The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1807-12-01 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.....(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
VOLUME 4.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 1, 1807.
[NUMBER 59.]
VIRGINIA BANK STOCK.....102 1/2.
Richmond Prices Current.
   D. C.     TOBACCO, : : : : : 4 3/4 5 25   WHEAT, NEW, : : : : : 1 00   FLOUR—SUPERFINE, NEW, : : : 6 25   RYE, : : : : : 5 50   CORN, PER BARREL, : : : : 3 10 4 00   BACON PER 100, : : : : 16   BAK IRON—PER TON, : : : 110 120   HEMP—PER TON, : : : : 200 210   WHISKEY—PER GALLON, : : : 54  
GERARD BANKS
HAS IT IN VIEW TO ESTABLISH A NEWSPAPER, IN RICHMOND, TO BE PUBLISHED TWICE A WEEK:—THE TITLE— THE VIRGINIAN.
THE EDITOR has been always attached to Republican principles. The present Administration, in his view, is well calculated to ensure the happiness of the people; and any administration which may succeed, pursuing the same general course, will be supported. Foreign and Domestic news, will be noticed. Before this, the public will, time after time, be apprised of the affairs of the public institutions, and particularly of the courts of the land; its managers, its influence, its defects and improvements. The usurpations of this dangerous institution will be noted; the Arbiters which spring from its management will be exposed. This work will be carried on with a temper and firmness, which will yield neither to the blandishments of power, nor the frowns of power. Stock Jobbing and Speculation, Twin Daughters, will be arrested whenever they appear.
500 Subscribers at 5 Dols. per annum each, one half in advance, are necessary to the commencement of the Paper. GERARD BANKS. Richmond, October 30. epif.
VALUABLE PROPERTY—FOR SALE.
By virtue of a Deed of Trust from Abraham Shepherd to the subscribers, dated the 25th day of May, 1806, and recorded in the General Court in the month of June of the same year, to secure the payment of a debt due from the said Shepherd to Robert Maddox, and another debt due from the said Shepherd to Walter Jenkins Company, will be exposed to sale, by the subscribers, on one of them, at Auction, on Thursday the 10th day of next month, at the Store-Place of the said Shepherd, in the county of Henrico.
The Seven following Tracts of LAND, lying in the County of Henrico, & Four SLAVES. No. 1. A tract of 397 acres, more or less, being the same tract of land whereon said Shepherd now lives, commonly called by him his Dwelling house tract. On this tract, or on part of it, there is a principal house, and out-buildings; it will be sold subject to that encumbrance.
No. 2. A tract of 563 acres, more or less, lying on Ballinger's creek; of this tract A. Shepherd bought 207 acres from William Pace, and the residue he bought of Peter Brown.
No. 3. A tract of 137 acres, more or less, lying on the Rivanna river, opposite to Burnside, being the same tract of land which A. Shepherd bought from William and James Payne.
No. 4. A tract of 153 acres, more or less, lying on the fourth side of the Rivanna river, opposite to J. B. Magruder's mill; being the same tract of land which Shepherd bought from Robert Adams.
No. 5. A tract of 184 acres, more or less, lying in the fork of Ballinger's creek; being the same tract of land which A. Shepherd bought from David Bullock and Richard Morris, or from one of them.
No. 6. A tract of 88 acres, more or less, adjoining No. 5; being the same tract of land which A. Shepherd bought from Samuel Hardisty.
No. 7. A tract of 173 1/2 acres, more or less, being the same tract, whereon the more house of A. Shepherd stands, and lying on Machin's creek; seven acres and a half of this tract A. Shepherd bought from Peter Bernard, and the residue of the tract he bought from William Ballinger.
FOUR SLAVES. Namely—Penny, a woman about 29 years old. Daniel, a boy about 16 years old. Matilda and Winney, two female children of Penny's, the first about 6 years old, the last about 2 years old.
The above will be sold for cash, and the lands will be sold on the following terms. One third of the purchase money must be paid down in cash. Twelve months credit from the day of sale will be allowed for one other third of the purchase money, and two years credit from the day of sale will be allowed for the other third of the purchase money.
The purchasers of the lands must give bond for two thirds of the purchase money, and security too, if required; and must also give a deed of trust on the lands purchased by them, to secure the punctual payment of the bonds as they become due.
If the purchasers either of the lands or slaves do not comply with the terms of sale which the property is struck out to them, the same property will immediately be set up to sale again.
If all the property should not be sold the first day, the sale will be continued from day to day until all is sold.
C. COPLAND, } Trustees. J. PROSSER, } Richmond, Nov. 10. epim.
By virtue of a Decree of Gloucester county court, bearing date June term 1807, in a suit in Chancery therein depending, in which Philip Tabb was complainant, and Mary Anderson Executrix and Devisee of Matthew Anderson, decd., was defendant. We shall on Tuesday the 10th of December next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day: proceed to sell for cash,
ALL that tract or parcel of LAND, of which the said Matthew Anderson died seized, lying & being in the said county of Gloucester, on the North river, commonly called and known by the name of the Exchange. The sale will take place on the premises, for the purpose of satisfying the said Philip Tabb, a debt of $228. 13s. & 6d. with interest thereon, after the rate of five per cent. per annum, to be computed from the 10th of April, 1805, till paid; also, the further sum of $200 with interest thereon, at the rate of six per cent. per annum, to be computed from the 10th day of April, 1806, till paid, and the costs and charges attending the said sale.
JAMES H. ROY, } Commissioners. JOHN CATLETT, } GEO. W. BOOTH, } Nov. 10. epim.
VIRGINIA MILITARY CERTIFICATES
BEARING an interest of 6 per cent. and receivable in the arrearages of taxes, FOR SALE at a reduced price by WM. PRICE, Cajier Gen. M. A. Society Nov. 24. epim.
NOTICE.
That in order to satisfy the objects of a Deed of Trust executed to me by David Allen, and duly recorded in the court of Henrico for this city, I shall on Saturday the fifth day of December next, before the door of the Eagle Tavern in this city, expose to sale by public auction, to the highest bidder, for ready money:
ONE HALF ACRE LOT, lying in this city, with the improvements thereon, consisting of a new and commodious Brick Dwelling House, with a Garden well enclosed; being the same on which the said Allen now resides.
The sale will be made between the hours of 12 and 1 o'clock, and a title forthwith executed to the purchaser, upon a receipt of the purchase money, by SAML. MCCRAW, Trustee. Richmond, Nov. 24. epif.
CASH SALES.
To be sold, for ready money, in pursuance of a deed of trust, from David Ross, Esq. bearing date on the 3rd day of July, 1806, and recorded in the general court, in order to raise the sum of $5,000 and upwards, and the charges and expenses of sale.
THOSE well known MILLS with the appurtenances in the city of Richmond, called the Columbian Mills. Two undivided third parts of the Deep Run Coal Pits, in the county of Henrico, containing about 1750 acres more or less. Two undivided third parts of the Falling Creek Coal Pits in the county of Chesterfield, containing about one hundred acres. Two undivided third parts of the Dover Coal Pits in the county of Goochland, containing about ninety acres, which three several Tracts of Coal Land were held in partnership between the said David Ross and James Currie, decd. The Columbian Mills & appurtenances, are subject to a ground rent to Samuel Overton; and the said Mills and the two tracts of Coal Land, first mentioned, are pledged for the security of sundry sums of money, due to Mrs. Frances Tabb & Wm. B. Giles, administrator to John Tabb, decd., a large proportion of which, is stated by the said Ross to have been paid, and other estates are pledged for the balance. For further information on this subject, persons inclined to purchase, are referred to the said Ross, or it may be obtained on application to the subscribers. The sale will take place at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Wednesday, the 20th day of January 1808.
E. W. ROOTES, } Trustees. WILSON ALLEN, } Nov. 20. epif.
COLUMBIAN MILLS & COAL LANDS FOR SALE.
By virtue of a deed of trust, bearing date the first day of October, 1801, executed by David Ross, to the subscribers, and for the purpose of completing the objects of the said trust, in conformity to certain covenants therein contained—the following Property will be offered for sale on the first Wednesday in January next, at the front door of the Eagle Tavern in the City of Richmond, to the highest bidder, for ready money, between the hours of twelve, and four o'clock; to wit:—All that piece or parcel of LAND, adjoining the City of Richmond, commonly called the COLUMBIAN MILLS, with the Mills, Houses, Canals, Improvements, Appendages, and Privileges, thereunto belonging. Also, an undivided two thirds of a Tract of LAND in Henrico county, containing seventeen hundred acres, called the DEEP-RUN COAL PIT, and an undivided two thirds of a Tract of LAND, in Chesterfield, containing one hundred acres, called the FALLING CREEK COAL PIT, of which said Coal Lands, the late James Currie was part owner.
GEO. HAY, } Trustees. ROBERT POLLARD, } FRANCIS ANDERSON, } Nov. 27, 1807.
RICHMOND TURNPIKE COMPANY.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, on Monday the 23rd of Nov. 1807.
Resolved, That the sale of the SHARES of delinquent Stock-Holder, in the said Company, advertised for this day, be postponed till Thursday the 31st of next month, and that they be then sold at auction, before the front door of the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond.
A copy, Teste, N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. Nov. 27. ts18D.
DISSOLUTION.
The Copartnership of Charles I. Price & Co. of the city of Richmond, was dissolved on the 21st inst. by mutual consent; all persons indebted to the late firm, are desired to make immediate payment to Price and McCutchen the city of Philadelphia, or to their lawful attorney only, and those having claims against said concern, are desired to send in their accounts legally attested.
Charles I. Price, } Ennis Price, } William H. McCutchen. } Nov. 27. st
THE SUBSCRIBER,
will accommodate twenty or twenty-five Gentlemen of the Assembly, during the ensuing session. ALEX. QUARRIER. November 22. *
NOTICE.
THE subscribers having appointed Mr. Hugh Chambers, of the City of Richmond, their lawful attorney, to receive all debts due the late Copartnership of Charles I. Price & Co. all persons indebted to said concern, are requested to make payment to him only, no acquittals to the contrary of this will be valid, and all persons having claims against said concern, are requested to send in their accounts to him legally authenticated for adjustment.
Ennis Price, } William H. McCutchen. } Nov. 27. st
BY VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED,
executed to us by Peter B. Archer, of Powhatan, to secure to Judith Archer a sum of money therein expressed; we shall sell to the highest bidder, for ready money, at Powhatan court house, on Saturday the 26th day of December next, the following Negro SLAVES, to wit: Charles and two children, Amy, Suckey, Sally, Rachael and her child Betsy; or as many thereof as may be necessary to answer the purposes of said deed.
JOHN ARCHER, } Trustees. WM. ARCHER, } WM. ROYALL, } Nov. 27. epif.
THE SUBSCRIBER,
(Living in a central situation, main-street, Stock-Hill;) CAN accommodate a few MEMBERS of the next GENERAL ASSEMBLY. Nov. 27.—$4. D. SCHELLING.
NOTICE.
ALL those indebted to the estate of John Bullington, decd., are requested to make immediate payment—and those having claims against said estate, to exhibit the same, properly authenticated: to the end, that a speedy provision may be made by the Executrix.
JUDITH BULLINGTON, Executrix. Nov. 27. epif.
VIRGINIA.
In the Chancery District Court, held at Staunton, March term, 1807.
Between, Samuel W. Barrett, and Wm. Hylton, senr. Wm. Hylton, junr. Mehetable Campbell, George Lawrance, Luke Fiern, &c. Defs.
ON the motion of the Defendants by their Counsel, Wm. Hay of the City of Richmond, the matter in Chancery for the Richmond district, is hereby appointed a Commissioner, who is authorised and directed to examine, state and settle the accounts between the Plaintiff and the Defendants in this cause. The said Commissioner is required to state particularly the accounts between the Plaintiff and the Defendant, Wm. Hylton, from whom he purchased the Rich Neck Estate, to take an account of the Lands, Slaves and other property, which appertained to that estate, at the time when the Defendant Foulhess and Daniel L. Hylton, sold their interest therein, to the Defendant Wm. Hylton, and of the land, slaves and other property, which now appertain thereto. And to take an account of the debts due, and chargeable upon that estate, to the said Defendants, Wm. Foulhess and Daniel L. Hylton, and of the debts which are yet due to any other persons, and were chargeable upon the said estate previously to the sale of the same to the Plaintiff. And the said Commissioner is directed to make report thereof to this court, together with any matters specially thought pertinent by himself, or required by the parties to be so stated.
A Copy, Teste, HENRY J. PETTON, c.c.c.
COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE,
RICHMOND, November 10, 1807.
The parties concerned, are desired to take notice, that I have appointed Friday, the 8th day of January next, for carrying into effect the foregoing decree, upon which day, their attendance is required at my office with their papers and accounts, ready for examination and settlement.
WM. HAY, M.C. ep4w
FOR SALE.
A TRACT OF LAND, lying on Mattopony river in the county of King William, about two miles above Brazier's Ferry, belonging to the estate of William Brooke, deceased. This Land lies remarkably well, and contains 760 acres of high land and upwards of one hundred acres of wild oat marsh, which afford a delightful range for Stock. The sale will take place on the 3rd day of December next, on the premises, on the following terms, to wit: One fourth of the purchase money to be paid on the 1st of January next, the balance in two annual instalments, with interest from the date if not punctually paid. A more particular description of this Land is thought unnecessary, as those who are inclined to purchase will doubtless view it. The Land will be sold to any person disposed to purchase, by Mr. Wm. Alvey adjoining the premises.
RICHARD BROOKE, Executrix. Nov. 17. gr.
FOR SALE,
And may be seen at the Bell Tavern, ONE OF THE MOST ELEGANT PAIR OF BAY HORSES,
That has ever been exhibited in the City of Richmond—one of them 5 and the other 6 years old. November 20.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN,
THAT A PETITION will be presented to the next Virginia Assembly, to authorise the subscriber to build a BRIDGE over Pamunkey River, from New-Castle to the opposite side.
JOHN M. SYME. Sept. 12. epif.
AT PRIVATE SALE,
ONE THOUSAND Sacks SALT, 40 Hds. Prime SUGAR, 10 do. Leaf Do. 5 Pipes London particular Madeira WINE, 20 Pipes Cognac BRANDY, & 55 Bales of coarse WOOLLENS, to be sold low for approved Paper. Davydatt, Fisher & Batchell, Auc. Nov. 24. ep6w
JUST RECEIVED,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF DUTCH BOLTING CLOTHS, OF SUPERIOR QUALITY, FOR SALE BY J. DARMSDATT. October 23. tf
THE GRAND LODGE OF VIRGINIA,
WILL MEET ON MONDAY, DECEMBER THE 14th NEXT. WM. H. FITZWHYLSONN, C. S. RICHMOND, Nov. 17. ep14D.
FALL GOODS.
KIRBY, DRAKE & TAYLOR, Are now receiving by the ship ROLLA from London, A LARGE AND HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF FASHIONABLE GOODS, (SELECTED BY A PARTNER OF THE HOUSE;) —among which are—
LONDON superfine Cloths, Superior quality. Gentlemen's Patent Silk and Beaver Hats, Children's Trafalgar and Erkine do. Elegant Leno Picquet and Sewed muffs, Do Robes and Dresses, Coloured Italian Crapes for Ladies' Dresses, Silk, Cotton and Worsted Hosiery, Irish Linens, Lawns and Sheerings, 4-4 Cotton Shirting (very fine), Ladies Kid Shoes, Calicoes, Cambricks, Chambrays, Cotton and Thread Laces, &c.
And in daily expectation of receiving, by the Protests from Liverpool, a large assortment of coarse Woolens, &c. All of which will be sold very low, wholesale and retail, for cash, or on a short credit to punctilious customers. Sept. 30. tf
GERMAN GOODS.
BOHN & HUBNER HAVE JUST RECEIVED FROM BREMEN, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF GERMAN GOODS:
—consisting of— OSNABURGS, } Roman's Sheeting, Tickenburgs, } Plaitillas, Brown Rolls, } Brown Holland, Hollans, } Dowlas, and Dantzic Rolls, } Billefeld Linens. Sacking, }
GLASS WARE.
Quart, pint, and half pint Decanters, Pint and half pint Tumblers: All of which they will sell on reasonable terms. N. B. They have removed to the new Brick Tenement, the door below Messrs. Taylor & Brown's Vendue Office. Richmond, Nov. 6. ep4w.
FOR SALE.
THE half of a valuable TRACT OF LAND containing 900 acres, in the county of Goochland, about two miles above the court-house, called LITTLE CREEK, and on James River; one third of which is prime low grounds. On the Tract is a valuable Manufacturing Mill and about 1500 fruit trees with two good dwelling houses, &c. &c. Great accommodation will be given in the payments, part of which may be made in 3, 6, and ten years: For terms apply to Danl. Couch on the premises, or to THOS. NORVELL. Nov. 13. tf.
FITZWHYLSONN & POTTER
—Have on hand, an extensive assortment of— BLANK BOOKS, Stationery, School Books, Music and Musical Instruments, Spectacles, Penknives, travelling Trunks, &c. Books-Binding in all its branches executed in the best manner. Nov. 17. ep14D
Domestic.
DOCUMENTS
Relative to the attack on the Chesapeake. (CONCLUDED.) Frigate Chesapeake, Hampton Roads, June 20th, 1807.
Sir—Enclosed, I have the honor to forward you an exact copy of this Ship's Log-Book, And have the honor to be, Sir, with great respect, your obedient servant, JAMES BARRON. Hon. R. Smith, Secretary of the Navy, Washington.
A true copy taken from the United States Frigate, Chesapeake's Log Book, James Barron, Esq. Commander, Charles Gordon, Esq. Capt. and Samuel Brock, Sailing-Master.
Monday June 22d.—Commences with light breezes from the S. and W. and clear weather. At 7 A. M. hoisted out the jolly boat, and hoisted in the second cutter, run the jolly boat to the stern; at quarter past 7 weighed anchor, made sail with a pleasant breeze from W. S. W. and stood out to sea; at 9 passed two of H. B. Majesty's ships at anchor; stowed the labour anchor, and secured the boats. At Meridian, the light on Cape Henry bore S. W. by S. people employed in clearing ship for sea.
This day ends at Meridian, and contains seventeen hours.
Tuesday 23d.—Commences with light breezes from the South and West, and clear weather; a ship in sight apparently standing for us; at 1 P. M. the ship hauled to the N. and E. in flooding tide, and hauled upon a wind, and at half past 5 the ship came up with us, backed the main top sail and spoke her, was boarded by her. She proved to be the British ship Leopard, of 50 guns; she came on board to demand some men who had deserted from the English navy, the commander refusing to give them up, the board returned, they ranged along side of us and commenced a heavy fire. We being unprepared, and the ship heavily lumbered, it was impossible to clear ship for action in proper time, though every possible exertion was made, and not expecting an enemy to near, did not begin to clear the deck until the enemy had commenced firing. In about thirty minutes, after having received much damage in our hull, rigging & spars, and having three men killed, viz. Joseph Arnold, Peter Shansky, and John Lawrence, and 16 wounded, viz. Commodore Barron, Mr. Broom, John Hudson, Cotton Brown, Peter Ellison, John Parker, Geo. Percival, Peter Summers, Wm. Hendrick, Robert McDonald, Francis Conboyson, Thomas Short, Wm. Moody, David Creighton, John Martyn, James Eppes, Emanuel Hendricks, John Wilson, Wm. Warren and John Bates. And having one gun ready, fired, and hauled down our colors. The Leopard ceased firing, and sent her boat on board, mistook the ship's company. Atten down they left the ship, taking with them 4 men, viz. John Strawn, Daniel Martin, Wm. Ware and John Wilson, who had deserted from their service, at the same time Lieut. Allen went on board, & returned at 8 o'clock. The Leopard left us and stood.
We then made sail and stood in shore, having 3 & an half feet water in our hold—Crew employed in pumping and working ship for Hampton Roads, got the anchor clear for coming too. At 6 A. M. took the third reef in the main topsail, and set top gallant sails; Held a survey on the masts and rigging; at 9 Cape Henry bore S. W. distant 4 or 5 miles; employed ship in for Hampton Roads—At half past meridian came too with the Harbour anchor in 7 fathoms water in Hampton Roads.
We then made sail and stood in shore, having 3 & an half feet water in our hold—Crew employed in pumping and working ship for Hampton Roads, got the anchor clear for coming too. At 6 A. M. took the third reef in the main topsail, and set top gallant sails; Held a survey on the masts and rigging; at 9 Cape Henry bore S. W. distant 4 or 5 miles; employed ship in for Hampton Roads—At half past meridian came too with the Harbour anchor in 7 fathoms water in Hampton Roads.
Nov 29th, 1807. Sir—The enclosed papers No. 1 and 2, you will perceive are from the committee of the people of
Norfolk, calling on me for aid with the gun boats, under my command, to prevent an invasion which has been threatened by the commanding officer of the British Squadron, lying in the vicinity of this place. You will see, Sir, by No. 8, my reply. The British commander has also threatened that he will again take possession of the Chesapeake. I have also asserted positively, that in case the President should issue a similar order to that issued respecting the Leader, that they will consider it as an act of hostility, and will commence hostile operations immediately. Under an impression that they will do as they say, I hope, and feel satisfied my preparing to act on the defensive will meet the approbation of the President and yourself. If, however, it should be thought I have been precipitate, I beg it may be attributed to my extreme desire not to omit any service I might render my country. The four old gun boats are all that can be immediately equipped for service, those we commenced fitting this morning, they are now entirely ready for the reception of the men, who I trust will come forward in sufficient numbers to authorise our proceeding to Hampton to-morrow. Sir, as I have no doubt, from the threats the British have made, we shall have to fight, I shall not leave this until the boats are manned to my satisfaction, to do which it will take one hundred and sixty men. The British, if they attempt anything against us, it will be in the night, with row boats, or other boats that they may press—the row boats belonging to their Squadron are capable of carrying 500 men with ease, this number, if we are full manned, I feel confident of being able to oppose. I beg, you, Sir, however, to bear in mind that our crews will be composed of volunteers, who, notwithstanding their great zeal, will not possess the skill we could wish. I should however be mortified, if it were understood I wished to convey an idea, that as much should not be expected from us, as ought to be expected from any four gun boats, more I hope will not be expected.
The new gun boats at this place can be in readiness in a short time, should you choose to order it. Although, Sir, I shall always be ready to serve my country in any way I can be useful, I hope, Sir, if the frigates are to be fitted out, I shall not be continued in gun boats. The Gentlemen who have volunteered their services have agreed to stay with us only until such time as we shall hear from Washington, what steps will be taken, which will be on Thursday.
I have the honor to be, with sentiments of high respect, Sir, your obt. Servant, STEPHEN DECATUR, jr. The Hon. Robert Smith, } Secretary of the Navy. }
Sir—We take pleasure in presenting to you the resolution of the committee appointed by the inhabitants of this borough now enclosed. Requesting your answer to the resolution, we are with the highest respect, Sir, your obedient humble servants, THOS. BLANCHARD, SETH FOSTER, J. W. MURDOUGH. Norfolk, 28th June, 1807. Capt. Decatur.
Whereas the committee have received information from various sources that the commander of the British ships of war have menaced the inhabitants of Hampton with an invasion for the purpose of procuring water. It is resolved that application be made to Capt. Stephen Decatur, commander of the U. S. naval force at this place to equip the gun boats by availing himself of the services of the captains and seamen who have offered them, to proceed to Hampton as near as he may judge proper, to co-operate with the people in their defence in any manner he may judge most expedient, or to act as circumstances may dictate in preventing the execution of their threat.
Resolved, That Thomas Blanchard, Seth Foster & J. W. Murdaugh be a committee to wait on Capt. Decatur with this application. Extract from the minutes, Signed THEO: ARMISTEAD, Secretary of the Committee. Norfolk, June 23, 1807.

anxiety and danger, than the love of his subjects, and the applause of posterity.
LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
BOSTON, November 17.
This afternoon the Frances, capt. Curtis, arrived here from Liverpool. I have London papers to the 12th October. They make very little mention of American affairs. On the 7th October, Mr. Munroe took leave of his Britannic majesty at the Levee, previous to setting off for America. He was expected to embark in a private ship from Cowes. The Revenge is stated to have failed the 10th or 11th of October. The Ledger says the ultimatum of the British government had been dispatched to Mr. Erskine. Our Liverpool letters are to the 14th; they do not think a war inevitable. Nothing new from the north. The English have declared (Oct. 2) the river Eyder to be in a state of vigorous blockade; this indicates that Denmark and England would not come to an accommodation. The Danish court has not recognised the capitulation of Copenhagen. But the English were bringing off great quantities of naval stores; a fleet of transports, with part of these stores arrived in England, the 7th October.
A gentleman passenger in the Francis arrived at Boston, had a conversation with Mr. Munroe, on the 10th of Oct. and was told by the minister that he found it absolutely necessary to come home and have a personal conference with the President, as the last instructions had fettered him so that it was impossible to conclude a negotiation with the British government. He added that he was prepared to state to the President, how far Great Britain would yield certain points, and in what particulars she would remain immovable; that there must be some mutual concessions, and that he still hoped that no insurmountable obstacles existed to an amicable and satisfactory adjustment of the concerns of the two countries.
LONDON, October 5.
We understand that government has resolved to send a force of 10,000 men by the first ships for India. The spirit of mutiny that has appeared in some of the native troops in the neighbourhood of Vellore, has rendered this measure necessary. We add that some inquiry into the cause of the discontent that prevails among these corps seems indispensably requisite. If we are not misinformed, some of them had been required to wear leather caps made of hog skin. We might with as much reason expect that a regiment of Jews be bro't to live upon hog's flesh, as that certain casts of the Indians should submit to what, in their estimation, would amount to such a degree of pollution.
A letter from a respectable house in Lisbon, dated the 7th Sept. says— "The return of the courier who was sent to Paris with the answer of our government to the demands of France, is most anxiously looked for, as it is expected he will be the bearer of the ultimatum of Bonaparte. Ministers expect he will be here about the 16th inst. by which time ten of the line, and 13 or 14 frigates, will be ready to put to sea. The greatest activity pervades every department of the administration, as little doubt remains that the court will be obliged to remove to the Brazils. Don J. Almeida, formerly ambassador to Great Britain, is going to London, as envoy extraordinary."
October 8.
The Revenge American schooner of 14 guns, capt. Reed, is now lying in Cowes Roads, waiting the answer of government to the remonstrance sent over in that vessel, respecting the affair of the Leopard and Chesapeake.
Mr. Munroe, the American Minister, was yesterday presented to his Majesty by Sir Stephen Coterell, Master of the Ceremonies, on his leaving this country. His excellency took leave of His Majesty previous to his departure for America.
October 9.
A division of transports laden with part of the contents of the Danish arsenals, passed by Yarmouth on Tuesday evening. The quantity of naval stores found at Copenhagen exceeds belief. The government of Denmark must either have been the richest or most provident in Europe, to have laid in a supply adequate to its consumption, according to the usual tenor of its politics, for twenty years at least. The wear and tear of the Danish navy could not have emptied the store houses of Copenhagen in that time. In addition to the ships in the harbor, and upon the stocks, the frames of several others were, we understand, in such a state of arrangement and preparation, that they could be put together in the course of a few weeks, either at Copenhagen, the Texel, Breil, or any of the ports under French control. Exclusive of what has been shipped on board the transports, the men of war, both English and Danish, it is said, are loaded to the beams. They have all their lower ports fastened and caulked in.
October 10.
Price of stock this day at one o'clock: Cons money 62 1/4 3-1—for acc. 62 3/8—Omnium, 1-4 dis—Excheq. Bills, par 18 dis.
We this day lay before our readers a copy of the Proclamation of Prussia for shutting the ports of that kingdom against Britain. No person can be surprised that in the present degraded state of Prussia, she should have no choice left but to act as she may be commanded by her conqueror. The prohibition will be injurious to us, but ruinous to Prussia.
Private letters of the 23d ult. from Hamburg, states that the senate of Hamburg has given Bonaparte 16 millions of livres for the redemption of the English merchandise seized in that city.
BANKS OF THE MAINE, Sept. 12.
The public papers contain the following article from Riga:—
"The Russian troops, who, after the conclusion of peace, were to return into the interior, have received orders to halt, and are now ordered to march to the coasts of the Baltic; the whole extent of which is threatened by the English."
October 2.
The right hon. George Canning, his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs, has this day notified to the minister of friendly and neutral powers, resident at this Court, that his majesty has judged it expedient to direct that the most rigorous blockade should be established at the entrance of the river Eyder, and that the same will be maintained and enforced in the strictest manner, according to the usages of war acknowledged and allowed in similar cases.
COUNTRAVAILING DECREES.
We should certainly be warm advocates for such a measure, if we thought it would force the enemy to take the produce of the Indies from us, and make Bonaparte repeal his restrictions. But it were well to consider first, whether Bonaparte himself might not wish to drive us into such a measure, as that now recommended. Prohibiting all neutral trade, though it might
The laurels of Friedland produced the peace of Tilsit. Friedland! immortal name, which France proudly repeats, in conjunction with those of Marengo, Austerlitz, and Jena! Tilsit, so dear to the nations of Europe, who have at length witnessed the end of the long calamities of a war so often renewed! The remembrance of that memorable circumstance which brought together & reconciled two powerful sovereigns, will be for ever preserved. They will be faithful to the engagements which they have contracted. May circumstances, of which princes are not always masters, second their wishes, and maintain that concord which secures the repose of the world! Then shall those days arrive which have been so long and so vainly called for by the philanthropic; the happiness of mankind shall cease to be a dream; it shall date its commencement from the interview on the Niemen.
I repeat these facts without pretending to describe them. They are recorded in our bulletins, that brilliant portion of our annals, which, drawn by the very persons who witnessed such prodigies, can alone procure credit with posterity for so many wonderful achievements. You have read them in your departments, with the enthusiasm which glory excites among Frenchmen—they are present to your memories, and my feeble pen would fall far short of the impression which they have left behind.
Let us examine the result of so many memorable events. Behold how a wise policy has strengthened all the bonds which united to France, states whom their own interests allied with her—The princes placed on the banks of the Rhine, who during the long dissensions in Germany, found no efficacious protection, except from France, have exchanged their temporary relations for a durable convention—confederated together, united with France, but not dependent on her, they have established the reign of concord on a shore too long bathed in blood. All Germany is either devoted to France, or subdued by her. Saxony is delivered from the galling yoke of Prussia. After an oppression of fifty years, the treaty of Posen restored her independence. Her territory, aggrandized and protected by France, will be inviolable as that of the Rhine. Our eagles defend it against every enemy. The acclamations of the people, the esteem and friendship of a virtuous sovereign, have been the most pleasing of our conquests in that happy country.
The portion of Poland which merited our gratitude, has gained its independence, and recovered its rights. A wise and liberal constitution has succeeded its constitutional anarchy. Those generous nobles, who, of their own accord, preceded its legislator, to restore liberty to their countrymen, have acquired new claims to the esteem of Europe. Three millions of men have again become free, have again found a country. This single article of its new laws, places the constitution of Poland under the guarantee of every power in Europe, professing liberal ideas and elevated sentiments.
This noble peace, seems to have been concluded for the interests of humanity, and of all Europe. The victor has not stipulated the least advantage for himself. Dantzic has been restored to commerce and liberty. The navigation of the Vistula has been released from its shackles. A just equilibrium has been established among the neighbouring princes. Every effect that can unite them, has been carried into effect; and all that would tend to divide them has been removed, and a new kingdom has been founded. It will be a link to connect France with more distant countries; it will give existence to a people, who, divided among so great a number of sovereigns, had not even a name; the inhabitants of all these petty states will at length have a country, they will be governed by a French prince.
Naples, to which French valor has more than once given its laws and its princes, Naples is likewise indebted to a French prince for all the blessings of a mild and equitable administration of a regular government, and of an invariable policy; order reigns within her walls, and peace in her fields; the character of her prince, promises that she has a happy destiny.
Holland, at length, aspired to complete those attempts at political constitution, which confederation had permitted, and patience prolonged, has wisely adopted a government, capable of directing the means and the resources, that are left her to a useful end. Already does she expect from the prince, whom she has chosen, the re-establishment of her ancient glory, and of her long prosperity. Soothing hope, which causes her to regret all her losses, and seems to revive the energy and activity of her industrious people! United by sentiment as by interest with the French people, they deplore, with the latter, a domestic calamity common to them both—under the government of a good prince, these are almost the only evils, that a faithful people have reason to dread.
On every side, beyond the Alps and Pyrenees, from the North Sea to the gulf of Taranto, from the mouth of the Elbe to the sources of the Inn, France is surrounded by one vast chain of friendly nations, whom her arms has subdued, but whom the wisdom of her chief has restored to independence and happiness, and if this wise and humane policy, which has been prepared for several years, could not prevent the last war, it at least removed the theatre of it to an immense distance from our frontiers.
France, tranquil when Europe was laid waste by the war, confident in her strength, looked forward to the future with the security resulting from the recollection of the past, wishing for peace without being fatigued by war, and ready to follow the high destinies prepared for her by him, in whom she has placed her trust, her glory, and her love.
This expectation of a great nation has been accomplished, its hopes have been surpassed—the moment of prosperity has arrived.—Who shall presume to fix its limits? Such is the picture which I have to submit to your view. Several branches of the administration improved—the finances in a most flourishing condition—France alone, among the states of Europe, having no paper money—her commerce, amidst an inevitable stagnation, preserving all its hopes, and preparing the germs of its future prosperity; our colonies maintained in a state, which must one day enrich the mother country—the arms of France carried by an unexampled series of successes to the very extremities of Europe—her influence extending beyond the Bosphorus, and into the centre of the Asiatic continent—the most perfect order, and the most profound tranquility, prevailing in her interior though the sovereign was for ten months at the distance of six hundred leagues—Europe astonished—our enemies confounded—England remaining singly oppressed with the burdens of war, and loaded with the hatred of nations.
Such, gentlemen, are the operations of one year, and the hopes of the next. This picture will be embellished by the good which you are going to do, and you will doubtless think yourselves happy, that it falls to your lot to concur in the accomplishment of the wishes of a sovereign, who, having reached the highest pinnacle of glory, at which man can possibly arrive, founds his happiness on the prosperity of his people, and aspires to no other reward for so many toils, such indefatigable exertions, such
that Spain had executed this decree against American ships. In answer, he was told, that a letter should immediately be sent to the French Minister at Madrid, directing him to explain the Decree to the Spanish government, and to prefer them to desist from executing the Decree against American vessels."
NORFOLK, Nov. 26.
We are told that on Sunday morning a British 74 and two frigates anchored in Lynhaven Bay; that officers every day since then landed from them near the Pleasure-House; that an inhabitant in the neighbourhood of the Pleasure-House, (whose name we do not at present wish to mention) has had the temerity of supplying them with some necessaries; intimation of which has been given to Brigadier General Mathews.
Herald.
The grand jury for the county of Beaver, having found a bill against Nathaniel Atken, for the murder of James Hamilton, the trial came on last week before the hon. Samuel Roberts, and his associates. When after a patient hearing, the traverse jury returned a verdict of not guilty.
Pittsburg Gaz.
Europe.
CONCLUSION OF THE EXPOSITION ON THE STATE OF THE FRENCH EMPIRE. Presented to the legislative body, by the minister of the interior, at the meeting, August 24.
SKETCH OF THE LATE WAR.
Imagine not, gentlemen, that I am going to treat of what has been done during a long and happy peace, in which France, surrounded by friendly nations, receiving the tribute which her ingenuity imposes on them, rich in every kind of resources, and nothing to do but to improve her internal administration, and to increase her riches. No! you are well aware that this year has been a year of war, though the bolts that struck our enemies were so far distant, that we could scarcely hear the thunder.
On the 25th of September the emperor left Paris—on the 8th of October he was at Bainsberg, at the head of an army already assembled in the rear of an enemy who expected to surprise them.
On the 9th, his advanced guard defeated that of the enemy, at Schleitz and Saalfeld.
On the 14th, the anniversary of the battle of Jena, he gained the memorable victory of Jena.
The king of Prussia fled, after fighting in vain at the head of 130,000 men; he had seen the princes of the blood, and the old generals of Frederick, the supporters of the monarchy, wounded or made prisoners; his army, the bulk of Prussia, dispersed and destroyed; and its destruction involving the fall of that power, established by a succession of princes, either successful in war, or profiting by circumstances; extended and strengthened by the genius of Frederick, and recently increased by the friendship of France.
On the 26th Erfurt capitulated.
On the 17th the emperor was at Weimar, restoring order in that town.
On the 18th, 19th and 20th, Leipzig, Halle, and Wittenberg, opened their gates to his troops.
On the 23d and 24th they entered Berlin; the emperor arrived at Potsdam, visited Sans Souci, and, with his victorious hand, seized the sword of Frederick, while he did honor to his memory.
On the 27th and 28th he made his solemn entry into Berlin; and under the walls of that capital, reviewed his victorious army.
On the 9th and 10th of December his advanced guard were at Posen, passed the Vistula, & occupied Thorn.
On the 15th, the elector of Saxony and the princes of his house obtained peace, became the allies of France, and a generous conqueror granted them an increase of dignities and territory.
On the 18th the emperor made his entry into the capital of Poland.
On the 25th he passed the Narew, defeated the enemy at Czarnowo, and the following day routed him at Naselsk.
The emperor passed the Ukra and the Sona, in pursuit of that enemy, which had pretended to defend Warsaw, and to support Prussia.
It was overtaken and defeated on the 26th, at Pulusk and Golymio.
The routed enemy owed his safety to an extraordinary season, which neither the climate nor the time of the year afforded reason to expect.
Silesia being thus isolated and cut off, having no longer any communication either with Prussia or with the allied army, could not fail to fall beneath the efforts of that young prince, who, in his first campaign, achieved the conquest of ten strong places and one of the finest provinces in Europe.
The Russians beheld the emperor stationary for a moment—this apparent repose excited their audacity—they formed a rash project; the combats of Bergfried, of Hoff, and the dreadful battle of Eylau, or rather an uninterruptedly series of battles and victories, for six days, drove them back beyond the Pregel, under the walls of Koningsberg, and crowned this memorable campaign.
The enemy did not acquire wisdom from these reverses.
After leaving the army the time necessary for conquering the most important fortresses of Prussia, he marched with fresh temerity, and the immortal battle of Friedland at once increased the number of prodigies achieved by the grand army, and terminated the war.
ITS RESULTS.
During this space of time, in spite of the obstacles opposed by the fortified places, the rivers, winter, the French army, in this first part of the campaign, traversed in its victorious career more than three hundred leagues of country, took two hundred thousand prisoners, four thousand eight hundred pieces of cannon, four hundred pair of colours, conquered Prussia, occupied Poland, and menaced Russia. The fortresses of Prussia fell one after another; Stettin, Custrin, Magdeburg, Breslau, Glogau, Breig, Hameln, Nienburg, and Dantzic, had capitulated. Hanover, alternately given in trust by England to Prussia, or become the subject of dispute between these two states, again fell under the power of France.
Swedish Pomerania was occupied. Poland, encouraged by the splendour of these triumphs, rose against her oppressors: she armed her generous soldiers, who had often been the witnesses and the companions of French valour.
Prussia, and the Ottoman empire, roused by the report of these triumphs, eagerly seized the opportunity that was offered them, to shake off the yoke of a long oppression, and all Asia rose at the voice of the emperors, to second his designs. The Bosphorus became free, by the appearance and the flight of the English fleet.
Schweidnitz, Neisse, and Kosel, were taken during the repose of winter. Dantzic, which seemed to be an object of the campaign, fell
was marked, the same in colours, shades, and shapes, it was obvious that they were only separated particles of the same body, and would immediately unite. Every atom of honesty, attached to federalism, instantly receded from the detestable union. Recollect, fir, the conduct of your party towards Aaron Burr in 1804—recollect your own.
Was he then their friend, would any one of the party have then volunteered in his defence? Would Lee, or Martin, have been heard as his counsel, on an indictment for the murder of Hamilton? Would they have bailed him, during his examination, for that offence?
What has Burr done since the commission of that crime to atone for it? What has been his "peace offering?" I answer— Treason against his country.
Ignorant of the fatamic services he was meditating, and counting the death of Hamilton a clear loss; they loaded him with curses and execrations, whom they now cherish and defend, and within a few days have pardoned.
You have eaten of the same bread, and drank of the same cup, after solemnly deciding the probability of his guilt, and the remembrance of his former sins is lost in the magnitude of his present crimes against his country. The "small still voice" of murder is not heard amidst the shouts of treason. Your party with the warmth of sincerity, shake his hand, flatter, and chilled with the blood of a former friend; all sense of prior attachments, and the blackest criminality are overwhelmed by the tide of gratitude for bold attempts to divide the U. States, and to subvert the government.
The general character of your party justified a suspicion, that the projects of Burr would receive their aid, because the object of both was the destruction of our present government. The suspicion has been confirmed by their late conduct, which has developed the designs and demonstrated the tendency of their principles, beyond the possibility of rational doubt.
The conduct of the party has been the subject of common observation, and trite remark. But no individual has been marked by particular animadversion. The distinguished part you have acted, and the masterly manner in which you have supported it, give you a title to separate consideration, and particular attention. A separate critique is due to the chief juggler, while a general remark is all that can be claimed, by such pitiful puppets as Blennerhassett and Dayton, Lee and Martin.
The collected merits of your conduct during the examination and trial of Burr, have not failed to make a proper impression on the public mind, although many of the separate parts have lost their divided and peculiar flavour, in the combined sweetness of the whole. The distinct tastes of the component parts, shall yet feast the palate of the public.
In another letter, I shall remark upon your conduct on the examination of Aaron Burr for treason and misdemeanor, and I solemnly undertake to shew, that you have rendered the administration of justice suspected—that you have manifested a partiality disgraceful to the character of a judge—and that you have prostrated the dignity of the chief justice of the United States.
These serious charges will meet the attention of the public, and will command even your consideration—if they are groundless, the voice of the public by honorably acquitting you, will condemn me. The fevers of truth will probably wound your feelings, and excite the hatred and animosity of your friends and party. But, fir, the best interests of the nation must not be sacrificed to the feelings of any man. I shall not regard the threats and menaces of your friends, nor an affected contempt, or an impudent and hardy denial of facts by yourself.
Whether the whole of your conduct has been guided by personal considerations, private friendship, or by party spirit—or a determined hatred and hostility to the government, and the laws, is not for me to determine. I do not wish to dive into your breast. Your warmest friends cannot attribute to personal enmity, or private pique, the animadversions of a man, who never exchanged a word with you, and who, so far as he is acquainted with your private character, will bear testimony to its correctness.
Every good man must deplore the blind zeal, the mad intatuation, which have turned your transcendent talents against your country, and rendered you a disgrace to the bench of justice. You might have been loved for your virtues, revered and respected for your wisdom, and admired for your talents; you might have been one of the boasted patriots of Virginia, and the illustrious benefactor of your own species. But you have chosen to be among the leaders of a faction, who would be as faithless to you to-morrow, as they are to Hamilton this day, had they no prospect of deriving advantages from the use of you—a faction remarkable for nothing, but rancorous animosity, violent opposition to the government of their country, and to the choice of the people; and for their daring attempts, by intrigue and violence, to destroy the liberty and happiness of America:—You must deplore in secret the choices you have made.
It is not necessary to the establishment of my charges against you, that I should shew a breach of legal forms: It is the spirit of justice, and the meaning of the laws, which you have violated and disregarded. I complain that only the forms remain. Even Brumley, Jefferson, and Mansfield, as well as Marshall, said they respected the forms of law.—Nor will it be expected, that in arraigning you at the bar of the public, I shall prefer the accurate precision of a special pleader. If my accusation is substantially true, and plainly set forth, I shall be permitted to disregard those technical forms, which serve only to protect some persons who uphold them, from the punishment due to their crimes. However informal the accusation, and dull the arguments may be, I shall be honored with the attention of the public, because the honor and dignity of the highest judicial officer of the United States, are involved in the issue. LUCIUS.
† Nolle prosequi has been entered in Bergen county, Jersey, under the plea of deserts in the indictment. ‡ At the house of John Wickham in Richmond.
"To the Citizens of New-York."
In a letter from the President of the U. S. of October 9, after his mentioning that he did not expect the Revenge back under a month from that date, adds, "In the mean time all the little circumstances coming to our knowledge are unfavorable to our wishes for Peace."
As this might be useful information to men in mercantile pursuits and speculations, and who had no guide to go by, whether to send out their vessels; or not, I mentioned it to such of my republican friends as called to see me; and that the information, if so useful, might not be confined to one distinction of men only, I mentioned it also to Mr. Coleman of the Evening Post, who came to me on account of a piece I sent him concerning Cheetham's insulting message to Mr. Frank, of the Public Advertiser. How it got into the newspapers I know not. Mr. Coleman, I suppose, can give the best account of that.
Cheetham then published a most abusive piece in his paper, and in his vulgar style of language said "Paine has told a lie," and then intimated as if I had forged the letter. It is by his propensity to blackguarding and lying that he has brought so many prosecutions on his back. He says he has none.—He will now have one more. If an unprincipled bully cannot be reformed, he can be punished.
THOMAS PAINE.
Extracts of a letter from a gentleman of the first respectability, to the Editors of the Baltimore Evening Post, dated
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23, 1807.
"The accounts received (stating that Bonaparte had determined to inflict the rigor of his decree against America) does not meet with full credit. It is doubted, because a letter has been received from General Armstrong, in which he informs our government—that immediately on the return of the Emperor to Paris, he addressed a note to the Prime Minister, complaining
has anchored his ships in such a position, as to prevent any vessels going to or coming from Norfolk, which he is determined to do if those vessels are not refitted.
I have the honor to be, fir, with sentiments of the highest respect, your most obedt. Servant,
STEPHEN DECATUR, jr.
Hon. Robt. Smith, Secretary of the Navy, Washington. Extracts of a letter from Stephen Decatur, jun. dated U. S. Ship Chesapeake, Norfolk, July 12th. 1807.
"The menacing letter written by Commodore Douglas to the Mayor of Norfolk, he has since stated verbally, contained no menace, and he has further said, he has no hostile intention against Norfolk, however, fir, you will see by the enclosed affidavit, that his actions do not comport with his words, he has lightened his ship since the pacific message he sent to the Mayor, and the day before yesterday he fired many shots, at an Eastern Shoreman. If he makes an attempt to come up with the force they speak of, I think I am not over sanguine when I say I believe, they will not go down again."
Extracts of a letter from Stephen Decatur, Jun. dated U. S. Ship Chesapeake, Norfolk, July 12. "The British Squadron lying in Hampton Roads, bring to every vessel passing to this place, but have not detained any.—The Bellona and Leopard continue in their former Station; in the roads; the Triumph and Melampus have weighed, and are now at anchor in Lynhaven Bay."
FROM THE AURORA.
LETTER THE FIRST.
TO JOHN MARSHALL,
CHIEF JUSTICE OF THE UNITED STATES. SIR,
The appearance of a letter, addressed to you, in a new paper, is calculated to excite the curiosity of the public, more than to flatter your vanity—and it is less likely to gratify your feelings, than to excite anticipations of pain, too strong to leave the slightest promise of pleasure. You could have dispensed with the honor of this address, without regret or mortification, and consoled yourself for the want of a proper appreciation of your virtues and talents, with the fruits of their exertion. But you have an equal title to both, and the justice of the public will pay that tribute to your worth, which your modesty would willingly decline.
Your country, fir, owes you a debt of gratitude for former favors. The addition of a new item to the account, naturally produces a recurrence to them, and a wish to settle the added amount of the whole. This, I fear, is beyond the ability of your debtor, because the whole stock of national indignation and contempt would be exhausted, before the half of your just claim could be discharged.
But in the distribution of that infamy, and detestation, which will certainly be divided among those, who have long labored, with a zealous ardor which nothing could avert, and a patient industry which no difficulties could tire, for the destruction of our republican institutions, the subversion of our government, and the erection of tyranny, upon the tomb of freedom, you, as a principal creditor, shall not be forgotten.
If, fir, the exertion of your abilities had been confined to the defence of measures incompatible with the spirit of republican government, or to the mysteries of diplomatic agency, one of the virtues, which most strongly marks your political character, would have flourished and died in obscurity; the invincible strength of your attachment to federal principles. Your worth enemies, and best friends must now acknowledge the fidelity of your attachments, and bear testimony to the uniform consistency of your conduct.
The wisdom of age, has confirmed and sanctioned the choice of youth. The examination and trial of Aaron Burr for treason, and misdemeanor, have furnished you with a happy opportunity, not only to display this hidden virtue to the world, but of exercising the endless variety of your talents.
The superiority of your understanding, the force of your penetration, the strength of your judgment, in conducting the manoeuvres of a political party, have already been displayed and admired, while their application was deplored and detested. Your diplomatic skill and crafty cunning cannot be doubted by any who recollected, that you have passed even the "X. T. Z." of ministerial exercises. The facility with which you can "answer" the plainest questions with evasive obscurity, is conceal your opinions from the people, whose organ and representative you wished to be, has been recorded in pages consecrated by the "holy enthusiasm" of exalted genius and pure patriotism. You have not lived in vain. By exciting the genius and talents and indignation of John Thompson you have conferred an unintended benefit on your country, and have added to the literary glory of Virginia, a ray of lustre, which will shine, when even the splendor of your talents and your crimes shall have faded forever. When your volumes" of apology for British influence and cruelty, shall be buried in oblivion, the "letters of Curtis" will tell posterity that you existed; and "damn you to everlasting fame."
Your ingenuity in the interpretation of the laws, and the discreet and useful management of that grand direction, confided to those who ought to be the organs of the true intention and meaning of the legislator, and the impartial dispensers of justice, have been reserved for an occasion worthy of their exertion by a chief justice, the friend and favorite of John Adams.
An opportunity of doing an essential service to the cause of federalism so seldom occurs, that it would be an injustice to your understanding to suppose that you did not instantly perceive, and to your zeal that you did not improve, that which the projects of Burr had presented. But you have even surpassed the expectation of many of your own party. This, I attribute, not only to the motives which have hitherto guided the movements of that party, and yourself, but to the operation of feelings strongly excited. I do not suppose, that you weakly yield to the effusions of tenderness, or the ebullitions of passion, when they are opposed by your sober judgment, but that, like a wise man, you only indulge them, when it can be safely done without countenancing the inferior views of interest or ambition.
It is natural that men, who have long labored to effect the same purpose, although by different means, should sympathize in their mutual sufferings, when disappointed and defeated. A similarity of pursuits, constantly causes a concurrence of sentiments and feelings. A speculative difference in opinion is lost and forgotten, in the pursuits of a common object. Even the leaders of opposed factions, can forget their enmity, and unite their forces, to resist the cause of virtue, and to repel its superior power when it threatens their destruction. It is not, therefore, strange, that should you be affected

not produce war with America, for it is clear that America will not venture to go to war with us, would greatly reduce the demand for these articles, which America purchases from us to sell to the Continent. But it may be asked whether we are to be deterred from these considerations, from doing any thing? Certainly not.—America must not be suffered to be the carrier to France of the Produce of the French colonies. Some measures too, must be adopted with respect to the trade of the Americans with the East-Indies. The subject is of too great importance to be dismissed hastily—it deserves, and no doubt does occupy the most serious attention of Government. Upon one point, however, all persons are agreed, that a measure of vigour is indispensably necessary. [Courrier.]
Dispatches were yesterday received from Admiral Berkeley, at Halifax, but their contents have not transpired. Many rumors are in circulation respecting the progress of the negotiation at present pending between this country and America, but they are founded either on conjecture, or upon interested speculation: when it takes a decisive turn, we shall take the earliest opportunity of communicating the result to our readers. Sun.
October 10. It is reported that the next French legislative body will be composed of two chambers, viz. an upper chamber, in which will sit and vote all the princes, dukes, counts, marquises, and barons, lately created; and a lower chamber, composed of deputies from all the departments. The empire is to be divided into 25 governments, each of which will have an intendant and parliament. The Bourbon king of France, (Louis XVIII.) and suite, are momentarily expected in England. October 12.
AMERICA. That most important matter the question of peace or war with America, is now decided, as far as decision can take place in this country. Our ministers have delivered to Mr. Monroe and Mr. Pinkney their final answer in regard to all the leading points of dispute. This answer is of a nature on which it by no means falls within the powers of the American Envoys to decide, & it now becomes their duty to submit the whole, in the speediest manner, to their government—Mr. Monroe is preparing for an early departure, but he has not yet determined whether he will go out in the Augustus or the Revenge.
The intention of a general blockade of the enemy's ports is now said to be relinquished from an apprehension that it would injure the import of our manufactures into the continent. The American merchants infer from this circumstance, and from the condescending manner of his majesty on Wednesday, when Mr. Monroe had his audience of leave, that the chances are in favour of peace. Nothing, however, can be affirmed with confidence until the disposition of the executive and of congress is explicitly ascertained. Government have determined to recall Mr. Erskine and to send out a new ambassador; but, on whom this important choice will fall is not yet known with certainty. Every article of intelligence regarding the subject, seems to shew, that the French and Dutch are determined to enforce their commercial decrees. The brig Unity, of Newburyport, from Holland, to England, was lately taken by a French cruiser, but recaptured. Suspicions, that there is a secret understanding between Portugal and France, are gaining ground in England. The Augustus, Howe, was to sail from London for Norfolk October 30. Mr. Monroe was expected to take passage in her.
FROM CADIZ, Oct. 6. Captain Babson, who arrived at Boston on the 16th inst. informs, that it was reported 50,000 French troops were to march into Spain. The fleet at Cadiz was preparing for sea with great activity. It consisted of 9 sail of the line and two frigates; and a squadron was expected from the Mediterranean to join them. Some persons conjectured a sudden attack was to be made on Gibraltar, by land and sea. The Portuguese Royal Family, influenced by the fear of a visit from the French, it was said, were preparing to embark for the Brazils.
THE RUSSIANS. By an arrival at Salem on the 17th inst. information was received that the Russians had detained all the English vessels in the port of Cronstadt. This we think highly probable, as it is only acting in conformity with a fundamental maxim of policy adopted by the Russian government for more than half a century always to finish their wars by fighting against their own side. What may be the reasons of state for this, we do not know but for it is, they invariably commence allies and leave off enemies.
Congress. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, MONDAY, Nov. 23. The following message was received from the President of the U. S. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States. Agreeably to the assurance given in my message at the opening of the present session of Congress, I now lay before you a copy of the proceedings and of the evidence exhibited on the arraignment of Aaron Burr and others before the circuit court of the U. S. held in Virginia in the course of the present year in authentic form as their several parts have admitted. TH: JEFFERSON. Nov. 23, 1807. Which being read, was with the documents accompanying the same, referred to the committee on so much of the President's message as relates to that subject. The bill for erecting a bridge across the Potomac was recommitted, to amend the details. The bill to extend the right of suffrage in the Mississippi territory was considered and debated—but no question taken. TUESDAY, Nov. 24. Mr. Blount from the committee to whom was referred so much of the message of the President of the U. S. as relates to aggressions, &c. reported further in part. That the numerous aggressions and violations of our jurisdiction recently committed within our ports and waters by British ships of war, whether they are to be regarded as the effects of positive orders from the British government, or as proceedings from that uncontrolled violence and rapacity in British naval commanders which previously produced the murder of our citizen John Pease, and the perpetration of many other wrongs, are of a nature that strongly impresses on us the necessity of placing our ports and harbors as speedily as possible, in a situation to protect from insult and injury the persons and property of our citizens living in our seaport towns, or sailing in our own waters, and to preserve therein the respect due to the constituted authorities of the nation. That the committee, having maturely considered the subject, are of opinion that the protection desired can be best and most expeditiously afforded by means of such batteries and gun boats, as they have been induced to believe that by a judicious combination and
use of these weapons, effectual protection can be given, even to our most important seaport towns, against ships of any size unaccompanied by an army. That our most important ports and harbors, and those requiring the earliest attention and the most extensive fortifications, are New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, S. C. Wilmington, N. C. Norfolk, Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York, New London, Newport, R. I. Boston, Salem, Newburyport, Portsmouth, N. H. and Portland. And that the ports, harbors and places of minor importance requiring protection, and which may be protected by less expensive works, are St. Mary's, Georgia and George-Town, S. C. Ocracoke, Albemarle Sound, James river, York and Rappahannock rivers; Patomac, Patuxent, Annapolis and Eastern Shore, Md. Delaware Bay and river, Egg Harbor, N. J. Amboy, Long Island, Connecticut shore, Yiverton, R. I. New Bedford, Marblehead and Cape Ann, York, Kennebec and Saco, Kennebec, Sheepscot, Damariscotta, Broad Bay and St. Georges, Penobscot, Epenquid's bay and Passamaquoddy bay. Wherefore, your committee holding themselves bound by the tenor of the resolution referred to them, to report hereafter their opinion of the expediency of interdicting the waters of the U. S. to foreign armed vessels, according as circumstances now unknown, may when known, seem to require, submit the following resolutions, viz. Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the President of the U. S. to cause such fortifications to be erected as, in addition to those heretofore built, will, with the assistance of gun-boats, afford effectual protection to our ports and harbors, and preserve therein the respect due to the constituted authorities of the nation, and that there be, and hereby is, appropriated for that purpose, out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of _____ dollars. Resolved, That it is expedient to authorise the President of the U. S. to cause to be built an additional number of gun-boats not exceeding _____ and to arm, equip, man, fit and employ the same for the protection of our ports and harbors; and that there be, and hereby is appropriated for that purpose out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, the sum of _____
The report was referred to a committee of the whole on Thursday.
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. On Friday Dr. Mitchell reported a bill to appropriate money for the construction of an additional number of gun boats. The number is left blank in the bill; but a document from the navy department, which accompanies it, states that it is thought that 188 more gun boats will be wanted, in addition to the 60 already provided. This bill came under the consideration of the Senate on Monday, but was postponed, we believe, with the view of having the whole subject of defence generally before the Senate, before it acted on any part of it. Yesterday Mr. Adams from a committee appointed on a part of the President's message, reported to the Senate a bill for the preservation of peace and maintenance of the authority of the U. S. in the ports, harbors and waters under their jurisdiction, which received a first reading. The bill is very long and contains numerous important details. The outlines are as follows: It authorises the President to permit or interdict, at his discretion, the entrance of our harbors to all armed vessels belonging to a foreign power, and by force to repel and move them from the same, except in certain specified cases, in which cases the said vessels are to conform to rules prescribed by the Executive. It further, in consequence of the late conduct of the British, prohibits the entrance of any British armed vessels into the harbors or waters of the U. S. except when driven in by stress of weather, or when charged with dispatches; provided that whenever reparations shall be made, to the satisfaction of the President, for the outrages committed upon the national sovereignty, it shall be lawful for the President to remove the interdiction. On such vessel refusing to depart, she shall be deemed to have made an hostile invasion of the territory of the U. S. and shall be proceeded against as an enemy, and may be seized and brought in and forfeited, and shall accrue wholly to the captors. All pacific intercourse with such vessel is forbidden. The President is authorized to use the land forces and militia to seize such vessel. He is also empowered to refuse admission to any vessel belonging to the subjects of the nation whose armed vessel shall so remain in the harbors of the U. S. States. It empowers any person or persons to burn, sink or destroy any such vessel, for which a bounty of _____ dollars is offered on each gun of said vessel. It authorises the President to carry this act into effect, to fit out all the armed vessels of the U. S.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25. We understand that GEN. MOREAU, about a week since, left Philadelphia for the Western country, it is said, for New-Orleans. His unexpected departure and the rapidity with which he has passed on his journey have excited considerable curiosity, not unmixed with suspicion, which seems principally to have arisen from the place to which he is said to be going. Information has been received of his passing through Lancaster and Chambersburg without having made any delay at either place. When we consider the distinguished character and unfulfilled reputation of Gen. Moreau, we cannot for a moment indulge the idea of his having any views hostile to the U. S. States; and we think it highly probable that a very short time will bring to light the most satisfactory explanations of the objects of his journey, which may turn out to have been undertaken solely for the gratification of a laudable curiosity. Nat. Intel. From the Port Folio. The Executors of the last will of General Hamilton have deposited in the Public Library of New York a copy of "The Federalist," which belonged to the General in his lifetime, in which he has designated, in his own hand-writing, the parts of that celebrated work written by himself, as well as those contributed by Mr. Jay & Mr. Madison. As it may not be uninteresting to many of your readers, I shall submit a copy of the General's memorandum for publication in "The Port Folio." Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 54, Mr. Jay. Nos. 10, 14, 37, to 48 inclusive, Mr. Madison. Nos. 18, 19, 20, Mr. Hamilton, and Mr. Madison jointly—all the rest by Mr. Hamilton.
ON the 10th of next month, at 10 o'clock, will be sold at the Eagle Tavern, on a credit of 6 months PLANTATION NEGROES, 41 Shares in the Bank of Virginia, 12 James River Canal Shares, and 1 Shares, and 1 Share in the Richmond Library; and immediately afterwards at the Plantation of the late Dr. Currie, the crop of Corn and Hay, the Hogs, Cows, Mules, Horses and all the Personal Effects on said Plantation. NOTICE is given to such as may have claims against Dr. C's estate and not yet made them known, that they must lose no time in doing so, else this intimation will be plead in objection after the distribution of the personal effects. The debtors are desired to make immediate payment as no further indulgence can be given. ROBERT GORDON, } Administrators. JAMES CURRIE, } Dec. 1. epds JAMES FISHER, HAS just received from the Manufactory of Bell, Hoskins and Fisher, a Supply of FLANNELS & COATINGS, which will be sold every way; he has also on hand a complete assortment of GROCERIES. Dec. 1. epds
The Enquirer. RICHMOND, DECEMBER 1.
The question, which has lately been the subject of so much discussion in congress, admits of a very easy solution. Was it right for the President to have contracted for naval and military supplies without a previous appropriation by law? This question depends upon two principles: That it would not have been found policy for the President to have convened congress immediately after the capture of the Chesapeake. Nor would it have been the duty of a found politician to have delayed the period, which was thus allowed him. In establishing the first principle, it is unnecessary to refer to Mr. Smilie's argument, that the health of the members of congress might have been endangered by a summer's meeting of congress; nor shall we refer to another argument of the same gentleman, that the nation was two much impressed by its wrongs immediately after the attack on the Chesapeake, to deliberate calmly on the subject; because in our opinion, the course pursued by Mr. Jefferson stands upon a much stronger foundation. No advantages would have resulted from an immediate call of Congress, except the making of an appropriation for defensive measures. For even Mr. Randolph himself, the great champion of this measure, admits, that so far from agreeing to an immediate declaration of war, he would have calmly waited for the return of a minister from Great Britain. Very considerable disadvantages, however, might have probably ensued. The ministers of Great Britain would have been extremely alarmed by such a proceeding; and would have most probably considered it as a species of Declaration of War. They would have attempted to have struck the first blow at our commerce and our resources. They would have laid an embargo upon all our vessels that were laying and that should arrive in their ports. They might have issued letters of marque against our vessels on the high seas. And with the same disregard of justice which characterised the attack on the Chesapeake, they might have attacked and captured all our public vessels then in the Mediterranean. Nor perhaps would it have been "considering too curiously to consider" that they might have commenced an immediate attack on our defenceless sea-port towns. All these disadvantages were removed by Mr. Jefferson's system. Our vessels have escaped an embargo in the British ports or a capture on the high seas. Our merchants have had time and indeed information enough to adopt every measure of security and precaution, as well for the protection of their vessels, their cargoes and their crews, as for the arrangement of their affairs in G. Britain. Tons of our seamen who were exposed on the high seas or in British ports, have enjoyed an opportunity of taking shelter from the threatening storm. All the armed vessels of the U. S. have, it is most probable, also been ordered home. Some preparations have been made for our defence; more gun-boats have been built or are building; and some fortifications have been added to our ports and harbours. It was besides not the least of the advantages of this system, that it has certainly kept open the door of negotiation and enabled us to make another effort for preserving peace; an effort, which in some measure profited success, from the almost unanimous voice of indignation against British outrage and a firm determination to resist it, which have lately rung through the continent. But Mr. Randolph's system would most probably have defeated this advantage. For if Great Britain had considered the call of congress as a species of declaration of war, hostilities and not negotiation might have been the inevitable consequence. To these powerful considerations the public mind has since cheerfully submitted; and though many a man was ready to fly to arms immediately after the capture of the Chesapeake, and was calling upon the President to convene Congress in order that they might adopt the earliest and the most rigorous measures of retaliation; yet when the heat and impetuosity of the moment had subsided, they have willingly done justice to the sage and magnanimous policy of the government. The only question that remains, is, was it the President's duty to have thrown away this important interval or to have made every preparation in his power for the war which was likely to ensue? Surely there could have existed no doubt of the propriety of the latter course, except in the bosom of the most rank and prejudiced enemy of the administration. To every one else must the reasons, which the President himself has assigned for the justification of his conduct, have come with irresistible force: "The moment says he, our peace was threatened, I deemed it indispensable to secure a greater provision of those articles of military stores, with which our magazines were not sufficiently furnished. To have awaited a previous and special sanction by law, would have lost occasions which might not be retrieved. I did not hesitate therefore to authorise engagements for such supplements to our existing stock as would render it adequate to the emergencies threatening us; and I trust that the Legislature feeling the same anxiety for the safety of our country, so materially advanced by this precaution, will approve when done, what they would have seen so important to be done, if then assembled.—Expences, also unprovided for, arose out of necessity of calling all our gun-boats into actual service for the defence of our harbors; of all which, accounts will be laid before you." If this favorable moment had been lost; it would never have been regained. The best policy that could have been pursued, was to provide for the war which was likely to ensue. And had Mr. Jefferson suffered this favorable opportunity of purchasing military supplies, to escape him, these supplies might not only have been lost to ourselves, but might have been exported to Europe, and transferred into the magazines of the enemy. Mr. Randolph himself seems to have admitted the necessity of making these preparations. And yet to extremely inconsistent is his policy, that he cannot even permit the President to contract for those supplies, which he concedes to be of sufficient importance to have required the immediate call of congress, in order that they might authorise the necessary appropriations.—Let it not also be forgotten that the President had merely contracted for these supplies, and that congress retained the necessary check of ratifying or rejecting these contracts. That the President should not draw a cent of money from the treasury nor make a contract for a cent without a previous appropriation by law, will always be viewed with great jealousy by every honest whig; but extraordinary emergencies require extraordinary remedies. A case nearly similar in principle occurred in this state during the last year. The Legislature had made a certain appropriation for the Armoury; but in apportioning the expenditures to this appropriation, the council had not made a sufficient reduction in the
number of workmen. What course did they afterwards pursue? Had they adhered to the strict letter of the law, they would have been obliged to have dismissed many and most valuable artificers, who had been brought here at great expense, and whose loss it would have required years to repair. Instead of sustaining this inconvenience, the council determined still to employ the men on their own responsibility, and to throw themselves upon the indulgence of the Legislature. The Legislature admitted the propriety of their conduct and passed a new appropriation to cover this old contract.
COMMUNICATION. A most illiberal attack upon col. Monroe's character has lately appeared in Bronson's U. States Gazette. It is basely insinuated, that the British ministry were feigning difficulties to give Mr. M. the credit of removing them; and that they were 'dispatching him without his colleague, to give him the opportunity of ingratiating himself with the elections of the U. States.' And it is then ridiculously asked, whether the people of America will accept a chief magistrate 'stealing from the troubled pool of foreign politics—a quondam republican, who has been lately ground over again in the British hopper—new coined at the Tower mint.' It is also said that Mr. John Randolph is offering his services at the shrine of the deified President. It is enough to quote such language about colonel Monroe to excite the indignation and contempt of every republican in Virginia. Whether he will be able to satisfy every one respecting several obscure points in the late diplomatic relations with Great Britain, is yet to be known. The world have very properly suspended their opinions upon it, until the necessary documents have been laid before them; but on this point, every man, who is the least acquainted with col. Monroe, must agree, that his conduct has not been in the slightest degree affected by a predilection for G. Britain & that he is made of too sterling & stubborn stuff to be ground over in the hopper of British politics or to be stamped with a new impression at the Tower Mint. Whatever may have been his policy, no impartial man can doubt his motives nor the integrity which animates his conduct. We may truly mistrust the virtues of humanity, if James Monroe does not return to his country with as honest a republican heart as ever graced the bosom of a man.
As to the other insinuation, I cannot but confidently hope that James Monroe is neither of the sect of John Randolph nor has the slightest bearing towards his politics; that however much he may esteem him as a friend, he will not imitate him as a politician; & that he will not suffer that gentleman's flippancy & passionate philippics against the administration to affect his well-learned confidence in the propriety of its measures. Whether or not Mr. Monroe will be a candidate for the presidential chair, is yet to be known. He has certainly as great a right to become one as any other citizen: and his distinguished services entitle him to great support. But one fact is certain; if Col. Monroe allies himself to the minority of Congress, his pretensions are good for nothing. CATO.
The following charge of the Chief Justice of the U. S. States delivered on the init. is published at the particular request of one of that body. Gentlemen of the Grand Jury, To you by the constitution and laws of our country, is confided the important trust of accusing those whose offences shall have rendered them obnoxious to punishment under the laws of the United States. It is a trust, on the faithful performance of which, the stability of our political institutions and the safety of individuals must greatly depend. For to little purpose would laws be framed to protect the innocent or the body politic from the crimes of the ill-disposed, if a misplaced lenity should prevent their execution; and to little purpose have those establishments which the wisdom of our ancestors has matured, been adopted by the American people as effectual safeguards against oppression, if external prejudices should force their way into the sanctuary of justice, and pollute that fountain, on the purity of whose stream, depends the health of the social body. Jurors, gentlemen, as well as Judges, should be superior to every temptation, which hope, fear or passion may suggest; should allow no influence to balance their love of justice; should follow no guide but the laws of their country.
In recapitulating to you, gentlemen of the jury, those offences which are cognizable in this court, and which may consequently be noticed by you; the first on the catalogue, as well as the highest in atrocity, is treason against the United States. With a jealousy peculiar to themselves, the American people have withdrawn this subject from the power of their legislature and have declared in their constitution that "treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." A less offence is the misprision of treason; that is, the knowledge and concealment of the treason of another. Homicide committed in any place within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or on the high seas, or a concealment of such homicide committed by others; piracy and larceny on the high seas; the malicious maiming or wounding of any person in any place within the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States, or larceny committed in such place; the counterfeiting of any security of the U. S. States, or of any bill or note of the bank of the United States, or the attempt to pass them, knowing them to be counterfeited; to steal or falsify any record or process of the United States; to rob the mail or to steal a letter or packet out of the post-office; to commit perjury or subornation of perjury in the courts of the United States, or to bribe or attempt to bribe a Judge; these are also offences of which you are to take cognizance.
It results from that partition of power which is made between the general and local governments, our external relations being exclusively assigned to the former, that the care and duty of preserving peace, as well as of making and conducting war devolve on the federal head.—In the performance of this duty certain legislative regulations have been made which I must also recommend to your attention. Within the territory or jurisdiction of the U. S. States to accept and exercise a commission to serve a foreign Prince or state in war, if done by a citizen of the U. S. to enlist or recruit others in foreign service: To fit out or arm any ship or vessel in order to cruise against any power with whom the U. S. States are at peace, or to augment the armament of such vessel: To begin or set on foot, or to provide or prepare the means for any military expedition or enterprise to be carried on from thence against the territory or dominions of any foreign Prince or State with whom the U. S. States are at peace, are offences against the sovereignty of the U. S. which are punishable by their laws. Of the same character is the act of entering into, or of counselling, advising or aiding those who enter into any correspondence with a foreign government, or with any officer or agent thereof, with intent to influence the measures of any foreign government in relation to any disputes or controversies with the U. S. States, or to defeat the measures of the government of the U. S. States.
In the course of the war which still continues in Europe, circumstances have occurred which have induced the legislature to empower the President by his proclamation to inhibit all entrance into our ports and harbors to all or any
of the ships of war of a belligerent. In pursuance of this power certain proclamations have been issued and any pilot or other person who shall offend against them, is subject to punishment for doing.
These, Gentlemen of the Jury, are the principal offences which can be committed against the American government. It is our just pride, it is our fairest boast that we live under a government of laws, and not of men. Between liberty and despotism this is a distinguishing criterion. It is among the most precious results of such a government that it affords fixed rules by which the criminality or innocence of human conduct may be tested; and that it furnishes institutions for the application of those rules to the cases of individuals which will guard as far as human wisdom can guard against the substitution of the prejudices or the caprices of the many or the few in the place of the rule itself. But in the proportion, gentlemen, as the terror of men yields to the majesty of the laws, does the peace and safety of the community require that those laws be rigidly and inflexibly executed. If therefore any of the offences which are cognizable in this court shall be made known to you, Duties the most sacred and Obligations the most solemn require that you should accuse the offenders. I have only to add, gentlemen, that to any presentment founded on the information of others the name of the informer should be subjoined; and that any presentment made on your own knowledge must be on the knowledge of two of your body. LETTER THE FIRST TO JOHN RANDOLPH, esq. member of the House of Representatives, will appear in our next. Died, on Saturday last, ALEXANDER BANKS, of Manchester—an old and respectable Merchant of that Town.
Last Evening's Mail. NEW-YORK November 24. Captain Lovett, who arrived at this port yesterday, from Cadiz, informs, that the Blockading Squadron off that port make it a point to turn off and endorse the papers of every vessel they board, excepting they are entirely laden with lumber, or in ballast.
FRENCH DECREES. Translated for the Mercantile Advertiser from late French Papers. Vessels having towed in England.—The 8th article of the imperial decree of the 21st Nov. last prohibits the receiving in our ports of any vessel direct from England or from English colonies, or having been since its publication. The 8th article provides that every vessel which, by means of a false declaration, contravenes this disposition, shall as well as her cargo, be seized and confiscated as English property. The director-general announces by his circular of the 4th of this month (September) that his majesty has just decided that those two articles ought to have their full and entire execution: and that any vessel which shall have hopped in England, or shall have been conducted thither, cannot be admitted. So that the immediate return of those vessels, let the alleged cause of entry be what it may, will be required. Those who, by a false declaration, shall dissimulate their having hopped in England, and succeed in entering our port, shall be seized, and they and their cargoes shall be proceeded against according to the decree relative to English property.
Aaron Burr in New York.—We are informed that the little Emperor of the Quids is now in this City, and has frequent meetings of the "choice spirits." Pub. Adv.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. The Senate were on Wednesday engaged on the bill for authorizing the building of an additional number of gun boats. After considerable debate, the further consideration of the bill was postponed till Monday next. On Thursday, the Senate was engaged on the bill, reported by Mr. Adams, "For the preservation of peace and maintenance of the authority of the United States, in the ports, harbors and waters under their jurisdiction." Much debate likewise ensued on the provisions of this bill, when the Senate adjourned without coming to any decision.
NEW STORE. The Subscriber having purchased out the entire stock in trade of Messrs. Charles I. Price & Co. purposes carrying on the DRY GOOD business, in the store lately occupied by them, next door below Messrs. Robert Neilson & Co. and begs leave to inform the public that in addition to said stock, he has just received a very extensive assortment of GOODS, by the latest arrivals from New York and Philadelphia. Amongst which are—
LADIES elegant embroidered Dresses of the latest French fashion, superfine & coarse Cloths, Kerseymere, assorted, Blankets, Flannels, Coatings & Bocking Baizes, Plains assorted, an elegant assortment of fancy velvets, consisting of Toilets, Woolen, Molekins, Bennet's patent Cord, printed and striped Velvets, printed Cord, Sawdawns, Turkey Downs, white and coloured Marcellas and printed Jeanes, Silver or President's Cord for pantaloons, olive and black Twilled Velvets, Bennet's patent mixt woolen Cord, brown Holland, 7-8 and 4-4 Irish Linens, fine Shirting, Cambricks, elegant assortment of Chintz & Callicoes, coloured & black Cambrick Mullins, cotton and silk Chambrays, plain and figured Mullins and Lace Cambricks, Book and Mull Mullins, 7-8, 9-8 and 4-4 white Cambrick Mullins, plain and figured plaid and white Mantuas or Italian Silks, Dimities, Men's & Women's silk, cotton, worsted and yarn Hlofe, heavier, silk and yarn Glove Silks, Sewing Silks and Threads assorted, India Mullins, Shawls & Handkerchiefs of every description, cotton and linen Checks, Long Lawn, and Linen Cambricks, Bandanoe and other silk Handkerchiefs, assorted Persians, Pedlings, Mode, Gauzes, Laces, Ribbons, Combs, &c. Bed Tickings, Lettuce, Florentines, Lutefishings and fancy Silks, cotton and silk Umbrellas, cotton and silk Suspenders, Ladies Shoes and Slippers, vest and Coat Buttons, &c. Besides variety of other articles, all of which will be disposed of on very low terms for cash or bills of a short date. HUGH CHAMBERS. Dec. 1. 6t
LITERATURE. JAMES BYARS, Jr. hereby informs his friends and the public, that he shall continue at his Father's, in the Forks of Hanover the succeeding year, (1808.) teaching Spelling, Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English and French Grammar, Geography, the use of the artificial Globes, Rhetoric, natural Philosophy and Geometry; where students under 10 years old will be received at 60 dols.—between 10 and 12 at 70 dols.—exceeding 12 at 80 dols.—for board and tuition: 20 dols. of the above prices to be paid at the admission of each Scholar. Dec. 1. 2tf
On Tuesday, the 29th day of December next, pursuant to a decree of King William County Court, will be sold, on the premises, to the highest bidder, for ready money, so much of that PARCEL OF LAND, whereon Francis West Quarles now resides, in the upper part of said County, as will raise the sum of five hundred dollars and interest from the first day of January last, with a small additional sum for costs of suit and charges of sale. BEVERLY ROBINSON, JOHN FOX, } Comrs. King Wm. Nov. 24, 1807. 6p The sale of the above property has been, heretofore, unavoidably postponed.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, TUESDAY, November 10. Debate on the bill making further appropriation for the support of the Navy. CONTINUED.
Mr. Ewing said he had not intended to have been on this subject, nor should he then have been subjected to the embarrassment he felt in addressing the Speaker, was it not for the ap- prehension he entertained, that it might be sup- posed by his constituents that he was influenced in the vote he was about to give by the same reasons which had been offered by gentlemen, who arguing against the passage of the bill, had yet declared their ultimate intention to vote for it.
If there is any question in this debate, said Mr. L. it is a constitutional one. The arguments of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Quincy) and those of the gentleman from Vir- ginia (Mr. Randolph), prove that this, if any, is the ground of opposition. In the authority in- troduced and relied on by these gentlemen there was, if he recollects it right, (for it was some time since he read the book) a discussion of the question, which declares that no money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law: He concurred with the gentleman from Virginia in the respect which is due to the opinions of the Secretary of the Treasury whose authority is quoted; and if, said Mr. L. I was satisfied that the reasoning he has advanced applied to the provisions of this bill, I would rather incur all the risk which on this or any future occasion might be the conse- quence, of refusing to give our aid to the Ex- ecutive, when it had, on a great emergency, ad- vanced its personal responsibility, than lend my voice in support of a measure I deemed uncon- stitutional.
If the gentleman who introduced this authority had read a little further back, I think it would have been found, that the first case put by the writer in illustration of the con- stitutional principle, was that, where under a former administration, a sum of money had been appropriated by law to the discharge of the principal of some of our foreign debts, and it was applied in discharge of the interest. It was certainly more advantageous to the U. States to discharge the principal than the interest. But the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Quincy) has said that in all instances under the former administration, there was a particular object for which money was appropriated; yet we find that in the case just mentioned, although the subject was the same, the particular object of application was very different: It appears to me that a misunderstanding of the terms appropria- tion and application among us, has produced much of the present debate; they have been indiscriminately used, and for the purpose of ex- pressing the same ideas, although in the author- ity relied on, the Secretary of the Treasury has in all the cases he has adduced in illustration, drawn the distinction. In the present case, an act of hostility towards this country had called for the energies of the government. Contracts for articles of necessity have been made and the responsibility of the officers of government stands pledged for their fulfilment. I view the measures contemplated by the bill, as involving a question of expediency only. This being the case, I need add nothing to the arguments e- qually urged on both sides, in support of the propriety of the expenditure from the highly aggravating cause of it. Whether indeed, the former measures of this government have had the effect of producing the cause of the great national excitement we have witnessed, as some gentlemen seem to suppose; or whether the conduct of G. Britain has its origin in a deter- mined spirit of hostility towards this country, is in the present discussion entirely unimportant; whether the unexampled outrage she has com- mitted on Denmark, or the unprovoked attack, on the vessels of Spain, have been invited by the pusillanimity of those countries, as is suggested was the case with us, are questions which I shall not now discuss.
Mr. Cook expressed his full approbation of the conduct of the Executive, and the officers of the departments. There had been no wrong application of public money, for none had been drawn out of the Treasury. It was merely a question of expediency with the House whether they would sanction the measures which had been adopted; the President had not bound them to do it, and they were at liberty to act as they chose. Approving as he did the course pursued, he should vote in favor of the bill.
Mr. Lyon would not occupy the House long on a subject of so little importance. On the score of consistency he should vote as he had al- ways done. When appropriations were made without authority, if he liked them he had voted for them; if he did not, he had voted against them. He thanked the President for the promptitude which he had manifested by his conduct on this occasion, and could see no harm which could arise from it. If the House approv- ed the measures, they would vote for them; if it would be immaterial to them whether the barg- ain were made to-day or to-morrow. And as he did like them and the House liked them, he would vote for the bill without detaining them a minute longer on the subject.
Mr. Gardner had been much pleased with the debate which had taken place on this sub- ject, in the course of which gentlemen had an opportunity of expressing their opinion not only on this particular subject, but generally. The attack on the Chesapeake made on the 22d of June last, had called from the nation one uni- versal expression of abhorrence; one burst of execration at that daring assault, had resounded from every part of the Union. It was the voice of a powerful nation, calling for satisfaction for her insulted rights; and when heard, it would be respected. In so part of the community had this expression been more sincere than in the city in which he resided (N. York); that city which would endure, if any part of the country suffered, the most dreadful calamities of war; that city, defenceless, unprovided, and exposed, whose inhabitants had been told by gentlemen on the floor of that House, that they must fly to the mountains for protection; in that city, the same sentiments prevailed which existed in every part of our country.
At this period the President, feeling without doubt, the same sentiments as had been man- ifested by the people, had thought proper to go into the expenditure for which an appropriation was now asked. Mr. G. said, it could not be doubted, but the President, when he pledged the faith of the government for the purchases which were made, had violated that article of the constitution which lodged in that House the only power of appropriation. He was not, however, one of those who thought such conduct could not be justified; he tho't it could, not because he would encourage li- berties to be taken with the constitution, not because he held the constitution less sacred than any gentleman on the floor of that House; but because the safety of the nation is the supreme law.
While he expressed himself pleased with the debate, Mr. G. could not agree with the gen- tlemen from North Carolina, who thought it an
additional one; for, whatever were the ob- ject, if any officer of the government had trans- cended his powers as limited by the constitu- tion, it was not proper that the procedure should be treated with levity. As such a conduct might encourage violations of the constitution, he was glad that no expenditure could take place without exciting the attention of the House; that when exercising its prerogative, the Executive would not be encouraged in put- ting its hands into the treasury. It would show to the President or any other officer, that the House were jealous of their constitutional rights. Mr. G. could not say with some gentlemen that it would have been imprudent, or in any degree improper to have convened Congress earlier than the day on which they had met; and though he would permit the President to do these things, he would only permit it when Congress could not be convened in sufficient time. Four months had elapsed since the out- rage had been committed; during what portion of this interval, the expenses of the Navy Department had been incurred was not known; but in all probability Congress might have been convened in sufficient time to have made a pre- vious appropriation.
The gentleman from Pennsylvania had told them that it was the custom of an ancient nation to deliberate on a question twice, once when drunk, and once when sober; therefore Con- gress should not have been convened whilst they felt the first sense of indignation. Did the gen- tlemen mean to say that this was a drunken nation? That a nation glowing with indignation at an act of insult was in a state of intoxication? Was not this a period at which the representa- tives should have been assembled? Mr. G. truly that however great the general excita- tion, however great the excitement, the representa- tives would have been sufficiently cool. He did not think that these sentiments had in any degree subsided; he saw no appearance of it in the country, none in the House, none in the gentlemen from Pennsylvania; the same feelings were still cherished that existed four months ago.
Upon the whole, however, Mr. G. thought the Executive had on this occasion conducted fairly, with a single eye to the public interest. He should vote for the bill, not as a precedent, or to encourage any Department in the unau- thorized use of the public treasury, but because he thought the measure proper.
Mr. Smith did not mean to intimate that the nation was drunk; he meant that the hour of ex- treme feeling was not the proper time for delib- eration. Whilst he entertained that sentiment, he honored American feelings on the occasion; he rejoiced to see that spirit shown. Since he was up, he would just take notice of the idea that seemed to have taken possession of several gen- tlemen as to the convention of Congress at an earlier period. He had mentioned yesterday why he thought the President had acted prudent- ly in not calling Congress sooner; suppose they had been convened in the month of August; it was true they could have made an appropriati- on, but they could not have decided on the main subject, nor could they now. They must have waited at an enormous expense to the union, for dispatches from Europe. Under these impressions, he was one of those who believed the President had acted properly. Many things had been said in the course of debate, irrelevant to the subject. As to a review of what had been done in 1803-5, it was improperly introduced; at another time, when the proceedings of the legislature of that day should come properly be- fore them, he was willing to meet a discussion, and to justify those measures. On that occasion he had thought as he did now, that war was one of the worst of evils; and that no nation should engage in it when by any other means the could preserve her honor. He was now, as then, op- posed to war; but if it should be forced upon the nation, he should be one of the last to shrink from it. He thought that the going to war on this aggression, under present circumstances, would be acting precipitately; as no nation should go to war till she gave her opponent an opportunity to justify her conduct.
Mr. Randolph begged leave to be indulged with a few words by way of explanation. Much had been said on a former occasion about dumb legislation. He believed they had almost reach- ed that point at present. In the magnificent a- partment in which they sat, and which was fitted for any purpose rather than that for which it was designed, it was scarcely possible to hear, or to make one's self heard. This was surely no distant approach to legislation without de- bate. In consequence of the effort which he had been compelled to exert, as no small ex- pence of constitution, his attention had been forcibly dragged from the subject before them, and he had perhaps used some expressions which fell short of his meaning, and others which did not come up to it. He wished to be clearly and explicitly understood as to the course which he thought it incumbent on the Executive to have pursued, and consequently to what extent the course which had been pursued met his disap- probation. He thought Congress ought to have been immediately convened on the capture of the Chesapeake, and our ministers at London instantly recalled, after having made an explicit and peremptory demand of redress—and that redress too by a British envoy dispatched to the U. S. for the especial purpose. Congress being convened, the nation should have been put into a posture of defence, waiting a reasonable time to receive redress by an envoy. That being re- fused, instant retaliation should have been taken on the offending party. Mr. R. would have in- vaded Canada and Nova Scotia, and made a descent on Jamaica. He would have seized upon Canada and Nova Scotia, not with a view to their incorporation into our system of govern- ment, but as pledges to be retained against a fu- ture pacification, until we had obtained ample redress for our wrongs. Whilst he held these sentiments he entirely concurred with the gen- tlemen from Pennsylvania (Mr. Smith) that war was a great evil, never to be resorted to without a solemn demand of reparation from the offend- er, and giving him a fair opportunity to make due atonement for the injury, or insult, which he had offered; but there was a mode of de- manding as well as of receiving redress.
Mr. R. said that he should forever protect, wherever it could possibly be avoided, and here it might have been avoided, against expenditure of public money without the previous sanction of law. But condemning an expense and refu- sing to appropriate money to discharge it were different things. A man, for instance, might highly disapprove his wife's running up a large account with a merchant, without his know- ledge or consent, which his honour would ne- vertheless compel him to pay. Incurring a debt was one thing and discharging it another. Mr. R. believed it was within the knowledge of many members of that House, that during the late war between France and England, which was terminated by the peace of Amiens, the extra- ordinary expenses, that is the expenses incurred without the knowledge and concurrence of Parliament, such expenses as this bill provides for; exceeded the ordinary, or authorised ex- pences during a single year of that war, altho' these last amounted to near twenty millions ster- ling! Ought we not then (said he) to set our faces against the introduction of a principle, which must necessarily lead to consequences so ruinous? Would any man put the additional
security which we derived from a few military stores, in competition with a violation of the constitution, in a point too involving the dearest privileges of that House? Whilst he held this language, he was not insensible to the im- pending dangers, nor unwilling to make efficient provision to meet it. Let us not (he said) deceive ourselves with the idea that we are to have a war of military parade. Sacrifices they would be called upon to make, and he was prepared to meet them. He hoped they would enter into it, if war we must have, with a full conviction of its justice and necessity, and with hearts resolutely bent to endure all its privations and abide by all its hardships. He had on a for- mer occasion said, that if Great Britain put forth her strength we should feel it; she had put forth her strength, and they had felt it—your feel it now, sir, (said he) in every fibre of your heart. It could not be expected that he should answer insinuations of a British party in that House, coming too from such persons. Neither could it be expected that he should sink into that vile and supple thing, an humble follower, a pious tool of a majority, and tacitly disavow the principles for which he contended two years ago. He had then, as far as in him lay, endeav- oured to avert the situation of affairs which now exists, and under the same circumstances he should do so again. It had been said that it was idle to retropect on the causes which led to that situation, and he agreed that it was, so far as related to the foreign power, but not as it re- lated to the conduct of our own government.— It was totally immaterial what where the pre- vious points in dispute between us and Great- Britain. Her conduct had put it out of our power to look back upon them, to examine into them, had precluded all deliberation. We had received a blow, and it was out of the question to enter into the merits of the dispute which had produced it. To Great-Britain the door of discussion was shut, was barred, and she must knock with the light tap of solicitation before it could be opened to her. But let not gentle- men calculate upon throwing the difficulties in- to which the country was brought, upon those who had opposed the measures of imbecility and irritation which led to them. He could not consent to take upon himself any part of the credit which the non-importation law conferred upon its supporters however anxious they might be to share it with him.
If the gentleman who had alluded to some- thing in Galtan on the Finances (Mr. Love) & who had begun very early to instruct them in the meaning of terms which, it seemed, they had been all their lives using without understand- ing (a specimen of his embarrassment and mode- sty which Mr. R. had not expected) had read a little farther, he would have found this pas- sage.
"It was this transaction which gave rise to the following motion made in the House of Re- presentatives in February, 1793. viz. "Resolved, that the Secretary of the Treasury has vio- lated the law passed the 4th of August, 1790, making appropriations of certain monies author- ised to be borrowed by the same law, in the fol- lowing particulars, to wit: 1st, by applying a certain portion of the principal borrowed, to the payment of the interest falling due upon that principal, which was not authorised by that or any other law, &c. Although it is now demonstrated by the official statements (from which the statements Nos. 11 and 12 are ab- stracted) that that resolution was frivolous and literally true, it was at that time negatived by a large majority."
Now gentlemen would pardon him for not feeling that religious deference for the dicta of a majority which some of them entertained, when he saw that a resolution, demonstrated by official statements to be frivolous and literally true , might nevertheless be negatived by a large ma- jority.
There was one thing which he begged leave to notice in his defutatory way, a sort of politi- cal quibbling on the terms money drawn out of the treasury . The mass of the good people of the U. States did not know that in their plain, plantation sense of the word, we had no treasu- ry —that the banks were our treasuries and their cashiers our treasurers. Thus money may be drawn out of the bank which is not drawn out of the treasury , because it is not issued agreeably to law . It is only when issued agreeably to law, that it can be said to be drawn out of the treasu- ry at all, and it may, in technical phrase be drawn out of the treasury without a single dol- lar being removed. For instance, one million is voted for the naval service. The head of the department applies to the Secretary of the Treas- ury upon whose warrant so much money is placed to the credit of the navy department at the bank. As soon as the money is made liable to the order of that department, it is out of the treasury, although not a dollar has changed its place. On the contrary where a head of de- partment wants money, purchases may be made upon credit with an understanding at the banks and with the purchaser that the notes are issued for the service of government. Discounts are obtained and the United States pay the differ- ence, in the price of the commodity. Here, al- though the money has gone out of the bank , it is in legal phrase full in the treasury, until Congress meet and pass an appropriation law, when having been paid to take up the notes it marches again out in official costume and parade .
Gentlemen had indulged themselves in the course of this extraordinary debate—extraordi- nary he must call it—he had tumbled head long into it, by expressing the most rigid attachment to the strictest principles of financial policy, & in return all they asked was, that in this, or any other case, where it might suit them, people would not be unreasonable enough to expect from them an adherence to those principles— like some other secretaries they made a sort of commutation between the rigor of their public life professions and the laxity of their private morals. But Mr. R. would not agree that the austerity of their principles should cover the looseness of their practices. If their former professions now called for more than they found themselves able to perform, it would be more fair and manly, honesty to confess it, to abjure their old faith and take up one better suited to their frail and imperfect condition.
One of the observations of the gentleman from Pennsylvania was thrown away upon him —he could not see it. If the expense of con- vening Congress were to be made a pretext for acting without its authority we might as well give the Executive power of attorney at once to legislate for us. He flouted such an idea.— It would have been better to have convened Congress at the expense of half a million than that a single cent should have been drawn out of the treasury without a previous appropriati- on by law.
When the question was taken by yeas and nays on the passage of the bill as follows: YEAS.—Messrs. Alexander, L. J. Allison, W. Alston, Bacon, Bland, Barker, Bassett, Bibb, Blackledge, Blake, Blount, Boyle, Brown, Bur- well, Butler, Calhoun, G. W. Campbell, J. Campbell, Carlton, Champlion, Chandler, M. Clay, Copton, Cobb, Cook, Culpepper, Cotts, Dana, Darby, Davenport, Dawson, Deane, De- dra, Durell, Elliot, Ely, Eppes, Findley, Fisk, Franklin, Gardener, Gardner, Garnett, Good- wyn, Gray, Green, Harris, Heister, Helms,
Holland, Holmes, Howard, Humphreys, Irey, Jenkins, Johnson, Jones, Keen, Key, Knap- rick, Knight, Lambert, Lewis, Love, Lyon, Marion, Masters, McCleery, Milner, D. Mont- gomery, J. Montgomery, N. R. Moore, T. Moore, Jer. Morrow, John Morrow, Moseley, Mumford, Nelson, Newbold, Newton, Pitken, Porter, Pugh, Quincy, Randolph, Rea (Pen.) Rhea (Ten.) J. Richards, M. Richard, Smith, Rowan, Sawyer, Seaver, Sloan, Smelt, Smilie, J. R. Smith, S. Smith, John Smith, Southard, Stanford, Stedman, Storer, Sturges, Swart, Tag- gart, Tallmadge, Taylor, Thomas, Thompson, Trigg, Troup, Upham, Van Allen, Van Cort- landt, Van Horn, Van Rensselaer, Verplank, Wharton, Wilboor, Whitehill, Wilson, Winn, Witherall.—124.
NAVS.—Messrs. Hoge, D. R. Williams.—2.
ROYSTER & BOHANNAN. Have just received a general assortment of GROCERIES, —AMONGST WHICH ARE— TWELVE Hundred casks Liverpool Salt, } pine, } 10 hds W. India Rum, } Gill, } 10 do N. England do, } Gill, } 10 casks Sherry, } 6 pipes F. Brandy, } 10 do Lisbon, } 10 hds Molasses, } 10 do Malaga, } 20 tiers Whiskey, } 3 hds Teneriffe, } 10 cherts Y. Hyson Tea, } 24 hds Sugar, } 10 do Imperial do, } 14 do Loaf, } 20 bags Coffee, } 50 boxes N. Y. Candles, } 1 case Cutlery Ware, } 50 do be yellow Soap, } well assorted, 100 reams wrapping Pa- } Powder, } per, } Shot, } 50 do writing do, } Window Glass assorted, } Soft shelled Almonds by } Copperas, } quantity, } Lumber's Snuff, } 12 boxes Chocolate, } Brimstone, } 30 crates well assorted, } 20 boxes Spanish Segars, } Earthen Ware, } Mustard by box, } 12 boxes Glass Ware, } Nutmegs by quantity. } ALSO—An assortment of Stone Ware; together with a number of other articles, which they will sell low for Cash, country produce or good acceptances in town. October 30. lawtf.
FOR RENT, And possession given Christmas next, for a term not less than three nor more than four years, MY TAVERN and the plantation thereunto ad- joining in the county of Mecklenburg, about one mile from Lady Skipwith's, and Somerville's fer- ries on Roanoke river, on the main road leading from the Carolina's, Georgia, &c. to Petersburg, Richmond and the Federal City. The Tavern-house is large and commodious, good stables, and all other necessary out houses—on this place is a good apple and peach orchard, which never fail bearing fruit—there is a quantity of hickory tim- bered land convenient which may be cleared and used at the discretion of the tenant. It is deemed unne- cessary to say more as it is presumed that those who wish to rent would first view the premises. But the subscriber can with propriety say the advantages at- tached to this place, renders it by far the most advan- tageous stand for a tavern and store in that part of the country. There will be a tolerable crop of wheat sown on the place. For terms, &c. apply to the subscriber living on the premises. HOWEL GRAVEN Sept. 3. oaw3m.
TO RENT, For three or five years: THAT valuable TANYARD of the late Mr. Jacob Boekius, and now occupied by the Subscri- ber situated on the Main-Street of this city, between the Capitol and Basin of the canal, its conveniences are superior to any other in this place. A large Car- rying Shop, Cellar and drying loft, a spacious Bark- House, two Bark Mills and Houses, a Beam House and every other requisite for the tanning of from 200 to 3000 hides a year, exclusive of skins: Also on the same tenement a convenient DWELLING HOUSE , Kitchen, Smoke House, Stable and Garden, the ren- ter may be accommodated with about one hundred cords of excellent red and black oak Bark, now in the Bark House at a fair price. Proposals for the above will be received by the sub- scriber. Bond with approved security will be required, and possession given of the whole, except a few of the vats, on the first of September next. The reason as- signed for offering the foregoing property for rent, is the ill state of health of the Subscriber to pay that at- tention the business requires. LEZARUS ELIGAN . April 3. lawtf.
FITZWHYLSON & POTTER, BOOK-BINDERS and STATIONERS: HAVE just received a few copies of a Treatise on MILITARY TACTICS; in which are fully ex- plained the duties of a Soldier and the movements of an army, with the rules and regulations designed for the forces of the United States, illustrated with copper plates, blank forms, &c. At a moment like the present, when the national peace is involved in uncertainty, and the necessity of war in a great degree probable, it becomes us to pre- pare for that event, and this treatise offers to the young officer such lessons in the military science and principles of discipline, as highly merit his attention. F. & P. have also received a large collection of new music; Tools, &c. Pot, and other writing Pa- pers; some excellent Ten-Knives, Specacles for la- dies, &c. &c. N. B. Blank Books of all kinds, Pocket Books, School Books, and a general assortment of Stationary for sale. Richmond, Nov. 10. low4w.
WILL BE SOLD, At Public Auction, on the 12th day of December next, at the at the door of the Eagle-Tavern, NINETY-TWO thousand, seven hundred and thirty acres of Western LANDS, lying in the counties of Montgomery, Harrison and Kanawha— A credit of one, two, three and four years will be allowed, if satisfactory security shall be given. SAMUEL GREENHOW. Richmond, Oct. 7. oaw tf.
VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE. In pursuance of a Decree of the High Court of Chancery, for the Richmond District, by consent of parties, the following property, belonging to the estate of James Anderson, dec'd. will be sold to the highest bidder, on a credit of twelve months, to wit: On Tuesday the 29th day of September next, THAT commodious and well situated HOUSE & LOT, on the main-street in the city of William- sburg, at present occupied by Mrs. Camp. Also, two vacant half-acre LOTS, near the Free School in the said city. The sale to be made on the premises. On Monday the 14th day of Dec. following, That valuable HOUSE and LOT, situated at the foot of the capitol hill, in the city of Richmond, in the occupancy of Charles Boiser and others. The sale to be made on the premises. Also, at the same time and place, two valuable Tracts of LAND, lying on Wills Creek state of Kentucky, and within a few miles of the Ohio river. There are eight thirty-five parts of the above na- med property, which belongs to infants, and where the price of any one separate parcel exceeds fourteen hundred dollars, an interest with the purchaser must be retained in that portion for them. Additional information may be had on application to Robert Anderson of Williamburg. THE COMMISSIONERS. Sept. 2. saw2m3s lawtf14thD.
FOR SALE. THE subscriber is desirous of selling his PRO- PERTY in this City. The purchaser will be accommodated with time if required, on giving sat- isfactory security. SAM'L. GREENHOW. Oct. 7.
RUMFORD ACADEMY. THIS institution will be continued under the direction of CHILDS TEBBELL and his As- sistant; and the same course to be pursued that has hitherto been. The ensuing term will com- mence on the 15th day of January next, at which time the present term expires. The price, for the Board, Washing, and Tuition of each student (each finding his own bed) will be £40 per an- num, to be paid quarterly in advance, without any deduction for vacations. For the Tuition of students from the neighbourhood, £10 each; to be paid as aforesaid. It is expected that gentlemen who send their sons here, will punctually comply with the terms of payment, in order to enable the Steward to make those arrangements and provisions, which the interests of the students necessarily require.— JOHN ROANE. N. B. The President of the Institution hopes, that parents will not permit their sons to length- en the stated vacations, either by anticipating or protracting the time. This circumstance ought to be avoided, as it retards the progress of the student, and encroaches the labor of the teacher, by subdividing his classes. The next vacation will take place on the last Saturday in April. On the Friday immediately preceding, the visitors are re- quested to attend an examination of the students. Those gentlemen who have sons here at present, and do not wish them to remain the ensuing year, will please to give the subscriber information, that the vacancies occasioned by removals may be filled. Nov. 24. law8w
CAVALRY DISCIPLINE AND NEW SWORD EXERCISE. JUST published by S. G. Grafton, and for sale at his Printing Office, "A Treatise on the DISCIPLINE of the CAVALRY; teaching the necessary evolu- tions on a parade, on a march, and in the face of an enemy: To which is added, THE NEW SWORD EX- ERCISE for CAVALRY: Illustrated with copper-plate engravings. The whole examined and approved by a valuable and intelligent officer of the Cavalry in the Revolutionary war." This work has been pronounced by a very competent judge, to be the best on the subject heretofore published in this country. Every member of the Cavalry should possess a copy.— * A liberal discount to wholesale purchasers. Printers of News-papers will oblige the pub- lisher by inserting the above, and the favor will be re- turned when required. Richmond, Nov. 10. law4w.
Will be sold, to the highest bidder, at Warwick, in the county of Chesterfield, on the 21st day of Dec. next, if fair, if not, the next fair day: THE HOUSEHOLD & KITCHEN FURNITURE, belonging to the estate of Henry Randolph, dec'd. also two HORSES. A credit of twelve months will be given on all sums over 5 dollars. The pur- chaser giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. JOHN W. HIGGENBOTHAM, Administrator. Nov. 13. oawtf
NOTICE. The Co-Partnership of Hobson & St. John, terminated with the thirty-first day of August last: ALL those indebted to said concern are requested to come forward without delay and settle their accounts; those having claims against said concern will exhibit them for adjustment. JOHN HOBSON, jun. JOHN ST. JOHN. New-Canton, Oct. 14. oaw3m
THE subscriber will continue business at the same place on his own account. He has now on hand, a general assortment of GOODS, suited to the present and approaching season, which he will sell on moderate terms for cash, produce, or to punctual customers on the usual credit. JOHN HOBSON, jun. Oct. oaw3m
TO BE SOLD, At Painesville, in Ashtia county, on Monday the 28th of December next, AN extraordinary valuable BLACK SMITH, be- longing to the estate of Rich'd. Englehart, de- ceased, on a credit of six months, bond with approved security will be required of the purchaser. BY THE EXECUTORS. Oct. 14. oaw10w.9
D. T. MADOX, Having obtained Licence to practice as At- TORNEY at LAW, begs leave to inform those who may have business for the employment of his profession, in the County Courts of Goochland, Pow- hatan and Chesterfield, or the District Courts of Richmond and Petersburg, may rely upon every ex- ertion of vigilance and industry to whatever may be confided to his attention. Oct. 20. oaw6w.
HARDWARE, IRONMONGERY, AND CUTLERY STORE, BREAM & FOLLET, AT THE SIGN OF THE ANVIL, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND: Have received by the latest arrivals from London and Liverpool, a very large and general assortment of— HARDWARE, IRONMONGERY, CUTLERY, &c. which will be sold low for cash, or on a short credit: amongst which are: Carpenters, Joiners, Coopers, Shoemakers and other mechanical tools, sheet Iron, sheet Copper, and Copper bottoms, Tin plates, Iron, Brass and Copper Wire, building materi- als, Nails, Tacks, Brads, Locks and Hinges, house bells, Cabinet Mountings, Surveyors Compasses, Chains & Cases of Mathematical instruments, Gun Locks, gun and pistol Flints, bear, wolf, fox, rat and mouse Traps, Shot, bar and sheet Lead, Pots and Kettles, bake Pans, Tea Kettles, Chafing Dishes, Block Tin Coffee Pots, Britannia metal Tea Pots, table and tea Spoons, Knives and Forks, pewter Dishes, Plates and Saucers, block tin Dish Covers, Plate Warmers, Plate Baskets, Tea Kettles with lamps and coals, Candlesticks and Snuffers, Fire Irons, And-Irons, Grid Irons, Coal Hods, Cinder Sifters, Fenders, Trivets on Footmen, Smoothing Irons, Warner's Patent Lamps, Horn Lam- pshades, small hand Lanters, Cloak Pins, Curtain Hol- ders, Bras Nails, Fish Hooks, Jews Harps, Bras Cocks, Kaiting Needles, Bartlett's old patent Need- les, Ivory and Horn Combs, Curry Combs, Batson Moulds, Japann'd Ware, Scissors, pen and jack Knives, Razor and Razor Hones, Razor Strops, Shaving Box- es and Brushes, Curling Tongs, Currier's Knives and Steels, Spectacles and Cases, Coffee Mills, Corn Mills, Scale Beams and weights, money Scales, Steel-y