The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1808-07-01 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 5.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, JULY 1, 1808.
[No. 18.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
THE RIFLE VOLUNTEERS will assemble, on the morning of the 4th of JULY, precisely at 9 o'clock, on the Capitol Square, compleatly equipped—with at least 17 blank cartridges.
By order of the Captain, B. C. TURNER, 1st Serg't.
June 28. (2t)
THE MANCHESTER REPUBLICAN BLUES are requested to assemble on their usual Parade Ground, on the fourth of July, at half past 9 o'clock, A. M.
It is confidently expected that every member will cheerfully attend at the hour appointed to celebrate that glorious epoch.
By desire of the Captain, JAMES HEWLETT, Serg't.
June 28. (2t)
NOTICE. That in virtue of a deed of trust, executed to me by George Wiley, I shall, on Friday the 8th day of July next, before the front door of the Eagle-Tavern, in this city, expose to sale for ready money, at public auction, one half acre LOT OF LAND, more or less, with the appurtenances, lying in the town of Hanover, and being the same on which the said Wiley at present resides—the proceeds of which sale to be applied agreeably to the provisions of the said trust.
SAML. MCCRAW, Trustee. Richmond, June 28. (4t)
THE Subscriber living in Chesterfield county, on Falling creek, about seven miles from Manchester, wishes to engage a TEACHER, who understands the Dead Languages, Geography, &c.—None need apply without proper recommendations.
THOS. V. BROOKING. Chesterfield, June 28. (2t)
BURGLARY—ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD. Whereas the store of SIMPSON MORRIS, opposite the Eagle-Tavern, was broken open on Saturday night the 18th inst. between the hours of 11 and 3 o'clock, and robbed to a considerable amount, consisting of the following articles, viz.
A quantity of Calicoes, Curtain Calicoes, India Cottons, a large quantity of Muslins, Cotton and Linen Cambrics, Irish Linen, Silk and Cotton Hosiery, Silk Gloves, Linen & Cotton Handkerchiefs, Broad Cloths, Checks and Dimity, and many other articles; and the till robbed of about 30 dollars in cash, seven new French Gold Watches, with tortoise-shell cases; also, a parcel of Letters and Papers of no use to any person except the owner. Whoever will apprehend the offender or offenders, so that they may be brought to justice, shall receive the above reward, with an additional reward of 20 per cent. for the amount of goods which may be recovered; or whoever will deliver the letters and papers to the owner, shall be handsomely rewarded, and no questions asked.
Richmond, June 21, 1808. (4t)
THE MILLING BUSINESS which has heretofore been carried on under the firm of LADDS & WEBSTER, was dissolved on the first instant.
THOMAS & AMOS LADD, ISAAC WEBSTER March 18. (4t)
BY virtue of a deed of trust to us executed by Sherwood Fowler, and recorded in the county court of Cumberland, for the purpose of securing the payment of a judgment therein mentioned, we will proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises, on the 8th day of July next, a certain Tract or Parcel of LAND, containing (as expressed by said deed) one hundred acres, being a part of the tract wherein the said Fowler resides, in the county of Cumberland, about eleven miles above the court-house, and on the main Buckingham road, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to pay the judgment aforesaid, with interest and costs and the necessary expenses attending the execution of this trust.
JOHN WOODSON, SAYMER WRIGHT, Sen. June 10. (law4w)
MARSHAL'S SALE. JOHN MURDOCK & Company, against the children and heirs at law of Samuel Pearsons, dec'd. and others.
By virtue of a decree of the court of the United States for the fifth circuit and Virginia district, pronounced at November term, 1807, in a suit therein depending between the above parties, will be sold at public auction, for ready money, on Wednesday the twenty-seventh day of July next, on the premises, a TRACT OF LAND in the county of Hanover, on Pamunkey river, near Beach creek ford, and which is now in the possession of his children and heirs at law, or so much thereof as shall be equal to the demand of the plaintiffs and the expenses of this sale.
WM. MANN, D. M. for Joseph Scott, M. V. D. June 28. (1m3w)
VALUABLE LANDS. —The subscriber will sell, on a credit, or exchange for property in Richmond, or its neighborhood, the following LANDS, to wit:
822 acres in the state of Kentucky by survey, bearing date the 10th day of October 1797. Lying and being in the district set a part for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on Little Barron river.
Also, 10 Also, 1000 acres in Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th October 1797. Likewise lying in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on the North side of Little River, a branch of Cumberland River and about two and an half miles from the mouth of Little river.
Also, 450 acres of Land in the county of Mason, state of Virginia on Old Town Creek, about 8 miles from Mason court-house.
Indisputable titles will be made to the above mentioned Lands; and plots of each tract may be seen on application to the subscriber residing in Richmond.
THOMAS BOHANNON. Jan. 28. (law6t)
MURDOCKS, Donald & Co. against Lucy Dixon, widow of James Dixon, and Sarah, John, Nancy, and Patsey, children and heirs of the said James Dixon.
By virtue of a decree of the court of the United States for the fifth circuit and Virginia district, will be sold on the first day of July next, at public auction, for ready money, a tract of LAND in the county of Louisa whereof John Richmond died seized and possessed, and which is now in the possession of the above named Lucy Dixon and the children and heirs of James Dixon, dec'd. or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the demand of the plaintiffs in the said decree mentioned, and the expenses attending the sale.
WM. MANN, Deputy for Joseph Scott, Marshall V. D. June 10. (law3w)
VIRGINIA, TO WIT: —At a Chancery District Court held in the City of Williamsburg, the 7th day of April, 1808.
Josiah Ryland and Catherine his wife, Thomas Armistead and Jane his wife, and William T. Colston and Elizabeth his wife, Plaintiffs—Against John Nicholson and Bartholemew McCarty, Defendants.
The defendant John Nicholson, 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 plaintiffs by their counsel, It is ordered , that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Richmond newspapers for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former Capitol in this city. A Copy. ANTY. ROBINSON, c. c. May 17. [law8w]
FINE fresh Hyson Teas, India Nankeens, Medock Claret, of superior quality, in cases of 30 bottles.
Sherry Wines, Sack Salt, Assorted Crates of Crockery, for sale by PICKETT, POLLARD & JOHNSTON. Richmond, June 14. [law4w]
IN CHANCERY. —February Court, 1804—Fauquier County, to wit:
Benjamin Rector, Complainant—Against Thomas Chapman, surviving executor of William Carr, dec'd. Defendant.
On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, It is ordered , that master commissioner Scott state, settle, and examine the accounts between the parties and make report thereof to the court, with such matters specially as he may think pertinent or the parties may require.
A Copy. Teste, F. BROOKE, c. c.
The parties to the above suit are hereby notified that I shall attend at my office at Fauquier court-house, on the 26th day of July next, between the hours of ten and two o'clock to carry the above order into effect, at which time and place the parties are requested to attend with a copy of the court papers, and such evidence and vouchers as they may think proper to produce, in order to a final adjustment of the accounts.
C. R. SCOTT, M. c. Fauquier C. H. May 24, 1808. [law8w]
MR. LE TELLIER, DENTIST. —In the house adjoining Mr. Edmund Randolph's branches of his profession, i. e. cleansing and restoring the teeth to their natural elegance, by removing that corrosive substance called tartar, which adheres to them in the form of a black or yellow crust, which is the cause of many teeth decaying, an offensive breath, and the corroder of the gums and sockets. He sets artificial ones so as to stand firm, being useful as well as ornamental, plugs the decayed cavities of such as can be preserved, and extracts such as are too far gone to be saved, in which operation he makes use of DUFFT'S PATENT EXTRACTING INSTRUMENTS, which takes the tooth out without any possibility of fracturing the jaw or bruising the gums, and with much less pain than the instruments that are in general use; for which operation his price is one dollar, when done at his own house.
He deems it unnecessary to say any thing concerning the advantage derived from the manner of his performance on his abilities, leaving it for his former operations to speak.
He has DENTIFRICE prepared by himself of a superior quality for the preservation of the gums and teeth, void of corrosive substance.
Mr. LE TELLIER wishes the public to have notice that as he has now made Richmond his permanent residence, all his prices are considerably lower than when he was only a visitor of the place.
A line or servant directed to the aforesaid place will be attended to.
He keeps a constant supply of Teeth Extracting Instruments, key kind, and best quality, for sale. May 6. [law6m]
IN CHANCERY. —At a court continued by adjournment and held for James City county, the 14th day of June, 1808.
John P. Shields, surviving acting executor, &c. of James Shields, deceased, Plaintiff—Against Joseph Hornsby, Defendant.
The defendant 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 the said defendant is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, It is ordered , that unless the said defendant shall appear here on or before the second Monday in November next and answer the plaintiff's bill, that this court will then proceed to take the same for confessed, and decree the matter thereof accordingly. And it is further ordered, that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of this county.
Copy. Teste, SAML. SHIELD, c. c. June 24. [law8w]
VALUABLE MANUFACTURING MILL & DISTILLERY. —The subscriber will sell or lease for a term of years, with or without a distillery, containing five stills of near 1000 gallons, the valuable MILL on Appomattox river, in Cumberland, lately owned by William Skipwith. The house is 66 feet long, 26 wide, and three stories high, containing 2 pair best burr and 1 pair corn stones, with Evans's patent machinery and a Saw Mill in complete order. Boats pass under the Mill through one of the best locks on the river—the neighborhood affords an abundant supply of wheat, and on the spot are two commodious houses calculated for a store and residence. If sold, the purchaser may be accommodated with 4 or 500 acres of Land, one half in wood. Terms may be known on application to Mr. Jeffers at the Mill or to me near Genito Bridge.
EDMUND MARISON. Amelia, April 19. (law6t)
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS. —The subscriber respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, in the above line of business and solicits their patronage. C. GREENHOW. Dec. 15. [law6t]
BLANKS, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
EUROPE.
FROM THE PARIS ARGUS.
Extract of a letter written by a French officer, dated Lisbon, January 18.
On the 14th Admiral Sinzara gave a sumptuous entertainment on board his ship. All the staffs, and a great number of Portuguese of the first distinction, were invited to it. The commander in chief Junot is to give a ball in a few days to the Admiral and to all the officers of his squadron.
The offices belonging to the departments of the colonies, which were under the direction of the Ministry of the Treasury, have just been suppressed. This measure has made a great sensation among the merchants and politicians, because it seems to indicate that at least for the present, there is no thought of keeping up any kind of connexion between the Portuguese colonies and the mother country.
And why should the French dread the establishment of that empire of Brazil, of which the English seem to have occasioned the foundation?—Whatever be the success of this enterprise, it must ultimately be favorable to the interests of France.
Suppose that the Prince Don John and his favorites continue at Rio-de-Jeneiro that indolent and idle existence, that life mixed with bigotry and debauchery, that political conduct, by turns weak and tyrannical, which had rendered them the object of public contempt at Lisbon. Then the Brazils, exhausted by the expenses of the court, oppressed by favorites and mistresses, will remain, what with all the Portuguese monarchy, they have hitherto been, an English colony. England will have gained nothing; she will receive directly from the Brazils the gold and the diamonds which she received by the way of Lisbon. The whole produce of the gold mines of the Brazils amount to 25 or 30 millions of Francs a year, whereas, in Mexico, Peru and Chili, the King of Spain coins to the amount of ten millions in gold, and of one hundred millions of Francs in silver.
None but the ignorant can assert that the mines of the Brazils render England mistress of the circulation of specie. It is probable, but not yet certain, that the mountains contain real gold mines; hitherto, the gold has been found there only in the rivulets; it is, on the contrary, certain that the mountains of Peru are crossed throughout their whole length by innumerable veins of gold and silver.
But how will a weak government maintain itself in the midst of an energetic people enterprising and impatient of restraint, as are the inhabitants of Brazil? Will eight hundred thousand Europeans, endowed with courage and sense, and fifteen hundred Negroes warmly attached to their masters, with eight or nine hundred thousand Indians, dispersed throughout a country 850 leagues in length and 750 in breadth, easily let themselves be kept slaves to an idle and voluptuous court, established upon the border of that immense country?
The Brazils have for this long time past complained of their governors, of the late minister of state of their department, and even of the Prince. I have it from good authority that in 1802, the capitania of Bahia made propositions to England to pass under her government. We know of four revolts which have happened within less than thirty years? Revolts which have hitherto been rather smothered really than extinguished. The presence of the court, far from increasing the respect and attachment of the people, will break that kind of attachment which forms, placed at a great distance, produce among a nation endowed with a very lively imagination.
A squadron of six ships of the line, with four or 5,000 good troops, may take possession of the island of Jonnes, of Para and Macapa; it would blockade and perhaps raise all the countries watered by the Amazon and its confluent rivers, viz: Rio-Negro, Rio-Madera, the Xingu and the Tucantim, that is to say, all that geography vulgarly calls the country of the Amazons, and which form in reality the three Brazilian governments of Para, Matagrosso and (partly) of Goyaz.
Another vulnerable point of Brazil, is the eastern point, or the government of Fernambouc; it was there that the Dutch maintained themselves during the first half of the 16th century; an European military force which occupies the borders of Rio-San Francisco, would perhaps brave all the troops which the sovereign of Brazil is able to set on foot.
Supposing now the chance; let us imagine that there should arise in the councils of the Prince Don John, a great statesman, that this second Pombal, become the tutor of his sovereign, should develop by a good system of policy and administration the resources of the empire of Brazil, what favorable result would this have for the interests of England?
In the first place, necessity alone would force the Brazilians to redouble their industry. All the manufactures, especially those of cotton, hitherto prohibited in Brazil, and, however, clandestinely working there, would acquire fresh vigor and greatly multiply. They would at least suffice for the wants of the colonists of the interior, who make use of hardly any objects of luxury. The English might furnish a few articles to the principal towns on the coast; such as Bahia, Rio-de-Jeneiro, Maranhao, Pemambuco, and two or three less considerable ones.
The population of all these maritime towns will, perhaps, one day amount from 180,000 to 200,000 souls. But would the English annually take charge of the sale of 10 or 12,000 hogsheads of sugar, of from 90 to 100,000 bales of cotton, of 12,000 sacks of cocoa, of as many and more of coffee, etc. etc. These Brazilian goods finding no vent in Europe, would the English charge themselves with their consumption in preference to those which they receive from their own colonies?
And who can calculate beforehand where the energy of a nation, as it were, raised from the dead, will stop? Who will secure the English from the consequences of the clashing of their colonial interests with the interests of Brazil? The new empire, by its competition, would crush the little sugar islands which form one of the two great resources of British trade. On the other hand, the Brazils would command the highway to the East Indies; the Brazils would be in want neither of ships, nor of ports, nor of seamen—their forests are inexhaustible; even their negroes are become intrepid sailors. Who then could hinder the sovereign of the Brazils from one day declaring himself the absolute sovereign of the seas which separating America from Africa, open the way to India and China? Who could hinder him from shutting his ports to the merchant fleets of England, which could no longer undertake this journey without the utmost temerity.
France, on the contrary, stands in no need of the friendship of the Brazils, either to extend her empire to the borders of the Ganges, or to turn all Africa into sugar and coffee plantations, far superior to the plantations of the New World.
[From a London Paper.]
A Frenchman, among other eulogies, told one of our brave and victorious soldiers at Acre, that Bonaparte was a Kara Avis . "Yes," said the soldier, "I once saw him fly ."
Dr. Berkely, the good Bishop of Cloyne, retained the famous Pasquillino in his place to teach his children music. The Bishop had a concert most evenings in the winter at home; and Pasquillino was to have a grand benefit concert at Cork. One day at dinner the Bishop said "well Pasquillino, I have got rid of a great many tickets for you among my opulent neighbours." To which the musician bowing, said, "May God pickle your lordship, I pray him!" The company laughed immoderately, and the poor Italian, all confused, said, "vell! in the grammar that my lord gave me to teach me English, it is printed pickle , to preserve and keep from decay."
NEW-YORK, June 24.
Very late and important!!!
The ship Hanton, Capt. Dolan, arrived at this port yesterday in the short passage of 35 days from Cork.
By this vessel the editors of the New-York Gazette have received Cork Papers to the 14th May, containing London dates of the 9th.
The Osage arrived in England the 30th of April from France. Of the reception of our demands on the French government will be detailed below. Bonaparte, it seems, has absolutely refused to revoke the decrees against English commerce, as far as relates to this country, and demands the closing of our ports against G. Britain, until a maritime peace!
The following are the important particulars.
LONDON, May 8.
The Osage is at length arrived with Mr. Nourse, Mr. Lewis and Mr. Morgan. They left L'Orient on the 26th and arrived at Falmouth last Saturday. Mr. Lewis is the bearer of the dispatches to France: Mr. Nourse of the dispatches to this country. They arrived both at Mr. Pinkney's last night. The Osage, after her arrival at L'Orient on the 22d of March, was seized, because it had transpired that she had been spoken by a British cruiser off that port. It was only in consequence of the repeated representations of Gen. Armstrong, that she was finally released, and permitted to proceed to England. Mr. Nourse was not suffered in the first instance to land, but after remaining on board the Osage for about a week, and it being stated that his health was greatly impaired by the voyage, he was suffered to go on shore and reside in the town of L'Orient, but on no account was he to be permitted to visit Paris. Mr. Lewis, who was the bearer of dispatches to the American minister there, could not procure leave to proceed to Paris until after four days.
The intelligence brought by these gentlemen, is said to be strongly indicative of a war between America and France. Some of the last American papers had informed us that Bonaparte had declared his declaration to have no neutrals; that the only conditions on which he would continue at peace with the United States were, that they should shut all their ports against British shipping of every description and suspend all intercourse with England; for that in fact, he would have no neutrals.—Mr. Lewis was sent in the Osage with an answer to that declaration, and with a demand, according to report, of the abandonment of the decree of the 21st November, 1806. Bonaparte refused this demand in the most positive manner, and Gen. Armstrong was informed, that the Declaration made to the American Government, might be considered as the ultimatum from which France would not depart.
In consequence of the probability of a speedy rupture, many of the Americans in France had applied to the French Government for passports to leave the country, to every one of whom the request was refused. Mr. Morgan, the gentleman before named, made his escape on board the Osage. The conduct of the French government towards American shipping is severe in the extreme.
It is added, that General Armstrong in his last conference, with the French Minister stated, that as his instructions by no means extended to the objects proposed by France, he must request passports for himself and all American citizens in France, who might choose to return to their own country.—After repeating this application several times, the request of General Armstrong was refused.
The Osage spoke the Admiral of the Brest Fleet on her way from L'Orient.—Previous to her departure from L'Orient, the Captain was informed that he must not return to a French port after visiting England, under pain of certain forfeiture of the vessel, and imprisonment of the crew.
Another London paper says: "The day after the arrival of Mr. Lewis at Paris, Gen. Armstrong requested an audience with the French minister, & gave him to understand, that he had received important dispatches from his government, who, anxious to preserve with the belligerent states a perfect neutrality, had instructed him to propose to the French government, the revocation of the Decrees against British commerce as far as it related to America, adding, that England would be required to make the same exception in her favor; the answer it appears made to this just and equitable proposal, was—that in the present situation of affairs, no terms of compromise could be listened to, that the American government was already in full possession of the unalterable determination of France, who would not permit a Neutral State—and from which resolution she would, on no account, recede—and the French minister further observed, that unless the American ports should be closed against Great-Britain, until a Maritime Peace could be obtained—France and America must be considered to be at war with each other." It appears that several interviews took place after this, but the French government were inexorable—and Gen. Armstrong was not able to obtain the least alteration in their de-
terminations—and consequently, in the contemplation of an immediate rupture between the two countries, he demanded passports for such of the citizens of the United States, who might choose to return to their own country—and this demand repeatedly made, was also rejected.
The expedition had not sailed from the Downs yesterday evening.—The troops have embarked at Harwich on board 85 sail of transports. The Regiments are, the 4th, 28th, 79th, 92d, and part of the 95th Rifle Corps.
May 4.
About twelve o'clock yesterday, his Excellency Lord Strangford, the Ambassador, and Sir James Gambier, Consul General from our Court to that of the Brazils, had their final audience of Mr. Secretary Canning. They then visited his Excellency the Chevalier de Souza Coutinho, (the Portuguese Ambassador at our Court) and at two o'clock Lord Strangford, together with Mr. Byng, his Secretary, and several attendants, left town for Portsmouth, where the Euryalus frigate is in readiness to convey them to Portuguese South America.—Sir James Gambier and his attendants left town about the same time. A number of merchants, who are sending out goods to a vast amount to the Brazils, together with their supercargoes and nearly 200 emigrants, from Lisbon, will be carried out in transports and merchant vessels, under convoy at the same time.
Two English Ladies landed at Deal the night before last, from Holland.—The embargo has been taken off the Dutch ports.
The funds continue rising; the three per Cents. rose about a half per Cent. this morning for money, under an impression that the loan will be less than eight millions; and that it will not amount to more than six.
The force, naval and military, that has for some weeks been collecting in the Downs, sailed yesterday for its destination.
As the Expedition has now sailed, there is no longer any necessity for concealing its destination.—The general opinion in the military circles, and among the officers employed in this service, is, that the first object is to attempt to destroy the means which the enemy is known to have been for some time engaged in preparing at Flushing, for the annoyance of this country. All uncertainty as to the real primary object of the expedition will be removed before many days pass over; as to its ultimate object, there is but one opinion, nor has any secrecy been affected respecting it. The force goes to Sweden.
May 5.
At the close of Change yesterday, a report obtained circulation, that Bonaparte had issued a decree at Bayonne, directing an immediate embargo to be laid on all American vessels in the ports of Spain, the immediate seizure and confiscation of all American property in France, and the imprisonment of American citizens. We could not, however, trace this rumour to any authentic source.
This state of things between America and France, excited expectations in London that America, being obliged to decide in attaching herself to either England or France, would adopt the former for her alliance.—The presumption joined to a great influx of money in the market, created a considerable elevation in the funds on Wednesday in London. Consols which stood at 67 1-4 on Tuesday, were on Wednesday at the close of the market, 68 3-8 1-2.
LONDON, May 9.
A vessel, the Yrow Elizabeth, is arrived at Falmouth from Bilboa, which she left April 27. Bonaparte was still at Bayonne, where the new King of Spain was expected to meet him. According to the intelligence brought by this vessel, intelligence, however, which we very much doubt, orders had been issued for the French troops to evacuate Spain; and they had quitted Bilboa in consequence of these orders.
The Tigre, of 80 guns, and the Triumph, Minotaur, and Edgar, of 74, each, sailed yesterday morning from the Downs, to blockade, as it is supposed, some port on the Dutch coast.
A report prevailed yesterday, said to have been brought from Holland, of an action taking place in the Mediterranean, in which the French experienced a signal defeat.—We have no doubt of their having been defeated, if there has been a battle.
The American ships Hannah, Ann, Ranger, Reward, Neptune, and Mayflower, have been seized by a French privateer in the port of Alicante.
The following official Communication was on Saturday made to the American Traders—
AMERICAN CONSULATE,
May 7.
Whereas, by a communication received at this office, from his Excellency William Pinkney, Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. S. here, it appears, that he hath received information from his Britannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of state for Foreign Affairs, of the establishment of the most rigorous blockade of the port of Copenhagen, and all the other ports in the Island of Zealand. This is therefore to give due notice thereof to the American Merchants and others within this consulate, that they may govern themselves accordingly.
WM. LYMAN.
The Brazil and East-India fleet sailed from Portsmouth yesterday; the latter will not touch at the Cape. Lord Stanfard, Sir James Gambier, and several officers, sailed in the Brazil fleet.
The expedition which lately sailed from the Downs, will rendezvous at Yarmouth.—The Mers, Admiral Keats, and the Audacious, with several transports, arrived here yesterday.
A letter was yesterday received by a respectable house in the Russian trade, which implies the complete acquiescence of the Russian Court in the views of Bonaparte.—This letter, which is dated St. Petersburg, 18th of April, (N. S.) states, that the Emperor has issued an Ukase, forbidding any intercourse whatever between his territories and any neutral power, until the conclusion of a general peace. By the terms of this U-

kase, none but ships belonging to those powers which are in actual alliance with Russia are permitted to enter any Russian port.
Mr. Johnson, a King's Messenger, arrived on Thursday, at Harwick, by express, and immediately proceeded on board the Baufey packet, Captain Norris, for Gottenburg, which immediately prepared to set sail, without waiting to take a mail on board. It is said that Mr. Johnson is the bearer of despatches of the greatest importance.
Admiral Lord Gambier left town, this day to take the command of the Channel Fleet.
FOREIGN OFFICE, May 4. The Right hon. George Canning, his Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for foreign Affairs, has this day notified to the Ministers of friendly and neutral powers resident at this court, that his Majesty has judged it expedient to establish the most rigorous blockade of the port of Copenhagen, and of all the other ports in the island of Zealand; and that the same will be maintained and enforced in the strictest manner, according to the usages of war acknowledged and allowed in similar cases.
WHITEHALL, May 7. The king has appointed the Right Hon. Henry Baron Mulgrave, Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart. Vice Admiral of the white squadron of his Majesty's fleet: William Johnstone Hon. and Robert Ward, Esqs. the Right Hon. Henry John Viscount Palmerston, James Buller, Esq. and William Domett, Esq. Rear Admiral of the Red Squadron of his Majesty's fleet, to be his Majesty's Commissioners.
CORK, May 13.
The official Reports from the Swedish army, already stated, left Gen. Kingspor on the 6th April, at Kalajoiki, a town on the Gulf of Bothnia. He had reached this position after a retreat ably directed, and in which he had to endure the frequent attacks of an enemy vastly superior in number. Those attempts as we have before observed, produced nothing decisive. The retreating army, commanded with almost unexampled ability, was impenetrable to every effort made to break it. The posts of Kalajoiki and Ypper were maintained until the 16th. On that day the rear brigade posted at the latter place, was attacked by a superior force, and after a gallant resistance, compelled to retire. In this conflict, their Adjutant General, Count Lowenhielm, having fallen from his horse was made a prisoner. The retreat of the Swedes was continued in good order, though exposed to incessant fighting. They reached Pytajoki little diminished, where they were joined by three Swedish Brigades, and thus reinforced they halted at Brahestadt. The advance of the Russians being unremitting, they retired from this post to Sikafocki, where they repulsed the Russians with considerable advantage, in a very severe contest. From thence they withdrew to Lamjocki, a small town at the extremity of the gulf of Bothnia. Here they had established their head quarters April 20 the date of the last accounts. It will be observed by this detail that the Russians, with the exception of the fortress of Sweaborg, have over-run Finland, along the coast of the gulf of Bothnia, almost to the frontiers of Swedish Lapland. They have pursued this line of operation as the most important places in Finland, are situated on the Gulph. The country to the eastward of the Gulph, will present scarcely any other than natural obstacles to the occupation of it.
By sea the Swedes have performed a very distinguished service. Four Swedish gun-boats, and a mortar-sloop, attacked and defeated a flotilla, consisting of 28 Danish gun-boats off Stromstad. The progress of the Swedish army in Norway is not stated up to a later date than has been already communicated. Christiana, the capitol of Norway, and situated on an inlet in the Skagerrack, is thought, will be speedily in the possession of the Swedes. It will be an acquisition of some importance.
The island of Gothland in the Baltic, commonly termed from its commanding situation, the eye of the Baltic, it is reported, has been taken possession of by a detachment of 10,000 French and Russians, which embarked with that object at Memel and Liebau. As no official authority has sanctioned the credit of the statement, the truth of it is doubted.
LONDON, May 6. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, THURSDAY, MAY 5. ORDERS IN COUNCIL.
Lord Grenville said, there was a subject of importance, of which he had given a general notice previous to the recess, he meant an address to his Majesty to suspend the operation of the orders in council. Rumours, however founded he knew not, had gone abroad, that it was the intention of his majesty's government to recall them, in consequence of the pleasing hope that our relations with the U. States of America would be restored to their former amicable intercourse. If such was the fact, he congratulated the country, and was much more anxious that the revocation of the orders in council should proceed from the voluntary act of the King's government than by any motion of his. However if no such intention should be manifested, by the conclusion of the present month, he pledged himself to submit to their lordships the propriety of addressing his majesty for their repeal.
Lord Hawkesbury rose for the purpose of guarding against any inference which his silence might encourage, with respect to the rumour of repeal to which the noble baron alluded: at the same time that he felt it his duty not to make a single observation on the state of our relations with America—Adjourned.
CORK, May 11. It may be presumed from some observations between Lords Grenville and Hawkesbury, in the house of Lords, on Thursday, respecting the orders in council, that hopes are entertained of an amicable termination of our differences with America. Lord Grenville hinted at an intended concession of those orders by the government in consequence of the expectation of satisfactory arrangements with the American government. Lord Hawkesbury would not admit the fact of any such intention on the part of government as the revocation of the orders, but he did not discredit the other presumption. We do most sincerely hope that a good understanding may be resumed between these kingdoms and America: but we must confess, and we regret to do so, that we do not expect that event will result from any friendly disposition of America towards us. Compelled to make an election between the United Empire and France she will, in all probability, in consideration of her commercial interests, prefer the former; but there have been
an irritation and ill-will in her recent conduct to Great Britain and Ireland, which lead us to think she would not make the adoption voluntary. She, at this moment looks at us in an attitude of war, for as a friendly power she would not expect from within the limits of her jurisdiction every thing British or Irish—with any other feeling than an hostile one, she would not interdict her people from all intercourse with our armed ships, be their necessity what it may—although for the outrage of which she complained every justifiable retribution had been afforded. In looking at this subject, let it be observed too, that her interdiction does not extend to the other belligerents—only British ships are excluded—for long after the President's proclamation a French ship of war lay in the Chesapeake. Mr. Rose's mission, evidently of a conciliatory nature, terminated in nothing more than any expressions of concern which he might have made for the affair of the Chesapeake frigate then in lued to a common transaction by separating his government from any concern with it. He did not procure the smallest alteration in the measures of America—she did not, in any degree, relax from that angry posture which she had assumed; nor diminish in that irritable sensibility which she expressed upon the occurrence of the attack on the Chesapeake. If she hoped by this menacing position to make our government relinquish their right to search merchant ships, we are glad they possessed firmness enough to disappoint her.
PARIS, April 21.
According to reports circulated in Spain, the following statement of sums placed by the Prince of Peace, as well in England as in Spain and other countries, has been found among his papers:—In England forty millions of piasters.—In France, in the hands of private persons, ten millions.—At Genoa, thirty millions.—At Corrunna and Ferrol, ten millions destined for England. In the hands of the inquisitor general, one million and a half.—In the hands of Madame Tudo, one half million. In the hands of Espinosa, eight hundred thousand.—In the public exchequer, six hundred thousand, making a total of 93, 400,000 piasters. To the above sums must be added a great quantity of gold and silver in bullion, a great number of diamonds and other valuables.
On the 10th and 12th inst. three vessels arrived at Bordeaux, Rochelle, and Nantes having on board 217,764lb of coffee, a great quantity of sugar, cotton, and other colonial produce.
HAMBURG, April 22. We have a report here, that the Swedish fleet from Carlscrona has made a successful expedition against the Danish island of Bornholm, in the Baltic.
ANTHONY LETTER, April 5.
The Prince of Ponte Corvo has had frequent conferences with the new king of Denmark at the defective state of the military preparations in Zealand even for the defence of the country against England and Sweden; and also at the little progress made in the measures necessary to co-operate with the French and Spaniards in the invasion of Sweden. He left Zealand because he did not think himself safe there, if an attack should be immediately made by the combined British and Swedish fleet. He also left his head quarters at Odensee, in Fulman, and retired to Colding, in Jutland. He is said to have transmitted to Bonaparte some strong remonstrances on the impracticability of conveying his army to Sweden, without the most imminent danger of its being destroyed by the British and Swedish maritime force. But all the answer he received from his master was that he expected he would send him no more despatches unless they were dated from Stockholm.
Lucien Bonaparte lives in all the seclusion of a private man at Rome, and all the offers of his brother Napoleon to make him a prince or a sovereign, has been rejected by him. He refuses to acknowledge the latter by his title of Emperor and king, and assigns for reason, that he had power enough, as first consul of France, as a Republican, and should have remained true to the cause of republican representation, for which he formerly sought by order of Napoleon. The name of Lucien Bonaparte has been erased from the list of the Imperial Family.
The fate of the Pope and his territories will now probably soon be decided. It is said, that at first he would not admit to an audience the French general Miollis, who so gallantly planted the artillery of his army against the Pope's palace on his entering Rome. The French minister it is reported, introduced Miollis without the knowledge of the Pope, who then no longer could avoid the interview. He would not speak to the general a single word on the state of affairs but referred him to the cardinal secretary. The French general, instead of kissing his Holiness's slipper, only made him a bow; when Pius sarcastically asked him "Scite Catholic, Voi?"—"Are you a Catholic?" Miollis answering in the affirmative, the Pope gave him the usual blessing.
ABO, March 11. The Italian newspapers advise from Zara that the French fleet, commanded by admiral Gantheaume, which arrived at Corfu on the 22nd of February, set sail again the following day, but left the ship Commerce de Paris to refit. The fleet consists of nineteen ships of war; it returned afterwards to Corfu, and set sail from thence again the 16th, destined we understand for the Morea.
ROME, March 30. On the 27th General Miollis published the following order of the day.—
"His majesty the Emperor and king Napoleon testifies his satisfaction with the conduct of the hitherto Papal troops. These soldiers shall not in future receive orders either from Priests or women. Soldiers should only be commanded by soldiers. They may also be assured that they shall no more return under the command of Priests. The emperor and king will give them Generals to conduct them, who shall be worthy their bravery."
SPANISH NEWS.—Mr. Peter Lander, of Salem, who came passenger in the schooner Hannah, which sailed from Gibraltar the 10th of May, and arrived at Marblehead on Sunday last, furnishes the following minute, which he received from Captain Joseph Young, of the ship Native, which had arrived at Gibraltar from Malaga:—
"The Grand Duke of Berg was to be appointed Regent of Spain, in the absence of the Royal Family at Bayonne, when a grand council was to be held on the subject of the Confederation of the Rhine. Six or seven hundred Frenchmen had been killed in the suburbs of Madrid. About 100,000 Spaniards were under arms in Valencia—the same
in Catalonia—armed at their own expence; and there was a spirit of universal revolt from the French domination. Every subject of Spain appears resolutely determined to oppose the French with their lives and fortunes."
Hostilities with Algiers.—Capt. Thurlow, who arrived at Marblehead, Sunday, 3 days from Gibraltar, informs that he saw a letter from Mr. Lear, American consul at Algiers, to Mr. Gavino, at Gibraltar, dated about 10th April, advising that the Algerine squadron of three frigates and several gun brigs were out cruising for Americans, and expressed the opinion that hostilities were declared. Their pretence, when they sailed, was that they were bound against the Tunisians; but that their real object was to capture American property sufficient to amount to 200,000 dollars for each of the Algerines destroyed by the Americans, at the time of their late hostilities. Mr. Lear recommended that American vessels, in the Mediterranean, should remain in port. Capt. Thurlow learnt by an English cruising vessel that they had seen the Algerine squadron, and thinks they were cruising between Cape Spartel and Madeira.
DOMESTIC.
From the St. Albans Advertiser. By a gentleman who arrived in town yesterday directly from Rutland, we are informed that his Excellency, Governor Smith, has ordered two companies of militia, consisting of sixty men each, and thirty cavalry to repair immediately to guard our frontiers! We momentarily expect their arrival.—This detachment we understand, is to be commanded by Major Williams. We learn, it has been intimated to his Excellency, that we are too much interested in this country, that we prevent the running of our rafs, potash, &c. but we can with propriety, say, that those who are now stationed at the line, have, like independent soldiers done all that their scanty means would possibly allow them to do. On Sunday evening, capt. Hopkins, stationed at Windmill Point, with his company of soldiers, took a bateaux, which was floating rapidly to market, containing 25 barrels of Potash, and on Monday evening Lieutenant Whittmore, and five men, boarded and took possession of a small bateaux, which was loaded with about two tons of potash, and rowed it safely into the harbour. Notwithstanding the hands on board of these vessels were armed with cudgels, no heads have been broken, no blood spilt, either in this or any other previous conflict.
One hundred and seventy barrels of potash, and one hundred barrels of pork, belonging to people in Middlebury, and a sloop with two hundred chests of tea on board, without owners, were several days before taken, and now remain in the hands of government. Notwithstanding every means have been taken to avoid prosecutions, some have already been commenced, more will undoubtedly take place shortly.
All persons having property which was intended for exportation to Canada, whether lumber in rafs, or other merchandise, are informed that no such exportations can be permitted.
The lawful instructions received by the undersigned Collectors are such as require their utmost vigilance and exertion, in effecting the objects of the law; and while they lament the injury that will be sustained by some of their fellow citizens, they indulge a hope that none will be so inconsiderate as to attempt a violation.
It is recommended, particularly to those concerned in rafs, that they lay them up in secure situations and wait patiently, for relief in a legal way; but it is our duty, at the same time to inform all concerned, that we are commanded to use force where reason and consideration are inadequate to restrain the illegal.
MEL. P. WOOLSEY, Collector of Champlain. J. PENNIMAN, Collector of Vermont.
Bennington, May 30. A letter from Eastport, dated the 19th inst. says—"There were entered at the Custom House in Passamaquoddy, from the 2d to the 7th May, from different ports of the United States, 19,000 barrels of flour, 2,700 do. pork and beef, 1,700 do. bread, 3,059 do. naval stores, 4,500 bushels corn, besides great quantities of butter, lard, &c."
It is due to the character of the citizens of Vermont to state, that the principal evasions of the embargo law are by people belonging to other states. The farmers who lived contiguous to the line, had carried into Canada the whole of their surplus provisions, previous to the 20th of March, when the law went into effect. There may be some instances, wherein the exorbitant prices have induced some to scrim themselves for gain. But the provisions which are now smuggled, are transported from Albany, Troy, and even from the Eastern states. Let the disgrace of insurrection rest on infamous speculators, and not on the patriotic Green Mountain boys.
Eastern, Southern, and Western Editors are notified, that no rafts on lake Champlain have been known to exceed thirty acres in extent, and that in each of the fortifications erected on them not more than fifteen 12 pounders were mounted at the time; that the man who was killed by the government party is alive and still running lumber, and that the man who was knocked down by the custom-house officer stood his ground through the whole fracas. The truth is, there has been no contest; the smugglers have been applauded by the St. Albans and Burlington prints, and never opposed by force. Governor Smith has just ordered out 150 of the militia of Addison and Rutland counties, and if necessary for support of the laws he proposes to call as many more.
FROM THE (Bennington) WORLD, OF JUNE 13.
We are correctly informed, that government has taken on Lake Champlain the sloop Essex, having on board a cargo for Mr. Page of Middlebury; she was laying at Champlain for further speculation, and just ready to proceed over the province line: her cargo consisted of 157 barrels of Ashes and 92 barrels of Pork—which, with the vessel, are in possession of Mr. Penniman, at Windmill Point, and the cargo landed and safely stored. That on the 29th of May, about midnight, a bateaux was discovered passing the custom-house; capt. Hopkins turned out with all hands, consisting of nine—and three discharges were made before the bateaux would turn to the office—the last ball passed between two of her men—they were from Plattsburgh, were six in all, and were delivered over to Judge Hicks and by him conducted under an armed guard to Cumberland-Head; 25 barrels of ash were taken in the bateaux, belonging to Levi Platt, who was among the prisoners. That on the night of the 30th, Lieut. Whittmore took a boat with 9 barrels on board, and as no authority could be found in Grand Isle county, in whom confidence could be safely placed, & as it was deemed improper to keep them under guard till process could be had, the collector liberated the prisoners, and detained only the property: the people and boat belonged to Canada, and were proceeding directly thither from St. Albans; they were fired at once and then boarded by force: Lieutenant Whittmore informs, he understands the people are collecting a little over the line, to rescue the property from us;—this looks serious, for such an attack would be considered as a commencement of war.
The detachment of militia from Rutland, commanded by Major Charles K. Williams, passed through Middlebury, for the frontiers the 21st inst. Capt. Smith has also ordered from Addison county a detachment on the same expedition, to march this day.
The St. Albans Advertiser affects to ridicule the government for sending troops from the south to enforce the laws on a northern frontier. It is known that the embargo laws were received on the Lake about the middle of March: the Advertiser, has ever since endeavored to bring them into contempt, and many "worthless" people have followed its advice—it has seemed to exult in the evasion of the laws—it has ridiculed the feeble arm of the officer of the customs, who has been constant in season and out of season in the faithful discharge of his duty; and it has never yet advised the people to support the laws of their country: it has advised how 25 men from St. Albans and Georgia brought to and boarded several rafs, which, in the Advertiser's patriotic language, "however faint means to liberate themselves;" but it did not advise how the guards placed upon those rafs by the collector, were dreadfully frightened into a deep sleep, by the threats of forty strange men, who appeared to them in the silent watch of the night, nor how soundly these brave defenders of the laws slept under the threatenings of death till the said rafs drifted over the line: it has advised how "the remaining rafs joined, making a surface of ten acres, and carrying 40 sail, had made an expedition and SAFE exit from the United States," without a man to oppose them: it has advised how millions of property have been accidentally drifted into Canada by violent south winds: it has advised the people, that the acts of government, which command those south winds to be calm till the eastern storm is over, are unconstitutional, and therefore not binding. And now we can advise the Advertiser to rest assured, that the south wind which blows the militia from the south will prevent future accidents from the storms of the lake. Rutland soldiers will not be frightened into a calm sleep by the threats of murder, on the advice of the Advertiser. Thirty years ago, traitors were marked—and the people now know where to apply the "revolutionary gas" of such unprincipled men. We learn that not long since a number of teams laden with ashes on their way from the east side of the mountain to the lake, were stopped in Castleton: the authority and gentlemen of respectability, after reading the embargo law to the teamsters, convinced them that any person aiding directly or indirectly in the evasion of the law was liable to a heavy fine—and that they, knowing their deeds were intended for exportation, would be deemed guilty. The men, therefore, immediately unloaded their ashes, and prepared to return peacefully; but the federalists of the neighborhood assembled, and endeavored to persuade them to proceed with their loads, in defiance of the law. No comment is necessary.
The editors of the Troy Gazette are informed that a communication in their late paper, professing to relate facts respecting the Castleton affair, states the truth in only two essential points, viz.—there were teamsters passing through Castleton, they were carrying loads for Canada market; but it is not true that they were stopped by manual or evil force—two truces to one lic berry well for poor Indian.
Late from the Mediterranean.
A vessel in a short passage from Gibraltar, has arrived at Newburyport; by her a letter, dated May 8, is received in this city, which says, "The Spaniards have at length commenced their condemnations under the Milan Decree. Several vessels at Algiers have already met their fate. It is reported, that Bonaparte has entered Madrid, that the Royal family of Spain are in close confinement, and that one hundred thousand French troops are now in Spain."
The same letter says, the Algerines are said to be out, but against whom is not known.
By the above arrival, despatches for the Secretary of State, from Consul Gavino, at Gibraltar, have been received and forwarded to Washington.
The American schooner Hope, of New York, capt. Wm. Paul Jones, which we mentioned as having been sent into Falmouth, with a Monsieur Boyer and French dispatches on board, has been condemned for carrying such contraband articles; and the condemnation has extended to the private property of the captain as a reward for his veracity. This captain W. P. Jones, we are told, is a lieutenant in the American navy, and a nephew to that celebrated seaman in the American war, whose name he bears.—London paper.
From the Baltimore American, June 21.
In a sudden squall on a sudden squall on Saturday last, the 18th inst. at 6 o'clock in the morning, gun boat No. 5, was upset off Holland's Island and sunk immediately. The pursuer's steward and two marines were drowned. The Commandant, midshipman, and remainder of the crew were taken up by capt. Schuman, of the schooner Victory, which vessel was in sight when the accident happened, and in which they arrived at this port yesterday. This must be the same squall which upset the Norfolk Packet, capt. Ferguson, as both accidents happened on the same day and at the same hour in the morning.
EXTRACT OF A REPORT.
Made by a person, appointed to enquire into the facts, relative to the late aggressions, and hostile assemblage of Indians on the Frontier of Tennessee.
On Monday the 2d inst. I proceeded on my route from Dover to the mouth of Duck river, and at Richland creek had a conversation with Famous Mortimore, the man who owned and had command of the boat which it was fired on by the Indians: Mr. Mortimore is intelligent, and I think, a man of veracity; he stated that on the third of April, ten miles above the mouth of Duck River the attack was made on the boat by the Indians from the north side of Tennessee; seven men were killed and three wounded, the third man, who it was said, died of the wounds he received, is now on the recovery and out of danger. The Indians kept up a constant fire until the boat was out of reach. They then manned a perogue and pursued about two miles, but discovering they could not overtake the boat, hauled in: Mr. Mortimore further states, that on the twenty-third of April, Levi Colbert came down the Tennessee to carry up the boat, and informed him, that 30 or 40 miles above the mouth of Duck river, he saw the party of Creeks, thirteen in number, who had made the attack on the boat, and told them he was going for the boat they had fired on; they at first denied it, but a Cherokee, one of the party, acknowledged it. They then confessed, observing they had not been satisfied, that one white man and two Indians had been killed, they had now killed one too many, but were not yet satisfied. Colbert was lately in the Creek nation, the Chief said, he wished peace, and would not go to war with the white people, unless Bonaparte did; that the party who made the attack on the boat had not lived in the nation for ten years, and the attack was unauthorised by the nation. From Richland creek I directed my course to the mouth of Duck river, and proceeded up that river to the
settlement, about twelve miles above the mouth, and was enabled to ascertain, by information received from Labon Combes, that the statements made by William Meadows, upon which the orders of the major-general of the 20th ult. are predicated, are utterly false.
We are advised by our correspondent at Port Stoddert, on the Mobile, that a temporary embargo took place at Pensacola and Mobile, about the 26th of April, and continued till the 9th of May, owing, it is said, to the Spaniards fitting out, about that time, two armed schooners, the destination of which was unknown.
The misrepresentations which are circulated by Mr. Clinton's friends to promote his wishes only serve to disgrace him; because he being understood to countenance them, subjects him to the imputation of using the most ignoble means to supplant a favorite statesman. What, for instance, can be thought of that base story originally propagated by Mr. Randolph, that Mr. Madison wished to give money to France? If one were to judge of Mr. Randolph's sentiments by his high-sounding flourishes in congress, he would be deemed above the little menaces of tale bearing, that odious poison of social intercourse. Mr. Madison, he says, told him that France wanted money, and must have it. Admit that the Secretary of state said so, when we separate the topic of discourse, the charge evaporates altogether. The purchase of the Floridas was the subject of conversation; and Mr. Madison to evince the advantage of pushing the purchase as that particular time, observed, that France wanted money; this undoubtedly had nothing criminal in it; and he added, says Mr. Randolph, that she might have it, which in other words means she could not do without it. It was meant to shew that the moment was favorable for the United States to buy; and it seems congress thought so too, for they afterwards voted two millions of dollars, which were understood to be for that object. I common parlance almost every individual uses the same phrase that Mr. Madison did. What is more usual than to hear one man say of another that he wants money, and must have it? That is he is in distress for cash, and must get it some way or other; and these expressions are generally used when the party has any thing for sale; a purchaser wishing to buy, consults with a friend, who will say to him, he wants money and must have it; you will therefore, be likely to get a bargain. At the time Mr. Madison is said to have made the remark, he was on friendly terms with Mr. Randolph, who would never have stooped so low to injure a worthy man, if the Secretary of State had not firmly resisted an attempt to force Mr. Randolph upon the government as a foreign minister.
The latter propagated the same tale on Mr. Jefferson, until the Secretary of the Treasury, on whose information Mr. Randolph pretended to speak, being called upon, contradicted it in a letter to the House of Representatives, which circumstance I dare say, is perfectly within the recollection of the reader. Indeed it is disgusting to find Mr. Clinton's friends republishing such stale calumnies, not even consulting the fancies of their readers who, if they are to be regaled in that style, would, I doubt not, rather have some new conceit or fabulous story, than those that are threadbare.
Monitor.
Captain Van Dine, of the sch't Soderstrom, arrived at N. York, 6 days from Moose Island, Passamaquoddy, sailed in co. with ship Columbia, for Baltimore. A few days previous to capt. Van Dine's leaving Moose Island, it was reported that two soldiers on guard made their escape to the British side, with 50 lbs flour each. "Business was getting dull in that line."
TROY, May 31.
Destroy the Worms on your Apple Trees.
The re-appearance of those armies of caterpillars which infested, and even destroyed so many of our fruit trees last summer, have this year induced me to make the following experiment:
Experiment.—On a young apple tree, at the bifurcation of the first limb, I made a moulding of clay mortar (about 14 days ago)—On the third day I observed an unusual conation of the worms; and that they appeared weak, emaciated, and their bright colour much diminished, appearing of a foxy brown. Some of them attempting to descend, when they came to the projection of the clay, fell to the ground. Others which I suppose had fallen, had re-ascended to the clay, but could not or would not pass it; though they appeared perfectly restored to their colour and size. On the 5th day I observed that their exertions, which before had seemingly filled the nest, had disappeared. On the 7th day the nest had also disappeared, and the worms almost gone, except some dead ones, and a few small emaciated ones, which were scarcely able to move. On the 9th, the clay being very dry, some fresh looking worms had made a lodgment on the clay, and formed a new web over it. These I displaced and gave the moulding a coat of fresh mud. They are now entirely gone.
ATTENTION!!—The RICHMOND JUNIOR VOLUNTEERS are hereby summoned to attend on their usual parade ground, near Craig's Office, on Monday next the fourth day of July, in complete uniform—arms and accoutrements in good order, with 17 rounds of blank cartridges, precisely at the hour of nine o'clock A. M.
It being the Anniversary of American Independence, it is trusted, that parents, guardians and others, under whose protection the members of this corps may be, will encourage their punctil attendance.
RICHMOND BOOKER, Captain. Richmond, July 1. (It)
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.—On Saturday the 16th day of the present month (July) will be exposed to sale to the highest bidder for ready money at the front door of Goodrich and Court-House, the tract of land, whereon Edward Bolling at present resides; lying on James River in the county of Goochland, about three miles above the Court-House, containing by estimation about eight hundred acres, be the same more or less; or so much of the said tract as shall be sufficient to discharge the balance of a bond of fourteen hundred and sixteen dollars due the 1st day of November last, executed by said Bolling to Frederick Harris and secured by a deed of trust on said Land, executed by said Bolling to the undersigned trustees, bearing date Feb. 22d day of June, 1807, and recorded in the county court of Goochland. The said bond is credited on the 10th of February, 1808, by ninety-seven dollars and ten cents, and on the 30th of April, 1808, by one hundred and fifty-five dollars and twenty-nine cents. A sufficiency of the said land will be sold in pursuance of the said bond, together with all interest due thereon, and the costs of recording said bond, and the expense of carrying the same into effect.
WILLIAM WILLIS & JOSEPH SHELTON, Trustees. July 1. (ep594)

EMBARGO—OR—WAR. NO. VI.
Having attempted to show, that the embargo was far preferable to submission; it remains for us to compare it with the other great alternative, which was submitted to our choice.—That alternative is * AR.
On this part of the subject, we propose to adopt some of the ideas of a writer in the National Intelligencer who has addressed a series of essays to the people of the United States on the advantages of the embargo. This part of the disquisition has been published, since we proposed an investigation of this subject. This disquisition presents us with several useful ideas, which we should really be compelled merely to repeat, if we were to treat this subject in our own style. Such ideas as we consider valuable, that do not occur in the following extract, we shall subsequently develop.
Having attempted to show the probability of our being engaged in war with both France and England, if we entered into a war against either, the writer proceeds:
The necessary effect would be a total destruction of our neutrality and trade. In addition to the inhibition to export our commodities would be superadded an inhibition to import those of foreign nations. There would not be a port in the world open to us, and ours would be shut, so far as we could shut them, against a hostile world. There would, however, be this unfortunate difference between us. While we were destitute of means of forcing a trade with them, they would have the means of attacking our rich deposits, and, without, would do it, and of committing consequent depredations to an unlimited amount, to supply their own pressing wants.
In this respect, war would be a complete embargo; it would be a practical application of the principle of the present embargo to a much greater extent. All the arguments therefore, brought against the latter, would apply with increased strength against the former.
Our only resort would be to privateering. Let us examine its effects. The tonnage of the shipping of the United States may be taken at one and a half millions, and may be valued in its present state at fifty millions of dollars. Supposing, that we should take as many vessels as are taken from us, the maintenance of our full establishment of tonnage would be requisite to furnish us with our present supplies. Let us, also, admit that our merchantmen would do for privateers. This is giving this species of operations the greatest possible advantage. The expense incurred from arming them, would, on a very moderate estimate equal the first cost. Their annual maintenance would cost, at least, three times that incurred in times of peace, owing to the augmented number of seamen and military stores. This would come to about fifty millions of dollars a year. The effect, consequently, of the conversion of our merchant vessels into privateers, would be an augmentation in the capital required of fifty millions, & in the annual expenditure of fifty millions more.
The whole of this expense would be incurred, not so much for the purpose of forcing the exportation of our own products; as for that of capturing the commodities of the belligerent nations. Of these last, we consume at present, but about fifty millions; supposing then, that we should take to this amount, we should have to pay for it the value of the annual maintenance of our shipping, with the interest on the capital, amounting at six per cent. to six millions, and making altogether fifty six millions of dollars.—The game would, of course, be a losing one.
This calculation is on the ground that while we took the vessels of our enemies, they would not take any of ours. But as there is every probability that they would capture a full moiety of the whole taken, this loss would be to be superadded.
Should it so happen that a foreign market would be opened for the disposition of our produce, the following would be the result, on the favorable supposition that our chances of capture on the ocean were great to those of our enemies:
1. The absorption of a new capital of fifty millions of dollars.
2. The increasing annual expenditure of fifty millions.
3. The interest chargeable, on the old and new capital, amounting to six millions.
It would follow that our trade would be exposed to an additional annual burthen of fifty six millions of dollars.
But under such accumulated burthens, it would be impossible to carry on our trade without utter ruin. It is obvious that most of our articles of export would not sell in the foreign markets at a price much advanced beyond that at which they ordinarily stand; and that very considerable rise in their prices would either altogether prevent their sale, or considerably abridge it by diminishing the consumption. While, therefore, we got but a small advance for our produce, the foreign articles imported would be chargeable with the remaining expenses as our trade. The difference between the enhanced price of our exports, and of foreign imports would constitute a balance against us, which amounted to at least one half the increased expense, would operate as an annual drain of twenty eight millions of dollars. Such a trade could not be carried on without ruin; and it is, therefore, but fair to infer, that it could not get eventually be carried on at all; and that, consequently, our merchants, after the loss of incalculable wealth, would impose upon themselves a voluntary embargo.
There remains to add to this estimate of the effects of war, the expenses incident to our defence. Whatever might be the real danger of invasion, there can be no question but that it would be menaced; without an adequate protective force our frontiers would be embroiled, and our interior disturbed by insurrections among the blacks. To prevent or repress these effects, a considerable effective force would be indispensable. It is useless to enquire whether this force ought to consist of regulars or militia; as the expense in either case would be the same; the only difference would be, that in the case of regulars it would be defrayed by the government, and in the case of militia by the citizens individually. A force, equivalent to that of 30,000 regulars, would cost ten millions; add to this, five millions for fortifications and gun-boats, and we have an increased annual expense of fifteen millions chargeable, in addition to that already stated, to the protection of our trade; for it ought not to be lost sight of, that this calculation is one altogether of pecuniary profit and loss. Such are the outlines of the pecuniary effects of war.
Let us now enquire into the effects of the embargo.
The evils resulting from it may be divided into,
1. Those felt by the merchant; and,
2. Those felt by the farmer and planter.
In the case of the merchant, there is in general a mere suspension of business. So far as he owns articles of a perishable nature there is a positive loss, and this is the case with his shipping; though it remains to be seen, whether at the raising of the embargo the enhanced prices paid for shipping and for the articles exported, will not amply remunerate his present losses.
Estimating the commercial capital of the United States at 100 millions, and the mercantile profits at ten per cent. his loss from not continuing his trade, cannot exceed ten millions. If to this be added five millions on account of the perishable property of the shipping, and an equal loss for the injury on other perishable articles, we have an aggregate of twenty millions.
As an offset to this, it is but fair to put down the increased price of foreign goods, which, estimated at ten per cent. on fifty millions, amounts to 5,000,000
The increased price paid in foreign markets for his goods, stored previously to the embargo, which may be confidently computed at 5,000,000
And the increased cheapness of living during the continuance of the embargo, which may be estimated at 2,000,000
Making altogether - - - 12,000,000
This leaves a deficit of 8,000,000 which will in a great measure be met by the new employment given by him to that portion of his capital disengaged from trade.
It follows that the injuries sustained by the merchant will be inconsiderable. Those, indeed, acquainted with the principles of political economy know how difficult it is materially to injure this class of men, who drawing all their profits from the consumption of the other classes of society, likewise saddle them, with very few exceptions, with their losses.
On the farmer and planter the injury will principally fall. They will be either kept out of the value of their surplus produce for a considerable time, or be obliged to sell it at a reduced price. Happily however, they are generally in such circumstances, that unless the embargo be of unlooked for duration, they will have the means of retaining their produce for sale until a more propitious season shall arrive. In the mean time it is difficult, if not impossible to estimate with any precision the amount of pecuniary loss; but it will be manifest to any man, who reflects on the subject, that it will fall far short of fifty or sixty millions, which we have seen would be the increased annual expense of war. This is evident from the whole amount of our domestic exports falling considerably short of fifty millions, and from the loss actually sustained being limited to the value of the articles which shall perish before the embargo is raised, and to the eventual diminution of the foreign demand for the residue.
The actual loss cannot surpass the amount of these two items, which itself will in all probability form but an inconsiderable part of the whole; as the tobacco, the cotton, the rice, usually exported, may be kept uninjured for several years, and as these articles constitute the larger portion of our exports. The second view, worthy of notice, is that the embargo, though the cause of much individual distress will produce little national loss of wealth, while war would most extensively produce both.
The degree in which war would produce a loss of property almost defies calculation. Our whole commerce might be swept into the possession of our enemy at a blow; thereby enriching her at our own expense by taking its full value from the national stock.
The embargo has the advantage of securing the whole mass of national property; of concentrating our means; and of preparing us for the day of danger. The embargo will necessarily produce an economical expenditure of the public monies; war would not fail to produce a lavish disbursement of them. All that can be required under the former is a moderate preparation for defence; while under the latter, a more extensive preparation for defence would be indispensable, and the infinitely more expensive means of offensive preparations might be called for. At present, under the embargo, an extraordinary expenditure of three or four millions has been thought sufficient; once engaged in war, the extraordinary expenses would not fall short of twenty millions. If these were drawn from loans they would not fail to clog our future growth; and if from present taxes to operate most oppressively.
The embargo withdraws us altogether from a political association with foreign nations; war would bind together our common destinies. Is there any thing in the condition of the foreign world generally, or in that of any one state in particular that ought to tempt us at any price whatever, to embark our interests with theirs? If there be not, if this is the decided conviction of our countrymen; they ought to consider war as among the greatest curses that could befall us, and not to murmur at any lesser evil that saves them from it.
The embargo protects not only our trade, but likewise our political institutions from injury or ruin, by withdrawing us from all collisions with foreign powers.—War would expose our political institutions to hazard, not only by the direct effect of those collisions; but still more so by the interior system which would require adoption. Large armies, heavy taxes, vast and almost unlimited powers, a patronage extended and ramified thro' the whole community would expose our system to one of the most severe trials to which it could be subjected.
6. Finally, the embargo may be temporary; war would, in all probability, be of a long duration.
* A profit nearly equal to this, has been made on the single article of Tobacco.
The Norfolk Ledger has attempted to controvert the extract of the interesting letter which appeared in this paper on the 21st ult.—But in what way?
1. It is true, that the Orders in Council have principally "caused the British manufactures to be excluded from the continent." For though it be true, that the decrees of France had previously excluded them by decree, yet it is equally certain that a large amount of these manufactures had been introduced under cover of the American flag. Mr. Baring completely establishes this fact. Even the Ledger itself completely admits it, when in the conclusion of its remarks it speaks of the introduction of British goods "by means of the American, Bremen, & Papenburgh flags." The Bremen & Papenburgh are not, however, at
this time neutral flags: and of course the Orders in Council & the Embargo have accomplished that exclusion from the continent which the Decrees of France had ineffectually attempted. This consequence distinctly appears in the evidence of Mr. White before the H. of Commons.—See the last page.
2. It is true, that our embargo would be most severely felt in the W. Indies. If this respect it would perhaps be effectual, if contrary to all rational expectation, it had not been evaded by the cupidity of dishonest merchants.—The evidence before the H. of Commons in 1776, proves, that none of the isles except perhaps Jamaica, could subsist on their own resources and ground provisions. But will the British government calmly view the breaking up of the sugar plantations, even in Jamaica, by giving its labour a new direction?—The case of the American war is not in point; because then there were neutral entrepots in the W. Indies, whether our provisions were carried even under our own flags, and whence the British Isles could supply themselves.
3. It is true, that one of the motives with the British government for the Orders in Council, was to favor W. India planters in the sale of their produce on the continent of Europe." Had the Ledger perused the first ten pages of Mr. Baring's pamphlet, he could no longer have doubted this fact.—The Ledger makes the same mistake on this point, that he has done with regard to the British manufactures transported to the continent. The exportation of large quantities of coffee and sugar to the continent, is sufficiently established by a communication in this paper of the 24th ult. detailing the information of a gentleman just returned from the north of Germany.
The statement given of the British exports to this country, are certainly inaccurate. They are much nearer to ten than six millions sterling. As to the Ledger's remarks on "the censure bestowed on those who have condemned the embargo policy," they are founded on misapprehension. The writer does not deny to his federal friends the right of examining "every measure of government," "with freedom;" he only censures their manner of exercising this right. It is not for thinking; but for thinking so miserably, as they have done on the present occasion, that he condemns them.
The last accounts from England, prove nothing.—The statements of the disposition of France towards us published since the arrival of the Osage in England, have nothing in them of the stamp of authenticity. Are they subscribed by Mr. Armstrong or Mr. Pinkney by Mr. Nourse or Mr. Lewis? No. They are mere rumours of the day caught up and embellished by the London Editors.
Not to mention, that these rumours are extremely vague in themselves, the different papers giving very different accounts of the same transactions, their truth is materially shaken by two important circumstances:
1. These reports have passed through the filtering stone of the British press; & we need no experience to convince us how little reliance should be placed in British statements of French and American affairs.—
2. These reports bear the marks of suspicion upon their very face. They are based upon an assumed fiction. It is not true that Bonaparte had declared to our government, that he would have no neutrals. At least we have strong reason to believe that no such declaration had reached the ears of our government. This fable, like most of the others of federal coinage, has long since descended to the tomb of the Capucins.—It is not probable therefore, that "Mr. Lewis was sent with an answer to that declaration." It is probable that his "dispatches contained some demand of the abandonment of the French Decrees. What answer has been given, is yet to know.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
SIR, By giving the following a place in your Paper, you will oblige me, and do a favor to the country; as by this, some information may be conveyed to it, which is so much desired, and so little understood. I am a native of Virginia, and left my residence, in that state, on the 1st day of May last, with a determination to gratify a desire which has prevailed for several years, to wit: the subject of spinning Cotton; I have travelled through Maryland, Pennsylvania, New-Jersey and New-York, and now have reached this place, after traversing those states, in different situations and places; & have used every diligence & all other reasonable means to see all the improvements—I saw many before I reached this place, and had I have been satisfied with seeing what would have satisfied many reasonable men, I should perhaps never have seen this most useful and greatest art of man, in its perfection. There is a gentleman in this place, Mr. Samuel Ogden, a native of Great-Britain, who has been at this place about two years; perhaps the only person on this continent, who is acquainted with the whole process in that art—He has a Factory and a number of hands employed in making the machinery, which is unequalled by anything of the kind that has yet been put into operation on the continent. He carries on the manufacture of the Cotton Spinning Machinery to a vast extent. He is engaged in making out plans for the building and machinery for different companies in the Union. He is capable and communicative; of a benevolent and expanded mind, free in the disposal of any knowledge of this kind.
All persons wanting information, or work executed in his line, would find it much to their interest to have some correspondence with him. I have given this information with a desire that this art, which will enrich the Union, may be quick and widely diffused.
Your most obedient, RICHARD HARRIS. Providence, Rhode-Island, June 15th, 1808.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
SIR, In a late Enquirer I have seen an account of a meeting of some few of the inhabitants of this County, for the purpose of promoting internal manufactures. That account is inaccurate; and since the transaction is deemed worthy of public notice, it cannot be amiss to publish a correct account of it. It is certainly of little importance with whom the project originated; yet even in this, your "Scottsburg" correspondent has deviated from the truth; for General Carrington so far from proposing the project, openly declared that he was utterly unacquainted with the subject, and for that reason wished the meeting postponed. Colonel Green, in the meeting did not say a single word until the subscription paper was handed about.
But, sir, the conduct of William E. Banks and William Leigh is grossly, and I dare say, with no honorable motive wilfully misrepresented. What your "Scottsburg" correspondent, may consider a "decided opposition" it is impossible for me to say; but nothing more was done by William E. Banks and William Leigh, than to ask for information, which General Scott, who was the father of the project could not give. That the world may know what this decided op-
position was, the questions asked by those gentlemen, and the answers to them by general Scott are now given to the public. It was asked, what would be the expense of the machinery? Answer. He could not tell. Question. Could the machinery be worked by common hands, or were mechanics necessary? A. He did not certainly know, but supposed it would require some little mechanical skill in the hands. Q. Was the establishment to be permanent, or limited to the existence of the Embargo? A. To be permanent. It was then suggested by Wm. Leigh (it is believed) that this country was too young to engage in manufactures, and it was asked if that difficulty had been considered; General Scott very politely replied that the objection would do very well for the theorists, but would have no weight with the planters around him.
It was also requested by Wm. E. Banks and Wm. Leigh, that even if the embargo should be perpetual, it would be better for us to raise provisions and raw materials and exchange them for the manufactures of the northern States. It is not possible to conceive what connection exists between the subjects of internal manufactures and the ensuing election of President. The discovery of this connection was certainly reserved for a genius of the highest order, and it is believed that your correspondent will have no competitor for the patent Right.
There is no difficulty in ascertaining the motives of your correspondent in making an incorrect statement of facts. One motive appears to have been a wish to injure the characters of individuals in the public estimation, because he has mentioned their names without provocation or necessity; another appears to be a wish to counteract the idea, that the friends of Mr. Monroe's election are hostile to internal manufactures. It is, however, a little unfortunate for the success of this attempt, that Mr. Monroe is himself friendly to an experiment of the practicability of introducing them, and was the Chairman of the Richmond Meeting, assembled for the express purpose of devising the most eligible plan.
I shall leave the motives of your correspondent to the impartial judgment of the world and his own conscience. The honors which he has acquired as an author will provoke neither envy nor resentment. I shall leave him in the undisturbed enjoyment of the fruits of his literary labours; but could advise him to remember that there are very few men of whom some disagreeable things may not be said, and that it behoves him, who is disposed to make insinuations against the prejudice of others, to be well assured that his own character is invulnerable; that he ought to have the fullest conviction of the correctness & propriety of his own conduct, and that he sustains a character for integrity, which may bid defiance to the utmost malice of his enemies.
A Member of the Meeting at Halifax C. H. Halifax, June 25th, 1808.
COMMUNICATION.
AMIDST the singular circumstances of these times, it is not impossible that a proposition will be made to the government of the United States, on which it will be important for us to form a correct opinion.—Suppose that France should propose to form a treaty of alliance offensive and defensive, until the period of a maritime peace to be founded on the Liberte de mer , the freedom of the seas; suppose that she should submit to us a plan, similar to the Unarmed Neutrality ; what course should our government pursue? This question is a mere hypothetical one; but if it should be suggested, what reply ought we to make? Certainly, there can exist no doubt on this subject. As for my own part, I am for the good old republican maxim—"no entangling alliances" with any of the powers of Europe. I am almost as much afraid (to make use of one of W. C. Nicholas' strong expressions) of their "insidious caresses," as of their avowed hostility. I am for standing on our own bottom. And confident am I, that if the spirit of '76 still animates the bosoms of our countrymen, we may defy the arts or the arms of the proudest powers of Europe.
At a meeting held at the Capitol, on the 28th day of June, for the purpose of making arrangements, to celebrate the FOURTH of JULY.
DR. WM. FOUSHEE, in the Chair, and WM. F. BRAXTON, Secretary. Upon the motion of Thomas Ritchie, Esq. the following resolutions were presented and adopted:
1. Resolved, That a committee of arrangement be appointed consisting of the following gentlemen, whose duty it shall be to make the necessary arrangements for a public dinner on the 4th of July.
DAVID BULLOCK, WILLIAM MUNFORD, DR. FOUSHEE, MAJOR AMBLER, CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS, SAMUEL GREENHOW, THOMAS UNDERWOOD, BENJAMIN TATE, ROBERT MITCHELL.
2. Resolved, That no liquor, but the produce of our country be drunk at this Festival.
3. Resolved, That a committee to prepare toasts be appointed, consisting of the following gentlemen: WILLIAM WIRT, W. W. HENNING, DR. JOHN H. FOUSHEE.
On motion of Mr. Cabell, Mr. Ritchie was added to the list.
4. Resolved, That Wm. Munford, Esq. be appointed to read the declaration of American Independence in the Hall of the House of Delegates at 2 o'clock.
NORFOLK, June 27. A letter is received in town from Amsterdam, dated the 27th of April, which states that the mail of that day, had brought information from Spain, where the emperor of France then was, stating that the seizure of all American property was ordered in France; the same is expected in Spain and Holland. We place great confidence in this information, because it is from a person of undoubted veracity.....Ledger.
The United States Frigate Chesapeake has returned to her mooring at Cray Island. A rendezvous for seamen was opened for this frigate, but we understand that very few have been enlisted. The truth is there are but very few in the place.....15.
A mercantile house in this place has received a letter from Antigua, dated the first inst. which states that a ship had that day arrived from St. Michael's (one of the Azores) with Eight Thousand Bushels of Indian Corn; the price of that article was three dollars per bushel, Flour 22 dollars per barrel.....16.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Captain Thomas Roane of the Forge, King & Queen county, are desired to make them known to me by the first of October next. Those indebted are hereby informed that the situation of the estate will not admit of indulgence. LAURENCE MUSE, Adm. July 1. [e. 6v1]
A LIST OF LETTERS
REMAINING IN THE RICHMOND POST-OFFICE, THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN ADVERTISED, 1ST JULY, 1808.
A—Joseph Armistead, Christopher Anthony, Henry Archer, Richard Adams, John Anders, Henry Anderson.
B—Andrew Boughman, Thomas Burnham, Charles Bennett, Charles F. Bates, Mrs. Charlotte Bowles, Mrs. Elizabeth Banks, Redmond P. Baur, Mr. Bowdon, Mrs. Betsy Barbour, Mrs. Susan Boehm, Mrs. Mary Blair, John Boale, George Beatty, Samuel Ball, Reson Biddle, William F. Braxton, John Blair, Mrs. Mary Byrd, Mrs. Burtwright, William F. Behun, Charles Bright, Mrs. Sarah Bowles, John Baird, George Blakey, Isaac Bowles, Mrs. Elizabeth Braxton, Miss S. L. Banks, Francis P. Brooke.
C—Edward Compion, John Clarke, Mrs. Jane Clarke, Thomas Carr, Samuel Cardozo, Peter Crotchfield, Charles Crenshaw, Williams Carten, Mrs. Adam Cook, Mrs. Mary Craig, John H. Cunliff, James M. Coulling, Miss Sarah Clarke, George W. Crump, John R. Callon, Minton Collins, Abraham Cowley, Messrs. J. & P. Crump, Francis Corbin, Robert Craig, Ro. S. Chee, Mrs. E. Cloman, John Carter, Philip P. Courtney, Mr. Christie.
D—George W. Dixon, Powel C. Dytscow, Robert Donaldson, Robert Dobens, Francis Dudley, William H. Dudley, Harwood Dudley, Stephen Dillard, James Dabney, Monsieur Daure, Henry Deringer, Col. Bigges, Mr. Douglas, Jas. F. Dennis, Miss S. A. Dandridge.
E—John Evans, Mrs. Mary Ellis, Jacob G. Ege, Mr. Early, Nathaniel Ewing, William P. Edrington, Doctor James Ewell, Chandler Eves, Samuel Everetts, Josiah Ellis.
F—Richard H. Frayser, Alexander Fulcher, Miss Sarah A. Foster, Thomas French, Benjamin B. Ford, John Friend.
G—Mrs. Elizabeth Grotter, Everett Gay, Mrs. Susannah Gray, Watson Gentry, Edward Gwatkin, Charles Gwatkin, C. L. D. Gunderman, John Guy, James Gray, Mrs. Mary Goodall, William Gray, Meason Green, Mrs. Ann Goodwin, William P. Graves, Daniel Guerrant, Col. Robert Goode, Samuel Gilbert, Miss Caroline Graves, James Gwatkin.
H—Richard D. Hines, Richardson Henley, James Harris, David Hall, John Hall, William Hart, Jacob Harrison, Harry Heath, Martin Henry Heth, Robert Hayes, John Hayes, John Hutchings, Miss E. Hoy, Thomas Hopkins, Wm. Hewlett, Jane Hair, Wm. Houston, Hugh Holmes, Mr. Haeffer.
I—Levin S. Joynes, Jekyll Jones, Edwd. Johnson, Mr. Jones, Churchill Jones, Daniel Jackson, Joseph Jackson, Walter J. Jones, Cornelius Johnston.
K—Wm. Kinmon, Kerr and Winfree, George Krepp.
L—John C. Littlepage, Miss C. Lewis, John Love, James C. Littlepage, J. Luque, Edmund J. Lee, Dr. P. W. Little, Capt. Francis Lewis, Mrs. Catherine Lawwell, Alexander Leckie, Aubin Laforest, Wilshire M. Lewis, John Lynch, Robert Lilly.
M—James Magor, Wm. Mann, James Monroe, John Mathews, Saml. McCraw, John Mosby, Ch. McPherson, Miss Eliza Morgan, Mrs. Ann Mott, Gen. John Minor, Montgomery & Henry, Miss E. Mosely, John G. Mosby, Wm. Means, Daniel Murphy, James McCormack, Thomas Marshall, Thomas Mathias, Isom McCloud, Col. Mercer, Judah Myers, John McVittie, George Mayo, Wm. Minor, Charles F. Mercer, Daniel Morgan, Mrs. E. Morris, Job Mills, James Markes, Samuel Morgan.
N—Miss C. Neilson, John New, Mosby Norton, Wm. Nelson, Miss M. Nichols, Shuba Norton, David Nailor, Richard Nailor.
P—Messrs. Pollock and Wyth, Miss Jane Prichard, William Parker, Ester Parker, Samuel Vaine, David Poe, Alexander Plainville, John Ponten, Judge Prentiss, William Price, Charles C. Verry, Joel Price, Merselus Pryer, James Park, Woodson Pleasants, Richard Prichard, Francis Preston, Joseph Price, John Potts.
R—William Ronald, Mrs. Sarah Reed, Robert Richardson, Benj. F. Read, Col. Wm. Robinson, George Righter, William Rawleigh, Abner Robinson, S. Rowntree, John Rowland, Mrs. Lucy Rose, Miss Virginia Ratcliff, Thos. Ross, sen.
S—William Smith, Thomas Strode, Mr. Sudson, William Smith, Susannah Strode, John Southall, Mrs. Judah Speed, Daniel Shilling & co. M. Shoemaker, Charles T. Southall, Wm. Shelbourn, Thomas Starke, Miles Selden, E. Semon Sabblon, Nathaniel Selden, Wm. Saunders, Samuel Saxon, Samuel Southwick, Thomas Smapke, Mrs. C. Swope, James Smith, Wm. Sanders, Enoch Sullivan, H. R. Spencer, Allen Sowden.
T—Mrs. Betsy Toney, Wm. H. Taylor, Mary Taylor, Thos. G. Tinsley, Creed Taylor, Miles Turpin, George K. Taylor, G. Thompson, B. G. Timberlake, Monsieur Trouin, Grace Tolly, Armistead Trustlow, Richard N. The Watt, Peter Tinsley.
U—Miss Susan F. Voss, Nath. Viroh.
W—Benj. Wood, Kilbe Wren, Wm. West, Peter Wilkinson, John Woodson, Charles Wills, Edward Walford, Josiah Williams, George Winston, Miss C. Wheaton, Eliza Wilson, Miss Mary Winston, Milly Williams, Nathaniel White, H. L. Wight, James Whitlock, John Walker, Capt. James Wilkinson, Mrs. E. Wormley, Thos. Wills, J. Warner, Nathaniel Webb, Jas. Walsh, Miss M. Williamson, Miss E. Williamson, John Winston, M. S. Warren, Miss R. Woodley, Samuel J. Winston, Miss P. Walthall, Jno. Walker, Jacob Walker, Charles Wood.
Y—Richard Young, Pleasant Younghusband.
Z—John Zimmerman, Charles Zehmin.
WILLIAM FOUSHEE, F. M.
FOURTH of JULY—A Subscription Paper for a REPAS at the Hay-Market Garden, will be kept open at the Union Tavern until Sunday Evening. The furnisher, (Mr. Mosely,) will provide MEATS & VEGETABLES of the best—and DOMESTIC LIQUORS of all kinds. The price to Subscribers will be $1:75 cents: None but Subscribers will be allowed to enter the Garden, previous to the hour of dining—which is fixed at half past three precisely. JULY 1, 1808. (It)
FOR SALE OR RENT—A Valuable MERCHANT MILL in the county of Hanover, on the South Anna river, about ten miles from the court-house and twenty from Richmond; the stream at all times affords an abundance of water, the mill house is 50 by 30 feet, two stories high, underpinned with stone, which are fixed three pair of stones; there is also a miller's house underpinned with brick, with a brick chimney, and a table calculated to hold four horses.
Besides the two acres of Land attached to the Mill, there is a privilege to build on other land contiguous thereto and the right of cutting fire wood; it is also highly probable that a purchaser could be accommodated with about 170 acres, lying on the river and adjoining the mill tract. If sold, an extensive credit will be given should the purchaser require it, or property in Richmond received in payment for the whole or any part—For terms, either to purchase or rent, (application in my absence to the Springs) may be made to Mr. Thomas Richardson, near the Rocky Mills. ROBERT POLLARD. Richmond, July 1. [law4w]
TO RENT—The upper APARTMENTS in the House occupied by Messrs. Kirby, Drake & Taylor, possessing convenient accommodations for a family. Possession will be given immediately—apply to Kirby, Drake & Taylor, etc. THOMAS NORVELL. June 13. [e. 6v1]

Extracts from evidence on the British Orders, delivered before the British Parliament—(Continued.)
LONDON, MARCH 22.
Mr. Thomas Martin.
What were the premiums on American risks in summer from Liverpool to America, in the summer of 1806? Two guineas per cent. and two and a half per cent. in the summer of 1806.
In the winter? In the winter three guineas per cent. and sometimes four.
And in 1807 what were the same premiums?—They were much the same as in 1806, the summer were two and a half, and the winter three and sometimes four guineas.
When did the news of the Berlin decree of the 21st November, 1806, reach Liverpool?—On or before the 11th December, 1806.
Do you remember to have effected an insurance to America on the 13th of that month?—Yes, my house effected an insurance on an American risk on the 13th of that month, that was from America to Liverpool.
At what premium did you effect that insurance? At three guineas per cent.
So that there was an immediate or temporary rise after the knowledge of the Berlin decree came to Liverpool? There was.
How long did this rise continue? In January following an insurance was effected on a vessel to America at five guineas per cent. but this was to a small amount, and on the 13th of February following an insurance was effected on the same vessel at three guineas per cent.
Being the same premium as in the former year before the Berlin decree? Yes, it was.
What is the general difference in almost all years between premiums on American voyages in summer risks? The difference is one or one and a half per cent.
The falling off of the manufactures from Liverpool, at the spring shipments, is in your opinion owing to the orders in council only? It is in my opinion principally owing to the orders in council.
Will you state whether the shipments in the fall of 1807, had not fallen off considerably, as compared with the fall shipments in 1806? Certainly not; and I doubt whether they were not very nearly, if not quite as much as those of 1806; but if they had fallen off, it was by no means considerably.
When you state those reasons which would prevent your shipping goods to America, do you not take into your consideration at all, that a merchant exporting goods from this country would look for his return for those goods from America; and do not you think that the embargo in America might operate to prevent his shipping them there? If I am desired to give an opinion on that subject, it is precisely this: we know as matter of fact that the embargo was laid in December; the question for a merchant in this country, shipping goods to America, is, how long it is probable that embargo will continue; if it is likely to continue for a great length of time, he will be the less induced to send goods, and if for a short time, he will be induced to send out goods; the orders in council having taken place, I conceive that an effectual bar, is put to sending goods, for he will infer (at least that is the case with myself) that the embargo will be prolonged by the orders in council.
You conceive that, though you know the embargo was laid on without any knowledge of the orders in council? I conceive it was known in America for nine or ten days before the laying on of the embargo, that provisions equivalent to the orders in council were intended and determined upon by the British government nine or ten days.
What is your source of knowledge upon that subject? On the 12th of November I wrote a circular letter to my American correspondents, which letter was received out on the 12th or 13th of December; but I believe the 12th of December, in which I stated, "It is strongly reported, that it is the intention of our government to extend the system of blockade to France and the respective states on the continent under her influence, prohibiting from entrance into any of their ports all vessels whatever, except such as have last cleared from Great Britain or her dependencies." I have received advice, that one of the vessels by which this circular letter went, arrived on the 12th, or not later than the 13th of December.
Shakespeare Philips called in again. Had you any occasion to insure goods to America, in the way of your business, in January 1807? I had.
Was that early in January? I cannot exactly state; I should rather think about the middle of January.
What premium did you pay for that insurance? Five guineas per cent.
Did you consider that an increased premium? Certainly.
Increased how much? The usual winter premium from England to the United States is three guineas per cent.; two to three.
And the summer premium? The summer premium two guineas.
How long did this increase of premium from three guineas to five guineas per cent. last? A very short time.
A fortnight? I should rather think not a week.
So that before the end of the month of January 1807, the premium had fallen back to its usual rate? Yes, we effected insurances at three guineas, in, I should think, less than a fortnight after we had effected that at five guineas.
In the same year did you effect any insurance in August? Yes.
At what premium? Two guineas per cent.
What were the premiums in July and August, 1806? I conceive two guineas; but I cannot precisely answer that question, it is so long since.
You do not conceive that in July and August, 1807, you paid higher than the ordinary premium? Certainly not. I never knew it lower to the U. S.
Since July and August 1807, have you had occasion to effect any insurances in the year 1807? Yes, I effected some small insurances in the year 1807 from the U. S. to England and they were, I believe at two per cent.
Mr. William Bell called in again. Had you any occasion to know of or to effect an insurance here of any vessel from Virginia to any port in Sept. 1805? I rather think I had.
At what premium did you effect the insurance? At four guineas per cent. to any port in Europe, with liberty to call for orders.
In July, 1806, had you occasion to effect an insurance from Virginia to any market? I had.
At what premium? At five guineas per cent. to return two per cent. if she dischar-
ged in Great-Britain, and one per cent. if at any port out of the Baltic, which came to the same thing.
In January, 1807, and after the Berlin decree, had you occasion to effect any insurance from Virginia to Nantes or Bordeaux? On the 21st of January, 1807.
At what premium? At four guineas per cent. to Bordeaux or Nantes, with liberty to call at the Isle of Rhe for orders.
On the first of January, or early in January, 1808, from Virginia to Nantes, what was the premium? I paid fifteen guineas; but in about six days from that time, it would have cost, I believe, about thirty; I think that was what they told me; and that same ship was warned into Falmouth, and is now discharging her cargo in the port of London.
What do you conceive to be the premium at this time from America to France, if a British clause were added, and cargo American? I do not imagine it could be done at any price, not at ninety per cent. provided you are determined to send the ship on.
Have you lately had any letters from your correspondents in Holland, containing information respecting the execution of the French decree in that country? On the 17th of Sept. I had a letter, dated the 7th of Sept. from our friends in Rotterdam, saying, "We are able to assure you, the late decree does not affect Americans that may have called in England, provided they have not loaded in England, and that they declare the last port they came from."
Have you had any letter subsequent to that from Holland? On the 22d of September received on the 17th of October, I had one from the same house, "we repeat, ships touching in England, are admitted here as before."
Have you any letter dated late in October? I have one dated Rotterdam 29th of October, and saying, "prices mean time seem at their level without some new difficulty or broils," if nothing new had occurred.
Suppose that the embargo in America were removed altogether, both as far as it respects the continent & as it affects this country, & suppose that in this case the orders in council were continued; would you resume your shipments? No, I should not.
For what reason would you not resume your shipments, since you could receive shipments from America here in such cases? I conceive I answered that question before; I have already stated that I do not conceive that this country consumes more than one third of American produce; I mean that the American produce consumed in this country does not amount in value to more than one third of exports from this country to America; therefore I should certainly not execute that proportion, was that to be case.
Do you conceive that you should ship the whole of that one-third, notwithstanding the continuance of the orders in council, and the prohibition of the exportation of manufactures in cotton to the continent? If it is to be supposed that America would submit to the orders in council, I should; if the thing was to remain as it does, in uncertainty, conceivably that it would lead to war, I certainly should stop nothing; supposing America to submit, I certainly should.
You did insurances in September, 1807, from America to the continent of Europe? I did.
Did you do no insurances in October or the month of November? I did but one, I think, in October, a further insurance on the Phoenix to Bordeaux; but from the general tenor of those letters I have received from Holland, I have no doubt, I could have done them on the same terms as in August.
Do you not know that in point of fact, a much higher premium was given in October 1807? No, I do not know it.
Does it come within your knowledge, whether any American ships which had commenced their voyage prior to the orders in council, and had been warned to discontinue their voyage to a restricted port, had been warned to proceed to a port not within those restrictions? I have heard of ships which had been warned into British ports having proceeded, and 25 or 30 per cent. paid on them.
Do you know whether vessels which have been warned not to proceed to ports included, have proceeded to a port not included, Sweden for instance? They have generally come to Great Britain, I believe; I understand that the notice which has been given is this, "You may go home or go to G. Britain;" that they have an option of returning or coming to Great Britain; I never heard of Sweden.
That they had no other option? So I understood.
Mr. Alexander White. Did it happen to you in the month of January, 1807, to charter two American ships for Amsterdam? In January one, and in March another.
Two American ships? With what were those ships laden? Chiefly cotton produced by America and the W. Indies.
Did you hear of the success of those voyages? Yes.
Did the ships arrive safe in Amsterdam? Yes.
Did they discharge and sell their cargoes? I know nothing of their sale, but I know of their discharge, and that the ships were paid for their labor.
Did you receive your commission as ship & insurance broker? Yes.
Do you recollect the premiums at which you insured? Yes, it was six guineas per cent. against all risks, I have the policy in my pocket.
Did you effect any other insurance, during the same year on a similar voyage, on Americans sailing from this country to Amsterdam? Yes.
At what premium and times? None later than March, and at the same premium.
Six guineas per cent.? Yes.
Where did those ships, which cleared out from this country with the intention of sailing to Amsterdam, clear to nominally—what papers had they? That is a question I beg leave to decline answering.
At what rate could you effect a similar insurance at present, on the same voyage? In the month of February last, I had occasion for two ships to go on similar voyages, and I tried to get an insurance done on their cargoes and ships for 30 guineas or 35 guineas, and I could not.
Do you mean that you attempted last February to effect insurances on ships from this country to the continent with similar papers and could not do it? Yes.
How much did you offer from this country? Thirty-five guineas.
And no one would underwrite? Some few, but not sufficient to make up a cargo.
Do you know of any means of getting English cargoes into the continent, previous to the orders in council, which have been cut off by the issuing of the orders in council? There
have been means such as cannot be explained.
Can you, without specifying what those means were, which are now cut off by the orders in council, state the reason why they have been cut off? I must submit that question to this honorable house to determine.
Do the means to which you have alluded no longer exist? I conceive not.
What is the reason, in your opinion, why these means no longer exist of sending British goods from this country to the continent? The reason, in my opinion, is, because there is no longer any connection between the U. S. and the continent direct.
Prior to last November, do you know that American ships used to clear out regularly from this country to the continent, and there land their cargoes? Yes.
Do you know more particularly that in the months of September and October, several American vessels went on those voyages & landed their cargoes? I was not immediately connected with any myself, therefore I cannot pretend to speak to that point.
Do you know that since the month of November last, any American vessels have gone upon this voyage, with cargoes from this country for the continent? Not that I am particularly acquainted with.
Do you know of any American vessels, since Nov. last, having touched at this country, discharged their cargoes, and gone in ballast to the continent? Yes.
But none with cargoes? None that I am particularly acquainted with.
Do you know that considerable quantities of West-India produce have been taken in American vessels to the continent since the Berlin decree in the month of November 1806? Yes.
Do you know of any such cargoes having been taken to the continent since the month of Nov. 1807? No.
Abraham Mann. Did the French Decrees up to November last, affect your shipments to America? They did not.
Was the reason of this, that you could still receive remittances from the continent? Before the appearance of the orders in council, we considered that the course of our remittances was very little interrupted, therefore we had no objection to continue the general line of business, making shipments to America.
Have you made any spring shipments this year? We have made none.
On what account have you made none? On account of the orders in council; conceiving that they may issue in a war between this country and the United States; we have on that account abstained from making any shipments.
Is there any other way in which the orders in council prevent your shipments, in case they should not lead to a rupture? The consignment of American produce being made to the continent, from which we receive remittances.
The whole of your extensive trade is stopped up by the orders in council? Totally, so far as respects our disposition to proceed.
I am also to understand you, that in so far as respects what has actually taken place; the shipments, for the spring season, being half your annual shipments, have been totally stopped by the orders in council? Totally so; for we have not made any spring shipments nor do we intend it.
This is a matter of fact? Yes.
Previous to the 11th of November, was it pretty well known among mercantile men in the city that such a measure was intended? It was a general subject of conversation among persons concerned in the American trade.
Had they a definite knowledge of the nature of the orders in council? They appeared to be pretty much of the nature that was expected.
Do you recollect a current expression that you heard on Change? Yes, I do recollect an expression I heard on Change for some days, that government had a rod in pickle for the Americans; which was considered as a harsh measure on their commerce.
Did you communicate to your correspondents in America, this rumour you heard about the orders in council? Generally, as postscripts to commercial letters.
Do you recollect the dates of those letters? Early in Nov. probably towards the middle of Nov. certainly before the orders in council appeared.
You say you suspended your shipments to America in consequence of the orders in council; had you no other reason for suspending those shipments but the orders in council? None whatever.
Had you heard of the embargo in America? We heard that as a matter of course.
Did not that operate with you to suspend your shipments? I viewed it as a precautionary measure of the Americans to keep their property from the effects of the English orders in council, believing that the Americans had an intimation that such orders were in contemplation on behalf of the British government.
Was the non-importation law in America no inducement to you to suspend your operations? Certainly in some small degree we considered it as a measure which carried with it some hostility, and therefore would curtail our shipments in some degree, but that would not altogether have induced us to relinquish our shipments, had not the retaliating measures of the British government taken effect.
Do you conclude that the embargo was in some measure owing to the orders in council? I have no doubt of it.
Is it your opinion, that the embargo in America was not a measure directed against France, or any measure taken by France, but solely against this country? I conceive, against them both; that the Americans seeing their property exposed by the measures, which were taking place by the two great belligerents of Europe, month after month, and that the risks were becoming so imminent, took precautions to protect their property, as much against the French edicts as the English orders in council.
Did you not, before the month of February, hear of a decree of the French, called the Milan decree? Certainly.
Would that have no share in preventing your expectation of the repeal of the American embargo? I conceive it would, but that measure was viewed as a measure consequent on the British orders in council.
Did you not know that in the month of August last, a great many American vessels were seized and embargoed in the ports of Holland and France? A great many were seized and condemned, but none that I heard of embargoed under the Berlin decree.
Have you no conception that that proceeding on the part of France had influenced the American embargo? I conceive it was owing to what are termed by the Americans, ag-
gressions proceeding from both France and England.
Do you know when the orders of council were printed so as to reach Cowes, from whence Mr. Manroe embarked? No, I do not. But the substance of them was in a paper supposed to be under the influence of government, I mean the Morning Post, three weeks before; I think they afterwards in a measure retracted what they had stated, and said they might have made a mistake.
Are you aware of the construction given by Mr. Regnier by order of the Emperor of France, of the Berlin decree? I am not.
Then you are not aware that that explanation is supposed to have been communicated to America by Mr. Armstrong, and to have had some considerable influence in determining on the measure of the embargo? I consider the measure of the embargo to be to protect themselves against both France and England.
In the course of your business, did you ever stop your shipments to America in consequence of the Berlin decree of 1806? We certainly did not go the extent we had done before, conceiving that it might lead to difficulties with this country.
Abraham Mann's evidence to be continued
(BY AUTHORITY.)
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT
For erecting a light-house on the south point of the island of Sapelo, and for placing buoys and beacons in the shoals of the inlet leading to the town of Darien, and near the entrance of Iveshatch harbour, near Plymouth harbour, before the harbour of Nantucket, and on the islands of Tuckanuck, at or near the entrance of Connecticut river, and near the entrance of Great Egg Harbour river.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That as soon as the jurisdiction of so much of the head land of the south point of the island of Sapelo, in the state of Georgia, as the President of the United States shall deem sufficient for the purpose of erecting a light-house and its appurtenances, shall have been ceded to the United States, provided the said land can be obtained at a reasonable price, it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to provide by contract, which shall be approved by the President of the United States, for building a light-house thereon, and furnishing the same with all necessary supplies and also to agree for the salaries or wages of the person or persons who may be appointed by the President for the superintendence and care of building the said light-house: And the President is hereby authorised to make the said appointment.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be further authorised and directed to cause to be placed four buoys on the shoals called the South and North banks of the harbour or entrance of the inlet leading to the town of Darien.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby authorised to cause to be erected and placed, beacons and buoys at the following places, to wit: two beacons and three buoys near the entrance of Iveshatch harbour; three buoys, one on Gurnet rock, one on Boss rock, and one on Deck's flats, and two beacons on the stony musele bed, near Plymouth harbour; three additional buoys before the harbour of Nantucket, and a buoy or leading mark on the island of Tuckanuck, in the state of Massachusetts; three buoys at or near the entrance of Connecticut river, and three buoys to be placed at or near the entrance of Great Egg Harbour river, in the state of New-Jersey.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That there shall be appropriated, and paid out of any monies in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, a sum not exceeding eleven thousand five hundred dollars, for the purposes aforesaid.
J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEO. CLINTON,
Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.
MARCH 17, 1808.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
For the relief of Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, jointly, and Darius Gates separately
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting officers of the treasury be, and they are hereby authorised to liquidate and settle the account of Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, and that they allow them the principal sum of money paid to the United States for two tracts of land lying in the town of East Haddam, in the state of Connecticut, purchased by the said Matthew Smith and Darius Gates, jointly, of the United States, through the marshal of the district of Connecticut, who was fully authorised to sell the same, and from which lands the said purchasers were rightfully evicted by due course of law, together with the amount of costs by them expended in defending the titles of the United States to said lands, with interest on the whole sum that may appear to be due.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid accounting officers be, and they are hereby authorised to liquidate and settle the account of Darius Gates, and allow him the principal sum of money paid to the United States for two tracts of land lying in the aforesaid town and state, purchased by the said Darius Gates, of the United States, through the marshal aforesaid, who was fully authorised to sell the same, and from which lands the said purchaser was evicted by due course of law, together with the amount of costs by him expended in defending the title of the United States to said lands, with interest on the whole sum that may appear to be due.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sums which may be found due to the aforesaid purchasers of the lands aforesaid, be paid out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated.
J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
S. SMITH,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
AN ACT
To extend certain privileges, as therein mentioned, to Anthony Boucherie.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That two years residence, as required by an act, entitled "An act to extend the privilege of obtaining patents for useful discoveries and inventions to certain persons therein mentioned, and to enlarge and define the penalties for violating the rights of patentees," shall not be required of Anthony Boucherie, to enable him to obtain a patent for any discovery he has made in the art of manufacturing sugar, but that he shall obtain a patent therefor, on his conforming to the other requisitions of said act.
J. B. VARNUM,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
GEO. CLINTON,
Vice-President of the United States and President of the Senate.
JANUARY 7, 1808.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
NOTICE TO CLAIMANTS UNDER THE CONVENTION WITH GREAT BRITAIN ON THEIR AGENTS
Such persons as propose, in pursuance of the Order of the Board of Commissioners of 11th October, 1806, to lay before the subscriber, during his residence in this city, any evidence in support of their claims, and have not yet given him notice of their intentions, are requested to do so without delay, in order that he may make the necessary arrangements for the business of this station: And it is further expected, that all concerned will after this public intimation, be in readiness to present their books and documents for examination at any time when required, so as to prevent delay and loss of time.
If there are any persons in this country who have charge of the claims under enumerated, they will please to communicate immediately the necessary information regarding them, to the agent of the board, viz.
VIRGINIA CLAIMS.
Gavin Alston for the Greenock saddle and shoe factory.
Garstang Bradstock, in right of John Breakhill of Liverpool, mariner.
Henry Clay, representative of Clay and Midgley of Liverpool.
Dreghorn, Murdoch and Co.
Mary Doyle and Margt. Mallory, legatees of J. Mallory.
Representatives of William Duncan, James Hunter & Co.
John Glassel.
Richard Hanson.
Wm. R. Lidderdale, executor of John Lidderdale.
Sam. Lyde, for Lyondel and Sam. Lyde, Colin Ross, administrator of R. Jardine.
George Russel, for Smith, son, and Russel, Joseph Stunfield, assignee of Syne.
Robert Sheldon & Co.