Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1806-09-01 00:00:00

THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK; PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM...
GERMAN GOODS.
JOHN C. NIEMEYER,
Offers for Sale the following GOODS, for Cash or on convenient credit, for approved Bills only, viz.
5000 Bags 2 & 3 bushels, loose and in bales, 300 doz. Watch Christials, 600 East-India Gunny Bags, 25 do. coarse thread...
Also a complete assortment of the following Articles, viz.
Fifty assorted Trunks, Oil Cloth, Coffee Mills, German Razor Hones, Morocco Shaving Cases, do. Pocket Books, do. Sagar Boxes...
For SALE by the Subscribers, a general assortment of Ship Chandlery, Cordage, and Cables, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 inches...
GROCERIES.
Noble, Arbunnot, & Co. March 31. tf 623
To Rent or Lease, for one or five years, A commodious BRICK-HOUSE, Situated on Smith's-Point, lately occupied by the Subscriber...
Who has for Sale, A likely NEGRO MAN, about 22 years old; an excellent house servant, and has been accustomed to drive a carriage.
FOR SALE, A quantity of New-York and English SLATE, of superior quality. Reilly & Tunis. June 23. tf 837
10 Groce Wine & Porter BOTTLES, 700 Groce CORKS, 500 lb. excellent GLUE, 11,000 two and 3 Bushel BAGS, 105 Boxes Window GLASS...
All persons indebted to the estate of the late Wm. Davies, Esq. will please make payment, and those to whom the estate is indebted, will to please furnish their accounts properly attested...
Landing at Murray's wharf, from on board the ship Caledonian, 1500 Liverpool filled Sacks of SALT, 109 Crates well assorted EARTHENWARE.
FOR RENT, The three large and commodious Ware Houses on the lower end of Gibson's Wharf--Possession may be had immediately, by applying to John Southgate, or William Dickson.
We have received by the brig Sumner, from Jamaica, 57 puncheons high proof RUM, 15 Hogsheads MOLASSES--which are offered for Sale on very liberal terms, by Redmon & Frith.
FOR SALE, 850 Barrels whole HERRINGS, in excellent order for Shipping, 80 do. cut do. 130 do. SHAD; 750 bbls. TAR, 450 do. TURPENTINE. Richard Blow. July 14. tf 907
FOR SALE, 73 punch. choice 4th proof RUM, Received by the brig Paragon, Captain Robertson, from Jamaica. Redmon & Frith. July 11. tf 899
That large and commodious WARE-HOUSE, on Hutchings' wharf. For terms, apply to John Brown, or Wm. Cammack. August 4. tf 44
NOTICE. All persons having claims against the Estate of DANIEL McPHERSON, deceased, are requested to exhibit them immediately to the Subscriber duly attested...
John Mc'Phail, Ex'r. August 1. tf 38
NOTICE. The Copartnership of P. DANA, & Co. being dissolved by the death of Mr. STEPHEN P. DANA; business in future will be transacted by Phineas Dana. August 20. tf 95
200 DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN-AWAY from the Subscriber's farm, in Frederick County, Maryland, on the 9th day of July, 1805, a da mulatto fellow named MOSES, (but commonly called LANHAM--He was raised near Piscataway, in Prince George's County...
TO PRINTERS.
I will SELL, on a credit of one, two and three years, that valuable Printing-Office and Establishment, at Halifax--The paper has six hundred subscribers, and a profitable advertising custom...
A young man of a tolerable education, though not a printer, would be enabled to conduct the office, and would find it an agreeable as well as a profitable business. Letters addressed to me (post paid) will be duly attended to. Wm. BOYLAN. Raleigh, North-Carolina, July 1, 1806.
Landing from on board the schooner Harriet, 60 Tierces RICE, and a few bales of COTTON--For Sale by Fisk & Catlett. August 20. tf 100
FOR SALE, A Fire-Proof HOUSE in Little-Water Street, opposite Mr. David M'Allister's; subject to a ground rent of 44 dollars per annum, and rents for 240 dollars per annum; or a lease of 99 years renewable for ever.
The friends of Thomas Norman, John Marshall, William Norris, Elijah Russel, and John Hubbard, (who represent themselves to be citizens of Virginia,) have been impressed into the British service, for want of documents to prove their citizenship...
FALL GOODS. Received by ship Alexander, captain King, from Liverpool, 30 bales of Napt Kendal COTTONS, 15 do. White PLAINS, 10 do. Rose BLANKETS, 10 do. FLANNELS, 6 Boxes Coarse HATS, 3 Trunks of Fancy Manchester CORDS.
FOR SALE, 12,000 bush. Liverpool stoved SALT. Apply to William Dickson, or Alexander Maclure. August 29. tf 125
Information Wanted.
IF THOMAS LEE, a native of the County of Cavan, in Ireland, who arrived in the United States about two years since, will apply at the office of the Publick Ledger, he will hear of something much to his advantage.
Now Landing on our Wharf, from the Schooner Catharine Shepherd, Capt. Webb, from Antigua, 50 Puncheons fine flavoured RUM, For Sale on liberal credit, by Conway & F. Whittle. July 25. tf 19
Wanted Immediately, a quantity of Musk Rat SKINS, Northern Rabin do. Beaver do.--For which Cash will be given on application to Oliveira, Fernandes, & Co. August 22. 3w 108
NOTICE.
Apprehensions for the health of his family, having induced the subscriber, very reluctantly, to remove from the Borough of Norfolk, he has fixed his final residence in Richmond, and may be found always at his office near the capitol, in the house lately occupied by M. Jones, Esq., the Commissioner of Loans.
William Wirt. Richmond, August 4. 1aw6w 57
FOR SALE, Now landing on our wharf, from on board the British Sloop Patrick Bourke, Capt. Blay, from Antigua, 14 hlids. Muscovado, and 26 tierces Clayed SUGAR, by C. & F. Whittle. August 18. tf 83
102 hogsheads choice SUGAR, Landing from on board the Brig Peace, from Trinidad.--For Sale by Moses Myers.
ALSO, 50 pipes 4th proof Cogniac BRANDY. August 18. tf 84
40 Dozen excellent PORT WINE, For SALE by Angus Martin. August 18. 4w 89
Received per the Schooner Ranger, 17 Puncheons Tobago RUM, 5 do. do. MOLASSES. For SALE by Wilson, Cunningham, & co. August 8. 3w 58
Dissolution of Partnership.
THE Partnership of John D. Haldane, & Co. of Norfolk, expired this 11th day of August, 1806, by limitation of time, agreeable to their copartnership articles--All persons having claims against the said firm, will exhibit them to the said John D. Haldane and Alexander Baird, for settlement...
John Baird, John D. Haldane. August 11. 3w 72
FOR SALE, The LOT and HOUSES, whereon John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul resides; on it are a three story Dwelling-House, an Office, a Kitchen, and other houses necessary for family use--a Well of good Water newly fitted, and a Garden lately pailed in, a Warehouse and Cellar under it, the remains of a Wharf which will make a good foundation to build on, with all the privileges of lots situated on the river of extending a wharf--Also, two hundred and seventy-one and half acres of well timbered Land, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Mason's Creek, where the best of Fish and Oysters can be conveniently taken--Also, a Lot in Smithfield, between Mr. Purdie's and Capt. Todd's lots. For terms apply to Thomas Newton. August 1. tf 39
ANCHOVIES,
By the gallon--For SALE by John Gay. August 18. tf 88
We have for SALE, on low terms, London particular 18 Pipes, 11 Hogsheads } Madeira WINE, 3 Qr. Casks } A Cargo of 1st of May SALT, 600 Sacks Liverpool stoved } do. 20 Hogsheads low land TOBACCO. J. & W. Southgate. August 18. tf 88
From the Port Folio.
The recent conduct of the king of Prussia towards Great Britain, and indeed, the uniform policy pursued by the court of Berlin since the unfortunate campaign made by the duke of Brunswick, are sufficiently important, both in their principles and consequences, to arrest the attention of every man interested in the preservation of the peace and dignity of Europe.
King's have not only long arms but strong ones too. A great northern potentate, for instance, is able in one moment, and with one bold stroke of his diplomatic pen, to efface all the volumes which I could write in a century, or which the most laborious publicists of Germany ever carried to the fair of Leipzig as an apology for monarchs and monarchy.
How can I help it, if this high minded prince will subscribe to the invectives which the regicides have made against all kings and particularly against himself? How can I help it, if this royal propagandist will preach the doctrine of the rights of men? Is it my fault if his professors of literature read lectures on that code in all his academies, and if all the pensioned managers of the newspapers in his dominions diffuse it throughout Europe in a hundred Journals?
How can I prevent all these acts of royal policy, and all these displays of royal magnificence? How can I prevent the successor of Frederick the Great from aspiring to a new, and in this age an unexampled kind of glory? Is it in my power to say that he shall not make his confession in the style of St. Austin or of Rousseau.
FOR SALE--Afloat, 302 Barrels, 26 half do. New Superfine FLOUR, Gallego's Brands. James Herron, August 25. 111

THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
TO SHEW THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME, HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 1, 1806.
Yesterday morning, the French frigate Cybèle, mentioned in our last, came up into the harbour; on passing Fort Nelson she saluted with 21 guns, which were returned by an equal number.
Respecting this ship, we learn that on the 19th ult. in about 20, 60, lat. 64 long. in company with the Regulus, of 84 guns, and the President of 44, they were encountered by a violent hurricane at S. E. to S. which compelled them to scud for nearly five days, in which they lost their mizen-mast, main-top-mast, quarter pieces fore off, and the ship generally much injured. The last that was seen of the Regulus and President, they were scudding before the gale.
From information, in which we place confidence, we can say that this squadron has never joined the fleet commonly called Jerome Buonaparte's.
On Friday last a French 74 gun ship came into the Capes, and proceeded up the bay. She was seen on Saturday morning going under New Point Comfort to anchor. This ship has lost all her top masts, and appeared to be otherwise much injured. There has not been any person from her, but we understand it is the Patriot, one of the fleet to which Jerome Buonaparte belongs. Other accounts say it is the Regulus, which from comparing every account, we should think most probable; we shall probably know certainly in the course of the day.
By Captain Walker, from Baltimore, we have received papers of that city of Thursday, and a gentleman who came passenger has favoured us with New-York papers of Tuesday. Advices a day later from Europe have been received, but they do not afford any thing new, we have selected a few articles, which will be found in this day's paper.
From arrivals since our last, we find that the late gale, was what is usually termed the "tail of a West India hurricane," for we discover that the further South, the gale has been the more violent, and was felt five or six days sooner than it was here. It is described by the officers of the French frigate as of most unexampled violence.
The British ship Rattlesnake, Lightburne, from Baltimore to Barbados, was captured on the 13th ult. by the French ships Regulus, President, and Cybèle; and ordered to Martinique.
JOHN PAGE, Esq. the late venerable governor of Virginia, has been appointed Commissioner of Loans, in the room of Meriwether Lewis, Esq. dec'd. We have not yet understood, whether Mr. Page has accepted the commission. Enquirer.
No doubt can now be entertained of the ignominious doom of our unfortunate countrymen, who fell into the merciless hands of the Spaniards. To the list of sufferers we have to add the name of Mr. Stedman, of New-York. He had resided 7 or 8 years at Port au Prince, where he joined the expedition. His head was fixed on a pole on the top of a mountain between Laguira and Caraccas. A gentleman, passenger in the Endymion, m coming from Caraccas to Laguira, examined the heads and recognized the features of Ledlie and Donahue. Capt. Gardner, who expressed great anxiety to be shot, was first hung up, the others in succession, each having his uniform burnt, previous to being swung off. After the execution, the bodies were burnt, and their heads ordered to Caraccas, there to be exposed on poles. On the 8th August, the effigy of Miranda was to be publicly burnt at Laguira. Capt. Suter informs, that the Spaniards without exception, rejoiced at these proceedings. [Phil. Gaz.]
More Federal persecution—George Tyler, Esq. postmaster at Castine (Maine) has been indicted and convicted of forgery, and sentenced to one year's imprisonment. This is one of Mr. Granger's men, appointed "believing the publick good would be promoted." "Squire Tyler, it appears, finding it difficult to procure bondsmen as Postmaster, took the liberty to put down his brother's name without his knowledge. For this harmless act he has been persecuted and punished by the intolerant Federalists. We shall shortly expect to hear that some of the most conspicuous of the 'squire's' democratic brethren have formed themselves into a committee for the humane and laudable purpose of enquiring into his situation, and informing the publick by regular reports of his sufferings in prison. Such appears to be the fashion of late; and certainly the 'squire's' case is such as cannot fail to interest the philanthropy, and excite the compassionate regard, of his brother democrats. Poughkeepsie Journal.
From the Wiscasset paper.
The following paragraph will doubtless be echoed through all the democratic papers:
The federal tyranny exercised in the case of the poor harmless Mr. Osborne, in Connecticut, who is confined in a jail for only publishing a few libels, and refusing to find bail for 100 dollars, is nothing—less than nothing—compared with the intolerance and cruelty exercised by the supreme court, in the persecution of another and as worthy a republican, and late officer under the present administration. Mr. George Tyler, of Castine, who has been ignominiously indicted, tried, convicted, and sentenced to one year's confinement in a lonesome jail, among felons, for only forging the name of another person to a bond. Thus are the "useful labours" of a good patriot circumscribed; and he deprived of his liberty—that darling birthright of republicans!—Thus are the crimes of the persecuting Federalist multiplied. O Tempora! O Mores!
[It is not said whether a new appointment has taken place, or the duties of the office are discharged by Deputy, or what is more congenial with the philanthropy of Mr. Granger, whether the post office pro tem. is not removed to the Jail. In some way no doubt the sufferings of this worthy will be alleviated, and federal malice disappointed.]
BOSTON, August 22.
On the 29th of July, lat. 43, long. 57, Admiral Warren, dispatched the brig Scorpion to Newfoundland, to apprise the officers there that the French fleet had left the Leeward Islands, and were steering north-easterly.
On the 10th of August lat. 37, 30, long. 53, 30, a squadron was seen proceeding to the eastward. It is probable this is the French fleet which was off New York the 1st instant. They proceeded to the
eastward slowly. Admiral Warren, was far to the northward and eastward of them, unless he obtained information, and changed his course.
Circumstances seem still to delay the return of the Tunisian ambassador to his own country. We understand that he has proceeded to Washington to have an interview with the President or some of the heads of departments.
NEW YORK, August 25.
A severe gale from N. E. accompanied with heavy and incessant rain, commenced early on Saturday morning, and ended yesterday at noon; when the wind shifted to N. N. W. and blew a gale till dark. We have not heard of any damage being done to shipping in this harbour; but at the quarantine ground some damage was done to vessels there, but nothing material. The ship Empereur parted one of her cables, and rode out the gale at single anchor. The brig Horatio, from the city of St. Domingo, was lying at the publick dock, when she parted her fasts and drifted ashore; but was hauled off as the tide rose, without receiving any damage except having her rudder knocked off. The schooner Mariner had her chain plates carried away, &c. The schooner Citizen from Havannah lost one of her anchors. The schooner Betsey, from Guadalupe, made a harbour under Long-Island. The schooner Nimrod, bound out, came to anchor in Gravesend bay, and stood out to sea yesterday.
From the New York Commercial Advertiser.
U.L.M., November 9, 1805.
The hard fate suffered by the city of Ulm and its neighbourhood, particularly the prefectures Elchingen, Albeck and Sœflingen, in a war so suddenly pressing upon us, calls so loud upon the sympathy of the well disposed of mankind for participation and assisting aid, that even the first account of it inserted into public papers, particularly the Universal News-Paper, made general and deep impressions, and occasioned inquiries into the nearer circumstances. At present, indeed the particular accounts of the sufferings of whole communities, and individuals, have not yet been handed in so as to enable us to name with any degree of exactness, sums, to which the loss might amount. But a general view of the scenes visible on the above described spot in the course of only six weeks, will strike irresistible conviction in every observer's mind, that the loss is immense, and that the total ruin of many families must be the consequence, should at this time philanthropy remain inactive in uniting to their relief such christian brethren, as by an indulging providence have been preserved from similar calamities. We are happy to state, that facts already in our power to relate are evidences of the existence of such christian like and charitable disposition.
At the close of September, our neighbourhood was inundated with soldiers; and at the beginning of October, an army of near sixty thousand men crowded itself into the city of Ulm and a small space surrounding it. The greatest part of this army being destitute of magazines, drew its provisions from the city and neighbouring villages. This army was soon surrounded by another still greater, of the opposite side, likewise without magazines, which drew its subsistence from a district, in comparison with the army to be maintained, indescribably contracted. This happened at a time when the public stores were exhausted, when the prices of all provisions were extremely high, when the harvest was not quite over, and what was gathered in, not threshed; when the horses were taken and put in requisition, and those who could carry any thing to market were in danger of losing both the horses and the produce. Ulm alone had to maintain, for 5 weeks, 15,877 officers, 347,415 soldiers, and 41,739 horses, and harbor often 20,000 men. The pressure arising from such crowds, in a place consisting of not more than 13,000 inhabitants, and containing 1600 mostly small and in part middling houses, beggars description. It was a collection of little barracks and horse-stables. Lying-in women, and the sick, were obliged to leave their warm rooms to the soldiers. From this it will be obvious to every reflecting mind, that from the expenses requisite for the maintenance of such an immense mass of people, quite beyond all possible reach: from the waste of fire wood, occasioned by the watch-fires by day and night in and out of the city, which took away not only all the stock of wood laid up, but likewise all the fences in the suburbs, and whatever was combustible in summer houses, and even in many places, doors, window-shutters, and wooden utensils: from the ruin of the dwelling houses in the city, increased by three bombardments, and of the gardens and orchards about the place: finally, from the distress occasioned by the requisitions of woollen cloth, leather and other necessities—the loss sustained by the inhabitants of Ulm must have been immense. These terrors were accompanied by an inundation of inauspicious bank notes sunk beneath the half of their nominal value, and of six penny pieces made of copper, refused even by the Austrians who issued them. Perplexity, want, hunger suffered by many, horrors in beholding the wounded, disgust effected by the appearance of the streets rendered almost impassable by filth, personal affronts and ill usages, to which those were exposed from whom mere impossibilities were demanded—all this is not situated in the above considerations.
Mournful as this picture is impressed on the mind of the beholder of the city, yet misery and distress appears in the districts above named, in a shape, if possible, more hideous and terrible. The inhabitants of the villages, more exposed to the vexations of wanton insolence and to the plunder of a soldiery, excited by the want of regular maintenance and by the inclemency of the season, saw themselves deprived of their clothing, beds, utensils, cattle, grain, wood and money. Many habitations, particularly in Pfuhl, Offenhausen, Elchingen, Goettingen, Albeck, Jungingen and Sœflingen, are ruined, and the peasants are in want of provisions, and even of grain for sowing, of horses and of agricultural utensils. If these unfortunate sufferers are not doomed to an unceasing scourge of misery, they must now rely on the sympathetic feelings and active aid of generous philanthropists, whose hearts are the more touched by the spectacle of suffering humanity, the more they themselves have been spared by divine indulgence.
May religion and principles of uninterested generosity produce in such as are able to afford relief, sensations of sympathy and resolutions of active aid. The father of mercies will not suffer any gift to remain void of blissful consequences to the giver; and the consciousness of having fulfilled the duty of philanthropy, together with the gratitude of the relieved, by the estimation of the better sort among them, will be a never-failing source of sweet reward.
To prevent impudent or fraudulent collections of individuals, the mercantile branch of the citizens of Ulm, have agreed to subjoin this appeal to humanity to their mercantile correspondents, with the request to each of their correspondents, to send their contributions, or the sums collected from others for the purpose, to them. These donations (if not by special directions, designed for a particular application) will, under authority of the board of the merchants of Ulm, be collected in one treasury, and in due time most conscientiously distributed.
The Board of Merchants of Ulm.
Translated by John C. Kunze, German Lutheran minister of New York, who will receive any donation sent to him at No. 100 Chatham-street for the abovementioned purpose, and transmit the whole to the mercantile house of Henry van der Smitsen & Co. in Altona. A list of all the donations and the
benefactors, shall be open for inspection in his house & a copy of it deposited in the house of the president of the humane society, the rev. Dr. John Rodgers, or if he should receive hints from benefactors, preferring another mode, he will insert it in some of our publick papers. The mercantile house mentioned belongs to them, who are authorised by their correspondents at Ulm.
Whatever divisions political sentiments may effect in the citizens of the United States, sentiments of humanity unite them. Such is the character of the people of America; and our editors of newspapers, though at open, yet unbloody, war among themselves, have always found receive accounts of this kind from one another as enemies would a flag of truce. Upon this experience I ground my request to the different publishers of newspapers in the city and in the state, entreating them to give in their respective papers, a place to this representation. J. C. K.
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) July 26.
On Thursday the Serpent sloop of war, of 16 guns, captain Walter, returned to Port Royal from a cruise. On the 17th instant she fell in with vice admiral Sir John Borlase Warren's squadron in the Mona passage, and received dispatches from him for vice admiral Dacres. Sir John states that he had arrived at Barbadoes on the 12th instant.
On the 14th the admiral heard that Sir Alexander Cochrane was on his way to Antigua, having lost sight of Guillaume's squadron on the night of the 8th instant, which after going through the passages by Tortola and St. Thomas's, had hauled to the northward.
Sir J. B. Warren adds, that he sailed from Barbadoes intending to pursue his route to this island, but meeting with the Serpent, and not obtaining any further particulars, he should steer to the northward hoping to intercept them on their return to Europe.
From a late London Paper.
ADMIRAL VILLENEUVE.
The following letter from the late admiral Villeneuve, said to be very generally circulated on the Continent, develops the real character of Buonaparte with considerable truth. It must be observed, however, that although the admiral had determined to avoid the torture by self-murder, the facts stated in the French journals relative to the manner of his death, leave not the least doubt that he must have been anticipated in that act by some agent of Buonaparte. He was found, it is said, with two wounds in his heart and the knife sticking in the third! This circumstance, unluckily for his calumniating assassins, satisfactorily proves that he was murdered, as no man could himself inflict two wounds in his heart & retain power sufficient to make a third. The instrument also, is an additional proof, as the knife now performs the office in France that the stiletto does in Italy. Posterity will unquestionably place the name of the veteran Villeneuve among the victims of the assassin Buonaparte.
RENNES, April 26.
"SIR! (Monsieur!)"
"You must remember that when Latouche died at Toulon, I commanded at Rochfort, and declined to succeed him. I was then well convinced whoever headed or directed the adventurous and badly planned expeditions of the combined French and Spanish fleet would be disgraced as well as defeated if misfortune spared his life, in an engagement almost unavoidable, with a foe accustomed to victory, and covering the seas of the world with his cruisers. These were my very words to the minister of marine. When I afterwards, so much against my inclination had sailed for Barcelona and Cadiz, and witnessed the manning and manoeuvres of the Spanish fleet, my first dispatch contained my resignation, again sent in from Martinique, Ferrol and from Cadiz. To the order of the 24th of last September, "of returning to Toulon with the combined fleet, were we even to fight our way through the English fleet."—I replied "that it should be obeyed;"—but I reminded also the minister of my former resignation, of my former apprehensions, of the uncertainty of naval combat, and of my determination, whether successful or repulsed, to renounce for ever a perilous post, which my principles, and above all my violent and cruel character, made me unfit to occupy.
"Neither fault nor want of valor brought on the misfortune of Trafalgar. This fact has been fully proved in my official account of this battle. Why refuse it a place in the Moniteur, while the calumnies and aspersions of my rivals and foes have always been admitted in its outrageous columns? When, in the midst of your prosperous and ambitious career in Germany, my report reached you, did you not, with your usual petulance and cruelty, say, "I see that the example of a French Byng is absolutely necessary to make victory the order of the day in my navy?" A thousand voices have repeated this your unfeeling expression—this sentence of death pronounced against a patriotick French admiral by a ferocious foreign usurper, while my dispatch was left unnoticed, unheard of, and perhaps unread. It contained, nevertheless, some severe truths, which would not have added any lustre to your naval talents, but proved that HE, whose incapacity and ambition alone caused the loss of the French fleet near Aboukir, also occasioned the destruction of another near Trafalgar.
"In my last conversation with you, you owned to me yourself, "that, even were France the unopposed mistress of the continent, as long as she cannot compel Great Britain to submit to her dictates, her external power must be precarious, her external state unsettled, her commerce stagnated, her manufactures depressed, and her inhabitants suffering and poor." But what have you done to remedy these certain evils, and to preserve these necessary advantages? Under your tyranny, of some years only, my country and her allies have already lost a greater number of men of war than composed the whole royal navy during the long reigns of Louis XIV. and of Louis XV. and should she sometime longer be cursed with the sway of your iron sceptre, her military navy will be on a level with her commercial navy, and in her seaports nothing seen but shameless pirates and beggar traders.
"But has even hitherto my country derived any gain or honour from all your fortunate campaigns; or is she more free under your unlimited authority? Overburthened with taxes, and cruelly oppressed by an active relentless military despotism, my slavish countrymen mourn without daring to utter a sigh, the gradual approach of inevitable ruin; whilst you, your relatives, and your creatures alone profit from conquests effected by the purest blood and most valuable treasures of France. But to consider, even in a point of view, your usurpations, your devastations, your indemnities, your changes, and your pacifications, what glory, what advantage can Frenchmen, and what safety can other people, derive from them, or from beholding a sanguinary adventurer an emperor; his vicious harlot an empress; his obscure and wicked brothers and brothers-in-law kings and princes; his profligate nieces queens and princesses; and his criminal accomplices, dukes, field-marshals and knights? Though you have enchained the persons, you have been unable to bewilder or to seize the senses of Frenchmen. Can therefore, the presence in France of 20,000 Austrian and Russian prisoners, remind them of any thing else but of the captivity (caused by your provocation and ambition) or more than
For Charter, The remarkable fine SHIP AMERICA, Captain Langdon, two years old, burthen 330 hogsheads tobacco, now ready for the reception of a cargo. ALSO, THE BRIG ROBERT BARCLAY, Two years old, burthen 200 blds. tobacco, expected daily from New-York. For terms, apply to Richard Blow. 119  For Sale or Charter, The fast sailing Sch'r CAROLINE, James Gilbert, Master, burthen 120 tons, or 850 barrels. Will be ready to receive a cargo in 4 days. Apply to Francis Smith. Who is now landing and for Sale, from said schooner, on Maxwell's wharf, 23 Puncheons choice Grenada RUM. 124  We want, A VESSEL, of 80 to 100 tons, to load with lumber at the Convenient Landings, on Pasquotank River, N. C. for Jamaica. And for Sale, FLOUR in barrels and half barrels. Rowland & Triplett. Gibson's Wharf. 126  For Freight or Charter, The brig JUPITER, burthen 1600 barrels—and the Schooner JAMES, burthen 750 barrels, both in order to receive cargoes. Apply to Thomas Willock. 127  For Freight or Charter, The Ship ELIZA, William Daggett, Master, 400 hogsheads burthen. C. & F. Whittle. Who have for Sale on board the said Ship, 10,000 bushels St. Ubes SALT. 128  For Charleston, The Sloop LITTLE POLL, Captain Custis—For freight or passage, apply to the master on board, at Maxwell's wharf, or to James Herron. 129  For Freight or Charter, The good Ship JASON, Titus Salter, master, burthen 240 tons, can be ready to receive a cargo in two days. For terms apply to the master on board, or to Phinchas Dana. 130  For Freight or Charter, The good Ship ALEXANDER, Miles King, master, can be ready to receive a cargo in ten days FOR SALE, 12,000 bush. Liverpool stoved SALT, 30 Crates of well assorted CROCCERY WARE. Also—An extensive assortment of FALL GOODS, Which will be disposed of on low terms, for Cash. J. & W. Southgate. 116  We want a freight of Tobacco, For the Ship JULIA, Captain Vickery, to a port in France, burthen 350 hogsheads. C. & F. Whittle. 112  For ANTWERP, The good Ship PATSEY, David G. Bowles, master, burthen 370 tons, lying at City Point, having more than half of her cargo engaged and now receiving it on board—For the remainder, about 500 bales of cotton are wanted, which will be taken at a moderate freight, if application be immediately made to Messrs. Gallego, Richards, & co. Richmond; Rambaut, Gernon, & co. Petersburg, or to James Maurice, & co. 109  For SALE, The good fast-sailing SHIP ELIZA, coppered to the bends, burthen 275 tons. For terms, apply to Moses Myers. 106  For Freight or Charter, The fine fast-sailing Ship FALCON, Robert Henderson, Master, burthen 273 tons, 14 months old, can be ready to receive a cargo in two days. Apply to the master on board, or Phinchas Dana. 105  For a Port in France, The fast sailing Ship Highland Mary. Part of her cargo is engaged for the Bay of Biscay. George Murray, & Co. 102  For PHILADELPHIA, The good Sch'r JASON, Will positively sail in ten days. For freight or passage, (having good accommodations) apply to D. R. Waddey, & Co. 101  For Sale or Charter, The good Brig PEACE, E. Swain, Master, burthen about 93 tons. For terms, apply to Christopher Fry. Who has for Sale, in store, 4 pipes 4th proof BRANDY, 10 Hogsheads, and 10 barrels N. E. RUM. 81  For Sale or Charter, The fine stanch, fast sailing Brig ANN ELIZABETH, Richard Owens, master, 4 years old, burthen about 1300 barrels, and will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. Apply to John Brown. Who has received from Madeira by said Brig, a few pipes, hogsheads, and quarter casks London particular Madeira WINE, which will be sold low by applying as above. 66  For LONDON, The well known elegant Ship ALMIRA, Captain Whipple, three years old, and burthen 500 blds.—She will be ready to receive a cargo in three days, and has a considerable part of it engaged; for freight or passage, (having excellent accommodations) apply to Capt. Whipple on board, or N. Heron. 98

that number of their countrymen in England? While they see the former returning to their homes, must not Frenchmen lament the absence of those so justly dear to them, but whom they must never expect to embrace again, before delivered from your tyranny? They are well aware that Great Britain is too wise and too powerful to sign another peace with a man more conspiring against her independence as a pretended friend, than dangerous as an avowed enemy—whose olive branches have always been the sulphurous fagots of a political and social incendiary, who offers continually peace during war, and plots and meditates nothing but destruction during a peace.
From the language of this letter, you will easily perceive that the writer is out of reach of your ferocious vengeance, and fears no longer either your racks or dungeons, your poisoners, or your tormentors. Your minister's order to me, "not to approach the capital without further permission from you," has again put off the period of your punishment, and the delivery of mankind from its scourge. Without it, resolved not to survive the ruin of the French navy, I meditated on dispatching you before I punished myself for having been your tool, for the disgrace of my honour, of my duty, of my birth, and of my profession. That you are still among the living is therefore another evidence of a blind and unjust fortune, that from inscrutable motives, still permits the continuance of your barbarous tyranny. Depend, however, upon it (and the vast enormities of your numerous crimes must convince you of its truth) that, as you have lived one of the grandest criminals, your end must be untimely and terrible. An assassin or an executioner shall finish a career of atrocities, which to the shame of humanity and of our age, has already been too long endured.
"That a virtuous posterity, which might blame a part of my publick life, may not be ignorant of the sincere repentance and patriotick sentiments that accompanied my death, copies of this letter have been expedited to several officers in all French naval stations. Notwithstanding what your vile flatterers say to the contrary had your murder preceded my suicide, not only the present generation, but ages to come, would have hailed me as a deliverer, and revered me as a saviour. Altars, as well as statutes, would then have been erected to my memory. Tremble, tyrant! You live abhorred, and will expire with the curses of the universe following you even on the other side of the grave."
"DE VILLENEUVE."
SPEECH OF MR. ROSE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON THE AMERICAN INTERCOURSE BILL.
Lord Temple moved the order of the day for the second reading of the American intercourse bill. Mr. Rose said, the persons who are most deeply concerned in the present question, he meant the merchants, ship owners, ship builders, &c. in this kingdom, who had petitioned against the bill, entertained some hope of convincing the right honourable gentleman on the opposite bench (at a private meeting he indulged them with) of the impolicy of the measure, and of the mischievous consequences it must infallibly be attended with, not only to their interests, but to the general prosperity of the country; unfortunately, however, after listening to them with much patience, he told them plainly, he was not convinced by their statements or their arguments, and therefore felt himself obliged to persist in supporting the bill: Mr. Rose owned he had no sanguine expectation of a favourable result of the meeting after the opinion expressed deliberately by the right honourable gentleman in this house; that the admission of foreign ships into the trade between America and the West Indies was indispensably necessary in time of war, and that he was much inclined to believe it would be found so likewise in peace: it was too much to expect, that after so public a declaration, he would acknowledge himself mistaken. Assertions of that sort had been made very confidently out of doors for some time past, without attracting much attention; but supported as they have lately been, in both houses of parliament, it was become of importance they should, with all other matters bearing upon the question, be fully and attentively considered. In order to a full investigation of every thing that could affect the interests as well of the petitioners against the bill as the West India proprietors, he had some weeks ago expressed an anxious desire to have the whole subject referred to a committee above stairs, before whom a full hearing might have been had, and by whom an attentive enquiry might have been made on the allegations and proofs on both sides;—it was a view to such an investigation he should now presume to propose the second reading being delayed for a week; meaning, if he should succeed in that, to move for such a committee, about which he was the more anxious, as the merits of the measure, if now discussed, would be decided on, without even the information called for by his noble friend a fortnight ago, from the committee for trade, although that would throw great light on the subject, and might have finished in two or three days with ease. It would be seen how earnest the predecessors of those who now presided in that committee had been to bring back the trade to British ships, and how unfounded the apprehensions of the gentlemen in the West Indies are. Persons might differ in opinion whether the Americans should be allowed to be the carriers of lumber and provisions from the United States to our colonies, or not; but no one would be found to deny that it is of importance to secure so valuable a branch of commerce to our navigation, if that can be done, without risk of serious inconvenience to our islands; nor could it be denied that the interest of the British colonies on the continent of America, which must be deeply affected by this question, claim attention and protection. He trusted, therefore, his proposal for inquiry would not be resisted; he desired no more, and would willingly give up all further opposition to the bill if he failed in making out the case of the petitioners, which he would state as briefly as possible: he would also refer to the allegations of the West India planters and others, whose claims for protection, when at all founded, he could not be supposed to be indifferent to, as he and many of his nearest connections had a large proportion of their property in the West Indies. Their alarm arose chiefly from an apprehension that they should not be furnished with regular supplies of lumber, provisions, on reasonable terms, and that they should not find a sufficient market for their rum, considering the obtaining vessels for the trade to be owned in the W. Indies as perfectly hopeless and visionary—During the American war, there was of course a complete interruption to all supplies from the colonies, which then separated themselves from the mother country; on the peace, an act passed enabling his majesty in council to regulate the trade between the American states and Great Britain; under the authority whereof a proclamation was issued m December, 1763, confining the intercourse between the American states and our islands to British ships. The West India planters took the alarm at that;—and on their petitions to the council, an enquiry was entered upon, which occupied the lords more than two months; and after a full and patient hearing of the parties on both sides, a report was made to his majesty, that such unmanufactured goods, the growth and produce of the United States, as cannot be supplied by Great Britain and Ireland, nor by the British colonies on the continent, shall be permitted to be imported into the islands in British ships; and the produce of the islands to be carried to the American states in British ships; in both cases
by British subjects. Thus confirming the practice regulated by the king's proclamation. The trade was so carried on accordingly, under the authority thereof till 1788, when the act of the 28th Geo. 3. c. 6. was passed to establish that mode, to which there was no interruption so long as the peace lasted, during the whole of which period the islands were abundantly and as cheaply supplied with all the articles of which they were in want, and found as ready a market for their rum, with a most abundant number of small vessels to carry it to America, as will appear by the first statement next following, which exhibits a most rapid increase of colonial shipping:
   Ships. Tons. Men.     No. 2, 1790. 706 86,000 5115   Do. in British continental colonies, 229 42,900 1152   935 110,900 6567   Let this be compared with the consequence of admitting the American ships:   1800—owned and equipped from the West Indies and the continental colonies. 167 19,535 1800   Fallen off in the War 768 91,365 5207   The above are confined to British ships in America and the West Indies, and necessarily do not include the ships at home thrown out of the American trade, which are as under:   No. 3. Ships. Tons. Men.   Inwards in 1792, 191 42,035 22,400   in 1794, 11 2,152 134   186 39,883 21,266   Outwards in 1792, 223 50,963 2764   in 1795, 10 2,113 150   213 48,850 2,614  
Which falling of British ships at home was not, however, to be attributed exclusively to the West India suspension, as other causes certainly contributed to that.
The injury to the British continental colonies will be ascertained by the following statements:
No. 3. Importation into the West-Indies from these Colonies.
   Timber. Stingles. Staves.     In 4 years 4,000,000 2,999,000 458,000   Do. to 1801 1,159,000 965,000 161,000  
These were the consequence of British ships being to a certain extent turned out of the trade on the breaking out of the war, from the want of regular convoys, and the advantages of various kinds to the Americans incident to hostilities, which induced the Governors to relax the navigation laws from time to time as the necessity appeared to arise. This practice during the war has furnished the supporters of the bill with an argument that they are not now about to do any new injury to the British shipping interest. Let it be remembered, however, that by transferring the responsibility from the governors to ministers at home (who, not knowing the emergency, cannot judge of the necessity of admitting neutral vessels,) the suspending power will be in the hands of those who are relieved from all responsibility; which is not the only evil that will be produced by the bill, as the passing of it will have a direct tendency to do away the effort of the unremitting exertions of the committee of privy council for trade in Mr. Pitt's administration, for opening the way to narrowing in the first instance, and finally to put an end to the suspension of the navigation laws as effecting the American intercourse. It should not, therefore, surely be urged, that from these laws having been relaxed for 13 years, it followed of course they must continue to be infringed, and that the present law would be no injury to the British navigation: The passing such a law without even making some provision to secure a due proportion of the ships of Great-Britain and America in the ports of our colonies and of the rates, must have the effect of encouraging the American owners, and preventing any subject of this country from attempting to enter into a competition with them; because British vessels from all parts of the world pay what is called the countervailing duty in the ports of the United States; whereas the Americans pay that duty only in Great-Britain and Ireland; and the severe responsibility under which the governors have hitherto acted, being transferred to the ministers, on whom in truth there will be none at all, the Americans will necessarily have nothing to apprehend from the rivalry of British ships. But if it should be admitted that a supply of lumber and provisions in foreign ships is necessary to our islands in the West-Indies, why confine that supply to American ships? Why not let the Danes & Swedes, navigating these seas in abundance, to be carriers, & so give the full benefit of competition to the West-Indians? In other respects the provisions of the bill now depending, go much beyond what has been pretended to be called for; under these the Americans would be at liberty to send every sort of plantation stores, whether of iron or other articles, and to carry from the islands all their produce, for which there did not exist even a colourable pretence; as the bill passed the other house of parliament, and as now on the table, the duration is not confined to the present war, but extends to all times of war, the mischief of which would not be much lessened by shortening the time to two years, as was suggested by Mr. Fox; the measure, in truth, is on the whole, as ruinous to our navigation and exclusive trade to our colonies, (secured not only by our own laws, but by the fundamental law of Europe, as stated by Montesquieu and other writers) as could be devised, if the framers of the bill had employed their ingenuity to devise how much harm they could do by the enactment of two sentences.
To suppose ministers meant mischievously to the best interests of the country would be extravagant and unjust; but if they really had such an intention, he was not aware how they could effect it more completely than by the measures they have adopted; the answer in question must, from the superior advantages of the American fisheries necessarily tend to the serious injury of our own. And, in addition to other evils already enumerated, the British manufactures and the E. I. Company must suffer greatly by the facility it would unavoidably give to the introduction by the Americans of German and other linens, and of East India goods imported into America. Mr. Rose then strongly pressed upon the consideration of the house, the importance of maintaining our navigation laws; a system which commenced so early as the 5th of Richard II. was improved through the reigns of his successors to that of Charles II. when it was perfected; since which time but little alterations was made in those laws, till the temporary suspension of them in the late war. Without meaning to blame those which certainly were meant to improve our commerce, it is impossible not to admit that they were injurious to our navigation; they are not nearly so extensive, however, now, as they were: at the same time there was not in the late committee for trade so bigoted an adherence to the old systems, as to prevent such a departure from it as appeared to be called for, there being three acts now in force passed in 1802, 3 and 4, to authorise the council to admit, in particular cases, importations in neutrals, which cannot be made in British ships: so far no ground of complaint is afforded to the British ship owner, and the merchant has all the advantage in commerce he can be entitled to. After shewing the difference between the former suspensions of the na-
vigation laws and the present proposal, and explaining with what certainty the West Indies might be supplied by British ships, Mr. Rose enumerated the mischiefs that must follow from the adoption of the latter, by British continental colonies, British ship owners, British fisheries, British manufactures in linen and cotton, and the East India company.— Where interests of such importance were at stake and there appeared to be so much danger from admitting the principle, he trusted he should prevail that the numerous and highly respectable persons who had petitioned against the bill, might be heard, an indulgence which he believed, had never been refused in such a case and under similar circumstances. Mr. Rose moved for a committee to inquire into the facts alleged by the petitioners; earnestly imploring the house not to turn from their duty so highly respectable a set of men without at least hearing them; a favour never refused in his memory since he sat in parliament.
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
From London papers to July 2, received by the Abena, arrived at Baltimore, in 51 days from Liverpool.
LONDON, July 1.
The Omnium was at twelve o'clock this day, at 6 1-2, and the other fun were in the same proportion. After our paper was put to press yesterday, we learned that dispatches had been received from France, forwarded by lord Keith, from off Boulogne. We repeat that a negotiation is in train, and that it is the cause of the improved state of the funds.
Rumour states that the lords, who compose the secret committee, have completed the important state inquiry, to which they were delegated under the king's privy seal, and are expected to make a report of their proceeding to his majesty at Buckingham house to-morrow. We understand that such report will be confined merely to the minutes of evidence taken before them, without any opinion whatever founded thereon. It will remain, therefore, with the sovereign, to take such further steps, as, under the advice of his privy council, his majesty may deem expedient.
We received yesterday a letter from a respectable house at Hamburg. It gives the following article, which, it adds, was communicated by the French minister in that city, as the outline of the expected changes on the continent.
New Constitution of Germany.
"Bavaria, Wirtemberg, and Baden, which is to be considerably aggrandized, Nassau, and some other districts, comprising the country all along the Rhine, to form a federative body, under the immediate protection of France.
"Switzerland to be divided. One third to be given to Baden, one third to the kingdom of Italy, and one third to France.
"Denmark and Sweden, excluded from Germany, and from all the deliberative influence in its affairs. The former to remain distinct for itself—the latter to be treated, as to Pomerania, as she may behave. Some say Pomerania and Mecklenburg are both to fall to Prussia; which with Austria, are independent powers, and on their own bottoms, without regard to the former system of the empire. The emperor of the latter to resign his title of chief of the German empire, remaining only emperor of his own states.
"Hamburg, and some say all Holstein, Bremen, and Lubeck, federative and independent, under the protection of France, whose emperor is to enjoy in those territories henceforward, the same sovereignty which the emperor of Germany formerly exercised.—The inhabitants of this federative state shall be called the Franks, being the land where the antient Franks sprang from.
"Diet of the empire to be abolished.
"Saxony, not mentioned.
"These alterations to take place immediately; the army then to be called back to assist at the grand festivals at Paris, which are to take place very shortly."
Yesterday afternoon Wednesday's Hamburg mail arrived. Its contents are neither copious nor decisive. It appears that a correspondence has commenced between the kings of Sweden and Prussia, the purport of which has not yet transpired. No counter-orders have as yet been issued by Prussia to the garrisons of Berlin and Potsdam, which still hold themselves in readiness to march. General Kalkreuth's health being impaired, it is said that Prince Louis Ferdinand will take the command of the corps under the orders of that general.
At Hamburg, letters have been received from Prussia, stating that several Swedish frigates had appeared before Memel, Dantzick, and other Prussian ports in the Baltic, in order to blockade them. The captain who has the command before Dantzick, informed the pilots, that he would suffer all Danish ships to enter, and those laden with corn only to come out.
July 2.
On some motions for papers respecting India, made yesterday in the house of lords, by the earl of Westmore, and in the absence of lord Melville, it was stated by lord Minto that no correspondence, except verbal communication, had taken place between the board of control and the court of directors, since the issuing of his majesty's warrants for vacating the commission of the governor-general and council of Bengal.
Yesterday policies were opened in the city, giving 5 guineas to receive 100, if preliminaries be signed within a week, and be actually followed by a peace; and 15 guineas to receive 100, if preliminaries be signed within two months.
The stocks have experienced a rise to-day; consols are up to 64; reduced at 62 5-8; omnium is up to 7; a rise of one half per cent. since yesterday.
Negotiation.—The rise of stocks has occasioned some speculation, which has at the same time operated as a cause. We believe that the vast sums lodged within these few weeks by foreigners in our funds, have produced the rise in their price. The influx of money has been the result of two causes;—the first, the exemption of foreign property from the income tax; the latter, the hostility deeply felt, tho' sullenly expressed, of the Dutch to their new monarch.
We give the title of negotiation to this article, because we believe that some attempts at a negotiation have been made, insidious on one side and suspected by the other. "There needs, indeed, no ghost come from the grave to tell us," that peace is the policy of Buonaparte; because in peace alone, he can carry on his trans-marine projects; because, in peace alone, he can diminish the British navy, and raise his own. We believe that he offers to make some apparent sacrifices at the shrine of peace; we believe that he will offer to restore Hanover to this country. This is apparently indulging us in a point of honour; but really obtaining the end of his wishes by stabbing the vitals of the interest of this country. For the restoration of Hanover he will require the cession of the Cape of Good Hope, perhaps of Malta itself. He knows that he can resume the possession of Hanover whenever he pleases, to enact another political contribution from this country, and that it will be difficult for us to retake the Cape, and impossible to regain Malta. We have too high an opinion of the good sense, abilities and patriotism of our ministers, to believe them capable of making cessions of so important a nature, for an acquisition precarious in every respect but a name.—The only equivalent that we can fairly give for Hanover, is the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon on the coast of New-
foundland, which we can as easily take on the breaking out of a war, as the French can possess Hanover.
Baron Jacobi, the Prussian ambassador, has applied for his passport, preparatory to his leaving this country for Berlin.
Corn Exchange July 2.—At the new market, this day, which is open on Wednesdays during the re-pairs of the principal, there are not many supplies of corn in general; the samples of wheat inferior quality still remains almost without buyers; the terms of flour have a small fluctuation, and the sales made of corn, have but little variation from the prices quoted on Monday.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Brig George, Cox, 15 days from St. Thomas, Sugar & Rum, J. Cox & R. C. Jennings. On Thursday the 21st, in lat. 20, long. 73, was thrown on her beam ends in a heavy gale of wind, cargo shifted, lost both top masts. The mate Jasper Britton, of Portsmouth was washed overboard. Aug. 25, lat. 34, long. 75, spoke the brig Sisters, Moore, of and bound to Boston from Havana, 12 days out. Had lost his deck load, offered capt. Cox any assistance he might want.
Ship Eliza, Dogget, 64 days from St. Ubes, Salt, C. & F. Whittle. Aug. 11, in lat. 40, long. 54, 13, spoke brig Nancy, of Bristol, from Kenebeck, bound to Barbados, 8 days out—supplied us with two bils. of bread—19th lat. 38, 49, long. 67, 44, was boarded by a British frigate (Supposed to be the Tartar, she having a boat with that name on her stern) impressed two men both Swedes.
The sch'r Richmond, Hand, of Philadelphia, that was picked up at sea by the schooner Caroline, Gilbert, and afterwards drifted on shore in Lynnhaven bay, has been got off, and is in Hampton Roads.
The brig Hannah, from this port to Jamaica, was spoke on the 14th inst. 13 days out—Captain and crew sick with the fever.
The Industry, Blount, of Washington, N. C. sailed from Jamaica for Washington the 26th of July.
The ship Nancy from this port for Liverpool was spoke on the 1st July in lat. 42, 26, long. 23, 30.
The ship Abena arrived at Baltimore from Liverpool, which place she left the 4th July—spoke the ship Monticello, Drysdal, of this port, in the Irish Channel, bound to Liverpool.
Gray's Packet will sail for Baltimore on WEDNESDAY MORNING. Sept. 1.
Sales at Auction.
BY WILLIAM B. LAMB, On Wednesday, the 3d instant, at 11 o'Clock, Will be Sold for Cash, 19 Hogsheads MUSCOVADO SUGAR, 20 Tierces Jamaica Green COFFEE. Sept. 1. 136
On Tuesday next, the 2d September, At 12 o'Clock, WILL BE SOLD, 100 Casks Cannon POWDER. Samples may be seen at the office of S. Marks, jun. August 29. 2 123
Pursuant to a Decree of the Court of Norfolk County, WILL BE SOLD, to the highest bidder, on the premises, at 12 o'Clock, On THURSDAY, the 4th September, for ready Money, A LOT OF LAND, with a good Dwelling-House, and necessary out-houses, situated on Court-Street, in the town of Portsmouth, and near the Court-House, being the lot of Hugh Orr, deceased. The Commissioners. August 29. 3t 120
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce.
The Members are reminded that This Evening is their regular meeting, and that the hour of meeting is 7 o'Clock. September. 1 132
FOR SALE,
On board the schooner Fox, from Salem, at Market-Street Wharf.
Rum, Soap, Candles, Gin, Mackerel, Cod Fish, Sweet Oil, Tea, Marlin, Men and Women's Morocco Shoes, a few pieces handsome Furniture, Bocks, Vinegar, 1000 Violin Strings, 85 pieces Bed Spreads, 80 pieces very fine Cotton. For terms apply on board. The said schooner will sail for Alexandria in 6 days. For freight or passage apply on board. September 1. 3t 131
For Sale, Lease, or Rent,
The Three Story Fire Proof Building, lately erected on Maxwell's Wharf, adjoining to the house of Mr. John Nivison's, now in the occupancy of Mr. John M'Gowan. For terms, apply to Alexander Baird. September 1. 3w 135
TO BE LET,
To the lowest bidder, on the premises, on SATURDAY next, at 10 o'Clock in the forenoon.
The building of an additional Room and a Brick Wall to the Goal of this Borough—A plan whereof may be seen by application to Mr. William Vaughan. The Commissioners. September 1. 3 133
Ran-away from the Subscriber, a negro man named TOM, about 45 years of age, a short thick fellow, about 5 feet high, speaks with a little of the Guinea accent; has lost all his fingers on one hand, and two on the other, by frost, his thumbs are saved on both. I purchased him from Nansmond, but he may be lurking about Norfolk. I will give Twenty Dollars if taken out of Norfolk or Portsmouth, or Fifteen if in either of them, and delivered to me. John Cox. September 1. tf 134
For Freight or Charter, The fast-sailing Brig ELIZABETH, Robert Barclay, master, burthen 1300 barrels, will be ready for the reception of a cargo in a few days. Apply to John Davis. Portsmouth, July 16. tf 93
For Charter, The American Ship SALLY, James Rowe, master, burthen 340 tons—She has only performed one voyage, and will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. For terms apply to Warren Ashlev. August 4. tf 48
FALL GOODS.
The Subscribers have received by the Ship Alexander, Capt. King, from Liverpool, A part of their FALL GOODS, and are in daily expectation of receiving the balance of their assortment per the first arrivals from London and Liverpool. Richard & Jno. Taylor. August 27. 1m 220

Department of Miscellany.
In a late English periodical work we observed a well written essay upon the impolicy of permitting so much waste land for pleasure ground, and other than agricultural purposes; it brought to our recollection the following beautiful lines from the Traveller or Deserted Village of Goldsmith .
Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish or may fade; A breath can make them as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supply'd.
A time there was, ere England's griefs began, When ev'ry rood of ground maintain'd its man; For him light labour spread her wholesome store, Just gave what life requir'd, but gave no more: His best companions, innocence and health, And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.
But times are alter'd: Trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth, and cumb'rous pomp repose; And ev'ry want to luxury ally'd, And ev'ry pang that folly pays to pride. Those gentle hours that plenty bade to bloom; Those calm desires that ask'd but little room; Those healthful sports that grac'd the peaceful scene, Liv'd in each look, and brighten'd all the green; These, far departing, seek a kinder shore, And rural mirth and manners are no more.
THE FIRE-SIDE.
Dear Cloe, while the busy crowd, The vain, the wealthy, and the proud, In folly's maze advance; Tho' singularity and pride Be call'd our choice, we'll step aside, Nor join the giddy dance. From the gay world we'll oft retire To our own family and fire, Where love our hours employs; No noisy neighbour enters here, No intermeddling stranger near, To spoil our heart-felt joys. If solid happiness we prize, Within our breast this jewel lies, And they are fools who roam; The world hath nothing to bestow, From our own selves this bliss must flow, And that dear hut our home.
Of rest was Noah's dove bereft, When with impatient wing she left That safe retreat, the ark; Giving her vain excursions o'er, The disappointed bird once more Explor'd the sacred bark. Tho' fools spurn Hymen's gentle pow'rs, We, who improve his golden hours, By sweet experience know, That marriage, rightly understood; Gives to the tender and the good, A Paradise below.
Our babes shall richest comforts bring; If tutor'd right they'll prove a spring Whence pleasures ever rise; We'll form their minds with studious care To all that's manly, good, and fair; And train them for the skies. While they our wisest hours engage, They'll joy our youth, support our age, And crown our hoary hairs; They'll grow in virtue ev'ry day, And they our fondest loves repay, And recompense our cares.
No borrow'd joys! they're all our own, While to the world we live unknown, Or by the world forgot: Monarch! we envy not your state; We look with pity on the great, And bless our humble lot.
Our portion is not large, indeed, But then, how little do we need! For nature's calls are few: In this the art of living lies, To want no more than may suffice, And make that little do.
We'll therefore relish with content Whate'er kind Providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudence to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour,
To be resign'd when ills betide, Patient when favours are deny'd, And pleas'd with favours given; Dear Cloe, this is wisdom's part: This is that incense of the heart, Whose fragrance smells to heaven.
We ask no long protracted treat, Since winter-life is seldom sweet; But, when our feast is o'er, Grateful from table we'll arise, Nor grudge our sons, with envious eyes, The relicks of our store.
Thus hand in hand through life we'll go; Its checker'd paths of joy and woe With cautious steps we'll tread; Quit its vain scenes without a tear, Without a trouble, or a fear, And mingle with the dead.
While conscience, like a faithful friend, Shall through the gloomy vale attend, And cheer our dying breath; Shall, when all other comforts cease, Like a kind angel, whisper peace, And smooth the bed of death.
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WHEREAS, in September last, I took JOHN JONES, son of Mary Jones, a lad then about 12 years of age, from the Berkeley Spring to this city, under a mistaken notion that his mother had a right (since she actually exercised it) to bind her son to me; and whereas, the said John Jones, getting probably informed of the nullity of the indenture, did on the 21st or 22d of October, (after my setting out for Alexandria,) leave my house, and staid several days at a Mr. Albert's, a baker, on Shockoe Hill, by whom he was brought back, but left my house a second time, on the same or the next day, (as I have been informed on my return,) saying that he wished to go back to his mother, that he knew every step of the road, and should find in Fredericksburg plenty of wagons to carry him to Winchester: And whereas, I learned lately to my great surprise, from Captain John Hunter, at the Berkeley Springs, to whom I had occasion to write, that the said John Jones had neither been seen nor heard of, which has been confirmed since by a letter from his mother to me; I therefore request by this public notice, all and every person or persons, who may harbour the before named John Jones, or know of his place of abode, or what has become of him, to communicate their intelligence to his disconsolate mother at the Berkeley Springs, or the subscriber in Richmond.
June 21st, 1806. G. S. STRAS. * * The said John Jones is rather tall for his age, slender but well made, has a fair complexion, blue eyes, light hair, a number of freckles in the face, he is sprightly and active, rides well on horseback, and can drive a waggon.
Ten Dollars Reward,
IS offered for a Maltese Boy, about 15 years old, bound to serve the subscriber seven years—This boy while in Richmond last May, with one Albert, a baker, was taken off, (as informed) by a master of a craft from Rocketts, to Norfolk, where he has been since seen often; and first, on board of a schooner called (as I am informed) the Amelia Ann, of Norfolk, William B. Bailey, commander.—This Boy is so remarkable in person, that the slightest examination must discover him; he is very low and thick, has a remarkable large flat head, and still more remarkable feet, short and round, which occasions him to walk warbling and with apparent difficulty and exertion to get on at all; his complexion very fair, his mouth so contracted, that he cannot open it more than half its natural extent, and on his forehead and chin a very deep scar, which he says marks the accident which injured his mouth, he speaks tolerable plain English.—He was bound in Malta, in 1804, by name of John Zarrar, and since on board ship, he got the name of Andrew, which he always passes by. The above reward will be given on delivering the said boy to Mr. Theo. or Mr. Thomas Armistead, Norfolk, and an addition of Five Dollars more, if delivered in Richmond at the Swan Tavern, to Major John Moss, or to the subscriber,
Ryland Randolph. Richmond, Aug. 16. law2m 97
This Day landing from on board the schooner Rising States, Captain Newcomb,
20 Pipes Holland GIN, entitled to debenture,
10 do. 4th proof Cogniac BRANDY, 12 kegs Ground GINGER.
Fisk & Catlett. August 4. tf 43
At Private Sale, at Sixty Days,
70 Puncheons RUM, 40 hogheads, and 60 barrels SUGAR, 30 bags COFFEE; 25 pipes French BRANDY, Madeira and Lisbon WINE, in pipes and qr. casks, 60 boxes Mould CANDLES, GIN in pipes and cases.
Wm. B. Lamb. July 28. tf 24
ROBERT GIBSON,
Has removed to the Fire-Proof Ware-Hous in Wide Water-Street, nearly opposite Commerce Street. Feb. 28. tf 536
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The Subscriber will sell his Plantation called Level-Green, adjoining the town of Kempsville, in the county of Princess Anne. There is on the farm a Dwelling-House and orchards; it contains about 500 acres, and the land is excellent; it's figure is a square, and it's local position handsome and eligible, lying on the Eastern Branch of Elizabeth river, and also on the publick road leading to Norfolk. It is conveniently situated with respect to Norfolk market, being about 5 miles distant by water, and 9 by land. It is contiguous to Broad-Creek, which abounds in good oysters; it is well timbered, and has a good landing. 'Tis not extravagant to say, that from the timber alone, a net sum may be made nearly, if not entirely, equal to the purchase money. Any person who may wish to view the Land, will apply to Mr. Wilson on the premises, to Mr. Charles Sayer, William Bishop, James Robinson, or William White, all of whom reside in the neighbourhood.—The purchaser will be accommodated in a long credit.
Tully Robinson. Princess-Anne, August 8. tf 63
Fresh supplies of Drugs & Medicines,
Have just been received by FREDERICK HEERMAN, & SON, Per the Ship Proteetress, from London, and Herald from Liverpool.—Also, an assortment of SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS.
A great variety of GENUINE PATENT MEDICINES. All sorts of GLASS AND SHOP FURNITURE, And a prime collection of VALUABLE PERFUMES, including OTTER of ROSES from Barbary.
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** PERRY'S and LETTSON'S Golden Antibilious PILLS; CHURCHES and J. K. READ'S COUGH DROPS or Sale.—MEDICINE CHESTS as usual. June 16. tf 835
30 Pipes Country GIN,
10 do. real Cogniac BRANDY, 20 Puncheons W. I. RUM, 15 Quarter Casks Old Sherry WINE, 30 Barrels WHISKEY, 3 Hogheads Apple BRANDY, 30 Bags PEPPER, 50 Boxes Mould CANDLES, 30 do. Dipped do. 2 Bales Fine CASSAS, 5 do Beerboom GURRAHS—For Sale at reduced prices by
S. Marks, jun. & Co. April 2. tf 631
SECOND CLASS. SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, For the Benefit of WILLIAM and MARY COLLEGE.
5,938 Tickets at 10 dollars each, dolls. 59,380 4,685 do. at 15 do. do. 70,275 10,623 129,655 Deduct loss on 2000 Tickets renewed, 4,500 Dolls. 125,155
To float in the wheel, and come out as chance may direct.
2 Prizes of 5000 Dollars, each, Dolls. 10,000 4 do. 2000 do. 8,000 16 do. 1000 do. 16,000 16 do. 500 do. 8,000 32 do. 200 do. 6,400 160 do. 100 do. 16,000 232 do. 50 do. 11,600 750 do. 20 do. 15,000 1 do. 155
Stationary Prizes are, 1 Prize first drawn, after 1000 Tickets are out, 500 1 do. 2000 500 1 do. 3000 500 1 do. 4000 500 1 do. 5000 500 1 do. 6000 500 1 do. 7000 10,000 1 do. 8000 500 1 do. 9000 500 1 do. last drawn, a Prize 20,000
1223 Prizes. Dolls. 125,000 9400 Blanks.
The superiority of this Scheme to the one first proposed, is so obvious, that little need be said in recommendation of it. Those inclined to adventure, will see that their chance for obtaining prizes is greatly increased; that funding the drawing, their small prizes may be immediately invested in other tickets, thereby giving them a chance for prizes of considerable magnitude. To those who have drawn prizes of 15 dollars, in the First Class, as well as to those who have drawn blanks, information is now given, that the prizes may at their own option be renewed by tickets in this Class, and their blanks also, but upon the payment in the latter case of 10 dollars with each blank, provided such prizes and blanks, with the cash, be remitted free of postage, to Robt. Greenhow, merchant, in Williamsburg, agent and treasurer, or to William Newsum, Post-Master, in Norfolk, previous to the commencement of the drawing, after which period no renewal will be made. When to the prospect of individual advantage that may result to each adventurer, is added the patriotic reasons which induced the legislature to authorise this Lottery, it is ardently hoped that the disposition of tickets, will soon enable the commissioners to certify, that the drawing has commenced; which event, the agent assures the public, shall be expedited by every means in his power.
Robt. Greenhow, Ag't & Treasurer. June 18. tf 842
CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY.
EPHRAIM WELCH,
No. 88, MAIN-STREET,
WITH gratitude acknowledges the liberal encouragement the citizens of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and the Public have been pleased to offer since the introduction of his Nail Manufactory in this Borough, and informs them that he has erected all his Machines new, which are very considerably improved, and continues to manufacture the best quality.—And has on hand for SALE, a constant supply of
Patent NAILS and BRADS,
Which is cut length ways of the hoop, and to accommodate his customers, has thought proper to reduce the prices as follows, by the keg for Cash, viz.
8d. 10d. 12d. and 20d. Nails at 7d. 1-2 per lb. 8d. 10d. 12d. and 20d. Brads at 7d. 1-2 per lb. 6d. Nails at 9d. 1-2 per lb. Sheathing Nails at 7d. 1-2 per lb. 6d. Brads at 4s. 6d. per M 4d. do. at 2s. 9d. per M 3d. do. at 2s. 3d. per M 4d. Nails at 2s. 9d. per M 2d. and 2d. do. at 2s. 3d. per M
ALSO FOR SALE, Crowley and German Steel Hoop IRON.— Nail Machines made and warranted good, on short notice. N. B. All of the Nails, Brads, and Articles, sold at the Manufactory. June 13. tf 831
NEW CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY,
ON TOWN POINT, A small distance below County Wharf, Wide Water Street.
THE Subscriber has, at a considerable expense, fitted up, in addition to his other business, a complete set of machinery, adequate to finish 300 to 500 lbs. of Nails daily. He is also provided with a good stock of Iron; and with a sufficient number of skilful workmen.
He has on hand a constant supply of Nails, Flooring Brads, and Sprigs, which he offers for Sale at the reduced prices as follows, by the keg, for cash only, viz.
8d. 10d. 12d. and 20d. Nails at 7 1-2d per lb. 8d. 10d. 12d. and 20d. Brads at 7 1-2d per lb. 6d. Nails at 9 1-2d per lb. Sheathing, do. at 7 1-2d per lb. 6d. Brads at 4s. 6d. per M. 4d. do. at 2s. 9d. per M. 3d. do. at 2s. 3d. per M. 4d. Nails at 2s. 9d. per M. 2d. and 2d. do. at 2s. 3d. per M.
ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. LEVIN DORSEY. June 2. tf 783
FOR SALE,
3000 Pieces Yellow NANKEEN,
11 Boxes Imperial TEA, 6 Chests Hyson do. The above of the best quality and entitled to drawback. Apply to
Robert Maitland & Co.
WHO HAVE ON HAND, Hibbert's best bottled Porter and Brown Stout. Also