Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1809-09-15 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XVIIIth YEAR.]
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[No. 1688]
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1809.
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VIRGINIA: At a superior court of chancery held at the capitol in Richmond, June 20th, 1809. Philip N. Nicholas, attorney general, on behalf of the commonwealth of Virginia, Plff.
AGAINST Lucy Price, relict of William Price, regis- ter, deceased, and William D. James A- lexander, John Harvie and Anne Price, Infant heirs of William Price, deceas- ed, by William Duval, their guardian, and the said William Duval, administra- tor of William Price, deceased, defts.
Phillip Duval, Plff. AGAINST The same, defts.
The Mutual Assurance Society against Fire on Buildings, in the state of Virginia, Plffs. AGAINST The same, defts.
And William Marshall and Thomas Taylor, guardians of Eleanor and Lavinia Dan- dridge, orphans of William Dandridge, deceased, Plffs. AGAINST The same, defts.
THESE causes by consent of parties, were this day heard together on the bills, answer, exhibits, and report of com- missioner Greenhow, made in the second suit, which was substituted by consent in the other causes, and were argued by counsel; On consideration whereof, the court, by consent of parties, doth adjudge, order and decree, that John Prosser and William Moncure, or either of them, who are ap- pointed commissioners for that purpose, af- ter having advertised the time and place of sale for thirty days in two of the news- papers printed in the city of Richmond, do expose to sale, at public auction, upon the premises, the following Lands of the In- testate William Price, late register, name- ly: two thirds of two lots in the city of Richmond, known and distinguished in the platt of the said city by the numbers five hundred and twenty seven, and five hun- dred and eight, lying on the main street, which were purchased of Alexander Quar- rier, and adjoining his present residence: nine vacant lots in the said city, near the monument of Joseph Jackson, and distin- guished by the numbers
to the dower of the defendant Lucy, in the property directed to be sold, the court will, if the parties consent, at a future day, pro- ceed to make compensation to her, out of the other lands of the estate of the Intes- tate; and liberty is reserved to the infant defendants to shew cause against this de- cree at any time within six months after they shall severally attain the age of twen- ty-one years: And by consent of the par- ties in the last suit of the court, doth order the defendant William Duval, to make up the accounts of his Intestate, as guardian of Lavinia and Eleanor Dandridge, now wards of the plaintiffs Taylor and Mar- shall, before one of the commissioners of the court, who is ordered to examine, state, settle and report the same to the court, with any matters required by the parties or deemed pertinent by himself. A Copy—Teste, PETER TINSLEY, c. c.
IN conformity with the foregoing Decree, we shall, or one of us, proceed to sell on the pre- mises under the dates as hereinafter stated, the whole of the Property embraced in the said De- cree, Viz: On Friday the 15th day of September next, at 11 o'clock, A. M. The three hundred and fifty acres land, more or less, in Goochland county ly- ing on both of the Branches of Tuckahoe creek, adjoining the land and residence of Col. Robt. H. Saunders. On the ensuing day, Saturday the 16th, in the City of Richmond, at 11 o'clock, A. M. Part of Lot No. 503, & the whole of Lot 527, as designated and known in the plan of the said City, which have been divided into eight hand- some Lots of 23 feet 9 in. 4-10 front each, on the main street, running back 163 feet four in. adjoining the present residence of Mr. Alexander Quarrier & separated from the residence of Mr. Joseph Gailego, only by sixth street—A survey of which lots, has been accurately made, and a plan of the same may be seen at any time at the Vendue Office of Prosser & Mon- cure—The ten Richmond Turnpike shares im- mediately after these Lots are sold, and on the last of said Lots disposed of. On the same day immediately thereafter, the sale of the said 8 Lots, the nine Lots on Shockoe-hill near the monument and residence of Mr. Joseph Jackson and the same which the Intestate, William Price, late register, purchased of Judge Wash- ington N. — On the ensuing Monday the 18th Sep. in Henrico county, at 11 o'clock A. M. the 218 acres Land more or less and 80 acres coal land, lying on Deep Run. On the 19th same month, Tuesday, at 11 o'clock, A. M. in the city of Richmond, the House and Lot on the main-street of Shockoe-hill, near the Brick building of Mr. Thos: White, common- ly called the Blue-house, which the intestate, purchased of John Brittain, and on the day af- ter, Wednesday the 20th Sep. in the county of Henrico, the truly desirable Estate, called Chasvill, containing about three hundred & an fifty acres land, with very good improvements thereon, situated about three and a half miles from the city of Richmond, being the farm formerly occupied by the Intestate William Price, late Register, and now by Mr. Peter Wilkinson, or so much thereof as will be suf- ficient to satisfy the plaintiffs in their respec- tive claims, with the interest thereon from the several days of sale in the order and on the terms stated in the foregoing decree. JOHN PROSSER, } Commissioners. WM. MONCURE, } Richmond, August 12th. 1809.
TO be sold by auction, at the store of the sub- scribers, on Wednesday, the 29th day of September next. THEIR STOCK OF GOODS. Terms will be made known at time and place of sale. Jno R. D. Payne & Co. Goochland County, 29th Aug. 1809.
ON the 30th day of September next, will be dissolved by mutual consent, the co-part- nership of John R. D. Payne & Co. All per- sonal indebted to Archibald Bryce, & Co. Archi- bald Bryce, or John R. D. Payne, & Co. will please to come forward immediately & settle their respective balances with ARCHIBALD BRYCE, who alone is empowered to receive and grant discharges for the same; and all those to whom they are indebted, will apply to him for settle- ment. John R. D. Payne. Archibald Bryce.
The business of the store will be carried on as formerly by Archibald Bryce. Goochland County, 29th Aug. 1809.
FOR SALE OR RENT.—The TENE- MENT on Shockoe-hill, lately occup- ied by Mr. Samuel Pleasants on which is a Dwelling house with six rooms, besides two dry cellar rooms with fire places also a Kitchen, smoke house, and Stable. The Situation is healthy and pleasant and very convenient to the Capitol—Possession may be had the first of October next, when Mr. Pleasants' lease will expire. For terms apply to A. BLAIR, Richmond, July 13, 1809. Wif.
MATTRESSES OF ALL SIZES AND KINDS, MADE and repaired, agreeably to order, in the large wooden house opposite the Old City Tavern, two squares below the market bridge, Richmond J. S. Pleasants. May 31, 1809
For Sale at this office, HENING'S New Virginia Justice, CONTAINING The Duties of a Justice of Peace, &c. toge- ther with a variety of useful precedent adapted to the laws now in force. Also forms of conveyancing, such as deeds of bargain and sale, lease and re-lease, mort- gage, trust, &c.
In Richmond Hustings Court, June 12th, 1809. Elizabeth T. Younghusband and Samuel P. Parsons, Administratrix and administra- tor with the will annexed of Pleasant Younghusband, deceased—Ralston and Pleasants—Picket, Pollard and Johnston —Thomas Taylor and James Brown, late merchants and partners under the firm of Taylor and Brown—James Brown, jun and William Norvell, surviving par- tners of the late commercial house of Norvell, Wyatt and Bullock. Plffs. AGAINST Moses Davis, Prosser and Moncure and George Wm Smith, defts.
THIS cause this day came on to be heard on the bill, answer, sundry exhibits filed and was argued by counsel, on consideration where- of, the court being of opinion that the land conveyed by the said Moses Davis and wife to the defendant George William Smith, was inten- ded to secure the payment of the notes in the possession of the plaintiffs Picket, Pollard and Johnston, and Ralston and Pleasants, on which suits have not been brought—And also of the judgments obtained on the notes which came to the possession of the other plaintiffs, name- ly, Taylor and Brown, James Brown, jun. and the surviving partner of the house of Norvell, (Wyatt and Bullock) as well as of those taken up by Pleasant Younghusband, deceased, in his lifetime, do decree and order, that George W Smith do proceed to make sale of the lot of land in the bill mentioned, to the highest bid- der, upon a credit until the repeal or extri- cation of the act concerning executions and other purposes, passed 31st January, 1809, taking bond with two good securities for the payment of the purchase money, and return the bonds by him taken to court to abide its future order, he giving two weeks notice in some one of the newspapers published in the city of Richmond of the time and place of sale, and returning a report how he has executed this order. (A copy) TH: C. HOWARD, CLK.
PURSUANT to the above decree, the land therein mentioned, which is situated in the county of Henrico, contiguous to the city of Richmond, being the same lot or parcel of land which was conveyed by Richard Adams and Elizabeth his wife, to Moses Davis, by deed dated the 31st day of March, 1807 and bounded as follows, to wit, beginning and running on the road or street leading from the market house in the said city to Du Val's village N. 4 12 W. 4 chains and 32 links to a stone 42 feet wide dividing said lot and parcel of land and the land formerly William Cannon's, now John Doyle's, and binding on said street N. 89, E. 4 chains and 94 links to the street—thence on the back street S. 4 1/2 W. 4 chains 32 links to a corner stone 42 feet wide next to a stone 42 feet wide, and binding on said street S. 39, W. 4 chains 30 links to the said road to the begin- ning—with the buildings and improvements thereon consisting of a large frame house will be sold, on the premises, at 4 o'clock P. M. on the 27th of September. The whole land will be divided into lots according to a plan which will be exhibited on the day of sale, and these lots will be sold separately. The sale will commence at 4 o'clock in the evening. GEO. W. SMITH. September 11.
NOTICE. By virtue of a deed of trust executed by John Yarrington to the subscribers, as trustees, for the purpose of securing the payment of a sum of money therein mentioned, due to Grief & Cla- bourn Barkedale, will be sold, at public sale, upon the premises, on the 12th Octo- ber next. THE TRACT OF LAND in the county of Charlotte, whereon said Yarrington resided, of about seventy two acres, lying on Cub creek, adjoining the lands of Sam- uel White, Nathan Harvy, &c. The subscriber will only convey the title vested in him as trustee. The sale will be made agreeable to an act of as- sembly passed the 21st January, 1809, entitled an act, concerning executions, & for other purposes. WILLIAM GAINES. Charlotte, 11th Sept. 1809. (61)
I AM inclined to rent for the ensuing year my Plantation on the Brooke. For terms apply to John Williamson in Richmond. Susanna Williamson. Henrico, 7th Sept. 1809. 25
BLACKSMITH FOR SALE.
FOR sale, a most valuable Blacksmith about 30 years of age. He is a stout well disposed negro; and probably inferior to no smith in the State. Enquire of the printer. September, 11th 1809. (3m)
JUST RECEIVED FROM NEW YORK, AND FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE,
A FRESH SUPPLY OF CHURCH'S & LEE'S GENUINE Patent Medicines.
INCLUDING Verm Lozenges, Ague and Fever Cough Drops, Drops, Restorative Balsam, Vegetable Lotion, Hamilton's Elixir, Alternative Pills, Essence and Extract Hill's Balsam of Ho- of Mustard, ney, John's Antibilious Turlington's Balsam, Pills, Anderson's Pills, itch Ointment, Antispasmodic or Fi- ye Water, Drops, &c. &c. ye Salve, May 11, 1809.
Foreign.
FRANCE AND AUSTRIA.
BALTIMORE, September 11. To day we give the 24th bulletin and other selections from our German and Danish interesting newspapers. Details from the armies from the 1st to the even- ing of the 6th July, together with the 23d bulletin shall be given to-morrow. There are some proclamations by the French and Austrian emperors respecting generals Chastelar, Durosnel and Fowler, the sub- stance of which shall be given. The 25th bulletin, we have copied from the North American. The 23d, 24th and 25th bulletins are mere extracts made from the official bul- letins of the army, by the German Editor— when the official ones shall have been re- ceived, we have no doubt that a chain of connected operations will appear therein, which at present is rendered confused and obscure. American.
TWENTY FOURTH BULLETIN.
VIENNA, 4th July. General Broussier had left in the city of Gratz two battalions of the 8th regiment of the line, and marched to Wildau, in or- der to make a junction with the army in Dalmatia; the 26th July, the general Glay appeared before the city of Gratz with 10,000 men. The 8th regiment were can- toned in one of the suburbs of the city, and repelled all the attacks of the enemy, over- threw it in every direction, took 500 pri- soners and 2 standards; maintained their position for 14 hours, & gave, by that means time to general Broussier to come to their assistance; this battle, in which the enemy were ten to one against us, has covered the 8th regiment and their commandant with glory. The standards were presented to his I. & R. Majesty Napoleon, on the parade ground. We have to regret the death of 20 men and 92 wounded. On the 30th June, the duke of Auerstadt ordered an island that lies close to the left bank of the Danube, on which the enemy had collected some troops to be attacked. The gen. Cubin, conducted the affair with great precision, and colonel Deconz, at the head of the 21st regiment of infantry be- longing to the line, performed the opera- tion. At 2 A. M. this regiment passed o- ver to the island, a part by swimming, and part in boats; put 1500 men to rout, made 250 prisoners; amongst these are the col. of the regiment of St. Julien, and several officers. Five pieces of cannon which had been brought on the island, to its defence, were taken. But no Danube exists any longer for the enemy. The general count Bertrand, ac- cording to the plans of the emperor, has executed such works on the Danube, as nothing of that kind can be compared to, and which has excited the general admira- tion.
On a breadth of 2400 feet and over the most rapid current of the world, in about 20 days, a bridge has been erected, con- sisting of 60 arches and so broad that three waggons can cross it abreast. Another only eight feet broad for the infantry, and a very large floating bridge were construc- ted—We can cross the Danube in three columns. Immense fortifications have been erected on the different adjacent islands, in order to protect the works of the bridge, and secure our passage.
From the appearance of this enormous work, one would believe, that many years have been required to its performance, though it has not taken more than twenty days labor. The Tete de Ponts which protect the bridges, are elegantly finished. The Island Lobau is now one of the strongest fortresses, provided with an im- mense quantity of provisions of every des- cription; 100 large cannon, and 20 mortar pieces. The general Le Grand is in pos- session of the woods by the Tete de Ponts. The enemy's army is in order of battle, covered by fortifications (redoubts) and has his left wing posted by Enzendorf—the right by Great Aspern. Several skirm- ishes have already taken place. Our crossing the Danube being now made easy, and our bridges secured against every attack, the fate of the Austrian monarchy will be de- cided by a single battle.
The Prince Gagarin, the adjutant of his Russian Majesty, arrived this morning at 5 o'clock in Schoenbrunn, just as the em- peror was going to mount his horse. He had left St. Petersburg on the 8th of June. He brought relations of the marches and achievements of the Russian army in Gal- licia.
The emperor Napoleon left Schoenbrunn, and is in encampment since two days. The tents are beautiful; they are erected after the Egyptian fashion.
FROM THE BALTIMORE NORTH AMERI- CAN.
THE SECOND GRAND BATTLE ON THE DANUBE.
We have made a great effort to trans- late and publish the official bulletin of the battle of Wagram, which was fought in sight of Vienna. The articles published in the democratic papers of this morning are mere aggravated rumours; all their lately being superseded by the bulletin except the Armistice, which is not con- firmed in our file and which we have there- fore copied from the American of this morning.
We shall give further translations on Monday.
As the armistice was made several days after the battle, it is evident that it was not immediately compelled by it; and as the terms of it exclude the French from all Hungary, Moravia and Bohemia, the strength of the Austrian monarchy is far from being exhausted—Of the 200,000 men with which the Archduke commen- ced the conflict, the French do not pre- tend that he lost more than 60,000, and it is probable that the number is vastly less. Hence by their own statements he must have 140,000 men left. But the attack having been made by the French; and the bulletin plainly evincing that it was a drawn battle, we make no doubt, that the French loss has been tremendous.
The affairs of Europe are not therefore settled; and it is certain that the soil of Germany will drink up much more blood of her sons before they will become the irredeemable slaves of the Corsican.
LATEST FROM THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT.
We have hastily made the following translation from the "Hamburger Corre- spondent" of the 21st July, with which we have been favoured by a gentleman of this city.
MUNICH, July 12.
TWENTY-FIFTH BULLETIN OF THE ARMY.
WOLKERSDORF, 8th July.
Passage of the arm of the Danube to the Island of Lobau.
On the 4th at 10 in the evening gene- ral Oudinot embarked 1500 of gen. Cour- doux's voltigeurs on the great arm of the Danube. Col. Baste with 10 gun boats carried them out and landed them beyond the confluence of the lesser arm of the Island of Lobau in the Danube. The bat- teries of the enemy were soon silenced and he was pursued from the wood to the vil- lage of Muhlet.
At 11 o'clock in the evening the batte- ries planned against Enzersdorf received orders to begin to fire. The howitzers reduced this unfortunate small city to ash- es, and in less than half an hour the ene- my's batteries were silenced.
At 2 o'clock after midnight the army had (the figure is illegible) bridges, and the left wing debouched, under the pro- tection of the batteries 1500 men were seen Enzersdorf and the right at Witten.— The corps of the Duke of Rivoli (Massé- na) composed the right wing, that of Oud- inot the center, and Auerstadt's (Davoust) the left wing. The corps of the Duke of Ponte Curvo (Bernadotte) of the Vice Roy, and of Ragusa (Marmont) the guard and the officers composed the second line and the reserve. The great darkness, a heavy storm and a rain which poured into the stream rendered this night as dreadful as it was favourable to the French army, and glorious as it was to e- ventuate.
On the 5th at the earliest dawn, every man perceived the emperor's plan, who was now with his army in order of battle at the first extremity of the enemy's left wing, had turned all his entrenchments, rendered all his works useless, and had compelled the Austrians to move out of their posts and to give him battle upon ground which was advantageous. This great problem was accomplished and with- out passing the Danube any where else, without even any support from the works, the enemy was obliged to fight three quarters of a league from his redoubt.— Now was anticipated the greatest and most happy result.
At 8 in the morning, the batteries, which play'd upon Enzersdorf, had produced such an effect that the enemy was fain to take possession of it with 4 battalions.— The duke of Rivoli ordered his first Aid- de camp St. Croix to march against it, of which he possessed himself without much opposition and captured every thing in it.
Count Oudinot surrounded the fortress of Sachsengang, which the enemy had garrisoned, compelled 900 men which de- fended it to surrender and took 13 pieces of cannon. Now the emperor ordered his whole army to display upon the immense plain of Enzersdorf.
Meanwhile, the enemy who had com- mitted an error in his plans, recovered from his astonishment, and endeavored to command some advantages on the new field of battle. For this purpose he de- tached many columns of infantry, a great number of artillery and all his caval- ry, as well of the line as new levies, in or- der if possible to out flank the right wing of the French army. Wherefore he took possession of the village of Rutzendorf. The emperor ordered Count Oudinot to take this village, and ordered the duke of Auerstadt to pass on the right of it, and direct himself against the head quarters of the Archduke Charles, as he was con- tinuing to march from the right to the left.

From noon till nine o'clock in the evening we manoeuvred in this vast plain. We took all the villages and as we approached the heights of their entrenched posts they retired from them as though through magic. The Duke of Rivoli caused them to be taken possession of without opposition. In this manner we got into our power, the works of Essling and Gross Aspern, and thus the 40 days work of the enemy was rendered totally useless to him. At Raschdorf, which the Duke of Ponte Corvo caused to be attacked and taken, he met with some opposition. The enemy was every where put to flight and annihilated by the superiority of our fire. The immense field of battle remained covered with his fragments.
BATTLE OF WAGRAM.
Greatly dismayed by the progress of the French army and its great results occasioned almost without an effort, the enemy ordered all his troops to march, and in the evening took the following position: His right wing, extended from Saddle to Gernsdorff, his center from Gernsdorff to Wagram and his left wing from Wagram to Neustadel. The left wing of the French army was at Great Aspern, its center at Raschdorf, and its right at Gernsdorff. In this order night came on, and we prepared for a great battle the next morning. The position of the enemy was reconnoitred throughout, in order to hinder him to adopt any system, after we should take possession of the village of Wagram in the night. In that case his line already extended, precarious, and surprised by a change of camp, must have suffered the different corps to be mixed without order or object, and the affair would soon be terminated without any serious conflict. Wagram was attacked, our troops took the village; but a Saxon column and a French column in the dark took each other for enemies, and the operation miscarried.
Already we were preparing for the battle of Wagram. It appears that the dispositions of the French and Austrian generals were opposed to each other. The emperor employed the whole night to draw together his force into the center, where he was personally within cannon shot of Wagram. For this purpose the Duke of Rivoli marched to the left of Aspern, and left a single division at Aspern, which had orders in case of necessity to retreat to the island of Lobau. The Duke of Auerstadt had orders to advance beyond the village of Grossos, in order to approach the center. The Austrian general in the mean time weakened his center, in order to occupy and strengthen his wings, to which he gave an additional extension.
On the 6th at day break the duke of Ponte Corvo occupied the left wing. In his second line was the Duke of Rivoli. The Vice King closed in the center, where the corps of Count Oudinot, that of the Duke of Regensburg, the corps of the Imperial Guard, and the division of Cuirassiers formed 7 or 8 lines. The Duke of Auerstadt marched from the right wing to reach the center. The enemy on the other hand placed the Corps of Bellegarde at Radlau in March; the corps of Colowrath, Lichtenstein and Muller united with the right wing in the position of Wagram, where the Prince of Hohenzollern was, and at the end of the left wing at Neustadel, where the corps of Rosenberg and Auerstadt debouched, and by a curved movement at the early dawn fell upon each other and gave the signal for battle.
The Emperor equally commenced at this period ordered the Duke of Auerstadt to be reinforced by the division of Cuirassiers of the Duke of Padua, and the corps of Rosenberg to be taken in flank by a battery of 12 pieces of the division of general Nansouty. In less than three quarters of an hour the fine corps of Auerstadt had defeated the corps of Rosenberg and pursued it beyond Neustadel, and did it great injury.
Meanwhile the cannonade became general through the whole line, and the disposition of the enemy disclosed itself every moment. His whole left wing was lined with artillery. It might be said, that the Austrian General prepared not to obtain a victory, but that he had in view only the means of taking advantage of it. This disposition seemed unskilful, that a defeat was anticipated, and the emperor waited some time before he ordered the small disposition which was necessary, to frustrate that of the enemy and to render it a misfortune to him.
He ordered the Duke of Rivoli to attack a village which the enemy occupied, and by which the center of the army was a line galled. He ordered the duke of Auerstadt to take the position of Neustadel and thence to advance to Wagram, and ordered the Duke of Ragusa and General Macdonald to form in columns to seize upon Wagram, in the moment the duke of Auerstadt debouched.
After these occurrences we were informed that the enemy made a desperate assault upon the village which the Duke of Rivoli had taken; our left wing was surrounded at 3000 paces; a violent cannonade was already heard at Gross Aspern, and the whole interval between Gross Aspern and Wagram was occupied by an immense line of Artillery. No doubt was left about it.
The emperor in this situation, ordered General Macdonald to form the divisions of Broussier and Lamarque into columns for the attack. He ordered them to be supported by the divisions of gen. Nansouty, the horse-guards and forty detachments
of different corps. Gen. Count Lauriston marched at the head of this battery of 100 pieces of artillery against the enemy, approached him without firing, till he came within half cannon shot and then commenced an astonishing fire, whereby slaughter and death were carried into the enemy's ranks. The general of division Reille supported with the brigade of fusiliers and tirailleurs the guard of gen. Macdonald. The guard altered its front to render the attack infallible. In a moment the center of the enemy lost a league of ground. His astonished wing marked the danger of the situation in which it was and in great haste moved back. Now the Duke of Rivoli attacked him during the flight of the center and the movement forced the right wing, Neustadel was taken from his left wing, by the Duke of Auerstadt, who ascended the hill and marched against Wagram, attacked and surrounded it. The divisions of Broussier and Gubin covered themselves with glory.
It was now 10 o'clock in the morning, and intelligent men saw that the day was decided, and that victory was on our side.
At noon, Count Oudinot marched against Wagram, to support the attack of the Duke of Auerstadt. He succeeded and he got possession of this important station. From 10 o'clock the enemy thought of nothing but his retreat. Since noon, this was plainly going on and in disorder, and long before night came on the enemy was out of sight. Our left wing stood at Jetelssee and at Ebersdorff; our center near Ebersdorff, and the cavalry of our right wing was extended, their posts at Schoenkirchen.
On the 7th at day break the army was in motion, and marched against Korneuberg and Wolkersdorff, and took post at Nussdorf. The enemy cut off from Hungary and Mähren found itself on the side of Bohemia driven into a straight.
Such is the representation of the battle of Wagram, the distinguished and glorious battle, where from 3 to 400,000 men with from 12 to 1500 cannon, fought for a great interest, on a field which by the enemy was studied and fortified for several months. Ten standards, 40 cannon, 20,000 prisoners, among whom are from 3 to 400 officers, and among whom are a considerable number of Generals, Colonels and Majors, are the trophies of this victory. The fields of battle are covered with dead bodies, among whom were found the bodies of several generals and among the rest that of Mr. Normann, a Frenchman and traitor to his country, who prostituted his talents against it. All the wounded of the enemy have fallen into our hands. Those whom he was able to carry off at the beginning of the battle, were found in the environs of the villages. We may compute that the result of this battle cost the Austrian army in all about 60,000 men, our loss is estimated at 1,500 dead and 3 or 4000 wounded.
At the moment when the Duke of Istria was ordering the attack of the cavalry, his horse was killed by a cannon ball. The shot struck the saddle and occasioned him a slight contusion of the thigh. The general of division Lasalle was killed by a musket ball. He was an officer of great merit and one of the best generals of light horse.
The Bavarian General Von Wrede and the Generals Peras, Grenier, Vignolle, Sabat and Defrance were wounded. Col. Prince Aid b andini was struck on the arm by a musket ball. The majors of Chasseurs of the guard, Daumesnil and Corbinet, and Col. St. Croix were also wounded. The Adjutant Commandant Duprat was killed. The Col. of the 9th regiment of Infantry of the line remained on the field of battle. This regiment covered itself with glory.
The general staff is making out a statement of our loss.
A singular circumstance in this great battle is, that the columns which lay nearest to Vienna, were not 200 toises distant from it. The numerous population covered the towers, roofs and heights, to witness this great spectacle.
The emperor of Austria quitted Wolkersdorff on the 6th at 5 in the morning, and ascended a Belvedere, whence he saw the field of battle, and remained till noon, when he scampered away at full speed.
The French head quarters arrived on the 7th in the morning at Wolkersdorff.
[In the beginning of the bulletin remarks are made on the positions of the armies. The Austrians were in all stated at 200,000 men, and their artillery at from 8 to 900 field pieces.]
Note of the German Editor]
Translated for the American.
HAMBURG, July 21.
8 o'clock A. M.
This moment a courier from the emperor and king has arrived with a copy of the armistice agreed upon between the two emperors on the 12th inst. and has brought us the agreeable news that peace is very near.
ARMISTICE
Agreed upon between the emperor of France and king of Italy and the emperor of Austria.
Art. 1. There shall be an armistice between his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy and his majesty the emperor of Austria.
Art. 2. The line of demarcation, on the part of Austria, is the boundary between Austria and Bohemia, the circle of Brunn, & a line established on the confines of Mähren above Raab. This line begins at Brunn near March & the Marsh on the other side with its confluence with the Zaya, from
thence to St. Johns and along the road from Presburg, Reissburg, and three miles around the city. The river Danube until its confluence with the Raab and three miles from its banks until it reaches Steyermark, Carinthia, Istria, (with the exception of Fiume which is submitted to the determination of his highness the archduke Charles.)
Art. 3. The citadels of Brünn and Graz shall be immediately delivered up after signing of the armistice.
Art. 4. The Austrian troops shall evacuate the Tyrol and the Vorarlberg; the fort of Sachsensberg shall be delivered up to the French troops.
Art. 5. The magazines, provisions and arms in those places in the possession of the Austrian troops may be carried away.
Art. 6. With regard to Poland, both armies shall occupy what they at present possess.
Art. 7. The present armistice shall continue for one month and fifteen days notice shall be given prior to the commencement of hostilities.
Art. 8. Commissioners on both sides shall be appointed to fulfil the conditions of this armistice.
Art. 9. Tomorrow (the 15th) the Austrian troops shall begin to evacuate the territories designated in the armistice. Fort Brünn shall be delivered up to the French on the 14th, and Graz on the 16th July inst.
Done and concluded by the undersigned, and authorized by both sovereigns.
Baron VON VIMPSEN, Maj. Gen. in chief of the staff of the Austrian army.
His excellency The Prince NEUFCHATEL. Certified by the Gen. of the staff of the 3d corps. REUBEL
PARIS, July 10.
On the 4th inst. the Americans residing in this city, celebrated the anniversary of their independence. The greatest taste was displayed in the decorations of the room in which they assembled: The walls were covered with emblematic figures of exquisite workmanship. At one end of the room America and France were seen sitting together in the Temple of Peace, united by laurel wreaths, each holding a horn of Plenty, with England in a humble attitude at their feet. Another emblem represented the President U. S. and the Senate of the same, before whom stood an old warrior, bearing a standard on which was inscribed "4th of July, 1776.—Freedom of the seas for neutrals, or war with England."
General Armstrong Ambassador from the U. S. the gentlemen composing his legation and many French gentlemen of the highest distinction partook of the entertainment.
The following are the toasts drank on the occasion.
1st. The Independence of the United States. 2d. The president of the same—James Madison. 3d. H. I. & R. M. Napoleon the first Emperor of the French and king of Italy. 4th. The brave Americans who fought to rid their country of the tyrannical yoke of England. 5th. General Armstrong.
Extracts from a Danish paper called DAGEN, (in English the Day,) 15th July, 1809.
No. 125.
In the Archduke's Minerva for June, are the following hitherto unknown anecdotes of Schill.—1st. that he after having taken Stralsund, declared himself duke of Pomerania.—2d. that the Dutch cut his head off, and after preserving it in spirits sent it abroad. Since the emperor Napoleon has taken Vienna, daily Estafette is sent from thence to Paris with the most important news, and from Paris back to Vienna, the distance from Vienna to Augsburg is 70 German miles, which is performed in 50 or on the highest 54 hours; from Augsburg to Paris by way of Strasbourg is 88 miles, and performed in 66 or 70 hours.—The weight of the dispatch does not exceed 8 or 10 pounds.
Admiral Saumarez has wrote to the Swedish Admiral Puke, that circumstances had compelled him to employ the gun-boats which had been stationed off Malmo upon other services, but that two ships of the line would remain there for the protection of merchant vessels bound to Carlscrona, and that three ships of the line would be stationed at Helsingborg for the convoy of Swedish merchant's ships.
July 14, No. 124.
STOCKHOLM, June 28.—Yesterday the coronation of the new king took place.—The 18th a fire broke out in Upsala, (in Sweden) in which in the course of 15 hours destroyed 70 houses. The late king of Sweden is banished to an Island in the Lake Western called Wisingsö situated in the province of Smaland, where he is to reside during the war: This island is the most fertile spot in the whole kingdom and is generally called the Eden of Sweden. N. B. This observation is made by the translator, being a native of the same province of Smaland.
No. 123.
The king of Württemberg has issued an ordinance, that all noblemen who refuse to enter into actual service in defence of their country, shall pay to the crown one fourth of all their yearly revenue from the commencement of the war to the 10th April.
No. 122.
The board of health has reported on the 1st July, that Charleston in North America is not to be considered as an infected, but suspicious place. In this suspicious situation are included the state of Georgia, the West India Islands, Turkey and African ports. All other cities and countries on and out of Europe are to be considered without
suspicion. Mr. Burke the Danish minister in Spain, had the honor to deliver his credentials to king Joseph the 9th of July.
MADRID, June 20.—The king is desirous to secure the payment of the national debt, and has accomplished it. Deprecating a bankruptcy of the state, which under the old government had impoverished so many families, he has by a decree of the 9th June, assumed the whole debt, and for the liquidation ordered national estates to be sold, which otherwise would have been of no value to the public. The paper money heretofore issued by government should pass current at its nominal value, and be received in payment for national estates as gold and silver. This will put a stop to the imposition of usurers and strengthen the confidence in the new government. Since the French have been in possession of Vienna, all the cotton has been transported to Strasbourg and Geneva, as long as any could be found in the warehouses. Through Basil passed lately a large flock of Spanish sheep as a present from Emperor Napoleon to Emperor Alexander; they were bound to Odessa.
NUREMBERG, June 26.—The news from Vienna of the 21st contains nothing of any new war-like operations. The bill of mortality states that from the 4th to the 10th June 198 persons had died in Vienna and its suburbs, and from the 11th to the 13th 60 persons, in which, however, is not included those who have died in the hospitals. A letter written by the Archduke Charles to the Duke of Brunswick, Oels, dated Döbriach Wagram, June 18th, is as follows:—With a painful sensibility, which your highness no doubt participates, have I been informed, that the troops of your highness have permitted themselves to exercise unbecoming cruelties and oppression in the kingdom of Saxony, which have disgraced the army, and injured the good cause by irritating the people. I have commanded Field Marshal Lench Baron Nienmeyer who is invested with the command of the Royal Imperial Troops to notify, that he according to the laws of war, will cause the severest punishment to be inflicted upon all such irregular officers committed either by the Royal Imperial, Hesse Cassel or Brunswick Troops. This measure is highly necessary, so long as your highness's troops make a part of the army in Saxony—I request your highness to make this regulation known to your people.
MANHEIM, July 14.
The 5th and 6th inst. are famous in the history of the present war. The emperor Napoleon on the 5th crossed the Danube with his numerous army, the 6th began the most memorable battle that was ever fought. It was near Neusideln that the French army obtained a complete victory.
According to news from Munich, a courier had arrived the 9th July, announcing 30,000 prisoners being already taken. Letters from Calsruhe, state the number of prisoners taken on the 5th and 6th July to be 40,000. The 7th the remains of the Austrian army, was pursued; other letters to the 7th, state the number of dead and wounded to be 50,000—the Bavarian and Saxon troops covered themselves with glory.
CALSRUHE, July 12.
Capt. Sauter is just arrived, as a courier extraordinary, bringing the news of a grand battle gained by his majesty the emperor of the French over the Austrians, the 6th and 7th July.
LINTZ, July 8.
The victory is now decided, the 4th courier has just arrived and brings us this important news.
The Archduke Charles is mortally wounded; the Archduke Lewis is also wounded; 16 generals killed and wounded or made prisoners: upwards of 30,000 men shared the same fate—100 cannons were taken. In the beginning of the battle, the right wing of the enemy was driven out of its batteries, the centre was next forced. The retreat of the enemy towards Hungary, is cut off. The slaughter was dreadful, the field of battle is covered with dead and wounded. The enemy is closely pursued. The great drama will be finished in the course of this month.
They write from Mehren, dated 9th July, that the manoeuvres made by Napoleon on the 6th of July, were more like exercise on a parade day, than those for a battle.
WOLKERSDORF, July 7.
After the battle of Wagram, the enemy's army fled in great confusion, and is pursued in every direction. Our vanguard is at two leagues from Nicolsburg. His majesty's head quarters are at Wolkersdorff, precisely at the same place where the Emperor of Austria was the night before. This unfortunate prince looked from the mountain Hebersbrunn at the battle, and as soon as he perceived it to be lost, went back to Brünn.
The inhabitants state the amount of wounded and dead to be enormous.
This army which amounted to 200,000 is reduced to about 45,000. The amount of their dead is stated to be about 45 to 50,000. The dead bodies of 20 generals have been found on the field of battle.
HOSZN, July 15.
Prince Poniatowski has established in Galicia the imperial eagle in honor of Napoleon the great.
MUNICH, July 9.
The 5th and 6th inst. will ever be memorable. Yesterday after skilful manoeuvres all the enemy's fortifications were carried off; he (the enemy) was driven to the plains, and pursued three leagues from the Danube.
To day, the enemy has been attacked on the heights of Wagram, Baumersdorf, and Neusideln. All the united forces of Austria, have been completely beaten. The victory was decided at 10, A. M. her losses in prisoners, cannon and standards are enormous. We have lost no officer of any note. The Emperor is in good health.
The French general Molero has been detached from the grand army to protect Dalmatia.
Taken from the Copenhagen Gazette of the 21st July.
The last news received from the Austrians themselves, attest their defeat.
The following letters have been forwarded from Machen, dated 9th July.
On the 5th the French made a violent attack on the left wing of the Austrians. The city of Enzersdorf was consumed in the evening of the 4th. On the 5th early at Morgen, the French crossed the Danube with 35,000 men, near Fischamend. While the Austrian right wing resisted the French army, the left wing was falling back, fighting. The 6th the attack was renewed with the left wing, which was in a short time overpowered. The Austrian army was obliged to retire to Bismarck. By the crossing the Danube by Fischamend, the division of the Archduke John was cut off, and was unable to assist the left wing of the main army. News from the French head quarters mention, that about 40,000 prisoners and 100 pieces of cannon have been taken. The loss of the French is not known, but according to the position the Austrian army had, and the way they fought, the enemy's loss must be enormous. Though it is related as a fact that more than 50,000 French soldiers have not had the least share in the battle.
The Austrian field marshal lieut. D'Aspre and gen. Normann, have been killed in the battle of the 5th and 6th. 13 generals besides are said to be wounded or killed.
SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE AFFAIRS.
BOSTON, Sept. 1.
Since our last, we have been favoured with Valencia Papers to June 30; from which the following articles are translated.
VALENCIA, June 30.
The Junta of Observation and defence of Molina in Arragon, has communicated to our Superior Provincial Junta, under date of the 27th current, among other information the following.
"Our battalion with two cannon, and a few cavalry, set off for the great road of Madrid, to obstruct excursions of the enemy's soldiers from Guadalaxara, made for the purpose of plundering the people of the vicinity. This movement of our troops has already produced the most happy effects. The people of the territory of Siguenza, & Providence of Guadalaxara, who had been degraded by the tyrannical domination of the French, have risen, and refused obedience to the orders of the French Governor; his written orders have been publicly burnt in the market at Siguenza, by the city crier. A portion of our armed countrymen have proceeded to Rio Frio, and have already taken 52 carriages loaded with wool, proceeding to France. Our battalion is encouraging the insurrection which increases among the neighbouring peasantry, and will soon be such as no power of the troops of the Tyrant of France can subdue."
Since the battle of Belchite, [near Saragossa, at which Blake was defeated, June 18] a few deserters from the French have joined us, and some have also entered Gerona. The brave Somatenes continue to intercept the enemy's convoys and destroy the guards. The Spanish garrison of Gerona, and the inhabitants, have performed spirited sallies, and reaped much glory. All the artillery and mortars are constantly employed to defend the place.
Gen. Venegas has established his head quarters at Manzanares. The army of Estremadura is numerous, well disciplined, and has excellent cavalry. The army of La Mancha is not so numerous. The army of reserve consists of the Portuguese and English. It is reported that Venegas intends to attempt to penetrate to Arranjuez.
TARRAGONA, June 22.
By various accounts from the detachments of armed peasantry and soldiers from Figueras and Ampurdan, we learn, that on the 5th, 6th, and 7th inst. between St. Lorenzo de la Muga and Darnius, a corps of the enemy was attacked, and one hundred men killed—and our loss was one killed & three wounded—in other attacks, the enemy lost 110. A convoy of waggons from Figueras to Gerona, with ammunition for the French army, was attacked, and six of the waggons taken. On the 10th, 20 French waggons were taken and 20 prisoners made—4 French soldiers were killed.
MANRESA, June 20.
The French continue the siege of Gerona, and the inhabitants defend it bravely. A successful sortie was made on the 8th, in which 200 were killed and as many wounded.
BAYONNE, June 26.
This day 154 officers arrived who had been taken prisoners at St. Andero.
A French division from St. Andero is gone against Marquesto, who had collected 6000 men at Memia del Promer; and at the same time four battalions went out from Burgo, to cut off his retreat.
According to fresh intelligence received, 3000 men were taken prisoners during the last engagement in Arragon. The captured artillery amounts to between 30 and 36 pieces. Our loss 100 killed and 300 wounded.
The following decree and New Quarantine Regulations, in Spain, was received by the schooner Morning Star, Capt. Smith, from Cadiz, to Jacob Barker.
Translated for the Public Advertiser.
The Supreme Junta of the kingdom constantly zealous for the encouragement of agriculture and commerce, particularly in those articles most frequently the object of speculation in the greater number of persons, and in which farmers, as well as other individuals and tradesmen, can most easily employ their industry and capitals, has been pleased to decide, that for the present the corn, seeds or pulse, which are

imported from foreign countries into any port of Spain, shall be free of duties, both royal & municipal, & of any other denomination whatever: and for the same reason and with the same views, the supreme Junta has determined that conformably to the royal order of the 1st March, 1808, the exportation and circulation of the above mentioned articles, by land and sea, from one of the provinces of Spain to another, or of the ports or places to another, shall be free from any exaction or duties, either royal or municipal whatever, and without other formality or requisite than the return certificate, or those established to assure that the articles have not been landed in places occupied by the enemy.—Dated Seville, 16th June, 1809.
Signed, SAAVEDRA. To Seignor the Sub-Delegate of Revenue, at Cadiz.
NEW QUARANTINE REGULATIONS.
Art. 1st. That vessels of whatever nation proceeding from the United States that brings a clear bill of health, duly legalized by the Spanish Consul, from the port from whence she proceeds, perform only a quarantine of observation, that in the months of June, July, August and Sept. it must not be less than eight complete days, and the rest of the months of the year it can be shortened agreeable to circumstances.
2d. That the vessels proceeding from the U. S. without a bill of health will perform full 40 days.
3d. Those that proceed from contagious ports, upon which duly and proper advice will be given by the minister of state under my care, will not be admitted to practice.
SWEDEN.
Extract of a letter from Stockholm, 16th June.
"It is now understood that the late king will be permitted to leave Gripsholm, and retire to a seat on the island of Wisergo, which island is on the lake Wiern, not far from Jonkoping.—He is to remain there, without any restraint, and at the end of the war he will be permitted to retire to any part of Europe he may wish to reside in. It is imagined here that England will be his choice."
"The Russians have made no advance, although a large force has lately marched to oppose them."
STOCKHOLM, June 10.
According to a report received from mail gen. Dobsen, bearing date Umeo, the 24th May, it appears that no change has taken place in the state of affairs in West Bothnia. Yet this tranquillity, considering the vast superiority of the enemy's force, does not prognosticate any thing favorable. The enemy is certainly only waiting for the arrival of their flotilla of galleys, in order to be supported in his operations by a naval force.
WREDE,
Gen. in chief of the northern army. Head quarter, Hemoer, May 26, 1809. June 16.—By a letter dated on board the Victory, off Corscrona, June 9, the English admiral has acquired vice adm. Puke that although he finds himself compelled by existing circumstances, to withdraw from Malmoe, the gun boats stationed off that harbor, yet he trusts that the two sail of the line which were constantly cruising in that latitude, will be sufficient to protect the fleets of merchantmen sailing to and from Carlscrona. The admiral also adds the assurance, that the Swedish trade shall meet with the same protection as the English, and that two sail of the line are stationed off Helsingburg, and a third off Stockholm, for the protection of the Swedish coast.
LONDON, June 27.
A private letter from Stockholm, states, that Sweden has at length been permitted to send Baron Steding to negotiate peace. The conditions, however, previously demanded, are: "The guarantee and possession of all Finland and the Isle of Aland; the frontier on this side, being the river Kalix; and that Sweden must consent to shut her ports against England."
The following is a letter from Stockholm, dated June 10.
"The friends of the unhappy Gustavus feel confident, from the opinion they entertain of the benevolent disposition of the new king, that he will do every thing in his power to alleviate the sufferings of his nephew in his present state and eventually procure for him and his family every comfort and enjoyment, which the peculiarity of their situation will admit. On the 5th inst. the day previous to his accession, Charles wrote a letter to Gustavus, which affected him exceedingly. No part of its contents has as yet transpired. It is the general opinion however, that it is of a consolatory nature. It is well known, and I state the fact from authority which cannot be called in question, that the duke of Sudermania on being informed of the arrest of the king, immediately repaired to the palace, where he had a conference with him, which lasted above an hour, and terminated in a mutual and most affectionate adieu!"
Russia still persists in her demand, that the Swedish ports should be shut against the English. The government here peremptorily refused to comply.—Finland is given up as lost to Sweden, and many well informed merchants are of opinion, that Gottland, Helsingburg, Corscrona, and Carlsham, will be acknowledged by the Russians as free ports, even to the English, but that all the other ports will be shut. Alexander it is reported, is about to alter his system with respect to France, Chevalier Von Englestrom, formerly the Am. bassador in London, is appointed secretary of state for foreign affairs.
TURKEY.
THE MAIN, July 2.
According to official intelligence from Zara, the Russians are making great progress against the Turks. Gen. Prosorowski is on the march against Adrianople.
Virginia Argus.
RICHMOND.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1809.
Extract of a letter from our Correspondent at Washington City, dated Sept. 11th, 1809.
"Mr. Erskine and Mr. Jackson, each, had an audience of the American secretary of state this day."
FOR THE ARGUS.
WAVING all other points in dispute between the two political parties in the United States, it may be confidently asserted that among the candid men of both sides there no longer exists a solitary doubt of the sincerity of the American administration in its invariably avowed disposition to restore a good understanding between this country and Great Britain. In corroboration of this assertion we may appeal to the singular fact, that the Boston Federal prints, so prone to justify the conduct of the English ministry, have refrained in this instance from their usual vehement vindication of the Cabinet of London, being apparently struck with amazement at its refusal to fulfil the solemn stipulations of Mr. Erskine: And at Charleston, the capital of South Carolina, (a state which, in these trying times, has been gloriously distinguished for its unity and firmness,) we find the names of Pinckney, Smith, and several distinguished Federal gentlemen, among those who have stepped forward in this conjuncture of affairs to support the interests, the honor, and the dignity of their country.
This blaze of patriotism, so honorable to the American name, and which has burst forth in defiance of the sinister efforts of a few bad men, has unquestionably been produced by the irresistible force of truth, which has at last found its way to the public mind; and which has derived additional strength from the violation of national faith by the British government, and the arrogant terms which Mr. Canning is desirous of dictating to the American people. These terms are contained, as the reader knows, in a dispatch from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine, which has been published as the instructions of the former to the latter, but which every body now believes to be a garbled and partial representation of the matter.
Terms, such as the English minister proposed, are substantially a demand for the surrender of our most lucrative commercial right, and for the abdication of the independence of the United States. It is an attempt precisely similar to that which Catharine II. so successfully made upon the Poles, and which ended in the destruction and division of their unfortunate republic.
Against one of these terms, viz: that the citizens of the United States should abandon the carrying trade; the whole body of commercial men in this country petitioned Congress some years past; it is what Mr. Timothy Pickering, with all the United States' Senators, advised the President not to surrender; and which, in truth, never can be surrendered without virtually yielding the most legitimate and prosperous branch of our trade. It is the carrying trade which has enabled our mechanics to thrive and flourish; our merchants to carry on their business with success; our farmers to sell their grain; our planters their tobacco and cotton for good prices; and, in fact, it is the carrying trade, in its effects, which has enlarged and adorned our cities, improved our agricultural condition, and spread plenty and comfort over our country from Maine to the Mississippi.
Another of those terms was as insulting as it was unprecedented: It was a demand, that the British navy should be permitted to enforce the laws of the United States. This would be effectually to reduce us to a colonial state once more, with the mere privilege of an old Irish Parliament, viz: that we might make laws, but that our masters should execute them. To submit to a proposition like this, would be to surrender all that was gained by our revolutionary war. It is what the British ministry in 1776 would hardly have presumed to propose to us.
In resistance of terms like the preceding, it is not extraordinary that men of all parties, who really love their country, should rise up and unite. It is only following the dictates of their hearts: The wonder is, that there should be any one found even hesitating in opinion. Yet such persons (few indeed) there are: and the singularity of the fact excites much curious speculation.
Whilst federalists are combining with republicans in almost every quarter of the union to resist the unfair pretensions of the English; when even the Boston Repository is silent; two papers at Baltimore continue to signalize themselves by supporting the claims of the British Cabinet against the rights, the interests, and the honor of their own country. To what cause shall we attribute this? What is the motive? What the object? Who are their patrons?
FOR THE ARGUS.
ORIGIN OF RANKS—POLITICAL EFFECTS.
WHEN once we suppose the formation of a society, then commences the origin of ranks. For such as possess greater capacity for conducting public measures, or such as in the constant flux and reflux of property have acquired greater wealth, are ever sure to obtain the greatest influence in the public opinion. The exertions of the individual who is employed in procuring the necessaries of life are forgotten; and the aristocracy of wealth and talents are thus formed.
In the state of nature, each was dependent on himself at once for support and protection. Amidst such varied scenes of action, it was impossible for him to arrive at excellence in any. But upon the formation of society, his scattered and various efforts being compressed and directed to any
object; their combined effects have produced such prodigies in the arts and sciences.
In this latter state it was just that the man who had braved dangers or devoted himself to incessant labor for some useful acquirement, should obtain that honor which is so pleasing to the heart of man. But that another, either through a reliance on birth, or on the riches which he acquired, should come forward to share the rewards of his useful labors, is at once both unjust and preposterous.
However, the aristocracy of wealth and talents being once formed in society, it is probable that the latter shall ever continue dependent on the former: and that mankind will forever, also continue to bestow upon it, the greatest honors. Though in this respect they act not with a greater degree of wisdom than the man who would fall down and worship an ass which he himself had laden with a money-bag.
But the evil does not rest here: the rich, willing to perpetuate their wealth in their children, will wish to perpetuate their honors; and even such as have acquired honors as the well-earned rewards of their labors, forgetful of their object, will wish to bequeath them also: And the mistaken populace either through admiration of their exploits, or through an incapacity to burst those chains which they themselves have forged for their authority, will or must submit.
Hereditary rank is thus formed, which mistaking the origin of its creation, and by what means it has secured its power; perhaps even presuming, that its continuance must have originated in the decrees of heaven, and that it must be formed of first elements, purer than the rest of mankind, or that at least it must have depreciated in the continued honors of its station those dregs of blood and feelings which it once possessed in common with the rest of mankind, inculcates the jargon of divine right and nobility of blood. And, slaves will not be wanting whilst it has honors and offices to bestow, to diffuse those doctrines of subjection.
Ranks, therefore, when they have once acquired this derivative and hereditary possession, are equally fatal to the liberties of a people, whether they at first originated in wealth or talents.
To separate themselves as far as possible from the people, and to forge their chains still stronger by the delusions of the understanding, titles are introduced at once unmeaning and illusive: But the more successful in operation; because their very obscurity becomes in time a cause of profounder veneration.
Manners are lastly formed which are, indeed, necessary consequences of their difference of situation from the rest of the people. It is not difficult for him to acquire a delicacy of feature, of attitude who has never contracted his members by corporeal labors: whose body is pampered with the best viands and liquors, and is seldom exposed to the inclemency of the seasons.
This is an experiment we have all seen ascertained on dogs and horses. The forms of mechanics become compressed and stiffened by the labors of their respective professions: whilst tradesmen are obliged to devote themselves to the means of acquiring a support in life and have not time to throw away upon such little elegancies.
Whilst the ideas and sentiments of this useful class of men, whom they contemptuously call the people, are formed by their respective avocations: they indeed may well boast of a superior generosity of sentiment, to which they had only to attend, and to superior elegance of manners, to whose acquirement their whole life has been devoted.
POPLICA.
IT is impossible to control nature in her distribution of mental powers. Whatever is the rule by which she apparently to us scatters them among mankind, that rule remains a secret to man. There is always a sufficiency some where in the general mass of society for all purposes; but with respect to the parts of society, it is continually changing its place. It rises in one to day, in another to-morrow, and has probably visited in rotation, every family of the earth, and again withdrawn.
As this is the order of nature, the order of government must necessarily follow. The hereditary system, therefore, is as repugnant to human wisdom as to human rights: and it is as absurd as it is unjust. An hereditary governor is as inconsistent as an hereditary author. I know not whether Euclid or Homer had sons: but I will venture an opinion, that if they had, and had left their works unfinished, those sons could not have completed them.
Do we need a stronger evidence of the absurdity of hereditary government, than is seen in the descendents of those men in any line of life, who were famous? Is there scarcely an instance in which there is not a total reversal of character? It appears as if the tide of mental faculties, flowed as far as it could in certain channels, and then forsake its course and rose in others. How irrational then, is the hereditary system, which establishes channels of power in company with which wisdom refuses to flow?
PAINE'S RIGHTS OF MAN, p. 2, c. III.
Titles are but nicknames, and every nickname is a title. The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort ofoppery in the human character which degrades it. It renders man into the diminutive of man in things that are great, and the counterfeits of woman in things that are little. It talks about its fine blue riband like a girl, and its new garter like a child.
The punyism of a senseless word like duke, count or earl, has ceased to please for the genuine mind of man, thirsting for his native home society; contemns the gaw gaws that separate him from it. Titles are like circles drawn by the magician's wand to contract the sphere of man's felicity. Is it then any wonder that titles should fall? Is it not a greater wonder that they should be kept up any where? What are they? What is their worth, and what is their amount? When we think or speak of a judge or a general; we associate with it the ideas of office or of character: we think of gravity in the one and bravery in the other. Throughout the whole vocabulary of Adam, there is no such title as a duke or a count.—Whether they mean strength or weakness, wisdom or folly, a child or a man, a rider or a horse, is all equivocal. What respect then can be paid to that which describes nothing, and which means nothing?— Ibid.
If any person wishes to see this subject set off with inimitable humor, let him read Lee's Memoirs. One of the pieces of that accomplished scholar and gallant soldier, will introduce him to "the honorable captains Doodle and majors Noodle."
If such a man as Lee, gifted with that genius which qualified him to hold the pen of the first statesman, or the truncheon of the first general in the world, despised titles, because they considered them as blinds to cover virtues they could not bestow; it becomes those up whom has not been conferred talents superior to what would fit them for the mere drudgery of society, to moderate these supercilious pretensions of personal respect, when every one knows that such pretensions can be founded in nothing else but superior wealth.
Inspected at Richmond for the last three months, ending on the 7th inst.
18842
JOHN J. JOHNSON. Sept. 13th, 1809.
MARRIED. —In Powhatan county, on Thursday the 7th inst. by the Rev. Conrad Speece, Mr. James Jennings, merchant, of Cartersville, to the beautiful and accomplished Miss Nancy Montague, daughter of Capt. Mickelberry Montague, of Powhatan county.
When the graces with loveliness unite, The demon discord they need not dread, For what fend can their happy prospects blight, Whilst in affection they are wed.
September 8th, 1809.
On Wednesday the 6th inst. departed this life, at Charlottesville, the Rev. THOMAS W. LUMPKIN. He was a young man, but ripe for Heaven; and exhibited in his last hours an unusual degree of christian triumph. Besides the private loss to an amiable consort, and to a circle of friends who loved and respected him, the death of Mr. Lumpkin has bereaved the public of a man of genuine worth and distinguished talents, and the church of one of its brightest and most promising ornaments. A friend who knew him well, pays this just tribute to his memory.
September, 1809.
E. W. TRENT, Esq. is authorised to receive payment from subscribers and others indebted to the printer hereof, in the counties of Chesterfield, Powhatan, Goochland and Cumberland. 3t
THEATRE.
THE public are respectfully informed that during the season no play will be repeated, nor will there be any postponement on account of weather.
On Friday Evening, September 15th, 1809, will be presented (for the first time here) a GRAND ALLEGORICAL PANTOMIME SPECTACLE, interspersed with Song, Recitation, &c. called,
CINDERELLA:
OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.
Invented by Mr. BYRNE, and performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane, upwards of one hundred nights: and at Philadelphia & Charleston, with unbounded applause.
THE SCENERY ENTIRELY NEW.
SCENE I.—Represents the Bower of Venus, with a view of the Sea, Mount Ida, &c.—A richly ornamented Sailing boat, Ropes, Garlands of Roses, &c.—Dance of Graces.—The Roses & Flowers disappear: and in their place a Bright Cloud descends, which ascends again with Venus, the Nymphs, &c.
SCENE II.—The Prince's Palace—Statue of Danna, &c.
SCENE III.—Cinderella's Kitchen, in which a Pumpkin changes to a rich Carriage, and four white Rats into four Horses, richly caparisoned.
ACT II.—SCENE I.—A Grand Banquet, prepared in a splendid Ball Room with a beautiful Arch, ornamented with a Time-Piece, the hand of which with Cupid (at the approach of twelve) characteristically puts back an hour, to please Cinderella, when, instantaneously, the figure of Time indignantly re-claims it to its proper place.—Dance, &c.
SCENE III.—The Garden of Venus—The Planet Venus descends, strikes a Rose-Bush, which changes to a splendid Car, which Cupid ascends with.
SCENE V.—An elegant Hall, in which all the Ladies of the Court, &c. come to have the Slipper tried on.
SCENE VI.—The Prince's Hall changes to the Palace of Venus: Nymphs and Cupids are discovered.—The Altar of Hymen, &c.—To conclude with the Marriage of Cinderella and the Prince.
Previous to the Pantomime, will be performed, a Celebrated Tragedy in 5 acts, called,
George Barnwell,
OR, THE
SCHOOL FOR PROFLIGATES.
Pamphlets descriptive of the Pantomime, to be had at the Printing-Offices of Mr. Davis, Mr. Ritchie, and at the Bar of the Theatre.
Box one dollar—Gallery 75 cents—Children half price.—Tickets to be had at the Theatre, and from Mr. Davis at his printing office.—Doors to be opened at 6 o'clock—Curtain to rise at 7 o'clock precisely.
Charlotte County, to wit: TAKEN up by Capt. John Fermell 11th February, 1809, a bay Filly about three years old next spring; appraised to ten pounds.
Copy, THOMAS READ. Cl. 3wp.
NOTICE! —Some time ago I acted as an assistant to Alexander D. Plainville, in this city: When about to leave him, a settlement took place between us, and the said Plainville became indebted to me, in the sum of $284 98: A considerable part of which was for money loaned. I solicited him for payment, but in vain. I then requested him to give me his note acknowledging the debt, payable at a distant day. This he also refused; nor could I, after repeated entreaties, get any thing from the said Plainville, except an obligation for money due to him by one Thomas Fargo, who had previously kept a store in the county of New Kent. Being unable to prove my claim, and believing Fargo to be sufficient for the payment, I received his note, payable to the said Plainville, for $317 21. This sum being greater than Plainville's debt to me, I executed my note to him for $32 28, which note is now in his possession. At the time when this transaction took place, Fargo had absconded from the above mentioned place of residence, a fact which was known to Plainville and not to myself; he has not returned nor do I know where he is.
According to the foregoing statement, it appears that the aforesaid note of $32 28, was fraudulently obtained from me, and instead of my being indebted to the said Plainville in that or any other sum, he is at this time justly indebted to me in the sum of $284 98, a great part of which was money loaned: For reasons herein alleged, I do hereby caution and forewarn all persons from receiving from the said Alexander D. Plainville, or any other person, the aforesaid note of $32 28, because I am resolved never to pay it unless compelled by law.
The following is the state of account between Alexander D. Plainville and myself.
To cash loaned, $203 98 7 months service at 20 dollars per month, 140 $343 98 Cr. By cash at sundry times, 59 02 Balance due P. Murphy, $284 98
I also forewarn all persons from trading or receiving the aforesaid note of Thomas Fargo, which I have unfortunately lost or mislaid.
PETER MURPHY.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for sale at Samuel Pleasants, Jr's Printing Office, between the Bell-Tavern and the Market-bridge, Richmond:
The Virginia Almanac,
FOR THE YEAR
1810,
Adapted to the Latitude and Meridian of Richmond;
By BENJAMIN BATES;
Containing besides the usual astronomical calculations, &c. Remedy for the gout blished by the general assembly of Virginia. Artificial magnet a cure for the tooth and ear ache November 1782 On Time—a poem Lines worked on a health rug Elegant moral sentiment List of civil officers in Virginia. Governor, Councillors, Judges of the court of appeals, high courts of chancery, general court, &c. &c. Agricultural. Harrowing provided an easy & valuable kind of hoeing, in the broadest husbandry Delegates to congress—showing the arrangement of the several circuits with the judges allotted to each. Superior, county and quarterly courts. Rates of postage in letters, newspapers, &c. Method of destroying garlic, by a proper succession of crops of grain and grass ROADS. To destroy worms on apple trees From Richmond to Worms may be destroyed by tobacco From Richmond to Management of sheep From Richmond to Preservation of cabbage plants, &c. From Richmond to To dry women From Richmond to Virginia directions for gardening From Richmond to An account of a newly invented spinning machine by a gentleman in S. Carolina, called "The Columbian Spinning" From Richmond to Scale of depreciation of paper currency, estab. From Richmond to • Five dollars a gross—50 cents a dozen—5 cents a gross. Sweet Springs.
BALTIMORE COLLEGE GRAND LOTTERY.
TICKETS in the BALTIMORE COLLEGE LOTTERY, a $10 50 each, may be had at this office; and prizes in the New York Black River Lottery, taken in payment.
The capital prizes in the above lottery are, 2 Prizes of 20 000 dollars 3 10 000 3 5 000 3 2 500 10 1 000, &c. &c. &c.
The above lottery will positively commence drawing in Baltimore, on the first Monday in November next, and will continue drawing, after the rate of FIFTEEN HUNDRED TICKETS per week, until the whole is completed, and will not be liable to the shortest postponement, under any pretence whatever.
The price of tickets will be raised to $11, after Wednesday next.
September 14.
PURSUANT to a decree of the worshipful court of Amelia county, pronounced at June court 1808, in a suit, Jackson Faris and others, plaintiffs, and Elizabeth Faris and others, defendants, will be sold, on a credit of twelve months, on the premises, on the 28th of next month, a TRACT OF LAND lying in said county, late the property of William Faris, decd. and adjoining the lands belonging to the estate of William Jones, decd. and adjoining the land of Jesse Newby and others, containing about 100 acres, be it more or less.
The Commissioners.
September 14th h. 18 9 w3m
A FEW COPIES OF Burk's History of Virginia IN THREE VOLUMES Are for sale at this office.

REMOVAL.
The subscriber has removed near the Basin where he continues to keep a house of Private Entertainment. He has also for sale, a general assortment of GROCERIES. Likewise sells all kinds of country produce on commission. HEZEKIAH PURYEAR. Richmond, May 17th, 1809. N. B. The highest price given for wheat.
LAND FOR SALE. THE GLEBE LANDS in the occupancy of the Rev. Matthew Murray and now occupied by Nathaniel Ragland, will be sold, on the premises, to the highest bidder, on Friday the 22nd of September next, on a credit of two, three, and four months, the purchaser giving bond with approved security. By order of the Overseers of the Poor. JOHN WINN, Jr. Clerk. Afton, August 4th, 1809.
One Thousand Pounds WANTED. For the interest of which, a plantation of 500 acres of valuable land will be given, until the money is refunded. Nearly 100 acres are in rich low grounds, now in cultivation, lying on navigable water, the improvements new and very good, in a healthy and desirable country. Enquire of the Printer. September 8, 1809.
City Hotel to Let. THAT spacious convenient HOUSE and LOT with out Houses, Stables &c. situated on the street that leads from the main street by the Governor's to the Capitol; which was lately in the occupancy of Mr. Jas. Vaughan, as a Tavern. It will be let for one or more years, and possession given immediately. For terms apply to Benjamin Mosby of Powhatan, or B. Tare of this City, who are authorized by me to let the same. RICHARD CROUCH. Richmond, June 1st, 1809.
IN COUNCIL, January 20, 1809. PROPOSALS will be received by the Executive for manufacturing three hundred and ninety Rifles during the present year, being the number directed by law to be provided annually, including the deficiency of last year. Extract from the minutes. DAN. L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council.
FOR RENT, and immediate possession given, a LUMBERHOUSE that will hold from 60 to 100 tuns of tobacco, (either with or without a large bolt over it). It will answer well for a Tobacco Manufactory, or a Wheelwright's or Coopers' shop, as it has a good enclosed yard attached to it—also a small Brick house with one room on a floor—also a Store on the Main Street opposite the Bell Tavern, and formerly occupied as a Printing Office and lately as a Bookbinder's shop. Enquire of the subscriber, living at the Falling Garden. James Lowndes. Richmond, 8th month 1st, 1809.
WILL BE SOLD on the first Monday in October next, if fair, otherwise the next fair day, at the late dwelling house of Nathaniel Pope, decd. in Hanover county, several likely slaves, consisting of men, women and children, the stock of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs, one kitchen and single chair, household and kitchen furniture, plantation utensils, the crop of corn, wheat, oats, blades, and top fodder, &c. Twelve months credit will be allowed the purchaser for all sums above ten dollars on their giving bond with approved security, to carry interest from the date, if not punctually paid. PHILIP DUVAL, Administrator. August 1st, 1809. N. B. Judgment and bonded creditors will have a right to purchase at the sale.
AT the same time and place, by virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by Nathaniel Pope, decd. bearing date 28th day of Oct. 1808, will be sold (in conformity to the provisions of an act of the last session of Assembly of Virginia, entitled "An act concerning executions for other purposes") the following slaves, to wit; Milly and her children, York, Betty, Kitty, Daniel and Ben, or so many of the slaves above named, as will be sufficient to satisfy the debt in said deed expressed, together with the charges of executing the same. THOMAS PRICE, Trustee. 1st August, 1809.
COLUMBIAN MILLS. The subscribers having purchased the Columbian Mills, beg leave to inform the public, they are giving CASH for WHEAT and CORN. P. HAXALL, & Co. Richmond, August 30th, 1809.
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE. The Subscribers wish to dispose of that valuable 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 Columbia. This last mentioned Land, being in five distinct tracts, will be sold separately or together, as may best suit any person desirous of purchasing. One fourth of the amount being paid in hand, any reasonable credit will be given for the balance. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. Richmond, July 28.
THOSE Commissioners of the Revenue who have failed to return to this office the list of Land tax and taxable property for the year 1809, are requested to forward them as soon as possible, together with the list of licences granted to merchants to the first instant. A speedy compliance will prevent the disagreeable necessity of proceeding against them for the fine imposed by law for this failure. SAML. SHEPARD, Auditor. Auditor's Office, 5th Sept. 1809.
NEW MEDICINE STORE.
THE Subscribers have recently taken a store near the Market Bridge, opposite Messrs. White and Shelton's, where they offer for sale a very general assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES , a few of which are enumerated, viz:    Gum Aloes  Patent Medicine    Arabic  See's Chemical Opi-    Assa Foetida  didic    Bateman's Drops  British Oil    Camboge  Essence Peppermint    Myrrh  Lingston's Balsam of    Opium  Life    Copal  Dr. Lawson's Celebra-    Shell Lac  ted Ing or Beauty    Trafficant  itch Ointment    Aqua Fortis  Do. do. Genuine    Annatto  Anti Inflammatory and Sto-    Arrow Root  machic Bitters    Campbor  Do. do. Worm    Cowhage  Powders    Red and Pale Bark  Wheaton's Ich Oint-    Cam Tartar  ment    Camphor Flowers  Dr. L. C.'s Genuine    Magnesia  Windham Bitters    Map  Pills    Opium  Anderson's do.    Calomel  Hooper's do.    Tart Emet.  Dr. Thomas's Aro-    Essence Bergamot  matic Tooth Paste    Lemon  Do. Eye Water    Spruce  Refrigerate. Elec. u. y.    Cloves  for Ague and Fever    Nutmegs  Timbley's India-ble Re-    Mace  medy for the Piles    Cassia, &c. &c. &c.  Dr. Cooley's Vegetable     Elisir or Cough Drops     Genuine Spice Butts    ALSO A general assortment of PAINTS & DYING DRUGS —all of which will be sold as low as any other store in this city. Medical practitioners and gentlemen who are in the habit of selling medicine in the country, will do well to call. VAIL & ROGERS. Richmond, 29th Aug. 1809.
BY virtue of a deed of trust, from Andrew Lewis, of the county of Montgomery, WILL BE SOLD by the subscribers, to the highest bidder, at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, upon the 28th day of September next the following
Tracts of Land With their appurtenances, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay certain debts in the said deed of trust mentioned, that is to say; one tract situated in the county of Montgomery, containing eight hundred acres being that tract on which the said Andrew Lewis now lives; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned on the north, containing ten thousand acres; one other tract adjoining the first mentioned, being an inclusive survey, containing seven thousand seven hundred acres; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned at the west end, containing four hundred and fourteen acres; one other tract called the CHESANT NOCK , containing three hundred and sixty six acres; one other tract called SEVEN'S tract on Bottom Creek, adjoining the first mentioned tract of eight hundred acres, and containing one hundred and fifty acres; one other tract also adjoining the first mentioned tract called Pretious Garden , containing one hundred and twenty eight acres; one other tract adjoining the last mentioned, containing one hundred and thirty acres; one other tract adjoining the inclusive survey of seven thousand seven hundred acres above mentioned, containing eighty acres; one other tract adjoining the same inclusive survey and containing one hundred acres; one other tract lying on both sides of Little River, containing one hundred and fifty acres, on which is situated Hope well Forge —one other tract adjoining thereto, containing one hundred and forty acres—one other tract adjoining the same, called the Saw mill tract , containing four hundred and thirty eight acres—and one other tract adjoining the last mentioned tract, containing one hundred acres—which said several tracts of land are situated in the county of Montgomery. The said sale will be made agreeably to the directions in such cases, passed in January 1809, entitled "An act concerning executions, and for other purposes."
EDWARD JOHNSTON. } Trustees. JOHN PROSSER. N. B. The above mentioned property is situated on and about what is generally called the BENT MOUNTAIN , and considered a very valuable estate, particularly for grazing. Any information in relation to the particular situation may apply to Charles Johnston, residing in Campbell County near Lynchburg, or to Robert Pollard, George Pickett, or Gallego, Richard & Co. in the city of Richmond. Richmond, July 11, 1809.
A BANK NOTE of ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS, was taken from a black boy, who called himself James Smith, & says he found it in the street—No thinking it proper to let the boy keep it, I retained it for the proper owner, who may have it, on giving satisfactory evidence of his or their right to it and paying the expense of this advertisement. JOHN McDONALD. Richmond, March 10th, 1809.
COMMITTED to the jail of Montgomey county, on the 27th day of April, a negro man who calls himself MOSES ; says he is about twenty two years of age; he is near six feet high, stout built, and says he is the property of Richard Terrell. The owner is requested to come forward, pay all charges and take him away, otherwise he will be dealt with as the law requires. H. GIBSON, Jailor. June 29th, 1809. (3m)
20 Dollars Reward,
IS offered for apprehending ANDREW , a negro slave, who about the beginning of this month RUN AWAY from the subscriber residing in the neighborhood of Amelia Court House. Andrew is about thirty years old, an intelligent, active, small man, a good house and stable servant, drives a Carriage well, understands a little of Shoemaking, and performs any kind of plantation labor. Some years ago he was in the service of Mr. Turner at the Bell Tavern in Richmond, where I believe he generally acted as hostler, and after wards at Christmas, was employed by Mr. Turner at his house in Manchester in his tobacco fumery. He has a wife living at the Manchester yard, a free mulatto woman named Nancy Hollinger, by whom I have reason to believe he is secreted. I will pay the above reward to any person who will deliver to me the above-mentioned slave, or secure him in Jail, so that I get him again. James Henderson. 20th June, 1809.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.
Stolen from me about the 12th of Nov 1807 a negro man have named Cesar , the property of the subscriber—He formerly belonged to Mr. Robert Alexander, of Campbell county, and was bought from him a small boy, in the year 1809. He is now about 6 feet high, one of his big toes is very remarkable, being split with an axe through the nail and nearly as high as the second joint, by which it is much broader and larger than the other. He was accustomed to run James River in a batteau owned by one Greay, to the other side of the mountains. On delivering him to me or securing him in some jail so that I get him again, shall be paid by me the reward of twenty Dollars. This is to forewarn any person or persons from harboring or concealing him, as they may depend on it that I will prosecute such violators of the law to its full extent. ROBERT MITCHELL. City of Richmond, July 27th, 1809.
MR. JOSEPH BROWN late of Nottingham County, or his Agent or Attorney. Take notice, that I shall on the third Monday of September next, at the Mas or Armoury's office, in the public armory, proceed to take depositions in my suit against you, Joseph Brown, depending in said Nottingham Court, and shall continue in my proceedings, from day to day, by adjournments, until every deposition in said suit is taken. LUMAN BISHOP. Manchester, Aug. 26th, 1809. P.S. I have 2 or 3 excellent TENEMENTS in Manchester, to rent immediately. L. B.
NOTICE. —All persons concerned are required to take notice, that we have sold the debts due to the late concerns of Robert Pollak & Co. of Richmond, and of Dunlop Pollak & Co. of Manchester, to Messrs. Tompkins and Murray, of Richmond, and that payers hereafter are to be made to them alone or to those whom they may empower to collect. James & John Dunlop. Petersburg, Sept. 1st, 1809.
THOSE indebted to the late concerns of Dunlop, Pollak & Co. of Manchester, and Robert Pollak & Co. of Richmond, are now requested to come forward and settle their respective balances, as longer indulgence cannot be granted. Lawyers and agents having the collection or settlement of debts due either of the above concerns, will be pleased to forward us statements of the business in their hands. Tompkins & Murray. Richmond, 1st September, 1809.
BY the Governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia, A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is represented to the Executive, that a certain William Strother, indicted for felony at the District Court held in the county of Hardy, in September, 1807, hath escaped from the jail of the said District Court; I have therefore, thought fit, with the advice of the Council of State, to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering a reward of 50 Dollars, to any person or persons who shall apprehend and conduct the said William Strother to the jail of the Superior Court of the county of Hardy, that he may be dealt with as the law directs. And I do moreover enjoin all officers, civil and military, and exhort the good people of the Commonwealth, to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey to the jail of the Superior Court of the county of Hardy aforesaid, the said William Strother, that such proceedings may be had thereupon as in such cases the law directs. Given under my hand with the seal of the Commonwealth, this 29th day of August, 1809. JOHN TYLER.
The said William Strother is supposed to be about 33 or 40 years of age, light hair, blue eyes, fair complexion, about 5 feet 8 inches high, well made and active, with a rambling countenance when spoken to, and very talkative. He is a native of this state.
NOTICE. —Once more, it is hereby requested that those who are indebted to the trustees of the Richmond Academy, do make payment to the subscriber, as the work is now begun, and it is expected that there will be laid from one hundred to one hundred and fifty thousand bricks in the walls of the Academy this fall. He has undertaken the collection by agreement with John Brockenbrough and William W.亨ing, the other members of the committee, appointed by a board of trustees: Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that the collector may have as little trouble as possible in the collection, in order to have money in hand, to carry on so laudable an undertaking. ROBT. MITCHELL. City of Richmond, Sept. 7th, 1809.
PUBLIC SALE. —By virtue of a deed of trust executed by Robt. and Geo: Turner, and Ann the wife of the said Geo: I shall on Tuesday the 26th of this present month (Sept.) at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, expose for sale to the highest bidder, all that lot, piece or parcel of ground, situated lying and being in the said City, on the west side of the cross street, leading from the Bell Tavern to the River, (subject to a ground rent of £10 per annum forever), with its appurtenances and improvements; & also the following slaves, viz: George (the cook) Peter (the barber) and Aggy (the milk maid) said property as will be sufficient to raise the sum of $750, with all costs attending the execution of the said trust. The said Sale will be made agreeably to the directions and provisions of the act of Assembly in such cases, passed in January 1809, entitled an act concerning executions and for other purposes. ANDREW STEVENSON, Trustee. September, 3 1809. (tds)
JUST received and for sale by S. Plessants Richmond, a few copies of the following valuable works:—The American Annual Register, vol 4th—Boulton's Husbandry—Woman, a new poem by Miss. Owe. 8m—Burder's Village Sermons—Gurney's System of Short hand writing—Ferguson's Lectures, a new edition—Marshall's Life of Gen. Washington—Thomson's seasons, a cheap edition for the use of schools—Russell's ancient and modern Europe—Carey's general atlas, (the best collection of Maps yet made in this country)—Morse's Universal Geography—Goldsmith's natural History—a general assortment of quarto Family Bibles, with and without plate, concordance, psalms, &c. &c. from $3.50, to $12. each—Gibson's surveying—American Clerk's Magazine—Walker's pronouncing Dictionary—also, school Bibles, Testaments and Spelling Books.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol
in the city of Richmond, on Monday the second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the Commonwealth, the thirtieth. AN ACT giving further time to the proprietors of certain lands, forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same. [Passed February 1st, 1806.] BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the proprietors of lands forfeited to, and vested in the Commonwealth, by the non payment of taxes, agreeably to the act, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth," may redeem the same by paying into the treasury of this Commonwealth, on or before the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, all arrears of taxes due thereon. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof. A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and six, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-first. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth." [Passed 20th January, 1807.] BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That when the taxes on any tract or parcel of land shall have heretofore remained, or shall hereafter remain unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or parcel of land shall be forfeited to the Commonwealth, and shall not be subject to location provided new rights. That the tract or parcel of land so as aforesaid forfeited, shall be subject to the redemption of the former rightful and proper owner at any time within three years after such forfeiture shall have accrued, upon payment of the taxes due thereon, according to the following rules, to wit: That if the said taxes shall be paid in the first year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of twenty-five per centum per annum on the amount of the said taxes from the time they became due till paid. If the said taxes shall be paid in the second year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of fifty per centum per annum on the amount of taxes due as aforesaid. If the said taxes shall be paid in the third year after such forfeiture shall have accrued there shall be paid an interest of one hundred per centum per annum, as aforesaid. Provided also, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unsound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased, on their paying all taxes due, with an interest thereupon at the rate of ten per centum per annum on the amount due as aforesaid. All acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next. A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-third. AN ACT providing for the redemption of certain lands forfeited for the non-payment of the taxes thereon. [Passed February 6th, 1809.] BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That all lands heretofore forfeited or hereafter to be forfeited to the Commonwealth for the non-payment of taxes, by virtue of the law now in force, shall be redeemable at any time within three years from the time when such forfeiture hath heretofore accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, until the first day of March next succeeding the expiration of the said term of three years, on payment of the taxes due thereon, with an interest of ten per centum per annum on each year's tax, from the time when the same became or shall become due, until the time of such redemption. Provided, nevertheless, That all lands heretofore forfeited, shall be redeemable in like manner, and on payment of the like interest, on or before the first day of March in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten. Be it further enacted, That the and for of public accounts, shall on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on or before the first day of March in every year thereafter, deliver to the collector of the taxes of each county, a list of all such forfeited lands thereon, as on the first day of March preceding, had become irredeemable, which list shall be forthwith posted or hung up in the most public place in the courthouse of the county. Be it further enacted, That on the first Monday in August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on the first Monday of August in every year thereafter, the collectors shall proceed, by public auction, at the door of the courthouse of each county, to sell to the highest bidder, each tract of land contained within the list of such forfeited lands, as were irredeemable on the first day of March in the preceding year, for ready money. Be it further enacted, That if any such sale, the former owner or owners of any forfeited tract of land so about to be sold, or any person for him, her or them, or in his, her or their behalf, with or without any authority or direction for that purpose, shall appear and pay the taxes due on such tract, with interest as aforesaid, until the time of such sale, such tract shall not be sold, but an entry of such payment shall be made by the collector on the list aforesaid, and a receipt for such payment given to the person making the same in the name of the former owner or owners, and thereupon such land shall be taken to be redeemed, and the forfeiture accrued thereon, shall be, and the same is hereby fully waived and remitted. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner or commissioners of the revenue, annually, on the first Monday in August, to attend at the courthouse of their respective counties, and to take and make out a list of all the sales so to be made by the collector, specifying the name or names of the former owner or owners, the sums paid and to whom told; which list the commissioner or commissioners shall forthwith transmit to the auditor of public accounts, who shall charge the collector with the amount of sales appearing thereon. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector to pay annually into the public treasury, all such sums or sums of money as he shall receive by virtue of this act, deducting a commission of five per centum thereon, which payment shall annually be made on the same day on which the taxes collected in the same year shall be payable. Be it further enacted, That the lists of sale so certified and taken by the commissioners, or either of them, shall be sufficient to charge the collector or his security or securities, his, her or their executors or administrators, thereon, on any motion to be made to recover the same by the auditor of public accounts. And if
any collector shall make default in the payment of any monies by him received, by virtue of this act, at the time hereby required, such collector and his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators, shall be liable to all such fines, interest, damages and costs, and be recovered in the same manner as in case of a default in the payment of the commonwealth's revenue. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector making a sale by virtue of this act, to make and execute to the purchaser a deed in fee simple for the lands purchased, reciting the cause of sale, and in every action or suit at law or in equity, in which a former owner or owners or any of their heirs, devisees, or other person or persons claiming under him, her or them, shall contest the validity of the sale so made, the said probandi shall lie on the party so contesting. Be it further enacted, That the commissioner or commissioners for discharging the duties required of them by this act, shall be entitled to receive from the public treasury a commission of one and a half per centum on the amount of sales, on a warrant from the auditor of public accounts. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts, as the public expense, to cause a copy of this act, and of an act passed the first day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled, "An act giving further time to the proprietors of certain lands forfeited for the non payment of taxes, to redeem the same, and also of an act passed on the twentieth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled, "An act to amend an act entitled, "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this Commonwealth," to be published for six months successively in the present year, and for three months successively preceding the first Monday in August, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to be published in some newspaper of general circulation, edited in each of the United States, if any such there be. And be it further enacted, That the duties enjoined by this act to be performed by the collectors, shall, where the sheriff is collector, be performed by the high sheriff in person, and every purchase made, wholly or in part, by the sheriff or his deputy, or by any other person, wholly or in part, for the use of such sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being collector, shall be void; and every sale, deputy sheriff or other person being a collector, making any purchase, either wholly or in part, for himself, or procuring any other person to make such purchase, wholly or in part, for the use aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $500, to the use of the public, to be recovered by bill, plaint or information, in any court of record having jurisdiction thereof. This act shall be in force from the passing thereof. A Copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
NOTICE. —All persons having legal claims against Abner Crump, decd. are requested to make them known to the subscriber, on or before the first of December next, after which notice will be plead in bar. RICHARD CRUMP, Adm'r. with the will annexed of Wm ABNER CRUMP, decd. Powhatan County, August 31, 1809.
TAKEN on my plantation, December, 1808, one RED COW, four years old, matted with a hole in the right, and underkeel in the left ear. Awarded to thirteen dollars. Has since had a calf. Francis Smith. August 25th, 1809.
FOR SALE. —A handsome, second hand, London built CHARIOT, which has been but little used and is in a good state of preservation. Apply to the printer, or to Mr. HUGHES, coach maker, opposite the Old City Tavern, where the carriage may be seen.
THE Proprietor of this paper would take as an apprentice to his printing business, a youth of respectable connections, about 14 or 15 years of age, who has received a good English education. 3t
LOUISA COUNTY, August Court, 1809. William Ragland, Pleasant Hackett and Lucy his wife, late Lucy Ragland, Thomas Poindexter and Sarah his wife, late Sarah Ragland, Thomas B. Watkins and Ann his wife, late Ann Ragland, John Graves and Mary his wife, late Mary Ragland, James Michie and Henrietta his wife, late Henrietta Ragland, and Nicholas J. Poindexter and Rebecca his wife, late Rebecca Ragland, Plaintiffs, AGAINST Samuel Overton, Jr. adm'r. with the will annexed of Samuel Ragland, decd. William Cooke, James Nelson, James Michie, Wm. G. Poindexter, ex'r. of Warner H. Broadus, decd. Overton Harris, Edward Ragland, Elizabeth Lawrence, adm'r. of William Lawrence, decd. Thomas Holladay, Thornton Gibson, Nicholas Meriwether and Barnett Moore and James Michie, adm'r. de bonis non of Samuel Ragland decd. Defendants.
THE defendants Samuel Overton Jr. adm'r. with the will annexed of Samuel Ragland, decd. Edward Ragland, Nicholas Meriwether and Barnett Moore, not having entered their 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 they are not inhabitants of this state; On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, It is ordered, that the said defendants, Samuel Overton, Jr. adm'r. Edward Ragland and Barnett Moore, do appear here on the second Monday in November next and answer the plaintiffs' bill; and a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers printed in the City of Richmond for eight weeks successively, and published at the front door of the courthouse of this county on some court day. A Copy. JN: POINDEXTER, C. L. C.
NOTICE is hereby given, that I shall petition the next General Assembly to pass a law to divorce me from Benjamin Dumass, to whom I was lawfully married about 16 years ago, and who has abandoned me during the period of more than 12 years last past. SALLY DUMASS. August 30th, 1809.
THE defendants Samuel Overton Jr. adm'r. with the will annexed of Samuel Ragland, decd. William Cooke, James Nelson, James Michie, Wm. G. Poindexter, ex'r. of Warner H. Broadus, decd. Overton Harris, Edward Ragland, Elizabeth Lawrence, adm'r. of William Lawrence, decd. Thomas Holladay, Thornton Gibson, Nicholas Meriwether and Barnett Moore and James Michie, adm'r. de bonis non of Samuel Ragland decd. Defendants.