The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1806-01-11 00:00:00

Richmond Prices Current.
Table with 4 columns: Item, D., C., D. C. Lists prices for Tobacco, Flour, Wheat, Indian Corn, Whiskey, Bacon, Hemp, Bar Iron.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD,
For a Horse, &c.
TAKEN from the street, (opposite the Post Office) in this city, between six and seven o'clock in the evening, of the 21st inst. a bright bay HORSE...
Whoever delivers the Horse Saddle and Bridle to me, near the Basin, shall receive the above reward, and five dollars for the horse alone, if taken up out of this county...
December 27. S AMUEL PARSONS.
Louisiana County Court, October 14th, 1805. Joshua Morris, Plaintiff. Against Ruth Nutt, & Stephen Perkins, Defendants.
THE defendant Ruth Nutt not having entered his appearance, and given security according to law, and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this state...
A Copy. Teste, JOHN PONDENTEXTER, C. L. C. (F 2m )
Louisiana County Court, October 14th, 1805. Nathan D. Anderson, Plaintiff. Against Wm. Louny and James Pulliam and Thos. Delapier, executors of John Pulliam, deceased, Defendants.
THE defendant Wm. Louny not having entered his appearance and given security according to law, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this state...
A Copy. Teste, JOHN PONDENTEXTER, C. L. C. (F 2m )
BY Virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber, by John Thompson, to secure a debt due to James Garrett, as expressed in the said deed...
December 24. JOHN NUNNALLY, Trustee. S 8p
TO NON-RESIDENTS OF KENTUCKY.
THE SUBSCRIBER living in the neighborhood of Frankfort, Kentucky, having undertaken to pay the taxes of a number of gentlemen residing in Virginia and elsewhere, on their lands in this state...
NATHANIEL HART.
N. B. The postage on all letters directed to me on the above business must be paid. December 10. (eFt May.)
GEOGRAPHY.
This day is recited and for sale at the Book Store of J. Johnson, Richmond. A Sketch of the Geography and present state of the United States of North America—price 37 1/2 Cents.
The same work beautifully printed on cards—62 1/2 Cents. C 6p
Cash or books will be given for clean linen and old rags. December 27. S 8p
I HAVE received a direct from Bordeaux, 100 Boxes of PRUNES, which I shall sell very low; they are fine and very fresh. Those who feel an inclination to purchase a few boxes, will apply to the subscriber on Shovel-Kill in one of Judge Wythe's new brick houses.
LEWIS M. RIVALAIN. F 4p
FASHIONABLE GOODS.
READY made white Satin Pelisses; various dark colored Silk ditto; Florence Silk and Satin Spencers; elegant Souffle Dresses; Rich Brocades and figured Satins; Plain and figured Lenau and Pique Muffins; A handsome variety of plain, checked and striped Sarrets; Ladies' Tamboured Neck Handkerchiefs; Shoulder Ornaments; Lace Sleeves and Gloves; which, with a general assortment of fashionable goods, are offered for sale, at moderate prices, by M. & D. MYERS. December 28. F & t. t.
NOTICE.
HAVING commenced the BURR MILL STONE MAKING, in September last, at my shop, near the Basin of the Canal, I have now finished for sale stones of 3 feet 4 inches & 5 feet diameters of best quality and workmanship. I have a large quantity of Close Hard Burrs, suitable for grinding corn, and will shortly receive additional supplies of good materials. Those who please to favour me with their commands, will be served faithfully on reasonable terms. I will choose bolting Cloths for those who desire it, suitable to their purposes. I tender my thanks to the public for past favours, and hope for future encouragement. JOHN MOODY. December 24. T 8p
TUITION.
WINGFIELD Academy (in the forks of Hanover) will be opened the second Monday in January next. In this Seminary youth will be taught the Greek and Latin languages, English Grammar, Arithmetic, Geometry, Geography and the use of the Globes.
There will be two sessions in the year, the one to continue from the commencement to the 1st of June, the other from the 1st of July to the 10th of December.
The price of board, tuition and washing for each boy under fifteen years of age, will be twenty-eight pounds, and for every other thirty pounds to be paid quarterly in advance.
The tuition and lodging house will be put in good order for the reception of twenty pupils, and ten or twelve may be accommodated with bedding at forty shillings each.
The greatest attention will be paid to the health, morals, and literary and scientific improvement of the boys. PETER NELSON, and WILLIAM NELSON, Jr. S 4w
MANCHESTER TURNPIKE COMPANY.
9th REQUISITION. THE shareholders of said company, are hereby required to pay into the hands of James Brander, treasurer, the additional sum of ten Dollars, on each share, on or before the 3rd day of February next.
Delinquent shares on former Requisitions. NOTICE is hereby given, that all shares upon which there shall appear to be due delinquencies of former requisitions, will be offered for sale at Mr. Brooks's tavern, in Manchester, on the 11th day of February next, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon. By order of the Directors, JAMES BRANDER, Clerk. December 27. F & t. t. t. t. t.
TO BE RENTED OR SOLD,
To the highest bidder, on the premises, on the 15th day of January next: THAT Valuable Plantation called WINDSOR, the property of the late William Dandridge, deceased, situated on James River, about four miles above Richmond, containing by a late survey 777 acres.
The situation is healthy and high, commanding a most beautiful and extensive prospect of the river and adjacent country. There is convenient to this place, an excellent Fishery, where the finest shad, rock and other fish may, in their season, be had, with little expense, abundantly. There is attached to this farm about 120 or 130 acres of as good low land as any on the river. There is an orchard containing about 600 apple trees, besides other fruit trees of a superior quality to any in that part of the country. The buildings are two story dwelling house, with two rooms and a passage below, and three rooms above stairs; a barn 40 feet square, the first floor of which is built of stone; a hay house 20 feet square, with beds which are used as stables, and may with little repair be made excellent.
At the same time and place,
WILL BE SOLD—All the Stock of Cattle, Horses, Mules, Sheep, Hogs, &c. Plantation Utensils, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and about 30 likely Negroes; among them are an excellent Blacksmith and a Rope-maker. All of which is the property of the said Dandridge.
Also will be Sold,
A valuable collection of LAW BOOKS, &c. &c. The Land is subject to the widows dower; if sold the terms of payment will be made known on the day of sale. For the other property a credit of twelve months will be allowed by giving bonds with approved security.
Should a purchaser prefer paying cash, a discount of 6 per cent. will be allowed. For all sums under ten dollars, cash will be expected. WILLIAM LANGBORNE, Executor of Wm. Dandridge, dec'd.
WILL BE SOLD,
At Public Auction, at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on Monday the 13th day of January: TWO LOTS in the said city on Shovel-Kill, one of which is at present occupied by Doctor McClurg, and joining one of Major Duvall's, on this lot is a two story brick dwelling house, 56 feet square, with convenient out-houses. The other lot also joins one of Major Duvall's, and is occupied by Mr. M. Bates; this lot has a Dutch roof framed dwelling house on it 35 feet by 18.
This property is likewise subject to the widows dower. The terms of payment will be made known on the day of sale. Wm. LANGBORNE, Exe'r. Nov. 19. ept
NOTICE.
THE Surveyors of the Stage Roads from Richmond to Charlottesville, are requested to take notice, that repeated complaints have been made to me, of the danger to which the passengers in the Stage have been, and still are subjected to, from the badness of the roads, resulting most materially from the inattention or negligence of those who ought to see them regularly repaired—therefore if on any further complaint of the difficult passage of the Stage, or objection as above, I shall proceed as the law directs to enforce the most exemplary punishment on those who are in default. The general good of society, the dispatch necessary for the conveyance of the public Mail, and my own interest, are motives alone sufficient for such a determination. RICHARD TERRELL. December 17. (over)
Will be sold, at Powhatan January court, being the 15th, to the highest bidder.
A Valuable TRACT OF LAND containing 1300 acres, on Deep Creek, in the said county, either altogether, or in lots to suit purchasers. The value of this land will be best known by an accurate view of the different lots, to which are attached rich low grounds, which will be shown by Mr. Hatcher, on the premises, with whom is left a plan, by a late survey. There is a good crop of wheat sown thereon. Twelve likely hands will be hired, which are under an overseer, engaged for the ensuing year, with every thing prepared for a crop. One-fourth of the purchase money will be required on taking possession, and the remainder in three annual payments, to carry interest from the date; but good bonds, properly secured, of residents within the districts of Richmond or Petersburg, will be accepted for the deferred payments. WILLIAM MAYO. S 4p
POWHATAN, Dec. 24.
WARDLAW, has recd. of his fall supply of Medicines, by the ship Rolla from London; also a great variety of Paints, Varnishes, Surgeons Instruments, patent Medicines, &c. &c. And by the ship George from Liverpool, a large supply of vials and shop glass. Those who favor him with their custom may depend on being supplied with every article in his line on the most liberal terms. The citizens of Richmond are requested when they apply at his shop by a child or servant to put the name of the article wanted on paper to prevent mistakes. Nov. 1. ept
THE subscribers offer for sale, their revolutionary right in a new fire-proof warehouse on Maxwell's wharf in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Doctor John K. Read, dec'd, as his uppermost warehouse.
In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life of estate. MERIWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. It is probable that I may leave this Rate ere long: in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorized to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ. November 1. ept
THE subscriber offers his services as a BROKER in the city of Richmond, and will transact any business in that line for a moderate commission. He will not inform the public that it is a business with which he is familiar, but assures every one who may think him worthy of their confidence, that no one will be more attentive to their interest. He will also undertake to purchase tobacco on commission. His office is kept on the cross street leading from the Capitol square towards Col. Carrington's. CARTER B. PAGE. December 31.
Seat of Government.
SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES.
FRIDAY, Dec. 20.
Debate on the motion of Dr. LOGAN for leave to bring in a bill to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and St. Domingo. (Continued.)
Gen. S. SMITH—
Mr. President. Had the honorable mover produced any new document, or given us any new information, I certainly should have given my vote that he should have the leave required. Or had the Senate been composed of the same members as those of the last year, I should have contested myself with giving a silent vote on the question. An addition being made to the Senate of several new members, it may not be improper to state, that this subject was at the last session presented to the view of Congress by the President. A bill was predicated thereon, and after great consideration and lengthy discussion passed into a law. Has the mover produced to the Senate any document to show that France is not satisfied with what has been done? Does the gentleman know that any new complaint has been made? I know of none, and I therefore think it fair to presume that France has been fully satisfied with the law already passed. The gentleman has said that both the French and British ministers have considered the Trade to St. Domingo as contrary to the Law of Nations. I see nothing of the kind in the Note from the British minister. I have no doubt of the British being disposed to interdict that branch of Trade as they have done almost all our other more lucrative commerce. Had the gentleman brought forward a bill to interdict all trade with Great-Britain, he might have produced many more reasons in its support than he has been pleased to offer in support of the bill proposed—But what is this Law of Nations? Is it the written law, or that law assumed by the nations who have the most power? If the gentlemen mean the written law, I must believe they are mistaken. I have somewhere read, that when a part of a state separates itself, and is capable of supporting that separation, forms for itself a government, and fully conducts its own affairs—that other nations do not infringe this law by trading or commencing a friendly intercourse with such part. We are told that a celebrated French general since here has said, that had Gen. Le Clerc succeeded, he meant to have landed all the blacks of St. Domingo on our southern shores. This may be—but, fir, it is not probable. If such however had been his intention, they could not have arisen from resentment on account of our commerce, for we had been of the greatest utility to him and his army, and had then carried on no commerce that was not fully sanctioned by France—Nay, I might say, that owing to the supplies from the U. S. the colony of St. Domingo had been preferred to the mother country until the arrival of Gen. Le Clerc. (Unless, Mr. President, the honorable mover shall produce some new information, I shall be under the necessity of voting against leave to bring in this bill. Dr. MITCHELL, in a speech of considerable length and detail stated his objections to giving leave. He complimented his friend from Pennsylvania for the purity of his motives in bringing forward the present motion. But he could not refrain from an expression of his surprise, and even his regret, that the subject has been moved again in the Senate. During the last session of Congress, the whole of the intercourse with St. Domingo had undergone a full investigation. While the bill re-
gulating the clearance of armed merchant vessels was under discussion, that part of our foreign commerce had been minutely examined. It would be remembered that the bill had been committed, recomitted, amended, and modified with the utmost labor and skill. Besides the talents which the Senate afforded, all the sources of executive information had been drained, to aid their researches. And the letters of the British and French ministers, complaining of the conduct of our merchants in forcing this trade, were opened to our view. The crude material of the bill had been hammered and worked upon so elaborately, as to have at last received the complete burnish of a law. With all the knowledge that could be derived from so many quarters, the bill was at length passed to check the violence of our navigators, and to restrain the adventurous zeal of our merchants. The provisions of this law, were such as it was deemed just and proper that a neutral nation should take. And this was a liberal condescension to the wishes of the two great maritime and belligerent powers without forgetting the respect that we owed to our own. With both these he wished to cultivate peace and good understanding; but to neither of them would he consent to yield any portion of our neutral and national rights. The difficulties exhibited in the ministerial correspondence, Dr. M. said were thus removed. With a promptitude that deserved to be admired, Congress interposed its authority, for the purpose at once of doing justice to our neighbors, regulating our commerce, and tranquillizing the Mexican coast. With these salutary provisions, he believed the two complaining nations, had been satisfied. At least we had done so much that they ought in all reason to be content. Congress had already manifested a due regard to all that France and Great-Britain had offered upon the branch of West-Indian commerce, and in the true spirit of good neighborhood, and correct principle, had modified and restricted the intercourse with Haiti. And so fully did the European seem to acquiesce in our conduct, that he had not heard any further remonstrances made by either of them about it. He thought the observations of the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Adams) very much in point. Under a conviction that we had done as much as public faith and national honor required, he had given his vote against the introduction of a similar bill during the last session. Nothing had occurred from that time to this day, to alter the circumstances of the case, or to make it necessary for him to change his conduct. He thought now, as he did then, that there was danger of overacting our part and of doing too much; of being good to our neighbors, to such a degree, and in such a manner as to be very cruel to ourselves. After all this condescension on our part, after inquiring into the alleged misconduct of our people, and taking immediate measures to prevent the repetition, and after having done all that we politically could or that we honorably ought, the subject is once more introduced to the Senate. It comes now, not from the executive department, not from the cabinets of the nations concerned, nor from the recommendation of a Senatorial committee, but from the suggestions of an individual member of our own body. The commerce of the United States he said, was an astonishing spectacle. It reached from Arctic to Antarctic; and was co-extensive with the circumference of the globe. Most of the inhabited countries of the earth were visited by our navigators, and the striped flag of the union fluttered in the remotest harbors. Our countrymen have made material additions to the science of Geography. They have found markets unknown to commercial men before. They have derived cargoes from the depths of the ocean, and laid the cod, the seal and the whale under contribution. They have exported the productions of their own happy country, so fertile in the articles which sustain and cherish life, to all places where they were wanted, and brought home the crude materials or the manufactures of those regions in return. By an energy and enterprise unexampled in the history of the human species, they have excited the jealousy of foreigners, who are not only behind them in mercantile exertion, but who cannot weigh an anchor or reef a top-sail equal to them. Such was our situation, peaceful, industrious, and desirous of measuring out liberal justice to all our neighbors. But this was no protection against commercial rivalry. Emulation and competition existed in all callings and professions. Mercantile jealousy had been alarmed by it. Experience had shown to the most active of them that they were unsuccessful competitors. What was the consequence? They had endeavored to interrupt by force or stratagem, that predominant trade which they could not outdo or equal by fair means. In the havens of Britain the port-charges were of the most exorbitant kind. The money paid by us for passing their light-houses was excessive. The fees for performance of quarantine, were out of all proportion to the good expected or service done. Convoy duties were also frequently exacted. And the custom houses collected a higher rate of charge upon merchandise exported to the United States than to any part of Europe. In addition to all this the cruisers of that nation had made the most ungenerous abuse of the power of searching our vessels. They had taken out and impressed into their service, emigrants coming to our country. They had violently drawn into their service, our seamen, natives of our land. Naturalized foreigners had not been spared. Our neutrality had been violated by their forcing our impressed citizens to fight against the political friends of their country. Our ships had been frequently detained and spoiled on the high seas; and their officers and crews grossly insulted. Vessels bearing the variegated stripes and confederated stars of our union had been sent to distant British ports for adjudication. Cargoes had been condemned under the most arbitrary pretexts, and our merchants and underwriters by the process of an exparte trial stripped of their property. Our ports had been blocked. The public authority in our very harbors had been defied, and the armed vessels of the nation had been fired at. And to crown the whole, the same nation, instigated by the like jealous and invidious considerations seem bent upon prohibiting our carrying-trade in colonial produce, and resolved to reduce us once more to the dependence of provinces. Are we, fir, already come to this? You (the Vice President Mr. Clinton was in the chair) well remember the effects wrought by the in-
jurious proceedings of the British Parliament in 1774. You bore a noble and manly part in the struggles of freemen against oppression at that day. Thirty years ago, you and your patriotic associates could form a general non-importation agreement, and defying the luxuries of the mother country and superior to her power, you, spirits of freedom, achieved our glorious revolution. If the case requires it, may we not do this again? If we must curtail our commerce by our own statutes, it is certainly a better policy to retaliate upon an adversary in that way, than to abandon to her, as the proposed bill contemplates, a lucrative portion of our trade. Surely, laboring as we do, under all these embarrassments, a proposition for leaving our navigation and forbidding our ships to frequent the open ocean, would hardly have been expected from one of our own body. For my own part, said Dr. M. I think the St. Domingo commerce is no great thing in itself. We might do exceedingly well without it; and I am very far from approving the means by which it has been carried on; but, I dislike the idea of forbidding it at the mandate of a foreign power. Like our revolutionary patriots, let us put our foot here, and hence refuse to budge. It is not for us to legislate at the nod or bidding of any nation. I hope we understand our business better than to resign our edicts for them—while we pay due respect to others, it becomes us also to respect ourselves. The precedent is a dangerous one. If we agree to interdict this intercourse, we may at the next session be informed that we ought to withdraw from some other important port or region. When we are found to be so complying to one nation, we shall be subjected to a like request or menace from another, until, fir, our flag shall be furled in one foreign port after another, and nothing be left us but the coasting trade at home. The sad consequences have been already portrayed by the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. S. Smith).
There was another reason evincing the unseasonableness of the proposition at the present time. This was a disastrous and eventful era of our commerce. The merchants in every seaport of the nation were attempting to consider their losses from the rapacity of the belligerent powers, and submit them to the consideration of Congress. It would be better to wait for the statements that such a practical class of men should make. Our judgments would be aided by the facts which their memorials would contain. Dr. M. then considered the prohibition in the constitution on Congress as to the laying of export duties; and said that the exportation of our domestic productions so necessary to our country, and so cautiously guarded, ought not to be interrupted by any spontaneous regulations of our own. He was an advocate for the mare liberum. He wished a wide and open market for the beef, pork, fish, flour, rice and cotton of the country. He then adverted to the operation which a restrained commerce would have upon agriculture. With the ceasing of exports, this great spring to the planters and graziers industry is at once taken away; the plough would stop; & it would be melancholy to see the fair and enchanting face of our country, degenerate to the savage state, and yield nought but the unwholesome crop of weeds and brambles. Turning then to ship-building and its cluster of attendant trades and arts, he feared that it would fall into neglect. That employment, which gives perhaps, the grandest idea of the skill of man would be discontinued, and the inhabitants of our seaports be forced back to the country to keep them from starving. Nor was the revenue to be omitted in this enumeration. As far as the imports from Haiti are consumed by our citizens, so far the revenue is aided; and if exported under draw back, the carrying trade is helped by the transportation, and the return cargo, whether of brandy, wines, hardware or dry goods, may be expected to find an ad valorem or specific contribution to the treasury. A word or two concerning the situation of France in this affair, he should beg leave to offer. The coffee and sugar of that productive island had reached the ports of that empire in American bottoms. And in return the productions and manufactures of France had been carried by the same conveyance to the revolted colony, of black freemen. It was presumable such an intercourse would give to France several of the benefits of a direct commerce. And as our act of the last session had yielded to her the sovereignty, he did not think that in the existing intermediate state between rebellion and revolution among the Haytians, France had any just cause of displeasure against us. If she had, the numberless captures and depredations done under her flag, must have given her the most ample satisfaction. Under these impressions he judged it neither politic nor necessary to legislate further on the subject; and should consequently say No to the motion.
Mr. Hillhouse said he hoped the question would be taken by yeas and nays, because he confidently expected there would be a great majority of the Senate opposed to giving leave to bring in the bill, for he considered the measure not only as improper, but as ill-timed.
We are informed by the message of the President of the U. S. and the documents before us, that depredations are made on our commerce on all quarters, and our citizens not only robbed of their property, but in some instances subjected to personal insult and injury; it is also well known that Congress have received confidential communications from the President, and are deliberating with closed doors—The general expectation is, that something energetic and spirited will be done in defence of our neutral rights and national honour. How great will be the surprise if the first step taken by the Senate of the U. S. is found to be a further restriction, or a total prohibition of a lawful and lucrative branch of our commerce? As to restricting or prohibiting this trade to St. Domingo (which no gentleman has produced a single authority from the law of nations to prove to be unlawful) for the purpose of securing our citizens from the personal insults and injuries to which they are exposed in the West-Indies, he could not approve it; a more proper and dignified course he thought would be to send armed ships into these seas, to capture or demolish those buccaneers and pirates, who rob us of our property, and insult and murder our citizens. They are a banditti whom no nation will own, or admit to be acting under their authority, though sailing under their flag, and whom it is not in the power of such nation to restrain.

The gentleman from Georgia has told us that the conduct in St. Domingo is that of masters, attempting to reclaim their slaves, and that if the U. S. suffer the trade to be carried on, we shall be considered as aiding and upholding those slaves, and give offence to France. And that when peace shall take place in Europe, the French will transport those negroes by thousands to the shores of South-Carolina and Georgia, to the endangering the lives of the citizens of those States. This Mr. H. considered as a bugbear with which we ought to be frightened, for as to the warfare in St. Domingo being a mere conflict between master and slave, it will be well remembered that the French Republic long ago liberated all the slaves in that island, and declared them free. As to the citizens of the U. S. carrying arms and military stores to the enemies of France, the law of nations has declared the penalty, which is a forfeiture of the property, and the U. S. can in no way be implicated thereby. And as to France landing those negroes on our shores, he said there was power, and he believed there would be found a disposition in the people of the U. S. to repel such an insult—for if we cannot prevent France or any other power from invading our territory and insulting our national honour, by landing their troops upon our shores, we shall no longer deserve the name of an Independent Nation.
Gen. Jackson, in reply to Gen. Smith and Dr. Mitchell, confessed he had seen no official document, other than what the honourable member had read, but he had seen at New-Castle on Delaware, a whole fleet bound to St. Domingo, to force a trade which even captains of vessels, true Americans, cried shame on—That the honourable gentleman had called out, why had not the mover brought forward a resolution against Britain or some other power who had committed depredations on our commerce. The General said he wished to begin here by preventing our own merchants from doing injury to other nations, and then to strike at those who insulted us. He for himself was prepared and willing to attack the first power who had insulted us with far more superior weapons than arming our ships. He was an agricultural man, and would suffer with the flour-millers; but he would call on the honourable gentlemen either from Maryland, from New-York, from Massachusetts or Connecticut, to strike at Great-Britain or any other nation who had injured us, by a resolution of prohibition, of trade or intercourse, and he was the man who would second it and keep it on 'till the injuring nation should cry peccavi—keep it on one twelve month, and you would see them all at your feet. Look at the Legislature of Jamaica petitioning their governor from time to time for American intercourse. Look at Trinidad, the same in a state of famine. Sir, we have no favours to ask the nations of the earth, they must ask them of us, or their West-India colonies must starve.
That, however, with respect to documents, he would inform the gentleman from Maryland, that he had seen, though not official, a letter from Gen. Ferrand, governor of St. Domingo, and which was published in all the principal newspapers of the U. States, complaining to the French government on this subject, and laying all the blame to the American government, if not indirectly, in the most severe indirect terms. That as to the total separation of the self-created emperor and nation of Hayti, and its independence on the parent country, and under which gentlemen declared our rights of trade founded on the laws of nations—the late attack on that general by the emperor proved it did not exist—he was defeated, his army scattered and driven to the mountains—that Ferrand held the island as a French governor for the French nation, and the separation was not such as to warrant the arguments used for a right to trade—it would be a fatal argument used against us as respected our southern states by other powers. On the same grounds, a parcel of runaways and outcasts from South-Carolina and Georgia, to the amount of some hundreds now collected on or near the Okafoune swamp in Georgia, might be termed an independent society; or if an insurrection took place in those states, the rebellious horde on creating an emperor, be supplied with arms and ammunition as a separate and independent nation—this, as the honourable gentleman from Connecticut had been pleased to term his fears bugbears, might be no bugbear to him, safe and remote from the scene of action near New-Haven; but it was a serious bugbear to him, and would be to the whole southern country, where the horde, where the horrid scenes of that island would be re-enacted, their property destroyed, and their families massacred. The honourable gentleman from New-York too had been pleased to term them bugbears, but had raised up a number of his own to prevent the passing of the bill—he had drawn a most lamentable picture of the state of this country; if this dishonourable trade to this small part of the commercial world was interdicted—Commerce was to languish and agriculture to be annihilated—our fields were to grow up in briars and thorns, and even verdure to disappear. Gen. J. said he did not believe this—the United States, if all the powers on earth were opposed to us, had within herself enough to eat, to drink, and to clothe her citizens; this was not the case with other powers. Not a nation existed, more or less dependent on us, and could not do without us—they must come to our terms or starve—on with your embargo and in nine months they must lay at your feet. It was certain that we should suffer for that time, but he was willing, and he knew the southern country willing to submit to it, and at the end of it our fields would resume their usual verdure, and the thorns and briars be rooted out.
The honourable gentleman from Maryland, had told us of the blockade of Cadiz, and that Hispaniola was the only vent now for our flour; but he believed even the blockade of Cadiz was not so strict in that respect, as the honourable gentleman had mentioned; he would read a line from Lord Mulgrave to Mr. Monroe on that head. (Here the general read part of it, but found it more strict than he had thought, and gave that point up.) But, Mr. President, said the general, is Cadiz the only market in Europe for our flour, from the Texel to the Baltic and Mediterranean, there are hundreds of ports at which our flour is vented. The general made a number of other remarks, and concluded that he thought the passage of the bill absolutely necessary, for the honour and safety of the country, and as to the information he had received from a late celebrated French general, it was corroborated by the acts of Le Clerc and Rochambeau themselves. That the most daring brigands were forced by those officers on board American vessels, the captains of which were compelled to bring them to the United States, contrary to the laws of their own country—this had been a matter of serious alarm, not only to the southern states, but to the middle and northern states. At any rate, he hoped the bill would be received, if it was only to inform merchants trading to Hispaniola, of the sense of Congress, that this trade must cease; this was the point on which the slave bill had been received. That he wished to begin with this trade first, and he believed striking at that was striking at the British, for he had been informed
there, was owned by British merchants, and supplied from British capital under the protection of our flag, which had to bear all the disgrace of this illicit traffic. (To be continued.)
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. THURSDAY, January 2.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter from the Secretary of State, enclosing a report on the memorial of Peter Landais. A petition was presented from sundry hatters of Bolton, familiar in tenor to that from certain hatters of Philadelphia, and referred. Mr. J. C. Smith, from the committee of claims, submitted a bill for the relief of the governor, secretary and judges of the territory N. W. of the Ohio, which was referred to a committee of the whole House.
FRIDAY, January 3.
Mr. G. W. Campbell presented a memorial from the House of Representatives of the territory of Orleans, praying that certain alterations may be made in the law passed the last session, respecting titles to land; that the culture of sugar may be further encouraged; that certain appropriations of land may be made to individuals; and that an appropriation of lands may be made for the use of public schools—Referred.
Mr. Findley presented a memorial from a meeting of sundry citizens of Philadelphia, representing that certain abuses had occurred in the election of Michael Leib, as a representative in Congress, and praying the House to authorise the issuing of a commission to take depositions, or that they will take such other measures towards an investigation of the case, as they may deem proper.
Referred to the committee of elections. The House again went into committee of the whole, Mr. J. C. Smith, in the chair, on the bill to establish rules and articles for the government of the armies of the U. States. The committee, having considered the remaining parts of the bill, section by section, reported the same with sundry amendments, which the House took into immediate consideration, approving some, and rejecting others; when the bill was ordered to a third reading on Thursday. Mr. J. Randolph observed that he had a communication to make, which, according to the rules of the House, required the galleries to be cleared; which the Speaker thereupon directed to be done. The galleries continued closed 'till about 3 o'clock, when they were opened, and the House adjourned 'till Monday.
European Intelligence. NORFOLK, January 6.
Capt. GORDON, who arrived here on Saturday in the ship Highland Mary in 35 days from Bordeaux, has favoured us with the Moneur , and other Paris papers to the 20th November, and the Bordeaux papers to the 25th of the same month.
The intelligence which they contain is of the highest importance to the political world, and so astonishing, that it is difficult to believe that we are relating facts. The event which first attracts our attention, is the rapid advance of the French Grand army to near Vienna. We do not perceive by any of the papers we have received, that the Emperor of the French had actually entered Vienna, but he was within a few leagues of that capital, and no enemy to oppose him. In fact he only delayed his entry, in order to adjust some ceremonial, and to make it more solemn and impressive. It will appear incredible that a mighty empire should be overthrown in six weeks, and without one battle in which the ancient valour of the nation was displayed. The public are already in possession of the operations of the French army up to the capitulation of Ulm. Immediately after that event the grand army pressed forward for the capital of the Austrian empire. The resistance which it experienced is detailed in the bulletins of the army which we shall hereafter notice. That it could not have been considerable, the rapid advance of the French, affords conclusive evidence. The battles which were fought, more resemble, a war of skirmishing for posts, than battles which were to determine the fate of a mighty empire.
From the accounts published in the French bulletins, it appears that the meeting and defeating their enemy were the same. The modern Cæsar, may in imitation of the ancient, say veni, vidi, vici ; the Austrian cabinet appears no less confounded, than the armies are dismayed. The Emperor of Austria abandoned his capital on the approach of the French, and retired to Bohemia. We cannot in this place resist the insertion of an anecdote of Bonaparte, well known in the diplomatic circles of Paris, and related to us by a gentleman of veracity from France. Some time last summer, Bonaparte in speaking to the Austrian minister observed, "Your master wants war, does he? tell him from me, that if he obliges me to go to war I will sleep in his bed before Christmas." That he will perform his promise the present details sufficiently prove. In Italy the French arms have in every instance been attended with success, but the Arch Duke Charles has contended with Mallema like a soldier, and obliged his superior enemy to purchase at some expense the victories which he has gained. It appears to be the determination of the Austrian and Russian generals to concentrate all their force in Bohemia; the Austrian-Russian army has retreated into that kingdom.
The king of Prussia, notwithstanding all the sanguine hopes entertained of his becoming a member of the confederacy, adheres to his neutrality, or rather continues his partiality for France, and his unconquerable hatred of Austria. Every exertion we may imagine has been made to detach him from his system. The Emperor of Russia arrived at Berlin on the 25th of October, where he was received with every mark of distinction suitable to his exalted rank, but the main object of his visit, it does not appear probable, will be accomplished.
Notwithstanding the successes of France, she is raising another most formidable army of 200,000 men, to follow the grand army either to second its operations, or to act as an army of reserve in case of need.
France has concluded a treaty with the king of Naples and two Sicilies, by which it is stipulated, that France will withdraw her troops from the estates of that king, provided he will not permit the combined powers to pass through his dominions, we shall publish this treaty in our next. In her finances, France experiences great embarrassment, upon which subject we refer our readers to an article in this day's paper. In addition to which the great banking house of Rotchild, has suspended its payments.
The English grand expedition had arrived and landed at Cuxhaven, the French appear to treat it with derision, nor from the present aspect of affairs does it appear probable to render any important service to the cause of the allies.
In several of the Paris and some of the German journals, a Continental peace is supposed to be certain and immediate. It will be observed that the Emperor of the French was to proceed shortly to Munich to hold a general congress for that purpose; it is confidently asserted in some of those journals, that the Emperors of Russia and Austria have made overtures to the Emperor of the French, through the mediation of Prussia. With England, France appears determined to pro-
secute the formation of another camp at Boulogne, to which place a part of the imperial guards had actually arrived. Bonaparte, it is said, as he passed to the Rhine, observed, that he would spend his Christmas in Vienna, and Easter in London, while we admit that he is punctual in most of his promises, we venture to predict that he will not keep this.
The defeat of the combined fleet was known in France; the Moneur preferred a full silence, while two of the minor journals, ventured to notice the action in these words:
Authentic letters from Madrid assert in a positive manner, that Admiral Nelson died of the wound he received in the engagement of the 21st Oct. four English captains, as well as a great number of officers of every rank, lost their lives in it; it is a fact now clearly ascertained, that Admiral Collingwood has not been able to capture a single ship of the combined fleet, which were dispersed by the storm. The death of Admiral Nelson alone is an undoubted defeat for the English Navy!
Except this very veracious account, there is not one word of this memorable combat in the Paris papers. An account had been received at Bordeaux, which, when more at leisure we will publish for the amusement of our readers; the summary of the loss of the British, according to this account is 5 sunk, 1 blown up and 3 drove on shore. The Prince of Wales of 98 guns which was not in the action is among those sunk, and Admiral Bickerton, who was not in the action is said to be killed, and this the account adds "is according to Admiral Collingwood's statement." From these circumstances our readers will naturally make some allowance for other accounts. But after a large allowance, there is enough to prove the discomfiture of the allies. In this, and our succeeding papers, we shall present our readers with details of this summary. (Lodge.)
At Bordeaux the 24th of November, Exchange on London 24 francs per pound sterling. Is.
Jerome Bonaparte arrived in the city of Nantz on the 20th of November, and was received with the highest civil and military distinctions. He was, it was said, on his route for Breist, to join the fleet at that place, which animated by the presence of his imperial majesty's brother, would (says the French journals) be impracticable to give the English battle. They will probably think better on that subject. Is.
We have just seen a copy of a private letter from an officer of the French Navy, dated Caliz, Nov. 1, by which it appears that the loss of the combined squadron was greater than before stated; L'Aigle and L'Indomptable were also lost: the former on the Spanish coast, and the latter in Cádiz Bay, so that only ten sail of thirty-three remain. Is.
Received by the ship Highland Mary in 35 days from Bordeaux, and extracted from Paris papers received at the office of the Public Ledger.
PARIS, Nov. 11.
An extract of the reports of their excellencies the minister of the general police and of the public treasury, upon the present state of the bank of France, has just been stuck up in the streets of Paris. The former minister announces that he has charged the mayors of the 12 municipalities of Paris to distribute numbers, the bearers of which will receive cash in exchange for their notes. This measure must put an end to all embarrassment. But the report of the minister of the treasury is still better calculated to enlighten the public, and to quiet timid minds, upon the false rumours, which malice and stock-jobbing have so much interest in spreading. This important report is drawn up in these terms:
MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY.
Wishing to know whether the stock-jobbing exercised in the Notes of the Bank of France had a just cause, or whether the function of that establishment be such as to leave no uneasiness concerning its solidity, I have collected the necessary information on this head, and am assured of the exactness of the following results:
  The outstanding Bank Notes amount to the sum of liv. 7,263,000   The specie in hand and value falling due in the space of two months amount to the sum of liv. 150,397,791   To be deducted for this month the amount of the sums due to the accounts current 23,139,787   127,258,004   The active overplus in favour of the bank, on the amount of these notes and of the sums due to the accounts current is 54,621,504   The difference arises:   1st. From the capital of the holders 44,841,161   2dly. From the reserve & gains subsequent to the 1st Vendemaire, year 14 9,780,343   54,621,504 
This surplus is composed of effects of the nature of those which the law and statutes of the bank have authorised it to receive. Their solidity is that of the best effects. For each note of 1,000 fr. in circulation, there really exists in the bank a value in specie and in bills of exchange incontestably amounting to 1,750 francs.
The bank must lose 54,621,504 fr. before the value of the notes in circulation could undergo the least diminution. And thus even supposing that, as in all establishments of this kind, there were to be a very small part of the effects less solid than others, no uneasiness ought to result from it, I say not the least uneasiness, on the situation of the bank, which continually presents an half infinitely superior to its half . The turn in gold and silver specie is superior to that which has been hitherto in ordinary times for changing notes for specie. The bank generally changed daily, notes to the amount of 3, 4 or 500,000 fr.; and for a month past it has paid every day near six hundred thousand francs, and sometimes beyond this sum.
I have made no mention of the real estates belonging to the bank, they add still more to its solidity. I know no establishment of the kind, either in Europe or in the United States of America, which presents to the holders and to the public more real motives for security.
It is in consequence of an examination of the documents which have been laid before me by the bank directors, on my first calling them, that I have formed this opinion; and I have had frequent occasions of knowing that out of the bank, it is the opinion even of the merchants, traders, most enlightened bankers, and of all persons who have any knowledge of transactions of this kind. The treasury receive this Paper at par every where that its legal circulation extends, only because the treasury makes no distinction between the said paper and specie.
I have even caused it to be received very far from Paris, every time that, in the account which has been rendered me, I have not seen in the payments made to the treasury, an intention of speculating in order to obtain an unlawful profit.
I say with entire confidence, that the holder of the Bank Note, can in no case, lose a single centime.
I have been informed that those who are concerned in stock-jobbing endeavour to excite apprehensions that the bank paper will be forced. The solidity of this establishment renders such apprehensions absolutely vain; and besides one must be completely ignorant of the principles which govern us, ever to suppose the forced circulation of a bank note or any other paper.
BARRE MARROU. Minister of the Public Treasury. November 20.
The public were yesterday in expectation of receiving the confirmation of the news alluded to some days past, upon the entry of the French into Vienna, which was to have taken place on the 19th Brumaire.
However, it is observed that on the morning of the 18th, Prince Murat was only ten or twelve leagues from Vienna, and that he detached from thence a corps of dragoons towards that city, from whence the emperor and his court had a ready departure, it will readily be conceived that, there being no further resistance, the first division of the army may really have entered that capital the 19th, and possibly the emperor Napoleon himself may have made his entry the same evening that the Bulletin is dated.
In circumstances of such moment, it is not astonishing that public rumours should precede a few days the official reports. It is possible that speeding communications, or false that ran in its carriage, arrive sooner and are mutilated by the exaggeration of public avidity. For instance, rumour was yesterday so busy as to spread news of peace, the details of which are so very vague and uncertain that no attention can as yet be paid to them. It was added that Lord Harrowby is to stipulate for England, in the general treaty. Be this as it may, peace was certainly not the primitive object of the noble lord's mission. But it is the fate of Mr. Pitt ever to see his projects turn in an extraordinary manner. The denomination of his political drama has the quality required by Aristotle: it is always unforeseen. The expedition that he has so long been meditating is at length failed, against all expectation. He wished to silence the laughter; but, to avoid one reproach, he exposes himself to receive a greater. The delay attending it was ridiculous—the expedition itself, in such circumstances, is a capital fault, a fresh blunder if its projector be not distracted; his means. Mr. Pitt begins to grow distracted; he entangles himself in the nets which his own pretty tricks first spread for him; he has lost his senses before he has lost his ministry.
But to return to the affairs of the continent, whatever truth or falsehood there may be in the new rumours in circulation, we can blame nobody for crediting them. So many wonders are wrought in so short a time, as to render every thing credible. It is more natural to suppose that the French will make peace in Vienna, than it was to presume that they would be there forty-five days after their quitting Strasburgh. This war, which may hereafter be called the six weeks war, will be more celebrated in history than the seven years war, or even thirty years war; and, as no other war is more replete with extraordinary events, it is reasonable to believe that the peace which must follow it, will have more important results for the future tranquillity of Europe.
TWENTIETH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
LINTZ, 16th Brumaire. (7th Nov.) year 14.
The engagement of Amstetten did great honor to the cavalry, and particularly to the 9th and 10th regiments of hussars, and to the grenadiers of the division of general Quiot.
The Russians have since accelerated their retreat; they in vain cut down the bridges upon the Ips, which were quickly re-established, and prince Murat arrived as far as the abbey of Melk.
A reconnoitering party has pushed off to Bohemia. We have taken very considerable magazines, both at Freystadt and at Marenstetten.
Marshal Mierier with a corps of the army, is manoeuvring upon the left bank of the Danube.
A deputation from the senate is just arrived at Lintz. The elector of Bavaria is expected here in two hours.
Lintz, 17th Brumaire. (8th Nov.) year 14.
The elector of Bavaria and the electoral prince arrived yesterday evening at Lintz. Lieutenant-general, count de Glaiay, sent by the emperor of Austria arrived here in the night. He had a very long conference with the emperor. The object of his mission is unknown.
At the battle of Amstetten we took 1300 prisoners, 700 of whom are Russians.
Prince Murat has established his head-quarters at the abbey of Melk. His advanced posts are near St. Pölten (St. Hypolyte).
On the 17th, general Marmont directed his march towards Leoben. On his arrival at Weyer, he met the regiment of Gulay, charged it and took 400 prisoners, among whom one colonel and several officers. He continued his march. All the columns of the army are in grand manoeuvre.
TWENTY-FIRST BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
Molk, 19th Brumaire, 10th Nov. year 14.
On the 16th Brumaire, the army of Marshal Davoust directed his march from Steyer to Naidhofen, Marientzell and Lilienfeld. By this movement, it extended its front beyond the left of the enemy's army, which was supposed to be ready to make a stand on the heights of St. Hypolyte; and from Lilienfeld it marched towards Vienna by the high road leading directly to it.
On the 17th the advanced guard of this Marshal being yet several leagues from Marientzell, met the corps of gen. Meerfeldt which was marching towards Neudstadt for the purpose of covering Vienna on that side. The gen. of brigade Heudelet, commander of Marshal Davoust's advanced guard, attacked the enemy with the greatest vigour, routed him, and pursued him for the space of five leagues.
The result of this engagement of Marientzell was the taking of three Rands of colours, 16 pieces of cannon and 4,000 prisoners among whom are the colonels of the regiments Joseph de Colerado and Deutchmeister, and five majors.
The 13th regiment of light infantry and the 108th regiment of the line behaved admirably well.
On the 18th in the morning, Prince Murat arrived at St. Hypolyte. He gave direction to the general of brigade of dragoons Sebastiani to push forwards towards Vienna. All the court and grandees have left that capital. It had been already announced at the advanced posts, that the Emperor was preparing to quit Vienna.
The Russian army has effected its retreat to Kremy by re-crossing the Danube, fearing no doubt to lose its communications with Moravia cut off, by the movement which Marshal Mierier made on the left bank of the Danube.
General Marmont must have passed beyond Leoben.
The abbey of Melk, where the Emperor lodges, is one of the finest in Europe. There is not, either in France or Italy, any convent or abbey that can be compared to it. It is in a strong position, and commands the Danube. It was one of the principal posts of the Romans, and was called The Iron House built by the Emperor Commodus.
The cellars and vaults of the abbey were full of very good Hungarian wine, which has been of great help to the army, having for this long time been without any; but we are now in the wine country—there is a great deal in the environs of Vienna.
The Emperor has ordered a particular safe guard to be placed at the castle of Lichtenfels, a small country seat belonging to the Emperor of Austria, on the left bank of the Danube.
The avenues of Vienna on this side do not resemble the avenues of great capitals. From Lintz to Vienna there is but one high road; a great many rivers, such as the Ips, the Elaph, the Molk, the Traisen, &c. have only bad wooden bridges over them. The country is covered with forests of pine trees; at every few inexpressible positions, where the enemy in vain endeavoured to make a stand. He was always apprehensive of being himself passed and turned by the columns which manoeuvred beyond his flanks.
From the Inn hither, the Danube is beautiful; its prospects are picturesque; its navigation down the river, rapid and easy.
All the intercepted letters speak of the frighted chaos which Vienna exhibits. The war was undertaken by the Austrian cabinet against the advice of all the princes of the Imperial family. But Colloredo, led by his wife, who, a French woman, bears the most avowed hatred to her country; Colloredo attempted to tremble at the very name of a Russian, in persuasion that every thing must be subordinated, and to whom, moreover, it is possible the agents of Eng-
land that miserable Mack, who had already acted such a great part for the renewal of the second coalition, these are the influences that have proved stronger than those of all wise men and of all the members of the Imperial family.
There is not the meanest citizen, the lowest subaltern but is conscious that this war is advantageous only for the English; that they are the artificers of the misfortunes of Europe, as, by their monopoly, they are the authors of the exorbitant price of provisions.
NAPLES, Oct. 15.
The royal family had safely arrived in that city. Two divisions of the Russian troops at Corfu, have taken their departure for Venice, where they will join the Austrian troops.
MILAN, Nov. 7.
Extract of a private letter. The war has perhaps been less perceptible at Milan than at Paris. If we were nearer the theatre of war, we are further from London; and this distance has spared us a great many evils; and among others the back-stroke of the momentary crisis which the British cabinet has endeavoured to bring your bank of France to.
Our public credit has lately signified itself by one of those traits which characterise an order of things upon which opinion is not even in any uncertainty. Government, to complete an unforeseen and urgent operation, had occasion for between 11 and 1200,000 livres in ready money; the bankers and traders of Milan hastened to present it this sum; and would, except no interest for the two or three months which are to elapse before its reimbursement.
We then had within less than 45 leagues from us, 70 to 72,000 Austrians: they were only separated from our territory by the Adige. They had in presence an army said to be inferior in number, and no fear, no indication of intelligence with the enemy manifested itself throughout the kingdom of Italy; not a single internal movement was attempted; not a single extraordinary measure was taken. A government a hundred years old would not have preferred a graver, and at the same time, calmer attitude; it would not have been surrounded by more confidence, nor would it have shown a more honourable one for its people.
Here, as at Paris, we were beforehand convinced, that nothing would resist the genius of Napoleon. However, we had not guessed that new art which consists in taking whole armies by dint of skilful combinations; we had not suspected that, in a campaign of eight days, the prodigies of a prodigies of a life already full of miracles, would be repeated and almost surpassed.
It is just that I should also point out to you another cause of the undoubted security which we have enjoyed, in circumstances that would have sufficed to agitate so many other states; it was well known that the young prince who now represents among us his august father, in-law, and who here applies with so much success the great lessons which he has received from him, rested neither day nor night; the victory saw every thing with his own eyes; his example maintained every thing in perfect harmony with the will of his majesty the emperor and king. To confide himself as much as possible for not being in such a moment at the head of the brave troops, he has occupied himself with indefatigable zeal in providing for the wants of the French and Italian army. (Translated from the Journal de l'Empire .)
PRAGUE, Oct. 29.
H. S. H. the archduke palatine returned here from Vienna on the 25th inst. On the 27th the diet of Hungary held a third sitting. His royal highness the archduke made a very affecting speech, in which he laid open the present deplorable situation of the Austrian monarchy. The members then resolved by acclamation to sacrifice their lives and fortunes for the maintenance of the throne, the constitution and the safety of the country. It was in consequence uniformly organized, composed of cavalry and infantry. A commission was then appointed with all necessary powers for regulating the organization of this national army. The said commission will make its report at the next sitting of the states.
FRANKFORT, Oct. 27.
According to the last letters from Vienna, people there were at a loss to conceive how the Austrian army in Swabia had suffered the French army to advance without obstinately opposing it. The news of the first disasters at Werdtingen and Guntzburgh of the French having forced the passages of the Danube and Lech, and entered Bavaria had spread consternation throughout that capital, where the inhabitants were far from expecting the prodigious events that ensued. It was generally imagined there that Prince Ferdinand and gen. Mack had retreated to the frontiers of the Tyrol in order to keep up their communication with the hereditary states and the Austrian army in Italy. It is asserted that besides the six regiments which have already been detached from his army, Prince Charles had received orders to send from 20 to 25,000 men to the assistance of the army of Germany. It was also rumoured that that Prince had been entrusted by the Emperor his brother to take the command in chief of the army which is to act in concert with Russia.
PRAGUE, Nov. 4.
The states of the kingdom of Bohemia have this day held an extraordinary sitting, in which they have deliberated on the measures necessitated by present circumstances and their own obligations. The members resolved by acclamation to sacrifice their lives and fortunes for the monarch, who at the present critical moment is in want of their energetic co-operation; and as a proof of their attachment and fidelity, it was resolved to make him a voluntary gift of 4 millions of Florins.
NUREMBERGH, Nov. 8.
Intelligence from Bohemia states that gen. Kollowrath, commander in chief of the army stationed in that kingdom, was employed in forming a new corps from the wrecks of the army under Prince Ferdinand and the runaways who arrived at Egta. Some of the cavalry of these troops, united to the regiment of Gerningen and Hohenlohe and some battalions of reserve have invaded the Upper

This, count Hohenlohe, retreated into Bohemia, having first taken part in the engagements which took place in the neighbourhood of Nuremberg. The case of Prince Rohan is the same.  It is believed that Prince Murat has summoned them to fulfil the obligation they have contracted and that they have refused. It is also said Marshal Murat has applied to Prince Ferdinand himself, and that a correspondence still takes place between these Generals on that head. The Austrian Generals have hitherto persisted in their refusal, maintaining that capitulation does not regard them.  It is asserted with some confidence that General Werneck will be brought before a Council of War, in order to give an account of his operations and of his reasons for capitulating.  A private letter from Stuttgart mentions that Mr. Bath as well as all the other Württemberg prisoners had been set at liberty. He is even allowed to remain in the country, with a prohibition however, to reside in Stuttgart, Louishburgh or Kanstadt.
Hoff (Margraviate of Bareuth) 10th Nov.  The Post Office at Leipzig has just sent an express to the Post Office of this town to inform it that the emperor Alexander purposed returning to Berlin from Weimar, whither he was gone to pay a visit to the hereditary princess his sister. According to the first arrangements, he was to pass through Hoff, Egra and Prague, in order to arrive at Vienna; but the progress of the French army has rendered new arrangements necessary; and although the emperor Alexander has proved that he made voluntarily the first step to approach other sovereigns, it appears that he has no vast inclination to pay a visit to the emperor of the French, at Vienna.
GLUCKSTADT (in Holstein) 6th Nov.  Lord Harrowby, ambassador extraordinary from the king of England to his majesty the king of Prussia, arrived in this port to-day on board a frigate, and landed here with a numerous suite. The English ambassador immediately set off for Hamburg. His lordship is accompanied by Mr. Hammond, under secretary of state.
RATISBON, Nov. 8.  Baron Haugwitz Prussian minister of state and cabinet is expected here every moment. It is asserted with confidence that he is on his way to the head-quarters of the emperor of the French, with proposals for peace.
November 9. —The diet of the empire has at length resumed its functions; yesterday it held an extraordinary sitting, in which the baron Albin, the directorial minister, communicated in the name of the elector, arch-chancellor, the following declaration.  "H. E. H. the electoral arch-chancellor conceives himself obliged to fix the general attention on the present situation of the Germanick empire. The military forces from the south, the east and the west of Europe are at this moment assembled in Germany. A contest has taken place of which the annals of Europe present but few examples. Every wise and prudent German must desire that the Germanic constitution be preserved in the midst of this storm. It cannot, however, be concealed but that these disquieting questions have arisen in many minds: what will become of our country, Germany, in such an agitation? Are the treaties and national pacts, institutions of the diet, tribunals of the empire, the Germanic constitution, the golden bull, the treaty of Westphalia, the capitulation of election, as well as so many rescripts and decisions of the empire, which have been for so many ages the work of the wisdom of our ancestors, and under the protection of which the German nation has distinguished itself in so glorious a manner, at brilliant and often happy epochs, to be annihilated? Is the name of Germany, the name of the German nation, the name of a people who formerly triumphed over the colossus of Rome, and who by their fidelity, courage, industry, and useful inventions have rendered such great services to humanity, to be extinguished? Such an idea is truly afflicting to every well-wisher to his country."  "H. E. H. the arch chancellor desires and hopes, animated as he is by pure patriotism, that such a misfortune may be averted, by universal efforts towards the maintenance of the unity of the Germanic constitution by a general determination to observe the laws of the empire; by the unanimous intervention of all Germans to obtain an honourable and durable peace."  Marshal Duroc dined on the 7th with the elector arch-chancellor, after which he set off for his headquarters of the grand army.
HAGUE, 10th November.  All the difficulties so industriously spread in this country upon the object of the grand English expedition are already dissipated. The British fleet has landed the troops on board at Cuxhaven, from whence they are to march to join the Russians and Swedes. It is not known whether the Prussians, who occupy the greater part of the Electorate of Hanover, will permit them to attack the French who are shut up in the fortress of Hameln, or whether the protection of the king of Prussia will extend the privileges of neutrality over the Electorate. Be it as it may, the accounts differ as to the number of the English troops, which, within these six days, has been paid to amount to twelve thousand men. This army is commanded by the Duke of York and Albany in proper Person. His two warlike brothers the Dukes of Cumberland and Cambridge, command under him; the former, the cavalry; and the latter, the infantry. There are nine Lieutenant-Generals and sixteen Major-Generals under the orders of these three valiant brothers. If the number of the Colonels and superior officers be in like proportion, the greater part of these troops are not soldiers!
HAVRE, Nov. 14.  By-yesterday a small bark carrying Prussian colours was detained here, by a measure of safety. She was sailing up the Seine, and bound as she laid, for St. Malo, had frayed up the river, through a mistake in her reckoning. So great an error, added to the English build of this vessel, cast a suspicion on her designs.  According to private letters just arrived, it appears certain that there will be a congress held at Munich and that Europe will enjoy a durable peace.
STRASBURGH, Nov. 16.  On the 9th November, marshal Angereau's headquarters were at Stockach. On the 10th he set out a new on his march; the right column of his army struck off towards Buchhorn and filed along the upper part of the Eastern borders of the Lake of Constance, by Laugangen to Lindau and Bregenz. The centre column directed its march from Pfullendorf to Saverneburg, and from thence by Wangen and Yny to Immenstadt. The left column which departed from M. Eckbach on the 10th, marched off by Waldsee and Leutkirch to Kempten, where it was to learn its further destination. If it be true, as is asserted to day, that the Austrian General Wartensleben has surrendered by capitulation to a column sent against him by Marshal Ney, from Innsbruck, and which cut off his retreat, Marshal Angereau will have for the moment no enemy to fight against, and may act in
November 17. —The city of Vienna has just opened its gates for the first time to a victorious army. This glory was reserved for Frenchmen. Our troops have entered it. An extraordinary courier who arrived here last night brought this intelligence, but at his setting out the emperor had not arrived there. He was, however, immediately expected to make his solemn entry into that capital, and afterwards repair to Munich, where a congress is to be opened for the re-establishment of peace, overtures for which have already been made. It is confidently asserted that the king of Prussia will employ his mediation, and that count Haugwitz, who was lately at Vienna, will repair for this purpose to Munich.
The Enquirer.  RICHMOND, 11th JANUARY.
Bonaparte had not entered the capital of Austria according to the latest advices from France, on the 17th November, though little doubt can exist, that the standards of his advanced column must have been planted on its walls. Bonaparte himself was merely adjusting the ceremonial of his entrance, that he might not appear without the splendid solemnity due to the Emperor of France and the conqueror of Austria.  All the events, which had preceded and prepared the way for these stupendous revolutions, are yet to be communicated to us in detail. The latest Bulletin received by the way of New-York, is dated on the 31st October at Braunau, the earliest which we have received by the way of Norfolk is dated at Lintz on the 7th of November. Of course the intermediate Bulletins have not yet come to hand, and it is in these that we are to look for all the events that have transpired from the time when the French column left Braunau, to the period when they arrived at Molk; the interval during which a remonstrance must have taken place between them and the Russians. Among these must have been the affair of Anstedten; the one first alluded to in the 20th Bulletin.
From the Bulletins, which are now before us, it would seem that the French had crossed the Inn in two columns under generals Davoust and Bernadotte. The first column had advanced from Braunau to Wels, on the post road leading along the banks of the Danube to Vienna. In the mean time, prince Murat had crossed the Danube, at a point and at a moment which are not particularly specified; assumed the command of the main body which had pursued the route of the river and had arrived at St. Pölten about 5 German or 40 English miles from Vienna. At Wels or at Lintz, Davoust had filed off to Seyer, Naydshoffen, Marientzsch and Lilienfeld on the road to Neustadt; on which tour he had intercepted and cut off the corps of Gen. Merfeldt. The other wing of the army under Bernadotte had arrived at Salzburg, and sent off a detachment under Marmont, which was supposed in the 21st Bulletin to have passed beyond Leoben; the celebrated scene of a negotiation and treaty between Bonaparte and the Emperor of Austria, during the last war.
The French army were therefore approaching Vienna in 4 different columns; one under Mortier on the north bank of the Danube, which was also designed to intercept the Russian column; the one under Murat on the south bank of the river; the central corps under Davoust, marching to Neustadt; and Marmont's corps advancing still lower by the route of Leoben. Gen. Bernadotte in the eleonore of Salzburg, was in a situation to throw new detachments into the army of Marmont, or to intercept the retreat of the Archduke Charles. Mean time gen. Angereau was penetrating into the Italian Tyrol, and was about to occupy a position in which, with the co-operation of gen. Ney, he might flank the western wing of the Archduke Charles.  These conclusions are therefore to be deduced from the preceding circumstances, that the Austrian army of Italy was exposed to the almost inevitable danger of being surrounded and cut off; that Vienna must have fallen into the hands of the French before the 20th of Nov. and that on account of the detachments of the French army scattered in every part of the country, it was vain for the emperor of Austria to look for any new reinforcements on the south side of the Danube, to restore his fallen fortunes.
The following speeches, it is proper to observe, are by no means in that expanded form, in which they were originally delivered. We have curtailed them of the general observations which they contained on the system of banking and the association of the Pocomae Company. On these two points, we have believed that the speeches of Messrs. Smyth and Love have sufficiently gratified the public curiosity. At present we have confined ourselves to those statements only, which were made to show, how far the particular circumstances of the country around Alexandria, would make an increase of banking capital expedient.
INCORPORATION OF THE BANK OF POTOMAC.  House of Delegates, Tuesday Jan. 7.
The House again resolved itself into the committee of the whole, on the bill "to incorporate the bank of Potomac, &c."  Mr. Byrd, after attempting to prove that banks may be productive of the greatest fraud, and of idleness among the people; that they lead to an accumulation of money, which in a time of foreign war or civil insurrection may fall into the hands of an enemy; after having made several comments upon the remarks delivered on the last discussion of this subject by the gentleman from Fauquier, proceeded to touch upon the particular situation of the town of Alexandria:
"But I will admit, for the sake of argument, that the banking system is congenial with the principles of republicanism, and that there are circumstances which would justify its adoption. Yet it is demonstrable, that the establishment of another bank in Alexandria would be improper and unnecessary. I lay down as an undeniable position, that it is bad policy to adopt any system which will draw money out of circulation. This is a position, susceptible of proof by the strongest arguments, but believing that its propriety cannot be questioned, I will consider it as admitted. And if it be admitted, the impropriety of establishing the proposed bank, will follow as a necessary consequence. I hold in my hand a document furnished by the gentleman from Fauquier which will incontrovertibly prove that the merchants in Alexandria could not use, in a commercial way, any additional capital. But before I notice this document, suffer me to thank that gentleman for his very liberal conduct in furnishing his opponent with such a fatal weapon."
By the statement alluded to, I find that the annual exports of Alexandria, amount in toto, to 1,946,000 dols.; that the capital of the Alexandria bank is 500,000 dols.; and that the directors of that bank are authorised by law to issue notes to the amount of 1,500,000 dols. The bank of Alexandria, therefore, is capable of furnishing a sum equal to the purchase of all the produce exported from Alexandria, except as to 446,000. Let it be remembered that Alexandria is a considerable commercial town, and contains a great number of merchants. These merchants either have some private capital or they have none. If they have no such
But if they have such capital, we should tender them to say that it can fall short of 146,000 dols. Surely among so many merchants, By adding this private capital to this amount, to 1,500,000 dols., which the bank of Alexandria is authorised to emit, we find that the merchants of that place have the command of a sufficient sum to purchase all their exports.  But the gentleman from Fauquier supposes, that the bank of Alexandria would never issue more paper than the amount of its specie, because otherwise it might happen, that the bank could not redeem the whole of such paper. But this supposition cannot be correct, otherwise the stockholders could never receive (as they have done) 8 or 9 per cent. upon their money. The most which can possibly be made by any bank whose discount is only equal to its capital, is about 7 1/2 per cent. and this sum is only made by the interests becoming principal at the expiration of every 60 days. For the committee must recollect, that the bank interest does not exceed 6 per cent. a year. But I will inform the gentleman, that the expenses of the establishment, the salaries of its numerous officers, and the losses occasioned from bad debts, must all be deducted from the profits before a dividend can be declared. These circumstances shew that the bank of Alexandria must issue notes to the full extent allowed by law, or else there never could be a dividend of 8 or 9 per cent. after making such large deductions from the profits. Besides, the danger which the gentleman apprehends, could scarcely ever fall upon the bank. It is possible, to be sure, but of all things the most improbable, for the notes of the Alexandria bank to circulate in every part of this state, in every part of Maryland, and probably throughout the United States. Can it be believed, then, that the innumerable holders of these notes, scattered about the union as they are, should on one and the same day, present them for payment? Unquestionably not. The opinion of the gentleman upon this point, therefore, is as fallacious as the reason on which it is founded.
But let us admit, for a few moments, that his idea is correct "that no bank will issue more notes than the amount of its specie capital," still the merchants of Alexandria cannot require another bank. For the bank of Columbia, and the branch bank of the United States, as well as the Alexandria bank, are all within the ten miles square ceded to the general government. The capital of each of these banks (as the document before me proves) is 500,000 dols. So that there is, within that isolated square, a banking capital of 1,500,000 dols. George-town, where the Columbia bank is stationed, is a place of very inconsiderable trade, for I have been credibly informed, that there is not an exporting merchant in the whole town. The city of Washington is perhaps a place of no trade, so that there is a banking capital in specie of 1, specie of 1,500,000 dols. in & convenient to Alex. at her service. If, therefore, the merchants of Alex. have a private capital of only 446,000,000 dols. in gold and silver, they must have the command of sufficient specie to pay for all their exports, for such an amount of private capital added to the specie capitals of these three banks, makes the exact sum necessary for the purchase of all the produce carried to their market.
In either point of view, therefore, the merchants of Alexandria have as much capital as they can apply to commercial purposes. But if I am correct in supposing that these three banks will issue notes to three times the amount of their several capitals, then it follows that there are 2,554,000 dols. now at the disposal of those banks, which cannot be used by the merchants in Alexandria. Besides, in making this latter estimate, I have taken no notice of the private capital of the merchants. From the foregoing statements, I am clearly of opinion, that the merchants of Alexandria already have the means of obtaining more money than they can commercially expend, and this opinion is strengthened by the fact "that three-fourths or four-fifths of the capital of the Alexandria bank is devoted to agricultural purposes."
Mr. Love replied to the arguments of Mr. Byrd, at considerable length. He replied particularly to his statements on the expediency of increasing the banking capital of Alexandria:  The comparative view of exports and capital made by the gentleman from Isle of Wight, forms an important subject of discussion, in making up our opinions. I will, therefore, in the first place pursue it.  It has been correctly stated, that the exports of Alexandria amounted, for the year ending with Sept. 1805, to about 1,946,000; in this estimate was included the extensive exports of flour; but in this estimate were not included the coastwise exports of other articles, such as wheat corn, hemp, &c. These additional items I believe may, without danger of error, be admitted to swell the sum of exports from Alexandria to more than 2,000,000 dols.
In addition to these exports, there is another kind which the commerce of that part of the country claims, which it is impossible to ascertain the amount of; but when I mention it, it will be conceded that it is no trifle. I mean that kind of exportation of the articles of foreign growth, which altho' Norfolk or New-York may have credit for the amount of, they are made on the capital furnished by Virginia to Alexandria. Thus, fir: a merchant of Alexandria ships his flour to the West-Indies, he gets in exchange a cargo of coffee, &c. which he finds it his interest to send to Europe for a market: His vessel touches at one of those maritime ports, merely to neutralize her cargo, and proceeds, altho' an export thus made by an Alexandria merchant is not noticed to the credit of Alexandria. This, fir, is an estimate of at least, I will suppose, 250,000 dollars.
There are subjects of trade, which, in Alexandria, require the exercise of a capital. A capital is there found to be advantageously used in various branches of manufactures and mechanical pursuits. I am told that not less than two hundred and fifty men are daily employed there in the manufacture of bread only. This is a capital laid out on our produce, and the most valuable produce of our country too, fir; it certainly, therefore, merits our encouragement, because it retains among us the price of the labour bestowed on the articles we ourselves produce.
The capital, then, employed in Alexandria, I may on these various data, with certainty state to be not less than 2,500,000.
Alexandria! I wish I could find some other name, less hated, whereby I might shew how the produce of the part of Virginia which trades to that place is sent into foreign markets; yet it is the produce of that part of Virginia, whose commercial and agricultural interests it is my duty to try to understand and to promote, by producing an enhancement of the prices of its productions.  Having estimated the capital in demand to export to advantage the trade of the country I live in, let us see how that capital is met:  The gentleman from Isle of Wight has said, that we are to estimate the capital of the bank of Alexandria at 1,500,000 dollars, because it may discount to that amount. Pacts ought to speak more strongly to our understandings than
mere? 500,000 dollars is as much as we ought to presume; yet, says the gentleman, its dividends from it has gone beyond that, but at the same time he has accounted for the greater dividend of 7 3/4 per cent. by giving, I believe, very correct information respecting the operation of banks.
But to answer this objection at once, fir, I state from information on which I can implicitly rely, that the aid at this time lent to commercial pursuits by the bank of Alexandria, does not come up to 250,000 dollars. The balance of the capital of this bank is fixed in loans to agriculturists or builders, who indeed, as the gentleman has observed, cannot pay at the expiration of 60 days the usual term, and therefore the banks find it necessary to renew and extend the loans; yet the bank having made such loans where commercial demands were not so great, does not either find its interest well secured, and the borrower, if a farmer, is enabled by this sum laid out on the improvement of his lands, to pay an interest of 7 or 8 per cent., which he frequently renewed note subjects him to, according to the operation the gentleman has mentioned, because in the improved mode of his cultivation he gains 25 per cent. The face of the country is the best illustration of this argument, for it not only exhibits the profits which the farmer enjoys from these improvements, but it affords the most delicious repast to the eye of the traveller. So too the mechanic; he builds a house by the use of the money borrowed, for which he gets a return of perhaps 10 or 15 per cent.; and from this information I am enabled to say, that the bank of Alexandria affords at most not more than an aid of 250,000 dollars to active trade. The bank of Potomac, crippled in the circulation of its notes, does not afford an aid of more than perhaps half its capital 250,000 dollars more.
But we are told by the gentleman, that the exports of our produce at Alexandria has the aid of the bank of Columbia, worth a capital of 750,000 dollars, and of a branch of the United States bank of 500,000 dollars. I believe the gentleman may have been misinformed as to the capital of the U. S. branch; I believe it to be 150,000 dols. yet I hold it immaterial. The capital of the George-Town bank has long since, I believe, been withdrawn from the purposes of active trade. It could not be otherwise expected. The people of those places have found so great advantages in laying out their money in the erection of buildings for the accommodation of the vast and sudden accession of population to the seat of government of the U. S. States, that they needed and deserved all the aid that banks could give them. It is true, fir, I have understood that last year perhaps some little aid was lent by the U. S. bank to the commerce of Alexandria. But that has been withdrawn by curtailments of those not of discounts of ten per cent or more at a time. This bank is wholly under the control of the mother bank at Philadelphia, and of course the connections of the northern commerce would be preferred in their accommodation to those of the southward. Yet I believe when those accommodations were granted, they were more than reciprocated to George-Town and Washington, by the banks at Alexandria.
The statement then is correctly this. That to aid the exportation of the produce of Virginia to the amount of 2,500,000, there is perhaps at most a bank capital of 500,000 dollars. The bank capital is as one fifth of the exports. I say nothing about the private capital of Alexandria. It may be to the amount of 40 or 50 thousand dollars. It may be less, or an hundred times as much. I know nothing of Alexandria or its citizens, I reside at a great distance from it, but my neighbours, for I have no trade of my own; my neighbours trade to it when they can do it without injury. My neighbours tell me their wants, and I have this day the honour to make them known. They tell me they are subjected to the necessity of trading to Baltimore. They tell me that they are obliged to pay at least ten per cent on the value of their produce to get them to this market, where there is money.
It will be in order here that I notice the observations of the gentleman, that I involved myself in an inconsistency by having stated a few days ago two propositions, in opposition to each other. The one that the price of our produce depended on the foreign demand, the other that, that bill, was enhanced by an increased quantity of circulating medium of the means of banks.
I made this statement, fir, and am ready to repeat, that the general average price of produce in the United States, depends on the foreign demand, yet I hope I may not be thought rally inconsistent, when I have said that the price our farmers get depends in a great measure, in different districts of country on the money there is in circulation to buy with; and now we are properly led to another view of the subject.
Baltimore has profited herself, and rendered a great encrease to the wealth of Maryland, by her trade; this we all admit; it is a fact notorious too that Baltimore has given us better prices for our produce.  Alex. is that thro' which Virginia will continue to export her produce, for the farmer will cross the ideal line which separates Virginia from Columbia and sell her flour if he can in Alexandria. The bank capital then amounts to 1-5th of the exports of the place. What bank capital has Baltimore; the most flourishing town in the commercial world perhaps; and what are its exports? The whole domestic exports of Maryland for the year ending Sept 1804, were little more than 3,000,000, her exports of foreign articles a little more than 5,000,000, in all about 9,000,000. A part of the domestic exports of Maryland consisted of tobacco of the most valuable, because the most high priced-kind in foreign markets; those exports were made from various parts of the state, not connected with Baltimore; they were probably to the amount of 1,500,000 dols. This would leave 7,500,000, to the Baltimore exports, admitting that all the exports of foreign articles went from that town, and none from any other part of Maryland. Baltimore and its dependencies have, fir, a bank capital we are told of 6,400,000. We know not the amount of private capital; its bank capital then is as about 6-7ths of its exports, while the bank capital of our exporting town, is about 1-5th of the amount of its exports. Yet where is the town which has enjoyed a more successful commerce, then Baltimore?
Where is the state whose revenues and wealth have been more advanced by its commerce than Maryland? Than that same state of Maryland which was not offended, when her merchants combined their monied interest, and produced an unchartered bank, but acquiesced under the mere expression of the wish of her commercial town, and gave a charter to their association? While we, fir, cannot find epithets disgraceful enough to express our abhorrence for that commercial town, on which a part of u
we have seen the exports of the article of flour for the year ending Sept. 1804, were 310,000 barrels. Of this I am informed that for that year one hundred and seventy or eighty thousand barrels were inspected in the port of Alexandria; such was the trade of this invaluable export, to that place. Flour, fir, is I believe an article which in its trade requires a greater quantity of ready money to manage it, than perhaps any other. Let us compare it with instance with tobacco. When a shipper is desirous of shipping a cargo of flour, he is obliged at once to lay out a large sum of money in the purchase. He cannot buy to day a barrel, next week another, and next year complete his cargo. But how is it with the tobacco merchant? His funds fall in to day to buy a hhd., and next year he may complete his cargo, and the first hhd. will perhaps be best. It is not so with flour. Again; when the shipper of flour is making up his cargo, he can receive no aid from drawing bills. Bills are seldom or never drawn on the West-Indies our usual market for flour, because our debts are due and our remittances are to be made to Europe. But on the other hand, do we not know that a shipper of tobacco can and often does draw bills & value on the cargo of tobacco to one half or more, and before it leaves the wharf; his funds are to that amount restored him. The flour merchant, on the contrary, if he has a remittance to make to Europe, must direct his agent to buy bills in the West-Indies, or he is obliged to bring in return the articles of West-India produce, and remit the proceeds of that. This is the way we get clear of our flour, and such is the monied capital required to launch it into trade.
Alexandria then has made an export in one year of this ready-money article of our commerce, to one fifth of the amount of all the United States, while her bank capital was not as one to one hundred of the bank capital of the commercial towns of the United States.
One other short view I beg leave to offer of this subject. It appears by public statements, that for the year ending September, 1804, the whole domestic exports of the United States amounted to about 24 or 25,000,000 dols. north of the river Potomac. The exports of the town of Alexandria were about 1,150,000 dols. for the same time; equal then to about 1-20 of all the northern states. Her bank capital instead of 1-20, was perhaps not more than the one hundredth part. These comparisons have been made under the most unfavourable circumstances to Alexandria; for the exports which ought to belong to her, are to a great amount carried to Baltimore, and this at an expense to the citizens of Virginia of ten per cent. on the value of their produce, if they could get an equal market at Alexandria.
I might say, fir, that the position that the bank capital is to be confined by the amount of exports, is incorrect. I believe it might be proved to be so, and that exports will be greater if the bank capital is greater; this is proved, by the division the produce of Virginia has suffered from its natural market, because there was not capital there to buy it. If there had been capital there, the exports would have been greater, than at this day we are able to state.
Gen. Minor said, the opponents of the bill were willing to vote upon it without further discussion. He believed that a considerable majority of the committee would be found opposed to it: if there was not, it would be time enough to speak against the bill, when it was reported to the whole House.
Mr. Tazwell seconded the suggestion. The question was then taken on striking out the first section of the bill, and carried. The committee then rose, and the House concurred in their amendment. The House did not come to a final vote upon the bill. It will lay upon the table, open for any amendment which its friends or the friends of a new bank may wish to introduce. We understand that the latter are determined to bring forward the substitute, which we have already announced.
Sales at Auction.  This day the 11th inst. will be offered at Public Sale,
SEVERAL valuable tracts of LAND in the western counties of this state, comprehending several thousand acres: the title is clear and free from incumbrance. One eighth of the purchase money will only be required, the residue in seven equal installments annually, with interest. The plots and surveys may be seen by applying to
PROSSER & MONCURE. January 11. tf.  TO SPORTSMEN.  THE executors of John Hoomes, deceased, late of the Bowling Green, are authorised to dispose of a part or the whole of his flock of horses, consisting of imported and Country Bred Stallions, Brood Mares, Colts, and Fillies, of the most approved Blood. Gentlemen, wishing to purchase, may know the terms either by letter or personal application to the executors.  Should the Stallions not be disposed of by the middle of February, they will then be farmed out, until the 1st of August.  Bowling Green, January 11. tf.  DOCTOR UPSHAW,  INTENDS practising medicine and surgery in the city and neighbourhood of Richmond; he promises punctual attendance on those who give him employment. Jun. 11. S&T4w.  VALUABLE PROPERTY FOR SALE.  TWO HOUSES and LOTS on Shockoe Hill, in a most desirable part of the city, and possessing every accommodation for a family. A long credit will be allowed, or Virginia Bank Stock at a very liberal price taken in exchange. I have 8000 acres of Virginia land warrants which I will sell low for cash. THOMAS NORVELL. Jan. 11. tf.  ADVERTISEMENT.  AS I intend next fall to remove to the western country, I will sell a bargain in the tract of LAND, whereon I now reside, in Amherst county, containing 476 acres, with good improvements for the reception of a genteel family; the plantation is in good repair for cropping, and lies well for land in the upper country, and conveniently situated, being within one half mile of a manufacturing mill on Buffalo river, three miles from the town of New-Glasgow, and the neighbourhood in every respect desirable; this land also lies within 16 miles of an inspection of tobacco on James river, and 20 miles from the town of Lynchburg. Any farther description is now deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed that any person disposed to purchase, would with first to view the premises The payment will be made easy to suit the purchaser. JOSEPH BURRUS. January 11. 86 p.  NEIL MCLOLL  HAS received, by the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, his usual supply of EAST WINTER GOODS.

LAWS CONCERNING WASTE AND UNAP-PROPRIATED LANDS.
(Continued.) The several acts of Assembly concerning the establishment of the LAND OFFICE of Virginia; the locating, surveying & patenting, such unappropriated LANDS, carefully collated, and impartially exhibited. Be it enacted, That the said act be and is hereby continued until the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and no longer. An act concerning the location of certain warrants, upon such unappropriated lands in the counties of Greenbrier, Harrison, and Monongalia. Whereas it hath been represented by the present General Assembly, that previous to the extending the line between Greenbrier and Harrison counties, the latter of which has been lately taken from Monongalia, that there have been several warrants located on the lands of the latter county, in the several counties herein mentioned, and as it is just and right that the first location should hold the said land: Be it therefore enacted, That the surveyor of each of the aforesaid counties, shall on or before the first day of June next, transmit an attested copy of all entries of State warrants made in his office, to the surveyor of each of the aforesaid counties, with the date and quantity of land held or claimed by such entries, that the several surveyors may thereby be enabled to survey said entries, to the person or persons who had the first locations. Be it further enacted, That all such surveys hereafter made in either of the aforesaid counties, by virtue of the first location, shall be good and valid, any act to the contrary notwithstanding. Session 1785, Page 27.
An act for reviving, amending and continuing an act, to revive and amend in part, an act for giving further time for settlement rights, and for locating warrants upon pre-emption rights and for other purposes. Whereas the act of Assembly passed in the year 1784, entitled, an act to revive and amend in part, an act, entitled an act for giving further time to enter certificates for settlement rights, and for locating warrants upon pre-emption rights and for other purposes, which was continued by a subsequent act, expired on the first day of June last, and its expedient that the same should be revived, continued and amended. Be it therefore enacted, That the said recited act shall be revived, and continued, and be in force, until the first day of November one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and no longer, within which time the register of the Land-Office or his deputy shall receive all plats and certificates of survey, although not returned within the time before limited by law and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited or liable to forfeiture on that account. Session 1785, Page 81.
An act to repeal an act, entitled, an act concerning entries and surveys on the western waters, and for other purposes. Whereas the time limited by an act, entitled, an act concerning entries and surveys on the western waters, hath been found too short for the owners of entries to carry the same into actual surveys, and the modes therein prescribed being found inconvenient: Be it enacted by the General Assembly that so much of the said recited act as directs that all entries made before the passing of the said act shall be surveyed by the first day of February next, or for the surveying all future entries, on the western waters, within one year from the date thereof, be and the same is hereby repealed. Be it further enacted, that immediately after the first day of January, in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, the principal surveyor of every county on the western water, shall, and he is hereby required to give notice to all persons claiming land by entry within his county or to their agents, attorneys or other persons acting in their behalf, either personally or by affixing the same at the Court house door, or other usual place of holding the court of the said county, on two or several court days, that he will proceed by himself or one of his deputies, to survey the lands therein mentioned, on a certain day which he shall appoint, which day so appointed shall be one month at the least after the notice given, or last time of advertising the same, and if any person, his agent or attorney, as aforesaid shall fail or neglect to attend the surveyor, with chain carriers and a person to mark the lines, as required by law on the day appointed for that purpose, such entry shall become void, and the lands liable to be again entered for by any person holding a land warrant, and the surveyor shall return the warrant on which such entry was made, to the person owing the same, or his agent, which may nevertheless be located on any waste or unappropriated lands, or on the same lands if not already taken by some other warrant. And the owners of entries already made, shall on or before the first day of January, appoint some person within the county, where the lands lie, or their agent or attorney, who shall give notice of such appointment to the surveyor, within one month thereafter, or on failure thereof his entry shall become void. Provided, that nothing in this or any other act shall extend to forfeit or make void, any entry claimed by infants or prisoners in captivity, nor that all such persons shall have three years, after their several disabilities are removed to complete the same. Provided also, that if on the day appointed by the surveyor for the surveying any entry as before directed, he shall be prevented by accident or other cause, from making the same, such entry shall not in that case become void, but the surveyor shall give other notice, as often as such cases shall happen. Session 1786, Page 5.
An act for reviving, continuing and amending an act, to revive and amend in part, an act for giving further time to enter certificates for settlement rights, and for locating warrants upon pre-emption rights and for other purposes. Whereas the act of Assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, entitled, an act to revive and amend in part an act for giving further time to enter certificates for settlement rights and for locating warrants upon pre-emption rights and for other purposes, which was continued by several subsequent acts, did expire on the first day of November last, and it is expedient that the same should be revived, continued and amended. Be it therefore enacted, that the said recited act shall be revived and continued in part, and be in force until the last day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, within which time the register of the Land Office or his deputy, shall receive all plats and certificates of survey, although not returned within the time hereofore limited by law, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited, or liable to forfeiture on that account. Session 1786, Page 14.
An act to repeal an act, entitled an act to repeal an act, concerning entries and surveys on the western waters, and for other purposes. Whereas an act, entitled an act to repeal an act, entitled an act concerning entries and surveys on the western waters and for other purposes, requiring that the owners of entries shall at the point of entry or at the point of survey, in each county where such entries are made, & notifying such appointments to the principal surveyor of the county by a first day of December, and in failure thereof, such entries shall be void, whereby many of the good people on the western waters, through ignorance of the said recited act, are likely to be injured by a forfeiture of their entries. Be it therefore enacted, that the said act be and is hereby continued until the first day of June one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and no longer. An act for further continuing an act, to revive and amend in part, an act for giving further time to enter certificates for settlement rights, and locating warrants upon pre-emption rights, and for other purposes. Whereas the act of Assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four, entitled an act to revive and amend in part, an act for giving further time to enter certificates for settlement rights, and locating warrants upon pre-emption rights, and for other purposes, which was continued by several subsequent acts, did expire on the last day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued in part: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that the said recited act shall be continued in part, until the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, within which time the register of the Land-Office or his deputy, shall receive all plats and certificates of survey, although not returned within the time hereofore limited by law, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited or liable to forfeiture on that account. Session 1788, Page 12.
An act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same. Whereas the act of Assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, entitled an act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same, which was continued by several subsequent acts, did expire on the last day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued in part: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that the said recited act shall be continued in part, until the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, within which time the register of the Land-Office or his deputy, shall receive all plats and certificates of survey, although not returned within the time hereofore limited by law, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited or liable to forfeiture on that account. Session 1788, Page 12.
An act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same. Whereas the act of Assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, entitled an act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same, which was continued by several subsequent acts, did expire on the last day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued in part: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that the said recited act shall be continued in part, until the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, within which time the register of the Land-Office or his deputy, shall receive all plats and certificates of survey, although not returned within the time hereofore limited by law, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited or liable to forfeiture on that account. Session 1788, Page 12.
An act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same. Whereas the act of Assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, entitled an act, entitled an act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same, which was continued by several subsequent acts, did expire on the last day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued in part: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that the said recited act shall be continued in part, until the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, within which time the register of the Land-Office or his deputy, shall receive all plats and certificates of survey, although not returned within the time hereofore limited by law, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited or liable to forfeiture on that account. Session 1788, Page 12.
An act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same. Whereas the act of Assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty act, entitled an act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same, which was continued by several subsequent acts, did expire on the last day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued in part: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that the said recited act shall be continued in part, until the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, within which time the register of the Land-Office or his deputy, shall receive all plats and certificates of survey, although not returned within the time hereofore limited by law, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited or liable to forfeiture on that account. Session 1788, Page 12.
An act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same. Whereas the act of Assembly, passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty act, entitled an act for giving further time to the owners of entries on the western waters to survey the same, which was continued by several subsequent acts, did expire on the last day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, and it is expedient that the same should be further continued in part: Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that the said recited act shall be continued in part, until the thirty first day of December, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-five, within which time the register of the Land-Office or his deputy, shall receive all plats and certificates of survey, although not returned within the time hereofore limited by law, and such lands shall not be considered as forfeited or liable to forfeiture on that account. Session 1788, Page 12.
Propositions will be received by the executive for the purchase of eight condemned negroes, reprieved for transportation under the act to empower the governor to transport slaves condemned, when it shall be deemed expedient. January 2. THOMAS UNDERWOOD, jr. Trustee.
THE PRESIDENT and Directors of the Bank of Virginia, have this day declared a dividend of Four Dollars on each share in the Capital or Joint Stock of the said Bank, which will be paid after the 15th instant on application at the Bank. JOHN BROCKENBROUGH, Cashier. January 7th.
JOHNSON & REAT, JEWELLERS, SILVER-SMITHS & GILDERS, A few doors above the Bell-Tavern, Richmond. RETURN the public in general their thanks, for the liberal encouragement they have received, and with confidence of giving general satisfaction, they hope for a continuance of it. They have now on hand, a handsome assortment of work, consisting of the following articles viz: Table, Desert and Tea Spoons; Sops, Tofdy, Sauce and Mustard Ladies; Salt Shovels; Sugar Tongs; Tooth and Ear Picks; Penwipers; Penwipers; Chasus and Reams; Scifas; Chains; Silver Thimbles; Tortoise Shell and Pearl-handled Penknives. Miniatures drawn and set upon the shortest notice; Mourning and Fancy Lockets; Rings; Ditto; Bracelets; Ditto; Breast Pins of various Sizes and shapes, mourning and fancy; Gold, Silver, Pearl and Cork Sleeve Buttons; Gold and Hair Warch Chains; gold Seals and Keys of different sizes and shapes; an elegant assortment of fashionable Tortoise Shell Combs, ornamented of various sizes and shapes, just from Philadelphia; Ear-Rings of the most fashionable forms and sizes; Gold and Gold Mounted Jet Necklaces; Ladies and Gentlemen's Morocco Pocket Books; Gentlemen's Paste Knee Buckles & many other articles too tedious to enumerate—all of which they offer on the most reasonable terms. Persons wishing to purchase by the quantity, will be allowed a reasonable credit by giving approved security in the city. Orders will be strictly attended to, and discharged with dispatch, by the subscribers. JOHNSON & REAT. N. B. The highest price given for Old Gold and Silver. Nov 16.
GEORGE WILY, BROKER & COMMIS ION MERCHANT, Near the Basin. BUYS and sells all kinds of Produce—Also, and Lots, and houses, Bank Stock, &c. He has for Sale, LOTS No. 111, 2, 3, and 4, which make one entire figure in Du-Val's addition. There is a good Spring attached to them. These lots are well worth the attention of any gentleman wishing to build a summer retreat for his family July 25.—tf.
MCCABE & WALKER, WATCH & CLOCK MAKERS, At the corner house opposite Messrs. Gamble's Store Richmond. OFFER their services to the public. From their attention to all commands appertaining to their business, and the pains that will be bestowed in the execution of their work, they have full confidence to hope for a continuance of the favours they may receive. Great care will be taken in repairing all kinds of watches and clocks. December 28. (cf.) MILITARY CERTIFICATES. FOR SALE, Certificates of this state, bearing interest of 6 per cent, and receivable at the Treasury, for all arrears of taxes, prior to the year 1788. WILLIAM PRICE, Cashr. Col. M. A. S. May!
THE HIGHEST PRICE (IN CASH) WILL BE GIVEN AT THIS OFFICE FOR CLEAN LINEN & COTTON RAGS. GEORGE WATSON, HAS commenced his former and well known occupation of furnishing OYSTERS, BEEF STEAKS, COLD SNACKS, and RELISHES, at the white House near the Union Tavern, wherein the Post-Office was lately kept. He begs leave to assure those who may favor him with their company or commands, that nothing shall be neglected on his part which prudence gives satisfaction. October 15.
A NEW TAVERN. REUBEN BURNLEY respectfully informs the public, that he has opened a House of Entertainment in that annuannous new building west of the Court house. Attached to the premises is a new stable, well provided for the accommodation of general company. N. B. Very liberal wages will be given for a good Cook—a male would be preferred. Charlottesville, Nov. 26. (cf.)
TO BE RENTED. A BRICK HOUSE, near that of Mr. Robert Gordon, on the Hill, calculated to accommodate a small family comfortably; attached to it is a half acre of ground well inclosed. GEO. GREENHOW, December 9. (cf.)
FOR SALE OR HIRE. A Very excellent COOPER, a young man about 25 years old, of good character,—Enquire of the printer, Jan. 7. (cf.)
PETER LAPORTE, BEGS leave to inform the inhabitants of Richmond and its vicinity, that he has opened in this place, a Dancing School for the frail fyord, and he intends also to open a dancing School, where the awkward and most elegant steps shall be taught. Terms of tuition may be known by applying to him at Mr. Rivalin's on Shockoe Hill, in one of Judge Wythe's new brick houses. Jan. 7. (cf.)
WILL be sold, to the highest bidder for ready money on the premises on Saturday the 15th day of February next, by virtue of a deed of trust executed by Richard Bare, to secure the payment of 833 dollars 93 cents, with interest thereon from the date, due to Rumbaut & Gernon and George Pegman junr, and the expenses of the sale. Two acres of land lying upon Appomattox river, within one mile of the town of Petersburg with the water gift and manufacturing mills, Bake house, Distillery house and other houses of improvements erected thereon. PLEASANT AKIN, for Henry Gernon and Pleasant Akin. Petersburg, January 7.
FOR HIRE, the present year, Three Valuable BOATMEN, a Young WOMAN, accustomed to the business of a house, and a GIRL, about 14 years of age. Enquire of the printer. January 4.
NEAL NELSON, BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTURER, MAIN-STREET, RICHMOND. MAKES Boots & Shoes of every pattern or fashion, equal in point of MATERIALS and WORKMANSHIP to any in general use. Imported Boots and Shoes, of the first quality and newest fashion, for sale. Gentlemen at a distance, who are disposed to forward me their measure, by paying attention to the annexed cut, can be fitted with Boots or Shoes as well as they were on the spot. A—the length of the Boot. C—round the Calf. B—the pitch of ditto. D—round the heel and instep. E—round the instep. G—across the ball of the foot. F—the heel against a perpendicular, and stick a knife at the end of the great toe—see down to figure the number of inches and quarters, in the different measures. January 1. (cf.)
FOR SALE, THE HOUSE and LOT at present occupied by Mr. John Isaacson on Shockoe Hill. One fourth of the purchase money will be required in hand, and great accommodation will be given for the balance. Enquire of THOMAS NORVELL, December 17.
ENGLISH SULLIVAN, SILVER, GOLDSMITH and JEWELLER, RETURNS his grateful thanks to his friends and the public for the liberal encouragement afforded him in his line of business, and hopes by his punctilious attention to the business, to which he was bred, to insure a continuation of the favor of a liberal public. He offers now for sale at his shop adjoining the Eagle Tavern, a general assortment of silver ware and jewellery of the most fashionable kind, consisting of Silver Tea Pots, cream Urns, Tumblers, Spoons, and Mourning and Fancy Ear-rings, Lockets, Finger Rings, and Breast Pins, etc, white and coral Necklaces and Ear-rings, a general supply of Combs, plain and ornamented Pocket Books, thread Cases, Miniature and Ring Cases, gold and gilt Seals, Keys and Chains. Highest price given for old gold or silver, December 8. (cf.)
HOUSTON'S newly invented PATENT METAL TALLIC HONE, may be had at Mr. Geo. Greenhow's store, opposite the Eagle Tavern. The utility of this machine for setting Razors and other instruments which require a fine edge, renders it an object worthy the attention of every individual who may have occasion for its use. December 12. (cf.)
BURR MILL STONES, of all sizes; and a PLASTER OF PARIS, of an excellent quality, FOR SALE, at usual, by WILLIAM DAVIDSON, near the Market. Dec. 4. (cf.)
EDUCATION. DURING the ensuing year Richard M. Segar will pursue the professional instruction of youth, at Col. Wm. Segar's, Middlesex. His course of instruction will comprehend English Grammar, Latin, Geography, History, Euclids Elements, Education, Book-keeping, Reading, Writing and Arithmetic. His charge for tuition will be twenty dollars per annum to be paid half yearly in advance. Eight or ten boarders will be taken at seventy dollars per annum, to be paid as follows, viz. First quarter in advance, second quarter at the end of half the term, and the other two quarters at the expiration of the whole term. Each boarder must furnish his own bed and candles. The removals of this situation from every kind of vice renders it truly a desirable one for youth. Parents who may wish to place their sons under his tuition will make application to the subscriber or to Col. W. Segar, in Middlesex. The school will commence on Monday the 20th January. RICHARD M. SEGAR. (cf.)