The recorder (Richmond, Va.), 1803-03-23 00:00:00

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TO the Washington Federalist are respectfully informed, that I am empowered by Mr. William Rind, to receive payment of the balances due to him in this city, and neighbourhood.
THOMAS TAYLOR. Vendue Master.
Richmond, Feb. 26th. 1803.
RICHMOND MILLS.
THE subscriber hereby informs the public, that at length, after much trouble and expence, he has nearly completed one of his Mills on the James River Canal, in which there are two pair of Burr stones for manufacturing WHEAT, and two pair of Cologne stones now ready to grind CORN.
That the inconveniences which might arise from delay and difference of measures may be avoided, CORN will be received only by weight, at fifty pounds to the bushel, and a supply of MEAL and HOMINY will always be kept ready to give in exchange, at the rate of eighty-five pounds of Meal, or ninety-two pounds of Hominy, for one hundred pounds of Corn.
After the loss of weight by cleaning, and evaporation in grinding is deducted, the toll on Meal will be only about one tenth, and on Hominy one twentieth; it will, therefore, be much to the interest of those who keep horses, to have all their Corn ground.
As the subscriber is now providing a Fan and Screen for the purpose of cleaning the Corn effectually before it is ground, and as the Meal will be made from the best Corn only, and none but such as is merchantable will be received; he hopes that general satisfaction will be given.
THOMAS RUTHERFOORD.
N. B. The deduction for Storeage and Shrinkage on Corn, deposited to be exchanged for Meal and Hominy, will be made as moderate as possible. January 1, 1803.
TO BE RENTED,
THAT large and convenient BRICK TENEMENT in this city, lately occupied by Mr. Robert Turner, as a Tavern and Boarding-House, situate on the corner of the Main-Street; and that leading to Col. Mayo's Bridge. The central situation thereof cannot fail (if rented by a gentleman qualified for the purpose) to ensure a considerable number of respectable boarders; or, it is an eligible residence for a genteel private family. The premises may be entered, on the first day of March next, or immediately, as circumstances may suit; for terms apply to
ROBERT GAMBLE
Who has for sale a handsome assortment of CARPETS and CARPETING, and genuine PORTWINE, in pipes and quarter casks.
AT a meeting of the Common Hall, for the city of Richmond, called by the Mayor, and held at the house of William Rose, in the said city, on Monday the 28th day of February, 1803. Resolved, that the Mayor give notice in the newspapers, that the Hall have adopted a plan for a POOR HOUSE, and will receive proposals from undertakers for building the same, at any time before the third Monday in next month. The plan is lodged in the hands of Mr. Robert B. James. The proposals must be made in writing.
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Teste ADAM CRAIG, C. C. H. C. R.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber takes this mode of returning his thanks to his former patrons, and informing the public in general, that he has (by desire of his friends) re-commenced the MANUFACTURING OF BURR MILL-STONES, and having furnished himself with a supply of the best materials, and having had sixteen years experience in the business in Baltimore, Petersburg, and Richmond, hopes to be able to give satisfaction to his employers. The stones he will warrant to be as good as any in the United States.
Any orders left with Capt. WILLIAM PENNOCK, Norfolk; Capt. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Staunton; Mr. WILLIAM HAY, Wythe County; or Mr. ROBERT MOORE, Petersburg, shall be duly attended to; and country produce received in payment at the customary prices.
TWO APPRENTICES will be taken to the above business, and short time required. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. Richmond, Jan. 10th 1803. (tf.)
N. B. For sale, PLAISTER of PARIS, in stone or ground, for the improvement of land, with directions for the use thereof.
FRESH FLOUR.
THE Subscribers hereby give notice, that they are now ready to make Sales of FLOUR of their own manufacture, and are also desirous to purchase Wheat, Corn, Flour-Barrels, and Staves.
Such as may want a supply of Meal, Hominy, Ship-Stuff, and Bran, are informed that they can be furnished at certain prices during the year, and that for the present quarter, ending the last of March, the prices will be for 50 lbs. Meal, 3s. and 6d. and for 50 lbs. Hominy, 3s. 3d.
They hereby solicit all those indebted to them, to make payment as fast as possible, as their situation does not enable them to grant such indulgence as heretofore.
They have still on hand a large assortment of IRISH LINENS, which they are anxious to dispose of.
THOMAS RUTHERFOORD, & Co. Feb. 16th. 1803.
CITY OF RICHMOND,
In Common Hall, Jan. 17th 1803
WHEREAS the present funds of the corporation are not adequate to the expence of erecting a WORKHOUSE for the city, which would combine within itself all the conveniencies which a well regulated institution of this kind would require; having a regard to the future population of this city, yet it is wise and expedient that the funds now destined for this useful institution should be laid out in such a manner as to answer the present purposes of the corporation, and to admit such future additions as the encreasing population may require. Your Committee, therefore, beg leave to recommend it to the consideration of the Common Hall, to call in the aid of those who have experience of such institutions, and to offer a premium for the best plan of a Workhouse, which will be so contrived as to admit of being erected in parts, as the funds of the corporation will from time to time afford.
Resolved, therefore, that the committee appointed to prepare a plan of a Workhouse be discharged from further proceeding therein. And that the Mayor be requested to give notice in the newspapers, or otherwise, that the sum of thirty dollars will be given by the corporation, as a premium to the person who shall produce to the Hall, on the third Monday in February next, the best plan of a Workhouse, constructed as above mentioned, and to be approved of by the Hall, estimating the cost at four thousand dollars.
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Teste ADAM CRAIG, C. C. H.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber returns sincere thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the very great encouragement he received in his line of business since his commencement in Richmond. He has lately received a large supply of excellent Burr-Stones at his manufactory, and does not hesitate to say, that he will sell Burr Mill-Stones as cheap as they were ever sold in the United States; and give ample security (if required) for their performance. Country produce will be taken in payment, or a short credit given; he has almost every sized Mill-Stones ready for delivery; also PLAISTER of PARIS ground and in the stone.
CARSON HOLIDAY.
Richmond, Jan. 25th, 1803. (tf.)
WILL BE SOLD,
AT Public Auction, to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 23th instant, before the door of James McClure, in the city of Richmond, all the personal estate of JAMES STUART, deceased; consisting of a few articles of Household furniture, two hogheads of West India Rum, one crate of Earthen-ware, a few barrels of Sugar, a small quantity of Northern Rum, and about 4000 lbs. Chalk. Ninety days credit will be given for all sums above ten dollars, on the purchaser's giving notes with approved security, to
HENRY REID, Adm'r.
Richmond, March 9th. 1803. (1 25 M.)
WHEREAS Lucretia Alford, has left my house and board in my absence, and resides in another man's family, I forewarn all persons from trusting or harbouring her on my account.
THOMAS ALFORD.
Richmond, March 8, 1803.
FOR SALE,
A few likely young
NEGROES,
For particulars enquire of the Printer. Richmond, March, 7th 1803.
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TO THE PUBLIC:
No. VI.
CONCERNING
MR. GALLATIN;
AND THE SALE OF BANK STOCK.
JUST as I forewarn, and had foretold; a majority of Congress have passed a resolution in favor of Gallatin; it embraces the sale of the bank stock. The majority durst not do otherwise. The weakest man of the party knows that, if this had not been done, Gallatin's fame would have been injured; and that the consequences would have been fatal to the party, and of course to himself. If the anchor is lost, the vessel is wrecked. The resolution which passed was in the following words:
"On a motion of general S. Smith, the house agreed to a resolution declaring that the commissioners were authorised to sell the bank shares; that the sale made by them was expedient; and the result highly conducive to the interest of the United States."
The reader is desired to recollect that this was offered at the last of the session, when it was impossible to discuss the subject. There was not a member of that house who did not know that the sale afforded great discontent to a great many candid and well informed men; and that the reasons which Gallatin had given were by no means satisfactory. I do not intend to discuss this fully at present, because I have not seen or heard all that has been said and written about it.
If the general had not been always considered as an inconsiderate blundering politician, without sufficient talents to understand the force and effect of his own words, much less the complete tendency of the speech itself, or, if it was of any consequence to demolish his poli-
tical character, I would at this place level some heavy artillery at his identity, and make him what he seems much disposed to make himself, a conspicuous political figure. As he is not of sufficient consequence for an attack in this way, I shall be chiefly directed to the majority of legislators, who have passed the resolution, in which they say that "the commissioners were authorised to sell the bank shares;" in other words an act of Congress passed in 1796, which authorised the sale. This happened when the treasury was drained, by insurrections and by other things which were deemed necessary to counteract the Jacobinical temper which prevailed in other parts, particularly in Gallatin's dominions. The commissioners sold 2880 shares because there was a necessity, and they stooped as soon as the necessity was satisfied. They sold them fairly at the market price. The 2220 shares were preserved. The law remained in force. Nobody expected that any succeeding set of rulers would have sold the residue when the treasury overflowed with idle millions, or if they did that the full value would not have been accounted for. From this, it seems, that Congress were authorised by law to make the sale, but they will not be able to find any further authority except in the courts of madness, folly, or design. The word "authorised" in a legal sense has but one meaning, but when employed in a legislative signification, it should be viewed in all the extentiveness of construction. This, in the present case, cannot be done. "That the sale made by them was expedient;" this is another expression of still greater latitude than the last. The resolution does not say whether this expediency related to the exhausted state of the treasury, to the policy of selling the bank stock because the party wished to separate the public interest from the institution, or, because it was expedient to support the delusion by which the community are enslaved, or because the sudden repeal of taxes had compelled him to find a substitute.
"And the result highly conducive to the interest of the United States." I must really have a few words with general Smith, as the mover of the resolution; not as a politician but in his character of a merchant, or man of business.
If general Smith had consigned a cargo of flour to a merchant in a foreign port, with instructions to sell, or not, as he thought fit; if general Smith had more money in the hands of this merchant than would pay all his bills, and reload the ship, and if there was no actual necessity for selling the flour, would he be satisfied with the consignee, if he should sell the whole cargo at 10 per cent less than the common market price, less too than the cash purchasers were ready to have given, and after all this, would the general be content if he was to be told that the sale was expedient, and the result highly conducive to his interest? There is not a man in the whole country, who understands the alphabet, that would not condemn the author of such a barefaced transaction, and no man would be more ready to detect and expose the injury, or endeavour to obtain redress than the general himself. Every disinterested man would say that the author of such a transaction was either a knave or a fool, and they who might incline to push their conclusions to the utmost, would say that such a transaction was fraudulent, was dishonest, and that the merchant who had done so, neither deserved the name of merchant, nor to escape punishment.
The reader is requested to compare the cases, and see how much the sale of the bank stock is like that which I have stated. The sacrifice in the sale of the bank shares for 120,000 dollars less than their value has been justified and declared to be expedient and highly conducive to the interest of the United States, and upon the motion of a member who unites in his own person the occupation of a merchant, with the duties and rights of a member of Congress. The reader is also desired to recollect that the severe conclusions and hard names which are used in the foregoing paragraph are intended to apply altogether to the consignee of the flour. God forbid that I should insinuate that the persons who sold the bank stock, or they who have declared that the sale was expedient and highly conducive to the interest of the United States, deserve either of these epithets, and appellations.
To this extent, however, I mean to be understood, that I cannot discover in what way the interest of the United States is to be benefited by throwing 12,000 thousand dollars into the sea, or in giving them to Mr.

Raring in a contract, which, as respects the United States, comes to the same thing.
If this subject shall not be explained much better to my satisfaction than it has been yet; if the resolution has not more to support it than the vote of a majority given upon the last day of a session, when they were thinking of something else; I shall take the liberty of saying, in the very plainest words, that it deserves the condemnation and reprobation of all the world. It will be time enough after the wise ones on both sides have exhausted their accusations and excuses; it will then be time enough to give that aid to the illustration of truth which the public ought to have, and which, in these investigations, has been my constant design, and shall continue to be my polar star.
It appears, also, by the public prints, that Mr. Griswold, late in the session, offered a resolution for enquiring into the management of the sinking fund. This resolution was submitted to a committee, and the newspapers say that Mr. Gallatin used such talents, such industry, such promptitude, that he was ready in nine hours with thirty two pages of folio, all prepared, stated, and reported, and that Congress, in another hour, were ready to pass a vote of approbation, nay more, that such was their confidence in the secretary, or their own revelation or intuition upon the subject, that they approved of the whole in this single hour.
Now, I beg leave to declare, in the most explicit manner, that Mr. Gallatin did not, and could not make up the report which is alluded to, in double, triple, or quadruplicate the time. There is not a writer in any of the public offices, who does not find from 12 to 15 pages of common paper a good day's work. Thirty two pages of folio, are equal to forty-eight of common paper, which is good work for a good writer in four days. The necessary calculations, and examinations will take as much more time. Without saying anything concerning the merit of the performance, I expect it cost from 8 to 10 days. Let the newspapers say what they will to the contrary, no reasonable man will believe them. So far as respects the secretary of the treasury I shall at this place say no more. A plump denial of the possibility, the reason for which every body at once perceives, requires no other proof or argument. But as respects the gentlemen who passed the resolution of applause, I shall take the liberty to say a little more.
The public have been already told that the democratic party have selected Gallatin as their Messiah, that they are governed by a blind and fatal faith which hurries them into difficulties and perplexities, which truth ought to expose, reason is sure to condemn, and which justice ought to punish. What, let me ask, but a delusion of this sort, could induce a majority of Congress to declare that a sale of the bank stock, for one hundred and twenty thousand dollars less than the cash value in the market, was authorized, was expedient, and was conducive to the interest of the United States.
What, but this delusion, could induce them to say, that Gallatin deserved applause for executing a task in nine hours, which, if done well would have employed as many days? If a flight-of-hand-man tell you, that he will swallow a razor, and delude you by his address, it will please, but cannot convince. So the majority may please, dazzle, and delude the people by such a resolution, but they never can convince those who are wits and calculators, who will condescend to exercise any talents and reflection on the subject, and who will open their eyes and ears to look, and to listen.
FEDERALIST.
To be continued.
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From the commencement, in July 1801, to March the 2d, 1803; by applying to one of the Apprentices at this Office.
ALEXANDER G. M'KENZIE.
March 19th. 1803.
NEGROES.
ANY person wishing to dispose of likely Negroes are requested to inquire at William Davidson's store, near the market. Wanted, also, a light WAGGON, with, or without gears.
Richmond, March 23d. 1803.
The RECORDER. RICHMOND.
MARCH 19th 1803.
THE HONORABLE MATTHEW CLAY
HAS addressed a letter to his late constituents, dated "Federal City, February 22d. 1803." These letters are not always the composition of the gentlemen who subscribe them. I have got three dollars to do such a thing for a member, with a general injunction to write just what I pleased. It is said, that Dunne deals to a considerable extent in this kind of barberdastery, and if it were
possible to keep him from lying, he is not, otherwise, unqualified for the task. The longer that an intelligent man examines public affairs, the more deeply will he be impressed with the imperfection of what is called government, with the shallowness of congress, and the gross ignorance and delusion of the people. The newspapers aggravate rather than repress this evil. They are divided, as every body knows, into two hostile squadrons. With one party, the federals can do nothing right. With the other, they can do nothing wrong. Each editor says all that he can say to defend his friends, and to blacken his enemies. His accusations are often true; his encomiums almost never. Truth and falsehood are so indistinguishably blended, that it becomes no common task to trust the one with safety, or to detect the other with certainty. If a plain reader buys papers on both sides, they stand in such irreconcilable contradiction that he can be sure of almost nothing but this, that neither printer deserves his confidence. What sort of an editor is he who leaves you to infer that every federal is a rascal, or that every democrat is a madman. It is evident that such rubbish will do at least as much harm as benefit. And yet such is almost the whole mass of American newspapers.
Circular letters from members of congress are newspapers of a peculiar kind. The species different. But the genus is the same. They are, as frequently as the others, the funnels of untruth and faction. Whether Mr. Clay's letter comes within this class, we shall see presently.
"Our Egress," says Mr. Clay, "are in a glorious train." [This will sound very well at Halifax or Pictou or any other place, over a bowl of grog, especially, when Mr. Clay pays off the reckoning. But there is a great deal to be said about us, that has no connection with glory.] Upwards of twelve millions of dollars were received into the treasury, in the year commencing on the 1st of October, 1801, and ending the 30th of September, 1802, which is about two millions more than ever were collected in any one year, from both the external and internal revenue. In the same year, about five and a half millions of dollars were paid off the principal, [out of the savings which had been made by Timothy Pickering; for otherwise, we could not have paid two pence of it,] and four millions and a half of the interest of the public debt; and we had in the treasury, at the end of the year, four and a half millions of dollars. [And yet we are so scarce of money, that Gallatin has been obliged to sell the government shares in the bank of the United States, to sell them to a foreigner, and to sell them for much less money than they would have brought, if they had been sold in the face of the world, and to the highest bidder. If this is not glory, it is at least economy.] The secretary of the treasury states the expences of the present year to be as follows;
 "Civil department, including all expences of a civil nature, Dis. 683,000  "Expences for intercourse with foreign nations, - - - - - 250,000  "For military and Indian departments - - - - - 330,000  "For naval establishments, - - - - - 900,000  "Making in all, only Dollars 2,563,000 
"The secretary further adds, that so long as the United States shall not be afflicted by any unforeseen calamity, whilst the public expences shall be kept within their present limits, there will be no necessity for increasing the revenue.
[All this is very clever. But when Gallatin made this report, he well knew that there was a foreseen calamity; and one of the most portentous magnitude. He knew that the port of New Orleans was shut against American shipping, and that circumstances were afloat, that might shake the union to its centre.] "This shews how easy it is for honor and honesty to manage our government, when aided by knowledge." [And by power, Mr. Clay.
For, without the latter, knowledge will signify nothing in a contest with Bonaparte.] "I would then ask, are we right? [And I would answer that I very much doubt of it.] "Federal and republican principles are as wide apart, as the north and south poles. [The poles are apart, it is true; but, in frost and desolation, they are very much alike. The two factions are likewise apart; because they cannot both be in the same place at once. "The national purse," as Paine says, "cannot carry double." If it could, some, of both sides, would be very glad to shake hands over the division of public booty, and to warm their hands at a general bonfire of all the printing presses in American. Witness the sedition act, and the trial of Crosswell!] "Our cause is the cause of liberty." [No sir! It is the cause of place hunting.] "Look at the four years of the last presidential voyage. Where are now those billows and storms?" [At the mouth of the Mississippi.] "It was then the hand of persecution was lifted high." [But not quite so high as it is now, when truth cannot be given in evidence.] "Fifteen millions and an half were the annual expences of the last administration," [it was only for one year, Mr. Clay, and that was a year of preparations for war,] "and only two and an half, the present." [Have you forgot the two bribery millions? The dry dock would have made a third. The present fiscal year* has run only half its course; and six months of a French war might cost us thirty millions.]
Many of our readers may have forgot, or may never have seen the table of exports. This is the only valuable part of Mr. Clay's letter. Here it follows entire.
"Valuation of exports in one year from the United States, prior to the first day of October, 1802, to wit:
   From New-Hampshire, Dollars 365,304   Vermont, 31,479   Massachusetts, 13,492,132   Rhode-Island, 2,453,363   Connecticut, 1,606,809   New-York, 13,792,276   New Jersey, 26,227   Pennsylvania, 12,677,475   Delaware, 440,504   Maryland, 8,000,220   Virginia, 4,000,301   North Carolina, 659,390   South Carolina, 10,689,365   Georgia, 1,854,951   Kentucky, 426,673   Territory of the United States, 443,955   Total, Dollars 71,957,144   Shipped to Russia, Dollars, 73,724   Prussia, 150,920   Sweden, 275,256   Denmark, 1,731,481   Holland, 5,966,858   Great Britain, 23,925,091   Germany, 121,742   Hanse towns, 6,107,758   France, 14,475,437   Dominions of Spain, 11,227,859   Portugal, 2,100,701   Sundry other places including L. Islands, 5,750,544   Dollars 71,959,144  
In case of an attack upon New Orleans from Kentucky, there follows a French war. The ports of France, Holland, Spain and Portugal are instantly shut, and much worse than barely shut against us. They vomit out hundreds of privateers. It appears, from the table, that these countries take almost thirty four millions of dollars worth per annum of our exports; besides our trade to the French West-Indies. These put together cannot make less than about thirty six millions of dollars worth of American exports. This amounts to one half of the export sum total of twenty-two millions. All this the first consul can sacrifice on the altar of vengeance, without firing a pistol. He has only to say, it shall be so . His pirates, from an hundred ports, rush upon the remainder. This shews the utter distraction of a Kentuckian attack.
*Commencing October 1st, 1802.
upon New Orleans. The inflammatory speeches and paragraphs of Mr. Ross and of Bronson, are only fit for a tinder box. It is difficult to believe that the former was in earnest. His concealed object must have been to court popularity in the western country. From June, 1793, to June 1797, American commerce suffered from French and British privateers, a loss of perhaps fifty millions of dollars. Yet the federals were still for temporizing, till the war-hoop harangue of John Adams* breathed into that pacific body the spirit of bedlam. - If in ninety-eight, a war had really begun, and had lasted for six months, the party would have become quite as clamorous for peace. With the view, perhaps, of embarrassing Jefferson, some federal orators and printers are, in reality, recommending a French war; for an attack upon New Orleans issues precisely in that. If they persist in this brawling, they will do for Jefferson what he can never do for himself. In a word, they run a fair chance for giving him popularity, and a second election. Hold your tongues; and let him alone. He is rapidly becoming despicable. But, if the federals talk in earnest of war, the right arm of the party will drop from its shoulder blade. The mercantile interest will desert them. The holders of public stock will with the babblers in purgatory. Disjoined from these comets, and powerful bodies, pray what is the federal party? Stocks would instantly tumble; navigation would be destroyed. In expences that are reckoned, and in ruin that is felt, the first year of war would strip the continent of sixty or seventy millions of dollars. A wise man would rather see "president Tom," or Lewis Harvie* succeed to Mr. Jefferson, than see Norfolk and Baltimore in a blaze with French bombs.
We close this article with another quotation from Mr. Clay. "The republicans," says he, "think it best, not to try negotiation before arms." [He might also have said that they will be glad to try it after arms.] "For this purpose, Mr. Monroe is lent." [But, Mr. Clay, since you have told us this, and so many other grand secrets, do tell us what is to be done with those two millions of dollars? For what reason did congress shut their doors, when the money was to be voted, as they did on a similar occasion, about the Crescent ingate? Why was Wright suffered to make such an Irish marplot message? Dare you say, Matthew, that the federals ever did a thing worse than the giving twenty hundred thousand dollars to a president without knowing what he was to do with them? By the same rule, it might have been twenty millions, and with such probabilities, what figures our boasted constitution?]
"But, let us resort," says Mr. Clay, "to arms when we will, the Floridas must fall into our hands, and become a part of the United States." This is all that Mr. Clay knows of the matter. In case of a French war, it is likely that Georgia and the Natchez would fall into the hands of the French. The Kentuckians would hold out but a short time. The blockade of the waters would be intolerable. They would rather give up the union than the river; and it is but folly to make grimaces, and pretend that we do not believe this incontestible truth.
A late writer in the Virginia Gazette states, that, within the last four years, above seventy thousand persons have removed from the United States into Canada. He says that his information is derived from official records. The emigration has undoubtedly been very great. But there are ten times more temptations for the Kentuckians to sail down the Mississippi, & settle in the French territory. In a late congress debate, it was stated that the western people had some times to sail two thousand miles in their boats, before they could reach New Orleans. This might be owing to the windings of the Ohio, as the real distance, in a straight line, is much less. The very fatigue of such a voyage comes to half the loading. By a removal to the
NOTE.
*On May 16th, 1797. †The new private secretary to the president.

vicinity of New Orleans, all this labour is saved. The farmer is much nearer the market. As a French citizen, he is always sure of a free passage. The result is, that the western people will throng, by thousands, down the river, and join the French. It is needless to strive against nature, personal interest, and common sense. The federal government cannot hinder this event; and that it will soon take place cannot be doubted.
As for Mr. Clay's infallible conquest of the Floridas , it only shews that he is very unfit for a seat in congress; that he is ignorant of the first rudiments of geography, and of political knowledge. But at the same time, it is barely doing him justice to say, that one half or two thirds of every congress, are not better informed than himself. In Virginia, an election to the assembly, or to congress, is by no means a certain mark that the successful candidate is more respectable than his neighbors. His promotion can often be traced up to the dexterity of cunning, or the blackness of treachery. He prevails by the firmness of a face that never blushes, or the loquacity of a tongue that never tires, by
Wit, that can creep, and pride that licks the dust. by a prompt invention of popular false hoods, and a plentiful distribution of grog.
AS the first Consul has completely beat the British, they are venting their gall in scurrilous newspaper paragraphs. They complain that Bonaparte oppresses Switzerland. They may look, if they please, at their own government of Ireland; or, on the banks of the Ganges, were they have starved or destroyed fifteen times as many people as the Swiss cantons contain. Where the British have it in their power, there is not a more ravenous, a more insolent, or a more barbarous people upon earth.
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Gentlemen, who wish to subscribe to the Saturday's Recorder, are requested to send in their subscriptions, within a very few days. But this they need not do, unless they send, at the same time, two dollars in advance . The next Saturday's paper, to wit: that of the 26th. current, is the last that can be issued to any person either in town or country, unless to those that have paid for it, one year in advance.
In pleading before the court of Henrico against the King of Clats , Mr. William Marshall observed that "The Recorder had the most extensive circulation of any newspaper in Virginia; and that there was never, perhaps, an instance of such an extensive patronage acquired by any other newspaper, in so short a time." This patronage has been acquired by exposing, with an impartial hand, the faults of all parties.
There never was more occasion for political vigilance than at present. As the bible says, there is DEATH in the pot . There exists an atrocious conspiracy against the liberty of the press, and, of course, against the liberty of the people. This can be doubted by nobody that has heard of Croswell's trial, on which we have enlarged at so much length.
Again, the right of selecting their own magistrates has in effect, been torn from a majority of the citizens of Richmond, by a phalanx of democratical usurpers.
Take notice, also, of what follows. In last session of assembly, Mr. Venable proposed a declaratory resolution that the truth shall be given in evidence in cases of libel . This resolution was, for that time, defeated by Peter Carr, the correspondent, such as he was, of general Washington, and the confidential agent and nephew of Thomas Jefferson. There can be no doubt that Peter, like his apostolical namesake, was inspired from above .
Richmond, March 23. 1803.
ANSWER.
To a short paragraph in the last Recorder, to which the words "JAMES OGILVIE" are prefixed.
A STRANGER personally to the editors of the Recorder, never having done them an injury, or given them offence, I cannot but expect, that as in their paper a translation of mine has been mentioned in a way calculated to do me an injury, and wound my feelings, they will cheerfully permit me to
NOTE.
* PORE.
* Vid particulars, in the Recorder of March 16th.
employ the same paper as the vehicle of my vindication. A candid perusal of the following statement, the accuracy of which can be incontrovertibly established, will probably convince the unprejudiced reader, that the suspension of the publication of my projected treatise on education may be fairly included amongst those "instances which the writer of the paragraph in the Recorder, admits to be defensible." At nineteen years of age, I was elected professor of humanity in the Fredericksburg academy. In prosecuting the business of juvenile instruction, I was led to doubt respecting the utility of some branches of the customary course of scholastic education, and to depart in several instances materially from the established plan. Towards the close of the second year after my removal to Fredericksburg, I formed the idea of writing a treatise on education, and employed the small portion of my leisure I then enjoyed, in collecting materials and digesting reflections, for that purpose. In the prosecution of this design, I found myself greatly interrupted and fettered by the multiplicity and incessant recurrence of my professional duties. I determined, therefore, to resign my department in the academy, and devote eighteen months to the preparation of a treatise on education. With this view, I retired to a sequestered and rural scene, and prosecuted my design with such ardour, that I weakened my eye-sight, injured my health, and was seized with occasional fits of profound melancholy. I found, moreover, upon taking a nearer view of the subject, that more time would be necessary for the completion of my design, than I had originally expected. This circumstance occasioned another obstacle. My pecuniary resources were nearly exhausted, and my pursuits, however useful or agreeable, were wholly unproductive of emolument, or means of immediate subsistence. Thus circumstanced, I formed the resolution (perhaps rashly) of issuing proposals for the publication of my proposed treatise on education, and soliciting part of the money in advance. My temper, naturally sanguine, led me to expect that under the influence of motives so powerful as those, which this solemn obligation would create, my ardour would be redoubled, and my faculties stimulated to the utmost exertion of which they were capable. I obtained a numerous and respectable list of subscribers, and returned to the prosecution of my design. For several months I reflected and wrote incessantly; and distinctly conscious, as I became, of the immaturity of my understanding, and the insufficiency of my information, perplexed by the difficulties of a subject intimately connected with many of the most abstruse and disputable topics of ethical, metaphysical, and political enquiry, and occasionally arrested in spite of every effort, by these remissions of intellectual energy to which persons of my age and temperament are peculiarly liable. I continued, for many months, to devote my leisure exclusively to the labour of composition, and determined to leave nothing undone, which I could do, to comply with the engagement into which I had voluntarily and solemnly entered with my subscribers. In proportion, however, as I reflected steadily and intently on the principles I had undertaken to develop, a clearer conviction of their difficulty and importance, and a more distinct consciousness of my inability to analyze, illustrate, and apply them with sufficient correctness and perspicuity, reduced me to the alternative of presenting to my subscribers a very crude and superficial treatise, or of suspending, for a time, the prosecution of my plan. At the same time, I distinctly foresaw, that a few additional years of practical experience in the business of education, aided by more extensive opportunities of reading, conversation, and reflection, would, if I lived, enable me to execute my design in a manner more honorable to myself, and useful to society. These, combined with other circumstances of a personal nature, reduced me to suspend, for a time, the prosecution of my design. I accordingly published a short address to subscribers, in which the causes which produced the delay of my projected treatise were ingeniously stated. In that address, I engaged to return to such of my subscribers as might be inclined to wait for my book, the money they had advanced, and whenever applications of this sort have been made, either personally or by letter, they have been immediately complied with. In the same address I made known my intention of again returning to the professional instruction of youth, and of continuing to employ the greater part of my leisure in preparing a treatise on education, intimating, at the same time, a hope, that it would not prove the more imperfect, for having its principles tried and corrected by experiment and practice. Since the period at which this address was published, my time has been devoted to the instruction of youth, and to reading, reflection, and composition, on the subject of education, or, on topics intimately connected with education. At what time my treatise on education will be ready for publication I am still unable, precisely to foresee; and I can only declare that its appearance shall not be unnecessarily delayed, nor any exertion on my part spared, to render it worthy of the liberal patronage I have received.
JAMES OGILVIE. Richmond, March 18th. 1803.
Census of the taxable inhabitants of Richmond, with a statement of the appropriation of taxes, paid by each ward last year.
 Taken from the assessors books for 1802, for the City of Richmond.    Wards. White Males above 16 years. Free Negroes & Mulattoes Males above 16 years. Male Slaves above 16 years. Amount of Tax     No. 1. or Jefferson's, 248 25 133 Amount of Tax D. 485 75 Tax on houses and lots 466 17 Watch tax - - - 349 50   No. 2. or Madison's, 460 47 391 Amount of tax D. 1301 42 Tax on houses and lots 1107 50 1645 35 Watch tax 1022 50   No. 3. or Monroe's 146 12 133 Amount of tax D. 3775 55 Tax on houses and lots 343 0 334 3 Watch tax 130 8   Residence not known 46 Amount of tax 1007 10   do. 29 4 Amount of tax 43 50   900 122 661 Amount of tax 22 75   Dollars, 5150 10  
A FEW QUERIES FOR THE RICHMOND DEMOS.
And so something less than one half of the voters of this city are going, at the next election, to chuse sixteen members of the common hall, while the majority are to chuse but eight? Is this justice, or is it otherwise? Yon must grant that it is a scandalous usurpation. Have persons elected on such a false principle any more title to sit in the common hall than a cow has to drink tea, in her master's kitchen? They have not. If the executive council had possessed one atom of honor, of confidence, or of common honesty, would they have chosen five commissioners, all of one party, to parcel out the city wards? No. They would not. Stand forward, Robert Mitchel, thou ringleader in this infamous job; thou hoary headed betrayer of thy trust! Stand forward, and tell us with what feelings, if thou hast any, thou art to look in the face of thy fellow citizens, after such a mean and scandalous act of iniquity? And this is thy purity of republican principles! Robin! Robin! Was it thy distant connection by marriage with major Scott, that produced this desertion of thy old friends? this extinction of any sort of credit that ever fell to thy share? For shame, old dotard! Sneak out of sight, and let us never hear more about thee.
From the correct census printed in this day's Recorder, it comes out that the Brick-row ward has more taxable white citizens, by sixty six than the two other wards put together; and that it pays an immensely greater proportion of taxes than both the other wards collectively. It happens also that the majority of the common council have, for a long time past, been chosen out of this ward; because, when the voters were left to a free choice, they found in it a greater proportion of men, whom they regarded as fit to fill the office of magistrates. They voted upon the principle of a general ticket, such as that which the assembly established, three years ago, to secure the election of Mr. Jefferson. But now, when the republicans find that this will not answer their purpose in Richmond, they revert the doctrine, and divide the city by wards, after abolishing the districts of the commonwealth, in the case of a president's election. This shews what was evident before, that the love of power is their only object, and that they are very indifferent by what means they get into it. In these remarks we point only at a few factious demagogues. The great body of the people are just as honest on the one side as on the other. The republicans, at large, therefore, must not take offence. Their private characters are not here to be confounded with those of such despicable and despised wretches as George Hays and Sandy McRae, who drank to the murder of Bonaparte.
We feel a kind of philosophical curiosity to see what Mr. Jones, as one of the five commissioners, will say in defence of his veracity. It will require a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull all together, to make so much as the shadow of an excuse, for himself, and even then, the slightest breath of an answer will scatter it like smoke. Mitchel has, during his whole life, been considered as a harmless although a notorious fool. His effrontery and deceit, in the recent division of the city, have betrayed a new feature of his character. Could not the old man tell himself contented with being ridiculous? Was it necessary to his repose, that he should likewise enjoy the importance of being detected?
As for Mr. Jefferson's new private secretary, he is only not a boy. When he was turned out of school for his insufferable insolence to his teachers, he had not, perhaps, completed his studies in the rule of division. His friends, however, will admit that he has begun his official route by adorning his name to a self evident fallacy. If he really believed that the Brick-row ward had no more inhabitants
than the Shockoe hill ward, the pan of his skull must be as impenetrable as a millstone. If he certified what he knew to be false, his veracity goes of course. Thus his admirers must either surrender him, as a prodigy of dulness, or as an atrocious violator of truth. He was not in the situation of Mr. John Foushee, who, between setting broken legs, and trepanning broken skulls, between blisters, and plasters, between juleps and caraplasms, had something else to think of than a census of the city. If the citizens of Richmond understand their duty to themselves, and their country, they will as one man, remonstrate to the executive council against this most villainous and shameless imposture. As the majority of the council have long since been abandoned to all sense of shame, witness the armory, and the public printing jobs! they will consequently reject the memorial. The subscribers ought then to republish it in five or six newspapers, that all the country may know what sort of people these precious counsellors are. Their next duty will be to present a memorial to the assembly demanding the impeachment and expulsion of those members of the council that protected this atrocious conspiracy. By what sort of arithmetic is it that two hundred and ninety four taxables chuse sixteen of the common hall, while four hundred and sixty others elect but eight. Of city taxes the Shockoe-hill and south of the bridge wards, pay between them, but two thousand three hundred and eight dollars, while the Brick-row ward pays three thousand seven hundred and seventy five. Yet, while the other two wards can pay between them but two thirds of what the Brick-row pays, they have twice its number of votes in their disposal.
(To be continued, in next Saturday's Recorder.)
LARKIN SMITH,
WHEN he came up to the last assembly, from Williamsburg, told a gentleman in the stage-coach that he would rather send his daughter to a bawdy house, than suffer her to read the Recorder. In the assembly, he declared that he would rather give Jones twenty-seven hundred dollars for public printing then let Pace have it at five hundred. This is a fact. It is said, but we are not certain of the report, that his democracy arose from the refusal of a commission in John Adams's standing army. For this last matter we do not pledge ourselves. For the former we do.
JUST PUBLISHED
AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE
PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND THREE-PENCE
THE CONDUCT
OF MERIWETHER JONES,
IN A SERIES OF LETTERS,
ADDRESSED TO THE PUBLIC,
By JAMES T. GALLANDER!
MANY gentlemen, when subscribing to this paper, have enquired for complete sets of the Recorder. These are not to be had. But this little publication will, in some measure, supply the want of them. Besides the seven letters to Jones, the last of which has rung through every state; and every second newspaper in the union, the collection contains many other articles. Among these are, Defence of Aaron Burr—Mr. Samuel Coles on, No. 1.—Defence of Timothy Pickering—A little more about republican economy—with a variety of small pieces.

JON, Jan. 11.
A report Friday 10 paired Hond the nar n
has been in circulation, since it, that a Spanish officer re- to our settlement in the bay of ras, and made a formal demand of render of the settlement in the e of the most catholic king. We have ot heard that any official notification of this demand has been made to minis- ters by the court of Madrid. It is most probable, however, that some points remain to be adjusted between the two courts of serious importance, which retards the nomination of ambassadors, and the conclusion of the treaty that has been so long in discussion.
By letters from the Hague, it ap- pears, that the financial proposition of raising twenty-four millions for the ex- penditure of the present year, which has been laid by the government before the legislative body, has excited the most general dismay. The funds have suf- fered a considerable depression, and pe- titions are to be presented from every quarter against the adoption of the plan. It is not yet known in what light it is viewed by the legislative body. When they consider the general discontent which it has excited, particularly among all the principal merchants of Amster- dam, they will probably admit it, only after a variety of modifications, if they do not wholly reject it.
The Jews lately claimed the rights of citizenship in Frankfort, and made strong efforts to obtain them; but they were resisted, and failed.
The soldiers of general Victor's ar- my, destined for Louisiana, are mostly Italians, Germans, Swiss, &c. But few French, except the officers, are among them. Thus does Bonaparte make the conquered inhabitants of one part of the world serve to retain his dominions in another.
The Emperor Alexander of Russia, has lately done an act of justice and ge- nerosity to a part of the Poles, the com- panions of the efforts of Kosciuszko, which ought to be made generally known, to his honor. A number of the Lubalern officers and common soldiers, having been taken prisoners by the Russians, afterwards escaped captivity by enlist- ed in the Russian service. An imperial order, of the 1st of December last, permits all who enlisted in those cir- cumstances, "to leave the army at their pleasure."
January 17:
A murder committed twelve years ago.
The following singular circumstance has occurred at Deal, in Kent, within these few days. A person, who has kept a public house in the neighborhood of Deal, with much respectability for some years, was disputing with another person in Deal. High words arose, and a soldier belonging to the regiment in barracks there, came up and enquired what was the matter. After the altercation had subsided, the soldier said to the publican, that he was sure he was a Lincolnshire man, by his voice and dialect; the publican said he was, but that he had not been there for some years. The soldier soon after called on one of the magistrates of Deal, and in- formed him that a murder was commit- ted about twelve years ago in Lincoln- shire, by three men; that two were ta- ken and executed, but that the third, frequently advertised for, was never found, and that he strongly suspected the publican was the man. The ma- gistrate sent a statement of the circum- stance, and a description of the publi- can's person to the place where the murder was stated to have been com- mitted, and received for answer that the statement made by the soldier was correct, and that the description of the publican answered, in a great measure, that of the murderer who had made his escape, but that it was the same person, he had a gun-shot wound in one of his legs. The publican was taken up, and on his legs being inspected by a sur- geon, he pronounced that a wound ap-
pearing on one of his legs was a gun- shot wound; in consequence of which the publican has been committed to Deal goal, in order to be lent to the county where the murder was commit- ted, to take his trial.
MARGATE, Jan. 17.
Justice to the humanity and intrepidity of the brave men, who, at the hazard of their own, saved the lives of so many of our suffering fellow creatures, on board the Hindostan, demands a recital of their magnanimous and humane conduct. The first signals of the want of assistance from the ship were observed about five on Tuesday afternoon; but from her having been seen at dark to ride in ap- parent safety, they were supposed to be given to the India yacht, which was in attendance, but their being continued till 10 o'clock, and then ceasing, it was thought she had been in distress and was relieved. It being impossible for our boats to put off till about 12 o'clock with any degree of safety, no efforts were made till then, when the Lord Nelson, manned with 16 brave fellows, (among whom was one of her owners, and at whose solicitation they principal- ly went,) put off from the pier, and pro- videntially reached the ship soon after four, little expecting to find her in the distressing and deplorable state which they then beheld; her main and mizen- masts gone, with the greatest part of her hull under water. On their nearer ap- proach they beheld the bows of the ship, and what rigging remained, black- ened with the bodies of the distressed sufferers, and when within hail, the cries of the unfortunate beings caused tears to bedew those faces, which are not wont to turn pale when they are frequently led to approach death in his most terrific forms. But words cannot describe their feelings any more than their prudence and intrepidity in ap- proaching the wreck. They succeed- ed, after a most painful anxiety and fa- tigue of more than four hours, in rescu- ing all the surviving sufferers consisting of the captain, mates, and men, to the amount of 108 persons, with the loss of only two more, who dropped past the boat, and were drowned. When they had gotten the greatest part of these safe- ly on board their boat, and day light was come, the yacht came up, and is supposed to have taken either 14 or 16 men from the wreck; so that 122 or 124 men were saved out of the crew of 143 persons; therefore 19 or 21 is the greatest number of sufferers on this la- mentable occasion, of whom the great- est part were swept from the wreck before the arrival of the boat, and among whom it is feared all the midshipmen were in- cluded.
About one o'clock on Wednesday, they landed them at Whitstable, blest with the the grateful thanks of these more than an hundred men, thus providentially rescued from the bosom of the awful deep! It is hoped, and indeed expected, that the India com- pany will handsomely reward those six- teen brave men, who thus saved the lives of such a considerable number of their fellow-creatures, thereby foregoing the opportunity of amassing considerable property which was swimming around them in all directions. The ship in a great measure still remains to- gether, but appears to be sinking much deeper in the sand, and it is very doubt- ful whether much of the lading can be recovered from the hold.
(Additional extracts, from the Louisiana pamphlet.)
Their savage ignorance, their undisciplined passions, their restless and warlike habits, their notions of ancient rights , make Indians the fittest tools imaginable for disturbing the states. In the territory adjacent to the Ohio, Mississippi and Missouri, there are more than thirty thousand men , whose trade is hunting and whose delight is war. These men lie at the mercy of any civilized nation who lives near them. Such a neighbour can gain their friendship or provoke their enmity with equal ease. He can make them inactive, or he can rouse them to fury: He can direct their movement in any way he pleases, and
make it mischievous or harmless, by supply- ing their fury with arms and with leaders, or by withholding that supply.
"The English colonies have been miser- ably harassed, in all the stages of their pro- gress, by these savage tribes. At an early period, they suffered terrible disasters from that quarter, and were sometimes nearly driven from the country. As the colonies advanced the Indians declined: but while the enlarge- ment of the circle of settlements gave safety to the centre, the borders of the circle were infested as before.
"There was some egregious defect in the colonial policy, which exposed them, at all times to those evils; but in the two Ame- rican wars, it was no wonder that the sword and fire of the Indians committed such multi- plied mischiefs, as they were guided by the French at one time and by the British at an- other. Since their revolution, when these powerful agents have been withdrawn, the hostility of these tribes has cost them much treasure and a great many lives, and their neutrality is purchased by large and constant subsidies.
"The pliant and addresful spirit of the French has always given them an absolute controul over these savages. The office, which the laziness or the insolence of the Bri- tish found impracticable, was easily perform- ed by us: and will be still easier hereafter, since we shall enter on the scene with more advan- tages than formerly.
"We shall detach thither a sufficient force to maintain possession against all the efforts of the states, should they, contrary to all their interests, proceed to war with or without provocation. We shall find in the Indian tribes, an army permanently cantoned in the most convenient stations, endowed with skill and temper best adapted to the nature and scene of the war, and armed and impelled with far less trouble and expence than an equal number of our own troops. We shall find a terrible militia, infinitely more destructive, while scattered through the hostile settlements and along an open frontier, than an equal force of our own. We shall find in the bowels of the states, a mischief that only wants the touch of a well directed spark to involve in its explosion the utter ruin of half their na- tion. Such will be the powers we shall de- rive from a military station and a growing colony on the Mississippi. These will be cer- tain and immediate effects, whatever distance or doubt there may be in the remoter benefit to France, on which I have so warmly expa- tiated. As a curb on a nation whose future conduct, in peace and war, will be of great importance to us, this province (Louisiana) will be cheaply purchased at ten times the cost to which it will subject us."
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
FIRE AT GOTTENBURGH.
HAMBURGH, Jan. 5.
On the 20th ult. at two o'clock in the morning, a fire broke out at Gottenburgh, in Sweden, in the house of a turner in Church- street, which was announced by the cannon of the fortress, and the night guards. The engines arrived as well as the troops in the garrison, but were unable to stop the con- flagration, which every where made the most alarming progress among the wooden houses, which are all connected. In the space of twenty hours, the flames destroyed 168 prin- cipal houses, and other edifices. Among the rest the grand church of the bishopric, the bureau de classes , the post-office, the post- horse office, the inn for travellers, the only two chymists shops in town, one of two printing-houses, and the lodge of free-masons. It was the most rich, populous, and commer- cial quarter of Gottenburgh.
The part burned, although in the centre of the city, was fortunately insulated by three navigable canals, which have saved the rest. This part forms a long and regular quarter, divided lengthways by four streets in straight lines, crossed in the middle by a street at the right angle. The whole is surrounded by large quays, lined with trees, and the fourth rampart of the city. All that has been built on this surface is reduced to ashes, except the Gymnasium, which is mason-work, and two stages also of masonry, and the new house of merchant.
Upwards of four thousand persons, are with- out a shelter, and the greater part of them reduced to the most dreadful distress. They have no means of restoration in a country where the rigour of the climate during this season, suspends all internal communication, all productions of the earth, and all business in the markets.
All the merchants are busied saving their cash, books and most valuable effects, so that the foreign commerce may not suffer. The houses of the rich proprietors are mostly in- sured, as is customary in the north. But the more indigent part of the people, the trades- men and artificers, suffer extremely. No lives have been lost.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
COMMUNICATION.
WHILE Governor MIKEAN, of Pennsylvania, and Mr. HAY, of Rich-
mond, inveigh against the levities of the press, when levelled against them- selves, they can, as the saying is, turn their blind side to the abominable cal- umnies of the prints which advocate the cause of democracy. Who would believe that, at this day, the Aurora of Philadelphia would not be silent on the pretended embezzlement of public mo- nies by TIMOTHY PICKERING, late secretary of state, when it is in the re- collection of every one, that the public accounts of that gentleman have been fully investigated by a Congressional committee, a majority of which profess political principles adverse to those which are maintained by the late secre- tary; and that the result of that investi- gation was highly honorable to him. In the opinion of that committee, he was not in arrears to the public to the value of cent; notwithstanding which, he is still represented as a public defaulter, by some whose present importance is owing to the grossness of the calumny they have disseminated, and whose passport to fa- vor has been the virulence with which they have attempted to detract from the honest fame of wise, upright, and virtu- ous men.
CHARLESTON, MARCH 8th.
THE Schooner Anna , Capt. William Jackson, owned by Messrs. Bold and Rhodes, of this city, with a cargo of 249 bales of Cotton, from Beaufort and the adjoining islands, was, on the night of the 4th inst. entirely consumed by fire, between Morgan's and St. Helena islands. The following particulars of this unfortunate event are furnished by a gentleman who was passenger on board. The Schooner having come to anchor early in the evening, the passengers and crew retired to bed, the captain having previously had all the fire put out; but apprehensive of some accident from the carelessness of the crew he again went on the deck, and saw every thing secure. Soon after they had fallen asleep, they were roused by the dreadful cry of fire; and on leaving the cabin, found the cotton on the deck, sails and rigging, in a blaze. The night had been remarkably calm, but it now commenced blowing with great violence from the westward; and in a few moments the vessel and cargo were enveloped by this destructive element. The captain and crew jumped into the boat, which was fortunately in the water, whence captain Jackson, with a spirit and intrepidity that does him credit, got into the cabin windows, although on fire, and handed out the trunks, &c. of the passengers; he was with much difficulty persuaded to leave the vessel, and had scarcely got into the boat when the quarter deck fell in. Throughout this distressing scene, captain Jackson acted with the greatest coolness and judgment and in his exertions to preserve the pro- perty was much burnt---the cable having been cut, the vessel was blown on shore. but a very small part of the cargo, how- ever, was saved.
VIRGINIA.
A t-cour continued and held for Halifax County, on Wednesday the 24th day of No- vember 1802.
Isaac Coles, senr.
Plaintiff.
AGAINST
Stephen Biggs and
James Snead,
Defendants.
In
Chancery
THE defendant Biggs, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country. On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defen- dant do appear here on the fourth Monday in March next, and answer the bill of the plain- tiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court house of this county. A copy—Test
BERRYMAN GREEN, S.C.M.C.
STRAYED, or STOLEN,
FROM RICHMOND,
On Sunday the 13th of March, 1803.
A LIGHT SORREL MARE,
EIGHT, or Nine years old; about five feet four, or five inches high; horseshoe tail.
Whoever will bring the above Mare to Na- thaniel Evins, in CHARLES CITY, shall receive a reward of FIVE DOLLARS, or THREE DOL- LARS to any person who will inform the sub- scriber where she is, so that she may be had again.
NATHANIEL EVINS.
Charles City, March 17th, 1803.