The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-11-15 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM (PAYABLE IN ADVANCE).
NUMBER 55.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 15, 1805.
[VOLUME 2.]
REMOVAL.
RUSSELL & WALLACE have removed to the store formerly occupied by Mr. Henry Flowers, where they have for sale a General Assortment of GROCERIES: viz— Leaf and Brown Sugar, Real Cognac Brandy, West India and New-England Rum, Holland Gin, Whisky, Sherry and Madeira Wine, Molasses, Paints, Oils, Squares and Flat Iron, Cut and Plain Tumblers by the gross, Young Hyson and Imperial Tea, Allum, Salt, Pepper and Pimento, Indigo, Black Pepper, Loose and Sack Salt, Butter by the firkin and retail. A few barrels Philadelphia porter—and will receive per the Schooner Richmond Packet, some excellent Philadelphia beer: all of which they will dispose of at a moderate price. N. B. A few Bacon hams for sale apply as above. November 12. 4t
PUBLIC SALE.
On Tuesday the 17th day of December next, will be offered for sale to the highest bidder, at the late dwelling house of Col. William Peachey, deceased, in Richmond county:
ALL the NEGROES belonging to said estate, consisting of Men, Women, Boys and Girls. The sale will commence at 11 o'clock, and terms of sale made known on the day of sale.
JOHN NICHOLSON, adm'r.
Nov. 12. ep1G1D
TO BE SOLD.
At Warren, in Albemarle county, on the 10th of December next. ONE hundred prime NEGROES, consisting of Men, Women, Boys and Girls. A credit of one, two and three years will be allowed upon the purchase giving bond and approved security. On account of the length of credit more than ordinary attention will be paid to the security that will be required.
WILSON CARY NICHOLAS. Warren, November 12. 1ds.
LAND FOR SALE.
IN the county of Lunenburg, lying within one mile of the Court-house, on Couch's creek; this tract contains seven hundred and fifty acres, one hundred and fifty of which is cleared; comfortably improved for the accommodation of a family. This land is well suited to the cultivation of Tobacco, Corn and Wheat. A great bargain may be had in this land. The terms may be made known, by application to Major Grafton Green, of Norway, who is duly authorized to dispose of it, or the subscriber living on the premises. JOSEPH SMITH. Lunenburg, August 2. (ep4t.)
PAINTS FOR SALE, CHEAP.
WHITE LEAD, dry and ground in oil, Spanish Brown do. do. Yellow Ochre do. do. Venetian Red do. do. Verdigris by the 113, sack or hundred weight. Spirits of Turpentine, Coal Oil, do. Turpentine do. &c. &c. A considerable quantity of the above articles have just come to hand, and as the season for painting is far advanced, they will be sold below the current price. Apply at the Apothecary Shop on the lower floor of the Bell-Tavern. November 1. (2aw2w.)
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
TO apprehend NIM, a small mulatto fellow, who ran away from me the 13th ultimo; he is twenty-two or three years old, but has a very young appearance; he took with him a short blue cloth coat, corduroy pantaloons, and a drab great coat; he is a very cunning artful fellow; his business has been that of taking care of horses and driving a carriage. The above reward will be paid if lodged in jail. JOHN COLES. Albemarle, November 1. (ep3w.p.)
NOTICE.
A Petition will be presented to the General Assembly of Virginia, at the next session, praying that an act may pass to incorporate a company for the purpose of cutting a Canal on the fourth side of the Falls of James River, or otherwise improving the navigation of the river for the passage of Batteaux; and also for the establishment of a Bank in the town of Manchester. August 13. (epmL.)
JUST RECEIVED.
AT JOHN PUMFREY'S, BOOK-BINDER AND STATIONER, TWO hundred and fifty Reams of FOOL SCAP POST and POST WRITING PAPER— He has also on hand an extensive stock of BLANK BOOKS of all descriptions, manufactured from materials of the first quality, and every other article in the Stationary line. Tickets for sale in the Second Class of the Richmond Academy Lottery. October 11.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED or stolen from my pasture two or three weeks past, a valuable PLOUGH HORSE. He is of a bay color, sturdy and well set, has a large body, and one of his eyes (I believe his right) has been injured by a blow which divided his upper eye lid, and has almost if not entirely deprived him of sight in that eye. He has a switch mane and tail; gallops, trots, and paces, and would answer as well for the cart as for the plough. I have some reason to believe he was brought to Richmond about the time of the Fairfield Races, and either exchanged or sold. I will give the above reward, and pay all reasonable charges, to any person who will deliver him to me, or I will give twenty dollars for the detection of the thief, if he has been stolen. W. BROCKENBROUGH, Hanover, October 22. tf.
ALL Persons having demands against the estate of Philip Lutwoll Grimes, Esq. late of Brandon, Middlesex county, deceased; are requested to forward them properly authenticated—and those who are indebted to said estate, are desired to make immediate payment to the Rev. Henry Heberman of the said county, who is fully authorized to settle all matters relative to the estate during my absence. SAMUEL W. SAYRE, Adm'r. Brandon, November 15.
THE Subscriber purports practicing the Law in all the Courts held in the city of Richmond; also in the County Courts of King William and Hanover; wherein any business confided to him, shall meet with prompt attention. ANDREW STEVENSON. Nov. 12. 4t
VIEWS OF TRIPOLI
Will shortly be Published, elegantly Engraved 3d Coloured, by Subscription, on the following terms:
1st: Each Plate shall be 20 inches by 14, on an excellent copper-plate paper—for which the subscriber shall pay two dollars. one of which will be received in advance, for the purpose of enabling the proprietor to carry into effect an undertaking so interesting at this moment to the Citizens of the United States.
2nd: The Plates shall be delivered to subscribers in this city without delay, on their emission from the press, by the hand of the person who took the Views on the spot.—There will be an advance to non-subscribers of half a dollar on each plate.
THE first drawing is a perspective view of the of the late United States frigate Philadelphia: in which is represented her relative position to the Tripolitan gun-boats, when, during their furious attacks upon her, she was unable to get a single gun to bear upon them.
The second drawing is a view of Commander Preble's Squadron, whilst engaging the gun-boats and forts of Tripoli, on the 3d of August, 1804: when they captured three of the Tripolitan boats, and greatly damaged the Bashaw's fortifications.—Each of those drawings is embellished by a distant view of the Harbour, with its Rocks, and the Town of Tripoli, with its Forts.
IT is expected that the public will not hesitate in complying with the latter part of the first article, when they are put in mind of the situation the artist stood in when he took the Views, and the situation he now stands in, after a captivity originating in the defence of his country, against a barbarous race of beings, who are the eternal enemies of every free and enlightened nation. Under the Yoke, he has long and severely felt the stripes of these debased marauders, while hope, the only consolation to the wretched, alone enabled him and his unfortunate companions, to survive the fatal catastrophe, represented in the first of these engravings. His relative situation at present, may be naturally anticipated, since his delivery from slavery has been so recent.—He pledges his word that the Views are correct, as is known by the Officers of the frigate Philadelphia who are now in Richmond, and by all those who returned from Tripoli in the ship President. Copies of these Views are at the Office of the Enquirer, for public inspection, and will occasionally be shown by the person who shall produce the subscription paper. The publisher hopes no more than such patronage as his Views merit; he also hopes that his expectations will not be altered, though disappointed in his present undertaking, as some of these were taken at the risk of his life, or having dragged out a miserable existence in perpetual slavery.
The Geometrical Plan of the City, Harbour, Forts and Rocks of Tripoli, is a most interesting production; in which is shown the bearings and distances of the Rocks, which form the Entrance of the Harbour, and which may prove as shelters to attacking bomb-vessels, are laid down, from every particular point or magazine in the place.—This Plan, if he receives a reasonable encouragement in the present instance, he purposes publishing—it may be seen shortly at the Office of the Enquirer.
WE DO Certify, That Mr. Charles Denoon was a prisoner in Tripoli, having been captured on board the Philadelphia frigate.—That his conduct previous to that event, and during his captivity, was such as to merit the approbation of his officers.—The Views of Tripoli, he intends to publish, are taken by himself on the spot, and from the specimens we have seen, we believe them to be correct.
BENJAMIN F. READ, JAMES GIBBONS. Richmond, November 15, 1805.
Subscriptions received at the Enquirer Office, at the Stationary Store of Mr. John Pumfrey, and at the Book Stores of Jacob Johnson and Wm. Pritch Pritchard. Nov. 5. tf
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, to wit:
BE it remembered, that on the seventh day of November, in the thirtieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Charles Denoon, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Map, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit: "A perspective view of the of the United States frigate Philadelphia: in which is represented, her relative position to the Tripolitan gun-boats, when, during their furious attacks upon her, she was unable to get a single gun to bear upon them." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clerk of the District of Virginia. November 8. (L. S.)
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA, to wit:
BE it remembered, that on the seventh day of November, in the thirtieth year of the Independence of the United States of America, Charles Denoon, of the said district, hath deposited in this office, the title of a Map, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following, to wit: "A view of Commander Preble's Squadron, whilst engaging the gun-boats and forts of Tripoli, on the 3d of August, 1804: when they captured three of the Tripolitan boats, and greatly damaged the Bashaw's fortifications." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, intitled "An act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of Maps, Charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned."
WILLIAM MARSHALL, Clerk of the District of Virginia. November 8. (L. S.)
WARDLAW, has received his full supply of Medicines, by the ship Rolls from London; also a great variety of Paints, Varnishes, Surgical Instruments, patent Medicines, &c. &c. And by the ship George from Liverpool, a large quantity of vials and shop glass.—Those who favor him with their custom may depend on being supplied with every article in his line on the most liberal terms. The citizens of Richmond are requested when they apply at his shop by a child or servant to put the name of the article wanted on paper to prevent mistakes. Nov. 1. tf.
NOTICE.
THE subscribers, being desirous of closing their administration on the estate of William Wilkinson, deceased, call upon all those who have claims against him, to make them known before the second Monday in November next, when they intend to render an account of their administration to the court of judgments, for the city of Richmond: after which no claim not previously given in, will be attended to, but this notice will be placed in bar of all. All persons indebted to the deceased, are desired to make immediate payment, as no indulgence can be given. EDWARD CARRINGTON, J. A. GHETALLIE. September 13. (Fif)
GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA.
THE Grand Lodge of Virginia will meet in the Mason's Hall in this city, at 6 o'clock in the evening of Monday the 9th day of December next.
W. H. Fitzhugh, G. S.
Nov. 12. tf
At a court held for King & Queen county, at the court-house on Monday the 9th of Sept. 1805.
UPON AN INJUNCTION IN CHANCERY. Richard Brooke, Plaintiff. Against Wallace Johnson & Maure & Robt. Price, Defendants.
THIS day came the plaintiff by his counsel, and the defendants, Wallace Johnson and Maure, not 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 appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth. On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel: It is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of this court-house. A Copy, Telle, ROBT. POLLARD, c. c. October 11. (F 2m)
I Wish to lease for a term of years my HOUSE on the hill between Col. Gamble's and Belvidere. As it was designed for my own residence no expense has been spared to afford every convenience for the elegant accommodation of a small family. A square of four half acres its under an excellent enclosure, is annexed to the house, and the benefit of luxurious and extensive pasture for a few horses and cows will be granted by Col. Harvie. It is intended to erect a bridge over the canal near Mr. Ruthford's mills, by which the distance to the lower part of the town will be rendered more convenient than from the greater part of the houses on Shockoe-hill. To a genteel family, who will take proper care of the buildings and enclosures, I will let it upon very moderate terms. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH. September 10. (7d.)
European Intelligence.
From papers received at the Office of the Norfolk Ledger, by the Schooner, Captain Willis.
LONDON, September 14.
On Thursday, soon after one o'clock, a Cabinet Council was held at Lord Mulgrave's office, which was attended by the Lord Chancellor and several others. It was understood the final instructions to Lord Nelson and Sir Sidney Smith were then adopted, previous to their proceeding to the commands to which they have lately been appointed.
Lord Nelson last night, after dining at his house at Merton, set off for Portsmouth. He proceeds, it is supposed, first to Cadiz on board the Victory. It is rather surprising that no positive account is yet received that the blockade of that port is removed by the united squadrons of Admiral Collingwood and Sir R. Calder, though it is very probable that the intelligence to that effect communicated by a neutral vessel is true.
It is said that the amount of the force to be employed in the projected expedition is 20,000 infantry and 10,000 cavalry, but that must be including the troops already in the Mediterranean.
Morn. Chron.
All the troops belonging to the expedition, and long since embarked at the Texel, are disembarking, and will all return to the camp of Zeyl, whence they will probably proceed to the Rhine.
The troops embarked at Helvoet are also landed, and must successively march to the Helvoet, to replace, in part, the army of expedition, which is marching away from that place. From another we are also informed, that the troops on board the Gallo-Batavian flotilla at Boulogne, Ambleteuse, &c. are disembarking, and that a part of them are already on their march for the Rhine, there to form a formidable army, commanded in person, in the event of a war on the continent, whilst general Massena will have the command in chief of the Gallo-Italian army in Upper Italy.
Among all these warlike accounts, we were still more affected this morning, by the news that the imperial ambassador at Paris, Count Cobentzel, had demanded his passports; but this piece of news, we have some reason to hope, is at least premature.
The naval part of the projected expedition is complete, and the embarkation of the troops may be expected to commence in the course of next week. Transports for the conveyance of 25,000 infantry are collected in the Downs alone, and the number of vessels under orders for embarkation, amounts to ten thousand. This number exceeds so much the usual proportion of cavalry to infantry, that it is supposed a very great addition is intended to be made to the latter. The first battalions of all the regiments of the line have received orders to hold themselves in readiness for foreign service; an arrangement which includes the greater part of the efficient force of the country. The destination of the troops is so differently assigned, that if it were even prudent to point out any, there would be considerable difficulty in fixing on the most probable. Nothing certain has been suffered to transpire respecting either the object of the expedition, or the officers to whom the conduct of it, in either the naval or military department, is likely to be entrusted.
At a late hour last night no intelligence had been received from the continent. The next French or Dutch papers will, we expect, prove highly interesting. Bonaparte has to have convened his senate at the beginning of the month. The Paris Journals are studiously silent, both in respect to the order and the circumstances which have produced it. The proceedings of the opening will excite as much interest as curiosity. The emperor will either condescend, or find it convenient to enter into some explanation of the causes from which the war has arisen. Supreme as he is in authority, both civil and military, he expects much powerful co-operation from the concurrence of less than a hundred persons, every one of whom derives his political being from his word. How precarious is the condition of illegitimate power, when it is obliged to repossess its security and reputation upon the authorities it has created in mockery and deception. Times.
In most of the Dutch papers, the following paragraph is immediately annexed to the account of the extraordinary sitting of the states, and the address of M. Schimmelpennick:
"The news received, relative to some movements in Germany, especially the assemblies of Austrian troops, have naturally caused some uneasiness. Meanwhile, we are positively informed, that the French emperor takes the most effective precautions against every thing that might unexpectedly disturb the tranquillity established on the continent of Europe; and it is, doubtless, a consequence of his foresight, that the French and Batavian troops, the disembarkation of which has actually commenced, are marching to the Rhine with the greatest expedition."
September 15.
POLITICAL WEEKLY REVIEW.
An expedition is proposed of which we shall not flatter to declare the facts we know, and the probable conjectures which they suggest. The number of the troops about to be sent upon it, is, between 30,000 and 40,000. They are in readiness, at the ports at which they are to embark; in perfect health; in complete discipline; full of fire, frames of iron; veterans tried in the most perilous services, with a proportion of young heroes who burn to outdo their achievements and to transcend their fame. The conquerors of Egypt and Acre are of this expedition.
Scarce is there a man among the veterans who has not, already, on more than one occasion, prevailed, single-handed, against half a dozen of Frenchmen. Their truth to evince that, on European ground, our English followers are still more capable of dealing terror, route, and carnage among hosts of Bonaparte's slaves, than even in all those parts of the world where we have so gloriously, and so invariably triumphed. The species of troops are skillfully adapted to that bold, predatory service on which we cannot but think, that they may be, most usefully employed. There is a large proportion of cavalry; there is an excellent supply of light artillery; the infantry are of that character, and armed in that manner, which are the fittest to sustain the bold operations of cavalry and artillery in sudden durbations and embarks upon an enemy's coast: the very horses have been selected with fire and diligent care: they are of a weight of frame, a light elasticity of limb, and a perfection of training, which none but English horses can exhibit. The seamen, the marines, the transport-vessels, and the ships of war of different sizes and modes of armament, for this expedition, are all selected and prepared, with admirable discernment and skill, for a perfect union of movements with the land force. These troops, these seamen, these marines, expect, every hour, the orders to proceed upon their enterprise—add to all this—that there has been, of late, in Britain, a silent, diligent, ardent, indefatigable application of science to the improvement of those parts of the machinery of war—and those parts of naval and military tactics—which belong—to the effort of landing in the face of an enemy's batteries—to the sudden demolition of fortifications—to the performance of every such daring effort with new licty to those undertaking it—an application successful above the common fate of human labours—and which, under the direction of such men as general Moore and Sir Sidney Smith, may actually redouble the power of the men and all the other ordinary means which are now put to act upon this expedition.
Nor shall we hesitate to declare that we believe the expedition destined to act upon the very coast of France. It is for the poor and narrow genius of Bonaparte, to waste the resources of an empire in perpetual threats and preparations which lead to nothing. The British government puts its ways and means for war, to other uses. His threats to invade us, have put us to no expense that could have been otherwise spared: they have not annoyed our trade: they have not diminished our manufactures: they have not taken our farmers from the plough, nor our reapers from the lively toils of the sickle:—but they have kindled up a flame of valour and of patriotism in every British and Irish heart, which, by the blessing of God, shall never be extinguished: they have disciplined us into a nation of hardy, expert, resolute soldiers, without diverting us from the gainful arts of common life: they have taught us to testify our contempt for a mere war of preparations by never arming but for actual achievement—by suffering no occasion for striking an actual blow, at any time, to escape us. The usurper, that wretched counterfeit of a general, a statesman, and a hero, withdraws his forces from the coast—makes a pause in his threats—even dismantles his flotillas. Well, then! we follow him home! we hang upon his retreat!—He shall find it impossible, permanently to withdraw his armies from the coast of the channel, that he may pour them into Germany and Italy. An invasion of France with views of permanent conquest is what our moderation cannot endure. But, often as the navy and army or England have, in different wars, acted on the coast of France—they were never yet so employed, without making it necessary for the French government to lend their whole attention, and to employ almost their whole force, in defending themselves against our attack. Losses may have been sustained: the vulgar may have been disappointed in their dreams of permanent conquest: but, the purpose was still accomplished—of making the French turn from every thing else to the defence of their coasts: and this—was, incontrovertibly, the truest victory—the proudest triumph. The same thing will be, now, accomplished. From Dunkirk to Cape Finisterre, the alarm will, we think, be kept up along the enemy's coasts. The gun-boats will be burnt in the harbours: the arsenals & dock-yards will be destroyed: the batteries will, in some places, be eluded—in others, be put to silence: the towns will be laid under contribution: the country, so far as is compatible with the laws of that honourable war which alone England wages, will be wasted with fire and sword. Nothing less than Bonaparte's best troops and generals shall save his coast. Even these must shrink with terror from before men who have never met but to conquer them! Bonaparte invade England! Dearly shall he dearly shall France—pay for the menace!
We do not expect any foreign troops to fight with ours, in one host and under the same banners on this occasion!—Englishmen, unmixed with strangers, shall meet Frenchmen, in the deserts which are about to be made. This sort of operation will be, perhaps, the most useful to our allies in the general war. It will be, especially to the Austrians and Russians in Germany, and in Italy.
We have again received papers from Paris to a late date. They misrepresent the progress of affairs on the continent as usual. The Russians are said to have raised the siege of Erivan in Persia. An additional Russian force of 12,000 or 14,000 men is about to embark for the Mediterranean: they are to be cantoned, in part, in Greece and Dalmatia. The Austrian ships which were at Leghorn have left that port: Austrian subjects continue to retire as fast as possible out of France. The French garrisons on the Rhine are augmented. The numbers of the Austrian troops in the Tyrol increase every day. The Russian troops on the frontiers of Galicia are likewise augmented every day. The Gellweil from Bonaparte,—and the Coldstream from the South Sea, English merchant ships, have been taken and carried into French ports. The news of disaffection in the French army in Italy, is indubitably true. It was indirectly stated in Bonaparte's own official newspaper. The Austrian government has been silently proceeding in several routes, as countering the escape of French and Italian defectors over the Adige. But, to those who are conversant with the war—to confess the French and Italian troops in that territory to be disaffected and defective. Some of the English newspapers are so zealous in the French usurper's cause, that they will believe anything which makes against him, tho' it come even upon his own testimony.
The return of the East-India and West-India fleets supplies full 8,000 men to the naval service of government—with an addition of five ships of the line to our blocking fleets!!
A French Schooner brought in, a prize, to Dover, gives intelligence that the number of the French troops on their march to the Rhine is 100,000!
It is agreeably remarkable, that not one ship of the whole East-India fleet, has either perished by any accident of navigation, or fallen into the enemy's hands. ALL have arrived—and arrived SAFE!
We have it from official authority, that the amount of the property brought home on account of the East-India Company, is 9,700,000l.—the private property trade and ships, about 4,600,000l. and the duty to Government, 5,000,000l.
In answer to an application of the African merchants to the Lords of the Admiralty, Mr. Secretary Marden has informed them, "that a complete force is appointed for the protection of the trade on the coast of Africa."
A Messenger arrived on Friday night with dispatches from St. Peterburgh to the Russian Ambassador,—A British Messenger for out, the same night, from Lord Mulgrave's Office, with dispatches for the British Ambassador at the Court of Vienna.—That Court delays the commencement of hostilities against Bonaparte, only that its subjects who happen to be in France may not be left in the disagreeable circumstances of those British subjects who, by Bonaparte's frown for the law of nations, are, now, at Verdun.
The Victory, on board which Lord Nelson goes out in his new command, has dropped down to St. Helen's. His Lordship has left town, to go on board her. He fails, without further delay, for Cadiz, with a powerful reinforcement to our naval strength in that quarter.
The value of the cargoes brought to England on board the East-India fleet, exceeds 15,000,000l. sterling.—What a vexation to Bonaparte to have put his fleets, at such an expense, to try to catch this prize!—and to have missed it! Had any of his squadrons even fallen in with this fleet—they might have met defeat instead of rich plunder. Admiral Rainier had used every precaution against the chance of capture. The seamen on board every ship were disciplined, every day, and practiced in the working of their guns. They remembered what had been achieved by Sir Nathaniel Dance: and they determined to fight like men, if they should have to encounter a foe.
We have given, elsewhere, an authentic account of the objects of the expedition for which so large a force is, now, in readiness. The following are the names of the Regiments to be embarked:
CAVALRY.
Royal Horse Guards—1st. Dragoon Guard—4th, 6th, and 7th, regiments. Light Dragoons—1st, 2d, 3d, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th, and 21st regiments. German Legion—1st Dragoons. Ditto—1st Light Dragoons.—Total, 19,000 men.
INFANTRY.
Foot Guards—Five battalions of the three regiments. 1st battalion of the 4th, 5th, 14th, 21st, 29, 31st, 40th, 43d, 68th, 91st, 92d, and 1st and 2d battalion of 95th Foot.—Total, 27,000 infantry.
REGIMENTS IN IRELAND.
The following regiments in Ireland have also received orders to hold themselves in readiness for foreign service:
CAVALRY.
2d, 3d, and 5th dragoons. 16th, 17th, 18th, and 23d, light dragoons.—Total, 4,500 men.
INFANTRY.
1st battalion of 3d regiment, 9th, 25, 96th, 23th, 30th, 39th, 45th, 47th, 50th, 63d, 73d, 79th, 80th, 97th.—Total, 10,000 men. Grand total of troops ordered for foreign service, forty-five thousand men.
It is, now, stated, in all the newspapers, that Sir Robert Calder's conduct on the 22d of July, and in his subsequent movements in the presence of the combined fleets, will be brought under the judgment of a Court Martial. The statement is true, but it was anticipated by what we had the advantage of communicating soon after the action, upon indisputable authority. Indeed, the honour of the British Navy,—Sir Robert Calder's respect for his own character, and the official letters of Villeneuve and Cressac, render it indispensably necessary, that the rigorous yet candid judgment of British Naval Officers should be taken on the whole affair. This is but one of the many instances in which the priority and superior authenticity of the information in the BRITISH NEPTUNE is constantly and decisively evinced.

HAGUE, September 3.
Their High Mightinesses, representing the Batavian Commonwealth, being summoned to attend an extraordinary meeting this day, repaired about twelve o'clock to the place of the said Assembly, in full costume.
At two his Excellency the Pensionary, accompanied by his Ministers, repaired to the same place.
On arriving at the place where their High Mightinesses assemble, he repaired into the hall of their High Mightinesses, where his excellency, seated in an arm chair prepared for the occasion, opposite the President, opened the Assembly with the following address.
HIGH AND MIGHTY LORDS, I have thought proper to summon your High Mightinesses, in an extraordinary manner, in order to propose to your Assembly some subjects, the expediting of which I conceive to be of urgent importance to the interests of the State.
A number of ordinances, which are planned pursuant to the general taxation, decreed by your High Mightinesses will be proposed, in this extraordinary sitting, for the deliberation of your High Mightinesses. In the planning of them, I have principally endeavoured to obtain this end, that, on the one hand, in the limitations contained therein, the force may be found which can ensure the execution of the laws decreed, and thereby the receipt of the taxes fixed by your High Mightinesses; and on the other hand, that care be taken at the same time to remove as much as possible, all superfluous impediments, and all vexation of the good inhabitants, that the raising of the money due to the State may be the less disagreeable and oppressive.
Your High Mightinesses will perceive how closely those subjects are connected with the finances of our country, and this notion is sufficient for your High Mightinesses to perceive the importance thereof. The wisdom, zeal, and care for the welfare of the country, which, in the preceding session, have characterized the deliberations of your High Mightinesses, are my guarantee, that the affairs, on which your High Mightinesses will have to deliberate in the present session, will be likewise considered with a gravity proportioned to their tender concern.
I was desirous, High and Mighty Lords, to be able, on your present meeting, to make some communication to you, from which your High Mightinesses might conceive some solid hope of a speedy peace; yet, gloomy as is the political prospect at this moment, we have no reason to despair of a more fortunate turn; and then, perhaps, a firmer peace may make an agreeable amenity for its tardy approach. Such a peace we may promise to ourselves, under the divine blessing, from the genius of our powerful ally; and your High Mightinesses will, no doubt, be glad to hear of me, at a period like the present, that I have received from him, during the course of my administration, repeated proofs of esteem and friendship, and the most solemn assurance of good will towards the republic—a disposition which I shall endeavour to preserve, and foster, by a constant fidelity to our engagements.
On the internal situation of the republic, I conceive, that we, in the present circumstances, have every reason to be satisfied. The present order of things has, in a very short time, assumed a degree of authority and permanency which, in other human institutions, is generally a consequence of long habits. The government experiences, in all the districts of the republic, proofs of esteem and co-operation, which are to it as honourable as encouraging in the difficulties it has to encounter, and our country at this moment presents the picture of a wise and brave nation, which is able to conceive its difficult position, which is disposed to submit to inevitable sacrifices, to preserve her consequence among the nations of Europe; and which will unanimously support the exertions of its government for that object.
Equit your assembly, High and Mighty Lords, with a wish that the resolutions which your High Mightinesses will take, for the good of our country, may be crowned with the dearest blessing of the most high.
PETERSBURGH, August 19.
Since the return of Baron Novosiltzoff, serious preparations for war are made all over Russia. The usual exercise of the troops in autumn will not, it is said, take place this year; the troops are marching to the Western frontier of this Empire, and the Officers, have received orders to make their camp equipage as light as possible.
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 23.
The independence of the Ottoman Porte, hitherto undermined by so many means more or less indirect, is at present openly attacked. The agent of the Russian Cabinet has just made known by note which he has delivered to the Reis-effendi, the intention of his court to conclude a defensive and offensive alliance between the two States. The declaration of this intention has spread alarm throughout the Seraglio and has thrown the Sultan Selim into the utmost grief. The blood of the proud Ottomans still runs in the veins of this Prince, and the remembrance of their glory is not effaced.
In his first conference, the agent of the Russian Cabinet made four different propositions. We shall here speak only of the first. The following is its object, and nearly its terms: "All the subjects of the Turkish Empire who profess the Greek religion shall pass under the protection of Russia, and whenever they shall be molested by the Turks, the Porte shall be bound to do justice to the representations of the Russian Ambassador."
It is said that when this first article was presented to the Grand Seigneur, he threw away the paper with indignation, and bitter tears ran down his cheeks. During several days he appeared agitated with the utmost inquietudes. He afterwards assembled those of the members of the Divan who are not sold to Russia. They all directly agreed that it would better become them to bury themselves under the ruins of Constantinople than to sign a treaty which would annihilate the Ottoman power. In their indignation they invoked the shade of the Captain-Pacha Hussein, so justly named the last of the Ottomans. But when they considered that in 24 hours the army of Odessa might be under the walls of the Seraglio, that of Corfu support and unite the revolted Greeks, that of Georgia openly march against Constantinople, the Greeks of Wallachia and Moldavia threw themselves at the head of the Russian cavalry, they perceived that they had no other resource than to gain time, by spinning out the negotiation, and consenting to all the other conditions, to avoid submitting to this fatal article. Thus Europe is about to see the Empire of the Great Soliman, and the illustrious race of the Ottomans disappear almost without commotion.
What can the Grand Seigneur do at this day, when the opening of the Bosphorus to the Russian ships of the line and troops, the occupation of Corfu, and the revolt of Georgia, have so far sapped the foundation of his throne, that he hardly retains the shadow of his former power? When his very Divan itself, when his Reis-Ef-
fendi, became Russian, nothing more of Muslim than the turban; and when this man is rather the agent of the Russian Ambassador than Minister of the Sultan Selim? No doubt this perfidious Minister will one day forfeit his head for his cowardly treason; but his just punishment will only be a useless remedy for so many evils.
There remains to the Sultan Selim only one means: that no armed ship, or vessel laden with troops, shall be permitted to pass the Bosphorus: that his subjects be forbid to navigate under the Russian flag: that the men sold to Russia be banished from his Seraglio: and that with the standard in his hand, he drive from his states the tyrants who oppress him. Then every one possessed of the heart of a Mussulman will flock around him and his Empire, which for these twenty years has been daily declining, and will all on a sudden resume its ancient splendour. But the danger is pressing; a few years more and it will be no longer time; this unfortunate Prince will then see himself seized at the very gates of his Seraglio, by the agents of Russia.
July 30. The Russian, envoy, count Italinskey, has notified to the Porte, that some thousands of Russian troops were again assembled on the shores of the Black Sea, to embark for Corfu, on board of transports in several divisions; he hoped, therefore, that those ships would meet with protection and assistance, if necessitated to put into any port of the Turkish Empire. He further notified to the Porte, that the Russian troops, in the Ionian Islands, were already become so numerous, that there was not room sufficient for them, and the reinforcements now sending thither; therefore, he requested, in the name of his government, that a part of them might be placed in a Turkish province in that vicinity, and it is positively asserted, that the Porte has fully consented to it.
Meanwhile the Turkish government has received intelligence, that the number of Russian troops ready for embarkation consists of 12 or 14,000 men; and provision is already made for their maintenance, considerable sums having been remitted from St. Peterburgh to several merchants at Constantinople for that purpose. So many conferences having been held by the Reis Effendi with the Russian and English envoys, it is confidently thought that the triple alliance between these three Powers is renewed, and actually confirmed.
LONDON, September 12.
SPEECH OF THE LANDAMMAN OF SWITZERLAND.
A report has lately been circulated in Switzerland that that country was about to be united to France. The Landamman, in closing the session of the Diet, on the 17th ult. alluded to that report in his speech, of which the following is the substance:—
"The Landamman first thanked the Deputies for the zeal they had shown in the service of their country, without losing sight of the act of mediation, so salutary to each and all, and so precious a monument of the creative genius of Napoleon. The Landamman next touched upon certain finifter rumours which had been circulated for some time (viz. that Switzerland would be united to France): He characterized these rumours as the invention of an ill-understood interest of malice and imposture, received and exaggerated by credulity and ignorance. He requested the deputies to contradict positively, their arrival in their respective cantons, those rumours, if they still existed, and to assure the people that the diet had received the most formal assurances of the continuance of the good will of their illustrious mediator and august ally, that nothing could throw a doubt upon the duration of the political relations established and guaranteed so solemnly."
A new treaty of defensive alliance is on the tapis, between Russia and Denmark. The dispatches which lately stopped the Prince Royal, on his military tour, are now stated to have announced the determination of Bonaparte to occupy the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig, and to shut up the navigation of the sound should Russia make the north of Germany the theatre of war.
September 13. It is expected that a part of the troops destined for the secret expedition, will be embarked in the course of this day or tomorrow. Those in the neighbourhood of Chatham are to embark at the Nore; those near Deal are to be shipped at this port. The transports for the artillery, stores, &c. have already dropped down the river. The number of men intended to be employed will be considerable. An order has been given for the first battalion of every regiment of the line to be in readiness for foreign service; so that we are inclined to think that it is but a part of the expedition that is to sail immediately.—As to the destination of this armament, it is understood to be the Mediterranean, and that it will be under the naval auspices of Lord Nelson.
There seems to be a general belief that in the present circumstances something might be successfully attempted to destroy the enemy's long and expensive preparations at Boulogne. We wish such an enterprise were practicable, because the destruction of that nest of hornets, would not only relieve the country from much trouble and anxiety, but it would cover the French government with disgrace, and materially injure the reputation of Bonaparte, which, with the army and the people, is one of the principal sources of his power. If there were a rational prospect of success, it ought to be attempted. The proximity of the coast of England, would enable us to employ twice the force which we can send to the Mediterranean; and there would be this advantage, that no men would be killed but in battle, which, in expeditions even to the Mediterranean, many must fall from disease, confinement on shipboard, and other causes, even before they can be brought into action. If the attempt could be achieved by numbers, those numbers would be found for so near an object, and one felt to be so important. It is probable that not a few of the militia regiments would volunteer for that service. But undoubtedly without that resource a large army might be sent on an experiment a day's journey, when it would be prudent to send a much smaller force a voyage of many weeks. The success in both cases is doubtful; but we venture to assert, that this plan is not a jot more romantic, nor on military principles much less likely to operate either for complete effect or diversion, than the project we believe now to be on hand. Besides, if successful, or even if found to be impracticable, the other might be resumed, which for this year is too late, and more than sufficiently long for the spring campaign, if indeed there be any campaign on the continent next spring. If the attempt to take Boulogne by a coup de main be practicable now, we do not think it will be so in four months hence.
We are not so absurd as to imagine however, that Boulogne is completely stripped of troops; Every man must interpret the intelligence of the breaking up of the camps at Boulogne with limitation, and understand only that the great proportion of forces is gone. What is the number of troops at Boulogne; what the strength of
the place, and the number of men requisite to defend the works by which it is protected on the land side, we cannot pretend to decide. That a considerable number remain, there is no doubt. But an attack might be so sudden that the enemy might be almost surprised; and if the forces there are small, it would be some time before reinforcements could arrive, as there are no very considerable garrisons in the neighbourhood. It is very probable, however, that the place is well garrisoned, and is not to be taken by a coup de main . However, any menace of attack which prevents troops being marched to the Rhine, or causes them to be sent back, will be a most seasonable diversion for our allies upon the continent, and particularly the Emperor of Austria.
September 15. RUSSIA.—Government proposes forming an institution at Peterburgh for the purpose of improving the navy, which is to be called the Marine Museum . The institution will not confine itself to a school. Lessons in all the sciences necessary for a sea officer will be given. The Museum will publish a Journal upon every subject that concerns the marine. There will be a library, and a collection of natural history, which will be constantly opened to the students. The establishment is to be under the direction of the Minister of the Marine, and the members are to wear an uniform like that of the Marines.
According to the last returns addressed to the minister of public instruction, there exists at present in Russia 493 institutions for education, directed by 1475 masters, and frequented by 33,444 scholars. The expense of these establishments is two millions of roubles annually. The corps of cadets, that of the pages, academy of arts, commercial schools, and the institution for the education of women, are not comprised in the above calculation. Those who are acquainted with the state of education in Russia, before the accession of Alexander I. will be able to judge by the above statement, what that monarch has done to diffuse learning throughout his vast empire. The Russian Catholics now eagerly assist his views. Different measures for the improvement of the establishments appointed for education have been ordered in an assembly convoked by the bishop of Luzk and Shitomir.
The third volume of the Biographical Dictionary of the Russian empire (in the Russian language) has at last made its appearance.
Bell's W. Mess.
FLEETS ARRIVED.
EAST-INDIA FLEET comprised 38 ships, including Whalers (upwards of 34,000 tons), about 1,000 guns, and upwards of 4,000 men.
QUEBEC FLEET consisted of, for London 12 arrived—Plymouth 2, arrived—Guernsey 1, taken—Bristol 5, 1 taken, 4 arrived—Liverpool 4, arrived—Greenock 1, arrived—Newry and Leith 1 each, not yet accounted for. Total 27.
JAMAICA FLEET—For London 84—Bristol 14—Liverpool 24—Newcastle 1—the Clyde 13—Ireland 5—Transports 3.—Total, 134. Of these, for London, 1 taken, 1 lost at Blackwall, and 2 unaccounted for;—for Bristol, 2 taken; for Liverpool, 1 taken;—for the Clyde, 1 taken;—for Ireland, 3 unaccounted for;—and 2 Transports, unaccounted for.
September 16.
Yesterday we received French and Dutch papers; the former to the 6th, the latter to the 11th inst. We can venture to assert that there are no others in London. Their contents are of great importance.
From the succeeding accounts received from the continent, we should have supposed that the indignation of Bonaparte would have manifested itself long before this, by some effort of enterprise and decision. No such thing: no hostilities have as yet taken place; and the emperor of the French, so late as the end of last month, was negotiating and remonstrating with the court of Vienna. The intelligence from Ratishon states, that on the 25th ult. a Courier passed through that city with a copy of a declaration which was to be delivered by the French ambassador at Vienna to the imperial court. The substance of this unexpected communication was officially notified to the different ministers of the diet, by M. Bacher, the French charge d'affaires; its principal contents will be found under that head.
If the declaration transmitted to Vienna be of the same character with that communicated by M. Bacher, it evinces strongly the folly and the apprehensions of Bonaparte. He, "good easy man," appears to have projected the invasion, in the perfect confidence, that Austria, and the other continental powers, would consider themselves so far bound to preserve the peace he had compelled, as to face him with perfect composure, and to suffer him to devastate and enslave this country. The movements of the Austrian troops in Italy and the Tyrol, excite in him, therefore, the greatest astonishment. He is surprised that his imperial majesty should have a disposition to take advantage of his collecting an immense force on the coast, at the expense of weakening his armies in Italy, on the Rhine, and in Switzerland. He consents to defer the conquest of England until he has called the court of Vienna to account for thus intervening between his wrath and the "execution of the great enterprise in question;" when, if he should not be able to satisfy him, "he will march with his whole force to the Rhine, for the purpose of compelling Austria to preserve the peace of the continent."
Such is the spirit of M. Bacher's communication. For what purpose Bonaparte could have called upon Austria for explanation, except with the intention of concealing any effect that the notes of the emperor of Germany, inserted in our paper of the 7th inst. might have had in France, and rendering the war more popular by a shew of moderation, is not easy to be discovered. He surely could not have expected that he would have discontinued her preparations, whether for offence or neutrality, & sent her troops back to their quarters, to allow him to prosecute, with all his heart and strength, his designs against England. The Corsican seems fully at a loss to find a plausible excuse for the war, of which his extravagant ambition is the sole cause. He appears to fear that the expedition against Austria will not be so popular as the expedition against England. If he can place the necessity of the war upon no stronger grounds than those of compelling Austria to preserve the peace of the continent, his pretext will not, we believe, kindle much enthusiasm among the hundred thousand men, who were speculating upon the partition of the sack and plunder of London.
With whatever design he has thought proper to make this strange demand of Austria, he seems to place little confidence in her answer, as he has put his armies into motion almost before it could be presented. Not only the armies from Boulogne and Holland are proceeding by rapid marches to the Rhine, but the French troops in Hanover are breaking up, and the troops are advancing to the southward. It is not improbable but that a temporary evacuation of that electorate may take place. The preparations of Bonaparte are indeed by no means so far advanced as we had reason to think they were. It was only on the 1st. inst. that the van guard of the army of England passed through Lille,
and arrived at the place of assembly. It was not understood at Lille that the Austrian troops could not pass the Rhine without committing hostilities; but it was not in those times understood by Austria, that France being then engaged in a war foreign to Austria, having withdrawn her troops from Suabia, and having arrested the movements she was making of her troops in Switzerland, should, for such marks of confidence, be wholly unopposed by precautions in ready aggression. The situation and circumstances of France are actually the same, why then should the measures of Austria be different or contrary? Why does the army sixty battalions in Tyrol and Suabia, while the armies of France are assembled far off for an expedition against England? No difference now exists between the Swiss and the Empire of Germany—none exists between Bavaria and Austria, and if faith is to be given to the Court of Vienna, none exists between her and France—From what inconceivable and unknown motives does then the court of Vienna assemble such vast armies? She can have but one plausible pretext—to keep France in a state of indecision and inaction, and to arrest her in the midst of a decisive effort—but this object can be attained but for a time—France has been deceived—she is to be deceived no more—she has been forced to defer her enterprise—she defers it yet—she waits the effect of her own reclamations—she waits the event of those of the Germanic Body—But when every thing shall be vainly tried to bring Austria to the alternative of sincere peace or open enmity, the Emperor of the French will fulfil the duties imposed on him by his dignity and his force, and will carry his arms wherever France has been menaced.—Providence has clothed him with sufficient power to combat England with one hand, and to defend with the other the honor of his standards and the rights of his allies.
"If the Diet shall adopt the plan, the undersigned has orders to propose, if it shall successfully represent to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the true situation in which the continent is placed, by movements made, perhaps, with too little reflection—perhaps without intentional hostility, and the effect only of foreign suggestion—if it shall succeed in persuading this Sovereign, who is personally humane and just, that he has no enemies, that his frontiers are not threatened—that France, if she desired any thing beyond what was settled at Campo Formio and Lunéville, has been twice in a situation to have deprived him of half of his hereditary states—that by his measures and arrangements, although not fully developed, France is arrested in the middle of her course and he is made to intermeddle without profit to his states, or honor to his policy, in a quarrel wholly uninteresting to himself. If the Diet shall do this, it will then deserve well of Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, and of all Europe—with the exception of one nation, only, the avowed enemy of all peace and tranquility; a nation which has built its prosperity on the hopes and projects ardently and perseveringly pursued to exterminate the discord, the troubles and divisions of the continent."
(Signed) BACHER.
(Official Journal.)
TRANSLATED FOR THE HERALD.
DECLARATION OF THE COURT OF FRANCE.
PARIS, 24 Fructidor, (12th Sept.)
Mr. Bacher, Chargé d'Affaires, of his Majesty at Ratishon, received the beginning of this month an order to present the following Note to the Diet:
"In the present situation of affairs, while the preparations and movements of the house of Austria menaced the continent with a new war, his Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, deems it proper by an open and solemn declaration, to expose to the world the sentiments by which he has been influenced, and that continue to influence him, that his contemporaries and posterity even, may be able to judge fairly, (in the event of a new war) which party was the aggressor. It is in this view that the undersigned, Chargé d'Affaires of his Majesty the Emperor of the French to the Diet of Germany, has received orders to make a faithful exposition of the principles that have invariably guided the conduct of his Majesty in relation to Austria. All that this power has effected contrary to the spirit and the letter of the late treaties, his Majesty has suffered—he has not exclaimed against the inmoderate extension given to the rights of alienation against the acquisition of Landau, and so many others in Suabia, and which posterior to the treaty of Lunéville, have materially changed the relative situation of the states bordering on the south of Germany—against those, indeed, which at this moment are negotiating with different Princes in the view of all Germany—he has feigned to be ignorant that the debt of Venice, was not only unpaid, but declared to be null, notwithstanding the express stipulations of the treaties of Campo Formio and Lunéville—he has been silent with regard to the denial of justice experienced by the subjects of Milan, and Mantua, at Vienna, where in violation of the most formal agreements, none of them have been paid—he has been silent also on the partiality with which Austria has acknowledged the terrible right of blockade which England proudly arrogated to itself, and when the Austrian flag so often abused and dishonoured, to the detriment of France, produced no complaint or representation from the Court of Vienna to the English government: he made a further sacrifice to his love of peace—by his silence."
"The Emperor has evacuated Switzerland, rendered tranquil and happy by his act of mediation—he has left in Italy, only the number of troops indispensable necessary to sustain the positions which it becomes him to occupy at the extremity of the peninsula in the view of protecting the Levant trade, and to insure an object of compensation that might induce England to evacuate Malta, and Russia to leave Corfu; he has left on the Rhine and in the interior of his empire, the number of troops absolutely and indispensably requisite for the safeguard of the ports only—Occupied altogether, with the operations of a war which he did not provoke, that he sustains as much for the interest of all Europe as for his own, and in which his principal end, is the re-establishment of a commercial equilibrium, and the equal rights of all nations on the seas, he has collected all his forces on the borders of the ocean, far from the Austrian frontiers—he has employed all the resources of his empire in constructing fleets, forming seamen, and deeping ports, and it is in the very moment when he reposes with entire confidence on the execution of treaties which re-established the peace of the continent, that Austria, starting from her attitude of repose, places her forces on a war establishment—sends one army to her Italian states, and places another still more numerous in Tyrol—at this moment levies of horses are made, magazines formed, alarming to the people of Bavaria, Suabia, and Switzerland, and thus declaring the intention of making a diversion more favorable to England, and more perniciously hostile to France, than any open campaign or declared war. In such serious circumstances he has thought it his duty to endeavour by every proper and possible means to recall the Court of Vienna to a sense of its true interest. Every attempt that an ardent love of peace could suggest has been repeatedly and urgently made. The Court of Vienna has loudly declared her respect for the treaties that unite her to France, but her military preparations have developed themselves with an active celerity, that increased in proportion as her declarations became more and more pacific—Austria has declared that she has no intentions hostile to the states of his Majesty the Emperor of the French—Again whom then does she direct these preparations?—Are they against the Swiss?—Are they against Bavaria?—Or are they against the German Empire itself?"
"The Emperor of the French has charged the undersigned to make it known, that he will consider the first aggression made against the "Corps Germanique," and especially against Bavaria, as a formal declaration of war against France. His Majesty, the Emperor of the French, will never separate the interests of his empire from those of the German Princes attached to him—from the dangers that menace them, the evils that may reach them, are the constant object of his solicitude and reflection. Persuaded that the Princes and States of the Empire are penetrated with similar sentiments, the undersigned, in the name of the Emperor of the French, engages the Diet to unite with him, and to press the Emperor of Austria, by every consideration of justice and reason, to expose no longer the present generation to incalculable ills, to spare the blood of multitudes destined to perish, victims of a war, which is so wholly foreign to Germany, that in the moment even, when it is ready to break forth, the end or the aim of it is an object of doubtful research—for the true motives cannot, dare not, be avowed. The alarms of the continent cannot be tranquillized until the Emperor of Austria, yielding to the just representations of Germany, shall give his hostile attitude, shall place in Tyrol and Suabia troops only sufficient for the protection of the coun-
try, and reduced to the limits of a peace establishment. "Was it not understood at the Convention at Lille, that the Austrian troops could not pass the Rhine without committing hostilities? Was it not in those times understood by Austria, that France being then engaged in a war foreign to Austria, having withdrawn her troops from Suabia, and having arrested the movements she was making of her troops in Switzerland, should, for such marks of confidence, be wholly unopposed by precautions in ready aggression? The situation and circumstances of France are actually the same, why then should the measures of Austria be different or contrary? Why does the army sixty battalions in Tyrol and Suabia, while the armies of France are assembled far off for an expedition against England? No difference now exists between the Swiss and the Empire of Germany—none exists between Bavaria and Austria, and if faith is to be given to the Court of Vienna, none exists between her and France—From what inconceivable and unknown motives does then the court of Vienna assemble such vast armies? She can have but one plausible pretext—to keep France in a state of indecision and inaction, and to arrest her in the midst of a decisive effort—but this object can be attained but for a time—France has been deceived—she is to be deceived no more—she has been forced to defer her enterprise—she defers it yet—she waits the effect of her own reclamations—she waits the event of those of the Germanic Body—But when every thing shall be vainly tried to bring Austria to the alternative of sincere peace or open enmity, the Emperor of the French will fulfil the duties imposed on him by his dignity and his force, and will carry his arms wherever France has been menaced.—Providence has clothed him with sufficient power to combat England with one hand, and to defend with the other the honor of his standards and the rights of his allies."
"If the Diet shall adopt the plan, the undersigned has orders to propose, if it shall successfully represent to his Majesty the Emperor of Austria, the true situation in which the continent is placed, by movements made, perhaps, with too little reflection—perhaps without intentional hostility, and the effect only of foreign suggestion—if it shall succeed in persuading this Sovereign, who is personally humane and just, that he has no enemies, that his frontiers are not threatened—that France, if she desired any thing beyond what was settled at Campo Formio and Lunéville, has been twice in a situation to have deprived him of half of his hereditary states—that by his measures and arrangements, although not fully developed, France is arrested in the middle of her course and he is made to intermeddle without profit to his states, or honor to his policy, in a quarrel wholly uninteresting to himself. If the Diet shall do this, it will then deserve well of Germany, Switzerland, Italy, France, and of all Europe—with the exception of one nation, only, the avowed enemy of all peace and tranquility; a nation which has built its prosperity on the hopes and projects ardently and perseveringly pursued to exterminate the discord, the troubles and divisions of the continent."
(Signed) BACHER.
(Official Journal.)
Meanwhile this document has made a strong impression on the members of the Diet. The imperial commissary has communicated to some of the Envoys, the declaration which was sent by the court of Vienna to the court of Paris, Peterburgh, London, Berlin, &c.
TRANSLATED FOR THE ENQUIRER, FROM THE PARIS MONITEUR OF THE 10TH SEPTEMBER.
SENAT-CONSERVATEUR.
Extra from the Register of the Senat-Conservateur of Monday, 22 Fructidor, year 13.
The Senat-Conservateur assembled to the number prescribed by the 15th Art. of the constitution of 22d Frimaire, year 8.
After having seen the Senatus-Consultum, reduced to the form prescribed by the 5th Art. of the 16th Thermidor, year 10:
After having heard the reasons of the said project, assigned by the orators of the government and the report of the special commission named during the session of the 15th of the present month, makes the following decree:
Art. 1st. After the 1st of next Nivose (1st of January, 1806) the Gregorian Calendar shall be introduced into use throughout the French Empire.
Art. 2d. The present Senatus-Consultum, shall be transmitted by message to his Imperial Majesty.
The President and Secretaries. Signed, FRANCOIS-NEUFCHATEAU, President. COLAND PORCHER, Secretaries. Examined and sealed
the Chancellor of the Senate, Signed, LA PLACE. Reasons of the Senatus-Consultum presented to the Conservative Senate during the session of the 15th Fructidor, by Mr. Regnaud (de St. Jean d'Angely) and Mounier, orators of the government. Gentlemen,
All the changes, all the reforms, which policy has approved after genius has conceived them; which our manners have fashioned after the laws have consecrated them; which foreign nations shall begin envying; and shall ultimately borrow from the French nation; are and always shall be maintained by the administration and strongly protected by the government.
Such is, for example, the establishment of new weights and measures, which the unanimous opinion of the learned; the unchangeable foundation of their labour, the nature of that foundation itself, which is common to all nations, the advantages of such a division for purposes of calculation, in the want of a uniformity throughout the empire, and sooner or later the want of this uniformity throughout the world, shall eternally preserve in opposition to routine, to obsolescence, and to ignorance.
But amidst these establishments whose usefulness has been denied, whose possibility of improvement has been disputed; whose advantages have remained doubtful; there is none which has experienced greater controversy, an opposition more stubborn than the new Calendar decreed on the 5th October, 1793, and regulated by the law of 1st Frimaire, year 2.
It was contrived for the purpose of giving to the French people a Calendar purely civil, and which not being controuled by the discipline of any one sect, could be equally adapted to the whole.
However when the first idea of the Decade division (week of ten days) was proposed in the name of the committee of public instruction of the convention to a committee of geometers and astronomers belonging to the academy of sciences, that innovation was unanimously disapproved of and opposed by reasons which it is useless to repeat, since the division of weeks has been already established, and since the opposition of the learned, was founded upon the difficulty and the inconvenience of its suppression.
This substitution of the week in place of the Decade has already caused the French Calendar to lose one of its most common advantages: that is to say, the constant correspondence between the date of the month, and that of the Decade. In fact, the number 7 being neither the divisor of the number of days in the month, nor of the year, it is impossible, in the French Calendar which in that respect resembles all the rest, to establish any convenient rule for finding the day of the month by the day of the week, or the day of the week by that of the month.
Notwithstanding this, the advantages which are yet attached to the French Calendar, are not always to be despised: the uniform length of the month constantly composed of 30 days; the seasons which begin with the months; and the names of the month familiar in their final sounds and expressive of every season to which it belongs; are simple and convenient ideas, which would continually give to the French Calendar an incontestable preference over the Roman Calendar, if both Calendars had been proposed this day for the first time; or what is more correct, if one would dare at the present time to propose the Roman Calendar, had it not previously been introduced into use.
The French Calendar exhibits a wise and regular division, founded upon an exact knowledge of the

year and the course of the sun, which the Roman Calendar exhibits without any order some months 29, 30, and 31 days long, some months which are shared among the different seasons; in fine, it fixes the beginning of the year not at an Equinox or a Solstice, but 9 or 10 days after the winter Solstice. In these whimsical institutions, we see the impressions of that superstition and those errors which have successively embarrassed and even directed the successive reformers of the Calendar of Numa, of Julius Cæsar, and Gregory 13.
February, for example, has no more than 28 days, that nothing might be added to the length of one of the months consecrated to manes and expiations; and it was for other reasons equally frivolous that Numa has made all the other months even in the number of their days.
It was from a respect to these prejudices, and from a wish not to alter particular festivals, that Julius Cæsar, in correcting the length of the solar year, did not touch at all the month of February, which circumstance gave 7 days to be distributed among the other 11 months; and from this circumstance too arose the necessity of having several successive months 30 days long, such as July and August, December and January.
Finally it was because the council of Nice was ignorant of the true length of the year and that the equinox came each year sooner according to the Julian Calendar, that it established a rule for the celebration of Easter, which became impracticable from the gradual loss of time; and it was from the importance, which Gregory the 13th attached to an uninterrupted execution of the canon of the council relative to the feast of Easter, that he undertook his own reformation.
All these imperfections of the Calendar, are to be attributed to the commencement of it at a time, when from the ignorance of the solar year, they were forced to irregularize themselves by the moon, & because, when they had obtained a less inaccurate knowledge of the course of the sun, they were unwilling entirely to renounce the lunar year, from the fear of deranging the order of the festivals, that had been primarily regulated by the moon.
Nothing is more plain than the civil year, which has been for a long time adapted to the sun; nothing is more usefully complicated than the ecclesiastical year, which is partly lunar and partly solar.
We do not pretend that the French Calendar is itself exempted from every kind of reproach, nor that it has all that desirable perfection, which would have been so easy to have imparted to it, had it been the work of tranquil reason.
It has two essential defects: The first and most important is the rule laid down for the Sexiles, which are made to depend upon the true and irregular course of the sun, instead of being placed at invariable intervals. It is one consequence of this arrangement, that no person without being something of an astronomer is able to know exactly the number of days which he ought to allow to each year; and that all the astronomers combined together will under certain circumstances be puzzled to determine at what day a particular year commences, a thing which takes place when the equinox happens near midnight.
Besides there is no instrument, and no means sufficiently precise for removing the doubt, which may arise under these circumstances; the division must depend upon knowing those astronomical tables to which we should give the preference and these tables are continually changing.
This defect though little felt by our cotemporaries is productive of the most important consequences upon chronology, but it may at any time be corrected with facility, as it will be only necessary for us to abolish the 11th art. of the law which regulates this Calendar, and to direct that in commencing the year 16, the Sexiles shall succeed each other every 4 years, and the secular year, every 400 years.
This amendment, which has been demanded by mathematicians and astronomers, was embraced by Rome, one of the principal authors of the Calendar: he made it the subject of a report and the basis of a law, which was printed and distributed on the very day of his death, and which was prevented by this incident alone from coming before the convention.
But the most important defect of the French Calendar is the epoch which it assigns for the commencement of the year. To give as little shock as possible to our customs and received usages, it would have been proper to have fixed it at the winter solstice, or what was equally fit, at the vernal equinox: that is to say, at the period when the sun passes through a point from which all the astronomers of all ages and countries have begun to calculate the motions of the heavens.
But they have preferred the autumnal equinox, because they wished to perpetuate the remembrance of a revolution, which has disturbed the whole of Europe; which far from having obtained the approbation of all Frenchmen, has been distinguished by our internal dissensions; and it is from the commencement of this new Calendar that we have at the same moment to date the glory of our camps and the misfortunes of our cities.
Besides there was nothing more than this wanting to cause this Calendar to be for ever rejected by every rival nation and even by a part of the French nation itself.
It was a strong objection which they urged at the time, but which they urged in vain upon the authors of the Calendar: "You are animated by the ambition of one day persuading all the people of the earth to adopt your system of weights and measures, and for this purpose you appeal to their self-love. In that system there is nothing which compels us to perceive that it is the work of Frenchmen: you have made choice of a standard, which is equally applicable to every nation."
"Well! there exists in Europe and in America one universal measure, which should not belong to one nation more than to another, and in which all or almost all, are agreed: It is the measure of time and yet you wish to destroy it: In place of it, you wish to substitute an era which originates in a particular epoch of your own history; an epoch on which the present time has not yet passed its verdict; and on which future ages alone will be able to pronounce."
"The French nation itself, added they, divided as it is in opinion upon the institution which you are anxious to confer, will resist the establishment of your Calendar. It will be rejected by every people, who will cease to understand you, and whom you will no longer understand, unless you have two Calendars at the same time in use; a situation which would be far more inconvenient than having one alone, even if that was more defective than your new Calendar."
This prediction, Gentlemen, is accomplished, you have in fact two Calendars in France. The French Calendar has not been employed in any other form than in the acts of the government, or in those civil transactions of a public or private nature which are regulated by the laws: whilst in all the other relations of society, the Roman Calendar has continued in use: In the religious order, it is necessarily followed, and a double date is thus constantly employed.
(To be continued.)
Domestic Intelligence.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
What would England say to an imposition of heavy duties on all her manufactured fabrics, the want of which we could supply in other markets?—What would she say to refusing permission to any of her ships to enter our harbors?—What would she say to withholding all supplies from her islands?—What would she say to an embargo?—What would she say to a prohibition of all intercourse?
invade any of our rights. The next is a new Congress. Its members may therefore be expected unequivocally to speak the language of the people. Pacific as is the disposition of America, it may be that the storm will burst before foreign nations are aware of it. But let them recollect that the thunder has long rolled at a distance; that they were long since warned of the danger of awakening the Lyon. Let them recollect that at the last session, on the 2nd of March, the following resolutions were adopted by the Senate.
"Resolved, That the secretary of state be directed to lay before this House, at the next meeting of Congress, such laws of Great Britain, as impose any higher or greater duties on the exportation of goods, wares, and merchandise, when exported to the nations of Europe; and also to report the amount in sterling money, of the exports to the United States, from Great Britain and Ireland, for the years 1802, 1803, and 1804, on which such duties are charged."
"Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be directed to report to this House, at the next meeting of Congress, a statement, showing the value (agreed to the prime cost) in sterling money, of Irish linen, and all other manufactures of linen, of sail duck, nails, hats, looking glasses, plated and glass wares, ribbons, silk of all kinds, printed linen and cotton; and the quantity of British salt and rum, imported into the United States, from Great Britain and her dependencies, during the years 1802, 1803, and 1804; and also the value of linen imported into the United States from all other foreign nations."
During the ensuing session these reports will be made. Will they not furnish the materials for a just and honorable retaliation?
The Chinese and English.—What would a Chinese mandarin of state say to a British ambassador, pretending to give him and his country a lesson or quotation from the law of nations in justification of the capture of Chinese vessels. Surely he would think the ambassador was in jest, and unquestionably he would answer to this effect: "I do not know what you mean by this language—My country cannot be bound by these writings; who the authors are I know not—We are not parties to the compact. Shew me a Chinese signature to the agreement, and this will have some weight in my mind. You tell me you have a right to capture a Chinese junk because she has a few boxes of Japan ware on board, and you pretend that we shall not trade to the islands of Japan, because your ships are not admitted to the same privilege. To this doctrine the people of China cannot and never will consent. Our junks have always traded with Japan, and we will not abandon the trade. I know nothing of your orders of council and courts of admiralty; I know only that China is a respectable neutral power, and that our junks are entitled to pass freely to Japan, to Luzona, Batavia, and to Cochin China: and I tell you, Mr. Ambassador, and I with you to tell your master, that your ships shall no longer come to Canton to load tea and silks and musketeers, and sell English merchandise, if you persist in detaining the vessels of China, because they carry on a commerce with your enemies, who are our friends—we can live without your trade better than you can live without ours. Now act your own pleasure—Write to your court, if you please, and tell your master and his head men, that we give you twelve months to consider on this matter, and if a favourable answer is not received in that time, you shall be ordered to depart the country. We want to live in peace with you, but it must be an honorable not a disgraceful peace to us." Such language would no doubt be used, and it would ennoble the speaker, and add dignity and renown to the Chinese government who authorised it; and if adhered to, we should soon see the Chinese junks sail in perfect safety, loaded with all sorts of goods in conformity to ancient usage, and the English ships would continue to carry on a profitable branch of trade to China; as in past time—The common reader will draw his own conclusions. (Salem Reg.)
To the Editor of the Baltimore Telegraph.
SIR, The time appointed for my execution being near at hand, before my departure I wish to return my most grateful acknowledgements to the citizens of Baltimore, for their joint petitions and efforts to save life—The humanity they have manifested to a stranger, a prisoner, and poor condemned criminal, may evince to the world their noble principles: and may God the only Judge of the universe, reward them for their humanity.
Those of the Clergy of different professions and numbers of professors also, I humbly thank for their visits, prayers, and solicitude for my eternal salvation, I hope the God they serve, will amply reward them at the great day of retribution, for all the pains they have taken—As their general meeting in different churches is on this day, to return their thanks to God for his mercies in preventing the fever from raging in this city, and as it appears to be the last time they may ever have an opportunity of remembering the stranger that is within their gates, I would fain request the prayers of every church, that God may receive my soul, that must the day following, be launched into eternity.
The dying, O. WILLIAMS, alias J. W. THOMPSON.
BALTIMORE, November 8.
Obediah Williams, alias W. Thompson, some time confined in prison for various offences, and condemned to suffer death this day, was brought under the gallows before an immense concourse of people, who had assembled on the occasion. About five minutes before he was to be launched into eternity, an order arrived from the governor, commuting his punishment to 15 years hard labour on the roads. (Fed. Gaz.)
NASSAU, (N. P.) October 15.
The ship Serpent, Hayes, and Schooner Swannarrow, Fresh, both from Baltimore, bound to Martinique and Guadalupe, had been captured on the 27th of July, by his majesty's ship Hippomenes, E. Woolcombe, esq. commander, and sent into St. John's (Antigua) for adjudication. The trial came on the 11th of August; Schooner and cargo, viz. a Mr. Bacon's shipment, were condemned, upon the principles that no British born subject is allowed to throw off his allegiance to the crown of Great Britain, and that though he may have resided for 30 years in the United States of America, his property found going to supply enemies of England in time of war is liable to condemnation.
DECREE, regulating the trade of the Haytian Empire.
IMPERIAL DECREE. JACQUES I. EMPEROR OF HAYTI. Commander in chief of the armies, by the grace of God, and constitutional law of the state.
Desirous to dispense equally and without discrimination, the favors of the government, and to secure to the authorised consignees, (and this without respect to private interests, or particular privileges) the benefits resulting from the imperial decrees, August 1, present year:
Decrees, as follows, to be executed throughout the whole extent of the empire:—
Article 1. All authorized commercial houses for receiving consignments shall have and exercise equal and similar rights, agreeably to the favor granted by the abovementioned law. 2. Consequently, according to the principle of the preceding article, each consignee shall be permitted in his turn, and following the order of the number affixed to his commission, to sell and have the responsibility of foreign vessels. 3. This distribution shall be calculated so that no authorized consignee, however favored, or whatever his claims shall receive a number of vessels exceeding those received by other consignees. 4. According to the preceding article, each merchant already commissioned, is required to present his patent to the Secretary General of the government, who will impart to it the requisite formality.
Done at the imperial palace, Sept. 6.
DESSALINES.
Disceallany.
A CURIOUS FACT.
For the Speculation of Philosophic and Meteoric Genius. Many conjectures have been made as to the natural cause of the Aurora Borealis. Some have conjectured that its cause might be volcanoes or burning mountains in the northern regions; some that it might be caused by the reflection of the light of the sun from the regions of ice towards the northern pole; but more probably, that it is effected by some mysterious operation of the electric fluid—any how, the following may be relied on as a fact.—On Sunday evening last, we apprehend between 7 and 8 o'clock in the evening, from the windows of the Rev. Mr. Grol's house, Hartford, Vt. we noticed the Aurora Borealis; the bottom of it elevated but a few degrees above the horizon, lay in a regular line, and very bright, and not much wider than the rainbow; above that, in several places streams shot up towards the zenith as usual. We had not viewed it long before we observed that the eastern part of it had settled so low as actually to be between us and the high lands on the north side of White River, the height at the distance from us perhaps of about one mile and a half.
The meteor, we apprehend, must be nearly perpendicular to White River, and distant perhaps about half of a mile. It would have gratified our curiosity, could some of us have been on the height beyond the river, and the luminous meteor rather appeared to be intermingled in the air.
ISAAC PORTER, THOMAS GROSS, and IGNATUS THOMPSON. Han. Gaz.
AMONG the many pieces to be seen at the royal academy of painting in London, is a performance of a son of the famous Mr. West, exhibiting a view of the Devil, as described by Milton. The pious and pious Peter Pindar once examining this picture, and not finding in it all the graces of the pencil of Raphael, or, perhaps, the perfection which he expected, took his pen, and wrote at the bottom the following inscription:—
"Say, Mr. West, is this the Prince of Evil? 'Tis a d—d thing, be sure—but not the DEVIL!"
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 15th NOVEMBER.
GENERAL WILLIAM EATON.
This brave and meritorious American has been among us. He arrived in Hampton Roads on the 10th inst. in the United States Transport Franklin, in 46 days from Gibraltar. He reached this city on Tuesday evening in the Norfolk stage, on his way to the North. The public sentiment, which had been awakened by the delivery of our countrymen and the appearance of Bainbridge among us, would have had time enough to expire, had the events themselves been of a slight and transitory nature: but their consequences were too important to be immediately forgotten, & there was still enough of the public feeling left, to give the principal hero of the tale, a warm and joyous reception. His arrival was soon and rapidly spread: his countenance, the dimensions of his person, the wound in his wrist, the spirit of his conversation, became the topics of remark: & almost every one was anxious to see or to tell of the appearance of Eaton. The public curiosity as on most other occasions, was even fulsome in its enquiries; but the interest which he excited, and the attentions which he received from our most respectable citizens, are at least sufficient demonstrations that his countrymen are neither ignorant of his services nor indifferent to his merits. Let no man pretend to chaunt forth the ingratitude of republics! Where public services are rendered from meritorious motives, the public bosom will always receive a corresponding impression. The very equality which that form of government produces in the fashion and manners of the people, surrounds the inequality of talents and services with additional attraction. Though merit should adorn the brow of a monarch or an aristocrat, there is a form and reserve imposed upon him by his situation, which keeps him at a distance from the multitude. The spirit of admiration which they feel for his services, is neither animated nor softened by a friendship for his person; but the congratulation of a republican people, though less showy, is more sincere: though it appears less in exterior it springs more from the heart. The benefactor of his country mixes with the people, and participates in their manners and their amusements. He receives the tribute of respect, but not the homage of adulation. He receives all that is belonging to him and scarcely any thing more. If General Eaton is indeed contented with possessing the respect of his countrymen, his largest ambition must be satisfied. Though he has not received that enthusiastic respect which is due to the man who penned the declaration of American independence, or to him who gave it its last seal at the siege of York, he has at least received the gratitude which is due to the man of enterprise, who put to sleep the Turkish jealousy in Egypt, passed over the Lybian Desert, mastered the fortifications of Derne with an inconsiderable army, overthrew the troops of the Bashaw of Tripoli, and contributed to give freedom to 300 American prisoners. Gen. Eaton has been thus received among us, and there can be no doubt that he will meet with the same reception throughout the union, without any distinction of principles or parties.
The appearance of Gen. Eaton is considerably in his favour. His person is of the middling order, but erect and dignified. His countenance is animated, good-humoured, expressive more of enterprising project than deep research. His eye is brilliant and full of fire. In conversation, his conceptions are quick, his style eloquent and laconic. His mind and manners are evidently those of a man who, having gone thro' some extraordinary scenes, is energized and new-furnishing by the difficulties, which he has encountered. Those who knew him in the army of the U. S. are surprised at the intellectual energy which he now displays. They seem to think that the new countries which he has visited, and the unexpected difficulties which they have presented, have had no other effect than awakening the genius which had hitherto slumbered, and adding a new life to the faculties of his mind. In some respects he resembles the energetic but unfortunate General Littlepage of Virginia: possessing much of his enterprising spirit, though without the acuteness and erudition of his literary genius.
What is hereafter to be the destination and residence of this much-talked-of American, we have as yet had no opportunities of discovering. He came in the U. States' Transport in preference to the Congress, that he might not be eclipsed by the splendor nor honoured by the company of the Tunisian ambassador. We understand he has brought with him three fine Arabian horses: one of them a mare, 15 hands high: of a size, far exceeding the general standard of the horses of Arabia.
On the subject of Tripolitan affairs, general Eaton preserves a marked and decorous silence. He declares, however, that he had no powers to treat with the Bashaw of Tripoli; and he contradicts the ridiculous and invidious tale, which was cooked up by one of the federal prints of Boston; that Col. Lear had been prompted to conclude a rash and premature treaty, through a jealous apprehension lest the Bashaw should appeal to the superior generosity of gen. Eaton, and left he should run away with all the honours of the pacification. Col. Lear is said to have concluded the treaty, from a fear lest the Bashaw should execute his threats of putting to death the American captives. If such was really his inducement, the conduct of Col. Lear certainly needs no other justification. The loss of three hundred Americans is not surely to be put into competition with a ransom of 60,000 dollars; and even the risk and danger of such a catastrophe ought not to have been encountered for so small a sum. Had Col. Lear waved the negotiation, until the gallant Eaton had ransomed our prisoners with the sword, our triumph would have been much more glorious; but it would have been an indelible disgrace upon the annals of our nation, had the lives of so many men been sacrificed through a misguided economy.
With respect to the Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli, Gen. Eaton has merely informed the editor, that he left him at Syracuse in Sicily, & that he had no intention of visiting this country.
As Gen. Eaton left Gibraltar about the 28th of September, it may be supposed that he has brought some recent and perhaps important intelligence from the Mediterranean. The information which he has given us on this subject, is in fact not without its interest. The most interesting and the most authentic is the event which we find announced in the following letter from Mr. Mountford, secretary of Mr. Lear and now our charge d'affaires at Algiers; for the copy of which we are indebted to the politeness of Gen. Eaton.
COPY. Algiers, September 9, 1805.
SIR, I have only a few moments to inform you, our affairs here are well. On the 30th ult. the soldiers rose in a body and murdered the Dey and his prime minister. A new Dey was immediately elected, and not a life was lost except the above mentioned. I forbear to detain the Nautilus, having nothing very urgent to communicate. I have the honor to be, &c. (Signed) J. MOUNTFORD, Charge d'affairs, at Algiers.
Capt. CAMPBELL. In our paper of the 4th of Oct. we have already detailed the causes and the calamities of the first insurrection at Algiers on the 29th of June. The Paris Moniteur of the 2nd Sept. continues the same miserable record of carnage and rapine down to the 27th of July. It gives the most afflicting picture of the murder and the robbery of the unfortunate Jews. "The general massacre of the Jews, fays that paper, gave only the women and children, was principally conducted by the soldiers. They were assisted by the barbarous populace of the city: they were animated by the joyous shouts of the women, more hideous than the furies, who were scattered over the terraces and the streets. Fortunately it was Saturday, the holiday of the Jews, when a very small number was to be seen in the streets. On many occasions however the soldiers broke into their houses, but the riches which offered themselves to their view, were the favours of the Hebrew tribe: they abandoned the carnage to give themselves up to pillage." The Moniteur adds that the assassin of Bushah, after he had received the chapel of pardon, & obtained permission to leave the country, had taken refuge in the English pavilion, and that a few days after he was dispatched by the English consul to Gibraltar and some said to London. Every thing in fact announced the disolution of order, the reign of an infuriated soldiery, the massacre of the Turks by the Moors, and the downfall of the Dey. The intelligence which is now brought by gen. Eaton, confirms these forebodings and announces the catastrophe of the insurrection. The description which Mr. Eaton gave us of the causes and consequences of this tragic event, was uncommonly bold, appropriate and picturesque.
The dialogue between the captain and the Mussi was given in the highest style of the Drama. His technical accuracy, it is enough for us to admire, but we shall scarcely presume to imitate. He said:
"That the Dey had rendered himself unpopular at Algiers, by the peace and feebleness of his administration. His cruelties were idle in the port; the country was disturbed by the dissensions of a fanatic, who had visited Mecca; and the city was deprived of its customary supplies. The soldiers at length broke out into open rebellion, and placed at their head a celebrated captain of Algiers, who had distinguished himself by the capture of a Portuguese ship. They remonstrated with the Dey, and commanded him to leave the throne. To leave the throne in that country is the same as losing his head. The Dey expostulated and resisted. But the soldiers were obstinate, and the unfortunate Dey was forced to yield to their importunity. "I care nothing (said he, addressing himself to the insurgents in the hall of audience) about the destiny which awaits me. I shall die contented. It is what many a younger and better man than myself has done before me. I ought in fact to rejoice that I have lived to see my present length of days. But I feel for my family; my children. "You know, cried they, into whose hands they will fall." The Dey dismounted from his throne, and attended by his prime minister, approached the door of the Hall, when they were immediately cut to pieces. The regency was now offered to the captain; but he prudently refused the dangerous honour. He told them that he was not at all versed in the foreign relations of Algiers; nor did he know enough of the civil law to direct the administration of justice: The present disturbances had arisen partly from religion, and it was but proper that the reins of government should be put into the hands of the Mussi. "As for my part, said the wary Mussi to the messengers who invited him to the throne, my thoughts are fixed upon another world. It is my office to persuade and instruct, but not to command the people." But the soldiers were once more obstinate in their resolution, and the Mussi was conducted to the palace of the Dey. "Is it not much more becoming you, said the elected Dey to the captain of the insurrection, to direct the affairs of the government? You have an arm." True, said the captain, but you have a head. The head is more powerful than the arm; because it directs it." At length this curious and singular contention was put an end to by a compromise, which attached them both to the administration. The Mussi was henceforth to be the Dey, and the captain was to be placed at the head of the army. It is the opinion of general Eaton, that this important revolution will render the regency of Algiers
more moderate in its administration. All the Dey's have been hitherto taken from the soldiers, and not from the priests. It is no doubt a fact universally admitted, that all superstitious establishments, whilst they debase the spirit, have often contributed to soften the ferocity of their votaries.
With respect to our relations with Spain, Gen. Eaton is unable to give us any information.
It is believed, in the best informed circles of Gibraltar, that a war on the continent was inevitable.
Whilst at Gibraltar, he had the curiosity to review the Spanish encampments in the neighbourhood, with an excellent spy-glass. They appeared to him more like lying camps, than regular encampments. They had no heavy artillery, and it seemed to be a romantic conjecture, that they had any design of attacking Gibraltar.
Lord Nelson was said to have arrived before Cadiz, to reinforce the blockading squadron under Cullingwood and Calder.
A squadron was fitting out at Malta, supposed by some to be destined to Egypt, and by others to Sicily. It was his own opinion, that the next intelligence which should arrive from that quarter of the Mediterranean, would announce the invasion of Sicily.
A squadron of 160 British transports conveyed by 15 men of war was reported to have left Madeira about the 6th or 8th of October. They completely unknown. Some supposed they were bound to the W. Indies, and others to the Cape of Good Hope. If we are not mistaken, Gen. Eaton observed that the Raisonable, whose crew is so honourably spoken of in the following letter, was one of the convoy:
COPY.
SIR, Allow me as a son of the United States of America in this island, to have the honour of assuring you and the officers of His Britannic Majesty's ship Raisonable, of the high sense entertained by me of their exertions, on the night of the 8th inst. in saving the lives of the crew of the ship Octavia, of New-York, with her valuable cargo from being destroyed by the flames, which, but from their prompt, zealous and humane assistance, must have inevitably been the case.
Impressed with these sentiments, Sir, I will not fail conveying them by the earliest means in my power to the President of the United States, and to the parties concerned, as well as every particular, of a service so truly honourable and meritorious.
Notwithstanding my earnest desire to compensate in some measure the exertions of the seamen belonging to his Britannic Majesty's ship, still as the proceeds of the sales are held in the hands of the officers of the Custom House; berixw whom, and the civil judge there has arisen a dispute in respect to the right of the sale, prevents my touching any part of the property until the decision is given, or powers forwarded by the underwriters to whom I shall certainly represent the right of a compensation adequate to the service rendered.
Permit me to have the honour of subscribing myself with every sentiment of consideration and great respect.
Your most ob't, humble servant, JAMES RAWLEY, Esquire, Commander of His Britannic Majesty's ship Raisonable. Tuncial Roads, Sept. 23d, 1805.
COPY.
SIR, I have the honour of acknowledging the receipt of your letter, communicating to myself and the officers of His Majesty's ship Raisonable, under my command, your thanks for the assistance we were so fortunate as to afford the ship Octavia, of New-York, when on fire on the night of the 8th inst.
I beg leave in my own name, and for the officers of the Raisonable, to express our sense of the very handsome manner in which you have conveyed your sentiments on the occasion, and to assure you that we feel every satisfaction in the success of our endeavours to preserve a ship bearing the flag of the United States of America.
I request, Sir, that you will accept an assurance of the consideration, with which I remain,
Your very obedient, Humble servant, JAMES RAWLEY.
(Signed) MARSH LAMAN, Esquire, Consul of the U. States of America, &c. &c.
The following copy of a sentence of condemnation is also from the hands of Gen. Eaton:
Sir Wm. Scott pronounced nearly the following judgment on the Roverne, taken off Dunkirk, by the Griffin cutter, from America to Antwerp. "The cargo of this ship is colonial produce from Martinique, and although landed in America, and without our doubt belonging to some subject of that Nation, and duties were paid thereon, as on articles imported into that country; also, afterwards re-shipped, from thence to the port of a Belligerent power in Europe. I shall hold the continuity of the original shipment, to be so fully preserved, that the mere chicanery of the neutral shall not avail in saving him from the sentence of confiscation on ship and cargo." August 12, 1805.
Louisiana County Court, October 14th, 1805. Joshua Morris, Plaintiff. Against Ruth Nutt, & Stephen Perkins, Defendants.
By Wm. Lomax. THE defendant Ruth Nutt not having entered his appearance, and given security according to law, and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not in contempt of this court. Therefore, on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney; It is ordered and decreed by the court, that he appear here on the second Monday in January next, and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some of the newspapers, printed in the city of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of this court house on some court day.
A Copy. Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, C. C. C. November 15. (F2m.)
Louisiana County Court, October 14th, 1805. Nathan D. Anderson, plaintiff. Against Wm. Lousry and James Pulliam and Thos. Dupleier, executors of John Pulliam, deceased, Defendants.
By Wm. Lomax. THE defendant Wm. Lousry not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state. Therefore, on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney; It is ordered and decreed by the court, that he appear here on the second Monday in January next and answer the plaintiff's bill; and that a copy of this decree be inserted in some of the public newspapers printed in the city of Richmond for eight weeks successively and published at the front door of this court house on some court day.
A Copy. Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, C. C. C. November 15. (F2m.)
THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAOS.

LAW REPORT.—CONTINUED.
We gave an outline, in the last Enquirer, of the general principles of a case lately decided in the court of appeals and an abstract of the opinion of Judge Roane, who had decided against the appellant. These we had intended to have followed up with a fuller abstract of the opinion of the judges who had decided in favour of the appellee: But having been favoured with a copy of the opinion of one of the judges, we have deemed it an act of impartial justice due to Judge Roane, to solicit the permission to publish his opinion also in its original form. As the subject is one of the most important which can be brought before our courts, and the court of appeals the highest judiciary tribunal known in our state, we have conceived that the following report, whilst it serves to diversify the contents of our paper, will not fail to interest the attention of its readers.
The "cash" said to be "agreed upon," is a statement of the facts previously agreed upon by the parties, that they may save themselves the labour of proving them. These facts are sometimes numbered and then the word "finding" with a certain number before it, as "4th finding" expresses the particular fact indicated by that number.
Court of Appeals, Nov. 14th, 1805. JAMES M. MARSHALL, appellant. DANIEL CONRAD, appellee.
ROANE: Judge. This is an action of ejectment, brought by the appellant against the appellee for a lot in the town of Winchester. The principal object of the suit, is to try the title of the appellant to a rent of 5 per annum, alleged to be due on the said lot, and claimed by him as grantee under Lord Fairfax. The said Fairfax having in his deed expressly reserved all quit-rents, the appellant has no right to recover in this case, if this court be of opinion, that the rent in question is a quit-rent. Being clearly of opinion, that that rent is a quit-rent, I shall confine my observations principally to that point, although other topics were discussed at large in the argument. It is expressly agreed in the case before us, that the rent of 5 per hundred acres reserved on land granted in the Northern Neck, and on those granted in the other part of Virginia, before the revolution, was thrown upon those territories respectively denominated a quit-rent. It is also admitted by the counsel on all sides, in this argument, that those sums are and were quit-rents; although Mr. Call, counsel for the appellant, was made a complete solo de f. of his admission, by bringing us to the red of the English idea of a quit-rent. He contends, under that standard, and refers to 2 Bla. Com. 42, that it is essential to a quit-rent that the land should be held under a manor, and also that on payment of the rent, the tenant should go out of all further services. If this be the true standard, then the said 5 per rent is not a legal quit-rent: Then there never were any quit-rents in this country: for 1st. the grant for land by Lord Fairfax stated in the 4th finding of the case (and it is further found that all the grants for waste lands were uniformly alike) makes no mention whatever of a manor; and 2ly. the grant by the governor of Virginia stated in the 6th finding of the case (and all his grants were undoubtedly alike in this respect) annexes other services, besides the payment of the rent, to be rendered by the tenant; viz. the cultivation and improvement of the land. That gentleman then must either give us this favorite English criterion of a quit-rent, or retract the concession he has made. As such a retraction cannot for a moment be contemplated, we must resort to some other criterion of a quit-rent, adapted to the case of the said 5 per and decisive of the question before us. The criterion I shall embrace is that which is founded by the popular and legislative understanding on the subject, through a long succession of time. That understanding has shown into the class of quit-rents, those rents reserved to the king, or proprietor, as the case may be, on an absolute grant of estate; or on a grant for an estate for an original price was paid, generally denominated composition money, and on which a trifling rent is reserved, as a more formal acknowledgement of tenure. This understanding was universal as it related to the 5 per rent, because that rent was also universal, throughout the whole country. The rent of 5 per in question was not universally denominated, because it was in itself less particular. It was not known in remote places that such a rent existed, but so far as such knowledge did extend, viz. in and about the town of Winchester, the rent in question is agreed to have been generally denominated a quit-rent by the people and sometimes so denominated by L. Fairfax's agents. Had towns and grants of this description, been generally established throughout that territory, there is no question, but that this rent would have been as universally denominated a quit-rent, as the rent of 5 per hundred acres on lands. I have said that the rent of 5 per hundred acres on land was universally understood to be a quit-rent; but in this I am incorrect. The understanding was confined to the territories of the Northern Neck and of the redividuary part of Virginia respectively in relation to their own respective quit-rents. The people of the one knew nothing (so far as we can judge from the case agreed) of the rents existing in the other territory, and there is no usage found on this subject extending beyond their own respective rents and confines. Like the 5 per rent in question, the 2 per rents were universally denominated by the people, respectively to whom they were known and by whom they were payable; but no farther. There is, therefore, in this respect, a perfect analogy between the two rents. Am I not therefore correct in saying that the rent of 5 per as much sanctioned as a quit-rent by the popular opinion & understanding within the sphere of its existence, as the rent of 2 per.
If there be any general principles in our laws or in any treaties upon our laws, which seem to confine the idea of a quit-rent to the 2 per rents, we must attribute it to the want of knowledge of the existence of this local rent of 5 per. But this court cannot now plead ignorance in excuse. The case is properly brought before us on the same principles as apply to the 2 per rent of 5 per 100 acres.
The rent before us entirely corresponds with the 2 per rent payable on lands in the Northern Neck in all its essential features:—for 1st. The lot granted in this case is expressly stated in the deed to have been "heretofore waste and ungranted land." It is also farther agreed, that there is no survey extant of that land prior to the establishment of the town of Winchester. The act of assembly on that subject does not pretend, that that land was ever before granted or appropriated—and the aid of the legislature was only obtained for the purpose of conferring on the grantees of lots, the privileges enjoyed by the freeholders and inhabitants of other towns: as to any right of property, passing from the grantor to the grantee of the lots, the act of assembly is wholly silent and inapplicable. This feature then of being land ungranted by the proprietor, prior to the very grant in question, places this lot on a common ground with general grants of vacant tracts of land in the said territory. 2nd. It is found that composition money was paid on the grant of this lot, and as was also the case on grants of vacant tracts of land, and the grants in both cases convey the absolute property. It is not indeed stated in the case, that the price paid for the lot was called composition money: that might have been deemed by the appellee unnecessary to be stated, as I presume it is. It is enough that that price agrees with the general composition in all its essential features. 3d. In both species of grants, the rent is denominated alike: it is called in both "grants" "a rent," or "a 5 per rent" and is not called a "quit-rent" in either. 4th. In both cases the said rents are respectively perpetual; and 5th. The rents in both cases, are of trivial sums, fully adequate to import an acknowledgment of tenure, but in no degree commensurate with the annual value of the lands. Wherefore then shall we merely on the ground of variation in the amount of the rent or composition (a circumstance well compensated by the difference of situation and value) differ these cases of the
2 rents, and lose sight of all those great traits, which are common to them both? I touch not those cases, in which Ld. Fairfax Road in any other relation, than merely as Lord of the fee. I touch not those, in which he had become a private proprietor. The General Assembly of Virginia, anxious to abolish feudal and perpetual rents, due to the government of Virginia and to Lord Fairfax as soon as his rights had fallen into the hands of aliens, respected, as beyond their reach, that perpetual revenue which may have been, in a multitude of instances, reserved by one individual from another, on grants of land held by private ownership. Anxious to free our people from those inconsiderable though degrading rents which so strongly partook of a feudal nature, and which were due to the Lord of the Fee, they respected those rents which were due to the private owners of the soil; which were of considerable amount; which bore some proportion to the actual value or profits of the lands; and which (the grantee having never paid a price for the land, on an absolute acquisition thereof) formed the only compensation, receivable by the proprietor, for the pollution and enjoyment of his land. I understand that this rent is now to be recovered on the principle that it is a ground rent: but I call on this court to show any instance of a ground rent, in which the lessor of the premises had not acquired a private right to the soil. Lord Fairfax was fully sensible of the distinction which existed between his proprietary rights & his private rights to the soil. It was his uniform practice to make a conveyance of lands in fee in the usual form to some friend, and take back a reconveyance thereof, when he meant to acquire the fee simple property in them. The case before us expressly finds that this was done in relation to the 2 per rents, and to the lot No. 18, in the town of Winchester. In relation to the manors, this might (but for the uniform practice aforesaid) have probably been dispensed with; for the leases granted to the tenants thereof convey not the absolute property of the soil and carry on the face of them, almost in every line, strong badges of private ownership on the part of the lessor. No man can read those leases and hesitate for a moment to believe that L. Fairfax's intention was to convert the soil of those manors into private property: yet that was not sufficient in the opinion of the proprietor: those lands also were subjected by him to the uniform process of a conveyance and reconveyance. But not only those conveyances, but those in relation to lot No. 18, in the addition to the town of Winchester, though strongly L. Fairfax's practice and sense on this subject. If this court should now adjudge the lot in question or the rent accruing thereon to be the private property of the appellant, they will differ from L. Fairfax himself, who thought a conveyance and reconveyance necessary, whenever he wished to acquire private property. Were it permitted to me to go out of this record, I would refer to the 6th finding in the case of Hunter vs. Fairfax, formerly argued before this court, wherein Mr. Fairfax and the other party agreed, "That Lord F. died seized in fee of sundry tracts of land in the county of Frederick and other counties in the Northern Neck, containing altogether 300,000 acres which had been granted and conveyed by him to D. Martin in fee upon the same terms as other grants were conveyed and granted by him in fee as aforesaid, which lands were soon thereafter re-conveyed by the said Martin unto him in fee."
This word altogether taken in connection with the large number of acres mentioned, strongly imports that Lord Fairfax had the fee simple property in no lands in the No. Neck, which had not undergone that process.—But, however, that may be, as the appellant does not lay claim to all the lands and the rents due thereon, existing in the No. Neck, but only to such as had become the private property of L. F. or his ancestors, and has not shown in his case, any other process by which the private property of the soil could be or was acquired by L. F. than such conveyance or reconveyance. I am perfectly warranted in saying, upon the case before us, that no other process can be known to us on this subject. How many others there may exist (if any such in fact do exist) or exist within the private knowledge of this court. We are to try this cause upon the facts agreed between the parties and not upon facts which may be alleged or may in fact exist, but do not exist upon this record. I presume also that the appellant is bound by the admissions, express or implied, of those under whom he claims; and I also presume that L. F. has strongly admitted that the private property of the lot in the deed mentioned did not exist in him, by having omitted to extend to that lot, the process he deemed it necessary to resort to, for acquiring the private property of the lot No. 18 before mentioned. Are not the admissions of L. F. the admissions of the present appellant? And does not the admission now in question bar him from setting up the present claim? Does this court sit here to vacate the admission of parties, and to give them more than they can ask or do conceive themselves entitled to? I presume not. Being clearly of opinion, upon the case before us, that the private property of the soil was not, nor could be acquired by L. Fairfax, except by conveyance and reconveyance, I can take no notice of any alleged acquisition by survey, even were that survey for L. F.'s own use. All the notice of such surveys that can now be taken, is that in relation to the surveys of the lots in Winchester, Lord F. has admitted that it did not vest the private property of the soil in him: he has admitted to extend to that lot No. 18 in said town, in order to vest in him such property therein. He has admitted that the surveys of the manors, though confidentially made for his own use, were not adequate to such purpose, by using a similar process in relation to them. Can we therefore lay, upon this record, that the private right of soil was acquisable in any instance by a mere survey? The act of compromise (to be hereafter more particularly noticed) facts indeed, hypothetically, that this might be done. I will only add at present, that whenever a case shall occur which will state facts to justify that inference, that act shall receive from me a correspondent construction: but the general and hypothetical words of an act grounded perhaps on the representation of an interested party cannot make that to have antecedently existed, which on a fair construction by the judiciary, shall be found to have had no such existence. But whatever may be the case of a survey confessedly made for L. F.'s own use, the survey of the lots in addition to the town of Winchester was not of that character. It was for the use of purchasers who were to pay a high rate of composition upon the grant of the soil. L. Fairfax indeed acquired a right of soil in the lot No. 18; but that not by virtue of the survey, but as he admits by virtue of the conveyance & reconveyance. I have said that the act of 1752 related not at all to any rights of property respecting the soil in question. It only gave to the purchasers of lots the privileges enjoyed by the citizens of other towns. When prior to the act added to the town, it is only in the sense of general proprietor of the Northern Neck. It is incontestably proved by the finding in the case, that the lot in question was waste and ungranted land prior to the grant to the person under whom the appellee claims. This act of assembly is entirely incompetent to show, that the private right of soil in the lot in question was ever acquired by L. F.
If L. F. anxious to accelerate the settlement of his territory, instead of waiting until private adventurers had found and entered for waste lands, had himself set apart and surveyed into small tracts, a large tract of waste land and invited individuals to take grants thereof, paying a higher rate of composition and of quit-rent, in consideration of the trouble he had been at in making the said location and survey, can it be questioned for a moment that the Grantees of those lands would have held on a common footing with other grantees in his territory? But this mode is now how different from the one before us, except that the latter relates to a lot of ground, and the former to a tract; a circumstance certainly immaterial. In the case before us, the very lot in question being waste land, might prior to the survey by L. F. have been taken up by any individual. But L. F. anxious to enlarge the town and thus not only quickly the settlement of the adjacent country, and thus
increase his revenue, but also to enhance the value of his own adjacent private property, did not choose to await that slow process, but laid off the land into lots, and invited purchasers. For his trouble herein, he was amply remunerated, by the high rate of composition, required on a grant of the land. These were the motives, which operated on him in this business. Wherever he appropriated or reserved any lot or lots to his own private use, let those rights be respected; but let us carry it no farther. Admit that in the case before us, the survey of lots suspended the general right of adventurers to survey it as waste land, that suspension was clearly taken off by L. F.'s invitation to persons to take grants thereof. The question is not whether a suspension of this kind ever existed or not, but whether L. F. ever acquired or intended to acquire the private right of soil in the lot in question. Most certainly he did not.
(Judge Roane's opinion to be continued in our next paper.)
WILL be prepared to accommodate thirty members of the next Assembly, he flatters himself, in a manner more convenient and agreeable to them, than heretofore; having two buildings detached from his Tavern, which he intends exclusively for their accommodation. Also his dining room, which before was but small and inconvenient, is now large, and very convenient. To those acquainted with this situation it would be unnecessary to state the decided advantage it has over any other in this city, being within two hundred yards of the Capitol, and adjoining the public square. He pledges himself to keep his larder well supplied with Clover, Hay, Fodder, Oats and Corn: and offers an assurance that the strictest attention, will be paid by an experienced white Oiler.
November 1. ED. HALLAM. eptl.
ELLIS & ALLAN
Have just received by the Ships Priscilla and George from Liverpool, and Suffolk from London, A SUITABLE and a well selected assortment of FALL GOODS. Among which are: Duffel and Point Blankets, Rose Blankets from 6-4 to 11-4, Napped Cottons, Kerseys white and coloured, Plains do. do. Yarn and Plaid Hose, Nails from 3d to 30d, Crown window glass 10 by 8, 11 by 9 and 12 by 10, Putty and Glue, Boiled Linseed Oil in Jars, English White Lead ground in oil, Yellow Ochre, Spanish Brown, Verdigris in pots, Bellows, Anvils, Vices and Smiths hammers, Liverpool Filled Salt, London Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, single and double Mill'd, Patent Woollen Cords, Velvets, Hunters and Constitution Cords, Corduroys and Tickfettos, Ladies London Kid and Morocco Shoes and Boots, Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hose, Silk Bath Insole do. White Angora Hose, very fine, Gentlemen's Silk, Cotton, and Worsted Hose, Angoras and Lambs Wool, Lambs Wool Half Hose, Real Italian Sarceners plain and checked, Chambray Muffins, Plain and Tamboured Jacquet Muffins, Colonade, Pique, & Laced Colonade & Cambric do. Coloured Cambrics and Calicoes, Elegant Silk Shawls, do. Cambic do. Bruflis and Kidderminster Carpets and Carpeting, Gentlemen's Real Beaver, Fashionable Hats, Ladies Trimmed do. Rich Black Molleton, Rich figured do. Gung and Pills, Elegant Fowling Pieces, Seine Twine, 6-8 and 10-4 Diaper and Damask do. 8-4, 10-4, 10-18 Damask and Diaper Table Cloths, Kill Linens and 5-4 Irish Sheeting. Which will be sold on moderate terms. October 25. tf.
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, Cashr. Genl. M. A. S. May 10. tf.
THE Co-partnership of the subscribers, under the firm of THOMAS TAYLOR & Co. will dissolve by mutual consent, on the 11th inst. THOS. TAYLOR, JNO. SATCHELL.
The subscribers, under the firm of TAYLOR & BROWN, Offer their services to the public as AUCTIONEERS and COMMISSION MERCHANTS, at the land lately occupied by Thomas Taylor & Co. where they have on hand a large flock of Dry Goods and West-India Produce, most of which will be disposed of at private sale on very low terms for cash or approved negotiable notes. THOMAS TAYLOR, JAMES BROWN, Junr. October 11. (ef)
JUST RECEIVED.
THE 4th Vol. of Marshall's LIFE OF WASHINGTON.—Subscribers to this work are particularly requested to call for their respective books at William Prichard's Book and Stationary Store. Wm. Prichard begs leave to inform the public at large, that he is now selling off his stock in trade, at reduced prices. October 20. tf.
IRISH LINEN & SHEETING
WELL assorted in boxes containing 26 to 36 pieces, purchased in Dublin last July, and imported in the ship George from Liverpool, for sale by the box and piece by JOHN HENRY. Who has also on hand, a few bales of GERMAN OSNABURGS, imported direct from Varel. October 29. 5wp
NOTICE is hereby given, that a petition will be presented to the next general assembly of Virginia, praying that an act may pass to authorise the sale of a TRACT of LAND, belonging to the estate of Wm. Steptoe, dec'd. late of Hewick in Middlesex county, for the benefit of his infant children and his other legal Representatives. Nov. 1. TML.
NOTICE.
A Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that the County Court of King William may hereafter be held on the first Monday, and the Court of Hanover on the fourth Monday of every month. Oct. 8. TML.
FOR SALE,
TEN SHARES, in the James River Canal Company. Apply to THOMAS NORVELL. November 5. tf.
GEORGE WILY,
BROKER & COMMISSION MERCHANT, Near the Basin, BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, Lands & Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for Sale, LOTS No. 141, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire square in Du-Val's addition.—There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family. July 23—tf.
THE subscribers offer for sale, their reverionary right in a new fire-proof warehouse on Maxwell's wharf in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Doctor John K. Read, dec'd. as his upper warehouse. In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate. MERIWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ.
It is probable that I may leave this farm ere long: in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorised to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ. November 1. tf.
WASHINGTON TAVERN.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
WILL be prepared to accommodate thirty members of the next Assembly, he flatters himself, in a manner more convenient and agreeable to them, than heretofore; having two buildings detached from his Tavern, which he intends exclusively for their accommodation. Also his dining room, which before was but small and inconvenient, is now large, and very convenient. To those acquainted with this situation it would be unnecessary to state the decided advantage it has over any other in this city, being within two hundred yards of the Capitol, and adjoining the public square. He pledges himself to keep his larder well supplied with Clover, Hay, Fodder, Oats and Corn: and offers an assurance that the strictest attention, will be paid by an experienced white Oiler. November 1. ED. HALLAM. eptl.
BY VIRTUE of a deed of Trust, executed to the subscriber, by Stephen Hughes, to secure a debt due to James Lewis, as expressed in said deed: will be exposed to sale for ready money, on the first Monday in December next, at James Lewis's Tavern in the town of Charlottesville, 40 acres of LAND, including a mill seat laying on the waters of Moore's Creek or so much thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy said debt, interest and cost. October 25. BENJAMIN BROWN, Trustee. (epsw.)
TO RENT,
THE Lumber House at present occupied by the subscribers on the Cross Street leading to the Basin. It is two stories high, 60 feet long, 20 feet wide, and well calculated for storing Flour or Tobacco. If it is not rented, the above articles will be received on storage by PICKETT, POLLARD, & JOHNSTON. November 5. (epsw.)
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY,
8th REQUISITION.
THE Shareholders in the Manchester Turnpike Company, are hereby required to pay to James Brander, Treasurer, the further sum of ten dollars, on each share, on or before the 18th of November next. By order of the directors, JAMES BRANDER, Ch. Manchester, October 11. 18N.
OYSTER HOUSE.
GEORGE WATSON,
HAS commenced his former and well known occupation of furnishing OYSTERS, BEEF STEAKS, COLD SNACKS, and RELISHES, at the white House near the Union Tavern, wherein the Post-Office was lately kept. He begs leave to assure those who may favor him with their company or commands, that nothing shall be neglected on his part which promises to give satisfaction. October 15.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and
PLAISTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality,
FOR SALE, as usual, at WILLIAM DAVIDSON. near the Market. Dec. 4. [spfs.]
MARSHAL'S SALES.
TO BE SOLD, for ready money, in pursuance of a decree of the court of the United States, for the first circuit in the Virginia district, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards and David Ross, and others defendants, in order to raise the sum of 4209 dols. 26 cents, with the expenses of sale, a number of very valuable slaves now at the Oxford Iron Works. The sale will take place at the said Works, on the 16th day of November next. BENJ. MOSBY, D. M. for JOSEPH SCOTT, M. V. D. October 4. (epds.)
RUNAWAY NEGRO.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD, if taken within fifty miles of Richmond, and one hundred Dollars if taken beyond it, will be given to apprehend a negro man named LEWIS, about thirty years of age, who last night ran away from the subscribers. He is very stout made, and about 5 feet 10, or 5 feet 11 inches high; has a malicene countenance—had on when he went away, a Russia Drill Drab Coat and Pantaloons; but has a variety of other clothing.—He was formerly the property of Mr. Edward Hallam of Hanover Town, where perhaps he may be gone.—All masters of vessels are forewarned from harboring or carrying him away, under the penalty of the law. GILLIAM & KIRBY. September 6. (tf.)
IN CHANCERY.
Amberst August Court, 1805.
John Profit, Randolph Profit, Jesse Profit, Rowland Profit, Elizabeth Profit and Nancy Profit, children of David Profit, dec'd. and Duncan Cameron and Molly his wife, late Molly Profit, a daughter of David Profit, dec'd. and David Profit and Austin Profit infant children of Austin Profit, dec'd. who was a son of the said David Profit, dec'd. by John Profit their guardian and next friend. Comp'ts.
William Joflin and Sally his wife, Joseph Wilcher and Susanna his wife, and David Profit, which said Sally, Susanna, and David are children of the said David Profit, dec'd. Def'ts.
ON the motion of the complainants by their attorney, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that the defendants Wm. Joflin and Sally his wife, Joseph Wilcher and Susanna his wife, and David Profit are not inhabitants of this state and without the jurisdiction of this court: It is ordered that the defendants do appear here on the third Monday in November next, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some public newspaper published within this Commonwealth for eight weeks successively, and that another copy be posted at the front door of the court house of this county on some court day. Copy, Teste, W. S. CRAWFORD, c. c. cur. Sept. 24. epsw.
NEAL NELSON,
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER,
MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND, MAKES Boots & Shoes to any pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as if they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot—C—round the Calf—B—the pitch of ditto—D—round the heel and instep—E—round the instep—G—across the ball of the foot. Fix the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—set down in figures the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January: eptf.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF
BLANKS,
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
BENJAMIN DUVAL,
AT THE SIGN OF THE GOLDEN MORTAR
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' Trons Crude Tartar  Logwood Balon Irons  Coppersas Bow-Strings  Virdegreafe Linings  Fustick Calious  Spanish Indigo Taffel Bands  Oil of Vitriol Rubbing Dishes  Aq. Fortis Stampers  Quickilver Trowchers, &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 flock 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 honors conferred on him greater than the confidence of numerous and respectable customers.
In regard to his wholesale prices, 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 other 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. (3w & 4f)
FOR SALE ON PRIVATE CONTRACT.
GREEN-WAY; the fear on which I now re-
file, including Mous-Sacer, & the Court-House Tenement, containing in all 1200 acres of fertile level farming land (reserving one acre of consecrated grounds). The whole is bounded by two navigable creeks, emptying into James River before the door forming a bay, therefrom 1400 yards only—2.5 miles to Petersburg by water, 30 to Richmond by land and 28 to Williamsburg. The Court-House Tenement has on it a large enured Tavern, with six rooms; one of which is 32 feet by 20 in length and breadth, arch'd in the middle and used for entertainments; all the necessary out-houses, a good garden and a fine Well of water, dry cellars, floors &c. for the use of a commercial business, which are now occupied to advantage in that line. This is an excellent place for flock, fish and fowl in their seasons; and enough of corn, wheat & oats may be made by common industry for the consumption of the Tavern. This Tenement has 200 acres of land annexed to it, and rents for £100 a year.
GREEN-WAY contains 500 acres well improved. On it, is a genteel well finished dwelling house, containing six rooms; all well-ventilated, chair board high, with fine dry cellars, the full length of the house which is 56 feet: also every other building which a reasonable person could wish or desire, to wit: a Dairy, Meat House, Spinning House and an Ice House, within the Curtilage, a Barn 40 by 34 feet, two granaries, two Carriage Houses, 20 stalls for horses, a geon House well stocked, a handsome Octagon 12 flaves, a well of water, (so excellent that I can drink it with delight after returning from a mountain circuit) a large fertile garden abounding with a great variety of fruits, herbs and beautiful flowers, well enclosed. The buildings new and well covered with shingles.
MON-SACER contains five hundred acres more or less, on which is a neat small dwelling, a mill begun on a never-failing stream, one mile from James River and emptying itself therein. This farm is remarkably level and highly improvable, is in a fine settlement for wheat and timber, so that the manufacturing business may be carried on to great advantage, as also the fawning of timber now so much in demand. About half this estate inclusive is under fine fire wood and timber—and scarcely a gull nor a wisp on any part of it. The age and fever has not visited a white person for 20 years that I recollect. In short there cannot well be conceived a more agreeable situation in all respects than this estate taken together.
UTOPIA.
I will also dispose of—This little estate lies in James City county; is an island surrounded by navigable water near the mouth of Chickahominy river, containing 746 acres of high land and hard marsh sufficient for the support of 1000 head of cattle in the month of May. The high land is rich and produces four and five barrels of corn to the acre. There are 100 acres of good timber adjoining the same.
In the center of this island is a very handsome hill, on which a small but comfortable dwelling is built, affording a fine prospect over James River for many miles. Here every necessary of life can be had and many of its luxuries with little trouble. It overflows with milk and honey when sufficient flock is furnished to go upon. It is remarkable for fine fruit, as the frosts seldom or never affect it; and no place in Virginia surpasses it for fish and wild-fowl. From this place quantities of hay might be transported by water to Richmond, Norfolk or Petersburg.
Any kind of public securities will be taken for the above property, or if more agreeable to the purchaser or purchasers, I will receive part in cash and the balance at convenient periods—Thirty or forty slaves and flocks of every kind may be had, if the estate is purchased all together. My lands on Clear Creek, Big Lick and Triplet in Kentucky I will also sell or exchange for property in Richmond.