The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-09-12 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.....(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 37.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 12, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
NOTICE.
THAT on the 20th day of the present month, at the Union-Tavern, in the City of Richmond, proceed to expose to sale, by public Auction, to the highest bidder, for ready money, a CARRIAGE, and a pair of elegant bay HORSES, well broke to harness, under a deed of trust executed to the subscriber, by Meriwether Jones, Esq. in his life time, for the purposes therein mentioned, and which deed is of record in the office of the Richmond District Court.
ANDERSON BARRET, Trustee. September 9. tdl.
FOR SALE.
MY Plantation situated in the county of Chesterfield on both sides of Falling Creek, seven miles from Manchester, adjoining the lands of Col. Matthew Cheatham and Mr. Branch Cheatham, containing 480 acres, 200 of which are cleared and in good order, the balance well-timbered and equal to any land on the creek. The Dwelling House & kitchen new, the Dwelling House has three rooms & a passage on the lower floor & three above, the kitchen 20 by 40 feet, with other necessary out-houses, all of which are in good repair, with an excellent peach and apple orchard—also two valuable mill seats lying on the above creek. The payments will be one half on making a right to the land, the balance in two annual payments to be secured by deed of trust on the land. The purchaser will be permitted to sow a crop of wheat immediately, and possession given the first day of November next. The land can be flown to any person by application to the subscriber living on the premises, and the price made known.
WILLIAM CHEATHAM. September 9. ctw.
WORTHY OF IMITATION.
MAJ JAMES SAWYERS an intelligent officer and soldier, in the late revolutionary war; has opened four MILITARY SCHOOLS in the country of Pennsylvania, for the purpose of distributing Military Knowledge amongst his fellow citizens. There are at present upwards of one hundred persons under his instruction, composed of militia officers, and young gentlemen of aspiring minds. From the skill and attention of Maj. Sawyers and spirit with which this institution is conducted, there is little doubt, but that Pennsylvania may soon, in point of military knowledge, invite a comparison with any of her neighboring countries.
September 9. 2tp.
At a meeting of the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike Company, held at Edward Holman's tavern in the city of Richmond, on Tuesday the 23th of July, 1806.
RESOLVED, That five dollars be paid on each share held by the Stock-holders in the said company to Nathaniel Sheppard their treasurer on or before the first day of September next.
Resolved, That propositions be received from any persons inclined to undertake the work on the Turnpike until the first day of October next, and that the same be filed in writing with the clerk of the Company by the persons making such propositions.
An extract from the minutes. N. SHEPPARD, Clerk.
N. B. I have been directed by the president and directors, to request the several directors to pay the amount of their statements in such a way, as to give the amount upon a proportion, that the road is from forty to one hundred feet wide; and also, to inform them, that the time for receiving proposals, is postponed till the first day of November next.
N. SHEPPARD, Clerk. September 9. (t)
TO RENT.
THE TENEMENT formerly occupied by Messrs. James and Alexander Dunlap and lately by Wm. T. Stone, at the west end of the Market bridge, and adjoining the house in which an extensive Vendue Store is about to be established. If more agreeable, I would let, on reasonable terms, a lease of about seven and an half years in the said tenement.
WILLIAM MAXIM. August 1. eof
IN CHANCERY.
Louisiana County, July Court, 1806. Robert Donald the elder and Andrew Donald, surviving partner of James and Robert Donald, & Co. Plfs. against,
William Hodges and Frederick Harris, Defs.
THE Defendant, William Hodges, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state; therefore, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their attorney—It is ordered and decreed by the court, that the said defendant do appear here on the second Monday in October next, and answer the plaintiffs bill; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the public news papers printed in the City of Richmond, for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of the Court-house of this County on issue Court day.
A Copy. JOHN POINDEXTER, C. L. C. September 5. eo2m.
SCHEME.
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY.
CLASS III.
  4000 tickets at 10 dols. 40,000   1 prize of 10,000 dols. 10,000   40 do. of 500 5,000   50 do. of 100 5,000   40 do. of 50 2,000   1200 do. of 15 18,000   40,000 
1301 prizes. 2539 blanks.
4,000
The following prizes are stationary, to wit: The first ticket after 1000 are drawn 500 dols. do. after 1500 500 do. after 2000 500 do. after 2500 500 do. after 3000 500 do. after 3500 10,000
Tickets may be had of the members of the committee, at the Treasury Office, the Bank, Samuel Pleasants's Book Store, and at the Office of the Enquirer.
COMMITTEE. GEO. HAY, GEO. TUCKER, WM. MORSELY, ROBT. MITCHELL, & WM. DUVAL.
The drawing will take place in December in this city, and the prizes paid 60 days after its completion. Richmond, August 1. oaw2m.
TO BE RENTED.
TWO fire proof WAREHOUSES, near the Basin. They will be rented together or separate, and if wished by the tenants will be fitted up for stores.
JOHN WICKHAM. August 22. (5-u)
FOR RENT.
A CONVENIENT TENEMENT, contiguous to Mr. Pickett's, lately occupied by David M. Randolph Esq.—The Dwelling House is of Brick, two story high with two handsome rooms and a passage on the first floor, three good rooms on the second and the Garret well finished—A good Kitchen and stable, and a sufficiency of ground for a yard and Garden, which is enclosed.—The situation very pleasant, and the neighbourhood particularly desirable.—For terms, enquire of the printer.
August 29. (10w3w.)
FOR SALE.
2800 SACKS of LIVERPOOL SALT, and 90 crates of LIVERPOOL EARTHEN WARE of superior quality & well assorted, just arrived in the ship Merchant, Captain Johnson, from Liverpool, at Barnum's Wharf.
May 23. OVERTON ANDERSON.
OVERTON ANDERSON.
ALEXANDER STUART, Esquire, of Richmond, and Col. William Daniel, of Cumberland county, are so obliging as to undertake my law business. The former will give his attention to it in the federal court and in the court of appeals. The latter in the superior court of chancery for the Richmond district.
July 18. CREED TAYLOR. (t)
WANTS A SITUATION.
A Young man who can give good information of his character, sobriety, and industry; would willingly engage as an assistant in a grocery, or bar-keeper, book-keeper, or steward for any gentleman, in a genteel calling. Enquire of the printer.
September 5. (t)
TO RENT.
THE TENEMENT, which Mrs. Phebe lately occupied on the street leading by the Governor's, consisting of a large hall, a room used as a kitchen, a very well fixed store, a complying room, a drawing and bed room, and three sleeping and a lumber room in the garret; immediate possession may be had. Enquire of William F. Ad.
August 29. (t)
TO BE RENTED.
THE BRICK TENEMENT, nearly opposite Dr. Greenhow's, and lately occupied by Mr. Benjamin Moffy.—For terms apply to THOMAS NORFELL.
August 29. (t)
GERMAN LINENS.
The Subscribers have just received from Bremen, a supply of GERMAN LINENS, which they offer to sell on the most reasonable terms. JOHN & HUBNER.
August 15. 2m
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnership of GILLIAT & KIRBY, by its constitution, would expire on the first day of next month; but the members of that firm have mutually agreed to extend it to the first day of May next. All persons indebted thereto are earnestly requested to come forward without delay and pay off what they respectively owe, as longer indulgence ought not to be expected. Those who have unfulfilled accounts and cannot make immediate payment, it is hoped will execute bonds for their respective balances.
GILLIAT & KIRBY have already received a part of their FALL GOODS, and by the first arrivals from London, Liverpool, &c. the residue is expected, which they will sell low for cash—Country produce or approved notes.
August 19. ep 2m.
JAMES WALKER,
WATCH & CLOCK MAKER, a little below the Capitol, and near the Bank, will attend to all commands in the line of his business with which he may be favored.
As it is the peculiar characteristic of all quacks and bunglers in all trades, to praise themselves, put on airs of consequence, promise much, and pretend to a great deal, J. W. will not even touch upon his capabilities, but merely say, that he hopes those who may choose to throw their custom in his way, will have good reason to be satisfied with the performance of his work. He will be completely satisfied when his skill as an artist meets with such encouragement as it ought justly claim.
August 19. eof.
SCOTTVILLE JOCKEY CLUB.
THE races will commence at this place, on Thursday the 18th of September, free for any horse, mare or gelding—weights as usual.
1st. Day.—Three mile heats, for the amount of the subscription, after deducting contingent charges—say, about one hundred pounds.
2nd. Day.—The proprietors purse, two mile heats—half the amount of the first day.
3rd. Day.—An handy cap purse—two mile heats, or an elegant gig.
WILLIAM ARCHER, Sec'y to the Club. Powhatan, Court House, August 29. (ep3w.)
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnership of William R. Richards, & Co. is this day dissolved, by mutual consent. The collection of all debts due to that concern, or Wm. R. Richards, is committed to Nat. Perkins alone, to whom those that have demands, will apply for payment.
WM. R. RICHARDS, NAT. PERKINS.
Goodland, August 25. (5w.)
NOTICE.
As there has been considerable indulgence, already given, to those indebted to the late concern of Wm. R. Richards, & Co. no further can be expected. Nat. Perkins.
Goodland, August 25. (5w.)
ALL persons having claims against the estate of John Boomes, dec'd.
of the Bowling Green, are requested to make them known, that provision may be made for a final settlement.—And those indebted must make immediate payment to JOHN BOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of John Boomes, dec'd.
Jan. 28. (t)
APPRENTICES WANTED.
TWO Boys about the age of fourteen, wanted as apprentices to the gold and silversmith's business, by JOHNSON & REAT.
August 5. (t)
FOR SALE.
A likely young NEGRO MAN who has been accustomed to work in the crop.—For terms apply at the Enquirer Office.
August 1. (t)
WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
AUGUST, 1806.
IT is hereby made known to the public, that there will be established in College a plain, but decent table, upon the lowest terms, which will secure the institution against loss. The board will commence on the 3rd Monday in October, the period fixed for opening the lectures in the philosophical and mathematical schools.
It is also notified, that all junior students will be compelled to lodge in College, to board at the public table, to devote certain fixed hours to study, to appear at the calling of a roll at 8 o'clock in the evening, during the winter term, and at 9, during that of the summer, to continue in their rooms, after they have retired from the roll, till the next morning, and to observe other regulations, which cannot fail to be highly beneficial to youth.
The object of these arrangements is, not only to diminish the expense of a student at this College, but to guard, as effectually as can be done, against dissipation and idleness. For this latter purpose a system more restrictive than that hitherto adopted, will be steadily pursued. Parents and Guardians who witness the increased tendency to those evils, against which the College holds itself bound to oppose every barrier within its power, will not hesitate to approve of these means, which may be deemed necessary for salutary purpose. But, a silent approbation is not sufficient. Their cooperation also is essential. They are, therefore, earnestly requested to take care, that their sons, or wards, shall be compelled to observe a prudent and wise economy. It is a maxim, not to be forgotten, that the improvement of youth will generally be inversely as their expense; nor is it less true, that their expenditures will be in proportion to the temptations, which a misapplied liberality must excite. Let them no money be furnished beyond a moderate sum; and let no credit be allowed, except for specified articles, and to a specified amount. This advice to Parents and Guardians, it is hoped, will be duly appreciated, and departed from in no instance. It is impossible, that the wisest system of education can give to youth those inestimable benefits, which might otherwise be derived, if Parents and Guardians do not strenuously, and zealously compel obedience to that economy, which is here so earnestly recommended; and that every one may know what may be considered as the necessary expenditure of a student, at this College, it is stated, that
The board, for the course, will not exceed dols. 100
Fees to two professors, 30
Candles, fuel and washing, 35
Pocket money, not to exceed 40
205
By the Society, J. MADISON, P.
August 19. (Advt.)
FROM THE WESTERN WORLD.
The Kentucky Spanish Association, Blount's Conspiracy, and General Miranda's expedition. NO. V.
A principal with the conspirators was to have subject to their control, as large a portion as possible of the Congress Lands in the Western Territories. The consequences of this policy are manifest. By being proprietors of large tracts, they were enabled to make choice of letters; to prohibit the establishment of those men that were unfriendly to their designs, and in short to be lords of the soil even without the aid of a foreign power. We have stated already one company, viz. The Ohio Land Company, many of the members of which, were actuated with these views, & in league with the Kentucky Spanish Conspirators. But the leading company of this species, originated with general Jonathan Dayton, the intimate friend and correspondent of Wilkinson, John Brown and Aaron Burr. A file of letters which was produced in the Chancery Court of New-York in 1800, by Francis Childs, defendant, in answer to a Bill of Complaint to Jonathan H. Lawrence and Jonathan Dayton, tends to throw a considerable light upon the art and intrigue of Jonathan Dayton, the speaker of Congress in the Adams administration. In one of those letters to Mr. Childs dated Philadelphia, 5th Feb. 1796, general Dayton says "A company has formed itself here, which will absorb 16 or 1800 Land Warrants amounting to 160 or 180,000 acres. I have desired Mr. Merker to sign in the name of J. H. Lawrence and Co. such number of shares as amount to 30,000 acres, payable in warrants. If you or he with to come in, it is so arranged that you can come in for a part of the 30,000, after the plan of the Association and its objects are made known to you—write to me by the next mail, and believe me yours with esteem. J. D."
In 1796 when the bill entitled "An act providing for the sale of the Lands of the United States in the territory north west of the river Ohio, and above the mouth of Kentucky," was under consideration, general Dayton was particularly anxious for two reasons, that the section in the bill which provided for the admission of military warrants should be as liberal as possible—1st. Because Dayton was possessed of a number of warrants himself—2d. By the admission of military warrants without any limitation in payment the lands would be much sooner settled. In a letter therefore which he writes to Childs, dated 19th of April, 1796, there is the following paragraph—"The section in the land-office bill which provided for the admission of military warrants in a certain proportion, in payments was upon my suggestion that it would be more favourable and acceptable to the army, to have a part equal to the Washburn tract, appropriated for military rights near the Sciota struck out. There did not appear to be a single member opposed to give such a tract in lieu of the other plan, and the bill for locating military warrants will be so amended. The disadvantages of the original plan were, that
warrants could only be introduced in proportion as the land sold, for two dollars and upwards, and it could not be expected that in this way, more than one thousand warrants would be absorbed in any one year: as 600,000 acres was the largest quantity calculated to be sold annually at those prices, and the sixth part thereof would require 1000 warrants or 100,000 acres. On the other plan the whole number which any man possesses, may be located and realized in twelve months, and that on lands good and well situated. The contents of this letter are of such a nature as render it improper to be seen by any except yourself; burn it, therefore, when you have perused it."
It was likewise ardently desired by the conspirators, that the British treaty should be carried into effect; because it would tend directly to destroy the plan of Council, and consequently to unite the inhabitants of Kentucky more in the project of Wilkinson. Whatever were the errors of this treaty, it certainly pointed out those limits to the British which they could not with any plausible pretence transfer, and therefore gave a death blow to all their designs upon Kentucky. The conspirators knew the federal interest was sufficient of itself to pass the treaty; and they accordingly assigned the prosecution of this favorite child of Mr. Jay to the care of Jonathan Dayton. Mark, therefore, the language of Dayton in a letter on this subject, dated the 19th of April, 1795:—
"Cannot the friends of Livingston, Havens, Hathorn, Van Cortlandt and Blevy, be induced to remonstrate seriously with them, against their opposition to making the proper provision for carrying the treaty into effect. Request Mr. Childs to make the attempt—he or his friends must know who have the greatest influence with those gentlemen, and they will, I am sure, respect much more the advice of their friends and supporters, immediately addressed to them personally, than that of a petition directed to the house of Representatives. But I do not mean to discourage the latter mode of declaring your sentiments; but I recommend the sending persons even into the districts of the members I have mentioned, in order to engage influential men to be active. There will be time to do this, for the discussions will probably be very lengthy; or if they are not, the first vote will not be so conclusive but that we may change, whenever a few will come over from the first majority. That majority is diminishing—three from Maryland and the one from New-Jersey who voted for Livingston's resolutions, will now vote for carrying the treaty into effect; two New-York members; and two or three are wavering, but are inclined to the Virginian side, if the air that is making does not shake their nerves. Tell Mr. Childs they must be active, and appoint respectable committees to correspond in all directions, excepting south of the Potomac. Keep up for a time, the ghost which is now fomenting, and all will yet be well."
We now arrive at the narration of a circumstance in which although we cannot produce the most satisfactory proof of connection with the Spanish Association, yet the corroborating incidents are so strong as to merit notice particularly when the transaction itself has excited not only the curiosity of America but of all Europe; we mean the demand of 50,000 Sterling, which was made by Talleyrand on the Envoys from the U. States, viz. Charles Cotesworth Pinckney, John Marshall & Elbridge Gerry, as a douceur for the pocket of the French Directory and Ministers. It is well known that previous to this embassy Talleyrand had lived eighteen months or two years in the United States. The greater portion of his residence was in the city of New-York, and the greater part of his time when there, he spent alternately between the house of col. Burr at New-York, and Jonathan Dayton of Elizabeth town, in New-Jersey. He made likewise several very considerable purchases of land in the western territories, by the direction of Burr and Dayton, and we are authorized to say, kept up a close and intimate correspondence with Burr after he returned to France. He also informed Mr. Gerry, that the Directory were inclined to treat only with one Envoy, that he expected only one was to have been sent, and he was induced to believe this man would have been col. Burr—that if col. Burr had come to France in place of the three envoys, Marshall, Pinckney and Gerry, that all differences would have been adjusted. We have already stated the mimicry which has always existed between gen. Wilkinson, John Brown, Aaron Burr, and Jonathan Dayton; and that a compact of the most interesting nature, has been lately formed between them. When we reflect on these circumstances, and on the correspondence between Talleyrand and Burr, at the very period when Talleyrand and our Envoys were negotiating; we think that very little doubt can be entertained, but that the douceur contemplated for the French directory, would have gone into the pockets of Talleyrand and his brother associates in America. Jonathan Dayton would have endeavoured to have closed the eyes of the federalists as to the transaction; while Aaron Burr doublets would have worked the same magic upon the republicans. Mr. Volney probably was acquainted and impressed with the same views, as the conspirators. In the book which he has published, the greater part of it is exclusively devoted to the western territories. Whenever he speaks of them, he expresses himself as speaking of a country entirely separate and distinct from the Atlantic states, and says that Nature never intended the two to be connected together. But the Frenchman in this country, who was most intimately acquainted with the designs of the Kentucky Spanish Association, and of the land speculations of Dayton, is a Mr. Chevalier, of the city of Richmond, Va. The artful secret, and intriguing mind of Chevalier, the agent of the House of Beaumarchais, is well known by all who have had an opportunity of knowing the character of this gentleman. Let the reader therefore recollect one of the conversations which passed between Mr. Y. (Bellarney) and the three American Envoys. Mr. Y. stated that the state of Virginia owed to Mr. Beaumarchais 145,000. sterling, and he (Beaumarchais) condescended to lose 45,000. of it, provided he got the other 100,000. and the gratuity of 50,000. sterling was given to Talleyrand. Let him also keep in memory that capt. Jassé, the domestic partner and agent of gen. Wilkinson, was every summer in Richmond, and on habit of intimacy with Mr. Chevalier—What inference will he then draw? Not certainly that Chevalier and captain Jassé were entirely ignorant of the proposal made by Talleyrand, and the purposes to
which the money, if obtained, would have been applied. For it is to be presumed, that Chevalier was acquainted with the principal secret of the House of which he was the sole agent in America; as likewise, that Beaumarchais had agreed to the proposal before it was suggested to the Envoys by Mr. Y. the confident of Talleyrand. It is also reasonable to be supposed, when Talleyrand asserted, that if col. Burr had been sent with full powers, all differences would have been adjusted; that col. Burr and he agreed upon the preliminaries on which they were to treat; and that Jonathan, Dayton, Wilkinson and Co. the confidants of col. Burr, were informed of these preliminaries, and gave directions to their respective agents and correspondents to act accordingly.
Although Great-Britain after Jay's treaty, had relinquished every idea of obtaining possession of Kentucky and the western territory, yet they were informed both by their agents in France and America of the proceedings and progress of the Kentucky Spanish Association.
The celebrated William Cobbet, we are well assured from several individuals who conversed with him, was acquainted with the most general circumstances in the Kentucky conspiracy. Cobbet might have obtained his information in different ways, either directly from the British ministers, Hammond and Linton or from col. Barclay the English consul in the city of New-York who is well informed on the subject. Barclay is a native of New-York the son of a doctor Barclay late a clergyman in that city. The closest intimacy has existed from the years of boyhood between him and the retd. John Mason, the brother-in-law of John Brown. It is therefore probable that when I. Brown has revealed to Mason equally known to Barclay, Colonel Barclay, however, is a diplomatic character of the greatest suspicion and not to be relied on even by his own cause. Like all the American Tories in the revolutionary war, he displayed a spirit of revenge and cruelty which even distanced the party whose cause he espoused.
At the close of the war he retired with many others of his associates into the wilds of Canada, where he lived dependent upon governor Simcoe until his appointment as British consul for the Eastern States. This appointment is entirely owed to the favor of Prince Edward the fourth son of his Britannic Maj'ty. Prince Edward had arrived with Simcoe in Canada in a military capacity and the address and fond of flattery and unaccustomed to intrigue. Several remonstrances, however, were sent to England against the appointment by men acquainted with the character of Barclay, one in particular by Colonel Glenny of Nova Scotia to his friend Mr. Sheridan. But under the administration of Pitt and Melville it is well known that remonstrances from opposition members although well founded had no effect. Barclay therefore was continued in office both to the time of his own court and that of the American commerce.
The fact that Cobbet preferred upon the subject in all his writings, demonstrates that the government of Britain was no way displeased at the intrigues which were carrying on in Kentucky; for if Cobbet had chosen to have given publicity to the affair, it is evident the conspirators would have incurred at once the odium of the public.
In the commencement of this investigation we had supposed that the first idea of placing Kentucky under the Spanish yoke had originated with governor Wilkinson. But we are since informed from unquestionable authority, that a project of the same form was started several years before Wilkinson's arrival in the Western Country, by Colonel John Todd, who was killed at the battle of the Blue Licks the 19th of August, 1782. In the fall of the preceding year Colonel Todd with about fifty of his adherents assembled at Harrodsburg to deliberate on this scheme; but a Colonel Donaldson, a firm supporter of the union of the states, having heard of their intentions convened a much larger party and broke up their meeting in a manner by force rather than persuasion. But it ought to be recollected that Colonel Todd was much more excusable than any of the succeeding conspirators. In those years Kentucky was in reality a field of blood, scarcely a settlement or station passing a week in peace without an attack from the Indians; but afterwards the scene was considerably changed as appears from the adventures of Colonel Daniel Boone, who relates the action of the Blue Licks to have been the best of any note in Kentucky, and concludes his narrative in the following words: "Two bands, which have also taken off a large number of horses, and an abundance of cattle. Many dark and sleepless nights have I spent, separated from the cheerful society of men, parched by the summer's sun, and pinched by the winter's cold, an instrument ordained to settle the will of others. But now the scene is changed; peace crowns the tylvan shade."
The interests of the contending parties in the early conventions of the state had extended their influence among their respective acquaintances and occasioned a number of private feuds and quarrels, which continued for many years afterwards, and fitted a great portion of the people to afford a ready ear to the harangues of Wilkinson and his agents. Those men too, which the arch general selected for trumpeting forth his fame were generally characters of a bullying and bravado disposition; who boasted more with their tongues than their hands, men who according to the common phraseology of the country, had a loud & flippant voice, although they spoke extremely little to the purpose—of those one captain Jassé of the county of Woodford may be noticed, principally on account of the sudden change in his principles with regard to the views of Wilkinson. This man had opposed the general's motion in the convention; but very soon afterwards became one of his warmest and most ardent supporters, and has continued until this day perhaps the most zealous adherent general Wilkinson has in the state of Kentucky.
THE "WESTERN WORLD."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in St. Louis, (Louisiana) to his friend in Baltimore, dated August 5, 1806.
"The Governor

newspaper, entitled the "Western World," to criminate Wilkinson, Brown, Judges Jones and Sebastian, and a great number of highly respectable characters, as having joined in a conspiracy to sell Kentucky to Spain, in the years '84, '85, and '86. This plan is undertaken by a certain John Wood, author of a work on the affairs of Switzerland, stolen from Mallet du Pan, and of a work entitled the History of the Administration of John Adams. This man's character is notorious; but he has contrived to weave the web of accusation with so much cunning, that it will be no easy matter to disentangle it. By connecting together ingeniously slight and distant circumstances—bringing forward the testimony of deceased persons—he has contrived to dress up a tale calculated to obtain popular belief. The accusation is supposed to originate in the malice of an ancient family in Kentucky, that of the Marbals , to which the present Chief Justice of the United States belongs; who have long entertained a deadly antipathy against the persons implicated—have attracted this Wood to Kentucky, and established this newspaper, and have the rancor and invention necessary to such an undertaking; but they little dream that Wilkinson is justified by the most positive and unequivocal vouchers from those very deceased persons, whose names and testimony are unblushingly introduced, to the contrary of what they are made to state, that the only person who had ever been made to criminate him, upon his knees, implored the general's forgiveness—and that a scene of diabolical villainy, as black as treachery ever devised, will be laid open to the public in the development of the business. The charge had been exhibited at Philadelphia, (then the seat of government) long ago, and after being sifted had been treated with the contempt it merits. The most ample justification, and the most dreadful exposition of character will soon take place. ( Baltimore Telegraph. )
* General Wilkinson himself.
Foreign Intelligence.
BOSTON, Sept. 1.
By the arrival at this place, of the regular trading ships John Adams , Capt. Wood, and Sally , Capt. Lewis, we have received our regular files of London papers to the 18th, and Liverpool papers to the 21st July. They are not fraught with that variety of interesting and important matter, which it was believed they would contain; and which the state of affairs at our last dates, warranted the public to expect. A few extracts are however presented to our readers. On the subject of Peace , there is nothing to be found in these papers, beyond the fact of a frequent interchange of Couriers and Messengers between the cabinets of St. James and St. Cloud, except rumour and speculative opinion ; which so far as they may be allowed to go, are inauspicious to any immediate reconciliation.
THE SUBJECT OF PEACE.
LONDON, July 15.
Another Cabinet Council was held yesterday, on the subject of the last dispatches from Paris, soon after which, we understand, Mr. Bassico was again sent off expressly to that city. Nothing respecting the nature of the proposed difficulties in the way of the negotiation has transpired. With such guarded secrecy is this important correspondence conducted in the Foreign Office, that Mr. Fox, we are assured, not only writes the original dispatches, but transcribes the copies of them himself. Mr. Bassico is expected to return by Monday next.
The continued and frequent intercourse with France would seem to justify in some measure the sanguine expectations which are so generally entertained of an immediate negotiation for peace. We with we were enabled to add any thing to countenance this hope; but the sources of our information lead us to warn the public against being the victim of their wishes or credulity in this respect. We can state with some degree of confidence, that little reliance is to be placed upon the present rapid interchange of communication with the government of France. If a peace of honour and security be at all attainable, the present Administration, we are persuaded, possesses both the ability and inclination to conclude it; but they will not surrender the smallest point of national honour, pride or pre-eminence, to obtain it.
July 18.—A regular communication by messengers is still kept up between this country and France, but it is not supposed that the work of pacification is much advanced. Mr. Bassico has returned to Paris with the reply of our cabinet to the last dispatches from that city, but nothing respecting the subject or nature of the dispatches or reply has at all transpired, and of course a variety of conjectures has been formed, according to the views or prejudices of different individuals. A more profound secrecy is observed on this occasion than has ever been practised in any former instance.
July 16.
The foreign intelligence of the week is wholly unimportant. Bonaparte models every thing at his pleasure, and has nothing to do but to model. Into what new shapes he may model the German empire, may be matter of much interest, but after the late events, cannot be of much importance. Germany cannot become more his own than it is already.
PEACE. —It was easy to foresee, that to make a peace, under our present circumstances, would be attempted. Whether any progress have actually been made in a negotiation, I have not the least knowledge, and indeed I have not thought it worth while to make a single enquiry upon the subject; but, if peace should take place, I do not think it difficult to predict what will be the outline of it, and what will be its not very remote consequences. The assertion in his Majesty's Declaration against Prussia, joined to Mr. Fox's speech upon the subject, will render it very difficult for the ministers to make any peace which shall not provide for the restoration of Hanover to the king, as elector thereof; and, indeed, there were some persons who, at the time, hesitated not to pronounce, that this declaration was advised by the ministers with a view of providing themselves with something to which they thought Bonaparte would be induced to consent, and which, at whatever expense purchased, would furnish them with the grounds whereon to say: "fee here: we have carried our point! We said we would have Hanover back, and we have got it." Nay, upon perceiving that the Monitor keeps a cautious silence upon this part of Mr. Fox's declaration, there were not wanting certain refiners in politics to assert, that the French fore saw this declaration some time before it was made in England, and that, so far from being displeased at it, it was the very thing that they wished to hear from our ministry. Be this as it might, my opinion is, that if peace should take place now, every thing will be sacrificed to this object. Upon the state of the Continent of Europe except as far as regards Hanover, we shall not, in my opinion,
be allowed to say one single word; and if we are allowed to have a footing there, it will be because the French are convinced, that by leaving Hanover in the hands of our Sovereign, they shall always have a bridle in our mouths. They have, at all times been ready to restore Hanover, and this upon the maxim of Madame de Pompadour, who, in one of her letters, observes, that "this Electorate seems to have been intended by Providence as the means of checking the influence of those haughty Islanders, who being by nature secure from all danger except that which may approach them from the sky, have been, luckily for France, seized with the mad vanity of having an appendage within six days march of the frontier of their only formidable enemy." "This Hanover," says she in another place, "this dear little spot in the north of Germany, will yield us, at the peace, an abundance of sugar and coffee." So will it be now, if Hanover be re-obtained. Not only shall we give up all the islands we have taken since the commencement of this war; but, I shall be greatly deceived, if the Cape of Good Hope, and Malta, or either of them, be retained by us. Mr. Fox says he will not give up a particle of our honour. But not to observe upon the latitude of this phrase; not to observe upon the great variation which its sense will have when applied to different circumstances; I must be allowed to fear, that, if peace be now made, Mr. Fox will not be able to keep his word. The thing to be attended to, is however our safety, and where is the man who believes, that the power of France remaining what it is, our safety can be provided for without maintaining a force equal in expense to that of the force we now maintain? Without having such a force always in existence, does any man think that a peace with France would last a year? And, if a force so expensive is to be maintained, what relief will the nation derive from peace? "What then, would you do, some one will say, would you keep on war for ever, and that, too, because you declare that we are unable to keep on war?" No, I am not for keeping on war for ever. I am for peace, as soon as it can be obtained with safety, & I never have declared that we are unable to keep on war; but I have declared, and now repeat the declaration, that it is my fixed opinion, that, without a great reduction of expense, it is impossible for this country to carry on the war for only a very few years longer. And if this be the case, the only question that remains to be determined is, how is this reduction to be effected? I believe, there is but one way, namely, by greatly reducing the amount of the dividends paid upon the national debt; but, before we come to this, let all other means of reduction be resorted to, and if they be resorted to, there is a possibility of avoiding altogether the calamities which would arise from a great reduction of the dividends, and there is a certainty of postponing the date of these calamities.
We have lately seen numerous instances, in which the public money is wasted; we have had, and we now have, before us the causes of the heavy taxes that are imposed; the causes of that personal inconvenience and distress that vex and weigh down the nation, that discline the people to exertion, and that in various ways, really incapacitate them for it. Great saving may be made without any injury whatever to the strength either of the government, the navy, or the army; and, if this object were effected, who does not perceive, that it would produce more effect towards inclining the mind of our enemy towards real peace than all the loud talking that our ministers can make use of? The French Emperor knows our situation as well as we do. The pig iron tax has not given way to the brewery tax, and this latter to another without its being known at Paris. It is well known there, that our ministers are at their wits end for the means of raising the necessary supplies. It is very well known there, that a paper money, impossible to be redeemed by specie, pervades our country; and it is equally well known, that, in such a state of things, a trifling cause of alarm may prove fatal to us. Therefore, it is absurd to hope, that during this state of things, the enemy will ever be inclined to such a peace as shall give us real tranquility. Unless a great reduction of the public expenses take place, the paper money must go on augmenting in quantity, and with it must go on augmenting the chances against such a peace as can alone be desired by any friend to our safety and to the permanence of the government. In short, there appears to me to be three things, one of which must take place; namely, unconditional submission to the enemy; taxes collected at the point of the bayonet; or a great and speedy reduction in the national expenses. Of the two former, many people would scarcely know which to prefer; for what, will they say, could the enemy do more than collect taxes from us at the point of the bayonet? The alternative would be a cruel one, indeed: but, we have it completely in our power to avoid both these, and by adopting, and rigidly adhering to a plan of economy, this should be the great object of the ministers. They should bend all their talents this way. They should endeavour to find out, and they should never rest till they had actually found out men to make a reform in every branch of the public expenditure. Real services should be well paid for; and of all services none should be so well paid for as those which might enable the ministers to save the public money.
Cobbett's Register.
CONTINENTAL AFFAIRS.
VIENNA, June 23. —Every wish and every hope here center in the desire for the preservation of the peace of the continent. The financial plans with which the government is at present engaged, can only succeed upon the foundation of a general confidence: and the court neglects nothing that can ensure this object.
MADRID, June 12. —All Foreign Envoys have been informed, that his majesty has judged proper to shut the ports of his States against all Swedish vessels, merchants and ships of war.
COPENHAGEN, June 28. —Our government has acceded to the just demands of the French Court, and at the same time gratified the wishes of all who are interested in the welfare of the Danish Colonies. All commerce between our West-Indian possessions and the negroes of St. Domingo, is prohibited under the severest restrictions.
FRANKFORT, June 27. —General Vandamme's division, that was on the march to return to France, has halted for some days. Only a few regiments belonging to this corps have continued their route to Mannheim. The corps under Marshals Augereau and Lefebvre, still remain in their cantonments, and it does not appear that they have been ordered to approach the Rhine.
The Austrian officers, prisoners of war, have obtained permission to return home; many are already on their route.
June 29.—The agreeable intelligence of the departure of the French troops from Germany is more and more confirmed. Two regiments belonging to General Oudinot, left the district of Heilbronn on the 24th, and preparations are making at Gellheim for the reception of Marshal Soult's corps.
NAPLES, June 1. —Vesuvius continues to rage. The crater still discharges a great quantity of stones, resembling hail. On the 4th & 5th, a continual noise was heard extremely loud, while the thick cloud that enveloped the summit of the mountain was alternately penetrated by flashes of fire, amazingly vivid, resembling lightning. The course of the lava ran towards the Terre del Greco, and along the eminence upon which the Cloister of Camaldula is situated, and has extended to the distance of four miles, destroying all the trees, vineyards, and habitations it has met with in its course. Just now it has reached the high road in the neighbourhood of Torre del Greco, while a great number of strangers and curious persons are repairing to the spot to be witnesses of the singular phenomenon. The Torre del Greco, is situated at the foot of Vesuvius, with a population of 15,000 souls.
LONDON, July 10—18.
The French are assembling a formidable force in Dalmatia, with the express intention of penetrating into Albania. With such designs, openly avowed on the part of the enemy, our astonishment increases, that the Court of St. Petersburg should have ever consented to surrender Cattaro; the occupation of which by a weak garrison has been sufficient to impede their operations for upwards of four months.
There are considerable movements among the French troops in Germany, but we are far from considering these as unerring indications of the permanent tranquility of the Continent. They are occasioned by difficulties in supplying the armies with forage and provisions, or connected with the formal establishment of the new Constitution framed by Bonaparte for the honor and advantage of the German Empire.
Private letters received from Holland represent King Louis as an object of universal contempt, ridicule, and indignation, in that country. In the navy, particularly the discontent is extreme. The sailors are in an actual state of mutiny. They have not only refused to obey any orders issued by him, or in the name of the new Government, but have threatened, in case any compulsory measures should be resorted to, that they will carry their ships to sea.
Greta preserves not only a communication with the sea, but likewise with the mountains, and receives from their hardy natives continued supplies.
July 17.—The House of Commons, we understand, will adjourn to-morrow till Tuesday next, to give time for all the Bills before the House of Lords to be passed. On Tuesday both Houses will be prorogued.
The Leeward Island fleet has safely arrived. This agreeable intelligence was communicated to the Admiralty Office by Telegraph, and soon after conveyed to Lloyd's.
The Hon. Mr. Erskine, is to set off for America immediately, as Minister from this country.
The Marquis of Douglas will set off on his embassy to the Court of Peterburgh in the course of the next week.
Lord Caledon goes out Governor of the Cape of Good Hope. Mr. Bernard accompanies him as Chief Secretary.
Part of the troops intended for foreign service, have been ordered to embark at Ramsgate immediately. Several regiments have already embarked, and are in the Downs.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, is certainly going to Jamaica. This measure has arisen from his ill state of health, which requires his residence in a warm climate; and from motives of political interest, which demands the establishment of a Viceroyalty in that island. The government of Jamaica, it is thought, next to that of Ireland, is the best thing under the Crown.
The Commissioners of Military Inquiry are at present, we understand, engaged with the Medical Department of the Army; they begin with the General Hospital, the immediate department of the Surgeon General; and they commence inquiry from the year 1794, when the British army was on the Continent.
Mr. Cobbett, it is said, is to start for Westminster.
MR. FOX.
There is little hope, we understand, that Mr. Fox will ever again make his appearance in St. Stephen's Chapel. The authority upon which we state this, and we do it with sincere and profound regret, is too good to allow us to entertain any doubt of the accuracy of the information. Mr. Fox is not worse, but his disorder is of that nature to preclude any prospect of his being able to encounter the fatigues of his Parliamentary duty. His illness is not confined to one complaint, but consists in a complication of disorders, which have produced a very alarming effect upon his constitution.
The disorder under which Mr. Fox is now afflicted, is pronounced to be a confirmed dropsy, and considerable apprehensions are entertained for his safety.
PRINCESS OF WALES.
There is every reason to believe that the publication of some part of the proceedings in the important investigation to which we have alluded more than once, will not be much longer delayed. We understand the exalted object of the charge has written to his majesty, imploring, in the most earnest manner, that he will be graciously pleased to order the whole of the proceedings to be submitted to the world.
The result of the inquiry into the foundation of the rumours respecting a high and illustrious Lady was not made to his majesty yesterday. It is now believed that no report will be made on the subject.
BRITISH NAVIGATION LAWS.
Among the important measures which have engaged the attention of the British Cabinet, during the late sitting of Parliament, is that of suspending the British Navigation Laws . This act, which has probably passed both branches of the government, meets with much severe remark from the London editors. Bell's Weekly Messenger , in commenting on this Rep. thus arranges its objections:—
1. It is an unnecessary innovation upon an established practice,—an immediate and direct sacrifice of much good,—and as such would require the proof of necessity, and a greater good, for its suspension. 2. It necessarily deducts a most considerable branch from the carrying trade, and as such must either withdraw an equivalent of the capital now employed in the shipping trade, and thus proportionally diminish the shipping of the country; or if the same capital be from necessity continued, when the demand has so considerably fallen, the profits of the ship owners must be reduced almost to nothing, and thus the ship trade will be in a short time absolutely deserted. 3. To supply our Colonies not only in American shipping, but with American produce, is a manifest injustice to our own colonies. That the merchants of Canada will be ruined, whilst the Americans of Maine and New-England, are enriched at their cost. 4. That the opening of the colonial market to the American beef and pork, must most seri-
ously affect the Irish provision trade;—that the Americans are nearer, and paying no taxes, no insurance, and building their vessels so much cheaper, they can bring their provisions to the colonial market at half the expense, and therefore at half the price, of either the English or Irish merchants. That the latter therefore must be ruined in the competition, and must be more or less injured in proportion as this competition is more or less introduced,—i. e. as the trade is more or less opened.
5. That the American vessels, being admitted into the colonies, will find no difficulty in introducing contraband articles, to the manifest injury of the fair trader in the islands, and the British importer or manufacturer.—That tea and East-India produce are in America subject to no tax, so that the inducement to contraband trade on the side of the American are irresistible.
6. Finally, that this opening of the colonial market is the first link of an insurrection, which we know not how far it may extend."
Our files do not furnish any remarks on the progress which has been made in the friendly negotiation between the U. States and Great Britain. We are however assured, by gentlemen recently from England, and by letters from houses of the first respectability in London, that an honourable and speedy accommodation of existing differences, is confidently expected. Through these sources, we are likewise informed, that much satisfaction was expressed in England, on account of the arrival of Mr. Pinckney, who was considered as having brought with him such instructions, and such a spirit of conciliation, as would ensure the return of confidence and friendship between the two countries. Ib.
The American Intercourse Bill, passed the British House of Commons on the 8th July. Ib.
BALTIMORE, September 8.
By the regular trading and fast-sailing ship Fair American , capt. Davis, in 40 days from London, we received papers to the 23rd of July inclusive, 5 days later than any heretofore received. From a hasty perusal of these papers we do not discover any thing on the subject of peace, except that courts are still sitting between England and France. Extracts follow.
LONDON, July 19.
Bassico has not yet taken his departure. A Russian Courier, however embarked yesterday for Boulogne with dispatches for M. D'Oubril, who is supposed to have reached Paris.
The removal of the crews of the Prussian vessels on board their ships to prison, has been the forerunner, as it was natural to expect of the departure of the Prussian ambassador Jacobi, who has received orders to leave this country, and who is expected to set off about the end of next week.
July 21.
Letters from the coast mention, that Calais has lately been bombarded by our cruisers on that station. It appears that while commadore Owen was examining some vessels that had run within the French shore, he was fired on from Calais; on which it is added he sent in a flag of truce, declaring that he had been restrained by considerations of humanity from firing on the town; but that should they persist in their wanton attempts to annoy him, he should be compelled to retaliate. A correspondent continues to observe, that an insulting answer having been returned, the commadore ordered two gun-boats to play upon the town for eight hours, and that part of it was in consequence reduced to ruins.
The letters A. E. I. O. U. were engraved upon the key of the vault of the emperor in Vienna.—They stood for the words: Austriacorum est imperare orbi universo . "It is to those of the house of Austria to command the world." Bonaparte ordered the inscription to be effaced.
July 22.
The Confiance frigate arrived at Portsmouth, on Saturday; spoke, on the preceding Thursday, an American Schooner, the Hope , D. Woodward, master—she had just come out of Cherbourg. The master of her declared, that he had read in the Monitor , that a treaty had been signed at Paris, between the emperor and the Porte, by which the former is permitted to march troops through the Turkish territory to Egypt.
The reports of American masters prove in general, so erroneous, that we may fairly question the accuracy of this intelligence. That the new Turkish ambassador might have been wheedled by the French minister for foreign affairs into a renewal of the ancient relations between the Porte and France, is very likely, and was to be expected; but that with one dash of the pen, he should give up Egypt without so much of equivalent, is most incredible. If Salavrand has been so successful as to carry important a point, he would scarcely be guilty of the indiscretion of promulgating it at the moment that he is supposed to be engaged in negotiations for peace with Russia and England. It possibly might be the subject of a secret article; as such, it could never have been read by the American master, for it would not have appeared on the face of whatever treaty has been signed at Paris. The concession itself is of little value, except as far as it shows the complete influence which France has obtained in the councils of the Porte. If ever Bonaparte shall again penetrate into Egypt, it will be by a much shorter cut than thro' the Turkish-Adriatic provinces. With all the facilities that the Porte could afford him, an expedition which should sail from Portsmouth at the same time that he put his army in motion from Dalmatia, would reach Alexandria many weeks before him. Vast and astonishing as his enterprises have been, so extravagant a project as this, could have scarcely engaged his waking thoughts.
A mail from Gottenburg arrived yesterday. The general opinion in Sweden is, that a war with Prussia is inevitable. The army in Pomerania has taken a new and advanced position; considerable reinforcements were also expected at Stralsund. Notwithstanding this expectation, and whatever hostile demonstrations Prussia may make, we are persuaded the will never act with vigor against Sweden, as long as the latter is protected by the alliance of Russia.
An English messenger (not Mr. Bassico) failed from the Downs, on Saturday, for France.
July 23.
Late on Monday evening, a person landed at Beal, from Boulogne, with dispatches from Lord Yarmouth, at Paris; and early yesterday morning he arrived in town, at Mr. Fox's house in the Stable Yard. A cabinet council was soon after held at Mr. Fox's office, in Downing-street, at which the lord chancellor, lord Grenville, viscount Sidmouth and Howick, earls Spencer, Fitzwilliam and Moira, lords Ellenborough and H. Petty, and Mr. Windham, attended.
So great was the exigency for the council, that a messenger was dispatched to lord Sidmouth, at Richmond Park, to require his lordship's attendance.
Parliament will be prorogued by commission this day. Reports are in circulation, but we know not on what authority, that some allusion will be made, in the speech from the throne, to the recent intercourse between this country and France.
Accounts have been received by the last Jamaica mail, of a dreadful storm and inundation in the district of Ligneana, which swept away a number of houses, and destroyed several respectable inhabitants and a number of slaves.
Mr. Fox was able on Monday to take a walk round his garden, and passed a very good night. The London Gazette of July 22.
Queen's Palace, July 21.
James Monroe, esq. minister plenipotentiary from the U. S. of America, having received new letters of credence, giving him, jointly with William Pinckney, esq. the character of ministers extraordinary and plenipotentiaries from the United States, they had this day a private audience of his majesty, to deliver their said credentials.
PARIS, July 7.
M. D'Oubril, the Russian envoy actually arrived here yesterday, at three in the afternoon. He alighted at the hotel Crange-Bateliere.
VIENNA, June 22.
We are positively assured, that M. D'Oubril's full powers and instructions relate not only to the affairs of the Russian prisoners, but that this minister is authorised to open negotiations for concluding preliminaries of peace.—Some days before this minister's departure from Vienna, M. Anstetten, counsellor to the Russian legation, set out from this city for Peterburgh, with important dispatches.
HAMBURGH, July 12.
We are assured that Bonaparte, has ordered marshal Bernadotte to march his corps into the country of Hesse Cassel. The elector has refused ten months ago to lend five millions of six dollars to France, and Napoleon being in want of that sum, Talleyrand has advised that measure as the only means to extort it from that prince. However, its success is not quite certain, as it is very well known that the elector, who has never been a friend to Bonaparte, has guarded against his rapacity, by sending his treasure to Berlin.
In the same manner, the elector of Saxony has been summoned to lend six millions of six dollars to the French emperor; and as he has also refused the loan, it is apprehended that Bernadotte has been directed to pay a visit to the Grone Gewehr, who is now at Dresden.
The new constitution of the German empire is daily expected at Ratisbon. It is already known that the three Imperial cities of Hamburg, Lubeck and Bremen, will be under the immediate direction and absolute control of Bonaparte.
Mr. Baurienne has given notice to our venerable friends, that the political superintendence of the Free theatre, in Hamburg, belongs to him, in consequence of orders to that effect, that he has received from the same prince who has sent him as his minister to the circle of Lower Saxony.
GRAVESEND, July 20.
Passed by the Cabinet, Woodward, from Cadiz; Andros Croggins, Coran, from Teneriffe; Dundee, Ballis, from Greenland; Truly, Cornelius, from the Havana; Hero, Ruff, from Lisbon; Phoenix, Thompson, and the Rotuma, Engoe, from Norway.—Sailed, the Charlotte, Sinebier, for N. York; Minerva, Wildboote, for Gibraltar; Jane, Davidson, and the New Hope, Rayolle, for Tonning; a Sloop, Laxton; Elizabeth, —; and the Concordia, —, for Hamburg.
The ship Carlisle , Gibson, hence for Amsterdam, passed the Downs 6th July.
Extract of a letter to the editor of the Post-Adelphia Register, from his correspondent in London, July 2.
The Leopard , of 50 guns, sailed from Portsmouth, on Saturday last, June 28, with orders for the recall of the Leander , which is to return to England, under the command of Capt. Reggatt, the present capt. of the Leopard ; and an enquiry will ensue on the conduct of the capt. of the Leander on her arrival.
A further misfortune has occurred on the coast of Portugal, of which intelligence was received last week; and the Portuguese government have proceeded so far as to detain the Richmond gun-brig, until satisfaction is made for this, and several other subjects of complaint. An enquiry is directed to be made.
The king of Sweden has not accepted the offer of Russia to mediate between him and the court of Berlin. He considers himself as acting in quality of an ally of England, and that the aid of Russia in the adjustment of the existing differences, is unnecessary. His majesty insists on the evacuation of Lauenburg by the Prussians, and its re-occupation by Swedish troops.
NEW-YORK, September 4.
The ship Olive-Branch , captain Park, left Bordeaux on the 8th July, and the river on the 13th. She is the bearer of dispatches to the government of the United States. Capt. P. informs us that a peace between France and England was talked of; but no notice is taken of the probability of such an event in the Paris or Bordeaux papers, received at the office of the Mercurial Advertiser , of which the former are to the 30th of June, inclusive, and the latter to the 8th of July. Off the Western Islands, on the 24th of July, saw a fleet of 5 sail of the line and a frigate, but was not boarded, though the frigate went several times round the Olive-Branch .
The French papers afford nothing new, except that the English minister, having been refused admittance to the deliberations of the diet of Ratisbon, had taken his departure for London; and that the Emperor Napoleon had issued two decrees, one of them appropriating two millions for augmenting the salaries of the judges, and the other for prohibiting gaming-houses throughout the whole extent of the French empire.
NORFOLK, Sept. 8.
On Saturday arrived here the ship Tellus , Capt. Rofs, from Nantes, which port she left the 20th July; we have received no papers by her, but the verbal information which we obtain from an intelligent passenger, is in substance to the following effect.
Peace had been much talked of, but had not induced any speculations founded on expectation of that event. The general opinion was, that there would be no peace immediately. It was said that the French emperor had given in his ultimatum, which was in terms that it was not supposed Britain would accede to it.
The Russian ships that had been embargoed were released, and one came out with the Tellus . D'Oubril the Russian envoy had reached Paris—About 18,000 Italian troops, which had been for some time stationed in Nantes and its vicinity, had been suddenly marched for Bayonne, from whence they were to proceed to Spain, in order to co-operate with a force destined against Portugal.
Commerce in France, from the heavy and repeated exactions of government, is in a wretched state. The popularity of Bonaparte was not so great as it has been. Ledger.

CHARLESTON, September 2.
From the Coffee-House Books of last evening.
The Schooner Pocotaligo Packet, capt. Stites, anchored off the fort this evening, in six days from Long-Island. Capt. Stites has brought in with him two seamen, belonging to a British ship, one of the last home-ward-bound fleet of Jamaica merchantmen; who in- form, that almost the whole fleet, consisting of one hundred and fifty sail, have been dispersed and lost in the late gale. Several of the ships were seen to founder with the whole of their crews. One of the ships was towed two days by capt. Stites; when they fell in with a British sloop of war, who impressed all the English sailors, and burnt the ship. Two days since, capt. St. fell in with the brig Ann, capt. Cory, from this port, for Havana, totally dismasted.
City Gaz.
PROSPECT OF PEACE.
Extract of a letter from London, dated July 21st, to a respectable Merchant in Philadelphia.
"We have now to advise, that it is the general opinion, Negotiations are going forward between this country and France of a PACIFIC tendency; and although conducted with the greatest secrecy, our funds have risen 5 or 6 per cent. in consequence; as the public are of opinion, our present ministers will consent to great sacrifices to obtain peace. What effect that will have upon American produce, you must be well aware of."
Private letters from London speak positive as to a continuance of the war—one, of which we were favoured with a perusal by a friend, dated 22nd July says,
"You may rely on there being no peace as yet—Those who seemed most sanguine are beginning to acknowledge themselves deceived—while every act of the ministry, and the arrival and departure of every courier to the Continent is watched, and their intentions and business interpreted. But all will not do—the people begin to find themselves imposed on by stock-jobbers. A courier arrived yesterday from France, a Cabinet council was immediately held, and peace was soon after resounded on change, but it is actually understood that Bonaparte has refused to negotiate until England acknowledges his continental regulations, and then he will treat with her for peace on terms most suitable to form the happiness of Europe and the prosperity of the French empire."
Other letters mention the prosperous state of American affairs, and the good light in which Mr. Pinckney's mediation was viewed.
Balt. Telegraph.
West Indies.
BALTIMORE, September 5.
Extract of a letter from captain Murphy, of the brig Atreus, to the Editor, dated
QUARANTINE GROUND, Sept. 4.
"On the 23rd of August, the day previous to my leaving the Havana, the Pomona a Spanish frigate of 56 guns, from Vera Cruz, was taken about 2 leagues to the eastward of the Moro, by two English frigates, the Arathusa and Hanson, after a close action of sixteen minutes—Although the Spanish frigate was assisted by seven gun-boats, (one of which was blown up, and another sunk) and a battery of 11 guns. Previous to the action there was a considerable quantity of money landed from the frigate, reported to be the property of the King; but the English took with the ship half a million of dollars; it was reported the commander of the Spanish frigate lost his life in the action, the number of others is not mentioned, but suppose considerable from the closeness of the action and heavy fire. On the 25th, I fell in with three ships, a little to the northward of the Double-headed Shot Key, one of them appearing much disabled, another had her in tow, fanding to the northward through the Florida Gulf—These I suppose to be the three aforementioned vessels; it must be observed, that at the time of this action, there was an 80 gun ship then in harbor, but unfortunately her two top masts were down and could not be got ready until the day after the action. On the 30th, in lat. 24, 40, about 17 leagues to the eastward of Cape Hatteras, fell in with a brig or schooner, copper-bottomed, and black all above the copper, her counter appeared to be white: she being very low in the water she could discover no name, her bowsprit's standing, but no masts; there being a heavy sea could make no further observations, than that she appeared to be about 60 tons." American.
Domestic Intelligence.
BOSTON, Sept. 1.
Arrived here, the ship Ocean, from Cowes, in 48 days. Left, Union, Nicholson, from Baltimore for Hamburg, wind bound. The captain informs there were thirty sail of Americans waiting for adjudication; the ship Isabella, of Philadelphia, was one of the number.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 8.
Further circumstances and particulars, relative to the French fleet.
The gale which separated them commenced on the 10th ult. and not the 10th—at which time they had in tow an American Schooner from St. Domingo, but to what port belonging or to where bound is not known—a latitude was fixed on in case of separation in which the fleet was to join. The Patriot cruized in the stated latitude for some time, but seeing none of the fleet appear thought proper to put into the Chesapeake to repair, which she entered on the 28th. Telegraph.
Great fears are entertained for the safety of the British West-India fleet, as it is certain they were in the gale.—The Cumberland, one of the fleet has been totally lost, the captain has arrived here, but can give no information respecting the safety of the rest. Ib.
NORFOLK, September 8.
THE FLEETS. Our coast it is probable will be the scene of a great Naval enterprise, as the BRITISH FLEET, as well as the FRENCH, are now near us. On Saturday evening the Melampus frigate, one of the fleet of Sir Richard Strachan, anchored in Hampton Roads. This fleet is composed of the
Table with 2 columns: Ship Name, Guns. Rows: Cæsar (84), Audacious (74), Belleisle (74), Bellona (74), Montague (74), Terrible (74), Triumph, 14.
Melampus and another Frigate. It appears that Sir Richard Strachan, having heard in the West-Indies, that Admiral William Fitz was on the coast of America, and probably knowing the route which Sir John B. Warren had taken, he left no time in seeking the French fleet, and it is surprising how they have missed. That the fleet of Admiral William Fitz, and the squadron of commodore L'Hermite, or parts of both, were on the coast, there can be no doubt.
The Patriot of 74 guns and the Valereuse frigate, belonging to Admiral William Fitz's fleet are in port, the former at Annapolis, and the latter
in the Delaware. The Cybele frigate belonging to commodore L'Hermite's squadron, is in this port.
The following is a list of the French force.
Table with 2 columns: Ship Name, Guns. Rows: The Regulus (80), Foudroyant (84), Veteran (80), Majestic (74), Eole (74), Impetueux (74), Patriot (74 at Annapolis), President (44), Valereuse (40 in the Delaware), Cybele (44 at Norfolk).
Ledger.
RALEIGH, (N. C.) September 8.
"We have received from the Rev. George Newton, of Buncombe County, an account of a very extraordinary Vision of thousands of beings in the air, of a glittering appearance, resembling the human form, seen on or about the Chimney Mountain, in Rutherford County, on the 31st of July last. The particulars will be given in the next Register."
ELECTION RETURNS FOR KENTUCKY.
John Boyle—District of Madison, Garrard, &c. John Rowen, Washington, Nelson, Jefferson, &c. Benjamin Howard, Fayette, Woodford, Clark, &c. Joseph Desha, Bourbon, Mason, &c. Richard M. Johnson, Shelby, Franklin, Scott, &c. Colo. Matthew Lyon. New Members.
Extract of a letter from Beaufort, (N. C.) August 26.
The storm was excessively severe. The beach is almost covered with wrecks. But few of them have as yet been ascertained.—The ship Adolphus, capt. Garrow, of Norfolk, from St. Johns, is completely stranded, but all the people are saved, and part of the cargo.—A brig called the Atlantic, belonging to Fairfield, and returning from Turkey's Island, laid to be commanded by a captain Wilson, foundered at sea—two sailors escaped by clinging to a spar. All else have perished, among them I am sorry to learn, were capt. Cannon; a man of the name of Louis, (a Portuguese) and a free black fellow, belonging to Newbern, who had taken a passage in her from Turkey's Island.—The crew of a new pilot built Schooner, believed to be a Virginian, lies within a few miles to the west of the inlet. A small iron bound trunk, covered with deer skin, has been found near it, with the letters I. H. on the bottom—in a pocket book which has also been found near it, there were some accounts against Capt. Cooper. To the best of the writer, a large chest has been discovered, full of good clothes. A handkerchief, I have seen, marked I. D. There was also in the chest, among other papers, a lease of a house, at the corner of Chatham-street, in New-York, to John Dodge, at the yearly rent of 100 dollars.—Some pistols from Cape Look-out say, that a keg of pickles, marked D. O. and some packages of paper and printer's ink, marked F. X. M. have come ashore there. There are other vessels stranded near us, which are so broken in pieces, that a correct account of them, it is not in my power to give.
[There is scarcely a doubt, but that the Pilot-Boat mentioned in this letter, must be the Tartar, lately fitted out in Hampton, by Captain Cooper, on board of which he was with one of his sons, and many others.—His lady & two children were lost in the scene—His loss, as above stated.] Norfolk Herald.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 4.
The brig Ann, capt. Balcumb, left Port-Royal, (Jam.) the 26th of July, with a fleet of about 150 sail under convoy of 1 sixty four, 3 frigates & an armed brig, & parted with them the 20th of August, and next day in lat. 33, he had the late gale very hard, and thinks the convoy must have felt it pretty severely also.
PORT OF NORFOLK, Sept. 9.
ARRIVED, Sloop Venus, Bouth, 22 days from Martinique—sugar and coffee, to the master—Aug. 24 in lat. 30, long. 74, 45, spoke an English ship, of the Jamaica fleet, informed captain B. that the convoy had been dispersed by the late gale; that several must have foundered.—On Friday in sight of the land, and to the southward of Currituck, capt. Bouth saw two men of war; he was informed from a Baltimore pilot boat, that an 80 gun ship was off Cape Henry the same day.
CHARLESTON.
Extract of a letter from the parish of St. John Berkle, dated Saturday evening, 25th ult. to a gentleman in this city.
"I am very sorry that I am obliged to give you the disagreeable information of the damage your crop has sustained from the violent storm of wind we had yesterday, and the last night. Yesterday, about 10 o'clock, the wind increased to a hurricane, and continued to blow till about the same hour at night, when it abated a little. It has laid almost all the cotton flat with the ground and broke abundance of it off just above the ground the surface of which is nearly half covered with blossoms and pods; I think from appearance at least one half the cotton is destroyed by it. The rice appears to be in a worse condition than the cotton, all the ears that are just shot out, and not shed the blossoms, are blasted; that which is a little older, the grains whipped off very much and bruised. That which had not shot out will do very well I hope. As two thirds of our crop was in the first stage, as above described, I fear we may lose that much of our rice. I do not think our misfortune is singular."
NOTICE.
A PETITION will be presented by William Fitchett to the next General Assembly of Virginia, praying that a law may pass to establish a ferry across Pankatanke river from my land in Matthews County, to the land of the late Thomas E. Churchill, dec'd. of Middlesex county.
WILLIAM FITCHETT. September 12. ctf.
SEE in to day's paper September 9th, an advertisement from the Directors of the Richmond Turnpike, requesting those who may wish to undertake to enter proposals by the first day of November next, I as an undertaker of public work feel at a loss to enter proposals, as it states the road is to be from forty to one hundred feet. I could wish to know the exact width, height to be bedded, thickness of gravel and number of degrees each hill is to be reduced; to if I can find out these particulars, I shall be at no loss to enter proposals—and for the benefit of undertakers I sincerely with the above description given in print. A friend to public Institutions. September 9. 1st.
FOR SALE.
TWO likely young MALE SERVANTS, well acquainted with house business.—For terms, &c. enquire of the Printer. Sept. 12. (1st.)
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 26th SEPTEMBER.
EUROPEAN NEWS.—Late arrivals at Baltimore and Boston have brought our London accounts down to the 23d July; an arrival from Norfolk has also brought verbal accounts from Nantes to the 20th of July. These various accounts not only confirm each other, but the impression previously imbibed; that there was no probability of an immediate peace in Europe.
Couriers were still passing between France and England, but the London and Nantes accounts both agree in the opinion, that the negotiation was about to cease, that Bonaparte had given in his ultimatum, and that it was such a one, as was not likely to obtain the approbation of the British cabinet.
The Russian minister D'Oubril had at length reached Paris, charged, it was said, with full powers to negotiate the preliminaries of a peace. This is the most, perhaps, the only favourable symptom of such an event; for let the declaration of the British government be recollected, that they should never conclude a peace without attempting to embrace the interests of Russia. If Russia preserves the same policy towards G. Britain, she also will not conclude a peace without the co-operation of her ally.
Meanwhile France seems to manifest every disposition to accept the proffered hand of Russia. One strong proof is, that all the Russian vessels, embargoed in the French ports, have been ordered to be dismissed.
The ties of union between crowned heads, are however too feeble, not to melt beneath the touch of self-interest. A treaty with France would render more substantial services to Russia than a war. The salvation of Sweden might be stipulated for as the condition of her abandoning the alliance of England, especially if her claims to the Ionian Isles.
War however seemed inevitable between Sweden and Prussia. In addition to these hostile appearances, Jacobi, the Prussian ambassador, had been, instructed to leave London, and the ports of Spain had been shut against all Swedish vessels.
The new continental arrangements of Bonaparte are but in embryo. Next to the topics of peace, nothing is, however, so well calculated to attract our attention; nothing so evident, shows the sovereign contempt in which he holds the good will of England, or his indifference to France to the love of peace a single atom of his ambition.
The new constitution of Germany has not yet burst its diplomatic shell; though "it was already known that the imperial cities of Hamburg, Lubeck, and Bremen, were to be under his immediate direction and absolute control."
Portugal is once more announced to be in danger; eighteen thousand Italian troops which had been hitherto stationed in the vicinity of Nantes, having been suddenly marched to Bayonne, to be embarked in an expedition against her.
But the most important rumour, is, that of a treaty having been concluded between Bonaparte & the Porte, by which the former is permitted to march his troops through the Turkish territory into Egypt. This account, however, says the London paper, was given by an American captain; and therefore (let all due reverence be given to the politenesses of the London Editors!) we may fairly question its correctness.
That Bonaparte has some gigantic designs upon the Turkish empire, is not to be disputed; but that Egypt is the precise object which he folicits; or that this would be to openly avowed in the Paris Monitor, ere as many steps as possible could be taken, for the accomplishing of his designs; are questions which start a train of doubt. The last circumstance, particularly compels us to refuse all assent to the report, till it has been more strongly authenticated. We agree with the London Editor, that for once an American captain may be a liar or a duper.
There is nothing conclusive as to our own differences with G. Britain. It seems that on the 21st of July, Messrs. Monroe and Pinckney had a private audience of his majesty, for the purpose of delivering their credentials as ministers extraordinary and plenipotentiaries from the United States.
Mr. Erskine is to be appointed minister to this country, in place of Lord Shelburne; but he will most probably postpone his departure, until the negotiations in London shall have assumed a definite appearance.
Meanwhile it is to be observed, that all the private letters received by the last arrivals, hold out the prospect of a friendly accommodation. Most unfortunate will it be for us, if Mr. Fox should have left the stage of life; most unfortunate for every neutral country, of whose rights no statesman in England is a more disinterested friend; but most unfortunate for his own country, who looks to him for the spirit to bear her through an inevitable war, or to conclude an honourable peace—a man upon whom tomt it will be recorded, without the pomp of empty eulogium: "The greatest statesman of his age."—This great man is said to be far advanced in a dropy; and as a gentleman from London reports, to have been three times tapped.
The last arrivals from Europe have shed not the smallest light upon our negotiation with Spain. Most probably, however, the President is by this time informed of the result, as recent dispatches from Paris have just been received by a vessel which left Bordeaux on the 8th of July, and as Paris is in all probability the real theatre of the negotiation. At least, we have not yet received any notice of Mr. Skipwith's or General Armstrong's having visited Madrid.
COMMUNICATION.
DECUS.—It would be idle to attempt a refutation of all the absurdities, to which this celebrated production has given birth. As if the text itself were not sufficiently full of errors, it has been most extravagantly misrepresented by its federal commentators. Facts have been ascribed to it which it never contained; and conclusions pretendedly drawn from its doctrines, which its author would have blushed to avow!
Fortunate federalists! the very moment when all their old topics of complaint are exhausted and thread bare, some new one starts up to animate their spirits. For a long time, Miranda's expedition was the favorite theme of attack. The whole pack joined in full chorus; but at length when the subject was nearly hunted down, up springs a new game in the effigy of Decius. Every mouth is opened, & the whole country once more resounds with the noise of rancorous rage and anticipated triumph.—Unfortunate federalists! no sooner does the game appear in view, than the scent is lost. Hopeless labour succeeds to thrilling expectation; one disappointment succeeds to another, until their own spirits begin to faint under the
chase, and the country its victims. Let them for a false and yelping pack.—Let them, if they think proper, take Decius for their guide; let them rush on in the course, which he has pursued; it will again terminate in their despair. The ignis fatuus which has hitherto misled them, is not more seductive, & not more deceptive, than the one which now casts a transitory beam upon their gloomy prospects.
It would be idle, we repeat, to expose the innumerable absurdities into which Decius has misled them; and at which Decius himself would blush. He is at present their Fortune's purr, the fund inexhaustible of argument and attack. He is their lamp of Aladdin, by whose magic influence they are to realise their most magnificent expectations. He is the great Pivot of Archimedes, on which the lever is to be fixed, that will overturn the administration. But Decius is a man of honor, and would abominate the use, which is made of his production.
What then must be the astonishment, and the indignation of Decius, when he sees this production not only prostituted in its original shape to federal designs, but completely distorted from its original purport, misunderstood by fools, and misrepresented by knaves? In honest truth, is Decius the enemy of the administration? Does he really desire us to believe that Mr. Jefferson is a political Mellifont; a double-dealer of the cabinet; a statesman who holds a "double set of opinions and principles?"
But if Decius be not the real enemy of the administration; if, still indulging his erroneous opinions about Mr. Jefferson's conduct, he shrinks from the ascribing them to dishonourable and pusillanimous motives; how must he feel, when he sees his own effay impressed into the profligate service of his former opponents, distorted by me, whose curses were once his proudest eulogium, to attack an administration, that is the pride and the ornament of his country? How then will he feel when he peruses the following quotations; when he is told that misrepresentations like these are "thick" as Falfaff's "blackberries;" and that erroneous as his own conclusions are, they yield not in number to the erroneous facts, which he has contributed to call forth?
"Folled thus in his attempton Mr. Randolph, the president had recourse to more pliant stuff. He sends for two of the honorable representatives from the commonwealth of Massachusetts up his back stairs and communicates to them his "wishes." Of these two dignified persons, one was Mr. cunning, supple, treacherous and timid, a notorious Jemmy; the other of a different character indeed, intellectually dull, but not personally irritable; and both the devoted humble servants of the man in power. To these two men the president unbosomed himself. He found them apt for his purpose—he therefore commissioned them, if the occasion should demand it, to inform the house that, notwithstanding he had held his tongue to the public, he had held another in private, and that whatever might be thought of his official views and plans from the face of his message, his confidential and "secret wishes" were of a very different nature."
The preceding extract mocks all comment. There is not an honest man who reads it, who will not at once pronounce it an unfounded calumny; and the man who wrote it, must have known it to be such as it escaped from his pen. Is there a man, who believes that Mr. Jefferson would deign to tapener with general Vernet and Mr. Bidwell? to call them up his back stairs, to try the pulse of their villainy, and finding them apt for the purpose, to unhosom his secret wishes to their safe-keeping until an opportunity should occur of playing upon the slavish temper of the House? where did this unblushing libeller derive the fact? By what other privilege, save that of the illiberal spirit of his party, does he dare to fling it into the world? By such an unblushing spirit of detraction; may the republican advocates of the administration never be disgraced.
* From a series of Nos. under the title of the "Review of Decius," published in the New-York Evening Post.
TO ALBERT GALLATIN ESQ.
Secretary of the Treasury.
Was the man, who now addresses you, your secret enemy, you would not receive from his pen the language of advice. He would suffer you to pursue your present career, without a single monitory voice to warn you that it is the career to ruin.
I admire your astonishing talents. I reverence you for the services, which you have rendered to my country. There was a time when the name of Albert Gallatin ranked in my mind with the Cæsar of Rome and the Tell of Switzerland; with all that were venerable for virtue or commanding for talents. That moment is rapidly passing away. Your talents will forever command my veneration; but how narrow is their empire when combined with suspected virtue!
What have you not owed to your adopted country? You were in want of an asylum, and you found it among us. You were a foreigner and yet were crowned with the representative honours of the nation. You had talents to display; and you found a noble theatre for their exhibition. You became a Representative in the State of Pennsylvania; you became a member of Congress; you have ascended to the dignified office of the Secretary of the Treasury. In spite of the prejudices, imposed upon the condition of a foreigner; in spite of the contending claims of native citizens; a republican President invited you to the second department under the administration. Was it then to be supposed, that a man thus honored by the people and thus selected by its government, should ever adopt an ambiguity of department, that exposed him to suspicion?
Did not the re-election of Governor McKean find you a most ardent advocate? And are you not at this very moment the sincere friend of his weak, equivocal and fatal administration?
Who was it, that during the last session of Congress violated his respect to the President, by declaring to Mr. John Randolph that there was no cabinet; a body, which you well knew, had no constitutional existence?
To what other cause can be traced the goings of disappointed pride in this declaration to be ascribed? Was there no cabinet, because you were not always invited to assist in deliberations, not connected with your official department?
Who was it that attempted to spirit up Mr. J. Randolph against the administration? that violated his faith to the government by revealing the deliberations of a cabinet, which he had previously declared to have no existence? Who was it that communicated to that gentleman, the circumstance of a proposition having been laid before the cabinet, about negotiating for the purchase of Florida; that drew it in colours so horrible to his imagination, as to provoke him to an open attack upon the executive on the very floor of Congress? Who was it that upon being interrogated by Congress on this very subject; replied in the envious style of a Jesuit? who being called upon by a near friend of Mr. Jefferson, in a manner that defied evasion, produced a statement, which was afterwards published to the world in a circular letter, a statement, in which that world could see nothing so very monstrous in the conduct of the administration; nothing which could have justified your secret representations to Mr. Randolph? Know then, that suspicion is afloat. Know that many republicans are now wavering in their sentiments respecting you, who would once have flaked their life upon your faith. They still waver. They are the precipitate Ostracim of Athens. But upon your future life they repose the certainty of conviction.
You have approached, Sir, the very brink of precipice. Suspected by the republicans of Pennsylvania, you can scarce aspire to any new office within the gift of the people. Once let the General Government be convinced that you are an apostate, and your political existence vanishes for ever. ZANO.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE ENQUIRER.
As undue alarm may have been, and may be, excited by rumour, relative to the yellow fever which has occurred in the Penitentiary: I think it fit, as physician to the place, to state, that no new cases have appeared for the last twelve days; that of seven cases one has terminated fatally, (as has already been stated in the Enquirer) that the subjects of the other cases are convalescing, and from the present appearances, I have not the smallest apprehensions about their recovery; further—that there exists a flattering prospect of a speedy return to the usual health of those, confined within the walls of the Penitentiary.
JAMES GREENHOW.
11th September, 1806.
Sales at Auction.
Will be sold, before the door of the Eagle-Tavern, on Saturday the 13th inst. at 3 o'clock, without reserve, for ready money
AN ORDER, drawn by Alexander M c Rae, Alexander Stewart and Robert Mitchell, Esquires, President and Directors of the Richmond Fire Company, on Wm. Price, Esqr. their Cashier, for 756 dols. 80 cts.
PROSSER & MONCURE, v. M c Rae. September 12. it.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
DANAWAY, or conveyed by some person from the subscriber, living in the county of Granville, state of North-Carolina; a young negro fellow named OBA; he is between twenty and five and twenty years of age, has a thin village, dark complexion and is tolerably well spoken, has a lump on the back part of his neck, a small knot above his wrist on his right hand and the middle finger of his left hand crooked. The said negro had on when he went out a pair of cotton trowsers, round throat coat napped with black wool and cotton, wove-plain; took with him two pair of buff calfskin breeches, two waist coats one of white, the other of grey cloth, a pair of ribbed woolen stockings and a double breasted grey broad cloth coat.
All persons, particularly masters of vessels, are forewarned from harbouring the said negro. Any person giving intelligence or will secure the negro so that I get him, or will bring him to me, shall receive the above reward of ten dollars with all necessary charges.
September 12. RICHARD WOOD. 1st.
DOCTOR WILSON
HAS just received at his shop, opposite the stores of Messrs. John and Robert Gamble, and Mr. Neil McConill; a general assortment of MEDICINES. He offers them for sale, on lower terms than they can be procured at any other house in Richmond. He has on hand, a variety of Paints, Varnishes and Oils. Also, Spirits of Turpentine, and Turpentine Varnish by the barrel, at unusually low prices. Sept. 12. (cotf.)
TO BE RENTED.
THE HOUSE at present occupied by Doctor James McClure; possession will be given on the 2nd day of October next. And
The house lately occupied by Mr. Moses Bates; possession to be given immediately. Each of these houses, are convenient to the capitol, and will suit a genteel family. For terms, apply to Samuel Greenhow.
WM. LANGBORN, Executor of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd. September 12. (cpts.)
EDUCATION.
WHEN I settled here in November last I informed the inhabitants of Richmond, generally, by advertisements, and some by private recommendations, that an Academy was opened under the direction of Mrs. O'Reilly and myself, for the education of young Ladies, in the various departments of English literature and elegant female accomplishments. My intention was to dedicate the entire of my time to the literary tuition; having no doubt, of being fully employed in my attendance on an institution so much wanted here. As I have not sufficient employment in the young Ladies Academy, I will receive a limited number of orderly boys, whom I will educate in the knowledge of the English language grammatically and accurately; writing arithmetic and book-keeping, history, Geography and the use of the globe, Latin and Greek. The pupils placed under my care shall be faithfully and expeditiously prepared for the compounding or college. The certificate of the trustees of Princeton Academy in New-Jersey, which I superintended for several years, can be seen at my school-room adjoining Major Du-Val's; and also the certificate of the Rev'd. Dr. S. Smith, President of Princeton College, under whom I taught the grammar school, annexed to the College.
ROBERT O'REILLY.
N. B. I will superintend the English tuition of the young ladies placed with Mrs. O'Reilly. Twelve young ladies can be accommodated with boarding, for fifty dollars each per quarter, including music, drawing and French, and the advantage of private tuition before and after school hours.
R. O. R. September 12. 1st.
IN PURSUANCE of a decree of Caroline Court, will be sold on the premises, to the highest bidder, on Friday the third of next month:
A TRACT of LAND, in the lower part of the said county of Caroline, belonging to the estate of William Eubank, dec'd. containing about 236 ACRES.—Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchaser, upon his giving bond and approved security. The COMMISSIONERS. September 12. eosw.
TO BE LEASED ON THE PREMISES, On Friday the 10th of October next, for four years, to the highest bidder:
FOUR valuable PLANTATIONS, in the County of Halifax, lying on and near Dan River, belonging to the estate of Robert Lewis, dec'd. The Plantations are known by the following names, viz. first the River Plantation, which contains about two hundred acres of cleared land, of which there is upwards of a hundred acres of prime low grounds, part of which is not inferior to any land on Dan River. The next, is a small plantation called Roper's Tract, which is well calculated for the culture of Corn and Tobacco. The next

Miscellaneous.
From the Educational Review .
MEMOIR OF MISS CAROLINE SYMMONS.
This surprising young lady was the daughter of the Rev. Charles Symmons, D.D. In the bloom of corporeal and mental accomplishments she was prematurely snatched away at the age of 14. Mr. Wrangham, an English poet, associates the history of this uncommonly gifted young female with that of Jairus' daughter. There was an equality of age, and familiarity, no doubt, in the workings of parental grief and filial affection. A supernatural resurrection, like that of Jairus' daughter, was not to be expected. But he, who said "dumfuf arife!" though he fees fit not to raise up departed worth at our solicitation and tears, will one day raise it up to himself.
THE FLOWER GIRL'S CRY.
"Come buy my wood hare-bells, my cow slips come buy! O rake my carnations, and jessamines sweet: Lest their beauties should wither, their perfumes should die, All snatched, like myself, from their native retreat."
"O ye, who in pleasure and luxury live, Whose bosoms would sink beneath half my fad woos; Ah! deign to my cry a kind answer to give, And shed a soft tear for the fate of poor Rose."
ON A BLIGHTED ROSE BUD.
Scarce have the velvet lips imbib'd the dew, And nature half'd this infant queen of May: Scarce saw thy opening bloom the sun's broad ray, And to the air thy tender fragrance threw.
The following little anecdotes deserve mention as evincing the force of her attachment to poetical pursuits. She declared there was no personal sacrifice or form, however prized by her sex, which she would not make, to have been the author of L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. And one morning, when returning home from undergoing a very painful operation, by Ware, the oculist; and when in consequence, some apprehension was entertained of her loss of an eye, she declared, with a smile, that, to be a Milton, she would consent to be deprived like him of both eyes. Servant as was her thirst for poetical excellence, we are happy to find that it did not impair her inclination for religious exercises. On this view of her character, Mr. Ware throws a cheering light in the following paragraph.
"Not less remarkable than the beauties of her person, the elegance of her taste, the strength of her understanding, and the goodness of her heart, was her modesty and humble piety. Through the whole of her illness, she was constant in her devotions; and when the extreme weakness and emaciation, occasioned by her malady, made the posture of kneeling (long painful at best) impracticable, she deeply regretted the circumstance as disqualifying her for offering her adorations in a fitter manner. With such a disposition, it will not be matter of surprise that her behaviour, at all times exemplary in the hours immediately preceding her dissolution should have been admirable. Not a single complaint fell from her lips. Even on the last morning of her earthly existence, when she had expressed to her maid a wish to die, she instantly corrected herself, and said, 'No, it is unful to wish for death, I will not wish for it.'"
LOSS OF THE SCHOONER COMFORT.
A more particular statement, than appeared in the last Enquirer.
Circumstantial account of the loss of the Schooner Comfort, (Charleson packet) captain Charles Drummond, from Baltimore, received from a passenger taken off the wreck, in lat. 38, 13, long. 75, 30, W. by the brig Experiment, John Backus, master, arrived at the Lazaretto, Philadelphia. On Tuesday morning, August 19th the Comfort left Hampton Roads, with passengers, for Charleston. On Friday came on a violent gale from N. E. the Schooner lying too, head to the southward and eastward. At 4, P. M. the upset; at the same moment, most of the male passengers having run upon deck, were washed overboard, whilst others, and the crew, were securing themselves to windward. About 5, P. M. the main mast broke short off, and at 6 the foremast was carried away, when she righted, but full of water, the sea making a continual breach over her, the gale still violent. During the night, the greater part of the crew and passengers were either washed overboard, or drowned, lashed to different parts of the vessel; and on Saturday morning, the few survivors had the gloomy retrospect of but 6 remaining, out of 25 souls, the original number on board. During the whole of Saturday and Sunday, we continued lashed to the windlass, bearing all the fatigues of hunger and thirst, and most frequently overwhelmed with the break of the sea; and about 5 o'clock, one of the few remaining, (a black man, one of the crew) exhausted and faint with thirst, was washed overboard, and on Monday morning, we were cheered with the prospect of deservng a vessel to windward, bearing down, which proved to be the Experiment, captain John Backus, to whose humanity and attention, we feel it an incumbent duty to express the obligation we lay under, for his unremitted attention to whatever could, in any measure, ameliorate the misery of our situation.
Life of passengers and crew drowned:
Captain Charles Drummond. Mr. James Price, under Captain D's charge, a son of Mr. Price, ship-builder at Baltimore--and 8 blacks, composing the crew. PASSENGERS. Mr. Archibald Leslie, a resident of Petersburg, having been some months past in Baltimore. Mr. Mercier, a Catholic Priest, from Charleston. Mr. Donally, a pedler, from Baltimore. Mr. Goofey, from Hampton, Virginia. Mrs. Cooper, wife of captain Cooper, lately resident at Hampton, removing to Augustine. Miss Mary Cooper, sister to captain Cooper, and Miss Suffanam, daughter of Mrs. Cooper. Three servant maids, and three black children, and a boy, servants to Mr. Goofey.
SAVED. Lieut. Bernard Henry, of the United States navy. John Todd, a young man working his passage to Charleston. Scott, the cabin steward, and two other blacks, part of the crew.
SPRINGFIELD BRIDGE.
In Massachusetts. This bridge is pronounced by connoisseurs in architecture to be one of the best of its kind in America; combining in its appearance elegance and neatness with strength and durability.
Its length is 1234 Feet. Breadth 30 Height from low water 40 It consists of 6 arches supported by two abutments and 5 piers of stone--the piers 25 feet in height from low water mark--each in breadth 21 feet, and in length up and down the stream 62 feet. Each pier and abutment contains about 2000 tons of stone. At the distance of 80 rods above the bridge, are erected two guard piers, of ice breakers--the stone wrought into these when connected with those which are sunk about the piers of the bridge, for their security, and those contained in the piers and abutments themselves, make an aggregate of 18,000 tons. The length of the curve of each arch is 137 feet, the chord 120.
This bridge is so constructed with frames upon low pier, connected by long timbers with the arches, that the traveller passes over nearly the whole extent of it, on an elevated plain, affording a view of extensive landscapes, in which are blended well cultivated fields, pleasant villages, rivers and meadows, lofty mountains, and indeed a wilderness and variety in the beauties of nature, which is highly gratifying to the eye.
The skill, fidelity and industry of the master builder, Mr. Jonathan Walcutt, of Windham, in Connecticut, ought to be mentioned in terms of great commendation. The piers and stone work were done under the superintendence of Mr. Israel Root, of Harvard, in the county of Worcester, and in a manner which reflects much credit on him and his fellow laborers as artists in that branch of the business.
We notice in a late metropolitan paper a ludicrous typographical error. A quantity of dice is for sale at auction, on account of the shippers. The advertiser has it, "on account of the shipers ." [Eng. pap.]
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, July 10.
Sittings before Lord Ellenborough, at Guildhall. Jackson v. Livers.
Mr. Parke stated that this was a case of so aggravated a nature, so repugnant to every feeling of humanity, that he regretted exceedingly, from the time at which the damages were laid, the jury could not award to his client such damages as the incredible sufferings which he had undergone must otherwise have procured him at their hands. The defendant was captain of an African slave ship, and the plaintiff was a man of colour whom the defendant engaged as his steward. The plaintiff, and a person of the name of Robertson who was employed as the second mate, were both taken on board at Jamaica, which they left in June. On the 4th of that month, the plaintiff, having gone down to make the first mate's bed, he was asked by him for some grog of which he informed the captain, at which the mate, being irritated, pursued the plaintiff for the purpose of having him dogged, and the plaintiff having said that he would rather go overboard, the mate threw himself into the sea, while the ship was going at the rate of 5 knots an hour. By the exertion of Robertson, the second mate, however, he was saved. When brought back into the ship, the defendant ordered him to be turned before the mast. He then ordered his hands to be tied behind him, and his legs to be fastened to the deck in ringbolts, for eight hours, during which time many buckets of water were thrown upon him. He was then tied up at the gang way, where the captain first left him till he was tired, and then caused the first and second mate to beat him in like manner till they were both tired. The captain then brought salt, which he rubbed into the plaintiff's wounds, and instead of putting him to bed, placed him in a tubular barrel, where he was again drenched with water. This treatment was repeated two different times. When the ship arrived at Liverpool, the plaintiff was taken to the Infirmary there, and though his wounds were now healed up, he would never be altogether himself. Robertson and the Surgeon of the Liverpool Infirmary, fully proved these facts.
Mr. Topping (submitting to the Jury, that the case must have been greatly exaggerated. The defendant had been obliged to go to sea, and had unfortunately left no instructions for defending him. Lord Ellenborough hoped for the sake of human nature, that the case was exaggerated; but with such evidence for the defendant, he could not feel himself warranted to give a farthing more of the damages laid in the declaration, being 500l. The jury immediately found for the plaintiff--Damages 500l.
STATISTICAL VIEW OF FRANCE.
The Statistical tables of France given by Tiffau, exhibit the following state of the population of the nation, in 1801. In the 102 departments, are above 3000 communes, containing a population of 33,000,000, exclusively of the departments of Piedmont, which have nearly two millions. The population of Old France is nearly 28,000,000. The acquisitions from Germany, including the Austrian, Netherlands, had a population of 4,000,000, and with territory in Switzerland and Italy, together amounting to 5 millions. The whole then amounts to 33,000,000, without regard to Holland, Switzerland, Tuscany, and the Cisalpine republic. The population of 500 towns is given at nearly 5 1-2 millions. Paris contains 546,858. Bordeaux, 112,344. Marseilles, 111,120, & Lyons, 109,500. Since the attention of France has been directed to its military character, the following is the collection made in the war Depot, of which a periodical work is published. Exclusively of 8000 chosen volumes among which is a valuable collection of atlases of 2700 volumes of old archives, and 900 boxes of original documents, the depot has 131 volumes, and 73 parcels of descriptive memoirs, containing at least 50 each, 4700 engraved maps, and of each from 2 to 25 copies, and above 7100 valuable manuscript maps, or drawings of marches, battles and regiments, &c. In the course of the war by order of government, it has furnished 7298 engraved maps, 207 manuscript maps or plans, 61 articles of various parts of the globe, and upwards of 6000 descriptive memoirs. It is Gen. Andreossi who is to publish the work which is to extend the use of the useful part of the collection which the French have made as a tribute to their military glory. [Salom Register.]
ELEGANT EXTRACTS.
The following animated eulogium on Democratic governments, is taken from the celebrated "Political Justice" of the celebrated Godwin: a work which, whatever may be thought of its moral doctrines, displays a more correct idea on the forms of government; a more glowing attachment to liberty; a more systematic view of the calamities of despotism, than are to be found in any other political treatise. At a moment like this, when Bonaparte has kept forth the defender of the system of kings, when he has imposed a despot upon the degenerated Dutch, when he has inflexibly pronounced in the face of the world, that such miserable animals are the best calculated to advance the happiness of man, the following animated eulogium must cause
home to the business and bosom" of every real republican.
"Supposing that we should even be obliged to take democracy with all the disadvantages that were ever annexed to it, and that no remedy could be discovered for any of its defects, it would be still greatly preferable to the exclusive system of other forms. Let us take Athens with all its turbulence and instability; with the popular and temperate usurpations of Pisistratus and Pericles; with their monstrous ostracism, by which with undignified injustice they were accustomed periodically to banish some eminent citizen without the imputation of a crime; with the imprisonment of Miltiades, the exile of Aristides and the murder of Phocion;--with all these errors on its head, it is incontrovertible that Athens exhibited a more illustrious and enviable spectacle than all the monarchies and aristocracies that ever existed. Who would reject their gallant love of virtue and independence, because it was accompanied with some irregularities? Who would pass an unreserved condemnation upon their penetrating mind, their quick discernment, and their ardent feeling, because they were subject occasionally to be intemperate and impetuous? Shall we compare a people of such incredible achievements, such exquisite refinement, grey without intemperance, and splendid without intemperance, in the midst of whom grew up the greatest poets, the noblest artists, the most finished orators and political writers, and the most disinterested philosophers the world ever saw,--shall we compare this chosen seat of patriotism, independence and generous virtue, with the torpid and selfish realms of monarchy and aristocracy? All is not happiness that looks tranquility. Better were a portion of turbulence and confusion, than that unwholesome calm, in which all the best faculties of the human mind are turned to sursefence and poison."
"In the estimate that is usually made of democracy, one of the most flugant sources of error lies in our taking mankind such as monarchy & aristocracy have made them, and from thence judging how fit they are to legislate for themselves. Monarchy and aristocracy would be no evils, if their tendency were not to undermine the virtues and the understandings of their subjects. The thing most necessary is to remove all those restraints which hold mind back from its natural flight. Implicit faith, blind submission to authority, timid fear, a distrust of our powers, an intention to our own importance and the good purposes we are able to effect, these are the chief obstacles to human improvement. Democracy restores to man a consciousness of his value, teaches him by the removal of authority and oppression to listen only to the dictates of reason, gives him confidence to treat all other men as his fellow beings, and induces him to regard them no longer as enemies against whom to be upon his guard, but as brethren whom it becomes him to assist. The citizen of a democratical state, when he looks upon the miserable oppression and injustice that prevail in the countries around him, cannot but entertain an inexpressible esteem for the advantages he enjoys, and the most unalterable determination at all hazards to preserve them. The influence of democracy upon the sentiments of its members is altogether of the negative sort, but its consequences are inestimable. Nothing can be more unreasonably than to argue from men as we now find them, to men as they may hereafter be made. Strict and accurate reasoning, instead of suffering us to be surprised that Athens did so much, would at first induce us to wonder that she retained so many imperfections."
THE MUSES.
The following simple and pathetic poem is from the pen of Dr. Logan, an eminent divine & historian of Scotland. Coleridge, himself a muse of no inconsiderable fame, has pronounced it of the most exquisite performance in our language. It is in the sweetest manner of Burns; but its execution is even superior to the most affected pieces of that heaven-taught bard. The second and the fourth stanzas are full of beauty. The quick transition in the second, from the wedding-day to the lover's grave, is not more unexpected than touching. Not a word in the English language could have been more happily selected, than the epithet "wedded" in the next to the last line. The whole song displays no little art in imitating the manner of the drama, and keeping our curiosity alive until the conclusion of the tale, when the real state of the lover for the first time breaks upon us.
SONG.
THE BRAS OF YARROW. My bras were henny, Yarrow stream! When first on them I met my lover: Thy bras how dreary, Yarrow stream! When now thy waves his body cover! Forever now, O Yarrow stream! Thou art to me a stream of sorrow; For never on thy banks shall I Behold my love, the flower of Yarrow!
VALUABLE LANDS--FOR SALE.
ON the 20th Sept. next, will be offered for sale, on the premises, to the highest bidder, on the following terms: that well known tract of Land, containing 1300 acres, to which are attached the invaluable Chalybeate Springs, commonly known by the name of the Amelia Springs; in point of fertility, the soil is equal to any in the neighbourhood; the buildings are new and spacious, the situation agreeable, and uncommonly healthy. It being presumed, that those intending to purchase, will view the premises, which at any time before the sale, will be shewed them by Mr. H. Anderson, residing on the land; a further description is deemed unnecessary. The terms of sale will be 1/3 paid in hand, and the other two thirds in two annual payments. Complete and satisfactory security will be required of the purchaser. For the accommodation of the purchaser, liberty will be given to sow wheat in September, and full possession given the 1st January, 1807. EXECUTORS. [205. p.] August 19.
JUST RECEIVED.
AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBERS: An Extensive Assortment of GROCERIES--among which are the following articles: Mulford's Sugar assorted 1 Tar West-India Coffee 1 Thos. Leiper's Snuff Antigua & Jamaica Rum 1 Macouba do. Country do. 1 Havana Segars Cognac & Peach Brandy 1 Salt Petre Holland Gin 1 Brimstone, Madder, and Ground Ginger in hual W. India and Sugar-house Molasses 1 kegs L. P. Madeira Wine 1 Log-wood Port, Sherry and Malaga Wine 1 Turkey Cotton Hibbert's Brown Stout 1 New-York Candles and Soap Martinique and Bordeaux Cordials 1 Spermaceti Candles Basket Salt 1 Patent Lamps Do. in sacks and loose 1 Dutch Cakes with plain Bullock's Chees 1 and gilt Bottles Caldwell, Fraser & Co's. Castings assorted Superfine Chocolate 1 Earthen and Stone Ware Rice 1 Writing & Wrapping paper Nutmegs, Pepper, Ginger and Pimento 1 Henry VIII. and Merry Andrew Cards Mace and Cloves 1 China Plates, do. Bowls Oil, Olives, and Capers 1 of different sizes Gun-powder, Young Hyson and Souchong Teas 1 Do. Tea and Coffee Cups and Saucers and 3 lb. Gun-powder 1 Do. Chimney ornaments Tea 1 Plain and cut qt. qt. and half pint Decanters Pickled Salmon 1 Pils, half pt & gill Tumblers Cut Herrings and Shad 1 Patent shot assorted Patent shot assorted 1 A few sets Table China. F and FF Gun-powder A regular supply of Loaf Sugar by the hhd. and barrel, at Philadelphia price.
FISHER & LESUEUR. oswt.
FOR SALE.
IN virtue of a deed in trust, to me executed, by captain Foulkes G. Tibb, for purposes therein mentioned, the whole of the property specified in said trust deed, consisting of a very valuable tract of LAND, several valuable Slaves, Household & Kitchen furniture, and Stock of various kinds. The Land lies in Essex county on Rappahannock river, ten miles below Tappahannock; very convenient to the best of fish, oysters and crabs, contains 334 acres, lays level and well adapted to the culture of tobacco, corn and small grain. There is on it a dwelling house in good repair, as also other convenient houses for a family, valuable young orchards of peach and apple of choice fruits, belonging to the above tract; there is as much marsh as will afford hay in the greatest abundance, for one hundred and fifty head of cattle; the land is well watered and remarkably healthy. The sale will take place on the premises, on the 24th day of October next, and the terms fully made known on that day; a part of the purchase money for each article will be required in hand, by CHARLES BROWNE, Trustee. Essex, August 5.
HANOVER JOCKEY CLUB.
THE Hanover Jockey Club having been organized, the races will commence at this place, on the 2nd Wednesday in October next. 1st. Day--3 mile heats, free for any horse, mare, or gelding. 2nd. Day--2 mile heats, confined to untried colts, not exceeding 4 years of age. The regulations with respect to weights, &c. are adopted from those of the Fairfield Jockey Club. A general meeting of the Club, is requested on the day preceding the first day's race. SKELTON JONES, Secretary to the Club. Hanover C.H. August 12. [240.]
JOHN ALCOCK, INFORMS the Citizens of Richmond, and the public, he has just received at his Cabinet Manufactory near the Fire Insurance Office; a large assortment of Windsor Chairs and Settees, made in the newest fashion and by the best workmanship in the date; any gentleman wishing to buy, will please send their orders or call at his Cabinet Manufactory, where they may get good warranted work, and on low terms, either in the Cabinet line or Windsor Chairs. June 6.
WILLIAMSBURG RACES.
ON Tuesday, the eleventh day of November next, will be run for, over the Williamsburg Course, a sweep stake purse, for three year old colts, two mile heats, entrance 50 dollars; closed. Wednesday--the Jockey Club purse of four hundred dollars, four mile heats. Thursday--the proprietor's purse of one hundred dollars, two mile heats. Friday--a sweepstake for mules; mile heats, the best three in five, entrance ten dollars. Saturday--an elegant saddle, bridle, whip and spurs; mile heats, entrance ten dollars. By order of the Club. ROBERT ANDERSON, Sec'y & Treasurer. August 29. [epith.H.]
NOTICE.
APPREHENSIONS for the health of his family having disabled the subscriber from abiding permanently at Norfolk, he has removed to the city of Richmond, and fixed his office in the house near the Capitol, lately occupied by the Commissioner of Loans. He proposes to practise law in the Federal Court, Court of Appeals, and Court of Chancery, in Richmond; and will continue also to practise in the Chancery District Court of Williamsburg, and District Court of Suffolk. WM. WIRT. August 5.
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF BLANKS, FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE.
FAIRFIELD RACES.
ON Tuesday the 7th October will be run for--the JOCKEY CLUB PURSE of Five Hundred Dollars, four mile heats. 2d Day--THE PROPRIETOR'S PURSE of Two Hundred and Fifty Dollars, three mile heats. 3d Day--A HANDY CAP. There is open a Subscription for three years old Cols and Fillies, for the 4th Day, fifty dollars entrance. The Subscription for Cols and Fillies one year old also spring, to be run for in the fall 1808, will remain open until the evening of the second Day's race--There are five Cols now entered, at one hundred dollars each--half forfeit.
WEIGHTS AS FOLLOWS: Aged Horses, 133 lbs. 4 Years Old, 106 lbs. 6 Years Old, 128 3 do. do. 93 5 do. do. 118 Mares & geldings allowed 9 lbs.
7th The Dining-House and Booths in the field are to be Rented.--Toll will be received at the gate as formerly--Foot passengers admitted gratis. Richmond, August 28th, 1806. J. SMOCK, Treasurer. E. SMOCK, Proprietor.
FOR RENT.
THE Tavern & Land, at King & Queen court house, with all the houses thereunto belonging, (except the store house, occupied by myself, and the shop lately used by Dobson's Newhall and Pendleton.) This place is so well known in the neighbouring counties, to be a profitable stand for a Tavern, that to my which by recommendation, would be unnecessary; its being the seat of a county and District Court, and lying on the main road, leading from Gloucester and Mathews counties, to the city of Richmond, give it a considerable advantage over the Taverns at court houses generally. The land attached to the Tavern, is capable of yielding annually from 175 to 200 barrels of corn; and from 300 to 400 bushels of wheat. I am of opinion that the field which is now in corn, is capable of producing 600 bushels of wheat, if put in the ensuing fall in good time, which privilege will be allowed to those who rent the place. I have made 400 bushels of wheat from the same field, when not as large by 30 acres, and none of it in the high state of cultivation that it is at present. This place will be rented for two years, and in all probability, for two years more at the expiration of the first term. I will contract privately with any person wishing to rent, and if not disposed of by the second Monday in September next, it will then be set up publicly at King & Queen court house, (it being court day,) if rented before that time, public notice will be given. Apply to Robert Pollard, and Thos. G. Hoxie, Esquires, residing at King & Queen court house, or the subscriber. THOMAS GARNETT. [145.] August 1.
PRINTED AT THE ENQUIRER PRESS & THIS DAY PUBLISHED.
A CORRECT Edition of "The Rudiments of the LATIN TONGUE; or, A Plain and Easy Introduction to LATIN GRAMMAR; wherein the principles of the language are methodically digested, both in English and Latin--With metal Notes and Observations, explaining the Terms of Grammar, and further improving its Rules. BY THOMAS RUDDIMAN, M. A. August 8, 1806.
BURR MILL STONES, OF ALL SIZES; and
PLASTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, AS USUAL, BY WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. [epith.] Dec. 4.
SAMUEL BARRET,
BOOT AND SHOE MAKER; INFORMS his friends and the public in general, that he has taken the store, next door below the Eagle Tavern; where he will execute any work, in his line of business, either gentlemen or ladies shoes, on the shortest notice. August 1. (outf.)
A BARGAIN
MAY be had in a Chaise, Harness, and pair of excellent horses--Enquire of the Editor. August 5.
FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber would dispose of a valuable MILL, (formerly belonging to Col. George Bird, deceased) situate near the upper end of Middlesex county, together with a tract of Land containing by a late survey, one hundred forty-six and a half acres, lying contiguous to, and immediately on the south bank of Rappahannock river, eighteen miles below Tappahannock, eight below Bowler's Ferry, and ten only above Urbana; if not sold previous to Monday the fifteenth day of September (or being the first day of the next district court, to be held at King & Queen court-house,) if fair, otherwise the first fair day, it will be sold to the highest bidder (at the time and place before mentioned) and possession given the first of January next, on the following terms, to wit: One half of the purchase money to be paid on the day of sale, the balance in twelve months, secured by lien on the property, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. A description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed none would purchase without first viewing the farm. ROBERT BIRD. Hanover county, August 5. [138-Spt.]
TO BE RENTED--The Tenement where
I now reside, and possession given in time. J. PENN. April 11. tf
FOR SALE,
THE LOT AND HOUSES, whereon John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul, resides: on it are a three story Dwelling-House, an Office and Kitchen, and other necessary Houses for family use; a Well of good Water, newly fitted, and a Garden lately laid in, a Ware-House and Cellar under it; the remaining of a Wharf, which will make a good foundation to build on; with all the privileges of lots situated on the river, of extending a wharf. Also--27 1/2 Acres of well timbered LAND, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Mason's Creek, where the best of Oysters and Fish can be conveniently taken. Also--A LOT in Smithfield, between Mrs. Purdie's and Captain Todd's lots--For terms apply to THOMAS NEWTON. August 22. (tf.)
ON Monday the 15th day of this month, will be offered for rent, on the premises, to the highest bidder, that part of the estate called Windsor, which remains after laying after laying off the widow's dower. This property lies immediately on James River, about four or five miles above the City of Richmond--the quality of the soil and its vicinity to Richmond render it probable that the Tenant will derive great advantages from cultivating it. WILLIAM LANGBORN, Executor of William Dandridge, Dec'd. September 5. St.