, Clerk. (S. F. F.) July 15.—(cf 2m.)
ABSCONDED, The second time, in the month of February. JACK, sometimes known by the name of Jack Ash. He is upwards of 50 years of age, a gardner by profession, either under the middle size. He was purchased of Lewis Burwell's estate in January 1802. He is well known in and about the city of Richmond, Antioch, in the county of Chesterfield, where he has a number of close connections, and in the neighborhood of Williamsburg. 'Tis very certain that he is lurking about one of the above places, most likely Richmond, where he has a free woman for a wife. Mr. William Rose is authorized to give a reward of THIRTY DOLLARS on delivery of the above Jack Ash to him. May 31. [Pff]
FOR SALE—BY THE SUBSCRIBER: LOAF SUGAR, by the hhd. bbl. or single loaf, direct from Birmingham's Manufacturer, Philadelphia. SOAL & UPPER LEATHER, on moderate terms. MICHAEL DAVIS. Gth mo. 15, '05. (cp4t.)
TRACT OF LAND. JOHN LAMR, wishes to sell a tract of land consisting of 550 acres, lying within half a mile of Charlottesville. Any person wishing to purchase, may see third, and know the terms by applying to him in 1805. June 4. (law 4w.)
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF PLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.