The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-09-01 00:00:00

The Enquirer.
Vol. 6.]
RICHMOND, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1809.
[No. 53.]
Published by Thomas Ritchie, nearly opposite the Globe Tavern, Richmond, Virginia.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 27, 1809.
WHEREAS, in conformity with the provisions made by law, for the reimbursement of the Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the second section of the Act entitled "An Act supplementary to the Act entitled an Act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States, passed on the 11th day of February, 1807, it has been determined by lot, that the Certificates of said Stock, designated by the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, should be reimbursed on the first day of October next:
PUBLIC NOTICE Is therefore given to the proprietors of the Certificates of Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the act aforesaid, and bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, that the principal of the same, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of October, 1809, to the respective Stockholders or their legal representatives, or attorneys duly constituted, either at the Treasury or at the Loan-Office, where the Stock thus to be reimbursed may then stand credited to the proprietors thereof.
It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the certificates of Exchanged Stock bearing the permanent numbers, contained in the annexed Schedule from the Books of the Treasury, or of any Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of September next. And the interest on all the certificates contained in the said Schedule, will cease and determine on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
  SCHEDULE.    8 16153 29150 40099 40373 5 16063 29008 39005 40207  10 16160 29151 40100 40386 7 16064 29009 39006 40220  5002 16164 29153 40109 40391 5017 16076 29012 39041 40221  5003 16167 29142 40121 40406 5018 16077 29013 39044 40235  5004 16191 29150 40132 40410 5021 16088 29019 39045 40241  5008 16197 29161 40127 40416 5022 16091 29042 39053 40252  5009 16207 29152 40129 40419 5023 16107 29084 40001 40256  5025 16212 29164 40130 40421 5032 16130 29095 40005 40260  5026 16224 29172 40138 40422 5039 16131 29099 40017 40262  5028 16226 29188 40140 40423 5045 16139 29104 40021 40271  5029 16230 29193 40151 40424 5046 16154 29111 40023 40273  5033 16236 29199 40154 40427 5056 16158 29112 40027 40275  5044 16237 29201 40158 40430 5061 16168 29113 40032 40279  10006 16247 29202 50161 40431 5064 16171 29116 40036 40286  10019 16256 29207 40162 40436 10001 16175 29117 40040 40289  10030 16257 29211 40168 40438 10007 16177 29127 40043 40302  10024 16261 29218 40186 40442 10009 16183 29134 40049 40309  10039 16267 29222 40195 40445 10014 16184 29137 40073 40310  15007 16268 29233 40200 40446 10023 16186 29148 40098 40331  15013 16236 29236 40204 40447 10033 16200 29151 40107 40337  15015 16287 29238 40205 40467 10036 16201 29154 40113 40340  15020 16288 29241 40208 40469 15004 16218 29166 40120 40344  15021 16294 29245 40230 40494 15008 16219 29167 40128 40348  15023 26002 39001 40237 40495 15009 16222 29169 40131 40355  15024 26007 39003 40242 40494 15012 16228 29175 40139 40364  15031 26009 39002 40246 40496 15019 16242 29178 40141 40365  15032 26011 39015 40289 50004 15026 16246 29179 40142 40367  16007 26012 39019 40294 50007 15029 16249 29187 40148 40378  16016 27002 39010 40270 50010 15037 16255 29197 40165 40383  16017 27004 39021 40278 50014 16010 16258 29203 40166 40394  16018 29002 39022 40283 50017 16011 16270 29209 40170 40394  16021 29005 39031 40291 50023 16012 16275 29212 40176 40408  16024 29011 39033 40293 50045 16020 16276 29213 40181 40413  16030 29016 39039 40297 50050 16023 16285 29219 40185 40418  16031 29026 39040 40299 50052 16026 16290 29225 40188 40428  16039 29033 39043 40301 50054 16032 16292 29228 40193 40432  16065 29057 39047 40307 50063 16035 16293 29232 40194 40437  16069 29061 39056 40308 50067 16036 26001 29234 40197 40449  16070 29062 39059 40315 50075 16060 26013 29239 40201 40452  16074 29063 39061 40318 50075 16061 27005 29243 40202 40454  16078 29066 40006 40319 50077  16087 29070 40008 40320 50081  16090 29071 40017 40323 50082  16094 29074 40020 40326 50085  16104 29076 40029 40329 50088  16109 29079 40034 40332 50093  16112 29081 40039 40333 50094  16115 29082 40046 40335 50094  16121 29085 40048 40341 50094  16122 29094 40053 40342 50095  16123 29097 40054 40349 50094  16124 29101 40063 40351 50095  16126 29102 40071 40352 50097  16129 29119 40072 40356 50098  16145 29123 40077 40359  16146 29126 40082 40360  
MANCHESTER ACADEMY. —In consequence of the intended removal of Mr. John Wood, to the city of Richmond, on the 25th September next, the trustees of the above Academy, are desirous of engaging a Teacher of the Latin, French and Mathematics, to supply the station he now holds. On application to the Treasurer of the Academy, residing in Manchester, the terms will be made known to any gentleman of liberal education and moral conduct.
August 25.
IN CHANCERY. —In Powhatan county court, July 21, 1809.
Brown, Rives & Co. Plffs, against Samuel H. Owen and Joseph Mayo, executor of David Owen, deceased. Defendant Samuel H. Owen, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the act of assembly, and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this county; On motion of the plaintiffs, by their counsel; It is ordered, That the defendant, Samuel H. Owen, do appear here on the first day of October next, answer the plaintiff's bill, & that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Richmond newspapers, for two months successively, and posted at the door of the courthouse of this county.
A Copy. Teste, JAS. POINDEXTER, c. c.
NOTICE. —The Trunk which was advertised by the subscriber as stolen from the Basin on the night of the 21st ult. marked I. D. Lynchburg, Va. contained the following articles, viz: gold breast-pins of oval, octagon, and other forms, with a glass to each, some of which are inlaid with pearl, others being plain and in the form of a key—gold earrings of new patterns, some of which are set with a topaz stone—also, a parcel of plain half moon hoop, &c. and some plain finger rings, with a small red stone in each—books of gold leaf—tortoiseshell combs—black high-topped buttons, and silk cord. A liberal reward will be given for the whole of the articles above mentioned, or a handsome compensation for such a portion of them as may be recovered—and should they be offered for sale, it is hoped they will be stopped, and information given to
THOMAS GUY. August 22.
NOTICE. —The Subscriber intends to leave the state for a few months. During his absence, his professional business will be attended to, by his friends, Daniel Call, George Hay and Wm. Wirt, Esquires. ALEXANDER MRAB. August 25.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, March 28, 1809.
WHEREAS, in conformity with the provisions made by law, for the reimbursement of the Exchanged Six per Cent Stock, created by the second section of the Act entitled "An Act supplementary to the Act entitled an Act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," passed on the 11th day of February, 1807, it has been determined by lot, that the Certificates of said Stock designated by the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, should be reimbursed on the first day of January next:
PUBLIC NOTICE Is therefore given to the proprietors of the Certificates of Exchanged Six per Cent Stock created by the act aforesaid, and bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, that the principal of the same, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of January, 1810, to the respective Stockholders or their legal representatives, or attorneys duly constituted, either at the Treasury or at the Loan-Office where the Stock thus to be reimbursed, may then stand credited to the proprietors thereof.
It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the certificates of Exchanged Stock bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed Schedule, from the Books of the Treasury or of any Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of December next. And the interest on all the Certificates contained in the said Schedule, will cease and determine, on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
  SCHEDULE.    5 16063 29008 39005 40207 40455  7 16064 29009 39006 40220 40463  5017 16076 29012 39041 40221 40469  5018 16077 29013 39044 40235 40471  5021 16088 29019 39045 40241 40476  5022 16091 29042 39053 40252 40481  5023 16107 29084 40001 40256 40484  5032 16130 29095 40005 40260 40487  5039 16131 29099 40017 40262 40488  5045 16139 29104 40021 40271 40493  5046 16154 29111 40023 40273 40500  5056 16158 29112 40027 40275 40501  5061 16168 29113 40032 40279 40502  5064 16171 29116 40036 40286 40507  10001 16175 29117 40040 40289 40508  10007 16177 29127 40043 40302 40509  10009 16183 29134 40049 40309 40510  10014 16184 29137 40073 40310 40511  10023 16186 29148 40098 40331 50008  10033 16200 29151 40107 40337 50012  10036 16201 29154 40113 40340 50015  15004 16218 29166 40120 40344 50024  15008 16219 29167 40128 40348 50031  15009 16222 29169 40131 40355 50033  15012 16228 29175 40139 40364 50049  15019 16242 29178 40141 40365 50053  15026 16246 29179 40142 40367 54004  15029 16249 29187 40148 40378 54009  16010 16258 29203 40166 40394 55010  16011 16270 29209 40170 40394 55026  16012 16275 29212 40176 40408 55029  16020 16276 29213 40181 40413 55044  16023 16285 29219 40185 40418 55046

On the 6th of July, at the Cockpit, Whitehall, the English Lords Commissioners of Appeals pronounced sentence in the following case:
Nancy—Hurd, Master. This American vessel having entered St. Pierre's, Martinique, in April 1804, and took in a cargo, sailed thence on the 16th for New York, but was captured by his majesty's ship Boston, and carried to Halifax, where she was condemned for a breach of the blockade of Martinique. Their Lordships determined, that she was not liable to condemnation on the alleged ground, there not being a sufficient force at the port to constitute a blockade, the greater part having been withdrawn to go against Surinam, and therefore restored the ship and cargo.
From the Salem Gazette of Aug. 22d.
FROM GOTTENBURG. Captain Haskell, of the brig Ann, arrived at Beverly on Sunday from Gottenburgh, which place she left the 26th June. He informs us that they had certain advices there, that the Emperor Alexander had arrived at Koningsberg on a visit to the king of Prussia, where he had been a number of days. It was considered very uncertain what part Russia would take in the present war—whether to join, Bonaparte or the Austrians. Many reports were heard of insurrections in Germany, but they could not understand of what magnitude or importance.
Bonaparte had drawn away his French troops from Hamburg and Lubec, & sent 15,000 Danish troops to garrison those places. The exigencies of his war with Austria no doubt required this.
The reign of the new king of Sweden was very popular, as the people had become tired of the passion of the deposed king for war. It was said that peace was to be settled between Russia and Sweden, and all Swedish ports shut against England; and Norway was to be detached from Denmark, and annexed to Sweden; commercial speculations were going on arising out of this change.
Burr had left Gottenburgh, and was said to be gone to Russia. Mutiny —Captain Haskell informs us of a most barbarous murder perpetrated on a respectable young man, the mate of the Tom, of Portsmouth, at Gottenburgh. He knows not from what cause it originated; but on the 25th of June, while the captain was on shore, the mate was attacked by the crew, or part of them, who whipped and beat him till he was exhausted of all power of resistance, when they left him senseless. Recovering afterwards in some degree, he crawled into the cabin, and possessed himself of his pistols. Finding he was still living, they pursued him into the cabin, and seized upon him, when he fired a pistol, and shot off the thumb of one of the mutineers. They however dragged him out, renewed their blows with handspikes, and in their savage fury totally beat the head from his body, stamped upon him, and exposed his lifeless corps a most horrid spectacle. They then proceeded to the Consul's in a body, exhibited the bleeding thumb of the wounded mutineer, and demanding satisfaction. Proper steps were however taken by the government; a trial was had, and the ring leader (a Dane, who had been newly shipped) and another sailor who had an American protection, but supposed to be an Englishman, was sentenced to be hanged, and execution was to take place on the 29th.
General Armstrong —On the 4th of August Capt. Haskell was boarded from his Britannic majesty's brig Herald, from St. Thomas, being in company with two frigates and forty sail of merchant vessels under convoy. He was informed, in the first place, by the boatmen, who carried him on board the Herald, and afterwards by the Captain, that the day before, they had spoke a ship belonging to and bound for Philadelphia, 19 days out from Nantz, having the Lady and children of Gen. Armstrong on board; and that the General had gone from France to England. The former part of this may be true; the latter is doubtful. The Philadelphia ship must have left Nantz about the 16th of July, a week later than the accounts by the Mentor; when it was said a negotiation was commencing with Gen. Armstrong.
FROM CADIZ. Captain Devereaux, who arrived at Marblehead on Sunday last, sailed from Cadiz the 6th of July. Not being once ashore, he was not much in the way of learning the public news. Mr. Pendergrass, however, who transacted his business, informed him that an expedition had gone against Barcelona, in which a large body of British troops were employed—that the Spaniards continued in great spirits, and had little doubt but that in four months they should have wholly cleared the kingdom of Frenchmen, if Bonaparte did not get Austria off his hands.
A Naples account of June 14th , mentions, that the British had embarked all their troops at Sicily, and that they had been seen to pass Naples, destination unknown.
NEW YORK, August 26. IMPORTANT—IF TRUE!
From Messrs. Russell and Cutler's (of Boston) Liverpool Correspondent.
LIVERPOOL, July 9, 1809. "LEITH, (Scotland) July 6. The Quail, Lieut. Osborn, has just arrived from Heligoland, which she left on Sunday. The commander reports, that while quitting the harbor a messenger arrived from the seat of war with news of the Austrians having obtained a decisive victory over the French, the 26th June. Two Marshals, 20 Generals, and 40,000 men, killed, wounded, and prisoners. Captain Malcomb, who left Heligoland 5 hours after the Quail, brings a Proclamation of the Archduke Charles for a Te Deum for the victory."
APPOINTMENT.
By the Supreme Government of Spain. Chevalier Onis, Minister Plenipotentiary from his Catholic Majesty, Ferdinand VII. to the U.S.
This gentleman was Under-Secretary of State, in the Department of his Excellency don Pedro Cevallos—He was expected to embark, with his family in a short time for America.
NEW YORK, Aug. 25. Mistake corrected. —The newspapers have published an account brought by Capt. Haskell, that he had been informed at sea that Gen. Armstrong's family had embarked for America in a ship bound to Philadelphia; the ship in question arrived at this port, this forenoon, and brings the family of Mr. Thomas Armstrong, and not of Gen. John Armstrong, the Ambassador—E. Post.
Captain Rogers, of the ship Clara, from St. Croix, informs that he was boarded on his passage to New York, by the British brig of war Snap, captain Barclay, who informed him, that about the 2d of August, several British frigates and sloops of war were lost off Guadalupe, in a severe gale of wind.
DOMESTIC.
FROM THE AURORA.
BRITISH INFLUENCE.
THE POISON OF CIVIL SOCIETY.
When we, some time ago, repelled the infamous subterfuge of the hirelings of England in America, who set up the cry of French influence, as the thief in his flight cried out, "stop thief," to divert attention from himself; we gave the corrupt crew the challenge—the condjutors of CULLEN, and the imitators of Cobbett, the Cheethams and Celemans, the Russells and Parkes, the Bronsons, and the rest of the herd who subserve the oppressor of our country and the corrupter and common disturber of the world, we gave them the challenge to bring the least shadow of plausible evidence to induce the belief of any corrupt influence exercised over the press or the government of America by France; we were ready to go into the investigation—and we dare it; we dare it, by exhibiting the evidence that the system of British government, from top to bottom—is corruption.
We have placed the fact upon a foundation on which sophistry can neither diminish of its atrocious enormity, nor divest of its detestable character.
We now go to show that her system in other nations, has been as flagrantly corrupt as it has been from top to bottom at home. Here too, we shall not resort to any other than the evidence drawn from British sources, evidence given by the participants, and recorded by the individuals themselves, how they were the agents or the instruments of corruption.
The first evidence whom we shall call, will be a school fellow of the last infamous and execrable William Pitt, prime minister of England, and of universal mischief—this personage is William A. Miles, Esq. formerly an officer in the British army. This gentleman published, in the course of last summer, a letter to the British Prince of Wales, in which, among other matters, we shall extract a few of his facts.
Mr. Miles says, that the war with France was resolved on as early as 1791, "when the revolution had scarcely peeped over the Boulevards of Paris." That George III. told Pitt, "he must make war with France or resign." That Pitt, although conscious of his own incapacity for conducting a war, preferred his place. "The Pigmy ambition of Pitt," says Mr. Miles, "soared no higher than to office. The book of vanities was far more important in his estimation, than the interest of the empire or the destiny of nations."
Observe, it is the school-fellow of Mr. Pitt who speaks, a man who knew him well. "Looking solely to the preservation of what he had acquired by intrigue (that is and inconsiderate counsels of the man (Edmund Burke,) who became, as it were, a focus, in which were concentrated all the wild and wicked projects of the most artful of the French emigrants," &c. "When ever parliament calls for an account of the issues to Mr. Wickham, while in Switzerland, your royal highness will learn with equal surprize and indignation, the amount of British gold paid to a banditti of adventurers, under the stale pretext of accomplishing a counter-revolution in France." "Mr. Wickham drew," says Mr. Miles, "for something more than seven hundred thousand pounds, (about three millions and a half of dollars,) during his short mission in Switzerland."
In subsequent extracts we shall show a continuation of the corruption in Switzerland, and the manner by which Pichegru was bought, as Arnold was bought by British gold in another revolution, and as General Dauxian, now in London, was bought; for the corruption of England is almost omnipresent; and had not providence raised up such a man as Bonaparte, it threatened to overwhelm and debauch the whole universe.
Mr. Miles narrates, very perspicuously, several transactions in which he acted a part himself, in efforts to prevent a war, in which France was uniformly the supplicant; and was as formally treated with supercilious insolence or arrogant disdain. Mr. Miles was known as an Englishman, and a friend of Pitt, he travelled in Europe as Mirabeau formerly travelled in the north of Europe; as a man of great talents, authorised to report to the government the fruit of his observations.
He was applied to by M. Chauvelin, by Maret, (who is now Secretary of State to the French Emperor,) by the two Morgues, father and son; by Noel, a man of great influence in France, and by Reinhard, a minister of France in Switzerland, at a subsequent period. These attempts were made in 1792, and in February, 1793.
All these efforts, it is well known, failed, the following facts however are new to us. "The war," says Mr. Miles, "determined upon in 1791, announced itself on the 8th February, 1793, after various efforts of France to avert the direful calamity. Towards the end of the following month (March) an offer was made through me (Mr. Miles,) to the British government, by the friends of limited monarchy, then known by the name of Moderates , to march an army from the Alps of France to Paris, and to proclaim the son of Louis XVI. then living, king of France, provided G. Britain would declare herself contented with the constitution which Louis XVI. had sworn to respect; and as a pledge of her sincerity, procure the release of M. de la Fayette, most shamefully as well as impolitically detained by Prussia first, and afterwards by Austria. It was proposed to establish a form of government like our own, (the British!) &c. they required no subsidies, no clothing, no ammunition, nor even money, &c. I gave their memorial to the Under-Secretary of State, (Mr. Aust;) the cabinet was sitting; I saw it carried in, but no notice was taken of it."
Mr. Miles relates numerous, new and interesting particulars, and among other things, that the French offered a peace twice in 1794, and when they had conquered and restored Holland to the Dutch, in 1795, again; the propositions were official, and made by Barthelémy, the French ambassador at Basle—but it was rejected. Referring to the corruption practised, he thus speaks of Edmund Burke, which being at once pertinent to the general subject
of British corruption, we shall quote in this place: "It will be difficult to ascertain," says Mr. Miles, "what Edmund Burke received from the remnant of the French court during the short interval of its existence, after the destruction of the Bastille; but if any credit be due to the testimony of M. Calonne, the sum that Mr. Burke received from the French court, more than trebled what he derived from the sale of his Reflections on the French revolution, 17,000 of which were said by Dodsley, to have been sold."
A list of British pensions granted to Mr. Burke.
1200 £. per annum, chargeable on the civil list, for the lives of Edmund Burke, Esq. and his wife, and the survivor of them, by warrant, dated 29th September, 1795—and to commence from June, 5, 1793!
1190 £. per annum, payable out of the 44 per cent. duties, for the lives of Edmund Burke, Esq. Lord Royston, Anchitell Grey, Esq. and the survivor of them, by patent, dated October, 24, 1795—to commence July 24, 1793!
1340 £. payable out of the 43 per cent. duties, for the lives of the Princess Amelia, Lord Althorpe and Wm. Cavendish, Esq. by patent, dated October 29, 1795—to commence July, 1793.
All these pensions have a retrospect of nearly two years, consequently the sum of 8,520 £. was paid immediately to Mr. Burke, and the second and third pensions were instantly realized into a total sum of something more than 30,000 pounds sterling.
It would occupy too much space to follow Mr. Miles through his long and interesting letter; our object being British corruption, we follow it into the same scenes which Mr. Miles had previously pointed out in the profligate mission of Mr. Wickham.
There was published in London, in 1807, a work written in London by M. Louis Pache-Borel, a native of Switzerland, entitled "Notices sur les Generaux Pichegru &c." by L. P. Borel, prisoner for 33 months in the temple.
M. Borel was a native of Neufchatel, a proprietor of a Printing Office, and a bookseller in Switzerland. He is the same man who was noticed in the public papers, at the time that Bonaparte seized the Port Folio of M. d'Antraigues, at Verona in Italy, which he sent to Paris, and by which the treasury of Pichegru and his conspiracy with the Prince of Conde were detected. This Borel, who publishes the work before us, had settled in London, and there published the work we are about to quote, in 1807, referring to his residence at No. 9, Fifth street, Soho.
"I printed and distributed," says Borel, "both in France and Switzerland, a number of my works, and my works ameliorated all the adjacent departments, &c. I made my house the home of the emigrants, &c. I confided to them more than 100,000 £. of my property. In a word, by my actions, my language and the species of writings which issued from my press, I was the enemy of disorder, and the devoted friend of the principles of monarchy."
Here was a Swiss in a republic ameliorating the adjoining departments of another nation, and spreading the principles of monarchy, to which he was devoted, through Switzerland also! His celebrity had reached the prince of Conde, who employed him in 1795, to sound the disposition of Pichegru, who commanded the French army on the Rhine, on the subject of a re-establishment of monarchy; to which Borel says, he found him vehemently inclined; and Borel asserts, that Pichegru's plan failed only through the treachery of the count Monguillard, one of his condjutors.
Borel, in order to open the eyes of the French army, distributed writings among the soldiers, adapted to their capacities, and gained over the officers, by the usual means; which we shall comprehend presently.
Money being an essential ingredient in corrupting officers as well as soldiers, as the prince of Conde was not overburthened with cash; he had had recourse to Mr. Wickham, the British envoy in Switzerland; from whom he had a most gracious reception, and was amply supplied with British gold!
Mr. Borel was so amply supplied with money now, that in order to be near Pichegru, he removed to Strasbourg, and to cover his designs, set up a printing office there; and to make a shew of patriotism, attended the sales of national buildings, bid for several, bought one, and sold it at a loss. He maintained an intimacy all this time with Pichegru and his staff, upon whose minds he sought to make impressions suitable to his occupation, and moving about the country in his vocation, he staid one month on this business at Manheim.
However he was caught 21st December, 1795, at Strasburg, and searched; but he had destroyed all his papers, one letter only from the Prince of Conde, which was in a concealed part of his port folio; but it escaped, and he also soon after, thro' defect of evidence; after this he received more money and having received his final instructions from general Pichegru, he crossed the Rhine, 17th January, 1796, & repaired to the prince of Conde's head quarters.
"As we were passing," says Borel, "one of the islands in the Rhine, we were saluted with a discharge of musketry from a French post, one of the boatmen received a contusion in the knee; but he afterwards obtained a small pension from the British government."
Pichegru's perfidy was frustrated, and he retired to Arbois; but Mr. Borel did not retire; the English minister supplied him with immense sums of money, to operate on the elections; but he says it was very remarkable, that the departments which cost the British the most money, to corrupt them, furnished the deputies the most gangrenous—that is, the least favorable to the British views. The counter-revolutionary projects, were not confined to Mr. Borel; the agency was organized all over France. He had some communication with Pichegru at Arbois, who expressed a doubt if any thing could be done by the legislative assembly; however, he was favorably disposed, he says, and he went on, till he found a passage to Cayenne.
Borel was discovered, saw his name posted up, with a reward for it, and took refuge in the house of Mr. David M. (probably David Mudget, a notorious British spy, now somewhere in the southern states.) He contrived to escape, by bribery and intrigue, back to Neufchatel, where he was pursued. But again escaped; and on Pichegru's return from Cayenne, and his friends, Mudget and Pichegru had interviews at Hamburg, and the British government engaged to furnish all the money that was wanted.
He next turned his attention to Berlin, and other parts of the north, all in the good cause
of order and regular government; and thus employed himself, as "he thought much good might be done, by bringing about a reconciliation between Pichegru and Mo-reau." On this business he left London (we always find London at the top or bottom of every iniquity) on the 16th June, 1802; however although he carried some manuscripts to publish, he was soon scented out by the police of Paris, and on the 1st July, 1802, sent to the Temple, and from this after a year and a half's confinement, made his escape by the same medium that he undertook so many other things; but was retaken; and perhaps from being too petty a villain, escaped the fate of Georges, and others implicated with Pichegru. An English writer noticing this work of Borel's, says
"It is clear from this production, that the emigrants have been incessantly busy in counter-revolutionary plots, and that the British government has been too forward in lending them aid; and that there has been more reason than has been commonly imagined, for the violent clamor which has been raised in France against the perfidious machinations of the British cabinet, particularly during the administration of Pitt, when English gold was exuberantly strewed on the continent."
Here we have shown, that the corruption which is interwoven with the British constitution, and which pervades it, as Mr. Windham said, from top to bottom; had diffused itself over Switzerland, corrupted Pichegru, attempted to affect the elections by corruption; and was employed even to buy national buildings, and sell them at a loss, to cover the perfidy of its emissaries.
It is certain, from the following note, annexed to the bills of lading of the Lord Whitworth's cargo, that some difficulty was apprehended in England. Note.—In case the Lord Whitworth is not permitted to discharge her cargo at New York, it is agreed she shall proceed to St. John's New Brunswick—N. Y. Gaz.
In digging on the 18th ult. the well at the Salt works, about a mile and a half N. E. of Butler, and thirty miles from Pittsburgh, the Grisdier of a Mammoth, we got 5 pounds and seven inches in length, was found four feet below the surface of the rock among several fragments of bones much decayed.
THE ENQUIRER.
RICHMOND, SEPTEMBER 1, 1809
FOR THE ENQUIRER.
FOREIGN INFLUENCE.
SUPPLEMENTARY TO NUMBER I.
A BRITISH EMISSARY!!
STEPHEN CULLEN, alias Stephen Cullen Carpenter, alias the Paymaster of his Majesty's forces in Guernsey, alias the author of the Memoirs of Thomas Jefferson, and the historian of "the Rise and Progress of French Influence" in the U. States—has come forth with a second Address to the "U. States' Gazette."
As in his 1st, he virtually confesses, that he is a British Spy, and an Emissary—loyal to his king, and faithful to his native country—so in the 2nd, he most consistently complains of his receiving that exposure & chastisement, which such a character deserves. Instead of defending himself, he lavishes all his abuse on the Aurora—denounces vengeance against its Editor—threatens to exhaust him in all the various phases of his life—and most consistently complains of his own name having "been given to the public accompanied with security, such as none but a low-lived Scoundrel can utter, and with falsehoods such as none but a long practised, accomplished liar could invent."
We join issue at once with this political saint—this pious Missionary of the British government. We cast back into his teeth, all the charges of security and falsehood, of which this virtuous St. Stephen so indignantly complains. We appeal to his own work, "Memoirs of Thomas Jefferson" for our proofs. We too complain of security without shame and falsehood without measure. We, too, complain of the commitment of the press of this country into the hands of the "low-lived, licentious vagabond." And we refer to these infamous Memoirs for the justice of our complaints.
But we have a higher aim, than merely to expose the duplicity and inconsistency of this Stephen Cullen Carpenter—we wish to hold out a monitory lesson to the people of the United States. We wish our countrymen to know what kind of men are now amongst us—the secret poison of British Influence, which pervades our press—the agency of the British Emissaries in the United States—the means to which they resort for the consummation of their purposes—the vulturous rapacity, with which they calumniate the characters of our best and most enlightened citizens—their gross misrepresentations of the acts and measures of government—their contempt for the cause of our Independence, the principles of the Constitution, & the blessings of Liberty—their calumnies against our countrymen—the lengths to which they push their resentments against all that is peculiarly American—and their secret but indefatigable propagation of a political Creed of faith, from which Federalists themselves would revolt with an honest enthusiasm of heart; the Tories and the Essex Junto alone excepted. The memoirs of Thomas Jefferson—is a monument of these truths.
We have waded through this composition of filth and Calumny with ineffable abhorrence and disgust—like that of the man, who is dragged through the cells of a Lazaretto, through every form of putridity and plague. We pronounce it to be the holy work of this British Missionary.—What, though there is no author's name in the Title Page—nay, not even an Imprint, which designates by whom or where it was printed? Besides the indirect confession of Cullen, the style of the composition is all his own. There is the same naïveté and guaintness of expressions—the same redundancy of Epithets—the same prolixity of sentences—the same miserable affectation of the mannerism of Edmund Burke—the same profound reverence for the reveries of that prostituted genius—which had marked all his editorial compositions in the "Courier" and "the People's Friend."
Stand forth then, thou illustrious Knight of the British Government—thou who hast visited these distant realms of America to assert the cause of truth, to redress the wrongs of Innocence—stand forth, whilst by the following Extracts from the work before us, we shall convict you of that security, falsehood and disregard of principles, which you have imputed to others!
In his Preface to the Reader, he has the impudence to say, "the illustrious Dr. Robertson, in a letter to Mr. Gibbon, gave it as his opinion that a historian ought to write as if he were giving evidence upon oath.—Few historians have been so scrupulous—yet the Doctor was certainly right—since, if a history wants truth, it wants every thing that can recommend it. Were it not for that ingredient, the history of Charles the Fifth would bear no comparison as a work of instruction or amusement, with Fielding's History of John Jones, or Goldsmith's Vicar of Wakefield. It is on this ground the Author of the Memoirs founds his claim to public attention." By this test, then, let him be tried.
Independence of the U. States.
The work opens with remarks upon the state of this country immediately after the treaty of peace.—Of the glorious Revolution and the Independence of the U. States, the author speaks precisely in the style of a British emissary, fraught with all the sentiments of a Briton. There is not one mark of the real American about him. Respecting the causes which led to that Revolution, he is silent—the wrongs which were perpetrated by the British government and the barbarities inflicted by her armies, are decently covered by the veil of silence. There is nothing about him which bespeaks the least conviction of these wrongs, or the least sympathy with the Revolution.
In speaking of the Independence of the United States, where are those bursts of feeling, or of patriotism, which flow in the mind of an American, from the contemplation of that great event? Is he proud of the emancipation of this country from the thralldom of Britain? There is nothing like it. Whatever he says, is delivered in the measured tone of hypocritical cant. His declarations have all the air of a man, who conceals his own anticipations, in the awkward affectation of an attachment, which he feels necessary to be, is issued in order to gain a favorable hearing to his story. Hence he speaks in an ab tract manner of the Independence of the United States—as "a day of flattering aspect to the inhabitants of the new world; no people had ever greater cause to be proud—one had before them a fairer promise to be happy"—but does he speak, as if he himself participated in this pride—as if these promised pleasures had not been visionary? The Pseudo-american.
Respecting the character of our countrymen and the value of their republican constitution, he delivers himself in an unambiguous style of sarcastic disgust.—The British emissary is true to those political principles, in which he was educated at home.
"The people had now (the close of the revolutionary war) the supreme power in their own hands, and it is impossible to conceive a people much more disqualified, than they were, rendered by a variety of circumstances, from making a wise or moderate use of it. In their best state of correction, the passions of multitudes are ungovernable." Vol. 1. p. 16.
"The insurrection (of Shays) wore so formidable an aspect, that Congress thought fit to enlarge the military establishment—a civil war was expected—a majority of the people of Massachusetts were either secretly or openly in opposition to government. In all the Eastern States the same temper prevailed more or less and only waited for an advantageous occasion to break out openly." p. 37.
"These" (the Anti federalist among whom were the present venerable Governor of Virginia, S. T. Mason, P. Henry, James Monroe) "have never ceased, since the adoption of the Constitution, to use their best efforts to overthrow it." p. 40.
"Some few leading Americans were (throughout the whole of the revolution and in continuity after it) the devoted servants, friends and agents of France." p. 51. Yet this is the man, who cant about the legal evidence of historical truth—of the security and falsehood, which have been lavished upon him!
"In any other country but America, the people would expect to see such a base act of delinquency punished. Under no government but one overawed by Dom. every" (& yet this was under Washington, for whose character too he affects such reverence,) "could such a crime pass with impunity." 258. "He" (Washington) "found not only the laws yet to be made, but the feelings and dispositions of an unruly people to be trained to them." 298.
French Revolution.
In speaking of this memorable event, which has baffled all the hopes and expectations of the friends of liberty, the historian displays all the venom of his genius. There is not the least glow of sympathy expressed with the causes which produced it. The same servile spirit, which urged Burke to write it down, and Pitt to reduce it by force of arms, seems to inspire this work. Nothing is said of the right of the people to redress the wrongs of the monarchy—nothing is said in eulogy of the spirit, which moved the first Reformers—nothing of that venerable assembly of Frenchmen, which was one of the most august legislative assemblies in the world. The French Revolutionists are characterised, from the very start, by the most degrading epithets.—They are confounded in every respect with those who came after them. Such is the nice discrimination of this historian—such is the art of writing, "as if he were giving evidence upon oath."
What is the style in which he speaks of the earliest Revolutionists of France?—"After remaining 10 days at Charleston, during which time, he managed matters in the best manner and to the fullest effect that his regicide masters could desire &c" p. 116.—"It is a task of the most disgusting kind to dwell upon the extravagant demonstrations of joy, and the ridiculous testimonies of respect bestowed upon this minister of an ephemeral band of usurpers." p. 117.—"The French revolution was then 'in the full tide of successful experiment;' and Condorcet and his fraternity were much more suitable in taste, character, purposes and principles for M. J. than Washington, Hamilton, or the other wise and worthy men, who composed the cabinet of the U. States." Even the great Condorcet cannot escape his sneers and reproaches.
Respecting what of sort of men are these expressions used? "The monsters and the murderers of Louis XVI." says this degenate and correct historian—but what says general Washington himself, in his celebrated reply to Mr. Ader, so late as 1st January, 1796, for months and years after these scenes of St. Stephen? "Born, Sir, in a land of liberty, having early learned its values; having engaged in a perilous conflict to defend it; having in a word, devoted the best years of my life to secure its permanent establishment in my own country; my anxious recollections, my sympathetic feelings

and my best wishes are irresistibly attracted, whenever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom. But above all, the French revolution has produced the deepest solicitude, as well as the highest admiration. To call your nation brave, were to pronounce but common praise. Wonderful people! ages to come will read with astonishment the history of your brilliant exploits. I rejoice that the period of your trials and of your immense sacrifices is approaching. I rejoice that the interesting revolutionary movements of so many years have issued in the formation of a constitution designed to give permanency to the great object for which you have contended. I rejoice that liberty, which you have so long embraced with enthusiasm—liberty of which you have been the invincible defenders, now finds an asylum in the bosom of a regularly organized government, which being formed to secure the happiness of the French people, corresponds with the ardent wishes of my heart, while it gratifies the pride of every citizen of the United States by its resemblance to their own. On these glorious events accept, sir, my sincere congratulations."—Yet these were "monsters and murderers."
This brings us directly to the great charge of FRENCH INFLUENCE. It is one of the main objects of this Memoir as well as of the chiefs of the Federalists to prove the prevalence of this species of Influence in the Republican party. The most extraordinary means of subterfuge and deception have been adopted for this extravagant purpose. These means are principally, to transfer the zeal which the Republicans felt in the cause of Liberty, and of France, during the auspicious periods of her revolution—to the present government of that country. Yet this miserable subterfuge has been adopted as a serious argument. This combination gross and unnatural as it is, is not too extravagant to be gravely manufactured by the Federal party.
Yet this man does not stop here—he even attempts to trace it higher—"In the (Old) Congress, these existed a strong party, determined to subject the interests of the U.S. to the will and discretion of the French Government—and in a word, too plainly to be misunderstood, manifested a design to cajole the states into a surrender of themselves to France, in the same relation they had, before the war, borne to G. B. "p. 15. 19. Not one little proof is produced of such a disposition in a single man—much less in a strong party." None can be produced. And yet this is the man who writes as if he were giving evidence in a court of justice. According to his own showing, therefore, he is guilty of perjury.
That the aid and alliance of France during the perilous crisis of our Revolution, had inspired us with friendly feelings towards her, was natural enough; but no man, qualified to give evidence on the subject, will dare to say that these attachments would have led to sacrifice our own rights or those of others. This man is just as unfortunate in his other facts:
"The leading members of the Jacobin Club met at the house of Mr. Jefferson, when minister at Paris." Let any man look to dates and events. There were no Jacobins in France, when Mr. J. was there.
"France had not then" (after Mr. Madison's resolutions before the 1st Congress,) "rendered herself quite so lovely in the eyes of free Americans, as she has since done by her revolutionary virtues and exploits, by her deism, atheism and multitudinous measures, by her Marats and Robespierres, her Dantons and her Bonapartes." p. 83. "By an attentive consideration of these extraordinary proceedings, the reader will be enabled to discover why America was to be reduced to a state of provincial obedience to France; why Brissot, Robespierre, Marat, Danton, Tallien and Barras were, each in his turn, the bosom friends of those American Patriots, who Bonaparte is now idolized, feared, and obeyed"—And yet this is the man, who complains of scurrility and falsehood!
"But we must cease our quotations.—We only repeat again, that it is a miserable artifice to say, that because we wished success to the French, when they raised the banners of freedom, we were then ready to be the slaves of France—or are now the enthusiastic admirers of the despotism which has superseded."—According to these tests, George Washington himself must have been the slave of French Influence, as most clearly appears from his address to M. Adet in '96—as well as the friends of his administration, as is seen by the truly federal authority of Mr. Marshall, in the 5th Vol. of the Life of Washington, when speaking of Mr. Jefferson's retirement in '93.
"He had, in that correspondence, maintained with great ability, the opinions embraced by the federalists on those points of difference which had arisen between the two republics, &c. The partiality for France that was conspicuous throughout the whole of it, detracted nothing from its merit in the opinion of the friends of the administration, because however decided might be their determination to support their own government in a controversy with any nation whatever, they felt all the partialities for that republic which the correspondence expressed."—Vol. 5, Page 489.
"We shall, in our next, take up this vision of French Influence again. Cullen is peculiarly severe upon the memory of Thomas Paine, who is now mouldering in his grave."—Paine, who had braved the gallows of G. Britain, (as Washington had done,) "and after having insulted and defied his native monarch, Gorge the IIIrd, escaped in that land of laws."—Page 572. Here truly speaks the British Emmissary.
We had marked a variety of quotations; respecting the rise of the Federal Constitution—the exertions of Mr. Madison; the course of the Antifederalists—the conduct of Mr. Jefferson, when Secretary of State; the administration of Mr. Adams; the affair of Dr. Logan; but they are too voluminous for insertion. We must content ourselves with one or two short extracts, from his account of Mr. J's administration. Let these serve as specimens of the whole. Ex lege Herodoti.
of having stood as high as Mr. Jefferson in the estimation of the (republican) party." 2.31. "The assertion stands in evidence on the face of the election for President, in which undeniable test, they had the very same number of voices." "He was acquitted, by the solemn verdict of a Jury, which while it liberated him, affixed on the President's sentence of guilty, given into Congress in his message, the indelible stain of falsehood." 246. Is there then a man impudent enough to give such a colouring to the special verdict of that jury?
The two following extracts from the same trial, are however conclusive proofs of this man's determination to lie in the very face of the most notorious facts.
"Be his motives what they might, his earnestness and zeal were excessive, even to indecency. He wrote a letter to Mr. Giles, whom he knew to be summoned as a juror on the trial, in which he pledged him his assurance that Col. Burr was guilty. This would never have come to light had Giles known the great criminality of the act. But not being as well learned in the good old laws of the good times and nations, as in the code of France and the cant of the Rights of Man, he thought there was no harm in prejudicing a man to be tried for life or death, upon the mere saying of another, and inconsiderately disclosed that he had got such a letter, declared that he was convinced by Mr. Jefferson's assertion in it that the charges against Burr were founded in truth, or (to use the words of Mr. Jefferson's own Message) that Burr's guilt was placed beyond question." This being fortunately related to Col. Burr, he challenged Mr. Giles, and offered to prove the facts. Every impartial man present was struck with horror.—The Jeffersonians frowned; but were not abashed—Giles, himself, was confused.
"A young man from the State of Tennessee, having been induced by menaces or by money, or by some of those wily stratagems which are ever ready at the hands of the wicked, to make a false affidavit, the purport of which was to prove the guilt of Colonel Burr, in order to justify Wilkinson in his unlawful arrest of him, being sifted on his examination as a witness on the trial before the Chief Justice, contradicted point-blank his own affidavit, in every material circumstance it contained. Horror-struck at the wickedness displayed, (not so much by him as by the villain who suborned him,) Judge Marshall silenced the unhappy man, and by way of warning to him and others, said to him, 'Never open your mouth again in a court of justice.' What honest man can restrain his indignation at the prosecution when he reads the sequel? What heart informed by the common spirit of humanity but must be shocked. The unfortunate young fellow overwhelmed with shame and remorse and maddened with despair, put an end to his life with laudanum."
But we have done.—In one word, this pious missionary will not answer the purposes of his masters, for the very self-same reason, that disqualifies C. J. Stuart, author of the Court of St. Cloud—he pushes his misrepresentations too far ever to be believed—he caricatures too much, even to convey the slightest resemblance to the truth. He is too great a bungler for his business, and must be dismissed.
Let American Federalists ponder on these things.
THE VENERABLE HERO OF BENNINGTON.
A large and distinguished meeting of the Republicans was held at Bennington, Vermont, on the 15th August, to celebrate the glorious triumphs obtained over the British arms, under the auspices of the old and illustrious STARK.—A prayer and religious services were performed by John Leland, once the celebrated Baptist Minister of Virginia. After the conclusion of these exercises at the Meeting House, the following letter of the venerable Veteran was read:
A procession was then formed—after dinner, toasts were drunk, in the spirit and principles of the day;—that occasioned them.
LETTER FROM GEN. STARK.
AT MY QUARTERS, DERRYFIELD, (VL) July 31st, 1809.
My friends and fellow soldiers, I RECEIVED yours of the 22d inst. containing your fervent expressions of friendship, and your very polite invitation to meet with you, to celebrate the 16th of August in Bennington.
As you observe, I "can never forget, that I "commanded American troops" on that day in Bennington. They were men that had not learned the ART OF SUBMISSION, nor had they been trained to the ART OF WAR. But our "astonishing success" taught the enemies of liberty, that UNDISCIPLINED FREEMEN are superior to veteran slaves. And I fear we shall have to teach the lesson anew to that perfidious nation.
Nothing could afford me more pleasure than to meet "THE SONS OF LIBERTY" on that forlorn spot. But as you justly anticipate, the infirmities of old age will not permit; for I am now four score and one years old, and the LAMP OF LIFE is almost sputtering. I have of late had many such invitations, but was not ready, for there was not oil enough in the LAMP.
You say you wish your young men to see me, but you who have seen me can tell them, that I never was worth much for a show, and certainly cannot be worth their seeing now.
In ease of my not being able to attend, you wish my sentiments, them you shall have as free as the air we breathe. As I was then, I am now—The friend of the equal rights of men, of representative democracy, of republicanism, and the declaration of independence, the great charter of our national rights: and of course the friend of the indivisible union and constitution of the states. I am the enemy of all FOREIGN INFLUENCE, for all foreign influence is the influence of tyranny. This is the only chosen spot of liberty—this is the only republic on earth.
You well know, gentlemen, that at the time of the event you celebrate, there was a powerful BRITISH FACTION in the country (called Tories,) and a material part of the force we had to contend with was Tories. This FACTION was ranking in our councils, till they had laid the foundation for the subversion of our liberties. But by good sentinels at our out-posts we were apprised of our danger; and the sons of freedom beat the alarm—and, as at Bennington, "they came, they saw and they conquered." But again the FACTION has rallied to the charge and again they have been beaten. It is my orders now, and will be my last orders to all my volunteers, to look well to their sentries: FOR THERE IS A DAN-
GEROUS BRITISH PARTY IN THIS COUNTRY, LURKING IN THEIR HIDING PLACES, MORE DANGEROUS THAN ALL OUR FOREIGN ENEMIES. And whenever they shall appear openly, to render, the same account of them that was given at Bennington, let them assume what name they will; not doubting that the ladies will be as patriotic in furnishing every aid, as they were at Bennington in '77, who even dismantled their beds to furnish cords to secure and lead them off.
I shall remember, gentlemen, the respect you, and "the inhabitants of Bennington & its neighborhood" have shown me, till I go to the country from which no traveller returns. I must soon receive marching orders.
JOHN STARK. P.S. I will give you my volunteer toast, LIVE FREE OR DIE—DEATH IS NOT THE GREATEST OF EVILS.
Hon. Gideon Olin, Jonathan Robinson, and David Fay. PER LAST NIGHT'S MAIL.
NORFOLK, August 30. ARRIVAL OF MR. JACKSON.
Yesterday, arrived in Hampton Roads the British frigate L'Esperance, Capt. Ragg, of 40 guns, in 45 days from Portsmouth, having on board FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, Esq., his Britannic Majesty's Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the U. States, his lady and three children. By this arrival we have London papers to the 13th July, six days later than those received at Halifax: We select the most prominent articles, and leave the reader to judge for himself.—Herald.
LONDON, July 11. It is probable that the next accounts from Germany will bring intelligence of the greatest importance. We do not mean from the Danube, but from the North of Germany. It is reported that a general insurrection has broken out in Hanover, and Hesse, and that the Austrians were advancing from Leipzig on the one hand, and from Wurtzburgh on the other, for the purpose of giving confidence to the insurgents.
July 15. Orders were received at the custom-house this morning for a general embargo to be laid on immediately. The expedition, will sail in two or three days.
The march of the troops for their various destinations on the Kent coast was completed yesterday. Besides the artillery already stated, 1200 horses of the Commissariat Corps of gunner drivers, from Woolwich, Chatham, & Canterbury, are ordered to accompany the Expedition; a strong indication this, that the service is continental. They will be embarked in divisions at Northfleet and Ramsgate. A detachment of the Waggon Train is also expected to embark this day at Deptford.
Extract of a letter from Capt. Currie, of the Ruby, dated Houlke, July 7, to a Mercantile House in Liverpool.
"GENTLEMEN—I left Palermo on the 1st inst. honoured with the charge of dispatches from Lord Amherst, British Minister Plenipotentiary, and Gen. Sir John Stewart, whom I left at Melazzo embarking an army of 23,000 men, British and Sicilians, under his command, destined to attack Naples, & which were intended to sail three days after my departure."
At a late hour this morning we received Hamburg papers to the 6th inst. Berlin to the 2d, and Frankfort and other papers to the 30th ult. The following is the intelligence contained in them:
LEIPSIC, June 26. Six or seven thousand Saxon and Wirtemberg troops entered our city yesterday. We expect others to day.
June 28. The king of Westphalia entered this place on the 26th, and yesterday marched with his army towards Dresden.
According to certain information from Frankfort, negotiations for a peace between France and Austria are carrying on under the mediation of Russia. We are in hopes that our sovereign will soon return here.
June 28. This day about noon the king of Westphalia left this city, and advanced with the whole of his army to the neighborhood of Dresden. Before his departure, he was waited on by a deputation of the magistracy. His majesty issued here the following
ORDER OF THE DAY. "Soldiers! the rapidity of our march, & the perfect combination of our movements, have had the same effect on the enemy as if he had lost a battle."
"Only the day before yesterday he insulted our allies, and threatened nothing less than fire and destruction to our towns and villages. To day he flies full of terror before us. He has scarce been able to bear the look of our advanced posts."
"He occupied eight days in advancing from Dresden to Leipsic, and has obtained no advantage, except discovering that it requires only two days to arrive from Leipsic to Dresden."
"He believed us still on the Banks of the Fulde, while we were on the Saal. He did not suppose, it seems, that we would encounter either fatigues or danger, even when it was necessary to hasten to our worthy Ally the King of Saxony."
"Soldiers, You have obtained a right to the friendship of the brave Saxons, and you may in a similar case reckon on their assistance with the same noble confidence as they have relied on you."
JEROME NAPOLEON. Royal Westphalian head quarters, Leipsic, June 26, 1809. Chief of the Staff, REDBELL.
MERSEBURG, June 25. Official letters from the King of Westphalia's head quarters, arrived this morning, state, that Gen. D'Albany had orders to pass the Saal yesterday, and attack the Austrians near Lutzen. After several actions, the enemy were obliged to retire. The Austrians evacuated Leipsic at midnight.
PRAGUE, June 24. We learn by official reports from the Generalissimo's head quarters, that up to the 22d, nothing had occurred between the two main armies. The archduke Charles is daily receiving reinforcements from 2 to 3000 men, so that his force on the line from Crems to Presburgh is estimated at 160,000 troops of the line.
"As the Tyroleans and Vorarlbergers, supported by the Imperial troops under the command of Col. Teuner consider themselves strong enough to make head against the enemy, Gen. Chastelier has united with the
Banats of Croatia, Count Gally, and in conjunction with him has entered Hungary by the mountains.
BANKS OF THE ELBE, June 30. "Nothing decisive has as yet arrived from the great theatre of war; but according to all accounts, may be daily expected, as the three bridges over the Danube were finished on the 17th, and great reinforcements had reached the French army; Napoleon had also finished all the preparations and dispositions for a grand and decisive attack on the heroic Archduke Charles, and his valiant army, who were also prepared to receive him."
"The victory which the French blazon to have obtained over the Archduke John, by their Italian army, and the occupation of Raab, were mere ephemeral successes, as intelligence has been officially received of a much later date at Prague, stating that the Archduke had retaken the position on the Raab, and the French are said to have retreated before him."
"According to private letters from Austria, the Duke of Ragusa's army has been defeated and totally dispersed in the confines of Hungary, and no more than 6,000 men are said to remain of it. By the same channel it is said, that a combined British and Turkish naval and military force has reaken Trieste and Fiume, and conquered the greatest part of Dalmatia."
"The presence of a British army in Hanover, would be a great diversion in favor of Austria, as many of the inhabitants would join, particularly as the conscription for France will soon be introduced."
PRAGUE, June 23. The army of the Archduke Charles, which is now 160,000 strong, and is daily increasing in force, has thrown up fortifications on different points of the Danube, and adheres to its plan of defensive operations. The Archduke sends detachments to Hungary and Germany to alarm the enemy. It also appears to be intended in a short time to have more corps acting under generals Kienmayer, and Tiemeyer in Saxony, Franconia, and Swabia.
WILLIAMSBURG FEMALE ACADEMY.
MR. BLACKBURN, Professor of Mathematics, in the College of William & Mary, and Mr. Plunkett, teacher of Modern Languages, in the same College, inform the public, that they have united for the purpose of establishing an Academy in which young Ladies may receive an Education, calculated at once, to improve & enlarge the understanding, and to ensure the acquisition of those accomplishments, which are not only extremely agreeable in themselves, but which have become essential requisites in polished societies.
It is proposed that the parties shall attend to the duties of the School alternately, as best agreeing with their own views on the correct system of Female Education, and particularly as such an arrangement will prevent all interference with their respective engagements at College. Mr. Blackburn will, on one day, give lessons in Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, English Grammar, Composition, Geography and History, according to the progress which each pupil may have made. Should any of these young ladies discover a taste and capacity for further scientific acquirements, he will undertake to conduct them through certain branches, which, whilst they cannot fail to strengthen the mental powers, will be rendered so simple, as to make the study highly pleasing and instructive. In his department, he will steadily pursue a well digested plan, which he has already submitted to the test of experiment; and it will be his highest gratification, if he can evince, by the result in the present instance, that the female mind is as capable of improvement in real knowledge, as that of the other sex; a problem, the satisfactory solution of which, ought to be deemed highly important, but which has seldom been attempted on fair and liberal principles.
On the succeeding day, Mr. Plunkett will teach the French Language, Music, theoretically and practically, Dancing and Drawing. The experience which he has had, and the assiduous and minute attention which he engages to bestow, must secure to his scholars, the acquisition of those accomplishments which give animation to society, as well as grace and dignity to those who possess them.
Parents may be informed of the terms, and have a prospect of the School, by applying to A. Plunkett, in Williamsburg, or to G. Blackburn at the Coll.
The Session commenced on the 15th instant. November, 1808.
From our knowledge of the qualifications and assiduity of the gentlemen, who propose to institute and to conduct the WILLIAMSBURG FEMALE ACADEMY, we do, with pleasure, declare our belief that it will afford to young ladies, an opportunity which may be relied upon, of receiving a well conducted, liberal and polite education, and do, therefore recommend it to parents, as promising to merit their attention and encouragement.
JAMES MADISON, President Wm. and Mary College, JOHN BRACKEN, Han. Prof. SAMUEL GRIFFIN, T. G. PEACHY, SAMUEL TYLER, JOSEPH PRENTIS. November 18, 1808.
THE School announced in the above advertisement, has been since organized, but at too late a period to be productive of all the advantages which were anticipated; yet, though laboring under this inconvenience, it has vindicated its public utility. Examination, in the departments conducted by Mr. Plunkett, and Mr. Blackburn, held in the presence of respectable and scientific judges, have obtained their decided approbation. The knowledge of Grammar, Geography and History, acquired in so short a time, furnishes a flattering specimen of what may be expected from the School, if it be patronized by the public. In music, a subject of extreme difficulty, when scientifically taught, the progress of the young ladies in theory & practice, gave a degree of satisfaction, unprecedented in Williamsburg. A weekly lecture will be regularly given, during the ensuing course, on such branches of philosophy as can be explained by a simple apparatus, and without reference to complex mathematical principles. A gentleman is engaged for the purpose of teaching Writing and Arithmetic, by which means, Mr. Blackburn will be enabled to devote a greater portion of time, to the mental improvement of his pupils.
The teachers purposely decline the commonplace style of eulogy, from a conviction, that public patronage can be permanently secured only by the real improvement of their scholars. The local advantages of Williamsburg, as a place of Education, for young ladies, are sufficiently known.
Mrs. Tyler Anderson, will continue to take boarders.
Two public examinations will be held in each course, viz. in February and in July. Tuition will commence October 15th, & end September 15th following; but parents who wish to withdraw their children, will be at liberty to terminate the course July 15th. Williamsburg, Sept. 1.
MY motives will, I hope, justify my giving to the public eye, a few extracts from numerous do-
cuments, which have long lain neglected, in my possession, owing to my not having found any object which I deemed worthy an appeal of this kind: I am aware of the apparent incredulity of sounding one's own praise, even through the medium of partial friendship; but I believe that my prepossessions of my friends: As an individual, I have been habitually indifferent to any applause but that bestowed by men of sentiment and science, and I desire it only as a means of extending my sphere of utility. In my official station, the merit of my mathematical lectures can be appreciated by few: As a teacher of the minor branches, I shall be more generally understood, and more frequently excite the grateful feelings of parents. I wish the school, conducted by Mr. Plunkett and myself, to prove worthy of general attention, from a conviction that the diffusion of a liberal system of Female Education is of the utmost importance. GEORGE BLACKBURN.
Copy of a letter from Joseph Wilson, esq. the American Consul in Dublin.
Permit me now to take the freedom of introducing to you, a gentleman whose worth, when known, will, I am persuaded, interest you in his favor. Mr. George Blackburn wishes to settle in your country, and to procure an establishment as Instructor in the Mathematics, and those branches of science connected therewith. I have had some part of my family taught by him, and have never met with any person more eminently qualified to convey instruction, and to engage the attention and affection of his Pupils. His leaving this city is regretted by many of its most respectable families, as his character has been as unblemished, and his manners as amiable, as his acquirements are extensive. I will not say more in his favor, though wishing to say every thing that his merits and my desire to serve him could dictate, being persuaded that by so good a judge of merit his talents will soon be discerned and appreciated, and that a man of worth and genius need only to be known to procure him your attention and encouragement. Permit me to add, that any service rendered to him will be considered as a favor done to me.—I am, &c. Dublin, May 8th, 1809.
From the Honorable Col. Napier, the descendant of the illustrious Mathematician of that name. ARMY ACCOUNTS OFFICE, DUBLIN, May 3, 1809.
Having always considered talents, combined with industry, and directed by principle, as constituting the true wealth of a state, I cannot but lament your persisting in your intention of abstracting from Ireland that share of each which I know you to possess. At the same time I feel much satisfaction in adding my fields of service to the very respectable testimonies you have already obtained, &c.
I should consider my approbation as incomplete, did it not include the strong sense I have of that decency and morality, which I have observed in your personal conduct and character. GEORGE NAPIER, Col. and Comptroller, Army Accounts.
From a character not more dignified by holding the first rank in European life, than by those amiable qualities of the heart, which win, and secure respect and esteem.
Pupils often take a fancy to their teachers, but when I reflect on your success with our five sons, it proves to me past a doubt that you first made them respect and love learning.
That solid acquisition can never be lost to you; your advice made a deep impression on their minds, and I do not believe will be eradicated while they live, for quite exclusive of what they may have learned in science, their ears & tastes accompanied the steps you took to improve their minds: the lessons of affection will remain I trust, even if those of science be neglected.
In proportion to their moral merits, my obligations to you will increase, and I hope you will not fail to preserve their good disposition, by your remembrance of them. Your letters directed to the Duke of Leinster, will be forwarded to my sons whenever they are.
From the hon. Sackville Hamilton, secretary of the Treasury in Ireland. DEAR SIR,
I am very sorry I am not known to any gentleman in America, to whose attention I could recommend you. I would do it with very sincere pleasure from my knowledge of your very extensive acquirements in every branch of Mathematics. I regret very much that this country loses the advantage of your excellent talents, & sincerely wish you success in the object of your pursuit, in which I have the concurrence of both my sons.
From Doctor Brown, senior Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, to a member of the American Senate. DEAR SIR,
The bearer of this letter, Mr. Blackburn, is a Mathematician strongly recommended to me by Mr. Sackville Hamilton, a gentleman who has been in important posts under government here; and by lady Sarah Napier, sister to the Duke of Richmond: I am not personally acquainted with him, but they assure me that he is a man of good character, with the reputation, and, indeed from the education given to Mr. Hamilton's sons, the certainty of being a man of learning and abilities. He might find a good maintenance in this country, but has set his heart on going to America, &c. September 1.
NEW MARKET FALL RACES. The Races for Fall 1809, will commence, on the third Tuesday in October, (being the 17th day of the month,) and continue five days, to wit—
FIRST DAY—The great SWEETSTAKES, two mile heats—entrance 200 dollars, half forfeit: 17 Subscribers, and closed.
SECOND DAY—The JOCKEY CLUB PURSE, of 350 dollars, 4 mile heats: Money warranted to be hung up before starting—& will be added (to make the purse more interesting) all the subscribers that can be obtained to the Jockey Club list, from now until the race is run.
THIRD DAY—THE PROPRIETOR'S PURSE of 200 dollars, warranted as heretofore, to be put up before starting.
FOURTH DAY—A HANDY CAP, under the regulations established by the judges.
FIFTH DAY—A PURSE, worth one hundred dollars, will be run for 1 mile heats, the best 3 in 5, for any horse, that never won a race of superior value: 4 entries or no race—time weights to be agreeable to New-Market rules; and the entries to be made the evening preceding the day of the race.
N.B. Toll will be collected at the Gates, as heretofore: Four wheel Carriage, 1 00 Two do. do. 50 Man on horse, 50 Do. on foot, 25 Good Accommodations for 20 or 30 gentlemen & Boarders, will be provided on moderate terms, & New-Market house.
BLANKS MOODY, Proprietor and Treasurer of the Course. September 1.
DETER V. DANIEL, resting at Richmond, will practice LAW, in the Superior Courts, held in the city; in the Superior Courts of Chesterfield and Hanover, in the county Courts of Henrico and Hanover, and in the hustings Court of Richmond. September 1.

MANIFESTO OF THE SPANISH NATION TO EUROPE.
Dated at the Royal Palace of Alcazar. SEVILLE, Jan. 1, 1809.
Nations of Europe, Princes on your thrones, & good men of all ranks and conditions! In the name of the Spanish nation, the Supreme Central and Governing Junta of Spain, to whom, owing to the unjust and perfidious captivity of their King, she has intrusted her government, is about to expose to you a series of her misfortunes, and of the insults she has suffered.
The world can testify with what constancy Spain has adhered to France, and the uninter-rupted friendship she has preserved for her, during the interval of one hundred years. They waged war in common—in common they made peace: the same were their allies, the same their rela-tions. But France, by her preponderancy which she enjoyed in Europe, and the superior influ-ence of her kings, who were considered as the principal branch of the family, pointed out their enterprises, and directed their operations: con-sequently all the benefits, which could result from such an union, were her own, and Spain de-rived therefrom no other utility, reaped no other glory, than that, of being the first and grea-test instrument of the splendid power of her al-ly.
This union subsisted until the revolution of France: when the expulsion of the Bourbon family from the throne of their ancestors put an end to every family compact. Under these cir-cumstances, other views, other political relations, another posture was necessary for the Spanish monarchy; which Charles the IV. appeared to adopt, when in 1793, he declared himself against France and united his forces with the great coa-ition of Europe. But, the arbitrary influence, which the favorite who has been the cause of our destruction already possessed over our delibera-tions, wretchedly directed our military oper-ations, in the hour of conflict, and our diplomatic transactions at the conclusion of peace. An un-successful war succeeded by a shameful peace; and this peace by a ruinous and unequal alli-ance. From that time until the present, Spain, chained to the car of France, has been compel-led servilely to follow its violent and rapid mo-tion.
Why were all the advantages on the side of France? The fruits of their industry, enlivened by our treasures, were consumed in Spain and in Spanish America: their's were our armies, their's our ports, our ships, and we may even say our colonies. From this public relation of power to power, followed a good understanding and ad-herence among individuals. We always receiv-ed them like brothers, and in their two expedi-tions to Spain, our peasants deprived themselves of bread, in times of the greatest scarcity, in or-der to give it to their troops; and even the wo-men who had just brought their children into the world, abandoned their beds, and yielded them to the French soldiers. Let Frenchmen remem-ber this; those who possess any shame, that they may blush, and those who have none, that they duly examine the political views of the man, to whom they have committed their interests, and who, to satisfy that hydra-thirst for command, which consumes him, has deprived his nation forever of such immense benefits.
And what in return are those which Spain has received from that alliance, before the infamous rupture? Two maritime wars equally fatal: our squadrons sacrificed at the cape of our allies: our important colonies lost: the principal nerve of our industry cut asunder by the interruption of our relations in America: Louisiana ceded by Etruria to the French, and immediately sold by them, contrary to the express stipulated conven-tion, never to alienate it: Etruria in the price of this cession, and the immense sums of money, violently forced from the prince who possessed it; and the immense current of silver and gold which flowed incessantly from Spain into France, in order to quench the insatiable avarice of her rulers: in short, the silly administration of the favorite, maintained and protected by her, is an-other of the bitter fruits, which their friendship produced to us.
The constant and only maxim, which directed our cabinet in their operations, was to satisfy the French. The favorite of Charles, who always regarded them as the authors of his destruction, sacrificed every thing to his own preservation, and to this end, there was no meanness, no vi-ciousness to which he did not stoop. Our princes were totally ignorant of the grand maxim, that the best, the only defence against the ag-gressions of an ambitious man, is the love and the respect of the people. From error to error, from cession to cession, involved in a fatal lethar-gy, they were hastening towards their destruc-tion, and still continued to expect every thing from the wretch, who had so perilously deceiv-ed them.
The fatal flame, which in its career of destruc-tion had swallowed up Italy and Holland; over-turning the political order of Germany, and ruined Prussia, having been stopped in its progress by the peace of Tilsit, fell back with violence, to exercise its fury in the West. The unjust inva-sion of Portugal, and some pretended expedi-tions into Africa, were the pretext with which French troops were first introduced in Spain; and the offer of a sovereignty in that kingdom, the lure by which he drew the favorite into the snare, which he was preparing for him. To these arrangements was added the scandalous scene of the Escurial, the fatal effect of the division of the royal family, brought on by the vile and secret intrigues of the French. Spain and Europe learned with astonishment the accusation of par-ricide adduced by Charles IV. against his suc-cessor, and heard with horror a father demand the sword of justice against the supposed at-tempts of his first born son: but Europe and Spain refused their assent to such a calumny, & they did not stain even with a suspicion the innocence of a virtuous prince. Slighted, persecuted, deprived of the love & confidence of his parents, his respect and obedience had never been want-ing, and his true crime was his being feared and detested by the favorite. The infamous wretch did not dare to consummate the crime, and terri-fied with the silence of reprobation, which he perceived in the Spanish loyalty, he retracted from his execrable intention, and made this one step more towards his destruction.
In the mean time, the French troops were en-tering Spain; and Napoleon perceiving a most favorable opportunity for the execution of his de-signs, whilst they were engaged in this shameful dispute, gave the signal for action to his gene-rals. The fortresses of Pamplona, Barcelona, and Figueras, were treacherously seized by the soldiers, who had been received as friends, in those cities. When this infraction of the laws of hospitality was known, the whole kingdom was alarmed, and the government shuddered; but too weak openly to resist, it was obliged to be contented with the vain apologies which the French made, and returned again to its slum-bers. They already approached towards the capital. The mystery of their designs, and the affection with which, in their public discon-ses, they honored the nation, without ever men-tioning their princes, augmented the inquietude and fears, and destroyed the hopes of the in-cautious, who thought at first that they only came to put an end to the tyranny of Godoy; and he, at length persuaded that their intentions were not favorable towards him, gave sudden directions for the departure of the Court for Andalusia, in order that from thence they might pass into A-merica.
The patience of the Spaniards could hold out no longer. They perceived that they were ab-out to lose every thing, upon which they could rely, every object which could inspire them with any respect. The people looked upon them-selves as forsaken by their princes, without a government, without protection, abandoned to the mercy of strangers and exposed to the same fate as Portugal, where, having been received without resistance, the first step towards refor-mation had been to confiscate all public and pri-vate property, and impose an immense contribu-tion, which was to serve as a ransom. They rais-ed therefore their voice & would not consent to the departure of the royal family: the favorite fell headlong into that obscurity, from which he ought never to have been drawn; and his protec-tors not wishing, or not knowing how to reign without him, abdicated the throne in favor of their heir. Ferdinand VII. was solemnly and generally acclaimed and acknowledged king by the people, who were to obey him. The nation revived suddenly from death unto life: confi-dence again reigned in their hearts, and happi-ness and joy were evinced in every quarter. None, better than the French, can, if they will ever tell the truth, depose as to this unanimity of sentiment, this universal joy, these truly nation-al acclamations and applause.
The political relations, which still appeared to bind the two nations together, were not broken off by this change; the public and secret mea-sures which from the moment of his exaltation to the throne, were adopted by the young mo-narch, were principally directed towards strengthening and consolidating these bonds.—When Prince of Asturias, Ferdinand, had sought the friendship of Napoleon, had implored his pro-tection against the oppression under which he suffered, and intimated a desire of being connect-ed with his family. Now, king of Spain and the Indies, he professed the same sentiments; he sent a solemn and extraordinary embassy, to an-nounce to the emperor his exaltation to the throne; reiterated his demand for the connex-ion—being informed that he was approaching towards Spain, he sent the Infant, his brother, to compliment him; and he himself went out to re-ceive him, when, in consequence of the news gi-ven to him by the unfaithful emissaries of Bonaparte, he thought that he would meet him with-in the limits of his kingdom.
These demonstrations of friendship and confi-dence would have been sufficient to disarm any man, however fierce or wicked, if he had pres-erved in his breast any traces of humanity. Na-poleon, taking advantage of them, prosecutes the detestable plan of his artifices and the innocent deluded monarch goes from Burgos to Victoria, from Victoria to Bayonne, where he, at length, finds his ally, who, as soon as he has him in his power, commands him to renounce, in his favor, the crown, with which his people had encircled his brows. In order to overcome the resistance which he finds in the Spanish Prince at so de-grading a proposal, he causes the parents of the king who already seduced by his intrigues, had protes-ted against their abdication, to be also carried to Bayonne. There setting himself up as the defen-der of the rights of the father against the son, availing himself of the filial respect, which al-ways glowed in the virtuous bosom of Ferdinand, and abusing the melancholy condition of both, he compels the son to restore the crown to the father, and the father to renounce it in favor of himself.
And what was the situation, what were the sentiments of the Spanish people, whilst he was preparing, whilst he was executing this tyrann-i-cal, this shameful scene; whilst he was thus vi-olating all the fundamental laws of the monarchy, and thus opposing every desire of the national will? Restrained within the limits of their im-maculate loyalty, and love of order, whilst they entertained the hope that their king would be acknowledged, they shewed no disgust, no im-patience against the French, who being station-ed within the capital and its environs, availed themselves of the name of Ferdinand and his government, to enjoy the noble treatment and bounty of the Spanish generosity. But when they saw that their king, notwithstanding the promises he had made at his departure, did not return; when the horrible plot, which he was forging in Bayonne, was whispered among them and seditious papers scattered abroad, crying down the happy revolution, which they had just effected; when, in short they perceived the last remains of the royal family, carried off from the peninsula of their ancestors; then discontents broke out into complaints and clamours, and their restrained fury began to announce an inevitable rupture.
The French took advantage of this violent state of their minds, and by their atrocious man-agement and intrigues, hastened the memorable event of the 2d May. They already wished to unload measures of terror, thinking that by num-bling the capital, they would humble the whole nation, and they seized upon the first pretext which was offered them by a dispute, which, with pacific measures, might easily have been ad-justed.
Thirsting after blood, impatient for tyranny, they fired unexpectedly upon the people, who had yet done no harm, and extended their mur-derous columns through the peaceable streets of Madrid. The inhabitants indignant, ran to arms hand to hand, body to body, closed with their enemies, and displayed more valor than their enemies, both in annoying them and yield-ing to death, notwithstanding the superiority of those base assassins in strength, discipline and military array. The blood flowed in torrents, & the neighborhood, although greatly unequal in numbers, although forsaken by their government, although they were neither assisted nor direct-ed by the military, whom the strictest orders kept within their quarters, maintained the strug-gle with firmness, and in many places, with ad-vantage, when the voice of peace and concord, issuing from the mouths of the magistrates, re-strained and disarmed them.
The combat ceased, and horror began: The barbarous Frenchmen took possession of Madrid in a military manner, and detained every person they met under arms, or with utensils that ressem-bled them; and these unfortunate wretches with-out trial, without preparation, were with the greatest barbarity, shot during the night and the following morning, plunged into eternity, within sight of their very homes. The dreadful silence of that cruel night was only interrupted by the report of the guns and the groans of the dying. The brave Spaniards, detained and disarmed, could neither lend their protection to their bre-thren, nor fly to avenge their cause.
The fatal day placed in the hands of the French the supreme authority of the state, and the re-nunciations of Bayonne, which immediately ap-peared, announced to the monarchy, that its fate was in future to depend upon the will of Napo-leon.
He ceded the crown of Spain to his brother Jo-seph, and in order to give to these acts a ridi-culous authority characteristic of the French mag-nificence, he convoked at Bayonne, an assembly of Spaniards, some corrupt, others imbecile, and the most of them defectors; who, without any commission or public representation, affixed their signatures and approbation to a miserable scraw-l, which Napoleon and his secretaries decorated with the pompous title of the constitution of Spain.
(To be continued.)
In the Court of King's Bench, on Tuesday, an action was brought by the Windsor Herald a-gainst Mr. Neale, a gentleman of considerable fortune in Nottinghamshire, to recover 276l. for his heraldic labors. The cause excited much mirth, the herald having connected the defendant with Foulk, king of Jerusalem, William the Conquer-or, Col. Wallader, Prince of Wales, besides the Milesian Kings of Ireland, and several other po-tentates of Europe, which so pleased the latter,
that he intended to have the armorial bearings of this illustrious race of ancestors painted in glass to adorn the new hall. On finding, however, that for being traced through 256 descendants, he was charged five shillings for each descent, he be-sides 256 armorial bearings, sketched at five shil-lings each, he ordered the business to stop—and subsequently refused payment. The jury found for the plaintiff, deducting a few pounds for the expenses of a journey, for inspecting title deeds. Lord Pap.
LONDON PHENIX COMPANY.
The following note, with a request that it be published, I received yesterday. Mr. Whelan has no claim upon the editor of this pa-per to publish his vindication. I publish it as a favor, not as a right, and the British agents are welcome to all the consolation it can afford them. We can assure Mr. Whe-land that the impression which will be made by his defence, is very different from what he may flatter himself. It will be so far from removing doubts that it will confirm the wavering and convince the most sceptical that the Phenix company have expressly interdicted their agents from effecting insur-ances on manufactures.
PHILADELPHIA, August 15, 1809.
SIR, In your paper of last evening you state that the Phenix Company of London have expressly interdicted their agents from effecting insurances on manufactures. As agent for the company, I am fully authorised to insure all manufactures, EXCEPT THOSE WORKED BY STEAM.
I am yours, &c. ISRAEL WHELAN.
Mr. Binns Editor of the Democratic Press.
FACT I. It is not denied by Mr. Whelan, that Mr. Davis the agent of the Phenix Company at Charleston did refuse to insure the Homespun Factory, when required so to do by the President of the S. C. Homespun Company.
FACT II. It is not denied by Mr. Whelan, that the agent at Charleston spoke the truth when he said that "he was expressly inter-dicted from making insurances on Factories in America, in which Cotton was an article employed."
FACT III. It is announced by Mr. Whelan himself, that he also is interdicted from making any insurances on such manufactu-res as are worked by steam.
From these Facts we have a right to infer that the Directors of the London Phenix Company give different instructions to their different agents according to their local situation, and the probable interference with British interests which may come under their respective districts.
For instance, in Pennsylvania we have iron and other mines, and heavy works which require powerful machinery, therefore the Phenix Company expressly interdicts Mr. Whelan, their agent in Philadelphia, from making insurances on any manufactures "worked by Steam." In South Carolina, Cotton is a principal product of the soil, and as it was probable and reasonable to expect the people would turn their attention to its manufacture, the Phenix Company expressly interdicts Mr. Davis their agent in Charles-ton, from "making insurances on Factories in America in which Cotton is an article employed."
We thank Mr. Whelan, for the new light he has thrown on this subject, and the addi-tional motives he has given to Americans not to insure any of their property in an office which is hostile to the best interests of their country. Democratic Press.
NEW YORK, August 22. The prisoners confined in irons in Car-thagena, have all escaped. They were fif-teen in number. Of these, the last two reached this city yesterday in the schooner Capac. Thirteen still remained in the Hospital, with the hope of being soon per-mitted to follow the example of their deluded fellow sufferers.
The resolution of thanks to Mr. Wardle (who introduced into the British Parliament the scandalous business of "The Duke and My Darling") passed at a meeting of the inhabitants of Sheffield, was signed by up-wards of 15,000 persons on 40 skins of parch-ment, which measured 35 yards and a quar-ter in length.
THE SUBSCRIBER, offers for sale, that e-legant and valuable Estate, called WIL-SON, lying nine miles below Richmond. The dwelling house is not inferior to any in the state: the offices are commodious; the Garden and yard are handsomely laid out. The situation combines so many advantages, that I am un-willing to give a description of it, wishing any gen-tleman who is disposed to purchase, to come and view it. It may not be amiss however to ob-serve, that James River runs 100 yards from the door of the house, that vessels of five hundred hogheads have loaded at Warwick, one mile a bore; that the water carriage to Richmond is only six miles, that there is a good Shad and Herring fishery, and that Wild Fowl are fre-quently procured. A small Grist-Mill, is at-tached to it on a stream that runs through the plantation.
Also two thousand acres of LAND, lying on Fighting Creek, Powhatan County. Two miles from the Court House, which will be divided in-to two or more lots to suit purchasers. This land is well watered and calculated for the cul-ture of wheat, corn and tobacco.
For terms apply to the Subscriber residing in Richmond, or William Berkeley, in Powhatan
WILLIAM RANDOLPH. June 23.
COMMITTED to the Jail of the county of Middlesex, the 6th of June last, a negro man, who calls himself HENRY FOX, and says he was born free and raised in the town of Nor-folk: He is about thirty years of age, five feet seven or eight inches high, well proportioned, of a very dark complexion, and marked in his face, very thick with pits of the small-pox, had on when taken up, a light coloured mixed Virginia Cloth Coat, a striped Virginia Cloth Waistcoat, and blue nankin pantaloons, but has with him, a number of other clothes. As the said Negro is supposed to be a runaway, the owner is request-ed to come forward, prove his property, pay charges and take him away, otherwise, he will be dealt with, as the law directs. TH. BEALL, Sheriff of Middlesex county. August 11.
GEORGE WATT has just received, and offers FOR SALE, Sicily, Madeira, Malaga, and Sherry WINE, by the Bhd. and 2l. east, Green Coffee, Orleans Sugar by the Hhd.; German Plantation, Simplex by the piece or case, half pint Glass Tum-blers in cases of 1000 each, and New York Soap & Candles.
ON HAND, Madeira Wine, Orleans and Ma-deira Sugars, Green Coffee, Molasses, 1st and 2d Port, Liverpool and Stone Ware, Souchong, Hy-son, Skin, and Gunpowder Teas, Spanish Segars, Raisins, Almonds, Nuts, Wines, Wines, Men's & Women's Shoes, which he will dispose of by wholesale on reasonable terms. July 22.
VALUABLE PROPERTY—FOR SALE.—Having again embarked in public life, as a publican at the Eagle-Tavern, which necessarily, employs all my time; I shall proceed to sell, on the 5th day of Sept. next, several valuable brood MARES, COLTS & FILLIES, of the first stock in Virginia: about thirty head of Sheep, a part thereof of the improved Barbary & Merino breed—also, a young bull of superior breed, 2 mules, waggon and gear, two carts and a variety of plan-tation Utensils: likewise some articles of house-hold Furniture. The stock of Horses and Sheep are well worthy the attention of any gentleman, being inferior to none in the state. Also, will be sold, several valuable Lots of Land, handsomely laid off, and well adapted for a country retreat. I wish to rent the House, Garden and Farm at Farfield, all of which is now in complete order; the garden is now in a high state of cultivation & beautifully laid off. The sale will take place, on the premises, at 11 o'clock. AUGUST 11. E. SMOCK. wtds
NOTICE.—All persons indebted to the firm of Gilliat and Kirby, by bond or open ac-count, are requested to come forward and dis-charge their respective balances, on or before the first day of September next, as suits will be in-stituted against all those who are delinquent at that time.
Those who have any claims against the said firm, are requested to make them known to the subscriber. THOMAS GILLIAT, Acting partner of GILLIAT & KIRBY.
N. B. In my absence, Francis R. Stroble is fully empowered to receive and discharge all debts due to and from Gilliat and Kirby. THOMAS GILLIAT. wtds.
June 27.
BATTIESEA PAPER MILLS.—Those who wish to encourage the manufactures of their own state are informed, that they can be suppl-ied with Paper Manufactured in Petersburg, in any quantities.
PRICES AS FOLLOWS: Fine Letter Paper Vellum, $4.75; Do. do. Laid, 4.50; Fools Cap No. 1, 4.37 1/2; Do. No. 2, 3.37 1/2; Do. No. 3, 3.12 1/2; Folio Post Vellum, 9.50; Do. Laid, 9.00; Fine Printing Medium, 5.50; Do. 4.50; Excellent Wrapping Paper, 1.12 1/2.
Orders for any of the above qualities, address-ed to the subscribers, executed at the shortest notice. BANISTER & Co. wtds.
August 4.
ON Wednesday, December 27, 1809.—At the late dwelling house of Nathaniel Lan-caster, dec'd. about ten miles above the court-house, in Prince Edward county, on Appomattox river: Will be sold, to the highest bidder, the following PROPERTY, belonging to the estate of the deceased, a valuable stock of Horses, Cat-tle, Hogs and Sheep, the plantation Utensils, household and kitchen Furniture, too tedious to mention.
Also: Nine valuable NEGROES; also, the crop of Corn, Wheat, Oats and Fodder. A cre-dit of twelve months will be given the purchasers, on their giving bond, with approved security.
All those who have legal claims against the estate of the deceased, will be pleased to exhibit them duly authenticated, on or before the day of sale, to enable the administrators to make provi-sion for their payment. All those who are indebted to the estate, will see the necessity of immediate payment, as it must be evident no indulgence can be given.
JOHN LANCASTER, } Admrs. ROBERT LANCASTER, } August 18. wtds.
HENNING & MUNFORD'S REPORTS.
LEWIS ADAMS has just received fresh sup-plies of BOOKS from Baltimore, Philadel-phia and New York, which with those on hand and others daily expected, he flatters himself makes his assortment more valuable and exten-sive than any other collection in Richmond, all of which he would cheerfully exchange for cash at the regular prices.
Vol. 1 and 2 Henning and Munford's Reports royal 8 vo. cf. at $6 50 per vol. from the press of J. Riley, New York, who has the copy right.
Woman or Ida of Athens, 2 vol 25 and 1 75 borls. In recommending this interesting Novel to the literary world, it is only necessary to ob-serve that it is from the pen of the celebrated Miss Owenson, and ranks among the first of her productions. Essay on Sepulchres by Godwin; The complete Farrier; Reliques of Robert Burns, by Cromek; Memoirs of an American Lady, by Mrs. Grant, author of Letters from the Mountains &c. &c. John de Lancaster a Novel by Richard Cumberland; The Hun-garian Brothers by Miss Porter, author of Thad-deus of Warsaw. This is an interesting novel, the style of which, as 'tis from the pen of one who se-hears it is the seat of every virtue, is pure, sprightly and unaffected. Vol. 1 American Law Journal; Newland on Contracts, Selwyn's Nisi Prius, Kidd on Awards and a few of every law publication from the press of Messrs. Farrand & Co. Philadelphia.
The History of the Administration of John Adams. Memoirs of the hon. Thomas Jefferson, 3 vols. 8 vo. 5 1-2 bound; $4 50 boards, a new work.
A large assortment of children's books. July 14. w8v
THE subscriber will sell the HOUSE & LOT at present occupied by himself; and also, an unfinished House, with an half acre of Land, attached to it, near his residence.
It not previously disposed of by private con-tract, this property will be sold, at public auc-tion, upon the premises, on the fourteenth day of September, ensuing. The improvements on the Lot, occupied by the subscriber, are plain, neat, comfortable and in good repair.
If required, some time will be given for a part of the purchase money. The situation of this property is eligible, both as it regards health and a good neighborhood. SAM'L. GREENHOW. August 18. t4Sep
LANDS FOR SALE.—The Subscribers, at-torneys in fact, for Col. John Sitton Farley, and his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Morson, residents in Great-Britain, offer for sale their remaining proportion of that valuable TRACT OF LAND, in the county of Rockingham and state of North Carolina, called the Sauratown Estate.
This land lying contiguous to one of the branches of Roanoke River, and in the midst of a wealthy country, is represented to be of great fer-tility, and to unite so many advantages as to be well worth the attention of the purchasers; it contains from 10 to 12,000 acres, and will be sold in one whole, or in distinct parcels, at the option of those who may wish to buy; for which pur-pose it has been laid off in separate lots. A plot of the land is left in the possession of Wm. Ed-ward Broadax, esq. of Brunswick county, Vir-ginia, who has purchased a part of it, and to whom, for more correct information as to its qua-lity, situation and other advantages, purchasers are referred, as well as to Mr. Ira Ellis, who lives on the spot. Mr. Broadax will also make known the terms of sale, and any contract entered into with him for the purchase of the above land, or any part thereof, will be obligatory on ourselves, and our principals. C. K. TAYLOR, JOHN DUNLOP. Petersburg, Va. July 20. gw
A NELEGANT ESTABLISHMENT FOR SALE.—The House and Tenement where the subscriber lately resided.
This tenement justly ranks amongst the first in this place, combining elegance, convenience, contiguity to the Capitol, and in the centre of a most agreeable neighborhood.
For terms apply to Mr. Wm. Long who is fu-ly authorised to contract for the same. J. PENN. June 23.
STAGES FOR SALE.—Will be sold to the highest bidder, at this place, on Friday, the 10th of next month, (September,) the line of STAGES, between Richmond and Fredericks-burg. The terms will be one-fourth of the pur-chase money to be paid on the day of sale: the balance in six, nine and twelve months. On the same day, will be sold, on a credit of twelve months, several very valuable STUD HORSES, among which are, Archduke and Speculator.—The purchasers to give bond with approved se-curities, to JOHN HOOMES, and JOHN G. WOOLFOLK, Executors of JOHN HOOMES, Decd. Bowling Green, August 11. 9t
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE.—The Subscribers wish to dispose of that valu-able tract of LAND called FORT LEWIS, lying in the Counties of Botetourt and Montgomery, and containing about 2,600 acres. They also wish to sell 3,180 acres of Land lying in the County of Fluvanna, on the south side of the Rivanna river, extending from Col. Cary's line, down the river, to within about a mile of Colum-bia.
These last mentioned Lands, being in five dis-tinct tracts, will be sold separately or together, as may best suit any person desirous of purchas-ing. One-fourth of the amount being paid in hand, any reasonable credit will be given for the balance. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. Richmond, July 28. tf
FOR SALE, in the town of Cartersville, upon James River, Lots No 6 and 24, being the same formerly owned by Messrs. Deane—on the first, a good dwelling HOUSE, store and other improvements, and on the last, a good lumber house. A credit of one, two, and three years will be given: Bonds with approved security, to bear interest from the date, if not punctually paid, will be required.—For further particulars apply to Messrs. John C. E. Cunningham, at Cartersville, who will show the premises, or to JAMES & JOHN DUNLOP. Petersburg, July 28. 6w
NOTICE.—In pursuance of a deed of trust ex-ecuted to the subscriber, there will be of-fered for sale, the 7th day of Sept. next, on a cre-dit of six months, a small tract or parcel of LAND, lying on the Buckingham Road, about four miles above Bowdin courthouse. Also, one negro man named BOB, the property of Ar-chibald Conway, to satisfy a debt due to Major John Archer of Amelia. HENRY ANDERSON, Trustee. Powhatan, August 15. Sw
BOARDING-HOUSE, to be opened in Wil-iamburg. The Subscriber, being about to remove to Williamsburg, informs the public that he intends to keep a Boarding-house in that city, a BOARDING HOUSE, which will be opened on the 20th day of Septem-ber next. Her house is large and commodious, and situated nearly in the centre of the town. She will have an entirely new set of Servants, & bones, with the strictest attention and exertions to please, to give satisfaction to those who may fa-vor her with their company. Her intention is to accommodate Boys, Girls, Students of William & Mary College, per gen Gentlemen, or Ladies, with board and lodging, on board only, by the day, month, or quarter of a year, on reasonable terms. ANNA BYRD. Richmond, August 1. 1205
The said sale will be made agreeably to the di-rections in such cases, of the act of Assembly, passed the 31st day of January, 1809, entitled—"An act concerning executions and for other purposes." EDWARD JOHNSTON, JOHN FOX, Trustees. August 11. 1ds
UNAWAY from the Subscriber in Amer-est County, on the 24th Instant, my noted Wat-terman Robin, he is between 35 and 40 years of age, of black complexion, has very hollow cheeks, owing to the loss of his upper, and jaw teeth, he has been accustomed to run the river from Lynchburg to Richmond for many years, and has numerous acquaintances and it is highly proba-ble that he will be harbored by some of them, I will give a reward of 10 dollars and pay all ex-pences to any person that will bring the said Fellow to me, otherwise will pay 5 dollars for putting him in the Jail of the County where he may be taken up. THOMAS MOORE. August 22. 4w
ALL whom it may concern.—RICHARD SMITH, a native of Ireland, departed this life on the 18th of June, 1809, without leaving in this State, or in the United States, any rela-tion by consanguinity, and possessed of some Estate in Lands within this Commonwealth, of which, as well as of the United States he had long been a Citizen. His intent was to give the whole to the subscriber, as his Nuncupative Will, now of Record, will sufficiently prove; but the subscriber hath been advised, that a Will of that kind cannot effect a conveyance of Lands, how far soever it may prove the intent of the Testa-tor, and that the Lands late of the said Richard Smith do of consequence, escheat to the com-monwealth, though contrary to his intent of es-towing them on a citizen thereof. For that rea-son, the subscriber sh. request the General As-sembly, at its ensuing session, by Petition, to es-tablish the intent of the said Smith into execution, by releasing the Interest of the Commonwealth in the Lands whereof he was possessed, or en-titled to within the same, to the Subscriber. DAVID DOTLE. August 25. tf
PATENT SHOT.—Fivestons of Patent Shot, assorted from B's—B & No. 1 to No. 9, just received, from Beck's Manufactory in Phila-delphia, for sale by the Subscriber; who will hereafter be furnished, from said Manufactory, with a regular supply of the above article, suffi-cient to meet any demand at this Market. M. M. MYERS. August 29. Tsw
WANTED to hire, for one or two months, a hand that has been accustomed to work the field. For further information, apply to the printer. August 18. tf