The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1807-12-19 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
VOL. 4.]
RICHMOND, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1807.
[No. 66.]
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE, AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.
TO PRINTERS—FOR SALE, on very reasonable terms: About 500 wt. of BURGEOS, and 300 of BREVIER: The same Type on which the ENQUIRER was lately printed.
GERARD BANKS has it in view to establish a NEWS-PAPER, in the city of Richmond, to be published twice a week—the title—THE VIRGINIAN—The Editor has always been attached to Republican systems. The present Administration, in his view, is well calculated to ensure the happiness of the people; and any administration which may succeed, pursuing the same general course, will be supported. Foreign and Domestic details will be noticed. Besides this, the public will, time after time, be apprised of the affairs of the public institutions, and particularly of the course of the Bank; its managers, its influence, its defects and imperfections. The usurpations of this dangerous institution will be noted; the Arrierepensée, which grows from its management will be exposed. This course will be pursued with a temper and firmness, which will yield neither to the blandishments of the Bank, nor the frowns of power. Stock-Jobbing and Faverism, Twin Demons, will be arrested whenever they appear.
500 Subscribers at 5 Dollars per annum each, one half in advance, are necessary to the commencement of the Paper.
GERARD BANKS. Richmond, Oct. 30. [Sept.]
FEMALE EDUCATION will be continued at Mount-air, the ensuing year, under the direction of Miss Terrell; who will teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar and Geography.
The school will be opened on Monday the 18th of January.
Terms—For Board and Tuition, each finding her own bedding, $3.50 per annum, paid quarterly in advance; and as provisions will be made in due time for the reception of boarders, no deduction can be made for entering a boarder after a part of the first quarter has elapsed, nor for the necessary vacations. HUMPHREY HILL. Caroline, Dec. 17. [94t.]
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.—Run-away on the morning of the 13th inst. a negro wench named NANCY. She is middle sized, stout made, has a yellow complexion; she was lately the property of Mr. W. McKim. Whoever will deliver her to the subscriber shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges. Masters of vessels and others are cautioned against harboring her, or carrying her off. MARY PREPOE. Richmond, Dec. 17. [14w4w.]
IN conformity with the 1st section of article XIV. of the constitution of the Mutual Assurance Society, against Fire on buildings of the State of Virginia, the Members of the said Society, are hereby notified to attend their annual General Meeting, to be held at the Capitol, on the first Monday in January next, being the fourth day of the said month.
Any Member who doth not attend at the said meeting in person or by proxy, will be represented by the Member of the State Legislature of the county, or the Senator of the district wherein such absentee resides.
LEWIS M. RIVALAIN, Acting as Principal Agent A. A. S. General Office of Assurance, Richmond, 15th Nov. 1807.
Form of the Credentials to be produced by the person voting at the annual meeting by proxy, to wit: Subscriber of _____ Member of the Mutual Assurance Society, do hereby constitute and appoint _____ to attend the annual General Meeting of the said Society, to be held at Richmond, on the first Monday in January next, as proxy to vote and act on behalf of any business which may come before the said meeting, as fully as if personally present. In Testimony whereof, have hereunto set hand and seal, the _____ day of 1807. Test, Nov. 27. [14w4w.]
WILL BE SOLD, at public auction, on the 12th day of December next, at the door of the Eagle-Tavern, ninety-two thousand, seven hundred and thirty acres of western LANDS, lying in the counties of Montgomery, Harrison and Kanawha. A credit of one, two, three and four years will be allowed, if satisfactory security shall be given. SAMUEL GREENHOW. Richmond, Oct. 7. [6awtf.]
TO BE SOLD to the highest bidder, on Tuesday the twenty-ninth of December next: A Tract of Land in Powhatan county, about four miles above the court house and two from Peter River church, containing by late survey, 450 acres; there are many considerable improvements attached to the Land, it being in a good neighborhood in which are a number of manufacturing and grist mills; is remarkably well watered, abounding with good springs, and bounded with three bold streams on three sides, on the smallest of which streams is a large manufacturing mill within 400 yards of my barn, the soil very good and level. On this tract are two settlements with good orchards of well selected fruit on each, which may be sold separately. The terms of sale will be one third of the money in hand, and the other two thirds in four equal annual payments, giving bond and security and a deed of trust on the Land, to secure the payment. At the same time and place will be sold as above, the crop of Corn, Fodder and Oats, the stock of all kinds, Plantation Utensils, household and kitchen Furniture, one good London made Still, apple and peach Brandy, a quantity of late cider, vinegar, &c. Cash will be required for all sums under 20 dollars; six month credit for all sums between twenty and eighty dollars, and twelve on all sums above eighty dollars. There will be hired out for one year (to commence the first of January next), 8 or 9 Negroes, on the usual terms of hire, at the same time and place. DAVID OWEN. N.B. Should the day appointed for the sale of the above property, prove unfavorable, it will be continued from day to day until sold. Nov. 27. [14w4w.]
BROKERAGE AND COMMISSION BUSINESS.—The subscriber respectfully offers his services to his friends and the public, in the above line of business and solicits their patronage. C. GREENHOW. Dec. 15. [6awtf.]
FOR SALE, a few prime tracts of Military LAND, in the state of Ohio. Back Shares wanted—Apply as above. Dec. 15. [6awtf.]
TO BE SOLD, at Painville, in Amelia county, on Monday the 26th of December next, an extraordinary valuable BLACK-SMITH, belonging to the estate of Rev. J. Eggleston, dec'd, on a credit of six months; bond with approved security will be required of the purchaser. BY THE EXECUTORS. Oct. 14. [6awtf.]
SEVENTEEN SLAVES.—By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber, by William Laurence, in his life time, and admitted to record in the General Court, at the June term, 1804, to secure the payment of a sum of money therein mentioned, due to William Fenwick, will positively be sold, at Louisa court-house, on the 11th day of January next, being Louisa court day, seventeen valuable SLAVES.—Among them are several house Servants, a very good Shoemakers, regularly bred to the business, a good Seamstress and a good Hostler.—Also, six Beds and Furniture, four Horses, thirty Hogs, and twenty head of Cattle.—By the consent of Mr. Fenwick, at the request of the Adm'r. of the dec'd. a credit of six months will be given to the purchasers of the Negroes, upon their executing bonds to the subscriber with good security, and likewise giving him a deed of trust on the Negroes or Negroes purchased, and on real property to secure the punctual payment of the money when it becomes due; the other property will be sold for ready money. The subscriber will convey his title as trustee, which he believes to be indisputable. DAVID BULLOCK. [14w4w.]
December 12. THE SUBSCRIBER intends to open School at Mr. William D. Taylor's, in the Forks of Hanover, which will commence the first day of January next: Where he will teach youth to read and write the English & Latin Languages grammatically, and will also instruct them in Arithmetic and Geography. Mr. Taylor will furnish board for sixteen pupils. The terms for board and tuition will be one hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly, if Mr. Taylor furnishes board, bed and candles, but where the pupil finds his own bed and candles, a deduction of ten dollars will be made. The terms of tuition alone, will be twenty dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly. Particular attention will be paid to the health and morals of such pupils as may be entrusted to the care and instruction of the subscriber. HENRY ROBINSON. Dec. 15. [14w4w.]
THE SUBSCRIBER having purchased the patent-right of erecting, using, &c. (within the greater part of this state southward of the bay) one of the truest, best and most expeditious Nail-Cutting Machines that has ever been introduced into this state, by which much superior nails are made: any person residing within a sufficient distance from this place, who is desirous of purchasing such a machine, may have one at the same price that was given by the subscriber; and for a reasonable consideration may likewise possess an exclusive right of working it within any such district as may be agreed on. Richmond, Dec. 15, 1807.
At Macdon's Manufactory on the Basin of the Canal, are sold Nails of a superior quality, at the following prices:—and where else is to be had, bar and hoop iron, Nail-Rods, &c. BROUGHT NAILS.  Spikes, 40, 30 and 20 nails, 12 1/2 per lb. 40. 30. 20. Cents.  12 nails, 13  10 do. 14  8 do. 14 1/2  CUT NAILS & BRADS.  24, 20, 12 and 10 brads, 11 per lb.  8 do. 11 1/2  6 do. 12 1/2  4 do. 13  3 do. 14  [14w4w.]
WISH to sell the following Tracts of Land, & will make the time to accommodate the purchasers: 112 acres in the county of Greenbrier, on the Great Kanawha Road, on Rock Creek, patented in my name. 128 acres in the same county, lying on Rich creek, patented in my name. 118 acres in the same county, on the same creek, patented in my name. 500 acres in Kanawha county, on Gauley river, patented in my name. 1000 acres in the same county, on the same river, patented in my name. 1340 acres in the same county, on the south side of new river, patented in my name. 2000 acres in the same county, on the waters of Cole river, patented in my name. 3000 acres in the county of Monroe, on the waters of Second and Turkey creek, patented in my name. These lands were taken up a very early date, and from the best information, I am induced to believe, that they are not inferior to any lands in that part of the country. JAMES C. ANTHONY. Richmond, Nov. 27. [14w4w.]
FOR RENT—A large three story Brick HOUSE, near the Basin, in which Mr. Southgate has lived for some years—Apply to Mr. Thomas Norvell or the subscriber. Dec. 15. [14w4w.]
SAML. OVERTON. EDUCATION—JOHN ROBERTSON respectfully informs the public that he will continue to teach in Wm. D. Meriwether's neighborhood, the English Language grammatically, the Latin, Greek and French Languages, Arithmetic, the elementary parts of Mathematics, Logic, Ethics, History, ancient and modern, and Geography with the use of the Globes. His fees are 24 dollars per annum; first quarter paid in advance. In addition to his present number of scholars, he will take seventeen more. He hopes from his experience, attention, and general success as a teacher, to meet with the encouragement of the Public. Mr. John Watson, who lives very conveniently, will take to the number of twenty or twenty-five boarders. Dec. 17. [14w4w.]
THE STOCKHOLDERS in the BANK or VIRGINIA are hereby notified, that the General Meeting, for the purpose of electing Directors of the Bank and the several departments for the ensuing year, will be held on Monday the 4th day of January next. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH. Dec. 12. [14w4w.]
IN pursuance of a decree in Chancery, made by the Court of the U. States for the Sth circuit, in the district of Virginia, at the Nov. term, in the year 1808, we shall expose to public auction, at the time and place hereinafter mentioned—Two TRACTS, in the county of Goochland, one on Beaver Dam Creek, containing nine hundred acres, and the other called Little-Island, containing ten acres, at Goodland Court-House, on the court day thereof, on the 3d Monday in January, 1808. The dower of the widow of Wm. Ronald, will be first deducted, and the conditions on which the said Land are directed under the said decree, will appear therein and will be communicated on the day of sale. The terms of payment will be as follows: one fourth of the purchase money to be paid in cash, and the remaining three fourths in three equal instalments of six, twelve and eighteen months credit. In all respects the aforesaid decree will be pursued. WM. BERKELEY, JOSIAH ELLIS, WM. MANN, Commissioners. Nov. 1. [6awtf.]
MISCELLANY.
LONDON, Oct. 13.
Launch of Earl Stanhope's New-Invented Vessel. Yesterday the launch of this curious constructed vessel, invented by Earl Stanhope, took place in the pond in Kensington Gardens, opposite the Palace, where it was brought in an unfinished state last week from Mr. Keating's, carpenter, in Castle-street, Oxford-street. The workmen were ever since busy in completing it, and had not entirely finished it before 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It is 30 feet long by 7 wide; it has a round bottom, both ends being sharp, something like a weaver's shuttle. The sides were painted yellow, with the port-holes on the sides; and windows at each end, painted to imitate real. On each side, towards each end (as it was made to sail either way without putting about,) were three gills, which opened out, or closed, by means of pulling an iron rod on the deck, which was cased with copper in such a manner, as to render it water proof: instead of the bottom being patched outside, it was covered with a composition, an invention of the Noble Earl's, which as soon as spread on quite hot, became so hard that a chisel could not cut it, and it had the quality of resisting any force by its being elastic, so as to answer the purpose of a copper covering. His Lordship's country seat is covered with the same composition instead of lead. The launch, and the experiments to be tried, were expected to take place between eleven and twelve o'clock, at which hour there were between 300 and 400 persons present, among whom were several Ladies of distinction, and many Naval Officers; but being informed that the would not be ready to be launched before 3 o'clock, most of the company dispersed; some returned to town, others strolled through the delightful and romantic walks in the gardens; and others went to take some refreshment in the town of Kensington. At the hour of 3 o'clock, the crowd began to re-assemble in great numbers; among the spectators we noticed the two sons of the Duke of Clarence, in blue jackets, and blue chique trousers; some Ladies from Kensington Palace; Mr. Crawford, of Piccadilly Terrace, drawn about in a wheeled chair by two footmen; the Naval Officers, and many gentlemen whom we did not know. About a quarter past 3, it was launched into the water, by means of rollers placed on deal planks. Previous to being launched, there was a temporary rudder fixed to one end, in order to ascertain which answered best, that or the gills. As soon as it was launched, there was one ton and a half of ballast taken on board; his Lordship and a Lieutenant of the Navy, and some sailors, &c. went on board; having no sails, they rowed up and down the pond, then twice round; the men at the oars kept pulling regularly; when it was found that the gills beat the rudder in velocity, and turned coastways with greater ease, having the advantage of returning back without putting about ship. After the first trial, there was another ton of ballast taken on board. After being an hour on the water the second time, during which his Lordship marked down a note-book his remarks, about 5 o'clock the masts were put on board, the canvas spread, with the Union Jack at the main-mast head: she then sailed most gracefully with a light wind, and nothing could possibly make a grander appearance. She returned with the other head foremost, without ever putting about. The spectators were highly gratified at the sight, which made amends for the disappointment they felt in the morning on account of the delay. His Lordship, after trying several experiments in rounding, tacking, and keeping to a certain point, landed about six o'clock, and expressed his perfect satisfaction and confidence in having succeeded in his design; the benefits and advantages of which are numerous, and are as follows:—That there is one third of the expense saved in the construction of a 74; that on account of being rather flat-bottomed, it will carry more tonnage; it will navigate in very shallow water, and over breakers or sunken rocks, without the risk that a ship with a keel runs; on approaching any rock or coast, it can immediately retire, without loss of time in putting about; does not require half the sails, all of which can be worked by men on deck, without going aloft; the composition which covers it is infinitely cheaper than copper, and answers the same purpose; it can sail nearly against the wind by working the gills; with many other advantages, with which we are yet unacquainted. Several experienced Officers expressed themselves in favor of it. The next trial will be in the presence of some of the Lords of the Admiralty, &c.
We extract the following notice of Humboldt from a late Monitor: "There has lately appeared in Spanish, a Peruvian work, composed of tracts furnished by the inhabitants of Peru, relative to the natural history, and manners of that interesting country. Extracts have been given from this work in the English and German languages, to gratify the curiosity excited by the travels of Messrs. Humboldt and Bonpland. The volume, which is the fruit of these travels, affords much instruction and amusement. The marvelous is, perhaps, carried too far in some instances, especially in the mention made of the little dogs, met on the banks of the Huallaga, whose heads are said to have shone very luminously during the night. But the undoubted facts, and the beautiful descriptions compensate. We shall here only extract an account of the riches heretofore drawn by Spain, and which she still continues to draw from this part of America. "In the space of two hundred and sixty-eight years, that is, from the conquest to 1740, she has drawn from Peru the immense sum of nine thousand millions of piastres, and her annual importation still continues at five millions."
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FRIDAY, Nov. 7.
Debate on the reference of a memorial from sundry merchants and traders of the city of Philadelphia, praying for a repeal of the non-importation law.
(CONCLUDED.)
The memorial was read a second time by desire. Mr. Crommelinshield would not detain the committee long. He felt unable to say at this moment what his wishes would dictate on so important a subject. The House would do him the justice to believe, that when he expressed his disapprobation of the petition, he had no wish to detract from the known character of his friend from Pennsylvania who offered it to the House; he had the highest esteem for that gentleman. He entertained that sentiment, and always should, and nothing had fallen from him in the language of denunciation towards that gentleman; he presumed the gentleman from Virginia had alluded to him. [Mr. C. said he had not.] Mr. C. asked pardon of the gentleman. It had not been proposed by any gentleman to reject this petition; he did not recollect any motion to that effect. He had said when up before, that he did not think it might have been; but he did not wish to reject it. He spoke at large against its reference, because he thought that as they were on the eve of a war, it was possible a deliberation on this law would affect their situation. He did not consider the propriety of repealing it or not; for he conceived that would depend altogether on the nature of the dispatches which might be received. But on hearing this memorial read a second time, he perceived a sentiment, contained in it, which further induced him to view it as not couched in respectful terms. "From the wisdom and patriotism of the National Legislature they conceive the expectation to be well founded, that the commercial interest of the U. S. with which the common welfare is inseparably connected, will not be committed by an unyielding adherence to doubtful or unsettled principles." Was it a doubtful principle that national vessels should not be searched? He had always thought that it was not a doubtful principle; he thought such ships could not be touched; that a commander could not be interrogated as to his crew or the orders from his government. Was this one of the doubtful principles to which the petition alluded? On this subject gentlemen could not differ. He did not mean to go into an enquiry into the propriety or impropriety of passing the non-importation law. He thought it a proper measure when it passed, though he wished to have gone farther; he was one of those who wished to pass a total non-importation law. It was well known why such a law did not pass; he would not enter into a consideration of that now; but many men, agreeing with him in political sentiments at that time, and he presumed they did so now, conceived that a partial non-importation law was more proper. He yielded and voted with them. He thought the House would treat the petitioners with that respect which was due to them, if they were to refuse a reference of their memorial to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, and suffer it to lie on the table. Mr. Randolph said the gentleman from Massachusetts had greatly misconceived him in one respect. He had not alluded to that gentleman as one of the denouncers of his friend from Philadelphia, but as endeavoring to make this a party question, which he thought was both unfair and imprudent. He still thought so. With what propriety could gentlemen be represented as the friends of a proposition, merely because they were willing to consider and discuss it? The denunciation of his friend was in the recollection of the House. Was it prudent, for the mere gratification of personal or party spleen, to hold up those who should vote for the reference as disaffected to the cause of our national wrongs? When persons of a different political character held the reins of government, petition after petition was poured into that House, complaining of its acts. During the time that Mr. R. held a seat in it, these petitions were always referred and discussed, although they were rejected. Although the sedition law of unconstitutional memory was enacted and re-enacted, and the legislature had repeatedly expressed its opinion of its justice and expediency, and although it was scarcely possible to draft a memorial against that detestable act without uttering harsh things, at least by implication, against its authors, yet it was not held to be presumption in the petitioners, which derogated from the dignity of the House, to question its infallibility. The petitions were received and produced elaborate replies by way of report, before they were rejected. Mr. R. thought the gentleman from Massachusetts totally mistaken in supposing the petitioners to consider the claim to search public armed ships as a doubtful principle. On the contrary they wished the national honor to be maintained. But they might believe doubtful principles to have been blended with an undoubted one; and even this position is advanced with hesitation. If the gentleman himself would exchange a few of his certainties for doubts, he would not be a less useful politician. As to the non-importation law, he would in pity spare it—but it could not be forgotten that wonders had been promised from it, and that only at the last session, the gentleman himself had boasted that its potent spells and incantations had induced Great-Britain, who had as obstinately refused to hear us, as the gentleman himself had refused to hear us, to open her gracious ears and listen to all our demands, which were in a fair way of being complied with. Because gentlemen differed in opinion with the petitioners—he himself differed with them—he deemed the repeal of the law of no sort of consequence—that was a reason why they should not be heard;—were not petitions every day referred that had been a hundred times rejected? that were known to be barred by the act of limitation? Was it ever deemed an insult upon their dignity that Oliver Peckock, or Stephen Sayre, would take no refusal from them, but persisted in petitioning until they got their money? Most certainly not. The question on reference to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, was then taken by yeas and nays, as follows: YEAS—Messrs. Bibb, Champion, Chittenden, J. Clay, Cobb, Culpeper, Dana, Davenport, Elliot, Ely, Gardiner, Garnett, Gray, Harris, Heister, Hoge, Jenkins, Jones, Kelly, Kenan, Key, Kirkpatrick, Lewis, Lloyd, Milnor, T. Moore, Jer. Morrow, Moseley, Pitkin, Porter, Quincy, Randolph, Rea, (P.) J. Richards, M. Richards, Russell, Smeal, Stanford, Stedman, Sturges, Taggart, Tallmadge, Taylor, Thompson, Troup, Upham, Van Cortlandt, Van Rensselaer, D. R. Williams.—50. NAYS—Messrs. Alexander, L. J. Alston, W. Alston, Bacon, Bard, Barker, Bassett, Blackledge, Blake, Blount, Boyle, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, G.W. Campbell, Carlton, Chandler, M. Clay, Cook, Crowell, Cullen, Cutts, Darby, Esdaile, Desha, Durell, Eppes, Findley, Fisk, Franklin, Gardener, Goodwin, Green, Helm, Holland, Holmes, Howard, Humphreys, Haly, Johnson, Knight, Lambert, Love, Lyon, Marion, Masters, D. Montgomery, J. Montgomery, N. R. Moore,
John Morrow, Mumford, Nelson, Newbold, Newton, Nicholas, Pugh, Rhea (T.) Riker, Rowan, Sawyer, Seaver, Sloan, Smilie, J. K. Smith, S. Smith, J. Smith, Southard, Storer, Swart, Thomas, Trigg, Van Allen, Van Horn, Wharton, Whitehill, Wilbour, M. Williams, Wilson, Wm, Withersall.—20. So the question for reference was lost. Mr. Newton said, that in voting against the reference to the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, he did not wish to treat the petitioners with disrespect; but he thought that under the present circumstances, it was not expedient to act upon the memorial. He wished it to lie upon the table, whence it could be called up at any time, and made a motion to that effect. The Speaker said, if no further order were taken on the memorial it would lie on the table of course. No further order being taken, it was ordered to lie on the table.
DOMESTIC.
NEW-JERSEY ADDRESS.
On Friday last, the following address was agreed to in both Houses of the Legislature of that State:
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, Sir—
The Representatives of the people of New-Jersey in Legislature convened, animated with sentiments of attachment and esteem for the general government, conceive it their duty at this eventful moment, to express their confidence and approbation of those who have so ably directed its councils, amidst the storms which agitate & convulse the civilized world.
We have to lament that the faithful pursuit of a dignified neutrality has proved inadequate to secure us from the insults and injuries of those nations, whose true interests could be best promoted by cultivating a good understanding with us.
The experience of other nations as well as our own, has long since convinced us, that the rights of a neutral nation present but a feeble barrier to British madness and ambition. That nation which openly avows to the world that "she can no longer distinguish between neutrals and enemies," becomes progressively and intentionally the open and avowed enemy of every nation at peace.
This language though addressed to the Danes, appeals with equal solemnity to us, in the prophetic voice of warning, "BE YE ALSO READY." The forbearance which is dictated by policy and humanity has its limits. When the voice of Justice is disregarded—when our peaceful citizens are murdered in our harbors and on our coasts—when a dishonorable submission to habitual wrongs, or an appeal to the unprofitable but decisive arbiter of the Sword, is arrogantly prescribed as the only alternative; every honorable sentiment which renders the name of freemen dear to our hearts, forbids us to pause in such a choice. Our citizens with an unanimity before unknown, are ready to obey the first summons of their country. Their hearts are already so consecrated to its service, and their lives and fortunes will be offered on the altar of its independence. But the confidence which we feel in the government of our country, forbids us not only to anticipate, but induces us to repress with full reliance, on the wisdom which may direct its final determination. Adverting to our domestic concerns, we are happy to observe so many causes for mutual felicity. The defeat of a dangerous conspiracy, menacing for a time our peace and unity, is not among the least. That a conspiracy so extensive, so organized, should be defeated by the arm of the civil authority, without shedding a drop of blood, is a phenomenon in the history of conspiracies—and the universal detestation of its authors, abortive and voluntary defections, is a happy demonstration of the attachment of the people, to the principles of our government, and the persons whom they have chosen to administer it.
We derive much satisfaction also from a review of the flourishing state of our finances. That an enormous debt, threatening to crush by its cumbrous weight the growing energies of our country, should be suddenly arrested and reduced in the compass of a few years, to an amount comparatively small, with the first prospect of its utter extinction—is a fact, which has scarcely a parallel in the history of finance, and can be explained only by that patriotic system of economy, which has formed so distinguished a feature of the administration.
Before we conclude this address, permit us to take notice of a subject in which we feel particularly interested. We allude to your supposed intention of declining the service of your country as chief magistrate at the approaching election. We should sincerely regret such a determination. However laudable may be the example, of declining the highest honors of the state, however inviting may be the charms of retirement to a mind borne down by concerns of the first magnitude—we trust, the best interests of your country will guide your determination. The nation have a claim to the services of their most enlightened and experienced statesmen. We hope that private considerations will yield to the public good; and that the best interests of the state may not be hazarded by a conflict of rival pretensions at this eventful moment.
With warmest wishes for the peace and prosperity of our beloved country, and the promotion of your individual happiness, we bid you adieu.
The above address was signed by the speaker of the House of Assembly, and the Vice-President of Council—and the Governor is requested to forward the same to the President.
MARYLAND LEGISLATURE, Dec. 23.
Leave given to bring in a bill to punish crimes, offences and misdemeanors, committed on the waters of the Chesapeake be with in the territorial jurisdiction of the state of Maryland, and for other purposes.
On motion, the question was put, That the words "and for other purposes" be stricken out? Determined in the negative.

The question was then put, that the committee consist of three. Resolved in the affirmative, and a committee was appointed accordingly.
A Memorial to Congress, on the subject of the non-importation law, was no sooner struck off yesterday, than hundreds without distinction of political party, immediately subscribed. Boston Gaz.
One of our late London papers says "We may judge of the boasted 'Independence' of the United States, from the fact, that before the National ship Revenge , arrived in England, she was obliged to go out of her way to France, no doubt to ask leave of Bonaparte if she might come to Great-Britain. And she, we learn, is to touch in France on her return, no doubt to ask leave to go home. We understand that Napoleon has one of his whiskered cut-and-thrust Ministers in America, to keep its government in awe." Philadelphia Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.
The attention of our readers will be forcibly drawn to the British Proclamation inserted in our preceding columns. However general in terms, they will view it as a measure particularly pointed at the U. S. and as closely connected with if not emanating from the posture of our affairs with Great-Britain. When we compare the date of the proclamation with that of the remarks of the Courier, also given, it would seem as if the one was the text of the other, and that but a feeble hope is entertained on the other side of the water of an amicable adjustment of our differences.
Our limits do not admit of entering into detail. But it may be proper to notice: First , that the proclamation contains nothing like a disavowal of the outrage on the Chesapeake, the instruction given being altogether prospective. Secondly , so far as it goes, it upholds the right to demand, not merely deserters, but all natural-born seamen of Britain on board a national vessel. In the case of merchant vessels the power to coerce the delivery of such mariners is given to a subordinate officer; while in the last case it is reserved to the government. If the right to coerce in the former case is considered as perfect, there can be little reason against its being enforced in the latter; and it would seem that the instruction given is but a precaution to guard against the indiscreet exercise of power by subordinate officers. In the exercise then of this power there will in all probability be an unavoidable collision of principles between the two countries; we considering our naturalization laws as conferring citizenship, and Great-Britain altogether rejecting this principle. Should her principles be admitted, thousands and tens of thousands of our citizens, as we say, although they have resided amongst the greater part of their lives, although their families and property are here, and although they have solemnly manifested their intention to become citizens by complying with our naturalization laws, will be subjected to a severe punishment for not returning to the service of their native country, and if a war should take place between Britain and us, will be treated as traitors if engaged in fighting our battles on the ocean. The allowance of such a principle would involve an abandonment of our right, in case of a contest, however infuriated, with Britain, to call into our service a large portion of the strength of the country, merely because those, who compose it, drew their first breath in that country. Can such a principle ever be ceded?
Does a solemn act, enforcing such principles, at such a season, wear the appearance of a pacific disposition on the part of Britain? Does it not, on the contrary, look very much like shutting the door on all negotiation. It certainly furnishes abundant cause for preparing ourselves for a rupture, which will be the best means of averting it, (if to avert it) or of meeting it in case our wishes for peace shall prove illusory. Nat. Intell.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it has been represented to us, and is well known, that great numbers of our mariners and seafaring men, our natural born and legitimate citizens, have been, not only in some instances, induced to enter into the service of foreign states, but have been for the most part forced into the same, sometimes by pressgangs on shore, sometimes seized by the officers of foreign armed ships, from on board our merchant vessels sailing on the high seas, or lying even within the harbors and waters of other independent states, and are now actually serving as well on board the ships of war belonging to the said foreign states, as on board the merchant vessels belonging to subjects thereof, contrary to their allegiance and to the laws; and to the great injury of their country, which needs at all times the services they owe it, but more especially at the present, when it is so much threatened and menaced, and when its maritime and jurisdictional rights, on which its sovereignty and security mainly depend, are disputed and called in question; we have thought fit to publish this our proclamation: We do hereby strictly charge and command all masters of vessels, pilots, mariners, shipwrights, and other seafaring men, our citizens as aforesaid, who may have been induced or forced into the pay or service of any foreign state as aforesaid, that they do forthwith quit the same, and return to their own country, or do enter on board such of our ships of war or merchant ships as may chance to fall in with either on the high seas, or in any rivers, waters, havens, roads, ports, or places whatsoever or where soever.
And for the better execution of this our proclamation, we do not only authorize and command all captains and others, commanding our ships & vessels, to stop and make stay of all and every such person or persons as shall be passing by incitement or compulsion into any foreign service, contrary to the intent of this proclamation, and to seize upon and bring away all such persons as aforesaid, who shall be found to be serving in any foreign merchant ship or vessel as aforesaid: But we do moreover command, exhort and conjure all our citizens detained, contrary to their allegiance and their rights, on board any foreign ship of war, as they abhor their slavish condition, and the risking their lives in the cause of a foreign and possibly an enemy nation; as they value the country which has cherished them; and as they feel for the wives, the children, and the parents from whom they have been torn, and who languish in agonizing grief for their return, that they do seize every possible opportunity of extricating themselves from their deplorable situation; employing, nevertheless, the most discreet and orderly means the case will admit of; and taking special care that no unnecessary violence be done or offered to the vessel or the remainder of the crew, out of which such persons may happily be able to effect their just and lawful deliverance.
And whereas it is further represented to us, that among the inducements and delusions practised on our mariners and seafaring citizens, foreign statutes have been enacted, declaring in the following, viz: "For the better encouraging of foreign mariners and seamen to come and serve on board ships belonging to this kingdom of
be it enacted, that every foreign mariner or seaman, who shall have faithfully served during the time of war on board any of his majesty's ships of war, or merchant ships, or privateers belonging to his majesty's subjects, for the space of two years, shall, to all intents and purposes, be deemed and taken to be natural born subjects of his majesty's kingdom; and have and enjoy all the privileges, powers, rights and capacities which such foreign mariner or seaman could, should or ought to have had and enjoyed, in case he had been a natural born subject, and actually a native within the kingdom: Provided that no such person be enabled to be of the privy council, &c."
And whereas it is represented also, that many of our citizens residing merely within foreign states, or having married therein; without having alienated themselves from their allegiance to their native country, have been taken by force, and are now detained on board ships of war belonging to such foreign states, on the sole pretext that they have so resided or married, which circumstances aforesaid our citizens have been taught to believe were of avail in claiming their services, contrary to their own wills, and to the duty owing to their own country; Now we do hereby warn all such mariners, seafaring men and others our citizens, that no such statutes of naturalization, or certificates of residence or marriage, do or can in any manner divest them of their rights as citizens of our free states, or in any degree alter the duty which they owe to themselves and to the sovereignty of their country. And in all cases where they may have been induced to accept the naturalization offered them by any enticing statute as aforesaid, or have acquiesced in the claim to their services founded on their residence or marriage as aforesaid, we do, in consideration of the error into which they may have been led, publish and declare our free pardon to all such who, repeating of the delusion under which they have acted, shall immediately withdraw themselves from such foreign service, and return to their allegiance, and we do hereby declare that all such who shall voluntarily continue in, or neglect any discreet and justifiable means of extricating themselves from such foreign service, in disregard and contempt of this our proclamation, shall be proceeded against accordingly; and we do hereby declare, that if any such masters of ships or other seafaring men, shall be taken whilst voluntarily serving any foreign state by an enemy thereof, and be detained as prisoners of war, or shall be carried into bondage, by the Algerines or other Barbary powers, they shall not be reclaimed by us as our citizens.
And we do hereby notify that all such of our citizens as aforesaid, who have voluntarily entered or shall continue on board the ships of war belonging to any foreign state at enmity with us, are guilty of high treason, and will incur all the penalties of the law.
Given at our Court of St. Tammany this sixteenth day of October, one thousand eight hundred and seven; and in the thirty-second of our independence.
GOD SAVE COLUMBIA.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, FRIDAY, December 11.
Mr. Findley, from the committee of elections, made a report on the contested election of Philip B. Key, favorable to the sitting member; which was referred to a committee of the whole.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of War, inclosing a report on the petition of Peter Gansevoort, which with the petition was referred to the committee of Ways and Means.
Also, a communication from the Secretary of the Navy, inclosing statements of the number of marine corps, and the number wanting to complete the present establishment, in pursuance of a resolution of the House; which was ordered to be printed.
Also, a letter from the Secretary of the Treasury, inclosing a report on the petition of B. Schweighausen, which with the petition was referred to the committee of Claims.
Mr. Quincy said, the House would recollect that a proposition had been made a few days ago by the Chairman of the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, for amending the non-importation law, in consequence of a communication from the Treasury Department, which contained minute and important information on this subject. Mr. Q. submitted a proposition, which was agreed to for printing this report, that it might be properly before the House.
Mr. Dawson from the committee on our military and naval establishments, made a report on the petition of the officers of the army of the U. S. declaring that their prayer is reasonable and ought to be granted.
The bill for appropriating a sum of money for providing gun-boats, being yet before the House on its third reading, was this day taken up, and after a debate of three hours, passed. The Yeas and Nays being called, were—Yeas 111—Nays 19. Those who advocated the bill, were Messrs. Rhea, Southard, Key, Milner, Johnson, G. W. Campbell, Dana, Blount; and those against it, Messrs. Macon, Quincy, and Randolph.
NORFOLK, Dec. 15.
We have the pleasure to announce to the public the arrival of Mr. MUNROE; he arrived yesterday with his Lady and Miss Munroe, in the ship Augustus , captain Howe, after a remarkable quick passage of 28 days. The civil and military authorities of the Borough, with a number of private citizens waited on Mr. Munroe, to welcome him to his native country, and to express the high sense which they entertain of his honorable discharge of the important duties which have been for some years past assigned to him—To-morrow morning Mr. Munroe sets off for Hampton, in order to proceed to the seat of government.
Yesterday he was waited on by the Mayor and a deputation from the Common Council of this Borough, who presented him with the following address:
To James Munroe, Esq.
The Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk, in behalf of their Fellow-Citizens, have the honour to congratulate you upon your return to your country. In the arduous duties incident to your appointments to the different Courts of Europe, you have doubtless experienced all those privations which are inseparable from public employments; whether in the acquisition of an extensive country, by which our western brethren are in possession of an outlet to the ocean—whether in the discussion of our political, or in the maintenance of our maritime rights, we take pleasure to assure you, that your countrymen have beheld your exertions with peculiar partiality. They cannot be insensible of the difficulties of an embassy during a period when the rights of nations are too often assailed upon the broad plea of necessity; but whatever may be the result of our dependencies with G. B. we feel persuaded that you have brought to your country that knowledge of European politics so necessary to the formation of a correct judgment on our foreign relations.
We beg you to be assured, that in the important concerns entrusted to you, your Fellow-Citizens have the utmost confidence in your zeal, talents and patriotism; and that you may long live in their affections and esteem, is the sincere wish of their hearts. Norfolk, Dec. 14, 1807.
To which address Mr. Munroe returned the following answer:
TO THE Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk.
If any circumstance could heighten the delight which I feel in returning to my country, it would be the very flattering reception which has been given me by the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk, on their own part, and in behalf of their Fellow-Citizens. So kind a welcome could not have failed to produce, under any circumstance, its merited effect, but in the present case it has excited in a peculiar degree my sensibility.
In the high trusts with which I have been honored by my government, with several of the principal powers in Europe, for nearly five years past, I have, indeed, felt all that solicitude which you so justly describe, well knowing that the honor of my government, and the happiness of my fellow-citizens were so essentially involved in the result of the important negotiations in which I partook—I am conscious of having done every thing, in my power, to acquit myself in every instance to their just claims and expectations. Their approbation is the high reward to which I have looked, and I beg you to be assured that it will give me the greatest possible satisfaction to find that I have thought by them, in some degree, to have deserved it.
The assurance which you have been so good as to express, of your confidence in the zeal and integrity with which I have discharged my public duties, and the interest which you have taken in my future welfare, merit my warmest acknowledgement.
That you, Gentlemen, and that all my Fellow-Citizens of Norfolk, may continue to enjoy the blessings, which are so eminently due to your merit and patriotism, is a hope which I shall never cease to cherish, as it seeks an object in which I shall always take the greatest interest. JAMES MUNROE.
CAPTAIN HOWE, in the fast sailing ship Augustus , whose arrival is noticed in the preceding article, has favored us with a regular file of London papers to the 29th of October, and also London papers of the Evening and twelfth of November . Extracts from these papers are given in this day's paper.
The whole of the Danish Fleet had arrived in England, with part of the British ships, the balance was daily expected.
Private letters, as well as the public papers received by this ship, express the strongest expectation that all matters in dispute between England and this country will be amicably adjusted. Merchants had acted upon this expectation, and American ships were chartered for various voyages, some by special license, and others in their accustomed employments.
The account of the capture of the Russian ships in the Archipelago, published in the northern papers, is incorrect, that fleet having arrived at Gibraltar on its way to Russia. It is probable from the advanced season that it will winter in England. The situation of affairs between England and Russia, are very equivocal yet, though the apprehensions of a rupture had greatly subsided.
Mr. Rose, the envoy extraordinary from Great-Britain to this country, sailed from Portsmouth, bound to this port, in H. B. M's. frigate Statira , on the 2d of November, but meeting with contrary winds, she returned on the 9th, and sailed again on the 12th, two days before Capt. Howe. This minister may therefore be looked for daily.
Another grand expedition is fitting out in England, destination not known.
One of our late London papers states, "the object of Mr. Rose's mission to the U. S. to be, in order to endeavor to conciliate America, by allowing her to convey the colonial produce of our West-India Islands to the continent of Europe; it being understood, that the French Islands are to be strictly blockaded, and no egress whatever allowed to articles of their growth."
Mr. Rose, the envoy extra from G. B. to this country, sailed two days before the Augustus , in the frigate Statira .
We learn, that courts martial are ordered to be held on Commodore JAMES BARRON, and some Officers of the Chesapeake, and that Capt. Rogers is to be President!
37 The following remarks on the British King's Proclamation, published in our last, are taken from one of the most influential papers in London, "The Times," and are worthy of the perusal of the American reader.
His Majesty's Proclamation, is at the present crisis, an extremely important public document; inasmuch as it makes us acquainted with some material facts in the existing state of the negotiation between this country and America. This is the first moment at which any of the propositions on either side have been seen; and there certainly is a degree of shame-facedness at their exposure to view, at their first coming into public, that indicates a consciousness on the part of their authors, that they are not quite so manly and energetic, as we had reason to suppose. The right of searching national ships is conceded from; that of seizing them in, and taking them from, merchantmen, is retained; but we believe most people will find it necessary to read the third clause of the Proclamation, in which these principles are contained, at least three times, before they will clearly understand them—such ambiguity is there in the expression, such timidity, and want of what is called in colloquial idiom, "speaking out." But further, we learn from the clause just cited, that though British seamen may not be pursued into foreign vessels bearing a national flag, they may still be taken, if it be possible, "in transitu," as the Proclamation elegantly expresses, "when endeavoring to transport and enter themselves into the service of any foreign state." Now let us apply this permission of detaining them to an actual occurrence: Lord J. TOWNSEND states, in his letter to Adm. BERKELEY, that the deserters from the Halifax "were seen by him and several of his officers parading the streets of Norfolk, under the American flag." These men, therefore, had not yet entered the Chesapeake ; could they, by the tenor of this Proclamation, have been "stopped, and made to stay," or in less technical terms, have been seized so parading the streets of Norfolk; by the crew the Americans will hardly be contented with a concession on our part, which respects the protecting power of their flag at the mast head, but still allows to violate and disturb the peace of their lowlands, high-roads, and even houses. Well, it not being allowed to search national vessels for British seamen, what remedy does the proclamation propose? what redress
for the grievances which may thence accrue to Britain? Precisely such remedy and such redress as were obvious enough without such a Proclamation, and such as must, in their nature, be essentially inefficacious, in the way of support to our navy. The British capt. who suspects a deserter to be on board an American ship, for instance (the American refusing to give him up) must write to the Admiral of the station, the Admiral of the station to the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty to the Secretary of State; and thus, having ascended the ladder of office in England, you have still to go down another ladder of office in America, before you can get at your deserter. Can any man see, in this circuitous procedure, a glimpse of hope, that we shall be able to prevent America from continuing to allure British mariners into her service? Several threats indeed, are denounced in the Proclamation, against the unhappy objects of American seduction; but of what weight have they been, (for the proclamation does not alter the law of the land in this respect)—of what weight, therefore, have these threats been, against the offer of higher wages, and the delusive promise of better treatment, acting upon illiterate minds? One of these denunciations of wrath against British seamen engaged in foreign service, is of so singular a nature, that we cannot help mentioning it; it is this, "if English mariners, so serving, should be taken prisoners by any of the States of Barbary, the British Consul at Tunis, or Algiers, shall not reclaim them." We must close our remarks, by allowing, in the fullest sense, the many and weighty difficulties which attend our pending concerns with America; but from the insight which the Proclamation affords us of the present state of the negotiation, we cannot think, though we greatly hope, that those difficulties will be surmounted, in a way beneficial or even equitable to England. We should have no objection to concession, provided it would but conduct us to a clear and defined state of things; but such a concession as leaves matters in the very state in which it found them, must (as we know by experience,) inevitably lead to incessant jealousies, bickerings, and disputes, the melancholy termination of which will be the very evil which it is thus attempted to avert. Suppose matters to be for the present amicably arranged between us and the United States, and the basis on our part to be the concession contained in his Majesty's Proclamation above cited; the most prudent conduct of every British Commander on the American station, will in future be, certainly to prevent desertion, if he can; but if instances do occur, neither to search for the fugitives in American merchant vessels, nor to claim them from ships of war, but to bear his loss quietly; for most assuredly, the contrary conduct will, in most instances, either involve his country at large, or himself personally, in an endless train of squabbles and disquiétudes, of accusations and retorts, of charges and denials; which, if the matter relates to himself only, will end in his recall—if to the British Government, in intercessions, or direct hostilities. The Times.
EUROPE.
LATEST FOREIGN ADVICES.
Received at the Office of the Public Ledger, by the ship Augustus , captain Howe, in twenty-eight days from Portsmouth, (Eng.)
LONDON, October 28.
A mail from Gotenburg arrived yesterday afternoon. Its contents are unimportant, with the exception of the following article, which states, that all apprehensions of a rupture between G. B. and Russia have for the present subsided. Private advices add, we hope correctly, that the court of Petersburg has expressed much displeasure at some of the late proceedings of Bonaparte.
GOTENBURGH, Oct. 19.
"A courier has arrived from St. Petersburg, in 14 days; the alarm of war with England seems to be quite over for the present, and all was peaceable when he left it. Some fears of an embargo had been entertained, and several ships had left the Russian ports, to the no small disadvantage of the merchants."
The private letters speak in the same encouraging terms; on the whole the communications by the mail have afforded considerable satisfaction to the mercantile interest.
The merchants of Holland, unacquainted with the nature of the sentiments, or the spirit by which the American government is at present impelled, assigned two reasons of a very opposite nature, for the measure recommended by the American ambassador at Paris. Some say that it was the determination of the French government to carry the famous decree of November, 1806, for putting England in a state of blockade, into execution with the utmost rigour, and that it was probable the English would retaliate, by seizing all ships going to, or coming from a French port, it was expedient that all American vessels should get away as soon as possible; while others suppose that Bonaparte, finding the American government unwilling to engage in hostilities, against this country, had threatened to declare war against them. The latter supposition we conceive to be altogether erroneous; and tho' the measures of necessary rigour, which, in the spirit of retaliation, we trust are about to be adopted by our government with respect to neutrals, render the former both plausible and rational, we consider neither of the reasons assigned to be the true one. The fact we believe to be simply this: General Armstrong had doubtless received an intimation from Mr. Munroe, of the complete termination of his mission, in consequence of the extravagance of the demand which he was commanded to make, our compliance with which was insisted upon as an indispensable preliminary to any negotiation or explanation whatever; and judging from this important fact, that the continuance of peace between the two countries must be precarious in the extreme, he deemed it his duty to give the advice upon which the American consul at Amsterdam has acted; and in consequence of which several vessels have sailed without completing their cargoes.
October 29.
Yesterday afternoon an officer arrived at the admiralty, with dispatches from admiral Stanhope, stating his arrival in Yarmouth Roads from Copenhagen, with ten sail of the line (five English and five Danish), and a fleet of transports with Danish naval stores. The ultimate destination of this division is Portsmouth, whither it has probably by this time proceeded. The second division, under the command of Admiral Gambier, was expected to sail about the 21st, and its arrival is of course hourly expected. The whole of our troops, except the rear guard, had embarked for England, it not being the intent
of government to leave a force in the possession of the Island of Zealand. An arrangement, however, has been entered into with the Danish government, in consequence of which a portion of our army is to be stationed during the winter in Scania, a Swedish province opposite to the Island of Zealand, and only separated from it by the Sound.
The following letters contain some interesting particulars:
"HULL, Oct. 22.—Mr. Fisher one of his majesty's messengers, was landed at this port yesterday afternoon, from the Halcyon sloop of war of 18 guns, capt. Pearce, with dispatches from admiral Gambier, off Copenhagen, dated the 15th inst. On the preceding day Admiral Stanhope had left that station, with ten sail of the Danish ships of war under his care, for England; but, in consequence of contrary winds, the fleet and convoy were obliged to put into Gotterburgh on the 17th. The Halcyon also made the same port on the 18th; which they left in company on the 20th, together with about 300 sail of transports, having the Danish stores, &c. on board. The weather has been extremely boisterous during the whole of their passage to this country. On Tuesday last, at sea, the Halcyon fell in with the wreck of a galbot, the Maria Elizabeth , which had lost her bottom upon one of the reefs in the Categat—all her masters were also gone, and from the circumstance of no person being found on board by the people of the Halcyon , it is supposed that the whole of the crew had perished. It is also feared that several of our transports have suffered material damage since they left the Sound. When the Messenger sailed from before Copenhagen, the whole of our forces had been embarked, with the exception of the rear guard.—We understand that several of the above fleet have passed the Humber to the southward. The arrival of the others may be expected daily. Mr. Fisher, with an officer of the Halcyon , left this place at half past eleven last night for London; being under orders to make the nearest land, and the greatest expedition."
"We are happy to state, that the accounts brought from the Baltic by the above gentleman, with respect to the state of affairs between this country and Russia, are of the most pacific and favorable nature, and at direct variance with the alarming reports lately circulated, of hostilities being intended against that power."
"YARMOUTH, Oct. 27.—Vice admiral Stanhope with ten sail of the line, (five English and five Danish), are now standing down Channel to the eastward of these sands.—The Vixen gun brig is just arrived, she left Copenhagen the 20th inst. admiral Gambier had not then sailed."
November 11.
The Townshend packet has arrived at Falmouth from Lisbon, whence she sailed on the 19th ultimo. The mail, however, did not reach town yesterday in time for the delivery of the letters from the post-office; so that the letter of the 15th, which we published yesterday is still the latest authentic news from Lisbon. Some of the papers of last night indeed mentioned the arrival of accounts dated the 28th, but that was evidently an error of the press, and the 18th was meant. The Auckland packet, we understand had arrived at Lisbon before the Townshend sailed.
The Cornwallis packet, from Malta, also arrived off Falmouth on Sunday. Five days before, she parted from the Caretaker packet, likewise from Malta.
There was yesterday a rumor of a great naval victory having been gained off Cadiz. It arrived by the Townshend packet from Lisbon, and was very much credited, though no official confirmation of the intelligence had reached the admiralty when our paper was put to press. The account which has been received was transmitted from Lisbon by the British consul. It appears that before the packet sailed, a report prevailed at Lisbon that a division of Lord Collingwood's fleet, under the command of rear admiral Purvis, had fallen in with a fleet from Cadiz, captured ten sail of the line, and carried them into Gibraltar in a very shattered condition. Seven of the enemy's vessels are said to have been so roughly handled, that they are rendered unfit for service. The object attributed to the enemy in sending out this fleet, which, it is said, consisted of all the French and Spanish ships of war that have been so long locked up in Cadiz, was to seize the Portuguese navy in the Tagus. The excellent condition of the British fleet in the Mediterranean, and the skill and vigilance of its commanders, induce us to encourage the hope that this intelligence may prove true. A similar account has been transmitted from Oporto, and it seems to have been confidently believed in Portugal. There is, however, reason to doubt the extent of the advantage stated to have been obtained by our fleet, and the news altogether must be received with considerable hesitation. The whole of the combined fleet, before sea in Cadiz, we believe, was never estimated so high as twelve sail of the line, and as the captured ships are said to have been carried into Gibraltar, we ought to have had intelligence of a victory so important by the recent arrivals from that fortress.
The preparations for the sailing of the new expedition are understood to be in such a state of forwardness, that the gentlemen connected with the shipping interest in the city, are in daily expectation that an order for an embargo on the outports will be issued by government. The ships of the line which are to form the fleet, are said to be all in readiness. The light infantry of the German legion commenced their march from Deal, on Monday, for Portsmouth, where, it is supposed, they will embark to proceed to Plymouth, and form a part of the military force of the expedition.
Parliament was yesterday prorogued to the 17th of December, and it is generally supposed that the meeting for the dispatch of business will be on the 23th of January.
Yesterday the Duke of York held a public day at his office, in the horse guards, & gave private audience to gen. Fox, upon his return from Sicily; gen. Sir George Ludlow, upon his return from Copenhagen; Sir David Baird, gen. Grosvenor, and the principal part of the staff, from Buenos Ayres, and about fifty other officers.
The court Martial on general Whitelock is convened to sit at the royal hospital at Chelsea.
General Auchmuty is expected to be the principal prosecutor of General Whitelock. Mr. G. H. Rose, envoy extraordinary to the United States, sailed yesterday in the Statira frigate from Lymington for the Chesapeake.
The Count de Lisle (Louis XVIII) appeared greatly delighted with the residence of Gosford, which presented a very striking contrast to the bleakness of the country which

he had quitted. He was a great deal... from his size, has new left-on riding. The French in this country who wish to pay their respects to their sovereign, write for permission to wait upon him, and are received agreeably to priority and rank. Their serene highnesses the prince of Conde, and the Duke of Bourbon, left Gosfield on Saturday, for Wanstead House; & Monsieur and the duke de Berri on Sunday, for London. The names of those of his own country who have yet been received are as follows: Princes of the House of Orleans. —The Duke of Orleans, and count de Beaujolais. The Princes of the House of Conde. —Their serene highnesses the prince of Conde, and duke de Bourbon, father of the ever to be lamented and heroic duke d'Enghien; the duke de Grammont, the duke de Serrant, the duke de Coigny, count E. Damas, count D'Escars, count de Vaudreuil, count D'Avray, count de Jarnac, count la Chatre, chevalier de la Reviere, monsieur de Barrouain, monsieur de Beauvais, &c.
Nov. 12. Mr. Kays, the Messenger, arrived yesterday at the foreign office with despatches from our minister at the court of Petersburg. A cabinet council was assembled at the foreign office, after the arrival of these despatches, and also took into consideration despatches received from Lisbon. The council continued in deliberation until 8 o'clock last night. Sir Sidney Smith arrived at Plymouth on Monday, and hoisted his flag on board the London, of 98 guns, in Cawsand Bay. It is said that 10,000 tons of shipping, lately hired for transports, are to rendezvous at Plymouth, to take troops on board for the new expedition.
There have been several arrivals from Portugal besides the Townsend packet, mentioned in our last. The latest accounts are brought by his majesty's brig Raleigh, which has arrived at Plymouth from Oporto, and which sailed from the latter port on the 31st ult. It may credit the intelligence brought by this vessel, the Portuguese government have abandoned the intention of removing to the Brazils, and has yielded to the mandates of Bonaparte. The court of Lisbon, we are informed, has issued a proclamation for excluding the ships and commerce of this country from the Portuguese dominions. A copy of the proclamation, it is said, has been brought to this country by the Raleigh, and is now in the possession of his majesty's ministers. We are happy to state, however, that the whole of the British property at Oporto has been safely embarked, chiefly on board of Portuguese bottoms. The vessels employed on this service form a considerable fleet, which was expected to sail the 2d of the present month, under convoy of the Lavinia frigate. The Raven sloop of war has received orders to lie off the bar of Lisbon, to prevent any more British vessels from entering that port. Lord Strangford and Mr. Gambier are expected to return to England in the Raven. The c is something very contradictory in all the intelligence from Portugal, and it is true that the ports of that country are shut against our ships, the measure must have been determined on very suddenly, or the secret of the Portuguese government has been remarkably well kept. It is stated in letters received by the Townsend, which did not sail until the 21st, that the prince de Beira had actually embarked for the Brazils. We know not how to reconcile these circumstances. We should be sorry to attribute to the Portuguese government any collusion with Bonaparte, but it has been hinted, that the plan of emigration to the Brazils may have been contrived, and presently acted upon, in order to afford time to secure their navy for the use of the enemy. It appears that all the Portuguese ships of war which were at sea have been recalled, and most of them have returned to port. We are far, however, from yielding to this suspicion, but at the same time we must confess that further information is necessary, before we can attempt to explain the motives on which the court of Lisbon has acted. In the meantime we lay before our readers extracts from two letters received by the Townsend which we believe contain the latest intelligence which has been received direct from Lisbon:
Lisbon, October 9. —Nothing particular has occurred here since my last of yesterday's date, but we are informed that troops are in motion throughout the whole of Spain. The price of bread and every kind of corn, &c. is rapidly increasing. October 30. —The French troops are not now expected here immediately. Our first visitors are to be our neighbours, the Spaniards. The Portuguese troops indeed seem to be paying the way for their entrance, for they are abandoning the provinces, and concentrating themselves on the coast. The preparations for the emigration of the court to the Brazils are continued apparently with vigour. In the mean time our ships of war have been recalled. The fleet of observation, which was cruising before Algiers, has arrived here. The large army which the French have assembled at Bayonne, is now expected to be stationed at Ferrol and Coruna. It is thought that it is the plan of the French government to assemble a number of ships at these ports, and to risk an expedition from them against Ireland during the winter. In the midst of all our confusion, the priests continue their influence over the minds of the populace, and indeed, the higher ranks also. The host has been expressed; and religious processions are daily followed by the nobility of both male and female. The theatres are shut; and on the one hand the greatest apathy, on the other the greatest alarm prevails. The crisis is dreadful, but there is this consolation, that in a very short time our fate will be decided.
At a late hour last night we received information of the arrival of the Auckland packet, in 13 days from Lisbon. The letters will be delivered this day, and we shall be enabled to communicate some further intelligence respecting the state of Portugal in our next.
The following letter contains some interesting particulars collected from passengers who arrived from Lisbon in the Townsend packet: FALMOUTH, Nov. 8. "The Townsend is the last regular packet of which I shall have to announce the arrival from Lisbon, a vessel having been ordered to cruise off the mouth to prevent any British shipping from entering the Tagus, after the departure of the Townsend on the 21st ultimo. It was expected, however, at Lisbon, that some light vessels would be allowed to lie in Cascaes Bay (outside the Tagus), and have communication with the Capital, particularly as there were a great number of English who could not possibly get a passage on board the convoy and who having given up their houses, &c. in expectation of being accommodated on board the fleet, were in the greatest distress. No French or Spanish troops had approached the northern frontier of Portugal; but considerable detached corps of Spanish troops
had assembled on the southern frontier and threatened invasion, in case she did not shut her ports against the English, or in case the court attempted to embark for the Brazils. Notwithstanding these threats, the prince regent had publicly notified the departure of his eldest son, the Principe de Beira, in an 84 gun ship, for that settlement; and, as six sail of the line besides, with several frigates, gun-boats, &c. were ready for a start, it was supposed he intended to depart also, in case of being driven to extremities. The situation of Lisbon, at the time the Townsend quitted, particularly after the convoy under the Lively had sailed, was extremely distressing. All commerce and confidence were annihilated. The Portuguese eyed every foreigner with jealousy, nor could they trust each other."
PORTSMOUTH, Nov. 10. Arrived the Betsy, cutter, from the channel fleet, with captain Conn, late of his majesty's ship Hibernia, who is appointed to the Swiftsure here, for Sir John B. Warren's flag.
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS. —November 10. This day, at three, the lord chancellor, the earl of Winchelsea, and earl Camden, commissioners for proroguing the Parliament, attended in the house of peers; and the usher of the black rod having summoned the commons to hear the commission read, Mr. Dyson the assistant clerk, representing the commons, appeared at the bar of the house of Lords. The commission being read, the lord chancellor said, "My lords and Gentlemen, "By virtue of his majesty's commission, under the great seal, to us and other lords directed, and now read, and by authority of the same, we do declare the present parliament to be further prorogued until Thursday the 17th of December next, then here to be held; and this parliament is prorogued accordingly."
GIBRALTAR, October 3. According to the latest accounts from Madrid, a rupture between France and Portugal is now considered unavoidable. Upwards of 35,000 men are already assembled in the environs of Bayonne, and they are expected to enter Spain without delay. On the 30th, under convoy of his majesty's ship Imperieuse, Captain Lord Cochrane, a fleet of English vessels arrived in 17 days from Portsmouth, with provisions for the army and navy, gunpowder, sugar, and coffee, tobacco, sundry merchandise, &c. for this place and the Mediterranean.
OCTOBER 8. Yesterday the Hindostan arrived from Malta, with the convoy from that place for England under her charge, after a passage of twenty-four days. By the last accounts from Egypt, our troops were all healthy there, and plentifully supplied with provisions of every kind by the Arabs. All communication between the garrison and Spain was this day unexpectedly cut off, in consequence of positive orders sent from Madrid for that purpose. This step has been taken in consequence of a representation from the French ambassador to the court of Spain, that we might not receive any intelligence of the movements of the different French armies which are advancing into Spain.
OCTOBER 16. On the 13th the Cartier packet arrived from Sicily and Malta, with the mails for this place and England, in 19 days passage. When the Cartier left Messina, the French had assembled a large army in the neighborhood of the Castle Sicily, and were only waiting for their battering train to commence the siege. The army from Egypt was soon expected in Sicily, orders having been sent for the evacuation of that country. All communication between this place and Spain is now rigidly cut off; and the Spaniards have doubled the guards in their lines; and it is said that a large French army is marching towards this place for the purpose of besieging the garrison. The greatest discontent and alarm prevails in Spain at the entrance of the French armies into that country, and sending their troops into Germany; which is universally believed to be a preparatory measure to the subversion of the government by Bonaparte. Twenty thousand of the best Spanish troops are also on their march to Portugal, to co-operate with the French army destined for that country.
OF THE DANES. A late writer has observed on the documents accompanying the capitulation of Copenhagen; that it is an indelible monument of the most atrocious perfidy that the history of nations has recorded! It will be remarked that, according to the English reports, the Danes had but few regular troops in the island of Zealand. The unjust mistrust inspired for this long time past in the Danish cabinet; had blinded it with regard to the cowardly and infamous designs of the English Ministry; and this fatal blindness cost Denmark both her fleet and her capital. It is useless to make any more reflections upon this painful event; it enables one, however, to judge which of the two great belligerent Powers best observed the laws of neutrality; which of them Denmark had to fear. Indeed, supposing that they both wished to make her enter into their dispute, one cannot help regretting that the Danish cabinet should have set more importance upon securing Holstein with its best troops, than upon protecting the capital of its dominions and the centre of its maritime power. Supposing it to have equally suspected the sincerity of the belligerent Powers, it was its interest to court the favour of France rather than that of England, because it could better defend itself against the latter and might hope for more from the former. No doubt, had the Danish army defended Denmark, the English would have been shamefully expelled from thence; this odious enterprise would have inconsistently turned to their confusion; whereas in case of a capture with France, the whole Danish army would have been unable to resist the far superior numbers which it would have had to fight upon the Continent.
Thus even admitting the calumnies which the cabinet of St. James's was so nearly interested in accrediting, it is evident that there was more wisdom and policy in securing Zealand than in defending Holstein. These regrets are useless, it is afflicting to say it; but these ruses diplomatiques of which Denmark is the victim, serve better to set forth the infamy of this aggression and ought at least to lower a little of the ridiculous pride which the ministerial writers have displayed in vaunting a victory without danger, without glory, and without any durable utility. That thirty-six thousand chosen troops, that an immense fleet provided with all the means of destruction, should have contrived to surprise a neutral country open on every side, defended by a burgher guard strangers to the profession of arms, and by peasants armed with scythes; that they should have spread conflagration throughout a whole city, caused the ruin of peaceable merchants and the death of so many old men, women and children, is not where-withal to cause the names of Cathcart, Gambier and Wellesley to be transmitted to posterity; these noble exploits will not raise the honour of the British troops so carefully husbanded in the last war, and always vanquished as soon as they dared to set foot upon the Continent. The decorations with which government rewards them, are like posts which it raises
in order to perpetuate the infamy of its policy. Even to-day in the very heat of the glorious joy, the panegyrists of the minister cannot conceal what they content themselves with calling the injustice of this measure. But when the inexorable future will have judged this crime, as soon as the conclusion of peace or the continuation of the war will have developed its fatal effects, there will remain in the mind of man only a general abhorrence, and the descendants of those famous Compagnons who are now decorated with new titles will be careful to conceal their odious origin. Such feats may be paid for with money; but to reward them with distinctions destined for the illustration of fine actions, is to devote to public contempt, the honours which are lavished upon them; it is holding out to the eyes of nations principles subversive of all order both moral and religious. We shall not take upon ourselves to judge of the military operations of the Danish General charged with the defence of Copenhagen. But from the last communications which took place between the English Generals and him, it may be judged that, continually harassed with menaces, sunk under the weight of pain and weakness he yielded only with the internal conviction that he surpassed his powers, and that his conduct would be disavowed by the Prince-Royal. Besides, the English Generals Cathcart, &c. attached but little importance to the ratification of this capitulation; their aim was to carry off the fleet, and, they have accordingly made every effort to equip it speedily. Everything announces that they do not think of defending a position more important for them than the possession of a few men of war. Thus this famous expedition is going to be terminated rather like a nocturnal excursion of a band of robbers hard pressed to secure the fruits of their crime, than like the victory of an army jealous of retaining the glorious advantages which it has conquered.
THE ENQUIRER. RICHMOND, DECEMBER 19, 1807.
Virginia Legislature. HOUSE OF DELEGATES, MONDAY, DECEMBER 14.
Mr. Smith (A. Wythe) from the committee for courts of justice made the following report: The committee for courts of justice have according to order had under their consideration several petitions to them referred, and have come to the following resolutions thereupon: 1. Resolved , That it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry persons praying that the court of Rockbridge county, may hereafter be held on the Monday before the first Tuesday in every month, is reasonable. 2. Resolved , That it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of Henry J. Arnold, praying that an act may pass vesting in the petitioner the right of the commonwealth to a certain lot of ground lying in the city of Richmond, whereof William F. Ast died seized and intestate, and which hath escheated to the commonwealth, is reasonable. 3. Resolved , That it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of Sarah Hewlett administratrix of William Hewlett, dec'd, praying that an act may pass authorizing a sale of a tract of land of one hundred acres lying in Caroline county, whereof the said William died seized and intestate, and an application of the proceeds of the said sales towards discharging the debts of the said decedent be rejected. 4. Resolved , That it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of Elizabeth Michael, praying that an act may pass vesting in her the right of the commonwealth to a certain tract of land lying in the county of Hardy, whereof a certain John Shoemaker died seized and intestate without heirs capable of inheriting the same, be rejected. 5. Resolved , That it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of David Henderson and Alexander Duncan administrators of John Galloway, dec'd, attorneys in fact of Elizabeth Grieve and John Grieve, which Elizabeth is the only sister of Robert Galloway, dec'd, and the guardian of the children of John Galloway, praying that the right of the commonwealth to a house and lot whereof the said Robert Galloway died seized, intestate, and lying in the town of Fredericksburg, may be relinquished in favor of the petitioners, in order that they may be enabled thereby, to comply with a contract made by the said John Galloway for the sale of the said house and lot, from a supposition that he had a right so to do as the brother of the said Robert Galloway, be rejected. 6. Resolved , That it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of Ambrose W. Widen, setting forth that he hath detected his wife Betsey in an illicit amour, and experienced in her other bad treatment, and that an act may pass divorcing him from his said wife, be rejected. The 1st, 5th and 6th resolutions being read a second time were on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the house. The 2d, 3d and 4th resolutions being read a second time, were, on motion, Ordered , to be laid upon the table. Ordered , That a bill be bro't in pursuant to the first resolution, and that the committee for courts of justice do prepare and bring in the same. A motion was made that the house should come to the following resolutions: Resolved , That the General Assembly of Virginia, view with great consideration and respect, the wise, firm and energetic measures pursued by the President of the United States, relative to the unprecedented conduct of Great-Britain towards the United States of America, particularly in the insidious, cowardly and unjustifiable attack made by the Leopard ship of war of 50 guns (in a state of profound peace) on the American frigate Chesapeake— Resolved , therefore, That the General Assembly of Virginia do solemnly in the name of themselves, and the good people of Virginia (who they represent) declare that they will with all the energies of the Commonwealth second and support the American Congress now in session in all and every thing they may adopt for a restoration of the injuries that England has so cruelly, and so contrary to the usages of all civilized nations, inflicted on the honor and independence of the flag of the United States of America. Resolved , also, That the General Assembly will from this day forward, appropriate one third of their daily pay for the purchase or manufacture of arms, as the case may be, for the purpose of forming one or two regiments of the militia of this commonwealth. On motion, Ordered , That the said resolution be laid upon the table.
Yesterday, Mr. Gholson introduced a resolution into the H. of Delegates for a committee to be appointed to bring in "a bill to organize and establish a superior court of Law and Equity in each county of this Commonwealth, and to abolish the present District Courts of Law and District Courts of Chancery."—After some opposition, he was granted to bring in a bill, and a committee appointed, consisting of Messrs. Gholson, Walker, Murdaugh, Preston, Tucker, Mallory, Payne (Monroe) and Spethler.
JAMES MUNROE. It is impossible for us to do adequate justice to the elevated feelings and splendid honours, which have been called forth by James Munroe's arrival in this city.
It was understood, in the course of Thursday, that this distinguished citizen would probably arrive in Richmond on that evening. One sentiment only appeared on this occasion, and that sentiment was, to pay the most distinguished honours to this virtuous and incorruptible Republican.
The light horse and military companies were solicitous to escort him into the city; and lest he should arrive without their knowledge, an express was despatched on the Williamsburg road, to meet him and to request some information of his approach. Luckily, the express met him and his family on Thursday evening, travelling in the stage to this city. Mr. Munroe, though extremely solicitous to come on as fast as possible, politely consented to gratify the ardent anxiety of his fellow-citizens, and to remain that night, at a tavern about 15 miles from this city.
Very early yesterday morning, a carriage was sent to conduct our illustrious countryman and his family into town. About 10 o'clock the Troop of Horse under the command of capt. Sheppard, and the light infantry companies of the city went forth to meet and escort him into town.
About half after one o'clock, his approach was announced by the discharge of Artillery stationed on the Capitol hill. About 2 o'clock, Mr. Munroe appeared at the foot of the Hill, at the head of the line, and surrounded by the field officers. The same openness of countenance, the same simplicity of manners, distinguished this favorite of the people. Mr. Munroe politely and civilly returned the salutations of the immense crowd, who surrounded and attended him.
The Legislature had adjourned at a very early hour, most evidently with a view of gratifying the honest curiosity of the members. The military with Mr. Munroe at their head ascended the hill, marched round the Capitol, and formed the line on the Capitol square. The capitol and hill were lined with anxious spectators. After a short time the Procession returned down the Capitol hill through the main street to the Bell-Tavern, where Mr. Munroe's family had taken up their lodgings: When they arrived before the Bell, the fine Band of music attached to Capt. Richardson's company, struck up the beautiful air, of "the soldier's return," when Mr. Munroe retired.
At half after 4, an immense company assembled at the Bell, to celebrate this "distinguished citizen's return to his native country." The company consisted of about 120 members of the Virginia Legislature, the governor and all the members of the Executive Council, and a large concourse of the inhabitants of this city and its vicinity. Between 2 and 3 hundred attended this interesting festival. There was a greater number of guests than could be accommodated in the large Ball-room and adjoining passage. The Governor presided. After a very plentiful and elegant entertainment, the following toasts were drank amidst the enthusiastic plaudits of the company. 1. The United States of America—free, sovereign, and independent, disdaining submission to the unjust pretensions of any nation on earth. 3 cheers. 2. The People. The only true source of all political power, and the only safe defenders of themselves. 3 cheers. 3. The President of the United States. 9 cheers. 4. The Militia of the U. States—prepared with patriotic ardour and invincible valour to oppose and repel every invading foe. 3 cheers. 5. The Navy of the U. States. May honorable reparation be made or speedy vengeance be taken for its violated flag. 3 cheers. 6. American manufactures, the true support of genuine American independence. 3 Cheers. 7. The freedom of the seas—from a ship of the line to a cockle-shell—3 Cheers. 8. The British ministry. May they know their own interests, before it be too late. 6 Cheers. 9. May those who will not permit the friends of peace to enjoy its blessings, receive their just punishment from the evils of war. 3 Cheers. 10. Louisiana—The fruitful mine of wealth and the future nursery of Freemen—Thanks to the Negotiators who have secured it to our country! 9 Cheers. 11. The patriot's reward—The cordial affection of his friends, and just applause of his country. 9 Cheers. 12. National Gratitude—How far more genial to the virtuous heart, than all the diadems that ambition dreams of!—3 Cheers. 13. Honorable Peace or glorious War. 9 Cheers. 14. The memory of Gen. WASHINGTON—Let tyrants tremble, while the Sons of Liberty kindle at his glorious example. 9 Cheers. 15. Bunker's Hill—May the spirit of our Forefathers be upon us. 9 Cheers. 16. The upright negotiator, unskilled in the arts of intrigue, but true to his country's interest. 3 Cheers. 17. The pure Republican, ever faithful to his principles, and inflexible from the path of rectitude. 3 cheers.
VOLUNTEER. By Col JAMES MUNROE—May the free and virtuous citizens of America, never repose their confidence in undeserving men. These were high honours paid to Mr. Munroe, but we confidently hope that we may say of him, as Junius has said of Lord Chatham, "Recorded honours shall gather round his monument and thicken over him. It is a solid fabric, and will support the laurels that adorn it. These praises are extorted from us; but they will wear well, for they have been dearly earned."
FOR SALE. 121,000 acres of LAND in Kentucky county, in the forks of Great Sandy river: 24,000 do. in Tazewell county, on the waters of Clinch river: 20,000 do. in the county of Wythe, on Reed and Peak creeks: 1,000 do. in Randolph county, on the waters of Cheat river: Also, 30,000 acres of Virginia Land Warrants. The above will be sold very low, and great accommodation given in the payments. To REENT, a Brick House, on Shocoe-Hill, in a good neighborhood, and possessing every accommodation for a family. Dec. 19. THOS. NORVELL.
JOHN SCUDDER , respectfully informs the Ladies & Gentlemen of Richmond, Manchester and their Vicinities, that his GRAND EXHIBITION is now open for the reception of Company, at the Eagle Tavern, Main-Street, Richmond: Consisting of the Historical PANORAMA of the ever-memorable BATTLE OF BUNKER'S HILL , with a view of Charles River, the English Shipping, and Floating Batteries. Also, a view of Corps Hill , in Boston, Massachusetts. Likewise, THE BOMBARDMENT OF TRIPOLI , by the United States' Squadron of Frigates and Gun-Boats, under the command of the brave Commodore Edward Preble ; with a view of the town, batteries and adjacent Country. The destruction of the Frigate PHILADELPHIA , in the Harbour of Tripoli, by that gallant officer Captain Stephen Decatur , in the Ketch Intrepid , assisted by the Big Syren . A correct likeness of BRUCE WATSON, Esq. A most singular trait in the history of this Man, when 22 years of age, he being in the port of Havana, bathing in the water, was attacked by an enormous Shark, who seized him by the leg and tore it from his body, at the joint of the knee. The ship's boat was instantly sent to the unhappy man's relief, and arrived barely in time to rescue Mr. Watson, at the very moment when the shark was turning to attack him the second time: a surgical aid was immediately administered, Mr. Watson recovered and some years after this truly miraculous escape, he was chosen Lord Mayor of the City of London. Admission, from 8 in the morning till 9 in the evening. The Room will be well lighted every evening (Sunday excepted.) Admittance, 50 cents.—Children half price. N. B. This Painting contains 600 square feet of Canvas, and was executed by that eminent Italian Artist, P. Corney . Dec. 19. [14]
By virtue of a Deed of Trust from David Ross and Thomas Norvell to the Subscribers, bearing date the 4th day of December last, and of record in the Honorable the General Court of this Commonwealth; will be exposed to sale on Friday the 18th day of next month (December), before the door of the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, at public auction, for ready money, for the purpose in the said trust deed mentioned, five tracts or parcels of LAND in the county of Fluvanna, adjoining each other, containing in the whole three thousand one hundred and eighty acres, be the same more or less, it being the same lands conveyed to the said David Ross by John Granberry and Susanna his wife, Littleton W. Tazewell and Ann S. his wife, and Michael W. Hancock. Also, one other Tract in the counties of Montgomery and Botetourt, called FORA LEWIS , containing two thousand six hundred acres, be the same more or less. WM. C. WILLIAMS, } Trustees. JOHN PROSSER, Richmond, Nov. 20. The Sale of the above property is postponed by consent of the parties interested, until Wednesday the 23d instant, then to be sold before the door of the Eagle Tavern. WM. C. WILLIAMS, } Trustees. JOHN PROSSER. Dec. 19. [ep54]
WILL BE SOLD , to the highest bidder, for ready money, in pursuance of a deed of trust executed by William H. Clarke, to the subscriber, for the purpose of securing to Charles Elam, the payment of a certain sum of money therein specified, one certain tract or parcel of LAND, situate, lying and being in the county of Powhatan, and adjacent to the Buckingham road, containing one hundred and twenty-four acres of Land, more or less, on Thursday the 31st day of the present month, between the hours of 1 and 5 P. M. JAS. GATES, Trustee. Dec. 19. [ep54]
VIRGINIA. —At a Superior Court of Chancery held at the Capitol, in Richmond, May 1st, 1807. Samuel Booker, administrator, with the will annexed of Wm. Brown, deceased, Plaintiff —Against J. John Scott and William Weir, Defendants . The defendant Wm. Weir, 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 country, on motion of the plaintiff by counsel; It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the bill of the plaintiff, 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 Capitol in the said city. A Copy, Teste, PETER TINSLEY, c. v. Dec. 19. [1aw8v]
NOTICE —To all whom it may concern—That whereas I became indebted to George Madison, of King William county, for a balance of the purchase money for a negro man James; which negro was sold by Jno. Meredith, &c. to whom I paid the sum of £74 15, the amount of three executions—vs. George Madison and Jno. Powers; one in favor of James Jones and two in favor of John Mill, and gave my bond for the balance of £35 5, which bond was given by Geo. Madison to Roger Madison, for some purpose I know not what, and said Roger made affidavit before Thomas R. Evans, one of the commonwealth's justices, that he had lost said bond in the river, in consequence of which affidavit I gave a second bond for the said balance of £35 5, payable January 17th, 1808, or ought to be payable on that day, to Reuben Madison, of the county aforesaid, for said George Madison; and whereas the said George is indebted to me as a factor of Lucy Leigh, in a very considerable sum, for which there is a suit now depending in the district court of King & Queen, &c. and also on the 23d of the present month, the said George drew an order on the sheriff of King William, for the amount of an execution sued out of King William court, at my suit vs. Bowden & Doffarges, in said George Madison's name, which execution the Clerk failed to endorse for my benefit as was done on the papers. Now, for these two reasons, I shall be sure to stop payment on the said bond or note for £35 5—and I do hereby forewarn all persons from trading for, buying or taking an assignment of said bond or note, as I shall undoubtedly stop payment, till said Madison settles with me, and more particularly Reuben Madison from passing it off, as I believe it is in his hands yet for said George. JAMES JONES. King & Queen, Dec. 19. [14]
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD —Stolen with the Saddle-Bags of the Farmville Post-rider, two water proof Locks, belonging to a double-barreled gun: the cock of the right hand lock was broken off with the part of the tumbler with which it was connected: the upper jaw and screw of the left hand cock were wanting. The above reward will be given to any person delivering them at the office of the Enquirer, or furthering them to the subscriber—No questions asked. THOS. ROBINSON. Farmville, Prince-Edward, Dec. 19.—[oaw3v]