The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-07-19 00:00:00

BANK OF VIRGINIA. PERSONS holding bank-script, and receipts for money paid on bank-bills, are required to present them at the Bank and receive, in lieu thereof, certificates of stock. July 12.  THE friends of Mr. James Maury, American Consul at Liverpool, are hereby informed, that a fine new American ship called the Julien , Samuel Hartly master, 540 tons burthen, is now loading with Tobacco at Barnuda's Wharves, to be despatched with the first opportunity. She has good accommodations for passengers. For terms of freight or passage, apply to the subscriber in Richmond, or the Captain on board. OVERTON ANDERSON. Richmond, July 9.
BROKER'S OFFICE. THE Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Gunning-house of Thomas and Anas Todd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with fidelity. THOMAS NORVELL.  HE HAS FOR SALE, VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, on a credit of 6 and 12 months. March 12.  FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RUN AWAY from the subscriber, living near the Bowling Green, on the 23d inst. a negro man named PETER , between thirty and forty years old, about five feet ten inches high, he is black and rather spare made; had on when he went off, a light coloured drab coat, a red striped waistcoat, corduroy or thickset breeches and dark mixed stockings—has lost the greater part of all his toes on the left foot, and when spoken to, is apt to appear surprised. I will give the above reward if taken within the state, and out of this county, and ten dollars if taken in this county or confined in any jail so that I get him, or a brought home all reasonable charges paid. JOHN G. WOODFOLK. Who sometimes calls himself Brandy. July 2. (84)
Pleadings of Council, ON THE IMPEACHMENT OF JUDGE CHASE. FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22. [Mr. Lee, in continuation.]
A judge of a district court for an offence not punishable with death, shall afterwards procure bail, and there be no judge of the United States, in the district to take the same, it may be taken by any judge of the supreme or superior court of law of such state." Here it is expressly authorised that a judge of the circuit court may order a process for the arrest of the accused for any crime or offence against the United States, agreeably to the usual mode of process of arrest against offenders in the state where the court is held, and the offence committed. A summons is not authorised by the section, because a summons is not a process of arrest. I call upon the learned managers to point out any other process by which a person can be arrested, even in Virginia, except by a capias. In England, in Virginia, in Maryland, in every state, the process of arrest is a capias.
A VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE. THE Subscriber wishes to sell his FARM adjacent to the town of New Castle, in the county of Henrico, containing three hundred acres situated within one quarter of a mile of Powhatten river, where there is good navigation for vessels of ten tons burthen, and distant from the city of Richmond eighteen miles. This farm is remarkably compact, and nearly a perfect level; adjoins the lands of Messrs. George and Thomas Blakey, Capt. Peake Street, and Mr. Diboll Tally, and bounded next the river by the Lane leading from New-Castle to Hanover Town; is in quality not inferior to any land on said river, as any person disposed to purchase, doubtless, will be satisfied of on examining the premises. On this farm there is a very good Overseer's house, a small granary, and four negro quarters. The said FARM, now living in the town of New-Castle, will treat with any person disposed to purchase until the 10th of September next; when it is not sold, it will be offered for sale at PUBLIC AUCTION , to the highest bidder, on the premises, for one third cash, one third in twelve months, and one third in six months after. There is as much of this land now in corn, as will admit of the sowing of 120 bushels of wheat. At the same time will be offered for sale, THE STOCK OF HORSES, Cattle, Hogs, Poultry, Utensils, &c. ALSO, TWO TENEMENTS in the town of New-Castle, one of which the subscriber now occupies, consisting of a commodious house, calculated for a Tavern, (being the best land in the place,) with necessary and convenient out-houses; conveyed to this tenement is an excellent garden, a stable and stable lot, and one suitable for clover.—The other Tenement, situated in the centre of the town, consists of an acre Lot, a dwelling house, kitchen and meat house, all calculated for a private family. Will also be sold, The Subscriber's Household and Kitchen FURNITURE.—On the left mentioned property the terms will be made known on the day of sale. WILLIAM COCHRAN. (14 4) New-Castle, July 16.
WILL BE SOLD at public auction to the highest bidder for ready money, at Zachariah Brooks's Tavern, in the town of Manchester, on Saturday the 3d day of August next, by virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber by Richardson Harris, late of the county of Chesterfield, to secure the payment of a debt due to Lyle and McCrede, and the expense necessarily incurred; five negroes, viz: Sally, Kilus, Charles, Phillis and Anaky, or so many thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the debt, interest and cost. RICHARD B. GOODE. July 2. (84)
Let us now examine whether judge Chase, in issuing a capias against Callender after he had been presented for an offence not capital, has been guilty of a high crime or high misdemeanor in office. Surely the managers should have pointed to the proofs, if any there were, of a corrupt and evil intent with which this act was done. I have already referred to those parts of the constitution which show that no impeachment can be maintained but for a crime. If the court will turn their attention to the article now under consideration, they will perceive that no crime is charged in express terms, and therefore the accused ought not to be held to answer it; but an idea has been suggested by the honorable managers, that as the article charges an unlawful act to have been done, a criminal intent must be presumed, unless the respondent shows it to have been innocent. This principle, however true it may be in some cases, is not applicable to the present case. If the act charged be malum in se , the rule of law may be as has been stated, but if the act be malum prohibitionem , the rule is otherwise.
There is another statute of Congress on the subject of process, which passed on the second of March, 1793. It contains eight sections, and relates as well to criminal as to civil matters. The seventh section is in the words following, "that it shall be lawful for the several courts of the United States, from time to time, as occasion may require, to make rules and orders for their respective courts, directing the returning of writs and process, the filing of declarations & other pleadings, the taking of rules, the entering of judgments by default, and other matters in the vacation, and otherwise in a manner not repugnant to the laws of the United States, to regulate the practice of the said courts respectively, as shall be fit and necessary for the advancement of justice, and essentially to that end to prevent delays in proceedings. " I know not what language can convey a more complete power to the court over its process, than is given by the passages from the statutes which have been cited. An uniform rule in the courts of the U. States is very desirable, that offenders and criminals may be brought to trial by the like forms in every state, for violations of the statutes of Congress. To allow one kind of process in Virginia, and a different one in Maryland for the same offence, would be an heterogeneous and unusual mode of administering justice. A confirmation ought not to be given to the statutes of Congress, which admits of such a system, if it may possibly be avoided. Shall it be said that in one state a man who publishes a libel shall be arrested immediately and brought to trial and punished, while in another state another person who has committed the same offence, shall be served with a process that shall be notice to him to make his appearance; and shall it be said that such a rule shall be applied to cases where imprisonment is part of the punishment? It has been in proof, that in Maryland it is usual to arrest by capias in cases of misdemeanor, and to try the transfer at the same term at which he appears. Are the courts of the U. States, if sitting on one side of the Potomac, to be governed by one rule; and, if sitting on another side of the same river, to be governed by another rule, in cases of crime or offence against the laws and constitution of the United States? It can never have been the intention of Congress, that any such variety of proceeding should be allowed in practice, or that the process should be any where a summons, in cases of offences which were to be punished by imprisonment.
TO BE SOLD, On the 3d day of August next, at James Lewis's Tavern, in the town of Charles-City: JOHN HENDERSON's interest in the following Negroes to wit: Neal, Timmy, Harry, Cose, and her five children, Cate, Anniky, Susan, Lucy, for Jamillah, and Rachell, with their increase; or to any one thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy a debt due Thomas Garth, Esq., of £355 18/10d. with interest thereon from the 17th March, 1802, together with the legal costs attending the sale. JAMES LEWIS, THOS. GARTH, jr. Trustees. July 16. (ep3w)
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber by Charles Clarke, of the county of Chesterfield, to secure the payment of a debt therein acknowledged to be due Lyle and McCrede, and the expense necessary to carry the trust into execution, will be sold at public auction to the highest bidder for ready money, at Zachariah Brooks's Tavern, in the town of Manchester, on Saturday the 27th of July next, two hundred and twenty acres of LAND, more or less, lying in the county of Chesterfield, and adjoining the lands of Col. John Harvie, John Ford, Alexander Saunders, and Samuel Smith. RICHARD B. GOODE. July 2. (ep4w)
In order that the honorable court may not have the least difficulty on this subject, I will undertake to show that the learned judge acted, in this instance, strictly according to law, and if this be shown, there will remain no foundation for the present charge. It is well established as a general rule of jurisprudence, that a court which has jurisdiction over an offence, may award process concerning it, and compel the party to appear. This may be seen in 2 Hawk. pleas. ch. 12, sec. 15, 16. The cognizance of offences against the statutes of Congress is vested in the circuit courts of the United States, 1 vol. Laws of U. S. p. 55. From the principle just stated, the circuit court acquired the power of awarding process to compel such offenders to appear in that court when they became vested with a power to try the offence. A presentment or indictment of a grand jury is sufficient evidence to authorise the court to award process against the offender. This is not only the evidence upon which a court usually proceeds, but it is recognised in the fifth article of the amendments to the constitution. We find there a restriction upon the power of the courts: "no person shall be held to answer for a capital or other infamous crime, unless by a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, &c." which restriction carries the implication, that by a presentment or indictment, the party shall be held to answer. If an offender may be held to answer to an accusation in this form, it follows as a matter of course, that the court is bound to award process to compel him to answer.
This can be further illustrated by attention to the laws of Congress in fixing punishment upon certain crimes passed in the year 1790; for perjury, for bribery, for obstructing the service of legal process, for importing slaves from foreign parts, for violence to an ambassador, and for other offences relative to ambassadors, the punishment is fine and imprisonment. See 1st vol. Laws of the U. States, page 111. The process in all these cases is to be the same; if a capias is proper in one it is proper in all, or if a summons is necessary in one, it is necessary in all.
NOTICE. THE Partnership now carrying on under the firm of PUMFREY & FITZWYLLSONN , will be dissolved by mutual consent, on the 31st day of this present month. All those having claims against the said concern, are requested to bring them in to John Pumfrey for adjustment, and those indebted thereto, to make immediate payment to him. JOHN PUMFREY, W. H. FITZWYLLSONN. July 9. (ep4w)
BY virtue of a deed of trust to us given from Col. Vincent Readman, will be sold at public sale on Monday the 29th day of July next, on the premises—Allow credit under said deed of trust in that TRACT OF LAND wherein said Readman resides, in Richmond county; upon which there is a good water-grist mill and a distillery, and upon which there are some prior incumbrances, with an hundred and fifty acres of land unincumbered: upon this part of said tract of land there are very fine improvements, such as a good dwelling house, barn, stable, kitchen, dairy, smoke-house, a fine garden and a good orchard. Together with an excellent flour-mill. The land for trade is as good as any country place convenient to navigation, a large circle of wealthy neighbors, & without competition. The beauty of this seat is exceeded by none in the Northern Neck. The best of water and the most salubrious air bath blest the Col. and his large family with such health as for them to be almost without the knowledge of sickness. There is in the whole tract five hundred and eighty-six acres, and an indefeasible right will be made a purchaser. The terms of payment will be made known on the day of sale. WM. BRAGG, C. SHACKLEFORD, H. ASBURY, G. DAVIS, D. LAWSON, F. G. TIBBS. June 28. (F9d1b7y)
I know no process by which a person can be apprehended except by a capias. In the present trial we have heard of a bench warrant, but that too is a capias awarded by a judge sitting in court. In all cases of misdemeanors where the punishment is by imprisonment or fine, a capias is proper process, according to the practice of the king's bench in England. For this I refer the court to a passage read at another day from Gilbert's treatise upon the origin of the king's bench, page 308. So also the doctrine is laid down by Judge Blackstone, in regard to those cases where it is not intended to proceed to outlawry, 4 Black. Com. 313.
Suffice it in regard to an ambassador who has applied to our secretary of state for the punishment of an individual, who may have done violence to his person or to one of his family, that a summons shall have been issued to the offender who should abscond or remove himself. It would be deemed very strange, perhaps incredible to the ambassador, if he should be told by our secretary of state, that the offence being committed in Virginia, it was necessary to summon the party to appear before the court, and instead of obeying the summons, he had removed himself entirely, but if the same matter had been prosecuted in Maryland, the offender might have been instantly arrested and punished; the President of the United States regretted that the offender had escaped with impunity, but the escape was according to law. Would not such an explanation be apt to be conceived an affront to the understanding of the ambassador?
THE Subscriber takes this method of informing his friends and the public, that he intends carrying on the STATIONERY & BOOK-BINDING business in all their various branches, as usual. JOHN PUMFREY.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND.
Just received, and for sale at RITCHIE and WORSLEY'S book store, Price one dollar and fifty cents. A NEW SYSTEM OF MODERN GEOGRAPHY: Or a general Description of the most remarkable countries throughout the known world; their respective situations, extents, divisions, cities, rivers, mountains, soils and productions; their commerce, manners, customs and religions, together with their principal historical events and political importance in the great commonwealth of nations; compiled from the most modern systems of Geography, and the latest essays and travels, and containing many important additions to the Geography of the United States that have never appeared in any other work of the kind, illustrated with eight maps, comprising the latest discoveries, and engraved by the first American artist, designed particularly for the use of schools. BY BENJAMIN DAVIES.
On a former occasion I read a rule of the supreme court, made in August 1799, by which the judges declared, "that they considered the practice of the courts of king's bench in England, as affording outlines for the practice of this court, and that they will from time to time make such alterations therein as circumstances may render necessary;" and on the same occasion reference was had to the practice of the king's bench, to show that a capias was a proper and usual process. But it is neither necessary nor correct to admit that the rule of the king's bench in England is absolutely a rule for the circuit courts of the United States. It furnishes a good outline of practice. The true position is, that neither the king's bench nor the state laws furnish rules to the federal courts in regard to process which are positively binding on them, but these courts are to establish their own rules under the directions and control of the statutes of the U. States.
VIRGINIA. In the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond, Between Thomas Price and John Sandridge, Plaintiffs. And Alexander Outlaw, senior, and Alexander Outlaw, junior, Defendants. On motion of the defendant, Alexander Outlaw, junior, by counsel, this cause is ordered to be re-docketed; thereupon the said defendant filed his answer, to which the plaintiffs replied generally, and thereupon are awarded the plaintiffs and the said defendant, to examine and take the depositions of their witnesses; and on the further motion of the said defendant, the court referred the accounts, between him and the plaintiffs in this suit, to one of its commissioners, to be by him examined, stated, settled, and to the court reported with any special matters thought pertinent by himself, or required by the parties to be specially stated. A Copy. Teste, PETER T. NISLEY, C. C.
THE Subscriber takes this method of informing his friends and the public, that he intends carrying on the STATIONERY & BOOK-BINDING business in all their various branches, as usual. JOHN PUMFREY.
THE Subscriber takes this method of informing his friends and the public, that he intends carrying on the STATIONERY & BOOK-BINDING business in all their various branches, as usual. JOHN PUMFREY.
It is a known and undisputed maxim, that the criminal code of each sovereign state furnishes the rule in prosecutions in the state courts, and is confined to offences against such state. An offence against the commonwealth of Virginia, is not an offence against the United States; and therefore the laws of Virginia which regard offences against itself, will have no effect touching offences against the United States, unless Congress by their express statute has given to them some effect. The laws of Virginia and of every state, have declared how an offence against such state respectively shall be prosecuted, but they are not to be applied to the circuit court of the United States, sitting in such state, and holding cognizance of crimes against the United States. In confirmation of this doctrine, suffer me to avail myself of the opinions of some very distinguished characters in the Virginia convention which adopted the constitution. An eminent judge who presided in the highest court of that
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE, Richmond, 15th May, 1805. THE parties with Notice , that I have appointed the twenty-ninth day of July next, to commence the account directed by the annexed decretal Order of the Court—on which day, they are requested to attend at my office in this city, with the accounts & vouchers prepared, and ready for examination and settlement—and with copies of the court papers. SAMUEL GREENHOW, M. C. May 21.
FOR SALE—BY THE SUBSCRIBER: OAF SUGAR, by the Lb. bbl. or single loaf, direct from Pennington's Manufactory, Philadelphia: SOA, and UPPER LEATHER, on moderate terms. Also, PRIME SPANISH HIDES. 6th mo. 11th, '05. MICAHAM DAVIS. (614)
RAGS. THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAGS. A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS. FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
The learned counsel who defended Callender, appear from the testimony to have taken up some improper opinions relative to the criminal code of the United States. The subject was, as they say, new to them, and for this reason let me remark, they might readily have fallen into error. It appears that they not only thought it was competent for a jury to decide upon the constitutionality of a law, but also that it belonged to the jury to assess the fine upon the traverser, because a jury has that power by the laws of the state in respect to offences against the state. In the like manner it is erroneously said in the present prosecution, that the laws of the federal states in respect to process, are the rules which should guide the circuit courts of the United States.
THE Subscriber takes this method of informing his friends and the public, that he intends carrying on the STATIONERY & BOOK-BINDING business in all their various branches, as usual. JOHN PUMFREY.
THE Subscriber takes this method of informing his friends and the public, that he intends carrying on the STATIONERY & BOOK-BINDING business in all their various branches, as usual. JOHN PUMFREY.
THE Subscriber takes this method of informing his friends and the public, that he intends carrying on the STATIONERY & BOOK-BINDING business in all their various branches, as usual. JOHN PUMFREY.
I have, sir, endeavored to show in the first place, that there is no charge of criminality stated in the fifth article of impeachment, and therefore the respondent ought to be acquitted. And, in the second place, I have endeavored to show to this hon. court, that the act stated in the article to have been done by judge Chase, was correct and legal in itself, and if legal, there remains no ground to presume or infer the smallest degree of evil intention. In this point of view he will also stand acquitted.

European Intelligence.
Received by recent arrivals at northern ports.
LONDON, May 22.
The important Report of the Select Committee, it is expected, will be laid before the House this day. Two distinct Reports were produced on Monday last, the one drawn up by Mr. Whitbread, and the other by Mr. Leycester, the chairman of the committee.
The Vienna letters of the 4th inst. state, that a number of regiments are under orders to march to the frontiers of Italy. The letters further mention, that the Russian force in the republic of the Seven Islands will be augmented, before the end of June, to 35,000 men; it already exceeds 20,000.
BRUSSELS, May 8.—Our journals contain an article from Madrid, in which it is asserted, that general Junot and Bounaparte had conferred with the Prince of Peace, and fixed upon the military dispositions and the districts in Spain, where camps will be formed, to consist of French and Spanish troops.
INQUEST OF LORD MELVILLE.
The departure of this nobleman having been extremely sudden, and, by his friends, altogether unexpecting, they at first flattered themselves it might be a case only of suspended animation, and had immediate recourse to the resuscitative process of the Humane Society, but all hopes of restoration entirely vanished.
On the examination of some intimate friends, it appeared that his Lordship had been long addicted to quackery, and was particularly fond of all patent medicines.
It further appeared, from the evidence of an Honorable Admiral, that he and others had lately received a regular diploma, authorizing them to superintend the general health of the navy, and to propose remedies for all complaints and disorders which might come to their knowledge.
Purgation, amputation, and other operations being proposed to take place in the National Theatre, for the benefit of the students, it was reported by some of his Lordship's friends, who had visited him, that he was quite resigned to his fate, wished to avoid the shame, pain, and publicity of any attempt to effect a radical cure, and begged to be permitted to go off as privately as possible.
Some of the Jury seemed to be of opinion, that he had made away with himself, but the Coroner wisely remarked, that though the Noble Lord had certainly shortened his own existence, as all men do who lead bad lives, yet it was evident he would have lived longer if he could, and as all new and extraordinary cases demand the adoption of new and apocryphal terms, he would recommend them to find a verdict, which they unanimously agreed to—that the Noble Lord died by Suicide.
We have not yet been able to ascertain how his remains are to be disposed of, as many of his friends have expressed a determination to keep him in spirits as long as they can.
From London papers.—Bonaparte was at Alexandria, (Italy) 1st May, and repaired to the celebrated plain of Marengo, where he inspected 50,000 troops assembled there.
Jerome Bonaparte is said to have left Madrid, under the assumed name of Mr. Albert, merchant of N. York, on his way to France.
Information has been received at Gibraltar, that the court of Madrid had issued orders to all the seaport towns, not to make any exchange of prisoners with the English—a circumstance which caused considerable regret.
It is stated that the King of Sweden's remonstrances with Prussia, respecting the politics of the latter, and their subserviency to France, have caused so much dissatisfaction at Berlin, that the Prussian minister is about to be recalled, and it is even said that the Prussian troops will occupy Swedish Pomerania.
A letter from Cadiz, via Lisbon, states "that his Catholic Majesty had required from the trade of that City one million of dollars, to meet the exigencies of the state.
The Bishop of London has written a circular letter to all the females of fashion, requiring them to discontinue their Sunday parties in future, unless they mean to subject themselves to the penalties of the Ecclesiastical court.
A young unmarried woman was lately convicted, before the Magistrates of Glasgow, of having exposed her child on the streets of that City, in the winter of 1803.
JEROME BONAPARTE.—As soon as the French Charge d'Affaires at Lisbon heard of the arrival of Jerome Bonaparte and his wife in the Tagus, he sent Couriers to France to inform his cousin master of this event.
NEW-YORK, JULY 12.
Captain Wallace, of the ship Milford, informs us that a British fleet, consisting of the Queen of 98 guns, two ships of war of 74 guns, and 50 sail of transports, having on board between 5 and 6000 men, arrived at Lisbon on the 7th May, their destination unknown.
Arrived, ship Orlando, 67 days from Malaga. Spoke two Portuguese men of war, off the Rock of Gibraltar, cruising for Algerines—also, an armed brig, (supposed to be the U. States brig Syren, which left Malaga a few days before for Gibraltar.)
A letter was received in town on Thursday from Cadiz, dated the 4th of May, mentioning that there were then in the Bay 15,000 barrels.
Extract of a letter from Genoa, received by the ship Thomas via Bordeaux, dated 29th April. "All idea of a continental war, is for the present abolished.
Extract of a letter from Bristol, to a gentleman in this City, dated May 25, 1805. "Old England seems at present to be in a perilous situation, but I trust through God's help, she will still weather the storm that threatens her very existence.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WHEREAS by the 7th section of the act entitled "An act supplementary to the act entitled 'An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana Territory, and for other purposes,'" it is enacted "that all the sections heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress, and lying within either of the districts established for the disposal of public lands in the state of Ohio,
in the East-Indies, such are the miseries of war—O fortunati nimium, sua si bona norint, Americani!
"May their free-born sons under the auspices of the illustrious Jefferson, long cherish the blessing of peace with which they are so highly favoured.
West Indies.
THE COMBINED FLEET.
Capt. Stone, arrived here yesterday, from Canton, spoke the ship Mount Vernon, of and from North Carolina, June 15, in lat. 26, 2, long. 61; and was informed, that the day before the Mount Vernon fell in with the French and Spanish fleet of 22 sail, and that they were then about 50 leagues to the N. or N.W. lat. 28, 32, long. 61, 30.
By the brig Hero, from St. Yago de Cuba, we learn, that the Negroes in the neighbourhood of that city had revolted and committed great excesses.
A letter from Antigua of June 20, says, besides the 14 sail captured by the French off that place, was the Schooner Argo bound to New-York.
We have received by Captain Starbuck, of the brig Ann-Maria, a printed copy of the new Constitution of the Empire of Hayti.
Extracts from the Barbados Mercury.
BRIDGE-TOWN, (B.) June 25. Rear admiral the honorable Alexander Cochrane, in his majesty's ship Northumberland; and his majesty's ship JASON, captain Champain; Barbados, captain Nourse; Pheasant, captain Henderson; and Lilly, captain Morrison, arrived here on Saturday, and came to in Carlisle Bay, in the course of the afternoon.
Lieutenant general sir William Myers and suite arrived on board the Northumberland, and his army which he so gallantly and promptly volunteered with lord Nelson, have again taken up their quarters at St. Ann's having returned by the above ship; the 96th regiment excepted, which is left to strengthen the garrison at Antigua.
By these arrivals we learn, that lord Nelson, to his own great disappointment and that generally of his fleet, and the army embarked with him, not having found the enemy at Trinidad, proceeding in quest of him, touched at Antigua on the 12th instant, where his fleet came to in the evening, and having landed one regiment, and shifted the rest of the troops to the Northumberland, &c. got under way again next morning, still hoping to trace the enemy's route.
Lord Nelson spoke this vessel, and received information from her of the capture, and of the situation of the enemy, who was then supposed to be off Bermuda, removing the prisoners, and securing the prizes; some of their ships being at the same time taking in live stock from that island.
Admiral Cochrane, although of necessity obliged to resume his station here, nevertheless offered his ship to lord Nelson, and would have shifted his flag to a frigate; but his lordship deemed it inadvisable to deprive this vigilant officer of his line of battle ship, expressing his thanks for the offer, and conceived the victory as secure with eleven, as with twelve sail of the line.
Capt. Mason who arrived at Boston on Saturday last from Guadalupe, informs, that previous to the sailing of the combined fleets from that island, they pressed on board their ships a great number of the officers and seamen of the privateers then in port, and above twenty of the most skillful pilots in the island.
Domestic Intelligence.
The Legislature of New-Hampshire adjourned on Wednesday the 19th ult. to meet again at Portsmouth the first Wednesday in December next.
BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. WHEREAS by the 7th section of the act entitled "An act supplementary to the act entitled 'An act making provision for the disposal of the public lands in the Indiana Territory, and for other purposes,'" it is enacted "that all the sections heretofore reserved for the future disposition of Congress, and lying within either of the districts established for the disposal of public lands in the state of Ohio,
the Grand Decree, crisper, I informed you every particular relating to that unfortunate business. I wrote you in my former letter how it was owing to the Daphne's leaking, that the wife of the officer was immediately after my capture taken out of the Schooner on board the privateer; myself and crew taken under her convoy; the Schooner Mary, Captain Bunker; Ussy, Captain Harding, and Sally, Capt. Gilpin captured on the same morning of the 9th. The privateer then made sail for and arrived at this port on the 16th inst.
Wherefore I, Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States, in conformity to the provisions of the seventh section of the act aforesaid, Do hereby declare and make known that titles for the disposal of the abovenamed lands shall be held at the following times and places, viz.
At Cincinnati, Chillicothe, and Marietta, on the 23rd day of October, 1805. At Zanesville, on the 29th day of October, 1805. At Steubenville, on the 5th day of November, 1805. Given under my hand the tenth day of July, 1805. (Signed) THOMAS JEFFERSON.
CONSULS AND COMMERCIAL AGENTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Table with 2 columns: Location, Name/Role. Locations include Great Britain, France, Spain, Portugal, Denmark, Prussia, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Russia, Turkey, Algiers. Names include William Lyman, Elias Vanderkift, Robert W. Fox, James Maury, Joseph Wilson, Thomas Ansdell, James Holmes, John Church, John Gavino, Joseph Pulus, Fulwar Skipwith, Jacob Ridgway, Isaac Cox Barnett, John Mitchell, William Lee, Thomas Aborn, James Anderson, William Buchanan, Etienne Cathalan, William Appleton, William Patterson, Aaron Vale, Thomas Lovell, Francis Coffyn, Henry Wilson, Moses Young, Joseph Yznardi, Robert Montgomery, William Kirkpatrick, Lewis Meigher O'Brien, John Leonard, John M. Baker, Henry Hill, John James Armstrong, William Jarvis, John Street, Marian Lemer, Sylvanus Bourne, Thomas Hewes, Hans Rodolph Saabye, John F. Brown, Frederick W. Lutz, William Clarke, John M. Forbes, Frederick J. Wichellaufen, Philip Mark, William Riggin, Robert G. Gardiner, Isaac Prince, Thomas Appleton, Frederick Degan, Peter Kuhn, John Broadbent, Abraham Gibbs, Levitt Harris, William Stuart, Tobias Lear.
The following address was presented to the Hon. Robert R. Livingston, by the Americans in Paris. "TO ROBERT R. LIVINGSTON, Esq. Late minister plenipotentiary of the U. States of America in France.
"The subscribers, citizens of the United States at Paris, beg leave, (on your voluntary retirement from your late eminent situation) to address you, sir, with sentiments of the highest respect and esteem, for the noble and dignified manner in which you have represented the U. States in France, and from the great and various benefits they have derived from your embassy.
"The satisfaction you have long anticipated in returning to your native country, will be greatly heightened by the pleasing reflection of having served it honorably and advantageously; in contributing to its aggrandizement and prosperity, the increase of its commerce and its respect among nations.
"These important benefits, are the result of those patriotic exertions which have constantly distinguished your public life, from the dawn of our revolution.
"At the same time that we bear this faithful testimony of the valuable services you have, during your residence here, rendered to our country in general, we cannot refrain acknowledging with gratitude the generous hospitality and great civilities and attentions we have experienced individually, from yourself and family.
"May your passage to the American shore, be prosperous, and may your days be numerous and happy in the enjoyment of those honours, which you have so eminently merited, and which will not fail being rendered you by a grateful people." Point Petre, Guadalupe, June 30, 1805. MR. JEREMIAH POWELL—Dear Sir, Having wrote to you once at sea since my unfortunate capture on the 9th of May last, by
the Grand Decree, crisper, I informed you every particular relating to that unfortunate business. I wrote you in my former letter how it was owing to the Daphne's leaking, that the wife of the officer was immediately after my capture taken out of the Schooner on board the privateer; myself and crew taken under her convoy; the Schooner Mary, Captain Bunker; Ussy, Captain Harding, and Sally, Capt. Gilpin captured on the same morning of the 9th. The privateer then made sail for and arrived at this port on the 16th inst.
I am, Sir, your ob't servant, DAVID G. GILLERS. Commodore Preble, we learn, has instructions to build two main vessels at Portland, for the Mediterranean service. Two others are building under his direction at Newburyport.
ALEXANDRIA, July 15. The President of the U. S. passed through this town this morning on his way from the City of Washington to his seat at Monticello.
Miscellaneous.
COMMUNICATION.
Mrs. *** presents her compliments to the editor; and also two pieces of Poetry written by a young Lady, several of whose productions have appeared in his paper, and who has no objection to his giving them a place, should they be congenial to his taste. July 17.
ON SEEING MY LITTLE NEPHEW RECLINING ON HIS MOTHER'S BOSOM.
Hang, lovely Boy, upon thy Mother's breast, And, sweetest, wear thy Father's look the while; Thus, Angel-like, thou'lt loathe her cares to rest, And of its graces her widow'd heart beguile. MALTINA
MOON LIGHT.
At this calm hour I seek, and always find, Joys congenial with my pensive mind; For lo! the lovely empress of the night, O'er yonder water throws her gleaming light: Forming a silver path from shore to shore, While sparkling waves their gentle murmurs pour. Their music is the only sound I hear, So sweetly still, does nature now appear; My bosom too, the reigning quiet shares, Peace dwells within, and flow'n are all my cares. Then hail, lov'd hour! I'll woo the pleasant breeze, While the pale Moon still plays among the trees. MALTINA
FROM THE SALEM REGISTER.
The discoveries which are made in foreign climates, and in seas frequented by the ships of all nations, should be communicated for common use. We have lately seen a useful letter respecting several colonies in the East-Indies. Among other things we notice the Isle of St. Paul. It is given as 4 by 3 miles in extent, in latitude 3. 37, 55, and longitude E. 77, 4. It affords nothing to agriculture, but has an excellent spring. May be visited for the seal fishery, and the sea will supply near it a great abundance of fish.
The facts which have led to the opinion which regards the old continent, that continual changes were made in the surface of the Globe, by the retiring of the waters, have been observed on the continent we inhabit. Kenzie, speaking of the Peace river, and the land between it and the Lake of the Hills, as far as Elk river, observes that it is formed by the quantity of earth and mud, which is carried down by the streams of these two great rivers.
The satisfaction you have long anticipated in returning to your native country, will be greatly heightened by the pleasing reflection of having served it honorably and advantageously; in contributing to its aggrandizement and prosperity, the increase of its commerce and its respect among nations. These important benefits, are the result of those patriotic exertions which have constantly distinguished your public life, from the dawn of our revolution. At the same time that we bear this faithful testimony of the valuable services you have, during your residence here, rendered to our country in general, we cannot refrain acknowledging with gratitude the generous hospitality and great civilities and attentions we have experienced individually, from yourself and family. May your passage to the American shore, be prosperous, and may your days be numerous and happy in the enjoyment of those honours, which you have so eminently merited, and which will not fail being rendered you by a grateful people. Point Petre, Guadalupe, June 30, 1805. MR. JEREMIAH POWELL—Dear Sir, Having wrote to you once at sea since my unfortunate capture on the 9th of May last, by

It will be recollected by our readers, that it was Mr. Fox and not Mr. Grattan who introduced the Irish Catholic petition into the House of Commons...
Mr. GRATTAN—whose animated speech in favour of the Catholic petition is published in this day's paper, is among the greatest men...
These exertions had made Mr. Grattan the favorite and almost the idol of the people; and the legitimate itself seeming for once to participate in their feelings...
Two circumstances however took place which separated him from the Irish Legislature for ever. The first was, the noble stand which he made in favour of the claim of the Catholics to be admitted to the right of the elective franchise...
Has not the reader seen Mr. Grattan's farewell "letter to the citizens of Dublin"? This is the monument to which I allude. In a life uncommonly chaste, simple and nervous, it unfolds the tremendous evils which press down not only the Irish but the British nation...
be the effect, we would refer our reader to the late American compilation of "Curran's speeches" in which he will find this letter of Mr. Grattan's bound up:
"I remember to have heard Lord Chatham in one of his speeches on the Middlesex election observe, that in his ministry, the object of the court of England was the conquest of the French, and that now it was the conquest of Mr. Wilkes."
"Again this inundation of evil we interposed reform; we were convinced of its necessity from the consideration of corruption at home; we were confirmed in that conviction from the consideration of revolutions abroad."
"Abilities such as Mr. Grattan's ought not be lost to the empire. We therefore hope to see this gentleman occupying a conspicuous place in the senate of the United Kingdom."
One argument was strongly insisted upon, by the opponents of the Catholic petition which Mr. Grattan does not touch upon at all. They said "grant the petition of these Catholics; and what limits can you set to the claims of the Dissenters?"
"Tis not the peasant's hut, his staff the small, He holds his little lot in all; Sees no contiguous palace near his hovel, To boast the means of his humble lot."
After all, suppose that the Roman Catholics had succeeded in their petition, would they have obtained every privilege to which they were entitled? Far from it. It is true, that every political disability would have been removed.
NEUTRAL RIGHTS. What must we think of a politician, who at this time of day & in this country looks forward as the advocate of the British doctrine in regard to maritime law?
land and France, almost always at war? What then must we think of the labours of a writer in a Baltimore Federalist, who virtually advocates each of these positions, and declares that G. Britain would "wave common sense, if she conceded to a contrary doctrine?"
These errors however would not have been worthy of the slightest notice, or refutation, if they had not been connected by their writer, who affects to have made very deep researches into the law of nations...
"That free ships make free goods was (according to this author) even altogether unheard of and unknown until Frederick the Great bro't forward the subject during the war of 1756."
"The celebrated Bufen has published a list of 35 commercial treaties, concluded between the year 1642 and 1780, which are all favourable to this principle, while on the contrary, only two have been concluded in that interval, in which the principle, anciently established by the Consolato del mare, upon the liberty of seizing enemy's property on board neutral ships, has been followed."
"What will Vindex, however, say, when he discovers that even his favorite nation, the English, had long before the time of the great Frederick been among the warmest advocates and patrons of the modern law?"
"Great-Britain, says Vindex, insisted then (the period of forming the armed neutrality) as she does now, and as she has always done, that free ships do not make free goods." But what does the English history declare on this last point?
"To appreciate fully the pretension of the English, it is not impertinent to remark, that so early as about the middle of the 14th century, and at the time when the Consolato del mare was the only law in force, they established by formal treaties, for the first time, the rights of the neutral flag, as may be seen by the treaties of Edward III. with the commercial cities of Spain in 1351, and afterwards with Lisbon & Oporto towards the middle of the 17th century."
John C. Hubner, a republican, is appointed director of the Richmond bank, vice Gabriel Ralston, republican, who has resigned.
VALUABLE COAL LANDS. To be let upon a lease for years.
THE Coal Lands at Dover in the county of Goochland, joining Doctor John Adams's coal pits and Mr. Graham's, belonging to the subscribers. The situation is uncommonly advantageous for coal works.
DAVID ROSS, JAMES CURRIE. (19.)
DED. at Williamsburg, on Saturday morning the 15th instant, JANE CARY, in the fourteenth year of her age. She was the youngest daughter of the truly amiable and respectable Mrs. Jane Cary, and a grand daughter of the beloved and venerable Col. Wm. Miles Cary, of that place.
Extract of a letter from Williamsburg, of date July 15th, 1805.
"That sweet young creature Jane Cary, is no more; her spirit left us this morning. I am in love with human nature, for the manner in which her death has affected the town. You witnessed, and I recollected that while here you remarked the solicitude every where produced by her indisposition. You observed the anxious enquiries which were made at every door, of every passing visitor of her sick bed."
"Alas! this sweet rose-bud was not destined to attain that bloom and expansion which we have so often and so fondly anticipated. She approached indeed near enough to maturity to convince us of the figure which she would have made if Heaven could have spared her a little longer to the earth."
"I cannot describe to you the effect which was produced this evening by the unexpected appearance of her coffin in the street. It was known that she had died this morning, but the town was not apprized of the necessity of commencing her immediate interment to the earth, and therefore were not prepared for the shock which they now received."
Departed this life, on Thursday evening the 4th inst. at Mr. John Moody's in the City of Richmond, Mr. ALEXANDER POPE PRICE, of Peterburgh, and family of Pluvanna county, in the 30th year of his age.
ADAM CRAIG, c. c. July 19. (F 2m.)
THE SUBSCRIBER Has lately received from Philadelphia:
A HANDSOME assortment of TEA CHINA, is full and broken sets; Cuts and Plain Gold Were offered, and a great variety of Liverpool Plate, painted, printed and China glazed Wares, which may be purchased by the crate or in small assortments made up to suit retailers.
HOUSE AND LOT—FOR SALE. The subscribers offer for sale, the House and Lot, in the neighbourhood of Mr. N. Craven, and Lieut. Underwood, on the Hill, which they lately purchased of Mr. John S. Moore, in which a bargain may be had.
TO BE SOLD, to the highest bidder for cash, by virtue of a Deed of Trust, in King and Queen county, nine miles below Du-kirk, and eleven above the court house, on the dwelling of Joseph S. Fox, on Thursday the 8th day of August, one tract of LAND, containing by estimation 125 acres more or less, and bounded as follows: (to wit) by Henry Smith, Polly Dothage, General Henry Young, Edward Hill, James Dickie, and Reuben Clayton.
INVENTOR and Patente of the perpendicular extracting instruments, from Washington city, is now at the Swan, and offers his service to the ladies and gentlemen of Richmond and its vicinity, as his only opportunity of serving them, in cleaning and restoring the teeth to their natural cleanness, with instruments that cannot injure the enamel, and without pain in transplanting real teeth in a permanent manner.
To know if your teeth want cleaning—Examine them before a glass, in a clear light, beginning at the middle front teeth of the lower jaw; if the gums are departing from their former place, or a black or yellow crust adhering to the teeth, you have cause of alarm, as that corrosive substance called tartar, will decay the enamel, produce scurvy, or consume the gums and bony process till the teeth drop out.
As it was with the utmost difficulty he could leave his customers at Washington, his time here will certainly be short—those therefore who wish to employ him are requested to make early application. As his practice is always considerable in places of consequence, he requests such of his customers as can do it with convenience, to call at his room, as it will save time; and those who wish him to wait on them at their houses, if at a distance, to assist him in getting there, if they have carriages.
IN pursuance of an act of the General Assembly of this commonwealth, entitled, an act authorizing the appointment of a mathematical surveyor of the city of Richmond, and for other purposes, passed the eighth day of January, 1805.
PUBLIC NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that in virtue of a suit of admeasurement issued from the court of the county of Henrico, and to me directed, I shall on the 15th day of August next, with a jury, meet on the lands through which the common canal of the city of Richmond, propoed to extend the cross street of 10th city to James river, to concur that part of the town lying on the east side of Shockoe creek, with that on the west side thereof, by a continuation of the several streets already laid out across the said creek till their junction with each other; and to lay out and extend the way now used as a street from the northern boundary of the city of Richmond, to run by Tate's tan-yard to the market-house, and from thence continued along Robert Mitchell's Tenement to the river, and extend the street from the old factory near the margin of the river to Rockets landing as the same is now used—then and there to view the lands and carry into effect the said suit of admeasurement.
N. SHEPPARD, Deputy for William Mayo. July 19.
In Henrico County Court, July 18, 1805. IN CHANCERY.
Fortunatus Sydnor, Compt. Against Jesse Smith, Robert Sydnor & Wil. Ham Garland Sydnor, Defs.
THIS day came the complainant by his counsel, and the defendants, Robert and William Garland Sydnor, and having entered their appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly in such case made, and provided and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the complainant by his counsel aforesaid; it is ordered that the said defendants appear here on the 5th Monday in October next, and answer the bill of the said complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the Court-house doors of this county.
ADAM CRAIG, c. c. July 19. (F 2m.)
A TRACT OF LAND. JOHN GILMER, wishes to sell a tract of land consisting of 350 acres, lying within half a mile of Charlottesville. Any person wishing to purchase, may see the land, and know the terms by applying to him in that place.

CATHOLIC PETITION.
Mr. Grattan rose, and delivered his maiden speech in support of the motion. He spoke in substance as follows:
"Sir, in offering the sentiments which I entertain upon this very important subject, I beg leave expressly to state that I deprecate all kind of animosities, and as the cause has ceased, I sincerely hope that the animosities arising out of the cause have also ceased. The question in my mind has not been clearly understood by the Learned Doctor who has spoken before me. It is not a question for your consideration, whether you will give to a few Roman Catholics the right of sitting and voting with you in this house, but whether you will give to an essential and vital part of your subjects that power and those rights which are now desired. It is in reality a question in which the vitality and integrity of your empire are involved. The arguments employed by the learned doctor go rather to show the necessity of eternal dissension, eternal feuds, and eternal war in Ireland, than to prove that the Roman Catholics ought not to be admitted to a participation of equal rights and constitutional freedom with their protestant fellow subjects. Such is the vehemence of language, so strange and dangerous are the theory and practice which he has advanced, that if any Catholic printer were to publish them in the same form as they have been this evening brought forward, he would be prosecuted for treason. With respect to the doctrines which the learned doctor has charged the whole Roman Catholic body with maintaining, I could not perhaps make a better & more decisive answer than by producing against his positions and assertions the practice of the Roman Catholic. The learned doctor appears to have divided his attacks into four heads. He makes an attack upon the religion itself, upon the conduct of their ancestors as connected with that religion, upon their present doctrine and practice, and upon their future system. The limits of creation alone have stopped him. If I were to follow him in all he has said, I should have a task much more arduous than I could think of executing; I should have to defend the Roman Catholic from his attacks, and the protestant from his defence. For my own part, I do not think I go too far in maintaining that the Roman Catholic may be as good and as loyal a subject as any. The Catholics have indeed shown that they are the votaries of the church of Rome but they have not shown that they are the votaries of the Pope. It is rather curious that the learned doctor should have produced, in support of his arguments, the fourth of the Lateran, than which it would be difficult to find any thing more ridiculous and absurd, and which was carried into effect three hundred years before the establishment of the Protestant religion. Shall I sit a report get abroad, that the fourth of the Lateran is an object of alarm and fear to the British nation? As to the doctrines which the learned doctor attributes to the Roman Catholic religion, such as holding no faith with heretics, can I do better than by setting up other authorities against him, and among them shall I be deemed to make a weak defence in quoting that of Grotius? Or will it be necessary for me to say more than that when the question was solemnly put to the universities of Salamanca, of Paris, and of Louvain; the answer made was the same, that no such doctrines were maintained by the Roman Catholic religion? Shall I detain the house in exposing the absurdity and danger of telling the Roman Catholics that they cannot be good subjects? But the conduct of the Roman Catholics themselves exempts me from the risk of refusing all the charges which have been preferred against them. They have not only repelled all those accusations by a practice directly contrary to the doctrines imputed to them; they have not only gone beyond the abjuration required of them, but they have renounced all claims which they are charged with entertaining. It cannot be forgotten that they did not scruple to form a test which was even drawn up by the learned doctor himself, for quieting the fears and fears of their protestant brethren: a test by which they swore to respect property, to be faithful to the king, and to maintain the church of the country. It was taken by the clergy themselves, & let me seriously press this plain consideration, that the protestants have no right to say that in taking that test, they took an oath in which they did not believe. If any protestant, if the learned doctor says so, am I not justified in asking, did he who was principally concerned in framing that oath, draw it up with a view of perjury the Roman Catholics? Did he undertake that measure for the purpose of sending them more readily to the devil? The learned doctor is however unfortunately answered by his own test, which went to make them Catholics from being Protestants, and yet he says that every Catholic is an enemy to a protestant king and church. In every vehement controversy, in every discussion of intemperate zeal, Providence, we have reason to rejoice, has dealt out the measure of justice, that the lips of the house shall testify to his own refutation. Nor can I suffer the charge to be passed over in silence, that the Irish Catholic is an enemy to the protestant and to the English. I appeal to every gentleman who hears me, and several have had opportunities of forming an accurate opinion on this point, some of them having acted as secretaries in Ireland, whether an Englishman is hated in that country? Then the learned doctor will tell me in what country it is that neither a protestant nor an Englishman will be allowed to live? Rather, let him permit me to say, with all the confidence of honesty and truth, that there is not a single country in Ireland in which they do not love the men, no matter of what religion or of what country, who will sit them well." [Here Mr. Grattan having taken a short review of the rebellion in Ireland from 1641, contended as a fixed principle, that there did not exist in the Roman Catholic religion any permanent cause of war, and having alluded to the miseries caused by the lamentable disputes of centuries, he declared if events had not tended to improve the state of the country, there must have been something to essentially bad in the Irish mind as to cause the curse of their forefathers to be preferred and handed down as an inheritance to their children.]
"If it be said (continued Mr. Grattan) that the rebellion in 1798 was not a Jacobinical, but a religious one, I shall content myself with denying it, & ground my denial on an appeal to the reports of the committees of both houses of parliament, and to the dispatches of the Lord Lieutenant, declaring the North to be in rebellion, and the South, where there was a much greater number of Catholics, to be in a state of tranquillity. It has been advanced, and I candidly admit the statement, that the concessions made to the Catholics were very great. They surely were, and they were received with gratitude, and produced the most beneficial effects, from 1778 until 1792 and 1793, when the rights of man were preached on. The French then made from the throne was distinguished by its wisdom, and a petition was the result. But it appears that the Irish government did not agree with the English government in that respect, and having professed the notionists as defenders, it was thought best to banish them. The Irish Catholic found the hostility of government against him, worse than the hostility of the law. I cannot but consider the Roman Catholic religion, abstracted from popery, as containing two thirds of Christianity, fit for all governments, while I look upon the impediments to that fact as arising out of the policy of man; and arguing by analogy, I feel myself justified in saying that the same causes which have made the protestants of Ireland happy, would be attended with the same consequences, if allowed to operate on the Catholics of Ireland. But gentlemen seem to think that the objects of the petition are matters of little importance. Upon their weight and magnitude, it is not requisite for me to enter into a long discussion. It is sufficient for me to know, that they constitute the subject of fair and legitimate debate, since they are enjoyed by their protestant fellow subjects, and the Roman Catholic has as much right in right for his rights as you have to fight for your thousand pounds. They have in fact their rights acknowledged by law, and in five acts,
which passed from 1778 to 1793, will find that they have been proclaimed and recognized. You will find that they all state the Catholics to be a loyal people, & that the propriety is established of admitting them to a participation of rights in all civil and military employments. Those therefore, who argue against their claims, are answered by the law; and I consequently consider the Catholics as identified in principle with the protestants in the objects of their petition. There are about 33 officers to which they aspire, (I leave out some of a subordinate nature,) and I can discover no solid reason unless we admit the religious doctrines imputed to them to be such, that should deny to them the capability of filling these situations. They pay their share of eight millions of taxes; they supply the army and navy with one-third, or one-fourth of their numbers, and yet they have not a single commutation in either. While we preclude them from an honest and noble ambition to attain honours which are shared by their protestant countrymen, we should not forget, that we deny to them that growth of mind which is more valuable to a country, and which, of all things, most tends to the civilization, to the greatness, and to the happiness of a state. It is really too much to hear the charge of barbarism made against them. They cannot well be stigmatized as barbarous who export a million of corn, and pay eight millions of taxes. If I am asked what it is that retards civilization, there can be no difficulty in answering, that it is the animosity of religion; and if the arguments for up against them, are to go for any thing, they will be found to go against the laws, not against their religion. The motion of my honourable friend is marked by a judicious moderation; and the effect will be heightened by the candour and promptitude of concession. But it seems that all the fears, all the alarms, all the terrors formerly inspired by the hope, have not yet ceased. The hope is however, but a mere name; his power consisted in opinion; and since he was taken prisoner by the French confessor, he has completely lost all the influence arising out of opinion.
"But were the opinion by which he was once so powerful restored, how would it effect us? If six or ten Catholics elected to sit in this house were actually excommunicated, what then? Are you not afraid at this moment of his excommunicating the one third of your navy and army? But Bonaparte has got the Pope, and the Irish Catholics would rather follow the Pope, and be the slaves of Bonaparte, than the follow subjects, with equal rights of Englishmen? How strange is the dilemma to which you reduce yourselves by these frivolous apprehensions! What will you do with your army, with your navy, with your wives? I wish, for my own part, to avoid all recrimination; because in every contest of that kind, religion must fall a victim. The instant secretaries for themselves adrift from heaven, they will tear up the foundation of their faith, to pelt each other with the fragments. Much stress has been laid upon the revolution and the bill of rights, for the purpose of defeating the motion. For one hundred years there was a prostration of property, a prostration of religion, a prostration of constitution. In my mind, the grand principle of the revolution is the principle of religious toleration, which, by propagating and diffusing itself through all classes and all descriptions of subjects, tends to the happiness of the whole empire. In reading the petition of the university of Oxford, I find it taken for granted, that the Roman Catholics are the enemies of liberty. The bill of rights is founded upon the petition of rights; but let it not, for, be forgotten that the great charter is the foundation of both, and it was obtained by your Roman Catholic ancestors! If you refuse the objects prayed for in the petition now before the house, you will establish as a principle, that Ireland is to be encouraged by promoting religious dissension, and that by dividing and weakening the people you will strengthen the government; a principle composed of a party government and a party God. If your incorporation with the parliament of Ireland has given you strength, would not an incorporation with the people of Ireland be adamant? As there should be no such thing as an exclusive Providence, neither should there be any such thing as exclusive rights and benefits. Such was your opinion when you recruited in Ireland for your navy and army. If your admirals and generals ordered the Roman Catholics under their command out of their ships and out of their ranks in the hour of danger, in the moment of battle, what would become of you? Your empire would evaporate! Let me then, sir, entreat the house to turn, and look at the magnitude of their danger. Austria may exist as a second nation; when you have ceased to be great, you are nothing. Ireland is vulnerable; I admit it. Why? Because you have governed her ill. You have voted an army and navy from Ireland, but you forgot to vote your freedom for that country. That is the vote which is necessary to produce and encourage that quality of mind upon which you can ingraft that high Spirit and ambition which are necessary to meet, to overcome the perils of the time. Let your freedom be diffused through Ireland, and she will soon become a part of your strength. Do not withhold from her in her weakness the regimen that has made you strong. Give to Ireland the benefits you have promised; you can afford, and you are bound to give them. Give them and your union will not be nominal—you will unite, create, inspire, consolidate. You have, since the union, added 40 millions to her debt, and some millions to her taxes—Will you add nothing to her freedom and comforts? Since you have extinguished the Irish parliament, what have you done for Ireland? I followed the course of that parliament for fourteen years—I mean from the assertion of its independence in 1782—and there were many measures of great national benefit which resulted from their deliberation. You exceed them. The violence of party, and its opposition to the sentiments and interests of the great body of the people, led to the abolition of that parliament. Do you take care that a similar opposition on your part may not lead to a similar consequence. Do not legislate like children, by resisting upon childish grounds the strong claims of the Catholics. As you are at war with a nation that relies principally upon the superiority of other population, marshal your population effectively. Instead of buying foreign aid with subsidies, buy the aid of your own subjects with kindness, (as cry of heart's heart!) Depend upon it, that if you refuse the application of the Catholics now, you will regret it, and be ready as soon as possible to atone for your mistake. The cause of the Catholics is too strong to be withheld."
Remember the cause in Ireland between the years 1792 and 1793, when the Irish Parliament made a complete change in their resolution respecting the Catholics. You will, if you reject the motion of my Hon. Friend, rely on it, have to imitate the conduct of the Irish Parliament. The success of the Catholic claims is certain. Nothing can endanger it but any turbulence in its favour. But I hope and trust the Catholics will not by their conduct risk the character they have obtained. Let them rely on their allegiance and the justice of their claims, and they must triumph. While I address this to the Catholics, let me also exhort you to reflect upon the necessity of conciliation. I remember that during a former rebellion in Ireland you expended 20 millions of wealth, and much of your best blood, without adding one inch to your territory or any thing to your security. Let me warn you to guard against future rebellions and discontent; let me urge you to remove the great cause of discontent, by that base, religious discord—that is irremovable while the penal code remains—Remove that, and then, Irishmen will fight the foreign enemy—not one another. We shall strive to forget what is past, and look only to the future. Following the advice of a Day, a Burke, and a Flood, names ever dear to Ireland, let us look the improvement of that country, as most essential to the reconciliation of its inhabitants. Let us learn lessons of wisdom from our adversity; while half of Europe is in battle, will you stand contending about mysteries? but I am exhausted."—Here the honourable gentleman sat down.
* Dr. Doyne.
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A Very valuable Bookmaker. For terms apply to the Editor of the Enquirer.
BENJAMIN DUVAL, AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR, RICHMOND, HAS just received a very large and extensive assortment of fresh MEDICINES, SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, DRUGS and DYE-STUFFS, PAINTS of all kinds, OIL, VARNISHES, PUTTY, &c. Also a complete assortment of HATTERS' MATERIALS, CONSISTING OF Hatters' Irons, Logwood, Coppeas, Virdegreafe, Fustick, Spanish Indigo, Oil of Vitriol, Aq. Fortis, Quickilver, Crude Tartar, Eclat Irons, Bow-Strings, Limings, Galoons, Taffel Bands, Rubbing Dishes, Stumpers, Trenchers, &c. Which added to his former stock, completes an assortment that was never equalled in his line of business, in this city. He thanks his customers for past favors, and hopes to merit a continuation of their custom. His former attention to the quality of his Medicines, importing them in their crude state, that he might be able to judge of their quality, and powdering and preparing them under his immediate inspection, have contributed to his present establishment; and opposition he presumes will not relax his exertions to give general satisfaction in future. His experience for more than 12 years past, as Apothecary and Druggist in this city, added to a small stock of Medical Information acquired before, enables him, he thinks, to form a tolerably correct judgment as to the quality of Drugs and Medicines, although he cannot boast of Lovers conferred on him, greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable customers. In regard to his wholesale customers, he promises to furnish each of his wholesale customers with a printed price current, as soon as possible, and feels himself confident in their approbation, knowing that no one in this state can afford to under-sell him. This he intends to do, not to get others' customers from them, but to secure his own. Any articles that may be ordered, and not approved of as to quality, may be returned if in good order, and in a reasonable time. June 7. (S.W.&f)
BENJAMIN STETSON,
INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has for sale, 400 gallons Holland's Linseed Oil, White Lead and Spanish Brown ground in Oil, Patent Green ground in ditto, Verdigrise and Spanish Brown, 8 by 10 Window Glass, & Putty; 2d, 3d, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, and 20d Nails, two Casks Spike Nails, Bar Iron, German and Blistered Steel; general assortment of Iron Hollow Ware; 10 Hds. Molasses, French Brandy, Well-India and New-England Rum, Tea, Coffee, Loaf and Brown Sugar, Chocolate, Mens, fine and coarse Shoes, Ladies Kid & Morocco and Leather Slippers; 3 Boxes Cotton and Wool Cards assorted; half-pint and quart Tumblers, small invoice elegant cut glass, Rone ware, German Ozenburgh, 50 bks Salt, Novafica Grind Stones, and many other articles in store, which he will sell cheap for cash or country produce. April 2.—(12w12m.)
BY virtue of a decree of the county court of Essex, to be held at Loyd's, in the said county on the 29th day of August next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, the tract of LAND now in the possession of Capt. Molly and William Loyd, which was the property of the late Thomas Loyd, and lying in the Parish of St. Ann and said county, to satisfy Archibald McCall the monies decreed to him thereby. JOHN P. LEE, W. FISHER, JOHN JONES, Commissioners. Essex, July 12. (15w.)
WILLIAMSBURG HUSTINGS COURT, May 27th, 1805.
ORDERED that notice be given for four weeks in the Enquirer, printed in Richmond; That this court will on the fourth Monday in July next, proceed to the settlement and distribution of the estate of John Ferguson, deceased, committed to the hands of Philip Moody late Sergeant of this City for administration.
A Copy, Test, WILLIAM RUSSELL, c. c. Williamsburg, June 25. (14w.)
ABSCONDED.
The second time, in the month of February: JACK, sometimes known by the name of Jack Ash. He is upwards of 50 years of age, a gardner by profession, rather under the middle size. He was purchased of Lewis Burwell's estate in January 1804. He is well known in and about the city of Richmond. Amthel, in the county of Chesterfield, where he has a number of free connections, and in the neighbourhood of Williamsburg.—'Tis very certain that he is lurking about one of the above places, most likely Richmond, where he has a free woman for a wife. Mr. William Rife is authorized to give a reward of THIRTY DOLLARS on delivery of the above Jack Ash to him. May 31. (15)
VIRGINIA, to wit.
At a Chancery District Court, held in the City of Williamsburg the 6th day of April, 1805: Jethro Darden and Stephen Hooker, } Pliffs. vs. Darden and Stephen Hooker, } Defendants.
Oxley and Hancock, Defs.
THE Defendants not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this country, on the motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel, it is Ordered, That the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the City of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. A Copy, Test, ANTHONY ROBINSON, C. C. May 17. (P2m) Wt.
BY virtue of a deed of Trust, executed by Mr. Rufus Soule, to the subscribers for the benefit of Alexander M'Rae, eqh, they will on Saturday the third day of next month (August) at one o'clock P. M. on the premises, proceed to sell for ready money to the highest bidder, (for the purposes in the deed expressed) the LOT and improvements thereon, at present occupied by the said Soule, near Mr. Crouche's old Tavern, on the street leading by the governor's up Shockoe-Hill.—Immediate possession will be given, and an indisputable title will be made by Alexander M'Rae who fold the lot to Soule, and the Trustees will join in the conveyance. WILLIAM DUVAL, MAURICE L. MILLER, Trustees. July 5. (12w3w.)
BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscribers by William Davis, to secure the payment of a debt due William W. Hening, as expressed in the said deed, now of record in the county court of Albemarle, will be exposed to public sale on the premises, on the tenth day of August next, one LOT, with its appurtenances, in the town of Charlottesville, number twenty; or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy so much of the said debt as is now due, as in the said deed is mentioned, together with the costs of advertising and attending the sale. JOHN KELLY, Trustee. July 5. (15w.)
FOR SALE, THAT valuable TRACT of LAND, in the county of King & Queen, late the property of Wm. Campbell, dec'd. called the Taylor's Bridge Tract; containing about four hundred acres, a large proportion of which is rich low ground, abundantly stocked with good timber, and well adapted to the cultivation of grain. It will be sold on the premises, on the fifth of September, if fair, if not, the next fair day, and may be divided to accommodate purchasers, on a credit of six, twelve, and eighteen months. Bonds with approved security, to bear interest from the date, if not punctually paid, together with alien on the land, will be requested. WM. & WILY CAMPBELL, Exrs. King & Queen, July 12. (12w.)
BURR MILL STONES, of all sizes; and PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, at BROAD, BT
WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. (2p.)
MILITARY CERTIFICATES.
FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent. and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrearages of taxes, prior to the year 1798. WILLIAM PRICE, Calh'n. Genl. M. A. S. May 10. tf.
THE subscriber will sell at public auction to the highest bidder for ready money, at Zachariah Brooke's Tavern, in the town of Manchester, on Saturday the 24th day of August next, two likely negro BOYS Nelson and Harrison conveyed in trust by the deed of Andrew Scott, dec'd. to secure the payment of a debt, interest and cost therein, acknowledged to be due Lyle and McCredie. RICHARD B. GOODE. July 2. (12w.)
JUST PUBLISHED—AND FOR SALE AT RITCHIE & WORSLEY'S BOOK-STORE: THE DEBATES AND OTHER PROCEEDINGS OF THE VIRGINIA CONVENTION. The Publishers will thank those subscribers, who can make it convenient, to call or send for their books. June 18. (12w.)
ON Saturday the 24th day of August next, will be sold to the highest bidder at public auction for ready money, at Zachariah Brooke's Tavern, in the town of Manchester, a likely negro BOY, about 10 years old, by the name of Harry, conveyed to me in trust by Thomas Branch, of the county of Chesterfield, to secure the payment of a debt due to Lyle and McCredie, and the expense necessary to carry the trust into execution. RICHARD B. GOODE. July 2. (12w.)
TO RENT, THE HOUSE lately occupied by Thomas Gilliat, and immediate possession given, apply to GILLIAT & KIRBY. July 2. (12w.)
MOUNT SION FOR SALE. The subscriber offers for sale, his Plantation in Northumberland county, known by the name of MOUNT SION. The above tract contains about 500 acres, all of which is equal to any land in that part of the country for fertility of soil, and has every requisite to make it a desirable situation for a genteel family. There is on the land an excellent brick dwelling house, with every convenient out house; it is situated on the navigable waters of the Potomac, and commands an elegant view of the river; it is very convenient to fish, oysters, &c. and is within one day's sail of Alexandria, Norfolk, and Baltimore. Terms of the sale will be made known by application to Mr. Henry Ball, who resides on the land, or to the subscriber. J. EXELL JONES. May 3. (12w.)
ELLIS & ALLAN Have received by the Belle from London, part of their SPRING GOODS, amongst which are the following articles: LONDON Superfine Cloths and Cambric, & Outings and Dimities, Handmade fashionable worked & laced Mullins, 3-4, 4-4 and 10-14 Diapers, 8-4, 8-10 and 10-16 Damask Table Cloths, Gentlemen's white and brown Cotton Stockings, Ladies' elegant laced white do. do. Tortoise-shell bent and braid Combs, Chinzees, Calicoes and Furniture, Gentlemen's black fashionable Hats, do. do. do. do. do. do. Umbrellas, Boy's Morocco Caps plain and fur'd, Belt Hemp Roles, English White Lead, Spanish Brown, Yellow Ocre, ground in oil, and Verdigrise, Prussian and Pig Blue, Belt Boiled Oil in jars, Durham Mustard, &c. &c. Which, added to their present stock, and those expected (daily) from Liverpool, will render their assortment general. May 7. (12w.)
FOR SALE, ON A CREDIT OF SIXTY DAYS, likely young mulatto WOMAN with her first child.—She has been accustomed to wait upon a lady.—She will not be sold to any person residing out of this neighbourhood. Enquire at this office. July 9. (12w.)
COURTNEY'S HYMNS. THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED, COURTNEY'S Second Edition of HYMNS AND SPIRITUAL SONGS. This Pocket Hymn Book contains one hundred and eighty-one of the most approved HYMNS, on various occasions, by different authors:—And one hundred and seventy eight pages of Choice SPIRITUAL SONGS, admirably adapted to the various states and conditions of men. July 12. (12w.)
BROKER'S OFFICE. THE subscriber informs the Citizens of Richmond and the public in general, that he has taken the house, next door to Mr. William Aulfin's, lower end of the Basin, where he transacts the BROKERAGE and COMMISSION BUSINESS in all their various branches. From his general knowledge of business, aided by his attention and solicitude for the interest of those who may place to favor him with their commands, hopes to participate in the confidence of a generous public. He pledges himself that no exertion of his shall be wanting to give the utmost satisfaction. GEORGE WILY. June 18. (12w.)
FOR SALE, THE TRACT of LAND on which Chesterfield courthouse is situated. THE subscribers, being desirous of making a division of their lands, will dispose of the above advantageous tract to the purchaser, for cash or on credit. This tract contains 1494 acres; an excellent grist-mill; good and convenient buildings, that are insured in the Mutual Assurance Company of this state against fire; the situation inferior to none in this state for the man of public business, or the planter. Many other advantages, singularly inviting, might be particularized, but we deem it unnecessary to say more, than to invite those who will to purchase, to come and view the premises. V. WINTREE, Jun. Wm. WINTREE. Chesterfield, June 25, 1805. (12w.)
ON the 28th day of May last the co-partnership of WM. M. ALLEN & JAMES CODY, under the firm of ALLEN & CODY, of Ca Ira, was dissolved by mutual consent.—All persons indebted to Allen or Cody are desired to come forward and close their accounts by bond or otherwise;—and all persons having demands against them, are requested to make them known, that they may be adjusted for payment. Either of the partners at Ca Ira are authorized to settle accounts or to make and receive payments. WILLIAM M. ALLEN, JAMES CODY. Cumberland, July 9. (12w.)
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, FOUR hundred pieces Heneu Paper, Philadelphia Beer by the barrel, a small quantity of first quality New-England Cheese; also 400 barrels Corn. EDWARD HALLAM. ALSO—5000 wt. Salt, Petre'd BACON—and a constant supply of FRESH CORN MEAL. June 18. (12w.)
VALUABLE PROPERTY. The subscriber desires to defer his business in this place as soon as possible, is inclined to offer for sale, the following valuable property, viz:
A CONVENIENT two story dwelling house, 24 feet square, having one room and a passage on the lower floor, two rooms on the second floor, and two good rooms in the garret, a cellar with plank floor, and divided into three apartments, one used for cooking; the yard inclosed with a brick wall seven feet high, the whole in good repair. This tenement is situated near the Bell-Tavern, on the cross street leading to the Rock landing, and is insured in the Mutual Insurance company, against fire in the state of Virginia, and the premiums paid. Eleven unimproved half acre Lots, on Shockoe-Hill. 600 acres Military land in Kanawha county, on the waters of Oldtown creek, a branch of Ohio river, being a grant made to George Mule, Adam Stevens, Andrew Lewis and others, in the year 1772. 95 tracts of Land in Montgomery county, containing 99,172 1/2 acres, the whole patented in my name—viz: 4000 acres surveyed 2d April, 1786 in Montgomery county, on Cole river. 3080 acres surveyed 24th July, 1786 in same county, on 16 mile creek, adjoining the late General Washington's survey on Kanawha river. 962 1/2 acres surveyed 23rd July, 1786, in same county, on Loop waters, waters of New-river. 1000 acres surveyed 10th May, 1786 in same county, on the Ohio river. 8310 acres surveyed 5th April, 1786 in same county, south of a creek running into Cole river. 2188 acres surveyed 21st February, 1787 in same county, on Cole river. 320 acres surveyed 2d February, 1787 in same county, on the waters of Cooper's creek and Little Blue river. 1200 acres surveyed 17th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of the fourth fork of Cole river, that heads against Guyandott. 95 acres surveyed 16th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Glade creek. 78 acres surveyed 8th Feb. 1787 in same county, on a branch emptying into Glade creek on the south side of the same, and about one mile above the ford of said creek. 500 acres surveyed 16th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the north fork of Mud river, that heads against Guyandott. 1500 acres surveyed 12th May, 1786 in same county, on Ohio river. 2000 acres surveyed 8th May, 1786 in same county, on the great Kanawha. 1000 acres surveyed 16th May, 1786 in same county and on ditto. 268 acres surveyed 24th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head of Glade creek. 214 acres surveyed 7th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the waters of Glade creek, on the south side thereof. 185 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the west end of Joe's Ridge, and on the waters of Glade creek. 154 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county on Joe's ridge. 228 acres surveyed 6th Feb. 1787 in same county, on Joe's ridge, and the waters of Glade and Cooper's creek. 414 acres surveyed 22d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the second fork of Cole River, on the road crossing from Piney river to Guyandott. 2000 acres surveyed 26th Feb. 1787 in same county, under the big pipe stem knob, and running down both sides of the creek. 416 acres surveyed 4th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the waters of Coopers creek, and Joe's ridge. 380 acres surveyed 2d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Coopers creek. 3388 acres surveyed 20th Feb. 1787 in same county, on the fourth fork of Cole river. 1845 acres surveyed 2d Feb. 1787 in same county, on the head waters of Little blue creek, about half a mile north from the White Oak creek. Three tracts of land in Monongalia county, patented in my name, viz: 350 acres surveyed 1st June, 1786 in Monongalia county, adjoining Matthew Richey's land, and the Randolph county line, on waters of Cheat river. 400 acres surveyed 20th October, 1797 in same county, adjoining lands of Abner Harper, above the mouth of White Day creek. 400 acres surveyed 15th Nov. 1787 in same county, adjoining Peter Drago, on Finche's run, to include an improvement made in the year 1773. 1000 acres in same county, on the west of Cheat river, above the lands of Tios Butler. 800 acres in same county, on Buffalo creek, on a pre-emption right of David Gray. 250 acres in Greenbrier county, on Little Deer creek, adjoining lands of Joseph M'Clung. 801 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed 1st August, 1787, on the waters of Piney river & Paint creek, waters of Kanawha river. 435 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed 30th June 1786, joining the lands of Joseph Eaton, Richard Mule, and James M'Corcle. 250 acres in Wetzel county, surveyed 4th Nov. 1796, on the Led Mine Mill creek. 160 acres in Albemarle county, patent dated 5th July, 1787, on William Hill creek, waters of Buchland creek. One undivided moiety of five lots, in the town of Winchester, No's. 29, 90, 100, 101, and 109. The above will be sold very low, and the terms made known on application to WM. AUSTIN. Richmond, April 9.—(12w.)
TO BE SOLD, To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the last Saturday in June next.
SO much of the LAND, whereon John Kelle lives, in the county of Cumberland, late the property of Peter Francisco, as will pay the balance claimed of him, by Samuel G. Adams, of £ 100, with its interest, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to me by the said Peter Francisco, for that purpose. CREED TAYLOR, Trustee. May 17. (12w.)
From the business of the day, the sale, has been postponed, of the above property, until the first Saturday in August next; when it will certainly take place, if fair, if not, on the next fair day. July 9.
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