Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1807-05-23 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS
[XVth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[No. 1356.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum—paid in Advance.]
SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1807.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
VIRGINIA, TO WIT: At a Chancery District Court, held at the former Capitol, in the city of Williamsburg, the 25th day of October, 1806. Robert C. Jacob, Mary Ann Haggamon, widow of John Haggamon, deceased, and Elizabeth, Nancy, Sarah, John and Mary Haggamon, infant children of the said John Haggamon, deceased, by the said Mary Ann, their mother and next friend, plaintiffs. Against Elisha Hall, Richard Hall and Mary his wife, Elizabeth Hall, only child of the said Richard and Mary, and Peter Conway, defendants. THE defendant Peter Conway 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 the motion of the plaintiffs by their 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 plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. A Copy, ANTY. ROBINSON, C. C.
VIRGINIA, TO WIT: At a Chancery District Court, held at the former Capitol, in the city of Williamsburg, the 25th day of October, 1806. Robert Clark Jacob, William Hathaway and Molly his wife, late the widow of Robert Currell, deceased, and Elizabeth Currell, daughter of the said Robert Currell, deceased, plaintiffs. Against Elisha Hall, Richard Hall, and Mary his wife, Elizabeth Hall, only child of the said Richard and Mary, and Peter Conway, defendants. THE defendant Peter Conway, 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 the motion of the plaintiffs by their 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 plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. A Copy, ANTY. ROBINSON, C. C.
VIRGINIA, TO WIT: At a Chancery District Court, held at the former Capitol, in the city of Williamsburg, the 25th day of October, 1806. Robert Clark Jacob, William Hathaway and Molly his wife, late the widow of Robert Currell, deceased, and Elizabeth Currell, daughter of the said Robert Currell, deceased, plaintiffs. Against Elisha Hall, Richard Hall, and Mary his wife, Elizabeth Hall, only child of the said Richard and Mary, and Peter Conway, defendants. THE defendant Peter Conway, 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 the motion of the plaintiffs by their 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 plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. A Copy, ANTY. ROBINSON, C. C.
We have lately received, FOR SALE, 12 bds. sugar 15 boxes cotton & wool 30 bds. do do 4 tons casings assorted 2000 lbs. green coffee 10 bds. Antigua rum 5 do. Windward Island do. 15 bds. N. E. rum 15 bds. do do 12 bds. molasses 8 cases Malaga wine 20 tiers & bds. whisky 4 pipes apple brandy 10 do do 22 crates Liverpool ware assorted 10 do stone do 15 cards cotton & wool do do 4 tons casings assorted, viz. pots, ovens, skillets, spiders, and irons, tea-kettles and waggon boxes 350 sacks salt 100 bds cut herrings 50 do whole do 15 do shad 40 lbs Spanish indigo 15 bds nutmegs 100 pr men's fine shoes 50 do coarse do 500 lbs Glauber salts We have also on hand, Iven Cinnamon, Crawley and Bismeral Steel Race & ground ginger Pepper Alsipie FF & F powder Shot, assorted sizes French brandy Rice Cheese Wrought and cut nails, assorted sizes Class ware, viz. 1-2 pt. tumblers and decanters, assorted sizes Mats We daily expect to receive, a quantity of Sherry Wine, Window Glass, Copers and Allum, all of which articles, we will sell at a small advance for cash, approved paper or country produce. Shapard & Lucke. Richmond, May 3, 1806. Foolscap & Letter Paper For sale at this office.
CHARLOTTE COURT, 4th MARCH, 1807. John Harvey, Plaintiff Against Richard Adams and Charles Mc Kinney, Defendants. THE defendant Adams not having entered his appearance according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney, It is ordered, that he appear here on the first day of June court next and answer the plaintiff's bill, and give security to the satisfaction of the court for performing the decree of the said court, that a copy of this order be inserted in one of the Virginia gazettes for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of the said county. A copy—Teste, THOMAS READ, Cl k.
Hat Manufactory. THE subscriber returns his most grateful thanks to his friends and the public in general, for past favors, in his line of business, and takes this method of informing them that he has removed his Hat Manufactory, near Bacon Branch. His sale store is at the old stand, on the main street, nearly opposite Col. Robert Gamble's where he has on hand, a large and general assortment of HATS, Of various descriptions.—Being convinced from the retired situation of his manufact-ory, and the excellence of his workmen, that he can have his work better executed than in the heart of the city, and flatters himself from a strictness to business, to merit a continuance of their custom—he assures them that nothing on his part shall be wanting to give general satisfaction —A general supply of hats is kept at the man-ufactory for the convenience of the peo-ple residing in the country. The highest price given for all kinds of FUR. SOLOMON MARKS. Richmond, May 7, 1807. w3m
Royster & Bohannan, Respectfully inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received a general assortment of GROCERIES, Which they will sell low for cash, country produce, or good notes at sixty days—AMONGST WHICH ARE—Brown Sugar in bds. Tumblers, pint and half pint Leaf Sugar in do. do. Decanters, quart and pint Antigua RUM {Leiper's Snuff N. England {Window Glass Best Cogniac Brandy {London Mustard Holland Gin {Rice Country do. {Coppers Madeira {New York Candles Sherry {Ginger Malaga {Alsipie Dry Lisbon {Pepper Hibernia's {Queen's Ware in Stout and Porter {crates, assorted Writing Paper {New York Soap Brown do. {Imperial & } TEAS Nutmegs {V. Hyson Indigo {Best Green Coffee in Allum {bags Salt Petre {Sack Salt English Gun Powder {Cotton and Wool Shot, assorted {Cards, by the box, } assorted. Richmond, April 1, 1807. tf
MAP OF VIRGINIA. THE subscribers to the MAP OF VIR-GINIA, are respectfully informed, that some copies of the work are now ready for delivery, and may be furnished by calling on Mr. JOHN PUMFREY, Stationer and Book binder, whom we have appointed our agent for the city of Richmond. No time shall be lost to furnish the whole of our subscribers as well as purcha-sers. THE PROPRIETORS. Richmond, May 13, 1807. 1m
New Book. Just received and for sale at this office, price 62 1-2 cents, an original work, entitled, "AN ESSAY ON THE HUMAN CHARACTER OF JESUS CHRIST. By WILLIAM AUSTIN. Boston, Printed for William Pelham—1807. ADVERTISEMENT. The following essay, I am sensible, is but a sketch. If it have merit, it will be ex-ecuted to the design, rather than to the execution. The subject is worthy the hand of a master, and is still open to much philosophical research. I have endeavored to explain a new, but indirect, source of argument in favor of the Divinity of Je-sus Christ. For my support, I have relied on human nature, and strengthened my proofs by illustration and parallel, so far as illustration and parallel could be applicable to the character. I thought it possible to render the subject amusing, as well as interesting, to piety. Let the public judge.
TO THE PUBLIC. THE Subscriber has removed to an house near the upper end of the Town on the Street leading from the Capitol square. He continues to practise law in all the Su-perior Courts held in the City of Richmond, and also in the District Court of Bruns-wick. His Clients may rely on his utmost assiduity and attention to the business en-trusted to his care. Wm. MUNFORD.
JUST RECEIVED, From Dr. Church's Dispensary New-York, and for sale at this Printing-Of-fice, a fresh supply of the following Patent Medicines: CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS, A medicine unequalled by any in the world, for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma & consump-tions. PATIROSA LOZENGES, For the voice, hoarseness, colds, coughs, &c. &c. CHEMICAL ESSENCE AND EXTRACT OF MUSTARD, For the cure of the rheumatism, gout, rheuma-tic gout, palsy, white swelling, chilblains, &c. &c. ANODYNE ESSENCE, for the head-ache. VOLATILE TINCTURE, for the tooth-ache THE BOTANICAL TEA. INFALLIBLE GERMAN CORN PLAISTER, For the cure of corns. CHURCH'S ANALYPTIC FEMALE PILLS. SCOTCH OINTMENT, Cures the most inveterate itch in four hours with out Mercur-y. EYE SALVE, for all disorders of the eyes. ANTISCORBUTIC TINCTURE, For the teeth, breath, and scurvy in the gums. ESSENCE OF SCURVY-GRASS, For preventing and curing the sea & land scurvy. VERMIFUGE LOZENGES, For destroying worms in children & grown per-sons. ANTISPASMODIC ELIXIR, For the cure of all kinds of Fits. CORDIAL RESTORATIVE BALSAM, For nervous disorders, debility inward weakness &c. &c. VEGETABLE LOTION, For the face & skin, freckles, sun-burns, prickly heat, ring worms, tatters, &c. &c. DR. CHURCH'S ANTIBILOUS PILLS, For the cure of malignant and bilious fevers, dyspepsia, jaundice, costiveness, acidity, cho-lera morbus, gravel, indigestion, loss of appe-tite, and all disorders of the head, stomach and bowels. THE GENUINE PATENT ALTERNATIVE PILLS, For the cure of scurvy, cutaneous disorders, the venereal disease, &c. HOOPER'S FEMALE PILLS. ESSENCE OF PEPPER MINT. ALSO, DR. CHURCH'S TREATISE ON THE VENereal. Containing plain and easy directions for the speedy and effectual cure of that disease in both sexes; whereby any person may cure themselves a small expense—price half a dol-lar.
ROBERT M'DOWELL, RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he continues to keep entertain-ment at the Red House in Jennings' Gap, sign of the Spread Eagle, situated in the forks of two roads, 12 miles from Staunton and 21 miles from Harrisonburg, leading directly to the different Mineral Springs in the back country. His house is large and airy, with plenty of lodging rooms, well furnished with good Beds. Liquors of the best quality. Also good Stables, to hold upwards of thirty horses, well furnished with Hay and Grain, and an excellent Host-ler, &c. He flatters himself by his assidui-ty to please to give general satisfaction to those who call on him. May 11th, 1807. Gw
New Publications. Just received and for sale at this office TOOK'S DIVERSIONS OF PURLEY, THE WILD IRISH GIRL, A NATIONAL TALE, MCCULLOCH'S SELECTED MUSIC, in 16 numbers; just published. GEOGRAPHICAL COMPILATION, in 2 vols. Also just received and for sale as above, a very general collection of the most ap-proved SONG BOOKS. May 16.
BOOK BINDING, IN all its variety, is executed by the sub-scriber, at the Argus printing office and book store, with punctuality, neatness and dispatch, and in the most modern, improved and fashionable style. Printed Books bound in the most elegant and substantial manner, in morocco and calf, full gilt and lettered—also, in sheep gilt, and plain. BLANK BOOKS of every description, ruled to any pattern, and bound with the latest improved spring and patent backs, and Rus-sia bands & parchment corners, which add much to the strength of the books and ease and convenience of the writer. Orders from the country will be thank-fully received and punctually attended to as above.—Old books re-bound. WILLIAM LOWNES. Richmond, Feb. 16, 1807.
To the Public. THE Subscriber has removed to an house near the upper end of the Town on the Street leading from the Capitol square. He continues to practise law in all the Su-perior Courts held in the City of Richmond, and also in the District Court of Bruns-wick. His Clients may rely on his utmost assiduity and attention to the business en-trusted to his care. Wm. MUNFORD.
Miscellaneous. EXTRACT From "WAR".—a Poem not yet published. O! FREEDOM! first of social joys be-low, And dearest gift that Heav'n did first bes-tow; How bright thine eras when unstain'd with blood, The cause of Virtue and the cause of God! From EUROPE's realms, long sunk in civil night, The pensive Goddess wings her lonely flight; From GALLIC climes, with wild and streaming eyes, In tatter'd robes the exil'd mourner flies. Lo! to COLUMBIA's fair and happy land She comes with blooming laurels in her hand; Here thron'd in light, she plants her last abode, Where spreads the blessings of her lib'ral code; While on a nobler scale and more refin'd She weighs the levell'd interests of man-kind; Corrects the faults of all preceding times—Unpierc'd with groans, uncrimson'd with their crimes. O'er far spread lands her fost'ring eye she bends; O'er a new world her peerless reign ex-tends; The plow her care; the wheaten sheaf and vine Adorn her fields and with her laurels twine; O'er her gay climes fair Peace exulting roves, Guards her long shores and hunts her ru-ral groves— While, far remote, she hears the tempest roar, And sees the nations plung'd in lakes of gore; No sound of War disturbs her smiling plains, Where cheerful Labor reaps its honest gains; Where cultur'd soils their beauteous scenes unfold, Richer than Albion's fleets or India's gold. O! Thou in Heav'n, earth's only rightful king, From whom our sweetest, choicest bles-sings spring; These are thy gifts; from thy blest hand they came, Thy hand, great GOD! can still preserve the same. Long, long may ghastly War these regions fly, And virtuous FREEDOM all our wants supply; And O! for bleeding lands and realms that groan, Let seraph PEACE their countless wrongs atone; O! break Oppression's chains, the nations free; Give back to man his long lost liberty; And let a world, too long by battle gourd, See EUROPE's madmen sheathe the mur-dering sword: Nor more, with crimson streams, their plains defile, Nor drag their slaves, unwilling to the toil; But let the proud some human feelings find, Nor think it serving THEE to scourge man-kind. WHOSE FAULT IS IT? YOU see a man sick or diseased—the knowledge of diseases is not to be acquired by instinct, yet you will see a sick man go to a quack, who says little because he knows nothing, and promises much because his principal knowledge lies in his experience of human credulity; his advice is very sim-ple and therefore cheap. A physician might to be sure save a constitution or a life, by curing a disease, but then he might ask ten or twenty dollars for it—it is always better to be sick than to pay so dearly for health—and if we choose to be sick—it is nobody's fault but our own. Every day during the winter and spring we see men and horses and wagons up to knees and hubs in mud—but there is no turnpike toll to pay for travelling thro' mud; and altho' the loss of time, and waggon wear, and horse flesh may cost an hundred dollars a year, that is better than to pay five dollars for half a year's turnpike—or ten for a whole year—but we have been ac-customed to wade thro' the mud and to waste time and horse flesh—custom is a second nature; and if we choose to consult quack doctors, travel thro' the mud, we have the right to do so, until we see reasons to do otherwise—if we do not change our minds after we know better, why then it is our own fault. So it is you see men every day going to law, and laying out thousands of dollars on a hundred dollar law suit, who would not give a quarter dollar for charity—but they do not want charity, tho' they want law; they can get nothing by charity, but a heavy fee may give them a prize in the law lottery. Whose fault is it? Why it is every body's fault—and being every body's busi-ness, nobody takes any trouble about it.—The Mahomedans never put out a fire, nor
move any article of their household; they say it was predestined—that it is the will of God—and why should they attempt to put out fire—your fire and hose companies would be set down as jacobines and refor-mers, enemies of religion, in the countries of the Moslems. We have certainly among us—true be-lievers, who seem to think that quack doc-tors and muddy roads, and common law, are preordained and immutable—which must stand unaltered and unamended, in secula seculorum. If our legislators would pay as much at-tention to the duties for which they are ap-pointed, we should see roads and laws a-mended; but as to the quacks, when we see the most revered clergy and the grave phi-losophers running after Doctor Simplicity, and swelling his inimitable exiit—that is their own fault.—Aurora. Stand for Shoemaker's work. Mr. Thomas Barker has contrived a bench at which shoe-makers can work in a standing posture; it consists of a perfora-ted board, whose edge is surrounded with a cushion covered with leather, and sup-ported by four legs: it thus somewhat re-sembles a bason stand. It is four feet high, and the perforation is about six inches in diameter: the shoe and last is laid across the above annular cushion, is retained firm-ly by a strap, which passes round it, & des-cends to a treadle, on which the workman rests his foot. A little flat leather cushion, used in adjusting the last st. ap, and a small triangular prism of wood on which boots are closed, completes the apparatus.—Dr. Aiken's (London) Athenaeum. FROM THE LYNCHBURG STAR. New-London, May 8, 1807.
AS a friend to successful education, Dr. Graham will unquestionably give the fol-lowing a place in the Lynchburg Star. About two years ago, a gentleman of this place proposed, that four or five heads of families should jointly employ some young man of talent and worth, to teach their children.—That the number of scholars should not, by any consideration, be per-mitted to exceed fifteen—that the govern-ment of the scholar should be adapted to the age of the children, giving them such intervals of relaxation and amusement, as would secure a continuance of their health, and keep up the necessary fondness for their books and the business of school —And that they should be instructed in Spel-ling, Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic; and occasionally be made to write down some sketch of some natural history, as they could remember, after hearing the teacher read it deliberately over and over, two or three times. The proposal was approved.—Without delay they engaged a young gentleman, who has served them until this date, and who, to say the least for him, has fully an-swered their most sanguine expectations. It is really charming, to hear the little pupils spelling with a degree of correct-ness, almost surpassing credibility. And some of them at five years old, not only read very prettily, but can also write a legible hand—Small boys and girls eight or ten years old, read correctly, and by a judicious use of tone, cadence and emph-a-sis, prove that they have considerable knowledge of the subject matter which they read. Some of them are already very well acquainted with the common rules of vulgar and decimal arithmetic. And their essays at transcribing sketches of natural history as above, are such, that any per-son not acquainted with the fact, would be confident, the little performers must have had the book before them at every word. Such are the effects of a small school un-der the tuition of a proper teacher. Two years have rolled around and not a jar has ever taken place. Employers, tea-chers and scholars are all united; and it may be said, with truth, that the school has been conducted in perfect harmony. Let those who are penuriously attempt-ing to cheapen education, by bringing to-gether twenty, thirty, and forty children, from every part of a whole extensive neigh-borhood, compare these facts with the or-dinary effects of their dangerous system. How frequently are the morals of children ruined at a common large country school! What frequent, even continual broils, a-mong parents, master, and children! With how much difficulty do they keep the thing in motion for a quarter or two at a time, whilst for months and years there are in-tervals, during which they cannot raise a school of any description. It is earnestly recommended to parents in general, that every three or four fami-lies should imitate and improve upon the plan pursued at this place. The writer of this article is confident, that such an in-stitution in the hand of a capital teacher, would never fail to answer the expectation of those concerned. VERUS.
Just published & may be had at this office, Reports of Cases ARGUED AND DETERMINED IN THE SUPREME COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA: WITH SELECT CASES, Relating chiefly to Points of Practice, decided by the Superior Court of Chan-cery for the Richmond District. PART I. VOL. I. By Wm. W. BENING & Wm. MUNFORD.

OUR CITY is at present full of strangers from various and very distant parts of the United States. The bustle of business and crowding of curiosity are observable in every street. The trial of Col. Burr appears to occupy all minds, and to be the subject of all conversation. During this important trial, of which a faithful account will be given in the Argus, we shall scarcely be able to attract the public attention to any other subject: but as soon as the great event shall be known, and the tempest of controversy which it occasions shall have subsided, we shall dedicate a considerable portion of our paper to a subject, of much greater consequence, and which much more urgently demands the serious consideration of our fellow citizens. We mean that of the choice of a President of the United States to succeed the great and good Thomas Jefferson.
As it is now understood to be unquestionably true that Mr. Jefferson has resolved not to be a candidate for the next election, we think it time to look around us, and to resolve upon taking the necessary measures to secure the appointment of a successor as nearly equal to him as possible in sound republican principles, in virtue, patriotism, experience, and abilities. We think it time for the republican party to unite in supporting some individual worthy of their approbation, and by their union to defeat the restless machinations of the Federalists, and Quids, and of those who remaining nominally attached to the present administration, are in secret, really its enemies.
Ever disclaiming that temporizing policy, which induces a printer to wait until the opinion of the people is ascertained before he ventures to declare his own; (although, as good citizens, we shall always be disposed to be obedient to the will of a majority; so far at least, as not to oppose that will when we conceive it erroneous, with any other weapons but those of reason and argument;) and ever deeming it the sacred duty and exalted privilege of a free and well conducted press not to model the doctrines it inculcates to suit every change in the passing hour, but, fixed immutably in the form and substance of pure republicanism, to endeavor to enlighten the public mind by communicating information, and thereby to enable it to form a correct judgment on subjects most interesting to the welfare of the people; we therefore, without hesitation declare ourselves advocates for the election of JAMES MADISON, our present able Secretary of State, as the next President of the United States.
We know that many friends of their country, of a free government, and of the present administration, (we mention these three things together, for he who is a friend of either, ought, of course, to be a friend of the other two;) would nevertheless prefer Mr. James Monroe to Mr. Madison. For the satisfaction of those worthy citizens, we shall, in the subsequent numbers of the Argus, undertake to demonstrate that the interests of the republican party, which is, in fact, that of the community, requires the votes of the members of that party not to be divided on the present occasion; that Mr. Madison (without intending the smallest disparagement of Mr. Monroe, for whose virtues and talents we have great respect,) is by his political experience, and particularly in the present state of parties in this country, better qualified to conduct the helm of state than any other gentleman whom we have any prospect of selecting; and that therefore the sound and sincere members of the republican party should combine in supporting him as their candidate. Indeed, we believe the political integrity of Mr. Monroe himself will induce him, on his arrival in America, openly to waive all competition, and to support the election of Mr. Madison with all his influence. From that true patriot we expect even this extraordinary example of disinterested zeal for the public good; and trust we shall not be disappointed.
TRIAL OF Col. Aaron Burr.
YESTERDAY the Circuit Court of the United States for the fifth Circuit and District of Virginia, commenced its session in this city. The expected trial of Col. Burr drew together an immense concourse of citizens from various parts of the Union; indeed far exceeding any that we recollect ever to have seen upon any former occasion.
At half past twelve o'clock the court was opened, present JOHN MARSHALL, Chief Justice of the United States. CYRUS GRIFFIN, Judge of the District of Virginia.
Before the grand jury was impanelled and sworn, a lengthy and desultory argument took place between Col. Burr with his counsel on the one side and the attorney for the United States in the District of Virginia, on the other, in relation to exceptions taken by the former to the manner in which some of the jurors were summoned, and finally on objections to some individual members of the jury. The late hour at which the court adjourned obliges us to compress into as narrow a compass as possible, the proceedings in this preliminary stage of the business. Indeed, if it were in our power to prepare the arguments at full length, we doubt extremely the propriety of publishing them during the pendency of the trial, before even the petit jury shall be sworn; especially as some of those arguments contained a degree of asperity which might possibly influence the minds of those who may finally pass between the United States and the accused.
After it was ascertained that eighteen of the grand jury had answered to their names, Col. Burr stated an objection to
the manner in which part of them had been summoned by the Marshal. He disclaimed every idea of casting any imputation on that officer, unfavorable either to him or his deputies; but considered the irregularity of his proceedings as the mere effect of an error in construing the law, which error it was proper to correct. He adverted to the law of Virginia, by which 24 persons properly qualified are directed to be summoned as a grand jury; and contended that, when the officer had summoned that number, his authority ceased, and he had no power to summon the twenty-fifth. In the present case, he said, he was authorized to state, that after the Marshal had summoned the number required by law, he had accepted of excuses from part of them, and had afterwards completed the panel by summoning additional members.
He was followed by Mr. Botta, who went more particularly into an examination of the question, and referred to the judicial act of Congress and the laws of Virginia, prescribing the duty of officers in summoning a grand jury. He also cited the case of Marbury v. Madison (1 Cranch) to show that when a ministerial act was once performed by an officer, it was irrevocable. It was proposed on the part of Col. Burr, that the marshal should be interrogated as to those members of the grand jury, who had been summoned after the original panel of 24 had been completed.
Mr. Hay, district attorney, observed that he confessed himself not very well prepared to answer the objection, a similar one to which he had never heard before, but that he conceived it to be of no importance, and was willing that Col. Burr should be accommodated with a grand jury, to which no exception could be made. It appeared to him indeed not to be proper to examine witnesses as to the conduct of the marshal in this stage of the prosecution; and he knew not why the objection was now made; for it could make no difference to the prisoner or to the United States; since if any of the grand jurors were set aside, there would either be enough remaining of those who had been summoned, or the deficiency would be supplied by the marshal from among the by-standers. He submitted the whole matter to the court to determine whether testimony should be examined concerning the persons summoned or not.
Mr. Wickham said he meant no imputation on the marshal, whose intentions he doubted not were upright; but as this was an extraordinary case, and great attempts had been made to prejudice the public mind against Col. Burr, he was justifiable in taking every advantage that the law gave him. He cited 2 Hawk. Pleas of the Crown, p. 307 16 sect. and 3 Bac. Abr. 725, to show that a person bound in a recognizance to answer a criminal charge, has a right to appear and make objections to the grand jury before they are sworn. Whether a plea in abatement might afterwards be filed for the error committed, was a question not necessary now to be determined: neither was it the wish of Col. Burr to resort to that alternative; for he anxiously desired that the prosecution should terminate here and with a grand jury free from all exceptions.
Mr. Hay then read the law of Virginia, (Rev. Code, p. 100, sec. 2,) and contended that the construction attempted to be put upon it was more rigid than could be warranted by sound sense and good policy. The intention of the law was that 24 good men and not liable to any of the exceptions therein stated should be summoned. What reason therefore could be given to prevent the marshal (if he discovered that a man whom he had once summoned could not attend,) from summoning another, and thereby securing the attendance of the full number required? The marshal summons a man without knowing the situation of his private affairs. The man afterwards informs him that he is subject to uncontrollable domestic difficulties; for example, that he is going a journey on indispensable business. Why should he not excuse him, and summon another? Where is the authority to prove that the functions of the officer who collects a grand jury cease before the day on which it is impanelled?
When the return is made, if a sufficient number do not attend, a discretion is vested in the marshal to appoint others in the room of the absentees: and is not the principle the same, when he knows that the 24, whom he has first summoned, cannot attend?
He observed too that the gentlemen were influenced by a mistaken idea; for he had understood that the marshal, in the instances to which they alluded, had only enquired of the persons said to have been summoned, whether they could attend or not; expressing his intention to summon them, if they could attend; and, upon their assuring him of their inability, had applied to others.
Mr. Wickham said that the counsel for the United States had not fairly met the question. As the authorities he had cited before were short, he read them; observing that his only object in doing so was to show that the objection ought to be made before the grand jury were impanelled, and therefore must now be made.
On the merits of the objection he said that Mr. Hay's argument concerning policy had no weight; that the words of the law of Virginia being plain on the subject in question ought alone to be regarded; that it was sufficient to answer ita lex scripta est ; that policy however was on his side of the question; since great danger would result from permitting a marshal who was appointed by the President of the United States, and dependant upon him for his continuance in office, (however respectable the present marshal is acknowledged to be) to change the members of the grand jury at his pleasure.
The law is, that if the 24 grand jurors who have been summoned do not attend, 16 are sufficient to constitute a grand jury. Mr. Hay is therefore mistaken as to the law in supposing that 24 are necessary. Let it be supposed that a day or an hour before the sitting of the court, the marshal is informed that one of the grand jury cannot attend. According to the doctrine contended for by Mr. Hay, he may excuse him and summon another; but, when they attend in court, if 16 are present, he has no such power. If the excuse is made to the court and they
deem it insufficient, a fine is to be imposed. Is the marshal to be substituted for the court? and can he release from the fine?
Upon the whole he insisted that the enquiry should be made; but declared that he had no intention to wound the marshal's feelings, whose error was certainly unintentional.
Mr. Hay, I said before, that no good reason existed for not authorising the marshal, where he discovered it to be certain that a grand juror could not attend, to supply the deficiency by summoning another before the commencement of the term.
According to that doctrine, if 12 of those who are summoned should fail to attend, there might be no grand jury at all. The chief justice enquired whether this question had ever come before the state courts?
Mr. Randolph answered that it never had within his knowledge, although he had thirty years ago been attorney for the Commonwealth; but there never had been a case like the present; and therefore no necessity to make a similar objection had ever been felt. This case was indeed a peculiar one, for in no other had such a torrent of prejudice been ever raised and by means too which we shall shortly unfold. In this case therefore it becomes necessary to contend for the rules of which we now avail ourselves; and in consequence of the power vested in the marshal and his liability to be influenced by the government, great danger would arise from relaxing them.
The Chief Justice. If this is a question which has never been decided in the courts of this state, we must have recourse to the words of the act of Assembly only. No doubt an exception to the grand jury may be taken now.
The law of Virginia authorizes the officer to summon 24 men, but says nothing of any more. He therefore cannot summon 25. If he desires the 25th man to attend, it ought not to be considered as a summons; but the act is void. Most certainly the officer is not authorized to discharge any person. Where 16 grand jurors do appear, by-standers may be called and not impanelled; but if 16 of those summoned appear, they are to constitute the Grand Jury. There is no necessity therefore to vest the Marshal with the power of excusing those who say that they are not able to attend. It is indeed the custom of the officers in this State to exercise a discretion in such cases; and no doubt the marshal acted with the best intentions under an idea that his conduct was proper; but after he has summoned any individual he cannot let him off. A plain argument in support of this position is that the person summoned might nevertheless appear though not called by the marshal, and offer his services to be sworn on the Grand Jury; in which case he could not be rejected. The question depends however on the point whether there was an actual summons, for a conversation merely preparatory to a summons is a different thing. It is therefore proper to examine the marshal as to what has been done.
Maj. Joseph Scott, the marshal of the district was thereupon examined. He said that he had shewed the Judges themselves a letter from Mr. John Taylor, of Caroline, who had been summoned and they had said that his excuse expressed in that letter was sufficient. He had therefore summoned Col. James Barbour, of Orange, in his room; but did not say that the Judges had directed him to do so, altho' he conceived it to be his duty in consequence of what had passed between him and them. He acknowledged also that Mr. John M'Rae, who had been summoned, having since that time left the state, he had under similar impressions summoned Doct. William Foushee.
The Court decided that Mr. Barbour and Dr. Foushee, had not been legally added to the panel of the grand jury; they were therefore withdrawn.
The panel having been reduced to sixteen by the removal of those gentlemen improperly summoned, Col. Burr expressed some regret at exercising the privilege of challenging two others for favor. If the right was conceded, it might be necessary to appoint triers and go into an examination of witnesses. He wished it to be distinctly understood that he claimed the same right of challenge in this stage of the business, as if the cause were now before the petit jury.
Mr. Botta presumed that there could be no question as to the right. Even in civil cases this was a cause, though not a principal cause of challenge. The law which had been read was explicit in its application to this case. Our cause of challenge must be made out by testimony.
Mr. Hay believed the law to be as stated on the other side. No objection would be made by him to the course which the gentlemen wished to pursue. Col. Burr then proceeded to name the persons and causes of challenge. He first mentioned William B. Giles. With respect to him there were two causes, the first of which was of public notoriety. Mr. Giles while a member of the Senate had voted for the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus. The constitution had declared that a suspension of this writ could only be warranted in extreme cases; and that by pronouncing on the expediency of that measure, Mr. Giles had inevitably formed an opinion as to the designs imputed to him. Further, he would endeavor to establish by testimony, that since that time M c Giles had said that the documents furnished evidence of his (Burr's) guilt, and guilt of the highest grade.
Mr. Botta added a few observations explanatory of the law, and expressed a firm conviction, that from the intelligence, the virtue and patriotism of Mr. Giles, he would not suppose that the objections were made with a view to wound his feelings.
Mr. Hay observed that if the gentlemen objected to were willing to be withdrawn, he had no objection. [Here Mr. Giles made a very handsome and impressive address to the court, which neither our limits nor present plan will permit us, at this time, to insert. We will, however briefly remark, that he said, it had been an uniform rule with him neither to solicit nor refuse an appointment to an office which his country thought him qualified to fill. It was a very unpleasant thing for him
to be summoned as a grand juror at the present term, but having been summoned, he had received to waive all objections of a personal nature. He regretted that there had not been energy enough in the House of Representatives in Congress to suspend the writ of habeas corpus, a measure which he then thought and still thinks the state of the country required. Upon this case he was about to pronounce his real impressions. He meant ultimately to withdraw, but wished to remove certain impressions which had been made.
The chief justice observed that two circumstances must concur, in order to disqualify him as a juror, the one was, that he must have made up an opinion on the case, the other was, that he had declared that opinion.
Mr. Giles wished to explain the state of his own mind. He had made up no opinion. He wished, indeed, that the public mind should be satisfied, and that the true character of Col. Burr's transactions should be ascertained.
Col. Wilson Cary Nicholas was also objected to by Col. Burr, on the ground of a personal enmity, sufficient he presumed to blind the judgment of the wisest men.
Col. Nicholas observed, that upon being summoned by the marshal, he had pressed him in the most forcible manner to release him. He doubted the propriety of his serving in this particular case, as the various relations in which he had stood as a public character to Col. Burr, might create some bias on his mind. That he was in Congress with Col. Burr when the nomination of President and Vice President was made, which terminated in an election on that presented Mr. Jefferson and Col. Burr with an equal number of suffrages for the decision of Congress. When Col. Burr went to the western country his suspicions were excited. He gave, perhaps, too ready a credit to the evidence which had transpired; but which was not sufficient to form a conclusive opinion. The marshal refusing to excuse him, he was obliged to attend. He did not choose that wrong impressions should be made, with respect to his motives, had he been absent. Attempts, he said, had been made to intimidate him. He had been told that if he attended as a juror, such representations would be made of his public conduct as would be highly injurious to his feelings. Under all these circumstances he felt some difficulty. He had consulted lawyers of the first talents, who informed him that the court would not, for such causes, excuse him. He felt embarrassment from two considerations; the one was that his retiring might have sanctioned those objections; the other was that he did not wish to shrink from the performance of a public duty. But he consented to retire.
Col. Burr remarked, that the circumstance mentioned by the gentleman, that attempts had been made to intimidate him, were calculated to throw a suspicion on his cause. Such a course was not sanctioned by him. It must have been the work of some of his enemies. He disclaimed such conduct.
Col. Nicholas being withdrawn, Major Eggleston wished to be excused, because he had felt and expressed a considerable degree of warmth, on reading the deposition of Gen. Eaton; but the court considering that his case did not fall within the rule, and not being objected to by Colonel Burr, he was not permitted to withdraw.
Dr. William Foushee, on being called, expressed a difficulty in serving. On a consideration of his objections, the court suffered him to withdraw. Mr. John Randolph and Col. James Barbour, were then severally called. These gentlemen wished to be excused, on account of the impressions which the subject had made on their minds, but their excuses were not deemed sufficient by the court.
The following gentlemen were then sworn on the grand jury:
John Randolph, foreman, Jos. Eggleston, Littleton Waller Tazewell, Robert Taylor, William Daniel, Jr. John Mercer, Edward Pegram, Munford Beverley, John Ambler, Thomas Harrison, Joseph C. Cabell, James Pleasants, Jr. John Brockenbrough, Alexander Shepherd, James Barbour, James M. Garnett.
The chief justice delivered a charge to the grand jury, in which he enumerated the several offences cognizable by them under the laws of the United States, and particularly defined the crime of treason.
After the grand jury had retired, a debate of some length ensued on a proposition to instruct the jury specially with respect to the admissibility of certain evidence which it was supposed would be adduced on the part of the United States. A further discussion of this question, it is expected, will take place to-day.
The names of the several witnesses summoned in behalf of the United States were called over, many of whom and among others Gen. Wilkinson were absent. Such as appeared were recognized to appear on this day at 11 o'clock, to which hour the court adjourned.
The editor of the Argus wishes it to be distinctly understood that the foregoing is but a mere outline of the proceedings. The materials already collected would occupy more than the entire columns of any one newspaper. They will appear more enlarged in some future number, when the stage of the prosecution may render it more proper.
The president of the United States has returned to the City of Washington from a visit to Monticello.
ELECTIONS. Dr. John Claiborne is re-elected without opposition for the district of Brunswick, &c. Burwell Basset is also re-elected without opposition for the district of Williamsburg, Accomac, &c.
Nicholas Sebell is elected a member of the Virginia Senate. Vice Mr. Goodrich, for the district of Surry, Prince George, &c.
FROM NORFOLK, May 19. NATIONAL JUBILEE.
The Grand National Festival and Jubilee, which was celebrated on the 13th of this month at James Town, was attended by a concourse of upwards of two thousand
persons, who appeared to participate in those feelings which the occasion seemed calculated to excite. It was indeed a Jubilee. It was "the feast of reason and the flow of soul," of sentiment unalloyed by gross passion, and unrestrained by dull formality. It was attended by a collection of more than three hundred of as beautiful females as the state of Virginia contains, who also joined in the festivity of the season—who circled in the mazes of the meandering dance, and from whose bright eyes seraphic smiles shot pleasure and heart-felt joy through the bosom of many an anxious swain. In one place you might behold the aged veteran of the revolution, musing in meditative silence among the tombs of our departed ancestors, recording their gallant exploits, and rendering the silent but expressive homage of their gratitude for the blessings which their valor bequeathed. Here the aspiring youth, with fire in his eye, and emulation in his soul, was incited to equal the deeds of the heroes who had gone before him. Here the graceful form of female beauty was seen to glide, she, adding joy, and benignity, and pleasure all around, and from its bright beaming resplendence, declaring that none but the votaries of virtue should be blessed with her smiles.
The dawn was announced by a discharge of cannon from the shore, and some tunes from an excellent band of music, which was returned from all the vessels stationed off the island that were mounted with guns. About 11 o'clock a Procession in the following order was formed:
The Band of Music playing "Boyne Water."
The Bishop of Virginia, accompanied by the Orators of the Day.
The old Inhabitants of James Town.
The Committees from Norfolk, Petersburg, Williamsburg, and the other towns.
The Ladies, two and two.
The Citizens from Norfolk.
The Citizens from Petersburg.
The Citizens from Williamsburg.
The Citizens from James City and the adjacent counties.
Capt. Nesbitt's Company of Artillery. Six Citizens bearing a Cannon Ball weighing 500 weight! brought into Virginia by Capt. Newport.
In this order they reached the Church-Yard, where, elevated on one of the oldest tombs, the venerable Bishop of Virginia, poured forth his pious soul in rendering grateful thanks to the great author of nature, for the blessings which we enjoy. It was indeed a sublime spectacle—a spectacle which Gods might look down upon and envy—the venerable form, inspiring respect—the mild benignant voice, orating piety—the words of fire issuing from his lips, inculcating religion, pure and unadulterated, the eager attentive gaze of the spectators, toge her, formed a spell which seized the enraptured soul and placed it in Elysium. At the conclusion of the prayer, the company returned in the same order of Procession to the House, where preparations for the delivery of the Oration, which had been prepared by Messrs. Baldwin and Madison, two of the Students of William and Mary, and an Ode by Mr. C. Blanchard, had been made. The subject of the Oration had been divided in a very judicious manner by Messrs. Baldwin and Madison. The former spoke of the first settlement of the Colonies—pointed to the eye the labors and perils they encountered—eulogised in an appropriate manner the lovely Pocahontas, and rendered the tribute of gratitude for her services. He described the origin and progress of the Colony towards wealth and greatness, and finally descended on the moral and political consequences likely to result from the discovery.
Mr. Madison spoke of the Revolution, and the effects following therefrom. The Orators both discovered an intimate knowledge of historical facts, a correct comprehension of the science of man and of politics. These gentlemen bid fair to become at no very distant day, ornaments of the Western World.
They were followed by Master Charles Blanchard, of this town, who delivered an Ode, which, for originality of conception, harmony of structure, beauty of imagery, liveliness of fancy and poetic fire, has rarely, and probably never been equalled. It was delivered with a grace which fascinated all beholders, and where occasion required, with a fire that electrized every heart; and we cannot pay the youthful Orator a greater compliment, when we say, that the merits of the composition, great as they were, did not exceed the merits of the delivery.
The day closed with general harmony; and on Friday many of the company repaired to Williamsburg, to an elegant dinner given by the citizens of that city to the citizens of Norfolk, Portsmouth, Petersburg, and the adjacent country. Hospitality presided, and mirth abounded at the board; and the company separated with a respect generated by a participation in the same rational pleasures, and a fond anticipation that they might again, on the same spot, celebrate the same event.
One melancholy reflection only occurred, that no person came from Richmond to join in the Holy Festival!!!
We hope our readers will, for the present, be satisfied with this hasty sketch. In a few days we shall be enabled to give the particulars more in detail, and to lay before them the Oration, the Ode, and other proceedings.
REAL INTEREST AND ABSOLUTE NECESSITY.
It appears probable, from many circumstances, that the wars of Europe are far distant from a happy termination. The unfortunate temper, displayed by public and private men in Great Britain at our fair and calm attempts to obtain a share of navigation and commerce, and to prevent impressions and spoitions, afford no ground to hope for exemption from such injuries and vexations. The fury of the war between France and Great Britain is becoming extreme, and it is plain from the recent publication concerning "the dangers of England," that the sudden transportation of French invaders and the success of such invaders (as in the cases of Austria and Prussia) are considered there as perfectly serious.

In such a state of things, in regard to impediments to our export trade from rival nations, and in regard to the possible subversion of the British manufactures by invasion, we certainly ought to consider what are the best means to secure markets for our agricultural and piscatory commodities. If the British and French war of blockades, prevent the sales of our productions in Europe, they must be consumed in America or perish. If the British manufactures should be broken up by an invasion, like those of subverted Prussia, the English will be unable to buy our cottons or our provisions for their manufacturers, our furs, our furs and peltries, our potash, our flaxseed, our oak bark, our tobacco, our wool, our horn and other things, which they now consume in their innumerable work shops. We do not say that the French will be able to invade England, but the zealous author of War in Disguise, and of two other English pamphlets of the same stamp, has strenuously contended that such an event may easily take place, and may prove successful. On the occurrence of such an event, our produce would want the British market, and this possibility, with the incessant interruptions and spoliation of our vessels, ought to occasion an anticipated consideration. The following ideas are submitted to the various branches of the government of the United States.
The prices of grain and fruit may be easily and certainly supported by the imposition of sufficient duties on all foreign imports made from grain and fruit. Our cider, beer, ale, porter, grain-spirit, apple and peach brandy, and country rum will ensure a plentiful supply for all our real wants.
Duties on foreign linens will occasion our flax and hemp to be of more profitable cultivation, and will enable us to enlarge the production: and those duties will increase the demand at home and abroad, for the American cotton, to make substitutes for foreign linens.
Duties on foreign woollens will render the raising of sheep and cotton more beneficial, and will enable us to raise a greater number and quantity, will occasion employment for our grazing and cotton lands, and will increase the substitutes for foreign woollens, which can be made of American cotton here and in Europe. This measure seems to be indispensably necessary to maintain a good price for the American wool and cotton. The present impediments to our export trade to the European Islands and continent, and the interruption of the British market for our cotton, in consequence of a probable or real invasion, will produce much distress, if we do not anticipate those evils, and take measures to meet, by a manufacturing home demand, so serious a state of things.
A universal attention of the general government, of the state governments, and of individuals, to the purchase of arms would enable us to establish that important and necessary Manufacture upon a solid foundation. Arms can be made here by giving time, upon terms rather more favorable than the cost and charges, not including the duty.
It is plain that such an addition to the great and growing manufactures of this country, as these four measures would occasion, would greatly relieve the distresses to the planters and farmers, which spoliation and impediments to the export trade and the subversion of the British manufactures must occasion. It is equally clear, that the workmen, women, children, and horses, employed in the additional American manufactures would consume vast quantities of provisions, grain, fuel, liquors, forage and fruit, so as to increase the markets for our cultivators and freeholders. It is in vain, may it is highly unbecoming for the British government, merchants or manufacturers to suffer themselves to get out of temper. That government has long and deeply wronged us. They cannot show any rule in the law of nations to justify their forcibly taking out of a neutral ship any man (British or other) who is not a military enemy. They have no right to bind us by executive orders, legalized in their courts only at to themselves, by an act of their foreign parliament. They have no right to cover under the name and pretence of blockade, measures and operations, which are not at all blockades. They have no right to infract our neutral (and even as in 1792, our peaceful) rights and, when those infractions are retaliated on them by their enemies, to molest us for those merited retaliations. They have no right to shut the world out of India and South America by force of arms and to obstruct our commerce with Europe, because the French follow their, these British examples. We speak firm and plain language, it is true, but it is temperate and it is just. The British government, merchants, and manufacturers, must yield to the equitable pleas of this injured and long insulted country.
Necessity as well as just feeling will lead us to a spirited and intelligent cultivation of all the arts of domestic industry. Nor ought this to be considered in America or in Europe, as of the nature of a menace. 'Tis only a friend of admonition. The days when the erection of manufacturing mills and machinery could be forbidden by a trans-atlantic government are passed. Manual industry already supports our productive agriculture. Our manufacturing men and their families consume our meats, our grain and our liquors, and their business and subsistence demand our productions, of various kinds, to a vast amount. All that has yet occurred, is, as it were, the natural growth of the field of internal commerce. But the prospect of continued improvements, blockades, spoliations, and other devices, to interrupt our foreign trade, to confiscate our ships and cargoes, and to sicken our agriculture, and destroy its honest and necessary profits, is making converts to the American manufacturing system, which its most sanguine advocates did not once expect. It is now too plainly seen, that a navy converted to ambition and far more costly than the profits of commerce OR the manufacturing system must be adopted, if interruption, violence, and depredation are continued on the ocean.
JURISCOLA.
THE NATURAL UNION OF FARMERS AND MANUFACTURERS. It is certain that the manufactures of this country have advanced the price of wool since the Revolution more than that of any other article whatever—None is exported. All is manufactured. Mutton is worth double its former price. The breeds of sheep are much improved. The flocks are larger. Much of our country is freed from wild animals which used to destroy the sheep. The skins of sheep are in great demand for book-binding, parchment, breeches, gloves, cardbacks, pocketing, and other purposes. There is a great exportation of sheep. Every thing conspires to render the raising of sheep profitable and patriotic. The pastureage and grazing business is well adapted to a country in which lands are plenty and cheap, and population not sufficient for the abundance of soil. This branch of farming is considered as the most profitable in Europe, where lands are dear monopoly. In America it is more profitable to raise sheep, horned cattle and horses, than any kind of grain. Injured Americans! Let every improvement of a sailor or passenger, every unlawful and pretended blockade, every foreign confiscation of a ship or cargo, every interruption of your navigation, your trade and the foreign sales of your produce, induce you to turn to the production of your materials and the exclusion of the manufactures of the violators of your rights. In a little time, clothing from the wool of the insulting and the injuring, cannot but be deemed badges of lost honor, and of foreign devotion.—Dem. Press.
COMMUNICATION. Having observed in your paper an account of the Arlington sheep shearing, I am induced, for the reputation of my neighborhood, to inform you that there was sheared, at Northampton, in Prince George's county, [Maryland] the residence of Mr. Osh. Sprigg, from nine sheep, seventy two pounds of fine long wool. It is to be lamented, for the interest of domestic manufactures, which deeply concerns us all, that the laudable example of Messrs. Custis and Sprigg is not generally attended to.
A Subscrib. We have it from unquestionable authority, that in the same county a number of years ago, a ram lamb was sheared which yielded twelve and an half pounds of wool.—Wash. Fed.
Burr's Trial. THE EDITOR of the ARGUS, with a view to present to the public an early and authentic report of the contemplated TRIAL of Col. BURR, has engaged Wm. W. HENNING and Wm. MUMFORD, Esqrs. reporters of the decisions of the Supreme Court of Virginia, to furnish materials for that purpose. A full account of the proceedings, with the evidence and arguments of counsel, will appear in this paper, from which all other editors of news-papers will be at liberty to copy, and publish in their papers respectively. For the use of such gentlemen as wish to preserve in the form of a book, this interesting trial, a limited number of copies will be published. Those who feel disposed to possess the work in this form will please to leave their names as early as possible, at the office of the Argus.
Trial of Col. Aaron Burr. WESTCOTT & Co. ELEVENTH STREET, NEAR PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE WASHINGTON CITY, INFORM the public that they have engaged Thomas Carpenter one of the most able and correct Stenographers in the United States, to attend the circuit court to commence its session at Richmond the 22d inst. and in case the said Trial comes on to publish as speedily as possible a complete and full account thereof, accompanied by all the documents relative to this all important case. May 18. 3t N. B. The copy right will be secured.
J. H. I. COHEN, (Second door below Mr. S. Pleasants' Book Store.) Has just received a fresh assortment of SPRING GOODS, And daily expects a fresh supply. Richmond, May 22d, 1807. tf
ALL persons are hereby forewarned from putting dry goods of any kind on board of our wagons to be hauled, unless at his or their own risk, as we are determined not to be responsible for any losses that may happen. JOHN HARVEY. THOMAS HARVEY, B. S. May 20, 1807. w3t
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. RUNAWAY from the subscriber living in Henrico county, on the 20th instant, a negro man named BILLY; it is likely he will call himself BILLY GRIFFIN, about 33 years of age, a common black, supposed to be five feet 11 inches high, strait and well made, with a scar on one side of his face near his nose, he speaks fierce when spoken to, walks upright. His clothes are not worth mentioning, as I expect he will change all of them except his shirts, which are home spun cotton. I expect he will harbor about the Forge in New Kent county, as his wife lives there. He is well acquainted in Richmond and Charles City, about Col. Bradley's. Any person delivering said slave to me or secure him in any jail, so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward and all reasonable charges paid. All persons are forewarned from harbouring him at their peril. THEODORICK CARTER. Henrico county, May 22d, 1807. 3w
A FRESH SUPPLY OF Church's Cough Drops Is just received from the Proprietor's Dispensary New-York, and for sale at this office.
NEW-YORK, May 15. NEW YORK ELECTION. The recent elections for governor, senators and representatives in this state has terminated honourably to the people.—Never was there a more glorious triumph of principle over faction and intrigue. The republican majority for governor will probably be about five thousand. (Public Advertiser.) May 16.
Erratum. —The third paragraph of the 66th Bulletin of the French Grand Army, inserted in this paper on Thursday, should have read, "The Russian army have begun to concentrate in the neighborhood of Bartenstein on the Alle; the Prussian division in that of Creutzbourg." (Mercantile Advertiser.)
The Spanish Government has adopted and ordered its privateries to enforce the late decree of the emperor Napoleon respecting neutrals.—ib.
The Emperor of Russia has given a fresh instance of an enlightened mind, in an Ukase which has recently been issued at St. Petersburg, in favor of commerce.—In order to give more consideration and distinction to commercial pursuits, the Ukase recommends the establishment of commercial companies. It allows the nobility to become members of the first and second classes of merchants, it being the anxious wish of the Emperor to draw closer the ties between these two descriptions of his subjects. Wholesale merchants may even aspire to the first offices of the state, and are to have the privilege of appearing at court. Measures are also to be taken to preserve and perpetuate the names of the most eminent merchants, and transmit them with distinction to posterity.—ib.
BOSTON, May 12. Translated for the Boston Centinel. Port-au-Prince, March 10, 1807 } 4th year of Independence. } LIBERTY. EQUALITY. ALEXANDER PETION, President of Hayti, to the men of color, who have been forced to leave this country and seek an asylum in the United States, and other foreign nations:— BRETHREN.
The dreadful reigns of Dessalines is at an end! This happy news has reached you, and yet you have not returned to the bosom of your native country. What now prevents your return? During the life of that barbarian you had reason to fear being sacrificed to his blind fury; but now no motives should prevent your return. Remember my Friends, that the freedom and prosperity offered you in Hayti, can no where else be found! Hasten then to rally yourselves under the empire of those laws which assure your ample protection. Banish all fears from your hearts. The events occasioned by the ambition of Christophe must not retard your return.—This new despot would again subject this country to the oppressive yoke from which we, thanks to Providence, have so happily extracted it! Will it not be glorious to come and unite with the true Haytians in their noble struggles to save their native country? Come then, I repeat it, come and share the benefits of a constitution, which consecrates all your rights.—Your passages shall be punctually paid by government on your arrival. I caution you, however, to shun those places still in possession of the rebels, for there persecution and perhaps death awaits you.—Their quarters extend from St. Marks to Fort Dauphin.—All the rest of the west and south offers you a secure asylum. I salute you fraternally, PETION.
[With the above we also received a letter of the same date, addressed to Jacob Lewis, Esq. at Port-au-Prince, in which president Petion requests him to use his good offices to induce the merchants of the United States, not to trade with the ports under the dominion of Christophe, but give the preference to those ports which retain their fidelity to the republic, and where their persons and property will always be under the safeguards of honor and integrity.]
PHILADELPHIA, May 15. HUMANE SOCIETY. On the 29th of last month two boys were playing on a raft, just below South-street wharf and one of them, George Seaman, an orphan of seven years old, fell into the river, in about 15 feet depth of water, and he was in imminent danger of being drowned. There was a fresh in the river, and the tide was running down very strong; many people collected, but they could give no assistance to the child—they took boards from the raft and pushed them towards him, but the child had drifted out of the reach of the boards, not knowing how to swim—he drifted near the sluice under Fisher's wharf, and nothing but his little hands could be seen above the water. The spectators gave up the boy as lost. At the commencement of this interesting scene, James Long was at work in a block maker's shop, above South-street wharf; hearing a noise he came to the door of the shop and saw the boy that had been playing with George running home, he asked him what was the matter? he said a boy was drowned! James Long then ran to the raft—jumped into the water—swam near 60 or 70 feet to the child, and raised his head above the water. The anxiety of the spectators was now excited, for James Long lest he, together with the child, should be carried by the strength of the current into the sluice; by the great exertions he stemmed the current till a board drifted to him, by the help of which he was enabled to bring the child to the wharf. The boy was nearly exhausted—he was carried to a house, and in a little time was entirely restored.
These circumstances having been reported to the managers of the Humane Society, they awarded a premium of Ten Dollars, to be presented to James Long, for his meritorious exertions in saving at the risk of his own life, the above named child from drowning.
HARDWARE, IRONMONGERY AND CUTLERY STORE. BREAM & FOLLET,
AT the sign of the ANVIL, Main Street, Richmond, have received by the latest arrivals from England, a large and general assortment of Hardware, Ironmongery and Cutlery, which they will sell by wholesale or retail, low for cash, or on a short credit, for approved security;
AMONGST WHICH ARE— Waldrons of prime Corn & Grass Scythes; Sickles, Weeding Hoes, Garden Hoes and Rakes; Spades & Shovels; Trace Chains, Black-Smith's Bellows, Anvils, Bick Irons, Sledge and Hand Hammers; Vises, Screw-Plates, Files and Rasps, Carpenter's Joiner's, Cooper's, Currier's, Saddler's, Silver Smith's, Watch Maker's and Shoe Maker's Tools; Locks, Hinges, Nails, Brads, Tacks, Screws, Brass Mounting for Cabinet Makers, Steelyards, Scale Beams and Weights; Tea Kettles, Skillets and Spiders; Potts and Kettles; Bell Metal Kettles and Skillets; House Bells, Grid Irons, Frying Pans, Waffle and Wafer Irons; Smoothing Irons, Block Tin Coffee Potts, Britannia Metal Tea Potts, Britannia Metal Table and Tea Spoons; Coffee and Corn Mills; Knives and Forks; Pen and Jack Knives; Scissors, Razors, Razor Cases and Shaving Boxes; Ivory and Horn Combs; Curling Tongs, Razor Hones, Glazier's Diamonds, a few dozen of elegant silver mounted and plain green and white handled Table and Desert Knives and Forks; Table Steels, Butcher's Steels and Knives; Brass and Iron Wire; Tin in Boxes, Sheet Iron, Sheet and Bar Lead; Patent shot, Gun Locks, Flints, Bear, Wolf and Fox Traps; Screws and Bails for raising mill Stones, Mill Gudgeons and Inks; German Steel, Marbles, Nova Scotia Grind Stones, Window Glass, with a great variety of other articles in the above line, too tedious to enumerate; of which a constant supply will be kept, and sold on terms worthy the attention of those who wish to purchase.
Also for sale 50 kegs FF Gun Powder, 15 Barrels Liver Oil, Bolting Cloths, Glue, and a general assortment of Brushes. Richmond, 21st May, 1807. 4w
BY VIRTUE of a deed of trust executed to me by Charles Craddock, to secure the payment of a sum of money therein mentioned,
WILL BE SOLD, To the highest bidder for cash, at John Jeter's Tavern in Amelia, on the 13th day of June next, TWO FEMALE SLAVES, to wit: Sally and Dicy. EDMOND EGGLESTON. May 22d, 1807. w2t
VIRGINIA, BUCKINGHAM COUNTY, May 18th, 1807.
I HEREBY forewarn Mr. John Fariss, of New-Kent county, in this state, from delivering to his brother Silvanus Fariss, or to any other person, the negro man NA THAN, he has hired this year from him; because I have made a bona fide purchase from the said Silvanus Fariss, of the said slave and have his order on John Fariss for the delivery of him, and shall call on the said John at the end of the year for the said negro.—I have paid a very considerable part of the purchase money, and am under some apprehension the said Silvanus Fariss, may attempt to keep me out of the possession of the said slave, as he left the neighborhood where he formerly lived without letting me know, or directing the further plan by which I was to get possession of him. w3t JOHN MORGAN.
NEW LAW BOOKS, JUST RECEIVED AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
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PROPOSALS WILL be received by the Executive, till the first day of June next, for a supply of FREE STONE and MARBLE, in the Rough State, to be delivered at the Penitentiary, in the City of Richmond.
Marble from the quarries in Virginia would be preferred, but there will be no objection to receiving it from other places. Persons wishing to contract will specify the size and quality, and the price by the ton, as well as the cubic foot.—Apply to DAN'L L. HYLTON, C. C. 18th April, 1807. lawtj
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REVISED CODE. SECOND VOLUME.
THE SUBSCRIBERS to the SECOND VOLUME of the REVISED CODE and the public in general, are respectfully informed, that with a view to render the work in every respect worthy of the public patronage, large fonts of entirely new type composing every description of letter necessary for such a work, were at an early period, ordered from the foundry of Messrs. Binny and Ronaldson, at Philadelphia. An unexpected delay in complying with that order, has produced a correspondent delay in the publication of the book; but the materials are now shipped and will no doubt be received in a few days. The patrons of the work may be assured that ample compensation will be made, by the superior style in which the typographical part will be executed, and the additional matter which will be comprehended in the volume. For, besides embracing every subject stated in the prospectus, it is intended to insert the Acts of the next Session of the General Assembly. Except those Acts, the volume will be completed before the meeting of the next Legislature; after which a very short period will elapse before it is ready for delivery; and with all those improvements it will be furnished to subscribers at the original price. To non-subscribers, however, the price will be considerably advanced. May 1, 1807.
PROPOSAL BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JR. FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, VOLUME SECOND OF THE REVISED CODE; CONTAINING
A collection of all such Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia of a public and permanent nature, as have been passed since the session of 1801; to which will be added, such acts of the same nature as may be passed at the session of 1807.
TOGETHER WITH AN APPENDIX,
In which will be inserted, I. Such Public Acts as have been omitted in the last edition of the Revised Code. II. A compilation of the several laws for the establishment of the James River, Potomac, Appomattox and Dismal Swamp Canal companies; in all of which the state has an interest. III. Acts for the establishment of the Mutual Assurance Society against fire on buildings of the state of Virginia. IV. Laws concerning the Northern Neck. V. A Table of Fines Forfeitures, Penalties and Amercements, designating such as are to the use of the commonwealth; such as go towards lessening the county levy; such as belong to individuals; and such as are appropriated to any particular object. VI. Acts for establishing Turnpike roads. VII. Acts authorising the erection of Toll Bridges. All the Acts comprised in this volume, have been carefully collated by a gentleman of the bar—Notes of reference to former and subsequent statutes, are annexed to each chapter, and a copious INDEX will be given at the end of the work.
TERMS.
I. It shall be printed on an entire new type, of a size larger than that used in the last edition of the Revised Code, published in 1803. II. The paper shall be of good quality, and the book, when bound, will form a volume of large octavo, to match the first volume of the same work. The number of pages cannot be ascertained, though it is expected, from the matter of which the book will be composed, (there being one hundred and two new chapters in the continuation from 1801 to 1806, and upwards of one hundred omitted acts) that it will contain nearly as many pages as the last edition. III. The price to subscribers will be FIVE DOLLARS, to be paid on delivery of the book—to non-subscribers the price will be considerably increased. ** Subscriptions are received by the publisher in Richmond.
SUBSCRIBERS to the second volume of the Revised Code of Virginia Laws (now printing) who have not yet procured the first volume, will be furnished with the latter at the original subscription price, SIX DOLLARS.
At a Court held for Cumberland county, the 23d day of March, 1807. James Morton & Company, Comp'ts } In against Drury Watson & John Bibb, Defts. } Secy. THIS day came the plaintiffs by Henry E. Watkins their attorney, and the defendant Drury Watson not having entered his appearance and given security according to an act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that the said Drury is not an inhabitant of this state: On the motion of the plaintiff by their counsel aforesaid, It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of July court next and answer the plaintiffs' bill, and that a copy of this order be inserted in some newspaper published in the city of Richmond for two months successively and posted at the front door of the courthouse of this county on some court day. A copy—Attest. SAM. HOBSON, D. C.