The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1808-02-26 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 4.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1808.
[No. 93.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
WILL BE SOLD, on the second day of March next, at the late residence of Obadiah Smith...
N. B. All persons having claims against the estate of Obadiah Smith, dec'd, are requested to make them known properly authenticated...
TO BE DISPOSED of a small assortment of best London composition CANDLE MOULDS, with five suitable Frames...
TO THE PUBLIC—The subscribers having commenced the STONE & BEER-making Business in the house lately occupied by Mr. John Southgate...
THEY are enabled to do from the misunderstanding which has taken place between the journeyman and their late employers...
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY—At a meeting of the directors of the said company on Tuesday the 16th February, 1808...
WHEREAS the subscriber in the life time of Carr Chapman, deceased, to wit: In the month of January, eighteen hundred and five...
CASH SALES—In pursuance of a deed of trust, executed by David Ross, esquire, bearing date the 19th day of December, 1805...
Will be sold for ready money, at the front door of the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Saturday the 20th day of next month...
The sale of the above Property is postponed, in consequence of the badness of the weather, until Saturday the 27th inst. when it will positively take place.
KIRBY, DRAKE & TAYLOR—Have just received by the late arrivals from London & Liverpool, in addition to their Fall Assortment...
THE subscribers having formed a connection in the Grocery line, under the firm of BRIDGES & ROBERTSON, they now offer for sale at their Store on the corner of the street leading to Byrd's ware-house...
TO RENT—Four Commodious TENEMENTS, near the Armoury—FOR HIRE, Two SAWERS.
ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD—Runaway about the 1st instant from the service of Mr. William Rawleigh (to whom he was hired) a black man named JACKSON...
FOR SALE, 121,000 acres of LAND in Kenawha county, in the Forks of Great Sandy river...
FRESH TEAS—The subscriber has still on hand a few chests and boxes fresh Imperial and Young Hyson TEAS...
DISSOLUTION OF CO-PARTNERSHIP—The Co-partnership of Taylor & Brown was by mutual consent, dissolved the 31st December last...
THE AUCTION & COMMISSION BUSINESS will in future be carried on by the Subscriber in the tenement heretofore occupied by Taylor & Brown...
MORE CHEAP GOODS—JOHN KING again respectfully informs his customers & the public, that he has just received, by the late arrivals from Philadelphia and New-York...
WILLIAM TEMPLE, has received by the ship Herscheil from Liverpool, and Cape Cod, an extensive supply of MERCHANDIZE...
THE subscriber has accommodations for six or eight Boarders by the year, on moderate terms.
NOTICE—All persons to whom the estate of the late Major Wm. Dudley, dec'd, of Warwick county, is indebted, are desired on or before the first day of June next...
SAML. SHIELD, Adm'r. of Wm. Dudley, deceased.
LANDS FOR SALE—The subscriber offers for sale, the following Tracts of LAND, in which, to persons making early application, he will give great bargains...
These Lands will be offered for sale at very reduced prices, which may be known, during my absence, by application to Col. William Daniel of Cumberland...
JUST PUBLISHED, and may be had at Jacob Johnson's Book Store, near the Market Bridge, PART 2 OF VOL. 1 OF HENING & MUNFORD'S REPORTS.
I GIVE this public Notice, that a certificate ascertaining my right to thirty-two shares in the Bank of Virginia, has been lost by me.
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS—The subscriber respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, in the above line of business...
PHILADELPHIA GRAND LOTTERY—Highest Prize 10,000 dollars. Authorised by an act of the Legislature of Pennsylvania...
CASH PRIZES table with 3 columns: Prize number, Amount, Total. Includes prizes of 10,000, 5,000, 1,000, 500, 100, 50, 20, 10 dollars.
Subject to a deduction of fifteen per cent. The most valuable Cash Prizes from 200 dollars and upwards, to be determined as follows:
The price of Tickets will advance as the drawing progresses. Note—The purchaser or holder of every ticket, will be entitled to a valuable patent right for manufacturing Sago, Starch, and Hair-Powder...
MESSRS. Nathaniel, Benjamin, and John Shepherd, and John S. Moore—Take Notice, that I shall on Thursday the 10th day of March, 1808...
NOTICE—SIMSON MORRIS, opposite the Eagle Tavern, respectfully informs the public, that he is selling off the following GOODS under cost and charges...
IN CHANCERY—Middlesex County Court, December, 1807. Mary Callis, Elizabeth Minor, Ann Tomkins, John McLoughlin and Mary Overton his wife, Peter Cosby, George Tiller and Mary his wife...
Some letters from Helsingborg, of the 3d instant, state, that his Swedish Majesty was still there, but that he was about to set out upon a tour through his dominions.
PUBLIC VENDUE—By virtue of a deed of trust from Wm. Hall to the subscribers, of sundry property, for the purpose of securing the payment of a debt due William Shanks...
FOR SALE, fifteen thousand acres of Land, consisting of sundry Tracts, lying on the waters of Moccasin and Copper creeks and Clinch river...
EUROPE.
NEW-YORK, Feb. 15. By the ship Susan, Delane, from St. Petersburg, and last from the Downs...
LONDON, Dec. 15. We received this morning several letters from Plymouth, all of which state, that a confident expectation prevails in that town of the immediate arrival of important intelligence...
THE price of Tickets will advance as the drawing progresses. Note—The purchaser or holder of every ticket, will be entitled to a valuable patent right for manufacturing Sago, Starch, and Hair-Powder...
There is no mention made of the changes reported to be about to take place in the government of Holland.
Another other articles, there is a Decree of the Dutch Government, prohibiting the further negotiation of all bills drawn by or on any of the subjects of Great-Britain...
Private letters from Petersburg, received by the Gottenburgh mail, state the important fact, that most of the old nobility of Russia had presented a strong remonstrance to the Emperor against the present policy of his councils...
A vessel arrived yesterday from Memel, after a very short passage. She brought no intelligence, except some melancholy accounts of the effects of a scarcity, which, it is said, has now become general...
ARTICLE I. Every vessel, to what nation it may belong, which shall...
The king of Prussia is still at Memel, where he lives quite in a retired way.
Sir Arthur Paget is arrived from the Mediterranean, and Dispatches have been received from Lord Collingwood.
Generals Spencer and General Macfarlane's horses were shipped yesterday, and the expedition, it is now understood, will certainly sail on Saturday.
Several documents of the highest importance are said to have been transmitted to Government relative to the designs of Bonaparte.
The late Ministers, speaking of Bonaparte's policy in America, assert, that "it would be insanity in him not to conciliate the Americans just in proportion as our Ministers are anxious to provoke them."
Have these persons heard of her insulting demand to us, to surrender our right of searching her merchant vessels, and do they mean to characterise our determined rejection of that demand, "as an anxiety to provoke her?"
BALTIMORE, Feb. 10. By the arrival of the ship Louisa, captain Smith, via Gibraltar, in 44 days from Leghorn...
The queen of Etruria had left Florence and gone to Milan, on a visit to the French emperor—thence she goes to Portugal to govern that kingdom.
By the politeness of a friend, we have been furnished with the following copy of the official decree of the Emperor Napoleon, respecting neutrals, dated Milan, 17th Dec. in Italian...
Translated for the American.
NAPOLEON, by the Grace of God, and by the Constitution, Emperor of the French, King of Italy and Protector of the Confederation of the Rhine.
Considering the dispositions decreed by the British government, dated the 14th Nov. last past, which subject the vessels of friendly neutral nations, and also the allies of England not only to the visit of English cruisers...
Considering that by this act, the English government hath deprived of their distinctive national quality (détachement) the vessels of all the nations of Europe...

suffered the visit of an English vessel, or shall have submitted to a voyage to England, or shall have paid any duty whatever to the English government, is, for that reason alone, declared to be deprived of her distinctive national quality, has lost the guarantee of her flag, and has become English property.
II. The above mentioned vessels thus deprived of their national distinction by the arbitrary measures of the English government, are declared to be good and lawful prizes, as well in case they enter our ports, or those of our allies, as also in case they fall in the power of our vessels of war or privateers.
III. The British Islands are declared to be in a state of blockade as well by sea as by land. Every vessel of whatsoever nation or whatsoever her cargo, coming from the ports of England or from English colonies, or from the countries occupied by English troops, is a good prize, as contravening the present decree. They shall be captured by our vessels of war, or by our privateers and shall be adjudged to the captors.
4th. These measures, which are but a just reciprocity for the barbarous system adopted by the English government, which assimilates its legislation to that of Algiers, shall cease to have their effect with respect to all those nations, which may succeed in compelling the British government to respect their flag. They shall continue to be in force during all such time as this government shall fail to return to the principles of the right of war, which govern the relations of civilized nations in a state of war.
The dispositions of the present decree shall be abrogated, and null in fact, so soon as the English government shall have returned to those principles of the law of nations, which are equally the principles of justice and honor.
5th. All the ministers are charged with the execution of the present decree, which shall be published, and inserted in the bulletin of the laws.
GIVEN from our royal palace of Milan, the 17th day of December, 1807.
NAPOLEON.
By the Emperor and King, The Minister Secretary of State, A. ALDINI.
LEONARD, December 11th, 1807. "My last informed you of the treaty that was concluded by the chamber of commerce with the French general Miollis, respecting the liberation of the sequestered goods, in consequence of the then unexpected change of this government. I had hoped some delay would have been gained, or that some event would have turned up in this period of wonders; that a liberation might have been granted at least to the American property without acceding to the conditions stipulated. I regret to advise you that this has not been the case, and a few days subsequent to my last, a notice was issued by the chamber of commerce under authority of the French general, notifying to the interested, that unless the goods were redeemed in three days, paying 45 per cent. on their estimation, viz. 30 per cent. cash, and 15 per cent. in notes with endorsers at 4, 5, and 6 months, the same would be immediately put up to sale. In this extremity I had no other alternative left but to accede to the imposition which has also been done by the other houses in the American line. The whole amount sequestered was about $285,000 dollars. I shall write you again, and now enclose you the notice posted this morning by which you will observe our change of government. Who is to succeed thereto is still unknown, or whether Tuscany will not be incorporated in the kingdom of Italy, is yet a question."
"The French flag and arms are now everywhere displayed, and from to-day all public acts run in the name of the Emperor. The Queen left Florence yesterday, presumed for Milan."
LEONARD, 23rd December. "Tuscany, it is confidently said, is to be united to the kingdom of Italy, as the government was changed. No distribution of it could have afforded more universal satisfaction. The benefit to Leghorn must prove great in any event."
"Yours, &c."
Translated from the Madrid Gazette of Dec. 4. LISBON, Nov. 25.
An English cartel from the division of Sir Sidney Smith, who has established his cruising ground at the entrance of our port brought yesterday an official note of the following tenor: "By these presents we make known to whomsoever it should concern, that it being notorious that the ports of Portugal are shut against the flag of Great Britain, and that the British Minister Plenipotentiary near the court of Lisbon, has left that capital in compliance with the instructions remitted to the undersigned rear-admiral of the blue, and commander in chief of this division—the month of the Tagus is declared in a rigorous state of blockade."
"The Portuguese government is to understand it thus, and be certain that orders have been given that it shall continue with the utmost strictness until a friendly adjustment of actual differences takes place. The consuls of neutral states must also take notice of it, that they may in season inform their governments that the said river is in a state of blockade; and that from this time and thence-forward all the measures authorised by the laws of nations and by the respective treaties between H. B. M. and neutral powers, shall be adopted and executed with any vessels whatever that shall attempt to violate it. Signed and sealed on board the ship Hibernia, off the Tagus, the 22nd of Nov. 1807."
"WM. SIDNEY SMITH."
The delay of the Emperor of Russia in declaring war, has been talked of as unaccountable—but the secret of the affair is this—Cronstadt was in such a state that had the British gone thither in an amicable way, after doing their business at Copenhagen; the Russian might have accompanied the Danish fleet amicably to England. A project of pacification through the mediation of Russia, was communicated to Lords Cathcart and Gambier, and the farce was kept up until the approach of general Frost, with a reinforcement to blockade the Baltic outward; and as soon as the general had thrown up a few works which were executed all in one night without the least noise, then the Russian cabinet let out their real purposes; but the orders for the conduct of the Russian fleet in the Mediterranean and the surrender of Corfu were issued at the same time.
Aurora. About six or seven years ago, the royal family of Portugal had agents in the U. States, looking round for a situation which they might seek as an asylum here; but they could not relish the idea of the total absence of the inquisitions, kings, courts and sycophants; notwithstanding that they might have found sycophants enough for money. They have preferred Brazil, how long their good friends of Britain will let them remain quiet there, is another question. Ib.
SUSPICIOUS!! Among the effects of the Prize-Master, (one four Turks thrown overboard) Captain
Sheffield found a protection given by the British Consul-General, in the following words: British Chancery Office.
H. S. BLANKLEY, His Britannic Majesty's Agent and Consul-General for the City and Kingdom of Algiers, in Barbary, to all whom it doth concern, or may concern, greeting: By these Presents, we make known and certify, that this ship, or vessel, was taken by, and is the prize of a Frigate-cruizer of Algiers, mounting 44 guns, and whereof Mohammed Reis Turk is commander; and therefore, and in regard of the Peace subsisting between His Majesty, and this Kingdom, we request and require all the subjects of our said Sovereign Lord the King, of whatsoever office, command, rank, degree, order, or condition they may be, as well by land as by sea, to surrender him freely to pass, without any let, hindrance, seizure, or molestation whatever.
Given under our Public Seal, at the Chancery Office, in the said city of Algiers, the fourth day of January, one thousand eight hundred and seven. (Signed) H. S. BLANKLEY.
Extract of a letter of a late date, from an American gentleman at Cadiz to his friend in Philadelphia.
The report of the day is that the emperor Napoleon has demanded that the Prince of Austria shall espouse the niece of the emperor Josephine, and that in case of his refusal, war will be declared by France against Spain. There is a large number of French troops in Spain, and it is believed they are only waiting for a pretext to take possession of the government. The distress among the poor is beyond description, and every day growing worse.
CHARLESTON, Feb. 16. By the arrival of the ship Portland, capt. Callender, from Bordeaux, we have received files of the Moniteur , Journal de l'Empire and Paris Argus , to the 15th of Dec. From a cursory perusal, we do not find that they contain any article of much importance. Capt. Callender left Bordeaux on the 20th of December, and the Cordovan on the 23rd. Madame MOREAU arrived at Bordeaux, in the ship Eliza from New-York, about ten days before the Portland sailed. She was immediately arrested by the Police and confined to her hotel under a guard, without being permitted to write to or speak with any of her friends.
The last accounts left Bonaparte at Milan, on his return into France. He was expected at Bordeaux, where great preparations were making for his reception.
The inhabitants of Bordeaux were much amused, just before the Portland sailed, by an account, which was industriously propagated, of a revolution in England, of the dominant party having sent the Earl of MOTRA to France to sue for peace; and, to make the affair still more interesting, it was asserted that the Earl had arrived at Paris!!
It was generally believed in France, that it was impossible for the United States to preserve their neutrality. It was said to be the determination of the French government to compel us to become a party in the war; and should harmony be restored between the United States and Great-Britain, it would be followed by an immediate declaration of war on the part of France. Courier .
FROM BATAVIA. We have seen letters of the 3d and tenth October, 1807, from Batavia—The Milwood and Huntress , for New-York, and Sidney for Baltimore to sail soon, the Paterson t. sail in November, was nearly ready to receive a cargo (coffee); all well on board; an American brig from Baltimore had arrived there; two ships from said port which sailed before her hourly expected; the Iris Rathburn, of Providence, arrived 3d October, in 138 days—11 or 12 American ships there; those with merchandise obliged to sell at great sacrifices, and to receive in payment, sugar, pepper, &c. sales dull; Spanish dollars in great demand. Boston Cent.
(The reader will rejoice with us at the safe arrival of our East-India vessels in our own ports; when he considers that these vessels arrive in the spring; that the amount of this trade is not less than $5,000,000 S.; the revenue it yields to government not less than $1,000,000; and that the value of a single article which it brings us—India Cottons, which will be of immense value to us in case of a suspended trade with Europe—is not less than $2,000,000 S.—It must be confessed, that in this point of view the procrastination of a war with G. B. is a most desirable event.) Enquirer .
EXPEDITION TO THE TAGUS—Sir Samuel Hood's squadron having proceeded so favourably on its course, we may now without impropriety direct the attention of our readers to its destination. Each ship is provided with two flat-bottomed boats calculated for the disembarkation of troops.
It is expected that Sir Samuel's squadron will be joined at a specified latitude by another squadron, having on board a chosen body of British soldiers. The passage up the Tagus is commanded by Fort St. Julien, a formidable battery, which so effectually sweeps the river, that it is in vain for any vessel great or small, to attempt to pass in defiance of it. On this fort, we are informed, it is the intention of our government to make a speedy attack, not with a view of forcing the entrance of our merchant vessels into the Tagus, which is out of the question, but to keep the command of the River in defiance of the French. Lon. Post.
DOMESTIC.
Extract of a letter, dated Lancaster Feb. 11.
"The following resolution was yesterday adopted by the Senate and House of Representatives."
"Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the commonwealth of Pennsylvania in general assembly met, That the Senators representing this State in the Congress aforesaid, be hereby requested to endeavor to have the Constitution of the U. States so amended, as that the Judges of the courts thereof shall hold their office for a term of years:—That they shall be removed by the President of the U. States, on the address of the majority of the members present of the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled, and that on all trials for impeachment for high crimes and misdemeanors, a majority of the Senate shall be competent to conviction."
"After the first reading of this resolution in the House of Representatives, a motion was made to proceed to the second reading and on consideration thereof, this brought on a warm discussion, a variety of motions were made by the members opposed to the resolution to put it out of view for the present, none of them carried, and it was determined by 41 against 37, to proceed to the consideration of the resolution. This decision was followed by motions to postpone to a day cer-
tain—to postpone for the purpose of introducing a substitute—to postpone, to amend, &c. After the question had assumed every shape, and received every coloring which legal or legislative subtlety could give it, the resolution was finally adopted—41 Yeas—37 Nays."
There are now in the port of Baltimore 65 ships, 42 brigs, and 103 topsail schooners, exclusive of small craft and lighters; and 8 vessels of different dimensions on the stocks besides gun-boats. Post.
A letter from our correspondent at New-Orleans, of the 16th ult. says, "We have just learnt, that Col. McNeil is appointed by his Britannic Majesty, consul for Louisiana, and may shortly be expected here. This is the first time we knew that there was a Consul from England for Louisiana. But the information may be relied on, as it comes in a letter from Mr. Canning."
NEW-YORK, Feb. 17. Capt. Dickens, of the sch. Silenus , who arrived at this port yesterday, in 23 days from Barbadoes, informs, that at the time of his sailing there were a float in the harbour, about 9000 bbls. of flour, and other provisions and live stock in abundance—flour was selling at 12 1/2 cts. per bbl. An embargo had been laid as a precautionary measure. Capt. D. further informs, that the blockade of Martinique commenced on the 20th Jan. by 6 frigates, and 474. Merc. Adv.
PHILADELPHIA, February 19. Capt. Sawdrey from Martinique, informs that on a confirmation of the news of the Embargo in the United States, FLOUR rose from eleven to eighteen Dollars!!!
MORE WARNINGS.
The British government has—at this moment too—appointed an agent to reside at N. Orleans—and a colonial Mail is appointed to that station. A coffee-house for a rendezvous, with a snug Kitchen in it, contiguous to the coffee room, through which, by the medium of a Dyonisius' ear, all that passes could be retailed to Colonel M'Neil—or three or four presses in pay—the thing will be a perfect organization of privileged spies from Boston to Orleans .
The Spaniards, at Cuba, are very much alarmed on account of an expedition coming from England to occupy that island in an amicable way.
There is no alarm felt for another expedition which is to act as a corps de reserve , whose object is said to be Pensylvania , where it is to enter only in distress like the tory sloops that go out of our rivers on a coasting trip and trip off to Jamaica .
It is perfectly ludicrous, and yet pitiable, to see men swallow gudgeon after gudgeon , as they are thrown out for them by the British agents in the sea-ports—immense speculations have been made last week, and the present, in flour and other produce, founded upon the assertions made in newspapers, which have pursued an uniform system of lying and deceit for years past.
Every day, almost every hour, proves the wisdom, indeed the absolute necessity of an embargo, as the only alternative between war and peace —with one or the other of the nations that contend we must have gone to war, had not the provident sagacity of the executive recommended the measure that has been pursued.
Yet people are so infatuated as to credit idle rumours of a projected repeal of the embargo, when instead of any change having taken place in the circumstances of the war in Europe, that the advices of every day show that we could derive no sort of advantage but might incur great losses, by a removal of the embargo.
The American people are thus disturbed by British emissaries, with a view to speculation on one hand, and under the expectation of exciting discontent on the other—but the people at large are not speculators, they know that the privations of commerce even for three years , should it be necessary, could not be so pernicious as one year's war.
Out of war our government is determined to keep us if possible—but the movements in Canada; the encroaching of British emissaries—the rendezvous at this moment of so many of Burr's choice spirits at Orleans—the taking up of every one of the immense sums of bills which were drawn to cover Burr's imperial enterprise—the passage of Burr's agents to England—the efforts of Burr's adherents to destroy the officer who defeated their nefarious scheme of civil war—the design to occupy Cuba as another scourge , like Canada , over the U. States, are such connected, various and speaking facts, that the man who does not see in them, the coherency of systematic hostility, ought to doubt his own understanding. Aurora .
FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS.
THE POLICY OF FARMERS.
It is the true policy of our farmers, not to kill their meat cattle, during the embargo; but rather to let them grow in size and fatness, so that they will have the more meat in stock, when we get rid of foreign orders and decrees.
The same policy is sound, as to our wood and timber of every form, name and quality. If the embargo does not permit the exportation, the wood and timber of forests will increase in size and value without any labor or expense.
We shall want flax and hemp to manufacture; it is therefore our interest to sow all the flax-seed of which the embargo (produced by foreign orders & decrees) prevents the exportation at this time. It will perish if not sown.
Above all things, household manufactures are the most probable and useful objects for this country. It was computed in the year 1790, that they were worth at least twenty millions of dollars. If so, they are now worth thirty-five millions, for our population was then four, and is now seven millions of persons. Our women should all learn to spin, card, weave, dye, and manufacture, in the various modes for flax, hemp, cotton and wool. We may not have open markets abroad for years, and our planters will want the aid of our own manufactures to keep up the prices of their produce, and to furnish supplies. It would be very useful, if our people in the country and in the towns, were to employ themselves in improving the interior of the United States. Draining swamps and marshes, clearing land, opening roads, making bridges, causeways and canals, making and enlarging gardens, planting orchards and vineyards, and establishing nurseries of young trees and useful plants, building and repairing houses, barns, stables and other outhouses, will employ many persons and horses, and much money. The country will be all the better Making small new settlements, im-
provements and clearings, would be highly beneficial. It will prevent many of the inconveniences of the embargo, if much of our time, money and industry be employed, in improving our country, instead of raising redundant crops.
A wise economy of time, money, labor & expense, will enable every man to soften the inconveniences of the embargo. All our men are of character, in America, who are not aged are men of business. Let them but exercise their observations, reflexion, enquiry and ingenuity, and many ways to lessen the inconveniences of the embargo will be struck out. The increase of prudent habits, industry and invention, and the introduction of new branches of manufacture and other business will make a happy revolution in the conduct and character of many in this serious time, so that the rivals, spoliaters & enemies of our country, will work unintended benefits to the U. States.
The Court-Martial on some officers of the Chesapeake, and which has been sitting in this place for seven weeks, closes this day. We understand the officers of the court proceed, immediately at Washington, by water having taken Herbert's packet for that purpose. Herald .
LEXINGTON, (K.) Jan. 21.
Tuesday last, Capt. Meriwether Lewis, Governor of Upper Louisiana, arrived here, on his way, as we understand, to take charge of the government of that territory.
On Tuesday last, the legislature of this state expelled from that body, John Kercheval , one of the Members from Mason county.
At the opening of the legislative council of Lower Canada, at Quebec the 29th of January, Sir James H. Craig, the Governor General, delivered a SPEECH, of which the following is an extract:
"I have no doubt, that you join with me Gentlemen, in lamenting the discussions that have arisen, between his Majesty's government and that of America. I have no information to convey to you, that might tend to throw any light upon a subject, in which this Colony must be so materially interested. Let us hope that the moderation and wisdom of the Government of the U. States, will lead them to, meet that of his Majesty in its endeavors, by an equitable accommodation of differences, to avert the calamities of War, from two nations, who from habits of affinity, unity of language, and the reciprocal advantages of their commercial intercourse, seem no less to point them out to each other, as the objects of a mutual connection, of amity, and confidence."
EXTRACT OF A LETTER FROM
Chillicothe, Jan. 24th 1808.
"The circuit court closed its session at this place last evening."
"The grand jury unanimously indicted Burr and Blennerhassett for his demeanor."
"Jonathan Dayton was here during the greater part of the term, he kept close house and departed early yesterday morning—his business here was doubtless to watch events, and give his friends, the B—'s the earliest intelligence."
"A forlorn and desperate attempt was made by the counsel for the offenders, to continue the accused on bail in the pitiful penalty imposed by a partial, (not to say corrupt, judge) until the next term—the court, with the integrity and independence which become their station, repelled the motion without hesitation."
"Blennerhassett, with the effrontery, abuse of privilege, and hostility to the common interests of the community, which has all along marked the ex-circum conspiracy, has, notwithstanding his flight from trial, sent forward a list of seventy-seven witnesses, scattered from the Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico, and in New-York, Pennsylvania and Virginia, for the purpose of having them brought forward by subpoena, to the next term. The attorney who handed about the subpoena, had the unblushing depravity to say, they were determined to put the government to as much expense as possible—this is exactly in unison with the scenes at Richmond."
"Would it not be worth legislative consideration, whether the indicted should not surrender himself into custody, before he has the privilege of demanding process for witnesses? Ought not an affidavit of the materiality of the witnesses to be filed? Whether any and what limitation should be set as to the number of witnesses to each point." Aurora .
Doctor Bullus, late surgeon of the Chesapeake has been appointed navy agent at New-York.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
TUESDAY, February 16.
Mr. Stanfard laid upon the table a resolution for the reorganization of business in the House, which he should call up in the event of the rules and orders not being soon considered.
The several bills yesterday ordered to be read a third time were severally read and passed, except the bill concerning contracts.
On which Mr. Troup having called the yeas and nays, after some discussion, it was on motion of Mr. Southard re-committed to a committee of the whole for amendment of the detail. [A view of the debate hereafter.]
Mr. Dawson reported a bill for procuring a certain number of arms; which was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole to-morrow.
On motion of Mr. Blackledge ,
Resolved, That the committee of Ways and Means be directed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations are necessary to be made in the several acts fixing the salaries and emoluments of the collectors of duties on imports and tonnage, & that the committee be authorized to report by bill or otherwise.
A bill from the Senate for erecting a light-house, and placing buoys at the places therein mentioned, was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole.
The bill for the relief of Samuel Whitting was ordered to a third reading.
MONDAY, February 17.
Mr. D. R. Williams re-appeared and took his seat. An engrossed bill making additional compensation to the marshals of the district of North Carolina and New-Jersey, was read the third time and passed.
An engrossed bill making appropriations to carry into effect certain Indian treaties, was read the third time and passed.
On motion of Mr. Chittenden , the House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Trigg in the chair, on the bill in addition to an act entitled "An act further to amend the judicial system of the United States." Mr. Troup having introduced an amendment including an alteration in the times of session of the courts of the United States for the district of South-Carolina, Georgia and North-Carolina. Some objection being made to this, from want of immediate information, as to the effects of the alterations, by Messrs. Marion , Blackledge and Taylor , the committee rose, ayes 55, and obtained leave to sit again. In the course of observations on the motion for rising, as a reason against it, Mr. Pitkin stated that
for two or three terms last past, of the courts of the districts of Connecticut and Vermont there had no judge attended to hold them, from a defect in the present arrangement.
On motion of Mr. Boyle , the House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Cutts in the chair, on the bill making provision for the disposal of the surplus of the public money reserved for the disposal of Congress. The bill being gone through without debate, the committee rose and reported it, and it was ordered to a third reading to-morrow.
Mr. G. H. Campbell , from the committee of Ways and Means reported a bill making appropriation for the support of the military establishment of the United States for the year 1808; and a bill to amend an act entitled "An act for laying and collecting duties on imports and tonnage within the territories ceded to the United States by the treaty of the thirtieth April, one thousand eight hundred and three, between the United States and the French republic, and for other purposes," which were twice read and referred to a committee of the whole.
WEDNESDAY, February 17.
The Speaker laid before the House the resignation of Mr. D. Thomas , a Representative from the state of New-York.
On motion of Mr. Van Allen , a resolution was adopted that the Speaker address a letter to the Executive of the state of New-York, notifying him of the above vacancy.
Mr. Poindexter offered the following resolution, which was agreed to. He deemed it unnecessary to say any thing in favor of the object till reported on, this being a mere resolution to enquire:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of repealing so much of the ordinance for the government of the several territories of the United States, as empowers the governors of the said territories to prorogue and dissolve the House of Representatives elected by the people, and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise.—Agreed to.
The bill for the relief of Samuel Whitting was read the third time and passed by yeas and nays, 56 to 41.
[This bill provides for allowing Mr. Whitting a certain sum for services rendered, and expenses incurred in prosecuting a deputy post-master for embezzling certain letters containing bank notes belonging to Whitting. The objection to the bill proceeded from its being supposed to sanction the principle that the Post-Office department is liable for notes sent through the medium of the post-office.]
On motion of Mr. Fisk the House went into committee of the whole on the bill for encensing the military peace establishment of the U. States, Mr. Trigg in the chair.
Mr. Chandler moved to strike out the section authorizing the President of the United States on an emergency to encense the companies at present in service to one hundred men. Mr. Dawson made a motion superceding this: that the committee should rise that the subject might be postponed. On this question an animated debate took place which occupied the House till the usual hour of adjournment, when the committee rose and obtained leave to sit to-morrow, ayes 70.
Mr. Holmes from the committee of Claims, made a report favorable to the petition of Jared Slattuck ; which was referred to a committee of the whole.
Mr. J. Montgomery , from the committee to whom was committed the bill concerning courts martial & enquiry, reported it with amendments; which having been read, the House adjourned without referring it.
THURSDAY, February 18.
Mr. S. Gay , a representative from Philadelphia, re-appeared and took his seat.
On motion of Mr. motion of Mr. Deba ,
Resolved, That the committee on Public Lands be directed to enquire into the expediency of opening a wagon road from the Ohio river opposite Fort William at the mouth of Kentucky , to intersect the road leading from Cincinnati to Fort Wayne , near or at Fort Recovery , and that they be authorised to report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. D. also presented a resolution of the legislature of Kentucky requesting the representatives from that state in Congress to have a new road instituted on the above route, which was referred to the same committee.
On motion of Mr. Dana ,
Resolved, That the committee of Commerce and Manufactures be instructed to enquire into the propriety of causing such buoys to be provided and placed as may be requisite for the security of navigation at or near the entrance of Connecticut river, and to report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Chandler offered the following resolution, which he did not wish to interfere with any bills now under consideration, and wished it to be referred to a committee to see what result they would produce:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to take into consideration the expediency of raising by enlistment, and organizing a number of volunteer troops not exceeding twenty-four thousand men, for the service of the U. States, and that they report by bill or otherwise.
Agreed to, Ayes 71.
On motion of Mr. Dawson , the House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Pitkin in the chair, on the bill authorising the raising an additional army.
The blanks in the bill were so filled as to provide as follows:
That there be raised nine regiments of infantry of 1000 men each, one regiment of artillery of 1200 men, two regiments of cavalry of 600 men each, for three years, unless sooner discharged; to be commanded by two major-generals, four brigadier-generals, one inspector-general, and two assistant inspectors.

Populous parts of the state of Ohio, and to a future and convenient connection with the road which is to lead from the Indian boundary near Cincinnati by Vincennes to the Mississippi at St. Louis, under authority of the act of April, 1806. In this way we may accomplish a continued and advantageous line of communication from the seat of the general government to St. Louis, passing through several very interesting points of the Western Country.
I have thought it advisable also to secure from obliteration the trace of the road so far as it has been approved, which has been executed by such considerable expense, by opening one half its breadth thro' its whole length.
The report of the commissioners, herewith transmitted, will give particular information of their proceedings under the act of March 29, 1806, since the date of my message of Jan. 31, 1807; and will enable Congress to adopt such further measures relative thereto, as they may deem proper under existing circumstances.
TH: JEFFERSON.
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
THURSDAY, February 11.
DEBATE
On the bill for the punishment of Treason, and of other crimes and offences against the U. S. The bill reported by Mr. GILES, for the punishment of treason and other crimes and offences against the United States, was according to the order of the day, considered as in committee of the whole. After having been read by sections from the chair, some verbal amendments were made to the first section. The words of this member of the bill are as follows:
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That if any persons owing allegiance to the United States of America, shall levy war against them, or assemble themselves together with intent to overthrow or change the government of the United States, or any one of the territories thereof, or forcibly to dismember the said United States, or any one of them, or any one of the territories thereof, or forcibly to resist the general execution of any public law thereof, or forcibly to take possession of, or hold any fort, magazine, dock, navy yard, or of any public vessel of the United States, or forcibly to invade or hold any part of the United States, or the territories thereof, against the authority of the United States, or if any person or persons shall traitorously aid or assist in doing any one of the acts aforesaid, although not personally present when any such act is done or committed, and being convicted of any one or more of the aforesaid acts, on confession in open court, or on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act of treason, whereof he or they shall be convicted, such person or persons shall be judged guilty of treason against the United States, and shall suffer death.
These alterations having been agreed to, chiefly in the form of the bill, by the transposition of certain words.
Mr. MITCHELL expressed his disagreement to the principle itself of the bill. He questioned whether Congress had authority to act upon the subject. The powers of the legislature were on the crime of treason, limited by the constitution. and it deserved mature consideration whether on the present occasion we were not about to transgress the bounds within which we ought to move.
By the 3d section of the 3d article of that great charter of our rights and privileges, it is declared that "treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on the confession in open court." Here is the definition of treason in the constitution, that great national instrument, which is the law paramount of the land, and by which Congress itself must be governed.
The convention of 1787, when devising a frame of government for a free people, well understood the commotions that frequently agitated societies of men claiming the right to speak & to act as they pleased. That sagacious body possessed perfect knowledge from history of the proscriptions and attainders which an overbearing majority were but too prone to pass upon those who differed from them in their preference of one man or measure to another, or who thwarted their views of interest or ambition, or resentment or power. They therefore provided a salutary check upon the will of the Congress itself; thereby guarding against that heat & violence which the collision of party have been of ever-obscured to produce. Thus was a security enjoyed by the minority of the two Houses, and of their adherents and supporters throughout the nation against the exterminating spirit which the majority might feel, and in an evil hour be tempted to exert.
Such was his understanding of the meaning of this part of the constitution. But the bill before you, Mr. President, has a bold and innovating aspect. It ventures into declarations of various actions which shall be deemed to constitute the levying of war. If this proceeding is correct, it will be in our power or in the power of a future Congress, to declare that certain other actions, not specified in this bill, shall also be construed as criminal in the same degree. And a succeeding legislature may enlarge the catalogue, until constructive treasons shall be multiplied to a most alarming amount. The people of this free and happy country will be disarmed of the shield by which their sages and patriots who devised the present admirable frame of government, intended to protect them, even from legislative injury. And they will be exposed to all the multiplied evils, of treasons declared by Congress; and it may possibly happen in some future time, less auspicious than the present, that the majority of that body may be actuated by passions and stimulated by motives of a sanguinary tendency. We ought to take measures of precaution against such alarming consequences. I feel a strong repugnance to the demolition of established landmarks. I have, said he, a great veneration for these monuments erected by our predecessors. And I fear the enactment of the present bill will be accompanied with the overthrow of one of the most valuable safeguards of the constitution.
He was willing to admit the great uncertainty with which the doctrine of treason is clouded. All our trials for that offence had demonstrated the unsettled condition of the law. But it was by no means certain that this was a sufficient reason for congressional interference. He felicitated himself, and he congratulated the Senate and his country, that arraignments for treason had hitherto been few and rare. There had not been time nor opportunities enough to elaborate the ultimate decisions of the law. The human mind did not acquire knowledge by intuition but by experience. The march of the understanding in the investigation of truth was slow. In cases of jurisprudence as well as in every other intellectual research, the advances toward truth were gradual. Case after case must be studiously considered, judgment after judgment must be rendered & revised, and consequence after consequence traced to their terminations. In such a course of proceeding, it might happen, according to the amount of business which occurred, that generation might follow generation, and age succeed to age, before the summa ratio , the high result of reason on the subject, could be attained. According to this method of perfecting the law by practice, many trials for treason would be necessary to make its exact meaning known. And for his own part, he was willing to postpone for centuries this painful mode of delineating the endless number of species and varieties that a legislature could in a day arrange under the generic term of treason.
But why was it necessary for Congress to expound the constitution? Were there not a department of the government to which the interpretation of the statutes enacted by the two Houses, treaties concluded with foreign nations by the President and Senate, and the great national act of the convention as ratified by the several states was specially intrusted? He meant the Body of the Judiciary, consisting of men selected from the class of citizens, for the express purpose of declaring what the law is. It seemed more orderly and regular to permit the judges to remove the existing obscurity in the law, by the exercise of their professional talents, than to alter by statute a course of investigation which conformed to the true theory of the constitution. It is certain that inconveniences of some kind do exist; but had we not better bear them than run the risk of rendering them worse by tampering? It would be lamentable indeed if the remedy was about to apply should prove worse than the disease. It might perhaps be a fault in him that he regarded the courts of justice with a sort of habitual reverence. He owned that he might be mistaken in viewing the present invasion of their province with a sentiment that alarmed his solicitude while it awakened his sensibility. But so it was; he would not conceal his preference to the tried and settled method of deducing the rules and maxims of the law, through the constituted tribunals.
Mr. MITCHELL said he would state another consideration which was very impressive on his mind. It was the power claimed and exercised by the judges to repeal or nullify statutes by declaring them unconstitutional. Suppose the bill on your table, Mr. President, should pass; and it should afterwards be considered by the judiciary as a statute which the constitution forbade Congress to enact. Would not it be pronounced void, and all proceedings under it be discontinued or dismissed? This then is the dilemma to which we are reduced; if Congress proceeds in the manner proposed by the bill to define treason, and their acts are binding upon the judges, then succeeding Congresses may multiply the species of those offences to any number that may suit the purposes of an infuriated majority, and the courts be compelled to carry those acts into operation, however mischievous or ruinous; or, if statutes against the spirit and letter of the constitution, are declared by them to be of no force or effect, we certainly legislate to no purpose. As to the power of deciding on the unconstitutionality of statutes, the courts had, it was well known, exercised it in several instances. Many able statesmen had been induced to believe this was a sound and legitimate employment of their functions. And as the powers granted by the constitution were at present understood and exercised, he doubted whether, even if this bill should pass into a statute, it would bear the test of judicial scrutiny.
These were imperfect sketches of some of the ideas which he entertained on this important subject. They were uttered in this incipient stage of the debate for the purpose of gaining further information. No one could be insensible of the toil that had been expended by the committee, and more especially by his honorable and learned friend, the Chairman, in preparing it. He wished for a full discussion of this great question; and he entertained no doubt it would be examined with a seriousness worthy so "high an argument."
For the purpose therefore of bringing the subject to a point, and of inviting the supporters of the bill to offer all the reasons they may think proper to urge in its support, Mr. M. concluded by making a motion to strike out the section.
(Mr. Giles's Speech in our next)
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, FEBRUARY 26, 1808.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Parturiant montes—nascitur ridiculus mus
Powhatan has commenced a series of very severe strictures on Mr. Madison and his friends. Those who are conversant with the facts on which he so severely expatiates, must readily acknowledge that his unfounded assertions are unworthy of a serious argument. To those who are able to mark the real character of the man in his writings, the intolerance of his prejudices and the impetuosity of his temper will furnish a sufficient refutation of his mistakes. It is as reasonable to look for the "Music of the Spheres" in the rumbling of a Volcano, as to expect justice from fanaticism—or truth from passion. But as the author's style is pretty, as his "labours certainly do no discredit to a News-Paper,"—a short and rapid review of his assertions, may not be altogether useless. The world are too often apt to expect genius and truth from the brilliancy of metaphor or the ingenuity of invective. Nothing is more captivating and delusive than a graceful exterior. Because we are pleased, we are apt to think ourselves instructed. But what reasonable man will thus suffer himself to be persuaded into conviction by all the wit of a Canning or the eloquence of a Burke?—For my own part, I would as soon expect to discover the unsullied honor of a Chevalier Bayard under the unseled ornaments of every coxcomb, as to expect from the splendida bilis and pretty style of Powhatan, the acumen, the veracity, and genius of a Newton or a Locke.
What is the sum total of Powhatan's denunciations? Analyse every line of his elaborate Essay; collect every fiction which he has coined and every sophism which he has fabricated, into one Bouquet of sweets; and you will find that they will all resolve themselves under one of three heads.
 1. Some vague and general censures upon caucuses:  2. The "Showers of letters from Washington," which were intended "to bias the minds of the Virginia Assembly";  3. An inconsistency between the professions and practice of the friends of Mr. Madison; in first professing their anxiety to take the tone from our sister states, and at last in attempting to give it thro' the medium of a nomination in Virginia. 
To one of those three charges, may all the severe counts in Powhatan's indictment be reducible. As to his petulant philippics against some of the particular friends of Mr. Madison, the world will not expect me to stoop to a reply. Let him bring forward some more serious charges, before he can deserve the honor of a reply. The character of those men stands upon an adamant rock, which can neither be strengthened by the commendations of my own heart, nor shaken by all the insinuations of Powhatan. They had no right to expect; they have no motive to desire the tribute of his pen. For my own part, I should never request an Eulogy or an Epitaph from that writer's pen, who could concentrate all the honesty, all the eloquence, all the wisdom, and all the ability of Congress in such a statesman as John Randolph. If Col. Monroe has no other friends more popular than Mr. Randolph, of none more prudent than Powhatan, he might as well retire at once from a contest for the Presidential chair.
They will not leave him soon, one ray of that honorable popularity which has encircled his brow. 1. Powhatan does not himself express his own opinion about "those irregular assemblies called caucuses." Although Hortensius has made such a triumphant use of his new convictions on this subject: although he imitated his earliest impressions and his ready reformation have now rushed forward to hunt down an unconstitutional usurpation, a practice to which they were once so deeply attached, and which they have not even now relinquished.—Yet does this candid writer forbear to bring home this charge to the friends of Mr. Madison. It was an ample field for the exhibition of his eloquent invective, and yet does Powhatan forbear to revel in the fullness of its enjoyment. To what cause are we to ascribe this unexpected liberality? Has the hand of mercy at last touched the heart of this triumphant Tamerlane? Has he crimes of such "monstrous criminality" to urge against Mr. Madison, that he thinks it an useless waste of time to expatiate on the trifling sin of a legislative caucus in his favor? No; indeed we do Powhatan too much justice. That gentleman does not himself seem prepared to condemn the friends of Mr. Madison for holding a caucus—because he does "not mean, hastily to condemn a caucus" itself.—Like the hero of the celebrated Curtius , he has ingenuity enough to disguise his opinions under the veil of candour, and to breathe not a sentiment, which may not operate in favor of his cause.
But this is not all—Powhatan has exhausted all his eloquence upon the unworthy "qualities and talents which are calculated to shine and succeed in a caucus"—or, in denouncing the opinion, that a caucus though a great, is a "necessary evil"—Did Powhatan hope to deceive any one by this studied evasion of manner? Because he expatiates on the unworthy qualities which sometimes direct a caucus, does he expect to impose an opinion upon the world, that he was therefore opposed to caucuses? Isthis the species of candour to which Powhatan has aspired? But the world will not draw such an inference for him, however much he may desire it.—Because caucuses, like other "irregular assemblies," may sometimes be directed by unworthy men, & by unworthy means; must a caucus totally condemn such assemblies for the susceptible? Will Powhatan range himself among the ministerial advocates of the mobs of England —will he suppress every meeting of the English people for reforming the abuses of their government—because these regular assemblies may be denounced as caucuses , or because there have been English mobs under the influence of a Tyler or a Cade?
Surely the partisans of Powhatan will feel very little indebted to his petulant ingenuity for the very liberal picture which he has drawn of the qualities and talents of the Monroe caucus at the Capitol; "where the night was substituted for the day; where instead of the audible eloquence of public debate, the base whisper of intrigue was hardly heard; where folly and cunning and falsehood, and hypocrisy usurped the place of wisdom, truth and virtue." In one respect indeed it must be confessed that they are indebted to the softening genius of his pencil. He has not thought proper to depict the curious and motley groups of politicians, which hovered around the thin benches of the Capitol—a tasselled piece of mosaic, on which Mr. Monroe's friends have rested his chances of success—where the republican Mr. ***** was the companion of the rank federalist Mr. *****; and the discontent Mr. ***** was the bosom friend of the mongrel Mr. *****.—For my own part, I shall never forget the indefinable "disgust, dismay, horror," which this scene has engraved upon my memory.
That some caucuses, are, in themselves great evils, I perfectly agree with Powhatan—that they are not always necessary evils, I also agree with him. But because they are not always necessary, is it true that they are not sometimes necessary? Because the suffrage of all the Republicans may sometimes be concentrated upon some unvalued man, does it necessarily follow that they are not sometimes useful to produce a concert of operations and to prevent a division of party? Powhatan however has not once asserted, that the present is not a case, which requires the interposition of a caucus.
2. Powhatan has charged the friends of Mr. Madison with the employment of "artifice, intrigue, and falsehood;" that "from the commencement, and throughout the whole session of the late General Assembly, there have been constantly published in the city of Richmond, extracts of letters from members of Congress," injurious to Mr. Monroe's pretensions. From the general expressions which he has employed, indeed it would be readily inferred, that these extracts had been published every week, and perhaps every day. But if these assertions are not facts, to whom will truly belong the character of "artifice, intrigue, and falsehood?"—They are not facts.—It has been well established:
That only one extract was published in the city of Richmond, respecting the "impressions at Washington" about the next presidential election;
That the statement of this one extract about the probable result of the caucus at Washington was most strongly confirmed by the actual result;
That there was only one single sentence (ever published in this city,) and that was in this one extract, which could possibly be twisted into a construction, "that Mr. Monroe had renounced his pretensions in Mr. Madison's favour;" a construction, which is in fact neither justified by the words of the sentence, nor the circumstances of the case; and an attempt which would have been completely baffled by Mr. Monroe's presence in this city;
And that there was only one statement published in the papers of this city, respecting a reported arrangement between the friends of Mr. Monroe and Mr. Clinton—a reported which was in fact immediately contradicted and scouted at by two of the republican papers of this city.
Reader! you can compare these facts with the assertions of Powhatan. You will decide between our government and that of G. Britain, took place on Thursday. It is said that our government requires Mr. Rose to specify the reparation his government is willing to make for the attack on the Chesapeake—while Mr. Rose has required that our government should previously rescind the Proclamation issued on that occasion. It is presumed, however, that the present aspect of affairs in Europe will induce one of the parties to yield. We sincerely hope that an amicable termination may take place, and it is my opinion that such will be the final issue.
COMMUNICATION.
FEBRUARY 20, 1808.
DIED—On the 6th ult. at her seat at Castle-Hill, in the county of Albemarle, Mrs. JANE B. WALKER, widow of the late Col. Francis Walker. Her sickness, although it lasted only five days, was nevertheless so violently painful, as to require the highest degree of fortitude to sustain it. Mrs. WALKER sustained it, not merely with philosophical fortitude, but with the resignation and meekness of a christian. She had been deeply tried in the school of sorrow. She had lost her husband, and his death had been attended with circumstances the most affliction. She had afterwards lost her only son, by a sudden death. But although still in the prime of life, and endowed with a delicacy and piety of feeling, which is rarely equalled; yet her passions had been long disciplined and regulated by reason and piety; and she bore those repeated afflictions as it became a wife and a mother, who knew that there was another and a better world where we shall be all re-assembled. Mrs. WALKER left two sweet little daughters to mourn her irreparable loss. She had projected a scheme of education for them, which did honor to her superior talents and taste—and in the employment of executing it, she experienced a balm and efficacious consolation for past misfortunes. What might they not have hoped from the instruction, and still more from the example of such a mother? A mother, who, while she possessed every intellectual acquirement as was graced with every personal accomplishment, which qualified her to shine with distinction in the brightest circles of fashion, found more genuine and heartfelt pleasure in a rural retreat, and in the silent and unassuming practice of the domestic and social duties. Such is the dignified triumph of virtue over vanity!
The writer of this article knew Mrs. Walker well. He has felt her benevolence; yet his opinion of her was formed, before gratitude had a chance of betraying him into excess.
She presented a model of female excellence of which real life has very few examples. A mind of the highest order, illumined by extensive reading and reflection; manners which exhibited that union of artless simplicity and polished elegance which constitutes the rarest & most resistless charm of the sex; a conversation which while it breathed all the gentleness and goodness of the purest spirit, was animated and enlightened, judicious & instructive; an unrepining patience which sat erect and dignified under the hardest pressure of misfortune; a philanthropy, which did not waste itself in professions, but shed its active and reviving influence on every son and daughter of distress that came within the sphere of her observation. In happier hours, a cheerfulness and gaiety, calculated to "lend a new spring to the pulse of the heart." A pre-eminent, a most exquisite taste for music; a command of the piano-forte and of the organ which is rarely equalled even by its professors, and vocal powers which told to the ravished ear all the angelic sensibility of the soul which directed them. Such were the qualities which combined to render Mrs. Walker one of the most interesting women upon earth.
"Fair and good and wise as she, Time shall throw a dust at thee."
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MISCELLANY.
From the London Morning Chronicle.
DIFFERENCE WITH AMERICA.
(Continued.)
TO THE EDITOR.
Sir,
But to return to the interests of our own country. It is said, that our losses and privations, which it is admitted must follow from a war, would come back again with fresh advantages with the peace, which our arms would speedily enforce. Nothing can be more fallacious than this expectation. If the present dispute should ferment into national hostility, America will manufacture immediately for herself; and it will be extremely difficult to prevent the emigration of your spinners, whilst the stagnation of our trade continues, even supposing it to be but temporary.
Before I leave this subject, let me warn his Majesty's present Ministers to beware how they try any rash experiments upon the trade of this country by an universal blockade, in consequence of the attempts of France to obstruct it. Let them not wean Europe from our manufactures, by attempting to shut them out altogether, lest new habits of luxury and new channels to supply them should start up. Let them take their chance of finding their way till the storm is overblown, and by a policy, as it regards America, let us look to the infinite resources which almost from pole to pole the new western world presents to us.
Let us now examine in a very few words the amount and value of the controversy between this country and the United States, confined as it now is, to the perpetual and vexatious search of merchant ships for deserters in their voyages; in order, coolly to determine whether it can be rationally considered, as an object fit to be put in the scale against the advantages of peace and good fellowship, with a growing and flourishing nation to be secured by some amicable arrangement on the subject.
If the American government (as has been asserted) systematically pursues the encouragement of our sailors to desert the service and cause of their country, or should refuse to enact such laws, or faithfully to execute them when enacted, as might effectually prevent the evil complained of, I should consider it to be a just and necessary cause of war; whatever might be the consequences:—but if, on the other hand, she will bona fide proffer to G. Britain every protection against the evil which wholesome laws and their faithful execution can produce, and every facility to reclaim deserters, by authorised and assisted search in her own & in all other ports, and by such regulations to render the system effectual, as might be agreed on between the two governments, I should think it sound policy in a British statesman to accept it: Because, without admitting that the refusal on our part to do so, would be a just cause of hostility, or a vindication to the American government for exposing their country to the unspeakable calamities of a war with Great Britain, yet I think such a measure would be most advantageous to us upon the scale of mere calculation; by which I mean the direct and narrow calculation of the greater number of seamen to be reclaimed by such a reasonable arrangement, than by the most rigid and vexatious search of vessels on the high seas; without at all taking into the account immense advantages, not of peace merely, but of the friendly intercourse with a nation whose demands for our manufactures is continually increasing, and whose immensely
extended numerous shipping would enable her, in alliance with France, to aid so mischievously in the distress of our colonies and our trade.
I do not believe, that by the utmost exertions in stopping American ships at sea to search for deserters, we have reclaimed, at an annual average, two hundred seamen, or that it is possible to improve our remedy by that species of hostility. His Majesty's ministers themselves seem to be sensible, that the practice is open to abuse, by directing, in their Proclamation, that the officers commanding our ships should only employ, on such occasions persons whom they can fully trust. But allowing all due praise to the proclamation for the caution, it in fact means nothing—the captain does not appoint his officers, and cannot therefore be responsible for their misconduct; the law of respondeat superior does not apply as in cases where a man employs his own servants; the officer's commission is a sufficient warrant for the confidence of his superior, if he knows nothing against his character; and thus a 'probable abuse' is acknowledged, without even the shadow of a remedy. I do not mean that the right of search should at all be brought in question, or that even the exercise of it should be abandoned in cases where there is probable cause, from direct and positive information, fit to be relied on; but that instead of the exercise of a general, indiscriminate and vexatious search, to the interruption of free navigation and national harmony, the two governments should bona fide concur in such laws and regulations as should more effectually secure to each nation the services of its own subjects. If the evil continued notwithstanding, each nation might resort to the exercise of its rights, after a limited period, probably with less irritation, after a fruitless experiment, by the arrangement I have proposed.
These are the observations which have occurred to a very obscure individual, as necessary for the consideration of the British and American governments and people. Little accustomed to express my sentiments to others, I can hardly expect that my letter will command the public attention, further than the subject may exert it; much less can I hope, that the exertion of one individual can stem that rage for war which seems to have laid such fast hold on the general mind, both in America and in this country. If the two governments shall unfortunately second this popular delusion, the time is not very distant when my opinions will prevail.
The loss to Great-Britain by a war would be most serious; slowly and wastingly extending its consequences to the future. The loss to America would be instantaneous. The prosperity of a century would not repair what a year's hostility would destroy; whilst some future orator or historian, looking upon the sufferings of both nations, and indeed the retrograde motion of the civilized world, would have to lament with Mr. Burke, in the striking passage I have cited from his works upon a calamitous era in the history of the same countries that the most contemptible and insignificant causes should produce the most destructive effects; and that neither human governments nor individual men should seem to be capable of improving by experience, although that very capacity is the principle characteristic of our species which lifts us above the beasts that perish.
9th Nov. 1807: ** It is necessary for us to say, that this Letter was in our hands several days before the appearance of his Majesty's Orders in Council; and was detained by the daily influx of temporary matter.
FROM THE LONDON MORNING CHRONICLE.
MR. EDITOR, An emigrant died lately, at his furnished lodgings, in my neighbourhood; & being acquainted with the landlady, I was desired to take an inventory of the effects of the deceased. Among his papers I found one so full of singular hints, that I requested, and obtained leave to make it public. I shall translate it here literally, with all its half sentences and breaks. To the words, within the parentheses, I could find no opposite English expressions.
"December 7th, 1806, sent a letter to T. with a sketch of my plans, rolled in Arbeau's double leather boots—answer received in a small bale of cambric. 4th February, I was desired to be more explicit—Rhine to Danube—Danube across Black Sea to the Don—Don from river to river up to the Wolga—Wolga, through Caspian Sea—double Canal through Persia—leave obtained—across 14,000 men—Indus to Ganges—14,000 men on that parallel. Free transport for Indian goods, and cheaper than round the Cape of Good Hope. Add 14,000 men west of Persia, and will be effected within six years or even less—pioneers protected by 20,000 men, half Russians and half Persians, staff French officers. On account of my knowledge of the Persian, and other oriental languages, T. offers me 50,000 livres a year to be among the workmen, and a promise of the estate of C. at my return—agreed—tried the liquid, fired with a common pistol—tried on fire in less than two minutes, and burnt to the ground—timber cannot stand it—tried again in my room with an air-gun, and a ball rubbed with the liquid more than three weeks before, and left exposed to the air—fired at my trunk—in a blaze instantly—water had no effect on it—I grew frightened—put the fire out by throwing a blanket on the trunk—will do very well—the rowing boats must be flat with two large 24 pounders fore and aft ( bouchee evasee )—cannot try them among the bulls with safety, but I have promised to show the effects to T. in presence of the little corporal—worth a hundred. Trafalgar—B. bro't me a letter, 3d April, in the little corporal's own hand writing with an ingot of gold worth 200 guineas—requested to send a full receipt of the composition—complied—sent a receipt in our private ink, by the thin Amazon ( maigre )"
LOAN OFFICE, State of Virginia, June 8 1807.—Notice is hereby given—That in conformity with the provisions of the act supplementing the act, entitled, "An act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," books will be opened at the office of the commissioner of loans for the state of Virginia, on the 1st day of July next, to continue open until the seventeenth day of March, 1808, inclusively, the fourteen last days of each quarter excepted, for the purpose of receiving subscriptions for such parts of the old six per cent deferred six per cent. and three per cent. stocks, as may, on the day of subscription, stand on the books of the said commissioner of loans.
Those proprietors of the old six per cent. and deferred stocks, who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof a new six per cent. stock, equal to the unredeemed amount of the stock surrendered, redeemable at the pleasure of the United States, under a proviso, however, that no reimbursement shall be made except for the whole amount of any such new certificate of stock, nor till after six months previous notice; and the proprietors of the three per cent. stock who may subscribe, will receive in lieu thereof a six per cent. stock, equal to sixty-five per cent. of the amount of three per cent. surrendered, redeemable in the same manner as the new six per cent. above mentioned, but not redeemable however, without the assent of the holders, until after the whole of the new six per cent. (given in exchange for old six or deferred as aforesaid,) as well as the whole of the eight per cent. stock of the United States, shall have been reimbursed. It is also provided that in every reimbursement which may take place, a preference will be given to those creditors who may notify their wish to be reimbursed; and that if the application to that effect shall at any time either exceed or fall short of the sum then applicable to that purpose, the propriety of payment shall, so far as may be necessary, be determined by lot.
Table with 2 columns: Date/Event, Amount. Includes entries for Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal six per cent. stock, and Proprietors of 1000 dollars nominal deferred stock.
land. Why this? Does it not look as if they had a mind to begin the canal scheme? It is to be hoped, that the present ministers will keep a good look out, and disappoint the schemers. What an useful and glorious thing, if they could contrive a secret expedition, and bring to English shores all those cursed spades and pickaxes! Heaven grant it!
TO THE PEOPLE OF MARYLAND. The committee of cotton and woolen manufacturers, beg leave to refer their fellow-citizens to their report of 26th January last, which stated their intentions of shortly publishing a plan of association for a manufacturing company.
They are sensible that to carry into immediate effect the great business of working up our own raw materials, and converting them to the various purposes which our actual and artificial wants will shortly have occasion for; it will require on the part of the proprietors considerable capital; on the part of the managers sound judgment in planning the operations; and on the part of those to whom is committed the superintendence of the machinery and manufactures steady, constant and persevering industry and economy, and that to accomplish this all important object, it will be desirable to combine the agricultural, mechanical and commercial interest of the whole state; but having full reliance on the capital, enterprise, patriotism and industry of the people of Maryland, who have never yet been found deficient in aiding to carry into effect, any rational plan calculated for promoting the prosperity of the community, and believing as they do, that the time is arrived when manufactures of useful and necessary articles, but particularly of cotton and wool, ought to be immediately established, and being of opinion that the best mode of effecting so desirable an object will be to establish a company with a capital stock adequate to the purpose, divided into small shares, and on such terms of subscription and payment as may put it into the power of every citizen to become an adventurer, they have devised on these principles a plan of association of such a company, which they submit to the consideration of their fellow-citizens.
WM. PATTERSON, Chairman. Baltimore, Feb. 9, 1808.
FRENCH MILITARY.—A military gentleman lately from France, a friend of General Moreau, states that Bonaparte is reviving in his immense army the white uniform and colored facings of the Bourbons. The blue uniform and liberty caps are laid aside as unimperial, if not pernicious. The soldiers, infantry, cavalry and artillery, wear mustachios, with the hollow of the under lip unshaved. An imperial regiment of infantry consists of three thousand men. Of these there are in service, pay, equipped and exercised, one hundred and twenty regiments or three hundred and sixty thousand men, besides one hundred thousand cavalry, artillery, &c. making a military force now in France of near six hundred thousand men.
Citizen.
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Which is puffed away in 3 years in Spanish Cigars.
EXTRACT From the report of the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, respecting the importation of Merchandise, &c. CYGARS. In the year 1805 his royal highness the crown prince of Denmark received an English built frigate as a present from the King of England. When the English carried away the Danish navy, and plundered the arsenal, they left the frigate. His royal highness, therefore, on his return to Copenhagen, ordered that this frigate should be manned with 16 English sailors, who had been prisoners, furnished with necessary provisions, and sent back to England. The following is a copy of the pass with which the captain, William Patterson, was furnished, written in the Danish, French and English languages.
"The deputies of the board of Admiralty, and commissioners of the navy of his royal majesty the King of Denmark and Norway, at Copenhagen, make known, that William Patterson, master of an English vessel, sent from hence with an English built frigate to England, for delivering her to the royal English admiralty, has been permitted to pass the Bonne at the Toll house and further to sail, but without returning from the road of Copenhagen in said frigate, whose crew is composed of 1 mate and 16 sailors, all liberated English prisoners of war agreeable to the list delivered to the said master, requesting all whom it may concern to let said master off, to pass free and unmolested; as well out of the harbour as at sea, on his present voyage."
"The board of Admiralty and commissioners of the Navy, November 21, 1807. (Signed) KNUFF BELL, GROVE, N. PFRBULL."
The above ship left Copenhagen, and sailed for the North Sea on the 23d November. NOTE.—(It is not so generally known, that this Prince is the Nephew of the present King of England; being the son of the celebrated and unfortunate Matilda. So slight are the ties of friendship and affinity between crowned heads!—For several interesting anecdotes of this Prince see Carr's "Northern Summer," Enquirer.)
DIED.—After a few days illness, at Wilmington, (Del) on Sunday morning last, JOHN DICKINSON, Esq.—A character venerable for his years, admired for his talents, respected for his virtues, and highly
esteemed for his services to his country, in the most arduous and difficult times of the revolution. In early life, Mr. DICKINSON embarked in the cause of the People—in the colonial assembly of Pennsylvania, he was always the able champion of their rights against certain rude infringements attempted to be made by the proprietaries of that province; but when the mother country "would have taxed the people of this, without their consent," then were his shining talents and vigorous exertions applied to expose the effects of the system laid down by the British ministry for tyrannizing over the people of these colonies. Over the signature of "A Pennsylvania Farmer," a name never to be forgotten, as well as in many other political tracts, he repelled the sophistry of the British advocates, and condensed the sentiments of his fellow-citizens on the great national subject then agitated. So much was this work admired and so generally was it read, that the friends of liberty met in various towns and voted their thanks to an anonymous writer for the success with which he had vindicated their cause. At a numerous meeting held in the town of Boston, John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Joseph Warren, and others were appointed a committee to accept an address to the Pennsylvania Farmer—Which task they performed in the most elegant manner. During the revolution, Mr. DICKINSON held many most important situations in the civil department; among them was the office of chief judge of Pennsylvania, and afterwards governor, at different times both of Pennsylvania, and the three lower counties of Delaware, now forming the state of that name. When the independence of the United States was acknowledged, and the people, for the better preservation of that liberty they obtained at so great an expence of blood and treasure, called a convention, and formed a Federal Constitution, Mr. D. again exhibited the strength of his talents in support of its provisions. Over the signature of "FABRITIUS" he successfully defended the constitution from the attacks of its enemies, and from the closeness of reasoning and perspicuity of style, carried conviction into the minds of most unprejudiced men. His last work was written over the same signature, "on the situation of our affairs," in 97.
JOHN DICKINSON was a republican in his manners and his sentiments—in public life the powerful advocate of his fellow-citizens, and, in a private station, the friend of the poor. Possessed of a princely fortune he distributed vast sums to works of charity and literature.—An appeal was never made to his heart in vain, he gave as if his "left hand knew not what his right hand did." He treated all men with great suavity of manners; and knew no distinction in society but virtue. But as we calculate upon receiving a biographical sketch of this great man from an able hand, well acquainted with the actions of his life, we shall defer for the present, any further remarks on the event which, though expected, we cannot cease to deplore. Mr. D. must have been about 75 years of age.
COINS struck at the MINT of the United States, from 1st Jan. to the 31st December 1807.
Table with 2 columns: Metal, Amount. Includes entries for Silver, Gold, Copper.
The ordinary expenditures of the Mint, were during the same period, $ 22,167 82 cents.
THE LITTLE CHIMNEY SWEEPER. (FOUNDED ON FACT.)
WRITTEN BY MR. UPTON.
'Twas a keen frosty morn, and the snow heavy falling, When a Child of Misfortune was thus sadly calling: "Sweep, sweep—I am cold and the snow very deep, O, pray take compassion on poor little Sweep! "Sweep, chimney, sweep." The tears down his cheeks in large drops were fast rolling, Unmolested, unpitied, by those by him strolling; Who frequently warn'd him at distance to keep, While he cry'd "take compassion on poor little Sweep! "Sweep, chimney, sweep." In vain he implor'd passing strangers for pity, This snarl'd at his plaint, and that banter'd his duty; Humanity's offspring as yet lay asleep, Nor heard the sad wailings of poor little Sweep! "Sweep, chimney, sweep." At the step of a door, half froze, and dejected, He sat down; and griev'd, to be shunn'd and neglected; When a kind hearted damsel by chance saw him weep, And resolv'd to befriend him, the poor little Sweep! "Sweep, chimney, Sweep." Unmindful of sneer, to a neighbor's she led him, Warm'd his numbs by the fire, and tenderly fed him; And, Oh, what delight, did this fair maiden reap, When she found a lost brother, in poor little Sweep! "Sweep, chimney, sweep." With rapture she gaz'd on each black sooty feature, And hugg'd to her bosom the foul-smelling creature; Who, sav'd by a sister no longer need creep Thro' lanes, courts, and alleys a poor little Sweep! "Sweep, chimney, sweep." (London Paper.)
CHEAP SHOES.—SARAH POTTER intending to decline her present business, will, on the 14th of next month, sell at prime cost, the stock of Shoes on hand.
All persons having claims against her, will please bring them in for adjustment, and those that are indebted, it is expected will make immediate payments. Feb. 19. (ep3w)
MOLASSES in hogsheads and tierces and FRENCH BRANDY, FOR SALE BY SAMUEL MYERS. (F4w)
THE SERJEANTS OFFICE is removed to a house on the street leading by the Governor's, opposite the Insurance office. Feb. 12. [oaw1m]
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.—I wish to sell the following very valuable Property: A MANUFACTURING MILL, now in complete order and finished upon the newest plans, running two pair Burr and one pair Cogstone Stones.—The situation is equal to any in Virginia, being immediately on navigable water, where vessels may load at the mill door, and in the heart of a wealthy country, where large crops of wheat are made—the stream was never known to fill till the summer (long to be remembered) 1806. At the Mill, which is on Hockin's creek, and within two miles of the Port of Tappahannock, I have built a bridge over the creek, which affords great convenience to the different neighbourhoods, consequently considerable advantages to the Mill. I am confident, with good management, a man well acquainted with the milling business, with the use of little money, may make from 5 to 8000 dollars per annum, clear of every expence. For country custom, it is equal to any in the state, and it is an excellent stand for a Grocery Store.
My HOUSES and LOTS, in this place, which I now occupy, forming a complete square, in the most pleasant part of the town—the improvements are, a comfortable Brick House, with two rooms and a passage below and two rooms and a closet above, a Kitchen, Dairy, Smoke House, Stable and a Well of good water—all in good order.
My STORE HOUSES and LOTS, on the river bank—one of brick, two stories high, well finished, with good cellars; there are six free places in this house, of course at little expence, it may be well fitted for a merchant with a family. The other House is of wood, now used as a grocery store: both in situation have advantages over any other in the place for extensive business of any kind.—A large three story Warehouse immediately on the water's edge, where vessels can load with great convenience and dispatch—the House is large enough to hold ten thousand bushels of grain.
My FERRY across the Rappahannock at this place, with a convenient water Lot; this ferry brings me about £ 100 per annum clear of all expences.
Two unimproved LOTS, separated by one street only from my stable; they are very convenient for CLOVER LOTS, &c. Also, two other unimproved Lots adjoining those on the river bank, which afford an extensive view of the river for several miles up and down and a beautiful site for buildings.
A valuable Lot in the Federal City, on which are a three story brick dwelling house, brick smoke house, a good kitchen of wood, &c. all in tolerable repair—This property being near the river, must, in a few years, become very valuable.
A Tract of LAND in the county of Westmore Land, three miles from the court-house, containing one hundred and eighty acres; there are convenient buildings on this, but rather out of repair—the land is considered of good quality and has an excellent mill seat.
A small Tract containing about ninety acres (including 20 acres fine marsh) within a mile from this place, on which is good deal of fire wood—the land is rich. I have sown this fall twenty-five bushels Slaughter's famous bearded wheat. Also, another Tract adjoining my manufacturing mill containing three hundred acres; this Land is nearly all heavily covered with the best pine, white-oak and hickory timber; near the mill here are two comfortable houses with brick chimneys to suit a small family.
The property in this place is, perhaps, as well calculated to suit a person who wishes to engage largely in the mercantile business as any on Rappahannock river. I will sell a great bargain in the whole or any part of this property on good terms—for one half, great accommodations will be given either by long time or payment in good bonds; the other half must be in cash; any debts Love will be considered as cash.
Should I not sell the Mill in three months, I should then prefer taking a partner in the Milling business. LAURENCE MUSK. Tappahannock, Feb. 9.