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The Enquirer.
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Europe.
NEW-YORK, June 20. To the politeness of a Commercial Friend the editor of the Mercantile Advertiser is indebted for the Boston Centinel of Wednesday, (in anticipation of the Mail) containing London news to the 5th of May, Liverpool to the 7th, and Dublin to the 9th, inclusive, being three days after our former advices.
BOSTON, June 17. LATEST FROM EUROPE.
Last evening we received by the Hannah, Captain Cottle, from Dublin, the papers of that city to the 9th, and a Liverpool paper of the 7th May, containing London dates to the 5th May.
No great events had occurred in the Grand Armies in Regel Prussia, or Poland, as late as the 16th April. Great numbers of troops were daily advancing to reinforce both. The Emperor Alexander had joined his army; and General Benningen retained his command, and the entire confidence of his sovereign. Lord Hutchinson was with the Russian army.
The Swedes, from Stralsund, having turned the French army too far, were in their turn, attacked by Marshal Mortier, defeated & bro't beyond Anklam, with the loss of 1400 made prisoners, and 5 pieces cannon. On this reverse, the Swedish commander proposed an armistice, which was agreed to, and two Swedish islands pledged as guarantees. Each party was at liberty to break the armistice on giving ten days notice. It was conjectured in England, the armistice would not be ratified by the king of Sweden.
The complete failure of the English expedition against Constantinople was confirmed. Admiral Duckworth had returned into the Archipelago, with the loss in the passages of the Dardanelles of 69 killed and 219 wounded. Stone balls were fired into the fleet in the narrows weighing 700 wt. each. Six Turkish ships of war were destroyed—On the return of the English to Tenedos, they were joined (March 16th) by seven sail of Russian line of battle ships. The failure of the expedition is attributed to calm weather, and the want of troops.
The Russians had invested Imaïl; had gained some advantages, and received reinforcements from the Crimea; but the Ottoman forces were collecting in strength, and a French army was on the point of entering Turkey. French influence was paramount in Constantinople; and Austria appeared to side against Russia.
We continue to receive reports of the recent capture of Alexandria, in Egypt, by a British force under the direction of Sir Sidney Smith. The London papers, it is true, speak of a strong expedition having failed from Sicily; but we have no correct accounts of its destination: Besides, we know, Sir Sidney was engaged in the affair of the Dardanelles, the 19th February last; when in Le Pompee, of 80 guns, he passed under her three topmasts, and only fired one gun as he passed, in contempt of the Turkish fire; and to him was allotted the destruction of the Turkish squadron, which he executed.
LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT.
The latest accounts from the Grand Armies were to the 25th April, at which time no general action had taken place, but was momentary expected.—Both the French and Russian armies had received immense reinforcements. The head-quarters of the French were at Finkenstien, and those of the Russians at Finkenstien, about 40 English miles distant; but their advanced corps were only 5 miles apart, and frequent skirmishes.
All ideas of peace had vanished. An article from Vienna dated April 18th states: "It is apparent that the new campaign between the Russian and French armies will soon be opened; the negotiations for peace being at an end. We remain neutral."
MEMEL, April 16. —The continuation of war is already decided. Baron Hardenberg is appointed Minister of foreign affairs.
PETERSBURG, April 8. —The Emperor has ordered a levy of 200,000 men from the militia, for immediate service.
CONSTANTINOPLE, March 23. —A part of the British fleet appears to have gone up the Mediterranean. They have however left 9 or 10 ships before Pera. The Turkish fleet has returned to Constantinople to disembark part of the land forces, and to proceed from thence
to the Black Sea. The British fleet has taken possession of the Island of Cyprus. The blockade of the Dardanelles has caused a great scarcity of provisions here.
[From London papers to the 11th of May inclusive, received at the office of the "New-York Commercial Advertiser," by the brig Robert Barclay, in 30 days from the Downs.]
LONDON, May 8. A gentleman arrived in town, who left Hamburg so late as Saturday last. He brings intelligence that a part of the French troops had returned thither, and that the king of Sweden had refused to ratify the armistice. This may be the case, and the French most likely had a suspicion it would be so, which induced them to draw up the armistice in such a manner, that the condition would be carried into execution before the king's opinion could be obtained.
The funds have experienced a fall this morning, which, it is said, is owing to the subsidy intended for Russia, amounting to the enormous sum of six millions.
FROM THE BORDERS OF THE ELBE, April 27.
The siege of Colberg, raised by the diversion made by the Swedes from Stralsund, is now pushed with greater vigor than before.
The Russian courier, who has brought several details to Memel, taken from the Ottoman troops, says that the Turks lost 4000 men in the last battles, when these trophies were taken, and that the Russians were within 40 miles of Constantinople.
MEMEL, April 14. His imperial majesty attends to the labors of the cabinet with uninterrupted assiduity. Notwithstanding the fatigue of his journey was very great, owing to the badness of the roads and the weather, on the morning after his arrival, his majesty was up at five, and sat down to write: this is his daily custom.
M. De Hardenberg is the only minister who accompanied the two sovereigns to Georgenburg.—This esteemed cabinet minister received a private visit from the emperor, who staid with him two hours and a half.
The reinforcement which is arrived with the grand duke Constantine, consists of thirty-two battalions, twenty-seven squadrons, and ninety-two pieces of heavy ordnance. It is to be followed immediately by thirteen battalions; a corps de reserve of 60 or 70,000 men is also on its march.—The voluntary contributions for carrying on the war, already amounted, according to the latest accounts, to forty two million six hundred thousand roubles, and the lists from the distant provinces were not then come in.
Bonaparte has removed his head-quarters still farther back to Rosenberg, two leagues from Marienwerder.
LEYDEN, May 3. The letters from Germany contain little news. In one of them, however, dated the Banks of the Danube, April 21, it is stated that the Russians had attempted a descent on the island of Cania, but that they were driven back with considerable loss. Mention is also made of a misunderstanding said to have arisen among the principal officers of the English fleet in the Archipelago, and in particular between admiral Duckworth and the rear admirals Sir Sidney Smith and Louis. The two latter, it is said, have formally accused the commander in chief to their government, charging him with having dishonored the British name before Constantinople, and by his inconsiderate conduct provoked a rupture with the Porte. High words have also passed between the admiral and the British ambassador Arbuthnot.
OPERATIONS OF THE RUSSIAN AND TURKISH ARMIES.
PARIS, April 16. Extract of a letter from Mr. de Lamarre, vice consul at Warsaw, to his excellency the minister for foreign affairs.
RUTSCHUCK, Feb. 26. The Turks have in several skirmishes gained advantages more or less considerable over the Russians.
On the 2d January, Pashwan-Aga, Ayan of Silistria, attacked the Russians near Galatz, killed 300 of them, and made 200 prisoners, which were sent to Mustafa-Pacha, with some bags of heads and ears.
On the 20th of the same month, 1500 Russians and Wallachians, having advanced from Bucharest to Zimizza, a village in Wallachia, in front of Sistrow, the Turks killed or took 200 prisoners and put the rest to flight.
A more important engagement took place on the 29th, near Imaïl, between Pechivan-Aga and the Russians. The latter lost 800 men killed, 500 prisoners, 3 pieces of cannon and several stands of colours. Pechivan-Aga has 15,000 excellent cavalry under his command, the half of whom consists of most determined Tartars.
On the 9th of February, another partial action took place near the village of Piatra, some leagues beyond Bucharest. The Russians had 600 men killed, and lost 600 prisoners, besides a piece of cannon and 800 horses.
Mustapha-Pacha's army amounts to 60,000 men. He gives pardon to no Rajah, who is in the ranks of the Russian army. He treats his prisoners well.
It appears certain that diffusions have broke out at Bucharest, between Ypsilanti, Michelion and the Goyards. The Russians have almost all left the town, in order, as is thought to recruit the Dniester. They are at present to the number of 12 or 15,000 men.
Prince Suzzo, who has arrived here within these few days, has sent his spartar to Crajova, in lower Wallachia, in order to assemble the faithful Goyards around him, and arm the inhabitants; it will then be seen that not a single Goyard will remain with Ypsilanti.
I am, &c. (Signed) LAMARRE.
SWEDEN.
MALMO, April 16. His Royal Majesty received the day before yesterday, the following report from Baron Eden, Gov. Gen. of Pomerania:
"On the 16th, in the morning, Gen. Baron Armfeldt reported to me, that early in the morning his advanced posts were attacked by the enemy with a superior force, and that he supposed the enemy were reconnoitring our position. A further report stated, that a strong corps advanced against the centre of his
left wing, and that, notwithstanding the vigorous resistance made by his troops, he was obliged to fall back; the General proceeded immediately to Greifenberg, where the roads from Skane and Fehmarn meet. In the mean time no report reached me from Col. Cardell, nor was the pal of Sarowmuhls occupied by him. That part of the column which was under the orders of Brigadier Vegfack and after he had been wounded, under the command of Lieut. Col. Poffe, continued to fall back towards Anklam and Ziethe, Swedish Pomerania, where it halted."
"I had in the mean while established my headquarters at Kantzen, where I received the above report from Gen. Armfeldt. From Anklam I sent my Aid-de-Camp, Major Besselwitz to Adjutant Gen. Baron Tawast, who commanded the right column, with orders to call in his advanced posts; he left Lenin, and took a position behind the river Peen; the troops posted at Friebe and Damgarten were also ordered to retreat."
"A further report from Baron Armfeldt acquainting me, that he had been necessitated to order the infantry to retreat to Rantzien, while he remained at Ziethe on the 17th with his cavalry and two pieces of cannon. I thereupon ordered Baron Stael von Holstein to take the command of the above troops, & soon after was informed by Baron Armfeldt, that he was wounded, and had proceeded to Stralsund. The battalions of Skaraburg and Engelbrecht were ordered to retreat from Ziethe and Stolpe, and the right column towards Grimse."
"In the morning of the 17th the battalions belonging to the left column, moved from Kantzen, part of them occupied the villages in the vicinity of Griefswald, and the rest were quartered in that city."
"The same morning, I sent Baron Krafft to Anklam, to propose an armistice for 24 hours, in order to gain time to remove the sick and wounded. In the afternoon Col. Gouvi, the first Aid-de-Camp to Gen. Mortier, arrived at Griefswald with the General's answer."
"On the 18th, another officer arrived from General Mortier, who proposed a meeting with me, at Scharkow, half a mile from Anklam, where I accordingly arrived at four o'clock in the afternoon. The right column was ordered the same day to remove from Grim, and occupy the villages in the neighborhood of Stralsund. At the meeting in Scharkow an armistice was agreed upon, the terms of which I humbly annex to this report."
"On the 10th, I left Griefswald, and established my head-quarters in this city."
"H. H. VON ESSEN." Stralsund, April 20, 1807."
By a more recent report of the 23d of April, his Majesty has been informed, that the corps of Colonel Gardelbach made good its retreat to Swinemunde, whence it is ordered by the Governor General to proceed to Wolgast: upon the whole, it appears that our loss has not been by far so considerable as might have been expected.
The enemy's magazines taken on the 4th inst. at Anklam have been moved into Swedish Pomerania.
ARMISTICE.
Extra from Article I. A suspension of arms shall take place between the Swedish and French troops.
II. The Swedish troops, shall deliver up the Isles of Ufedom and Wollin to the French.
III. The Peene and Frebel shall form the line of demarcation between the two armies. The French troops shall have a post on the other side of the Peene, near the Custom-House by Anklam.
IV. As long as the armistice lasts, Baron Esen engages not to afford any assistance whatever, either directly or indirectly, to the cities of Dantzic and Colberg, nor to the troops of any power at war with France or her Allies.
V. No troops belonging to any power at war with France, to land at Stralsund, in Pomerania, or in the Isle of Rugen, as long as this armistice remains in force. Should, however, in pursuance of superior orders, of which his excellency is at present ignorant, the like troops be landed at Stralsund, in this case his excellency engages, that no hostilities shall be commenced by them against the French armies, during the continuance of this armistice.
VI. No hostilities shall be recommenced by the two armies before the expiration of 10 days after notice shall have been given that the armistice is at an end.
VII. All persons belonging to the military of either army, who may be taken prisoners after the date of the armistice, shall be mutually liberated.
Schlackow, April 18, 1807, eight o'clock at night.
LONDON, May 9.
Advices have been received which confirm the accounts of the defeat of the Turks on the Danube, by Gen. Michelson.
A reinforcement of above 40,000 men had joined General Benningen previous to the 1st of April.
May 11.
It is rumoured, that a Negotiation, in which England is included, is now carrying on between Bonaparte and the Emperor Alexander.
Dutch papers to the 5th instant have been received. They are barren of news. The Russian Army of Reserve of Lithuania, which has broken up for the head-quarters, comprise 90,000 men.
Koningsberg is to be the future head-quarters of the Emperor Alexander and the King of Prussia.
It is believed, that Austria, which has an effective army of 250,000 men, will take an immediate part in the war against France.
His Swedish Majesty, we understand, has refused to ratify the inglorious Armistice concluded by General Esen with Mortier. Intelligence to this effect has been brought by a gentleman who left Hamburg so late as Saturday last.
Government have received advice of a French squadron, consisting of two sail of the line, three frigates and one corvette, having put sea from Rochefort, and being seen in lat. 57 north, long. 8 and a half. Sir Francis Burdett and Mr. Pauli are now both as well as can be expected, each being able to sit up in bed. Sir Francis Burdett saw several of his friends yesterday.
The Marquis of Huntley has been created a peer of the British realm, by the style and title of Baron Gordon of Huntley, in the county of Gloucester.
From Malaga, April 17. —"Next week leaves this place for France, a regiment of Spaniards, and a regiment of horse. Every Spanish Province sends a certain number of troops to aid the French. The latter having at last felt the want of more troops."
"There is but little business doing here; nor is there a false here for any one article that would leave a decent profit."
ARTICLES OF THE CAPITULATION.
For the surrender of the city of Alexandria, Said Mahamed Naim Effendi being commissioned by his Excellency Emen Bey, the governor, and Haag Macaffie, Henry Pyle master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel there were nearly 20,000 Prussian troops at that place and its neighbourhood, which were anxiously expected from this country. Arms of every description were demanded from individuals for the temporary supply of the army. Ammunition was also so scarce, that the British ships of war in the Baltic were obliged to part with a great part of their stock for the use of the Combined Armies.
1. All private property of individuals, whether on land or embarked, shall be respected. The religion of the inhabitants, their mosques, and their laws shall be respected, as well as their houses and families.
2. The commandant, his Excellency Emen Bey, as well as the commandant of the Marine, Satak Aga, and Mahamed Naim Effendi, with all the official retinue of the government, the troops and the crews of the vessels belonging to Government, shall be sent to a port of Turkey, with the arms and baggage of individuals; but they are to consider themselves as prisoners of war, and shall not be engaged to take up arms against the British forces or their allies, until exchanged.
3. The vessels belonging to government, and all public property shall be given up to the British forces, and Commanders shall be appointed on both sides, to make an inventory.
4. All Ottoman vessels belonging to individuals, and all property belonging to private subjects of the Sublime Porte, which shall be found within Alexandria, shall be respected. Such persons as wish to remain in the country, shall have the liberty to do so, if their conduct and character shall make it safe; and those who wish to depart, may carry with them their properties, and shall be furnished with passports for landing in any port of Turkey, which shall not be blocked.
5. There shall be a general amnesty for all the inhabitants, nor shall any notice be taken of the conduct they may have held during the defence of the place.
6. There shall be no seizure of the property of individuals, if they shall not become enemies of Great Britain.—The Gate of Rosetta shall be placed in the hands of the forces of his Britannic Majesty, as well as Fort Cretin and Fort Cassarelle.
From the camp without the city of Alexandria, the 20th March, 1807, or the 10th of the month Maharen, of the year 1222. (Signed) SAID MAHAMAD NAIM EFFENDI, HAAG MAHAMED KALTEP, SIEG IBRAHIM BASA. (Signed)
ALEX. M. FRASER, Maj. Gen. Commanding his Britannic Majesty's troops. BENJ. HALLOWELL, Capt. of H. M. ship Tigre.
Return of the killed and wounded of the army, in the attack of the 8th of March, 1807, under the command of Maj. Gen. Fraser:
1st Bn. 95th reg. 2 rank and file killed; 1 subaltern, 1 sergeant, 4 rank and file wounded. Reg. De Roll, 1 assistant surgeon, 2 rank and file killed; 1 rank and file wounded.
Sicilian Volunteers, 2 rank and file killed. Royal Artillery, one bombardier, one gunner, wounded. Total, 1 officer, 1 sergeant, 8 rank and file wounded.
Affair Surgeon Catanazo, killed; lieut. Cameron wounded.
Return of the Garrison of Alexandria, previous to its surrender, the 21st of March, 1807:
Soldiers of the line, 215; Gunners, 43; Sailors and Marines, 208.—Total 467.
Escaped of the above number while the Capitulation was pending, 240.—Prisoners remaining, 227.
GEORGE AIRREY, Ading Dep. Adj. General.
Here follows a letter from Lord Collingwood, inclosing a dispatch from Captain Hallowell, of the Tigre, to Sir J. Duckworth, the substance of which is as follows:—After mentioning the arrival of the ships on the 15th, off Arab's Tower, Capt. H. observes, that having received satisfactory assurances of the friendly disposition of the natives and inhabitants, from Major Miffet, the British Resident, and Mr. Briggs, the Vice-Consul, the transports anchored off the western harbour, and the landing was effected, as described in the Letter of General Fraser. On the 19th, the Apollo, with the remainder of the transports, 19 sail, which had separated, arrived, and proceeded to Aboukir Bay. Captain H. who was requested to remain on shore, by General Fraser, pays some high compliments to Mr. Fowle, his first Lieutenant, Captain Whithers, principal agent for transports, and all the officers and men of the Tigre and transports as they performed an arduous service, in consequence of the distance they had to row, and the garrisons encountered on the beach.—Capt. H. mentions, that the ships taken in the old western port were, two Turkish frigates and a corvette, all mounting brass guns; one of the frigates carried forty guns, the other 32, and the corvette 15.
Another letter from Capt. Rait, of the Scout, to Lord Collingwood, states, that he drove on shore, on the coast of Spain, where she was destroyed, one of the largest of the enemy's privateers, which infest the Straights of Gibraltar. She was called the Admiral of Tariffa, and had 10 guns, with 100 men.
A letter from Capt. Secombe, of the Glutton, to Lord Collingwood, dated off Tenedos, March 5, states, that hearing of a Turkish frigate, being at anchor in the port of Sigi, he detached the boats of the Glutton, under the orders of Lieut. Watson to capture her, covered by the brig L'Hirondelle, in which they succeeded, but with the loss of Lieut. Watson, with one sergeant, one corporal, and two private marines killed, and five seamen and four marines wounded. Capt. Secombe praises, in high terms, the conduct of Lieut. Skinner, of L'Hirondelle, Lieutenants Truffan, and Sandwith, of the marines, and all of the seamen and marines of the detachment.
NEW-YORK, June 23.
Almost every day adds something new to our stock of intelligence from Europe. We yesterday occupied a considerable portion of the Mercantile Advertiser with interesting extracts from London prints to the 11th ultimo; and this morning the arrival of the ship Swift from Liverpool, in the short passage of 32 days, has enabled us to extend those extracts to the 16th inclusive. The 7th and 7th Bulletin of the French Grand Army are in our possession, and shall be attended to morrow.
LONDON, May 12.
The Treaty with Britain, it is said, has been sent back to London for re-consideration; and we should hope that by mutual concession, the whole of this disagreeable dispute may be amicably adjusted. Perhaps, however, our present Ministry, with that laudable spirit of contradiction to the former Cabinet which has prompted all their measures since their accession to office, may undo what their predecessors have done, and involve us in a war with a country united to ours by the ties of blood as well as of policy, to prove their zeal for the religion of Peace!
The Channel Fleet has been obliged to return into port from the uncommon severity of the weather.
Arrived at Plymouth, the Ver... of Newcastle, Henry Pyle master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; when the master from Memel, which place the left 28th March, for this port with timber; whenel there were nearly 20,000 Prussian troops at that place and its neighbourhood, which were anxiously expected from this country. Arms of every description were demanded from individuals for the temporary supply of the army. Ammunition was also so scarce, that the British ships of war in the Baltic were obliged to part with a great part of their stock for the use of the Combined Armies.
May 12. As we last night predicted, the new Ministers are resolved to make no concessions to America.—The Evening Trumpeter, not of their fame, but of their disgrace, warns us that the age of concession is past. Of this we are ware.—What then is left us? When fools are too obstinate to concede—too dull to be convinced, they must be constrained.—Statesman.
So confident were Generals Tarleton and Gardoigne of being returned for Liverpool on Thursday, that the chairs were brought out in the morning for the purpose of chairing them, and they had ordered a sumptuous dinner to be provided in the evening; when an independent freeman of the name of Green unexpectedly came forward and nominated Mr. Roscoe. The name of Green is ominous to Gen. Tarleton, who must remember his unpleasant race with Gen. Green in America, when the English hero rode first horse for a distance of nearly two miles. The friends of Mr. Roscoe are determined to keep the poll open the legal time, fifteen days.
May 14. The Levant fleet, under convoy of the Juno, has arrived in port. Intelligence has been received by it relative to the state of the enemy's squadrons in the Mediterranean.—The Combined Fleet in Cadiz consists of thirteen sail of the line, of which five are French and eight are Spanish. There are, moreover, three or four ships of the line in ordinary, two upon the stocks, and several sloops and frigates refitting.—In Carthagena, there are three sail of the line, three frigates, and two sloops, all ready for sea.—The ships are all manned, and with their sails bent. The French Admiral made a late attempt to escape; but perceiving that Lord Collingwood was on his station, and was resolved to remain there, he deemed it prudent to return into the harbor, and wait the

his army is stronger by 150,000 men than it was at the commencement of the war, and held out the prospect of his surprising, turning, and surrounding the Russian army, and compelling them to receive from him either death or law.
The transports that were at Portsmouth, have been ordered to the Downs to receive troops immediately. Ten thousand foot, it is said, are to be embarked, and four thousand horse. Four companies of artillery have been embarked at Woolwich. Three troops of gunner drivers are also under orders for embarkation.
The French have taken possession of the islands of Uledom and Wallin in pursuance of the armistice which the King of Sweden has not ratified.
Domestic.
FROM BOSTON, JUNE 19.
BRITISH FRIENDSHIP!
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Eastport, Maine, to his representative here, dated the 6th of June. "Yesterday an English cutter belonging to Halifax came up this river, and meeting a number of plaiemen going out, fired sixteen of them, and after detaining them two or three hours dismissed them! She then went into snug cove, where she met capt. Perry coming in, and brought him to, by firing a gun. Soon after, as capt. Merriman was getting under weigh, the cutter pushed for him, and fired 2 guns with shot, which stopped him; but while the cutter's boat was boarding capt. M. capt. Perry fired and bore away, on seeing which the cutter gave chase, and lodged a shot in his fore-mast. The passengers told me they never considered themselves in greater danger, as the cannon balls, grape shot and musket balls, flew thick for some time. Perry, however, got out of reach, and escaped without any other damage than that done his mast. A midshipman who boarded capt. Merriman, ordered Israel Andrews into the boat, who replied 'I am going into my own boat,' the midshipman damned him, and told him he should go into the cutter's boat - a quarrel ensued, when the midshipman knocked down Andrews, then put a pistol to his breast, and told him if he did not immediately comply, he would blow him through. He went in the boat, but was afterwards dismissed. They boarded a vessel off Woolwich, the men having gone ashore except the master, and cut the hoops of the casks from the masts, hove the anchors over, and left the captain to get in as he could. They pressed John Berry from one of the plaiemen, and carried him off. The cutter is now lying off and on Head harbor, waiting for more prey. What other mischief they will do before they leave us, no one can tell."
"I hope all who have boasted of the many conduct of the British, will now acknowledge they are as capable of behaving with as much wantonness and villainy as any other nation in the world."
NEW-YORK, June 17.
COMMUNICATION.
The house of appeal rec-announced their sittings at London on the 16th of April last, after a suspension of all proceedings for more than 15 months.
Upwards of sixty American claims were waiting to be heard. The first argued was that of the Active Stotebury, master, from Bordeaux for N. Orleans. This ship had been captured by the privateer Turk, in December 1804, and her cargo condemned by the Vice-Admiralty Court at Antigua, upon the plea that the claimant had acquired a French domicile.
Judge Blam, made the case of the Harmony, Boal, the ground for the condemnation of this cargo.
For the Claimant, Sir John Nichol, & Doctor Lawrence.
For the Captors, Mr. Stephen, author of War in Disguise.
Which learning and ability was displayed in the argument, on both sides.
Sir John Nichol, was truly eloquent, and drew strong distinctions between this case and that of the Harmony.
Doctor Lawrence, was as usual very successful on points of law.
Mr. Stephen, exhibited an affecting picture of the calamities of war, protracted as he said, by the evasion of neutrals, in the support of the enemies of Great-Britain.
On the 18th of April, their Lordships pronounced in favor of the appeal, and restored in the usual way.
SAVANNAH, June 6.
INDIAN ALARM.
Extract of a letter from St. Mary's, dated May 31, received this morning by a gentleman of this city.
"We are very much agitated with an Indian alarm, which I am really inclined to think, will cause a failure of our June crop. Two Indians have been down St. Mary's river, to a place called Trader's Hill, and killed a man of the name of Greene, in a most horrid and cruel manner. It appears, that they were well fed and treated by Greene; after which he took his seat in a shade cut at the door, when they both took their guns, Br. 4 through him, and cut open his bowels with their knives. His wife and children, we understand, were not injured in their escape."
"William Ashley and some others went after them two days since, if I mistake not; and last night, about twelve o'clock, an express came with orders from General Floyd, ordering out our troops of horse, in pursuit of the offenders, and to take them by force! The Hampsonians are casting balls and making cartridges, to bid them welcome."
NORFOLK, June 25.
On Tuesday we gave a short account of the affair which now engrosses all talk and conversation - Shortly after that publication, the Chesapeake arrived in Hampton Roads without Colours, and the Officers without Arms; and about 4 o'clock in the afternoon of the same day, (Tuesday) the wounded men arrived at this place, and were immediately sent to the Marine Hospital, where every thing necessary and comfortable is provided for their relief. The following is a list of their names, and of the names also of those killed.
A list of the Killed and Wounded on board the Frigate CHESAPEAKE;
KILLED. Joseph Arnold, City of Washington. John Laurence, Pennsylvania. John Sharpley, Philadelphia. WOUNDED. Mr. Brook, Midshipman. Robert McDonald, Washington City. Thomas Short, Virginia. George Percival, Philadelphia. Francis Coenhoven, New-York. James Eppes, Peterburg, Virginia. Cotton Brown, Canada, N. Hampshire. Peter Simmens, Prussia. Wm. Hendrick, Albany, (New-York.) Peter Ellison, Denmark. John Hayden, Baltimore. John Parker, New-York. William Moody, Delaware.
As the anxiety, rage and alarm on this subject, instead of subsiding is increasing, and the whole of this part of the country is ripe and prepared for anything that may promise revenge, we hasten to lay before the public the particulars of this unhappy affair, that we have been able to procure in addition to those already published - it is fully ascertained that this is not at all an affair of accident, that the orders were regularly sent, that the Leopard went out of the Capes prepared for action, that she took every possible advantage of the unprepared and almost defenceless state of the Chesapeake, and that she did everything she could do to destroy her, until there remained not the smallest pretence for further fire or for deliberate murder. It appears that the Leopard after bearing down on the Chesapeake, sent a boat on board with a copy of the Captain's instructions, which were to procure four men stated to be mutineers, belonging to his majesty's fleet, and then on board the Chesapeake, or at least, to demand a search for them; the boat was near half an hour along side, and after much talk, was by signal ordered to the Leopard; she had scarcely got out of danger before a shot was fired into the Chesapeake, and that was succeeded by a broad-side, several others followed, until it appeared evident that mischief enough had been done, and the Chesapeake's colours were down - In all this time the latter ship fired but two, or at most three scattering shot, and these almost accidentally and without order, for so wholly unprovided was she for action, that 'tis said her Cables were coiled over the Guns, and as the powder had not been properly damaged, and had been discovered to be damp, they were that day engaged in getting it out to dry, and the fires in the ship had been all put out to prevent accidents. The two ships, after this, stood farther off to sea; and the American ship of war the Chesapeake, underwent a regular search from his Majesty's ship the Leopard, and four men were taken, two of whom were said to be native impressed Americans, who had escaped after long confinement.
The world is always curious to know the first occasion or the first act of war; and we have been thus particular that the origin of, perhaps a new one, may not be forgotten. We should blame no captain for executing the orders of his superior if he exercised them like a man, but the cold blooded, cowardly cruelty, with which this business was effected, reflects disgrace and dishonor on the whole British navy; it well knew that the Chesapeake was little better than a lumbered store-ship carrying out supplies for the Mediterranean, as totally unprepared for action as unconscious of danger, and without waiting to see the effect of one broad-side, or to observe if she had struck, he continued his fire till, in the sea-phrase, she was quite cut up. Some of the shot went quite thro' the hull, her rigging and sails are torn to pieces, and she arrived with five feet water in the hold. Herald.
June 27.
The following letters have passed between the Committee and the British Consul, which are published for the information of the public. THEO. ARMISTEAD, Sec'y of the Committee.
British Consul's Office, Norfolk, Virginia, June 25, 1807.
To Brigadier General MATHEWS, Chairman of the Committee appointed to carry into effect the Resolutions, &c.
SIR, "As I do not perfectly understand how far the construction of the Resolutions adopted at the meeting held yesterday, as they respect the communication between myself and his Majesty's ships in the Chesapeake, may be supposed to extend, I beg leave to enquire of you, Sir, as the Chairman of the Committee appointed to carry those resolutions into effect, whether any or what restraint is thereby intended to be laid on my communication with the King's ships - whether the schooners which have hitherto been used as advice boats, will be permitted to pass as heretofore, uninterruptedly, and whether there will be any objection to myself, or any of my family, going backwards or forwards to the ships of war below, in such boats as may be allowed to carry my correspondence, or to our going by land to the Bay-side, and embarking from thence and returning to the shore in the ship's boats. I have the honor to remain, With perfect respect, Sir, Your most obedt. humble servt. JOHN HAMILTON.
To Col. JOHN HAMILTON, Consul for the State of Virginia.
SIR, "In answer to your letter of this date, I am directed by the Committee to say, that the ships hitherto employed as advice-boats in the service of H. B. Majesty's ships, cannot be permitted to pass and repass as heretofore. The Committee view the object of the Resolutions as intending to prevent supplies of every kind being afforded to these ships until the pleasure of our Government be known. The Committee can see no obstacle to you or any of your family communicating with the Officers of H. B. M's ships in either of the modes you mention, confident that no attempt will be made to contravene the Resolution respecting supplies. The boats you may engage in this service will be permitted to pass without examination. I have the honor to be, With perfect respect, Your most obedt. servant, THO. MATHEWS, Chairman of the Committee.
Norfolk, June 26, 1807.
Extract of a letter from Hampton, dated June 25.
"We have late news from the British men of war by the Pilot that were discharged yester-
day - They declare, that if their water and provisions do not come to them as usual, they will lay three boxes of war along side Hampton - send their barge ashore, and take them by force! The Hampsonians are casting balls and making cartridges, to bid them welcome."
The following letter to the Committee of Correspondence has been received from GEO. HOPE, Esq. of Hampton, dated 26th inst. SIR,
"I just now received yours with the enclosed Resolutions of the Citizens of Norfolk, and immediately communicated them to Col. Wray, and posted, to make them as public as possible. The inhabitants of this place unanimously feel indignant at the outrage committed on the Chesapeake, and are concerted measures to prevent the landing of any boats from the ships, which it is probable they may attempt. I am, with respect, GEO: HOPE."
At a meeting of the Committee at the Eagle Tavern, on Friday, June 26, 1807.
Present - Thomas Mathews, Daniel Bedinger, J. W. Murdaugh, Luke Wheeler, William Newsum, Thomas Newton, Thomas Blanchard, Theo. Armistead, M. Myers.
Resolved unanimously, that the opinion of this Committee, that the British Officer who this day brought dispatches to Colonel Hamilton, not having hoisted a flag before his approach to our harbour, was not afterwards entitled to be considered as coming under the protection of a flag of truce; and as such, he should not have been discharged, but should have been held in custody until the pleasure of the government was known.
Resolved unanimously, that it is the opinion of this committee, that any British officer coming to this place, shall be considered as a prisoner, until the decision of the government be known.
Resolved unanimously, that the proceedings of this meeting be regularly published.
The Committee of Correspondence laid before the Committee, a letter from Mr. Hope, of Hampton, which was ordered to be published.
Resolved, that Theodoric Armistead and Thomas Newton, jun. be a Committee to ascertain the best means of establishing a Telegraphic Communication between the sea-shore and this place.
Mr. James W. Murdaugh having informed the committee that a number of young gentlemen had instructed him to offer their services for the erection of batteries for the defence of the towns of Norfolk and Portsmouth.
Resolved, that Mr. Murdaugh be requested to return them the thanks of this committee for their patriotic offer, and trusts that the time is not distant when an opportunity will be offered for the display of their zeal.
THOS. MATHEWS, Chairman. THEO. ARMISTEAD, Sec'y.
The following letter, the original of which is lodged in the Collector's Office, was handed us for publication.
To the Commander on board of the U. S. Frigate Chesapeake, in H. Roads. "On board his B. M. ship Bellona, Captain Douglas, June 18. SIR,
"We request that you will have the kindness to take us out of this ship, for we are very much against serving the British. It is a nation we do not belong to, being all Americans. - We have no hopes of getting clear unless you befriend us. We have all American protections, but they will not look at them; and moreover were all born and brought up in the United States of America: and as we are now in the waters of our own country, hope its laws will protect us.
"We were first taken on board the Melampus, and thence sent on board this ship.
"We are your humble servants, John Heldridge, John Hayton, Wm. Ralerts, James Tarrell, John Barns, Peter White, Jeremiah Holmes, James Craig, John Heutman, George B. Ams, Stephen Findell, Emery Griffin, Conrad Smith, Charles Wahington, John Henry, William Mers., Henry Leman, William Mers."
MOB IN NORFOLK.
We have seen a letter from Norfolk, dated on Friday evening last, which represents the continued and increased agitation of the public mind in that place. The following circumstances occurred on Friday morning, which for a time seemed to threaten serious consequences: -
An officer came up from the British frigate Bellona, anchored his tender near the fort, and proceeded up in a yawl to the Consul's house - a mob instantly collected, whose fury it was almost impossible to restrain; surrounded the Consul's house, and demanded the officer. The town court was then sitting - Col. Hamilton immediately repaired to the court-house, and claimed the interference of the civil authority. After much difficulty, the indignation of the mob was restrained, and the British officer was permitted to return on board his ship unmolested. The tender was taken possession of; but being under the protection of the fort, was restored under a flag of truce. - The writer of the letter says, "The agitation this created, you can scarcely suppose - I really thought they would have torn her (the tender) to atoms."
We shall make but one remark on the above. - Would not the principles of justice and retaliation have authorized us to retain the officer and men until the American citizens impressed on board the Bellona, were restored to their country? Nay until ample satisfaction was given for the unjust seizure of the four men from the Chesapeake, two of whom, notwithstanding the imperious demand for them by the British, are said to be actually American born Citizens! When our own countrymen are cruelly flaughtered without any sort of provocation, why should we be so much afraid of openly manifesting the just resentment of an injured and insulted people? We cannot conclude without avowing our opinion that the tame and irresolute conduct shown towards the commander of the British tender, does not accord with the spirit and the energy of the Norfolk Resolutions. Pet. Int.
NOTICE.
The Books, Papers and Accounts of the late Mercantile firm of McCredie & McMillan, of the City of Richmond, being now in the possession of George McCredie, one of the administrators of John McCredie, deceased, who was the surviving partner of McCredie & McMillan:
THEREFORE, all those who are indebted either by specialty or otherwise, are requested to make immediate payment to George McCredie, or make such other arrangement as may be most conducive to the interest of the said concern, as well as to the debtors thereof. It is expected that due attention will be paid to this notice, as it is desirable that a close should be immediately made of the transactions of the above mentioned firm.
NANCY MCCREDIE, Adm're. JAMES PENN, Adm're. GEORGE MCCREDIE, Adm're. Manchesterville, July 1. tf.
FOR SALE.
By EDWARD HALLAM, THREE Hundred Barrels good merchantable CORN. Also, a few Thousand Wt. Salt Pea-ted BACON. July 1. tf.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 18 July.
According to public notice a numerous meeting of the Citizens of Richmond, Manchester and of their Vicinities, and of many other persons from distant places, was held at the Capitol in this city on Saturday Evening 4 o'clock, for the purpose of taking under their consideration the late outrage committed on the Frigate Chesapeake, by a British Squadron: - Not less than six or seven hundred persons were present. A more able or a more patriotic assembly was never convened in this city.
Mr. McCrae suggested the necessity of appointing a chairman; and nominated the Hon. Spencer Roane. George Hay, Esq. seconded the motion, and Mr. Roane was unanimously elected.
Thomas Ritchie was then nominated as secretary by Mr. McCrae, seconded by John Mayo, Esq. and was unanimously elected.
William Richardson, Esq. then presented a letter addressed to "the Mayor and citizens of Richmond" from the corresponding Society of Norfolk, enclosing the narrative of the outrages committed upon the Chesapeake and the resolutions adopted by the citizens of Norfolk. (These were published in the last Enquirer.)
Mr. John Baker moved, that the reading of the narrative should be dispensed with. He trusted that there was no man present so indifferent to the interest of his country as not to have eagerly perused the accounts which had been published of this outrageous transaction.
The resolutions having been read, a motion was made for the appointment of a committee, to take into consideration the outrages committed upon the Chesapeake, and to report immediately to the meeting their sentiments on the subject. - After some preliminary debate, the meeting came to a resolution for the appointment of a committee of seven. The chairman selected the following gentlemen:
The Hon. Alexander McCrae, Lieutenant Governor, the Hon. Creed Taylor, Chancellor; John Page, George Hay, William Foushee, William Wirt and Peyton Randolph, Esqrs. The committee retired for about an hour, when Mr. McCrae, reported the following Resolutions and Address:
"We, the citizens now convened, have read with horror and indignation the narrative of the attack made by the British ship Leopard on the U. S. Frigate Chesapeake. The demand which preceded the attack was lawless in its nature and most insolent in its manner. The attack itself was not only lawless and insolent, but base and cowardly; because it was made by a ship of fifty guns, prepared for action and supported by a British Squadron, in a time of profound peace, on an unoffending and therefore unprovoked friend, a single American Frigate of six and thirty guns; - such are the glorious triumphs of the British navy! We observe that this attack flowed from a deliberate order given by the British Admiral Berkeley, at Halifax: We believe that he would not have dared to compromise his nation by so bold and flagrant a breach of national law, without the previous sanction and order of his government: We consider it therefore as an act of the British government. We compare this monstrous outrage (committed in the moment of treaty,) with other acts of usurpation and aggression practiced by the same nation - their impressments of our seamen to long continued, and their gross and perpetual violation of our commerce, which they have the effrontery to advocate even from their tribunals of law: the review confirms us in the belief, that the attack on the Chesapeake is not the act either of Commodore Douglas or Admiral Berkeley, any more than the act of the oriental slave who licks the dust from the foot of despotism, is the act of the slave and not of the despot: but that this attack is the act of the British government; and simply another effusion of the same spirit which produced their impressments and commercial violations. This act is of the same stamp and colour with the rest. We behold in it all, a consistent picture; a nation insolent in the consciousness of her naval strength - totally regarding all the rights of others - totally regardless of all law, reason and humanity - destitute of every motive, feeling and principle which binds civilized nations together - and having no rule of action whatever, but self-aggrandizement and the gratification of her own caprices by brutal force. We compare this bloody violence with the cares and attentions which they are even now showing to our ministers at their feasts in London; and we behold a nation, which, to the picture of black and savage piracy, adds the features of smiling treachery and mean hypocrisy? A nation which by her actions proclaims the opinion, that we are not only to feeble as to be insulted and outraged with impunity, but so weak and foolish as to be amused forever with the perfidious semblance of negotiation for the redress of our wrongs, while she takes the shorter cut of blood and battle for the attainment of her purposes. With a nation of such principles and such practices, we with no friendship, no intercourse: to such complicated and incessant wrongs, continually aggravated in proportion to our patience, we are disposed to submit no longer. Wherefore:
1. Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of the citizens of Richmond, be communicated to our fellow-citizens of Norfolk, for the exemplary promptitude and energy which they have displayed on this occasion; and that they be assured that we unite with them, heart and hand, in all their feelings and resolutions.
2. Resolved unanimously, That while we deplore the horrors of war and approve all honorable means of averting them, we possess the firm hope that the government of the U. States will avenge this unparalleled outrage with the spirit which becomes the nation, and which the nation feels - believing as we do, that, however unequal our naval strength, our enemies have, nevertheless, vulnerable points within our reach, through which we may be able to strike them vitally.
3. Resolved unanimously, That in the support of all measures directed to that end, "we pledge our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor," baling with firm and joyous hearts, the auspicious omen connected with this well remembered holy pledge: What we did in the weakness of infancy, it will be strange if we cannot repeat in the vigor of manhood!
4. Resolved unanimously, That a committee be appointed to correspond with such other committees as may be appointed in the several towns and counties in this Commonwealth, for the purpose of collecting the national sentiment on this important occasion.
5. Resolved unanimously, That the Chairman of this committee be requested to communicate a copy of these Resolutions to the President of the U. States, one to the Executive of each State, one to the Chairman of the committee at Norfolk, and one, connected with a printed copy of the narrative of the outrage, to every
General Officer and Commandant of a Regiment in this State, to be communicated by him in such manner as he may approve, to those under his command.
Signed on behalf of the meeting, SPENCER ROANE, Chairman.
THOMAS RITCHIE, Secretary.
To the President of the United States. SIR,
"We, the Citizens of Richmond, Manchester, and their vicinities, and many other persons from distant places, who have assembled to take under consideration the late hostile attack upon the Frigate Chesapeake, by a British Ship of War, and the murder of a number of American Seamen in a time of peace, are impelled by the strongest motives, to express those sentiments of indignation which the occasion must naturally inspire. When we reflect upon the uniform course of pacific conduct which has been observed by the government of the United States, towards all foreign nations; when we recollect, on the other hand, the innumerable insults and aggressions which Great-Britain has inflicted on our just and lawful commerce; we can only discover in this recent act of violence, the consummation of a system which has for its object the prostration of neutral rights, at the feet of a haughty and ambitious power. The door of negotiation is finally closed; the first blow of war has been struck; and the people of America are called upon to decide, whether they will rally around the standard of the constitution, or resign at once that glorious independence which was purchased by the valor of their fathers, and cemented with their blood. At a period of such magnitude as the present, it is peculiarly necessary that the People of America should display to the world the devotion which they feel to the free, mild and beneficent government under which they live, and their invincible determination to resist to the utmost extremity, every outrage on their rights from whatever quarter it may proceed. The persons who now address you, speak not only for themselves, but for their country; they feel that they deliver the sentiments of the nation; and they are confident that they will find a corresponding emotion in the bosom of the Chief Magistrate of the Union.
When an act of unequivocal hostility has been perpetrated; when our armed vessels are not permitted to leave our own ports with impunity; when a British commander gives the signal from our very harbors, for the capture of our Ships; it becomes a question not of reason, but of feeling. Whatever may be the grounds of the contest in which we are engaged, we are compelled to close in that appeal to arms, which has been made by our adversary. It is impossible to pursue a temporizing conduct, without engraving an indelible stain on our national character. The reputation of our country is at stake; and it must now be decided whether we shall assume the dignified attitude of an independent state, or meanly crouch under the lash of an insolent foe.
No nation upon earth has so many cogent reasons for maintaining a friendly intercourse with the rest of the world, as the United States. Far removed from that bloody scene of ambition, which Europe has exhibited for centuries; pursuing the even tenor of honest industry; regardless of that illusive glory which is only to be obtained at the expence of happiness; anxious only for that solid renown, which springs from an unadulterated course of justice and virtue; too simple for the insidious arts of courtly intrigue, and too refined for the exertion of lawless power; they might have flattered themselves with the hope, that they should escape the ravages of those conflicts which have desolated the old continent. America has every thing to hope from peace, and every thing to deprecate from war. But her growing commerce and rising prosperity, cherished by the genial warmth of freedom, were objects too tempting to the rapacious eye of a power who arrogated to herself the exclusive dominion of the seas. From the moment when our independence was established, Great-Britain regarded with malignant jealousy, the progress of a nation whom she had once held in bondage. From that moment until the present, she has waged an open or concealed war against our indispensible rights. It would be superfluous to dwell on the various crimes which she has committed against the law of nations; but it may not be improper to enumerate, a few more prominent than the rest, which marks the spirit which has pervaded her whole conduct. She has occupied posts within our territory which ought to have been surrendered by treaty; she has enlarged the law of contraband, beyond the most liberal construction of the law of nations; she has seized our vessels laden with provisions; she has invented a new system of blockade, which extends not merely to single ports actually invested, but to whole countries with whom she might be at war; she has modified, restrained and enlarged the rights of neutrals, according to her interest or caprice, while her courts of admiralty have carried her edicts into rigid execution; she has denied to neutral nations the incontestible right to export to a belligerent power the commodities which they have fairly purchased from a colony of the same power; and she has blockaded our ports and impressed seamen from our vessels within our lawful jurisdiction. But, atrocious as these acts may seem, they are insignificant when compared with the flagrant outrage lately committed on the Frigate Chesapeake. The most tameless tyrant of Great-Britain has never yet asserted her right to search a ship of war belonging to a neutral nation. A vessel of this description is as sacred as the territory itself - its flag is a passport throughout the world - and an insult offered to it is a direct attack upon the sovereignty of the State to which it belongs. A conduct like this can neither be defended nor palliated - and it is necessary to meet the approaching conflict with the decision becoming freemen.
While we are sensible of the evils which must result from war, we are prepared to encounter them, in defence of our dearest rights. We are confident that but one sentiment pervades the American people - and that, however they may be divided as to points of domestic policy, they are actuated by one soul in repelling the aggressions of a foreign power. It remains for the wisdom of the constituted authorities, to direct with efficacy the energies of the nation. It is our part to declare to you and to the world, that we are prepared to support, with our lives and fortunes, the government of our choice, against every power upon earth. SPENCER ROANE, Chairman. THOMAS RITCHIE, Sec'y.
It was proposed to adopt the Resolutions first.
Mr. John Gamble moved that a separate question be taken on the preamble, and then on the resolutions. He went heart and hand with the resolutions; but he could not think of voting for that part of the preamble, which attributed the conduct of Captain Humphreys to his government. On that point he was uninformed.
Mr. Fonten Mier approved of this distinction. He viewed with no less abhorrence than any other person, the conduct of the British captain; but on subjects of such magnitude, it

would be improper to express an opinion, which would be founded in ignorance. He protested against censuring the British government, for an act which could not be positively ascribed to it. There had not been a sufficient time for Admiral Berkeley to receive instructions from the present ministry. He should be completely satisfied, if the meeting would but confine their indignation to the captain himself.
Mr. Peyton Randolph said there was a sufficient reason to ascribe this conduct to the British government; there was no necessity for sending a special mission to London to demand explanations. The whole tenor of her conduct had proved the temper of G. B.
She had introduced new doctrines into the Law of Nations, that were peculiarly unfavorable to neutrals. She had contended for the right to search merchant vessels, and to take from them such seamen as were not American citizens. If interrogated on these proceedings, she would at one time give insidious explanations, and sometimes remained perfectly silent. Can any man doubt, that any officer would have risked his head by such an unauthorized attack? Humphreys must have received his orders from Halifax, where all the orders on the American station are issued; and he had even asserted this fact in his communications with Com. Barron. There has been a sufficient time for the conveyance of these orders from London. We have been informed by several arrivals from England, that our rejection of the British treaty had been announced in that country; and these orders must have been issued at the very moment when the low-minded Canning, who inherited the principles without the talents of Pitt, was toasting the intimate union between these two countries. Why cavil at a little chasm in the chain of evidence; when we behold a succession of these outrages upon our nation; and when we look at the character of the present ministry?
Some time ago, New-York was blockaded by a British squadron, and one of our countrymen fell a victim to the outrages of the Leader. The British ministry was kind enough to inform us, that if we would send on our witnesses, they would prosecute Captain Whitby; and what has been the consequence? Precisely such as every man could have expected: for Whitby has been honorably acquitted.
Mr. R. then expatiated upon the conduct of the Driver, another of that squadron. He contended that war was inevitable; and that at all events the offer for negotiation ought not to go from America. He asserted that G. Britain was proceeding upon the principle of suppressing all neutral commerce; and that it was actually on this ground that Howick was displaced, however it might have been under the pretence of saving the conscience of a weak, doting monarch. One powerful inducement for believing that these instructions were from the British admiralty, was the circumstance of the rejection of the British treaty on the ground of impracticability. This intelligence in England was succeeded by the attack on the Chesapeake; and there was apparently such a miraculous connection between these events, as positively to prove that the one must have been the cause of the other. (Loud applause.)
Mr. John Gamble had always supposed, that when a string of resolutions was proposed, every one should have the right of expressing their opinions fairly and fully upon them: he did not approve of the whole of the preamble: He was for that part of it, which excises the attack on the Chesapeake; he was opposed to that part, which ascribes the act to the B. government. Gentlemen and himself differed upon the question only, whether it was the act of a subordinate officer or of the government.
Mr. F. Mercer was in favour of this distinction. The only difference was as to the fact: on which it would be necessary to demand explanations from the B. government.
Mr. Watkins Leigh. An explanation demanded by us! Are we to go across the Atlantic to request explanations? It astonishes me to hear American youths (I mean no personal disrespect, Sir), the descendants of American patriots saying, that we must now ask for explanations of G. B.!
Mr. Mercer explained. He presumed that it was the right of the captain of the Chesapeake to retain the seamen. There was no civil authority to demand them, and the British commander had acted most improperly in taking them. His only doubt was as to the participation of the British government.
Mr. Leigh required the question, and the whole question.
Mr. Gamble hoped that in a republican government every one had a right to express his opinion. Let the question be divided: he would join gentlemen on the resolutions themselves.
Mr. Hay supported, that the question on the preamble would be put first. If the distinction were adopted, the sense of the meeting could best be ascertained.
Mr. Wm. O. Allen proposed a new expedient. That who wished to mutilate the proceedings, might retire, and take another opportunity of expressing their opinions.
Mr. Hay was for the preamble as well as for the resolutions: But he was in favour of a division, that gentlemen might be convinced of the smallness of their minority.
The question was then put upon taking a separate vote on the preamble, and carried.
The question was then put upon the preamble, and carried with only three dissenting voices; and these three were different only, from a doubt whether the instructions of Berkeley had proceeded from his government.
The question was then put on the ADDRESS to the P. U. S. and unanimously carried.
Dr. Poyfizer moved that an alteration should be made in the form of the address corresponding with that which had been made in the resolutions by the committee. He hoped that after the words "Richmond, Manchester & their vicinity," as it stood in the original draft, the words "and of many other persons from distant places" should be introduced. Agreed to.
Mr. Wirt then moved that the word "unanimously" should be introduced after the word "Resolved" in all the resolutions. Agreed to.
be erected into a standing committee of correspondence. Agreed to.
Mr. Wirt then proposed the following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved unanimously, That the thanks of this meeting be returned to the Chairman, for the able and impartial manner in which he has discharged the duties of his office.
At a meeting of the Company of Richmond Light Infantry Blues, at the Bell Tavern, on Monday the 29th June, 1807:
After due consideration, the following resolutions were entered into:
The Company of Richmond Light Infantry Blues, have heard with sentiments of abhorrence and indignation, the account of the late base and cowardly attack made by the British ship of War, Leopard, of 50 guns, upon the United States Frigate Chesapeake, of 36 guns, while in a state of profound peace. This outrage, unparalleled in the history of nations, can be viewed in no other light than a declaration of war; and although as citizens, the members of this Company are highly sensible of the blessings of peace, as soldiers, they are ever ready to avenge an insult offered to their country by any nation whatever.
Resolved, therefore, That as Citizens and Soldiers, the members of this Company pledge their fortunes and their lives, in support of such measures as the government of their country may, in its wisdom adopt, for the purpose of obtaining satisfaction.
Resolved, That these proceedings be signed by the Capt. and Secretary of the Company, and a Copy thereof be transmitted to the President, and that they be inserted in the newspapers of the City of Richmond.
(Signed) WILLIAM RICHARDSON, Capt. JAMES BROWN, Jun. Sec'y.
At a meeting of the Manchester Cavalry, at Mr. Z. Brook's Tavern, on Saturday June 27th. 1807; the following resolutions were unanimously adopted.
1st. Resolved, That the outrageous & assassinating act of the Capt. of the British ship Leopard, whether proceeding from unauthorised conduct or the result of governmental instructions, meets the soul-feeling disapprobation of all true Americans.
2d. Resolved, That the lawless invasion of our peace and neutrality by a premeditated attack upon the American frigate Chesapeake, not expecting or at any event not prepared to repel this horrid and unexpected aggression, is by us and ought to be by every genuine lover of American principles, deemed cool, wilful and deliberate murder.
3d. Resolved, That however we may deprecate war with any nation whose policy may be just or unjust; whose national energies may be to be dreaded or despised, we are unwilling to hold the laurel branch to any whose conduct is thus deliberately marked with wanton barbarity & excessive cruelty, unknown to the civilized world; and that we would prefer pouring out the purple flood of life in the maintenance of our just rights, to any thing like slavish submission to the will of any government.
4th. Resolved, That we are conscious of our national respectability and physical energy, and confiding in the wisdom, firmness and patriotism of the executive of the U. States, we hereby as component members of the nation, with decisive promptitude tender our services to the government to support its true principles and interests.
5th. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be printed in the Enquirer and in the Virginia Gazette, and that a copy of the same be transmitted to the President of the U. States and to the Governor of our state. Signed by the Captain of our troop and attested by the Secretary.
HARRY HETH, Capt. M. C. John B. Ogg, Secretary.
Extract of a letter from Washington to a gentleman in this city.
"Mr. Gallatin & Gen. Dearborn are absent. Expresses are sent after them. When they return, it will be decided whether Congress shall be convened."
"I understand that Capt. Barron is superseded; and that Capt. Decatur is ordered to take command of the ship. Although it could not be expected that Barron could have withheld a force so superior, for any length of time, yet he was so totally unprepared and made so feeble a resistance, that it is thought his conduct was highly improper."
At the present moment, when our national flag has been insulted by an armed enemy, at the very mouth of our harbours, it behoves us to express our feelings and opinions, in the most public and explicit manner. Not a heart should be unmoved; not a mouth should be shut; not an American should be indifferent to the incidents of the times. What are we to expect from the present corrupt ministry of England? Justice? Indulgence? or kindly acts of conciliation? Or, are we to expect any thing but injury and insult? Let the recent acts of the officers of the British government answer these questions.
The President's proclamation forbids the Driver's crew of war, from entering our harbours; in the very face of this public and solemn edict, this contemptible vessel entered the port of Charleston, and in the language of the most contemptuous defiance, insulted our government and our nation; representing us as far more barbarous than the robbers of Arabia, or the corsairs of Barbary.
Whitby, the actual murderer of Pierce, was lately arraigned before a British Court Martial, with all the mock solemnities of a pompous trial. And was any punishment inflicted upon this violator of our rights of jurisdiction; this professional murderer of our innocent and industrious countrymen? The public prints have told us otherwise. His trial was converted into a triumph. He was acquitted in terms of the highest honour:—"Sir," said the President of the court, "I have the honor to present to you your sword, which in the opinion of this honorable court, has not been tarnished in your hand." And yet this very man has been lately promoted to the command of a 74 gun ship, to be stationed off the American coast.
Of the incidents lately acted off our coast, it is unnecessary to speak. The facts are known; and the feelings of the world will speak for us. It is time, fellow citizens, for the spirit of '75 to be in motion. The tragedy of Bunker's Hill has been repeated: and it is time, that the spirit of that momentous era should rise from its slumbers. Let us prove to our enemies that like the spirit of Lazarus, "it was not dead, but only slept."
Let us then give vent to our feelings. The 4th of July is at hand: Let us profit by the interesting festival. The occasion is too appropriate not to justify the effusion. We have once more to contend with the very same enemy for a new branch of our national independence. The last war secured our freedom on the shore: but go upon the ocean and Britain still treats us as colonists and as slaves. Fellow-countrymen, we have yet to win our independence on the ocean.
This is therefore recommended to the citizens of Richmond, to assemble at the Capitol this evening, four o'clock, to take the most effectual measures for celebrating the 4th of July.
TRIAL OF AARON BURR.
Few interesting proceedings have taken place since the publication of our last paper. It was our intention to have proceeded with the debates in hand, but the more important transactions connected with the fact of the Chesapeake, have necessarily excluded them.
Circuit Court of the U. States for the fifth circuit and District of Virginia. Present JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justice of the U. States, AND CYRUS GRIFFIN, Judge of the District of Virginia.
SATURDAY, June 27.
The Chief Justice delivered the following opinion on the motion for an attachment against Gen. W.
This motion now under consideration was heard at the time, because it was alleged to be founded on a fact which might affect the justice of the case in which the court is about to be engaged, and because while the bills were depending before the Grand Jury, the court might without impeding the progress of the business, examine into the complaint which has been made.
The motion is to attach General Wilkinson for a contempt of this court, by obstructing the fair course of justice, with regard to a prosecution depending before it. In support of this charge, has been offered the testimony of Mr. Knox, who states a conversation between General Wilkinson and himself, previous to his being served with a subpoena, the object of which was to extract from him, whatever information he might possess, respecting the expedition which was the subject of enquiry in this court; and who states also, that he was afterwards summoned before Judge Hall, who examined him upon interrogatories, and committed him to jail, whence he was taken by order of the deputy Marshal, who was a military, as well as civil officer, and put on board the Revenge, in which General Wilkinson failed, for the purpose of being brought from New-Orleans to Richmond.
That unfair practices towards a witness who was to give testimony in this court, or oppression under colour of its process; although those practices and that oppression were acted in another district, would be punishable in the mode now suggested, provided the person who had acted therein, came within the jurisdiction of the court, is a position which the court is not disposed to controvert; but it is also believed that this mode of punishment, ought not to be adopted, unless the deviation from law could be clearly attached to the person against whom the motion was made; and unless the deviation was intentional, or unless the course of judicial proceeding was or might be so affected by it, as to make a punishment in this mode, obviously conducive to a fair and correct administration of justice.
The conversation which took place between Gen. Wilkinson and the witness on the arrival of the latter in New-Orleans, was manifestly held with the intention of drawing from him any information which he might possess, relative to the expedition which was then the subject of enquiry. In this intention, there was nothing unlawful. Government and those who represent it, may justly and laudably use means to obtain voluntary communications, provided those means are not such as might tempt the person making them, to give an improper colouring to his representations, which might afterwards adhere to them, when repeated in court. The address stated to have been employed, the condescension and regard, with which the witness was treated, are not said by himself to have been accompanied with any indications of a desire to draw from him more than the truth. The offer of money, if with a view to corrupt, could not be too severely reprehended. It is certainly a dangerous species of communication between those who are searching for testimony, and the person from whom it is expected. But in this case, the court cannot contemplate the offer as being made with immoral views. The witness had a right to demand from those he was expected to assist, a small sum of money sufficient to subsidize him on his return to his home. He was asked whether on receiving this sum, his objections to giving testimony would be removed. This was certainly a delicate question, but it might be asked without improper motives, and it was pressed no further. This is not shown to be an attempt to contaminate the source of justice, and a consequent contempt of the court, in which it is administered.
The imprisonment of Mr. Knox, and the order for conveying him from New-Orleans to Richmond, were the acts of Judge Hall—Whether his proceedings were legal or illegal, they are not shown to have been influenced by Gen. Wilkinson, and this court cannot presume such to have been the fact. Gen. Wilkinson therefore is not responsible for them. They were founded if true, on an affidavit made by him; but there was no impropriety in making this affidavit, and it remained with the judge to decide, what the law would authorise in the case.
All the subsequent proceedings were directed by the civil authority. The agents who executed the orders of the Judge, were indeed military men, who most probably would not have disobeyed the commander in chief; but that officer is not responsible in this way for having failed to interpose his authority, in order to prevent the execution of the orders of the Judge, even if those orders ought not to have been given.
Upon a full view of the subject, the case appears to have been this. General Wilkinson was desirous that the testimony of the witness should be obtained; and aware of the accusations which had before been brought against him, for the use he had made of the military power, he was desirous of obtaining the testimony by lawful means, and therefore referred the subject to a Judge of the territory, under whose orders all subsequent proceedings were taken. Whether the judge did or did not transgress the limits prescribed by law, those ministerial officers who obeyed his orders, cannot be supposed to have acted with a knowledge that he had mistaken his power. Should it be admitted that this would be no defence for them in an action, to obtain compensation for the injury; yet it furnishes sufficient evidence, that no contempt was intended to this court by Gen. Wilkinson, that he has not been guilty of any intentional abuse of its process, or of any oppression in the manner of executing it.
It is said that Capt. Gaines the gentleman whom the Marshal appointed as his deputy for this particular purpose, had not taken the oath of office, and was therefore not legally qualified to act in that character. However correct this observation may be in itself, it does not appear to the court to justify an attachment against Gen. Wilkinson. The person who fees in the possession of another, a commission as deputy Marshal, and fees that others acting under that commission, ought not to be subjected to a process of contempt for having made no inquiries respecting the oath which the law requires to be taken.
The attachment will not be awarded because General Wilkinson cannot be considered as having controlled or influenced the conduct of the civil magistrate, and because in this transaction his intention appears to have been not to violate the laws. In such a case, where an attachment does not seem to be absolutely required by the justice, due to the particular individual against whom the prosecution is depending, the court is more inclined to leave the parties to the ordinary course of law, than to employ the extraordinary powers, which are given for the purpose of preserving the administration of justice, in that purity which ought to be so universally desired.
The court took the following order on the adjournment of the trial.
Aaron Burr, late of the city of New-York, and state of New-York, attorney at law, who
stands indicted for treason, was this day brought to the bar in custody of the Marshal of this district, and thereof arraigned and pleaded not guilty to the indictment, and for his trial put himself upon God and the country; whereupon he is remanded to jail. And as the trial of the said Aaron Burr cannot be had in the county of Wood, where the offence is alleged to have been committed, without great inconvenience; It is ordered, that a Venire Facias issue, to the Marshal of this district to be directed, commanding him to summon forty-eight fit persons qualified as the law directs, twelve of whom, from the said county of Wood, to appear here on the third day of August next, as a Venire for the trial of the said Burr.
MONDAY, June 29.
Mr. Hay laid the following order of the Executive Council before the Court:
IN COUNCIL, June 29, 1807.
The Board being informed that an affidavit has been filed in the circuit court of the U. States, for the Virginia district, which states that the jail for the county of Henrico and city of Richmond is inconvenient and unhealthy, and so crowded with state offenders and debtors that there are no private apartments therein, for the reception of persons charged with offences against the laws of the U. States; It is, therefore, ordered, that the Governor be requested to tender the said court, (through the Federal Attorney of the district of Virginia,) apartments in the third floor of the public jail and penitentiary I safe for the reception of such persons as shall be directed under the authority of the U. S. to be confined therein.
Extract from the Minutes.
DANL. L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council.
The following was the order of the Court on this subject:
"Which tender the court doth accept for the purpose above mentioned."
The final decision of the motion to commit A. Burr to the Penitentiary was postponed till to-morrow.
TUESDAY, June 30.
The motion to commit A. Burr to the Penitentiary was renewed.
It was objected to by his counsel on the ground—(& an affidavit was made by them to the same effect) that in so important a case, it was essentially necessary for the most uninterrupted intercourse to fulfil between the prisoner and his counsel; but that the distance of the penitentiary, combined with their own professional engagements, would necessarily narrow and interrupt this intercourse. It was also said, that by particular regulations of the penitentiary, the custody of the prisoner would be transferred from the marshal to the superintendent; and that the communications of the prisoner with his counsel would be limited to the very short period which was allowed to the other visitors; that is, from 11 to 1 o'clock.
The Attorney for the U. S. repelled these objections.
The Chief Justice said, when there was a public jail not unreasonably distant or unfit for the reception of the prisoner, and when the court was called upon to commit the U. S. to commit a prisoner to its keeping, that he conceived himself bound to comply with the requisition: that when he had given the order for his removal from the jail to his own lodgings, it was under an expectation, that the trial would be prosecuted immediately & the intercourse between the prisoner & his counsel would be necessarily incessant; but as a postponement had taken place, such intercourse would not be absolutely necessary; under such circumstances, therefore, he should direct the removal of the prisoner to the penitentiary, if he was still to continue in the possession of the marshal, and if his counsel were to have a free and uninterrupted access to him.
Some difficulty having thus occurred on these points, the Executive Council was immediately convened. In a short time the following letter was submitted to the court:
COUNCIL CHAMBER, June 30.
SIR, In pursuance of an advice of the Council of State, I beg leave, through you, to inform the Circuit Court of the U. States now sitting, that any persons who may be confined in the Jail and Penitentiary house, on the part of the U. States, will be considered as in the custody and under the sole control of the Marshal of the District—that he will have authority to admit any person or persons to visit the confined that he may think proper; and that he will be authorised to select for the purposes aforesaid, any apartment in the Penitentiary, now unoccupied, that he may deem most conducive to safety, health and convenience.
I am with great respect, Sir, your obedient servant, WM. H. CABELL.
GEORGE HAY, Esq.
The court then came to the following order:
In consequence of the order, made by the Executive of apartments in the third floor of the Penitentiary and State Prison, for persons who may be confined therein under the authority of the U. S. and of the foregoing letter from the Governor of this Commonwealth, it is ordered, on the motion of the Attorney for the U. S. that so soon as the apartments in the second floor of the Public Jail and Penitentiary shall be fit for the reception and safe keeping of Aaron Burr, he be removed thereto and safely kept therein by the Marshal, until the second day of August next, when he shall be brought back to the prison where he is now placed, there to be guarded in like manner as at present, until the further order of the court.
It is understood, that Mr. Burr will be removed to the Penitentiary this day.
COMMUNICATION.
"Drawing Men catch at Strasburg."
We are authorised to contradict a slander uttered in Davis's Virginia Gazette and Daily Advertiser, of the 27th instant, reporting that on the late Grand Jury, impanelled in this city, of which John Randolph was foreman, a motion had been made to prevent Gen. Wilkinson for High Treason, and that on the question the Grand Jury divided equally.
This malignant calumny, invented to aid a rotten cause, has been traced to Mumsford Beverly, Esq. an unworthy member of the Jury; of whose attachment to monarchy and sympathy for Burr no doubts are admitted. This falsehood finds its refutation in the broad fact, that no such motion was even spoken of in the Jury, much less proposed. We forbear to comment on this additional stab at the character of Gen. Wilkinson, which defies the utmost malice of his enemies, and we leave the wretched author to seek solace for his errors, among his brethren in principles; whilst the finger of scorn will be pointed at him, by every honest man of whatever party or nation.
At a meeting of the Inhabitants of Manchester, on the 29th June, 1807, of which William Fenwick was appointed Chairman, and Richard B. Goods Secretary.—The following address and resolution were unanimously adopted.
TO THE CITIZENS OF RICHMOND.
The Inhabitants of the town of Manchester, impressed with a deep and lively sense of gratitude for the prompt and important aid which you voluntarily afforded them, during the conflagration of Monday morning, beg your acceptance of their sincere and heartfelt thanks. To the Union fire company, and their Engine they feel themselves indebted under providence, for the preservation of a large portion of their little Town.
Among the friends of Humanity, they could not but recognize with peculiar gratification,
the Chief Justice of the United States, with many others of their most distinguished fellow-Citizens. Invidious as it may appear, where exposure and exertion were so great and so general, they feel themselves as irresistibly compelled to notice the name of Mr. S. Gogood; to whose judicious and previous efforts they are largely indebted, for the mitigation of this destructive element. For your preservation from its ravages, in health, happiness and prosperity you have our United and fervent prayers.
Resolved, That a copy of the foregoing address be published in three of the News-papers of the City of Richmond.
Wm. FENWICK, Chairman. RICHD. B. GOODS, Sec'y.
Teste, Captain Caldwell arrived at Boston, reports that on the day of his departure from Plymouth (18th May) it was announced that intelligence had reached that place of a great battle having been fought between the French and Russians—in which the French were victorious.
DIED—At his farm, near Williamsburg, on the 17th ult. aged 23 years, Mr. ROBERT H. TALLER—If a regular exercise of the duties of a husband, a father, a son, and a friend, in short all those virtues which render a happy in ourselves and dear to society, could have arrested the unerring hand of death, a tender mother, an infant family, an enlarged circle of relatives and friends, would not now deplore his early doom.
LANDS FOR SALE.
The Subscribers are authorised to sell the three following Tracts of LAND, lying in the counties of Albemarle & Fluvanna, to wit:
ONE Tract of 400 acres, known by the name of Dickerson's Tract.
One other Tract containing 242 acres, being part of 400 acres, known by the name of Hastings Mark's Tract, adjoining the above mentioned Tract.
One other Tract of 163 acres, also known by the name of Hastings Mark's Tract, and is said to have a valuable Mill seat on it.
All three Tracts have a great abundance of heavy pine timber of the best kind, and are convenient to navigation.
Should these Lands not be disposed of by private contract before the third day of August next, they will on that day be offered at Public Auction, at the Eagle Tavern, in the City of Richmond. In the mean time, all persons desirous of purchasing, will please apply for further information to
TAYLOR & BROWN, v. r. July 1. tdf.
VALUABLE LOTS FOR SALE.
On THURSDAY the 9th of JULY next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, will be sold, at Auction, on the premises, that beautiful
LOT OF GROUND, BELONGING to Col. Quarrier, and now occupied by him. For the convenience of purchasers, it is divided into Thirteen Lots, some of which are improved with Dwelling Houses, and every convenience for families, and all of them are well situated, either for business, (being near the Basin of the Canal and the Public Warehouse) or for the residence of families; having good prospects and free circulation of air.
A plan of the above property may be seen at the office of the subscribers, to whom, or to Col. Quarrier, all persons desirous of purchasing at private sale will apply. Terms made known on day of sale.
TAYLOR & BROWN, Auth's. July 1. tdf.
LOTS FOR SALE.
On Tuesday the 9th day of June next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, on the premises, will be sold, at public auction.
SIXTEEN half acre LOTS, situate on the north side of Bacon-Quarter Branch, in or adjoining the city of Richmond, denoted and known by the survey made by Richard Young for Wm. Duval, by the Nos. 311, 312, 321, 322, 319, 320, 313, 314, 293, 294, 286, 287, 288, 289, 254 and 253. Terms of payment will be made known at the time of sale.
Any person inclined to purchase at private sale, either the whole or part of these Lots, may know particulars by applying to
ALEX. QUARRIER, or, JOHN RICHARD. May 5. tdf.
THE Life of the above-mentioned sixteen Lots, is postponed until Monday, the 18th July, at noon, of which day, it will take place at the Eagle Tavern, in the City of Richmond, when a plot showing the position of the several Lots will be produced, till then may be seen at Mr. John Satchell's. In the mean while any persons desirous of viewing the property will be accompanied to the spot by one of the subscribers.
ALEX. QUARRIER, JOHN RICHARD. July 1. tdf.
NOTICE.
Agreeable to an order of the County Court of Amelia, the Commissioners appointed, which process at Amelia Court House on Thursday the 16th of July, to examine in settle and liquidate the claims that may be exhibited against the estate of John Bottom, deceased:
All persons having claims against said estate, are hereby requested to make them known on that day, supported by proper vouchers or testimony. All persons indebted to said estate, are hereby notified, that coercive measures will be resorted to, provided their respective claims are not immediately discharged. This notice will certainly be placed in bar, in default of the respective claimants making their claims known on the aforesaid day.
A. S. TOWNES, D. S. for WM. MURRAY, Shff. July 1. tdf.
On Monday the third day of August next, pursuant to a decree of King William County Court, will be sold, on the premises, to the highest bidder, for ready money, so much of the
TRACT OF LAND, whereon Francis West Quarles now resides, in the upper part of said County, as will raise the sum of five hundred dollars and interest from the first day of January last, with a small additional sum for costs of suit and charges of sale.
BEVERLY ROBINSON, Com'r. JOHN FOX, Com'r. July 1. oaw4w.
ROCKINGHAM SPRINGS, VIRGINIA.
The subscribers have opened a HOUSE OF ENTERTAINMENT, at the Rockingham Springs, about four miles from Harrisonburg and two from Kesell-Town, WHERE they will sit their best endeavors to render the place comfortable to such as may think proper to visit it. For two years past, these springs, have been occasionally attended by invalids and although no accommodations within a convenient distance to the Spring could be had; yet it may be said with truth, that many received considerable benefit. The terms of boarding and lodging will be

PROPOSALS FOR CARRYING MAIL IN THE UNITED STATES. On the following Post-roads, will be received at the General Post-Office in Washington, until the 1st day of July next, inclusive. IN VIRGINIA. 202. From Randolph C. H. to Franklin, Va. once in two weeks. Leave Pendleton C. H. every other Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Randolph C. H. by 11 A.M. Leave Randolph C. H. every other Thursday at 1 P.M. and arrive at Pendleton C. H. by 6 P.M. 203. From Prince Edward C. H. by Hunter's Tavern, to Lynchburg, once a week. Leave Prince Edward C. H. every Saturday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Lynchburg on Sunday by 6 P.M. Leave Lynchburg every Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Prince Edward C. H. by 6 P.M. 204. From Lynchburg, by Campbell C. H. Han- ton's Store, Marysville, Gray's Store, Stone's Store, Pittsylvania C. H. and Beaver's Tavern, to Danville, once in two weeks. Leave Lynchburg every other Monday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Danville on Wednesday by 6 P.M. Leave Danville every other Thursday at 6 A.M. and arrive at Lynchburg on Saturday by 6 P.M.
NOTES. 1. The Post-master General may expedite the mails, and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time during the continuance of the contract, by stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby. 2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified. 3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the time prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continues until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails delayed for each depending mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred. 4. Newspapers, as well as letters, to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument. 5. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alteration desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract. 6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly, in the months of August, November, February and May, in one month after the expiration of each quarter. 7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail. 8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals. 9. The Post-master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end, whenever three failures happen, which amount to the loss of a trip each. 10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and are to continue in force for two years, excepting the routes numbered 202 to 210, which are to continue in force two years and an half.
GIDEON GRANGER, Post-Master General. General Post Office, Washington City, March 21, 1807. law1810j.
TO RENT. For three or five years: THAT valuable TAN-YARD of the late Mr. Jacob Boeckius and now occupied by the Subscriber situated on the Main-Street of this city, between the Capitol and Basin of the canal, its conveniences are superior to any other in this place. A large Currying Shop, Cellar and drying loft, a spacious Bark-House, two Bark Mills and Houses, a Beam House and every other requisite for the tanning of from 2 to 5000 hides a year, exclusive of skins. Also on the same premises a convenient DWELLING HOUSE , Kitchen, Smoke House, Stable and Garden, the renter may be accommodated with about one hundred cords of excellent red and black oak Bark, now in the Bark House at a fair price. Proposals for the above will be received by the subscriber. Bonds with approved security will be required, and possession given of the whole, except a few of the vats, on the first of September next. The reason assigned for offering the foregoing property for rent, is the ill state of health of the Subscriber to pay that attention the business requires. MARCUS ELCAN. April 3. law1810j.
A PROPOSITION. An interest in a law suit, now depending in the Superior Court of Chancery, holden in the City of Richmond, will be given in exchange for good Western Lands. By addressing a letter to A. B. Williamsburg, further information may be received. The suit above alluded to, has for its object, the recovery of a large sum of money. The gift of the action is a deed of trust, in which five brick and one wooden houses &c. (situate in this city) are conveyed. Some complexity attends the cause—but the ultimate success of a final recovery, depends merely upon a strict application to its prosecution. N.B. For the next ensuing 8 or 10 days, any enquiry in writing, left at the Post Office, in this place, (directed as above) will meet attention. June 10. law2m.
NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against the estate of Walter Irvine, decd. are requested to come forward with their accounts properly authenticated for adjustment—and those that are indebted thereto, will make payment, settle their accounts by bonds or otherwise, as speedily as possible, the estate not being in a situation to grant long indulgence. Having appointed Mr. Charles A. Scott and Thomas Pitman my agents for the above purposes, their acts, or either of them, shall be binding on me. ANN F. IRVINE, Adm'x. OF WALTER IRVINE, decd. Those that are indebted to the late firm of Irvine and Pitman, are requested to come forward, to have their accounts settled. THOMAS PITMAN, Surviving partner of IRVINE AND PITMAN. law1810j. June 10.
FOR SALE. THE TAN-YARD in this place, formerly occupied by Wm. Hamby, which is now in good repair, with every improvement necessary to carry on the business extensively. The flock in said yard which is now in full operation, would be sold also, so that a purchaser would have an opportunity of commencing the business under every advantage the situation is capable of. A very liberal credit will be given for both the yard and flock, on receiving satisfactory security for the payment of the purchase money, for terms apply to John Cunningham & Co. Richmond, or to JOHN & E. CUNNINGHAM, Carterville, June 18. Also for sale or rent: A convenient BRICK LUMBER-HOUSE, situated on the bank of the basin, particularly adapted to the easy reception and storage of flour, &c. For this property a liberal credit will be given if full, on receiving satisfactory security for the payment of the purchase money, or it may be rented on easy terms and immediate possession obtained, by applying as above. Carterville June 20. law1810j.
ROYSTER & BOHANNON. Respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received a general assortment of GROCERIES, which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or good acceptances in town: —AMONGST WHICH ARE— BROWN Sugar in bar— } Madeira } Loaf, do. do. } Sherry } Coffee in barrels and } Lisbon } WINES, bags. } Malaga } Imperial } Assortment of Jugs 3 & 4 } Young Hyson } gals. each. } Hyson Skin } Pint Cognac Brandy, } Pepper, } Holland Gin, } Pimento, } Country ditto, } Nutmegs, } Apple Brandy, } Antigua } Pint and 1/2 pint Tumblers, } W. India } do. do. Decanters, } N. England } London Malt by box, } Molasses in bds. & bks. } Playing Cards assorted, } Whiskey in ditto, } Cotton do. of sup. qty. } Sack Salt, } A few pieces India Coton, } Crates were assorted, } with a number of other } Leeper's Stout } articles, which they } Hibbert's brown Stout } mean to keep constantly } and Porter, } on hand. June 24. law1810j.
FITZWYLYSONN & POTTER, Have just received from London, a large supply of STATIONARY, which, with the stock formerly on hand, makes up an extensive assortment of WRITING Paper, for blank Books, of all sizes, and of the very first quality. Various kinds of foolscap and letter Paper, Hot-pressed post, gilt and plain, Elegant embossed and plain visiting Cards, Drawing Books, Pencils and Water-Colors, Genuine Writing, Marking and Copying Ink, Fresh Quills, Sealing-Wax and Wafers, Chessmen and playing Cards, IMPROVED GLOBES, Excellent Pen-knives, A large collection of Music, Fashionable Paper-hangings, &c &c. Their stock of Day-Books, Journals and Ledgers, and of other Blank-Books, for County Courts, Sheriffs, and private Gentlemen, is very extensive, and warranted of the best materials. They have also an assortment of School-Books, of approved editions, and some esteemed works on the different subjects of Law, Physic, Divinity and Miscellaneous Literature. May 15. law3m.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. And all legal and reasonable charges paid, for apprehending and bringing to the subscriber, near Charlottesville, Albemarle, or for securing him in some jail, and giving me information thereof by post, to Charlottesville. A SMALL BLACK NEGRO MAN, named BILLY, alias WILL, about 30 years of age, 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, has a small scar over one of his eyes, walks very awkward, which is occasioned by his turning his toes very much out—he appears to be lame when he walks—he is an ill looking fellow, rather a bushy head of hair, which he sometimes ties, and at times rather impertinent: he is a rough hewer, and an excellent sawyer, having been employed at that business for ten or twelve years past; he left Charlottesville about Christmas last, and was on the 20th January following committed to Rockingham jail, which he broke in a few days, and has not been heard of since. It is supposed he will make towards Winchester, or Hobbs's-Hole, where he was raised in the Brockenbrough family, but he has not been heard among them for the last 10 or 12 years; he will probably change his name and clothes, the latter of which were when he ran away, a blanketing great coat, and a grey coloured round coat and pantaloons. DAVID WATTS, Gen. law2m. June 20.
STRAYED OR STOLEN. From the Commons of this City, on the 12th inst. A SORREL HORSE, with a flaxen mane and tail, aged 7 years this spring, about 15 hands high, his marks as well remembered, are his bind and one of his fore feet white, a blaze or a star in his forehead, some saddle spots, and had his tail broken in the operation of nicking; he paces, trots and canters pleasantly, and has been lately broke to run in a chaise. I am induced to believe he is stolen; if so, will give a reward of 30 dollars, upon conviction of the thief; but if strayed, will reward any person liberally for such information as will secure him again. EDWD. W. TRENT. law1810j. June 20.
A VALUABLE MANUFACTURING MILL FOR SALE. The subscriber offers for sale his MILL, on Southam-River, in the county of Hanover, about ten miles from the Court-House, and twenty from this place; it is situated in a neighbourhood remarkable for making wheat of an excellent quality, and on a never failing stream. The Mill-House is 50 by 30 feet, two stories high, in which are three pair of stones. The machinery is now undergoing a thorough repair, and will soon be in complete order. I am willing to accommodate the purchaser with a credit of six or seven years, and receive payment by annual instalments. Possession may be had by the 10th next month. If a sale is not made previous to that date, I shall be compelled to purchase wheat delivered at the Mill; will also continue to manufacture crops on the usual terms. ROBERT POLLARD. law3m. June 13.
FOR SALE. By the subscriber, three doors below the market bridge, 25 HDS. of CIDER VINEGAR, of superior quality, which will be disposed of, on moderate terms, by wholesale and retail. SAMUEL WHITE. law6m. May 19.
NOTICE. THE debtors to the late firm of GILLIAT and KIRBY, are hereby informed that Thomas Gilliat alone is empowered to receive payment of all the debts due to that concern. All persons having demands against them, are requested to apply to Thomas Gilliat, and those indebted to the firm, are earnestly requested to come forward without delay and discharge their respective debts. For JOHN GILLIAT, AND SELF, THOMAS GILLIAT, JAMES KIRBY. law3m. May 29.
On Tuesday the 7th day of July next, I shall, by virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to me, expose to PUBLIC AUCTION, for ready money, upon the premises, for much of the ESTATE, lately owned by Francis Allison, as is now in the occupancy of Mr. Benj. James Harris—or such portion thereof, as may be sufficient to pay and satisfy the sum of £500, with interest thereon, from the 1st day of January, 1805, and the costs and charges attending the execution of this trust—that being the sum due, under the said deed. SAML. MCRAW, Trustee. law1810j. June 6.
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVING PURCHASED THE STOCK OF DRY GOODS, of Gilliat and Kirby, and taken the Stock lately occupied by them, WILL carry on the business under the firm of KIRBY, DRAKE & TAYLOR. They will sell low for cash or on short credit, £100 punctual customers. JAMES KIRBY, RIVERS DRAKE, EDM'D. TAYLOR, jr. ep6w. May 30.
In pursuance of a decree of the Superior Court of Chancery for the district of Richmond; will be sold on the 6th day of July next, at the Tavern of Mr. Zuberiah Brooks, in the town of Manchester: THE LOT and Appurtenances in the said town, lately occupied by Mr. Wm. Robinson; the sale will be on twelve months credit, the purchaser to give a bond with security, to bear interest from the date. JOHN MNOR, Trustee. ep6w. June 17.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust from John Hopkins, Esq. agent for the Virginia Company, to the subscribers, for the purpose of securing the payment of one Thousand Four Hundred Pounds, with interest from 25th July, 1806, due to Thomas Rutherford— WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, before the Eagle-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, on Tuesday 28th July next: ALL the LAND belonging to the Virginia Company, lying between the Canal and James-River, and near to said Rutherford's mill. ROBT. GAMBLE, GEO. JEFFERSON, ROBERT POLLARD, CH. JOHNSTON, } Trustees. tdf. May 13.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. Ran away from the subscriber, living in Hanover county, on the 13th inst. A NEGRO MAN, named JIM—he is about 21 years of age, of middling stature, has very red eyes and a down look when spoken to, bends a little forward in his knees when standing. It would be useless to describe his dress, as it is probable that he will change it; it is highly probable that he is a larking about the city of Richmond, as he was hired there the last year by Mr. Anthony Turner of said city, or that he will endeavor to get into Maryland, as he has some few years past made the attempt.—This is to forewarn all persons from harbouring or secreting said Negro, or masters of vessels from carrying said Negro out of this state; as they will be dealt with according as the law directs. The above reward will be given to any person that will deliver said Negro to me, or secure him in jail, so that I get him again, and all reasonable charges paid. NATH. HILL. 2w4. June 20.
THE SUBSCRIBERS, HAVE FOR SALE, FINE old Medoc Claret, of the vintage of 1801, London particular Teneriffe Wine, 1 Set elegant French select China, of the manufacture of Angouleme, German Tickenburg, by the piece or bale, Salt in Sacks, Crates of Liverpool Ware and Sugar in barrels. Pickett, Pollard & Johnstn ep6w. May 19.
At a Chancery District Court holden in Williamsburg the 20th day of October, 1806. Robert Baylor, Plt. Against William Markins, Deft. BY consent of the parties, signified by their letters filed, the court doth adjudge, order and decree, unless the defendant do, on or before the first day of February next, pay unto the Plt. twenty pounds, three shillings, with interest thereon, to be computed at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the sixteenth day of September, 1806, and the costs expended in the prosecution of this suit, that the said defendant and his heirs, and all persons claiming under him, be from thenceforth barred and foreclosed of all equity and right, to redeem the one hundred and fifty acres of Land in the county of Essex, mentioned in the bill, and in the indenture of mortgage therein referred to, and filed as an exhibit, made the third day of December 1801, between the defendant of the one part and the Plt. of the other part, and in default of payment of the said money, interest and costs at the time aforesaid, that Thomas Pitts jun. James Hunter, James M. Garnett and William Waring, or any three of them; after giving three weeks notice in one of the Richmond newspapers, do expose to public sale by auction, for ready money, the said one hundred and fifty acres of land, and out of the proceeds of the sale, pay unto the Plt. the said money, interest and costs, and the surplus of the proceeds of sale, if any, after deducting the expenses attendant thereon, pay unto the defendant, and make report thereof to the court, in order to a final decree. Plts. costs 20 dollars. 65 cents. A Copy. (Signed) ANTY. ROBINSON, c. c. law1810j. June 20.
On Monday the 6th day of July ensuing, we shall attend on the Land mentioned in the foregoing copy of a decree of the Williamsburg Chancery District Court, and expose it to sale on the terms therein mentioned. THOS. PITTS, WILLIAM WARING, JAMES HUNTER. 3w. Essex, June 13.
REMOVAL. JACOB JOHNSTON, BOOKSELLER & STATIONER, MAIN STREET RICHMOND: Has removed his Store near the market bridge, two doors below Messrs. Royster and Bohannon's, and adjoining Messrs. Dardariff, Foster and Satchell's auction floor; As constantly for sale, on reasonable terms, an extensive assortment of BOOKS, in the different departments of literature, and more particularly, those articles suited to the demand of country merchants, whose orders he respectfully solicits. The upper part of the House to rent, with a convenient Kitchen, Yard, &c. June 20. ep1m.
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY. At a meeting of the Directors, held at the Eagle-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, on Monday evening the 8th of June, 1807. RESOLVED, That the Stock-holders in the said company, pay to their Treasurer, on or before the first day of August next, the further sum of five dollars upon each share held by them respectively, in the said Company. A Copy, Teste, N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. May 20. tf.
THE holder of the 1st Volume of a London Quarto Edition of Smollett's DON QUIXOTTE, bound in red Morocco and Gilt; will receive a liberal compensation for it, on leaving it with the editor of this Paper. June 20. tf.
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF COLOGNE MILL-STONES, OF DIFFERENT SIZES, WHICH will be disposed of for CASH or approved negotiable Notes at 60 days. TAYLOR & BROWN. June 10. tf.
NOTICE. In pursuance of a Deed of Trust, bearing date the 14th day of August, 1806—between Andrew Lewis, of the county of Montgomery, of the first part, James Bream, of the City of Richmond, Merchant, of the second part, and myself, of the third part, (sixty days, having expired, from the 15th day of February, 1807,) I shall expose, or cause to be exposed to sale, for ready money, at Public Auction, 12 o'clock, at the Eagle-Tavern in the City of Richmond: ONE TRACT OF LAND, in the county of Kanawha, called Lewis's Salt Rock, now under lease to Abraham Trigg, and the patented Land, including the same, under the name of the Safford Bottoms; & also two Tracts of Land, in the county of Botetourt, on Back-creek, which empties itself into Roanoke river, containing about five hundred acres, and purchased by the said Andrew Lewis, one from John Greene, and the other from Abraham Pickensmore; on one of which, is a valuable Grist Mill; and also one half of the Coppermine tract of Land, in the county of Montgomery, on the west fork of the Little river, known by the name of Shelton's Coppermine; & also, one Tract of Land, in the county of Albemarle, containing about 100 and thirty-five acres, formerly the property of David Wade; for the purpose of raising a sum of money, sufficient to discharge and pay to the said Andrew Lewis, the sum of four thousand and fifty-nine dollars and ninety-three cents, with interest from the said 15th day of February, 1807, and all costs and expenses attending the said sale. Deeds will be made to the purchasers in conformity with the said deed of trust. The sale will take place on the 18th July, 1807, at 12 o'clock. FRANCIS FOLLETT. tdf. June 20.
TO BE SOLD, FOR READY MONEY, At the Eagle-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, on Monday the 20th day of July next, by virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed by John S. Moore for the purpose of securing a debt therein specified, due to Walter Boyd Gilliam. A TRACT OF LAND, lying partly in Hanover, and partly in Goochland, adjoining the Lands of Eliza Leake, Samuel Mosby, William Woodson and others, and containing, by estimation, 560 acres, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy said debt, with the expenses attending the execution of the trust. By order of the Trustee. TAYLOR & BROWN, v. m. tf. May 29.
WILL BE SOLD, AT PUBLIC AUCTION, At the Eagle-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, on THURSDAY the 2nd day of July next, if fair, if not, the next fair day thereafter. A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, containing 160 acres, more or less, lying in the lower end of the County of Louisa, whereon Thomas Walsh now resides, and adjoining the lands of Messrs. John S. Smith, Joseph Eggleston and Henry Dickerson. Six months credit will be allowed the purchaser on his giving a note negotiable in the Bank of Virginia, with an improved endorser or endorser, and a deed of trust on the property to secure the payment of said note. TAYLOR & BROWN, } Trustees for the Creditors of Mr. George Greenhowe. tdf. June 10.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to us by Mr. William Skipwith, for the purpose of securing the payment of a certain sum of money, therein mentioned—see Bill, on Monday the 20th of the ensuing month, between the hours of one and three o'clock, proceed to sell, at the Eagle-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, to the highest bidder, for ready money. THAT VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, lying in the county of Cumberland, called MILLE-MOUNT, containing seven hundred acres—the same having been conveyed to the said William Skipwith, by Col. Henry Skipwith. We shall likewise, should the above mentioned Land not produce the necessary sum, proceed in like manner to sell one other TRACT OF LAND, in the county of Amelia, containing one hundred and thirty acres, together with a Grist-Mill thereon. The said Land and Mill having also been conveyed to the said Wm. Skipwith by the said Col. Henry Skipwith. JOSEPH SCOTT, } Trustees. W. WARDLAW, } tdf. June 20.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed on the 24th day of May, 1806; whereby David Ross conveyed to us, a tract of Land called Coles, in the county of Goochland, containing by a then late survey, 1510 acres; also, another tract a small distance from that called Coles, containing 200 acres, more or less, it being the same land, that the said Ross purchased from John Hughes and wife, and also the tract of land called Mount Prospect, the greater part of which lies in Fluvanna, containing by estimation 1200 acres, except 225 acres heretofore sold by the said Ross, out of the said tract, to Samuel Pettit, to raise the sum of eleven thousand and four hundred dollars, with interest thereon, from the 1st January, 1807, together with all charges and expenses of sale; and in pursuance of a requisition made in writing, under the provisions of the said deed; we shall on the 3rd day of August next, before the front door of the Eagle-Tavern, in the city of Richmond, sell for ready money, all and singular, the land and estates above-mentioned, at which time and place, conveyances will be made to the purchasers. A more particular description of the above property, may be seen by tracing the references contained in the said deed now of record, in the general court, under an acknowledgment of the same in court, on the 19th June, 1806. THOS. NORVELL, W. ALLEN, WM. C. WILLIAMS. tdf. June 20.
TO BE SOLD, On the premises, on the 29th of July next, for cash. A LOT OF GROUND, in the town of Columbia, in Fluvanna, designated in the plan of the said town by No. 63—and adjoining the Ware-house, on which there is a two storied Stone-House, now in the occupancy of Messrs. Herndon and Morn.—There is also on the said lot, a wooden building, of a moderate size. The aforesaid property is conveyed to us in trust, to secure a certain sum of money due by Wm. J. Stone, to Gilliat and Kirby and others. MATTHEW WILLS, THOMAS WILLS, } Trustee. WM. PASTEUR, } ep4w. June 20.
FOR LIVERPOOL, One hundred Hds. TOBACCO wanted on freight at 80¢ per bld. and 5 per cent primage, per the American Register Ship, MINERVA, Captain KEELE, Apply to Brown and Rives, Richmond, or to ALEXANDER LECKIE, or THOMAS WILLOCK. ep3w. Norfolk, June 24.
WASHINGTON TAVERN! ODEN & MOORE have taken the WASHINGTON TAVERN, adjoining the Capitol Square, lately occupied by Edward Hallam. At considerable expense, they have provided themselves with excellent accommodations for their friends, and invite their's and the public patronage. They are determined to keep as good a table and as genteel an Inn as any in Richmond—Furnished ROOMS, adjoining the Tavern, and every necessary attendance, for families travelling—Both the Co-partners having been well-versed in this business, flatter themselves with the expectation of rendering general satisfaction. Richmond, February 17. tf.
FOR SALE. THAT well known Tavern, in the town of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, formerly the property of Isaac Miller, and now in the occupancy of Mr. Triplett T. Eber, consisting of an elegant two story House, forty-six by forty feet, in excellent repair; in which there are on the first floor, four Rooms, a large and commodious Bar, and a passage through the centre of the building, eighteen feet wide. On the second floor, eight lodging Rooms, four of which are sufficiently large for the accommodation of travelling families. Also, a dining Room, immediately over the passage, of the same size of the passage: the Gattrey is divided into six different Rooms, four of which have Fire-places. There is also, an excellent well of water in the back yard, from whence water is conveyed, by subterraneous pipes to the Bar, and different parts of the Lot. There are also, convenient and well furnished Stables, with Stalls for about fifty horses, together with about thirty sheltered Stalls, raised on locust posts; and two inferior Stables; so that about one hundred horses can be accommodated on public days. Also, about seven acres of Land, adjoining the town, and very convenient to the Stables; known by the name of clover Lot, extremely rich and productive, and well enclosed. The whole of the buildings are insured—it would be useless to state on the eligibility of this stand for business of this sort, or the real value of this property, as every person inclined to purchase will enquire in to these facts; suffice it to say, that it is not exceeded by any, & equalled by few in all the upper country. The former proprietor, & his immediate successor, having in a few years made fortunes, and retired, & the present occupant rapidly following their steps. For the information of strangers, it may be observed, that at this house stop both the Richmond and Fredericksburg stages, and by the same route pass a number of genteel families and others to the Springs every season. Also, at this place is held twice a year the District Court, composed of several of the most opulent Counties in Virginia. Also, spring and fall racing; these advantages, together with the County Courts, and one of the most public roads in the state, open a vast advantage to this house; it is now under lease to the present tenant for three years from October next, the benefit of which will be transferred to the purchaser, on the receipt of the first payment. Terms of sale: one third on the first of January next, and the balance in two equal annual payments from that date. Bond with approved security, and a deed of trust on the property to secure the payments, will be required, which are to bear interest from the date if not punctually paid will be required. If the above property is not sold before, it will be offered at public sale, on the premises on the fifteenth day of September next, if fair, if not, the next fair day. Stock of the Bank of Virginia, at its current value, would be received in payment for the whole, or any part, or undoubled bonds due at the time of sale, for the two last payments, the ultimate payment being made entirely secure. For further particulars, enquire of Nathaniel and Benjamin Sheppard, in Richmond, or the public river living at Scotch-Town, in Hanover. JOHN M. SHEPPARD. ep153. June 10.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. By Virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to us by Messrs. Davis, for the purpose of securing the payment of a certain sum of money, therein mentioned, and interest, due to John and Edward Cunningham, and the costs of carrying said trust into effect—we will, on Tuesday 14th July, between the hours of eleven and one o'clock, proceed to sell, at the Eagle-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, to the highest bidder, for ready money, the following property, viz:—
No. 1. A LOT OF GROUND, lying on the main-street, near the Court-House, said to contain 66 feet in front and running backwards on the cross street 150 feet, with a three-story Dwelling-House thereon, and the necessary out Houses, all in good repair. 2. A LOT OF GROUND at Rockett's, containing about one acre, with some Houses thereon. This Lot may be divided and improved to great advantage. 3. A LOT OF GROUND, lying on the road leading from the market-house through Adams Valley, containing 85 feet in front, on said road, and running upwards of 300 feet in the rear, with a brick Dwelling-House thereon, 48 feet in front, and may be divided into two tenements. 4. A LOT OF GROUND, lying on the south side of the main-street, near the Court-House, 18 10-12 feet in front and 85 feet in depth, with some improvements thereon, now tenanted. 5. The unexpired term of 25 years of a lease on a LOT OF GROUND, with several tenements thereon, lying on the main-street, near Saml. Egge's Stone-House, containing 22 feet in front, and running 100 feet deep to the back street. A more particular description of the property will be given at the time of sale. JOHN G. SMITH, } Trustees. GEORGE FISHER, } tdf. June 24.
A CAUTION. THE repeated, and almost daily injuries that I experience, from the licentious conduct of many of those, who range through my fields with their Dogs and Guns; constrains me to give public notice, that I have instructed my Overseer, Thomas Fortune, to prevent in future, all persons from Hunting and Shooting upon my Lands, near the City of Richmond, or of passing through the enclosed parts thereof. Those of my orderly neighbors, who are fond of such field amusements, may be assured, that it would give me pleasure to treat them with every mark of civility: but if they will be pleased to consider, that a partial indulgence of this kind, from the locality of my Lands, is impracticable, & what the derangement must be to my flock, to have often, especially on Sundays & Holidays, disorderly persons with their Dogs, traversing every part of my plantation, & not unfrequently committing considerable depredations, I am persuaded, that they will not deem this prohibition unkind, or too rigid. If the evil experienced was to continue in as great a degree, as it has done for some time past, it would be rather a misfortune than a benefit, to be the proprietor of land for cultivation, so near the city. Persons disregarding this notice, will be dealt with, as the law provides in such cases. JACQUELINE B. HARVE. Belvidere, June 20. 4w.
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. Ran away from the subscriber, living near New-Castle, in the lower end of this county, on the 27th of March last. A NEGRO MAN BILLY, about 50 years of age, and about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high—he is of rather a delicate form, a little inclined to a yellowish complexion, and considerably marked in the face with the small pox—his hair rather inclined to be bushy, this is not very long—he is a fellow of good understanding, a well informed mind, and very specious insinuating manner—he speaks rather quick & pert, and has a disposition to be very polite. He no doubt will attempt to change his appearance, by altering his name, changing his hair for a wig, &c. He is pretty well known in most parts of this state, as well as in the Carolinas and Georgia, as the waitingman and fiddler of Mr. Nicholas M. Johnson, of whom I purchased him. His wife lives in Richmond, where he has frequently been since his elopement, and he also was a part of his time in Petersburg, and his wife has a daughter, a free woman, living in Norfolk, where it is probable he has been also—though having no general acquaintance, there is no knowing where he will keep himself. I will give the above reward to any person who will deliver the said runaway to me, in Hanover. P. STREET. tf. June 10.
FOR SALE, THAT well known Tavern, in the town of Charlottesville, Albemarle County, formerly the property of Isaac Miller, and now in the occupancy of Mr. Triplett T. Eber, consisting of an elegant two story House, forty-six by forty feet, in excellent repair; in which there are on the first floor, four Rooms, a large and commodious Bar, and a passage through the centre of the building, eighteen feet wide. On the second floor, eight lodging Rooms, four of which are sufficiently large for the accommodation of travelling families. Also, a dining Room, immediately over the passage, of the same size of the passage: the Gattrey is divided into six different Rooms, four of which have Fire-places. There is also, an excellent well of water in the back yard, from whence water is conveyed, by subterraneous pipes to the Bar, and different parts of the Lot. There are also, convenient and well furnished Stables, with Stalls for about fifty horses, together with about thirty sheltered Stalls, raised on locust posts; and two inferior Stables; so that about one hundred horses can be accommodated on public days. Also, about seven acres of Land, adjoining the town, and very convenient to the Stables; known by the name of clover Lot, extremely rich and productive, and well enclosed. The whole of the buildings are insured—it would be useless to state on the eligibility of this stand for business of this sort, or the real value of this property, as every person inclined to purchase will enquire in to these facts; suffice it to say, that it is not exceeded by any, & equalled by few in all the upper country. The former proprietor, & his immediate successor, having in a few years made fortunes, and retired, & the present occupant rapidly following their steps. For the information of strangers, it may be observed, that at this house stop both the Richmond and Fredericksburg stages, and by the same route pass a number of genteel families and others to the Springs every season. Also, at this place is held twice a year the District Court, composed of several of the most opulent Counties in Virginia. Also, spring and fall racing; these advantages, together with the County Courts, and one of the most public roads in the state, open a vast advantage to this house; it is now under lease to the present tenant for three years from October next, the benefit of which will be transferred to the purchaser, on the receipt of the first payment. Terms of sale: one third on the first of January next, and the balance in two equal annual payments from that date. Bond with approved security, and a deed of trust on the property to secure the payments, will be required, which are to bear interest from the date if not punctually paid will be required. If the above property is not sold before, it will be offered at public sale, on the premises on the fifteenth day of September next, if fair, if not, the next fair day. Stock of the Bank of Virginia, at its current value, would be received in payment for the whole, or any part, or undoubled bonds due at the time of sale, for the two last payments, the ultimate payment being made entirely secure. For further particulars, enquire of Nathaniel and Benjamin Sheppard, in Richmond, or the public river living at Scotch-Town, in Hanover. JOHN M. SHEPPARD. ep153. June 10.