Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1806-02-04 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XXIIth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1231.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON TUESDAYS AND FRIDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH
[Four Dollars Per Annum....paid in advance.]
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1806.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
NOTICE.
THE administratrix of James Winfree, dec. hereby gives notice to all persons who have claims against the decedent, that she means to close her administration as speedily as possible and requests those who have claims, either by bond, note or open account, to bring them forward properly authenticated—and those who are indebted to the said estate, to make payment on or before the second Monday in March next; that being the time when the said administratrix proposes to make up her account of administration, and return to the county court of Chesterfield. All persons concerned are hereby notified that unless due attention is paid to this advertisement, it will be plead in bar against all those who are in default.
Ann Winfree, Adm'x. Chesterfield, 28th, Jan. 1806
WILL BE SOLD,
At the late residence of Samuel Dixon, dec. on Wednesday the 28th day of February, (it being Hanover court day) if fair, if not the next fair day.
All the PERSONAL ESTATE
Of said decedent, consisting of several likely young Negroes, Household Furniture, Shop Tools, Plantation Utensils, &c. &c. Terms of sale will be cash for all sums of ten dollars and under; for all sums above ten dollars a credit will be allowed until the 31st of December next, the purchaser giving bond with approved security. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock—N.B. The above mentioned place of sale is within half a mile of Hanover courthouse.
G. W. Dixon, Adm r. January 30th, 1806.
FOR SALE,
A LEASE of eight years (from the 28th Feb. next) in the three BRICK TENEMENTS near the Market bridge, at present occupied by Messrs. Jas. & Alexr. Dunlop, Moses H. Judah and Royster & Bohanna.
Wm. M'Kim. Richmond, Jan. 27th, 1806
A N elegant and almost new SNALE BRIDLE, was found on the river road, near Martin's Blacksmith's shop, Powhatan county—the owner, by applying at this office, and paying the expense of this advertisement, may obtain it.
N. B. The bridle is at Maj. John Harris's.
Notice.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to us by Jacob Going, late of Louisa county, will be exposed to sale on the premises, on Tuesday the 18th day of February next, for ready money.
The tract of Land,
Whereof the said Going resided at the time of his death, containing by estimation 73 acres; also three Horses, three Beds and Furniture, three head of Cattle, five Hogs, and all the said Going's Household Furniture, for the purpose of satisfying a debt or debts due to Walter Chrisholm, jun.
Fred. Harris, } Trustees. Wm. G. Poindexter, } January 24, 1806.
COMMITTED to the jail of this county, about the 8th of December last, a negro man: says his name is JOHN; that he was on his way with his master Dempsey Nash, moving to the Tennessee from near Norfolk, when he left him near this county; says he formerly belonged to captain John Bramble, of Richmond; was sold to Mr. Nash, of Norfolk; says he was hired for the two last years by Messrs. Wm. & Henry Haxhall, of Petersburg. He is a stout, well made fellow, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, appears to be about 24 years of age, has had the Small Pox very bad. Had on when taken up, a blue cloth coat and home spun checkered pantaloons. The owner is requested to come forward, pay charges & take him away, or he will be dealt with according to law.
JOHN WILLIAMSON, Keeper of the Jail. [2m]
House of Delegates, Monday, January 20.
CALL OF A CONVENTION.
(Mr. Burwell's Speech concluded.)
Some objections too may be raised against the present structure of the council of state. That body in fact consists of too many members. Not to speak of the article of expense, which in a republican government deserves to be considered, the responsibility is too much divided. Instead of being concentrated in the hand of a single magistrate, it is divided and scattered among eight privy councillors. Let even an occasion occur, which calls for the dismissal of these officers; we shall find there is another provision in the constitution, which destroys the benefits of an entire responsibility. Instead of having the authority of dismissing an obnoxious council for every year or every three years, the legislature cannot in fact exercise a complete right of control under any period short of 12 years.
The appointment of the executive council like that of the chief magistrate is confined to the legislature. The same objections apply to each. And there is this objection which applies to the election of every important officer by the legislature. When the assembly meets in the capitol, its members are unacquainted with the pretensions of the candidates who are to be brought forward. Either then the legislature must put up with the candidates, who are known to this city and supported by its influence, or it must vote for the candidates according to the representations of their respective friends. And where is the case exercised by the mem-
bers of the house? Where is the responsibility imposed upon them? Their vote is not recorded: when they return to their constituents, how easy will it be for them to escape the odium of voting for an obnoxious candidate, by declaring he voted for his opponent?
There is one appointment, which the Legislature had the power of making that would have been more properly entrusted to the Executive. The Executive may choose (said Mr. B.) all the military officers of a subordinate degree; but they have no voice in the election of a general and other important military officers. What then would be the situation of the commonwealth, if in a moment of public peril, when an active, disciplined and well-commanded enemy was pressing upon us, we were to send forth the militia under the orders of a general, who had obtained his commission from the legislature, not by the force of his merits, but by dint of solicitation and favor? It was perhaps under this point of view, that judge Tucker had observed: "True it is, the inconveniences of this conduct in times of profound peace and tranquility, are neither so obvious, nor so numerous or dangerous, as in times of war or difficulty; but it should be remembered that when such times arrive, there is little leisure for reformation, however requisite. —If by any fatal event the federal union should happen to be dissolved, or broken, there is not a state in the confederacy, that would sooner feel the total inadequacy of its constitution, to support its liberty and independence, than Virginia."
The organization of the legislature itself is liable to many weighty objections. Not the least of its defects is, that it violates that great principle of a republican government, that the will of the majority ought to prevail. I say nothing (said Mr. B.) of that artificial division of interest produced by the Blue Ridge. I say nothing as to the comparative influence possessed in this house by the people on this or that side of the mountain. My remark applies not so much to the natural division of the state into two great districts, as to its artificial distribution for the purpose of representation. Are not our counties possessed of unequal population and property? Still they are endowed with an equal right of representation in the legislature. We have reduced the representation of each county, to a standard not less arbitrary and uniform than the fabled bed of Procrustes; and whatever be its size we allow it no more nor less than two representatives. Is not the consequence of this arrangement too obvious to be mistaken? Whenever a measure comes to be decided by the legislature, a combination of the smaller counties may decide the question in opposition to the will of the larger, however inferior they may be to the latter in the number and property of its inhabitants. It is vain to say, that these smaller counties are equally diffused thro' every portion of the state, and are therefore incapable of combining into any distinct local interest. For this argument equally applies in favor of the rotten boroughs of England. And is any republican prepared to justify the check, which they impose upon the will of the majority of England?
There is another feature, in which the organization of the legislature, is obviously at war with the great principle of a republican government. Each county sends two members to the House of Delegates. But one of these may say yes , when the other says no . Is it not however a complete solecism to say, that each county has two distinct wills? Is it not preposterous thus to neutralise the influence of a county, and to completely destroy the effect of its representation in the general vote? Who does not perceive its effect in defeating the will of the majority of the state, on deciding any legislative question? Suppose there were 100 counties in the state: 10 are neutralised by this arrangement: 46 are in favor of any proposition, and 44 against it: 10 being neutralised, the question is decided by the vote of 46. But does this constitute a majority of the whole state? Does it not violate the fundamental principle of a republican government, thus to give effect to the will of the minority?
There is another defect in the legislature. It consists of too many members. Its magnitude makes it oppressive to the people, and too unwieldy to permit an easy discharge of their public duties. The principle of a deliberative body is, that it should never be so small as to endanger the public liberty, nor so large as to clog the public business. It was a remark of an ancient sage, that "a large assembly of philosophers would degenerate into a mob." If the legislature was diminished in its numbers, the reduction of its expenses might enable them to sit twice as long, and give twice as much attention to the public concerns. Compare Virginia in this respect with the British empire. In the United Kingdom, there are not less than 15 millions of people, and
not more than 600 representatives in parliament. Here there is not one million of people and nearly 300 legislators. In other words, with less than one fifteenth part of the population, we have one third of the representation. The British parliament however is not thought too small. In the United States of which Virginia forms a component part, there are not less than 6 millions of people; and the number of representatives does not exceed 140: and yet that body has been found too cumbrous for the orderly dispatch of business. They have adopted the ratio of one representative for every 33 000; whereas we have fixed it at one for every four thousand. There is also another reason for diminishing the number of representatives. By extending the representation over a larger compass, it would have the effect of destroying those petty local interests, which are produced by contracted districts. Let us enlarge our districts and we should see an end of that narrow interest, which springs from the influence of family and relations; an interest, which hangs like a dead weight upon the freedom of suffrage and the liberties of the people.
Consider too the defective organization of the senate, under the present constitution. That body does by no means fairly represent the public will. A gentleman from Wythe, a few days since observed, that one senator represented as large a number of inhabitants, beyond the Blue Ridge, as six on this side of it. In other words, the inhabitants to the East of the mountain have six times as much senatorial influence, in proportion to their numbers, as the inhabitants to the west ward. This defect in the senate ought to be corrected by a different organization. Thomas Paine, for introducing whose name into that house he hoped he should be under the necessity of apologising to but few members, has recommended a new plan for the structure of that body. He proposes that when the house of delegates assemblies, they should select a committee from their own body to act as a senate. The debate in every case should be conducted separately in each house, and the decision be effected by a majority of both. A plan of this sort has obviously the effect of introducing into the deliberations of the legislature, all that leisure, calmness and maturity of discussion, for which senates have been recommended. But it is not my design at present (said Mr. B.) either to examine the propriety of having my senate at all, or the best mode of constructing it.
As to the organization of the judiciary, Mr. B. declared it was with extreme diffidence he should express any opinion. Some opinions however he had formed on this subject, and he thought himself bound to express them. It was to this part of the constitution he had alluded, when he spoke of some improper restrictions, that had been imposed upon the legislature. The constitution unwisely prescribes the number, jurisdiction and form of our courts: an arrangement, which should be entirely intrusted to the wisdom and discretion of the representatives of the people, who were best qualified to select such a system, as might be demanded by public convenience. It was true, that by retaining the name, it was easy to introduce any new modification of the courts that might be necessary: But there are always men in the legislature, so squeamishly attached to the constitution, that they will never consent to violate its spirit and its letter, however strongly the convenience of the people might demand it.
Mr. B. declared he could not subscribe to the doctrine, avowed in England, which rendered the judges independent of all human authority. It was certainly correct that judges should be rendered independent of the parties who came before them; and upon that account, it was certainly proper that they should be made independent of the crown of England. Consult the English writers and they will tell us that the monarch, or his ministers had always been in the habit of involving some question of prerogative in judicial cases. They represent them as frequently interposing their power and influence to screen the guilty felon from the justice of the law and incarcerate the inexorable patriot in the damps of the dungeon. In England, therefore, such an independence may be necessary; but in Virginia, where the commonwealth is never implicated in the decisions of the courts, the same necessity cannot be supposed to exist. Possessed of unlimited power, the commonwealth would never condescend to punish them for their integrity or employ them as the instruments of oppression. For these reasons he wished to see the judges amenable to the legislature of the country, that for any offences which they might commit, they should be dragged to the bar of that house and receive their merited punishment. He could not perceive the propriety of exempting from responsibility a class of men, who are pecu-
liarly liable to corruption. We have subjected (said Mr. B.) all our civil officers to a certain punishment; shall we then exempt a class of men who are proved by the history of all countries to be peculiarly addicted to corruption? It is an acknowledged fact that before the Spanish tribunals justice is actually bought and sold, and that the longest purse is always sure to carry the cause. De Lohne has told us, that more English judges have been punished for malversation than even English ministers; that there are more spots upon men clothed in Ermine, than upon the contaminated servants of the crown. We may be told perhaps that there has been a remedy provided for all these grievances, in the power of impeachment. But let experience decide upon this inefficacious provision. Warren Hastings! the man who had deluged India with blood, and plundered its oppressed inhabitants, was acquitted by the house of lords, deciding upon their ho. or . In our own country, we have seen that mammoth delinquent. Judge Chase, who had rendered himself obnoxious in every court where he had officiated; we have seen even him honourably acquitted . And what now is the doctrine deduced from this decision before the senate of the United States? That no judge is hereafter to be dismissed from office upon the strongest construction of tyranny and corruption from actual facts, and that overt acts alone are sufficient to condemn him. When I speak of the history of judges (added Mr. B.) it is my pride and pleasure to declare, that the Virginia bench has hitherto exhibited an honorable exception. Times however may change; and we may then lament the inefficacy of a provision under whose shelter a Hastings and a Chase have escaped with impunity.
Mr. B. next commented upon the present structure of the county court system; a system which makes the justices of the court, notwithstanding their exorbitant power, eligible to either house of assembly. He quoted a lengthy extract from Tucker's Blackstone. Vol. 1. Part 1. p. 115 116. It has besides (he observed) this unfortunate consequence that the great number of magistrates in this house will always produce an opposition to any change in the judiciary system which may affect their own interests, however it may advance the interests of the people.
Mr. B. concluded with apologising to the house for having so long detained them by remarks, to which the feeble state of his health would not permit him to do justice.
MESSAGE
From the President of the United States, respecting the application of HAMET CARAMALLI, ex-bashaw of Tripoli.
(Continued.)
Commodore Barron to William Eaton, esq. MALTA, 22d March, 1805.
SIR, By capt. Hull, who arrived in this harbor with the United States' brig Argus under his command on the 10th instant, I received your favors addressed to me, together with communications for the secretary of the navy, and copies of the correspondence betwixt yourself and captain Hull relative to your proceedings, from your arrival in Egypt until his departure from thence; also by the hands of Mahumed, secretary, a letter from his excellency Hamet bashaw, announcing his junction with you, all which I have perused with an attention and deliberation which the important and interesting nature of their contents demands. I cannot but applaud the energy and perseverance that has characterised your progress through a series of perplexing and discouraging difficulties, to the attainment of the object of your research, an attainment which I am disposed to consider as a fair presage of future success.
On receipt of these communications by captain Hull, I did not lose a moment in making the necessary arrangements for sending you succours; and I now dispatch the Argus brig, with the Hornet sloop under her convoy, carrying a variety of stores and provisions, according to the accompanying list. Captain Hull will shape his course for Eomba, direct, where he calculates on finding you, with the bashaw and his army, and where he supposes you will make a stand. I have directed him to deliver these stores to you, to be applied as your discretion may direct. He has also under his charge a sum in specie, amounting to 7 000 dolls. which is likewise to be placed at your disposal. By the time these vessels establish a communication with you, you will have been enabled to form a correct opinion as to the prospect of ultimate success, and thence to estimate the advantages likely to result to our affairs from this co-operation, and by this opinion you must be guided in the application of the succours. Should you have encountered unexpected difficulties
and obstacles, which place the chances of success upon more than precarious ground, your own prudence will suggest the propriety of not committing these supplies and the money unconquerably to the power of the bashaw: indeed, in the point of view in which I regard the measures already pursued, as well as the subject of co-operation generally, I conceive we ought to treat with the utmost caution. It is far from my wish, sir, to damp your ardor, or that of your companions in arms, by laying too great a stress upon the cold maxims of prudence, whereby the tide of success is often lost; something I am aware, should always be left to fortune, in enterprises of this nature; but I must own there are certain things, expressed in your dispatches, which, when brought to the test of my instructions from home, give birth to feelings of doubt and uneasiness; these I deemed it incumbent on me to point out to you with candor and explicitness, in order that we may be fully understood. You must be sensible that in giving their sanction to a co-operation with the exiled bashaw, government did not contemplate the measures as leading necessarily and absolutely, to a reinstatement of that prince in his rights on the regency of Tripoli. They appear to have viewed the co-operation in question, as a means which, if there existed energy and enterprise in the exiled, and attachment to his person on the part of his former subjects, might be employed to the common furtherance and advantage of his claims & our cause, but without meaning to fatter themselves by any specific and definite attainment as an end, which the tenor of my instructions and the limited sum appropriated for that special purpose, clearly demonstrate. I fear by the convention you were about to enter into with Hamet, and by the complexion of other measures that a wider range may have been taken than is consistent with the powers vested in me for that particular object. These apprehensions may, perhaps prove groundless, on further representations from you; but under my present impressions, I feel it my duty to state, explicitly, that I must withhold my sanction to any convention or agreement committing the United States, or tending to impress upon Hamet bashaw a conviction that we have bound ourselves to place him upon the throne. The consequences involved in such an engagement cannot but strike you forcibly and a general view of our situation in relation to the reigning bashaw and our unfortunate countrymen in Tripoli, will be sufficient to mark its inexpediency. I shall consider it my duty, as it is certainly my inclination, to afford you every aid compatible with the authority vested in me, and commensurate with the means which have been placed at my disposal, and you may rely on the most active and vigorous support from the squadron, as soon as the season and our arrangements will permit us to appear in force before the enemy's walls; but I wish you to understand that no guarantee or engagement to the exiled prince, whose cause, I must repeat, we are only favoring as an instrument to our advantage, and not as an end in itself, must be held to stand in the way of our acquiescence to any honorable and advantageous terms of accommodation which the reigning bashaw may be induced to propose: such terms being once offered and accepted by the representative of government appointed to treat of peace, our support to the ex-bashaw must necessarily cease. You will not, however, conceive that these considerations, important and necessary as they are, ought to induce us at once to abandon the benefits which the measures you have adopted seem to promise. I conceive a perseverance in these by no means incompatible with a total freedom from trammels, with respect to a definite object, which freedom I deem it all important to preserve, especially when I view the peculiar situation in which captain Bainbridge and his fellow sufferers may be placed by this co-operation. If by your energy and exertions, added to the supplies now sent forward, you succeed in getting possession of Derne and Bengaz, we may calculate, that having received this impulse from our strength, the bashaw will, himself, possess sufficient energy, courage and talents, and if accounts are correct, sufficient interest among the people, to move on with firm steps, and to conduct his friends and followers to the gates of Tripoli. Every support will, of course, be given to him by a systematic union of operations with the squadron, so as to enable him to get in the rear of the town; but should he be found deficient in those qualities, or that it appears we have been deceived in regard to the disposition of the inhabitants, he must be held as an unfit subject for further support of co-operation. I beg leave to mention to you, that as we are short of officers, the services of all will be wanted on board the respective ships as soon as we enter upon extensive

measures. Should you conceive, however, that any serious disadvantage may result from withdrawing those with you, I have no objection to their remaining as volunteers; but it is impossible for me to comply with your requisition for 100 men to be sent to the coast. Such a step, in the present posture of affairs, far exceeds my powers, and, besides, as we are rather short of hands, I could not feel myself justified in detaching so considerable a force from the squadron. I have not been unmindful of your requisition for field artillery, which I think with you, is essential, but here it was impossible to procure it; I therefore dispatched, some days since, the Congress frigate to Messina, where I hope to obtain 4 field pieces complete for service, and as soon as they arrive they will be sent to the coast with the necessary ammunition. As I am still too unwell to write you with my own hand, I must refer you to Capt. Hull, in whose judgment and discretion I have the fullest confidence, for information on several collateral points, and for my sentiments on others. In this letter I have endeavored to explain, as clearly as possible, what are my ideas with respect to the wishes and intentions of our government, and what I feel to be the extent of my authority, relative to the co-operation with Hamet bashaw. I reiterate my fixed resolution to afford you every support and assistance which are consistent with the powers and resources vested in me, adding, at the same time, my dissent from any guarantee, covenant or engagement, by which the United States may stand committed, to place the exiled prince on the throne, or any condition which militates against the most perfect and uncontrolled power of choice and action, in concluding a pacification with Jussuff bashaw, should he offer terms honorable and advantageous to our country.
I should be wanting in justice to you, sir, as well as to the officers who have shared thus far your toils and dangers, were I not to express my full reliance upon your courage, energy and perseverance, as well as my ardent desire that your most sanguine expectations may be realized. The observations which I here convey to you are far from being intended to cool your zeal or discourage your expectations, but they are what I conceive it necessary to make, and drawn from me by the purest feeling of duty, and as such, permit me to recommend them to your calm and candid consideration, & I request that you will make them the subject of conversation with captain Hull, who is fully possessed of my sentiments.
COPY. From Commander Barron to the Secretary of the Navy. Malta, 6th April, 1805.
HAVING in my respects of yesterday given a full account of the present disposal of the squadron under my command, and whatever has acquired of notice since my preceding despatch, I have now the honor to lay before you a sketch of Mr. Eaton's transactions in Egypt, and the measures which have been in consequence thereof, adopted. The accompanying communications from that gentleman to the navy department, joined with copies of those addressed to me, and the collateral correspondence between Capt. Hull and him, to all which I beg leave to refer you minutely, will afford you a wide view of the subject; whilst it precludes the necessity of lengthy comments from me. You will there perceive the many and unfeigned difficulties which Mr. Eaton met with in finding the ex-bashaw who had joined the fortunes of the Mamelukes. You will be apprised of the situation in which matters stood at the departure of the Argus from Alexandria, on the 19th of February, and the plan which he had chalked out to pursue the intended co-operation with Hamet. On receipt of these advices I made immediate arrangements to send such part of the success requested by the bashaw and Mr. Eaton, as could be procured here, and as I considered myself authorized by my instructions to afford it, and Capt. Hull sailed again on the 26th ult. in the Argus, with the Hornet sloop, (the same which I mentioned having purchased under convoy, carrying a supply of money, provisions, &c. He directed his course for Bomba, (a place about 60 miles to the eastward of Derna) where, as you will collect from the papers inclosed, he confidently expected to open a communication with the bashaw and his followers. Such, sir, is the present situation of the business.
I am well aware that you will feel an anxiety to know my opinion with regard to the probable success of this co-operation; but until I have further intelligence and more data to go by, it were improper even to hazard a conjecture. In perusing the letters from Mr. Eaton, and weighing the nature and consequences of certain measures in his contemplation, I must own that I have felt some uneasiness, arising out of a fear that he has taken a wider scope in his engagements to the bashaw, than is compatible with the ideas and intentions of government, or with the authority vested in me, as relates to the subject of co-operation. I have stated this apprehension in a communication to Mr. Eaton, in which I have also explained in precise terms, my own ideas, and how far I conceived he might proceed without committing himself or the country. A copy of my letter will be found annexed, I feel confident that the sentiments there expressed, and the principles laid down, with respect to the plan in question, will meet your approbation.
From the concurring information principally from persons well acquainted with the bashaw, which I have recently received of his character, and conduct, I confess that my hopes from a co-operation with him are less sanguine than they were. Perhaps, however, I may shortly have reason to raise my expectations to their former standard; but till something occurs to justify the belief that he possesses more courage, energy and talent, than those who appear to know him well, give him credit for, it would be reprehensible to fix my mind for the government with prospects, which the result may disappoint. I am equally at a loss to calculate the crisis of this co-operation upon the death of the reigning bashaw, a short time will I trust light upon this interesting point. The reason while I cannot conceal from you my candid opinion, that from the obstinacy hitherto
evinced by Jussuff Bashaw, and the pertinacity of his character, not unassisted with bravery and other qualities belonging to a soldier, added to the natural advantages of his situation, the contest promised to be more arduous than was at first anticipated. Our co-operation with Hamet may, and in all probability will, induce him to offer us terms at once; or, finding his dominions menaced and his life endangered, to put every thing to the hazard of war. In the latter case we may naturally conclude that his resistance will not only be obstinate, but desperate. I look with anxiety for the return of the vessel which sailed a few days since for Tripoli, with supplies for the prisoners, she will undoubtedly bring important intelligence.
The ex-bashaw's secretary of state, whom you will find mentioned in Mr. Eaton's correspondence, returned in the Argus to join his master. He appeared to be a sensible, discreet old man; he brought me a letter from the bashaw, a translation of which, with a copy of my answer, is attached to the accompanying papers.
(To be continued.)
MESSAGE From the President of the United States transmitting documents and papers relative to complaints by the government of France against the commerce carried on by American citizens to the French Island of St. Domingo.
TO THE SENATE OF THE U. STATES.
In compliance with the request of the Senate, expressed in their resolution of December 27, I now lay before them such documents and papers (there being no other information in my possession) as relate to complaints by the government of France, against the commerce carried on by the citizens of the United States to the French Island of St. Domingo.
TH: JEFFERSON. January 10, 1805.
FROM GENERAL TURREAU TO THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
OCTOBER 14, 1805.
THE undersigned minister plenipotentiary of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, to his excellency the president of the United States of America, has testified in his conversation with the secretary of state, his just discontent with the commercial relations, which many citizens of different states of the union maintain with the rebels of every color, who have momentarily withdrawn the colony of St. Domingo from the legal authority.
The principles injuriously affected by such a commerce, or rather by such a system of robbery (brigandage) are so evident, so generally acknowledged, and adopted not only by all nations, who have a colonial system to defend, but even by those who have none; and moreover even by every wise people to whatsoever political aggregation they may belong; that the statesman if he has not lost every idea of justice, of humanity, and of public law, can no more contest their wisdom, than their existence. And certainly the undersigned in finding himself called by his duty as well as his inclination, in the bosom of a friendly people, and near the respectable chief who directs its government; certainly the undersigned ought not to have expected that his first political relations would have for their object a complaint so serious, an infraction so manifest of law, the most sacred, and the best observed by every nation under the dominion of civilization.
But it was not enough for some citizens of the U. States to convey munitions of every kind to the rebels of St. Domingo, to that race of African slaves, the reproach and the refuse of nature; it was moreover necessary to insure the success of this ignoble and criminal traffic by the use of force. The vessels destined to protect it are constructed, loaded, armed, in all the ports of the union, under the eyes of the American people, of its particular authority, and of the federal government itself; and this government, which has taken for the basis of its political career, the most scrupulous equity, and the most impartial neutrality, does not forbid it.
Without doubt, and notwithstanding the profound consideration with which the minister plenipotentiary of the French empire is penetrated for the government of the union; he might enlarge still farther upon the reflections suggested by such a state of things, a circumstance so important, so unexpected. But it would be equally as unseemly for him to dwell upon it, to state its consequences, as it would be for the government to hear them.
The secretary of state, who perfectly knows the justice of the principles, and the legitimacy of the rights, referred to in this note, will be of opinion, that neither are susceptible of discussion; because a principle universally assented to, a right generally established, is never discussed, or at least discussed in vain. The only way open for the redress of these complaints, is to put an end to the tolerance which produces them, and which daily aggravates these consequences.
Moreover this note, founded upon facts not less evident than the principles which they infract, does not permit the undersigned to doubt that the government of the U. States will take the most prompt as well as the most energetic measures, in order to put an end to its cause; and he seizes with eagerness this occasion of renewing to the secretary of state, the assurance of his high consideration.
Signed TURREAU. Faithfully Translated, J. WAGNER, Chief Clerk, Department of State.
GENERAL TURREAU, Minister Plenipotentiary of his Imperial and Royal Majesty, to Mr. MADISON, Secretary of State.
Washington, Jan. 3d, 1806.
Sir, Formal orders of my government oblige me to insist upon the contents of my official note, of the 14th of October last, relative to the commerce, which some inhabitants of the United States, maintain with the rebels of St. Domingo.
Not receiving any answer to that note, I had room to hope, that the government of the Union would take prompt and effectual measures to put an end to the causes which produced it, but your silence towards me, especially in relation to St. Domingo, and that of your government towards Congress, impose upon me the duty of recalling to your recollection the said official note, and of renewing to you my complaints upon the tolerance given to an abuse as shocking as contrary to the law of nations, as it is to the treaties of peace and friendship existing between France and the United States.
I will not recur, sir, to the different circumstances which have attended the commerce with the revolted port of St. Domingo; to the scandalous publicity given to its shameful success, to the rewards and encumbers prostituted upon the crews of armed vessels, whose destination is to protect the voyages, to carry munitions of every kind to the rebels, and thus to nourish rebellion and robbery.
You ought not to be surprised, sir, that I call anew the attention of the American government to this subject. His excellency Mr. Talleyrand has already testified his discontent to general Armstrong, your minister plenipotentiary at Paris, and you will be of opinion that it is at length time to pursue formal measures against any adventure to the port of St. Domingo, occupied by the rebels. The system of tolerance which produces this commerce, which suffers its being armed, which encourages by impunity its extension and its success, cannot longer remain, and the emperor and king my master expects from the dignity and candor of the government of the union, that an end be put to it promptly.
I add to this dispatch a copy of the official note, which has already been transmitted to you. I earnestly request, sir, that you acknowledge the receipt of both, and receive a new assurance of my high consideration.
Signed, TURREAU. Faithfully translated, J. WAGNER, Chief Clerk, Department of State.
From Mr. Talleyrand to Gen. Armstrong.
[Without date, but received in General Armstrong's letter to the secretary of state of the 10th Aug. 1805.]
Sir, I have several times had the honor to call your attention to the commerce carried on from the ports of the United States to those of St. Domingo occupied by the rebels.
These commercial communications would appear to be almost daily increased. In order to cover their true destination the vessels are cleared for the West Indies, without a more particular destination of the place, and with the aid of these commissions, provisions, arms, and other objects of supply of which they stand in need, are carried to the rebels of St. Domingo.
Although these adventures may be no more than the result of private speculation, the government of the United States is not the less engaged to put an end to them by a consequence of the obligations which bind together all the civilized powers, all those who are in a state of peace. No government can second the spirit of revolt of the subjects of another power, and as in this state of things it cannot maintain communications with them, it ought not to favor those which its own subjects maintain.
It is impossible that the government of the United States should longer shut its eyes upon the communications of their commerce with St. Domingo. The adventures for that island are making with a scandalous publicity. They are supported by armed vessels—at their return feasts are given in order to vaunt the success of their speculations, and the acknowledgment, even the eulogies of the government are so much relied upon, that it is at these feasts and in the midst of an immense concourse, where are found the first authorities of the country, that the principles of the government of Hayti are celebrated, and that vows are made for its duration.
I have the honor, sir, to transmit to your excellency, an extract of an American journal, in which are contained sundry details of a feast, given in the port of New-York, on board of a convoy which had arrived from St. Domingo.
The ninth toast, given to the government of Hayti, cannot fail, sir, to excite your indignation. It is not, after having covered every thing with blood and ruins, that the rebels of St. Domingo, ought to have found apologists in a nation, the friend of France.
But they do not stop at their first speculations. The company of merchants, which gave a feast on the return of their adventure, is preparing a second convoy, and propose to place it under the escort of several armed vessels.
I have the honor, sir, to give you this information, in order that you may be
pleased to call the most serious attention of your government towards a series of facts, which it becomes its dignity and candor, no longer to permit. The federal government, cannot so far separate itself from the inhabitants of the United States, as to permit to them, acts and communications, which it thinks itself bound to interdict to itself; or, as to think that it can distinguish its own responsibility from that of its subjects, when there is in question an unparalleled revolt, whose circumstances, and whose horrible consequences, must alarm all nations, and who are all equally interested in seeing it cease.
France ought to expect from the amity of the United States, and his majesty charges me, sir, to request in his name, that they interdict every private adventure, which, under any pretext or designation whatsoever, may be destined to the ports of St. Domingo, occupied by the rebels.
Receive, general, the assurances of my high consideration.
(Signed) CH. M. TALLEYRAND. To his excellency, general Armstrong, minister plenipotentiary of the U. S. Faithfully translated, J. WAGNER, Chief Clerk, Dept. of State.
From Mr. Talleyrand to Gen. Armstrong. Paris, 29th Thermidor, 13th year, (16th Aug. 1805.)
Sir, SINCE the letter I had the honor to write to you on the second Thermidor concerning the arrangements which were making in the ports of the United States for the western part of St. Domingo, fresh information upon this point confirms every thing which had been received. The adventures for St. Domingo are publicly made; vessels are armed for war, to protect the convoys, and it is in virtue of contracts entered into between Dassalines and American merchants that the latter send him supplies and munitions of war.
I add, sir, to the letter which I have the honor to write to you a copy of a sentence given at Halifax, in the matter of a merchant of N. York, who had conveyed into the revolted part of St. Domingo, three cargoes of gun powder, and who was taken on his return by an English frigate.
If even in the English tribunal where this prize was condemned the whole island of St. Domingo was considered as a French colony, how can the federal government tolerate that the rebels of their colony, should continue to receive from America, succors against the parent country. It is impossible that that government should be ignorant of the armaments making in its ports. Too much publicity is given to them, not to render it responsible, & it ought to perceive that it is contrary to every system of peace & good friendship, to suffer longer in its ports, armaments evidently directed against France.
Without doubt the federal government would not wish, in order to favor certain private speculations, to give new facilities to rebellion and robbery (brigandage,) the tolerance of a commerce so scandalous would be unworthy of it. Neither your government nor his majesty can be any longer indifferent to it; and as the seriousness of the facts, which occasion this complaint, obliges his majesty to consider as good prize every thing which shall enter the port of St. Domingo, occupied by the rebels, and every thing coming out, he persuades himself that the government of the United States, will take, on its part, against this commerce, at once illicit and contrary to all the principles of the law of nations, all the repressive and authoritative measures proper to put an end to it. This system of impunity and tolerance can no longer continue; and his majesty is convinced, that your government will think it due from its frankness promptly to put an end to it.
Receive, Sir, the assurances of my high consideration.
(Signed) CH. M. TALLEYRAND. To his Excellency General Armstrong. FAITHFULLY TRANSLATED, J. WAGNER, Chief Clerk, Department of State.
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CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, January 23.
The house resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. J. C. Smith in the chair, on the bill authorizing a detachment of the militia of the U. States. Several blanks in the bill were filled up, one authorizing the President of the U. S. to accept as part of the detachment any corps of volunteers who shall engage to continue in service six months after arriving at the place of rendezvous, and another appropriating two millions of dollars for the pay and subsistence of such part of the detachment as may be called into service. When the committee rose and reported the bill with these amendments, in which the house concurred.
Mr. Dana moved to amend the first section by striking out the following words, in italics, relative to the proportions of the detachment to be called from the respective states; "to be apportioned by the President of the U. S. by the militia returns of the last year, in cases where such returns were made, and in cases where such
returns were not made the last year, by such other data as he shall judge equitable, and by substituting in lieu thereof the words, "according to the last census."
Mr. Varnum stated several reasons against this amendment.
Mr. Dana withdrew his amendment, & moved a modification of it; which he also withdrew on an explanation made by Mr. Varnum. When the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday.
A message was received from the President of the United States, stating that he had approved and signed an act making an additional appropriation to supply the deficiency in the appropriation for the support of the navy during the year 1805—and that he had likewise approved and signed an act providing for light houses on Long Island Sound, and declaring Roxbury, in Massachusetts, a port of delivery.
On motion of Mr. Dawson, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the state of the union—Mr. Gregg in the chair—on the report of a select committee on that part of the message of the President that relates to defending our ports and harbors, &c.
The report was read by the chairman. On the first resolution, appropriating 150,000 dollars for the better protection of our ports and harbors, a long and interesting debate ensued.
The debate was opened by Mr. Dawson, who explained at some length the grounds on which the report was founded.
Mr. Dawson was followed by Mr. Clinton, who represented the trifling amount of the sum proposed to be appropriated.
Mr. Thomas said a few words to the same effect, and moved to strike out the words "one hundred and fifty thousand," with the view of trying the sense of the house as to the appropriation of a larger sum.
Mr. N. Williams seconded the motion. Mr. Ely detailed the information on which the report had been made.
Mr. Dawson replied.
Mr. Early moved that the committee should rise, in order that more full and satisfactory information should be obtained relative to the sum required, and the practicability of protecting by land batteries our ports and harbors.
This motion superceding the other, the subsequent part of the debate was shaped by it.
It was supported by Messrs. Early, Nelson, Smilie, Macon, N. Williams, G. W. Campbell, Cook and Fisk—and opposed by Messrs. Jackson, Dawson, Dana and Elmer.
When the question was put, and the rising of the committee carried—Ayes 86.
Mr. Early gave notice that he should to-morrow move for the communication of information calculated to elucidate the subject.
On motion of Mr. Stanford, Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of changing the time of meeting of the circuit court of North-Carolina.
General Assembly of Virginia.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Tuesday, January 22, 1806.
A communication from the senate by their clerk.
The Senate have passed the bill, To amend the several acts concerning the inspection of tobacco, with several amendments, to which they request the concurrence of the house of delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the said amendments, and the same being read, were agreed to by the house.
An engrossed bill, To amend the act, entitled an act, to reduce into one the several acts, directing the course of descents, was read a third time and a blank therein filled up; and the question being put upon the passage of the said bill—it passed in the negative—Ayes 52—Noes 83.
Resolved, that the said bill be rejected.
Mr. Dixon presented, according to order, a bill, To amend the act, entitled an act, concerning hawkers and pedlars—which was received and read the first time; and the question being put upon the second reading of the bill—it passed in the negative.
Resolved, that the said bill be rejected.
A bill, To amend the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning the land-office; ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands; for settling the titles and bounds of lands; directing the mode of processioning and prescribing the duties of surveyors, (which lay on the table) was called up and read a second time; and the question being put upon engrossing the bill and reading it a third time—it passed in the negative.
Resolved, that the said bill be rejected.
A bill, Changing the course of the road to be established from Richmond to Staunton, (which lay on the table with an amendment as reported by the committee to whom it was committed) was taken up, and the said amendment read.
On motion, Ordered, that the further consideration of the said bill with the amendment be postponed to the 31st day of March next.
Wednesday, January 29, 1806.
A communication from the senate by their clerk.
The senate have passed the bill, More effectually to enforce the payment of cer-

tain fines into the public treasury—with several amendments, to which they request the concurrence of the house of delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments to the said bill, and the same being read, were agreed to by the house with an amendment.
Thursday, January 30, 1806. A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The senate have passed the bill, To amend and explain the act, concerning certain free school lands in the county of Elizabeth City—and the bill, Concerning the militia of the Borough of Norfolk.
They have also passed the bill, Giving further powers to the overseers of the poor in certain cases—and the bill, To incorporate a library company in the city of Richmond—with amendments.
They have also agreed to the resolutions, for appointing commissioners to prepare and draft a plan for the reformation and amendment of the judiciary system of this commonwealth, with amendments, to which several amendments to the last mentioned bills and resolutions, they request the concurrence of the house of delegates.—And
Their committee have examined several other enrolled bills, and having found them to be truly enrolled, the same have been signed by their speaker.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments to the said bills, and the same being read, were agreed to by the house.
Ordered, that the clerk acquaint the senate therewith.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments to the said resolutions, and the same being read, were in part agreed to by the house; when, on motion, Ordered, that the further consideration of the said resolutions, with the amendments, be postponed to the 31st day of March next.—Ayes 79—Noes 36.
Friday, Jan. 31st, 1806. A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The Senate have agreed to the amendment proposed by the house of Delegates to the amendments proposed by the Senate to the bill, More effectually to enforce the payment of certain fines into the public treasury.
They have passed the bill, To amend the act, entitled, an act, to class the counties and for other purposes; and
They have also passed the bill, To repeal in part the act, entitled, an act, to increase the reward for killing wolves; and the bill, To provide for the payment of expenses incurred by removing certain prisoners to the penitentiary house, with amendments, to which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments to the said bills, and the same being read, were agreed to by the house.
The following report, which was yesterday laid upon the table, was taken up and read:
The committee to whom was referred the letter of the superintendent of the manufactory of arms to the governor, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report—That they have examined all the estimates contained in the letter alluded to, and find that they are made with great ability and accuracy. They congratulate their fellow-citizens, that they have it now in their power to make their own arms much cheaper than they were formerly purchased, and of very superior quality; while the money expended circulates among themselves, and the institution serves in a great measure to increase their manufacturing knowledge and skill. Your committee conceive that nothing can be of more importance to a state, than to arm her citizens for the defence and protection of her independence, and their liberty.
Resolved therefore, as the opinion of this committee, that this institution merits the most efficient patronage of the Legislature.
The said resolution being read a second time, was, on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the house.
The following report, which was yesterday laid upon the table, was taken up and read:
The committee appointed to examine the Register's Office, have, according to order, performed that duty, and have come to the following report and resolution:—
It appears to your committee, that between the first day of January, 1805, and the 20th of January, 1806, there were received into the land-office 252 plats and certificates of survey—that in the year ending the first day of December, 1805, there issued 281 grants for lands; and that within the year ending the 20th of January, 1806, there issued 374 land warrants, of which 259 were new warrants to the amount of 48,915 acres, and 115 were exchange warrants to the amount of 58,437 acres.
It further appears to your committee, that owing to a variety of circumstances, the record of plats and certificates is in arrears as far back as November 1797, and that two additional clerks will be necessary for a few years to enable the Register to complete that record and perform the usual duties of his office.
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that a law ought to pass, enabling the Register to employ 3 additional clerks for the period of a year at a salary of $ 500 each.
The said resolution being read a second time, was amended by inserting in the
blank near the end thereof the word 'one.' Ordered, that a bill be brought in pursuant thereto, and that the committee who made the said report do prepare & bring in the same.
The house, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on a bill, Concerning the watermen of James and Appomattox rivers and their navigable branches above tide water; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. B. Harrison reported, that the committee had according to order, had the said bill under consideration, had gone through the same and made an amendment thereto, which he handed in at the clerk's table, where the same was read & agreed to by the house; On motion, ordered, that the further consideration of the said bill be postponed to the 31st day of March next.
The house proceeded to consider the bill, more effectually to provide for the distribution and preservation of the public arms, (which lay on the table with several amendments as reported from the committee of the whole house) and the said amendments being read, were agreed to by the house.
A motion was made to strike out of the bill the following words, 'no officer hereafter accepting a commission in the militia of this commonwealth, shall be at liberty to resign the same for the term of five years, without the consent of the regimental court of enquiry;' and the question being put upon striking out the said words, it passed in the negative.—Ayes 42—Noes 62.
Saturday, February 1st, 1806. A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The Senate have passed the bill, to amend an act, authorising Talbot Godwin to erect a toll bridge from the town of Suffolk over the Eastern branch of Nansemond river; and the bill, imposing taxes for the support of government.
They have also passed the following bills, to wit:—
A bill, authorising mill-dams to be built across the Monongahela river: Granting duplicates of certain certificates to Joseph Woodson and Carter B. Harrison: Concerning the Auditor; appointing commissioners to view the way for a navigable canal from Roanoke to Appomattox, and to amend the act concerning the high courts of chancery, with amendments to each, to which several amendments they request the concurrence of the house of Delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments to the bill, authorising mill-dams to be built across the Monongahela river, and the same being read, were disagreed to by the house.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments to the several other bills named in the communication of the Senate, and the same being severally read, were agreed to by the house.
To be sold, to the highest bidder, on the premises, by Prosser and Mencer, on Thursday, February 6th, 1806, at half past 3 o'clock, Two Half Acre Lots,
Numbered 14 and 15—situated on Shockoe hill, between Mr. Neece's and Mr. Mann's houses leading to Bacon branch, on a hick and dry snort. It will be sold in eight lots, four of which will corner on two streets. The terms of sale is one half cash, the balance in 9 months, by giving bond and approved security.
Washington & Jefferson Artillery.
ATTEND a meeting of the Company on Friday evening next, 5 o'clock, at Fletcher's Tavern—Punctual attendance is requested.
Citizens wishing to become members are requested to make it known to the members of the company previous to or at the time above stated.
H. Dabney, Capt.
TAKEN UP by the subscriber, a light colored brindle HEIFER, two years old, with a crop and underknee in her right, and a swallowfork in her left ear, a star in her face, her tail white half way up, her belly white and both of her hind feet white; pasted and appraised to five dollars. The above mentioned cattle is on my plantation in the fork of James river, in the county of Albemarle, about six miles from Charlottesville.
Garland Carr.
24th December, 1805. BY THE GOVERNOR OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS it is represented to the Executive by the Keeper of the Penitentiary, that two of the prisoners therein confined, to wit: JOHN TRAMBLE and ISAAC HARRIS, have made their escape from the Penitentiary; I have, therefore, thought fit with the advice of the Council of State, to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS for the apprehension of each, or either of the said prisoners and for their delivery at the Penitentiary; and I do, moreover, enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the Penitentiary the said John Tramble and Isaac Harris.
Given under my hand, with the Seal of the commonwealth annexed, at Richmond, this 3d day of February, 1806. (Signed) Wm. H. CABELL.
John Tramble was convicted of Horse Stealing before the District Court of Washington, in the spring of 1805, and sentenced to five years and five months confinement. He was born in Maryland; is 5 feet 7 1-2 inches high; 25 years old; fair complexion; light hair; grey eyes; has a niche in his left ear; scars in his forehead, and a shoemaker by trade.
Isaac Harris was convicted of larceny before the District Court of Monongahela in the spring of 1805, and sentenced to two years confinement. He was born in the county of Wood, in this state, is five feet nine inches high, 18 years old, swarthy complexion, dark hair and hazel eyes.
COMMITTED to the Jail of this County, the 15th of December last, a bright Mulatto Woman, says her name is Nancy, and that she belongs to a Mr. Thos. Hughes of Georgia, and was on her way to that place, when she eloped from him in this county; says she was purchased by Thomas Hughes in the state of Maryland; appears to be about twenty five years of age.—The owner is requested to come forward, pay charges and take her away, or she will be dealt with as the law directs.
John Williamson, Keeper of the Jail. Prince Edward C. H. Jan. 23, 1806.
Ready made PENS for sale here.
VIRGINIA ARGUS.
RICHMOND:
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1806.
RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Items include Tobacco, Wheat, Flour, Corn, Hemp, Iron, Whiskey. Prices are listed in dollars and cents.
It is expected the General Assembly of this Commonwealth will close their session this afternoon.
FOR THE ARGUS.
It will be remembered by the readers of the Argus, that from the report of the committee of finance, published in that paper some time since, it appeared that the expenses of the government between the 1st of October 1805, and 30th of September 1806, exceeded the resources of the state $41,584.92. This report was referred to a committee of the whole house, and was considered by that committee the 25th ultimo; when Mr. Wooding whose attention had been drawn to this subject, offered the following as an amendment to that part of the report of the committee of finance relating to the resources of the state, and resolutions relative to an increase of taxes.
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This amendment was agreed to in committee of the whole; and the house agreed to the amendment by a very great majority. This subject invited much discussion; the particular friends of the report of the committee of finance exerted themselves to support that report; whilst Mr. Wooding was equally anxious to prove the correctness of his amendment; upon the final question on this subject, 113 members were in favor of Mr. Wooding's amendment, 11 only against it. The consequence will be, that instead of the deficiency reported by the committee, there appears to be a surplus of 180,000 dollars in favor of the state; a resolution was therefore agreed to, declaring that it is inexpedient and unnecessary to increase the permanent revenue taxes of the state; and a bill was introduced and passed, imposing taxes similar to those of the last year.
FOR THE ARGUS.
Theatrical exhibitions are not only amusing, but instructive, when judiciously selected and properly represented. Richmond can now boast of a new, commodious play-house, and lucky would it be for her, indeed, if the company of Comedians employed for the entertainment of her citizens were equal to the mansion. They cannot, as yet, complain for the want of patronage—it has been very liberally extended; and the public have a right to expect, in return, at least some small exertions, on the part of the performers, to please and entertain. It is recommended to the prompter not to speak so loud in future, as he is often distinctly heard by most of the audience in the pit. To remedy this superfluous rejection, it is recommended to some of the fraternity of the buskin to devote more time to the study of the respective parts assigned them.
HUNDREDS.
IN SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
JANUARY 22, 1806.
Mr. SMITH of Maryland, agreeably to notice given yesterday, asked and obtained leave to bring in the following bill, which was read and ordered to a second reading.
A BILL.
For classing the Militia, and assigning to each class its particular duties. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress Assembled, That every free able bodied white male citizen of the United States of the age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five, whose principal occupation is not on the high sea, or the tide waters within the United States, shall be of the militia for the land service of the United States. The persons so to constitute the land militia, shall be enrolled by their names and ages, in their proper districts, and in books kept for that purpose; such enrolment to be made without delay of those now within the description, and from time to time as to others who shall hereafter become so, always noting the date of the enrolment, & placing in a distinct page, or part
of the book, those of every different year of age, from forty-five down to eighteen. The said militia shall be distributed into classes as follows, to wit:—the junior class shall be composed of those above twenty-one, and under twenty-six years of age; the middle class, of those above twenty-six, and under thirty-five years of age; the senior class of those above thirty-five, and under forty-five years of age; and those above eighteen, and under twenty-one years of age shall compose the minor class.
The junior class shall be liable to perform all active services within the United States, or the countries next adjacent, by tours of duty, not to exceed one year in any two; and in order that the said services may be required of them equally, those of every battalion shall by its commanding officer be immediately divided by lot into ten parts, or portions, as nearly equal as may be; each portion to be distinguished by its particular number from one to ten, and to be called into duty in the order of their numbers, such call extending to so many numbers as the exigency may require; and every person so called on, may be assigned to the service of the artillery, infantry, cavalry, or of any other description, as the competent authority shall direct.
In consideration of the assiduous discipline required from the junior class, and of the services they shall have performed, or been liable to perform while in it, they shall never after passing into the middle class, be liable to actual service, but where the junior class for the time being is inadequate to the exigency; and then in their own or one of the adjoining states only, and by tours not exceeding three months in any year; for which purpose they shall be distributed into portions and numbers, and called on in routine, as is provided in the case of the junior class.
The senior and minor classes shall be liable to be called on, to do duty within their own state only, and by tours not exceeding three months in any year; and they shall be separately distributed into portions and numbers, and called on in routine as provided for the other classes. Exemptions from militia duty except in cases of religious scruple against bearing arms, shall only extend to the ordinary duties of mustering and disciplining, after having entered the middle or senior class, but all exemptions shall be enrolled in their classes and numbers and when called on for actual military service, shall be bound as others are to perform their duties.
If any person called on to do the actual duties of his class, shall refuse, or unnecessarily delay to enter on duty, he shall be arrested as a deserter either by the civil or military authority, shall be delivered to the proper military officer, and either punished as a deserter, or compelled to perform his tour of duty. But any person so called on, may commute his personal service, by tendering as a substitute, an able bodied white man, a citizen of the United States, fit for the service in the judgment of the officer who is to command him, and willing to engage therein. And all persons while engaged in performing a tour of duty, shall have the pay and rations allowed in the army of the United States and be subject to the rules, regulations, and articles, provided for the government of the same.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all provisions in any law of the United States, or of any particular state, or territory, inconsistent with those of this act, are hereby repealed: and all provisions in the laws of the United States or of any particular state or territory not inconsistent herewith, shall be understood to be left in force, and liable to alteration by their respective enacting authorities.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman, dated Wythe, Virg. Dec. 27, 1805.
"I cannot omit amusing you, with some items of a late discovery in this county. About two miles east of Gen. Wampler's, an attempt was made, to sink a pit, to search for salt water. A few feet below the surface, have been found several bones of the mammoth of an unusually large size. One tooth is said to weigh 17lb. and proves it to be a creature that fed on herbage. With these bones are intermixed a number of that of an animal of the largest species of the carnivorous kind; also a number of bones of young or smaller mammoths; and one might conjecture from appearances, that these carcasses have not been more than one hundred years deposited in the earth. Entire pieces of reed, six inches long, and twigs of the pine tree, are found in a large bed of dung, supposed to have been in the intestines of the mammoth, when it was killed. Our acquaintance, the Rev. Mr. Sionger, is busy in good weather, in having a full search made, for the whole skeleton, which if he succeeds, it probably will give further information concerning the nature and properties of a species of animals now extinct."
Extract of another letter from the same gentleman, dated
Wythe, Jan. 4th, 1806.
SIR, I wrote you in haste about two weeks ago. This day I went to the spot where the Mammoth bones are found, and with my own eyes satisfied my own curiosity. The teeth, or rather the grinders as larger than those I have seen, that were found at Campbell's Saline on Holstein, or even those at the Big bone Lick in Kentucky; these grinders and the substances that appear to have been in the entrails, prove that this monster of the fo-
rest has been a creature that fed on herbage. But the singular appearance of this new Lick, and the variety of large bones already dug up, proves, that a part of them belonged to large animals of a carnivorous species. A large tusk or horn has been found, inserted in the head or rather upper jaw, about two feet long, and eight inches in circumference. There have been seven under jaw bones already found of this latter animal, as Mr. Michael Kinsar informs, on whose land this curious deposit is found; by the shape of the horn, and its place so near the nose, the smaller animal may have been a species of the Rhinoceros, one kind of which is said to be the Unicorn of the ancients. But how so many of them have been laid prostrate in the same spot with the Mammoth, and of those by the teeth found, there must have been several, makes the whole a matter of some admiration. Bishop Madison will be disappointed in getting an entire skeleton; the bones, at least several of them after having been exposed several days in the open air become very brittle, and the country people have carried off several; the teeth, particularly the grinders of the Mammoth, are in a good state of preservation, and may bear transportation any where.
Richmond Academy Lottery, SECOND CLASS.
Table with 2 columns: Prize, No. Prizes. Prizes range from 100 dollars to 25 dollars. Numbers of prizes are listed.
FOR THE ARGUS.
THE FAREWELL.
New Autumn pours her chilling breeze, And strews the yellow leaves around, Now on the faded forest trees The pigeons wild in flocks are found. November brings the season cold; And Summer's verdant charms are o'er. M***** now is twelve years old; And she will go to school no more. No more the unkind, unthinking boys, With taunts ungenerous, low and rude, Shall vex and mar her infant joys; Or on her simple sports intrude. Cease partial parents to complain, To ask "who's head?" you may give o'er, She will no longer give you pain: For now she goes to school no more.
Already she has proven it true That genius still gains envy's frown; Instead of praise, to merit due, Detraction is incur'd alone. But ah! what griefs await her years! The smiling morn of life is o'er. What sorrows in this vale of tears! For now she goes to school no more. But let unkind reflections cease, Let only tender thoughts here dwell, Let love, let harmony increase; And hear M*****'s last farewell. "Farewell school-master! and likewise My school mates all! our plays are o'er. No more I'll join your clam'rous joys; For now I go to school no more."
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Mr. GUGO offered the following resolution in the House of Representatives of the United States on Wednesday last, which was ordered to be printed.
Whereas Great Britain impresses citizens of the U. States, & compels them to serve on board her ships of war, and also seizes and condemns vessels belonging to citizens of the United States, & their cargoes being the bona fide property of American citizens, not contraband of war, & not proceeding to places besieged or blockaded, under the pretext of their being engaged in time of war in a trade with her enemies which was not allowed in time of peace;
And whereas the government of the United States has repeatedly remonstrated against the British government against these injuries, and demanded satisfaction therefor, but without effect;
Therefore, Resolved, That until equitable and satisfactory arrangements on these points shall be made between the two governments, it is expedient that from & after the _____ day of _____ no goods, wares, or merchandise, of the growth, produce, or manufacture of Great Britain, or of any of the colonies or dependencies thereof ought to be imported into the U. States. Provided, however, that whenever arrangements deemed satisfactory by the president of the United States shall take place, it shall be lawful for him by proclamation to fix a day on which the prohibition aforesaid shall cease.
A Remarkable Cow,
WHICH exhibited nearly opposite the court house, in this place a few days. This animal was taken wild in the northern part of the state of New Hampshire, and is supposed to be part Moose. It has SIX LEGS, four of which resembles those of ordinary cattle, and are used for walking—the other two rise out of the fore shoulder, in an erect posture, and can be folded upon the back, where there is a hollow which will hold two quarts of water. One of these legs is large and perfect, having the hoof complete; the other is smaller, and has only one half of the hoof. Also, to be seen, HER CALF, which is equally remarkable for the same Phenomena. The inhabitants of Richmond are repeatedly requested, not to neglect the present opportunity of viewing these extraordinary Phenomena of Nature.
Admittance 25 cents—Children half price. February 4, 2 6 1/2.

WANTED , as House-keeper in a large family, an elderly lady, who can come well recommended. Liberal wages will be given. Enquire of the printer. Nov. 6, 1805.
Fall & Winter Goods. The subscribers have received, and are now opening a considerable part of their WOOLLENS; Among which are Bales of assorted Rose & Duffil Blankets, Do. Nap'd Cottons, Do. Yarn & Plaid Hose, Do. White & Coloured Plains, Do. Kerseys & Halfthicks, Do. 6-4 & 7-4 Coatings, plain and strip'd, Do. Cloths, assorted colours and prices, Do. Forrest Cloths, Boxes Men's Hats assorted prices, Irish Linens, Long Lawns, Diapers, &c. Also--An assortment of HARDWARE, CUTLERY and NAILS. In addition to which, they daily expect on the arrival of the Sulphur from London, a large assortment of FASHIONABLE GOODS, Which will be offered for sale on their usual terms. GILLIAT & KIRBY. October 4, 1805.
Forty Dollars Reward. RUN away from the subscriber living in Granville county, North Carolina, in March last, two bright mulatto fellows; one by the name of BARTLEY, about 35 years of age, he has but little to say, and appears to be very humble; he is a tolerable good Shoemaker and Cooper, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, and he is a well set negro. GEORGE is about 25 years of age, about 6 feet high, spare made, but a very active negro, fond of drink, and a very forward saucy fellow. I expect they have obtained free passes and will endeavor to pass for free negroes; it is probable they are lurking about Manchester, Richmond or Petersburg; they were seen in Manchester a few days past. Any person taking them up and confining them in jail, so that I get them, shall have the above reward, or 20 dollars for either, paid by the subscriber. LEWIS HENING. June 5th, 1805.
Geo. Wait HAS removed from the store he formerly occupied to a brick house on the cross street leading from the main street to Shockoe Warehouse, where he has on hand and offers to dispose of an assortment of goods, by wholesale. The following Articles, viz: Leaf and Muscovado Sugars, N. England, W. Island, and Antigua Rum, Cognac, Barcarolona Apple Brandy, Sherry and Malaga Wine, Coffee of a superior quality, Molasses, Ginger and Fig Blue, Young Hysan and Imperial Tea, 400 Sacks Liverpool Salt, Patent Shot, assorted sizes--And The remainder of his stock of Dry Goods, consisting principally of articles suited to the present and approaching season, which he will either sell on a credit of 3, 6 and 9 months, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorsers, or barter for Tobacco, Flour or Hemp. Cash given for Tobacco. Richmond, 22d March, 1805.
To be Rented, A NEW BRICK HOUSE, two stories high, with dormer windows, with eight fire places in each tenement. The house was built to accommodate two families. It lies on the main street on Shockoe hill, a little above Major Wolfe's. Wm. DU-VAL. December 16, 1805.
S. JACOBS HAS FOR SALE, GUN POWDER of superior quality, by the Keg. S. J. assures himself that from his attention in procuring this article only of an excellent quality and the reasonable rate at which he sells it--he will not only meet a competition of his customers, but be enabled to supply (much to their satisfaction) all those who are in the habit of retailing it. October 29th, 1805.
Fashionable Goods. Ready made White Satin Pelices various dark coloured silk do. Florence Silk and Satin Spencers elegant Souffle Dresses. Rich Brocaded and Figured Satins Plain & figured Lennan and Piquet Muslins A handsome variety of plain, check'd and strip'd Saracens Ladies' Tabou'd Neck Handkerchiefs Lace Sleeves and Shoulder Ornaments; Which, with a general assortment of Seasonable Goods, are offered for sale at moderate prices, by A. B. MYERS. Richmond, 24th Dec. 1805.
Blank Bonds For sale at this office.
Manchester Turnpike Company. NINTH RESOLUTION. THE shareholders of said company are hereby required to pay into the hands of James Brander, Treasurer, the additional sum of ten dollars on each share, on or before the 8th day of February next.
Delinquent Shares on former Resolutions. NOTICE is hereby given that all the shares upon which there shall appear to be due delinquencies of former requisitions, will be offered for sale, at Mr. Brooks's Tavern, in Manchester, on the 11th day of February next, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon. By order of the Directors, JAMES BRANDER, clk. December 24, 1805.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber, by Jacob Mauldin, of Buckingham county, to secure the payment of a debt due to James Murphy & Co. therein expressed, will certainly be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Saturday the first day of February next, at New-Market, in Amherst county, before the store door of the said James Murphy & Co. The Following Property, to wit: Lucy and her two children, Milly and Nancy, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to discharge the said debt, with interest and charges. John Higginbotham, Trustee. Warminster, Dec. 25th, 1805.
General Office of Insurance. JANUARY 8th, 1806. THE general meeting of the Mutual Insurance Company against Fire on Goods and Furniture, in the state of Virginia, which took place this day, agreeably to notice previously given, in the public papers, was too thin to authorise any proceedings, as to the general concerns of the company. The meeting was therefore adjourned until 10 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday the fourth day of next month. As the affairs of the company are in such a state as to require immediately, immediate attention, and as most of the members are now liable to incur all the disadvantages of the institution, without a possibility of being, in any degree, benefited by it, should any accident occur to them, it is earnestly hoped, as a matter of the first consequence to their individual interests, that they will be pointed in attending the said meeting, either personally or by proxy. Wm. H. Fitzwhylson, P. Agent. Richmond.
Marshal's Sales. To be Sold, for ready money, under a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth Circuit in the Virginia District between Pinnies Bond, attorneys for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross and others defendants in order to raise the sum of dollars 567 89, due and payable on the first day of July 1805 and the further sum of dollars 1666 66, due and payable the first day of January, 1806, that valuable and well known estate in the county of Botetourt, called FORT LEWIS, stated by said Ross to contain 2608 acres. The sale will take place on the premises on the 27th day of February next. Also, on the 4th day of March next, will be sold, under the aforesaid decree at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, a number of valuable SLAVES. Ben. Mosby, D. M. for Jos. Scott, M. V. D. January 13, 1806.
Threshing Machines, Of the best kind: they thresh out with ease from seventy to eighty bushels of grain in a day with two horses and five hands. Gentlemen who wish to purchase will please to send letters to Farnivale in Prince Edward county, directed to 3w Wm. S. Walton.
District of Virginia, to wit: BE it remembered, that on the ninth day of January, in the thirtieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Seabrook of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a Map or Plan of the City of Richmond, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "A Map, or Plan of the City of Richmond, By JOHN SEABROOK" In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the term therein mentioned." Wm. Marshall, Clerk of Virginia District.
PROPOSALS for publishing the above Map, or Plan may be seen at all the Book-Stores in this city; where gentlemen wishing to possess themselves of one or more impressions thereof, are respectfully invited to bestow their encouragement at an early period that the proprietor may be the better enabled to have the work executed with neatness and dispatch. The proprietor presumes it obvious to every one, that in a primary work of this nature, there will be many difficulties to surmount, much labor to be borne, and inevitable expense incurred, whilst the reward is in prospect; which though never so fair and flattering, may nevertheless prove deceptive, and disappoint his well founded hopes; to obviate which calamity in a degree, a small part of the premium is stipulated for in advance; the terms being six dollars, one of which to be paid at the time of subscribing, and the balance when the plan is delivered. Should the proprietor be advised thereto, he will transmit his proposals to some of the principal cities and towns within the state--In the mean time any gentleman at a distance willing to encourage the undertaking by becoming a subscriber thereto, shall be considered such by directing a letter to the proprietor expressive of that will. Richmond, January 10, 1806.
New Virginia Justice, Containing the Duties of a Justice of Peace, & together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease & re-lease, mortgage, trust, &c. FOR SALE at S. PLEASANTS' BOOK-STORE.
A Valuable Manufacturing MILL TO RENT. ON Monday the 6th day of March next, will be rented to the highest bidder, for one year, that valuable Manufacturing and Grist MILL, in the county of Amelia, belonging to the estate of the late Col. John Royall, dec. It is situated near the mouth of a never-failing stream, almost immediately upon the river Appomattox, distant about 45 miles from Petersburg, and 40 from Manchester. This mill possesses the great advantage of an abundant supply of water throughout the driest season, and its local situation is such as to afford it complete protection against the highest freshests we have yet known. The toll corn she receives amounts annually to 200 barrels and upwards. There is one pair of Burr stones and one set of Bolting cloths, both of which are of very superior quality, and the whole works have lately undergone a thorough repair. The flour manufactured here and sent to Petersburg and Richmond for sale, has uniformly commanded as much, and in many instances more, than flour made any at other mill. Attached to the mill are about 23 acres of land, upon which has lately been erected a commodious store and lumber house, cooper's shop, blacksmith's shop, stables, and some other out houses, all of which will be rented with the mill. A mercantile establishment at this place, connected with the manufacturing business, it is believed would succeed very well. The above property will be rented upon the premises. Bond and security will be required to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. William Royall, Guardian of the Orphans. January 8th, 1806.
Notice. PROPOSITIONS will be received by the Executive, for the purchase of EIGHT CONDEMNED NEGROES, reprieved for transportation, under the act "to empower the Governor to transport slaves condemned, when it shall be deemed expedient."
FOR SALE, THE HOUSE and LOT, on Shockoe Hill, lately occupied by Mr. William Berkeley, and at present occupied by Mr. Andrew Troum. For term, apply to Will. W. Dickinson. Richmond, 14th Jan. 1806.
Wagons & Teams, One of six horses, wagon gears and the necessary appendages; the other six miles, wagon gears, &c. Both have been used in hauling coal, and judging by the quantity hauled last year, are capable of doing as much as any others so employed. On receiving a part of the money, a credit will be allowed for the balance. A purchaser can be accommodated with an extra mule, or horse to each team; and may have it in his power to employ both drivers at a moderate hire, for a part, or for the residue of the year, as may be agreed on. I would also sell a MARE, and a valuable MULE both well suited to the purposes of a plantation; the mule is perhaps as large as any in the state. JAMES BRANDER. Manchester, 20th Jan. 1806.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by John Harden, to secure to Brown, Rives & company the payment of a sum of money as expressed therein, will be sold on Saturday the first day of March next, on the premises, for ready money, a certain Tract or parcel of Land, Situate, lying and being in the county of Amherst, containing by estimation three hundred acres, be the same more or less, it being the same tract of land that was devised by Groves Harden, to a certain Edward Harden, and by him sold to the said John Harden--and also the following SLAVES, viz: Tumbler, Alice, Will, Peter, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge the balance that may be found due from the said John Harden to the said Brown, Rives & company, and all charges attending the same. John Higginbotham, trustee. Warminster 15th Jan. 1806.
Slaves for Sale. ON Monday the 10th February next, will be sold at Hanover Town, five or six VALUABLE SLAVES, to the highest bidder, for ready money. January 20th, 1806.
FOUND, on the counter of Lownes & Pie, a SMALL SUM OF MONEY which the owner may have again by paying the expense of this advertisement. January 27th, 1806.
THE WHOLE OF THE SUBSCRIPTIONS TO THE LATE EDITION OF THE Debates of the Convention, Published by Messrs. Ritchie & Worsley and Augustine Davis having been transferred by those gentlemen to Samuel Pleasants, Jun. subscribers will please to take notice, that the books will be delivered by him (only) in Richmond and by such persons as he may appoint for the purpose in other places.
For Sale. THE subscriber will sell at public Sale, on the 6th day of March--THE TRACT OF LAND, whereon he now lives, lying in Halifax county, containing by estimation about 700 acres. There is on the above tract as much cleared land as will employ six or eight hands to advantage--a large two story house, having three rooms and a passage on the lower floor, with the same number on the upper--a good kitchen, workhouse, granary, stable, and all other convenient out-houses--Also, a corn mill, on a small stream, which adds considerably to the value of the place. On the same day and place, will be offered for sale 25 valuable SLAVES, consisting of men, women and children--Between 30 and 40 head of Cattle--about 5 or 6 head of Horses, among which is a young stud, four years old next spring, of the Medley blood--also, a high bred Mare by Old Diomed, six years old next spring, and a horse colt out of the said mare, got by Whip, a year old in the spring. The terms of the sale will be, one half in cash, and the balance in two instalments of nine and twelve months. The sale will be on the land. William Thompson. January 10 1806.
FOR SALE. MY tract of land, in Goochland County, on the waters of Lickinghole Creek, about 43 miles from Richmond and six miles from Cartersville, containing about 600 acres, of which 50 acres are creek low grounds, the greater part of which is well ditched. About two thirds of the land is cleared and in good order for cropping, with all necessary houses for a family and a farm. For terms apply to me on the premises, or to Mr. Arch'd Bryce, jr. William Britt. Goochland, Dec. 18. 1805.
At a Court continued and held for Halifax county, the twenty-ninth day of November, 1805. Berryman Green and Nancy his wife, late Nancy Terry, daughter of Nathaniel Terry, deceased, plaintiffs. Against William Terry, son and executor of Nathaniel Terry, dec. Joseph Terry, Nathaniel Terry, James Thompson and Polly Thompson his wife, late Polly Terry, Robert Terry, Keeble Terry and Sarah his wife, the said Joseph, Nathaniel, Polly, Robert and Sarah being also children of Nathaniel Terry, deceased; John Martin who married Elizabeth Dickerson, another child of the said Nathaniel Terry, dec. & who hath departed this life, John Chaney & Sarah Royall his wife, late Sarah Royall Martin, Marshall Martin, Nathaniel Terry Martin, John Elmore and Nancy his wife late Nancy Martin, William Martin, Polly Martin, John Martin, Edmund Martin and Abraham Martin, the said Sarah Royall, Marshall, Nathaniel Terry, Nancy, William, Polly, John, Edmund and Abraham, being children of the said John Martin and Elizabeth Dickerson his wife, and the said William, Polly, John, Edmund and Abraham being infants under the age of twenty one years. defendants. The defendants John Martin, John Chaney and Sarah Royall his wife, John Elmore and Nancy his wife, Marshall Martin and Nathaniel Martin, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this country: On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the fourth Monday in March next and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy--Teste, John Wimbish, c. h. c.
Lost or Mislaid, ROBERT ANDERSON's acceptance to Richard Anderson's order on him in our favor (or in favor of John Hobson, jr. at present it is not recalled which) for thirty seven pounds ten shillings, dated 27th May, 1805. All persons are cautioned against trading for the same, as proper steps have been taken to prevent the payment to any but the subscribers. Hobson & St. John. New-Canton, 13th Jan. 1806.
Valuable tract of Land, Late the property of John Salle, dec. in Chesterfield county, known by the name of the GUM SWAMP, containing 500 acres, on the turnpike road, ten miles above Manchester, the buildings on which are commodious. One half of the purchase money will be required in hand, and the other in twelve months. ISAAC SALLE. January 25, 1806.
THE HOUSE & KITCHEN FURNITURE, Stock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, Crop of Corn, Fodder, Oats and Cotton; together with the Plantation Utensils. A credit will be given for all sums above ten dollars, till 25th December next, by giving bond with approved security, bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid. THE EXECUTORS. January 24th, 1805.
FOR SALE, At S. Pleasants' Book-Store, Richmond: THE HISTORY OF THE DECLINE & FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. By EDWARD GIBBON, Esq. In eight volumes. TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS THE YOUNGER IN GREECE, During the middle of the fourth century, before the Christian era. By the ABBE BARTHELEMI, Keeper of the medals in the Cabinet of the king of France, and member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belle Lettres. Translated from the French--In four volumes--First American Edition.
THE HISTORY OF THE PROGRESS & TERMINATION OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC By ADAM FERGUSON, LL. D. F. R. S. Late professor of moral philosophy in the University of Edinburgh; member of the Royal Academy at Berlin; of the Royal Academy at Florence, of the Etruscan society of Antiquaries at Cortona, and of the Arcadia at Rome. The first American edition--In two volumes.
MODERN GEOGRAPHY. A DESCRIPTION OF THE Empires, Kingdoms, States and Colonies; WITH THE Oceans, Seas, and Isles, in all parts of the world: including the most recent discoveries, and political alterations--Digested on a new plan. By JOHN PINKERTON. The astronomical introduction by the Rev. S. VINCE, A. M. F. R. S. and plumian professor of astronomy and experimental philosophy in the University of Cambridge--With numerous MAPS, drawn under the direction, and with the latest improvements, of Arrowsmith, and engraved by the best American artists. To the whole are added a Catalogue of the best Maps, and Books or Travels and Voyages, in all languages: and an ample Index. CORR'S CELEBRATED PATENT METALLIC HONES, Are for sale at this Office.
Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale, 950 acres of that valuable tract of LAND, belonging to the late Col. Bernard Markham, dec. about three miles above Manchester and lying upon the river Appomattox, several very convenient mill seats; this tract possesses many advantages which would be considerable to a purchaser. It is now under high cultivation, inclosed in a good fence and well watered; two thirds of the above tract is covered with valuable timber, and lies convenient either to the turnpike or river. The above land if not disposed of privately, prior to the 1st day of May, will then be offered at public auction, on the premises, in lots to suit purchasers. Any person wishing to view it, will be shown it by the subscriber, or in his absence by William Bowles residing thereon. George Markham. December 24th, 1805.
Valuable Family Medicines. Just received direct from the Patentees, and for SALE at this Office, the following Valuable Medicines. Dr. Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachal Bitters. Prepared by THOMAS H. RAWSON, member of the Connecticut Medical Society. THESE Bitters have undoubtedly had the most rapid sale of any Patent Medicine ever before discovered, and are justly appreciated for their singular and uncommon virtues for restoring weak and decayed constitutions, and all that train of complicated complaints so common in the spring and fall seasons, such as intermittent Fevers and Augues long Autumnal Fevers, Dysenteries, &c. They are also a very pleasant bitter for common use, and where they are known they have taken the place and superceded the use of all other bitters in public houses as well as in private families. Dr. Lee's (Windham) Bitters Pills. The great sale and increasing demand for these valuable pills for these twelve years past, bespeak their intrinsic worth. They have proved singularly efficacious in Bilious and Yellow Fevers, Jaundice, Head Ache, Dysenteries, Bilious Cholera, Coffiness, Female complaints, &c. The very great demand and high esteem in which these pills are held throughout the United States and the West Indies, has induced many to counterfeit them; the purchaser is requested to observe that the name of Samuel Lee, jun. (the patentee) is affixed to each bill of directions, in his own hand writing, or they will not be genuine.
Dr. Rawson's Itch Ointment. A certain and safe application for that disagreeable complaint called the ITCH. Dr. Rawson's Anti-Bilious Pills, or Family Physic. The extraordinary celebrity these pills have gained, the universal demand for them and esteem of which they are held by medical men of the first eminence, are sufficient testimonials of their intrinsic worth. In great colds and sudden attacks of disorders, an early use of these pills often produces the happiest effects, and taken once in eight or ten days in cases of indigestion, headache, dizziness, pains in the stomach and bowels, dysenteries, diarrheas, dropsies, &c. and a liberal use of my anti-bilious bitters in the intermediate time has relieved patients almost to a miracle.
For jaundice & bilious complaints, WHEATON'S Genuine Patent Bitters, Price only 50 cents. Secured to him by Letter Patent from the President of the United States. A MEDICINE extremely useful and efficacious for curing jaundice and bilious disorders, and removing that sinking, faint and distressed feeling at the stomach, difficulty of breathing, loss of appetite and sleepy, dull heaviness in the forepart of the day, weakness and trembling of the limbs, dizziness of the head, and yellowness of countenance, complaints so common to jaundice and bilious people. Also, removing obstructions of the bowels, and of urine, cholicky complaints, pukings and purgings, indigestion, sick head ache, rheumatic complaints, &c. which arise from a collection of four bilious matter in the stomach, and at length restoring the constitution to strength and vigor. They are also found very useful to carry off worms, and to cure rickety children, and may be used with safety in all conditions, ages and sexes. The many cures that have been effected in New England, by the above medicine (as may be seen in the bills) prevent the necessity of further recommendation. LIKEWISE, Wheaton's patent Itch Ointment, Price only 50 cents. The only medicine in the world which will certainly cure the ITCH, without having in it anything either dangerous or disagreeable: it being composed mostly of ingredients never before discovered or used in that disorder. One box cures a person, and there need be no washing after the use of it, as the skin is generally left cleaner and smoother. ALSO, Rawson's celebrated Bitters & Lee's genuine Windham Antibilious Pills. The above medicines are for sale at this office.
The high bred and celebrated running Horse, MARSKE, By Diomed, will be let to mares the ensuing season, at my stable; his pedigree, his performance, &c will be fully advertised before the season commences, which will be on the first day of March. Gentlemen may have their mares covered as early as they please. HEN. WILLIE. Charlotte county, 20th Jan. 1806.
BUZZARD, Imported by the late Col. John Hobson, of the Bowling Green, will stand the ensuing season, at my farm in Chesterfield county, four miles from Godee's and Beverley's Bridges, on a pponattox river, twenty five above Petersburg; he came from Richmond, and fifteen from Amelia courthouse. Terms, &c to be made known hereafter. THOMAS BRANCH. 24th January, 1806.
William & Mary Lottery, COMMENCED drawing the middle of this month, and will be continued till all the tickets are drawn. Tickets may be had at S. Pleasants' printing office. Jan. 30.
BEST CABBAGE AND OTHER Garden Seeds, Of last year's growth, for SALE at ISAAC H. JUDAH'S STORE. Richmond, January 28th, 1806.