The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1807-05-15 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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VOLUME 4.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 15, 1807.
[NUMBER 2.
IN CHANCERY.
In King William County Court, March 24th, 1807. Edward Watson, against Thomas Reeves, (an absent debtor) & John Temple.
THIS day, came the Complainant by his Counsel, and the deft. Thomas Reeves, not having entered his appearance, and given security, according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country; on the motion of the Complainant, it is ordered, that the said Deft. Thomas Reeves, do appear here, on the fourth day of the May term next, and answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper, printed in the city of Richmond, for two months, successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the court-house, of this county. And it is further ordered, that the Deft. John Temple do not pay, convey away, or suffer any debts by him owing to the other Deft. Thomas Reeves, until the further order or decree of this court.
A Copy. Teste, ROBERT POLLARD, c. c. March 27.
IN CHANCERY.
In King William County Court, March 25th, 1807. John Smith, against Ambrose Lipcomb, Edward Hill and Philip Lipcomb.
THIS day came the Complainant by his counsel, and the defendant, Ambrose Lipcomb, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth; on the motion of the Complainant, it is ordered, that the said defendant, Ambrose Lipcomb, do appear here, on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the bill of the Complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper, printed in the city of Richmond, for two months, successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the court-house of this county.
A Copy. Teste, ROBERT POLLARD, c. c. April 24.
IN CHANCERY.
In King William County Court, March 25th, 1807. Israel and John P. Pleasants, against Edward Hill, Philip Lipcomb and Ambrose Lipcomb.
THIS day came the Complainants, by their counsel, and the defendant Ambrose Lipcomb, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth; on the motion of the Complainants, it is ordered, that the said defendant Ambrose Lipcomb, do appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the bill of the Complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper, printed in the city of Richmond, for two months, successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the court-house of this county.
A Copy. Teste, ROBERT POLLARD, C. C. April 24.
IN CHANCERY.
In King William County Court, March 25th, 1807. Thomas Lipcomb, assignee of John Smith, against Ambrose Lipcomb, Edward Hill and Philip Lipcomb.
THIS day came the Complainants, by their counsel, and the defendant Ambrose Lipcomb, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth; on the motion of the Complainants, it is ordered, that the said defendant Ambrose Lipcomb, do appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the bill of the Complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper, printed in the city of Richmond, for two months, successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the court-house of this county.
A Copy. Teste, ROBERT POLLARD, C. C. April 24.
IN CHANCERY.
In King William County Court, March 25, 1807. Thomas and Henry Gannett, against Ambrose Lipcomb, Edward Hill and Philip Lipcomb.
THIS day came the Complainants, by their counsel, and the defendant Ambrose Lipcomb, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth; on the motion of the Complainants, it is ordered, that the said defendant Ambrose Lipcomb, do appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the bill of the Complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper, printed in the city of Richmond, for two months, successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the court-house of this county.
A Copy. Teste, ROBERT POLLARD, C. C. April 24.
Sales at Auction.
On Tuesday the 2d June next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold at public auction, at the late dwelling-house of Dr. James Currie, deceased, all his HOUSEHOLD & KITCHEN FURNITURE, a Carriage, a pair of Carriage, and two driving Horses, three men & two women household servants, one a shoemaker and another at present bound as an apprentice to the blacksmith's business. A flock of Livestock, consisting of 1 half pipe and some demijohns of first quality old Madeira, and part of a pipe old Sicily Wine, French Brandy, &c. &c. & a quantity of Molasses and sundry other articles. Six months credit will be allowed on all sums above fifty dollars, the purchasers giving notes negotiable in the bank of Virginia, with approved endorser.
Those having claims against the late Dr. Currie, are desired to bring them in properly authenticated, and his debtors are requested to make immediate payment. ROBERT GORDON & JAMES CURRIE, } Administrators. May 12. tdf.
NOTICE.
AS I intend in the course of this, or early in next month, to leave this city for a short time; I have (as acting partner of the House of M. & B. Myers) appointed Mr. Samuel Myers, my attorney in fact, to whom all those are requested to apply who, during my absence, may have any transactions with the aforesaid firm of M. & B. Myers, or with MOSES M. MYERS. (May 12)
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold, positively, on Wednesday the 20th instant, at 11 o'clock, on the premises: A NEAT BRICK HOUSE & half acre LOT, known in Wm. Duvals plan by N o . 40, near the Brick House of Robt. Johnston, Esq. now in the occupancy of Andrew Callin. Terms of sale 6 & 12 months, for approved endorsed negotiable notes in the Virginia Bank, and a Deed of Trust on the property, to secure the payment of the notes. PROSSER & MONCURE, v. mrs. May 12. tdf.
Sales at Auction.
THE PARTNERSHIP OF GILLIAT & KIRBY, IS, BY MUTUAL CONSENT, CONTINUED UNTIL THE 20TH OF NEXT MONTH, (MAY,) AND WILL DISSOLVE ON THAT DAY; ON WHICH DAY, WILL COMMENCE, A SALE AT AUCTION.
OF all their STOCK OF GOODS, on hand; and will continue from day to day until all is sold. The terms of sale will be as follows: Cash for all sums under one hundred dollars; Six months credit for all sums above one hundred dollars, and under five hundred dollars; & six and twelve months credit for all sums above five hundred dollars; Negotiable Notes, with approved endorser, will be required of the purchasers. And on the 25th May, will be held at auction, all that TENEMENT, on the Main Street of this City, where the Store of GILLIAT & KIRBY is now kept; for this Tenement, a credit of six and twelve months will be allowed the purchaser, giving Negotiable Notes with approved endorser; and also a Deed of Trust on the property, to secure the purchase money; no one will be taken as an endorser of a note, unless they reside in Richmond or Manchester. As it is the wish of GILLIAT & KIRBY to have the affairs of that firm brought to a close as early as possible; all persons indebted to the firm by open account, are requested to come forward and settle their accounts, pay the balances due from them, or execute bonds for their balances; and it is hoped that all debtors to the firm will make speedy payment. The Stock of GOODS on hand, will continue to be sold at private sale, at reduced prices, wholesale and retail, until the 20th May—For JOHN GILLIAT & self, THOMAS GILLIAT, JAMES KIRBY. tdf.
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold, on the premises, by the subscribers, on Wednesday the 20th of May next, at 11 o'clock, convenient to two story BRICK HOUSE, on Shockoe Hill, near the lots of Mr. Robert Gordon, together with a half acre LOT, very well enclosed, and on which Lot, there is a well of fine water. Terms of sale, 6, 12 and 18 months, for approved endorsed negotiable notes, and a deed of trust on the property, to secure the punctual payment of the same. PROSSER & MONCURE, Vendee-Messrs. April 28. tdf.
ATTENTION!!
THE Officers, non-commissioned Officers and Privates of the 19th Regiment, are hereby notified, that the Court of Enquiry for the first Battalion, composed of the companies commanded by Captains Randolph, Harper, M c Bride and Pleasants, and Lieut. Lee, (late Capt. Wood's company,) will commence at the Bell-tavern, in this city, at 10 o'clock, A. M. on Friday next 15th inst. And the Court of Enquiry for the 2d Battalion, composed of the companies commanded by Capt. Richardson, Tompkins, Oldham, Price, Davis, and Hallam, will commence at the same place on Saturday next the 16th inst. Those having excuses to offer will give their attendance to their respective Courts, if they think proper. By order of the Lieut. Col. Commandant. G. W. DIXON, Adjutant 19th Regt. Capt. Shepherd of the Cavalry, will be expected to attend the Court of the 1st Battalion. And Capt. Dobney of the Artillery, that of the 2d Battalion.—Delinquents in those companies may also avail themselves of this opportunity of offering their excuses. G. W. D. Adjutant.
PUBLIC SALES.
By virtue of a Deed executed by David Roff, on the 28th day of November 1804, to the Subscribers in trust to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, and by virtue of another Deed, executed also by the said David Roff, on the 14th day of August last, also a trust to the Subscribers, to secure the payment of sundry debts therein mentioned. Will be sold for ready money, at the front door of the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, between the hours of 12 and 3 o'clock, on Thursday the 21st day of next month, (May.)
A CERTAIN TRACT OF LAND in the county of Chesterfield, commonly called Chester Hill, together with the Lands appertaining thereto, as a moiety of a certain adjoining Tract of Land called Auburn Chase, containing in all by estimation six hundred and forty-five acres, be the same more or less; also the residue of a Tract of Land and appurtenances in the county of Goochland, containing originally by estimation seventeen hundred acres, but now about a thousand acres, a part of it having already been sold under the Deed of Trust, bearing date the 28th of November 1804, referred to above, and bounded by the Byrd Creek, Elk Hill, James River, &c. being the residue of the Land purchased by the said David Roff from Wm. Anderson, executor of John Smith.
SPRING GOODS.
THE Subscribers have just received from London and Liverpool, their usual supply of SPRING GOODS, which they will sell upon the most moderate terms, for cash, country produce or on credit to punctual customers. JNO. & ROBT. GAMBLE, junr. May 12. ep1w.
NOTICE.
In Pursuance of a Deed of Trust, bearing date the 14th day of August, 1806—between Andrew Lewis, of the county of Montgomery, of the first part, James Bream, of the City of Richmond, Merchant of the second part, and myself of the third part, (sixty days having expired, from the 15th day of February, 1807.) I shall expose, or cause to be exposed, to sale, for ready money, at PUBLIC AUCTION, at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond:
ONE TRACT OF LAND, in the county of Kenawha, called Lewis's Salt Rock, now under lease to Abraham Trigg, and the patented land, including the same, under the name of the Saffafras Bottom; and also two TRACTS OF LAND, in the county of Botetourt, on Back-creek, which empties itself into Roanoke river, containing about five hundred acres, and purchased by the said Andrew Lewis, one from John Trenus, and the other from Abraham Pickens; one of which, is a valuable Grift Mill; and also one half of the Coppermine Tract of Land, in the county of Montgomery, on the west fork of the Little river, known by the name of Shelton's Coppermine; and also, one Tract of Land, in the county of Albemarle, containing about one hundred and thirty-five acres, formerly the property of David Wade; for the purpose of raising a sum of money, sufficient to discharge and pay to the said James Bream, the sum of four thousand and fifty-nine dollars, and ninety-three cents, with interest from the said 15th day of February, 1807, and all costs and expenses attending the said sale. Deeds will be made to the purchasers in conformity with the said Deed of Trust. The sale will take place on the 25th day of May, 1807. FRANCIS FOLLET. April 28. sw.
NOTICE.
FOREWARN all persons from purchasing the manifests for two Hds. of Tobacco, shipped from Randolph's Ware-House, North Milton, in March last. The above Tobacco is at Shockoe Ware-House, marked I. D. No. 5, 163, 137, 112, 125, 1278. The above Tobacco was sold under an execution, by the Sheriff of Albemarle county. THOMAS JOHNSON. May 8. st.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Pendleton, esq. late of the City of Richmond, dec'd. are requested to exhibit them to either of the subscribers as speedily as possible. GEO. PICKETT, ROBERT POLLARD, CHS. JOHNSTON, N. SHEPPARD. Administrators. November 18. tf.
SPRING GOODS.
RICHARD BROOKE, AT THE SIGN OF THE PLOUGH, HAS just received a general assortment of GOODS, suitable for the season, all of which he will sell at the most reduced prices for cash or country produce: —AMONG THEM ARE— Superfine Cloths, Reeves, do. Kerseymeres, do. English and India Nankeens, Irish Linens and Long Lawnns, Book Mullins, Plain & work'd Leno's, Queens fancy do., Long Shawls work'd, Silk & Cotton Hosiery, Grapes assorted, Gingham and Calicoes, Furniture do., Marcellies & India Dimity, Dimity & Cambric do., Cambric Mullins, Silk Gloves and Lac'd do. The upper part of his house, is, as yet, unoccupied and may be had by immediate application, on moderate terms. April 28. tf.
CHINA & GLASS.
The Subscriber has just received from New-York, a handsome assortment of CHINA AND GLASS; THE FORMER CONSISTING OF COMPLETE & BROKEN SETS DINING China, and China Glazed Ware, among which are a few handsome sets Nan-kin, complete and broken sets Tea China, Bowls assorted, and Chimney ornaments. THE LATTER CONSISTS CHIEFLY OF Glas Lusters, Cut, moulded and plain Bowls, ditto Pitchers, Small Lemonade Canns, cut and plain Decanters, Water Bottles, Savers, Goblets, Tumblers, Wine Jelly Glasses, Sweetmeats and Salts of different qualities. He has on hand a general assortment of the best GROCERIES, which he will sell low at wholesale or retail—and continues to keep a constant supply of Philadelphia Porter, Ale and Beer. DANIEL TRIPLETT. May 5. gw.
JOHN MENEFY,
Respectfully informs his friends and the public, that he has just received, by the Ship United States, Capt. Hardy, from Liverpool, his spring assortment of SADDLERY. CONSISTING of almost every article in the business. Likewise Harnesses, Mountings, Plated and Brass of different patterns—Coach and Coach Springs, Steps, long and short—Foot Men's holder Glats Strings—Laces—Fringes—Glas 24 by 20—22 by 20—and 20 by 18—Horse-men's & Pocket Pistols—Secret Locks. N. B. Just received, a neat assortment of Saddler's Leather—Skirting, Hog and Bag. All of which he will dispose of on moderate terms for cash. May 12. ep1m.
VALUABLE LOTS FOR SALE.
On WEDNESDAY the 10th of June next, will be sold, at Auction, on the premises, if not previously disposed of at Private Sale, that beautiful SQUARE OF GROUND, BELONGING to Col. Quarrier, and now occupied by him. For the convenience of purchase, it is divided into thirteen Lots, some of which are improved with dwelling houses, and every convenience for families, and all of them are well situated, either for business, (being near the Basin of the Canal and the Public Ware-house) or for the residence of families; having good prospects and a free circulation of air. A plan of the above property may be seen at the office of the subscribers, to whom, or to Colonel Quarrier, all persons desirous of purchasing at private sale, will apply. Terms made known on day of sale. TAYLOR & BROWN, Agents. May 12. tdf.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
Pursuant to a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery, for the Richmond District, in a suit, depending in that Court, between John Pierce, surviving trustee of Samuel Beale, deceased, Plaintiff, and William Mosely, Defendant, will be exposed to sale, on the premises, for ready money, on the first Monday in June next, it being the first day of the said month of June:
A CERTAIN TRACT or parcel of LAND, lying and being in Halifax county, in the state of Virginia, upon Staunton river, containing, by estimation, seven hundred and twenty-five acres, be the same more or less. This Tract of Land, was sold by the said William Mosely, and by said William Mosely, was conveyed by indenture of mortgage, bearing date the 22d day of June 1795, to Robert Andrews and John Pierce, acting trustees of Samuel Beale, then deceased, to secure the sum in the said indenture specified, which indenture is duly recorded amongst the records of the Court of the said county of Halifax. At the same time and place, will be sold, for cash, such of the negroes (also included in said mortgage) as can then be produced. The sale will be made pursuant to said decree, to raise the balance due on the mortgage, the costs of suit and the expenses attending the execution of said decree. HENRY E. COLEMAN, ROBERT CAMPBELL, ISAAC H. COLES, JAMES EASTHAM, } Commissioners. April 28. tdf.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of the late John Harvie, of Belvidere, are required to bring them forward, properly authenticated, in order that the Subscriber may make arrangements for their adjustment, and those indebted to the said estate, it is hoped, will make as speedy payments as possible.
NOTICE.
On Saturday the 13th day of June next, will be exposed to sale, on the premises: SEVEN hundred and forty acres of LAND, in the county of Chesterfield, about five miles from Manchester, of which nearly one hundred acres are cleared, and under an enclosure. The whole of this Tract is of a fertile quality, and the unenclosed part well timbered. This Land will be sold entire, or in Lots, as may be most agreeable to purchasers. Also an undivided moiety of 200 acres, in the said county, adjoining the Black Heat Coal-Pits, and in which it is believed there is coal. This Tract will be sold in the City of Richmond, at the Eagle-Tavern, on the 18th June next. A credit of six and twelve months will be allowed the purchasers, and a Deed of Trust required upon the Land itself, to secure the purchase money. These Lands will be sold in pursuance of the testament and last will of the aforesaid deceased, and will be conveyed accordingly by— EDWIN JAS. HARVIE, only acting Executor, of John Harvie, deceased. April 24. ep1d.
AN Ordinance concerning the Taxes for the City of Richmond, for the year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Six.
(PASSED 20TH APRIL, 1807.) WHEREAS, it is represented, to the President and Common Council, of the city of Richmond, in Common-Hall assembled, that there will be a considerable deficiency in the funds provided by an Ordinance of the Common Council of the said city—passed on the 17th day of March, 1806, for supporting the expenses of the Corporation, for the present year, for remedy whereof, BE IT ORDAINED, by the President and Common Council of the city of Richmond, in Common Hall assembled, and it is hereby Ordained by the authority of the same, that there shall be paid and collected, the full amount of the taxes directed to be assessed and collected by the Ordinance, entitled "An Ordinance laying taxes for the year 1806, and for enforcing the payment thereof," according to the return made by the Assessor for the year 1806—any thing in the Ordinance, entitled "An Ordinance, for the more speedy collection and payment of part of the taxes imposed for the year 1806," to the contrary notwithstanding. AND BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED, by the authority aforesaid, that in addition to the said taxes, so as aforesaid directed to be laid and collected, there shall be laid and collected thirty-three and one third per centum, on the whole of the said taxes, which additional taxes shall be collected and accounted for in the same manner, and under the same regulations as are laid down and prescribed by the first recited Ordinance. A Copy. Teste, N. SHEPPARD, c. c. n. May 5, 1807. ep3w.
Europe.
CONTINUATION of news Via. NORFOLK.
LONDON, March 24. Three mails from Denmark arrived late this morning, bringing intelligence of much importance. We have not time to do more than lay it before our readers without any comments. There have been two actions between the Russians and French on the 25th and 26th of Feb.—the French, of course claim the advantage; one of them was fought at Braunberg, a considerable distance from the Pregel, and on this side of it. The French head-quarters were on the 1st at Osterode. Other accounts give us reason to suspect that they are about to be removed to Thorn. Dantzic has been invested.
In consequence of important dispatches which government have received from the commanders of the squadrons off Brest, Boulogne, and Rochfort, the admiralty, it is said, is about to change the system of blockade; and on the suggestion of earl St. Vincent, to adopt a measure of more efficacy, and less peril. It has now been proved by experience, and particularly by some recent incidents, that the system of blockade is not calculated to answer its purpose; and we understand the substance of the dispatches to be, that the admirals and commanders on the several stations can no longer be responsible for the execution of their orders; that his majesty's vessels, according to a late examination, have suffered the most serious injury on this service; and that the consequent expense to the country, and the extraordinary wear and tear of the navy, were in value infinitely beyond any partial restraint on the ships of the enemy.
It is farther stated, that the utmost vigilance of our commanders is unequal to prevent the escape of the enemy; that, in the long period of the equinoctial winds, during the whole of the spring and winter, and the greater part of the autumn, they entered and departed at their pleasure: And that his majesty's ships had the frequent mortification to see them in
the act of preparation, and with their sails and yards set, without any possibility of preventing their purpose. So persuaded were the enemy that they possessed this full liberty of leaving their ports at their discretion, that a general failing order appears to have been issued to every public port in France; and that they were executing it as fast as the opportunity presented itself.—A squadron of three ships, two frigates, and five sloops of war, has escaped from Brest; and a much stronger squadron had nearly effected the same purpose from Rochfort—they had already cleared the harbour, when an easterly wind suddenly arose and compelled them to return. These are but two among many similar instances; but as they have occurred at the same time, they have impressed themselves very forcibly upon the consideration of the admiralty.
March 25. This morning Lord Chancellor Erskine attended in the Court of Chancery at ten o'clock, for the purpose, as it was understood, of giving judgment in the case of Purcell v. McNamara, and his lordship stated, that he was obliged immediately to attend his majesty. His lordship then took leave of the Bar, and returned his warmest thanks for the attention and assistance he had received during the period he had filled his high station. The Attorney-General expressed the regret every gentleman of the Chancery Bar felt at his lordship's retirement.
Dutch papers to the 24th arrived last night; they have brought the intelligence of the Porte having declared war against this country. The same intrigues that produced a declaration of war against Russia, have, no doubt, induced the Porte to declare war against us. The article in which this intelligence is communicated, states that admiral Louis has threatened to lay Constantinople in ashes, if the Grand Signior would not consent to renew his ancient treaties with Russia. The Divan immediately resolved upon war, and attempted to get possession of the person of our ambassador, Mr. Arbuthnot, but Mr. Arbuthnot succeeded in making his escape on board the Endymion frigate. We doubt the truth of this account, though we believe that the Porte has declared war against us.
The nature and probable effect of the late Commercial Ukase, published in Russia, are, we fear, much misunderstood. On conversing with those who are the best informed about the Russian trade, we find this Ukase is considered as infringing upon the rights of many, and benefiting but very few. It is represented as being totally subversive of all the rights and privileges hitherto enjoyed by British merchants residing in Russia! The Treaty of Commerce between Great-Britain and Russia, which secured those privileges, expires this day; and, as from some cause, with which we are unacquainted, it has not been renewed; this Ukase, it is apprehended, by the persons most interested, is now issued to prevent its renewal. In consequence of this new regulation, the British merchants now established in Russia must either leave that country, or become Burghers, or what is called Foreign Guests, a measure grating to their feelings, highly injurious to their interests, and favorable to those of France. This Ukase is supposed to have been the work of a party which still possesses much influence at the court of St. Petersburg, and which has invariably employed it against the commercial interests of G. Britain.
The Duke of Portland is said to be at the head of the new administration now forming; if such be the Head, what will the Members be? It may surprise some, that his Grace, notwithstanding his bodily and mental weakness, should think himself capable of taking the helm of the State!!
Time was, That, when the brains were out, the man would die." The new administration will be literally a Block of Portland Stone! Montesquieu says, that a weak administration is always the most expensive and dangerous—expensive, because they must lavish the public money on needy dependents, to secure their situations—dangerous, as they will trench on the liberty of the subject, in order to add to their own power.
Sir Home Popham presented himself yesterday on the Change and at Lloyd's. At the latter place, being soon recognised, he was received by the Gentlemen present with three cheers. In return, he made a short, but handsome speech, bowed, and retired.
The following is the bill introduced into the house of commons, which occasioned the change of the British administration.
A BILL.
For enabling his majesty to avail himself of the services of all his liege subjects, in his naval and military forces, in the manner therein mentioned. Whereas it is expedient that his majesty should be enabled to avail himself of the services of all his subjects, in his naval and military forces, for the maintenance of the rights of his crown, and of the interest, honour, and independence of the British empire.
Be it therefore enacted by the king's most excellent majesty, by and with the consent of the lords spiritual and temporal, and commons, in this present parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that it shall and may be lawful for his majesty to grant or confer, or by his royal sign manual to empower the proper officer or officers to grant or confer any military commission, warrant, or appointment whatever, either in his majesty's sea or naval forces, or in any of his majesty's land or military forces whatsoever, to or upon any of his majesty's liege subjects, without exception; and that every such commission, warrant, or appointment so granted or conferred, shall and may be lawfully exercised by such his majesty's subjects, in all places within or without his majesty's dominions, any law, statute, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding: provided, that every such person shall, within six months after his accepting the said commission, warrant, or appointment, take, make and subscribe the declaration and oath, herein after mentioned, which declaration and oath shall be ingrossed on the back or the foot of the commission or appointment so granted or conferred, and shall be there attested by the signature of the magistrate or officer in whose presence the same shall have been subscribed, and by whom the said oath shall have been administered.

And be it further enacted, that such oath and declaration may be administered and attested by any court of record or judge of such court, or by any justice of peace or other magistrate having power to administer oaths in any part of his majesty's dominions, & that if the party taking and subscribing the same, shall at the time of his taking and subscribing the same, not be within his majesty's dominions, the same may then be administered and attested by any general or commanding officer of his majesty's land forces, or by any admiral or commanding officer of his majesty's naval forces: provided always, that in this last case the person holding such commission, warrant, or appointment shall, within six months after his return to any part of his majesty's dominions, again take, make, and subscribe the same oath and declaration in presence of some court of record or magistrate as aforesaid.
And be it further enacted, that no person having so taken, made, and subscribed such oath or declaration respectively as aforesaid, shall be liable to any pains, penalties or disabilities whatsoever, for having exercised or acted in or under any such commission, warrant, or appointment, any law, statute, or usage to the contrary notwithstanding, and although such person shall not have complied with any of the directions of the former statute respecting the qualifications of persons holding or exercising offices within this realm.
And be it further enacted, that the said oath and declaration, so to be taken, made, and subscribed, shall be in the words following, viz: "I, A. B. being by this commission appointed to be (here set forth the appointment) do hereby solemnly promise and swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to his majesty king George the Third, and that I will do my utmost to maintain and defend him against all reasons and traitorous conspiracies, and against all attempts whatever that shall be made against his person, crown, or dignity; and that I will, to the utmost of my power, resist all such treason, conspiracies, or attempts, and will also disclose and make known the same as soon as they shall come to my knowledge; and I do also promise and swear, in the presence of Almighty God, that I will, to the utmost of my power, maintain and support the succession to the crown of the united kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, as the same now stands limited by law; and that I will also, to the utmost of my power, maintain and support the established constitution and government of the said united kingdom against all attempts whatever that shall be made against the same."
And whereas it is expedient that his majesty's subjects, however employed in any of his majesty's sea or naval forces, or any of his majesty's land or military forces whatsoever, should be allowed the free exercise of such religious opinions as they may respectively profess; be it enacted that no person employed in his majesty's sea or naval forces, or land or military forces, and having previously signified in writing, signed by himself, to his commanding officer, his dissent from the doctrine or worship of the church of England as by law established, shall, under any pretence, or by any means, be prevented from attending, or be subject or liable to any pains, penalties or disabilities for attending such divine worship or religious service as may be consistent with and according to his religious persuasion or opinions, at proper and seasonable times, and such as shall be consistent with the due & full discharge of his naval or military duties; nor shall any such person be compelled or compelled to attend the worship or service of the said established church; and that any commissioned officer acting in violation of, or contrary to this provision, shall, upon conviction thereof before a general court martial, be liable to be suspended or dismissed from his majesty's service, or to such other punishment, not extending to life or limb, as the said court martial shall award; and that any warrant or non-commissioned officer so offending, shall be liable to such punishment, not extending to life or limb, as shall be awarded by a general or regimental court martial.
And be it further enacted, that this act shall be and continue in force from the day of its passing until the end of the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty eight.
Let our immediate circumstances be affected as they may, we trust in the good sense of the Irish nation to diminish the effect of any unwellcome disappointment whatever, by every thing that has taken place to disturb the cordiality of the cabinet, yet we hope that no serious division will result out of it. The fate of this Empire, and indeed of Europe, is now in the hands of the present administration. If they break up, upon any point of domestic policy—if their war with adverse opinions, they desert their posts, and commit to chance the destinies of their own and of other nations with which they are entrusted—who is bold enough to look at the probable result unmoved? Important as the intended measure of ministerial aid to our prosperity and happiness, yet in the vast scale of human interests confided to them at this most critical of all junctures, they are comparatively small; and if any unfortunate schism should disabuse them, from duly performing the efforts necessary for the general deliverance of Europe, all must be engulfed, and parties, factions, nations and empires, perish in a common ruin. Dublin paper.
Since our last, French papers to the 9th, and Dutch to the 14th inst. inclusive, have arrived, but their contents are not of great importance. It is said the towns of Elbing, Marienbourg, and Marienwerder, have been again occupied by the French, who are also in possession of the whole of the coast along the gulf of Prussia; but no considerable body of troops had arrived in the neighbourhood of Dantzic, for the purpose of commencing the siege of that city. The reduction of Graudentz was, it was understood, to be effected before regular approaches were made against Dantzic. A large detachment of the Bavarian army, and a corps of 6000 Saxons, were on the point of marching to join the Grand Army in Poland. A body of 500 Russians, taken prisoners at the battle of Pultusk, arrived the latter end of February at Cassel, on their way to Mentz. A great number of troops from Italy were on their march through the Tyrol for the purpose of effecting a junction with the Grand Army.
The public opinion in favour of peace had become strong in Berlin; but we cannot learn from what cause.
From the Salem Register. The French, estimating the importance of the Morae, take their documents from the voyage of Pouqueville. The Governor of the Peninsula resides at Tripolitza. This writer has given the present state of the soil and of the cultivation, to which we may refer on some future opportunity. It is to the state of defence to which we are particularly directed at the present moment. Pouqueville says, that the military state is not adequate to its defence. That at a time of a threatened invasion, it could with difficulty command 6,000 men, badly armed, and poorly disciplined. That the population consists of 400,000
Greeks, 11,000 Jews, and 15,000 Turks. Nothing of its ancient glory remains. The inhabitants are strong, and have not feeble minds, but are artful and dissembling, and vain, being degraded by long servitude. The women are generally handsome. Towards this country the French say the Russians directed their eyes, ever since the submission of the Seven Isles.
The French have furnished some late documents respecting Silesia, which is nearly reduced into subjection to their armies. They give the whole population at 2,044,000, and the Catholics at 984,000. The revenue which the king of Prussia received, was estimated at 6 millions of Crowns, or 20 millions of Francs. They reckon nearly 2 millions of sheep in the country, with 4 millions pounds of wool. In 1802, nearly 47 thousand persons were employed in the linen manufactures, and the value of the manufactures of cloth is given at a sum exceeding 9 millions of Prussian crowns or 34 million of francs. The woollen manufactures employ nearly 16 thousand persons, and yield above 4 millions crowns. The Cotton manufactures increase, and for ten years past have yielded 400,000 crowns, and now double. The whole value of all the manufactures of Silesia has been placed at 20 millions of crowns, annually, of which three quarters are exported. Under the administration of Frederick 2d, the population increased annually from 13 to 14 thousand persons; and in 1840 it was reckoned it would be double what it was in 1740 at the time of the Prussian conquest.
The annual Spanish ship, from Manila to Amboy, has been captured by the British frigate Phaeton, capt. Wood. The prize is valued on a moderate computation at $50,000. sterling.
STATE OF ENGLAND. The following letter, from a respectable character in England, to a gentleman in Philadelphia, though it evidently bears features of national partiality, it is yet so candid and liberal on the whole, as to be entitled to much attention.
BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 30, 1806. "You desire me to give you a true statement of the country—in answer to which, we are in a very flourishing way, for our manufactures are so, and that makes every thing appear light, our debts are indeed enormous, between five and six hundred millions of pounds sterling; and we pay about thirty millions annually in interest of money—including the interest of exchequer, navy, and victualling bills, and the advances upon the revenue every year by the bank of England. The other expenses of government are about thirty million more, in all above sixty millions per annum;—and the expenses of collection, the million paid to the king, about three hundred thousand paid to the Prince of Wales, Duke of York, Prince of Orange, and the other princes and princesses of the royal family, together with the poor rates, which amount annually to about five or six millions, the whole sum raised cannot be less than seventy-five millions sterling, an enormous sum in amount to be sure. Yet owing to our extensive flourishing, and numerous manufactures, we do not find our taxes so very hard on us as might be supposed: for our manufactures are carefully protected, by high, very high duties, on all foreign made articles—not a single manufactured article being worn or imported into Great-Britain, excepting Russia and German linens, French cambricks, and a few of their Indian nankeens, that the company are allowed to sell for home consumption, and of late, French laces—all these articles pay heavy duties, some of them as high as two hundred per cent, and the lowest of them seventy-five per cent, and none of the duties on them are given back on being exported—similar articles to all these are made at home, though they are neither so good, nor so cheap—yet a good many of the coarser sort are consumed, and government to encourage those made at home, give bounties upon the exportation of the home made articles to increase the competition and drive out the foreign articles from being consumed in Britain—say linens, for instance, the government gives a bounty of one penny half penny per yard upon green or bleached, and five or six pence if printed—and also exempts them from the war tax or export duty; to be short, in summing up the whole, the government and people look upon manufactures as the support of our commerce, shipping, and agriculture, what makes our island the most flourishing part of Europe under all our burdens, and what alone brings money into the nation and supports the most expensive of all wars. After consuming all our own wool, flax, hides, hemp, iron &c. in our manufactures—we employ about four thousand sail of ships yearly to bring us the raw materials of foreign nations, from the Baltic, Germany, Italy, America, &c. what immense encouragement, four thousand sail employed in bringing home flax, silk, cotton, hemp, wool, indigo, flax seed, iron, sheep's wool, tar, ashes, &c. for our different manufactures; what immense numbers of people must they employ; and what a great consumption of provisions, as well as immense quantities of grain used, for making malt and spirituous liquors; it is said that no less than sixty millions of bushels of grain are used in making malt and spirituous liquors in Britain; what a spring does this give to our agriculture; hence it is that our land continues to rise in consequence of the demand for the numerous class of manufactures both in value and in rent—Both government and people of all ranks are now very patriotic in encouraging home manufacturers in preference to foreign, though the latter should be better in quality. In the best gentlemen's houses it is now customary to see whiskey in preference to brandy and gin—and rum is very little drank either—The poor universally prefer whiskey on account of its cheapness—the duty on brandy only is about 15s per gallon—and whiskey is retailed at 9 and 10s per gallon—of all the articles fully manufactured, allowed to be imported into Britain, the quantity consumed is yearly diminishing and giving way to their substitutes; some of the duties are as high as 200 per cent, and the lowest, for example Russia linens are 75 per cent—so that the home articles, though not quite so good, come now as cheap,—In short every article for men and women's wear—every article for furnishing our houses, &c. &c. are all manufactured in Great-Britain. In short no people in the world can be more attentive to encourage their own manufactures than we are; nor can any government be more ready to grant protecting duties. At the same time I must acknowledge there is too much ignorance and unbounded vanity among all ranks—and no where does it appear more than among the publishers of newspapers—who mislead and flatter the people, because they are exceedingly willing to be misled and flattered. Would you believe it, that they actually are made to think that the late prohibition by your congress, against the importing of certain articles of British manufactures, must be repealed, because they say you cannot do without our manufactures, and if we only have a little patience, you will be glad to humble yourselves at the feet of Britain, and beg them to send you goods. We are taught to believe that all France is wishing to displace Bonaparte, and put on the succession again in the line of the Bourbons; although Bonaparte is 1000 miles from his capital and all his military with him, and we can see no appearance of such a disposition. I have given you a faithful representation
of things—and perhaps you may doubt of the same in part that we are not able to do such things as I have mentioned. But, Sir, consider if our expenditure is immense for our income or means. By our labour saving machines, with about two and a half millions of persons, we do at least the work of ten millions of people in any other country and without paying, clothing or feeding them, and besides, manufactures are found to be a more profitable employment for a nation, than any other—a proof of this is that the raw materials, of sheep's wool, cotton, flax, iron, oak, rags, &c. are raised from 200 to 400 per cent, by being manufactured, and often from 500 to even 1,200 per cent. Moreover they support the landed interests by the demand they make for raw materials to work up, for provisions to the workmen."
BOSTON, May 5. FRENCH FLEET. —Capt. Couby, who arrived at Newburyport on Friday last, from Alicante, informs, that on the 14th of March, in lat 31, 4, lon. 21, 40, he was brought too by and boarded from a French fleet of eight sail of the line. Two days afterwards in lon. 23, 6, fell in with a British fleet of 120 sail of merchantmen, fleeing W. S. W. The same day was boarded from a French fleet of 20 sail.
Capt. Hulien, who arrived yesterday from Bilboa, failed thence with the design of proceeding to the Isle of Rho for a cargo of salt, but was boarded from an English frigate, and informed of the British Order of Council forbidding neutrals to go from one enemy's port to another.
Domestic. Some of the late proceedings of Congress in favor of Commerce.
During the last session of Congress, a beautiful survey of the coast of North Carolina, was reported by captains Coles and Price. These intelligent men acted under instructions from the treasury department, and have compiled a new chart, and an explanatory report. The survey extends from Cape Hatteras to Cape Fear, including both the Capes and all the shoals of that dangerous coast. The discoveries are highly important to navigation; and Congress, regarding with a careful and tender eye, the lives and property of the citizens, has ordered the chart to be engraved for the general information.
Encouraged by the favorable issue of this enterprise, and its auspicious bearing upon commerce, Congress at the last session, directed a survey to be made of the whole coast of the United States from the borders of New-Brunswick to the confines of Florida. In this the maritime parts of all the states will be included; not excepting the shores of Louisiana, and the parts of the Gulf of Mexico, belonging to the United States. This survey will correct all the errors in the foreign charts by which our mariners are now obliged to sail; and furnish an original set for them to work by. This grand survey is to be executed under the direction of the President of the U. S. and is to extend thirty leagues from the coast or to the Gulf Stream. Congress have made the liberal appropriation of fifty thousand dollars for the accomplishment of this highly meritorious and national design. There can be no doubt that the best scientific talents will be employed.
For the general defence, Congress has been no less the provident. Appropriations are now made to the extent of nearly three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for putting the ports and harbours of the nation in a better posture of defence. The balance of the last year's appropriation unexpended amounts to considerably more than one hundred thousand dollars; say, with the tools and materials on hand at Fort Jay to one hundred and ten thousand dollars. The ordinary appropriation for supporting the military establishment is seventy-five thousand dollars. And the extra sum for the protection of ports and harbours, in addition to those, by an act passed during the last session, is one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: making together an aggregate of three hundred and thirty-five thousand, now in bank for that purpose. Besides this there, is a large park of heavy-mounted artillery and of military stores ready to be transported to New-York for its special defence as soon as the corporation shall assign suitable sites for arsenals, and the state legislature shall cede the jurisdiction to the United States in the manner prescribed by the constitution. Until ground shall be procured, and the sovereignty vested in the general government, it is not to be expected that either arsenals will be erected or batteries be built. But as soon as these points shall be provided for, by the municipal authority of the city, and by the legislative power of the commonwealth, then will New-York share the full proportion of the national protection to which she is entitled. It is not one of the least remarkable of the events appertaining to this subject, that while the inhabitants of New-York have been so fortunate with the general government for defence, they should have done so little themselves towards effectuating the object. Even when the nation is willing to pay for the land, there has been a remarkable backwardness to assign proper situations; and the state legislature appears to be no less tardy in surrendering its jurisdiction. Until those matters shall be adjusted, it will be utterly impossible for the whole scheme mediated by the executive to be accomplished. This supineness, after all the clamour which has been raised, has a very odd appearance, and favors exceedingly of inconsistency or indifference. It creates infinite embarrassment at the War Office; and the patriotic preparations of the officer at the head of that department, for the protection of New-York, are really delayed, and in no small degree frustrated by its own citizens. Let the good people at home do their part; and they will find their general government ready and willing to grant them every thing that is reasonable and proper, and who have already appointed three commissioners to superintend the fortifications to be erected for the port and harbour of New-York.
The journey of captains Lewis and Clarke up the Missouri and over the Rocky mountains, to the Pacific Ocean, brings us wonderful intelligence as to the Fur-trade. It appears from the researches of these enterprising travellers, that the great haunts of the Beaver, Deer, Bear & Beaver have never yet been visited by the Mexicans from the south, or the Canadians from the north. The vast counties lying on the Ohio, Platte, Hanzas, and numberless other rivers which run into the Missouri are full of these valuable quadrupeds; as are also those which are watered by the Arkansas, the Wahita, and the Red river. The vast amount of Peltry, which these cessions will afford, will find its way from the mouth of the Missouri to the Atlantic places of deposit, by the accustomed routes; or be lodged at a factory soon to be established near the mouth of the Columbia, and transported thence to China, with a great saving of time and distance.
N. York Pub. Adv. From the New-York American Citizen. Federalism. —The unnumbered letter, in printed form, we received on Friday through the medium of the post office.
Mr. Hatheway is a lawyer of distinction at Rome—Immediately preceding the election of 1804, when Burr was the federal candidate for Governor, Mr. Hatheway, who until that time had been a federalist, abandoned his party and published his reason at great length. He did not, however, as it now appears, publish the letter of Griswold, which was one of his reasons.
G. Griswold is now, and was I believe when he wrote the letter, a member of congress: he is a federalist.
FEDERALISM UNMASKED. It is with the deepest regret that I submit to the public an extract of a letter, which has re-
mained with me for three years, as secret as death itself; and would have remained so, had not the good of our country demanded, that a PLOT, which threatened its existence, should be exposed to public view. Under these impressions, all considerations of private confidence must be laid aside: Plots, against a legal existing administration, mild and pacific in its measures, are obnoxious in the extreme, and not to be countenanced or concealed for a moment; neither would this have been, had not hopes been entertained that the plot would fail, while the vengeful spirit which conceived the same would die away, and that occasion would not require its being made known. But when I call to mind the regular system which has been pursued by the Federalist and Burr, from the time of his election to the office of Vice President down to the present moment—taking in view their efforts to make him President—then their Plots (herein disclosed) to make him governor of the state of New-York—then of late, as we have seen this same Burr in our capital, flush with money, plotting the subversion of our government, and boasting a connexion with our "first blood"—then seeing him in the heart of our country, enlisting soldiers, raising armies, preparing an armament, building a fleet; and in all this having the good wishes of our Federalists, & no doubt supplied with their money; when we see this same man arraigned before Courts and Juries, and by them acquitted: when we hear the tongue of a federalist excusing him, and calumniating our executive for his energetic measures against Burr; taking all these things into view, they irresistibly force a conviction on the mind, that a Plot has long since been laid by the Federalists and Burr ; and has been, and is to be pursued to the last extremity, if nothing short will subvert our present administration. They also irresistibly force a conviction on the mind, that I should stand inexcusable to my country, if I withheld any information which would tend to develop this horrible domination! If my conviction, in a full view of the premises, is not well founded, I shall receive that censure from the hands of the public, which the disclosure of a confidential letter merits. In the event of this publication, should the same spirit of federal revenge , which in the extract is breathed forth against the administration, be turned against me; and should the federal darts, poisoned with corruption as they are, assail me from every quarter, I may perhaps fall a victim. They may kill me, but this publication they cannot kill. This vile; this odious; this unprincipled PLOT WILL LIVE, when the existence of all who are concerned in it is at an end. It was this which caused me to declare to the federalists of the county of Oneida; "Here I halt; I can proceed with you no farther." The extract is from a letter written by a member of Congress.
J. HATHEWAY.
EXTRACT. Washington, Feb. 27, 1804. "The movements of Burr disturb the quiet of their souls—he will shake the very centre of their conclave. You may rest assured, my good fellow, that if our friends will but play true , Burr will chastise these whippers of power with a rod they deserve; he is no more one of their party, though for certain purposes must so appear—Rely upon this as true. He is the only person who can chastise these fellows, and policy dictates our unity to give him a support—all our friends in this city have the same opinion; all the judges of the supreme court are united with us in this opinion. It is a matter of great surprise among our federal friends here, how Hamilton can take so imprudent a part. Report says that H— made a long speech in favour of Lansing and against Burr. I fear his personal resentment to Burr, and not policy, governs his conduct. All our federal friends now in this city are looking up with anxiety to the election in New-York—their hopes are founded on the success of Burr—though this should not be known to any but real friends . What have we to expect from Lansing? He is nominated by Clinton and Spencer, and their creatures—he must and will be their tool. The old governor is to be Vice-President, and all will be united to the great mammoth of Democracy by ties too strong to be broken. We can do nothing of ourselves against the mighty torrent; shall we not then rather join the enemy of OUR ENEMY than the enemy of Burr and us both ? Think well of this question!"
"C. GRISWOLD." From a paper entitled LIBERTY HALL , printed at Cincinnati.
COMMUNICATION. WILKINSON AND BURR.
"I beseech you, Wreft once the law to your authority: To do a great right, do a little wrong; And curb this cruel devil of his will."
SHAKESPEARE.
From the present agitated state of our country, relative to the late transactions of general Wilkinson and colonel Burr, it will be difficult to remove erroneous impressions, or to cause the voice of truth to be heard. But, sooner or later, the evidence of facts must prevail; and those whose business it has been to delude the public mind, will be execrated by all honest and impartial citizens. I pretend not to explain all the causes of the late extraordinary movements, nor to disclose all the views of the leaders of them. If I can bring our sober citizens to reflect justly on the subject, induce them to think favourably of hasty determinations, and stimulate them to review the steps they have taken, my object in this publication will be fully answered.
It will be recollected by all, that our dispute with Spain is of a very serious nature. Each party is tenacious of its own opinion, and does not appear disposed to yield any points in the discussion. On this dispute depends a territory of greater extent than all the Atlantic states: no wonder we are not disposed to yield it. The conduct of the Spanish court more than two years ago, and the new dispositions assumed by the Spanish troops on the borders of Louisiana, connected with a variety of other circumstances, created fear in our government that war was inevitable. Under these circumstances it became the duty of the President to be prepared, for events and to devise the best means of defence of annoyance. It is understood, that he consulted general Wilkinson and colonel Burr (at that time vice-president) on the most suitable plan of operations, in case we were plunged into a war. It is also understood, that these two gentlemen suggested nearly the same great outlines, and that the President appeared to think well of them.
These circumstances, added to the prospects of war, strengthened the intimacy between Wilkinson and Burr. Their ostensible objects were nearly the same, but they were influenced by different motives. The former was solicitous to discharge his duty, and to share with his country the glory of successful enterprise; the latter was stimulated by ambition, and the hopes of profit. In consequence of his dispute with Hamilton, and the unfortunate terminati-
on of it, he was obliged to abandon the Atlantic states and to seek a residence among strangers. D. situte of employment, he turned his whole attention to the means necessary to accomplish whatever views he had formed. For this purpose he visited the Mississippi in 1805; and most probably a mutual intercourse on the subject of a Spanish war, existed at that time between him and Wilkinson. The real fact is, that Burr was determined in his own mind, at the head of a band of choice spirits , to share the glory of whatever enterprise might be undertaken; and no doubt he flattered himself with the acquisition of a splendid fortune, and perhaps with a seat on the throne of Mexico. Naturally sanguine in his temper, rendered still more ardent by his embarrassed situation, he readily conceived, that the golden prospects, which presented themselves, would induce thousands of warriors to flock to his standard. In this, however, he was fully disappointed; for with all his exertion, only a few hundred were ready to follow his fortune.
The conciliatory agreement made by Wilkinson on the Sabine, disconcerted the projects of Burr, and disappointed him in his expectations. Had he been honest in his views, he ought to have rejoiced at the continuance of peace, and immediately disbanded his followers. But instead of this he still exerted himself to procure men, and the muniments of war, and gradually unfolded new schemes, subversive of the interests and peace of the U. States. These were doubtless formed long before, as will appear from the disclosure of gen. Baton. Wilkinson first became acquainted with them while on the Sabine, partly from the written declarations of Burr's declarations of Burr, and partly from the communications of his spies and adherents. Whatever were the private sentiments of Wilkinson, relative to a Spanish war, no sooner had he concluded the Sabine convention, than his duty compelled him to frustrate the hostile movements of unauthorized individuals, and to arrest them for trial. What then was his astonishment when he found that Burr still persisted in his project, and even attempted to allure him by a bribe! Much greater must have been his astonishment when he found that Burr had either deceived him, or had relinquished his original design; and that instead of aiding the U. States, he contemplated a separation of the union, and the seizure of N. Orleans as preparatory to it. He then repaired to the defence of the capital—and at a convenient time denounced Burr as a conspirator and traitor.
Gen. Wilkinson was early apprised of these hostile projects; but he deemed it prudent to keep the knowledge of them to himself. The people were ignorant of the design of Burr; and hence the anxiety of Wilkinson to put N. Orleans in a state of defence, without any apparent danger, excited much surprise among the friends of government.
His measures on the other hand were secretly approved by the conspirators, who numbered him among the friends of Burr, and readily conceived that all his preparations were intended for the advantage of their chief, and his partisans. But no sooner had he publicly declared the situation of affairs, than the conspirators opened all their batteries on him, and in their turn denounced him as a traitor to Burr. The situation of Wilkinson at this moment was critical, not only as it respected his personal safety, but as it respected the security of his country. True it is, that he was deceived as to the number of men under Burr—but he was not deceived as to the object of the conspirators, and the multitude of them in the heart of New Orleans and its vicinity. These circumstances served to augment the weight of his responsibility. He saw himself surrounded with difficulties; and he also saw, that any line of conduct he was able to pursue, would draw after it a multitude of complaints, and expose him to censure. He therefore wisely resolved to pursue such measures as he deemed the most likely to frustrate the objects of the conspirators, and of course to save his country, regardless of consequences.
In the political, as in the animal economy, violent diseases require violent remedies. In a crisis of public danger, the ordinary course of justice is interrupted; the courts of law are paralyzed; and when the judges of them favor the enemies of their country, the binding force of the laws and constitution is suspended; the food-gates of anarchy and civil war are opened; and the temple of freedom is in danger of destruction, unless voluntarily defended by its friends and admirers. I well know the nature and importance of the habeas corpus act. In England, it is called the second Magna Charta; and in the U. S. it is justly denominated the palladium of public liberty. Situated as Wilkinson was, he had only the choice of two things—either to submit to the writ of habeas corpus; to surrender the conspirators as fast as he arrested them under the proclamation of the President, and the next hour to see them at large in the execution of their treasonable projects; or to disobey the mandate of the law, and thereby to prevent a civil war, and perhaps a dismemberment of the union. In this case the choice was not easy; serious difficulties presented themselves on every side; though at that time the probability was, that not only more censure would attach itself to gen. Wilkinson from an obedience to the law than a temporary violation of it; but that some great public calamity would ensue as the consequence of legal submission.
If, by the prudent maxims of a well regulated government, no one be permitted to employ a criminal action as a lawful means to attain an end in itself good, those of nature are paramount and arm man and nations with the right of self preservation. When a nation is menaced by enemies, whether internal or external its situation resembles that of a man, who is attacked by his neighbor, and is in manifest danger of his life. In neither of these cases can tardy operations of judicial authority afford any relief: The nation may be attacked, or the man may perish, before the sword of criminal justice can be drawn for their protection. Neither of them is obliged to wait for an attack; the danger, if it be manifest, is sufficient to authorize the means of security, even to the destruction of the aggressor. And hence it is, that, among all nations, the right of self defence, as derived from nature, and never surrendered to society, remains perfect in the individual, and in bodies of men, and is in no degree impaired by political or civil regulations. If, therefore, a man may justly take the life of his neighbor, when his own cannot be saved without it, the same right devolves on nations under the like circumstances. And if to save themselves, they can justly attack and destroy other nations, with how much more propriety can rebels and traitors be attacked, and deprived of the means of injuring their country! I contend that these principles are correct; our hearts approve them; they are to be found in every treatise on the laws of nature and nations; and it only remains to apply them to the conduct of general Wilkinson.
An attack was not actually made; but it was mediated under circumstances calculated to inspire terror and dismay. There was good reason to believe that a large army was on its way to attack New Orleans, to seize on public and private property, and to dismember the

union. What served to increase the danger, was the belief that some foreign nation had furnished the conspirators with the means of offensive operations; that many of the conspirators had clandestinely placed themselves among the people with a design to corrupt them; that sentiments hostile to our national interests and security, were secretly propagated; and that the judges of the courts, designed to protect the body sanctuary of the laws, profaned it by shielding rebels and traitors from their merited punishment.
Under these circumstances, an awful responsibility devolved on Gen. Wilkinson; and, as I before intimated, he found himself obliged, either to disobey the law, or tamely to suffer the conspirators, like a cloud of locusts, to swarm around him, and to gather strength, when prompt and energetic measures were necessary to weaken and disperse them. He was also too far removed from the seat of government to consult the executive on every emergency; and therefore governed himself as nearly as possible by the proclamation; resolved to arrest the conspirators, as well as their means, and to refer them to trial. It therefore seems to follow, that Gen. Wilkinson had a right to employ such means as were necessary to the end in view—the safety of the country. A great and imminent danger existed: not sufficient, indeed, to authorize the destruction of life; but it imperiously urged Gen. Wilkinson to abridge the conspirators of their liberty, and to secure them for trial. If New Orleans did not afford this security, (and I believe it did not) who will contend that their transportation to the Atlantic states was not a prudent measure, and authorized by the events of the day?—It therefore appears to me, that the conduct of Gen. Wilkinson may be defended on the principles of self-protection and of self-preservation.
I am well aware, that in a court of justice, neither the danger, nor the circumstances, however great and imperious, under which Gen. Wilkinson laboured, will amount to a legal justification of the measures he has taken; because the judges and jurors are fettered by certain forms and rules, prescribed by the laws, and better calculated for the reign of peace, than for tumultuary times of anarchy and rebellion. Perhaps those who are arrested, and transported to the Atlantic states, may sustain action of damages against him; perhaps too, he may be indicted and fined for a violation of the laws. These things are of too little moment to effect his character; nor can they impair the purity of his motives; much less will they serve to dignify, as impious and unnecessary, the measures he has pursued. To a much more elevated tribunal, to that of the public, he appeals for decision on his conduct. The citizens of this great community are his judges—and if he be honourably acquitted by them, the verdicts of inferior jurisdictions will be more tolerable: otherwise he will derive pleasure from conscious rectitude, and pride himself in the public services he has rendered—tho' thousands, who experience the benefits of them, should attempt to load him with obloquy and reproach.
WASHINGTON, May 6. [We received the following letter by yesterday's mail, from New-Orleans.] FOR THE PUBLIC.
MR. SMITH, I pronounce a letter imputed to Gen. John Adair, and said to be addressed to the Kentucky delegation in Congress, to be a vile and infamous fabrication—and I am able to prove by the testimony of Ralston and Floyd, two of Burr's associates, that general Adair left Nashville with Burr's knowledge and direction, and visited this city for the express purpose of co-operating with said Burr.
New-Orleans, April 21, 1807. JAMES WILKINSON. N. B. The substance of this letter was noticed in your paper some time since. J. W.
Two hundred and thirty-one American vessels arrived at the Port of Amsterdam, from Jan. 1, to Dec. 31, 1806, viz:—
 From Baltimore 56 From Plymouth 2  Boston 27 Portsmouth 4  Beverly 1 Providence 5  Charleston 16 Newport 2  Georgetown 2 Salem 4  Newburyport 7 Savannah 2  New Orleans 2 Virginia 2  New York 65 Wilmington 1  Norfolk 5 Batavia 1  Philadelphia 23 Canton 4 
IMPORTANT INSURANCE DECISION IN THE DISTRICT COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA. MONDAY, MAY 4.
The argument of Marshall vs. the Delaware Insurance Company , on the case of the Rolla , was closed this morning, and judgment given for the defendants—"that they are only liable for an average loss." The principles of the decision are highly important, deciding, for the first time, expressly,
1. That the state of the fact, not of the intelligence, at the time of the abandonment, must decide the question of total or average loss. 2. That capture and restitution before abandonment , though not known here, defeats the claim for a total loss. 3. That the property being safe, although not actually in the possession of the assured, the right to abandon, and claim as for a total loss, cannot be exercised, at a period subsequent, with or without notice of the fact here. On this point, however, Judge Washington only declared the leaning of his mind; as he thought the fact of actual restitution to the assured, before the hour of abandonment, sufficiently established by the evidence in the case of the Rolla .
CHARLESTON, April 27. Captain HUBEL, arrived this morning, left at Madeira, on the 10th March, Sir Samuel Hood, with four sail of the line and a frigate, to sail the next day, supposed on a secret expedition.—A frigate having on board Lord MINO, Governor of India, touched at Madeira on the 8th March.
The Charleston Times of the 29th ult. says, "Just as we were putting our paper to press, Capt. SMITH arrived from Rotterdam, whence he failed March 23, but unfortunately brought no papers. He mentions as the report of the day, that Bonaparte was RETREATING."
CHARLESTON, May 2. On Thursday last, anchored in this harbor, his Britannic Majesty's sloop of war, DRIVER , capt. LOVE. It will be recollected, that this is one of the vessels which was in company with the ship LEANDER , capt. WHITBY, at the time that John Parree was killed by a shot fired from the LEANDER ; and in consequence thereof, was, by the Proclamation of the President, ordered to depart from the waters of the U. States, and interdicted from ever again entering.
ing them, or receiving any aid and supplies contrary to the prohibition contained in the said proclamation. City Gaz.
COMMUNICATION. The public have already been informed, that the British sloop of war Driver , a vessel interdicted by the President from ever entering our harbors, anchored on Thursday last abreast of Fort Johnson. Two United States Officers of that fort waited upon the governor, on Friday, to consult with him on measures necessary to be taken to expel her from the port; his Excellency was not at home. On Saturday the Commandant at Fort Johnson addressed a letter to the commanding officer of the said vessel, of which the following is a copy:—
Fort Johnson, Harbor of Charleston 4 P. M. of May 2.
SIR, The President of the United States of America, having by proclamation, bearing date 3d May, 1806, for ever interdicted his Britannic Majesty's sloop of war Driver , from entering any port or harbour of the U. States; and the said vessel having entered this port, in contempt of the said proclamation, my duty compels me to demand that the Driver sloop of war do depart from this harbour within twenty-four hours from the date hereof.
Need I add, Sir, how repugnant it would be to my feelings, should any blood be spilt, which must inevitably be the case, if this communication be not complied with?
Lieutenant WYNDHAM of the Artillery, is charged with the delivery of this; he will receive your reply. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, MICHAEL KALTEISEN, Captain Commanding.
To the Commanding Officer of his Britannic Majesty's sloop Driver .
May 5. We understand that Lieut. Wyndham, of the United States Artillery, is ordered to proceed immediately to the Seat of Government, with dispatches relative to the British sloop of war Driver , now in this port.
There are now in this city a number of distinguished personages, the emperor of the quids and his prime minister Heer Vhon Bohlman; the British ambassador for the time being ; the Spanish ambassador that was in times past ; the Spanish ambassador that is to be in times to come . The king of the Gadobles is hourly expected in town, prince Yelp having departed a few days since to escort his majesty. Aurora, May 7.
The Enquirer. RICHMOND, 15th May.
The writings of Godwin are well known in this country: His Novels of Caleb Williams, and St. Leon are distinguished by a spirit of Eloquence. Invention and pathos, which must ever entitle them to an elevated rank amidst the works of Imagination. His Essays of the Enquirer are uncommonly useful, as disquisitions on the topics of common life; and his Political Justice, in spite of its visionary theories, and dangerous doctrines is perhaps the boldest, and the most original work on political subjects which ever appeared from the Press. It contains valuable truths: and perhaps there is no work extant, which exhibits a more glowing defence of Liberty, or a more nervous attack upon all privileged systems. It is much to be desired, that these parts of his work could be separated from his political and moral theories, and published by themselves. Such is the man who has composed the following noble and sublime Eulogy on Charles Fox; the most eloquent and correct which we have yet seen issued from the press.
From the Dublin Evening Post. TO THE EDITOR.
SIR, You will, if you think proper, insert the enclosed in your paper, and subscribe it with my name. It is an unengaged statement of what I think of the character of our late deceased minister, taken in a single point of view. In writing it I have dismissed from my mind all temporary feelings of regret, and expressed myself with the severity and plainness of a different posterity. I have nothing to do with administration, and have scarcely a slight acquaintance with a few of its members. My character, such as it is, and my disposition, are subjects of notoriety; and every one, capable of judging righteous judgment, has a tolerably found idea respecting them. Perhaps then, even my testimony, individual and uninfluenced as it necessarily is, may not be an acceptable tribute to the memory of the great man we deplore.
I am, Sir, Your obedient servant, W. GODWIN. London, Oct. 21, 1806.
CHARACTER OF MR. FOX. Charles James Fox was for 32 years a principal leader in the debates and discussions of the English house of commons. The eminent transactions of his life lay within those walls; and so many of his countrymen as were accustomed to hear his speeches there, or have habitually read the abstracts which have been published of them, are in possession of the principal materials by which this extraordinary man is to be judged.
Fox is the most illustrious model of a parliamentary leader on the side of liberty that this country has produced.—This character is the appropriate glory of England, and Fox is the proper example of this character.
sentiments of freedom unfolded and amplified in more animated language, or in a more consistent tenor, than in the recorded parliamentary debates of Fox. Many have called in question his prudence, and the practicability of his politics in some of their branches—none have succeeded in fixing a stain upon the truly English temper of his heart.
The reason why Fox so much excelled in this reign Wm. Pittney, and other eminent leaders of opposition, in the reign of George II. was, that his heart beat in accord to the sentiments of liberty.—The character of the English nation has improved since the year 1760. The two first kings of the house of Hanover, did not aspire to the praise of encouragers of English literature, and had no passion for the fine arts; and their minister, Sir Robert Walpole, loved nothing, nor pretended to understand anything but finance, commerce, and peace, and his opponents caught their tone from him, and their debates rather resembled those of the directors of a great trading company, than of men who were concerned with the passions, the morals, the ardent sentiments, and the religion of a generous and enlightened nation. The English seemed fast degenerating into such a people as the Dutch; but Burke and Fox, and other eminent characters not necessary to be mentioned here, redeemed us from the eminent depravity, and lent their efforts to make us the worthy inhabitants of a soil, which had produced a Shakespeare, a Bacon, and a Milton.
Fox, in addition to the generous feelings of his heart, possessed in the supreme degree the powers of an acute logician. He seized, with astonishing rapidity, the defects of his antagonist's arguments, and held them up in the most striking point of ridicule. He never had misrepresented what his opponent had said, or attacked his accidental oversights, but fairly met and routed him when he thought himself strongest. Though he had at no time studied law as a profession, he never entered the lists in reasoning with a lawyer, that he did not show himself superior to the gowned pleader at his own weapons. It was this singular junction of the best feelings of the human heart, with the acutest powers of human understanding, that made Mr. Fox the wonderful creature he was.
Let us compare William Pitt in office and Charles James Fox out of it, and endeavor to decide upon their respective claims to the gratitude of posterity. Pitt was surrounded with all that can dazzle the eye of a vulgar spectator: he possessed the plenitude of power; during a part of his reign, he was as nearly despotic as the minister of a mixed government can be, he dispensed the gifts of the crown; he commanded the purse of the nation—he wielded the political strength of England. Fox during almost all his life had no part of these advantages.
It has been said that Pitt preferred his country from the anarchy and confusion, which from a neighboring nation threatened to infect us. This is a very doubtful position. It is by no means clear that the English people could ever have engaged in so wild, indiscriminate, ferocious, and sanguinary a train of conduct as was exhibited by the people of France. It is by no means clear that the end which Pitt is said to have gained, could not have been accomplished without such bloody wars, such formidable innovations on the liberty of Englishmen—such duplicity, unhallowed dexterity and treachery, and so audacious a defection of all the principles with which the minister commenced his political life, as Pitt employed. Meanwhile it was the simple, ingenuous, and manly office of Fox, to protect against the mad and the despotic proceedings of his rival in administration: and if he could not successfully counteract the measures of Pitt, the honour at least is due to him, to have brought out the English character not fundamentally impaired, in the issue of the most arduous trial it was ever called to sustain.
The eloquence of these two renowned Statesmen well correspond with the different parts they assumed in public life. The eloquence of Pitt was cold and artificial.—The complicated, yet harmonious structure of his periods, bespoke the man of contrivance and study. No man knew so well as Pitt how to answer the questions of his adversary without communicating the smallest information. He was never taken off his guard. If Pitt ever appeared in some eyes to grow warm as he proceeded, it was with a measured warmth—there was no starts and sallies, and sudden emanations of the soul; he seemed to be as much under the minutest regulation in the most vehement swellings and apostrophes of his speech, as in the coldest calculations.
Mr. Fox, as an Orator, appeared to come immediately from the forming hand of nature. He spoke well, because he felt strongly and earnestly. His oratory was clear and impetuous as the current of the river Rhone; nothing could arrest its course. His voice would intensify to too high a key; he would run himself out of breath. Every thing showed how little artifice there was in his eloquence. Though on all great occasions he was throughout energetic, yet it was by sudden flashes and emanations that he electrified the heart, and shot through the blood of his hearer. I have seen his countenance lighten up with more than mortal ardor and goodness; I have been present when his voice has become suffocated with the sudden bursting forth of a torrent of tears.
The love of freedom which marks the public proceedings of Fox, is exactly analogous to the natural temper of his mind: he seemed born for the cause which his talents were employed to support. He was the most unassuming of mankind.—He was so far from dictating to others, that it was often imputed to him, tho' perhaps erroneously, that he suffered others to dictate to him. No man ever existed more simple in his manners, more single-hearted, or less artificial in his carriage.—The set phrases of what is called polished life, made no part of his ordinary speech; he courted no man; he practiced adulation to none. Nothing was in more diametrical opposition to the affected, than the whole of his behaviour. His feelings in themselves, and in the expression of them, were, in the most honorable sense of the word, childlike. Various anecdotes might be related of his innocent and defenceless manners in private and familiar life, which would form the most striking contrast with the vulgar notion of the studied and designing demeanour of a Statesman. This was the man that was formed to defend the liberties of Englishmen: his public and private life are beautiful parts of a consistent whole, and reflect mutual lustre on each other.
To conclude, Fox was the great ornament of the kingdom of England during the latter part of the eighteenth century. What he did is the due result of the illumination of the present age, and of the character of our ancestors for ages past. Pitt (if I may be excused for mentioning him once again) was merely a Statesman, he was formed to seize occasions, to possess himself of power, and to act with consummate craft upon every occurrence that arose. He belonged to ancient Carthage; he belonged to modern Italy; but there is nothing in him that expressly belongs to England. Fox on the contrary—mark how he outlines his rival; how little acquisition of power adds to the in-
trinsic character of the man! is all over English. He is the mirror of the national character of the age in which he lived; its best, its purest, its most honorable representative. No creature can be more genuine feelings of an Englishman, can recollect without emotions of exultation, the temper, the endowments, and the public conduct of Fox.
COMMUNICATION. The cause and manner of the late change of administration in England furnish some curious commentaries on her boasted constitution. It seems that a single individual, of very contemptible talents, is enabled "to excommunicate four millions of human beings" from the highest civil, military and naval departments—because they happen to differ from him in certain articles of religious faith. This man is called a king.
This influence does not, however, stop here. He is not only entitled to put his Veto upon such a measure by arresting the bill, AFTER it has passed both houses of Parliament; but to prevent its introduction or discussion before Parliament. Such is the miserable constitution of the House of Commons, the only boasted depository of English freedom! A minister first purchases a majority of votes in this body by means of rotten boroughs or bribing rotten members; and then the influence of his majesty over his ministry completely subjects this majority to his influence. If his ministry should be disposed to object to his measures, he may possibly control them by a threat of the loss of their places; and if they appear completely unmanageable, he may proceed to carry his threats into execution. If they therefore retain their places, they completely sacrifice their principles to the king; if they retain their principles, they sacrifice their places. In the first case, his majesty controls the majority of the Commons: in the second, he displaces his old ministry, that he may appoint a new one more obsequious to his wishes, and equally ready with the first to employ all the influence of the offices of the crown to purchase a majority for his majesty.
And not even here does this influence cease. If the majority of the Commons are too independent in themselves or too much attached to their former patrons, to desert them for his majesty, he has a new expedient for recovering his influence. He may dissolve his parliament; in other words, he may turn every representative out of office, who has been appointed by the people to take care of their interests. Then come the writs for a new Parliament, which is to be more obsequious than the old one. Then come the same arts into play, which secured a majority for the old ministry; the same corruption over the liege lords of the Burroughs; the same corruption of the electors in those burroughs, where the liege lords are too honest to be bribed, or too weak to control the election; the same corrupt purchase of the members' votes, after they have been duly returned.
The proceedings connected with the Roman Catholic bill, seem not to have been sufficiently understood.
In the year 1793, the Irish Parliament passed the Irish Catholic bill, by which the Catholics of Ireland were enabled to hold certain commissions in the Army, on taking a particular oath. There were other high commissions however from which they were still excluded; as commander in chief of the army, master general of the ordnance, and general on the staff. Still the Catholics of England could not hold any commissions; and the Irish Catholics, who could hold them in their own Ireland, were liable to penalties, if called to England to perform their military duties.
Some of the London prints state, that his majesty was informed, when the measure was first proposed to him, that it was simply intended to put the Catholics of England upon the same footing with those of Ireland. The poor ignorant Monarch was completely deluded; or perhaps did not at all understand the subject.
When the bill was brought into Parliament, it was then seen to embrace a wider compass: it not only to extend the provisions of the act of '93 to England, but to destroy all the disabilities recognized by that act: In other words to abolish the Test generally as to the army or navy, and as far as it respected the Catholics. It was even predicted by its opponents, that it would ultimately embrace all the civil offices; of course, that a Catholic might at last be privileged to hold the highest situations of the law; be lord Chancellor himself and keeper of the king's conscience. And this revolution would even at last extend to the Dissenters as well as the Catholics .
It is useless for us to inquire into the propriety of such a measure; as nothing in this country appears more ridiculous in the eye of reason and of justice, than to shackled the liberty of conscience, by any kind of political disability to any order of men.
His sage majesty however at last discovered his mistake: and his ministry were the first victims of his resentment.
The Author of War in Disguise has just published a pamphlet in England, under the Title of "Dangers of the Country." It is divided into two Parts; the first being written, soon after the ruin of the Prussian Army was certainly known in England, and when it was supposed that he would be again left alone in the war.
The First Part expatiates on the Dangers to be apprehended by England, if she should be conquered by France.—Of course, the author begins with the proposition that she may be conquered by that formidable power.—Among these consequences, he enumerates, 1st. The usurpation or destruction of the throne. 2d. Overthrow of the constitution. 3d. Subversion of liberty and laws. 4th. Destruction of the funds, and ruin of property in general. 5th. Dreadful extent and effects of the contributions that would be exacted. 6th. The vigorous and merciless Government that would certainly ensue. 7th. The subversion of religious liberties. 8th. Dreadful corruption of morals.
The Second Part expatiates on the Means , by which these Dangers may be averted. These are principally military vigor, patience, unanimity & reformation.—In speaking on the first point, the author draws the outline of a plan, which is similar to the one proposed by Mr. Jefferson during the Congress of 1805.—6. Every man, of a certain age, who was able, was to bear arms; The limitation of age to be from 17 to 45: The men to be divided into three classes; the first, composed of men between 17 & 25; the second, of men between 25 & 35; the third, of men between 35 & 45.—Under the head of reformation , the author particularly recommends the abolition of the Slave Trade , which he "firmly believes to be more essential to the salvation of the country, than her volunteers, her navy or her army." This is a force of political superstition, which is untrue, in itself, and unworthy of the author's discernment.
A SECOND OMEN.—The following Standing Test was drunk on the 7th inst. at the Anniversary of the Incorporated "True Republican Society," at Philadelphia:—
"The vice-president of the United States—the veteran in service, and in principle, delivers the first station among freemen; may such be his next lot. 6 cheers— Stony point ."
Col. BURN returned to this city, in last Evening's Stage.
Mr. SULLIVAN is elected Governor of the State of Massachusetts by a majority of 3594.
Letters from Spain by a late arrival say, that a very considerable altercation has taken place in the court of Madrid, in relation to the affairs pending between that nation and the United States—and that all differences are expected to be terminated by a negotiation said to be going on. Aurora.
BROAD ROCK RACES.
First Day. Mr. Wormley's b. b. Stump the Dealer 1 2 2 Mr. Ball's s. b. Sweet Lips 2 1 1 Mr. Mehy's b. g. Monticello 3 D is Second Day. Mr. Wormley's g. b. Paragon 1 1 Mr. Ball's b. b. Brandy 2 2
Sales at Auction.
On Friday the 15th inst. will be sold, at the office of the subscribers, for the benefit of the underwriters and others concerned, without reserve, W No. 1—A cask containing Medicine, and sundry other articles, damaged on board the ship Rolla , capt. Gary, from London. Terms cash. TAYLOR & BROWN, V. M. May 15. tdf.
SPRING GOODS.
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE RECEIVED THEIR SPRING GOODS, By the ship Rolla , from London, and United States, and Romp , from Liverpool.
—AMONGST WHICH ARE— BEST 7-4 Superfine Cotton Kerseymeres and Cloths & Kerseymeres, Cotten and thread Laces, mers, Dimities and Mullins, Drab Satin and Black patent Hats, Calicoes, and Morocco, Best Black Beaver and Hats and Caps, Drab Hats, Kenting's Bedticks, and Gentlemen's brown Cotton and Linen thread Hose, extra size, Checks, Brown and white Cotton do. Smith's Bellows, Anvils and Vices, Black and white patent Silk, do. Malt Mills, Large Spades and Coal Black and white Ribbed do. do. Shovels, Black and white plain, Large Matresses, striped with hair, do. do. Rolls and Osnaburgs, Ladies Stockings of all kinds, Hoes and Scythe Blades, all kinds. Marlees Quiltings, all kinds.
A few boxes choice Irish Linens, and 5-4 Sheetings, purchased in Dublin with cash. All of which will be sold low for cash, or country produce to good customers. ELLIS & ALLAN. A few fleets new Music, for the Piano-Force. May 15. ep9w.
FITZWYLLSONN & POTTER, Have just received from London, a large supply of STATIONERY, which, with the stock formerly on hand, makes up an extensive assortment of
WRITING Paper, for blank Books, of all sizes, and of the very first quality, Various kinds of foolscap and letter Paper, Hot-pressed post, gilt and plain, Elegant embossed and plain visiting Cards, Drawing Books, Pencils and Water-Colors, Genuine Writing, Marking and Copying Ink, Fie's Quills, Sealing-Wax and Wafers, Chessmen and playing Cards, Improved Globes, Excellent Pen-knives, A large collection of Music, Fashionable Paper-hangings, &c &c. Their stock of Day-Books, Journals and Ledgers, and of other Blank-Books, for County Courts, Sheriffs, and private Gentlemen, is very extensive, and warranted of the best materials. They have also an assortment of School-Books, of approved editions, and some esteemed works on the different subjects of Law, Physic, Divinity and Miscellaneous Literature. May 15. law3m.
MAP OF VIRGINIA.
THE subscribers to the MAP OF VIRGINIA, are respectfully informed that some copies of the work are now ready for delivery; and may be furnished by calling on Mr. John Pumphrey, Stationer & Bookbinder, whom we have appointed our agent for the city of Richmond.
No time shall be lost to furnish the whole of our subscribers as well as purchasers. THE PROPRIETORS. May 15. 3w.
THE SUBSCRIBER
HAVING taken one of Mr. Robert Mitchell's tenements, a few doors below the market, has on hand, and intends keeping, a general assortment of GROceries, which he will sell on very reasonable terms for cash. JNO. H. STROBIA. May 15. 3t.
The upper part of the House, with a convenient Yard and Kitchen to rent—enquire of J. H. S.
FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away about the 10th of April, JESSE, (who calls himself TURNBULL) about thirty-five years old, five feet six or eight inches high, slender made, and remarkably black; has a scar on one cheek, about the size of a quarter dollar, and several fore-teeth out. The said fellow formerly had a wife in Manchester, and to whom he belongs, it is not recollected, where I expect he is harbored: as he has been seen in the neighborhood of Richmond and Manchester, with a pass. Any person who will deliver said negro, or secure him in jail, so that I get him, shall receive the above reward, and all reasonable charges, paid by
MARY B. DRUMMOND. Amherst county, within two miles } Greenway, May 15. 3t.
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.
THE Stock holders in this Company, are requested to take notice, that the first Monday in next month is the day of their annual meeting, under the charter which is appointed to be held at the Eagle-tavern, in Richmond, at the hour of ten o'clock.—It is hoped that the members will be punctual in their attendance, as there is business of importance to the Company to be done. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. May 15. tf.
THE SUBSCRIBER
IS desirous to sell a part of his LOT, on the main-street nearly opposite the Court-House, say from twenty-two to forty four feet in front, and extending one hundred and sixty five feet back, it is an eligible situation and worthy the attention of any person who wishes to whom to purchase for the purpose of building thereon. The terms will be made known on application to RICHARD THOMPSON. April 7.
Printing, IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE ENQUIRER.

Miscellaneous
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
THE manner in which the late commotions, in the air and earth, are mentioned in the Enquirer of the 3d inst.
The hail-storm which happened on Wednesday evening the 29th ultimo, was of short duration in the county of duration in the county of Cumberland, but was very extensive and more severe in other parts.
It may not be deemed by the curious unworthy of remark, that this singular and awful phenomenon was preceded by all the premonitory signs, so accurately described by the learned and indefatigable Mr. Webster.
The sudden appearance of a worm, early last summer in the wheat and corn-fields, on the Roanoke, James-river and elsewhere, in such multitudes as to threaten the total destruction of the growing crops.
And lastly, the pestilential fever, which became epidemic, about the same time, in the middle and upper country, may undoubtedly be enumerated among the other alarming premonitions.
The quantity of vapour, in the form of rain and snow, in the course of the winter past in this state, has exceeded all example, within the memory of man.
In the county of Amherst, a shower of rain fell the last summer, which in 3 or 4 hours was equal to 12 inches perpendicular height of solid water!
Cumberland County, Va.
The fossils, which abound on this continent and more particularly in Virginia and Kentucky, must render every discussion on their existence and origin interesting to our naturalists.
Cuvier, the French naturalist, continues, with undiminished zeal and equal success, to prosecute his researches concerning the fossil remains of different animals.
Some bones of this kind were discovered several years ago in a cavern situated in the county of Green-Brier, in Virginia.
Mr. Jefferson gave a description of these fossil bones, in a memoir read before the Society of Philadelphia, on the 10th of March, 1797.
It appears to have been more than five feet in height, and to have exceeded nine hundred pounds in weight.
Cuvier having received lately from Prof. de Beauvoir one of the teeth of this animal, and from Peale a few models of several of its bones, became convinced that it must have belonged to the genus Elephas .
There are contained in the cabinet of Madrid, large portions of the skeletons of the Megalonyx , which were sent in 1799 by Loreto, Viceroy of Buenos Ayres.
The Megalonyx appears to have a striking resemblance to the Megalonyx , but it must have been of much larger size.
Dedon has given an account of different fossil bones of mammalia discovered in Languedoc, and particularly of a fine fossil head, at present in the cabinet of Dree.
larily of a fine fossil head, at present in the cabinet of Dree, which, according to Cuvier, must have belonged to an animal of that genus, which is now only met with in South America.
Besides the labors of Cuvier on this curious and interesting subject, many distinguished naturalists have been adducing in their researches respecting fossil bones and vegetables.
Lamarck has given, in the Annals of the Museum, a description of the Fossil Bones in the vicinity of Paris.
The following are the results of all the facts at present known in this department of natural history.
1. There are a small number of fossil shells absolutely similar to those of animals at present existing, among which the following are in the possession of Delametherie.
2. There are a still greater number of shells which differ very little from the shells of existing animals.
3. The greatest number of fossil shells yet discovered bear no resemblance to the shells of animals existing at the present day, at least to those which we are acquainted with, because the history of conchology is yet in its infancy, and travellers each day enrich our collections with new and unknown species.
Among various fossil vegetables discovered by Faujas, in beds of marle, beneath basaltic strata of more than six hundred feet in thickness, exact resemblances of the following species were recognized.
With respect to the fossil remains of animals and vegetables, the learned world are at present greatly divided in opinion.
The light differences observable between bones in other respects perfectly similar, cannot then afford sufficient grounds to conclude that they belong to animals of a different species.
The following results are fairly deducible from the facts already known on this interesting subject.
1. There are a considerable number of fossils analogous to existing animals and vegetables.
2. There are likewise a great number of which we have no existing resemblances.
3. Climate, temperature, food, multiplication of different races, new hybrid species, &c. have in the progress of time produced considerable changes among existing species.
4. Some new species have been produced, since observers suppose they have discovered new species of animalcules upon the larger species of animals.
5. There remains not a doubt that several species have been destroyed by the drying up of extensive lakes and inland seas, by the destructive agency of civilized man, and by particular accidents.
For example, we are informed by Bole, that the Dina muscipula has only hitherto been found in the small space of two or three square leagues, in North America.
The candor, giraffe, &c. are now reduced to a very small number of individuals, and might with the greatest ease be wholly extirpated.
All the feeble species of animals at present existing in New-Holland, such as the kangaroo, &c. will, it is highly probable, wholly disappear on the peopling of that country.
On the whole, therefore, geologists ought never to lose sight of these facts, in comparing fossil remains with living animals and vegetables.
To the Editor of the London Times.
SIR—As many persons have lately lost their lives in a very deplorable way, and many more their cattle, by the terrible effects of the hydrophobia.
Though I cannot explain how this worming operates, yet I have constantly observed, that if a puppy be wormed, it will immediately leave off that propensity it has to bite and gnaw every thing within its reach.
I shall conclude by begging of any of your readers who may have had occasion to observe the effects of worming dogs, to favour the public with such observations as may be the result of their experience.
PHILANTHROPOS.
We have already published the Lyre of Montgomery, one of the modern English poets, and author of the Wanderer in Switzerland.
the irregularity of the measure, which begins to characterize the modern poets. Such is the metre of Southey; such, of Montgomery.
THE SNOW DROP.
By JAMES MONTGOMERY.
Winter! retire; Thy reign is past; Hoary Sire! Yield the sceptre of thy sway, Sound thy trumpet in the blast, And call thy forms away.
Like a pretty, sportive child, On the winter-wasted field, With thy darling breeze at play, Opening to the radiant sky All the sweets of thine eye.
O thou Fairy Queen of flowers! Watch thee o'er the plain advance At the head of Flora's dance.
Simple snow-drop! then in thee All thy gifts. train I see.
Every brilliant bud that blows, From the blue-bell to the rose; All the beauties that appear On the bosom of the year.
All that wreath the locks of Spring, Summer's sardent breath perfume, Or on the lap of Autumn bloom.
All to their their tribute bring: Exhale their incense at thy shrine, Their hues, their odors all are thine!
For while thy humble form I view, The Muse's keen prophetic light Brings fair futurity to light, And fancy's magic makes the vision true.
There is a winter in my soul The winter of despair; O when shall Spring its rage control?
When shall the snow-drop blossom there? Cold gleam of comfort sometimes dart A dawn of glory on my heart, But quickly pass away.
Thus Northern-lights the gloom adorn, And gives the promise of a morn, That never turns to day?
But hark! methinks I hear A small shrill whisper in mine ear:
"Rash youth! repent, Afflictions from above
"Are Angels, sent On embassies of Love.
"A fiery Legion, at thy birth, Of chastening woes were given,
"To pluck thy flowers of Hope from earth, And plant them high
"O'er yonder sky, Transform'd to stars—and fix'd in heaven."
By Authority.
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT
For the relief of Oliver Pollock.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorized to liquidate and settle the account of Oliver Pollock, formerly commercial agent for the United States at New Orleans, and they allow him for his expenses of detention at the Havana.
Approved, TH. JEFFERSON.
March 3, 1807.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
S. SMITH, President of the Senate, pro tempore.
TH. JEFFERSON.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of French David, dec'd. are requested to bring them forward well authenticated.
JOHN F. PRICE, Adm'r.
May 8.
LONDON SHOES.
THE subscriber offers for sale, a large assortment of Ladies Satin, Kid and Morocco Slips and Ties, with and without heels, of London manufacture.
May 8. Store 2nd door above the Eagle-Tavern.
W. HAIGHT.
URHOLSTERER & PAPER-HANGER, From New-York, on the main street, nearly opposite the old City Tavern, has just received a large and superb assortment of MAHOGANY Furniture.
May 8. 1aw3w.
HATS, SHOES, &c.
The Subscriber has just received and offers for sale, a full and complete assortment of HATS.
GENTLEMEN'S belt drab and black beavers, Castors, and Rorums, broad and narrow brims, do. do. black Satin beavers, light and plant, glazed livery hats and bands, women's and youth's do.
SHOES.
Ladies Kid, Morocco and Leather ties and flips, Gentlemen's superfine dress and common Shoes.
He has also on hand, a few pieces first quality COGNAC BRANDY and 20 boxes New-York moug CANDLES.
A large supply of Philadelphia bottled Porter and Cyder, Claret and Port Wine in bottles.
D. J. BURR, Second door above the Eagle-Tavern. 1aw8w.
FOR SALE.
By the Subscriber, Brandy, Molasses, Loaf & Brown Sugar, Coffee and Chocolate, Best Imperial and Hyson Tea, Pepper, Race and ground Ginger, Nutmegs & Cloves, Windsor shaving Soap, Linseed, and Lamp Oil, White Lead and Spanish Brown, Yellow Ochre, Patent Green ground in oil, 8 by 10 & 10 by 12 Window Glass, 24, 34, 44, 64, 84, 104 & 204 Nails and Spike do. Barr Iron of all descriptions, square, flat and round Plowplates, German Steel, Fire dogs & Skillets, Powder and Shot, Liverpool fine Salt for pork, best Hales Salt for Port, Saltpetre & Brimstone, 600 pair Mens thick Shoes, mens fine shoes, boys do. Ladies Kid and Morocco Slippers, Table Linen and Irish meeting, Bare Skin, blue and mixed Plains, Patent Cord and Thicksets, Writing and Wrapping Paper, Paste Board, Cotton and Wool Cards, a few barrels Mackarel, Novacotia Herrings, do. Grindstones.
Also, just received from Boston, One Piano Forte, and one elegant Piano Forte with additional keys.
The above articles will be sold cheap for cash or country produce, or 60 days note at the bank.
BENJ. STETSON. oaw3m.
JAMES WORRALL.
HAS lately received a general and carefully assorted stock of Drugs, Medicines, Paints, Patent Medicines, &c. which he offers for sale, at the first corner store, above the Eagle Tavern, lately occupied by Messrs. Pickett, Pollard and Johnson.
His articles have been selected of the first quality, and will be put up with the greatest care and exactness, on the lowest possible terms.
The whole of his compound medicines, have been made by himself, with the most scrupulous attention, to the directions of the different Pharmacopoeias.
Physicians favouring him with their prescriptions, and country Merchants with their orders, may depend on their being executed punctually and with dispatch.
N. B. He has lately received from Dr. Solomon's agent, at New-York, a fresh supply of those invaluable medicines, the Balm of Gilead and Anti Impetigines.
November 28. oawtf.
PROPOSALS.
WILL be received by the Executive till the first day of June next, for a supply of FREE STONE or MARBLE, in the rough state, to be delivered at the Penitentiary, in the city of Richmond.
Marble from the quarries in Virginia would be preferred, but there will be no objection to receiving it from other places.
Persons wishing to contract will specify the size and quality, and the price by the ton, as well as the cubic foot—Apply to DANIEL L. HYLTOM, Clerk of the Council. 1awtfj.
NOTICE.
THE partnership heretofore existing between the subscribers, was dissolved by mutual consent, on the 20th inst.
All persons indebted to said firm, are desired to make immediate payment to Benjamin C. Turner, and those having claims, to present them to him, being authorized to settle the same.
BENJ. C. TURNER, JOSHUA WALKER. 1aw3w.
MADEIRA WINE.
of first quality, by the pipe for sale at 6 months credit, by JOHN & ROBT. GAMBLE, jr. 1aw 5w.
NOTICE.
By virtue of sundry Deeds of Trust, executed to the Subscriber, by Fleming Cayce, to secure the payment of debts, due to Littleberry Scruggs, Benjamin Parker & John Lockland & Co. will be exposed to sale at Public Auction, for ready money, on Saturday the 13th day of June next, at Cumberland Court-House.
NEGRO Man named Stepney, a good blacksmith. BERNARD SIMS, Surve'r. Trustee. Cumberland, May 4. oawtf.
TAPPAHANNOCK RACES POSTPONED.
IN consequence of the time first mentioned for the Races at Tappahannock, being on the Fredericksburg District court day, (and interfering with other Races) they are postponed to the fourth Thursday in next month. A. S. BROCKENBROUGH. 1aw.
RACES AT TAPPAHANNOCK.
THE JOCKEY CLUB RACES at this place, will commence on Wednesday, the 29th April next.
1st Days purse—450 dollars. distance; 4 mile heats—Second day's purse, supposed to be nearly equal to the first, the greater part of the toll being given up for that purpose—distance, three mile heats.
Wrights as follows:
  Aged Six Years Old, 120   Five do. do. 11   Four do. do. 100   Three do. do. 86   And under 3 years, a feather. 
Mares and Geldings to be allowed, 5/8.
A meeting of the members, will be required, on the day preceding the first day's race.
A. S. BROCKENBROUGH, Secretary & Treasurer. 1215hA.
TO RENT.
THE TENEMENT lately occupied by Mrs. Whitaker, in an agreeable retired situation and very convenient for a family.
Wm. M'KIM. Richmond, March 6.
JOHN TOMPKINS.
HAS received an assortment of GOODS Consisting of FLANNELS, Coatings, Blankets, Rose and Duffel Drabs, Frize, Kerseys, Blankenight, Cloths, Carpets and Carpeting, Bombazets, Sausdown, Patent Cord, Powder and Shot, Dowlas, Sheetings, Kerseymeres, Calicoes and Muslins, &c. &c. which he will dispose of on very liberal terms, by the piece or package. Nov. 14.
Richmond, 18 May. 1807.
THE Co-Partnership of John St. John & Co. is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
JOHN ST. JOHN, PETER TOEL.
TO BE RENTED, FOR A TERM OF YEARS.
MY HOUSES and LOTS, situated in a most agreeable part of the city, call the BREWERY belonging to me, with the LOT upon which it stands, together with the COOPER'S SHOP, and the adjoining LOT, and the HOUSE and LOT upon which the Spring that supplies the Brewery, if either or both are required.
Wm. HAY. tf.
FOR SALE.
 20 Hhds Northern Rum  20 Tierces prime Green Coffee,  20 Hhds Loaf & Lump Sugar,  15 Hhds Brown ditto  20 Boxes of Cotton & Wool Cards,  20 Boxes Chocolate,  10 Kegs of Raisins,  15 Crates New-York Stone Ware,  5 Bales India Cottons & Checks,  3 Pipes Holland Gin,  2 Pips Cognac Brandy,  1000 Pair Men's fine & coarse Shoes,  500 pr Ladies Morocco Slippers,  300 pr do. Leather do.  300 pr Ladies Kid do.  30 Casks of Stone Lime,  20 Boxes Brown Soap,  5 Ton Sweets Iron,  Cut Nails, Pepper, Paper, &c. &c. 
Terms liberal. HENRY HOVEY, ep4w.
EXACT PROFILE LIKENESSES
TAKEN at the office lately occupied by George Tucker, Esq. a little above the Swan Tavern, in the main-street, on the Capitol Hill.
J. B. ANDERSON. 6t.
TO LET OR LEASE,
A BLACKSMITH'S SHOP, formerly occupied by Mr. James Lynch; it is allowed to be as good a stand for that business as any in this city, being in the centre of the town, and near the Market-House.
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, tf.
FOR SALE,
By BREAM & FOLLET, At the Sign of the ANVIL.
 15 Barrels Liver Oil,  50 Casks F. Gun-Powder,  2 Tons Parent Shot,  40 Boxes Tin-Plates,  2000 wt. German Steel, Heart & Club,  100 Casks Cut-Nails and Brads,  Window-Glass, 10 by 8, & 20 by 14,  20 doz. Spades and Shovels. 
A general assortment of Ironmongery. April 24. 4w.
JUST RECEIVED,
AND FOR SALE, At his Jewellery Store, A GENERAL assortment of Swords, Belts, Epaulettes, Plumes and Cockades; also Drums and Fifes. Enoch Sullivan. tf.
THE SUBSCRIBERS,
Having taken a House a few doors below the Bell-Tavern, offers for Sale, under the firm of WHITE & SHELTON, A GENERAL assortment of GROCERIES, which they will dispose of on very moderate terms, for Cash, Country produce, or approved paper. ISAAC WHITE, JOHN S. SHELTON. ep tf.
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.
IN pursuance of a resolution of the Board of Directors for the said Company, will be held at an Auction, at the Eagle-Tavern, on Saturday the 30th of next month, all SHARES of delinquent Stockholders in the said company. N. SHEPPARD Treasurer. April 17. tdf.
WASHINGTON TAVERN!
ODEN & MOORE have taken the WASHINGTON TAVERN, adjoining the Capitol Square, lately occupied by Edward Hallam.
Richmond, February 17. tf.
LOTS FOR SALE.
On Tuesday the 9th day of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on the premises, will be sold at public auction, SIXTEEN half acre LOTS, situate on the north side of Bacon-Quarter Branch, in or adjoining the city of Richmond, described and known by the survey made by Richard Young for Wm. Duval, by the No's. 311, 312, 321, 322, 319, 320, 313, 314, 293, 294, 296, 287, 266, 267, 254 and 255.
Terms of payment will be made known at the time of sale.
Any person inclined to purchase at private sale either the whole or part of these Lots, may know particulars by applying to ALEX. QUARRIER, Jr., JOHN RICHARD. May 8, tf.