The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-01-11 00:00:00

THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, (Virginia) PUBLISHED BY RITCHIE & WORSLEY, OPPOSITE THE POST OFFICE... AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM... payable in advance.
NUMBER 76.]
FRIDAY MORNING, JANUARY 11, 1805.
[VOLUME 1.]
CONDITIONS.
 I. The ENQUIRER will appear twice a week... During the session of Congress and the Virginia Legislature, either a third paper or a supplementary half-sheet, during the week.  II. Terms of payment FIVE DOLLARS per annum, in advance.  III. ADVERTISEMENTS, from those who do not subscribe to the paper, should they not exceed a square in length, shall be inserted for seventy-five cents the first time, fifty cents for each time during three weeks, and for every additional insertion thirty-three cents; long ones in the same proportion.  IV. SUBSCRIBERS shall have their advertisements inserted for fifty cents the first time, and thirty-three cents for every additional insertion. 
Sales at Auction.
WILL BE SOLD , on Saturday the 11th inst. on the premises, the NEW BRICK HOUSE adjoining Mr. Nathaniel Shepard's, on the hill.  Terms of payment, 1-3 cash, 1-3 in 3 months, and the remaining 1-3 in six months. Notes negotiable in the Bank of Virginia will be required, by  THOMAS TAYLOR, & Co. V. M. January 9.
Sales at Auction.
By Virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to the subscribers by Mr. Bartlett Still, of the city of Richmond, for the purpose of securing the payment of his note to Messrs. Lemuel Wells, & Co. of New York, for six thousand three hundred and twenty-two Dollars seventeen Cents, with interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, from the 21st day of May last,
WILL BE SOLD , to raise the aforesaid sum and interest, together with the expenses attending the execution of said trust, for ready money, on the premises, on Saturday the 2d day of February ensuing, between the hours of 11 and 1 o'clock, that LOT OF GROUND on the north side of the Main-street, next above the Bell Tavern, with the Brick-buildings thereon, at present in the occupancy of Messrs. St. John & Gwathmey and John Richard, Esq. The buildings are insured, and the title to the property is believed to be unexceptionable. A conveyance with special warranty will be made by the subscribers.
PROSSER & MONCURE, Trustees & V. M. December 25. [eds.]
Auction Sales.
THOMAS TAYLOR & Co.  WILL IN FUTURE sell at the store occupied by M. W. Hancock & Co. on Wednesday's in each week; and at their office, on Tuesday and Friday at 12 o'clock.  Dec. 1, 1804. [eptf.]
25 Shares in the Virginia Bank WANTED IMMEDIATELY:  for which a liberal price will be given.  THOMAS NORVELL. Jan. 8. tf
BILLS ON NEW-YORK, At Ten to Sixty Days sight—FOR SALE BY M. W. HANCOCK & CO. Dec. 22. tf
Irish Linen and Madeira Wine.
JOHN HENRY has imported in the ship LATONA, captain Thurston, from Liverpool, a few small boxes of well assorted 4-4ths IRISH LINEN, purchased in Dublin in July; which, with fine old London particular MADEIRA WINE, in pipes and half pipes, he offers for sale on moderate terms.  Nov. 7. eptf.
CASH
WILL BE GIVEN for 19 or 15 BOYS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers.  Dec. 15. [eptf.]
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE DEBTORS OF
ROSS & FORD,  THAT in compliance with my duty as assignee I shall commence suits indiscriminately against all those who do not come forward and give assurances when payment may be expected.  December 22. (H) NEIL MCDOUGL.
IRISH LINENS & 5-4 IRISH SHEETINGS.
THE SUBSCRIBERS have just received from Belfast a handsome assortment of 7-8ths & 4-4ths IRISH LINENS, and 5-4th IRISH SHEETINGS, which they will sell on moderate terms.  ELLIS & ALLEN. December 20. [ep 4w.]
FARMINGDALE NURSERY.
THE SUBSCRIBER has FOR SALE, for the present season, at his Nursery, adjoining the Borough of Newfield,  10000 WORKED FRUIT TREES; Confessing of Apples, Peaches, Pears, Cherries, Apricots, Plums, Raspberries, &c. &c. selected from all parts of this state, from the Nursery to the Northward, and from England. The stunted growth of the fruit trees will be finished with the growth of the fruit trees being more one hundred sorts. He has also for sale a quantity of Lombardy and Balsam Poplars, Pride of China, with a large assortment of Tulip Roots, imported three years ago from London, and are beautifully variegated of all colours.  BAYLOR HILL. December 15. (upf Wm. T.)
ENOCH SULLIVAN, JEWELLER & HAIR-WORKER, (First door below the Eagle Tavern.)
LEAVE to inform the public that he has for Sale, a FASHIONABLE ASSORTMENT OF JEWELRY & SILVER WARE; Also, A HANDSOME SUPPLY OF LADIES ELEGANT COMBS, POCKET BOOKS, &c. Dec. 8. eptf.
IN SENATE, OF THE UNITED STATES.
HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 2.
JUDGE CHASE'S SPEECH
MR. PRESIDENT,
I appear, in obedience to a summons from this Honorable Court, to answer articles of impeachment exhibited against me, by the Honorable, the House of Representatives of the United States.
To these articles, a copy of which was delivered to me with the summons, I say, that I have committed no crime or misdemeanor whatsoever, for which I am subject to impeachment according to the constitution of the United States. I deny, with a few exceptions, the acts with which I am charged; I shall contend, that all acts admitted to have been done by me, were legal; and I deny, in every instance, the improper intentions with which the acts charged, are alleged to have been done, and in which their supposed criminality altogether consists.
But in charges of so heinous a nature, urged by so high an authority, a simple denial is not sufficient. It behoves me, for the legal justification of my conduct, and for the vindication of my character, to meet each charge with a full and particular answer; to explain and refute at length, every principle urged against me; to state the evidence by which I am to disprove every fact relied on in support of the accusation; and to detail all the facts and arguments on which my defence is to rest. The necessity of an answer embracing all these objects, in cases of impeachment is obvious; and the right to make it, is secured by law and sanctioned by uniform practice.
Such an answer it is my intention to make. It is my purpose to submit the whole ground of my defence to the view of this honorable court, of my country, of the world, and of those who are to conduct the prosecution. So will my judges come to the trial with that full knowledge of the whole matter in dispute, which is essential for enabling them to understand and apply the testimony and the arguments; and the Honorable managers will be better prepared to refute such parts of my defence, as they may think untenable.
But in a case of this kind, where the accusation embraces so great a variety of charges, of principles, and of facts, it is manifest, that preparing such an answer, as I have a right to make and as my duty to myself, my family, my friends and my country, requires at my hands, a considerable time must be necessary.
Many of the principles involved in this impeachment, are very important, not only to me, but to the liberties of every American citizen, and to the cause of free government in general. These principles ought to be maturely considered, and clearly explained. They present a wide field of legal investigation; many of them require laborious and extensive research, and although some of them have accompanied the prosecution from its commencement, and have thus been for a considerable time subjected to my consideration; some on the other hand, have been very recently introduced.
Of this description is the principle, whereon the 5th and 6th articles rest; relative to the extent in which the courts of the United States, are to be governed not only in their decisions, but in their proceedings by the state laws. A principle which was not brought into view until a few weeks ago, and the explanation of which will require a careful consideration, of the conduct and proceedings of the supreme and circuit courts of the United States, from the first establishment of our federal system.
The same articles involve the construction of two state laws of Virginia, which I am charged with having infringed in the trial of Callender, which were not mentioned on the trial, or during any of the introductory proceedings, & of which I never heard until these articles were reported a few weeks ago. It is manifest that in order to fix the true construction of these laws, about which professional men have differed in opinion, recourse must be had to the decisions of the courts of that state, as explained by their records; or in case those records should be silent, to the recollection and opinion of professional men, accustomed to preside or attend in the courts where those laws are enforced. It is manifest that such an investigation cannot be accomplished in a short time.
The facts on which this prosecution rests except the last article, are alleged to have taken place more than four years ago; some of them at Philadelphia, some at Wilmington, in the state of Delaware, and some at Richmond, in Virginia. These facts are very numerous, and the greater part of them are of such a nature, as to depend for their credibility or innocence, on minute circumstances, a slight shade of testimony, and often on the different manner in which the same circumstance may affect different spectators, all equally disposed to represent truly what they observed. The most material facts are alleged to have happened in Richmond and Philadelphia. In the former of these places I am an utter stranger, having never been there but once; and in the latter, I know personally but very few individuals. These circumstances render it very difficult for me to ascertain the persons who witnessed the various transactions in question, and are able, after this lapse of time, to give accurate testimony concerning them; and this difficulty is very much increased, by the distance of those places from that of my residence. I assure this Honorable Court, that from the moment when this prosecution assumed a serious appearance and a definitive form, at the last session of congress, I have turned my attention to the subject of my defence, and my answer, and have exerted myself in finding out and procuring the requisite testimony; but the difficulties which I have stated, added to my ill state of health during a great part of the last year, have prevented me from making such progress, as to afford me the hope of being able to obtain the object in a very short time. I have done much, but much, very much remains to be done; even in those parts of the prosecution where I had some notice by the proceedings of last session. In those very material parts which have originated during the present session, every thing is still to be done.
It may perhaps be thought, that although these preparations might be necessary for the trial, they are not so for the answer. But such an opinion I trust, would on examination be found erroneous.
The answer, in cases of impeachment, must disclose the whole defence, and the defence must be confined to the matters stated in the answer. Otherwise, the prosecution might be surprised at the trial, by objections which with previous notice, it would be in their power to refute or explain. The accused therefore, before he puts in his answer ought to have time sufficient for making himself thoroughly master of his defence, of the grounds on which it rests, and of the facts and evidence, by which it is to be supported. He ought to be completely prepared for the trial; between which and the answer no delay need be taken place, except such as may be necessary for convening the witnesses.
In so material a part of his preparation for defence, as the drawing up of his answer, it will not, I presume, be denied that he ought to have an opportunity of obtaining the best professional assistance, which it may be his power to procure. This assistance is rendered peculiarly necessary to me, by the peculiar state of my health (which affords me, at this season of the year especially, but short and uncertain
intervals, of fitness for mental or bodily exertion. Should my answer be required in a short time, I have no reason to suppose, that I shall be able to obtain such assistance of this kind as I so much need, and as probably, I shall otherwise have in my power. Professional gentlemen, engaged extensively in business, are at all times too liable to interruption, and too much occupied to devote themselves exclusively to an affair of this nature, so as to complete it within a short period; and at this season of the year, they are for the most part particularly and indispensably engaged.
These reasons in favor of a liberal allowance of time for preparing the answer, derive great additional force from one further consideration which I hope that I may without impropriety present to the view of this Honorable Court. Reputation ought to be more dear to every man, and is more dear to me than the honors or the emoluments of office. In cases of impeachment, the facts which appear, the explanations which are given, and the arguments which are urged, at the trial, are sometimes wholly omitted in the statements given to the public, and often misrepresented, or stated too indistinctly to be generally understood. It is to the answer that the world must look, for the justification of the accused. It is by his answer alone, that he can furnish a clear, concise and authentic explanation of his conduct and his motives supported by such a statement of his proofs, as can be extensively read, clearly understood, and easily remembered. He may therefore, claim from justice, and expect from the high dignity and responsible character of this honorable tribunal, such time for preparing this very important document, as may enable him to bestow on it all the care and labor which it requires, and to give it all the force of which it may be susceptible.
In stating these considerations, Mr. President, in support of my request for a continuance of this case, I disclaim all intention of affected delay. Feeling a consciousness of my integrity, and a just pride of character, which place me far above the fear of events I am anxious to meet this accusation, and I rejoice in an opportunity of refuting it. I know that my conduct, though liable to a full portion of human error, has at all times been free from intentional impropriety. I know that in all the instances selected as the grounds of accusation, I have discharged my official duties, which affected and inviolate regard to my oath, my character, the laws of my country, and the rights of my fellow citizens. I know that I can prove my innocence as to all the matters alleged against me, and as acrimonious as are the terms in which many of the accusations are conceived; harsh and opprobrious as are the epithets wherewith it has been thought proper to assail my name and character, by those who were 'pulling in their nurse's arms,' whilst I was contributing my utmost aid to lay the ground work of American liberty; yet thank my accusers, whose functions as members of the government of my country, I highly respected, for having at length put their charges into a definitive form, susceptible of reiteration; and for having thereby afforded me an opportunity of vindicating my innocence, in the face of this honorable court, of my country & of the world.
But this vindication, situated as I am, and as this case is, cannot be the work of a few weeks. Much time has been employed in preparing the accusation; less will be required for the defence; but a short time will not suffice. I am far from presuming to prescribe to this honorable court, whose sense of justice, and disposition to grant every proper indulgence, I cannot doubt; but it may perhaps be not improper to suggest, that by the first day of next session, the answer might be prepared and filed; and that the trial might then take place as soon after as the witnesses could be collected. I declare that it will be impossible for me to prepare my answer in such time as to commence the trial during this session with any prospect of bringing it to a close before the session must end; and were I to omit that full answer which I wish to give, it would be impossible for me, in the course of this session, (only two months of which now remain) to ascertain fully all the facts necessary for my defence, to find out and bring to this place, the witnesses and written testimony; or to make arrangements relative to that assistance of counsel which my case requires, my age and infirmities render essential, and a longer time would enable me to procure.
I hope, Mr. President, I may be permitted to observe, that my private and professional reputation for probity and honor has never been called in question. I have sustained a high judicial character for above sixteen years, and during the first six, I presided at the trial of more criminals than any other judge within the U. States. During this whole period of time my official conduct has never been arraigned, except only in the trials of Cooper, Fries and Callender, above four years ago. For the truth of these assertions I appeal to all who know me; and particularly to the two honorable senators from Maryland.
In respect to the present prosecution I will make but one remark. That I am impeached for giving on the trial of Callender, several judicial opinions, in which judge Griffin my associate, concurred; my opinions are held to be criminal, or that they flowed from partiality, and an intention to oppress Callender; but the same opinions given by my associate have been considered perfectly innocent.
I have now only to solicit this honorable court to allow me until the first day of next session to put in my answer, and to prepare for my trial; and I submit myself as to the further proceedings in this case, to the discretion of this honorable court, in whose integrity, impartiality and independence I reposes the highest confidence. I will not for a moment believe that the spirit of party can ever enter and pollute these walls, or that popular prejudice or political motives will be harbored in the bosom of any member of this honorable body.
On the contrary, I hope and expect that all its decisions will be governed by the immutable principles of justice, and a sacred regard to the constitution and the law of the land, which every member of this court is bound by duty, and the obligations of a christian judge to support and observe.
After the Judge had concluded his speech he was ordered to vacate his motion to writing, as follows: I solicit this honorable court to allow me until the 1st day of next session to put in my answer, and to prepare for my trial.
Register, OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE U. STATES.
MONDAY, December 31, 1804.
Mr. Richards from the committee of enrolment, reported that the committee had examined the bill providing for the disposal of sundry copies of the laws of the United States, and that they had found the same duly enrolled.
Mr. Elmer presented the petition of the heirs and residuary legatees of Hannah Preston, late relict of Colonel Preston, who died at camp in March 1777; praying to be allowed half pay for the term which she had survived her husband. Referred to the committee of claims.
On motion of Mr. Elmer the several petitions of Eli Elmer, Seth Bowen, & Jonathan Moore, presented at the last session, were referred to the committee of the whole, to whom it had been referred the bill making further provision for the extinguishment of the public debt.
On motion of Mr. Holland the subject of an establishment of a post road from Washington to New-Orleans was referred to the committee of the whole, to whom the subject of a like road by Knoxville was referred.
On motion of Mr. Holland it was resolved that the President be requested to cause to be laid before the house any documents that relate to that subject, and to communicate such other information as he shall think proper. Ordered that a committee of two be appointed to wait upon the President for the purpose of presenting this resolution.
The House went into committee of the whole on the bill making an appropriation for the support of the navy of the United States for the year 1805, which being twice read and referred to a committee of the whole, the blanks were severally filled up, the total amount of the appropriation was 1,240,000 dollars. The committee rose and reported, and the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Wednesday.
Mr. T. Randolph, from the committee of Ways and Means, presented a bill making an appropriation for the support of government for the year 1805, which was twice read and referred to a committee of the whole on Wednesday.
An engrossed bill for the relief of John Steel was read a third time and passed.
An engrossed bill to incorporate the Washington building and fire insurance company was a-bout being read, when
Mr. Gregg expressed a wish that it might be postponed, and a speedy decision had on the question of reception. He understood this was the day fixed for that subject.
Mr. Lewis observed that the motion for reception could have no effect upon this bill, as it did not contemplate the reception of the city of Washington, but only of the other parts of the district.
Mr. Stanford had intended to have called up the resolutions for reception; but he had just received a letter from a number of the inhabitants of the district wishing a short delay; there were also absent from the House several members, who had taken considerable interest in the subject. For these relations he did not intend to call up the resolutions for two or three days.
Mr. Early was averse to a postponement; he thought an early decision ought to be made to quiet the minds and soothe the feelings of the inhabitants who felt a deep interest in the decision; indeed the members themselves had had their feelings excited in no inconsiderable degree. He hoped if the gentleman who brought the resolutions forward should forbear to call them up, some other gentleman would do it for him.
Mr. Stanford was induced to let the subject rest a few days longer, on account of those very feelings and interest which pervaded the whole body of the people. He would also prefer a decision by a full House, rather than by such a thin one as now appeared.
Mr. Early did not think that a thin attendance by the members was a good argument for postponement; if it was expected that every member should attend, he feared the public business would progress very slowly; but if the subject was entered upon now, and the resolutions adopted, they would have to take the shape of a bill, and it would be many days before the subject was finally decided, by which time no doubt the absent gentleman alluded to, would arrive.
Mr. Lyon said the bill that was moved to be postponed had nothing to do with the reception, as it was not proposed to recede the city.
Mr. Gregg knew that the resolutions excepted Washington city, but he hoped that if a part of the district was to be receded, there would be found a majority for receiving the whole. He was against the reception altogether, and so he should be till the question was decided against him. The business had been so long before the House, that he could not see any reason for further delay.
On the question to postpone the bill for incorporating the Washington Building and Fire Insurance Company, there were 51 for it, and 42 against it; and the bill was postponed accordingly.
A message was received from the President informing that he had inclosed a letter from Mr. O'Brien, giving some details of the naval transactions before Tripoli, which he communicated for the information of Congress.
[Our readers will find this communication in the last Enquirer.]
Mr. Findley reported from the committee of elections that Alexander Wilson, elected a member from Virginia in the room of Mr. Andrew Moore, was entitled to his seat.
On motion of Mr. Dana, the House went into a committee of the whole on the report of the committee of claims in the case of Ann Elliot.
Mr. Tenney in the chair.
The committee of the whole concurred in the report of the committee of claims that the prayer of the petition was reasonable, & ought to be granted.
The committee then rose and reported the same, which was agreed to by the House, and the committee of claims were instructed to report a bill conformably thereto.
Mr. Elliot presented the petition of Elijah Brainerd, of Claremont, in the state of New-Hampshire. It was not, Mr. E. said, the petition of a general, his widow, or his legal representatives, (alluding to the case of Madame Haze) it was not an application for half pay, or for whole pay; but it was an artist's tale of woe, written by a private soldier in the revolutionary war, whose case is perhaps the most distressing, and his claim upon the justice of his country the strongest, that has yet been exhibited to Congress; and who has a wife and six children, drinking the bitter cup of poverty. The petitioner states that he received a wound while in service, from which he did not, for many years, experience those consequences which would have entitled him to a pension; but which in its remote effects, has for a number of years, not only rendered him incapable, of every kind of business, but subjected him to excruciating bodily tortures, which have been mitigated only by the continual use of opium. By the construction given to the last law on the subject of pensions, by the Secretary of War, he is not entitled to a place on the pension list; and he prays relief from Congress.
On motion of Mr. Elliot, the petition was referred to the committee of claims.
Mr. Gregg called up the resolutions for a reception of the district of Columbia to the states of Maryland and Virginia.
Mr. Huger moved to postpone the same till this day week.
Mr. Jackson moved to postpone the same till 31st December next.
Some defolatory remarks were made, not touching the merits of the main subject; at length the question was taken on postponing till 31st December, and lost without a division.
On postponing till Monday next, the question was decided in the affirmative 59 for, and 31 against it.
On motion of Mr. Clarke the House went into a committee of the whole on the bill extending the time for registering of claims to lands in Louisiana derived from the state of Georgia.
Mr. Gregg in the chair.
The bill was agreed to by the committee of the whole without amendment, reported to the House, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Wednesday next.
Mr. Crowninshield, from the committee of commerce and manufactures, reported on the amendments of the Senate to the bill for allowing drawbacks on goods exported from New-Orleans; referred to a committee of the whole on Wednesday next.
Mr. Crowninshield asked and obtained leave of absence for two weeks for Mr. Rodney.
Mr. Crowninshield offered a resolution to the following effect.
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be directed to lay before this House a return of the number of Amer. seamen who have been impressed or detained on board the ships of war of any foreign nation, stating the names of the persons so impressed, the names of the ships or vessels by which they were impressed, and the nation to which they respectively belong, and the time of such imprisonment, as far as it is practicable; also the circumstances and facts relating to the same which may have been reported to him.
The resolution was agreed to by the House. Adjourned till Wednesday next.
ERRATUM. —Mr. Gregg opposed the Alexandria bill on Friday; his name is by mistake inserted among its supporters.
Debate,
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE UNITED STATES.
Thursday Nov. 29.
The bill to regulate the clearance of armed merchant vessels was taken up in committee of the whole, Gen. Varnum in the Chair.
The bill was read as follows:
Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That after due notice of this act at the several Custom Houses, no merchant vessel, armed or provided with the means of being armed at sea, shall receive a clearance, or be permitted to leave the port where she may be so armed or provided, without bond, with two sufficient sureties being given by the owner or owners, or by the master or commander, to the use of the United States in a sum equal to double the value of said vessel, conditioned that such vessel shall not make or commit any depredation, outrage, unlawful assault or violence against the vessels, citizens, subjects or territory of any nation in amity with the United States; provided, that the regulations herein contained shall not be construed to extend to vessels bound to any port or place in the Mediterranean or beyond the Cape of Good Hope.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any armed merchant vessel clearing for any port or place within the Mediterranean or beyond the Cape of Good Hope, shall make or commit any depredation, outrage, or unlawful assault, or violence as aforesaid, on her voyage to or from or at any place to which she may be bound, such vessel with her arms and cargo, or the value thereof shall be forfeited to the use of the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That on satisfactory evidence or information being given to the collector of any port that any vessel within the same is armed or arming, or provided with the means of being armed at sea, for the purpose of committing any unlawful act as herein before expressed, or of carrying on by force of arms, any unlawful commerce, it shall be the duty of such collector to detain such vessel until the case be submitted to the President of the United States, who is hereby authorised to cause such vessel to be disarmed, or to order a clearance to be granted, as he shall judge proper.
Mr. Crowninshield moved to amend the first section of the bill in such manner as to prevent armed merchant vessels from clearing out for one port and failing to another; it would prevent a deviation from the true voyage.
Mr. J. Clay thought this alteration would extend beyond what was the true object of the bill; it might interrupt the European trade, while it was only intended to prevent the forced trade to St. Domingo. He suggested an amendment to the amendment, viz. to confine the forfeiture of armed vessels clearing for one port of the West-Indies, and which shall proceed to any other port or place than that of her original destination.
Mr. Crowninshield moved then to strike out the whole of the second section, he thought it unreasonable to forfeit the cargo as well as the vessel, her arms, tackle and furniture.
Mr. Rodney asked whether the committee would not be put to greater inconvenience by striking out the section than by amending it.
On the question to strike out, it was lost, only 22 voting for the motion.
Mr. J. Clay then moved to insert the amendment he had suggested, adding thereto "unless compelled by force of weather." The sole object being to confine the regulation of the clearance of armed vessels to those destined to the West-Indies.
On a division, Mr. J. Clay's motion was agreed to—Ayes 69.
Mr. Crowninshield then offered another amendment, to extend the regulation of the clearance of armed merchant vessels to the Mediterranean, and beyond the Cape of Good Hope.
Mr. J. Clay did not see the

Mr. Euphis, who represented it as an enormous hardship upon the owner to put at risk 4 or 500,000 dollars, for which he was to give sureties; and which might be the value of the cargo. On the question the word cargo was struck out, 71 being in the affirmative.
On motion of Mr. Euphis, after the words in the first section that they "should not commit any depredation, outrage, unlawful assault or violence" these words were added "nor make any other unlawful use of their arms."
Mr. Euphis suggested the propriety of adding a new section to the bill, to extend the security against the commander making also an improper use of the arms intrusted to him, or selling them to others in the West-Indies.
A question was however previously taken on a motion to strike out what respected the forfeiture of the cargo in the fourth section, which the mover observed, he would not have made, but that the words had been stricken out of the second section; his own private judgement being that the cargo as well as the vessel should be forfeited for an improper use of their arms; but he moved it for the sake of consistency.
On the question, there were 51 for striking out, and 40 in the negative.
Mr. Eppes thought the bill founded on erroneous principles; instead of permitting our merchantmen to arm and afterwards punishing them for the abuse of those arms, he conceived it would be infinitely more prudent and politic to restrain them altogether from arming.
Mr. T. Randolph, fully impressed with the importance of the ideas suggested by Mr. Euphis, in relation to selling their arms and vessels in the West-Indies, or rather to the people of St. Domingo, thought it would be better for the committee of the whole to rise, report the amendments, that the house might incorporate them into the bill, and direct the whole to be printed.
This course was accordingly pursued, and the bill made the order for Wednesday.
Thursday, December 13.
The consideration of the bill to regulate the clearance of armed merchant vessels, was resumed. The bill as amended was read as follows:
A bill to regulate the clearance of armed merchant vessels. Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That after due notice of this act at the several custom houses, no merchant vessel armed or provided with the means of being armed at sea, shall receive a clearance, or be permitted to leave the port where she may be so armed or provided, without bond, with two sufficient sureties being given by the owner or owners, or by the master or commander, to the use of the United States, in a sum equal to double the value of said vessel, conditioned that such vessel shall not make or commit any depredation, outrage, unlawful assault, or violence, nor make any other unlawful use of her arms against the vessels, citizens, subjects, or territory of any nation in amity with the United States; Provided , That the regulations herein contained shall not be construed to extend to vessels bound to any port or place in the Mediterranean, or beyond the Cape of Good Hope.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted , That if any armed merchant vessel clearing for any port or place within the Mediterranean or beyond the Cape of Good Hope, shall make or commit any depredation, outrage, unlawful assault, or violence as aforesaid, on her voyage to or from any place to which she may be bound or elsewhere, or shall wilfully proceed to any port or place in the West-Indies, such vessel with her arms, tackle, and furniture, or the value thereof, shall be forfeited to the use of the United States.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted , That on satisfactory evidence or information being given to the collector of any port, that any vessel within the fame is armed or arming, or provided with the means of being armed at sea, for the purpose of committing any unlawful act as herein before expressed, or of carrying on by force of arms, any unlawful commerce, it shall be the duty of such collector to claim such vessel until the case be submitted to the President of the United States, who is hereby authorized to cause such vessel to be disarmed, or to order a clearance to be granted, as he shall judge proper.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted , That if any armed vessel as aforesaid, shall proceed to sea without a clearance, or shall leave the port, where her detention or disarming shall be required, contrary to the provision of this act, such vessel with her arms, furniture and tackle, or the value thereof, shall be forfeited to the use of the United States.
Mr. Crowninshield moved to strike out the proviso to the first section, which declared the regulation contained in the bill should not be construed to extend to vessels bound to the Mediterranean, or beyond the Cape of Good Hope.
on the laws and rights of other nations, and to endanger the peace of our own, is so obvious, that I doubt not you will adopt measures for restraining it effectually in future."
These are the evils we are called upon to correct; but let him ask whether the remedy was of a nature to cure the disease. What! Shall it be permitted to every man, who can execute a bond, to wield the arms of the nation! Yet this is the only circumstance required to make a commander of an armed merchant vessel, and this too in a time of profound peace. The evil complained of by the President, is that our merchants have taken upon themselves to arm and force a commerce. The obvious remedy is to take away their arms, for then the evil can no longer exist. It is much more easy and more politic to prevent the injury being committed, than to punish the party for the offence.
We are informed that armed vessels failing to the West-Indies, are sold with their arms and ammunition, to a class of people, it is the interest of the United States to depress and keep down, rather than put arms in their hands, to do such extensive mischief as is every day practised in that island, to say nothing of the feelings such conduct on the part of our citizens or people among us assuming that character, might have on the government of France.
Mr. Lowndes wished the gentlemen who made this report would give the committee some information of the ground upon which they had bottomed the bill. When the President's message was received, he had supposed that the French minister had remonstrated against this commerce, and that something was required to be done to restrain the trade to St. Domingo. If that is the design, it will not be answered by the bill in its present form. You here authorise your merchant vessels to arm, on giving bond and sureties: bond to do what? why, conditioned that such vessel shall not commit depredation, outrage, or violence against the vessels or persons of nations in amity with the United States. What is the fair inference from these words, but that you shall be competent to trade to St. Domingo in vessels armed or unarmed. If in an armed vessel, shall they refuse to be searched? suppose they resist the search, what then? Do gentlemen mean to extend this law to Spanish vessels claiming a right to search; for Spain is likely soon to become a Belligerent power; if they do, how can we preserve a neutral position? He was willing to do as much to preserve the peace of the nation as any man. And should think it the best and fairest mode of proceeding, either to declare the trade to St. Domingo to be a lawful trade, and in that case protect commerce by a public force, or suffer the private shipping to defend themselves. Or say, that the trade to that island is unlawful, and interdict it at once and all together. Say then they shall not trade to any part of St. Domingo (and this appears to be what the message pointed at) and you will effectually restrain them.
Mr. Euphis said, that depriving merchant vessels of the power of arming would be to deprive them of the capacity of trading to St. Domingo, not of St. Domingo alone, but of Cuba, and many other of the West-India Islands, as well as the Spanish Main; for the number of small Picoons, employed for the express purpose of capturing our neutral and defenceless ships, would render the seas too dangerous for our navigation. He trusted, however, that congress would not abandon so advantageous and profitable a trade as that to the West-Indies, but on a full conviction that it would ultimately do more injury than benefit to the United States. It is well known, and the circumstances are too recent not to be in the recollection of every member, that during the last European war, many millions of dollars were taken from our citizens by almost every one of the belligerent powers having colonial possessions on this side of the Atlantic. A second time we are exposed to a similar injury, and he did not know how to avoid it without enabling our merchant vessels to arm and make effectual resistance to the small privateers which swarm in those seas. He hoped that congress would express their opinion on this point; for if the idea of the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Eppes) is to be acted upon, the business would have to be put into a different train, and would thereby render it unnecessary on the part of the select committee to give the information which had been requested.
He would however state the object of the bill. It must be very well known that in carrying on the trade with St. Domingo a great number of irregularities have taken place; that our vessels have supplied the natives with considerable quantities of articles contraband of war; they have taken away people from that island, whether subjects of France or others, contrary to the established rules and legal regulations of the place. These are circumstances, it is desirable to avoid in future, and that can be best done by making a law for the regulation of this trade, and thereby secure to our country a very valuable commerce. Every gentleman knows there is great difficulty in restraining a trade, where the profits are high, though attended with more risk and danger than ordinary. And he saw but two ways in which the thing could be done on the present occasion a which were, either to interdict the trade altogether, or pass the bill now on the table. The interdict of the trade would be followed by a loss to this country, which existing circumstances did not call upon us to make. He was persuaded that merchant vessels must arm in order to get to St. Domingo, or many other of the West-India islands; it is necessary for the safety of the vessel and the lives of the crew. Will a vessel under this bill being armed and cleared, having given proper security, proceed to sea. What is then required? They are to abstain from committing outrage, unlawful assault or violence, upon our friends, nor make any other unlawful use of their arms.
The clause is expressed generally, and not minutely; the committee did not deem it necessary to go into a detail, showing the nature and defining the species of every act of violence, assault or outrage; the difficulty of such a detail would have discouraged the attempt, had it ever been required; the government will be equally secure against these armed merchantmen, committing offences under the general definition, as they would have been in any other mode; the vessels are subject to the general restriction contained in the first section of the bill, and this, he thought, would restrain them sufficiently. As for the rest of the bill, the 2d, 3d, and 4th sections, he did not consider them of importance, and he should move to strike them out.
Mr. T. Clay expressed some surprise at Mr. Eppes's amendment, which went to restrain all merchant vessels from being armed, unless such as are bound to the Mediterranean or beyond the Cape of Good Hope. This was saying nothing more than the laws already enacted declare. He supposed, too, that the peace of our country is to depend upon the honesty or villainy of the commander of an armed merchant vessel. If gentlemen would investigate this subject, they would find that the peace of the country never had been, or never was likely to be, hazarded by our armed merchantmen, except in the single instance of forcing a trade to St. Domingo; there is no danger to be apprehended from our armed merchant vessels in any other country. The object of the bill is to preserve the peace
of the country by laying a penalty to be incurred for every offence. The trade to the West-Indies must either be suspended, or if carried on in unarmed vessels, it must be left to the plunder of a ferocious banditti, disguised under the French flag; nor are these the only ones to be apprehended; the Brigands of small force are lurking in wait in every quarter; indeed it is not safe for our merchantmen to sail marined from our ports on the Atlantic to New-Orleans. The depredations already made on our commerce had amounted to an immense sum; the insurance companies in Baltimore alone have lost 100,000 dollars; yet the commerce is too valuable to the United States to be abandoned altogether; but were America to suspend her intercourse with St. Domingo, the evil of having the present inhabitants for our neighbours would not be lessened; for whilst the rich productions of that island are in such universal demand they will find their way to market, and their want of military stores or contraband of war will be equally supplied to them, not by Americans, but by British vessels, from the Danish or other neutral islands; the trade will continue, and either neutral or belligerent nations will reap the benefit. To make the thing still more secure, he thought it would be as well that the commander should give bond and securities for his conduct on board an armed vessel, and if the cargo were made liable to forfeiture as well as the vessel, he should deem it a sufficient security to prevent the misapplication of the power intrusted to the commander. He hoped the committee would reject the amendment proposed by the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Eppes) and afterwards concur in the amendment suggested by the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Euphis).
(To be continued.)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Wednesday, January 2.
Mr. Richards from the joint committee for enrolled bills, reported that the committee on Monday last presented to the President of the United States for his approbation an enrolled bill, entitled "An act for the disposal of certain copies of the laws of the United States."
The committee of Claims, who were instructed by a resolution of this House, of the 14th November last, "to consider at large the subject relative to invalid pensions, and all persons wounded or disabled in the service of the United States during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, and report to the House what further measures are, in their opinion necessary to be adopted in order to render to them such ample remuneration for their sufferings as justice may require" having obtained leave to report thereon by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Dana presented a bill in addition to "an act to make provision for persons that have been disabled by known wounds received in the actual service of the United States during the revolutionary war," which was read the first and second times, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next.
Mr. Dana from the committee of Claims, presented a bill for the relief of the widow and orphan children of Robert Elliot, which was read the first and second times, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Friday next.
Mr. Dana from the same committee, reported on the petition of William Osburn, of New Port (R. I.) whereupon,
Resolved, That the petitioner have leave to withdraw his petition together with the accompanying documents.
An engrossed bill making appropriations for the support of the navy during the year 1805, was read a third time and passed.
An engrossed bill giving further time to register the evidences of titles to land south of the state of Tennessee was read a third time and passed.
A memorial of Robert Henderson, of South-Carolina, was read, praying that Congress will be pleased to enlarge the annual compensation heretofore granted to him for carrying the mail to and from Fayetteville, in North Carolina, and George Town in South-Carolina aforesaid; or that the memorialist may be released from such part of his contract as relates to a part of the road, for the reasons therein specified.
Referred to the Post-Master general, with instruction to report his opinion thereon to the House.
A petition of Alexander Scott, of South Carolina, in behalf of himself and others, was read praying relief in the case of certain Negro Slaves and other property, which were taken from sundry citizens of South Carolina therein named, on their way to the Natchez, by a party of Cherokee Indians, some time in the month of June 1794.
The said petition, together with that of Eliakim Morse of the state of Massachusetts, were referred to the committee of claims.
Petitions of sundry inhabitants of the state of North Carolina, residing West of the town of Warrenton, were read, respectively praying that a Post road may be established from Williamsborough, by Bullock's and Brown's stores, to Sterlingville through Person; or by the Red-house to Caldwell Court house, so as to intersect the Post road from Hillsborough to Boxford in said state.
The said petitions were severally referred to the committee appointed on 6th November last "to enquire whether any, and what amendments are necessary to be made in the acts establishing Post offices and Post roads within the United States."
An engrossed bill to incorporate the Washington building and Fire Insurance Company was read a third time.
And on the question, shall the bill pass. It was resolved in the negative—Ayes 23—Nays 65.
A petition of James Bonnell, of New-Jersey was read, praying the renewal of a certain final settlement certificate granted him in consideration of military services rendered as a captain of Light Infantry, in the continental army, during the revolutionary war with Great Britain, which certificate was lost or destroyed in the month of October 1787.
Referred to the committee of the whole House, to whom was committed on the 6th ult. the bill making further provision for extinguishing the debts due from the United States.
The House went into committee of the whole, Mr. Varnum in the chair, on a bill supplementary to the act entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage." And after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Varnum reported, that the committee had had the bill under consideration and made no amendments.
The said bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
Mr. Gregg, from the committee to whom was referred, on the 26th ult. the bill from the Senate, entitled "An act to divide the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, reported that the committee had had the said bill under consideration, and directed him to report it to the House, without amendment."
The said bill was ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow.
The order of the day for the House to resolve itself into a committee of the whole, on the motion of the 7th ult. for "the establishment of a post road from Knoxville, in Tennessee, to the settlements on the Tombigby, in the Mississippi Territory, and from thence to New-Orleans; also for the establishment of a post road from in Georgia, to the said settlement on the Tombigby, to intersect the former road at the most convenient point between Knoxville and the Tombigby," being called for.
It was resolved to postpone the said order of the day until Monday next.
Mr. Newton presented a bill to prohibit the exportation of hail upon certain furs brought in the district of Columbia, which was read the first and second times, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Wednesday next.
The House went into a committee of the whole, Mr. Tenney in the chair,
On the bill for carrying into more complete effect, the 10th article of the treaty of friendship, limits and navigation with Spain; and, after some time spent thereon, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Tenney reported that the committee had had the said bill under consideration, and made no amendment thereto.
The said bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading to-morrow.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Post-Master General, enclosing a list of the names of the persons with whom contracts have been made for carrying the mails of the United States, from the first of December, 1801, to the last day of December, 1804, inclusively, with the routes contracted for—the period of continuance—and the annual rate of compensation—in pursuance of a resolution of this House of the 28th ult. which were read and ordered to lie on the table.
The petition of Benjamin Bailey, James Bogert and others, citizens of the United States, and resident merchants of the city and state of New-York, was read, praying a remission of the duties accruing on various goods and merchandise of great value, imported by the petitioners which were consumed, together with the store-houses, in which the same were deposited, by a late fire in the said city.
Referred to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures.
Adjourned.
Thursday, January 3.
An engrossed bill supplementary to the act, entitled "An act to regulate the collection of duties on imports and tonnage," was read the third time and passed.
An engrossed bill for carrying into more complete effect the tenth article of the treaty of friendship, limits and navigation with Spain, was read the third time and passed.
A motion was made and seconded to add a new rule to the standing rules and orders of the House, as follows:
"A standing committee, to consist of seven members, and to be styled, "The Land Committee" shall be appointed, whose duty it shall be to take into consideration all such matters and things touching the lands of the United States as shall be presented, or shall or may come in question, and be referred to them by the House; and to report from time to time their opinion thereon; and also to report such alterations and amendments to the laws concerning the lands of the United States as may become necessary."
On the question will the House agree to the same? It passed in the negative.
A petition of Renaldo Johnson, of the state of Maryland was read, praying a remission of the duty accruing to the United States on certain bills, owned and worked by him in the year 1798 and 1799, for the reasons therein specified.
Referred to the committee of claims.
The House went into committee of the whole, Mr. VARNUM in the chair,
On the report of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures of the 31st ult. on the amendments from the Senate to the bill entitled "An act concerning drawbacks on goods, wares and merchandise exported from the district of New Orleans," and after some time spent therein, the Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Varnum reported, that the committee had had the said report and amendments under consideration, and directed him to report to the House their disagreement to the report, and their agreement to all the amendments referred to them, which were delivered in at the Clerk's table.
The House then proceeded to consider the said report and amendments of the Senate. When
The question was taken, will the House agree to the report of the committee of the whole House thereon, and resolved in the affirmative.
Friday, January 4.
Mr. Gregg moved the order of the day on the bill from the Senate, dividing the Indiana Territory into two separate governments, on which the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole,
General VARNUM in the chair,
After some time spent thereon, the committee rose and reported the bill, which was agreed to by the House.
On motion of Dr. Leib, the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole on the bill authorizing the collector of the port of Philadelphia to act by an additional deputy.
Mr. Gregg in the chair.
Mr. Smith moved the committee to rise and report progress, in order to give time for an enquiry into the necessity, or propriety of the measure, nothing having been officially before the House on the subject.
Mr. Leib insisted in the motion though he stated that the collector had written to him, as he had informed the House on a former day, and it was on that account he had brought the business forward.
The committee rose and reported progress, and obtained leave to sit again.
On motion of Mr. G. W. Campbell, the committee appointed the 14th November last, for enquiring whether any, and if any, what alterations are necessary in the law regulating the trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers, was discharged.
On motion to appoint a new committee on the same subject, it was negatived by the House.
Afterwards on motion of General Varnum the House agreed to reconsider their vote for discharging the committee, and it being carried, the motion to discharge the committee recurred, and it was passed in the negative. So that the committee remain charged with the business as before.
A petition and memorial with several documents accompanying it was laid on the table, from a number of the inhabitants of Upper Louisiana, the reading being dispensed with, it was ordered to be printed.
Mr. Lattimore called for the order of the day on the bill regulating the grants of land and disposal of the same in the territory south of Tennessee. Whereupon the House resolved itself into a committee of the whole.
General VARNUM in the chair.
After some time spent in considering the same, the committee rose and reported the bill without amendments, the House having agreed to the same. It was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading on Monday next.
A message from the Senate by Mr. Otis their Secretary was received, informing of their proceedings in the case of Samuel Chase—and that the President of the United States had approved and signed the act which originated in the Senate, for the disposal of certain copies of the laws of the United States.
Adjourned.
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SEIZURE OF Sir GEO. RUMBOLD.
Extract of a private letter from Hamburg, dated Oct. 26. "A very extraordinary transaction has occurred here; in the night between the 24th and 25th a detachment of French troops, between two and three hundred in number, came in several large boats and landed about 2 o'clock in the morning on the Hamburg Berg (or Hill), whence they proceeded to the Grindl, the country residence of Sir George Rumbold, the English charge d'affaires for Hamburg, about an English mile and a half from that city. Sir George, hearing a noise, looked out of the window, and seeing the troops surrounded with soldiers, asked what they wanted? They told him they had some dispatches for him; but he refusing to suffer the door to be opened, they forced it open and carried him away by force, having first obliged him to deliver up to them all his papers."
Our Senate was in conference assembled from seven o'clock in the morning till five in the evening. They sent a deputation to the French minister, to protest against this violation of our neutrality, and demanded that the English charge d'affaires should be set at liberty. The French minister, it is said, denies having any knowledge of the transaction. Couriers also have been sent off to Berlin, Vienna and Peterburg. Sir George has been carried to Hannover in a coach under a strong guard.
Another letter—same date. "We have been quiet for a while and so have you, seeing but little to interest or amaze. Be not alarmed for us so much for the French aggression on the part of the French, by the seizure of Sir George Rumbold, your charge d'affaires. A party of about 200 infantry came across the river yesterday morning, at a very early hour, and surprised him in his house (about an English mile from the Dan Thier) and carried him off with his papers. They had seized before the alarm was given and the gates could be opened, else the people would have rescued him, and perhaps cut the fellows in pieces. He had long a presentation of the thing being attempted, and it is a pity he had not lodged within the walls, where he would have been safe. The Senate are greatly distressed about it, and there is but one voice of abhorrence. To day the French minister (who was but at present of the day after it was done) declared to the Senate, officially, that it was a feat of Mr. Drake's conspiracy against the life of Bonaparte, as false as absurd. Sir George has for some time past been in a very delicate state of health, and even if the British government could have carried on such a mission, he could not have been the organ. He has sent to Mr. Thornton his authority to act, ad interim; we suppose he will be first directed to France. Nickells is offended, and for his own security too in fear. It is but a few days since we had agreed to give them 200,000 rix dollars current, for their wants in Hannover. Notwithstanding this trepass, we are under no obligation for our commercial relations such as they are. They will not cover more ground, unless there is war."
Another letter—same date. "The night before last a very distressing event took place. About 250 French soldiers landed at some distance from the town, and surprised by the guards. They placed some hostages whom they met, and a party of them went to the house of Sir G. Rumbold, your minister here, who had been imprudent enough to live all the summer, and till now out of town. They forced him into a coach, and before any thing of the whole matter could be known in town, they had carried him off and re-embarked for the other side of the Elbe. The coup-de-main was executed between one and two at night."
Another letter—same date. "Yesterday morning, between four and five o'clock, a most unprincipled attack and violation of the territory of this free Imperial city took place on the part of the French. They landed in four or five barges a body of their troops from Hamburg on a spot called Hamburger Berg, and meeting with a man, forced him to show them the way to another place, called Grindlshof, where Sir George Rumbold, the British charge d'affaires to the Hanseatic and the States of the circle of Lower Saxony, has his country residence. This corps of freebooters, completely armed, and bad their colors, drums, and band of music with them. On arriving at Sir George's house, they instantly forced open the doors, and rushed into every apartment, ransacked, pillaged, and destroyed what was not portable; dragged Sir George out of his bed, made him dress himself, and, after having seized his papers, forcibly carried him to the river side, and embarked him for Harburg, where he is said to be still detained in close custody. It has been remarked, that the invading corps first was going to land upon the Holstein territory, but perceiving their mistake, they soon desisted from their attempt. The reason assigned for this treacherous attack cannot as yet be exactly ascertained, but general report says, that it was done with a view of making a hop to the recruiting service, which is pretended to be carried on here secretly for England."
Mr. Nicholas, the British deputy consul, on hearing of this unwarranted violence, sought refuge in the house of the American Consul, Mr. Forbes.
Domestic Intelligence.
NEW YORK, January 14.
Captain Hamilton, who arrived here yesterday from Naples, is the bearer of despatches, which were forwarded to him by the American Consul at Tunis, for our Government, from Commodore Preble, who was lately expected at Naples. Captain H. brings no other accounts from our Squadron off Tripoli than those we have already published.
Captain Peck, who arrived at this port on Wednesday evening in 44 days from Cadiz, informs us that the fever had nearly subsided there, and at Malaga and Gibraltar. It was stated in letters from Malaga that not less than 27,500 persons had fallen victims to the fever in that city; but it had so far abated at the beginning of November, that the number of deaths averaged not more than six daily. At Gibraltar no death had occurred for some time; and at Cadiz on the 17th November (when Captain Peck failed) the daily mortality did not exceed three. The port of Malaga continued shut. No American vessels were permitted to pass from one Spanish port to another. A French 74 gun ship was blockaded at Cadiz by a British 64. Markets: Flour 16 dollars 50 cents, rice 8 dollars beef and pork dull, no demand for flour, wheat 3 dollars per bushel, corn 1 dollar and 50 cents. Some American vessels had been allowed to discharge their cargoes while under quarantine.
Captain Tucker, who arrived at Markland on Tuesday night, informs, that the unsuccess in Biscay had fulfilled the recital had laid down their arms, and it was expected that Bilboa would be made a king's port. The news of the capture of the Spanish frigates had reached Bilboa—there was no embargo on English vessels at that place. It was the opinion of the merchants there, that war would not take place, and that Spain would pay any demand the English might think proper to make.
WASHINGTON, January 7.
Advises, we understand, have been received from the Mediterranean by an arrival at Norfolk from Gibraltar, which state that Commodore Barron was off Tripoli on the 25th of September; that nothing of importance had occurred subsequently to the events described by Mr. O'Brien; and that the Gun-Boats had returned to Messina.
We learn through a channel deserving confidence, that Capt. LEWIS was on the 19th of August, 130 miles up the Missouri, that he had met with no accident and had been received in a very friendly way by all the Indians. It is expected he will winter 1500 miles up the river among the Mandan Indians, about lat. 45. Nat. Int.
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The Editor invites the attention of his readers to the debate, which he commences in this day's paper, on the bill "to regulate the clearance of armed merchant vessels;" certainly the most important debate, which has occurred during the present session of congress.
As our day of publication has been changed from Saturday to Friday, the gentleman who was expected to compose the Rainbow for the present week, has been prevented from complying with his engagement. The great mass of important intelligence which at this time demands an introduction into the paper, has prevented the Editor himself from offering any original remarks. He has no doubt however that the reader will enjoy a very complete compensation for this omission in the perusal of the very interesting and valuable letter, which he this day presents to the attention of the public and the Virginia Legislature. The importance of the speculations themselves as well as the manner in which they are conducted, will no doubt entitle them to a general and careful consideration.
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER TO A MEMBER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY FROM FRANKLIN.
From the report of the committee of finance, it appears that the expenses of the current year will exceed the revenue by the sum of 33,096 dollars; although in the estimate of the latter, credit is given for 30,000 dollars, expected to be derived from the arrears of taxes to the first day of October last. In consequence of this deficiency the committee have recommended that the taxes should be raised 12 1-2 per cent.
If this augmentation be necessary, it would be folly, disgraceful to the country, & injurious to individuals, to postpone for one session the adoption of the measure recommended by the committee; but if it be not necessary; if the revenue now raised be adequate to the discharge of all the proper expenses of government, the members of the committee as well as of the legislature will be unanimous in saying, that the proposed augmentation ought not to take effect.
But it is a fact, that our revenue is not commensurate to our expenses. This evil can be remedied in one of two ways only: either by increasing the revenue or by diminishing our expenditure. The first plan is the most obvious and the most easily effected; but the latter is that, which, if proper and practicable, ought to be preferred; and by the legislature of Virginia will unquestionably be preferred.
In advocating the reduction of our expenses, I beg you to believe, that I am not a friend to that system of economy, if it deserves that name, which has so often made its appearance within the hall of the legislature; a system which operates on salaries only, which expends 1000 dollars in an attempt to save 100 dollars, and which is calculated to keep the officers of the government in a state of constant solicitude and dependence. No: I am the friend and advocate of that system of economy, the basis of which is the following principle; "That the items of expenditure should be as few as the affairs of the government will possibly permit; but the quantum of expenditure under each item, should be precisely such, as to secure the best talents that are required and can be procured, in the conduct of those affairs in every department, and no more." This is a system of economy under the influence of which the government will be respectable and people happy.
In the estimate of the expenses for the year ending the 1st October 1805, there are two items which struck my attention. The first is "Criminal charges, including the expenses of guard, 40,500 dollars." The second is "Removing prisoners to the penitentiary, and their confinement therein, 10,550 dollars;" making in the whole the sum of 51,050 dollars, annually paid by the honest and industrious portion of the community; and for what purpose is this enormous annuity paid? To secure the persons, to prosecute the offences, and to reform the morals of about thirty or forty felons! The whole of this last item of expense ought to be saved: in other words the penitentiary system ought to be entirely abolished. Upon this opinion however it is unnecessary to dilate. There are few who do not admit that the project of reforming criminals is entirely chimerical. Experience here, and I believe everywhere else, has determined the question. In fact what can be more visionary, than the hope of reforming a convicted felon, by excluding him from all intercourse with honest men, and condemning him for years to the society of convicted felons like himself. The only rational object of a prosecution is punishment, the fear of which may deter the offender from a repetition of his crime, and prevent others from following his example. This object ought to be, and may be attained, without the aid of the Penitentiary as a place of imprisonment.
If it is asked what is to become of a building just completed perhaps at the expense of 150,000 dollars? It must be observed that the answer to this question, whatever it may be, does not affect the position that has been advanced. No man will contend that we ought to persevere in an erroneous and expensive system, merely because in the promotion of that system we have laid out a large sum of money in building a magnificent edifice. But the question may be very satisfactorily answered. The Penitentiary house should be converted into a college as soon as the felons now in confinement are disposed of; & when our debts are paid, the professorship should be endowed with a sum equal to one half, at least, of the item under consideration. Thus the Legislature of Virginia, might rescue the state from the stigma which has been brought upon it by its uniform refusal to give one cent for the promotion of literature. Our young men, without being obliged to seek at a great annual expense in another state that education which their parent state denies, might be brought up, under our own eyes, without imbibing those prejudices against the politics and manners of their fellow-citizens, so often acquired in a distant college. Surely the Legislature of Virginia after having expended 10,000 dollars a year in the very benevolent, but abortive effort to effect the reformation of a few felons, will not refuse to give a portion of that sum to promote the education of all the youth of their country.
Is it not affecting to observe that our annual expenditure on account of felons is nearly equal to one fifth part of the whole revenue of the commonwealth, derived from the tax on lots, lands and other property; while our chief magistrate is condemned to live, in a miserable existence, open to wind and rain; while our judges are hardly allowed enough to provide for a family the plainest food and raiment, much less enough to educate one son at a public school; and while every proposition in favor of colleges and literature is repelled with Gothic disdain!
It will not be forgotten however, that this item of public expenditure, useless as it is, cannot be immediately or totally suppressed. The persons now confined in the Penitentiary, must remain there or in some other place of im-
prisonment, for a considerable time: they must be fed and clothed by the state, and therefore as the arrangements are already made, they ought to proceed in their labor in order to return to the state some of the expenses incurred on account of their maintenance and the purchase of the materials on which they work. The only immediate saving will be the charge for removals to the Penitentiary; while the expense in the Penitentiary itself will be gradually diminished, in consequence of the progressive diminution of the number of convicts.
But after this deduction is complete, there remains yet to be encountered the sum of 40,500 dollars. This sum is made up, in a great degree of the following charges.
 1. Guards to secure the prisoner after examination by the County court, and before removal to the district court, and maintenance during that time.  2. Guards for his removal, and maintenance during his removal.  3. Guards and maintenance until the trial. the trial. 4. The expense of summoning the venire, of the attendance of the sheriff and venire, and of the witnesses summoned on the part of the prosecution. 
These items probably amount to four fifths of the aggregate of 40,500 dollars, and are frequently allowed by the County Court without examination. Opportunities of preventing the account are watched for, both as to times and persons, and accounts have been certified, of which not one fifth would have been allowed if each county bore the expense of its own criminal prosecution. I have no doubt from scenes of which I have been an eye witness that the greatest frauds upon the treasury have been and are perpetually practiced under the pretext of hiring guards. If this item of the estimate reported by the committee can be greatly reduced, without palpable inconvenience, the reduction ought to be attempted, because it seems to me, that felons constitute that class of people in the community, on whose account not one shilling should be expended, the necessity of which is not demonstrable to the most ordinary capacity.
As the law now stands, a person charged with felony is examined by a magistrate, then by the county court: after this a bill must be found against him by the grand jury, and a petit jury then determine whether he is guilty or not. All this ceremony about a plain matter of fact is not only unnecessary but extremely expensive. In monarchical countries, where the spirit of despotism pervades more or less every department of the government, where the liberty of the people is in perpetual danger from regal or aristocratic influence, the examination by a magistrate, and the presentment by a grand jury, before the final trial, ought to be vigilantly defended. They constitute in some degree a barrier for the protection of personal liberty against the hostile attacks of power and of wealth. But where the department of government here, the influence of which is likely to be arrested, to effect the conviction of an obnoxious offender? Yet in this commonwealth we have extended the British system, and without adding to the security of personal liberty, have thrown another formal difficulty in the way of a prosecution. We require that the opinion of the magistrates of the county collectively shall be taken, as to the propriety of continuing the prosecution. In the great majority of criminal cases, all this is unnecessary, and in lieu of the present tedious, troublesome, hazardous, and expensive mode of trial, a system should be adopted, of which the following is the rude outline; an outline which I have hardly time to sketch, and which of course cannot by me be accurately filled up.
 1st. That so much of the 2d. section of the act of the General Assembly, entitled "an act to amend the penal laws of this commonwealth," passed the 15th day of December 1796, which makes a distinction without stating a difference between murder in the 1st. and murder in the 2d. degree, and so much of the act as comes within the purview of this plan, be repealed; and that murder, high treason, petit treason, rape, arson, and forgery of bank notes, both of the United States and of this state, be prosecuted in the way now prescribed by law, and punished with death.  2. That robbery, burglary and housebreaking in the day time, and taking therefrom goods to the value of four dollars, be punished by burning the hand, or cutting the ear, and such whipping as a jury of freeholders over years of age, shall by their verdict direct.  3. That a horse-stealer shall be punished by cutting off one ear, and such whipping, &c.  4. That all larcenies, horse-stealing excepted, shall be punished by such whipping, &c.  5. That the offences other than those already mentioned, which are now punishable by fine and imprisonment only, shall still remain so, and that the offenders when sentenced to imprisonment, shall remain in the jail of the district, if tried in the district court, and in the jail of a county, if tried in the county court.  6. That all offences except those punishable with death, shall be finally tried in the county court, when the prosecution shall be commenced there, by a jury of freeholders over the age of 21; thus adopting, as to all offences except those of the highest class, that very system which is preferred as to petit larcenies, by an act of the General Assembly, passed on the 11th day of February, 1804.  7. That the expenses of criminal prosecutions commenced and terminated in the county courts, shall be borne by the counties in which such prosecutions shall be commenced and terminated; and in cases where the prosecution is carried on as is now prescribed by law, the expense shall be borne by the counties respectively until the criminal is lodged in the district jail, and afterwards by the state. 
I have heard it objected to this plan that it is disgraceful that a free man should be whipped. This is certainly true: but it is not equally disgraceful that a free man should be deprived of his liberty—that he should have his head shaved and one of his eyebrows cut off? Did not the ancient law prescribe whipping in certain cases? Does not our own law, I mean the act of February 1804, prefer this now? And will not that very disgrace operate powerfully in the prevention of crimes? In the penitentiary system, no shame is felt. The convicted culprit knows that he is surrounded by men, as base and vicious as himself: that he is the object of their sympathy, rather than of their scorn. But the pride of man, degraded as he may be, revolts against this humiliating punishment. He looks around him, and sees not another human being in the same situation with himself. At that moment he reflects the virtue and envies the security of the gazing multitude, and determines within himself, when the hour of agony is passed, never again to relieve his wants, at the hazard of incurring a punishment, so painful and ignominious.
A penal Code, formed on a plan like this, is entitled to our consideration, not only because money, but time also is saved. The sessions of the district courts will not be engrossed, as they now are with the trial of persons charged with theft: of which persons, many are free
negroes and mulattoes, whose numbers by the fatal policy of our laws are likely to be increased, without any augmentation of their property or improvement of their morals.
There is another item of expense, which ought not to be incurred, at least in the way in which it is incurred. You will recollect what I stated to be the true principle of governmental economy. Let this principle be applied to a subject, which is very frequently the topic of conversation and sometimes of legislative discussion, and the result will be, a diminution of the number, and an augmentation of the salaries of the judges. The number of the judges is too great. I will say nothing at present of the two additional chancellors; a few years will show what has been gained by the innovation, and determine whether a regulation giving the chancellor in Richmond power to hear motions at all times, and the superior convenience of the metropolis would not have enabled the court in that city to do the business of the state more expeditiously than it will now be effected by three courts. But in the court of Appeals, there are two superfluous judges. It would be difficult to say, why we have five in preference to three. In the multitude of counsellors there may be wisdom. When a subject is of a general nature, such for instance as comes within the scope of legislation, the proverb may be correct; but it is not true in matters of science, and is not applicable to judges. One learned, able and upright judge is able to do more business in the same space of time than twenty upright judges who have neither information nor strength of intellect. My idea is therefore that there should be three judges in the court of Appeals: not one, only, because the infirmity incident to all humanity requires, that the best and ablest man, determining in the last resort, should be aided in consultation by others, who are also respectable for their virtues and their talents. Nor should the number be two only, lest there should be a defect of justice from a division of the Court. Three therefore is the number which ought to be adopted, because it affords the benefit of consultation, and renders a division of the Court impossible. I have never heard an argument urged by any man to show that the present number ought to be preferred: but in addition to what has been already said, a very important fact has been stated, to prove that this number is too large. It has sometimes happened that a whole day has been employed by the judges in delivering, in succession, their elaborate opinions. The delays in the Court of Appeals are the theme of general complaint. How these delays are to be remedied? is a question, which has excited and certainly deserves attentive examination. One step towards the acceleration of business, is the diminution of the number of the judges. When we consider how much time must necessarily be employed in the serious duty of delivering opinions, the saving of at least two fifths of that time must be admitted to be a very important consideration.
Nor do I see why there should be two judges to attend each district court, since their decisions are not conclusive. One judge will generally carry on the business of such courts, with more expedition than two, and his decisions will not be appealed from or superseded more frequently than the judgments of the courts as they are now organized. Perhaps appeals would be less frequent. When a motion fails in consequence of the division of a court, the opinion of the favorable judge is always the foundation of a bill of exception.
The law then should declare that after the first vacancy in the Court of Appeals, that court shall consist of four, and after the second vacancy of three judges: that the general court shall, after the first vacancy consist of nine judges, and so on until the numbers shall be reduced to five; and that after the 1st vacancy, any business in the district court, which now requires two judges may be done by one. It is objected that the life of a prisoner may under this system depend on a single judge, it is to be observed that it may be so now, if such be the prisoner's choice; that the humanity of the judge will always induce him to state the case to the General Court, when a difficulty occurs; and that the timidity natural to the human mind, when the life of a fellow creature depends on its decision, will always operate in favor of the prisoner. It may be asked, if we have too many judges, why not re-organize the courts and get rid of the superfluous number, as was done, and properly done by the congress of the United States. I answer that the cases are not parallel. The ex-judges of the United States were judges of a day they took their offices from an expiring party, and knew the precarious tenure by which they held them. Some of them would not even quit the practice of the law, or the business in which they were then engaged. Who will compare the claims of these men with those of our judges, who were called to their offices by the deliberate will of the state, and who had a right to calculate in accepting the office on its continuance during their lives.
Before this gradual reduction of the number of judicial officers can be effected, it is obvious that many years must pass away. May they indeed be many! Their salaries therefore, being confessedly inadequate, ought to be immediately increased. But if the objection to an immediate augmentation cannot be surmounted; the object in view may be gradually attained. Let the salary, which would expire as each office became vacant, be equally divided among all the other judges. This arrangement would in time give them about £750 per annum. But this sum is not enough. The true criterion with respect to judicial salaries, is to be found in the principle of political economy before laid down. So much should be given to a judge, as will induce the lawyer who stands at the head of his profession, to abandon his practice; this has been the custom in England, and the effect has been that for a century past, the great learning and ability of its judges have been the admiration of the world, while ignorance and corruption have disgraced every other department of the government. If the legislature of Virginia want the services of a great man in any office, they ought to make it the interest of a great man to accept that office. The advantage of having men of talents on the bench is incalculable. The time, litigation and expense that are saved, are beyond computation. But on this subject detail is impossible. One remark however, I will submit to your consideration. It is observed, that for several years past, juries are divided in almost every important case. This evil seems to be increasing in magnitude, and has a direct tendency to bring jury-trial into contempt. Indeed that effect has been already, in a certain degree produced. In England this mischief is not felt, because there the judges do, what is not done here. Confiding in their knowledge of the law, they dispose at once of all superfluous matter, direct the attention of the jury to the only point in the cause, and thus enable them to decide in a few moments, a question which here would be inaccessible, in consequence of being hid from view, by a thousand other questions of no moment, and a thousand ingenious arguments inapplicable to the subject.
Thus, my dear Sir, I have hastily presented to you my ideas on the topics of our late conversation. How far the taxes must be raised, is a question on which I can give no opinion, without documents which are not before me; and calculations that I have not leisure to make. But that taxes ought not to be raised, until all the actual revenue is properly employed, is a position too clear, in my judgment, to require any proof; but at the same time, it is admitted to be equally clear, that where the revenue of a country is really inadequate to its expense, it is both folly and treacherous to oppose the augmentation of our taxes.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
AT a meeting of the stockholders of the Virginia Bank the day after the directors were chosen, the policy of authorizing the several banks to emit money on the deposit of tobacco & bank stock, instead of the cr. lit of personal security was duly considered; and although
much argument was used for and against the proposition, the question does not seem to be of the first importance either to the interest of the stockholders, or the benefit of the community.
It is well known to all who have even a superficial acquaintance with banks, that their operation is to encircle, perhaps to double the circulating medium of the place where they are instituted, in consequence of which, they augment competition among buyers, and thus raise the price of every commodity. By this natural effect of the Virginia Bank, the price of tobacco, as well as of every other article will be increased, and they will readily meet with purchasers at a fair price for cash. Now it is granted that it would be imprudent to take an article fluctuating in price as tobacco, as security for the whole of the current price, but only for a certain proportion, say two-thirds or three-fourths; consequently, very few will apply to the bank to receive a part of this price, when they might easily, by a sale, obtain the whole.
I know it may be said, that tobacco is commonly much higher in the spring and summer than it is in autumn and winter; and that those who purchase it at one season, make a large profit by keeping it by them, and selling it at another; and that every holder of a tobacco note, may have this advantage by means of the proposed bank accommodation. The argument is specious, but it is delusive. Before this institution existed, the circulating medium of the country was not proportioned to its produce—in consequence of which deficiency, the extraordinary difference of price alluded to, might have existed. Those who had money made a great profit from the use of it; but now the case is changed. The bank has so increased the money of the country, that any merchant may easily purchase as much tobacco as he pleases, and pay the cash for it. The number of purchasers, if thus increased according to circumstances, and the advantage of keeping tobacco half a year, by the increased number of competitors, is reduced to the ordinary profits of commerce. If the planter should choose to keep his tobacco for an increase of price; be content to pay interest for the money he draws out of the bank, and step out of his element to turn speculator—is he more likely to lose or to gain by the adventure; or will he probably make more accurate calculations of the future value of tobacco than the experienced and well-informed merchant? The bye-law, by giving a temporary accommodation to the owners of tobacco, holds out a snare to the unwary, and many a planter, excited by his too sanguine hopes, may see that tobacco, which he could have sold at a fair price and free from all charge, sacrificed under the hammer of the auctioneer.
The proposed measure could be better justified if this bank did not find it easy to lend its money in the usual way, without resorting to extraordinary means; in fact, to the business of a pawn-broker. But it has been stated by competent authority, that the demands for discounts at the bank are increasing, and will probably soon be as great as prudence will warrant.—Even if the discounts were still less, I confess I hardly see how they would be increased by the measure proposed. Money is chiefly borrowed by merchants and used by them in the purchase of the great staples of the country, tobacco and flour. Now it is clear that if the holders of these articles have less occasion to sell them, the merchants have less occasion to borrow money to buy them.
In questions of this sort it is common to ask qui bono ? What is the advantage proposed? And if the preceding reasoning be correct, few holders of tobacco will deposit their notes with the bank, if the directors should avail themselves of the permission granted by the bye-law, and the corporation will not be gainers by those few.
So much has been said on the score of policy; on that of inconvenience, some additional trouble may be given to the officers of the bank, by the proposed regulation, and it might involve the corporation in an injunction or law-suit; but on the other hand, it may prove a convenience to the holders of tobacco notes, who may thus borrow money without asking the favor of a friend, perhaps of a stranger, to become their security. Above all, many respectable individuals seem to wish for the measure, and they will better feel the good or harm resulting from it by experience, than learn them by any previous argument.
The above remarks are confined to the consideration of tobacco. The objections to stock as a deposit, are less numerous and weighty; but there were some sensible but general remarks on circulation, made by the first opponent of the resolution, which were but partially replied to.
A CALM OBSERVER.
Legislature of Virginia.
EXTRACTS FROM THE JOURNALS OF THE HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
FRIDAY, January 4.
An engrossed bill, To amend and carry into effect the several acts, providing for the opening a road from the upper navigation of James river to the upper navigation of Kanawha, was read a third time.
Resolved, That the bill do pass, and that the title be, an act To amend and carry into effect the several acts, providing for the opening a road from the upper navigation of James river to the upper navigation of Kanawha.
The house, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole house, on the bill, To amend the act, entitled, an act, for regulating conveyances; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. E. Harrison reported, that the committee of the whole house had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and had made some progress therein, but not having time to go through the same, had directed him to move for leave to sit again; and the question for leave to sit again, being put; It passed in the negative.
Mr. Cabell presented, according to order, a bill, Concerning the James River Company.
SATURDAY, January 5.
Mr. Davison presented, according to order, a bill, To amend the several laws concerning appeals, and to extend the power of the superior courts in granting writs of supersedeas, which was received and read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time, On motion.
Ordered, That the said bill be now read a second time; the said bill was accordingly read a second time, and on motion, ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole house on Monday next.
Mr. Singleton presented, according to order, a bill, To raise the counties, and for other purposes, which was received and read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time. On a motion made.
Resolved, That the Executive be requested to lay before the house of Delegates, the amount for which condemned transferred fleeces have been sold; what part of that amount has been paid; at what period or periods the balance becomes due; and whether any fleeces are now on hand for transportation. On a motion made.
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to ascertain and report to this house, the actual amount expended, of each item of the appropriations of the year—and a committee was appointed of Messrs Wooding Miller, (Powhatan) Mercer, Scott, E. Harrison, Terry, Hening and Hawes.
The house proceeded by joint ballot with the Senate, to the appointment of a Treasurer of this Commonwealth for one year and the members having prepared tickets and deposited the same in the ballot boxes, Messrs. Simple, Madison, Miller, (Powhatan) Stribling, Edwards, Roberts, Mallory, Keer and Mercer, were named a committee to meet a committee from the Senate and jointly with them examine the ballots and report to the house on whom a majority of votes should fall; the committee thereupon withdrew, and after some time returned into the house and Mr. Simple reported, that the committee had, according to order, met a committee from the Senate, and jointly with them examined the ballots, and had found a majority of the whole number of votes in favor of William Molesey, Esq.
IF TRUE!
The American Tars, worthy of the name of Decii!— Worthy of a national monument!
Extract of a letter from a member of Congress, to a gentleman in this city.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 6, 1805.
SIR,
You will have seen the President's message, communicating the information lately received from our fleet off Tripoli, in Consul O'Brien's letters, &c. The only subject of regret in that affair was the loss of three most promising young officers, and one of our brave seamen, blown up in the fire ship sent into the harbour of Tripoli, for the purpose of injuring their shipping, &c.
By letters received this day by the Secretary of the Navy, from Commodore Barron, it would appear that this fire ship did not explode by accident, as was first stated; by information since received from the town of Tripoli, it appears, that the fire ship had proceeded nearly to her destined position, when she was beset by two of the enemy's galleys, sent to intercept her, that the crew permitted them to approach, or perhaps saw them too late to effect a retreat; and did, themselves, put the match to that blew themselves up; the consequence of which was, the entire destruction of the two galleys or gun boats, containing one hundred men—about one hundred shells thrown into the town, and so much damage and alarm occasioned, that the castle might have been taken and the town sacked, by the landing of two hundred men!
However the fact may be, this is certainly the impression at Tripoli. It has covered us with glory in that part of the world, and must undoubtedly tend to a speedy release of our friends, now sighing for an opportunity of joining their gallant brethren. The letter which gives this information, refers to dispatches lately sent, which have not come to hand. Commodore Preble is coming home and Decatur commands the Essex. Should any thing further occur on this interesting subject, I will certainly make it the subject of another letter to you, but I fear our little fleet will not be able to renew their operations against that place before Spring. It is, however, to be hoped, that the impression made on the Bashaw, of the energy of our brave tars, will induce him to sue for peace this winter.
THEATRE.
This Evening, Jan. 11, will be presented, The POINT OF HONOUR, with the Comedy of ROBIN HOOD—for the Benefit of Miss Melford.
NINE IRISH LINENS AND SHEETINGS.—For sale by BARTELT STILL. January 11.—(4f.)
NOTICE.
THE Creditors of ANTHONY & PLEASANTS are earnestly requested to meet at the Commissioner's Office To-Morrow at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, on business of importance. GEORGE MARX, } Assignees. NEIL MCCOULL, } Richmond, Jan. 11. (1t
LOST,
OR MISLAID, IN THE CAPITOL; A SMALL BOOK, covered with red leather, and containing some meteorological notes &c. from the 1st of January 1803, to about the 20th of last month. The owner will be thankful to any person, who may have found it, for restoring it to him, either at the Capitol, or Doct. Lyon's in this city; and if any pecuniary compensation shall be required, it shall be made by A WAUGH. January 11.
FOR SALE,
By WILLIAM ROSS, AT THE EAGLE TAVERN: NINETY-four yards Fancy, Tailonet, Caffimere and Swansdown Wellesley. 2 cales Britannia, 1 bale Ticklenburgs, 8 cales and trunks Chintzes and Calicoes, 1 cale Cotton Shawls and Pocket Handkies. 1 do. India Sattins, assorted colours, 1 bale Gurrh Mullins, 2 do. Bafta do. 3 do. Coffa do. 1 do. Jaannah Mamoody do. 1 do. do. Samah do. 60 boxes Spanish Segars, 30 do. containing sets of Tex China, 51 pieces each, 5 do. assorted ditto. 80 rheam Medium Vellum Printing Paper, 6 do. Foolscap Writing ditto. N. B. Crop Tobacco, Flour, or Flax-Seed, will be taken in payment as cash. January 11. (2awf)

THE YAZOO PAPERS.
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To James Madison, Albert Gallatin, and Levi Lincoln, Esqrs.
Commissioners of the United States, appointed in pursuance of an act of Congress, entitled "An Act for an amicable settlement of limits with the state of Georgia, and authorizing the establishment of a government in the Mississippi Territory," and of an act supplementary to the same.
GENTLEMEN. The undersigned having exhibited claims to certain portions of the territory, lately ceded by the state of Georgia to the United States, and the vouchers in support thereof which they trust are full and satisfactory, do now, in conformity to the further provisions of said acts of congress, submit to your consideration and opinion, the following propositions, which they offer as the terms of a compromise of the claims of themselves, and of their respective constituents.
The individuals, and companies of individuals, whose claims the undersigned represent, will release to the United States all their right, title, and interest, in, and to the territory, lands and soil by them claimed on the following conditions: that is to say—
First. That the government of the United States will, during the present session of congress, provide by law, for the appropriation of five millions of the most valuable acres of the land ceded to the United States by the state of Georgia, in such manner as not to interfere with their engagements to the state of Georgia, in their late act of cession, or the grants therein recognized, to be disposed of under the authority of the United States, for a sum not less than two dollars per acre, clear of all expense or charge, for the purpose of compensating for the claims, for which the said five millions of acres are therein reserved; and that said five millions of acres shall be the first sold, after a quantity of other of the ceded lands shall be disposed of, sufficient to pay the state of Georgia the one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, contracted to be paid in their said act of cession.
Second. In order to make a complete settlement of said compensation at this time, and to vest the title of claimants in the United States, as soon as may be, the undersigned, for themselves and those whom they represent, propose and consent, that the proceeds of the sales of the said five millions of acres of land be now estimated at the minimum sum of ten millions of dollars, and that the same be divided and apportioned between the United States, for the purposes hereinafter expressed, and the individuals and companies of individuals, whose claims the undersigned represent, in the following manner.
Third. The United States shall retain, out of the said gross sum of ten millions of dollars, the proportion of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose (if they think it just and fit) of quieting, or compensating for any claims, supposed to fall within the description of those, for which the said five millions of acres of land were reserved in the cession aforesaid, other than those, which derive their title from the state of Georgia, under the act of said state, passed January seventh, A. D. 1795, and granted to four companies, called in said act, "The Georgia company," "The Georgia Mississippi company," "The Tennessee company," and "The Upper Mississippi company."
Fourth. Of the remainder of said gross sum, four millions eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, shall be the apportionment to the holders of the title of "The Georgia company," out of which the United States shall retain the proportion of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to represent one million of acres of land, reserved in said grant for citizens' rights, to be disposed of to those who may lawfully represent the same: the remaining proportion of four millions six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, shall be apportioned among those, who now hold the residue of the title of the said "Georgia Company," according to their respective interests therein:—And whereas it is suggested, that claims may be made to some parts of the land granted to the said "Georgia Company," by the act aforesaid, and under the same grant, other than those represented by the undersigned, and some of the individual claims under said grant may conflict with each other in whole or in part, as well as with the United States may make claim to some part thereof, under the same grant: It is therefore proposed and agreed, that in case any such claims shall be made, or in conflict, the same shall be adjudged and decided on, according to the rules which govern in courts of law and chancery, by the commissioners to whom these propositions are addressed, or in case the parties shall not agree thereto, by three arbitrators, one of whom shall be chosen by each party, and the third by both the parties:—and in case both parties shall not agree in the choice of a third arbitrator, he shall be chosen by the other two arbitrators; and the award in writing, under the hands of said commissioners, or any two of them, or of said arbitrators, or any two of them, after a hearing of the parties by the three, shall be final: And the United States shall retain the proportion of allowance made to any claimants in said Georgia company, who shall not agree to such compromise, and release their title to the United States, agreeably to such decision: And the United States shall also retain all such portions of the aggregate residue sum assigned to said Georgia company, as shall not appear to be represented by any claim, or established by decision as aforesaid, but subject to the contingency herein after mentioned—It is understood, however, that those claimants in said Georgia company, whose claims do not appear to be subject to controversy, as aforesaid, shall in no way be delayed by any thing contained in this article, from receiving the proportion, which may be due to them, but they shall be entitled to receive the same as speedily as the claimants in any other company, in which no such controversy exists.
Fifth. Three millions twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars shall be the apportionment of the holders of the title of "The Georgia Mississippi company," out of which the United States shall retain the proportion of one hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, to represent six hundred and twenty thousand acres of land, reserved in said grant for citizens' rights, to be disposed of to those, who may lawfully represent the same: and the remaining proportion of two millions eight hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars, shall be apportioned among the members of the "New-England Mississippi Land Company," so called, who hold under their trustees, Leonard Jarvis, Henry Newman, and William Tull, all the residue of the title of the said "Georgia Mississippi company," which apportionment shall be made by the directors of said "New-England Mississippi Land Company," agreeably to their articles of covenant and agreement.
Sixth. One million one hundred and twenty thousand dollars, shall be the apportionment to the holders of the title of "The Tennessee company," out of which the United States shall retain the proportion of sixty thousand five hundred dollars, to represent two hundred & forty-two thousand acres of land, reserved in said grant for citizens' rights, to be disposed of to those who may lawfully represent the same; and the United States shall also retain thereout, the further proportion of twelve thousand five hundred dollars, to represent what is called the commissioner's reservation in said grant; the remaining proportion of one million ninety-seven thousand dollars, shall be apportioned among those who now hold the residue of the title of the said "Tennessee Company," according to their respective interests therein. And whereas it is suggested that controversies of a nature similar to those which are supposed to exist among the claimants in the Georgia company, may also take place among those of the Tennessee Company, it is therefore agreed, that in case any such may exist, they shall be adjudged be adjudged and decided on in the same mode and manner, and under the same conditions and restrictions, as are provided for the termination and decision of such controversies among the claimants under "The Georgia Company."
Seventh. Six hundred and eighty-two thousand five hundred dollars, shall be the apportionment to the holders of the title of "The Upper Mississippi company," out of which the United States shall retain the proportion of thirty-four thousand five hundred dollars, to represent one hundred and thirty-eight thousand acres of land, reserved in said grant for citizens' rights, to be disposed of to those who may lawfully represent the same; and the remaining proportion of six hundred and forty-eight thousand dollars, shall be apportioned among the associates who hold under Adam Tunno, James Miller, and James Warrington, the whole of the residue of the title of said "Upper Mississippi Company," to be apportioned according to the shares held by each.
Eighth. The undersigned for themselves, and those whom they represent, further propose, and consent to, the following terms of payment of the several allowances, apportioned and to be apportioned among them as aforesaid, viz.
That the government of the United States will, during the present session of congress, further provide by law, for the issuing from the treasury of the United States, certificates or evidences of the several allowances to the individuals or companies of individuals, who are or shall be found entitled to the same as aforesaid; which certificates shall bear date the first day of April, A. D. 1809, and shall be made payable in three annual and equal instalments, the first of which shall be payable on the first day of April, A. D. 1809, out of the first proceeds of the sales of the said five millions of acres of land, appropriated as aforesaid; and in case of the suspension of the payment of any instalment, on account of the deficiency in the proceeds of the sales, an interest of six per cent. annually shall be allowed thereon from the time when due, to the time when paid; and if the proceeds of the sales shall exceed the sum due on any instalment, the United States shall not be held to anticipate the payment of the next instalment; but if the proceeds of the sales are less than the amount of any instalment when due, the holders of the certificates shall be obliged to receive, and the United States will pay the whole amount of such proceeds at the time the instalment falls due; and the United States shall never be held to make payment of any part of the principal or interest mentioned in said certificates, excepting from the actual proceeds of the sales of five millions of the most valuable acres of land, ceded as aforesaid; but in case the proceeds of the sales of such portions of the said five millions of acres of land, as are represented by the holders of said certificates, shall not be found sufficient for the entire payment of the principal and interest of said certificates, then all such portions of the said five millions of acres of land, as are retained by the United States, (except such parts of the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, as shall have been appropriated by them to the extinguishment of any other claims within the reservation of the act of cession of the state of Georgia) together with all such sums of money, as shall be received into the treasury for the said sales of said five millions of acres, above the said two dollars per acre, shall remain an eventual fund for the payment of any such deficiency.
Ninth. That the said certificates shall be issued for such amount in each certificate, as shall be most convenient to the holders; and they shall be made transferable in the same manner as is provided by law for the transfer of the domestic debt of the United States; and after the payment of one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the state of Georgia is completed, the said certificates shall be receivable in payment from any purchaser of any part of the land ceded by the state of Georgia, at the nominal amount of the sum expressed therein, with the interest, (if any) which may have accrued thereon at the time of such payment; and no discount shall be made on any certificate paid for land, although such payment be made before the certificate has fallen due; but the amount of any certificates thus paid in, shall not be considered as money in the treasury, by which any part of an instalment is to be paid to the holders of the certificates in circulation.
Tenth. In case the proceeds of the five millions of acres of land, which shall be first sold, or so much thereof as the claimants under the aforesaid act of Georgia may be entitled to receive according to the foregoing propositions, shall prove insufficient to discharge the principal and interest of said certificates, the holders of said certificates shall be entitled to receive what may so remain due thereon out of the proceeds of the sales of any other of the lands ceded as aforesaid. Provided, That they shall not in any event receive in the whole a greater amount than the proceeds of those five millions of acres in said lands, which shall ultimately be sold for the highest price or prices.
Eleventh. The claimants consent, that no certificates shall be delivered until all such deeds, documents and other papers, by them exhibited, as the commissioners of the United States shall judge necessary, nor until a deed shall be made to the United States of all the claimants' right, title and interest, in and to the lands by him or them claimed, who are to receive the certificates, shall be duly lodged in the office of the secretary of state of the United States.
These propositions, gentlemen, are made by the undersigned, as the result of your communications, and are shaped more under the influence of a sincere desire to meet the wishes and views of the government of the United States in the arrangement of this important object, than from an expectation of realizing a full compensation for property surrendered to public use; they feel confident that congress will view them in the same light, and readily accede to the terms; but should they be disappointed in their
expectations, and should these propositions of compromise fail of meeting the approbation and sanction of congress, we think it necessary to make it clearly understood, that nothing contained herein shall be construed to imply an assent on the part of the claimants to the act of cession of the state of Georgia, or in any way to avail the United States to the prejudice of the claimants.
With the highest considerations of respect & attachment to the government of the United States, and of personal esteem to yourselves, we are, gentlemen, Your obedient servants.
January 19, 1803.
WILLIAM HULL, PEREZ MORTON, SAMUEL DEXTER, WILL PAYNE; for the New-England Mississippi Land Company, and such portions in the Georgia Company, as are stated in claims by us exhibited.
JNO. PECK: for myself as represented in my claim.
JOSEPH SANDS: for those he represents.
JOSEPH PEPPIN: agent to the whole of the Upper Mississippi Company.
JONA. ARNOLD: for himself.
N. LE FAVRE: for himself, relying on the equity of his claim, and the honor of the government.
JAMES STRAWBRIDGE: trustee for the Tennessee Company.
THO. YOUNG: for self, and as attorney for Ben. Sims, claiming lands in the Georgia company, as fully set forth in his memorial to the commissioners of the United States in November last, he knows of no conflicting claims to said lands, and believes they have equal pretensions with any of the claimants in any of the companies.
GEO. SIBBALD: for those he represents.
SAML. E. CONOVER: for himself and those he represents.
(To be concluded in our next.)
TO BE SOLD. For ready money, pursuant to a decree of the Federal Circuit Court, for the district of Virginia in a suit between Phineas Bond, Attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards Plaintiff, and David Ross and others defendants—
TWO undivided parts, out of three, of forty-two acres of LAND, in the county of Henrico, upon Four-Mile Creek, with the Mills and Houses thereon, known by the name of the Norwich Mills, ALSO—a Tract or Parcel of LAND, situate in the county of Henrico, about seven miles below the City of Richmond, commonly called and known by the name of the Seven Pines, thought to contain one thousand acres, but Mr. Ross undertakes, that an accurate survey and plot shall be produced on the day of sale.
The Sale will positively take place at the Eagle Tavern in the City of Richmond on Thursday the 21st day of February next.
BEN. MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. (ids) Jan. 8.
At the same time and place, I will dispose of the other undivided third part of the said Norwich Mills and will also dispose of a valuable tract of LAND adjoining thereto, which contains about five hundred acres, with various improvements—The whole is a valuable estate—Mr. Hooten will show the Mills and the land. The terms of payment for the said land and the other third part of the Mills will be half ready money, and twelve months credit for the other half.
DAVID ROSS.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD. JACK OR JACK ASH, a gardner by profession, formerly the property of Lewis Burwell, dec'd. was sold by the Ex'or. of said Burwell, about this time last year, to a gentleman residing in Amherst county, who permitted him to come down last May, for the purpose of visiting his wife and relations, with a promise that his visits should be repeated frequently. Jack has thought proper to abuse this indulgence by not returning to his master.
His age is something above fifty, rather under the middle size. His believed that he secures himself in Chesterfield, probably Manchester, where his wife's friends live. The keeper of the toll bridge or the ferryman will have frequent opportunities of stopping him when on visits to his wife, who is free and who resides opposite Mr. Southgate's garden. Whoever will deliver the said Jack to Mr. Rose the jailor will receive the above reward on application at the office of the Enquirer. Jan. 8, 1805. tf.
VALUABLE LAND—FOR SALE. By virtue of a Deed of Trust, from Wm. Moffe dec'd. in order to secure and pay the following debts, viz.
THE sum of £. 890 : 3 in specie assigned by Nathaniel Moffe to Arch. Bryce, junr. for the purposes mentioned in the said assignment, and the sum of £. 133 7 10 due Arch. Bryce with interest thereon, from the 15th day of December, 1802, at 6 per cent. per annum till paid; Will certainly be sold, at the late residence of William Moffe on Tuesday the 15th day of January, eighteen hundred and five, for ready money, all that tract of land in Goochland county, lying and being on the waters of the little Byrd-creek, (whereon Mrs. Frances Moffe now lives) containing by late survey 203 acres, and bounded by the lands of capt. Nathaniel Moffe dec'd. Mr. David Ross, John Matthews and others. This land is of the first rate quality of big land, pleasantly situated, and within 5 or 6 miles (and good road) of the town of Columbia, and from 7 to 8 miles of Lewis's Mill on the Byrd creek. JOHN FORBES, Trustee. January 5.
ADVERTISEMENT. THE subscriber has leased the Tenement lately occupied by Charles Cox on Shockoe Hill near Mr. Southgate's store, and fronting the Capitol square, for a term of years, which is a commodious house, with several rooms for the accommodation of boarders; he wishes to take ten or twelve, who will be entertained handsomely. Young gentlemen who are acquiring education with Mr. J. Ogilvie, or studying law, will find this a very convenient place, being situated near the most eminent attorney's in the city, also near to the academy—I am to have possession of the 10th inst. This is a beautiful and healthy situation, and the terms will be reasonable, with every exertion in my power to give satisfaction. JOHN MOODY. January 8. (34.)
TRACT OF LAND. Will be publicly exposed to sale, at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, on the 15th day of January next.
A SMALL TRACT OF VALUABLE LAND, whereupon the subscriber now lives, containing about 250 acres, lying on the Wetham road, and a furlong from the said city. A farther description of the land is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed that every person desirous of purchasing, will obtain farther information as to the land, by a view of, or enquiry as to the same. 500 dollars of the purchase money will be expected in cash, and a credit of seven years given for the balance, upon a receiving bond with security for the payment thereof, and legal interest thereon annually. Mr. Archer Payne of Goochland, who is the trustee of the subscriber, will join her in executing a deed to the purchaser. ELIZABETH DANDRIDGE. December 22.
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NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the late firm of BUCHANAN, DUNLOP & CO. of Petersburg, ROBERT POLLOK & CO. of Richmond, and DUNLOP, POLLOK & CO. of Manchester, are hereby notified, that James Dunlop, late a partner in the above concerns, has become purchaser of the outstanding debts—they will therefore be pleased to make payment to Mr. John Tompkins residing in Richmond, or the subscriber residing in Petersburg, who alone are authorized to make collections and grant discharges.—Bills will be indiscriminately commenced against all who do not make payment before the first of February next. JOHN DUNLOP, Attorney For JAMES DUNLOP. Petersburg, Nov. 15, 1804. tf
J. TOMPKINS RESPECTFULLY informs those concerned, that he has removed the books and papers of the late concern of Robert Pollok & Co. and Dunlop, Pollok & Co. to a new Brick House near the Basin, and directly opposite to the Scale-House. Where he has for sale, a few pipes of OLD COGNAC BRANDY, of superior quality. December 11.
NOTICE. WE the undersigned, partners in the late concerns of BUCHANAN, DUNLOP, & Co. at Petersburg, of ROBERT POLLOK, & Co. at Richmond, and of DUNLOP, POLLOK, & Co. at Manchester, have sold to Mr. James Dunlop, our late partner in said concerns, the debts now due to us, and outstanding at these different establishments.—Those indebted will therefore please to take notice, that hereafter payments are to be made only to the said Mr. James Dunlop, his attorney or attorneys, and to whom those having claims against these concerns will apply for payment. DAVID BUCHANAN. By ROBERT POLLOK, his Attorney. ROBERT POLLOK. Virginia, Petersburg, Dec. 6, 1804. (eps3m)
FOR SALE—at Rocketts. THE LOT, and two story BRICK HOUSE, containing three tenements, which the subscriber purchased at the sale of George Nicholson, deceased. The lot is well situated for a warehouse, and the brick building for a bake-house, lumber-house, or Tobacco Factory. JOHN ELLIS. November 14. tf
FOR SALE. FIVE Hhds. and 10 ar. casks of LONDON PARTICULAR TENERIFFE WINE of a superior quality, on a credit of 120 days—Negotiable notes. Enquire of THOMAS NORVELL. December 29. (tf.)
ADVERTISEMENT. AGREEABLE to a decree of the county of King and Queen—will be sold at Mr. John Miller's Tavern on the 12th day of January next, one TRACT OF LAND belonging to the estate of Thomas G. Rowe dec'd. lying in the county aforesaid, containing about 550 acres. The land lies nine miles from Tappahannock and seven from Dunkirk, this land joins the lands of Col. John Hopkins, and the Rev. Robert B. Sample. ALSO—will be sold on the 14th day of said month at King and Queen Court-House, it being court day. Seven very LIKELY NEGROES belonging to the said estate. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchasers for the Land and Negroes, on giving bond with approved security to the COMMISSIONERS. December 22. (3w.)
BROKER'S OFFICE. THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amor Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity. THOMAS NORVELL. October 3. tf
JOHN SPINDLER, RESPECTFULLY informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Richmond, that he intends to teach DRAWING, PAINTING in Oil Colours and Crayons, and would instruct 6 or 8 pupils in those branches, either by waiting on them, or at his house, opposite Thomas Wilson's Esq. back street. N. B. Sign, House, and Military Colours painted by J. S. Orders from the country punctually attended to. (eps3m.)
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND, MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot. C—round the Calf. B—the pitch of ditto. D—round the heel and instep. E—round the instep. G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and pick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. June 30. eps3m.
HUGH J. CRAWFORD, HAS Just Received, per the ship Alexander, from London: A general Assortment of Genuine DRUGS & MEDICINES, which he will dispose of on moderate terms. Richmond, Dec. 25. (1aw2m.)
WASHINGTON TAVERN. THE subscriber has taken a lease of this tenement for a number of years, and has put it in a state of repair which renders it not inferior to any in this City. Besides the Tavern he has detached buildings, well calculated to accommodate those who are anxious of greater privacy than a tavern usually affords. These tenements adjoin the public square, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have decided advantages over any other houses in this City, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good STABLES and a constant supply of the best FORAGE. He renders his services to his friends and the public, and offers them, that no unlawful gaming, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to disturb the peace of his house, will ever be permitted. EDWARD HALLAM. Richmond, September 26.
TO PRINTERS. HENRY OURAM—PRESS-MAKER, South-east corner of Prune and Sixth-Streets: RESPECTFULLY informs the trade, that he undertakes to supply Printing-Offices with every thing in his line, having a complete Printer's Fount, constantly employed in making the second part of Presses, Furniture, Rules, &c. &c. Copies of all sizes, Composing Sticks, Brads & Wood Galley, &c. &c. constantly on hand, or made to order with dispatch and neatness. Orders from any part of the Continent attended to. Philad. Jan. 5. eps3m.
CHOICE LANDS—FOR SALE. A DIVISION of the famous Saura Town Lands having taken place between the heirs of James Park Farley, Esq. dec'd. and Col. John S. Farley and his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Morton, the subscribers. Robert Taylor of Norfolk, and Charles Duncan at Richmond, near Petersburg, are fully empowered by the said Col. Farley and Mrs. Morton, to dispose of their proportion, containing 12,832 acres, which are surveyed and laid off in eight lots, containing from 500 to 2000 acres, agreeable to plots in the possession of the said Duncan. The four largest lots are of excellent quality, each containing a considerable proportion of the richest soil, which produce tobacco of the very first quality, as has been experienced by one of the subscribers, who shipped it for a number of years. Those lands lie on Dan and Smith's rivers, in Rockingham county, on the borders of North Carolina, about 170 miles from Petersburg and Richmond. As there are seldom such lands for sale, they must be an object to those who want to purchase such as will produce fine tobacco, hemp and grain. One third of the price must be paid in ready money, one third in twelve months, and the other third in two years, the purchaser giving bond with unexceptionable security bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid. Those who wish to purchase will be shown the lands by Doctor John C. Cox, living at Lockesville, near Rockingham Court-House, and the terms made known by ROBERT TAYLOR, or CHARLES DUNCAN. Petersburg, Nov. 24. eps3m.
BOARD, WASHING & MENDING, FOR £. 36 PER ANNUM. THE subscriber has removed to the city of Richmond, for the purpose of receiving boarders. He has rented a large and commodious Brick-House, about two hundred yards from J. Ogilvie's academy. He is particularly desirous of receiving as boarders, young gentlemen from the country, who propose to become students in this school during the present year. He will Board, Wash and Mend for thirty-six pounds per annum. He will be prepared to receive from fifteen to twenty boarders. He can accommodate ten or twelve with chambers and bedding, on terms which will be made known to applicants. J. RAWLINS, junr. Richmond, January 1.
MISS ROBBINS, AFTER making her sincere acknowledgements to her friends and the public, for that portion of patronage which she has experienced, wishes to inform her patrons, that she has removed her School to a house nearly opposite to Mr. Copland's on Shockoe Hill where she can accommodate a dozen young Ladies as Boarders. Nov. 8. eS2m
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT I executed to John Burton of Buckingham county, on the third of the present month, two bonds, one for the sum of £. 100 payable 22th inst. and the other, for the sum of £. 15 payable 25th of December, 1805, which bonds I am determined not to pay, as the said Burton has failed to make a good right to a negro man, for which the said bonds were given. THOMAS BONDURANT. Buckingham, December 29. (eS 3t.)
TO MR. CHRISTOPHER JOHNSON, OF SOUTH-CAROLINA. SIR, As you are not a resident of this Commonwealth, and have no Agent or Attorney within the same, to whom a legal notice can be given; you are hereby informed, that by virtue of a commission issued from the office of the High Court of Chancery, for the middle district of Virginia, by law directed to be held at the Capitol in the City of Richmond, in the suit in Chancery depending in said court, in which you are Complainant, and I am Defendant. I shall proceed on the second Monday in February next, at the Tavern of James George in the county of Goochland and state of Virginia, to take the depositions of Thomas Johnson, John Johnson, Zachariah Pulliam, John Fretwell, and William Chick, to be read as evidence in the said suit, and that if the same cannot be taken on the day aforesaid, the taking thereof will be continued by adjournment from day to day until the whole are completed; when and where you may if you please attend. I am Sir, Yours, &c. BENJAMIN JOHNSON. Louisa county, and state of Virginia. December 22. (eS 4w.)
TO NON-RESIDENTS OF KENTUCKY. THE SUBSCRIBER living in the neighbourhood of Frankfort, Kentucky, having undertaken to pay the taxes of a number of gentlemen residing in Virginia and elsewhere, on their lands in this state, and finding that the remitting of money to him for that purpose is attended with great difficulties, risk and trouble, proposes it to those gentlemen and any others who may find it an accommodation to them, the following plan, to wit: That they shall deposit their money in either of the banks of Richmond, Alexandria, George town or Baltimore, on or before the first day of May annually, and authorize some person at those several banks to advise him of the amount of the amount, and to subscribe credit it shall be applied, and impropriate him to draw for the same, payable on sight. The lands of non-residents are advertised about the first of July, which is an expense of twenty-five cents on each tract. The subscriber's draft will command the cash in this state, and as soon as his bills are honoured at any of the above mentioned banks, he will advance the money in Kentucky, deducting seven and a half percent commission on his trouble, in attending to and executing the business. He will enclose duplicate receipts to those banks in which the money is deposited, or to the proprietors of the lands, keeping the original in his own possession, to correct any errors which may occur in the auditors office of Kentucky. To those gentlemen who may wish to pay their taxes in this way, and who have not a personal acquaintance with the subscriber, he begs leave to refer them to the Hon. John Breckenridge, the Hon. Matthew Walton, Esqrs. now in Congress, at the city of Washington, or to Gen. John Preston of Montgomery county, and Col. James Breckenridge of Botetourt county, Virginia, as to the confidence which may be reposed in him. NATHANIEL HART. N. B. The postage on all letters directed to me on the above business must be paid. December 15, 1804. (eS11 May.)
A TRACT OF LAND. By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber, will be sold to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the 14th day of January next, at Buckingham Court-House, being court day. CERTAIN Tract or Parcel of Land, lying in said county, containing one thousand acres, more or less; bounded by the lands of Michael Jones, Jeffrey Smith, Richard Gilliam and others, and lying on the Pickinham road—to secure the payment of a certain sum of money therein mentioned, due from John Miller, to Willis Willis, and the expenses attending the execution of this trust. GEORGE S. HARE, Trustee. Buckingham, Dec. 8. (eS 6t.)
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON. near the Market. Dec. 4. (eps3m.)