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VIRGINIA ARGUS
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BLACKSTONE'S COMMENTARIES, WITH Notes of Reference to the Constitution and Laws of the Federal Government of the United States, AND OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA: IN FIVE VOLUMES. With an appendix to each volume, containing extracts upon such subjects as appeared necessary to form a systematic view of the Laws of Virginia as a member of the Federal Union.
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Congressional Register.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, January 7.
Debate on receiving the District of Columbia.
Mr. DENNIS in continuation.
He knew full well the local jealousies which will forever exist & which we know do exist, between places situated like Georgetown, Washington, & Alexandria. He foresaw that these local jealousies, if properly restrained, would by the action and reaction which they would produce, operate as a general stimulus to the whole, and thereby become rather an advantage than otherwise to the general prosperity; that by gradual approximation these places would be brought together and form one great whole. This could only be effected by making the general government the common centre around which these rival towns revolving in their respective orbits, would revolve free from collision. But out of them under three different and hostile jurisdictions, three different centres of attraction would be formed; and in revolution around which these hostile bodies might exert each other and mutual injury ensue. He knew that by restricting the inspection of the produce descending the Potomac and coming from the west side of the river to Alexandria, Virginia might force all her produce by the city of Washington—And that by a similar operation on the part of Maryland, all her exports might be stopped at Georgetown—That the destruction of the city and all her prospects would be the consequence—and therefore the wisdom of the plan as originally adopted, and to support which, free from dismemberment, under whatever pretext, I shall always contribute my exertions. To discourage local jealousy I have always thought desirable when likely to be carried to a pernicious extent, and have always determined to leave each place to the enjoyment of its own natural advantages. I have leave to conclude by remarking upon one or two observations of the gentleman from North Carolina, on the constitutional question. He has produced some legislative precedents respecting the transfer of navy-yards, arsenals, &c. If these precedents were in point, having passed sub silentio they ought to have no obligatory force. But I am not aware that congress has ever done any thing in this respect but to sell the right of soil in places acquired for such purposes, and it still remains a question if they do not retain the jurisdiction if they choose to exercise it. That gentleman seems to make no distinction between the right of soil and power of legislation over it, tho' the one may be in one body and the other in another. I do not deny but you may sell all the lots in the city of Washington either to individuals, states or other bodies politic, but I do deny that you can sell your right of governing it. The next precedent adduced was the case of the compact with Georgia, and by which we acquired an extensive territory. Perhaps this may be considered as growing out of the treaty making power, and it is not denied that the government may acquire territory and jurisdiction over it, through the medium of the treaty making power. I trust, Mr. Chairman, I have shown when I intended in the outset of my remarks to establish, that congress are not competent to effectuate the object of the resolution; that if they could do it, it is not demanded by the general interest, and that it would be unjust and tyrannical as it relates to the people here to make the contemplated transfer. Mr. Smith supposed the committee was now considering the resolutions of recession generally, previous to giving a separate opinion on the two resolutions before them—Under this impression he would make one cautionary observation—He knew that it always had been on all occasions the practice of those opposed to the recession, to connect that question with another subject, wholly and totally distinct; that was the removal of the seat of government from this place—If it was possible to separate these two things in the minds of some of the members of the present house, he was persuaded they would find no difficulty in restoring the inhabitants of this district to their natural, their political and civil rights; a thing so desirable in a government founded as the government of the union was founded, and as almost every citizen of the union contended for, the sovereignty of the people. For his part, he never did, nor ever should, connect these two ideas. Advocate, as he was, for recession, he had no idea of removal. He would go further, and declare it as his opinion, that congress could not remove the seat of government honorably, nor of right, and he trusted congress would never hereafter feeling power, forget right.
Having made this observation, he would briefly enquire whether the arguments of the gentleman from Maryland, (Mr. Dennis) were well founded—If he is correct in stating that, under the constitution, the congress have no right to legislate on the present subject, there was an end of the business. If he thought, with that gentleman, he would be the last man to vote for the recession; but as he thought differently, he would assign the reasons upon which his opinion was founded. The gentleman read a part of that section of the constitution, which granted certain specified powers to the congress of the United States—He wished he had read the whole, and shewn that there was a particular restriction placed on this particular power. For his part, he conceived this to be a general grant of power under no restriction. In the several grants of power under the 8th section of the 1st article, there were three out of the eighteen that were grants with particular restrictions. All the rest were complete and full grants of power, and the eighteenth grant had relation to them without limitation; of course they had complete legislative control over the seventeenth, respecting the exercise of exclusive legislation over the district of Columbia. He here read over the whole of the 8th section of the 1st article, observing upon each. That congress shall have power, 1. To lay and collect taxes, &c. but all duties &c. shall be uniform throughout the United States—Here is a restriction—Congress have power to lay duties, but they cannot lay the same, unless they shall be uniform throughout the United States. So of imports, and so of excises. To raise and support armies—Not no appropriation of money for that use shall be longer than for two years—Here, although Congress may raise a support armies, they cannot order any money to be applied to that use for more than two years, however desirable or convenient a longer appropriation might appear to them to be. Respecting the militia, they may provide for organizing, arming and disciplining and governing the militia. But they can neither officer nor train them; that is a restriction, and the latter powers are reserved to the states. The other powers, such as to borrow money, to regulate commerce, to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws of bankruptcy, to coin money, to fix the standards of weights and measures, to punish counterfeiting the securities and coins of the United States, to establish post offices and post roads—To promote the progress of science and the useful arts in a prescribed mode; and this also may be considered as a restriction upon their general power, as they cannot give to science and the useful arts any other encouragement than by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their writings and discoveries. They have also complete and exclusive powers to constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court; to define and punish piracy and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the laws of nations; to declare war and other consequent powers; to provide and maintain a navy; to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and navy forces; to provide for calling forth the militia of the union for special purposes only; perhaps this also may be considered as a restriction on the general power to call forth the militia. And then they have the power given by the seventeenth grant, viz. to exercise exclusive legislation, &c. to the end of the paragraph; and to the whole is added, the sweeping clause, as it used to be called, which was formerly urged to give unlimited power to the general government. That congress have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this constitution in the government of the United States, or any department or officer thereof. What, he asked, was the conclusion to be drawn from this view of the constitution? Surely and fairly this: that congress may of right exercise all the powers which are unrestricted under their own discretion, to promote the general welfare; then it is clear that congress may assume the exclusive legislation of this district, or they may not. If, however, they do assume it, they have equal power to repeal. Congress in the exercise of its legitimate and constitutional power passed a bankrupt law, and a naturalization law; on experience they were dissatisfied with their effects, and they repealed them. Was it ever imputed to congress as a violation of the constitution? Nor there being no restriction, they felt themselves either free to act or free to refrain, as circumstances rendered the one or the other expedient.
He would, however, agree that gentlemen had thrown some obstructions in the way, which, though it did not touch the right of congress to act, yet rendered the action a point of extreme delicacy. We are told we have no right to transfer a people satisfied with their destinies in life, to another government, without their consent. The gentleman has gone upon the idea that we are about to injure those people.—Why, if he thought this was the case, he should not any longer incline to vote as he had intended to vote. But if he conceived, as he did conceive, that so far from injuring those people by restoring to them the right of suffrage, and all the consequent rights of freemen, he was about to render them essential service, he should persevere in his object. That gentleman also finds the people here secure from injury under a government over which they have no control, and in the choice of whose members they have not a vote; by observing that the government of the union can have no interest in injuring a people depending upon them for their laws and their protection. This argument, if such it may be called, goes too far; it would apply to all other governments, because it can be demonstrated that the best interest of all governments is to promote the best interests of their subjects. It is the interest of even despotic governments; but does experience teach us that these governments do not often, nay almost always, sacrifice these interests to their own whim, caprice, self-gratification, or to the villainy and avarice of subordinate agents. He denied the security which the people of this district had for their natural rights. Political rights they had none, and they depended upon congress from time to time for the civil rights which industry might afford them. What advantages then did congress receive by retaining the jurisdiction proportional or equivalent to the disadvantages. Was it that half their time was occupied in deliberations productive of no one satisfactory measure to the people they meant to benefit? Was it that so much of the money of the several states of the union was expended uselessly at this place. He was confident no individual would sacrifice his time in this way, nor expend the money of his employers on such objects; and what was wise in private life would be politically right in public. He therefore believed it the reverse of good policy in the American nation, to restrain the jurisdiction of the district.
On the point of expense he would add one idea, he deemed it enormous. Congress spent near half their time in legislating for ten miles square at the rate of 1400 dollars per day—at that ratio what would be the expense of legislating for the extensive territory of the United States, or even what would be a proportionate expense of legislating for a small state. Let gentlemen stop for a moment and contemplate the subject in this point of view, and ask themselves individually would their own state agree to such an enormous expenditure under any circumstances than those of absolute and uncontrollable necessity. He was satisfied, not a member on the floor would accede to such a monstrous measure. If then no state could be justified by its individual representatives, he would ask for the arguments whereby the representatives of the United States were to justify themselves to their constituents.
Why then retain this exclusive jurisdiction. We do not know their situation, we are strangers or sojourners here, we have not therefore their feelings. But restore them to the parent states, and they will be admitted to the full participation and enjoyment of every principle which elevates the prosperity and happiness of America over every other nation on earth. It is said that dangers may hereafter happen, that the freedom of debate and deliberation may be overawed by the inhabitants. He admitted it to be possible, but the day was remote indeed—There was more danger to be apprehended on the other side. Congress, possessed of arbitrary power over this district, might grow infatuated with that power, and when the people of the district grew humorous, it was more probable that they would be called upon to assist in pulling down the citizens of other states to their miserable condition. It was the nature of envy to destroy what it could not reach. He expected that gentlemen opposed to recession would show that superior advantages were likely to accrue from retaining the jurisdiction, or that on conviction they would join with him, and agree to adopt the measure of a total recession, which for himself he was in favor of doing.
Mr. Early. Mr. Chairman, the resolutions which we are now called upon to decide, possess a high degree of importance, not only from their object, and the consequences likely to result, but also from certain principles which have been contended for, as applying themselves to the sub-
ject. In the outset of the discussion we are met with objections upon constitutional principles against our right. We have been told by the people of this district, that we cannot recede a territory of which they are inhabitants, without their consent; and the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Dennis) has told us to-day that the proposed recession cannot be made without the consent of the people of the whole United States.
It is certainly desirable that all questions of this nature should receive a solution from the principles and practice of our own governments, without having resort to foreign sources. But much I fear that the condition of the district of Columbia is one of a nature so peculiar to itself, that no such solution can be found. For it is impossible to conceive that the principles of a government whose essence is right, should be found to apply to the situation of a people stinted of all right.
The proposition that the consent of the people of this district is necessary to give validity to an act of congress, having for its object a recession of the territory, carries with it the refutation of itself. It proves too much. The same reason by which they maintain this position, was necessary to give validity to any act of legislation over them. That congress possesses the power of exclusive legislation over them, cannot be denied. We exercise, and we are authorised so to do, a power over all their rights of life, liberty and property. Now there cannot be presented to my mind a greater absurdity than to say that the consent of the people of Columbia is necessary to any act in relation to them, when they are stripped of all the rights of self-government.
I knew, Sir, that a distinction has been made between the right of legislation, and the power of transferring that right to others. And whilst it is admitted that the congress of the United States possess themselves an exclusive right of legislation over the district of Columbia, it is denied that this right can be transferred to the states of Maryland and Virginia, without the consent of the people who are to be affected by the transfer. Of those who maintain this proposition, I would enquire by what authority was the cession first made by Virginia and Maryland to the United States? Was the consent of the people who were to be affected by the transfer, then deemed necessary to its validity, and if so, how was such consent obtained? I have heard it argued that the people to be affected, were component parts of counties in the two states, and as such had a representation in the legislatures of those states, through which their consent was given. I ask where is the proof that their consent to the cession was so given? For one thing that appears, the representatives of those counties voted against the cession acts, in which event the will of the people of this district was so far as the same could be in that way expressed, directly opposed to the measure. And for the sake of illustration I will suppose the fact to have been so, and ask gentlemen whether the acts making the cession were on that account invalid? I take upon myself the risk of saying, that no one will answer affirmatively. If so, the doctrine is reduced to this dilemma, that a cession of the district of Columbia cannot be constitutionally made without the consent of the inhabitants thereof, but that such cession may be made in the face of their express negative.
The position of the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Dennis) and his reasoning to support it have not had weight on my mind. I cannot conceive how the people of the United States are parties to the compact, so as to make any consent on their part necessary. The only parties in my opinion, are the congress on the one hand, and the states of Maryland and Virginia on the other. These parties negotiated and formed the compact—the same parties can undo it.
But be the reasoning of the people of Columbia, and the reasoning of the gentleman from Maryland ever so correct and well founded in the abstract, I still have a conclusive answer, that it cannot apply to the case. No reasoning drawn from the principles of free governments can apply to a case, where the people are disfranchised of all rights. The inhabitants of this district are in every sense the subjects of congress, and congress are their masters. This is not only the theory of the government exercised here, but in my opinion that theory has in a recent instance (the case of the Alexandria charter) been put into practice. It is my wish, Mr. Chairman, to put an end to this disgraceful state of things—a state of things exhibiting the monstrous phenomenon of a country where the principles of freedom extend to the remotest extremity, whilst there is a despotism at the heart.
If precedents were necessary, they could easily be adduced. The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Stanford) has already cited several; some before, some

Since the adoption of the federal constitution. The one most recent is directly to point. It is the convention between the United States and Georgia. In this instance it is a fact, that a tract of country inhabited by a considerable population, was transferred by the general government to Georgia, and is now incorporated with that state. The gentleman from Maryland has endeavored to evade the force of this precedent, by saying that the compact was entered into under the treaty-making power. The gentleman is incorrect as to the fact. The convention was made by commissioners appointed under and deriving their authority from a special law of the United States on the one hand, and a special law of the state of Georgia on the other hand. It remains to examine the expediency of the proposed secession.
(To be continued.) On the 25th inst. Mr. J. Randolph presented the following report of the committee appointed the 12th of Nov. last on so much of the message of the President of the United States, as relates to an amelioration of the form of government of the territory of Louisiana; to whom was referred the third of a memorial in the French language, with a translation thereof, from sundry planters, merchants and other inhabitants of the said territory of Louisiana.
REPORT [In Part] Of the committee, to whom was referred the memorial of sundry planters, merchants and other inhabitants of Louisiana. The grievances which have been felt by the memorialists, are of a nature, which your committee believe to be inseparable from those sudden transitions of government, to which late political events have subjected the inhabitants of Louisiana. By them, however, they are ascribed to a denial, on the part of the United States, of those rights and immunities to which they declare themselves entitled, in virtue of the third article of the treaty, which transferred them to our dominion, and to the immediate enjoyment of which they now claim to be admitted. It is only under the torture, that this article of the treaty of Paris can be made to speak the language, ascribed to it by the memorialists, or countenance, for a moment, that charge of breach of faith, which they have conceived themselves justified, in exhibiting against the government. By that article it is stipulated, that "The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated into the union of the United States, and admitted, as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess."
"They shall be incorporated into the union and admitted"—to what? "to the enjoyment of all the rights, &c. of American citizens"—when? "As soon as it can be done in conformity with the principles of the federal constitution: meanwhile they are to be protected, &c."
But because the memorialists may have appreciated so highly the rights which have been secured to them by the treaty of cession, the claims of the people of Louisiana, on the wisdom and justice of congress, ought not (in the opinion of your committee) to be, thereby, prejudiced. Relying on the good sense of that people to point out to them, that the United States cannot have incurred a heavy debt in order to obtain the territory of Louisiana merely with a view to the exclusive, or special benefit of its inhabitants, your committee, at the same time, earnestly recommend, that every indulgence, not incompatible with the interests of the union, be shown to the inhabitants of Louisiana.
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may be extended to them. Only two modes present themselves, whereby a dependent province may be held in obedience to its sovereign state. Force and affection. The first of these is not only repugnant to all our principles and institutions of government, but it could not be more odious to those on whom it might operate, than it would be hostile to the best interests, as well as the dearest predilections, of those by whom, in this instance, it would have to be exercised. The United States are not the property of an hereditary despot, or the rich prize of a military adventurer, whose favorites and followers may batter on the spoil of plundered provinces, won by the blood and treasure of their exhausted subjects, but they form the patrimony of a free and enlightened people, who control, whilst they constitute, the only fund, from which the men and the money, of which military power is composed, can be drawn. It can never be the interest, therefore, of the people of the United States to subject themselves to the burthens, and their liberties to the dangers of a vast military force, for the subjugation of others. The only alternative, then, which presents itself, is believed to be not more congenial to the feelings, than to the best interests of the union. So long as their authority pervades the territory of Louisiana, so long as their laws are respected and obeyed therein, your committee are at a loss to conceive how the United States are more interested in the internal government of that territory than of any state in the confederacy. By permitting her inhabitants to form their own regulations, the voice of discontent would be hushed—faction (if it existed) sated, and the people bound to us by the strong ties of gratitude and interest. The spirit of disaffection, should it be excited at any future period, by ambitious and unprincipled men, would be in direct hostility to the obvious interest of the people of Louisiana, whilst the ability of the union to repress it would remain unimpaired.
In considering this subject, the committee have not been inattentive to those forms of provincial government, which have, heretofore, obtained in the remote territories of the United States. But they have found nothing in them worthy of imitation. The second grade, as it is termed, is, of the two, less liable to objection, but there are many of its features which they are unable to recommend. Their object is to give to Louisiana a government of its own choice, administered by officers of its own appointment. In recommending the extension of this privilege to the people of that country, it is not the intention of the committee that it should be unaccompanied by wise and salutary restrictions. Among them may be numbered a prohibition of the importation of foreign slaves;—a measure equally dictated by humanity and policy; restrictions against the establishment of any form of government, other than a representative republic; against violations of the liberty of conscience, the freedom of the press, and the trial by jury: against the taxation of the lands of the United States: to which may be added (for further security) that such of the laws, as may be disapproved by congress, within a limited time, after their passage, shall be of no force and effect. These, however, are objects which may be embraced in any bill which the wisdom of the legislature may see fit to pass upon the subject. They will be proper subjects of consideration, after the determination of the principal question, the extension of self government to the people of Louisiana. Your committee therefore submit the following resolution.
Resolved, That provision ought to be made, by law, for extending to the inhabitants of Louisiana the right of self government.
FREDERICKTOWN, (M.) Jan. 25. On Friday last our town was visited by a female Preacher, of the Society of Friends or Quakers, who delivered a very edifying and pleasing discourse in the Court House. A great number of people attended; and we have not conversed with one but what appears to have been greatly surprised, and charmed by the excellence of her precepts and her winning manner of delivery. It reflects considerable credit on the Republican magistracy of Frederick-Town, that they readily accommodated the admired Friend with the use of the court house.
Shocking and Brutal. —We understand that a man by the name of David R—p, died lately in this county, in a state of insanity, produced by an excessive use of strong drink. For several weeks before he expired he had swallowed two quarts of whiskey per day. A shocking catastrophe, and an awful warning to drunkards.
WASHINGTON CITY, February 1. On the 25th ult. the court of impeachment of Pennsylvania closed the trial of the judges, and adjourned till the next day (Saturday) when it was supposed the judgment of the court would be pronounced.
The house of representatives have been almost exclusively occupied for the two last days in discussing the report of the committee of claims on the claims for GEORGIA LANDS, and the amendment offered by Mr. Clark, as stated in our last paper. Our readers will recollect that the report proposes referring the final adjustment of the claims to a board of commissioners, and that Mr. Clark's amendment provides against the allowance of any claims under the act of Georgia of 1795.
On Wednesday, Messrs. Lucas and Clark advocated; and Messrs. Elliot, Boyd and Eustis opposed the amendment. Yesterday, Messrs. Jackson, Lindley and Root supported; and Messrs. Gregg and J. Randolph spoke against the amendment. The house adjourned at 4 o'clock without taking the question. Mr. Nicholson reported a bill making an appropriation of dollars for a number of gun boats not exceeding twenty-five.
NORFOLK, January 30. At a meeting of the Directors of the Branch Bank of Virginia yesterday—THOMAS NEWTON was elected President, and the following officers were chosen— John E. Beale, Teller. Richard Bagwell, Book-keeper. Francis S. Taylor, Discount Clerk. Henry Bragg, Runner. Michael Crossmuck, Porter.
Monsieur La Brasse has at length found an opportunity of effecting a departure from Hampton Roads. After allowing sufficient time for the British frigates to get out of the way, Le President ventured to sea on Monday evening.
AN ACT, More effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth. [PASSED JANUARY 29, 1803.] Sec. 1. WHEREAS numerous inconveniences and losses have accrued to this commonwealth, from the want of an adequate mode for the collection of taxes on the payment of taxes: And whereas it is a principle in well organized governments, that property should be held subservient to the purposes thereof. Sec. 2. Be it enacted, That when the taxes upon any tract or so very of land, shall have remained unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or survey of land, shall be forfeited to the commonwealth, and subject to location, according to the terms prescribed by an act, entitled "an act, for reducing into one, the several acts concerning the land office, ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated lands, for settling the title and bounds of lands, directing the mode of processing, and prescribing the duty of surveyors." so far as the said act applies to waste and unappropriated land, and not to forfeited land: and title thereto shall be acquired by the said location, and by the payment of the taxes due upon such tract or survey of land; Provided, nevertheless, that the tract or survey of land so as aforesaid forfeited, shall be subject to the redemption of the former rightful and proper owner, at any time within one year, after such forfeiture shall have accrued, upon the payment of the taxes due thereon, with interest upon the same from the time they became payable. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That at any time within six months after the annual return of the list of delinquents or delinquents for the non-payment of the taxes upon land into his office, the auditor of this commonwealth shall cause this act to be published for three several times in the gazette of the printer of this commonwealth, and in some newspaper of general circulation, published at the seat of the general government, provided always, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorise the location of any lands within the purview of this act, before the expiration of the time limited for the redemption thereof: nor to affect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unsound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased. Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed. Sec. 5. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next. (A Copy) Teste, James Pleasants, jr. c. h. d.
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THE SECOND VOLUME OF Pinkerton's Geography, AND THE ATLAS, (Which completes the work,) are now ready for delivery at S. Pleasants' Book-store. * A few copies for sale—Price 15 dollars.
SAML. BROOKS, ENGRAVER, SEAL CUTTER, AND FANCY WORKMAN, OFFERS his services to the public in the above branches. His shop is at present next door to Doct. Wilson's, opposite the Bell Tavern. February 21 1803
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD. RUN away on the 24th inst. BILLY, a stout black man, aged about 30 years; his hair rather short, and thick lips; he is the same fellow that has attended me as a servant for a number of years; he was clad in home made cloth, of cotton and wool striped with purple and yellow, round jacket and pantaloons; I suspect he is possessed of a considerable sum of money, having recently robbed me and has been in the habit of doing so for a length of time before I found him out; his being satisfied that all confidence with me is lost, he will endeavor to make off either to Norfolk or the Northern states; I doubt not but he will procure a forge's pass. Ten dollars reward will be given to any person that will deliver him to me, or lodge him in any jail in this state, or fifty dollars if taken out of the state & lodged in jail, in either case I am to be notified so that I get him again.
D. TRUEHEART. Hanover, Meadow Bridge, Jan. 30. 1833 TO HIRE, The present year, as a Wet Nurse, A likely Young Woman, With her first child. Enquire of the PRINTER. February 1, 1803. 3c * A few Tickets in the RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY, (now drawing) for sale at this office.—Price $1.
VIRGINIA ARGUS. RICHMOND: WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1803. RICHMOND PRICE CURRENT. CORRECTED WEEKLY. Tobacco, 33s Cash Wheat, 12s do. Flour, fine, 60s do. Flour, superfine, 63s do. Corn, 30s do. Hemp, (clean) £ 52 do. Iron, £ 33 do. Bacon, 9d do. Whiskey, 4s 3d do. Pork, 32s do. Butter, 1s 6d do.
We are authorised to state, that GEORGE WILLIAM SMITH, Esquire, of this City, is a candidate for the office of Senator, for the District composed of the counties of Henrico, Goochland and Louisa, at the approaching election.
For the SUMMARY of PUBLIC ACTS, &c. contained in the half sheet enclosed in this day's Argus, we are indebted to WILLIAM WALLER HENING, Esquire, who gratuitously composed them for the Editor.
Our fellow citizens will rejoice to perceive the lively solicitude felt, in the house of representatives, on the wanton outrages offered to our neutral rights by the unjust and oppressive treatment of our seamen by British armed vessels. The belligerent nations ought to know, and the awakening spirit of America will teach them, that national wrongs cannot be endured with impunity, but that they will be resented, and it may be avenged, with an energy that becomes a powerful nation. We say powerful—for there is no nation on earth more capable of a retaliation that shall be fraught with injury to her aggressors. Fifteen hundred and thirty-eight seamen, impressed in the short period of eighteen months! Do those who suffer these wrongs to be inflicted on the domestic peace of our citizens, and the honor of our nation, recollect how often famine has stared them in the face, and how often we have saved them from its deadliest scourges? Do they recollect for how much of their wealth and their glory they are indebted to us? If they do recollect these things, are they not aware also that a just nation, however slow she may be in taking her measures, will when they are once taken, pursue them with a vigor equal to her justice?
We mean no particular reflection by these remarks on any government. We trust every government whose subjects commit injustice, will disavow all participation in it. But we do mean unequivocally to mark what we believe to be the national temper on this important topic. (Nat. Intel.)
It was reported very confidently, in London on the 7th of November, (says the Mercantile Advertiser) that the British Resident at Naples had experienced a similar treatment to that which Sir George Rumbold met with near Hamburg.
On the 31st of January, 1805, the House of Delegates (with only one dissenting voice) adopted the following resolutions: RESOLVED, as the opinion of the House of Delegates, that the Senate does not possess a constitutional power of amending any bill originating in the House of Delegates, on the subject of imposing or collecting taxes. Resolved, That the incorporation of these subjects, in the same bill, does not tend in any degree to deprive the Senate of their constitutional power relative to the amendment of bills, other than money bills, originating in this house.
In the House of Delegates, February 1st, 1805. Resolved, That 250 copies of the resolutions of the House of Delegates, yesterday entered into, on the subject of the claim, by the Senate, of a right to amend bills providing for the collection of taxes, together with the report of a committee, presented to the House of Delegates, on the 9th day of January, 1778, on a similar subject, be immediately printed, for the use of the members of the General Assembly.
Extract from the Journal of the House of Delegates, 9th of January, 1778. Mr. Jefferson reported, from the committee appointed to prepare reasons to be offered to the Senate at the conference to be desired of them, on the subject of the last conference, that the committee had accordingly prepared what they thought would be proper to be offered at the said conference; and he read the same in his place, and afterwards delivered it in at the clerk's table, where the same was read, and is as followeth, viz. Reasons to be offered at the conference to be desired of the Senate, in answer to their reasons delivered at the last conference. The House of Delegates, not being satisfied with the reasons urged by the Senate in support of their amendments
to the resolution for allowing to Thomas Johnson the sum of £13 5 6, have desired this second conference to show the insufficiency of the said reasons, and to propose that some expedient may be adopted by the two houses for reconciling their difference of opinion.
The resemblance between the constituent parts of our Legislature and that of Great-Britain is supposed by the Senate so faint, that no ground remains for those jealousies which have prompted the Commons of Great Britain against their House of Lords. This might have been, and doubtless was, urged at the time our Constitution was formed, as a reason why the Senate and Delegates should have equal powers over money bills. But the argument having been then overruled, and the powers of the Senate, as to this point, being fixed by the Constitution, on the same restricted footing, with those of the Lords in the British Legislature, it is conceived not to be the proper question of this day whether the resemblance between them in general be faint or strong, well or ill grounded; but whether the Constitution has not made them to resemble in this point?
Had those who framed the constitution, as soon as they had completed that work, been asked, man by man, what a money bill was, it is supposed that, man by man, they would have referred for answer to the well known laws & usage of Parliament, or would have formed their answer on the Parliamentary idea of that term. It's import at this day must be the same it was then: And it would be as unreasonable now to send us to seek its definition in the subsequent proceedings of that body, as it would have been for them, at that day, to have referred us to such proceedings before they had come into existence. The meaning of the term must be supposed complete at the time they used it, and to be sought for in those resources only which existed at the time. Constructions which do not result from the words of the legislator, but lie hidden in his breast, till called forth, ex post facto, by subsequent occasions, are dangerous and not to be justified by ordinary emergencies.
Nor do we by this set up the Parliament of England, as the expositor of our constitution, but the law of Parliament, as it existed, and was evidenced by usage, at the time the term in question was inserted in our instrument of government; a law co-eval with the common law itself, and no more liable, as adopted by us, to subsequent change, from that body, than their common or statute law, which we have in like manner adopted. To suppose this branch of law not existing in our code, would shake the foundation of our whole legal system; since every legislative proposition which has been passed or rejected since the first establishment of a legislature in this country, has been determined to be law, or not law, by the form of parliamentary proceeding. With as little justice may it be said, that this is referring for the definition of a term to multiplied disputes, which have for ages agitated the parliament of England, and which no time will decide; that it is proving what is clear by what is very obscure, and unsettling what is fixed: since we conceive that researches into parliamentary history will decisively shew that their practice in this matter has been clear, fixed and ancient; and that for ages past, it has produced no agitation, unless we call by that name some groundless assertions of the Lords in the course of the last century. Yet these assertions they departed from in practice, at the very time they advanced them, and at all times after, they stand contradicted by the declarations of the commons, and the constant usage of both houses; which agreeing together, are supposed to form the strongest evidence what the law of Parliament is in this point. To prove this right as uniformly claimed and exercised by the commons, and assented to in practice by the Lords, the Delegates will subjoin some proceedings of Parliament in addition to the passage cited by the Senate.
That a bill for raising money by way of tax, is a money bill, is admitted by the senate, and need not therefore be proved. That bills for raising money by rates and impositions on merchandise, are also considered as money bills, will appear on referring to the Parliamentary proceedings of 1671, in which it is affirmed, "That there is a fundamental right in the House of Commons alone in bills of rates and impositions on merchandise, as to the matter, the measure and the time," and also by their declaration of 1680, "That the Commons have always taken it for their

undoubted privilege (of which they have ever been tender and jealous) that in all aids given to the King by the Commons, the rate or tax ought not to be any way altered by the Lords," which is supposed to be the passage cited by the Senate as of the year 1671.
That bills for applying forfeitures in aid of the public revenue, are not amendable by the Lords, appears by the proceedings of 1700, on the bill for applying Irish forfeitures to the use of the public, to which the Lords were not permitted to make any amendments.
The right of levying money in whatever way being thus exercised by the Commons as their exclusive office, it follows as a necessary consequence that they may also exclusively direct its application "Cujus est dare ejus est disponere," is an elementary principle, both of law and reason. That he who gives, may direct the application of the gift, or in other words, may dispose of it; that, if he may give absolutely, he may also carve out the conditions, limitations, purposes and measures of the gift, seems as evidently true, as that the greater power contains the lesser. Parliamentary usage has accordingly approved this reasoning. In July, 1678, the Commons resolved, "That it is their undoubted and sole right to direct, limit and appoint, in all aids and supplies granted to the King, the ends, purposes, conditions, considerations, limitations and qualifications of such grants, which ought not to be changed by the House of Lords." In December of the same year, the Commons having directed the payment of money, and the Lords proposed an amendment thereto, the former declared, "That their Lordships never before changed any such disposition made on a supply granted by the Commons." In 1701, the Lords having amended a bill for stating and examining the public accounts, by inserting a clause for allowing a particular debt, the Commons disagreed to the amendment, and declared for a reason, "That the disposition as well as granting of money by act of Parliament, hath ever been in the House of Commons, and that the amendment relating to the disposal of money, does intrinch upon that right." —And to a bill of the same nature the year following, the Lords having proposed an amendment, by adding the names of some commissioners, the Commons disagreed to the amendment, and declared, "That their right in granting, limiting and disposing public aids being the main hinge of the controversy, they thought it of the highest concern that it should be cleared and settled." They then go on to prove the usage, by precedents and declarations, and from these conclude, "That the limitation, disposition and manner of account belongs only to them." In reply the Lords said "They declined all arguments concerning the rights of the Commons in granting, limiting and disposing public aids, and therefore forbore to answer any arguments of that kind;" but proceeded to insist that the business then depending was of quite another nature. And at some subsequent conferences between the two houses during the same session, it was repeatedly declared "That the lords could not supply any deficiency, or apply any surplusage of the public money in case any should be found"—And this declaration does not appear to have been contradicted by the Lords, either then or at any time after.
These precedents are supposed to prove not only that the disposal or application of public money is equally with the raising of it, the exclusive office of the Commons, but also that it makes no difference whether it be of money then actually in the Treasury, or yet to be raised on the public; nor whether the raising and disposing be in the same or in separate bills.
Though the precedents, referred to by the Senate, in the proceedings of the Council and House of Burgesses, in the years 1771, 1772, and 1773, (the first of which, how-
ever, we suppose to be mistaken for 1772) might perhaps be well accounted for from their particular nature, from the history of the times, or from other causes; and though the Delegates might produce, from the same records, proofs, much more decisive, in their favor, yet they decline resting the matter on that bottom: Because they are of opinion, that the present determination ought not to be influenced by the practice of those, who have themselves only copied from the same original. Their practice, and our opinions, must be proved by the same common rule, the law and practice of parliament. Their acknowledgment of the rule, proves their submission to it, and that their practice should be tried by the law, not the law by their practice.
How dangerous it is to appeal to other authorities from the Parliamentary records, the true text of decision, will appear also by examining the whole passage, of which a part only was cited from the Commentaries of Judge Blackstone: a writer, celebrated indeed; but whether most for his attachment to the prerogatives of the crown or to the rights of the people, would be worthy of consideration, where the question is on one of those rights, which have been of the greatest value to the people, the right of giving and disposing of their own money, that writer after the definition, cited from his book by the senate, goes on to quote a passage from Judge Hales's treatise on the jurisdiction of Parliament, which is to be found more at large in Brooke's abridgment, under the title 'Parliament,' pl. 4. there it appears to be a saying of Kerble, a Clerk of the Parliament, who lays down in express terms, or by direct implication, these following positions, as of the law of Parliament. 1st, That the Lords may amend a bill for granting aids. 2d, That if the amendment be by shortening the duration of the grant, they need not return the bill to the commons for their concurrence. 3d, That the king may alter a bill. Brooke indeed, adds a quare to the case; but that Judge Blackstone disapproved of it, cannot be inferred from his words. It is therefore submitted to the consideration of the Senate, whether they would set up as an arbiter of Parliamentary law, a writer who can cite or refer to such positions without condemning them in decisive and unequivocal terms, for that part of his book too, which the Senate quote and rely on, he cites no authority whatever; are we then to take it upon his affirmation, when contradicted by the uniform current of Parliamentary usage? But waving further examination of the legality of his opinion, it suffices to observe, as a full answer to it, that the judges of the common law can take no cognizance of the law of Parliament; it can never come judicially in question before them. Their sayings or opinions on the subject, must be ever extra-judicial and they have accordingly always disclaimed a right to give judgment on them; definitions therefore of Parliamentary law, by any other court, by a member of court, or by a private individual, must be rejected as inauthentic in a Parliamentary disquisition.
For these reasons, the Delegates still think that the Senate have no authority to amend the vote in question; but open to conviction, if it can be shown they are wrong, and actuated by a strong desire to promote the public service, as well as to preserve the constitution entire, they propose to the Senate, if they should still adhere to their former opinions, that a select committee may be appointed by each house to meet together in free conference, and endeavor to define the office of the two houses in bills, clauses and votes relating to money, and that such definition, if approved by both houses, may be confirmed by act of Assembly.
The said report being read a second time, was, upon the question put thereupon, agreed to by the house.
From London Papers to November 24. The following is an extract of a letter from the French Minister of General Police, to the Marshal Bernadotte, ordering the apprehension of Sir George Rumbold. Paris, 18 Vendemiaire, (Oct. 10.) (After stating that Mr. Rumbold is following the system of Messrs. Drake and Smith, and that the British Minister has avowed a plan of conspiracy "which is proved, besides by the conduct of Mr. Taylor, and the original papers in my hands,"—Fouché proceeds in the following terms:)
"In consequence of these new and subversive principles, his Majesty the Emperor has caused it to be declared, that he will not recognize any diplomatic character in the English Agents who have been
placed by their own Government out of the Law of Nations, and the common law of civilized nations; they desire then that M. Rumbold, be considered as any other English individual who should adopt criminal practices, and be seized if it be in your power to do it, taking every measure to secure his papers. I invite you, Marshal, to take all the necessary steps to accomplish this object. I have the honor to be, (Signed) "FOUCHÉ."
The Moniteur of the 12th inst. in the Paris article, says—"Mr. Rumbold, English Agent at Hamburg, arrested within cannon shot of the advanced post of the French army of Hanover, and carried to Paris, has been liberated through the protection of the King of Prussia, and has been sent to England by the way of Cherbourg. If the proceedings against this worthy associate of Mr. Drake, Spencer Smith, and Taylor, had been completed, they would have furnished instances as remarkable as those of his accomplices."
At a general meeting of the Mutual Assurance Society against fire on buildings of the state of Virginia, held by adjournments at the capitol, on the 30th of January, 1805.
The following officers were elected, to serve for the ensuing year, to wit: Alexander M'Rae, President. Alexander Stewart, Robert Mitchell, George W. Smith, Wm. Price, Regr. Cashier Gen. William F. Ast, Principal Agent.
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY. Seventh Day's Drawing. Prizes of 100 dollars—Nos. 763 2084. Prizes of 50 dollars—Nos. 1342 2260 445 2061 136 1398 422 1930 1262 314 337 1048 2994 747 2172 1391 255 892 3168 1733 408 2193 2837 2227 2750 1543 3242 42 679 1643 543 992 3505 3634 3124 2186 77 1945 426 1903 3472 3192 177 1885 1799 2303 188 1806 3129 232 148 3303 1274 302. Whole gain of the wheel 3096 dollars. Tickets raised to 11 dollars each.
CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL CHURCH LOTTERY. Twenty-Sixth Day's Drawing. 300 tickets drawn this day. Prize of 200 dollars—No. 18935. Prize of 100 dollars—No. 2936. Prizes of 50 dollars—Nos. 247 5590 12944. Prize of 25 dollars—No. 6631. Prizes of 10 dollars—Nos. 572 1152 1790 2662 3312 3437 3709 3927 4150 5178 5202 5540 5607 6154 6395 6861 7553 10305 10470 11084 12370 12960 12976 13384 14229 14592 14683 14744 14822 14896 16187 16387 16458 16658 17433 17597 17710 17889 18239 18350 18401 18890 19035 19385 20185 20458 20691 4129. And 52 of 15 dollars.
AT A Court Martial begun and held at the Swan Tavern in the city of Richmond, on Thursday the 24th day of January, 1805, by order of Major General Henry Lee, for the trial of Major Samuel J. Winston, Inspector of the second Brigade, now under arrest by order of Brigadier General Thomas White; PRESENT. Brigadier General Henry Young, President; Colonel Christopher Tompkins, Colonel Richard Adams, William Allen, Major Briggs, Benjamin Wolfe, Humphrey Walker, Joseph A. Myers, John S. Pleasants, Richard Williams, William Martox, George Dabney, John Peter, George W. Smith, and Isaac Dabney. Major Beverley Robertson, being also present, was appointed Judge Advocate. The court, having heard the testimony, as well on the behalf of the commonwealth as said Winston, and the arguments of the Judge advocate, and the bye standers being then requested to withdraw, and the doors being closed, the court then proceeded to give the following opinion; that Brigadier Major Samuel J. Winston, in the exercise of his office, and the performance of his duties with the officers of the 74th regiment of Militia, in the month of November last, did conduct himself as became a gentleman and an officer, equally solicitous and vigilant to perform the duties of Brigadier Major or Inspector, in training and instructing the said officers without partiality, favor, prejudice or malice; and without arrogating any illegal or improper authority. The court are therefore of opinion, that the said Winston is not guilty of the charge alleged against him, and that he be thenceforth discharged from this arrest. A copy, teste, BEVERLEY ROBERTSON, Judge Advocate.
MARRIED—On Seventh day evening last, at Friends meeting-house, at Wharton Swamp, Doctor THOMAS HARRIS, of Hanover county, aged 60 years, to UNITY LADD, daughter of John Ladd, of Charles City, aged 20 years. DIED—On the 31st ult. Mr. ARCHIBALD LANG, of the town of Manchester, aged 30 years, 1 month and 8 days.
To the inhabitants of York, Elizabeth City, Warwick, James City, Gloucester, Mathews, Middlesex, Accomack and Northampton. FELLOW CITIZENS, THE period is nearly arrived, when you will have to exercise the invaluable privilege of selecting one of your number, to represent you in the Congress of the United States. The importance of this act, surely need not be insisted on to those who feel daily the blessings that flow from a government of laws; unless indeed, that circumstance itself be the ground of caution. Familiarised to happiness, we may not cease
to know its value, but we may become supine; nay, men will become negligent when it is presumed danger is not high. Let us take the warning voice of History, which tells us, that the moment of prosperity, is often the fatal moment; that individual passions, and personal aggrandizement, the enemies of general happiness, with heads like the Hydra, neither sleep nor slumber.—If in subverting the liberties of his country, one Caesar fell; another rose from his ashes, and so from the scaffold of Charles, rose a Cromwell.
The limits of an Address, will not permit me farther to pursue this subject, and a hint will suffice to convince you, of the necessity in this day of prosperity, to be guarded and jealous, to secure to your children's children the blessings you yourselves enjoy. To that end, rely not alone on the form of your government; but be equally attentive to its administration, in it seek for practical Republicanism, and be careful that those to whom you entrust power, will be ever mindful, that they are but your agents and accountable to you; that all their acts and doings be singly with a view to the public happiness. The individual who invites the public attention to himself, in this important point of view, must indeed feel numberless difficulties; but the extensive and respectable patronage I received at the last election, raises me above those difficulties; and confident in my attachment to Republican principles, I am prompted to offer myself as a Candidate for the District, at the ensuing election.
On a former occasion, I illustrated the Republicanism to which I was devoted, by reference to the present Administration. The result to the public happiness, after two years farther trial, gives cause of exultation to those, who then, or even now, avers attachment to like principles. Should I be fortunate enough to be selected by the major part of the district, my best exertions shall be, to keep the political course already set, and which is so well tested by experience, as to assure us, the result will be a continuance of public and private happiness.
BURWELL BASSETT. Richmond Academy Lottery. NOTICE is hereby given, that the days of drawing will be herewith the Wednesday and Saturday, commencing to-morrow the 6th instant. From the great gain of the wheel, the price of tickets is now eleven dollars each, but to favor early purchasers, the commissioners will continue to exchange tickets for prizes as before until 1500 numbers are drawn. R. Mitchell, R. Pollard, Alex. Stuart, Wm. Price, G. Tucker, Committee to superintend the drawing. Richmond, February 5. 1805.
Notice. THE subscribers having put an end to their retail business, request the debtors to this firm to come forward, without loss of time, to have their accounts adjusted, and to pay what may be due; as great indulgence has been already given, further cannot, reasonably be expected—George M'Credie will attend at this place for the purposes of settling the accounts, and receiving payment. Those who do not pay, or give satisfactory assurance of paying soon, must blame themselves if suits are instituted against them. LYTTLE & MCCREDIE. Manchester, Feb. 4th. 1805.
Notice. ALL persons having claims against the estate of Edward Branch, dec. dec. of Chesterfield county, are earnestly requested to bring them forward properly authenticated for settlement on or before the 15th day of April next, as I intend soon after that time to close my executorship. CHARLES BURTON, Ex'r. Chesterfield, Feb. 4. 1805.
Notice. ALL persons having any demands against the estate of John Cook, dec. of Henrico county, are requested to bring forward the same properly authenticated, on or before the 25th inst.; and those indebted to the said estate are earnestly requested to make immediate payment to HENRY RIGBY, Adm'r. Chesterfield, Feb. 4. 1805.
THE SUBSCRIBER OFFERS FOR SALE, The Property, On which he now resides, consisting of two acres (town measure) of highly improved Land, on which is situated a good brick dwelling, with all the necessary offices. JAMES DREW M'CAW. Feb. 5th. 1805. [BY PARTICULAR DESIRE.]
CONCERT Of Vocal and Instrumental Music, FOR THE BENEFIT OF MASTER A. PETICOLAS, On Friday the 8th instant, at the Eagle Tavern. Particulars will be given in bills. Tickets one dollar, to be had at Mr. Prichard's, Mr. Pleasants' and at the Eagle Tavern (where the concert is to be) To begin at 7 o'clock, p. m.
THE Sheriffs of the counties of Princess Anne, Norfolk and Nansemond, composing a district; of the counties of Buckingham, Albemarle, Amherst and Fluvanna, composing another district; of the counties of Elizabeth City, Warwick and York, composing another district; of the counties of Bedford, Campbell, Henry, Pittsylvania, Patrick and Franklin, composing another district; of the counties of Westmoreland, Stafford, and King George, composing another district; and of the counties of Accomack and Northampton, composing another district; which several districts constitute the Class No. 4, of the Senate of Virginia, will please to take notice, that an election in rotation is to be held, on the several court days of the said counties, in the month of April next, for the choice of a Senator to represent each of the districts above mentioned in the General Assembly, for four years next ensuing. THEO: HANSFORD, C. S. February 1st. 1805.
Stop Thief! Stop Thief!
On Sunday morning last the 3d inst. my Horse, Saddle and Bridle, were taken from me by a man who said he was going to Col. Selden's, and about return after dinner, of the following description, viz—A young man about 21 or 22 years of age, black hair shoulder-length, but on the front of his head rather bushy and spreading, dark complexion, thin visage, looks well and appears genteel; his nose is long, rather inclining upwards, about six feet high; his dress as follows: a light colored drab great coat, the sleeves appear to reach his muckles. Light colored corduroy pan-taloons, which button up pretty high, flat toed boots, a yellow and red striped handkerchief about his neck and face, which reached his chin; he also had a black cane which I believe contained a sword, painted apparently red, among the black or probably red streaks above the joints of the cane. He never went to Col. Selden's but in about half an hour after he got the horse, was seen riding up to Richmond on a gallop thro' the street leading his course upwards.—Description of the horse, saddle and bridle; a small chunky bay horse, about 4 feet 4 or 5 inches high, white face, his mane a few months since was cut close, but now considerably grown out, and stands erect, his tail bobbed a little, his shoes are likely worn out and his hoofs ragged, the front one longer and coarser than the others, with some old nails remaining in the edges, his legs rather shaggy and dirty, not having been trimmed since I had him, his hind foot white, & his hinders hoofs I think are white, there are on the top of his back, under the form of the saddle, two large spots where the hair has been rubbed off on each side, now smooth, with new short hair, very perceptible, also faint marks of being galled by going in a chain, perceptible on his breast where the harness rests in pulling, and is the same little horse I purchased of Joe Oldness in Richmond. When he gallops he flutters feet very high and throws them down very hard & is a coarse gaited horse. The saddle and bridle are nearly new, having been used about three months; the edges of the saddle pad bound all around with red; buck and the buckles of the stirrup leathers are visible by the shornness of the saddle skirts, which are found; the bridle is a curb bit, single reins, & the curb which is annexed to the bit, is tied on one end with a piece of twine knot close in a hard knot, and the other at each end has a knot in it ab. 5 or 6 inches from the buckle which is square; the buckles on the bridle are roundish & rather fluted, not quite so large as a dollar, the head stall done around with white and green or yellow & red feeding. I will give thirty dollars if the thief can be brought to justice and twenty dollars for my horse, saddle and bridle. Wm. BRYAN. Roanoke Landing, 5th February, 1805.
N. B. The printers of the Intelligence in Petersburg, the Express in Fredericksburg and the printer of the Review in S.utton, are requested to insert the above in their respective papers until discontinued in the Argus, and forward their accounts to the subscriber in Richmond. W. B.
TAKEN up by the subscriber, in Powhatan county, in the month of November, 1804, a dark bay MARE, about four feet 7 or 8 inches high, 9 or 10 years old, a small white spot on her upper lip, and a few white hairs on her left fore foot. I keep. Appraise the sum of 40 dollars. SETH LION. Posted as the law directs. Jas. Pointdexter, c. p. c.
Government Security.
NEW-YORK LOTTERY. No. III. for the encouragement of Literature, Begins Drawing on the EIGHTEENTH DAY of APRIL next. 25,000 DOLLARS, 10,000 DOLLARS, 5,000 DOLLARS, HIGHEST PRIZES. The Scheme contains 35,000 Tickets, of which 9,913 are Prizes, less than two and a half blanks to a prize—Deduction fifteen per cent. At the session of the Legislature of the state of New York, on Monday the 12th Nov. 1804, a resolution passed the Senate, and was concurred in by the House of Assembly, that the drawing of the said Lottery be postponed until the Second Monday in April next, in consequence of the defalcation of one of the managers, and that the Legislature will GUARANTEE the PAYMENT of ALL the PRIZES in said Lottery.
TICKETS And Halves, Quarters & Eighths, ARE TO BE HAD AT G. & R. WAITE'S PERMANENT LOTTERY OFFICES, No. 64, MAIDEN LANE, & No. 38, MAIDEN LANE, AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES. Whole Tickets Dols. 7 50 | Quarters, Dol. 2 00 Halves, " 3 75 | Eighths, " 1 12 But as the tickets and shares, have met with such an extraordinary rapid sale throughout every part of the United States, they will speedily advance in price.
* Distant Adventurers, by inclosing BANK NOTES of ANY DESCRIPTION, may have tickets forwarded them by go. t. to any part of the Union, by G. & R. WAITE, with the utmost punctuality; and the earliest intelligence sent of their success—CASH advanced for prizes as soon as drawn, or warranted drawn tickets exchanged for prizes during the drawing. For the satisfaction of adventurers in Richmond and its vicinity, G. & R. Waite will forward to the printer of this paper, the Managers' Official List of Prizes, as soon as printed, where any gentleman can examine his own number.—Letters post paid will be duly attended to. New-York, Nov. 23. 1804.
FOR SALE, A valuable Tract of Land, Lying on Beaver creek, containing 300 acres, with a good dwelling house 38 feet by 28, two stories high, with 4 rooms on the lower floor and 2 above, with a very large peach orchard and a small apple orchard, with about 100 acres of cleared land, now in good order for corn, wheat and tobacco—This tract is well watered & well timbered and lies remarkably level for this part of the country, it being in 2 miles of the courthouse. As I would wish to move to Kentucky next Fall, I would give possession then, and the purchaser be furnished with corn and stock of all kinds, at the market price. For terms apply to me, living on the premises. Jo' S. Woodson. Henry county, Nov. 29. 1804.
Tickets in the William & Mary College Lottery are for sale at this office. Purchasers to the number of ten tickets may be accommodated with a credit of sixty days from the commencement of drawing.

GIMCRACK The subscriber next season will be at his stable about 12 miles from Howells's Ferry, ten from Smith's Ferry and seven miles from the court house. Herbert C. Cocke. Halifax, November 19th, 1804. 3m  BROKERS OFFICE. THE SUBSCRIBER HAS Opened a Broker's Office, Opposite the Union Tavern, and over the Council-house of Thomas and Amos Ltd. All business confided to him will be transacted with strict fidelity. THOMAS NORFELL. Richmond, October 5, 1804. 1f
NOTICE. We the undersigned, partners in the late concern of Buchanan, Dunlop & Co. at Petersburg, Robert Pollok & Co. at Richmond and of Dunlop, Pollok & Co. at Manchester, have sold to Mr. James Dunlop, our late partner in said concern, the debts now due to and outstanding at these different establishments—those interested therefore please to take notice, that hereafter payments are to be made only to the said Mr. James Dunlop, his attorney or attorneys, and to whom those having claims against these concerns will apply for payment. David Buchanan, (2m) By Robert Pollok his attorney. Robert Pollok. Virginia, Petersburg, Dec. 6, 1804.
J. Tompkins Respectfully informs those concerned, that he has removed the books and papers of the late concern of Lower Pollok & Co. and Dunlop, Pollok & Co. to a new brick house near the basin, and directly opposite to the scale house, where he has for SALE a few pipes of  Old Cogniac Brandy, Of superior quality. Cash will be given for Twelve or Fifteen BOYS, From 7 to 15 years old.—Enquire of the Printer.  NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the late firm of Buchanan, Dunlop & Co. Of Petersburg; Robert Pollok & Co. Of Richmond; and Dunlop, Pollok & Co. Of Manchester, are hereby notified that James Dunlop, late a partner in the above concerns, has become purchaser of the outstanding debts; they will therefore be pleased to make payment to Mr. John Tompkins, residing in Richmond, or the subscriber, residing in Petersburg; who alone are authorized to make collections and grant discharges. Suits will be indiscriminately commenced against all who do not make payment before the first of February next. JOHN DUNLOP, Attorney for James Dunlop. Petersburg, Nov. 15, 1804. (1f)
TO BE SOLD. For ready money, pursuant to a decree of the Federal Circuit Court, for the district of Virginia, in a suit between Thomas Lord, Attorney for the creditors of Robert Edwards, plaintiff, and David Ross and others defendants, two undivided parts, out of three, of a tract of LAND, in the county of Henrico, upon Four Mile Creek, with the MILLS & HOUSES thereon, known by the name of the Norwich Mills. ALSO: a Tract of LAND, situated in the county of Henrico, about seven miles below the City of Richmond, commonly called and known by the name of the Seven Pines, though it contains one thousand acres, but Mr. Ross understands, that an accurate survey and plot shall be produced on the day of sale. The sale will positively take place at the Eagle Tavern in the City of Richmond, on Thursday the 21st day of February next. BEN. MOSBY, n. m. v. n. JOSEPH SCOTT, n. m. v. n. (ids.) Jan. 8.
At the same time and place, I will dispose of the other undivided third part of the said Norwich Mills, and will also dispose of a valuable tract of LAND adjoining thereto, which contains about five hundred acres, with various improvements. The whole is a valuable estate. Mr. Morton will show the Mills and the land. The terms of payment for the said land and the other third part of the Mills will be half ready money, and twelve months credit for the other half. DAVID ROSS.
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY. NOTICE is hereby given, that the drawing of the said Lottery will commence on this day, and be continued on Tuesdays and Saturdays by drawing from fifty to five hundred numbers, until the whole is completed. All tickets not sold and delivered before this day will be considered as held on account of the Trustees of the Academy; and the agents for selling them are earnestly requested to remit either the money or the tickets committed to their disposal, to the Commissioner from whom they were received. Those who have purchased tickets on a credit, will be pleased to reckon from this day. If the class of drawing and the number to be drawn shall be increased, public notice will be given of the same. The prizes to be paid in sixty days after the drawing is completed. It is hoped that the tickets remaining in the hands of the commissioners will be readily bought, by those who are well wishers to the proposed Academy, or who wish to see in the neighbourhood of this city the beginning of a great National University. The committee appointed for that purpose have already purchased about 12 acres of ground, a little more than a mile from town, in an eligible situation, and the necessary buildings will be begun in the ensuing spring. On behalf of the trustees, Robert Mitchell, Robert Pollard, appointed Alex. Stuart, to superintend the Wm. Price, drawing. G. Tucker. Richmond, January 14, 1805.
BLANK BONDS. For sale at this office.
The subscriber wishes to sell for cash, or on credit till the first day of January next, the  Two Brick Tenements, Adjoining the house of Mr. Benjamin Mosby. JOHN PENDLETON. City of Richmond, No. 106, 1804. 2w
His SCHOOL from the Falling Garden over to the white house near the Courthouse, where Messrs. Cohen & Isaacs formerly kept store—He will continue to teach Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Grammar and Geography; he will also teach Book Keeping, and several branches of the Mathematics, if required.—The price of tuition will be made known on application. J. S. PLEASANTS. 13th Nov 1804 * * * All kinds of MATTRESSES for Sale—Also, old ones worked over. I. S. P.
FOR SALE,  YARMOUTH, LYING in James City county, on Chickahominy river, ten miles from Williamsburg. The improvements are, a two-story brick house with two rooms on each side, a large and capacious barn, and three other out-houses. The whole tract including an island in view of the house, high and low land, with marshes, contains about 700 acres, scarcely one third of which is cleared. Two thirds of the island is arable, which, with the land adjoining the houses, is of superior quality. Adjacent to the island are two bold and navigable creeks with a convenient landing to each. The range for cattle is very extensive and the marshes and meadows will supply an abundance of hay. Fish and fowl, in their respective seasons, may with ease be obtained at your door. The orchards, consisting of the greatest variety of all kinds of fruit selected with care, are now in their prime. The terms will be made known by William Berkeley of Richmond, William Randolph of Wilton, or the subscriber. PEYTON RANDOLPH, JR. FOR ELIZA: INNS. Nov. 4th, 1804. own N Saw aft if
The large white House, At Baskerville, formerly occupied by Mr. William Penwick, and afterwards by Mr. Braxton Craddock. For terms apply to Gallego, Richard & Co.
IN pursuance of a deed of trust from Thomas H. Davis, to Carter H. Harrison, bearing date the 10th Dec. 1787, Will be Sold, at public auction, at Poyler's tavern in Cartersville, for ready money, on the 9th February next,  A TRACT OF LAND Containing 1500 acres, be the same more or less, lying in the county of Caroline, on the branches of Hill's Creek, now in the possession of Mr. Philip Payne, who will show the land to any person disposed to purchase. Under an impression that those who wish to purchase will view the premises, it is deemed necessary to say much of the quality; suffice it to say, that it is esteemed a very valuable tract, great part of it capable of producing excellent tobacco. ROBERT C. HARRISON, PEYTON HARRISON. January 9th, 1805. own N Saw aft if
NOTICE. THOSE indebted to the late firm of Shackle & McRae, either by bond or open account, are desired to make payment, before the first of March—All failing to comply, will find their accounts in the hands of an attorney. Colin MacRae. Manchester, Jan. 8, 1805. (eptm)
TO BE SOLD. For ready money, in pursuance of a deed of trust from David Ross, Esq. in order to secure a sum of money, due from him to the trustees of James Dunlop, deceased, the following  Lands, Lots & Tenements, Or such part of them as may be necessary to pay the said debts, with the charges and expenses of sale. An Estate or Plantation, all or the greater part of which is in the county of Fauquier, known by the name of Mount Prospect, containing by estimation twenty-two hundred acres, more or less, adjoining the lands of James Quarles and Joseph Haden—Also, the following LOTS in the town of Columbia, Fauquier county, to wit: Lot No. 63, on which the warehouse is built—Lot No. 75, on which is a store, now or late in the occupation of John Forbes—No. 75, now or late in the occupation of J. Strother. The sale will take place at John Napier's tavern, in the town of Columbia, on the first day of December next, and the lands and tenements aforesaid will be set up in that order which shall appear best to suit the purchasers and most beneficial to the parties interested. John Wickham, Ben. Mosby, } Trustees. Geo. Greenhowe, Richmond, 17th October, 1804.
The time of the sale above mentioned, having been postponed, and the place of sale altered, at the request of Mr. Ross, the public are hereby notified, that it will take place at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on the 19th day of February next. Ben. Mosby. David Ross. 22d January, 1805. ids
FOR SALE. BY virtue of the power vested in me as trustee, by a deed of trust executed to me by Philip Day, for the purpose of securing a debt due from said Day to William Clarkson—I shall on the 22d of February next, proceed to sell, on the premises,  That Tract of Land, Lying in Albemarle county, whereon Philip Day now resides, (or the right of the said Day therein) containing 400 acres, it being the land which said Day holds during the life of his wife, under the will of her former husband, William Barkdale. Also, a NEGRO MAN, named Warick, about twenty-two years of age, and a BOY, named Wilson, about six years of age. Thomas Jackson, trustee. January 29, 1805. ids
Land for Sale. BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscribers by Wm. Fortune, will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises on the 15th day of February next, a TRACT OF LAND, lying in Louisa county, on the waters of Fork creek, containing 100 acres, being the land whereon said Fortune now resides. The land is of good quality; has a small plantation in good order and convenient houses, &c. for a small family. John Edwards, } Trustees. Chs. Smith, } Louisa, January 3, 1805
FOR SALE, At Louisa Courthouse, on the 19th day of February next, THIRTY SEVEN  Valuable Slaves, Belonging to the estate of Christopher Smith, deceased consisting of men, women and children; it is believed that they are as likely a parcel of slaves as was ever offered for sale in the state. Bonds with approved security bearing interest from the date, payable from the 10th of February next, will be expected from the purchasers; the interest will be remitted if the principal is punctually paid. CHARLES SMITH, acting Exr. of Christopher Smith, dec. Louisa, 10th Jan. 1805. tfof
THE SUBSCRIBER IS YET DESIROUS TO SELL  HIS PLANTATION, On Deep creek, in Powhatan county, and give possession immediately, with a hire of fourteen hands thereon, for the present year and every thing prepared for crop. For terms apply to Capt. Ludwell Braxton of Amelia, or the subscriber. Wm. MAYO. Richmond, Jan. 18th, 1805. 3w
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by James Rinn, dec. Will be exposed to Public Sale, On Monday the 4th day of February next, for ready money,  A TWO-STORY WOODEN HOUSE, Near the Market house, now occupied by Thomas Cowles and Scott. WILLIAM MARSHALL, Trustee. Jan. 17, 1805. tfof
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by James Ferguson, of the county of Buckingham, for the purpose of securing a debt due to Brown, Murphy & Co. for the sum of seventy-five pounds five shillings and eight pence, with interest thereon from the twenty-third day of April, eighteen hundred and three, and the expenses attending the execution of this trust—Will certainly be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on Saturday the twenty-third day of February next, on the premises, at the house of the above named James Ferguson, in the aforesaid county of Buckingham,  A CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, Containing six hundred and seventy-four acres, and bounded by the lands of George Burks, sen. Joseph C. Migginton, Joseph Cabel, and Col. Smith—Also, a bay Mare, a yoke of Oxen, nine head at Cattle, and a Feather Bed, or so much thereof as may be sufficient to discharge the above debt, &c. Will also be sold, at the above mentioned time and place, to the highest bidder, for the best price that can be obtained, in ready money,  One Negro Woman Slave, Namely Pat, and her increase, if any, since the executing this trust—by virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by George Burks, jr. for the purpose of securing a debt due to Brown, Murphy & Co. for the sum of one hundred and forty-seven pounds two shillings and two pence, with interest thereon from the twenty-fifth day of April, eighteen hundred and three, or so much thereof as may be found due. John Higginbotham, trustee. Amherst, 16th Jan. 1805. 6w
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by Benjamin Burton, of the county of Buckingham, for the purpose of securing a debt due to Rives, Murphy & Co. for one hundred and sixteen pounds three shillings, with interest thereon at the rate of six per cent per annum, from the twenty-fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and two, and the expenses attending the execution of this trust—Will certainly be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, on Monday the eleventh day of March next, at Buckingham Courthouse, it being court day,  A CERTAIN TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND, Lying in the county aforesaid, on the waters of Muddy creek, and bounded by the lands of Nathaniel Burton, Jesse Burton, Matthew Robertson and Edward Maxey, containing by estimation three hundred and fifteen acres. Daniel Higginbotham, trustee. Amherst, 15th Jan. 1805. 6w
BY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber, by Edward Gaither Clarke, dec. and Molly his wife, which said deed bears date the 29th of October, 1799, and is recorded in Henrico county, to secure a sum of money, due to Byrd George, of Henrico county, will be exposed to SALE, to the highest bidder, for cash, on the premises, on Saturday the ninth day of March next, the  Tract of Land, In Henrico county, on which the said Clarke resided for some time previous to his death. This land is situated below the city of Richmond, on Boarswamp, immediately on the state road, leading to Williamsburg. The tract contains by surveys made by John Williamson, county surveyor of Henrico county, 327 acres, the land to be received by the purchaser, be the quantity more or less. About 45 acres of the land are cleared, there is a tolerable dwelling house and out-houses and a small orchard on the land. The sale will commence at 12 o'clock. PHILIP NORBORNE NICHOLAS, January 23d, 1805. Trustee.
A NEGRO MAN. HE is an excellent gardner and services man, and would be a valuable servant at a distance from the town. Also for hire a GIRL, about 14 years of age, accustomed to the nursery and other domestic business; and a WOMAN, who is a good cook. Apply at the office of the Virginia Argus. January 25.
HENING'S  New Virginia Justice, Containing the Duties of a Justice of Peace, together with a variety of usefull precedents, adapted to the laws now in force. Also, forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease & release, mortgage, trust, &c. FOR SALE AT S. PLEASANTS' BOOK-STORE.
Notice,  TO THE CREDITORS & DEBTORS OF  Ross & Ford. THAT on the 1st day of March, I shall make a dividend of the monies received, from which those creditors who may have come into this term of assignment previous to that day, will be entitled, and from a supposition, that some of the debtors, who have not come forward to give notes for their accounts, may be expecting personal application, which cannot be made; they are again informed, that my duty compels me to commence suits indiscriminately to the next courts, against those who shall not before have closed their accounts by notes. Neil M'Coull. Richmond, 28th Jan. 1805. 3w
Scheme of a Lottery, For the benefit of WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE FIRST CLASS. 8000 Tickets at 10 dolls. 80,000 2 Prizes, dolls. 10,000 20,000 60 of 500 30,000 2,000 of 15 30,000 80,000 Subsid to a education of 15 yrs. ct. 12,000 Expense of drawing, 2,000 Dollars, 10,000 First Ticket drawn, Dolls 500 Last drawn, 10,000 1 other Prize of 10,000 59 other Prizes of 500 dolls. 29,500 2,000 of 15 dolls, 30,000 Dollars, 80,000
All tickets drawn blank may be renewed in the next class, at 10 dolls. each; the price of all others will be 15 dolls. All prizes of 15 dollars may be renewed for the next class, or paid, at the option of the person entitled. If they be not claimed within three months after the drawing commences, they will be considered as renewed in the second class. The drawing to commence in the city of Williamsburg, on the ____ day of ____, under the management of James Madison, John Braxton, William Nelson, Robert Greenhowe, Burwell Bassett, Robert Saunders, Samuel Tyler, Chapman Travi, William Lightfoot, Littleton W. Tazewell, George Tucker and James Semple. SECOND CLASS. 1,938 Tickets at 10 dolls. 59,380 4,665 ditto at 15 dolls. 70,950 150,310 Deduct loss on 2,062 tickets renewed at 2 1-2 5,155 Dollars, 125,155
2 Prizes of 20,000 dolls. 40,000 3 ditto of 10,000 dolls. 30,000 3 ditto of 5,000 15,000 50 ditto of 1,000 50,000 1 ditto 155 125,155 Deduct 10 per cent. 12,515 Expenses of drawing, 2,000 Sum raised, Dollars, 10,000
Ticket first drawn, Dolls. 1,000 Ticket last drawn, 20,000 One other prize of 20,000 20,000 Two ditto of 10,000 20,000 13 ditto of 5,000 dolls. 13,000 49 ditto of 1,000 49,000 ditto 155 Dollars 125,155
TICKETS May be had of George Tucker, Thomas Taylor, and Samuel Pleasants, jr. in Richmond; Robert Braxton, and Watkins Leigh, Petersburg; Thomas Newton, Dr. Barrand, & Littleton W. Tazewell, Norfolk; Hugh Mercer, Fredericksburg; Henry Tucker, Winchester; Chapman Johnson, Staunton; and in all the towns in Virginia, and in many places in the country.
NICHOLAS HALLAM, Two doors above the Swan-Tavern, has just received from the Isle of Wight, and for sale on the most moderate terms, Three thousand wts. of excellent BACON Hams, and Middlings, and a supply of choice new and old Northern CHEESE; Also, IRISH POTATOES. Likewise, an assortment of well chosen  GROCERIES, Consisting of Loaf & Brown Sugars; Coffee, Young Hyson and Imperial Tea; Chocolate, Rice, Indigo, Mace, Cloves, and other spices; Dry Sherry, Lisbon, and Malaga Wines; Cogniac, Peach and Apple Brandy; Rum, Holland and Country Gin; Whiskey, Molasses, &c; Crockery and Stone Ware, and a variety of other articles in the Grocery line. wtf
Valuable Land for Sale. BY virtue of a deed of trust from William Massie, dec. in order to secure and pay the following debts, viz:—the sum of £390 3 0, in specie, assigned by Nathaniel Massie to Arch'd. Bryce, jun. for the purposes mentioned in the said assignment, and the sum of £153 7 10, due to Arch'd. Bryce, with interest thereon from the 15th day of December, 1802, at six per cent. per annum, till paid:  WILL BE SOLD, At the late residence of William Massie, on Friday the 1st day of March next, for ready money,  All that Tract of Land, In Goochland county, (whereon Mrs. Frances Massie now lives) containing by late survey, 268 1 4 acres, lying and being on the waters of the little Byrd, creek, and bounded by the lands of Capt. Nathaniel Massie, dec. Mr. David Ross, Mr. John Matthews and others. This land is of the first rate quality of high land, pleasantly situated, within five or six miles (and a good road) of the town of Columbia, and from 7 to 8 miles of Lewis's mill on the Byrd creek. John Forbes, trustee. 14th January, 1805. wtf
A few copies of the New Edition of  SOLOMON'S  GUIDE TO HEALTH, Are for sale at this office; where also is just received, a fresh supply of the celebrated  CORDIAL BALM of GILEAD.
Notice: ALL persons having claims by bond, account or otherwise, against the estate of Col. Bernard Markham, dec. late of Chesterfield county, are desired to bring them forward properly authenticated on or before the ten day of next February, that provision may be made for the settlement thereof. This notice will be plead in bar of all claims of every description, brought in after that time. THE EXECUTORS. Jan. 5, 1805. wtf
Elegant Accomplishments At the Williamsburg Academy, which is now devoted solely to the education of young ladies, arrangements have been lately made for their instruction in the elegant arts of Drawing and Painting. The society of Williamsburg has ever been considered peculiarly favorable to youthful improvement, and the number of young ladies from every part of the state, who for that object, as well as for the purpose of instruction, annually assemble there, is proof of the extensive influence of this opinion. Encouraged by this circumstance, Mr. Anderson has endeavored to connect within his institution every possible advantage for the accomplishment of young ladies in the various branches of polite education. In addition to his school for their tuition in the English and French languages, and with a view to render the study of Geography more attractive and interesting, he has lately imported very large Celestial and Terrestrial Globes, with a complete set of Maps upon an enlarged scale, elegantly coloured and framed. He has also fitted up, under the roof of the academy, apartments for their instruction by the most eminent teachers in Music, Drawing, Painting and Dancing; and parents who wish their daughters to acquire these fashionable and elegant accomplishments, will find his arrangements well adapted to their speedy attainment. A few young ladies can be accommodated with boarding in the family of Mr. Anderson, where an excellent teacher has been engaged to attend to the extra tuition of those whose tender age, or hitherto neglected education may render such a measure desirable. Parents whose solicitude for the rapid improvement of their children renders the additional expense of no importance, will perceive this to be a most valuable appendage to the institution. The misfortune of regretted inattention to early instruction will thus be obviated, and young ladies, who are desirous to be advanced to the higher branches of improvement, may, in this manner, save their lost time without descending into a lower class. The course of instruction for the ensuing year will commence on the 15th January, and it is requested that the pupils may assemble in Williamsburg previously to that date. Further information may be obtained on application by letter to Mr. Lacey Anderson, post-master, Williamsburg, Virginia. ep15j caw1f Williamsburg, 20th Dec. 1804.
At a Court held for Washington County the 17th day of October, 1804. Elizabeth Gibson, Complainant, in against Isaac Anderson, Defendant, cery. HE defendant 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 the commonwealth of Virginia: On the motion of the complainant by her counsel, It is ordered , that the said defendant do appear here on the third Tuesday in February next and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be inserted in some public newspaper published in this state for two months successively, and another posted at the front door of the courthouse of the said county. A Copy—Attest, David Campbell, D. C.
At a court held for Washington county, the 18th day of December, 1804. William Brice, Complainant, in against Michael Wise, Defendant, cery. HE defendant 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 the defendant is not an inhabitant of the commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, It is ordered , That the said defendant do appear here on the third Tuesday in April next and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be inserted in a public newspaper published in this state for two months successively, and another copy posted at the front door of the courthouse of the said county. A copy—Attest, D CAMPBELL, D. C.
FOR SALE,  By Edward Hallam, At his Grocery Store, opposite the Swan Tavern 5000 Wt. excellent Salt Petre Bacon. Patent Shot, by the bag or 100. Madeira, Teneriffe and Sherry Wines. Antigua, Jamaica and New-England Rum. Cogniac Brandy and Whiskey. Philadelphia Porter, by the bbl. 5 doz. each. Coffee by the bag—Molasses by the hhd. Loaf & brown Sugar—Hyson & Imperial Teas. 9 by 11 and 10 by 12 Window Glass. Bar Iron, Irish Potatoes, &c. The above articles will be sold low for ready pay. April 28, 1804. wtf
The subscriber has just received six thousand weight of first quality  New-England Cheese, Which he will dispose of on moderate terms.  W. WARDLAW, Is now opening at his shop on the Main street in Richmond, opposite Mr. Taylor's Vendue Office, a large importation of  MEDICINES, Received directly from London, also a general assortment of SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, SHOP FURNITURE, MECHANICAL AIR MACHINES, PATENT MEDICINES, &c. &c. It is his intention to keep, at all times, a supply of Genuine Medicines, sufficient to answer the current demand; which will be sold low for cash or on the usual credit to those who will give him sufficient assurances of punctuality. November 29th, 1804. wtf
Just received and for sale at S. Pleasants' Book-Store, near the Bridge,  THE FOLLOWING GENUINE Patent Medicines. Hill's Balsam of Honey | obstinate eruptions, &c Turlington's Balsam | British Oil Godfrey's Cordial | Hooper's Female Pills Essence of Peppermint | Anderson's scours do. Greers Opodeldoc | The celebrated Specific Oriental Cera, for the | Pills, for the cure of cure of scurvy and piles, | the outward and inward flux.