Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1805-07-29 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.
VOL. II.]
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1805.
[NO. 6.]
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK; PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE PAPERS TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS—ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF FIFTY CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS PER SQUARE FOR EACH SUCCEEDING INSERTION
FOR CHARTER, The good Ship FRANKLIN, SPOONER, Master:— Burthen about three hundred hogsheads.— For terms apply to Moses Myers.
July 24. 3w 16
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The good copper-bottomed Ship EARL OF LEICESTER, Two hundred tons burthen, will be ready to receive a cargo in three days. For terms apply to Wilson, Cunningham & Co.
July 24. 3w 17
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The fast sailing Schooner CHARMING MARY, CHARLES POTTER, Master:— Burthen about 1200 barrels—will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days.—For terms, apply to Thomas Allan.
July 24.
FOR LIVERPOOL, The British Brig BETSEY, 300 hogsheads burthen—will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days; a large proportion of her cargo is now engaged, for the balance apply to C. & F. Whittle.
July 22. tf 10
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The good American Ship JOHN, A. M. SPALDING, Master:— 297 tons burthen, a staunch, strong, tight vessel, now in complete order for the reception of a cargo.—For terms apply to the Captain on board, or Richard Blow.
July 22. tf 10
FOR FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The copper-bottomed Brig MARY-LOUISA, GEORGE FARRER, Master:— Burthen 1200 barrels—will be ready to receive a cargo in three days. Thomas Willock.
July 19. tf 7
FOR A PORT IN FRANCE, The good Ship SHEFFIELD, Captain Josiah Cowper, About 450 Hogsheads burthen, expected from Philadelphia in fifteen days, when she will be in immediate readiness for the reception of a cargo. A full freight, or partial shipments will be accepted. For terms apply to Messrs. William & Henry Haxall, of Petersburg, or to John Cowper. Thomas Willock.
July 17. tf 5
FOR FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The Schooner BELLONA, DAVID PATTEN, Master:— Will take in from 7 to 800 barrels. For terms apply to Moses Myers.
July 17. 3w 1
FOR PORT GLASGOW, The fast-sailing British med Ship LADY NELSON, ROBERT MALLISTER, Master, expected to sail by the 1st August, 75 hds. tobacco, and some cotton will be received on freight, if immediate application is made to Robert Maitland & Co.
July 19. 3w 811
WANTED TO CHARTER, A BRITISH SHIP of 250 to 300 Hogsheads—And AN AMERICAN one of the same description. C. & F. Whittle.
June 4. tf 757
WANTED TO CHARTER, A SHIP Of from 200 to 300 tons burthen, to load with Lumber, for a port in Jamaica—Immediate despatch will be given. Apply to Robert Maitland & Co.
July 8. 3w 802
FOR CHARTER, The American Ship REUNION, Burthen 290 tons—she will be ready for the reception of a cargo in fifteen days. Warren Ashley.
July 8. tf 799
FOR LONDON, The American ship ABERDEEN, WILLIAM MORGAN, Master:— Burthen about 450 hogsheads tobacco.—Intend to sail by the 1st of August—can take on freight about 200 hogsheads tobacco, and 50 bales cotton. For terms apply to J. & W. Southgate.
July 5. tf 792
FOR FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The American Ship REBECCA, GILBERT FOWLER, Master:— Burthen 450 hogsheads tobacco, in complete order to receive a cargo, and will be ready in 15 days. For terms, apply to Phinehas Dana & Co.
July 10. tf 819
FOR SALE, FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The American Ship ELIZA, JOSEPH BUNTIN, Master:— Burthen 176 tons, or 230 hogsheads tobacco. For terms apply to the Master on board, or to Phinehas Dana & Co.
July 8. tf 804
FOR LIVERPOOL, The good Ship ALEXANDER, MILES KING, Master:— Will sail in all the month of July—part of her cargo being engaged. For freight of the remainder, or passage, apply to J. & W. SOUTHGATE.
June 29. 1m 786
FOR CHARTER, The British Ship DUNROBIN CASTLE, JOHN M'BRIER, Master:— Burthen 280 tons, carries 14 guns and men suitable. Clyde, or Liverpool, will be preferred. Robertson & Brown.
June 8. tf 752
FOR PREMEN, The good fast sailing Ship COMMERCE, JACOB ADAMS, Master:— Will sail in about twenty days—80 to 100 hogsheads can be taken on freight, if immediate application be made to Moses Myers.
July 12. tf 817
FOR CHARTER, The good Ship TICONIC, Burthen about 300 hogsheads Tobacco.—For terms, apply to Moses Myers.
July 8. tf 803
FOR LONDON, The Ship MENTOR, STEPHEN WATERMAN, Master:— Burthen 350 hogsheads tobacco—Will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days, and will sail by the last of this month. She is a very fine vessel of 18 months old, and well found in every respect. For freight or passage, apply to Freeland & Gillies, in Petersburg, or to N. Heron.
July 8. tf 805
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The fine new American Ship MECHANICK, V. BAGLEY, Master, burthen 250 tons, or about 350 hds tobacco, now ready for the reception of a cargo. Brig MERRIMACK, BATCHELOR, Master, burthen 145 tons, or about 1400 barrels flour, now ready for the reception of a cargo. For terms apply to Robert Gibson.
June 27. tf 782
COCKE & SANFORD, Have received of the Ship SHEFFIELD , f. in Bordeaux , Imperial Blue and Black CLOTHS. FANCY WAISTCOATING, SILK HOSIERY—and CLARET WINE in cases. MISSING—THREE BUNDLES LEATHER, Consisting of—Sole, Bridle, and Calf Skins,
THAT were sent by the Subscribers about six weeks ago, to Maxwell's Wharf, to be shipped on board one of the Packets for Williamsburg —which from circumstances it is presumed were put, through mistake of the draughtsman, on board a vessel bound to some other place. Should the person in whose possession it may have fallen, be so good as to return it; all expenses attending it will be paid, and the favour gratefully acknowledged by William Plume & Co.
July 26. 3w 22
A SINGLE MAN, Who writes a fair hand, and understands the French language well, will meet with an eligible situation by applying at the Office of the Publick Ledger . tf 19
WHEREAS my Wife PEGGY , has repeatedly eloped from my bed and house; I hereby forbid any person from harbouring her on the penalty of the law, as I am determined to prosecute those who do—I also forbid all, and every person from trusting her, as I will pay no debts of her contracting. Emanuel Jacomic. Norfolk County, July 26. 3* 20
TO RENT, Two Rooms adjoining the Office of the Publick Ledger . Apply at this office. July 26. tf 19
112 Pancheons high proof Grenada RUM, Landing this day on our wharf, from on board the Schooner Thomas . C. & F. Whittle.
July 8. tf 808
WANTED. Two Hundred Cords Wharf Wood, For which a generous price will be given. Apply to Thomas Warren.
May 29. tf 720
JUST RECEIVED, Per the Ship Reunion , from Albany , and for sale by the Subscriber, 200 Hogsheads Choice RED WINE. 3,500 Bushels SALT. Moses Myers.
July 8. tf 800
TO RENT, A convenient DWELLING HOUSE on Fen Church-Street, fronting the Fields leading to Brigg's Point—with a good garden and out buildings attached to it. Enquire of JAMES SMITH , near the same. June 20. tf 774
10,000 Bushels Liverpool Stored SALT, For sale, on board the Brig Betsey , at our Wharf. C. & F. Whittle.
July 19. tf 9
Mr. Fox's Speech Concluded.
I need not remind this house, that the inhabitants of the north of Ireland, had long been distinguished above every other part of the population by their superior industry, intelligence, and wealth, though it is notorious they were not equally remarkable for their attachment to English connection. Previous to the French revolution, the Catholics had no bonds of mutual union with this part of the Irish population. On the contrary, they were kept asunder by the striking contrariety of their religious creed. It was the French revolution that united these two heterogeneous bodies. It was a feeling of what they conceived common oppression that kept them together during the desperate struggle which the rebellion gave rise to. But, sir, this is not the only view of the case to be taken into consideration. The house cannot have forgot the circumstances of lord Fitzwilliam's administration. Did he not hold out to the Catholics of Ireland the prospect of complete and absolute emancipation; I know a doubt was started how far he was authorized by the ministers here to give such a pledge to the Catholics. Without now entering on the discussion of this point, it is sufficient to say, that the lord lieutenant of that day, after having made this pledge, was recalled, and that a motion for following up that pledge, was lost in this house. The Catholics, upon seeing all their hopes frustrated, all their best founded expectations disappointed, were doubtless exasperated in no ordinary degree. Was it nothing, sir, that a pledge so solemnly given was neglected? Was it not natural that high expectations disappointed, terminated in despondency, and that this feeling suggested the unfortunate idea of connexion with France, which at no former period of the last century had existed? We are told, however, in probability with the view of aggravating the guilt of the Catholics, and veiling the criminality of the ministers of that day, that the inquiries of the Irish Parliament fully proved the Catholics to be bent on absolute separation, and that they regard Catholic emancipation, and reform in Parliament, as nothing better than a drop of ink compared with their more extended object. This all true, but is it the whole of what these inquiries brought to light? Did it not at the same time appear, that these same persons who made this declaration, at the same time confessed, that if Catholic emancipation, and a reform in Parliament had been granted, then all prospect of successful insurrection would have been destroyed? They knew the effect of conciliatory measures, and they dreaded their application. They were sensible that if these measures were well applied, it would be quite ridiculous to think of detaching the feelings of the people of Ireland from their connection with this country. It is perfectly understood that the Catholics had the highest hopes from the assurances and pledge of lord Fitzwilliam, and if disastrous consequences followed the dereliction of that pledge, let those who occasioned it answer for the consequences. But how do the Catholics, after thus being duped and betrayed, stand, after the measure of union was carried, in a great measure by their assistance? On every side they are injured and calumniated; on the one hand by the ministry, who held out hopes only to disappoint them, and on the other by those who oppose the union, as having betrayed the interests and surrendered the liberties of their country. It was not, sir, on light grounds that the Catholics hoped, under the Imperial Parliament, for the concession of all the claims which a local legislature had refused to acknowledge. A learned gentleman on the other side of the house (Mr. Duigenan) had written a letter to an honourable friend of mine, whom I am happy to see near me, in which, alluding to the measure of a legislative union, he argues that if such a measure were accomplished, all exclusive laws and restrictions would of necessity be abolished. I need not inform the house that the learned gentleman to whom I have alluded was, in the Parliament of Ireland, particularly hostile to the claims of the Catholics, and conceived that the only way in which they could ever be acceded to, was through the medium of that legislative union which he was so desirous of seeing adopted. I put it then, in fairness to the house, whether, when this measure was carried, the Catholics had not every reason to believe that their claims would meet with immediate attention? These just expectations have, for several years, been disregarded, and it certainly had become the duty of some member to bring the matter fairly under discussion. Happily this agreeable mode of proceeding has been rendered unnecessary by the course which the Catholic body themselves, after mature deliberation, have thought it expedient to adopt. They have come forward with a loyal, dutiful, and temperate address, representing the nature and extent of their claims, and fairly submitting them to the attention of the legislature. They have conducted themselves with a propriety which places their loyalty and love of good order above all sort of suspicion, avoiding all insurrection, and discouraging all tumult—they have left the whole of the affair to the sober determination of Parliament. Coming then to the discussion of the claims of so great and respectable a body thus presented, I hope and trust these claims will be fully and attentively considered. In the course of the observations with which I have thought it necessary to introduce my motion, I have hitherto avoided taking any notice of certain mysterious insinuations that it was needless to agitate the question at the present moment, since it was impossible from an objection in a very high quarter, that the object in view could be obtained. Before I sit down, I must say a few words on this topic, that to grant the claims of the Catholics would oblige his majesty to violate his coronation oath.—This is an idea utterly monstrous and absurd.—I only desire, that any man will look at the coronation oath, and I am confident, he will see that no such conclusion can be drawn, as that some individuals wish to consider as the necessary result of the measure of emancipation. If we were to suppose king William alive at this moment, and the very acts in question were to be repealed, would that be a violation of his coronation oath, to repeal acts which were not framed when his coronation oath took place? What then could king William have done by consenting to the repeal? Why, he would only have done what every sovereign in this is bound to do—he would merely have bowed to the express wishes of Parliament. The same principle applies to the present sovereign, who had always shown himself ready to accede to the wishes of Parliament. If the concession of the Catholic claims now be a violation of the coronation oath, then all the concessions in 1793, and at former periods, implied an equally clear violation. I cannot then allow this objection to have any force; nor can I at all go into the idea, that because there is no prospect of carrying a measure, it is not on that account to be proposed. If such a principle had been acted upon then, not one of those measures, the beneficial effects of which we feel this day, not one of those acts, which have illustrated and secured our liberties, would have been carried. For surely, sir, it is needless to impress on your attention, and the attention of the house, that almost every constitutional measure has been carried through Parliament only after severe and successive exertions. I shall ever authority, but I will not suffer the name of that authority to be improperly or indecently introduced to prevent full and fair discussion on a subject the most interesting that could be submitted to the consideration of Parliament. He who would advise the king to do an act contrary to his coronation oath, must be a tempter to poison the royal ear, and by false representations create impressions unfavourable to the Catholic claims, flatter the sovereign only to betray him. No consideration of this mysterious nature ever shall deter me from the performance of what I conceive to be a great and important duty. The object of the motion with which I shall conclude is then, that the petition of the Catholics be referred to a committee of the whole house, and it will then become an object of consideration, whether the whole or any part of the petition is to be conceded. There are two or three circumstances which to me appear peculiarly worthy of the consideration of the committee, if it should be granted to the house. The circumstances under which Roman Catholics in the army were placed, would call for peculiar investigation. As the law now stood, Roman Catholic officers could, up to a certain rank exercise all their duties in Ireland without any penalty; but no sooner did they set their foot in this country and exercise the same duties, than the law of Premunire was in force against them. This then is surely an evil which loudly calls for redress.—The case of the common soldiers too demands attention, for in many cases Catholic soldiers were in this country compelled to attend Protestant places of worship, and though complaints were made, no redress was obtained. I mention these circumstances as affording specific grounds for going into the committee, where they may be fully considered. I know there are gentlemen who are disposed to grudge the right of the Catholics to offices, who think that the right of voting in either house of Parliament would be attended with the utmost danger. Others, on the contrary, think that it would not be safe to admit them to the exercise of these high offices, but that their admission into Parliament would not only be harmless, but highly beneficial. On both classes of gentlemen I call to support my proposition, for both have grounds sufficient for going to a full investigation of the subject. Independent of all principles of justice, there is a strong call of policy in agreeing to the claims of the petitioners. We have been employed a considerable time both in the last and present session in discussions on the best means of recruiting the army. Without at all disparaging the views of my right honourable friend on the same bench (Mr. Windham,) I must be allowed to say, that neither parish bills enlisting men for time or procuring them for rank—neither volunteering our disposable force hitherto recommended or resorted to, would be half so effectual as the simple measure of the emancipation of the Catholics in Ireland. We should then receive an immediate and immense augmentation of men in consequence of an act of benignity and justice. We know the character of the Irish nation, and we are not without the experience what may be expected from the warmth of their feelings, and the liveliness of their gratitude. We are now contending against France, certainly a most formidable enemy. But what is it that we have chiefly to dread in this contest? Is it, sir, French industry, wealth, commerce, or resources? No, but it is the immense population of France which renders her so dangerous a foe: How then are we to counteract this danger? We have a clear method laid before us. We have only to recall to our affection one fourth of our population and to render that the source of our strength which was now only an addition to our weakness. Let us then banish all seeds of animosity. Let us shew the Catholic soldier and sailor, that the road to honour is alike laid open to all, and that he who fights our battles well, shall find no distinction of reward from a grateful country. Mr. Fox concluded by proposing to resolve into a committee on the petition.
NOW LANDING,
90 Bags Prime Green COFFEE. For sale by Moses Myers.
July 22. tf 14
LANDING THIS DAY, ON NEWTON'S WHARF, The Cargo of the Schooner Diana , —Barker, Master, from St. Bartholomew, 22 Hogsheads, } CHOICE SUGAR. 22 Barrels, } 9 Hogsheads, RUM. 5 Pks TENERIFFE WINE. And a parcel Manufactured IRON WARE. Moses Myers.
July 12. tf 818
NOTICE.
THE PARTNERSHIP OF SAMUEL SAUNDERS & Co. Is this day dissolved by mutual consent, and those who have accounts with the said firm, will please come forward for immediate settlement to SAMUEL SAUNDERS , who is duly authorized by the concern to adjust the same. Samuel Saunders. P. Henop.
N. B. The business in future, will be carried on by SAMUEL SAUNDERS , AND ROBERT C. JENNINGS , AND Co. under the firm of SAMUEL SAUNDERS & Co. July 12. tf 814
REMOVAL.
THE SUBSCRIBERS Have removed from MAIN-STREET, to their NEW FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE, in MARKET-SQUARE. Gilliat & Mackinder.
April 3. tf 555
LANDING From on board the Schooner Jones , —in Guadalupe— and for Sale, SIXTY-SIX HOGSHEADS, AND A FEW BARRELS MUSCOVADO SUGAR. Moses Myers.
July 12. tf 815
THE SUBSCRIBER Having opened Tavern in the EXCHANGE BUILDINGS House, will be glad to receive TEN OR TWELVE GENTS by the Peter Kemp.
May 6. 654

THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
TO SHEW THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME, HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 29, 1805.
Lottery.—We are informed that the three lawyers who were consulted upon this subject have given their opinions. One says that the Lottery ought to be redrawn, another says that it ought not to be redrawn: "When doctors differ who can decide?" The other gentleman is neither of the one opinion nor the other—His opinion is, that a suit should be brought, so as to bring the case before the Court of Appeals, that the managers may be safe in what they do. It is supposed that the latter plan will be adopted, so that the fortunate and unfortunate adventurers must arm themselves with a little patience.
Gun Boats Nos. 3, 6, and 10, were spoken by the British frigate Lapping on the 9th June in lat. 40, lon. 34, the officers and crews were much pleased with them, and stated them to be excellent sea boats. The gun boats were about three degrees to the westward of the most western of the Azores, and with tolerable winds would reach Gibraltar in ten or twelve days.
From a Boston paper it appears that the Spanish privateers from Algesiras have renewed that system of depredation which so greatly distressed our commerce during the late war; an American schooner and brig were sent into St. Lucar about the 20th May, as appears from the information of Capt. Seward of the ship Hugh Johnson, arrived at Boston.
FOR THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
THE LAY-CURATE.
DISCOURSE XI.
BLESS THEM THAT CURSE YOU, DO GOOD TO THEM THAT HATE YOU, AND PRAY FOR THEM THAT DESPITEFULLY USE YOU AND PERSECUTE YOU.
Nothing so plainly evinces a superior nobleness of mind as the forgiveness of injuries. Nothing so nearly assimilates us to that being, whose most endearing attribute is mercy. Yet to forgive him who has for a series of years pursued us with unremitting hostility, requires a command over the passions which few can ever obtain; to subdue resentment so far as to succour him in distress, and to protect him against the just indignation of others, is a degree of charity which, however it may exalt him who possesses it, is possessed by few indeed. The scriptures are full of exhortations to this amiable duty; but, alas! even the scriptures can furnish us with very few instances of the good effects of these exhortations.
Accident lately threw into my hands a volume of the Homilies of St. John Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople; in which I have met with one of the finest examples of the exercise of this Christian principle that perhaps to this day has been recorded; conveyed in a strain of eloquent declamation, equal to, if not surpassing, any thing which has descended to us from antiquity.
EUTROPIUS, one of the weakest, most profligate, and most wicked of his kind, had been advanced by the imbecil Arcadius to the rank of Father of the Emperor; and, as Gibbon indignantly expresses it, "the last year of the fourth century was polluted by the Consuls of an Eunuch and a slave." A mind unillumined by one solitary virtue, but abandoned to every vice, united to unlimited power, became the scourge of the Empire; but the Church more particularly, was the object of his unrelenting persecution. At length, after having in every way abused his authority, he fell from his exalted station the object of universal malediction. To escape from the rage of the multitude and the offended majesty of the laws, he took refuge in the Episcopal Church of St. Sophia; availing himself of that privilege which he had himself, by law, abolished. The rage of the soldiery and populace had risen to such a pitch that they were ready to tear him from the altar, when St. JOHN, the Golden-mouthed, ascended the pulpit to save him; which, by the powers of his irresistible eloquence he effected. It would be a vain presumption in the LAY-CURATE to hope that he can imitate such a style; yet the reader may find even his version worthy of a patient perusal.
His homily breaks out in a bold strain of invective against the ingratitudinousness of power and wealth; and after having thus fixed the attention of his audience, he proceeds in his design, first gaining the favour of the turbulent by seeming to join in their sentiments, addressing alternately the victim and his pursuers.
"Have I not told you, EUTROPIUS, have I not incessantly repeated, that riches and honours are at best but fugitive slaves?—Yet you believed me not!—Experience has now enlightened your mind; has but too fatally convinced you that they are not merely fugitives but homicides and murderers!—Have I not told you, when offended with my sincerity, that the wounds inflicted by a friend are a thousand times more salutary than the caresses of enemies; that, when reproaching you, I was more the friend of your person than those who abused your confidence with undeserved flatteries. Had you received my reproof as you ought, their flatteries had not proved so mortal to your peace.
"Where now, where at this moment, are those men who administered to you the overflowing cup of adulation?—Cringing slaves of prosperity, they are fled from the presence of affliction! Leagued with your vindictive foes, they offer up to those whose hands are raised against your life, the same incense which betrayed you. Miserable man! how different is the treatment you have received from us!—They who rioted in your favour, now abjure your friendship: we who endured from you all
the ills which giddy and malevolent power could inflict, now, in your direst moment of adversity, shield you from destruction! The court which so lately bent the abject knee before you, now pursues your life: the church against which you waged a cruel and unrelenting warfare, opens her breast to offer you an asylum!—The theatres, whose approbation was your delight, have forsaken and insulted you: the church, against which every vindictive passion of your heart was let loose, covers you with her sacred veil!—The circus, for whose sake you exhausted the national treasury, is in arms against you: the church, which has never ceased to groan beneath your unjust and unhallowed oppression, eagerly advances to snatch you from the abyss into which you have been plunged by depravity and folly!
"I speak thus, not to insult an unhappy being whose misfortunes have bowed him to the ground, but as a warning to those who are still erect: not to exasperate the sufferings of a wounded man, but to protect from mischance those who are yet unhurt: not to cast back upon the waves one who has already suffered shipwreck, but to instruct those who yet navigate in safety how to shun the dangers which have been fatal to him. How are we to save ourselves from such disgrace but by entertaining a proper sense of the instability of all human grandeur? If this man, when in power, had ever dreaded a revolution, he would not this day appear as he does before us.—Ye who float on the treacherous ocean of prosperity, refuse not to profit by the example of one to whom neither the counsels of friends nor of strangers could impart wisdom!—What mortal was ever more elevated than Eutropius?—Had he not attained the summit of worldly honours?—Was not his name the terror of the Roman Empire?—Behold him now!—more miserable than the vilest slave; more fearful than the dungeoned criminal, who hourly awaits the execution of his sentence; more destitute than the veriest wretch who perishes of hunger!—His mind can picture nothing but chains, and executioners, and torments, and death!—The remembrance of his former greatness is as completely effaced from his memory as if it had never been!—Even the sun that cheers all the world besides no longer casts its beams for him!—No effort of language can reach his sufferings!—Look upon him—language will then be superfluous!—You witnessed his agonies yesterday, when the soldiers came to force him from the temple: you saw him fly to and clasp the holy vase: the paleness of death had overspread his countenance; his whole frame was convulsed; his voice faltered; his tongue became parched; terror had subdued every faculty of his mind and body!—It is not to reproach him with his disgrace, nor to add to their too ponderous weight, that I recall these circumstances:—it is that I may move your compassion; that I may restore you to sensibility; that I may persuade you that he is already but too severely punished.
"There are many amongst you so unfeeling, so barbarous, as to reproach us for having extended to him the protection of our temple: it is to touch their hearts, it is to soften their natures, that I retrace the picture of his miseries.—Why should your indignation be excited?—Is it because he who had continually warred against the altar, now finds from it his safety?—Rather should you, with thankful hearts, give glory to God, who has taught this sacrilegious enemy to know at once the power and clemency of his church. Her power, inasmuch as his fall has been occasioned by those very means which he had employed for her destruction: her clemency in covering with her buckler her most rancorous persecutor, warding from his head both the legal and the popular vengeance, without casting even one retrospective thought on the injuries she has received. To spare a deadly foe who flies to her for safety; to shew to him a face marked only by mercy and forgiveness; to open her arms to receive him when abandoned by all the world; to throw, like a tender mother, the mantle of pity over him; to defend him against the anger of the prince, the fury of the people, the universal hatred of mankind: this, this is the mighty revenge which religion takes on her foes! this is the glorious resentment of the altar of Christ!
"Do you ask me where is the glory of being touched and polluted by one so guilty? of being contaminated by the embraces of a wretch who has existed only by publick and private depredation?—Were not the feet of Jesus himself touched by a Courtezan, by a woman covered with impurities?—Was he thereby tainted?—No; my friends; an immaculate Deity could not be injured by the touch of an impure woman; but a Courtezan, a criminal, was sanctified by her communication with a pure and irreproachable God!—Let us improve by this most brilliant example of his infinite goodness!—Let us no longer think of vengeance; if we would indeed be thought the disciples of a Saviour whose dying aspiration was, for his insulting and mortal enemies, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do!"
"But, say you, this man has, himself, by all his laws, abolished this asylum. He now abrogates those laws. He now, by his own actions, proclaims their injustice.—Prostrate before the altar, a spectacle for the world to gaze on, he instructs mankind by his silence: he cries to them, beware how ye deliver yourselves to the excesses which have betrayed me, if ye wish to escape my punishment!—His calamity is truly an important lesson; and never did the church so greatly triumph, as when she seized this lion in her grasp. There is no need of words to enforce this lesson: a glance at his person conveys its full meaning to the heart. To behold that person have you crowded this sacred place: to witness the disgrace of one man have you deserted publick duties, abandoned your household concerns: men and women, age and infancy, have, as by an universal impulse, assembled here to see the weakness of human nature exemplified; the fragility of human grandeur displayed; to note what was yesterday the proud, the gaudy, the oppressive courtier;
to-day reduced to his original deformity and meanness. Yes; such is the nature of unjust prosperity: ill-success, like a sponge, effaces at once all its meretricious attractions, leaving nothing but the hideous and wrinkled visage of guilt and debauchery. Such is the change that now exhibits the most abject of mortals, in him who so lately lorded it over millions, and trampled on the laws, the honour, and the dignity of Empires.
"What a lesson for all classes of men;—The Great behold him who held the world in awe precipitated from the apex of power, they see him humbled, timid, trembling, chained by abject fear to the pillars of the altar: admonished by the spectacle, they reprimand their pride, shudder at their own injustice, and, making profitable reflections on the fickleness of things, they retire, convinced that "all flesh is grass, and all the goodness thereof is as the flower of the field;" that "the workers of iniquity shall soon be cut down like the grass and wither as the green herb." The Poor will not find in it a less instructive moral. Consoled by this striking instance of the fate attendant on power, far from despising their own condition, far from murmuring at their own indigence, they will be grateful for that poverty which ensures tranquillity, which is in itself a protection against the mournful ravages of ambition, and the fatal disappointments of inordinate passions. These are some of the advantages which the Great and the Small, the Rich and the Poor, the Free and the Slave, may derive from the refuge which this holy shrine now furnishes to that fallen man. Improve the awful monition; and let none depart without being made wiser and better by what he has this day witnessed.
"Have I then succeeded in affecting your sensibilities, in banishing from your hearts every emotion of resentment, in overcoming every callous and unforgiving sentiment?—Have I at last brought you back to humanity?—Yes, I cannot doubt it. I read the workings of nature in the afflictions of your countenances; in the tears which flow in such abundance from your eyes.
"Since, then, the flinty rock is converted into a fertile soil, producing the rich and grateful fruit of pity and commiseration, let us hasten to the Prince, let us throw ourselves at his feet and implore his clemency: or rather let us with united voice raise our supplications to a good and mercy-loving God; let us intreat him to dispose the heart of the Prince to grant a full pardon. Even since this miserable took refuge in our sanctuary a considerable change has taken place. When the military, in a body, presented themselves to the Emperor, exasperated by the excesses of Eutropius, that Prince, informed that he had chosen the asylum of the church, endeavoured, with all his eloquence, to turn them from their purpose: he represented to them that they should not remember the faults of him against whom their rage was so justly excited, but the good which he had performed. For my part, said he, I esteem him for his good actions; his others I consider as the consequences of human infirmity. When they incessantly urged him to avenge the outraged privileges of Imperial Majesty, and clamorously vociferated for the life of the criminal, the benevolent monarch, in tears, represented to them the inviolability of the place he had flown to for protection, and at last succeeded in appeasing their fury.
"It remains only that we change our own conduct towards him. Where would you find an excuse, if, when your Emperor deigns to forget his personal injuries, you, who have suffered nothing directly, should still remain implacable? Dare you, with an inexorable spirit, address your maker, and say "forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them who trespass against us." Eutropius has committed great crimes; has been guilty of the greatest excesses; we pretend not to deny it; but this is a day of mercy not of rigour; it is a day of clemency not of justice; it is a day of compassion and forgiveness not of judgment and condemnation. Let not us, then, abandon ourselves to the guidance of passion; but rather let us beseech the Almighty to prolong the existence of the delinquent, to snatch him from the punishment with which he is threatened, that he may have time to expiate his faults. Let us implore the Prince, in the name of the Church and Altar of Christ, to accord us the pardon of this offender. So far from refusing our request he will applaud our conduct; God will himself approve and abundantly recompense it; in proportion as he hates and abhors the obdurate and cruel, does he love and cherish the mild and the humane; for, as he has declared by the voice of Hosea, he desires mercy and not sacrifice.
"Throughout all the scriptures we are taught that God delights in acts of pardon and forgiveness: he has even represented it as the mean of rendering him propitious; "blessed are the merciful for they shall obtain mercy." Let us in the present case endeavour to placate the Deity; to honour the Church; to merit the praises of a clement Prince; to gain the applauses of a reflecting people. Thus will the humanity and moderation of our city be admired, even to the extremities of the earth; and our conduct be celebrated in every land where the tale shall be related. If we are ambitious of renown among men and of favour with God, let us hasten to throw ourselves at the feet of the Emperor; let us exhort, let us conjure him, to save the life of an unhappy fellow mortal, who supplicates our intercession. Let us shew ourselves in some degree worthy of obtaining a final pardon for our innumerable sins, from an often offended Maker, through the goodness and intercession of our Lord, Jesus Christ: to whom be glory and dominion, now, henceforth, and forever; Amen!"
A LAY-CURATE.
Among the new arrangements of the General Post-Office lately adopted, it is with great pleasure we state that a contract has been entered into for a line of stages, to convey the mail weekly to Frankfort, in Kentucky, to commence on the first day of October next. When this arrangement shall have been
carried into effect, the whole seventeen states will be united by a connected line of stages. It is unnecessary to say a word of the vast advantages that will be derived from this measure. It is, however, a meritorious tribute to the services of the Postmaster General, to remark that his spirited and successful arrangements to extend and accelerate the progress of the mail, are the best and most conclusive replies which can be made to the calumnies with which party animosity assails his conduct.—Nat. Int.
The following singular paragraph is from the Portsmouth Oracle. We presume it exposes some blunder of the Legislature of New-Hampshire, by which they have done more than they intended:
National Bank Trembling!!
The enlightened Legislature of New-Hampshire, by an act passed June 14 1805, have annexed a penalty of Twenty Dollars, to be recovered by indictment upon any person who shall, after the first day of August next, issue or pass any note or bill, order or check of the bank of the United States!
True American.
Travels in Africa.—The celebrated Mungo Park, arrived at the island of Goree, on the coast of Africa, in March last, from England. He is now on his second tour through the interior of that country, and is amply supplied by the British government with every thing necessary to render his researches highly useful to mankind. At Goree he was joined by a lieutenant, with a detachment of forty men, which, with the botanists, draughtsmen, &c. &c. compose a company of about sixty persons. With this company he ascended the river Gambja about five hundred miles, in the month of April; and when the gentleman who furnishes this information left Africa, Mr. Park was debarking, and about to commence his travels.
Charleston Courier.
From a late French Paper.
It appears certain that the Spanish government has combined in concert with that of France, a vast plan of military operations, the execution of which will give a deadly blow to the power of England. The secret is heretofore perfectly preserved, and the extent of these plans will only be known at the moment when it will be out of the power of the enemy to oppose them. The armament of the Spanish fleet at Ferrol, was entirely completed on the 25th of March. This fleet consists of 12 sail of the line, without including frigates and corvettes and French vessels.
LOUISIANA.
REPORT
Which the Commissioners appointed by the inhabitants of Lower Louisiana as bearers of their Remonstrance to the Congress of the United States, make to their Fellow-Citizens, on their return from the Federal City.
FELLOW-CITIZENS.
Restored to the bosom of our country, after having executed the commission with which you had charged us, we have still a sacred duty to fulfil; that of rendering you an account of our conduct, and giving you a faithful recital of what has passed at the seat of government, during the transaction of the important affair which had carried us thither. It is a debt which you have a right to exact from us: it is a satisfaction which we owe to ourselves, for our own peace of mind; it is also a tribute which we ought to pay to all those inhabitants of the United States, who have condescended to take an interest in the fate of Louisiana; and to feel a solicitude for the welfare of her inhabitants. We have thanks to return; we have complaints to make. We shall express both with sincerity, and shall be guided throughout by the desire of making you acquainted with the truth.
You all know under what auspices we departed for the federal city, and how the general government was, at that period disposed towards us. The obstacles we had to encounter here, in order to ascertain the will of the people, pursued us even to Washington. There we found already established a prepossession of the most unfavourable kind, it being a received opinion, that the petition we had to present, conveyed the sentiments only of a certain portion of the Louisianians. On every side our ears were assailed by the unfavourable reports that had been spread, both against the memorial and the memorialists; and therein we recognized the work of those who had shewn themselves hostile to our wishes. It is useless to mention the difficulty we had in removing these prejudices. By perseverance we at length succeeded, and had the satisfaction to see that the measures pursued by our adversaries produced an effect contrary to that which they expected, proving rather favourable to our views.
We presented the petition committed to our charge as soon as we thought the way sufficiently prepared for its reception. (a) It was sent before the committee already named for the purpose of ameliorating the government of Louisiana, and from that moment we date the continual state of anxiety in which we have passed the entire time of the session of congress.
The committee sent for us at the end of some days, in order to receive from us all the information we had to impart. It was agreed that they should give us in writing what questions they thought fit to propose, and we retired full of hope that they would proceed without delay to the adjustment of our cause.
This hope was not of long duration. The correspondence which the committee had shewn a disposition to establish with us, was not continued beyond a first interview. Days and weeks passed on without an appearance of their bestowing a thought on us. In vain by our constant attendance at every sitting of congress, and by the frequent visits we paid to the members charged with our affair, did we seek to rouse their attention. The interest of Louisiana seemed to have fallen into a sort of oblivion, that gave us an early presage of the result we had to expect. It was at this period that we gave circulation in the publick papers to the first of those pieces, which your committee imparted to you, intitled "Reflections on the case of the Louisianians."
Our anxiety increasing with the lapse of time, soon became so oppressive, that we listened to the counsels of those who advised us to make a trial of the senate, in order to accelerate the decision of our cause, by submitting it to both houses at the same time. We acted accordingly, and in a few days the committee named to examine this affair, having invited us to an interview, we held with them a conference which gave occasion to the answer, that has been published here in due time. Thus did matters rest for many weeks.
During this interval the committee of the house of representatives, after having for more than a month quite forgotten our remonstrance, seemed at length inclined to bestow some attention on it. Many of its members who wished us success because they were penetrated with the justice of our demands, represented to their chairman, (b) Mr. J. Randolph, the glaring impropriety of neglecting an affair of so much
(a) It appeared from what was published at the time, that we had taken it on ourselves to reduce our demands. We think ourselves obliged authoritatively to disavow this fact, though our written communications must have made you sensible of its falsehood.
(b) The chairman is he who presides in the committee, calling it to meet and adjourn at pleasure.

importance, and earnestly solicited him to call a meeting of the committee, in order to form some decision on the subject. We were soon after informed that the committee had met, and had unanimously resolved that it was expedient to give us the right of self-government. The unanimity of this decision, on so essential a point, was to us a very satisfactory piece of intelligence. Without consenting to retract any of the demands contained in your memorial (e) we then fully indulged the hope of obtaining its principal object, and expected with inexpressible impatience the report of the committee. Yet our anxiety was not at an end. This report, which the committee was to have presented immediately, as the late period of the session, approaching fast to its close, urgently demanded; still delayed to make its appearance. The chairman whose business it was to draught it, had a thousand other avocations in which he felt an interest, and neglected our affair in which he felt none. In vain were most of the members of congress, and especially those of the committee inclined to favour us; the indifference of a single member rendered ineffectual the good disposition of all the rest. At length urged by his colleagues in terms bordering on reproach, the chairman draughted the report which you have seen, and presented it to the house, about fifteen days after the resolution which had given rise to it. You have learned in course of time, how in a few minutes it passed the house of representatives without a dissenting voice, and how the committee was directed by the house to draw up a plan of government on this principle; but you have still to learn that the chairman from that day, did not once call a meeting of the committee, and that, by the will of a single individual, the unanimous resolution of the representative body fell to the ground. In a simple statement of facts in which we have forbidden ourselves the liberty of publishing our own reflections, we will refrain from declining against so great an abuse. It will, no doubt, be sufficiently felt by all those who have any principles of justice. Suffice it to say that we little expected to meet with such arbitrary treatment in the sanctuary of freedom.
Whilst the fate of an entire people lay at in a state of gloomy resignation, we waited for the moment when Mr. Randolph might vouch safe to recollect that there existed in the world a country called Louisiana , the committee of the senate was also employed in a scheme of government for us on quite a different plan:—without paying any regard to our representations, they persisted in assimilating us to the other territories of the United States, and continued to trace out for us a government founded on the Ordinance of 1787. In vain did we insist that our situation was quite different: in vain did we represent that this ordinance was a local law, totally unconnected with the Principles of the Federal Constitution , and made exclusively for the territory N.W. of the Ohio. In vain did we urge our pretensions founded on that article of the Treaty in which it is expressly provided that our incorporation into the union is to take place as soon as possible; we saw that their decided intention was to do for us only what they thought proper, without paying any regard to what was possible.
As soon as we learned the intentions of the committee, and were in possession of a copy of the Bill, that was to be deliberated on for our government; we saw ourselves reduced to the necessity of considering on the (d) amendments which we thought it our indispensable duty to solicit, and request the president of the committee, to lay them before the Senate. We relied on his compiscence and on the support of several other members who had shown a disposition to second them. It pains us to be obliged to tell you, that they did not condescend to propose any of our amendments, and that our efforts to obtain amelioration were all fruitless.
The most important question still remained to be decided, and a gleam of hope was still left. A blank had been left for the number of inhabitants that should entitle us to be one state, this blank was now to be filled. We had held on this subject the most serious discussions in private both with the members of the committee and with several other senators. No person could deny that the Federal Constitution has established no fixed number for the admission of states. The only article that applies indirectly to this case is that which expresses, that there shall be one representative for every 30,000 inhabitants. 30,000 inhabitants! (now 33,000 in consequence of an amendment made to this article) was therefore the greatest number that could be resisted on with an appearance of justice. Moreover it was palpable that having divided the population annexed to the United States in the same treaty, and in the same clause, it could not be said to one of the parts "your number is sufficient." Therefore all those with whom we had conversed on this head, seemed inclined to fix at 33,000 the number that was to be required for our incorporation. Of this the justice had been acknowledged; and we flattered ourselves that what was just would be adopted. Our hopes in this, as in all the rest, have been frustrated. After some insignificant debates, the Bill was passed without any favourable amendment, and the number of free inhabitants that was thought expedient to be required for our admission, was definitely fixed at 60,000.
Thus was closed in the Senate the great question of the incorporation of the inhabitants of Louisiana into the union of the states; and thus in order to execute that 3d Article of the Treaty of cession, which expresses that this incorporation is to take place as soon as possible, the Senate has arbitrarily deferred this period, though it was very possible for Congress not to require of us the number they have been pleased to fix, and though it is even now at the discretion of Congress to incorporate us into the union before we have attained this number.
After the Senate had passed the Bill and sent it to the House of Representatives, our whole attention was turned to the latter. We still flattered ourselves that those who had unanimously voted us a personal government, would not pass this law without such amendments, as would bring it near to the principles which they had themselves adopted. One difficulty alone seemed to preclude all hope. After so many delays and so great a loss of time, the session was nearly at end. Those who interested themselves in our cause, saw with pain that it was now too late to undertake great changes in the plan of government prepared for us. We ran a risk of seeing the few moments that could be bestowed on our affair lost in useless debates, and of remaining without any decision, after having so long wasted our patience and perseverance. Justly alarmed at so disagreeable a prospect, we tried a last effort, and drew up a petition, in which we solicited to be heard at the bar of the House of Representatives. We commissed one of the members who appeared well affected towards us, to present this request, and prepared the address we were resolved to deliver, firmly determined to sacrifice our private feelings to the good of the cause that had been confided to us. This however was not executed. The member who had undertaken to present our petition, having consulted with many of his friends on the subject, found them all to be of opinion that the measure was inexpedient, and thought himself justifiable in giving it up; so that after having lost a day, at a time when every hour was of importance, we were obliged to abandon
(e) It was then that we published the analysis of the 3d article of the treaty of cession of Louisiana , which has been communicated to you through the public papers. (f) We subjoin a copy of them.
this last attempt, and to wait patiently the issue of the deliberation.
Still, notwithstanding the urgency of the moment, and the necessity of quick dispatch, an amendment of great importance was proposed to the plan of our government. Mr. Clarke of Virginia undertook to demonstrate the justice of leaving to us the choice of our rulers, and in consequence thereof proposed that our elective legislature should be authorized to name the governors of our territory, reserving to the President of the United States, only the power of approving or disapproving the nomination. This amendment was carried into a committee of the whole, and we considered the point as gained; when the house having sat again, we had the mortification to see that the same question submitted to the same individuals, was lost in the space of ten minutes. It is difficult to explain the cause of such a revolution. We then suspected of excessive zeal those who were adverse to our pretensions; and we thought we could perceive in this circumstance, as in many others, that no means have been spared to cause the failure of our enterprise. In fine, neither the just remonstrances contained in your memorial, and in the publications we have thought it necessary to circulate, nor the generous efforts of those who were friends to our cause, nor yet the favourable dispositions of the majority of the representatives of the United States, have been able to prevent our receiving a government which had probably been prepared for us long before, and of which you have received the act before our return.
Such have been, fellow-citizens, the progress and the issue of the important cause, in which you had commissioned us to be your solicitors. We should violate the truth, did we appear satisfied with either. In effect, at a time when Congress were scarcely occupied in a manner worthy of their attention; when the affair of Louisiana was almost the only object of importance on which they had to deliberate; weeks and months passed away without their deigning to bestow even a small portion of their time, which was then of so little value, on the examination of our cause. We have passed at the seat of government the entire time of the session, in constant expectation of some decision, whilst we had daily before our eyes long and obstinate debates on matters of trivial consequence. We have been rejected, without any regard to our peculiar situation. All the intricacies we have made, to obtain the privilege of procuring Africans for the culture of our lands, though we have proved to a demonstration that this country cannot exist without their assistance. We have seen our cause, that of an entire province, fallen into a sort of oblivion, and the trial of a single (e) man employ, for a month, the whole time and attention of both branches of the legislature. We have seen the favourable intentions of the many, counteracted by the bad will of the few. In fine, when the session was just going to expire, we have seen the hasty fabrication of a government against which we had not ceased to remonstrate, of a government which we had demonstrated to be in no wise adapted to our situation, and which a great number even of members of Congress, had loudly declared to be inexpedient for us.
But, fellow-citizens, we still have consolations to offer you. Though you have not obtained what you had a right to expect, you have gained some advantages. The most important of all powers, that of making the laws by which you are to be governed, is henceforward ensured to you. It is true that this right is not quite unrestrained, but, if the executive authority retained by the United States can restrict it in its operation, yet it is true that nothing can be done but with its sanction; yet it is certain that the laws which are to reign over you, must be your own work. How great the difference between this order of things, and the system of government to which you were subject; between legislators chosen by yourselves, and among yourselves, to labour for the good of your common country, and men placed over you by the will of an individual; between citizens honoured with your confidence, and accountable only to you for their conduct, and officers in the confidence of the chief, and accountable only to him! behold citizens, what your government gains by the change that is about to be operated.
Besides the advantage resulting from this change, we have before us a less mortifying future prospect. We think ourselves safe in assuring you that the majority of the members of Congress are animated towards you with every favourable sentiment. Of this the unanimous wish of the House of Representatives to grant you the unlimited right of self government, is in itself, an evident proof.
The evil impressions which false report had made, are now effaced. You are now considered, not as vassals, but as equals. A term has been fixed for your admission into the Union, which though arbitrary is not irrevocable. It is to be hoped, it is even probable that this term will be shortened, and that your entire enfranchisement is less distant than it appears to be.
Let us be patient and resigned. Justice is on our side. Let moderation augment its power and at length compel political craft to acknowledge its error, and raise no more obstacles against the emancipation which is our due.
P. DERBIGNY, DESTREHAN, P. SAUVE.
New-Orleans, May 2, 1805.
(e) Samuel Case, Judge of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Whatever may be said of the coarse style of language too often employed by Cobbett in controversial writings, it is but doing him justice to say, that his political investigations exhibit an uncommon strength of mind, aided by great information. He has lately taken up a subject highly interesting to this country; the intercourse between the United States and the British colonies. Upon this subject, Cobbett discovers his usual acuteness in argument, and which he supports with some facts, that are in our minds conclusive. With these impressions we have copied into our paper, the following article:—
From Cobbett's Political Register.
Some persons have talked (I do not know that they have ever ventured to commit their opinions to paper) of supplying Jamaica and the rest of the islands, from our own dominions. Upon the face of the matter, let me ask any man, if he thinks we could supply them from England and Ireland? If he really thinks we have any quarter loaves to spare? And, if we had them, if he imagines that the planters of Jamaica could find the means of purchasing them? no; but might not the island be supplied from British North America! with lumber, scantlings, boards, shingles and staves; they might, if in British North America, there were hands enough to prepare those materials. They might, too, thence be supplied with salt shed, herrings, salmon, and cod; but there wants the hands to catch and cure, and the vessel to convey them. But as to provisions—as to flour, biscuit, Indian meal, and corn, peas, pork, and beef, whatever talks of the West Indies being supplied with those articles from British North America, is a dreamer.
Our possessions in North America are, Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Canada; all of which, I believe, the last excepted, are so far from being able to supply the West Indies with provisions,
that they themselves are indebted for a considerable part of their provisions, to the United States! Canada can export but very little indeed of either flour or flesh; and let it be recollected, besides, that whatever comes from that province, must descend the river St. Lawrence, the navigation of which, from Quebec to the mouth, requires upon an average, a space of time equal to that required in a passage from Virginia to Jamaica . Indeed, to talk of supplying the West Indies from our North American colonies, is an absurdity to be treated with silent contempt.
The whole of the food of the inhabitants of the West Indies does not go from the United States. A part, particularly beef and butter, goes from Ireland; but this is comparatively small; not exceeding in amount, a tenth part, perhaps, of what is supplied by the American States. The islands, too, produce a part of the food necessary for the support of their inhabitants. It would be difficult to come at a very exact estimate of the amount of the supply from each source respectively; but of the share which the American States has in it, some idea may be formed from the contents of a return, presented to the legislative assembly of Jamaica , in December last; from which return it appears, that the quantity of American provisions, purchased for the use of the king's troops and for the king's ships upon that station in the space of three years, ending in September last, was to the following enormous amount. For the troops—27,458 barrels of flour, amounting to 1,058,811. For the ships, 45,667 cwt. of biscuit; 20,444 barrels of flour; 1,422 barrels of beef; 1,552 barrels of pork; 12,352 bushels of peas; 152,665 barrels of rice, and 90,958 hogsheads of tobacco.—All this in the space of only 3 years, and to the king's forces too; to those who are to be supposed to be ever under the special care of the government at home, and whom care is, in fact always taken to supply, in part at least, with provision from the mother country. Let any one judge, then of the degree, in which the inhabitants of Jamaica are supplied from the American States, and of the ruin which an interruption of the present intercourse, must occasion to the former.
Such being a true representation of the case, what can have been the motive that induced his majesty's minister to give "imperative" orders to the governor of Jamaica to issue the resolution of the 21st of November? The pretext, it is said, is, that information had been received of the smuggling of gin, brandy, and East India goods, into the West Indies in American vessels, and thereby injuring the commerce and revenue of the mother country; but if this fact were truly alleged, why not make such regulations in the custom houses of the islands as would prevent the success of this contraband trade? And besides, does any one imagine that the prohibition of the present intercourse will prove to be a remedy for this evil? Does any one believe, that smuggling is not likely to be carried on in British as well as in American ships, sailing from the same port? This must be a mere pretext; and, when we are informed that the order went out by the October packet, it is by no means difficult to conceive why Mr. Pitt should wish to make the planters of Jamaica , feel the effects of his return to power. They had remonstrated against his taxes upon their produce—they had called those taxes oppressive; they had ventured to express their satisfaction that he and Mr. Dundas has been succeeded by persons less hostile to their complaints, less indifferent to their distresses. After all, taxation is at the bottom. The ministers must have taxes, conte qui conte . The continent of America has been lost by the rigours of taxation; and, it is greatly to be feared that the islands will be lopt off by the same fatal influence. What! some one will say, will the loyal inhabitants of Jamaica , rather than share the burthens of the mother country, seek to break in sunder the bonds of their connection with her? No: I am persuaded that there is not a county in England more firmly and affectionately attached to the throne and to the person of his majesty than the colony of Jamaica . But this is not the question. The question is, will the inhabitants of Jamaica quietly submit to utter ruin, rather than legally use their utmost exertions to enjoy their share, whatever it may be, of the liberties and prosperity of the empire? That they ought not, nobody will deny; and that they will not, every one who has been an observer of their conduct, must be thoroughly convinced.
* We copy this article from an American paper, and are persuaded, that there is a numerical error in the quantities of Rice and Tobacco, indeed we know that it is impossible that the quantities stated of those two articles could have been sent to Jamaica in the last three years; we presume the quantity of Rice might have been 52,645 Cwt. equal to about 10,000 Tierces—of Tobacco we are inclined to think, that in place of 90,958 hogsheads, it should be 90,958 Cwt. equal to about 7,500 hogsheads, and that appears to be a larger quantity than we could have supposed. Several American papers which we have referred to, have copied the article as above, it is only our own conjecture which we offer.
Ed. Ledger.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED. Portuguese barque Mercurio , Mazza, 83 days from Lisbon, Salt, John Newell—July 4, in lat. 38, 26, long. 66, 06, spoke ship Maria , Wallington, 6 days from Philadelphia bound to Liverpool. Ship Merrimack , Adams, 9 days from Newburyport, Ballast, C. Fry.
Sch'r Nancy , Green, 8 days from Charleston, Rice & Cotton, bound to Baltimore. Brig Elizabeth , Barclay, 50 days from Madeira, Wine, John Davis, and others.
Sch'r Diedamia , Howes, 16 days from Boston, Lime and Mackerel, Martin Fisk.
In Hampton Roads, bound to Alexandria, sch'r Betsey , Tupman, 14 days from St. Bartholomews, Sugar & Hides—Left there the 14th inst. sch'rs Paragon , Haynes; Sampson , Cox, for Alexandria in 6 days; and Sally & Priscilla , Hinton, of Fredericksburg, waiting payment for her cargo; sold in Antigua payable at Antigua the day Captain T. sailed.
The ship Protectress , Everitt, from Virginia, arrived at Liverpool the 31st May.
Brig Edward & Charles , Pettigill, hence was left at Cadiz the 10th May.
Ship Thomas , Boush, and brig Drake , Wilson, was at St. Lucar the 20th May.
Ship Intrepid , Steed, was to have sailed from Liverpool for this port, the 15th July.
Brig Brothers , cleared from Port Royal (Jam.) the 25th ult. for this port.
The sch'r Jason , Hunley, of Fredericksburg, was left at Madeira the 24 May, to sail in 10 days.
The day previous to the Brutus' sailing (27th May) from Lisbon, the American Consul received a letter from Capt. Boush, of the ship Thomas of Norfolk, at St. Lucar, wherein he says he was boarded by one of Admiral Nelson's squadron, who informed him the blockade of Cadiz and St. Lucar was raised, and permitted to enter the latter port with a cargo of wheat from Bourdeaux. N. Y. Mer. Adv. Charleston, July 18.
The schooner Nelson , Capt. Thompson, arrived
at Quarantine last evening, in 14 days from Jamaica . Capt. T. had been embargoed 40 days during which time the island had been under martial law. No intelligence had been received at Jamaica of the operations of the fleet to windward. A fleet of British merchantmen sailed from Jamaica the day before Capt. Thompson. Two days since was boarded by the Cambrian frigate. Courier.
July 19. The ship Two Friends , Capt. McNeil, captured some time since off our bar, by L'Emerance, has been retaken by the brigantine Hunter , and sent for Jamaica .
Captain Thompson, of the schooner Nelson , of Newbern, N. C. who arrived yesterday from Jamaica , reports, that on the 24th of May an embargo was laid in all the ports of Jamaica ; and it was understood, in all the British islands in the West-Indies—In Jamaica it was taken off, June 29th, a homeward bound fleet of merchantmen having sailed, consisting of nearly two hundred sail, under convoy of one seventy-four and two or three frigates.
The embargo was laid, in consequence of direct information of the arrival of the combined French and Spanish fleets to windward, and the expectation of an attack.
About the 15th of June an express boat brought the information of the arrival at Barbados of the British fleet under Lord Nelson, which allayed in a degree the general trepidation; for martial law had been enforced, and fifteen thousand men kept constantly under arms.
Captain Thompson was detained four days after the embargo was taken off, under an idea of the possibility of the French fleet obtaining information of the merchantmen through him, as the Nelson was a fast sailer. Gazette.
TO SUBSCRIBERS, &c.
The declining state of my health for some time past, and at present, rendering a change of climate necessary, I have this day disposed of my interest in the Establishment of the Norfolk Gazette and Public Ledger , to my former associate Mr. John Cowper; under whose direction the paper will henceforth be conducted in such a manner as, I can with certainty and pleasure anticipate, will leave its patrons no reason to regret the change.
GEO: L. GRAY.
July 26, 1805.
OFFICE OF THE PUBLIC LEDGER,
July 26, 1805.
The co-partnership of the proprietors of the Public Ledger having been this day dissolved, those indebted will make payment to John Cowper, who will pay any debts which the establishment may owe.
JOHN COWPER, GEO: L. GRAY.
FOR BOSTON,
The Schooner DIEDAMIA, BENJAMIN HOWES, Master:— Will sail in 4 or 5 days. For freight or passage, apply to the Master on board, or
Martin Fisk.
Who has for sale, received by said vessel from Boston, 180 Casks STONE LIME , of a superior quality. 50 Barrels DOVER BEY  MACAREL . 400 Reams WRAPPING PAPER . 50 do. WRITING do.
Also, an Invoice containing ab. at 50 Dozen UMBRELLAS . And twelve Trunks of
LADIES' MOROCCO AND KID SHOES.
The above being a consignment, will be sold low for cash, or approved notes at 90 days. July 29. 4 25.
FOR A PORT IN FRANCE,
The new Portuguese Barque MERCURIO, H. MAZZA, Master:— Burthen 170 to 180 hogheads—having part of her cargo engaged, the balance will be taken on a mod. rate freight, if immediate application is made to the Captain on board, or to
John Newell, Jun.
Who has received per said Barque from Lisbon, 5 to 6000 Bushels SALT . Which he will sell low, if taken from on board. July 29. tf 23.
300 Barrels INDIAN CORN , Deliverable at short notice—for sale by James Maurice & Co. July 29. tf 24.
TO RENT,
THE Warehouse at present occupied by James Herron on my wharf, capable of storing 4,000 barrels flour, and free from danger of high tides—Possession may be had of them on the first of September next; if agreeable, the Wharf may be had with them.
Also, for Lease, for a term of Years, The Wharf adjoining mine, newly repaired, 56 1-2 feet in front, running back from 2 to 250 feet, with sufficient well made ground for the erection of warehouses—at the end of the wharf, there is water for any ship, with a convenient Lumber Yard. For terms apply to John Davis. Portsmouth, July 29. Saw tf 25.
SALE POSTPONED.
On Friday, the 2d August, Will be Sold, (Sale to commence at 12 o'clock,) At Commerce-Street Wharf,
THE GOOD BRIG NANCY, As she arrived from the Cape of Good Hope, is an excellent strong built vessel, of the burthen of 1750 barrels or thereabouts, a British built vessel, remarkably well found, and may be sent to sea at a small expense—Inventory may be seen at my office any time before the day of sale.—Terms approved notes 6 and 9 months. John Granbery, V. M. July 17. tds 2.
SALE AT AUCTION.
On Friday the 16th day of August, will be Sold, At Public Auction, on Commerce-Street Wharf, Sale to commence at 10 o'clock.
THE ENTIRE CARGO OF THE BRIG NANCY, AS IT ARRIVED FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE, Consisting of the following articles, viz. 125 Casks, containing 15,000 gallons CAPE WINE , some of a superior quality. 22 do. of CONSTANTIA, MUSCAT, & STEEN WINES . 2 Cases of CONSTANTIA WINE . 80 Casks, } ALOES —Containing 50,000 lbs. 63 Cases, } 19 Casks, containing 9,000 lbs. of TAMARINDS . 10 Cases of ARRACK . 250 lbs. NUTMEGS . 4 Hogsheads BRANDY , with some other articles— Terms of sale, will be—all sums under 100 dollars above 1000 all sums above 100 and not exceeding 1000 above 1000 proved indorsers, at 60 days—and for dollars, notes at 120 and 180 days. John Granbery, V. M. July 17. tds 3.

GILLIAT & MACKINDER,  Have received their assortment of  SPRING GOODS, By the ship DUMFRIES , from London .—Assorted Packages for exportation, entitled to drawback. April 24. 622  THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE FOR SALE, ON THEIR WHARF, 70,000 Weight Prime JAMAICA, } COFFEE. 40,000 do. Porto Rico, } 5,000 do. St. Domingo, } 40 Puncheons Windward Island RUM. 50 Quarter Casks Old SHERRY. 50 Hogsheads Prime Richmond TOBACCO. 500 Barrels FLOUR—Principally Superfine. 100 do. MESS PORK. 100 Boxes First Quality RAISINS. All of which they will dispose of on liberal terms. C. & F. Whittle. June 4. tf 736
NOTICE. ALL persons having claims against the Estate of the late William Aitchison, Esq. are desired to send them to the subscriber, and those indebted are requested to make payment to Mary Aitchison, Administratrix. June 29. tf 783  NORFOLK HOTEL. THE Subscriber informs his friends and the publick, that he has opened an HOTEL in that convenient house formerly the NAVY TAVERN No. 128 Main Street, where he hopes by his attention, to give satisfaction to those who may favour him with their company. He will always keep the best liquors: and Private Parties will be furnished with Dinners, Suppers, or Relishes, at the shortest notice. BOARDERS accommodated by the week, month, or year Henry Benbridge. October 9. tf 170
THE Subscriber intends applying at the Bank of Vir- ginia, for Certificates of One Hundred and Fifty-Nine Shares of Stock, in his own, and Fifty-Seven Shares in the name of Benjamin Harrison, Esq.—The Scrip of the beforementioned is lost, if found, it is requested it may be returned, it being of no use but to the propertors. Fortescue Whittle. June 4. tf 738
MARTIN FISK,  Has this day landed from the Ship Globe, from Liverpool, AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF  CUT GLASS, For family use—such as Decanters, Wine Glasses, & Tumblers. July 5. tf 795  NANKEENS AND TEAS. 5000 Pieces Yellow NANKEENS, of the first Chop. 30 Chests Hyson and Imperial TEAS. Both entitled to drawback.—For sale by Martin Fisk. WHO HAS THIS DAY LANDING, From the Ship Charleston, Capt. Hall from Liverpool. 100 Crates QUEENS WARE, well assorted. May 29. tf 723
NEW CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY, ON TOWN POINT, A small distance below County Wharf, Wide Water Street. THE Subscriber has, at a considerable expense, fitted up, in addition to his other business, a complete set of machinery, adequate to finish 500 to 600 lbs. of Nails daily. He is also provided with a good stock of Iron; and with a sufficient number of skillful workmen. He has on hand a constant supply of Nails, Flooring Brads, and Sprigs, which he offers for Sale at the reduced prices as follows, by the bag, viz. 10d, 12d, 20d, Nails, 8d per lb. 8d, do. 9d per lb. Sheathing do. 7 1-2d per lb. 4d, do. 10d per lb. 3d, do. 5s per M. 8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d, Brads, 8d per lb. 6d, do. 4s 6d per M. 4d, do. 3s do. 3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. 2d, do. 2s 1-2d do. ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. LEVIN DORSEY. March 18. tf 305
NOW LANDING From on board the Brig Fame, from Havana, and Schooner Lydia, from Antigua, 170 Hogsheads MOLASSES. 129 do. RUM. For sale by William Pennock. May 27. tf 716
FOR SALE, 12 Puncheons ANTIGUA RUM. 15 do. GRENADA do. 5 Pies HOLLAND GIN. 20 do. COUNTRY do. 12 do. FRENCH BRANDY. 8 do. ALICANT do. 22 Q. Casks SHERRY WINE. 10 do. MALAGA do. PORT and CLARET WINE, in casks & bottles. 6 Barrels PORK—and about 1000 Dozen PORTER, of my last winters flock, equal to any imported. Joseph Hayes. August 24. tf
IRISH LINENS. THE SUBSCRIBER Has received in addition to his London Goods, a large assortment of Irish Linens, Sheetings, Diapers, Dowlas, Hardware, &c. Per Ship Charleston, Captain Hall, from Liverpool, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms. ALSO, 300 Pieces Twilled SACKING. Richard Taylor. May 31. tf 729
COW-POX. THOSE persons who wish to avoid catching the Small- Pox which now exists in this Borough, are informed that the subscriber has again succeeded in introducing the Vaccine Infection, and that he now has several arms fit to inoculate from. * * He has returned to his old shop at the lower end of the new market. George Balfour. An APPRENTICE wanted. Nov. 16. tf 926
MARTIN FISK, HAS FOR SALE, 200 Sacks Fine Liverpool SALT. 10 Chests Hyson and Hyson Skin TEAS—of a very late im- portation, and of a superior quality. Peninsular year old Antigua RUM. May 27. tf 712
JOHN C. NIEMEYER,  Has received in addition to his former assortment  GERMAN GOODS, 45 packages German Linens, &c. chiefly en- titled to drawback, Consisting of Platiilas, brown Hollands, } Britanias, } Sheetings, extra fine 1 1-8 } yard wide, } Dowlas and Creas of the best } quality, } Shirtlinen, Diapers, } Bed Ticking for Matrasses, } Bed Bunts fine 1 1-4 to 2 } yards wide, } Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, } Brown Hempens Hessian, } Brown and White Rolls, } Russia Sheeting and light } Canvas. ALSO, Velvet Ribbons no. 2 to 150, Plush for Saddlers, black Sat- in for waistcoats, Brussels Lace 4 to 20 dols. per yard, cheap Edgings, German Nuns Thread, patent Needles, India sewing Silk, Made Shirts, Thread Stock- ings very fine, Razors, Spectacles, and Penknives, of the very first qualities, Che p Jewellery, fine Scis- sars, Muffs and Tippits of Martin Skins, 15 boxes Tumblers, Decan- I will sell the above Goods low for cash or approved bills, or in barter for Coffee, and will take in pay- ment One Hundred Hogsheads good Tobacco STEMS.—Ap- ply as above. December 5. tf 273
BY AUTHORITY.  RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY.  CLASS No. II. 4000 Tickets at 10 dollars each—dolls. 40000 1 Prize of dolls. 10000 1 of 5000 5 of 1000 5000 20 of 500 10000 50 of 100 5000 50 of 50 2500 100 of 25 2500 40000 227 First drawn ticket after 500 are drawn, dolls. 500 after 1000 500 after 1500 500 after 2000 1000 after 2500 1000 after 3000 1000 after 3500 1000 after 3950 10000 The above Lottery will certainly commence draw- ing the first Monday in November, or sooner, if the tickets are sold. Tickets for sale at the Office of the Publick Ledger. 722
Sate of North-Carolina, } Superior Court of Law Edenton District, } and Equity—April Term, 1805. WILLS COWPER, } vs. } Thomas Newton, Richard Blow, Wm. Vaughan, } Slaughter, as the President and Di- } rectors of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, } and William Davies, William Plum, and } Theodoric Armistead, } Defendants. The Defendants in the above cause having failed to appear and put in their answer to the Complainants Bill of complaint, and it being made appear to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Thomas Newton, Richard Blow, William Vaughan, Slaughter, William Davies, William Plum, and Theodoric Armistead, are not to be found in this State; It is therefore ordered, that unless they do appear and put in their answers to the said Bill of Complaint, on or before the first day of our said Court of Equity, to be held for the Dis- trict of Edenton, at the Court-House in the Town of Edenton, on the Sixth Day of October next, that the said Bill shall then be taken pro confesso and act for hearing exparte.—And it is further ordered that the Clerk and Master of this Court do cause this order to be published in the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger, for the space of three weeks successively, that the said Defendants may have notice thereof. By Order, Alex. Millen, C. & M. E. F. D. 613
JUST RECEIVED,  AND FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, 5000 Pieces YELLOW NANKEENS 10 Boxes Imperial TEA } 10 Chests Young Hyson, do. } ENTITLED TO 12 do. Hyson, do. } DRAWBACK. ALSO ON HAND, 35000 lbs. Mocha COFFEE, entitled to drawback. French BRANDY, in Pipes. Holland and Country GIN, in do. Loaf SUGAR, per Hogshead. Fine Old L. P. Madeira WINE, in Pipes, Hhds. and quarter Casks—And 500 Barrels Superfine FLOUR—Apply to Robert Maitland & Co. Jan. 27. tf 780
LEVIN DORSEY, On Town Point—Wide Water Street. Has Received by the Dumfries, from London, in addition to his former assortment of  MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, &c. Adams's Patent Globes—12 inches. Brass and Wood Compasses—Assorted. Quadrants. Night and Day Telescopes—Assorted. Telescopes for Day only. Patent Time Glasses. From 1-4 to 1-2 minute, and for one and two hours. Gunter's Scales and Dividers—Assorted. Charts, for the West Indies, and America. Moore's Epitome and Daily Assistant. And has on hand, Blunt's American Practical Navigator—Last edition, with a copious appendix. Blunt's American Coast Pilot. Also for Sale, Bell-Mettle Skillets of Superior Quality. Carriage Wheel Boxes, Bouches, and Solid Brass Sheeves—Assorted. Hoop and Baltimore Bar-Iron—Assorted.
All kinds of Mathematical Instruments Repaired, as usual. April 26. tf 628  NOTICE. THE subscriber owes some money, which he is deter- mined shall be specifically paid; added to which his low state of health, calls loudly for his retirement from business. He therefore offers his stock of goods for sale, on the most li- beral terms.—This assortment has been selected from the best importations within the last twelve months; and amounts to about 2500l. currency. As the situation occupied by him is not equalled by any other in the lower country, and as it can be obtained for a number of years, he hopes some of his friends will consider it to their advantage to purchase the goods, and take the stand.—Nothing but the second reason assigned in this advertisement, would induce him to quit the stand.— But owing to his health he must and will quit business, for some time at least. He has two small crafts, and he quantity of naval stores and lumber subject to his creditors. JOHN K. RANDOLPH. N. B. Those indebted must make payment in sixty days or give their bonds. Nansemond, April 5. law 569
MRS. RIVARDI'S ACADEMY. REVEREND SIR, YOU had the kindness to allow me, two years ago, to look upon you not only as one of the chief protectors of the establishment under my charge, but also did me the hon- our of becoming, in conjunction with D. B. Rush, J. B. McKean, R. Smith, and A. Morris, Esquires, one of the Trustees of my Seminary. This condescension has at all times rendered me extremely anxious to deserve your patronage; indeed I ascribe in a great measure the credit which the establishment I hope has generally obtained, to that circumstance. Few persons are yet informed of the favour so politely conferred on me, as the greater number of my pupils are from abroad.— On several occasions you had the goodness to express the sat- isfaction which you, and all those who have honoured our school-rooms with their visits, derived from the improvements of the young Ladies, as well as from the manner in which the Seminary is conducted. I have never taken the liberty of publishing your letters of approbation,—Would you and the other gentlemen permit me to make it known, that I am authorised to consider you as Trustees of the Institution, I should not only esteem it a distinguished mark of your approbation, but a certain mean of assuring the full confidence of those Parents and Guardians who have intrusted their children to my care. With great respect, I have the honour to be, Reverend Sir, Your very humble and obedient servant, MARIA RIVARDI. The Right Reverend Doctor White. April 1, 1805.
MADAM, THE high opinion we entertain of your qualifications for the arduous and diversified duties of the institution under your direction, and the evidences which have been presented to us, at examinations, of the improvement of the Young Ladies, who possess the advantage of being your pupils; in- duce us to comply with your request, by the present testimo- ny of our approbation of your Seminary, and to express our wishes for the success of an institution so useful to our city, and so honourable to you. We are, Madam, your very humble servants, WILLIAM WHITE, BENJAMIN RUSH, J. B. MCKEAN, ROBERT SMITH, ANTHONY MORRIS, } Trustees. Mr. Rivardi. Philadelphia, April 24. law 6w 609
POLYGRAPHICK PAINTING. THIS art, so long kept a secret and exclusively practised by the Polygraphick Society in London, is now in the possession of a citizen of the United States lately arrived from Europe; who proposes to execute, by subscription, two hundred copies from an original Allegorical Painting in the Shakespeare Gallery, New-York, by permission of the Pro- prietor, being  A PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON, Supported by Liberty, Virtue, and Justice. Virtue is hold- ing the emblem of the reward he merited. In the right of the piece, America, characterised as an Ab-Original, is scat- ted in a pensive posture, lamenting her loss. In the left is Painting turning to History, for a subject worthy of her art, who is said, owed to answer, "THERE IS NONE MORE WORTHY THAN WASHINGTON." The whole forming a more emblematical tribute to the memory of that great man, than has yet been offered to the publick. To those who esteem his publick services and his private worth, and to the Patrons of improvements in the fine arts, this work is dedicated. Such as are already furnished with different engravings on this subject, will, it is hoped, still find room for the present undertaking, when they consider, that it will be a Painting, and the design new, executed by a process, which renders it more durable than oil painting— that it requires no glass—that while their prints contain, per- haps a fault resembling ours, this work affords a correct likeness, with the addition of six beautiful allegoric figures. The price also is reduced so as to leave, on comparative merits, no objection. Subscriptions, at Eight Dollars each, payable on delivery, (which is very little more than the price of an engraving of the same size) are received by Conrad & Co. Booksellers, Phi- ladelphia, and Bonsal, Conrad & Co. Norfolk. IT IS ALSO PROPOSED TO EXECUTE Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Washington, by the same process, on subscription, of four dollars and fifty cents each. It is a principal aim of this work, to produce the most correct likenesses of this amiable couple. The Artist presumes that the secret art of Polygraphick Painting is known only to himself, in the United States; having travelled from the Carolinas to Massachusetts, without finding a master of it. By this Art, original paintings may be multiplied, so as to render it difficult to point out the dif- ference. The Polygraphick picture, of the two, when com- pared together, is the most brilliant, and the nature of the process cannot fail rendering it more durable. In time, the whole is so exact and beautiful a copy, that the mind is lost in conjecture as to the method in which it is executed. Philadelphia, June 4, 1805. law 1w 777
JUST RECEIVED, By the ship Roba & Betsey , Capt. Richardson from London, and/or sale by the Subscriber, A LARGE SUPPLY OF  DRUGS AND MEDICINES, of all kinds. Patent Medicines, Perfumery, &c. &c. Also received by the ship Admira , Capt. Stover, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF  SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, Consisting of Amputating, Trepanning, Cupping, Midwifery, Tooth of different sorts, Crown and Common Lancets, and Surgical Pocket Instruments &c. &c.  HARDHAM'S SNUFF, No. 9. Also, by the ship Olive Branch , Capt. Le Breton from Bristol, A LARGE & EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF  GLASS & FURNITURE, For Apothecary's and Practitioner's Shops. Those who favour us with their orders will be supplied on the most reasonable terms, and the articles of the best and freshest quality, as our importations are regularly twice a year, and laid in with cash, from the most respectable Druggists in London. MEDICINE CHESTS made up as usual. Also, a few elegant Mahogany Chests of the newest construction, with furniture complete, PERRY'S ANTI-BILLIOUS PILLS. Frederick Heermann & Son. July 17. 2aw 12m. 1
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. THE Subscriber, intending to leave this State, wishes to dispose of the Land he at present resides on. It is a tract of EIGHT HUNDRED ACRES, beautifully situated upon Cape Charles; having the Atlantic upon one side, and the Chesapeake upon another. There is upon it a good FISHERY as any in Virginia. There are interspersed through- out the plantation, a number of SALT SPRINGS, so strongly impregnated with salt as to bear a new-laid egg. Oysters, Cockles, and Fish of all kinds may be obtained from the wa- ters immediately at the door. The land is very productive, esteemed annually good for 500 barrels Indian Corn, and 2000 bushels of Oats, and is now in capital order. The Fishery alone has yielded, in one spring, upwards of 700l. In short there are but very few Plantations offered for Sale, which unite so many advantages; and nothing but a desire to pursue his professional business could induce the present proprietor to sell it. Should it not be sold before the Fall, it will be leased for a term of years. Conditions will be made known on application to Thomas V. Custis. On the Premises. May 3. law 649
CAMPHOR AND BARK. THE SUBSCRIBER, HAS JUST RECEIVED, 200 lbs. REFINED CAMPHOR. In small convenient Casks of 2 lbs. each.—Also,  RED, YELLOW, AND PALE BARK, Fresh—Apply to N. Gregory. July 5. 6 791
REMOVAL.  JAMES TUCKER, Has removed to No. 1, Holt's Lane, near Main-Street, WHERE HE OFFERS FOR SALE, ON REASONABLE TERMS,  HIS STOCK IN TRADE, CONSISTING OF A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF  HARDWARE, NAILS, &c. May 8. tf 659
250 Barrels Superfine, } 250 do. Fine, } 100 do. X Midlings, } FLOUR. 150 do. do. } 50 do. Ship, } 90 do. Navy, } BREAD. 10 Quarter Casks Sherry WINE. For Sale by JAMES MAURICE & CO. April 12. tf 589
NOTICE.  CONCERT-HALL, Boston, May, 1805. THE Subscriber respectfully informs his Friends and the Publick, and those Gentlemen of the Southern States who may visit this part of the Continent, during the summer season, that the house known by the name of Concert Hall, situate in a very central and pleasant part of the town, (cor- ner of Court and Hanover Streets) has been fitted up at a ve- ry great expense with the genteel accommodations. Those Gentlemen who may wish for Boarding and Lodging, it is presumed cannot find a more eligible and convenient house, or a more grateful reception than from the present occupant of Concert Hall, whose assiduity to serve them shall exceed the liberality of their patronage. 765 law 3m T. WHITCOMB.
JUST PUBLISHED, And for Sale at the Book Stores of BONSAL, CONRAD & CO. AND A. C. JORDAN & CO. Price 62 1-2 Cents.  REVOLUTIONARY ANNALS, Or History of the French Revolution, from the Convocation of the States-General to the peace of Amiens.  PART THE FIFTH. Translated from the MS. of J. H. de Croisset, By L. H. GIRARDIN, Professor of Modern Languages, &c. &c. in William and Mary College. July 12. tf 816
TO PRINTERS. Having had advice of a Font of Letter being shipped for us from England, we would dispose of  A FONT OF BOURGEOIS TYPE, Upon which the PUBLICK LEDGER has been heretofore print- ed; specimens of which are seen in our editorial articles. It consists of 600 lbs. WELL-ASSORTED LETTER, has been in use but nine months, and is almost as good as new— Should the whole be too large, such as might be inclined to purchase ONE HALF of the font, will please to make applica- tion by letters post-paid, or personally at our office. J. Cowper & Geo. L. Gray. Norfolk, May 8.
MISSIONARY MAGAZINE,  EVANGELICAL INTELLIGENCER. A FEW Copies of this work, for January, February, March, April, and May, are now ready for delivery to subscribers, at the office of the PUBLICK LEDGER. * Persons desirous to encourage a work whose object is the diffusion of religious knowledge, are requested to send their names to Mr. Gray's office as early as possible. A few copies of the complete set from the first of the year, yet re- main undispersed at Philadelphia, and can be procured by early application. Price 25 Cents each Number—Payable on delivery. June 29. tf 784
FOR SALE, Pursuant to the Will of William Samuel Peachy, deceased. PEACHY'S Manufacturing Mills and Store-Houses. LYING in the County of Prince George, on Powell's Creek, a navigable stream of James River, and on the main stage road from Norfolk to Petersburg, with about six acres of Land belonging thereto.—One third of the purchase money will be required at the end of eighteen months and three years credit will be given for the residue. The Gentle- man at the Mills will be good enough to show them.—For terms apply to Mr. Robert Maitland of Norfolk, or to Thomas Griffin Peachy of Williamsburg.  ALSO FOR SALE, That beautiful Seat on James River (about four miles from the Mills) called FLOWER DE HUNDRED.—The Tract of Land belonging to this Seat, contains 1800 acres extending nearly two miles on the banks of the river, (about half a day's sail from Norfolk, and five hours from Petersburg) Considerable part of the Land is fit for the cultivation of Wheat and Tobacco; it has some valuable Low Ground, and a great deal of Meadow Land, from which in its natural state, great quantities of Hay may be made; the Land also abounds with good Timber.—The Houses, Gardens, Orchards, and other improvements, are extensive and valuable.—As it is presumed that no person would purchase such an estate without first viewing it, a further description is thought need- less.—Collier Harrison, Esq. of Charles City, who has viewed the Land and is well acquainted with its quality, will be good enough to show it.—A credit of 9, 13 and 16 years will be given for the greater part of the purchase money, and for the residue four annual payments will be required.—An indis- putable title will be made.—The price may be known by ap- plication to Mr. Robert Maitland, or to Mary W. Peachy, and Thomas G. Peachy, of Williamsburg. March 25. tf 523
TO RENT. THE Store, Cellar, and Compting Room, No. 41, Main- Street, at present occupied by Messrs. GILLIAT & MACKINDER. Apply to Thomas Willock. April 1. tf 547
3000 lbs. of WOOL, For sale—low for cash—by Philip Collins. June 11. tf 754  NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, OPPOSITE THE EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE. Price Five Dollars and Fifty Cents yearly, in advance.