The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-05-05 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 5.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, MAY 5, 1809.
[No. 113.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, DEPOSITE THE GLOBE TAVERN, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
A TUTOR WANTED. —The Trustees of the town of York, are anxious to employ a gentleman of character, & literary acquirements, to conduct a SCHOOL in the said town. The branches of Science to be taught are, reading, writing, English grammar, arithmetic, geography, use of the globes, the Latin and Greek classics. The situation of York is pleasant and healthy. From twenty to forty pupils can be procured. A comfortable house will be furnished the Tutor free of expense. A person who shall produce testimonials of his sobriety, discretion and acquirements, which shall qualify him for the conduct of the school, will meet with encouragement on application to
CORBIN GRIFFIN, } Committee TH. GRIFFIN, } ROBT NELSON, jr. } Trustees.
May 2.
SALES AT AUCTION.
ON Monday the 15th day of May next, will be sold on the premises, the Tenement at present occupied by Mr. Edward Carter Standard. Terms of sale—One third payable in three months, one third in six months; and the remaining third in twelve months. Notes with approved endorsers will be required.
THOMAS TAYLOR, Auctioneer.
April 27, (tds.)
SALES AT AUCTION.
ON Tuesday the ninth day of May next will be sold on the premises, one half Acre of ground on Shockoe Hill, opposite the dwelling-house of Mr. Robert Pollard on the south side of the street; the said lot will be divided into four lots of thirty-five feet front on the said street and extending back the depth of the entire lot, except fifteen feet which will be reserved as an alley for the use of all the purchasers! The terms of the sale will be one fourth payable in three months, for which a note negotiable in the Bank of Virginia, will be required, with an approved endorser, the balance payable in twelve months, for which a Deed of Trust will be required upon the property.
And on Wednesday, the 10th day of the same month, at four o'clock, in the evening, will be sold, on the premises, forty-four feet of ground on the main-street, on the east side of Shockoe creek, adjoining the lot of John Enders, and extending back the depth of the lot.—The terms of sale will be three and six months credit, with notes well endorsed, negotiable in the Bank of Virginia.
THOS. TAYLOR, Auctioneer.
April 28, (tds.)
FOR SALE. —By virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Pleasant Youngblood, in his life time, and recorded in the General Court, will be sold, on the twenty-second day of next month (May,) at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, four hundred and ninety-three acres of LAND, in the county of Henrico, being the tract of LAND whereon Francis Lewis, deceased, resided until his death, which Land was deeded to said Youngblood, by Moses Davis and wife. The deed was executed to the Subscribers to secure to Frederick Harris, the payment of two thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars, with interest from the first of March, 1809.—It is mentioned in the deed, that the sale was to be made for ready money, but the deed is dated on the 23d March, 1808, therefore subject to the act of the last session of Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An Act concerning executions & for other purposes."
DAVID BULLOCK, } Trustees. THOS. NORVELL, } (tds.)
April 28.
STOP THE THIEF! —Broken open and stolen out of the subscribers' Stable, in Petersburg, on Saturday night, the twenty-second instant,
A ROAN HORSE. Eight years old, five feet one or two inches high, with a bobtail nicked, strong and well formed, and in good condition, moves well, and paces remarkably fast. The horse was raised by Mr. Day of Fredericksburg, formerly owned by Mr. Thomas Powell of that town, and latterly by Mr. Gregory of the Half-Way House, of whom we purchased him.
Also, stolen at the same time, a SADDLE & BRIDLE, with a very large plated Bit and Bridle. We will give TWENTY DOLLARS for information of the said Horse, Saddle & Bridle, so that we get them again, and Fifty dollars on conviction of the thief.
The Horse was seen last Sunday, about Chesfield court-house, and 'tis supposed the rider is making up the country.
WM. & CHS. CORLING
April 28. (tds.)
S. & J. JACOBS, are just receiving a hand-
 Amongst which are,  6-4 Cotton Cambrics, Yellow Nankenees,  4-4 Do. do. Blue do.  6-4 Figured Leno, Muslinet, do.  4-4 Do. do. Dimities, do.  1 trunk sup. Plates, Bombazines,  1 do Curtain Calico, Bandanno Hdkfs.  Silk Shambay, A handsome assortment  Black Lustreing, Tortoise Combs,  Plaid do. 1 bale superfine Barbary,  Florentine Waistcoating 1 do. Mowmanoodies,  Marseilles do. 1 do. Mowmanoodies, 
An elegant assortment Floor Carpeting. With a number of other articles too numerous to enumerate. All of which will be sold at reduced prices for cash.
April 28. (tds.)
RACING! —The Tappahannock JOCKEY CLUB RACES, will commence on Thursday the 25th May next.
1st DAY—The Jockey Club Purse of $320 four mile heats
2nd DAY—The Jockey Club Purse of $240 three mile heats.
3rd DAY—The Proprietor's Purse of $100 entrance 10 dollars, two mile heats, (five horses or none)
WEIGHTS AS FOLLOWS:
 An aged horse, lb. 130 4 Years old, lb. 100  6 years old 120 3 Do. 86  5 Do. 110 And under that age a feather. 
The course, &c. will be in good order, we therefore 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. (tds.)
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. (tds.)
FOR SALE, GARDEN PALINGS AND SHINGLES of Cypress and of prime quality by years and rays experience from 1776 to 1792, and indeed to 1809.
EDWARD JOHNSTON. (tds.)
Rocketts, May 2.
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. CHAS. H. SAUNDERS,
Or,
SHANKS & BINFORD.
Norfolk, April 7. (tds.)
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 Hay nah 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. (tds.)
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 ESTATE, 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. (tds.)
HATS, SHOES, PORTER, &c.
D. J. PURR, offers for sale, at the same
house in which he kept the Penitentiary
Store, second door above the Eagle-Tavern,
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
HATS, SHOES, PORTER, &c.
Including Gentlemen's black, drab and patent
Silk BEAVERS, CASTORS, RORUMS, &c.
Clip and Legion Hats,
Moss and Bors 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 13. (tds.)
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 Accompli-
ment House, where they have for sale, a general
assortment of GERMEN GOODS,
consisting of—
Oznaburghs & Ticklen— Fine Shirring Linen,
bungs, Bed Tick,
Dantzick Rolls, Damask Table Cloths,
Brown Rolls, Looking Glasses,
Sheeting, Lignum Cases,
Dowlas, Quilt, Pink and 3 Pint
Platillas, Doormats,
Also, Fresh RED CLOVER SEED
BOHN & HUBNER.
April 4. (tds.)
MESSRS. Stephen G. Letcher, 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. (tds.)
POLITICAL.
COMMUNICATIONS
FROM THE LATE PRESIDENT ADAMS.
CORRESPONDENCE, relative to the TREATY with FRANCE.
(CONTINUED.)
To the Printers of the Boston Patriot.
SIR,
The institution of an Embassy to France in 1799, was made upon principle, and in conformity to a system of foreign affairs, formed upon long deliberation, established in my mind, and amply opened, explained, and supported in Congress,
that is, a system of eternal neutrality, if possible,
in all the wars of Europe, at least eighteen years before President Washington's Proclamation of Neutrality in 1794. For the truth of the antiquity of this system, I appeal to Judge Chase, who made the first motion in Congress for entering into Foreign Relations. This motion was made in concert with me, and was seconded by me. If I am incorrect in any circumstances, that gentleman can set me right. And here I feel a pride in acknowledging, that perhaps, no two members of Congress were at that time more intimate terms. We differed, disputed, and wrangled in public and private, but always with a species of good humor that never was suffered to diminish the confidence, esteem, or affection of either in the other. I have long wished for an opportunity of transmitting to posterity my humble testimony to the virtues and talents of that able and upright magistrate and statesman.
Our system was to form Treaties of commerce with France, Spain, Holland, and all the other nations of Europe even with England herself, upon a footing of entire equality; but by no means to form any political or military connections with any power in Europe, or engage in any hostilities against any, unless driven to them by necessity, in support of our independence and honor, or our just and necessary interests. In what manner & by whose means this plan has been abandoned in any degree, I could detail from step to step, but it would require a volume, and is not necessary here. It has never been forgotten by me, but the rectitude and wisdom of it has been confirmed by years and rays experience from 1776 to 1792, and indeed to 1809.
This introduction will be called pompous no doubt, and it will be thought an astonishing instance of the babbler, to descend from Judge Chase to Mr. Logan, but my plan requires it.
With this system, clear in my head, and deeply impressed in my heart, it was with the utmost reluctance that I found myself under a necessity in 1798, of having recourse to hostilities against France. But the conduct of that government had become so unjust, arbitrary and insolent as to be intolerable. I therefore animated this nation to war; determined, however, to listen to every proposal, and embrace the first opportunity to restore peace, whenever it could be done consistently with the honor and interests of the country. In this spirit I gave all due attention and consideration to Gen. Washington's and Mr. Barlow's Letters, nor was I wholly inattentive to a multitude of other circumstances, some of which shall be mentioned.
Perhaps at no period of our connection with France, has there ever been such a flood of private letters from that country to this, as in the winter 1798 and 1799. The contents of many of them were directly or indirectly communicated to me. They were all in a similar strain with that of Mr. Barlow, that the French government had changed their ground, and were sincerely disposed to negotiation and accommodation. I will instance only two. Mr. Codman, of Boston, wrote largely and explicitly to his friends to the same purpose, and his worthy brother, the late Mr. John Codman, of Boston, not only communicated to me the substance of his brother's letter, but thanked me in warm terms for opening a negotiation; and added, that every true friend of this country, who was not poisoned with party spirit, would thank me for it, and support me in it. Mr. Nathaniel Cutting, a consul in France, under president Washington's appointment, & a sensible man, wrote almost as largely as Mr. Barlow to the same effect.
I shall conclude this letter with another anecdote. Mr. Logan of Philadelphia, a gentleman of fortune and education, and certainly not destitute of abilities, who had for several years been a member of the legislature of Pennsylvania, and has since been a senator of the United States, though I knew he had been one of the old constitutional party in that state, and a zealous disciple of that democratic school which has propagated many errors in America and perhaps many tragic catastrophes in Europe, went to France, either with the pretext or the real design of improving his knowledge in agriculture and seeing the practice of it in that country. I had no reason to believe him a corrupt character, or deficient in memory or veracity. After his return he called upon me, and in a polite and respectful manner informed me that he had been honored with conversations with Talleyrand, who had been well acquainted with me, and repeatedly entertained at my house, and now visited me at his request to express to me the desire of the Directory, as well as his own, to accommodate all disputes with America, and to forget all that was past; to request me to send a minister from America or to give credentials to some one already in Europe, to treat; and to assure me that my minister would be received and all disputes accommodated in a manner that would be satisfactory to me and my country. I knew the magical words Democrat and Jacobin, were enough to destroy the credibility of any witness with some people. I saw marks of candor and sincerity in this relation which convinced me of its truth.
But the testimony of Mr. Codman, Mr. Cutting, Mr. Barlow, and Mr. Logan, and all other private communications, though they might convince my own mind would have had no influence to dispose me to nominate a minister if I had not received authentic, regular, official, diplomatic assurances, which may be sent you in another letter.
Quincy, April, 1809.
OLMSTEAD'S CASE.
OPINION
Of the Hon. WILLIAM TILGHMAN,
Chief Justice of the state of Pennsylvania,
on the Habeas Corpus taken out of the Supreme Court, requiring JOHN SMITH, Esquire, Marshal of the District, to bring
Mrs. SERGEANT before the Chief Justice.
COMMONWEALTH,
vs. Habeas Corpus
JOHN SMITH, Marshal of the United States, of the District of Pennsylvania.
It appears by the return of the Marshal, to the Habeas Corpus, in this case, that he arrested and detained Mrs. Sergeant, in obedience to a writ of attachment from the District Court of the United States, issued by the Judge of that Court, in consequence of a Peremptory Mandamus from the Supreme court of the United States. The sentence in the district court was founded on a libel filed by Gideon Olmstead and three others, against the said Elizabeth Sergeant and Esther Waters, surviving executrices of David Rittenhouse, deceased, for the purpose of carrying into effect a decree of the court of appeals, in admiralty cases, established by the Congress of the United States, before the adoption either of our present federal constitution, or of the articles of confederation of 1st of March, 1781. This decree of the court of appeals has been the subject of long and unappeased litigation, between the United States and the state of Pennsylvania. Strong feelings have been excited; opinions, taken up in warmth, have been supported with violence. Whatever decision, therefore, I may make, on the points now brought before me, I must suppose that many persons will be displeased with it. But I should be unworthy of my station, if I suffered myself to be influenced by that consideration. I have not flattered myself with the vain, I had almost said the guilty hope, of pleasing all men or all parties. I must endeavor to secure the approbation of my own conscience, and trust to Providence for the rest.
The facts which have been laid before me, are substantially as follows: on the 14th September, 1778, Thomas Houston, commander
of the state of Pennsylvania's brigantine of war, "The Convention," filed a libel, as well for himself, his officers, mariners and seamen, as for the said state, against the British sloop "The Active," and her cargo, in the court of Admiralty of the state of Pennsylvania. On the 19th October, 1778, Gideon Olmstead and his three associates filed their claim in the same court, praying that Houston's bill might be dismissed, and the Active and her cargo condemned as prize for the sole benefit of the claimants. The cause was tried before Judge Ross, who, in pursuance of the verdict of the Jury, decreed, that the Active and her cargo should be sold, and the proceeds distributed between the litigating parties, in the proportion mentioned in his decree. From this decree, Olmstead and his associates appealed to the committee of Appeals, appointed by Congress, by their Resolutions, in 1777. In December, 1778, the cause was brought before the court of appeals, who on the 15th of that month pronounced their definitive decree, by which they reversed the decree of the state in all its parts, and adjudged that the Active and her cargo should be condemned as prize for the sole use of the appellants. A certificate of this decree having been transmitted to the Judge of the state court, he was of opinion that the court of appeals had no right to set aside the verdict of the Jury, and therefore ordered the Marshal to sell the Active and her cargo and bring the proceeds into his court, ready to abide his further order.
On the 4th January, 1779, Matthew Clarkson, the Marshal, brought into the state court 47,981. 2s. 6d. Pennsylvania currency, on account of the cargo of the Active, the vessel remaining unsold; and Judge Ross signed an acknowledgment, that the Marshal had deposited that sum in his hands, as Judge of the court. On the 4th January, 1779 the court of appeals issued their mandate to Matthew Clarkson, to detain the proceeds of the cargo in his own hands until their further order should be made known to him; to which mandate he made return, that he had paid the money to Judge Ross, in obedience to his order.
Several proceedings and resolutions, relative to this affair, appear on the Journals of Congress, and of the legislature of Pennsylvania, which it is unnecessary to mention. They differed in opinion, and the court of appeals, for the sake of peace, forbore to make any attempt to carry their decree into execution. The money brought into the state court was loaned to the United States, and certificates of the loan were issued. Judge Ross paid part of these certificates to David Rittenhouse, deceased, Treasurer of the state of Pennsylvania, for the proportion of the prize adjudged to the state, and at the same time (1st May, 1779) Rittenhouse gave to Ross his bond in the penalty of £22,000, with condition that the same should be void if the said Rittenhouse should make re-payment of the sum of 11,492. 9s. 9d. in case the said Ross should, by due course of law, be compelled to pay the same, according to the decree of the court of appeals, and if the said Rittenhouse should keep the said Ross fully indemnified, &c.—In the condition of this bond, it is mentioned that the money was paid to Rittenhouse, Treasurer of the state, for the use of the state. It is declared, in the answer of Elizabeth Sergeant and Esther Waters, to the bill of Olmstead, &c. that on the 21st of February, 1793, David Rittenhouse caused the said certificates to be funded "for the benefit of those who might eventually appear to be entitled to them," and received "in lieu, and on account thereof, and for the benefit and use aforesaid," three other certificates, (particularly described in the answer) and that, after the death of the said David Rittenhouse, the said certificates, together with a large sum of money, received by the said David Rittenhouse, for interest on the same, came to the hands of the said Elizabeth Sergeant and Esther Waters, his executrices, that some time in the Autumn of 1801, Abraham Carpenter, Treasurer of Pennsylvania, called on the said Elizabeth Sergeant and Esther Waters, and required of them to deliver to him the said certificates, and the interest received on them, upon his giving them a bond of indemnity, which they refused to do, being advised that they could not do it with safety.
On the 14th January, 1803, Richard Peters, Judge of the District Court of the United States, for the district of Pennsylvania, decreed, that the said Elizabeth Sergeant and Esther Waters should transfer and deliver the said certificates, and pay the said interest money to Olmstead &c. (the libellants) upon the bond of indemnity being cancelled and given up.
On the 29th May, 1807, Elizabeth Sergeant and Esther Waters filed in the District Court a suggestion that they had paid into the Treasury of Pennsylvania the said certificates and interest money, in consequence of an act of the Legislature of the said State, passed 2d April, 1803, they further suggested, that the said certificates and money were received by their testator as the treasurer, and officer of the State; and therefore no process ought to issue against them, on the said decree, and that the said decree, so far as it respected the claims, rights, and interests of the said State, was ex parte , and without jurisdiction. The Judge of the District court having delayed to issue process on his decree, a mandamus from the Supreme court was received by him on the 12th of March 1803, to which he made a return, 18th July 1803, stating the reasons of his delay. At February term, 1809, the Supreme court issued a peremptory mandamus, in obedience to which Judge Peters issued the attachment, by virtue of which Mrs. Sergeant is now held in confinement.
If I order Mrs. Sergeant to be discharged, it must be because the court of the United States has proceeded in a case in which it had no jurisdiction. If it had jurisdiction, I have no right to enquire into its judgment or interfere with its process. But the Council of Olmstead have brought forward a preliminary question, whether I have a right to discharge the prisoner, even if I should be clearly of opinion, that the District Court had no jurisdiction. I am aware of the magnitude of this question, and have given it the consideration it deserves. My opinion is, with great deference
to those who may entertain different sentiments, that in the case supposed, I should have a right and it would be my duty to discharge the prisoner. This right flows from the nature of our Federal Constitution, which leaves to the several States absolute supremacy in all cases in which it is not yielded to the United States. This sufficiently appears from the general scope and spirit of the instrument.
The United States have no power, legislative or judicial, except what is derived from the Constitution. When these powers are clearly exceeded, the Independence of the States, and the peace of the Union demands that the State Courts should in cases brought properly before them, give redress. There is no law which forbids it—each of office exacts it, and if they do not, what course is to be taken? We must be reduced to the miserable extremity of opposing force to force, and arraying citizen against citizen—for it is vain to expect that the states will submit to manifest and flagrant usurpations of power by the United States, if (which God forbid) they should ever attempt them. If Congress should pass a

judging from the facts judicially disclosed to me, (which are all that I can judge from) that the present case is so circumstanced. The certificates were certainly paid to Mr. Rittenhouse, as Treasurer of the state. But it is equally certain, that neither he, nor his representatives since his death, did deposit them in the Treasury of Pennsylvania; on the contrary, they were invested by him in a new Fund in his own name, and it appears by his written memorandum, that he did not consider them as the property of the state, but his own property, until the state should give him a certain indemnification, which never was given—If this evidence is not strong enough to show that the certificates and money were not in the possession of the state, it acquires an additional strength difficult to resist, from the circumstance stated in the answer of Elizabeth Sergeant and Esther Waters, "that they had refused to deliver them to the Treasurer of the state, although expressly required so to do." Whether the conduct of Mr. Rittenhouse and his Executrices was right or wrong, is not the point now to be enquired into—The fact is, that they did withhold the certificates and interest money, from the Treasurer , until after the final decree of the District Court. Their paying it afterwards, cannot affect the question of jurisdiction. How then does the case stand? The property of these certificates and interest money, was irrevocably vested in Olmstead, &c. by the decree of the former Court of Appeals, which the Supreme Court of the United States since the adoption of the present constitution, has decided to be conclusive—The possession was not in the state, and the suit was not brought against the state or any of its officers. I do not see then how it can be maintained, even under a liberal construction of the 11th Art. of the Amendments, that the State was a party to the suit, in the District Court.—Several acts and resolutions of the legislature of Pennsylvania were read in the course of the argument, concerning which I am not called upon to decide—I exercise the right in common with my fellow citizens, of speaking my sentiments, on political occurrences in private conversations, but it would ill become me on this occasion, to express any opinion concerning the policy which the state has thought proper to pursue.—Whatever they have done, I extend to them the same charity which I ask for myself, the belief that they have acted from pure motives . But although I say nothing concerning the policy of the government, I may be allowed, without impropriety, to express my anxious hope, that this long continued controversy will be brought to a termination, without any material interruption of that harmony between this state and the United States, so essential to the prosperity of both.
On the whole of this case, I cannot say, that it clearly appears to me, that the District Court of the United States made its decree, in a cause of which it had no jurisdiction—I must order, therefore, that Mrs. Sergeant remain in the custody of the marshal.
KING'S PROCLAMATION.
We give in this day's Patriot, (in the continuation of the late president Adams's discussion of the king's proclamation, as follows,) the reports of Corbett's case in Admiralty , once so celebrated in New England, for the triumph it afforded to liberty and law over unprincipled oppression. With proud satisfaction we present to the view of our country the barrier to royal usurpation, by which, while we were the subjects of Great Britain, the humblest tar might stand secure and defy the man, whether admiral, captain, lieutenant, or boatswain, who attempted, under pretence of the king's authority, to infringe upon his liberty. The principles are eternal, and their discussion is not ill-timed. If we understand the jargon of would-be-called-whigs of the present times, the king of England will persevere in his proclamation and insist on the right of exercising over us a tyranny which he could not, and dared not, to exercise while we were his subjects. To those who represent our sovereignty, and are responsible for the honor of our independence; we protest against every compromise with the pretended sovereign of the ocean, which shall impair the rights and immunities which our citizens enjoyed under the laws of England. Bost. Pat.
THE INADMISIBLE PRINCIPLES OF THE KING OF ENGLAND'S PROCLAMATION, OF OCTOBER 22, 1807, CONSIDERED, BY THE LATE PRESIDENT ADAMS. (CONTINUED.)
Thurlow, when he was chancellor, hazarded a saying to a committee of the city of London, that the practice of impressment of seamen was legal: but the committee answered him respectfully, but firmly, though in the presence of the king in council—"we acknowledge the high authority of your lordship's opinion, but we must declare that we are of a very different opinion;" & their answer appeared to be applauded by the nation. Press-gangs are continually opposed & resisted at sea, by the sailors, whenever they have the means or the least hope of escaping. Navy officers & men are sometimes killed, & there is no inquisition for their blood. As little noise as possible is made about it. It is known to be justifiable homicide, to take the life of an assailant in the necessary defence of a man's liberty. There is not a jury in England who would find a verdict of murder or manslaughter against any sailor, on land, or at sea, who should kill any one of a press gang in the necessary defence of his liberty from impressment.—Press gangs on shore are often resisted by the people, fired on, some of them wounded, sometimes killed. Yet no inquisition is made for this. The practice is held in abhorrence by the men of war's men themselves. The boatswain of the Rose frigate, after the acquittal of the four Irish sailors, who were prosecuted in a special court of admiralty at Boston, for killing a gallant and amiable officer, lieut. Panton, said, "this is a kind of work in which I have been almost constantly engaged for twenty years, i. e. in fighting with honest sailors, to deprive them of their liberty; I always suspected that I ought to be hanged for it." Since I have alluded to this case, it may not be amiss to recollect some other circumstances of it.
A press gang from the Rose , commanded by lieut. Panton, with a midshipman and a number of ordinary seamen, visited and searched a merchant ship from Marblehead, belonging to Mr. Hooper, at sea. The lieut. enquired if any English, Irish or Scotchmen were on board? Not satisfied with the answer he received, he prepared to search the ship from stem to stern. At last he found four Irishmen retired and concealed in the
fore-peak. With sword and pistols he immediately laid siege to the enclosure & summoned the men to surrender. Corbett, who had the cool intrepidity of a Nelson, reasoned, remonstrated and laid down the law with the precision of a Mansfield. "I know who you are. You are the lieutenant of a man of war, come with a press-gang to deprive me of my liberty. You have no right to impress me. I have retreated from you as far as I can; I can go no farther. I, and my companions are determined to stand upon our defence. Stand off." The sailors within and without employed their usual language to each other, and a midshipman, in the confusion, fired a pistol into the fore-peak and broke an arm of one of the four. Corbett, who stood at the entrance, was engaged in a contest of menaces and defiances with the lieutenant. He repeated what he had before said, and marking a line with a harpoon in the salt, with which the ship was loaded, said, "You are determined to deprive me of my liberty, and I am determined to defend it. If you step over that line, I shall consider it as a proof that you are determined to impress me, and by the eternal God of Heaven, you are a dead man." "Aye my lad," said the lieutenant, "I have seen many a brave fellow before now." Taking his snuff box out of his pocket, and taking a pinch of snuff, he very deliberately stepped over the line and attempted to seize Corbett. The latter, drawing back his arm, and driving his harpoon with all his force, cut off the carotid artery and jugular vein, and laid the lieutenant dead at his feet. The Rose sent a reinforcement to the press-gang—broke down the bulkhead, and seized the four Irishmen, and brought them to trial for piracy and murder. The court consisted of Governor Bernard, Governor Wentworth, Chief Justice Hutchinson, Judge Achmuty, Commodore Hood himself, who then commanded all the ships of war on the station, now a peer of the British empire, and twelve or fifteen others, councillors of Massachusetts, New-Hampshire, & Rhode-Island. After the trial, the President, Governor Bernard, pronounced the judgment of the Court, that the action of the prisoners was justifiable homicide, and in this opinion the whole court was unanimous. The sailor who was wounded in the arm, brought an action against the midshipman and commodore Hood himself interposed & made compensation to the sailor, to his satisfaction, after which the action was withdrawn. Such was the impressment of seamen, as it stood, by law, before our revolution—The author of my text, then, carries his courtly complaisance to the English government, farther than the governors Bernard and Hutchinson, and even than lord Hood carried it, when we were a part of the British empire. He thinks, that, as every nation has a right to the service of its subjects, in time of war, the proclamation of the King of G. B. commanding his naval officers to practice such impressments on board, not only the vessels of his own subjects but of the U. States, a foreign nation, could not furnish the slightest ground for an embargo! It is not necessary for me to say, that any thing could furnish a sufficient ground for an embargo, for any long time; this, I leave to the responsibility of our president, senators, and representatives in congress. But, I say, with confidence, that it furnished a sufficient ground for a declaration of war. Not the murder of Pierce, nor all the murders, on board the Chesapeake, nor all the other injuries and insults, we have received from foreign nations, atrocious as they have been, can be of such dangerous, lasting and pernicious consequence to this country, as this proclamation, if we have servility enough to submit to it.
What would the author of my text have advised? Would he counsel the President to stipulate, in a treaty with Great Britain, that his navy officers should forever hereafter have a right to visit American merchant ships, and impress from them all English, Scotch and Irish seamen? Will he be so good as to explain the distinction between ships? Are not merchant ships under the jurisdiction and entitled to the protection of the laws of their country upon the high seas, as much as ships of war? Is not a merchant ship as much the territory of the United States, as a ship of war? Would the author of my text advise the President and Congress to acquiesce, in silence, under this Proclamation, and permit it to be executed forever hereafter? Would not such a tame and silent acquiescence, as effectually yield the point, and establish the practice, if not the law, as an express stipulation in a solemn treaty? If the United States had as powerful a navy as Great Britain, and Great Britain as feeble a force at sea, as ours, would he advise the President, either to concede the principle, by treaty, or acquiesce in it, in silence? Does the circumstance of great power or great weakness make any alteration in the principle or the right? Should the Captain or crew of an American merchantman, resist a British press-gang on the high seas, and in defiance of their liberty, kill the commander, and all under him, and then make their escape, and after returning to Salem, be prosecuted, would the writer of my text, as a judge or a juror, give his judgment for finding them guilty of murder or piracy? Although the embargo was made the watchword, in our late elections, the votes, in our greatest nurseries of seamen, for example, in Salem, in Marblehead, in Barnstable, Sandwich, and other places on Cape Cod, in Nantucket and the Vineyard, and other places, seemed to shew, that our seamen preferred to be embargoed , rather than go to sea to be impressed .
No doubt, it will be said, that we have nothing to do with the question in England, concerning the legality or illegality of impressments. This, as long as they confine the law and the practice to their own country, and to their own seamen, is readily acknowledged. We shall leave them to justify their own usage, whether it is a mere abuse, or a legitimate custom, to their own consciences, to their own sense of equity, humanity or policy. But when they arrogate a right, and presume, in fact, to transfer their usurpations to foreign nations, or rather to Americans, whom they presume to distinguish from all other foreign nations, it becomes the interest, the right, and the indispensable duty of our government, to inquire into the nefarious nature of it in England, in order to expose the greater turpitude of it, when transferred to us, as well as to oppose and resist it to the utmost of their power, and it is equally the duty of the people to support their government in such opposition to the last extremity.
Permit me now to enquire, what will be the effects of an established law and practice of British impressments of seamen, from American ships, upon the commerce, the navigation and the peace of the United States,
and, above all, upon the hearts and minds of our seamen. In considering those innumerable dangers, from winds and seas, rocks and shoals, to which all ships are exposed in their voyages, the owner and master must sit down together in order to estimate the number of seamen necessary for the voyage. They must calculate the chances of impressment, and engage a supernumerary list of sailors, that they may be able to spare as many as the British lieutenant shall please to take, and have enough left to secure the safety of the ship and cargo, and above all, the lives of the master and crew. They know not how many British ships of war they may meet, nor how many sailors the conscience of each lieutenant may allow him to impress. For the lieutenant is to be judge, jury, sheriff and jailor, to every seaman in American vessels. He is to try many important questions of law and of fact. Whether the sailor is a native of America; whether he has been lawfully naturalized in America. Whether he is an Englishman, Scotchman or Irishman; whether he emigrated to America before the revolution or since? Indeed no evidence is to be admitted of any naturalization by our laws, in any of the states, since the revolution, if before . In truth, the doctrine of the inherent and indefeasible duty of allegiance is asserted, so peremptorily, in the proclamation, that the lieutenant may think it his duty to impress every man who was born in the British dominions. It may be the opinion of this learned judge, that the connection between the king and subject, is so sacred and divine, that allegiance cannot be dissolved by any treaty the king has made, or even by an act of parliament. And this pious sentiment may subject us all to impressment at once. This, however, en passant. The lieutenant is to order the captain of the merchantman to lay before him a list of his crew; he is then to command the crew to be ordered or summoned or mustered to pass in review before him. A tribunal ought to be erected. The lieutenant is to be the judge, possessed of greater authority than the chief justice of any of our states, or even than the chief justice of the United States. The midshipman is to be clerk, & the boatswain, sheriff marshal. And who are these lieutenants? Commonly very young gentlemen, the younger sons of wealthy families, who have procured their commissions to give them an honorable living, instead of putting them apprentices to trade, merchandise, law, physic, or divinity. Their education, their experience, their manners, their principles are so well known, that I shall say nothing of them. Lord Keppel said, that he knew the maxim of British seamen to be, " to do no right and receive no wrong ." The principles of the officers, I believe to be somewhat better; but, in this, they all seem to agree, officers and men, and their present ministry seem to be of the same opinion, that the world was made for the British nation and that all nature and nations were created for the dignity and omnipotence of the British navy.
It is impossible to figure to ourselves, in imagination, this solemn tribunal and venerable judge, without smiling, till the humiliation of our country comes into our thoughts and interrupts the sense of ridicule, by the tears of grief or vengeance. "High on a splendid seat, which far outshone" "Henley's guilt tub, or Flecnoe's Irish throne." The lieutenant examines the countenance, the gait and air of every seaman. Like the sage of old, commands him to speak, "that he may know him." He pronounces his accent and dialect to be that of the Scotch, Irish, West Country, Yorkshire, Welsh, Jersey, Guernsey, Alderney, or Sersk. Many native Americans are the descendants of emigrants from all these countries, and retain a tincture of the language and pronunciation of their fathers and grandfathers. These will be decided to be the king's subjects. Many will be found to be emigrants, or the descendants of emigrants, from Germany, Holland, Sweden, France, Spain, Portugal or Italy. They will be adjudged by the lieutenant not to be native Americans. (To be Continued.)
FROM THE N. Y. PUBLIC ADVERTISER, APRIL 28.
The election for Senator and for members of assembly, closed yesterday at sun set . In the city and county of New York, the republican ticket has prevailed against the united forces of tories, federalists & British agents, supported by all the influence of Cheetham, M'Kay, &c. &c. Never was a victory more complete. The whig majority is EIGHT OR NINE HUNDRED VOTES.
PHILADELPHIA, April 29.
Yesterday came on before the Judges Washington and Peters, the trial of general Michael Bright and others, for opposing the Marshal of the U. States, in the execution of his office, on a bill found against them by the Grand Jury of the Federal District Court, for the said offence. The following Jurors being impanelled, the trial began about 12 o'clock.
1. Wm. Sherswood 2. Matthias Corless 3. Liberty Brown 4. John Gallagher 5. Benjamin Thaw 6. John Jennings 7. Thomas Algeo 8. John Phillips 9. Conrad Seybert 10. John White, jun. 11. C. Barrington 12. George A. Wray.
The afternoon and evening being spent in the pleadings of the lawyers, the Jury had not retired at a late hour last night.
COMMERCE.
By an estimate of the editor of the New-York Gazette, it appears, that 183 vessels have cleared for foreign ports since the partial repeal of the embargo. The above vessels, they remark, will probably average 200 tons—and each 10 seamen, making 207,000 tons and 10,350 seamen, besides passengers and supercargoes. In one month, from this time no doubt, 1000 more vessels will depart for foreign ports. We will then have sent out 400,000 tons, and 20,000 seamen—all in about two months. And yet, quoth these gentlemen, the embargo had driven off all our seamen to Halifax, Quebec, &c. Quere . When any of our seamen offered themselves at those ports, did the recruiting midshipman stop to enquire whether they were American citizens or British subjects? And yet the British complain of our employing their seamen! This is consistency...Enquirer.
The Legislature of Tennessee met at Knoxville on the 3d ult. by a special call of the governor. The principal object was to appoint an earlier day than October for the election of representatives to Congress.—A day has accordingly been appointed, sufficiently early to permit the attendance of the Representatives at the extraordinary Session on the 4th Monday in this month.—Mr. George W. Campbell declines being considered as a candidate, "in consequence
of a state of his health." Governor Sevier has been requested to come forward in his place, but has declined in consequence of the public duties which surround him.
It appears by a western paper, that Mr. Boyle of K. who has been lately appointed Governor of the Illinois territory, has declined that appointment, and has accepted the office of Judge of the Court of Appeals of K. to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Robert Trimble Esq.
ORLEANS, April 1. The following companies of United States troops, under the command of George Peter, Esq. Captain Commandant, arrived in this city on the 20th ult. viz.
Captain Peter's } Company of Irwin's } Artillery. Cutter's 7th Infantry. M c Donald's } Rifled Corps. Findley's }
BALTIMORE April 28.
Curious military requisition by Jerome Bonaparte. There are about 15 or more subjects of Jerome's Westphalian dominions, now in Baltimore. Several of them have within this day or two, been individually notified to return to their monarch for military service, under the penalty of 5000 dollars being exacted for each absentee from their relations in Westphalia. As some of them are naturalized Americans, we are willing to present their case to Mr. Adams as coming up at least to the King of England's proclamation about seamen. We further beg leave to ask him, whether the said audacious requisition amounts to "PLAGIAT, & is punishable with death as a punishable offence?"
EUROPE.
BRITISH PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS—March 6.
AMERICAN AFFAIRS.
[Debate on Mr. Whitebread's Motion, for an address to his Majesty praying that he would without delay adopt such measures as may best tend to the immediate re-establishment of commercial intercourse with the U. States. CONTINUED.] Mr. Stevens, while he agreed in many of the sentiments expressed by the Right Hon. Gentleman differed completely from him in his statement of facts. He coincided with his whole heart, in those opinions which towards the conclusion of the Hon. Gentleman's Speech, he had borrowed from a most respectable source. He paid unfeigned homage to the motives of the hon. Gentleman. He was a sincere and manly character; and he really believed, that there was not in the house, or in the country, a heart more truly of British texture, than that of the Hon. Gentleman. When he contemplated the ability of the hon. gentleman and the Noble Lord, who had introduced this subject in another place, he could not but regret that he had the misfortune to be so opposite in opinion to them—He felt that he was called upon by this difference of sentiment to weigh well his judgement. He had done so and he would take the liberty of communicating to the House the result of his deliberation.
The hon. Gentleman seemed to imagine, that there were people in this country who would regard a war with America with complacency. He could not believe that any such were to be found. For him, he was as averse to such an occurrence as the hon. Gentleman. He deprecated a war with America, not because he thought that the accession of America to our enemies would be to us of material consequence, so much as it would be injurious to the spirit of liberty, and would be therefore, an event peculiarly acceptable to that individual who, was the most inveterate enemy of liberty all over the world, and who although he had overrun Europe—and subverted and erected thrones; had extirpated ancient families—and had destroyed venerable institutions, had not been able to triumph over the destruction of his tyranny, which, by the favor of Providence yet existed in so considerable a degree.
Of the three important questions which had been brought under the consideration of the house, he allowed, with the hon. Gentleman, that this was the most important. It was attended with a peculiar circumstance. On the first of those questions, the house has been called upon to decide, before the documents respecting it, which had been laid upon the table, could by any possibility have been read. On the second of those questions, the house had been called upon to decide before the documents respecting it had even been produced. But on the present question, folios of evidence, adduced a twelvemonth ago, at the requisition of the hon. gentleman and his friends, lay on the table; and yet the honorable gentleman had not chosen to refer to one title of it. The facts contained in that body of evidence would prove the gross misrepresentations that had gone abroad—Would in the first place prove, that truth so shamefully denied, that in consequence of the Berlin decree, the commerce of the country had been nearly stopped before the issuing of the orders in council; and would in the second instance shew the beneficial effects which those orders had produced. He apologised to the House for the necessity under which he felt himself to recall their attention to the evidence that had been given at their bar during the last session. (The hon. Gentleman here read the allegations of several witnesses who were examined last session, in order to establish the facts he had stated.)
He then proceeded to show from the evidence, that, in August, September and October, before the orders in council were issued, the rate of insurance rose to such a height in this country in consequence of the Berlin decree, as to amount to an entire prohibition of our trade, not only with the continent, but with America. How then could the Berlin decree be represented as a mere letter & a sound? The effects of this decree were also proven by the returns laid before the house by the inspector general of customs; from which it appears that within forty days previous to issuing the Orders in Council, no fewer than sixty-five vessels in our ports had applied for permission to reload their cargoes. After this had been so fully and completely proven, he could not help being surprised at the false assertion of a periodical work devoted to opinions of Gentlemen on the other side, which went forth uncontradicted, and produced in America feelings hostile to this country. (Name, name, from Lord H. Petty.) It was the noble Lord suspected, the Edinburgh Review to which he alluded, which without attending to facts or evidence, spread its Gallician poisons in a manner so presumptuous, that those friends of England in America who could not be better informed, were imposed upon to believe, that such statements could not have been made with out some foundation in truth. He then read from the Edinburgh Review passages in which, in direct contradiction to the true state of the case, it was asserted that "no advance in insurance had taken place in this country in consequence of the Berlin decree and that the decree itself was not carried into execution till after the orders in council" concluding from these premises that the preamble to the orders in Council was fallacious in all points & that we were chargeable, as a nation, with that injustice and oppression which we charged on others, and for the miseries ensuing from the blockade of one quarter of the world.
The hon. Gentleman, in warm terms reproved conduct so disgraceful to Britons, & sentiments so false and unjust as men—He then adverted in severe language on the conduct of Gentlemen on the other side, who, following the bold and flagitious example of the profligate enslaver of Europe, and in their account of facts went to the Antipodes of truth. This was a course new even to the opposition of this country, and contrary to the British character, and had never been resorted to till the present case, when they gave the hint to America of what was false; namely, that our commerce had suffered nothing from the Berlin decree, whereas it had destroyed our commerce entirely, save what has been rescued from its operation by the orders in council. He lamented that the hon. Gentleman had not looked a little to facts as this would have saved him from the gross mis-statement of the Edinburgh Review, and giving the authority of a member of the British house of commons in aid of the arguments of the American democratic party. Having established this position, that our trade was destroyed before the orders in council were issued, there was an end of all the honorable gentleman's prophecies, and we were not to compare our present commerce with what it was previous to the decree; but with what it was three months previous to the orders in council; by which we would find, that all we enjoyed sprung from these orders.
He entered into a train of reasoning, to show, that it was not the orders in council which necessarily destroyed our intercourse with America; on the contrary, they encouraged it and it was only prevented by the American non-importation act, which existed before they were issued, and the embargo which took place immediately after. By reading extracts from the examination of Mr. Ingles and others, he made it appear that the execution of the Berlin Decree, unless counterbalanced by our Orders, would have utterly ruined our trade, and contended, that rescinding these Orders, without a substitute for them, would now have a similar effect; rather than submit to which he would, with all his objections to that measure, meet a war with America, which certainly could not do us greater injury. He commented on the use the Hon. Member had made of the word factitious, which he disapproved of, and could not afford with him to France what he called a peace, in which she could re-establish her marine from Norway to the Straits of Gibraltar, and as it were build a bridge from Calais to Dover. He expressed his surprise at the opinion expressed by the Honorable Gentleman, that the conduct of this country towards America was radically wrong, and defended it on the broad grounds of self-defence and the law of nations. He joined in the eulogy pronounced on Dr. Lawrence (whose loss as a public or private man was deplored by all that knew him), who he was sure would not have gone the length which the honorable gentleman did. The gentleman then went into a justification of our measures, on the ground, that they were consonant to the law of nations, which he supported by a precedent of the conduct of the States General of Spain, in the reign of Philip 2d and 3d, and Henry the 4th of France, where a measure, much stronger than this of Great Britain, and on far less provocation, had been adopted by the Dutch, and acknowledged by every Maritime State in Europe. He then characterized the conduct of Bonaparte in declaring G. Britain in a state of blockade, as exceeding in presumption, any thing that had ever been done by the most haughty monarch of the most arrogant nation of the earth, and warranting our counteracting Decree, which America never could have found fault with, were she not encouraged in her claims by debates like that present in the British Parliament.
On these opinions, propagated and maintained in this country, he demonstrated the ill effects, and recommended to Mr. Whitebread not to allow his liberty to carry him too far, and make him suppose his own country wrong merely for the purpose of displaying his universal philanthropy. The Hon. Gentleman then went into a strict examination of the offers made by America, and shewed that they were partial to wards France; illusory towards Britain, and unfairly stated by Mr. Whitebread. They never offered to join us against France; they did not resent the aggression of France in her decrees; they did not even call upon her to rescind them. As for continuing the embargo, quoad France, if we agreed to their terms, it was altogether nugatory and unsatisfactory. It could not be an embargo after their ports were open, and as a prohibitory law, what was to enforce it so as to render it more efficacious than our Orders in Council, vessels cleared out for any other country to steer to a French port? We could not connive at the observance of the embargo by another nation; and after we saw the embargo so close a measure, so completely and flagrantly broken through, how could we expect that a mere prohibition would be more effectual? If this proposition had been agreed to, America would instantly have engrossed the whole trade of Europe, to our exclusion, utterly and irretrievably. The hon. gentleman had asserted

again and again, that we would be satisfied with nothing but America's going to war with France, to force her to rescind the Berlin Decree. This was not the fact. We only required of America, not to trade with France and her enemies, while these enemies would not suffer America to trade freely with us. He now took a view of the correspondence between General Armstrong and Champagny; showing from thence, that as France could not cope with Britain on the high seas, the plan of accommodation between her and America was to do us still greater injury, by seizing all British merchandise in Continental ports, by what they styled a pure municipal law, but which was in fact a most glaring breach of the laws of nations and of every principle of justice, supporting what had been acquired by military force, by illegal and assumed rights. He expressed his hopes, that the new government of America, governed by the sense and spirit of the people, would adopt juster measures towards Britain than those which our Ministers had in duty to the public rejected, and which if they had accepted, would have been a parriacidal act towards their country. —The Honorable Gentleman then defended Mr. Canning's Note, which had been so much the subject of comments, and so far from being sarcastic and offensive to the American people, he considered it as having had a great influence in turning the tide of popular opinion in that country in favor of Britain. To this effect he read a letter from a respectable citizen of New York. Whether the Right Honorable Secretary employed his tongue or pen in the service of his country, if he did it in the manner he was accustomed to do in that house, he was not surprised that his opponents did not like his style (Hear, Hear!) The coincidence of the embargo with the French Decree was no joke to our commerce, and could not be meant as a sarcasm by the Right Honorable Secretary, who had adopted a manner fitted to prevent the harshness of dispute and to win the people of America, whatever effect it might have on their government. He denied that it created the opinion asserted by Mr. Whitbread. So far from that, it was not published before the election, on which Mr. Jefferson would have been very likely to do, had he thought it calculated to excite the passions of the American people. Such effects, however, were not unlikely to be produced by the eloquent speech of the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Whitbread,) when it found its way across the Atlantic, and taught America all that ingenuity could devise or misstatement serve as a foundation to laying the blame of every thing upon the British government. He next stated the facts of the case, often revealed to the public, showing, that the Embargo was not the consequence of the orders in council, which it is unnecessary to repeat as they stand uncontroverted but on mere assertion. He alluded to Mr. Whitebread and his Friend's prophecies, among which the Hon. Gentleman, in enumerating had forgotten those in which the original had the greatest stress, namely, that by the orders in council, our Colonies would be starved, and our commerce destroyed. Our Colonies were not starved—our commerce was not destroyed; on the contrary, the orders in Council had saved them both. For these reasons he could not agree with the Address substituted after so long a notice of a motion to repeal the orders in council, as it was in fact to repeal these Orders unconditionally, and leave us to the mercy of our enemies. Mr. Baring expressed his surprise at the manner in which the correspondence had been treated. He should not follow the Hon. Gentleman who spoke last, by entering into the evidence as he had done, he had no doubt but parts of the evidence might be picked out, to answer any purpose for which it might be brought forward. He then made a variety of statements, to prove the great injury our commerce had sustained in consequence of the late orders. It had once been stated, that a variety of other markets would present themselves for British commodities, but we now find we have destroyed our American commerce without gaining an equivalent. The Brazils had been spoken of by a Right H. Gentleman (Mr. Rose) as likely to afford an ample scope for our traffic, but the hopes thus held out he knew to be delusive, as the stocks already sent out would not be consumed in less than ten years. It was expected the want of W. Indian commodities on the Continent would have forced a trade, but these expectations were disappointed by our orders. The proposal made by America was a concession, it indicated a wish to be friendly, & ought to have been very differently received. He then censured the delays which had occurred after those orders were given, before they were made known to America; read several letters to prove they were not properly known, though by various means America had become possessed of their substance; descended at large on the beneficial effect of commerce; and concluded by strongly recommending the Address. (To be continued.)
VERY LATE FROM FRANCE. BOSTON, April 26. The French letter of marque L'ESPERANCE, capt. De Place, arrived here yesterday, in a short passage from Bordeaux. A French gentleman, a passenger, politely favored us with a file of French papers to the 19th of last month; & a manuscript copy of a new Imperial Decree. A few translations from the papers, and the Decree, will be found below. The accounts from the European continent, in these papers, are nearly a month later than before received. War with France and Austria had not commenced, though the declaration of it was daily expected. The French Ambassador, and the Ministers of the Confederation of the Rhine, had quitted Vienna; and all the troops in the North, under the control of Bonaparte, were in motion. —100,000 of the troops which were in Spain, had returned into France; and were moving towards Bavaria. The Emperor was in Paris at the last date. We find but little mention made of Russia; and that little did not indicate any thing like her taking part in the war against Austria. The peace between Turkey and England is attributed in the Paris papers to the interference of Austria. The tidings from Spain, are late.—Sarragossa surrendered the 24th February; after a memorable siege:—About 10,000 of the garrison had passed Bayonne. The south of Spain had not been overrun; nor had Cadiz been invested. The French had entered Oporto (Portugal) and were advancing on Lisbon. The Brest fleet, at the latest dates, remained near Rochefort.
On the subject of American affairs, these papers are wholly silent. An Imperial decree, affecting a part of our vessels in France, will be found under the translations. To understand it, it will be recollected, that the French, have long detained American vessels under various pretences:—But some time since an Embargo was laid on all American vessels in the ports of France. The new decree only affects such as were detained by the general embargo. They are permitted to return direct to the United States, giving bonds. The others are still detained.
The above arrival gave rise to numerous reports yesterday; which were destitute of foundation in truth. We have seen nothing which looks like an accommodation with France; or the abrogation of her decrees.
CENTINEL. [TRANSLATIONS] VIENNA, Feb. 23. The Wirtemberg and Bavarian Ambassadors are about to quit this capital. The different corps of our army are to be commanded by the Archdukes, and by Generals Lichtenstein, Rosanburgh, Klenau, Kallo-wart, and Bellegrade.
Feb. 26. The great military promotions announced a few days since, have been followed by others.
Gen. Meerfeldt has been sent into Galicia, where he will have a command. The enumeration of the horses in this city and environs is now making. Several thousands will be wanted by government for the service of the artillery. The young Counts de Kinsky and de Traismaendorf have demanded of the Archduke Charles, to serve near his person in quality of volunteers.
March 1. His Excellency Gen. Andreossi has taken leave of our court, on his return to Paris. He passed Augsburg on the 6th March, and continued his route without stopping.
PETERSBURG, Jan. 16. The Austrian Ambassador, Prince Schwarzenberg, has had his first audience of his Majesty and had a conference of an hour and an half with him in his closet.
PARIS, March 22. The Vienna Court Gazette continues to give all the absurdities of the English journals. The manner in which the events in Turkey are recounted, prove evidently that Austria has contributed all in her power to the peace between the Porte and England. Mr. Adair, formerly Ambassador to the Austrian Court, when he left Vienna, had letters of recommendation to the Austrian Internuncio at Constantinople. The Vienna Court Gazette states, that several Saxon regiments had marched into the Duchy of Warsaw, while the Westphalians are marching towards Thuringo.
AUGSBURG, March 1. The head quarters of Gen. Oudinot's corps are in this city. Three Bavarian corps are to be formed in Tyrol, on the Inn, and in the Upper Palatinate.
March 7. We learn that several Englishmen have arrived at Trieste, and shewed themselves publicly. A British courier, lately debarked there, and proceeded hastily to Vienna. For some time very frequent communications have been made between Austria and England by way of Trieste. An Austrian train of Artillery has arrived at Egra in Bohemia.
We learn that an Austrian corps has shewn itself on the banks of the Inn, on the side of Passau. For this cause the court of Munich has ordered its troops into Swabia & Franconia to join those in Bavaria, who are to concentrate on the Iser. The Garrisons of Ulm & Augsburg are already on their march. All the Bavarian troops are marching to the Inn.
The famous intriguer Gentz has arrived in Vienna; probably to draft the Austrian Manifesto. M. Stein is also at Vienna.
BURGOS, (SPAIN) March 5. General Sebastiani pursues his success.—Marshals Junot and St. Cyr are approaching Valencia, which it is expected will not make any defence.
Sarragossa surrendered the 19th Feb. to the Duke of Montebello (Lasnes.) Such of the garrison as would not swear allegiance to Joseph I. were to be sent prisoners of war into France.
IMPERIAL DECREE, OF FEB. 25, 1809. Article 1. American vessels which have been detained in the ports of the Empire, solely by the (French) Embargo, are permitted to return directly to the U. States. This favor is not extended to such vessels as have been detained on account of irregular papers, or from any other cause.
Art. 2. The vessels, the embargo on which is thus raised, shall be placed in the disposition of Mr. Gen. Armstrong, Minister Plenipotentiary of the U. States to guarantee their direct return to that country. The bonds given on their departure shall only be cancelled by certificates of our consuls, &c. in America, that their cargoes were landed therein, and were composed only of the productions or industry of our empire; and that no part of them was the produce of the soil, of the colonies, or of the commerce of England.
troops of the line. All the officers have been obliged to join their corps. They name Klog-furth, in Corinthia. Crowvia, in Galicia, Ens and Wells in Austria, Collin and Pilsen, in Bohemia, as the points of junction. The Emperor and Arch Dukes, will quit Vienna in a few days.
Feb. 27. By the late military promotions eight Major-Generals, are raised to the rank of Field-Marshal-Lieutenants; and twelve Colonels to that of Major-Generals.
The first battalions of the reserve have joined their respective regiments. Gen. Mayer has received sudden orders to take upon himself the command at Brody, in Galicia.
March 2. Many young men of the most noble families, have offered to serve as volunteers; and the collegians have demanded to be formed into a battalion.
The Emperor is about to undertake a journey. It is not yet agreed whither he is to go, but it is generally believed that it will be to Hungary, for the purpose of accelerating the levy en masse of his subjects.
The numerous assemblages of Austrian troops that have taken place in Bohemia; and appear to menace the upper Palatinate, have occasioned the putting in motion of part of the garrison of Nuremberg—the remainder will shortly follow.
March 5. Since the departure of the French Ambassador, this city is no longer recognizable. The entire garrison has gone for Bohemia; the military service of the place being done by the citizens.
A vast number of officers, subjects of the Princes of the Rhenish Confederacy, have positively refused to bear arms against their countrymen.
The imports have been much augmented. The departure of the French Ambassador has occasioned a very lively sensation at this place.
PARIS, March 16. The Emperor returned yesterday from Rambouillet. We understand, from different letters, that an increased activity prevails in the ports of Ferrol and Coruna. It is not enough that the Spanish marine corps should have remained faithful to honor during a time of anarchy and rebellion, but it aspires to revenge itself upon England for the evils brought upon the country. It is said that even the Cadiz squadron participates in this sentiment. A great movement is projecting upon the coasts of the ocean, from Holland quite to Spain. The French troops have followed the English to the port of Galicia—perhaps they may have the happiness to pursue them further.—Many means offer for penetrating into Insurgent Ireland, and for seeking the remains of Sir John Moore's army in the county of Kent.—When Carthage carried her arms into Italy, the Romans soon found themselves under her own walls in Africa, and the rival of Rome disappeared!!!
An epidemic disease was said in the French papers, to have broken out at Sarragossa, in consequence of the sufferings and hardships endured in the siege, and to have carried off upwards of twenty thousand persons.
COUNCIL OF PRIZES, PARIS, Jan. 25. The American vessel Susan, has been adjudged good prize to the officers and crews of the Italian and Syrene frigates. The same Court has declared good and lawful prize the merchandise taken out of the American ship Augusta, by the French privateer L'Eve and confiscated the same for the benefit of the Marine Invalid Case.
March 13. The late Ambassador Gen. Andreossi, has returned to Paris from Vienna.
LONDON, March 3. The French exporting their surplus. By a French imperial Decree of the 26th of last month, the exportation of grain and flour has been permitted from the ports of Dunkirk, Calais, St. Valery upon Somme, Dieppe, Havre, Rouen, Caen, and Granville. The grain is to pay export duty, according to a progressive rate of customs; rye, barley, oats, grits, and indian corn, pay one moiety of the duty laid on wheat.
SARRAGOSSA. It appears that Sarragossa was not wholly subdued, until after the garrison had sustained 150 attacks, which were made night and day without intermission, for 45 days. In this memorable siege, the French are presumed to have lost nearly 30,000 men; and to have encountered from the unexampled bravery of the inhabitants, every kind of opposition which human ingenuity, stimulated by patriotism and the thirst of vengeance, could devise. After the first breach was made, which was about 30 days before its final subduction, the assailants were so powerfully opposed in the streets, and from the houses as to defeat the execution of any immediate surrender of the place—they were compelled to conquer street by street, and house by house—for every house was a fortress, and was defended until blown up. The details of this siege are highly interesting, presenting a daily journal of operations for 30 days, in which the French were unrelentingly engaged in fighting the inhabitants, and destroying their dwellings, one by one. Such unexampled heroism, is without precedent in the annals of history. Boston Gazette.
AUSTRIA. FROM VIENNA, Feb. 22. The measures which the court of Vienna continue to take, and the movements of the troops in all the provinces, no longer permit us to doubt, that war will be decided on and declared in a few days. The best informed persons are convinced of it. Yesterday we flattered ourselves with preserving peace; which caused the funds to rise; but to-day I am informed, from a good source, whose information has never deceived me, here, will begin to march the 23th, and the rest of the garrison the 28th, to join the camp assembled near Lintz. I am also assured, from the same source, that the Manifesto, a declaration of the war, as well as the Proclamation to the army, are already prepared. The Manifesto is conceived in very strong terms, against the sovereign of the Confederation; but very flattering to the people of the Confederation; whom it calls upon to separate themselves from the alliance of France, and to make common cause with Austria. The Proclamation to the army contains new promotions—promises to the troops; recompenses of every kind; decorations, advancement and even gifts of land. When the army shall have passed the frontier, it will be paid in ready money. The horses of the artillery are complete. The army, divided into nine corps, will have 850 cannon and howitzers. A considerable part of the new militia will be combined with the
troops of the line. All the officers have been obliged to join their corps. They name Klog-furth, in Corinthia. Crowvia, in Galicia, Ens and Wells in Austria, Collin and Pilsen, in Bohemia, as the points of junction. The Emperor and Arch Dukes, will quit Vienna in a few days.
Feb. 27. By the late military promotions eight Major-Generals, are raised to the rank of Field-Marshal-Lieutenants; and twelve Colonels to that of Major-Generals.
The first battalions of the reserve have joined their respective regiments. Gen. Mayer has received sudden orders to take upon himself the command at Brody, in Galicia.
March 2. Many young men of the most noble families, have offered to serve as volunteers; and the collegians have demanded to be formed into a battalion.
The Emperor is about to undertake a journey. It is not yet agreed whither he is to go, but it is generally believed that it will be to Hungary, for the purpose of accelerating the levy en masse of his subjects.
The numerous assemblages of Austrian troops that have taken place in Bohemia; and appear to menace the upper Palatinate, have occasioned the putting in motion of part of the garrison of Nuremberg—the remainder will shortly follow.
March 5. Since the departure of the French Ambassador, this city is no longer recognizable. The entire garrison has gone for Bohemia; the military service of the place being done by the citizens.
A vast number of officers, subjects of the Princes of the Rhenish Confederacy, have positively refused to bear arms against their countrymen.
The imports have been much augmented. The departure of the French Ambassador has occasioned a very lively sensation at this place.
PARIS, March 16. The Emperor returned yesterday from Rambouillet. We understand, from different letters, that an increased activity prevails in the ports of Ferrol and Coruna. It is not enough that the Spanish marine corps should have remained faithful to honor during a time of anarchy and rebellion, but it aspires to revenge itself upon England for the evils brought upon the country. It is said that even the Cadiz squadron participates in this sentiment. A great movement is projecting upon the coasts of the ocean, from Holland quite to Spain. The French troops have followed the English to the port of Galicia—perhaps they may have the happiness to pursue them further.—Many means offer for penetrating into Insurgent Ireland, and for seeking the remains of Sir John Moore's army in the county of Kent.—When Carthage carried her arms into Italy, the Romans soon found themselves under her own walls in Africa, and the rival of Rome disappeared!!!
An epidemic disease was said in the French papers, to have broken out at Sarragossa, in consequence of the sufferings and hardships endured in the siege, and to have carried off upwards of twenty thousand persons.
COUNCIL OF PRIZES, PARIS, Jan. 25. The American vessel Susan, has been adjudged good prize to the officers and crews of the Italian and Syrene frigates. The same Court has declared good and lawful prize the merchandise taken out of the American ship Augusta, by the French privateer L'Eve and confiscated the same for the benefit of the Marine Invalid Case.
March 13. The late Ambassador Gen. Andreossi, has returned to Paris from Vienna.
took to enforce, (Suff!) And this latter construction, while in its consequence & tendency, it has, (owing to the small number of vessels that were detained under this act) a much less auspicious aspect to the commerce of the United States than could be wished. This opinion we are sorry to say, is but too well warranted, from some of the late proceedings of the French Prize Courts.—Boston G.
Yesterday arrived sehr Gustavia, Captain Holmes, 21 days from St. Bartholomew; in her came passengers, capt. Huffington, of the ship Ruthy of Baltimore, from Martinico for Baltimore; capt. W. R. Mitchell, of the brig Eliza of New-York, and capt. William Marshall of the ship Minerva, of and for Boston; all which vessels were from Martinico bound home, and were taken and carried into Dominico, and from thence sent to Barbadoes, where vessels and cargoes were condemned under pretence of breach of blockade, and the captains ordered to pay costs—These vessels sailed from the U. S. in August last under permission.
By the above vessel we learn that the British sehr——, from this port arrived at St. Bartholomew, and sold her flour at 22 dollars per barrel, it having been a few days before at 40; soon after which, the American vessels poured in so fast, that flour fell to 8 dollars. They say there were arrived at that Island in passages from 9 to 14 days, from different ports of the U. States, not less than 90 sail of vessels, who sailed since the taking of the embargo, but as the captain nor any of the passengers have brought a list, we could not learn who they are.
Capt. Holmes informs, that 3 French 74's and 6 frigates had arrived at the Saintes, Guadalupe. He also informs that Gen. Prevost and the British troops had sailed for Halifax.—Phil. True American.
NORFOLK, May 1. By captain Seward, from Porto Rico, we learn, that three French line of battle ships, and three frigates, had arrived at Guadalupe, where they landed a number of troops, and a large quantity of flour. Shortly after putting into the islands of Santz, were blockaded up by the English squadron, under Admiral Cochrane.—Herald.
These are probably the ships that escaped from L'Orient, when the British fleet left their station off that port in pursuit of the Brest fleet. Captain Seward informs us that 300 British troops had gone from Barbadoes to assist the Spaniards in the reduction of the City of St. Domingo.—Ledger.
ENQUIRER OFFICE, MAY 5, 1809. The last accounts from France contain some interesting traits.—Sarragossa has fallen—10,000 of her garrison have passed thro' Bayonne—the French have occupied Oporto and are advancing upon Lisbon—100,000 French troops withdrawn from Spain—Austria and France are whetting their war tusks—the French minister has left Vienna. The French begin to menace their distant thunders against Ireland and Kent. The conquest of Portugal and Spain will probably contribute to facilitate the project of invasion. The number of ships, of ports, of points of departure will be augmented.
In some of our last papers it was stated, that not a single scrip of the following article had reached us in our papers.—It came to hand early on Tuesday morning. This article comes through a London paper of March 3. It is singular, that no intimation of it appears in the Boston Prints, in the extracts from French papers received from Bordeaux down to the 18th March. If such a decree has been really issued, it shows at least that his Imperial Majesty has some regard to commerce—that he is willing in some degree to relieve his merchants from the pressure, which must bear upon them. How far this measure and the late decree respecting some of the American vessels in the French ports, are any test of the subsequent measures which Bonaparte may pursue towards this country—let the politicians determine.
The letter of Mr. Adams on Impressment is worthy of attention. The anecdote of Corbett is most impressively told. The conduct of that man is worthy of an American Tar.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, May 1st, 1809. SIR, For an answer to your letter of 26th ult. I beg leave to refer you to the letter written on that day by the Secretary of State, to Mr. Thos. Fitzsimons; by which it appears that the bond given on departing for a port with which commercial intercourse was permitted by the act of 1st March last, will be considered as satisfied by the landing of the cargo in a British port subsequent to the 10th day of June next; provided that the vessel shall not have arrived in such port or otherwise incurred the penalty of the bond prior to that day.
I am respectfully, Sir, Your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN. J. GIBBON, Esq. Collector, Richmond. } Since our last we have understood, that Mr. Love is re-elected to Congress without opposition. The Virginia votes then in the last and next Congress will stand thus:
Present Congress. Last Congress. 14 Dem. 16 Dem. 4 Fed. 1 Fed. 2 Oppositionists. 3 Op. 1 Doubtful. 1 Doubtful.
SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. Fairfield Jockey Club, May, 1809. 1st day—The Jockey Club Purse of $ 400 4 mile heats. Col. Selden's b h Wrangler by Diomed, 4 years old 106lb. 1 1 Mr. Ball's c m Minerva by Diomed 5 yrs. old 115lb. 2 2 Mr. W. R. Johnson's g h Carolina by True Blue 4 yrs old 106lb. 4 3 Gen. Chamberlayne's s h Comet by Bedford 5 yrs. 118lb. 3 d 1st heat 8m. 4s—2nd heat 7m. 54s.—The swift running ever known of this course.
2nd day—The Proprietor's Purse of $ 200 3 mile heats. Col. Selden's b h Sir Sidney by Knowsley 5 yrs. old 118lb. 1 1 Mr. Ball's b h Vanguard by Bedford 5 yrs. old 118lb. 3 2 Mr. John Hoome's b m Rosamunda by Bedford 5 yrs. old 115lb. 2 3 1st heat 6m 19s—2nd heat 6m 4s.
3rd Day—Annual Post stakes for 500$ 3 mile heats. Mr. R. Johnson's b h Sir Archy by Diomed, 4 yrs. old 106 lb. 1 1 Mr. J. Holmes's s h Tom Touch L. cape 5 yrs. 1 1 1st heat 8m. 4s—2nd heat 7m. 54s.—The swift running ever known of this course.
Mr. Wm. Ball's c m Minerva by Diomed 5 yrs. 115 lbs. 4 3 Mr. Mosby's g h Pallafax by Druid 4 yrs. 106 lbs. 2 4 1st heat, 6m. 1s. 2nd heat 5m. 55. 4th Day for a Cup valued at 120$ 2 mile heats Gen. Chamberlayne's s h Diamond by Diomed 4 yrs old 106 lbs. 1 1 Col. Selden's b h Winterfolk by Diomed, 4 yrs. old 106 lbs. 2 2 Mr. E. Smock's g h Treasurer by Diomed 4 yrs. old 106 lbs. 5 3 Mr. W. Ball's s h Woodpecker by Diomed 5 yrs. old 118 lbs. 3 4 Mr. J. Holmes's b m Arch Dutches by Archduke 4 yrs. old 106 lbs. 4 d 1st heat 4m. 13s. 2nd heat 4m.
A LIST OF LETTERS, REMAINING IN THE POST-OFFICE, AT RICHMOND, THE 30TH DAY OF APRIL, 1809.
4—John Andrews, Mary Austin, John Alexander, Charles Anthony, Jones Allen, Wm. Anderson, Martha Ann Aylett, Alexander Anderson, Richard Allen, Wm. F. Allen, Ralph Allen. 5—Joseph Banks, Charles Breed, Wm Bell, John Buckwall, Saml. Bayles, Benjamin Batts, Thomas Bowles, Rev'd John Buchanan, Richard Byron, Nathan Burwell, Rev'd John D. Bait, Thomas Burnham, John Ball, George Basky, Wm. R. Boulware, John Barber, Wm. Burrs, John P. Burton, David V. Brand, Bartholomew Blunt, John Basset, William Brackett, Simon Blackburn, Doct. Bayham, Thos. M. Bailey, Mordecai Barber, Louis Besson, capt. Izaard B. Besson, Miss Mary Bolling, John Brown. 6—Sam'l Carisle, Jesse Crump, Wm. Coeks, Miss Margaret Couch, Betsey Curtis, John Clifton, John W. Callow, Samuel Clarke, Jonathan Cullingworth, Benedict Crump, jr., Miss Peggy Clark, Edward E. Cooke, Maj. Peter Cruithie, Doct. Chalmers, Miss Ann G. Clapton, Mr. Tabitha Cook, John Cook, Elizabeth Conick, Walker Clark, Wm. Collins, Thomas W. Covington, Joseph M. Cabell, Rev'd John Courtney, Philip P. Courtney, Contractors or Managers of the State Prison, Semple P. Cook, Miss Mary Craig, Edward Colston. 7—Miss Mary Doyle, Mrs. Hannah Duncan, Joseph Danforth, Wm. Dunn, Thomas Dadee, Hugh Douglas, Mrs. Davidson, Mr. Dubs, Wm. H. Dyer, Hugh Davis, Wm. Davis, Asly Davis, Sally Driley, Nathaniel Davis, Catherine Dabney, Christopher P. Dean, Major Wm. Duval, James Deaton. 8—J. M. Enders, Miss Maria Ens, Alfred Eagleston, James Edwards, Peter E. Eott, Ralph Edmonds, Major Estill, Jacob G. Ege. 9—Zachariah French, Thomas Friend, Susan Fletcher, Mr. Fallon, James Fisher, John Figgatt, Thomas Feam, Hiram Franklin, Richard B. Foyser, Col. Wm. Fontaine, James Fore, Wm. Fleming, Azic French. 10—Robert Gaines, John E. Galt, John Gibb, Joseph Gage, Jesse Gunning, Samuel Gillman, Henry Gabbins, John Gore, Mrs. Mary Gow, Wm. Goodh, Robert Givass, John Gray, R. d. Grimes. 11—John Harvie, Benjamin Howard, Linda Hopkins, Samuel Hughes, Patrick H. Jackson, George Harding, Nathl. Harbert, Patrick Ken-dren, Charles Howell, John Howard, John H. Holycraft, Mrs. M. Hodgson, Benjamin Harrison, Wm. B. Hare, James Hubbard, capt. Henley, Jacob Harrison, Miss Nancy A. Mosmer, Richard Harris, David Hubert, Richard Hughes, Carter B. Harrison. 12—Joshua T. Johnson, Joseph Jenkins, Doct. James Jones, capt. John K. Jones, Mary Idings, capt. Wm. Jones, Mrs. Lucy Judan, Eliza Johnson, Reuben Johnson. 13—Robert King, Henry Kinainmond, Jacob Kline. 14—Alexander Love, Miss Mary Love, capt. Michael Lewis, Sarah S. Lyons, S. Luan, Nathaniel C. Ippcombe, Pleasant Lubby, Wilson Lampkin, Benjamin W. Ladd, George Lidenburger, James Lowns, Henry Langford, Thomas & Amos Ladd. 15—Billy McBride, Wm. Mann, John Macon-acho, Augustine G. Monroe, Moses A. Myers, Doctor Robert Mayo, William Montague, William Mosely, William Mayo, Mrs. Mary W. Morris, Richard Morris, John Mosby, John Moss, Collin McRae, Wm. Murray, Ellenton & Mason, Henry Minor, Miss Eliza Mills, Gabriel Morris, Benjamin Mosely. 16—Dr. Peyton R. Nelson, George Niehlso, capt. James Norris, Dr. George D. Nichols, Judge Nelson, Hugh F. Norton, Wm. H. Nichols, Theophilus Nash. 17—Nancy Oliver, Huldah O'Rawly, Josiah Olds. 18—Thomas Pulling, Mrs. Sary P. Price, capt. Ephraim Pearsons, John W. P. Cassant, capt. Wm. Price, gen. John Preston, Parsons & Owens, capt. John Pryor, Ellis F. Poyry, James Paul Thomas Pollard, Henry Poyry, David Pisters, Edward B. Pearsons, Robert Pleasants, Alexander de Placide. 19—Major John Quarles. 20—Peyton Randolph, Miss Virginia Ratcliff, Mrs. Rainbow, capt. Isaac Rose, Miss Elizabeth Randolph, Messrs. Russell, Hill & Co. Harry B. Rhodes, Messrs. Redd, John F. Read, Charles Lin. Smith, Messrs. Robt. Robertson & Francis S. Smith, John Robinson. 21—Mrs. S. Summ, John Shields, Jesse Snce-der, John Staples, Mrs. Mary Sackrider, capt. in Smith, Aaron Shelton, George K. Smith, John M. Min Shocklee, Miss Mary R. Shae, James Stub-berd, Mr. — Shepherd, capt. Isaac Seaman, Shepherd Sanders, Allen Snowden, Benjamin Snow, John Spalding, the Swinney, capt. Joseph Emma A. Sampson, Ann Southworth, Miss Scott, Mrs. Betty Selden, Serjeant of Rich-mond. 22—James G. Taylor, Balfour Thompson, Jas. Taliaferro, Henry Turner, James Taylor, Aramis-lead T. aslow, John Turner, John Taylor, Creed Taylor, Elsinia Twipia. 23—Rev. Wm. Upshaw. 24—Hezekiah Veitch, Joseppe Vagolio, capt. George W. Varnum, Mrs. Rosetta Vanet. 25—John Winston, Wm. Warner, Mrs. Sarah Williamson, Richard Whitfield, Peter Winston, Mrs. Nancy C. Winston, capt. Richard Weeks, Charles Wingardner, Charles Willis, Francis E. Woodleif, J. B. Whitlock, — Whitlock, Epas-White, Reubin West, capt. Wm. Williams, Tho-mas Willis, John P. Williamson, John White, Henry Weidemeyer, major Samuel J. Winston, James Whitlow, Robert White, Joseph Watson, John Walker, Hemriah Weydemeyer. 26—Wm. Yancey. The Clerk of the District Court of the United States. Clerk of Henrico County. Wm. FOUSHEE, P. M.
Letters deposited in this Office, without specific directions, &c which will not be forwarded, unless corrected. Stephen Baronzzino, in the care of capt. James Williams, old street. Mrs. M. D. Wallis, Kingsland. Mr. Eleamie Gautier, at Brest in France—post-age not paid. Mrs. Catharine Carr, Bathfryland, county of Down, Ireland—postage not paid.
JAMES R. MICOU informs his friends & the public—that he keeps Tavern, in Tappahannock, in those common houses occupied the last year by Mr. John Belfield and formerly kept as a public house by Mr. John Croxton. James R. Micou flatters himself that he will receive such a share of the patronage of his friends and the public as his exertions may merit. April 28.

MISCELLANEOUS.
The late Fire in Richmond has shown the use of Parapet-Walls and Slate or Tile Roofs, as preservative. The following may be of use to those, whose houses are provided with shingle Roofs:
MORNEVECK'S PATENT IMPENETRABLE STUCCO CEMENT. A substitute for Slates, Tiles and Shingles, to cover roofs of houses and other buildings, &c.
Its color is of a dark and brilliant slate, which is the prevailing taste. Should a house be on fire, and a brand from it be lodged on the roof of an adjacent building covered with this Stucco, the brand will not communicate fire to the roof.
There are a variety of valuable trees which are only used for ornament, as for example "The Lombardy Poplar," which cannot when worked up withstand the changes of weather, and likewise "the Gum," (which must always be confined to one element,) "the Willow," &c. &c. All these might, by the aid of this Stucco, be a substitute in building, where the oak, the pine, the cypress, the juniper, &c. are used. In short it is (as expressed in the patent) "a substitute for shingles, slates and tile, but may be used for other purposes."
The preparation of this composition may be made throughout the year in any town, and on every farm and plantation, and therewith cover a building, at the easy cost of one cent the square foot; but its application can only properly have effect, when put on in serene weather from the spring to the fall. The patentee labored under great disadvantages in the experiments he had the honor to make in the presence of the honorable the Justices of the Supreme Court, as the Stucco was applied to the shingle in a very tempestuous and stormy season, yet did not fail.
Those gentlemen who may be desirous of obtaining the privilege from the patentee for making and using the Impenetrable Stucco for any town, county, district, state, plantation or farm, will be pleased to make application to the inventor P. P. Baltimore or to his agent H. Hiort, Esq. attorney at law in the city of Washington—Letters post paid will be attended to.
We the undersigned persons have been witnesses to the effect of a Stucco or Cement, intended to be a covering to the roofs of houses, in order to avert the dreadful calamity of fire. The inventor has informed us that it is easily prepared, is cheap and durable; and as we have viewed an experiment made on it, as well by Aquaforts, as by a coal fire, neither of which seemed to have the complete power of destruction; we are therefore of opinion that the same Cement is a very useful invention. It appears to be nearly incombustible, and well calculated for the purpose intended, particularly, when it is applied on the roofs of buildings which are shingled. The inventor Mr. Morneveck, has stated to us that it is equally secure against the heaviest rains; it therefore deserves in our opinion, the patronage of the public for so useful a discovery. Given under our hands at the City of Washington, this 28th day of Feb. 1809. (Signed) John Marshall. Bush. Washington. Wm. Johnson, jun. B. Livingston.
AERIAL STONES.
[The Charleston City Gazette says, "we are indebted to a friend for the following letter from Dr. BRICKELL, of this city, to president MEIGS, of the University of Athens, in this state, on the subject of the falling of stones from the atmosphere; and invite those possessed of useful scientific essays to forward them for publication."]
SAVANNAH, 22d Feb. 1809. DEAR SIR, Your very obliging and scientific letter, relative to the fall of stones, (some in a state of ignition) from the atmosphere in different parts of Connecticut, on the 14th December, 1808, was handed to me by my friend Mr. Harris. Various opinions relative to the phenomena have delayed my reply.
The descent of stones from our atmosphere, on sea and land, at different times, and in various parts of the world, is attested by history; is no less true than formidable and astonishing. Many instances of this kind, which are not on record, have doubtless occurred.
I recollect reading in Livy, when a boy, of the descent of a shower of stones in Italy, to the no small amazement of myself and classmates. Such a shower fell, not long ago, upon a vessel at sea bound to Charleston, (S. C.) from which the terrified seamen took refuge between decks after shutting the hatches. Specimens of these stones are preserved.
A terrible shower fell in Benares, (India) lately; and we have a circumstantial history of a shower of burning stones, which fell in different parts of Parma, (Italy) last April. One of these upon being examined, affected the magnetic needle. Its specific gravity was more than thrice that of water, and its surface was vitrified, as if it had been acted upon by volcanic or other powerful heat.
It contained siliceous earth, oxyd of iron, magnesia, oxyd of nickel, oxyd of manganese, oxyd of chrome, sulphur; not, however, in equal proportions.
As water cannot ascend spontaneously into the atmosphere, (I mean without the agency of whirlwinds, or other adequate force) before its levity is augmented by resolution into its constituent gases, the ascent of a body of stone, metals &c. whose density exceeds that of water, must be impossible, without volcanic or other powerful agency. We may here remark, that the vertical and moving pillars of sand, observed in various parts of the world, occasionally, appear to be raised as water-spouts are by winds.
Had the ponderous bodies of stone, metal, &c. which have frequently fallen from our atmosphere for ages, descended from the moon, or other planets or satellites, the increase of matter in the earth, augmenting its centripetal force, must have drawn it nearer to the sun, (Newton's princip. lib. 3. prop. 7.) shortened our year by diminishing the semi diameter of its orbit; and increasing the velocity of the earth's motion, (princip. lib. 3. prop. 2.) and increased the solar parallax as we approached him, (Euclid, lib. 3. prop. 20.)
Had these meteoric stones come from the moon, the loss of matter lessening her gravitation and celerity, must have carried her to a greater distance from us, diminished her parallax, and lessened the number of her annual lunations, by the above cited doctrines.
None of these consequences having occurred, we must infer, the quantity of matter in the earth is unchanged since the creation, and consequently, that these aerolitic stones are thrown from our volcanoes.
Many of these stones, which you have mentioned, are probably from Hecia, which has been in a state of dreadful explosion occasionally of late; and the flaming stones from the islands, or from the country between Lima and Quito, which has been in vehement commotion.
The force and direction of the wind acting upon these meteoric stones, as well as the state of the air, must have effects—a copious quantity of oxygen gas must give them additional splendor in their passage through it.
When the wind is with or against them, their velocity and the distance they travel will be proportionally effected; a lateral wind must act upon them as the angular bearing and ventral impetus, (Newton's princip. lex. 3. cor. 1.)
These stones are seen to fall back into the crater generally, in calm weather; but are carried off by wind and finally descend to the earth, after describing a parabola, more or less elevated in the atmosphere, proportionate to their projectile force and centripetal power.
I remain, Sir, With the highest esteem, Your friend and humble serv't. JOHN BRICKELL. Mr. President Meigs, Franklin College, Athens, Georgia.
From Mitchell's and Millers Medical Repository. For Nov. Dec. and Jan. 1808-9. Mactear's Geological Enquiries.
William Maclure, Esq. after a residence of nine or ten years in Europe, returned last summer to New-York, and immediately commenced a tour through the eastern and northern states, to explore their geological constitution. We understand that this enterprising and able traveler has already examined, to a considerable extent, Maine, New-Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware and Maryland. And for the purpose of employing himself more advantageously during the winter, he went to Georgia, where, with less inconvenience from frost and snow, he might pursue his scientific researches in the south. It is reported that this gentleman has already delineated on a map, the principal strata of rocks, mountains and earths which he has observed during his journey. It will be a highly interesting spectacle for naturalists, to behold this part of the earth portrayed on a sheet, so as to exhibit at one view, all its great ingredients, the whole of its predominating materials. The primæval or granitical strata may thus be signified by one color, both as to the region they occupy and their extent. Schistous or slaty strata may be designated by some other color; calcareous rocks of lime-stone and marble by a third; sand-stone by a fourth; and secondary or alluvial tracts, forming plains and valleys, may be distinguished by a still different paint. By adopting some such plan, the kind and prevalence of different strata throughout the country, and their mineralogical structure, may be embraced by the eye, on a chart of this sort, at a single glance. As the completion of this design will both add to our stock of scientific knowledge, and reflect honor on our character as a people, we earnestly hope that Mr. M. will be enabled to go through an undertaking, for which he appears to possess uncommon qualifications.
Mr. Maclure returned a few weeks since through this City from the South. We understand, that he employs himself in the laudable plan in collecting information about the Schools, as well as the Soil of the U. S.—Eng.
Duke of York and Mrs. Clarke.—Wm Cobbett, in his Political Register of February 18, makes the following remarks upon this disgusting subject:
"Now is the time for the people to ask the revilers of Sir Francis Burdett, whether he was so very much to blame, when he told the electors of Westminster, that no good was to be expected, till we could 'tear out the leaves of the accursed Red Book.' Colonel French, and colonel Knight, and captain Donavan, and captain Sanden, and Mr. Dowler, and the rest of the numerous petticoat-patronised crew, are all to be found in that Red Book, the leaves of which he wished to tear out. His voice will, I trust, now be heard by those who were before misled; if, indeed, there could be any such. I trust that now, the venal declaimers about 'Jacobinism,' will no longer be able to blind the understanding of any man, however simple that man may be. The man, who now affects to believe, that a deep rooted system of corruption does not prevail, must be an arrant knave; and, of course, none but an arrant knave will affect to believe, that a radical reform of that system, and a speedy one too, is not necessary to the preservation of the throne, as well as of the remaining liberties of the people. But, in the mean time, and, indeed as necessarily conducive to this reform, let the people bear in mind, that it is their money that has been sported with; that it was not colonel French's money, nor Mr. Dowler's money, that the duke of York's kept mistress took, and that was expended upon her footmen, chariots, musicians, singers, players, dancers, parasites, pimps, and bawds, but in the end the money of the people. This is the important truth for them to keep in view. Let every father of a family consider how much less, from this cause, he will have to bequeath his children. When those, who formerly lived in affluence from the rent of their estates, reflect how they have been obliged to dismiss servant after servant; sell horse after horse; abridge pot after pot of the ale that formerly gladdened the heart of the comers; aye, and to cut down tree after tree and to sell acre after acre; let all such persons, when, with aching heart, they so reflect, think of Mrs. Clarke, and the services of plate, and the wine glasses, at a guinea a piece, and the rattling carriages, and the laced footmen, and the musicians, and the singing boys, and the players and the dancers, and the pimps, and the bawls, in Gloucester place; and let every mind in the kingdom be fixed upon the scene described by Miss Taylor, every tongue repeat, and every ear tingle at the words. 'How does French behave to Darling?' Darling! How many a widowed mother has had to pronounce that word over a child, driven from beneath her roof by the penury produced by these and similar corruptions! Look into families, once respectable in point of fortune, and you find them consisting of a crowd of helpless females, unable to work and shamed to beg; the sons all forced away, for want of the means possessed by their father, to seek a subsistence from patronage, to get back again some small portion of what their father had paid in taxes, and in order to succeed, creeping to those whom their father would have despised; nay, perhaps, the last stake of the family is converted into a bribe for a whoremonger, while a score of breasts are filled with anxiety lest the sum should not be sufficient. Thus has the nation been degraded; its spirit subdued; its heart broken; and its property rendered a prey to the infamous reptiles, who, at last, stand exposed to its execrations, and who, I trust, are at no great distance from the hour of feeling the effects of its vengeance. I mean not the vengeance of a mob, but the steady, sober, and deliberate vengeance of the law."
RALEIGH, (N. C.) April 27.
MOST HORRID MURDER!!!
We have to record the most daring and outrageous murder ever committed in this or any other country. On Friday night, a little before 11 o'clock, Mr. Patrick Conway of this city, merchant, was found lying behind his counter, in the most shocking condition. He was first discovered, from his groans, by two young men, John Owen and Turner Dautry, who alarmed some neighboring gentlemen. Medical aid was procured, but to no effect—the deceased had as many as eight wounds about his head and face; his scull was fractured in some places, in others mashed, and his jaw and cheek bones broken—he spoke but twice, and then only one or two words, and died in about an hour. The floor where he lay, was covered with blood, and from the violence of the blows had gushed up on the shelves. He was too far exhausted to give any information of the murderer. Among the blood, and about the body, were several fractured pieces of a green pine stick and bark, which had apparently been knocked off the stick by the violence of the blows.
It appears the murder was committed, in order to rob the store of the deceased, as the money drawer was found open; the money taken out, and some dropped on the floor: Though it
is believed that the perpetrator did not get much, as the bulk of the cash was kept in another place.
John Owen, a cabinet-maker, one of the young men who first gave information of the situation of the deceased, has been suspected. He was taken up next day, and after a lengthy examination by the magistrates, and after hearing testimony, was committed to the jail of this city, to await his trial the first Monday in October next. We deem it improper to publish any thing which has fallen from the prisoner in the course of his examination, or any of the testimony which bears against him; it would look too much like wishing to forestall the public opinion before the trial. We can only say, that circumstances are strong against him.
The butt end of a pine stick has been found in the store of the deceased, not far from where he lay; it is bloody. A witness has proven that Owen cut a pine stick in his presence, the afternoon before the murder; and on comparing the stick with the stump, they very exactly fit.
Mr. Conway was an Irishman by birth, and had resided among us nearly two years, during which time he has sustained a worthy reputation. He was remarkable for a lively disposition, and desire to please. His death is therefore a considerable loss to our society.—Minerva.
Mr. Conway was formerly a merchant of this city.—Enquirer.
THE MUSE!
The following Verses are quoted by Dr. Aikin in his fine "Letters to a Young Lady on a Course of English Poetry," as a proof of the effect of "verification done in giving the grace of Poetry to a simple sentiment, unadorned by any of those flowers of diction which some suppose essential to the poetical character." These verses are extracted from Dr. Goldsmith's beautiful tale of "The Vicar of Wakefield."
When lovely Woman stoops to folly, And finds too late that men betray, What charms can soothe her melancholy, What art can wash her guilt away? The only art she has to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is—to die. Dr. Aikin confesses, that these exquisite verses have a charm to him "beyond that of almost any piece of the kind with which he was acquainted. This effect is, doubtless, partly owing to the pathos of the sentiment itself, and the skill with which it is wrought to a point. The melodious flow of the lines too, joined with the recurrence of agreeable sounds in the double rhymes, operates as a powerful auxiliary to the sense."
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 10. law2m
FOR SALE.—Upon liberal credit, for cash or good bonds, 515 acres of LAND, in Middlesex county, advantageously situated upon the Piankatank, being the House Lot of Shooters Hill tract. This Land is of a good quality, has a good Fishery, Oysters at the door, and wild Fowl in abundance. If not sold before the first of Nov. next, it will be leased for a term of years, with or without 515 acres adjoining. For terms apply to Major Paulin A. Blackburne of that county or to
AUSTIN BROCKENBROUGH.
Tappahannock, April 7. w83m
IN CHANCERY.—Buckingham County January Court, 1809. George Hilton, plaintiff against Cornelius Thomas and Reuben Patterson, Defts.
On the motion of the plaintiff by Counsel and it 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. law8w
April 7. R. ELDRIDGE, jr. D. C. law8w
IN CHANCERY.—Buckingham County March Court, 1809. James James Plaintiff against William Cannon, William Anderson, senior, and William Anderson, jr. Defts.
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. law8w
April 7. R. ELDRIDGE, jr. D. C. law8w
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, March 7th, 1809. Robert Smith, Plaintiff, against James Weaver and Wm. Smith Defts.
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. w83w
April 7. THOMAS READ, Clk. w83w
IN CHANCERY.—Charlotte Court, March 7th, 1809. Robert Bailey, administrator of Lucy Bailey, dec'd. Plff. 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, 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. w83w
April 7. THOMAS READ, Clk. w83w
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 27, 1809.
WHEREAS, in conformity with the provisions made by law, for the reimbursement of the Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the second section of the act entitled "An Act supplementary to the Act entitled an Act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," passed on the 11th day of February, 1807, it has been determined by lot, that the Certificates of said Stock, designated by the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, should be reimbursed on the first day of October next:
PUBLIC NOTICE
Is therefore given to the proprietors of the Certificates of Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the act aforesaid, and bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, that the principal of the same, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of October, 1809, to the respective Stockholders or their legal representatives, or attorneys duly constituted, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office, where the Stock thus to be reimbursed may then stand credited to the proprietors thereof.
It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the certificates of Exchanged Stock bearing the permanent numbers, contained in the annexed Schedule from the Books of the Treasury, or of any Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of September next. And the interest on all the certificates contained in the said Schedule, will cease and determine on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
SCHEDULE.
Table with 5 columns: Certificate Number, Permanent Number, Original Number, Interest, and Remarks. Lists various stock certificates and their details.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 28, 1809.
WHEREAS, in conformity with the provisions made by law, for the reimbursement of the Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the second section of the act entitled "An Act supplementary to the Act entitled an Act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," passed on the 11th day of February, 1807, it has been determined by lot, that the Certificates of said Stock, designated by the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, should be reimbursed on the first day of January next:
PUBLIC NOTICE
Is therefore given to the proprietors of the Certificates of Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the act aforesaid, and bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, that the principal of the same, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of January, 1810, to the respective Stockholders or their legal representatives, or attorneys duly constituted, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office, where the Stock thus to be reimbursed, may then stand credited to the proprietors thereof.
It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the Certificates of Exchanged Stock bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, from the Books of the Treasury or of any Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of December next. And the interest on all the Certificates contained in the said Schedule, will cease and determine, on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
SCHEDULE.
Table with 5 columns: Certificate Number, Permanent Number, Original Number, Interest, and Remarks. Lists various stock certificates and their details.
RANAWAY 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 5 or 6 inches high, very black and has a sly and impudent 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. law4w
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. if
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 24 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. 435, 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 COACHEE 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 LOT's 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, RICHARD ADAMS, } Trustees GEO: GREENHOW, } Richmond, April 7. eptds
The above SALE is postponed to Saturday the 27th inst. when it will certainly commence at 12 o'clock. May 23, 1809.
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. if
Merchant's, Lawyer's, Sheriff's and Constable's
BLANKS, For Sale at this Office.