Virginia Argus (Richmond, Va.), 1805-12-14 00:00:00

VIRGINIA ARGUS.
[XIIIth YEAR.]
A FREE PRESS MAINTAINS THE SOVEREIGNTY OF THE PEOPLE.
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RICHMOND:—PRINTED (ON WEDNESDAYS AND SATURDAYS) BY SAMUEL PLEASANTS, JUNIOR, PRINTER TO THE COMMONWEALTH
[Four Dollars Per Annum....paid in advance.]
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1805.
[12 1-2 Cents Single.]
W. Wardlaw,
HAS RECEIVED HIS FALL SUPPLY OF MEDICINES. BY the ship Rolla , from London.—Also, a great variety of PAINTS, VARNISHES, SURGEONS' INSTRUMENTS, PATENT MEDICINES, &c. &c. And by the ship George , from Liverpool, a large supply of VIOLS and SHOT GLASS.
Those who favor him with their orders may depend on being supplied with every article in his line on the most liberal terms.
The citizens of Richmond are requested, when they apply at his shop by a child or servant to put the name of the article wanted on paper, to prevent mistakes.
DOCT. WILSON,
TAKES the liberty to observe that he continues his APOTHECARY SHOP at the Bell-Tavern, where may generally be had MEDICINES of every kind in general use, as well as other articles in the Drug line, of good quality and at fair prices; of which persons disposed to buy may satisfy themselves by calling at his shop.
He also begs leave to observe, that he professes to practice Physics in all its branches. Persons of needy circumstances will be prescribed for gratis by paying the retail prices of his medicines.
Richmond, Oct. 3d. 1805 wtf
For Sale,
FOUR valuable LOTS, beyond the basin of the Canal, three of which will be in good tenable order and ready for delivery at the end of the present year; together with about 350 M. well burnt BRICKS of superior quality, made on one of the lots. This property must be deemed worthy of the attention of any one who justly contemplates the vast progress now making in the improvement of this flourishing city; and from its eligible situation in various respects, (even if it were only for the immense quantity of brick earth which it can furnish without diminishing its value for other purposes) will be found to be a good speculation, upon the accompanying terms of one-fifth of the purchase money in hand, and the balance in two years, free of interest, especially so, when the rent of the several tenements may yield annually five hundred dollars. Apply to D. M. Randolph.
Richmond, October 26, 1805 wtf
FOR SALE,
THAT VALUABLE, HEALTHY AND PLEASANT SITUATION, ON which the subscriber at present resides, containing between five and six hundred acres, lying in Amelia county, near Genl. to bridge. Terms made known by application to Wm. Murray. Grove Brooke, May 13, 1805. wtf
WHEAT FAN & WOVEN WIRE MANUFACTORY,
No. 7, Bridge-street, four doors north of Griffith's Bridge, Baltimore.
WHERE are made and sold, WHEAT FANS, first quality; ROLLING and other SCREENS, for wheat, barley, flax-seed, &c.; HAND RIDDLES and SIEVES, for coal, corn, barley, wheat, rye, oats, meal, brick-dust, flax-seed, clover seed, cockle, lime, sand, &c.; SHAKES for Indian meal; WIRE SIVES; WOVEN WIRE for windows, &c. &c.
AMOS SMITH, (Formerly West & Smith.) N.B. A good assortment on hand. Any of the above articles will be delivered in Richmond, (on short notice) at the same prices as at the manufactory (exclusive of freight) on the orders being left with
SAMUEL PARSONS & SON, Near the Basin, of whom the prices may be known—who have now on hand, Wheat Fans, Wheat and Lime Sieves, and Meal Sieves, &c. of a superior quality.
P.S. WIRE SIVES, and a few tons BAR IRON on hand. 11th Mo. 1st. 1804. wtf
NEGROES FOR SALE.
BY virtue of a deed of trust, executed to the subscriber by Richardson Harris, to secure the payment of a debt therein mentioned, due from the said Harris, to the estate of Thos. Bryers, deceased; will be SOLD, to the highest bidder, for ready money, at the house of Haley Cole near the coal mines, in the county of Chesterfield, on the Friday 13th day of December next, the following slaves, viz. Charles, Phillis and Anne, or so many thereof as will be sufficient to satisfy the debt mentioned in the said deed of trust. The above named Charles is an excellent workman, about 35 years of age. Phillis and Anne are young women under twenty. William Trabue. Chesterfield County, Nov. 19th, 1805. wtf
WE have for Sale the following articles, most of which being consigned, we will sell for cash or good sixty days paper.
 10 Hogsheads Molasses.  5 do. N. E. Rum.  10 Barrels do. do.  16 do. Liver or Tanner's Oil.  1 Box Hats.  8 do. Cotton and Wool Cards.  2 Pipes French Brandy.  50 Barrels Herrings.  80 Tierces Lime.  5 do. Rice.  5 Hogsheads & Pipes Apple Brandy.  Ground Plaster in barrels.  Shapard & Lucke. 
November 26, 1805. wtf
N. B. Ground and Fine Salt in Sacks.
Just received and for sale at this office,
A NEW COMEDY,
ENTITLED, THE
SCHOOL OF REFORM,
OR, HOW TO RULE A HUSBAND,
IN FIVE ACTS,
By THOMAS MORTON, Esq.
Hats, Shoes, &c.
The Subscriber has received a good assortment of HATS, SHOES and HATTERS' TRIMMINGS—44 Cotton Shirting & Irish Linens, Stevenson's Bleach by the piece, for sale by D. J. BURR.
Two doors above Eagle Tavern. November 26, 1805. lawgw
LAND FOR SALE.
THE subscriber wishes to sell 250 acres of land, lying in Chesterfield county, within six miles of Manchester. The advantages of small farms near large towns are so obvious and generally admitted, as not to require particular enumeration. Any person wishing to purchase may see the land and know the terms by applying to Mr. John Branch, residing in Manchester, or the subscribers near Buckingham courthouse. Archibald Branch.
September 2, 1805. wtf
To Rent,
A HOUSE at the Falling Gardens. Apply to the Editor, or to D. Wilson, who will give cash for a few thousand pounds of SENECA or RATTLE SNAKE ROOT; also for BEESWAX and LINSEED OIL. Richmond, Dec. 5th, 1805. wtf
NOTICE.
THE Members of the Mutual Assurance Society, against fire on buildings of the State of Virginia, are hereby requested to attend their annual General Meeting to be held on the first Monday in January next, which is the sixth day of the said Month.
Any Member which doth not attend, at the said Meeting, in person or by proxy duly authorized, will be represented by the member of the State Legislature, of the County, or the senator of the District, wherein such absentee resides.
W. F. AST, Principal Agent M. A. S. Richmond, Nov. 25, 1805. wtf
The Printers in this State are requested to insert the above once a week for four weeks.
COMMUNICATION.
It is with singular pleasure, I have the satisfaction to announce to the Members of the said Society in particular, and the public at large, that the Mutual Insurance is in a flourishing situation. Few losses have, within the last twenty months, passed, happened. The losses in the town (since the fire in Norfolk in February 1804) do not amount to 2000 Dollars. Declarations come in from all directions, in vast numbers; so that, five of us, can hardly keep up with them in recording issuing policies, &c. The principles of the Institution begin to be better understood—if all the house owners in this state, would be so good to examine into the nature thereof, there is no question but every one would insure, when we should come to the intended and desirable end of a general Insurance—to which we are going on rapidly now—when the contribution of each will be a mere trifle; therefore every good citizen ought, and, it is hoped will, lend an assisting hand to obtain it. The prejudice, and intrigues which have hitherto been carried on, to impede its more rapid progress will subside. On examination it will be found that the laws are just—if there are defects the people themselves can amend them—The new rates of hazard are now so fixed to equalize the premiums, as high as possible, agreeable to the risks—houses in the large towns, and particularly those situated in large ranges of wooden houses, pay considerably more—and those great risks, such as those situated on wharves, where vessels are built and repaired, and where large quantities of combustibles, such as tar, pitch, &c. are lodged, and other great hazards are, so to say, excluded by either the rejection of the Insurance entirely, or the high premiums they have to pay; so that in future, we hardly ever can have such heavy slams, as heretofore: besides that, by the increase of new Insurances, the half quo, and the additional premiums, which a number, in the large towns, have to pay, the town funds will be better than ever—The buildings situated in the small towns, or the outer parts of the large towns, pay only the same premiums as the country people; so that their contribution can never be considerable. As for the country it is my firm belief, that those who insure hereafter, never will have another premium or quota to pay—I am just now informed, that again a fire has taken place at Norfolk, in Water Street, the same place where it formerly happened. There is not one house, in that quarter, insured in the Mutual Insurance; of course the Society will have nothing to pay. There are now but very few houses, on the south side of the main street at Norfolk insured in the said Society; and on account of the high premiums, I expect few will be insured, those on the north side of the Main street, pay no more than in other large towns. By the original plan I contemplated to have the premiums as they are now fixed—had that been the case, I believe, never any quota would have been necessary; for those towards the wharves would not have been insured, of course we should not have experienced those slams in Norfolk. It is surprising to hear some people talk—and say, that it is better to insure in an Insurance Company abroad—on a fair comparison it will easily be found that, that is, out of the question. The security here can never fail—that of a few speculating individuals is precarious and doubtful—philanthropy, charity and benevolence, is not their object—they are only adjusted by gain of course they must, and will always rate their premiums so to pay, not only the losses, and expenses, which are considerable (when our expenses are but small) but likewise to afford them great profits. Their annual premiums average at least one per cent. then out of every hundred houses, one must burn every year, which would be 4000 houses annually in this state—Gracious goodness preserve us from such disasters!—we should have, in some time hence, no house standing in the state. This however shows what profits they must have, which we may reap ourselves, and keep them, and the premium money, among ourselves, to succor our unfortunate fellow-citizens. W. F. AST. Richmond Nov. 25, 1805. No doubt the printers of this state will, for the information of their customers, insert the above in their respective papers.
JUST RECEIVED, From Dr. Church's Dispensary New-York, and for sale at this Printing-Office, a fresh supply of the following Patent Medicines:
CHURCH'S COUGH DROPS,
A medicine unequalled by any in the world, for the cure of coughs, colds, asthma & consumptions.
PATROUSA LOZENGES,
For the voice, hoarseness, colds, coughs, &c. &c.
CHEMICAL ESSENCE AND EXTRACT OF MUSTARD,
For the cure of the rheumatism, gout, rheumatic gout, palsy, white swelling, chilblains, &c.
ANODYNE ESSENCE, for the head-ache.
VOLATILE TINCTURE, for the tooth-ache.
THE BOTANICAL TEA.
INFALLIBLE GERMANY CORN PLAISTER,
For the cure of corns.
CHURCH'S ANALYPTIC FEMALE PILLS.
Cures the most inveterate flux in four hours with out Mercury.
EYE SALVE, for all disorders of the eyes.
ANTISCORBUATIC TINCTURE,
For the teeth, breath, and scurvy in the gum.
ESSENCE OF SCURVY-GRASS,
For preventing and curing the sea & land scurvy.
VERMIFUGE LOZENGES,
For destroying worms in children & grown persons.
ANTISPASMODIC ELIXIR,
For the cure of all kinds of Fits.
CORDIAL RESTORATIVE BALSAM,
For nervous disorders, debility, inward weakness, &c. &c.
VEGETABLE LOTION,
For the face and skin, freckles, sun-burns, prickly heat, ring worms, tetter, &c. &c.
DR. CHURCH'S ANTIBILOUS PILLS,
For the cure of malignant and bilious fevers, dyspepsia, jaundice, costiveness, acidity, cholera morbus, gravel, indigestion, loss of appetite, and all disorders of the head, stomach and bowels.
THE GENUINE PATENT ALTERNATIVE PILLS,
For the cure of scurvy, cutaneous disorders, the venereal disease, &c.
HOOPER'S FEMALE PILLS.
ESSENCE OF PEPPER MINT.
ATRO.
DR. CHURCH'S TREATISE ON THE VENEREAL.
Containing plain and easy directions for the speedy and effectual cure of that disease in both sexes; whereby any person may cure themselves at a small expense—price half a dollar.
New Publications.
Just received in S. Pleasants' Book-Store.
Bosquet's Reports, 4th vol.
Bosquet and Fuller's Reports
Barrow's Travels in China
Austin's Letters
Jay's Sermons
Logan's Sermons
Knox on Eloquence
Power of Solitude, by J. Story, of Salem
Bonaparte and the French People
Carr's Stranger in France
Popular Tales, by Maria Edgeworth
Haley's Life of Cowper, elegant
Litt's of Sir William Jones
The Gamesters, a novel, by Miss Watren, of Massachusetts
Fleetwood; or new Man of Feeling, by Godwin. Correspondence of Louis XVIII, 3 vols.
New universal Biographical Dictionary, and American Remembrancer of Departed Merit, 4 vols., with portraits
Poyntell's elegant and correct edition of the Latin Classics
American Clerk's Magazine, or Pocket Companion
Rutherford's Institutes, 2 vols.
Elegant pocket edition of Poems, selected from the works of Peter Pindar
Village Sermons
Lorenzo Dow's Hymns
Subscriptions are still received to Mrs. Warren's History of the Rise, Progress and Termination of the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, now in the press at Boston.—Also Doctor Ewell's CHEMISTRY.
Advertisement.
STRAYED from Scottville (Powhatan courthouse) a GREY MARE, four years old last spring, perhaps about 5 feet high, branded on the left shoulder and hind thigh with the letter T; she was seen near Cumberland courthouse some time in October last. A generous reward will be given to any person who will deliver the said mare to the subscriber at Scottville. Dabney M. Wharton. Powhatan, Nov. 26, 1805. wtf
For Sale,
ON Friday the 20th instant, if fair, otherwise the next fair day, at the former dwelling of William Smith, dec. about a mile above Manchester, all the HOUSEHOLD & KITCHEN FURNITURE, the stock of CATTLE and two hundred barrels of CORN. At the same time and place, will be hired out for the ensuing year, a NEGRO MAN and WOMAN. The terms of sale will be six months credit on all sums above ten dollars, the purchaser giving bond with approved security, bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid. Washington Watts, adm'r. 7th December, 1805. 3t
JUST PUBLISHED,
[In eight neat duodecimo, with plates] and for sale at S. Pleasants' Book store, Richmond,
THE
ANCIENT HISTORY
OF THE
Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians, Medes & Persians, Macedonians & Grecians.
By CHARLES ROLLIN. Dec. 10. Ready made. PENS for sale here.
To Rent,
AND possession given the first of January next, a HOUSE and LOT, situated near the Rock Landing. Enquire of Joseph Gallego. December 7, 1805.
WHEREAS, some time in September 1803, I gave to my brother-in-law, Mr. Henry Wood, then of Albemarle county, my power of attorney to sell and dispose of the following tracts of land, to wit: 4535 acres, lying and being in the county of Greenbrier, state of Virginia, on Meadow river, facing the mouth of Snell, and joining the lands of Wm. McClung, Samuel McClung, Wm. Renix and Saml. Price. Likewise 780 acres, formerly in the county of Montgomery, and as I am informed lying now in the county of Kanawha on Walker's creek in the Chesnut forest, including the Iron pond and the Iron banks. Likewise 580 acres on No Business creek; and likewise 1280 acres, surveyed for Samuel McCraw, and lying as well as the tract of 580 acres just before mentioned, in the county of Montgomery, or as I am informed of late in that of Kanawha, and whereas I thought proper in the month of April last to recall the said power of attorney, which was promised to be sent back to me by the first opportunity, unless some conditional sale then stated to be made was finally concluded, and I apprised of it at farthest in the course of September last; in consequence of which promise, I have waited in vain until now for the same, although Mr. Henry Wood has been twice in town since the beginning of October (last month) Be it therefore known to all whom it may concern, that I have this day resolved, annulled and by the present do hereby and annul the power of attorney given to Mr. Henry Wood herein before mentioned, which is from the present to be considered utterly void and of no effect; and whereas it is possible, although I am assured of the contrary, that some part of the above tracts may have been sold, I hereby forbid the purchaser of any of the said tracts or part thereof, to pay the purchase money or such valuable considerations as may have been agreed on for the same to any other person but myself, in which latter case I will execute a deed with special warrantee to the purchaser. G. F. Stras. Richmond, 30th Nov. 1805. 3t
FOR SALE,
A likely Negro Woman, Who is a good Cook, Washer and Ironer. For further particulars enquire of the printer. Dec. 10, 1805. 4f
Valuable Property for Sale.
AGREEMENT to authority vested in me by the will of the late Samuel Swann, shall on the 20th day of this month proceed to sell, at public auction, at the Eagle Tavern, in the city of Richmond, on a credit of one, two, three, four and five years, the four last payments to carry interest from the date, the following PROPERTY, viz.
The TENEMENT occupied by Messrs Geo. and James Taylor, as their Cabinet Shop.
The TENEMENT with the Lumber House, now occupied by Messrs. Pickett, Pollard and Johnston, on the cross street leading to the Basin.
Also, the well known PLANTATION called BUCK HILL, near Manchester, in the county of Chesterfield, containing 369 acres, more or less. Satisfactory security will be required by the
EXECUTOR. Any person wanting further information will obtain it by applying to George Taylor in the city of Richmond. Dec. 3, 1805.
ALL persons are hereby bid to beware of receiving an assignment of a bond amounting to upwards of £70, given in 1797 by the reverend John Brunsick, dec. of Amelia, to Bridget Gordon, formerly of the said county. I cannot specially state the date or amount, but am positive the debt has been discharged, and, suppose the bond was not taken up in consequence of the negligence of said Brunsick.
Richard Booker, adm'r. Cumberland, Nov. 27, 1805. 3w
Just received and for sale at this office,
THE LADIES'
ANNUAL POCKET BOOK,
AND THE GENTLEMEN'S
Annual Pocket Remembrancer;
FOR THE YEAR 1806.
The Ladies' Book contains an elegant engraved Frontispiece—an Almanack—ruled pages for memorandums, and engagements, also for account of monies received, paid or lent, for every day in the year; select prose and poetry; new and celebrated songs; a marketing table, and several other useful tables.
The Gentlemen's Book contains an Almanack, ruled pages for memorandums, and cash accounts, government of the U. S. executive, legislative and judiciary, commissioner of loans, Federal courts of law, patents, ministers, consuls, &c. to and from foreign nations, military establishments, table of the pay and subsistence of officers of the navy, list of officers of the navy marine corps, navy agents, list of the whole naval force of the U. S. Post Office establishment. Coins of the U. S. Duties payable by law, officers of the customs, light houses, and several useful tables, &c. December 10.
FROM THE BALANCE.
AMERICAN CAPTIVES IN TRIPOLI. Extract from the Journal of Dr. Cowdery, kept during his captivity in Tripoli. (CONTINUED.)
August 26. At about 4 o'clock, P. M. the fellow who murdered Mr. Church, was executed near the spot where the crime was committed. It had heretofore been a custom in this country, when a person had committed a murder, to fly to the tomb of a Marabout (or priest) where they were protected from justice, and a fee to a Marabout would procure them absolution. This fellow fled to a place of this kind immediately after killing Mr. Church.
The English consul, Mr. Langford, on being informed of the murder, addressed the Bashaw, and demanded justice. The Bashaw then found out by a boy, who accompanied the murderer when he committed the crime, the particulars of the affair; and immediately sent a file of men and ordered them to prevent any person from carrying food or drink to the murderer. They watched him until night, when the Bashaw sent his Marabout, who coaxed him away, brought him to the castle, and confined him in irons. The next day the Bashaw called his Divan, when it was decided that the prisoner was guilty of willful murder, and ought to suffer death. It appeared from the evidence and the confession of the prisoner, that Mr. Church had lent a sum of money to a Spanish carpenter in this place; that Mr. Church had pressed him for payment; and that the carpenter's wife hired the Turk to kill Mr. Church for forty dollars. The villain took his watch from his pocket after he had shot him. The boy who accompanied him, and carried a lantern, was bastinadoed with five blows. The carpenter's wife was ordered to leave Tripoli. August 27. Our squadron stood towards the harbor.
August 28. About 4 o'clock in the morning I was awoken by a heavy and incessant firing of cannon, and the whistling and rattling of shot all around me. On getting up, I found that our gun-boats were close in, and were firing upon the town and batteries. Every gun in Tripoli, that could be brought to bear, was returning the fire. The Tripolitan gun-boats were close under the castle for protection. The firing continued until a few minutes after sunrise, when one of the largest gun-boats vented out, with an intention of boarding the nearest American boat. As soon as she got within pistol shot, the Americans discharged their piece, loaded with grape, and killed four and wounded two of the enemy. They then put about and retreated. At the same time, commodore Preble bore down and gave the batteries at the westward of the town two broadsides. The squadron then stood out and anchored off the harbor. The damage done to the town was considerable. A large vessel was sunk in the harbor and others damaged. Many men were killed, & wounded.
August 29. The Bashaw sent me to his palace in the country, to see his eldest son, the Bey, whom I bled in the foot. He requested me to spend the day and dine with him, which I did. He endeavored to have the dinner in the Christian style. It was set on a table; and consisted of a large dish of boiled rice and stewed fowls, out of which we both ate, he with a wooden spoon, and I with a silver one, without knife or fork. The prince's servant stood by him, and pulled the fowl in small pieces with his fingers, for the prince to eat. I made use of my fingers, and teeth to get mine in pieces. Our dessert was dates and watermelons. Our drink was Loghy, (or the Juice of the date tree) which we drank out of a large gold cup. He showed me the garden, and took great pains to entertain me.
August 30. A truce was held. I took a ride upon a mule, about eight miles to the westward of the town, in company with my guide Hamet, a Turkish officer, and several footmen. I there saw a boat, which had drifted on shore, with a dead man, and several muskets and swords in it. The man appeared to have been shot through the body with a cannon ball, which had also pierced the bottom of the boat. The Turkish officer collected about twenty Arabs, who hauled the boat upon the beach, dragged the dead man out of it, stripped him entirely naked, and left him on the beach. I tried in vain to hire the Arabs to bury the body; they said it was contrary to their religion to bury a Christian. I asked permission to get him buried by our countrymen, some of my fellow prisoners, but was refused.

the nature of the principles alluded to in the Message, as well as the measures referred to. The committee of ways and means were not bound to make a special report on the subject; they might content themselves with a general one; and it might be necessary afterwards to appoint a new committee, to make the requisite investigation. Mr Q. was the more anxious, as he thought it necessary that a complete investigation should be made in the house of the nature and extent of the principles referred to in the message. Mr Elliot said he did not perfectly understand the gentleman from Maryland when he told them that the subject contemplated to be referred naturally and exclusively fell within the proper jurisdiction of the committee of ways and means. It would be admitted on all hands that the subject was not only important, but likewise novel. Our attention is forcibly called in the message to this as a subject of the first importance.
New principles too have been interpolated into the law of nations founded neither in justice nor the usage or acknowledgment of nations. According to these a belligerent takes to itself a commerce with its own enemy, which it denies to a neutral, on the ground of its aiding that enemy in the war. But reason revolts at such an inconsistency, and the neutral having equal right with the belligerent to decide the question, the interests of our constituents, and the duty of maintaining the authority of reason, the only umpire between just nations, impose on us the obligation of providing an effectual and determined opposition to a doctrine so injurious to the rights of peaceful nations.
Our attention is called to the important point of new interpolations into the law of nations, or in other words, to the adoption by the government of one or more foreign powers of what is considered as a modification of the ancient laws of nations, as accommodating them to their wishes, and introducing new principles which they wish to impose upon other nations. How a subject so important naturally and necessarily belongs to the committee of ways and means it was impossible for him to say. But, says the gentleman, it is a question of revenue. How so? It may affect the revenue incidentally; but the question of revenue, from its comparative unimportance, is at once merged and lost in the more important question, whether we shall positively submit to the introduction of new principles to be imposed upon neutrals, by any government whatever, however powerful or extensive its influence. On this subject, Mr Elliot said he thought, as it appeared by the message the executive thought, that it possessed great importance in itself. Nor did he conceive it possible to present any view more important than that taken by the resolution of the gentleman from Massachusetts. He acknowledged that the committee of ways and means were fully competent to an investigation of the subject; in their ability to investigate, he had full confidence. But he thought they had sufficient business in their proper sphere to occupy their attention. For these reasons he hoped the resolution offered by the gentleman from Maryland would be rejected, and that submitted by the gentleman from Massachusetts substituted in its room.
Mr Gregg thought the gentleman from Massachusetts would fully attain his object by offering a part of the resolution he had read as amendment to the resolution before the house. The resolution of the gentleman embraced two distinct parts; the first regarded the objects to be inquired into, and the last instructed the committee how to act. The resolution of the gentleman from Maryland embraces the same object. The end therefore of the gentleman from Massachusetts would be fully gained by adding the instructive part of his own resolution to the resolution under discussion. As to the difference between a standing and select committee, it was not so important as it appeared to be to the gentleman from Vermont. The subject from its character naturally came before the committee of ways and means; and it was understood that standing committees went through the business referred to them with more regularity than the select committee.
Mr Bidwell said that if gentlemen attentively considered the two resolutions, they would find that the resolution offered by the gentleman from Maryland did not go the same extent with the resolution which he had had the honor of proposing. The former referred to but one principle, and limited the subject to considerations connected with revenue. It appeared to him that from our-door information, it would be found that various principles had been asserted relative to the laws of nations to which we might not as a neutral nation choose to submit. It was true that the subject was connected with the revenue; so however, was every subject. Every subject, whether connected with a state of peace or war, would necessarily more or less affect the revenue. Though this was the case with this subject, it ought not to be considered as primarily connected with revenue. Under present circumstances we do not consider it principally as connected with finance, but with other subjects. Mr Bidwell said he had no particular wishes with regard to the committee to be appointed in this instance; but he did wish the subject examined in more extensive views than was contemplated in the resolution.
Mr Nicholson observed that the principal objection made to the resolution he
had offered was that the committee of ways and means were not bound to investigate the subject, and submit to the house the result of their investigation. Some gentlemen think it necessary that instructions should be given by the committee to insure such an investigation. Mr Nicholson said that he had known instances within the course of the six past years in which a subject apparently simple had produced a voluminous report without any instruction of the house; and he had known other instances in which a subject of great importance had been referred, on which there had been no report, a simple resolution, which afterwards became the subject of argument within these walls. If in this case an investigation is desired there is no doubt but that the committee of ways and means can make it, and give the result to the house. He recollected some years ago a simple resolution was referred to a committee of which he had the honor to be chairman. They considered the subject as of vast importance, and thought it proper in their report to go at length into it. The report was made, and on it was predicated the extensive purchase of Louisiana. Yet, in this case, there were no instructions given. The committee notwithstanding that it their duty to enquire into the subject; they accordingly did enquire, and made the report alluded to.
In every point of light in which the present subject could be viewed, it would be found to affect the revenue. There are various ways in which we may attack the belligerent nations. We may attack them by land or by sea. The preparations required for this purpose may not only sink our present revenue, but render it necessary to resort to the raising additional revenue. Should there be a non-importation act, which had been lately a subject of discussion in the public prints, it would necessarily affect our revenue, and before it could be agreed to or acted on, it would be absolutely necessary for the committee of ways and means to enter into an investigation how the necessary revenue could be obtained. If we resort to the expedient of raising the duties on manufactured articles, he would ask if that were not a proper subject for the committee of ways and means. The measure could not but affect our revenue deeply, and would it not become necessary for the committee of ways and means to enquire to what extent the duties might be laid without producing the necessity of resorting to new taxes. But as the gentleman from Massachusetts was desirous of instructing the committee, he had no objection to so modifying his resolution as to add to it the latter part of the resolution offered by him.
So modified the resolution was read from the chair as follows:
5. Resolved, that so much of the message of the president of the U. S. as relates to the conduct of the belligerent powers towards the U. S. and to the unjustifiable construction lately given by some of them to the law of nations, as it regards the rights of neutral, be referred to the committee of ways and means, with instruction to enquire in what respects, and to what extent our neutral rights have been violated, and what legislative measures the true interest of the United States requires to counteract such violations.
Mr Bidwell enquired to what committee the defensive measures recommended by the president had been referred. The chairman replied to a select committee. Mr Bidwell said that subject appeared to him as much connected with the revenue, as principles which respected the law of nations. If that subject had been referred with propriety to a select committee, surely this might also, as it was not so necessarily connected with revenue as to make it the peculiar business of the committee of ways and means. Mr Smith remarked that it appeared that the ideas of both the gentlemen were incorporated in the resolution as it stood; and that the only subsisting difference was as to the committee. This was not of sufficient importance to occupy much of their time. The subject might most properly go to a commercial committee; but as he believed the committee of ways and means perfectly competent, he should not object to the resolution.
The question was then taken on the resolution and passed in the affirmative, Ayes 56—Noes 42. The committee rose and reported the resolutions, which the house immediately took into consideration. The first, second, third and fourth were agreed to without a division; and the fifth—Ayes 57.
The second resolution was referred to Messrs. Dawson, N. Williams, Blount, Ely, Darby and Fisk.
The third resolution to Messrs. Varnum, Basset, Sturges, Lambert, Rea of Pen. Marion and Blake.
And the fourth to Messrs. Gregg, Gannett, Bidwell, Goldsborough, Hough, Wypps and Russel. Agreeably to the order of yesterday, the house proceeded to the election of a chaplain. Messrs. Wilmer, Laurie, Glendy and Gant having been previously nominated, and Messrs. MacCreery, Varnum and Smith of Connecticut, appointed tellers.
The ballots were counted and declared as follows:
  For Mr. Glendy 45   Mr. Gant 16   Mr. Laurie 22   Mr. Wilmer 6   No election. 
On a second ballot the ballots were:
  For Mr. Glendy 70   Mr. Laurie 96   Mr. Wilmer 1   Mr. McCormick 1   Mr. Chambers 1 
Mr. Glendy is consequently elected Chaplain. The Senate have made choice of Dr. Gant as chaplain on their part. On motion of Mr. Lattimore, the memorial of the legislature of Mississippi, presented the last session, was referred to Messrs. T. M. Randolph, Lattimore, Smilie, Olin and Taggart. On motion of Mr. Stanton, the petition of the inhabitants of Stonington and Westerly, in Connecticut, praying for the erection of a light house, was referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures. Mr. Lattimore presented a memorial from the legislature of the Mississippi territory, representing certain obstacles which had arisen to the legal proceedings of the land board of commissioners, and praying that the first instalment on certain lands may be received after the granting of certificates. Mr. Lattimore likewise presented a petition from sundry inhabitants of the Mississippi territory, praying that the right of preemption may be extended to them for unappropriated lands on which they have settled. Which memorial and petition were referred to the committee appointed on the preceding memorial of the legislature of the Mississippi territory.
THURSDAY, December 5. Mr John C. Smith observed that the house at their last session, had had before them a subject of considerable importance, which not having been then definitely acted upon, he thought it would be proper again to take it into consideration. He therefore moved the following resolution:
Resolved, that a committee be appointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what description of claims against the U. States are barred by the statute of limitations, which in reason and justice ought to be provided for, and that said committee be authorised to report thereon by bill or otherwise. This resolution was immediately considered, agreed to and referred to a committee of seventeen members. A message was received from the senate advising of their appointment of Mr. Gilman on their part on the committee of enrolment. Whereupon the house appointed a committee on their part.
On motion of Mr Conrad the following resolution was adopted:
Resolved, that the door keeper of this house be allowed the same sum, as has heretofore been allowed, for the purpose of employing men and horses to enable him to execute the duties of his office. Mr Leib moved the following resolution:
Resolved, that a committee be appointed to enquire whether any, and if any, what alterations ought to be made in the act to regulate and fix the compensation of the officers of the Senate and House of Representatives. Mr Leib said it would be recollected that at the end of every session heretofore, it had been usual to submit propositions for an extra allowance to the officers of the house. It was desirable that the compensation of the officers should be fixed. That they might be fixed, and that no similar proposition should be offered hereafter, was his reason for offering this resolution. The house immediately took it up, agreed to it, and referred it to a committee of three members. On motion of Mr Lewis the petitions heretofore presented for and against a bridge across the Potomac at the city of Washington, were referred to a committee of five members.
FRIDAY, December 6. A message was delivered from the President of the United States, by Mr Coles, his secretary, as follows:
"Mr. Speaker—I am directed by the President of the United States to deliver you a message in writing." The Speaker, having received and opened a packet of considerable size, observed that the message was confidential, and thereupon ordered the galleries to be cleared.
In about one hour and a half the doors were opened, when it appeared that part of the communications made by the president were confidential, & that the members of the house remained under an injunction of secrecy with regard to them; and that another part was not confidential. This part embraces, among others, the following documents.
 1. A letter from Governor Claiborne to the Secretary of State, dated October 24, 1805, in which, after stating the preparations making by the Spaniards at Pensacola and other places, he says: "I fatter myself that hostilities between the U. States and Spain may be avoided, & that an honorable adjustment of our differences may ensue. But I am inclined to think that the Spanish agents calculate on a speedy capture and are making all the preparations that their means permit to commence the war in this quarter."  2. Statements respecting the detention of the American Gun Boats.  3. Correspondence between Governor Claiborne and the Marquis de Casa Calvo on exempting the Spanish officers from municipal taxes.  4. Correspondence between Governor Williams of the Mississippi territory and 
Gov. Grandpre, with sundry communications to the Secretary of State on outrages committed in the Mississippi territory. Documents to show that the settlement of Bayou Pierre, on the Red river, at which a principal aggression took place, was originally made by France, while possessing Louisiana, and came to the possession of Spain only by the general delivery of Louisiana to her and as a part of it. Extract of a letter from C. Pinckney, dated Aug. 1805, as well as one dated Sept. 22, 1805, respecting Spanish spoliations. Communications from Gov. Claiborne, dated Oct. 24, 1805, respecting obstructions on the Mobile. Copy of a letter from the commander of the ship Huntress to the Secretary of the Navy.
GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF VIRGINIA. HOUSE OF DELEGATES. Monday, December 9.
A number of petitions were presented, read and referred. Mr. Brooke reported the following resolutions from the committee for courts of justice.
 1. Resolved that it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Albemarle, praying that other trustees of the town of Milton, in the said county, may be appointed, with powers similar to those granted the original trustees, is reasonable.  2. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Loudoun and Fauquier, praying that an act may pass, authorising the courts of the said counties, to keep in repair such of the roads therein as the said courts may think fit to do, by hands to be hired for that purpose, and paid by levies to be laid by the said courts, is reasonable.  3. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of Hampshire county, praying that an act may pass, authorising the overseers of the poor of the said county, to receive of the sheriff thereof, a certain sum of money assessed by the court of the said county on the inhabitants thereof, by virtue of an act of assembly, for the purpose of improving a certain road, and which money was collected by the said sheriff; and that the same when received by the said overseers may be applied by them to the erection of a poor house, or to the maintenance of the poor, as to them shall seem best, is reasonable.  4. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Harrison, praying that so much of the acts of assembly, as authorises the recovery of debts by petition and summons, may be repealed, and that the jurisdiction of justices of peace may be extended to those cases where the causes of action shall not exceed 20 dollars, is reasonable.  5. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the parish of Bristol, in the counties of Prince George and Dinwiddie, praying that an act may pass authorising a sale of the glebe of the said parish, and an application of the interest arising on the proceeds of the sale, to the benefit of the present incumbent of the said parish, during his incumbency, is reasonable. 
The 1st, 2d, 3d and 5th resolutions being read a second time, were on the question put thereupon, agreed to by the house. The 4th resolution being read a second time, a motion was made to amend the same, by striking out at the end thereof, the words "is reasonable," and inserting in lieu of them, the words, "be rejected;" and the question being put on the proposed amendment, it passed in the negative.—Ayes 36—Noes 105.
The question being then put upon the resolution as reported; it passed in the affirmative. Ordered, that bills be brought in pursuant to each of the said resolutions, and that the committee for courts of justice do prepare and bring in the same. Mr Hening reported the following resolution from the committee of claims:
 1. Resolved, that as the opinion of this committee, the petition of Mildred Minor, executrix of George Minor, dec. praying the legislature to pass a law, authorising the auditor to grant her a warrant on the treasury for the sum of $109 25 cents, with interest from the 16th day of July, 1793; which sum was acknowledged by the court of Fairfax county to be due to George Minor in his lifetime, for repairs done to Little falls tobacco warehouse, is reasonable.  2. Resolved also, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of Thomas Millan, formerly deputy sheriff of Fairfax county, praying the legislature would pass a law, either authorising the auditor to grant him a warrant on the treasury for $64 16 cents, with interest; which sum in the year 1800, he overpaid into the treasury, on account of militia fines; or direct the Little river turnpike company to discharge the said claim out of their funds, is reasonable.  3. Resolved also, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of John White of the county of Ohio, praying that a law may pass, releasing all the interest of the commonwealth to the property purchased by him before he became naturalized, is reasonable. 
4. Resolved also, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of John H. Allen, praying the release of a fine imposed on him by the district court of Williamsburg, for not attending when summoned on the part of the commonwealth as a witness in a prosecution against James Taylor, in consequence of the illness of his wife, is reasonable. Ordered, that bills be brought in pursuant to each of the said resolutions, and that the committee of claims do prepare and bring in the same. Mr Randolph presented from the committee of propositions and grievances, a bill "authorising George Cabell, sen. to erect a public warehouse on his land;" which was received and read the first time and ordered to be read a second time. Mr. Harvie reported from the committee appointed to convey to Hugh Holmes, esq. the thanks of this house for the manner in which he discharged the duties of Speaker whilst he acted as such, that the committee had, according to order, made such communication, to which Mr Holmes was pleased to make the following reply:
Messrs. Harvie, Minor and Robertson. Gentlemen, THE thanks of the House of Delegates which you have been deputed to present, are to me, at this time peculiarly flattering and acceptable. The manner in which I have been separated from the legislature; the consequences of success or disappointment among the friends of rival candidates in all interesting elections, would most probably, to those unacquainted with a Virginian Assembly, seem to forbid any united expression of approbation even on points unconnected with such elections: But for my part, gentlemen, when I despair of the magnanimity and justice of the Virginian Legislature, I shall then, and then only, despair of the commonwealth. This tribute of respect with which you are charged, is much appreciated, by the mode which the House of Delegates have adopted in conferring the compliment, as well as by the manner in which you have been pleased to execute the duty assigned you. Present me respectfully to the House of Delegates, and accept, gentlemen, the high consideration of my esteem and respect for you individually. HUGH HOLMES. Richmond, Dec. 9th, 1805. Mr. Miller, (of Powhatan,) introduced the following resolution:
Whereas this house deem it proper to express the approbation it feels of the conduct of such of the citizens of this commonwealth, as signalize themselves in the service of their country; and that honorary rewards bestowed for gallant exploits, are not only congenial to the spirit of a republican government, but also offer an useful encouragement to the enterprising character of America. Resolved therefore, that this house, for the above reasons, and in order to express the high sense it entertains, of the valor and intrepidity of Lieut. Presly N. Obannon, a citizen of this commonwealth, in executing the orders of his gallant commander, in the attack & capture of Derne, in conjunction with his brave countrymen; and as an honorary reward for his services, in the expedition against Tripoli; that the executive of this commonwealth be requested, and they are hereby requested to have made, a sword of the manufacture of Virginia, and a gold medal, one side of which shall be engraved with a description of the achievement in erecting the American standard on the walls of Derne; and the other side with the figure of the Goddess of Liberty, holding in one hand a banner, and pointing with the other towards a castle; with the following motto on the same side—"Let my votaries be assured of my protection." And that the executive be requested to take the earliest opportunity which may offer after the said sword and medal are prepared, of presenting them to Lieut. Obannon. On motion, ordered to lie on the table.
Tuesday, December 10. The Speaker laid before the house a letter from the Governor, referring to sundry enclosures for the consideration of the General Assembly; the said letter being read, was with the enclosures, ordered to lie on the table. A bill, "To establish a public warehouse on the land of George Cabell, sen. was read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time. Mr. Smyth (Wythe) from the committee appointed to wait on William H. Cabell, esq. and communicate to him information of his appointment to the office of Governor or Chief Magistrate of this Commonwealth for one year, reported, that the committee had, according to order, in conjunction with a committee from the Senate, waited on the Governor elect, and communicated such information, in the following words:
SIR, THE legislative body has called you to preside over the Common-

wealth, as Governor or Chief Magistrate, for the term of one year from the 11th day of this month.
In making to you this communication, we feel pleasure, resulting from a confidence, that you will so administer the government of this great state, as to secure, by justice, & decision, that republican ascendancy which has so happily been obtained, and which injustice, or indecision, might endanger; that you will, as far as in your power lies, promote the wishes of the majority of the people of Virginia, and make their happiness your object; that your talents, firmness, and virtue, will unite, as far as that is possible, the opinions of all in favor of the measures of the government, and preserve harmony and concord among the citizens; and that altho' you will raise against you the sword of justice, yet, that mercy, when deserved, shall not be asked in vain.
Under these impressions, we congratulate you on your exaltation, the reward of merit, and patriotism; and tender you our best wishes for your success and happiness.
To which he was pleased to make the following Reply:—
GENTLEMEN, HAVING never aspired to any office higher than that of a representative of the people in the Legislature of our country, I receive the communication you now do me the honor to make, with sensations which it would be difficult to describe. I pray you to assure the two Houses of the General Assembly, to which you respectively belong, that I feel a real and unfeigned diffidence of my own abilities to discharge the important duties attached to the chief magistracy of the Commonwealth of Virginia. But called to this important office by the voice of those to whose wisdom the Constitution has entrusted its disposal, I feel myself bound to obey. I accept it with much diffidence, but with the strongest resolution to pursue, with a firm and undeviating step, that course which my judgment shall prescribe as leading to the happiness and welfare of our country. I rejoice in that republican ascendancy which has been so happily obtained, both in the government of our own state and in that of the U. States; and there is nothing which affords a pleasure more exquisite to my heart, than the recollection that I have contributed, in some measure, although feebly, towards its establishment. I have always believed that ascendancy to be essential to the happiness, to the liberties of our country, and I take this opportunity, through you, to assure the General Assembly, that my opinions are still the same, and have received additional strength and confirmation by experience. In the administration of the government it will be my constant endeavor to secure this republican ascendancy, by a firm and inflexible adherence to those principles on which it is founded. It is certainly my duty, and it shall also be my pleasure, to endeavor to promote the wishes of a majority of the people of Virginia, & to preserve harmony and concord among my fellow-citizens. A difference of opinion upon mere subordinate points, among those whose great principles and objects have been heretofore, and are still the same, and who have heretofore agreed, and still agree as to the great means necessary for the accomplishment of those objects ought not, I humbly conceive, to produce discord or division. In the execution of the laws, although it is necessary to raise against guilt, the sword of justice, yet mercy when deserved should not be asked in vain. In all things, the happiness of the people of Virginia, shall be my only object; their approbation, my highest and most pleasing reward. But when in the course of my official conduct, errors shall occur, for it is incident to man to err, I hope my fellow-citizens will believe the declaration which I now solemnly make, that they shall be errors of judgment only, and have no connection with the heart.
I pray you, gentlemen, to accept my sincere thanks for the friendly and polite manner in which you have communicated to me my exaltation to this important office, and for the very flattering opinions you have been pleased to express of me; and be assured that you have my warmest wishes for your individual happiness and welfare.
Mr. Miles (of Powhatan) introduced the following resolution:
AT this important crisis in the affairs of their country, the Legislature of Virginia feel it to be a duty they owe to their constituents, from whom they have so lately emanated, and whose wishes and opinions they therefore distinctly understand, to express the following sentiments:
They have seen with admiration & pleasure in the intercourse of the present administration of the government of the U. S. with foreign nations, that just, rational & liberal policy which should ever characterize the acts of a government resting on the will, and maintaining the rights and interests of a free and enlightened people—With real mortification have they discovered, that from all nations the same correct and dignified conduct may be looked for in vain—They have viewed with indignation the injuries which power and ambition, making the most erroneous calculations on the strength and policy of the U. States, have inflicted on the fair commerce and immuable rights of our fellow citizens—With astonishment they have seen the most rational principles in the laws of nations, disregarded and contravened, by governments pretending to act on that liberal & enlarged justice which it behoves every enlightened nation to pursue—They have beheld with cordial sensations, Spain evading the most equitable contracts on frivolous pretexts, and declining too to enter into a fair adjustment of their differences—They have learned with still more unpleasant feelings, that inroads have been made by the regular officers and soldiers of that government into parts of Orleans and the Mississippi which had been delivered up to us, and that our citizens have been seized and our property plundered—
Resolved therefore, That the legislature of Virginia, have the highest confidence in the wisdom, virtue and firmness of the President of the United States and his administration, and that they are ready, whenever they shall be called, to join in a contest with any nation that has injured us, and "try which party can do the other the most harm"
Referred to a committee of the whole house.
Mr. Brooke made the following report from the committee for courts of justice:—Resolved, that so much of the petition of Andrew Russell, clerk of the district court held at Washington courthouse, as prays that the fines imposed by the said court, under the acts to prevent unlawful gaming, and so much of other fines imposed by the said court, as may be necessary, may be applied under the direction of the same, towards the erection of a building as an office for the said clerk, is reasonable.
Resolved, that the residue of said petition, praying that the district courts be authorized to make allowance to their clerks, for expenses incurred in purchasing permanent & well bound books for their offices, is reasonable.
Resolved, that the petition of sundry trustees of the town of Springfield, Hampshire, praying that the owners of certain lots therein, which remain unimproved in consequence of their being subject to overflowing, may be exempted from improving the same, as required by law, is reasonable.
Ordered, that bills be bro't in pursuant to each of the said resolutions, and that the committee for courts of justice prepare & bring in the same.
Mr. Smyth, made the following report from the committee of propositions and grievances:
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Washington praying that the reward for killing wolves therein, may be reduced, is reasonable. And that the petition of sundry other inhabitants of said county in opposition thereto, be rejected.
Resolved, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of Augusta, praying an increase of the reward for killing wolves therein, is reasonable.
Ordered, that the committee of propositions & grievances bring in bills pursuant to the 1st & 3d resolutions.
Mr. Hening made the following report from the committee of claims:
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of William Lee, formerly a subject to the King of Great Britain, praying the legislature to relinquish all the right of the commonwealth to certain lands purchased by him in the county of Brooke before he became naturalized, is reasonable.
Resolved also, that the petition of Drury Woodson, praying to be released from certain fines imposed on him by a regimental court of enquiry held for the 17th Virginia regiment in the county of Cumberland, is reasonable.
Resolved also, that the petition of Mary Gresham of the county of Louisa, widow of Joseph Gresham, dec. praying compensation for the services of the deceased as a soldier in the Virginia line of the continental army during the revolutionary war, is reasonable.
Resolved also, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the counties of Cumberland, Powhatan and Buckingham, praying that the wages of the inspectors of tobacco at Woodson's warehouse, near the town of Cartersville, should be increased, is reasonable.
Ordered, that the committee of claims prepare and bring in bills pursuant to each of the said resolutions:
Mr. Semple presented according to order, a bill, "To amend an act, entitled, an act, providing for the poor, & declaring who shall be deemed vagrants; which was received, read the first time, and ordered to be read a second time.
A number of petitions were presented, read and referred.
A petition from John Davison and Jacob Coplin, commissioners of the revenue in the county of Harrison, was presented and read, praying for the passage of a law, to augment their salaries; and the question being put upon the reference of the said petition, it was rejected.
On a motion made, Resolved, that a committee be appointed to enquire into the expediency of reforming the penal laws of this commonwealth and the several acts prosecuting the mode of trial of free persons and others charged with certain crimes—to examine into the operations of the public jail & penitentiary, and to ascertain whether any, and if any, what alterations are necessary in that institution—and a committee was appointed of Messrs. Hening, Minor, Mercer, Smyth (W. W.), Randolph, Semple, Harvie, Barker, Callaway, Burwell, Woodford, Hancock & Miller (Powhatan).
Leave was given to bring in the following bills:—To raise by lottery a sum of money, for the improvement of the road leading from Clarkeburg in Harrison county, to Wood courthouse—to amend the several acts concerning the inspection of tobacco—Concerning free negroes and mulattoes—to authorize the county court of Lee to erect a turnpike on the road from Mockerson gap to Cumberland gap thro' the said county—to amend the act, entitled, an act, for reducing into one the several acts, concerning the land office, ascertaining the terms and manner of granting waste and unappropriated land; for settling the titles and bounds of lands; directing the mode of proceeding and prescribing the duty of surveyors—to amend the act, entitled, an act, directing the mode of proceeding in courts of equity against absent debtors, and for settling the proceedings on attachments against absconding debtors—to authorise a lottery for the benefit of Rutherford academy in the county of King Wm.
Wednesday, December 11.
The Speaker laid before the House a letter of a confidential nature from the Governor, referring to several inclosures, for the consideration of the General Assembly.
On a motion made, Ordered, that the gallery of this House be cleared and the doors closed.
The said letter with its inclosures, being read, were on a motion made, Ordered, to lie on the table.
On a motion made, Ordered, that the doors be now opened.
A bill "authorising George Cabell, sen to erect a public warehouse on his land," was read the third time and passed.
A bill, to amend an act, entitled, an act, "providing for the poor, and declaring who shall be deemed vagrants," was read a second time and ordered to be engrossed and read a third time.
Mr. Randolph reported the following resolutions from the committee of propositions and grievances:
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Amherst, praying that a law may pass for the division of their said county is reasonable.
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Louisa, praying that the act of assembly passed in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-two, for ascertaining the different county lines bordering on the Three Chopt Road leading from Albemarle to Hanover now expired, may be re-enacted with certain other provisions not contained in the said act, is reasonable.
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Montgomery praying that a company may be authorised to keep the road leading from the head of Roanoke river into the western country in repair, and receive toll upon the same, is reasonable.
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of Lynchburg, praying that John Lynch, may be authorised by law, to erect a public warehouse on his lot, in the said town, lying near the river, is reasonable.
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of James Martin and others, of the town of Lynchburg, praying that he may be authorised by law, to erect a public warehouse, in the said town, is reasonable.
Resolved, as the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the town of New Haven and Port Republic, in the county of Rockingham, praying that a law may pass incorporating a company, who may be authorised to build a toll bridge across the north fork of Shenandoah river, from one town to the other, is reasonable.
Resolved, that bills be brought in pursuant to each of the said resolutions, and that the committee of propositions and grievances do prepare and bring in the same.
A petition from Elizabeth Steptoe and Thomas L. Steptoe, was presented and read, praying the passage of a law, authorising the sale of a tract of land belonging to the representatives of William Steptoe, dec. late of Middlesex county, most of whom are infants;
Also a petition of Thomas Reckes, of Mecklenburg county, praying payment from the commonwealth for a negro man slave, who was apprehended on a suspicion of felony and died whilst in confinement;—And the question being put on the reference of the said petition, it passed in the negative.
Resolved, that the said petitions be rejected.
On a motion made, ordered, that a writ of election issue to the county of Amherst, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the promotion of William H. Cabell, to the place of Governor of this commonwealth.
The remainder of the sitting was occupied, in reading and referring a number of petitions.
LOST
IN the forenoon of this day a tobacco note, number and weight as below, should such a note be found, it will greatly oblige me in giving notice at Mr. Brook's.
505, 1630, 154, 1476, Johnsons. Charles Barker.
Decr 4, 1805.
VIRGINIA ARGUS
RICHMOND:
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1805.
For late Foreign News, see this day's Argus Extra.
We are sorry (says the Norfolk Herald of Tuesday) to announce the loss of the Sch't Charlotte, capt. Block, from N. York to this place and Richmond—some of the cargo, it is expected, will be saved.—Mr. Buckner, one of the passengers, informs, that she went on shore on Smith's Island on Saturday night about 8 o'clock, and at 2 in the morning, bilged. The captain and some of the passengers got into the long boat but could not make the land; and after being out 5 or 6 hours, were picked up by capt. Steelman, of the Sch't Eagle, from Richmond, bound to Philadelphia, who aided with the greatest humanity, by affording them every assistance in his power.
During the sitting of the supreme court Saturday, it was announced that his excellency Thomas Jefferson, had been disgracefully pleased to remove from the office of inspector of flour. General John Slee, commander of the Philadelphia militia legion—who is to be his successor, we have not certainly been assured; but the report is, that it is to be entrusted to one of the governor's sons, or sons in-law—We offer no comment on this transaction—those who have understood the politics of this state for eight years past—stand in no need of our animadversions.—Aurora.
THE MESSAGE.
Never, perhaps, has expectation been more keenly excited, or better satisfied than by this interesting document. The state of our foreign relations, always important, have recently become peculiarly so from the various, and in many cases contradictory representations of the conduct of foreign governments towards our own and towards our people. Hoping for the best, we have feared the worst. Under these circumstances it was well worthy of the illustrious chief of a free people, whose brightest jewel is their esteem, to address them, thro' their immediate representatives, in the language of candor and truth. Under governments differently organised, where the people are subjects, and kings and nobles their masters, we might have been plunged in the inextricable misfortunes and evils of war without the least consultation of public opinion; but here, thanks to our republican institutions, and the spirit that guards them from violation, the people are all-powerful, and must be consulted before those trying scenes are unfolded on the issue of which often the fate of empires, and always a large portion of national happiness depend. It is virtuously to the people that their distinguished friend addresses himself, and it is to their judgment and feelings that we are to appeal for the wisest measures to be pursued, as well as for the spirit which shall most efficiently carry them into operation.
Next to the picture of a great people unhesitatingly enjoying the fruits of their intelligence and virtue, there is no sight more interesting than that of a just nation, with cool and collected courage, rising above the wrongs and injustice of others by dispassionately considering the best means of redressing them, and by manifesting the deliberate purpose of meeting with decision and energy the day of trial. When we behold such a nation enjoying unprecedented harmony among themselves, and reposing unprecedented confidence in those who preside over their affairs, and contemplate government as well as nation animated by the same prudence and decision, we may confidently rest the issue of pending events on those measures which shall be adopted. Peace is the ardent wish of every genuine American, of every true republican within our limits. None among us are desirous of disturbing the repose of other nations. As to enemies we have none. Universal benevolence is one of the fundamental traits of a republican. This may be derided as the language of philosophy; but it is more; it is the language of plain truth.
The most striking feature of the message is ingenuousness. We behold no studied phraseology, no pomp of diction calculated to win the ear with empty sounds, while the mind is left unoccupied. On the contrary ideas and facts are condensed into a narrow compass, and rarely is so much important political matter given in such few words. The dark as well as the bright side of public affairs is exhibited in language at once concise, chaste and dignified. We find no indulgence of resentment towards those who are at this moment doing us ill, no menace of contumely. Far from this common strain, the President appears most correctly to have thought that it became the man who represented six millions of freemen, chosen by them the guardian of their honor and interest, not to let drop a syllable that might offend the chastest ear. At the same time, however, we mark the fearless language of that courage which honesty and a clear perception of justice can alone inspire. Who does not perceive that the chief magistrate, so well acquainted with the true interests of his country, so zealously devoted to her republican institutions, & so strongly attached from natural benevolence as well as conviction to peace, has been compelled with reluctance by uncontrollable events to prepare his countrymen for the mournful necessity of applying coercion where a sense of justice may possibly
cease to reign? Who is there that does not perceive that slow resorting to this unfortunate alternative, he has formed at the same time a purpose not to be shaken by the own of injustice. There cannot, we think, be any delusion on this point; if there shall be it will be fatal to those who cherish it. Let the enemies of our country, if such we have, rest assured, that as to them we are one people, and that once roused to a resistance of their wrongs, the field will not be deserted until our banners fly triumphant. The annals of 76 show them the enthusiasm of a free people in their infancy. Let them not be compelled some years hence to look back with humiliation on the events of the approaching period.
Such are the feelings excited by this most important feature of the message; feelings, which we believe, will be common to every American who peruses it. It was our purpose to have passed to some hasty notice of its other features. But want of time prevents our doing this at present. In our next these remarks may be continued.—Nat. Intell.
It cannot but excite sport and amusement to observe the distressing consequence anticipated in the federal papers by stopping the importation of English manufactures. We are all to go naked cries one British agent! We cannot live without a new broad cloth coat, at 7 or 8 dollars a yard, cries another! We shall be ruined, cries a third, if we cannot have a new fashioned hat, at 5 or 6 dollars a piece!!! what a deplorable state are we in, replies a fourth, if we must go to a funeral, in a hot summer's day, without 10 or 12 yards of black crape on! yes yes, cries every vendor of English goods, (who receive them directly from the manufacturers to sell at auction) we shall all be thrown out of employment, if we are deprived of a spring and fall supply, for the benefit of all concerned!!! To put this vast alarm of ruin and nakedness to the test, we will only observe, an industrious country girl, attended by her mother, parading through the streets of Boston, with a roll of cotton cloth, and an equal number of yards of woollen manufacture, at length gets rid of her incumbrance by an exchange of all this trumpery for the valuable and necessary article of a yard of lawn, or perhaps the more beneficial decoration of a serviceable pair of shoes, made of the durable substance of kid leather! Here then we have the substitute for our warm clothing, for who would pretend to wear cotton or woollen, when they could exchange it for such substantial apparel! who would not work for 6d a day, to make warm clothing, when it can be exchanged for a chip hat, to keep the cold from our ears in a winter's morning, or a pair of Eels, to repel the damps of a snowy evening!—No, no, let us have British goods, though they are imported for the exclusive purpose of an auction sale: let us reprobate a non-intercourse with England, though every ship from our country is condemned as legal prize in their courts of admiralty. We only want a British connection—and let every merchant who does not trade with them, and them only, experience the fate of those who are now under the lash of legal adjudication!—We never shall come right, without we submit to British depredation, and we shall all be starved and go naked, unless we send all our provisions to feed the West India islands, and all our cotton, wool, and even the flax-seed itself, to our good friends the English! Every man is a Jacobin, who don't subscribe to this!!!
(Boston Chronicle)
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY.
CLASS II.
FIFTH DAY'S DRAWING.
Prizes of 25 Dollars—Nos. 6632 7314.
BLANKS—Nos. 4874 6930 6548 5600
6305 5592 5181 4742 4872 7466 7682
7677 4491 3983 5358 7378 7336 4322
6828 6745 6693 5458 5105.
SIXTH DAY'S DRAWING.
BLANKS—Nos. 4115 7153 4508 6263
3856 6381 4771 4221 6374 6819 7484
7223 5043 6589 5252 5865 7344 5670
3926 5336 5753 4570 6851 4284 7663
6392 4060 4789 6451 4879 6803 4375
6875 7623 6039 6046 5588 6753 7310
7133 4956 7171 4602 5257 6841 6612
4448 6334 4423 6135.
Departed this life on Monday last, at Epington, in Chesterfield county Mrs. ELIZABETH WALKER consort of Dr. David Walker, of Petersburg—Beloved whilst living; lamented in the grave.
Education.
THE TRUSTEES of Washington Henry Academy have engaged the Rev Mr. Thomas Hughes as a Teacher at the said Academy for the ensuing year; who will teach the Dead Languages, the English Language grammatically, Writing and Arithmetic, at the moderate price of 16 dollars 62 1/2 cts. per scholar, payable quarterly, in advance. Scholars may be boarded at the Academy and in the neighborhood. The situation of Washington Henry Academy is in the centre of a populous and respectable neighborhood, about ten miles from Richmond, is remarkably healthful, and possesses the advantage of some excellent springs of water. THO: TINSLEY, pres't of the trustees. Hanover co. Dec 3d, 1805.
His subscriber begs leave to present his thanks to the public, for the readiness with which they have purchased his panther, and the hospitality manifested towards him—he is now in Richmond, where he hopes to experience the same support and generosity, particularly from the members of the assembly, who he trusts will be foremost in assisting an elderly soldier, who has been blind for more than twenty years. JACOB PAYNE. December 12.

Fall & Winter Goods. The subscribers have received, and are now opening a considerable part of their WOOLLENS; Among which are Bales of assorted Rose & Duffel Blankets, Do. Nap'd Cottons, Do. Yarn & Plaid Hose, Do. White & Coloured Plains, Do. Kerseys & Halfthicks, Do. 6-4 & 7-4 Coatings, plain and strip'd, Do. Cloths, assorted colours and prices, Do. Forrest Cloths, Boxes Men's Hats assorted prices, Irish Linens, Long Lawns, Diapers, &c. Also an assortment of HARDWARE, CUTLERY and NAILS. In addition to which, they daily expect on the arrival of the Suffolk from London, a large assortment of FASHIONABLE GOODS, Which will be offered for sale on their usual terms.  GILLIAT & KIRBY. October 4, 1805.
Forty Dollars Reward. RUN away from the subscriber living in Granville county, North Carolina, in March last, two bright mulatto fellows; one by the name of BARTLEY , about 35 years of age, he has but little to say, and appears to be very humble; he is a tolerable good Shoemaker and Cooper, about 5 feet 10 or 11 inches high, and he is a well-set negro. GEORGE is about 25 years of age, about 5 feet high, spare made, but a very active negro, fond of drink, and a very forward fellow. I expect they have obtained free passes and will endeavor to pass for free negroes; it is probable they are lurking about Manchester, Richmond or Petersburg; they were seen in Manchester a few days past. Any person taking them up and confining them in jail, so that I get them, shall have the above reward, or 20 dollars for either, paid by the subscriber.  LEWIS HENING. June 5th, 1805.
The subscriber wishes to sell for cash, or on credit till the first day of January next, the  Two Brick Tenements, Adjoining the house of Mr. Benjamin Mosby.  JOHN PENDLETON. City of Richmond, Nov. 10th, 1804.
The proprietor offers for sale, a TRACT OF LAND , adjoining Scuffletown, which he proposes to divide into lots of twenty-five acres. For further particulars apply to Messrs. Prosser & Moncure.  JOHN TOMPKINS HAS just received a fresh supply of OLD COGNAC BRANDY, a part of the same shipment of his former parcel. Also, a few hogsheads of ANTIGUA RUM, of good quality. He has on hand, a parcel of BEST FRENCH CAMBRICKS . The whole of which, he offers for sale, very low for cash, or on a liberal credit. August 15, 1805.
JAMES TERNAN, Has just received a supply of fresh & good MEDICINES, PAINTS and HATTERS, COLOURS —opening at his Corner Shop, opposite Col. Gamble's, with which he shall be happy to serve his numerous friends, on the most moderate terms. He returns his sincere thanks for the favor of their custom. (if) Sept. 4.
Geo. Watt HAS removed from the store he formerly occupied to a brick house on the cross street leading from the main street to Shockoe warehouse, where he has on hand and offers to dispose of on moderate terms, by wholesale, The following Articles, viz: Leaf and Mucavado Sugars, N. England, W. Island, and Antigua Rum, Cognac, Barcelona and Apple Brandy, Sherry and Malaga Wine, Coffee of a superior quality, Molasses, Ginger and Fig Blue, Young Hyson and Imperial Tea, 4/10 Sacks Liverpool Salt, Patent Shot, assorted sizes—And The remainder of his Stock of Dry Goods, consisting principally of articles suited to the present and approaching season, which he will either sell on a credit of 3, 6 and 9 months, for notes negotiable at the Bank of Virginia, with approved endorser, or barter for Tobacco, Flour or Hemp. Cash given for Tobacco. Richmond, 22d March, 1805.
TO LET, A COUNTING ROOM, STORE ROOM and CELLAR , in a brick building near the Basin and next door to Messrs. Hart and Southgate's. Enquire of the printer. 19th Sept. 1805.
S. JACOBS Has just received a handsome and well selected assortment of FALL GOODS; Among which are— Cloths, Coatings and Cassimere, Plains, Kerseys & Halfthicks, Rose, Duffel and Point Blankets, Flannels, scarlet, crimson, white & yellow, Velvets, Thibets & Constitution Cards, Benner's real patent Do. Fancy Waistcoats & Swardowns, Cafiques, Muslins & Cambricks, Real Silk Cumberlands & Irish Linens, Elegant Silk Shawls & Hosiery, &c. Together with other articles in the fancy way, all of which are offered at the most moderate prices. GUN POWDER of superior quality, by the Keg. S. J. flatters himself that from his attention in procuring this article only of an excellent quality and the reasonable rate at which he sells it—he will not only merit a continuation of his customers, but be enabled to supply (much to their satisfaction) all those who are in the habit of retailing it. October 28th, 1805.
BLANK BONDS For sale at this office.
New-York State Lottery, FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF ROADS. Will positively commence drawing in the City of New-York on the third Tuesday in December next—Highest Prize  TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS, And less than two Blank to a Prize.  TICKETS & SHARES To be had at the permanent and Fortunate Lottery Offices of  G. & R. WAITE, No. 64, and at No. 38, Maiden Lane, New-York. Where was sold in the last Lottery, and forwarded in letters by post, the 25,000 dollar prize to a gentleman in Baltimore; another of the Capitals to a gentleman in North-Carolina; another in Virginia; another in Georgia; another in Long-Island (N. Y.) and another one to a gentleman in Massachusetts, besides several in former Lotteries to persons in different parts of the union. Present price of Tickets & Shares. Whole Tickets 7 00 Quarters 1 87 Halves 3 52 1-2 Eighths 1 00 But will advance to Seven Dollars the first week in November. Distant adventurers, by inclosing Bank Notes (post paid) to G. & R. WAITE, may have tickets forwarded to them to any amount with the utmost punctuality, and the earliest intelligence of their success. New-York, October 3d, 1805.
By virtue of a deed of trust executed to the subscriber by Jacob Maddox, of Buckingham county, to secure the payment of a debt due to James Murphy and co therein expressed, WILL BE SOLD , to the highest bidder, on the 29th day of December next, at the dwelling house of said Maddox, the following property, to wit, Milly and her two children, Milly and Nancy, or so much thereof as will be sufficient to discharge the said debt with interest and cost. John Higginbotham, Trustee. Warminster, Nov. 25th, 1805.
For Sale, A New Grand PIANO-FORTE , tuned Concert Pitched. Apply on Shockoe Hill, at the house opposite Mr. Copland's, to P. A. Peticoles. December 3d, 1805.
Subscribers to PINKERTON'S MODERN GEOGRAPHY , who have not yet received their Books, are respectfully informed that they are ready for delivery at this Office.  BOLTING CLOTHS. M. & B. MYERS have just received a fresh supply of Dutch BOLTING CLOTHS , of the best quality, which renders their assortment complete. They have also received their assortment of Fall & Fancy GOODS , And a quantity of best three stranded SEINE TWINE . October 29.
Will be Rented, on Saturday the 21st December, 1805, to the highest bidder, the FARM , formerly the property of Samuel Scherer, dec. in Hanover county, for 6 or 8 years—on it there is a commodious dwelling, 2 barns and other convenient houses, &c.—it is deemed unnecessary to say anything of the soil, as no one is presumed will rent till they have examined it. There is 50 bushels of wheat sowed. On the same day will be offered for sale, all the STOCK belonging to the farm, consisting of horses, mules, cows, sheep and hogs, a Carriage, some Furniture and a complete set of Farming Tools. The terms of the sales will be six months credit for all sums exceeding 10 dollars; bond and approved security will be required. Hanna Scherer, } Adm's. George Scherer, } November 1, 1805.
Manchester Turnpike Company.  DELINQUENT Shareholders on the 8th Requisition, are hereby notified that such shares on which the said requisition shall remain unpaid, will be sold, on the 21st day of December next, at Mr. Brooks's Tavern, in Manchester, at 12 o'clock in the forenoon. James Brander, clk. Manchester, 16th Nov. 1805.
WANTED TO HIRE,  TWO SERVANTS , a Man and Woman; the Man must have been accustomed to wait in a house, as he will be wanted for that and to assist as Porter in a Store—The Woman must be a good plain Cook and Washer, cleanly in her person, and every thing she does; and to have no followers. They must be strongly recommended for their honesty and sobriety. Two of the above description will meet with a good place and liberal wages, by applying at this Office. November 28, 1805.
WANTED, as House-Keeper in a large family, an elderly Lady, who can come well recommended. Liberal wages will be given. Enquire of the printer. Nov 6, 1805.
NOTICE. The subscriber has just received, direct from France, a large supply of the first quality of BURRS , who continues to carry on at his manufactory the MILL-STONE BUSINESS . From the quality of the Burrs and his knowledge of the business he is enabled to inform millers and the public, that they can be supplied on the shortest notice with Mill-Stone of any dimensions, equal to any in the United States. Also, on hand, a supply of PLASTER PARIS, FRESH STONE LIME, IRISH POTATOES , and an extensive assortment of GROCERIES ; all of which he will dispose of for cash or country produce. He solicits those indebted to him for Mill-Stones, or otherwise to make immediate payment. I will Rent the HOUSE and STORE at present occupied by me, & possession will be given the 12th December. WILLIAM DAVIDSON. November 15th, 1805.
The subscribers offer for sale, their reversionary right in a new Fire Proof Warehouse on Maxwell's wharf, in the Borough of Norfolk, described in the will of Dr. John K. Read, dec. as his Uppermost Warehouse . In this property, Mrs. Helen Read has a life estate. MERIWETHER JONES, BENJAMIN F. READ. Oct. 26, 1805. It is probable that I may leave this state ere long; in which event, Meriwether Jones will be fully authorised to act for me. BENJAMIN F. READ. A NEAT ASSORTMENT OF Morocco Pocket Books Is just received and for sale at this Office.
TAKEN from a Negro Man (supposed to have been stolen by him) a small PIECE OF CASIMERE . It will be restored to the owner on proving property and paying the expense of this Advertisement. Apply to the Printer. November 19, 1805.
LOST or mislaid , about the 26th of September, a NOTE for one Hogshead of Tobacco, inspected at Columbia, in the name of Holland Goodridge, weighing 1070 as well as my recollection serves me. Thos. Barbour, jr. November 18, 1805.
LAND FOR SALE. IN pursuance of a decree of the High Court of Chancery for the Richmond District, to satisfy a debt due from the estate of Benjamin Lewis, dec. to Lucy Crouch, administratrix of John Crouch, dec. will be sold at Public Auction, on the premises, on Friday the 20th day of December next, for ready money. The Tract of LAND , Whereon Mrs. Lucy Crouch now resides, lying and being in the lower end of the county of Goochland, containing 350 acres, be the same more or less. The Commissioners. November 26, 1805.
ROBERT GREENHOW, MERCHANT in Williamsburg, has just received, two second hand GRAND PIANO FORTES , Selected, as being well toned; and previous to shipment, put by Broderess & Wilkinson into complete order; with a full set of spare springs, tuning hammer and fork to each; the one with additional keys, the other without—the former of which, he will sell for (cash) two hundred and eighty dollars; and the last at two hundred and forty dollars—with each of these instruments there is a large quantity of the most modern and best approved printed MUSIC , amounting to one hundred and twenty dollars, which being packed up with each instrument, he should prefer disposing of at the same time. He has also received a few Royal PATENT PLAIN PIANOS , with 2 pedals, complete set of spare strings, one Miller's Institutes, and two books most approved printed Music to each; price (cash) 140 dollars—These, as the Grand Pianos are sweetly toned, second hand instruments, put into complete order previous to shipment—Blank music paper, Miller's Institutes, best violins, and violin preceptors, do. pocket companions, Wrang's flute preceptor, best Italian strings for violin, guitar & piano do. clarinet reeds, &c &c And by the Ship Shepherdess from London, he has just received a general assortment of FRESH GARDEN SEEDS . Also on hand, first qualified RED CLOVER SEED , the vegetative powers of which may be relied on. He has by several different ships this fall received a variety of GOODS that renders his assortment complete and very general. CAST IRON BACKS for fire places, from 18 inches to 3 and a half feet in size, assorted, are amongst his Castings. Nov. 25, 1805.
TO THE INHABITANTS OF HENRICO, LOUISA AND GOOCHLAND. FELLOW CITIZENS, THAT doubts may cease to exist about my offering to represent this district at the next Senatorial election, I think it right to say, that if I live I shall be a Candidate. It is always improper for to be avoided, for a man to say anything for himself; and I extremely regret, that I feel compelled from circumstances which exist to do so. Because I profess Christianity my views are denounced, and design is attached; but since it is my opinion that the religion of an individual belongs to himself, I would willingly ask that indulgence of others which I am willing to extend. If others differ with me, it ought not to become a source of contest, for in this way has it happened, that mighty dissensions have been generated and cherished. Alas! I am no advocate for religious tests, & have always thought that government and religion ought to unite in no plan of operation, yet I have never learned that the religious belief of a man made him a worse citizen, or a worse representative. What the people are to require, is whether my political principles are of the kind they wish, and not whether I am of this or that religious persuasion. If an enquiry of this sort should be gone into, I have only to ask a retrospect of the events of my life, and an endeavour to find out whether at any time I have deviated from the political principles which I now avow. If so, it should be found that my mental acquirements ill qualify me for an appointment so important among the Candidates, this defect can be remedied, and an opportunity is afforded of making an election better suited to the views of the people. Accept my respect, GERARD BANKS. Goochland, Nov. 14, 1805.
FOR SALE, FOR CASH, A number of likely NEGROES. Apply to Major Field Archer, at Powhatan Courthouse, or the Subscriber, JAMES COCKE. November 26, 1805.
A PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS it appears by an Inquisition taken before the Coroner for the county of Harrison in this commonwealth, that ABEL CLEMENS stands charged with the murder of his whole family, consisting of his wife and eight children, and hath fled from justice; I have therefore thought fit with the advice of the Council of State, to issue this proclamation, hereby offering a reward of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS for apprehending and conveying before some one of the justices of the peace or the coroner for the aforesaid county of Harrison, to be dealt with as in such cases the law directs: And I do moreover enjoin all officers civil and military, and exhort the good people of the commonwealth to use their best endeavors to apprehend and convey before some one of the justices of the peace or the coroner for the county aforesaid, the said Abel Clemens . Given under my hand as Governor, with the seal of the commonwealth annexed at Richmond, the 24th day of December, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the commonwealth the thirtieth. Signed, JOHN PAGE.
Bail and Delivery Bonds For sale at this office.
WE the subscribers, Judges of the General Court, have pursuant to law allotted the Judges of the respective District Courts as follows: Edmund Winston and Francis T. Brooke, esqrs. to the Districts of Winchester, Hardy and Monongalia courthouse. John Tyler and Robert White, esqrs. to the Districts of Richmond, Petersburg, Brunswick courthouse and Suffolk. Richard Parker and Greed Taylor, esqrs. to the Districts of Prince Edward courthouse, Franklin, Washington courthouse and the Sweet Springs in Botetourt county. Joseph Prentis and Paul Carrington, jr. esqrs. to the Districts of Northumberland, King & Queen Williamsburg and Accomack courthouse—And William Nelson, jr. & Archibald Stuart, esqrs. to Staunton, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg and Haymarket districts, at the next succeeding terms thereof. WITNESS our hands and seals this fifteenth day of November, one thousand eight hundred and five. Jos: Prentis, (seal.) Jno. Tyler, (seal.) Wm. Nelson, jr. (seal.) Robt. White, jr. (seal.) Paul Carrington, jr. (seal.) Arch'd. Stuart, (seal.) Francis T. Brooke, (seal.) Greed Taylor, (seal.) Published by order of the Judges. WILSON ALLEN, c. c. c.
The Celebrated English Running Horse  CLIFDEN Is now at my stable (in Powhatan county, two miles below Genito and five above Gode's Bridges) where he will positively stand the next season; the terms will be reasonable and made known in due time. Greed Haskins. Powhatan, 29th Nov. 1805.
LAND FOR SALE. BY virtue of a decree of the County Court of Louisa, will be sold, to the highest bidder, on the premises, on the twenty fourth day of December next, for ready money, part of a Tract of LAND , belonging to the estate of Major Thomas Johnson, dec. known by the name of the Old Mill Tract, lying on both sides of Harris's Creek in Louisa county, near the Court house—Containing about six hundred and fifty acres, adapted to the culture of Corn, Wheat, and Tobacco. This Land is to be sold to satisfy a debt due the estate of Thomas Johnson, sheriff, deceased, for money paid by said Thomas Johnson, sheriff, dec. as security for said Major Thomas Johnson, dec. Purchasers may be accommodated with divisions of this land into lots, if it should be found likely to benefit the Sale. The Commissioners. November 14, 1805.
REMOVAL. H. DABNEY, begs leave to inform the public, he and his friends in particular, that he has Removed to the New Brick building opposite the Market; where he offers for sale on the most reasonable terms, a complete assortment of well chosen GROCERIES , For Cash or Produce only. Richmond, November 25, 1805.
A likely NEGRO WOMAN for Sale. A ply as above.
WILLIAM MCAY RETURNS his grateful acknowledgments to his numerous friends and customers for the liberal encouragement he has received, and informs them that the business will in future be carried on under the firm of  MCAY & COWAN,  WATCHES & CLOCK MAKERS: Who render their services to their friends and the public in the line of their profession, and hope from unremitted attention to merit the confidence of their customers. They repair Watches and Clocks of every description. M and C. have just received a large and fashionable assortment of Jewellery, consisting of Large, fancy, mourning, set and plain Ear-rings, Gold and gold set Necklaces. A handsome assortment of ornamented tortoise shell Combs, Mourning, fancy, wedding, plain and plain set Finger Rings, Mourning, plain and plain set Breast-Pins, Gold Miniature Settings and Chain, Mourning and plain Bracelets and Neck Clasps, Mourning and fancy Lockets, Ladies and Gentlemen's gold, gilt, silver and silk Watch Chains, Gold, gilt, pebble and glass Seals, Gold, gilt and steel Keys. Gold, silver and tortoise shell Sleeve Buttons, and Studs. Silver Thimbles, Salt Spoons, Netting Needles, Tooth Picks and Shoe Clasps, with a variety of other articles. They have likewise on hand a few good Watches, all of which they offer on the most reasonable terms. N. B. Miniature Settings and Hair-Work executed in the neatest manner.
WILLIAM COWAN Returns his acknowledgments to his friends & the public for the liberal encouragement he has received since his commencement in business, & flatters himself from the present connection, to merit their future confidence. N. B. Persons who have Watches remaining in his hands will please call at the shop of M'Cay and Cowan. November 26.
To Rent. THE subscriber is willing to rent out his MARKET GARDEN , it is in a high state of cultivation; the situation, soil, and natural conveniences are rarely to be found. Immediate possession may be had. D. TRUEHEART. Meadow Bridges, Dec. 2, 1805.
Manchester Turnpike Company.  NOTICE is hereby given, that the Directors of the Manchester Turnpike will attend at Bob Anderson's in the county of Chesterfield, on the 30th instant, for the purpose of receiving proposals for completing that part of the road which remains unfinished. By order of the board. JAMES BRANDER, CLK. Manchester, 4th Dec. 1805.
CORR'S CELEBRATED PATENT METALLIC HONES, Are for sale at this Office.
Just received and for sale at S. Pleasants Book-Store, near the Bridge, THE FOLLOWING GENUINE Patent Medicines. Hill's Balsam of Honey, obstinate eruptions, &c Turlington's Balsam, British Oil Godfrey's Cordial, Hooper's Female Pills Essence of Peppermint, Anderson's Scott's do. Steers Opedelott, The celebrated Specific Oriental Ceyate, for the cure of the outward and inward Piles. Oriental Ceyate, for the cure of outward piles, scalds, sore legs, burns
Foalscap & Letter Paper For sale at this office.
Marshal's Sale. IN pursuance of a decree of the Court of the United States for the fifth circuit of the Virginia District, pronounced at the May Term, 1805, in behalf of John Tale and Thomas Aston, assignees of Henry Martin, against James Vaughan, adm'r of Matthew Vaughan, deceased, and others, will be SOLD , to the highest bidder, for ready money, at the Eagle Tavern in the city of Richmond, on Thursday the 24th day of January, 1806.
The following Slaves, Viz. Gibb, Joe, Ned, Trip, Cyrus, Peter, Parrot, Billey, Lewis, Lewy, Carter, Phil, and Poetess, (males)—Nell, Franky, Lucy, Fanny, Judy, Amy, Dolly, Sylvia and Betty, (females)—or so many thereof as may be sufficient to raise the sum of one thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty four cents, with interest on one thousand four hundred and seventy nine dollars and fifty nine cents, part thereof at the rate of six per centum per annum, from the 23d day of May, 1805, and the expenses of sale. Benjamin Mosby, D. M. for Joseph Scott, M. V. D. Dec. 4th, 1805.
TO RENT, AND possession given the first day of January next, a HOUSE & LOT , situated on Shockoe Hill, opposite Mr. William Dawson's. For further particulars apply to SAM'L M'CRAW, or JACOB FACKLER. Richmond, 2d Dec. 1805.
For Sale, On Private Contract,  GREEN-WAY ; the seat on which I now reside, including Mons-Sacer and the courthouse tenements, containing in all 1200 acres of fertile level farming land (reserving one acre of consecrated ground.) The whole is bounded by two navigable creeks, emptying into James river before the door and forming a bay, therefrom 1400 yards only—25 miles to Petersburg, by water, 30 to Richmond, by land, and 28 to Williamsburg—The courthouse tenement has on it a large ensured tavern, with six rooms; one of which is 32 feet by 20 in length and breadth; arch'd in the middle and used for entertainments; also, all necessary out houses, a good garden and a fine well of water, dry cellars, stores, &c. for the use of a commercial business, which are now occupied to advantage in that line. This is an excellent place for stock, fish and fowl in their seasons, and enough of corn, wheat and oats may be made by common industry, for the consumption of the tavern. This tenement has 200 acres of land annexed to it, and rents for £100 a year. GREEN-WAY contains 500 acres well improved. On it, is a genteel well finished dwelling house, containing 6 rooms; all wainscoated, chair board high, with fine dry cellars, the full length of the house which is 56 feet: also every other building which a reasonable person could wish or desire, to wit: a handsome study, store house, kitchen, laundry, dairy, meat house, spinning house and an ice house, within the curtilage, a barn 40 by 34 feet, two granaries, two carriage houses, 20 stalls for horses, a quarter for house servants, a handsome octagon pigeon house, well stocked, and several other out houses for slaves, a well of water (so excellent that I can drink it with delight after returning from a mountain circuit,) a large fertile garden abounding with a great variety of shrubs, herbs and beautiful flowers, well enclosed. The buildings new and well covered with shingles. MONS-SACER contains 500 acres more or less, on which is a neat small dwelling, a mill begun on a never-failing stream, one mile from James river and emptying itself therein. This farm is remarkably level and highly improvable, is in a fine settlement for wheat and timber, so that the manufacturing business may be carried on to great advantage, as also the sawing of timber now so much in demand. About half this estate inclusive is under fine fire wood and timber—and scarcely a gall or wash on any part of it. The age and fever has not visited a white person for 20 years that I recollect. In short there cannot well be conceived a more agreeable situation in all respects than this estate taken together.
UTOPIA I will also dispose of—This little estate lies in James City county; is in an island surrounded by navigable water near the mouth of Chickahominy river, containing 746 acres of highland and hard marsh sufficient for the support of 1000 head of cattle in the month of May. The high land is rich and produces four and five barrels of corn to the acre. There are 100 acres of good timber adjoining the same. In the centre of this island is a very handsome hill, on which a small but comfortable dwelling is built, affording a fine prospect over James river for many miles. Here every necessary of life can be had and many of its luxuries with little trouble. It overflows with milk and honey when sufficient stock is furnished to go upon. It is remarkable for fine fruits, as the frosts seldom or never affect it; and no place in Virginia surpasses it for fish and wild fowl. From this place quantities of hay might be transported by water to Richmond, Norfolk or Petersburg. Any kind of public securities will be taken for the above property, or if more agreeable to the purchaser or purchasers, I will receive part in cash and the balance at convenient periods—30 or 40 slaves and stocks of every kind may be had, if the estate is purchased all together. My lands on Clear creek, Big Licking and Triplet, in Kentucky I will also sell, or exchange for property in Richmond. It may be now enquired why I should in an advanced stage of life part with an estate so convenient and agreeable in all respects? In the first place, in a little time I shall be compelled by the unerring voice of nature to "quit this mortal coil," and it is right I should so adjust all my matters as to leave nothing for litigation after my death. My years of regret will be therefore but few on that score. Secondly, it is the best mode I can adopt for a fair division of what I possess among my children; and lastly, I am desirous of obtaining a situation, more convenient and cheap for the education of my sons, which the savings from a narrow parsimonious salary, and the profits arising from a much neglected estate, in consequence of my attention to public duties, can never support. JOHN TYLER. August 24, 1805.