The recorder (Richmond, Va.), 1803-03-26 00:00:00

THE RECORDER;
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SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 1803.
REVISED CODE.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
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TO THE PUBLIC.
Gentlemen, who wish to subscribe to the Saturday's Recorder, are requested to send in their subscriptions, within a very few days. But this they need not do, unless they send, at the same time, two dollars in advance. The next Saturday's paper, to wit that of the 26th, current, is the last that can be illued to any person either in town or country, unless to those that have paid for it, one year in advance.
In pleading before the court of Henrico against the King of Clubs, Mr. William Marshall observed that "The Recorder had the most extensive circulation of any newspaper in Virginia; and that there was never, perhaps, an instance of such an extensive patronage acquired by any other newspaper, in so short a time."—This patronage has been acquired by exposing, with an impartial hand, the faults of all parties.
There never was more occasion for political vigilance than at present. As the bible says, there is DEATH in the pot. There exists an atrocious conspiracy against the liberty of the press, and, of course, against the liberty of the people. This can be doubted by nobody that has heard of Cresswell's trial, on which we have enlarged at so much length.
Again, the right of selecting their own magistrates has in effect, been torn from a majority of the citizens of Richmond, by a phalanx of democratical usurpers.
Take notice, also, of what follows. In last session of assembly, Mr. Venable proposed a declaratory resolution that the truth shall be given in evidence in cases of libel. This resolution was, for that time, defeated by Peter Carr, the correspondent, such as he was, of general Washington, and the confidential agent and nephew of Thomas Jefferson. There can be no doubt that Peter, like his apostolical namesake, was inspired from above.
Richmond, March 23. 1803.
TO THE PUBLIC.
MANY gentlemen residing in states north of this have addressed letters to us, to send them the Recorder; and requested we would name any person in Philadelphia, or New York, where they could send their subscription money. We take this opportunity of informing the public, that Mr. Levis, paper-maker, at Philadelphia, will receive any subscriptions sent for the Recorder, and Mr. Coleman, printer of the New York Herald, at New York.
STRAYED, or STOLEN,
FROM RICHMOND, On Sunday the 13th of March, 1803. A LIGHT SORREL MARE, EIGHT, or Nine years old; about five feet four, or five inches high; short switch tail. Whoever will bring the above Mare to Nathaniel Evins, in CHARLES CITY, shall receive a reward of FIVE DOLLARS, or THREE DOLLARS to any person who will inform the subscriber where she is, so that she may be had again. NATHANIEL EVINS. Charles City, March 17th. 1803.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber returns sincere thanks to his friends and the public generally, for the very great encouragement he received in his line of business since his commencement in Richmond. He has lately received a large supply of excellent Burr-Stones at his manufactory, and does not hesitate to say, that he will sell Burr Mill-Stones as cheap as they were ever sold in the United States; he will warrant them to be of the best quality, and give ample security (if required) for their performance. Country produce will be taken in payment, or a short credit given; he has almost every fixed Mill-Stones ready for delivery; also PLASTER of PARIS ground and in the stone. CARSON HOLIDAY. Richmond, Jan. 25th, 1803.
WILL BE SOLD,
AT Public Auction, to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the 25th instant, before the door of James McClure, in the city of Richmond, all the personal estate of JAMES STUART, deceased; consisting of a few articles of Household furniture, two hogheads of West India Rum, one crate of Rarthen-ware, a few barrels of Sugar, a small quantity of Northern Rum, and about 4000 lbs. Chale. Ninety days credit will be given for all sums above ten dollars, on the purchaser's giving notes with approved security, to HENRY REID, Adm'r. Richmond, March 9th. 1803.
FOR SALE.
A few likely young NEGROES, For particulars enquire of the Printer. Richmond, March, 7th 1803.
VIRGINIA.
AT a court continued and held for Halifax County, on Wednesday the 24th day of November 1802. Isaac Coles, senr. Plaintiff. AGAINST Stephen Biggs and James Snead, Defendants. In Chancery
THE defendant Biggs, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country. On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the fourth Monday in March next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and polled at the front door of the court house of this county. A copy—Test BERRYMAN GREEN, S.C.M.C.
A FILE OF "The RECORDER,"
TO BE SOLD, From the commencement, in July 11th, 1801, to March the 2d, 1803; by applying to one of the Apprentices at this Office. ALEXANDER G. M'KENZIE. March 19th. 1803.
NEGROES.
ANY person wishing to dispose of likely Negroes are requested to enquire at William Davidson's store, near the market. Wanted, also, a light WAGGON, with, or without gears. Richmond, March 23d. 1803.
THE SUBSCRIBERS
TO the Washington Federalist are respectfully informed, that I am empowered by Mr. William Rind, to receive payment of the balances due to him in this city, and neighbourhood. THOMAS TAYLOR. Vendue Master. Richmond, Feb. 20th. 1803.
BURR MILL-STONE MANUFACTORY.
THE subscriber takes this mode of returning his thanks to his former patrons, and informing the public in general, that he has (by desire of his friends) re-commenced the MANUFACTURING of BURR MILL-STONES, and having furnished himself with a supply of the best materials, and having had sixteen years experience in the business in Baltimore, Petersburg, and Richmond, hopes to be able to give satisfaction to his employers. The stones he will warrant to be as good as any in the United States. Any orders left with Capt. WILLIAM PENNOCK, Norfolk; Capt. WILLIAM CHAMBERS, Staunton; Mr. WILLIAM HAY, Wythe County; or Mr. ROBERT MOORE, Petersburg, shall be duly attended to, and country produce received in payment at the customary prices.
TWO APPRENTICES
will be taken to the above business, and short time required. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. Richmond, Jan. 10th 1803. N. B. For sale, PLASTER of PARIS, in stone or ground, for the improvement of land, with directions for the use thereof.
FRESH FLOUR.
THE Subscriber hereby give notice, that they are now ready to make Sales of FLOUR of their own manufacture, and are also desirous to purchase Wheat, Corn, Flour Barrels, and Staves. Such as may want a supply of Meal, Hominy, Ship-Stuff, and Bran, are informed that they can be furnished at certain prices during the year, and that for the present quarter, ending the last of March, the prices will be for 50 lbs. Meal, 3s. and 6d. and for 50 lbs. Hominy, 3s. 3d. They hereby solicit all those indebted to them, to make payment as fast as possible, as their situation does not enable them to grant such indulgence as heretofore. They have still on hand a large assortment of IRISH LINENS, which they are anxious to dispose of. THOMAS RUTHERFOORD, & Co. Feb. 16th. 1803.
CITY OF RICHMOND,
In Common Hall, Jan. 17th 1803. WHEREAS the present funds of the corporation are not adequate to the expense of erecting a WORKHOUSE for the city, which would combine within itself all the conveniencies which a well regulated institution of this kind would require; having a regard to the future population of this city, yet it is wise and expedient that the funds now destined for this useful institution should be laid out in such a manner as to answer the present purposes of the corporation, and to admit such future additions as the increasing population may require. Your Committee, therefore, beg leave to recommend it to the consideration of the Common Hall, to call in the aid of those who have experience of such institutions, and to offer a premium for the best plan of a Workhouse, which will be so contrived as to admit of being erected in parts, as the funds of the corporation will from time to time afford.
Resolved, therefore, that the committee appointed to prepare a plan of a Workhouse be discharged from further proceeding therein. And that the Mayor be requested to give notice in the newspapers, or otherwise, that the sum of thirty dollars will be given by the corporation, as a premium to the person who shall produce to the Hall, on the third Monday in February next, the best plan of a Workhouse, constructed as above mentioned, and to be approved of by the Hall, estimating the cost at four thousand dollars. Copy Teste ADAM CRAIG, C.C.H.
TO BE RENTED.
THAT large and convenient BRICK TENEMENT in this city, lately occupied by Mr. Robert Turner, as a Tavern and Boarding House, situate on the corner of the Main-Street; and that leading to Col. Mayo's Bridge. The central situation thereof cannot fail (if rented by a gentleman qualified for the purpose) to ensure a considerable number of respectable boarders; or, it is an eligible residence for a genteel private family. The premises may be entered, on the first day of March next, or immediately, as circumstances may suit, for terms apply to ROBERT GAMBLE
Who has for sale a handsome assortment of CARPETS and CARPETING, and genuine PORTWINE, in pipes and quarter casks.
RICHMOND MILLS.
THE subscriber hereby informs the public, that at length, after much trouble and expense, he has nearly completed one of his Mills on the James River Canal, in which there are two pair of Burr stones for manufacturing WHEAT, and two pair of Cologne stones now ready to grind CORN.
That the inconveniences which might arise from delay and difference of measures may be avoided, CORN will be received only by weight, at fifty pounds to the bushel, and a supply of MEAL and HOMINY will always be kept ready to give in exchange, at the rate of eighty-five pounds of Meal, or ninety-two pounds of Hominy, for one hundred pounds of Corn.
After the loss of weight by cleaning, and evaporation in grinding is deducted, the toll on Meal will be only about one tenth, and on Hominy one twentieth; it will, therefore, be much to the interest of those who keep horses, to have all their Corn ground.
As the subscriber is now providing a Fan and Screen for the purpose of cleaning the Corn effectually before it is ground, and as the Meal will be made from the best Corn only, and none but such as is merchantable will be received; he hopes that general satisfaction will be given.
THOMAS RUTHERFOORD.
N. B. The deduction for Storage and Shrinkage on Corn, deposited to be exchanged for Meal and Hominy, will be made as moderate as possible. January 1, 1803.
TO THE PUBLIC.
No. VII.
CONCERNING
MR. GALLATIN,
AND THE SALE OF
BANK STOCK.
I DO not mean, that many of the members of Congress who voted for the resolutions, alluded to in my last, did not, at the time believe that they voted fairly and candidly; nor should I doubt their sincerity, if the resolutions had been suspended for a month; because it is too true, that there are many of that honorable body, whose time and enquiries have never been devoted to such investigations.
To understand thirty-two folio pages of a report, embracing millions of dollars, relating to the financial department of government requires talents of a particular description. A man may be a good orator, a pleasing declaimer, a sound judge of law, a good surveyor, and may possess clear perceptions upon all abstract questions; he may even be a good mathematician, and accurate arithmetician, and an alchemist, and yet want that sort of knowledge, which will enable him at once to comprehend the details of a long and intricate account, and decide upon its merits; and a man may as well endeavor to persuade me that he could swallow, and digest a bar of iron, as to insist that all the members of Congress who voted for the resolution, either did, or were capable, in much more time, to understand the report, or that Mr. Gallatin was capable of preparing a report of thirty-two pages of folio paper in nine hours. Every clerk of a court, and every schoolmaster of the state, will say, without noticing the time for calculation and examination, that it was impossible to perform the writing.
The democratic prints have complained of the manner in which these investigations were sought. They say that the federal members delayed them until the session was about to close, in the hope that the public officers would be unable to comply so suddenly, and that, taking advantage of their failure, very great and deceptious impressions might be made upon the people. There is so much unfairness and misrepresentation upon all political subjects, and particularly in the National Intelligencer, which has originated this story, that it is prudent to make an examination into everything before an opinion is formed! Let us see how this ought to stand.
Gallatin, and the other agents of the sinking fund, knew, without the formality of a resolution, that it was their duty to have rendered a statement of their conduct to Congress during the session. There is no doubt that the persons, who moved and supported the resolution expected that this would be done. There is no doubt that if they had expected it would have been so shamefully delayed, similar steps would have been taken long before. If the motion had been made at a more early period, the democratic party might have said that the federalists were endeavoring by false clamour and premature enquiries to weaken

the public confidence in their wise, virtuous, and economical rulers , that their accounts were then in a state of preparation, and would be laid before Congress in due season. Such an answer would have been given. It would have been plausible, and the inverts of the resolutions would have been deemed as troublesome intermeddlers. The delay therefore is thus accounted for and justified.
At length, finding that nothing would be done, the session drawing to a close, the motion was made. The demos have immediately raised the yell of deception; complain of the delays; accuse their adversaries of wanting candor; proceed to business; and produce in nine hours, the work of nine days.
These facts are all before the world. Nobody will have the effrontery to deny them. The time which is necessary for preparing thirty-two pages of folio, was explained in my last; and we are compelled to believe, that at the time when the resolution was passed, there were many persons who knew that Gallatin was then ready to make his report; and they, no doubt, rejoiced that it could come forth in such triumphing colours.
It has been said that the demos knew for several days beforehand, that Mr. Griswold was determined to offer his resolutions; that he had been day after day disappointed by the artifice or superior alertness of the other party in rising and attracting the speaker's notice, although it was well known that Mr. Griswold had prepared the resolution which he at last offered. Is this true? Common report says yes. Common sense induces us to say yes. Why was it so contrived? Why did not Mr. Gallatin, of his own accord, when he knew that it was his duty to make a report, do it, without the formality of a resolution? Why was Mr. Griswold delayed in the offer? It looks like a contrivance, that the report should come out so late in the session, as not to afford time for examination and exposure, if it deserved it; and that the majority might have at a future day, some excuse for voting for thirty-two folio pages of manuscript calculations and explanations, embracing millions of dollars, without examination. It also afforded an opportunity of offering new adulations at the altar of their Messiah , without making themselves absolute parties in the transaction.
Measures of approbation, applause, and thanks, concerning thirty-two pages of folio, adopted and executed upon the consideration of a single hour; which thirty-two pages were digested, prepared, written, copied, and reported in nine other hours, are circumstances so improbable and extraordinary, that no man will believe them, who does not also believe that Gallatin is not only the greatest man that exists, but is eight or nine times greater or more pre-eminent than any other man who ever did exist. ( The forty two members of Congress who understood the whole in another hour, excepted. )
This affair being thus explained, we are obliged to believe, that the democratic members have artfully contrived that this important subject should go forth to the world, with the triumph and seal of congressional approbation, and yet under circumstances which will put it in the power of every member of Congress, at a future time, to screen himself from condemnation, by saying that the time was so short, that he could not understand the subject; and that he was led by his confidence in others, who pretended that they did understand it. This mode of proceeding was useful to all such as do not possess the capacity or industry, to go through the details of thirty-two folio pages of calculation and figures.
I have often heard it said, that witnesses in court are sometimes so zealous for their favorite that they prove too much. So in this case, the Gallatinites have allowed to him the credit of having performed in nine hours what men of talents and information by could not be accomplished in less than as many days. This being true, let us next ask the reason. If that which I have given is objected to, I should be glad to hear another.
I might close this subject with a quotation from the National Intelligencer , whose editor, (Smith,) has the impudence to tell his patrons, not only that his paper is the Organ of Truth , but also has published numerous fables and trifles, under the head of Federal Misrepresentations . I know well, that many of my fellow citizens of pure and spotless principles, of great candour, and integrity, have such confidence in this organ of falsehood and faction, that they have fallen into many mistakes and blunders; it therefore appears to be a duty to embrace such a fair opportunity of showing Mr. S. H. Smith in his true colours, by reminding the reader that he has given a very disguised, a very unfair account of this transaction. Smith has published to deceive. But he will fail with all who reflect, because he has asserted things, which are not only improbable, but impossible.
But for a moment, let it be supposed, that the movers in these inquiries acted unfairly. Can the Gallatinites complain? Can the members who refused to hear the defence of Mr. Stoddert complain? Mr. Stoddert's committee stood more than four months. They reported only on the last day; a report, which answered no other purpose, except to delude and inflame the people. A report which has been exposed ridiculed, and condemned from Pennsylvanian to St. Mary's , and in favor of
which there is not a single advocate. And what is most extraordinary indeed, some of the same persons, who could not, in four months learn and comprehend the difference between a dock and a navy yard, between soil and water, have, all at once received such an increased flock of intellect, such inspiration, as to comprehend, in one hour, thirty-two pages of folio, which involved much calculation and elucidation. The reasons are plain. They were determined, if possible to stigmatize Stoddert. They were as much resolved to support, applaud and justify Gallatin. They had been exposed for the first; they had nothing to lose in that case, and even, if exposed for the second, it could not plunge them much deeper. In the mean time delusion would go forth. The people would be deceived. They would give their suffrages. Two more years for legislating would recompense for partial discontent and censure. These conclusions are false; but, unfortunately for those whom they implicate, they are supported by the most incontestable proofs.
The complaint that the subject was delayed until the end of the session, induces me to publish a very singular fact.
In the year 1799, the last day upon which Congress could sit, happened upon a Sunday. For some time preceding, the parties had exerted themselves upon important questions. Gallatin, in his usual style, led on one side. One of the principal objects related to the navy. All sorts of things were introduced into the debate, which tended to produce delay. In a speech of great length, the high priest of democracy and delusion introduced the expedition of Buonaparte to Egypt, and said a great deal about the Mamelukes. Every body who understood his articulation knew that the Mamelukes had nothing to do with the subject. But there was an association of ideas between Egypt and the Mamelukes. When Gallatin got fairly into Egypt, he found himself so far removed from pursuit, that he preferred to stay there, and vociferate as long as he pleased. By similar means, the whole term, except Sunday, expired, so that it was necessary to finish much important business upon the Sabbath.
It did not require much wisdom, to discover that Gallatin's motives, in such conduct, was to defeat the bills in their last stage. Mr. Dayton, the speaker, ought to have stopped him, and brought him back from Egypt, while he was waiting time in a dissertation concerning the Mamelukes. But Dayton could not clearly comprehend him, and he knew, if Gallatin had been stopped, that the Aurora would have not only published, some days afterwards, exactly what Gallatin pleaded, but that the speaker would have been abused as the vilest of tyrants.
It appeared very extraordinary that the French expedition to Egypt should be urged as an argument against the establishment of a naval force in this country, at the very time too, when French privateers and pirates infested our seas, bays, and harbours. It gave room to suspect, that there was a French party in this country, who were ready to sacrifice our interest, independence, and honor, to promote the designs of unprincipled intriguers. Having stated the fact, my readers will be left to make an application, or not, as they please.
FEDERALIST.
To be continued.
A SERMON, FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE FREE-SCHOOL, In the City of Richmond,
WILL be preached on SUNDAY next, in the CAPITOL, at the usual hour. A concurrence in this benevolent design is requested from the religious congregation of every denomination in the said city.
By order of the court of trustees. JOHN BUCHANAN.
The RECORDER. RICHMOND.
MARCH 26th 1803.
A FEW QUERIES FOR THE RICHMOND DEMOS. (Continued from last Wednesday's Recorder.)
With——at its head, and Lewis Harvey at its tail, a more brutal rape on the chastity of public confidence, a more contemptuous deflection, a more eternal extinction of all kinds of public character, a more impudent stark naked act of treachery than this falsified division of the city, "no eye hath seen, no ear hath heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive."
It is remarkable that, out of these five commissioners, four are under the immediate influence of Thomas Jefferson, or of his creatures.—— is led by the nose by Mr. Joseph Scott, the federal marshal. Major Duval is one of the federal commissioners under the bankrupt law. Mr. Jones prints the laws of Congress in his Examiner, the sole and shabby reward, which Jefferson has conceded to his labours. Another of them is the grandson of that same Gabriel Jones, who menaced Mr. Jefferson with murder. This hopeful youth was bound over to the peace, last
summer, for threatening upon certain conditions, to put the publishers of this paper instantly to death ! He has recently been appointed private secretary to the president; an appointment which neither makes him respectable, nor tends to make Mr. Jefferson the more so. Colonel Harvey, the young secretary's father, had been referred to, as an evidence of the story of the pass-board tender . Perhaps this appointment, was designed as a kind of hint to the family, that they should speak as seldom as possible of this honorable transaction . N. B. Congress have just now entrusted Mr. Jefferson with two millions of dollars, for which he is not to give an account; or, what comes to the same thing, he gives only such an account, as he pleases. If the private secretary's grandfather had been in Congress, when this grant was proposed, he would not have voted for a single shilling of it.——
We return to the commissioners. It is of the highest consequence to mark their measures; because this leads directly to a discovery of the principles, or rather of the projects of the president himself. Those men cannot, perhaps, like Paine, or the writer of The Prospect , produce in Mr. Jefferson's own hand writing, a letter thanking them for their useful labours. But, when the circumstances are combined, no mortal can suppose that they would, or that they durst have moved a step forward in this high road of infamy, without his expected approbation.
George Hay is more than suspected as the father of this plot; of a plot, which can serve no purpose, but to break up the bonds of society, and embitter the malice of faction. An honest man would blush to be the author of so much mischief. Yea! He would sooner be knocked on the head with a turkey !
FROM THE EXAMINER.
The committee who arranged this city into wards, have experienced the usual portion of censure and calumny, which federalists bestow upon every act of their political opponents. It is said that Madison ward is twice as large as Monroe; and to support this assertion, we are referred to the number of males above sixteen years of age. Let it be recollected, that, at present, most of our wealthiest merchants and mechanics, reside in Madison ward; that many of the former employ three or four clerks; and some of the latter, six or eight journey men, few of whom have votes. This adventurous population is not the standard by which we should be governed: it is the number of tenements, the number of suffrages in each ward, which should regulate our opinions as to the arrangement made by the committee.
ANSWER TO THE ABOVE.
This is all which the Examiner says, in answer to the Recorder of last Saturday. We compliment him on the dexterity of the mode in which he has attempted to retreat from the question of the division of the wards. Ten of the ablest men in America could not, if they had clubbed their wits, have made a better defence; and as Mr. Jones has been so pacific to us, we shall be as tender as possible to him.
This point being settled, we beg leave to remind the Examiner that it has hitherto been the custom for all the white housekeepers to give their votes. No scrutiny was ever made of what they were worth. As for the number of suffrages at an election for the common hall, this has always been illegally conducted . A great number of votes upon each side have been given by persons, who had, in reality, no title to vote. To this article, there is subjoined a copy of the act of assembly, which authorises the inhabitants of Richmond to chuse a common hall. Hence it appears that no man is entitled to vote, unless he possesses a freehold, or is worth an hundred pounds.
By this standard, the citizens of the Brick-row ward are willing that the question shall be tried. Mr. Jones says that, in the Brick-row, many males are clerks, or journeymen. Can any body believe, or has any mortal the hardiness to say that he believes, that this is a proper answer to the question before us? The Shockoe-hill ward has an hundred and forty six white taxables; the Brick-row four hundred and sixty. Of these latter, three hundred and fourteen must either be clerks or journeymen, in order to bring down the number of voters to a level with the Shockoe-hill ward. This also goes on the supposition that every white male upon Shockoe-hill has a right of suffrage . The whole story is ridiculous. In every shape and sense, in which the business can be presented, the Brick-Row has a superiority of at least three to one over Shockoe-hill. An attempt to vindicate the commissioners can serve only to plunge them deeper and deeper in the quagmire of detection and disgrace.
Of the hundred and forty six taxable white inhabitants of Shockoe-hill ward, it is believed that at least one half are not worth an hundred pounds a piece. With the ex-
NOTE.
* The colonel is son in law to Mr. Gabriel Jones.
ception of a small number of wealthy, or genteel families, the people in this part of the city are supposed to be in general the poorst of all the inhabitants of Richmond. By resorting to the real rights of suffrage , and the test of an hundred pounds worth of property , Mr. Jones will not make a better of his cause. Very bad as it is already, he will only make it a great deal worse.
ACT OF ASSEMBLY REFERRED TO, IN THE ABOVE OBSERVATIONS.
Be it enacted by the general assembly, that the town of Richmond, bounded according to direction of the act entitled "an act for establishing towns at Rocky Bridge, Gloucester court house, and Taylors ware-house, and for other purposes therein mentioned," shall be stiled the city of Richmond . And, on the first Tuesday in July, in the present, and the same day in every third year, afterwards, the freeholders of lots within the said city, whether improved or not, and whether such freeholders reside therein or not, and the housekeepers and inhabitants of said city, who shall have resided therein at any time, for the space of three months, without the intermission of one twelve months, and, possess in their own right, within the same, moveable or immovable property, to the value of one hundred pounds, shall meet at the court house now used as a court house of the county of Henrico, or at such place as shall by law be hereafter appointed, and shall then, and there, elect by ballot twelve fit and able men being freeholders and inhabitants of the said city, who or a major part thereof, shall on the same, or second day thereafter, between the hours of eight and twelve, the forenoon, publicly elect from themselves, by ballot, one person to act as mayor, one as recorder, and five others as aldermen, seven others to act as common council."
When the assembly of Virginia, sometime ago, directed the sale of glebes, the chancellor, upon application from the parties concerned, stopped the sale till the cause had been argued before him. If he had finally disapproved of the law, he would have suspended the sale, till the meeting of the then next assembly.
The present mayor, and common council of Richmond, should proceed in the same way. They should apply to the chancellor for a suspension of the operation of the new election law, till the meeting of next assembly. As representatives of the people, as the legitimate protectors of their rights, they are bound in duty to take a step of this kind. That Mr. Wythe would interfere, there can be no doubt; as a more rank instance of iniquity than the recent division of the wards cannot be found in the annals of the world. When we see the leaders of the demos make such a long step at their outset, the natural conclusion is that their power will be as disgracefully exercised, as it will have been acquired.
There is not one of the demos, that even pretends to vindicate the equality of the recent division of the city. Major Duval has frankly declared that he wishes the division could be annulled. His wish is correct. For as long as it continues to exist, or even to be remembered, the better part of his character is annulled. It is to be hoped that, in obedience to the act of assembly above copied, the conductors of the election will take care to let no person vote, that has not the requisite qualifications.
Dr. Franklin used to say that, in Pennsylvania, there was no end of lying. He might have said the same thing of Richmond, or at least as far as regards one of the editors of this paper. It has been reported and affirmed that Mr. James Ogilvie obtained an insertion of his piece, in last Wednesday's Recorder, by personal threats. An utter lie. He called, and asked if an answer could be got in, and produced the manuscript. Whatever you have wrote shall be published, was the sum total of the rest of the conversation.
When Gallender and citizen Bludgeon first appeared in the city court before Mr. Foster, Lewis Harvey introduced himself to notice, and though neither judge, counsellor, party nor witness, he was suffered to make a speech. He remarked that the Recorder was like the Upas tree , that blasted every thing which came near it, and spread havoc and desolation over a whole country. Perhaps, these were not his exact words, but they were quite as frantic and non-sensical. Among other falsehoods he said that, when he had, on a former occasion, called at the office of the Recorder, these infamous men stood trembling before him, with a heap of additional impertinence. This expelled school boy knows better than we do, whether, mother Grays girls trembled before him, last summer, when he so manfully insulted and abused them, in one of his midnight rambles. After seeing his subscription to the retorted lie concerning the equal division of the wards, very few people will think it worth while to contradict any thing that he says.
A third lie, as to our being bullied, has got into circulation, since last Tuesday. That afternoon, soon after the Wednesday's paper had gone to press, a few copies were given out. One of them reached a certain commissioner of division. He came into this office, with a thick cudgel in his hand, and began thus.

"I come to enquire why you have abused me for, in this day's paper." "You are not abused. You deserve it all; for every word printed is true." "What business had you to meddle in this affair? What was it to you?" "What is it to me? Am I not a citizen? Don't I pay taxes? Is it not the business of every citizen to interfere? Have you not robbed the citizens of their rights? It is a damned villainous transaction. You know it to be so. You dare not deny that it is so; and I hope to see its reversal." "I did not come here to quarrel, or be abused. I—" "Abused! You are not abused." "I came here to enquire who were your informers in this story?" "If I had informers, I shall not tell you who they were." "You have published falsehoods." "Talk of falsehoods! Had I not in my own hands the sheets of paper containing a correct list, from which the printed abstract was taken?" "I tell you, that I will not suffer you to make such use of my name." "You won't suffer me! What will you do?" "I'll punish you. Be assured I will, if you do so again." "In what way will you punish me?" "I will not do it myself." "In what way then? You'll hire another person to do it, I suppose: or do you mean to take the law. I am responsible to that." [N. B. When the commissioner came into the printing office, I was writing the remarks on Osborn's case, that appear in this day's paper. No answer to these questions.] "You are a damned rascal." "I am busy, and it is quite time that this conversation should be at an end." "I was wrong to meddle with you. You are beneath my notice." And away he went. More hard words were prevented by respect for the presence of colonel Lambert, who came along with the commissioner, and by Mr. Pace, who arrived during this conversation. After he was gone, I told colonel Lambert that the commissioner's name should not be published any more; but that I should not be at the trouble to tell him so.
This trifling occurrence has been given to the world for two small reasons. 1. To show that the editors have not been bullied. And 2. to exhibit the temperate and liberal behaviour of certain democrats. A feather fows how the wind blows.
Upon this day, Saturday the carriers of this paper for the city and Manchester will wait upon such of our subscribers as have not yet given in their names, for the Saturday's paper, to ascertain as nearly as we can, how many are to be worked off. No names can be received without two dollars in advance, as the first year's subscription.
CONCORD, N. Hampshire March 3. ACCIDENTS.
ON Monday evening last, a Mr. Griffin, of New-Boston, was accidentally killed by the discharge of a musket, by a young man who fired at a mark by candle-light. Mr. Griffin happened to pass between the young man and the mark, at the instant he discharged the gun, and received the contents in the side of his head. He expired in a few hours after.
ON Friday morning last, as a Mr. Fellows, of Salisbury, was driving a loaded waggon down the hill on the west side of Sowcook bridge, between this town and Pembroke, he accidentally fell, when the wheels passed over him in the direction from his right shoulder to the lower part of his body, crushing his shoulder, ribs, and back bone, in such a manner that his life is despaired of.
The editors of the Recorder are requested to give the following squib a place in their papers, which will oblige their friend
PASQUIN. A PRESIDENT.
"Oh! what a fine thing it is to be a Philosopher!" YE rulers of nations a minute attend! And learn a new way, to save a kind friend. If, to seize your estate, he's pleas'd to insist, Tho' stronger you be, you must not resist. Two millions of to, do but place in his hand, 'Twill soften his heart, and bring back your land. But if you should ask, why pay such a fine, Why resist at first must mar his design? Poor fool! this would co an age or two pass, But, in this Age of Reason, you'd surely be cast. Your method's unknown in Bonaparte's code; To BEND is the rage, de Paris a la mode. So, of Reason and Cath, the loss ne'er repents. But copy the rule of—A WISE PRESIDENT.
PASQUIN, Jun. One of the New School!!
FROM THE PORT FOLIO. EPIGRAM. THE ADDRESS.
WE distillers of Rum, can do surely no less, Quoth Ned, then present the great man an address. To encrust him with praise, for his favors dis-play'd, At the nations expence, to encourage our trade. Two procedures our gratitude specially claim, And will prove to all time his b-p title to fame, That I mean the repeal of excise, must be plain, And the national ship, sent to France for Tom-Pain. To dispose of our flock, both alike will avail By reducing the price, and increasing the sale!
years appear to have been distinguished beyond every former period of the history of the commonwealth, by the multitude and importance of the laws which in that time were passed. To give a complete idea of this fact, we have only to observe, that the edition of Mr. Davis contained one hundred and eighty-one statutes ; and that the present contains THREE HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN . Of these, one hundred and thirty-two additional statutes, one hundred and twenty-six were passed within those seven years. They compute, therefore, in point of number, more than two-fifths of the whole collection. The other six laws, which make up the total additional number of one hundred and thirty-two, had been passed long before the publication of the former edition of "The Revised Code." Some of them are of very considerable length. They were selected, and inserted by the special advice and desire of Governor Monroe. He was one of the gentlemen who had been appointed to revise the former edition; and it was his opinion that these six acts of Assembly had been improperly omitted.
Exclusive of the index, the title page and preface, the present volume contains four hundred and fifty-four pages. Of these, the additional laws fill an hundred and twenty-four pages, which is not much less than a third part of the whole text. It is not necessary to say how much more convenient this copious and perspicuous arrangement must be, than to have the trouble of wandering through seven folio pamphlets, in quest of a statute.
These details, without any comment of ours, abundantly prove; had, indeed, other evidence been wanting, the propriety and necessity for a second edition of this book. It is now, also, condensed into a much more manageable size than it formerly assumed. No gentleman's pocket can, at least, in the present age; contain a folio volume; and much less would it contain the enormous appendix of seven folio pamphlets. In riding ten, or fifteen miles to a county court-house; a gentleman does not always think it worth while to take a portmanteau along with him; nor, indeed, is every portmanteau large enough to contain such masses of print and paper. Upon this account, the present edition has been reduced to an octavo size, and printed as closely as possible. Hence, a lawyer, when he sets out for the county court-house, will no longer be obliged to leave his eight folios behind him, and, amidst a crowd of competitors, to solicit the unfortunate clerk of the court to let him have a sight of the Revised Code. He can now put his hand into his pocket, and take out a genteel, portable, octavo volume, which comprehends his former library, disencumbered of all its rubbish. The type, on which the present edition is printed, is either the same, or almost exactly the same with that of the last, and most esteemed London edition of Coke upon Littleton. This circumstance is mentioned here; because a complaint had been made, in one of the Richmond newspapers, by some nameless writer, that the type was too small. You cannot, at the same time, enjoy the cool, bracing breeze of winter, and the verdant vegetation of summer. You cannot, in the same book, unite the advantages of a folio, and of an octavo. If this edition had been printed upon a type as large as that of Mr. Davis, it must have been one-third part dearer than it is; for the volume, including the new index, and the bottom notes, positively contains one third part more of matter than the former edition. The price, to subscribers, must have been raised to nine dollars; and to non-subscribers, to twelve dollars. Very few purchasers will regret that the publication can be had at a price so much more reasonable.
The former edition laboured under more than one material defect. It was often impossible to tell at what time a statute had originally passed. But the case, that a deed was to be contested, which bore date in 1760. It is clear that this transaction could not be affected by laws made posterior to its date. It became a question how long the law had existed, or, when a predecessor to it, or to some part of it, had been passed in, perhaps, a different form. For instance, of chapter CXXVII. a considerable part appears to have been enacted at different periods; one part in 1780, others in 1791. In the old edition of the Revised Code, the law is dated December 26th, 1792.
The bottom notes of the new edition give notice, that various parts of it were in force before, although the whole had been covered by the subsequent statute of 1792. The same notes give intimation, that this law has been amended by another, of December, 1801. Again; chapter CXXVIII bears date the 26th of December, 1792. But we learn that the first clause of the statute existed in 1762, that is to say, thirty years before. The second clause, which is far the longest in the act, had been taken from a former statute, dated October, 1776. From not knowing how far back the force of these laws extended, the court was often call into irretrievable confusion. To discover how far back a statute extended, was often a work of great time and difficulty; and perhaps the requisite apparatus of old laws could not always be had. Gentlemen of the bar assure us, that the bottom notes, which are to be found at the foot of almost every single page of this edition, are, themselves alone, fairly worth the whole price of the book. We have neither received, nor asked permission to publish the name of the supposed author of these notes. He is, however, a gentleman whose name has long been familiar to every lawyer in Virginia. He has long filled more than one interesting department in the system, and the science of jurisprudence. In point of legal knowledge and abilities, his reputation is inferior to none.
As the gentlemen of the law, with one voice, complained of the imperfection of the former index: A new one has been entirely wrote over again, and at a very considerable expence, for the present edition. In the former, there were under the letter A, only twenty-six different heads. In this edition, there are forty-nine. In the former, letter S contained only twenty-five heads. This has forty-seven. These particulars are mentioned, to show the superior perspicuity and completeness of the present index; and how greatly it must facilitate an accurate examination of the contents of the volume. The index contains seventy-two pages. The text of the laws, exclusive of the preface and title page, contains as above mentioned, four hundred and fifty four; so that there is one page of index for about every six pages of text. A larger number of references would have been useless, and have served rather to embarrass, than assist, the reader. This laborious part of the work was drawn up by Mr. James Rind, who had been employed as an assistant, by the supervisors of the former edition. We have every reason to think that his performance will give entire satisfaction.
This volume, the index excepted, was completely printed off several months ago. But it was impossible to deliver the book till this time, because the bad state of Mr. Rind's health did not permit him to furnish the index sooner. This apology will, no doubt, be considered as sufficient for a long delay of publication, which it was impossible for the editors to prevent.
It would be the summit of frivolity to expatiate upon the importance of a work like this; because it is plain, that every family in the commonwealth, should if possible, possess a copy of it. To judges, magistrates and lawyers, it is indispensably necessary; and every private gentleman, who wishes to understand either his own rights, or those of his neighbours, ought to be conversant with its contents.
THE NEW EDITION OF  THE REVISED CODE OF THE LAWS OF VIRGINIA,
IS now ready for sale, and it is thought most advisable to publish the preface in this paper, that the public may so far, be enabled to determine upon the merit of the work.
BY an act of the General Assembly of Virginia, dated December 28th, 1792; it was ordained, that a collection should be made of all such acts of the Assembly, of a public and permanent nature, as were then in force. For this purpose, several lawyers were solicited to superintend the compilation. Mr. Davis, then printer to the Commonwealth, did not get the work completed till the close of the year 1794. It, therefore, embraced all such laws, of a public and permanent nature, as were passed during the session, which commenced November 11th, 1794.
It was unavoidably to happen that this collection would almost immediately become defective; and that its defects were to increase annually, and without intermission. The new laws of the more important class were, for the most part, occupied in altering, or in repealing some of their predecessors. Hence, it was evident, that if a man of business was not regularly supplied with the additional laws, the Revised Code would be quite as likely to lead him into mistakes, as to give him proper information. The consequence was, that every practitioner of the law found it necessary to purchase, annually, the large folio pamphlet, containing the laws of each succeeding assembly. In the course of a man's life, these publications would have swelled into a library; and, what was extremely inconvenient, by far the greater part of them were laws of a local and private nature, which were totally useless, and a mere incumbrance to the practitioner in a court.
This Revised Code, with all its augmenting imperfections, had become extremely scarce. The original price was eight dollars. But it was almost impossible to obtain the book at any price whatever. The constant demand for the Revised Code induced the proprietors of the present work to publish proposals for a second, and improved edition, which was to bring down the collection so late as to the end of the session of December, 1801. In the former edition, therefore, the latest act of Assembly bears date the 26th of December, 1794. In the present edition, the latest statute passed upon February 2d, 1802. This makes a difference of more than seven years; and these seven

Foreign Intelligence.
LONDON, Jan. 12.
THE amount of imports into Great Britain in 1801, was 15,500,000.—in 1802, 15,640,000.—Exports, 1801, 42,000,000.—1802, nearly 50,000,000.—British ships arrived at London only, in 1801, 3385, of tonnage 418,631, men 23,096; in 1802, 4750, tonnage 574,371, men 36,251; foreign vessels in 1801, 3385, tonnage 452,677; in 1802, 1549, tonnage 214,113, (this shews the unfavorable effect of the peace as to foreign ships trading at London); sailed from London in 1801, 1331 vessels; in 1802, 1933. The revenue in Ireland has increased for the last year in which it has been computed, 920,000.
The British Premier has stated, that if a deduction of one million, could be made from the establishment of the year 1803, which he conceived was practicable, there was little doubt that the revenue could be made to meet the expenses of the establishment.
[There must be some other way of telling the latter part of this story. It is but two years ago, since Mr. Tierney and the chancellor of the exchequer agreed in the house of commons, that the net amount of British revenue was less than twenty-three millions sterling; and that the unavoidable expense of a peace establishment could not, for many years to come, be less than thirty millions, or thereby. This left an annual deficit, and required an annual loan of thirteen millions. The French monarchy slopt payment, and ultimately expired, upon an annual deficit of about five millions.]
American Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, March 14.
By captain Seton, of the ship Betsy, from Leghorn, we have received an official account of several Tripoline cruisers, under the command of a renegado by the name of Lisse, being at sea. The following is the letter of the American consul, addressed to the captains of vessels at Leghorn:
"Leghorn, 24th November, 1802.
"GENTLEMEN,
"I have this day received official intelligence, that renegado Lisse, the Tripoline commodore, was on the 21st. ult. ready for sea, with a squadron consisting of an xebec of ten guns, one do. of fourteen, and a kirlengieti of fourteen. That on the 9th of the said month, a xebec of fourteen guns sailed on a cruise, and that a kirlengieti and polacre of eighteen guns each, and a xebec of sixteen, were also ready and preparing for sea. It is conjectured that Lisse, the commodore, with his squadron, intends to pass the Straits. He has dressed his people in short blue jackets, and overalls, and hats, for a decoy.
ANOTHER GEORGE HAY, AT WEST-POINT.
NEW-YORK, MAYOR'S COURT, Of Tuesday the 8th of Feb 1803.
George Baron, } This was an action Michael Murphee. } of trespass, assault and battery, which the defendant denied by his plea, and gave notice that, at the trial of the cause, he would give in evidence, that the plaintiff was a superior officer stationed with the defendant in the garrison of West-Point, on the Hudson river, ceded by the state of New-York to the United States; that if the assault and battery complained of was committed, it was while the plaintiff and defendant were in the service of the United States, and so was an offence of a military nature, and only punishable by the articles of war in such case made and established.
The defence, as stated, was not relied on at the trial, but testimony was intro-
duced of the poverty of the defendant, in mitigation of damages.
The most material circumstances which were disclosed on the trial, were the following:
Mr. Baron had been appointed a teacher of the arts and sciences to the artillery and engineers, stationed at West-Point; some differences had subsisted between him and the officers of the garrison, and particularly with lieut. Robert W. Osborn; and from certain reports in circulation, unfavorable to the character of the plaintiff, he was induced to call a court of inquiry into his conduct; which court, after proceeding several days in their examination of witnesses to charges preferred against the plaintiff, adjourned without permitting him to enter into an examination of the exculpatory testimony, which he offered to produce; that he complained of the conduct of the court, and had signified his determination to go on to the war office for a redress of his grievances, and accordingly had procured a boat and made other preparations; that previous to such an application being made, lieut. Robert W. Osborn had desired the defendant to make an attack on the plaintiff, and to beat him in such a manner as to prevent and defeat the plaintiff from pursuing his intentions of proceeding to the war-office. In consequence of the above direction, the defendant had once, before the time complained of, attempted to way lay the plaintiff, but had been disappointed. The second time he went to the house of Thomas North, Esq. where the plaintiff then boarded adjoining the public ground, called for a pint of beer, asked the plaintiff to drink with him, which he at first refused, but when the defendant observed, "you won't drink with me, because I'm a soldier," the plaintiff answered, "no! I don't refuse on that account," drank with him, and made him a present of six shillings; the plaintiff turned into another room to light a cigar where the defendant followed and without any provocation with a heavy knotty stick, struck the plaintiff a violent blow on the head, that brought him senseless on the floor, when his blows were repeated on the head and legs; till two travellers, strangers to the parties, who witnessed the attack, interfered; and put the defendant out of the house. The defendant, till this time, had been upon very good terms with the plaintiff, and admitted after his arrest, that Mr. Baron always used him well.
It further appeared that lieut. Osborn had promised to bear the defendant harmless, if his conduct should be investigated by a court martial, at least so far as to get his crime pardoned, and his punishment remitted by a favorable representation of his case, indemnify him in the expenses of a civil prosecution, and make him a handsome present for the pains of imprisonment; and during the four months of his imprisonment, the defendant actually received his pay and rations, as a soldier of the garrison.
A warrant had been issued to apprehend the defendant at West-Point, but his arrest was prevented by said Osborn, by whose orders he was put across the river and directed to proceed with all expedition to Port Jay, where he was arrested at the suit of the plaintiff. Shortly after the defendant in this suit had been arrested and committed to goal, an application, on the affidavit of William P. Van Rensselaer, lieut. of artillery, was made to this court to have him discharged from his confinement as a deserter, he being so represented by lieut. Osborn, the then commanding officer of West-Point, to said W. P. Van Rensselaer, as stated in his affidavit. This application was, however, overruled by the court.
The court charged the Jury to find exemplary damages for the plaintiff; the defendant appearing in scarcely a better character than that of a hired assassin. They accordingly found a verdict of one thousand dollars damages, with costs of suit.
[If Smollet, or Fielding, or Swift, or Cervantes, had sat down with the design
of inventing a satirical tale at the expence of the military character, they could hardly have spread the sails of fiction to such a wild distance from propriety, as we are now fairly steered by the helm of facts. Cowardly, perfidious and savage, as the attack of George Hay was, he seems to find a fortunate foil in this Russian Osborn. He struck a man, to be sure, who was older than himself, a man, with whom he had courted a quarrel, and against whom he had no fair cause of provocation. But Hay did not strike a man, whom his superiors had appointed as his preceptor. If he struck Callender, from behind, still he gave the blow with his own hand. He did not transfer the possible danger, and the certain punishment, to a subordinate assassin. When called upon by the laws of his country, he did not try to skull behind the name and the guilt of a third person. With that species of courage which consists in impudence, he boasted of his performance. He told the court, that it was needless for them to call witnesses. He acknowledged the charge. He declared, in the newspapers, that he should never alter his opinion; that he should never think he had done wrong. A coward, and a scoundrel, he has been pronounced, by the unanimous voice of mankind. As such, he is detected, and begins to be avoided. But still he is not so bad as Osborn. Next winter's session of assembly will bear witness to a considerable reduction of Hay's emoluments at the card table; and there are not many young ladies in Richmond, who will be forward to take a hand with him at Leo. But still, he is not so bad as Osborn. Persons commencing a suit will not be impatient for the advice of a lawyer, of whom judge Roan has pronounced that he is without science, and without principle. They will not hasten to consult a man, as ignorant, as he is barbarous, a man, whose total unacquaintance with the first principles of law, as well as of courage and humanity, has made his name a common jest from New-Hampshire to the Natchez. But still, Counsellor Bludgeon is not so bad as Osborn.
If the assailant, Murphee, had been tried by a court martial, it is not likely that he would have been found guilty. The court, or at least the officers of the regiment, seem to have been accomplices of his crime. The affording him rations and pay, while in prison, was an act of robbery on the military chest. In England, the fellow would have been restricted to the county allowance for criminals. But why should we mention England, a country, where a scene like this was never heard of, and where, from the character of British officers, it could not possibly have existed? The circumstance of lying in wait for Mr. Baron seems evidently to shew that the officers felt themselves in the wrong. The court of inquiry held by the officers upon Mr. Osborn, refused, it seems, to hear his exculpatory evidence. This is a blossom of the newly fledged doctrine of Ambrose Spencer, of Peter Carr, and of the GRAND PROMPTER, that truth cannot be given in evidence . For such a refusal, the whole court martial, with Osborn at their head, should have had their ears cropt in the pillory, and their shoulders flogged at the cart's tail. It seems foolish to have fined Murphee, since he cannot pay the money; and the wretch, or wretches, who pushed him on to the commission of the crime, cannot be supposed to have as much honour as to pay it for him. Thirty nine lashes, and ten years at the wheelbarrow, would have approached much nearer to the nature of his offence, and the delicacy of his feelings. That Osborn should have gone along with him to the whipping post, and the work house, there can be no question. And why he was not prosecuted, as an accessory, and accomplice, nobody can give a reason. Blackstone relates the case of an attorney, who hired a fellow to murder his brother in law. The attorney was hanged as an accessory. About thirty five years ago, lieutenant Ogilvie, a Scots officer, gave a dose of arsenic to Catherine Nairne, his brother's
wife. With this, the woman poisoned her husband; for which, Ogilvie was hanged. It is needless to multiply hundreds and thousands of similar cases.
There seems to be an almost unaccountable chasm in the execution of the penal code in the United States. If these officers had accused Mr. Baron of the crime of looking pale , and if, for this offence, they had run him through the body , it is not impossible that they might soon after, have stood high in the favour of the president and congress. Indeed, they seem to have already arrived at this pitch of elevation. On hearing of the intended assassination, general Dearborn dismissed Mr. Baron from his office. This holds out an evident encouragement to these, and all other officers, to commit murder. This is your democratical freedom, your republican standing army, your federal constitution! What a pity that those poor enslaved people, the subjects of George Guelph, do not throng to this free country to study and admire the rights and dignities of an American citizen! After an official approbation of such enormities, nothing can be said as to the rescue of the horsekeeper at the Swan Tavern. "We are," as Mr. Clay says, "in A GLORIOUS TRAIN."
FROM THE VIRGINIA GAZETTE.
[After publishing a copy of the census inserted in last Wednesday's Recorder, the editor proceeds thus:]
From the above it is evident, that the second ward contains more inhabitants (slaves excepted) than the other two put together; and yet this ward is to elect only eight members for the common hall, while the other two, between them, send sixteen. The division of the wards was unhappily entrusted to five of those men, who are perpetually brawling about equal representation, and this is the just arrangement which they at length made. We could scarcely have conceived it possible, that persons possessed of common discernment and candor, would have presented their fellow citizens with a division so destitute of the rights of equity. Had it been a federal job, how the Jeffersonian prints would have teemed with invective and abuse, against the framers! We should have heard of nothing in Richmond, for a twelvemonth from them, but the cry of aristocratic influence, bribery and corruption. We trust, however, that from this, and other specimens of their justice, when they are invested with power, the eyes of our citizens will be opened, and that they will perceive, that wise and impartial regulations, never enter into the code of democracy.
There would have been much more of equality, in the arrangement of the wards, if they had even remained as they were first laid off. By the first arrangement, the middle, or Maddison ward, did not extend so high up, by one or two streets; but it being soon discovered by some worthy democrats, that the upper or Monroe ward, contained a large proportion of federalists, it was immediately communicated to the commissioners, who held a meeting, and determined that a new arrangement should be made in these two wards, by extending the middle ward higher up, and taking from the upper ward, that part which contained this proportion of federalists, throwing them into Madison ward, which before contained at least twice the number of votes that were in Monroe Ward. *
NOTE.
*We heard of this manœuvre. But it seemed so much worse than usual , that the insertion was delayed, till farther evidence should be given. This has now been got. What a groupe of traitors are passing in review before us!
At a meeting of the Common Hall, for the city of Richmond, called by the Mayor, and held at the home of William Rose, in the said city, on Monday the 28th day of February, 1803. Resolved, that the Mayor give notice in the newspapers, that the Hall have adopted a plan for a POOR HOUSE, and will receive proposals from undertakers for building the same, at any time before the third Monday in next month. The plan is lodged in the hands of Mr. Robert B. James. The proposals must be made in writing.
A copy Teste
ADAM CRAIG, c. c. h. c. r.