The enquirer (Richmond, Va.), 1809-10-20 00:00:00

ATTENTION!—The members of the Richmond Troop of Cavalry are ordered to meet at their usual parade ground on Saturday the 21st inst. precisely at ten o'clock, in complete uniform
By Order of the Commandant, RICHARD RANDOLPH, Serjt. Oct. 17.
HOUSES FOR SALE. By virtue of a decree of the honorable Supreme Court of Chancery, for the Richmond District, in a suit between George Pickett, plaintiff and the subscribers, will be sold to the highest bidder, at public auction, on Saturday the 4th day of November next: Two brick HOUSES, with the out-houses belonging to them, situate on the cross street, leading to Shockoe Warehouse, in the city of Richmond. The sale will take place, on the premises, and the terms, agreeable to the said decree, will be twelve months credit to the purchaser to give bond with approved security, for the payment of the purchase money, and the title to be retained until the money is paid. DANIEL CALL, Executor Of the last Will and Testament of ROBERT MEANS, deceased. October 17.
A HOUSE—(Upon the Basin)—FOR SALE. By virtue of the last will and testament of Robert Means, dec'd, will be sold, on the premises, on Saturday, the 4th day of November next, to the highest bidder, a tenement upon the basin, adjoining the tenement of John Purse. The terms of sale will be, twelve months credit, the purchaser to give bond and security, and a deed of trust upon the property to secure the payment of the purchase money. DANIEL CALL, Executor Of the last Will and Testament of ROBERT MEANS, deceased. October 17.
FOR SALE.—As I intend to move to the Western Country, I will sell my plantation, in Henrico county, called HALF SINK, lying on Chickahominy Swamp, and on the stage-road, leading from Richmond to Fredericksburg, about 11 miles from the former place. This tract contains about 500 acres, a large portion of which is equal to any land on the Swamp, having between 50 and 100 acres of prime meadow land, which may be reclaimed at a very moderate expense. As this Land is so generally known, I consider any other description unnecessary. I will take, in part, a good tract of land, in the state of Kentucky. Apply to Thomas Norvell, in Richmond, or to the subscriber, near Half Sink. WILLIAM WINSTON. Hanover, Oct. 17.
HAMPDEN SYDNEY COLLEGE. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees, on the 29th day of September, 1809. Whereas, it appears, that some misrepresentations have been circulated, and many misapprehensions entertained by the public, respecting a regulation lately adopted, prohibiting the students of this seminary from attending at the court-house, on court days and other public days; On motion, it was ordered, That the said law be published in one of the Gazettes printed in the city of Richmond. Resolved, That a report of the students of this seminary, to public meetings, at the court-house on court days, Muster &c is a loss of time, generates vice and a corruption of morals, and ought not to be tolerated. It is therefore ordered, That after the commencement of the next session, no student shall be permitted to go to the court-house on court days, or on days of Muster, unless when compelled to attend by legal authority. Teste, DRURY LACY, Clerk. October 17.
NOTICE.—The partnership of Saylor & King, Tanner, near Prince Edward court-house, is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All those indebted to the concern, are requested to make immediate payment to George King, who is authorised to receive payments and settle all accounts of the company. MARTIN SAYLOR, GEORGE KING. October 17.
ADVERTISEMENT.—Will be sold to the highest bidder, on the 16th day of November next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the late dwelling house of John Carr, (L. J.) dec'd. The crop of Corn, Fodder, Oats, and Hay, plantation Tools, household and kitchen Furniture, a Waggon nearly new, two Ox carts, Horse cart and the stock consisting of Horses, Hogs, Sheep and Cattle including of a yoke of Steers.—On the same day, and at the same place, will be sold the tract of Land on which John Carr resides, about 4 miles above Charlottesville, containing about 500 acres—the tract called Johnson's tract adjoining Wm. Fitch, jr. about 2 or 3 miles north of Milton, containing about 400 acres—the tract called Hall's tract lying between Micajah Carr's and John Carr's Weills, containing about 292 acres and about 500 acres Oak Land, a considerable part of which, from its fertility is adapted to the production of Tobacco, and what is opened is fine for Corn and Wheat: this last mentioned tract adjoins the lands on which the dec'd. lived, and in an excellent neighborhood—all of the aforesaid Tracts of Land, lie in the County of Albemarle, and will be sold on one and two years credit, equal instalments—the other property on twelve months credit.—It will be required of the purchaser of any of the above property, to give bond, with approved security, and if not personally paid, to carry interest from the date for all sums above ten dollars; under that sum the money will be demanded. As I am anxious to close my executorship as soon as possible, I earnestly request all those who are indebted to the Estate to make payment—and all those to whom the Estate is indebted are solicited to come forward, and receive their due. THOMAS CARR, Ex'r. Altavista, Oct. 17.
FIFTEEN DOLLARS REWARD, for apprehending & delivering Fanny, a bright Mulatto Girl, about five feet two inches high, seventeen years old, inclined to be fleshy; who ran away about the 20th Dec. last. She has been harbored in Richmond most of the time since, where she passed by the name of LOUISA SMITH—She was seen on the 5th instant on the basin, and brought home on the 6th, went off again on the morning of the 7th. She had on an India cotton frock: and left, she says, a variety of clothes, at different houses where she has been secreted; is very fond of dress, and has been frequently detected in committing daring robberies—She is one of those entitled to liberty when she arrives to a certain age, under the Will of the late John Pleasants of Henrico county; in consequence of which, many of them are very ungovernable—many of her connections enjoy their liberty, and live in the adjacent counties.—The above reward will be given on delivering her to SAMUEL PLEASANTS. Powhatan County, Sept. 27.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.—Strayed or Stolen from my lot in Farmville about the 1st of September last, two mules—One a bay & the other a black with long bob tails—The above reward will be given for taking them up and returning them to me. MAURICE LANGHORNE, Jr. Oct. 17.
IN COUNCIL, September 19th, 1809. It is advised, that from and after the first day of January next, the Auditor be instructed, in every case, where any claim by virtue of an order or certificate of court, is presented to him by a person whose name is not mentioned therein, to require such person to produce, also, an order or power of attorney from the individual in whose favor such order or certificate of court was made, together with an affidavit of one witness at least, certified by a magistrate or notary public, that such individual actually signed and acknowledged the same. And to give general information of this rule: It is advised, that a copy hereof be published in the Virginia Argus, Enquirer, Petersburg Intelligencer, Norfolk Herald, Lynchburg Star, Staunton Eagle and Winchester Gazette, once a week until the first day of January next. Extract from the Journals, DANIEL L. HYLTON, Clerk of the Council. September 23.
STOMACHIC ELIXIR OF HEALTH is a very valuable medicine for the cure of the cramp, pains, or wind in the stomach; carrying off superfluous bile, removing habitual costiveness and sickness at the stomach. It gives immediate relief in the dyspepsia, cholera morbus, and removes the bowel complaints in children: It also gives relief in colics, asthma and the whooping cough. Price 1 $ 50 cts per bottle. Dr. ROBERTSON'S VEGETABLE NERVIOUS CORDIAL, is celebrated for the cure of hysterical and other nervous complaints, impurities of the blood, seminal weakness, & the various inconveniences resulting from dissipated pleasures, residence in warm climates, and feminine complaints. Price 1 $ 50 cts per bottle. Dr. ROBERTSON'S PATENT STOMACHIC BITTERS, are particularly recommended for restoring weak constitutions, cleansing & strengthening the stomach and increasing the appetite. They expel worms from children, & are a good preventive against intermittent fevers and agues. Price 1 $ per bottle. Dr. ROBERTSON'S Celebrated GOUT and RHEUMATIC DROPS, are in high repute for relieving the gout and rheumatism, umbago, stone and gravel. They cure weaknesses of the joints, sprains, bruises and all kinds of green wounds. Price 2 $ per bottle. A constant supply of the above medicines for sale, by FITZWYLLSONNE & POTTER, Booksellers & Stationers, Richmond, where pamphlets containing certificates of cures &c. may be had gratis. Take Notice, That none are genuine without the signature of T. W. Dyott M. D. Grandson of the late Dr. Robertson of Edinburgh. Sept. 15.
REMOVAL.—The subscriber has removed his Coach-Maker's Shop about three squares north-east, on the same street he resided on, and nearly opposite the office formerly kept by Adam Craig, dec'd. where he carries on the coach making business, in all its branches. He begs leave to return his sincere thanks to his friends and the public in general, for their past support, & hopes by his attention and punctuality, to merit a continuance of their patronage. JOSHUA WEST. Sept. 26.
TWENTY DOLLARS REWARD.—Ran away from the subscriber, last Wednesday evening, about 9 o'clock, at Richmond, a corpulent Negro Woman, by the name of LEAH. She is about 28 years of age, stout and strong made, full and round featured, of black complexion, and walks lame in her left hip, occasioned by an old wound 15 or 20 years ago, which has left a very visible scar directly back of her left hip joint. She is very artful, talkative and plausible in speech, and pretends to be a strict methodist. Had on when she went away, a home-spun woolen petticoat and jacket, with an ozanburg shift, but carried other clothes with her. She was brought from the northern side of the river Rappahannock, over Hobbs's Hole ferry, thro' Dunkirk and New-Castle, to this place; and, no doubt, will make the best of her way back again. The above reward, and all necessary expenses will be paid to any person, who will apprehend said woman and deliver her as soon as possible to Capt. Hugh Davis, in Richmond. J. FARRINGTON. October 13.
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE.—By virtue of the last will and testament of Edwin Motley, dec'd, will be sold to the highest bidder, on Wednesday the 15th of November next, (or if not fair, the next fair day.) A Tract of Land, called Booths in Gloucester County, situated immediately on Bonnotank Creek, and within about one mile of York River, containing between six and seven hundred acres: this land is of the most valuable kind, and has an excellent mill seat on it: persons inclined to purchase and wish to see the land, will be shown it by Mr. Wm. Gates who resides on it. Also on Thursday the 23rd November, will be sold on the same terms a tract of Land situated in the lower end of Spottsylvania County near Thornton's Springs. A credit of one year will be given for one half the purchase money, in each case, and two years for the last payment, the purchasers giving bond with approved security, the bonds to be divided so as suit the payment of certain legacies, devised in the will of said dec'd. ELIZABETH MOTLEY, Administratrix with the Will annexed of EDWIN MOTLEY, dec'd. King & Queen County, Oct. 13.
P. S. For Sale a quantity of excellent old Peach and Apple brandy. E. M. GEORGE WATT has just received, and offers FOR SALE, Sicily, Madeira, and Sherry WINE, by the Hhd and Qt. ea. Green Coffee, Orleans Sugar by the Hhd, German Platters Simplex by the piece or case, half pint Glass Tumblers in cases of 1000 each, and New York Soap & Candles. ON HAND, Madeira Wine, Orleans and Muscovado Sugar, Green Coffee, Molasses, Prune Pork, Liver and Stone Ware, Souchong, Hyson, Skin, and Gunpowder Tea, Spanish Segars, Raisins, Almonds, Nardines, Window Glass, Men's & Women's Shoes, which he will dispose of by wholesale on reasonable terms. July 22.
COLUMBIAN MILLS.—The subscribers having purchased the Columbian Mills, beg leave to inform the public they are giving cash for Wheat and Corn. P. MAXHALL & Co. September 5.
THE subscribers wish to purchase immediately, Black Walnut TIMBER, sufficient for the making of two thousand gun-stocks. Any person wishing to contract for furnishing the said timber, will apply to us at our shop, opposite the government house. STEWARD, QUARRIER & KERNES. October 10.
The above subscribers wish to employ six good Workmen at the gun-smith business, to whom liberal wages will be given: Also, five or six boys will be taken as apprentices.
THE subscriber wishes to employ two good Workmen in the wheelwright business, to whom good wages will be given. The workmen may be at liberty to work by the piece. Also, two apprentices are wanted to the wheelwright business. A. QUARRIER. October 10.
THE subscribers offer for sale, a very general assortment of GROCERIES, which they will dispose of on moderate terms, for cash, country produce, or approved paper. Also, 62 Kegs F and FF Brandy Wine Gun-Powder. WHITE & SHELTON. October 10.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.—Runaway from the Subscribers, in the early part of April last, near South-West Point, in Tennessee, a negro man, named MOSES: we suppose him to be about six feet high, well made, a little inclined to be knock-kneed, of a dark complexion, speaks slow when spoken to, and inclined to lisp a little; his clothes cannot be described, as he took off a number, and of various kinds. The said negro was purchased by the subscribers, (in February last,) of Martin Turner, of this City, and generally calls himself Moses Turner. He is a wife in this place, and it is supposed he is now lurking some where in this Town, as we have been informed he has been seen here, previous to our arrival. The above reward, besides legal charges, will be given to any person who will deliver the said Negro to Richard Terrel or J. A. Grant, or secure him in any Jail so that they get him again. R. TERREL, J. A. GRANT. Sept. 15.
All persons are strictly forbidden from harboring or employing the above Negro. Also, all Captains of Vessels, or any other person, are forbidden from taking the said fellow out of the State under the strictest penalty of the Law. R. T. & J. A. G.
THE Partnership of BREAM & FOLLET is this day dissolved by mutual consent. All debts due to and from the Firm, will be settled by James Bream. JAMES BREAM, FRANCIS FOLLET. Richmond, Sept. 18.
JAMES BREAM respectfully informs his Friends and the Public, that the partnership of Bream and Follet being dissolved, the Business will be continued by him—he expects shortly to receive a fresh supply of articles in the Ironmongery and Hardware line, which with his present stock in hand, he will sell low for cash, approved paper, or country produce. Sept. 18.
TO all whom it may concern.—RICHARD SMYTH, a native of Ireland, departed this life on the 18th of June, 1809, without leaving in this State, or in the United States, any relation by consanguinity, and possessed of some Estate in Lands within this Commonwealth, of which, as well as of the United States he had long been a Citizen. His intent was to give the whole to the subscriber, as his Nuncupative Will, now of Record, will sufficiently prove; but the Subscriber hath been advised, that a Will of that kind cannot effect a conveyance of Lands, how far soever it may prove the intent of the testator, and that the Lands late of the said Richard Smyth do of consequence, escheat to the commonwealth, though contrary to his intent of bequeathing them to a citizen thereof. For that reason, the subscriber shall request the General Assembly, at its ensuing session, by Petition, to carry the intent of the said Smyth into execution, by releasing the interest of the Commonwealth in the Lands whereof he was possessed, or entitled to within the same, to the Subscriber. DAVID DOYLE. August 25.
TO THE PUBLIC.—The subscribers, executors of John McRae, dec'd, will, on Tuesday, the seventh day of Nov. next, offer, at public sale, before the tavern of Mr. James Duvall, of this town, the following PROPERTY, viz: Twenty-five or thirty Slaves, among which are several good carpenters, distillers, bakers, cooks and house servants: Two brood Mares, one of which is the celebrated running mare Carolina, with a Florizel colt by her side, and now in foal by Sir Harry: the other a high bred mare also in foal by Sir Harry, together with six or eight mules and work horses, three milch Cows, carpenter's tools, plantation utensils, &c. The terms of sale will be, for the slaves, a credit of one, two and three years, and for the balance of the property, a credit of twelve months; in all cases, bonds with approved security will be required, to carry interest from the date if not punctually paid. RICHARD McRAE, and DANIEL EPPES, Executors of John McRae, deceased. Petersburg, Sept. 29.
All persons having claims against the estate of John McRae, dec'd, are requested to bring them forward for adjustment, and all who are indebted to the said estate, to make immediate arrangements for pay, as no indulgence can be given. R. McR. & D. E.
VALUABLE LANDS FOR SALE.—The subscribers wish to dispose of that valuable tract of LAND called FORT LEWIS, lying in the Counties of Botetourt and Montgomery, and containing about 2,600 acres. They also wish to sell 3,180 acres of Land lying in the County of Fluvanna, on the south side of the Rivanna river, extending from Col. Cary's line, down the river, to within about a mile of Columbia. This last mentioned Land, being in five distinct tracts, will be sold separately or together, as may best suit any person desirous of purchasing. On a fourth of the amount being paid in hand, any reasonable credit will be given for the balance. GIBSON & JEFFERSON. Richmond, July 28.
A LADY capable of teaching fine NEEDLE WORK, and EMBROIDERY, is wanted, as an Assistant, in a Female Academy, in the country. Respectable recommendations are required. Reference for further information, may be had at the Office of the Enquirer. October 13.
LAND FOR SALE.—The subscriber offers for sale that valuable estate on which he formerly resided, lying on James River, near the Town of Warminster, in the County of Nelson, lately Amherst. This tract contains nearly two thousand acres. The low grounds are of the most valuable kind, and the highlands immediately adjacent thereto are very fertile and uncommonly level. It might be divided into two plantations to advantage, or continued in one, as might suit the owner. The houses are new and ample for a family. A more minute description is deemed unnecessary, as it is presumed the purchaser will view and judge for himself. The subscriber will only reserve that the place is very healthy, lies in a fine neighborhood, and commands, perhaps, as many advantages as any other situation that is offered for sale in the state. One fourth of the purchase money will be required on the first of January, when possession will be given; and the balance will be divided into nine equal annual instalments, without any charge of interest if the principal be punctually paid. A large crop of small grain will be sown in good order, and the purchaser may be accommodated with corn &c. sufficient for a year's supply. Letters directed to Buckingham Court House, or to Warminster, would be soon received and attended to. In my absence, my brother Mr. Joseph C. Cabell will show the land to any person desirous to purchase. WM. H. CABELL. September 1.
NOTICE.—All persons concerned are required to take notice, that we have sold the debts due to the late concerns of Robert Pollok and Co of Richmond, & Dunlop, Pollok and Co of Manchester, to Messrs. Tompkins and Murray of Richmond, and that payments hereafter are to be made to them alone, or to those whom they may empower to collect. JAMES & JOHN DUNLOP. Petersburg, Sept. 5.
THOSE indebted to the late concerns of Dunlop, Pollok and Co of Manchester, and Robert Pollok and Co of Richmond, are now requested to come forward and settle their respective balances, as longer indulgence cannot be granted: lawyers and agents having the collection or settlement of debts due either of the above concerns, will be pleased to forward us statements of the business in their hands. TOMPKINS & MURRAY. Richmond, Sept. 5.
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Boston, Oct. 9. [The following Translation from a late Spanish Paper, has been obligingly furnished by a young gentleman of this town....Gaz.]
PROCLAMATION OF HIS EXCELLENCY FRANCISCO XAVIER, VICE-ROY OF MEXICO.
INHABITANTS OF NEW SPAIN! ELEVATED, without either deserving or soliciting the appointment, to the supreme government of these rich and extensive dominions, by the high authority of Heaven, and the grace of our king Ferdinand 7th, represented in the Supreme Central Junta, governing Spain and the Indies. I feel myself united to you by ties, if not more sacred and intimate than those which connected us when I was Metropolitan Archbishop, at least more public & universal. My flock and the flock of my venerable bishops hitherto your eternal salvation has been the principal object of my love, my tears, my prayers and my sacrifices; but from this day, your temporal happiness shall command my whole care and diligence. You all have been, in one sense, my children in Jesus Christ; but I am now more especially your father in the name of the King. Yes; this name, of the many which correspond to the dignity and office of Viceroy, I have adopted for you all, so long as the reins of government shall continue in my trembling hands; trembling, I say—for scarcely initiated into the routine of my pastoral duties, it would be intolerable presumption in me to seize with arrogant confidence the staff and sword of Viceroy and General. I have nevertheless accepted them, like a good bishop and good Spaniard, in obedience to the Supreme Authority which has entrusted them to me. I have accepted them, not merely for the sake of giving an example of docility and obedience, but for the purpose of serving you. Inhabitants of Mexico! The Apostles and Viceroys of the Spanish monarch know not how to flatter. I am the witness of your heroic fidelity, and shall most justly appreciate your patriotic and truly Spanish virtues, and if my spirit be not dismayed at the sight of the enormous weight which has devolved upon me, it is because I hope for that assistance of Heaven, which has been so liberally afforded to the Spanish nation, and which I trust, your zeal for religion will secure. I depend also upon the light of the respectable ministers of the King, of whose integrity, wisdom and vigilance I have the most irrefragable testimony; upon the prudent advice of my very dear and venerable brothers, the bishops of this metropolis; and upon the prayers of the secular and regular clergy of this kingdom. I rely upon the skill and honor of the military chiefs, upon the valor and loyalty of the numerous and well-disciplined army of New Spain, and upon the zeal, providence and experience of the directors, ministers and officers of the royal treasury, in all its great and important branches. I rely on the docility, obedience and peaceful behavior of you all, faithful subjects and beloved children of Ferdinand 7th. For on what other terms can you hope that I shall not resign, infirm, weak and bending under the weight of the mitre? But I will not renounce the trust, while my king and country desire my feeble services, the sacrifice of repose, and even of life. Spanish Americans! justice and peace, truth and humanity shall be my counsellors, for from these all your happiness must proceed, exciting in your families and provinces, attention to the sciences and politics, agriculture and the arts, commerce and the mines. If the perfidious, impious and barbarous French, or any others like them, should with audacious rashness, dare to insult your native soil, the sword shall learn to punish them; I will place myself at the head of your soldiers, to defend your property and persons, and chastise the enemies of your repose. I shall follow the example of the Rodrijgos, Mendozas and Cisneros, Archbishops of Toledo, and of the venerable modern bishop of Santander; I will not be inactive in forwarding the measures which the Moyas, Guerras, Palafoxes, Osorios and others had contemplated, who before me have been archbishops of Mexico, and viceroys and captains general of New Spain. Inhabitants of this Kingdom! the highest glory of God and his sacred religion, the best service of Ferdinand 7th & of the nation, together with your welfare and tranquility, shall be the only objects of my care. Intrigue, favouritism & interest shall have no part in my government. I have voluntarily yielded up to the wants of the crown, the surplus of my episcopal stipend, and most willingly do I offer my salary of Viceroy for the same purpose. Yes, generous patriots, our common mother needs our succours, that she may glorious effect that great work, which, Heaven be praised, this day seems to advance to a fortunate conclusion. From our love and gratitude she hopes for our assistance. Continue to afford it with liberality; and remain united by the strong bonds of peace, as well to support your mother Spain, as to disprove, throughout the world, and throughout eternity, that black and infamous calumny which the intruding and deceitful King Joseph published in Madrid, in the month of March last, declaring for the purpose of blindfolding and deceiving the provinces of the Peninsula, and all Europe, that "this kingdom was inflamed with intestine division and factions." Insolent man! The blood of Spaniards does not vitiate by crossing the ocean; it does not lose in America, its native spirit and energy, here are so a descendants worthy the conquerors of Baylen and the heroes of Zaragoza, of Valencia, of Catalonia, the heroes of Asturias, of Galicia, of Estramadura; here are all the brothers and legitimate descendants of all the provinces of Spain; of those who have confounded you by their arms, and by their voluntary immolation upon the altar of Loyalty. Tremble, ye wretched men! for though the inhabitants of Spain cannot bear arms against you, they will unflankingly supply their brothers with treasures to carry on the war of annihilation against the common foe. Inhabitants of this kingdom! I have hinted to you, my sentiments and ideas with which the Archbishop of Mexico commences his government as Viceroy. He salutes you with the last words, which the disciples of Jesus Christ heard from their divine master; "Peace be with you—all I am with you, fear not." Royal Palace of Mexico, July 22, 1809.
CONTINUATION Of Extracts from late London Papers by the Pacific.
LONDON, August 26. The King has been pleased to grant the dignities of Baron and Viscount of the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, unto the Right Hon. Sir Arthur Wellesley, Knight of the most Hon. Order of the Bath, and Lt. Gen. of his majesty's forces, and to the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten, by the names, styles and titles of Baron Douro of Wellesley, in the county of Somerset, and Viscount Wellington of Talavera, and Wellington, in the said county.
August 28. By the new Swedish Constitution, which has lately been made public at Stockholm, in five sheets quarto, the King is to be assisted by a Council of State, consisting of nine members, by whose advice he makes peace or war, and transacts all important affairs. All public offices must be filled by natives. The King has the supreme command of the land and naval forces. The Royal age of maturity takes place at twenty. Should the male branch of the Royal Family become extinct, the Council governs until the States are convened. No Prince Royal can marry without the consent of the States.
August 29. The accomplishment of the ulterior objects of the Expedition seems to be completely given up, and the belief is now very generally prevalent that the operations of the Expedition in Holland are at an end. The almost universal question now is, where does the expedition go next—some say to Sicily—some to Cadiz—others to Lisbon?—Perhaps it will puzzle our vigorous Ministers to know where to send it. We now relinquish all hope of the power of England being usefully directed by men, who have so repeatedly exhibited proofs of utter incapacity in that respect. In what part of the Peninsula the late Sir R. Wellesley will receive the notification of his exaltation to the rank of Viscount, is uncertain—for brilliant as is the lustre reflected on the British army and commander, by their gallant defence at Talavera—they have retreated—are retreating—and must retreat before a disciplined and experienced force, of acknowledged numerical superiority. From Germany, we are without intelligence. Amongst the next that is received may be an anticipated peace between France and Austria; and long before Christmas, we apprehend, that neither on the great Peninsula, nor on the Continent of Europe, with the exception of Gibraltar, will there be one British regiment.
Lieutenant May, the bearer of Sir R. Strachan's despatches of the surrender of Flushing, is promoted to the rank of Commander. The magazines found in Flushing are very considerable; in one store alone there were found 12,000 sacks of flour, all public property. The schooner John arrived at Plymouth from Oporto, which place she left on the 12th instant, bringing intelligence that the Friends transport arrived there from England a few days previous to her sailing, with about 5000 stand of arms on board, and arms.

their transport laden with shoes, for the use of the Portuguese army; the whole of which, together with the arms, were landed the day they arrived; and the next day 5000 Portuguese troops marched from Oporto for Vigo, who were chiefly commanded by British officers. Several detachments of Portuguese regiments, amounting together to about 8000 men were left to garrison Oporto, the greater part of which were not armed. Immediately on intelligence being received at Oporto of the victory gained by our troops at Talavera, a general illumination took place for three nights. About 1100 Portuguese troops who left Oporto to join the British army, a few days before the action took place, fell in with a division of the French army, who massacred the whole of them.
The city of Antwerp, which is supposed to be the ultimate object of the expedition, forms no part of the former territories of Holland; it is situated about 40 miles S. E. of Flushing, on the east side of the Scheldt, which is here of sufficient depth and width to admit vessels of great burden close to the quay. The commerce of this city rather more than two centuries ago, was superior to any other state in Europe. 2500 merchant vessels arriving in its port in one year. In 1550 the value of the merchandise imported that year amounted to 135 millions. But when the United Provinces threw off the Spanish yoke, having got possession of the entrance of the Scheldt, they sunk obstructions in the channel to prevent a free navigation. The town is surrounded by a wall and regular fortifications. The navigation of the river was declared free in August, 1794.
Last week William Constable and Richard Cockcroft, two manufacturers, were apprehended at Hull, for preparing to leave this kingdom for America. The dominions of Hanover, to the amount of two millions of livres yearly, have been distributed by Bonaparte among his Generals and Ministers. The following have the largest grants:— Berthier, Bernadotte, Mortier, Duroc, Ney, Augereau, Massena, Caulincourt, Davoust, Soult, Lefebvre, Lebrun, Bessieres, Junot, Victor, Fouché, Champagny, Decres, and Cretet.
The annual conference of the Methodists held this year at Manchester, terminated on Thursday, 259 preachers attended. Actual increase of Members during the past year, 14,200—6,200 in England and Ireland, and 8,000 in America. The number of preachers received at conference, after the four probationary years, exclusive of those in the districts, was 20; and the number of new chapels opened since last conference, is stated to be considerable.
Notwithstanding the confident statements which have been circulated during the last two or three days, of the little prospect, or rather of the total abandonment of further operations up the Scheldt, we are enabled to assure our readers that the whole of the British, with all the transports, and several sail of the line, were according to undoubted advices of Thursday last, proceeding towards Fort Lillo. Sir R. Strachan and Lord Gardner were on that day, at Bath, and admiral Keats, and Sir Home Popham were within a few miles of Fort Lillo.
If, as it has been reported, a new plan of operations against the enemy's naval depot and shipping at Antwerp has been sent home for the consideration of government, it would evidently follow, that a material difference of opinion has existed among the principal officers of the expedition, or that the operations to be undertaken were likely to be attended with risks and difficulties, for all the results of which they did not conceive it within their exact line of duty to be altogether responsible. With respect to the consultations which col. Congreve is said to have had, and to have returned expressly for that purpose with ministers, on the powerful efficacy of his rockets in effecting the destruction of the enemy's shipping, the statement is too absurd and preposterous to require any lengthened comment. Could the gentleman's rockets have accomplished that object, they would, no doubt, have been employed without taking the opinion of the cabinet. To "sink, burn, and destroy," were the very words of the commission under which our expedition was sent to the Scheldt—and it is not ridiculous to suppose that the commanders in chief have wished to take the opinion of those who sent them, whether they were to execute that for which they were sent? The difficulties of approaching to Antwerp, the great preparations made by the enemy, the strong force they have in that quarter, not col. Congreve's rockets, appear to be the leading points of consideration. They certainly must be extremely formidable to call for the intervention and sanction of government. A military or naval commander, who is desirous of shifting from himself responsibility in any case, must be convinced he has perils & obstacles of no uncommon kind to contend with and surmount. It is, however, impossible that the delay or indecision can last beyond the present week. Dispatches were yesterday sent off to Lord Chatham and Sir Richard Strachan.
The following letter supplies some new particulars respecting the state of affairs in Walcheren:—
FLUSHING, Aug. 23. The rumors afloat here are so various and contradictory as to induce a person to doubt the most probable statement, though proceeding from the best authority. Whether the main object of the Expedition, viz. the seizure of the enemy's fleet, will be attempted or not, depends, as we here understand, upon the expected decision of the Cabinet. The transports and ships of war have, however, proceeded up the West Scheldt, in order to be ready to disembark the troops quickly, if such operations are decided upon. In this garrison, from which I now write, alarm has already given rise to some precautions. Last night the pickets and centries were doubled, and orders were given to the sentinels to direct a vigilant attention to the ships of war off in the roadstead, and that if blue rockets were discharged from any of them, a communication was to be immediately made to the Commanding Officer, gen. Bictton. The motive for issuing those orders was the apprehension of an attack from the enemy, who, to the number of 13,000 men, are positively said to be in Gdsand, under the command of Bernadotte, for the avowed object of recovering this island. Within these few days three hundred gun-boats have reached that place from Boulogne, through the canal, and I assure you, it is the decided conviction of some of the most intelligent inhabitants that the attempt, even with all the probability of failure, will certainly be made, and that Gen. Monnet (they say) gave them the assurance and Bernadotte's military fame is committed by his Master upon the issue. At all events, the brigade stationed here consisting of the 35th, the 63rd, and 77th regiments, with the Hon. Col. Cochrane's battalion of embowed detachments, are kept upon the alert, which together with the positions taken by our ships of war, afford to us the most confident
hopes that the enemy may repent his temerity, notwithstanding the opportunity which the damaged condition of the batteries of this fortress may, at this moment, present to them. At various times in the course of the morning, we have heard a strong cannonade in the direction of Fort Lillo—it is supposed to proceed from the enemy's batteries up the river upon our gun-boats, which are stationed off its banks. The principal part of Sir John Hope's army still continues in most comfortable quarters in South-Beveland, and really if something ulterior is intended by this army to be executed, indecision and delay must cease.
The duty of this garrison is very severe, every regiment being obliged to furnish, independent of the necessary guards, parties of 150 and 200 men, to dismantle the works which were constructed for its bombardment. There is prevalent here a rumor, that the works of Middleburgh are to be immediately put in a state of defence, and that 100 additional guns are to be placed on the ramparts of Flushing. Such an intention indicates the determination of making Walcheren a depot, from which British manufactures may always find their way to the continent. Indeed I, this day, in inspecting the stores in the arsenal, witnessed the illustration of what the persevering spirit of trade will effect, and of the difficulties which in its operation it will certainly surmount. There are now lying on the quay of Flushing, 100 pieces of ordnance of Carron manufacture, with the proper marks of that foundry upon them, so lately manufactured as the year 1808. Here is an evident proof that the ingenuity of man laughs at the intricacy of British Orders of Council, and at all the efforts of French interdicts.
Within this hour this garrison received the agreeable intelligence, that French property to a considerable amount has been discovered at Middleburgh. By the activity of the Commissioners, specie to a large amount has been found, and nearly 200 tons of saltpetre. The stores here are very rich, the arsenal being now filled with the most material naval stores. I cannot conclude this letter without stating, that the enemy bore ample testimony to the unparallelled ability with which our artillery was conducted during the bombardment.
PARIS, July 30. Prohibition of the entry of colonial produce. An Imperial Decree of the 17th July, 1809, has repealed the decree of the 9th of June last, which had re-established the relations with Holland on the same footing with what had existed prior to the Decree of the 16th of September, 1808. Here follows the Decree of Sept. 16, 1809, which by this change is now in force:—
We Napoleon, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, and Protector of the Rhenish Confederacy, upon the Report of our Minister of Finance, have decreed, and do decree as follows:—
Art. 1. The entry into France of all colonial produce passing through Holland and Spain, is prohibited, until it be otherwise ordered.
Art. 2. The vessels loaded with colonial produce which enter the Elbe, the Weser, and the Yade, shall be seized, &c.
Art. 3. This present decree shall not derogate from the provisions of that of the 9th June, by which we have reserved to ourselves to permit, according to circumstances, the introduction of cotton wool.
Art. 4. Our Minister of Finance is charged with the circulation of the present decree. (Signed) NAPOLEON. Palace of St. Cloud, Sept. 16, 1808.
Letters have been received from Petersburg to the 31st ult. and from Riga to the 11th instant. By these we learn that the report of a general embargo in the harbors of Russia and the Baltic, is erroneous. It is true, that an embargo has been imposed, but instead of being general, it is confined to native ships only, and its sole object is to prevent their falling into the hands of the powerful British force cruising in that sea. With a license from this country, it is understood, that any Russian ships would be permitted to take their departure. All the difficulties respecting the American vessels in the port of Riga, have been removed by the good understanding which subsists between the consignees and the official agents of the Russian government.
Orders have been received at Woolwich to prepare artillery for another Expedition. MIDDLEBURGH, Aug. 23. On the 21st instant the following Proclamations were published:—
PROCLAMATION. His Excellency Lord Chatham, commanding the troops of his Britannic Majesty, being informed that many deserters, and persons belonging to the French troops, and some of them armed, are on the island, orders, that the aforementioned armed or unarmed deserters, or other persons, be arrested and delivered over to the nearest English detachment, and that no one presume to harbor such deserters, on pain of being sentenced, on conviction, to pay a penalty of 100 florins (one half of which shall be given to the informer, whose name shall be kept secret,) and be otherwise severely punished according to military law. Military deserters and other persons belonging to the French army, not surrendering within three days, shall be punished as spies.
PROCLAMATION. His Excellency Lord Chatham, &c. &c. being informed that many persons pass from one island to another, without being furnished with the necessary passports, orders, that no one presume to repair from the island of which he is an inhabitant, to another island, without having obtained a passport from the Magistrate, which must be signed by the General or Commanding Officer, on pain of being arrested.
“ All Ferrymen and Mariners are commanded to take no one over unfurnished with a pass. The transgressor of this command shall not only suffer the loss of the boat or vessel, but shall, according to circumstances, be punished according to military law.” August 31.
Yesterday, the honorable capt. Stanhope, aide-de-camp to Lord Wellington, arrived at the secretary of state's office, with dispatches from that general, dated at Deileitosa on the 8th inst. They state, that as soon as the British army had recovered the fatigue of the battles of the 27th and 29th ult. Lord Wellington proposed to march against Soult and Ney, who were advancing, with the intention of getting in his rear. His lordship accordingly broke up from Talavera for that purpose, leaving general Cuesta to defend that position, and about 1,500 British sick and wounded. General Cuesta, however, having received intelligence that Ney and Soult had collected such a force as would, in his opinion, make them an over-match for the British army, he unfortunately quit Talavera, for the purpose of reinforcing Lord Wellington. This movement enabled Victor to advance and take possession of Talavera, and of course, our sick and wounded fell into his hands. The advance of Victor entirely disconcerted Lord Wellington's plan of operations, because if he continued his march, he would be placed between two armies, each superior to his own.
He therefore effected his retreat to Deileitosa, where he has taken a position, in which he considered himself as perfectly secure.
The French had collected their forces from every part of Spain, in the hope of overwhelming the British army. Their numbers were estimated as follows:— Victor and Jourdan, 38,000 men; Suchet, who had advanced from Arragon to Madrid, 6,000 men; Ney, Mortier and Soult 30,000 men, making together 74,000.
The British army, with its reinforcements amounts to about 24,000 men; Cuesta's to 83,000 men; Beresford's to 12,000; Venegas's to 25,000; and Sir R. Wilson's to 5,000, making together 147,000.
COPENHAGEN, August 4. A letter from Leghorn, of the 15th of last month, contains the following intelligence:—
“ The Pope yesterday left Florence for Paris, without any public ceremonies, and under a GUARD. It is said he is going to Avignon in France.”
In a London paper a proposal has been made to celebrate the 26th of October next, by a national jubilee, as his majesty will on that day, enter the 50th year of his reign; an event that has not occurred since the reign of Edward III. and only twice in 1200 years.
In the course of the trial in the court of King's Bench, between Mr. Wright, the upholsterer, and col. Wardle, one of the counsel, in cross examining Mrs. Clarke, is said sneeringly to have asked her, under whose protection she now was. Mrs. Clarke archly replied (looking at the bench) “ Lord Ellenborough.” His lordship smiled, and the court was convulsed with laughter.—London Paper.
A marriage took place a few days ago between a Dr. Rose and a Miss Lilly. This is what Mr. Darwin might justly denounce as the loves of the plants.—Ib.
The following is an excellent illustration of a well known fact, that the general tendency of currents in the ocean, is from the East towards the West:—
(COPY.) Neptune, St. John's Roads, Antigua, June 29, 1809. Sir—As the enclosed letters, picked up in a bottle, on the windward part of the Island of Martinique, on the 18th of April last, tend to elucidate the state of the current in the Atlantic ocean, I enclose them to you, with a request that you will be pleased to make the circumstance known to the Lords Commissioners of the admiralty.
The bottle appears to have been thrown overboard by the Princess Elizabeth Packet, going to the Brazils, on the 6th of September, 1808, in lat. 14 43 long. 25, and it must have been carried about 2000 and 20 miles in 224 days, which gives 9 miles per day, on a West course. I am, &c. (Signed) ALEX. COCHRANE. Hon. W. W. Pole.
Several letters were found in the bottle addressed to individuals.
NEW YORK, October 12. Copy of a letter from a respectable commercial house in Liverpool to another in this city, received by the Pacific.
LIVERPOOL, Sept. 2, 1809. We annex the actual currency for your chief exports, assuring you that more encouraging quotations are, at present, merely nominal, and not at all to be justified by the tone of our market.
Whilst we are fully convinced that, as far as it is practicable, the course of American policy will be unalterably pacific, we are not without our fears that the intercourse will again be suspended. The partial repeal of our Orders in Council, and the mild character of our constructive blockade, may, if skilfully and temperately urged, lead to a happy issue; but knowing that the sentiment of the British minister is lofty and unwise “that America will—America must submit,” we apprehend that Mr. Jackson's instructions are not quite so conciliatory as the novelty and oppression of the case, as well as the vital interests at stake, so evidently and powerfully demanded.
Our next advices, which may be expected to announce Mr. Jackson's arrival, are looked to with a degree of anxiety which we never before witnessed; and whilst any pause in the intercourse, however short its duration, would clearly and materially enhance the price of produce, our present quotations certainly could not make a stand against the strong hope of an early adjustment of subsisting differences.
Unfortunately for our country there is a warlike character in our councils, which is totally adverse to any permanent arrangement; and sooner or later this spirit, if not laid by the nation, will seek an opportunity of discharging itself upon America. Even where the interests of America are concurrent with the measures of Britain the disposition is never allowed to grace the act; and the English Minister, with a degree of asperity which is without precedent and with an apology, shamelessly avows, that the good which was done to America by his measures, was undesigned by his Government! How can we ultimately look to peace from an administration where the desire of doing good, from a good motive, is renounced in the most daring and profligate manner?
It is very clear that the government of America and England have not yet come to gether with that earnestness, or understood each other with that precision, which the magnitude of the object, the very nature of the discussion, and above all, the distant position of the two nations, so pre-eminently demanded. We will further venture to assert, without any qualification or condition whatever, that Mr. Erskine is not the only member of the Diplomatic Tribe who has incurred the displeasure, or forfeited the confidence of his Government.
Affixed to our quotations we have given some brief notices of the state and prospects of our market; but our trade is so completely suspended upon the issues of political discussion, that it is difficult, if not quite impossible, to form an opinion with any sort of accuracy. That Mr. Madison will act towards England as France with temper, moderation and firmness, we have no doubt whatever; but the points in discussion are of the most delicate and vital nature. What can be the equivalents for the honor—for any portion of the honor, or just neutrality of a nation? Our conviction is, that if you do not contend, you will seek in vain for ample justice from France or England; & the question then will be, unable to obtain justice from either, will you, upon the cold doctrine of prudence or necessity, submit to a system of impartial rigor, insult and oppression from both? The position of America gives her strength, and though in distinct and different points, she, perhaps, is unequal to other nations, still she may be honest to herself. This, in our opinion, is the great question, even if the dispute should, for a time, be patched up, which must arrest the attention of the next Congress.
The representatives of America we think will do their duty; but, after what is past, should they in a temporising spirit, or with those compliances of which Europe furnishes an ample catalogue of examples, compromise the neutral rights, honors and advantages of their country, then we are convinced they will find at home a power more fatal to them than England and France, or even France and England united. We have been reluctantly led into these political speculations from a strong conviction of their importance, and from the unalterable belief that however our commerce may fluctuate under the vicissitudes of the negotiation, it is the discussion in Congress which must give a firm and ultimate turn to our market: The balance of probabilities in our opinion decidedly inclines to a very material though perhaps not to an immediate advance, in the prices of all your export articles.
Assuring you that we shall be infinitely more gratified in the failure, than the accomplishment of our anticipations; We remain, with sincerity, your very obedient servants.”
PRICES CURRENT. Cotton, Geo. Upland, old. None. per lb. new & prime, 1 4 3/4 a 1 8 3/4
Sea Island, ordinary & stain. 1 5 a 1 10 — middling and fine, 2 0 a 2 2 — very fine, 2 3 a 2 4 —
New Orleans 1 5 3/4 a 1 7 — Tennessee 1 4 3/4 a 1 5 —
Tobacco, Yark & James river 0 4 3/4 a 0 10 — Rappahannock 0 4 a 0 7 —
Geo & Carolina 0 3 3/4 a 0 5 3/4 — Stemmed 0 9 a 0 11 —
Maryland, Brown 0 5 3/4 a 0 5 — Colourly 0 6 a 0 7 3/4 —
Kitefoot 0 8 a 1 0 — Kentucky 0 4 a 0 6 3/4 —
Staves, WO barrel 16 0 a 17 0 — Hhd. 26 0 a 28 10 —
Pipe 32 0 a 35 0 — Red Oak Bbl. None. —
Hhd. 10 0 a 11 0 — Pearl 56 0 a 57 0 a 120 1. —
Rice 5 3/4 a 5 9 0 — Wheat 28 0 a 32 0 —
Flour 14 6 a 15 0 70 1/2 — Turpentine 52 0 a 54 0 Bal. —
Pitch 24 0 a 26 6 11 2. — Rosin 16 0 a 17 0 —
Tar 15 0 a 16 0 — Oak red 54 0 a 55 0 Bal. —
Timber, Pine 4 1 a 4 3 100. — Oak white 4 0 a 4 6 —
Bench and Maple 5 0 a 5 6 — Lathwood, 4 feet 4 0 a 4 3 —
10 0 a 12 0 Fath
Of cotton we calculate that there are about 83,000 bags in this port. At a fraction below the market price, the speculators offer to take any quantity, even on board; the dealers continue to buy sparingly.
On the 31st of last month (August) we had 3615 blds. Tobacco in store, and 1615 on board. At our present quotations, a disposition to speculate begins to show itself, and prices are not expected to go down. Staves have a free sale ex ship. Pot Ashes are rather dull, but for Pearl's the demand is steady. Our Corn market is brisk, and Flour, Rice, and Wheat, likely to advance, under the awful prospect of a limited, a lat, and an injured harvest. Naval Stores are all freely bought up on arrival, and our warlike relations with the north are likely to effect a further advance. Timber continues to have a regular demand; our stock however having lately received a considerable accession, no immediate advance can well be calculated upon. A depression is not dreaded. Importations into Liverpool, from America, from the 1st of January last to this day, the 2d of September, 1809, inclusive. Cotton, 164,984 bags; Rice, 16,122 tierces; Ditto, 2,122 barrels; Tobacco, 6,733 blds; Flour, 147,285 barrels; Ditto, 5,978 half do; Wheat, 186,887 bushels; Ashes, 17,590 barrels; Turpentine, 22,217 barrels; Rosin, 1,276 do; Pitch, 238 do; Tar, 25,166 do. Insurance in and out, 2 guineas per cent.
A letter from the American Consul at St. Petersburg, dated 30th July, mentions that most of the American vessels bound there have been captured by the Danes, and that only two had arrived.—Boston Paper.
NEW YORK, Oct. 13. TO JAMES MADISON, President of the United States. ESTEEMED AND RESPECTED SIR, Your Republican fellow citizens of the City and County of New York, at a general meeting, directed us to address you to express the high confidence which they repose in your talents and integrity, and their full determination to support the rights and government of our country.
Your election, Sir, to the chief magistracy of the union, was an event which afforded and uninterrupted friendship with Mr. Jefferson, the experience which you have obtained in a long course of public life, together with the integrity, ability and usefulness which you have filed many of the most important stations in society, are valuable pledges to your country of the patriotism discernment & firmness, with which the government will be administered.
We rejoice the more in your well merited elevation, because in manifesting the attachment of the people to republican principles, and to those practical rules of election which are so essential to the preservation of order, we have acquired an additional valuable proof of the practicability of the representative system.
The dispensations of Divine Providence, and the voice of your country have chosen you to preside in a most interesting situation of affairs. To your wisdom, and to that of Congress, we cheerfully submit the nature and character of the measures to be adopted. Conscious that these only properly belong to the regularly constituted authorities, we are happy to add that in the present instance, the dictates of duty are united with the voice of affection.
We cannot but entertain a proper sense of the aggravated and long continued injuries which our country has sustained from the principal belligerent nations of Europe. Attained to peace, while peace can be maintained with honor; but still more ardently devoted to the essential rights of the United States, while we should deplore the necessity of resorting to more vigorous measures, we should become consoled by the reflection that patriotism and justice produced them.
In stating the full confidence which our Republican fellow citizens repose in you, and in the majority of our national representatives; We are also happy to express a full determination to support the freedom and interests of our country and the measures of its government, in war and in peace, with our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.
That your administration may be pleasing and satisfactory to yourself, as well as prosperous to the American people, and that your name may descend to posterity united with those of Washington and Jefferson, are among the first and most fervent of our wishes.
We are, Sir, With affection and esteem, Your Republican fellow citizens. ABM. BLOODGOOD, Chairman, JUDAH HAMMOND, Secretary.
MONTPELIER, Sep. 24. GENTLEMEN, Your letter of the 16th ult. covering an address by the General Republican Committee of New-York, having been duly received, I now enclose an answer, with a tender to you of my respects and good wishes.
JAMES MADISON. Abraham Bloodgood, Chairman, Judah Hammond, Secretary. General Republican Committee of New-York.
To the General Republican Committee of the City and County of New York. I have received, fellow citizens, your address bearing date the 15th instant, with a due sense of the kind sentiments it expresses, and of the favorable light in which it views my advancement to the Executive Trust, and the several considerations which led to it.
In proportion as the present situation of our Country is interesting, it is consoling to find the conviction becoming universal; that the difficulties rendering it so, have resulted from the accumulated wrongs committed by the principal belligerent nations, in spite of the injustice and forbearance of the United States, which ought to have averted them, and that the only remedy is to be found in a firm and patriotic support of the measures, devised and pursued by the Constituted Authorities.
The pledge and example of this duty, presented in your address, is entitled to the highest praise. Devoutly praying that a sympathy and emulation every where, may, under the divine blessing, have the happy effect of preserving to our country the advantages of peace, without relinquishing its rights or its honor, I tender to you and to
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those whose sentiments you have conveyed, my cordial respects and my best wishes. JAMES MADISON.
September 24.
TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, PAST PRESIDENT OF THE U. STATES
RESPECTED AND ESTEEMED SIR, The republican citizens of the city and county of New York, by their resolution, unanimously passed, at a general meeting, determined to signify to you the high sense which they entertain of your virtues, talents, and valuable services to our beloved country, together with their full approbation of the measures pursued during your administration. By the same resolution they have rendered us the organ to communicate their sentiments to you.
In complying with this pleasing request we also think it our duty to state, that we speak our own opinions and feelings, as well as those of our fellow republicans at large. You sir, live in our affections, and in retirement attract the same, and if possible even superior emotions of gratitude, to those which were cherished while you presided over the affairs of the union.
Your early and eminent exertions in support of American Independence, and your unswerving attachment to the civil liberties of your fellow citizens, entitle you to their affections and esteem. And though we cannot but deplore that the errors and the prejudices, of party have too frequently excited unmerited attacks, we are sensible that a consciousness of rectitude, together with the approbation and support of Republicans, must have afforded an estimable consolation.
We reluctantly parted with you as president. In the difficult situation of our country it was honestly wished to continue the aid of your wisdom, experience, and tried integrity. We felt towards you the affection of a child to a parent, and the moment of political separation was painful in the extreme. Your reasons nevertheless convinced us of the propriety of your retirement, and the election of your friend as a successor produces at this moment our greatest consolation. In the infancy of our government, we perceive it to have been proper that worthy and disinterested examples should be presented, and that to prevent hereditary establishments, our best men should avoid a perpetuity of power.
The more we reflect upon the measures of your administration, especially those which have been adopted to avails the principal belligerent powers, the more fully we discover and understand the purity of motive and sound policy which produced them and we principally regret, that any domestic opposition should have been made to the just regulations of a lawful government, not only intended, but judiciously adapted to preserve a state of peace, and to maintain the most inestimable rights of our nation.
Divine providence has destined our existence to an extraordinary and interesting state of human affairs. The most superficial observer must perceive himself surrounded by vast and astonishing spectacles. Ambition is no longer sated with the conquest of a kingdom or a province but regards of the means it aspires to the dominion of universal empire. In such a situation it was not to be expected that we should entirely escape those agitations, which convulsed the nations with whom we had established continual habits of intercourse.
Our relations towards the great belligerents were too important to each to be beheld by the others without an eye of jealousy. To this consideration we must in a great measure attribute those repeated acts of aggression, which have been perpetrated with different degrees of violence but without in terminis. To keep aloof from these prodigious contests, to cultivate our own resources, and to enable our country to profit by its favored situation, until its natural and progressive growth should render it invulnerable to foreign attack, appears to have been the great design of your wise and salutary administration. Many of our countrymen, who have opposed the measures of government, or withheld from them a firm support, may live to regret that infatuation which prompted them to violate our laws, and by presenting an appearance of our domestic weakness, encourage a continuance of those injuries which might otherwise have been restrained.
We believe, sir, that the embargo and non-intercourse acts were impartial in their character, devised from the purest of intentions, and wise in their operation. They furnished an opportunity to collect our floating property from abroad. They prevented indiscriminate men, from placing their merchandise within the reach of inevitable capture. They recalled our mariners, from scenes of insult and imprisonment, to the bosom of our native country. They evinced to the warlike world, that the United States, however pacific in disposition, were incapable of submitting to every extremity of injustice. They afforded our own government time to consult the opinions and wishes of the nation, before it consented to engage in more rigorous and decisive measures. They were calculated to withhold, and had they not been evaded, would have effectually withheld, from foreign aggressors, those supplies which were necessary to the perpetuation of their own power, appealing to their own interests, to restore the free exercise of those rights which their pride and passions and injustice had violated.
With deference to the better judgment of those whose experience and superior means of information have enabled them to form a more correct opinion, we believe that the truly independent situation of the United States and the power which we possess to withhold from hostile foreigners, supplies of many articles of the first necessity, is a valuable weapon in our hands. And although a suspension of intercourse must produce its inconveniences, they are incomparably less than those which result from incessant insult and capture. Patriotism should endure these temporary privations with fortitude, and we have abundant reason to be thankful to benevolent Providence, for having placed our lot in an extensive and fertile territory, so abundant in the production of every essential comfort, as to preclude the possibility of real distress. We exceedingly regret that unfortu-
unate circumstances, and an imprudent opposition have prevented the effects of this rational and obvious system from being fully ascertained. The desolating calamities inseparable from war, its innumerable distresses, its pernicious effects upon the manners and morals of society, and the dangers with which it assails the duration of free governments, are powerful dissuatives against the entering into such a state, without the utmost provocation and most direful necessity. With regard to ourselves, a warlike disposition would entail up-
on us the most permanently injurious consequences; we should be enlisted in all the intricacies of European connections and alliances; we should be alternately menaced and intreated, coerced and courted, driven or seduced, to destroy our general safety and forfeit our national character of justice, and become habitually enlisted as a standing party in the distant contests of the old world. And we farther, sir, believe, that when the injurious system of warfare is once adopted, that it is beyond the limits of human sagacity to foretell its ultimate consequences.
But attached as we are to the continuance of peace, and adverse to any European connection, a pacific disposition, or an apprehension of danger, would neither occasion timidity, nor produce the most distant consent to abandon, the natural and national rights of our beloved country. The spirit of the revolution is unextinguished, we shall emulate the virtue and vigor of our forefathers, and maintain at every hazard, the Liberties, Union and Constitution of the United States, together with the government, of their general choice.
That you, sir, in your chosen retirement, in the bosom of your family connections, and in the midst of affectionate friends may enjoy many years of happiness, and that the sweets of domestic tranquility, may be united to the pleasure of beholding the prosperity of your country, and the triumph of those principles of civil liberty, in the defence of which your active days have been so beneficially employed, are the sincere and fervent wishes of your friends and fellow citizens.
By the general committee of the City and County of New York. ABRAHAM BLOODGOOD, Chairman. JUDAH HAMMOND, Sec'y.
MONTICELLO, September 30, 1809. GENTLEMEN.
The very friendly sentiments which my republican fellow citizens of the city and county of New-York have been pleased to express, through yourselves as their organ, are highly grateful to me, and command my sincere thanks; and their approbation of the measures pursued, while I was entrusted with the administration of their affairs, strengthens my hope that they were favorable to the public prosperity. For any errors which may have been committed, the indulgent will find some apology in the difficulties resulting from the extraordinary state of human affairs, and the astonishing spectacles these have presented. A world in arms, and trampling on all those moral principles which have heretofore been deemed sacred in the intercourse between nations, could not suffer us to remain insensible of all agitation. During such a course of lawless violence, it was certainly wise to withdraw ourselves from all intercourse with the belligerent nations, to avoid the desolating calamities inseparable from war, its pernicious effects on manners and morals, and the dangers it threatens to free governments, and to cultivate our own resources until our natural and progressive growth should leave us nothing to fear from foreign enterprise. That the benefits derived from these measures were lessened by an opposition of the most obnoxious character, and that the continuance of injury was encouraged by the appearance of domestic weakness which that presented, will doubtless be a subject of deep and durable regret to such of our well-intentioned citizens, as participated in it, under mistaken confidence in men who had other views than the good of their own country.
Should foreign nations, however, deceived by this appearance of division and weakness, render it necessary to vindicate, by arms, the injuries to our country, I believe with you, that the spirit of the revolution is unextinguished, and that the cultivators of peace will again, as on that occasion, be transformed at once into a nation of warriors, who will leave us nothing to fear for the natural and national rights of our country.
Your approbation of the reasons which induced me to retire from the honorable station in which my fellow citizens had placed me, is a proof of your devotion to the true principles of our constitution. These are wisely opposed to all perpetuations of power, and to every practice which may lead to hereditary establishments; and certain I am, that any services which I could have rendered, will be more than supplied by the wisdom and virtues of my successor.
I am very thankful for the kind wishes you express for my personal happiness. It will always be intimately connected with the prosperity of our country, of which I sincerely pray that my fellow citizens of the city and county of New-York may have their full participation.
TH: JEFFERSON. Messrs. Bloodgood and Hammond.
From the Aurora. Once for all, these stories about General Armstrong are totally destitute of foundation; the Wasp's loss of war may be expected about the 23th of Nov. with the result of General Armstrong's negotiations, which are expected to be a modification of the decrees of France in favor of neutral commerce.
[His coming home, etc.] FRENCH NAVY.
Some years ago we presented a list of the French Navy to our readers. Some of our naval correspondents enabled us to supply some deficiencies, and to make it so correct as to become a table of reference to the politician. We now present a new catalogue of the ships and frigates of our arch enemy, and we trust we shall be favored with hints for correction from our naval correspondents.
A at Antwerp, B at Brest, C at Cadiz, G at Genoa, O at L'Orient, R at Rochefort, T at Toulon, Bl. blockaded up, or on shore in Basque Roads.
SHIPS OF 120 GUNS. Austerlitz, T. Commerce de Paris, T. Invincible, B. Majestueuse, R. Ocean, Bl. Ville de Paris, R.-6.
SHIPS OF 80 GUNS. Foudroyant, Bl. Ajax, R. Albanais, A. Alcide, O. Algiers, C. Alliance, B. Annibal, T. Anversais, A. Argonaute, C. Atlas, T. Audacieux, A. Batave, B. Bellone, T. Boree, T. Breslau, C. Brutus, B. Castor, B. Charlemagne, A. Caesar, B. Commerce de Lyons, A. Conquerant, B. Constitution, B. Cosari, Bl. Courageux, O. Dalmatia, A. Dantzic, A. Dessaix, A. Duguesclin, A. Fole, B. Friedland, A. Gaulois, B. Neptune, C. Gemappe, Bl. Genois, G. Heros, C. Illustre, A. Jean Bart, B. Josephine, A. Lion, R. Magnanime, R. Menandre, B. Palmier, O. Patriote, Bl. Phaeton, T. Pius, C. Pultusk, A. Regulus, Bl. Revo-
lution, B. Robuste, T. Souverain, G. Suffren, R. Superbe, T. Tourville, Bl. Thesee, A. Ulysse, B. Union, B. Vainqueur, C. Valeureux, B. Veteran, B. Ville de Berlin, A. Wattigny, B.-61.
FRIGATES. Argus 32 guns. Artemise 36, Brave 44, Calypso 40, Cannoniere 44, Caroline 44, Circé 36, Comete 44, Corneille 40, Cybèle 44, Diligente 36, Dryade 40, Elbe 36, Esperance 50, Pellicle 48, Piqueuse 36, Hermione 40, Horatense 36, Incomparable 32, Incorruptible 36, Italienne 44, Josephine 44, Julie 44, Manche 32, Megnonie 32, Milanaise 32, Naïade 40, Necessite 22, Palatine 44, Pallas 40, Penelope 40, Poursuivante 40, Revanche 48, Semillante 36, Sybille 40, Sirene 44, Themis 36, Thetis 36, Torche 32, Unique 40, Valencienne 44, Valeureuse 44, Victorieuse 44, Venus 44, Zephyre 32.-45.
The Elbe, the Horatense and the Pallas, are said to be on shore in Basque Road; but we have received no authentic account of their destruction. London paper.
The Enquirer.
RICHMOND, OCTOBER 20, 1809.
There are some sentiments in the following tale, with which we do not completely go along.
For the Enquirer.
It is with deep concern, that I witness the avidity and respect, with which every thing English, is received in this country. This Anglomania is not confined alone to our politics and laws. It embraces a still wider sphere of operation. Our Ladies themselves are infected with it. They are principally guided by it in their dress and in their manners. And how shameful it is, that an Englishman, who is in all the numerous points of collision, between the two countries, the enemy of the rights of America, should be preferred by an American lady, to her own countrymen, when there is no adequate ground for the distinction! But it is true. An Englishman no sooner displays himself among them, than he becomes the center of attraction to some of our Countrywomen. These consider him as the rarest curiosity. These have eyes and ears for no one else. They treat him with the most particular attention. And a person who is ignorant of the truth, would really consider this fascinating idol, as some Superior Being.
And to what is this predilection for the English, to be imputed? I must confess I know not. Is it that they are better, more wise, or more virtuous than we are? Certainly these causes do not exist: And it cannot be imputed to them. To what then can it be ascribed? Let those answer for themselves who manifest this preference.
Oh! my fair readers, reflect on the unhappy fate of the innocent Clara. Drop a tear of pity over her misfortunes, & learn to profit by them!!!
Clara was descended of rich and respectable parents. She was an only child. From her birth, she was treated with the greatest tenderness and care, resulting from the extreme of parental fondness. No expense was spared to give activity to her mind, and grace to her person. These cares were not unavailing. Nature had blessed her with genius. Industry gave it value. But the beauties of her mind were surpassed by those of her person, which in the eyes of the world, are considered as far more valuable.
When I first saw her, she was just sixteen. She was the most lovely girl I had ever beheld. The roseat bloom of youth and animation glowed on her cheek. Rays of intelligence beamed from her beautiful dark eyes. Sweetness of disposition was visible in every feature of her face. Her form was airy and faultless. She was in fact, the goddess of beauty incorporated into an earthly form.
This charming girl struck the beholders with admiration at the first sight, nor was this admiration diminished by a nearer acquaintance with her. The strength of her judgment, and the eloquence of her wit, commanded the pleasure and admiration of all who heard her. I have never known any one who better deserved to be happy than Clara, nor one who was originally more so. Why did this fairy scene vanish? Why was she deluded by the prospects of happiness? Why was she destined to become the most miserable of women? O! cruel reverse! Dreadful affliction! Even now I weep when I reflect upon the fate of this unhappy creature.
With claims such as she possessed, Clara had only to shew herself to the world, to attract a crowd of admirers. But, she had not yet met with a man, on whom she could bestow her hand along with her heart. And happy would it have been, if she had never had! The fame of her beauty and her fortune soon attracted the attention of an Englishman, who had lately arrived in America. The tinsel of a reputed title, and the reputation of superior wealth every where obtained this man admittance and respect. His address was easy and pleasing. His eloquence costly and elegant.
This important personage had no sooner shown himself, than he attracted particular attention. Almost all were envious to please him. Clara, who was cursed with the vanity of her sex, could not regard him with disrespect. Even in her eyes, his title was resistless. She loved him before she had seen him. Of course when he made her an offer of his hand and his fortune, she accepted them with pleasure. Her parents proud of the idea of having a lord for a son, were easily induced to give their consent to the speedy consummation of the nuptials.
Unhappy Clara! Where was your good genius at that moment? You knew not, that you were hurrying into an abyss of misery! You were innocent yourself, and you suspected not deceit in others!
For a short time after their marriage, there could not be a happier pair than Clara and Clermont. But this happiness was of fleeting duration. As soon as he had obtained her fortune into his hands, he became less emulous to please her. He was often eminently cold and reserved. He would frequently absent himself for weeks together. At length he entirely disappeared. He was no where to be found. Clara was ignorant of the cause of his absence. She knew not how to interpret it. What were her sufferings during this painful suspense? She was agitated almost to distraction. At length she was informed that he had embarked for France. For what purpose? Why had he not informed her of his intention? She was unable to answer these questions. And now, for the first time, a suspicion of the fatal truth flitted across her mind. But she could not, even for a moment, entertain a suspicion of the honor and integrity of her beloved Clermont.
From an Englishman who soon after arrived in America, it was learnt, that Clermont was a gambler of the lowest character; that having cheated a young nobleman of a considerable sum of money, he had been compelled to flee to America to escape the process of justice, and that he had assumed title to which he had no pretensions. This false intelligence reached the ears of Clara. The shock was too severe for her. She sunk lifeless on the bosom of her distressed mother. The sense of her misfortunes was extinguished in the tomb.
The Boston Repository has labored to prove a proposition—which at this time bears an ominous aspect—that "self-preservation with nations as with individuals, takes precedence of every other principle in natural law—that it will justify any thing that becomes necessary to that object—and that it follows, that a nation's rights, as her danger increases—that an individual is justified in using superior force to obtain relief—and if resisted, to destroy him who withholds what is necessary to his existence—and that thus G. Britain is justified in using her power, in whatever manner may be necessary to preserve herself."
Why this doctrine at this time? It is because the writer wishes to palliate the atrocious encroachments of G. B. He would be the first to deny, that G. Britain is actually reduced to this necessitous situation—and yet he is silly enough to think, that the atrocities of which she has been guilty, may be palliated by such a doctrine. Besides, it is an apology in advance for all the subsequent encroachments, of which she may be guilty. But if G. B. were reduced to such extremities, the doctrine would not be tenable. The writer, who compares her situation to that of an individual, forgets to trace out the last point in the comparison. A man who preys upon others, is termed by every Code of laws a robber and a public malefactor—and his career terminates on the Gallows. A hungry Lyon who vents his rage upon every flock, is hunted down by every hand in the Welkin.
It is so with a nation—One that subsists upon the plunder of others, is the common enemy of all. War is the only resource pointed out by every national law—and should G. B. be reduced to such a situation, that she can only live by piracy and murder, it is time to say of her, as her illustrious son Algernon Sydney has said of a man in such a crisis, "that should God cast me into such a situation as that, I cannot save my life, but by doing an indecent thing, he shows me the time when I should resign it."
No nation will submit to see its dearest rights sacrificed for the benefit of another. The doctrine is false in itself—as applied to individuals, it presumes that neither virtue, principle, rights, nor liberty, is valuable when put into competition with life—and in the case of nations, that the analogy holds universally good from individuals; whereas the life of governments is of a different sort from that of its subjects; governments may perish, but not a hair of an individual may be touched.
The Independent American (Georgetown) informs us, as if from authority, that Mr. Jackson has come fraught "with full powers to settle all our differences with G. Britain." This may be very true—and indeed Mr. J. must otherwise have come to very little purpose, in the capacity of "Envoy Extraordinary & Minister Plenipotentiary," in which he has been received. The true question is, has he come with the disposition as well as the powers to settle our disputes? But this is precisely the very point, on which the American is at a loss for information—whether "the propositions he has to make are such as our government can accept, it is not for us (says the American) to say, as we know not what they are."
The propositions of Mr. J. will be the test of his disposition for peace. It is in vain that Mr. Barclay tells us, that he has come over as the "minister of peace"—it is in vain that the Federal prints have re-echoed this disposition—if he has come with such propositions, as no independent nation can accept. How am I to know, whether a man wishes to be at peace with me, unless I see him tendering such terms as he thinks I may in some degree be willing to have? If Mr. J. has come among us, fraught with such instructions only as Mr. Erskine is said to have received from Mr. Canning—if our non-intercourse is to be rescinded before their Orders in council—if the very conditions of this repeal are to be the relinquishment of the colonial trade, during the present war, and a stipulation on our side to resist the French Edicts—then let no man prate to me about the amicable disposition of G. Britain. She would perhaps be our friend, if we were disposed to submit to propositions, which would disgrace us. She would perhaps clasp us in her maternal arms, if we should once more sink into her tributary colonies. But this is a blessing, which would be purchased by too dear a sacrifice.
We most ardently wish to be on good terms with Great Britain. We most earnestly desire, that all the differences between the two nations could be adjusted to the satisfaction of both. We would even clasp the hand of Mr. Canning, as that of a friend. But unless the tone and the terms of the British Ministry should have been materially softened by the battle of Wagram, by the fate of their Expeditions to Zealand to Holland and to Spain, these hopes must be as visionary as the dreams of the morning.
"The British party" wish us to believe that General Armstrong is certainly coming home. This story is really too stale to go down—besides, General Armstrong would never think of deserting his post, at this crisis, unless he had been ordered off by Bonaparte, or recalled by our government. But is there a shadow of reason to believe, that either of these things has taken place? Bonaparte had not been in Paris, & his hands have been too full of the war, to study the merits of our case, and adopt such a rash resolution. As to our own government, it has not yet had time, even though events may have lately taken place to require it, to send over instructions for the recall of our minister.
The Expeditions are likely to do more harm to Mr. Canning than to the enemy—to dislodge him, sooner than them. Like Huber's gun, they may possibly recoil against the hand that wields them. And the retirement of the British from Holland may be only a prelude to that of his own.
If the British cabinet can give a general to the Spanish troops, why not supply a minister to foreign parts? If they can place the puppet in the Camp, why not in the Cabinet?
M. JERMAN, late P. U. S. last evening arrived in this City.
17 We stop the Press to lay the following before the public—not because it is true, but to arrest the lies and misconceptions to which a matter unseemly is apt to give birth. It is entitled to no sort of credit.
As to that head of the report which comes via Glasgow, we have later dates from Liverpool and London—the former to the 2d September, the latter to the 31st August. Now, the West India report has travelled from Martinique to Antigua, thence to St. Kitt's. Allowing but one day to pass all the way from Martinique to St. Kitt's, it brings us to the 26th Sept. and going back 28 days, it carries us to the 29th of August at Glasgow.
2. As to the head from Cadiz, we are told that the battle be seen the two Princes and the French took place on the 29th July—Now, we have Liverpool accounts from Vienna, down to the 5th Aug., which are not only silent about hostilities, but furnish indications of a Peace.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 11.
IMPORTANT—IF TRUE!!! By the arrival of the Schooner Eagle-apt. Taylor, in 10 days from St. Christopher's, a paper of the 29th ult. printed at that place, has been received, from which the following interesting reports are copied:
BASSATERRE (ST KITTS) Sept. 29. Extract of a letter received on Wednesday, the 27th inst. from a gentleman of the first respectability in Antigua, a few copies of which we threw off hastily yesterday, for the information of an anxious public:
"A vessel from Glasgow to Martinique, in 28 days—the following news was yesterday forwarded to Commodore Fahie, and it is believed.
"Sir Arthur Wellesley has vanquished Soult and Victor, the French are cut up. The combined armies have surrounded Madrid, but they have lost 5000 men—the enemy has lost 12,000.
"The Grand Expedition has taken 9 sail of the line, burnt 3, taken 14 frigates, sloops and vessels beyond number, and have proceeded from Flushing.
"The Emperor Bonaparte asked, and got an Armistice for some time, but the third day the Archduke perceived the crafty Corsican encroaching, which induced the Archduke to commence the fight, which terminated against the French.
"Commodore Fahie believes so much that I have written is true, that he had his dispatches copied, and scattered through the shipping.
The part of the above intelligence alluding to the capture of the fleet at Flushing, was received here so early as Monday, the 25th inst. by an armed Schooner, which called at Old Road, charged with a dispatch from Commodore Fahie for Admiral Sir A. Cochrane, at Halifax, brought by express, 25 days from Eng and.
POSTSCRIPT. This noon, the Try-Again, capt. Hazell, arrived from Martinique. He corroborates the GLOARIOUS INTELLIGENCE above mentioned, having piloted a Spanish 74 into Martinique, on Monday last, 18 days from Cadiz bound for Vera Cruz, for supplies.—From this source we found the following additional strength to the opinion we have ve-
CADIZ GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY, August 25.
We lately announced to the public, the Armistice extracted from the London papers, concluded between the Emperors of France and Austria, accompanied with suitable reflections on the credit that should be attached to it—we have the pleasure now of announcing the following intelligence:
On the 24th instant, His Britannic Majesty's consul in this city, received an express from Gibraltar, referring to intelligence brought by a Packet in 12 days from Palermo, with the agreeable news, that the Archduke John had formed a junction with his brother, Prince Charles, gave the French battle on the 29th of July, in which the defeat of the latter was so complete, as to compel the immediate evacuation of Vienna—the loss on both sides in this sanguinary battle, was 60,000.
DIED, in this city, Mr. John Banks, for some time a resident of the city—And Mrs. Adams, the amiable consort of Col. Richard Adams.
Richmond Theatre.
Monday Evening next, October 23, 1809, will be performed a Juvénile Comedy, called the SOLDIER'S DAUGHTER.
End of the Play, a Ballet Dance to be performed by Children, called
JACK IN DISTRESS.
To which will be added for the first time here, a FARCE, CALLED
PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT.
PACKET TO NORFOLK.
CAPT. MITCHELL
OF THE SCHOONER TRIUMPH, NOW lying at Rocketts, proposes to try the experiment of running her as a regular Packet between this City and Norfolk. As nothing of this kind is at present established; as some gentlemen, bound to Norfolk or Richmond, might prefer a trip by water; and as the Triumph is extremely well calculated, by its convenient accommodations, for such a purpose, he flatters himself with receiving the patronage of the Public.—For freight or passage, apply to the captain on board, at Coddock's Wharf. Richmond, Oct. 20.
ALL persons having any demands against the subscriber, will bring in their accounts; and those indebted to him, are requested to make settlement. I wish to sell five half acres LOTS, in the city; a Woman and three Children. J. H. JUDAH. October 20.
WRIGHT SOUTHGATE,
Is daily receiving a fresh assortment of Goods, which will be sold on the most moderate terms. October 20.
DOCTOR G. WATSON, OFFERS his Medical Services to the inhabitants of Richmond and its neighborhood. He may be found by applying at Dr. Wardlaw's Shop October 20.
NOTICE.—A Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that certain negroes, of which free Frank, late of the county of Amelia, died seized, may be, by law, emancipated. October 1.

Miscellaneous.
From the National Intelligencer. A Memoir on the subject of a Navigation Act...
(CONCLUDED.)
Suggestions in relation to a navigation act, respectfully submitted to the public judgment.
Foreign colonial principles, incorrectly applied to the most forcible and unjust usurpations...
An excluding duty upon all the produce of the foreign fisheries, belonging to governments...
An abolition of all the present duties on merchandise vessels, (to place them on a footing with working wagons,) is respectfully suggested...
It would be a very familiar, safe, wise and just provision of law to declare no foreign ship shall bring to us the produce of any country but its own...
The immediate exclusion of cotton yarn from all countries, and the gradual exclusion of low-priced cotton manufactures, from countries...
Some countries exclude all our manufactures. Others admit them. We receive all. An extraordinary impost, on the least liberal, is a duty to the most liberal and to ourselves.
A duty is respectfully suggested of two and one half per cent. upon all goods, wares and merchandise on board any vessel of the U. States...
It would greatly encourage the carrying trade and ship building (as well as manufactures, and the improvement and cultivation of our lands,) if iron were to be made a free commodity...
creased by the spring, which would be given to the iron industry. The iron masters would not lose their profits, since it would only be a change of duty.
The exemption of hemp and flax from impost, and raising the duties on all the manufactures of hemp and flax would also encourage the building and employment of ships, and give a spring to those manufactures in the United States...
It is considered, that an experience of years has furnished evidence of the expediency of our laws respecting foreign interposition in the coasting trade...
This brief and imperfect memoir is only intended as a respectful effort to bring into early consideration a wise and equitable system of statutory provisions...
For the Enquirer.
At this moment, when the war is perhaps about to take a new character—when all the means of a new continental coalition are over—when English Expeditions in that direction must cease...
"You tell me in spite of all this parade of sea coast, Bonaparte has neither ships nor sailors; but this is a mistake. He has not ships and sailors to contest the empire of the seas with Great Britain...
Respected Friend—Many persons having a desire to procure an account of the method I used in making WINE FROM THE NATIVE GRAPE, I send you a hasty sketch thereof...
in the Channel, and for several days could not stir to the assistance of Ireland. Admiral Colpoys, totally unable to find the French fleet, came home.
"If you despise the little troop, which, in these numerous experiments did make good its landing, take with you, if you please, this precis of its exploits...
The last London prints state the French marine force to be now as great as six ships of 120 guns, 61 of 81, and 45 frigates of different sizes, embracing 32s, 36s, 40s, 44s, 48s...Enquirer.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE AURORA. SIR, In your paper of the 22d September, I observe an account of the cultivation of the vine in our country...
We have at present in our country, eighteen vineyards, each from a half, to two and an half acres, the oldest now, three and an half years.
I remain, respectfully, yours, The People's Friend of Hagerstown. N. B. The Wirtgenburg emigrants near Fort Pitt, brought with them a number of cuttings, but very few of them grew, they have however obtained some from this neighborhood.
[FROM THE DEMOCRATIC PRESS] WINE FROM NATIVE GRAPES. The following Letter, on the manner of making Wine from the native Grape, and the advantages to be derived from its cultivation...
COOPER'S POINT, (N. J.) Sept. 18. JOHN BIRNS.
Respected Friend—Many persons having a desire to procure an account of the method I used in making WINE FROM THE NATIVE GRAPE, I send you a hasty sketch thereof...
ten or twelve hours, then lay it in clean straw, first made damp on the press floor, and then press the juice out clean as possible.
When the sugar is dissolved, put it in a cask for fermentation; fill it night & morning to work out the filth. When it discharges a clear white froth, check the fermentation gradually...
Taking into consideration with what ease and expedition grape vines may be propagated to advantage, the great expense and uncertainty of being supplied from foreign countries...
Experience has convinced me that the best kind of our native grapes is the most proper to plant and cultivate in our country, as they are proof against the severest winters...
A Hint—We have tasted such good Virginia Wine while in this neighborhood, and in Carolina, as should induce our farmers to go on—In the case of the French and Apple brandy, used to give it body and strength, it is not better to use the pure and colorless spirit, which is got from a still...
I wish to lease my farm, in the neighborhood of this City. There is a very good brick-house and other necessary buildings upon it. It contains fifty-six acres, of which about ten are in clover...
Oct 6. EDMUND RANDOLPH.
BATTESEA PAPER MILLS—Those who wish to encourage the manufactures of their own state are informed, that they can be supplied with Paper Manufactured in Petersburg...
Table with 2 columns: Item, Price. Items include Fine Letter Paper, Fools Cap, Folio Post, Fine Printing, Excellent Wrapping Paper.
A liberal discount made to wholesale purchasers. Orders for any of the above qualities, addressed to the subscribers, executed at the shortest notice. BANISTER & Co.
NEW LEATHER STORE—Opposite the Eagle-Tavern—John McPherson respectfully informs the citizens of Richmond, its vicinity, and the public generally, that he has opened a general assortment of the best Northern Leather...
Also, a great quantity of coarse NEGRO & WELTED SHOES, all of which will be sold uncommonly low, for cash, or neat Dryed Hides. September 3.
FOR SALE—323 ACRES JAMES RIVER LAND—On the 10th December next, (if fair, or otherwise the next fair day,) the Subscriber will offer for sale on the premises, a Tract of LAND situated in Buckingham county...
A credit of one, two and three years will be given, payable at equal installments, with interest from date, to be remitted if the payments be punctually made. Bonds with approved security will be required.
The above Tract of Land has been conveyed to me by Patrick Rose, Jun. of Buckingham, to be sold for the payment of his debts. ALEX. F. ROSE, Trustee.
A CARD—DOCTOR LEWIS, lately from the West-Indies, has opened his Office, at Manchester, in the house of Mr. L. Bishop, for the practice of Physic, Surgery, and Midwifery.
At a convocation of the Visitors and Governors of William & Mary College, held at the Council Chamber, within the said College, the 5th day of July, 1809.
BE IT ORDAINED, That all students, during the first year of their attendance, who have entered the Junior Class, shall reside within the College...
2ndly. The hours of study, which every student shall observe, shall be first, from sun rise till breakfast...
3rdly. No student shall be absent from his room during the hours appointed for study, unless engaged as mentioned in the second section of this statute...
4thly. At nine o'clock of every evening, except in the months of November, December, January & February, when the hour shall be eight o'clock...
5thly. In any case of disorderly conduct, within the College, in which students are concerned, every student in college, at the time, whether he be a resident therein or not, shall be considered as a principal...
6thly. A roll shall be kept by each professor, which shall be called over at the meeting of his class or classes, and all absentees noted.
7thly. Any student who shall frequent a Tavern, or be concerned in riotous noise, in the streets, or who shall have degraded himself by any single act of drunkenness...
8thly. Any student, concerned in gaming or duelling, shall be forthwith expelled, and information of every expulsion shall be communicated to all other colleges in the United States.
9thly. Students shall be compelled to attend lecture, and in no instance, shall absent themselves, without the consent of the professor lecturing...
10th. No Student shall be subject to censure more than once. Suspension for the remainder of the course or expulsion, as the case may be, shall always succeed the repetition of the offence...
11th. After the violation of any statute, rule or regulation, by any student, the society shall proceed to inquire into the case, and apply the punishment, although he may have absented himself.
12th. There shall be two public examinations, in each year, one as heretofore, on the second Tuesday in February; the other shall commence six days previous to the fourth day of July.
13th. Any student who shall be absent, from a public examination, unless he be prevented, by sickness, or hath the permission of the society, to be absent, which permission shall be granted only in cases of urgency, shall be expelled.
14th. Let the President examine the students and scholars, in presence of the respective Professors or Ushers, once in every three months...
15th. Any student, failing to perform the duties required of him, in any school, which he may attend, shall be admonished by the Professor of such school...
16th. No student, after the second examination, in the first year of his attendance, shall be permitted to return to college, unless he shall obtain a vote of approbation of his attention to his studies...
17th. No person shall be permitted to continue a student after the second year of his attendance, unless he shall, at the end of such second year, or before, obtain a degree of Bachelor of Arts.
18th. No Professor shall absent himself from college, during the times prescribed for Lecturing, nor at the same time, of public examination or exercises...
19th. All the Professors and Students shall attend chapel, and there demean themselves in a manner suited to public worship.
20th. No person shall be admitted, as a student, until he shall have made, in presence of the President and Professors, the following declaration. "I acknowledge myself to be a student of William and Mary College, and promise that I will observe and keep all the Statutes, Rules and Regulations, of said College."