The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-04-21 00:00:00

PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE GLOBE TAVERN, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
NEAL NELSON, Richmond, BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTURER —Respectfully informs his customers and the public at large (that in consequence of the late fire, where he was a sufferer) he has removed three doors above the Eagle Tavern, to the house lately occupied by Gibson & Jefferson—where he manufactures boots and shoes equal in point of workmanship and materials to any in general use. April 7. epim
SALES AT AUCTION. At the Store of Mr. Barrack H. Judah, on Monday the 24th inst. at 10 o'clock will be sold without reserve, his entire STOCK IN TRADE , consisting of Dry Goods, Hardware, and Cutlery, among which are, Calicoes and Chints, and Cashmeres, Irish Linens, Ginghams, Striped Hollands, Dimities, Cotton and Wool Hosiery, Tamboured Cambric, Black ditto, Book and Juconot Muslins, Cotton Cashmeres, Durants, Handkerchiefs, Cotton Velvets, Broad Cloths. The Sale will be continued from day to day until all the goods are sold. Terms—For all purchases not amounting to 50$ cash, above 50$ and not exceeding 400$, ninety days credit, and above 400$ a credit until the 1st of Jan. 1810. Negotiable notes, with approved endorsers, will be expected from every purchaser. The Store and Counting Room will be rented out for six months; and possession given as soon as the stock of goods are sold off and delivered. JAMES BROWN, Jr. V. M. April 18. 2t
PUBLIC SALE —On Saturday, the 2nd of the present month, will be sold to the highest bidder, at the late dwelling-house of Elisha Price, dec'd. all the decedent's household and kitchen FURNITURE , stock of CORN , HODDER & BACON , a milch COW , a GIGG & HARNESS , a CART and two likely HORSES . Terms of sale—On all sums under twenty dollars cash, and on all sums over twenty dollars, six months credit, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, bearing interest from the day of sale, which interest will be remitted if punctual payment is made. Also, on the same day, will be hired until Christmas next, nine likely NEGROES , and rented for one year, a longer term, the HOUSE wherein the decedent lived, which is commodious, and in an airy situation, with the necessary offices, and a good garden attached to it. Also, one half acre LOT in front of the house, well enclosed and sowed in clover and oats. EDWARD C. DAVIS, Administrator. April 18. 2t
ALL persons having claims against the estate of Elisha Price, dec'd. are hereby respectfully notified to bring them in, properly authenticated, to the subscriber, for adjustment; and those indebted to the estate are also respectfully notified to make immediate payment. As the subscriber is desirous of closing his administration as soon as possible, this notification will be placed in bar of the claims of those who neglect giving it proper attention. EDWARD C. DAVIS, Adm'r. April 18. 2t
NOTICE —All persons indebted to the estate of the late JOHN STROBLA , are desired to make immediate payment, and those who have claims against the estate are requested to make them known to the Subscriber, properly authenticated, that they may be instantly discharged. JOHN H. STROBLA, Adm'r. April 14. 2w
HATS, SHOES, PORTER, &c. D. J. BURR , offers for sale, at the same house in which is kept the Penitentiary Store , second door above the Eagle-Tavern, a COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF HATS . Including Gentlemen's black, drab and patent Silk BEAVERS, CASTORS, RORUMS, &c. Chip and Legion Hats, Mens' and Boys' Wool do. Servants' Glazed Leather do. Hatters' Trimmings and Materials. SHOES . Ladies' Morocco and Kid Slips and Ties, Gentlemen's superfine press Shoes and Pumps. Constantly on hand a large stock of bottled Porter, Ale and Cider, Philadelphia Beer, &c. &c. April 18. tf
ON A WAY on the second inst. from the plantation of Wm. Moseley dec'd. in Powhatan county, a NEGRO MAN by the name of DICK . He is about 22 years of age, 5 feet 6 inches high, very black and has a sly and important look. His dress was composed of a full suit of purple Virginia cloth. It is probable he is lurking in Richmond, as he has once been taken up in that place. Whoever will deliver him to the subscriber living in Powhatan County, or lodge him in jail, shall receive a liberal reward besides the payment of reasonable expenses. EDWARD MOSELEY. Powhatan county, April 14. 1w4w
IMPORTANT to Sutors in the Superior Court of Chancery held in Richmond. At the last term the following points were resolved by the court: 1st. That no suit is to be revived without the names of the representatives of the deceased party or parties. 2d. That the clerk may either in or out of court issue process to revive, when the proper names are furnished and not before. 3d. That unless such process be executed with all due diligence, the benefit thereof may be lost to the party, who obtained it. 4th. That when an order is made for an account to be taken before a commissioner of the court, or before auditors to be agreed upon by the parties, it must be taken with all convenient speed, and unless a report be made thereupon within twelve months from the date of the order, the benefit thereof will be lost to the party who obtained it, unless for good cause to be shown to the court. By order of the Chancellor, Teste, PETER TINSLEY, C. C. April 14. 4t
THE SUBSCRIBER has just received from New-England, a supply of excellent RICH POTATOES in barrels—Also FRESH CLOVER AND TIMOTHY SEED the growth of the last season; also a partial supply of GARDEN SEED —The great advantage from changing seed must be obvious to every person who has made the experiment—By taking seed from a Northern to a Southern climate, it is sooner matured, and the crop much more abundant. He has choice Family FLOUR by the barrel, SALT PETRE, BACON & SCOTCH SNUFF , by the keg or lb. EDWARD HALLAM. April 14. w3w
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE —Being about to move to the Western Country—I wish to sell the following valuable property—That valuable and highly improved site Fairfield . If pure air and good water contribute to health, this place possesses those advantages—this tract contains about three hundred and eighteen acres, or thereabout—this I wish to divide as the road runs from Richmond to Hanover—The part on the west side contains the following valuable buildings, a two story dwelling house, well finished with three spacious rooms below stairs, with an airy passage—three above with a passage also, and a good dry cellar under it. A yard handsomely paled in, a garden of four acres well paled in and laid off in a beautiful style, and in high cultivation, with a handsome summer house in the centre, three kitchens with brick chimneys, smoke house, dairy, rabbit house, ice house, seven stables, &c. all in good repair. On the east side is the Fairfield Race Ground ; on this is a newly built two story dining house fifty by twenty, below is three rooms, above is a room the full size of the house, a barn room and a stand for the Judges, plan'd perhaps superior to any in this country, with several small booths, a well of good water in the yard; an excellent apple Orchard of choice latter fruit; also about ten likely NEGROES , one a Barber equal to any in this country, a good man Cook, &c. also several brood Mares, Colts and Fillies of the first stock in this country; two mules, two plough horses, several valuable milk Cows, about forty head of Sheep, some of them of the Cape, others of the improved barbery breed—a good stock of Hogs of the stock of Col. John Mayo; plantation Utensils a Carriage and Horses, three Carts, a Wagon and gear, some valuable Household and Kitchen furniture, &c. Terms of Sale, one half cash, the balance in twelve months, with notes negotiable and payable in the Bank of Virginia, with an approved indorser. E. SMOCK. Fairfield, April 14. w12May
FOR SALE , on board the Windham , Capt. Vail, from New London, lying at Young's wharf:—W. India Rum, Sugar, Molasses, Mess Pork, Mess Beef, Codfish, Cheese, Onions, Potatoes, Candles, Beans, Hats, Writing, Wrapping and Printing paper, &c. &c. April 18. 2t
IN RICHMOND HASTING COURT, APRIL 11, 1809. UPON consideration of several late and continued instances of the appearance of the SMALL-POX in this City, notwithstanding the most vigilant care to have the patients removed as soon as known to be infected, and of the importance of avoiding a general inoculation, while effectual means should be used for ensuring the extinguishment of the disease in the City. It is ordered by the Court, that the work-house be continued, as lately authorized by certain magistrates, a place of reception for persons who shall casually break out with the small-pox, and have not some other licensed place to retire to. It is further ordered, that it be recommended to the inhabitants of the City, to have their families and dependants forthwith vaccinated at their respective homes, as it will be attended with no danger by contagion, nor with inconvenience or unusual restraint. And upon consideration, that some poor persons may not be able to encounter the expense of employing physicians for adopting the course recommended; It is ordered that any magistrate of the City may in his ward, and not elsewhere, upon application, if in his opinion the applicant be an object of the public assistance, grant an order addressed to such physician as may be chosen by the applicant, to attend him or her, or his or her family through the course recommended; and for this service, when performed to the satisfaction of the magistrate, there shall be paid from the funds of the city, to the physician, one dollar for every person vaccinated. It is further ordered, that the work-house as far as it will afford room, and the seat of the Revd. John Buchanan, be licensed for inoculation for the small-pox: provided that no person shall be admitted therein after the 10th of next month. A Copy. TH: C. HOWARD, CLK.
We the subscribers, practitioners of physic in the City of Richmond, inform the inhabitants, that they are now vaccinating with a matter which they recommend as genuine. JAMES LYON, Z. H. FOUSHEE, JAMES DREW MCCAW, JAMES GREENHOW, J. TRENT, JOHN ADAMS. April 14. 3t
TAKE NOTICE —The Subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has commenced the CLOCK-MAKING business near Prince-Edward court house, where may be had CLOCKS of different descriptions, which he will warrant to perform to the satisfaction of the purchaser. Also, he intends carrying on the business of making and repairing the Piano Forte—Organs, both finger and barrel, of every description, made to order. The subscriber from his experience in the above branches, flatters himself he shall be able to give entire satisfaction to those who favor him with their custom. Any of the above instruments he pledges himself will be faithfully made—and equal in point of melody, cleanness and durability to any European manufactures. The patronage of the patriotic who wishes to encourage home manufactures, is solicited. ASA HOPKINS. February 24. o44f
COMMITTED to the Jail of King William county, a Negro Man named TOM , a runaway, who says he belongs to a Mr. Christie, living in the state of Tennessee, and escaped from the said Christie in Bedford county, in the state of Virginia, some time in the month of August last, and says he was sold to the said Christie by a Mr. Bradley of Pittsylvania: The said fellow is about five feet eight or nine inches high, and of a yellow complexion; the owner is desired to come forward, prove his property, pay charges and take him away. J. C. LITTLEPAGE, D. Sheriff. Wm. GREGORY, Sheriff. April 14. w5wp
EUROPE.
NEW-YORK, April 12. LATEST FROM ENGLAND. CONTINUATION of News from England received by the Dean, from Bristol (London dates to the 28th of Feb.)
An arrival at Salem from Valencia has brought our Spanish accounts to a later date than we have received by way of England. From the extracts we have made, it will be seen, that Bonaparte is in Germany, regarding with a jealous eye, the movements of Austria; and that Russia is reported to have exhibited some symptoms of a hostile disposition against the conqueror of Europe....Mere. Adv.
LONDON, Feb. 23. We understand that government has agreed to make a loan to the Prince Regent of Portugal, of the sum of 600,000l. The mode of repayment to be by consignments of Brazil commodities to Portuguese agents here, and the produce, when converted into money, is to be delivered over to the treasury. The sum of 80,000l. had been advanced at the time of the departure of the Braganza family for the Western Continent.
The concurring reports both from the north and south of Europe, of Bonaparte having set out for Germany, seem by no means destitute of probability. We do not, however, believe the accompanying rumour, of Austria having declared war against France. It is not likely that such a step would be taken by the cabinet of Vienna, without some communication with the British government. We should not wonder, however, if Bonaparte foreseeing a rupture with that power to be inevitable, has determined to anticipate the hostility of Austria, by attacking her before her military preparations are perfected and matured. He has already called out the conscription for the year 1810, and such a measure could hardly have been necessary, if his views were not directed to something beyond the conquest of Spain. That he has been very much displeased with the warlike attitude of Austria, as well as with some recent measures of the Prussian government, is abundantly obvious, from a variety of expressions in his last Message to the Senate in the official Expose of his minister, and from the denunciation launched against M. de Sacken in one of the Bulletins published in Spain, and if he thinks it likely that the elements of another confederacy against him are collecting, he will naturally be anxious to dissipate them before they are so far digested as to produce an explosion.
FEB. 24. It is with great pleasure that we acquaint our readers that government have received dispatches from Admiral Keats, and that the apprehensions which were entertained for the safety of our fleet in the sound were unfounded. The dispatches from Admiral Keats are dated off Gottenburgh; they state that the whole of our squadron was in safety, with the exception of the Magnet sloop, which was lost; but the whole of the crew were saved. The Sound is now completely open.
We yesterday mentioned the arrival of the Princess Charlotte Packet from Lisbon; by this vessel, government have received dispatches from Mr. Villiers. If we may give credit to the Portuguese papers, the greatest enthusiasm pervades every part of Portugal and the greatest exertions have been made by all classes of people, to enable them to resist the French, who, it appears, have not yet entered Portugal.
FEB. 25. Yesterday a messenger arrived from Gottenburgh, with dispatches from Stockholm. The contents have not transpired, but one fact is stated on the Messenger's authority, which is of importance, at least as indicating the state of the public mind at St. Petersburg. The disgust which has been felt at the conduct of the Grand duke Constantine, has at length occasioned an attempt upon his life. The accounts are not exactly consistent concerning the mode of the attack.
Some say that the duke was shot at, and that the ball passed over his head, and killed his Aid-de-Camp. Others, that a plot was formed to kill him in his bed, and that his room being mistaken, his aid-de-camp was slain in his place; but all accounts agree that the aid-de-camp lost his life contrary to the intention of the conspirators. In consequence of this attempt, the emperor, it is added, offered a reward of 200,000 roubles, on the discovery of the offender. This was announced by placards on the walls of the city. The following day an advertisement was posted about the streets, offering 400,000 roubles to any person who should assassinate Constantine.
FROM THE SALEM GAZETTE. VALENCIA, Feb. 7. We have no scruples in assuring our readers, that for 2 months past we have had successes about Saragossa, and that quarter, of which we do not know the circumstances, that have frustrated the third plan which was adopted by the most perfidious of all tyrants to effect our slavery; that his arms have suffered unexpected humiliation; that other events unforeseen by his boldness have caused him to abandon for the present a prize, which ignorantly and in a fool-hardy manner he looked upon as his own in the beginning of December; and that the time is not distant when we shall see repeated the ignominious scene of a flight from the Capital, which lately excited the ridicule of all Europe notwithstanding the deputy emperor protested he would never abandon his subjects.
FEB. 10. The negotiation between the Divan and the English minister proceeds towards a final adjustment of their disputes, notwithstanding the intrigues of the French minister. The new vizir perceives the true interest of the Turkish empire, and what measures will prevent it suffering the calamities which afflict the greatest part of the continent. The vizir and the British minister Adair have had several private conferences.
Feb. 14. We are assured that the Marquis Romana united to the English and Portuguese, composes an army of 120,000 men.
FEB. 17. All the intelligence which we announce concerning the state of Europe, & the strength which the enemy can bring out to forward his plans, must convince us, that we have arrived at the most critical period of securing to ourselves a country. If we let escape the moments so favorable to a re-action, perhaps they will hardly return, and will leave us nothing more than the sad remembrance of having ill-proved them, and of not having availed ourselves of those succours with which Providence manifestly supports our cause. The enemy has his attention and his forces divided, and in no part does he present to us an aggregate like that which we can oppose to him. All Europe is in a ferment and an advantageous state of agitation, and thro' all parts there appear symptoms of a new era.
SEVILLE.
In the supplement to the Government Gazette of the 3d of Feb. is the following. The Viscount Quintanilla, organ of the supreme Junta of the government of the kingdom and his representative in Leon, writes, under date of the 14th of the last month that on the 28th of December last, the Marquis of Romana withdrew with his army from Leon to Astorga, in which city he reunited himself with the English army on the 30th—that both armies continued their march to Galicia, the English being destined for the port of Manzanares a Villafranca, and that of Romana for the port of Foncebadon a Ponferrada, where it was on the 2d January; that on that day this army had an action with the enemy, and another on the 6th, in sight of the city of Lugo, with advantage, as is said, on the part of the English; that in that kingdom arrangements were made as circumstances permitted to reinforce our army, situated for that time in Orense, with men, arms, artillery and ammunition, and to secure all effects in other places—and that it was supposed they were all united with the English in Coruna or its vicinity.
It is also said, that Gen. Wellesley was expected there soon with 15,000 men, which was confirmed by letters from Oporto.
JAN. Feb. 2. Two persons who left Madrid last Tuesday assure us, that Napoleon passed by Burgos the 17th, & by Vittoria the 18th, continuing his route towards France without stopping; and that Marshal Lannes, who is between Irun and Vittoria with 3000 men, had retired by forced marches.
It appears that 13,000 Portuguese had joined Cuesta, with which he now has a respectable force.
The Duke del Infantado has just formed a junction with the army of the Sierra Morena.
FEB. 5. Narrative of observations made by a respectable person, who left Madrid, January 21. Admirable Observer!
In order to reconnoitre the position of the enemy on the banks of the Tagus by the vicinity of Toledo on its right and left, I directed my course to the town of Yepes, the 11th of this month and until the 14th I was at Toledo, Vargas, Olias, Monjon, Villaseca, and other places thereabouts. By the most correct intelligence I could obtain and by what I saw and observed, the number of the enemy in Toledo, was on the 12th about 500 at most, all infantry without artillery, the same day 1500 horse went before my arrival, for Estremadura; they advanced two leagues and retired towards Aranjuez and Toledo. Before the Tagus I found no troops stationed, and I saw only a small detachment of cavalry at a little distance from it.
I passed on to Madrid by the royal road of Toledo the 16th without meeting any enemies, as far as Leganes, where I observed a small number, apparently for the protection of the equipages and other effects in that quarter. The entrance into Madrid is easy, but hazardous to persons of distinction, as there are many Spanish Spies. The two days that I remained, I ascertained by faithful guides, that all the enemy's troop did not exceed 21 or 22,000 men without the gates, seven thousand in Madrid, and the rest in Aranjuez and on the vanguard of the Duke del Infantado; the person who gave me this intelligence assured me that he had seen it in the house of Belliard the governor of Madrid.
The 1st and 7th of this month, the French army had orders to evacuate Madrid and re-pass the gates. The 17th it was given out in the orders that the English army had had the audacity on the 14th to attack the French Head Quarters, at Valadold, and had been chastised; but this is false.
The deputies of Madrid, appointed to compliment Napoleon, went out for Valladolid; I have seen two letters from them; the first written from Arevola, dated the 12th, said, that they had orders to seek for the Emperor at Segovia, and if they did not find him, to go to Nieva, where he would be; the other requested letters of credit on Bayonne; from these it is inferred, that they are no longer in Spain.
Joseph Napoleon remained at the Pardo (in the suburbs of Madrid) with a guard and about 200 men in quarters; he entered Madrid on Sunday, the 23d, without any parade.
The parade of Madrid does not exceed 700 men, and the cavalry are so few, that people of good information do not make them above 500.
I am assured, by one who said he had seen it, that the last French papers arrived by the mail of the 21st, mention the entrance of the Arch Duke Charles into Bavaria with a large army. I have seen a letter from Vittoria, dated the 17th, which says, that a corps of French troops, which was entering by that Province, had received orders to go back again with precipitation; I am assured many other letters said the same thing, and from hence are inserted, generally, the movements in the north.
Joseph Napoleon said, at his court on the 18th, that 'also Germany should unite with Russia to make war against France, and uneasy Spain should follow, nothing would be gained by that, because Russia and France were amply sufficient to subject all Europe.'
This I know by a minister of the Board of Commerce and the Mint, who was present at the court and heard it; from which is inferred their great anxiety.
Madrid is fortifying, for the purpose of taking from it the greatest possible number of troops.
It is certain that the present plan of the enemy's campaign in Estremadura, is reduced to maintaining the banks of the Tagus till they receive reinforcement from Saragossa, if it surrenders, or from Castile.—There is the greatest caution and anxiety—in Toledo they are very fearful, they shut the gates at three P. M. Every traveller is examined scrupulously, and on the least suspicion is detained or sentenced. In short, on the royal road of Madrid, they had no troops quartered as far as Ocana by Toledo, up to its gates, and as far as Estremadura, there are only small detachments to make excursions.
OLOR, Jan. Our famous Gen. Reding has given proofs of his skill and talents. In a short time he collected an army of 40,000 men, which will be soon encamped before Barcelona.—Claros and the Marquis of Lazan will march towards that place with eight or ten thousand men, to prevent the Vandals from escaping towards the capital. Three Spaniards, who escaped from Narbonne, assert, that orders were issued in France for raising a new army of 500,000 men—but where will they get them?
MANRESE. Jan. 23. They write from Huescas, on the 22d instant, that the attacks on Saragossa were continued; that in one of them, the French were entirely routed in the Cantarilla of St. Joseph; and their cavalry, which at the same time attacked the gate del Carmen, met the same fate. If these attacks are thus continued, the French will soon be without an army before that place.—That from Huescas and the other places, armed people sallied forth by hundreds, and even from the Convents there, 50 of the regulars and seculars went out to attack the French; finally, it is said, though not certain, that the French entered Saragossa by the gate of Portillo, where thousands of them were killed; and that 3,000 who reached the place of St. Pablo, were all killed by our cavalry. And from Fraga they write, on the 5th, that Don Francisco de Palafox (brother of the General) on the night of the 25th December last, for the salvation of the country, left Saragossa and embarked in a launch with a Colonel, an Engineer and aid, and went down the river, the banks of which were lined with enemies, till he landed 3 leagues on this side of Galza, whither he went on foot, on his way to Cuenca, for the purpose of procuring auxiliaries to succour Saragossa, which is happily defended by his immortal brother. We arrived at Mequinenza the 24th, to fortify that place and assemble the armed inhabitants with which they expect to raise the siege of Saragossa, and chastise the Vandals of our times.
CARTHAGENA, Feb. The 26th January, a dispatch from the Marquis of Palacios arrived, who stated that the army of Andalusia amounted to twenty-one thousand infantry and three thousand very good cavalry, and that its advanced guard extended to the Madrilejos, 18 leagues from Madrid and twenty-four from Carolina.
The 28th Jan. a Courier arrived from Salamanca, which he left twelve days before, who stated that there had been no action near that place, but that near Benevente there had been one, in which the French lost from fourteen to sixteen thousand men, and that the Spaniards continued to pursue the enemy. It was also mentioned at Salamanca, that a second victory, as glorious as the first, had been obtained.
AUSTRIA AND FRANCE.
FEB. 17. We conclude with confidence, that a rupture is very probable; that the discordancy there is in the existence of those two powers so incompatible by the difference of the elements of which they are composed, will speedily manifest itself in the field of battle; that the conjuncture is very fortunate on account of negotiations of England with Turkey, which makes it impossible for Russia to take an active part in attacking and plundering her ally and friend; and that a natural sentiment of self preservation and the honor of the nation and of an august dynasty, will not allow of any other measures, other expedients, than to die or conquer; thus following the example of another nation, which feels the same, and is laboring in the same way for its legitimate lord.
THE TURKS.
CARTHAGENA, Feb. 11. The commander of the frigate Proserpina, having anchored in the port of Malta, on his passage, learnt the agreeable intelligence of peace being re-established between Great Britain and the Ottoman Porte; and the information is not less satisfactory of the attentions he received in Trieste, and of the general sympathy which was professed for Spain in Germany, which nation has, perhaps, already declared war against France. The army of Austria is six hundred thousand soldiers, among them eighty thousand cavalry most completely equipped.
MALAGA, Jan. 23. Extract of a letter from Madrid. The French army which was at Estremadura has returned part to Toledo and part here, much weakened. The remnant of Soul's division in the same condition, arrived here last night, the greater part without arms; they entered the city in the night, so that their miserable situation might not be generally known. Several corps that were in Castile met the same fate. In the vicinity of this place there are 30,000 men (French) among which are 5000 cavalry.—Councils of war are held at every instant by the generals; and the troops are going towards Guadalajara and Aranjuez. A secretary of the ambassador Cevallos, arrived at Cadiz, brings information that Gen. Cuesta had sent a dispatch, announcing that he had cut off 4000 men at the bridge of Almaraz, and defeated the rest of the French who were returning to attack

Examinadora; and that on that score no fears need be entertained. Sen. Cevallos had published this for general information.
LATE AND DIRECT FROM SPAIN.
Yesterday arrived at this port the ship Catherine, Capt. Thomas Bickford, in 45 days from Valencia, on the Mediterranean. He brought printed papers to the 17th of February, for the hon. Mr. Gray, the owner, who favored us with the loan of them for a few hours, and from which translations have been made for this paper.
It was said that Napoleon was quitting Spain in great haste, and Marshal Lannes with his army returning also by forced marches. It could be no common cause that should produce such a movement, when the affairs of Spain were in such a critical state, and a crown for the head of Napoleon's brother was at stake; but we find by the papers, that England and Turkey had concluded a peace—that both Austria and Turkey assumed a threatening position with regard to France, that the Archduke Charles had entered Bavaria with a large army, and the noble resistance of the Spaniards was likely to rouse a spirit in other nations which might yet wrest Europe from the hands of the conqueror, and restore it to itself.
Since the translation of the papers have been made, we have conversed with Capt. Bickford who informs us that the day before he sailed, a paper was received at Valencia from the supreme Junta, from which he heard read the important account, that Austria and Turkey had both actually declared war against France, the probability of which event is repeatedly mentioned in the papers we have seen. The gentleman who read it to him, expressed a desire that he should bring the paper to America; but the eagerness to see it occasioned its being lent from one to another, till it could not be recovered before he sailed. It was considered as a fact, and gave great spirits to the Spaniards.
He further informs us, that a French army of 18,000 men from Roses, in January, attacked the Spanish army besieging Barcelona, and defeated it, through the treachery of their general, Vivas, who endeavored to escape, but was seized, and sent prisoner to Seville, that the French had been repulsed in fifteen assaults on Saragossa, where they had lost great numbers, and that they were said to have already lost as many as 200,000 men in Spain. At Valencia, the patriot spirit was at the highest pitch; and no doubt of their success against the tyrant was almost treacherous. Salem Gaz. (Fed.)
LONDON, Feb. 25.
Drury-Lane Theatre consumed by Fire! Last night this superb edifice was burnt to the ground. We learned that about a quarter past eleven o'clock at night, the flame burst out at the lobby windows of the front in Bridges street; while volumes of smoke were seen issuing from every part of the theatre. In less than a quarter of an hour it spread into one unbroken flame, over the whole of the immense pile, extending from Bridges-street to Drury-Lane; so that the pillar of fire was not less than 450 feet in breadth. It is impossible for the mind to conceive any thing more magnificent than the spectacle, if the idea of the horror and ruin which it brought on the sufferers could have been separated from the sublimity of the object.
In about thirty minutes after its commencement the Apollo on the top fell into the pit, and soon after the whole of the roof also fell. The reservoir of water on the top, which our readers will recollect, formed with the iron curtain, the topic of reliance for security in the Prologue with which the new Theatre was opened, was like a mere bucketful to the volume of fire on which it fell, and had no visible effect in damping it. Any attempt to go near the flames was totally impracticable—and all that was saved from ruin was done by the presence of mind and activity of Mr. Kent, a literary gentleman, who was the first to discover the flames. He hurried to the door and gave the alarm.—Mr. Powell the prompter, and Mr. Johnson the mechanist, with the two watchmen, and Mr. Kent, were the only persons present; for being a Friday in Lent, there had been no play nor rehearsal.
They ascertained that the fire broke out in the hall, under the lobby at the Bridges-street entry which has been shut up this season, and where some plumbers had been at work. It was, when Mr. Kent broke in, confined to that spot; and they made an ineffectual attempt to get out the theatre engine, and play on it from their reservoir; but in ten or twelve minutes it ran up the front boxes and spread like kindled flax. This may be accounted for from the body of air which so large a hollow afforded, and also to the circumstance of the whole being a wooden case. Finding it impossible to prevent the destruction of the building, the gentlemen saved the books from the room called the treasury, and they were carried safely to Mr. Kent's house, in Tavistock street. The only other article saved was a bureau, in Mrs. Jordan's room. Mr. Kent broke the panes of the door, and brought out the bureau. All further endeavors were rendered impossible, by the excess of heat.
About a quarter before twelve, a body of horse, footguards, and volunteers came to the place, and the engines reached the spot from every quarter, but they could do nothing. Part of the wall next to Vinegaryard fell down, and the house of Mrs. Macheath, the fruiter, caught fire. The night was uncommonly fine, and the body of flame spread such a mass of light over the metropolis, that every surrounding object glittered with the brightness of gold.
Mr. Sheridan was in the house of commons assisting in the important discussion of Mr. Poynsbey's motion. The house was illuminated by the blaze of light; and the interest universally taken in the circumstance, interrupted the debate. A motion was made to adjourn, but Mr. Sheridan said, with great calmness, "That whatever might be the extent of the private calamity, he hoped it would not interfere with the public business of the country." He then left the house and the discussion proceeded. Many of his friends accompanied him to the scene, but it was too late for any effort to be made; and all the engines could effect was to save the house in Vinegaryard and Russel street, the roofs of which had caught fire, from being burnt down. Mrs. Macheath's suffered the most.
About half past twelve, parts of the outward walls, both in Russel-Street and Vinegaryard, fell down, and completely blocked up the passage, but fortunately no lives were lost. The edifice was insured, but not for a sum near its value, as with which it can be rebuilt. The insurance is in the Imperial, the British, the Globe, the Hope, and the Eagle. We have not heard the precise amount, but we understood, that since the destruction of Convent Garden, the insurance in the new offices have been increased. The loss to the performers is most serious. They have lost every thing, and in one day, several hundred persons are thrown out of bread. There is no place in town to which they can have resort as a temporary theatre, unless they were to divide themselves into several parties, and act at the pantheon, or the minor theatres, into Lyceum, Catharine-street, or the Royalty.
Mr. Thomas Sheridan has been very unwell at Bath; but he was expected in Town yesterday. We know not whether he had arrived when the calamity happened.
At one o'clock this day the whole exhibited a confused mass of smoking ruins, but no appearance of flame whatever was visible.—Such of the walls as have been left standing are in a tottering state, and at the western extremity, adjoining Brydges-street and Convent Garden is expected to fall in every moment. The firemen and Constables are actively employed in keeping off the crowd, to prevent accidents.
The whole of the piazza, fronting Russel-street, has been overwhelmed in the ruins, and the stones composing the colonnade, are literally shivered to atoms.
The private property of the performers, in dresses, &c. has been of course entirely lost, as well as many of the valuable instruments of the orchestra.
LONDON, February 15.
THIRTY-FIRST FRENCH BULLETIN.
The following is a correct translation of the 31st Bulletin.
"The English Regiments, bearing the numbers 42, 50 and 52, have been entirely destroyed in the battle of the 16th, near Corunna. Not 60 men of each of these corps embarked. The General in Chief, Moore, has been killed in attempting to charge at the head of this brigade, with the view of restoring the fortune of the day. Fruitless efforts!—This troop was dispersed, and its General slain in the midst of it. General Baird had been already wounded. He passed through Corunna to get on board his ship, and did not get his wound dressed till he got on board; it is reported he died on the 19th. After the battle of the 16th, a dreadful night passed at Corunna. The English entered in confusion and consternation. The English army had landed more than 80 pieces of cannon; only 20 pieces were re-embarked; the remainder have been taken or lost; and by a return made we find ourselves in possession of 60 pieces of English cannon."
"Independent of 2,000,000 of treasure the army has taken from the English, it appears that a treasure more considerable has been cast away among the rocks and precipices, that border on the road from Astorga to Corunna. The peasants and soldiers have collected a great quantity of silver among the rocks. In the engagements which took place during the retreat, and prior to the battle of Corunna, two English generals were killed, and three wounded. Gen. Crawford is named among the last. The English have lost every thing that constitutes an army.—Generals, artillery, horses, baggage, ammunition, magazines. On the 17th at day break, we were masters of the heights that command the road to Corunna, and the batteries were playing upon the English Convoy. The result was, that many of their ships were unable to get out, and were taken at the capitulation of Corunna. Five hundred horses, were also taken still alive, sixteen thousand muskets, and a great deal of battering cannon abandoned by the enemy. A great number of magazines are full of preserved provisions ( munition confectionner ), which the English wished to carry off, but were obliged to leave them behind. A powder magazine, containing 200,000 lbs. of powder, has also fallen into our hands."
"The English surprised by the issue of the battle of the 16th, have not even had time to destroy the magazines. There were even 300 sick in the hospital.—We found in the port 7 English ships—three were loaded with horses, and four with troops. They could not get out."
"The fortress of Corunna is of an extent which secures it from a Coup de Main . It was, therefore, impossible to enter it before the 20th, in virtue of the capitulation. In Corunna, we found above 200 pieces of Spanish cannon. The French Consul Fourcroy, the General Quissnel and his staff; M. Bongars, officer of Ordinance; M. Taboureau, Auditor; and 350 French soldiers or seamen, who had been made prisoners, either in Portugal or on board the ship Atlas, have been delivered up. They express great satisfaction at the conduct of the officers of the Spanish navy. The English will have gained by their expedition the hatred of the Spaniards, shame and dishonor. The flower of their army, composed of Scotchmen, have been either wounded, killed or taken."
"General Franeschi, has entered St. Jago de Compostella, where he found some magazines and an English guard, which he took. He marched immediately upon Vigo. Romana appeared to have taken this route with 2500 men, all that he could rally. The Division of Mermel marched on to Ferrol. The air about Corunna is infected by the carcasses of 1200 horses, whom the English killed in the streets. The first care of the Duke of Dalmatia has been to provide for the restoration of salubrity, equally important to the soldiers and the inhabitants. General Acevedo, Governor of Corunna, appears to have taken part with the insurgents only from the constraint of force. He took the oath of fidelity to King Joseph Napoleon, with enthusiasm. The people manifest the joy they feel at being delivered from the English."
MEANS OF THE POWER OF GREAT-BRITAIN
From a London Paper of the 1st of February.
BRITISH NAVY. —The amount of the British Naval force up to this day is as follows:—At Sea, 73 Ships of the Line—12 from 50 to 44 guns—122 Frigates—115 Sloops—226 Brigs—Total 552. In Port and Fitting, 44 of the Line—2 of 50 guns—40 Frigates—70 Sloops—70 Brigs—Total 228. Guard Ships, Hospital Ships, &c. 41 of the Line—6 from 50 to 44 guns—14 Frigates—6 Sloops—2 Brigs—Total 79. In Ordinary
and Repairing, 32 of the Line—18 from 50 to 44 guns—61 Frigates—40 Sloops—24 Brigs—Total 109. Building, 50 at the Line—40 Frigates—20 Sloops—10 Brigs—Total 100. Grand Total 1,140
WEST-INDIES.
NEW-YORK, April 13.
Extract of a letter from the Havana, dated March 25.
"I steal a few moments before going to bed to inclose you the two Bands of the Governor and the Proclamation of the Bishop. From the exertions used, there is great prospect of order being again restored here. Irreparable injury has been done—some lives lost. Not only the French have been plundered, but many Spaniards in town and country have shared the same fate. God knows where it would have ended, had not energetic measures been adopted."
Many troops have been sent into the country, headed by our first characters; & I repeat, I have no doubt tranquility will be again restored. At least two or three hundred of the plunderers are in prison, the forts and on board the guard-ship. Several of them will be hung, and all found guilty will be punished. The leaders of these villains assumed the names of Generals Blake, Palafox, &c. Their intentions, it seems, were to plunder not only the city but the whole country. They are, thank God, stopped in their career, and many will meet the fate they have so well deserved."
TRANSLATED FOR THE MERCANTILE ADVERTISER.
PROCLAMATION.
I make known to the public, that by an unexpected accident, a number of coloured people, principally boys, have been instigated to persecute such Frenchmen as they meet in the streets, and even those who remain in their houses, who have suffered shameful injuries and extortions, to the discredit of the respectable inhabitants, and in defiance of the public authority. And as disorders of this sort naturally spread, involving in their consequences even the most respectable natives and inhabitants, its authors reducing themselves to a level with those Tigers and Assassins who have spread themselves over Spain, and consequently worthy of the most severe penalties which the laws provide for such cases: I order and command, that all riotous collections of people in the street disperse, and that the individuals composing them retire immediately to their houses and business, taking notice that in a quarter of an hour after the fixing up of this proclamation, the troops and a great number of the respectable inhabitants will march out to seize and conduct them to prison for punishment.
"That all the inhabitants collect in their houses such slaves as are found with the rioters, taking care that they do not again go out, by day or night, except on the most urgent occasions."
"That every inhabitant who feels for the public welfare, endeavor to separate from the rioters all such persons as they may be acquainted with, showing them the danger they incur of being imprisoned and punished by the law."
"That all respectable persons prepare themselves to assist and support the magistrates and ministers of justice who may require their aid, incorporating themselves with the guards for the greater respect and authority, in such numbers as may appear sufficient to their particular magistrates; it being understood that every delinquent, unless he is prevented by some known and serious infirmity, will be fined 500 dollars, or more, according to his rank and circumstances, and stigmatized as a bad citizen."
"Finally, as similar circumstances may occur in other towns, or in the country districts, originating either from the perverse idea of robbing the said Frenchmen (as wicked and ill disposed persons may do) or from an ill-directed patriotism; this proclamation shall be communicated to all the Justices and Captains of districts, that they may govern themselves accordingly, carrying into effect, without loss of time, the means provided for the expulsion of the French."
"And that this may be known to all, it shall be fixed at the corners and circulated as before said.—Havana, 22d March, 1809."
THE MARQUIS DE SOMERUELOS. By command of His Lordship, JUAN DE DIOS AYALA, Chief Sec'y. of Government.
PROCLAMATION.
The general and individual welfare, and the due administration of justice, as well as the reputation which the inhabitants of the city have maintained for moderation and humanity, requiring that all the effects which yesterday and the day before were plundered from the houses of different Frenchmen, and even of some Spaniards, by idle and vagabond persons, be collected:—Be it known, That no person shall be prosecuted who within 24 hours shall deliver up such of the said effects as he may have in his possession, to either of the two Alcaldes, who shall receive and deposit them with a person of credit, taking a formal receipt, describing as near as is possible to whom they belong. After the expiration of the 24 hours the strictest search will be made, in which all good people ought to assist; and to communicate whatever they may know on the subject. I now give notice. That the severest examples will be made of those who, knowing of or holding any of the said effects, do not make the same known within the said time.
Likewise, to prevent a repetition of so criminal a proceeding, I prohibit parties of more than four persons from walking the streets by day or night; and I order that after eight at night, nobody appears without a lantern, except such as go in a private carriage, carrying their customary livery, and without cover after orisons. All carriages kept to let are to be shut up at 8 o'clock, as well in town as in the suburbs, under penalty of 30 dollars, which will be exacted from the master of the driver (if a man,) or from the driver himself, if free; and the like sum from the owner of the carriage.
And as the recovery of the effects plundered, and the prohibition of collections of people in the streets, are equally necessary in the other towns and districts where similar disorders have existed; this proclamation shall be communicated to the Justices, and fixed up in this city in the customary places.—Havana, 23d March, 1809.
THE MARQUIS DE SOMERUELOS. By order of His Lordship, JUAN DE DIOS AYALA, Chief Sec'y of Govern.
Capt. Tatem, from St. Croix, arrived at Boston, informs, that an insurrection had occurred at Guadaloupe in favor of the British, and an expedition was proceeding against the island; and the Spaniards had gone against the city of St. Domingo.
Letters of a late date from St. Croix, received at Boston, mention, that they are abundantly supplied with every thing but hoops and staves; and that they get a supply of such as answer, from Porto Rico. They advise against valuable shipments, as the planters are determined to provide for themselves, finding their land will produce provisions cheaper than they can purchase.
The British Admiral at the Cape of Good Hope, has declared the Isles of France and Re-union in a state of blockade; as he had received important intelligence relative to those Islands."
DOMESTIC.
NEW-YORK, April 14.
IMPORTANT.
TO THE EDITORS.
WASHINGTON, April 10, 1809.
"GENTLEMEN.—A public vessel, (the Rosamond sloop of war) you will have seen before this will reach you, is lately arrived at Norfolk. She brings, besides interesting accounts in relation to Spanish affairs, a secretary of legation, and dispatches for Mr. Erskine the British minister, and for our government."
"It may well excite speculation in this country, that about the time of the arrival of one of the English packets, the ordinary bearers of public communications, a public armed vessel, a kind of extraordinary courier from the English government should also enter our ports. But the case is by no means inexplicable."
"At the commencement of the last session of Congress, our administration, and its friends, took a high and commanding ground: They assumed the tone of an injured, insulted nation, which had the courage to defend its own rights as well as the justice to respect those of others: The voice of the nation had recently been distinctly heard in the election to the presidency of a man who had acted a distinguished part in our late national differences with the same manly and honorable spirit: A sedition Junto, had been frowned upon and repressed by the indignant look and language of genuine patriotism: A continuation of commercial restrictions, respectable and vigorous military arrangements were contemplated and proposed: The youth of our country were waiting with ardor for the signal to rally round its standard."
"This was the state of things here, which was presented to the English ministry in December and January last. All the calculations and exertions of their partizans and agents in this country, combined with the arts and intrigues of an insidious policy at home, failing—Thrown into confusion by the erect and dignified attitude of our government—In short, disappointed in all their hopes, they are at length, in all probability, about to respect the rights of a people, as ready to demand, as they are to render justice."
"What effect the inglorious result of Spanish affairs—I mean inglorious as it respects Great Britain—May have had, in addition to other causes, to humiliate the pride of an arrogant ministry, I will not pretend to say. Those who are conversant with the affairs of nations and the history of the world, will form their own conclusions on this point. But the general train of reasoning on the subject of their conduct towards us, cannot be resisted by the candid and enlightened mind."
"It will be recollected, that the British have acted on the knowledge of our proceedings in the early part of the last session and not on those which afterwards, when the enemies of the administration, by the practice of those intrigues so peculiar to them, succeeded in creating a partial schism in opinion and system, among an honest, overwhelming majority—threw a temporary shade over the lustre of their earlier proceedings."
"Under all these circumstances can we misunderstand the British ministry? They send out a consul general for Louisiana—A Secretary of legation to their minister resident near our government—A public armed vessel, express, with dispatches to that minister, who immediately makes important communications to our executive: In every circumstance connected with this business, both in England and in this City, we see the most satisfactory indications of a change of system on the other side of the water. And you may, with all the confidence which every human probability ought to inspire, pronounce to the good people in your part of the country, that the WISE AND HONEST POLICY OF OUR GOVERNMENT HAS SUCCEEDED."
"Were the members of our administration actuated by any of the motives and views of an unprincipled opposition, means would doubtless be taken by them to influence the pending and approaching elections, by the communications which have unquestionably been received: but they are too elevated, too far above this kind of management. In due time every thing will be submitted to the proper tribunals; and the American people will hail with shouts of joy, those who have saved their honor and their dearest rights. Those who, on the other hand, have been engaged in sowing the seeds of dissension at home, and misrepresenting to foreigners the temper and spirit of the nation, will be discarded with indignity. I confess my own opinion is, that the people in your state particularly, ought to have sufficient information relative to the late dispatches, before your next election, to correct those erroneous impressions which have been made on many of them: but I fear they cannot have it. The members of the administration, as high spirited as they are honest, do not stoop to the noisy triumphs of little minds: Nevertheless they cannot, on this occasion, conceal their sensibility to the anticipated approbation of their fellow-citizens. In short, the complexion of things here, cannot be mistaken. Private citizens participate in the satisfaction which beams in the countenances of the public agents. You may take high ground, and speak on this subject, with a commanding confidence.... Pub. Adv. (Democratic.)"
MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION.
BOSTON, April 11.
The votes for Governor, in four hundred towns, are as follows:
For Mr. Gore (fed) 44,908 Mr. Lincoln (dem.) 42,094 Net Federal gain—2,814
FEDERAL CAUCUS.
(On the evening before the Election for Governor.)
Having been curious enough to go to the Federal Caucus on Sunday evening, to hear what could be said in favor of the Federal candidate for Governor, I will for the gratification of the readers of the 'Detector,' give a sketch of their proceedings:
The debate was opened in a speech from the Hon. Mr. Lloyd, calculated extremely well to mislead an unsuspecting audience; did we not know the man, and that his object was to please the populace while he was traducing their friends, we should not have ought to say against it; but as it was, we pronounce it brazen-faced and deceptive, but to do justice to the speaker, we think it the best we ever heard him deliver. Next arose a person by the name of Savage, who is said to be a lawyer, and indeed he pleased such, in ranting Philip against Judge Lincoln, but he proclaimed the merits of Mr. Gore in a singular way, by declaring him the "Post of Boston!" what he could mean by this, the public must judge. Next came forward the officious young Townshend, another lawyer, who, in his usual inflated style, anathematized the Republicans, and publicly proclaimed an absolute falsehood, by saying, that "the purse-strings of the nation were held by a Frenchman." After Mr. Townshend had finished, the honorable Mr. Quincy addressed the audience with a "speech or no speech!" he began very well, but in one of his incorrigible fetches, he spoke thus, "Mechanics of Boston, Mr. Gore sprang as it were from your own loins!" After this he went on in reflecting very hard on the General Government, for their paying fifteen millions of money for the purchase of Louisiana, as tribute money to France! And for having seventeen millions worth of property in France sequestered also as tribute! In this manner he was proceeding, until at length he appeared to lose the chain of his ideas, and stopped—he proceeded again a few moments, stammered and stopped, again he attempted to go on, and again, but he could not, and would not give up! but his friend Otis, (a man who ought to advocate a better cause) relieved him from his trouble, by arising, appeared to regret that his honorable friend could not proceed; said that the observations of the speaker had satisfied his friend, but not himself! It is to be regretted, that a man like Otis, should lend his aid in defence of such a set of men as the federal faction is composed of, but so it is, and as one of their champions we notice him. His observations against the Republicans were as high colored as any that we ever heard him deliver; he called the friends to the administration in the Republican States, "infatuated & deluded slaves," who wished to "lead the disciples of Washington to ruin!" O Washington, how is thy hallowed name profaned! But I will not digress. Mr. Otis suspending there were some friends to President Madison in the Hall, addressed them, and advised them if they wished to make his administration popular, to vote for the federal candidates! And then wound up by harping upon his old theme, of mere being twenty federal men or more in Boston that were suitable for Governors of the State, but as they could not all be put up, it was best to vote for the one that was nominated; the substance of this was observed by him last spring at the Caucus, and what his object was in repeating it again, we can only surmise. Upon the whole, we think it the most miserable speech we ever heard him deliver.
After Mr. Otis had concluded his harangue, the Moderator, who was the Hon. Mr. Lloyd, after a few more observations, read over the candidates for Governor, Lt. Governor and Senators, took the vote upon the two first, which there appeared but little opposition to, the Republicans in the Hall not choosing to oppose; but the Moderator did not appear to be satisfied, for when he took the vote upon the Senatorial Candidates, he desired that both hands might be held up! After this arose the "free ship Tyro," and seemed so much elated at seeing such a number in the Hall, and the prospect of giving such a "triumphant vote on the morrow," that he could hardly utter himself, but finally said, that the Democrats were trying to get votes for their candidates by "lying" about the N. Hampshire election, and declared, that he had documents in his pocket, to prove that Judge Smith was elected Governor by a majority of one thousand and twenty-seven votes, which agreeable news was received with great applause by his deluded friends, and had the effect of raising their drooping spirits, for which it was intended, but the truth of the statement time will determine.
Thus I have given what I conceive a faithful sketch of the proceedings of the Federalists on Sunday evening, not intending to set aught down in malice.—If I have mistaken in any particular, it is not through design; Truth is always my object, and if my principles cannot be defended by it, they shall not be defended by me at all. How far the principles of the Federalists were by their spouters defended by Truth, the public must judge. That men who value themselves upon their characters, should make assertions which they do not believe, for the sake of carrying a few more votes at an election, is indeed lamentable; but such in truth may be said of the Federalists. They know that there are many men that attend the caucuses, who are easily led away; this therefore accounts for their twisted reasoning, but impartial and dispassionate citizens despise such manœuvring, and will look with pity, contempt and disdain on their exertions to deceive.... Boston Columbia Detector.
PHILADELPHIA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE,
April 13, 1809.
A contrariety of opinions being entertained as to the legal constructions of some of the provisions of the Embargo and Non Intercourse Laws—the Chamber of Commerce of this city, directed certain Queries as to these points, to be laid before two gentlemen of the bar, for their opinions.
These Queries, with the opinions thereon, are now published for general information.
By order. THOS. FITZSIMONS, President.
We have considered the questions stated by the Chamber of Commerce of this City and are of opinion as follows:
QUESTION I.
"Where an American vessel is bona fide sold to a foreigner, either in the United States or in a foreign port, is the seller liable under the existing laws for the employment of such vessel subsequent to the sale?"
ANSWER.
A bona fide sale of an American vessel to a foreigner, whether in or out of the United States, stands, in respect to the provisions of the Embargo Laws, on the same ground.
And under the sixth section of the enforcing act, (as it is generally termed) the last person appearing owner by any Custom House document, prior to the 5th of January last, undoubtedly continues liable for the employment of the vessel, whoever may be the actual owner; but as this restraint on the power of selling is not continued, that we perceive, in the Non-Intercourse law, we are of opinion that if such sale is bona fide made, whether at home, or abroad, the vendor is not liable for any subsequent breach of the Non Intercourse Law, but remains liable for any and every breach of the Embargo and Enforcing Laws, not done away by the Non Intercourse Law.

QUESTION II.
"Will the sale of an American ship in whole or in part in the United States subject the purchaser to give bond in the additional sum of 500 dollars per ton as prescribed by the 6th section of the Enforcing act?"
ANSWER.
Penal laws are to be generally construed according to the letter. The 6th section of the enforcing act does not reach all the cases it was probably intended to apply to. The sale of a registered or licensed vessel to a foreigner, appears to have been omitted, and consequently the bond of 500 dollars per ton, cannot in such case be required, but although the foreign purchaser of such a vessel is entitled to clear her out without giving the bond, yet if he proceeds to a forbidden port, the owner as stated in the preceding answer, will be liable to forfeit her value. In the case of any other sale, (of the whole or part) except that of a registered or licensed vessel to a foreigner, the Collector has a right to require the bond.
QUESTION III.
"If an American vessel obtains a clearance in the United States with all the usual documents to a foreign port, and actually proceeds for that port, can the legality of such clearance and destination, be afterwards questioned in the U. States?"
ANSWER.
Although it is obvious that the exercise of the power vested in the executive branch of our government to give or withhold clearances, may from misinterpretation of the laws, or misinformation of the facts, occasionally lead to great inconveniences, yet we are clearly of opinion, that the party takes the clearance at his own risque, and that the legality of the destination may be afterwards questioned in the judicial tribunals of this country, in suits or prosecutions instituted by the United States. The rapid changes of the political relations of Europe, which so eminently characterize the present times, render it almost impossible to ascertain that any destination is, at the moment of granting the clearance, within the provisions of the act, but independent of changes which may have taken place abroad since the date of the last intelligence, the information received may prove incorrect, or the administration may possibly act on erroneous principles in granting it. The obligations of Law are paramount to all others, and the party is bound to comply with them, as ultimately expounded by the judicial branch of government, nor can he vindicate himself by producing the permission of an executive officer to violate them. On the other hand, the clearance ought not to be refused if the place of destination is not within the prohibitions of the law, and an action for damages would undoubtedly lie against the officer refusing it.
QUESTION IV.
"Are Spanish dollars or other foreign coin prohibited to be exported, by any existing law of the United States?"
ANSWER.
Prior to the act of December 22d, 1807, no such prohibition existed. The general expressions of goods, wares and merchandise introduced into that act, include foreign coin. It is well settled that by a grant or devise of goods, money passes—We know of no decision excluding the same interpretation of similar expressions in a law. The distinction between specie and goods is not noticed in the first embargo law and its introduction into the subsequent acts on the same subject we conceive to have been unnecessary; but if, from greater caution, the Legislature thought proper to introduce it, we do not think that this circumstance ought to govern the construction of the Non-Inter-course Law in which no such distinction appears. If it did, the consequence would be, that should Great Britain and France revoke their obnoxious orders and decrees, and our ports be thrown open to the world, specie could not be exported to any place. We are therefore of opinion, that so far as relates to Great Britain, France and their dependencies, neither specie nor any other articles can be lawfully exported in our vessels, but so far as relates to other places, specie may lawfully be exported.
EDWARD TILGHMAN,
W. RAWLE.
Philadelphia, April 11th, 1809.
COPY
of a Letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, to the Collector of the port of Philadelphia.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
April 10, 1809.
SIR, In answer to a question put by several collectors, respecting the exportation of specie, I now inform you, that in conformity with the opinion of the attorney general on that subject, specie may be lawfully exported in American vessels bound to ports with which commercial intercourse is permitted by the act of 1st March, 1809.
I am respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
(Signed)
ALBERT GALLATIN.
RESISTANCE TO THE LAWS.
PHILADELPHIA, April 13. The circuit court of the United States, was opened on Tuesday, by Judge Washington, and a bill of indictment, laid before the grand jury, against the militia, who, under the order of Governor Snyder, have opposed the laws of the United States—upon the result we presume not to surmise.
In consequence of the failure of the marshal of the district, to enforce his process, and of the resistance made to the laws, the marshal has been directed to call out the posse comitatus, the body of the people of the county or district, to support the laws.
Summons, calling out the posse, to the number of 2,000, specially directed to each individual, and duly served by an officer of the court, we understand, are now in the course of service; and the posse, as we are told, to assemble in the State House, on Tuesday next, the 18th inst. thence to proceed in support of the laws, and to suppress the force and arms embodied, in opposition to the constitution and laws of the U. States—Aurora.
The following is the form of the notice issued by the marshal for the calling out the posse comitatus.
To
SIR,
Having been violently resisted, by an armed force, in my lawful endeavors to execute process issued from the district court of the United States for the Pennsylvania district, commanding me to arrest the bodies of Elizabeth Sergeant and Esther Winters; and the said armed force being still in array to oppose my endeavors, so as to render it impossible for me to obey and execute the said mandate to me directed, without
calling to my aid and assistance the power of the district; you are commanded and required to appear at the State House, in this city, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of Tuesday next, the 18th inst. instant, provided and prepared in such manner as will enable me, with the aid of the power of the said district, of which you are to form a part, to suppress all riots and breaches of the peace against the said United States; and to apprehend and bring to condign punishment all rioters and trespassers against the United States, so that I may be enabled to execute the said process to me directed. Herein fail not, under the pains and penalties that may, in case of disobedience, ensue.
JOHN SMITH, Marshal of the U. S. for the Pennsylvania district.
The grand jury of the circuit court, yesterday found bills of indictment against Gen. Michael Bright, and a sergeant and six privates of the militia, who, under the orders of Governor Snyder, have resisted the laws of the United States. The state of things is lamentable, and it is the more so, because the citizens thus subjected to legal penalties, are every man of them, as good citizens as are in the union.
It is reported that Mr. Oakley, just arrived at Washington, has brought overtures to our government for an accommodation, of which as a preliminary, the British government offers to make a formal concession, and acknowledgement of wrong in the case of the Chesapeake, and an offer of maintenance to the families of such as were killed in that unhappy affair.
The citizens of the U. S. imprisoned in the British navy, are to be released and permitted to return to the U. S.
The proclamation authorizing impressments to be recalled.
The abrogation of the orders of council as to the U. S.
The disavowal of the proclamations issued by British officers, inviting to the violation of the laws of the U. S.
And a proposal for a treaty of amity, commerce and navigation, upon principles of equal rights; the free admission of the ships, and productions of each country, into the ports of the other, without paying more than the port and lighthouse duties.
The above is, we rather think, more of conjecture than reality; we should expect that this new missionary would profit by Mr. Rose's experience, and rather endeavor to keep the Chesapeake and orders of council out of view, and out of discussion, as much as possible.
Dr. Farquhar's ship Sally, commanded by capt. Pearce—which attracted some notice a few weeks ago, arrived safe at Kingsale in Ireland, with 336 hds. of tobacco!—Embargo and non-intercourse, notwithstanding!—Ib.
We are told the Marshal has issued a fresh crop of notices to the amount of 10,000, to summon the inhabitants of this city as his posse, finding that Gen. Bright has ordered out two regiments of militia to oppose him.
True American.
This morning at half past six o'clock, the marshal of the district executed the writs in the case of Olmstead by passing from Cherry street through different lots and over their inclosures until reaching the premises of the respondents in the case, when he entered the house by a back door and made the arrest.
U. S. Gazette.
PHILADELPHIA, April 15.
It is with extreme satisfaction I announce to my fellow citizens the execution of the process in the case of Olmstead, (which has excited so much sensibility,) thereby rendering it unnecessary for the citizens, summoned by me, to attend, as the power of the District, at the state house on the 18th inst.; and their services are hereby dispensed with.
JOHN SMITH, Marshal.
Philadelphia, April 15.
LETTER OF
THE HON. JOHN ADAMS.
In the early part of the last session of Congress, a gentleman holding an office of high responsibility, wrote to Mr. Adams requesting his opinion with respect to the evils which pressed upon our country and the remedy to be applied. The answer has occasioned many conjectures and been the subject of much vague conversation. Wishing to do justice to that candor, which regardless of party prejudice, calls on age and wisdom for counsel, and to that magnanimity, which forgetting personal wrongs, looks only to the honor of our country, we have obtained leave to publish this interesting letter. We cannot anticipate the comments that may be made; but the text is genuine and we subscribe to its orthodoxy—Boston Patriot. (April 12.)
QUINCY, 26th Dec. 1808.
SIR, I RECEIVE very kindly your obliging letter of the 15th of this month. Ever since my return from Europe, where I had resided ten years, and could not be fully informed of the state of affairs, in my own country, I have been constantly anxious and alarmed at the intemperance of party spirit, and the unbounded license of our press. In the same view, I could not but lament some things, which have lately passed in public bodies. To instance, at Dedham and Topsfield,* and last of all in the Resolutions of our Massachusetts Legislature: Upon principle, I see no right in our Senate and House to dictate, or advise, or to request our Representatives in Congress. The right of the people to instruct their representatives is very dear to them, and will never be disputed by me. But this is a very different thing from an interference of a state Legislature. Congress must be the "cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night," to conduct this nation; and if their eyes are to be diverted by wandering light, accidentally springing up in every direction, we shall never get through the wilderness.
I have not been inattentive to the course of our public affairs, and agree with Congress in their resolutions to resist the Decrees, Edicts, and Orders of France and England; but I think the King's proclamation for the impressment of seamen on board our merchant ships, has not been distinctly enough reprobated. It is the most groundless pretension of all. Retired as I am, conversing with very few of any party—out of the secret of affairs; collecting information only from public papers and pamphlets, many links in the great chain of deliberations, actions and events, may have escaped me. You will easily believe, that an excessive diffidence in my own opinions has not been "the sin, that has most easily beset
me." I must nevertheless confess to you, that in all the intricate combinations of our affairs, to which I have ever been a witness, I never found myself so much at a loss to form a judgment of what the nation ought to do, or what part I ought to act. No man, then I hope, will have more confidence in the solidity of any thing I may suggest, than I have myself.
I revere the upright and enlightened general sense of our American Nation. It is nevertheless capable, like all other nations, of general prejudices and national errors. Among these I know not whether there is any more remarkable than that opinion, so universal, that it is in our power to bring foreign nations to our terms, by withholding our commerce. When the executive and legislative authority of any Nation, especially in the old governments and great powers of Europe, have adopted measures, upon deliberation, and published them to the world, they cannot recede, without a deep humiliation and disgrace, in the eyes of their own subjects, as well as all Europe. They will therefore obstinately adhere to them, at the expense even of great sacrifices, and in defiance of great dangers. In 1774, Congress appeared almost unanimously sanguine, that a non-importation and non-consumption association, would procure an immediate repeal of Acts of Parliament & Royal Orders. I went heartily along with the rest in all these measures, because I knew, that the sense of the nation, the public opinion in all the colonies required them—and I did not see that they could do harm. But I had no confidence in their success, in any thing but unifying the American people . I expressed this opinion freely to some of my friends, particularly to Mr. Henry, of Virginia, and to Major Hawley, of Massachusetts. These two, and these only, agreed with me in opinion, that we must fight after all. We found by experience, that a war of eight years, in addition to all our Resolutions, was necessary—and the aid of France, Spain and Holland too, before our purposes could be accomplished. Do we presume that we can excite Insurrection, Rebellion and a Revolution in England? Even a Revolution would be no benefit to us. A Republican government in England would be more hostile to us than the Monarchy is. The resources of that country are so great: their Merchants, Capitalists & principal Manufacturers are so rich that they can employ their manufacturers & store their productions for a long time, perhaps longer than we can or will bear to hoard ours. In 1794 upon these principles, and for these reasons, I thought it my duty to decide in senate against Mr. MADISON'S Resolutions, as they were called, & I have seen no reason to alter my opinion since. I own, I was sorry when the late nonimportation law passed. When a war with England was seriously apprehended in 1794, I approved of an Embargo as a temporary measure to preserve our seamen and property; but not with any expectation that it would influence England. I thought the embargo which was laid a year ago, a wise and prudent measure, for the same reason, viz. to preserve our seamen & as much of our property as we could get in; but not with the faintest hope that it would influence the British councils. At the same time, I confidently expected, that it would be raised in a few months. I have not censured any of these measures, because I knew the fond attachment of the nation to them; but I think the nation must soon be convinced that they will not answer their expectations. The Embargo and the Non-Importation laws I think ought not to last long. They will lay such a foundation of disaffection to the National Government as will give great uneasiness to Mr. JEFFERSON'S successor, and will produce such distractions and confusions as I shudder to think of. The naval & military force to carry them into execution would maintain a war. Are you then for war, you will ask? I will answer you candidly: I think a war would be a less evil than a rigorous enforcement of the embargo and a Non-intercourse. But we have no necessity to declare war against England or France or both. We may raise the Embargo, repeal the non-importation, authorize our merchants to arm their vessels; give them special Letters of Marque to defend themselves against all unlawful aggressors; and take, burn or destroy all vessels, or make prize of them, as Enemies, that shall attack them. In the mean time, apply all our resources to build frigates; some in every principal sea port. These frigates ought not to be assembled in any one port, to become an object of a hostile expedition to destroy them. They should be separated, and scattered as much as possible, from New Orleans to Passamaquoddy. I never was fond of the plan of building line or battle ships. Our policy is not to fight squadrons at sea; but to have fast sailing frigates, to scour the seas, and make impressions on the enemies' commerce; and in this way we can do great things. Our great sea ports and most exposed frontier places ought not to be neglected in their fortifications; but I cannot see for what purpose an hundred thousand militia are called out, nor why we should have so large an army at present. The Revenues applied to these uses would be better appropriated to building frigates. We may depend upon it, we shall never be respected by Foreign powers, until they see that we are sensible of the great resource which the Almighty, in his benevolent Providence, has put into our hands. No nation under the sun has better materials, architects, or mariners for a respectable maritime power. I have no doubt our people, when they see a necessity, will cheerfully pay the taxes necessary for their defence, and to support their Union, Independence, and National honor. When our merchants are armed, if they are taken, they cannot blame the government. If they fight well and capture their enemies, they will acquire glory and encouragement at home; & England or France may determine for themselves whether they will declare war. I believe neither will do it, because each will be afraid of our joining the other. If either should, in my opinion, the other will rescind; but if we should have both to fight, it would not be long before one or the other would be willing to make peace; and I see not much difference between fighting both and fighting England alone.
My heart is with the Spanish Patriots, and I should be glad to assist them as far as our Commerce can supply them. I conclude with acknowledging that we have received greater injuries from England than from France, abominable as both have been. Whatever the Government determines, I shall support as far as my small voice extends.
I am, sir, with respect and esteem,
Your humble servant,
JOHN ADAMS.
† Mr. A. was the President of the Senate—and had the casting vote in this very question—certainly one of the worst votes he ever gave in his life—This is not the only point in which we differ from the opinions of this letter—Enquirer.
ENQUIRER OFFICE, APRIL 21.
A letter from London to Charleston, of February 13, speaking of the probability of an adjustment between the United States and Great-Britain, lays very great stress upon the extent of the powers vested in the President by the non-intercourse law—"The powers intended to be vested in your President (says the writer) by the non-intercourse act, which has doubtless been passed e'er this, certainly do, in my opinion, (and I have reason to believe our folks in power also think so) open a wider door for negotiation between us, because, if I understand it rightly, he is to have authority to take off ALL our restricting laws, to which ever country first rescinds or modifies their commercial Decrees—now this is certainly conceding a great deal to us," (too much concession indeed,) "because here all notice of the affair of the Chesapeake is for the present sunk or smothered, and as the act itself is to extend equally against France as England, it also does away all partial hostility towards this country."
We have received two of the Love-Letters of his Royal Highness the Duke of York, to Mrs. Clarke. These precious literary morceaus in our next. The first letter breaks out in the following elegant strains: "How can I express sufficiently to my sweetest, my darling life, the delight which her darling, her pretty letter gave me! or how much I feel all the kind things she says to me! I can only say millions & millions of thanks to my dearest angel" &c. &c. &c.
And yet this is the Commander in Chief of the armies of Great Britain! This ! No wonder, that her military glories should be eclipsed behind such an opaque orb .
We understand, that William Smith, of whose achievements and adventures such "honorable mention" has lately been made in this paper, was on the 8th inst. arrested in bed, in the county of Orange, on a Writ of the United States, issued in consequence of an alleged breach of the embargo laws. The officer who acted on this occasion was, Mr. Wm. Mann, Deputy Marshal of the Virginia District, supported by a guard, under whose auspices Mr. Smith was carefully kept until the next day, when he was bailed in the penal sum of $25,000, by Messrs. John Porter and George Sheppard of Orange, and Wm. Porter of Fredericksburg, to appear in this city on the 19th of May next, before the District Court of the U. S. over which Judge Griffin, president—As the affair is now fairly coram judice , we shall abstain from all further strictures on the conduct of Wm. Smith. With pleasure we shall leave him to the adjudication of the laws and the justice of his country—"God send him a safe deliverance."
CONGRESSIONAL.
JEFFERSON COUNTY. James Stephenson (Fed.) 236 John Morrow (Demo.) 204
AUGUSTA DISTRICT.
Swoope (Fed.) Pendleton 183 Smith (Dem.) 120
NORTHERN NECK DIST.
Candidates—Dr. Walter Jones and Gen. Hunsford.—We understand, that there is no doubt of Dr. J's re-election.
Extract of a letter from Williamsburg.
 Bassett Rep. Eyre Fed.  Gloucester, 267 29  Matthews, 125 59  James City, 148 14  Warwick, 116 2  Northampton, 6 181  York, 118 51  Totals, 780 336   Republican 444 - Majority. 'Glorious results!—Far beyond our most sanguine expectations: Bassett's election is certain. 'Yet to be heard from the counties of Elizabeth City and Accomac.'
LATEST!—The preceding pages contain large masses of news from Bristol and Valencia. The following is still later—and so decisive, that even the Federal Field Marshal Coleman, abandons the cause of Spain as lost.
NEW-YORK, April 15.
LATEST SPANISH NEWS AND DIRECT FROM SPAIN.
By a passenger in the ship Thomas Jefferson, captain Morrison, from Spain, we have received intelligence from that quarter to the 28th February. We are sorry to say they are such as leave little doubt that ere long the whole of that depredated country is in possession of the French, excepting Cadiz, and probably some other places in Andalusia and Granada. The Thomas Jefferson left the coast of Catalonia the 18th of February, at which time the French were advancing by the coast. The advanced guards were within an hour and a half's march of Reus, when she got under weigh. The following is a sketch of the operations carried on in Catalonia during the winter. In the latter part of Dec. the Spanish troops amounting to about 45,000 men, under command of Gen. Vivas, advanced by the mountains to the easternmost of Barcelona, to cut off the supplies the French might receive from France. A few leagues from Barcelona, they were attacked by a French division of very inferior forces. Vivas ordered a retreat, and by his conduct so panicked the soldiers, that they threw down their arms and retreated in the most shameful and confused manner, even as far as Tortosa on the banks of the Ebro. Gen. Reding, the second in command, with the regiment of Swiss troops, made an orderly retreat to Tarragona, which they immediately put in a state of defence, in order to withstand a siege. As the conduct of Gen. Vivas afforded strong suspicion of his being in favor of the French, Gen. Reding assumed the chief command, and putting Vivas under arrest, sent him to the General Junta at Seville to be tried. The French followed Gen. Reding to Tarragona, and had three advanced guards within a few miles of the walls; they were constantly engaged in skirmishes. In the beginning of February the French attacked one of the out posts, which perfectly commands Tarragona; the Spaniards, however, were prepared and compelled them to retreat. They were in hourly expectation of a grand attack, but as they had sufficient troops to protect the country between the mountains and the coast, they were under no great apprehensions, until the French, by some sudden and well concerted movement got possession of the mountains, and were beyond Tarragona before they were aware of it. It was reported and currently believed, that a part of the French army, which had been besieging Saragossa, had proceeded down the Ebro, and as far as Quevca—from this circumstance there is little doubt Saragossa had fallen—Prodigies of valor have been performed by Palafox, and the inhabitants of that city—but the French were so very superior, that it had been expected for some time. If there had not been so much treachery among the Spanish officers, France would not have laid Spain.
so easy a conquest. Tarragona could not hold out any time—the British had sent them several ships loaded with arms and ammunition—the coast were four or five frigates cruising off there; one of them the Imperieux, Lord Cochrane, attacked the French army, as they were on the mount by the river side towards Tarragona; the French returned the fire from the flying artillery and shot away the Imperieux's bowsprit; it was understood she killed a number of French. A great number of deserters from the French army came to Tarragona in January, they were chiefly Italians, and represented the French army to be very much distressed by sickness; they also represented France and its dependencies to be suffering immensely by the total destruction of commerce.
It was reported at Gibraltar that the Austrian Minister at Seville had informed the Junta officially, that Austria was to declare war against France the 20th of February. Reports from the Adriatic, brought to Gibraltar, stating that the Arch Duke Charles had actually advanced with a large army in the Tyrol, seemed to confirm the report.
It was also reported that Sweden had shut her ports against England.
Turkey had a truce made with England; a ship of war carrying home the ratified treaty, was at Gibraltar when the Thomas Jefferson touched there.
The people of Russia, it was said, had become much dissatisfied with their government, and a revolution in that country was looked for. An insurrection had taken place at Cadiz about the 24th of February, in consequence of the Junta having proposed to garrison the city with Poles and Italians, said to be deserters from the French army. This circumstance excited a suspicion of the purity of the Junta's intentions, and the people assembled before the house of the Governor and demanded information; they proceeded to acts of violence and killed one or two general officers who were suspected of being French partisans—the populace have chosen a Capuchin Friar for their leader.
A most mysterious silence has been preserved by the General Junta, (and indeed all the provincial ones) respecting the actual state of the country, and it appeared to be their policy to keep the people as ignorant as possible. So completely were they in the dark, that in one province they knew not what was passing, in the other. This conduct had for some time excited strong suspicion of their patriotism, and the people of Cadiz have demanded an account of their proceedings, and the Governor has promised that they should be satisfied. Don P.
Mark this, Smugglers!—How well are your tricks known in Great-Britain!
LONDON, February 23.
We have received American papers to the 27th ult. The greatest confusion prevails in all the principal ports in the U. S. and a determined resistance is made to all the restrictive regulations of the embargo laws. The vessels for Europe, particularly England, now put to sea in defiance of the power of government, and the most serious results seem to threaten the union. The following letter from Greenock, of the 2d ult. reached us this morning:
"In American brig called the Endeavor, from New-York for Boston, arrived here this morning in 38 days: her cargo consists of 170 bales of cotton, 1000 bbls. of tar, 21 hds. of tobacco, 2 bbls. of flour, 11 half do. 2 kegs of hogs lard, 1 tierce of beans, 9 bbls. of pork, and 1 tierce of crackers (small biscuits). Eighteen vessels (chiefly ships) cleared out the same day for Boston."
"All these vessels, it is unnecessary to observe, though cleared out for Boston, are really bound to this country."
Read the interesting letter under the head of N. Y. from Washington.—If its contents be correct, it would appear, in spite of Mr. John Adams's doctrines, which read also; that our wise and energetic resort to the restrictive system has contributed to humble the tone of Britain.
Much field, but no room for originality.
The POOR of the city are hereby notified that they may attend at our respective Shops, at 12 o'clock to-morrow, and every day after, at the same hour, where they may be vaccinated GRATIS.
WILLIAM FOUSHEE, JAMES LYONS, JAMES GREENHOW, JOSEPH TRENT, J. H. FOUSHEE, WILLIAM FOUSHEE, jr., JOHN ADAMS, J. D. MCCAW.
April 18.
BEING absent when the above was sent to me for signature, is the reason of my name not appearing on Tuesday.—Desirous of contributing, as much as may be in my power, towards forwarding the benevolent intentions of the City Magistrates, I shall attend daily at my usual residence between the hours of 2 and 3 in the afternoon for the purpose of Vaccinating gratis those who may apply.
J. WORALL.
CASH given for VIRGINIA MILITARY LAND WARRANTS granted for services in the Continental Line. Apply to
GEO: GREENHOW.
April 21.
MESSRS. Stephen G. Hatcher, and Stephen Arnold—As neither of you are residents in the state of Virginia, nor have any known agent or attorney within the same, to whom this notice can be given; I hereby give you notice, that at Goodland court house, on the 20th day of May, 1809, between the hours of six in the morning and seven in the afternoon, I shall proceed to take the deposition of George Underwood, a single and material witness for me to a particular fact in the suit, which you have brought against me, in the circuit court of the United States, in the district of Virginia, in pursuance of a commission for that purpose obtained.
SAMUEL WOODSON.
April 21.
IRISH LINEN AND WINDOW GLASS, &c.—We offer for sale on reasonable terms, an Assortment of Irish Linen from 14d a 3s 6d sterling per yard, English Window Glass 10-12 7-9 and 9-11—3 ton Patent shot assorted sizes.
TOMPKINS & MURRAY.
April 21.
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, March 7, 1809. Stephen Smith, Plaintiff, against Nathan Zackery and Thomas M. Dearman, Defendants. THE defendant Zackery not having entered his appearance 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, on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney; It is ordered, That he appear here on the first day of June Court next, and enter his appearance and give security for performing the decree of the Court, and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the newspapers printed in Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-House, of the said County.
Copy Teste, TH. READ, c. c.
April 21.

EUROPEAN DOCUMENTS.
Correspondence between the British, Russian, and French governments, in consequence of the overtures received from Erfurth, presented by his Majesty's command to both houses of Parliament.
Letter from Count Nicholas de Romanzoff, to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated Erfurth, 30th Sept. (12th Oct.) 1808 (Received October 21.)
SIR, I send to your excellency a letter which the emperors of Russia and France wrote to his majesty the King of England. The emperor of Russia informs himself that England will feel the grandeur and the sincerity of this step. She will there find the most natural and the most simple answer to the overture which has been made by Admiral Saumarez. The union of the two empires is beyond the reach of all change, and the two emperors have formed it for peace as well as for war.
His majesty has commanded me to make known to your excellency that he has nominated plenipotentiaries, who will repair to Paris, where they will await the answer which your excellency may be pleased to make to me. I request you to address it to the Russian ambassador at Paris. The plenipotentiaries named by the emperor of Russia will repair to that city on the continent, to which the plenipotentiaries of his Britannic majesty and his allies have been sent.
In respect to the basis of the negotiation, their imperial majesties see no difficulty in adopting all those formerly proposed by England, namely, the uti possidetis , and every other basis founded upon the reciprocity and equality which ought to prevail between all great nations.
Count NICHOLAS DE ROMANZOFF. Letter from his majesty the emperor of all the Russias and Bonaparte, to his majesty, dated Erfurth, 12th Oct. 1808. (Received October 21.)
TRANSLATION. The present circumstances of Europe, have brought us together at Erfurth. Our first thought is, to yield to the wish and the wants of every people, and to seek, in a speedy pacification with your majesty, the most efficacious remedy for the miseries which oppress all nations. We make known to your majesty our sincere desire in this respect by the present letter.
The long and bloody war which has torn the continent at an end, without the possibility of being renewed. Many changes have taken place in Europe; many states have been overthrown. The cause is to be found in the state of agitation and misery in which the stagnation of maritime commerce has placed the greatest nations. Still greater changes may yet take place, and all of them contrary to the policy of the English nation. Peace, then, is at once the interest of the continent, as it is the interest of the people of Great Britain.
We unite in entreating your majesty to listen to the voice of humanity, silencing that of the passions; to seek, with the intention of arriving at that object, to conciliate all interests, and by that means to preserve all the powers which exist, & to ensure the happiness of Europe, and of this generation, at the head of which Providence has placed us.
(Signed) ALEXANDER, NAPOLEON. Letter from M. De Champagny to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated Erfurth, October 12, 1808. (Received October 21.)
SIR, I have the honor to transmit to your excellency a letter which the emperor of the French and the emperor of the Russias wrote to his Britannic majesty. The grandeur and sincerity of this step will, without doubt, be felt. That cannot be attributed to weakness, which is the result of the intimate connexion between the two greatest sovereigns of the continent, united for peace as well as for war.
His Majesty the Emperor, has commanded me to make known to your excellency, that he has nominated plenipotentiaries, who will repair to that city on the continent, to which his majesty the king of Great Britain and his allies shall send their plenipotentiaries. With respect to the basis of the negotiation, their majesties are disposed to adopt those formerly proposed by England, namely, the uti possidetis , and any other basis founded upon justice and the reciprocity and equality which ought to prevail between all great nations.
CHAMPAGNY. Letter from Mr. Secretary Canning to the Russian ambassador at Paris, dated Foreign Office, 28th Oct. 1808.
SIR, Having laid before the King, my master, the two letters which his excellency the Count Nicholas de Romanzoff has transmitted to me from Erfurth, I have received his majesty's commands to reply to that which is addressed to him, by the official note which I have the honor to enclose to your excellency.
However desirous his majesty might be to reply directly to his majesty the emperor of Russia, he cannot but feel, sir, that from the unusual manner in which the letters signed by his imperial majesty were drawn up, and which have entirely deprived them of the character of a private and personal communication, his majesty has found it impossible to adopt that mark of respect toward the emperor of Russia, without at the same time acknowledging titles which his majesty never has acknowledged.
I am commanded to add to the contents of the official note, that his majesty will hasten to communicate to his majesty, the king of Sweden, & to the existing government of Spain, the proposals which have been made to him.
Your excellency will perceive that it is absolutely necessary that his majesty should receive an immediate assurance, that France acknowledges the government of Spain as party to any negotiation.
That such is the intention of the emperor of Russia, his majesty cannot doubt.
His majesty recollects with satisfaction the lively interest which his imperial majesty has always manifested for the welfare & dignity of the Spanish monarchy, and he wants no other assurance that his imperial majesty cannot have been induced to sanction by his countenance, or by his approbation, usurpations the principle of which is not less unjust than their example is dangerous to all legitimate sovereigns.
As soon as the answers on this point shall have been received, and as soon as his majesty shall have learnt the sentiments of the king of Sweden and those of the government of Spain, I shall not fail to receive the commands of his majesty for such communications as it may be necessary to make upon the interior objects of the letter of Count Romanzoff.
GEORGE CANNING. Letter from Secretary Canning to M. de Champagny, dated Foreign Office, 28th Oct. 1808.
SIR, Having laid before the King, my master, the two letters which your excellency transmitted to me from Erfurth, one of which was addressed to his majesty, I have received his majesty's commands to return in answer the official note which I have the honor herewith to enclose.
I am commanded to add, that his majesty will lose no time in communicating to the king of
Sweden and to the government of Spain the proposals which have been made to his majesty.
Your excellency will see the necessity of an assurance being immediately afforded to his majesty, that the admission of the government of Spain as a party to the negotiation, is understood and agreed to by France.
After the answer of your excellency upon this point shall have been received, and so soon as his majesty shall be in possession of the sentiments of the king of Sweden and of the government of Spain, I shall receive his majesty's commands to communicate with your excellency on the remaining points of your letter.
GEORGE CANNING.
OFFICIAL NOTE.
The king has uniformly declared his readiness and desire to enter into negotiation for a general peace, on terms consistent with the honor of his majesty's crown, with fidelity to his engagement, and with the permanent repose and security of Europe. His majesty repeats that declaration.
If the condition of the continent be one of agitation and of wretchedness; if many states have been overthrown and more are still menaced with subversion: it is a consolation to the king to reflect, that no part of the convulsions which have already been experienced, or of those which are threatened for the future, can be in any degree imputable to his majesty. The king is most willing to acknowledge that all such dreadful changes are indeed contrary to the policy of Great Britain.
If the cause of so much misery is to be found in the stagnation of commercial intercourse, although his majesty cannot be expected to bear, with unqualified regret, that the system devised for the destruction of the commerce of his subjects has recoiled upon its authors, or its instruments, yet it is neither in the disposition of his majesty nor in the character of the people over whom he reigns, to rejoice in the privations and unhappiness even of the nations which are combined against him. His majesty desires the termination of the sufferings of the continent.
The war in which His Majesty is engaged, was entered into by His Majesty for the object of national safety. It has been prolonged only because no secure and honorable means of terminating it have been hitherto afforded by his enemies.
But in the progress of a war begun for self-defence, new obligations have been imposed upon His Majesty, in behalf of powers whom the aggressions of a common enemy have compelled to make common cause with His Majesty; or who have solicited His Majesty's assistance and support in vindication of their national independence.
The interests of the crown of Portugal and of His Sicilian Majesty, are confided to His Majesty's friendship and protection.
With the King of Sweden, His Majesty is connected by ties of the closest alliance, and by stipulations which unite their councils, for peace as well as for war.
To Spain, His Majesty is not yet bound by any formal instrument; but His Majesty has, in the face of the world, contracted with that nation engagements not less sacred, and not less binding upon His Majesty's mind than the most solemn treaties.
His Majesty therefore, assumes, that, in an overture made to his majesty for entering into negotiations for a general peace, the relations subsisting between his majesty and the Spanish monarchy have been distinctly taken into consideration; and that the government acting in the name of his catholic majesty Ferdinand the Seventh, is understood to be a party to any negotiation in which his majesty is invited to engage.
GEORGE CANNING.
The Russian Answer. The undersigned minister of foreign affairs of his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, has the honor to reply to the note of the 28th Octo. last, signed by Mr. Canning, secretary of state for foreign affairs to his majesty the king of G. B. and addressed by his excellency to the Russian ambassador at Paris.
That the admission of the sovereigns in alliance with England to a congress cannot be a point of difficulty, and that Russia and France consent to it.
But this principle by no means extends to the necessity of admitting the plenipotentiaries of the Spanish insurgents: the Emperor of Russia cannot admit them. His empire, & England can recollect one particular instance—has always been true to the same principle. Moreover he has acknowledged the King Joseph Napoleon. He was announced to his Britannic majesty, that he has united with the Emperor of the French in a peace as well as for war, and his imperial majesty here repeats that declaration. He is resolved not to separate his interests from those of that monarch; but they are both ready to conclude a peace, provided it be just, honorable, and equal for all parties.
The undersigned sees with pleasure, that in this difference of opinion respecting the Spaniards, nothing prevents itself which can either prevent or delay the opening of a congress. He derives his persuasion in this respect, from that which his Britannic majesty has himself confided to the two emperors, that he is bound by no positive engagement with those who have taken up arms in Spain.
After fifteen years of war, Europe has a right to demand peace. The interests of all the powers, including that of England, is to render it general; humanity commands it; and such a desire surely, cannot be foreign to the feelings of his Britannic majesty. How can it be, that he alone can withdraw himself from such an object, and refuse to terminate the miseries of suffering humanity?
The undersigned, consequently renews, in the name of the Emperor, his august master, the proposal already made to plenipotentiaries to a city on the continent, which his Britannic majesty may please to point out; to admit to the congress the plenipotentiaries of the sovereigns in alliance with Great Britain; to treat upon the basis of the uti possidetis , upon that of the respective powers of the belligerent parties; in fine, to accept any basis which has for its object the conclusion of a peace in which all parties shall find honor, justice, and equality.
The undersigned has the honor to renew to his excellency, Mr. Canning, the assurances of his high consideration.
(Signed) COUNT NICHOLAS DE ROMANZOFF.
Reply to the Russian Answer. The undersigned, his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, has laid before the king his master the note transmitted to him by his excellency the Count Nicholas de Romanzoff, minister for foreign affairs of his majesty the emperor of all the Russias, dated on the 16th—28th of Nov.
The king learns with astonishment and regret the expectation which appears to have been entertained, that his majesty should consent to commence a negotiation for a general peace by the previous abandonment of the cause of the Spanish nation, and of the legitimate monarchy of Spain, in deference to an usurpation which has no parallel in the history of the world.
His majesty had hoped that the participation of the emperor of Russia in the overtures made to his majesty would have afforded a security to his majesty against the proposal of a condition so unjust in its effects, and so fatal in its example.
Nor can his majesty conceive by what obligation of duty or of interest, or by what principle of Russian policy, his imperial majesty can have found himself compelled to acknowledge the right, assumed by France, to depose, and imprison friendly sovereigns, and forcibly to transfer
to herself the allegiance of loyal and independent nations.
If these be indeed the principles to which the emperor of Russia has invariably attached himself; to which his imperial majesty has pledged the character and resources of his empire; which he has united himself with France to establish by war, and to maintain in peace, deeply does his majesty lament a determination by which the sufferings of Europe must be aggravated and prolonged; but not to his majesty is to be attributed the continuance of the calamities of war, by the disappointment of all hope of such a peace as would be compatible with justice and with honor.
(Signed) GEORGE CANNING.
The Notes of the French and British ministers, similar to the two last notes, have already been published in the Enquirer. The last note in this series of Documents is the following one, from Mr. Champagny in reply to Mr. Canning's last note:
From M. de Champagny to Mr. Secretary Canning, dated Paris, December 13, 1808. Received Dec. 17.
SIR, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your excellency's letter of the 9th inst. together with the official note which accompanied it. I shall lose no time in laying this note before the emperor my master. I avail myself of this opportunity to renew to your excellency the assurance of the high consideration with which I have the honor to be, &c.
(Signed) CHAMPAGNY. His Excellency Mr. Canning, &c. &c.
MISCELLANY.
Notice of Mr. Mussey's Experiments on CUTANEOUS ABSORPTION. From Dr. BARTON's Medical and Physical Journal—now in the press.
DEAR SIR, By announcing in your Medical and Physical Journal, the following short notice of certain Experiments, which, a few weeks since I instituted relative to the subject of cutaneous absorption, and which I prosecuted under your inspection, you will add another obligation to the many already conferred on
Your very obedient servant, And Very grateful pupil, REUBEN D. MUSSEY. To BENJAMIN SMITH BARTON, M. D. & C. Philadelphia, April 10th, 1809.
I immersed myself, my head and the anterior part of the thorax excepted, in an aqueous infusion of Madder (Rubia tinctorum) and in the different experiments, remained in it different periods of time, viz. from one to four hours. I made five experiments of this kind; and after each experiment, with one exception, I was able, by means of appropriate tests, to detect colouring matter, essentially different from that of the blood in the urine.
The tests employed were pot ash, & Sulphate of Iron (Green Vitriol.) The former produced a bright crimson hue: the latter a muddy purple.
These experiments, which I believe are new, are circumstantially known to many of my friends and have, by them been declared to be satisfactory, and perfectly decisive in favor of Cutaneous Absorption. R. D. M.
PROPERTY, FOR SALE.—The subscriber, desirous of removing to the western country, offers for sale his HOUSES & LOTS, in Richmond. He deems a particular description unnecessary, and wishes those inclined to purchase, to view the property. The dwelling-house, for elegance and convenience, is certainly not inferior to any in the city; the offices are commodious; the garden and yard will be laid out in a stile adapted to the buildings, and the situation combines the advantage of privacy and retirement to that of proximity to the scene of business.
A small portion only of the purchase money will be required at the time of the sale, and the residue in such instalments as may be agreed on, or slaves will be received in payment, for a part or the whole of the property. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH. January 27. GAWF
THE Subscriber has a well-situated GROCER'S SHOP on the Canal, lately occupied by Mr. Moore—Also some ROOMS on an upper floor in the corner-house opposite the scale-house, near the end of the Basin. For terms apply to Robbins & Henderson in the corner house who will show the other tenement, or to SAMUEL OVERTON. April 4. oaw3w
JUST RECEIVED, and for sale by BRYSOON & PARKHILL, Young Hyson } Tea of English Gunpowder in Imperial and } sup. kegs, and papers of Gunpowder, } quality one lb. each, Brown Sugar in Hds. Shot in bags, Mahanah do. in boxes. Whiskey in tierces and Hovans in Hds. barrels, Mould Candles, Raisins in boxes and All-Spice in bags, kegs, Ginger in kegs, Filberts in bags, Pepper in bags, Butter in firkins, Coffee in bbls.
They are in daily expectation of receiving a new supply of Hard-Ware and Shoes, in addition to their present assortment. April 7. w4w
NEGROES FOR SALE.—To be sold at Charlottesville in the county of Albemarle, if not previously disposed of at private sale, on Monday the 7th August next, being Albemarle court day, about forty NEGROES in families.—The terms of sale will be one half cash, and for the other half bonds with approved security will be required, payable in 6 months. Mr. Benj. Hackney my agent will conduct the sale. WILSON M. CARY. Williamsburg, March 16. 1w2m
IN pursuance of a deed of trust executed to the Subscribers by Wm. French, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, due John Read: Will be exposed, for sale, at the late residence of said French, in Henrico county, on the second Monday in May next, if fair, if not the next fair day, one NEGRO MAN named Jerr, one dark boy MARE called Nestor, one sorrel COLT three years old, ten head of CATTLE, one Walnut DESK and BOOK-CASE, one CUPBOARD, feather BEDS and FURNITURE, three TABLES, two CHESTS, or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to meet the intention of the said trust deed, together with the expenses of sale. GEORGE WALLER, Jr. } Trustees. JOSEPH TOPSON, } April 4. 3w
IN CHANCERY.—Buckingham County January Court, 1809.
George Hilton, plaintiff against Cornelius Thomas and Reuben Patterson, Defendants. On the motion of the plaintiff by Counsel, and appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant Thomas is not an inhabitant of this state, It is ordered and decreed, That unless the said Thomas shall appear here on or before May Court next, and answer the bill of the plaintiff, the same will be taken for confessed as to him and the matter thereof decreed accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city Richmond for two months successively and another copy be posted up at the front door of the Courthouse of this County.
A copy. R. ELDRIDGE, Jr. D. C. March 7. 1w3w
IN CHANCERY.—Buckingham County March Court, 1809. James James Plaintiff against William Cannon, William Anderson, senior, and William Anderson, Jr. Defendants. On the motion of the plaintiff by counsel and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that the defendant Cannon is not an inhabitant of this state, It is ordered and decreed, That unless the said Cannon shall appear here at June Court next and answer the plaintiff's bill. The Court will then proceed to take the same for confessed as to him and decree the matter thereof accordingly, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some public newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and another copy be posted up at the front door of the Courthouse of this County. A copy. Teste, R. ELDRIDGE, Jr. D. C. April 7. 1w3w
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, March 7th, 1809. Robert Smith, Plaintiff, against James Weaver and Wm. Smith Defendants. THE defendant Weaver, not having entered his appearance 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: On the motion of the plaintiff, by his attorney, It is ordered, That he appear here on the first day of June Court next, and enter his appearance, and give security for performing the decree of the court, and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the news-papers printed in Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of the said county. Copy. Teste, THOMAS READ, Clk. April 7. w8w
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, March 7th, 1809. Robert Bailey, administrator of Lucy Bailey, dec'd. Plaintiff, against William Smith, administrator and distributee of John Smith, dec'd. John Smith, George Jones & Molly his wife, Edward Clarke and Elizabeth his wife, James Weaver & Nancy his wife, Charles Smith, Samuel Smith, David Bailey and Elizabeth his wife, and Francis Smith Defendants. THE defendants, John Smith, George Jones and Molly his wife, James Weaver and Nancy his wife, Charles Smith, Samuel Smith, David Bailey and Elizabeth his wife, and Francis Smith not having entered their appearance, according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that they are not inhabitants of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff, by his attorney, It is ordered, That they appear here on the first day of June court next, and enter their appearance, and that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the news papers printed in Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of the said county. Copy. Teste, THOMAS READ, Clk. April 7. w8w
PURSUANT to a decretal order of the chancery District court of Williamsburg, will be offered for sale, at Westmoreland court-house on the 4th Monday in May next, being court day, that very valuable FARM, situated on Nomony river, in the county of Westmoreland, the property of John Matthews, late of said county, containing 643 acres. A credit of 12 months will be given the purchaser executing bond with approved security to the commissioners acting under the aforesaid order and a deed of trust on the land to secure the payment of the purchase money, according to the terms of the decree. April 11. 1w
LANDS, FOR SALE.—By virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Bibb, of the county of Charlotte, to the subscribers, to secure the payment of a debt due to Messrs. Buchanan and Pollock of the town of Petersburg: Will be sold, on Thursday, the 4th day of May next, at the house of the said John Bibb, to the highest bidder, for ready money, two tracts of LAND lying and being in the said county of Charlotte, one containing one hundred and sixty-five acres, it being the tract on which the said Bibb resides, and the other one hundred and fifty acres, it being the tract purchased by him of Benjamin Stubbs, senr. lying on the waters of Cub creek. HENRY A. WATKINS, Wm. M. WATKINS, TH: B. MANLOVE. Tds. April 7.
LANDING from the Schooner RICHMOND Isaac Seaman, Master:— 50 Boxes Raisins, 10 Bales Soft Shelled Almonds, 5 Casks Green Coffee, 19 Barrels Prime Pork, and 1 Pipe London Particular Madeira Wine. IN STORE. 17 Hogsheads Brown Sugar, 25 do. Molasses, 5 Tierces Green Coffee, 75 Boxes Havana Segars, 3 Bales Welch Planes, Family Flour in barrels and half barrels, Young Hyson, Hyson Skin and Souchong Tea, 10 Boxes Mould Candles, FOR SALE BY, GEORGE WATT. January 17. tf
NEW CHEAP DRY GOOD STORE, Just opened at Mr. Thomas's Yellow House, on the Capitol Hill, nearly opposite the Swan Tavern, consisting of a variety of handsome and fashionable printed Cambricks, Chintz, and Calicoes, rich Laces, printed Shawls & Handkerchiefs, Pocket Handkerchiefs, Mouselines, white & colored Vesting, Leno Shawls assorted, India Cottons & Cotton Linens—together with, generally, every article in the Dry Good line: all which are retailing & at wholesale at nearly prime cost, on account of the owner returning in a few weeks to the Northward. April 14. 4w
REMOVAL.—The Subscribers (in consequence of the late Fire) have removed to a brick tenement belonging to Messrs. J. & R. Gamble, on the street leading to Mayo's Bridge, opposite Messrs. Brown and Rives's Accompanying House, where they have for sale, a general assortment of GERMAN GOODS, CONSISTING OF..... Oznaburgs & Ticklen- Fine Shirting Linen, burgs, Bed Tick, Dantzic Rolls, Damask Table Cloths, Brown Rolls, Looking Glasses, Sheeting, Liquor Casks, Dowlas, Quart, Pink and 1/2 Pint, Platillas, Decanters. Also, Fresh RED CLOVER SEED JOHN & HUBNER. April 4. 6w
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The fast sailing Ship, WOODROP SIMS; BUILT of live oak and cedar, copper fastened, and coppered up to the binds; her upper works, sails and rigging new and in complete order—Will load immediately, and sail as soon thereafter as possible, or may be stayed until the first 15 days after the next meeting of Congress. For terms apply to MR. CHAN. H. SAUNDERS, OR, SHANKS & BINFORD. Norfolk, April 7.
ANY person who may possess a file of Virginia Papers for 1776, will render a service to the literature of the state, by forwarding it to this office; after it has served the purpose of its duty for which it is intended, it will be thankfully returned in the same state of preservation in which it was received. In general, all authentic documents, either printed or manuscript, relative to the Revolutionary War, will be thankfully received, used and returned as before mentioned. Communications, by letter too, upon this subject, by those now living, who were engaged in the revolutionary struggle, or were eye-witnesses of important events, will be thankfully received. March 31. tf
NOTICE.—The subscriber has, for the present, removed his VENDUE OFFICE, to the front room of the house occupied by Mr. Carter B. Page, opposite to Messrs. Hovey and Sizer where he transacts business as usual. He has on hand a quantity of West India and other GOODS, and is prepared with convenient store-houses to receive any further consignments that may be made to him. JAMES BROWN, Jr. Auctioneer. April 11.
RACING!—The Tappahannock JOCKEY CLUB RACES, will commence on Thursday the 25th May next. 1st DAY—The Jockey Club Purse of $30* four mile heats 2nd DAY—The Jockey Club Purse of $24* three mile heats. 3rd DAY—The Proprietor's Purse of $16* entrance 10 dollars, two mile heats, (five horses or no race) WEIGHTS AS FOLLOWS: An aged horse, lb. 130 4 Years old, lb. 100 6 years old 5 years old 130 3 Do. 96 5 Do. 110 And under that age a feather. The course, &c. will be in good order, as the referee may expect fine sport; stables and litter provided gratis, upon timely application to the proprietor of the course. A. S. BROCKENBROUGH, Secretary and Treasurer.
The Secretary cannot state accurately the amount of each day's purse, but supposes they will be as above stated, after deducting the Jockey Club dinner and the expense of advertising the races from the subscription. April 11. tf
PURSUANT to a Deed of Trust executed to the subscribers, by Samuel Parsons & Sarah his wife, for the benefit of Wm. Cooke and Thomas and Amos Ladd, and other Creditors of the said Samuel Parsons, will be exposed to Sale at Public Auction, on the respective Premises, on Wednesday the 3rd of next month the following PROPERTY, lying in the City of Richmond, viz. nearly three-fourths of the LOT described in the plan of the said City by No. 436, on the S. W. side of the Basin, and between Thomas Ladd's and the Hay-Market Square, bounded on the North-East by the street running between the Hay-Market Square and the public Warehouse. All that part of LOT, No. 413, on the N. East side of the Basin, which is bounded by the street running by the Bank and Robert McKim's to Cary street, thence by the last mentioned street to the tenement occupied by Mr. Smith as a Bakery, & back to the alley which divides said Lot from R. McKim's. One Moiety of the Tenement on the Main street, now occupied by David Logan, containing 24 feet front, and extending back to an alley leading to Byrd's Warehouse, on which are a two story brick store house, lumber house, kitchen, stables, &c. Also, ten SHARES in the Richmond Turnpike and a COACHMAN and Horses, together with sundry Household-Furniture, &c. The sale will commence at the Tenement occupied by David Logan for the Moiety thereof, the Turnpike Shares and the Personal Articles; and will thence adjourn in course to the other LOTS mentioned. Terms of sale will be, cash for the Personal property, the Turnpike shares, and the Moiety of the Tenement in the occupancy of D. Logan; and twelve months credit for the other property, on notes negotiable and payable at the Bank of Virginia, satisfactorily endorsed, and titles to be withheld as further security, until full payment of the respective notes—or, at the option of the purchaser, one fourth to be paid down and the other three fourths to be secured by deed of trust on the property purchased, and bond of the purchaser. The Lots will be sold as they stand, or be divided as may appear reasonable. E. CARRINGTON, } Trustees. RICHARD ADAMS, } GEO: GREENHOW, } Richmond, April 7. eptls
JOHNSON & REAT, JEWELLERS, have (in consequence of the late conflagration) removed their Store opposite to Mrs. Davidson, Milliner, where orders from their customers will be attended to with their usual punctuality. March 31. tf
JOHN ALCOCK, informs his friends, and the public, that he is carrying on his CABINET MAKING BUSINESS, in all its branches where he makes all kind of Mahogany Furniture in the best manner, and on the newest fashions.—Any gentlemen or ladies wanting any Furniture, will find good work executed, and on low terms, as can be bought in New-York, or any other place. Any orders left at my shop, in the Cross-Street, adjoining Prosser and Moncure's Vendue Store, or at Mr. George Greenhow's where I keep my Ware-Room, will be pointedly attended to, and great care taken to deliver it in good order. N. B. Two Apprentices wanted at the above business, who can come well Recommended. January 17. tf
THE RECORDS & PAPERS OF THE HUSTINGS COURT, In consequence of the late fire, are removed to the Office of the General Court, opposite the Chancery Office, in the Capitol. TH: C. HOWARD. April 4. 8c
WANTED TO HIRE.—A young Woman, who is well acquainted with house-work, particularly sewing, industrious, honest and sober—Also, an elderly Woman, for a Nurse, who is well acquainted with the treatment of young children.—Apply at this office. April 4. tf
Merchant's, Lawyer's, Sheriff's and Constable's BLANKS, For Sale at this Office.