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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1806.
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Will be Sold,
By virtue of a deed of trust from Lewelling Jones of Prince Edward, and Edward Jones of Northway, to Samuel Carter, at Carter & Booker's store in Prince Edward county, on Monday the 10th of March next, one NEGRO MAN, named Salisbury, twelve head of CATTLE, and one black MARE, to satisfy the debt therein mentioned.
THE TRUSTEE. December 10, 1805.
Just received and for sale at this office, THE LADIES'
ANNUAL POCKET BOOK, AND THE GENTLEMAN'S Annual Pocket Remembrancer, FOR THE YEAR 1806.
The Ladies' Book contains an elegant engraved Frontispiece—an Almanack—ruled pages for memorandums, and engagements, also for account of monies received, paid or lent, for every day in the year; select prose and poetry; new and celebrated songs; a marketing table, and several other useful tables.
The Gentleman's Book contains an Almanack, ruled pages for memorandums, and cash accounts, government of the U. S. executive, legislative and judiciary, commissioner of loans, Federal courts of law, patents, ministers, consuls, &c. to and from foreign nations, military establishments, table of the pay and subsistence of officers of the navy, list of officers of the navy, marine corps, navy agents, list of the whole naval force of the U. S. Post Office establishment. Coins of the U. S. Duties payable by law, officers of the customs, light houses, and several useful tables, &c.
December 10.
Valuable Family Medicines. Just received direct from the Patentee, and for SALE at this office, the following Valuable Medicines.
Dr. Rawson's Anti-Bilious and Stomachal Bitters.
Prepared by THOMAS H. RAWSON, member of the Connecticut Medical Society. These Bitters have undoubtedly had the most rapid sale of any Patent Medicine ever before discovered, and are justly appreciated for their singular and uncommon virtues for restoring weak and decayed constitutions, and all that train of complicated complaints so common in the spring and fall seasons, such as intermittent Fevers and Agues, long Autumnal Fevers, Dysenteries, &c. They are also a very pleasant bitter for common use, and where they are known they have taken the place and superseded the use of all other bitters in public houses as well as in private families.
Dr. Lee's (Windham) Bileous Pills.
The great sale and increasing demand for these valuable pills for those twelve years past, bespeak their intrinsic worth. They have proved singularly efficacious in Bileous and Yellow Fevers, Jaundice, Head Ache, Dyspepsia, Bileous Cholick, Coliciness, Female complaints, &c.
The very great demand and high esteem in which these pills are held throughout the United States and the West Indies, has induced many to counterfeit them; the purchaser is requested to observe that the name of Samuel Lee, Jun. (the patentee) is affixed to each bill of directions in his own hand writing, or they will not be genuine.
Dr. Rawson's Itch Ointment.
A certain and safe application for that disagreeable complaint called the ITCH.
Dr. Rawson's Anti-Bilious Pills, or Family Physic.
The extraordinary celebrity these pills have gained, the universal demand for them and effect of which they are held by medical men of the first eminence, are sufficient testimonials of their intrinsic worth. In great colds and sudden attacks of disorders, an early use of these pills often produces the happiest effects, and taken once in eight or ten days in cases of indigestion, headaches, dizziness, pains in the stomach and bowels, dysenteries, diarrheas, dropsies, &c. and a liberal use of my anti-bilious bitters in the intermediate time has relieved patients almost to a miracle.
For jaundice & bilious complaints, WHEATON'S
Genuine Patent Bitters,
Price only 50 cents. Secured to him by Letters Patent from the President of the United States.
A MEDICINE extremely useful and efficacious for curing jaundice and bilious disorders, and removing that sinking, faint and distended feeling at the stomach, difficulty of breathing, loss of appetite and sleepy, dull heaviness in the forepart of the day, weakness and trembling of the limbs, dizziness of the head, and yellowness of countenance, complaints so common to jaundice and bilious people.
Also, removing obstructions of the bowels, and of urine, cholicky complaints, pukings and purgings, indigestion, sick head ache, rheumatic complaints, &c. which arise from a collection of four bilious matter in the stomach, and at length restoring the constitution to strength and vigor.
They are also found very useful to carry off worms, and to cure rickety children, and may be used with safety in all constitutions, ages and sexes.
The many cures that have been effected in New England, by the above medicine (as may be seen in the bills) prevent the necessity of further recommendation. LIKEWISE,
Wheaton's patent Itch Ointment,
Price only 50 cents.
The only medicine in the world which will certainly cure the ITCH, without having in it any thing either dangerous or disagreeable; it being composed mostly of ingredients never before discovered or used in that disorder.
One box cures a person, and there need be no washing after the use of it, as the skin is generally left cleaner and smoother.
ALSO, Rawson's celebrated Bitters & Lee's genuine Windham Anti-Bilious Pills.
The above medicines are for sale at this office.
Ready made PENS for sale here.
ANDREW STEVENSON, in addition to the Courts of King William and Hanover, practices Law in the County Court of New Kent
Marshal's Sales.
To be Sold, for ready money, under a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth Circuit in the Virginia District, between Phineas Bond, attorney for the creditors of Ezekiel Edwards, plff. and David Ross and others defts. in order to raise the sum of dollars 967 89, due and payable on the first day of July 1805, and the further sum of dollars 16656 66, due and payable the first day of January, 1806, that valuable and well known estate in the county of Botetourt, called FORT LEWIS , stated by said Ross to contain 2608 acres.
The sale will take place on the premises on the 27th day of February next. Also, on the 4th day of March next, will be sold, under the aforesaid decree, at the Oxford Iron Works, in the county of Campbell, a number of valuable SLAVES .
Ben. Mosby, D. M. for Jos. Scott, M. V. D. January 13, 1806.
Mr. WILLIAM P. TEBBS, Botetourt County.
SIR, PLEASE to take Notice, that on the 3d day of February next, at Capt. William Anderson's Tavern, in this county, I shall proceed to take the depositions of John Sydney, John Clayton and Peter Sherby, in a suit now pending in the county court of Lancaster (in chancery) between yourself, plaintiff, and myself, as administrator of Epa Sydney, deceased, defendant. Attend if you please.
Your obedient servant, Ezekiel Levy. Richmond county, Jan. 6, 1806.
A Valuable Manufacturing MILL TO RENT.
ON Monday the 6th day of March next, will be rented to the highest bidder, for one year, that valuable Manufacturing and Grist MILL, in the county of Amelia, belonging to the estate of the late Col. John Royal, dec. It is situated near the mouth of a never failing stream, almost immediately upon the river Appomattox, distant about 45 miles from Petersburg, and 40 from Manchester. This mill possesses the great advantage of an abundant supply of water throughout the driest season, and its local situation is such as to afford it complete protection against the highest freshes we have yet known. The toll corn she receives amounts annually to 200 barrels and upwards. There is one pair of Burr stones and one set of Bolting cloths, both of which are of very superior quality, and the whole works have lately undergone a thorough repair. The flour manufactured here and sent to Petersburg and Richmond for sale, has uniformly commanded as much, and in many instances more, than flour made at any other mill.
Attached to the mill are about 23 acres of land, upon which has lately been erected a commodious store and lumber house, cooper's shop, blacksmith's shop, stables, and some other out houses, all of which will be rented with the mill. A mercantile establishment at this place, connected with the manufacturing business, it is believed would succeed very well. The above property will be rented upon the premises. Bond and security will be required to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid.
William Royall, Guardian of the Orphans. January 8th, 1806.
JUST RECEIVED, From Dr. Church's Dispensary New-York, and for sale at this Printing-Office, a fresh supply of the following
Patent Medicines:
CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS,
A medicine unequalled by any in the world, for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma & consumptions.
PATRIOSA LOZENGES,
For the voice, hoarseness, colds, coughs, &c. &c.
CHEMICAL ESSENCE AND EXTRACT OF MUSTARD,
For the cure of the rheumatism, gout, rheumatic gout, palsy, white swelling, chilblains, &c.
ANODYNE ESSENCE, for the head-ache.
VOLATILE TINCTURE, for the tooth-ache.
THE BOTANICAL TEA.
INFALLIBLE GERMAN CORN PLAISTER,
For the cure of corns.
CHURCH'S ANALYPTIC FEMALE PILLS.
SCOTCH OINTMENT,
Cures the most inveterate itch in four hours with out Mercury.
ETE SALVE, for all disorders of the eyes.
ANTISCORBUTIC TINCTURE,
For the teeth, breath, and scurvy in the gum.
ESSENCE OF SCURVY-GRASS,
For preventing and curing the sea & land scurvy.
VERMIFUGE LOZENGES,
For destroying worms in children & grown persons.
ANTISPASMODIC ELIXIR,
For the cure of all kinds of Fits.
CORDIAL RESTORATIVE BALSAM,
For nervous disorders, debility, inward weakness, &c. &c.
VEGETABLE LOTION,
For the face and skin, freckles, sun-burns, prickly heat, ring worms, tetter, &c. &c.
DR. CHURCH'S ANTIBILIOUS PILLS,
For the cure of malignant and bilious fevers, dyspepsy, jaundice, costiveness, acidity, cholera morbus, gravel, indigestion, loss of appetite, and all disorders of the head, stomach and bowels.
THE GENUINE PATENT ALTERATIVE PILLS,
For the cure of scurvy, cutaneous disorders, the venereal disease, &c.
HOOPER'S FEMALE PILLS.
ESSENCE OF PEPPER MINT.
ALSO, DR. CHURCH'S TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL.
Containing plain and easy directions for the speedy and effectual cure of that disease in both sexes; whereby any person may cure themselves at a small expense—price half a dollar.
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
FRIDAY, Dec. 20.
Debate on the motion of Dr. LOGAN for leave to bring in a bill to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and St. Domingo.
(Continued.)
Gen. S. SMITH—
Mr. President. Had the honorable mover produced any new document, or given us any new information, I certainly should have given my vote that he should have the leave required. Or had the Senate been composed of the same members as those of the last year, I should have contented myself with giving a silent vote on the question. An addition being made to the Senate of several new members, it may not be proper to state, that this subject was at the last session presented to the view of Congress by the President. A bill was predicated thereon, and after great consideration and lengthy discussion passed into a law. Has the mover produced to the Senate any document to show that France is not satisfied with what has been done? Does the gentleman know that any new complaint has been made? I know of none, & I therefore think it fair to presume that France has been fully satisfied with the law already passed. The gentleman has said that both the French and British ministers have considered the trade to St. Domingo as contrary to the law of nations. I see nothing of the kind in the note from the British minister. I have no doubt that the British being disposed to interdict that branch of trade as they have done almost all our other most lucrative commerce. Had the gentleman brought forward a bill to interdict all trade with Great Britain, he might have produced many more reasons in its support than he has been pleased to offer in support of the bill proposed; but what is this law of nations? is it the written law, or that law assumed by the nations who have the most power? If the gentlemen mean the written law, I must believe they are mistaken. I have somewhere read, that when a part of a state separates itself and is capable of supporting that separation, forms for itself a government, and fully conducts its own affairs—that other nations do not infringe this law by trading or commencing a friendly intercourse with such part.
We are told that a celebrated French general since here has said, that had gen. Le Clerc succeeded, he meant to have landed all the blacks of St. Domingo on our southern shores. This may be—but sir, it is not probable. If such however had been his intention, they could not have arisen from resentment on account of our commerce, for we had been of the greatest utility to him and his army, and had then carried on no commerce that was not fully sanctioned by France—Nay, I might say, that owing to the supplies from the U. S. the colony of St. Domingo had been preserved to the mother country until the arrival of gen. Le Clerc. Unless, Mr. President, the honorable mover shall produce some new information, I shall be under the necessity of voting against leave to bring in this bill.
Dr. MITCHELL, in a speech of considerable length and detail, stated his objections to giving leave.
He complimented his friend from Pennsylvania, for the purity of his motives in bringing forward the present motion. But he could not refrain from an expression of his surprise, and even his regret, that the subject has been moved again in the Senate.
During the last session of congress, the whole of the intercourse with St. Domingo had undergone a full investigation. While the bill regulating the clearance of armed merchant vessels was under discussion, that part of our foreign commerce had been minutely examined. It would be remembered that the bill had been committed, recommitted, amended, and modified with the utmost labor and skill. Besides the talents which the Senate afforded, all the sources of executive information had been drained, to aid their researches. And the letters of the British and French ministers, complaining of the conduct of our merchants in forcing this trade, were opened to our view. The crude material of the bill had been hammered at and worked upon so elaborately, as to have at last received the complete burnish of a law. With all the knowledge that could be derived from so many quarters, the bill was at length passed to check the violence of our navigators, and to restrain the adventurous zeal of our merchants. The provisions of this law, were such as it was deemed just and proper that a neutral nation should take. And this was a liberal condescension to the wishes of the two great maritime and belligerent powers,
without forgetting the respect that we owed to our own. With both these he wished to cultivate peace and good understanding; but to neither of them would he consent to yield any portion of our neutral national rights.
The difficulties exhibited in the ministerial correspondence, Dr. M. said were thus removed. With a promptitude that deserved to be admired, congress interposed its authority, for the purpose at once of doing justice to our neighbors, regulating our commerce, and tranquilizing the Mexican seas. With these salutary provisions, he believed the two complaining nations, had been satisfied. At least we had done so much that they ought in all reason to be content. Congress had already manifested a due regard to all that France and Great Britain had offered upon the branch of West Indian commerce, and in the true spirit of good neighborhood, and correct principle, had modified and restricted the intercourse with Hayti. And so fully did the Europeans seem to acquiesce in our conduct, that he had not heard any further remonstrances made by either of them about it. He thought the observations of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Adams) very much in point. Under a conviction that we had done as much as public faith and national honor required, he had given his vote against the introduction of a similar bill during the last session. Nothing had occurred from that time to this day, to alter the circumstances of the case, or to make it necessary for him to change his conduct. He thought now, as he did then, that there was danger of overacting our part and of doing too much; of being good to our neighbors, to such a degree, and in such a manner as to be very cruel to ourselves.
After all this condescension on our part, after inquiring into the alleged misconduct of our people, and taking immediate measures to prevent the repetition, and after having done all that we politically could or that we honorably ought, the subject is once more introduced to the Senate. It comes now, not from the executive department, not from the cabinets of the nations concerned nor from the recommendation of a Senatorial committee, but from the suggestions of an individual member of our own body.
The commerce of the United States he said, was an astonishing spectacle. It reached from Arctic to Antarctic; and was co extensive with the circumference of the globe. Most of the inhabited countries of the earth were visited by our navigators, and the striped flag of the union fluttered in the remotest harbors. Our countrymen have made material additions to the science of Geography. They have found markets unknown to commercial men before. They have derived cargoes from the depths of the ocean, and laid the cod, the seal and the whale under contribution. They have exported the productions of their own happy country, so fertile in the articles which sustain and cherish life, to all places where they were wanted, and brought home the crude materials or the manufactures of those regions in return. By an energy and enterprise unexampled in the history of the human species, they have excited the jealousy of foreigners, who are not only behind them in mercantile exertion, but who cannot weigh anchor or reef a top-sail equal to them.
Such was our situation, peaceful, industrious, and desirous of measuring out liberal justice to all our neighbors. But this was no protection against commercial rivalry. Emulation and competition existed in all callings and professions. Mercantile jealousy had been alarmed by it. Experience had shown to the most active of them that they were unsuccessful competitors. What was the consequence? They had endeavored to interrupt by force or stratagem, that predominant trade which they could not outdo or equal by fair means. In the havens of Britain the port-charges were of the most exorbitant kind. The money paid by us for passing their light-houses was excessive. The fees for performance of quarantine, were out of all proportion to the good expected or service done. Convoy-duties were also frequently exacted. And the custom houses collected a higher rate of charge upon merchandise exported to the United States than to any part of Europe. In addition to all this the cruisers of that nation had made the most ungenerous abuse of the power of searching our vessels. They had taken out and impressed into their service, emigrants coming to our country. They had violently drawn into their service, our seamen, natives of our land. Naturalised foreigners had not been spared. Our neutrality had been violated by their forcing our impressed citizens to fight against the political friends of their country. Our ships had been frequently detained and spoiled on the high seas; and their
officers and crews grossly insulted. Vessels bearing the variegated stripes and constellated stars of our union had been sent to distant British ports for adjudication. Cargoes had been condemned under the most arbitrary pretexts, and our merchants and underwriters by the process of an ex parte trial stripped of their property. Our ports had been blockaded. The public authority in our very harbors had been defied, and the armed vessels of the nation had been fired at. And to crown the whole, the same nation, instigated by the like jealous and invidious considerations seem bent upon prohibiting our carrying trade in colonial produce, and resolved to reduce us once more to the dependence of provinces.
Are we, sir, already come to this? You (the Vice President Mr. Clinton was in the chair) well remember the effects wrought by the injudicious proceedings of the British Parliament in 1774. You bore a noble and manly part in the struggles of freemen against oppression at that day. Thirty years ago, you and your patriotic associates could form a general non-importation agreement, and despising the luxuries of the mother country and superior to her prowess, you, spirits of freedom, achieved our glorious revolution. If the case requires it, may we not do this again? If we must curtail our commerce by our own statutes, it is certainly a better policy to retaliate upon an adversary in that way, than to abandon to her, as the proposed bill contemplates, a lucrative portion of our trade. Surely, laboring as we do, under all these embarrassments, a proposition for lessening our navigation, and forbidding our ships to frequent the open ocean, would hardly have been expected from one of our own body.
For my own part, said Dr. M. I think the St. Domingo commerce is no great thing in itself. We might do exceedingly well without it; and I am very far from approving the means by which it has been carried on; but, I dislike the idea of forbidding it at the mandate of a foreign power. Like our revolutionary patriots, let us put our foot here, and hence refuse to budge. It is not for us to legislate at the nod or bidding of any nation. I hope we understand our business better than to register edicts for them—while we pay due respect to others, it becomes us also to respect ourselves. The precedent is a dangerous one. If we agree to interdict this intercourse, we may at the next session be informed that we ought to withdraw from some other important port or region.—When we are found to be so complying to one nation, we shall be subjected to a like request or menace from another, until, sir, our flag shall be furled in one foreign port after another, and nothing be left us but the coasting trade at home.—The sad consequences have been ably portrayed by the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. S. Smith).
There was another reason evincing the unseasonableness of the proposition at the present time. This was a disastrous and eventful era of our commerce. The merchants in every sea port of the nation were assembling to consider their losses from the rapacity of the belligerent powers, and submit them to the consideration of congress. It would be better to wait for the statements that such a practical class of men should make. Our judgments would be aided by the facts which their memorials would contain.
Dr. M. then considered the prohibition in the constitution on congress as to the laying of export duties; and said that the exportation of our domestic productions so necessary to our country, and so cautiously guarded, ought not to be interrupted by any spontaneous regulations of our own. He was an advocate for the mare liberum . He wished a wide and open market for the beef, pork, fish, flour, rice and cotton of the country.
He then adverted to the operation which a restrained commerce would have upon agriculture. With the ceasing of exports this great spring to the planters and graziers industry is at once taken away; the plough would stop; and it would be melancholy to see the fair and enchanting face of our country, degenerate to the savage state, and yield nought but the unthrift crop of weeds and brambles.
Turning then to ship-building and its cluster of attendant trades and arts, he feared that it would fall into neglect.—That employment, which gives perhaps, the grandest idea of the skill of man, would be discontinued, and the inhabitants of our sea-ports be forced back to the country to keep them from starving.
Nor was the revenue to be omitted in this enumeration. As far as the imports from Hayti are concerned by our citizens, so far the revenue is saved; and if exported under drawback, the carrying trade is helped by the transportation, & the return cargo, whether of brandy, wines, hardware or dry goods, may be

expect to afford an ad valorem or specific contribution to the treasury. A word or two concerning the situation of France in this affair, he should beg leave to offer. The coffee and sugar of that productive island had reached the ports of that empire in American bottoms. And in return the productions and manufactures of France, had been carried by the same conveyance to the revolted colony, of black freemen. It was presumable such an intercourse would give to France several of the benefits of a direct commerce. And as our act of the last session had yielded to her the sovereignty, he did not think that in the existing intermediate state between rebellion and revolution among the Haytians, France had any just cause of displeasure against us. If she had, the numberless captures and depredations done under her flag, must have given her the most ample satisfaction. Under these impressions he judged it neither politic nor necessary to legislate further on the subject; and should consequently say No to the motion.
Mr. Hillhouse said he hoped the question would be taken by yeas and nays, because he confidently expected there would be a great majority of the Senate opposed to giving leave to bring in the bill, for he considered the measure not only as improper, but as ill timed. We are informed by the message of the President of the United States, and the documents before us, that depredations are made on our commerce on all quarters, and our citizens not only robbed of their property, but in some instances subjected to personal insult and injury; it is also well known that Congress have received confidential communications from the President, and are deliberating with closed doors—The general expectation is, that something energetic & spirited will be done in defence of our neutral rights and national honor. How great will be the surprise if the first step taken by the Senate of the United States, is found to be a further restriction, or a total prohibition of a lawful and lucrative branch of our commerce? As to restricting or prohibiting this trade to St. Domingo (which no gentleman has produced a single authority from the law of nations to prove to be unlawful) for the purpose of securing our citizens from the personal insults and injuries to which they are exposed in the West-Indies, he could not approve it; a more proper and dignified course he thought would be to send armed ships into those seas, to capture or demolish those buccaneers and pirates, who rob us of our property, and insult and murder our citizens. They are a banditti whom no nation will own, or admit to be acting under their authority, though sailing under their flag, and whom it is not in the power of such nation to restrain.
The gentleman from Georgia has told us that the conflict in St. Domingo is that of masters attempting to reclaim their slaves, and that if the United States suffered the trade to be carried on, we shall be considered as aiding and upholding those slaves and give offence to France. And that when peace shall take place in Europe, the French will transport those negroes by thousands to the shores of S. Carolina and Georgia, to the endangering the lives of the citizens of those states. This Mr. H. considered as a bug bear with which we ought not to be frightened, for, as to the warfare in St. Domingo being a mere conflict between master and slave, it will be well remembered that the French Republic long ago liberated all the slaves in that island, and declared them free. As to the citizens of the U. States carrying arms and military stores to the enemies of France, the law of nations has declared the penalty, which is a forfeiture of the property, and the United States can in no way be implicated thereby. And as to the French landing those negroes on our shores, she said there was power and he believed there would be found a disposition in the people of the United States to repel such an insult—for if we cannot prevent France or any other power from invading our territory and insulting our national honor, by landing their outcasts upon our shores, we shall no longer deserve the name of an independent nation.
(To be continued.)
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, January 13.
A message was received from the President of the U. S. by Mr. Coles, his secretary, comprising a statement of the measures of the Executive relative to obtaining the co-operation of the Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli against the reigning Bey, & the application of the Ex-Bashaw for compensation for services rendered the U. S. accompanied by various elucidating documents.
Referred to a committee of seven members.
Mr. Spalding presented a memorial from the legislature of Georgia, representing the existence of differences with the state of North Carolina relative to boundaries; and that, having exhausted every means of compromise with North Carolina, they are under the necessity of making an appeal to the justice of the general government, whose interposition they solicit to ascertain the 35th degree of North latitude, and thereby to determine the boundary between the two states.
Referred to a committee of five members. About 12 o'clock the galleries were again cleared on motion of Mr. Jackson. The House did not rise till near five o'clock.
Tuesday, January 14.
The House commenced their proceedings this morning at 11 o'clock, contrary to their usual course, in secret sitting, having yesterday adjourned while the doors continued closed, and while confidential business was depending.
The House continued sitting until 3 o'clock, when the doors were opened, and an adjournment ensued.
Petitions presented in the House of Representatives.
Sundry inhabitants of Augusta, Vir. praying that a post-office may be established in the town of Greensville, and of sundry inhabitants of Somerset, Penn. praying that a cross post may be established from Berlin to Fort Cumberland, referred to the post office committee.
Ann B. West, v. of Joseph Jackson and Charles Spencer, referred to the committee on the public lands.
Sundry inhabitants of Chesterfield and Amelia, Vir. praying that the road from Manchester to Colesville, may be extended to Springhill and Mansfield, referred to the post-office committee.
Sundry merchants of Lynchburg, Vir. praying that a post-route may be established between Lynchburg and Danville, and between Lynchburg and Lexington, referred to the committee on post offices.
Sundry merchants of Lynchburg, praying for the establishment of a weekly mail stage coach from Richmond to Lynchburg, and of sundry inhabitants of New-Jersey & Pennsylvania praying the establishment of post-offices on the road from Belvidere to Springfield, to Knollton Mills, thro' the water gap to Dutoisburgh, and Stroudsburg; and of sundry inhabitants of New-Marlborough, Sandisfield and Granville, in Mass. praying that a post-route may be established from Hartford to Sheffield, and Great Barrington, referred to the post-office committee.
Anna Byrd, referred to the committee of ways and means.
Sundry inhabitants of Rockbridge and Augusta, and of James West, referred to the post-office committee.
To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled:
The Memorial of the Mayor, Aldermen, and Commonality of the city of New-York, most respectfully represents,
THAT the peculiarly defenceless situation of this city has for a long time occasioned great anxiety among its inhabitants, and that the present critical posture of national affairs has greatly increased that solicitude.
It is well known that we can be approached by hostile vessels in two ways; that frigates of force can proceed thro' the sound totally uninterrupted by any fortifications; that ships of the line can, by way of Sandy Hook, and with a favorable wind, arrive here in a few hours from the ocean, and that there is nothing to oppose their progress but a few works on Governor's and Ellis's island, which are totally inadequate to repel the attacks or prevent the advances of an enemy.
It is equally well known that this city, in relation to the internal and external commerce and the revenues of the country, is very important to the union; and that it is in a situation the most defenceless of any, must be universally acknowledged.
At the beginning of the revolutionary war, this place was among the first attacked by the enemy; and it is highly probable that on the commencement of hostilities, with a maritime power the first blow will be aimed at it. Invited by its proximity to the ocean by its unprotected situation, by its extensive commerce and great wealth, and by the distressing consequences which would result to the revenues & general prosperity of the country, an enemy would have every inducement to make it the earliest and principal object of attack.
Without intending to draw invidious comparisons between this and the other cities of the union, and without presuming to question, in the remotest degree, the sincere disposition of Congress to extend the protecting arm of the national government to us, in common with the other citizens of the United States, we have been emboldened by our confidence in your honorable body, and have been induced by the threatening aspect of our foreign relations, and by our regard for the welfare of this city and its inhabitants, to appeal, in the most earnest manner to the constitutional guardians of the common defence and general welfare, and most respectfully to pray, that prompt and efficient measures may be taken for putting this city and port in an adequate state of defence.
Signed, DE WITT CLINTON, Mayor.
SENATE UNITED STATES.
On Monday Mr. Adams moved to refer the memorials of B. Hichborn and others, of James Sullivan and others, and of Joseph Pippin and others, claimants under the Yazoo purchase, praying for the legislative adjustment of their claims, or that the Supreme Court may be authorised to decide on their validity.
On this motion a short debate arose, when the question was taken, the refer-
ence carried by the casting vote of the Vice-President, and a committee appointed consisting of Messrs. Baldwin, Adams, Anderson, Bradley and Sumter.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Monday, January 13th, 1806.
A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The Senate have passed the bill, concerning a mill-dam authorised to be erected by Adam Hickman, across the West Fork of Monongahela river.
They have also passed the bill, concerning the town of New-Market in the county of Shenandoah, with an amendment, to which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the amendment, to the said bill, and the same being read, was agreed to by the house.
Ordered, that the clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
An engrossed bill, to amend the act, entitled, an act, directing the method of proceeding in courts of equity against absent debtors and other absent defendants; and for settling the proceedings on attachments against absconding debtors, was read a third time, and passed.
An engrossed bill, establishing several new feries and increasing the rates of former ones, was read a third time and several blanks therein filled up, and passed.
Ordered, that the clerk carry the said bills to the Senate and desire their concurrence.
The house, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on a bill, to amend the act, entitled, an act, for further continuing and amending the act, to reduce into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors, "and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair, and Mr. Smyth (of Wythe) reported, that the committee of the whole house had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, had gone through the same and made several amendments thereto, which he handed in at the clerk's table, were the same were read, further amended, and the said bill as amended, ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.
On motion, Ordered, that the order of the day on a petition from the counties of Henry and Patrick, praying the Legislature to adopt means for calling a Convention to revise and amend the State Constitution, be postponed 'till Monday next.
Tuesday, January 14th, 1806.
A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The Senate have agreed to the resolutions, for appointing a joint committee to call upon the president and directors of the bank of Virginia for a statement of the amount of the capital stock of the company; of the debts due to the same; of the deposits in their coffers; of the notes in circulation and cash in hand; & for a view of the book or books containing the minutes of proceedings, with an amendment, to which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the said amendment, & the same being read, was agreed to by the house.
Ordered, that the clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
The said resolution as amended, is in the following words:—
Resolved, that a committee be appointed on the part of the House of Delegates, to act with a committee from the Senate, to enquire into the state and condition of the bank of Virginia; and that the president and directors of the bank exhibit to the said joint committee for their inspection and examination, a statement of the amount of the capital stock of the said corporation; of the debts due to the same; of the monies deposited therein; of the notes in circulation, and of the cash on hand, together with the book or books containing the minutes of their proceedings.
The Speaker laid before the house a letter from the Governor, referring to an enclosure for the consideration of the General Assembly, which being read, were ordered to be laid upon the table.
Mr. Miller (of Powhatan) from the committee of finance, made the following report:— [The report was published in last Friday's Argus.]
Mr. Harrison (of Amelia) from the committee appointed to examine jointly with a committee from the senate into the situation of the house and lot set apart for the use of the governor, made the following report:
The committee appointed on the part of this house to examine jointly with a committee of the Senate, the state and condition of the houses and lot set apart for the use of the Governor, have accordingly performed that duty, and find all the houses except an out house of brick, in considerable want of repairs; the enclosures in some measure decayed, and the dwelling house in particular, so conditioned, as in the opinion of the committee, to be unsafe as a residence. The facts which lead to this conclusion, are briefly these: one gable end of brick has several large cracks, and is much decayed at the foundation; the chimneys are secured by large iron bars made fast to the wooden part of the building, and exhibit the strange appearance of a crazy brick wall supported by a wooden structure. Your committee find further, that from an estimate made out by an experienced work-
man, and herewith submitted, the expense requisite to be encountered for temporary repairs, will amount to nearly six hundred dollars.
Resolved therefore, as the opinion of this committee, that the sum of six hundred dollars be appropriated for the above purpose.
Ordered, that a bill be brought in pursuant thereto by the said committee.
Ordered, that leave be given to bring in a bill, To establish the university of Virginia; and that Messrs. Semple, Tazewell, Smyth (Wythe) Harvie, J. Miller, Jones (Nottoway) Wooding, Reeder, Moore, Minor, Garland, Harrison (Amelia) and C. B. Harrison do prepare and bring in the same.
Ordered, that leave be given to bring in a bill, To open a subscription for the benefit of the University of Virginia; and that the last named committee do prepare and bring in the same.
Ordered, that leave be given to bring in a bill, To provide for the payment of expenses incurred by removing certain prisoners to the penitentiary house; and that Messrs. Brooke, Wyatt, Randolph, Moncure and Lightfoot do prepare and bring in the same.
Ordered, that leave be given to bring in a bill, To repeal the fifth section of an act passed on the 30th of January, 1805, entitled, an act, concerning the James river company; and that Messrs. Garland, Miller (Powhatan) J. Yancey, Miller (Goochland) Minor, Hatcher, Harvie, Storr and J. Selden do prepare and bring in the same.
Mr. Lightfoot reported, that the committee appointed to examine the enrolled bills, had, according to order, examined several other bills, and found them truly enrolled.
Ordered, that the clerk carry the said bills to the senate.
The house according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on a bill, To amend the act, entitled, an act, to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair and Mr. Tazewell reported, that the committee of the whole house had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, had gone thro' the same and made several amendments thereto, which he handed in at the clerk's table, where the same were read, further amended and agreed to by the house, and the bill as amended, ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.
Wednesday, January 15.
A communication from the senate by their clerk.
The senate have passed the bill, Vesting in James Wright and Eve his wife, certain land therein mentioned—and the bill, Allowing a further time to the owners of lots in certain towns to build thereon, with amendments, to which they request the concurrence of the house of delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments to the said bills, and the same being read, were agreed to by the house.
Ordered, that the clerk acquaint the senate therewith.
An engrossed bill, To amend the act, entitled, an act, to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace, was read a third time and several blanks therein filled up, and passed the house—Ayes 89—Noes 62.
An engrossed bill, To amend the act, for further continuing and amending the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts concerning executions and for the relief of insolvent debtors, was read a third time and passed the house.
Ordered, that the clerk carry the said bills to the senate and desire their concurrence.
A bill, For removing the district court from the Sweet Springs to the town of Lewisburg in the county of Greenbrier, was ordered to be engrossed and read a third time—Ayes 73—Noes 67.
The house, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on a bill, To prevent the emancipation of slaves within this commonwealth; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair and Mr. Madison reported, that the committee of the whole house had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, had gone through the same and directed him to report it without amendment.
The question being then put upon engrossing the said bill and reading it a third time—it passed in the negative—Ayes 73—Noes 75.
The house, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on a bill, To prevent slaves being brought into this commonwealth; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair and Mr. Harrison (Amelia) reported, that the committee of the whole house had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and had gone through the same and directed him to report it without amendment, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.
Thursday, January 16.
A communication from the senate by their clerk.
The senate have passed the bill, Allowing Edward Houchins a sum of money for his present relief and placing him on the pension list.
They have also passed the bill, Allowing a claim to Jesse Merrymann, administrator of Thomas Merrymann, dec. with
amendments, to which they request the concurrence of the house of delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the amendments to the said bill, and the same being read, were agreed to by the house.
The house proceeded to consider the senate's amendments to the bill, For incorporating the town of Wheeling in the county of Ohio; which bill with the amendments was heretofore laid upon the table; and the same being read, were agreed to by the house.
Ordered, that the clerk acquaint the senate therewith.
An engrossed bill, For removing the district court from the Sweet Springs to the town of Lewisburg in the county of Greenbrier, was read a third time and passed the house—Ayes 78—Noes 71.
Ordered, that the clerk carry the said bills to the senate and desire their concurrence.
The house, according to the order of the day, resolved itself into a committee of the whole house on the bill, To amend the judiciary system; and after some time spent therein, Mr. Speaker resumed the chair and Mr. Tazewell reported, that the committee of the whole house had, according to order, had the said bill under consideration, and made several amendments thereto, but not having time to go through the same, had directed him to move for leave to sit again.
Resolved therefore, that this house will again to-morrow resolve itself into a committee of the whole house, to take into consideration the aforesaid bill.
Friday, January 17.
A communication from the senate by their clerk.
The senate have passed the bill, Forming a new county out of certain parts of Montgomery, Monroe & Tazewell counties.—And their committee have examined several other enrolled bills, and having reported them to be truly enrolled, they have been signed by the speaker.
The engrossed bills, To incorporate a library company in the county of Rockingham, was read a third time, and passed—and, Remitting certain fines to John and Thomas Warren, (which lay on the table) was called up, and read a third time, and passed.
Ordered, that the clerk carry the said bills to the senate and desire their concurrence.
A bill, Concerning the navigation of James river, was read a second time and amended at the clerk's table; a motion was made further to amend the said bill by adding after the following words, to wit, "The excess of the said profit beyond fifteen per centum per annum shall be paid by the president of the company into the public treasury within thirty days from the time of declaring such dividend." the following words, to wit, "For the so use of the commonwealth."—A motion was then made to amend the proposed amendment, by adding by way of substitute for it, a clause in the following words, to wit, "When the tolls received by the company shall have produced to them fifteen per cent. per annum on the capital they shall have expended in deepening the channel and improving the navigation of the river, the tolls shall be so reduced and regulated from time to time, as to produce to the company an annual dividend not exceeding fifteen per cent. per annum." The question being put upon the said substitute to the original amendment—it passed in the negative. The question being then put upon the said amendment it was agreed to by the house—Ayes 121—Noes 23.
Saturday, January 18.
A communication from the Senate by their clerk.
The Senate have passed the bill, Establishing several new feries and increasing the rates of former ones, with an amendment to the title thereof, to which they request the concurrence of the House of Delegates.
The house proceeded to consider the said amendment, and the same being read, was agreed to by the house—Ordered, that the clerk acquaint the Senate therewith.
An engrossed bill, Concerning the navigation of James river—and an engrossed bill, Mere effectually to enforce the payment of certain fines into the public treasury, were severally read a third time and passed.
The house proceeded to consider the third amendment of the Senate to the bill, Amending the act, entitled, an act, authorising the erection of mills on Little Kanawha river, and the same being read, was agreed to by the house.
The house proceeded to consider the Senate's amendments to the bill, Providing for the erection of offices for the district courts, and for reimbursing certain expenses incurred by the clerks thereof—and the same being read, a motion was made to postpone the same to the 31st of March next, which was agreed to by the house.
A bill appointing trustees of the estate of James Ridd, for the purposes therein mentioned, was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.
Mr. Stannard presented according to order a bill to amend the act entitled an act to amend and explain the act concerning public roads; a bill incorporating a company for uniting the Upper Navigation of James river, with tide water on the Chesterfield shore; & a bill incorporating a company for cutting a navigable canal from Roanoke river to side water at Petersburg.
Mr. Semple presented according to order, a bill to establish the University of Virginia; and a bill to open a subscription for the benefit of the University of Virginia.
Mr. Aylett presented according to order a bill giving further powers to the overseers of the poor in certain cases, which bills were severally received and ordered to be laid on the table.
NEIL M'COULL, Has received by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, HIS USUAL SUPPLY OF Fall & Winter Goods. Richmond, 18th October, 1805.

NEW-YORK, Jan. 11. About one o'clock this morning, the ship Cato, Snow, arrived in 40 days passage from Liverpool. Capt. Snow has obligingly favored the Editor of the Mercantile Advertiser with London papers to the 26th November, from which the following articles are extracted.
LONDON, Nov. 25. We are still without any arrivals from the Continent either of French papers or Hamburg mails.
Government has at length received dispatches announcing the disembarkation at Cuxhaven of the troops sent out under the command of gen. Don. They were brought by the Leopard, of 50 guns, which, after conveying the transports to the Elbe, returned to the Downs on Friday. The fleet, consisting of nearly 90 sail, arrived in the Elbe on Friday, sevnigh, and the troops and horses were landed with all possible dispatch. Altho' the expedition experienced some heavy gales, the men were disembarked in excellent health & spirits. The most sanguine hopes are entertained that the force sent out will be augmented by a numerous body of Hanoverians, for the levy of which large bounties were to be given, & a supply of arms and clothing was sent by the expedition.
The second expedition destined for the Continent is expected to sail in the course of a fortnight.
We are assured by a person connected with the Prussian Legation, that the Prussian troops in readiness for service, who are assembling at different points, amount to nearly 250 000 men. It is added, that count Haugwitz, in the event of Bonaparte being willing to entertain the terms proposed to him by the Cabinet of Berlin, for the restoration of peace, is to demand a general suspension of arms.
We hear, on the authority of a letter from Munich, dated the 2d instant, that a strong Gallo-Bavarian corps, had by a circuitous march, turned the important pass of Scharnitz in the Tyrol. It is also mentioned, that a body of Austrian troops carried into Bohemia by the Archduke Ferdinand had made a successful incursion into the neighborhood of Hirschau, and made 400 prisoners.
Bonaparte, anxious to draw all his troops from the south of Italy, has acknowledged the neutrality of Etruria, as well as of Naples. Some English vessels had, in consequence, sailed from Malta for Leghorn.
A new levy of twelve thousand men has been ordered in the Austrian states; and the roads from Vienna to the army are crowded with reinforcements from Hungary and Bohemia.
The Elector of Bavaria is resolved to accompany Bonaparte on his march; he first joined him at Muhlendorf, and has since moved with the head quarters.
We are still in a state of uncertainty respecting the part which Prussia may ultimately take. Letters from Berlin, have brought the important intelligence that count Haugwitz one of the Cabinet Ministers, left that capital on the 11th, for the head quarters of Bonaparte, for the purpose, as it is stated, of renewing propositions for the re-establishment of a general peace. This mission is stated to have been concerted between the Emperor of Russia and the King of Prussia at Potsdam, and to have taken place with the consent of the Emperor of Germany.
Government has determined to send to the Continent the greatest British force that has ever been employed in Germany. The expedition under the command of gen. Don will be followed by at least 50 000 troops, of which one fifth will be cavalry.
The Duke of York has been actually appointed Commander in Chief of all our forces on the Continent, and the Duke of Cambridge is to have the Chief Command of the Cavalry—under the Duke of York, of course.
Price of Stocks this day at one o'Clock. Consols 60 1-8—Reduced 59 1-2—Omnium 6.
NORFOLK, January 15. The following extract of a letter was put into our hands by a mercantile friend of this place, the writer is a captain of an American vessel, well known to the editor of this paper, for his candor and veracity, and one who would not complain without cause, or exaggerate British depredations.
The letter is dated Antigua, 28th December. "It was fortunate that I had not sold, & purchased a return cargo at Martinique, as much loss to you, and anxiety to me have been avoided. It would have been impossible for me to have eluded the vigilance of the British cruizers in these seas. A system has been adopted here, the most iniquitous in itself, and ruinous to our trade that can be imagined. Every American vessel coming from a French island, with cargo, is certain to be carried in, because the courts in every case, make us pay all expenses. I have informed myself fully on the subject, and know that the privateers out of this island are ordered to bring every vessel from a French port, with cargo, in for trial, stating that matters are settled between the court and them that the expenses shall be paid in all cases by the Americans."
"The abuses to which we are subjected are intolerable; a junta consisting of the Judge, the Lawyers, the owners of privateers, and those who become our friends, when we are brought in, have laid their heads together to fleece us—we are sure to be put to great expense, the amount of which the gentlemen share between them. They appear to us to be opposed to each other, but they know how to divide the spoil. I got my information from one of the party, and what I see every day confirms the information I have received. It is a fact that several American vessels have been sent in here whose papers were never looked at, by those who sent them in—They were ordered to send them in, without regard to papers or documents, for the reasons before stated."
VIRGINIA ARGUS.
RICHMOND: TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1806.
RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT. CORRECTED WEEKLY.
 Tobacco, 33s Cash.  Wheat, 7s do.  Flour, fine, 35s do.  Flour, superfine, 39s do.  Corn, 18s do.  Hemp, (clean) £ 55 do.  Iron, £ 36 do.  Whiskey, 3s 9d do. 
MORE GLORIOUS NEWS.
By the Norfolk mail of Saturday, (says the Petersburg Republican of yesterday) letters were received in town, containing intelligence of the first importance to the United States. They state the arrival at that place of a vessel in a very short passage from England, with positive information, that all differences between this country and Great Britain had been amicably and honorably settled. If the intelligence is correct; that an accommodation has been effected, we know enough of the character of Mr. Monroe, to hazard a conjecture, that Americans will not have cause again to blush for the prostration of the national dignity.
The proposition for amending the State Constitution was yesterday taken up in the house of Delegates; and after an animated debate of several hours continuance, the subject was postponed to the 31st day of March next.
The Legislature of South Carolina adjourned on the 19th ult. after passing 36 laws, many of them of a private nature. In the number is one calculated to produce great public advantage, on the subject of inland navigation, by which the sum of 54 000 dollars is appropriated, and divided among the several large rivers throughout the state. South Carolina is well able to make this patriotic appropriation, for, on the 1st of October last, she had, in her treasury, in the funds of the United States, and in the State Bank, unappropriated, the sum of 767 474 dollars.
William & Mary College Lottery.
The redrawing of the Lottery commenced at Norfolk on Wednesday last, when out of fifty tickets drawn, the following were prizes: Prizes of 500 dollars—Nos. 111, (first drawn) 5177 3692 1208. Prizes of 10 dollars—Nos. 2607 377 4230 4915 1588 7406 166 7332.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
Extract from the JOURNAL of the SENATE, DECEMBER 17th, 1805.
Resolved that the members of this house entertain a high sense of the distinguished abilities of CREED TAYLOR, Esq. lately their Speaker, and feel particularly grateful for his useful services as a member, and for the able, judicious and impartial manner in which he performed the duties of Speaker;
Resolved therefore, that the thanks of the Senate be presented to him as a small testimony of its respect for his character, together with its best wishes for his future happiness and prosperity both in private and public life.
Agreed to by the Senate. THEO. HANSFORD, C. S.
JANUARY 1st, 1806.
Mr. Munford reported, from the committee appointed to communicate to Creed Taylor, Esquire, the resolutions of this House, respecting his conduct and services as a Member and Speaker thereof, that the committee had, according to order, communicated to him the said resolutions, and had received from him the following answer:—
To William Munford, Isaac H. Coles, and Robert G. Rabb, Esquires. Gentlemen,
The resolutions of the senate, of the 17th instant, which you did me the honor to inclose under cover of that date, have been this moment received. They are peculiarly pleasing to me at this time. I confess a want of expression to convey the very grateful sentiments which they inspire. At a very early period of my life I formed an attachment to the elective principle of republican government: upon this great principle, all the constitutional parts of republican government depend: it is (preserved unadulterated) to a free government, what a pendulum is to a clock. My fellow citizens, among whom I was raised, knew my attachment to these principles: for when they were assailed by an administration, that threatened their destruction, in 1798, I was called upon by the republicans, to come forward as a candidate for the Senate—to have stood by like an idle spectator, at that time, would have been criminal—their call I obeyed. It was in opposition to a gentleman of different political principles, and in the spring of that year I was elected. Thus was I placed upon the floor of the Senate. When my term expired, I was re-elected, without opposition, in the spring of 1802—and in the two last sessions, I was called upon to preside over the deliberations of the House. I considered these things as the best evidence that my past conduct had been highly satisfactory to my constituents, as well as to those among whom I then served. Inspired with this high testimony of public confidence, I had no other wish to gratify, than to obey, at any time, the call of my country. Having briefly stated how I came into the Se-
nate, with your permission, gentlemen, I will as briefly state how I have been taken from it. Early in November last, a public messenger called upon me, at my own house, with a letter from the Governor, in which was inclosed a commission, issued by the unanimous advice of council, appointing me one of the judges of the general court, subject to the approbation of the legislature, under a provision in the constitution. As I was in a profession that yielded me annually more than twice the salary of a judge, you may reasonably suppose, I hesitated; and particularly as this was the first knowledge I had of the appointment. Thus hesitating between private interest, and public duty, I determined the former should give way to the latter; and that although the legislature was not positively bound to confirm the appointment, yet from the confidence which should be reposed in the Executive acts, done in pursuance of the constitution , I might safely rely, under all circumstances, upon the legislature for a confirmation of it: under this impression I noticed the executive of my acceptance—repaired to the seat of government, and served in the succeeding court—Was I not right? By this act of my own I have been taken from among you. From any other cause I should have been mortified. Upon the rising of the court, I returned home, where I staid until I was informed of the decision of the legislature, in the appointment of another gentleman, by a majority of thirteen votes—I then went to the federal court. But as I did not obtain the appointment under any anxiety of mind, I have not lost it under any mortification. The conduct of many of my late constituents upon this occasion deserve my warmest approbation. They were anxious for my re-election, & the candidates offered politely to withdraw, to insure it, without opposition: conduct like this, could but inspire me with sentiments of gratitude and respect for them, not easily to be described; they all received my thanks, and I declined it. The evidence of their confidence, followed by the resolutions of the Senate, declaring the high sense the members of that body, entertain of my past services, on the floor and in the chair, as speaker, will not be received "as a small testimony of its respect" for my character; but as the most signal proof of their confidence and esteem, with which, at this time I could be honored. It is the more gratifying to me, because it comes from that branch of the government where I have served for the last seven years. Allow me, gentlemen, to assure you, that no act of my country shall ever shake my attachment to it; and, whether among my fellow citizens, in private life, or placed remotely from them, in any public station, I will forever support those principles of democratic republicanism which should always be dear to my country, and from which I believe I have never deviated. In doing this I shall always admire the government best calculated to insure equal rights upon just and equitable principles. I pray you, gentlemen, to present me affectionately to the Senate, and assure them, if you please, of the very high sense I entertain of them, individually and collectively; and that with unfeigned sentiments of esteem, I beg leave to reciprocate the very friendly and affectionate terms which they have been pleased to express, in their resolutions for me. Accept too, my cordial thanks for the friendly part you have acted upon this occasion—And believe me, that each member of the Senate carries with him my best wishes for his future happiness and prosperity both in private and in public life.
CREED TAYLOR.
Cumberland County, } Needham, Dec. 27, 1805. }
FOR THE VIRGINIA ARGUS.
Mr. Pleasants,
BELIEVING that the happiness of the virtuous and innocent of every country, depends much on the government of the system of morality; I am induced to become the feeble advocate for truth and justice, against those of licentiousness and error—and whenever, sir, virtue and good order shall be exploded or attempted, whenever vice shall be tolerated, and the foundation of morality totter & tumble by peace meal down, where can greater glory be acquired, than in reinstating every fallen stone? Called upon by a writer in your last paper, under the sign of "Civis," to exercise the right which every freeman enjoys, of taking one side of every question, I must beg permission to say a word in reply. I had supposed that there was not a rational and civilized being, who could really entertain a doubt as to the pernicious consequences of gambling—much less that there could be found in our country an individual, who, with the boldness of "Civis," would dare to recommend to the legislature its patronage and toleration. I am now, and ever shall be prepared to vote towards its my utmost destruction, whether I view it as a lurking snare, to catch the ignorant or unwary, or as the key stone to corruption—I therefore do say that gaming is a vice, and deserves punishment; but I also say that it would be improper to punish it by all means, and at any rate, since there are improper modes of enforcing obedience to the purest and wisest laws. It cannot be thought right or wise to punish vice by oppression, and the exercise of unconstitutional authority; much less to sanction it because it would be profitable and fashionable—and yet if the opinions of Civis are correct, one or the other should be done.
CITIZEN.
The Ticket No. 3929, which on Wednesday last drew the 30,000 dollar prize in New-York, is held and owned by Mr. James Jarvis, shoemaker, No. 51, Maiden-lane, who, we are informed, is an industrious, worthy citizen. The ticket was sold by G. and R. Waits.
At a meeting of the members residing in the town of Fredericksburg, of the Mutual Insurance Company, against Fire on goods and furniture, in the state of Virginia, at William Herndon's tavern, in the said town, on Monday the 13th day of January, 1806, to take into consideration the late calls which have been made by the President and Directors of the said Company, for two quotas, of which notice was received only since the tenth of the present month.
GEORGE FRENCH, in the Chair.
Resolved unanimously, That the calls for two full quotas, one on the first day of October, 1804, the other on the first day of October, 1805, by the President and Directors of the Mutual Insurance Company against Fire on goods and furniture in the state of Virginia, or its members, without exhibiting any statement of the Company's affairs, or showing any necessity for such calls, is improper and ought not to be complied with at this time, as no losses are stated to have occurred to render such calls necessary, but on the contrary, that they can only be made with a view to objects unconnected with the primitive principles of the corporation, and therefore that we will resist the payment thereof until some explanation and statement shall be exhibited, proving the necessity of such requisitions. Resolved, That the Chairman be requested to transmit a copy of the proceedings of this meeting to Gen. John Minor and Col. H. T. Mercer, with a request, that they will present them to the President and Directors of the Mutual Insurance Company against fire on goods and furniture in the state of Virginia; and that the Chairman do also cause them to be made public in the city of Richmond, and towns of Norfolk and Petersburg, for the consideration of the members of the said Company in those places; who, it is hoped, will take the subjects thereof under consideration, and, if necessary, concur with this meeting in the constitutional mode of calling a general meeting, for the purpose of in-
vestigating the objects, if any, which have induced the said calls. Signed by order of the meeting. GEORGE FRENCH, Chairman.
ON CALUMNY.
BURNT is the piece, forget the author's name; That dares to hurt a good man's honest fame; Alarms the virtuous breast with causeless fear; Or draws from innocence a single tear; Whose poisonous age invents the dire disgrace, And spreads the blush upon the modest face; What tho' with flow'ry words the line be fraught, With keenest wit and finest turn of thought; What though, the reader's nicer ear to sooth, Well tim'd the pause, the numbers soft & smooth; Thus, dipp'd in balm, the polished razors found With greater ease to give the deeper wound.
THE RIDDLE OF THE SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO THE LATE EDITION OF THE
Debates of the Convention,
Published by Messrs. Ritchie & Worsley and Augustine Davis, having been transferred by those gentlemen to Samuel Pleasants, Jun. subscribers will please to take notice, that the books will be delivered by him (only) in Richmond, and by such persons as he may appoint for the purpose in other places.
Sales at Auction.
WILL be Sold, at Public Auction, on Tuesday the 28th inst. at the late dwelling house of Andrew M'Kim, deceased, All his Household & Kitchen Furniture, & one valuable Cow. Terms of sale—cash for all sums under ten dollars, for all over that sum nine months credit will be allowed, on giving bond and approved security. Robert M'Kim, } Adm'rs. Alex'r. M'Kim, } Richmond, Jan 17th, 1806. id N. B. The HOUSE of the deceased to be rented.
The subscriber has for sale, on reasonable terms—several
Threshing Machines,
Of the best kind: they thresh out with ease from seventy to eighty bushels of grain in a day with two horses and five hands. Gentlemen who wish to purchase will please to send letters to Farmville in Prince Edward county, directed to Sw Wm. S. Walton.
Notice.
ON account of the great increase of the Insurance, the revaluations, reforming the books, &c. we could not finish the general settlement until this day—the general meeting of the members of the Mutual Assurance Society against fire on buildings of the state of Virginia has been adjourned, and will be held next Tuesday the 21st instant, at 11 o'clock, A. M. in the Committee Room, on the North corner of the Capitol.
W. F. Ast, principal agent. Richmond, 17th Jan. 1806.
NOTICE.
THE Court of Appeals having decided, that the Lottery for the benefit of William and Mary College should be redrawn, the commissioners thereof notify the Public, that they have accordingly, taken measures to carry the same into effect: that every precaution has been used, which was necessary to conduct the Lottery to a fair and speedy conclusion, and that the drawing will commence on Wednesday the 15th inst. at the Exchange Coffee-House, in the Borough of Norfolk: And in order that as complete justice as the cases will admit, may be done to adventurers in the Lottery, it is hereby further notified,
1st. That the holders of Tickets, which have been received in payment of prizes supposed to be drawn, have it in their option, either to pay for the same, or to return them to Mr. Greenhow, a Williamsburg, or to Mr. Newsun, in New-York, on or before the commencement of the drawing.
2d. That in cases where Tickets were sold for more than ten dollars, the surplus, if received, shall, on application, be refunded; or, such tickets may be returned to the Commissioners above named, on or before the time last mentioned. Tickets may be had of Mr. Greenhow in Williamsburg, and of Mr. Newsun, in Norfolk. (Signed) On behalf of the Commissioners, JAMES MADISON, Chairman. Williamsburg, January 7, 1806. 32
A few TICKETS in the
William & Mary College Lottery, now drawing in Norfolk, for sale at this office
FOR SALE,
THE HOUSE and LOT, on Shockoe Hill, lately occupied by Mr. William Berkeley, and at present occupied by Mr. Andrew Treuth. For terms, apply to Will. W. Dickinson. Richmond, 14th Jan. 1806. 4w
Lost or Mislaid,
ROBERT ANDERSON's acceptance to Richard Anderson's order on him in our favor (in favor of John Hobson, jr. at present it is not collected, which for thirty-seven pounds ten shillings, dated 27th May, 1805. All persons are cautioned against trading for the same, as proper steps have been taken to prevent the payment to any but the subscribers. Hobson & St. John. New-Canton, 13th Jan 1806. 6w
Buckingham County.
I owe more furniture all persons from taking an assignment, or trading for two BONDS of mine, executed to John Hardy; one for five hundred dollars and made payable in the month of April, 1806—the other for 100 dollars, and payable in the month of August, 1806; the said Hardy having failed to comply with his bond executed to me for a title to a certain tract of land. David Patterson. January 13th, 1806. 32
Notice.
PROPOSITIONS will be received by the Executive, for the purchase of EIGHT CONDEMNED NEGROES, reprieved for transportation, under the act "to empower the Governor to transport slaves condemned, when it shall be deemed expedient." HENING'S
New Virginia Justice,
Containing the Duties of a Justice of Peace, together with a variety of useful precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, ease, re-lease, mortgage, trust, &c. FOR SALE at S. PLEASANTS' BOOK-STORE

BOLTING CLOTHS. M c B. MYERS have just received a fresh supply of Dutch BOLTING CLOTHS of the best quality, which renders their assortment complete. They have also received their assortment of Fall & Fancy Goods, And a quantity of best three stranded SEINE TWINE. G.B. 29.
WANTED, as House-keeper in a large family, an elderly Lady, who can come well recommended. Liberal wages will be given. Enquire of the printer. Nov 6, 1805.
THE subscribers offer for sale, their reversionary right in a new Fire-proof Warehouse on Maxwell's wharf, in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Dr. John K. Read, dec. as his Uppermost Warehouse . In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate.
MERIWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. Oct. 26, 1805. It is probable that I may leave this estate ere long, in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorised to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ.
Fall & Winter Goods. The subscribers have received, and are now opening a considerable part of their WOOLLENS; Among which are Bales of assorted Rose & Duffil Blankets, Do. Nap'd Cottons, Do. Yarn & Plaid Hose, Do. White & Coloured Plains, Do. Kerseys & Halfthicks, Do. 6-4 & 7-4 Coatings, plain and strip'd, Do. Cloths, assorted colours and prices, Do. Forrest Cloths, Boxes Men's Hats assorted prices, Irish Linens, Long Lawns, Diapers, &c. Also—An assortment of HARDWARE, CUTLERY and NAILS. In addition to which, they daily expect on the arrival of the Suffolk from London, a large assortment of FASHIONABLE GOODS, Which will be offered for sale on their usual terms. GILLIAT & KIRBY. October 4, 1805.
Forty Dollars Reward. RUN away from the subscriber living in Granville county, North Carolina, in March last, two bright mulatto fellows; one by the name of BARTLEY , about 35 years of age, has but little to say, and appears to be very humble; he is a tolerable good Shoemaker and Cooper, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, and he is a well set negro. GEORGE is about 23 years of age, about 6 feet high, spare made, but a very active negro, fond of drink, and a very forward saucy fellow. I expect they have obtained free passes and will endeavor to pass for free negroes; it is probable they are lurking a bout Manchester, Richmond or Petersburg; they were seen in Manchester a few days past. Any person taking them up and confining them in jail so that I get them, shall have the above reward, or 20 dollars for either, paid by the subscriber. LEWIS HENING. June 5th, 1805.
The subscriber wishes to sell for cash, or on credit till the first day of January next, the Two Brick Tenements, Adjoining the house of Mr. Benjamin Mosby. JOHN PENDLETON. City of Richmond, Nov. 10th, 1804. 2w
Geo. Watt HAS removed from the store he formerly occupied to a brick house on the cross street leading from the main street to Shockoe warehouse, where he was on hand and offers to dispose of on moderate terms, by wholesale, The following Articles, viz: Loaf and Muscovado Sugars, N. England, W. Island, and Antigua Rum, Cognac, Barcelona and Apple Brandy, Sherry and Malaga Wine, Coffee of a superior quality, Molasses, Ginger and Fig Blue, Young Hysan and Imperial Tea, 400 Sacks Liverpool Salt, Patent Shot, assorted sizes—And The remainder of his Stock of Dry Goods, consisting principally of articles suited to the present and approaching season, which he will either sell on a credit of 3, 6 and 9 months, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorsers, or barter for Tobacco, Flour or Hemp. Cash given for Tobacco. Richmond, 22d March, 1805.
To be Rented, A NEW BRICK HOUSE, two stories high, with dormer windows, with eight fire places in each tenement. The house was built to accommodate two families. It lies on the main street, on Shockoe hill, a little above Major Wolfe's Wm. DU-VAL. December 16, 1805
S. JACOBS HAS FOR SALE, GUN POWDER of superior quality, by the Keg. S. J. Ratters himself that from his attention in procuring this article only of an excellent quality and the reasonable rate at which he sells it—he will not only merit a continuation of his customers, but be enabled to supply (much to their satisfaction) all those who are in the habit of retailing it. October 29th, 1805. tf
ADVERTISEMENT. WILL be sold, agreeable to law, at Henrico May court, if not claimed before that time, the following Tobacco, which has been deposited in Shockoe Warehouse, over two years. Tt. No. 2528, 129, 1180, Lynch's inspection. No MK 865, 149, 1265, Cannon's ditto. W W 164, 152, 1176, Tye river, ditto. S W 32, 157, 1245, Deane's ditto. No MK 635, 152, 1213, ditto ditto. MOSBY & YOUNG. Richmond, Jan. 8, 1806. 2w
The Celebrated running horse, Peace Maker, Will stand the ensuing year at Smith Paine's in Buckingham, within 2 miles of New Canton. The owner had contemplated running him again the ensuing spring; but believing him to be seriously incapacitated at this time to distinguish himself upon the turf, owing to an excessive hard founder, which he experienced a few months previous to his race with Florizel, but after the match was made between them, has declined running him again; he will be shown at the following courthouses during the March term of each court, viz: Buckingham, Goochland, Cumberland & Powhatan. His pedigree and performances, together with a more general advertisement in relation to him, will be furnished in due season. December 25th, 1805. 4w
Fashionable Goods. Ready made White Sattin Pelises various dark coloured silk do. Florence Silk and Sattin Spencers elegant Souffle Dresses Rich Brocades and Figured Sattins Plain & figured Lenau and Pique Muslins A handsome variety of plain, check'd and strip'd Sarsens Ladies' Tabour'd Neck Handkerchiefs Lace Sleeves and Shoulder Ornaments; Which, with a general assortment of Seasonable Goods, are offered for sale, at moderate prices, by M c B. MYERS. Richmond, 24th Dec. 1805. tf
ROBERT GREENHOW, MERCHANT in Williamsburg, returns his thanks to his good customers, and the public in general, for the support and encouragement he has experienced during the whole of his mercantile career. His time of life, and extensive dealings, renders it now absolutely necessary, that a retrospect should be taken; that he should in a measure withdraw from business, and seriously set about the winding up of his past concerns. To accomplish which, he now entreats all those in arrears, either by specialties or open accounts, to favor him so far, on the presentation of their respective debits, to come forward, & make payments; or give him satisfactory assurances, that on or before the year eighteen hundred and seven, such should be made. From and after the 1st day of the ensuing year, the business of the store will devolve wholly on ROSCOW COLE , for whose conduct in every respect, he can from long experience, vouch. It will be conducted under the firm of GREENHOW & COLE , and if not on the extensive scale that it has heretofore been, it will be generally found supplied with such articles as are most in demand—which being at all times purchased with CASH, will be disposed of for Cash, such PRODUCE as may suit, AND ON CREDIT ONLY to PUNCTUAL CUSTOMERS, on as low terms as possible. ROSCOW COLE begs leave to assure all those who may favor him with their custom, that no exertion on his part shall be wanting, to give satisfaction. That late, oreally, he will (if health permits) be ever ready to attend the demands of customers, and endeavor to deserve, the PATRONAGE of the PUBLIC. Williamsburg, Dec. 20th 1805. 1f
Manchester Turnpike Company. NINTH REQUISITION. THE shareholders of said company are hereby required to pay into the hands of James Brander, Treasurer, the additional sum of ten dollars on each share, on or before the 8th day of February next.
Delinquent Shares on former Requisitions. NOTICE is hereby given, that all the shares upon which there shall appear to be due delinquencies of former requisitions, will be offered for sale, at Mr. Brooks's Tavern, in Manchester, on the 11th day of February next, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon. By order of the Directors, JAMES BRANDER, clk. December 24, 1805. td
To be Rented, FOR one or more years, together or separately, Two Fire Proof BRICK TENEMENTS, in the back street near the basin, and adjoining the warehouses occupied by Messrs. Taliaferro & Dickinson. They are suitable for warehouses or stores, and will be fitted up with counting rooms and shelves to suit the tenants. JOHN WICKHAM. December 24, 1805. 5w
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber, by Jacob Maddox, of Buckingham county, to secure the payment of a debt due to James Murphy & Co therein expressed, will certainly be SOLD, to the highest bidder, on Saturday the first day of February next, at New-Market, in Amherst county, before the store door of the said James Murphy & Co.
The Following Property, to wit: Lucy and her two children, Milly and Nancy, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to discharge the said debt, with interest and charges. John Higginbotham, Trustee. Warminster, Dec. 25th, 1805. 4w
The sale of the above property is postponed until Saturday the 22d of February next, at which time and place it will certainly be sold, on the terms above mentioned; the postponement is in consequence of the above not appearing in the Virginia Argus in time so as to give the 30 days previous notice required by the deed in trust. John Higginbotham, trustee. January 13th, 1806.
RAN AWAY, from the subscriber residing in the county of Campbell, JAMES, a mulatto slave, sold by Mr. Thomas Taylor of Richmond, to Doctor Patterson, of Buckingham, and now the property of the subscriber: also, HARRIET, the wife of James, a black woman, about twenty years old. James had on when he went away, a green short coat & a smooth leather hat. The woman carried off with her several suits of clothes. She has some connexions amongst the negroes of Mr. Adams, of Richmond, and it is expected, they are both lurking in or about town. Whoever will deliver the said slaves to the subscriber, or lodge them in some jail of this commonwealth, and give such information that the subscriber may get them again, shall receive a liberal reward. THOMAS JONES. December 17th, 1805. 3w
TAKEN up as a runaway, on the 30th Decem- ber, 1805, and committed to Hanover jail, a negro man named BOB, who says he belongs to Th. Epps, living in Nottoway county. The owner is desired to apply, pay charges and take him away. HENRY H. VAUGHAN, Jailor. Jan. 4, 1806. 4w
SLANK BONDS For sale at this office.
FOR SALE, ON Wednesday the 25th day of February next (being court day for the county of Hanover) at the courthouse of that county, a TRACT OF LAND , heretofore under a mortgage to Christopher Tompkins and others, and by him purchased under a decree of the honorable the superior court of chancery, by law directed to be held at the capitol in the city of Richmond, subject to the dower of Nancy Burras, who was the widow of Richard Littlepage, on a foreclosure of the mortgage from whom, the same was decreed to be sold in and by the same decree. Four hundred and sixty-four acres are the estimated content of the said land. It afforded a residence for the said Richard Littlepage and his family at the time of his death, and among other advantages was the seat of a well accustomed grist mill, now decayed for want of repairs, tho' the dam may be repaired at a small expense; but as purchasers or those inclining to be such, will probably view the premises, a description at greater length is purposely avoided. The incumbrance arising from the dower of the said Nancy Burras is not yet removed; but with that incumbrance only, a good title will be conveyed to the purchaser in fee. The sale will be made on credit, the purchaser giving bonds for the purchase money, at three instalments, to wit: a bond for one third thereof, payable the first day of May next; one for another third, payable on the first day of January, 1807; and one for the balance, payable on the same day in 1808; all with security, to be then approved, by CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS. King Wm 30th Dec 1805. 3w
To Rent, AND possession given the first of January next, a HOUSE and LOT , situated near the Rock Landing. Enquire of Joseph Gallego. December 7, 1805. tf
ALL who have claims against the estate of Nathaniel Venable, dec. or against the companies lately transacting business under the firm of Venable & Venable , or Venable & Womack , are requested to make them known to me, as I design shortly to distribute the estate of the said Nat. Venable, exr among his legatees. RICH'D. N. VENABLE, Exr of Natl. Venable, sen. Prince Edward, Jan. 2, 1806. 3w
General Office of Insurance. JANUARY 8th, 1806. The general meeting of the Mutual Insurance Company against Fire on Goods and Furniture, in the state of Virginia, which took place this day, agreeably to notice previously given, in the public papers, was too thin, to authorise any proceedings, as to the general concerns of the company. The meeting was therefore adjourned until 10 o'clock in the morning of Tuesday the fourth day of next month. As the affairs of the company are in such a state as to require imperiously, immediate attention, and as most of the members are now liable to incur all the disadvantages of the institution, without possibility of being, in any degree, benefited by it, it should any accident occur to them, it is earnestly hoped, as a matter of the first consequence to their individual interests, that they will be pointed in attending the said meeting, either personally or by proxy. Wm. H. Fitzwhylson, P. Agent. Richmond tdm
Land for Sale. IN pursuance of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by William Hall, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, due to James Bruce, will be sold, at auction, for ready money, on the premises, on Saturday the 25th day of January, 1806, a certain TRACT OF LAND , in the county of Halifax, containing by estimation one hundred and forty acres, and bounded by the lands of Obadiah Kent, William Kent & John Bentley. A particular description of this land and improvements is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed no person would purchase without first viewing it. Adam Toot. December 23, 1805. wids
DISTRICT OF VIRGINIA TO WIT: BE it remembered, that on the ninth day of January, in the nineteenth year of the Independence of the United States of America, John Seabrook of the said district, hath deposited in this office the title of a Map or Plan of the City of Richmond, the right whereof he claims as author in the words following to wit: "A Map, or Plan of the City of Richmond, By JOHN SEABROOK." In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States, entitled "An act for the encouragement of learning by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the term therein mentioned." Wm. Marshall, Clerk of Virginia District.
Ten Dollars Reward, FOR apprehending & delivering to the subscribers in New Kent county, near Providence Forge, a negro man named JACK, a stout made low negro, about 24 years of age, of yellowish complexion; he was hired the last year to Messrs. Heth & Nicholson, and has never returned home since his discharge from them. John H. & Jones R. Christian. New-Kent, Jan. 12, 1806. 2m
Subscribers to PINKERTON'S MODERN GEOGRAPHY, who have not yet received their Books, are respectfully informed that they are ready for delivery at this Office. (1.)
FOR SALE, MY tract of land, in Goochland County, on the waters of Lickinghole Creek, about 43 miles from Richmond and six miles from Carteretville; containing about 600 acres, of which 50 acres are creek low grounds, the greater part of which is well ditched. About two thirds of the land is cleared and in good order for cropping, with all necessary houses for a family and a farm. For terms apply to me on the premises, or to Mr. Arch'd Bryee, Jr. William Britt. Goochland, Dec. 18, 1805. wbt
Foolscap & Letter Paper For sale at this office.
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, First quality Jamaica Sagar Second do Santa Cruz ditto First and second quality loaf ditto Best green coffee Old Antigua Rum New England ditto Cognac Brandy Peach ditto Hollands Gin Caldwell, Fraser and Co's superfine Chocolate Fresh London mustard Basket, Salt, Pepper, White Ginger, Pimento and Nutmegs Martinique Noyau Box Raisins and Currants Citron Soft shell Almonds Raisins Madder & ground Ginger in small kegs Lewcock Turkey Cotton Best flannel Indigo A general assortment of STONE & EARTHEN WARE. New-York Candles & Soap Madeira, Port, Sherry, Teneriffe and Malaga Wine China Bowls from 1 to 6 quarts Tea and coffee Cups & Saucers Cut Jelly Glasses Pint, half pint and gilt Tumblers Quart, pint and half pint Decanters Green and white Quart and pint Pocket Bottles Henry the VIII and Merry Andrew Cards Imperial, Young Hysan and Souchoong Tea FF and F Gun Powder Patent Shot assorted Flos. Leiper's Snuff Patent Night Lamps Liverpoor Stoved Salt in Sacks and Loose Pickled Salmon and Mackerel in half barrels EXPECTED, A quantity of common N. E. and Bullocks CHEESE. November 25th, 1805. wtf
Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale, 950 acres of that valuable tract of LAND, belonging to the late col. Bernard Markham, dec. about three miles above Manchester and lying upon the river affording several very convenient mill seats; this tract possesses many advantages which would be considerable to a purchaser. It is now under high cultivation, inclosed in a good fence and well watered; two thirds of the above tract is covered with valuable timber, and lies convenient either to the turnpike or river. The above land if not disposed of privately, prior to the 1st day of May, will then be offered at public auction, on the premises, in lots to suit purchasers. Any person wishing to view it, will be shown it by the subscriber, or in his absence by William Bowles residing thereon. George Markham. December 24th, 1805. wtmay
IN CHANCERY. Thomas Crutcher and Seabert Crutcher, children of Wm. Crutcher, dec. Charles Foshee and Lucy his wife, Benj. Ficklin and Susanna his wife, John Foshee and Sarah his wife, Elizabeth Sneed, widow of Fielding Sneed, dec. Coleman Crutcher, Wm. Crutcher and Robert Crutcher, children of Hugh Crutcher, dec. Henry Crutcher, Margaret Turrenton, Mary Sneed, Lunford Pitts and Elizabeth his wife, and Sarah Crutcher, plaintiffs. AGAINST Thomas Crutcher, exr of Thomas Crutcher, dec. Richard Sale, Reuben Chapman, Christopher Blackburn, Ambrose Blackburn, Leonard Click, Charles Howerton, admr. of Leonard Crutcher, dec. Lucretia Gran, widow of Jesse Gran, dec. George Isbell and Thomas Crutcher, of Sarah Crutcher, dec. defendants. That on Saturday, being the 5th day of April, we shall attend at Toomer's Old Tavern, in Caroline county, between the hours of 10 and 4, to take the depositions of Marke Bolewate, Henry Motley, John Anderson and John Vaughan, to be read in court as witnesses. Thomas Crutcher. Seabert Crutcher. Coleman Crutcher. January 1st, 1806. w3t
Land for Sale. I wish to sell the PLANTATION whereon I now live, containing between 5 and 600 acres of fertile well timbered land, lying on both sides of Skimmin creek, six miles from Williamsburg. On it is a good dwelling house, 40 by 30 feet in length and breadth, with two rooms and a pleasant passage below; necessary out houses; a large apple orchard of young thriving well chosen trees; also a variety of other fruit; and a spring of excellent water. Few situations in the lower country rival this for health and pleasantness. It is also desirable for its contiguity to oysters, fish and wild fowl. I will also sell a valuable MILL on said creek, at the head of tide water from which place boats of considerable size may be navigated with little expense into York river, which is only about 3 miles from the mill—this mill is of the undershot construction, double geared, works two pair of stones, one a pair of Welch peak, famed for producing meal of superior quality, the other a pair of first rate burrs with machinery complete for manufacturing flour. For further particulars apply to Thomas or Anos Ladd of Richmond, Robert Greenhow, Williamsburg, or to JAMES BATES, on the premises. York County, 12 Month, 29th, 1805. w4t
Land for Sale. THE subscriber offers for sale, the PLANTATION AND TRACT OF LAND , on which he lives, in Halifax county. The improvements are very valuable, consisting of a good dwelling house, kitchen, work house, granary, stables and all other houses necessary for the convenient and comfortable accommodation of a family, together with a corn mill on a small creek, adding considerably to the value & convenience of the property. 'Tis believed there are about seven hundred acres of land, a sufficient quantity cleared to employ six or eight hands to advantage. The terms of sale will be made known by applying to the subscriber, and possession will be given at the end of the next year. William Thompson. December 20, 1805. wtf
FOR SALE, MY tract of land, in Goochland County, on the waters of Lickinghole Creek, about 43 miles from Richmond and six miles from Carteretville; containing about 600 acres, of which 50 acres are creek low grounds, the greater part of which is well ditched. About two thirds of the land is cleared and in good order for cropping, with all necessary houses for a family and a farm. For terms apply to me on the premises, or to Mr. Arch'd Bryee, Jr. William Britt. Goochland, Dec. 18, 1805. wbt
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, First quality Jamaica Sagar Second do Santa Cruz ditto First and second quality loaf ditto Best green coffee Old Antigua Rum New England ditto Cognac Brandy Peach ditto Hollands Gin Caldwell, Fraser and Co's superfine Chocolate Fresh London mustard Basket, Salt, Pepper, White Ginger, Pimento and Nutmegs Martinique Noyau Box Raisins and Currants Citron Soft shell Almonds Raisins Madder & ground Ginger in small kegs Lewcock Turkey Cotton Best flannel Indigo A general assortment of STONE & EARTHEN WARE. New-York Candles & Soap Madeira, Port, Sherry, Teneriffe and Malaga Wine China Bowls from 1 to 6 quarts Tea and coffee Cups & Saucers Cut Jelly Glasses Pint, half pint and gilt Tumblers Quart, pint and half pint Decanters Green and white Quart and pint Pocket Bottles Henry the VIII and Merry Andrew Cards Imperial, Young Hysan and Souchoong Tea FF and F Gun Powder Patent Shot assorted Flos. Leiper's Snuff Patent Night Lamps Liverpoor Stoved Salt in Sacks and Loose Pickled Salmon and Mackerel in half barrels EXPECTED, A quantity of common N. E. and Bullocks CHEESE. November 25th, 1805. wtf
FOR SALE, ON Wednesday the 25th day of February next (being court day for the county of Hanover) at the courthouse of that county, a TRACT OF LAND , heretofore under a mortgage to Christopher Tompkins and others, and by him purchased under a decree of the honorable the superior court of chancery, by law directed to be held at the capitol in the city of Richmond, subject to the dower of Nancy Burras, who was the widow of Richard Littlepage, on a foreclosure of the mortgage from whom, the same was decreed to be sold in and by the same decree. Four hundred and sixty-four acres are the estimated content of the said land. It afforded a residence for the said Richard Littlepage and his family at the time of his death, and among other advantages was the seat of a well accustomed grist mill, now decayed for want of repairs, tho' the dam may be repaired at a small expense; but as purchasers or those inclining to be such, will probably view the premises, a description at greater length is purposely avoided. The incumbrance arising from the dower of the said Nancy Burras is not yet removed; but with that incumbrance only, a good title will be conveyed to the purchaser in fee. The sale will be made on credit, the purchaser giving bonds for the purchase money, at three instalments, to wit: a bond for one third thereof, payable the first day of May next; one for another third, payable on the first day of January, 1807; and one for the balance, payable on the same day in 1808; all with security, to be then approved, by CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS. King Wm 30th Dec 1805. 3w
FOR SALE, ON Wednesday the 25th day of February next (being court day for the county of Hanover) at the courthouse of that county, a TRACT OF LAND , heretofore under a mortgage to Christopher Tompkins and others, and by him purchased under a decree of the honorable the superior court of chancery, by law directed to be held at the capitol in the city of Richmond, subject to the dower of Nancy Burras, who was the widow of Richard Littlepage, on a foreclosure of the mortgage from whom, the same was decreed to be sold in and by the same decree. Four hundred and sixty-four acres are the estimated content of the said land. It afforded a residence for the said Richard Littlepage and his family at the time of his death, and among other advantages was the seat of a well accustomed grist mill, now decayed for want of repairs, tho' the dam may be repaired at a small expense; but as purchasers or those inclining to be such, will probably view the premises, a description at greater length is purposely avoided. The incumbrance arising from the dower of the said Nancy Burras is not yet removed; but with that incumbrance only, a good title will be conveyed to the purchaser in fee. The sale will be made on credit, the purchaser giving bonds for the purchase money, at three instalments, to wit: a bond for one third thereof, payable the first day of May next; one for another third, payable on the first day of January, 1807; and one for the balance, payable on the same day in 1808; all with security, to be then approved, by CHRISTOPHER TOMPKINS. King Wm 30th Dec 1805. 3w
AT a Court held for New Kent county, on Thursday the 10th day of October, 1805. Robert Crump and Phillip Rogers, Samuel Owings, Nicholas Owings, Baie Owings and Geo. Street, trading under the firm of Geo. Street & Co. on behalf of themselves, and other creditors of Nathaniel Wilkinson, dec. Complainants, AGAINST William Chamberlayne, Edmund Parke, George Wilkinson, jr. William Wilkinson, Richard L. Wilkinson, Martha Wilkinson, Frances Wilkinson, and Sarah Wilkinson, which said William, Richard L. Martha, Frances and Sarah, are children of Nathaniel Wilkinson, dec. and Sarah Wilkinson, widow and relict of said Nathaniel Wilkinson, dec. defts.
THE defendant Richard L. Wilkinson not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth; on the motion of the complainants by their counsel, It is ordered that the said defendant Richard L. Wilkinson do appear here on the second Thursday in February next and answer the complainants bill; and that a copy of this order be published in some newspaper printed in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A Copy—Tests, Wm. Bev. Clayton, c. e.
At a Court continued and held for Halifax county, the twenty-ninth day of November, 1805. Derrymon Green and Nancy his wife, late Nancy Terry, daughter of Nathaniel Terry, deceased, plaintiffs. Against William Terry, son and executor of Nathaniel Terry, dec. Joseph Terry, Nathaniel Terry, James Thompson and Polly Thompson his wife, late Polly Terry, Robert Terry, Keeble Terry and Sarah his wife, the said Joseph, Nathaniel, Polly, Robert and Sarah being also children of Nathaniel Terry, deceased; John Martin who married Elizabeth Dickerson another child of the said Nathaniel Terry, dec. & who hath departed this life, John Chaney & Sarah Royal his wife late Sarah Royal Martin, Marshall Martin, Nathaniel Terry Martin, John Elmore and Nancy his wife late Nancy Martin, William Martin, Polly Martin, John Martin, Edmund Martin and Abraham Martin, the said Sarah Royal, Marshall, Nathaniel Terry, Nancy, William, Polly, John, Edmund and Abraham, being children of the said John Martin and Elizabeth Dickerson his wife, and the said William, Polly, John, Edmund and Abraham being infants under the age of twenty one years. defendants.
THE defendants John Martin, John Chaney and Sarah Royal his wife, John Elmore and Nancy his wife, Marshall Martin and Nathaniel Terry Martin, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this country; On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, It is ordered , that the said defendants do appear here on the fourth Monday in March next and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county. A copy—Tests, John Wimbish, c. h. c.
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