Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1808-07-01 00:00:00

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Wilson C. Nicholas's Letter.
To the Electors of the Congressional District, composed of the Counties of Albemarle and Fluvanna.—Concluded.
FELLOW-CITIZENS,
It has been repeatedly stated, that we might have prevented the state of things that gave rise to the embargo; that the necessity grew out of our own fault, our own remissness, and not out of the decrees and orders of council. If this be true, it is indeed a view of the subject that ought to be met with great seriousness; and although it is no reason for not defending what all agree, are our unquestionable rights, it is a sufficient reason for bringing to punishment and disgrace, those who have sacrificed the public interest, and unnecessarily endangered the peace of the nation. Let us examine the subject. It is said we could have prevented the treaty made by Mr. Jay—that we could even have made a better treaty—that bad as Jay's treaty was, it would have been better to have had it, than to have been in our present situation. I disliked Mr. Jay's treaty; but I have no doubt it was a better treaty when it was made in 1794, than it would have been in 1806-7—when it is considered in relation to the situation of the two countries at that time; its intrinsic merit or the relative situation of the two nations in 1806-7. In 1794, Great Britain was associated with all the great continental powers, except France. She had swept from the ocean a great part of the commerce of the United States; she was in possession of our posts, that enabled her to command all the Indian tribes. The United States had not recovered from the effects of the revolutionary war, from the close of which, we had been harassed by a cruel and bloody war with our savage neighbors; we had at the same time very serious difficulties with the Spaniards, upon points of great importance; our commerce was exposed to the Barbary powers; a danger so serious, as to exclude our vessels from the Mediterranean sea. These circumstances would certainly have justified a treaty then, that ought not to be accepted at this day; then it could have been said with propriety, we ought to cede at the time, and delay an appeal to arms. Under all these circumstances, it was that, by a great proportion of the American people, we ought not to have accepted Jay's treaty; altho' by it we procured the surrender of the posts, at least 1,200,000 pounds sterling for spoliations; altho' by its adoption we gained time, and in all probability procured an adjustment of our differences with Spain, then the ally of Great Britain, and the navigation of the Mississippi; for it is probable as long as we were embroiled with England, Spain would not have made the concessions she did; and altho' we then gained peace and safety to our extensive frontier. This treaty, that was then bad, and ought to have been rejected, would be now good, and ought to have been continued—that is to say, when it held out to us advantages, it ought to have been rejected; but when every part of it was executed from which we were to expect advantage, we ought to have continued the execution of those parts that had been inserted for the benefit of Great Britain, and to which we had objected, when, as they said, they had given us an equivalent. If this treaty was bad in 1794, it was much worse, it was inadmissible, in 1806-7. G. Britain had then fallen from the imposing attitude in which she had stood; our resources, our means of defence and offence, as well as our population, had increased in a ratio, never before experienced by any people upon earth. If this treaty had been renewed, there is a certainty, it would not have prevented our being in our present situation, as will be shewn. But it is said, we could not have obtained a better treaty. If by this it is meant to say, that our situation in a commercial or political point of view would have been better, if we had adopted the treaty negotiated by Messrs. Monroe & Pinkney, it is believed that sentiment will be found greatly erroneous, if the subject is considered either with reference to the advantages to be gained by this country from that treaty, or the time and circumstances under which it was proposed. The correct mode of judging of a treaty, is, by a knowledge of the points in dispute, as well as of the objects of the contracting parties. Unless something is gained, it is obvious that a treaty is bad, and altho' it may be said, certain rights are reserved, not abandoned, yet I assert, in most cases that is the effect, and that such is the usage of nations: and that reservations are made more with a view to the character and feelings of the nation that makes the reservation, than with an expectation that such claims will ever be revived. It is therefore more frank and manly to abandon claims at once, than to keep them alive in this way, after a general adjustment of other differences; all history affords proof of the propriety of this opinion. The application of it to the late negotiation, needs no further illustration to show
that the supposed reservations and informal engagements, form no justification of the treaty. What Mr. Canning says upon this subject, in his note of the 22d October 1807, is conclusive. "No engagements were entered into on the part of his majesty as connected with the treaty, except such as appear upon the face of it. Whatever encouragement may have been given by his majesty's commissioners to the U. States, that discussion might hereafter be entertained, with respect to the impressment of British seamen from merchant vessels, must be understood to have had in view the renewal of such discussions, not as forming any part of the treaty then signed (as the American commissioners appear to be instructed to assume,) but separately, and at some subsequent period, more favorable to their successful termination." So that to say the least, the points in dispute, that are not provided for by this treaty, and for which provision does not appear upon the face of it, ought to be considered as postponed, if not abandoned. I will state to you, what were the objects in forming a treaty with Great Britain. You will see in what our commissioners were successful, and it will at once be seen whether the treaty ought to have been rejected or adopted. We demanded an exemption of our seamen from impressment. Was satisfaction given to us in the treaty upon this point? There was not; but our commissioners were assured in a note of the British commissioners of the 8th November, that instructions had been given, and should be repeated and enforced, for the observance of the greatest caution in impressing British seamen, with assurances that immediate redress should be given in case any American seamen should be impressed, and with an assertion that no recent cases had occurred. So far from this being true, the secretary of state, Mr. Madison, says, "the impressments have at no time been more frequent or vexatious." In making a treaty, their instructions were peremptory and clear, not to sign any treaty without a provision upon this subject: The provision in the note, would have been inadmissible, if it had formed part of the treaty, (as the right to impress was asserted, not abandoned, and British officers made the sole judges who were British subjects; as it did not, it was of no effect, as appears by Mr. Canning's note, before referred to—And here it should be remarked, that the assertion that Great Britain only wants the service of her own subjects, whose services are essential to her existence, and that it is our object to rob her of these people, is one of the many calumnies that are uttered against our government. By the law of nations, it is our clear and indisputable right, that our flag should protect from belligerents, all persons, except those in the military or naval service of their enemies. This is a principle that we cannot give up, without abandoning our people to their mercy. If we admit the right of impressment by one belligerent, we must admit it to exist in all; we make their officers the sole judges of who are and who are not their subjects. The British have never contended for a power to do more than to impress their own people, but in the exercise of this power, they have, in the course of the war, impressed many thousand native American citizens. We neither dispute the right of Great Britain to command the services of her subjects, provided she can do it without a violation of our rights, nor do we wish to employ them in our service, and this is clearly proved by the offers of our government to consent to regulations, by which persons belonging to one country shall be excluded from the service of the other. As far as I have been able to inform myself of the wishes of those who have competent authority on the part of the United States, I say confidently, our government would co-operate in any reasonable regulation, that G. Britain would suggest & make reciprocal. Of the disposition of the executive, upon this subject, there is a full proof in the instructions given to our commissioners; of the temper of congress there can be no room to doubt. If G. Britain suffers injury from her subjects leaving her service or country, let her restrain them; she has the authority and the means to do so; she can, if she pleases, prevent a British subject from leaving her. We cannot, consistently with our honor, duty or interest, permit her to indemnify herself for such loss, by forcing American citizens to fight her battles.
The next most important point was the colonial trade. By the 11th article, that trade is placed upon a worse footing than it stood before. The re-exportation of colonial produce is restricted to European ports, and the supplies of the colonial market to European goods. There is no way in which the British had harassed our commerce more, than in the execution of their nominal blockades: upon this point we demanded and had a right to expect redress: did the treaty give it to us? It did not. We have a heavy account against that nation for spoliations, committed upon our commerce in violation of the law of nations and of principles recognized by herself: does the treaty provide for the payment of these claims? Not a cent—they are postponed—the right to make demand is reserved. Is our trade to the East and West Indies put upon a better footing than it stood before? It is not—the former is confessedly on a worse than under Jay's treaty. Are our boundaries settled? They are not; that question is likewise reserved. G. Britain levies a tax upon us, her best customers, under an export duty of four per cent, which is paid by no other independent nation, and there-
by imposes upon us a tribute of a million of dollars. Did this treaty secure us an exemption from this duty? It did not; and the only consolation that is given, is, that we do not pay a greater duty upon exports, than is paid by her colonies. Upon the whole, from this analysis of the treaty, it does not appear, that by it any thing would have been gained that was worth possessing, and that our most important rights & interests have either been reserved, postponed or qualified and limited, in such a manner, that our situation was not made worse by its rejection. In the consideration of our relations with that country, it ought to be remembered we were the injured nation in every instance; that there was not a single act of our's of which Great Britain had a right to complain—there were no set-offs of that sort against our just demands. Why then should we have made a treaty by which we got nothing? It has been said by its advocates, we should have avoided war. I believe it would have had a contrary tendency, and I think I can demonstrate it. But it is rational to believe G. Britain would have gone to war with us, for injuries that they had themselves committed; or was it necessary to patch up this accommodation to prevent our government from going to war with them? If, by this treaty, it had been stipulated we should obtain every thing our commissioners were instructed to demand; if Great Britain had thrown open all her ports in the East and W. Indies and in Europe to our commerce, it ought to have been rejected. The note of the British commissioners, of the 31st of December, 1806, which appears to have been delivered before the signature of the treaty, by those commissioners, puts it as completely in the power of the king of G. B. to withhold his ratification of that treaty, as it would have been, had there been a stipulation in the body of the treaty, that it should not be binding upon G. Britain, unless (these are the words of the note,) "the enemy will either have formally abandoned or tacitly relinquished his unjust pretensions, or the government of the U. States, by its conduct or assurances, will have given security to his majesty, that it will not submit to such innovations, in the established system of maritime law." The British commissioners "presented this note from an anxious wish, that it should be clearly understood on both sides, that, without such an abandonment on the part of the enemy, or such assurances, or such conduct on the part of the United States, his majesty will not consider himself bound by the present signature of his commissioners, to ratify the treaty or precluded from adopting such measures as may seem necessary for countering the designs of his enemy." This conditional signature of the treaty, and amount in substance, to an offer to our government, of the alternative between the treaty, and a war with France; since, if our government did not give such assurances, or pursue such conduct as would be satisfactory to his Britannic majesty, the treaty would be lost. If the treaty had contained stipulations the most beneficial to the U. S. this note would, in my mind, have constituted an insuperable bar to it, unless I had been prepared to consent to an alliance offensive and defensive with Great Britain; for I am convinced, nothing short of actual hostility against France, would have satisfied the British government. In the adjustment of our differences with G. Britain, it neither competed with our interest nor our dignity, as an independent power, to make the adjustment dependent upon the conduct of our government, in a dispute with any other nation. In this case, there was the less pretence for the interference of the British, because it is declared in this very note, that the French naval ports and arsenals, are actually blockaded, and they are unable to station any naval force whatever, before any port of the United Kingdom. Notwithstanding the confidence with which his Britannic majesty appeals to the world as to his uniform respect for neutral rights, and his scrupulous adherence to the law of nations; it is notorious that in his conduct towards the United States, he has never regarded either, and that he was the first power who ever created a blockade by proclamations and diplomatic communications. Against these nominal blockades, he now protests, and although he declares them inoperative against him, it forms a justification in his mind for an attempt to force the United States into acts of hostility against France. The wisdom of the President, in not accepting the treaty signed upon the condition expressed in the letter of the British commissioners, is now obvious; for, altho' we have not by our act, sanctioned the British claim to prescribe to us a course of conduct, with respect to France, and notwithstanding, in that note, the right to retaliate any injury the French decrees may do them, is rested solely upon the ground of our "acquiescence in such usurpations." Yet, on the 7th of January, 1807, only seven days after the signature of this treaty in London, an order of council issued, prohibiting our vessels from trading between the ports of France and those of her allies, in violation of our rights, and of the 11th article of this very treaty; and more than a month before it was known in the United States, that our trade with Great Britain was interdicted by France, the British orders of the 11th of November issued. If this conditional treaty had been accepted, Great Britain would have been justified in doing what she has done, unless we resisted the French decrees in a manner satisfactory to her. The view I have taken of this treaty, has been forced upon me, by the attempt that has been made to impress upon the nation, a belief, that if it had been adopted, we should have avoided our present difficulties. I
trust, I have shown that they have not arisen from the rejection of this treaty, and that its adoption would not have prevented the state of things that now exists between the United States and Great Britain; this has been my only motive for the notice I have taken of it. It has been to me a painful duty. I have endeavored to discharge it, in a manner consistent with the respect I feel for the gentlemen who negotiated that treaty. One of them I have known long and intimately. I know he is incapable of an intentional abandonment of the interest of his country. My object is not to criminate the commissioners, who, I am confident, believed they acted for the interest of their country, but to rescue the administration from a censure they do not merit. In forming the treaty, the commissioners acted upon a responsibility, the full force of which they felt. The President in sending it back and refusing to ratify it, discharged a duty to his country. I have no doubt he did right. That he acted according to his own conviction, there can be no doubt. It is proven by his instructions antecedently given. The correspondence is published and every man has the means of forming an opinion for himself. Before you will believe that the necessity for the embargo grew out of the fault & remissness of our own government, and not out of the French decrees and British orders, you will require it to be proved by what act of our's, short of war with England, we could have prevented the blockading decree of France from being extended to our commerce; and by what act of our's, short of war with France, the British orders of the 7th January, 1807, and their orders of the 11th November, would have been prevented from issuing. They have told you and you have seen, that the rejected treaty would not have had that effect. It must be shown too, how the British were to have been restrained from the impressment of our seamen; how, by any act of our's, the attack upon the Chesapeake was brought about, and how the execution of one of the four men taken from on board that vessel, and the detention of the other three, is to be ascribed to the rejection of the treaty. It may be asked, do we rely solely upon the embargo? We do not; we have made provision for the defence of our ports and harbors, by the appropriation of large sums of money, for the erection of fortifications and the building gun-boats, to be used in the defence of our ports, bays, and rivers. We have ordered a regular force of upwards of six thousand men to be raised, who will be employed for the defence of our most exposed and important places. We have given the President a power to call into actual service 100,000 militia; and we have appropriated 650,000 dollars for the purchase and manufacture of arms. A much larger sum would have been applied to this most important object, if it could have been used; but that was not believed to be practicable, as we can only procure them from manufacturers within the United States. How long is the embargo likely to continue? is a question every man feels interested in. A law passed Congress a short time before the adjournment, authorising the President of the United States, in the event of such peace or suspension of hostilities between the belligerent powers of Europe, or of such changes in their measures affecting neutral commerce, as may render that of the United States sufficiently safe in his judgment, to suspend the act laying an embargo. In either of these events, the embargo will instantly be taken off. If the wrongs of which we complain continue, and the embargo becomes more oppressive than war we must make the appeal to arms, and resort to such measures as will give full scope to the courage and enterprise of our countrymen. If this shall be our only alternative, the course we have taken was the best we could have adopted; it has enabled us to bring home all our citizens who were abroad, to secure the vast property we had afloat to put our country in a state of defence, and to make all the necessary preparations for offensive war, if we should be obliged to resort to it. It gives us every possible chance to escape war. But if we should not be so fortunate, we shall engage in it, with less risk and loss to ourselves, and greater means of annoyance to our enemies. Fellow-citizens, the state of our affairs and indeed of the whole world, is portentous and merits your most serious consideration. It is not the lot of man to enjoy uninterrupted happiness. Our situation is, and has been the most enviable of any people on earth. We live under a government of our choice, administered by our own agents, elected by and responsible to us. Our property is our own; not a shilling of it is taken from us but what is faithfully applied to the public service. Fulfilling all our duties to others, we ask of them nothing but to forbear to do us injury. When the people and wealth of other countries have been devoted to gratify the ambition of their rulers, we have been happily enjoying the fruits of our own labour. It is in America only, that the rights of man are known and respected. I should be unfaithful to you, if I did not warn you of the possibility of your being called upon to defend these inestimable blessings, and that you may be called upon for yet greater exertions than you made in your revolutionary war. In this crisis, fellow-citizens, when it is as uncertain from what quarter the blow may come, as with what force you may be assailed; let us think only of the danger to which our country is exposed; let us dismiss all party and personal considerations, and devote ourselves to the preservation of our country;
let us make a solemn vow, that we will, at the expence of our lives and fortunes maintain that independence and liberty which our best blood was expended in acquiring; that we will defend to the last extremity, the rich inheritance procured for us by the valor, wisdom and patriotism of our fathers, and that we will transmit it unimpaired to our posterity.
I am, With the greatest respect & consideration, Your humble servant, W. C. NICHOLAS.
A New Novel, JUST RECEIVED AT S. PLEASANTS BOOK STORE. CORINNA, OR ITALY; A New Novel, by Mad. De Stael Holstein, in 2 vols.
For Sale, A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, lying in the county of Powhatan, containing by a late survey, Five Hundred and Forty One Acres—two hundred and seventy six acres of which is prime woodland—about 20 acres of first rate Meadow Land, which may be rendered very valuable with a small expence. This is the tract whereon col. Wm Mayo, late of Powhatan county, dec'd lived, lying about 3 miles above Powhatan courthouse, within four of James and four of Appomattox rivers, in a healthy neighborhood and convenient to several merchant mills. This land is well watered, with excellent springs, and is suitably adapted to the balance of corn, wheat and tobacco.
The improvements are a Dwelling House 48 by 22 feet, with a passage and three rooms on the first floor, and a passage with two rooms on the upper, with a twenty two feet square wing with two rooms, some necessary out buildings—all of which want some repairs.
I shall proceed to offer this land for sale at Scotville, the seventeenth day of August next, being Powhatan court day, on the following terms—The sum of seven hundred and fifty pounds cash in hand, on the day of sale, and for the balance, a credit of two years will be given the purchaser; bond with approved security will be required, carrying interest from the day of sale, if not punctually paid; also a deed of trust on the said land to secure the payment of the balance.
It is deemed needless to say any thing more, as it is presumed, that those who may wish to purchase, will first view the premises, which will be shown by capt Benjn. Mosby, or Mr. Thos. T. Swann, living near there—to the Subscriber living near Powhatan Courthouse.
WM. MAYO, Junr. Powhatan County, June 20, 1808 3w
MEDICINE STORE. William West, HAS taken the tenement formerly occupied by Doctor Wray, near to the market house, and a few doors below the Old City Tavern, where he has just opened a Fresh supply of Medicines, AND OTHER ARTICLES IN THE DRUG LINE.
He can confidently recommend them to be fresh and genuine, having been laid in by a particular friend of his, who is a good judge of their different qualities. His nearness to the courthouse and market-house, will be a great convenience to his country friends, who may have to attend at either of these places, and who may wish to be supplied with any articles in his line. He will afford regular attention to all orders and receipts that he may be favored with. Captains of vessels and other mariners will be furnished with medicines and chests at low prices.
Richmond, June 3, 1808. 1awtf
Sale of Negroes.
IN pursuance of a deed of trust executed to me by John Ogilby of the county of Person, North Carolina, for purposes therein expressed, I shall on the 9th of June next, if fair, if not the next fair day, proceed to sell, at the Red House in Caswell county, (N. C.) to the highest bidder, for ready money, the following slaves, to wit; James, Davy, Tom, Adam, Bob and Major, or as many of them as will be sufficient to answer the purposes of the said deed.
William S. Archer. May 20, 1808. N. B. The sale of the above mentioned property has, by consent of parties, been postponed to the first day of July next, when it will positively take place at the Red House. Wm. S. Archer. June 12th 1808. tds
20 Dollars Reward.
RUN AWAY from the subscriber on the night of the 10th inst, a negro man named JOHN STON, about 5 feet 7 inches high, slender made, one or perhaps more of his fore teeth decayed, bushy hair; he is a very active fellow, and of considerable address; he took with him an old fur hat, brown broad cloth coat, olive constitution cord round about, with pataoons of the same, patched at the knees, a new mixed Virginia cloth round about and pantalettes, two new brown linen shirts, and some muslin shirts, a new madras handkerchief, and many other articles of clothing not recollected. It is supposed that he will make towards Richmond, as he was brought from that place last winter by Benjamin Hardin, who says he was purchased from a Mr. Bell, grocer of Richmond. The above reward will be given to any person or persons for apprehending the negro and securing him in any jail, so that I get him again, or if brought home, all reasonable expenses paid. He is about 25 years of age. Calvin Morgan. Wythe courthouse, Virginia, June 12, 1808. wtf

FOREIGN OFFICE, May 4. The Rt. Hon. George Canning, his ma- jesty's principal secretary of state for for- eign affairs, has this day notified to the mi- nisters of friendly and neutral powers resi- dent at this Court, that his Majesty has judged it expedient to establish the most rigorous blockade of the port of Copenha- gen, and of all the other ports in the is- land; and that the same will be maintain- ed and enforced in the strictest manner, according to the usages of war acknow- ledged and allowed in similar cases.
WHITEHALL, May 7. The King has been pleased to constitute and appoint the Right Hon. Henry Baron Mulgrave, Sir Richard Bickerton, Bart., Vice-Admiral of the White-Squadron of his Majesty's fleet; William Johnstone Hope, and Robert Ward, Esq's the Right Hon. Henry John Viscount Palmerston, James Buller, Esq., and William Domett, Esq., Rear-Admiral of the Red Squadron of his Majesty's Fleet, to be his Majesty's Commissioners for executing the Office of High Admiral of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the do- minions, islands and territories thereunto belonging.
[This Gazette likewise contains a Pro- clamation for pardoning such seamen and mariners as have deserted, and shall re- turn into his Majesty's service on or before the 31st day of December next.]
CORK, May 10. The London Journals, which to the 8th inst. have been received at this office since our last, contain a great variety of impor- tant information.
The Osage has at length arrived in Eng- land, with Mr Nourse, the American Mes- senger. After her arrival, it had trans- pired that Bonaparte had declared to the American Government, that the only con- ditions on which he would continue at peace with the United States were, that they should shut their ports against British ships of every description, and interdict all inter- course with England, for he would have no Neutrals. To obtain a relaxation of these conditions is said to have been the purpose for which the Osage was dispatched to France. But all the efforts of Gene- ral Armstrong, to induce the compliance of the French government, were in vain. Bonaparte would not recede from what he had declared to be his ultimate determina- tion. It appears that the manner in which the American mission was received was as insulting, as the principle insisted on by France was injurious. Upon her arrival at L'Orient the Osage was seized, because she had been spoken by a British cruiser off that port, and she was not released with- out repeated representations from Gen. Armstrong. Mr Nourse, though in bad health, was kept on board for a week after his arrival, and when permitted to go on shore, would not be suffered to proceed farther than L'Orient. In all the confer- ences too, upon the subject between Gen. Armstrong and the French minister, the latter had been instructed to assume the most haughty deportment. Many of the Americans in France, alarmed at the pro- spect of affairs, applied for passports to leave the country, but were refused. Upon the whole, it would seem as if Bonaparte re- lied so implicitly on the strength of his fac- tion in America, and on the popular cla- mour in that country on account of the af- fair of the Chesapeake, that he thought there was no need of affecting to conciliate, and that his dictates must be obeyed on the other side of the Atlantic with the same submission as on the prostrate continent of Europe. We trust, however, that he is grossly deceived, and that his insolence will be duly appreciated in America.
The rumour of a resolution at Petersburg is now regarded as totally unfounded. The Baltic expedition sailed last Tues- day, but in consequence of an unfavorable change in the wind, had made but little progress at the date of the last accounts.
May 11. General Aymfieldt, the Swedish officer, commanding the army in Norway, has is- sued a proclamation to the people of that country, declaratory of the objects of the invasion. It is in spirit and expression ve- ry unlike those which have proceeded from the agents of the courts with whom Sweden is at war. The reported capture of the island of Bornholm is premature.
BENNINGTON, (Vermont) June 13. We are correctly informed, that govern- ment has taken on Lake Champlain the sloop Essex, having on board a cargo for a Mr Page of Middlebury: she was laying at Chrymplein for further speculation, and just ready to proceed over the province line: her cargo consisted of 157 barrels of arties and 92 barrels of pork—which, with the vessel, are in possession of Mr Penni- man at Windmill Point, and the cargo land- ed and safely stored: That on the 29th of May, about Midnight, a bateau was dis- covered passing the custom-house; captain Hookins turned out with all hands, consist- ing of nine—and three discharges were made before the bateau would turn to the office—the last ball passed between two of her men:—they were from Plattsburgh, were six in all, and were delivered over to Judge Hicks and by him conducted under an armed guard to Cumberland head, 25 bds. of ashes taken in the bateau, belong- ing to Levi Platt, who was among the pri- soners. That on the night of the 30th, lieut. Whittmore took a boat with 9 bar- rels on board, but as no authority could be found in Grand Isle county in whom confi- dence could be safely placed, and as it was deemed improper to keep them under guard till process could be had, the collector lib- erated the prisoners, and detained only the property: the people and boat belonged to Canada, and were proceeding directly th- ither from St. Albans bay: they were fired at twice and then boarded by force: lieut. Whittmore informs, he understands the people are collecting a little over the line, to rescue the property from us!—this looks serious, for such an attack would be consi- dered as a commencement of war.
The detachment of militia from Rutland, commanded by Maj. Ch. K. Williams, passed through Middlebury for the frontiers the 2d inst. Gov. Smith has also ordered from Addison county a detachment on the same expedition to march this day.
The St. Alban's Adviser affects to ridi- cule the government for sending troops from
the north to enforce the laws on the nor- thern frontiers. It is well known the emba- rgo laws were received on the Lake about the middle of March: the Adviser has ev- er since endeavored to bring them into contempt, and many "worthless" people have followed its advice—it has seemed to exult in the evasion of the laws—it has ridi- culed the feeble arm of the officer of the customs, who has been constant in season and out of season in the faithful discharge of his duty; and it has never yet advised the people to support the laws of their coun- try: it has advised how 25 men from St. Albans and Georgia brought too and board- ed several rafts, which in the Adviser's patriotic language, "however found means to liberate themselves;" but it did not ad- vise how the guards placed upon those rafts by the collector were dreadfully frightened into a deep sleep by the threats of forty strange men who appeared to them in the silent watch of the night, nor how soundly these brave defenders of the laws slept un- der the threatening of death till the said rafts drifted over the line: it has advised how "the remaining rafts joined, making a surface of ten acres, and carrying 40 sail, had made an expedition and safe exit from the United States" without a man to oppose them: it has advised how millions of pro- perty have been accidentally drifted into Canada by violent south winds: it has ad- vised the people, that the acts of govern- ment which command those winds to be calm till the eastern storm is over, are un- constitutional, and therefore not binding. And now we can advise the Adviser to rest assured, that the south wind which blows the militia from the south, will prevent fu- ture accidents from the storms of the lake. Rutland soldiers will not be frightened into a calm sleep by the threats of murder, or the advice of the Adviser. Thirty years ago, traitors were marked—and the people new know where to apply the "revolutio- nary garb" of such unprincipled men.
We learn that not long since a num- ber of teams taken with ashes on their way from the east side of the mountain to the lake, were stopped in Castleton: the au- thority and gentlemen of respectability, after reading the embargo law to the teamsters convinced them that any person aiding directly or indirectly in the eva- sion of the law was liable to a heavy fine —and that they, knowing their loads were intended for exportation would be deem- ed guilty. The men therefore immedi- ately unloaded their ashes, and prepared to return home peacefully: but the fed- eralists of the neighborhood assembled, and endeavored to persuade them to pro- ceed with their loads, in defiance of law. No comment is necessary.
The editors of the Troy Gazette are informed that a communication in their late paper professing to relate facts res- pecting the Castleton affairs, states the truth in only two essential points, viz— there were teamsters passing through Castleton, they were carrying loads for Canada market; but it is not true that they were stopped by manual or civil force —two trite one-liners well for proof? In- dian.
All persons having property which was intended for exportation to Canada, whe- ther lumber in rafts, or other merchan- dize, are informed that no such exporta- tions can be permitted.
The laws and instructions received by the undersigned collectors, are such as require their utmost vigilance and exert- ion, in effecting the objects of the law; and while they lament the injury that will be sustained by some of their fellow-cit- izens, they indulge a hope that none will be so inconsiderate as to attempt a viola- tion.
It is recommended, particularly to those concerned in rafts, that they lay them up in secure situations and wait patiently, for relief in a legal way; but it is our duty at the same time to inform all concerned, that we are commanded to use force where reason and consideration are ina- dequate to restrain the illegal.
MEL. P. WOODSEY, Collector of Chrymplein. J. PENNIMAN, Collector of Vermont. April 21, 1808.
WASHINGTON, June 23. Yesterday the Court of Enquiry gave au- dience to Gen. Wilkinson, in vindication of his character against the charges of Messrs. Clark and others.—Colonel Bur- beck presided, supported by colonels Wil- liams and Cushing. The judge advocate, W. Jones, Esq. was present. Between 12 and 1, Gen. Wilkinson entered, in full uni- form, addressed the court in a very inter- esting exordium, and proceeded in a calm and argumentative manner to investigate the several allegations, tracing with preci- sion the conduct of Messrs. Clark, Power, Harper, Keene, &c. and supporting his nar- rative with various depositions, original letters, &c. The court was occupied till between 3 and 4 o'clock, when they ad- journed to meet at 11 o'clock this day, at which the General will conclude his de- fence. The Court was attended by a num- ber of respectable persons.
Our readers may expect in our next pa- per an outline, as correct as we can pro- cure it, of this vindication. It sheds im- mense light upon the current of our wes- tern concerns in general, and gives to the world some precious evidences of the in- trigues of men who have been vamping at the General's expense for some time past. [Monitor.]
CHARLESTON, (S. C.) June 17.
A letter from Savannah, to a gentle- man in this city, dated the 12th inst., states that the French privateers L'Ex- change and La Jeune Estelle, boarded, off Amelia Island, a brig from Baltimore, capt. Brownlow, and took from her 200 barrels of flour, and a quantity of other provisions, upon which they fixed their own prices, and gave the capt. an order
and person in Charleston, for the amount. (Times.)
June 18. We published yesterday, an extract of a letter from Savannah, stating that the two French privateers, which were not long since in our port, had boarded a Bal- t. more brig off Amelia Island, and had forcibly taken from her a quantity of Flour, &c. We now lay before our readers the affidavit of the Captain of the brig, on the subject of this nefarious transaction!
STATE OF GEORGIA, ST. MARY'S.
Personally appeared Robert Brownlow, who being duly sworn, deposeth and saith —That on the fourth day of June, in the year of our lord one thousand eight hun- dred and eight, while in the brig Charles of Baltimore, of which this deponent is master, lying in Amelia sound, within the province of East Florida, he was boarded and taken possession of by Ant. Bonaffon, Don Fellin, and Jean Baptiste Carvine, owners and masters of the armed schoo- ner Exchange and Jeune Estelle, and for- cibly deprived of two hundred barrels of superfine flour the property of this depo- nent; and this deponent further states that he will be entirely without redress, if the property of the said Bonaffon, Fellin, and Carvine, is not attached to answer the demand of this deponent; and fur- ther, that he is endangered to the amount of six thousand dollars, by the loss of the aforesaid two hundred barrels of flour; by reason of the detention aforesaid, and the failure of his voyage and sale of the said flour.
Sworn to before me this seventh day of June in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and eight at St. Mary's in the state of Georgia.
ROBERT BROWNLOW. HARMEN COURTEL, J. P.
Extract from evidence of the British Or- ders, delivered before the English Parlia- ment.
Mr. G. W. Wood's Evidence.
(Continued.)
Although the embargo were taken off, if the orders were to continue? Although the embargo were taken off, and if the orders were still to continue.
For what reason would you still refrain from getting work up for the American markets? From the apprehension that a war might ensue between this country and the government of America.
Would that be the only reason to deter you from shipping for the American mar- kets? Yes it would.
You stated before, that part of your pay- ments at least, although the proportion you could not assign, came in the form of bills drawn by Americans upon the continent; how should you expect, if you reserved your shipments to get that part of your payments? I do not think that any pro- portion of the payments from the United States could be made by bills drawn on the continent.
What was the reason for your contrac- ting your shipments? The article I prin- cipally exported to America is hats; the manufacture of hats in America is gradual- ly increasing, and we have gradually experienced a reduction of orders for that article.
Then the reduction of your orders at the latter end of the last year was not in consequence of any measure adopted in this country? Not in the smallest de- gree.
Then you should not think your ship- ments would be as extensive as they were before, if the embargo was taken off in America, not only on account of the or- ders in council, but also on account of the difficulty of getting remittances to the con- tinent? I said, perhaps that might have some influence with me, but not much, because, not having had remittances late- ly from the continent, it is not a thing that I consider.
Have you reduced your manufacture of any thing but hats? No.
You were in the habit of sending other manufactures to America? Occasionally, but not regularly.
And you have reduced your manufac- ture for America in hats only? In hats only.
Had you, when you began to reduce your manufacture not heard of the stop- page and condemnation of American ships in the ports of France and Holland; I cannot recollect whether I had or not, but that had no effect whatever in the reduc- tion which took place in my manufac- ture.
Had you no apprehension of any injury to the American trade from that? I had no apprehension of the interruption in the trade between this country and America from that.
To what amount is your annual trade to America? To the amount of about 20,000. a year in hats.
As soon as you and your house heard of the orders in council having been issued, did you form any resolution respect- ing your American trade? To disconti- nue exporting any hats to America during the continuance of those orders.
Shakespeare Phillips. In what business is your house enga- ged? Chiefly in the export of the cotton manufacture to the United States of A- merica.
Have you lately, in the house to which you belong, drawn in, in any branch of the American trade? Very considerably in- deed; almost totally.
At what time did you begin to cease to take these shipments to America, and to give the necessary orders? The ship- ments to America, take place at particu- lar periods, about the month of February and the month of July.
After the issue of the orders of council to which you have just alluded, did you or your house form any resolution with respect to the American trade? Yes.
To what purpose was this determina- tion? To abstain almost entirely from any further export.
This resolution was taken before any news arrived in the country, of the A- merican embargo? Yes it was.
In what way was this resolution execu- ted? In reducing very much the manu- facture, and not purchasing the manu- factured goods of Lancashire, which we have formerly done to a very large amount.
Did you give to the workmen whom you formerly have employed, less work to each workman? I cannot precisely answer that question, because our manufactory was chiefly executed by agency.
Did you give fewer orders to those agents? Much less.
In what proportion? Of those articles shipped for the American trade, not half.
In consequence of those diminished or- ders for the American trade, has the stock in hand diminished or accumulated? It is regularly accumulating.
Notwithstanding the diminished orders? It is.
If the orders in council were withdrawn, would you and your house resume their former exportation to America? We should to a certain degree.
Although the American embargo con- tinued? Yes.
If the American embargo were remov- ed, and the orders in council still continu- ed in force, would you and your house resume your former shipments to Ameri- ca?—In a very small degree indeed.
But if the embargo were withdrawn, and the orders in council continued, why would not you then send to America? For two reasons: first, I should conceive that from the intercourse being impeded between America and the continent of Europe, I could not expect to receive remittances for the property; but the principal reason is that I should apprehend those orders in council would produce hostility between this country and America.
Then if the embargo were withdrawn, the order of council continuing, why should you be less willing to export? I should not conceive it a likely thing that Ameri- ca would withdraw her embargo while the orders in council continued.
Then I am to understand that your rea- son in the case supposed would be, that America would have less continental trade, and you should therefore fear to continue your trade? I stated that as one reason To be Continued.
ATTENTION!!
THE Richmond Junior Volunteers are hereby summoned to attend on their usual parade ground, near Craig's Office, on Monday next, the fourth day of July, in complete uniform— arms and accoutrements in good order, with 17 rounds of blank cartridges, precisely at the hour of 9 o'clock A. M.
It being the anniversary of American indepen- dence. It is trusted that parents, guardians and others, under whose protection the members of this Corps may be, will encourage their punctual attendance.
RICHARD BOOKER, C.apt.
TO RENT
And possession given the first day of Oc- tober next,
The Tenement,
OCCUPIED by Alexander Plainville, next door below Samuel Peasants' Book-Store For particulars, apply to
WILLIAM COOK. Richmond, 1st July, 1808. (1)
Buckingham County, June
Court, 1808.
Thomas and Francis Deane, for the bene- fit of Archd. Womack, Plaintiffs,
AGAINST
John Francis, Silas Flournoy and Samuel and Drury M. Allen acting partners of Hughes Allen & Company, Defendants.
ON the motion of the plaintiffs by counsel, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the defendants, Drury M. Allen and Silas Flournoy, are not inhabitants of this state. It is ordered and decreed, that unless they shall ap- pear here on or before September court next, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, the court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to them, and decree the matter thereof accord- ingly; and that a copy of this order be forth with published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy,—Teste, R. ELDRIDGE, Jr. D. C.
Strayed or Stolen,
FROM the subscriber living near Wm M. Wat- kins's store, in Charlotte County,
A BAY HORSE,
about four feet eight or nine inches high, sup- posed to be about nine or ten years old, marked as nearly as can be recollected, as follows: a small star in his forehead, some saddle spots, a small piece off of one of his upper eye lids. He is also supposed to have been docked. His usual gait is pacing.
A reasonable reward will be given to any per- son who will return the said horse or secure him so that I get him again.
John H. Rice.
N. B. He was missing the 2d or 3d day of this month.
June 18th, 1808. oaw5w
Wirt's Speeches.
A few copies of the above work for sale at the Argus Book-Store.
Patriotic Songs.
The following simple, but strongly descrip- tive SONG, composed by an old revo- lutionary officer, (supposed to be Gen. Mercer) in memory of the capture of the Hessians at Trenton, will be highly ac- ceptable, it is believed, particularly at this crisis, to the genuine friends of A- merican rights and liberty.
ON Christmas day, in '76; Our ragged troops with bayonets fix'd, For Trenton march'd away— The Delaware see, the boats below, The light obscud'd by hail and snow, But no signs of dismay.
Our object was the Hessian band, That dar'd to invade fair freedom's land, And quarter in that place— Great Washington led us on, With ensigns streaming with renown, Which ne'er had known disgrace.
In silent march we pass'd the night, Each soldier panting for the fight, Tho' quite benumb'd with frost— GREENE on the left, at six began, The right was with brave SULLIVAN, Who in battle no time lost.
Their Pickets storm'd, the alarm was spread, That rebels ris'n from the dead, Were marching into town— Some scampered here, some scampered there, And some for action did prepare, But soon their arms laid down.
Twelve hundred servile micreants, With all their colors, guns and tents, Were trophies of the day— The frolic o'er, the bright canteen, In centre, front and rear was seen, Driving fatigue away.
Now brothers of the band, Let's sing our safe deliv'rance from a kiog, Who strove to rule the sway— And as life you know is but a span, Let's touch the tanker while we can, IN MEMORY OF THE DAY.
The following most excellent SONG, com- posed, it is supposed, by Gen. Warren, who fell at the battle of Bunker's Hill, in the year 1775, was published in the Ar- gus several years ago: But believing it may not be unacceptable to our readers at the present time, we have thought pro- per to republish it.
TUNE—BRITISH GRENADIER.
THAT seat of science Athens, And earth's proud mistress Rome; Where now are all their glories, We scarce can find a tomb? Then guard your rights Americans, Nor stoop to lawless sway; Oppose, oppose, oppose, oppose, For North America.
We led fair freedom hither, And lo! the desert smil'd; A paradise of pleasure, Was opened in the wild! Your harvest, bold Americans, No power shall snatch away, Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza, For free America.
Torn from a world of tyrants, Beneath this western sky; We formed a new dominion, A land of liberty: The world shall own we are masters here, Then hasten on the day, Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza, For free America.
Proud Albion bow'd to Cæsar, And numerous lords before; To Picts, to Danes, to Normans, And many masters more: But we can boast Americans, We've never fall'n a prey, Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza, For free America.
God bless this maiden climate, And through its vast domain; May hosts of heroes cluster, Who scorn to wear a chain: And blast the venal sycophant, That dares our rights betray; Huzza, huzza, huzza, huzza, For free America.
Lift up your heads, ye heroes, And swear with proud disdain, The wretch that would ensnare you, Shall lay his snares in vain: Should Europe empty all her force, We'll meet her in array, And fight and shout, and shout and fight, For North America.
Some future day shall crown us, The masters of the main; Our fleet shall speak in thunder, To England, France and Spain; And the nations o'er the ocean spread, Shall tremble and obey, The sons, the sons, the sons, the sons, Of brave America.
Blank Notes
AND POWERS OF ATTORNEY, used in depositing stock in the Bank of Virginia, for sale at this office.
FOR SALE AT THE ARGUS PRINTING-OFFICE,
THE TRIAL
OF
THOMAS O. SELFRIDGE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, FOR KILLING
CHARLES AUSTIN,
On the Public Exchange, in Boston,
August 4th, 1806
This work, is said to contain some of the best specimens of New-England Eloquence.
Fifa & Casa Executions, For Sale at this Office.

REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY ON THE SUBJECT OF PUBLIC ROADS & CANALS, MADE IN PURSUANCE OF A RESOLUTION OF SENATE OF MARCH 2. (Continued.)
VI. OHIO. Although a canal navigation, uniting the Atlantic and western waters in a direct course across the mountains appears impracticable, yet those mountains may be turned either on the north by means of the Mohawk valley and lake Ontario, or on the south through Georgia and the Mississippi territory. The first communication will be noticed under the head of "the river St. Lawrence and Great Lakes."
This work, which is presented not as an immediate but as a distant object, worthy of consideration, would probably require ten millions of dollars, and thirty years for its completion. The annual sales of the public lands in the Mississippi territory, which are estimated at fifty millions of acres, would after paying the debt due to the state of Georgia, afford sufficient funds; and the increased value of the residue would alone more than compensate the expense.
It is proper to add that an inland navigation, even for open boats, already exists from New Orleans by the canal Carondelet, to the lake Pontchartrain, thence between the coast and the adjacent islands to the bay of Mobile, and up its two principal rivers, the Alabama and the Tombigbee to the head of the tide within the acknowledged boundaries of the U. States. The current of these two rivers being much less rapid than that of the Mississippi, they have long been contemplated, particularly the Tombigbee, as affording a better communication to the ascending from New Orleans to the waters of the Tennessee, from which they are separated by short portages.
Communications between the Atlantic rivers, and the river St. Lawrence and Great Lakes.
Vessels ascend the river St. Lawrence from the sea to Montreal. The river Sorel discharges at some distance below that town the waters of Lake George, and Lake Champlain, which penetrate southwardly within the U. States. From Montreal to Lake Ontario, the ascent of the river St. Lawrence is estimated at about 200 feet. From the eastern extremity of Lake Ontario, an inland navigation for vessels of more than 100 tons burthen, is continued more than 1000 miles, thro' lakes Erie, St. Clair and Huron, to the western and southern extremities of lake Michigan, without any other interruption than that of the falls and rapids of Niagara, between lake Erie and lake Ontario. The descent from fort Schlosser to Devil's Hole, a distance of four miles, which includes the perpendicular falls of Niagara, has by correct measurement been ascertained at 375 feet. The whole fall from lake Erie to lake Ontario, is estimated at 450 feet, making the elevation of lake Erie above tide water, six hundred and fifty feet.
Lake Superior, the largest of those inland seas, communicates with the northern extremity of lake Huron, by the river and rapids of St. Mary's. The fall of these is not ascertained; but it is said that a small canal has been opened round the most difficult part, by the north west fur company.
Five of the Atlantic rivers approach the waters of the St. Lawrence; viz. the Penobscot, Kennebec, Connecticut, the North or Hudson river and the Tioughiogah branch of the Susquehannah. This last river will afford a useful communication with the rivers Seneca and Genesee, which empty into lake Ontario. The length of the portage has not been
precisely stated; and the general navigation of the Susquehannah has already been noticed. It may however be observed, that it is the only Atlantic river whose resources approach both the western waters, and those of the St. Lawrence.
The three eastern rivers, afford convenient communications with the province of Lower Canada, but not with that extensive inland navigation, within two hundred miles of the Mississippi. No statement has been received of any improvement having yet been made on the Penobscot, or Kennebec; and a very imperfect account has been obtained of some short canals opened around the several falls of the river Connecticut. One at Bellows' Falls in the state of Vermont, has been particularly mentioned, and is the highest improvement on the river.
What is called the North river, is a narrow and long bay, which in its northwardly course from the harbor of New York, breaks through, or turns all the mountains, affording a tide navigation for vessels of 80 tons to Albany and Troy, 160 miles above New York. This peculiarly distinguishes the North river from all the other bays and rivers in the United States. The tide in no other ascends higher than the granite bridge, or comes within 30 miles of the Blue Ridge, or Eastern chain of mountains. In the North river, it breaks thro' the Blue Ridge and West Point, and ascends above the Eastern termination of the Catskill, or great Western chain.
A few miles above Troy, and the head of the tide, the Hudson from the North, and the Mohawk from the West, unite their waters, and form the North river. The Hudson in its course upwards, approaches the waters of lake Champlain, and the Mohawk, those of lake Ontario.
(To be continued.)
WE the Subscribers, Judges of the General Court, have pursuant to law allotted the Judges of the respective District Courts as follows:
Robert White, Jr. and Archibald Stuart, esqrs. to the districts of Winchester, Hardy and Montgomery courthouse; Richard Parker and John Tyler, esqrs. to the districts of Richmond, Petersburg, Brunswick courthouse and Suffolk; Edmund Winston and Paul Carrington, Jr. esqrs. to the districts of Prince Edward courthouse, Franklin, Washington courthouse, and the Sweet Springs in Botetourt county; Joseph Prentis and William Nelson, esqrs. to the districts of Northumberland, King & Queen, Williamsburg and Accomack courthouses; And Francis T. Brooke and Hugh Holmes, esqrs. to Staunton, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg and Haymarket districts at the next succeeding terms thereof.
Witness our hands and seals this eleventh day of June, one thousand eight hundred and eight.
John Tyler, (Seal.) Wm. Nelson, (Seal.) Robt. White, Jr. (Seal.) Arch'd. Stuart, (Seal.) Frs. T. Brooke, (Seal.) Hugh Holmes, (Seal.)
Published by order of the Judges Wilson Allen, C. G. C. June 18, 1808 4w
Mount Comfort, FOR SALE.
SITUATED on Rappahannock in the county of Essex, within fifteen miles of Tappahannock and about the same distance from Urbanna and King and Queen Courthouse and very convenient to the post office at Montague's Tavern where there are upwards of one hundred and fifty acres of land attached to this seat, a considerable part of which is wood land and heavily timbered. The improvements are a dwelling house, forty feet by eighteen, a Kitchen, Smoke House, Stable, Ice House, &c. on the Hill - And on the river bank, a store house, with a commodious Store and Counting Room and an excellent Granary - all of which - except the Stable - have been recently built. Mount Comfort commands as good, if not the best view of the river of any seat on the Rappahannock - and the best fish and oysters may be had at the door with very little trouble - It is well calculated for a merchant, being in a populous and wealthy neighborhood, where it is believed five or six thousand pounds worth of goods might be retailed annually - it would also be a convenient stand for a professional character - I would either sell on credit if the payments can be agreed on, or exchange for other lands without improvement. For farther particulars apply to Reuben M. Garnett, or to
Carter Wood, Mount Comfort. June 1, 1808
Left with the Subscriber
by Capt. John Jeffries, about two years past, A PAIR OF SADDLE BAGS, containing sundry articles of wearing apparel. The owner may have them by proving his property and paying the expense of this advertisement on application to
Wm. Goodwin. Richmond, June 22, 1808 2w
PASSPORTS
GRANTED by the department of State to citizens going into foreign parts, having been, in sundry instances, obtained from the persons receiving them, by others assuming their names; it has been thought proper to guard against the abuse, by requiring the former to write their own names in the body of the passports, and with this alteration they will be issued after the 21st day of June, 1808.
Department of State, June 15, 1808. The Printers who publish the laws of the United States are requested to insert this notice. June 18.
Will be sold, for cash,
ON the fourth day of July next, being Albemarle July court, at the door of Triplett T. Estes in the town of Charlottesville, by virtue of a deed of trust, executed by William Davis, &c. and recorded in the county court of Orange, for the purposes in said deed mentioned, one certain
Tract or parcel of Land,
lying and being in the said county of Orange, and on the waters of Lynch's river and adjoining the lands of Lewis Davis, Elisha Morris, Eliza Morris, &c. containing by estimation one hundred and thirty acres, be the same more or less, being the same land said William Davis bought of William Morris (to use the expression in said deed mentioned.)
WILL ALSO BE SOLD, on same day, place, and terms, by virtue of a deed of trust executed by James Kirby, &c. and recorded in the county court of Albemarle, for the purposes in said deed mentioned, one certain tract or parcel of land, containing by estimation sixty acres, be the same more or less, and adjoining the lands of Milburn Hogg, William Faris, Richard Johnson, &c. lying in the said county of Albemarle and on the waters of Buck Island Creek, being the tract of land said James Kirby had of his father John Kirby (to use the expression of said deed trust.)
WILL ALSO BE SOLD, on same day, place, and terms, by virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Morris, &c. and recorded in the district court of Charlottesville, for the purposes in said deed mentioned, one certain tract or parcel of land, lying and being in the county of Louisa, containing by estimation one hundred acres, and adjoining the lands of Thomas Harlow, David Sims and William McDaniel deceased, which said tract or parcel of land said John Morris, purchased of Thomas Harlow, some years past, (to use the expression of the said deed of trust) being only interested as trustee for the benefit of others, will only convey title to aforesaid lands in me as such.
Martin Dawson, Trustee. 4th June, 1808 tds
MATTRESSES
OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond
J. S. Pleasants. May 31, 1808 tf
Joseph Marx & Co.
Have on hand an assortment GERMAN OZNBURGS, TICKLENBURGS, DOWNLASS, and TOWELLING, by the bale, box or piece. COGNAC BRANDY and MOLASSES. SACK SALT, coarse and fine. Which they will sell for cash, tobacco, or approved paper. Richmond, April 28, 1808. tf
TO RENT,
A GOOD TENEMENT on Market Alley, opposite the Market House; it is among the best stands in the neighborhood for a grocery. For terms apply to the subscriber or to Harry Tompkins. ISAAC WEBSTER. February 15. tf
Mr John Warren, administrator of Joseph Fuqua, deceased: As you are not an inhabitant of the State of Virginia, and have no known agent therein, I take this method of giving you notice that, on the first Monday in August next, between the hours of nine in the morning and of sunset of that day I shall, at Charlottesville, in the state of Virginia, proceed to take the affidavits of William Martin, Francis Scott, and others, witnesses in my favor, in support of an injunction which I have obtained from the Superior Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, to stay proceedings on a judgment of Prince Edward District Court entered in your favor against me as executor of William Price, dec'd.
I am, Sir, your's, &c. William Price. Amelia county, Virginia, May 26 1808. 4w
I WILL DISPOSE OF MY TRACT OF LAND,
LYING in Powhatan county, containing 500 acres, of which there are 80 or more prime low grounds, which never is over-flowed by the river Appomattox. There is also a fine mill seat, the dam nearly completed, and timbers ready to complete the mill, upon a never failing stream. The terms will be one-half cash, the balance in 12 months. I will sell or treat with any one between this and the 1st July next, otherwise it will be sold upon the premises, to the highest bidder, together with other property. The terms of the personal property will be made known on the day of sale. John H. Saunders. January 5, 1808. tds
I am desirous to exchange the following property, or any part thereof, as may be agreed on, for a small tract of good Land, in a healthy situation, with a dwelling house and other improvements, a good spring of water, and an agreeable neighborhood, at a distance of 30 to 100 miles up the country - To say for Houses in this city - Lands in Henrico county, joining the aforesaid lands, and near this city - 2,000 acres on Richland creek, in Lincoln county, Kentucky - 1,000 acres on the waters of the Ohio, in Mason county - and two tracts of Military Lands on the river Tennessee, each 866 2/3 acres. Robert Mitchell. Richmond, Feb. 6, 1808. tf
Penitentiary Store.
SHOES at the Manufacture of the Penitentiary have been lately REDUCED, considerably below their former prices. D. J. BURR, Agent. 10th May, 1808. tf
Military Lands
IN THE STATES OF OHIO AND KENTUCKY. THE subscriber has for SALE, sundry valuable tracts of LAND, on the waters of the Miami and Scioto rivers, state of Ohio. Also, on the waters of Cumberland and Green rivers, state of Kentucky, which will be sold low for cash or good bonds - For further particulars enquire of William Price, register, who has the title papers, or to
William Du-Val. Buckingham, January 20, 1808. wtf
Valuable Lands.
THE subscriber will sell, on a credit, or exchange for Property in Richmond or its neighborhood, the following LANDS, to wit: 822 acres in the state of Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th day of October 1797, lying and being in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on Little Barren river.
Also, 1000 acres, in Kentucky, by survey bearing date the 10th October 1797, likewise lying in the district set apart for the officers and soldiers of the Virginia state line, on the north side of Little river, a branch of Cumberland river, and about two and an half miles from the mouth of Little river.
Also, 450 acres of Land in the county of Mason, state of Virginia, on Old Town creek, about 8 miles from Mason courthouse. Indispensible titles will be made to the above mentioned lands; and plots of each tract may be seen on application to the subscriber residing in Richmond. THOMAS BOHANNAN. January 23d, 1808. tf
15 Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber on the 8th instant, a negro woman named DOLLY COX, she is a large likely wench, about 22 years old, very dark complexion, she has got a knot on her breast and one on the back part of her neck, occasioned I suppose either from a switch or burn - she has lately received a small scar across her nose - as it has healed up by this time, I do not know whether it will show or leave the mark. She has been seen on Elk or Peasants' Islands, waiting for a boat to carry her to Ben Creek. She is a cunning wench and will deceive whoever takes her up, if they are not particularly careful; she has full eyes, and when spoken to looks brazen and talks very fast. I will give the above reward to any person that will apprehend said wench and deliver her to me in the lower end of this county on the road leading to New Canton, or ten dollars to secure her in any jail so that I get her again.
Moncrieffe Hill. Buckingham, 20th June, 1808. tf
JUST RECEIVED,
A few hundred barrels cut & whole Herring Antigua Rum by the hogshead & Best Green Coffee by the bag. FOR SALE BY C. H. SAUNDERS, 2d June, 1808. w3m
Penitentiary Store.
THE subscriber, Agent for the Penitentiary, offers for sale the following articles, the manufacture of that institution, at very low prices for cash only at retail, and at 90 credit at wholesale, for approved endorsed negotiable notes
Table with 3 columns: Item, Wholesale prices, Retail prices. Rows include Nails, Spikes, Wrought Nails and Brads, Fire Buckets, Bridles, Sursingles, Whip thongs, Spur leathers, Hame strings, Back Bands, Leading, Garden, Hambro and Fishing lines.
Any of the above articles made to orders left at the Penitentiary Store, second door above the Eagle Tavern. D. J. BURR April 26, 1808. (2aw1m lawtf)
The Shoes are reduced much below the former price.
Nicholas Hallam,
FEW DOORS ABOVE THE SWAN TAVERN HAS FOR SALE, on equally good terms as sold in Richmond, 360 wax and fair Calf Skins, Philadelphia manufacture. First quality Cossack boot legs do. do. Long, three quarter and half, draft, calf skin and Cordovan, do. Calf and Cordovan roundings and binding skins Bridle leather, &c. &c. Boots and Shoes.
Nails of all kinds.
Family Bacon, Butter, Cheese, Lemons and Apples. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF WELL CHOSEN GROCERIES Boots and Shoes made to measures at short notice, and rips mended gratis. April 12. lawtf
Blank Replevin Bonds,
(agreeably to the law of 1808,) ALSO, Fifa & Casa Executions, For Sale at this Office.
20 Dollars Reward.
Ranaway from the Subscriber living in Halifax county, at the fork of Dan and Banister river, on or about the 23d day of August last, SHADRACK, a negro man slave, aged between thirty five and forty years. He is a sensible well informed fellow, is an excellent house servant, to which business, and that of a groom he was principally applied for some time by capt. John A. Fawkes his late master, previous to my purchasing him of his executor, which was only two days before his elopement. His complexion is not entirely black, but yellowish, yet of the negro yellow: has a defect in the right eye which is nearly if not quite blind, occasioned by an inflammation, and both eyes generally shew inflamed symptoms. He also has had an arm broken, but this will not be perceived without particular examination - has a bold, open appearance, is well made, about five feet six or seven inches high, as well as recollected - uncommonly complacent and conversable for a slave, and capable if he attempts it of much deception. He carried away with him a considerable variety of good clothes, a saffron colored cloth coat is particularly recollected, is very fond of dress, and it is expected will appear well as to that article and attempt to pass as a free man; afforded him by his late master and particularly the confidence placed in him in his last illness, was made use of to supply himself with cash - and that he has since procured from some evil disposed person false papers against which the public are cautioned in confiding. The above reward will be paid to any person delivering him to me, at my residence, or securing him in any jail so that I get him again as well as all legal and reasonable expenses. William Owen. January 4, 1808. w12p
Richmond Tile Manufactory.
THE subscriber having procured the exclusive right to manufacture in this and several other states Harwood's much improved Patent Tile for covering houses, and at considerable expense erected the necessary buildings, &c. for carrying on that useful business extensively, now offers to supply, at a short notice, any quantity that may be required, at the moderate price of Thirty Five Dollars per thousand, delivered at his factory. He can with confidence, founded on actual experiment, in the covering of about 20 houses in this city, assert, that houses can be covered with this tile as cheap in the first instance, as with shingles of the first quality, and when the security against fire, the difference of insurance, the durability and particular construction on these tiles to resist the most penetrating rains and snows are considered, he cannot doubt of meeting with considerable encouragement. It requires only the examination of a well covered roof to convince the most prejudiced mind of their superiority to any other tile heretofore made, or to the best slate, and will cost less than the latter, after paying the expense of water carriage to almost any part of this continent. Particular attention will be paid to orders from other towns, and in all cases where they are shipped, he will deliver them whole and sound, along side of the vessels, at the expense of cartage only to the purchasers. Any person skilled in the art of tiling, will put on those tile with great facility, but where they cannot be procured, he can engage a few here who have had some experience, and will go a moderate distance, if the job is of sufficient magnitude and their travelling expenses paid. BENJAMIN DU VAL. Richmond, March 12, 1808. N. B. I wish to sell Patent Rights in several other states. wtf B. D.
Royster & Bohannan,
Have For Sale, at their Store near the Market Bridge, Richmond. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF Groceries,
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Rows include Brown Sugar in hds, Loaf Sugar, in do, Best Green Coffee, Imperial, and Young Hyson TEAS, Chocolate, by the box, Pimento, Pepper, Ginger, Rice, Mustard, W. I. Rum, Jamaica do, N. England do, Molasses by bhd, Sherry and Malaga, Wine, Holland and Country, Gin, Spanish Segars by box or retail, Whiskey by the bbl or piece, French Brandy, Salt by the Sack, A quantity of excellent Lard by the firkin, A large assortment of Iron Castings, every description, An assortment of Stone Ware, Queen's Ware, Soap and Candles by box, Leiper's Snuff, Writing Paper, Wrapping do, Decanters, Tumblers, Wine Glasses, Leading Lines, Bed Cords, &c &c &c. Together with a number of other articles too tedious to enumerate - which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or approved paper in town. It is earnestly requested that those who have long standing accounts, will settle them immediately, as no longer indulgence can be given.
Virginia, to wit:
At a court of Appeals held at the capital in Richmond, the third day of June, 1808. GENERAL RULE. - After the end of this present term, all causes depending in this court, shall be called in the order in which they stand upon the docket: and such as may be ready for hearing pursuant to the former rules of this court, shall, unless good cause be shown to the contrary, be heard in the same order in which they stand upon the docket, until the whole shall be gone through - and the causes which shall be gone over, shall, unless for some very special reason appearing to the court, be put at the end of the docket of each term. Ordered, That the above rule be published in at least three of the newspapers printed in Richmond, once a week, until the first day of October next. A Copy - Teste, J. Brown, C. C.
Pamphlets,
CARDS, HANDBILLS, LAWYERS, CLERKS & SHERIFFS BLANKS, &c. ARE NEATLY AND EXPEDITIOUSLY PRINTED AT THE ARGUS OFFICE.