Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1805-04-24 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS
[VOL. XII.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
[1149.]
RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH.
[Four Dollars Per Annum...paid in advance.]
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 24, 1805.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
Scheme of a Lottery,
For the benefit of WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE
  FIRST CLASS.   8000 Tickets at 10 dolls. 80,000   2 Prizes, dolls. 10,000 20,000   60 of 500 30,000   2,000 of 15 30,000   80,000   Subject to a deduction of 15 per. ct. 12,000   Expense of drawing, 2,000 
  Dollars, 10,000   First Ticket drawn, Dolls. 500   Last drawn, 10,000   1 other Prize of 10,000   59 other Prizes of 500 dolls. 29,500   2,000 of 15 dollars, 30,000   Dollars. 80,000 
All tickets drawn blank may be renewed in the next class, at 10 dolls. each; the price of all others will be 15 dolls.
All prizes of 15 dollars may be renewed for the next class, or paid, at the option of the person entitled. If they be not claimed within three months after the drawing commences, they will be considered as renewed in the second class.
The drawing to commence in the city of Williamsburg, on the _____ day of _____, under the management of James Madison, John Bracken, William Nelson, Robert Greenhow, Burwell Bassett, Robert Saunders, Samuel Tyler, Champion Travis, William Lightfoot, Littleton W. Tazewell, George Tucker and James Semple.
SECOND CLASS.
  5,938 Tickets at 10 dolls. 59,380   4,685 ditto at 15 dolls. 70,275   130,310   Deduct loss on 2,062 tickets renewed at 2 1-2 5,155 
  Dolls. 125,155   2 Prizes of 20,000 dolls. 40,000   2 ditto of 10,000 dolls. 20,000   3 ditto of 5,000 15,000   50 ditto of 1,000 50,000   1 ditto 155   125,155 
  Deduct 10 per cent. 12,500   Expenses of drawing, 2,500   Sum raised, Dolls. 110,155 
  Ticket first drawn, Dolls. 1,000   Ticket last drawn, 20,000   One other prize of, 20,000   Two ditto of 10,000 20,000   3 ditto of 5,000 dolls. 15,000   49 ditto of 1,000 49,000   ditto 155   Dollars 125,155 
TICKETS
May be had of George Tucker, Thomas Taylor and Samuel Pleasants, Jr. in Richmond; Robert Birchett, and Watkins Leigh, Petersburg; Thomas Newton, Dr. Barrand, & Littleton W. Tazewell, Norfolk; Hugh Mercer, Fredericksburg; Henry Tucker, Winchester; Chapman Johnson, Staunton; and in all the towns in Virginia, and in many places in the country.
JUST RECEIVED, From Dr. Church's Dispensary New-York, and for sale at this Printing-Office, a fresh supply of the following
Patent Medicines:
 CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS, A medicine unequalled by any in the world, for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma & consumptions.  PATRIOT'S LOZENGES, For the voice, hoarseness, colds, coughs, &c. &c.  CHEMICAL ESSENCE AND EXTRACT OF MUSTARD, For the cure of the rheumatism, gout, rheumatic gout, palsy, white swelling, chilblains, &c.  ANODYNE ESSENCE, for the head-ache.  VOLATILE TINCTURE, for the tooth-ache.  THE BOTANICAL TEA, INFALLIBLE GERMAN CORN PLAISTER, For the cure of corns.  CHURCH'S ANALYTIC FEMALE PILLS.  SCOTCH OINTMENT, Cures the most inveterate itch in four hours without Mercury.  ETE SALVE, for all disorders of the eyes.  ANTISCORBUTIC TINCTURE, For the teeth, breath, and scurvy in the gum.  ESSENCE OF SURRY-GRASS, For preventing and curing the sea & land scurvy.  VERMIFUGE LOZENGES, For destroying worms in children & grown persons.  ANTISPASMODIC ELIXIR, For the cure of all kinds of Fits.  CORDIAL RESTORATIVE BALSAM, For nervous disorders, debility, inward weakness, &c. &c.  VEGETABLE LOTION, For the face and skin, freckles, sun-burns, prickly heat, ring worms, tetter, &c. &c.  DR. CHURCH'S ANTIBILOUS PILLS, For the cure of malignant and bilious fevers, dyspepsia, jaundice, costiveness, acidity, cholera morbus, gravel, indigestion, loss of appetite, and all disorders of the head, stomach and bowels.  THE GENUINE PATENT ALTERNATIVE PILLS, For the cure of scurvy, cutaneous disorders, the venereal disease, &c.  HOOPER'S FEMALE PILLS.  ESSENCE OF PEPPER MINT.  ALSO, DR. CHURCH'S TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL. Containing plain and easy directions for the speedy and effectual cure of that disease in both sexes; whereby any person may cure themselves at a small expense—price half a dollar. 
SUBSCRIBERS TO THE TRAVELS OF ANACHARSIS, THE YOUNGER, IN GREECE, Are respectfully informed that the work is now ready for delivery at S. Pleasants' printing-office.
FOR SALE,
One Moiety of a Brick Tenement,
IN a central part of the city of Richmond, consisting of a two story house with a store and counting room on the lower floor, and five rooms above (conveniently plan'd for a family) with a passage leading to them (making all the rooms private) and a cellar under the whole house—a three story Lumber-house, Kitchen, Stable, &c. A considerable credit will be given for one third of the purchase money.—For further particulars enquire of the printer.
[BY AUTHORITY.]
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY.
CLASS N o II.
  4000 Tickets at 10 dollars each, dolls. 40000   1 Prize of dolls. 10000   1 of 5000   5 of 1000   20 of 500   50 of 100   50 of 50   100 of 25   40000 
227 First drawn ticket after 500 redraws, dolls. 500 after 1000 500 after 1500 500 after 2000 1000 after 2500 1000 after 3000 1000 after 3500 1000 after 3950 10000
The above Lottery will certainly commence a drawing the first Monday in November, or sooner, if the tickets are sold.
TO BE SOLD,
Pursuant to a deed of trust executed to me by the late Henry Randolph, Esq. to secure the payment of certain sums of money in the said deed, acknowledged to be due from him to Lyle and McCrede, merchants,
A Parcel of Land,
Situated in the county of Chesterfield, within the distance of four miles from Manchester, and estimated to contain about three hundred and fifteen acres. This land, commonly known by the name of Scott's tract, or the Camp tract, will be set up for sale, to the highest bidder, on Wednesday, the first of May next, between the hours of eleven A. M. and two P. M. at Zach. Brooks's tavern, in Manchester, on the following terms, viz. one third of the purchase money, to be paid down one third in six months, and the remaining third in twelve months from the day of sale.—Bond and security will be required for the punctual payment of the credit instalments, on which payment being made, a proper conveyance will be executed by
JOHN HEVENINGHAM. Chesterfield, March 13th, 1805. tds
TO RENT OR LEASE, FOR TEN OR TWELVE YEARS,
A Lot of LAND,
No. 81, in the town of Manchester. Enquire of Dr. B. Du-Val, or
Wm. Richardson, Jr. February 22.
FOUND, on Saturday the 2d inst. a Red Morocco POCKET BOOK, which the owner may get by applying to the subscriber and paying for this advertisement. James Bootwright. Richmond, March 4th, 1805.
FOR SALE,
TWO LOTS,
HANDSOMELY situated in the town of New Canton, on James river; on both are new and well built dwelling houses and offices; on one an excellent garden well enclosed, and the other containing one acre, with a good post and rail fence.—For further particulars enquire of Messrs. William Anderson and James Rea of said place, who are legally authorised to sell and convey the same. ROBERT HILL. New York, 1st Feb. 1805. tf
Richmond Academy Lottery.
THE subscriber being appointed by the Trustees to collect all monies due on the sales of Tickets in said Lottery, requests those indebted for the same to make immediate payment to him at the Land Office. Prizes will be taken in discharge of any money due from the Trustees, or for tickets in the second Class.—He is authorised to pay all prizes after the 15th May next. WILLIAM PRICE. March 22d, 1805.
Notice.
THE COPARTNERSHIP OF
Alban Gilpin & Co.
Is this day dissolved by mutual consent; those indebted to the said concern are requested to come forward and have their respective balances adjusted ready for payment—and those who have claims against them will make application to Alban Gilpin, Jefferson. ALBAN GILPIN & CO.
THE former friends of Alban Gilpin are respectfully informed that he has commenced business at this place in his usual line, under the firm of
GILPIN, COCKE & CO.
JEFFERSON, (Powhatan co.) } April 1st, 1805. } 4w
Manchester Turnpike Company.
NOTICE is hereby given, that a general meeting of Shareholders will be held at Mr. Brooks's Tavern in Manchester, on Friday the 10th day of May ensuing, at 11 o'clock, A. M. when and where it is expected the members will attend, punctually, on business of importance to the institution. JAMES BRANDER, Clerk. 8th April, 1805. tdm
Notice,
IS hereby given to the creditors of HOOPER & TOLER, against whom a commission of Bankruptcy has been issued according to law, that the commissioners and assignees of their estate will meet at their office in the city of Richmond on Saturday the first of June next at eleven o'clock, A. M. in order to make a dividend of their estate and effects; when those creditors who have not proved their debts must come prepared, or they will be excluded the benefit of said dividend. Marcus Elean, } Assignees. William Temple, } Richmond, 13th April, 1805. tj
Agreeably to the power and authority vested in the Common Council of the City of Richmond by an act of the General Assembly, passed January 8, 1805.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that on Saturday the 27th inst. the said Common Council will proceed to nominate one fit and proper person to fill the office of Mathematical Surveyor of the said City of Richmond: at which time those who are desirous of receiving the said appointment are required to make known their respective pretensions. [By order of the Hall,] Teste, ANDREW STEVENSON, C. C. H. April 15th, 1805.
STOLEN,
out of the stable at Mar- tha Hamblin's, in Chesterfield county, on Wednesday night the 10th of April, 1805, a bright sorrel HORSE, upwards of five feet high, six years old this spring; he was shod before, his hoofs are all black, his shoes are about half worn, a sorrel mane and tail; his tail has been dock'd, but tolerable long; he is apt to carry it to one side when rode; he trots and gallops high and hard, paces but little and is apt to stumble; he has a very tender mouth and carries his head very high, has a few white hairs next in his forehead; he works well in a plough, and the hair is rub'd off on each shoulder; he has a very large head, a long neck and body and remarkable long thighs. Whoever will deliver the said horse to me shall receive TEN DOLLARS REWARD, and the same for the thief. Leonard Nunally, Near Chesterfield Courthouse.
THE members of the Protestant
Episcopal Church in Virginia, are requested to take particular notice, that the 7th May is the appointed time for holding a Convention in Richmond on that day, 1805.
STRAYED or STOLEN,
from the subscriber in Buckingham county, nearly opposite the town of Warren, on the 24th March last, a bright bay HORSE, about five feet high, six years old this spring, both his right feet white up to the footlock, and his left hind foot a little above the hoof, with a blaze face, & a white stripe down the back. To any person that will deliver me said Horse or secure him so that I can get him again, I will give a reward of TEN DOLLARS. Benjamin Porter. April 10th, 1805.
FOR SALE,
MY LAND,
in the content of this block is truncated for brevity, following the pattern of the input. in the county of Surry, known by the name of SWAN'S POINT, containing about three thousand acres, situated upon James river nearly opposite to James Town and forty five miles below Petersburg. The tract is divided into two plantations each having the necessary improvements of barns, stables, &c. in thorough repair. On one is a two story brick building of five large rooms, but lately finished in handsome style, with every convenient out house for the accommodation of a genteel family. On the other, a wooden house of four rooms, well calculated for an overseer. There are upon the two plantations upwards of a thousand apple trees selected of the most approved kinds for brandy, cyder and keeping fruit; all of which have been planted out about three years, and from the attention which has been bestowed upon them are now rapidly progressing towards perfection. The peculiar advantages of this place, rich and wild soil, will contribute not a little to render it an agreeable residence to those who can enjoy health in the lowest country. It is deemed useless to say more, as it is presumed any person wishing to purchase would first see the property. The payments will be made easy by dividing them into such instalments as may be convenient. John H. Cocke. Apl. 18th, 1805. gw
Fifty Dollars Reward.
RUN away from the subscriber in Mecklenburg county, near Finn's wood, about 5 years past, a Negro Lad, then about 18 years old, by the name of FRANK; he was a black, slender lad, his hair grows low down his forehead, of a pleasing countenance, and when spoken to is very apt to smile; he is very fond of spirits. As I purchased him of Col. Wm. Davies, in whose family of negroes he hath an acquaintance, I have reason to believe that he is lurking in and about Petersburg or Norfolk, as he has been often seen in the former since his elopement. I will give the above reward to any person bringing him to me, or securing him in any jail so that I get him again. JOHN M'QUE. April 15th, 1805. 3t
To be Sold, upon the premises, for ready money, on Monday the 24th of June next, agreeable to the last will and testament of Col. John Boswell dec'd for the payment of British Debts.
BOSWELL'S ORDINARY,
INCLUDING near three hundred acres of the adjoining Land. This Land is called the best for wheat in the state of Virginia below the Blue Ridge, lies near the Healing Springs in Louisa and is considered as a good and growing stand for various kinds of business. Those having claims of the above description are requested to make them known to the subscriber, and whether evidenced by judgment, bond or open account. JOHN MICHIE, Adm'r with the will annexed of Col. John Boswell, dec'd. April 15th 1805. tds
THE Copartnership of
SEIXAS & BLOCK,
is this day dissolved by mutual consent. B. SEIXAS. A. BLOCK. April 19, 1805. 3t
From the RALEIGH (N. C.) REGISTER.
ESSAY ON LIBERTY.
Liberty is equal with life the gift of GOD to MAN. It is as much his natural right as the air he breathes, and is equally essential to his happiness—alas! how few in this whole world enjoy this inestimable blessing in the purity with which Heaven bestowed it.
ANCIENT governments afford no pleasing retrospect to the friends of Freedom. Civilization began first in the east; and there was human-kind first subject to despotic laws and regular governments. The inhabitants of China boast of indefinite antiquity, and succession of Princes unparallelled in the history of nations; but their history is the annals of slavery, and their long race of Kings the succession of despotism and oppression.
Egypt renowned for its sages, visited by the wise of every nation, left no model of a sound political constitution to the world; she was governed by arbitrary princes and ancient wisdom crouched before the throne of despotism. The Grecian republic were not favorable to LIBERTY. Under the name of Republics the most oppressive aristocracies existed in Greece. The whole policy of Rome was a system of oppression, conquest and slavery. A few within the gates of the city were free, but alas for human nature, they wanted with the freedom of the word and sought to subjugate other nations. Asia and Africa afford no political beauty, the outlines of which could give pleasure to the friends of freedom.
To what part of EUROPE shall we turn to see the pure flame of liberty, unquenched by arbitrary power, and fiscal oppressions. Spain preserves the same cold, barbarous character, as when she expelled the Moors. The sacred spirit of freedom is unknown there, and cannot therefore be cherished. Switzerland, the fairy-land of Europe, has lost that hardy spirit of independence, which encircled her name with glory, and which amidst the sterility of her mountains reverberated the name of Tell, and rendered her citizens an enviable people. The Grand Nation has subjugated the country, and overturned the government. Batavia, spiritless and dejected feels no longer the animating powers of industry, since the fruits of it are subject to the control of their new masters. Could the intrepid Grotius look down upon his country, bitter and agonizing would be his feelings. France was once and is again the victim of fanaticism and ambition. Ah, what now avails the oceans of human blood, the mass of human happiness which was shed and devoted in the sacred cause of liberty. NAPOLEON more despotic than the Bourbons or Capets, will weigh down the energy of France, and freedom there will sink into eternal sleep. BRITAIN was long the boast of freemen, and the model of political wisdom, and her constitution was considered the acme of every thing great and glorious in the science of government. Even Britain the "proud Queen of Isles" must at some period, perhaps not very remote, fall from her zenith, under the inculcable accumulation of her debts. Increase of taxes will yet keep her buoyant, but who can safely calculate how long this modern Carthage will preserve her ascendancy among the European nations. Time in his rapid but destructive flight has swept away the patriotic host who guarded the constitution. Her Hampdens, Sidneys, Lockes and Miltons sleep in the dust, and future historians shall write the Decline and Fall of Britain.
Sic transit gloria mundi.
Where then shall we turn for a model of Freedom and Happiness? Happy, thrice happy America! On your favored shores are realized those theories of political prosperity, and general happiness, which before your emancipation was considered as Utopian. Hail! to those veterans who laid the foundation for such a structure of national honor. At Washington's name that of Caesar loses its lustre. The first warrior in the world who obtained power and disdained to use it improperly. Let grateful recollection embalm his glorious name! Nor shall immortal Franklin be forgotten; on his grave let the friend of freedom and science strew the most fragrant flowers of the Western continent. Whilst freedom shall animate the mineral or electric fire dart from the clouds, Franklin's name shall be revered.
Happy Americans, who at this distance from your revolutionary efforts experience every blessing which the sanguine mind can hope for, or which humanity can enjoy. Blest with a Chief Magistrate whose every effort is directed to promote the honor and happiness of his country, you have nothing to wish for but a continuation of the unparalleled blessings you enjoy. Rejoice ye Patriots! Rejoice ye Friends of Mankind! Let those who struggled for independence, and those who enjoy the fruits of it, be equally grateful for the prosperity of this highly favored country. Ages to come, and nations yet unknown shall celebrate your country's fame, and their proudest boast shall be that their constitution and their government resembles yours. The tyrannies of Europe will drive commerce to your shores, and remove the light of science to your hemisphere. The manufacturer and mechanic will here seek an asylum from oppression and misery and their useful arts well established will render America the most powerful rival of Britain. Happy people, deserve your blessings, by a due appreciation of their inestimable value. CAROLINIENSIS.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
LIEUTENANT SOMERS.*
AS much as we lament the death of the late gallant SOMERS, it is, when we consider the melancholy circumstances which attended it, much more to be deplored. Had he fallen by the sword of the enemy, he would have found indeed a less heroic death, but one, which humanity would less regret—one, which would have left his friends more consolation, than the splendid page that shall be written for him in history. War was ever wrong, nevertheless, it must be suffered, until nations submit their cupidity to moral and natural law. If the customs which it sanctions leads to actions inconsistent with divine commandments, an individual thus misled, may in human judgment be absolved of crime, and his death alone be accounted as one of the atonements which God requires of man, for the disobedience of his laws. Somers lived like a christian; yet, when he contemplated the barbarity of the foe, and the disastrous consequences which would attend the survival of his enterprise, he embraced those principles countenanced by war, and died like an officer. If he yielded to the enthusiasm that seeks voluntary death, that rash courage which usurps the right of self-immolation, and that love of liberty which prefers death to slavery, it was because he thought them virtues without which no one could be a hero, and devoid of which, he could not in the existing warfare, faithfully serve his country.
Over the lives of his brave associates, he however had not the delegated right of war, and we believe, it would be injustice to his memory not to believe that he neither claimed, nor exercised it. Somers, though desperately brave, was yet generous and humane. Sooner would he have declined the honor that he did accept, and have foregone the opportunity of acquiring glory, than commanded the lives of his men; sooner would he have committed solitary suicide, than carried along with him one unwilling comrade. No, no cloud like this obscures his glory, or hides the fame of his self-devoted

A FRIENDLY ADDRESS TO THE JEWS.
JEWS, fellow citizens, on this globe, and conjoint passengers from this to a permanent, and to us yet an invisible world. Permit me in the language of benevolence, to solicit your attention to objects infinitely more important than the diadems of transitory existences, and the accumulation of delusive riches, which increase dissatisfaction and anxiety, but never conduct to the haven of a serene mind, and a contented spirit.
Nominal Jews and Christians for many ages have been substituting time in place of eternity, and external objects in place of spiritual substances, and have left the stage of time disappointed, and it is to be feared, have not bettered themselves by their passage into the world of spirits. Permit me then to expostulate with you as people whose happiness is the object of my concern. I have no prospect of preferment or honor from you. I am not solicitous to procure enmity against myself, or wantonly to provoke your resentment. Believe then that these lines flow from the heart of a friend, who highly esteems numbers of the Jewish nation.
I wish to be understood, that this address is not to such Jews, as would not part with a trifle of time-objects for all the glorious prospects which in proper order lie on the other side of the lines of time; but it is addressed to such Jews as make conscience of walking according to their own views of the Old Testament. Jews, citizens, fellow travellers, to that country, which finally receives all nations, and returns none to our terrestrial habitation—you have travelled far from the boundaries of the ancient promised land, and indeed I am afraid you have travelled over the limits of time prescribed for the fulfilment of a prediction which concerns all nations and all worlds, whether visible or invisible. As well as you, I believe in the divine mission of Moses, and the prophets—and in the divine prediction concerning the Messiah announced to make his appearance on this globe, and who after having furnished himself with a body, should retire to the spiritual world and create a new heaven, in which he would forever dwell, and reign with the faithful of all nations. Isaiah, chap. 65, ver. 17.
But Jews, dear friends, predictions should be understood, or we cannot conclude whether or not they are accomplished, or yet pending. To do justice to the matter under consideration, Understand, the persons to whom the promise is made, they are not beings composed of terrestrial elements, but immortal, and unperishing, rational creatures.
It would be a great error to mistake a house in which a person lives, to be an essential part of the inhabitant, who possesses the tenement. As great is the deviation from the truth, to think that a man's body which is composed of terrestrial substances is the real, essential man which inhabits that body.
The soul which is the true, real and essential man, by general and immutable laws appointed by the creator gradually from the initial formation of the embryo, assumes, puts on, and at the years of maturity, completely furnishes itself with a body in which it may transact its part, and at the close of the scene, finally put off these terrena elements, and proceed forward to an immutable stage of life.
In all this above related process, the personality of the human race is not destroyed—no, nor debilitated in any degree. A man is a rational being much more complete after putting off his house of clay, than he was when residing in the same. He puts on his earthly body, gradually, through the process of twenty years, or the aby, but immediately upon the dissolution of this transitory body, the soul is furnished with a complete tabernacle of spiritual substances, which in duration, shall be coeval with eternity. This then being the case, a promise of the Divine Being, made either to Jews or Gentiles, must be made to the immortal man, the true, real and essential being, and not to the body or house composed of elements, in which he resides for a few transitory years.
The misunderstanding of the term soul and the fallacies resulting therefrom, have crippled the intellects of countless myriads of the human race. In Europe, Asia, Africa and America, the term soul imports something that goes out of the person, or quits the man at death. Oh, ignorance unmeasurable, and infinitely fatal. If they understood the business properly, adequately and distinctly, they would know at the period termed death, that the whole essential man has evacuated the body or left his former habitation to proceed forward into a farther advanced stage of existence—and thus the term death, as applicable to man, would be considered as improper, unphilosophical and deceitful. The flesh and blood body put off at death, is of no more value to the spiritual man which departs therefrom, than old corn-stalks, and old tobacco-stems are useful for raising new crops of corn and tobacco. 2d Cor. chap. 5th. ver. 1—4.
When God promised to the Jews an everlasting inheritance for their obedience, he meant infinitely more than that he would give them a portion of Asiatic territory, to supply them a few years in a transitory life; and then suffer them to be annihilated, or pass into another world, unprovided with implements fit to communicate felicity. Such a promise had been ungodlike and destitute of real friendship.
The promise of the Supreme Being to all nations, imports something spiritual and eternal. When God promised Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, &c. that he would conduct them, provide them territory, food, raiment and other necessaries of life, he meant that not only in this momentary life would he provide them external necessaries and conveniences—but after departing from this external habitation, he would amply supply them with food, raiment and society of spiritual origin, and lasting as endless duration. Every external promise made to men by the Lord of heaven and earth, embraces in its interior a promise of spiritual substance, corresponding to the obvious external objects.
Then my friends, the Jews, the promised land so much contemplated, must not be expected to lie on the banks of the Asiatic Jordan, but in the invisible world, where these many centuries past, Abraham, Isaac, Elijah, Isaiah and the prophets, with all the faithful Jews are enjoying full possession, in fellowship with their substantial, spiritual and eternal Messias. If the Messias were to reside and reign in that promised territory of which ancient Jerusalem was the capital, then all the faithful Jews who have for four thousand years past departed this life, would be eternally deprived of his society and the advantages resulting therefrom.
There is no process either in the spiritual or temporal world, by which these ancient and faithful Jews, could return back into terrestrial habitations. Let none here say Omnipotence, if he pleased, might effect this point—No, Omnipotence has prescribed an order from which he never has nor will deviate—and from which he says in a consistency with his essence, he never can depart. By the immutable laws of the Eternal One, an acorn may process into a twig, and from thence into a sapling, and in that course of proceeding, at an hundred years, may arrive at the stature of an oak tree—but the Omnipotent has fixed no laws by which an aged oak may in retrograde order be reduced into a sapling, and from thence into an acorn as it was in its original state.
In like manner an embryo, or an infant, may process into manhood; but by no laws of Omnipotence can the old man be reduced to the infant, and embryo, and finally into tumbis parentum . From the same parity of reasoning, no manner of retrocession can exist by which Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, and numbers of obedient Jews who have hundreds and thousands of years since resided in a world of spirits, can again assume corporeal bodies or tabernacles, of elementary materials, and so to reside at Jerusalem or in Judea, with a Messias. As soon shall the soul of a grandfather become the soul of an embryo, or infant, as that departed Jews can return into flesh and blood and dwell with a Messias on this globe.
The consequence is that if a Messias were to appear according to the expectation of some honest, good hearted, yet mistaken Jews, all the old testament prophets, and all Jews now in the spiritual world would be at a distance from him, and he would only preside among a few Jews collected in this present generation; were a Messias to appear and continue on earth he would only be a prince to the most considerable part of the Jewish nation.
There are now existing in the spiritual world thirty Jews for one that at present lives on the four quarters of this globe. Forty generations of Jewish extraction have passed from this world and only one exists on earth.
Would a reign of a redeemer among such an inconsiderable portion of that nation as the above related implement, the prediction of a Messias as recorded in scripture, when the very individual prophets who predicted his advent would be themselves deprived of his presence if he existed in this external world, they being in the spiritual one. According to the pure divine prediction of Moses, and the prophets, the Messias must be such a person and in such a situation and place as that the confidence, the convocation, the gathering of the obedient Jews and Gentiles should be to him.
He must not reside at Jerusalem in Asia, but in the durable Jerusalem where already are convened all the pious Jews, and the righteous of all nations who have taken their departure from their sublunary habitations, & where to the end of time, all the pure people shall be assembled. Isaiah, chap. 25th. ver. 8.
No Messias on this earth would answer to the above description of the prophets. Leaving out of the question that small territory of the ancient promised land, the whole surface of this globe after multitudes of generations, would not be able to contain the faithful of all nations, admitting the possibility of their returning to this world. Daniel, chap. 7th. ver. 10.
O my dear friends, the Jews, make ready by obedience to the Lord's command to meet your Messias in the real substantial and spiritual promised land, where he has been for many ages reigning along with the righteous Jews, and the truly pious of all denominations.
If you prepare yourselves by obedience for the possession of this above described promised land, when you depart this life you will not be disappointed, and you then will remember the contents of this address.
Jews, dear friends, I hope you will not be offended with benevolent intentions. Farewell.
PHILOPRAGMOS. Foolscap & Letter Paper For sale at this office.
NEW-YORK, April 13. Capt. Worth, from Guadalupe, informs us that on the 23d of March, five leagues to the windward of Antigua, he spoke a British government armed brig, out three days from Antigua, the captain of which reported that the French squadron in the West Indies went from St. Kitts to Nevis, from thence to Anguilla, and were daily expected at Antigua; from which place it was supposed they would proceed to Jamaica.
Capt. Paddock, from the City of St. Domingo and Porto Rico, informs us, that the Haitian army appeared off St. Carlo the 5th March, and on the same morning shot a French general who was walking on the ramparts. On the 8th they crossed the river, and pitched their tents. On the 11th the French general Debarque, at the head of 400 troops, made a sortie from Fort Carlos, and routed the besiegers (who lost their commander, and one hundred troops) after a smart skirmish of four hours with the loss of only 3 men killed, and 5 wounded, including General Debarque, slightly. On the succeeding day General Ferrand ordered all the shipping to leave the port, on account of the injury they would sustain from the firing of the negroes; and compelled them to take on board all the women and children in the place, and convey them to Porto Rico. Capt. Paddock received sixty of these unfortunate persons on board his vessel. The garrison at St. Domingo consisted of about 4000 troops, well supplied with arms, ammunition, and provisions; and the commander in chief apprehended no danger from the threatened attack.
PHILADELPHIA, April 15. Extract of a letter, dated GUADALOUPE, March 16.
"I have to inform you, that the two French squadrons have united—one from Toulon, and the other from Rochefort. The latter has made terrible havoc amongst the enemy; from seven to eight hundred vessels, large and small having been taken, sunk, or burnt; besides which, the squadron has raised contributions in all the English windward islands. Spanish Trinidad alone, taken by the Toulon squadron, has escaped contribution, as the French have placed a garrison in it; and mean to keep it in their possession. The squadron consists of 23 sail of the line, and 21 frigates, besides 30 other vessels, such as corvettes, transports, &c. making in all 74 sail. The precise object of the expedition is a profound secret, all their officers having their orders sealed. It is said that there are 18,000 men on board this fleet. You may if you think proper, communicate the above information to your friends."
Capt. Dolliver, arrived at New-York, informs, that on the day he sailed, six English East India men left Madeira under convoy of the Mediator frigate; & that he left, lying off & on before Madeira, six English ships of the line, one of 98 guns and five of 74, under Vice-Admiral Cochrane, supposed to be in pursuit of the French fleet which had made its escape from Rochefort. They had been off the island two days; and the inhabitants, alarmed for their own safety, assembled to the number of 40,000 men in arms, and were making vigorous preparations for defence. The Frigate Egyptienne had arrived at Madeira, having captured two Spanish brigs and a schooner.
April 16. An English private schooner has been cruising off Sandy Hook, for the last four days. She boards all vessels going out or coming into N. York; and on Saturday last she fired six shots at the schr. Industry, from Savannah, one of which went through her mainsail. We have not learned her name; but understand she is from New Providence, whence she sailed two months ago.—She is a very small vessel, and has a crew of 36 men only. (Mer. Adv.)
The morning Chronicle says: "The schr. Hibernia, from Nova-Scotia, was boarded on Sunday by the above privateer, close in with the Hook, and pressed one man, name John McIntire, a native of Digby; the boarding officer says, she was engaged in pressing men for the Cambrian frigate, and intended shortly to sail for Halifax. A few days since, she took 3 men from the British ship Estherlindo, for London, soon after discharging her pilot."
From late Jamaica papers, we learn, that intelligence of the French squadron having arrived in the West-Indies was received at Kingston on the 9th of March; and that every necessary measure was adopting to repel any act of hostility which might be contemplated against an island of so much importance to the mother-country. (Mer. Adv.)
Extract of letter from a gentleman in Huntington, to his friend in Lancaster, dated March 25, 1805.
"A Coal-mine was, some years since, discovered upon the lands of Samuel Riddle, esq. on the Raystown branch of the Juniata, about 25 miles southwest of this place; which promises fair to be a source of great profit to the proprietor, and convenience to the inhabitants of this and other towns on or near the river."
"In the course of the last spring, some persons, in the neighborhood of the mine, obtained permission to dig coal, which they carried down the river; and, although the greater part of what they dug was taken from the surface of the
bank; and, through want of care mixed with slate and gravel; the character given of the coal was such, as to encourage Mr. Riddle to employ an experienced miner, who has lately opened the mine to a considerable extent, and discovered a second stratum of pure coal, running in a horizontal line, of the thickness of 10 feet and upwards."
"From this mine, 2 laborers with a cart and a pair of oxen, dig and carry to the river 120 bushels per day."
"Several boatmen have, for some weeks past been engaged in preparing craft to carry the coal to market, and 4 or 5 arks will be in readiness, to set out, for Harrisburg and Columbia, with the first flood."
"I understand that Mr. Riddle sells the coal to the boatmen, upon the bank, at 7 or 8 cents per bushel. What price they will be able to afford it at, in Columbia, I cannot say; but as the neighborhood of the mine abounds in excellent timber for arks, which cannot be built at a trifling expense, I have not a doubt but that, if such encouragement were given as to induce the boatmen of the neighborhood generally to engage in the trade, the citizens of Lancaster could in the course of the next season, procure an abundant supply, upon very moderate terms."
OFFICIAL INFORMATION. The Spanish Consul, near the United States, residing in Philadelphia, informs the Merchants of the United States, that the port of St. Augustine, in Florida, is open, for the importation of provisions; but in order to be admitted, they must procure a passport from the respective Spanish Consuls residing in the United States.
[The following is extracted from the third number of "The Philadelphia Medical Museum," conducted by John Redman Coxe, M. D. of Philadelphia, and just published by Mr. Thomas Dobson, at No. 41, South Second Street.]
The following valuable extract from a Paris paper, (the Gazette Nationale ou le Moniteur Universel, for Oct. 4, 1804) will doubtless be read with the highest satisfaction by the friends of vaccination throughout America, as an ample proof, in addition to former testimonials, of the security obtained by that practice against the small pox.
"His excellency the minister of the interior, has communicated to the central society of the vaccine established near him, the result of a counter-proof which by the concurrence of circumstances accompanying it, ought to make an epoch in the history of vaccination."
"Six black children, the first who were vaccinated in the Isle de la Reunion, (Isle de Bourbon) and whose infection afterwards served for more than 5000 other individuals, were embarked in the vessel, the young Caroline, (infected with the small pox) and carried to one of the Isles des Seychelles, where the vessel was obliged to perform quarantine. These six children remained three months on board, constantly placed in the focus of the infection; and pains were taken to make them live, eat and sleep with the infected. They were also, during the quarantine, twice inoculated for the small pox, each time with large incisions in both arms. It is stated by the register, daily kept, that these six children having slept under the bed clothes of the persons having the small pox, in contact with their pustules, eating and drinking out of the same utensils, having been twice inoculated from those, who afterwards fell victims to their disorder, were preserved from all contagion, and continue at the present time in perfect health."
"This counter-proof is perhaps the strongest in the history of vaccination, from the particular circumstance, that these six children after reaching the place of quarantine, lived for 15 days in the midst of twenty blacks in the confluent small pox, of whom six are dead; of twenty to twenty-five other blacks in the state of scabbing, desiccation and convalescence, seven of which number died before the vessel arrived; and all were contained between decks of a small vessel, in a space of 8 feet by 10 or 12. This counter-proof merits a place in the immense collection of useful experiments made in Europe upon vaccination; it fulfils moreover, the important end proposed by government, and it confirms in the most unqualified manner the anti-virol property, which the numerous trials made by the most distinguished physicians had attached to the new inoculation."
It is to be hoped that after reading the above, even the most sceptical will be convinced, & that stricter attention to the anomalies of the disease, will serve to explain the supposed cases of subsequent small pox; and enable us to guard against their future recurrence.
EDITOR.
BALTIMORE, April 17. GENERAL FERRAND'S SPEECH. The following is the translation of a paper, which the editors of the American were favored with by a gentleman of this city.
Speech of general Ferrand, to the soldiers and inhabitants, on the walls of Saint Domingo, in the presence of the Brigadiers.
FRENCH SOLDIERS, and inhabitants of St. Domingo! IT is here you must remain—It is here you must either fight or perish—It is here the All Powerful God has marked out the place for vengeance—It is here you ought
to revenge the names of your fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, wives, children and friends, who all perished by blood-thirsty hands—by the monsters who surround us! It is here that you ought to shew what the valor of a chosen few are able to perform against a number of assassins!—It is here where the field is harked out for victory!
Do not be frightened at those cannibals; they appear only here strong by treacherous murder against those who are not able to defend themselves. But what can their numerous cohort do against brave soldiers and a place fortified by nature and art? Soon you will see them dispersed and fall at the foot of these ramparts.
They will perhaps tell you that they have conquered every town in St. Domingo, though they were fortified and defended by very brave troops. Pure illusions! They to be called conquerors! They only conquered those towns which were surrendered to them by treachery and treason—none sure was taken by true force, except St. Jago; which, though ill fortified and defended by a handful of inhabitants, has shown what valor could do against such enemies. Eighteen hundred of those barbarians have hit the dust, and we shall soon give a good account of the remainder of their army.
Inhabitants of St. Domingo; I do not know, if your misfortunes can bear a comparison to the direful necessity which forces us to give battle, having no place for a retreat, on one side surrounded by brigands—on the other the sea: having not one single vessel either to fly or to escape to—no other alternative offers but victory alone—I repeat it again, it is here you must perish or conquer! Have courage now, let us fight, and victory will be our lot.
[An anonymous friend, (French from the hand writing) conveyed to us, a few days since, the following for publication, which has been accidentally overlooked. —Not knowing the source whence it came, we cannot vouch for its authenticity]
"I have received a letter from an American gentleman at St. Martin's dated the 14th ult. which says, that two French squadrons, one from Toulon, the other from Rochefort, amounting to 20 or 24 sail of the line, besides 15 or 18 frigates had united."
"A strange gentleman, who had disembarked from on board that flotilla, communicated to some persons of respectability in that country that five squadrons had sailed from different ports; that they had embarked as many soldiers, arms, &c. as they could possibly contain, the destination of which was unknown."
"The same gentleman adds, that tremendous preparations had been made to take Gibraltar; meantime it was their intention to attempt the landing in England. He also says, that a short time after having crossed the straits, a corvette, which had separated from the squadron before Gibraltar, (composed of 60 vessels of the line) joined us, and gave to our commander a bundle of papers, containing advices of the TAKING GIBRALTAR BY ASSAULT." (Telegraphe.)
UNION, April 15.
BONES OF GEN. BRADDOCK. On the 8th July, 1755, the army of Gen. Braddock was defeated, and himself killed by the French and Indians within ten miles of Pittsburgh. The ground on which the battle was fought is known by the name of Braddock's field. The General received a musket shot through the right arm and lungs, of which he died in a few hours, having been carried off the field by the bravery of lieutenant colonel Gage, and another of his officers. His body was buried at the encampment of the rear division of his army, 9 miles eastward of this place. It seems that the great road leading from Fort Cumberland to Union Town, was accidentally laid out so as to pass over his grave. The road having been much cut with waggons and the earth swept away by rain, the bones of the General have been lately discovered in the bottom of the road, and taken up: several of them are now in this town. They appear sound, and are very large—from the best information it appears unquestionable, that the place from whence these bones were taken, is the spot in which the body of the General was interred.
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Delegates chosen to serve in the next General Assembly of Virginia.
List of names: D. Widdie, Joseph Goodwyn, Thomas Bolling Robertson, Nottoway, Dr. James Jones, Lamkin, Goochland, Wm. R. Fleming, Thos. Miller, Powhatan, Frederick Woodson, Thomas Miller, Buckingham, John Pitman, Edward Jones, Botetourt, Martin M'Ferran, John Beale, Montgomery, John Ingles, Lewis, Northumberland, John Crawley, John Miller, York, Thomas Pescud, Peyton Southall.
On Wednesday the 17th inst. the PRESIDENT of the United States returned to the city of Washington from Monticello, in good health.
MASSACHUSETTS ELECTION.
The returns by the last mail, (up to the 9th inst.) contain the amount of votes from 290 towns, and are as follows: For His Excellency Caleb Strong 29,013 Hon. James Sullivan 25,794 Present federal majority, 3,219
We are told, that the president of the U. States has appointed JOHN B. C. LUCAS, Esq. chief justice of the courts of Upper Louisiana. (Pittsburg pap.)
Capt. John Shaw, we understand, is to take command of the frigate John Adams, and will sail for the Mediterranean about the 1st of next month. (Phil. Gaz.)
Col. Burr, it is reported, is to be appointed Gov. of Louisiana, in the room of W. C. C. Claiborne.
In the N. E. Congressional District of Vermont, Mr. Fiske, the Republican candidate, is elected in opposition to Gen. Chamberlain, the present Member, a Federalist.
IMPORTANT—IF TRUE.
Capt. Morrison, arrived in Philadelphia, from the Bay of Honduras, was, on the 4th inst. in lat. 30, long. 76, brought to by a French armed schooner, who took capt. M. on board, threatened him for not heaving to as soon as in sight. The lieutenant of the schooner, in the absence of the captain, informed capt. M. that she was a national schr. 28 days from France, was bound for St. Domingo with dispatches; and after that, to cruise in the Gulph; that, previous to sailing, a French and Spanish fleet of 34 ships of the line, and a number of gun-boats, had made a descent on Gibraltar, AND CARRIED IT; and that another French fleet had sailed from France, in order to capture all the British West-India Islands; and further, that a British 74 had been lost on the Marinella reef.
The Greenock Advertiser, of the 11th January, says, "Letters have lately been received from the Baptist Missionaries at Serampore. They were all well on the 28th April last. Five natives have been baptized and added to the Church since last accounts. Several of the Christian Hindoos discover good talents for public usefulness among their countrymen. The four Missionaries who sailed from New-York in the last summer, and who were heard of from the Cape de Verd Islands in July last, had not arrived, but were daily expected when these advices came away."
The following is a description of a CA-MELEON, new exhibiting in New-York, which arrived there, from Senegal, in the schooner Hope:—
"This animal is a production of Africa, is 11 inches in length, his head near 2 inches; from thence to the beginning of the tail four and an half; the tail is five inches long, and the feet two and an half; the thickness of the body is different at different times, as it can blow itself up and contract itself at pleasure. This swelling and contraction is not only of the back and belly, but of the legs and tail. Its subsistence is air; but sometimes is known to feed upon flies, one of which it is half an hour in swallowing. It possesses the power of changing to various colours, such as black, white, yellow, red, &c."
A gentleman having lately sent to Mr. Boulton, of Soho, near Birmingham, two dollars, of unequal diameters, and with some difference in the marks of them, requesting that he would inform him by what means the counterfeit could be distinguished from the real coin, received a letter in answer from that gentleman, from which we have made the following extracts for the information and satisfaction of our readers, and the public at large.
"Sird, In reply to the letter you have honored me with, of the 18th inst. it is proper I should inform you the Spanish dollars sent to me for recoinage, were all of different sizes; and some of them were even a quarter of an inch in diameter larger than others; so that it was impossible to coin them as mine were done, without previously assorting them into three different classes; in consequence of which, I was under the necessity of making my dies of three different sizes, and there being scarcely room for the dot, or period, adjoining the X. in the small size, it was left out; but if you find a dollar of the large or the middle size without a dot, or of the small size with a dot, you may be assured it is a counterfeit."
SUPERSTITION—The following astonishing instance of Superstition could scarcely have been expected in the present enlightened Era: "The remains of St. Anna were lately found at Augsburg; she had been a Priestess of Venus in the ages of Pagan idolatry, but embraced the Christian Religion, with her three maids. A festival was instituted at Augsburg, on the discovery of her remains, which lasted 8 days, and ended on Sunday the 29th of last month. During that celebration, the skeleton of the Saint was publicly exposed in a glass-case, for the Roman Catholic believers. Some devout Ladies of Augsburg have presented the Saint with large diamond rings, golden chains for her neck, and a silver crown of laurel covered with pearls, for which they took receipts enabling them to reclaim their presents in case that Patroness of the Bishopric of Augsburg should be at any time secularized. During the feast there was an immense concourse of people from the neighborhood, particularly from Bavaria; at least one hundred thousand people came from ten to twenty hours journey. The great silver offering dish which was placed before the glass case of the Saint, filled so rapidly with the donations of the devotees, that the monks were obliged to empty it several times in a day. A sermon was preached every day, painting, in the most glowing colors, the heroic martyrdom of that great sinner, (she was a Priestess of Venus before her confession,) the miracles she had hitherto performed, and the great benefits she had conferred, for these 1500 years upon the city and Bishopric of Augsburg; lamenting, at the same time, that the Protestant inhabitants could not enjoy her efficacious intercession with the Almighty. A Papal indulgence was affixed to the porch of the Church, promising forgiveness of sins out of the treasure of grace of the Church, for two hundred days, to all the faithful who should confess their sins, take the sacrament, give large collections to the Saints, and earnestly pray to God for the eradication of all heretics. A very productive collection was made among the Roman Catholic Citizens, to defray the expenses of the feast; and a superb sarcophagus is preparing to preserve the bones of St. Anna next year. —Lon. Pofi.
In Acerbi's travels lately published, the production of an interesting and intelligent writer, the author, whose route was through Sweden, Finland and Lapland, gives a concise and curious account of a Finnish bath. To a European or an American who lives in a lower latitude the toleration of so intense a heat, and the immediate transition to a degree of cold, the opposite extreme, as is related by this traveller, would seem to border on the incredible. The Finlanders enter their baths, both sexes promiscuously, and apparently without any sense of indecency; and continue in them for a half or whole hour, when the room is heated by water thrown upon a pile of hot stones, till the thermometer (one of a hundred degrees, by Celsius) stands at the 70 or 75th degree. The author entered one of them, but the heat of it was so oppressive he was obliged immediately to leave it to avoid suffocation. Yet the inhabitants who are in the habit of bathing several times a week feel no inconvenience from the practice—but say they receive new spirits from the use of it, and leave the bath as much refreshed as after sleep or a feast. But what renders the account very singular is, that from this extraordinary degree of warmth they immediately go into the open air, when the cold is 20 or 30 degrees below zero, which is a difference of one hundred degrees, and roll themselves in the snow without the least covering over them; while travellers are hastening in their sledges, wrapped up in the warmest furs to screen the severity of the weather. This affords us a striking reflection upon what the constitution can bear, when inured to it by constant habit. The author concludes his remarks as follows: "Had Shakespeare known of a people who could thus have pleasure in such quick transitions from excessive heat to the severest cold, his knowledge might have been increased, but his creative fancy could not have been assisted."
"Oh! who can hold a fire in his hand, By thinking of the frosty Caucasus! Or yellow naked in December snow By thinking on the fantastic Summer's charms?"
COWPER THE POET.
The following humorous letter of the above admired author (written previously to the publication of the first volume of his Poems) will show the facility of his rhyming talent:—
"TO THE REV. JOHN NEWTON. My very dear friend, I am going to send, what, when you
have read, you may scratch your head, and say, I suppose, there's nobody knows, whether what I have got, be verse or not: by the tune and the time, it ought to be rhyme; but if it be, did you ever see, of late or of yore, such a ditty before? "I have writ for Charity, not for popularity, but as well as I could, in hopes to do good; and if the reviewer should say, "to be sure the gentleman's muse wears old fashioned shoes, you may know by her pace, and talk about grace, that she and her bard, have little regard for the taste and fashions, and ruling passions, and hounding play of the modern day;—and though she assume, a borrowed plume, and now and then wear, a tittering air, 'tis only her plan, to catch if she can, the giddy and gay, as they go that way, by a production, on a new construction: she has baited her trap, in hopes to snap all that move, with a sugar-plum." His opinion in this will not be amiss; 'tis what I intend my principal end, and if I succeed, and folks should read, till a few are brought to a serious thought, I shall think I am paid for all I have said; and all I have done, though I have run, many time after a rhyme, as far as from hence to the end of my sense, and by hook or crook, write another book, if I live and am here another year. I have heard before of a room with a floor, laid upon springs, and such like things, with so much art in every part, that when you went in, you were forced to begin a minuet pace, with an air and a grace, swimming about, now in and now out, with a deal of state, in a figure of eight, without pipe or string, or any such thing: and now I have writ, in a rhyming fit, what will make you dance, and as you advance, will keep you still, though against your will, dancing away, alert and gay, till you come to an end of what I have penn'd; which that you may do, ere madam and you are quite worn out with jigg'ing about, I take my leave; and here you receive a bow profound, down to the ground, from your humble me, W. C. July 12, 1781.
SCRAP. In a late Providence paper, a black-smith advertises a vice which has been stolen from him. He must be a vicious thief that can steal vices. [Balance.]
ANECDOTES.
The Anvil and Bellows. A splenetic blacksmith that fancied himself sick, would frequently tease a neighboring Physician to give him relief; the Physician knowing him to be in perfect health, yet not willing to offend him, told him he must be very careful in his diet, and not eat any thing that was heavy or windy. The Blacksmith went off satisfied—but on casting in his mind what food was heavy and windy, and being ignorant, back he posts to the doctor, who being out of patience with his patient, said, "do not you know what things are heavy and windy?" "No," answered the blacksmith—"why then I will tell you" said the doctor, "there's your anvil is heavy, and your bellows are windy—do not eat either and you will do well enough."
A clergyman and a chimney sweeper meeting one morning—Well, 20 chimneys this morning, I suppose, says the parson. Yes, pretty good luck, says the sweeper—we black coats get money easy enough!
NEWYORK LOTTERY—No. III.
FOR THE PROMOTION OF LITERATURE. Third day's drawing. Prizes of 100 dollars—Nos. 8208 2731 17558. Prizes of 50 dollars—Nos. 32032 28577 13795. Prizes of 20 dollars—Nos. 11298 1019 19837 14439 17440 10392 9187 25876 32323—and 155 of 10 dollars. Gain of the wheel this day, $1420. Fourth day's drawing. Prize of 200 dollars—No. 21650. Prize of 100 dollars—No. 14770. Prize of 50 dollars—No. 4640. Prizes of 20 dollars—Nos. 2383 13032 31197 20309 11773 31118—and 130 of 10 dollars. Gain of the wheel this day $1830.
LEXINGTON LOTTERY.
Fourth day's drawing. 275 Tickets were drawn this day. Prize of 500 dollars—No. 1066. Prize of 50 dollars—No. 2700. Prizes of 30 dollars—Nos. 4710 2624 2493 4104. Wheel's gain this day, 466 dollars.
SUFFICIENT Attention not having been paid to a late request made by the Commissioners, appointed to conduct the Lottery, for the benefit of William & Mary College; "That all persons holding tickets for said Lottery, make a return of their sales; together with the tickets remaining unsold, to Robert Greenhow, esq. of Williamsburg." They are again earnestly urged, to return without delay, the tickets sold on credit; and the cash received, to him the aforesaid Robert Greenhow of Williamsburg, B. W. Leigh, esq. Petersburg, George Tucker or Samuel Pleasants, esqrs. Richmond, or Wm. Newry, esq. Norfolk—as the drawing of the Lottery will commence in Norfolk, during the first week in May—and as it is deemed necessary that the future sales of Tickets be confined to the towns above mentioned; Notice is hereby given, that no sales will be made after the first of May, by any persons whatever; except by the gentlemen before mentioned, or by one of the Commissioners. April 22d, 1805. 5t
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Mutual Insurance of Virginia.
THERE are some people in this country, who have under various shapes attempted to destroy this philanthropic institution; to build on its ruin a mercenary company;—hence their agents, who expect to get some lucrative offices, go about with smiling faces and propagate falsehoods—such that it is all over—the legislature has destroyed it—it is knocked on the head—that those who remain in the Town Mutual Insurance would be ruined—that the quotas would swallow up the whole amount of their buildings, &c. They know better, but any thing serves their nefarious purposes. That their assertions are fallacious can easily be proved; a gentleman, whose house is on the capitol square, isolated from others, built of brick and he says is covered with bricks, told me himself, that he pays annually in the Phoenix office one guinea for each hundred pounds insured: Then if he had insured here (the institution was organized in 1795) he would have paid on entering one per centum, and in 1799 one per cent. for his quota, which makes it for ten years insurance only two per cent. when he has paid abroad ten & an half percent! Then if he was now to pay eight quotas and an half at once, he would still stand upon a better footing than if insured abroad. Losses must happen and befall the insured houses only, to upwards of a million and an half of dollars before he would have to pay eight per cent. or eight quotas. There being actually entered in the towns and suburbs, upwards of five thousand buildings, amounting to upwards of five millions of dollars, and will under the new rates yield premiums to upwards of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. Then as not half the buildings in the towns and suburbs are not insured yet, losses must happen to the amount of three hundred and forty thousand dollars, for we must naturally suppose that the insured and uninsured houses may be equally affected, before it will take one premium. The contribution under the new rates will be on a house insured for one thousand dollars, to wit:
Table with 3 columns: If built of Brick covered with slate dollars, Brick covered with wood dollars, All wood dollars. Rows show costs for contiguous, not contiguous, and various other conditions.
The foregoing statement shows how little those whose buildings stand not contiguous to others, or in the suburbs or small towns, have to contribute to such an enormous loss of one hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
On account of the high premiums which those whose buildings are situated on the wharves have to pay, several are already withdrawing, and I believe they all will withdraw, then we shall hardly ever have such considerable losses again: had it not been for the Norfolk fires, no quota would ever have been necessary, and I think that one premium would have insured the people for ever, because the insurance would have become general.
On a fair estimate it will be found that the buildings in the towns and suburbs amount at least to twelve millions of dollars, and as the premiums under the new rates will average about four per cent. if they were all insured, the stock which one premium would raise would be four hundred and eighty thousand dollars, and the annual interest thereon at eight per cent. which I believe can be made, would be 38,400 dollars, then from forty to fifty houses must burn every year (which is well known is not the case) before it would absorb the interest, this shows the great advantage, that the insurance be made general, which might easily be done, by taking off the sheep-skins of those wolves, and show them to the world, in their natural deformity, as birds of prey, and let the good citizens of this state, not believe their unfounded assertions, but unite generally to succor each other, when the expense will be a mere trifle; however although the insurance in towns is not yet general, and although a few, only twenty three in the whole state, having withdrawn since the separation, no doubt new ones will come in, and I am confident, that at all events, the Mutual Insurance will flourish, as all good things ought to do, in spite of those few intriguing speculators. They may in vain cry out, to pave the way to their mercenary system, that nothing but annual premiums will do; but why pester the people every year with payments, let them pay only when it is necessary. To hide their schemes here, they tell the people, it is better to insure in the Phoenix office, it will, say they, cost you less, although they know to the contrary. I have shown this above, and the rates which have been put in some papers I believe are only as a bait, for I have seen a New York paper, which positively declares after those rates, that the southern states shall pay fifty per cent. more, than the northern states; which makes it on a wooden building one and
one half per cent. per annum:—Then one out of every sixty seven buildings must burn yearly, before our quotas will come up to that, which would be out of twelve thousand houses contained in our towns and suburbs, one hundred and seventy-nine or to the amount of 179,000 dollars, which must be destroyed by fire every year, before the quotas will come up to those annual premiums. Gracious goodness preserve us from such disasters—and still those intriguers tell us, that it is cheaper to insure in an Insurance Company.
Those deluders exclaim, the Mutual Insurance, will not do for the towns—they ought (if they were capable) to blush, when nine years experience have proved the contrary: for before the special agents were sent in the country only about two years ago, very few were insured in the country, and notwithstanding the most extraordinary fires which have taken place, and befall generally the insured houses, two premiums have been enough to pay the losses and expenses for upwards of ten years, to which in fact the country people contributed very little, as the greatest part had not paid their premiums before the fires happened.
One truth they will let slip out, they say ah! the country Insurance is excellent—we need not to thank them for that: for we all know that it will flourish, and that in all human probability, one premium will hereafter insure the country houses for ever: & so it would have been for the whole towns and country, had my original plan been followed, to have an Agent in each town and each county, and paid them what was afterwards improperly called Tax on the policy: but it was not a tax on the policy, but became an additional premium paid into the Treasury for the use of the society: but they knew well that if those agents were so appointed and paid, that the insurance would become general, which by their intrigues they have hitherto prevented: but I am confident, that hereafter the Mutual Insurance will increase let them say what they please.
When they cannot get any farther they say that the Towns ought to be entirely separated—the cloyen foot may easily be seen, that some expect to get some offices in the Town Insurance. But will the people at large agree to it? I believe not when they find that their transactions are kept in separate Books—and will separately be stated—and as the expenses are to be paid agreeable to the sums insured in the towns and those insured in the country; as there is no doubt but the country people will insure almost to a man, the share of the expenses for the towns will be a mere trifle. By keeping together, the expenses will be less for both, as the same officers can do the business.
On a fair recapitulation, I believe, it will be found, that for thirty years back there have hardly been destroyed by fire, more than five hundred houses in the towns amounting to four hundred thousand dollars, then it would average seventeen buildings amounting to seventeen thousand dollars per annum, which is not one eight per cent. a year.
Then if there were in future eight times as many houses destroyed by five than there have been heretofore, which is not probable and next to an impossibility, still in such most extraordinary case, which is not like to happen, the quotas would only come up to the premium paid in an Insurance Company.
Now let the thinking man decide, which of the two systems is the best—and it will easily be found that the Mutual Insurance is preferable to any other:—it being founded on mutual assistance in distress, philanthropy—where many unite the security is undoubted.
For a man to stand his own insurer, the risk is too great; for if his house is destroyed by fire he loses the whole—if therefore he was only to join with ten, he would lose only the tenth part, &c. and as there is no doubt a vast many more will insure in the Mutual Insurance, the contribution can never be considerable.
W. F. AST. Richmond, 19th April, 1805.
FOR SALE,
A Likely Mulatto Girl, About fifteen years of age, who has been bro't up to house business, and is a good seamstress. Enquire of the printer. 2 April 23, 1805.
TO RENT,
THE HOUSE & LOT,
ON Shockoe Hill, lately occupied by Mr. John Pendleton; now newly painted and repaired, and in every respect fit for the immediate reception of a family, having all necessary out-houses, &c. Apply to Benjamin Wolfe, adjoining the premises, or to Joseph Gallego. April 22, 1805.
THE public is hereby notified that some of the Cells of the Lunatic Hospital in the City of Williamsburg are now vacant for the reception of patients. By order of the Court of Directors, WILL: RUSSELL, o. e. March 28, 1805. 3w
MILLINERY.
MRS. BUCKNER having commenced business in Manchester in the line of MILLINERY & MANTUA MAKING, respectfully solicits the patronage of her friend and the public. She has on hand at present a small assortment of the articles necessary in that line of business and shortly expects to receive from New-York an additional supply. All commands from the country will be faithfully and punctually attended to. April 17, 1805.
BANK BONDS
For sale at this office.

THE CELEBRATED HIGH BLOODED ENGLISH HORSE, OSCAR, FULL sixteen hands high, imported by me last summer, after having seen him the year before, and satisfied myself as to his reputation, is now in fine health, full of vigor and muscular strength, and will be let to mares, the ensuing season, at my stables, in Charles City county, Sandy Point, at Six Guineas the season, which may be discharged by the payment of Three Guineas, on or before the tenth day of August next: Three Guineas the leap, and Ten to insure a foal: A Dollar to the groom. Pastures as extensive as any in the state, and inferior to none for natural grass, especially the white clover, which abounds to a wonderful degree in the months of April, May and June, as also after harvest, that succession of crab and other grass, which so plentifully takes place here, will be afforded, with entertainment for servants, free from charge. No liability for involuntary escapes, nor will I be responsible for any injuries or accidents which may not be the result of wanton neglect or abuse, as I here give my word to the public, that no pains nor assiduity shall be wanting on my part to render satisfaction, without respect to persons, to every gentleman who thinks it to send mares for the season. This very extraordinary stallion, cost me, when landed in this state, greatly upwards of one thousand pounds, and without meaning to detract from the merits of any other, I can safely venture to say, is the most perfect horse in Virginia; for the most critical observer has not yet been able to discover a single defect or blemish in him, either as to activity, strength, or beauty. Nothing can excel him in the neck, ear and eye; so bald, gay, and full of fire is he, that he fascinates in spite of prejudice every beholder, that instant he is brought into view.
I would endeavor to give a full description of him, for the satisfaction of those gentlemen who cannot conveniently visit me, but in the attempt I might do him injustice, and therefore, I invite the most scrupulous examination of him, even by those who think themselves competent judges in this respect, and I do not fear the result. In short, it will not be deemed extravagant to say, he is, of his kind, the best of nature.
"OSCAR" is a dark brown, was got by Saltram, the best horse in his day, (who was the sire of Whiskey, and many good racers)—his dam by High Flyer—grandam by Herod—great grandam (Miss Middleton) by Regulus—great grandam (Camilla) by a son of Bay Bolton, Bartlett's Chinders. Honeywood's Arabian, dam of the two True Blues."
In 1798, at New-Market, at three years old, he won a handicap sweepstakes of 15 guineas each, two year old course, beating Lord Clermont's b c by Drumator, Mr. Howarth's b c Mouse, Mr. Adams' b c Cypress, Mr. Watson's b c Duplicity; two to one on Oscar.
At Lambourn, he was second best, four mile heats against Heart of Oak and others, running three heats. In 1799, he won the Oatlands Stakes of fifty guineas each, h h ditch (10 subscribers) beating Lord Grosvenor's ch Lady Bull, Mr. Heathcote's b c Water, Sir F. Standish's b c Stamford, Mr. Durand's Play or Pay, Mr. Cookson's b h Ambrosio, Lord Clermont's b h Almaton, Lord G. Cavendish's b h by Jupiter. The judges could only place the first five.
24 May, the same year, he won at Bracket Hall, 50L for all ages, heats about one mile and a quarter, beating Sir Charles Bunbury's Combaunt, 4 years old, Mr. Bowis's Saddler, 5 years old.
In October, he won the Oatlands stakes, of 30 guineas each, (18 subscribers) beating Mr. Tharpe's b c Chipmunk, Mr. Williamson's b c by Buzzard, out of Rachel, Lord Clermont's A-mator, Lord Grosvenor's ch Lady Bull, Sir C. Bunbury's Wrangler, Sir F. Pool's b h by Dragon, Mr. Howard's Speculator, Mr. Ladbrooke's Humbug. The judge could only place the first 3.
In 1800, at New-Market, April 14th, he won the Craven stakes, of 10 guineas each, across the Flat, at 4 years old, carrying 8 stone 5 lbs, free for all ages, beating the Duke of Grafton's b c First Fruits, Lord Clermont's b c by Mescor, Mr. Cookson's b h Diamond, Mr. Coventry's b c Vohaire, Mr. O'Kelley's Grey Pilot, Mr. Durand's Ramshoon (late Princess) Mr. Dashwood's Play or Pay, and Sir F. Standish's b c by Sir Peter, out of Storage. The judge could only place the first five. Even betting, Oscar against the field.
In the same month and place, he won a subscription plate of 50L beating Mr. R. Heathcote's ch f. Georgiana, Mr. Haller's b. f. Quiz, Mr. O'Kelley's Antim, Lord Clermont's ch c Veruator, Mr. G. King's b c by Ballon, Mr. Travis' Ballarina, Mr. Perrin's Pizarro, and Lord Grosvenor's ch c by Buzzard. The judge could only place the first three, 7 to 4 on Oscar.
He was second best for the King's plate of 100 guineas, for four years old, carrying 11 stone, running against Sir F. Pool's Worthy, by Pot-8-o's, and Sir F. Standish's b h by Stamford, 5 years old.
In October, New-Market, he received forfeit of Mr. Heathcote's Worthy, for 500 guineas, across the Flat, half forfeit. For these remarkable instances of speed and bottom, in so young a horse, I refer the reader to the Racing Calendar for 1798, '99, and 1800.
William Lightfoot. Sandy Point, February, 1805. w15Jy N. B. The Season will commence immediately
W. WARDLAW, IS now opening at his shop on the Main street in Richmond, opposite Mr. Taylor's Vendue Office, a large importation of  MEDICINES, Received directly from London, also a general assortment of SURGEON'S INSTRUMENTS, SHOP FURNITURE, MECHANIC AIR-MACHINES, PATENT MEDICINES, &c. &c. It is his intention to keep, at all times, a supply of Genuine Medicines, sufficient to answer the current demand; which will be sold low for cash or on the usual credit to those who will give him sufficient assurances of punctuality.
November 20th, 1804. wtf  TO PRINTERS. Printing Materials for Sale. I own Pica, English, Double Pica, Two-Lines English, French Canon, Four-Lines Pica, Five-Lines Pica, Seven-Lines Pica, Nine-Lines Pica, Thirteen-Lines Pica, Sixteen-Lines Pica, Nineteen-Lines Pica, Quotations, Foolscap and Demy Shases, and Cases, PROSSER & MOUNCURE. Richmond, March 26, 1805. wtf
JUST RECEIVED, at S. P. Evans's Book-Store Richmond, a very elegant assortment of the best  PEN KNIVES, Which will be sold by the six to or dozen.
The Celebrated English Stallion, BUZZARD, SO famous for getting capital racers, is just arrived from London, and will cover mares at my stable, in Greensville county, on Nottoway river, about 6 miles below where the great stage road crosses it, at the lower Cut Bank bridge, at Ten Guineas each, and a Dollar to the groom, to be discharged any time before the 1st day of October next by the payment of forty dollars; but no discount will be made if paid after that day. Buzzard is a chestnut horse of good size, and of excellent blood; for his beauty, shape and appearance I leave others to decide; as a racer, the Calendars declare him most capital, having won (and generally at New-Market) 34 races. He is undoubtedly among the best stallions that has ever appeared in England, for the proof of which I beg leave to refer gentlemen to the Racing Calendars of that country, and which are to be seen at his stand.
In 1799, the first of Buzzard's stock appeared on the turf; in that year he had five winners, in 1800 he had seven, in 1801 he had fourteen, (several of those won 7 and 8 times each in that year) In 1802 he had sixteen winners, and in 1803 he had twenty-one. This is the last Calendar that has come to hand. It is to be observed, that Buzzard's stock have very generally run at New-Market, (where all the best horses go) and many of them have proved uncommonly good racers; among them are Hornby Lass, Pec. Poggiag, Quin, Surprise, Malta, Mervynian, Sophia, Miss Bailey, and a great many others: It is also to be observed, that no stallion in England had as many winners in 1803, by seven, as Buzzard had—The famous horse Sir Peter Teazle had only fourteen, Trumpeter thirteen only, John Bull fourteen, Beamingbrough fourteen, Volunteer nine, and Whiskey 9—Those horses are acknowledged by all gentlemen conversant with the turf, to be the best stallions now in England. Buzzard has been well proved a good stallion; for which reason, I beg leave to recommend him strongly to the gentlemen of the turf, and such others as have well bred mares, not doubting but a good proportion of his stock will turn out racers.
In the five years above mentioned Buzzard's colts won 161 races. The great value of this horse will, I trust, be an apology for the price he is to cover at, however I wish gentlemen to come and view him, and see themselves the performance of his colts in the calendars, and I hope they will admit he does not stand too high. Good pasture gratis; servants who attend the mares boarded at 10/6 a week; corn furnished at the market price, and the greatest attention paid to the mares, but no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Notes for ten guineas will be expected with the mares by NATHANIEL RIVES.
March, 1805 N. B. The season will commence the 15th inst. and end the 1st of August. N. R.
PEDIGREE. I hereby certify, that the chestnut horse Buzzard, late the property of Christopher Wilson, Esq. was bred by me, and that he was got by Woodpecker; his dam by Dux, out of Curiosity, by Snap—Regulus, &c. Curiosity was the dam of Pantaloon, Justice, Faith, &c. EGREMONT. Teste, JAMES WZATHBURY.
* BUZZARD has arrived at his stand, in high health and spirits. March 30, 1805. N. Rives
The noted and much admired Eng. Horse  BUZZARD.
IMPORTED in 1801, by William Lightfoot, of Charles City county; where he stood two years, the last year he stood at
Capt. Wm. Lewis's, in Dinwiddie county, made capital seasons, and proved himself a sure foal getter. He is a fine bay, fifteen hands three inches high, nine years old last May, in great perfection, and as to muscular strength and beauty, not inferior to any horse in the state. He is the only horse in this country that has won four king's plates in one year; this he did in 1800; See Racing Calendar for that year. Notwithstanding this & other unexceptionable evidences of Knowsley's superior worth, yet a personal view of him will be his best recommendation.
KNOWSLEY will stand the ensuing season, at William Wood's in Albemarle county, ten miles above Charlottesville, to cover mares at Six Guineas the season, for which notes will be expected, dischargeable by the payment of Twenty Dollars, on or before the 15th of September next; Three Guineas the leap, and Ten Guineas to insure a mare to be in foal, with One Dollar for each mare to the groom; which, with the leap money, must be paid when the mare is covered. Extensive pasture gratis, and servants sent with the mares boarded at 9s. a week. Mares may be fed as directed, at the market price of grain, and all possible care taken to prevent accidents or escapes, but no responsibility for any that may happen. The season will commence the 10th of March, and expire the 10th of August next.
WILLIAM WOODS. JAMES KINSOLVING. February, 1805. P. S. Any gentleman putting six mares shall have one covered gratis.
PEDIGREE. —Given by Lord Derby in the following words, viz: "I do hereby certify, that the bay horse called Knowsley, late the property of the Prince of Wales, was bred by me. He was got by Sir Peter Teazle, out of Capella, and was six years old last May, and no more (Signed) DERBY. (seal.) Knowsley, June 15, 1801.
Capella was bred by gen. Parker, foaled in 1773, & got by Herod out of Miss Cape, by Regulus, Blackeyes, by Crab, Warlock, Galloway. See general stud book. Sir Peter Teazle was got by Highflyer in 1784; see same book, pa. 182; Highflyer was got by Herod; see pa. 201; and so on he may be traced thro' a noble line of ancestors for ages past without a single flaw in his genealogy, either on the male or female side.
This extraordinary horseman with great credit at 2 years old; at 3, proved successful, and so continued until the last of the year 1800. In 1801 he was purchased for me and sent to Virginia. In 1798 he won a sweepstakes of 20 guineas each, for 3 year olds, 8 subscribers, once round the ground, beating Mr. Pierce's b c by Walnut, fir H. T. Vane's Puff Forward, fir H. Williamson's Stripling, Mr. Fletcher's gr c Camperdown, Mr. G. Crompton's c Baño, and lord A. Hamilton's b g by Spadille, out of Snow Drop; see Calendar for 1798. He also won the members' plate of 50 guineas for 3 and 4 year olds, beating lord Derby's 4 year old colt Diomed, 5 to 1 on Knowsley, who was then Mr. Field's property; see Calendar for 1798. He also won a sweepstakes for 3 year olds, beating Mr. Garforth's b c by Spadille, and lord A. Hamilton's b c by Spadille; see Calendar for 1799.
In May 1799, York. On Tuesday May 28, a sweepstakes of 20 guineas each 7 subscribers, then the property of Mr. Walker, was won by Knowsley, beating lord Fitzwilliam's ch h Wounder, 5 years old, lord Hamilton's ch h by Walnut, fir Thomas Cascoigne's Maid of the Mill, and John Robinson's b c Abraham Newland. On Thursday the 30th following, he also won the grand plate of 50 guineas, for 4 year olds, beating lord A. Hamilton's b c by Spadille, Mr. Garforth's mare Carolina, 6 years old, lord Belhaven's ch h Master Robert 6 years old, Mr. Wentworth's Barnaby, and Mr. J. Aston's gr h Little Scott, 5 years old; see Calendar for 1799.
In June 1800 (Guilford) the Prince of Wales owned him and won the King's plate for 4 year olds, of 100 guineas; 10 stone 4 lbs. four mile heats, and beat lord Done-gall's b h by Pot-8-o's; See Calendar for 1800, pa. 35.
Winchester, July 8. His majesty's plate of 100 guineas, was run for and won by Knowsley, beating lord Done-gall's b h by Pot 8'o's, 5 years old, and fir F. Erelie's b h Asparagus, 5 years old—six to four on Knowsley.
Lewes, August 12, 1800. The king's plate of 100 guineas, 4 mile heats, was won by Knowsley, beating lord Done-gall's ch c by Fulman, 4 to 1 on Knowsley. Thursday following he won a subscription of 10 guineas each, beating Mr. Durand's Bellissima and Mr. Ladbrooke's Humbug; see Calendar for 1800—78 and 79.
Litchfield, on Thursday, September 9, he won the king's plate of 100 guineas, 3 mile heats, for 5 year olds carrying 8 stone 7 pounds, beating Mr. Heming's b h Flore; ten to one on Knowsley.
This horse cost me on landing in this country upwards of £700 sterling, and even at this price it was with difficulty he could be obtained; for my agent informed me, he could have sold him for 170 guineas more than the original purchase, which evidently proves the high estimation he was in. WILLIAM LIGHTFOOT.
CERTIFICATES. We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, do certify that we have bred colts from KNOWSLEY, (or seen of his get,) that they are of fine size and form, and from their pleasant appearance bid fair to make capital horses, either for the turf or any other service. We also believe him to be as sure a foal getter as any horse in the state. Given under our hands, &c. January, 1805:
  John Coles, fr.  Geo. W. H. Minge.    Walter Coles.  Major Wilcox.    Miles Selden, fr.  Geo. Cocke.    Miles Selden, jr.  James Stewart.    John Ede.  John Christian.    E. P. Chamberlayne.  Hamlin Wilcox.    John Roane, jr.  Wm. Southall.    C. Harrison.  John Colgin.    John Minge.   
I do hereby certify that in the spring, 1803, I saw and took particular notice of a number of colts, which were in pasture where the imported Stirling then stood—a considerable proportion of them by imported horses, among which were several of Knowsley's, and tho' they were not preferable to any that were there. Given under my hand, &c. BRIGHTBERRY BROWN. Albemarle, Jan. 1, 1805. (w8t)
DION, IMPORTED by Mr. Hoome, of the Bolling Green, in the fall of 1801, will stand at my house in the county of Charlotte, two miles below Bibb's ferry, and cover mares at five guineas the season, which may be discharged with 20 dollars paid by the 1st of August, when the season will expire. Notes for five guineas will be expected with the mares, dischargeable as above. HILLARY MOSELEY. Charlotte, March 1st, 1805.
HART AND SOUTHGATE, MAIN STREET, RICHMOND. Offer for Sale, low for Cash or Negotiable Notes. HOLLANDS GIN in the pipe or less quantity New England RUM, by the Hhd or barrel. French BRANDY, Antigua RUM, WINES, &c. &c. CYDER by the barrel. BAR IRON and CASTINGS, Sole LEATHER. SPIRITS of TURPENTINE in 3 gallon jugs. CANDLES by the box. SUGAR by the barrel or retail. TEA, COFFEE, and a general assortment of GROCERIES, suitable for families and dealers, in town or country. Richmond, March 12, 1805. [wtf]
A FEW COPIES OF  THE LAWS Passed at the last session of the General Assembly of Virginia, are for sale at this Office.
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Chancery District Court held in Williamsburg, the 27th day of October, 1804. John Ambler and William P. Harriss, executors of William Wilkinson, vs. William Shermer, deft. THE defendant not having entered his appearance and given security according to the acts of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country: On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term and answer the bill of the plaintiffs; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper of the city of Richmond, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. A copy—Teste, ANTY. ROBINSON, c. c.
In Henrico County Court, February 5th, 1805. Robert Brooke, complainant. AGAINST Willis Cowper, and administrator of John Cowper, deceased, and Henry Hovey, defendants.
THE defendant William Cowper not having entered his appearance and given security according to the acts 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 commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first Monday in July next and answer the bill of the said complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond for two months successively, and posted at the door of the courthouse. Teste, ADAM CRAIG, c. c.
PROPOSALS For carrying Mails of the United States, on the following Post Roads, will be received at the General Post-Office in Washington, until the tenth day of July next inclusive.
IN VIRGINIA. 179. From Randolph c. h. to Franklin Va. once in two weeks.
Leave Pendleton c. h. every other Thursday at 6 a m. and arrive at Randolph c. h. by 11 a m. Leave Randolph c. h. every other Thursday at 1 p m. and arrive at Pendleton c. h. by 6 p m.
180. From Prince Edward c. h. by Hunter's tavern, to Lynchburg once a week. Leave Prince Edward c. h. every Saturday at 6 a m. and arrive at Lynchburg on Sunday by 6 p m. Leave Lynchburg every Monday at 6 a m. and arrive at Prince Edward c. h. by 6 p m.
181. From Campbell c. h. by Pittsylvania c. h. to Danville once in two weeks. Leave Campbell c. h. every other Monday at 6 a m. and arrive at Danville on Tuesday by 6 p m. Leave Danville every other Wednesday at 6 a m. and arrive at Campbell c. h. on Thursday by 6 p m.
NOTES. 1. The Post-master General may expedite the mails and alter the times of arrival and departure at any time, during the continuance of the contracts, he stipulating an adequate compensation for any extra expense that may be occasioned thereby.
2. Fifteen minutes shall be allowed for opening and closing the mails at all offices where no particular time is specified.
3. For every thirty minutes delay (unavoidable accidents excepted) in arriving after the time prescribed in any contract, the contractor shall forfeit one dollar; and if the delay continues until the departure of any depending mail, whereby the mails destined for each depending mail lose a trip, an additional forfeiture of five dollars shall be incurred.
4. Newspapers as well as letters are to be sent in the mail; and if any person making proposals, desires to carry newspapers, other than those conveyed in the mail, for his own emolument, he must state in his proposals for what sum he will carry with the emolument, and for what sum without that emolument.
5. Should any person making proposals desire an alteration of the times of arrival and departure above specified, he must state in his proposals the alteration desired, and the difference they will make in the terms of the contract.
6. Persons making proposals are desired to state their prices by the year. Those who contract will receive their pay quarterly in the months of August, November, February and May, in one month after the expiration of each quarter.
7. No other than a free white person shall be employed to convey the mail.
8. Where the proposer intends to convey the mail in the body of a stage carriage, he is desired to state it in his proposals.
9. The Post master General reserves to himself the right of declaring any contract at an end whenever three failures happen which amount to the loss of a trip each.
10. The contracts for the above routes are to be in operation on the first day of October next, and are to continue in force for two years. GIDEON GRANGER, Post-master General.
GENERAL POST-OFFICE, Washington City, 25 February, 1805. w6t
TO BE SOLD, BY virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Fox, jr. to the subscribers, for the purpose of securing to Thomas Fox the payment of sundry debts therein specified and of record in the county court of King William, Right or Ten
LIKELY SLAVES, For ready money, at Mrs. Sally Drewry's Tavern in the county of King William as aforesaid, on Thursday the ninth of May next, if fair, or the next fair day, by
John Fox, Nathl. Fox, James Fox, Trustees. King Wm. county, April 9th, 1805. wtd*
SWEET SPRINGS, MONROE COUNTY, VIRGINIA.
ROBERT DOUTHAT informs the public he will keep the Sweet Springs the two ensuing Seasons, and will be supplied with every convenience the situation of them will admit of, on his former terms. He has enlarged his Stables, and has improved his Houses and Cabins so as to make them much more comfortable than they were heretofore.—He will have an assortment of  DRY GOODS suitable for the season. w2m
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