The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-10-14 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
PUBLISHED BY THOMAS RITCHIE, OPPOSITE THE POST-OFFICE.....AT FIVE DOLLARS PER ANNUM.....(PAYABLE IN ADVANCE.)
NUMBER 47.]
RICHMOND, TUESDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 14, 1806.
[VOLUME 3.]
VIRGINIA BANK STOCK.....at par.
Richmond Prices Current
   Dolls. Cts.     Tobacco, 6   Wheat, New, 1   Flour—superfine, New, 6 50   fine, 6   Corn Meal—per bushel, 1   Bacon—per lb. 12   Bar Iron—per ton, 120   Whiskey—per gallon, 58  
Sales at Auction.
To be sold at public Auction on Saturday the 1st of November next,
THAT valuable HOUSE and LOT whereon Moses Davis now resides opposite to Mr. John Taylor's—The Lot is 63 feet in front and an hundred and fifty back—The House has an elegant floor room, counting-room, and cellar, and is well calculated for a store. There is also on the lot a good kitchen, tobacco factory, lumber-house, stable, carriage house, a good spring, and a garden well enclosed. Terms will be made known on day of sale.
PROSSER and MONCURE v. M'rs. September 16. eptN.
SPORTS OF THE TURF.
Will be run for over the Aylett's ware-house course, (in King William), on Thursday the 23rd instant,
A SUBSCRIPTION PURSE, two mile heats, free for any horse, mare or gelding that never won a Purse or Sweep-Stake: entrance 20 dollars.
On the second day, a Sweep Stake for colts three years old, one mile heats, five colts entered and the subscription closed.
FRANCIS NEALE. October 7. oaw8u.
NOTICE is hereby given, that one of the Houses, intended for the education of youth, in the New Glasgow Academy, is now in such forwardness as will be fit for the reception of students in a few weeks. The Trustees of the said institution, therefore, propose to commence a public school about the first day of November next, ensuing; and in the mean time, to engage some gentleman of talents and capacity, in the line of a teacher of the Latin and Greek languages, and such branches of the Mathematics & philosophy as usually taught in Schools. It is presumed none will apply but those distinguished for their ability in this line & of established uprights and virtue. The Trustees, with to be particular in this respect, from personal knowledge, or well attested communication; and it is hoped and expected, that the pecuniary emoluments and other inducements in this institution, will be such as to warrant & justify a well grounded belief that the prospects of a Tutor, and President well fitted for the duties of such a station, will be amply gratified in the commencement & further progress of this infant seminary of learning. For further particulars, application will be made to William S. Crawford, Esquire, near the premises. It is also further notified, that decent and comfortable board, very convenient to the buildings, can be procured for the accommodation of students upon moderate terms.
THE TRUSTEES. October 7. 419
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Mutual Assurance Society, against Fire on Buildings of the State of Virginia, held at the General Office, on the 30th of September 1806.
The following Resolution was adopted, which is by order of the Board published for the information of all persons concerned, viz:
A GREAT variety of causes, having concurred to render it inconvenient or impracticable to complete the revaluation of those Buildings, in the Towns and in the country, which had been insured prior to the 30th of January 1805, at the period limited by the last resolution of the Board on that subject.
Resolved, therefore, that the special agents of this Society be allowed till the first day of December next inclusive, to complete the revaluation of all buildings which have been insured as aforesaid, within the districts and towns for which they may have been severally appointed; and that no further indulgence, will be hereafter, extended to those members of the Society, who shall fail to have their buildings revalued, on or before the said first day of December next.
ALEXANDER M'RAE, Pres. M. A. S. Lewis M. RIVALAIN, C. B. D. October 3. oaw4w.
3,000 wt. SALT PETER'D BACON, 1,000 wt. first quality N. ENGLAND CHEESE, 10 gross BOTTLED CYDER, A few bushels CLOVER SEED, 150 pieces PAPER HANGINGS. For Sale by EDWARD HALLAM.
Constantly for Hire—An Excellent Carriage and Horses—apply as above. May 27. eotf
DOCTOR WILSON
HAS just received at his shop, opposite the floor of Messrs. John and Robert Gamble, and Mr. Neil McCall; 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. (eotf)
LAND FOR SALE.
THE Subscriber wishes to sell three different tracts of LAND, in Hanover County, the one whereon he now lives, containing about 450 acres, on Crump's Creek, about four miles above Hanover Town, formerly known by the name of the GLEN, being the former residence of Parton Henry. On this tract is a large Brick Dwelling-house two stories high, with four rooms on each floor, and at a small expense might be made a handsome situation, for a genteel family. Another tract on the same creek, about one mile from the former tract, containing about 700 acres, in good order for farming, and at a small expense, about 30 or 40 acres of excellent meadow land might be reclaimed. The other tract contains about 300 acres, about two thirds of which is in woods, and no part has been in cultivation for some time, lies in about thirteen or fourteen miles of Richmond, nearly adjoining the road leading from that place to Hanover Town. For all or either of the above tracts of Land, I should wish to receive one third of the money in hand, and the balance in two annual instalments. A good bargain may be had, especially in the two last mentioned tracts. LANEY JONES. September 23. oaw4w.
FALL GOODS.
THE Subscribers respectfully inform their friends and the public, that they are receiving from London, Liverpool, and different ports of Holland & France, an extensive and very general assortment of MERCHANDIZE, adapted to the approaching season, which they will sell by the bale, package or piece on the lowest terms for cash, country produce or approved notes.
Those goods being carefully selected by one of the partners who went to Europe for the purpose, they will give general satisfaction; and that country Merchants and others will find it their interest to get their supply from them. They have for rent, three BRICK HOUSES covered with slate, lying on the street leading to Mayo's Bridge, opposite Messrs. Brown, Rives, & Co. Those Houses will be fitted up, at the shortest notice, for stores, if required.
JOHN & ROBERT GAMBLE, Jr. Robert Gamble, senior, continues to do business in the line of a commission merchant. September 16. oaw2m.
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 sell, on reasonable terms, a Lease of about seven and an half years in the said tenement. WILLIAM M'KIM. August 1. eotf
FOR SALE.
On Wednesday the tenth day of December next, at the plantation of the late Edward P. Chamberlayne, in the county of Cumberland, ALL THE STOCK thereon, consisting of Horses, horned Cattle, hogs, and sheep, together with the crops of corn, fodder, rucks, &c. and also, the plantation Utensils, for which a credit of twelve months from the day of sale, will be given on all sums above 20 dollars, on the purchaser giving bond with good security, bearing interest from the date, if not punctually paid—Also may be leased for ten years, or any shorter period, not less than three, at any time between this & then, the said plantation, containing 888 acres of excellent qualified LAND, about five hundred of which are cleared and in fine order for cultivation, with a large crop of wheat now feeding, the most liberal terms for what is called an improving lease, may be had by applying to Mr. William Cooke very near thereat, or W. B. CHAMBERLAYNE, Adm'r. Menriaco, September 30. (oawtdf)
FOR SALE OR RENT.
MY HOUSE and LOT in the Town of Columbia, the House is very large, quite new and entirely finished—application must be made to J. WILLS. N. B. Possession will be given in November next. October 7. oaw2w.
United States Court, fifth circuit, and Virginia District. May term 1806. Patrick Corran, against, Samuel Perkins executor of the last will of Martha Corran dec'd. John Shore and James S. Gilliam, and Edwin Daingerfield, Bachurst Daingerfield, Theodoric Bland Daingerfield, Henry Daingerfield, Samuel Mosley & Hannah B. Mosley, Edwin Starke, Daingerfield Starke, Bolling Starke, Robert Starke, Nancy Starke, William Newsum and Mary his wife, William Allen, John Edloe and Nancy his wife, Miles Seliden Jr. and Patty his wife, William Allen Harrison and Carter Harrison Jr. infant children of Carter Harrison and his late wife Polly, heirs at law of Martha Corran deceased, and Peter Robinson. D. & S.
It appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that Bachurst Daingerfield & Henry Daingerfield are not inhabitants of this District, on the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney—It is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the plaintiff's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the news-papers published in the City of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the Capitol in the said City. A Copy. Teste. WILLIAM MARSHALL, C. L. C. September 9. cozm.
IN CHANCERY.
Louisa County, August Court, 1806. Richard Johnson administrator of Richard Johnson (M. S.) dec'd. against, John Cocks and John Michie, Defts. THE defendant John Cocks, 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 plaintiff by his attorney—It is ordered and decreed by the court, that the said defendant Cocks, do appear here on the second Monday in November next, and answer the plaintiff's 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 some Court day. A Copy. Teste, JOHN POINDEXTER, C. L. C. September 9. cozm.
TO BE RENTED.
THE large THREE STORY HOUSE on the Main-street east of the Market, formerly occupied by Cohen and Isaacs, and lately by Capt. John S. Keefey—It is a good stand for business and suitable for the accommodation of a large family. Also, the HOUSE (formerly known by the sign of the bird in hand) at the corner of the Street leading to church hill: to both of these tenements gardens are attached. The terms will be moderate, and made known on application to James Whitelaw, ferjeant of the City, or to JACOB I. COHEN. (lawf) February 23.
NOTICE.
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, for leave to erect a TOWN and inspection of Tobacco at, or adjoining Goodland Court-house, particularly on the land of Samuel Woodson, thereunto adjoining. October 3. (f)
TO BE RENTED.
TAKEN up and committed to Jail on the 10th of May 1806, a negro man by the name of HARRY, the property of John Royler, Esq. of Richmond; the owner is hereby requested to come forward and pay charges, or he will be sold to satisfy his jail fees, agreeably to an act of Assembly. Given under my hand this 20th day of July 1806. TRIPLETT T. ESTES, jailor. Sept. 16. 3m. Augusta County.
FOR SALE.
INFORM their friends, that they have received a part of their FALL GOODS, for the ships Hercules from Liverpool, and Disappointment from London—CONSISTING OF, Rose Blankets from 6-4 to 12-4, Duffel Blankets, Flannels, Coatings, and Cottons, London best Superfine Cloths, Spanish wool, Kerseymires single and double milled, Gentlemen's beaver and patent silk Hats, Ladies fashionable Beaver Ruffs trimmed, Molchins and Silk Quiltings, Molchins, Swan-downs and Tolliettes for Vests, Chaberry silks and Muslins, new patterns, Ladies cotton, silk and wool Hosiery, fine wool frocks and drawers, Ladies Spanish Morocco Boots and silk Slippers, elegant Muff and Tippets, Fox Brush and Chincany Tippets, Brufel and Kidderminster Carpeting, Great Coats, Umbrellas, Gloves, Demies & Muslins, Calicoes and Cambricks, Salt in sacks, &c. &c. &c. The Balance of their Goods, for the Laura, are expected daily, and which will be sold on very moderate terms. Sept. 28. 151bN.
FOR SALE.
IN virtue of a deed in trust, to me executed, by captain Foulche G. Tibbo, 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 oysters, and crabs, contains 233 3/4 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, a also other convenient houses for a small 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 8. (f)
TO RENT.
THE TENEMENT, which Mrs. Phebe lately occupied on the street leading by the Government's, consisting of a large cellar, a room used as a kitchen, a very well fixed floor, a camping 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. AIR. August 29. (f)
ADVERTISEMENT.
CAME to my plantation in the upper end of King William, about the middle of July, a dark brown gelding Mule, supposed to be two years old last spring, without mark or brand that can be perceived, about four feet high—sprawled to forty dollars, he had on a yoke and a leather collar. The owner is requested to take him away and pay the expense of advertising and posting. CHARLES C. PAGE. September 23. oaw3w.
FOR SALE.
A TRACT of LAND, in Albemarle County, on the waters of Buck Island Creek, on the south side of the Rivanna River, containing by survey four hundred and seventy acres, patented to John Davidson, by grant, dated 19th of September 1795. This tract was conveyed by Davidson to me, to raise by sale of it divers sums of money, which he owed to Davidson and Goddard, Merchants Baltimore, and to John Goddard, by deed, under which, I shall expose it to public sale, on the 8th day of November next, at Charlottesville, before the Tavern of Mr. Eris. At which time I will exhibit the patent and deed, under which I am authorized to make this sale. The title will be made in pursuance of the authority vested in me. HUGH NELSON, Trustee. October 7. 3w.
THE FARMER'S VIRGINIA ALMANACK.
for the Year 1807, printed by Thomas Ritchie, is now for sale, by the gross, dozen or single, at the ENQUIRER Book-Store. Also—A General Affortment of Lawyers' and Sheriffs' BLANKS, just printed.
FOR SALE.
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. CREED TAYLOR. July 18. (f)
FOR SALE.
A YOUNG and active House SERVANT. Enquire at this office. October 7. (f)
NOTICE.
WHEREAS, in consequence of the death of Robt. Burton, the partnership of Brown, Rives & Co. and of the different branches of that House, at Norfolk, Caira, Bent Creek, Lynchburg, New-Market, Warminster and Milton, will terminate, agreeable to the several articles of copartnership, at various periods, between the first day of August last, and the first day of January next. This is to give notice to all persons interested, that the business of each establishment will be closed immediately after the time limited for its expiration. JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES, Surviving partners of Brown, Rives & Co. The business carried on by Brown, Rives & Co. will be continued by the subscribers, under the firm of Brown and Rives, and the Store at Caira, &c. furnished with their usual supplies. JAMES BROWN, ROBERT RIVES. Richmond, October 7. 4w.
ROBERT JOHNSTON.
BEGS leave to inform his friends and the public, that he has removed his Store from the house he lately occupied opposite the Eagle Tavern, to one of Mr. Thomas Mitchell's new houses nearly opposite to Messrs. Taylor and Brown's Vendue Office, where he is now opening a general assortment of DRY GOODS & IRONMONGERY, which he will dispose of at a moderate profit. N. B. He will Rent or Sell his Brick Tenement on Shockoe Hill, adjoining to Mr. Robert Gordon's. October 7. (f)
ELLIS & ALLAN
INFORM their friends, that they have received a part of their FALL GOODS, for the ships Hercules from Liverpool, and Disappointment from London—CONSISTING OF, Rose Blankets from 6-4 to 12-4, Duffel Blankets, Flannels, Coatings, and Cottons, London best Superfine Cloths, Spanish wool, Kerseymires single and double milled, Gentlemen's beaver and patent silk Hats, Ladies fashionable Beaver Ruffs trimmed, Molchins and Silk Quiltings, Molchins, Swan-downs and Tolliettes for Vests, Chaberry silks and Muslins, new patterns, Ladies cotton, silk and wool Hosiery, fine wool frocks and drawers, Ladies Spanish Morocco Boots and silk Slippers, elegant Muff and Tippets, Fox Brush and Chincany Tippets, Brufel and Kidderminster Carpeting, Great Coats, Umbrellas, Gloves, Demies & Muslins, Calicoes and Cambricks, Salt in sacks, &c. &c. &c. The Balance of their Goods, for the Laura, are expected daily, and which will be sold on very moderate terms. Sept. 28. 151bN.
FROM THE "WESTERN WORLD."
The Kentucky Spanish Association, Blount's Conspiracy, and General Miranda's expedition. No. XI.—CONCLUDED.
The first of these diplomatic characters whom we shall notice, is Geo. Hammond. This minister plenipotentiary from G. B. was a man of immense low intrigue, but destitute of real talents. He and several of the federal members in Congress, as likewise the late Gen. Hamilton were one and indivisible. Previous to the ratification of Jay's treaty, col. Conolly's plan of uniting Kentucky and the western territories to the Canadas was in agitation, and we are assured even received the approbation of gen. Hamilton, and many of the eastern federalists, who were alarmed at the emigration which was then taking place from the Atlantic states, and imagined if the Alleghany Ridge, was the boundary between the United States and the British territories, that the harmony of the states could be more easily preserved. The machinations which Hammond was carrying on in the western countries, are even noticed by Pauchet in his certificate to Edmund Randolph. Pauchet says, "he said (Edmund Randolph) to me that he was afraid that a civil war would soon ravage America. I enquired of him what new information was procured. He said that he began to believe that in fact the English were really fomenting the insurrection, and that he did not doubt, that Mr. Hammond and his Congress would push some measures with the insurrection, with an intention of giving embarrassment to the U. S. This we know is true, for although it comes from Pauchet, had it been false, Mr. Randolph would certainly have contradicted it—But the character of Mr. Hammond cannot be better described than in Mr. Randolph's own words. "Who was Mr. Hammond? In speaking of him too, I shall confine myself to his political demeanor. Into his breast had been transfused the largest portions of his nation's hatred to all persons in the U. S. who were conceived to be attached to France. He denied to himself no opportunity of throwing an odium on them. You never will forget, fir, his long, insistent and contemptuous neglect of the ordinary civilities, due from him, as a foreign minister, due from him to his chief magistrate. You were no stranger to his personal irritation against me, for my friendship to France, for my remonstrance against the government of Rhode-Island, in reclaiming the citizens of the U. S. impressed and detained on board of the British ship Nautilus; and for the order, which in its operation ought to have prevented British ships of war from using our ports as stations, from whence to prey upon the French. You often uttered your indignation at his many complaints, without a shadow of proof; and the lengths to which he might be transported by the violence of his passion, were not easy to be defined. Was this the man to be implicitly trusted for candour toward myself, or any friends to France?" Mr. Randolph from the official station and the confidence which gen. Washington reposed in him; we have reason to believe, was well acquainted with the proceedings of the Kentucky Spanish Association, as likewise the plan of Conolly; and we hope that his candour and integrity, will not permit him to pass over such important circumstances in the history of Virginia, in which he is at present engaged. The successor to Hammond was Sir Robert Liston, a man of equal intrigue, but of infinite more talent. The history of this ambassador will be particularly detailed when we come to which existed between him and President Adams is well known; and the support which he received from the federalists, proves, that there was a combination formed in the U. S. to bring their citizens entirely into the influence of British power. Perhaps under these circumstances we ought to regard it as an act of providence, that an association existed, whose object was the separation of the union in favor of France; for the views of the two parties being so opposed, happily preserved a balance, and prevented that calamity which might have taken place, had one of them been annihilated. From the departure of Liston, until the arrival of Merry, there was an interregnum of British plenipotentiary powers in the U. S. But the old plan of corruption was still carried on by Thornton at Washington, Bond at Philadelphia, Col. Barclay at New-York, and Col. Hamilton at Norfolk in Virginia. We trust however, and have reason to believe, that the execrable schemes practiced in the U. S. by the emissaries of the administration of Pitt and Melville, have terminated with the death of the unfortunate Pierce. The murder of this man appears to have been the dying effort of the Barclay party at N. Y. to set the U. S. at war with G. B.—The scene however is now changed, and when we behold the man who fought for the independence of America in the Senate of G. B. at this day conducting the helm of the ocean, we have every thing to hope, and nothing to fear. The elevation of Mr. Jefferson to the presidency of the U. S. it is true, gave a considerable blow to federal policy, and federal intrigue, but it was out of the power of Mr. Jefferson to prevent the importation of British gold; and so long as this powerful magnet over the human mind, was in free circulation in the Atlantic towns, and even not a stranger in the house of congress; it was in vain to expect a total suppression of that system, which characterized and blasted the reign of President Adams. The person whom Mr. Fox has marked out as ambassador to the U. S. is one too, whose family for the last ten years has experienced the scourge of Mr. Pitt, and even has felt something of the vindictive and phlegmatic selfishness of American federalism. It is well known that the late Lord Dear, the elder brother of the present Earl of Selkirk who is to succeed Mr. Merry, was one of the martyrs of the Edinburgh convention. Sunk in sorrow at the fate of his unfortunate companions, Muir, Palmer, and Skirving, he abandoned his title and embarked for America; but the agents of Dundas were even to pursue him in the U. S. and N. Y. and Philadelphia were rendered equally disagreeable as his native country. He stayed but a few months, and died immediately after his return to Scotland, at the age of 29, of a mind buried and broken in the whirlpool of political persecution. His brother, the present Earl of Selkirk, at the decease of his father, which hap-
pened soon after, sold great part of his estate, and emigrated with about twelve hundred industrious Scotch labourers to Upper Canada, whom he comfortably settled at his own expence. The intention of the Selkirk family, had the fate of Lord Dear not deterred them, was to have removed to some of the western territories of the union, the climate of which would have been much more congenial than Canada. Under these circumstances the prospect of the British federalists in America, is not so promising as it has been. Barclay at New-York, and Col. Hamilton at Norfolk, if we are not mistaken, will find it more agreeable to embark with the Marquis Yrujo, and the Rev. John Mason May, when he pleases petition his brother-in-law John Brown, to have him appointed confessor to her Catholic Majesty. It therefore must appear from what we have stated, that the original design of the Kentucky Spanish association, has been entirely abandoned. The views of the conspirators are no longer to unite with Spain; but to form Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, the Louisianas, and the Floridas into one independent government. The advocates for this measure, differ however in one point. The majority are for effecting this measure by calling a convention of the people and obtaining the consent of congress; but a considerable number, and particularly those who are at present reside in the western territories are for effecting their purpose by force of arms. The views of the latter may be perceived by the perusal of a series of essays under the signature of Coriolanus, that appeared in the Morning Chronicle of New-York, in 1802 and 1803, which we know were originally sketched on this side of the Allegany, and have good reason to believe came from the pen of Gen. Wilkinson himself, who communicated them to Col. Burr, who in conjunction with Col. Humphreys and Doctor Brown altered and amended them. This Doctor Brown is no relation to J. Brown. He always resided at New-York until within these eighteen months, when he removed to St. Louis, having been appointed secretary to Gen. Wilkinson. During the presidential and state elections he was an active partisan of Col. Burr. When the election of presidency was depending he wrote two or three essays in Lang's New-York Gazette, recommending Burr as president in preference to J. Jefferson. In the summer of 1802 he wrote also a series of essays under the signature of Brutus, which appeared in the New-York Daily Advertiser, and were directed against Dr. Witt Clinton. In the fall of 1802, an able defence of Col. Burr was drawn up by Doctor Brown and Doctor Peter Irvine, the editor of the Morning Chronicle, under the signature of Aristides, and this is the last of Doctor Brown's literary labours, if we except the letters of Coriolanus, of which we know.
The intention and desire in 1802 were to take possession of Louisiana by force of arms; and having once the command of an army, to erect all the western territories into what form of government as might best please the fancy of the leaders. But the apology which they make speaks for itself. It is the concluding paragraph of the number of Coriolanus published in the Chronicle, Dec. 23. 1802.
"To think of separating from this union must no doubt produce very painful sensations; but what else will be left for them? What must be their decision when the French governor of New-Orleans offers them the freedom of navigation, if they will consider themselves as part of her establishment, and consent to be enrolled as dependant provinces of Louisiana? Will not the same spirit which unfolded itself in a late meeting of the people of that district when convened to form a constitution, again break out, and utter sentiments hostile to the combined interest of our country, and insulting to our government? It will, and the people will have no other alternative left. They must, however painful the task, join the detached congressional government for the purpose of obtaining that trade, which will be refused them as citizens of the United States, but which will be granted to them as members of the district of Louisiana. The western boundary of the United States will then be the Allegany mountains, and the secretary of the treasury may begin to make new fiscal calculations for the payment of the national debt, to make good the deficiencys arising from the dismemberment of the United States; the money arising from the sale and future settlement of the Yazoo, Georgia, and Kentucky districts, will then flow into the military chest of the first consul of France, and not into the treasury of the United States as has been wisely and originally arranged."
In the Morning Chronicle of 16th February, 1803, Coriolanus sketches the plan of the military force which he recommends to congress, should be raised for taking possession of Louisiana, and a very pretty military force, it was, to be entrusted to Gen. Wilkinson; not less than "forty three thousand, one hundred and sixty rank and file!" In imitation of the emperor Napoleon, he styles them "National Legions." Here follows the plan of the legions, embracing the necessary component parts of an army, should consist of one brigadier general, two aid-de-camps, with the rank of majors, one inspector and adjutant general, with the rank of colonel commandant, one quarter-master, with the rank of lieutenant colonel, one commissary, one pay-master and clothier, with the rank of captain, one judge advocate, one chaplain, one surgeon, two masters."
"Two full legionary regiments to consist of two colonel commandants, two aids to rank as captains, four lieutenant colonels, eight majors, thirty two captains, thirty two first lieutenants, thirty two second lieutenants, four adjutants with the rank of first lieutenants, four sergeant majors, four quarter-master sergeants, one hundred and sixty non-commissioned officers, two signal trumpets, and two signal bugle horns, mounted, four drum and fife majors, sixty four drums and fifes, three thousand two hundred rank and file."
"Two battalions of legionary riflemen, to consist of one lieutenant, col. commandant, one adjutant with the rank of first lieutenant, two majors, eight captains, eight first lieutenants, eight second lieutenants, two sergeant majors, two quarter-master sergeants, forty non-commissioned officers, one signal trumpeter, two signal horns mounted, one drum and fife majors, sixteen drums and fifes, eight hundred rank and file."
"Two companies of light dragoons—one major commandant, two captains, four first lieutenants, four second lieutenants, two cornets, one adjutant, one sergeant major, one quarter-

master sergeant, ten non-commissioned officers, two trumpets, two bugle horns, two farriers, two faddlers, and one hundred and twenty eight dragoons."
"Two companies of artillery, one major, two captains, two captain lieutenants, four lieutenants, one adjutant, one sergeant major, one quarter-master sergeant, four sergeants, four drums and fifes, twenty-four artificers armed as infantry, one hundred and four matresses, eight brass six pounders, four 6.1-2 inch howitzers, currie carriages, four grass-hoppers, two travelling forges, four ammunition waggons, and two light tumbrils."
"One company of sappers and miners, competent to the duty of field engineers."
"One captain, two captain lieutenants, two lieutenants."
"One captain, five sergeants, one drum and fife, sixty-four rank and file—one waggon with intrenching tools."
Coriolanus, in the Chronicle of January 18, 1803, exclaims:
"Where is the spirit of seventy-six? Where have our patriots and heroes fled? Will our government commit itself in the first instance to cobweb negotiations, to a slimy faith, when an event, when a revolution as extraordinary as that of France itself is under issue?"
"Let us rouse at once, and at the head of our existing troops, possess New Orleans and Mobile, then we shall be in a situation to negotiate."
In another paragraph dated 27th Dec. 1802, Coriolanus says, "Kentucky has the advantage of invasion; & she no doubt will use it, if unsupported by the union; she moves alone to the combat; she is situated on waters rapidly descending to the point of attack; she will overwhelm Orleans and West Florida with promptitude and ease; she will move like the northern hordes of Europe, overwhelming the German Empire; she will conquer, colonize, and firmly settle and transmit the soil to her latest posterity. Unaided by the troops and navy of the union, she will conquer by and for herself, and no power can prevent, check, or ever disturb her conquest."
East-Indies.
CHARLESTON. September 23.
Extract of a letter, dated Bombay 15th April, 1806.
"Treaties of peace have lately been concluded between our Supreme Government and the principal Mahratta chiefs, Scindia and Holkar, which would prove very beneficial to the country, if there was any reliance to be placed on its permanency; but the dispositions of these Princes is too well known, and their jealousy of British encroachments too deeply rooted, to suppose they have now come into terms with any other view than present convenience—and there is no doubt but they will re-commence hostilities whenever they conceive an opportunity offers of recovering the territory, or influence they have lost."
"The astonishing progress of Bonaparte has already given considerable alarm here, so much indeed as to have excited apprehensions in some minds, particularly those who are most interested, for the fate of the Mother Country itself; but though I cannot see the probability of such an event, as the subjugation of England, by France or any other nation, yet I must confess, that as soon as the latter can open a communication, by any means, with the native powers in India, there will be great reason to fear for the safety of the British empire in the East."
"A respectable British force continues at Goa, and can immediately take possession, if any information from Europe relative to Portugal, should give a plausible pretext for it."
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STATE PAPER.
Declaration in council of his Majesty the King of Prussia to the assembled deputies of the Hanoverian Provinces.
"GENTLEMEN,
"By your appointment, your Deputy, count VON HADENBURG, has laid before me your representation of the present state; and I have observed from it, with satisfaction, that you have acknowledged with gratitude my regulation with regard to the Hanoverian States. The additional sentiments therein contained are to me a security, that you will henceforth be devoted to me and my House with the same loyalty which you discovered for your former Sovereigns. I therefore have made no delay in more closely learning from your Delegates those concerns that were entrusted to them by you, and now communicate to you the following answer to the declaration given in by them:
"1. With regard to the secularization of the Abbey of Marientron, and the representation relative thereto, that not only the constitution of the States thereby suffered an alteration, but that one of the securities thereby appropriated to the payment of the public revenue, and the discharge of the public debt, would be withdrawn, should the revenues of the said Abbey be inalienably united with the possession of the domains, contrary to the legal agreement between the impropriators and the states, whereby the revenues accruing from secularized spiritual foundations should be distinctly and separately applied to charitable purposes: it should be observed, that this Abbey legally belongs to Hildesheim, and thus my particular regulation respecting the time since in no way prejudice the said Constitution. Besides, I have expressly established in the Act of secularization, that in the mean time, no change shall take place in respect to the contribution chargeable upon this Abbey, towards the national revenue and the redemption of the public debt. For the rest, as it is far from being my intention to alter the destination of the effects of the Abbey to charitable purposes, I feel satisfaction in assuring you, that the special administration of such parts as have been separated from the domains, and the application thereof to such beneficent and laudable purposes, shall be scrupulously continued, and the utmost care shall be taken both to augment these revenues by good management, and to ameliorate the mode of applying them, by the removal of existing abuses."
"2. The ad interim prohibition of homemade salt is to be considered solely as an invincible regulation of police for securing an equal supply of that article of primary necessity, and cannot have the apprehended pernicious consequences, since the supply of salt will not thereby be diminished, but will only receive another direction."
"3. The continuance of the hitherto existing Constitution of the country in general; and
"4. The continuance of the provincial constitutions in particular, pre-supposing that a new and intimate acquaintance with them may be more necessary, than the commission of organ-
ization has been able to procure, in so short a period, and under such difficult circumstances. But they will incessantly continue their labours in this respect, and I will not hereafter introduce any arbitrary changes, but such only as may be necessary to unite as intimately as possible the Hanoverian territory with my monarchy, of which it now constitutes a part, & to govern it by such laws as have been found, by long experience, the fundamental pillars of the power, the security and prosperity of the Prussian States; such from the established constitution will be so little excluded, that it will much rather be built up and strengthened, that you may learn from the example of the neighbouring provinces, Brandenburg, Magdeburg, and Halberstadt."
"5. The petition, with regard to any new modifications, upon which the States, together with other privileged orders, who may, perhaps, have particular knowledge of the subject, shall be consulted, before that introduction, on account of any injurious consequences apprehended therefrom, is wholly conformable to the spirit of the maxims of the Prussian government, and will be pursued by the commission of organization in all doubtful cases whatsoever, and without particular instructions."
"Finally, the military regulations, as soon as it can be done with safety, shall be so modified that the grievances of the country, which are connected with the present extraordinary measures, shall wholly cease."
"From this answer you will infer, and I give you with pleasure, the strongest assurances on this head, that my whole endeavours are exclusively directed to heal the wounds, which the hitherto unhappy wars have produced, and to render your country completely happy. Neither ambition nor the lust of territory, but solely a conviction founded on experience, that the incorporation of the Hanoverian states with the Prussian monarchy, is obviously necessary for the welfare and security of both, have determined me to this union, and to the sacrifices connected with it. The past has taught you that England cannot protect you, and that you can be protected by Prussia alone. Prussia has now taken upon herself, this protection, from which you have to expect greater security of person and of property, as well as the abolition of all oppressive abuses which the distance of your rulers produced. But you must also closely unite with a government which has wrought you all these blessings, & support, without fee & action, a constitution which has been decided upon for your benefit. On the other hand, I will always approve myself your gracious sovereign. (Signed) "FREDERICK WILLIAM. Charlotteburgh, June 24, 1806."
LONDON, August 12.
The publication of the new Constitution of Germany will soon appear. The whole of the plan was projected and matured at Paris, between Talleyrand and the Envoy of the Confederated Courts. Nothing but the ratification seems to have been entrusted to the deliberation of the persons they represented.
August 15.
A variety of rumours, none of them favorable to peace, were in circulation yesterday. The buyers or sellers were completely "the Lords of the Ascendant." We believe we were correct in asserting, that Talleyrand, under pretence of other more important business (as if there could be any other business of more importance) evaded seeing Lord Lauderdale for some days after his arrival. It was not till Saturday or Sunday that his Lordship is said to have had his first interview. On Monday he had another interview. The answer to his dispatches is rumored to be decisive. It will bring the business to a very speedy decision—perhaps the next dispatches will bring the decision. There is a report that Russia and France co-operate to effect our right of search. Other rumours in circulation stated, that a treaty of alliance, offensive and defensive, had been concluded between Russia and France—that Lord Leveson Gower, who arrived yesterday, had brought very unfavorable intelligence with respect to the sentiments of the new Russian Ministry towards this country. It was said too, that the revival of a Maritime Confederacy in the North was not unlikely—that Lord Lauderdale might be expected back in a few days, &c. Upon these reports, we can, of course, pronounce with any certainty. It was generally believed, however, that the negotiation was in a very unfavorable state—that France had evinced a disposition to protract, and that we were determined not to be the dupes of such a policy, but to order Lord Lauderdale to quit Paris directly, if he should discover that the enemy were resolved to persist in such a disposition.
August 16.
The "Delicate Investigation" seems now to have been merely a nine days wonder; but, unless the Morning Post comes forward with some report, or some satisfactory statement, upon the subject in a very few days, I shall convince my readers, that this paper, at any rate, is not to be silenced. "MUM," is now become the word; but, any one man has the power, if he has the will, to prevent the matter from being so hushed up. Cobbett's Reg.
GIBRALTAR, July 12.
The Spanish government has issued orders to put thirteen regiments of infantry, two of artillery, and twelve of militia, on the footing of war; but the destination of these troops is destination of these troops is not known. Many are the conjectures in which people indulge upon this subject, the least probable of which is certainly that of an approaching rupture with France. Not but that there are sufficient grounds for it. The unworthy usage which the Spanish monarch has lately had to bear from Bonaparte, for having ventured to intercede in behalf of the king of Naples, and hesitated to subscribe the required renunciation of his rights to that throne; the obligation imposed upon him to continue at war with England, however ruinous that war may prove; the imperious command so recently laid upon him as to Sweden, though the melancholy condition of the Spanish commerce rendered her friendship more necessary to Spain than ever; and finally the heavy tributes which are exacted from him, while his army and navy are left without pay, and almost every class of his subjects are reduced to the greatest straits; all these would certainly warrant a rupture; but nothing of the kind can be expected. Bonaparte's diplomatic aid-de-camp (Duroc) is at this very moment on an extraordinary mission at Madrid, and the Spanish government appears to be even loth to a sense of its degradation. Others suppose, that the regulars are to be employed in expeditions beyond the seas, while the militia will do their duty in the interior; and this opinion is corroborated by the order sent to the commander of the Cadiz squadron to hold himself ready to sail, at a moment's warning, with a sail, however manned; and by the well known want in which Spanish America stands of assistance from the mother country. But, on the other hand, how could the Spanish government think of exposing part of its army, and the remnants of its navy, to almost certain destruction, informed as it is, that Lord Collingwood is at the mouth of the harbour, from which the expedition must sail, and
that the Atlantick is covered with our fleets? The third opinion, which is, that these troops to Portugal to garrison the sea ports, from which it is intended to exclude the English ships, is the least unlikely; and we should not be surprised, if the king had consented to the measure, however contrary to his inclinations, to prevent the state of his son-in-law being overrun with French troops.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 14.
The reports on the subject of a misunderstanding with the Porte have been cleared up, and contradicted by the following article in our Court Gazette:
CONSTANTINOPLE, July 14.
"A short time ago, a very strong measure was taken by the government here, against such Turkish ships as carried on their commerce under the Russian flag. The design of the Porte was to force them to relinquish this flag. These regulations were considered by the people as foreboding a speedy rupture with Russia. On the one hand, the existing commotions in the Turkish provinces, and on the other, the mediation of foreign nations, have induced the government to send orders to all the governors of provinces to contradict the prevailing report of a misunderstanding with Russia, and to leave the Russians, in relation to the flag, without effect, until new orders. It is beyond all doubt, that the whole business is fully settled, probably to the good understanding that exists between the two powers. By a mutual agreement between the Russian ambassador, and the Turkish ministry, the affair will be left to the examination of the Russian embassy for commercial affairs, conjointly with the admiralty here."
VENICE, July 12.
On the 10th inst. the French troops commanded by Gen. SERAS, were embarked; and the same evening the flotilla consisted of forty small transports, under the convoy of one corvette, two brigantines, and one frigate, set sail under the French Italian flag. The number of men on board is more than 5000, who will be disembarked in Dalmatia, in order to reinforce the army there. In the room of the division of Seras, there will arrive in Itria two regiments from Frioul, forming part of the army commanded by Gen. Marmont.
VIENNA, July 23.
The prosecution of general Mack every day becomes more and more intricate. He has accused most of the generals who served under him, and they have been ordered hither.
HAMBURGH, Aug. 5.
For some time a great fermentation has reigned in Swedish Pomerania; those who are injured by the new order of things loudly express their discontent. On the other hand the inhabitants of the country are very well satisfied, village having been oppressive in that country, even more so than in any part of the Prussian states. The King since he succeeded to the throne, has been frequently petitioned by the States to receive the performance of fealty and homage as Duke of Pomerania; but his Majesty has until now postponed satisfying this desire under various pretexts. However, the King will now take the oath as King of Sweden and the Queen is expected for this purpose at Stralsund.
There has been much talk of the changes that have taken place at St. Petersburg; what is certain is, that M. and Mad. De Narishkin have quitted the Court.
TRIERE, July 11.
French troops continue to pass, as well as transports of ammunition of every kind which go to Dalmatia.
BASLE, July 28.
Gen. Raon is employed in visiting every part of his military division, which is that of the Rhine. On Monday he inspected the garrison of Huningen. He remained there but a few hours, and did not come to Basle, as our citizens had flattered themselves.
The reports of a Continental war are renewed, though we cannot trace them to any authority. It is certain, however, that the Commandant of Huningen has received orders, by a Courier Extraordinary, to send off, with all possible dispatch, all the disposable force in that place. In consequence, 300 men immediately passed the Rhine, to join their respective corps. It is also said, that a similar order has been given along the whole line, and that his Majesty the Emperor and King is expected in a short time at Strasburg.
ANSBACH, July 21.
According to information, the King of Bavaria tendered to the Prince of Ponte Corvo (Marshal Bernadotte,) who is much beloved in Franconia, a present of 150,000 guilders on the day of delivering up the principality of Anspach, which he declined with emotion and gratitude, and expressed the most noble and benevolent sentiments with regard to the prosperity of the inhabitants of that country.
Lately, also, the Minister of a certain great Court, on account of the surrender of Anspach, received an offer of the above mentioned sum by way of present, which, however, he declined with singular disinterestedness. This sum will be destined for the assistance of particular places and individuals in Anspach.
PARIS, August 9.
The news of the signing of peace between France and Russia did not reach Germany till the end of July. It produced a sensation the more agreeable, since the movements which the troops began to make rather announced preparations for war, than an approaching return of the troops into the interior.
Letters from Rome speak of an approaching election of five Cardinals.
The following is the Circular Note addressed by the Minister of the Marine to the Maritime Prefects, and other Officers commanding in the Ports, on the occasion of the peace concluded with Russia:
"Paris, July 22.
"Conformably to the orders of his Majesty the Emperor and King, I have to inform you, Sir, that Peace between France and Russia was signed on the 20th instant; that, from that date, hostilities should cease between the two powers, and that all prizes made posterior to the signing of the treaty, shall be immediately restored. In consequence of these dispositions, his Majesty orders his Maritime Prefects, the Commandants of his squadrons and ships, to consider as friends the Russian ships, to receive and treat them as such on every occasion, whether in his ports and roads, or upon their meeting at sea."
"You will be pleased, Sir, to give to these arrangements that publicity which they require, and to take without delay every measure necessary to ensure their execution. (Signed) "DECRES."
August 4.
We are assured that a deputation from Dalmatia has arrived at Paris.
August 6.
The Moniteur of this day contains the following article:—
"Gen. Lauriston has written from Ragusa, under date of the 15th July, that that city enjoyed the most profound tranquillity, and that
its territory was quite free from brigands. He adds, that, during the whole period of the blockade and siege of Ragusa, he had only 40 men killed, and 120 wounded. He praises the behaviour of his troops and the zeal of the natives."
The Moniteur also communicates the list of promotions of the brave men who distinguished themselves at Ragusa and before Gaeta.
The Holy Crown of Thorns, which was given to St. Louis in 1238, by Baldwin, emperor of Constantinople, and which happily has been preserved amidst the religious profanations which have marked our Revolution, will be transferred with all possible solemnity into the Metropolitan Church of Paris, on Sunday the 10th inst. Plenary indulgences will be given to the pious who may assist at the ceremony, with the requisite qualities.
LONDON, August 12.
The opening of the Jewish Assembly at Paris took place upon a Saturday, the day on which the Jewish law forbids every kind of employment. This, no doubt, was done designedly. Bonaparte delights in outraging all ancient prejudices and habits. We have little doubt that he intends to force the Jews to change their day of Sabbath. The speech with which the Assembly was opened by the Imperial Commissioners, is remarkable for nothing but its insolence and impiety. In the height and excess of their impious zeal, they dare to attribute to their idol, one of the attributes of the Almighty, the attribute Omnipotence. Our readers will easily collect from the questions proposed to the Jews, that Bonaparte means to make the Jews liable to the laws of Conscription. He treads upon tender ground—let him beware—the religious propensities and attachment of men were never outraged with impunity—he has yet to learn, perhaps, the lengths to which religious fanaticism will carry the human heart.
Paris, August 6.
It is remarkable enough that the opening of the Hebrew Synod took place precisely on their Sabbath. The Jewish Law forbids every kind of employment on that day, and, notwithstanding, the members of the Assembly took a part without repugnance, in every thing which the circumstance demanded of them. Distinguished by their wealth, their intelligence, and their piety, they wished to give to their brethren an example, which, doubtless, will not be lost. This single trait will enable us to judge how much they are disposed to enter into those views which have occasioned their convocation.
Assembly of French Deputies professing the religion of the Jews.
Second Meeting.
The Commissioners of his Majesty having entered the Hall, M. Mole, who was at their back, addressed the assembly as follows:
"GENTLEMEN,
"His Majesty the Emperor and King having appointed us Commissioners to treat with you respecting your own affairs, has sent us here this day for the purpose of communicating his intentions. Called from the farthest parts of this vast empire, none of you can be ignorant of the purpose for which you are assembled here. You are aware that the conduct of many of those who profess your religion has given rise to complaints which have reached the foot of the throne. These complaints were not without foundation. The Emperor, notwithstanding, contented himself with arresting the progress of the evil, and wished to have your opinion on the means of radically curing it."
"You will, no doubt, prove yourselves deserving of this paternal consideration, and you will feel the value of the important mission which is confided to you. Far from regarding the government under which you live, as a power of which you should be suspicious, your study will be to enlighten it, to co-operate with it in the good which it is preparing; and by thus manifesting that you have profited by the experience of all the French, you will prove that you have no wish to separate yourselves from other classes of society."
"The laws which have been imposed upon persons of your religion have been different all over the world; they have been too often dictated by the exigency of the moment. But as there is no example in the Christian Annals of any assembly like this, so, in like manner, you, for the first time, are to be impartially judged, and your fate decided by a Christian Prince. It is his Majesty's will that you should become French; it is your duty to accept this title, and to consider that you, in fact, renounce it, whenever you show yourselves unworthy of it."
"You shall hear the questions read, which are to be proposed to you. It will be your duty to declare the whole truth upon each of them. We now declare to you, and we shall never cease to repeat it to you, that when a Sovereign, as firm as he is just, who knows every thing, who can punish as well as reward, interrogates his subjects, they would render themselves as culpable as they would show themselves blind to their real interests, if they should hesitate about answering freely and frankly."
"The following questions, proposed by his Majesty, were then read by the Secretary of the Meeting."
1. Is the Jew permitted to marry more than one wife? 2. Is divorce permitted by the Jewish Religion? 3. Can a Jewess intermarry with a Christian or a Christian female with a Jew; or does the law prescribe that Jews alone should intermarry? 4. Are the French in the eyes of the Jews brothers or aliens? 5. What in all cases are the connexions which their law permits them to maintain with the French who are not of their religion? 6. Do the Jews who were born in France, and have been treated as French citizens by the laws, consider France as their native country? Are they bound to defend it? Are they under an obligation to obey the laws, and to follow all the regulations of the Civil Code? 7. Who are they who are called Rabbins? 8. What Civil Jurisdiction do the Rabbins exercise among the Jews? What power of punishment do they possess? 9. Are the mode of chusing the Rabbins, and the system of punishment, regulated by the Jewish Laws, or are they only rendered sacred by custom? 10. Were the Jews forbidden by their laws to take usury of their brethren? Are they permitted or forbidden to do this of strangers? 11. Are those things proclaimed which are forbidden to the Jews by their law?
RESTORATION OF THE JEWS.
We are assured that Bonaparte perseveres in his design of encouraging the hopes of the Jews. The last reports were that the deputies of the Jewish nation were assembling at Paris, and that a considerable number had arrived from Italy.—Should he favor his first plan of peopling Egypt and Syria with the subjects of his own kingdom, and should he restore Palestine to the Jews, he would find many religious opinions favourable to this design. About a century from the present time, the Jews were reckoned, as far as known in countries visited by Europeans, at three millions. At that time they were everywhere felt discouragements now unknown to them. The spirit of commerce has abated the fury of persecution. In protestant countries their complaints are lessened, and in Catholic countries they share in the toleration which very wisely obtains. In Asia, as commerce becomes more free, they can more easily infatuate themselves, where the countenance and manners of strangers have become more familiar, so that all the causes of their degradation continue to cease, and with them all the evident causes of their distinct and national character. The love of their national existence now finds new motives to increase the desired return to their native country. And their political existence must be the best security which they can possibly hold. The strength of their attachment to their native country has been contemplated with astonishment in every age since the destruction of their City, and it has been employed variously by their friends and their enemies. Among the causes of their disquiet in the time of Adrian, it has been reckoned that when Jerusalem was delivered to a Jewish Colony, they deemed it profaned by the Idolatry of their Conqueror, and thus the terms of their settlement violated. In the twelfth Century, they were not strangers to the religious enthusiasm which was kindling, & in France in 1187, appeared a false Messiah, who created such an alarm, as to produce the most violent measures of the nation to prevent the surges promised from his manifestation. In Spain a similar alarm arose in the same century, as did also on the shores of Africa. Persia saw a formidable army raised in its kingdom, and Arabia had serious alarm from the same pretence of a national deliverer. Other countries found the Jews excited by the same expectations. The same spirit discovered itself in the seventeenth century in the neighbourhood of Palestine, and all their disappointments have not alienated their hopes of future prosperity in the Land given to the Fathers. For the presence from the oppressions they suffer, and from the insufficient means to enjoy their love of wealth, they are more content to be buried than to live in the Holy Land, till they maintained an Academy at Sapheta, a few miles from Bethany, in the tribe of Naphtali. They excise their want of zeal for a residence in the country in its present state, from the want of a manifestation of the divine will, and some have professed a belief, that the present city will be purified by fire at the coming of the Messiah, and then be rendered a fit habitation for the Saints of Israel. It is evident that the christian Apostle Paul was not a stranger to the image of such a purification. Should it accord with the commercial system of the French Emperor to employ the zeal of the ancient people in the center of the Commercial world, it might prove in his hands an experiment not unworthy of his ambition and his success. But we leave this world of conjectures. Salem Reg.
West-Indies.
PHILADELPHIA, October 7.
On the 20th, capt. Griffing, of the brig Sally, was boarded off Havana by the British frigate Anson, capt. Ledyard, who informed, that on the 15th September, the Anson frigate, capt. Charles Ledyard, engaged the French privateer, rear-admiral Willaumez, close under the Moro; suffered much in masts, yards and rigging; 2 killed, 18 wounded: The French ship, with about 80 killed and wounded, got into the Havana.
Domestic.
NEW-YORK, Oct. 7.
The English government has granted licences to the merchants of London to trade direct with the Emperor of Hayti.
A gentleman from Portland informs, that he read a London paper of the 16th of August, which contradicted the account that Lord Lauderdale was not well received at Paris.
The ship Two Brothers, with the Tunisian Envoy on board, failed from Marblehead on Saturday morning. His Excellency was highly gratified by the treatment he received from the citizens of that place.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 6.
The following extract of a letter from London, will be found interesting, in regard to the doctrine of the British courts, in adjudicating American vessels:
"We have now to inform you of the restitution of the Union and cargo, on our paying the captor's expenses. The judge, Sir William Scott, would not consider the voyage from Batavia to Philadelphia connected with the outward one from Amsterdam, and the whole question with the court was respecting the property; and though there was in his opinion strong evidence of its true nature, yet as the persons from whom this evidence was received, had been engaged in a colorable transaction (alluding to clearing out for Tranquebar) in a former part of the business, he did not consider it improper to refer the case for the further proof, if wished for by the captors. With respect to that part of the cargo shipped on account of the George, he ordered immediate restitution. Upon this the King's advocate offered to restore ship and cargo on paying the captor's expenses, which the court agreed to, and restitution was ordered accordingly. Phil. Gaz."
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Halifax to his friend in this city, dated Sept. 20, 1806.
"By some recent decrees of the court of admiralty, it now appears the judge considers the importation of enemy's colonial produce, and the exportation thereof to the mother country by the same persons, to be inadmissible. Regifter."
BALTIMORE, October 7.
The Schooner Venus, Capt. Allen, freighted by Mr. J. Carrere, of Baltimore, arrived at Boston on 28th ult. was taken on her passage from Baltimore to Bordeaux, and carried into Halifax. It appeared that some papers were found concealed in the head of a

cash, belonging to the cargo of the said schooner, marked No. 36, which papers were referred to in a letter found among the papers of the fchr. written with sympathetic ink and signed "John Carrere;" and on the trial the papers so said to be found were produced into court. The judge having heard counsel on both sides, decreed, that the said fchr. should be restored to the claimants, and further decreed, that the whole of the cargo, excepting the captain's private adventure, should be condemned on the ground of the papers having been concealed by the said Carrere, and the owner of the fchr. should be paid the freight of the cargo.
A part of the crew of the French ship L'Impe- tueux, destroyed on Carrituck, have arrived at Annapolis, and are on board Le Patriot and L'Ecole.
WASHINGTON, October 8.
The latest official information from the West- ward, down to the 30th of August, at Natchit- ches, states that the Spanish forces, after having remained from the 10th to the 19th of August, within 17 miles of that place, fell back on the 19th to the Bayou Pierre, a post not heretofore delivered to the United States, and about 60 miles from Natchitoches; where they still re- mained.
It was considered as doubtful whether this retrograde march was occasioned by the want of provisions, in which they were very deficient, or whether it indicated a purpose to retire per- manently beyond the boundary of the territory delivered to us.
Governor Claiborne had reached Natchitoches on the 24th of August, and was making arrange- ments for calling out the militia in case of ne- cessity.
General Wilkinson had passed through Fort Adams for Natchitoches. He expresses a hope of being able to induce the Spanish governor to withdraw his forces without resorting to co- ercive measures; and a confidence in case he should not, of being able to compel him.
Mr. Freeman, after ascending the Red river about 600 miles, had returned, with his explor- ing party, to Natchitoches. Although it was contemplated that he should proceed farther, yet owing to the season and low state of the wa- ter, he had reached the highest practicable point, and would have voluntarily returned in a few days, independently of the menace of the Spaniards.
Nat. Int.
KNOXVILLE, September 27.
Extract of a letter from Natchitoches to a gen- tleman in this county, dated August 30, 1806.
"We are in a bustle here, there are about eight hundred Spaniards within twenty or thirty miles of us, in the disputed territory, with an intention of keeping possession of it—We have Governor Claiborne here, I suppose he will take steps to drive them off, if so, we shall have a little dust. There are eight companies of troops here now, and in four or five days there will be three others, which will make eleven in all, we calculate that we shall be strong enough with that number to whip two thousand Span- iards."
ALEXANDRIA, October 7.
Arrived yesterday, brig Active, capt. Black, in 20 days from Point-Petre, (Guad.)
Extracts from a Journal kept on board the brig Active.
August 21, arrived at Point-Petre (Guad.) 28th, a privateer brig of 20 guns and 150 men fired for Laguira, with 150 troops, under the command of the captain of the port, on pur- pose to co-operate with the Spaniards against Miranda.
Sept. 14, sailed from Point-Petre; and on the 19th, in lat. 21, long. 64, 30, fell in with the above-mentioned privateer, on a continuation of her cruise, (after having landed her troops at Laguira,) who informed us, that Mi- randa had met with a severe repulse from the Spaniards at Laguira, and compelled to treat to his shipping for shelter; they also added, that no hopes are entertained of his (Miranda's) ever succeeding in his operations, unless he had a force of from 40 to 50,000 men, the whole of the country being united against him. This privateer had taken three prizes (English,) one of them a government Schooner, of 14 guns, after a smart action, and killed 17 of the schoo- ner's men; the other two were merchantmen, one of them a brig, laden with rum, and in flight when we were brought to by the priva- teer.
The privateer in the above action with the schooner had her boat shot to pieces, which made her insist on our boarding her in our own boat, but treated very friendly and not detain- ed. On leaving us she stood to the north-west under a press of canvas, we hazarded an opinion to cruise somewhere off Charleston.
CHARLESTON, October 8.
Captain Price, who arrived yesterday from Curacoa, informs us that General Miranda has taken Aruba; that his force at present consists of the Leander, his own ship, one British frigate, two sloops of war, two brigs, and three schoo- ners, and about 500 soldiers and sailors; that the Spaniards appear rather to keep aloof, but that he has been joined by a number of In- dians. The Spaniards were firing out at Por- to Cavello, about 20 armed vessels to cut off Miranda's supplies by the British, and to scour the Coast. Capt. Johnson, of the ship Leander, who landed with about 20 men to procure water, was surprised by a party of Spaniards, and the whole of them taken prisoners. Twelve of the Americans who were captured in Mi- randa's Schooners have been hanged and the rest sent to the mines for life. Three of those who were hung, were Roman Catholics, and received Christian burial, the rest were suffered to remain upon the gallows. Several Ameri- cans having arrived at Curacoa, the arsenals and magazines have been completely filled, but it was generally supposed that if Miranda suc- ceeded, the British would attack Curacoa, for the purpose of obtaining a convenient depot of supplies and a port from whence Miranda might easily receive assistance and support. Several skirmishes had taken place, but were of trifling importance to either party. The ulti- mate success of the expedition was still held to be doubtful.
When Miranda entered Coro, the greater part of the inhabitants fled, and retreated into the country. Some light skirmishes had taken place with the Spanish troops, but with trif- ling loss on either side. Nineteen of Miranda's men, who were on a watering expedition, were taken prisoners.
Several American masters of vessels had sold their cargoes to Miranda, and were paid in Bri- tish government bills.
He was exercising his men at Aruba, and waiting a further reinforcement of British troops.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, 14th OCTOBER.
Periods of Congressional election.—No uniform- ity exists in the different states as to the time of electing their members of Congress. In some, their elections are held in the fall preced- ing the last session of Congress, and in others, in the subsequent spring. The following is a List of the States, arranged according to the time of holding this important election:
   Before After     the expiration of the last congressional session: Massachusetts   N. Hampshire N. York   Vermont Vi ginia   Rhode-Island Tennessee.   Connecticut   N. Jersey   Pennsylvania   Delaware   Maryland   Kentucky   Ohio   N. Carolina   S. Carolina   Georgia  
The consequence is, that in eleven of the states, the members of Congress are elected previous to the expiration of their constitutional duties, & in six states, the election is held after- wards.—It is obvious that both modes of appointment have their peculiar disadvantages.
If the election be put off till after the dis- solution of Congress on the 4th of March, the people will not be obliged to elect their repre- sentative upon trust: the whole term of official duty will then have expired, and they are to judge of their last representative, not by what he has been for one session and he may be for the next, but by what he has been during the whole term for which he was elected. So far the benefits of this mode of appointment are clear and irresistible; but it is liable to this objection, were it brought into general use: that there would always be a certain interval between the end of the last Congress and the holding of a new election, when there would be no House of Representatives in existence.
Yet cases may be easily conceived, in which it would be necessary for the president at such a period, to convene an extraordinary session of congress. The same objection however may be made to the period for electing the House of Delegates of Virginia, tho' it must be confessed that not the slightest inconvenience has yet been sustained on this account, since the adoption of our state constitution.
The electing of the members of Congress in the fall, completely removes this objection, but it leads to another of much greater force, which is completely removed by the preceding arrangement. If the people re-elect their former representative, they will have to take him par- tially upon trust; they will have to re-elect a man who, let his political conduct be ever so virtu- ous during the first session of his service, may betray them during the next; a man, who is actually to serve for three years, when he is elected for only two. Under such circumstanc- es it is not possible to believe that the choice of the people themselves can be so different; or the responsibility of their representatives so strongly and so usefully felt.
This distinction between a previous and a sub- sequent election of congress is not always a mat- ter of speculative curiosity. The next win- ter or spring will demonstrate to what practi- cal importance it may be converted.
The principles of the Republican minority of the last congress are not yet sufficiently deve- loped. It is not yet ascertained how far or how long they will carry their opposition to the ad- ministration; whether the points on which they differ are few and temporary in their occur- rence, or whether their most efficient princi- ples are at war with those of the government and the nation; whether they have firmly dis- approved of certain measures of foreign inter- course adopted during the last congress, or whe- ther they have changed their opinion of the principles and views of the administration.
The decision of these questions will depend upon their speeches and their votes during the next Session of Congress. It will then be seen, whether they are the determined foes or friends, the counteractors or co-operators of govern- ment in such important measures, as the nation may deem essential to its prosperity. It will then be most conclusively determined, whether such men are any longer worthy of a seat in Congress.
But had the congressional election in Virginia, taken place during this fall, as will be the case in Pennsylvania and North-Carolina, the peo- ple would have been obliged to prejudice these questions. They would have had an alternative before them, on both sides of which it would be difficult to decide. They would either have had to re-elect men, who were ready to range themselves among the systematic opponents of Mr. Jefferson, or to dismiss men from office, who were ready to repair their tem- porary deviations from the cause of the na- tion, by returning to the banners of the ad- ministration—The postponement of this election to the spring will consequently relieve them from this disagreeable alternative.
Such then is the ground, on which the re- publican minority of Virginia now stand. Dur- ing the next winter, they will have their final trial; and the next spring will pronounce their sentence.
ELECTIONS.
GEORGIA.—Dr. Dennis Smelt has been e- lected to supply the vacancy in Congress occa- sioned by the resignation of Mr. Bryan. It is supposed, that Mr. B. will be elected governor of the state, in the place of Mr. Milledge, ap- pointed senator of the U. States.—Dr. Smelt is of course elected only for the ensuing session of Congress. Whether he will be continued in that appointment, was a point to be determined at the general congressional election of Georgia, held on Monday the 6th inst. The Savannah "Republican" conjectures, that George M. Troup, his late competitor, will be the success- ful candidate.
MARYLAND.—The general election for Con- gress was held on the 6th inst. The following was the state of the Polls, in the city & county of Baltimore:
N. R. Moore, 6164 | Joshua Barney 2063 Wm. M'Creery 3559 | John Scott 353
The district of Baltimore chooses two members, one selected from the county and the other from the city. Mr. M'Creery and Com. Barney are the city candidates. Mr. Moore and Mr. M'Creery, the present members, are of course elected.
Edward Lloyd, Esq. of the Eastern Shore, has been elected to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Judge Nicholson.
Philip B. Key is returned for the 3d con- gressional district, by a majority of 243 votes, over the present member Patrick Magruder, Esq.
PHILADELPHIA.—Sum total of the votes in the 14 wards of this city, for Inspectors of the ensuing general election:
   Constitutionalists 1489   Republicans 1341   Maj. for Confl: 148   Total votes 2830  
Nineteen Constitutionalists, and Nine Repub- licans, have been elected.
PRINCIPLES AND NOT MEN.
CONTINUED.
The republican citizens of several of the wards of Philadelphia and some of the districts of the county of Philadelphia, have come to resolutions to petition Mr. Jefferson once more to accept of the presidential chair. This cap- tivating example will no doubt be immediately imitated by the republican citizens of every part of Pennsylvania, and in all probability by the republican citizens of New-York. The leading point of that state has already held it up as worthy of imitation. This important question will therefore soon obtain an ascendancy in the public prints, which will entitle it to univer- sal discussion.—We will therefore meet it at the very threshold.
So far as the resolutions of the Pennsylvania republicans express their confidence in the virtues and talents of the present administration, we will unite with them from the very bot- tom of our souls. So far as they express op- inions "approbatory of the meritorious and unremitting services of the president of the United States" so far as they signify "their entire satisfaction with his highly meritori- ous services to his country;" so far as they declare Mr. Jefferson "entitled to our confidence, for his wise system of pacific policy with regard to foreign nations, for the salutary measures of relieving the public from odious and unnecessary taxes, and for the general scope and intention of his principles of government;" so far as they express "for his personal virtues and accomplishments, an affec- tionate respect; for his political principles, a sincere attachment; and for his patriotic ser- vices, a grateful remembrance;" we most cor- dially unite with them. We would even ad- vance a step beyond their warmest resolutions. We would declare our conscientious belief, that Mr. Jefferson has rendered more substantial ser- vices to this country, than any other man who ever existed; and that he is at this moment more eminently qualified for discharging the momentous duties of a President, than any other man who lives.
But so far as these resolutions are prophe- tic in their views; so far as they "request Mr. J. not to decline being a candidate for the pre- sidential chair at the next ensuing election;" so far they are at war with our principles. These questions irresistibly seize upon the mind:
 Is this the proper time for entering upon this delicate investigation?  Is the re-appointment of Mr. Jefferson con- formable to the sacred principles of republi- can government?  Are there any particular circumstances with- in the womb of time which should create exceptions to these fundamental principles of our faith? 
This is not the proper time.—The longer this discussion is postponed, the better for that u- nanimity of republican sentiment, which is essential to our republican prosperity. There is time enough between this moment and the period when some decision must be formed, to enter upon this important investigation.
Mr. Jefferson's term will not expire before the 4th of March 1809. If the nomination of the next republican candidate for the presidency be transferred to the republican representatives in Congress, that nomination need not be made before the session of 1807-8; for the elections will not be appointed before the autumn of 1808. Sixteen months will therefore elapse, before there will exist any absolute necessity of adopting a nomination, or of looking around for a candidate, to serve his country. Why then hurry this question before the tribunal of the public? Why prematurely open the path, that leads to republican schism among the people, and to intriguing ambition among the candi- dates for the presidency? Already are the fer- tile seeds of disunion widely enough scattered over the republican surface of Pennsylvania; already do the local transactions of that agitated state, and the growing divisions of sentiment respecting the existing departments of the pre- sent administration, furnish sufficient grounds of division and alarm. It is useless, nay it is a wanton waste of mind and of union, to multiply these divisions, by the prosecution of a sub- ject far more important than all the rest; far more productive of division and irritation.
The re-appointment of Mr. Jefferson is not so conformable to the general principles of republi- canism, as his retirement from office.—It is the genius of republics, that the individual is to be lost in the many; that no one man should be clothed with so much authority, as to en- danger the rights of the people; that no one man is to be trusted with so much power or for so long a time, as to give him the opportunity of extending it beyond the necessities of the many; and that every measure is to be ap- plauded which prevents the aggrandizement of the individual, or increases the spirit of li- berty, independence, and equality among the great mass of the people. Let us enquire of the republicans of Pennsylvania, with that frankness which is worthy of the subject:
 Do you not believe that the constitutional powers of the President are already too exor- bitant?  Do you believe it within the limits of hu- man probability, that one single individual should possess more wisdom than a council of men; that he ought to have the privilege of appoint- ing to so many weighty offices at his own discretion, of affixing and refusing his sanction to the decrees of a legislative assembly? You are opposed to the idea and the very name of king; why then establish a president with regal powers? 
Do you not believe that the only expedient for diminishing the dangers of these exorbitant powers, is to diminish the period of their dura- tion? Do you not believe that such should have been the duty of the constitution itself, & that every man should have been by that instru- ment forbidden to serve in the chair of state more than four, or at the most, more than eight years?
But though the constitution has provided, no such limitation on this subject, does it seem to you, that an enlightened individual is therefore exempted from the duty of supporting this principle, to the utmost of his power, by his in- dividual example? of avowedly setting a pre- cedent of disinterested patriotism, which may con- trol the ambition of his less patriotic succes- sors?
But from whom, are we to expect this splen- did example, so soon as from Mr. Jefferson himself; or from whose example, is so much expected to be expected as from this favorite man of the people?
But—it is a mere waste of words, to multi- ply general arguments on this important prin- ciple. There is not an abstract view, in which a republican could place it, but would per- suade us to resign Mr. Jefferson's services in the presidential chair, however pre-eminent his
qualifications might appear, or however deep our regret at the absence of his superintending genius.
But say the republicans of Philadelphia, particular circumstances may occur as excep- tions to these principles. But what are these circumstances and where is their force?
The petitioners from Cedar Ward declare that it would be "highly detrimental to the cause of democratic republicans, for our coun- try to be deprived of the services of so able and valuable a character."—In what particu- lar mode it would be detrimental to the de- mocratic republicans, is not particularly laid open; but it is a fact, that the services of this able and valuable character will be lost to his country? When Mr. J. retires from the chair of state, he does not retire to his grave; nor need he retire to an inglorious & useless obscuri- ty. He may devote his hours to the prosecution of those literary labours, for which he is so emin- ently endowed; he may transmit to posterity his own illustrious biography, the history of his state, or a disquisition on the national law of neutrals, for which he has been so long accu- mulating materials. In the mean time his ac- tive services as a politician are not lost to the world. He may fill a place in this country, than which the most ardent ambition of the most philanthropic mind cannot wish for one more splendid. He may support and dis- seminate the grandest plans of public utility: the establishment of schools, the diffusion of literature, the construction of high-roads and canals to bind together the distant parts of this extensive continent. His op- inion may become a kind of orthodox fan- dard, on all great questions. He may be- come a kind of Corps de Reserve, for the friends of freedom; and some years hence, should the interests of his country comport with his indi- vidual inclination, he may emerge from his ac- tive retirement, to direct anew the reins of gov- ernment. Can such a man be said to be lost to his country?
The inhabitants of Chestnut Ward declare him entitled to the confidence and suffrages of his fellow-citizens, for the services he has already rendered. But this argument is completely refuted by general objections, unless it can be shown that these services are indi- spensable to the prosperity of his country. But are we prepared to make this humiliating confession? Shall we declare that the liber- ties of this nation are staked upon the life of one man; and that there is no other man in it, who can and who will support the system, which Mr. J. has commenced?
"When it is said (say the democratic young men of the city and county of Philadelphia), that a formidable party is exercising every strat- agem to regain its lost power, and has suc- ceeded so far as to detach numbers from the re- publican cause, it is highly necessary that there should be a rallying point, which may shield from danger, what was the result of a long and arduous struggle—the liberties of a virtuous people. To this point we may be guided and saved, ONLY by the virtues of a Jefferson." But let it be recollected that this argument is employed in a state, where the republican party is notoriously divided into two distinct factions, whose professed object is to hold up each other in the worst possible
hours; and to represent the other as the avow- ed foe of liberty. This argument is employed by the opponents of Gov. McKean & their princi- ples are undoubtedly of the purest kind. It is also true, that their reproaches are directed against a set of men whose combinations with the fed- eralists in certain general elections are far from being worthy of our applause; whose views are far from being consonant to the interests of the union. But let it be at the same time recol- lected, that these republican adherents of Governor McKean, are equally solicitous for the re-appointment of Mr. J. Jefferson; and that they too have nominated committees to address him upon the subject. Let it be recollected, that before the next election of President is held, there will be a new election in Pennsylvania, and there may be a new ad- ministration who may banish this obnoxious name from public office. Let it too be recollected, that this reprehensible union with the federal party is almost totally confined to Pennsyl- vania and New-York, and that the situation of the other states does not justify the argument that is here advanced. But by what argument can it be proved that Mr. Jefferson is really the only man who can preserve us from the de- signs of this junto, or from a schism among the republicans themselves? and that in the mean time no expedient can be adopted for removing these evils? If Mr. Jefferson is now to be elected on the ground, that there are republican divi- sions in Pennsylvania and New-York, we may as well elect him President for life. There never will be a time when these divisions do not exist in some form or other.
We confidently hope, therefore, that Mr. J. will not relinquish his plan of retiring from the presidential chair, unless the general voice of his country may once more summon him to accept it; or unless, the republican party shall be so completely divided between two candidates, at the ensuing election, as to require his popularity to heal the division.
One word more, and we shall drop the sub- ject.—It will not escape Mr. J.'s discernment that the present address from Pennsylvania are strongly prompted by a spirit of rivalry be- tween the two republican parties; each being most solicitous to show off its own republicanism to the best advantage; and that the same cause may produce the same spirit of solicitation from the state of N. York. We trust that Mr. J. will seize the first opportunity of declaring his sentiments, by replying to the first address which is presented to his hands.
A bullrush against the ocean. It is a remarkable fact, that though 9-10ths of the American people, are republicans, there are more federal than republican papers in the union. Let us take, for example, the four largest towns on the continent:
   Republican. Federal.     Independent Chronicle Repertory   Democrat Centinel   Palladium   Gazette.   In New-York.   American Citizen Evening Post   People's Friend   Commercial Advertiser   Inspector   N. Y. Gazette.   In Philadelphia.   Aurora Philadelphia Gazette   U. S. Gazette   True American   Daily Advertiser   Port Folio.   In Charleston.   City Gazette Charleston Courier   The Times.  
The Morning Chronicle of New-York, and the Freeman's Journal of Philadelphia, can scarcely be called republican papers, as they are almost exclusively devoted to local politics; the one to the cause of gov. Lewis, & the other, of gov. McKean.
Last Evening's Mail.
BALTIMORE, October 9. FROM EUROPE.
To the politeness of captain Ashby, from London, we are indebted for London papers to the 18th of August. Captain A. touched at Falmouth on the 23d of August, and had pa- pers to the 18th inclusive, but gave them to the British frigate off the capes. We learn verbally, however, that not the least hopes were entertained of a peace when he left Fal- mouth. The people in general did not seem to wish for a peace on the proposed terms. A few miscellaneous extracts are in this day's Te- legraphe from our London papers.
We have also extracted a few marine articles from a Plymouth paper, and the following sketch of the treaty between Russia and France, which have not yet been published here.
Telegraphe.
LONDON, August 18.
The Hamburg Correspondent of the 2d inst. contains a letter from Amsterdam of the 29th ult. which gives the following as an outline of the reported conditions of the preliminary treaty with Russia, signed by M. D'Oubril, at Pa- ris:
"There shall be friendship and good under- standing between Russia and France. The Russians shall evacuate Cattaro to the French, and separate themselves from the Mon- tenegrins.

Miscellaneous.
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
Two Irish gentlemen, now inhabitants of Peter- sburg, are said to have formed a similar plan in regard to the airs of their native country, which the celebrated Burns has ex- ecuted with respect to the Ains of Scotland. Most of these old Irish tunes are of exquisite pathos and simplicity; but the words, to which they are usually sung, are not always calculated to give them their full effect. Some are of an obsolete style; and some are a repletion of ancient tales, not well un- derstood at present, or of national manners, which antiquity has robbed of more than half their charms. These words are to the airs which they originally accompanied, as some old unfashionable dress that is loosely thrown over a finely finished Statue. The antiquated drapery merely envelopes but does not destroy the beauty of the statue; and what a connoisseur would most anxiously de- sire is, to cast off this unseemly garb of anti- quity, and give it an appearance, more en- able with the feelings and fashions of the times. The following beautiful song is a specimen of those, which have been lately executed by the poets of Petersburg:
Tune—Robin Adair.
When war his iron voice Pour'd through the land, My bosom burn'd to join The warlike band; When my love heard the tale Her sighs encreas'd the gale, I felt my courage fail At love's command.  As the cold mountain's snow, Is my love fair; Black as the raven's plume, Her glossy hair; In her soft hazel eye, Sorrow's drop trembled, I Felt my heart bursting sigh, At her despair.  To the fast bosom, I Flew of my dear, In her lids trembling flood, The Chrysal tear; On my cold cheek it fell, I felt her bosom swell. Oh! then what tongue can tell What I felt here!  Dry thy tears, Rosalie, See yonder Sun Sinks in the Western way, His course is run; But when the night has fled, Thou'lt see him glorious fled His gold beams on thy head, A new course begun.
IMPROVEMENT IN SHIP-BUILDING.
The following Project of sheathing vessels with Palmetto boards, is worthy of the attentive consideration of every Wharf-Builder, or Ship-Owner who trades in the Southern La- titudes. The advantages resulting from such a discovery, would be innumerable. The Palmetto board, is laid by the Courier to be cheaper than copper, and equally as effectual a preservative against the worm. It is light- er, easier to be procured, and is the growth of our own country.
To the Editors of the Charleston Courier.
Charleston, September 24, 1806.
GENTLEMEN,
THE enclosed letter was written to Mr. Jef- ferson, when Secretary of State—the vessel by which it was sent, with the Palmetto and Pine- board, upon which the experiment was made, was lost, and consequently did not reach that Gentleman's hands.
If you think the subject interesting to the com- mence of this State, and that its publication will answer any good purpose, you are welcome to in- sert it in your valuable paper.
I am with respect, Your obedt Servant, A. B.
Charleston, S. C. November 25, 1792.
SIR, Having heard the very heavy complaints made by captains of vessels who trade to the West-Indies, of the injury which their vessels receive from the worm, in the southern latitudes, it occurred to me, that it might be effectually prevented, if, instead of sheathing them with pine, they could be sheathed with Palmet- to boards. I knew that Palmetto logs, which had been used in this state, in the construction of our wharves, had resisted the attack of the worm, did not decay under water, and acquired in that element, a degree of hardness, capable of resisting the force of an axe; but being of a loose, spongy texture with- in, it was not supposed that the trees could be made use of in the form of boards. I however, determined to make the experiment, and accordingly had a suf- ficient number of them sawed 3-4ths of an inch thick, with which, in April, I sheathed a small rowing boat,* and kept her moored through the summer, in a situation exposed to the attack of that destructive insect. She was taken out of the water the 7th inst. and examined by several persons concerned in ship- ping and commerce, who decided in favour of the ex- periment. The sheathing was discovered to be per- fectly sound, and had not been touched by a single worm, although there were an abundance of worms over it—it was also free from grass and weeds.  There were a few barnacles on it, but they adher- ed so loosely, as to be removed by the slightest touch of the hand, without any instrument whatever. Up- on cutting into the sheathing, it was found not to have imbibed more water than a pine board would have done, as at the depth of 1-8th of an inch it was perfectly dry. Desirous of making a comparative experiment, I sheathed a two inch plank of yellow pine, with a Palmetto board, and moored it in salt water, in the first week of April, where it remained until the 24th of October—it was then taken out and examined. The Palmetto was as free from worms, barnacles, weeds and grass, as the day it was put into the water, but the pine plank was perforated throughout, and was entirely covered with barnacles, &c.  If, Sir, you are of opinion that any further experi- ment should be made, to ascertain the superior advan- tages of this sheathing, permit me to suggest to your consideration, the propriety of ordering it to be made upon the Revenue Cutter to be employed upon this station. The result of an experiment made under the sanction of government, will establish the rep- utation of the discovery, if it shall be found to possess these superior advantages that I suppose it does.  I have the honour to be, &c. Hon. Tho. Jefferson, Sec'y of State.  * This boat was lost about seven years after, at which time the sheathing was as sound as the day it was put on, and had in the mean time been only scraped and paged with knife stuff once a year.
FROM LONDON PAPERS.
Singular Defeat.—An incident which excited much curiosity occurred last Thursday at Weymouth. Mrs. Bennett, of Cadouy, in Somersetshire, accompanied
Mr. Bratawayte in his diving machine, and remained under water with him forty minutes. Previous to her trip she evinced great courage, and was greeted on her ascent by the cheering plaudits of a very nu- merous concourse of people. Mrs. Bennett is now generally known by the name of the Diving Belle.
A superb monument is to be erected to Voltaire, in the church of Saint Genevieve, at Paris. The ce- lebrated Houbion is selected as the sculptor of this national work.
A discovery of great importance to the followers of Epicurus has been made by a French adept in the art of good living. It is the secret of sending Carp and Pike alive to any distance. The receipt is as fol- lows: Steep the crumb of new bread in brandy, and when it is sufficiently swollen, completely fill the mouth of the fish with it, and afterwards pour in a small quantity of brandy. Wrap up the fish after- wards in fresh straw, secured with pack-thread, and cover the whole with linen cloth. When the fish reaches its destination, let it be unpacked and thrown into a tub of water, where it will remain a quarter or half an hour without giving any signs of life, but at the expiration of that time, it will disgorge itself copiously, and resume its ordinary motions.
LATEST FROM MIRANDA.
KINGSTON, (Jam.) August 30.
The Ferret brig of 18 guns, the hon. captain Cadogan, filled on Sunday morning for Coro, on the Spanish main, having on board captain James Ledlie, of the Columbian army, who re- turns with answers from Sir Eyre Coote and ad- miral Dacres to the dispatches addressed to them, and received here on the 15th inst. from general Francisco de Miranda.
We understand that the heads of our govern- ment have expressed themselves in high terms of approbation of the laudable purposes Gene- ral Miranda is aiming at, and regret much that they are precluded from giving him the assist- ance which his views demand, as they cannot take so great a responsibility on themselves, not having had any communication from his majes- ty's ministers on the subject. It is much to be lamented that no assistance could be afforded the general from this quarter, as we are well assur- ed, that a few hundred men, tolerably disciplin- ed, would have effected all he wished for in a few weeks—a junction with a considerable body of men now encamped ready to join him; but which he cannot attempt with the force at present under his command.
The Stork floop of war, of 18 guns, captain Le Geyt: the Flying Fish freg. of 12 guns, lieut. Price, and the Pike freg. of five guns, lieut. Oatley, failed on Monday for Coro.
On General Miranda's disembarkation at Coro, he immediately issued considerable numbers, printed in the Spanish language, on a large type, of the following
PROCLAMATION.
DON FRANCISCO DE MIRANDA, Commander in Chief of the Columbian Army, to the Inhabitants of the continent of Columbian America:
Brave Countrymen and Friends,
OBEDIENT to your wishes, and to the repeated requests and calls of the country, to whose service we have cheerfully consecrated the greater part of our lives, we have disembarked in this Province of Carraccas. The opportunity and time appear to us highly favorable for the completion of our designs; and all persons composing this army are your friends or countrymen; all resolved to sacrifice their lives, if necessary, for your Liberty and Independence, un- der the auspices and protection of the British Navy! With those auxiliaries, we can safely say, that the day will come when our America, recovering her Sovereign Independence, her sons will be able freely to flow to the universe their exalted spirit. The oppressive, unfeeling government, which has obscured our finer qualities, and blackened with calumnies our defence and character, managed also to main- tain her abominable system of administration for three successive centuries, but was never able to era- dicate from our hearts those moral and civil virtues which a holy religion, and a regular code of laws, in- corporated with our customs, and led to an honest and natural course of action.
Let us be worthy then of those admirable qualities, that the mean, odious agents of the Court of Madrid being expelled, we may be able quietly to establish the civil order necessary to the completion of so ho- nourable an undertaking. The recovery of our rights as Citizens, and of our national glory as Columbian Americans, will be amongst the least benefits we shall derive from the just and necessary determination.
The innocent Indians and other men will consider us all as Brother citizens, and that precedence be- longs only to merit and virtue, in which belief they will primarily obtain, most certainly, military and civil recompences, the reward of merit alone.
If the Dutch and Portuguese were able in former times to throw off the yoke of Spanish oppression; if the Swiss and Americans, our neighbours, have equal- ly succeeded to establish their liberty and independ- ence with the general applause of the world, and to the benefit of their inhabitants, when each of them separately, scarcely contained two to three millions of people: Why then shall we, who are at the least Sixteen Millions, not be able easily to extricate our- selves? Possessing besides, over and above these con- siderations, the most fertile, inexhaustible, and rich continent in the known world! The fact is that it depends solely upon our own WILL—and, that the WILL, progressing to our independence, Union will af- sure to us permanent and perpetual happiness: the Divine Providence ordains it, to alleviate the mis- eries of our unhappy countrymen, and for the protection and benefit of the human species!
Those people, who are timorous or less instructed, & who wish to inform themselves of the ground-work, of the justice and equity which those proceedings re- quire—joined to the historical truth, that prove the inconceivable ingratitude, unheard of cruelties, and atrocious persecutions of the Spanish government, to- wards the innocent and unhappy inhabitants of the New World, almost from the moment of its discover- y, will read the subjoined address of Don Juan Viz- cardo, of the Order of Jesus, directed to his country- men, and they will find in it irrefragable proofs and solid arguments in favor of our cause, dictated by a holy man, at a time when he was about taking his leave of this world, to appear before the Creator of the Universe.
To carry this plan into its due effect with security and efficacy, the citizens will be obliged, without dis- tinction of classes or station, (ecclesiastics only except- ed in the parts where they may be appointed,) to conform themselves strictly to the following arti- cles:
1. Every person, military, judicial, civil, or eccle- siastical, who exercises any authority granted by the court of Madrid, shall suspend ipso facto their func- tions—and those who may continue them after the present publication, as well as those who obey such persons, shall be severely punished. 2. The Ecclesiastical courts and courts of justice, in all the cities, towns and places, shall exercise, ad interim, all the functions of government, civil, admin- istrative, and judicial, with personal responsibility, and regulated by the laws of the country; and the cu- rates of parishes and missionaries shall remain in their respective churches and parishes, without altering the exercises of their sacred functions. 3. All the Ecclesiastical courts and courts of jus- tice shall send one or two Deputies to the Head-Quar- ters of the army, in order that they may unite them- selves in a general assembly on our arrival in the ca- pital; and to form there a provisional government which may lead in due time to another government general and permanent, with the consent of all the nation.
IV. Every Citizen from the age of 16 to 55 years shall repair without fail to the army, bringing with him such arms as he may be able to procure—and, if they have none, they shall receive them from the Military depts of the army.
V. The Citizen who may have the baseness to make common cause with the agents of the Spanish Government, or who may be found with arms, en- camped, in any garrison or place of strength for the said government, shall be treated as a traitor to his country. If any persons in the actual service of Spain shall be so foolishly serious as to believe that they are in honor bound to serve against the independence of their country, they shall be for ever banished the country.
VI. On the contrary, all those who are exercising any Military, Civil, or whatever other employ, who may join with promptitude the standard of the coun- try, shall receive honors and employments propor- tioned to the zeal and love of the country, which they may have manifested in such an important conjuncture: Soldiers and Seamen shall be equally rewarded according to their capacity and zeal.
VII. The Treasurers of the public money shall immediately deposit the same with the Administra- tors Civil and Ecclesiastical—who shall nominate per- sons capable of managing the same, and for the sup- ply of the Columbian Army, with whatever may be necessary to its maintenance and operations; not only in money, but also in provisions, clothing, vegetables, carriages, mules, horses, &c.
VIII. In order to prevent all kind of insults or ag- gressions on the part of the soldiers or the advanced posts of the army—the Magistrates and Parish Priests of the cities, towns, and villages, (under their per- sonal responsibility) shall cause to be fixed the colours or ensign of the National Independence, in the high- est and most conspicuous parts of the Churches, and the Citizens shall also wear in their hats the cockade which denotes them to be such, since without which, they would not be respected and protected as bro- thers.
IX. This Proclamation shall be fixed, by the priests and magistrates, on the doors of the parish Churches and all public buildings, in order that it may be speedily notified to all the inhabitants; they shall also read in the churches, and in every civil court, once a day at least, the pamphlet, formerly mentioned, written by J. Vizcardo, which accompanies this e- dict.
X. Whoever shall hinder, retard or neglect the completion of the nine preceding articles, shall be considered as a public offender, and punished im- mediately with exemplary severity—The public good is the supreme law.
Done at Head-Quarters, at Coro, 2d of August, 1806. FRAN. DE MIRANDA. Thos. Molini, Secretary.
DOCUMENT OF DEATH.
We present the following Bill of Mortality as a most curious, but we fear, a very imperfect document; for it is possible to believe, that no more than nine executions have occurred in London within one year, even making every allowance for the increased number of convicts, who are shipped to Botany Bay!  Two memorable facts result from the ensuing bill of mortality, that more victims have perished by consumptions, the effect in many cases of our present fashions, than by any other malady; and according to the remark of the N. Intelligence, that not less than 1685 have been perished by the Small Pox; one only by the Cow-Pox, & that individual too was most probably inoculated by a corrupt and improper species of Pus.
THE LONDON YEARLY BILL OF MORTALITY,
From December 1804, to December 1805. Christened. Buried. Males, 10,513 Males, 8,874 Females, 9,782 Females, 8,691 Total, 20,295 Total, 17,565 Increased in burials this year, 527
DIED, Under 2 years 5,204 Between 2 and 5 2,199 5 and 10 826 10 and 20 534 20 and 30 1,283 30 and 40 1,765 40 and 50 1,829 50 and 60 1,504 60 and 70 1,187 70 and 80 757 80 and 90 390 90 and 100 82 Of 100 5
DISEASES. Abortive and still born, 157 Abscesses, 86 Aged, 1,452 Ague, 3 Apoplexy & sudden, 421 Asthma & Pkalytic, 471 Bedridden, 3 Bile, 1 Bleeding, 23 Burden & Rupture, 16 Cancer, 50 Chicken Pox, 1 Child Bed, 222 Chin Cough, 1 Colds, 8 Colick, Gripes, &c. 12 Consumption, 3,432 Convulsions, 3,053 Cough and Hoop- ing Cough, 703 Cow pox, 3 Cramp, 1 Croup, 29 Diabetes, 1 Dropsy, 712 Eaten by lice, 7 Evil, 1 All Fevers, 1,307 Fistula, 3 Flux, 4 French Pox, 40 Gout, 124 Gravel, Stone and Strangury, 17 Grief, 2 Headmoldshot, horse- hoehead and water 7 Total, 17,301
CASUALTIES, Broken limbs, 3 Broken necks, 2 Bruised, 3 Burnt, 23 Choked, 1 Drowned, 115 Excessive Drinking, 4 Executed,* 6 Found dead, 5 Fractured, 3 Frozen, 1 Killed by falls, &c. 55 Total, 264
* There have been executed in London 9: of which number 6 only have been reported to be buried (as such) within the Bills of Mortality.
DENTISTRY.
MR. LE TELLIER, DENTIST, has returned to Richmond, and again offers his services to its citizens in the various branches of his profession, as contained in his former address to the public.
N. B. His residence is still at the Swan Tavern, and a line or servant directed to the said house, shall be attended to.
October 10. tf
THE SUBSCRIBERS, UNDER THE FIRM OF LESUEUR & SAUNDERS,
Inform their friends and the public, that they will continue the COMMISSION business, late- ly done by C. & T. Saunders. They promise the British attention to the interests of those who may favor them with consignments. They are now receiving a general and extensive assortment of GROCERIES, which will be offered for sale, Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms, and usual credit, in the store lately occupied by Messrs. William M'Kenzie & Co. opposite the Vaudre Office of Messrs. Parker & Mease—among which are the following articles:
BROWN SUGAR of superior quality, Ditto ditto second ditto. Best Green Coffee, Salt in Sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled Salmon, Scotch Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wine, Fresh Muscadel Raisins & Currants, Soft Shelled Almonds, Cooperas, Salpetre, English F F Gunpowder, Patent Shot, well assorted, Hibbert's Brown Stout and Porter, Bell Spanish Segars, Caldwell, Frazer & Co's Superfine Chocolate, New-York Candles and Soap, Spermaceti Candles, Bar Iron, German, Craw- ley's & Blistered Steel, Antigua & Jamaica Rum, Very Old Antigua Rum, Holland Gin, Cogniac Brandy, of very superior quality, Rice, Ginger, Pepper, Pimento, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves & Cin- namon, Fresh London Mustard, in small boxes, Bell Floatant Indigo and Fig Blue, of superior quality, in boxes of 20 lbs. each, Fresh Capers, Oil, &c. Fresh Gunpowder, Tea in Canisters, Ditto by the barrel, Young Hyson do. of the first quality, N. England & Bullock's Cheese.
JOHN L. LESUEUR, C. H. SAUNDERS.
October 10. tf
HENRY HOVEY, HAS FOR SALE, 12 Bales INDIA GOODS, viz.
LIABAD Emeries, Mammoody, Mow Sannas, Gurrhas, Jannah Sannas, Gillie Hdkfs. & Checks.
—ALSO—
40 Pipes Hollands Gin, 20 qr. cakes S. Wine, 10 Boxes 8 by 10, 20 do. 20 boxes Chocolate, 10 by 12 Window Glass, 4 pipes Old Cogniac 8 Hds. Molasses, Brandy, 50 lbs. Numegs, 20 crates Stone Ware, 20 gro. Playing Cards, 50 cakes Lime, 50 boxes Cotton & Wool 10 cakes Whale Oil, Cards, 50 boxes Short Pipes, 40 bags Pepper, 500 lbs. refined Salt Pe- 50 Hds. } Northern tre, and 50 Hds. } Rum, A fresh assortment of 15 Hds. Antigua Rum, Shoes. 50 Hds. Brown Sugar,
FOR BOSTON,
The Schooner MARY ANN, Hen- ry Luce, Master, will sail in six days. For freight or passage apply as above. October 10. 2t.
NOTICE.
THE partnership of FISHER & LESUEUR was dissolved on the first instant; all those having claims against said firm, will call on James Fisher for payment, and all those indebted, will please to make immediate payment to the same, he alone being au- thorised to grant discharges.
JAMES FISHER. JOHN L. LESUEUR.
N. B. The business will be continued at the same place by JAMES FISHER, for his own account; he is receiving from New-York and Philadelphia, the following goods: which he will sell on the lowest terms to his old customers, and on the usual credit.
Brown sugar of a superior quality, do. do. second do. Green coffee in bags and barrels, Salt loose and in sacks, Molasses and Treacle, Pickled & smoked Sal- mon, Scotch and Pearl Barley, Madeira, Port, Sherry & Malaga Wines, Fresh Muscadel Raisins, and Currants, Copperas, Alum, Brim- stone and Madder in small kegs, Salt Petre, English Gunpowder, Patent Shot, Hibbert's Porter & Brown Stout, Segars in small boxes, of a superior quality, Bar Iron, Blistered and Crayon Steel, Soft Shell Almonds, Holland Gin in pipes, Pepper, Pimento, Race Ginger, Nutmegs, Mace, Cloves and Cinnamon, Fresh London Mustard in small boxes, Bell Floatant Indigo and Fig Blue of a superior quality in small boxes of twenty pounds each, Fresh Capers & Olives, A few small Boxes of Old Hyson of a superior quality, Fresh Gunpowder Tea in canisters, do. by the lb. Small Boxes of Imperial & Young Hyson do. Complete Sets of Tea and Table China, Chi- na Cups and Saucers by the set, New-York Soap & Can- dles, Bullock's Cheese,
A constant supply of Loaf Sugar by the Hog- head or Barrel at the Philadelphia prices. October 3. epim.
MARSHAL'S SALES.