The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-06-25 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
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NUMBER 14.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 25, 1905.
[VOLUME 2.]
Richmond Prices Current.
Table with 4 columns: Item, D., C., D. C. Rows include TOBACCO, FLOUR, WHEAT OLD, INDIAN CORN, WHISKEY, BACON, HEMP, BAR IRON.
FOR CHERBOURG. The copper-bottomed ship MAR... now engaged, is expected to sail about the 15th July...
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold on the premises, on Wednesday the 26th day of July next: A LOT on Shockey-hill, No. 594, adjoining the lot whereon Mr. Samuel Greenhow lives...
JUST RECEIVED,
AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, FOUR hundred pieces House Paper, Philadelphia Beer by the barrel, a small quantity of first quality New-England Cheese; also 400 barrels Corn...
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JACOB JOHNSON, And For Sale at his BOOK-STORE, a few doors below the Market-house—Richmond.
A NEW SYSTEM OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY; or a general Description of the most remarkable countries throughout the known world; their respective situations, extents, divisions, cities, rivers, mountains, soils and productions; their commerce, manners, customs and religions, together with their principal historical events and political importance...
JUST PUBLISHED—AND FOR SALE AT RITCHIE & WORSLEY'S BOOK-STORE: THE DEBATES AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION.
LOST, A BOND for the sum of Six Hundred and Eighty-three pounds, payable the 25th day of December, 1896, from Walker Hawes and Thomas C. Morton of King William, to the subscriber in Powhatan.
BROKER'S OFFICE. THE subscriber informs the Citizens of Richmond and the public in general, that he has taken the house, next door to Mr. William Austin's, lower end of the Basin, where he transacts the BROKERAGE and COMMISSION BUSINESS in all their various branches.
CASH WILL be given for 12 or 15 BOYS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers. Dec. 15.
ELLIS & ALLAN Have received by the Rolls from London, part of their SPRING GOODS, amongst which are the following articles:
London Superfine Cloths and Cashmere, Quiltings and Dimities, Handmade fashionable worked & laced Muffs, 8-4, 8-4 and 10-4 Diapers, 8-4, 8-10 and 10-16 Damask Table Cloths, Gentlemen's white and brown Cotton Stockings, Ladies' elegant laced white do. Do. Tartan-shell belt and braid Combs, Chintzes, Calicoes and Furniture Gentlemen's black fashionable Hats, Do. drab beaver do. Do. patent silk do. Umbrellas, Boy's Morocco Caps, plain and furr'd, Beeswax, English White Lead, Spanish Brown, Yellow Ocre, ground in oil, and Verdigris, Prussian and Pig Blue, Best Baked Oil in Pints, Durham Mustard, &c. &c.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE TENEMENT formerly occupied by James Harris, belonging to the James River Company; containing one acre of Land, with a Dwelling House thereon, which, with a small expense, may be made to accommodate a family comfortably.
WASHINGTON TAVERN. THE subscriber will continue to keep a house of ENTERTAINMENT for genteel company, only; He flatters himself, he is as well provided to give general satisfaction as any person in his line in the State.
BROKER'S OFFICE. THE subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amos Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity.
BURR MILL STONES, of all sizes; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, as usual, at WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market.
MILITARY CERTIFICATES. FOR SALE, Certificates of this State, bearing interest of 6 per cent, and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrears of taxes, prior to the year 1798.
IRISH LINENS, &c. WE have received, by the late arrivals, an extensive assortment of— 7-8 and 4-4 IRISH LINEN, 5-4 IRISH SHEETING, 8-4 and 8-4 DIAPERS, and DIAPER TABLE CLOTHS; which, in addition to other goods, are offered for sale at our usual low prices.
BY VIRTUE of two deeds of trust executed to the subscribers by John Henderson, to secure the payment of a debt due to Thomas Garth, Jun., and William Galt—WILL BE SOLD, at public auction, on Saturday the 29th inst. at James Lewis' tavern in the town of Charlottesville, for ready money: The Interest of said John in and to the following SLAVES, to wit: Tiller, Milly, Didey and Washington, or so many thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the aforesaid debts, with interest and cost.
TO BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the last Saturday in June next, SO much of the LAND, whereon John Kello lives, in the county of Cumberland, late the property of Peter Francisco, as will pay the balance claimed of him, by Samuel G. Adams, of £ 160, with its interest, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to me, by the said Peter Francisco, for that purpose.
LAND FOR SALE. THE subscribers living in this place, have for sale, a tract of LAND lying in the county of Louisa, and adjoining Yanceyville, containing two hundred and fourteen, and one half acres more or less; the land is well timbered, and the same which was sold under a deed of trust from Francis Lockett, dec'd.
FOR SALE OR LEASE: THAT large and convenient TAVERN, situated in the centre of the town of Lynchburg, at the corner of the street leading to the court-house and jail, and not more than thirty yards from both, opposite Lyne's ware-house and the street leading from the ferry in the said town.
THE charges, Sir, laid in the fifth article of impeachment, are grounded altogether on the proceedings of what has been called the first day of Fries's trial; and most firmly believing that the whole of this proceeding on that day will bear the most scrutinizing enquiry, and stand on the strong ground of justification, I have been willing to meet the managers on that day's proceeding, disjointed from that of the following day.
THE subscriber begs leave to inform his friends and the public at large, that he has obtained a commission for the exercise of the duties of a NOTARY PUBLIC, in and for this city; and that any business committed to him shall meet with prompt dispatch.
BENJAMIN DUVAL, AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR, RICHMOND, HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of fresh MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS and DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUTTY, &c.
HATTERS' MATERIALS, CONSISTING OF Hatters' Irons, Logwood, Coppeas, Verdigris, Fustick, Spanish Indigo, Oil of Vitriol, Ag. Fortis, Quickilver, Crude Tartar, Bafoi Irons, Bow-Strings, Linings, Galoons, Taffet Bands, Rubbing Diffo, Stampers, Trenchers, &c.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A QUANTITY of SENNA or RANK-SPAKE ROOT, or the Virginia or Black-Senna Root; for which liberal prices will be given.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND, MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use.
FOR SALE, A VALUABLE tract of Land containing about six hundred acres, lying within seven miles of the town of Staunton, in the county of Augusta. About an hundred and fifty acres are cleared, and in good condition for farming, which includes an excellent meadow of about twenty-four acres, and nearly, or quite as much more may be made.
FOR SALE, ALL persons having claims against the estate of the late Rev. Robert Ware, dec'd. of Middlesex county, are desired to bring them forward, properly authenticated, on or before the first day of September next, otherwise this advertisement will be plead in bar against all claims exhibited, after that date; as the subscriber is desirous to close his administration account as soon as possible.
FOR SALE, A VALUABLE tract of Land containing about six hundred acres, lying within seven miles of the town of Staunton, in the county of Augusta. About an hundred and fifty acres are cleared, and in good condition for farming, which includes an excellent meadow of about twenty-four acres, and nearly, or quite as much more may be made.
FOR SALE, ALL persons having claims against the estate of the late Rev. Robert Ware, dec'd. of Middlesex county, are desired to bring them forward, properly authenticated, on or before the first day of September next, otherwise this advertisement will be plead in bar against all claims exhibited, after that date; as the subscriber is desirous to close his administration account as soon as possible.
FOR SALE, A VALUABLE tract of Land containing about six hundred acres, lying within seven miles of the town of Staunton, in the county of Augusta. About an hundred and fifty acres are cleared, and in good condition for farming, which includes an excellent meadow of about twenty-four acres, and nearly, or quite as much more may be made.
Pleadings of Counsel, ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. [Mr. Hopkins's speech concluded.]
The charges, Sir, laid in the fifth article of impeachment, are grounded altogether on the proceedings of what has been called the first day of Fries's trial; and most firmly believing that the whole of this proceeding on that day will bear the most scrutinizing enquiry, and stand on the strong ground of justification, I have been willing to meet the managers on that day's proceeding, disjointed from that of the following day.
the rights of the counsel and jury, the whole of the proceeding should be brought into view, before we decide upon the character of any part of it. An attention, Sir, to what passed on the second day, as it is called, of Fries's trial, will most abundantly prove that Judge Chase never had intended any partiality or oppression against him; and certainly that if he had any such intention, he never carried it into execution or effect. And I trust I am safe in saying that the mere intention to commit a crime however gross or outrageous, unless carried into some sort of action or effect, constitutes no crime. A man may intend to commit a larceny, assault and battery, or any other offence, but while he abstains from the act, the mere intention cannot subject him to trial or punishment. The respondent then, discovering from the conduct of Fries's counsel, and the indignant hostility they assumed, that he was greatly misunderstood; that an arrangement he had adopted for the convenience of public justice, the reasonable expedition of the approaching trial, and the real accommodation of the court, the counsel and the jury, was construed and received as an oppression upon the prisoner, an encroachment upon the privileges of counsel, and a violation of the rights of the jury, in short as a corrupt and polluted prejudication of the cause to be tried, and that the fair and upright intentions of the court were misinterpreted by a real or pretended malice to destroy the formidable engine they saw rearing against the court and to remove at once all pretence for clamour or irritation. Granting the judge had been in error on the first day, what more could he or any man do, than to rectify the error as soon as it was discovered, and hasten to the right path before any injury could have resulted from his momentary deviation. But the honorable manager has told us he had found beyond the grace of repentance, and that no condition, however sincere, could wipe away the offence. When I suffer such words as repentance and contrition to pass my lips, it is in quoting precisely the words of the manager. For my part I disclaim them. The respondent has done nothing that required the humiliation of repentance, or for which he now asks to be forgiven. Let him stand on his justification or stand not at all. But, Sir, a part of that justification is that the corrupt intent charged upon him is disproved by his entire willingness to permit the counsel to manage their cause in their own way; if they disapproved of his, and by his full and candid recognition of the error, if any error had been committed. By advertising to the testimony of Mr. Rawle, this honorable court will see, how greatly Judge Chase was surprised to find him conversing with this witness and Judge Peters, that his conduct was viewed in so strange a light by Messrs. Lewis and Dallas. On making this discovery, although still convinced of the propriety of the proceeding, he does not obstinately adhere to it, but resolves to remove all possible cause of complaint, by withdrawing all the papers which had given rise to this assumption. He withdrew every copy of the papers, and the counsel, the prisoner and the jury were placed in the same precise situation as if these papers had never been distributed, with the most ample acknowledgement of all their rights, and the most urgent solicitations to them to proceed in the enjoyment & exercise of their rights. But no, the counsel had taken their ground, and nothing could move them. John Fries had received their instructions, and with equal perseverance declined the act of their counsel offered to him by the court repeatedly. Now, Sir, let me ask you and this honorable court, on your consciences, not to be blinded by the management and finessing of ingenious counsel, what was the meaning of all this? What was the object of it? Did the counsel now believe they would not be fully heard in defence of their client both on law and fact? Did they now suppose themselves or the jury restricted in their rights, or that a just and impartial trial would not be had? Most certainly not. But, in the language of Mr. Lewis, they thought they had got the court into an error or a scrape, and they were determined to keep them there. What! says Judge Peters, if we have done wrong will you not suffer us to repair that wrong by doing what is right, by doing all that you have required? No, no, was the answer. Mr. Lewis has declared to you in the most ample and explicit terms, that they abandoned John Fries because they thought they took a better chance of saving him by this means, than they could have by any trial; and to use his own words in another part of this testimony. "We withdraw" says he, "from the defence of John Fries because we thought it would best serve him, and we were not influenced by any other motive whatever." They had already, before Judge Iredell, tried the efficacy of the full and unconfined exertion of their talents in his defence, and found how vain the attempt was. They were well satisfied no hope of success could be entertained on a fair trial of the merits of their case, both in law and fact, and they eagerly grasped any occurrence, that, by operating on the passions, the humanity or the prejudices of mankind, might give to their client a chance for escape, which he could not look for in the merit of his own conduct. With this view, they most solemnly impressed upon the mind of John Fries the necessity of his maintaining the ground they had taken for him, and refusing the assistance of any other counsel. So well did these gentlemen know the court had no intention of oppressing John Fries, that in their communications to him, they anticipated the offer of other counsel to supply their deletion. But, Sir, there is one circumstance in this second day's proceeding, which has been introduced to show, that the respondent continued the same tyrannical spirit with which he is charged on the first day, and which it may be an unkind menace, as it has been termed by one of the witnesses, used to the counsel of Fries, when the judge told them they would proceed in the defence at the hazard or on the responsibility of their characters. To ascertain the true nature of the expression, whatever it was, which fell from the court in this respect, I will refer to the same guide I have endeavoured to follow throughout my argument, I mean the evidence. The aspect of this pretended menace will then be changed into a complimentary confidence in the discretion of the counsel, or at least into no more than such a menace as every gentleman of the bar acts under in every case; that is to manage every cause before a jury with a due regard to their own reputations; to urge nothing as law to the jury, which they are conscious is not law, and to introduce no matter which they know to be either improper or irrelevant. This in its worst character, will be found to be the whole amount of this terrific menace. What account does Mr. Lewis give of this occurrence? After stating that the court manifested a strong desire that he and his colleague should proceed in the defence of their client; that every restriction if any had been imposed, was now removed, and that they were at full liberty to address the jury on the law and the fact as they thought proper; the judge said that this would be done "under the direction of the court, and at the peril of our own character." And was it not ourselves with propriety? And was it not Mr. Lewis did not consider this as a menace intended to restrict him in the exercise of the rights just before conceded him by the court, but rather as an unwarranted suspicion of his sense of propriety; for, says he, "I did not know of any conduct of mine to make this caution necessary." The court perhaps thought his conduct on the day before did make it necessary. Let us now take Mr. Dallas's impression of this part of the conduct of the judge. This witness after testifying to the ample range, both as to law and fact given to the counsel by the court, states that the judge observed "they would do this at the hazard of their character." This Mr. Dallas afterwards terms an "unkind menace." I think upon recurring to Mr. Lewis and the other witnesses; and to some considerations naturally arising from the manifest disposition of the court at that time, it will be concluded that Mr. Dallas has mistaken the nature and character of this act of the judge, when he describes it as a menace. Mr. Tilghman states that the court seemed very anxious that the counsel should proceed, gave them full liberty to combat Judge Chase's opinion before the jury and that they were not to be bound by that opinion. Judge Chase mentioned that cases at common law before the stat. of Edw. III. ought not to be read. So of certain other cases; he particularly mentioned the case of the man who withheld the flags horns in the king's belly; and also of the man who kept a tavern with a sign of the crown, who said he would make his son heir to the crown. The judge declared such cases must not be cited; and said in illustration of his idea—What? cases from Rome, from Turkey and from France? That the counsel should go into the law, but must not cite cases that were not law. After these observations and in direct connection and reference to them, the judge said something about "their proceeding agreeably to their own consciences." What now begins to be the complexion and character of this part of the judge's behaviour? Why, that after giving these gentlemen the utmost latitude of discussion they could possibly require; he states a certain class of decisions and cases, which appeared to him and must appear to every body to be unworthy of notice—to be of no sort of authority or application in the case of Fries, which were not law; which Mr. Lewis himself has described as the offspring of corrupt if they had any operation, were hostile to the prisoner: I say, Sir, after alluding to such cases, which he knew too had been used on the former trial, was it criminal or strange, he should make an appeal to the consciences, or characters, take it either way, before they proceeded to their defence. A further examination of testimony puts this part of the case beyond doubt. Mr. Rawle, after stating the same course of observations from the judge, as has been mentioned by Mr. Tilghman, and that he said, "I have always conducted myself with candor, and I meant to save you trouble." After relating to you how fully the respondent removed every obstacle which had arisen from the proceeding of the first day, and how honorably he explained and justified the motives of his conduct, declared himself thus to the counsel: "having thus explained the meaning of the court, you will stand acquitted or condemned to your own consciences."—the same terms used by Mr. Tilghman, "as you think proper to act. Do as you please." This honorable court will be pleased to recollect that Mr. Rawle speaks not from the imperfect impressions of memory after the lapse of five years; but from full notes taken at the very moment of the transaction. It is needful to go further in justification of this mistaken menace. What says Mr. Ewing? "that the respondent told the counsel that if they read cases which were not law, after knowing the opinion of the court that they were not so, they would do it with a view to their own reputations." Mr. Meredith, after reciting what the judge observed upon the cases at common law, testifies that the respondent informed the counsel of Fries "they might manage the defence in such way as they thought proper, having regard to their own characters." I hope, Sir, we have now obtained a just notion of the nature and intent of whatever was said by the judge at this period of the transaction; and as no witness considered it as a menace but Mr. Dallas, we may justly conclude he has mistaken it. Is not this the true interpretation of it, that the judge had determined to give these gentlemen the utmost latitude of discussion, both of the law and fact, to any extent they thought proper, referring them only to their own sense of propriety, to their own consciences, to their own characters, as to the manner in which they would use this unbounded liberty? The respondent confided in the character and conscience of these gentlemen for the fair exercise of their professional duty, and for such a limitation of their privilege of speech, as would prevent any abuse of it to improper purposes or to an unreasonable extent. Suffer me, Sir, to make one further remark, in confirmation of my position. It grows out of the acknowledged circumstances to the case, and if fairly deduced, is evidence of the highest description. It is agreed by all the witnesses that on the second day, the respondent manifested and expressed the utmost solicitude and anxiety for the counsel to proceed in the defence, and that he took "great pains" to induce them to do so. It is not doubted that he was sincere in this. Is it probable or possible then, with these dispositions and while he was endeavoring to persuade and to induce these gentlemen to return to the defence of their client, he would indulge himself in threats, in insults and menaces, which would necessarily confirm them in the abandonment of the cause, and defeat the acknowledged will of the judge, and that they should they return to it? But will we were told, and this first article of impeachment concludes with averring, that in consequence of the conduct of the respondent, Fries was deprived of his right of being heard and defended by his counsel.

1. To refute this unfounded allegation, we need go no further than to the testimony of Messrs. Lewis and Dallas. They surely are the best judges of the motives of their own conduct. What reason do they give for denying Fries their aid and advising him to refuse all other counsel? Because they had no hopes of inducing a trial; because they believed the court had got into a difficulty where they were determined to keep them; because they thought they had a better chance to save their client's life by the uses they might make of the novelty of the first day's proceeding, than they could have on a full trial after this novelty was removed; the counsel in short withdrew from the defence of Fries, because they thought it would best serve him, and were not influenced by any other motive whatever. How does this testimony support the averment in the conclusion of the article, which boldly affirms, not that John Fries was saved, but that he was condemned to death, in consequence of not being heard by his counsel?
A very strange and unexpected effort has been made, sir, to raise a prejudice against the respondent on this occasion, by exciting or rather forcing a sympathy for John Fries. We have heard him most pathetically described as the ignorant, the friendless, the innocent John Fries. The ignorant John Fries! Is this the man who undertook to decide that a law which had passed the wisdom of the Congress of the United States, was impolitic and unconstitutional; and who stood so confident of this opinion, as to maintain it at the point of a bayonet? He will not thank the gentleman for this encomium, or accept the plea of ignorance as an apology for his crimes. The friendless John Fries! Is this the man who was able to draw round himself a band of bold and determined adherents, resolved to defend him and his vicissitudes at the risk of their own lives, and of the lives of all who should dare to oppose? Is this the John Fries who had power and friends enough, actually to suspend, for a considerable time, the authority of the United States over a large district of country, to prevent the execution of the laws, and to command and compel the officers appointed to execute the law to abandon the duties of their appointment, and lay the authority of the government at the feet of this friendless usurper ? The innocent John Fries! Is this the man, against whom a most respectable grand jury of Pennsylvania, in 1799, found a bill of indictment for high treason; and who was afterwards convicted by another jury, equally impartial and respectable, with the approbation and under the direction of a judge, whose humanity and conduct on that very occasion have received the most unqualified praise of the honourable manager who thus sympathizes with Fries? Is this the John Fries, against whom a second grand jury, in 1800, found another bill for the same offence, founded on the same facts, and who was again convicted by a just and conscientious petit jury? Is this innocent German, the man who, in pursuance of a wicked opposition to the power and laws of the United States and a mad confidence in his ability to maintain that opposition, refused the prisoners duly arrested by the officers of the government and placed those very officers under duress; who with arms in his hands and menace on his tongue, arrayed himself in military order and strength, put to hazard the safety and peace of the country, and threatened us with all the desolation, bloodshed and horror of a civil war; who at the moment of his desperate attack, cried out to his infatuated followers "come on! I shall probably fall on the first fire, then strike, stab and kill all you can?" In the fervid imagination of the honourable manager, the widow and made in hypotheses, to cry at the judgment seat of God, against the respondent; and his blood, though not a drop of it has been spilt, is seen to stain the pure ermine of justice. I confess, sir, as a Pennsylvanian, whose native state has been disgraced with two rebellions in the short period of four years, my ear was strangely struck to hear the leader of one of them, addressed with such friendly tenderness, and honored with such flattering sympathy by the hon. manager.
It is not unusual, sir, in public prosecutions for the accused to appeal to his general life and conduct in refutation of the charges. How proudly may the respondent make this appeal. He is charged with a violent attempt to violate the laws and constitution of his country, and to destroy the belt liberty of his fellow citizens. Look, sir, to his past life, to the constant course of his opinions and conduct, and the improbability of the charge is manifest. Look to the days of doubt and danger; look to that glorious struggle so long and so doubtfully maintained for that independence we now enjoy, for those rights of self-government you now exercise, and do you not see the respondent among the boldest of the bold, never sinking in hope or in exertion, aiding by his talents and encouraging by his spirit; in short, putting his property and his life in issue on the contest, and making the loss of both certain, by the active part he assumed, should his country fail of success. And does this man, who thus gave all his possessions, all his energies, all his hopes to his country and to the liberties of the American people, now employ the small and feeble remnant of his days, without interest or object, to pull down and destroy that very fabric of freedom, that very government and those very rights, he so labored to establish? It is not credible; it cannot be credited, but on proof infinitely stronger than any thing that has been offered to this hour, court on this occasion. Indiscretions may have been pointed out by the perseverance of persecution; but I trust most confidently that the just, impartial and dignified sentence of this court, will completely establish to our country and to the world, that the respondent has fully & honorably justified himself against the charges now exhibited against him; and has discharged his official duties, not only with the talents that are conceded to him, but with an integrity infinitely more dear to him.
(To be continued.)
European Intelligence.
NEW-YORK, June 17. Our Greenock papers by the ship Ardent are to the 6th of May, and the London intelligence they contain is of the 2d, one day later than we had before received, comprising the following articles. We learn verbally that an embargo was laid on all vessels in the ports of England on the 7th of May, and in Scotland on the 10th, in consequence of the falling of the second secret expedition; and that the Ardent having cleared out at the Customs House before the embargo, failed in the evening of the 11th, under a protest. The Ardent had a passage of 14 days to the Banks of Newfoundland, and has been 15 days upon the coast. Captain C. brought no loose papers later than the 6th, and the packages were not delivered yesterday from the post-office. It is probable we may tomorrow be able to give London news to the 7th or 8th.
London, May 2. Authentic information is at length received respecting the French fleet which escaped from Toulon. It consisted, as we before stated of 11 sail of the line, 7 frigates, and 3 corvettes; they passed the Straits of Gibraltar, on the 9th ult. and immediately bore up for Cadiz, before which Sir John Orde was cruising. When Sir John first received intelligence of their approach, his squadron was busy in overhauling their rigging, and had their topsails struck, and their yards down to have it all new; but such was the dispatch used to put the squadron in a state to meet the enemy, that in four hours it was in perfect order. The French Admiral did not, however, think it advisable to attack Sir John, notwithstanding his great superiority of force, for the British squadron only consisted of six sail of the line and two frigates, and had also the disadvantage of being encumbered with transports. The French fleet stood directly into Cadiz, where it remained when the last dispatches were sent off.
The Sirius frigate, capt. Prowse, is arrived at Plymouth from Sir John Orde, and brings intelligence of Lord Nelson having passed the Straits in pursuit of the French fleet, and of his having arrived before Cadiz. Although there is no direct authority for this report, yet it is very probable; there can be little doubt but Lord Nelson was very soon informed of the sailing of the French fleet, and we have very strong reason to believe that they had not above two or three days start of him. If it be true that Lord Nelson has arrived before Cadiz, and that the blockade of that port has been renewed by the united British squadrons, the enemy will be placed in a most distressing situation; for the scarcity of provisions, particularly bread, has been very great at Cadiz, and the arrival of so large a fleet, with a numerous body of troops on board, will of course greatly increase the calamity.
The enemy's squadrons seem to be on the alert in almost every quarter. Lord Gardner's dispatches state, we understand, that an unusual degree of activity had been observed among the Breton fleet. The preparations for another expedition upon a scale of force about equal to that which lately failed, are nearly ready at Portsmouth. Letters of the 26th ult. were received yesterday from Holland. They mention, that M. Schimmelbrenner proposed the next day to meet the Members of the government, for the purpose of receiving their acceptance or refusal of the new Constitution.
Among other rumours at Paris, it is said that Bonaparte intends to create Madame Lapagerie, who resides at Martinico, and is the mother of his wife, an Empress of the West-Indies, to be succeeded by her grandson Eugeniens Beauharnois, and that this accounts for the numerous troops sent by him to that part of the world, where many think both the Breton fleet and St. Kitts armaments are designed. PRICE OF STOCKS THIS DAY. Cons. for money 58—Omn. 2 3 4 prem.
GREENOCK, May 6. The following note was stuck up at Lloyd's on Thursday last at 3 o'clock. Lloyd's 2d May, 1805, half past 3. Information has been received at the Admiralty that the French squadron which appeared off Cadiz on the 9th ult. was no longer there on the 10th, and that the number of Spanish ships in the harbor was diminished. On the 11th and 12th, five sail of the line, supposed to be Spanish, were seen beating to the westward. Our correspondent subjoins, "the above communication has made a very serious impression. It is now supposed that part of the Spanish squadron is sent to reinforce the fleets in the West-Indies, while the French fleet is proceeding along the coast to raise the blockade of the ports. Till some decisive intelligence is received, it is now evident that little dependence can be placed on any information which has hitherto been received, and that till positive assurances are obtained of the views of the enemy's squadrons, a constant succession of alarms must be submitted to. It is certainly much to be regretted, that at a period of so much danger and alarm from without, party spirit should run so high at home as our parliamentary history of the last two sessions of every day for some time past, demonstrates. A Lisbon mail arrived on Thursday, in 14 days, per the Wallington packet, in which came passengers, Lord and Lady Holland. Jerome Bonaparte has set off for France, and his Lady and her brother, by sea, for Amsterdam. The French ambassador, Junot, had arrived at Lisbon.
Since preparing the above foreign intelligence, we have been favoured with Greenock papers to the 10th May, containing London news to the 6th inclusive, of which the following is a brief summary: M.P. Adm. LONDON, May 6. An expedition for the West-Indies, consisting of 8000 men, under the command of Sir Eyre Coote, is nearly in readiness for sea. Private letters have been received from the Channel fleet, which state that the Breton fleet is perfectly ready for sea, and have recently made two attempts to get out, but were prevented by the vigilance of Lord Gardner. Our fleet were well off Breton Monday, having been joined by the squadron under command of Sir John Orde. An unusual degree of activity has been recently marked among the enemy's fleet at Boulogne. The secret expedition under Gen. Craig, is said to be destined against Perrot. We understand, from unquestionable authority that his majesty has issued orders for erasing the name of Lord Melville from the list of the Privy Council. His Lordship is now removed from all places which he held at the pleasure of the Crown.
NEW-YORK, June 18. Capt. Delano of the ship Mentor from Lisbon informs, that a part of the secret expedition from England, under the command of Sir James Craig, consisting of 40 sail of transports under convoy of 2 ships of the line and 4 frigates, put into Lisbon on the 8th ult. the day he failed; where the remainder of the expedition was he did not learn. It was understood that the object was to reinforce the garrisons of Gibraltar and Malta. Considering the great number of transports and consequently of troops, it is evident this could only be a secondary object. Nothing was heard of Lord Nelson on the 8th when the Mentor failed; he is of course too far behind the Toulon fleet to prevent the sacking of the British W. Indies. Daily Adr.
While the French fleet were fitting out at Toulon, several letters were dispatched on board neutral vessels, which were designedly thrown in the way of the British cruisers in the neighbourhood of Gibraltar, hinting in pretty strong terms that the fleet was bound to Egypt, these being discovered, being conveyed by the commanding officer to Lord Nelson, drew him off from Toulon, to take a more advantageous post for intercepting them on that route; which gave the French fleet an opportunity to escape, and may probably be the foundation of the secret expedition fitted out in England. This may in some manner account why his lordship had not arrived at Gibraltar as late as the 23rd of April, twelve days after the French fleet passed the Gut. [Puil. pap.] In a Paris Journal of the 21st April, we find the following article: "Col. Burr who killed Gen. Hamilton in a duel, has been acquitted by the Senate of the United States. There were thirteen votes declared him guilty of voluntary murder, and six against this opinion; but two thirds of the votes were necessary to condemn him. It is now the progress of the human species to perfection! Since, in the wildest country in the world, there were only thirteen reason-able persons in twenty four, even in the Senate,"
and since a prejudice the most horrible, the most fatal, the most absurd, still finds defenders. This is, however, the remains of the times of the most profound ignorance, and of nations the most barbarous, which prolong an idea of honor, that the Greeks and Romans never knew; which the wisest princes have endeavored to dispel; which religion, Policy, and reason equally condemn. DE LALANDE. * An astronomer of much celebrity.
West-Indies.
FROM THE AURORA. We publish this day the address of the Colonial assembly of Jamaica to whom we have before alluded. The experience of all time shews that those who are immediately concerned and interested in a measure, are much more competent judges of what is proper and necessary, than those who situated at a distance possess but an imperfect or a theoretical knowledge of the subject. Lord Shelburne's errors and misinformation at the close of our revolution were speedily detected, and time and experience has more powerfully exposed all his errors & fanciful attempts to subject the laws of nature to human avarice, and render them subservient to the resentment of frustrated usurpation. The memorial of the Jamaica assembly is another severe commentary on his false theories of last year; but the events of the present season are truly solemn. That our readers may possess some data by which to appreciate the relative importance of each of the West-India Islands, we shall give a statement of the value of the imports and the exports to and from each of them to and from England alone (including Scotland and Ireland) at the peace of 1763.
Table with 2 columns: Imports, Exports. Rows include Anguilla, Antigua, Barbadoes, Bermuda, Jamaica, Montserrat, Nevis, St. Croix, St. Eustatia, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, St. Martins, St. Thomas, Tobago, Tortola.
This trade of the West-Indies with Great-Britain from obvious causes; the temporary annihilation of the French navy—the consequent annihilation of her West-India commerce, and the calamities of St. Domingo, gave not only a more enlarged market, but stimulated the British planters to the improvement of their cultivation, and more than doubled it, in some articles quadrupled the amount of their productions; this has been particularly the case at Jamaica, and the increase may be estimated by a comparison of the above statements with the declaration of Mr. Fox, that the commerce of the West-Indies amounted to 14 millions sterling value. As it may afford some satisfaction to our readers to possess at one view, a detail of the progressive increase of the West-India trade with Great-Britain, we shall present a view of the amount of the imports into Great-Britain from all parts of the world for a century past—and in a separate column the amount of West-India imports for it must be observed that the circumstance of the wealth if Great-Britain is not to be estimated as ours is—our exports are the true criterion of foreign commercial wealth—but it is by the imports of Great-Britain that we are enabled to judge of her commercial prosperity.
Table with 4 columns: Periods, Years, General imports, West-India imports. Rows include PEACE (1697-1712), WAR (1713-1748), PEACE (1749-1756), WAR (1757-1763), PEACE (1764-1792), WAR (1793-1802).
Table with 4 columns: Periods, Years, General imports, West-India imports. Rows include WAR (1756-1763), PEACE (1763-1792), WAR (1793-1802).
KINGSTON, JAN. MAY 21. The following is the Petition presented to his Honor the Lieutenant Governor, and his Answer thereto, concerning the importation of lumber, and certain articles of provisions, in American bottoms: To his Honor GEORGE NUGENT, Esq. Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over his Majesty's Island of Jamaica, and the Territories therein depending, in America, Chancellor, & Vice Admiral of the same.
The Representation and Petition of the undersigned Inhabitants of the City and Parish of Kingston, SHEWETH, That there exists at present in this city, and in the island at large, an alarming scarcity of provisions of all kinds, and of the necessary articles of lumber. The quantity now on hand, in this city, and the probable time for which it may suffice, being represented by the schedule hereunto annexed.
That the suspension of our late intercourse with the United States of North-America, must render a further supply of the above-mentioned necessary articles very scanty and precarious, it having been abundantly proved by upwards of twenty years experience, that the British Colonies are altogether inadequate to furnish our wants; and in time of war, supplies in British bottoms, from the United States, cannot be, in any manner, relied on. That accounts from the country present a still more alarming state of things; there being, in many parishes, not a single barrel of flour, meal, or bushel of grain for sale. That the evils represented to your Honor, by the Address of the Honourable House of Assembly, the twentieth of April last, not only exist in their full effect, but have materially increased since that period.
That it will be absolutely impossible to prepare packages for the transportation of the produce of the island, unless a supply of lumber shall be also admitted from the said United States, and, without which, the crops must necessarily perish on the ground. That your petitioners are seriously apprehensive, that unless they shall be permitted to be supplied from the United States, in American bottoms, absolute famine must be the consequence. Your petitioners, therefore, humbly pray, that your Honor will take these circumstances into your consideration, and grant such relief as the nature of the case requires.
ANSWER. "I have taken into due consideration your representation of the scarcity of provisions and lumber in the city and parish of Kingston, and your petition to be permitted to be supplied with the necessary articles from the United States, in American bottoms, together with the statement of the Committee entrusted to take an account of all the provisions & lumber for sale in Kingston: In consequence of which, and the representations from various other parishes in the island, I have determined, as a case of real and urgent necessity, to issue my Proclamation, to authorize the importation of lumber of every description, and of certain articles of provisions, for six months from this date in American bottoms, from the United States; & the exportation of rum and molasses in return. The Inhabitants of the City and Parish of Kingston."
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, it appears by the memorials and returns from sundry parishes, that there is at present a very great scarcity throughout the island, of American provisions and lumber, and that a real and urgent necessity exists, for my exercising the discretionary power vested in me by his Majesty, relative to the intercourse between this colony and the United States of America. I do therefore issue this my proclamation, permitting, for the space of six months, to be computed from this date, the free importation of flour, corn, corn-meal, bread, rice, peas, beans, and lumber of every description, in vessels belonging to neutral and other states, in amity with Great-Britain, upon the like terms, charges and conditions, and subject to the same rules, regulations, violations, and searches, as are observed with respect to British vessels in like cases.
And I do hereby also, permit all vessels importing the foregoing articles under the authority of this proclamation, to export from thence, rum and molasses from any port or ports, place or places of this island, upon the like terms, stipulations, charges, and conditions as are observed with respect to British vessels in like cases. And in case any person or persons importing provisions or lumber to this island, under the authority of this proclamation, shall attempt to introduce any other articles than are therein particularly enumerated, measures will be immediately adopted for the forfeiture of the ship or vessel and cargo, to contravene the laws of navigation. Given under my hand and seal at arms, at St. Jago de la Vega, this, twentieth day of May, in the year of our Lord, 1805, and of his majesty's reign the Forty Fifth.
G. NUGENT. By his honor's command, H. CATHCART, Sec. WILLIAM SAVAGE, Esq. has resigned his office of Commercial Agent of the United States, at the Port of Kingston, Jamaica.
BASSETTERRE, (Guad.) May 26.
On the 22nd inst. arrived at this port from Martinique, the French imperial schooner Lafene, of 6 guns, bringing information of the arrival at Port Royal of a French fleet consisting of 12 sail of the line, 6 frigates, and 4 flops of war, under admiral Villeneuve, from Toulon, together with 7 Spanish ships of the line, and several frigates, under admiral Gravina; forming altogether, 18 sail of the line, 12 frigates, 4 flops of war, and sundry transports, having on board 18000 troops under the orders of general Lauriston (a creole of Pondicherry) first aide-de-camp of his imperial majesty, Napoleon. On the receipt of this information, a general embargo was instantly ordered. On the 24th, two French frigates came to anchor at Bassetterre with general Lauriston on board, for the purpose of continuing with general Ernouf, the plan of operations against the British islands. The general remained there during that day, and in the evening departed with the frigates. The day fol-
lowing very great activity was used in bringing down mortar-bombs, &c. to the sea side, to be embarked on board the fleet. Two thousand artillerymen and engineers were to be taken from the garrison of Bassetterre, to be joined to the force on board the fleet, making in the whole 20,000 troops. The first point of attack was laid to be Trinidad, after which they would make a sweep of all the windward islands. The fleet reported, that at the time of their sailing from Toulon, the Breton fleet also had orders to put to sea, and proceed immediately to Jamaica; and it was reported a few days ago, from St. Thomas, that Jamaica was actually taken. The following are the names and respective force of the French fleet: Ships names, Commanders, Guns. Le Bucareli Capt. Magendie of 80. Le Formidable Colmas 80. Le Neptune Letellier 80. L'Indomptable Hulbert 80. Le Pluton Meyssol 74. Le Montblanc Villagey 74. L'Atlas Rollan 74. Camou 74. L'Able Coursoe 74. Le Scipion Barouger 74. Le Swiftsure Villamarin 74. L'Intrepide Deparouse 74. Frigates and flops of war. Le Rhine 40 La Corneille 40. L'Hortense 40 La Torche 28. La Thamis 56 Le Furet 28. L'Hermione 40 L'Argus 28. La Circé 30 La Naide 26.
Domestic Intelligence.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. AMHERST, June 2. ON Wednesday last, agreeably to the constitution, the Government of this State, for the current year, was organized at Concord. The Hon. JOHN LANGDON, was chosen Speaker of the House; and Hon. Mr. ALCOCK (who was first chosen) declining to accept, Gen. CLEMENT STORER, President of the Senate. The Hon. JOHN CALFE was chosen Clerk of the House, and NATHANIEL WEARE, Assistant Clerk; NATHANIEL PARKER, Clerk of the Senate; the Rev. Mr. MCFARLAND, Chaplain to both Houses. The Committee, appointed to count the votes for Governor, reported the whole number to be 23,448. For Hon. JOHN LANGDON, 16,097. Hon. JOHN T. GILMAN, 12,284. Scattering, 59. Majority for Mr. L. 3,771.
On Thursday morning the Governor, elect, was waited on by a large committee, and notified of his election; and, having assumed half past 10 o'clock, A. M. to meet the two Houses, he appeared at that hour, and, after taking the oath of office, delivered the following SPEECH: Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, IN obedience to the call of my fellow-citizens, who have thought proper, by their free suffrages, to choose me their Chief Executive Magistrate for the present year, I have found it incumbent on me to accept the important trust, and shall attend to the duties of the office with all the fidelity, which its great responsibility demands. I regret that my talents are not more equal to the station; but such as I have shall be most faithfully employed in co-operating with you to protect and secure the freedom, independence, and happiness of the people. It is greatly to be lamented, that, for some years past, our citizens have been so much divided in their political sentiments; this makes it, in some measure, necessary for me to declare mine. I consider myself a Republican, and have uniformly, (as far as I have been able) from the year seventeen hundred and seventy-five, to the present day, supported the principles of a free elective Government of the people, from whom all our power and authority originate,—being fully convinced that a Republican Government, faithfully administered, is the strongest, the freest and the best, that has ever yet been experienced. The Constitution of the United States guarantees to each State its Republican form of Government; and here, permit me to congratulate you, and the rest of my fellow-citizens, that the general affairs of the Union are at present conducted by a wise, virtuous, and magnanimous Administration, in which, I do not hesitate to say, the people may place their utmost confidence. When we look around, and view the unparalleled happiness of our Country, the Civil and Religious Liberty we enjoy, Agriculture, Commerce and Manufactures flourishing, the peace and tranquillity that pervades, the immense acquisition of territory by the cession of Louisiana, the complete arrangement of the finances of the United States, in short, prosperity in every direction,—surely we have the greatest reason for thankfulness and gratitude to the Supreme Dispenser of all events, for so many inestimable blessings. It would be unnecessary for me to take up your time in saying any thing of foreign affairs, as these relations are confined to our General Government. Coming, as you do, Gentlemen, from all parts of the State, you must, of course, be much better acquainted with the wants and wishes of our constituents, than I am able to point out. Should it be your determination to hold another session of the Legislature this year, of course the present would be of short duration, as little else than the immediate local, prudential matters of the State, with the unfinished business of the last Session, would claim your attention at this time. I should only mention, that the fate of the Treasury will be laid before you. Your wisdom will determine whether any, and what sum of money will be necessary to raise the current year. In public as in private concerns economy is very desirable, but, at the same time, such sums of money should be raised as will sufficiently answer the exigencies of the State. Could I think the present Session would continue long enough, I should urge the necessity of making some further arrangements for establishing our Militia upon a more respectable footing, as I consider it of the highest importance. But whether this business can be taken up with propriety this Session, is for your determination. I shall with pleasure concur with you in all such Acts and Resolves as you may think proper to pass, which shall appear for the fact and advantage of the citizens, and unite with you in the best endeavors to harmonize the public mind, by making every exertion to promote the tranquillity and happiness of our Country. JOHN LANGDON. State of New-Hampshire, } Concord, June 6, 1805. }
On Saturday last the British Packet laying in the harbor of New York, was struck by lightning, which destroyed her main top mast.

FEDERALISM LOOKING UP.
While federalism was under comfortable circumstances, Mr. Adams was erecting, his "stupendous fabric," for the well-born, while he was digging holes for his nobles, and opening pits for the seditious rabble, little was said about federalism looking up. In those days federalism really looked down with scorn on the rights of man, and on every advocate of those rights. It was beneath the dignity of the grand functionaries under the reign of terror, to look up. Whatever else did not look up with reverence to federalism, was made to feel the force of energetic government, and prostrated so that looking up was an act of necessity.
But as soon as gov. Clinton was placed at the head of the state of New-York, federalism began to look up. It looked up during the pendency of the Presidential election in 1800, especially during the contest of night caps, whether the people should have a President of their choice, or have a president, for whom as president no election had voted. Federalism looked up very early in the morning of the 4th of March 1801, when the late president Adams left the seat of government; it looked up, while Mr. Jefferson delivered his inaugural speech, and it has been looking up ever since.
About two years since, the federal papers hailed federalism as looking up, even in the ancient dominion of Virginia, because three or four federalists from that State had gained an election for Congress. Since that although federalism has lost the virtue and talents of James Thompson Callender, it has looked up, so that only one federalist (Mr. Lewis) will appear in the national councils to represent the federalism of Virginia. Two republican senators and twenty republican representatives will be on the floor of Congress from that state, to witness the looking up of federalism in the person of Mr. Lewis.
Federalism has been looking up in New-Hampshire, and it now looks up in the persons of Gov. Gilman, and of the federal senators and representatives, who have retired to private life, to make way for Gov. Langdon and a republican legislature.
If in Vermont or Rhode-Island, federalism had ceased to look up, and had looked on either side of her, she would have seen republicans, as far as the eye could extend.
In Massachusetts another look up of federalism at the next annual election, equal to her look up at the present will send Gov. Strong and the Essex Junto to join the federal worthies, who have gone to glory before them.
In Connecticut, federalism has been always looking up. Whatever may be the result of an election in comparison of votes, yet some way or other federalism is always gaining. Now the proof of gain is this; Gen. Hart, being taken up as a candidate, did not at first gain as many votes as Mr. Kirby had done; but now General Hart has about 500 more votes than any republican candidate ever had before, and Gov. Trumbull has suffered the loss of more than 600 of the votes, which he has before had. The freemen have not left the state, nor are they dead—there are more living freemen now than there were when Mr. Kirby had 848 votes and Gov. Trumbull 1431. Where ye looking up federalists are your 600 votes? Ours have all appeared with a handsome addition; your looking up here is just like your looking up elsewhere; it is a mere watch-word to keep up a dying cause. Your looking up, with any expectation that you are ever to sit up, and stand, and walk, as republicans now do, is as vain as the hope of the fabled hero of Lubberland, who is represented as on his back with his mouth wide open looking up for provision, which will never be sent him from the clouds.
Hartford Mercury.
MASSACHUSETTS.
It now appears, that if all the returns of votes for governor had been conditionally made, Mr. Strong would have a majority of six hundred only; and general HARR, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor, would have been elected, by a majority of fifty or sixty over all the other candidates.
NEW-YORK.
The ensuing assembly consists of eighty-eight republican and twelve federal members. Last year it was composed of eighty-seven republican and thirteen federal members. Of the republicans, forty voted for incorporating the merchants bank, of whom only nine have been re-elected.
The unhappy Arnold—Was on Tuesday last, indicted, and convicted, at the Circuit Court held in this place by his honor Chief Justice Kent for the Murder of Betsey Van Amberg, an orphan, by whipping her, in such an unjustifiable and barbarous manner as to occasion her death.
Judge Kent after an impressive address to the prisoner, passed sentence on him, viz.—"You are to be taken from hence to the place of confinement, and from thence to the place of execution, and there be hanged by the neck until you are dead—and the Lord have mercy on your soul."
Yesterday the honorable Court fixed the time of its execution to Friday the 19th day of July next between the hours of ten o'clock in the forenoon and two o'clock in the afternoon.
The trial occupied about five hours and an half, and the jury were about two hours deliberating on their verdict.
Thomas R. Gold, Esq. was counsel for the prisoner, and Nathan Williams, Esq. District Attorney, conducted the prosecution on the part of the state.
Courrier du papier, June 6.
The two bomb ketches, fitting up at Charlestown, under the direction of Commodore Preble, are nearly ready for sea, and will sail for the Mediterranean in the course of this week. They will be commanded by Lieuts. Lewis and M'Neil.
KENTUCKY. LEXINGTON, May 28.
On Wednesday last arrived in this town, Aaron Burr, Esq. late Vice President of the United States. On Thursday evening he attended the concert, and on Friday left town on his way to Orleans. We can confidently state, that Col. Burr is not appointed gov. of Louisiana. It is said that he is not interested in the proposed canal at the falls of Ohio, but is merely travelling for amusement and information. He proposes returning to Kentucky in August, when he will spend some time at the Olympian Springs.
Ken. Gaz.
CHILLICOTHE, May 27th.
Michael Baldwin, Esq. has been appointed by the president of the United States marshal for the state of Ohio, in the place of David Ziegler, Esq. resigned.
GEORGIA. SPARTA, June 18.
ANOTHER INDIAN TREATY.
By late accounts from the Creek nation it appears there is a treaty now holding or about to be held, for the purpose of obtaining the land between the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers. From authority which we cannot doubt, we are informed, that the superintendent recently received instructions from the war department, for holding this treaty, in which there was a broad hint that he was but a temporary agent.
If this be correct, it is highly probable the land will be obtained on more advantageous terms than those rejected by the senate of the United States, and no mistake as to the compensation being transferable; or, perhaps, he may claim, with a fallen minister in days of old "farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness."
Farmers Gaz.
WINDSOR, VT. June 4.
Extract of a letter from Mr. BENJAMIN ALLEN, who removed from Woodstock the year past, to his friends in said town, dated at St. Charles District, (Upper Louisiana,) March 13, 1805. "THE accounts which you have hitherto had of this country, were but a romance. One third of this land is calculated for the finest of farms; one third may be settled, but timber and water are lacking; the other third can never be settled for want of timber, having too much water. There have been six weeks of good sled-ding since I came here; the river called Greener, has been frozen over ten weeks passable for horses. The inhabitants tell me this has been an uncommon winter for snow and cold weather. This is a fine country to raise the best of cattle, but it requires industry. I think that if one of your good farmers was here and could enjoy his health he would gain property fast for the same labor that you take to gain 10 dollars, we can gain 20. It has been said the people can live here with very little labor; I grant it, but they must live poor and dress ragged, for the want of health prevents their labor in a great degree. As for your coming here, I can say no more than this, that I advise every one who has a farm and a large family, to be contented to keep it; but a young man, with a small family, can do well here, provided, the master has his health. Pork and beef are 5 dols. per cwt. butter 25 cts. per lb. salt 5 dols. for 50 lb.—The reason why produce is so high, is the old settlers are so lazy they will not work, which is to the great advantage of those who will. We find great advantages arising from being annexed to the United States; all imported necessaries come cheaper, and the government is more agreeable—we still hope for better times; were it not for this we should sink into despondency."
NEW-ORLEANS, March 22.
The following message was laid before the Council.
"Gentlemen of the Legislative Council,"
"I have given to the bill entitled "An act to prevent persons other than those who were inhabitants of Louisiana on the 30th day of April 1803 or citizens of the United States," from holding any office under the government of this territory, the most respectful and attentive consideration. The principle of the bill is patriotic, and I cordially unite with you in opinion that the offices of trust in this territory ought alone to be confided to the ancient inhabitants of the country, or other citizens of the United States, unless on occasions where a departure from so general a rule should be justified by some of those strong reasons which seldom occur; I however, entertain doubts whether the object of the bill is a rightful object of territorial legislation; I am inclined to the opinion, that it is more properly a matter of constitutional provision. The law of Congress for the government of this territory, has vested in the executive an uncontrolled discretion, as to certain appointments to office, and as I doubt the constitutionality of any act of the territorial legislature, which would abridge the powers of the office I have the honor to hold, it becomes my duty to reject the bill."
(Signed) WM. C. C. CLAIBORNE.
The governor has likewise given his negative to a bill recognising as legal, any rate of interest stipulated by the contracting parties.
Miscellaneous.
FEMALE DRESS.—The government of Switzerland have addressed the following circular letter, dated the 18th of last month, to all the lieutenants:
"The advocates and letter council of the canton of Friborough see with great dissatisfaction that in some parts of our canton, the fair sex have renounced morality, which is their brightest ornament, and introduced and adopted those costumes which are foreign from our manners, and contrary to public decency. Those fashions extremely foolish and ridiculous, must inevitably make a dangerous impression on a people who have not yet entirely renounced those manners which distinguished their ancestors. They contribute to the contamination of public morality."
"Adopted with blind enthusiasm, and followed with fury by the pleasure loving crowd, what fatal effects may not be produced to those whose education being neglected are but feebly secured against the allurements of vice. We tremble for the moment when morality shall disappear!"
"This public scandal has so much excited the attention of ecclesiastical authority, that they have addressed us to solicit our attention to repress, by the most efficacious means, this growing evil. These means will be without effect, so long as those who, in the interior of their families; to those to whom God and nature have given the most sacred duties of inculcating virtue, neglect or seriously reform themselves. A general remedy must discover the existence of the evil, the knowledge of which is always dangerous and obnoxious to those who may be already ignorant of it; even the publicity of it is a scandal which ought to be avoided."
"To retain as much as possible simplicity of manners in our canton, and to avoid such threatening inconveniences, it appears to us, that the only efficacious means consist in the timely interference of the tribunal of morals, consequently the justices of peace, as presidents of these tribunals, will receive from them the following instructions:
"If a person of the female sex dress in such a manner as to offend decency and morality, the justice of the peace, as president of the tribunal of manners, must address the parents, guardians, or husbands to engage them to exert that power which is given to them by nature, and the laws, to bring the person back to the path of propriety and prudence, and to apprise them, that if they still continue refractory, they must cite them before the tribunal of morals."
"And if these representations are ineffectual, or if the weakness of parents, guardians, or husbands afford no hope of amendment, and that the exhortations of justices of peace prove of no effect, then shall these menaces be executed, and such contaminated women shall be made to appear before the tribunal of manners, which will censure them for their irregular and immoral conduct, exhort them to fulfil their duties, and represent to them with energy how ridiculous and indecent is that dress which, besides the scandal that it occasions exposes a virtuous woman to the danger of being confounded in the public eyes with those unhappy females who justly merit general contempt."
La Clef du Cabinet.
BURTON, the celebrated Naturalist, was in the habit of rising with the Sun, but it was with great difficulty he conquered his natural indolence. He thus relates the manner in which he accomplished it: "In my youth I was extremely fond of sleep, and that fondness robbed me of much time. My poor Joseph (a domestic who served him sixty five years) was of the highest utility to me in overcoming it. I promised him a crown for every time he should make me get up at 6 o'clock. He failed not next day to rouse and torment me—I abused him. He came the
day following, and I threatened him. "Friend Joseph," said I to him at noon, "you have gained nothing, and I have lost my time. You don't know how to manage the matter. I think only on my promise, and never heed my threatenings." The day following he accomplished his point. I begged entreated then abused, and would have turned him off. He raised me by absolute force; and had his reward every day for my ill humor in the moment of waking—my thanks and a crown an hour after. I owe to poor Joseph at least ten or twelve volumes of my work."
Population of Russia.
According to the Parish Registers of the Russian empire for the year 1803, the number of Marriages was 900,470, births, 1,270,341, deaths, 791,978; hence it appears that the number of births exceeded that of deaths 478,368; the population therefore increasing in one year nearly half a million.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 25th JUNE, 1805.
A FRAGMENT.
The far-famed epistle of Thomas Turner, says a wit, puts me in mind of the heedless bravery of the soldier, who fires his pistol after the battle is over.—It is an unmanly attempt, says a more serious moralist, to ruin the reputation and influence of a man, at the expense of the fame and feelings of a lady.—It is the last resort, the ultima ratio factionis , says a well-read politician, to attack the personal character of the man, when the public virtues of the officer defy the severest spirit of criticism.—But what is this fabricated note? demands the sceptic. Who knows, whether it may not at last appear to be written at the particular request of the injured husband himself, to hide from the world the real causes of their interrupted friendship?—And is it possible, cries the nice observer, that the editor of a scrupulous print can have more modesty in his composition than his friend a Virginia "Senator;" that he should throw into a note and in briefer type, those nice and delicate touches which his correspondent had blazoned forth in the body of his text?—A very zealous witness indeed, exclaims a quibbling attorney! Not content with answering all the interrogatories of his friend Mr. Park, he must travel forth beyond the record, for the purpose of introducing one "more prominent feature" into the "dark picture," which his dunning friend had thought proper to put into his hands to design.—"The abdication of the government must be matter of record," observed a reader of the rolls: true, and yet it is not a matter on the same record, that this very abdication arose from the desire of meeting the impeachment of his accusers; that a critical scrutiny was made into his official conduct; and that an honorable vote of the house gave a complete refutation to these charges? It is a pity, that this quondam member of the assembly, while he was reading the record, should have stooped midway.—And it is a pity, added a by-stander, that the same fault should mark his composition. He tells us just as much of the story as is sufficient to make out a plausible case for himself, while he conceals every part of it which may tend to the vindication of his opponent. He keeps the correspondence itself behind the curtain, and like the mysterious oracle of old, attempts to palm his own conceits upon the world, as the dictates of unalterable truth. Before I would have done any of those things, said a calm and rigid moralist; sooner than I would have obtruded the name of a lady upon the public eye, and exhibited her reputation as a broad mark for slander and criticism to shoot their envenomed arrows at; sooner than I would have assailed such an illustrious officer with such humble weapons; sooner than have scraped together such mutilated and erroneous statements, and conveyed them to such a scrupulous and liberal correspondent: I would have been contented to have remained in eternal obscurity in the woods of Westmoreland, satisfied that I should "only pass without censure, when I passed without observation."
We have at last received satisfactory assurances that the remonstrances and interests of the inhabitants of Jamaica have predominated over the contraded policy of the British government. The reader will perceive by the articles under the Jamaica head that the ports of that island had not been closed at all against the American vessels. On the 21st of May this restriction was intended to have been carried into effect; but on the 20th the proclamation of G. Nugent appeared, to lull the apprehensions of the inhabitants. Our own vessels are now entitled to the privilege of carrying to them provisions and lumber, and receiving in return molasses and rum.
The American coasts are once more insulted by the presence of foreign privateers. The French vessels off the port of Charleston, and the Leander off New-York, have deservedly excited the alarm and indignation of our countrymen. Two remedies are offered to our choice: the equipment of a large naval force, or the adoption of such pacific measures as may restrain the unlicensed predation of foreign armed vessels, by restraining their free ingress into our ports, or the ingress of the merchant vessels of the same nation. Our government is determined to give the latter expedient a fair trial, and it was in this spirit that Congress passed the law of the last session, "for protecting the ports and harbours of the United States, and preserving peace on the waters within their jurisdiction." The two most effectual remedies provided by it are, giving the president the power of issuing a proclamation interdicting any commander who has violated our rights from entering our ports & interdicting any merchant vessel of the nation, to which he belongs from entering any or all of the districts of the U. S. It requires little of the inspiration of a prophet, to perceive that occasions will soon occur for the exercise of the first of these powers; if not of the other.
COMMUNICATION.
WHO IS TO BE OUR NEXT GOVERNOR?
In a question which has been frequently put and cannot be too often examined. A governor of Virginia is not, to be sure, invested with any very great influence in the administration of very extensive powers. He has not even a vote according to the received interpretation of the constitution, in the deciding of a single question, which is brought before the executive council; nor are these questions always of such considerable importance, as to require comprehensive abilities to decide them, or to involve many interesting consequences. It is not upon them but upon the legislature, that the appointment of the great officers of the government is devolved by the constitution, nor have they like the president of the U. S. or the governor of Pennsylvania a qualified negative upon the passing of the laws or the least portion of legislative power. Still the governor of Virginia is endowed with no ordinary powers. He can call together his
Council, whenever he thinks proper. In case of an insurrection or a war he "alone has the direction of the militia, under the laws of the country." The very station which he fills, puts it into his power to direct if not to control the operations of the other departments. He has no portion of legislative power conceded to him by the constitution; but precedent seems at this time to have confirmed the practice of his regularly addressing the two houses of assembly at the opening of their session, and laying before them such information as he may possess on public business and recommending such laws to their consideration as he may deem necessary for the good of the state. At his own board he cannot even pass a vote on the appointment of a petty officer, or the disbursement of the smallest portion of the public treasury; but even here an active and able governor may be regarded as the centre of executive information, and the adviser of his council. It is perhaps one of the greatest compliments that has ever been paid to the political qualifications of Mr. Monroe, that he erected the negative functions of a governor into the instruments of a most respectable influence. If there was any of the public money to be disbursed, Mr. Monroe would enquire into the exigency and extent of the occasion, & lay his researches before the executive Council. If there was an officer to be appointed, Mr. Monroe would take care to sift out the official qualifications and the political opinions of the candidates, and present them under this light to the view of the council. Occupying such a distinguished station, and this is the station which a governor of Virginia ought truly to occupy, he may in one sense be said to exercise an influence beyond the designated verge of his constitutional powers.
The present state of politics subjoins a new argument for the discreet selection of a governor. It is not a subject, which can at the present time bear concealment that the republican party having no apprehensions of danger from the strength of their opponents, have suffered a few petty collisions of interests or shades of opinion to break them into schisms in some of the states; that such little divisions have even crept into the political system of Virginia; but that these variations are slight in their origin, as yet limited in their degree, and susceptible of the easiest remedy. If from that large mass of republicans, who have already distinguished themselves by their services against the common enemy, and have not yet mixed and interferred in this internal dissention, all the principal offices of the government which will soon be vacant could be filled, one great source of heart-burning and animosity would be effectually dried up. Men who are anxious to obtain poss of honour, would then have no inducements to form for themselves an isolated party to raise them into power; nor would one of these little sects derive any triumph from its own success, or any jealousy from the triumph of the other. The administration of our affairs would be in the mean time confided to men, whom both sides could trust; mutual explanations would give rise to mutual conciliations; those petty repulsions would disappear with the occasions which gave them birth, and the republicans of Virginia would once more approach each other and display a compact and indivisible phalanx, which would forever bid defiance to the open force or the intriguing arts of their common enemy.
It is time that these and similar considerations should be duly and candidly weighed. It is time that we should ascertain the extent of the danger, which hangs over the union of the republicans, and the propriety of adopting these or any other expedients which may be necessary to avert it. It is time at all events that the people at large, and more especially the representatives of the distant counties should begin to analyse the pretensions of the different candidates, who may wish to fill the gubernatorial chair, and to settle the principles on which they will elect him. It is too often the fate of such appointments that they are made by the legislature generally unacquainted with even the names of the candidates before they assemble in the Capitol, and sometimes determined in their choice by momentary and ill-digested considerations. Under the guidance of this principle, let us bring this appointment at once fairly before the public; and call over the names of the candidates, who have been hitherto held forth as the proper objects of legislative favor.
George Wythe chancellor at Richmond, W. B. Giles one of the federal senators, W. C. Nicholas late collector at Norfolk, John Taylor of Caroline, John Harvie of Richmond, Alexander McRae and William Foushee members of the executive council and Richard Brent of Fairfax; have each of them been mentioned in terms of the most distinguished approbation. With each of those gentlemen it is my good fortune to enjoy the pleasure of a personal acquaintance; and I can conscientiously declare, that there is not one of them, for whose talents and integrity I do not entertain the very highest respect. There is not one of them, into whose hands, I could not see with pleasure the reins of government intrusted. Still there are degrees of fitness, & correspondent degrees of preference. I do not hesitate to avow with that sincerity, which it is my duty to exercise and that freedom which it is my privilege to enjoy, that the following is the result of my impartial reflections on this subject:
Mr. Wythe should not be the object of my choice; because whilst age has tested and sanctified the heart and head of this second Nestor, it has enfeebled the energy of his powers. I would not give my vote to Mr. Giles, because the same understanding and experience which fit him for the functions of a governor, qualify him in a more eminent degree for that more eminent station which he now occupies. The republican who was denominated by a corrupt author the "Ajax Telamon of his party" & who was lately called with some truth & with great deal of hyperbole, one of the "pillars of our constitution," is entitled to a more elevated office than that of governor of Virginia.
Mr. Nicholas should not receive my support; because at a crisis when the affairs of his country demanded all the assistance of his conciliatory temper and correct mind, he deferred the highest office within the gift of the legislature, to accept of a mechanical office within the gift of the federal executive. Were I his political enemy, this would of itself be a sufficient reason for my opposition. Were I his friend, I would not consent by bringing him forward on such an occasion, to countenance the suspicions which have been already derived from his apparent versatility, that he had first accepted and so soon resigned the collectorship of Norfolk, because he had cast a longing eye upon the governor's chair. A sincere friend of Mr. Nicholas would perhaps prefer him to retrace the elementary steps of his political life; to mix once more in the deliberations of the Virginia Legislature; recover the unabated confidence of the republicans, and demonstrate by his public conduct that though he may fall under their casual suspicion, he can never be indifferent to the interests of his party.
Mr. Taylor will not probably accept of the appointment, though there are few men who possess more distinguished qualifications; & who are more entitled by their services to the practice of the state. Still there is one act in the life of Mr. Taylor, which is calculated to weaken his pre-
tensions to any office in the gift of the people or the legislature. Why, at a time when the senate of the union had a peculiar claim upon his services, did he so immediately resign after he had once accepted a seat in that body? That country ought to be extremely reluctant in flowering benefits upon the man who throws himself, so unwilling to make sacrifices for her prosperity.
I would not make Col. Harvie the object of my choice because the energy of his mind is not always assisted by the health and vigour of his frame.
I would not vote for Mr. McRae; although I entertain a very high opinion of his principles and qualifications—because if there be any truth in the maxim with which I set out in my investigation, his active support of those principles during the last winter which will in my judgment decide the republicans of Virginia should they be pressed too far, will render him unfit for this appointment at the next election.
No one then remains but Dr. W. Foushee and Mr. Brent, on whose heads we are to fix the honorary wreath. Each of them distinguished by their uniform services in the republican cause, their acute minds, their unvarying principles. In deciding between these gentlemen I am not permitted to indulge a single moment of hesitation. I survey the whole population of Virginia, and not a man appears to me so eminently qualified for the gubernatorial chair as Richard Brent. Placid and conciliatory in his manners; firm and inflexible in his politics, distinguished by his triumphant combats with the common enemy, and unassailed by the petty schisms among the republicans, where is the man among us who seems better fitted to conciliate and unite his friends, to conciliate and awe his opponents? Were I to expatiate on his talents, I should have to compose a panegyric on the human mind itself. A bold and comprehensive understanding, that combines in one mass the sublime speculations of theory and the elaborate details of government, a fancy that glows with his subject and kindles all around it, a perennial flow of the choicest & most captivating eloquence; such is the man, whose history I cannot trace without admiration, whose society I cannot enter without leaving it with regret. Never shall I forget the first impressions, which he engraved upon my inexperienced imagination. Surrounded by such illustrious men, as Gallatin and John Nicholas, Mr. Brent still appeared to tower up to their eminence; superior to them in eloquence, and scarcely beneath them in the originality depth and attainments of his understanding. Let us not forget too, that whilst other republicans have enjoyed the patronage of the legislature, Mr. Brent has been ever dependent upon the patronage of a wavering district; that he has been ejected from a place in Congress by such an opponent as Joseph Lewis; that Col. Elzey has now superadded the necessity of his presence in the district, and that this is the moment to bring his fine powers once more into the view and service of Virginia.
COMMUNICATION.
A Gentleman in Richmond is in possession of the art of SECRET WRITING, on a plan which comprises all the qualifications in the article sign'd Notus , in the Enquirer of the 11th. inst.
By Last Evening's Mail.
NEW-YORK, June 19.
The following intelligence was received yesterday by Mr. Donald Fraser, of this city, in a letter from his son, dated St. Croix, May 25.
"Lord Nelson was seen yesterday from shore with 14 sail of the line in chase of the French fleet of 16 & a number of frigates. We expect daily to hear of a bloody engagement."
[Captain Fowler, of the brig Jane, who arrived here on the 11th instant from St. Croix, which place he left on the 18th of June, (seven days after the date of this letter) heard nothing of Lord Nelson's fleet having been seen off that island, though, had such an event occurred, it must have been the almost exclusive subject of general conversation. We have reason to conclude therefore, that the intelligence is premature.]
Mer. Adv.
NORFOLK, June 22.
Captain Brownlow, of the Hannah from Guadalupe, informs us that on the 28th of May, two ships, of eighty guns, arrived from France. They laid them a part of a French fleet of twenty-six sail of the line, from Brest; and had been separated in a storm. They had taken a merchant ship on their passage—On the 4th of June the Kingfisher, sloop of war, was captured by two French frigates, off Bellerive.
Ledger.
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold, positively, without reserve, on a credit of 60 days, on Thursday evening next, at 5 o'clock. THE four story BRICK TENEMENT opposite the Post-Office, now occupied by Micajah Davis.
Also at the same time, on a credit of 9 months, on the premises, One half acre LOT, No. 342, handsomely situated and not very distant from the Basin of the Canal.
And on Friday will be sold, on the premises, about 31 acres Meadow and High LAND, with some beautiful building sites, in lots to suit the purchasers, adjoining the mill formerly the property of Maj. William Du-Val, on a credit of 60 days.
Also, the manufacturing Mill now in complete repair, late the property of said Du-Val, with about ten acres of meadow land attached thereto; on a credit of one, two and three years. Possession of all the property will be immediately given, and approved security required.
PROSSER & MONCURE, V. M's.
WILLIAMSBURG HUSTINGS COURT, May 27th, 1805.
ORDERED that notice be given for four weeks in the Enquirer, printed in Richmond; That this court will on the fourth Monday in July next, proceed to the settlement and distribution of the estate of John Ferguson, deceased, committed to the hands of Philip Moody late Sergeant of this City for administration.
A Copy, Test. WILLIAM RUSSELL, c. c. Williamsburg, June 25. (eP4w.)
FOR SALE.
THE TRACT of LAND on which Chesterfield court house is situated. THE subscribers, being desirous of making a division of their lands, will dispose of the above on advantageous terms to the purchaser, for cash or on credit. This tract contains 1424 acres; an excellent grist-mill; good and convenient buildings, that are insured in the Mutual Assurance Company of this State against fire; the situation inferior to none in this state for the man of public business, or the planter. Many other advantages, singularly inviting, might be particularized, but we deem it unnecessary to say more, than to invite those who wish to purchase, to come and view the premises.
W. WINTER, Jun. Wm. WINTER.
Chesterfield, June 25, 1805. (P5t.)

Mr. Whitebread having inquired if the answer which his majesty had been pleased to return to the resolutions of the house, which had been laid before him on Thursday the 11th instant, had been reported to the house.
The Speaker said that he had thought it a proper mark of respect to his majesty and to the house, to make the communication of the answer of his Majesty the first business of the day.
On motion of Mr. Whitebread his Majesty's answer was again read. His Majesty's Answer. "His Majesty shall on all occasions give the fullest attention to whatever may be the object of communication by his commons; and, on the present occasion, what they offered contained matter of great importance."
Mr. Whitebread then said, that he could not forbear expressing his astonishment that after such an interval, no step had been taken to evince his Majesty's sense of the importance of the Resolutions of that House. Several Gazettes had appeared since the Resolutions were carried up, and none of them had announced that the name of Lord Melville had been struck out of the list of his Majesty's Privy Council.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer said that he did not feel himself bound in consequence of any thing that had occurred in that House, on the day when the resolutions of parliament had been ordered to be laid before his majesty, to give any such advice to his majesty as that which the Hon. Gentleman supposed.
Mr. Whitebread then proceeded to call the attention of the house to the subject of the motions of which he had given notice previous to the recess. He could not forbear from congratulating the house on the sense which seemed to universally to be entertained out of doors of the conduct of the house in the votes which they had already passed on the subject of naval affairs.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer explained and said, that he wished to exclude, no part of the inquiry, but that which might be the subject of legal examination. If the order of motions were inverted, and the second put first, it would answer but he wished to avoid that.
with to clear himself from the charge of having prematurely given notice of a motion on any particular subject, and thereby taken it out of the hands of another gentleman alluded to, and he appealed to him, if the notice which he gave, was not expressly conditional, that if he (Mr. Pitt) did not, on an early day after the recess, bring forward such a motion, he (Mr. Greville) would.
There was another part of the hon. gentleman's speech, in which his sentiments had been misrepresented. He thought as in the department into the management of which investigation had been made, they had discovered practices and malversations of which they could not approve, it would be proper to make such inquiries into every branch of the revenue, as should go to shew, either that in other departments they did not exist, or, if they did, that it was the determination of parliament to take such measures as should detect and prevent them in future.
JUST RECEIVED, And for sale at Ritchie & Worley's book store: HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN IRELAND; containing an impartial account of the proceedings of the Irish Revolutionists, from the year 1782, until the suppression of the intended Revolution.
JAMES SEABROOK, TAYLOR. RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his friends and the public, for their liberal encouragement, and informs them, that he continues to carry on his business in all its various branches, nearly opposite the Post Office and next door to Ritchie & Worley's Printing-Office.
NOTICE. THE co-partnership of ROBERT GAMBLE & SONS, will be dissolved by mutual consent, on Saturday, the 11th instant. All persons indebted to the said firm, are earnestly entreated to make immediate payment to either of the subscribers.
The subscribers take this method of informing their friends and the public, that they intend carrying on the mercantile business, under the firm of JOHN & ROBERT GAMBLE JUN.
They have on hand Madeira & Sherry Wine, Cognac Brandy, West-India Rum, Whiskey, Sugar, Pepper, Allum, Copperas and Brimstone, (in pipes, hds. and casks), Cotton and Wool Cards, Patent Shot, Steel, Bar Iron, Hollow Iron Ware, German Scythes, Cutting Knives and Whetstones, Oznaburghs, Ticklenburgs and Brown HOLLands, Snuff, Cut Herrings &c.
The highest rates given for Bees-Wax, good Bear, Deer, and Otter skins, and other shipping Furs. JOHN G. GAMBLE. ROBERT GAMBLE, Jr. Richmond, May 10, 1805. ep3w nawf.
IN HANOVER COUNTY COURT, April 29th, 1805. Austin Morris, Plaintiff. John Crenshaw, Defendant. THIS day came the plaintiff by his counsel, and 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 he is not an inhabitant of this country, on the motion of the plaintiff it is Decreed and Ordered, That the defendant do appear here on the first day of the next quarterly term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the Court-house in this county. A Copy. Teste. THOS. POLLARD, D.C.H.C. May 28. (T2u)
Mr. Sheridan was of opinion that they could not with any propriety proceed at the time, with a legal prosecution, and with further inquiries, by a committee, and that, therefore, all legal proceedings ought to be delayed till the committee, now proposed to be appointed, should have made its report.
A TRACT OF LAND. JOHN GILMER, wishes to sell a tract of land, consisting of 330 acres, lying within half a mile of Charlottesville. Any person wishing to purchase, may see the land, and know the terms by applying to him in that place. June 4. (1a wsw.)
JUST RECEIVED, And for sale at Ritchie & Worley's book store: HISTORY OF THE CIVIL WAR IN IRELAND; containing an impartial account of the proceedings of the Irish Revolutionists, from the year 1782, until the suppression of the intended Revolution.
JAMES SEABROOK, TAYLOR. RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his friends and the public, for their liberal encouragement, and informs them, that he continues to carry on his business in all its various branches, nearly opposite the Post Office and next door to Ritchie & Worley's Printing-Office.
NOTICE. THE co-partnership of ROBERT GAMBLE & SONS, will be dissolved by mutual consent, on Saturday, the 11th instant. All persons indebted to the said firm, are earnestly entreated to make immediate payment to either of the subscribers.
The subscribers take this method of informing their friends and the public, that they intend carrying on the mercantile business, under the firm of JOHN & ROBERT GAMBLE JUN.
They have on hand Madeira & Sherry Wine, Cognac Brandy, West-India Rum, Whiskey, Sugar, Pepper, Allum, Copperas and Brimstone, (in pipes, hds. and casks), Cotton and Wool Cards, Patent Shot, Steel, Bar Iron, Hollow Iron Ware, German Scythes, Cutting Knives and Whetstones, Oznaburghs, Ticklenburgs and Brown HOLLands, Snuff, Cut Herrings &c.
The highest rates given for Bees-Wax, good Bear, Deer, and Otter skins, and other shipping Furs. JOHN G. GAMBLE. ROBERT GAMBLE, Jr. Richmond, May 10, 1805. ep3w nawf.
IN HANOVER COUNTY COURT, April 29th, 1805. Austin Morris, Plaintiff. John Crenshaw, Defendant. THIS day came the plaintiff by his counsel, and 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 he is not an inhabitant of this country, on the motion of the plaintiff it is Decreed and Ordered, That the defendant do appear here on the first day of the next quarterly term, and answer the bill of the plaintiff; and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some one of the newspapers printed in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the Court-house in this county. A Copy. Teste. THOS. POLLARD, D.C.H.C. May 28. (T2u)
FOR SALE—BY THE SUBSCRIBER: COAF SUGAR, by the hhd. bbl. or single loaf, direct from Pennington's Manufactory, Philadelphia: SOAL and UPPER LEATHER, on moderate terms. PRIME SPANISH HIDES. MICAH JAH DAVIS. 6th mo. 11th, '05. (eTrf)
MRS. RIVARDI'S ACADEMY. Reverend Sir, YOU had the kindness to allow me, two years ago, to look upon you not only as one of the chief protectors of the establishment under my charge, but also did me the honor of becoming in conjunction with Dr. B. Ruth, J. B. McKean, R. Smith and A. Morris, Esquires, one of the Trustees of my Seminary.
THE TENEMENT now in the occupancy of Mr. John Carter, situated on the Main-Street, opposite the property on which Mr. Archibald Blair resides. This property is truly desirable, being in a healthy and respectable neighbourhood, convenient to the Capitol and also the active scenes of business.
POLITE ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR YOUNG LADIES. AT WILLIAMSBURG. TO those who are acquainted with the excellent Society of Williamsburg, a recommendation of it as an eligible scene for the education of Young Ladies, is unnecessary.
LINSEED OIL. A Quantity of Dutch Boiled LINSEED OIL, For Sale by THOMAS WHITE. May 21. TSW
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Chancery District Court held in the city of Williamsburg, the 6th day of April, 1805. Helen Gilmour, widow and relict of Robert Gilmour, deceased; and John Morton Gilmour and Robert Gilmour, only children of the said Robert Gilmour, deceased, Plaintiffs.
THE SUBSCRIBER. BEGS leave to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he has leased of Capt. Samuel Ellis, for a term of years, his white house at Rocketts, nearly opposite Mrs. Sarah Letter's lower Wharfs; where he purposes carrying on the COMMISSION BUSINESS in its various branches.
MOUNTAIN FOR SALE. THE subscriber offers for sale, his Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of MOUNTAIN. The above tract contains about 500 acres, all of which is equal to any land in that part of the country for facility of soil, and has every requisite to constitute a desirable situation for a genteel family.
VIRGINIA. In the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond, Between Thomas Price and John Sandridge, Plaintiffs. Alexander Outlaw, senior, and Alexander Outlaw, junior, Defendants. ON motion of the defendant, Alexander Outlaw, junior, by counsel, this cause is ordered to be re-docketed; thereupon the said defendant filed his answer, to which the plaintiffs replied generally, and commissions are awarded the plaintiffs and the said defendant, to examine and take the depositions of their witnesses; and on the further motion of the said defendant, the court referreth the accounts, between him and the plaintiffs in this suit, to one of its commissioners, to be by him examined, stated, settled, and to the court reported with any special matters thought pertinent by himself, or required by the parties to be specially stated. A Copy. Teste. PETER T. ASLEY, C.C. COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, Richmond, 15th May, 1805.
HANCOCK PROPERTY FOR SALE. THE subscriber offers for sale his Estate House on Shockoe-hill, in which he resides at present, containing five large rooms, an airy passage, ten by thirty seven feet, two rooms in the garret, two closets, and three rooms in the cellar, with requisite out buildings.
THE TENEMENT now in the occupancy of Mr. John Carter, situated on the Main-Street, opposite the property on which Mr. Archibald Blair resides. This property is truly desirable, being in a healthy and respectable neighbourhood, convenient to the Capitol and also the active scenes of business.
POLITE ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR YOUNG LADIES. AT WILLIAMSBURG. TO those who are acquainted with the excellent Society of Williamsburg, a recommendation of it as an eligible scene for the education of Young Ladies, is unnecessary.
LINSEED OIL. A Quantity of Dutch Boiled LINSEED OIL, For Sale by THOMAS WHITE. May 21. TSW
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Chancery District Court held in the city of Williamsburg, the 6th day of April, 1805. Helen Gilmour, widow and relict of Robert Gilmour, deceased; and John Morton Gilmour and Robert Gilmour, only children of the said Robert Gilmour, deceased, Plaintiffs.
THE SUBSCRIBER. BEGS leave to inform his friends, and the public in general, that he has leased of Capt. Samuel Ellis, for a term of years, his white house at Rocketts, nearly opposite Mrs. Sarah Letter's lower Wharfs; where he purposes carrying on the COMMISSION BUSINESS in its various branches.
MOUNTAIN FOR SALE. THE subscriber offers for sale, his Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of MOUNTAIN. The above tract contains about 500 acres, all of which is equal to any land in that part of the country for facility of soil, and has every requisite to constitute a desirable situation for a genteel family.
VIRGINIA. In the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond, Between Thomas Price and John Sandridge, Plaintiffs. Alexander Outlaw, senior, and Alexander Outlaw, junior, Defendants. ON motion of the defendant, Alexander Outlaw, junior, by counsel, this cause is ordered to be re-docketed; thereupon the said defendant filed his answer, to which the plaintiffs replied generally, and commissions are awarded the plaintiffs and the said defendant, to examine and take the depositions of their witnesses; and on the further motion of the said defendant, the court referreth the accounts, between him and the plaintiffs in this suit, to one of its commissioners, to be by him examined, stated, settled, and to the court reported with any special matters thought pertinent by himself, or required by the parties to be specially stated. A Copy. Teste. PETER T. ASLEY, C.C. COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, Richmond, 15th May, 1805.
THE parties will take Notice, that I have appointed the twenty-ninth day of July next, to commence the account directed by the annexed decree of the Court—on which day they are requested to attend at my office in this city, with the accounts & vouchers prepared, and ready for examination and settlement—and with copies of the court papers. SAMUEL GREENHOW, M.C. May 21. ff
IN ALL ITS VARIETY, EXECUTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE UNSUBSCRIBED.