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The Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
Martinsburg, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
No. 29 of Vol. X.
FRIDAY, December 9, 1808.
Whole No. 497.
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Intelligencer Office, October 7, 1808.
The Federal Republicans of Berkeley, Jefferson and Hampshire, have resolved to support Major James Stephenson as a Candidate for Congress, at the election in April next.
PROPOSALS
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The work will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained to pay for the printing.
Subscriptions received at the office of the Intelligencer.
JOHN HUTCHINSON.
June 3, 1808.
JUST OPENED,
A great variety of Ladies Fashionable WHITE BEAVER HATS, with and without Pink and Yellow unders, in full trim;
BLACK, ditto;
PLUSH BONNETS, &c. &c.
Our assortment is very extensive and complete as to
Fancy and other Articles.
We are happy to inform our friends (at a distance) and the public in general, that having made large purchases, previous to the late rise of Goods in Philadelphia and Baltimore, we are enabled to serve them on better terms with many articles than they are to be had, at this time, in either of the aforementioned cities. If ever it was an object for purchasers at a distance to call on them, they are confident they will find it greatly to their advantage to call on us.
While many articles are both scarce and high, we have them Plenty and Cheap.
JAMES & JOHN LANE, Shepherd's-Town, Dec. 2, 1808. Cash paid for HIDES and SKINS.
CHEAP GOODS.
THE subscriber is just opening a handsome assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, which he pledges himself to the public to retail on as good if not better terms than any other person—Those who doubt, have only to call and price them.
Among his late purchases are: Low priced Cloths and Flannels, Mouselin de laine for Ladies' wear, Swansdown vest shapes, Tolliett and Royal do. President's, Constitution & Fancy Cords, Blankets from 10-4 to 6-4, Britagnas, Elegant and Common Shawls, Romall and Madras Handkerchiefs, Cotton Bandannas, Shirting Cambric, Plain and Cross-barred Linen, Morocco Shoes all sizes; A beautiful assortment of Leno Muslins, do. Cotton Lace, do. for trimmings, Fancy Calicoes, Extra Long Cotton Gloves, Leghorn Bonnets all fashions, A very large and beautiful assortment of Plain and Fashionable Silk Bonnets, Loaf and ps. Sugar, Imperial, Hyson, Y. Hyson, } TEAS, Hysonkin and Green, French Brandy, Jamaica Spirits, Holland Gin, Madeira and Lisbon Wine, Fish Oil, Spirits Turpentine, British Oil, Crowley and Bilister Steel, 8 by 10 window Glass, Tin-Ware, Wool Mats, well made and finished, a large quantity of Bar and Strip IRON.
LEVI PRICE, Martinsburg, Oct. 21, 1808. N. B. Highest price given for Hemp, Flax, Linen, Bees Wax, Flax Seed, Wheat, Rye and country produce in general.
Mr. Denis Cahil, acting Executor of James Quinn, dec'd. Joseph Minghini and Luke Ternan.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the tenth day of December next after the date hereof, I intend to take the depositions of Thomas Sharp, sen. Henry Miller, jun. and Luke Ternan, at the house in which Mr. Thos. Tabb now resides, in the town of Martinsburg, county of Berkeley, and Commonwealth of Virginia, to be read in evidence on the trial of the suit in Chancery, brought and now depending in the County Court of Berkeley, wherein I am Complainant and you the said Denis Cahil, acting ex'r. of James Quinn, dec'd. Joseph Minghini and Luke Ternan are Defendants. Said depositions to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit from the County Court of Berkeley for that purpose.
Yours, &c. ALBERT STEPHEN. November 24, 1808.
BY virtue of two deeds of trust bearing date the 3d day of November, 1807, made to us by John Robinson and Margaret his wife, to satisfy and pay sundry sums of money paid by Jacob French, William Rush and Robert Christy, as securities for the said John Robinson, as late deputy Sheriff for Nicholas Orrick, will be sold at the Court House of Berkeley County, on the 27th day of December next, for cash, one Lot in the town of Martinsburg, on Queen Street, known in the plan of said town by No. 21, on which there are a convenient Dwelling House, two stories high, one story of stone the other of brick, 26 feet by 20, completely finished, also a back building two stories high, one story stone the other frame, 26 feet by 17, completely finished, and sundry convenient out Houses—Also, a Tract of Land containing five hundred acres, situate in said County, on the head of Cherry's branch, well clothed with good timber, such as Pine, White and Black Oak, Chestnut Oak and Hickory, this land is within two miles of Christopher Tedrick's saw-mill, on the Meadow Branch, two and a half miles from John Hixon's saw-mill, on Sleepy Creek, three miles from Tedrick's saw-mill, on Sleepy Creek, and four miles from Lowman's, on Sleepy Creek.
DAVID HUNTER, ALEX'T COOPER, Trustees. December 2, 1808.
Patent Medicines.
Lees' Restorative,
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The Indian Vegetable Specific,
A safe and radical cure for Venereal complaints of every description.
Lees' Essence & Extract of Mustard,
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Lees' Ointment for the Itch,
Warranted to cure by one application.
Lees' Worm destroying Lozenges.
Lees' Anti-Bilious Pills,
For the prevention and cure of malignant Bilious complaints; the operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used by persons in every situation, and of every age.
Lees' Elixir,
The most certain remedy known for colds, obstinate coughs, Catarrhs, Asthma, sore throats and approaching consumptions—affords immediate relief, and in a short time entirely removes the HOOPING COUGH.
Lees' celebrated Eye Water.
Lees' Genuine Corn Plaster
British Oil, &c. &c.
The above Medicines to be had at L. Price's Store, Martinsburg.
Mr. Richard Chenoweth, Take Notice,
THAT on the 24th day of December next after the date hereof, in the house in which Mr. Edmund Graham now lives, in the town of Martinsburg, County of Berkeley and Commonwealth of Virginia, I intend to take the depositions of Samuel Chenoweth, John Chenoweth and Richard Chenoweth, which I intend to offer in evidence on the trial of a suit in Chancery, now depending and undetermined in the County Court of Berkeley, in which I am complainant, and you are defendant; said depositions to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit for that purpose.
Yours, &c. PHILEMON CHENOWETH. November 18, 1808.
Land for Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale a valuable tract of LAND lying on Opeckon Creek, about four miles from Martinsburg, containing about 190 acres; about 80 acres of said tract is Limestone, and the remainder first-rate Slate Land; there are on the premises an Apple and Peach Orchard of good Fruit, and a number of other Fruit trees; there are two springs of never failing water on said tract, a comfortable dwelling house and other out-houses; about seventy acres of cleared Land, about six acres of Meadow, and about twenty acres of good Meadow ground; the remainder of the Land is well timbered. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises.
JOSEPH VANMETRE. November 11, 1808.
LANDS for sale.
A BARGAIN may be had in the purchase of the places where John Files and Basil Cross now reside, containing five hundred acres of good lime stone LAND, binding on Opeckon Creek, distant about five miles from this place and six from Shepherd's-Town. The buildings are comfortable, with a mill seat on Opeckon.—The title good, the price low and the payments will be made easy to a punctilious man. Those who are inclined to buy, may know the terms on application to John Baker, Esq. at Shepherd's-Town.
BENJAMIN ODEN. Martinsburg, Nov. 20, 1807.
REPORT.
The committee to whom was referred so much of the message of the President of the United States, of the 8th instant, as respects our relations with foreign powers.
REPORT, IN PART.
After a period of twenty five years of peace hardly interrupted by transient hostilities, and of prosperity unparalleled in the history of nations, the United States are, for the first time since the treaty which terminated the revolutionary war, placed in a situation equally difficult, critical and dangerous.
Those principles recognized by the civilized world under the name of law of nations, which heretofore controlled belligerent powers, regulated the duties of neutrals and protected their rights, are now flagrantly disregarded or forgotten by Great Britain and France. Each of those two nations, captures and condemns all American vessels trading with her enemies or her enemies allies; and every European power having become a party in the contest, the whole of our commerce with European colonies, becomes liable to capture by either one of the o-
ther. If there be any nominal exception, it is made on a condition of tribute, which only adds insult to the injury.
The only plan urged in justification of those hostilities, is that of retaliation, grounded on a presumed acquiescence of the United States in previous aggressions by the other party. Waving a discussion of the correctness of the principle of retaliation, a principle doubtful in itself, and altogether inadmissible to the extent to which it has been carried, and when operating on the neutral rather than on the enemy; it is altogether certain that the United States have ever voluntarily acquiesced in the unlawful aggressions of either nation; omitted or delayed any measures calculated to obtain redress, or in any respect deviated from that impartiality to which they were bound by their neutrality. France has alluded to the violations of the national flag, and of the sovereignty of the United States, in the instances of Pierce's murder, of the outrage on the Chesapeake, and of the destruction of the Impetus. The measures taken to obtain redress in those cases are of public notoriety, and it may be added, that with the exception of the last, those aggressions on the sovereignty of the United States, did not affect their neutrality, and gave no right to France either of complaint or interference. Setting aside irregularities of less importance and equally chargeable to both nations, such as the British order of June, 1805, and the decree of the French general, Ferrand, the principal violations by England of the neutral rights of America, prior to the Berlin decree of November, 1806, and which, if acquiesced in, might have given grounds of complaint to France, are the capture of American vessels laden with colonial produce, founded on a renewal of that pretended principle generally called "the rule of 1756," the impressment of American seamen, compelled thereby to become the auxiliaries of England against France, and proclamation or nominal blockade, particularly that of the coast from the river Elbe to Brest, notified in May, 1806.
It will not be asserted, that the United States ever tamely acquiesced in either of those pretensions. It will not be denied, that with respect to the two first, the most strenuous efforts were incessantly made to procure an alteration of the British system.
It is true, that to the nominal proclamation blockade of England, the United States had opposed only spirited and repeated remonstrances, and that these had not always been successful. But the measures which a neutral nation may be supposed bound to take, against the infractions of its neutrality, must always bear a certain proportion to the extent and nature of the injury received, and to the means of opposition. It cannot certainly be pretended, that a hasty resort to war should in every such instance have become the duty of America. Nor can the irregularities of England, in declaring a state of blockade, a certain extent of coast, part of which was not, and the whole of which could not, even by her powerful navy, be actually invested and blockaded, be plead in justification of that decree, by which France, without an efficient fleet, pretends to announce the blockade of the dominions of a power which has the incontestable command of the sea, and before no port of which she can station a single vessel. The Milan decree of 1807, can still less rest for its defence on the supposed acquiescence of the United States in the British orders of the preceding months, since those orders, which have not certainly been acquiesced
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in, were not even known in America at the date of the decree. And it is proper here to add, that the French have, particularly by the sequestration of certain vessels in their ports, and by burning our ships on the high seas, gone even beyond the tenor of their own extraordinary edicts.
The allegation of an acquiescence in the Berlin decree of November 1806, by which also the British government pretends to justify the orders of council, is equally unfounded. In the note on that subject, addressed on the 31st of December 1806, by the British government to the American ministers; after having stated that "they could not believe that the enemy would ever seriously attempt to enforce such a system," the following declaration is expressly made, "If, however, the enemy should carry these threats into execution, and if neutral nations, contrary to all expectations, should acquiesce in such usurpations, his majesty might probably be compelled, however reluctantly, to retaliate in his just defence, &c." The two requisites necessary in the opinion of Great Britain to justify retaliation, are stated to be, the execution of the decree, and the acquiescence of neutral nations. Yet, within eight days after, and in the face of that declaration, without waiting for ascertaining either of those facts, the retaliating British order of January 7th, 1807, was issued, which, contrary to the acknowledged law of nations, subjected to capture, vessels of the United States sailing from the ports of one belligerent to a port of another belligerent.
The United States in the mean while, and without delay, had taken the necessary steps to ascertain the manner in which the French government intended to execute their decree.
That decree might be construed merely as a municipal law forbidding the introduction of British merchandise, and the admission of vessels coming from England. Under that aspect, and if confined to that object, the neutral rights of America were not affected by its operation.
A belligerent may, without any infraction of neutral rights, forbid the admission into his ports of any vessel coming from the ports of his enemy. And France had undoubtedly the same right to exclude from her dominions every species of British merchandise, which the United States have exercised in forbidding the importation of certain species. Great Britain might be injured by such regulations; but America had no more right to complain of that part of the decree, than France had to object to the American non-importation act. So far indeed as respects the United States, they were placed by the municipal part of the decree in the same situation, in relation to France, in which they are placed in their intercourse with Great Britain by the permanent laws of that country. The French decree forbids American vessels to import British merchandise into France. The British navigation act forbids American vessels to import French merchandise into England. But that broad clause of the Berlin decree which declared the British islands in a state of blockade, though not followed by regulations to that effect, still threatened an intended operation on the high seas. This, if carried into effect, would be a flagrant violation of the neutral rights of the United States, and as such they would be bound to oppose it. The minister of the United States at Paris immediately applied for explanation on that subject; and the French minister of marine, on the 24th December, 1806, seven days before the date of the above mentioned note of the British government, stated in answer, that the decree made no alteration in the regulations then observed in France with regard to neutral navigation, or to the commercial convention of the United States with France. That the declaration of the British is not in a state of blockade and do not change the existing French
we concerning maritime cap-
tures, and that American vessels could not be taken at sea for the mere reason of their being going to, or returning from an English port.
The execution of the decree composed for several months with those explanations: several vessels were arrested for having introduced articles of English growth or manufacture, and among them some which being actually from England, and laden with English colonial produce, had entered with forged papers, as if coming from the United States. But no alteration of the first construction given by the French government took place until the month of September, 1807. The first condemnation on the principle that the decree subjected neutral vessels to capture on the high seas, was that of the Horizon on the 10th of October following. Prior to that time there could have been no acquiescence in a decree infringing the neutral rights of the United States; because till that time it was explained, and what was more important, executed in such manner as not to infringe those rights; because ministers of the United States at London, at the request of the British minister, communicated to him on the 18th October, 1807, the substance of the explanations received, and of the manner in which the decree was executed. For they were at that time ignorant of the change which had taken place.
It was on the 18th of September, 1807, that a new construction of the decree took place; an instruction having on that day been transmitted to the council of prizes by the minister of justice, by which that court was informed, that French armed vessels were authorized, under that decree, to seize without exception, in neutral vessels, either English property, or merchandise of English growth or manufacture. An immediate explanation having been asked from the French minister of foreign relations, he confirmed, in his answer of the 7th of October, 1807, the determination of his government to adopt that construction. Its first application took place on the 10th of the same month, in the case of the Horizon, of which the minister of the United States was not informed until the month of November; and on the twelfth of that month, he presented a spirited remonstrance against that infraction of the neutral rights of the United States. He had, in the meanwhile, transmitted to America the instruction to the council of prizes of the 18th of September. This was received on the 10th of December; and a copy of the decision in the case of the Horizon, having at the same time reached the government, the president, aware of the consequences which would follow that new state of things, communicated immediately to congress the alteration of the French decree, and recommended the embargo, which was accordingly laid on the 22nd of December, 1807; at which time it was well understood, in this country, that the British orders of council, of November preceding, had issued, although they were not officially communicated to our government.
On the 11th of that month these orders did actually issue, declaring that all the ports of France, of her allies, and of any other country at war with England, and all other ports of Europe, from which, although not at war with England, the British flag was excluded, should thenceforth be considered as if the same were actually blockaded; that all trade in articles of the produce or manufactures of the said countries should be deemed unlawful; and that every vessel trading from or to the said countries, together with all goods and merchandise on board, and also all articles of the produce or manufacture of the said countries, should be liable to capture and condemnation.
These orders cannot be defended on the ground of their being intended as retaliating on account of the Berlin decree, as construed, and uniformly executed from its date to the 18th September,
1807, its construction and execution having till then infringed no neutral rights. For certainly the monstrous doctrine will not be asserted even by the British government, that neutral nations are bound to resist, not only the acts of belligerent powers which violate their rights, but also those municipal regulations, which, however, they may injure the enemy, are lawful and do not affect the legitimate rights of the neutral. The only retaliation to be used in such cases, must be such as will operate on the enemy without infringing the rights of the neutral. If solely intended as a retaliation on the Berlin decree, as executed prior to the month of September, the British orders of council should have been confined to forbidding the introduction into Great Britain of French or enemy's merchandise, and the admission into British ports of neutral vessels coming from a French or other enemy's port. Indeed the ground of retaliation on account of any culpable acquiescence of neutrals in decrees violating their rights, is abandoned by the very tenor of the orders; their operation being extended to those countries from which the British flag was excluded, such as Austria, although such countries were neither at war with Great Britain, nor had passed any decree in any way affecting or connected with neutral rights.
Nor are the orders justifiable on the pretence of an acquiescence on the part of the United States, in the French decree as construed and executed subsequent to the 18th September, 1807, when it became an evident infraction of their rights, and such as they were bound to oppose. For their minister at Paris, immediately made the necessary remonstrances; and the orders were issued not only without having ascertained whether the United States would acquiesce in the injurious alteration of the French decree, but more than one month before that alteration was known in America. It may even be asserted that the alteration was not known in England when the orders of council were issued; the instruction of the 18th September, 1807, which gave the new and injurious construction, not having been promulgated in France, and its first publication having been made in December, 1807, and by the American government itself.
The British orders of council are, therefore, unjustifiable on the principle of retaliation, even giving to that principle of retaliation all the latitude which has ever been avowedly contended for. They are in open violation of the solemn declaration made by the British ministers in December, 1806; that retaliation on the part of Great Britain would depend on the execution of an unlawful decree, and on the acquiescence of neutral nations in such infraction of their rights. And they were also issued, notwithstanding the official communication made by the ministers of the United States, that the French decree was construed and executed so as not to infringe their neutral rights, and without any previous notice or intimation denying the correctness of that statement.
The Berlin decree, as expounded and executed subsequent to the 18th September 1807, and the British orders of council of the 11th November ensuing, are therefore, as they affect the United States, co-temporaneous aggressions of the belligerent powers, equally unprovoked and equally indefensible on the presumed ground of acquiescence. These, together with the Milan decree of December, 1807, which filled the measure, would on the principle of self-defence have justified immediate hostilities against both nations on the part of the United States. They thought it more eligible in the first instance by withdrawing their vessels from the ocean, to avoid war, at least, for a season, and at the same time, to snatch their immense and defenceless commerce from impending destruction.
Another appeal has in the meantime been made, under the au-
thority vested in the president for that purpose, to the justice and true interest of France and England. The propositions made by the United States, and the arguments urged by their ministers, are before Congress. By these, the very pretext of the illegal edict was removed; and it is evident that a revocation, by either nation, on the ground on which it was asked, either must have produced, what both pretended to have in view, a restoration of the freedom of commerce and of the acknowledged principles of the law of nations; or in case of refusal by the other belligerent, would have carried into effect, in the most efficient manner, the ostensible object of the edicts, and made the United States a party in the war against him. The effort has been ineffectual. The propositions have been actually rejected by one of the belligerent powers, and remain unanswered by the other. In that state of things, what course ought the United States to pursue? Your committee can perceive no other alternative but abject and degrading submission—war with both nations—or a continuance and enforcement of the present suspension of commerce.
The first cannot require any discussion. But the pressure of the embargo so sensibly felt, and the calamities inseparable from a state of war, naturally create a wish that some middle course might be discovered, which should avoid the evils of both, and not be inconsistent with national honor and independence. That illusion must be dissipated; and it is necessary that the people of the United States should fully understand the situation in which they are placed.
There is no other alternative but war with both nations, or a continuance of the present system. For war with one of the belligerents only would be submission to the edicts and will of the other; and a repeal in whole or in part of the embargo must necessarily be war or submission.
A general repeal, without arming, would be submission to both nations.
A general repeal and arming of our merchant vessels, would be war with both, and war of the worst kind, suffering the enemies to plunder us without retaliation upon them.
A partial repeal must, from the situation of Europe, necessarily be actual submission to one of the aggressors, and war with the other.
The last position is the only one on which there can be any doubt; and it will be most satisfactorily demonstrated by selecting, amongst the several modifications which might be suggested, that which may on first view appear the least exceptionable; a proposition to repeal the embargo, so far only as relates to those powers which have not passed or do not execute any decrees injurious to the neutral rights of the United States.
It is said that the adoption of that proposition would restore our commerce with the native powers of Asia and Africa, and with Spain, Portugal, Sweden and Russia. Let this be taken for granted, although the precise line of conduct now pursued by most of those nations, in relation to the United States, is not correctly ascertained. So far as relates to any advantages which would result from that measure, if confined to ostensible objects, it will be sufficient to observe that the exports of articles of the domestic produce of the United States, during the year ending the 30th September, 1807, amounted to $48,700,000, and that the portion exported to the countries above enumerated, falls short of seven millions; an amount too inconsiderable, when compared with the bulk of our exports, to deserve attention, even if a question affecting the independence of the nation was to be decided by considerations of immediate profit.
But the true effect of the proposition would be to open an indirect trade with Great Britain, which, through St. Bartholomew and Havannah, Lisbon, Cadiz or Gottemburg, would receive, at
prices reduced by glutted markets and for want of competition, all the provisions, naval stores, raw materials for her manufactures, and other articles which she may want. Whether she would be satisfied with that favourable state of things, or whether, considering that boon as a pledge of unqualified submission, she would according to the tenor of her orders, interrupt our scanty commerce with Russia, and occasionally, under some new pretext, capture rather than purchase the cargoes intended for her own use, is equally uncertain and unimportant. Nor can it be doubted that a measure which would supply exclusively one of the belligerents, would be war with the other. Considered merely as a question of profit, it would be much more eligible at once to raise the embargo in relation to Great Britain, as we would then, at least, have the advantages of a direct market with the consumer. But the proposition can only be defended on the ground that France is the only aggressor, and that having no just reason to complain of England, it is our duty to submit to her orders. On that inadmissible supposition, it would not only be more candid, but also a more dignified, as well as more advantageous course, openly to join England, and to make war against France. The object would be clearly understood, an ally would be obtained, and the meanness of submission might be better palliated.
It appears unnecessary to pursue any further the examination of propositions, which the difficult situation of the United States could alone have suggested, and which will prove more inadmissible, or impracticable, as the subject is more thoroughly investigated. The alternative is painful; it is between a continued suspension of commerce and war with both England and France. But the choice must ultimately be made between the two; and it is important that we should be prepared for either the one or the other.
The aggressions of England and France collectively, affecting almost the whole of our commerce, and persisted in, notwithstanding repeated remonstrances, explanations and propositions the most candid and unexceptionable, are to all intents and purposes, a maritime war waged by both nations against the United States. It cannot be denied that the ultimate and only effectual mode of resisting that warfare, if persisted in, is war. A permanent suspension of commerce, after repeated and unavailing efforts to obtain peace, would not properly be resistance: it would be withdrawing from the contest and abandoning our indisputable right freely to navigate the ocean. The present unsettled state of the world, the extraordinary situation in which the United States are placed, and the necessity, if war be resorted to, of making it at the same time against both nations, and these the two most powerful of the world, are the principle causes of hesitation. There would be none in resorting to that remedy, however calamitous, if a selection could be made on any principle of justice, or without a sacrifice of national independence.
On a question of such difficulty, involving the most important interests of the union, and which has not, perhaps, until lately, been sufficiently considered, your committee think the house alone competent to pronounce a decisive opinion: and they have, in this report, confined themselves to an exposition of the subject, and to such introductory resolutions, as will be equally applicable to either alternative. The first of these, being merely declaratory of a determination not to submit to foreign aggressions, may perhaps, at a first view, appear superfluous. It is, however, believed by the committee, that a pledge by the representatives of the nation, that they will not abandon its essential rights, will not at this critical moment be unacceptable. The misapprehensions which seem to have existed, and the misrepresentations which have

been circulated, respecting the state of our foreign relations, render also such declaration expedient. And it may not be useless that every foreign nation should understand, that its aggressions never will be justified or encouraged by any description of American citizens. For the question for every citizen now is, whether he will rally round the government of his choice, or enlist under foreign banners? Whether he will be for his country or against his country?
The committee respectfully submit the following resolutions: 1. Resolved , That the United States cannot, without a sacrifice of their rights, honour and independence, submit to the late edicts of Great Britain and France. 2. Resolved , That it is expedient to prohibit, by law, the admission into the ports of the United States of all public or private, armed or unarmed ships or vessels belonging to Great Britain or France, or to any other of the belligerent powers, having in force orders or decrees violating the lawful commerce and neutral rights of the United States; and also the importation of any goods, wares or merchandise, the growth, produce or manufacture of the dominions of any of the said powers, or imported from any place in the possession of either.
3. Resolved , That measures ought to be immediately taken for placing the country in a more complete state of defence.
Congressional Register. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, December 1. Mr. Morrow presented a petition from a number of the officers of the revolutionary army, praying for compensation for the depreciation of their certificates.
The house resolved itself into committee of the whole on the report on the petition of the Americans taken with Miranda. The report concludes with a resolution authorizing the president to procure their release, and appropriating dollars to that subject.
Mr. Love moved to fill the blank with ten thousand. On motion of Mr. D. R. Williams the committee rose, and had leave to sit again.
The house again resolved itself into committee of the whole on the report of the committee of foreign relations. The first resolution was adopted unanimously. The second resolution was read in the following words:
Resolved , That it is expedient to prohibit by law the admission into the ports and harbours of the United States of all public or private vessels, armed or unarmed, belonging to Great Britain or France, or to any other belligerent power who has executed or enforced any order or decree, violating the neutral commerce of the United States, and also the importation of any goods, wares or merchandise, the growth, produce or manufacture of the dominions of either of the said countries, or imported therefrom.
Mr. Randolph called for a division of the question, so as to take a separate vote on that clause ending with the words "United States." The question was taken without debate, and carried—34 to 21.
The third and last resolution reported by the committee being read as follows: "Resolved, That measures ought to be immediately taken for placing the country in a more complete state of defence"—it was agreed to, nem con.
The committee rose, and reported the resolutions. On the question of concurrence on the first resolution.
Mr. Dana after a few prefatory remarks, moved to amend the resolution by adding the words "abandon the navigation of the ocean in consequence of."
The question on this amendment was taken by yeas and nays, and lost—yeas 26, nays 96. The yeas, were Messrs. J. Campbell, Champion, Chittenden, Culpepper, Ewing, Davenport, Elliott,
Ely, R. Jackson, Jenkins, Key, Lewis, Livermore, Lloyd, Milnor, Mosely, Pitkin, Quincy, Randolph, Russell, Stedman, Sturges, Taggart, Talmadge, Upham, and Van Rensselaer.
All the others present in the negative.
Mr. D. R. Williams called for a division of the question on the resolution at the words "Great Britain," so as to take the question separately on the propriety of submitting to Great Britain and France.
Mr. Gardener assigned various reasons for voting against the resolutions, if obliged to vote at all—but as he thought it disreputable to the American people to take a vote on the resolution at all, he would move the previous question. The previous question is, "shall the main question be put?" and it was carried, 65 rising in favour of it. Some doubts arose whether the previous question being decided in the affirmative, did not preclude all further debate on the main question. The speaker said such had been his own opinion; but that last year the house had reversed his decision on that point. He should therefore feel himself bound by the decision of the house unless reversed.
Mr. D. R. Williams, appealed from the decision of the chair, to afford the house an opportunity of retracting the decision of last session, which he believed to be erroneous. This appeal produced some discussion. The ayes and noes were asked for by Mr. Randolph, when an adjournment was called for, and carried.
CARTHAGENA, Sept. 20.
Yesterday a merchant vessel arrived here in eight days from Palermo, the captain of which asserts that the French are precipitately evacuating Naples, the whole kingdom being in a state of insurrection against the French, in consequence of having learned with certainty the occurrences in Spain, and the victories gained by the Spaniards; he adds, that when he came away, the English were embarking in all the vessels in that port, troops, arms, ammunition, and provisions for Naples.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 2.
Arrived this morning the ship Betsey, Capt. Larkins, 57 days from Liverpool. By this arrival we have received Liverpool papers to the 30th and London Gazettes to the 28th; being but two days later than our former accounts. The columns of these prints are almost exclusively occupied with the affairs of Spain and Portugal; and even on these subjects, contain nothing particularly new or interesting.
Extract of a letter from the Vermilion river, on the Mexican Gulf, to a gentleman in Chilli-cothe, dated August 2, 1808.
"A French general is now at Apalachicola, on his way from Paris to Santa Fe, to take command of the military force at that place. Several other officers have gone before him. He says, the province of New-Spain, including Old Mexico, is ceded to France; and that officers have landed here this, at Vera Cruz, to take possession in the name of France, and that he expects opposition in Old Mexico."
"Fifteen millions of dollars are not the fifteenth part the value of the American claim below the Red river, and west of the Mississippi. This is the garden of America."
ALEXANDRIA, Dec. 5. From our Correspondent at Washington.
Friday, December 2. Mr. Newton reported the bill some days since re-committed to the committee of commerce and manufactures, authorising the president to employ twelve additional revenue cutters, with the addition of an appropriation clause, accompanied by a report from the secretary of the treasury, in support of the expediency. Referred to a committee of the whole.
Mr. Randolph called for the reading of the message received from the president yesterday. It was accompanied by a report of the surveyor of the public buildings. Laid on the table.
The unfinished business of yesterday, which was an appeal from the speaker's decision on a point of order, was resumed. [ This is a point which members themselves do not understand, and which it is impossible for me to render intelligible to your readers. ] The speaker's decision was affirmed, 101 to 18.
The question of concurring with the committee of the whole on the first resolution reported by the committee of foreign relations then recurred.
A concurrence was advocated by Mr. Rhea in a speech of half an hour.
Mr. Upham said gentlemen had indulged themselves in a very wide field of remark. He hoped there would then be an end to the epode and digression. It was of but little consequence what became of the resolution.
Mr. G. W. Jackson consumed upwards of two hours in taking a review of the aggressions on our neutral rights by the different warring powers. It was a kind of paraphrastic version of all the documents on the subject of our foreign relations, communicated to Congress within the last four years. He was followed by Mr. Lyon, who made some very humorous remarks on the terrapine policy.
Adjourned at 4 o'clock.
LITCHFIELD, Nov. 30
On Monday last the United States company of infantry, enlisted in this and the neighbouring towns, under the command of Captain Stephen Ranney, began their march for Salem and Marblehead, at which places they are to be stationed for the purpose; it is supposed, of preventing violations of the embargo laws.
NEW-YORK, December 1.
A letter has been received here, from Bilbao, of the 15th of September, stating that the city of Bilbao had been given up to plunder by the French army, which they carried so completely into execution that only one house escaped.
RICHMOND, December 2.
The trial of John Moss, late assistant clerk in the Petersburg post-office, for robbing the same, took place yesterday before the federal court, now sitting in this city—the jury returned a verdict of GUILTY: he will receive his sentence to-day.
Letters from Ireland, via Philadelphia, state, that the most serious apprehension entertained in that country from the effects of the embargo, has been completely removed, by the arrival of quantities of flaxseed from Holland at 60 guilders (about 6 pounds sterling) per hhd. We had noticed some time since, that the distress which prevailed in Holland, had compelled the government of that country to permit the free exportation of various articles of Dutch produce, and this appears to be one of the consequences of the relaxation.
[New-York pap.]
A letter from an officer of the U. States standing army dated at Port Woolsey, on Lake Champlain, Oct. 23, 1808, says, "we have here two companies, one of infantry and one of light artillery, which are stationed on the bank of the Lake, about a mile from the Canada line, under the orders of the custom-house officers. Our sole business is in preventing smuggling. There is an immense quantity of potash and other property smuggled over the lines. The smugglers are very desperate and daring, always residing where they have a chance. Our men have had several squabbles with them: one of our sergeants has been knocked down on his post; and another had two balls fired through his coat. It is not very agreeable to make war with our own citizens, but the laws ought to be obeyed, and you
know it is our duty to enforce them. [Better to repeal them. Laws which require a standing army to enforce are unworthy a free nation. The American spirit must be degraded beyond all measure to permit their existence.]
"The people generally are not pleased with our coming here."
The Governor of Massachusetts has refused to confirm the appointment of Electors for President and Vice-President, made by the Legislature,—and it was unanimously agreed to by the members of both houses, that the minority should enter their protest upon the journals.
DOCUMENTS ACCOMPANYING THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT. (CONTINUED)
Extract from a letter of Gen. Armstrong to Mr. Madison, dated, Paris, 17th February, 1808.
"Enclosed is a copy of the answer from the minister of marine to the letter of the 13th instant, in relation to the sale of a part of the cargo of the ship James Adams. It would now appear, that the promises of forbearance made by another department are applicable only to vessels sequestered in the ports and not to such as have been captured at sea."
5th division of prizes. Extract of a letter of the minister of marine to gen. Armstrong, dated Paris, 15th Feb. 1808.
"I observe to you, moreover, that the question now is not as to a vessel sequestered in port, but as to a prize made at sea, and seized for a contravention of the decree of the 17th December last; that the provisional sale ordered on account of the 'average' is for the interest as well of the captured as of the captors, that it is directed according to the case provided for by the regulation of the 2d Praireal, 11th year."
Gen. Armstrong to Mr. Madison. (EXTRACT.)
"Paris, 5th April, 1808." "I received the dispatches you did me the honour to address to me by Mr. Lewis, on the 26th ult."
"Though I had complained often and earnestly of both the principles and operation of the Emperor's decrees of November 1806, and December, 1807, (having written at least twenty notes on the different cases which have arisen under them) yet as the President's orders we express, that on receipt of your letter I should superadd to whatever representations might have been previously made, a formal remonstrance against those decrees, I did not lose a moment in writing and presenting the inclosed note; the terms of which I hope appear to be such as were proper or necessary to the case, and calculated either to obtain a recall of the illegal measures, or to leave in full force the rights accruing to the United States from a failure on the part of France to repeal them. To this note I have not yet received an answer, nor have I reason to expect one soon; as the emperor has left Paris (it is said for Spain) and had at no time before he set out, indicated any alteration in the views which originally produced the decrees in question."
"Mr. Pinkney found means, in the return to the continent of M. D'Alopeus, to communicate the president's views on the subject of the general embargo, and particularly the desire he had that it should not be considered as a measure of hostility against any foreign nation. Some explanations of this kind, were perhaps necessary in England, where, from the misrepresentations of our own people, the character of the policy was likely to be misunderstood, but as neither the same nor any other reason existed for making them here, none have been offered."
[To be continued.]
MARTINSBURG, Dec. 9.
To Subscribers.
The accounts of this establishment have been made out, and are now ready for the inspection of our subscribers; each of them as can make it convenient, is hoped will call upon us for the purpose of settling, or, from the multiplicity of accounts we have now standing open, and their being so much dispersed through the country, we shall otherwise be subjected to very great trouble and inconvenience in making a personal application to each individual.
In the Senate it has been determined by a majority of twenty-five to six, not to repeal the Embargo; and in the House it has been determined by a majority of eighty-four to twenty-one, to prohibit the admission of British and French public or private vessels into the ports of the United States, or the importation of goods, wares or merchandise, the growth, produce, or manufacture of the dominions of the said powers; and as a preliminary to, or consequent on, this determination, it has been likewise decided that the "United States cannot, without a sacrifice of their rights, honour and independence, submit to the late edicts of Great Britain and France"; and that "measures ought to be immediately taken for placing the country in a more complete state of defence."
These votes decide unequivocally the disposition of the government in all its branches, and prove its determination to maintain the ground it has already taken, or to occupy such higher ground as circumstances may require.
[National Intelligencer.] The following volunteer corps have tendered their services, all of whom are completely uniformed:
From Washington County: Capt. Cox's Troop of Horse. Capt. Brent's Troop of Horse. Capt. Burch's Artillery. Capt. Calder's Light Infantry. Capt. Davidson's Light Infantry. Capt. Jones's Light Infantry. Capt. Smith's Riflemen. From Alexandria County: Capt. Lynn's Light Infantry. Capt. Deneale's Light Infantry. Capt. Mansfield's Artillery. Capt. McGuire's Riflemen.
ANTIMONY.—It is said (in a New-York paper), that an immense quantity of Antimonial Ore has been discovered in New-Jersey. This is noted as important to manufacturers of Antimony, particularly so to those concerned in supplying the Printers with Type. A similar discovery, it is said, has recently been made in Pennsylvania.
Manufactures in Competition.—Three pieces superfine broad cloth, manufactured at Humphreyville, one of full blooded Merino wool, grown in this country, and the other two pieces, of the wool of the half blooded Merino, were exhibited to the general assembly at its late session, to the high approbation of its members. The first piece was judged to be equal in fineness and goodness to cloths now sold at 10 or 11 dollars per yard; the others to those which are worth 5 dollars per yard. We understand these and some pieces of cotton cloth from the same factory, have been sent to Philadelphia, where extraordinary encouragement for the sale of home-spun cloths is afforded by the domestic society.
REPRISAL.—Dunn, the person who was convicted of firing on the soldiers who were executing the Embargo Laws in Vermont, has suffered the sentence of the law. He appeared perfectly composed and hardened, denied his crime; kicked his hat into the grave, spit upon his coffin, and pulled the cap over his eyes himself. No person prayed with him at the gallows.
BALTIMORE, Dec. 6. FROM THE WEST INDIES.
A letter from Barbadoes, dated 22d October, mentions, that there is a glut of provisions and flour in those islands; there are 7000 bbls. in the Barbadoes market; that corn is selling at $1 50, and sugar at $4 50; and West India produce is looking up.
Advices are received from Havana to the 3d November. Large quantities of flour had arrived from Vera Cruz, and reduced the price one half. No late news had been received from Spain.
A good Milch Cow will be exchanged for Indian Corn. Inquire of the Printer.
Dec. 9, 1808.

NEW GOODS.
The subscribers have just finished opening a handsome assortment of Fall & Winter Goods, from which the following article are selected:
 SUPERFINE Broad Cloths, fashionable colours.  Common ditto.  Superfine Cassimeres, ditto.  Ladies elegant Pelisse Cloths, Brown, blue and mint Coatings.  Fancy Cloths, Plaid and Kerseys.  Downcast Kersey.  Blue, red and green Baize.  Mint, Superfine and Common Flannels, all colours.  Tailors, olive, mint and black Constitution Coats.  Velvets, Fancy Cordas, Corduroys and Thicksets.  Ladies Pelisse Velvets, handsome colours, Black, green, brown and scarlet.  Bonnetts.  Wollen and Cotton Hosiery, well assorted.  An elegant assortment of Silk ditto.  Fancy and plain Silks for Ladies Dresses.  Plain, spotted and Trailliger Leno Muslins, 6-4 and 4-4 Cambric ditto.  India Jacquet ditto.  ditto Blank ditto.  Common ditto.  Chintzes and Calicos.  Fancy and plain Ribbeds.  6-4 Cambrics and 4-4 Dimities, well assorted.  6-4 and 4-4 Black Cambric Muslin.  Silk and Cotton Chambray ditto.  India Muslins, well assorted.  Ladies entire lace dresses, Silk and Cotton, Leghorn Hats and Bonnets.  Ladies fashionable Plush Hats, trim'd complete.  Fine Thread and Cotton Leno, very cheap.  4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens.  Blanket Shirts and Bucks.  White and brown Tickingsburgs.  Country Linens and Twilled BAGS.  Mahogany framed Looking Glasses, ditto ditto Dressing ditto.  An elegant assortment of China, Glass and Queen's Ware.  Elegant pressed Tea-Trays.  A large assortment of Groceries and Liquors.  Paints and Medicines.  Brass, Steel, Tin and Steel.  7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Window Glass.  ALSO A good assortment of Hard Ware, Sadlery and Cutlery, among which are a few sets of Plated BRIDLE BITS and heavy STIRRUP IRONS, together with almost every article in the Mercantile line, all of which they offer very cheap for Cash. R. WORTHINGTON, & Co. Shepherd's-Town, November 25, 1808.
WILL be sold at public vendue on the 10th day of December next, a lease on a small tract of Land, containing about 22 acres, about four acres of which is in timber; this Land is part of the estate of the late Joseph Walingsford, deceased, and will be sold for cash, to pay sundry executions against said estate; the sale will commence at twelve o'clock.  JOHN ROBERTS, Acting Adm'r. November 25, 1808.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the 24th day of December next, after the date hereof, I intend to take the depositions of John Turner and Lewis Meeks, at the house in which Edmund Graham now resides, in the town of Martinsburg, County of Berkeley and Commonwealth of Virginia, to be read in evidence on the trial of a suit in Chancery, brought and now depending in the County Court of Berkeley, wherein I am complainant, and you the said William M. Stewart and John Gritton are defendants. Said depositions to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit from the County Court of Berkeley for that purpose.  Yours, &c. EPHRAIM LOWMAN. November 25, 1808.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the 24th day of December next, after the date hereof, I intend to take the depositions of John Turner and Lewis Meeks, at the house in which Edmund Graham now resides, in the town of Martinsburg, County of Berkeley and Commonwealth of Virginia, to be read in evidence on the trial of a suit in Chancery, brought and now depending in the County Court of Berkeley, wherein I am complainant, and you the said William M. Stewart, Aaron Stead, John G. Gritton and John Kennedy, & Co. are defendants. Said depositions to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit from the County Court of Berkeley for that purpose.  Yours, &c. EPHRAIM LOWMAN. November 25, 1808.
Observe This.
THE holders or owners of shares, in Shepherd's-Town and its neighbourhood, are hereby cautioned against suffering them to come on my land, at night or on Sundays, without a written pass, and have suffered considerably from their depredations, and am determined to punish severely, all who may hereafter be found on my premises without a written permission from their masters.  ANTHONY TURNER. November 25, 1808.
Attend to this Notice.
ALL persons are cautioned against purchasing from, selling to, or in any manner dealing with, any of my horses, waggon, harness, &c. except, as I am determined to punish to the utmost, all of the law every person who may offend in this way in future.  ANTHONY TURNER. November 25, 1808.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the 24th day of December next, after the date hereof, I intend to take the depositions of Joseph Rye, at the house in which Mr. Edmund Graham now lives, in the town of Martinsburg, County of Berkeley and Commonwealth of Virginia, to be read in evidence on the trial of a suit in Chancery, brought and now depending in the County Court of Berkeley, wherein I am complainant, and you the defendant. Said depositions to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit from the County Court of Berkeley for that purpose.  Yours, &c. EPHRAIM LOWMAN. November 25, 1808.
Take Notice.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber for the services of his Stud Horse Matchless, for the years 1807 and 1808, are requested to come forward on or before the 15th December next, and discharge what may be due; those who neglect this notice, will certainly have suits brought against them after that time, without respect to persons.  ANTHONY TURNER. November 25, 1808.
Journeymen Tailors.
Two or three good Journeymen Tailors, are wanted immediately, to whom liberal wages will be given.  JOHN DAUGHERTY. Shepherd's-Town, November 25, 1808.
WHEEL-RIGHT.
THE subscriber hereby informs the inhabitants of Martinsburg & its vicinity that he still continues his occupation as a WHEEL-RIGHT, he makes Flat, Wool and Cotton Wheels, Check Reels, Windsor Chairs and all other kinds of Turning, he will likewise repair old work for his old customers, he will take in exchange for new work all kinds of country produce at the market price, he has at present on hand, a quantity of work such as Windsor Chairs of the newest fashions, house joiners and cabinet makers may also be supplied with large bench and clamp screws, or any other kind belonging to joiner turning. Merchants near or at a distance may be supplied with Tar Cans as usual, either by the single dozen or gross. A short credit will be given to punctilious persons.  All those in arrears are desired to call and discharge their balances either in cash or country produce, either will be accepted. He still resides in his old stand in Burke street, near James Faulkner's Store.  MICHAEL KERNS. Nov. 18, 1808. [8p.]
Six Cents Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, on the 25th of September last, an apprentice boy named JOHN SHELLERD, about sixteen years of age. Whosoever takes up said runaway, and returns him to me, shall receive the above reward, but no charges of thanks.  JONATHAN WYCKESMAN. Darksville, Nov. 18, 1808.
October Court, 1808.
John E. Fryatt, Complainant, against George Eskridge and Henry Shroeder, Defendants, IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants not having entered their appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant, by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendants do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in January next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of said County.  A Copy. Teste. DAVID HUNTER, C. & C.
WRITING PAPER
for sale at this Office.
Fresh Fall & Winter GOODS.
THE subscribers respectfully inform their old customers and the public generally, that they have just received from the city of Philadelphia, and finished opening, one of the largest and best assortments of GOODS since commencement. It is thought by them (however usual with others in a similar line of business) to be entirely unnecessary thro' the channel of public advertisements to assert the very moderate terms on which they will be disposed of for Cash—when by a judicious and impartial inspection every purchaser shall be advantageously informed.
 Among the entire assortment is comprised the following, viz:  Superfine and Common Broad Cloths, ditto ditto Cassimeres, ditto, do. Coatings, ditto ditto Molekin, Knapped Frize, Devonshire, Kersey, Dble Mill'd Drab Cloths, Finesse do. Hunter's Patent Sattinet, Halfbuck and Fearnought, Fancy Windsor Cordas for waistcoating, ditto Swansdowns, Red and Green Baize, S. fine and Common Flannels well assorted, Rose Blankets, Striped ditto, President and Constitution Cordas, Velvetyts and Velvetyettes, Thicksets, Corduroys, Ladies' Pelisse Velvets, Bonnets and Fancy Cordas, Ladies' Finesse Tippets assorted, Gentlemen's Cassimere, ditto, Yellow, Red, Brown and Blue Bandance Hdk. Madras Shawls and Hdk. of various descriptions, Damask Silk and Cotton Shawls, Diaper Table Cloths and Towels, Bed Tickings assorted, a complete assortment of fine Ivory Combs, Quillback dressing ditto, Elegant pocket and common ditto, Ladies' most fashionable Torseas and Common ditto, Ladies' fashionable Plush Hats trim'd complete, ditto Leghorn Bonnets, Artificial Flowers, ditto Wreaths, Ostrich &c. Feathers, Tippets assorted, Silk and Cotton Umbrellas, Vells, Broad Thread and Cotton Lace, Fine Thread Edgings, Spider-Net Sleeves, Plain, Spotted and Trailliger Leno Muslins, Black ditto, ditto Shawls and Hdk. Extra Long Silk Gloves, Pic-Nic ditto and Mite, Short Silk Gloves, Beaver's ditto, New Silk Stockings, Furniture Cotton Tasels, Ladies' Silk and Cotton ditto, assorted complete, S. fine Linen Cambricks 6-4 and 4-4 Cotton ditto, 6-4 and 4-4 Black ditto, 4-4 S. fine Crapes assorted, Narrow Black and Lead Clock'd and Plain Cotton Hdk. assorted, Gentlemen's S. fine Angola ditto assorted, ditto Worsted ditto, German full'd ditto, Mahogany framed Looking Glasses, Common and Pocket ditto, Morocco and Leather Slippers elegantly assorted, ditto Childrens ditto Black Sattin, Railing, &c. Silk for dresses assorted, Net-Broc, Patent Silk, Leather and Cotton Suspenders, S. fine English Chintzes, the most elegant Figures, India and American prints, Pink, &c. Fine Gingham, Irish and Country Linens, White and Brown Russia Sheetings, Tickingsburgs, Dowles, &c. & G. Cognac Brandy, Jamaica Spirits, N. E. Rum, Rye Whisky, Sherry, Lisbon and Malaga Wines, Ground Album and Fine Salt, Havannah, Muscovado, Loaf, and C. Sugars, Best Green Coffee, Spanish Cigars, Lavendiah, James River and King Tobacco, best Sugar-house Molasses, Hyson &c. Teas, Nutmegs, Cloves, Pepper, Allspice, Cinnamon, Campher, Turkey Cotton Yarn, best Tennessee Spinning ditto, Crowley and Blister'd Steel, also an extensive assortment of Brim and M'Pherson's Barrow, a large quantity of China and Queen's Ware handsomely assorted, Martinique Cordas in bales. We return sincere thanks for past favours and hope nothing on our part shall be wanting to merit a continuance.    THOMAS C. SMITH, & Co. Martinsburg, 27th Oct 1808.
50 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living near Opequon in Jefferson County, Virginia, on Monday the 5th instant, a Negro Man named ELISHA, about twenty one years of age, about five feet seven or eight inches high, well made, rather slow in his speech, and is remarkably fond of liquor—Had on when he went away, a new shirt and trousers of strong home-made tow linen, striped swansdown jacket, and roundabout made of full'd lindsay of a drab colour, the under part of the sleeves made of cloth nearly of the same colour, a wool hat about half worn, with hat band and a buckle, the hat band wrapped round with brass wire, and coarse shoes much worn. I will give Fifty Dollars reward and all reasonable expenses for the apprehension of the said Negro, if he is returned to me, or secured in jail, so that I get him again.  ABRAHAM GORRELL. June 17, 1808.
Wanted immediately,
A lad from 16 to 17 years of age, to learn the Gun-Smith's business.  JOHN WHETSTONE. Martinsburg, Nov. 11, 1808.
VALUABLE LANDS & MILLS FOR SALE, ON CREDIT.
Pursuant to a decree of the Chancery District Court held at Staunton pronounced on the 4th day of April, 1808 in a suit therein depending between Jas. Purvis, complainant, and the Executors and Heirs of John Donaldson, dec'd. and others, defendants—WILL BE EXPOSED TO SALE, on the premises, on the 20th day of January next,
FIFTEEN ACRES OF LAND, situate in Berkeley County, Virginia, in the neighbourhood of Gerrards, or Middletown, being a valuable Mill-site, with a Mill thereon—This tract, with the Mill, and four acres near the same, will be sold by the undersigned Commissioners, to the highest bidder, on the following credit, to wit: One-third of the purchase money to be paid at the end of one year, from the day of sale—one other third at the end of two years from the day of sale—and the remaining third at the end of three years from the day of sale. All such payments to be well secured by bond with approved security, and also a lien on the property.
Also, on the 21st day of January next, will be sold, by the same commissioners and on the same credit a TRACT OF LAND, situate in Frederick County, Virginia, on both sides of Opiquon Creek, adjoining Beaver's and Jones-Liken's containing fifty and one half acres, with a valuable MERCHANT MILL and other improvements thereon—The sale to take place on the premises, and the payment to be secured as above mentioned.  ROBERT PAGE, CHARLES MAGILL, ALFRED H. POWELL, OBED WAITE, November 4, 1808.
Clock Making and Watch Repairing.
THE subscriber informs the public that he has removed from Frederick County to Martinsburg, where he intends to carry on the CLOCK making and WATCH repairing business; he has opened a shop in the house belonging to Robert Cockburn and where J. Alburtis formerly kept his Printing Office; where he will be thankful to all who please to call on him in that line, and all Watches that are repaired in his shop are warranted for one year, accidents excepted, and all Clocks made by him are warranted to be good.
He will give a generous price for old Copper and Brass.  REES BRANSON. 10th mo. 28th, 1808.
BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY
MARTINSBURG. THE subscriber respectfully informs his customers and the public, that he still occupies his old stand, between the Post-Office and Printing-Office, Martinsburg; that he has lately made a considerable addition to his stock of leather, (which is of the best quality) and shall constantly keep by him a large assortment, so that those who may please to employ him, will ever be disappointed; he will be careful in always keeping the best workmen, and from his own particular attention, feels an assurance, that he shall be able to give satisfaction to his customers—Boots and Shoes, of every description, will be carefully made, agreeable to directions—He intends to keep, ready-made, a variety of work for Ladies and Gentlemen—Having a large stock of Leather on hand, he will be able to give a short credit to punctilious persons who may wish it. He is thankful for the favours already received, and will endeavour in future not to be undeserving encouragement.  RICHARD HICKSON. April 1, 1808.
WASHINGTON ACADEMY.
ONE year has elapsed since the trustees of this institution declined employing a steward, and have permitted the Students to engage boarding for themselves in the vicinity of the Academy.
The experiment was new and somewhat doubtful; but we are now authorised to assure the public it has, hitherto, proved satisfactory to the friends of the institution. The Students during the above period, have been orderly and diligent, and have, generally, made a very flattering proficiency in their studies.
To continue, as far as in our power, this pleasing state of affairs, we have thought proper to recommend a few things to the attention of such parents as may commit pupils to our care, not doubting but they will cheerfully co-operate with us in any measures which may appear conducive to a purpose in which they are so deeply interested.
In the first place it is desirable that young gentlemen should board in private rather than in public houses. Enquiry has been made relative to this matter, and it has been ascertained that Students may be accommodated in a number of private families of the first respectability in Lexington. This recommendation, we admit is of the less importance, as there are some public houses in Lexington of very good character; and also, as the students lodge in the Academy buildings, and are confined to them and to their studies during the greater part of the day, so as to leave but little opportunity for associating with improper company. Still, however, when the morals of young men are in question, too much caution cannot be exercised.
Another consideration, and of much higher importance, is that parents would not be too liberal in their pecuniary supplies. A superabundance of money, in the hands of Students, has furnished matter of complaint to all seminaries, and, in too many instances, of lasting regret to parents themselves. And perhaps the case becomes worse, when, instead of actual money, the Student obtains unlimited credit. The best way, undoubtedly, is, to send any surplus money to some friend or guardian who may superintend all pecuniary disbursements. And that parents may form a just estimate of the expenditures, absolutely necessary, we will subjoin the following statement:
  Tuition per year, Dolls. 20   Boarding per do. exclusive of vacation, 80   Bed-hire, washing, &c. 20   Fire-wood, Candles, &c. &c. 5 
Total amount for one year, 125 This estimate will shew, that 125 or 150 Dollars will completely cover all the necessary expenses, exclusive of clothing and vacations; and it is desirable that parents would not furnish much beyond this amount.
The winter session will commence on Wednesday the 16th day of the present month.
Washington Academy, Rockbridge County, Virginia, November 10, 1808.
By order of the Board— G. A. BAXTER, E. GRAHAM, J. MAYERS, A Committed
WANTED,
A YOUNG Man to attend in a store—also a boy from 12 to 16 years of age, for the same purpose—Enquire of the Printer.  Martinsburg, Nov. 11, 1808.
The following BLANKS, printed with new and elegant type, are always kept for sale at this Office:
 DEEDS, Common BONDS, CONSTABLE'S BLANKS, Delivery BONDS, DECLARATIONS, Promissory NOTES, Replevin BONDS, Appearance Bail BONDS, &c.