Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1809-11-27 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER. SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PREMIA LAUD.
VOL. VI.
MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1809.
NO. 57.
FOR CHARTER The Ship ARISTIDES, Captain Williams, 260 tons. Moses Myers & Son. Who have for Sale, 60 hhds. and 5 tierces choice Molasses...
FOR CHARTER The Ship PLUTARCH, Captain George Tacon, 268 tons. Moses Myers & Son. For Sale on board of said Ship, 8000 Bushels Coarse SALT.
FOR CHARTER The Ship General Colbourn, Capt. Prince, 243 tons. MOSES MYERS & SON. Stoved SALT for sale on board the above Ship, and a few CRATES.
For Sale or Charter, The new copper fastened Brig ERIN, 1600 barrels, will be ready for the reception of a cargo in about 8 days. For terms apply to E. Higgins, or J. Moran.
For Charter, The Brig CONCORD, J. Moran, master, 300 tons. Moses Myers and Son. Who offer for Sale, A few firkins fresh BUTTER.
For Freight or Charter, The Schooner SIBAE, Capt. Star, 800 barrels. FOR BOSTON. The Sch'r Two Brothers, Capt. Clement—will take freight. Moses Myers & Son. Who have for Sale, 15 pipes best Holland GIN.
WILLIAM PENNOCK, Respectfully informs his friends and the publick, that he has commenced the Auction and Commission Business. His Office is at present at Bowdoin's wharf, lately occupied by Alexander Maclean...
The President and Directors of the MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY OF NORFOLK have this day declared a dividend of ONE DOLLAR AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS on each Share of Stock...
THE SUBSCRIBERS Offer for Sale at their Warehouse at the corner of Maxwell's Wharf, 22 bales Louisiana COTTON, 25 pieces Russian CANVAS, 40 do. German RAVENS DUCK...
We also offer for Sale, on a credit of 6, 12, and 18 months, with a good security, or in barter for West-Indian or Domestic Produce. That entire stock of our GOODS, contained in our Store on Main-street...
FALL GOODS. Richard and John Taylor, Have received by the Ships Caledonian and Desdemona, from London, and United States from Liverpool, their FALL SUPPLY...
Woolen, Silk, Linen, and Cotton GOODS, Cutlery and Hardware. ALSO, Fine and coarse Hats, Seine Twine, Stationary, Pipes, Copperas, and Patent Shot—All of which they will sell on very moderate terms for Cash or approved paper.
Fall and Winter Goods. The Subscriber having this summer visited the principal Manufacturing Towns in England and Scotland, where he collected an extensive assortment of DRY GOODS...
Gentlemen's Superfine and Ladies' fashionable Pelisse Cloths; Cashmeres and coarse Woollens; Linens, Diapers and Sheetings; Cotton Goods in great variety; Hats, Hosiery, and Glass-Ware; Hardware, Nails and Cutlery of every description.
WOOD & HASTINGS, HAVE JUST RECEIVED 58 packages of Staple & Fancy Goods. Comprising an extensive assortment, which will be sold at low prices for Cash, or approved paper.
Fresh Malaga FRUIT. The CARGO of the Schooner Two Brothers, landed this day on Commerce-Street, consisting of 150 Qr. Casks Rich Sweet Mountain WINE; 50 barrels SUN RAISINS, Mosaicel do. Bloom do.
A BARGAIN. Will be exchanged for NEGROES at a fair valuation, That Valuable Fire-Proof HOUSE, at the intersection of Commerce and Little Water-Street. It is extremely well calculated for a Boarding House, as it contains two tenements, and is elegantly situated.
FOR SALE, 1000 SPANISH HIDES, Of superior quality. Apply to J. MORAN. Hibbert's Brown Stout. 50 casks Hibbert's best bottled Brown STOUT, Received by the Ship Caledonian, from London, and for Sale by Robert Maitland.
Samuel Coleman, Opposite the Market, Westward, has received supply of fresh Newark SHOES, consisting of Ladies' KID SHOES, do. Cork Soled Morocco Shoes, do. thick bottomed do. do. do. Slips and Ties do. do. do. Velvet do.
Gentlemen's Fine Shoes, do. Morocco Pumps, do. Morocco Slips and Ties, do. Leather do. do. do. Strong Shoes, do. Boy's Morocco Pumps, do. Lined and bound Leather Shoes, do. Strong do. do. do. Children's Morocco and Leather Boots and Ties, Servant's very strong Leather Shoes.
A quantity of Ladies' and Gentlemen's SHOES, made here, and a very large assortment of BOOTS made in his Factory, of the best materials and workmanship that Philadelphia and Norfolk would furnish; Boys BOOTS, &c. &c. The above articles will be sold as low, some of them lower than such can be purchased in this country.
A few bales of COTTON—and Martin's Double Branded FLOUR. 40 quarter casks Sherry WINE, 5 pipes fourth proof Cogniac BRANDY. Moses Myers & Son.
FOR SALE, The LOT in the town of Portsmouth, situated on North-Street, between the property of William Wilson, Esq., and the late Robert Elliot's, fronting on North-Street 45 1/2 feet, and extending back to Elizabeth River.
A small, but Valuable FARM for Sale. THE SUBSCRIBER owns a Farm of about 200 acres, in the County of York, which he is disposed to sell. It lies nearly half way between the towns of York and Hampton, and is bounded on its southern side by the main road leading from Hampton, through York and Williamsburg to Richmond.
Merit M. Robinson. Smithfield, October 18. Thirty Dollars Reward. Deserted on the night of the 13th instant, from on board the frigate United States, THOMAS GARAGANO, Drummer; ALEXANDER DEMOLIN, and RAYMOND GOTIER, privates, belonging to the Marine Corps.
GEORGE M'INTOSH, Has received by the Ship General Colbourn, from Liverpool, and the Norfolk from London, in addition to the former assortment, Patent Silk HATS, Glazed Leather do. Superfine Blue and Black Cloths, and fashionable Cashmeres.
A great variety of Fashionable and Fancy Woolen coatings, Scots and Venetian Carpeting by the piece or bale, Superfine Welch Flannels and Plaid, London Glue and Turkey Oil Stones, Spikes, Nails and Tracks, Copperas and White Lead, Hardware in great variety, consisting of fashionable and plain Buttons, Fashionable Sets of Tea Trays, Plated Sets of Harness and Bridle Mountings, Worsted Webbing and Coach Lace, Plated Bridle and Chair Bits of every description, Plated patent and common Stirrup Irons, Patent Locks of all sorts, made on a new principle, so that they cannot be picked, nor opened with false keys, Metal Tea Kettles and Stew Pans, with almost every article in the Hardware and Cutlery Line.
Crates of EARTHENWARE, Small Sets Blue Table China, Assorted hogsheads of the best Liverpool Glassware, which will be disposed of on reasonable terms. German Linens, Sacking, &c. For Sale by the Subscriber, 8 Bales Hemp OZNABURGS, 8 do. Flax do. 5 do. Brown ROLLS, 3 do. HESSIANS, 750 Sacks of best twisted SACKING, COFFEE, LOAF SUGAR, &c. James Thorburn.
THE SUBSCRIBER Has commenced business on Campbell's wharf, No. 5, where he has on hand, and will constantly keep, a good supply of Articles in the GROCERY LINE, Which he will sell on moderate terms for Cash. Dennis Dawley, WHO WANTS, A Smart LAD of respectable connexions to attend the Store. Robert Greenhow, Merchant, in Williamsburg, WILL SELL at a credit of 1, 2, 3, and 4 years, his most Desirable, Large, and Commodious DWELLING-HOUSE.
In the centre of the City, on the Main-street thereof, whereon he at present resides. Captain JAMES TUCKER, residing in Norfolk, will give a more particular description of the property to any person applying. If this property is disposed of, he will then sell Eight other TENEMENTS, All well situated for commercial or other purposes, on the Main-street, at a price which shall net the purchaser a certain annual return of eight per cent in rents, and which are scarcely ever untenanted. To Parents and Nurses. As Worms are the greatest enemy to Children, so the Oil of Worm Seed is found, from late experience, to be the greatest friend. It is easy to administer, a drop to every year, and requires no particular preparation, put up with printed directions, and warranted genuine by N. Gregory.
John & Wright Southgate, Have received by the Schooner Norfolk, from London, The following ARTICLES, Which will be sold low for Cash or short credit, 41 cases HATS, fine and coarse, 11 bales Superfine Cloths; 6 do. Oznaburgs, 2 do. Sacking, 1 1/2 do. Sail Cloth, English and East-Coke, 3 do. of Slops, Netts Jackets and Trowsers, 3 1/2 casks Copperas; 26 boxes Pipes, 78 do. of Sherry from 7 to 10 inches, 29 do. Nails, 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d, 9 tons best London White Lead, 100 casks London Brown Stout Porter. And in Store, A general assortment of Dry Goods, 50,000 weight best Green Coffee, 10,000 do. St Domingo do. 2,000 bushels Liverpool Stoved Salt, 100 sacks do. And a few Well Toned Grand and Square PIANO FORTES, With additional Keys. Columbian Mills FLOUR. THE SUBSCRIBERS Are, and will be regularly supplied with FLOUR From the above Mills, which will be found equal to any now introduced in the United States. C. & F. Whipple. CASH. For Rough Hhd. and Bbl. STAVE. Of good quality, with the following prices: C. & F. Whipple.
NOTICE. A Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly of this Commonwealth, praying that an Act may be passed to allow the Dismal Swamp Canal Company to increase the rates of Toll on the Canal when finished. THE SUBSCRIBER Is authorised to treat with any person disposed to purchase the whole or any part of the Following LANDS, Situated chiefly on Cumberland River, and derived from Military Titles, to wit, Four Tracts of 640 acres each, on Okey's river, a branch of Cumberland, navigable at this place, and where the usual price of Land of late has not been less than four dollars per acre. Two other Tracts, one of 1950 and another of 1500 acres; these are also on Cumberland river, lying in a neck between it and Okey's river. These tracts are nearly all river bottom of uncommon fertility, and such as have commanded there no less a price than eight dollars per acre. One other Tract of 640 acres in Powell's Valley, which is said to be also rich and well watered. One other Tract of 1000 acres in Grassy Valley, represented to be of inferior soil, but excellent Grazing Land. For further particular apply to Luke Wheeler. NOTICE. I intend to petition the next General Assembly, to pass a special act, authorising the Overseers of the Poor, or Commissioners for that purpose, to be appointed, to sell the GLEBE LANDS, in the County of Mathews, whereof I am the incumbent, and the interest arising from such sale to be annually applied to my use during my life, or my continuance as the incumbent minister; Also to sell the BRICK WALLS of the Church, commonly called the New Church, being now in a parishable situation, and the money to be applied as other monies directed by law arising from the sale of Glebe Lands. Aristed Smith.

The National Intelligencer contains an other re- mark on Mr. Jackson's Circular to the Consuls of his nation than what follows:
"The following letter, said to be addressed to the British Consuls is taken from the Independent A- merican. We are authorised to say that its con- tents, so far as they contradict the article pub- lished in this paper on the 13th instant relative to the course of the negotiation between our govern- ment and Mr. Jackson are unfounded."
We confess we are disappointed in not seeing something less equivocal from the National Intelli- gencer, which for this purpose may be considered as the organ of government. We expected to have seen a positive denial to the assertion made in Mr. Jackson's letter in the following words:
"One of the facts alluded to has been admitted by the Secretary of State himself in his letter to me of the 19th Oct. viz. that the three condi- tions forming the substance of Mr. Erskine's origi- nal instructions were submitted to him by that gentleman."
It is neither denied nor admitted directly, that the substance of Mr. Erskine's instructions were sub- mitted to our government, but we must confess that such an important fact not being denied, leaves ground to suspect that part of Mr. Jackson's statement is not unfounded. Where facts are as- serted with confidence on one side, and not denied by the other, we might conclude that they could not be denied; we will, however, suspend our opi- nion, (being unwilling to believe that Mr. Erskine did communicate his instructions, or even the sub- stance of them to our government,) until the whole subject comes before the publick, which it no doubt will at the meeting of congress.
We have learned that the official and written o- verture alluded to in the letter of Mr. Jackson, rela- ted to the affair of the Chesapeake, and we further learn that the rupture between our government, and that minister, did not take place until after the Afri- can had sailed; tho' the correspondence which pro- duced it, we believe, did; Mr. Oakley goes out in the British packet with the official dispatches on this subject.
Few circumstances have occurred furnishing more materials for discussion than the present. We hope to see the subject fairly and independently discussed, for surely no subject ought to be discussed with more freedom and candour, than one, in which the all-important events of peace and war, are involved. When we say we hope to see the subject indepen- dently discussed, we allude to a sentiment or maxim, which the ruling party wish to establish. It is laid down, that in all discussions between our own gov- ernment and another, that ours is always in the right, and those of our citizens, who should dis- sent from this arbitrary rule, are denounced as ene- mies to their own, and the partisans of a foreign government. As no man wishes to be even suspect- ed of being an enemy to his country, the timid are swal into silence, and the selfish converted into partisans by the hope of preferment. But the in- dependent politician, unawed by popular censure, and disregarding the patronage of power, will en- ter into the enquiry with a determination to ascer- tain truth.
For our own part we can conceive nothing more degrading in principle, and destructive in practice than the sentiment or maxim we have noticed. It may be a very convenient doctrine for those in office, but we both hope and believe it will be rejected with indignation. War, which is the trade of ambitious rulers, has ever been, and ever will be ruinous to the people. It is not given to the people of every nation, the right of discussing the measures of their government, but it is a glori- ous right which Americans possess and will exer- cise, and in our judgment, it cannot be exercised up- on a subject of more importance, than one on which war depends. If it is our right and our duty to examine and determine whether the nation should go to war or not, how we ask is that examination to be made without a free and candid discussion? For what purpose do we exercise the right and per- form the duty, if we are not at liberty to express our conviction? If we are stopped in the commence- ment of the enquiry by the terrors of denunciation, what better are we than the slaves of Napoleon, who are carried into wars to gratify his ambition and the aggrandizement of his family and favour- ites? Does any one suppose, that if the people of France could have been permitted to have decided on the war which Napoleon is waging against Aus- tria and Spain, that they would have given their as- sent?
It is absurd to suppose that we are always in the right, in our discussions with foreign nations, and it is both insolent and wicked to brand as enemies of their country, those who have the independence to say that we are not so. The inconsistency of those who wish to stifle fair enquiry, and silence in- dependent discussion, will be exposed by what we are going to state. Great Britain is engaged at this time in a war, upon the unsuccessful issue of which she has not to apprehend the loss of some remote colony, she is contending with an enemy whose power and means, are greater than any human be- ing can conceive; and yet she is contending with a power, who avows that no thing short of her destruction shall satisfy his re- venge. In such a contest, one would think that e-
very heart and hand in the nation would be united. But it must be so, if we judge from the writings in what are called the opposition papers, in which the measures of the government are exposed with bit- ter severity, as well as regards the causes of the war, and as to the mode of conducting it, and this opposi- tion is carried to such a height that it sometimes would seem as if it rejoiced in the disasters of the country. These writings of the opposition papers in England, are copied with avidity into the demokra- tick papers of this country, and in proportion as they revile their government, & expose its measures, the more they are admired and commented for their independence, and even Cobbet comes in for his share of applause, when he exposes the measures of his own government. We would now ask how the same men can admire this independence and free- dom of enquiry in another country, and under cir- cumstances such as we have stated, and such as are notorious to all the world, and yet denounce it in our own?
We have submitted these remarks, as expressive of the determination which we have formed, and of the conduct we mean to pursue. Conscious that we are directed by a regard for the interest and ho- nour of our country, we shall examine the subject with freedom, and express our conviction, without regarding consequences as they may affect us per- sonally, for while we are desirous of the publick ap- probation, we will not endeavour to obtain it at the price of our own.
In copying into our paper the remarks of the de- mocratrick papers, upon the present crisis, we have no other object, than to afford such of our readers, as do not see those papers, an opportunity of know- ing the sentiments they contain. The National In- telligencer is very smooth upon this occasion, and hopes no one will insult Mr. Jackson.
"Good friends, sweet friends, let me not stir you up." Now we wonder when or where Mr. Jackson has been exposed to any danger of insult, except in certain journals, for the most part conducted by foreign emissaries, or restless disorganizers, under the disguise of persecuted patriots. If our country is to go to war, let it be to avenge our own wrongs, and not the merited punishments, or unmerited per- secutions of those who would goad this nation into a war to gratify their own resentments. These are not the men of whom the people of America ought to take counsel. They endeavour to evince their zeal for our country, by a hatred for their own.— There may be, and no doubt are exceptions to our rule, but we lay it down, as one general, that a man, at war with his own country, seldom makes a valuable member of another country; at all events the country who receives him, should listen to him with caution, in collisions which may arise between his native, and his adopted country. Exiles, are al- ways actuated by a hope of reconciliation, or an unreasonable resentment, their personal feelings di- rect them, which they endeavour to pass for disin- terested patriotism, and love of the country, who receives them.
[COMMUNICATED.]
DIED—On Saturday evening last in the 33d year of his age, Mr. JAMES B. CROSBIE, merchant of this place, a young man whose very correct con- duct in business entitled him to the confidence and esteem of those with whom he transacted, and whose social and relative duties were discharged in a way that endeared him to all his intimate friends and relations.
Pious and patient under suffering; retaining his faculties to the last, while conscious of the near ap- proach of death—surrounded by sympathising friends, and while accompanied by a visiting Cler- gyman, he fervently addressed the Father of Mer- cies —evincing a full belief of, and firm confidence in the truths and promises of our holy religion—and soon afterwards expired.
Let friends with comfort then his life survey, And view the forthright path by virtue trod, While "resignation gently slopes the way." In calm submission to the will of God.
At the Scotland Neck Races last week, Mr. W. R. Johnson's horse, Sir Archy* by Diomed, won the first day's purse, 4 mile heats, heating with great ease gen. Carney's famous horse Blank, by Cri- tizen. We understand that Mr. Johnson has offer- ed Sir Archy shall accept the challenge given by Sir Solomon to run for $10,000, provided the race shall be run some where higher up the country than Norfolk (the place proposed;) as the bad water of Norfolk would disorder a horse not accustomed to it; and that the owner of Sir Solomon has declined the offer. Mr. Johnson is probably the first Sports- man in America, and it would seem also that he is possessed of the best horse.—Raleigh Register.
*We understand Mr. J. has since sold Sir Archy for $5,000.
NEW YORK, November 20.
We have been informed from the best authority, that the British packet now undergoing repairs here, is ordered to sail as soon as possible, to carry out Mr. Oakley, who is bearer of important despatches from Mr. Jackson. It is supposed the packet can- not be got ready for sea before Thursday, or Friday next.
Mr. Jackson intends to spend the winter in this city, but will not, it is said, leave Washington till after the meeting of Congress.
New York Gaz.
November 22.
A letter from a commercial house of the greatest respectability at London, dated the 5th of Octo-
ber, informs, "that the Privy Council had that day determined to allow the importation of Ameri- can produce from Fayal in all vessels, excepting those sailing under the French flag."
The Courier, of Oct. 4, a London print, speaking of the Correspondence between Lord Grenville and Mr. Percival, remarks, that
"It has ever been Lord Grenville's wish, as he informs Mr. Percival in his letter to him, to soothe and not to inflame the divisions of the empire. It must therefore have been his desire to meet with a spirit of conciliation the offer made to him; and with this view of the subject, it must appear to be un- accountable that he should so studiously have a- voided all such explanation, as he easily might have asked for, and would as readily have received."
"It Lord Grenville's wish had been to communi- cate personally with the King, what prevented him from stating to Mr. Percival, that before they could meet to negotiate, he should feel it to be his duty to ask an audience of his majesty? If, on the other hand, he had misconceived Mr. Percival's intenti- ons, and if he had supposed that he and Lord Grey were only to be considered as making an accession to the present ministers, why did not his Lordship pay some attention to Mr. Percival's assurance that accession to them had not been contemplated by ei- ther him or his colleagues, but that they had called upon his Lordship and Lady Grey, in conjunction with themselves, to form a combined and extended administration."
"We do not, of course, pretend to be acquainted with Lord Grenville's secret sentiments—we can on- ly argue upon those which his lordship has chosen to avow; but were we obliged to state our own sen- timents, we should have no scruple in saying, that in our opinion, Lord Grenville would have acted dif- ferently, if, as he expected, he had found Lord Grey in London. We think that in that case an audience of his majesty would have been applied for: of course it would not have been refused; and had an explanation been the consequence, as in the nature of things it evidently must have been, the proofs would have been sufficient that such an union was intended as might have healed the divisions of the empire, and that from no one would have been ex- pected a dereliction of public principle."
"Great stress has been laid on what Mr. Perce- val stated in his last letter, "that he did not pro- pose an accession to the present, but the formation of the new ministry." And in effect great stress ought to be laid on this statement, for on this the whole question turns. It certainly never was in the contemplation of his majesty's present minis- ters to destroy their own political existence; to ab- andon their sovereign who had not withdrawn his confidence from them; and then to accept as a boon one or more seats in the cabinet as might happen to suit the views of his majesty's new advisers. They would have met those who are their opponents upon equal terms. They would not have bargained for places with them; but to prove the liberality and fairness of their offer, they would have willingly consented that the first and leading situation in the cabinet should have been occupied by Lord Grenville or Lord Grey, and thus be taken from themselves.— Had this been the result of explanation, it could not surely have been said that there was an intention unfairly to bias the royal mind."
"Lord Grey, who is in Northumberland, is at too great a distance to take a present share in these discussions. If he indeed were now in London, he might with perfect consistency "object to an ex- isting minister continuing one of the administra- tion," for with one sweep he openly declares that his junction with the present ministers would be im- possible. But Lord Grenville, on the contrary, though with Lord Grey he thinks and acts in perfect unison, could not object to any one individ- ual in the present cabinet, for more than once in his letter to Mr. Percival he begs that his disavowal of personal objection may be distinctly understood, and therefore to him for such a purpose as the one stated, there could be no want of exclusive commu- nication with his sovereign."
"All communication that could have been desir- able would have been readily granted to both the noble lords. They had been called upon by his ma- jesty, as his counsellors, to give their advice, and it would not therefore be decorous of them to assert, that in what relates to measures, either past, pre- sent, or prospective, they would not have had am- ple means of delivering their full opinions. Let it be proved that exclusion from direct previous com- munication with their sovereign, was the intended basis of the treaty, and then we may confess that the whole tenor of this part of their argument is deserving of attention."
"The Morning Chronicle"> "The Morning Chronicle of to-day contains an article in reply to the observations we published yesterday, which article we deem it necessary to notice, more for what it omits than what it con- tains, more for what it conceals than what it con- fesses. Its whole attention is directed to the dis- cussion of one point; that the party calling upon Lord Grenville called from the seats of office. Un- doubtedly they did, and how could they call other- wise, unless they had committed the indecorum of giving in their resignations, and thus leaving the monarch without a minister? But the main point is this, and we request the publick to bear it in mind, that Lord Grenville would not join the ministers be- cause he had "objections to the principles of their government, and to the circumstances which atten- ded its formation;" he could not therefore "obey the call without the dereliction of publick prin- ciple."
"By this declaration his lordship does declare, that he cannot take office with any who have not it proper that his majesty's conscience should not be forced upon a point upon which he has given such repeated proofs that his opinion was settled upon principles which even those who may think them unwise and unfounded, cannot fail to respect. His lordship will not take office without the Catholick Question is conceded to him. This is the only way in which we can construe his declaration, and the subject therefore resolves itself into two points:
"Will the country have Lord Grenville who can- not be had unless the king renounces the great prin- ciple of his life, and acts against the dictates of his conscience? Is this the Jubilee the country would give to the king upon his entrance into the 50th year of his age?
"Will the country give up Lord Grenville rather than force the conscience of their sovereign?"
PHILADELPHIA, November 21.
A letter from Cadiz, of Sept. 27, to a merchant
in Boston, says, "We have nothing new in politics. Every thing in our government seems to be at a stand since the battle of Talavera; and we now anxiously wait to know whether Austria makes peace or not. The fate of this country will depend on that. I think Cadiz, however, will never be given up. The English are increasing their army."
"In consequence of accounts in the American papers of the fever at Brooklyn, N. Y. a rigorous quarantine of forty days, has been imposed on all vessels from the United States. And it is even feared that vessels from New York may be refused permission to discharge at all."
Yesterday arrived, sloop Phoebe, capt. Turley, 37 days from Carthagena, who informs that markets were dull and that they were overstocked with En- glish manufactures—That the port of Carthagena was opened for 9 months for neutrals, with the pro- hibition of dry goods and spirituous liquors.
The Spaniards throughout South America, it was said, were ripe for a revolution; they say they will not submit to any other crowned head than Ferdi- nand 7th—him they appear willing should be their prince, should he once more regain the Spanish throne; but should he fail, then, they are clear for setting up a republican form of government, inde- pendent of any European Junta or other power.— The province of Quito, it was said, had already set up an independent government and thrown off all obedience to the Spanish government. To quell the spirit of the insurrection, so called, troops were marching from the other Spanish provinces against the inhabitants of Quito, who had already chosen their Junta and declared themselves a free and in- dependent people.
BALTIMORE, Nov. 20.
The duty of a paper, which undertakes to fur- informally official articles, to keep within the limits of truth, is apparent. It is increased when a for- eign minister is the object of its manifestations, and still more when a ruinous and sanguinary war may be the issue. It seldom happens, that correct in- formation can be obtained to enable those who are disposed, to disabuse the publick; and in most cases the improper bias attempted to be imparted to the publick feelings will succeed without inter- ruption. At Philadelphia, we are sorry to see, that the artifice has been thrown into the scale of France some persons whose duty it was to guard others a- gainst the deceptions of the tools and factors of Napoleon. Since this has been the case, what ef- fect may it not be calculated to produce upon the less inquisitive and intelligent?
The use also which was to be made of the spuri- ous representation, has not been for a moment ne- glected. Every number of the Intelligencer issued since the fabricated manifesto of Monday last, has been loaded with additional matter designed to pro- pagate the poison and render its operation incur- able.—One or two federal prints have also been found, servile enough to become auxiliary to the In- telligencer, by countenancing its contrivances and lending their credit to impress them upon their read- ers.
Fed. Repub.
Have those who labour so incessantly to bind our fate to the fortunes of Buonaparte, ever considered, that the duration of his power is as precarious as any thing human can be? Should it now be broken in pieces by the new confederacy, which the news of every succeeding day may be expected to an- nounce, it cannot be transferred to his family at his death. There is sufficient room to believe that he was labouring under a total derangement of the mind or a dangerous malady of the body, of the o- verness of which we remain ignorant. The letter re- ceived by the Wasp, from L'Orient, confirmed by the intelligence circulated in England from Guern- sey, leaves no room for doubt of the fact. Neither of his brothers has ability or energy of character to maintain himself upon the throne, should it become vacant by this or any future attack of disease. Whe- ther either of his generals or the old line of mo- narchs will occupy it, must be uncertain. The ter- mination of the English civil war in the restoration of Charles the 2d, may and most probably will be imitated in France on the decease of Buonaparte.— The Bourbons are superior in every other quality, beside the legitimacy of their title, to the foul brood that has succeeded them. The French nation knows this, and that their condition has in every way been deteriorated by the experiment they have made of the revolutionary change. As there can be no predilection for the Buonapartes, so the re- currence to the old stock will be invited by an at- tention to the quiet and settlement of the nation.— For it is a remarkable fact in the history of govern- ments, that when any circumstance has occasion- ally happened to interrupt the regular transmission of monarchical power, the intruding family, which has usually owed its elevation to the rare and tran- scendant abilities of one or two of its members has, after a short-lived possession, been thrust out again.
The creation of titular dignities and the assign- ment of large revenues, extorted from the subject, to influential individuals, cannot change but may accelerate the result. Power with all its splendours and enjoyments has hitherto rapidly shifted hands in Revolutionary France, and were the charm which has so long fixed it where it now is, dissolved, with the superior mind or the steady fortune of Napoleon, both of which combined have produced it, no ob- struction could be experienced but from the army, to a complete and radical overthrow of the envied grandeur which glitters on his favorites.
The next arrival from Europe may bring us the reality of this speculation, so precarious is ill-be- gotten authority and so presumptuous the reliance of those who hope to inherit it. But if the line of the Capets should remain excluded, and a military chief step into the vacant place of Na- poleon, it cannot be imagined that he could adhere to the gigantic plans and the desolating policy, which now prevail. The accumulation of means, which the present head of the French government possesses, would fail his successor. The rivalry of unsuccessful competitors would render him more anxious to fortify his throne, than to extend his conquests by any uncommon exertion in foreign countries.
It is therefore an interesting enquiry, where we shall be carried by putting to sea, in the same barque with the present government of France?— If we should escape a re-colonization, which is a supposition at variance with what has happened in every other nation that has yielded to him, his suc- cessors would acknowledge no gratitude for our

On the other hand we should be looked with the expectation of others, for the sacrifice we made to their oppressor, by choice and without the apology of compulsion, which many others have the right to plead. The American name would be the scorn and laughter of all, who would regard us as people who had shed our blood and gone through the struggles of a long and devastating war, without any genuine attachment to the principles on which we declared it to be necessary. For in freely tendering them to Buonaparte, we should be suspected of never having placed any real value upon them, more especially as the abandonment would be an accession to his means of enslaving or perpetuating the slavery of others.
Our condition, as the ally or vassal of Buonaparte, would also be materially more advantageous than that of our fellows. As they are all accessible by land, he can afford them protection, when necessary; and they enjoy by their contiguity the convenience of internal trade. We should be insulated from the rest of the world, and impenetrable to his assistance. We should be abandoned like Guadalupe to do the best we could for our own safety; and we should be nearly deprived of communication with the rest of mankind. This is the deplorable situation a party of abandoned principles are striving to place us in.—Ibid.
Since we assumed a rank among nations, we have had ministers at the courts of the greatest kingdoms of Europe. They have been, with the exception of Mr. Short and Mr. John Q. Adams, men taken from other callings in life, and without any previous acquaintance with diplomatic maxims and usages. All of them were deficient in the utmost polish of a courtier's manners, and very few of them without an adequate portion of that republican austerity, which would scotch the national rights and interests, in language sufficiently bold and intelligible. Our foreign affairs have at various times embraced controversies of real difficulty and such as led to irritations on both sides. All this has been the case; without any minister of ours having ever been discarded by a foreign court for contumelious conduct. This circumstance proves that the rights of embassy have been faithfully respected by France, England, Spain, Holland, &c. towards us.
Ministers from all those governments have in like manner been accredited in the United States; and we know that some of them have behaved with insulting rudeness and persevering outrage. Mr. Genet appealed to the people, opposed and reviled the acts of our government. The Chevalier Yrujo besotted all our other misdemeanors charged the secretary of state with a connivance with England, and a suppression from the knowledge of the president, of important applications; and never scrupled to go without concealment into the Aurora, in order to drive his charges home against the government to which he was addressed.
Both these ministers were applauded by the democratic party for their frankness and fortitude, and were instigated to persist in their assaults. General Washington whose mind was dignity itself and Mr. Adams, whose haughtiness never slept under an affront, were not insensible of the duty they owed themselves and the nation. They generally weighed the offences of those ministers, and sought in the law of nations for the mode of vindicating them. Did they act as Mr. Madison has done—the mild, the peace-loving Mr. Madison? Did they interdict either of those ministers from the exercise of the duties assigned by their sovereigns? They did not, and yet they procured honourable amends for their misconduct. Gen. Washington caused a statement of Genet's misdemeanors to be exhibited, and requested the French government to recall him, which was promptly acceded to; and when Mr. Jefferson entered upon his presidency he found the Chevalier Yrujo under orders of recall, an act of the justice of his sovereign to the complaints of Mr. Adams.
Another example of the usage with respect to ministers, who offend the government of the country, will apply with peculiar force and appropriateness. It is derived from the most inflamed period of the French revolution. In the height of the storm and in the midst of the fury, which covered and effaced almost every human and divine obligation, Marat and Robespierre respected the rights and the independence of our legation.
Mr. Gouverneur Morris, universally respected as a polished gentleman and a man of exalted talents, was an object of suspicion to the French as well as the American Jacobins. The former accused him of secreting political malefactors from the revolutionary axis; of an incorrigible hatred to their pure, merciful and imitable improvements in the art of government; of prejudicing the royal family against it, and of corresponding with the emigrant princes and their adherents. Thousands of lives, according to the established graduation of crimes and punishments, would not have been too great a sacrifice for the expiation of even the suspicion of any one of these high misdemeanors. But behold the American minister fearless amidst the tempest.—The monsters, who howled around him by night and by day, were afraid to approach him. In short, they desired that he might be recalled, but continued to respect and communicate with him as a publick minister, until our government replaced him. They even admitted him to be the instrument for obtaining Mr. Genet's recall.
Instead of the inapplicable quotations the government paper has selected from Vattel, its editor, if his object had not been to propagate delusion and administer to the oblique endeavours of Robert Smith, would have availed himself of some of the above incidents. All of them are within living memory, and have been diffused by printing. But after falsifying the original transaction with Mr. Jackson itself, it was to be expected, that an unaided means of justification would be resorted to. One imposition is always requisite to hide another; and as the intelligence affords the rule for Buonaparte's hirelings in Baltimore and elsewhere, they repeat of necessity and without examination, all the false lights it holds out. Truth or error is indifferent; they are by turns pressed into that system which bears down the good and the wise, emboldens and rewards the wicked, and is rapidly undermining the foundations of society. Nothing but war remains to consummate its sway, and for this a two years struggle has been made and is now renewing. If it should be impudently asserted, that the object of the ruling party is not war, they may be confronted with explicit proofs given by themselves. They passed a law through one of the houses of congress
last winter, for levying taxes of every kind—Taxes on spirits, speeches and newspapers repeated with increasing but not.
Guadal-Town, (Boll.) Nov. 23. The National Intelligence of yesterday has published Mr. Jackson's circular to the British consuls with the following introduction:
"The following letter, said to be addressed to the British consuls, is taken from the Independent American. We are authorized to say that its contents, so far as they contradict the article published in this paper on the 13th instant, relative to the course of the negotiation between our government and Mr. Jackson, are unfounded."
It might be well for Mr. Editor Smith, to inform the publick by what authority he makes this declaration. His we are informed, we are authorized, &c. are intended to impress an idea on the publick mind that he has his intelligence from the office of the Secretary of State. But we are authorized to say , that Mr. Secretary Smith never authorized Mr. Editor Smith to make the declaration contained in the above quoted paragraph. (Ind. Am.)
ALEXANDRIA, November 23. In order to correct an erroneous paragraph that appeared in the Baltimore papers, noting the recapture of the ship Commerce of this port, from the French, and for which salvage was paid—we make the following statement of facts relative to the capture and recapture of that ship, and at the same time to do justice to the generous conduct of Lord Collingwood, and the captain of the frigate Frederickstadt.
In the month of July last past, the ship Commerce, captain Burnham, was captured in the Mediterranean by a French privateer, who took out the mate and crew, and put on board a prize-master and sailors to carry her into a French or Italian port. The prize master not being well acquainted with navigation, found it necessary to consult capt. Burnham, who contrived to steer for Toulon, where he knew an English squadron was stationed; and he managed so well, that at day-break he found himself surrounded by the British fleet, and was retaken and put in possession of his vessel. He was treated with the greatest kindness and attention by the British admiral, who generously gave up the ship without taking or claiming any salvage, and also lent him seamen from his ship to navigate the Commerce to Mahon, on his pledging his honour to return the seamen to any British ship of war he might find in that port.
On his arrival at Mahon he found there the British frigate Frederickstadt, to whom he delivered the men. The above frigate being bound to Malta with a convoy, the captain furnished him with other seamen from his ship, (without any remuneration) and took him under his protection to Malta, where he arrived in safety.
Alex. Advertiser.
CHARLESTON, November 16. By the ship Sally, captain Weather, arrived yesterday in 35 days from Liverpool, we have received our regular file of London and Liverpool papers to the 7th October, inclusive, one day later than we received; from the paper of the 7th we have extracted the articles that follow, by which it will be perceived that the situation of affairs between France and Austria still remain suspended in doubt. There is nothing from Spain or Portugal of a more recent date, than our previous accounts have already put us in possession of; nor is there any thing as to the reported change in the British ministry.
LONDON, October 7. Hamburg and other German papers arrived later morning, to the 16th ult. We have received later intelligence by three days from Vienna. These papers, however, confirm the intelligence which the Paris papers did not notice, of the prolongation of the armistice. It has been prolonged for three weeks, that is to the 20th September, one day later than the date of the last article we received yesterday from Vienna. An article inserted in the German papers, under the date, a very old one, of the 30th of August says, that the reason assigned for the prolongation of the armistice is the great distance of the court of Petersburg, which is materially interested in the negotiation. This statement, and the private letters from Altona and Hamburg, strengthen the belief that hostilities will be renewed. In the first instance, Buonaparte wished to confine the negotiation entirely to Austria and France without any interference on the part of Russia. But Austria is said to have contrived to interest Russia in her behalf, and to have convinced her, that it was equally for her interest and her dignity not to be excluded from the negotiations for terminating a war in which she had acted as an ally. The conduct, too, of the French troops in Poland gave alarm and suspicion to the emperor Alexander. He found them everywhere pulling down the Austrian and substituting the French Eagles. This was done without consulting him, and in order to evince his displeasure, he directed his troops to pursue a conduct diametrically opposite; to respect the Austrian Eagle, and not even to change the civil government of the country. A subsequent demand to be admitted as a party in the negotiations is said to have occasioned the delay which has taken place, and to have produced this prolongation of the armistice. Whether this statement is true or not, we know not; it has at least the air of probability; certain it is that the negotiations have occupied more time than any body could have expected, after such an armistice as that concluded at Znayim.
There is a report received from France, by way of Germany, of Buonaparte having been attacked by a brain fever; which had been deemed so dangerous as to render it necessary to send off two physicians and a surgeon from Paris in the greatest haste. It has long been a matter of surprise, that such fatigues as Buonaparte has endured—such unremitting activity and restlessness—such paroxysms of passion as he is known to be subject to—such constant watching—such a contempt almost of that repose which is necessary to repair and recruit the body, should not long since have produced alarming indisposition. But in the frame and strength of his constitution he has been as extraordinary as in the constancy and splendour of his fortune.
In opposition to the above report, the last news from Vienna represented him, so far from it, as being more than usually active; inspecting, with the different corps of his army, flying with his usual rapidity from the confines of Hungary to the borders of Moravia, and engaged in those manoeuvres and re-
views which are the proof of his fortitude and the result of the contest. If he were really ill, and his generals may have thought proper to conceal the fact from the army, his death would probably almost at once complete a change in the face of affairs, as his life has done; but it were idle to argue upon a report for which we are not yet able to state whether there is any foundation.
We understand a plan has been delivered to government for keeping the Isle of Walcheren, more by a naval than military force: the latter to be comparatively small, but the former to be considerable. We never had any doubt in our minds of the practicability of keeping Walcheren against any effort that can be made by the enemy.
YARMOUTH, Oct. 6. This morning the Peggy and Soken, two transports from Flushing, and the Ann, Adams, from Camverre, arrived here with empty casks. From the above we are happy to state, that the troops are recovering very fast, and that not one in three die now, to what died some time back. Several batteries opposite Beveland are finished, and the fortifications are erecting very rapidly. Very extensive barracks are building, and every thing shews that we are not disposed to quit.
HARWICH, October 6. This morning arrived the Earl of Leicester packet, capt. Hammond, from Heligoland, with mail, and several passengers, who report that no certain intelligence had reached that place from the Austrian head-quarters, but the prevailing opinion was in favour of the renewal of hostilities between the emperor of Germany and Buonaparte, and it is considered as most probable, that the next packet, which may be expected to-morrow, will bring news to that effect.
BANKS OF THE ELBE, Sept. 24. At six o'clock this evening the regular post from Vienna had not arrived; but yesterday, late at night, the French minister received a courier with dispatches, containing the news of the prolongation of the armistice, and the article inserted in the Correspondent of the same was sent by his order. This morning several mercantile houses in Hamburg received estafettes with the same intelligence; but at the same time assurances were given, through private channels, that no peace would be concluded, whatever the publick prints on the continent, particularly the Vienna ones, might say to the contrary. Some persons are of opinion that Austria will at last be joined by Prussia.
Private letters from Paris state, that in case of a peace with Austria, Napoleon will go to the army of the North, and afterwards to Spain. To this latter country several imperial equipages have already been sent out from Paris.
Private letters from Berlin state, that a closer alliance between Russia and Prussia is expected.—The emperor Alexander is said to be uneasy at the vast military force which the Poles are organizing in Galicia, so near the confines of his own dominions. He is also unwilling the house of Austria should be stripped of the last part of its hereditary dominions.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED. Sch'r Weymouth, Weymouth, 5 days from New-York. Brig Jolly Robin, Rhodes, 5 days from Providence, r. i. On Thursday night, in Hampton Roads, parted the best bower cable and went on shore; sustained but little injury. Brig Virginia, Small, 25 days from City of St. Domingo, in distress, leaky, bound to New York. Left brig Ann, Rutherford, of Newburyport for Alexandria, next day; Rainbow, Chase, of Bath, for New York, time of sailing uncertain—all hands sick. Sch'r Friendship, Hawes, 14 days from Boston. The New-York packet sloop Venus, capt. Boush, of and bound to this port from New-York, went on shore off Crump's Hill, on Friday morning, about 3 o'clock, in the snow storm. Mr. Adams, a passenger, an apprentice boy, and a black man belonging to the captain, perished—Vessel totally lost—part of the cargo of dry goods saved, but much damaged. The brig Sampson, Mason, from City point, outward bound, is on shore on Crany Island.—Will have to lighten before she can be got off.—The sch'r Little Ann, Butler, from Providence, for this port, is also on shore at same place. The sloop Hero, Stevens, from Portland, for this port, is on the point of Crany Island bar. The Salt part of her cargo entirely lost. A few barrels of beef and country gin, it is expected, will be saved. The vessel it is supposed will be got off. The sch'r Rising States, Gilbert, was to have sailed from New-York on Thursday last.
New-York, November 22. From Lang & Turner's Marine List. The wind for two days, having been N. East, with an almost continual fall of snow, nothing from sea has been able to "setch up." On Sunday evening, 2 brigs, one with cotton, were within the Hook, and a ship in the Offing, neither of which have since been heard from. The wind last night was "backening" to the northward and westward. As in the natural, so in the political world. The change must be with the Sun, before this, or the other part of our paper can afford much pleasure to its readers.
SALT for Sale. 7000 bush. Liverpool coarse & stoved SALT, and 8000 bushels Cadiz SALT, of superior quality. Apply to Robert Maitland. November 22.
NOTICE is hereby Given, That a PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying that a law may pass to incorporate the MECHANICAL SOCIETY of the Borough of Norfolk. September 15.
Hamilton's Packet will sail for Baltimore TO-MORROW. Nov. 27.
Valuable Property to be Sold. On Wednesday, the 6th day of December, at XII o'clock, will be sold on Credit, at the Wharf, The Tire-Proof Warehouse , at present occupied by Mr. Robert Maitland, of credit of 9 and 12 months will be given, and interest with approved endorser required. Also at the same time and place, That Valuable WHARF , Adjoining the Publick Landing at Portsmouth, formerly the property of Mrs. Hunter. The same credit will be given as for the above, and the same payment required. William Pennock, V. M. November 27.
SALE AT AUCTION. Of HOUSE No. 41, Main-Street. That commodious Two Story BRICK BUILDING on Main-Street, near the Exchange, formerly in the possession of Peter Dater, Will be Sold at Auction. On Wednesday, the 6th December, At XII o'clock on the premises. It contains two Shops and a back Room on the ground floor, and six comfortable rooms on the upper floor, and two Kitchens attached to it, making two complete Tenements, both of which have lately undergone a thorough repair, and can receive tenants without any additional expense. Terms, one third Cash; one third 12 months; and one third 2 years credit, with approved security for the payment. William Pennock, V. M. November 24.
NURSERY. The Subscriber at his Nursery , near Norfolk, has an extensive assortment of upwards 20,000 TREES, amongst which are forty different kinds of Apples, which he sells from 12 to 25 cents, according to the size and quantity taken, for which he will receive in payment Cash, Park, or Corn, at the market price. A. LINDSAY. Hermitage, November 27, 1809. From the 20th of November, to the 15th or 20th of December, provided the weather keeps open, is the best season for transplanting in this climate.
200 NEGROES for Sale. Will positively be Sold in Middlesex County, at Christopher Owen's Tavern, in the town of Urbana, the above quantity of NEGROES, belonging to the estate of PHILIP L. GRIMES, of Brandon, deceased, Among which are, House Servants, Cooks, Carpenters, Blacksmiths, Coopers, &c. Also, 4 Ox Carts, with Chains, &c. and 24 of the most valuable Oxen belonging to the said estate. 30 of the above NEGROES will be sold for cash; the balance with the oxen, &c. will be sold on a credit of nine months, the purchaser giving bond with approved security. The Sale will take place on the 9th of January next, (if fair, if not the next fair day) and will continue from day to day until all are sold. The cash sales will commence on the first day. All legal creditors are requested to purchase this amount, or any part of their respective claims. Robert West, Administrator of Philip L. Grimes, dec'd. Woodville, Gloucester County, Nov. 22, 1809.
STOLEN. FROM the Subscriber's stable last night, his principal CHAIR HORSE, lately purchased of Mr. Michi Jackson, he is a large sorrel, about sixteen hands in height, mane and tail tolerable white; feet somewhat of a white colour, with a little strip of white down his forehead and nose; some small white spots on his rump; has a greyish white spot on the outside of the hock of one of the hind legs. Any person who will take up said Horse and deliver him to me, shall be well paid, and for apprehending and securing the thief, (supposed to be a black man described in the following advertisement) shall be handsomely rewarded. Joseph Mullen. Nixonton, Pasquotank County, N. C. Nov. 21, 1809.
TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS REWARD. RAN AWAY on Monday night last, a Negro Man by the name of WILL, a stout, portly, black fellow, nearly or quite 6 feet high; there is no doubt but he is in Norfolk, as he has a father living there under the direction of Mr. James Nimmo, his name is Caesar. I do hereby forewarn all and every person from employing, harbouring, or concealing the said Negro, and further forewarn all captains of vessels from carrying said Negro off. The above reward and all reasonable expenses will be paid to any person that will apprehend said Negro and deliver him to Mr. JAMES MILLEN, in Portsmouth. Benjamin Bailey. Pasquotank County, N. C. Nov. 21, 1809.
We want to Purchase or Charter, A SHIP. Of from 4 to 600 bushels. FOR SALE, 8000 bushels coarse SALT, 650 hogsheads Richmond and Petersburg TOBACCO, 140 bales Sea-Island COTTON. C. & F. WHITTLE. November 24.
FOR CHARLESTON, The Sch'r BROTHERS. For passage only, apply on board at Willock's Wharf. November 22.
Wanted to Purchase, TURTLE SHELL and CATTLE HORN. The Horns must be of the largest size with the points on. Apply to Edward Grimes. November 20.
NOTICE. All persons having claims against the estate of Benjamin Bailey, deceased, are desired to submit the same to the undersigned, on or before the 1st day of December next. November 27.