The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1808-12-13 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 5.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1808.
[No. 66.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OF THE GLOBE TAVERN, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
THE Subscriber having furnished himself with an elegant assortment of mountings and other materials, begs leave to inform the public that he has commenced the CABINET-MAKING BUSINESS , upon an extensive scale, in the house near Shockey's bridge, next door to Samuel Peacock's, his printing office, where he will keep a constant supply of furniture for sale upon reasonable terms, and where furniture in his line will be made upon the shortest notice, and in the most approved fashions, or upon any model which may be directed. The subscriber will also keep a constant supply of Fancy and Windsor CHAIRS of all descriptions, for sale upon reasonable terms. G. M. PERRY. (1a-w4w.)
Richmond, Nov. 28, 1808.
MUTUAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY. The General Annual Meeting of the Mutual Assurance Society, against Fire on buildings of the state of Virginia, will be held at the Capitol, in the city of Richmond, on Monday, the 20th day of January next. SAMUEL GREENHOW, Principal Agent.
Richmond, General Office of } Assurance, Dec. 1, 1808. } oawt2dJ ** All the Printers in Virginia, and in the town of Alexandria, are requested to publish the above once per week, until the second day of January next. S. G.
JUST received from Philadelphia, a consignment of LEATHER , consisting of— Waxed Calf-Skins, Coseack, Fair-Tip, and Gordon-Boot Legs, Shirting, Reundings, and Indian Skins. For sale, at low price by D. F. BURR. Nov. 10. 2aw2c-1aw4w]
VALUABLE PROPERTY, FOR SALE. The owners have become desirous of selling that well known, and valuable Property, the WARM SPRINGS , lying in Bath county, with all the Land and Tenement, belonging thereto, or they will sell the Springs with 5 or 6 hundred acres of Land. It would be useless to say anything about the situation of those Springs, and their great Medical qualities, with the superior advantages attached to them, over any of the other Mineral Waters in this country. As it is presumed that no one will attempt to purchase, who is not well acquainted with them, or who will view the property before they purchase. Any communication on this subject, addressed to the Subscriber, will be speedily attended to. CHARLES A. LEWIS. Warm Springs, December 10. oaw3m
HOBBS & SEATON , adjoining the City Hotel, on the Cross-Street from the Brick-Row to the Governor's house, respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have commenced business in FANCY & WINDSOR CHAIR-MAKING, TURNING, SIGN-PAINTING, GILDING , &c. and solicit patronage. Intending always to employ the best materials & the best skill in the line of their profession, they hope to give universal satisfaction. December 10. oaw3w
THOMAS WATSON, BOOT & SHOE-MAKER , with sincere thanks to his friends for their former patronage, respectfully informs them and the public, that he continues to carry on business in the various branches of the above Manufactory, 3 doors east of the Bank; where he has on hand, a complete assortment of fashionable BOOTS & SHOES , for sale, on reasonable terms. Orders attended to on the shortest notice. December 8. oaw3w
WANTED as a tutor in a private family a person qualified to teach the Latin and English languages grammatically, and Arithmetick—Apply to the Printer. Nov. 15. [tf]
A HORSE . Was brought to my stable, on the 27th ult. a Bay Horse about 9 or 10 years old, 4 feet 9 or 10 inches high, with a Saddle and Bridle. The said Horse, was delivered by a Negro, who said he had found him on the Common of this town. The owner may get him by applying at the Columbian Inn, and paying charges. Posted and appraised to eighteen pounds. Z. BROOKS. Dec. 8. [tf]
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY. At a meeting of the Directors of the said Company, on Saturday evening the 3rd of December, 1808, the following resolution was agreed to: Whereas, from causes unforeseen as unexpected, the Board of Directors, at their last meeting, on the 29th ult. postponed the sale of Shares belonging to delinquent subscribers, generally denominated Stock-Holders, which were advertised to be sold on that day: Resolved, That the Shares of delinquent holders which may be reported as such by the Treasurer of this Company, on the 7th day of January next, be on that day sold, at public auction, at the door of the Swan-Tavern in this city. NATHANIEL SHEPHERD, CLK. December 6. [tf]
NAT COTTONS & KERSEYS. The Subscriber has received a consignment of Nat Cottons and Kerseys , which he offers at a reduced price, for cash, or indorsed negotiable notes. ROBERT JOHNSTON. December 6. [tf]
NOVEMBER 30th, 1808. —The members of the Dismal Swamp Company, are requested to meet at Suffolk, on the 28th of December. That place is preferred for a meeting, because it is a very small distance from the Land, and the members will have a better opportunity of information as to the whole business of the company, than at any other place. Those who may not attend, will be pleased to give power to others to act for them. WM. NELSON, JOHN BRACKEN, CORBIN GRIFFIN. Managers. December 6. 2aw4w
RASAWA from the Sub-Continent, a Negro Lad, by the name of MANDEVILLE ; he is about 17 years old, of dark complexion, slender make, and walks lame in consequence of having broken his thigh last spring. He has been seen lately in Manchester, and it is presumed he has been secreted by the ground-floor old Grafty, who is well known in that place. Ten dollars and all expenses will be paid to any person who will deliver him to me, or cause him to be delivered to me at the Swan-Tavern in this city. W. BOLLING. Dec. 6. oaw4w
JAMES STRATTON, TAYLOR. At the corner of the Brick Row and the Cross street leading to Mayo's Bridge, respectfully informs the public and his former customers, that (having returned to this city, and resumed his profession) he is ready and willing to execute their commands, on the shortest notice, in the best manner, and on the most reasonable terms. Nov. 11. [tf]
AT PRIVATE SALE , at Myers's Auction Store, just received— 4 Bales Kendal Cottons, 3 Bales blue and white mixed Kerseys, 3 Bales Half-Thicks, assorted—white, blue, green and mixed, 2 Bales Welsh Plaids—white and blue, 3 Bales Coating—blue and red, 5 Cases London fashionable Beaver Hats, And an additional supply of the best Dutch BOLTING CLOTHS. Also, in Store, Prime Muscovado Sugars, in hds. and bds. Loaf Sugar, Molasses, old Madeira Wine, a quantity of Gin Cases and Denijohns. Oct. 11. [tf]
NOTICE. —Cash given for Northern & Southern Bank NOTES at a moderate discount by SIMPSON MORRIS. Richmond, Sept 14. [tf]
DESERTED. —From the service of the United States, on the 8th instant, a Private in the 5th regiment of Infantry, named JOHN FERGUSON —30 years of age, 5 feet 5 1/2 inches high, swarthy complexion, dark hair, blue eyes, has a sickly appearance—He was born in Delaware county, state of Pennsylvania—by profession a shoemaker. The said Ferguson had on at the time of his desertion, a round sailor's jacket, slash sleeves, dark drab colour; blue striped Virginia cloth vest, and Corduroy Pantaloons, torn on the knees—Virginia cloth shirt; and an old pair of half boots, bound with cord, which he generally wore under his pantaloons. Also—Deserted on the same day, GABRIEL JONES , 21 years of age, 5 feet 3 1/2 inches high, fair complexion, hazel eyes; Auburn hair—when spoken to has a down look—Born in Essex county, Va.—bred a Farmer—He wore a round striped Virginia cloth coat, white home spun pantaloons, and vest of the same. Whoever will apprehend the said deserters, and deliver them to me, or to any officer in the service of the United States, shall receive twenty dollars reward,—or ten dollars for either. EDWARD DILLARD, Capt. 5th U.S. Reg. Infantry. Rendezvous, Petersburg. Sept. 16. [tf]
ALL persons having claims against the Estate of Wm. Friend, dec'd. late of Manchester, are hereby required to bring them forward, as early as possible, that arrangements may be made for payment; and all persons indebted to said estate, are earnestly solicited to make payment, as speedily as possible. The situation of the estate being such, as to render it impossible to grant longer indulgence. THOMAS BRANCH, Executor. Chesterfield, Nov. 1. [2m]
NOTICE. —In the year 1793, a request was made by letter from a gentleman in Virginia, (through Mr. Joseph Johnson, Consul in London) to Mr. Thomas Digges, then in England, to make enquiry for the heirs or the family of a Mr. Abraham Milnes, who, when a youth, left Brigg-house near Huddersfield in Yorkshire, for America, and was a clerk to a merchant in Virginia, afterwards kept a store of his own, had a partner in trade, & died unmarried, about the year 1753, leaving landed and other property. Unfortunately, by the loss at sea, of the Ship Jane and Rachel, capt. Dade from London to Alexandria, in the year 1793, the letters of request and other papers and memorandums were lost, and even the writer's name, which is supposed to be Farly or Farly, as well as his place of residence has been forgotten, but is guessed to be near Petersburg in Virginia. The subscribers, or either of them, will be much obliged to any one, informed of either of the parties above alluded to, or can give any trace as to their residence, or informed of any landed or other property of said deceased Abraham Milnes, by letter directed to the subscribers below; and they will thankfully pay any costs for ascertaining the names, places of residence, or effects of said deceased, &c. &c. GEO: MILNES, Merchant Boston. THOS. DIGGES, Fort Warburton, Potomac, Maryland. GEO: W. RIGGS, George-Town. October 14. [3m]
NOTICE. —That in virtue of a deed of trust, bearing date anterior to the act, entitled "An act concerning the sale of Property under executions and incumbrances," I shall, on Saturday, the 7th day of January next, upon the premises, expose to sale, by public auction, for ready money, the BRICK TENEMENTS , and the Ground thereto belonging, as now occupied by Messrs. Webster, Poore & Presser, and John B. Walton, opposite the City Hotel, in this city; or so much thereof, as may be necessary to satisfy Daml. Call, Esq. acting Executor of Robt. Means, dec'd. the several sums of money now due, and unpaid under the said deed. SAMUEL MCGRAW, Trustee. December 6. [tf]
MR. LE TELLIER, DENTIST. —In the house adjoining Mr. Edmund Randolph's branches of the Capitol, is now practising in the various branches of his profession, i. e. cleansing and restoring the teeth to their natural elegance, by removing that corrosive substance called tartar, which adheres to them in the form of a black or yellow crust, which is the cause of many teeth decaying, an offensive breath, and the corroder of the gums and sockets. He sets artificial ones so as to stand firm, being useful as well as ornamental, plugs the decayed cavities of such as can be preserved, and extracts such as are too far gone to be saved, in which operation he makes use of TRUFF'S PATENT EXTRACTING INSTRUMENTS , which takes the teeth out without any possibility of fracturing the jaw or bruising the gums, and with much less pain than the instruments that are in general use; for which operation his price is one dollar, when done at his own house. He deems it unnecessary to say anything concerning the advantage derived from the manner of his performance or his abilities, leaving it for his former operations to speak. He has DESTRUITOR prepared by himself of a superior quality for the preservation of the gums and teeth, void of corrosive substance. Mr. LE TELLIER wishes the public to have notice that as he has now made Richmond his permanent residence, all his prices are considerably lower than when he was only a visitor of the place. A fine or servant directed to the aforesaid place will be attended to. He keeps a constant supply of Teeth Extracting Instruments, key kind, and best quality for sale. Nov. 29. [tf]
GLOBE TAVERN.
THE Subscriber has excellent accommodations for thirty Members of Assembly, and at a moderate price; he hopes from his strict attention to give satisfaction. JAMES BROOKS. Dec. 2. [2aw2w]
LANDING from the Schooner Richmond , at Lester's new Wharf— 23 Crates Earthen Ware, 25 Hds. Muscovado Sugar, 11 Do. Green Coffee, 9 Bales Woolens. IN STORE —100 Hds Salt, 15 hds. Molasses, 10 tierces green Coffee, 6 quarter casks Sherry, 3 pipes Gin, 50 boxes Segars, 3 bags Race Ginger, Souchong, Hyson Skin and Young Hyson Tea. For sale by GEORGE WATT. Nov. 4. [tf]
WANTING to rent, a small FARM , in the neighborhood of Richmond, containing from 150 to 200 acres, with a house suitable for a small family. For such one, will be given a liberal rent. Enquire at this office. Nov. 25. [tf]
CONGRESS.
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
EMBARGO DEBATE—CONTINUED.
Mr. Moore said he was not a little surprised to hear insinuations of the disaffection of a party portion of the people of the U. States; but the Senate was now called upon to beware how they drove the people of the Eastern states to rebellion. The councils of the U. States were not to be inflamed by these suggestions; he could not believe them to be well founded; he could not believe that the citizens who in our revolution exhibited such intestine marks of patriotism, under the privations which the peculiar situation of our country rendered necessary, would now revolt against the government which they themselves had constituted. He held no such opinion. On the contrary, he believed that they would unite with their fellow citizens who were sufferers in the common cause with themselves, and unite every effort to maintain that independence they had assisted to gain. The gentleman from Connecticut had asked, had the embargo been productive of the consequences expected to result from it when passed? Had it not been more injurious to the U. States than to foreign nations? It is certainly true, (said Mr. M.) that it has not been productive of all the effects expected by those who were its advocates when it passed, but it has not been a fair experiment. The law has been violated, and an illicit commerce carried on by which the belligerents have received such supplies as to have partially prevented its good effects. The publications throughout the U. States, and thence in England, that the Embargo could not be maintained, have induced the belligerents to believe that we wanted energy, and that we are too fluctuating in our councils to persevere in a measure which requires privations from the people. Under these circumstances it appears to me that the embargo has not had a fair trial. I have ever been of opinion that the only warfare which we could ever carry to advantage, must be commercial; and but for evasions and miscalculations on our weakness, we should before this have been suffered to pursue our accustomed trade. It has been asked whether the embargo has not operated more on the U. States, than on the European powers? In estimating this it will be proper to take into consideration the evils prevented as well as the injury done by the embargo. If the embargo had not passed it is not certain that the whole produce of the U. States would have invited attack and afforded a bait to the rapacity of the French cruisers? If a few have accidentally escaped them, it is no evidence that, if the embargo had not been laid, the whole would not have been in the hands of the belligerents. That both belligerents have manifested hostilities by edicts which prostrated our commerce, will not be denied by any gentleman. G. Britain on a former occasion passed an order, sent it out secretly, and before our minister was officially notified, it was in full operation. Their late orders included all our commerce which was afloat. Was it not to be expected that such would have been the policy of G. Britain in this case, and such our proportionate loss, if the embargo had not been laid, and snatched this valuable commerce from their grasp? Great inconveniences are apprehended from this measure, giving another direction to commerce and from our losing that to which we have been accustomed. I have no such apprehension. If on the contrary we tamely acquiesce—I will not say in paying tribute, for every one seems to disclaim it; Great Britain however, having excluded us from the continent, if we tamely acquiesce, have we reason to expect that she will not, as long as she is a nation, exercise the same policy? Suppose it even to be policy, adopted in time of war, if we calculate the number of years she is in war in proportion to the number of years she is at peace, and suppose such a regulation to exist during all her wars, I conceive that we have lost our independence, if we submit to it. It appears to me that for many years Great Britain has adopted new regulations and added new principles to the established law of nations, to the subversion of lawful neutral commerce: it cannot be doubted then, that if it be in her power she will totally destroy it. I am not competent to enter into an examination of the precise evils or benefits resulting to commerce from the measure of the embargo. But I will state a point which in my mind is all important in this case. When the revolutionary war commenced, it was not merely the paying an all duty on tea which was the subject of contest, for it was considered as unimportant; but it was the right of Great Britain to impose a tax without our consent. This is the question now in contest, affecting our independence as, in former times it affected our rights. It is a question affecting our very existence as a nation. If this embargo be removed, and that is the only question now under consideration, no gentleman in the opposition has stated what he would wish in its room. There-
fore I shall take the question on the ground of acquiescence on the part of the U. States in the orders of Council. Then, I ask, will the United States so far abandon their independence as to subject themselves to the regulations of Great Britain and France, and be dictatorial to all that they shall trade to such and such places only? Shall we admit the right of foreign powers to restrict us? If we do, with what propriety can we at any future day contest the principle? In my mind this is the important point; and I still remain to form my opinion whether the embargo is the very best measure that could be adopted. Yet to show to the world that I will not surrender my rights, that I will struggle for our independence, I shall certainly vote against this resolution, till I see whether anything else can with propriety take its place. Mr. Smith said he did not rise to go into the discussion, for he had already taken his share in it, but to answer one observation of the gentleman from Delaware. It would be recollected that the gentleman had some days ago called for all the orders and decrees of the belligerents affecting neutral commerce; been pressed upon the Senate yesterday before these documents could have been received; that at the request of a gentleman from Massachusetts, the gentleman from Vermont (Mr. Bradley) had withdrawn his motion for postponement; that the gentleman from Massachusetts had then spoken, and that he (Mr. Smith) had replied to him. I stated facts as they occurred to me, (said Mr. S.) without paper or document, and asked the opinion of legal gentlemen on the subject of the operation of the orders in council on Spain and Portugal. The gentleman from Delaware has undertaken to decide the question according to common sense. Common sense is my guide, sir; and permit me to say that nine times out of ten it is the best guide to follow; and though I have heard the opinion of the gentleman from Delaware, I have not changed my opinion on the subject. I believe that the British will now exclude our commerce from these ports, because the act of Parliament making permanent these orders, authorises the king to modify them, as to his majesty may appear proper. I asked yesterday whether a proclamation to this effect had been issued by the king of Great Britain? The gentleman says common sense will give the orders the construction which he contends. I take the answer of Mr. Canning to the committee of merchants, and bottom my assertion on it. Will the gentleman deny that before the orders in council were issued, we could, under certain restrictions, trade to these countries? Yet Mr. Canning answers, when asked by these three respectable merchants who must have had doubts on the subject or they would not have applied for information, "with American produce they may go." If they were, as the gentleman contends, as free to go now as prior to the orders in council, why did not Mr. Canning answer that they might go without restriction, instead of limiting the commerce to the carriage of American produce? November 23.
Mr. Crawford said that one of the objects of the gentleman from Connecticut was, no doubt, to obtain information of the effects of the embargo system from every part of the U. S. This information was very desirable at the present time, to assist the councils of the nation in forming an opinion of the course proper to be pursued in relation to it. A government founded, like ours, on the principle of the will of the nation, which subsisted but by it, should be as attentive as far as possible to the feelings and wishes of the people over whom they presided. He did not say that the representatives of a free people ought to yield implicit obedience to any portion of the people who may believe them to act erroneously; but their will, when fairly expressed, ought to have great weight on a government like ours. The Senate had received several descriptions of the effects produced by the embargo in the eastern section of the nation. As the representative of another extreme of this nation, Mr. C. said he conceived it his duty to give a fair, faithful and candid representation of the sentiments of the people whom he had the honor to represent. It was always the duty of a representative to examine whether the effects expected from any given measure had or had not been produced. If this were a general duty, how much more imperiously it is their duty at this time. Every one admitted that considerable sufferings have been undergone, and much more was now to be borne. Gentlemen have considered this subject generally in a two-fold view (said Mr. C.) as to its effects on ourselves, and as to its effects on foreign nations. I think this a proper and correct division of the subject, because we are certainly more interested in the effects of this measure on ourselves than on other nations. I shall therefore pursue the subject. It is in vain to deny that this is not a prosperous time in the U. States; that our situation is neither promising or flattering. It is impossible to say that we have suffered no privations in the year 1808, or that there is a general spirit of content throughout the U. States; but I am very far from believing that there is a general spirit of discontent. Whenever the measures of the government will arise, however great the benefits, which are expected from such measures One discontented man excites more attention than a thousand contented men, and hence the number of discontented is always over rated. In the country which I represent I believe no measure is more applauded or more cheerfully submitted to than the embargo. It has been viewed there as the alternative to avoid war. It is a measure which is enforced in that country at every sacrifice. At the same time that I make this declaration I am justified in asserting that there is no section of the union, whose interests are more immediately affected by the measure than the southern states—than the state of Georgia. We have been told by an honorable gentleman who has declaimed with great force and eloquence against this measure, that great part of the produce of the eastern country has found its way into market; that new ways have been cut open, and produce has found its way out. Not so with us; we raise no provisions, except a small quantity of rice, for exportation. The production of our land lies on our hands. We have suffered and now suffer; yet we have not complained. The fears of the Southern States particularly have been addressed by the gentleman from Connecticut, by a declaration that G. Britain, whose fleets cover the ocean, will certainly find a source from which to procure supplies of those raw materials which she has heretofore been in the habit of receiving from us; and that having thus found another market, when we have found the evil of our ways, she will turn a deaf ear to us. By way of exemplification, the gentleman cited a familiar example of a man buying butter from his neighbors. It did not appear to me that this butter story received a very happy elucidation. In the country in which he lives there are so many buyers and so many sellers of butter, that no difficulty results from a change of purchasers or customers. Not so with our raw materials. Admitting that Britain can find other markets with ease, there is, still a great distinction between this & the gentleman's butter case. When a man sells or buys he receives money or supplies in payment for it; his wants and wishes, and those of his purchasers are so reciprocal, that no difficulty can ever arise. But G. Britain must always purchase raw materials of those who purchase her manufactures. It is not to oblige us that she takes our raw materials, but it is because we take her manufactures in exchange. So long as this state of things continues, so long they will continue to resort to our market. There is no danger then of our losing our market. I have considered the gentleman's argument on this point as applied to the feelings of the southern country. No one article exported from the U. States equals cotton in amount. If then we are willing to run the risk, I trust no other part of the United States will hesitate on this subject. Another reason offered by the gentleman from Connecticut, and a substantial one if true, is, that this measure cannot be executed. If this be the case, it is certainly in vain to persevere in it, for the non-execution of any public law must have a bad tendency on the morals of the people. But the facility with which the gentleman represents these laws to have been evaded, proves that the morals of the evaders could not have been very sound when the measure was adopted; for a man trained to virtue will not, whatever facility exists, on that account, step into the paths of error and vice. Although I believe myself that this measure has not been properly executed, nor in that way in which the situation of our country might reasonably have induced us to expect, yet it has been so far executed as to produce some good effect. So far as the orders and decrees remain in full force, so far it has failed of the effect hoped from it; but it has produced a considerable effect, as I shall attempt to show hereafter.
In commenting on this part of the gentleman's observations it becomes proper to notice not an insinuation, but a positive declaration that the secret intention of laying the embargo was to destroy commerce; and was in a state of hostility to the avowed intention. This certainly is a heavy charge. In a government like this, we should act openly, honestly and candidly; the people ought to know their situation and the views of those who conduct their affairs. It is the worst of political dishonesty to adopt a measure, and offer that reason as a motive for it which is not the true and substantial one. The true and substantial reason for the embargo, the gentleman says he believes was to destroy commerce and on its ruins to raise up domestic manufactures. This idea, I think though not expressly combated by the observations of the gentleman from Delaware, (Mr. White) was substantially refuted by him. That gentleman, with great elegance and something of sarcasm, applied to the house to know how the treasury would be filled in the next year; and observed that the present "incumbent of the presidential palace" would not dare to resort to a direct tax, because a former administration had done so and felt the effects of its insinuating that the present administration did not possess courage enough to attempt it. Now, I ask, if they dare not resort to a direct tax, excise laws and stamp acts, where will they obtain money? In what way will the public coffers be filled? The gentleman must acknowledge that all our present revenue is derived from commerce and must continue to be so, except resort be had to a direct tax, and the gentleman says, we have not courage enough for that. The gentleman from Connecticut must suppose, if the gentleman from Delaware be correct, that the administration seeks its own destruction. We must have revenue, and yet are told that we wish to destroy the only way in which it can be had, except by direct tax, a resort to which it is asserted would drive us from the public service.
But we are told with a grave face that a disposition is manifested to make this measure permanent. The states who call themselves commercial states, when compared with the southern states, may emphatically be called manufacturing states. The southern states are not manufacturing states, while the great commercial states are absolutely the manufacturing states. If this embargo system were intended to be permanent, these commercial states would be benefited by the exchange, to the injury of the southern states. It is impossible for us to find a market for our produce but by foreign commerce; and whenever a change of the kind alluded to is made, that change will operate to the injury of the southern states more than to the injury of the commercial states, so called. But another secret motive with which the government is charged to have been actuated, is, that this measure was intended and is calculated to promote the interests of France. To be sure none of the gentlemen have expressly said that we are under French influence, but a resort is had to the expose of the French minister, and a declaration thence made that the embargo was

laid at the wish of Bonaparte. The gentleman from Connecticut told us of this exposure for this purpose; and the gentleman from Massachusetts appeared to notice it with the same view. Now we are told that there is no danger of war, except it be because we have understood that Bonaparte has said that there shall be no neutrals; and that, if we repeal the embargo, we may expect that he will make war on us. And this is the only source from whence the gentleman could see any danger of war. If this declaration against neutrality which is attributed to the Gallic emperor be true, and it may be so, his Gallic majesty could not pursue a more direct course to effect his own wishes than to declare that our embargo had been adopted under his influence. And unless the British minister had more political sagacity than the gentlemen who offered the evidence of the expose in proof of the charge, it would produce the very end which those gentlemen wished to avoid—a war with Great Britain; for she would commence the attack, could she believe this country under the influence of France. I would just as much believe in the sincerity of that expose, as Mr. Canning's sincerity, when he says that his majesty would gladly make any sacrifice to restore to the commerce of the U. S. its wonted activity. No man in the nation is silly enough to be galled by these declarations; but from the use made of them, we should be led to think otherwise, were it not for the exercise of our whole stock of charity. Now I cannot believe that any man in this nation does believe in the sincerity of Mr. Canning's expressions, or that Bonaparte believes that the embargo was laid to promote his interest. I cannot believe that there is any man in this nation who does candidly and seriously entertain such an opinion.
When we advance to the second proposition, we are told in the most positive terms by the gentlemen from Delaware and Connecticut, that this measure has produced no effect on foreign nations. The gentleman from Massachusetts barely admits, that at first it had excited some small degree of alarm in Great Britain for a short time. I cannot believe, that gentlemen wish to be understood literally when they tell us this. It can be nothing more than a figure of rhetoric. It cannot really be meant that the embargo has produced no effect. The gentleman from Massachusetts gets over it by saying, that insurrections among her manufacturers, were familiar to him; he had always heard of them. But, sir, I do not recollect to have heard of any insurrection of the kind to which I allude, having taken place. They have at times heretofore been disorderly indeed, but in the late case it was a peaceable assemblage of laborers, not intending to overthrow the government or to resist the laws, but to show the absolute state of starvation with which they were threatened. There has been nothing of this kind within my recollection before. We have heard of mobs and riotous tumults; but in the present case no movement was made by these unfortunate people to disturb the government. With a degree of facility which excited my astonishment, the gentleman tells us that if 100 principal manufacturers should be reduced to bankruptcy, and 50,000 mechanics should be turned out of employ, this would but strengthen the army and navy of the British nation; that, when you affect Great Britain most seriously, you do her a benefit. Pursuing this argument a little farther; suppose 500,000 should be unemployed, the arm of the nation would be so much the more strengthened, and the more it would enable her to enforce her arbitrary maritime regulations. I see no conclusion to which this argument would lead us, but to this: that as you destroy her manufactures, you make her more powerful. If the effect of destroying her manufactures was to be simply that which the gentleman conceives of arming her vessels and filling the ranks of her armies, it possibly might promote her strength. But these people must be clothed and fed, whether in the sea or land service, and must also have a little pay. If all her manufactures are destroyed, where is she to obtain the sum of money necessary to pay, clothe and feed these people? Sir, we effect them vitally by affecting their manufactures; for by the export duty on these and imports on their returns, they obtain great part of their revenue. If they export nothing, they can import nothing. This conclusion of the gentleman from Massachusetts cannot therefore be correct.
The gentleman from Massachusetts says, it is true that a considerable alarm was excited in England when the news of the embargo arrived there; that they had been led to believe, from their writers and speakers, that a discontinuance of their intercourse with this country would be productive of most injurious consequences; but that they were now convinced that all their writers and statesmen were mistaken, and that she can suffer a discontinuance of intercourse without being convulsed or suffering at all. To believe this requires a considerable portion of credulity, especially when the most intelligent men affirm to the contrary. In the last of March or the first of April last, we find on an examination of merchants at the bar of the British House of Commons, that the most positive injury must result from a continuance of non-intercourse. It is not possible that our merchants on this side of the water, however intelligent they may be, can be as well acquainted with the interests of Great Britain as her most intelligent merchants. This alarm, however, the gentleman has told us continued through the spring and dissipated in the summer. It is very easy to discover the cause of the dissipation of this alarm. It was not because the loss of intercourse was not calculated to produce an effect, but it proceeded from an adventitious cause which could not have been anticipated—the revolution in Spain; and there is no intelligent man who will not acknowledge its injurious effects on our concerns. No sooner did the British ministers see a probability that the struggle between the Spanish Patriots and France would be maintained, than they conceived hopes that they might find other supplies; and then they thought they might give to the people an impulse by increasing the nation in the affairs of Spain which would render lighter the effects of our embargo. This is the cause of the change in Mr. Canning's language; for every gentleman in the House knows that a very material change took place in it in the latter part of the summer. If then the embargo has not produced the effects calculated from it, we have every reason to believe that its failure to produce those effects has been connected with causes wholly adventitious, and which may give way if the nation adheres to the measure. If, however, there be any probability that these causes will be continued for a long time, we are at a loss to understand it. I am not in favor of continuing any
measure of this kind, except there be a probability of its producing some effect on those who make it necessary for us to exercise this act of self-defence. When I first saw the account of the revolution in Spain, my fears were excited lest it should produce the effect which it has done. As soon as I saw the stand made by the Spanish patriots, I was apprehensive that it might buy up the British nation under the sufferings arising from the effects of their iniquitous orders, which compared with the sufferings which we ourselves have borne, have been as an hundred to one. If there be evidence that the effects of this measure will yet be counteracted by recent events in Spain, I will abandon it, but its substitute should be war, and no ordinary war—I say this notwithstanding the petitions in the other branch of the Legislature, and the resolutions of a state legislature which have lately been published. When I read the resolutions called emphatically the Essex Resolutions, I blush for the disgrace they reflect on my country. We are told there that this nation has no just cause of complaint against Great Britain; and that all our complaints are a mere pretext for war. I blush that any man belonging to the great American family should be so debased, so degraded, so lost to every generous and national feeling, as to make a declaration of this kind. It is debasing to the national character.
(Mr. Crawford's Speech to be continued.) DOMESTIC. WASHINGTON, Friday, Dec. 9. A letter from the Collector of Penobscot to the Secretary of the Treasury. Collector's Office, District of Penobscot. CASTINE, Nov. 23d, 1808.
Sir, On the evening of the 1st of November, I had information, that an English vessel had come up the Penobscot bay in the afternoon, in such a way that rendered her very suspicious; and that she had followed a small vessel twenty miles out of her way, and had come to an anchor under Long Island, about sun-set, although she had a fair wind and a fine moon all night. I went immediately after her, and found her in a snug harbour. She had a clearance from Portsmouth, New-Hampshire, for Nova-Scotia—and was undoubtedly after a load of Mr. Master's flour—I made seizure of the vessel (and took her to Castine that night) under the ninth section of the embargo act. Being sensible that there was a plan forming at Buck's-town and the Isle of Haut, and that they were determined to evade the laws by force, I went to Buck's-town, and placed an officer on shore, and put an officer on board a sloop that was loading under a permit—the only suspicious vessel that was there at that time. The officer on shore was to give information to me by land, in case any violence should be offered to the officer on board. I then proceeded to the Isle of Haut, and placed five men there, with a boat to guard the flour, &c. there, as I have previously stated, their orders were to stop any boat or vessel that should come past there, that appeared suspicious, and to see that the flour, &c. was not taken away without a permit—they were armed to defend themselves, and their orders were to commence no attack but what was strictly their duty to do. I then went to Castine, and was preparing the small schooner to cruise from the Isle of Haut to Buck's-town, armed as I stated in my last—and am sensible that she will out-sail any vessel that should attempt to make their escape. On the 6th inst. on the Sabbath night, the wind blew fresh at North, my officer at Buck's-town had turned in about nine o'clock and all things were peaceable, he was awoken by five men, masked and armed, coming into the cabin, and telling him to be quiet, or they would bind him; there were then thirty or forty men who came down on the wharf, blacked and dressed in disguise, and put on board a quantity of flour and fish, and got her under way, and sent her to sea, taking the officer on board with them, whom they carried down the bay about 40 miles, and landed him; but at such a place that he could not get any assistance; at the same time these men came on to the wharf, there was thirteen men stationed on the bridge, about two miles from Buck's-town, to prevent my officer on shore from giving me information, and by the time I had received the information, she had got ten hours start, and with as much wind as she could carry sail to.
On the same evening there came in amongst the islands, an English schooner from Nova-Scotia, with eight men on board, armed with muskets and cutlasses; and after cruising five or six days amongst the Islands, they were boarded by a boat from Buck's-town, with five men armed with muskets, blunderbusses and boarding pikes; they then took a pilot from Mount Desert, and proceeded to the Isle of Haut, all on board the schooner, except two men in the boat, who towed the schooner into the reach, not far from the store that contained the flour, and came to an anchor; it was then about seven o'clock in the evening, and very dark; the boat was then ordered along side, and ten men armed with nine muskets and a pistol, all loaded with ball, got into the boat. She was then ordered to row on shore to the wharf, where the flour was, the boat was discovered by my men, and they prepared themselves to stand their own defence. The master of my revenue boat hailed the boat from the shore, as she was coming towards the wharf, and they answered from Vinalhaven, in this district. The officer then ordered them to row on shore. Immediately they rowed up to him, sprung from the boat with their guns cocked, took the officer prisoner at the bows of the boat; they then rushed on the rest of my men; killed one man and took another prisoner, took his gun from him and let him go; the other two made their escape; they took the revenue boat and all the other boats on the island, as they thought, and hauled them up and secured them; they then took the man that was shot, and dragged him into the water, hauled the schooner into the wharf, and took one hundred and sixty barrels of flour and rice, and made sail for sea, with the master of the revenue boat on board; the two men that made their escape, very luckily found a boat on the back side of the island, and came to Castine and gave me information. I sent immediately for the schooner that was ordered to cruise from Buck's-town to the Isle of Haut, to report to me from the guard at each place. She was on her way to Buck's-town, I took fourteen men in the schooner with me, and put four men into a small sail boat, to accompany us; and we started for the Isle of Haut, as soon as possible, it was then night, and soon came on a violent gale of wind, and the boat has not
been heard of since; and the men are lost beyond all doubt. We arrived at the Isle of Haut the next morning. I found there my deputy from Deer Isle, with twenty men, who arrived the evening before; but the schooner was gone when they arrived; as they had carried off one of my men a prisoner, I thought it my duty to pursue them, although it then blew a very severe gale of wind. I took into the schooner a part of the men from Deer Isle, and ran over to Fox Island, and came in sight of the schooner, in what was called Fox Island Thoroughfare; they discovered our colors, cut their cables, and got under way immediately; we chased them about ten miles to sea, when they were obliged to strike their English colours. I then ordered my officer (who was on board) to take the helm, and carry her into Owls Head for a harbor. When we arrived in the harbor, I went on board and secured the men, and put them down in the hold of my vessel. And after the storm I proceeded to Castine, and eight of the men that went on shore in the boat, armed as before stated, were examined before the Hon. Job Nelson, D. Howe and Bradshaw Hall, esquires, and were committed to jail, for the murder of Lazaro Bagdadovich, an Italian. His body has been found, and the verdict of the jury of inquest was—WILFUL MURDER. This is a correct statement of facts, and nothing exaggerated.
I am, Sir, Very respectfully, Your obedient servant, JOSIAH HOOK, Collector. Hon. ALBERT GALLATIN, Sec'y. of the Treasury. Mr. Giles, from a committee appointed in the Senate, yesterday reported "A bill making further provision for enforcing the embargo."
Accompanying the bill, were the following letter to, and answer from the Secretary of the Treasury. The provisions of the bill are generally correspondent with the recommendations of the Secretary. Committee Chamber, Nov. 14, 1808. DEAR SIR—I am instructed by the Committee appointed to consider the several embargo laws, &c. to request you to lay before them with as little delay as possible, such information as your Department affords upon the following questions: First. What measures would be most effectual in preventing the violations or evasions of the several Embargo laws; and enforcing a due observance thereof? Second. Can any of the inconveniences of the present system be remedied by further modifications; and what modifications would effect that object? Be pleased, Sir, to accept, assurances of my high consideration and regard. (Signed) W. B. GILES. Hon. ALBERT GALLATIN, Sec'y. of the Treasury.
Treasury Department, Nov. 24, 1808. Sir, Indisposition has prevented an earlier answer to your letter of the 14th inst. For better preventing coasting vessels regularly cleared from violating the embargo, two measures appear necessary:— 1st. That the amount of the bonds should be increased. 2dly. That neither capture, distress, or any other accident should be admitted as a plea, or be given in evidence on trial. By the first regulation the temptation of going to a foreign port, in hopes that the profit on the sale of the cargo will indemnify for the forfeiture of the penalty will be done away. By the second every expectation of escaping the payment of the penalty under fraudulent pretences will be disappointed; and the power of remitting the penalties in the few cases of unavoidable accident which may occur, will remain as heretofore and as in other cases with the Treasury.
As the object of those two regulations will be to make the bond a sufficient & complete security, they will have a tendency to relieve, in a considerable degree, the coasting trade from the inconvenience resulting from detentions. The sufficiency of the bond will in many doubtful cases remove the necessity of detaining vessels, or what amounts to the same, of informing the owners that unless they reduce the amount of their cargoes, they will be detained.
I would also submit the propriety of placing under the control of the President, that power of detention vested in the collectors by the act of the 25th of April last. That subject has been a constant source of complaint and difficulty. It has been the uniform practice from the establishment of the government of the U. States to give positive instructions to the collectors respecting the execution of the laws, and which they were bound to obey unless a different construction should be established by a legal decision. This indeed was essentially necessary in order to secure an uniform construction and execution of the laws. But the provision now alluded to makes the detention to rest on the opinion of each collector, and this must necessarily produce a great diversity in the manner in which the power should be executed. All has been done that could obviate that evil; and the President being authorised to decide on the detentions when made, the opportunity was taken to inform the collectors of what in his opinion should be a proper cause of detention. This however, could be given only as opinion and operate as a recommendation, and not as an order. Nor does it appear practicable to establish uniformity, and to prevent partiality, and either laxity or too great severity in practice, unless the power of prescribing general rules in that respect by which the collectors will be bound to abide, be vested in the President.
I am aware that there is another mode of evasion by regular coasting vessels which will not be prevented by either of the preceding provisions. Either whilst in port, or on their way down our rivers and bays, coasting vessels may receive articles not entered on their manifest, which they put on board other vessels lying on the coast for that purpose. But it is not perceived that any legal provision can prevent that infraction, nor that any other remedy can be found than the vigilance of the officers. Another general regulation will however be suggested, perhaps useful as a permanent measure, but which would at all events under existing circumstances, give additional security for the observance of the laws and afford some relief to employ any aliens either as masters or part of the crew of any coasting vessel. It is still more difficult to guard against violations by vessels departing without clearance in open defiance of the laws. The following provisions on mature consideration
appear the most efficient that can be devised against infractions which it may be the more necessary to repress, as they may be daily expected to increase and threaten to prostrate the law and government itself.
1st. To forbid expressly under pain of forfeiture (the penalty now being only implied) the lading of any vessel without the permission of the collector and without the bond for a coasting voyage being previously given; authorising the collectors to refuse permission, unless the object be that of a lawful coasting or fishing voyage. The great number of vessels now laden and in a state of readiness to depart shews the necessity of this provision. If there be cases in which the indulgence of converting vessels into ware-houses ought to be granted, there will be no hardship where the intention is fair, to require a bond similar to that given for a coasting voyage. And the collector should likewise in such cases be expressly authorised to take such efficient precautions as will put it out of the power of such vessels to sail without warning.
2d. In order to prevent those fraudulent sales of vessels by which ostensible owners of no responsibility are substituted to those from whom penalties might be recovered, it is necessary to provide that those owners of vessels whose names appear on the register or licence should continue to be reputed as such and liable to the penalties in case of infraction of the laws until the register or licence shall have been actually surrendered and new papers shall have been regularly granted by the collector to the purchaser. And in every such case of purchase, a sufficient bond that the embargo shall not be infringed, to be previously required.
3d. The power to seize unusual deposits now vested in the collectors of districts adjacent to the territories of foreign nations should, as was contemplated in the bill passed by the House of Representatives, be extended to all the districts. That this is an arbitrary power, which nothing but the unremitted efforts in some places to evade the law can possibly justify, cannot be denied; and it should, like that of detention, be placed under the control of the President, and be executed only in conformity with such general rules as he would prescribe.
4. Exclusively of the assistance which may be derived from gun-boats and from the armed vessels of the United States; it would be advisable to authorise the President to add ten or twelve cutters to the present establishment. Fast sailing vessels of every draft of water and requiring only from fifteen to thirty men each are mostly wanting, and would for the object contemplated, be as useful as the largest frigates.
5. It is with regret that the necessity of authorising, on the application of the collectors an immediate call of the local, physical force of the country, must also be stated. But such partial acts of violence as have taken place in some of the seaports cannot be prevented by the circuitous manner in which the public force must now be brought out in support of the laws. And no doubt exists that the mass of the citizens, whether they approve or disapprove of the embargo, would in every port, instantaneously suppress any such outrage, provided they can be called upon to act in a legal manner.
Some other provisions appear also necessary for the purpose of carrying the laws more completely into effect along our land frontiers.
1. The exportation of specie by land should be expressly prohibited. 2. The power of detaining deposits should be so expressed as to leave no doubt of the authority to detain waggons and other carriages laden and actually on their way to a foreign territory. Although I cannot perceive any reason for the distinction, it has been supposed in one of the districts that the law which authorised the detention of flour, beef or potash deposited in a ware house, did not extend to the case of their being deposited in a wagon although evidently on its way to Canada.
3. The offence now punishable by law is that of exportation. This is not consummated till after the property has been actually carried beyond the lines, where, being in a foreign jurisdiction, it cannot be seized; so that forfeiture, which is the most efficient penalty, can never apply to exportations by land; and no bond being required as in the case of vessels, the only remedy is the uncertain one of recovering penalties against apparent offenders who either abscond or have no property. How far it may be practicable to make the act of preparing the means of exportation punishable or to provide some other remedy, is submitted to the committee.
But it must also be observed, that every degree of opposition to the laws, which falls short of treason, is now with but few exceptions, an offence undefined and unprovided for by the laws of the United States; whence it follows that such offences remain unpunished when the state authorities do not interfere. The necessity of defining those offences by law as misdemeanors and of providing an adequate punishment appears obvious.
I will beg leave here to add that it does not appear necessary to continue any longer the indulgence granted to the British merchants to import for the use of the Indians articles of which the importation is generally prohibited by law; as that privilege is liable to great abuse, and affords just ground of dissatisfaction to American citizens. Whether it be advisable to continue the permission given to those Indian traders to export fur and peltry, is a question to be decided by political considerations.
The last branch of the subject to which I wish at present to call the attention of the committee, relates to interruptions and certain injurious proceedings attempted under color of law.
1. Vexatious suits are brought against Collectors which not only perplex faithful officers, but have the effect of intimidating others, and prevent an energetic performance of their duties. The only provisions which have occurred to me on that subject are to enable the collectors who may be sued, always to remove the cause before a court of the United States; to make a certificate issued by the proper authority, that there was reasonable cause of detention, protect them against damages in cases of detentions, in the same manner as is now provided in case of seizures; and to provide for the safe keeping and restoring, when proper and on security being given, the vessels and property which may be detained.
2. Attempts have in several instances been made to wrest from the collectors by writs of replevin, issued by state courts or officers, property detained or seized by said collectors, or which, in any other manner, is in their possession in conformity with some law of the United States. It is evident that such attempts, if submitted to, would defeat
not only the embargo but also the revenue laws of the United States; that whenever property is by virtue of a law of the United States, in the possession of a collector, marshal, or any other of their officers, no process in rem which will take the property away, whether of replevin, attachment or any other, can be legally issued by a state authority; and that the sheriff or other person executing the same, must be considered as a mere trespasser, and be resisted accordingly. But there is no other way at present to resist such illegal process but actual force. And it appears necessary that another remedy should be afforded, by providing a summary mode of superceding any such process through the interference of the courts and judges of the United States; and by making it penal for any sheriff, or other person, to execute the same, or in any manner to attempt to take property which by virtue of any law of the United States is in the collector's possession.
3. In some instances where vessels and cargoes libelled for infractions of the embargo have been restored to their owners on their giving security for the appraised value, the valuations have been so low as to reduce the forfeiture to an inconsiderable sum, thereby defeating altogether the law. It is suggested that this might be prevented by a provision authorising and directing the district judges to set aside, on motion of the district attorney, such valuations whenever in their opinion falling short of the true value.
4. On the subject of mandamus, I will only observe that, in the only instance which has taken place, the court, supposing they had jurisdiction, could not, from the manner in which the question was brought before them, have decided otherwise than they did; but that it is desirable that the question of jurisdiction, as it relates either to the courts in whom the power ought to be vested, or to the courts to which it should extend, should be precisely defined by law.
I have not in this communication taken into consideration the technical defects of the existing embargo laws, because prosecutions do not fall within my immediate cognizance, and I do not feel competent to the task of pointing out the necessary alterations. Measures have, however, been taken to procure on that subject and from the proper sources, information which will hereafter be laid before the committee.
To the remaining enquiry of the committee, whether the inconveniences of the present system may not in some degree be removed, I can only answer generally that a law which lays such extensive restrictions as the embargo cannot be carried into effect without imposing serious inconveniences even on the domestic intercourse of the U. States; & that these must necessarily be increased in proportion to the opposition and efforts to evade or violate the law. It has already been stated that provisions which will render the bond given by coasting vessels a complete security against violations of them, will diminish the necessity and extent of more arbitrary restrictions. An authority to permit, on proper security being given, such vessels when they arrive in port, to keep their cargoes on board, would afford some relief. And I think that the credit on duties accruing on the importation of certain articles, which was allowed by the act of 10th March last, should be extended to all importations of the same articles made after the passing of the act, those made in vessels which sailed under special permission only excepted. With respect to this last class of importations, as they were permitted by special indulgence, as it is understood that it has been impossible in many cases to prevent its being abused and as in almost all the parties having a species of exclusive privilege, have made sufficiently profitable voyages, the propriety particularly in the existing situation of the revenue, of allowing them also the advantage of an extended credit on duties, is not perceived.
I have the honor to be, With great respect, Sir, your obt. servant, ALBERT GALLATIN. Hon. W. B. Giles, Chairman of a Committee, of the Senate.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
MONDAY, December 5. [As it is our purpose to detail at length the whole of the important debate now progressing on our Foreign Relations, we do not attempt in the minutes of each day's proceedings to sketch the observations of the respective speakers even in a cursory manner, which method will however be adopted in debates of a nature less interesting to the nation at large.—Nat. Int.]
INSPECTORS OF CUSTOMS. Petitions were laid before the House from the inspectors of customs in the ports of Boston, New-York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, and referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures.
FOREIGN RELATIONS. The unfinished business of Saturday last being the report of the committee on our foreign relations, was taken up. Mr. Randolph spoke about an hour and a half in continuation of his observations of Saturday.
Mr. Love replied in a speech of about the same length. When the House adjourned without taking up a question, at 3 o'clock.
TUESDAY, December 6. NEW-ORLEANS BATTURE.
Mr. Smith presented the petition of Mr. Edward Livingston, stating his ejectment by the U. S. from the property of the Batture, which he had recovered by law from the corporation of New-Orleans; and praying that if the decision of the courts be not binding, some other tribunal might be fixed on by the U. S. for a decision on his title. After some debate, this petition was referred to the Attorney General.
Mr. G. W. Campbell presented a counter petition on this subject from New-Orleans, to which the same course was given.
FOREIGN RELATIONS. The report of the committee on foreign relations again before the House, and the question still on the first resolution.
Mr. Gholson supported the report in a speech of an hour and a quarter; and Mr. G. W. Campbell followed on the same side.
The House adjourned about four o'clock, before Mr. Campbell concluded his remarks.
WEDNESDAY, December 7. Messrs. Soy & Wharton presented memorials from sundry officers in the Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Maryland & N. Carolina lines of the Revolutionary army, stating that they have been compelled to dispose of the certificates of pay and commutation granted them for military services rendered the U. States, and praying for relief—Ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. Fitzpatrick presented a petition from certain British subjects in the state of New-York, praying that a certain Wm. Belk may be permitted to convey them and their families to the Island of Trinidad.—Referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
DIFFUSION OF INFORMATION. Mr. Durrell offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That it be the duty of the Clerk of this House to furnish the Representatives in Congress from each state in the union for the time being and the Delegates from each of the territories thereof, with one copy of every public document, including the laws and journals, printed by this House, to be by them transmitted to the principal Seminary of learning in each state and territory.
The resolution was ordered to lie on the table.
FOREIGN RELATIONS. The report on the subject of our foreign relations being yet under consideration—
Mr. G. W. Campbell continued his observations of yesterday in a speech of about two hours.
Mr. Quincy followed in reply in a speech of about an hour.
When the house adjourned without taking a question.
THURSDAY, December 8. Mr. Lewis presented the memorial of the Commercial Company of the City of Washington, praying an act of incorporation.—Referred to the committee of District of Columbia.
REVENUE CUTTERS. On motion of Mr. Newton the House went into committee of the whole on the bill authorising the President of the U. S. to employ an additional number of revenue cutters, Mr. Trigg in the chair. The bill having been read, on motion of Mr. Newton the committee rose and reported it, without debate or amendment. The bill was ordered to be read a third time this day.
FOREIGN RELATIONS. The report of the committee still under consideration—
Mr. Key made a speech of an hour and a half against it. Mr. Nelson replied in a speech of half an hour. Mr. Lyon opposed the report in a speech of the same length; and Mr. Desha concluded this day's debate by a speech of about twenty minutes.
The House adjourned without taking a question.
FRIDAY, Dec. 9. The bill authorising the President to employ twelve additional revenue cutters, was read a third time, and after some debate on a motion to recommit, passed.
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, DECEMBER 13, 1808.
FRENCH DECREES.
Agreeably to our intimation, we now republish some Remarks, which first appeared in this paper on the 4th of December, 1807.—They are not now re-echoed from any prepossession in favor of the taste or elegance with which they were composed—for like most of the strictures, which appear from our pen, they were written with haste and currente calamo —but because they will serve to display the ground on which we originally placed this great question; ground, from which we have not since veered in a single instance, and which we defy all the sophistry of the federal phalanx to shake.—The following Remarks will refute most of the mistakes and misrepresentations, which are now circulated with so much avidity on this very subject. They are in complete concurrence with the statements of the able Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations, which have just been submitted to the nation.
One remark more! It is obvious that these observations on the French Decrees were published before the new exposition of that Edict in the case of the Horizon had been known in this country. They were written too, before any systematic discussions on the same points, before the public documents, Mr. Madison's letters or Mr. Pinkney's dispatches, had been ushered into light.
Every nation has a right to pass such municipal laws as she pleases to adopt, whether for justice or for trade, for her own subjects or for foreigners, whether in the heart or on the borders of her empire: provided she respects the obligation of treaties.
Has not France a right to make regulations for her own ports? May she not exclude or admit any species of cargo or barks, as her policy or her caprice may dictate; provided she does it with a due regard to the rights of other nations as secured by treaty?
Her blockading decree (as it has been called) is in reality nothing but a municipal regulation. The first article certainly declares G. Britain to be in state of blockade: but as yet there is nothing in the acts or declarations of the government which manifests her resolution to interpret that article, according to the usual acceptance of the term "blockade." There is nothing in the context of the other articles manifesting such a spirit. Mons. Decree's letter (for himself) expressly disavows such a pretension.—The decree itself as it has been executed, abjures it; and there is nothing in the supplemental decree, lately published, that shows it to be the intention of France to give it a more formidable construction.
It is an acknowledged maxim that every nation is the best interpreter and judge of its own laws. Every nation is to be supposed to be the best acquainted with its own meaning. Every nation is to determine whether any particular decree is to pass as a mere municipal regulation, or a general statute affecting the law of nations; whether it is to operate within her own ports only, or to extend into the high seas. No neutral nation has the right to præsume against the words or spirit of such a decree, so long as its construction and execution are strictly compatible with the laws of nations or the stipulations of treaty.
How then, we ask, does France herself interpret this decree? Does she construe it into a blockade of the British isles and dependencies? Does she stop, seize and confiscate every neutral vessel, that is bound to or from her enemy's ports? Neither the late supplemental decree of the 4th of Sept. nor the last interpretation of her marine courts, are in conformity with this idea.
The George Washington, an American vessel, had touched at a British port and afterwards went to Bordeaux. A formal appeal was made to the minister of the Interior at Paris. Does he declare that the George Washington was to be confiscated,
for having violated the decree of the 21st of November? He does not.—Mons. Cretet declares that his majesty had "confirmed the dispositions of his decree" and "recently prescribed its strict execution" and yet the only consequence of the decree is, that the George Washington is not to "obtain admission" into the port of Bordeaux. She is not to be confiscated for touching at a British port: but is merely to be excluded from a French port.
The supplemental decree of the 4th Sept. is in the same spirit. It merely confirms the 4th and 8th articles of the decree of the 21st November. The 4th article determines, that no vessel should be admitted into a French port, "which shall have stopped in England, or shall have been conducted thither." Is not this a municipal regulation?
The 8th article merely enforces the former, by enacting a penalty against those who shall "contravene this disposition" & "by a false declaration shall dissimulate their having stopped in England." In this case, the vessel as well as cargo, are to be "seized & confiscated as English property." All laws must have a penalty: and this is the penalty attached to a violation of this law of France; and as well might G. Britain complain of our forfeiting her vessels, for smuggling, as we could complain of the French government's executing a mere commercial regulation, which she had the right to make, and which entrenches no more upon our own interests than on those of other neutrals.
France had no right to pass this decree, provided it violates the stipulations of her convention of 1800. But this is not the case. The only articles of that convention which can be supposed to touch this point, are the 6th, 11th and 12th.
The 6th: while it declares generally that "commerce between the parties shall be free," particularly stipulates, that "the vessels of the two nations—shall be treated in the respective ports as those of the nation the most favored."—The 11th article contains a stipulation of the very same sort with respect to the duties or imposts to be paid by the citizens of either nation "in the ports, havens, roads, countries, islands, cities and towns" of the other, or in passing from one port to another port in the same or another country.—So; that according to these two articles, the U. States have no cause of complaint against France, because they are by this decree placed on the same footing with the most favored nation; this decree in reality making "no exceptions." As to the 12th article, it merely provides for the unlimited freedom of trade (contraband goods excepted) "from any port whatever, to any port, of the enemy of the other; a case, which is evidently out of the terms of the decree; because this merely restricts the trade of the U. States, "from an enemy's port,"—not to an enemy's port,—but to a French port.
The U. States have therefore no adequate cause of complaint against France; nor has G. Britain any right to complain of our tacitly acquiescing in a regulation, which France had a right to enact. Let not G. Britain then assume the right of countervailing this decree, by declaring France herself in a state of blockade. We well know how unlicensed is the acceptance of this term in the English vocabulary . Let her not capture our vessels on the high seas, when they are bound to or from any of the French ports.
But if she be really determined to insist upon all her rights of retaliation, let her countervail the French decree according to its true spirit of interpretation. Let her declare to neutral nations, that no vessels which have touched at French ports, shall be admitted into her own; and that none shall be confiscated and sold, except, "by a false declaration, they shall dissimulate their having stopped" at France. This, & this only, is the right of retaliation, to which England is entitled. Such only is the countervailing decree which she is authorized to enact. Let G. Britain confine her policy to her municipal regulations, without wandering into piratical excursions into the law of nations; and the U. States will know how to submit without a murmur to her dispensations.
But who can believe that these are the considerations, which stay the hand of G. Britain? It is neither from any regard to the metaphysical maxim of morality, which apportions the degree of retaliation inflicted to the extent of the injury sustained; nor from any conscientious scruples about the law of nations which abhors the iniquitous system of blocking a whole country by a single dash of the pen; nor is it from any high regard for the commercial interests of this country; that she has not long ago affected to frame a countervailing system in the wildest ebullition of unbridled avarice. The secret of her forbearance towards our commerce lies nearer home. Her virtue is but the fruit of her own interest. For, like the rapacious robber, whose cupidity only yields to his cowardice, G. Britain merely shrinks from her meditated crime, from an apprehension of the impending punishment.
This is precisely the reason, which is assigned by the English prints themselves.—"The intention, say they, of a general blockade of the enemy's ports is now said to be relinquished from an apprehension that it would injure the import of our manufactures into the continent." "Prohibiting all neutral trade, tho' it might not produce war with America, for it is clear that America will not venture to go to war with us, would greatly reduce the demand for those articles, which America purchases from us to sell to the continent."—And here, by the way, it may not be improper to notice one singular inconsistency that marks the practice of this virtuous nation. She prohibits neutral vessels from carrying the produce of her enemy's colonies to the mother country, because she says it relieves her enemy from the pressure of war, by enabling them to smuggle the colonial produce into their own ports, which would be exposed to her capture in their own vessels. And yet G. Britain does not hesitate to relieve herself from the same pressure, by employing the very same vessels to smuggle her own manufactures into the continent of Europe.
There are the true reasons, which have hitherto prevented a resort on her part to a countervailing system of the wildest encroachment on our commerce. And yet so deep is the infatuation which guides her councils, or so confident is she of the tameness of our forbearance, or so romantic perhaps is the gallantry of her ministers, that she seems to be pursuing that very conduct towards ourselves, which may probably lead to a much severer conclusion. Should a war arise between us, all her anticipations of the consequences resulting from her meditated countervailing decree, will be more than fulfilled. She will at once lose all the benefits of the protection she derives from the American flag. It
will no longer cover the introduction of her manufactures into France, or Holland, or any of the ports of Europe. A war will much more materially "injure the import of (her) manufactures into the continent;" it will much more considerably "reduce the demand for those articles which America purchases from (her) to sell to the continent."
FOR THE ENQUIRER. As the period for appointing a TREASURER of the Commonwealth nearly approaches, an humble individual takes leave to submit to the consideration of the Legislature a few remarks on that subject. His object is to suggest, in a word, that the whole expense of the Treasury department may be saved without any possible injury to the public. The Constitution says that "a Treasurer shall be appointed annually," but his duties are left to be defined by Law. The Constitution may therefore be satisfied by a mere nominal appointment, if the public requires it. Since the establishment of the Bank of Virginia it is a fact well known, that it is not necessary for the Treasurer to touch one cent of the Revenue. Indeed such is the practice. The Bank receives the money, and he has merely to draw checks when Auditor's warrants are presented for payment.
He is thereby relieved completely from the onerous and responsible part of his duty—the receiving, paying and taking care of the public treasure; and, in truth, he has nothing left to perform, but 1st. to file away Auditor's warrants, take receipts from individuals for the amounts of those warrants, draw checks on the Bank, and keep a book of receipts and disbursements "to be laid, from time to time, before the General Assembly"—and 2d. "to represent the Commonwealth in the Pocomac, James River, Dismal Swamp and Virginia Bank Companies."
Now, the first part of these duties is so very light that the Bank certainly would, at least with the addition of one Clerk, perform it without inconvenience. If this additional clerk should be deemed necessary, he might be appointed by the Legislature and Salaried by the Bank. As a remuneration for this Salary, the President and Directors of the Bank would doubtless accept the use of the Treasury office for their operations.—By this arrangement then the entire charge of the Treasury department would be saved to the public, and the Revenue would be as securely deposited in the Bank, as in the hands of an individual.
The second part of the Treasurer's duties could surely be as well executed by the Chief Magistrate as by him, and the several Companies could not consider a mere change in the State-representative as an infraction of their charters. Indeed it is manifestly more correct that the controlling power of the Commonwealth over the Bank should be committed to the Governor than to the Treasurer, because he has generally more intelligence and more of the confidence of the people at large—because he is less accessible to the intrigues of those who usually buzz around the Treasurer about the time of an Election of Directors, and because this enormous power can only be wielded by him for three years.
CIVIS.
Extract of a letter from Lancaster, Penn. to the Editor of the Enquirer, dated, 7th December, 1808.
"Our legislature met here yesterday; the Senate have re-elected Mr. Lane for their Speaker, and in the house of representatives, N. B. Bollenau has been chosen.
"This day the joint houses chose two Electors (Madisonians) in place of Wm. Montgomery and ———, who have sent notice that they are unable to attend at the seat of government. The former (who is the father of Daniel Montgomery, one of the Prothonotaries) pleads indisposition as his obstacle; but the real cause is, that he has ever been opposed to the nomination of Mr. Madison, and pre-maturely pledged himself to support Clinton for President. Hence consistency and his political tenets, and at the same time an equal degree of reluctance to oppose the popular sentiments, have prescribed to him the alternative he has accepted. The latter delinquent is of the same stamp."
"I have the pleasure to inform you that the Election has just terminated for President:—James Madison 20; Vice President, George Clinton 20."
On Saturday, the Legislature proceeded to the appointment of Register of the Land Office.—The following was the result:
 1st ballot—David S. Garland 83 votes. Edward C. Davis 75 W. G. Payne 29 J. Staples 2  Mr. Staples was of course dropped by a rule of the House.  2d ballot—Mr. Davis 95 Mr. Garland 93 Mr. Payne 3  No majority.  3d ballot—Mr. Davis 105 M. Garland 88  Of course, Mr. Davis is elected. 
Yesterday, the Speaker of the House of Delegates laid the following Letter before the House:— GREEN-WAY, December 11, 1808.
SIR, I received, yesterday evening, your very polite communication, by express, announcing my appointment to the Office of Chief Magistrate of the State.—To be thus called on by so decided a vote of the Legislature, to a station so high and responsible, covers me with obligations, & leaves no room for me to doubt the part I ought to act on the occasion, more especially when I hold it the indispensable duty of every good citizen to obey the Voice of his Country, when elected to a service not beyond his mental and bodily energies to perform. Under the influence of this motive, and that Love of Country which ought to glow in the bosom of every member of Society, and which I can truly declare I have always cherished with delight in my own, from the commencement of my political life to the present day; be pleased to inform the Hon. Assembly, that I will accept the honor conferred, and will proceed to the execution of the duties confided to me (with the aid of the Council of State) in due time. But when I collect the characters who have gone before me in this Department of State, how justly they deserved and received the applause of their country, for their fidelity and public Virtue; and moreover, when I consider the critical situation of our country at this awful period, I confess I approach the Altar with fear and trembling.—But I know my country is just and will indulge a generous forbearance, for those errors which may unintentionally fall to my share.
That the deliberations of the Assembly may be governed by all that moderation, wisdom and firmness, by which Virginia has been so often distinguished, and which are so essential in the present Crisis, is the devout prayer of their and Your very obt. Fellow-Citizen.
JOHN TYLER. To the Honorable The Speaker of the House of Delegates.
Mr. Pope (of Powhatan) moved that "leave be given to bring in a BILL to suspend the operations of Executions during the Embargo, and 90 days after it is raised." Agreed; and the subject was referred to Messrs. Pope, Thompson, Allen, (Shenandoah) Preston, Wirt, Ote and Nolan.
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
TUESDAY, Dec. 5.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Governor, accompanied by sundry documents for the consideration of the General Assembly; and the said letter, with part of the documents being read, were, on motion, ordered to be laid upon the table.
Ordered, That leave be given to bring in a bill "To encrase the compensation allowed by law to the electors of President and Vice-President of the U. States;" and that Messrs. Sample, Garraw, Conington, Bayton and Hatcher, do prepare and bring in the same.
A petition was presented and read from James Robertson, of the county of Amelia, complaining of the undue election and return of Bathurst Randolph, one of the delegates returned to serve in this present General Assembly from the said county.
Also a petition from John Jones, of Warwick county, complaining of the undue election and return of Dixon Brown, one of the delegates returned to serve in this present General Assembly, from the said county of Warwick.
Referred to the committee of Privileges and Elections.
A petition was presented and read from sundry inhabitants of Albemarle county, praying the passage of an act, subjecting to militia duty certain persons who are now exempt therefrom.
Ordered, That the said petition be referred to the committee of Courts of Justice; that they do examine the matter thereof, and report the same with their opinion thereupon to the House.
A petition was presented and read from a number of the inhabitants of Northumberland county, praying the passage of a law, to annex part of the said county to the county of Lancaster.
Also a petition of sundry other inhabitants of the said county of Northumberland in opposition thereto.
Also a petition from sundry inhabitants of the county of Kenawha, praying for a division of the said county.
Referred to the committee of Propositions and Grievances.
On motion, Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire jointly with a committee from the Senate, into the state of the accounts of the late & present Treasurer, discriminating between their accounts, and make report to this house; & a committee was appointed of Messrs. Pope, Sheffield, Prunty, Simon, Sample, J. Allen, Cheatham, Wirt and Hatcher.
Ordered, That the Clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
On motion, Resolved, That so much of the Governor's Communication, and the documents accompanying the same as relates to the judicial act of last session, be referred to a special committee; and that the committee be instructed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations or amendments are necessary in the various laws establishing the Judicial Courts of this Commonwealth, and regulating the proceedings therein; and that the committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise; and the same were referred to Messrs. Murdaugh, Sheffield, Sample, J. Allen, Barbour, Kinney, Payne, Staudard (of Spottsylvania) Wirt and Cabell.
On motion, Resolved, That 500 copies of the Governor's communication, and of the documents marked G. H. 1. K. therein referred to, be printed for the use of the members of the General Assembly.
[Here follow the proceedings, relative to the appointment of an Elector pro tem. which have been detailed in our paper.]
Mr. Sample presented, according to order, a bill "To encrase the compensation allowed by law, to the Electors of a President and Vice-President of the U. States," which was received and read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time.
WEDNESDAY, Dec. 7.
A petition of John Cooke, of Culpeper county, praying that he may be authorised to bring into this state certain slaves which have lately fallen to his wife in the state of Maryland.
Also a petition of sundry inhabitants of Montgomery county, praying the passage of a law repealing the act of Assembly prohibiting slaves being brought into this state, at least so far that slaves acquired by descent, devise or marriage, may be brought into that portion of the state west of the Allegany mountain.
Also a petition of Robert Conway, of the county of Northumberland, praying the passage of a law, authorising him to hold certain slaves which he has brought into this state from Maryland, and which are subject to the consequences of the law prohibiting slaves being brought into this state, and of which law the petitioner was ignorant at the time of bringing in the said slaves.
Also a petition of Jacob Vanhook, of Halifax county, praying the passage of a law, authorising him to remove into this state, from No. Carolina, certain slaves the property of the petitioner.
Ordered, That the said petitions be referred to Messrs. Strother, Sheffield, Prunty, J. Allen, Sample, Dashiell and Moseley.
A petition was presented and read from William Jones, of Caroline county, complaining of the undue election and return of Henry C. Coleman, one of the Delegates returned to serve in this present General Assembly from the said county.
Referred to the committee of Privileges and Elections.
Mr. Wooding from the committee of Privileges and Elections made the following report:
The Committee of Privileges and Elections have according to order had under their consideration the petition of James Robertson, complaining of the undue election of Bathurst Randolph, returned to serve as a delegate for the county of Amelia, to them referred, agreed upon a report and come to the following resolutions thereupon:
It appears to your committee, that at the election held for the county of Amelia, in April last, there were four polls kept, two of which gave B. Randolph a majority of eight votes, one a majority of five, and one a majority of four; and that the petitioner James Robertson, jun. admitted the polls giving to B. Randolph the majority of eight votes to be correctly kept.
It appears also to your committee, from the depositions of George Baldwin, commissioner for the county of Amelia, and John T. Leigh, deputy sheriff for said county, that there are twenty-three voters, viz:—Zachariah Hendrick, James Lockett, Cabborne Bell, Bartholomew Kidd, Nathan Avery, John Harper, Moses Morris, Robert Sadler, James Worsham, Elisha Richardson, Thomas Tabb, Robert Bolling, jun. Dudley Seay, Robert Pollard, Jacob Whitworth, Joshua Lockett, Charles H. Featherstone, John M'Namara, John Ogilby, Patrick Ogilby, John W. Deaton, Reuben Rucker, and William Waters, whose names are not upon the land book, and who voted for Bathurst Randolph.
It appears also to your committee, from the admission of Bathurst Randolph, that the votes of James Lockett, Cabborne Bell, William Clements, John Carter, Nathan Avery, James Worsham, Dudley Seay, Robert Pollard, Josiah Lockett, Bartholomew Kidd, Robert Ligon, Robert Bolling, jun. Thomas Pollard, Jacob Whitworth, Zachariah Butler, John Harper and Zachariah Hendrick, are illegal votes.
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the votes of Zachariah Hendrick, James Lockett, Cabborne Bell, Bartholomew Kidd, Nathan Avery, John Harper, Moses Morris, Robert Sadler, James Worsham, Elisha Richardson, Thomas Tabb, Robert Bolling, jun. Dudley Seay, Robert Pollard, Jacob Whitworth, Josiah Lockett, Charles H. Featherstone, John M'Namara, John Ogilby, Patrick Ogilby, John W. Deaton, Reuben Rucker, Wm. Waters, Wm. Clements, Jno. Carter, H. Ligon, Thomas Pollard, & Zachariah Butler, ought to be expunged from the poll of Bathurst Randolph, because they are illegal votes.
The poll of B. Randolph stood thus: 166 at the close of the election, deduct illegal votes 28, good votes 138.
The poll of James Robertson stood thus: 158 at the close of the election, deduct nothing—good votes 158.
Resolved, therefore, as the opinion of this committee, That the poll ought to stand thus: For Bathurst Randolph 138 James Robertson, jr. 158
By which, it appears, that Jas. Robertson, jr. has a majority of legal votes, independent of the admission on the part of Bathurst Randolph, and that he was duly elected to represent the county of Amelia, in this present General Assembly.
Resolved, also, as the opinion of this committee, That the petition of James Robertson, jr. complaining of the undue election of Bathurst Randolph, returned to serve as a Delegate from the county of Amelia for this present General Assembly, is reasonable.
The said resolutions being severally read a second time, were agreed to by the House.
An engrossed bill, "To encrase the compensation allowed by law to the Electors of a President and Vice-President of the U. States," was, on motion, read a third time, several blanks therein filled up and the bill amended by an engrossed clause by way of rider.
Resolved, That the bill do pass, and that the title be an act, "To encrase the compensation allowed by law to the Electors of a President and Vice-President of the U. States."
Ordered, That the clerk carry the said bill to the Senate and desire their concurrence.
And then the House adjourned till to-morrow morning 11 o'clock.
ELECTORAL COLLEGE OF MARYLAND.
Extract to the Editor, dated Annapolis, December 7, 1808.
"The Electors of President and Vice-President having met in the Senate chamber, they elected Tobias E. Stansbury their president, and at high review finished voting for President and Vice-President of the United States. On counting the ballots, it appeared that James Madison had nine votes as President of the United States, and George Clinton had nine votes as Vice-President; Charles C. Pinckney had 2 votes for President, and Rufus King had 2 votes for Vice-President. The two federal votes were given by Messrs. Carroll and Plater. Maugre as all the efforts of federalism; after all their boasting about the state of Maryland being federal, they could only raise two votes for a federal president.—Balt. Whig."
The Raleigh Register, received by last night's mail, informs us, that on counting the votes of the Electors of N. Carolina, there appeared eleven for Mr. Madison as P and 11 for Mr. Clinton as V. P.—three for Mr. C. C. Pinckney as P. and 3 for Mr. R. King as V. P.
A British schooner from Nova Scotia, was seized at New-York, on Saturday last by the revenue cutter, having on board Superfine Broadcloths and Caimeres packed in Water-logged heads, and Scotch Thread packed in barrels.—Balt. R. Post.
"The Whig of this morning states "that SUPERFINE English cloths to the amount of $40,000 have been imported in defiance of the non-importation act by one merchant in Market-street Philadelphia....1808 "
"* We are authorised to state, that Bathurst Jones, is a Candidate for the Senatorial District, composed of Caroline and Hanover."
COW POX.
Dr. W. Forsyth is now inoculating for this disease in its genuine form
IN CHANCERY. —At a Court held for Albemarle county, the 5th day of Dec. 1808. Nimrod Bramham, Plaintiff —against Jno. Jouett, Alice Jouett heir of Robert Jouett, Nathan Crawford and Margaret his wife, John Allen and Mary his wife, John Mills, Minan Mills, Margaret Mills, Frances Mills, Clifton Rodes and Elizabeth his wife, Charles Jouett, Thomas C. Fletcher and Susanna his wife, Defendants . The Defendants John Jouett, John Allen and Mary his wife, and Charles Jouett, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth: On motion of the Plaintiff, by his Council: It is ordered , That the said defendants do appear here on or before the first Monday in March next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public news-paper, printed in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of said county on some court day.
A Copy. Texte, ALEX'R. GARRETT, d. c. december 13. oaw8w8w
LOTS, FOR SALE. —The Subscriber will offer for sale, five LOTS on the east side of Col. John Mayo's hill, next street below the Lots which Mr. Copland has levelled for building on. The sale to commence at 11 o'clock, on Friday next. The terms of payment to be one half payable at 60 days with approved indorsed notes—The balance in 9 months. A plot of the Lots may be seen on the day of sale. Wm DYER. december 13. 2t
NOTICE. —On Friday the 26th day of January next, will be sold, to the highest bidder, at the plantation of the late Wm. Friend in Amelia, sundry valuable PROPERTY , to wit: The Stock of Cattle, Hogs, Horses and Sheep, the crop of Corn, Fodder, Sluice, &c. and about 200 bushels of Wheat, plantation Utensils, and about 20 likely young Negroes.—Terms of sale—one third cash, and the balance in 12 months.
At the same time, will be offered for sale, the above mentioned tract of LAND , upon a credit of one, two and three years. Persons disposed to purchase this Land, had better view the same before the day of sale.
In every instance, bond and unquestionable security will be required.
All those indebted to the said estate, will please make immediate payment, & those having claims, will present them on or before the day of sale.
THOMAS BR

EUROPE.
CONTINUATION of Foreign News received via New-York.
LONDON, Oct. 9.
Sir Arthur Wellesley has arrived in town from Portsmouth, accompanied by General Ferguson, Lord T. Somerset, the Hon. Capt. Stanhope, Capt. Melish, and some other Officers. The whole of these Officers will give evidence upon the enquiry respecting the Convention of Lisbon, which will take place immediately on the arrival of Sir Hew Dalrymple, who is expected in England in the course of three or four days.
The French troops from Lisbon, it is said, are to be landed at the Isle de Rhe, near Rochelle. This measure has been resolved upon to ensure the safe return of our transports, which Bonaparte with his usual good faith, might have kept, had they put into L'Orient or Rochefort.
Preparations are making at Cork for another embarkation of troops from that port. Letters have been received at Plymouth from Lisbon of the 17th ult. They state, that the first division of the French army, consisting of 8000 men, had sailed for Rochefort.
Some of the Dutch papers believe that Bonaparte will return from his German journey to Bayonne, by the 18th of October. About that time all the French column and all the heavy artillery destined for Spain, will have arrived on the frontiers of that country, and the campaign will be formally commenced. It is added that Bonaparte will command the Grand Army in person, and that Marshal Massena will command a separate corps of 18,000 men.
Insurances have been effected at Lloyd's to the amount of upwards of half a million, on vessels now on their voyage from Russia freighted with the produce of that country.
STOCKHOLM, Sept. 22.
His Highness Prince Frederick of Hesse-stein, Governor General of Pomerania, Field Marshal and Knight, Commander of his Royal Majesty's Orders, etc. died at Pankur, in Holstein, on the 27th July last, in his 74th year.
LEIDEN, Sept. 28.
German letters, received through France and otherwise, state in substance as follows: "On the 14th, a regiment of the Grand Duke of Berg's troops arrived at Hamburg and after halting one day there, proceeded to Dusseldorf. The 2d battalion of the 6th Dutch regiment has entered Bremen and is to garrison the mouth of the Weser. On the 16th the Turkish courier Solymann passed through Stuttgart, with dispatches from Constantinople for Paris, which are said to be of great importance. Within these few days, several French Couriers have passed through the same town, destined to Vienna, Munich etc. The Emperor of Russia was expected at Konigsberg, on the 16th, whence he was to proceed by way of Leipzig to Weimar. Marshal Lannes is to wait for his Imperial Majesty at Bromberg and accompany him. It appears certain that the Princes of the Confederation of the Rhine will meet at Erfurth, during the residence of the Emperor Napoleon at that place. It is reported that M. Carlsensen, formerly the Hessian War Councillor, has been arrested on his estate in the Weiteman, and carried to Mentz."
CHALONS SUR MAINE, Sept. 22.
At Bayonne it is stated, that the Spanish consul there had been taken into custody because he had desired passports to go to Alicante, the place of his nativity, and committed to the castle of Lourdes.
ROTTERDAM, Sept. 14.
His Excellency C. F. Van Maanen, the Minister of Justice, published the following notification of Utrecht, on the 21st inst. "The Minister of Justice and Public being duly authorised by his Majesty hereby interdicts and prohibits all printers and publishers of journals or newspapers from inserting any articles relative to the national institute, unless they shall have previously appeared in the Royal Courant."
From this circumstance it is manifest, that the late relaxation of the edicts for shutting the ports of Holland has been only with a view to procure some essential article of commerce, exclusively in the possession of British merchants. We cannot but express a wish, therefore, either that the licences for exporting bark and other articles of that nature, of such vast importance to our enemies, may be revoked, if practicable; or, that the English merchants may have firmness sufficient to prevent its leaving British ports, whatever temporary inconveniences they may suffer. The more we can distress the enemy, the sooner may we hope for peace.
PORTLAND, Nov. 30.
CONFIRMATION OF BRITISH OUTRAGE.
On the 6th inst. the Schooner Peggy, of Nova Scotia, with 8 men on board, armed with muskets, cutlasses and pistols, after cruising six days amongst the islands in the district of Penobscot, was boarded by a boat from Bucksport, with five men on board, armed with muskets and a blunderbushes; & after putting their arms on board the schooner and taking a pilot on board from Mount Desert, the sloop together with the boat, proceeded to the Isle of Haute, in said district, where there was a quantity of flour deposited on said island. A guard of five men had been placed there by the Collector of said district, to see that the flour was not taken away without a permit. The English schooner had come to an anchor in Kimball's Harbor, not far distant from the shore. The boat was ordered along side of the shore, and ten men, armed with five muskets and one pistol, went on board and rowed for the schooner which contained the flour. The boat was discovered, hailed by the guard, and she answered from Vinalhaven, in said district. They ordered the boat to come immediately to the shore.
They then rowed to the shore, and immediately sprang from the boat, took the master of the vessel prisoner at the point of the bayonet, killed one man, took another prisoner, detained his gun & gave him his liberty. The other two made their escape. They then took the revenue boat from them, and every boat near the island, (as they thought) and secured them. They then took the man that had been killed and dragged him into the water and let him go. After which, they took off about 150 barrels of Flour and Rice, and put to sea. The two men that had made their escape, luckily found a boat on the back side of the island, and immediately proceeded to Castine and gave information to the collector, who pursued them with an armed force, and found them at anchor at Fox Island Thorough-Fare. They discovered the cutter, slit their cables and set sail; and after chasing them about ten miles, the cutter came up with them and they were obliged to strike, and were carried into Owl's Head Harbor by Mr. Wilson, whom they had taken prisoner. The Collector then went on board and secured the men, (being fourteen in number) except the captain, in the hold of the cutter. The cutter together with the English schooner, then proceeded to Castine; and on the 18th inst. eight of the men that went on shore with the boat, armed as aforesaid, were examined before the Hon. Job Nelson, David Howe, and Bradshaw Hall, esqrs. of Castine, and were committed to Castine for the crime of MURDER. There was one gun fired by the guard, loaded with cut shot, which wounded one of the men that had landed from the boat in three places. Castine, Nov. 24, 1808.
NEW-YORK, Dec. 6.
Captain Edwards furnished us with the following statement on Saturday, but our paper of yesterday was pre-occupied.
Passengers on board the brig Little Cherub, Captain D. D. is, from Cayenne, Timothy T. Edwards, late master of the brig Bruus, of New-York.
The Bruus left the Bay of Bengal on the 20th of May last, bound for New-York, & on the 11th of Sept. in 11 N. lat. and 39 W. lon. was captured by the French Letter of Marque, the Dame Ernouf, commanded by Alexies Graffin, Member of the Legion of Honor, and owned by Messrs. Coyon and Eyfren, merchants at Point Peter, Guadalupe. The Dame Ernouf was 26 days out from Nantz bound for Cayenne.
Capt. Graffin took out of the master of the brig Bruus, all the officers and most of the crew, put on board a prize master and seven hands, and ordered her for Cayenne. The hatchets of the Bruus were broken open at sea, and the most valuable goods were taken out and put on board the Letter of Marque.
The Bruus arrived at Cayenne, the 5th of Oct. and was adjudged a lawful prize to the captors, on the 18th of the same month, under the Decree of the French government, dated the 17th of Dec. 1807, declaring all English Ports in a state of blockade, and consequently was condemned by an Ex Post Facto law, for the Bruus was actually at an English port in India when the arrest was issued.
On the arrival of the master of the Bruus at Cayenne, he was introduced to his excellency General Victor Hughes, member of the Legion of Honor (of noted memory,) who observed that the Bruus must be condemned, although she had been in a fair trade, and nothing of her voyage appeared to be contraband of war; and also that the arrest was issued six months after the Bruus left America, there was no proviso in the decree—there was no alternative. His words were, "he must do with his hands what his heart told him was not right." (How his time alters.)
His excellency further observed, that the Americans were in a very disagreeable situation—neither governed at home nor respected abroad; and that all the nations of Europe, enumerating the many and mighty kingdoms lately made by his Imperial Majesty Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine; that they, their great and mighty powers, in conjunction with the French, made lawful Prizes of all vessels trading with England or any of her colonies. The decree was the order of his Master the Emperor, & must be carried into execution in this instance, or he should lose his office as Governor of Cayenne.
His excellency one morning at his Levee, further observed, when speaking of the Americans: That they were a very ungrateful People—the French Nation, famous for their magnanimity, had given the Americans their Liberty; in return for which, the French had been treated with the grossest ingratitude; and he should be willing to lose his right arm in a war that would terminate in the conquest of the United States of America.
The master of the brig Bruus was treated with much politeness by captain Graffin, while on board the Letter of Marque, and while ashore at Cayenne. The Letter of Marque was direct from France, & her orders were positive to take all vessels from English ports; and Captain Graffin observed, that if he did not send the Bruus in for condemnation, on his return to France, he should be imprisoned and tried for disobedience of the orders of his Imperial Majesty.
MISCELLANY.
FROM THE CHRONICLE.
THE IMPRESSED SAILOR.
High on a cliff the maniac stood, And watch'd old Ocean's waving flood; Beneath her feet, the briny wave Curl'd o'er the shipwreck'd sailor's grave; Loose on the gale, her tresses wav'd, Dark roll'd her eye, while thus she rav'd— "Where yon white curling billow, With wild commotion sweeps, Deep on his rocky pillow, My much lov'd sailor sleeps. All dark and lonely in his ocean bed; O'er his grave No flower shall wave, No pitying friend shall weep; Where shall the traveler point and say There rests the gallant sailor's clay? Poor sailor boy, thy grave is cold and deep; While tempests howl And billows roll, And burst above thy head. Hard is my sailor's rocky pillow, Chill o'er his slumber: buries the billow, Quick let me seek his oaty grave, And in some sea-maid's pearly cave Soft make his bed; I'll pluck the fairest, sweetest flow'rs That bloom in Neptune's coral bow'rs, To deck his head:— Choicely I'll pluck the sea-green vest To mantle o'er his faithful breast; For cold's his sleep: Without a shroud the demons gave My sailor to his ocean grave. That grave so deep! Their blood-stain'd banners proudly play Triumph o'er his sleeping clay. The maniac ceas'd—the storm of night Howl'd o'er the dark and awful height, The light'ning burst around her head; Quick to the utmost verge she sped And look'd below—I need no more— E'er morn the tempest ceas'd to roar, Bright rose the sun, his earliest ray Giv'd on the maniac's limitless eye— Her form the fisherman descried, Half buried in the sand; He say'd it from the whirling tide, And bore it from the strand. Where the mournful willows wave On the green bank near, He kindly driv'd the maniac's grave, And o'er it dropt a tear:— Rest, hapless boy, beneath the billow, Poor Maniac, sleep beneath yon willow; Just Heav'n will one day demand, Your blood at Britain's mur'd'rous hand. BRISTOL, R. Island. D****"
LAMBERT,
ONE OF THE LIVING WONDERS OF THE WORLD, is represented in the celebrated Museum of
WAX-WORK,
Now exhibiting at the Tavern of Mr. Brooks, opposite the Enquirer Printing Office. This remarkable person is now living in London, aged 36, and weighs upwards of Seven Hundred lbs. It is proved to a demonstration, by persons who have seen the original, that he is represented to the life.
The death of LORD NELSON, surrounded by his Officers in his dying moments, is the greatest master piece ever exhibited.
SEASON FAIRBANKS in the act of murdering ELIZA FALBE, his Sweet-Heart. This striking representation calls forth the pity and horror from the human breast.
This Museum is comprised of thirty selected Figures, from the first collection in America, which are particularly described in hand-bills. Nov. 25. [oaw3w]
EDUCATION.—The Subscriber will continue his SCHOOL at Mr. Wm. D. Taylor's, in the Forks of Hanover, which will commence on the 9th day of January next, where he will teach youth to Read and Write, the English and Latin Languages Grammaticaly, and will also instruct them in Arithmetic and Geography. Mr. Taylor will furnish board for sixteen pupils. The terms of Board and Tuition will be ninety dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly, if Mr. Taylor furnishes board, bed and candles; but where the pupil finds his own bed, washing, mending and candles, a deduction of ten dollars will be made. The terms of tuition alone, will be twenty dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly. Particular attention will be paid to the health and morals of such pupils as may be entrusted to the care and instruction of the Subscriber. HENRY ROBINSON. Nov. 25. [oaw9j]
JOSEPH BOYCE, Jr. (at the late Insurance Office from Fire, on the Governor's Hill,) having commenced the BOOK-BINDING business, respectfully solicits the favor of his friends and the public, and begs leave to assure them that any work committed to his care, shall be neatly and faithfully executed. N. B. Merchants Journals and Ledgers, Records, Sheriffs Books, and Books of all descriptions, ruled and bound to any pattern, on the shortest notice. Blank and ruled Books, for sale, at Mr. Pritchard's Book-Store, opposite to the Post Office, where all orders to the above address, will be duly attended to. Nov. 29. law3w.
GORDON, TROKES & Co. have put a stop to the sale of their GOODS, on the long credits heretofore given; and are desirous to close, as soon as possible, the debts due to them, and the former firm of R. Gordon & Co.—Those indebted to them, who are unable to make immediate payment, are requested to close their accounts by bond. They offer for sale, their assortment of DRY GOODS & GROCERIES, for cash, or on short credit to punctual people. Nov. 22. [law6f]
RANAWAY from the Subscriber, on Saturday, the 5th of this month, 2 NEGROES; a girl by the name of Chancy, fifteen years of age, and a man by the name of Zibe, about thirty years of age, branded on each cheek B. L. and his left leg much larger than his right, with a few nots on it. A liberal reward shall be given to any person that will deliver them to me, or secure them that I get them again. CHARLES HUDSON. Butcher's Creek, Mecklenburg county, november 15. [law6w]
WILLIAM SCOTT begs leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has commenced the BOOT & SHOE cleaning business, in the little wood House of Col. Bullock, to the left of his brick lumber-house, and opposite the Basin, where he will be ready to accommodate gentlemen at all hours. He has on hand a quantity of the first quality Liquid Blacking for sale at 4s 6d per bottle, he will also clean Boot-Tops of any color at 3s per pair. Nov. 25. [oaw5w]
JUST LANDING from the ship Trident, from Canton via New-York, and for sale by the subscriber, at his Grocery Store, between Messrs. Kirby, Drake and Taylor's Store, and Messrs. Gallego, Richard & Co. Fresh Gunpowder TEA in 24 lb. lead canisters. Do. do. Eshing do. in 14 lb. boxes. Do. do. do. single pound. Do. Imperial do. Do. Hyson Gomee, Hyson Chulang & best Hyson, Do. Young Hyson and Hyson Skinn, Do. Souchong Patre and common Souchong, All warranted to be very good. Also, a few tea and coffee Setts, elegant and high gilt Seive Porcelain, some sparkling Champagne, and Burgundy du Clos de Vaugent, Claret and Cote Rotie, of the very best quality. AUBIN LAFOREST. Nov. 15. [law6w]
EDUCATION.—The Subscribers, living in the county of Louisa, at a place called the Roundabout, about 60 miles from Richmond, having employed a Mr. John Duke, to instruct a small number of pupils, including their own children, propose taking a few boarders, to complete his school. Mr. Duke has in his possession, satisfactory testimonials of his qualifications. He teaches the Greek, Latin & English Languages, together with Geography, Reading, writing and Arithmetic. The price for board, tuition, washing, bedding and fuel, will be $80, to be paid at the expiration of the term, to commence on the first Monday in January, and expire on the first of December next. JOHN POINDEXTER, FRANCIS JOHNSON. december 2. [oaw4w]
THE Subscribers, having commenced the BOOT-MAKING business, in the house lately occupied by David Ross opposite to Mr. Neil McCall's, they offer their services to the public and assure those that favor them with their custom, that their work shall be done in the neatest manner. They have also, on hand, a general assortment of SHOES, of all descriptions. Also they make and sell the real Egyptian VARNISH, for cleaning boots or shoes, that will preserve the Leather, &c. SAMUEL BARRET, JOSIAH OLDS. december 2. [oaw3w]
WILLIAMSBURG, november 30th, 1808. No Male Patients can, until further notice, be admitted into the LUNATIC HOSPITAL, as the cells are all full. By order of the Court of Directors, WILLIAM RUSSELL, Clerk. december 2. oaw1m
WANTED as a TUTOR, in a private family, a single man qualified to teach the Latin and English languages, grammatically, and Arithmetic. Appl. to Charles Woodson, Cumberland county, near Cartersville. Oct. 22. [oaw1f]
HENRICO COUNTY COURT, November 8, 1808. Wm. Taylor, Jr. Complainant—against Price and McCutcheon & Hagan Chambers Defendants. The defendants, Price and McCutcheon, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly & the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his council, It is ordered, That the said defendants, Price and McCutcheon, do appear here on the third day of the next March term, & answer the complainant's bill: and that a copy of this Order be forthwith inserted in some one of the news-papers printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the door of the court-house of this county. A Copy. Teste, J. B. WHITLOCKE, Clerk. december 6. oaw8w
IN CHANCERY—Louisa County Court, October 10th, 1808. Charles Thomas, Plff.—Against John Tisdale, James Trevillian & Samuel Henson, Def'ts. THE defendant, John Tisdale, not having entered his appearance & given security, according to the act of Assembly & the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state: On motion of the Plaintiff by his attorney; It is ordered, That the said defendant do appear here on the second Monday in January next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the news-papers printed in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, & posted at the front door of the court-house of this county, on some court day. A Copy. Teste, JNO. POINDEXTER, C. L. C. (law8w) Nov. 1.
IN CHANCERY—Louisa County Court, October 10th, 1808. Robert Yancey & Co. Plffs.—Against William Merivether and Robert Dickenson, Defendants. THE plaintiff, Robert Yancey is dead—and the defendant, Merivether, not having entered his appearance and given security, according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state: On motion of the plaintiffs by their attorney; It is ordered, That the said defendant do appear here on the second Monday in January next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the news-papers printed in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of this county on some court day. A Copy. Teste, JNO. POINDEXTER, C. L. C. (law8w) Nov. 1.
On the second Wednesday in December next, I shall offer for sale, before the door of the Eagle-Tavern, the following high bred BROOD MARES, COLTS & a FILL; No. 1. DDO, by the imported horse Shark, out of a full bred Medley mare, eighteen years old. 2. FIDGET, by Bell Air, her dam Blueskin—Blueskin was by the much admired imported horse Clockfast, &c. 8 years old. 3. ROSINA, by the imported horse Diomed, out of No. 1, three years old. 4. TREASURER, by Diomed, out of No. 2, three years old. 5. BUZZARD, by the imported horse Buzzard, out of Hebe by Dare Devil—Hebe's dam Ly Medley, &c. 6. BLUEBEARD, a colt dropped last spring, by the famous horse Archduke, out of No. 2. 7. WOOD-PECKER, a Colt dropped last spring, by the celebrated Horse Florizel, out of No. 1. Terms of Sale—One half cash, the other in 6 months. E. SMOCK. Nov. 18. lawtds
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS.—The subscriber respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, in the above line of business and solicits their patronage. G. GREENHOW. Dec. 15. [oaw6f]
THIS day is published, (and may be had at Jacob Johnson's Book-Store, adjoining the Market-bridge,) Part 3 of Vol. 1 of HENING & MUNFORD'S REPORTS, containing the Decisions of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia, at the October Term, 1807, and completing the first Volume.
At the same place may be had the said volume (of 655 pages) elegantly bound in calf. Price to subscribers $5 to non-subscribers $6. The size of the volume having far exceeded the limits at first contemplated, (which were 300 pages only,) the authors have been induced to furnish it to subscribers at the above price, which is considerably less, in proportion, than that mentioned in the Prospectus. Gentlemen who take these Reports in numbers, will be permitted to return them at any time within six months, & receive a volume, for which numbers they will be allowed the original cost in part payment for the volume. Nov. 1. [law1f]
IN consequence of a Circular Letter from a Committee of the officers of the late Pennsylvania line, addressed to me as well as to several other officers of the late army; it has been suggested to me as a proper measure, to call a meeting of all the officers of the former continental line, who continued in service to the end of the Revolutionary war. I have therefore appointed Monday the 12th day of December next, at the capitol in the city of Richmond, for such meeting; being the day to which the society of of Cincinnati stands adjourned. JAMES WOOD. Sept. 20. [law1std.]
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.—Will be sold, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday, the fourth day of January next, on the premises, a BRICK HOUSE, and half of the LOTT, No. **, in the city of Richmond, which formerly belonged to the estate of John Pendleton, Esq. dec'd. and is situated between the tenement now occupied by Mr. Benjamin Turner, and the house of Mr. Orris Paine's, in which Mr. Esmond resides. At the same time and place, will be sold, 83 acres LAND, lying on the three notched road, being the upper part of the tract formerly belonging to said Pendleton's estate, & distinguished, in the survey made by Richard Young, by number 5—A credit of 6 months will be allowed the purchaser, on giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date, and a deed of trust on the property. P. P. & JOHNSTON. Nov. 29. oawtds
CLOVER SEED, &c.—For Sale, by the Subscriber, a fresh supply of CLOVER SEED, five thousand lb. first quality New-England CHEESE, a few doz. salt-Petted HAMS, PIES by the box, family FLOUR, by the barrel, &c. EDWARD HALLAM. december 3. oaw3w
WANTED immediately, an Apprentice to the Hatting business. Apply to WINSTON & PRIDDY. Nov. 1. [law1f]
By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Elijah Dickinson to Wm. Lawrence, on the 18th day of February, 1802, and duly recorded in Louisa court, to secure the payment of a sum of money, and interest therein specified, due to Ludlow and Nimrod Bramham: Will be sold, to answer the purposes specified in said deed, at the highest bidder, for ready money, at Louisa court house, on the 22d day of December next, one negro man TOM, and one negro woman PATTY. The title to these negroes is believed to be good, but as only act as trustee, I shall convey only such title as is vested in me. Wm. G. POINDEXTER. Trustee appointed by decree of Louisa Court, to act instead of Wm. Lawrence, dec'd. Nov. 18, 1808. law4w
EDUCATION.—The Subscriber intends to continue his SCHOOL the ensuing year, at the Green Springs in Louisa county, where a course of Education, embracing the Latin, Greek, French and English Languages will commence on the 9th of January. This healthy situation, entirely removed from every kind of vice, offers particular advantages to gentlemen who live in towns, (too commonly the seats of dissipation,) or the unhealthy parts of the lower country, and wish to have their sons educated without incurring the risk of having their morals corrupted or their health impaired. The subscriber will pay the strictest attention, both to the morals and education of his pupils, which he will be enabled to do at all times, as none will be admitted, except such as live with him in the boarding-house, kept by Col. Morris, exclusively for the accommodation of the boys. The subscriber has in a former publication, produced testimonials of his attention & qualifications as a Tutor, which will, upon application, be enclosed to any person wishing to entrust pupils to his care. The terms will be, for board $28 per annum, (each boarder finding his own bed,) washing and mending $4 and tuition $10—One half of each charge to be paid at the expiration of six months, and the other at the end of the year. No scholar will be admitted for a shorter term than one year. Those gentlemen who intend to commit their sons or wards to the care of the subscriber, will please to notify him of it by letters directed to him, at Lindsay's Post-Office, Albemarle county. FRANCIS F. MAURY. [law5f5w]
PUBLIC SALE.—The subscriber intending to remove to the Western country, some time the ensuing year, will positively sell, at public auction, upon the premises, on the second Monday in December next, the tract of LAND on which he lives, lying in the county of Henrico, on Westham creek, containing 345 acres, with a Saw and Grist Mill; only about thirty acres of this tract is cleared, from which one crop only has been gathered. One other tract containing 100 acres, separated from the first named Land by the three notched roads; this last named tract is entirely wood Land. Also, all his household and kitchen FURNITURE, among which is, some excellent Mahogany—Several likely Virginia born Slaves—the stock of Cattle, Hogs, about 1500 or 2000 weight of Pork, four Horses, five Mules, two Waggons and Gear, and the plantation Tools. And on the 2nd Saturday, in the same month (Dec.) will also be sold upon the premises, a half acre lot of Land lying and being in the city of Richmond, on Shockoe Hill, known by the No. 718—Also, part of a half acre Lott, adjoining Mrs. E. Page. Terms of sale made known on the day. Any person inclined to view the premises, will be shown them by the subscriber. All persons having any demands against him, will make application without delay. SPOTSWOOD LIPSCOMBE. Westham, Nov. 4. [2awtds]
TO JAMES WELCH, FORMERLY OF GREENPRIER COUNTY, VIRGINIA.—SIR: As I know not the place of your present residence; and believe you to be no longer an inhabitant of this State; I take this mode of informing you, that I shall on the fifth day of January next, take the deposition of Samuel McCraw, to be read as evidence in a suit depending in the Superior Court of Chancery, holden at Richmond, where I am plaintiff, and yourself and others defendants. Which deposition will be taken at the Office of the said McCraw, in the City of Richmond, between the hours of six in the morning, and six in the evening, when and where you may attend if you please. SAMUEL GREENHOW. Richmond, Nov. 1. [law5t15w]
THE Subscriber respectfully thanks those who have hitherto favored him with the tuition of their Sons, and informs them and his friends generally, that his SCHOOL will be continued the ensuing year; in which will be taught the Latin Language, the English Language grammatically, Writing and Surveying. His terms are, for teaching the Latin Language $25, English Grammar, Geography, &c $20, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic $10, Surveying $10. It will be in his power to accommodate 6 or 8 boarders at 20 pounds each, (each boarder finding his own bed,) or 22 pounds, if lodging is furnished—25 dollars will be required in advance, and the balance at the end of the year. The School will commence on the 15th day of January, and end on the 15th of December: there will be a vacation of about ten days at Whitsuntide, and again from the 15th day of August, to the 1st day of September. He assures those who may think proper to board their sons with him, that good attention will be paid to them; and he hopes, from a strict attention to the duties of his functions, to render satisfaction to those who may intrust the education of their sons to his care. WALLER LEWIS, Jun. Louisa, November 18. [law4w]
FOR SALE, the TENEMENT on which the subscriber lives, situated on Church-Hill, within about one mile of Richmond Market, containing two and half acres of Land, well enclosed and highly improved. The buildings consist of a large and well constructed Dwelling-House, Laundry, Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke-House, 2 Stores, Brick Office, Coach-House, Barn, Stable, and Ice-House. All these buildings are in complete order for the accommodation of a large and genteel family, who may have easy access to all the advantages of the city, and live as retired as they could wish. JOHN ELLIS. Nov. 25. [oaw6f]
HATS, SHOES, PORTER, &c. &c. For Sale, a large supply of Men's and Youth's HATS, of the best quality. Do. do. do. common do. Men's fine Shoes and Dancing Pumps, Ladies Morocco and Kid Shoes, Philadelphia bottled Porter, by casks or dozen, Do. Draft Beer in casks, by D. J. BURR, 2d door above the Eagle. cecember 6. 2aw2w
MR. WM. E. WEBB, Administrator of Benjamin Edwards, dec'd. North-Carolina.—Sir:—Please to take notice, that on the second Monday in January next, I shall take the deposition of Mr. Spencer Ball, Jr. of Northumberland county, in Virginia, at the court-house of said county, at that place, to be used as evidence in the suit depending in chancery in the United States circuit court, held in Richmond for the district of Virginia, in which I am plaintiff and you are defendant. CHARLES J. LOVE. Nov. 18. [lf]
LOST, from a waggon that left Richmond the 21st ult. for Louisa—A BOX containing 4 washstands of an octagon form, for a China Press. A reward of five dollars will be given any person delivering them to Frederick Harris of Louisa or to Webster, Poore & Presser, of Richmond. Dec. 6. [4 times]