Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1804-08-29 00:00:00

THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[Vol. XII.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 182.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM—PAID IN ADVANCE.]
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1804.
[12 1-2 CENTS SINGLE.]
Advertisements, not exceeding a square length, are inserted in this paper for seven-five cents the first time; three dollars for three weeks (6 times); and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents. Long ones in the same proportion—unless a special contract be made by the year.
Doctor Wilson,
Has taken (as a temporary residence) the house lately occupied by Doct. Adams, opposite the Bell-Tavern, and intends to combine the Apothecaries business with the practice of Physic. He is now opening a part, and expects by the next arrivals from Philadelphia, a fresh and very general assortment of
MEDICINES,
And other articles in the Apothecaries line, which will be sold on the lowest terms. Orders from the country, Recipes, &c. will be carefully attended to. Richmond, 25th June, 1804. w6m
LAND and NEGROES FOR SALE.
Two hundred and ninety eight acres of land in the county of Cumberland, lying on both branches of Tearwater run about two miles above the courthouse—about one third of this land is well timbered, and equal in quality to the best high land in its vicinity, it is well supplied with good water, and the situation is remarkably healthy; the buildings on it are tolerably convenient and at a small expense might be made comfortable for a family—there is a remarkable fine apple and peach orchard, and several other kinds of fruit trees thereon, which seldom miss bearing, and on the main road from north to south, which passes through it, there is a large distillery, malt-house, cellar and granary, well constructed to carry on the distilling business extensively.
Also, for sale a Distiller, a Man Cook, and some other valuable Slaves, together with the stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, Carts and Farming Utensils, with some Household and Kitchen Furniture.
If the above property is not disposed of by private sale before the 25th day of September next, the whole will on that day be set up on the premises, to the highest bidder, at public sale. Cash will be expected for all sums under twenty dollars, and on all purchases exceeding that sum, a credit of twelve months will be allowed, on giving bond with approved security, to bear interest from the date, which will be remitted on receiving punctual payment of the principal—a deed of trust on the land will be required to secure the payment for it. If agreeable to the purchasers, the Distillery, Still, &c. and forty acres of Land adjoining, will be sold separately—but if not sold in this way, the Still, Boiler and Distilling Utensils will be set up separately, to the highest bidder, on the same terms as the other property. The premises will be shown to any person wishing to purchase, by Lawrence Carllie, who resides thereon.
LAWRENCE CARLLIE. JOHN & ED. CUNNINGHAM. July 31. 1804. w8t
FOR RENT, IN COLUMBIA, MY TENEMENT,
It being one of the four centrical lots in the plan of said town; its situation is high and airy, and possesses a very commanding view. It affords two large dry cellars, the walls of which are rock, four chimneys, eight fire places, seven rooms, one of which in the second story is very large and well calculated for assemblies; it is well ventilated and lighted, having 338 panes of glass, besides two large passages and the garret—Also a framed kitchen 32 16 feet, now putting up. When the constant and safe navigation from this place, the establishment of the Staunton mail stage by this place, and the expectancy of a turnpike road by this is considered, it is reasonable to expect it will become a place of increasing business. Those who may be disposed to rent, had better give early information, as the house is finishing within, and may be adapted to different purposes. Also, for Sale or Rent,
400 Acres of Land,
In the lower end of Louisa, on the South fork of Elk creek, adjoining the lands of Robert & James Dickerson. This land is really good, its growth is generally red oak and hickory. For terms apply to the subscriber.
J. WILLS. Chatham, Fluvanna, July 28, 1804. w6t
Valuable Land for Sale.
The subscriber wishes to sell the TRACT OF LAND, whereon he now resides, in Chesterfield county, situated ten miles from Richmond, within two of James river, and about fourteen from Petersburg. This tract, independent of the many advantages arising from its local situation, has particular claims to the attention of any gentle family who may wish to obtain an agreeable seat contiguous to either of the above named towns. It contains about one thousand acres; four hundred of which are supposed to be cleared, and have been for some years in cultivation. The soil, in point of fertility, is equal, if not superior to that of most of the land in the neighbourhood. The buildings are a large and well planned two story dwelling house with wings, an excellent kitchen and every other necessary out house sufficient for the accommodation of a large family.
The terms of sale will be one fourth of the purchase money in hand, and the balance in three annual instalments. Bond and security, together with a deed of trust on the property, to ensure punctual payments, will be required.
ARCHIBALD BOLLING. Chestnut Grove, Aug. 1st. 1804. w10
Selected Plays.
The 5th volume of Warner & Deane's SELECT PLAYS is just received at Samuel Pleasants' Bookstore. It contains—The Wasp of Fortune, West-Indian, Way to get Married, Mountainers. W here also may be had (in a neat pocket volume) price 50 cents—THE BEAUTIES OF POETRY, comprising Pope's Essay on Man; Universal Prayer; Letters to Kilm, &c.—Dying Christian; Moral and Satirical Essays; Hermit; Collet's Saturday Night; Gray's Elegy; Man was made to Mourn; the Passions; Dryden's Ode; the Fugitive; God of Thunder; Pterity.
READY MADE PENS. For sale at this office.
Scheme of a Lottery,
For the benefit of WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
   FIRST CLASS.     8000 Tickets at 10 dollars. 80,000   2 Prizes, dolls. 10,000 20,000   60 of 500 30,000   2,000 of 15 30,000   80,000   Subject to a deduction of 15 per ct. 12,000   Expense of drawing, 2,000   Dollars, 10,000   First Ticket drawn, Dolls. 500   Last drawn, 10,000   1 other Prize of 10,000   50 other Prizes of 500 dolls. 25,000   2,000 of 15 dollars, 30,000   Dollars, 80,000  
All tickets drawn blank may be renewed in the next class, at 10 dollars. each; the price of all others will be 15 dollars.
All prizes of 15 dollars may be renewed for the next class, or paid, at the option of the person entitled. If they be not claimed within three months after the drawing commences, they will be considered as renewed in the second class.
The drawing to commence in the city of Williamsburg, on the 1st day of June, 1804, under the management of James Madison, John Bracken, William Nelson, Robert Greenhow, Burwell Bassett, Robert Saunders, Samuel Tyler, Chapman Travis, William Lightfoot, Littleton W. Tazewell, George Tucker and James Semple.
   SECOND CLASS.     5,938 Tickets at 10 dolls. 59,380   4,635 ditto at 15 dolls. 70,930   130,310   Deduct loss on 2,062 tickets renewed at 2 1-2 5,155   Dolls. 125,155   2 Prizes of 20,000 dolls. 40,000   2 ditto of 10,000 dolls. 20,000   3 ditto of 5,000 15,000   50 ditto of 1,000 50,000   1 ditto 155   125,155   Deduct 10 per cent. 12,500   Expenses of drawing, 2,500   Dolls. 10,000   Sum raised, Dolls. 10,000   Ticket first drawn, Dolls. 1,000   Ticket last drawn, 20,000   One other prize of 20,000   Two ditto of 10,000 20,000   3 ditto of 5,000 dolls. 15,000   43 ditto of 1,000 43,000   1 ditto 155   Dollars 125,155  
TICKETS
May be had of George Tucker, Thomas Taylor, and Samuel Pleasants, jr. in Richmond; Robert Birchett, and Watkins Leigh, Petersburg; Thomas Newton, Dr. Barrand, & Littleton W. Tazewell, Norfolk; Hugh Mercer, Fredericksburg; Henry Tucker, Winchester; Chapman Johnson, Staunton; and in all the towns in Virginia, and in many places in the country.
Notice.
THAT on Saturday the first day of September next, at the Courthouse of Henrico county, I shall proceed to sell, by Public Auction, for ready money, to the highest bidder,
All the Right, Title, Interest and Estate, of William Crozier, (An insolvent debtor, lately discharged under the act of assembly in such case made and provided) in and to
Six Acres of Land,
Lying in the county of Henrico, adjoining the lands of Adam Craig on the North east, of Adams on the South east and South west, and the road leading to the City of Richmond on the North west, near to, or adjoining the limits of the said city. On this land is a good dwelling house, and an extensive garden, in high cultivation.
The above tract of land was on the day of conveyance by the said William Crozier and Mary his wife, to Doctor John Adams, in trust, for securing the payment of £210, on or before the 29th of March, 1810, with legal interest thereon from the 29th day of March, 1806, till payment, being the sum due by the said Crozier to Col. Richard Adams under the said deed of trust: the sale will therefore be made, of such interest only, as the said Crozier hath, and may lawfully depart without.
N. SHEPPARD, Deputy for Wm. Mayo, Sheriff. Richmond, 21st Aug. 1804. tds
Mr. Abraham Sanderfer.
SIR, TAKE NOTICE, that I shall on Saturday the fifteenth day of September next, take the Depositions of Benjamin Allen, John Price, Abner Watson and others, at the dwelling house of John Lancaster in the county of Cumberland, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon, and five o'clock in the afternoon of the day aforesaid, in the suit depending in the Superior Court of Chancery of the Richmond District, between myself complainant, and yourself defendant, agreeable to a commission issued from court on the 11th day of June last.
Your very humble servant, STEPHEN COOKE.
August 16th, 1804. Sw N. B. I have taken this method of giving notice to Mr. Sanderfer, not knowing where he resides, nor of his having any agents to whom I could give notice
A few Bips of Louisiana,
Mounted and Varnished, for sale at this office.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
To the Legislatures of the respective States.
LETTER FOURTH.
Same subject, viz. internal improvements.
Concluded.
Having thus estimated the weight of the usual arguments advanced against an extensive system of internal improvements, and shewn, as I apprehend, that, however true in the abstract, these form no valid or practical objection; let us proceed to notice concisely the peculiar and forcible considerations which recommend the adoption of such a system.
These naturally divide themselves into two classes, those arising from their relation to the public interest, which we shall denominate political; and those arising from their relation to the interests of individuals, which may be denominated personal.
In a nation whose wise and liberal policy forbids all monopolies, and whose institutions aim at maintaining unimpaired the rights and immunities of all, that every man may derive benefit from their protection, it becomes an object of vast importance to place the citizens upon a footing of as perfect equality as the state of society and the organisation of man admit. By perfect equality, we mean not to point to any agrarian system, or to any unjust invasion of the rights of property, or the fruits of industry; but to that state of things which places equal means of advancement within the reach of the citizen according to his industry and talent, wherever he may be placed. The necessary effect of this equality is contentment. It destroys in the germ all fretful jealousy or hostility to more favored portions of the community. It distributes over the whole face of the nation equal portions of power. By creating the means of a progressive improvement in equal degrees, it leads forward the entire mass of the nation by the same gradations. In such a state of society, we do not, as is too often the case in countries dissimilarly circumstanced, contemplate the difference of centuries in the degree of civilization in distant parts of the same nation. We do not behold this spot the exclusive seat of wealth, of luxury, of science; and that, the abode of poverty, of want, and of ignorance. These are the gloomy effects of kings and courts and ecclesiastical establishments.—They are, or they ought to be, unknown in republics. This result would, perhaps, of itself, be conclusive in favor of fostering a vigorous spirit of internal improvement; as it is most evident that the effects of such a disposition will increase the comfort and wealth of our citizens, and present the most effectual antidote to monopoly by the removal of local preferences; will check the growth of luxury, by diffusing instead of concentrating on a favorite spot, the means of enjoyment; will foster the interests of learning by the ease of intercourse; and will produce and confirm the conviction that the interest and happiness of all are equally protected.
If these be the natural and necessary effects of an enlarged system of internal improvement, is there a man, who calls himself a republican, and who properly appreciates the inseparable connection between the prevalence of republican principles and happiness, that can feel indifferent to the subject, or permit it to be neglected for want of his exertions? Let not one man rely on the efforts of another. In a cause like this, where the interests of all are the same, there should be one common effort. The cause of liberty and of human happiness has not a deadlier foe than indolence. It is always owing to the vis inertia of good and wise men that vice or folly reigns. Yet such is the folly of the wise, that while the positive infraction of a law is punished as criminal, the omission to discharge duties, without which laws are empty pageants, is attended with no punishment, and does not even excite in all cases a consciousness of guilt. For what purposes were talents conferred but to do good? Are philosophers and statesmen to be considered as so many eccentric comets, sent to this ball to disturb its harmony or to blot it from existence? No! As the enlightened patriot, whose unceasing labors are directed to the promotion of the public welfare is the greatest of men, so ought he to be held in the lowest degradation, who with the power of eminently advancing the happiness of others, passes his days in inglorious apathy! His is the worst of treason! God and nature placed him on an eminence to wield the sceptre of virtue. Elevated above the passions and vices of the world, on him was devolved the high duty of restraining the rage of contending passions, of repressing the daring spirit of vice, of animating the timid feelings of virtue, and of arresting the arm of the patricide. Slumbering on a post where all should have been thought and vigilance, his country's misery or ruin are justly chargeable upon him! Patriots of America, let not this guilt be laid at your doors!
So great are the benefits that would flow from conducting internal improvements on a large scale, that they would justify and soon repay the imposition of taxes to a considerable extent. This however is entirely unnecessary in many, and perhaps in all the states. In the states of Connecticut, New-York, Pennsylvania, Maryland and South Carolina, there are large sums of either accumulated specie, or stock easily convertible into specie; while in many of the other states, land is possessed to a sufficient value, if properly disposed of, to produce very large sums. In the highly mercantile states of New York and Pennsylvania all the means are in hand for the making canals & turnpikes on a liberal scale as the most enlarged policy can dictate. Let us descend to particulars. Each of these states, it is believed, have cash resources to the amount of three millions. Should the legislatures of those states offer to expend these sums for these ends, there is not the least doubt of their being supported by individual contributions to a like amount. Six millions would pay the expense of at least one thousand miles of turnpike road, and five hundred miles of canals. Let us suppose that these produce the first year after their accomplishment only three per cent. which is undoubtedly a smaller profit than would be actually realised. Taking into consideration the regular progress of population, its necessary increase from internal improvements, the vast mass of rich land brought into productive cultivation by the ease and cheapness with which commodities would be interchanged, and the growth of luxury in perhaps a more rapid extent than any of these other effects, it will be within bounds to estimate the annual rise of the proceeds of tolls at ten per cent. on the first year's receipt. We have data, on this point, which places the correctness of this estimate, so far as it proves it moderate, beyond dispute. The following is a table of our exports of domestic produce for the ten successive years from 1791 to 1800 inclusive.
   1791 14,600,000   1792 15,060,500   1793 15,420,000   1794 16,200,100   1795 18,064,050   1796 20,024,021   1797 24,052,671   1798 27,991,413   1799 33,142,187   1800 31,840,903  
Since this last year the exports of domestic produce have increased to 42,205,951, which is in even a higher ratio.
Taking then ten per cent. as the annual rise on the first year's receipt, the stock will rise in value, as follows.
   Dollars. Cents.     1st year 5 00   2 3 30   3 3 63   4 4 00   5 4 40   6 4 84   7 5 32   8 5 85   9 6 33   10 6 96   11 7 65   12 8 41   13 9 25   14 10 17   15 11 18   16 12 21   17 13 51   18 14 86   19 15 34   20 18 00   21 19 80  
From this statement it appears that no mode of investiture for the cash funds of a state, or of an individual can be named, that will be more productive. At the end of twenty one years, an annual interest of at least twenty per cent. will accrue; and for this vast premium the only sacrifice will be the difference between the amount of tolls received for the first seven years and the interest of six per cent. which the price of stocks shews is considered as a good compensation for money. This difference amounts, on the average, to something less than two per cent. a year. While for the ensuing seven years the average annual receipt will be above eight per cent.; and for the last seven years above fifteen per cent. After which term of twenty one years, supposing all further increase forbidden by law, as it ought to be, there will be a permanent income of about twenty per cent.
The only inconvenience that could be experienced by the states would be the temporary loss of about two per cent. on their stock, which could without any difficulty whatever, be overcome by moderate loans, for whose discharge the future receipts from tolls above six per cent. a year could be applied.
The state funds, to which a particular allusion has been made, are principally at present in the shape of bank stock, or stock of the United States. Not the least
difficulty could arise in the disposition of these to individuals, without, in the least, impairing the existing capitals; and the investiture of them in a canal or turnpike stock, transferable in the same manner, would add considerably to the active capital of the nation. Should any state emergency require the use of any part of the principal invested, no serious embarrassment could present itself, as the stock, being founded on the most solid basis, would undoubtedly more than any other description of stock, command the public confidence.
With regard to those states that do not possess inland pecuniary resources, it is not probable that they would be able to carry on internal improvements on so large a scale. But they all of them possess resources fully adequate to the accomplishment of many useful undertakings. It will occur to every mind that it is in such states as Pennsylvania, New York and Maryland, possessed of great pecuniary resources, internal improvements shall not only reward but enrich the adventurer, the common motives of interest will lead wealth under the liberal spirit of less affluent states, to invest itself on improvements in them, which cannot fail to bring a reward. This is so eminently the case that it is impossible to make a canal or a turnpike in one state, which will not sooner or later benefit every other member of the confederacy.
But there are resources of no inconsiderable amount, at this moment, within the power of every state in the union, which, properly evolved and applied, would go greater lengths towards the accomplishment of any wise plan for general improvements.
Not to go on unenacted tracts, where, however correct, our remarks might incur the risk of not being universally assented to, from not having stood the test of experience, we shall confine ourselves to a consideration of the resources which Banks, under a proper direction would afford to the community. It seems at present to be a general conviction that advantages given by a state to mounted institutions should be paid for. Indeed were there any necessity, it would not be difficult to prove, that governments have no right to extend peculiar privileges, but for a full consideration. They are surely the property of the public, and it is detracting the public of their property, not to receive such consideration in exchange. A long experience has shewn that the annual profits of a bank are at least eight per cent. which is two per cent. above legal and good interest. Hence, on an average, bank stock is about thirty three per cent. above par. If we compare the amount of the exports of the great commercial states of New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland for the last year, it will appear that they are about equal to their banking capitals. Inferring that the other states might advantageously employ a capital proportionate to their exports, the following table will shew the banking capitals that might be created in each state.
   Dollars.     In New Hampshire 500,000   Massachusetts 9,000,000   Rhode Island 1,300,000   Connecticut 1,300,000   Vermont 100,000   New York 11,000,000   New Jersey 21,000   Pennsylvania 8,000,000   Delaware 500,000   Maryland 6,000,000   Virginia 7,000,000   North Carolina 1,000,000   South Carolina 8,000,000   Georgia 2,500,000   Kentucky 600,000   Tennessee—say 300,000   Territories—say 2,000,000  
The creation of bank stock to the above amount in each of the states might be fairly estimated as capable of producing a profit of twenty five per cent. on their respective capitals, allowing the difference between that sum and the market price, viz. about eight per cent. as an inducement to individuals to subscribe, which would produce the following sums to the respective states.
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The only states very deficient in resource from this object, appear to be Vermont and New-Jersey. With regard to the latter there can be no doubt but that the wealth of the adjacent states of New York and Pennsylvania, so far as respects the making of turnpikes and canals, will overflow upon her soil—she is indeed, commercially considered, a section of those states.
I am not unmindful that stubborn sentiments of hostility exist in some of the southern states against the establishment of banks; on principles too, viewed by those who entertained them, as sacred. But late events completely shew that the public opinion, however indisposed to pronounce on the abstract question of the propriety of establishing such institutions, yields to the extending conviction that, inasmuch as such institutions do exist in many of the states, and as their relative interests are advanced by them, policy dictates their adoption in other states, as a necessary measure of defence. Nor can there be a doubt entertained but that if banks are suffered to exist at all, they do less injury when their numbers and extensive capitals preclude monopoly or favoritism, than when their leanness or limited capitals render them dangerous engines of political or personal favor.
Here then we have a capital, capable of creation, amounting to near fifteen millions of dollars, which united to an equal amount of individual contribution, would make turnpike roads of at least five thousand miles, and canals of at least two thousand five hundred miles, without the imposition of a dollar, on the people, and without the least public or private sacrifice. On the contrary the active resources of the nation would be greatly increased, by the establishment of Bank stock to a great amount, and of internal improvement stock to a much greater. It is true that all this resource would not be disengaged at once; but as the charters of the banks are limited, as they expire, it would be drawn into activity.
There is one further view, presented by this subject, which we cannot resist noticing. At the end of a given period, say fifty years, let the states possess the right of buying out the stockholders, at a certain advance on the original capital, of fixing anew the tolls, and of disposing of the whole or a part of the stock. This will bring the tolls to a moderate and equitable amount. But, even at that period, the population and wealth of the country will be vastly extended, and the conveyance of productions increased in an equal degree, a low toll will produce a large revenue; and in this way will the states be enabled to raise a sum equal, it is believed to the support of their governments, without any resort to direct taxation.
One other effect will be attained by the creation of this stock. It will prevent any injuries that might otherwise arise from the extinguishment of the present stock of the United States. If those principles of policy, which at present guide the administration of the government, continue to prevail, the whole of the existing debt will be soon redeemed, and a large mass of circulating medium be extinguished. A better expedient than the one suggested could not, perhaps, be devised, to prevent the real or apprehended evils that might arise from a change too suddenly induced, or from an incompetent circulating medium.
The following account of the early years of Bonaparte is from the pen of a gentleman who was his school companion: If it has heretofore appeared in any of our public prints, still we presume the celebrity of the man, will warrant a republication.
BONAPARTE of a family originally Italian, was born in the year 1769, at Calvi, a little town of Corsica, of parents noble but poor; his godfather, the celebrated Paoli, gave him at the font the name of Napoleon. Madame de Bonaparte, his mother (handsome as they say) had attracted the attention of the Count de Marbeuf, named by Louis XV. to the government of Corsica; and it is to him that malice ascribes the honor of the hero's birth. Should this be true it will give force to the world's wild opinion, which inclines to bestow on children, the offspring of unlawful love, a more decided and manly character. However it may be, the Count de Marbeuf had given many testimonies of friendship and good will towards the family of Bonaparte; and had particularly taken upon himself the care of the young man, whom he had a long time assisted with his credit and his purse. In 1778 the Count had designed to send the young protege to France, with the view of giving him an education suitable to his birth, and necessary to his future establishment.
France, under the ancient government, and more particularly under the reign of Lewis XV. had formed establishments for the education of gentlemen of small fortune; and the munificence of the Kings had spared nothing to render them, at the same time, useful and agreeable to young men. These institutions called Ecole Royale Militaire , were to the number of thirteen, and established in different provinces of the kingdom; that of Paris served as a centre to the whole, and was the object to which young men, admitted by the King directed their views. It was held up as a recompence to those who most distinguished themselves by the progress in the different studies.
From their entrance into the school at an early age, the minds and bodies of the
pupils were kept in constant employment; and their instruction continued for seven or eight years, during which time the most unremitting care was equally bestowed on all. The most able masters in every branch gave up all their time to direct the studies of the youth, and to inspire them with sentiments of virtue. The study of ancient and modern languages, of history, of geography, of mathematics, and the various branches of military science, formed the basis of their education. And in these establishments, while the utmost attention was paid to youthful instruction, the agreeable maxim was not forgotten; that by rendering science amiable, the youth might not contract that dryness of manner which too frequently accompanies profound erudition.
It was in one of these schools that the Count de Marbeuf was desirous to place the young Bonaparte. Corsica, since being united to France had obtained for its inhabitants, among other privileges, that of sharing the royal beneficence; so that the Count had no difficulty to procure for his protege the place of one of the Eleves du Roi .
The Marechal de Segur, then Minister of war, and charged with the department of military schools, placed Bonaparte in Champagne; in which he entered I believe in the beginning of the year 1779.
It was about 15 or 18 months afterwards, that my father availing himself of the right which all strangers of family had to educate their children in these royal institutions, sent me there to begin my education. Different in temper and character, and younger than Bonaparte, I formed no particular friendship with him; but, living under the same roof, and sharing the same exercise I remarked him early as something extraordinary, perceiving no one among 150 youths who in the least resembled him, either in disposition or in taste. In this I only confirmed an idea very generally allowed, that children are often more observing than they appear to be. Of this, curiosity is probably in them the only cause, being more eager in youth than advanced age; and a young person, without troubling himself about the reason, which his faculties are not yet able to reach, has his attention attracted and fixed only by that which strikes him. Bonaparte, with inclinations different from his companions, separated himself from us and therefore became, naturally enough, the object of our observation.
I do not recollect that he ever showed the slightest partiality in favor of any of his comrades; gloomy and fierce to excess, almost always by himself, one might say, newly issued from a forest, and till then withdrawn from the sight of men, he now began, for the first time, to feel the impressions of surprise and of suspicion. Continually alone, averse likewise to all that is called children's plays and amusements, he was never seen to share in the noisy mirth of his school fellows: very far from that; if sometimes he came among them, it was only to find fault, notwithstanding the known danger to which a boy pedagogue inevitably exposes himself by repudiating his young companions; a danger of which his growing courage had early taught him not to be afraid, for, when attacked by a number of our school-fellows, whom his offensive railleries had provoked, I have seen him repel, with the utmost sang froid, their blows and united efforts. Thus, so young, Bonaparte seemed to disdain to be no more than a child: as if he had already foreseen that destiny would one day call him to surmount the greatest obstacles.
Bonaparte showed very early the desire, or rather the need of liberty. The love of his country (the island of Corsica, which he then considered as his native home) triumphed already over the sentiment of gratitude due to the bounty of the king. The idea of dependence appeared to him degrading; he was humbled by it; and often indignant to be exposed to the malicious witticisms of his comrades on the union of Corsica to the monarchy of France:—"I hope to be able," replied he, in the tone of an offending spirit, "I hope to be able, one day, to restore it to freedom!" Unconscious then that he was to be called in a few years to fix the power of France itself and decide the fate of the other great states of Europe.
His first steps in learning, were not marked by any extraordinary progress; and whether from carelessness or dislike; he gave but little application to the study of the Latin tongue.—This negligence appears so much the more astonishing, as his desire of instruction and occupation very soon became in him a real passion; but latent genius already directed his choice to the study of those branches of knowledge, which were afterwards to become the instruments of his glory. Mathematics, fortification, the attack and defence of places, but, above all, the study of history, occupied all his time. To those studies he gave himself up without relaxation; and I have no doubt but his enthusiasm originated in his favorite reading of the lives of great and illustrious men, whom he had, from the beginning, proposed to himself as proper models.
No one was able to judge better than myself of the uncommon avidity with which he pursued his reading, and the great connections which we had together on that head, were, doubtless, what contributed to fix my attention upon him in so particular a manner.—To explain that more clearly, we mention that an establishment which had taken place, in the military school of Brienne, during the residence of Bonaparte, which was the foundation of a library entirely under the di-
rection of the young men, and destined to their pleasure and instruction. But, to give us proper notions of arrangement and of order, our superiors proposed to leave the distribution of the wells, and the administration of the funds, dedicated to the support of the library, to the absolute management of two directors, to be chosen by their comrades. I was one of those whom my school fellows had named to that employment, to which I gave up the leisure of three years, perhaps the most pleasant in my life. It was then that I had repeated opportunities to see Bonaparte. Tho', perhaps in preference to me, ought to have been chosen the librarian: but probably he would have disdained the appointment, believing all the moments lost to his own instruction, which he must have sacrificed to the minute detail of such an office. However that might be, his calls became so frequent, as to render me unreasonably out of humour. It is in the nature of man, and in my own justification, not less than that of children, to arrogate to themselves, by degrees, all the privileges of authority. It was indeed, my duty to have been complaisant, but I found it more convenient to be captious. Plagued by demand so often repeated, I sometimes pretended to mistake his application for teasing and intentional importunities; and sometimes also I had reason to repent my rudeness. Bonaparte, young, was not more patient, nor less positive than now, and has made me frequently feel, that it was always unsafe to provoke him.—At that time I should have been ashamed to own it, but at present such a confession is not so painful.
Reserved in his temper, and wholly occupied by his own pursuits, Bonaparte courted that solitude which seemed to constitute his delight. He employed, during a long time, some of the hours allowed to recreation, in cultivating, as a little garden, that spot which fell to his share, of a considerable portion of ground which was divided among us.—After having forced two of his partners to give it up entirely to him, his first care was to render the access to it difficult by a strong palisade; in forming which, he spent all the money which the Count de Marbeuf had sent to him for his little expenses. The green arbor, which he had planted himself, and cultivated with the utmost pains, rendered his garden, at the end of two years, the retreat of a perfect hermit. Woe to the curious, the malicious, or the playful, who dared to trouble his repose! You might see him burst furious from his retreat to repel them, nor was he deterred by the number of assailants. It was in this concealed retirement where the soul of Bonaparte, greedy of glory, insensibly involved the seed of that noble ambition, feasting on the example of those great men whom he was preparing himself to surpass.
A mode of life so very singular could not fail to be remarked. Incapable to estimate his uncommon merit, or rather to penetrate his true motives, his superiors and his school fellows taxed him as foolish and ridiculous. Every means was tried in vain, to restore him to himself, by making him change his conduct. Inseparable to affronts which he could not resent, he repelled the railleries of the masters by silence and disdain. Humiliation and even punishment which were also employed, had no better success. I believe I have forgotten to mention that the meeting of the young men were established on a military footing. Divided into companies they composed a little battalion, the Colonel, and all the officers of which, chosen among ourselves, were decorated by the ornaments which distinguished the French uniform. Bonaparte had the rank of captain. One would suppose that he must be sensible to the loss of a distinction only granted to merit, and every day becoming more flattering from the eagerness by which it was sought out by the young men. A council of war established with all its forms, declared him unworthy to command those comrades whose good will he despised.—After the sentence was read, which degraded him to the last place in the battalion, he was stripped of the distinguished marks of his rank. Bonaparte appeared insensible to the affront, or disdainful at least to shew that he was affected by it; his superiors, perhaps, repented having obliged him to undergo this disgrace; but his comrades from that time, restored to him their friendship, because generous minded youth ceases to persecute those who are unfortunate.
His conduct had the most unhappy effect. Bonaparte testified his sense of the generosity of his young friends. He continued his studies, but became more sociable with his school-fellows; he joined sometimes in our games, and acquired by that a right to propose in his turn some new diversions. It would have been little amusement to him if he could not have united utility with pleasure; and in fact, the plays which he proposed marked strongly his character. The Olympic games of Greece, and those of the circus of Rome, were the models proposed for our imitation. Novelty pleases children, particularly those of France. Bonaparte became our leader, and the loss of his title of captain was soon replaced by that of director of our diversions, which was unanimously granted to him. If men, in their pleasures, almost always exceed the limits of moderation, we may easy suppose that virtue to be still more seldom the lot of young people. Our games became battles; by turns Romans and Carthaginians, Greeks and Persians, we believed ourselves called upon to imitate the enthusiastic fury of these ancient warriors.
Stones were weapons, and often were productive of wounds, so that our superiors found themselves obliged to repress our courage. The games were forbidden, and our general severely reprimanded us.
Bonaparte withdrew himself into his favorite garden, resumed his former occupation, and appeared no more among us, till the snow covered the stones, finished him with a pretext to open a new campaign. The hostilities became necessary of another sort, and the modern art of war succeeded that of the ancient. Being seriously occupied by the study of fortification, he wished to put this theory into practice; and soon entrenchments, forts, bastions, and redoubts were erected of snow, in the great court of the school. We all labored at these works with an activity and pleasure which can be easily imagined, the young Bonaparte directing our operations. The whole was executed with so much art and exactness, as to excite the curiosity of the people of the town, and even of strangers who came in crowds during the winter, to admire our fortifications of snow. As soon as these were finished, we had no peace till the order of attack and defence was settled. Bonaparte again took the care of directing our motions; and, by turns, at the head of assailants and opponents, he learned betimes, from these useful games, to unite address with courage. Snow-balls were the weapons of both parties, and the wounds they gave not being mortal, our masters saw our diversions without alarm; they even had the good sense to encourage them, by applauding those who distinguished themselves, whether by their courage, or by some new stratagem. Bonaparte already fertile in expedients, found means to keep up the interest by devising every day some new manoeuvres; but the sun of the month of March disturbed our amusements, and put an end to them till the winter.
Such was the school, and such the first essay of the young hero, who since at the head of a new raised army, without discipline, and almost without confidence, has known how to conquer the brave troops of Europe, and disconcert the measures of the most experienced generals. Eager to gain the approbation of his young rivals, it was in these juvenile plays that he first learned the way to conquer, from them sprung that warlike enthusiasm, which afforded the first display of his great genius. Kindled into admiration of the heroes of antiquity, their great actions and virtues became his models, and the glory of surpassing them the object of his life. (To be continued.)
FROM THE WALPOLE OBSERVATORY.
FACTS AND REMARKS USEFUL AT THE PRESENT JUNCTURE. Citizens of the North,
Before you suffer your passions to be excited against your brethren of the south, and before you think favorably of a division of the Union, it certainly behoves you to look well to the consequences. We shall pass over for the present the considerations of blood and war, which must inevitably attend such an infatuated proceeding, and call your attention to the subject in a pecuniary point of view. YOUR MONEY! YOUR MONEY! is deeply concerned on this question, together with the produce of your farms, and your farms themselves, with your personal freedom and independence.
What, fellow citizens, in case of a division, would become of the PUBLIC DEBT, amounting to near an HUNDRED MILLIONS OF DOLLARS? Would our creditors, the owners in the funds, to whom the debt is due, consent to give it up? Do they intend to be so patriotic, while they call for this proceeding? will they resign their princely fortunes for the sake of being disconnected with the hated men of the south?—latter not yourselves with so vain an illusion.
Would Virginia and the states at the southward agree to divide the debt into equal moieties and take one half upon themselves to pay to northern speculators, who are the owners, and who drew a great share of it from the southern people? Certainly not. The utmost that could be expected would be, that the southern states would become responsible for the portion of debt which belongs to their own citizens, and for no more. This would be but a small part of the whole amount, and the bulk of the debt would inevitably fall upon the northern division to pay.—Yes the bulk of it would fall upon the northern division, though the line were to be drawn no farther south than New-Jersey! And if upon the northern division, it is not difficult to foresee who would be compelled to bear the burthen,—it would be the farmers, manufacturers and mechanics, by an enormous land tax, excise and every species of internal taxation. Is this doubted? look at the system which was introduced by the last administration and repealed by the present—listen to the uproar which has been made in consequence of the repeal. The lordlings whom you have trusted, & who would contrive to acquire your trust again, would quickly revive the abolished system of internal taxes, and it would be one principal means of reducing you ultimately to the glorious condition of the British yeomanry, the condition of vassals and tenants at will.
That these remarks are not built on a flimsy foundation, we shall briefly advert to the history of speculation, and then state from a document deemed authentic, a comparative view of the property owned in the public funds (the same as the public debt) in the two portions of the Union respectively.
Previous to the adoption of the funding system, when public faith was low, & the soldiers' certificates were depreciated to 2s. 6d. and 3s. upon the pound, enterprising men of the north purchased them up, not only at home, but thro' all the southern states, where agriculture occupied the attention of the planters, and no attention was paid to speculation. Thus the evidence of the debt became accumulated in northern hands, and a foundation was laid for many a splendid fortune and the present aristocracy of New-England. On this known circumstance were grounded the famous "Resolutions" of Mr. Madison, introduced into Congress while the question for funding the debt was under consideration, by which a "discrimination" was moved between "original holders" and the "holders by purchase." Virginia had been taken in, and would be still further taken in, by making the certificates good, or equal to 20s. in the pound, in the hands of the then holders, when they had been parted with at so reduced a price.—The "Resolutions" however failed.
Since the debt was funded some shiftings have taken place in the property, in consequence of the stock being made transferable. A considerable quantity is in the hands of Europeans; but of that which is still owned by Americans, the greater part by far is in the possession of northern men. The following has been given as an authentic statement of stock owned in the United States.
  Number of stockholders east of Pennsylvania 7,971   No. of stockholders south of do. 1,571   Interest drawn annually by the former $ 1,785,443   Interest drawn annually by the latter 340,435   Difference in favor of northern stockholders, 1,445,008 
  Number of stockholders east of Penn. compared with those south, is nearly as 6 to 1   Amount of stock holden by each, is more than 5 to 1 
Under the present federal compact the southern states stand equally bound with the northern for the whole amount of the debt. But if a division be made, they will take upon themselves only one sixth part, the sum due their own citizens, leaving five sixths to be borne by the states east of Pennsylvania, where it is owned. If the debt were 78 millions, only 13 millions would fall to the share of all the states south of Pennsylvania; and 65 millions would fall upon the northern states to pay—or rather never to pay, but to see continually increased till the people were effectually reduced to the glorious condition of the British yeomanry!
NEW YORK, August 21. Yesterday, arrived at the Wallabout, ship Little Cornelia, Capt. Harrison, from France. The Little Cornelia, was captured off the Hook sometime since by the Leader and sent for Halifax; but capt. Harrison, mate and cook, (who were left on board) boldly retook the ship on the 8th inst. and carried her to New-London. There were eleven Englishmen on board, including two officers. The means used in re-taking the ship were to privately secure the fire arms and cutlasses of the captors, and drive them below, which was effected without injuring any person on board. The little Cornelia, has brandy, &c. to John Juhe (owner.)
To the Editor of the Morning Chronicle. On the 18th inst. about one and an half leagues from shrewsbury inlet was boarded by the lieutenant of a British frigate cruising off Sandy Hook, her name the boarding officer would not inform me, (but have since been informed is the Leader) and after showing him the manifest of the cargo, list of seamen, Consul's certificate, register, Mediterranean pass and sea-letter; the said lieutenant demanded my invoices and bills of Lading, to which I replied they were inclosed in a letter under a seal to my owners, American merchants at Providence Rhode Island, and if he insisted on seeing them he must break open the letter himself, for I should not, that it would be an unjustifiable act in either him or myself to do it, on which he the said Lieutenant without any further ceremony opened the letter, and after overhauling the same, I observed to him, it was hard for any foreign power to treat our American ships in this manner and within the limits of our own ports, his answer was, that our own government allowed of it, why should I find fault; he left the ship, and said you may go on your course. I had been before boarded by three British men of war on my voyage, and treated politely and permitted to proceed after a very short detention.
JOHN WARNER. Master, American ship Nancy of Providence, arrived at New York 18th inst. New York, August 20, 1804.
COMMUNICATION. It is with much concern we witness the conduct of the British ship Leader: That vessel now virtually blockades our port, and is every day committing depredations unwarrantable by the laws of nations, irreconcilable with that treatment that we have a right to expect from a nation at peace, and unquestionably infringing our jurisdiction. This conduct must certainly proceed from a disposition on the part of the commander, unofficially to the commerce of this country, for every day the most wanton depredations are committed, our vessels are captured when entering our port, without a shadow of pretence, for

even the clearest documents are disregarded, and it is sufficient if she is from a French or a Dutch port, she is immediately ordered for Halifax—The usual distance designating jurisdiction are also disregarded; vessels are fired at within a mile, nay, even half a mile of the land, seamen impressed and the most insulting language made use of. These infringements of right will no doubt be taken notice of by our government, and the conduct of this commander will, it is hoped, undergo an investigation. But what is the suffering merchant to do in the interim, his property that he is confidently calculating upon receiving to enable him to comply with his engagements, is wantonly wrested from him and sent to Halifax; the consequence to him is ruin, and the final liberation of his property at Halifax, or in a court of appeal in England, cannot retrieve his hope, nor restore his lost credit.
Contrast the conduct of capt. Douglass and Bradley, with that of the commander of this ship; these evince no disposition to injure or molest the merchant who is prosecuting a legal and honorable commerce, but on the contrary to lend every aid.—The consequence is that they are respected by all, whilst he has rendered himself obnoxious to the whole American public, so much so, that his removal from this station is an event earnestly sought for. To effect that, a meeting of the merchants and others concerned ought to be convened as soon as possible, for the purpose of making a representation to our government, on the subject, and to request that a proper application be made to Mr. Merri, or his government, for the removal of capt. Skene, of the Leander, from this station. This would no doubt have the proper effect with the British government—indeed a similar instance of the same kind occurred in the late war, when capt. Cochran, of the Thetis, who had rendered himself equally obnoxious, was by a similar application removed from the American station. The necessity of the case renders prompt measures necessary, and that this may be speedily adopted is the wish of all, as well as of
A Subscriber. NEW YORK, 20th AUG 1804. Messrs LANG & Co. Gentlemen,—Enclosed are copies of two letters received by me on Saturday last, from the commander of his Britannic Majesty's ship Leander: You will do me a favor by giving them a place in your paper of to-morrow. I am your very obedient servant, THOMAS BARCLAY. (COPY.) Leander, Wednesday, 15th Aug. 1804. MY DEAR SIR, The enclosed letter relates to the circumstance of the Revenue Cutter, of which I have no doubt you have heard; and I have no objection to my name being published with the explanation, since it is certainly the reverse of our wishes to give any just foundation for complaint. Men of sense ought to consider our situation and the nature of our duty coolly, before they complain violently. I am, my Dear Sir, &c &c. (Signed) ALEXANDER SKENE. COL. BARCLAY. H. M. S. Leander, Aug. 14th, 1804. Sir, It was reported to me that a French privateer was passing near his Majesty's ship, and on examination, the vessel did appear to carry a large French pendant, without an ensign.—The boats were immediately armed, and a gun fired to bring this vessel to—She hoisted American colours; we fired no more; and the boats were instantly recalled. This little incident, I am grieved to find, has been construed into a premature insult to the American national flag; than which, nothing can be further from my intention, or more directly contrary to the sentiments of the British government, and the particular orders of the admiral under whom I have the honor to serve. I beg Sir, that you will not suffer such misrepresentations to gain ground, without contradiction and explanation.—It is cruel and unjust, to put the very worst construction on every act of the British officers and the British nation, who must, in the end, be found, the natural and firmest friends of America. I am, Sir, Your very obed't and humble serv't, (Signed) ALEXANDER SKENE. To Col. BARCLAY, British Consul Gen. &c; &c.
FRANKFORT, (Ken.) August 11. Colonel CHRISTOPHER GREENUP, is elected Governor without opposition. The elevation of this gentleman to the first magistracy of the state, by an unanimous vote, is a strong evidence of the satisfaction he has given in the many high offices to which he has been previously called by the voice of his fellow citizens. LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Mr. BULLOCK, we are informed has majorities in Mason, Woodford, Jessamine, Clark, Gallatin, Jefferson and Shelby. Gen. CALDWELL, it is said, has likewise majorities in Washington, Nelson, Mercer, and it is expected generally throughout the Green river country. We presume he is elected. Col. JOHNSON, has a large majority in Scott, and also a majority in Boone. REPRESENTATIVES TO CONGRESS. Col. Sandford, Gen. Walton, and John Boyle, Esq. are re-elected without opposition. Capt. Fowler and Major Bedinger, in the 5th and 6th districts are certainly re-elected by large majorities. We have no information respecting the result of the election in the first district. NORFOLK, August 25. We know not what fate has befallen the report of war having been declared by Great Britain against Spain. We have seen no London accounts later than our own; which do not even hint at such a thing. An officer of the Navy who came passenger in the Wo-drop Simms, says, that the misunderstanding between this country and Tunis, has been adjusted. All our squadron when he left it, was off Tripoli, except the commander, who was at Naples preparing Gun boats.—It was confidently said that General Moreau was at Barcelona, permitted to retire from France to the United States.—This we do not credit.—Nothing was heard of an engagement between the English and French fleets.
The Virginia Argus. RICHMOND: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 1804. RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT. CORRECTED WEEKLY. Tobacco, 37 3/4 Cash. Wheat, (new) 7 3/4 do. Flour, fine (new) 3 3/4 do. Flour, superfine, (new) 4 3/4 do. Corn, 2 3/4 do. Hemp, (clean) £ 50 do. Iron, £ 34 do. Bacon, 8 3/4 do. Whiskey, 4 3/4 do.
We are informed, by the last packet, that the British government had just ratified the 12th article of the American treaty, which has been so long suspended. We shall be anxious to receive a confirmation of this news, so favorable to the British colonies, as it gives the American traders the option of receiving the most of their cargoes in any species of our produce.—This will have the effect of keeping within ourselves, much of the cash which has hitherto been received by the Americans, and laid out with our enemies, for sugar, coffee, etc. or laid out in the E. India trade. Jamaica paper.
Miss SEWARD, the authoress of Memoirs of Dr. Darwin, since they were published, has discovered, on the attestation of his family and of other persons present at the juncture, that the statement given of his exclamation, on the death of Mr. Erasmus Darwin, is entirely without foundation; and that the doctor, on that melancholy occasion gave amongst his own family, proofs of strong sensibility at the time, and of succeeding regard to the memory of his son, which he seemed to have a pride in concealing from the world. In justice to his memory, she is desirous to correct the mis-information she had received.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Wythe Courthouse, (Virginia) to his friend in Frederick-Town, (Md.) dated July 29, 1804. "We have for 13 days been clouded with a dark smoke, and this day I was informed by a gentleman from Kentucky that the Clinch Mountain had sunk for many miles to the depth of 30 feet; after which clouds of smoke issued therefrom so that the inhabitants at the distance of 20 miles from the place were not able to discover an object at 20 feet distance. This, I suppose, was occasioned by the burning of the stone coal which is in the mountain."
PITTSBURGH, August 18. Last week arrived at this place a number of emigrants, from the Prince of Wirttemberg's territory in Germany, and have descended the Ohio to commence a settlement on Bull Creek.—The purchase of 50,000 acres has been made some considerable time—And we may anticipate from their sobriety and decency of deportment a considerable acquisition to the state of Ohio.—The whole number at present expected will amount to about 600.
The following extract is from an Oration delivered at Port Royal on the 4th of July, by JOHN TAYLOR LOMAX. THE moral is analogous to the physical world.—We may trample the herbage under our feet; with desolating hand, we may blast the luxuriant and fertility of vegetation; we may raze the lofty forest to the ground; nature by her vivifying impulse soon protrudes her works again to our view, adorned in their pristine splendour and beauty. Oppression for a time, may dim the eye of reason and stifle the voice of truth. He may wave high the crimsoned lash of persecution. He may benumb the finer energies and faculties of the soul. He may trample under foot the privileges and rights of man—But man will rouse, and then the bloody monster of iniquity will be seen breathless at the feet of an injured and insulted people—a pollution, an abomination, a horror. If, my fellow-citizens, we take a review of the transactions of this revolution, what American heart does not swell with exultation. No bloody sacrifices blot the history of our struggles in the cause of freedom—no victims appear marked out to appease the sanguinary fury of an infuriated mob—no terr'rous rises to appal the imagination—no enormity darkens our bright path to the temple of liberty. We contended for the establishment of rights, and did not seek to imbue our hands in the blood of our fellow beings. But our firm, calm, and dignified efforts for this desirable object were opposed on the other hand by the fury of a British war, aggravated by the horrors of civil confusion and the blood-thirsty vengeance which tyranny inflicts upon its rebellious slaves. All the rules of honorable warfare, consecrated for ages in the manly and generous feelings of the soldier, were spurned and disregarded, in order that the vindictive spirit of a mother country might be satiated in the havoc, ruin, desolation and despair of her sedition colonies—Devastation blasted every field; rapacity plundered every dwelling, the Indian warwhoop echoed in our mountains, the savage fires glittered along our confines; the reverence of age, the charms of beauty, the helplessness of infancy were unavailing for protection; every age, every sex fell a confused massacre under the unerring tomahawk and scalping knife, or mingled the shrieks of one indiscriminate torment. The flame of civil discord and insurrection kindled at every fire side. By night our villages and cities gleamed a flaming ruin. By day they smoked a dusky horror. The screams of victims quivering in the agonies of savage torture, mingled in the breezes from the west. The groans of American prisoners expiring in prison-ships howled in the tempests from the east. In prison-ships! In prison ships, my fellow-citizens, not excelled in horrors by the black hole of Calcutta, were hapless captives crowded and confined, doomed unpitied and unseen, to languish in disease, to parch with thirst and famine, to pine under all the complicated miseries which want and cruelty inflict on man. When at length a slow reluctant death chilled forever those hearts whose last throbs were patriotism, and sealed those lips, which seemed, even when life was extinguished, to quiver with faultering blessings on us; these captives, who had fought our battles, fought the battles of freedom and of man, were denied the common rights of sepulture. The last sad rite which the living bid to the dead, the last sad rite of religious lustration which purifies the soul of man for heaven, and consecrates it to its God was denied them. And even at the close of war our whitened shores gleamed with their bleaching, unnameable, unhallowed, skeletons.—I had a survey of the universal ruin and desolation which darkened our once happy land, he would have exclaimed.—What nefarious crime have these people committed which has called forth this bloody expiation of guilt? With what impious sacrilege have they polluted the altars or defiled the worship of their God; to draw down from angered heaven this affliction visitation of wrath? With what licentious fury have they trampled
upon those inviolable bonds which connect and harmonise the moral agents of the universe? With what predatory and atrocious outrage have they invaded the rights of nations, thus to rouse the combined hostility of man, to inflict this wide-spread devastation, as a just retribution of their enormities?" To this explanation, what, oh what would have been the answer? "No nefarious crime, no impious sacrilege, no licentious fury, no predatory and atrocious outrage blots the name of the character of this unhappy people. The horrors which you behold are not the expiation of guilt; they are not the visitation of an avenging deity; they are not the just retribution of enormity; they are the protection of a mother country to her colonies. The same which has converted India, the paradise of the world into the region of darkness, misery and woe. They are the chastisement of tyranny upon man for daring to assume the character impressed upon him by nature; that chastisement which a waits unhappy Ireland, and will ere long, open all the sources of her blood to fatten her fields." *Ramsay
RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE. In answer to sundry questions proposed in the Salem (Massachusetts) Register, as to the character, influence, and patronage of the CAMP MEETINGS which are now very common in the Southern States, with the people of different religious persuasions, a Mr. WILLIAM GUIREY, who appears to be a preacher of the gospel, has published a statement in the (Georgia) Farmer's Gazette, from which we extract the following information on this interesting subject. As to the character of the Camp-Meetings—The writer describes them as composed of a multitude of virtuous individuals, with some vicious characters among them—he says, "there have been some instances of improper conduct, but it is very difficult to know the perpetrators"—that they deem such characters no more a reproach to the Camp Meetings, than do the worship of the sons of God in consequence of the Devil's presence—Job 1 6. The writer's description of the influence of these Meetings, must be highly gratifying to every virtuous mind: "It was expected, at their commencement, that every remaining degree of party zeal would by them be destroyed among the Whiskeys and People of the different denominations; and that laudable design has been in some degree effected.—Bigots have abandoned their narrow constricted sentiments, and acknowledged that others might be pious without being called by their names, or agreeing with them in christian doctrine or discipline. The influence they have had upon others is surprising.—Deists have become admirers of divine revelation—Drunkards have learned and practised the doctrines of sobriety—Profane Swearers have learned to reverence the name of God with profound reverence—those who profaned the sabbath day now keep it holy—Libertines are reformed—the Proud, humble—the Envious, love their neighbours—the Malicious, seek the welfare of mankind—those who possessed the cruel disposition of the wolf, now enjoy the meekness of the lamb—Many who were a disgrace to the human race, a reproach to their families, and a scandal to themselves, have, at these Meetings, been reformed, and become respectable husbands, parents, neighbours, citizens, and Americans—censures of every description have experienced the influence of these Meetings; old and young, rich and poor, bond and free, black and white, the philosopher and the rustic, the scholar and the ignorant, the magistrate and the private citizen, physicians, lawyers, merchants, mechanics and farmers, have experienced the good effects of them. Their influence has extended to members of the Legislature, and officers of the judiciary and militia. Thousands in this state, who neither feared God nor regarded man, have since the introduction of these meetings learned to "fear God and work righteousness." Such has been, and still continues to be, the influence of the Camp Meetings; which should induce every virtuous American to say with the Psalmist, "O but men would praise the Lord for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men;" or, in the language of Moses, (substituting America for Israel) "Happy art thou, O America! who is like unto thee, O People saved of the Lord!"
With regard to the patronage of these Meetings, the writer says: "It is sufficient to answer the purposes intended. The Ministers of every denomination attend without receiving any compensation whatever, unless it be the satisfaction of seeing the prosperity of the Redeemer's kingdom; every man attends at his own expense; no money is required, neither is it necessary; all the patronage that is sought for is the presence of Him who visited Jacob at Bethel, and this they generally receive.—If the Salem writer supposes any thing of a political nature is introduced at these meetings, he labors under a great mistake; I do not recollect I ever heard a single sentence on that subject from either minister or people. "The inhabitants of this state travel 20, 30, or 40 miles to attend the meetings with the greatest part of their families, among these are the principal or first characters. Near 200 wagons, many coaches, chaises and cars, have been on the ground; the number of persons has on some occasions been estimated at between 12 and 15 thousand, and some hundreds have been converted at a meeting, as will appear by the increase of the different churches—the increase of the Baptists has been between three and four thousand—the Methodists (I believe) about 2,000—and a very great increase among the Presbyterians, &c. "Notwithstanding the ridicule of infidels, the scoffs of the wicked and the weakness of the well meaning weak part of the community, these things compel us to say—The Lord bath done great things for us; wherein we ought to be glad." "These things have taken place under the administration of Mr. Jefferson, the man who has been represented to us as an Infidel; and the very people who are averse to his administration, live in the enjoyment of those blessings, his administration, as a secondary cause procured for them—That we enjoy many blessings, under his wise and virtuous administration, cannot be denied; and as if Almighty God intended forever to silence the calumny of his enemies, he has poured out his spirit among the people in a manner unknown before in America: Happy with such a Government, we live to see and hear things our ancestors knew little of." (Signed) WILLIAM GUIREY.
We understand that the Methodist society intended to introduce CAMP MEETINGS into this state; and that one will shortly be held near Danville, and another soon after at New-Germantown. Camp Meetings differ from other, inasmuch as they continue longer, and the people attending from a distance come in wagons, &c and bring with them provisions, clothing, and every necessary for making themselves comfortable in an encampment. True American.
FROM WINCHESTER, August 21. A Camp-meeting of Methodists was held last week and the week before near the White House, Jefferson county. The greatest number of attendants was on Sunday the 12th—It is thought they
amounted to between four and five thousand. We expect shortly to publish a full account of the proceedings at this meeting.
EXTRAORDINARY LOVE CASE.—Mrs. Siddons has for nearly these two months past been extremely annoyed by the innumerable applications by letters, as well as personal addresses of a young gentleman. He began with writing letters to her, informing her of the strong affection and love he had for her person, to which, of course, she paid no attention. In consequence of which he paid daily visits at her house in Maiborough street, to see her; but the servants had instructions not to admit him. He continued, however, to write letters to her, but Mrs. S. did not answer them till he informed her he had something of the utmost importance to communicate, and earnestly requested an interview. To which Mrs. S. replied, she must decline a private interview with a gentleman she had not any knowledge of; and if he had anything to communicate, she begged he would do it to either of her brothers, or her son; but this had no effect upon him, and he continued his troublesome applications, both by letters, as well as personal addresses, till his behaviour became unbearable, as when the street door was opened to him, he would not take a denial, and insisted upon waiting to see Mrs. S. and the servants had great difficulty in forcing him away.
Mr. Kemble, in consequence, applied to Mr. Graham, the magistrate, to know how to act. Mr. G. advised, that when he called again, the servant should behave kindly to him, and say, Mrs. Siddons had agreed to see him, and fix upon a time for him to call and see her, which was agreed to. On Monday evening he called, when the servant informed him, Mrs. Siddons had agreed to see him, and appointed 10 o'clock yesterday morning for the interview; which Mr. Graham being informed of, he sent Adkins, the officer belonging to Bow street, to be in waiting, to take him into custody; Mr. Kemble likewise attended with the officer. At the appointed time, the gentleman arrived, and on his making upon seeing Mrs. Siddons, the officer took him into custody, and they, accompanied by Mr. Kemble, went to the public office, Bow-street, where he underwent a long private examination before Mr. Bond and Sir W. Parsons.—The result of which was, after the magistrate, as well as Mr. Kemble had pointed out to him the folly of his conduct in making advances of love to a married woman, he was liberated on his promising not to be troublesome any more to Mrs. Siddons. He proves to be a native of Ireland, and is a student of Lincoln's Inn; he resides in Salisbury square, and is about 23 years of age.
The following extract affords a pretty specimen of the epistolary talents of this young Gentleman: LOVELIEST OF WOMEN—In Belvidera, Isabella, Juliet and Calista, I have admired you until my fancy threatened to burst, and the strings of my imagination were ready to crack to pieces; but as Mrs. Siddons, I love you to madness, and until my heart and soul are overwhelmed with fondness and desire—Say not that time has placed any difference in her between you and me. The youths of her day saw no wrinkles upon the brow of Ninon D'Enclos. It is for vulgar forms, and vulgar souls alone to grow old: but you shall flourish in eternal youth, amidst the war of elements, and the crush of worlds. Lord. pup
One day last week a sailor belonging to a man of war at Plymouth had leave to go on shore; but having staid much longer than the allowed time, he received a sharp reprimand on his return. Jack's reply was, that he was very sorry, but that he had taken a dilly (a kind of claise used at Plymouth) for the purpose of making the utmost haste; but that the execution could not give him change for a guinea, and therefore he was obliged to keep him driving fire and aft between Plymouth and Dock, till he had drove the half guinea out! Unfortunately for poor Jack, it is so happened, that when the half guinea was drove out, he was set down at the spot whence he started, and had just as far to walk as though he had not been drove at all.
ON MRS. ANNA MARIA RIDDICK, who died lately at Rocky Mills. She has left behind her every title to respect from the world, to praise from those who admire female merit, & to affection from her relatives, her friends and dependents. The disease which terminated her life, seized her lungs, undermined the bloom of her youth, and subdued with a rapid victory, all that was mortal. She foresaw the event, without dreading death, although surrounded with inducements to wish to live. Her fortune was the fortune of a christian, which yields to no terror of the grave. How could she tremble even on the verge of eternity; who recollected no sentiment towards her deplored consort, but purity of love—who reviewed mankind with the cordiality of a sister descended from the same common father—who in no season forgot that delicacy which is the ornament of female virtue—who struggled to fulfil, what conscience dictated, and excelled in every convention of her life, piety and benevolence, adorned with grace. Let the far who are ambitious of those distinctions, which alone ought to be pursued by their sex, study this example, which was always too amiable to excite envy, and is now too commanding to be neglected.
Departed this life, on Wednesday the 22d instant, in the sixtieth year of her age, Mrs. ESTHER COHEN, wife of Mr. Jacob I. COHEN, of this city. She possessed those virtues which made her generally beloved; her greatest pleasure was in relieving the distressed, and doing good to those around her.
RICHMOND, August 27th, 1804. SIR,—I am authorised to request that you will be pleased to discontinue the publication of the scheme of a Lottery for the Richmond Academy, the said scheme having been altered by the Trustees. I am, sir, your obed't serv't, SAMUEL COLEMAN, Sec'y SAMUEL PLEASANTS Esq. The base printer throughout the state and elsewhere who have been pleased to publish the above scheme from the Argus are requested to discontinue it. By order of the Trustees of the Richmond Academy. Attest, SAMUEL COLEMAN, Sec'y.
A Camp Meeting, Will be held at Sandy River Church in Prince Edward county, to begin on Friday the 7th of September next, and continue for five or perhaps six days. The Rev. John Robertson, Clement Read, Edward Almand, John Hardin, Archibald McRobert, and many Ministers of the Gospel from the adjacent counties it is expected will attend this meeting. Sandy River Church is distant eight miles due east course from Prince Edward Courthouse. August 17th 1804 idm
Elegant Kid Shoes. A new assortment of KID & MOROC CO SHOES, plain and embroidered, made by Mr. WILLIAM MURRAY, Philadelphia, for SALE on reasonable terms. Apply at the Store of Mr. Benjamin Stevenson.
Robert Greenhow, MERCHANT IN WILLIAMSBURG; Has just received, by the Commerce, Capt. Bowers, direct from London, a SUPPLY OF Useful & fashionable Goods By the Bruns, Capt. Burch, who is daily expected from Liverpool, his Woollens, Ironmongery, &c. will be received. All of which, being purchased with cash, from the manufacturers themselves, will be found good in their respective kinds; and as such offered cri as low terms as they can be afforded, to his friends and countrymen, whose orders will always meet with his wonted attention. August 25th. 1804 3m
Valuable Property FOR SALE. By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Richard and Dabney of King William county, to the subscriber, to secure and satisfy a debt due from the said Richard to Cornelius Dabney, administrator with the will annexed of Owen Dabney, dec. will be offered to SALE, on the fourth Wednesday in September next, at Hanover county courthouse, to the highest bidder, for ready payment, in current money. GEO: WM. SMITH. Richmond, August 27th, 1804 tds
SUNDRY SLAVES, Consisting of men, women and children, one Brood Mare, about 8 years old by Lampighter, two small Horse Cols about 2 years old by Americanus, the noted Stud Horse called Hanover, one Waggon and Gear, and 3 Horses, one excellent Chair Horse about 2 years old, and one Bay Mare Colt, by Americanus. FOR SALE, FOR READY CASH; A VERY Valuable SERVANT, Capable of any service, but more particularly skilled in the care and management of horses & driving carriages. He is stout and healthy, of good character, and only twenty-four years of age.—Enquire of the printer. 1w August 25th, 1804.
Notice, Is hereby given, that on Saturday, being the eighth day of September next, at Brooks Tavern, in the town of Manchester, I shall proceed to sell, at Public Auction,
The following Property, To wit:—Five unimproved LOTS in the town of Manchester, designated and known in the plan of said town by the Nos 23, 24, 38, 54 and 86.—Also, one TRACT, containing 2 3/4 acres, adjoining the said town near to the canal.—Also, one other LOT, in the said town, with the improvements thereon, a part of lot No 60, near the entrance of the turnpike road, and lately in the occupancy of Thomas Gower—conveyed to me in trust, by Henry Robertson, to satisfy a debt due to Mr. James Dawe. Terms of sale, one half in hand, and the residue on a credit of twelve months, with a trust upon the property for the punctual payment thereof, and interest from the day of sale. LEIGHTON WOOD, Trustee. Richmond, 21st Aug. 1804 tds
I do hereby forbid the sale of any part of the LOT No 60, in the town of Manchester, near the entrance of the turnpike road, as stated in an advertisement of L. Leighton Wood, as the right is solely in me—I have never made any conveyance to any one, nor will I make any until the balance that is due me for the purchase of said lot is paid NATHL. QUARLES. August 27, 1804.
Taken up by John P. Steger, jun. in the county of Powhatan, in the month of April last, a BAT HORSE, about four feet nine inches high, about nine or ten years old, paces, and shot all round—appraised to sixty dollars. I do certify that the above described horse has been posted as the law directs. JAMES PONDREXTER, C. P. C. Powhatan August 20th 1804. w3t
I take this method of informing the executors of Benjamin Harrison, son and only heir of Benjamin Harrison of Berkeley, Richard Walto, & William Price, register of the land-office, that I shall proceed to take the Deposition of Edmund Randolph, Esq. at the Capitol, in the forenoon of the tenth of September, 1804, in suit in the district of Richmond, in the Court of Chancery, between myself and them. PHILIP PLEASANTS TURPIN. August 20th 3t
PORK. 41 Barrels PRIME PORK, New York Inspection, for sale by FRANCIS FOLLET, Next door above Mr. Charles Spencer's, Richmond, August 28, 1804. 2
TO HIRE, For the remainder of the year, an excellent House Servant. Enquire at this office. August 21st, 1804.
We the undersigned, being appointed by the Court of Hustings to contract for the BUILDING of
A Poor and Work House OF BRICK, in this city, will on Saturday the first of September, at the Barracks of the City Guard, LET, to the lowest bidder, the MAKING and LAYING of upwards of 200,000 BRICKS, and the necessary Carpenter's Work for the said Building, agreeable to a plan drawn by Mr. Otis Paine, and in the hands of Alexander Quarter, who will show the same.—To aid the several undertakers, an advance of money will be made if required, at the time of commencing the work. Bond and security will be expected for the faithful performance of the work. WILLIAM DUVAL, ALEX. QUARTER, ANDERSON BARRET, } Commis'rs. August 24th, 1804.
Public Notice, IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT the Common Hall of the City of Richmond, will at their next monthly meetings, proceed to recommend to the Court of Hustings for the said City, one fit and proper person to be appointed a Constable of the said City in the room of Leighton Wood, who hath resigned. (By order of the Hall) ANDREW STEVENSON, C. C. N.

Scottville Jockey Club. On the second Thursday in September, will be run for over the Scottville course, the Jockey Club Purse of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS , three mile heats; weights as follows: Aged Horses, lbs 133 Six years old, 133 Five ditto, 117 Four ditto, 106 Three ditto, 90 Mares and Geldings allowed three pounds. 10* WILLIAM ARCHER, Secy.
200 Hhds. Tobacco, Wanted on freight, to a port in France, for THE SHIP VIRGINIA, Capt. JAMES PETRIE. As it is an object to get this ship early to sea, a moderate freight will be accepted, and the ship warranted to sail by the 20th September next. The Virginia is a very fine ship, built of Teck wood and coppered to the bends. For terms apply to BROWN, RIVES & Co. Richmond. JAMES CAMPBELL, Petersburg, or to JOHN NEWELL, Jr. Norfolk. Richmond, 10th August, 1804. 3w
Notice....The office of supervisor of the revenue, for the district of Virginia, being discontinued, and the unfulfilled bills in the said office transferred to me—the collector of the direct tax & internal revenue, whose accounts have not been finally adjusted and paid, are hereby informed, that they are now requested to call at my office, in the city of Richmond, without delay and pay the balances due to the United States—and that those whose lands have been sold in the district of Virginia by authority of an act of Congress of the United States for non-payment of the Direct Tax, may redeem such lands, by paying to me within the time limited, the principal, costs and fees as the law directs. As most of the abovenamed lands were sold in Dec. 1802, the privilege of redemption will continue until December next. The money received by me for the redemption of the said lands will be returned to the purchaser, with interest at the rate of 25 per cent per annum on the purchase money, to the day on which it may be paid to me. JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. June 27th, 1804.
To be let, on building Leases, three beautiful, airy and elevated situations for dwelling houses. To any gentleman in the mercantile line, or other occupation, who wishes a pleasant and agreeable residence for his family, either of these sites would be truly desirable, as they are contiguous to the scene of active business, at the same time that they are removed from the dust and bustle of the town. Enquire at this printing-office. An experienced, sober and industrious GARDENER will hear of an advantageous situation on application as above. None of opposite character need apply. tf April 23, 1804.
4439 Acres of valuable LAND, In the south of Kentucky, the greater part military, will be SOLD for good bonds, or exchanged for property in the state of Virginia.—Enquire of the printer. Dec. 26th, 1803. tf
Plaster of Paris. I have just received from Nova Scotia, a cargo of PLASTER OF PARIS , said to be of the best kind, which I will sell on reasonable terms. SAMUEL PAINE, May 14, 1804. tf
Will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on the premises, the 15th day of September next, A Tract of LAND, In the county of Goochland, containing 190 acres, on which there is a good dwelling house, kitchen, smoke house, &c. This place was formerly the property of Mr. Radford, and purchased of him by Mr. Elias Langham who now lives on it and has authorized the subscriber to dispose of the same. The terms of sale, one half cash, the other half payable in 12 months, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. Any person or persons having any claim or claims against the above property are desired to make them known on or before the day of sale. JOSEPH MOREN. New Canton, 9d July, 1804. 2m
FOR SALE on liberal terms by the subscribers, The House and Lot Near the river bank, at present in the occupancy of Mr. John Taylor, and distinguished in the plan of the city by number eight; the property of the estate of Patrick Wright dec. which, if not disposed of privately before the 1st day of September next—will on that day, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, be sold on the premises, for one half cash, and the other half on a credit of ninety days, for an approved endorsed note—An indisputable title will be made before the money is received. PROSSER & MOUNCURE, V. M. Richmond, July 17th, 1804. (tds.)
We have received a small additional supply of MADEIRA WINE, Of a superior quality, which we offer for sale by the hoghead and quarter cask. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. Richmond, 13th July, 1804. (tl.) Colchester, July 29th, 1804. 3m
The full blooded English Stallion, and most complete running horse, TICKLETOBY Will stand the next season, at my stable in the upper end of Chesterfield county five miles from Goodloe's and Bevil's Bridges and twelve from Goochland—The terms, his pedigree and performance will be made known before the season commences THOMAS BRANCH.
Foolscap & Letter Paper For Sale at this Office.
CASH SALE OF LAND, IN ALBEMARLE. ON September 15th, will be SOLD in Charlottesville, to the highest bidder, for Cash, the TRACT OF LAND , lying on the east side of Rivanna, over against Charlottesville, containing about 600 acres, with a new commodious Dwelling-House. Two years of a lease under good restrictions have to run after this. The land is all of the South-West Mountain quality; and though much injured in parts, is in general still very good, and all reclaimable. The sale proceeds from a deed of trust to indemnify against loss as security and bail, which was executed in December, 1802, by William Bache of Pennsylvania, to THOMAS M. RANDOLPH. July 25. tds
HART AND SOUTHGATE, Grocers and Commission Merchants, In the store lately occupied by Mr. BOULTON, opposite Mr. PLEASANTS' Printing-Office, MAIN STREET, RICHMOND. Respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they have laid in a general assortment of Groceries and Liquors of the first qualities, which they are selling very low for ready money or produce at cash prices. Also, Queen's Ware, Patent Shot, Gunpowder, Indigo, &c. &c. and Hare's Philadelphia bottled Porter, of which they have a constant supply, by the dozen or single bottle. They have for sale, on Commission, CUN NAILS (from 3d to 20d) by the cask or small quantities; also, a quantity of SOAL LEATHER, for Cash, or to be bartered for Wheat; and a pair of COLOGNE MILLSTONES, 3 feet 11 in. August 8, 1804.
On the 22nd day of September next, will be SOLD, at Dicussem Bridge, to the highest bidder, for ready money, A TRACT OF LAND, Containing about 425 acres, lying partly in New Kent and partly in James City county, on each side of Dicussem creek, and extending below the bridge, whereon Lewis A. Paul, esq. formerly resided.—The dwelling house thereon is large, new and commodious one; the store house, granary and various other houses are all in good order. The quality of the soil is such as is usually found on Chickahominy, and both a tavern and store, it is believed, may be kept there to advantage. This valuable property is to be sold at the request of John E. Dormoy, esq. under a deed of trust made to the undersigned by Lewis A. Paul, esq. to secure the payment of £ 500 with interest to the said Dormoy—the deed is recorded in the General Court. In the same deed a moiety of a LOT in Richmond is mentioned, belonging to Mrs. Paul, but as she did not execute the deed, that will not be offered for sale, and should she survive her husband, she will be entitled to a dower in the said tract of land, whereof it was deemed necessary to apprise those who might be induced to purchase. The sale will take place at one o'clock, or thereabout. CHAMPION TRAVIS. JAMES SAMPLE Williamsburg, Aug. 6, 1804. 3w
At a meeting of the President and Directors of the BANK OF VIRGINIA, on Thursday the 2d of August, 1804— "RESOLVED, that the President and Directors will proceed to appoint the following officers on the 30th current, viz: "TWO TELLERS." "ONE DISCOUNT CLERK." "ONE RUNNER." "ONE PORTER." "RESOLVED, that the first Teller shall be allowed twelve hundred dollars; second Teller nine hundred dollars; Discount Clerk nine hundred dollars; Runner six hundred dollars, and the Porter four hundred dollars per annum." Teste, WM. DABNEY, Clerk. 1304
WANTED TO HIRE OR PURCHASE, A WET NURSE Without a child of her own.—Enquire of the Printer. Auditor's Office, 10th August, 1804.
THE Commissioners of the Revenue are requested to send, as soon after the fifteenth of September as possible, to this office, by post, a list of licences granted to merchants in their respective counties or corporations. (4w) SAML. SHEPARD, Aud.
PRIVATE TUTOR. A YOUNG MAN qualified to teach the Latin, Greek, and French languages, who can be well recommended, wishes to undertake the tuition of a small school, in some genteel private family.—Further particulars may be known by letter directed to Lindsay's Post Office, Albemarle county, and addressed to F. M. 7th August, 1804. (tl.)
Notice to Distillers. WANTED, a MAN who understands the Distilling Business in all its various branches—for such a one great wages will be given. For further particulars apply to the Editor of this paper. N. B. A Single man will be preferred. tf
BANK OF VIRGINIA. AT A GENERAL MEETING OF THE STOCKHOLDERS. "RESOLVED, that until Certificates for the Stock held in this Institution be issued under the bye laws hereof, the Scrip or evidence of Shares held herein be transferable by Indorsement or Assignment, and that all the Shares standing in the name of any Stockholder shall be transferred in the Books of this company to the person or persons producing the Scrip or evidence of such shares, regularly endorsed or assigned." "RESOLVED, that the President of the Bank at Richmond be directed to call a meeting of all the Stockholders (which meeting shall be in the City of Richmond, on the first Monday in September next) for the purpose of adopting such bye laws, rules and regulations as shall be deemed necessary for the government of the Institution; and considering other subjects important to its interest." A true extract from the proceedings of the General Meeting of Stockholders, on Saturday July 7th, 1804. Teste, WM. DABNEY, Secretary.
The Stockholders are requested to attend a General Meeting, at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, on the first Monday in September next, for the purposes stated in the foregoing resolution. ABM. D. VENABLE, Pres'dt.
JUST RECEIVED, At S. Peasants' Book-Store, Richmond, a very elegant assortment of the best PEN-KNIVES, Which will be sold by the dozen or single.
Mediterranean Passports. NOTICE is hereby given, that it has been deemed expedient to change the form of the Mediterranean Passport issued to vessels of the United States; that from the eighth day of July next, those of the new form will be issued at the custom houses to every vessel, for which application may be made on a compliance with the terms prescribed by law and surrendering the former passports of which she may be possessed, if any, in which latter case no fees will be required for the exchange; and that by an arrangement agreed upon by the Barbary powers, with whom we are at peace, either the old or the new form of passport will be sufficient to protect the vessels of the United States, from capture until the 1st of July 1805, after which the old form of passport will be unavailable and the new one alone in use. Department of State, 23d of May, 1804. 3w
The printers of the laws of the United States are requested to insert the above in their Gazettes twice a week for the space of six months, and the Collectors of the Customs to keep copies of it posted up in their offices. June 1 6m
Family Flour. A CONSTANT supply of FLOUR, of a superior quality, for family use, kept for SALE, by GEORGE WATT. Richmond, 5th March, 1804. tf
Dissolution of Partnership By agreement, the partnership of SHANKS & M'RAE will cease on the last day of August. Those to whom the firm stands indebted will please exhibit their accounts, that arrangements may be made for their discharge. The debtors of the firm are desired to make immediate payment, as delinquents will be indiscriminately sued. Those concerned will make application to COLIN M'RAE. SHANKS & M'RAE. Manchester, August 11th, 1804.
The subscriber expects this Fall, a very general Assortment of Goods, and intends to continue business in the house now occupied by Shankle & M'Raë. All those who have been heretofore punctual, are solicited to continue their dealings. HIS COLIN M'RAE.
Loyal Company. A MEETING of the persons interested in the Loyal Company Grant, or a majority of them, is desired at Orange Courthouse on the first Thursday in September next; as without it a settlement and dividend of the money collected cannot be made, nor other business of importance to the company adjusted. August 4th, 1804. 4t
YOUNG FRIDAY. THIS very beautiful and very valuable horse will stand in or near Cartersville on James river, the season of 1805. The terms and other particulars will be made known in due time. RICH'D. D. PINCHAM. July 27th, 1804. 3w
TRAVELS IN GREECE. PROPOSALS. By JACOB JOHNSON, of PHILADELPHIA, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS THE YOUNGER, IN GREECE; During the Middle of the Fourth Century, Before the Christian era; WITH NOTES AND REFERENCES. BY THE ABBE BARTHELEMY, Keeper of the Medals in the Cabinet of the King of France, and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH. First American from the Fourth European Edition. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
The work now offered to the American reader exhibits a complete view of the Antiquities, Manners, Customs, religious Ceremonies, Laws, Arts and Literature of Ancient Greece at the period of its greatest splendor. A knowledge of these has hitherto been only attainable by a laborious perusal of writers who have been little solicitous to join entertainment with instruction. The Travels of Anacharsis, on the contrary, are so written, that the reader may frequently be induced to imagine he is perusing a work of mere amusement, invention and fancy; till his eye glances to the bottom of the page, when he perceives there is scarcely a sentence, and not a single fact or circumstance, but is supported by the authority of some ancient author. The amazing number of these quotations may, perhaps, at first sight, seem to have been unnecessary, and to have more the appearance of a parade of erudition, than to be of any real utility: but it is to be remembered that, at the same time that they must be highly acceptable to the man of real learning, by enabling him to refer immediately to the original Author, they are extremely useful, nay, we may say, absolutely necessary, even to such readers as can never be supposed to have a ny intention to consult the authorities quoted; as they clearly show that such an idea, or such a circumstance is not merely a decoration or the offspring of the fancy of the author, but immediately taken from some ancient writer, and therefore perfectly accurate to the general scope and plan of the work.
TERMS. I. The first Edition in America of Anacharsis's Travels, will be comprised in four volumes octavo. II. It shall be printed on handsome wove paper and a new type casting for the purpose. Each volume will contain about 400 pages. III. The price to subscribers per volume bound and lettered, will be two dollars: in boards 1 dollar and 75 cents, to be paid on delivery of each volume. The European edition sells at 12 dollars per set. IV. There shall be a handsome map of Greece given with the first volume, to be executed by one of the first engravers. V. Subscriptions received at S. Peasants' printing-office and book-store, Richmond.
Tickets in the William & Mary College Lottery are for sale at this office. Purchasers to the number of ten tickets may be accommodated with a credit of sixty days from the commencement of drawing.
COMMITTED to the jail of Albemarle county, a negro boy, about 14 years of age, yellow complexion, had on a negro cotton coat and breeches, says his name is REUBEN, and that he belongs to a Mr. Wm. Suthers of Augusta county, on Pulaski creek. The owner is requested to come forward, prove his property, pay charges and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs. THOS. WELLS, Jr. Jailor Albemarle county. April 29, 1804. 3m
Nicholas Hallam, Two doors above the Swan-Tavern, Richmond, has for sale, eight thousand wt. of American Cheese, Of the best quality, which he will sell on as good terms as can be bought in the state, by the single pound, or thousand. A constant supply of GROCERIES of the best kind—Also, A few bushels Northern POTATOES, for planting. w6m
Committed to the jail of Albemarle county, a Negro Man who says he belongs to Mrs. Ragland in the county of Louisa, near the Green Springs, and that he was hired out to a Mr. Miller at the Iron Works over the Blue Ridge. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges and take him away, or he will be dealt with as the law directs. THOS. WILLS, Jun. Jailor Albemarle county. July 23, 1804. 3m
Westham Iron Foundry, NEAR RICHMOND. THE subscriber takes the liberty of informing the public that he has taken a lease and is at present working the above foundry; and having provided the best artists in that line from New-York and George-Town, together with Pig Iron of the first quality:— Proposes to cast—Mill gudgeons & Inks of every description; also, cast iron wheels for the machinery of mills; Rumford, registered and plain grates; grate front and bottoms, for Rumford-firing fire-places; large and small stoves, cabinet and cabin stoves; Franklin stoves for wood or coal, kitchen grates, with crane and range complete; roach warmers; plain stoves and mantel pieces; cast railing of every pattern; plow shares and plow boards; cast waggon, coach, phaeton and chain boxes; scale weights from 1 to 60 lbs; sash and clock weights; patent taw irons for smiths, on a very approved plan; backs, jams and back lays; nail-cutting machines with screws complete; wheel-barrow bowls; garden trowels; cast iron anvils; fire dogs and hand irons; every description—together with any other article in the casting line, to a given pattern, at the shortest notice, by application at the furnace, or to JAMES DUNLAP, in Richmond. 25th June, 1804. w3m
NOTICE. Application will be made to the next General Assembly, praying that an act may pass to vest in the subscriber, the right of the Commonweath to a lot in the town of Charlottesville, No 50, which formerly belonged to Thomas West, dec. FREDERICK GAUDER. Charlottesville, July 20th, 1804. [w3m]
WORTHY THE ATTENTION OF BUILDERS AND OTHER IMPROVING GENTLEMEN.
Stephen Brown, GUN-SMITH, &c. NORTH MARKET STREET, RICHMOND. Having purchased Kennedy's patent right of using and vending to others to be used in this city, and the counties of Henrico and Goochland, his invention and improvement of fastening, raising and supporting Window Sashes by Springs and Knobs; proposes to supply gentlemen upon the shortest notice, with any number of those patent springs, with their latest and most complete improvements, at the price of fifty cents a piece, ready fitted and adjusted to the sash; or at thirty four cents, if taken from the shop. This abatement of sixteen cents is allowed to any gentleman who may prefer to have them set in by their own workmen, as the work is trifling; the abatement will be found to be liberal. Builders and others, who may require a quantity of those patent springs, will be accommodated with a generous allowance, on taking them by the gross. The above invention, for its utility, convenience and cheapness, will instantly convince any person who may examine it, that there was never any thing invented for the purpose, which could in any degree bear a competition with it. The former manner of fastening sashes by small bolts, and raising and supporting them by pulleys and leaden weights, was not only exceedingly complex, difficult and expensive; but was also liable to many accidents, as the wearing or breaking of a cord or pulley, &c. would prevent the whole machinery from performing its expected functions, and would require more expense in repairing alone, than would purchase the new invented patent spring. This spring will act as a safe bolt to prevent the window from being opened by rising from without, and by just touching the spring it may be raised from within to any convenient height, where it will rest with as much safety, as if it were supported by a pillar. It is not surprising that an invention so useful, which is at once so simple and so convenient, should prove a temptation to some thoughtless workmen, who had not considered the consequences, to vend a spurious kind without authority. Such a mean conduct I have already detected, owing to the extreme badness of the work; and to complete the pitiful fraud their trash has been set into the windows in my name!! But as I have paid one thousand and fifty dollars for the exclusive right to use and vend this patent within the city of Richmond, and the counties of Henrico and Goochland, I shall not fail to prosecute to the utmost vigour of the law, any person who shall in future attempt such a contemptible fraud. In order to secure gentlemen from any imposition in the above articles, the initials of my name (S. B.) shall be struck on the white metal knob, affixed to each of the springs, and those who are engaged to fix them in for me, shall be furnished with a written authority, and every such spring shall be WARRANTED by me. STEPHEN BROWN. N. B. Any orders for the above, will be received and punctually attended to if left at my shop as above, or at Mr. Pritchard's Book store, where the model may be seen. Old Weights and Pulleys, or any Old Metal, will be received in payment. S. B. July 9, 1804. tf
A FEW COPIES OF Lorenzo Dow's Dream: ALSO A SERMON Preached by him in Norfolk, are just received and for sale at this office.
Valuable Medicines, JUST received, and for sale at the Book Store of S. PLEASANTS, Jr.—who is appointed the only agent for Richmond—Sold wholesale and retail by RICHARD LEE, No. 56, Maiden Lane, New-York. The following remedies have for six years past been celebrated for the cure of most diseases to which the human body is liable, and are in high esteem, and general use throughout the United States, many of them being sold cheaper than the drugs of which they are compounded could be purchased at a retail store, for Worms, for Tooth-Ache, Coughs & Colds, Corns, Asthma, Itch, Consumption, Diseases of the Eyes; Gout, Ringworms, Tetter &c Rheumatism, Inward Weakness, Sprains, Nervous Disorders, Palsy, Female Complaints, Head-Ache, Hooping Cough, &c. For the prevention and cure of Bilious and Malignant Fevers, is recommended DR HAIN'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS.
This medicine has been attended with a degree of success highly grateful to the inventor's feelings, in several parts of the West Indies and the southern of the United States, particularly Baltimore, Peterborough, Richmond, Norfolk, Edenton, Wilmington, Charleston and Savannah. The testimony of a number of persons in each of the above places has been adduced, who have reason to believe that a timely use of this salutary remedy has under Providence, preserved their lives when in the most alarming circumstances. They are excellently adapted to carry off superfluous bile, and prevent its morbid secretions; to relax and amend the appetite; to produce a free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds, which are often of fatal consequence. A dose never fails to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. They are celebrated for removing habitual costiveness, sickness at the stomach, and severe head ache; and ought to be taken by all persons on a change of climate. They have been found remarkably efficacious in preventing and curing disorders attendant on long voyages, and should be procured, and carefully preserved for the use of every seaman.
The medicines prepared by Richard Lee, have been in high estimation and general use throughout the United States for upwards of six years; many of them are sold for less than the drugs of which they are compounded, could be purchased at a retail store.
THE SOVEREIGN OINTMENT for the Itch, Which is warranted a certain remedy at one application, and may be used with perfect safety by pregnant women or on infants a week old, not containing a particle of mercury or any dangerous ingredient whatever, and is not accompanied with that tormenting smart which attends the application of other remedies.
INFALLIBLE AGUE and FEVER DROPS, For the cure of Ague, remittent and intermit-tent fevers. Thousands can testify of their being cured by these drops, after the bark and every other medicine has proved ineffectual; and not one in a hundred had occasion to take more than one, and numbers not half a bottle.
THE GENUINE PERSIAN LOTION, An essential and safe cosmetic, in great celebrity for clearing the skin and beautifying the complexion, and has always been found effectual in removing ringworms, tetter, pimples, &c. HAMILTON'S Elixir, For the cure of coughs, colds, and approaching consumption, and a certain remedy for the Hooping Cough.
HAMILTON'S ESSENCE and EXTRACT of MUSTARD, In great repute for the cure of rheumatism, palsy, gout, sprains, white swellings, &c. DR. HAIN'S GENUINE CORN PLAISTER. DR. HAIN'S EYE WATER.
The number of extraordinary cures recently performed by this medicine in Philadelphia, as well as other parts of the United States, render any account of its virtues now unnecessary. RESTORATIVE POWDER FOR THE TEETH AND GUMS; The only remedy yet discovered which gives immediate and lasting relief in the most severe inflammations.
HAMILTON'S GRAND RESTORATIVE; A sovereign remedy in Nervous disorders | Obsolete Gleet Consumptions | Relaxations Flour albus, or whites | Inward weakness, &c. THE DAMASK LIP SALVE.
THE PATENT INDIAN VEGETABLE SPECIFIC, For the cure of a certain dreadful disease.
HAMILTON'S WORM LOZENGES. This Medicine has received the approbation of respectable gentlemen in every situation in life, and in all parts of the United States; it has stood the test of six years extensive experience, and it is believed on good grounds, that nearly Two Hundred Thousand persons have received benefit therefrom—from the infant to the aged of both sexes, and under every circumstance; and notwithstanding the attempts of several envious persons to impose counterfeiters on the public, yet the present demand for Hamilton's Worm Destroying Lozenges is much greater than it has been at any former period; and it is probable that no advertised medicine ever acquired an equal reputation.
It is no inconsiderable evidence of the utility of our remedies, that during the above period, numerous imitations of every article (the productions of ignorance and inexperience, urged by envy and penury) have intruded on the public, been a day, and then perished—others now succeed them, which in like manner are fast descending to "the tomb of the Capulets," while our remedies become more generally used, and acquire a daily accession of well earned celebrity. To prevent the imposition of worthless or dangerous preparations, purchasers are requested to remember, that an engraved label, with the signature of Richard Lee (to counterfeit which is felony) is affixed to each of the genuine medicines.
FOR SALE, By Edward Hallam, At his Grocery Store, opposite the Swan-Tavern 5000 Wt. excellent Salt Petre Bacon. Patent Shot, by the bag or 100. Madeira, Teneriffe and Sherry Wines. Antigua, Jamaica and New-England Rum. Cognac Brandy and Whiskey. Philadelphia Porter, by the bbl. 3 doz. each. Coffee by the bag—Molasses by the hhd. Loaf & brown Sugar—Hyson & Imperial Teas. 9 by 11 and 12 by 12 Window Glass. Bar Iron, Irish Potatoes, &c. These above articles will be sold low for ready pay. April 28, 1804. wtf
FOR RENT, And immediate possession given, a Convenient Tenement, Pleasantly situated. BLANK BONDS For Sale at this Office.