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MISCELLANY.
PECULIARITIES OF THOMAS, DAY, Esq. From Seward's Life of Darwin.
(CONTINUED.)
With the late Mr. Bicknel, then a barrister in considerable practice, and of taintless reputation, and several years older than himself, Mr. Day, lived on terms of intimate friendship. Credentials were procured of Mr. Day's moral probity, and with them, on his coming of age, these two friends, journied to Shrewsbury, to explore the hospital in that town, for foundling girls. From the little train, Mr. Day, in the presence of Mr. Bicknel, selected two of twelve years, each; both beautiful; one fair, with axen locks, and light eyes; her he called Lucretia. The other, a clear, auburn brunette, with darker eyes, more glowing bloom, and chusnut tresses, he named Sabrina.
These girls, were obtained, on written conditions, for the performance of which, Mr. Bicknel was guarantee. They were to this effect; Mr. Day should, within the twelvemonth after taking them, resign one, into the protection of some reputable tradeswoman, giving one hundred pounds, to bind her apprentice; maintaining her, if she behaved well, till she married, or began business for herself. Upon either of these events, he promised to advance four hundred more. He avowed his intention of educating the girl he should retain, with a view to making her his future wife; solemnly engaged never to violate her innocence; and if he should renounce his plan, to maintain her decently, in some creditable family, till she married, when he promised five hundred pounds as her wedding portion.
Mr. Day went instantly into France with these girls; not taking an English servant, that they might receive no ideas, except those, which himself might choose to impart.
They teized and perplexed him; they quarreled, and fought incessantly; they sickened of the small-pox; they chained him to their bed-side, by crying and screaming if they were ever left a moment with any person who could not speak to them in English. He was obliged to sit up with them many nights; to perform for them the lowest offices of assistance. They lost no beauty by their disease. Soon after they had recovered, by crossing the Rhone with his wards, in a tempestuous day, the boat overset. Being an excellent swimmer, he saved them both, though with difficulty and danger to himself.
Mr. Day came back to England, in eight months, heartily glad to separate the little squabblers. Sabrina was become the favourite. He placed the fair Lucretia, with a chamber milliner. She behaved well, and became the wife of a respectable linen-draper in London. On his return to his native country, he intrusted Sabrina, to the care of Mr. Bicknel's mother with whom she resided, some months in a country village, while he settled his affairs at his own mansion-house, from which he promised not to remove his mother.
It has been said before, that the fame of Dr. Darwin's talents allured Mr. Day to Litchfield. Thither he led, in the spring of the year 1770, the beauteous Sabrina, then thirteen years old, and taking a twelve month's possession of the pleasant mansion in Stowe Valley, resumed his preparations for implanting in her young mind, the characteristick virtues of Arria, Portia, and Cornelia. His experiments had not the success he wished and expected. Her spirit could not be armed against the dread of pain, and the appearance of danger. When he dropped melted sealing-wax upon her arms she did not endure it heroically, nor when he fired pistols at her petticoats, which she believed to be charged with balls, could she help starting aside, or suppress her screams.
When he tried her fidelity in secret keeping, by telling her of well-invented dangers to himself, in which greater danger would result from its being discovered that he was aware of them, he once or twice detected her having imparted them to the servants, and to her play-fellows.
She betrayed an averseness to the study of books, and of the rudiments of science, which gave little promise of ability, that should, one day, be responsible for the education of youths, who were to emulate the Gracchi.
Mr. Day persisted in these experiments, and sustained their continual disappointment, during a year's residence in the vicinity of Litchfield. The difficulty seemed to lie in giving her motive to exertion, self-denial, and heroism. It was against his plan to draw it from the usual sources, pecuniary reward, luxury, ambition, or vanity.
His watchful cares had precluded all knowledge of the value of money, the reputation of beauty, and its concomitant desire ornamental dress. The only inducement which this artless girl could have to combat and subdue the natural preference, in youth so bossoming, of ease to pain, of vacant sport to the labour of thinking, was the desire of pleasing her protector, though she knew not how, or why he became such. In that desire, fear had greatly the ascendant of affection, and fear is a cold and indolent feeling.
Thus after a series of fruitless trials Mr. Day renounced all hope of moulding Sabrina into the being his imagination had formed; and ceasing to behold her as his future wife, he placed her at a boarding school in Sutton-Coldfield. Warwickshire. His trust in the power of education faltered; his aversion to modern elegance subsided. From the time he first lived in the vale of Stowe, he had daily conversed with the beautiful Miss Honora Sneyd of Litchfield. Without having received a Spartan education, she united a disinterested desire to please, fortitude of spirit, native strength of intellect, literary and scientific taste, to unswerving truth, and to all the graces. She was the very Honora Sneyd, for whom the gallant and unfortunate Major Andre's inextinguishable passion is on poetick,* as his military fame and hapless destiny are on patriotick, record. Parental authority having dissolved the juvenile engagements of this distinguished youth and maid, Mr. Day offered to Honora his philosophick hand. She admired his talents; she revered his virtues; she tried to school her heart into softer sentiments in his favour. She did not succeed in that attempt, and ingeniously told him so. Her sister, Miss Elizabeth Sneyd, one year younger than her sister, was very engaging, though countless degrees inferior to the endowed and adorned Honora. To her the yet love-luckless sage transferred the heart, which Honora had with sighs resigned. Elizabeth told Mr. Day she could have loved him, if he had acquired the manners of the world, instead of those austere singularities of air, habit, and address.
He began to impute to them the fickleness of his first love; the involuntary iciness of the charming Honora, as well as that for which her sister accounted. He told Elizabeth, that, for her sake, he would renounce his prejudices to external refinements, and try to acquire them. He would go to Paris for a year, and commit himself to dancing and fencing masters. He did so; stood daily an hour or two in frames, to screw back his shoulders, and point his feet; he practised the military gait, the fashionable bow, minuets, and cotillions; but it was too late; habits, so long fixed, could no more than partially be overcome. The endeavour, made at intervals, and by visible efforts, was more really ungraceful than the natural stoop, and unfashionable air. The studied bow on entrance, the suddenly recollected assumption of attitude, prompted the risible instead of the admiring sensation; neither was the showy dress, in which he came back to his fair one, a jot more becoming.
Poor Elizabeth reproached her reluctant but insuppressive ingratitude, upon which all this labour, these sacrifices had been wasted. She confessed, that Thomas Day, blackguard, as he used jestingly to style himself, less displeased her eye than Thomas Day, fine gentleman.
Thus again disappointed, he resumed his accustomed plainness of garb, and neglect of his person, and went again upon the continent for another year, with pursuits of higher aim, more congenial to his talents and former principles. Returning to England in the year 1772, he saw that spring, Miss Honora Sneyd united to his friend Mr. Edgeworth, who was become a widower; and in the year 1780, he learned that his second love of that name, Miss Elizabeth Sneyd was also, after the death of Honora married to Mr. Edgeworth.
It was singular that Mr. Day should thus, in the course of seven years, find himself doubly rivalled by his most intimate friend; but his own previously renounced pursuit of those beautiful young women, left him without either cause or sensations of resentment on their account.
From the year 1773 this hitherto love-renounced philosopher resided chiefly in London, and amid the small and select circle which he frequented there, often met the pretty and elegant Miss Esther Mills of
* It will be recollected that Miss Seward was the author of a Monody on the death of Major Andre, to which she was principally induced by her friendship for Miss Sneyd, and her knowledge of their mutual attachment.
Derbyshire, who, with modern acquirements, and among modish luxuries, suited to her large fortune, had cultivated her understanding by books and her virtues by benevolence. The again unpolished stoick had every charm in her eyes.
"She saw Othello's visage in his mind." But from indignant recollection of hopes so repeatedly baffled, Mr. Day looked with distrust on female attention of however flattering semblance; nor was it till after years of her modest, yet tender devotion to his talents and merit, that he deigned to ask Miss Mills, if she could, for his sake, resign all that the world calls pleasures; all its luxuries, all its ostentation. If, with him, she could resolve to employ, after the ordinary comforts of life were supplied, the surplus of her affluent fortune in clothing the naked, and feeding the hungry; retire with him into the country, and shun, through remaining existence, the infectious taint of human society.
Mr. Day's constitutional fault, like poor Cowper's, seemed that of looking with severe and disgusted eyes upon those venial errors in his kind. This stain of misanthropy was extremely deepened by his commerce with the world, restrained as that commerce had ever been. Satirick, jealous, and discerning, it was not easy to deceive him; yet, in a few instances, he was deceived by the appearance of virtues congenial to his own:—
"For neither man nor angel can discern "Hypocrisy, the only evil that walks "Invisible, except to God alone."
To proposals so formidable, so sure to be rejected by a heart less than infinitely attached, Miss Mills gladly assented. But something more remained. Mr. Day insisted that her whole fortune should be settled upon herself, totally out of his present or future controul: that if she grew tired of a system of life, so likely to weary a woman of the world, she might return to that world any hour she chose, fully empowered to resume its habits, and its pleasures.
They married, and retired into the country about the year 1780, according to the best recollection of the author of these memoirs. No carriage; no appointed servant about Mrs. Day's own person, no luxury of any sort. Musick, in which she was a distinguished proficient, was deemed trivial. She banished her harpsichord and musick-books. Frequent experiments upon her temper, and her attachment, were made by him, whom she lived but to obey and love. Over these she often wept, but never repined. No wife, bound in the strictest fetters, as to the incapacity of claiming separate maintenance, ever made more absolute sacrifices to the most imperious husband, than did this lady, whose independence had been secured, and of whom nothing was demanded as a duty.
Thus Mr. Day found, at last, amid the very class he dreaded, that of fashionable women, a heart whose passion for him supplied all the requisites of his high-toned expectations.
Some eight or ten years after his marriage, the life of this singular being became, in its meridian, a victim to one of his uncommon systems. He thought highly of the gratitude, generosity, and sensibility of horses; and that whenever they were disobedient, unruly, or vicious, it was owing to previous ill usage from men. He had reared, fed, and tamed a favourite foal. When it was time it should become serviceable, disdainning to employ a horse breaker, he would use it to the bit and the rein himself. He was not a good horseman. The animal disliking his new situation, heeded not the soothing voice to which he had been accustomed. He plunged, threw his master, and then, with his heels, struck him on the head an instantly fatal blow. It was said that Mrs. Day never afterwards saw the sun; that she lay in bed, into the curtains of which no light was admitted during the day, and only rose to stray alone through her garden, when night gave her sorrows congenial gloom. She survived this adored husband two years, and then died, broken-hearted for his loss.
Ere the principal subject of this biographick tract is resumed, the reader will not be sorry to learn the future destiny of Sabrina. She remained at school three years; gained the esteem of her instructress; grew feminine, elegant and amiable. This young woman proved one of many instances that those modes of education, which have been sanctioned by long experience, are seldom abandoned to advantage by ingenious system-mongers.
When Sabrina left school, Mr. Day allowed her fifty pounds annually. She boarded some years near Birmingham, and afterwards at Newport, in Shropshire. Wherever she paid visits, she secured to
herself friends. Beautiful and admired, she passed the dangerous interval between sixteen and twenty-five, without one reflection upon her conduct, one stain upon her discretion. Often the guest of Dr. Darwin, and other of her friends in Litchfield, esteem and affection formed the tribute to her virtues.
Mr. Day corresponded with her parentally, but seldom saw her, and never without witnesses. Two years after his marriage, and in her twenty-sixth year, his friend, Mr. Bicknel, proposed himself; that very Mr. Bicknel, who went with Mr. Day to the Foundling Hospital at Shrewsbury, and by whose suretyship for his upright intentions, the governors of that charity permitted Mr. Day to take from thence that beauteous girl, and the young Lucretia.
Mr. Bicknel, high in practice as a barrister, was generally thought an advantageous match for Sabrina. More from prudential, than impassioned impulse, did she accept his addresses, yet became one of the most affectionate, as well as the best of wives. When Mr. Day's consent was asked by his protegee, he gave it in these ungracious words: 'I do not refuse my consent to your marrying Mr. Bicknel; but remember you have not asked my advice.' He gave her the promised dower, five hundred pounds.
Mr. Bicknel, without patrimonial fortune, and living up to his professional income, did not save money. His beloved wife brought him two boys. When the eldest was about five years old, their father was seized with a paralytick stroke, which in a few weeks, became fatal. His charming widow had no means of independant support for herself and infants. Mr. Day said he would allow her thirty pounds annually, to assist the efforts which he expected she would make for the maintenance of herself and children. To have been more bounteous must surely have been in his heart, but it was not in his system. Through the benevolent exertions of Mr. Harding, Solicitor General to the Queen, the sum of eight hundred pounds was raised among the gentlemen of the Bar for Mrs. Bicknel and her sons; the interest to be the mother's during her life, and the principal, at her decease, to be divided between her children.
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The European news which we this day republish from the New-York Daily Advertiser of the 21st instant, received from Capt. Smith, of the schooner Phoebe-Ann, four days from New-York, agrees, so far as it relates to France, with that received at the office of the HERALD, from Dunkirk. Buonaparte proclaimed Emperour ; the line of succession fixed in the children of his brother, Joseph, or Louis—Should the Emperour die before either of those have attained the age of eighteen, the crown descends to Joseph, and his heirs male; from him, in default, to Louis; and notwithstanding its being said that JERRY is excluded, he may yet be chosen, rather than let a stranger succeed: Thus in the revolution of a few years, we have hopes of hearing, that the grandson of an Irish merchant, a naturalized republican citizen of the United States, and the great-grandson of a Mechanick of Baltimore—(we will not allude to his less honourable descent on the Corsican side)—sways a sceptre over the IMPERIAL REPUBLICK of France, and its dependencies, and holds in his mighty grasp the fate of forty millions.—Wonder at nothing—was a serious piece of advice given about twenty centuries ago—and, indeed, in this age, wonders so abound, that there is nothing even for a fool to wonder at.
From the New-York Evening Post, a paper of the most distinguished merit, we take the following essay, originally published in the Boston Centinel, where it formed the second number of a series on the same subject, the first of which was merely introductory. Well knowing how fashionable it has become with the advocates of the present ruling party, to throw as much odium as possible on their predecessors, and viewing with indignation the means resorted to for that purpose, we shall consider it as a sacred portion of our duty to the publick, to oppose those means, and defeat the object proposed in resorting to them, by a fair and candid exposition of the truth. To this end we shall select from such publications as may fall in our way, whatever may tend to establish the fact, or display the parties in the true colours in which they ought respectively to be contemplated, as often as we find the subject treated with integrity and candour. It is our earnest wish and desire, never to put it in the power of those opposed to our sentiments, to charge us with a departure from the one or the other.
The subject of Finance is of so much importance as to be made almost the only criterion, with a certain class of politicians, by which to estimate the powers or the virtues of publick men, or publick measures. We, therefore, find all the changes rung on this interesting topic; and the economy of the present, incessantly contrasted with what is often termed the prodigality, but more frequently the corruption, of the last administration. Thus are we taught, in the very first moment, we may say, of our political existence, to place the source of all national happiness in the purse, and to calculate, with arithmetical precision, the real worth of a statesman in dollars and cents; and with equal accuracy to determine the duration of his popularity. A direct tax, whenever it shall be found expedient, will seal the death-warrant of the present, as it did of the last, administration—Fie upon such catch-penny patriotism.
The following essay will, we are persuaded, be read with interested attention by all classes. It is entitled, by its author, a
REVIEW of JEFFERSON's ADMINISTRATION.
The cause, which operates most powerfully in displacing an administration in elective governments, is generally the charge of mismanaging the national finances. Thus it happened to the WASHINGTON and ADAMS administrations. So often did the partisans of the present rulers exclaim against the federal direction of the revenue; so often did they repeat the cry of venality, corruption, and prodigality in those who controuled it, that, in defiance of truth, they at last electrified the publick mind, and produced a change. An examination, however, of the state of finance at the commencement of, and during, the former government, will once more, in almost innumerable times, discover the only reason for such a change, conscious falsehood. It will show the fiscal operations of the federal administration to have been highly conducive to the prosperity of the nation; and consequently the conduct of its successors towards them, to have been unprincipled and disgraceful. It will point to the cause of the consideration and respect,
which we enjoyed among foreign nations; and enable us by comparison, in the conclusion of these numbers, to ascertain the merit of the respective administrations.
From a report of a committee of Congress, appointed March 20, 1800, to examine the accounts of the United States, relating to the publick debt; and a report of Mr. GALLATIN, dated December 18, 1801, with the documents, to which in these reports there is reference, it appears that the federal administration received from the confederation, a debt of 76,781,955 dollars. The property of the United States, which they possessed, when their fiscal arrangements began to operate, and which was applied to the extinguishment of the publick debt amounted to little more than two millions and a half. The debt, therefore, for which the federalists had to provide, was 74,185,596 dollars. This sum was to be paid by the proceeds of a revenue, as yet scarcely systematized. On the first day of January 1798, when the conduct of France had forced us to arm our vessels, after drinking the cup of humiliation to the dregs, the amount of the debt was 67,627,338 dollars. At this time therefore the government had discharged more than six millions and a half. On the first of January, 1800, the debt amounted to 70,212,718 dollars. From 1798 to 1800 it had, consequently, increased upwards of two and an half millions. This increase arose from extraordinary expenditures, in consequence of the wanton and unprovoked aggression of France. But the national debt, which the federalists had to pay, was 74,185,596 dollars. They had therefore in the year 1800 diminished it almost four millions of dollars.
Mr. Gallatin, in his report, states the publick debt, on the first of January 1801, to have been a fraction more, than eighty millions. But in this statement he makes no allowance for upwards of two millions of dollars then in the treasury, cash in the hands of collectors, the amount of bonds at the custom houses, and bank stock; all which must have amounted to more than ten millions. On the first day of January in the preceding year these items amounted to this sum, and the revenue then was not so great as in 1800. According to Mr. Gallatin's own statement then, the debt was little less in the beginning of 1801, than the committee of Congress made it in 1800.
But this was not all that was performed by the Federalists, while in Office. According to an authentic communication, from a former Member of Congress, they paid—
  For interest on the publick debt, between the years 1790 and 1800, upwards of $ 23,500,000   In addition to this sum, which publick faith and credit obliged them to pay, they were under the necessity of paying, for incidental claims, arising under the old government, but not included in the liquidated debt, more than 500,000   For debts due to foreign officers, who served with us during the war 164,000   For certain parts of the old debt, which were not funded nor included in the above amount 169,000   For pensions to invalided soldiers, who served in the war 908,000   For the erection of Light-houses for the security of trade 347,000   For the protection of our coasts and cities, by the fortification of ports and harbours 546,000   For making and preserving peace with the Indian tribes 196,000   For suppressing two insurrections in Pennsylvania—in one of which Mr. Gallatin was a principal actor 1,250,000   For redeeming our citizens in captivity among the Algerines, and for making and preserving peace with them and the other Barbary powers 1,682,000   For establishing boundary lines between the United States and Spain and Great Britain, and for carrying into effect our treaties with those nations 230,000   For the Census taken pursuant to an act of Congress 134,000   For the support of the Civil Government in its various departments 4,263,000   For the Indian War, which the federal government was obliged to maintain on the frontiers 5,000,000   For the military establishment, (exclusive of the last sum) and all the additional expense of our preparations against France 6,830,000   For our negotiations and intercourse with foreign nations—including the missions to France, which, from her tyrannical and imperious conduct, were unusually expensive—the extraordinary mission to England—and the maintenance of all our ministers abroad 759,000   And smaller expenditures, necessarily incurred for a variety of incidental objects 
These expenses taken together amount to upwards of forty eight millions of dollars.
The particulars of this statement, presented in one view, will discover, how faithful were the federal administration to the interest of the nation. In the year 1790, a little after the unanimous voice of a grateful people had called the father of his country to administer their untried government, they became bound by national faith, without any funds, revenue, or national property, to discharge a debt of more
than seventy four millions. During the twelve years of their administration they paid, in various necessary expenditures more than forty eight millions. In the beginning of the year 1801 they left to their successors, a debt of little more than seventy millions, with a permanent revenue, and productive funds. But with such a revenue and such funds, which, according to Mr. Gallatin's own statement, will defray every demand of government, and entirely liquidate the publick debts in fifteen years and a half, the present administration have received from their predecessors, national property, consisting in navy yards, a proportion of the materials for building six 74 gun ships, buildings for the reception and preservation of arms, and our navy &c. amounting at least to four millions. As the federalists when they first assumed the national debt, deducted from it the amount of national property they received, considering the remainder as the actual debt of the United States; so it is but just, the amount of property transmitted to their successors, should be credited on the debt they received. This will reduce it to sixty six millions of dollars.
The fiscal concerns of the nation did not solely engross the attention of the federal administrations. To estimate their merit, it is requisite to advert to other parts of their system alike conducive in themselves to the lasting benefit of the community, as well as concisely to display the powerful obstructions, purposely created, to defeat their operations.
It can constitute no small part of the federal account in the mind of the people, influenced by prejudice, that they were able to form a constitution, and procure its adoption notwithstanding the agitation of the publick mind, and jarring interests, and in opposition to the unceasing exertions of the party who are now in possession of power by this very constitution; and that when publick credit, faith, and confidence, were annihilated, they could plan and carry into effect, a system of finance, which has restored them to full vigour, and actually discharged a considerable part of the publick debt. Almost as soon as the government was organized, and the plan of revenue in operation, we beheld an insurrection to resist its authority. Immediately on the suppression of this, England, without any justifiable pretence, committed depredations upon our defenceless commerce. When peace was again restored, by negotiation, the pirates of the French revolution were sent forth to seize our vessels, and deprive us of the fruit of our industry. After repeated expostulation with France on the injustice of her conduct, our infant navy convinced her, that though she disregarded the principles of morality, and the law of nations, from inclination, she yet was obliged, in some degree, to obey them from necessity.
During this period another insurrection was excited, which, however, was soon suppressed by the decision and energy of the executive. Notwithstanding all these obstacles, and the unjust clamour frequently raised against its measures, the federal administration pursued a steady and undeviating course. It demanded, and obtained, redress from Britain for capturing our property. It preserved our national honour, by building and sending a navy to resist the piracies of the terrible repubick. It guarded every man's habitation by pure and impartial justice. It protected the sacred right of reputation, by subjecting the calumniator to infamous punishment. It prevented the emigration of aliens, who have since, like an impetuous torrent, inundated our once happy shores, covered with crime and vice, without the appearance of one solitary virtue.* It a second time rescued us from degradation and slavery, by carrying us safely through the tempest of conflicting passions and opinions, bursting from the French revolution, that volcano of destruction, which buried nations in its ruins.
* This is a subject of popular clamour, which is principally urged, (we had nearly said exclusively) by the writers and politicians of the Eastern States; but to the justice of which we can by no means afford our assent. It may be possible, and perhaps is true, that inconveniencies have been experienced in Pennsylvania, from the emigration of aliens; but those inconveniencies are, generally, to be ascribed to the conduct of the native demagogues of that state, aided by the incendiary publications of one, who, for several years as an alien, and but lately as a citizen, inflamed their passions, through the medium of their principal democratiack paper. The allusion is particularly made to Irishmen, who have sought refuge here, and who, had they been left to themselves, would have enjoyed, with thankfulness, that liberty which they sought, and that peace which was afforded them.
We do not wish to revert to the causes which induced a large, and let us say a respectable, portion of the people of Ireland to abandon their country. It is sufficient for us to feel what it was that pronounced this—the only asylum which the world presented to them. A mild and temperate government assured them the enjoyment of tranquil-
lity, and of property, whether they should bring it with them, or acquire it here: and it is well known that all were not destitute of piety from justice! Besides to this country they were invited, not merely by the spirit and genius of our laws, but even by their letter. If Pennsylvania has suffered by this "inundation," we repeat it, she has her own turbulent children alone to censure. We believe the evil, if it is one, has not been felt elsewhere. We wish to see this subject entirely dropped; or treated with justice and with liberality. Those who treat of it otherwise, may always calculate upon such opposition as we can offer, without regard to their opinions on other subjects.
FROM THE EVENING POST.
The statement containing the facts that led to the interview between General Hamilton and Colonel Burr, published in the Evening Post on Monday last, studiously avoided mentioning any particulars of what past at the place of meeting. This was dictated by suitable considerations at the time, and with the intention, that, whatever it might be deemed proper to lay before the publick, should be made the subject of a communication. The following is therefore now submitted.
In the interviews that have since taken place between the gentlemen that were present, they have not been able to agree in two important facts that passed there—for which reason nothing was said on those subjects, in the paper lately published as to other particulars in which they were agreed.
Mr. Pendleton expressed a confident opinion that General Hamilton did not fire first—and that he did not fire at all at Colonel Burr. Mr. Van Ness, seemed equally confident in opinion, that General Hamilton did fire first—and of course that it must have been at his antagonist.
General Hamilton's friend thinks it to be a sacred duty he owes to the memory of that exalted man, to his country, and his friends, to publish to the world, such facts and circumstances, as have produced a decisive conviction in his own mind, that he cannot have been mistaken in the belief he has formed on those points—
1st. Besides the testimonies of Bishop Moore, and the paper containing an express declaration, under General Hamilton's own hand, inclosed to his friend in a packet, not be delivered but in the event of his death, and which have already been published, General Hamilton informed Mr. Pendleton, at least ten days previous to the affair, that he had doubts whether he would not receive, and not return, Mr. Burr's first fire. Mr. Pendleton remonstrated against this determination, and urged many considerations against it, as dangerous to himself, and not necessary in the particular case, when every ground of accommodation, not humiliating, had been proposed and rejected. He said he would not decide lightly, but take time to deliberate fully. It was incidentally mentioned again at their occasional subsequent conversations; and on the evening preceding the time of the appointed interview, he informed Mr. Pendleton, he had made up his mind not to fire at Col. Burr the first time, but to receive his fire, and fire in the air. Mr. Pendleton again, urged him upon this subject, and repeated his former arguments. His final answer was in terms that made an impression on Mr. Pendleton's mind which can never be effaced. "My friend, it is the effect of a religious scruple, and does not admit of reasoning; it is useless to say more on the subject, as my purpose is definitively fixed."
2d. His last words before he was wounded afford a proof that this purpose had not changed. When he received his pistol, after having taken his position, he was asked if he would have the hair spring set, His answer was, "not at this time."
3d. After he was wounded and laid in the boat, the first words he uttered after recovering the power of speech, (addressing himself to a gentleman present, who perfectly well remembers it) Pendleton knows I did not mean to fire at Col. Burr the first time."
4th. This determination had been communicated by Mr. Pendleton to that gentleman that morning, before they left the city.
5th. The pistol that had been used by General Hamilton, lying loose over the other apparatus in the case which was open, after having been sometime in the boat, one of the boatmen took hold of it to put it into the case. General Hamilton observing this, said "Take care of that pistol—it is cocked—it may go off and do mischief. This, is also remembered by the gentleman alluded to.
This shews that he was not sensible of having fired at all. If he had fired previous to receiving the wound, he would have remembered it, and therefore have known that the pistol could not go off; but if afterwards it must have been the effect of an involuntary exertion of the muscles, produced by a mortal wound, in which case he could not have been conscious of having fired.

6th Mr. Pendleton having so strong a conviction that if General Hamilton had fired first, it could not have escaped his attention (all his anxiety being alive for the effect of the first fire) and having no reason to believe that the friend of Col. Burr was not sincere in the contrary opinion, he determined to go to the spot where the affair took place, to see if he could not discover some traces of the course of the ball from General Hamilton's pistol. He took a friend with him the day after General Hamilton died, and after some examination they fortunately found what they were in search of. They ascertained that the ball passed through the limb of a cedar tree, at an elevation of about twelve feet and an half, perpendicularly from the ground, between thirteen and fourteen feet from the mark on which Gen. Hamilton stood, and about four feet wide of the direct line between him and Colonel Burr, on the right side; he having fallen on the left. The part of the limb through which the ball passed was cut off and brought to the city, and is now in Mr. Church's possession.
No inferences are pointed out as resulting from the facts, nor will any comments be made. They are left to the candid judgment and feelings of the publick.
We have seen in the New-York papers by the mail, that a statement, as it is said, of facts, relating the late duel, has been published in the Morning Chronicle, by Mr. Van Ness, containing some additional articles, which are by no means authentic. On this subject, we may be inclined to make some remarks hereafter. We did not suppose that the opponents of Mr. Hamilton would treat the subject with very rigid candour. Mr. Van Ness however seems to have forgotten all that honour should have dictated to a man in his delicate situation.
Captain Richards, of the schooner Nancy, three days after sailing from Martinique, fell in with a British frigate and a transport with troops, said to be bound to Berbice, but probably intended to join a squadron collecting to attack Martinique. N. Y. Daily Adv.
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
Received by way of Newburyport and Boston.
LONDON, May 20.
Numerous American and other neutral vessels have been engaged at Leghorn as transports; it was reported there, that they were to convey French troops to Sardinia.
All the Officers of the American frigate Philadelphia, have been liberated by the Dey of Tripoli, on the interference of the French Consul.
May 27.
Most of the Northern courts have received assurances from Russia, of effectual protection in the event of being attacked by France. The Emperor has issued orders to all his residents in Germany and in Italy, directing them to afford assistance and protection to all French emigrants who may be desirous to settle in the Russian Territories.
Mr. Drake and family have reached Berlin.
Yesterday we received the following extract of a letter from Paris:—
"Domiciliary visits are now constant in Paris, where every time Buonaparte appears on the parade, the military, who crowd every avenue, enter the houses and search every closet in them, to be ascertained that neither arms nor suspected persons are contained therein; if any owner durst remonstrate against this intrusion, the answer is "silence—'tis by order of the Consul."
"The Senate have lately assembled at St. Cloud, to deliberate upon the powers to be confided to the New Emperor, and upon various matters connected with his elevation, but it did not form any conclusion on the subject."
"The Imperial Diadem and other regalia of the Corsican Adventurer, exceed in splendour every thing hitherto worn by any Monarch; they have been in complete readiness for more than three months."
"Moreau and some others are, it is said, to be pardoned. Napoleon wishing, by this act of clemency, to signalize the commencement of his Imperial Government. The examinations in the Temple are frequently renewed, and the prisoners, in passing to the Hall, are each attended by two gens d'armes, through two double ranks of dragoons and gens d'armes."
"Part of the army of Gen. Regnier, has embarked on board the fleet at Toulon."
"Orders have been issued to the camps along the coast, that no officer or soldier, shall, under any circumstance, be more than one days march from his corps, and to hold themselves in readiness for service at an hour's notice."
A report has been brought by the Lisbon Mail, that Mr. Frere was daily expected to take his passage for England, in consequence of an approaching war with this country.
The Prince of Peace, in answer to some complaint of Mr. Frere, respecting words ascribed by the Moniteur to that Prince, is said to have replied, that if he wished satisfaction it would be given by 60,000 Spaniards, that should be sent to join the army destined for the invasion of England.
A letter from Petersburg of the 25th April, says, "Count Woronzow, our Minister at the court of London, is recalled, to fill a place in our Ministry. The next courier from England is expected to bring an answer, which will be immediately followed by a declaration of war against France. Louis XVIII will be acknowledged King of France by all the Members of the Coalition, and all conquests but in his name will be renounced."
The Russian army on the frontiers of Poland has been considerably reinforced; and on the 7th May, orders were issued to hold themselves in readiness to march.
By the last accounts from Hamburg, it was the general opinion there that a Continental War would speedily take place, and that Russia will shortly declare herself. The Russian troops, it is said, are ready to act; and the fleet at Sebastopolis is in a complete state of equipment. A letter from Lemberg also states, that great numbers of Russian troops are assembling on the frontiers of Poland. Other letters say, that two more Russian frigates have passed the Dardanelles for the Seven Islands.
It is said that the news of Mr. Pitt's appointment has created general satisfaction in Ireland, amongst the Catholicks, who in consequence expect "a speedy redress of their grievances, and an emancipation from the bondage of the penal statutes."
JUNE 3.
The French Princes and Princesses are to be addressed by the title of their Imperial Highnesses, and the sisters of the Emperor are to enjoy the same dignity. The Great Officers of Empire are to be addressed "Monsieur."—My Lord!!! Capt. Cantilo from India, via Egypt and Lisbon. Left Lord Nelson with his fleet off Toulon, on the 23d April, all well.
PARIS, May 17.
Yesterday an extraordinary meeting of the Senate was held. All the ministry were present, except the Minister of Foreign Relations, who was indisposed. Three orators of the Council of State were present. It is presumed that this Senate had for its object, the presentation of the important Senatust Consultum that is looked for, with impatience, by all France—We are assured it contains more than 143 articles, divided into four titles.
Yesterday a Grand Council of State was held.
The Conservative Senate is to meet this day, to hear the report of its committee upon the Senatust Consultum.
The trial of Moreau and others is said to be definitely fixed for the 25th May.
General Lassale, commander of the 4th regiment of Veterans, and a member of the Legion of Honour, addressed the following speech to the Veterans under him, assembled the 2d inst. at Maubert Place.
COMRADES,
The departments, the army in general, being well apprized of the incredible services which the First Consul has rendered to France, as well by recovering and extending our frontiers, as by re-establishing Publick Worship, by the encouragement given to industry, by giving to the world peace, which the perfidy of England alone has interrupted, are desirous, in order to insure our happiness, to recompence his extraordinary virtues, by a title more exalted; and to prevent civil wars, the consequence of elections, by the establishment of a succession in the family of our Deliverer.
Your commanders are anxious to vote an address to him, to request of him this new benefit. I invite you in the name of the gratitude we owe him, of the admiration he inspires us with, and of the future happiness of the State, to add your signatures to ours, in order to confirm to him, that his former brother soldiers have a just sense of his merits, and that they nominate him Emperor.
It is the desire of victory.
Addresses to the French Government for the establishment of monarchy, have been sent from the cities of Strasburgh, Colmar, Nancy, Mayence, Bruges, Montpellier, Versailles, Orleans, Caen, Havre, Dunkirk, and Aux-la-Chapelle, Mezieres, Gend, Dijon, Trevers, D'Evreux, Boissons, the department of Jemmapes, Morbihan and Poise.
The people of Lyons have asked for the honour of having Buonaparte crowned in that city.
The Legislative Body was to meet at Paris the 14th July, when it was expected the coronation would take place.
A man who publicly called himself the Dauphin of France, has been arrested at Marseilles, and sent to the house where persons deranged in mind are kept.
May 20.
The Organick Senatust Consultum was proclaimed by the Emperor Buonaparte, and will be published in Paris to-morrow (Sunday) at noon.
His Imperial Majesty has nominated to the dignity of Grand Elector, His Imperial highness Prince Joseph Buonaparte: to that of Constable, His Imperial highness Prince Louis Buonaparte: to that of Arch Chancellor of the Empire, the Consul Cambacérès: and to that of Arch-Treasurer, the Consul Lebrun.
TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS. The piece signed QUIDAM , is received and shall meet due attention.
We thank the friend who favoured us with specimens of Mr. Turnbull's poetry. We shall take an early opportunity of shewing that respect to them which they justly merit.
The imitation of GENTIL BERNARD does justice to the original. We request the translator to continue.
We will be much obliged to any friend who can favour us with the perusal of a work entitled—"De l'Influence de la Philosophie sur les Forfaits de la Revolution, Par un Officier de Cavalerie."—Of the influence of Philosophy on the Crimes of the Revolution, By an Officer of Cavalry.—This work we have never seen translated. It is an ingenious display of the immorality of a set of wretches, pretending to be governed by pure reason, who have guided the steps of that formidable and exterminating monster the French Revolution; which for such a number of years has exercised the most sanguinary tyranny, trampled on every right of man and of nature, and torn asunder every sacred and moral bond of society.
As the French Revolutionists have run their career, through the dark stages of Democracy, until they have ended where all men of foresight supposed they would end, we may treat their Republick as a thing that is no more, and speak freely of its vices, and its virtues if it has any, provided in doing so that we omit saying any thing disrespectful of its present equally FREE and "ENLIGHTENED GOVERNMENT."
ERRATA: —In our last—First paragraph under the Norfolk head, for Colemon read Coleman .—In the second quotation from the Citizen, 2d Col. 2d page, for preliminary, read preliminary.—2d Col. 3d page, instead of Courier, June 12 , read May 12 .—In the Table at the head of the last Col. same page, for METROLOGICAL , read METROLOGICAL —and at the foot of that table, for graduated, read graduated.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Ship Suffolk , Moore, 78 days from London—Dry Goods—Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co.
Ship Mount-Vernon , Baynton, in distress, 9 days from Charleston, bound to Liverpool—Timber, Cotton and Logwood—P. Dana.
Schooner Hope , Hamilton, 4 days from Alexandria.
Schooner Phœbe-Ann , Smith, 4 days from New-York.
CUSTOM HOUSE—ENTERED.
Schr Rebecca , Drysdale, Jamaica. Ship Suffolk , Moore, London. Brig Currier , Doggett, Jamaica. Schr Phœbe-Ann , Smith, New-York.
CLEARED.
Ship Sally , Wills, Falmouth. Brig Mary , Clark, Liverpool. Ship Reward , Moulton, Falmouth. Schr Lydia , Livingston, West-Indies. Phœbe-Ann , Smith, Richmond.
FOR BOSTON,
THE
Schooner HOPE,
R. Hamilton, Master.
Will sail on Monday morning. A few passengers can be accommodated. Apply to the Master, or to W. Hartsborne, jun.
July 28. 1
FOR CHARTER,
THE SHIP
ANACREON,
Jabez Fletcher, Master.
Has only made one passage—will carry about 400 Hhds. of tobacco, and is esteemed by judges, one of the completest ships in the harbour. Apply to the master on board, or to William Pennock.
WHO OFFERS FOR SALE,
20,000 feet of Boards, on board said ship. July 28. tf 47
Captain Deagle's Packet will sail for Baltimore, on Monday morning. July 28.
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the estate of JOHN C. BARRET , late of Norfolk, deceased, will be pleased to present them, legally authenticated, to Mr. William Hartsborne, junior, of that place; and those indebted, will be good enough to make payment forthwith, to the same person, who is fully authorised by
D. M. RANDOLPH,
Agent for C. Barret, Heir at Law of the dec'd. Richmond, July 23, 1804. tf 41
SALE AT AUCTION.
By William B. Lamb.
THIS DAY, at 11 o'clock,
2 Likely Mulatto Boys. 1 Pair well matched Carriage Horses. 1 Handsome Saddle Horse.
ALSO,
A FEW PACKAGES OF DRY GOODS.
July 28.
46
Jamaica Rum, Molasses, &c. &c.
Now landing, from the schooner Rebecca , John Drysdale, Master, from Jamaica.
117 Puncheons Rum.
8 Hhds. Molasses.
For sale by
Donaldson, Thorburn & Co.
WHO HAVE IN STORE,
150 Puncheons of Antigua and Grenada Rum, of fine flavour—and
A few Hogsheads and Barrels of Sugar.
July 28.
6
43
Received by the ship Suffolk , from London, and for sale,
60 Casks HIBBERT'S best bottled PORTER and BROWN STOUT.
Robert Maitland & Co.
July 28.
12
44
FOR SALE,
70 Hhds. Petersburg Tobacco.
10 Puncheons old Jamaica Rum.
50 Hhds.
40 Tierces.
20 Barrels.
Muscovada Sugar.
5 Hhds. Loaf Sugar.
15 Tierces Hibbert's Brown Stout.
17 Boxes.
11 Barrels.
Philadelphia Ale in Bot's.
Glassware, Window Glass & Empty Bottles.
2 Boxes Hats.
8d. 10d. 12d. & 20d. Nails, Sheathing Nails & Spikes.
50 Bags Juniper Berries.
A. Maclure.
July 28.
tf
45
TO RENT,
A House situated on Brewer's street.
Apply to
July 26.
E. RORERTS.
42
Office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk, July 24, 1804.
WANTED TO PURCHASE,
A few thousand Pounds Sterling, in approved endorsed Bills on London, at sixty days, or bills drawn on any other place, and made payable there.
Robert Oliphant, Cashier.
July 24.
36
123 Barrels Superfine, } FLOUR. 127 do. Fine, } And a few Hhds. RICHMOND TOBACCO. For sale by
Phinehas Dana.
July 19.
tf
26.
FOR SALE,
A neat Two Story House, with a Shed, in that part of the Town of Portsmouth, leading to the Cottage; agreeably situated, with two lots adjoining. For terms enquire of the subscriber.
Who wants a Freight
FOR THE BRIG GEORGE, Momently expected from New-York.
John Cox.
July 21.
1m
28.
BILLS ON PHILADELPHIA.
Apply to
July 24.
C. & F. Whittle.
38
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
Abseonded about two months ago, a negro man named MANUEL , belonging to Mrs. Wilson, of Portsmouth, a Calker by trade, and about 45 years of age, walks lame; he is supposed to be in or about Smithfield. The above reward will be given, for delivering him in Norfolk. Thomas Warren.
July 24.
tf
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JOHN RORKE & Co.
Have for Sale, Wholesale and Retail, at their Store, Market-Square.
Cognac, Cinnamon. Old Peach, Cloves. Apple, Pepper. Antigua, and Wind- Mustard. ward Island, Rum, Race & Ground Ginger. Holland and Country Almonds. Gin, Raisins. L. P. Madeira, Fig Blue. Sherry, Starch. Teneriffe, Refined Salt Petre. Imperial, Powder and Shot. Hyson, Godfroid's Havana Se- Young Hyson, gars, of the first qua- Loaf and Muscovado, lity. Sugar, Nails. Coffee, Sythe Blades. Chocolate, Baltimore Iron. French and Italian Oil, Steel. Olives, Cart Wheel Boxes. Capers, Irish Glue. Basket Salt, Mould Candles. Pearl Barley, Corks. Mace, Wrapping Paper. Nutmegs, July 17. tf 13
ANTIGUA RUM.
104 Puncheons fine flavoured Antigua Rum. Just received and for sale by Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. Who will sell BILLS on New-York, at 10 days, and 60 days sight.
July 19.
24

STRATTON & COLE,
HAVE FOR SALE, A LARGE AND GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES; CONSISTING OF
  Antigua, } Jamaica, } Wd. Island, } New England, } French, } Peach, } Apple, } Holland, } Country, } Sherry, } Malaga, } Imperial, } Hyson, } Young Hyson, } Loaf, } Brown, } Molasses, } Vinegar, } Nutmegs, } Allspice, } Pepper, } Cinnamon, } Ginger, } Chewing Tobacco, } Spanish, } American, } Powder & Shot, } Allum, } Blown, } Superfine, } Fine, } Coffee, } Chocolate, } July 17.  WINE. TEA. SUGAR. FLOUR.  Nests Wooden Ware. Wool Cards. Bacon. Pork. Mariners Compasses. Quadrants. Spy Glasses. Hour, } 1-2 Minute } 1-4 do. } White Lead, } Venetian Red, } Yellow, } Spanish Brown, } Blue, } Tar, } Turpentine, } White, } Red, } Blue, } Small, } Deep Sea, } Bed Cords. Seine Twine. Wrapping do. Indigo. Blueing. Window Glass. Knives and Forks. Pump Tacks. An assortment of Castings. Earthen Ware assorted. tf 6  
OILS, PAINTS & WINDOW GLASS,
Of all kinds, colours, and sizes. For sale by N. Gregory, opposite the Market. An ASSISTANT wanted—also, an active YOUTH to be employed in the store.—Liberal wages will be given to TWO ABLE HANDS, to turn a Paint Mill. July 8. tf 3
SHAKSPEARE.
Time, which is continually washing away the dissoluble fabrics of other Poets, passes without injury by the adamant of Sakspeare. Dr. Johnson's Preface.
FIRST COMPLETE EDITION IN AMERICA, FROM THE TEXT OF THE BEST EDITORS OF SHAKSPEARE. Hugh Maxwell & Thomas S. Manning, Propose to publish, as speedily as possible, VOLUME I. OF THE Plays of William Shakspeare, With the corrections and illustrations of VARIOUS COMMENTATORS. To which are added, NOTES, By SAMUEL JOHNSON & GEORGE STEEVENS. From the fifth and latest London edition, published in 1803—Revised and augmented. By ISAAC REED. With A GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
Sweet SWAN of Avon, what a sight it were, To see thee in our waters yet appear, With all those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza and King James! But say, I see thee in our hemisphere Advanc'd, and made a constellation here:— Shine forth, thou STAR OF POETS, and with rage, Or influence, chide, or cheer the drooping Stage. Ben Johnson.
TERMS. The first complete edition, in America, of Shakspeare will be contained in 16 volumes, duodecimo. It will be printed in a style eminently beautiful, on a fine cream-coloured woven paper, with a type entirely new, and cast for the purpose by Messrs. Binny & Ronaldson. The Proprietors pledge themselves, that it shall surpass the London edition in neatness of mechanical execution, and rival it in fidelity and correctness. It will be printed under the immediate direction and superintendence of an Editor, assisted by several Men of Letters. The Price, to Subscribers, will be 1 Dollar 50 Cents per vol. in boards; to non Subscribers, 1 Dollar 75 Cents.
The inferior copy of the last London edition, in 21 vols. boards, sells for FIFTY-ONE DOLLARS; more than double the price of the proposed edition, which the proprietors have resolved shall, from its cheapness, as well as elegance, deserve the notice of the Public.
To consult the economy of the taste of different purchasers, an edition will be printed in a compressed, cheap, and portable form, without the notes, in 8 vols. 12mo. price 1 dollar per vol. in boards. It is contemplated to print one volume every month, from the time of commencement, until the work be completed.
A correct Alphabetical List of the Subscribers, will be given with the last volume. The Proprietors sanguinely hope that the liberality of the public will be conspicuous in the support of a work of singular magnitude, to which intense labour and great expense are necessarily incident.
N. B. The first volume of the above work is now in press. Subscriptions will be received by Bonsal, Conrad & Co. Booksellers; and by George L. Gray, at the office of the Publick Ledger, Norfolk. Philadelphia, July 1. tf 4
FOR SALE,
1350 Barrels Superfine and Fine Flour. 900 do. Pork, in shipping order. 60 do. Beef, No. 1 & 2. 50 Puncheons Grenada Rum. 6 Pipes London particular Madeira Wine. 25 Hhds. Richmond Tobacco. 44 do. Petersburg do. Tar and Turpentine. Pilot and Ship Bread. A few Trunks Irish Linens. A Trunk Ginghams. Apply to Donaldson, Thorburn & Co. July 17. tf 7
FOR SALE, 500 Barrels first quality Navy Bread. 200 do. Pilot. do. 200 do. Ship. do. 500 Quarter Barrels Crackers, fresh and a superior quality. All of which will be sold on liberal terms. Stephen Harris. July 17. tf 8
WE HAVE FOR SALE, 100 hds. Richmond and Petersburg Tobacco. 300 barrels superfine Flour, fresh. 20 puncheons Jamaica and Windward Island Rum. 500 barrels Pork, in shipping order. 200 pieces Nankeens, first quality. 50 barrels and half barrels Alexandria Crackers. A few cases of Noyeau, and two new Cables. C. & F. Whittle. July 17, 1804. tf 16
FOR SALE, New-York BEEF and PORK. ALSO, 200 barrels Smithfield PORK. Robert Gibson. July 17, 1804. tf 17
TO RENT, And immediate possession given, That commodious BRICK DWELLING-HOUSE, at present occupied by Mrs. Hume, and formerly known under the name of the Navy Tavern. The premises are very commodious, and well adapted for a Tavern or extensive Boarding-House, being very eligibly situated on Main-street, in the centre of business. The terms to a good tenant on lease, will be made extremely favourable, or it will be rented by the year on equitable terms. Apply to William Dick. July 17. tf 11
SUGAR. 18 Hhds. of Sugar, just received and for sale by William Hartshorne, jun. SLATE. A quantity of Slate, shortly expected from New-York. July 17. tf 22
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, Persons acquainted with any branches of COACH-MAKING, to whom the most liberal wages, with constant employ, will be given. Two YOUTHS of respectable connexions will be taken as apprentices to the above business. Apply to S. W. Quarrier, near the Methodist Meeting-House, Cumberland-street. July 17. tf 5
One Hundred Dollars Reward. RUNAWAY from the Subscriber in the City of London, some time in the month of May, 1799, a mulatto slave, named HENRY, at that time aged about 18 years, and was about five feet ten inches high; he is probably now upwards of 6 feet. Henry was a remarkable handsome mulatto, and had a fine countenance; his hair rather of the wool kind, but tied in a short queue—He called himself Henry Brent, which name he had put on one of his arms with Indian Ink, either Henry Brent or H. Brent, I do not recollect which; he had also on the same arm an anchor and cable, and some other figures, done by a sailor on a voyage to the East Indies in the year 1797.—It is very probable attempts have been made to erase the name and figures above described, but it could not have been done without leaving some traces and scars. I have just received information that Henry was seen in Norfolk on the 16th of last month, where I am inclined to think he has been lurking for some time—I will give the above reward to any person who will deliver said slave to me, at Col. John Cooke's. Stafford county, near Aquia, or fifty dollars if secured in any jail so that I get him again—Information given in a letter per post, directed to me at Col. John Cooke's, near Aquia, will be immediately attended to. John W. Bronaugh.
N. B. I am told the above slave is known in Norfolk at this time by the name of Puddy or Purdy. July 17. tf 15
TO RENT OR LEASE, That Large and Commodious Dwelling-House where I now live. It has four rooms on a floor, excellent cellars, and an out kitchen. In point of situation, health and view, there can be no objection. It can be had with furniture, and several house servants, if required. For particulars, apply to William Leigh. Portsmouth, July 21. 6 33 PRINTING in all its variety, and in the neatest manner, executed at the office of the Publick Ledger, near the corner of Main, n Commerce Street.
FRESH TEAS.
Just received and for sale by the Subscribers, IMPERIAL, } HYSON, } YOUNG HYSON, } Of a very late information, and of a superior quality.
ALSO—IN STORE, 15 Hhds. Prime Sugars. 10 Pipes French Brandy. 100 Casks Nails—all sizes. 10 Hhds. Prime Green Coffee. 10 ditto Molasses. 50 Barrels Whiskey. 200 Bags Shot, No. 1 to 8, B. & B. 50 Casks best English Gunpowder. 50 Boxes 8 by 10 best Crown Glass. 50 Kegs White Lead, ground in Oil 30 Boxes Pipes. 20 Casks Copperas. 5 ditto Refined Salt Petre. 10 Boxes Wool Cards. 10 ditto Spermaceti Candles. 50 Bundles Printing Paper. 160 Ream Writing ditto. 20 Bags Black Pepper. 30 Boxes Dixon's best Mustard. 500 lbs. Race Ginger. 50 Barrels Beef & Pork—Boston Inspection. A few Tons Iron Ware—assorted.
ALSO, A small consignment of HARDWARE—assorted. Which will be sold at Cost and Charges. Fisk & Stearns. July 8. tf 2
JOHN RORKE & CO.
Have erected a Mill for Manufacturing PAINTER'S COLOURS, and will in a few days have a general assortment. They have at present on hand a quantity of White Lead and Yellow Ochre, in 28 and 14lb. Kegs, equal in quality to any imported.—Also, 800 gallons Linseed Oil; Prussian Blue; Verdigrise; Red Lead; Letherage; Putty; Paint Brushes; and Sash Tools of all sizes. July 17, tf 14
TRAVELS IN GREECE.
PROPOSALS, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE TRAVELS OF Anacharsis the Younger, IN GREECE: During the middle of the fourth Century, before the Christian Era, With copious Notes and References. BY THE ABBE BARTHELEMY, Keeper of the Medals in the Cabinet of the King of France, and Member of the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres. Translated from the French. First American, from the fourth London, edition. IN FOUR VOLUMES.
THE work now offered to the American reader exhibits a complete view of the antiquities, manners, customs, religious ceremonies, laws, arts, and literature, of ancient Greece, at the period of its greatest splendour. A knowledge of these has hitherto been only attainable by a laborious perusal of writers who have been little solicitous to join entertainment with instruction. The Travels of Anacharsis, on the contrary, are so written, that the reader may frequently be induced to imagine he is perusing a work of mere amusement, invention, and fancy; till his eye glances to the bottom of the page, when he perceives there is scarcely a sentence, and not a single fact or circumstance, but is supported by the authority of some ancient author. The amazing number of these quotations, may, perhaps, at first sight, seem to have been unnecessary, and to have more the appearance of a parade of erudition, than to be of any real utility: but it is to be remembered that, at the same time that they must be highly acceptable to the man of real learning, by enabling him to refer immediately to the original author, they are extremely useful, nay we may say, absolutely necessary, even to such readers as can never be supposed to have an intention to consult the authorities quoted; as they clearly shew that such an idea, or such a circumstance, is not merely a decoration, or the offspring of the fancy of the author, but immediately taken from some ancient writer, and, therefore, perfectly accordant to the general scope and plan of the work.
TERMS.
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