The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1805-02-01 00:00:00

recession, or something to that amount must take place; it is inconsistent with all our ideas and principles of government to have such a class of people in the centre of the union without any constitutional rights...
Mr. R. added, that those who contemplate so great an increase of population and wealth, ought to prepare early for such an event by making an early retrocession. He did not, however, for himself, believe the population of this district would increase with the rapidity suggested.
Mr. Boyd said that although some gentlemen had left the constitutionality of the proposed measure out of the question, he was not satisfied any more on that point on that point was to him the polar star by which his course through the sea of politics would be regulated.
We are asked to recede this territory on account of the difficulty of legislating for its inhabitants. The same arguments would apply for the reception of the ceded territory of Georgia, or Louisiana; their interests are also too indistinctly understood; their distance too remote for your legislation.
Foreign Intelligence. Received by the ship William Murdoch, Captain Thomas, 59 days from Curacoa, arrived at Charleston—London dates to Nov. 14.
LONDON, November 2. The following is a copy of the note which was presented by Mr. Jackson to the court of Berlin, respecting the scandalous seizure of Sir G. Rumbold.
His majesty has received the account of an unprovoked act of violence committed at Hamburg, against the person of Sir Geo. Rumbold, his minister at that place, who was forcibly seized in his own house in the night of the 25th of October, by a detachment of French soldiers, and carried off, together with the papers belonging to his mission.
litters, hitherto respected and recognized by every age, and by every nation. His Prussian majesty unquestionably will not only participate in the sentiment which must be common to every sovereign, but the vicinity of his dominions, and his situation, both as the director of the circle of Lower Saxony, and as a guarantor of the Germanic constitution, will induce him to feel a deep and peculiar interest in this unparalleled transaction.
The communications which his majesty's ministers abroad were directed to present to the ministers of the court at which they resided, were varied according to the circumstances of the respective relations of those courts with the Germanic empire.
The day succeeding that on which Mr. Jackson, the English Minister, presented the Note to the Court of Berlin, relative to the seizure of the British Charge des affaires at Hanover, a great Council of State was held at Potsdam, on the subject.
By letters received from Carlsruhe, dated the 18th ult. we learn, that the fever raged at that time with unabated violence. No less than one hundred persons died daily. November 3. Monsieur, brother to Louis XVIII, accompanied by the Chevalier de Puységur, and the Abbe de Tille, returned to town yesterday from Sweden.
It seems by no means improbable, that Bonaparte has had it in his contemplation to seize Mr. Taylor, our Minister to the Elector of Hesse; for we find that that gentleman left Coffee suddenly, probably in consequence of some intimation he had received of the tyrant's intention.
The jealous interest which Earl Moira felt in the happy reconciliation of all the branches of the Royal Family, we are assured, was the sole cause of his journey to London. It was the wish of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales to have the Noble Earl in town, that certain preliminary circumstances might have the advantage of his negotiation.
A circumstance recently occurred at Tripoli, which has materially interested our interest at that court. The Bashiaw having received from the English consul, Mr. M'Donough, assurance that the American cruizers off the port would respect the British flag and passport, sent out a small vessel under them, with a valuable freight for Malta; but she was captured within sight of the port by the Syren frigate, and sent for Syracuse.
cannot venture yet to form her complaisance. If she hesitated an instant, Bonaparte, without a declaration of war, might march to Berlin by way of precaution. November 7. A report has been circulated for some days past, that a very extraordinary arrangement is about to take place, by which the King of Spain, it is said, is to be deposed, on account of imbecility, from his executive functions, and that a Council of Regency, consisting of the Queen, and Prince of Peace, and their creatures, is to be formed, to the exclusion of the Heir to the Crown.
But the present is the age of revolutions. The tremendous revolution of France which has levelled the proud oaks and the humble shrubs, has prepared the minds of men for changes of government and of dynasty. The French revolution indeed, which brought on the death of the King and Queen of France, soon followed certain events in this country, during which it was declared, that any man in the kingdom was, as to rights, just as much entitled to the Regency as the Heir Apparent.
We sincerely hope, however, that the event above alluded to is unfounded, for we must anxiously deprecate any more examples of a King and Prince at once deposed and stripped of their hereditary rights and privileges by court cabals.
Yesterday arrived the Hamburg Mail due on Wednesday. The Continental intelligence is at present of no great importance. The best understanding, however, is stated to prevail between the two new emperors, if we may believe the last accounts from Vienna.
Accounts have been received of the arrival of Lord George Leveson Gower at Peterseburgh, where he has met with a very gracious reception, and has had the honor to dine with his Imperial Majesty. A Spanish brig from the Havanna, laden with cochineal, and 10,000 in dollars, detained by the Maidstone frigate, is arrived at Plymouth. November 10. It appears that another Spanish frigate has been detained by the Medusa.
It is now said that the extraordinary event which has taken place in Spain is, that the Prince of the Asturias, (a title similar to that of our prince of Wales) the eldest son of the King, and the Heir of the Spanish Monarchy, has been imprisoned, and the second son declared the Heir. We are altogether at a loss what to make of these stories.
the disaffected have been held in the counties of Cawlos and Kildare, since Friday last. Numerous affidavits, asserting this fact, have been sworn before the magistrates in those parts of the country. On 5. A day last a large meeting of the Roman Catholics was held in Dublin, for the purpose of preparing a petition to the Imperial Parliament, on the subject of their Emancipation.
Paris Journals to the 11th, and Dutch papers of a late date have been received. The Monitor announces the capture of the Spanish frigates, and comments upon that affair in a style which appears to leave no chance whatever of an amicable arrangement with Spain.
It is the opinion of some that, in case of a rupture with Spain, which seems now almost inevitable, operations will be undertaken against the Spanish settlement in America. A letter from Hamburg by the last mail says that the Russian minister here has by official application, caused the two notes from M. D'Oubril to M. Talleyrand, relative to the disposition of Russia towards France, to be inserted in the Correspondent of this city.
The Emperor of Germany is making extensive military preparations, for the avowed purpose of maintaining his neutrality in the event of a rupture between Russia and France.
November 9. At Paris nothing is talked of but the coronation. The war, and its effects and consequences, no longer interest. The arrival of the Pope is more talked of than would be the landing of an English army.
It appears that the King of Sweden is about to make some military and naval preparations. The Swedish sailors in foreign service have been called home, and not a few of them who were on board British ships have obeyed the summons.
Paris, November 1. The foreign news inserted in the French papers, and in the Monitor among the rest, mention the immediate return to Vienna of the Imperial and Royal Envoy to the court of Stockholm, Count Lodron Laterano, and attribute to the refusal of his Swedish Majesty to acknowledge the title of Hereditary Emperor of Austria, assumed by the Chief of the Archducal family.
Sir George Rumbold, escorted by an Aide-de-Camp of General Bernadotte, an Officer and two Gens-d'Armes, arrived from Nimèguen, at Bois-le-Duc, on the 2d instant, at seven in the evening.
November 14. All the Imperial German Cities are to send Deputies to Paris, to the Coronation of the Emperor. Bread upon the continent, at least in France and Germany, was lately 75 per cent. cheaper than in England.
STOCK EXCHANGE, London, November 18. 3 per Cent. Red. 57 15-28. 3 per Cent. Con. 56 15-28. 4 per Cent. 78 7 3-4. 5 per Cent. Navy 91 351-889. 5 per Cent. Loy. 98 7-8 99 1-8. Long Ann. 16 15-16 1-2. Imperial 3 per Cent. 56 73-84. Imperial Annuities 9 1-2. Deferred Stock 50 3-4. Omnium 8 1-4. Exchequer Bills par. 1s. dif. English Lot. Tick. 181. 78. Consols for Acc. 58 3-8.
Extract of a letter dated Texel Roads, October 16. "It is reported here this day, that the French have declared WAR against the Swedes and Danes; in consequence of which, several Danish and Swedish vessels have been detained." [Pbil. Pap.] HAMBURGH, October 30. No further accounts which can be relied on, have been received here respecting Sir George Rumbold.
GENOA, OCT. 15. The number of French troops which occupy Naples, Calabria, &c. is estimated at 80,000. HAGUE, OCT. 27. Our government, in consequence of the protest of the Orange Commissioners, has directed the Ambassador, Schimmelpennik, to submit the subject to Emperor Napoleon, for his decision, which, it is hoped, will be in favour of the House of Orange.
OCT. 30. General Marmont has lately had frequent conferences with our government, and, it is said, has presented a new plan of Constitution. It is now reported, that a part of the French troops will still continue in their encampment. PARIS, OCT. 27. The number of troops which will attend the coronation, is said to amount to 30,000.
ITALY, OCT. 15. It is confirmed, that several Bishops and others in the state of the Church, as Viterbo, Fermo, and Macerata, have presented a petition to the Pope, for the restoration of the Order of the Jesuits in the Ecclesiastical States; but his Holiness has yet returned no answer.
Domestic Intelligence. Extract of a letter from the subcargos of the brig Mary, John Giles, master, from Malaga, bound to Philadelphia, dated Halifax, Jan. 1, 1805.
"We put in here in distress the 29th ult. after being out 56 days from Malaga, and about 40 of which time, between this and the Grand Bank; we have been upon every short allowance for some time, say about 40 days. The 21st ult. came to an allowance of one pint of water per day, and the last of our meat we boiled on Christmas day, which was about 1 pound per man, and we have not had a fire in the camboose for 15 days before, all the meat that was eat was eat raw, as we were entirely out of wood, and nothing but continual gales and squalls since we left Malaga.
THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALE, THE CHINESE SNAKE STONE, formerly the property of the late Mrs. Tabb, of Mathews county, so famous throughout Virginia, for its efficacy in extracting the venom from the bite of a Mad Dog, Snake, or other poisonous thing.

We owe an apology to the author of the following letter for not inserting his entire communication in this day's paper. The Foreign Intelligence, the scheme for a university, the debate in Congress, and a summary of the acts of the Virginia Legislature, did not permit us to publish it at full length. To the readers of those letters, no apology is due for their omission. Whilst we deem the press too sacred to be made the vehicle of personal slander or party abuse, we must at the same time admit that a decent criticism upon the character of public agents is a salutary and instructive monitor both to themselves and to the people.
LETTER FROM A MEMBER OF THE VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE TO HIS FRIEND IN *****.
Richmond, January
YOU know, my friend, the presentiments and expectations, which filled my mind, when I set out for the capital of Virginia, & the seat of our legislative body. Historical books and my earliest reflections, had inspired me with too august an idea of the attainments and virtues of all deliberative assemblies. When I brought before me the design and construction of such a body; sometimes the whole mass of the people themselves, and sometimes a select body of representatives, collecting in one great assembly to witness the energies of genius, to estimate the resources of knowledge, and to decide on the most momentous concerns, the improvement, the property, the life, and sometimes no less a concern than the liberty of their countrymen; my ardent imagination, ever ready to exaggerate what it cannot distinctly comprehend, would scarcely represent them under a less imposing appearance, than as a collection of stages, deliberating and deciding on the destinies of the world. The fine models of former times, lengthening in their gigantic appearance from the remote distance at which we behold them, would now and then steal in upon my memory, and assist the wayward delusions of fancy. It was the patriotic Solon, collecting out of a rude chaos the materials of social order, and reducing them to a beautiful and harmonious system, whom I assumed as my standard of every thing, that a legislator ought to be, & every thing that he was. It was the resistless eloquence of Demosthenes, glowing like the lightning of heaven, & kindling the expiring liberties of his countrymen; or it was the mighty soul of Chatham, abashing, awing and putting to flight, the corrupt junto of a British administration; that appeared to my imagination as the necessary attributes of every man who rose in a popular assembly. How great then would have been my disappointment and disgust, if under these early and glowing impressions, I had first been presented with a view of the Virginia Legislature! Without the art of correcting the conceptions of fancy by the lessons of experience: Without the power of making allowances for the difference of times, countries or circumstances, every member whom I should have seen, would have appeared not less dignified than Solon and Demosthenes themselves; yet I should not perhaps have met with a single member in the whole assembly, who would have borne a comparison with these illustrious Athenians.
These men, my dear friend, have owed all the greatness of their talents and the splendour of their renown, to the peculiar circumstances of their times.
It was because Athens was disturbed by revolutions which demanded great talents, and because she had attained that degree of refinement, which is sufficient to produce them, that Solon became the lawgiver and father of his country. It was because Philip was soaring to the sovereignty of Greece, and the spirit of Athens was slumbering in the dust, that the genius of Demosthenes was called forth in her defence. Had it not been for these external excitements, the laws of Solon might not have extended beyond the bounds of a convivial circle; and the eloquence of Demosthenes might have sunk under the defects of nature. We all know that the character of man is modified by his situation is modified by his situation. Great occasions will always produce great talents. According to the beautiful allusion of an illustrious Virginian, they will rise like the water in the pump, in proportion to the superincumbent pressure. Enlarge the theatre of glory; multiply the means of drawing forth the powers of the soul, and whether the effort extends to a nation or an individual, the greatness of the effect is commensurate to the activity of the cause. It was because the circumstances of our times are so various; it was because the state of our commonwealth is so exempt from tumults, anarchy and wars; in fact it was because no momentous occasion exists to stimulate the exertions of the Virginia Legislature, that I did not expect to see the splendid powers of a Solon or Demosthenes completely displayed.
You can easily conceive, my dear friend, the great questions, which animate and exhibit all the talents of a Legislator: and such questions you very well know, are rarely introduced into the Hall of the Virginia Assembly. A Legislator of the present time has no political Chaos to reduce to order; the principles of the government have long since been adjusted by an established Constitution. Does he censure the relations which we maintain with foreign countries? It would be unconstitutional to do it; them on the theatre of the state: He will find that these complicated relations, so difficult to be arranged, and so favorable to the display of political wisdom, are exclusively reserved for the national legislature. Is there any defect in our military system, in our naval system, in the great system of finance, which he wishes to anatomize and expose; is there any great danger, which he foresees from the usurpations of the government? It is not in the institutions of the state that these interesting objects are to be seen; he must ascend to the Federal government for the explanation of the cause and the application of the remedy: it is on the floor of Congress, that these criticisms are to be delivered, and that his wisdom and eloquence are to have their desired effect.
What then is the province of the Virginia Legislature? Limited in its power over these fundamental and general concerns, its superintendence commonly extends to no more than local or subordinate objects. To build a bridge, to put up or pull down a ferry, to mark out the direction of a road, to charter a company for the clearing out of a river, to authorize a Lottery, to establish or destroy an inspection; these are some of its powers. To regulate the administration of justice, to settle the collection & appropriation of the taxes, to encourage families of learning; these are other objects over which their wisdom is to shed its influence; and though these will sometimes involve questions of very extensive importance, they cannot be expected to receive on all occasions a systematic attention.
Virginia has certainly gained many advantages, my friend, by committing its important
concerns to the safe keeping and wisdom of the general government. Her combination with the other states has produced a greater share of internal harmony and external security. But I have long entertained a doubt, whether she has not also lost some of the wisdom and patriotism, which would have warmed and enlightened the councils of her legislature, and have imparted new improvements to her internal policy. When able and active politicians have once been created, they will aspire to the highest offices within their reach. The Virginian, who can obtain a seat in Congress or in the Senate of the United States, will scarcely circumscribe his patriotism or ambition by the interests of his state, or the triumphs which he can reap in a subordinate legislature. Let him even be indebted for all his greatness to the debates of this respectable body, there is still a higher step for him to take; and if the tumults of a public life should not have already relaxed the vigour of pursuit, he former projectile, power will drive to carry him forwards this other step.
In one respect, the Legislature of our state may derive some improvement from our federal relations. There are many politicians, I believe, who consider that body as a kind of political Lyceum, as a school of preparation, in which they may acquire the habits of speaking in a numerous assembly, and the knowledge of legal details. Like other pupils who combine an industrious research after knowledge with a sufficient extent of genius, their powers become polished, expanded and used to exercise; but these powers are not to be dedicated to the alma mater herself, from whose instruction they derived them. It is to obtain a seat in the federal legislature, or some post in the higher departments of the government, that these men have anxiously aspired. Yet their talents were not altogether lost to the assembly of the state. In the very act of improving them, and obtaining the confidence of the people, they served to enlighten the councils of their state; and they left an example of talents behind them, which may stimulate the efforts of some less patriotic or less ambitious members.
Our own Legislature then has upon the whole view of the subject, lost some energy and talents by the superior allurements of the Federal Government. I was not mistaken therefore in the presentiments, which you had so often heard me express of its real character. Unacquainted as I was with the members, the modes of proceeding, and indeed with many of the measures which are annually investigated before them, I had derived these opinions more from abstract speculation than actual experience. Yet upon mixing in the scene of action, my conjectures are found to be not altogether erroneous. I can now venture to pronounce the great majority of the Virginia Legislature, pure in their political principles, correct in their views of the public interest, incorruptibly honest. I can also assure you, that the talents and attainments of some of its members afford an additional confirmation of my favourite position; that the native genius of our countrymen is inferior to that of no nation upon earth. But there have been few occasions during the present session, when these talents were displayed in all their splendour; and I must candidly confess to you, I should not have willed our national character to be estimated by any European, who has heard our debates and witnessed our proceedings.
As your enquiring mind will not be contented with this general view of our legislative body, will you permit me to employ my feeble pencil in sketching out for your private inspection the portraits of four or five of our most distinguished members? From these you may form some rude conception of the worth and attainments of the rest. In delineating these sketches, you will do me the justice to believe me perfectly impartial. Towards these enlightened members, I hold no other sentiment but respect and friendship. No emotion of envy or rivalry mixes itself with the impressions that suggest their portraits.
No: my dear friend, I am not destined to be the competitor of any of these men on the political theatre. It will never be my office to wield the sceptre of influence in a popular assembly. Nature certainly never intended me for a speaker; or education has most unfortunately marred her production. When I rise in a public assembly, exposed to the keen glance of innumerable eyes, and the penetrating judgment of so many men so superior to myself, my feelings are like those of the young mariner on a tempest-tossed ocean: ideas appear to flit thro' my brain without association or method: every object appears to swim before my sight, and ten thousand ocular spectra rapidly pursue each other, and dissipate my attention: the spectators, the benches, the very spots on the floor, become so many rapid waves. Meantime these objects themselves are still and unagitated. It is my own brain alone, which forms and imitates the heavings of the ocean, and communicates an imaginary motion to all the objects around me. So completely does this embarrassment unnerve the faculties of my mind, that I could never address a small circle of my constituents, without feeling inexplicable confusion and dismay. No man, who labours under these defects, is destined to act the part of an orator. He wants that radical qualification, which gives a tone and colouring to every other, and without which every other would be poor and powerless; he wants a confidence in his own powers. No one can command the passions or the understandings of another, who is not completely master of his own. His mind may be the depositary of the most astonishing attributes: Fancy may be ready to pour forth her most affecting figures: Wit may have lavished upon him her choicest comparisons: And philosophy may have taught him the divine gifts of analysis and arrangement. Yet these mighty powers are to him as if they were not. His embarrassment becomes a second ignorance. He is like an admirable instrument, touched by an unpolished hand. There may be the finest music in it, there is no note of pathos, or passion of which it is not susceptible; and yet because he has lost all use of it, it utters nothing but a miserable medley of discord, without tone or time. He will command mirth, whilst he strives to melt his audience into tears; he will entice his cause, whilst he is attempting to inspire the most enthusiastic approbation. You will admit, however, my friend, that if I am no speaker myself, I may yet have taste & judgment enough to form an opinion of those who have distinguished themselves in our assembly. Be you the judge. In my next communication, you shall have the portrait of Mr. ***** and some of his colleagues.
We promised in our last paper to present our readers with a complete catalogue of the acts passed during the present session of the Legislature; with the summary explanation of all the acts of public importance, and with a view of our revenue from the present year. As an adjournment of the Legislature will only take place this day, and a few bills yet remain undecided, we have in part only complied with this engagement, and shall reserve the communication of the remaining topics for our next paper. The analysis of the few acts of public importance which are not here introduced, will accompany
the catalogue of the acts, the view of our revenue, and some miscellaneous topics, which shall be published in our next paper. For the following summary I am indebted to the attentions of Mr. William W. Hening a Delegate from Albemarle, who suggested the plan of this communication, and who extracted the contents of each act from its enrolled copy.
The plan of giving the people a general view of the proceedings and laws passed by each succeeding legislature, in a public paper or in a half sheet, appears to the Editor, far more instructive in its details, and far more congenial to republican principles, than those complimentary and electioneering circular letters, which some representatives address to their constituents.
Summary of all the Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia, of a public nature, passed at the December session, 1804.
1. An act to amend the act directing the mode of appointing a public printer, prescribing his duties, &c. This act provides that the public printer shall enter into bond, in the penalty of 5,000 dollars, with sufficient security, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of his office. His duties are the same as those prescribed by the act of 1797, except that instead of printing only 2,500 copies of the acts of each session, (which has heretofore been considered as within his official duties,) he is now compelled to furnish 3,200; for which, and all the duties of his office, he receives a salary of 2,500 dollars annually. Thus by reducing the stated salary from 2,700 dollars, and including within the official duties of the public printer, the thousand extra copies of the laws, (which cost the state, last year, 1,250 dollars,) a saving to the commonwealth of nearly 1,500 dollars, per annum, has been effected.
2. An act authorizing the introduction of Dearborn's patent balance into the warehouses of this commonwealth, upon certain conditions. This act merely prescribes, that in the warehouses already established, which may require new scales and weights, and in those which may hereafter be established, the commissioners appointed to superintend them, may introduce Dearborn's patent balance for weighing tobacco, if they think proper.
3. An act to amend and explain an act, further declaring what shall be deemed unlawful meetings of slaves. The object of this law, is to explain and amend an act of the last session, which had excited considerable alarm in the minds of many of the citizens of this commonwealth, who apprehended that their religious rights might be infringed. It declares that nothing in that act contained, shall be construed to prevent any master or owner of slaves from carrying or permitting their slaves to go with any part of their white family to any place of religious worship, provided that such place of worship be conducted by an ordained or licenced white minister: nor to affect any white person who may happen to be at any place of religious worship so conducted by a white minister, at which there may be such a number of slaves, as would, as the law has heretofore been construed, constitute an unlawful assembly of slaves.
4. An act to explain and amend the act providing for the poor, and declaring who shall be deemed vagrants. The provisions of this law are, that the courts may alter the districts hereinafter laid off, or heretofore established, forchoosing overseers of the poor. If ten of the freeholders and householders, do not attend in any district and vote for overseers of the poor, no election shall take place, but the superintendent shall return the truth of the case to the next court, who shall proceed, as soon thereafter as possible, to elect for such district. The recognized father of a bastard child, shall be in a sum not less than 50 nor more than 200 dollars; and if the same be forfeited, the recovery thereon shall be paid to the overseers of the poor, for the use of the poor.
5. An act for the relief of special bail in certain cases. Where the principal debtor is in jail in any county, the special bail may obtain a certified copy of the recognizance from the Clerk, Judge or Justice, as the case may be, and deliver it to the jailor where the principal is imprisoned, who shall give a receipt therefor, expressing that the special bail had rendered up to the jailor, the body of the principal, in discharge of his recognizance, and the principal debtor shall be held in custody in the same manner, as if the surrender had been made in the court of the county, where the suit was brought, and an exoneratur shall be entered on record, in the court where the undertaking was made, and the special bail shall be discharged: Provided, that the special bail shall give immediate notice thereof to the creditor, his agent, or attorney at law, if living in the district or county where the suit was brought; if not, then the jailor's receipt shall be filed with the clerk of the court, and a receipt taken therefor, which shall be deemed sufficient notice. Nothing in this act contained, shall prevent any person so surrendered, from giving other special bail as heretofore.
6. An act to amend an act, entitled "An act to amend and reduce into one, the several acts of the General Assembly for regulating the Militia of this Commonwealth."
The commanding officer of each brigade, shall direct the training the officers, and regimental musters, to be held in each regiment, in October and November, and the regimental muster shall immediately succeed the training of the officers, which shall last three days, except where there are more regiments than one in a county, in which case the training and musters shall be as heretofore. The brigade inspector shall charge mileage only for one circuit, and the Brigade General shall to arrange the training & musters, so as to make only one circuit necessary! Provided, that no inspector shall receive less than 100 dollars. Any officer removing from his county, or the bounds of his regiment, or failing to perform the duties of his office for 8 months, shall be considered as having resigned, and the vacancy filled as in other cases; unless such officer is employed abroad in the service of this state, or the U. States. The adjutant shall be allowed not exceeding 6 dollars, for each day's attendance at the regimental and battalion musters, and training the officers. The clerks of the courts of enquiry not exceeding 8 dollars, for each day's attendance on said courts, and 4 dollars for each list of fines made out as required by law; the Provost marshal not exceeding 3 dollars, for each day's attendance on the courts of enquiry. The commanding officer of each troop of cavalry and company of artillery shall hereafter report his delinquencies to the commanding officer of the battalion, in which such delinquent resides. The executive are no longer empowered to issue commissions for more than one troop of cavalry to each regiment. The clerks of the courts of enquiry shall transmit to the auditor, a certified copy of the auditor's receipt for each list of militia fines, with a copy of such list; and such certified copy of the auditor's receipt shall be evidence on a motion against him, for such fines.
7. An act concerning seamen. Although this law is of a general nature, yet its operation must necessarily be confined to particular parts of the state. It is in conformity with the act of Congress, and merely authorises a magistrate to apprehend any seaman, not being a citizen of this state, or any of the United States, who deserts from the vessel on board of which he had contracted to perform service; and restore him to the commander thereof. From the general tenor of the act of 1800, (passed in consequence of a
seaman having been cast from Norfolk to be tried in a foreign court, on suspicion of being an accomplice in a mutiny on board of a British vessel of war,) the magistrates had refused to issue warrants to apprehend deserters, even from a merchant vessel. There is a provision in this act in favor of those seamen who may be in danger of their life or person, on account of ill treatment from the commander of the vessel requiring their apprehension.
8. An act to amend the act to prevent the circulation of private Bank Notes. In the year 1795, an act passed prohibiting the circulation of private bank notes payable to bearer, under certain penalties. A private association in Alexandria, without any charter, under the name of the Bank of Potomac, have issued the law, by issuing their notes payable to the bearer of the bank, by whom they are endorsed, and thrown into circulation. As all the evils which the act of 1795 meant to remedy, are produced by this evasion, the present law was passed, inflicting the same penalty on those offering in payment a note issued by a company having no charter, as if it was made payable to bearer.
9. An act to amend the act entitled "An act directing the registering the names, ages, and sex of slaves in certain cases." The act under the above title is declared to extend to all cases where slaves are allotted to a widow for her dower, or devised to her in lieu thereof, or held by any person for his, or her life only, or the life of any other person. A copy of this act is to be posted up by the clerks of the county and corporation courts, at the front door of their court houses, in the months of July and August next. This act to commence the 1st of September next.
10. An act allowing compensation to certain persons for carrying lunatics to the Williamsburg hospital, and for other purposes. In this act there is a general provision, declaring that when the board of directors shall refuse to receive any lunatic, for want of room, he shall be carried back to the magistrates before whom the examinations were had, who are to give to the officer conducting such lunatic, a certificate of the services performed by him and the guard; whereupon the Auditor is to grant a warrant for the same allowance as if the lunatic had been regularly received. And in case of a lunatic so returned, if it shall be necessary to confine him in jail, the jailor shall receive him, and be paid for each day's maintenance, in the same manner as jailors are now paid for prisoners, in confinement for offences committed by them; which expenses shall be reimbursed out of the estate of the lunatic, if sufficient.
11. An act further to amend the penal laws of this commonwealth.
The 9th section of the act of 1799 which limited prosecutions for offences against penal laws to one year is repealed. Prosecutions for offences not punishable with death or confinement in the Penitentiary, are to be sued in one year, except where otherwise provided; Perjury, subornation of perjury, or such felonies or publications thereof as are not punishable with death or confinement in the penitentiary, must be commenced within three years. To flit the year or lip of another, with intent to disgrace, is punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, not less than two nor more than ten years. Hog stealers are to be tried and punished as for petit larceny. Counterfeiting or passing counterfeit notes of the Virginia Bank, declared to be felony, and punishable by confinement in the penitentiary for not less than ten nor more than twenty years. To burn or set fire to any house in a town, or to advise it to be done, and arson at common law are punishable with death; To burn a barn, stable, corn house or tobacco house, stack of wheat, fodder, &c. is punishable by confinement in the penitentiary, not less than two nor more than five years; A slave attempting to ravish a white woman, to be adjudged guilty of felony, and to be punished as heretofore. Those who are to be let to bail who are apprehended for a crime not punishable with death or confinement in the penitentiary, if so punishable, and a slight suspicion of guilt fall on the party, he shall be bailable, but if there be good cause to believe him guilty, he shall not be bailed.
12. An act to reform the practice in the district, county and corporation courts, in certain cases.
Where an office judgment is entered up in an action of debt founded on a single bill, promissory note, or other writing, for the payment of money or tobacco, execution may issue thereon after the next succeeding quarterly court, for principal, interest from the time the bill, &c. became due till paid, and costs, unless the said office judgment shall have been set aside, as other office judgments may now be. Nothing in the fifth section of the act, "concerning proceedings in chancery," shall be construed so as to allow interest on costs, or compound interest in any case; and hereafter, in all actions founded on contracts, the jury shall ascertain the principal sum due, and fix the period, at which the interest shall commence (if allowed by them) and judgment shall be entered accordingly, to carry on interest till paid. Upon an injunction obtained in any county or corporation court, or a bill filed in such court, to foreclose the equity of redemption in mortgaged lands, process may be directed to the sheriff of any county, or sergeant of any corporation in the state. Fifty cents are to be taxed for giving notice, on motions in district courts, and courts of chancery. This act to commence the 1st day of April next.
13. An act to class the counties, and for other purposes. The object of this law is to reduce the number of the commissioners of the revenue in some of the counties. The fee or a transfer is 50 cents.
14. An act to amend the act, reducing into one the several acts for the inspection of tobacco. When tobacco is refused at a warehouse, the owner may have it picked, as at present, or dispose of it at pleasure. Whoever shall ship or otherwise send out of the state refused tobacco, shall forfeit 400 dollars for each hogshead. This act to commence the 1st of April next.
The amendment proposed to the federal constitution, by the state of Massachusetts was unanimously rejected.
The following resolution passed the House of Delegates, by 135 to 11 votes. Resolved, that the treasurer be and hereby is instructed, to use his utmost influence in the next election of directors of the bank of Virginia and its branches, to procure a complete preponderance of persons of found republican principles.
17. The above Acts are in force from the passing thereof, except where otherwise noted.
By virtue of a bond of Trust executed to the subscribers, for the purpose of securing the payment of certain sums of money therein mentioned, due to Zachariah Brooks.
WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Zachariah Brooks Tavern in the town of Manchester, on Saturday the ninth day of February next, between the hours of eleven and two o'clock:
FIVE HALF ACRE LOTS with their improvements, designated in the plat of the town of Manchester, by Nos. 4, 17, 18, 31, and 32. The said lots are situated on the upper end of the Main-street, and immediately on the turnpike road. The sale will certainly take place at the time and place above mentioned.
RICHAHD HEWLETT, 7 Trustees. WASHINGTON WATTS, W. F. AST. February 1. (cp 5t.
In stead of the Rainbow, which was due in this day's paper, we present our readers with a scheme for the establishment of a University in Virginia, drawn up by one of our most distinguished citizens.
AT a Court Martial begun and held at the Swan Tavern, in the City of Richmond, on Thursday the 24th day of January, 1805, by order of Major Genl. J. Henry Lee, for the trial of Major Samuel J. Winston, Inspector for the second Brigade, now under arrest by order of Brigadier General Thomas White;
PRESENT. Brigadier General Henry Young, President. Colonel Christopher Tompkins, Colonel Richard Adams, William Allen, Major Briggs Rive, Benjamin Wolfe, Humphrey Walker, Captains Joseph A. Myers, John S. Pleasants, Richard Williams, William Mattox, George Dabney, John Peter, George W. Smith, and Isaac Dabney. Major Beverly Robertson, being also present was appointed Judge Advocate.
The court, having heard the testimony as well on the behalf of the commonwealth as said Winston, and the arguments of the Judge Advocate, and the bye standers being then requested to withdraw, and the doors being closed, the court then proceeded to give the following opinion; in the exercise of his office, and the performance of his duties with the officers of the 74th Regiment of Militia, in the month of November last, did conduct himself as became a gentleman, and an officer, equally solicitous and vigilant to perform the duties of Brigade Major or Inspector, in training and instructing the said officers, without partiality, favor, prejudice or malice; and without arrogating any illegal or improper authority.
The court are therefore of opinion, and the said Winston is not guilty of the charge alleged against him, and that he be thenceforth discharged from this arrest.
A copy, teste, BEVERLY ROBERTSON, Judge Advocate.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
TRANSLATION OF THE SWISS SONG CALLED, RANZ DES VACHES.
Ah! when shall the pleasure be mine To see all the objects I love? Our Vales where clear Rivulets shine, And Cottages rising above? Our Haylets so pleasant and gay, Our Mountains so grand and so tall, And the pride of those Mountains to me, My Habel fairest of all! Ah! when to the Pipe's merry sound, Shall I dance in the shade as of yore? Ah! when will the day come around, Which all that I love shall restore, My Father, my Mother, My Sister, my Brother, My Flocks, and the Shepherdess, whom I adore? Ah! when will the day come around Which all that I love shall restore?
Sales at Auction.
POSITIVELY WITHOUT RESERVE. Will be Sold, on Tuesday, 5th February next, by the Subscribers, at 60 days: FOURTEEN Qrs. Casks prime London Porticular Teneriffe Wine; 7 Hhds. Old Run, 8 Hhds. Good Sugar. FOR CASH; Two Bales India Cottons, and a great variety of Dry Goods. THOMAS TAYLOR, & Co. v. m. February 1. (eds.
NOTICE
To the Creditors and Debtors of Robt. C. Ford. THAT on the 1st of March I shall make a dividend of the monies received; from which those creditors, who may not have come into the terms of arrangement previous to that day, will be excluded. And from a supposition that some of the Debtors, who have not come forward to give Notes for their accounts, may be expecting personal application, which cannot be made, they are again informed, that my duty compels me to commence suits indiscriminately, to the next courts, against those who shall not before have closed their accounts by notes. NEIL MCDOUGL. Richmond, January 28, '05. SW
TO HIRE.
THE present year, a WET NURSE, a likely young Woman with her first child. J. TRENT. February 1. ept.
FOR HIRE.
FOR THE PRESENT YEAR, TWO valuable and experienced CARPENTERS and one man COOK, who has been regularly bed. For terms enquire at the office of the Enquirer N. B. The Cook may be bought if the purchaser will take his wife, who is a good house servant. February. 1. (ept)
MUTUAL ASSURANCE COMPANY.
At a general meeting of the Mutual Insurance on buildings, held at the Capitol on the 11th inst. it was unanimously agreed, that the towns should pay their losses by fire, and the country theirs. By this arrangement there is in my opinion, no doubt but that one premium will insure the houses in the country for ever.
The business is to be done by the same officers, and the contingent expenses to be paid agreeable to the sum insured in the towns and in the country.
Some gentlemen mentioned, that since the separation had taken place, they meant to withdraw; but on mature consideration, I am confident that few, if any will withdraw. Where will they do better? The annual premiums abroad are very expensive, and the security of a few individuals precarious.
As the premiums in the Insurance Companies, average I suppose one per cent. per annum, and on a fair computation, it will be found that the buildings in town, amount to at least ten millions of dollars; losses must happen every year to the amount of one hundred thousand dollars, before it will be one per cent. which it is well known is not the case, for on withholding the enormous great fires which have taken place on buildings in town, the losses for thirty years back do not average more than 15000 dollars, which is only one sixteenth per cent. per annum; to it even fixtures greater losses were to happen, it would in that extraordinary case be only as much as the annual premiums abroad.
There are in the town at least 12000 buildings, then 120 buildings must burn every year, which is not probable, but almost impossible, before the quotas of the Mutual Insurance, will come up to the annual premiums abroad: as the quotas will be a great deal less, no doubt the people will insure generally here. For a man to hand his own insurer, is too hazardous, because he may in a few hours, lose the whole, when by the Mutual Insurance, he can lose only a small part. W. F. AST. February 1.

The following plan of a seminary of learning, on an extensive and liberal scale, was sent to a member of the legislature during the present session, by a gentleman who deformedly possesses in a very eminent degree, the confidence of the people. The state of our finances, it is believed, did not justify the measure at this time. It is now published with a view, that not only the members of the legislature, but the people at large, may meditate on a subject, in which their best interests are so deeply involved. Some important questions present themselves to the consideration of the people of Virginia. Can the blessings of liberty be perpetuated and handed down to posterity, if we adopt no means to inform the rising generation? Can a representative republic long exist, if the people are not sufficiently enlightened to judge of the conduct of their representatives? Is it not peculiarly incumbent on us to endeavour to secure the only government upon earth, in which republican institutions are cherished, amidst the conspiracy of all those who are enemies to the rights of man? And are you willing to expend upwards of fifty thousand dollars annually, in criminal prosecutions, and annually throw away nearly five thousand dollars a year, in an attempt to reclaim a few abandoned culprits, and yet not give a single cent towards educating the poor?
SKETCH OF A PLAN FOR THE ENDOWMENT, AND ESTABLISHMENT OF A STATE UNIVERSITY IN VIRGINIA.
THE establishment of an university in the state of Virginia upon a liberal and extensive plan, is an object peculiarly desirable. The great objection to such a plan probably has hitherto been the expense which must necessarily attend every measure of that nature; but that objection it is conceived may be obviated, whilst the benefits arising from such an institution are certainly incalculable. To preserve a republican government in its full tone and vigour, and to prevent that degeneracy into which the best forms of government are too apt to fall, when not guarded equally by the vigilance of patriotism, and the lights of science. It is indispensably necessary that the acquisition of a liberal education be made easy and open to all who are endowed with genius and virtue sufficient to deserve the public patronage, and finally to merit and acquire the public confidence; which great and desirable end can only be attained by the establishment of illustrious seminaries of learning, in which a certain portion of the youth of the commonwealth, may be adopted as the pupils of the republic, and all possess the means of acquiring and extending the utmost limits of science. To this end it is respectfully proposed to the legislature.
1. To appropriate a sum not less than 5000 dls. annually for the space of ten years, to commence from the first day of January 1805, to purchase a sufficient portion of land in some healthy part of the state, not more than twenty-five miles eastward of the Blue Ridge of mountains, and not adjacent to or nearer than three miles to any town heretofore established by act of assembly, for the site of an university, to be denominated the University of the commonwealth of Virginia. Private donations to be also received.
2. That the trustees be appointed by joint ballot of both houses of assembly, to whom the said money shall be paid on the thirty first day of December annually; whose duty it shall be to purchase not less than 3000, nor more than 10,000 acres of land in one body or several parcels lying contiguous and adjoining to each other, in some convenient and healthy part of the state as mentioned in the preceding paragraph: That 320 acres thereof be laid out in the most convenient and suitable part thereof, in streets, not less than 200 feet wide, and squares not less than ten acres each, which squares shall be reserved as the sites of Colleges, to be from time to time erected as occasion shall require, regard being had to the number of students in the university; except two squares, one of which shall be reserved for a market and other necessary public buildings for the use of the university, & the other for places of public worship, which shall be free and open to the use of every religious society whatsoever, from sunrise till sunset every Sunday, and at such other times as the head of the university shall permit: That the trustees when they shall have completed the purchase, shall convey the lands to the heads of the university, for the use of the university forever.
3. That the heads of the university be authorized to lease the lands so conveyed to them (except 320 acres adjacent to the university) in farms not exceeding 500 acres each, for three lives or twenty one years, upon such terms as the college leases in England have been usually let, receiving the best rent that can be had for the same, payable in grain, viz. Indian Corn or Wheat; with due covenants and restrictions to prevent waste.
4. That the 250 acres reserved adjacent to the university, be laid out in lots, not less than two acres each, and streets of one hundred feet in width, and let upon building leases to such sober and discreet mechanics and others, as the heads of the university may think proper to admit to dwell near the same, with proper covenants to prevent the erection or keeping of gambling houses, tipling houses, or other houses of ill fame—that no tenant be admitted into any houses so built, without the express consent in writing of the heads of the university, and not less than two, nor more than four acres of land be contained in one lot.
5. That the courts of the university shall have full and complete original jurisdiction exclusive of the county courts, and district courts both of common law and chancery, of all civil cases whatsoever arising within the district or tract of land purchased for the use of the university, and of all pleas of the commonwealth within the same, not punishable with loss of life or member, or confinement in the penitentiary house, or by fine exceeding one hundred dollars; but in all cases where an appeal, writ of error, or supersedeas, or writ of certiorari will lie to or from a district court, from or to any county or other inferior court, the same appeal or process shall be allowed to or from the district court of common law or chancery as the case may require, as may be allowed to or from a county court.
6. That there be five visitors annually chosen by joint ballot of both houses of assembly, whose duty it shall be to form a code of statutes for the government of the president, professors and students of the university, and of all the subordinate officers thereto belonging, and who shall annually hold a visitation on the fifteenth day of May, in commemoration of the Declaration of Independence made by this commonwealth on the same day in the year 1776 at the university, and as much oftener as may be necessary: That there shall also be a chancellor who shall be a person learned in the law, appointed in like manner, to hold his office during good behaviour, with a competent salary, which shall always be equal to the salary of the principal or president of the university, to be paid out of the funds of the university, who shall reside within the limits of the university district, and shall have the power of a justice and conservator of the peace within the same, and shall hold a court quarterly for the trial of all causes that may be brought before him. He shall hold no professorship or other office in the university; he may associate with himself when sitting as a judge in any civil case, in which the university or any professor therein is not one of the parties, the president and so many of the heads of colleges or professors as he may think proper; and in all pleas of the commonwealth, and in suits founded upon a tort, he shall direct all matters of fact to be tried by a jury in his presence, as if the same were a county court. He shall have the sole power upon complaint made by the visitors, or by the heads of colleges of removing professors for breach or neglect of duty, immorality or other good cause, and in such case no appeal or writ of error shall be allowed from his judgment, or sentence, but by the court of appeals. Whenever sentence of expulsion shall have been pronounced against a student, by the corporation of the university, he may grant an appeal, and reverse or confirm the sentence in his discretion, and no appeal shall be allowed from his decision, nor shall the same be examined in any court whatsoever. The chancellor in addition to his salary shall be allowed a house and a farm not exceeding 200 acres of land for his accommodation and residence, but he shall receive no fees for any services performed by him, nor shall he be a judge of any other court, nor practice the law in any county court, or district court, other than the court of the district in which the university shall be.
7. And for the purpose of providing a perpetual and adequate fund for the establishment and endowment of the university, let one thousand shares in the Bank of Virginia, now held by the state, be vested in trustees, whose duty it shall be to draw the dividends from time to time, and immediately after, or as soon as the same can be effected, invest the same in other shares or in other public and productive funds, and likewise to draw and in like manner to invest the profit from time to time arising from those funds, until the first day of January 1816; at which time if the capital stock at its first cost and the profit thereon made during the preceding ten years, shall amount to more than 150,000 dls. such surplus if it exceed 10,000 to be paid over by the trustees, to other trustees who may be appointed for laying out the site of the university, and superintending and directing the buildings thereof, who shall proceed to build & complete one college at least within the next ten years thereafter. But if the surplus do not exceed 10,000 dollars, then the trust of the general fund to continue to receive and invest the monies by them received as before mentioned, until the stock in their hands shall amount in the whole to 160,000 dls. at least, and whenever that may thereafter happen, then ten thousand dollars, or whatever surplus above 150,000 dollars may remain in their hands, to be paid to the trustees for superintending and directing the buildings; and the 150,000 dls. capital stock remaining to be continued in the hands of the first mentioned trustees, and to be drawn from time to time, and reinvested in other stock, as fast as the same can be done.
8. At the end of every 10 years after the first draught to be made as aforesaid, the surplus (above 150,000 dls. capital stock to be retained as a perpetual fund, as above mentioned) to be drawn and paid over to the trustees for building and endowing the university; who shall from time to time appropriate one fifth part thereof to the erection and improvement of colleges and other necessary edifices, and expenses for the use of the university: three fifth parts thereof to the establishment of perpetual funds for so many professorships, as may from time to time be found necessary, and so many fellowships and scholarships as may be judged advisable—and one other fifth part to the purchase of a library and apparatus, and for such other purposes as the visitors, with the advice of the chancellor and corporation of the university, may from time to time think necessary and direct.
9. After the year 1850, not less than three fifths of the surplus arising from the perpetual funds of the college shall be unalienably appropriated to the establishment of a perpetual fund for increasing the number of scholarships, upon the public foundations; and the remaining two fifths shall be appropriated to other purposes, for the use of the university, as herein before mentioned.
10. The scholars upon the public foundation shall be maintained at the public expense, in every respect, and 300 dls. including the price of board, shall be annually set apart for their maintenance respectively. They shall pay no fees, nor be at any expense for books, which, as well as clothes and bedding, shall be furnished by the university.
11. As soon as the state of the funds will admit, let the eight following professors, or such of them as may be most necessary, be established, viz:
One of moral philosophy, the law of nature and nations, and fine arts. One of mathematics. One of natural philosophy & natural history. One of law and police. One of history, civil and ecclesiastical. One of anatomy and medicine. One of ancient languages. One of modern languages.
Until more colleges than one shall be established, the president of the university be professor of moral philosophy. When more colleges are established, let the professorship be separated from the professorship. Let the chancellor's salary be established at the same time.
12. Let there be two senior fellowships and three junior fellowships established every tenth year, until the numbers of the former shall amount to twenty, and those of the latter to thirty: after which let there be one senior and two junior fellowships established for every twenty scholarships.
13. Let the senior fellows be assistants to the professors and give private instruction (for which they may be permitted to receive compensation) to the pupils of the university. Let them be chosen from among the most exemplary junior fellows, who have taken the degree of master of arts.
14. Let the junior fellows be chosen from the most exemplary scholars of the university, who have taken the degree of bachelor of arts, or other superior degree. Let such as have not taken any superior degree, within three years thereafter apply for the degree of master of arts or other equal or superior degree. If the degree be not obtained, let the party be discontinued as a junior fellow.
15. Let the scholars be chosen from amongst the most diligent and exemplary pupils of the university of one year's standing at the least, or such as may be recommended in the manner contemplated by the Bill for the more general diffusion of knowledge. Let every scholar within four years after his election, offer himself as a candidate for some academical degree, if he have not before obtained one; if the degree be not obtained, let him be discontinued as a scholar.
16. To shew the operation of this plan, the following calculation, tho' not accurate, may be of use.
Table with 2 columns: Item, Dollars. Cts. Rows include: 100 Dls. at 5 per cent. drawn half yearly and renewed at the same rate, will in ten years produce (113.41); 100,000 Dls. will consequently, produce in the same time (113,410); At the end of ten years, the accumulating fund to be raised from 100,000 dls. to 150,000 dls. will require for that purpose (50,000); Leaving for the purposes of the university at the end of the first ten years viz: January 1, 1817, (63.410); Total (113,410).
The accumulating fund after the year 1816, being raised to 150,000 dls. would at the same rate produce every tenth year (170,100).
The application might be as follows:
Appropriation for the year 1817, or the tenth year—
Table with 2 columns: Item, Dollars. Cts. Rows include: For commencing the public buildings, &c. (30,000); For establishing a perpetual fund for the salaries of the chancellor & president of the university, and two professorships at 750 dls. for the present (30,000); For incidental charges & expenses (3,410—63.410); Appropriation for the 20th year: For adding to and improving the public buildings (30,000); For the foundation of a library and apparatus (20,000); For increasing the salaries of the chancellor, president & professors, and establishing two other professorships at 1000 dls. each (80,000); For establishing a perpetual fund for ten scholarships at 300 dls. each (25,000); For establishing a perpetual fund for two senior fellowships at 500 dls. per annum, each (12,500); For incidental charges & expenses (2,600—170,100); Appropriation for the 30th year: For establishing a perpetual fund for 30 additional scholarships at 200 dls. each (75,000); For a perpetual fund for two additional senior fellowships at 500 dls. each per ann. (12,500); For a perpetual fund for three junior fellowships at 300 dls. each per ann. (11,250); Towards a perpetual fund for a library (10,000); For increasing the buildings and for other purposes; improving the university and creating additional professorships (61,350—170,100); Appropriation for the 40th year, 1846. For additional buildings and improvements (50,000); For additional funds for library and apparatus (10,000); For thirty additional scholarships (75,000); For additional professorships and fellowships, and increasing former salaries to 1250 dls. (45,000); For incidental charges and other purposes (10,000—170,100); Appropriation for the 50th year: For additional scholarships, viz. 30 (75,000); For increasing the scholarships to 300 dls. (25,000); For the general purposes of the university, founding a museum, &c. &c. (70,100—170,100).
After this period, the scholarships might be increased at the rate of 40 for every tenth year, so that at the end of half a century from the first establishment, there might be one hundred scholars, and at the end of a whole century 300 scholars, upon the public foundation, at 300 dls. each.—At the end of the second century, there might be 700: at the end of a third above a thousand; and the number be continually increased at the same or a greater ratio, without any new tax or burthen on the public.
Such is the hasty outline of a plan for establishing an University, whose revenues might thus be rendered adequate to the support and encouragement of learning and learned men, and for the education of a numerous train of virtuous and enlightened geniuses, without expense to their parents, and without any future burthen to the state.
The bill for the encouragement of learning, prepared by the first committee of revisors (Mr. Jefferson, Mr. Wythe and Mr. Pendleton) will furnish adequate ideas of the preliminary steps by which youth may be prepared for admission into the University.
1200 BUSHELS BARLEY.
Will positively be sold, by Proffer & Moneure, at the Lumber yard of the late George Nicholson, at Rocketts, on Monday the 4th of February, at 12 o'clock:
TWELVE hundred bushels of good clean BARLEY, for the benefit of Wm. Forrester & Co. of the city of Richmond, they having refused to receive the said Barley when tendered to them at Rocketts, agreeable to contract. It is universally allowed, by those who are acquainted with Barley, that it is the best food for horses (except Indian corn) that can be given them; and many people prefer it even to that. This Barley will be sold in small lots; one half at 60, and the other at 90 days, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia—the notes to be made payable to JOHN ELLIS.
January 25. tds
FOR SALE.
A NEGRO MAN. He is an excellent gardener and jethes-man, and would be a valuable servant at a distance from the town.
ALSO FOR HIRE, A GIRL, about 14 years of age, accustomed to the nursery and other domestic business; and a WOMAN, who is a good Cook. Apply at the office of the Enquirer. January 25
January 25. ept.
BROKER'S OFFICE.
The Subscriber has opened a Broker's Office, opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Counting-house of Thomas and Amos Ladd. All business confided to him, will be transacted with strict fidelity.
THOMAS NORVELL. October 3. 1805.
WILL BE SOLD, at the Court-House, on Monday the 11th February next, it being Court day:
SEVEN LIKELY NEGROES, belonging to the estate of Thomas G. Rowe, dec'd. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchasers for the said Negroes, on giving bond with approved security, to the
COMMISSIONERS. January 25. 3w
VALUABLE LAND—FOR SALE.
BY virtue of a deed of trust from William Massie dec'd. in order to secure and pay the following debts, viz. the sum of £ 590: 8s. in specie assigned by Nathaniel Massie to Arch'd. Bryce, Jr. for the purposes mentioned in the said assignment, and the sum of £ 138: 7s. 10d. due to Arch'd. Bryce with interest thereon from the 15th day of December 1802, at 6 per cent per annum till paid.
Will be sold, at the late residence of William Massie, on Friday the 1st day of March next, for ready money.
All that TRACT OF LAND, in Goochland county, (whereon Mrs. Francis Massie now lives,) containing by a late survey 2684 acres, lying and being on the waters of the Little Byrd Creek, and bounded by the lands of Capt. Nathaniel Massie, dec'd. Mr. David Rois, Mr. John Matthews and others.
This land is of the first rate quality of high land, pleasantly situated, within 5 or 6 miles (and good road) of the town of Columbia, and from 7 to 8 miles of Lewis's mill, on the Byrd Creek.
JOHN FORBES, trustee. January 25.
FOR SALE,
At Louisa Court-House, on the 12th day of February next:
THIRTY-SEVEN VALUABLE SLAVES,
belonging to the estate of Christopher Smith, dec'd. consisting of Men, Women and Children.—It is believed they are as likely a parcel of slaves as was ever offered for sale in the state. Bonds with approved security, bearing interest from the date, payable the 10th of February next, will be expected from the purchasers: the interest will be remitted if the principal is punctually paid.
CHARLES SMITH, AG't Exe't of CHRISTOPHER SMITH, dec'd. Louisa, 18th Jan. 1805. 10f
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY.
NOTICE is hereby given, that the drawing of the said lottery will commence on this day, and be continued on Tuesdays and Saturdays, by drawing from fifty to five hundred numbers, until the whole is completed.
All tickets not sold and delivered before this day, will be considered as held on account of the Trustees of the academy; and the agents for selling them are earnestly requested to remit either the money or the tickets committed to their disposal to the commissioners from whom they were received. Those who have purchased tickets on a credit, will be pleased to reckon from this day.
If the days of drawing, and the number to be drawn, shall be increased, public notice will be given of the same.
The prizes to be paid in sixty days after the drawing is completed. It is hoped that the tickets remaining in the hands of the commissioners, will be readily bought by those who are well wishers to the proposed academy, or who wish to see in the neighbourhood of this city, the beginning of a great National University. The committee appointed for that purpose here already purchased about 12 acres of ground, a little more than a mile from town, in an eligible situation; & the necessary buildings will be begun in the ensuing spring.
On behalf of the trustees,
Robert Mitchell, Robert Pollard, Alex'r Stuart, Wm. Price, G. Tucker. Appointed to superintend the drawing.
Richmond, January 8, 1805.
ENOCH SULLIVAN,
JEWELLER & HAIR-WORKER,
(First door below the Eagle Tavern)
BEGS leave to inform the public that he has for Sale, A FASHIONABLE ASSORTMENT OF
JEWELRY & SILVER WARE;
Also, A HANDSOME SUPPLY OF
LADIES ELEGANT COMBS, POCKET BOOKS, &c. Dec. 8. ep tf.
CASH
WILL be given for 12 or 15 BOYS, from 7 to 15 years old. Enquire of the Printers. Dec. 15. [epf.]
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN TO THE DEBTORS OF
ROSS & FORD,
THAT in compliance with my duty as assignee, I shall commence suits indiscriminately against all those who do not come forward and give assurances when payment may be expected.
December 22. (tf) NEIL MCCOULL.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the late firm of BUCHANAN, DUNLOP & CO. of Petersburg, ROBERT POLLOK & CO. of Richmond, and DUNLOP, POLLOK & CO. of Manchester, are hereby notified, that James Dunlop, late a partner in the above concerns, has become purchaser of the outstanding debts—they will therefore be pleased to make payment to Mr. John Tompkins residing in Richmond, or the Subscribers residing in Petersburg, who alone are authorized to make collections and grant discharges.—Suits will be indiscriminately commenced against all who do not make payment before the first of February next.
JOHN DUNLOP, Attorney For JAMES DUNLOP. Petersburg, Nov. 15, 1804. epf
J. TOMPKINS
RESPECTFULLY informs those concerned, that he has removed the books and papers of the late concern of Robert Pollok & Co. and Dunlop, Pollok & Co. to a new Brick House near the Basin, and directly opposite to the Scale-House. Where he has for sale, a few pipes of OLD COGNAC BRANDY, of superior quality. December 11.
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of the late Mr. JOHN LESTER deceased, are requested to make payment to Mr. Sylvester Hevey, who is authorized to receive the same; and all those who have any demands against the said estate are desired to call on him for payment.
SARAH LESTER, Executrix. JOHN FOSTER, Executor. Richmond, 22d January, 1805.
WHO HAS ON HAND FOR SALE,
New-England Boards, 4 inch, 3 and 1 inch Pitch Pine Boards & Scantling, Cyprus Shingles, Cedar posts, Providence Lime unslacked, Double Geered Baltimore Wheat Fans, Wire Sifters for Meal, Oats, Wheat and Flaxseed, Rowling Screen Wire, Screen Wire for Fans, Shakes for Meal, Bright and Black Varnish, &c. &c. January 22d—(ep 3w.
LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES.
AN ACT
Authorizing the corporation of George Town to make a dam or causeway from Mason's island to the western shore of the river Potomac.
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the corporation of George Town have power to levy a tax, not exceeding one per cent. per annum, on the real property in said town, and its additions within the jurisdiction of the said corporation, for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting a dam or causeway across that arm of the river Potomac which passes between Mason's island and the western shore of the said river: that the same shall not be erected until the consent of the proprietor or proprietors of the island, and of the western shore of the river opposite thereto, shall be first obtained. The power hereby granted to the said corporation of levying an extra tax, to cease and determine when the object for which it is granted shall be completely effected.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JOS. ANDERSON. President of the Senate, pro tem. January 15, 1805. APPROVED, TH: JEFFERSON.
THIS DAY IS PUBLISHED,
AND FOR SALE AT RITCHIE & WORSLEY'S BOOK-STORE:
THE RAINBOW, SERIES FIRST;
Originally Published in the RICHMOND ENQUIRER
AN association was formed during the last summer, by a few gentlemen, of whom some are now, and others have been, inhabitants of this city, for the purpose of composing a series of Miscellaneous Essays for the Richmond Enquirer. These Essays were regularly published every Saturday, during the months of August, September, and October. The first number appeared on the 11th of August, and the last on the 20th of October. These numbers, taken together in the order in which they were published, will constitute the first series of the RAINBOW: and it is this first series which is now presented by the proprietors of the Enquirer to the amateurs of Literature, and to its patrons in Virginia. The second series will probably be communicated to the public in the present form, as soon as it shall be completed by the members of the association. Richmond, Dec. 11th, 1804.
TO NON-RESIDENTS OF KENTUCKY.
THE SUBSCRIBER living in the neighbourhood of Frankfort, Kentucky, having undertaken to pay the taxes of a number of gentlemen residing in Virginia and elsewhere, on their lands in this state, and finding that the remitting of money to him for that purpose is attended with great difficulties, risk and trouble, proposes it to those gentlemen and any others who may find it an accommodation to them, the following plan, to wit: That they shall deposit their money in either of the banks of Richmond, Alexandria, George town or Baltimore, on or before the first day of May annually, and authorize some person at those several banks to advise him by post of the amount, and to whose credit it shall be applied, and empower him to draw for the same, payable on sight. The lands of non-residents are advertised about the first of July, which is an expense of twenty-five cents on each tract. The subscriber's draft will command the cash in this state, and as soon as his bills are honoured at any of the above mentioned banks, he will advance the money in Kentucky, deducting seven and a half percent commission for his trouble, in attending to and executing the business. He will enclose duplicate receipts to those banks in which the money is deposited, or to the proprietors of the lands, keeping the original in his own possession, in case any errors which may occur in the auditors office of Kentucky. To those gentlemen who may wish to pay their taxes in this way, and who have not a personal acquaintance with the subscriber, he begs leave to refer them to the Hon. John Breckenridge, the Hon. Matthew Walton, Esqrs. now in Congress, at the city of Washington, or to Gen. John Breckenridge of Montgomery county, and Col. James Breckenridge of Botetourt county, Virginia, as to the confidence which may be reposed in him.
NATHANIEL HART. N. B. The postage on all letters directed to me on the above business must be paid. December 15, 1804. (ep 1 May.)
NOTICE.
WE the undersigned, partners in the late concerns of BUCHANAN, DUNLOP, & Co. at Petersburg, of ROBERT POLLOK, & Co. at Richmond, and of DUNLOP, POLLOK, & Co. at Manchester, have sold to Mr. James Dunlop, our late partner in said concerns, the debts now due to, and outstanding at these different establishments.—Those indebted will therefore please to take notice, that hereafter payments are to be made only to the said Mr. James Dunlop, his attorney or attorneys, and to whom those having claims against these concerns will apply for payment.
DAVID BUCHANAN. By ROBERT POLLOK, his Attorney. ROBERT POLLOK. Virginia, Petersburg, Dec. 6, 1804. (ep 3m)
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
JACK, or JACK ASH, a gardner by profession, formerly the property of Lewis Burwell, dec'd. was sold by the Exor. of said Burwell, about this time last year, to a gentleman residing in Amherst county, who permitted him to come down last May, for the purpose of visiting his wife and relations, with a promise that his visits should be repeated frequently. Jack has thought proper to abuse this indulgence by not returning to his master.
His age is something above fifty, rather under the middle size. 'Tis believed that he secretes himself in Chesterfield, probably in Manchester, where his wife's friends live. The keeper of the toll bridge or the ferryman when on visits to his wife, who is free, and who resides opposite Mr. Southgate's garden. Whoever will deliver the said Jack to Mr. Rois the jailor will receive the above reward on application at the office of the Enquirer. Jan. 8, 1805.
WASHINGTON TAVERN.
THE subscriber has taken a lease of this tenement for a number of years, and has put it in a state of repair which renders it not inferior to any in this City. Besides the Tavern he has detached buildings, well calculated to accommodate those who are anxious of greater privacy than a tavern usually affords. These tenements adjoin the public square, and are within two hundred yards of the Capitol. They have decided advantages over any other houses in this City, with respect to pure air and excellent water. He has good stables and a constant supply of the best FORAGE. He tends his services to his friends and the public, and assures them, that no unlawful gaming, nor any other practice which might, in any degree, have a tendency to destroy the peace of his house, will ever be permitted. EDWARD HALLAM. Richmond, September 26.