Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1809-05-25 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER. SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PREMIA LAUDI.
[VOL. V.
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1809.
NO. 124.
For Liverpool, The fine new Ship Justina, Edward Howe, Master, having a considerable part of her freight engaged; for the balance, apply to
A. MACLURE.
May 12.
For a Port in Ireland, the fast sailing copper-bottomed Ship DESTINY, Captain Barnard, to sail the 10th June; has good accommodations. For passage only, apply to the captain on board, or
Robert Maitland.
May 12.
For London, (To sail on the 10th June,) the fine copper fastened and fast sailing Ship POCAHONTAS, Christopher Tompkins, master; a considerable part of her cargo being already engaged, the freight of about 200 hogsheads tobacco and 50 bales cotton is only wanted. Apply to
Wilson & Cunningham.
May 5.
For Liverpool, The British Letter of Marque Ship AURORA, Burthen 560 hogsheads tobacco, John Smith, master, mounts 16 guns and carries men in proportion, coppered, and a remarkable fast sailer; will be ready to depart from hence soon as the intercourse with Great Britain is resumed. For freight, apply to
C. & F. Whittle.
April 26.
For Freight or Charter, The Ship FACTOR, Capt. Reynolds, burthen 291 tons. Apply to the master on board, or
Christopher Fry.
Who offers for Sale, 14 casks STONE LINE, 10,000 HOOPS, and a box of WOOL HATS. April 26.
FOR CHARTER, THE BREMEN BARQUE PATRIOT GROENING, Mathias Probst, master, burthen about 360 tons, in very complete order and almost new. ALSO,
The Bremen Barque Bremen, John Conrad Dornan, master, burthen about 280 tons; both ready for a voyage. Apply to Niemeyer & Von Kapff. Who offer for Sale, 20 pieces of a superior quality RUSSIA CANVAS,
60 do. Stout German RAVENS DUCK, and 50 bags St. Domingo COFFEE. April 19.
Wanted, A fast-sailing VESSEL, of 230 to 280 hogsheads burthen. AND
One of 250 hlds. burthen. Apply to C. & F. Whittle. Who have for Sale, 600 barrels FLOUR. May 1.
For Freight or Charter, The good Ship AUGUSTA, Capt. James Place, burthen 325 tons, now on her first voyage. Apply to the master, or Christopher Fry. April 28.
For Freight or Charter, The substantial and fast-sailing Brig PALLAS, Ephraim Wilcox, master, burthen 242 tons, or 570 hlds. tobacco; she is double decked, sheathed, and newly graven. The port of Liverpool would be preferred, and she is now ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to Captain Wilcox, or
N. HERON.
May 3.
For Charter, The Brig MINERVA, Wm. Malem, master, burthen 211 tons, or 280 hogsheads of tobacco, is in complete order, and is now ready to receive a cargo. Apply to the master on board, or the subscriber
WM. PENNOCK.
Who offers for Sale, 80 Bundles excellent HAY. May 10.
For Charter, The Ship Columbia, Captain Cook, 246 tons burthen. ALSO,
The Ship Ann Alexander, Capt. Price, 211 tons burthen, both good vessels, and ready to take cargoes on board. For terms apply to Richard Blow. Who has for Sale, 2 tons first quality Russia Hemp,
2 do. Cornage; 40 pieces Raven's Duck; 50 barrels Bost in Beef; 33 barrels Northern Prime Pork; 100 hogsheads Peterburg Tobacco. May 15.
I have this day taken into Copartnership my eldest Son, and shall in future transact business under the firm of MOSES MYERS & SON. Moses Myers.
For Freight or Charter, The good Brig JUNO, Jacob Greenleaf, master, lying at Frost's wharf, four years old, burthen 197 tons, in good order and ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to the master on board, or
William Dickson.
May 22.
Just landing from on board the Schooner Tartar, from Charleston, 120 casks New RICE, and a few bales COTTON, For Sale by
Jennings & Rodney.
The sail Schooner TARTAR, Burthen about 160 tons, new and in complete order for the reception of a cargo, is offered for sale on accommodating terms. Apply as above. May 19.
For London, The Brig CAROLINE, Capt. Doak, Burthen 250 tons. Moses Myers & Son. May 19.
For Charter, The Ship ALEXANDER, Captain Ballard, Burthen 280 tons, and is in complete order for the reception of a cargo. Warren Ashley. Who has just received, Loaf Sugar in hogsheads and barrels, And a few small boxes Imperial Tea of superior quality. May 17.
For Liverpool, The Ship General Colburn, Capt. Prince, to sail in a few days. For freight of fifty hogsheads, or passage, apply to the master on board, or
Moses Myers & Son.
Who offer for Sale, Russia and Holland SAIL DUCK. May 15.
For Liverpool, The fast sailing Ship Rodney, Capt. Hovey, wants sixty hogsheads on freight, and will take passengers. Apply to the captain on board, or
Moses Myers & Son.
May 15.
For Freight or Charter, The brig John Adams, Andrew Tufts, master, burthen 224 tons, in complete order, and ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to Capt. Tufts, or
N. Heron.
Who has for Sale on board the brig, 50,000 feet of Northern Boards, May 15.
For Sale, on our wharf, 15000 bushels blown SALT, principally about.
6000 ditto Coarse ditto, 300 sacks ditto Liverpool, filled, 136 bags St. Domingo COFFEE, 7 hlds. do. SUGAR, 44 bbls. do. do, 63 hlds. St. Kitt's SUGAR, 87 bbls. do. do, 56 hlds. do. MOLASSES, 52 hlds. Jamaica COFFEE, 24 do. do. SUGAR, 124 bags PIMENTO, 380 boxes brown Havana SUGARS, 29 bags do. COFFEE, 27000 feet MAHOGANY, 5 ton LOGWOOD, 3 do. BRAZELITO, 100 half crates QUEEN'S-WARE, well assorted, 10 hlds. Havana MOLASSES, 10 pipes L. P. MADEIRA, 20 cases superior CLARET, 5 puncheons old Jamaica RUM. Domestic, 1000 hogsheads TOBACCO, 100 barrels PORK, 100 do. TAR, 100 do. PITCH, 200 do. Superior FLOUR, 50 do. WHISKEY, UPLAND COTTON. C. & F. Whittle, Who offer for Charter, The Ship ELIZA, burthen 420 hogsheads Tobacco. March 16.
FOR SALE, A neat well finished Fire-Proof DWELLING-HOUSE, situated in Cumberland-Street, and at present occupied by Miss Ellwood. Also, one half of a very valuable Water Property, fronting Elizabeth-River 410 feet, thence towards the shore 990 feet; also, an unimproved lot, well enclosed, adjoining Capt. John Storr's Dwelling-House; and a House and Lot in York-Town, in a very eligible situation for a retail business, being adjacent the Ferry to Gloucester, one end fitted up for a shop. For terms apply to
ROBERT GIBSON.
Who finding for a long time past his own applications for the collection of his debts in vain, has appointed Mr. Thomas Davis, (who is well acquainted with his accounts) his attorney, with full power and instructions to close said debts as promptly as possible, that he may be enabled to satisfy his creditors. May 8.
The Subscribers HAVE PURCHASED the Stock in TRADE of Mr. EDWARD CLARKE, and taken that well-known Stand under the EAGLE TAVERN, lately occupied by him, where, in addition, they offer for Sale, for Cash only,
A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES, AMONG WHICH ARE, Old Rum, Holland Gin, Country do, Cognac Brandy, Apple do, N. E. Rum, Whiskey, Port Wine in bottles, Beef and Pork, Split Herrings, Bacon and Vealison Hams, Brown Sugar, Loaf do, Coffee, Imp. riel, Hyson, and Young Hyson Tea, Soap and Candles, Chocolate, No. 1, 2, 3 Mustard, Manufactured Tobacco, Spanish S. gars, 100 Straws half pint Tomblers, Wrapping, Writing, and Printing Paper, A few Bales Upland Cotton. ALSO,
Hardware & Ironmongery,
Consisting of Brass and Iron Plate Door Locks, Hinges and Screws, Knob Latches, Screw Augers, Shingling Hatchets, Masons' Tools, Plastering do, Shovels and Spades, Pots, Dutch Ovens, Spiders, Skillets, Griddles, Anvils, Garden and Weeding Hoes.
They also offer for Sale, on accommodating terms, That valuable & well known FARM, called FAIRFIELD, only 3 miles from the Borough, containing 285 Acres, adjoining the lands of Dr. James Taylor, and Mr. William Colley, on Tamer's Creek, well timbered, and highly improved, with a large two story Dwelling, and all necessary Out Houses. ALSO,
A two story Frame HOUSE, in Bank Street, 28 by 50 feet, with two Tenements above, and Grocery Shops below. LIKEWISE,
A large two-story Brick Building at the intersection of Little Water-street and Rothery's Lane, 32 by 59 feet, calculated for two families and Grocery Stores. AND
Two or three likely NEGROES. J. R. & James Rhodes. May 15.
SPRING GOODS.
WOOD AND HASTINGS, Have just received a small supply of SEASONABLE GOODS, among which are,
4-4 Irish LINENS, part extra fine, 4-4 and 6-4 Cotton Cambricks, 7-8 and 4-4 Cotton Shirtings, Superfine and common Calicoes, Ginghams; Madras Handkerchiefs, Fine Corded and Fancy Dimities, Mens' and Womens' Cotton Hose; do. Silk do. Cotton Umbrellas; White Jeans, part very fine, Royal Cord and other fashionable Vestings, Plain and Fancy Muslins, Elegant worked Muslin Short Dresses; Sear Suckers, Naukeens; Kid Gloves; Mens' Buckskin do.
BROAD CLOTHS.
Best Superfine Black, Blue, Olive, Brown, Bottle Green, Drab, Mixed, & Broad Cloths; middling and common do. One case Gentlemens' Silk Bush Hats. The above with our Goods on hand, comprise a very broad assortment, and will be sold at low prices for Cash only. April 7.
FOR RENT, The STORE fronting the Old Market Place, at present occupied by Mr. Sturtevant. Apply to Wood & Hastings, or
Robert Taylor.
May 8.
Lost last evening at the Theatre, A GOLD FRENCH WATCH, No. 1286, with the letters J. D. on the pendal; a hair chain, a key, and a seal, G. S. W. marked on it. TEN DOLLARS reward will be given to the finder, by
Captain Dulton,
at the Navy Yard. May 12.
FOR RENT, That large and commodious Three Story Fire Proof House, on Wide Water-Street, at the head of Rothery's wharf, lately occupied by Messrs. Noble and Arthnouth & Co. as a Shipchandlery Store. Apply to
Lillias M'Pherson.
May 12.
Green Coffee and Loaf Sugar. 20,000 lb. choice Green COFFEE
8,000 do. first quality Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR. For Sale on reasonable terms by Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. March 22.
Portsmouth Sugar-House. The present Proprietors of this establishment finding a larger capital necessary to carry it on successfully than they have it in their power to devote, are disposed to sell it in whole or in part, as shall best please the purchaser, and will give a great bargain to any one inclined to buy.
The House is competent to the refining of 300 hogsheads raw Sugar a year; the consumption of loaf may be judged of by the result of an accurate inquiry, made with a view to ascertain the fact, that the towns of Richmond, Petersburg, and Fredericksburg alone, all in Virginia, and holding their relations in trade immediately with Norfolk, consume or afford rent for an aggregate quantity of at least 900 hogsheads Loaf Sugar a year; to say nothing of the consumption of the town of Norfolk itself, inferior to neither of the others, and where too, from its immediate intercourse with the West-Indies, the raw material has always hitherto been plenty and advantageous as cheap, often cheaper than at other ports north of this upon the continent. For further information apply to
Campbell & Wheeler.
May 3.
From the Monthly Anthology.
RETROSPECTIVE VIEW.
ART. 4.
Memoire sur les relations commerciales des Etats-Unis avec l'Angleterre. Par TALLEYRAND. Lu a l'Institut National, le 15 Germinal, An 5. Suivi d'un Essai sur les avantages a retirer de Colonies Nouvelles dans les Circonstances presentes. Par le meme auteur. Lu a l'Institut, le 15 Messidor, An 4. Seconde Edition. A Londres; de l'Imprimerie de J. Dean, 57, Wardour-Street, Soho. Se vend chez J. de Boffe Librairie, Nassau-street, Solo, et chez tous les autres libraires, 1808.
Memoir concerning the Commercial Relations of the United States with England, by citizen Talleyrand. Read at the National Institute, 15th Germinal, in the year 5. To which is added, an Essay upon the advantages to be derived from New Colonies in the existing circumstances, by the same author. Read at the Institute the 15th Messidor, in the year 5, 1796. London, 1806, pp. 87. (Concluded from our last.)
The next passages are occupied in stating very accurately the kind of connection between the English and American merchant, the reasons of the preference given by the latter to the former, and the extreme difficulty of interrupting or dissolving relations of this kind when once contracted. He takes care, however, to put his readers on their guard against supposing us under the political dominion of England; and is led to make some remarks on our national character. Here we must indulge ourselves with a long extract.
"Let us take care, however, in thus considering the Americans in a single point of view, not to judge of them individually with too much severity. As individuals, we may find amongst them the seeds of every social quality; but as a people newly constituted, and formed of different elements, their national character is not yet decided. Doubtless they remain English from ancient habit; but perhaps also because they have not yet had time to become completely Americans. It has been observed that their climate is not yet formed; their character is still less so.
"If we consider those populous cities filled with English, German, Irish and Dutch, as well as with their indigenous inhabitants; those remote towns, so distant from one another; those vast uncultivated tracts of soil, traversed rather than inhabited by men who belong to no country; what common bond can we conceive in the midst of so many incongruities? it is a most novel sight to the traveller, who, setting out from a principal city, where society is in perfection, passes in succession through all the degrees of civilization, and industry, which he finds constantly growing weaker and weaker, until in a few days he arrives at a misshapen and rude cabin, formed of the trunks of trees, lately cut down. Such a journey is a sort of practical and living analysis of the origin of people and states; we set out from the most compound mixture, to arrive at the most simple ingredients; at the end of every day we lose sight of some of those inventions which our wants, as they have increased, have rendered necessary; and it appears as if we had travelled backwards in the history of the progress of the human mind. If such a sight lays a strong hold upon the imagination; if we please ourselves by finding in the succession of space what appears to belong only to the succession of time, we must make up our minds to behold but few social connections, and no common character, amongst men who appear so little to belong to the same association.
"In many districts the sea and the woods have formed fishermen and wood cutters. Now such men, properly speaking, have no country; and their social morality is reduced within a very small compass. It has long ago been said that man is the disciple of that which surrounds him; and it is true. Hence he whose bounds are circumscribed by nothing but deserts, cannot receive lessons with regard to the social comforts of life. The idea of the need which men have of one another does not exist in him; and it is merely by decomposing the trace which he exercises, that one can find out the principles of his affections, and the sum of his morality.
"The American woodcutter does not interest himself in anything; every sensible idea is remote from him. Those branches so agreeably disposed by nature; beautiful foliage; the bright colour which enlivens one part of the wood; the dark green which gives a melancholy shade to another; these things are nothing to him; he pays them no attention; the number of strokes of his axe required to fell a tree fills all his thoughts. He never planted; he knows not the pleasure of it. A tree of his own planting, would be good for nothing in his estimation; for it would never, during his life, be large enough to fell. It is by destruction that he lives; he is a destroyer wherever he goes. Thus every place is 'good in his eyes'; he has no attachment to the spot on which he has spent his labour; for his labour is only fatigue, and is unconnected with any idea of pleasure. In the effects of his toil he has not witnessed those gradual increases of growth, so captivating to the planter; he regards not the destination of his productions; he knows not the charm of new attempts; and if he quitting the abode of many years, he does not forget his axe, he leaves no regret behind him.
"The vocation of an American fisherman begets an apathy, almost equal to that of the woodcutter. His affections, his interest, his life, are on the side of that society to which it is thought that he belongs. But it would be a prejudice to suppose that he is a very useful member of it. For we must not compare these fishermen to those of Europe, and think that the fisheries here are like them, a nursery for seamen. In America, with the exception of the inhabitants of Nantucket, who fish for whales, fishing is an idle employment. Two leagues from the coast, when they have no dread of bad weather, a single mile when the weather is uncertain, is the sum of courage which they display; and the line is the only instrument with whose use they are practically acquainted. Thus their knowledge is but a trifling little; and their action, which consists in constantly hanging one arm over the side of the boat, is little short of idleness. They are attached to no place; their only connexion with the land, is by means of a wretched house which they inhabit. It is the sea that affords them nourishment; hence a few cobblers, more or less, determine their country. If the number of these seems to diminish in any particular quarter,

they emigrate, in search of another country, where they are more abundant. When it was remarked by some political writers, that fishing was a sort of agriculture, the remark was brilliant, but not solid. All the qualities, all the virtues, which are attached to agriculture, are wanting in the man who lives by fishing. Agriculture produces a patriot in the truest sense of the word; fishing can alone succeed in forming a cosmopolite.
"I have, perhaps, dwelt too long on a sketch of these manners; it may seem foreign to this memoir; and yet it completes the object of it; for I had to prove that it was not merely by reason of their origin, or their language, and of their interest, that the Americans so constantly find themselves to be Englishmen; an observation which applies more especially to the inhabitants of the cities. When I cast my eyes upon those people wandering amongst the woods, upon the shores of the sea and by the banks of the rivers, my general observation was strengthened, with regard to them by that indolence and want of a native character, which renders this class of America more ready to receive and to preserve the impression of a foreign one. Doubtless the latter of these causes will grow weaker, and even disappear altogether, when the constantly increasing population shall by the cultivation of so many desert lands, have brought the inhabitants nearer together. As for the other causes they have taken such deep root, that it would, perhaps, require a French establishment in America to counteract their ascendancy with any hope of success. Undoubtedly such a project should not be overlooked; but it does not belong to the subject of this memoir."
The brilliancy of this description prevents us from cavilling at all the inaccuracies it contains. The portrait of the woodcutter has just exaggeration enough to make it picturesque and is applicable to that intermediate class of people between savage and civilized life, that regularly precedes the permanent settlements on our frontiers. But the description of the American fisherman, which was intended as a companion picture to the woodcutter, is so totally devoid of truth, that even the brilliancy of the colouring will not prevent us from considering it a mere fancy piece. It forms a remarkable instance of the caution necessary to all travellers, when so intelligent an observer as Talleyrand has been so grossly mistaken.
The great abundance of fish on our shores, makes it unnecessary to many of the modes adopted by European fishermen to catch their prey for the daily consumption of their luxurious cities. The small boats which are occupied in the fishery along the shores of Massachusetts Bay, he appears to have thought comprehended the whole of our efforts; and the great capital of men and vessels, employed on the banks of Newfoundland, in a life of almost unequalled hardships, does not furnish a school for seamen, though in fact it is one of the most valuable nurseries in the world. This error becomes the more remarkable since, if he had been writing on the subject in his cabinet, without ever having visited our shores, by recurring to the records of his own department he would naturally have inferred the great importance of the Newfoundland fishery, by the earnest, though unavailing efforts his government made to deprive us of it.
That hardy class of citizens, of whom so many generations have adhered to the rocks of Marblehead, or the sands of Cape Cod, would be surprised at being called cosmopolites, and told "that a few coddled more or less, determined their country." We should almost be willing to suspect, that the prince of Benevento had penned this description from sheer vexation at being deprived of his favourite turbot, by the negligence of our fishermen who supply our daily markets.
We are here told, that "all the qualities, all the virtues which are attached to agriculture, are wanting in the man who lives by fishing. Agriculture produces a patriot in the true sense of the word; fishing can alone succeed in forming a cosmopolite." These sentiments are fashionable, and coming from a man like our author, merit attention. It is not our object to inquire into the motives of those who use this kind of cant about the virtues exclusively attached to the pursuit of agriculture; whether, like the description of spring, it was borrowed from the ancients, who inhabited a different climate, and flourished in a different state of society; or whether it is not a remnant of common place language, very just before the invention of the mariner's compass, and the discovery of America, when society was composed of soldiers and peasants? A discussion of these points would lead us into a wide digression, equally beyond our limits and the patience of our readers; but we cannot omit a few of the most prominent reflections that present themselves.
It is quite natural in France, where all the occupations connected with commerce are held in contempt, to consider the holders of land as a superior class, and the cultivators of it the most useful body to the state. A despotic government occupies the landed interest in various posts and places of civil and military capacity, and others have them under their control; while the peasantry are the never-failing source of recruits for the army. This state of things was only a modification of the feudal establishment; for the proud, barbarous, tyrannical spirit of that ancient system of Europe, looked down with contempt and distrust upon these occupations created by commerce, whose superior wealth and activity were continually tending to make individuals independent of its power.
This feeling has been considerably modified in every part of Europe, but no where so remarkably as in England. Still there is a conflict between old modes of thinking and expression, and the modern state of things. The time was, when the landed interest in every nation, was every thing, and all other interests nothing. Commerce has changed the face of society in this respect, and must continue to produce most beneficial changes. The state of the world, as now modified, will not admit, except in despotic countries, that every occupation, but that of tiller of the earth, shall be held in contempt. Look at the actual situation of prosperous countries, to what they owe their wealth, their prosperity, and their independence? What was Florence, when she was governed by merchants? What was Holland, when her commerce was flourishing? What is Great-Britain now? In civilization and refinement, in all the arts and charities that embellish and support society, are our commercial states inferior to our agricultural ones? We dislike the practice, we deprecate the effects of establishing one class of citizens above another. In a free country, they have all equal claims to respect, and equal incitements to obtain it. When sacrifices are to be made to the public good, and national burdens to be borne, we should calculate with as much certainty on the pick of the merchant, as on that of the planter; and when our countries are to be defended, he who will not concede as much in the fisherman to encounter the invader before he reaches the shore, as on the ploughman to meet him after he has landed, is ignorant of the character of the former. As for the other cases, they have taken such deep root, that it would, perhaps, require a French establishment in America to counteract their ascendancy with any hope of success. Undoubtedly such a political project should not be overlooked; but it does not belong to the subject of this memoir."
When this natural, unguarded, and, in the author, perhaps, inadmissible sentiment was delivered, he could not foresee, that he was destined to be the prime
minister of the most able, the most ambitious sovereign that ever disturbed society; and that he should afterwards be tranquilly occupied in putting the new plan of Europe together as he pleased, after his master had cut the old map to pieces with his sword. He could not foresee, that he should serve a monarch with views so much more gigantic than his own; that he should follow him at a distance with hesitation; a man who would not talk about counteracting by another establishment, but promptly manoeuvre to take possession of the obnoxious citadel itself.
A French establishment in America to counteract—What? A state of things which the author has so ably shown to be natural and useful; to counteract these—in what manner? It is not our object to say whether it be better to crouch to, or stand erect against menacing events, nor can our opinion be doubted; but, were all the other acts and events overlooked, if our statesmen from perusing this pamphlet, will not believe that they would have to contend with, if the British navy were removed, then would they not believe, though one should arise from the dead.
At the commencement of this review, we spoke of what we considered a meanness, it is in the note to the following sentence: "Parties, factions, hatreds, have all disappeared." The note was written after he became minister.
"This was literally true when the present memoir was read to the institute. If, since that time, parties have formed afresh; if there is one of them which, to its shame be it spoken, labours to replace America under the yoke of Great Britain; this would confirm but too clearly what I have established in the course of this memoir, viz. that the Americans are still English. But every thing leads me to believe that that party will not triumph; and that the wisdom of the French government has disconcerted its hopes; and I shall not have to retract the good which I have here said of a people, of whom I have a pleasure in recollecting that they are English only by habits which affect not their political independence, and not by a sentiment that would cause them to regret the having effected the independence."
"(Note of Citizen Talleyrand, in the month of Ventose, year vii.)"
This came appropriately from the bureau of foreign affairs, at the very time France was intriguing to make our government subservient to their politics, but is really unworthy of the author of this memoir.
"The essay on the advantages to be derived from new colonies in the existing circumstances," though it has not such a direct bearing on our affairs, is hardly less interesting to us; and we could willingly make many quotations from it, if this article were not already so extended. One observation results from the perusal, that the author did not foresee the changes that have since taken place, and which have superceded the necessity of some of the motives he has alleged. We shall extract only the conclusion of it, for the sake of adding a few remarks.
"From all that has been here advanced, it follows, that every consideration urges us to occupy ourselves with new colonies; the example of the most wise people, who have made them one of the greatest means of their tranquility; the necessity of preparing for the replacing of our present colonies, in order that we may not be found behind hand with events; the convenience of placing the cultivation of our colonial products nearer to their true cultivators—the necessity of forming with the colonies the most natural relations, more easy, no doubt, in new than in old establishments; the advantage of not allowing ourselves to be cut done by a rival nation, for whom every one of our oversights, every instance of our delay in this respect, is a conquest; the opinion of enlightened men, who have bestowed their attention and their researches upon this object. In short, the pleasure of being able to attach to these enterprises so many restless men who have need of projects, so many unfortunate men who have need of hope."
It is a fruitful, a sublime subject of reflection and delight, the planting of colonies in North America by Great Britain. What were the colonies of the Greeks and Romans, of the French, or even of the Spaniards, compared with these? Colonies that in a few years will equal the mother country in population. What other nation has ever, if I may use the expression, been able thus to give a second edition of itself? And, if states are inevitably destined to decay, made a provision for a second existence, in an enlarged form; What generous mind that does not expand at the idea, that, from the Mississippi to Hudson's bay, the English language, and the immortal works it contains, English laws, and the English spirit of freedom and independence, the inheritance of Americans, will hereafter animate, enlighten, and govern two hundred millions of people? If the present contest be prolonged by England, till the vast military power of France perishes with its illustrious leader, then we may calculate that the descendants of Englishmen will continue to hold this vast territory, then indeed will the French numerous and powerful as they are, "be found behind hand with events;" then we may believe that English language will in future times become the predominant language among civilized men.
If any of our readers think we have dwelt too long upon so small a work, let them reflect who was the author, and that one sentence from Ulysses, was more to be heeded than all the clamours of the Grecian host.
DANIEL SANFORD, No. 88, Main-Street, offer for Sale a handsome assortment of
Useful and fashionable Goods,
Received from Liverpool, via New-York, this spring. Also in Lumber Yard, 50,000 W. O. drawn bhd. } 30,000 do. rough do. } STAVES, 20,000 do. do. bbl. } 10,000 feet seasoned Pitch Pine Plank, from 2 to 4 inches thick.
Wanted Immediately, A quantity of Masts, Spars, and Oak Plank, For which a liberal price will be given. May 19. 9
FOR RENT, The CHAMBERS over Wood and Hastings's Dry-Good Store, (Taylor's buildings,) with a good kitchen, very convenient for a small family. Apply to WOOD & HASTINGS. May 22. if
Bills on London, For Sale by J. & W. Southgate. May 2. if
133 boxes white } 143 do. brown } Havanna SUGARS, The Cargo of the Brig Louisiana Packet—For Sale by C. & F. Whittle. In Store,
70,000 wt. St. Domingo COFFEE, 20 boxes Raisins, 120 bags Sea Island and Upland Cotton. May 17. if
THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 25 1809.
IMPORTANT FROM HAVANA.
By one of the latest arrivals, we have received the subjoined letter without a communication of the writer's name. The omission was probably occasioned by the precaution rendered necessary on account of the nature of the communication, and the arbitrary power possessed by the officers of government at Havanna. In the letter we think we recognize the hand of a gentleman of accuracy and honour.
The enclosure was a Spanish manuscript, which we have translated and annexed.
We venture to recommend it to attention as authentic.
Havana, 4th May, 1809.
DEAR SIR, Enclosed you have a sketch of a regulation which passed the Cabildo, or Supreme Council of the Island, on the 27th ult. and now before the heads of departments for their approbation. When approved, they will order it to be carried into execution—and no doubt is entertained but that it will meet their approbation; as they assisted at the Junta where it originated. It is of such importance to the commercial part of our countrymen, that I have to beg the favour of you to cause the same to be published immediately for their general information, in doing which, you will not only serve me, but thousands of your countrymen, who may save their little all, by being early informed of the measures about to be adopted.
I am, dear sir, in haste, A Friend to Commerce.
TRANSLATION.
Tariff of duties, proposed by the two classes of landholders and commercial men, represented by the consulado of this city, in conferences held on the 5, 8, and 10, 20, 21, 22, and 24th of the current April.
NATIONAL IMPORTATIONS.
All the productions of the national soil and industry, which may be brought here in Ferdinandine vessels, at their entry in our ports— free .
FOREIGN. The same carried in foreign vessels shall pay 10 per cent.
With respect to goods prohibited or administered by the royal treasury in this island, as salt, gunpowder, and cards, there shall be no change. They can be imported only on account of the King .
Foreign Tobacco can be imported only by way of transit or deposit under the precautions which may be devised by the chiefs of the place, and every transit or deposit of this kind shall pay the king one per cent. and the municipal duties— transit . Money, slaves, and other articles, which are now imported free from duty, shall continue to do so free .
Implement of husbandry, imported in foreign vessels shall pay— 10 per cent.
Iron or wooden hoops, staves or planks— free .
Cotton, brimstone, peltry, alkaline salts, flaxseed and timber of North America, which are not for consumption here, shall be admitted to deposit or transit— transit .
Stones and chrystals of all kinds—Oil of every sort, brandies, liquors, and drinks of all sorts, rice, lard; dried fruits of all kinds; jewelry of gold and silver, before prohibited; millenary and ready made clothes; cloth of wool, linen, hair, silk and silk goods of every kind; wax and spermaceti, lead, iron, copper, tin, steel, marble in all forms, &c.— pay foreign duties as heretofore .
Northern flour in foreign vessels— 3 dollars .
Deposit for two months, and re-exportation is permitted solely in Spanish vessels— 5 do.
All other foreign articles, which were before permitted with the rigorous payment of foreign duty, are reduced to— 22 per cent.
Foreign articles, which were before prohibited, and are not comprehended in the foregoing list of those which are to continue to pay the foreign duty, as manufactured cotton, &c. shall pay— 15 p. ct.
EXPORTS.
The produce of the island, exported by foreigners or Spaniards, shall continue free, excepting only [molasses] which shall pay per barrel— 12 1-2 cents .
The produce of the other provinces and Spanish dominions, not occupied by France, may be carried away like our own— free .
Gold and silver coined or uncoined, its export is prohibited to foreigners.
Grain, indigo, and bark, shall pay the same export duty as before.
The Americans shall be obliged to export the value of what they import, at least three fourths in the produce of the country, and the rest, when it suits them, in other national produce.
The English and every other allied nation, subject to the same obligation of exporting produce and not money for the value of their importations, with the difference, that they may do it in produce, whether of the island or other national produce or of the north.
Spanish vessels may re-export free from duty to any place national or foreign, all sorts of merchandise which foreigners may have imported and paid the duties upon.
The Americans the same provided they have complied with the condition of carrying in return produce of a value equal to their importations.
Foreign vessels shall pay the same anchorage and tonnage duties, as their nation collects from ours on their entry into their ports.
This tariff shall continue for a year computing from the 1st of May next. Proposed to the chiefs for their determination at Havanna 27th April, 1809.
PHILADELPHIA, May 18.
A duel took place yesterday morning between Sir George Macklin & captain ——, lately of the French army, near the Black Horse Tavern, within a few miles of this city. Sir George Macklin was on the ground about half past three, attended by his second, Mr. O——y, and Dr. B——k; a short time after which, capt. F. accompanied by his second made his appearance.
The ground had been previously measured, 12 paces, but at the instance of Sir George, the distance was reduced to ten. They both fired at the same moment, by signal. Sir George received a ball near the groin, and capt. F. was wounded in the left arm. When Sir George received the wound, he beckoned to his opponent to make his escape, as he was convinced his wound was mortal. Mr. O. and Sir George's servant, supported him to his carriage and he returned to town.
The circumstances that produced this unfortunate affair, will not be uninteresting. Sir George Macklin as enthusiastically attached to the prince of Wales, and has, whenever it has been unnecessary, without ever consulting his personal safety, been a zealous defender of his character. Capt. F. is only a few days from France, and in company with Sir George and some others, the conversation unfortunately turned on the present royal family of Great-Britain, when capt. F. uttered the most illiberal abuse against every branch of it—but particularly against the prince of Wales. At which Sir George Macklin demanded if he knew that he was a subject
of Great-Britain. Capt. F. replied in the affirmative. When Sir George informed him that his assertions with respect to the prince of Wales were base and unmanly, equally destitute of probability and truth, nor would he ever suffer him or any of his nation to traduce with impunity the character of that prince. Words of such import followed, that the parties exchanged cards. In a few hours Sir G. received a challenge from capt. F.
Sir George Macklin had been absent from his native country (Ireland) about two years, and during that period had visited Germany, Sweden, and these states. He was returning from a visit to the British ambassador, previous to his setting out for Ireland, when this unfortunate circumstance occurred.
U. S. Gaz.
NEW-YORK, May 17.
From the Albany Crisis, of May 12.
ELECTION BULLETIN, No. 4.—Our returns are now complete, as to members of the assembly, and the result is as follows:
The house of assembly is composed of 112 members, of whom there are
   FEDERAL.     Queens 3 Jefferson 2   Kings 1 S. Lawrence 1   Richmond 1 Ontario 5   Westchester 8 Oneida 5   Dutchess 6 Madison 8   Columbia 4 Ostego 4   Greene 2 Schoharie 2   Rensselaer 4 Herkimer 2   Albany 4 Tioga 1   Schenectady 2 Bronx 1   Montgomery 5 Steuben & Allegany 1   Clinton & Franklin 1   63  
DEMOCRATIC.
   Suffolk 3 Herkimer 1   New-York 11 Chenango 3   Rockland 1 Onondaga 2   Orange 4 Cortland 1   Ulster 4 Genesee 1   Delaware 2 Niagara, &c. 1   Washington 5 Seneca 1   Saratoga 4 Lewis 1   Essex 1 Cayuga 3   49  
Making a federal majority of 14 in the house.
The senate consists of 32 members, who hold their seats for four years. They are elected in classes, eight being chosen every year. Last year, there was but one federalist in the senate. Of the eight chosen this spring, five (from the eastern and western districts) are federal—and three (from the middle and southern) are democratic. Majorities not yet ascertained; but there is a clear majority of federal senatorial votes in the state.
The council, by which all the appointments, excepting those of treasurer and state printer are made, consists of the governor and one senator from each of the 4 great districts, chosen by the house.
The democrats, it is said, amidst all their ill fortune console themselves with the idea, that a federal council cannot be chosen, there being only two districts represented by federalists. Although the true patriots of the state, who have completely triumphed at this election, have a dearer object in view than the mere attainment of offices—yet let not the faction flatter themselves. There are independent senators in every district, who will readily join in the inquiry, when a candidate is proposed for an office—"Is he honest? Is he capable? Is he faithful to the constitution?" and few of the present office holding gentry can expect the approbation of such a council.
REMOVAL.
E. STURTEVANT,
Has removed to the Store lately occupied by Mr.
Francis Smith, and next door to Merss. R. & J.
Taylor's,
WHERE HE OFFERS FOR SALE,
Ladies', Gentlemens', and Childrens'
SHOES,
of first quality, and at reasonable prices.
A fresh supply of Ladies' and Childrens' SHOES,
now opening.
A constant supply of American Manufactured
COTTON GOODS,
Will be kept for sale (if encouraged), at cost and charges.
Just received an consignment from the Hope Cotton
Factory, a sample of
Stripes, suitable for Servants' wear,
Bed Ticking; White Cotton for knitting, sewing, and
working; black, blue, olive, and slate for knitting; Cotton
Thread, all colours.
ALSO,
Nankeens, Buttons, Tread, Needles,
Pins, Sewing Silks, Twist, Playing Cards, &c.; 2 cases Fur-
niture Calico, Hoisery, Muslins, Cambricks, &c. will be
sold at reduced prices.
Patent Sky-Lights for Shipping,
AND
One Binnacle Illuminator.
May 22. if
RACES.
Norfolk and Portsmouth Races will
commence on WEDNESDAY, the 14th June, at Chris-
tian's Field, Norfolk County.
First Day.
3 Mile Heats—250 dollars—Entrance 25 dollars.
Second Day.
2 Mile Heats—150 dollars—Entrance 15 dollars.
New-Market Rules to govern.
Third Day.
Mile Heats—best 3 in 5—Entrance 10 dollars.
Catches on each.
Stables and Litter convenient to the ground (free.)
Entertainment and Forage on moderate terms.
N. B. The Horse or Filly winning at the Bridge
Race Field, on the 7th June, is prohibited from run-
ning at the above Races.
Purses will be hung up.
EDWARD NEWMAN.
tdr
May 22.
POCKET BOOK FOUND.

In this Day's Mail.
WASHINGTON, May 22.
ELEVENTH CONGRESS.
List of Members of the Senate of the U. States.
 New-Hampshire. —Nahum Parker, Nicholas Gilman.  Massachusetts. —Timothy Pickering, Jas. Lloyd.  Rhode-Island. —Francis Malbone, Elisha Matteson.  Connecticut. —Jas. Hillhouse, Chauncy Goodrich, Vermont.—Stephen R. Bradley, Jonathan Robinson.  New-York. —John Smith, Obadiah German.  New-Jersey. —John Condit, John Lambert.  Pennsylvania. —Andrew Gregg, Michael Lieb.  Delaware. —Saml. White, Jas. A. Bayard.  Maryland. —Saml. Smith, Philip Reed.  Virginia. —Wm. B. Giles, Richard Brent.  Kentucky. —Buckner Thruston, John Pope.  North-Carolina. —James Turner, Jesse Franklin.  Tennessee. —Joseph Anderson, Jenkin Whiteside.  South-Carolina. —Th. Sumter, John Gaillard.  Georgia. —John Milledge, Wm. H. Crawford.  Ohio. —R. J. Meigs. One vacant. 
List of Members of the House of Representatives, according to states.
 New-Hampshire. —Daniel Blaisdell, John C. Chamberlain, Wm. Hale, Nath. A. Haven, Jas. Wilson.  Massachusetts. —Ezekiel Bacon, Orchard Cook, Richard Cutts, William Ely, Gideon Gardner, Barzillai Gannett, Edward St. Loe Livermore, Benjamin Pickman, Josiah Quincy, Ebenezer Seaver, William Steiman, Samuel Tappan, William Baillies, Jabez Upham, Joseph B. Varum, Laban Wheaton, Ezekiel Whitman.  Rhode-Island. —Richard Jackson, Elisha R. Potter.  Connecticut. —Epaphroditus Champion, Samuel W. Dana, John Davenport, Jonathan O. Moseley, Timothy Pitkin, jun. Lewis B. Sturges, Benj. Tallmadge.  Vermont. —William Chamberlain, Martin Chittenden, Jonathan H. Hubbard, Samuel Shaw.  New-York. —William Denning, James Enot, Jonathan Fisk, Barnet Gardenier, Thomas R. Goll, Herman Knickerbacker, Robert Le Roy Livingston, Vincent Matthews, Gurdon S. Mumford, John Nicholson, Peter B. Porter, Erastus Root, Thos. Sammons, Ebenezer Sage, John Thompson, Uri Tracy, Killian K. Van Rensselaer.  New-Jersey. —Adam Boyd, James Cox, William Helms, Jacob Haffey, Thomas Newbold, Henry Southard.  Pennsylvania. —William Anderson, David Bard, Robert Brown, William Crawford, William Findley, Daniel Heister, Robert Jenkins, Aaron Lysle, William Milnor, John Porter, John Rea, Mathias Richards, John Ross, Benjamin Say, John Smilie, George Smith, Samuel Smith, Robert Whitehill.  Delaware. —Nicholas Van Dyke.  Maryland. —Brown, John Campbell, Charles Goldsborough, Philip B. Key, Alexander M'Kim, John Montgomery, Nicholas R. Moore, Roger Nelson, Archibald Van Horn.  Virginia. —Burwell Bassett, William A. Burwell, Matthew Clay, John Clopton, John Dawson, John W. Eppes, Daniel Sheffey, Thomas Gholson, jun. Peterson Goodwyn, Edwin Gray, Michael Swoope, John G. Jackson, Walter Jones, Joseph Lewis, jun. John Love, J. Stephenson, Thomas Newton, Wilson C. Nicholas, John Randolph, John Smith, J. T. Roane, James Breckenridge.  Kentucky. —Henry Christ, Joseph Desha, Benjamin Howard, Richard M. Johnson, Matthew Lyon, Samuel M'Kee.  North-Carolina. —Willis Alston, jun. James Cochran, Meshack Franklin, James Holland, Thomas Kenan, William Kennedy, Nathaniel Macon, Archibald M'Bride, Joseph Pearson, Lemuel Sawyer, Richard Stanford, John Stanley.  Tennessee. —Pleasant M. Miller, John Rhea. One not certain.  South-Carolina. —Lemuel J. Alston, William Butler, Robert Calhoun, Robert Marion, Thomas Moore, John Taylor, Richard Winn, Robert Witherspoon.  Georgia. —Wm. W. Bibb, Howell Cobb, Dennis Smelt, Geo. M. Troup.  Ohio. —Jeremiah Morrow. 
DELEGATES FROM THE Mississippi Territory, George Poindexter. Indiana Territory, vacant. Orleans Territory, J. Poydras.
NEW-YORK, May 19.
By our ship news it appears that a French vessel has arrived in the Chesapeake from France, with dispatches—bringing the agreeable intelligence that Buonaparte had relaxed in his system against neutral commerce. We believe this news, however, wants confirmation.
We learn by an arrival from Guadalupe, that an English squadron blockaded that island. The French fleet had got into Basseterre; and the captain-general of the Saintes had made his escape to Fort Royal. May 20.
Clapt. Clarke, of the schooner Philander, informs, that admiral Cochrane, with 3 sail of the line and a frigate, arrived at St. Bartholomews the 2d instant, after an unsuccessful chase of the French squadron that escaped from the Saints.
On Tuesday last, the federalists of Albany, celebrated the triumph of Washington principles, by a publick festival.
From the works of the Hon. FISHER AMES, Esq. written in 1806.
DANGEROUS POWER OF FRANCE.
No. I.
The political sky has seldom remained long unclouded; but it may be doubted, whether it was ever charged with a blacker tempest, than that we have lately seen burst upon Europe. France has accomplished, in 12 years, as much as Rome did in five hundred. The Samnites, who occupied a little province, that is now a part of the kingdom of Naples, resisted the Roman arms for half a century; and it was not till after four and twenty Roman triumphs, and twice that number of pitched battles, that they were subdued. King Pyrrhus landed in Italy too late, after the Samnites had lost their spirit unless their force. He proved an enemy worthy of Roman discipline and courage, yet he was unsuccessful. The Romans, after five hundred years of incessant war with the petty nations around them, at
length aspired to extend their dominion beyond the bounds of Italy. First Sicily and then Spain were disputed in arms, with the Carthaginians. Fifty years were passed in battles and alarms, before this great controversy was decided in favour of Rome. When Carthage had fallen, Greece, the mistress of Rome in arts, her rival in arms and renown, fell an almost unresisting prey to Roman ambition. She fell with all her confederated republics, as ours will certainly fall , if France should continue to wield our factions to dispose of our government; for factions in a democracy are sincere only in their hatred and fear of each other. Whether the Jeffersons and Madisons stand or fall, our rulers can have no patriotism. Their emulation is too fierce, and their objects of ambition too fugitive, and too personal, to allow them to take the views, still less to cherish the sentiments of statesmen. Old Rome had patriots, but why would expect to find them in the amphitheatre among the gladiators? Those who love power, will seek it in the contests of party. The lovers of their country will be found, nursing their griefs and their despair, among the discarded disciples of Washington. To return from this seeming digression, Rome availed herself of the divisions of the Grecian republics to subjugate them all. Affecting a zeal for their liberty, she offered her alliance; and the allies of Rome, like those of France, were her slaves. The Greeks joyfully aided Rome to conquer Macedonia; and Philip, the Macedonian king, was employed against Antiochus, called the great, the Syrian monarch. Egypt was too base to make any resistance, but submitted to tribute , as quietly as we do.
Thus, every independent republic and powerful prince fell a prey to Rome. Beyond the Euphrates, the Parthians, at length, formed a mighty empire, which the distance and the deserts rendered, like the modern Russia, inaccessible to the Roman arms. It was remarkable, that Rome seldom had more than one enemy to fight at a time: they fell in succession; and their servitude was concealed, though it was embittered by the title of allies.
France has achieved her purpose—the struggles of liberty are over; and the continental nations of Europe are now sleeping in their chains. If France possessed the British navy, those chains would be adamant, which no human force could break. French tyranny, like the great dragon, would have wings, and the remotest regions of the civilized world would be near enough to catch pestilence from his breath. Let us be infatuated enough to think America a hiding place for liberty, where her assassins will not seek her life; or an impregnable fortress that would protect it.
On what reasonable foundation do these presumptuous expectations rest? When France is master of both land and sea, will distance preserve us? With eight hundred ships in the department of the Thames, distance would be nothing to Buonaparte. He could transport an army of sixty thousand men to occupy New York, which could not make one hour's resistance. He could transport them with more expedition and ease, than Mr. Jefferson could assemble our STANDING ARMY of two regiments from the frontiers to oppose them. Yet this standing army , so potent to command the types, the exclamations, and the silly fears of the democrats, though it assisted as a bugbear to make Mr. Jefferson President, would no better protect his house, at Monticello, from a French squadron of horse, than the army of the imperial Virginia formerly defended its assembly from col. Tarleton.
But our myriads of militia might defy the world in arms. Excellent hopes these! When Austria, in vain, opposes two hundred thousand veterans to the progress of Buonaparte; when Russia is repelled in the pitched battle of Austerlitz; when Prussia, with its armies complete in numbers and discipline, stands still, not daring to stir, and waiting to acknowledge Buonaparte conqueror; or, to come more plainly to the point, when we see half a million of English volunteers, as formidable and as stiff in buckram, as it is the power of tailors to make uniforms, parading the courts of Sussex, Essex, and Kent, and yet trusting only to the vigilance of the British navy to hinder the French from crossing the channel; surely, when we see these things, we must be unwilling to reflect, or utterly incapable of reflection, if we can suppose, that the array of the militia in the secretary's office would transplant fear from Mr. Jefferson's bosom into Buonaparte's.
To say nothing of the improbability of the militia's obeying the call for actual service, or, if they should appear promptly and in sufficient numbers, of the impossibility of detaining them in service long enough to make their arms of the least imaginable use, direful experience has at length instructed nations, that, when they are in danger, they are to be preserved from it by their real soldiers. These are made, not in a tailor's shop, by facing, blue cloth with red or yellow, but by learning in the field that subordination of mind , that will make men do, and insure their doing all they possibly can do.
Old Rome did not out-number her enemies. Two legions, each of less than six thousand men, and as many of the Latin or other Italian allies made a complete consular army. Such an army routed the numberless forces of Mithridates and Antiochus. It cost the Romans more exertions to subdue Perseus, king of Macedon, than to conquer all the east: his phalanx, of sixteen thousand men, was harder to break than all the millions of the other successors of Alexander. Rome, by the perfection of her discipline, became mistress of the world.
Would Buonaparte calculate on the vigour of our government, as an insurmountable obstacle to his military attempt on the United States? Would the congress majority, like a Roman senate, create means and employ them, with a spirit would prefer death to servitude or tribute? The French Hannibal, surely, with our fifteen millions of tribute money already in his treasury, would have no discouraging fear of this sort. When he reads our treaty with Tripoli, by which it appears, that we chose tribute, when victory was within our reach; when he sees that the dey of Tunis presumes to say, by his minister at Washington, pay or fight, what can Buonaparte conclude, but that honour is a name, and in America but an empty one; and that our national spirit can never be roused to a higher pitch, than to make a calculation. With us, honour is a coin, whose very baseness confines it at home for a currency. Such a people, he will say, are degraded, before they are subdued. They are too abject to be classed or employed among my martial slaves. Let them toil to feed their masters, and to replenish my treasury with tribute.
Is there a spirit in our people, that would supply the want of it in our rulers? Our total unpreparedness, both by land and sea, to make even the shew of resistance against an attack, is certainly, not from want of military means in the United States, but from a dread of the loss of popularity, if they should call them forth.
Why is it unpopular? Because the progress of French domination is not seen at all, or is seen with a fatal complacency; because we love our money almost as much as we love our money; and because, by shutting our eyes to our publick dangers, we escape the insupportable terror of their approach, and the toils of an efficient preparation to resist them.
It is a thing incomprehensible, that even the child-babbling of the Chronicle is not dumb. Admitting the stupidity, admitting the baseness of the democrats, yet, without admitting that they are both
stupid and base in a miraculous degree, it is unaccountable, that they should not see, in the victories of Buonaparte, the stride, and almost feel the gripe of a master. If a storm should sink, or a fire-ship burn the British navy, we should feel that gripe in a month: general Turreau would quietly exercise all the authorities at Washington. Considering how tamely we give up our millions, while that navy still renders America inaccessible to France, is any man alive so absurd as to suppose, that our subjugation to French despotism would cost the great nation a single flask of powder? Take away the British navy, or give it to France, and we free Americans, so vaunted of tongue, lie in our stalls as tamely as our oxen. The pet of Talleyrand would be found a sharper weapon than general ***'s sword. It is preposterous to suppose, that a military resistance to France would be attempted. Her faction in this country would revive the clubs and the maxims of 1794; and Genet would again summon the enemies of British influence to rally under his banner. We should be called the allies of France, and our loyal addresses would accompany our tribute to conciliate the friendship of the great nation, and to claim a share in its glories. The men who could be nothing without France, would be invested with the titles and powers of magistracy; and property would be made to shift hands, till it rested with those, who would be really interested to support France, that France might support them in keeping it. Thus, she would avoid the odium of a violent revolution, and yet would reap all the advantage of it, to rivet our dependence on her power. The distance of the Roman provinces, at length, favoured their emancipation from her yoke; but with the sole possession of a navy, the trans-Atlantic provinces of France would not be distant.
With those irrefragable proofs of the fatal certainty, with which the power of France would reach us, and of the unresisting tameness, with which we should endure it, if France should ruin the British naval power, what comments shall we make on the sense or spirit of the non-importation project of congress, which, though ineffectual for its purpose, is intended to impair the force and resources of her navy? How deep and considerate will be our scorn and execration of the Armstrongs, and the Livingstons, and Monroes, who, to make their flattery welcome to a tyrant's ear, have blended it with American invectives against that navy. We seem to be so emulous of the spirit of slavery, before we descend to its condition; as if we were resolved to merit their contempt, by an earlier claim, and even by a juster title, than their yoke; for, as long as the British navy may triumph, the yoke is not inevitable.
The most successful way to prevent our servitude, is faithfully to expose our dangers. So far as our fate may depend on our wisdom or our choice, it is proper to call the attention of our citizens to the fact, that Buonaparte, though he has done much, has done it in vain, unless he can do one thing more. Give him the British navy, and he will govern the United States, as absolutely, and certainly, with as little mercy, as if our territory were a French department, and actually lay before the Seine and the Loire. Let our scribblers, then, extol the long foreseeing wisdom of the Jeffersonian administration.—Let them boast of their devotedness to the cause of the people.—The man whose chief merit is grounded on his having penne d the declaration of independence, has done more than any other man living to undo it. He has made conventions to pour the fulness of our treasury into the coffers of Buonaparte; he has dictated laws in aid of, and to carry into effect, French authority of the blacks of St. Domingo—a degree of servile condescension beneath the independent spirit of those blacks; and now his minions in congress have begun a warfare against the British trade, as if, without our own active co-operation to cripple the maritime resources of England, Buonaparte might meet with too great obstruction and delay in subverting the independence and liberty of our country.
If we love our country as we ought, we cannot but wish that the conquered nations of Europe may break their chains; we cannot but wish, that Great Britain may courageously and triumphantly maintain her independence against France. But on this point what are we to expect? A military opposition on the continent of Europe has proved unavailing. Will France, now mistress of the land, become mistress of the sea also, and establish her iron domination over the civilized world? This is a question of life and death to American independence, and the awful decision is near.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
 Sloop Phoebe, Kelly, 22 days from La Guira, Ballast, C. Fry. The sch'r Hawk, of Gloucester, from Cumana, arrived there April 29—Markets dull.—Left at La Guira 12 sail of American vessels, names unknown.  Brig Mount Vernon, Weaver, 9 days from Rhode Island.  Sch'r Hiram, Bray, 10 days from Philadelphia.  Sch'r Camden, Fogler, 10 days from Penobscot. 
PORT OF NORFOLK AND PORTSMOUTH.
CUSTOM-HOUSE—ENTERED.
 Sch'r Madison, Gould, Baltimore.  Antelope, Turner, New-York.  Sloop Phoebe, Kelly, La Guira.  CLEARED.  Brig Minerva, Malcom, Bermuda Hundred.  Sch'r Union, Baker, New-York.  Unity, Mercereau, do.  Indian, Holland, Philadelphia.  Polly & Eliza, Rider, Savannah.  Sloop Regulator, Woglem, New-York. 
Sales at Auction.
Tomorrow, (Friday) the 26th instant, At XI o'Clock, Will be Sold on Maxwell's Wharf, 150 bags Green COFFEE, 30 boxes White Havana Sugar, Hogsheads Muscovado do. A few puncheons West-India Rum, 50 barrels Herrings, 16 dozen and 20 barrels Cyder, Capers and Olives in boxes; Mould Candles & Soap, And 4 boxes Hats. Francis Smith, V. M. May 25.
WILL BE SOLD
By virtue of a Deed in Trust executed by Arthur Denby, to secure the payment of a sum of money due Fowler Hunter, on TUESDAY the 6th June, at 12 o'clock on the premises, for ready money.
A LOT or parcel of LAND,
situate on the road leading to Tanner's Creek from Norfolk, bounded on the south by the land of Ender Talbot, on the east by Tanner's Creek road, on the north by Shuster's land, and on the west by Bramble's land. The Trustee. May 25.
GOULD'S Packet will sail for Baltimore on SUNDAY next. May 25.
NORFOLK THEATRE.
Thursday Evening, May the 25th,
Will be presented, (for the second time here) a Musical Drama, in two acts, called
The Hunter of the Alps.
Written by Mr. Dinond, jun. Author of the Hero of the North, &c.
The story on which this interesting piece is founded is particularly well chosen: it places before us a man of the strictest principles of honour and integrity, by unforeseen calamities reduced in a moment from splendid opulence to the most abject poverty; and with his beloved wife and children, forced from the highest state of polished society to wander, an outcast, seeking shelter in the extensive forests of Savoy.—There, in a miserable cottage, depending for daily bread on the labour of his hands, or the more precarious exertions of the chase; reduced to the utmost extremity of want by his unfeeling employer's refusal to advance his scanty pittance, he returns and sees his wife and children perishing for food. Stung to the heart, the unfortunate Rossi rushes into the forest, and meeting with a nobleman who had lost his way, by too eagerly pursuing the chase, he commits a fatal act of desperation!—He is about to be seized as a malefactor, when the moments of deepest horror are changed into the most perfect happiness, and displays a forcible example of the impetuosity of the justice of Providence.
Felix, Mr. Tonne; Rosalie, Mr. Clark; Jerome, Mr. West; Juan, Mr. Spear; Baptista, Mr. Ringwood; Marco, Mr. Clough; Pietro, Mr. Byrne; Julio di Rosalvi, Master H. Placide; Flerio di Rosalvi, Miss S. Placide; Helena di Rosalvi, Mrs. Placide; Genevieve, Mrs. Young; Claudine, Mrs. Clark; Ninette, Mrs. Utt.
Act I.—A Romantick Dehse bordering on the Alps; during which scene the hunters descend in groups from the mountains in pursuit of their game.
Act II.—A Rural Wedding, and a procession of Savoyards, displaying various emblems of the happiness of conjugal love, and exhibiting a pleasing picture of the innocent manners of the natives of Savoy.
To which will be added, (for the first time here,) A Grand Allegorical Pantomime Spectacle, interspersed with Song, Recitation, &c. called,
CINDERELLA;
OR, THE LITTLE GLASS SLIPPER.
Invented by Mr. Byrne, and performed at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, upwards of one hundred nights; and at Philadelphia and Charleston, with unbounded applause. Prince, Mr. Placide; Lords, Messrs. Young, Fox, Clark, Byrne, Spear; Attendants, Messrs. Clough, Utt, Ringwood, P. dio, Mr. West; Cinderella, Mrs. Placide; Sisters, Mrs. Clark and Miss Utt; Dettier, Venus, Mrs. Young; Hymen, Master Bignall; Grace, Miss Placide; Miss J. Placide; Cupid with a Dance, Master H. Placide; Cupids, by Little Masters.
Extract of the New Scenery and Pantomime.
Scene I.—Represents the Bower of Venus, with a view of the sea, Mount Ida, &c. A richly ornamented sailing-boat, ropes, garlands of roses, &c. Dance of Graces. The roses and flowers disappear; and in their place a bright cloud descends, which ascends again with Venus, the Nymphs, &c.
Scene II.—The Prince's Palace; Statue of Diana, &c.
Scene III.—Cinderella's Kitchen, in which a Pumpkin changes to a rich carriage, and four white rats into four horses, richly caparisoned.
Act II.—Scene I.—A Grand Banquet, prepared in a splendid hall, with a beautiful arch, ornamented with a time-piece, the hand of which Cupid, (at the approach of 12) characteristically puts back an hour, to please Cinderella, when instantaneously, the figure of time indignantly removes it to its proper place—Dance, &c.
Scene II.—The Garden of Venus. The Planet Venus descends, strikes a rose-bush, which changes to a splendid car, which Cupid ascends with.
Scene V.—An elegant hall, in which all the ladies of the court, &c. come to have the Slipper tried on.
Scene VI.—The Prince's Hall changes to the palace of Venus; Nymphs and Cupids are discovered. The Altar of Hymen, &c. To conclude with the marriage of Cinderella and the Prince.
The Scenery painted by Mr. West.
Doors to be opened at 6, and the curtain to rise precisely at 7 o'clock.
Tickets to be had at the Office of the Theatre.
Subscribers will please send as usual to Mrs. West for their Tickets.
TO BE SOLD,
For Ready Money at Public Auction, On Thursday the 1st day of June next,
A HOUSE AND LOT,
Situate on Charlotte-Street, in the Borough of Norfolk, adjoining the residence of James Nimm. The above property will be sold by virtue of a deed in trust executed by the Reverend James Whitehead, deceased, and Clarissa his wife, to satisfy a debt due to Dr. A. Slaughter.
The Trustee.
May 15.
Norfolk Drawbridge Company.
MAY 23d, 1809.
THE DIRECTORS find it will be for the interest of the Company to adopt a former Regulation, that is, instead of demanding the full legal tolls, the toll keepers shall demand only the former rates from inhabitants of the towns of Portsmouth and Norfolk, going and returning the same day before the hour of 9 o'clock at night, to wit:
 4d for a foot Passenger,  9d for a Man and Horse,  1 6d for a Two Wheel Carriage,  3s. for a Four Wheel do. 
Luke Wheeler, John Southgate, Robert Maitland, Walter Herron, Christopher Fry.
May 25.
For Freight or Charter, To the West-Indies, the Schooner ANTELOPE,
Capt. Putnam, burthen about nine hundred or a thousand barrels. Apply to
Jennings & Roddey.
May 25.
For New-Orleans, To sail about the 10th of June, The fast-sailing Sch'r JANE, Burthen about 1000 barrels. For freight or passage, apply to Jennings & Roddey.
May 25.
STOLEN
On Saturday evening last, the JOLLY BOAT belonging to the Ship Denby . Her bottom is painted white, her upper part black, yellow and black; stern black, and a split in her stem; pulls with four oars, and has a plank cross piece in her stern sheets; there is a new plank in her that is not painted. A liberal reward will be given to any person who will deliver the boat along-side this Ship, now in the Stream, or to
Robert Maitland.
May 25.
The KEY of an IRON CHEST
Was found in the street yesterday by a black boy. The owner may claim it by applying at the Loder Office and paying the expense of this advertisement, and a small gratuity to the finder. May 25.

Eagle Fire Company of New-York.
Office of the Company, No. 59, Wall Street.
PROPOSALS
For Insuring Houses, Buildings, Stores, Ships in Harbour, Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE.
THE Legislature of the state of New-York, having incorporated the Eagle Fire Company of New-York, with a capital of five hundred thousand dollars, (with the liberty of increasing the same, if the business of the company should require it, to one million of dollars,) for the sole purpose of insuring buildings, and every kind of personal property from loss or damage by FIRE; and a capital of five hundred thousand dollars having all been paid, or secured to be paid, according to law: the directors feel a particular satisfaction in offering to their fellow-citizens, throughout the United States, the means of security against that kind of loss which frequently, in an unexpected moment, involves in destruction the earnings of a life of industry and frugality, and reduces the independent and affluent, together with their families, to poverty and distress. To provide an additional guard against calamities of this nature, has been the primary motive of this Institution; and the directors engage to conduct its concerns, with a fairness, candour and liberality, which will justly entitle it to the confidence and patronage of the public.
No insured person will be liable to make good the losses of others; but in case of fire, the sufferer will be fully indemnified. The Company also make good losses on property burnt by lightning.
Classes of Hazards, and Rates of Annual Premiums for Insurance against Fire.
No. I. HAZARDS OF THE FIRST CLASS. Brick or Stone buildings, covered with slate, tiles, or metal. Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings. 62 1-2 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.
No. II. HAZARDS OF THE SECOND CLASS. Brick or Stone buildings, covered with wood. Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings. 93 3-4 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.
No. III. HAZARDS OF THE THIRD CLASS. Buildings, the sides of which are part of brick or stone, and part of wood. Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings. 125 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.
No. IV. HAZARDS OF THE FOURTH CLASS. Buildings, the sides of which are entirely of wood. Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings. 187 1-2 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk. Ships in Port, or their Cargoes, Ships Repairing or Building, may be insured against Fire.
This manner of classing hazards will give a general idea of the rates of insurance, but there will necessarily be an increase of premium in all cases where the local situation, or other circumstances, increase the risk: such as joining, or being contiguous to wooden buildings, or buildings occupied in carrying on hazardous business—distance from water—no engines or firemen in the town or place, &c. &c. The premiums may also, in some cases, be reduced on wooden buildings in the country, when standing single or detached, or attended with circumstances of peculiar security:—But in all cases, if the sum to be insured on or in the same building exceeds 10,000 dollars, an additional premium will be required. Soap Boilers, Tallow Chandlers, Brewers, Malsters, Bakers, Rope Makers, Sugar Refiners, Distillers, Chemists, Varnish Makers, Stable Keepers, Tavern Keepers, China, Glass, or Earthenware Sellers, Oil and Colourmen, Turpentine Works, Paper Mills, Printing Houses, Cooperage, Carpenters, Cabinet Makers, Coach Makers, Boat Builders, Ship Chandlers, Apothecaries, Theatres, Mills and Machinery, and all Manufactories that use Fire Heat, are deemed extra hazardous, and must be particularly described in the policy; and for all such risks an additional premium will be required.
Conditions of Insurance.
 I. All applications for insurance must be made at the office of the company, in writing; and the subject offered for insurance accurately described.  II. If the property offered for insurance is within the district of a surveyor of the company, he will examine and report thereon; but if not within any such district, then the applicant must himself furnish an accurate and just description thereof, of what materials each building is constructed; whether occupied as private dwellings, or how otherwise; where situated; the name of the present occupiers; how situated with respect to other buildings. And in the insurance of goods, wares and merchandise, the place where the same are deposited, is to be described; also, whether such goods are of the kind denominated hazardous, and whether any manufactory is carried on in the premises, all which is to be certified and attested in such manner as the nature of the case may admit. And if any person or persons shall insure his or their buildings or goods, and shall cause them to be described in the policy other than they really are, so as the same be charged at a lower premium than is herein proposed; or if such description be false or fraudulent, such insurance will be void and of no effect.  III. Goods held in trust, or on commission, are to be declared as such; otherwise the policy will not extend to cover such property.  IV. Every Policy of Insurance, made by this Company, shall be sealed with its seal, and signed by the President and Secretary; and the person for whose interest the insurance is made, must be declared and named therein; nor can any Policy, or interest therein, be assigned but by consent of the Company, expressed by endorsement made thereon.  V. No Insurance will be considered as made or binding, until the Premium is paid.  VI. Persons insuring Property with this Company, and who have already made other Insurance on the same property, shall give notice thereof in writing, at the Company's Office, before, or at the time of the execution of the Policy; and persons who, after insuring Property with this Company, have Insurance made on the same property elsewhere, shall, with all reasonable diligence, notify the same in writing at the Office of the Company, and have the same endorsed on the policy, or otherwise acknowledged in writing; in default whereof, the Policy will cease, and be of no effect; and in case of loss, each party insuring shall be liable to the payment of a ratable proportion of the loss or damage which may be sustained.  VII. No loss or damage by fire will be paid, that may happen or take place in consequence of any invasion, civil commotion, riot, or military or usurped power whatever.  VIII. Books of Accounts, Written Securities, Notes, Bills, Bonds, Deeds, Ready Money, or Bullion, cannot be insured.  IX. Jewels, Plate, Medals, or other Curiosities, Paintings and Sculptures, are not included in any insurance, unless such articles are specified in the policy.  X. All persons insured by this Company, sustaining any loss or damage by fire, are forthwith to give notice to the Company, and as soon as possible, to deliver in particular an account of their loss or damage, signed with their own hands, as the nature of the case will admit of, and make proof of the same by their oath of affirmation, and by their books of accounts, and other proper vouchers, as shall be reasonably required; and shall make oath, whether any and what other insurance is made on the same property; and shall procure a certificate, under the hand of a magistrate, notary public, or clergyman, that no concealment in such loss, or where the fire happened, and no concealment in such loss, or that they are acquainted with the character and circumstances of the person or persons insured; and to know, in all probability, that the fire, or the loss or damage, by such fire, was not caused by the willful act or default of such insured, and that no fraud or evil practice have been sustained by such insured, and that the amount therein mentioned; and, until such affidavit and certificates are produced, the loss shall not be payable: Also, if there appears any fraud, or concealment, the claimant shall forfeit his claim to restitution or payment, by virtue of his policy.  XI. In case any difference shall arise, touching any loss or damage, it may be submitted to the judgment of Arbitrators, mutually chosen, whose award in writing shall be binding on the parties. And where any loss or damage shall happen, the company shall pay for the same, in sixty days after the loss shall have been ascertained and proved, without allowance of discount, fees, or any deduction whatever.  XII. Insurance may be made for seven years, by paying the premium for six years, and for a less number of years than seven, a reasonable discount will be allowed. 
THE Subscriber being appointed Surveyor for the Eagle Fire Company, upon application, will survey, and value, such buildings, (or property contained therein) upon which Insurance may be required. Francis Foster, Church-Street, Norfolk. Feb 13.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809. THOMAS HOLLIDAY, Compt. against WILLIAM SMELLY, LITTLETON W. TAZEWELL and PETER DALEY, Defts.
THE defendant William Smelly not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant William Smelly, do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendants Littleton W. Tazewell and Peter Daley, who have effects of the said William Smelly in their hands, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court. A Copy,—Teste, Wm. Sharp, c. c. March 3.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809. Richard Gernon, Compt. against William and Anthony M. Buckley, and Shanks and Binford, Defts.
THE defendants William and Anthony M. Buckley, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the 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 William and Anthony M. Buckley, do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendants Shanks and Binford, who have effects of the said William and Anthony M. Buckley in their hands, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court. A Copy,—Teste, Wm. Sharp, c. c. March 3.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809. THEODORICK ARMISTEAD, Compt. against NICHOLAS PETERSON and CHRISTOPHER FRY, Defts.
THE defendant Nicholas Peterson, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant Nicholas Peterson do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendant Christopher Fry, who has effects of the said Nicholas Peterson in his hands, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain the same until the further order or decree of this court. A Copy,—Teste, Wm. Sharp, c. c. March 3.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809. JOHN WALLACE, Compt. against JAMES BROWN, & Co. of Philadelphia, and ALEXANDER MATHES, Defts.
THE defendants James Brown, & Co. not having entered their appearance and given security according to the 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 James Brown, & Co. do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendant Alexander Mathes, who has effects of the said James Brown, & Co. in his hands, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court. A Copy,—Teste, Wm. Sharp, c. c. March 3.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809. STEPHEN G. WILLS, Compt. against JONATHAN LAYCOCKS and PETERSON BROWN, administrators, &c. of John D. White, deceased, and WARREN ASHLEY, Defts.
THE defendants Jonathan Laycocks and Peterson Brown, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the 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 Jonathan Laycocks and Peterson Brown, do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendant Warren Ashley, who has effects of the said Jonathan Laycocks and Peterson Brown, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court. A Copy,—Teste, Wm. Sharp, c. c. March 3.
NOTES OF HAND, According to the new form established by the Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, for sale at this office.
Norfolk & Portsmouth Jockey Club RACES,
Over the New Ditched-in Course, will commence on WEDNESDAY, the 7th of June, free for any Horse &c.—New-Market Rules.
First Day. A Purse of 400 Dollars—F or M c . Heats—Money put up. Second Day. The Ladies' Purse of 100 dollars—One mile heats—the best three in five, with catch weights—15 dollars entrance. Third Day. The Proprietor's Purse of 200 Dollars—two mile heats—10 dollars entrance.
Fourth Day. A Han'y Cag. Purse. Good Stables and Litter near the ground found gratis, and every kind of Forage at the lowest price. The ground is considerably improved since the fall, and is equal to any course on the continent. Racers and their Horses will be free of toll. Entrance to be made with the Treasurer at the Exchange in the usual way. The Treasurer. April 21.
Just Landed, 104 barrels Muscovado SUGAR, 10 boxes clayed do. 150 barrels Old Rye Whiskey, do. 150 do. Alexandria wine Flour, do. 200 do. Middlings—For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. Who offers for RENT, A Dwelling-House with five Rooms, pleasantly situated in the fields. May 17.
A YOUNG MAN Of respectable connexions, and possessing a competent knowledge of business, is desirous of a situation as Superintendant; the most satisfactory recommendations can be given. A line addressed to A. B. and left at this Office, will be immediately attended to. May 3.
Boot and Shoe Manufactory. SAMUEL COLEMAN, Opposite the Market, (westward) has received by captain Lewis, on Monday last from Philadelphia, a large quantity of the best Boot Legs, Vamps, Tops, &c. that has (probably) ever been in Norfolk. With the Philadelphia Upper Leather for Boots—the choice of Soai and other Leather here—good workmanship—great attention—no disappointments—a regular bred foreman—and a tolerable supervisor—He has already furnished and will continue to furnish, better Boots and Shoes and better treatment to customers than has been rendered here by any person in this way; on these conditions only he expects custom. He has now from Baltimore, &c. three good HANDS for Ladies' Work, and a good flock of KID and MOROCCO: all the materials and workmanship shall be good, or an allowance made for that which is not; but the greatly increased price of all the materials, and the high price of labour in this way, will not admit of the Shoes being sold at the price of the run-work, generally offered for sale here. He is now getting almost all kinds of Boots & Shoes made. The advantage of getting Boots and Shoes made in the place of good materials and workmanship, where the responsibility of the manufacturer is bound, is too obvious not to be seen except by those who have eyes and will not see. He has on hand a large assortment of Boots, where gentlemen may be fitted at any time, with a certainty of getting such as are good, as he has no run work done, and a large assortment of Shoes of nearly all kinds. His terms are cash only. A LEASE For the eligible PROPERTY he now occupies is to be disposed of—it has about three and an half years to run. April 15.
Niemeyer and Von Kapff, Offer for Sale at their Ware-House, in Water-Street, for Cash or approved Paper only, the following GERMAN LINENS, 650 pieces SACKING, 35 pieces SHIRT LINEN, 200 do OZNA BURGS and 45 do FINE SHEETING, 100 do TICKLENBURGS, 70 do TABLE CLOTHS, 450 do WHITE ROLLS, 30 do BED TICKING, 80 do HESSIAN do, 65 do SKIN RAVENS 30 do FINE PLATILLAS, DUCK. ALSO, 11,000 BAGS of different sizes and qualities. 110 boxes Spanish SEGARS, TUMBLERS, 40 do Crown GLASS, 160 dozen half pint DECANTERS, 140 do English PIPES, 5 greceemery BOTTLES, 120 dozen WINE GLASSES, 600 do CORKS, 100 pair WAFFLE IRONS, 100 wt Batting WIRE, 350 pieces PAPER HANGING, 20 gross Cowskin WHIPS, 100 pieces OIL CLOTH, 600 wt GLUE, 4 cases PORT WINE. 100 wt. Osnaburg THREAD 600 Straws half pint and gill And at their Store in Main-Street, Looking Glasses, Glassware, Cutlery, and fancy Articles. We will take in barter, about 25,000 wt. of Green Coffee. March 29.
Richard Jeffrey & Co. No. 66, Main-Street, corner of Bank-Street, have just received from London, per the ship Planter, An assortment of MEDICINES, of the first quality. Also, a few hundred weight refined Salt Petre, Hardham's Snuff, No. 9, and 37, in 1-2 and 1-4 pound cannifers, Violet, Benzoin, Windsor and Shaving Soap, Evan's best Crown Lanteens, Tooth Brushes of superior kind, Refined Liquorice, &c. They have on hand, and are in daily expectation of receiving from Amsterdam, all kinds of GLASS WARE, suitable to Apothecaries. MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family use, with printed directions, put up as usual.
JOHN PENDRED'S Boot and Shoe Manufactory, No. 70, MAIN-STREET. The publick are respectfully informed, that he has furnished himself with a quantity of the choicest materials in his line of business, and has in his employ some of the best workmen in the borough, and having been long experienced in the business himself, his factory will not be conducted by proxy; he therefore hopes to merit the patronage of the gentlemen of Norfolk and its vicinity, and assures them that no pains shall be wanting on his part to give satisfaction to those who favour him with their commands. N. B. Orders for Double Backstraps, single do. and Cosacks, executed with the greatest dispatch. August 1.
SPANISH HIDES. One Thousand Spanish Hides,—For Sale, by Wm. Phance, & Co. January 23.
FOR SALE, 40 Sacks JUNIPER BERRIES. James Young. April 26
WANTED, Rough Oak bbl. and hhd. STAVES, of the best quality, for which Cash will be given, Robert Maitland. April 25
Just Received, A few bales very fine India Cottons, suitable for Sheetings, Narkeens of superior quality; Bandanna Handkerchiefs, Sewing Silks; Russia Sheetings, &c. For Sale by Wood & Hastings. May 3.
TAKE NOTICE, That we have applied to the President and Directors for the renewal of SIX NOTES of the Bank of the United States, at Norfolk, the one moiety whereof is 1st, viz B No 4082, dated Philadelphia, 2d June 1800—dolls 50 C 820, date Philadelphia, 2d June, 1800 50 E 727, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan. 1804 50 F 812, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan 1804 50 F 922, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan. 1804 50 F 1682, dated Philadelphia, 6th July, 1804 50 payable to Robert Taylor, or bearer, at the Office of Discount and Deposit, at Norfolk. A HANDSOME REWARD will be given to any person who may have found the counterparts of the above Notes, and will deliver them to us. MACKINDER & WHITE. March 10.
Twenty Dollars For the apprehension of SAN, a negro man the property of the late Dr Anth y T. Dixon, of Charles City, who broke prison in September last, and has been in Norfolk with a count in pass, under the hand of his mistress, Ann Dixon; he has been seen in York and Hampton, and in all probability is in one of these places. He is tall and slim, very black, stoops forward, and moves rapidly. John Tyler. Richmond, March 16.
RUSSIA and RAVENS DUCK of the very first quality, for Sale by C. & F. Whittle. April 15.
FOR SALE, The CARGO of the Schooner Cervo, D. Mourande, Master, from St. Jago de Cuba, COFFEE, in barrels and bags, of the first quality. SEGARS, in boxes— Now Landing at Commerce-Street Wharf. John Granbery. January 23.
For Sale, by the Subscriber, 50,000 weight of Navy BREAD, 20,000 Superfine Pilot, do. 3,000 Ship, do. 250 quarter barrels CRACKERS. Also, 400,000 well burnt BRICKS, 2,000 bushels STONE LIME, Stephen Harris. PILOT BREAD of superior quality for family use. Feb. 13.
A BARGAIN OFFERED, In a fine and Valuable FARM, in the County of Princess Anne. THE Subscriber is disposed to sell his Plantation called LEVEL GREEN, situated in the county of Princess Anne. It contains about 500 acres; and, as it may be advantageously divided into two or three Farms, the subscriber will accommodate a purchaser, in selling either the whole or a part. He will also give a long credit. This tract of Land is certainly the most desirable in the county, lying on the Eastern branch of Elizabeth River, and distant from Norfolk Market only five or six miles by water, and 8 or 9 by land. The soil is excellent, about one half of the tract being cleared land, and fit for immediate culture; the other heavily timbered with Oak, Pine, Ash, and Hickory. It has also the advantage of several good landings. Any one disposed to view the land, and to purchase, may apply, in the absence of the subscriber, to James Robinson, or John Read, who reside in the neighbourhood. Tully Robinson. Dec 7
THE SUBSCRIBER Wishes to Sell, and will Sell or Rent on moderate terms, That very excellent Wharf and Lot, in the town of Gosport, at present occupied by William Smith; the Wharf, Ware-Houses, and Dwelling-House are all in good repair. Thirteen Lots in the Town of Suffolk; And the following Property in Norfolk, Two good Fire-Proof Warehouses on the Eastern side of Commerce-Street, Nos 4 and 6. Two Dwelling-Houses and Lots on Boush-street, in good repair, and very pleasantly situated. Apply to John Granbery. September 14.
NOTICE. THE Partnership of T. & W. A. ARMISTEAD is this day dissolved by consent of parties. The settlement of its concerns devolve on W. A. ARMISTEAD, who is authorised to grant discharges, and on whom all persons having claims against the Firm, are requested to call. January 5.
W. A. Armistead and George Kelly, have entered into Co partnership. Their business will be conducted under the Firm of ARMISTEAD & KELLY. January 16.
MACKINDER & WHITE, Offer for Sale for Cash or approved Notes, 2,500 barrels NAVAL STORES, 3,500 bushels coarse SALT, 2,500 bushels INDIAN CORN, 1,250 barrels Superfine FLOUR, 130 bales Georgia Upland COTTON, 28 do. New Orleans do. 100 barrels Smithfield and Carolina PORK, 54 crates well assorted EARTHENWARE, 40 chests and 20 boxes Hyson & Young Hyson TEA. Also, A general assortment of Dry Goods. September 27.
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR. Opposite the Exchange Coffee House. Price Six Dollars Yearly, in advance.