Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1806-10-08 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XIVth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE
[No. 1301.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum....paid in advance.]
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1806.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
THE SUBSCRIBER WISHES TO SELL
The Following Property;
A TRACT OF LAND, of about 325 acres, lying in Cumberland county, about three miles from Farmville. This land is about one third in woods, and is one of the most handsome and healthy situations in the country; the water is thought to be inferior to none below the mountains. Another tract of about 170 acres, three miles from the above tract, lying on both sides of Guinea creek, and on the Richmond road. Also, the HOUSES and LOTS, now occupied by the subscriber, in the town of Farmville. The dwelling house is large and convenient, with every necessary out house, either for a tavern or the accommodation of a private family. The terms and other particulars may be known by application to the subscriber.
Thomas A. Morton.
Farmville, September 20, 1806. w3t
FOR SALE OR RENT,
MY HOUSE AND LOT, in the town of Columbia; the house is very large, quite new, and entirely finished. Application must be made to
J. Wilks.
N. B. Possession will be given in November next.
Chatham, Fluvanna Sept. 18, 1806 w3t
EDUCATION.
THE Subscriber's present engagement, as a tutor in the family of Doct. George Evans, of Chesterfield county, will end on the 1st day of January next; at which time he would willingly listen to proposals for establishing an Academy, or other public seminary in some populous, healthful and otherwise eligible neighborhood in the state of Virginia.
His plan would embrace the following branches of instruction—The Greek, Latin and English languages grammatically—a regular course of history and reading, accompanied with a knowledge of Geography and Chronology—the Bible Letters, with a careful perusal of the best Authors, in the three languages above-mentioned, with a view to criticism and composition—Arithmetic, &c.—Book keeping—Surveying and the practical branches of the Mathematics.
The talents of the Subscriber, (such as they are) the attention with which he has discharged the various, delicate and difficult duties of a Teacher, and the system he has pursued, with the success attending it, are all sufficiently known to, and have happily met the approbation of a great many respectable and competent judges, of literary merit in the eastern and middle parts of this State.
To those who know him not he respectfully asks permission to say, that for the last twenty years of his life, he has labored, with sedulous application and perseverance, to improve and expand his own mind and the mental faculties of others, and that he now, though with unperfected dexterity, believes himself capable of rendering public and permanent services to the youth of a country, in which he has spent more than half the number of years he has lived, and the usefulness, happiness and prosperity of the citizens of which country, he shall never cease to pray for, and to the utmost of his abilities promote.
Of himself he has said as much as the occasion demanded and he cherishes a hope it will not be found that truth or propriety required him to say less.
Letters addressed to the subscriber, to be left at Coleville, or the Richmond Post office, will be duly attended to, and should an engagement be entered into before the 15th of January next, public notice will be given thereof.
James Johnstone.
Chesterfield county, 15th Feb. 180. 1806
DESIGN the ensuing year, with the aid of a qualified teacher, to attempt the tuition of 15 Females—Grammar, Geography & Arithmetic will be taught. Strict attention will also be paid to the composition of the Scholars, nor will their morals be neglected. The price will be $28 each scholar finding her own bed—16th of the price to be paid in advance.
Gerard Banks.
Goochland, 27th Sept. 1806. it
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by Thomas C. Fletcher, of Albemarle county, to secure the payment of a sum of money therein expressed, due John Goddard, of Baltimore, will be SOLD, for cash, on the 16th day of October next, at Triplett's Esq. tavern, in the town of Charlottesville, one FEMALE SLAVE, Judith. The subscriber being only trustee, will convey the title vested in him as such trustee.
JOHN KEY, Jr. Trustee
Albemarle, 26th Sept. 1806
NOTICE.
WHEREAS in consequence of the death of Robert Barton, the partnership of BROWN, RIVES and Co and of the different branches of that House, at Norfolk, Caleta, Ben Creek, Lynchburg, New Market, Warrenton and Milton will terminate, agreeable to the several articles of copartnership at various periods, between the first day of August last, and the first day of January next; this is to give notice to all persons interested, that the business of each establishment will be closed immediately after the time limited for its expiration.
JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES, Surviving Partners of BROWN, RIVES & Co.
Richmond, 1st October, 1806.
The business carried on by Brown, Rives and Co. will be continued by the subscribers under the firm of Brown and Rives, and the stores at Caleta, &c. furnished with their usual supplies.
JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES.
Richmond, 1st October, 1806. 4w
REMOVAL.
THE Subscriber has removed their COMPTING HOUSE, from the Main Street to one of David Bullock's Brick Buildings, at the lower end of the Block, between the Tontitannia occupied by C and T. Saunders, and Norwell, Wiat and Bullock—where they continue their purchases of what is usual. They also keep for sale a regular supply of Flour, Corn Meal, Hominy and Bran.
Thomas and Amos Ladd.
19 Mo. 3d, 1806. it
[FROM THE CONNECTICUT COURANT.]
The loss of the ship Rose-in-Bloom is the foundation of the following Lines.
Hark! in the storm, Fraght with the dread artillery of Heaven, Now roars terrific, and now dies away In sullen murmurs, while the foam, dashing Gainst our rude promontory's base, alarms The horror of the gale, and faintly meets, At intervals, my ear,—and yet perhaps 'Tis fancy. Fancy awak'd by Pity, Sweet soother of terrestrial cares, oft loves The airy dream of wretchedness to paint, With gloomy pencil, and to mimic sounds Of misery, and deck a thousand shapes Of woe; that so her tenderness may feel Of grief the sadly-pleasing luxury— 'Tis heard again! and now each doubt, that bred Anxious alarm, dissolving, yields to sad Reality; for by Heaven's great fire, That light, occasionally, yon darkened vault, I see now borne upon the billow's top, Now sunk down deep beneath, and buffeting The fury of the storm. A crazy ship— Nearer to view th'increasing tempest drives it, With gait irregular confusion stalks On deck; while black despair, black as the storm That rages, hurls the pilot from the helm. Now at the mercy of each wave that rolls, As seamen sometimes call it, mountains-high, The ship rides trembling o'er the angry deep. But rides not long; for a still stronger gale, As if rough Boreas madly strove to sweep, At one rude blast, old Ocean's kingdom dry, Comes hurrying. The vessel yields submissive, And overturn'd floats on its side a wreck. Held I now the painter's pencil, rather Than the Muse's (for the eye of Fancy, Two'rolling, as her favor'd ministrals sang, 'From earth to heav'n," could see the scene but faintly)
I would draw, or cherub Pity for me, Each object sad now crowding on my view. Here, on the glowing canvas should be seen, With hair dishevel'd, and up-lifted hands, And streaming eye, and look of phrenz'd will; The daughter on the deck, and there, far off Amid the wave just ready to engulf him, The father, with placid smile serenely Seated on its face, while his cheek adown The frequent tear of joy should steal, to think Himself thus lost had sav'd a daughter's life.— Here, should be seen, amid the billow's foam, The husband struggling with his wife and son, Holding his all with fondest grasp yet vain— The wife should look as if she seem'd to say, With all the ardor of maternal fondness, Come me to rescue, and thus preserve A son, while the youth, to filial re-ling Alive, should in the parent's eye express A wish that he might be the sac-ifice. Anxiety and grief should mark the face Of him that held them. The eye of pity too, Should shed another tear as it beheld, Now clinging to the wreck, now dash'd away From it, and hope, by billows merciless, The wretched crew, cut off from every dream, Which fond imagination paints, of bliss Reserv'd for man in future, driven far, Perhaps forever from all th'endearments Of domestic life, denied the solace Of a death-bed, and far from home and friends, Doom'd to a wat'ry grave most horrible. But my pencil rude I drop for gladness The shatter'd vessel rights;—last hope forlorn (If hope on seraph wing yet hovers round) Of safety Lash'd to the wreck, and shudd'ring At every wave that rolls its cruel head O'er them, and every angry gale that blows, Through the long, long night they sit in sadness. Yet Heav'n's relenting lights, once more, the sky With many a starry lamp, and checks the storm; Perhaps kind Omen—for now a distant light, A flash of day, just rising in the east, Enlivens, with a momentary hope The boom of despair, but ah! not long.— 'Tis nothing but the gentle harbinger Of morn, kind presage of approaching day To half mankind; yet gentle not, nor kind Its silver beam to these unfortunate. The azure sky—the balmy breath of morn— The smooth expanse of wave, tip'd with the gold Of Heav'n's brightest fire effulgent, the Sun— The pleasing calm of nature all around Administrator but piety to grief By cruel contrast. And must they perish, When all around is joy! Oh! think of this, Ye blest who trim the social fire at home 'Mid happy domestic scene of peace; Oh! think of this and think of Him that keeps You safe from all the fury of the storm— But lo! f'r off, bending its course near These miserable, is seen the furling Canvas,—nearer it cuts the wave, at length, Its boat receives the sons of wretchedness, And bears them off to happiness and home.
ADMONITION.
Myrilla, rising with the dawn, Sleek rises from the blushing morn But when Myrilla sleeps till ten, Aurora steals them back again.
ANECDOTE.
A mortal fever once prevailed on board of a ship at sea; and a negro fellow was appointed to throw overboard the bodies of those who died from time to time. One day, when the Captain was on deck, he saw the negro dragging out of the forecastle a sick man, who was struggling violently to extricate himself from the negro's grasp and remonstrating more bitterly against the cruelty of burying him alive. "What are you going to do with that man, you black-d—l!" said the captain. "Going to throw him overboard, Massa, cause he dead," replied the negro. "Lead, you scoundrel," says the captain, "don't you see that he moves and speaks?" "Why yes, Massa," (replied the negro) "I know he say he no dead; but he always lie so like hell, nobody nebbur know when to believe him."
TO RENT.
A HOUSE on the Hay market square, with an office, a stable, chair house, and an excellent garden, &c. For terms apply to Jasper Robbins at Mr. John M'Enery's. Richmond, 1st October, 1806. it
[FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.]
THOUGHTS on the subject of NAVAL POWER in the United States of America; and on certain means of encouraging and protecting their Commerce and Manufactures.
No. IV.
Besides the complete justification of our measures for the peaceful defence and protection of our suffering trade and seamen, and of our endangered agriculture and manufactures, which rises from this cursory review of the British conduct, another important impression will be made on our minds. The friends of public economy and peace, and the enemies of expense, disorder and war, will clearly perceive that the mere possession of a great navy has enabled Great Britain to be extremely unjust, and to depart from that political morality which she owes to herself, to the neutrals, and to the world.—We have no reason to suppose that men on the western will be better than their brethren on the eastern coasts of the Atlantic, and we have therefore reason to apprehend, that, with an equal navy, we might have returned war upon England, or placed ourselves perhaps upon the list of the oppressors of our innocent rivals or less potent neighbors. The possession of 800 fighting ships is to be under 800 influences to foreign war and neutral oppression.
Permanent navies, quite as much as standing armies, lead a government to beguile their citizens into immense and fatal credits to the public. By the new year, the creditors of Great Britain have, in Europe and the colonies, claims upon that government to an amount little short of three thousand millions of American dollars, at their proper valuation.—It is said familiarly there, that this debt can never be paid, and a political writer, who was much approved and employed by members of their late expensive ministry, has openly advocated the use of the sponge, and excited against their public creditors, without discrimination, the exes of resentment and odium. Regardless of the many persons of all conditions, sexes and ages, foreign and British, whom the immoral sponging of three thousand millions would reduce to dependence, wretchedness and beggary and totally insensible to the rights of property, that dreadful catastrophe to their war system is openly proposed, in a leading newspaper of the city of London. America, it is hoped, will not basely consent to exchange the political morality of her civil course for such a compound of human blood, fatal expense, and stupendous fraud.
It would not be fair to avoid the objection to our recent course with England—that it is applied too particularly to her.—It may be observed in cursory reply, that since we are much greater customers to that country than to any, and indeed to every other, we had a right to receive kindness and justice; or like private customers, we were free to go to other shops to make goods for ourselves. The manufect of the continent had done us little injury. It was Great Britain alone, who of the maritime powers, violated the rights of the neutrals in 1792 and 1793, during a time of peace. She alone, of the neutral powers, violated the neutral rights before the war of February, 1793, with France. She alone induced, in London, in March, 1793, a neutral state (Russia) to form a convention for destroying the whole neutral commerce, direct and indirect, with the dominions of France. She alone issued secret executive orders, in November, 1793, to stop even the trade of neutrals, accustomed in peace, with the colonies of France. She alone made known her intentions to dismember our country at the Ohio. England alone established a press at the seat of our government, to subvert our constitutions, and to destroy, by libels, the friends of their principles, approving, in her ministry and legislature, of the service of this civil enemy, before the whole nation, before all Europe, even after his conviction. England alone seizes our vessels in the new of war trade to the colonies of her enemies, whilst she makes treaties with us establishing a similar war trade in both her Indies, and regularly reciprocates a like trade between her own colonies & those of enemies. She alone impresses our seamen, and forces them to raise their neutral hands, in illegitimate war against her enemies, with whom we are at peace. She alone violates the obligations of our written and ordained contracts with foreign seamen and foreign passengers, leaving our ships, unmanned, to the mercy of the elements. Uniformly and openly the leading party to the first aggressions on neutrals by Russia, Prussia, Austria, Sweden and Spain, in peace and in war, in 1792 and 1793, it is to her fatal influence, and undeniable
* This is acknowledged, in the late General Hamilton's Pacificus.
example, that we owe the injurious pre-cedents of those vast wrongs which have broken the hearts and fortunes of our neutral merchants.—It is England alone which, on paper, has blockaded empires, nay a quarter of the globe, unblocked, in fact, and incapable of blockade, destroying the markets for neutral produce, manufactures, and property, in enemies' and neutral countries.—It is England which, odd as it may seem, with her enemies carried seduction into our national Senate, and attempted to commit this nation in the partition of an enemy's noblest colony. More might be truly said, but suffice it to observe, that a course of such circumstances, commencing in 1792, and continued to the last season of our public business, may well account for our measures to look to a proper few of our own manufactures, by the exclusion of some of those of a nation so perseveringly unfriendly, and so extensively injurious in spirit and in deed.
The conduct of Great Britain herself, in previously discriminating against us, may be forgotten by her government, but they will not admit the facts on a statement of some which occur.
The important principle, that free ships make free goods, was conceded by Great Britain to France, though her privy council recognizing that fact, decided that we should not be equally favored.—This important and international discrimination against us is worth much more than all the discriminations we have made against England, and all we yet contemplate.
In making a treaty with France and other states, Great Britain established a much shorter, simpler, and more favorable list of contraband of war than was extended to us.
The British government and navy, it is believed, have not been in the practice of perverting the right of search, to the impressment of sailors on the high seas out of any vessels but those of the United States.
The admission of other foreign ships, with their own foreign produce, into the British colonial free ports, and the exclusion of the ships of the United States, with our produce from the same ports, is another very serious discrimination against our agriculture and trade.
The exclusion of our ships from the carrying trade, between the ports of which their East-India Company have possessed themselves and China and other eastern countries, is a restriction not to be levied to be imposed on some other foreign vessels.
The pickled beef and pork of the U. States are prohibited in Great Britain, but those of some other countries are received there.
The manufactures of the U. States have been prohibited in Great Britain, while many of those of Russia, Turkey, Germany, and the independent states of India have been admitted.
But let us make a pause.—Let us discontinue the further prosecution of this examination, lest the numerous evidences of vigor and injury from England may produce a resentment we do not desire or be mistaken for a design to censure and offend her. Far different motives indeed have really excited to this publication:—the peaceable maintenance of the rights and interests of the U. States, and the exemption of human nature from the evils of discord, and the crimes and miseries of war. The weeping voice of bleeding Europe seemed to cry to the distant Americans—preserve your peace. Under circumstances so affecting, it appeared wise, and lawful and right worthy to appeal to the friends of humanity and truth in the two nations, on such matters as concern both, and respectfully to offer to our own country the weighty considerations, which seem to dissuade from the hasty establishment of a powerful navy.
[FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.]
[The following animated essays are taken from a French paper. They were translated some time since into the Wilmington Gazette; but from some cause do not appear to have commanded that share of the public attention to which they are eminently entitled. Their length does not deter us from presenting them entire to the public. It will be noticed that they were written before Mr. Fox came into office, and that the severity with which they criminate the British ministers, is applicable to his predecessors. We trust that his policy will be too enlightened and magnanimous to merit the same reproaches. The re publication of these pieces in this country is still seasonable.—They present a perspicuous and condensed view of the important principles at issue; and they will powerfully tend to cherish that tone of mind which it is highly desirable the nation should maintain until our affairs are brought to an amicable settlement. They are also seasonable in another
point of view. Although a vast majority of the people have pronounced the measures of their government correct, there are still a few men who are actively endeavoring to excite dissatisfaction at them. The best antidotes to such efforts are pieces of this stamp.]
[FROM A PARIS PAPER.]
TO THE BRITISH NATION.
Arrogant as your government has often shown itself in moments of success, proud and domineering as is the character of your civil and military officers towards unarmed and defenceless nations, I have too much philanthropy to attribute to the mass of any nation the vices of its administration. I will still delight to believe, that there exists in the British nation a fund of justice and humanity ready to avenge the injured and threatened rights of peaceful and impartial neutrality. In making an appeal to your sense of equity, I am still aware that I enter into an unpropitious career. The application is made to one of the coldest; against one of the most influential principles of human action.—National glory, cupidity, patriotism and self love will be all invoked to combat your reason, your sense of justice. Still supported by truth, and animated by a strong sense of unmerited injury, I come boldly to the combat, and if there yet remain in British bosoms, more love of honor than of money, more regard to reputation than wealth—more respect for justice than passion for domination, I shall not make my appeal without effect.
During the whole course of the late and present wars, it is well known to all Europe, and to no part of it better than yourselves, that the conduct of your cruisers, and of your court of Admiralty has been marked by an unexampled series of violation of neutral rights. So long as these infractions were restrained within such bounds, that upon authentic calculations neutral nations thought it cheaper to submit to injustice, rather than incur the expenses and delays of the process necessary to redress so long have they submitted to it as to an inevitable evil. But increasing insolence, and accumu- lated injury have fully proved the wisdom of the ancient maxim, "Obsta principiis" and have compelled us to adopt the sentiment of an elegant writer of your own country, "that a nation who weighs its purse against its rights, will in the end be sure to lose both."
In the early part of the late war, America made a stand, and it was a feeble one against your gigantic maritime pretensions, and 1,200,000 pounds sterling paid by you to her citizens, while it is a recorded proof of the injustice of your seizures, had perhaps the double and unfortunate effect of lulling her into security, and of exposing her in a defenceless state to the storm which appears to be now ready to burst upon her head.
Within a few months past, your cruisers and your obedient tribunals have overlapped the feeble boundaries which a sense of justice had hitherto opposed to rapacity, and the perils of Doctors Commons would lead a stranger to believe, that America, and not France, was the object of your vengeance. Aware of the just indignation of a brave and loyal people, your ministry are endeavoring to shelter themselves from the tempest, and, by rousing the avarice and the resentment of the nation, to throw the responsibility from their own shoulders upon those of the people. A pamphlet we learn, has lately appeared, under ministerial sanction, attempting to justify their unprincipled and unexampled aggressions, and preparing the public mind for what they know will be the effect of their perseverance, an open war.
Will you lend a patient ear to a stranger, while he examines one or two of the principles advanced by your courts styling themselves courts of justice—and on the second place, while he offers a brief reply to some of the ideas said to be advanced in the ministerial pamphlet in favor of a war with America.
Although from the nature of the case, there can be less precision and certainty in discussing questions upon the law of nations than upon municipal authority, founded upon decrees or statutes, yet the common consent of all the nations of Europe to adopt certain principles as laid down by certain able commentators on these laws, and the introduction of these writers, as authorities in the courts of admiralty, seem to have furnished a solid basis on which to rest our opinions on any questions which may arise between conflicting nations.
Great Britain especially has no right to controvert the principles laid down by these writers; because she has uniformly received them as authorities in her courts, and has always made them the basis of

her claims on other nations, in her judicial and diplomatic relations. If on the other hand there existed no such commentators, nor any positive conventions between nations, still the force and obligation of the laws of nations, founded on the immutable principles of justice and morality, would be equally great; but in this latter case we could only have recourse to the principles of natural law suggested and reduced by impartial reason. Let us examine the two great modern novel doctrines advanced, and attempted to be enforced by Great Britain, by either of these standards. And, first, as to her interdiction of the Colonial trade either directly or indirectly . Great Britain contends that neutrals in time of war shall not carry on a trade between the colonies of her enemy and the mother country, which was not lawful in time of peace, although the trade be bona fide in neutral account—at neutral risk, and for neutral profit.
On what authority is this extensive and important principle founded? Is there a single dictum in Puffendorf—in Grotius—or Vattel which justifies it? Is it supported by any convention explicit or implied made between any nations of Europe? Have there been any usages in past wars, decisions of any courts of admiralty which countenance it?
To all these questions we can boldly reply, None . Not a sentiment like this can be found in any writer; nor has any nation but Great Britain yet dared to offer such an affront to the rights of independent nations.
On the contrary, no principle can be more clearly settled than that neutrals may freely carry on their commerce with belligerent nations, with the single well-defined exceptions of not giving relief to an invaded and blockaded city or fortress and of not supplying the enemy with things apt to be used in war , to which has been applied the appellation of contraband .
This privilege of neutrals is even carried so far, that neutral nations have the right to supply freely one of the belligerent nations with implements of war , provided its usual commerce in time of peace consisted in supplying such articles. Never did the question, whether the traffic was such a one as was allowed by the belligerent nation in time of peace, applied to any other than contraband articles, arise in any single instance, till the British, inspired by the same jealousy against the Dutch in 1756, as now actuates them against the Americans, chose to advance this monstrous doctrine.
And let me ask, what is it to Great Britain, if France or Holland should see fit during a war to relax their municipal regulations, in favor of other nations? If these nations supply them with none of those articles which are denominated contraband of war, what pretext could Great Britain have to complain of the indulgence? The enormous and preposterous principles set up by the British courts, would go the length to say, that no nation at war with her, could change her municipal laws, could alter her colonial regulations in time of war. Let us examine this point a little nearer as it respects Great Britain, and her own conduct, and see whether it comport with her principles. It is a well known fact, that by the standing laws of Great Britain, other nations have no right to supply the British colonies with provisions or to carry on any trade therewith. Particular permission is however, granted in time of war, by proclamations from the governors of these islands, authorizing the importation of provisions during the existence of the secrecy only . Did Great Britain ever conceive, did any other nation ever contend, that American vessels which carry on this commerce were a lawful prize to the enemies of Great Britain? Miserable indeed would be the situation of the Caribbean Island if such a construction had prevailed! Yet it must be admitted that the cases are perfectly analogous. It is a trade which the Americans were not free to exercise in time of peace, and which Great Britain allows only on account of her necessities in time of war.
To shew that this principle set up in one case only by the British courts in the war of 1756, and afterwards wholly abandoned till the year 1794, is not one on the solidity of which the British court themselves place any great reliance, we will examine the history of its exercise and extension.
No one can doubt that, with the British power and with the British temper to maintain all their legal maritime rights, they have extended their principles as far & as fast as the law of nations would warrant.
They set up this principle of the illegality of the trade between the colony and the mother country, against the Americans, in the year 1756. They founded it upon the ground, and the single ground , that the trade not having been lawful in time of peace, and being granted only on account of the inability of their enemies to carry it on themselves, was for that reason only unlawful. If this doctrine was founded in law, then the trade between America itself and those colonies, having been unlawful in time of peace, was equally illegal in time of war. But at no moment have they dared to start this odious idea, though on principles equally tenable. A few captures only were made before our treaty with Great Britain, & for these few ample compensation has been made by Great Britain, thus implicitly recognizing the injustice of the principles.
The residue in another number.
AN AMERICAN.
TO THE BRITISH NATION. Permit me to resume the history of the proceedings of your courts in relation to the question of the trade with the colonies of your enemies, and indulge me to hope that it will excite a blush in the countenance of every honest Briton. During the whole of the war of 1756, and the greater part of the war of 1793, this principle was either suffered to lie dormant or when brought to exercise in a few cases it was confined to extend only to cases of direct intercourse between the colony of the enemy and the mother country. The right of the Americans to trade with the colonies, to transport the produce of those colonies to America, and from thence to Europe, was explicitly sanctioned by a long series of decrees, either never appealed from, or at least never reversed or even doubted. Sir William Scott, the most intelligent judge that Doctors' Commons has ever produced, sanctioned this right in a variety of cases, out of which I will give the Polly, Lasky, in which that learned officer declared, "that if the landing the goods in America and securing the duties was not sufficient to break the continuity of the voyage, and to render of course the re-exportation of the goods lawful, he did not know what circumstances would suffice."
In every case therefore where the goods had been landed, Sir William Scott ordered the restoration of them.
Will it be contended, that Sir William Scott an eminent practitioner in Doctors' Commons for 40 years, was ignorant of this principle of the law of nations? Or will it be contended that foreign nations are bound to admit a principle of doubtful authority, of which the most eminent man of the nation most interested to extend belligerent rights against those of neutrals, was ignorant after 40 years' study?
Last year in the court of appeals, consisting of three officers in the pay of the crown, in the case of the Essex, Orme, reversed the decision of Sir William Scott, & laid down the monstrous rule, that the goods, though landed in a neutral country, are still liable to seizure if re-exported by the same person who had imported them. Had these gentlemen sitting as a court of appeals, discovered with their telescopic eyes some new planet, some new light in the science of the law of nations which justified such a departure from her former decisions? If they have, let them state the book and page. Sir William Scott is, however, still ignorant of this authority, because in the application of it to the case of the brig owned by Messrs. Bradburn & of Boston, he acknowledges his former contradictory opinions, but says that "now it is his duty to bow to higher authorities," without assigning a single reason for the opinion given by the higher tribunals.
This decision was the signal for hundreds of hungry privateersmen, and greedy commanders of the royal navy, to spring upon our defenceless commerce—and soon the ports of the channel swarmed with the ships of our unfortunate countrymen. So long as it was possible to presume, that these seizures were the effect of a simple decision of your courts rendered in the ordinary course unauthorised and uninfluenced by the cabinet, so long the indignation of the Americans has been in some degree repressed. But since the late pamphlet issued by the government, or at least under its sanction, supports those decisions, and even proposes an extension of them, it is no longer to be doubted, that the reversal of the decree in the case of the Essex, Orme, was the effect of a decision of the cabinet, and a part of a deliberate system intended either to force us to renounce the advantages of neutrality, or to accept the alternative of the sword.
Thus then I have endeavored to give a history of the rise and progress of this modern law of nations, or to give it a name a little more truly conformable to its character, this modern decree of Great Britain against neutral trade. Let me here notice a suggestion made by the British writers upon the subject of the late decisions, that the Americans cannot complain of not having had due notice, as the case of the Essex, Orme, was a sufficient advertisement to them of the principles set up by Great Britain. This reminds one of the old legal fiction, that every one is presumed to know the law; but I believe it is the first time it was ever applied in this manner between nations. What! the American merchants are bound to know every decision of Doctors' Commons, and this too by a sort of inspiration, as soon as they are declared, though the Americans are at three thousand miles distance!!
In fact many of the vessels were captured before the decision could have been known in America by physical possibility, and while the Americans were acting under the sanction of Sir William Scott's decisions, published by Robertson, and spread throughout the United States. It is credible in point of fact, that the Americans would thus throw their property into the hands of the British cruisers, if they had understood the nature and extent of the principles set up by Great Britain? How much more noble would it have been in the cabinet of your country, if its real design was to find the state, rather than to crush the rising prosperity of the United States to have formally notified to our government its intention to maintain this new principle?
The second doctrine advanced by your majesty during the late and present war, is the right to declare a whole country in a state of blockade, and this, whether there
be ships constantly before the ports of the country or not.—This sort of blockade by proclamation, is founded upon the perversion of a very reasonable doctrine of the law of nations, that when a town or castle is actually invested, that is to say, so surrounded that its inhabitants have no means of getting out, and while there is a hope of reducing the town or fortress, it shall not be lawful for a neutral to enter into the besieged or blockaded port, or to carry in any provisions to their assistance. It was reserved to Great Britain to discover, that under this very rational and limited doctrine, was comprised the right to declare all the ports of an enemy in a state of blockade, whether actually invested or not and where there was neither a hope nor an intention of reducing the port of the country. Now there is another equally clear principle of the law of nations, and that is that neutral nations may lawfully carry on the trade with either of the belligerent nations without interruption. One of these two principles must then fall, for they cannot subsist together. If a belligerent nation has the right to declare a whole country in a state of blockade, whether actually blockaded or not, or whether there be hopes of reducing the place or not, then the right of neutrals is entirely nugatory and may be expunged from the table of nations.
But it may be said that Great Britain keeps a fleet off the ports of her enemies which she declares blockaded. This may be partly true, but this blockade is merely nominal; it never has interrupted the intercourse of these ports with the other ports of the same country; nor is it done with the hope or intention of reducing the place by famine which is the essence of the principle, and upon which alone the right to exclude neutrals is founded. This leads me to consider the wickedness and injustice of these principles as practiced by your government. These interruptions to neutrals are not done or permitted with a view of injuring the enemies, so much as with the design of aiding the commerce of Great Britain, or of checking the growth of neutral nations of whose prosperity she is jealous. That this is the case is manifest, because your government permits the free importation of the same goods to her enemies from her own ports that she prevents neutrals from carrying. It is a fact well known that American vessels bound to the Spanish colonies have been condemned in the Bahamas, their cargoes purchased by British subjects, and shipped for those very Spanish colonies under a licence from council with the king's own sign manual.
This is not merely confined to that trade, but in Great Britain itself, the commerce in the produce of colonies is permitted from the ports of England directly to the ports of the enemy.
It is not therefore to injure their enemy, it is not to cut off his supplies, that this vexatious warfare is carried on against neutral commerce, it is simply to arrogate to herself, to monopolize the advantages of a lucrative trade, & to check the too rapid growth of a nation whose prosperity she dreads.
This base, selfish, and abominable principle is explicitly avowed in the pamphlet which has lately been published, and which I shall examine in another number.
AN AMERICAN.
FROM THE PARIS ARGUS.
"We have received London papers to the 4th July. They contain nothing more positive or important than the former. However stocks still keep up. People are ever inclined to hope for what they ardently wish. If the silence of impartial journals inspire mistrust, the declarations of our opposition prints are ill calculated to excite apprehension. We have already assigned a reason for it. In examining the present situation of the ministry of England, one would perhaps find the real grounds of the hopes of those who wish for peace; and the objections which the partisans of the war state, are not owing to the reasons of policy which press the English to terminate it."
"England, say they, cannot consent that France should preserve on the continent the influence which her position and her victories have given her, nor that she should in a few years of repose reclaim her connections, resume her commerce, recover all her colonies and give to her navy the splendor which she has a right to expect . However they acknowledge that the emperor of the French will never consent to see the number of his ships limited to receive laws in his own ports and to restrain the independence of national commerce ; whence they conclude that peace is impossible. But is it true that a peace honorable and advantageous to both parties cannot be made? Is there no means of putting a stop to the effusion of human blood and the misfortunes of Europe? God forbid we should think so!"
"The question is less what England desires, than what she may henceforth obtain. She regrets the preponderance of France, but is unable to prevent it. She is forced to acknowledge it to be in a great measure the handiwork of her late ministry, the fruits of their political blunders. The prolongation of the war will perhaps only make bad worse, in the relative situation of England with the continent. She can no longer find any allies upon it useful to her cause; she can no more revindicate war upon it without exposing herself to greater losses than she has occasioned. The most enlightened statesmen in England have thought that the state of warfare which France is forced into, authorises her
to take from her victories advantages which her moderation has hitherto neglected . Not to be the dupe of the war, she might complete the annihilation of English influence , and herein she would at this day meet with no formidable opposition. The prolongation of the war authorises her to attack England in all those who remain devoted to her, or to organise such a system as may render the return of her influence impossible . England, unable to oppose any efficacious resistance , should then endeavor to put a term to the hopes of France, otherwise than in a war necessarily disastrous for herself. All delay heightens the evil of her situation! "
"But, say they, the emperor of the French will profit of the first moment of peace to re-establish his navy and revive his colonies ; it is indeed to be supposed. But it is more probable that France will hereby become a state essentially maritime and commercial ? Can she preserve her greatness on the continent and aspire to the dominion of the seas ? This pretension does not appear to be either in the principles or in the interests of her government. In the same manner as nature opposes England's ever having a regular force capable of carrying her arms with success upon the continent it is perhaps impossible for France to wield the sceptre of the seas , without losing a part of the more solid strength which she has acquired. Besides, if this power puts the days of peace to the account of profit with England not profit still more of them by the prosperity of her trade and the very security of her existence ? Her maritime houses are loaded with me —chandise the vent of which becomes every day more difficult . The public debt must augment during war — credit maintains itself only by the hope that it will be paid off , and it is allowed that this payment cannot take place till after many years of peace. The taxes grow heavier according as the interest accumulates .—The vigilance of the new administration has discovered enormous abuses in the finances; the organisation of the army is demonstrated to be defective."
"Ireland is still in an evident state of crisis: the grand work of her union can only be consummated in the calmer times of peace. The English colonies are not in a more flourishing condition than the parent state . The fortune of the planters is precarious; their commodities have no vent; their subsistence depends on neutral nations who may become enemies : the company's affairs in the east, are in an equivocal state : a hidden fermentation agitates it ; it has only an uncertain government and secret enemies, who are conspiring its ruin . In fine, the more one examines the situation of the English people, the more one is astonished at the continuation of the war. The maritime successes which they have obtained, have been of no advantage to them , whereas those of France are real for the moment and secured for the future. The one has only new dangers to run, the other only new successes to expect."
LONDON Aug. 7.
Price of stocks this day, at 12 o'clock, consols 65 1/8—omnium 11 1/4.
We received this morning New York papers to the 14th of July. We are sorry to find that every effort is still used to influence the public mind in America against this country. We have extracted an article respecting the behavior of an officer of the Cambrian to the crew of an American ship, [the Kentucky of Baltimore] not because we give the slightest credit to the statement, but as a specimen of the intemperate and indecent language which disgraces the American papers.
Two Gottemburgh mails arrived this morning. The following is the only article of intelligence they contain:
Gottemburgh, July 28.
Yesterday arrived a Russian courier in nine days from St. Petersburg, with dispatches for the Russian minister in London, and for the English government, he will take his passage in the packet that sails to day. The Russian army, it appears, are all in cantonments, ready to be called forth at an hour's warning. A large body of troops is upon the Polish frontier. The French frigate Le Rhine, of 44 guns, has shared the fate of Le Guere here—a telegraphic dispatch was yesterday received at the admiralty, stating that she had arrived at Plymouth, a prize to the Mars, captain Oliver.
Yesterday the signal was made for the expedition at Spithead to get under way—but the wind coming round to the westward, it was soon after annulled. The vessels that sailed from the Downs, have also been obliged to put back in consequence of the wind changing.
Mr. Fox, according to the report of this day, had submitted to the operation of tapping . It is said that four gallons of water were drawn off, and that he felt considerable relief.
Earl Moira attends at Mr. Fox's office, and transacts business for him.
It is reported, that at the grand fete now preparing at Paris, or when a general peace is proclaimed, Bonaparte intends to announce his nomination of several hundreds of his subjects to be dukes, marquises, counts and barons. Among these will be some of the ancient French nobility. Among the members of his family he has also resolved to revive the titles of duke of Orleans, princes of Condé and Conti, &c.
BOSTON. Sept. 25.
Capt. Star, who arrived here yesterday from Rotterdam, informs us, that he spoke on the 1st inst. the ship Euterprize, 28
days from London, the captain of which reported to him that Mr. Fox was so dangerously indisposed as to create a belief that he would not survive many days; that being made sensible of the danger of his situation, he had expressed, as the strongest desire of his heart, to live long enough to bequeath to his country a peace with France.—If the dates of this intelligence be true, our previous accounts from England invalidate that part of it which relates to the extreme danger of Mr. Fox's illness.—His real sentiments of peace are not satisfactorily explained, as yet.
NEW YORK, Sept. 29. Capt. Gold, from Porto Rico, informs, that news had reached there from the Main, that General Miranda, with 600 men, had landed in the Gulf of Coxa, and was immediately joined by 10,000 well disciplined men, and it was expected he would soon overrun the country. This news was received by a Danish ship and was believed. Capt. G. (who believes the news) says Miranda landed about the 25th Aug. The news was received at Porto Rico on the 8th of September.
We have seen a letter of the 13th of Aug. from Cadiz, from one of the first houses there. This letter says, "Last Sunday the agreeable news of PEACE between England, France &c reached us—signed at Paris on the 30th ult."
Arrived, the ship Phoenix, Wright, from Bordeaux, and 54 days from Plymouth. Sept. 20, in lat. 37, 38, fell in with the sch's Josephus, of Newbern, full of water, and no person on board. Capt. W. left at Plymouth, ship Little Mary of Baltimore for Amsterdam, acquitted on paying 200l. costs, and to sail in three days; ship New-York Packet, Swain, had permission to proceed after paying 60l. costs, and sailed 3d Aug. for St. Sebastian; ship Fabius of Philadelphia, released, and sailed July 26 for Bordeaux.
The British armed brig Agnes, Hastings, in 34 days from Kingston. Sept. 6 spoke ship Thomas Jackson, 60 days from Jamaica, last from New Orleans, bound to New York. 22d fell in with sloop of war Squirrel— informed that they saw a French frigate going into the Delaware —dismissed. Just before (19th) in lat. 36, 58, saw 5 sail of the line and a frigate, steering to the northward, and chased 12 hours by one of them.
ALEXANDRIA, September 30.
John Bedford, of Philadelphia, has obtained a patent for making " Iron Bound Boots and Shoes ," which is stated to be "one of the most economical inventions ever offered to the consideration of the public, for it not only saves immense labor, but materials also." He says after noticing the facility with which the shoes are made, that "if one man and a boy can make as many as six men could, and each pair of those will wear as long as two pair of the others, this NEW PLAN evidently makes the labor of a man and a boy equivalent to the work of twelve men on the OLD PLAN, and saves half the usual consumption of the leather; and should this improvement be extended over the whole of the United States, the saving of the labor and leather would be immense."
These goods are principally adapted for the use of people whose occupations cause them to wear out a great number of shoes, and who want strong serviceable shoes at a low price. They would suit farmers, people employed at iron works, brick makers, brick-layers, carpenters, sea-faring men, and all persons who work in wet or damp places, as they are much more water proof than the common kind—and possess this singular advantage, that the wearer may mend them himself without any difficulty."
NORFOLK, Sept. 30.
Yesterday morning we were again visited by a violent gale from N. E. accompanied with rain in torrents; it commenced about 6 o'clock, and continued without intermission until about 11, when the wind shifted to E. and S. W. and blew a perfect hurricane until between 1 and 2, and then moderated. We are happy to find that the damage sustained in the borough is not so great as was apprehended. Two or three schooners broke from their fasts, one upset, and owing to the high tide some boats and lighters drifted on the wharves. A few slated houses were partially unroofed, and many trees and pailings blown down.
The British ship of war, Leopard, of 50 guns, anchored in Hampton Roads on Sunday morning.
Capt. Bolan, at 3 P. M. on Saturday last, 10 leagues W. by S. of Cape Henry, passed 7 sail of British men of war.
October 2.
We are sorry to announce the loss of the schooner Charming Mary, belonging to Capt. Potter, which foundered to the northward of Chincoateague, on her voyage to Philadelphia from this port, with a cargo of coal. Captain P. was not on board, but was commanded by Capt. Mahon, of this place, who, with the crew, it is expected, have got on shore in the boats, as they were in sight of land.
NEW-ORLEANS, Aug. 29.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Port Adams, to his friend in this city, dated Aug. 25.
"As to our war-like affairs on the Red River, nothing has transpired since my last. Gov. Claiborne, and his adjutant general are gone to Natchitoches, captains Lockwood and Hains, left this to-day for that post, and colonel Kingsbury with the troops will follow to-morrow, our militia are mustered and under drill."
TO RENT.
THE BRICK HOUSE, at the Falling Garden, at present occupied by S. Pleasants Jr.—Possession may be had by the last of this month, Enquire of the subscriber, near the premises.
JAMES LOWNES. 10th Month, 24. 1908.

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It is apparent from some efforts making in the country beyond the Ohio...
From a recent publication in a Marietta paper of Sept. 11. 1806...
A great question involving our dearest rights and independence...
When the appointment of the celebrated orator, S. P. Curran...
A pamphlet published in Connecticut alleges against Sellick Osborne...
FROM THE HUDSON NEWS. The communication from the Helderberg...
Not a small degree of exultation do the British Colonies enjoy from the divided state...
The news from Europe has been so strangely twisted...
In New Hampshire, the Republican ticket for Representatives...
The secretary of war arrived here yesterday from Monticello.
The secretary of the treasury, we understand, is expected at the seat of government to-morrow.
The President is expected at Washington on the 4th.
Col. BURR. This extraordinary character arrived at Frankfort from Cincinnati...
night and the greater part of the next day in secret consultation as to the most effectual mode of preserving the secrecy of the future proceedings...
Various have been the conjectures of col. Burr's visit to Kentucky...
Col. Burr, late vice president of the United States, reached town this morning.
A letter from Porto Rico, dated Sept. 8, says, "We learn that Lord Miranda has landed at Cora..."
THE GLORY OF LAW.
There is a story in circulation (something like a former story about the Sugar business) that a case came before the federal court...
The case was curious—what was charged to the public for the speech we have not yet heard...
It seems that there is a certain mode by which promotion is to be obtained in England...
The Two Brothers, having the Tunisian Minister on board, has put into Marblehead...
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman in Bordeaux...
Preliminary articles of peace between France and Russia were signed at Paris...
A new German confederacy has arisen on the Rhine. The kings of Bavaria and Wirtemberg...
France thus surrounds herself with a wall of fire; and after a very few years of peace...
Europe is about to be arranged under a system that promises duration.
The U. States will act wisely if its government adopts a system of domestic manufactures...
Capt. Knight, of the brig Speedwell, arrived at Newburyport on the 21st inst...
Extract of a letter from captain William Prehiss...
Sir—I think it my duty to acquaint you of a new principle they have adopted...
Extract of a letter from an American gentleman at Tunis...
I am now on the scene of the once renowned Carthage—where Scipio fought...
The cisterns (about sixteen of twenty remain to be traced) are indeed admirable specimens...
FROM THE AURORA.
The schooner Charming Mary, capt. Mahon, left Norfolk for New York...
J. SANTFORD, S. BLOCK, J. W. SMITH.
It is generally understood that one of the threats held out by Bonaparte...
he would invade Portugal, and either annex it to his dominions or bestow it on one of his relations.
EXTRACT.
The female mind is naturally credulous, affectionate, and in its attachments, ardent.
On the errors of women let us look with the allowance and humanity of men.
That warm and tender friend, who in the most trying situations, retains her enthusiastic fondness...
The following is a remarkable phenomenon which certainly has taken place in the town of Pittsfield, N. H.
Within four years a Cow has produced eleven Calves, 2 the first year, 2 the next, 4 the next, and 3 are now running at her side.
POSTSCRIPT.
Latest Foreign Intelligence.
NEW YORK, October 3.
The arrival of the fast sailing ships Sciencer, Capt. Howard, & Eliza, Capt. Waterman...
Capt. Howard informs, that the prospect of Peace had subsided—that Mr. Monroe, the American Minister, was not to return to America...
A letter from Liverpool, from a respectable mercantile house, to another in this city...
Liverpool, August 17. We were yesterday upon the point of dispatching the annexed Price Current...
The accounts this morning neither absolutely contradict nor confirm this statement...
Aug. 18. The accounts of this morning, correspond with those of yesterday.
Capt. Brewton arrived at Philadelphia from Amsterdam, informs, that the latter end of July...
From the London Courier of the 15th of August.
The Cabinet Council yesterday was held at one o'clock, and sat till three.
Never perhaps was there a more extraordinary day than yesterday upon the Stock Exchange.
This morning they opened a little better; consols were at 62 3/4...
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Samuel S. Stryker...
George Scherer, Adm'r.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of William Lubank...
CARTER MOODY, Adm'r.
Sale, &c. in Manchester.
I wish to sell the greater part of my household & kitchen FURNITURE; some GARDENING and PLANTATION UTENSILS...
If the above property is not disposed of privately, in the course of the present month...
James Henderson.
FOR RENT.
AND possession given immediately, of the HOUSE and LOT belonging to the estate of William Elliott...
ROBERT HYDE, Acting Executor of Wm. Elliott.
Knowsley,
the next ensuing Season, on their stable, 10 miles above Charlotteville.
Wm. Woods.
Geo. M. Woods.
J. BOULTON,
NEXT door to Mr. J. Darmstadt's, has just received from the Isle of Wight...
To Mechanics.
I wish to sell a very complete set of PATENT TOOLS, for manufacturing cut nails...
To Rent.
A handsome two story BRICK HOUSE, and possession given immediately, situated on the South side of James river Canal...
Jas. Boulton.
Henry Hovey, has for Sale,
18 Bales INDIA GOODS, viz.
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FOR BOSTON.
THE SCHOONER MARY ANN, HENRY LUCE, MASTER, Will sail in six days—For freight or passage apply as above.
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JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, A CANTLETT, Containing Sketches of the History of France and England—And an account of Napoleon Bonaparte, Emperor of France, from his birth to the battle of Austerlitz—price 3s.
WHEAT FANS, FOR SALE BY C. & T. SAUNDERS, Near the Basin of the Canal. May 23, 1806.
IN COUNCIL, 29th March, 1806. It is advised, that it be advertised in the public papers that PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive from any person willing to contract, to furnish the necessary Clothing for the Public Guard for the present year. DAN. L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council.
TICKETS in the Second Class of the William and Mary College Lottery are for sale at this office.
Discoveries of Lewis and his Party, in Louisiana. A few copies of the above interesting work, just received, and for SALE, at the Post Office, Williamsburg, and at this office. May 5, 1806
NOTICE. THE price of TUCKER'S BLACKSTONE after the first of January, 1807, will be twenty two dollars and fifty cents. The subscribers to that work who have not yet taken their copies, will not after that time be entitled to the subscription terms. Philadelphia, July, 1806. 1st Jan
MILLINERY. MRS. S. PLEASANTS in corner house next door below Jacob Johnson's Bookstore, has received a handsome assortment of BONNETS, HATS, &c. &c. of newest fashion, just from Philadelphia. A supply will be constantly kept on hand.
A MILLER WANTED. THE subscribers wish to employ a MILLER, to attend to a manufacturing mill. To one that can come well recommended, liberal wages will be given. S. W. Venable & Womack. Prince Edward July 4, 1806.
JUST PUBLISHED, By SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUN. and for sale by the gross, dozen, or single, at his Printing-Office and Book-Store, Richmond;
The Virginia Almanack, FOR THE YEAR OF OUR LORD, 1807; Being the third after Bissexile or Leap Year. Adjusted to the Latitude and Meridian of Richmond. Calculated by BENJAMIN BATES, Of Hanover county, Virginia. Containing, besides the astronomical calculations, officers of Government, members of the Senate and House of Delegates, time of holding the superior & county Courts throughout the state, list of roads, &c. &c. &c. a great variety of useful and entertaining matter. Great allowance made to wholesale purchasers. September 13th, 1806
A BARGAIN MAY BE HAD IN A Chariot, Harness and Pair of Excellent Horses. Enquire of the printer. Richmond, August 3, 1806.
REMOVAL. H. DABNEY has removed to the house on the Main Street, nearly opposite Mr. J. Darnall's and next door to Mr. W. Mitchell's brick building. Where he offers for SALE a general assortment of GROCERIES, on reasonable terms, for cash, or produce only. A consignment of snuff in packages of any size, from 15 to 60 lbs. will be sold below the usual price of that article. Richmond, August 11 1806.
NOTICE. I EXPECT to remove to the state of Kentucky or Tennessee in the course of the ensuing fall; all persons having claims against me as deputy sheriff, or in my individual capacity, are requested to bring them forward in order to receive payment on or before the 15th day of October next; also, those indebted to me, are desired to make immediate payment, as I wish to make a final settlement of my business, previous to my removal. Albemarle county, 28th Aug. 1806. Joel Yancey.
A. NEWES & CO. Have for sale, at their store, opposite the Market, Salt in sacks | Imperial Tea Jamaica and Antigua | Herring and Shad Rum | Alexandria Beer in bbls New England Rum | English Walnuts Port & Sherry Wine | Brown Soap Old Cognac Brandy | Nutmegs Loaf and Brown Sugar | Pepper Molasses | Allspice Coffee of superior quality | Mace Alexandria Crackers | Cloves Rhode Island Cheese | Starch Fig Blue, &c. &c. &c. A general assortment of CROCKERY and STONE WARE, and Rhode Island LIME. Richmond, July 4th 1806.
MATTRESSES. CAN be had on very short notice, MATTRESSES of all sizes & kinds, agreeably to order, in the corner house same square, below Mr. Jos Darnall's, near the market, and next door to Mr. Jacob Johnson's book store—Also, BEDS furnished, and old mattresses worked over. June 5, 1806. Jno. S. Pleasants.
Bail and Delivery Bonds. For sale at this office.
WILL BE SOLD. In the premises, in Buckingham county, at public sale, for ready money, to the highest bidder, at the place called the Mountain Houses. Two Tracts or Parcels of Land, containing in the two 500 acres. Also, another tract of 500 acres, in Amherst county, on Rock's run, mortgaged by Charles Patterson to George Kipp & Co to secure a payment of three hundred and sixty five pounds fourteen shillings and four pence half penny, with interest from the 25th day of August, 1779, and all costs, decreed by the said court of Buckingham, November, 1798. The first mentioned two tracts will be sold, or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to satisfy the plaintiffs' demand, the 16th day of October, 1806—the said 500 acres in Amherst county, will be sold, on the land, the 16th day of October, 1806, or so much thereof as will satisfy the plaintiffs' demand. By the Commissioners. August 18th, 1806.
WILL BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 14th of October next, at the late residence of Mr. John Gunn, decd. in the county of Henrico, on James river, six miles below Richmond, all the PENINSULAR PROPERTY, belonging to the estate of the said Gunn, consisting of house and kitchen FURNITURE, about eighty volumes of BOOKS, plantation UTENSILS, crops of CORN, FODDER, HAY, &c. stock of HORSES and CATTLE, and many other articles too tedious to enumerate. A credit of twelve months will be allowed for all sums exceeding ten dollars, with bond and approved security bearing interest from the date—But the interest will be remitted if the principle is finally paid. I deem it necessary to mention that among the horses are a colt and a filly, by Bedford and Diomed, out of a Dardanelle mare, whose dam was got by Clockfast. The colt is allowed by all who have seen him, (and many of those are esteemed judges,) to be as promising (if not more so,) as any they have seen—As they are the joint property of an individual and the estate, the amount for which they may sell, will be divided, and separate bonds taken. Persons having demands against the estate are requested to make them known, and thus indebted to make payment to JOHN TURPIN, Sen. Adm. September 5th, 1806.
FOR SALE, THAT valuable TRACT OF LAND, on which Cumberland Courthouse stands—It contains about TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY ACRES, one half of which is yet uncultivated. Besides the advantage of being the Courthouse on this tract of land, it is situated on one of the most public roads in Virginia; as a public stand there are none that can surpass it. The buildings with some repairing, may be made sufficiently extensive and comfortable. Part cash will be expected of the purchaser when possession is given; a reasonable credit will be allowed for the balance or if it should suit the purchaser better limited property will be received in part. Great Tolls and Lake & Woodson lots of Cumberland county are authorized to sell the above tract of land. Or the same may be purchased by the subscriber in Buckingham county, near Allen's Mill. BEVERLY LANGHORNE. June 10th, 1806.
NOTICE. THE copartnership of GILLIAT & KIRBY, by its limitation, would expire on the first day of next month; but the members of that firm have mutually agreed to extend it to the first day of May next—All persons indebted thereto, are earnestly requested to come forward without delay, and pay off what they respectively owe, as longer indulgence ought not to be expected—Those who have unsettled accounts and cannot make immediate payment it is hoped, will execute bonds for their respective balances. GILLIAT & KIRBY have already received a part of their FALL GOODS, And by the first arrivals from London, Liverpool, &c. the residue is expected, which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or approved notes. Richmond, August 20th, 1806. GILLIAT & KIRBY.
TO BE LEASED, FOR A TERM OF YEARS. A NEWLY ERECTED HOUSE, WITH seven rooms, two below stairs and five above, at the place known by the name of Childers on the stage road to Milton, with other out buildings, and a quantity of LAND annexed to the same. None need apply but such as are of good character and ability to support a comfortable neat house for the accommodation of the public. It is one of the best stands in the county. For Wilson M. GARY. THOMAS WILLS. Fluvanna County, Cary's Brook, September 24th, 1806.
SUNDAY TENEMENTS, On the Main Street on Shockoe Hill, belonging to the estate of George Wythe, Esq. decd. and to the subscriber, on reasonable terms, which will suit private families, or as store houses.—The terms may be known by enquiring of Mr. William McKim, Mr. Wm. Price, (Reg.) or of William Du Val. September 23, 1806.
NOTICE. A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly praying that an act may pass lowering the tollage on James river, above the falls thereof, and above the ferry generally called Carter's ferry. September 15th, 1806.
TICKETS in the third class of the Richmond Academy Lottery, for sale at this office. By virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber, by Richard Johnson, to secure the payment of a debt due by him, to William Brown & Co. will be SOLD, to the highest bidder for ready money, at the front door of Thomas Wells's Tavern, in the town of Milton, on Wednesday the 22d October next, the following property, or so much thereof, as may be sufficient to pay the balance due on the trust—ONE MAN SLAVE by name Tom, one sorrel Bedford STUD COLT and one hundred acres of LAND, lying on Buck Island Creek, in Albemarle, being the lower end of the tract, purchased by said Johnson, of Henry Wood. RICHARD ANDERSON, Trustee. Milton, 22d Sept. 1806.
15 50,000 a single ticket may gain. NEW-YORK STATE LOTTERY. No. V. For the Promotion of Literature, and other purposes, To commence drawing on the second Tuesday in December 1806, and 600 Tickets to be drawn each day until the whole is concluded. Prizes payable 30 days after. The excellency of the present scheme is universally acknowledged to exceed any yet offered in the United States. THE CAPITAL PRIZES ARE 30,000 Dollars, 20,000 Dollars, 10,000 Dollars, 5,000 Dollars, 2,000 Dollars, Besides several of 1,000, 500, 200, 100, &c. &c. The first 4,000 Blanks to be entitled to 8 dollars each. The whole subject to a deduction of 15 per cent. In this scheme there is a possibility for one Ticket to draw 50,000 Dollars. Notwithstanding the great number of capital prizes in this Lottery, there are less than two blanks to a prize.
TICKETS AND SHARES. FOR SALE AT G. & R. WITTE'S TRULY FORTUNATE LOTTERY OFFICES No 64 & No 58, Maiden Lane New York. AT SEVEN DOLLARS EACH, but will advance as the drawing approaches. By enclosing Bank notes (post paid) to G. & R. WAITE, Tickets and Shares will be punctiliously returned by post, to any amount, and the earliest advice sent to adventurers of their success. The public are requested to remark, that the drawing of the New York Lotteries is managed in so correct a manner, as not to be subject to error. The time of drawing, and payment of prizes is punctilious, and guaranteed by the State Legislature. Schemes at large enclosed with Tickets—The many Capital Prizes sold by G. & R. W. in former Lotteries, (list of which will also be enclosed) it is presumed, will be an additional inducement to distant adventurers to purchase of them. 3m
FOR SALE, MY LANDS, in Cumberland county, lying on Appomattox river, joining the lands of Mr. William and George Skipwith; this land is equal if not superior to any land in Cumberland county, of James river. It contains 607 acres, one half of which is covered with fine timber of every description. There is on this land a decent DWELLING HOUSE, and between four and five hundred bearing apple trees, of choice fruit. One third of the money will be expected when a title is made, the other two thirds may be divided into two annual payments. Mr. Jeremiah Baker or Mr. Wm. Skipwith will show the land to any person wishing to become a purchaser. FRANCIS E. PLES. Chesterfield, Sept 15th, 1806.
Charlottesville Races. ON Monday the 13th day of October next, will be run for, over the Charlottesville course, a sweep stake purse for Colts, two mile heats, seven Colts entered at ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS each. ALEXANDER GARRETT, Proprietor of the Course. September 13th, 1806.
Racing at Surry Courthouse, WILL commence on Wednesday the 5th of November and continue three days. First day, a Post Sweepstakes for Colts and Fillies, two years old, and the advantage mile heats, carrying each a feather; entrance TWENTY DOLLARS, ten colts entered and subscription closed. Second day, the Surry Jockey Club Purse of THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, three mile heats. Third day, (Friday) the Proprietor's Purse of ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY DOLLARS, two mile heats. All persons who start horses for this purse will be required to pay the sum of TWENTY DOLLARS except members of the Club, and from them an entrance of EIGHT DOLLARS will be required. The weights for the course are as follows: Aged horses, lbs. 130 6 years old, 120 5 years old, 110 4 years old, 100 3 years old, 86 CHARLES H. GRAVES, Secretary. Agreeable to the rules of the club, a meeting will be held at Mr. David Price's, on Wednesday evening, the 5th November. Good stables and litter furnished race horses gratis, by DAVID PRICE, Proprietor of the Course. Surry county, 3th September, 1806.
SUBSCRIBERS TO Rees's New Cyclopaedia, ARE desired to call at this Office and receive their Books, the 1st and 2nd part being ready for delivery, and the publishers anxious to receive their money in order to enable them to prosecute the work. September 10.
MARSHALL'S SALES. TO BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, under a decree of the court of the United States, for the fifth circuit in the Virginia district, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross and others defendants, in order to raise the sum of twelve thousand six hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty three cents, due and payable the first day of July last, and expenses and charges of sale, that valuable and well known estate, in the county of Buckingham, called FORT LEWIS —stated by the said Ross to contain 2608 acres. The sale will take place on the premises, on the 15th day of November next. Also, under the said decree, and upon the same terms, will be SOLD, at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, on the 15th of the same month, a number of VALUABLE SLAVES. BEN MOSBY, D. M. for JOS. SCOTT, M. V. D. September 26, 1806.
FOR SALE, MY LAND, in the county of Goochland, whereon I now live, containing 600 acres, well situated, lying within two miles of James river, and five miles above Goochland courthouse; it is well improved, and in fine order for an ensuing crop; it is well adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn & wheat. A farther description is thought unnecessary, as it is presumed the purchaser would wish first to view the premises, which (in my absence, will be shown) by Capt. Humphrey Parish or Mr. Whitehead Ryan, who live adjoining thereto. I will undertake to show them 30 or 40 bushels of wheat in good order. And in case of sale of the land, I will likewise sell the crop thereon of every description, together with the stock of cattle, hogs, and sheep, household and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils, &c. The terms of sale for the land, will be one third cash, & for the balance three equal annual installments, on giving bond with approved security, carrying interest from the day, if not punctiliously paid. Young negroes will be taken (if approved of) in payment for a moiety at least, of each payment; a deed of trust will be taken upon the premises to secure the three last payments. The personal estate will be sold on a credit of twelve months on giving bond with approved security. And the price of the land made known on application to the subscriber. Cradock Vaughan. 16th Sept. 1806.
Valuable Family Medicines. Just received direct from the Patentees, and for SALE WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, by SAMUEL PLEASANTS, Jr. Richmond, a large supply of the following very valuable Medicines, viz: Dr. Cooley's Vegetable Elixir, or Cough Drops. Superior to any other medicine ever before invented, for all complaints of the Lungs and has been known frequently to effect a cure after all other medicines have failed. It is to be hoped that all those who are laboring under Consumption and other diseases of the Lungs, will resort to this valuable medicine for relief.—Price 75 cents a bottle. Dr. Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachic Bitters. Which have proved to extremely serviceable for a few years past in restoring weak and decayed constitutions of almost every description, and for removing all those complicated complaints so common in the spring season. For a common bitter to use in families none can exceed them for pleasantness. To show that these excellent bitters are held in high estimation by Physicians of eminence we need only insert the following extract of a letter from Dr. John Willcox a respectable Physician, and postmaster at the city of Vergennes. VERGENNES, October 23d, 1804. SIR, I have been one of those who never put much faith in patent medicine until of late, but must acknowledge from actual experience, that I have received more benefit from Dr. Rawson's Bitters, than from all the medicine I ever before took; I have been very unwell with a flow remittant fever. I am, &c. JOHN WILLCOX, M. D. Dr. Lee's Windham Bileous Pills. Which have proved to be eminently useful for these 15 years past in all Bileous Complaints, Indigestion, Jaundice, Dyspepsia, Debility, Head Aches, Costiveness, Female Complaints &c. Their virtues are too well known to need comment in an advertisement.—Price 50 cents a box. Dr. Thompson's Argotic Tooth Paste. Which whitens and preserves the teeth, gives an agreeable smell to the breath, and cures the fever in the teeth and gums; it may be applied at all times without in the least injuring the teeth. The very great and extensive sale this medicine has met with bespeaks its intrinsic worth.—Price 50 cents a box. Dr. Rawson's Anti Bileous Pills, or Family Pills. A medicine which no family ought to be without, as these Pills are useful in every complaint where preparation is necessary; they are certain to operate in a short time without occasioning the least pain or griping.—Price only 25 cents a box. Dr. Rawson's Celebrated Worm Powders. The most proper medicine that can be given to children to destroy Worms & to remove crudities of every kind from the first passages.—Price 50 cents a packet. Dr. Rawson's (Genuine) Ich Ointment. The most certain and safe application for that disagreeable complaint called the Itch, of any now in use. It also cures all kinds of eruptions on the face or skin, is very agreeable in smell, leaves the skin smooth & beautiful, it may be applied at all times with the greatest safety. Price only 25 cents a box. Very particular directions accompany each of those valuable medicines.
DOCT. WILSON Has just received at his shop, opposite the stores of Messrs. John and Robert Gamble, and Mr. Neil McCoull, a general assortment of MEDICINES. He offers them for sale on lower terms than they can be procured at any other house in Richmond. He has on hand a variety of Paints, Varnishes and Oils—Also Spirits of Turpentine and Turpentine Varnishes by the Barrel at unusually low prices. Richmond, 10th September 1805. w3m
FALL GOODS. THE subscribers respectfully inform their friends, and the public, that they are receiving from London, Liverpool, and different ports of Holland and France, an extensive & very general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, adapted to the approaching season, which they will sell by the bale, package, or piece, on the lowest terms, for cash, country produce, or approved notes. Those Goods being carefully selected, by one of the partners who went to Europe for the purpose, they flatter themselves, will give general satisfaction, and that country merchants and others will find their interest to deal with them. They have for rent THREE BRICK WAREHOUSES, covered with slate, laying on the street leading to Mayor's Bridge, opposite Messrs. Brown, Ives & Co. Those houses will be fitted up at the shortest notice for stores, if required. John & Robert Gamble, Jun.
Robert Gamble Senior, continues to do business in the line of a commission merchant. Richmond, 15th Sept. 1806. w2m
United States Court, fifth Circuit, and Virginia District, May term, 1806. Saml. Pleasants the younger, executor of Thos. Pleasants, the younger, who was the executor of Jacob Pleasants, decd. vs. James Garnett, only surviving assignee of the estate and effects of John Ellis, who was at the time of his death a bankrupt, Cornelius Buck, agent and attorney for the said assignee, Richard Adams and Thos. Underwood late of the house of Adams and Underwood, John L. Prade executor of Anderson Peck, Thomas Fleming Bates and Arthur Campbell, Defendants. ON the motion of the plt by his attorney, it is ordered, That the deft, Buck, do file with the papers in this cause, on or before the first day of the next term, a letter said to be in his possession from John Ellis to Jacob Pleasants, dated in the month of January or February, one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, requesting him said Pleasants, to purchase a vessel, &c. and the deft Garnett, not having entered an appearance, and given security according to a rule of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this district, it is ordered That he said deft do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the pls. bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the capitol in the said city; and it is further ordered, That one of the commissioners of this court do examine, state, and settle all matters in account between the parties in this cause, and make a report thereof to the court, fixing such matters specially as either party may require or he think pertinent. A Copy—Test. WM MARSHALL, CLERK. Commissioner's Office, Richmond Sept 13th, 1806
NOTICE. THE parties concerned are desired to take NOTICE, that I have appointed Wednesday the twelfth day of November next, for stating the accounts requested by the foregoing decree, upon which day their attendance is requested at my Office, with their papers and accounts, ready for examination and settlement. WM HAY, M. C.
NOTICE. THE Copartnership of John Gilliam and Co. was by mutual consent dissolved on the first instant, JOHN GILLIAM having sold his interest therein to JOHN and EDWARD CUNNINGHAM, the settlement and collection of all debts due to the concern devolves on them or their agents. John Gilliam. John Cunningham. Edward Cunningham. Cumberland, Sept. 10th, 1806. The Business will be in future carried on at the same place by the subscribers, under the the firm of Richard Cunningham & Co. Who are fully authorized to receive all debt due to the concern of John Gilliam & Co. and will discharge all claims against said concern. Richard Cunningham. John Cunningham. Edward Cunningham. Sept. 10th, 1806.
FRANKLIN'S LIFE & WORKS. PROPOSALS, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE WORKS OF BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. PHILOSOPHICAL LITERARY AND POLITICAL. ONE edition has been lately published in England in three volumes octavo; the papers contained in these volumes, will be revised and compared with the papers in the possession of the editor of the Augusta which are corrected in the hand writing of Dr. Franklin; and a considerable addition will be made of interesting papers, which have not appeared in any previous edition, a new manuscript, to never before published, and which are not noticed in the English collection lately published. The publisher had for a considerable time past completed this publication, and had collected a number of articles which had incidentally fallen into his hands, and others, which by much industry he had been able to procure. The additional papers it is presumed will form two additional volumes. The whole will be put to press, as soon as the Divisions of Purley are completed—and will be printed on a superfine paper, and in a style suitable to the value of the work. The price to subscribers for each volume will be 250 cents, payable only on delivery. A printed proposal will be circulated without delay and subscriptions will be received at the Book store of the publisher, Wm. Duane and by the different booksellers throughout the U. States. Just Received at S. Pleasants Book Store, Moore's Poems | Jefferson's Naval Power in War in Disguise | the United States Cuvier's Life | Chemical Pocket Book Guille's Architect | Chaplain's Chemistry Manual of Parliament | 5th vol. East's Reports Fry's Practice, by Mr. | East's Crown Law Jefferson | Leven's a new now Underwood on Children | vol. by Miss Eogers President's Anatomy | The Gahler's, a no | vol. by Catherine Mac | agd. Warren