The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-08-08 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.....(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 27.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 8, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
PROPOSALS
For carrying Mails of the United States, on the following Post-Roads, will be received at the General Post-Office until the first day of August next, inclusive.
FROM Washington City by Alexandria, Col- chester and Dumfries, to Fredericksburg, six times a week.
APRIL 15 TO DECEMBER 1.
Leave Washington City every day at 4 A. M. arrive at Alexandria by 5 A. M.; leave Alexandria at 6 1/2 A. M. arrive at Dumfries by 11 A. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 5 P. M. in 18 hours.
Leave Fredericksburg every day, at 4 A. M. arrive at Dumfries by 9 A. M.; leave Dumfries at 10 A. M. arrive at Alexandria by 2 P. M.; leave Alexandria at 3 P. M. and arrive at Washington by 5 P. M.
DECEMBER 1 TO APRIL 15.
Leave Washington City every day at 4 A. M. arrive at Alexandria by 6 A. M.; leave Alexandria at 7 A. M. arrive at Dumfries by 11 A. M.; leave Dumfries at 12 M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 7 P. M.
Leave Fredericksburg every day at 4 A. M. arrive at Dumfries by 9 A. M.; leave Dumfries at 10 A. M. arrive at Alexandria by 12 M.; leave Alexandria at 1 P. M. and arrive at Washington City by 6 1/2 P. M.
7. Fredericksburg by Bowling Green, White Chimneys, Hanover Co. to Richmond and Osborne's to Petersburg, six times a week.
APRIL 15 TO DECEMBER 1.
Leave Fredericksburg every day at 4 A. M. & arrive at Richmond by 8 P. M.; leave Richmond at 4 P. M. and arrive at Petersburg by 9 P. M.
Leave Petersburg every day, Sunday excepted, at 2 A. M. arrive at Richmond same day by 6 A. M. and leave Richmond at 6 1/2 A. M.
DECEMBER 1 TO APRIL 15.
Leave Fredericksburg every day, Sunday excepted, at 5 A. M. and arrive at Richmond by 6 P. M.; leave Richmond every day, Sunday excepted, at 3 A. M. & arrive at Petersburg by 10 A. M.
RETURNING.
Leave Petersburg every day, save Sunday, at 2 P. M. & arrive at Richmond by 8 P. M.; leave Richmond every day, save Sunday, at 4 A. M. and arrive at Fredericksburg by 8 P. M.
8. From Richmond to Fraziers, New-Kent Co. to Williamsburg, Yorktown and Hampton. To Norfolk, three times a week.
Leave Richmond every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. & arrive at Hampton by 9 P. M. & at Norfolk on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday by 10 A. M.
RETURNING.
Leave Norfolk every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 3 P. M. & arrive at Richmond the next day by 8 P. M.
9. From Petersburg by Cabin-Point, Smithfield, Surry Co. & and Sleepy Hole, to Portsmouth, three times a week.
Leave Petersburg every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 4 A. M. & arrive at Sleepy Hole by 2 P. M.; leave Sleepy Hole at 3 P. M. and arrive at Portsmouth by 7 A. M.
Leave Portsmouth every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 5 A. M. & arrive at Sleepy Hole by 9 A. M.; leave Sleepy Hole at 10 A. M. and arrive at Petersburg by 8 P. M.
DECEMBER 1 TO APRIL 15.
Leave Petersburg every Sunday, Tuesday & Thursday at 11 A. M. and arrive at Sleepy Hole by 9 P. M.
Leave Sleepy Hole every Monday, Wednesday & Friday at 4 A. M. & arrive at Portsmouth by 8 A. M.
RETURNING.
Leave Portsmouth every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3 P. M. & arrive at Sleepy Hole by 7 P. M.
Leave Sleepy Hole every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday at 4 A. M. & arrive at Petersburg by noon.
From Lynchburg by Bethel, Pedlar mills & Win- canton, to Lexington, once a week.
Leave Lynchburg every Saturday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Lexington by 6 P. M.
Leave Lexington every Sunday at 6 A. M. & arrive at Lynchburg by 6 P. M.
From Waterford by Snicker's gap, R. Braden's Store, J. Janny's Store, Upperville and Israel Janny's mill, to Waterford, once a week.
Leave Waterford every Wednesday at 6 A. M. & arrive at Upperville by 6 P. M.
Leave Upperville every Thursday at 6 A. M. & arrive at Waterford by 6 P. M.
From Wythe Co. by Tazewell Co. & Russell Co. and Lee Co. to Robinson's mills, once in two weeks.
Leave Wythe Co. every other Thursday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Robinson's mills on Sunday by 6 P. M.
Leave Robinson's mills every other Monday at 6 A. M. and arrive at Wythe Co. on Thursday by 6 P. M.
NOTES.
1. The Post-Master General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contract, he previously stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.
2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening & closing the mail at all offices where no particular time is specified.
3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the times prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continue until the departure of any departing mail, whereby the mails destined for such departing mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mail; and if any person, making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his emolument, he must state in his proposals, for what sum he will carry it with that emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.
5. Should any person, making proposals, desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure as above specified, he must state in his proposals, the alterations desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of his contract.
6. Persons making proposals, are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of February, May, August and November, one month after the expiration of each quarter.
7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.
8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.
9. The Post-Master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen, which amount to the loss of a trip each.
10. The contracts for the routes numbered 1 to 14, are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and to continue in force for two years, from that time; for the routes No. 15 to 37, are to commence at the same time, and continue in force one year; and for the routes No. 38 to 77, are to commence at the same time, and continue in force until the 31st of March, 1809.
GIDEON GRANGER,
POST-MASTER GENERAL. Washington City, April 26, 1806.
A BARGAIN
WILL be had in a Chariot, Harness, and pair of excellent horses—Enquire of the Editor.
JUST RECEIVED,
AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBERS: An extensive assortment of GROCERIES among which are the following articles:
  Muscovado sugar assorted Tar   West-India Coffee Thos. Leiper's Snuff   Antigua & Jamaica Rum Maccaboa do.   Country do. Havana Segars   Cognac & Peach Brandy Salt Petre   Holland Gin Brimstone, Madder, and   W. India and Sugar-house Molasses Ground Ginger in small kegs   L. P. Madeira Wine Log-wood   Port, Sherry and Malaga Wine Turkey Cotton   Hibberts' Brown Stout New-York Candles and Soap   Martineque and Bordeaux Cordials Spermaceti Candles   Basket Salt Oil   Do. in sacks and loose Patent Lamps   Bullock's Cheese Dutch Cakes with plain and gilt Bottles   Caldwell, Fraser & Co's. superfine Chocolate Castings assorted   Rice Earthen and Stone Ware   Nutmegs, Pepper, Ginger, and Pimento Writing & Wrapping paper   Mace and Cloves Henry VIII. and Merry Andrew Cards   Oil, Olives, and Capers China Plates, do. Bowls of different sizes   Gun-powder, Young Hy-son and Souchong Teas Do. Tea and Coffee Cups and Saucers   Cantifers containing 17lb. and 5lb. Gun-powder Do. Chimney ornaments Plain and cut qt. pt. and half pint Decanters   Pickled Salmon Pint, half pt & gilt Tumblers   Cut Herrings and Shad A few sets Table China.   Patent shot assorted A regular supply of Loaf Sugar by the hhd. and barrel, at Philadelphia price.   F and FF Gun-powder 
FISHER & LESUEUR.
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RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the Trustees have appointed the 18th day of August next, for the drawing of the prizes drawn in the 2nd Class of the above LOTTERY, at which time they will be paid by the subscriber on application.
All persons holding money on account of the said Lottery, are requested to make immediate payment to one of the Trustees or to deposit the same in the Bank of Virginia.
GEORGE TUCKER, Acting Trustee. June 20. (oawf 21th A.)
SCHEME.
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY.
CLASS III.
  4000 tickets at 10 dols. 40,000   1 prize of 10,000 dols. 10,000   10 do. of 500 5,000   50 do. of 100 5,000   50 do. of 50 2,000   1200 do. of 15 18,000   40,000 
1301 prizes. 2599 blanks. 40,000
The following prizes are stationary, to wit:
  The first ticket after 1000 are drawn 500 dols.   do. after 1500 500   do. after 2000 500   do. after 2500 500   do. after 3000 500   do. after 3500 10,000 
Tickets may be had of the members of the committee, at the Treasury Office, the Bank, Samuel Pleasants' Bank Store, and at the Office of the Enquirer.
GEO. HAY, GEO. TUCKER, WM. MOSLEY, ROBT. MITCHELL, & WM. DU VAL, COMMITTEE.
The drawing will take place in December in this city, and the prizes paid 60 days after its completion. Richmond, August 1. oaw2m.
WILL BE SOLD,
For Cash, on Monday the 11th inst. at Mr. Zachariah Brooks' Tavern in Manchester:
A NEGRO GIRL, about 15 years of age, commonly called Edith or Edy, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by the late John Watkins, dec'd. on the 23rd December, 1805, for the purpose of securing a debt therein mentioned, to George Watkins.
WILLIAM BROWN. August 1. eo24f
TAKEN up by William D. Marthewer, living in Albemarle county—a small dark grey MARE, four feet five or six inches high, nine or ten years old—appraised to twenty-five dollars. August 1. eo24f
SAMUEL BARRET,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER;
INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has taken the store, next door below the Eagle Tavern; where he will execute any work, in his line of business, either gentlemen or ladies shoes, on the shortest notice. August 1. (coif)
VALUABLE PROPERTY--FOR SALE.
BEING desirous of removing to the Western country, I will sell the land whereon I now live, in Buckingham county, at the mouth of Slave river, on Janes river, sixty miles above Richmond; containing above One Thousand Acres, one hundred and twenty of which, at least, are Excellent Low Grounds.
On this farm are all necessary and convenient improvements for any sized family, viz: a spacious and handsome Dwelling House, quite new; Kitchen, Meat-house, Stables, Carriage-house, Barn, Ice-house, a Garden well paled in with the best materials—also, nearly all new—There are on this farm tolerable Orchards of different kinds; and two Sluiceries, surpassed by none on the river above the falls.
One fourth of the purchase money will be required in hand; and the remainder in three equal annual payments, with a lien on the premises to secure the payment of those three last sums.
GEORGE NICHOLAS. With the above valuable farm, and immediately adjoining, may be had also, the SLATE QUARRIES, heretofore advertised; supposed by good judges, who have visited them, to be equal if not superior to any now known, in point of quantity, quality and situation. For the reasons formerly given, they may be had for any species of property more convenient to or requiring less attention from the subscriber. If they are not soon disposed of, it is proposed to recommence the working of them the ensuing autumn; when, it is confidently believed from the experiments already made, that covering of that kind may be expected on much more reasonable terms in Virginia, than that bulky and heavy article can possibly be had from any more distant quarters. JOHN NICHOLAS. July 25. (4t1aw.)
SECOND CLASS.
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY,
FOR THE BENEFIT OF
WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
5398 Tickets that drew blanks in } Dollars. } the first class & may be renewed } 53,380 } in this at ten dollars each, } 4685 Tickets at fifteen dols. each, } 70,275 } 10,625 } Deduct lots on 2000 tickets, that drew prizes of fifteen dollars each, in first class, and may be renewed in this, at 2 1-4 dollars each, } 4,500 } Dollars 125,155
The number of prizes and order in which they stand, viz.
To float in the wheel, and come out as chance may direct
2 prizes of 5000 each 10,000
4 do. of 2000 8,000
16 do. of 1000 16,000
16 do. of 500 8,000
32 do. of 200 6,400
160 do. of 100 16,000
232 do. of 50 11,600
750 do. of 20 15,000
1 do. of 155 155
Stationary Prizes are.
1 ticket, first drawn after 1,000 tickets are out of the wheel, 500
1 do. do. do. 2,000 500
1 do. do. do. 3,000 500
1 do. do. do. 4,000 500
1 do. do. do. 5,000 500
1 do. do. do. 6,000 500
1 do. do. do. 7,000 10,000
1 do. do. do. 8,000 500
1 do. do. do. 9,000 500
1 do. the last drawn ticket, a prize of 20,000
1,223 prizes. Dolls. 125,155
The prizes subject to a discount of only 10 per cent. 12,500
Expense of drawing, 2,500
Dolls. 10,000
The superiority of this scheme, to the one first proposed, is so obvious, that little need be said in recommendation of it. Those inclined to adventure, will see, that their chance for obtaining prizes, is greatly increased; that pending the drawing, their obtention of small prizes, may by renewal, instantly give them several chances for a prize of considerable magnitude.
To those who have drawn PRIZES of fifteen dollars, in the First Class; as well as those who drew BLANKS, INFORMATION IS NOW GIVEN, that the PRIZES, may, at their option, be renewed, by tickets in this class—and their BLANKS, at ten dollars each; Provided such PRIZES and BLANKS, with the CASH, is remitted, FREE OF POSTAGE, to ROBERT GREENHOW, merchant in Williamsburg; Agent and Treasurer; or WILLIAM NEWFAM, Post-Master in Norfolk, previous to the commencement of the drawing; after which period no renewal will be made. Then to the prospect of individual advantage, that may result to each adventurer, is added, the patriotic reasons, which induced the legislature to authorise this lottery, it is earnestly hoped, that the disposition of tickets will soon enable the commissioners to the commissioners to certify that the drawing has commenced—which event the agent assures the public, shall be expedited by every means in his power.
ROBERT GREENHOW, Agent and Treasurer. Williamsburg, June 10, 1806. (ow8t.)
Tickets may be had of Robert Greenhow, merchant in Williamsburg; and William Newfam, post-master in Norfolk; who will, as opportunities offer, give them more extensive circulation, by placing them in the hands of others for disposition.
TO RENT,
THE TENEMENT formerly occupied by Messrs. James and Alexander Dunlap and lately by Wm. T. Stone, at the west end of the Market bridge, and adjoining the house in which an extensive Vendue Store is about to be established. If more agreeable, I would sell, on reasonable terms, a Lease of about seven and an half years in the said tenement. WILLIAM M'KIM. August 1. coif
3,000 wt. SALT PETER'D BACON, 1,000 wt. first quality N ENGLAND CHEESE, 10 grofs BOTTLED CYDER, A few buthels CLOVER SEED, 150 pieces PAPER HANGINGS. For Sale by EDWARD HALLAM. Constantly for Hire—An Excellent Carriage and Horses—apply as above. May 27. coif
FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber would dispose of a valuable MILL, (formerly belonging to Col. George Bird, deceased) situate near the upper end of Middlesex county, together with a tract of Land containing by a late survey, one hundred forty-six and a half acres, lying contiguous to, and immediately on the south bank of Rappahannock river, eighteen miles below Tappahannock, eight below Bowler's Ferry, and ten only above Urbanna; if not sold previous to Monday the fifteenth day of September (that being the first day of the next district court, to be held at King & Queen court-house,) if fair, otherwise the first fair day, it will be sold to the highest bidder (at the time and place before mentioned) and possession given the first of January next, on the following terms, to wit: One half of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale, the balance in twelve months, secured by lien on the property, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. A description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed none would purchase without first viewing the same. ROBERT BIRD. Hanover county, August 5. (13th Sept.)
ALEXANDER STUART, Esquire, of Richmond and Col. William Daniel, of Cumberland county, are so obliging as to undertake my law business. The former will give his attention to it in the federal court and in the court of appeals. The latter in the superior court of chancery for the Richmond district. CREED TAYLOR. July 18. (d.)
THE subscriber has removed his Broker's Office to the middle tenement, in Doctor Ternan's new building, the first door above Messrs. Pickett, Pollard and Johnson, and the second below the Post-Office; where he will attend particularly to all business confided to him. THOMAS NORVELL. For sale, 10 SHARES in the JAMES RIVER COMPANY. June 6. (if.)
By Authority,
LAW OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT
For erecting certain Light-Houses in the state of Massachusetts; for building a beacon, or pier, at Bridgeport, in the state of Connecticut; and for fixing buoys in Lampglass Sound, in the state of North Carolina.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorised and directed to cause to be erected the following light-houses in the state of Massachusetts:
One on Franklin Island, at the mouth of St. George's river, in the district of Maine.
One on Well-Pastuquoddy Head, at the entrance into the bay and harbour of Passamaquoddy, in the district of Maine.
And a double light-house at or near Chatham harbor, on the back of Cape Cod.
Provided Sufficient land for the accommodation of the said light-houses can be obtained at reasonable prices, and the legislature of Massachusetts shall cede the jurisdiction over the same to the United States.
And the Secretary of the treasury is hereby authorised to agree for the salaries, or wages, of the persons who may be appointed by the President, for the superintendence and care of said light-houses, and otherwise to provide for the same, at the expence of the United States.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the secretary of the treasury be, and he is hereby required to cause a beacon, or pier, to be erected near the mouth of the harbor of Bridgeport, in the state of Connecticut; and to cause buoys to be fixed on Bluff Shoal, Royal Shoal, North-Well Shoal, and South-Well Shoal, in the waters of Pamlico Sound, in the state of North Carolina.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That there be appropriated, for defraying the expence of erecting each of the aforesaid light-houses, the sum of five thousand dollars; for the expence of erecting the said beacon, or pier, the sum of one thousand dollars

Were they marine or land guns? I do not recollect. Abraham Van Ness, sworn. Mr. Van Ness said he made in January last 250 belts and as many cartridge boxes for Major Armstrong. I have been paid by Mr. Ogden, or I look to him for pay. Jonathan Fay, sworn. Did Capt. Lewis apply to you last January to purchase arms? Yes, but not being at home he requested Mrs. Fay to tell me to make out a statement of all I had of all sorts, and he would call again. Did you see him yourself? Yes, and he ordered them to be got ready. What were they? Muskets, pistols, and cutlasses; about 25 muskets, 25 pistols, and 25 cutlasses. Are there all? Yes, he would have taken more if I could have got them ready. The witness said they were delivered on the dock near the Leander in open day, but he could not say they were put on board. Who paid you for them? Mr. Ogden. Crops examined. Was the expedition of the Leander of public notoriety when you sold the articles? It was talked of in several places where I was. At what time in January was it that the expedition was matter of public notoriety? About ten days before the Leander failed. By the counsel for the prosecution. What do you mean was matter of public notoriety, that the vessel was going to fail on some voyage or that she was going to Caraccas? That the Leander was going to fail and was taking arms on board, but where she was going to I did not know; nor had I heard; it was a secret.
Wm. Fobrook, sworn. You are a cutler? Yes. Did you last winter sell Capt. Lewis a parcel of swords? I did. When? The 25th of January; 129 swords and some other military articles. Who was to pay for them? Mr. Ogden. Wm. Allen, sworn. Did you sell some arms last winter to Capt. Lewis and Mr. Ogden? I did; 200 muskets. When? In January. Were they put in boxes? They were. Who paid you for them? Why what pay I did get, I got from Mr. Ogden. Adjourned to Saturday at ten. Saturday the Court met; present Judge Tallmadge. As a child of Judge Tallmadge had died this morning the Court was but opened to adjourn to Monday at nine o'clock, A. M. (To be continued.)
Foreign Intelligence. FROM A LONDON PAPER. HONITON, June 8. This afternoon, to the great surprise of the electors of this Borough, the gallant Lord Cochrane, having been apprized of the day of election by Mr. Cobbett, arrived here accompanied by several gentlemen, in two chaises and four from Plymouth, with colours flying, and with every appearance of an inflexible determination of entering upon a desperate engagement with the Teller of the Irish Exchequer. The surprise excited by this unexpected arrival, in the bosoms of the Electors, was surpassed by nothing, but the astonishment of Mr. Bradshaw, when he found that his Lordship was to be his opponent instead of Mr. Cobbett, who, adhering to the statement of his address, resigned his pretensions as soon as he found another man perfectly independent ready to stand forward. The greatest bustle prevails throughout the town. Expresses and post-chaises are flying in every direction, and the contest promises to be as warm as one has been witnessed for some time past. The election commences to-morrow, when it is said that Mr. Cobbett means to address the electors: to draw a comparison between the qualities of the noble and gallant officer, in favour of whom he has resigned his pretensions, and the qualities of the man on whom the new Ministry have thought proper to lavish three thousand a year of the public money.
HOUSE OF COMMONS. In a committee of supply, lord H. Petty moved a resolution, granting to his majesty a sum of 200,000l. to enable his majesty to reward the officers, seamen and marines, under the command of the late lord Nelson, for their valour and glorious conduct in the battle of Trafalgar. The report was ordered to be received on Wednesday.
BANK NOTES. An account of the notes of the bank of England in circulation (including bank post bills) from the 1st of February, 1805, to the 1st of February, 1806; distinguishing the amount in circulation in each quarter, and the amount of those under the value of five pounds:    1805 February 1st £ 13,671,400   May 1st 12,786,770   August 1st 12,005,204   November 1st 12,296,004   1806 February 1st 12,856,720   Amount of Bank of England Notes of 2l. and 1l. each.   1805 February 1st £ 4,726,480   May 1st 4,580,970   August 1st 4,413,780   November 1st 4,457,490   1806 February 1st 4,436,850 
GIBRALTAR, April 23. This morning a large naval transport of 400 tons, with six weeks provisions on board for admiral Collingwood's fleet, was taken into Algeciras by the Spaniards. Her loss will be most severely felt by the fleet. There was a horse race rode this day inside of the enemy's lines , between two officers of the garrison, which was numerously attended. Gen. Fox, and most of the officers and non-commissioned officers belonging to the regiments here, were present; and a great number of the Spanish officers and soldiers.
MAY 24. Joseph Bonaparte has adopted in his new kingdom of Naples, the system of conduct pursued by the French Revolutionary Assemblies, with respect to the faithful partisans of the lawful government of their country. Indeed one would think, that the following dispositions or various Decrees by him published,
have been transcribed verbatim from their Regulators. "All individuals, who may happen to have in their possession money, furniture, or other effects, belonging to the Si-devant Court, shall give in a declaration of the same, within three days, to the director of the Secretaryship of state. All debtors, farmers, depositaries, agents, attorneys, &c. of the Sicilians, Neapolitans or Foreigners, who have followed the King, shall make a like declaration, within eight days, before the Commissary General of the Police of the city of Naples, of all debts, deposits, property, monies, &c. &c. which they may have in hand, or being indebted for, being the property of the said Neapolitans, Sicilians, &c. with prohibition to send them any money, upon penalty of paying twice the value of whatever might have been sent. All persons to whom goods and chattels may have been made over by the above-mentioned Sicilians, Neapolitans, or Foreigners ever since the 1st Dec. 1805, are also bound to make a like declaration; his Imperial Highness referring to himself to make known his further intentions respecting the property of the said absentees who may not have returned, within one month from the date of the Decrees. The other Decrees, issued at the same time, chiefly relate to the appointment of a Minister of the Interior; the division of the kingdom into military districts, entrusted to French generals; the prohibition of British goods, upon all concerned in their introduction or sale; and finally, the granting of the half pay to the officers, &c. formerly in the service of the King of Naples, upon this condition, however, that they shall take the oath of allegiance to the French Emperor."
From a late London Paper.
PRUSSIAN COMMERCE. The exports from Silesia in the year 1805, amounted to 3,378,768 dollars by sea, and 8,761,036 by land; and her imports, during the same period, to 1,802,044 dollars by sea, and 8,604,539 by land. Of the exports, 7,798,869 dollars consisted of manufactures, 8,423,733 of animals, 358,910 of the produce of the mines, the rest various. The imports consisted of 4,294,811 dollars of raw materials for the manufactures, 4,106,254 of necessaries of life, 1,917,125 of merchandise and articles of luxury, and 85,895 of books and instruments. The transit trade of manufactured goods, East and West-India produce, by Hamburg, Altona, &c. to Luffitza, Bohemia, Hungary, Poland, &c. which is very considerable, is not included in the above statement, neither is the export of goods from Silesia to other Prussian provinces, amounting to about three millions, a great part of which is afterwards exported via Hamburg and Stettin. The commerce of the other Prussian provinces in Germany is still more considerable, and the exports of yarn, linen, wheat, leather, woollen cloths, timber, hops, wood, pearl-ash, vitriol, smalts, china, wrought metals, via Bremen, Hamburg, Lubec, and Stettin, together with the exports from the Duchy of Magdeburgh, part of Westphalia, and the principality of Halberstadt, the Margraviates of Brandenburg, &c. have been estimated at 40 millions of dollars. There yet remains another part of the Prussian dominions in Westphalia (not included in the rich provinces which the king has lately ceded,) in East Friesland, the trade of which has wonderfully increased during the late and present war, principally in the port of Embden, and which, in addition to extensive exports of domestic produce, as grain, various articles of provision, linen, yarn, stockings, tallow, feathers, &c. has supplied Holland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, South Germany, and even Bremen, with colonial produce and foreign manufactures. The vast importance of Embden may be collected from this fact, that in one year of the war, 720 vessels sailed from that port loaded with ship-timber, copper in sheets, and various articles of naval stores. The Prussian commerce engages upwards of 4200 vessels, and exports annually nearly 20 millions of dollars of home produce, consisting of timber, pot and pearl ash, yarn, linen, flax, hemp, corn, honey, wax, tallow, soap, candles, vegetable oils, hides, leather, furs, woolen cloths, gloves, earthen ware, cordage, tar, amber, salt-petre, steel, brass wire, litharge, &c. Of this Danzic has 1043 vessels, exporting 7 millions produce—Elbing, 271, 200—Stettin 821, 100. Konigsberg 1725, 10 do.—Memel 776, 5 do.—Of the Memel ships 181 are Prussian. In the year 1798, 558 Prussian vessels passed through the Holstein Canal from the Baltic to the North Sea, and in the same year 1613 Prussian vessels passed through the Sound, and in the year following the number amounted to 2275. The number of vessels navigating under the Prussian flag may be objected to as a standard by which to judge of the Prussian commerce, because it had been assumed by the Dutch merchants; we are, however, warranted, by the amount of the exports from different Prussian ports in stating, that the annual export of articles of Prussian produce and manufacture by sea, exceeds nine millions pounds sterling; and it is obvious, that this trade must be nearly suspended by a war with this country. Should the Prussian merchant seek a new channel for his goods through Holstein, he will have to encounter such heavy expenses as will render his profits doubtful. Tonningen is fourteen leagues from Hamburg, and Kiel twelve, and the land carriage in that country is expensive; if to this we add the additional freight and insurance, and the one per cent. Danish transit, the extra charge may be estimated at two-pence per pound weight, which the Prussian manufacturer cannot afford to pay. Hamburg has been the great depot of Silesian and Brandenburgian linens, and the merchant there on receiving a consignment, allowed the manufacturer to draw two-thirds of the amount, paying the residue when the articles were disposed of. The blockade of the Elbe will almost wholly suspend the export of this linen, and necessarily incapacitate the merchant from making the accustomed payment, to the probable ruin of the manufacturer, who has not a capital equal to sustain this severe and unlooked-for calamity.
The following articles are copied from the "Commercial Adviser," an Altona paper, of the 15th May, with which we have been politely favoured by a mercantile gentleman of this city. Char. Times.
ON THE MAYN, May 3. Letters from Switzerland mention, that the French government has given orders to deliver up all British merchandise in this country to France, and in case of refusal a French army will enter their territory.
NEUFCHATEL, April 23. The following article has been published here. The public are informed that on the 25th May and on the following days, there will be a public sale at Neufchatel, to the highest bidder, of the following merchandise, (viz.) manufactures
tured goods 5400 bales, packages and chests, containing muslins, white English shawls, quilts, velvets, white India handkerchiefs, India muslins and India shawls, white Swifts and Saxony cotton handkerchiefs and calicoes—of colonial produce in hogsheads, bales, packages and chests, containing refined and candid sugars, coffee, pepper, cocoa, spices and raw cotton, which has been seized by the French soldiers. (Signed) OUDINOT, General of the Division, & Commissary.
West-Indies.
BOSTON, July 28. Capt. Harvey, arrived at Boston, from the Havana, informs, that he left that port on the 14th July, at which time there were then in the harbour 40 sail of American vessels, 30 of which arrived there in the course of two days. This circumstance occasioned an immediate rise of sugar, and fall of American productions. The advance of sugars was about 50 cents per quintal. Dollars very scarce, 6 to 7 per cent. being given in exchange for doubloons. The article of hogs lard fell 4 dollars per quintal on the arrival of the above mentioned vessels.
Capt. Harvey further advises, that on the 7th July, an English convoy from Jamaica past the Moro, with 280 sail, under convoy of three 74's, four frigates, and 7 sloops of war, when they fell in with a fleet of Spanish sugar coasters, on their way from Windward to the Havana, and took and destroyed nearly the whole; they were under the protection of several lugger brigs and gun boats.
NEW-YORK, July 30.
General Miranda. —By the arrival of capt. Wood yesterday, from Trinidad, which place he left the 9th inst. letters have been received in town from gentlemen on board the Leander. These letters speak, in the most positive terms, of their prospect of approaching success in the long contemplated enterprise of General Miranda. The whole expedition, consisting of a number of vessels and a respectable force, was to sail in a few days for the Main, from whence they had direct information, such as left no doubt of their effecting a landing without difficulty. They have with them several Spaniards of distinction, who had joined them from Caraccas. The following are extracts of some of the letters received yesterday. "We have this day received intelligence which places things in so favourable a point of view, that hardly a doubt of success remains. We shall certainly leave this in a few days and as certainly effect a landing, from whence I shall immediately write you. "We are making every preparation for the point in view, and shall leave this in six days, and in ten more the fate of the country will be decided. Our force is respectable, of which I would give you a correct statement, but for a reason which has prevented my writing as fully as I wish, which is, left my letters should fall into improper hands on their passage. "Reports from the Main state that the Government is tremblingly alive, and they treat the prisoners, our friends, with a degree of lenity which was not generally expected."
Dal. Adv. "General Miranda, arrived here a few days ago. He is to receive some support from the British government, and he has a number of volunteers from this, as well as from some other islands. Enclosed I send you a Manifesto published by him yesterday. There are various opinions respecting the success of his expedition." The following is the Manifesto:
FRIENDS AND COUNTRYMEN, The glorious opportunity now presents itself of relieving from oppression and arbitrary govt. a people who are worthy of a better fate, who ought to enjoy the blessings of the best country in the universe, which bountiful Providence has given them, but are shackled by a despotism too cruel for human nature longer to endure. Groaning under their present afflictions they hail with extended arms the Noble cause of Freedom and Independence, and call upon you to share with them in the godlike action of relieving your distressed fellow creatures. Hasten then to join the standard of ONE who has the happiness to call himself your countryman, and is determined to refuse his country and to shed the last drop of his blood in promoting its happiness; an object of which he has never lost sight, for a moment of his life. There will be made a liberal distribution of land at the expiration of a twelve month, according to rank, and privates, from the instant of enrollment, will be entitled to Provisions and Clothing with a quarter dollar per day as pay, not subject to any deductions. And you brave Volunteers of the Islands, who have nobly come forward to partake with us our honours, & to share with us our prosperity, hasten to follow those officers under whose care you have already been trained, and who are impatient to lead you on to Victory and Wealth. The Gulpah that Columbus first discovered and honoured with his presence will now witness the illustrious actions of your gallant efforts.
JULY 31. In addition to yesterday's accounts from Trinidad, we learn from a gentleman who was in company with Miranda on the evening of the 8th inst. that, from the conversation of the Gen. there was but little doubt of his ultimate success, as he had lately received very favorable accounts as well as recruits from the Main. A number of volunteers had enrolled at Trinidad, and were to sail with the expedition, some of whom were young men of respectability. It was supposed Miranda would not leave Trinidad till the return of a vessel from England, which had been dispatched for the purpose of ascertaining how far the British government would become a party in Gen. Miranda's plans. Others expected the expedition would sail in a few days. Col. Armstrong, and Col. Smith's son, were well at Trinidad the 9th inst. N. Y. Gaz.
PHILADELPHIA, July 31. The following interference, on the part of the Spanish government (the first within our recollection) is a virtual recognition of the American claims, for the losses which our merchants have sustained, by the sanction which Spain has heretofore given to French depredations on our commerce. The fch'y Friendship, capt. Metcalf, failed from Newvets (Cuba), on the 4th May, and before he got clear of the harbour, he was boarded by a French row boat, with 8 men armed with muskets, they sent the mate and people on shore. When the governor heard of this transaction, he sent three armed boats and retook the schooner and the boat which captured her. The Friendship was taken back into port, and remained in possession of the French 50 days, when she was cleared by the Spanish government of that place, on the principle, that no
French vessels had a right to molest vessels within their jurisdiction. [The above schooner arrived late at New-York, on Tuesday last.] Register.
Captain Selby of the brig Union, arrived at Philadelphia, in 22 days from La Guira, informs, that he was embargoed 11 days in that port after being ready for sea; and that upon making a civil application to the commandant of marines, for permission to proceed upon his voyage, being the only American in port, he received the most extravagant abuse, and implicated with all the Americans as villains and accessory to Miranda's expedition, and finally threatened to be put in irons. The embargo being raised, orders were given that he should not, as an American, be supplied to go to sea till 24 hours after all other neutrals.
A few days previous to his sailing, the fch'r. Matilda, captain Murdock, after lying off and on the port several days, had proceeded for Caraccas, not being able upon any condition to procure admittance; same day he failed, spoke fch'r. Jane, 30 days from Baltimore, for that port—understood that the prisoners taken from Miranda had been tried at Porto Cavello, but could not learn either the particulars or the decision of the judges; but report says, that they conducted themselves with a true spirit of Independence, feldom known in that country—and that one of their principal officers had died in prison. To the southward of the Mona Passage, was boarded, examined strictly and treated politely by a French privateer. July 14, in lat. 29, long. 72, 30, spoke ship Hero, of Portland, 25 days from N. Orleans, bound for Barbadoes, all well. Markets glutted with all kinds of supplies, by the vast importations from St. Thomas and Caraccas.—Passenger, Mr. Wm. M'Conchee, of N. York. Phil. pap.
From the Philadelphia True American.
MR. T. BRADFORD, I will thank you to publish the annexed letter from the prefect of Gaudaloupe, to the commandant of St. Martins. The ship alluded to, is the Triton, Planberg, master, belonging to the Swedish West-India company, at Stockholm, bound from this to Stockholm, with a cargo of coffee (chiefly) vessel and cargo valued at one hundred thousand dollars.
Basseterre, (Guad.) June 23, 1806. (DUPLICATE.)
The General of Brigade, colonial prefect of Gaudaloupe & its dependencies to Raymond Devuut, commissary of marine, acting in the French part of St. Martins. Sir, You have judged perfectly right. The capture made by capt. Antoine Juet & carried into Marigot, of the ship belonging to the Swedish company from St. Bartholomews, cannot be sanctioned.
No official notification of a declaration of war having been received by either of the two colonies, they have not thought proper to interrupt the good understanding and friendly intercourse that exists between them, with the promise, in case such notification should hereafter reach them, that it shall be communicated, and each party will permit the vessels belonging to the other to return to their respective ports unmolested and accompanied with a safe conduct.
You will be pleased, sir, on receipt of this to order the immediate release of the ship, belonging to the Swedish company, captured by the Pinnace Plublier, and that all the papers be returned by captain Antoine Juet, in order that he and passengers may continue the intended voyage. I salute you cordially, (Signed) HERVEBAU.
In the Court of Vice Admiralty.
Nassau, 14th July, 1806. Sole Judge and Commissary.
Juno, Packard, master, and other ships in the same situation. His honour the judge, upon motion for the decree of the court, rejected the claims, and by interlocutory decree pronounced the ships and their cargoes to have belonged at the time of the capture and seizure thereof to enemies of the crown of Great-Britain; and as such, or otherwise subject and liable to confiscation, and was pleased to condemn the same as good and lawful prize to the captors. Directing the captors cost, on the two last applications to the court, to be paid by the claimants.
Domestic Intelligence.
BOSTON, July 29.
We understand that His Excellency the Tunisian Ambassador declines embarking in the U. States brig Franklin: as her accommodations are not considered sufficient for himself and suite. Dail. Adv.
PHILADELPHIA, August 2.
The Schooner Phoenix, captain Webb, arrived at Portland (Maine) on the 24th ult. in 41 days from New-Orleans; Havana bearing S. E. by E. 24 leagues, was boarded off the Tortugas by his majesty's frigate Arethusa, com. Disdell, who took the Schooner in tow, ordered the captain with his papers on board—sent an officer and 12 men, who overhauled and broke open the hatchets, examined the cargo of the fch'r. found it all in order. After detaining her 24 hours, under pretence of the want of proof of property and sea letter, he permitted her to pass, though not without breaking open all the letters, a part of which he copied and politely returned.—The frigate fell in with and captured the brig Joseph, captain Southack, of Boston, from New-Orleans, bound to Liverpool, took out of her THIRTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, in specie, and sent her to Jamaica, under convoy of an armed brig. Register.
We learn with great satisfaction, that by the vigilance of the officer of the customs in this port, a large vessel laden with military stores, and which it is said was to carry a considerable number of men, to the West-Indies, has been seized, when under sail on her passage outward; she is now in the hands of the government, and we trust that the law will be enforced, whoever may be the owners; the names of the owners we have not yet learned, nor whether she was destined to aid Miranda or the black emperor. Aurora.
WASHINGTON, July 31.
It is with much satisfaction we announce the arrival at the United States Navy-Yard, Washington, of the Frigate Essex, Commodore Rodgers, and the Brig Syren, Lieutenant Smith—from the Mediterranean. Federalist.
We insert with pleasure the following ample refutation of a most scandalous and unjustifiable
calumny against the character of Commodore Rodgers, which was imprudently, as we then thought, and still think, rung through the papers in the United States, during the absence of that gentleman. As this refutation came from capt. Gale himself, it is scarcely necessary to request the printers, in whose papers the charge appeared, to insert it—they doubtless will feel pleasure in promptly publishing a contritious officer, of which they were, unwittingly made the more extensive propagators. Ibid.
TO THE PUBLIC.
I have seen with no little surprise, a piece in a New-York paper of the first of March last, wherein it states it was run through the body and killed by Commodore Rodgers, for remonstrating with him on the impropriety of flogging a Marine. This has been done by some scandalous person (no doubt) to injure his character, and although the effect could only be temporary, yet people in general may suppose that it originated from some misunderstanding subsisting between him and me. I can assure the public that not only myself, but every officer that served under his command, have always been on the most friendly terms with him; and the best proof of this, is, that every officer of us, will be happy to sail with him at any future period. During the time I was under his command, it is only justice to say, that he behaved towards me, with every attention and politeness due an officer. ANTHONY GALE, Capt. M. July 28, 1806.
NORFOLK, August 2.
The unprecedented rigour which Mr. Osborne, Editor of "The Witness," has lately been treated with in his loathsome prison, induced a number of the citizens of this Borough, to meet at the Eagle Tavern, on Thursday evening, when, we are told, some spirited resolutions were entered into in support of the Liberty of the Press, to send Mr. O. speedy relief, and to assist his papers; to which upwards of one hundred immediately subscribed. Herald.
AUGUST 4. This afternoon the brig Caroline, captain Brown, arrived here from Lisbon, bound to City Point; by him we are informed, that on Friday last at 6 P. M. he passed a fleet of five sail of the line steering E. N. E. wind at North, Cape Henlopen then bearing W. by N. distant 25 leagues. Capt. B. passed very near these ships, but was not fired on by them.
The number does not agree either with the British or French force, we therefore can hazard no conjecture as to what fleet this can be. Ledger.
In late New-Orleans papers we observe, that no less than 93 flats or arks, from different parts up the Mississippi and Ohio, had arrived there with the produce of our Western Country, in one week.
NASSAU, (N. P.) July 8.
Extra of a letter from Little Exuma Salt Pond, 3d July, 1806. "There is about one hundred and sixty thousand bushels of great grained salt, of a superior quality to any that has been formerly raked at the Great and Bull Pond; and the Great Pond is now fit to rake in many places, so that the quantity of salt raked this season at Exuma, will be more than the demand the Americans will require, which has not been the case formerly."
NEWARK, (N. J.) July 31.
Newark Republican Meeting.—At a numerous and respectable meeting of Republicans of the town of Newark at Pierson's Hotel, on the evening of Friday the 25th inst. to take into consideration the situation and treatment of Mr. Selleck Osborn, a worthy fellow-citizen and editor of the Witness, confined in Litchfield county goal, and to adopt such measures respecting the fame as the patriotism and the discretion of this meeting should deem expedient. Judge PENNINGTON was chosen chairman, and Mr. TUTTLE, Clerk.
The proceedings of the inhabitants of Litchfield, in the state of Connecticut, relative to the treatment of Mr. Osborn being read, and the circumstances respecting the fame being explained, the following resolutions were unanimously adopted.
Whereas this meeting, feeling an anxious solicitude for the preservation of the inestimable right of civil liberty, as well as in the state of which they are members, as all the states connected by the ties of the federal constitution, learn with grief that this right has been grossly violated in the person of Selleck Osborn, of Litchfield in the state of Connecticut—that as members of the same American family with our brethren of Connecticut, we feel it our duty to admonish all those who have aided in this wicked and outrageous transaction by our opinions and sentiments respecting the fame; and also to testify to the world our abhorrence and detestation of every attempt to deprive a citizen of a right derived from the beneficent author of his existence, and which is inherent in the constitution of every free government—
Resolved, 1st. That this meeting will not undertake to give any opinion on the Judgment and order of the county court of Litchfield as to the original confinement of Selleck Osborn, but wholly refraining from intermeddling with the judiciary proceedings of a neighboring state; it will presume that the judgment and order of that court was only made in conformity to the laws of Connecticut; that by the said judgment and order it appears that Mr. Osborn was not committed to the custody of the sheriff under circumstances that required severe or rigorous treatment, but merely for safe keeping; a first until he pay a fine of one hundred dollars, and second until he give security for good behaviour.
Resolved, 2d. That the treatment of Mr. Osborn, since his confinement in the jail of Litchfield county, as appears by a report of a committee made to their fellow-citizens of Litchfield, on the 12th day of July instant, is brutal, cowardly, tyrannical, and disgraceful to a free people, and wholly unworthy the American name.
Resolved, 3d. That this meeting cannot refrain from expressing the deepest regret, that a state from which their ancestors, the first settlers of this town emigrated, (bringing with them the purest principles of civil liberty) should so far degenerate as to harbor in its bosom, men who are apparently seeking the blood of a fellow citizen, and as this meeting from the attending circumstances, hath reason to believe, for no other cause of offence than the exercise of the independent spirit of a free man.
4th. Resolved. That in the opinion of this meeting, persecution and oppression are not necessary in support of a good cause, and are incompatible with the principles of justice and of civil liberty; that whenever men resort to such engines in support of their principles, those principles must be pernicious; and that the late attempt in Connecticut, to suppress the Litch-

The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 24th AUGUST.
CASE OF SELLECK OSBORN. In March last, this unfortunate man was tried and convicted, for publishing an alleged libel on the character of Julius Deming...
But it is not to this part of the sentence that we desire to raise any serious objections. It is solely to that part, which sentences Selleck Osborn to "find a bond of 500 Dollars to keep the peace and be of good behaviour."
This celebrated question, whether security for good behaviour could be required by a justice of the peace, from the editors of a Gazette, is not altogether new even in the records of Virginia Jurisprudence.
In spite of the notorious treachery of Callender, at that time beginning to burst forth upon the public view, the republicans of Virginia triumphed in the decision.
The requiring of security for good behaviour, from the Editor of a Gazette, may not, therefore, be contrary to the constitution and the laws of Connecticut.
It is presumed that the same process applies to printers as to any other persons that are "not of good fame," when "security for good behaviour" is required.
But the decree as well as the existence of the security are within the breath of the Justice. The exacting law of Virginia as well as the statute of Edward, both grant him the "power to demand sufficient security."
Agreeably to Selleck Osborn's sentence therefore, a republican printer may be condemned—but not by the verdict of a jury, not by the sentence of a court, but by a single magistrate—condemned, not for any libel actually published, but even upon pretended suspicion—to give not a sufficient, but a most exorbitant security, for what a Connecticut Court may please to call "good behaviour."
But the persecution of the poor printer does not terminate here. It is easy to accuse him of some act, which may be represented as a forfeiture of his recognizance. A fiat upon Yale College or Professor Dwight; upon the priesthood or any of its ministers; upon their famous charter of Charles 2nd; upon Mr. Tracy or Mr. Allen; or upon any of the thousand abuses of Connecticut, may be distorted into a violation of good behaviour.
will then have nothing more to do, than to affirm the truth of the fact, represented as a breach of the bond; and the court will award the penalty. Let it then be observed, that the question before the jury is not, whether the defendant's crime is commensurate to the penalty which is fixed by the magistrate, but whether the jail alleged against him is in any degree a violation of good behaviour.
SHORT CATECHISM FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF FEDERAL EDITORS.
Miranda Prosecution.
1. For what other purpose than to relieve himself from suspicion, did Mr. Jefferson institute a prosecution against Ogden and Smith?
2. And for what other purpose than to conceal his connection with Miranda, did he forbid Messrs. Madison and others, to attend the trial at New-York?
Their joint letter furnishes at least a more liberal reason. It was to prevent any interruption of the public business, which their absence might now occasion, as well as to avoid setting an improper precedent to all future administrations.
3. Was it not said that as their guilt must entirely rest upon the proving that they were encouraged by government, the verdict must be conclusive on the point.
Mr. J. is not responsible for every ridiculous rumor, that every ridiculous Proclamations may choose to set up. The defendants are acquitted: True.
4. But why did Mr. J. prejudice this cause, and attempt to influence the verdict, by previously dismissing Col. Smith from the jury?
He did not prejudice the cause, because he had the confessions of Col. S. before him, taken before the court of Enquiry.
5. But is there not evidence to believe that the administration was acquainted with Miranda's Expedition? What did Miranda say?
And what did Col. Smith say, when he wished to enlist the services of Pink and others? He intimated that they were for the use of government. Miranda and Smith! Par noble fraction! Mr. Jefferson has not yet offered a single knowledge of this transaction; nor can he be expected to animadvert upon it, before his message to the next session of Congress.
Last Evening's Mail.
NEW-YORK, August 2.
By the ship Oliver Elsworth, Capt. BENNET, arrived at this port last evening, we have been put in possession of London dates to the 13th of June, and of Liverpool to the 20th.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
THAT some time in the month of October 1804, I enclosed a parcel of papers in a letter directed to Mr. John A. Robertson of Amelia county, near Genito Bridge, which letter with its contents was never received by Mr. Robertson.
Yesterday a bag of Letters was received at the Post Office from Holland with some German Journals of later date than those transmitted by the late Mails...
An extensive promotion has taken place in the Prussian army, a measure generally adopted at the commencement of a war, of which it is now considered as indicative.
The Archduke Charles has induced the organization of Volunteer Corps in Vienna, to the number of 20,000 men, and has encouraged similar associations in all the other cities of the empire.
The French continued to the date of the last accounts from the Inn, to be unremittingly employed in strengthening Braunau.
Baron Groté, late Prussian Minister in Lower Saxony, it is said, is to be the third Prussian Minister of State, in the room of Count Keller, who refused to act with Count Haugwitz.
Baron Thugut has been recalled to Vienna. The Duke of Brunswick, by an order dated 6th May, has directed the levy of 60,000 dollars for the support of the Prussian troops in Hanover.
The Turkish fleet, under the orders of the Captain Pacha, sailed on the 1st April to cruise off the Morea and Albania; it consisted of one ship of the line, two frigates and six corvettes, and is to be followed by nine ships of the line and several frigates.
Lieut. Col. Hederer, who, in the Swedish frigate Thetis, of 40 guns, commands the blockading squadron off Danzig, notified the service on which he was employed on the 23d ult.
The Danish Marine, which has lately engaged the active consideration of its Government, on the 1st inst. comprised eighty three vessels of various denominations ready for sea.
The new German constitution is the production of Bacher, the French Charge d'Affaires.
The King and Queen of Prussia had on the 3d ult. left Potsdam for Pyrmont, from whence they proceeded to Hanover.
The differences between Sweden and Prussia are likely to be soon adjusted, under the mediation of the Russian Ambassador, M. D'Alpens.
Yesterday accounts reached the admiralty, respecting the French squadron which sailed from L'Orient on the 5th Nov. and which continued to the middle of March to cruise between Prince's Island and St. Thomas (on the coast of Africa), for the purpose of intercepting the outward-bound Indiamen.
The ship Mary Adams, was captured on the 12th Feb. on her passage from Accra to Cape Coast, by the Sybelle, one of the above frigates, after an action of two hours in which the Mary Adams had ten men killed and nine wounded.
By passengers in the Oliver Elsworth, we learn that the most prevalent opinion was, that a peace would take place between Great Britain and France in the course of the summer.
Lord Selkirk, appointed ambassador to the United States, had taken leave of his government, to depart immediately for America.
NOTICE.
THE partnership of Jesse Higgenbotham & Co. this day dissolved by mutual consent; all persons who have accounts with the concern, are requested to come forward and settle them with J. H. Higgenbotham.
The business will be continued by James Brown, of Richmond, Robert Rives, of Amherst county, and Henry Rives of this place, under the firm of Henry Rives & Co. who will pay all claims against the late concern of Jesse Higgenbotham & Co.
Caira, 1st August, 1806. JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES, HENRY RIVES.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN.
THAT some time in the month of October 1804, I enclosed a parcel of papers in a letter directed to Mr. John A. Robertson of Amelia county, near Genito Bridge, which letter with its contents was never received by Mr. Robertson.
field Witness, is to us a convincing evidence of its usefulness as a vehicle for the dissemination of correct republican principles; and that influenced by these impressions we will use our exertions to extend the circulation of said paper, and hereby appoint James Vanderpool, Matthias Day, Wm. Tuttle, Caleb Bruen, and John Machena, a committee to procure subscriptions for the same.
5th. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be attested by the Chairman and Secretary, and published in the Centinel of Freedom, of Newark, and the American Citizen, of N. York.
6th. Resolved, That Matthias Day, Esq. Postmaster of this town, be agent for receiving and transmitting whatever communications, these resolutions may occasion.
WM. S. PENNINGTON, Chairman. WM. TUTTLE, Clerk.
FROM THE AURORA.
POLITICAL VIEWS.
COMMERCE OF THE LEVANT.
The woollen trade affords a very excellent criterion of the proportions possessed by the several nations in the general commerce of the Levant.
The cotton piece goods of Asia, by their cheapness and profusion, appear to have obtained the preference of the universe, to have superseded linens in all warm climates, and to a great extent in cold climates; their flexibility, the absorbing quality of the cotton, the facility with which it is cleaned and bleached; wrought into various patterns; and dyed with various dyes, renders the trade in cotton one of the most important articles that enters into universal commerce, and it promises to be the most durable and co-extensive with the manufacturers of iron.
The cotton goods consumed in the Levant, cannot be easily conceived by those who have not an acquaintance with oriental habits and manners.
The caravan which was interrupted set out from Suez at the head of the Red Sea, in the first week of January 1779, and several English officers and other persons who were on their route over land for Europe and had recently landed from two vessels at Suez accompanied the caravan, among others a M. de St. Germain from the island of Bourbon in the East African ocean.
In the commerce of the Levant there were disposed of, before the French revolution, twenty thousand pieces of muslin—manufactured in Saxony, Bohemia, Upper Austria, and the Swiss cantons of St. Gall and Aargau.
The calicoes of Austria at one period had the greatest run in the Levant; those of Saxony at Constantinople alone; but those most generally coveted throughout Greece and Turkey, were manufactured at Pleven in the district of Vaighland in Upper Saxony.
Venice formerly furnished the Levant with glass of every kind as the formerly supplied all Europe with her polished mirrors.
The chrysalys of Bohemia, vases, chandeliers, glass globes, shades for lamps, lanterns, and some other fanciful articles, were furnished in abundance from Germany.
In works of iron and steel, commonly called hard ware, the English surpasses and it may be said supply the whole world.
land furnishes a much less quantity than the superiority of the arts would seem to teach us to expect; a few articles made by the order of the English ambassador for persians, and incidentally a few cases of pistols find their way to the Levant.
The trade in clocks and watches was beyond belief great, in the Levant; and the English possessed the market in the greatest proportion.
In the numerous articles of silk manufacture the Italians carry on an immense trade in Greece and Turkey, and they have maintained it against all competition from the reign of Mahomed II. in 1453, when the arts were banished from Greece to Italy, and took refuge under the house of Medici.
The celebrated Florentine fustics of all colours, the Florentine tafetas, and Antian silks known by the name of Mautini, the damasks of Genoa, which with gold fringe, form the furniture of the Turkish apartments, the coverings of sofas and the hangings of their arched tents; the silk gazzes of Bologna and Venice; the gallons and embroideries which go into the composition of fezzes and turbans, and those square and oblong pieces of ornamental dress which are (improperly, because it is the peculiar name of the Cossimbar garment) called Saville; but the manufactures of Lyons, before the revolution, had entered into a formidable competition with the silk manufactures of Italy.
The competition of the Russians in the Levant, in the articles of wool and other silks with the south of Europe, is a circumstance so curious that we passed the general trade of Russia over in our review, in order that we might pursue the general trade which differs from all the rest of Europe, after we had touched this branch in which they are rivals.
The Russian empire furnishes silk of every kind; tafetas, gazzes, galoons, Persians, gold thread and gold lace; there come also woollens, and which approach the perfection of the Genoese, closer than those of any other nation.
These outlines might be extended to a multitude of particulars in the vast range of commerce, but as our views have been rather confined to the demonstration of truths, which though existing have either not been generally known or not duly appreciated, we consider what we have stated as sufficiently full and decisive on the subject.
There is one simple view, which we shall however add—the French commerce in the Levant was at its most prosperous height at the commencement of the revolution or rather between the years 1785 and 1791—the aggregate of the French imports and exports in 1782 was 43,000,000 livres—or 12,000,000 dollars—in 1790 it rose to 70,000,000 livres—or dollars 18,000,000.
Will the sagacious men who rule France, and who have left all the politicians and statesmen that have hitherto existed, in the back ground, will they advise adventures in search of mercantile wind mills on this side of the Atlantic, while they have at their doors losses to retrieve, rials to counteract—means to consolidate and secure the whole commerce of the Levant.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY.
A Native Young Man to act as a BAR-KEEPER, to whom liberal wages will be given. Enquire at the Eagle Tavern. July 22. (f.)

Miscellaneous.
THE TOBACCOES OF MACEDONIA.
From the large crops of tobacco which are produced in Virginia, and the cargoes which are annually exported to Europe, it is not a matter of astonishment that our planters should have begun to pride themselves upon this, as being our exclusive and staple production. Europe will seem to them to have neglected or to have abandoned in despair, this profitable weed. To Virginia, will belong all the honour and the profit of its production. To some therefore it may be a matter of no little astonishment, when they are informed, that this American weed has found its way into the extremity of Europe, constituting a principal part of the exports of one, though not surely its most civilized country. To some too, though it is to be hoped they constitute a smaller number of planters, it may be a source of ridiculous mortification, that our own tobaccos are not acknowledged to be the best in the world; and that Europe, after having borrowed from us the seeds, has sometimes given them a foil or a tillage, far more genial than our own. Such at least was the impression, when we happened a few days since to cast our eye upon Beaujour's "View of the Commerce of Greece, formed after an annual average from 1787 to 1797." Beaujour was a French consul at Salonichi; and his book presents the most interesting detail, which has yet been given, of the productions of that celebrated country; a country on which Bonaparte seems to have cast many a wishful look; and productions, which as much as its situation, have served to excite his cupidity.
This instructive volume contains much useful information on the article of tobacco:
The different qualities of the tobacco are derived from the districts in which they are cultivated. The districts are all comprised within a semi-circle, about 25 leagues in its greatest length which extends west to east from the river Vardar to the river Mesta. The difference which exists among our own tobaccos, is scarcely to be considered, when compared with the productions of this small tract; allowing at the same time for the greater extent of ground, which we devote to the cultivation. The highest price of the Pèri, for instance, is 40 Avers the oka: that is, 5 pence sterling, for 3 lb. 2 oz. while an oka of Jenidèk & Kara-Su is worth from 6 to 8 pence; that is, from 20 to 24 shillings sterling. The latter when mixed with the leaves of the Pèri, another species which grows in the neighbourhood, exhibits a perfume similar to that of violets. It is almost wholly conveyed to Constantinople, where it is set apart for the use of the great men and of the frangos.
After enumerating the various species, produced in these districts; Beaujour concludes with observing, that there are only three general denominations known in the European commerce: the Pèri, the Jenidèk and the Kara-Sù. The first has large leaves and is most common. The second has very small and irregular leaves, and is the mildest and best. The Kara-Sù, by the size and quality of its leaves, holds a medium between these two extremes.
Let the sum total of each species of production be taken into the account, and the present annual harvest of Macedon may be estimated at one hundred thousand bales, of a hundred each.
  European Turkey consumes 20,000   Egypt 50,000   Barbary 10,000   Italy formerly received 20,000   East parts of Germany from 10 to 20,000 
But since tobacco has been transplanted into Hungary, the exportations of Macedonian tobacco into Italy and Germany have diminished.
These tobaccos, on being exported, pay a duty of 12 Avers per oka. The mean price of the oka may be valued at 36 Avers; from which it follows, that the cultivation of tobacco yields annually to Macedon a revenue of four millions of piasters or 315,555 5.9 dollars; one-third of which enters into the coffers of the Sultan.
An attempt was made by Joseph 2 to introduce the cultivation of tobacco into Hungary, but without complete success. The rich soil of that country, and a climate continually fertilized by mists, which descend from the Karpatz mountains, have indeed concurred to give it a vigour not inferior to the finest tobaccos of Macedon. But the goodness of the leaves does not correspond with their beauty. Whether it be owing to the quality of the waters or that of the soils, they are without that sweet fragrance and flavour, which distinguishes those of Macedon. It was at first supposed that this quality might be improved by mixing the seeds; & the finest seeds of the Jenidèk were accordingly obtained from Salonichi. But here a new phenomenon presented itself. These different seeds, not meeting with the same varieties of soil or of climate, to which they had owed their own variety in Macedon, were found to produce the same qualities or species. Beaujour therefore concludes, that the Tobaccos of Hungary will continue, as they are, of a very indifferent quality, and much inferior to those of Virginia.
In delivering his views on this branch of commerce, the French Consul has not failed to notice the interests of his own country. He gives it as his opinion, that the importation into France of Macedonian tobacco, and in general, that of the Levant, ought to be more favoured by his government, than that of the tobaccos of Virginia. The principal reason assigned is, that every piece of Levantine tobacco, which entered into Marseilles might be paid for by a piece of cloth or some other production of French industry; whereas the American tobaccos are paid for in cash. The impression of such opinions upon Bonaparte's mind is easy to be calculated. Whilst they furnish him with a motive to extend his power to the East, they will determine him in the event of his success, to encourage the productions and the commerce of this luxuriant territory. The project of Beaujour may then be seriously adopted, & the planters of Virginia may see their favourite tobacco supplanted in the French market by the more favoured productions of Macedon.
The following is the mode of cultivating the Tobaccos.
Tobacco continues, next to cotton, the richest branch of Greek exports. There are two species of tobacco cultivated in Macedon, which are known under the name of nictiana latifolia and nictiana rustica . The cultivation of this plant occupies an eighth part of the ploughed lands, and supports a population of twenty thousand families. The tobacco is sown here in March, in lands recently watered, prepared by being ploughed twice, and manured with their dung. The seed in the greatest request is that which is small & flat & grown. It ought to be small, of a dark yellow colour, and of an acid taste. This seed is sown in small compartments, drawn at equal distances; each compartment is six
inches broad, and three deep, and is intended to receive from ten to twelve seeds. The seed shoots up some days after it is sown; and, as soon as its stalk grows, and becomes strong, another seed is prepared, into which, in March, all the young plants are transplanted, which are ranged in order, on parallel lines, at the distance of a square foot. This is the second soil, which is proper for tobacco; the first serving only as a nursery. In dry seasons it is necessary to water the tobacco. As soon as the plants have attained about half their growth, and begin to shoot forth leaves, the earth which separates them is opened with a hoe, in order to raise it up in mounds round each plant; this operation is called hilling the stalks. As tobacco is an absorbent plant, it should be weeded with care, and not be suffered to be near the parasite plant.
In June, when the plant has got all its leaves, the cultivator castrates it; that is to say, they cut the top of the stalk, on which they leave more or fewer leaves, according to its strength. By this process the leaves thrive more, and ripen more uniformly.
Tobacco arrives at maturity in August. The leaves then turn yellow, incline towards the earth, and are separated from the plant without difficulty. The gathering, which is the task of women, is made in the morning, after the leaves have been moistened with the dew. They gather the finest and most ripe, one after another, and run them by the ends into long needles. They form thus bundles, from ten to twelve feet in length, which they set on end on pillars of wood, fixed into the earth, in a place much exposed to the free air and the rays of the sun. The leaves take on the drier the last degree of siccity, and at length become of a golden yellow colour. The bundles, when dried, are carried away on carts, on which they continue till the gathering is finished; they are then taken off, the leaves are unrolled, and formed into small parcels, at the top and bottom of which they place, for the beauty of the sight, those leaves which are in the best preservation and of the finest appearance. These parcels are ranged in piles from four to six feet high, which are pressed down with large broad stones; the parcels continue in this state until the tobacco is packed up.
The field, which produces the tobacco, continues, after the gathering is finished, covered with an infinite number of naked stalks, which present in the autumn the appearance of a forest of reeds, which the least wind agitates, and whose thundering murmur resembles that of an angry sea. These stalks dry up at the foot, and are an excellent manure for the ground, on account of the sharp salt which they deposit there.
FROM THE BALTIMORE TELEGRAPHER.
COMMUNICATION.
Fatal effects of foul air. —Some days past, the following distressing accident happened on the plantation of Mr. Robert Sinclair, about five miles from this city. In deepening a well, two itinerant laborers, one known only by the name of William, the other by that of Patrick were employed. At the bottom of the well, Patrick defended, but immediately cried out to be drawn up, as he was suffocating; his cries suddenly subsiding. William descended to his assistance; placed Patrick in the bucket, and placing his own feet on the edge thereof, held on by the rope. They had not been drawn up more than twenty feet, when William uttered the most distressing cries, and although the windlass was reached with the utmost celerity, and they had nearly reached the top of the well, the effect of the mephitic air was so powerful that he could not retain his hold, and fell to the bottom—Patrick was drawn up apparently lifeless, but has since recovered. The feelings of Mr. Sinclair were then wound up to the highest degree of distress; no one would venture his life to relieve the unfortunate William, until a strange negro man voluntarily offered his assistance; he reluctantly descended the well, and fixing the lifeless William in the bucket, they were both drawn up; the negro man fainted, and was soon, for some time, restored to his senses, notwithstanding the human exertions of Mr. Sinclair and his neighbours. William fell a martyr in rescuing the life of his friend.
To prevent similar misfortunes from the effect of mephitic air in wells, we offer the following recipe of an eminent writer on the subject:—If any doubt of foul air exists, take one pound flour of sulphur, mixed with one pint spirits of wine, or strong ardent spirits of any kind, dip in that mixture sheets of paper, set them on fire and throw them into the well, if they continue to burn, the mephitic air is dispelled, then any person may descend in safety.
Through the humanity of Mr. Sinclair, the deceased was decently interred.
NOTE.
The preceding article suggests three enquiries: to discover some method of ascertaining the presence of the noxious air—of expelling it—and of reviving the persons who are seemingly suffocated by its action.
1st. A workman should never venture into a cave, a well or an old cellar, until a candle has been introduced into it. If the candle be extinguished, the air is most probably fatal to life; the same air being necessary both to combustion & to respiration. For the same reason, a well-digger to long as he remains in his well, ought always to keep a candle burning by his side.
2nd. Different methods have been proposed for expelling the mephitic from a well—the one suggested in the text—repeatedly dashing buckets of water down it—directing a continued stream of air through the nozzle of a blacksmith's bellows—letting down a hoop covered with a piece of cloth, & fastened to a strong line over the windlass; a person taking hold of the rope, runs from the mouth of the well & draws up the vessel with the whole of the incumbent air—employing a bunch of furs in the same way and for the same purpose—lowering down a dish into the well, containing quicklime in a state of effervescence. Most of these expedients have been detailed in a Philadelphia paper.
3rd. Cold is the most powerful remedy hitherto applied for restoring the suspended animation. Two facts demonstrate its use:
1st. It is the well-known custom of those, who keep dogs to be plunged into the Grotto del Cane , about 4 leagues from Naples, to revive the seemingly suffocated victim by plunging him into the neighbouring waters of the lake Agnano.
2nd. It is a practice in the northern parts of Europe, whether in Lapland or in Iceland is not particularly recollected, to plunge the suffocated man into the snow.—The theory given by some of its application is, that the fixed air rarifies the blood too much; and that hence the use of cold to condense the blood as much as possible.
Enquirer.
United States Military Philosophical Society.
Under the auspices of that scientific officer, Colonel Jonathan Williams, commanding the United States corps of Engineers at West-Point, in the State of New-York, a Military Philosophical Society has been instituted. The President of the United States and the Secretary at War are patrons of this association. The proposed design is to collect and preserve the military science which exists among the veterans of the revolution, and among such of their fellow-citizens as have gathered scientific knowledge in the course of their lives and travels. The meetings of the Society are permanently held at the place where the Military Academy of the United States at West-Point assembles. Among the original members, besides Colonel Williams, are Darius Wadsworth, William A. Burn, Jared Mansfield, James Wilson, Alexander Maclay, John Joseph G. Swift, Simon M. Lay, Walker K. Armstrong, and Joseph G. Totten. And since the establishment of the Society, Messrs. Mitchell, Bayard and White, of the United States Senate, and many other gentlemen, have been enrolled among the members.
FROM THE QUEBEC MERCURY.
MR. CARY.
By inferring the following extracts, in your entertaining Miscellany, you will no doubt oblige all the admirers of OSSIAN'S POEMS in this country.
I am, &c. A FRIEND.
Edinburgh, 18th June, 1806.
At a meeting of the Highland Society of Scotland, Sir John Sinclair rose, and expressed the satisfaction he felt at being enabled to lay on the society's table, the printed sheets of a large proportion of the Poems of Ossian, in the original Gaelic, with a latin translation, the whole of that would be completed in the space of two or three months. The publication of that work in Gaelic, he said, he was persuaded would not only remove the doubts which had been entertained, regarding the authenticity of these poems, but would also tend to excite a greater desire, than had lately prevailed, to be acquainted with Gaelic literature, with the music by which the Gaelic poetry was generally accompanied, and with the language which contained those ancient effusions of natural feeling & genius. He begged leave, therefore, to submit the following motion to the consideration of the society:
That this general meeting do instruct the directors to take under their consideration, the most effectual means of collecting and of preserving, what yet remains of Gaelic literature and music, and also take such steps as to them may seem most advisable for preparing and publishing a Gaelic Dictionary; that as such a considerable expense, a general subscription for defraying the same be set on foot among the members of the society, and other friends of literature, both at home and abroad; and that in order to promote those laudable purposes, the directors are hereby authorized to subscribe one hundred guineas, in the name of the society.
Sir John MacGregor Murray, in seconding the motion, stated his conviction, that the object of it was of great national importance; that he was satisfied a store of music, with some valuable gleanings of Gaelic literature, might still be collected. "I am old enough," said Sir John, "to have been delighted in successive seasons, before any translation was heard of, with many of the poems which have been the subject of so much discussion, and I am happy to find that the publication of them in the original Gaelic, is now in such forwardness. Without pretending to be a critic in Gaelic, I know so much of it as to enable me, if necessary, to shew, that in very many instances, even the talents of Mr. Macpherson had proved unequal to do justice to the original. I believe no gentleman will be found who is enabled, from proper knowledge of the Gaelic language, fully to perceive and enjoy the incomparable beauties of these poems in the original, and has compared them with Macpherson's translation, who is not convinced that he was not the author of that original. I am most anxious that the Gaelic language, which possesses so much energy and excellence, should be preserved, and I think the publication of a proper Dictionary, will contribute greatly to that object."
Montreal, 10th April, 1806.
INTERESTING DECISION
In the Kentucky Court of Appeals.
Colonel Frederick Warwick in consideration of military services performed in the Virginia state line obtained land warrants of the amount of 6000 acres; 5000 of which he refused to be entered with the proper surveyor in five separate entries, one on the 4th, one on the 9th, and three on the 11th of August, in the year 1784—two thousand acres of land so entered lay within the Indian boundary in Kentucky, and of the other three entries, two were on Pitan's creek and one adjoining Spiller on little Pitan.
The heirs of Colonel Warwick, who were Germans, several years after his death, discovered that one Elizabeth the wife of one Peter Lugg, a woman of infamous character, had, upon the death of Colonel Warwick, set up a pretended claim to his estate on the false plea of being his wife; and that she and her said husband gave a power to one William Reynolds, to dispose thereof, who executed assignments of the plots of three, the tracts last mentioned, to Henry Banks of Richmond, Virginia, and the latter by his proper agent did on the 14th day of November 1795, assign over to John W. Hunt, and Abijah Hunt, the three plots to whom Patent thereon were issued.
Upon the appeal brought from a decree of the General Court by John William Hunt and others against the heirs of Frederick Warwick, deceased, the following decision has been given, in elucidation of which we shall next week publish from the Philadelphia Gazette, an opinion of the late Attorney General of Great Britain, on a question of alienage.
STATE OF KENTUCKY, Ser.
Court of Appeals.
June 20th, 1806.
John W. Hunt and others, appellants, against The heirs of Frederick Warwick, deceased, appellees. Upon an appeal from a decree of the General Court.
THE COURT being now sufficiently advised of and concerning the premises and having inspected the record and proceedings herein, delivered in the following written opinion, to wit:
In this case, the material important question is, can aliens take by descent or inherit lands in this commonwealth?
By the common law of England, aliens are incapable of taking by descent or inheriting lands. (Coke Litt. 8.—2 Black. Com. 219.—Bac. 80.)
By the ordinance of the Virginia legislature, passed in 1776, it is declared that the common law of England, all statutes or acts of Parliament made in aid of the common law, prior to the fourth year of the reign of King James the first, and which are of a general nature, and not local to that kingdom, &c. shall be the rule of decision, and shall be considered as in full force until the same shall be altered by the Legislature.
The eighth section of the article of the Constitution of this state, declares, that the laws of Virginia, of a general nature, and not local to that state, &c. shall be in force until altered or repealed by the General Assembly. It must, therefore, be manifest that the common law of England, respecting aliens, is in force in this commonwealth inasmuch as no law of Virginia or this state has changed, repealed or altered this principle of the common law. The constitution and laws of the United States: a long train of acts of the Virginia Legislature; also, the acts of the General Assembly of this commonwealth, clearly evince that the government of the Union, Virginia, and this state, have considered the common law of England respecting aliens as being in force, and that all foreigners are deemed aliens, except such as shall or have become naturalized.
Wherefore, it is decreed and ordered that the decree of the General Court be reversed, with costs, and the cause is to be remanded, with directions to dismiss the complainant's bill with costs. Which is ordered to be certified to the said General Court.
Wilson World.
Interesting and important experiment in the culture of Wheat.
On the 8th of August, 1804, a gentleman took a plant of wheat which had been sown in the beginning of June, and divided it into eighteen parts, and parting them into the ground, let them remain therein till the latter end of September, when he again took them up, and subdividing them into 67 parts of roots, re-planted them:—they remained in this state till the end of March, and the beginning of April, when the plants were a third time taken up, separated into 500 roots, and again replanted in the garden. Early in the season he reaped his little harvest, and found that, by this process a single grain had been made to produce twenty one thousand one hundred and nine
FROM A LONDON PAPER.
New Invented Hats.
In consequence of the very great complaints of late of the bad quality of Hats, it has induced Mr. Hare, of No. 71, Strand, who has fed these three twenty years, to try the experiment of mixing Mole's Fur with Beaver, and which he found to answer his most ardent expectations, not only for their durability, which, on trial, will be found to wear out near two such hats as are made in the usual way, the Mole Fur making the same much finer, and of a closer texture than the various coarse Furs that are usually made use of in the manufacturing of Hats; and, with other good qualities, the Fur will not come off, which has been so much complained of of late, as well as their taking a most beautiful black, which will retain its color.
From the American Citizen.
LINES.
To the memory of Lieut. Joseph Maxwell, who died at Syracuse in the month of February last.
Lamented youth! to fancy's eye Thy lovely foreign form appears; Sicilian breezes o'er it sigh, And evening sheds her lucid tears.
Nurs'd by those tears, ere now, the grass Its rank luxuriance waves to wind, And scarcely marks to those who pass The spot where rests bright honor's child.
There shall no tender mother weep, When ev'n dim veil o'erpreases the skies; When night has hush'd the world in sleep No maiden there shall breathe her sighs.
Perhaps not ev'n a humble stone May point the traveller's vacant eye; But joy'ning on its leaves unknown The grave where worth and valor lie.
Oft too, perhaps, in careless mood The peasant rude may wander near, Pierc'd with unhallow'd fear, thy God, And frame his rustic revels here.
Yet some fair fairy hand shall guard Thy ashes from this cold neglect, And bending o'er the flow'ry sward, Light forms, from insult, thee protect.
Their airy harps, shall then attune, And wildly strike the dirge-like lay; While hark the melancholy moan Pours down her sweetest, saddest ray.
Yes, there belov'd, queen of night! Thy beams shall dwell, with fond delay, For gentle, as thy placid light, Was he who owns that bed of clay.
Yet, when by wrong or insult fir'd, His country call'd him to the field By honor's dictates firm, inspir'd He sooner would have died than yield.
Oh! had he fall'n in glory's arms, Lefs bitter then were friendship's tear; With laurels crown'd, mid victory's charms He might have prest a prouder bier.
Ye who prefer'd to slav'ry, dearh, Worthy was he, to share your doom; Had such occasion claim'd his breath— With transport, had he sought the tomb.
Where now, the promis'd hour of fame, That hour, foretold by hope and youth, The grave receives his wasted frame, And fancy mourns, o'er fad'ding truth.
Lamented youth! sweet be thy rest! Oft brought by memory's sacred power, And by her truest pencil drest Thy form shall sooth the pensive hour.
CLARA.
PROVIDENCE, (RHODE-ISLAND,) July 26.
Bill's Weekly Messenger of January 12, (a London paper of about ten years standing) says, "the sale of the last number of the Weekly Messenger was Ten Thousand Four Hundred and Fifty."—It is sold for ready money at seven pence halfpenny sterling, producing weekly about 326l. and annually, 16,952l. equal to 75,340 dollars. The Star, and Morning Chronicle are the most productive papers in London; of each are issued about 5,000 per day, 80,000 per week, 1,560,000 per year, which at sixpence each is 39,000l. or 173,933 dollars.—In the United States, whereas has ever proved the bane of newspapers, his pay, as a miller does his toll. Never have we observed, to a paper from Europe, language bearing the smallest resemblance to what follows:—"All persons indebted to the editor of this Gazette are earnestly called on to make immediate payment!"
A RATTLE SNAKE
was killed a few days since, says the Lycoming Gazette, in the barn of Fulkerd Schring, on Loyalkvale, containing in its body, seven Rats, two of which were full-grown and the other five half-grown.
A Panorama of the battle of Trafalgar
is now exhibiting in London, the painting of which covers ten thousand square feet of canvas.
Bonaparte is anxious to know by what law we rule the ocean.
The answer is easy, Cannon law. London paper.
Many a true word, quoth the Proverb, said in jest! True it is, that most of the rights, asserted by Great Britain, on the ocean, CAN be defended only by the mouth of her CANNON.
In a German advertisement for the sale of the machinery of a theatre,
the following N. B. is added:—"To be sold at the same time, 32 ghosts, with a new devil, a striking likeness of Bonaparte."
Lord Auckland, (when Mr. Eden) in the American war,
was one day haranguing the House in a very vehement manner, and some of his observations occasioning much laughter, a member, on entering, asked Charles Fox what was the matter. "Oh! nothing," says the man of the people, "only the devil is got again into Eden."
Last week a turnip was pulled in a field near Felton Park,
which, when the root and top were cut off, weighed 29 lbs. Many others appeared to be of nearly an equal size. [Lon. pap. April 30.]
THE Clerks of the several County and Corporational courts,
are respectfully requested to forward to this office as soon after the first day of September next, as possible, a list of licences granted to Tavern keepers, Hawkers and Pedlars, pursuant to the act of Assembly passed the last session, intituled, "An act to provide more effectually for the collection of taxes." Sec. 3. The commissioners of the Revenue are likewise requested to forward a list of licences, granted to merchants, to the first of September next, as soon after that period as possible.
SAMUEL SHEPARD, Auditor's Office, August 1, 1806. (3t.)
THE subscriber wishes to sell 633 acres of land,
lying on James river, opposite to the 7 Islands, 65 miles above Richmond, upon which are two flat fisheries—for terms, apply to William Hansford on the premises, or to the subscriber within ten miles of the farm.
WILLIS WILLS. July 29. (ovwtt.)
FOR RENT.
THE Tavern & Land, at King & Queen court house, with all the houses thereunto belonging, (except the fore house, occupied by myself; and the shop lately used by Doctor's Newhall and Pendleton.) This place is so well known in the neighbouring counties, to be a profitable stand for a Tavern, that to say much by recommendation, would be unnecessary; its being the seat of a county and District Court, and lying on the main road, leading from Gloucester and Mathew's counties, to the city of Richmond, give it a considerable advantage over the Taverns at court houses generally. The land attached to the Taverns, is capable of yielding annually from 175 to 200 barrels of corn; and from 300 to 400 bushels of wheat. I am of opinion that the field which is now in corn, is capable of producing 600 bushels of wheat, if put in the ensuing fall in good time, which privilege will be allowed to those who rent the place. I have made 480 bushels of wheat from the same field, when not as large by 30 acres, and none of it in the high state of cultivation that it is at present. This place will be rented for two years, and in all probability, for two years more at the expiration of the first term.—I will contract privately with any person wishing to rent, and if not disposed of by the second Monday in September next, it will then be set up publicly at King & Queen court house, (at being court day,) if rented before that time, public notice will be given. Apply to Robert Pollard, and Thos. C. Hoomes, Esquires, residing at King & Queen court house, or the publisher.
THOMAS GARNETT. August 1. (14s.)
At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, held at Edward Holland's tavern in the city of Richmond on Tuesday the 29th of July, 1806.
RESOLVED That five dollars be paid on each share held by the Stock-holders in the said company to Nathaniel Shipyard their treasurer on or before the first day of September next.
Resolved, That propositions be received from any persons inclined to undertake the work on the Turnpike until the first day of October next, and that the same be filed in writing with the clerk of the Company by the persons making such propositions. An extract from the minutes. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. (15 Sept.)
APPRENTICES WANTED.
TWO Boys about the age of fourteen, wanted as apprentices to the gold and silversmith's business, by
JOHNSON & REAT. August 5. tf.
JUST RECEIVED,
And for sale at the Enquirer Book store,
"A MANUAL OF PARLI