The recorder (Richmond, Va.), 1802-12-29 00:00:00

THE RECORDER;
PRINTED BY HENRY PACE, & JAMES T. CALLENDER, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA; PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY MORNING. SUBSCRIPTION TWO DOLLARS PER ANNUM, IN ADVANCE.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1802.
TO THE PUBLIC.
MANY gentlemen residing in states north of this have addressed letters to us, to send them the Recorder; and requested we would name any person in Philadelphia, or New York, where they could find their subscription money. We take this opportunity of informing the public, that Mr. Lewis, paper-maker, at Philadelphia, will receive any subscriptions sent for the Recorder, and Mr. Coleman, printer of the New York Herald, at New York.
FOR SALE.
By public vendue at STILES Hotel , in the city of Washington, on Thursday the 12th day of January next, at twelve o'clock, the following tract of land. Situate in Northumberland county, state of Virginia, late the residence and property of PRESLY THORNTON, Esq. containing 2,500 acres, lying immediately on the river Potomac—1700 acres of which are the most valuable kind of low grounds on the river, between 3 and 400 heavily timbered; the remainder is very high and extremely productive. The soil of this tract is equal to any in the state for the culture and corn, wheat, tobacco, timothy, and small grain of all kinds. On this tract are a large commodious two story Brick Mansion House, and two offices, a large brick stable, valuable barn, corn house, and many other out houses all in good repair. The orchards and garden contain a variety of valuable fruit trees, and the waters abound with excellent fish and oysters. It is situate about a day's sail from Alexandria, Baltimore, and Norfolk. There are two good mill sites for grain, or saw mills on this estate, and plenty of cedar and chestnut timber, exclusive of the heavy timber, which, if saved up into scantling, will command a price, in the city of Washington, nearly equal to the value of the land. The terms of sale, will be one third cash, and the residue of the purchase money, in payments which will be made known at the time of sale.
RICHARD HETERS, jun.
Dec. 8, 1802.
WANTED,
A situation, as an Assistant in a Store, A Person acquainted with plain open Accounts. No objection to attend a Bar at a Tavern. Richmond, Dec. 27th.
JAMES LYNCH,
HORSE SHOER, & FARRIER,
TAKES this mode of informing the public that he has removed from his shop near the COURT-HOUSE, to the CROSS-STREET, leading to MR. COULTS'S FERRY, where he intends to carry on every branch of the above business, with Blacksmith Work of every kind.
Richmond, Dec. 22d, 1802.
KENTUCKY LANDS FOR SALE.
To be sold at public auction, on Thurs. the 30th of December next, at 12 o'clock at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, 5320 ACRES OF LAND , in the state of Kentucky, belonging to the estate of the late Andrew Ronald , deceased—viz. 2480 acres, lying on Big Barren River; 1000 acres on Green River, on the mouth of the Big Barren; 1840 acres on the head branches of the South East fork of Skeggs Beaver Creek. 5320 acres, issued in four patents, to Charles Dabney, of Barren County, the 2d Oct. 1786, and purchased of him by the late Andrew Ronald—the whole recorded in the court of appeals, in the state of Kentucky, the 22d June, 1796, as by a certificate of Thomas Todd, Esq. clerk of said court. The terms of payment will be, one fourth of the purchase money to be paid in 6 months from the day of sale, one fourth payable in 12 months, one fourth in 18 months, and one fourth payable in two years, with bond and approved security—the bonds to bear interest from the date.
WILLIAM WISEHAM, Executor to the estate of Andrew Ronald. Richmond, Nov. 21. 1802. (1d.)
FORTE-PIANO MAKER.
J. VELTNERE. OFFERS his service to the public for the repairing and tuning of Organs, Harpsichords, Forte-Pianos, &c. He may be secured of by ladies and gentlemen wishing to employ him by enquiring at the Eagle Tavern, or at the Theatre. Venetian Swells may be had, upon very reasonable terms. Richmond. Dec. 13th 1802. (2w.)
THE Subscriber has lately removed to the Brick House, opposite to Crouch's Tavern, and near to Proffer and Moncure's Vendue Store.
He proposes to practise the Law in the High Court of Chancery, and District Courts, and in the County and City Courts, which are held in this city.
HENRY BANKS
Richmond, August 25, 1802.
LANDS FOR SALE.
To be sold at Public Auction on Thursday the 30th of December next, at twelve o'clock at the Eagle Tavern in the City of Richmond 17,101 Acres of Land in the State of Kentucky.
 Lot 1st. 9000 Acres in Hanover County Bays Creek, above Sulphur Lick;  2 800 ditto ditto Walnut Creek;  3 300 ditto ditto, above Sulphur Lick;  4 107 2-3 do. do. Middle Fork Braker;  5 1300 do. do. Skeggs Beaver Creek;  6 1000 do. do. North side Big Barren;  7 2000 Acres in Green County East side South Fork Little Barren;  8 2240 do. do. South side Little Barren;  9 5000 Acres in Logan Co. on Big Barren River;  10 890 do. do. N. side Cumberland River;  11 666 2-3 do. do. South side of ditto;  12 270 ditto, ditto, North side of ditto;  13 1000 do. do. West Fork Cross Creek;  14 2-3 do. do. S. Fork Little Barren.   
Acres 17,101
Lot 15. 100 Acres on the Waters of Eagle Creek North West of the Ohio.
Special warrants will be given on securing the payment of the purchase money, by bond with approved security. Payable one fourth in six months from the day of sale, one fourth in twelve months, one fourth in eighteen months, and one fourth payable in two years, with interest from the date of purchase.
JAMES BROWN.
Richmond, Nov. 26th, 1802.
William Wiseham, Executor to the Estate of A. Ronald.
By virtue of a deed of trust made to me by Nelson Berkeley, to secure the payment of a sum of money therein mentioned, will be sold at public sale on the premises, for ready money.
A TRACT OF LAND
In Hanover county, containing 302 acres, situated on New Found River, and bounded by said River on the South, by the land of Capt. Thomas Price on the East; by the main road on the North; and by Landon C. Berkeley on the West. There is on the land a small Dwelling House, with a Kitchen, Dairy, and Meat House, and a new Barn 20 by 40 feet. There are also young Orchards, of Apples and Peach Trees, and more than one hundred bushels of Wheat have been sown upon the land, together with some Rye and Barley. At the same time will be sold several valuable Negroes, the flock of Horses, Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, a Waggon and Team, and Plantation Tools.
CARTER BERKELEY.
Also
Will be sold one moiety of a Merchant Mill, and fifty acres of land adjoining, on New Found River within a mile of the above tract of land, together with an unexpired lease for six years of the other moiety. The above Mill will be sold to satisfy a mortgage. The sale of the above property will commence on Monday the 3d day of January next, and continue until the whole be sold. Hanover Nov 22d. 1802. (1d.)
JUST PUBLISHED AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE
PRICE TWO SHILLINGS AND THREE-PENCE
THE CONDUCT
OF MERIWETHER JONES, IN A SERIES OF LETTERS, ADDRESSED TO THE PUBLIC, By JAMES T. CALLENDER.
MANY gentlemen, when subscribing to this paper, have enquired for complete sets of the Recorder. These are not to be had. But this little publication will, in some measure, supply the want of them. Besides the seven letters to Jones, the last of which has rung through every state, and every second newspaper in the union, the collection contains many other articles. Among these are, Defence of Aaron Burr—Mr. Samuel Calhoun, No. 1—Defence of Timothy Pickering—A little more about republicanism—economy—with a variety of small pieces.
PORT WINE.
A FEW pipes and quarter casks of genuine old port wine are this day landed, and will be sold on moderate terms by
ROBERT GAMBLE.
Richmond, Nov. 2d, 1802.
FISH,
A QUANTITY OF HERRINGS and SHAD, for Sale, By FRANCIS HYLAND.
Richmond, Nov. 2d, 1802. t. f.
TO BE HIRED,
For the ensuing Year, five valuable BLACKSMITHS.
TWO of them are equal to any of their colour in this State; one of them excels as a carriage smith. The hire to be paid quarter-yearly, bond with approved security of an inhabitant of Richmond will be required.
My house and lot in this city are still for sale; their situation is surpassed by few in the place. The house contains five bed-rooms, and three entertaining ones, two of which are 68 feet by 22. The terms may be known by applying to
LEWIS BURWELL.
Richmond, Dec. 18, 1802.
50 DOLLARS REWARD.
RUN away from the Subscriber in this city, in May last, a Negro man, named BAILOR.
A Black complexion, about Twenty-Six or Seven Years old, about Five Feet Seven or Eight. Formerly belonged to the estate of HOOPER and TOLSON, has worked at the Blacksmith's trade. Was purchased at Public Sale, last Spring.
Whoever secures the said Negro, and lodges him in a Jail in this City, shall have the above reward by applying to William Fisher.
THOMAS MOORE.
October 31th, 1802. ff
VIRGINIA; In the High Court of Chancery for the Richmond District.
Between Henry Banks and Nathaniel Anderson, Robert Pollard, George Winton and Thomas Stewardson, Defs.
ON the motion of the plaintiff, the court, this second day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and two, with the consent of the defendant Nathaniel Anderson, by counsel, doth refer the accounts between the plaintiff and that defendant, to one of its commissioners, to be by him examined, stated, settled, and to the court reported with any matters specially stated though pertinent by himself, or required by the parties to be so stated, and ordereth, with the consent of the parties, the cause to be finally heard at the next term, if that officer, in the mean time, shall state and examine them, or, upon examination of the papers, a final decree can be made without the report.
A copy, teste,
Peter Tinsley, c. c.
Commissioner's Office, Richmond, October 20, 1802.
The parties concerned, are desired to take notice, that I have appointed Monday the twentieth day of December next, for carrying into effect the within decretal order, upon which day, their attendance is required at my office, with copies of the court papers and their accounts ready for examination.
William Hay, m. c.
WANTED,
AS AN APPRENTICE
To the Printing Business, A Young Lad, from the Age of Thirteen to Fifteen Years. Enquire at this Office. Nov. 24th, 1802.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.
THE surviving partners of Mr. GEORGE NICOLSON, late of the city of Richmond, dec. and the acting executors of his last will and testament, will offer for sale, at public auction, on Wednesday, the 12th day of next month, the following valuable property of the late Rope Walk concern at Rockets.
All that valuable piece of GROUND of nearly 16 acres, lying on James River, adjoining the city of Richmond, commonly called the Rope Walk Tenement. On this piece of ground are the following buildings: a Rope Walk of 175 fathom in length, 120 fathom of which is covered in; a Brick Lumber-House of four stories, and nearly 40 feet square; a
Brick House (used as a lodging house for workmen) of two stories, 50 by 20 feet; a large Hemp-House of two stories; two small Dwelling-Houses, one of them 24 by 18 feet, the other 20 by 16 feet; a Stable and a Tarring House. Besides the improvements above mentioned, there is on this tenement, a valuable Wharf.
All the IMPLEMENTS for carrying on the Rope-making business (of which an inventory will be shown on the day of sale) will be sold with the tenement.
Two hundred acres of WOOD LAND, in Henrico county, about six miles below the city of Richmond.
Fifteen NEGRO MEN SLAVES and one WOMAN. Ten of the men slaves are valuable spinners, having been for several years employed in that business at the rope-walk; four are labourers, and one a waggoner. A WAGGON and four MULBS.
For the rope-walk tenement, and for the two hundred acres of land, a credit of one, two, and three years will be allowed the purchasers. Bond and approved security will be required, to bear interest from the day of sale, if not punctually paid, and additional security by a deed of trust on the property will also be required.
For the slaves, and for the waggon and mules, twelve months credit will be allowed the purchasers giving bond and approved security, to bear interest from the day of sale, if not punctually paid. The sale will commence precisely at 11 o'clock, at the rope-walk.
JOHN CRINGAN,  WILLIAM ATKINSON,  THOMAS NICOLSON,  ANDREW NICOLSON,  Acting executors.
December 6th, 1802.
The acting Executors of George Nicolson will on the day and at the place above mentioned, offer for SALE, the following
VALUABLE PROPERTY:
All that TENEMENT in the city of Richmond lately occupied by their testator. The buildings on this tenement are a large convenient dwelling house of two stories, 30 by 30 feet; a brick kitchen and laundry of two stories, 30 by 22 feet, a smoke house, spring house, stable and coach house. The elevated and healthy situation of this tenement, and its commodious buildings, render it as comfortable and pleasant a situation for a private family, as any in this city.
Two unimproved LOTS OF GROUND of two acres each, lying near the tenement last above mentioned.
10,000 acres of LAND in Fayette county, in the state of Kentucky, on the north branch of Sandy river. This land was surveyed in 1785, and patented to James Gibson, assignee of David Clayton and William Netherland, in August 1787.
2,500 acres of LAND in Nelson county, in the state of Kentucky on Rough creek. This tract was surveyed in April 1790, and patented to Robert Clark, jun. in 1792.
666 acres and 2-3 of an acre MILITARY LAND, on the waters of Anderson's creek, north west of the river Ohio. This tract was surveyed for Willis Wilson in June 1794, and patented in his name in May 1796.
A credit of one, two and three years will be allowed the purchasers; bond and approved security will be required to bear interest from the day of sale, if not punctually paid, and as an additional security for the purchase money of the tenement lately occupied by the subscribers testator, a deed of trust on that property will also be required.
On the 13th day of next Month, at the late dwelling house of George Nicolson, dec. will be hired until the first day of January 1803, all the HOUSE SERVANTS of the deceased, and several valuable SPINNERS, who have for several years been employed at the Rope Walk.
The subscribers will at any time before the 12th of next month, treat privately with any person inclined to purchase the tenement in Richmond lately occupied by their testator, which contains about 3 1-2 acres of ground.
THOMAS NICOLSON,  ANDREW NICOLSON,  Acting executors.
Dec. 6th, 1802. (1d.)
LOST
ON Sunday evening, the 12th inst. a small plain gold WATCH CASE. If it should be offered for sale, please [?] it, and apply to this printing office. Dec. 13th 1802.

The RECORDER.
RICHMOND.
DECEMBER 29th. 1802.
TO THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES.
"My lads," says captain Bowling, "I have been at sea, man and boy, for thirty years, and I never saw British sailors hang an ——— before."
Whether the writer of this article is exactly in a similar situation with that to which capt. Bowling refers, we shall not positively determine; but it is certain, that if ever the police and constitution of a country presented themselves to the derision and degradation of an impartial observer, something very like such a case has occurred last week, in this city.
In our paper, of the 22d. current, it was stated, that one of the editors of the Recorder had been knocked down, without a moment's warning, and behind his back, in Mr. Darmstadt's store. This was upon the 20th. of December. Gentlemen! before we go farther, it is proper to inform you, that, to endeavour to knock out a man's brains behind his back, is not a breach of the peace. We did not mean to say that it was. In this free country, we are not at liberty to say that it was. Five days have not yet elapsed since there was a solemn, and what is still better, a republican determination, that, after cutting a man to the skull; that, after blinding his eyes with a torrent of blood; that, after pounding his breast bone almost into a plurisy; that, after striking him across the shins with a cane, consisting of two inches in diameter, of solid wood; that, after almost breaking one arm, and after beating the other into all the colours of the rainbow; that it was advisable and essential to bind him over to keep the peace! Such is the case, at present.
Gentlemen! we are not going to state a single objection to all these things. We are not at liberty to make an objection. We simply, and humbly, state that they exist. A French comedian was once compelled to come upon the stage, and to beg pardon for a manly expression which he had employed towards one of his audience. "Gentlemen," says he, "I never, till this moment, felt "the meanness of my condition." The writer of this paper is very far from wishing to insinuate that he feels any meanness in his. His sensibilities proceed in a very opposite direction. He
is but an individual in a nation; but if the citizens of the United States do not feel the meanness of their condition, if they do not feel that the decision of last Friday sinks them below the horse in a cart, or the pig in a hog-pen, then it becomes almost needless to ask them whether they continue to support a political, or intellectual sensation of existence.
That a man should be prosecuted for writing, or publishing, a libel, is nothing new. Of many of the numerous and inextinguishable truths, which have appeared in the Recorder, we have frequently solicited a legal discussion. We have frequently, and, in the strongest and most red-hot terms; challenged the parties accused to confront us in a court of justice ; and in a suit for defamation. It was known, that we were walking upon the broad high-way of legal testimony; it was known, that our assertions could not be contradicted . It was foreseen, that the circulation of the Recorder was incompatible with the popularity of certain persons. It did not require an uncommon degree of additional sagacity, to discover that a club approaches much faster to a definitive decision , than the clearest page in Aristotle's categories, or in Duncan's logic. As the allegation did not admit of any sort of answer but of one sort, it became necessary to apply this mode of conviction; and assuredly, the deuce must be in a wrangler, if he speaks another word, after you have knocked out his brains! We, therefore, agree with our adversaries in opinion, that a good blow is better than a good argument . We agree with them in their opinion, that it would be much better to break up society altogether . Our country readers will agree with us, in thinking, that if Richmond society is not at present pausing upon its posteriors, it is, at least, hopping upon the last of its two legs. They will think this, when they are informed, that the mayor of Richmond was deliberately insulted in his official capacity, and in what has been called, a Court of Justice.† Our country readers will think so, when they are told, that, before a man can walk with safety into the presence of four justices of the peace, he finds it necessary to cleanse and load his pistols . Our subscribers in New-York, and Connecticut, may form a complete idea of democratic power over the police of Richmond, by one single circumstance. When sentence was pronounced against the writer of this article, it was found
NOTE.
† Mr. Foster was told that he spoke neither law , nor sense ,
advisable to make a clandestine and precipitate retreat into jail , upon the most violent suspicion, and, indeed, upon the most positive information, that this venerable tribunal was surrounded by a body of patriots, prepared and impatient for murder .
While things are so, it would be the summit of impertinence to prattle about laws, or precedents; about constitutions, or principles. Visions of that theoretical description have been reported to exist upon the Western bank of the Mississippi. Whether they are to be found upon this side of it, we have not, at present, an opportunity of enquiring.
At the battle of Marengo, general Melas was upon the point of obtaining a complete victory. He attacked Buonaparte, a day before the first consul was ready for an action. In the present business, the party have made an attack, a short time before they were prepared to support it. They tore off the mask about a twelve-month too soon. And, as the collective abilities of the party could hardly among them all, combine, or produce a Buonaparte; as they present a most delectable extinction of literary and political talents, it is likely that they will meet with such a repulse as was averted at Marengo, only by the master intellect of the first Consul.
Whether the political condition of the citizens of Richmond can be sunk beneath its present point of depression, it is hardly worth while to investigate. The difference cannot be very important between nothing at all, and that which is next to nothing. We must not, we dare not speak, or even be suspected of speaking, one sentence, complaining of what we have been, of what we are, or, of what we are likely to become. That such a newspaper as the Recorder should long be suffered to exist, in the centre of riot, of assassination, and of despotism, is what no rational being can be supposed to expect. If the torch of the press is not, as it almost has been, extinguished in the blood of its editors, we shall probably find it advisable to seek an asylum somewhere else . We shall find it advisable to attempt publication, and to look for protection in some happy corner of America, where the phantom of justice does not flutter upon the knots of a club, or the lock of a pistol; in some happy corner, where the robbery of the public, and the murder of individuals, where an utter extinction of every thing which deserved the name of police, is not considered as an object of desire, and a source of exultation.
Between the bludgeon and the surgeon the author of this piece has lost, within these few days, at least thirty ounces of blood. If his language is deficient in force, or connection; if his manner is obscure; if his reasonings do not march exactly to the point in view, he has only to remind the candid peruser, that he is writing under the awe of a penalty; that he is writing in a jail; that, if he turns for half an inch, either to the right, or to the left, of this republican freedom of the press , he must plunge over the precipice of fathomless destruction:—It may be expected, that we shall attempt some sort of account of the judicial proceedings that gave rise to this article. The answer is, that we should as soon think of writing Roman Catholic reports in the cell of a Porteguese inquisition. It is not possible for us to write three intelligible lines upon the proceedings of last week, without the forfeiture, by Mr. Pace, of the penalty of 1000 dollars. To print a line of censure upon the conduct of any human being, would render Mr. Pace liable to this penalty. We congratulate the public upon so complete a foreclosure of the existence of the press. We cannot proceed. What another week may bring forth, we shall in due time inform our readers. FROM MY OLD QUARTERS IN
Richmond Jail, Monday, Dec. 27th. 1802.
A FIRE
Broke out between three and four o'clock on Tuesday, morning, at a baker's shop, on Shockoe Hill, which communicated, and entirely consumed seven houses. Little could be saved from the rapidity and violence of the flames, which were very near destroying the houses on the opposite side of the way. Among the sufferers, none appear more to deserve our attention than John Harris, the letter carrier to this city, who has a wife and seven children depending upon him for support.
THE subscriber having so arranged his distant business, as to be enabled to spend much the greater part of his time in Richmond, and its vicinity, will be again prepared to render services in the line of his profession, to those who may favor him with their confidence.
JOHN ADAMS.
December 12th, 1802.
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WANTED A WET NURSE,
Enquire of the Printer.
Richmond, Dec. 12th. 1802.
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FALL GOODS.
SAMUEL P. BRADDICK.
HAS just received by the Octavius, from London, a very handsome assortment, which he will sell low, for Cash or Produce. Richmond, Oct. 12th 1802.
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