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FROM THE UNITED STATES' GAZETTE.
To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, THE MEMORIAL
OF SAMUEL G. OGDEN OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, MERCHANT, [Concluded.]
Your memorialist further respectfully represents, that these letters were received by the president and secretary so as to allow ample time for ar-resting the Leander before she had left the port of New York, if it had been the pleasure of government so to do, as the said ship did not leave the port of New York till the second day of February last.
From this statement your memorialist trusts it will appear that the secretary of State and the president of the United States had a full knowledge of the intentions of general Miranda in respect to the province of Carracas; and that they also knew he was making preparations at this port to carry these intentions into execution. That though the government would not directly aid the enterprise of general Miranda, yet they gave it their approbation, and by their conduct encouraged your memorialist to involve himself in it. After this statement of facts, your memorialist hopes that it will not be improper if he adverts to the state of our political affairs at the time this vessel was equipped. The president, in his message at the opening of congress, had in effect represented the U. States as on the eve of an inevitable war with Spain; nay, from that message it did appear that the most flagrant and violent acts of hostility had been committed by Spain on the territory, vessels, and citizens of the United States, and that at far there was an actual war between the two nations. At the moment too that these preparations were making, congress were acting with
closed doors, and in the opinion of the world were occupied about our relations with Spain; at this period war might have been made by the constitutional authority, and under that authority the president might have sanctioned a hostile military expedition, tho' there had been no public declarations of war. If congress had been fit to wage war with Spain, and it had been thought proper to carry on secret enterprises before the declaration was made, the executive would have been the organ through which such enterprises must have been executed:—When therefore, your memorialist was certain that the president and secretary of state had a perfect knowledge of the intentions of general Miranda, and that he was making preparations to carry them into execution—when your memorialist found that no measures were taken to check those preparations by the executive—and when in addition to all this, your memorialist found that the bill for preventing the exportation of arms had been arrested in its progress, according to the prediction of the secretary of state, your memorialist could not but conclude that the expedition of general Miranda, not only met the approbation of government, but that it was sanctioned by the laws. Your memorialist could not have believed that the executive officers of the government, seeing preparations for an illegal enterprise, and possessing power to arrest them in their progress, could calmly look on till the mischief was complete and then punish the offence that they had thus encouraged, and might have prevented. If the object of government was only the punishment of crimes, such might be the conduct of its officers; but if governments are instituted to be the guardians of peace, happiness and tranquility of society and of all its members, then it is criminal in its officers to nurse and nourish an offence, till it shall attain its maturity, that it may be a fit object, for giving effect to the sanctions of the criminal code.
Your memorialist further respectfully represents, that on the first day of March last he was arrested on a warrant, issued by the honorable Matthias B. Tallmage, Esq. judge of the district court of the United States for the New York district, and thereupon was carried before the said judge, whom he found attended by the district attorney of the United States, and some other officers of the court—that your memorialist was informed that he was then before the court in two capacities; that in the one he was to be examined as a person charged with the offence mentioned in the warrant; and in the other as a witness against others who were parties to the same offence—that he would be at liberty to answer or not, as he should think proper, such questions as should be put to him in the first capacity; but that the court would compel him to answer the interrogatories that would be put to him as a witness—That your memorialist was first examined by the said judge and attorney as a party accused, which examination having been reduced to writing, was signed by your memorialist.—That your memorialist was then sworn as a witness; and the judge having informed your memorialist that he would then be compelled to answer such questions as should be put to him, your memorialist remonstrated with the judge as to the legality of obliging your memorialist to answer in any capacity, whether as a witness or as an accused party, questions which might tend to criminate himself—that the judge thereupon informed your memorialist, that he was not bound to make answers by which he would be criminated; but notwithstanding questions were immediately put to your memorialist, the answers to which must directly exculpate or criminate him; and among other questions of this character, your memorialist was asked of what the cargo of the ship Leander, which had lately failed from the port of New York consisted, and to what port or place she was bound; that on these questions being put, your memorialist said, that he did conceive that by law he was bound to answer, and finally refused to answer them; whereupon the judge ordered your memorialist to be committed, and directed a warrant to be made out for sending him to prison; that your memorialist being ignorant of the laws, and not being certain how far he was justifiable in refusing to an-
swer the questions that were put to him, prayed that the examination might be postponed for a little time, that he might have an opportunity of considering whether he ought to make the answers required of him. But the judge insisted on your memorialist's answering immediately; that your memorialist then prayed leave to send for counsel; but this prayer the judge peremptorily refused. That your memorialist finding that he should be sent to prison if he persisted in his refusal, and that if he should be so, that it would be ruinous to his mercantile concerns and distressing to his family, did answer the questions that were put to him not however without objecting from time to time to such questions as your memorialist thought were illegal, but which were always insisted upon by the district attorney and judge; that the testimony thus given by your memorialist was reduced to writing and signed by your memorialist, and your memorialist was required again to swear to the same, and upon his objecting to do so, he was threatened with imprisonment, and thereby compelled to swear a second time. He was then required to give security as a principal for his appearance at the then next circuit court of the United States for the New York district, himself in ten thousand dollars, with two sureties each in ten thousand dollars, and as a witness himself in five thousand dollars with two sureties each in five thousand dollars, and this being done, after a detention of about eight hours, your memorialist was set at liberty.
Your memorialist is persuaded that no comments are necessary to set these proceedings in their true point of light. If they are authorized by the laws of the United States, then indeed has the inquisition found a sanctuary under their dominion. But your memorialist is advised that these proceedings against him were as illegal as they were oppressive and tyrannical, that there is no law by which a magistrate of the United States can force a citizen to be a witness out of court in case of misdemeanor, that the laws of this country do not permit a citizen either by threats of imprisonment or by any other species of torture to be compelled to answer interrogatories before any secret tribunal in the absence of the accused, much less interrogatories, the answers to which may tend to criminate himself, when the laws shall delegate to a magistrate or to an executive officer, holding his place at the will of the president, powers in anything analogous to those that have been exercised against your memorialist, there must be an end to that liberty which is the boast and blessing of Americans, and which the constitution of the United States professes to secure; one view of the subject will be sufficient alone to show the enormity of the power that has been assumed in the case of your memorialist. If a magistrate may examine an accused person on interrogatories, and should be actuated by feelings of gratitude for his appointment, or allured by prospects of future promotion he might with, and seek to criminate the very man whose conviction might appear necessary to shield his patrons from reproach and infamy. In such a case, a magistrate so corrupt, would put such interrogatories only as would serve to convict the accused, but would be silent as to such questions as might draw forth answers tending to exculpation or excuse. Your memorialist is advised, that by the law of England, a magistrate is authorized to take the examination of felons, and the information of those who choose to accuse them. But that neither by the laws of that country nor of any other where the life and liberty of the citizen is not at the mercy of the rulers, has a magistrate power to extort partial testimony by the way of answer to such interrogatories, as he may think fit to propound.
Your memorialist further respectfully represents that the honorable judge Patterson being sick and unable to attend at the last circuit court of the United States held for the district of New York, the court was opened on the first day of the present month by the honorable Matthias B. Tallmage, Esquire, who alone presided during the term; that on the first day of the sitting, your memorialist was surrendered by his sureties. Whereupon the district attorney moved the court that your memorialist might be
committed; upon this the counsel of your memorialist prayed that the warrant upon which your memorialist had been taken might be filed, that they might have an opportunity of seeing with what crime your memorialist was charged or by what authority he had been held to bail; but this the court refused to order, and without giving your memorialist or his counsel any opportunity to see or examine for what cause he was to be committed, the court made an order in the words following. "At a stated circuit court of the United States, held for the district of New York, at the city of New York, in the second circuit on Tuesday the first day of April, 1806, at 11 o'clock A. M. Present, the honorable Matthias B. Tallmage, Esquire, judge of the district of New York. The United States of America vs. Samuel G. Ogden, Samuel Margatrody, and Samuel Gouverneur, the sureties for the defendant, to appear and answer, having come into court, and by their counsel prayed leave to surrender the defendant in discharge of their recognizance, which being ordered by the court—thereupon on motion of the attorney of the district in behalf of the United States, that the said defendant stand committed to the custody of the marshal of the district; which being opposed by Mr. Colden, Mr. Hoffmann, & Mr. Emmott, of counsel for the defendant, it was thereupon ordered by the court that the said defendant find sureties to abide the further order of this court, or that he stand committed to the custody of the marshal of the district."
Upon this order your memorialist was committed to the custody of the marshal. The counsel of your memorialist then, not knowing what other course to pursue, applied for a habeas corpus to be directed to the marshal to bring up your memorialist with the cause of his commitment; which writ was granted by the judge, although your memorialist then stood before the court, and had been just committed by its own order. That the habeas corpus was returned immediately by the marshal, with a copy of the above mentioned order, as the cause; and thereupon the counsel for your memorialist moved that your memorialist might be discharged, because it did not appear by the return of the marshal that your memorialist was charged with any crime. But the court ordered that your memorialist should be remanded to the custody of the marshal, unless he should give security to abide the order of the court, himself in ten thousand dollars, with one surety in twenty thousand dollars; and although the counsel for your memorialist warmly remonstrated against such excessive bail being required in such case, the court refused to lessen the sum; and your memorialist was also bound in another recognizance in five thousand dollars for his appearance as a witness.
Your memorialist further respectfully represents that in order to bring before the court the manner in which he had been examined before the magistrate, and to prevent such illegal testimony from being made use of against him, your memorialist made an affidavit stating the most prominent circumstances of that examination as they have been herein before set forth, and thereupon the council for your memorialist moved that the court would make an order that the said depositions should not be laid before the Grand Jury, or that they should in some way be suppressed. But the court, although it admitted that testimony taken as stated in the affidavit of your memorialist, was not legal, yet as the court had a confidence that the attorney general would not act improperly in the discharge of his official duties, refused to make an order on the subject; notwithstanding which the district attorney did permit the grand jury to have the examination and the deposition taken in the illegal manner above stated, together with many other depositions against your memorialist of persons who were examined by the judge in a similar manner in the absence of your memorialist. Your memorialist further respectfully represents that on Monday, the eighth inst. the grand jury brought in a bill of indictment against your memorialist, and thereupon your memorialist was put to plead, whereupon he filed a plea in abatement, verified by the usual affidavit.
This plea stated in substance, that illegal testimony had been before the grand jury that found the bill, previously to its being found, and stated also that that illegal testimony was the abovementioned deposition and examination of your memorialist; as also the deposition of William S. Smith, Esq. taken before the judge in the manner abovementioned. The court having granted to the public prosecutor till the next day to answer this plea he filed a general demurrer thereto, & moved that the defendant might join in demurrer instanter; whereupon the counsel for your memorialist prayed time for consideration. In the argument on this prayer, the district attorney said the plea was frivolous; to which one of the counsel for your memorialist answered that he thought it was not so, and that he hoped to be able to convince even this court that it did not deserve that character. The court called on the counsel for an explanation of what he had intended by the term even this court, and not having received from the counsel an explanation, which the court chose to accept, the counsel was committed to the custody of the marshal; but whilst the order for the commitment was making out, the counsel having stated to the court, that he did not intend any contempt of the court, he was discharged. The court then obliged your memorialist to join in demurrer, and although the counsel of your memorialist most earnestly prayed time the next day to make preparations for arguing the same, but the court ordered on the argument the same day, and that day having been consumed in argument on the demurrer, the next morning the court gave judgment thereon, and overruled the same, not upon any formal objections to the plea, but upon the ground that the grand jury was an independent tribunal; that they were only to be governed by their consciences in their presentments, and that the court could take no cognizance of the testimony that was offered to them. Your memorialist being then called upon to plead in chief, his counsel moved for leave to amend the plea as to form, which the court refused, on the ground that in giving judgment the form of the plea had not been considered, that the principle of the court had adopted would apply to any form of pleading the matter alleged; a motion was then made and founded on affidavits, which were then before the court, and which have been hereinbefore mentioned to quash the indictment; but this was also refused by the court on the former principle. And your memorialist was compelled to plead in chief to the indictment; but on application of the counsel of your memorialist, and an affidavit stating the absence of material witnesses, and that your memorialist expected to have the benefit of their testimony by the month of September, the trial was postponed, and a special circuit court ordered to be held for the trial on the 14th day of July next. On the day before the adjournment of the court, the grand jury brought in a presentment against Matthias B. Tallmage, Esq. Judge of the District Court, whereby they prescribed the conduct of the said Judge, in taking the examination and deposition of your memorialist in the manner before mentioned as unusual, oppressive, and tyrannical.
Thus has your memorialist laid before your honorable body, a detail of these unparalleled circumstances, prompted so to do, not only by a hope that by your interference with the executive, your memorialist may be saved from unmerited punishment, but also by a belief that it was his duty as a citizen, to expose the illegal and oppressive proceedings of a magistrate of the United States, to those who alone can make him account for his conduct. Your memorialist submits his case to your wisdom, and prays such relief as the laws and constitution of his country and your wisdom and goodness may afford him, and in duty bound will ever pray. SAMUEL G. OGDEN. New York, April 18, 1806.
To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled
THE MEMORIAL OF WILLIAM S. SMITH, Late Surveyor of the Port of New York.

Respectfully Sheweth.
That your memorialist is accused as having been a party to the offences, with which Samuel G. Ogden is charged, as mentioned in the preceding memorial, to which for the circumstances of Gen. Miranda's arrival in this country, his visit to the city of Washington, his communications with executive officers of the government of the United States, and his correspondence with your memorialist while here, your memorialist prays leave to refer and to confirm the facts stated in the said memorial. Your memorialist further respectfully represents, that his acquaintance with Gen. Miranda has been of very long standing. That Gen. Miranda arrived in this city from England, in the Month of November last, and informed your memorialist that he came with an intention to visit his native country, and hoped to find in the United States the resources necessary to carry his plans into effect.
Your memorialist recommended, as it was a question of great national importance, that Gen. Miranda should first communicate those plans to the President of the United States, and Secretary of State; and if their permission was obtained your memorialist would accompany him in their execution.
That the subsequent communications were made to the administration, as stated in the preceding memorial; by no actual leave having been granted your memorialist being a public officer declined accompanying Gen. Miranda but was fully convinced that his views met the approbation of the administration.
That under these impressions your memorialist was induced to give every facility in his power towards the execution of these plans, which he considered under the sanction of the President of the United States, and Secretary of State.
That your memorialist never had cause to suspect that he was in error, or that the administration had changed their Modus Agendi , until he was waited upon by the deputy marshal, on the first day of March last, at about eleven o'clock in the morning, when your memorialist was arrested by virtue of a warrant issued by Matthias B. Talmadge, Esq. Judge of the District Court for the New York District, which warrant after reciting that there were strong and violent grounds to suspect that your memorialist had within the jurisdiction of the United States provided and prepared the means of a military enterprise to be carried on against the dominions of some foreign prince, or state then unknown, with whom the United States were at peace commanded the persons to whom the said warrant was directed to arrest your memorialist and to bring him before the said judge. That after your memorialist was taken on the abovenamed warrant, he was told by the officer who had him in custody that he had been ordered not to suffer your memorialist to consult counsel or have communication with any person whatever. That your memorialist was conducted by the said officer to the place where, as your memorialist understood, the district court or the judge of the said court was sitting. But on his arrival there he was informed that the judge, or the court, was not then ready to receive him. That he was then conducted by the officer who had your memorialist in custody to the office of the clerk of the district court, where he was detained 'til six o'clock in the evening, when a messenger from the said judge gave information that the court was then ready to receive your memorialist. That thereupon your memorialist was conducted before the said judge whom he found attended by the district attorney of the United States for the New-York district, and some other officers of the court. That upon your memorialist appearing before the said judge, he was informed that he was to be examined touching the offences mentioned in the warrant. That upon your memorialist enquiring whether the judge or the court had authority to compel him to submit to the examination they proposed to make, and to enforce answers to questions which might tend to develop important secrets of state, your memorialist was answered in the affirmative, and informed that he would be compelled to answer all such questions as should be put to him. That your memorialist then told the judge that it would be unnecessary to put questions, as without them, under those compulsory circumstances, he would detail all he knew respecting Gen. Miranda, and his late expedition to the port New York, which your memorialist understood was to be the object of enquiry. That thereupon your memorialist gave a full and faithful relation, as he had declared he would do; which relation was reduced to writing, and styled the voluntary examination of your memorialist. But your memorialist declares that the said examination was in no respect voluntary as it was made by way of narrative, rather than as answers to interrogatories.
That the declarations of your memorialist having been signed and sworn to by him, he was at about eleven o'clock at night required to give bail, himself in five thousand dollars as a principal, and two sureties in five thousand dollars each; and himself as witness in five thousand dollars, and two sureties in twenty-five hundred dollars each, for his appearance at the next circuit court of the United States, for the district of New-York. That previously to the sitting of the said court your memorialist was removed by the president of the United States from his office of Surveyor of the Port of New-York, and his affairs becoming much embarrassed in consequence of that removal, he was arrested in civil process and confined in the jail of the city and county of New-York. That upon the sitting of the court the recognizances of your memorialist and of his sureties were vacated in the production of a certificate from the sheriff of the city and county of New-York, that your memorialist was in his custody; thereupon a bench warrant was issued by the judge of the district court against your memorialist; that the sheriff of the city of New-York having refused to deliver the custody of your memorialist to the marshal on the warrant, the judge of the circuit court then caused a habeas corpus ad testificandum to be issued against your memorialist, although at the time no issue was joined in any case in which your memorialist could testify. That when brought into court on this writ, the marshal was directed to serve his warrant, and he having thereupon returned that he had taken your memorialist, an order was made for his commitment to the custody of the marshal; but while the order for this commitment was making out, the sheriff took your memorialist out of court and put him in the city prison out of the reach of the marshal. That on the 2th inst. an indictment was found against your memorialist, charging him in substance with the offences set forth in the abovenamed warrant. That proceedings were thereupon had in the circuit court of the United States for the New-York district, in all respects similar to those stated in the preceding memorial of Samuel G. Ogden, to which your memorialist prays leave to refer. Your memorialist further respectfully represents, and doth most solemnly declare, that in all he did in respect to the expedition of Gen. Miranda, he did believe that he was acting with the approbation of the president of the United States and of the secretary of State—and so far from thinking that he was subjecting himself to penalties under the laws of the United States, he thought his conduct would hereafter gain the applause of his fellow citizens who he had the best reason to believe would derive the greatest advantages from the enterprise which was carried on with the approbation of their executive government.
Your memorialist submits his conduct to the consideration of your honorable body, and prays such relief as you in your wisdom shall think proper to grant.
W. S. SMITH.
New York, April 18, 1806.
FROM THE REPUBLICAN.
MR. PESCUO,
YOUR inserting the subjoined list of victims to British atrocity, in your very useful paper, will be doing a justice to injured innocence, and afford some consolation to the friends of the unfortunate men, on whom the British lion has laid his paws.
On Sunday the 11th inst. as the ship Eliza, captain Perry, from Londonderry came into the capes of Virginia, she was brought to by the British frigate Cleopatra, captain White, who dragged with inhuman violence from on board said ship, sixteen of her passengers, and still retains them on board, and at anchor in Hampton Roads, in open violation of the laws of nature and of nations. In vain did the unfortunate victims quit that land in which they first drew their breath; in vain did their hearts beat with joy, on first viewing the sacred land of liberty, forgetting their galling chains and tyrannical task master. But, alas! it was only a memory, a visionary idea; their fond hopes were soon blasted—they were dragged amidst the lamentations of their wives and children, into the most dreadful slavery. Cruel monsters! Is there not some chosen curse, some hidden thunder, in the stores of heaven, red with uncommon wrath, to blot this land of tyrants from the map of the world?
Samuel Sample, Donegal. William Findlay, Astra, county of Tyrone. William Stuart, ditto ditto Hugh McCaken, Donegal. Thomas Ballentine, Astra, county of Tyrone. William Teiny, Derry. Hugh Quig, ditto. Anthony Griffin, Donegal. Andrew Johnston, ditto. James Miller, Stewart's Town. William Gilchrist, Derry. Samuel Patrick, Tyrone. Alexander M'Connell, Donegal.
A FRIEND TO LIBERTY.
LYNCHBURG.
THURSDAY JUNE 26, 1806.
We are authorized to say that the Lynchburg Academy will be opened on the 21st day of November next, and that a competent Teacher of the learned languages, with other requisite assistants will be then procured.—Education is an object of primary importance, nor do we know a place where a properly conducted Academy is more wanted, or where its presumed more probable good effects would result from such an Institution, than in Lynchburg.—In point of situation this is inferior to none for prospect, pure air, and spring water.
Appointments by the Executive of Virginia. CREED TAYLOR, Esq. Chancellor of the Richmond District Chancery Court, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the death of the venerable Judge Wythe.
Captain Sackville King, High Sheriff of the County of Campbell, in the room of William Anderson, Esq. deceased.
At their next Court, the Magistrates of Campbell County will be required by law, to recommend to the Governor for the Sheriffalty.—This will be a trying business.
Interest and duty should be for ever conjoined. Duty requires that merit—positive desert, should have preference. Interest commonly speaks a different language—nay any language. Interest is a thoroughbred Babylonian.
DUELLING.
AN EXTRACT from the Hon. H. H. Breckenridge's laughable adventure of Capt. Farrago. In some of the Necessaries, we observe this pertinent and humorous answer to a challenge, untruly ascribed to a captain in the British army.—In this, as well as in most other armies, there are doubtless many gentlemen of wit, worth, and education: yet only surreptitiously stick around their wings the blooming laurels of another's merit.
"I have two objections to this duel matter. The one is left I should hurt you, and the other is left you should hurt me. I do not see any good it would do me to put a bullet through any part of your body. I could make no use of you when dead, for any culinary purpose, as I would a rabbit or a turkey. I am no cannibal but to feed on the flesh of men. Why then shoot down a human creature, of which I could make no use. A Buffalo would be better meat. For though your flesh might be delicate and tender; yet it wants that firmness and consistency which takes and retains salt. At any rate it would not be fit for long sea voyages. You might make a good barbecue, it is true, being of the nature of a racoon or an opossum; but people are not in the habit of barbecuing any thing human now. As to your hide, it is not worth taking off, being little better than that of a year old colt. As to myself I don't much like to stand in the way of any thing harmful. I am under apprehensions you might hit me. That being the case, I think it most advisable to stay at a distance. If you want to try your pistols take some object, a tree or a barn door, about my dimensions. If you hit that send me word, and I shall acknowledge, that if I had been in the same place, you might also have hit me."
NAPOLEON, King of the Romans.
We are informed, says the New-York Daily Advertiser, that a letter from Bordeaux, to a gentleman in this city, dated April 23, states, that a meeting of Federalist States is to take place, for the purpose of declaring Bonaparte "King of the Romans." The ceremonial of his installation is to be performed with great pomp; all the kings, princes, dukes, &c. &c. subject to the French Emperor, have received orders to attend in their persons. The letter further states, that the pope is to continue in the exercise of his spiritual function only; to receive a pension, and that he is to reside in France, the particular place of his residence, has not yet, however, transpired.
This, no doubt, is the object of the meeting of the Federalist States, alluded to in the Exposé of the Moniteur .
NEW-YORK, June 9.
MASSACRE AT CAPE-FRANCOIS.
We learn from Capt. Dodge, of the Schooner Mary-Ann, who arrived here yesterday, in 16 days from Cape Francois that on the 14th and 15th of May, a general massacre of all the remaining white inhabitants at Cape Francois, took place, and it was said generally, throughout that part of this ill-fated island under the dominion of Dessalines. The particulars of this tragic event are briefly these:—
Some time previous to the 14th of May the greater part of the white French inhabitants of Cape-Francois, were ordered, under some pretence, to a fort about three leagues from the town; and there confined. On the night of the 14th, the residue of these unfortunate people, amounting to about 250, were strangled in their beds, by order of the emperor; the blood-thirsty villains, not content with this, plunged their bayonets in their bodies—mangling them in a horrid manner. They then plundered the houses of those unfortunate people, who had thus fallen victims to the avarice and cruelty of the black emperor. On the 15th it was reported at the cape, that those of the inhabitants who had been sent to the fort, had been put to death in the most cruel manner, and their dead bodies treated with the greatest indignity.
The French privateer Schooner La Creole, of 6 guns and 76 men which in
the month of November last, captured off Charleston bar the British ship Esther, bound from that port for Liverpool, and whose crew behaved with such unparallelled barbarity to the unfortunate men belonging to that ship after they had surrendered, was captured on the 21st of April, off Tortudas, by the British Brig Reindeer of 18 guns, and carried into Port Royal, on the 25th. Mer. Adv.
We learn from Jamaica papers, which we have received to the 10th of May, that the Ship Leander, capt. Lewis, with two Schooners, her tenders, from Jamaica, having on board General Miranda, 28 Staff Officers, and about 270 men, touched at Aruba on the 10th of April, and failed again for Caracas, accompanied by the Schooner Echo, of Kingston. It is stated that Gen. Miranda was provided with the insignia of the ancient Peruvians (a sun and highly marked rainbow) brilliantly displayed on his standards, and expected to find a strong party to join him in the scheme of revolutionizing the South American colonies. ib.
BRITISH HUMANITY. In a debate in the British house of Lords, on the subject of intercourse between America and the West Indies, Lord Holland, by way of shewing the impolicy of any restrictions upon our trade with those Islands, observed, that "He trusted Parliament would never again try the experiment which was productive of so much misery to the West-India colonies, in the period from 1784, to 1785, when their supply from America was cut off; and in consequence of which, in Jamaica alone, 15,000 negroes died from the famine which that regulation produced!"
If 15,000 were starved to death in one Island, how many must have died with hunger in the whole of the British Islands? And what a dreadful degree of misery must have been endured by those who survived? Yet these restrictions, though occasionally relaxed, are still generally continued in force, by a government too, which many degenerate Americans hold up to be a model of humanity, honor and justice! Tren. Tr. Am.
Late letters from London state that in consequence of the severe measures which France has adopted to prevent the importation in neutral, as well as other bottoms of English goods in the North as well as South of Europe, it was conjectured the new British administration would be necessitated, from self preservation, to declare every port from Venice in the Adriatic, to Hamburg, &c. in a state of blockade; to cover the seas with cruisers, and to take measures to prevent the supply of a single pound of coffee, sugar, cotton, &c. to any of the dominions under the power or influence of France. This measure, it is said, will be very rigidly executed; and will unquestionably be justified by those who justify the French measures. Mr. MUNROE had been officially notified of the blockade of the Emes, Wajer, Elbe, and Trave . A great number of neutral vessels, bound to and from the ports under the French rule, among which are 26 Americans, have recently been sent into England—Some of whom however, had been released.— Boff. Cen.
PARISIAN RUMORS.
At the Grand Feete ordered by our emperor for the 2d of next May, sixteen new princes of our Grand Military and Political functionaries are to be proclaimed, in the presence of six Princes exalted into kings by his imperial majesty. The hereditary ranks and titles will at the same time be restored to all those of the former Nobility whose names are not still found upon the list of emigrants. Several generals, senators, counsellors of state, prefects, legislators, Tribunes, Judges &c. will also be created and hailed on that day as Marquises, Counts, Vicomtes, and Barons; and every member of the legion of honor will have a right to stile himself a Chevalier. A new order of knighthood, that of the Empress's called Honorable Fidelity, will then be announced.
The Queens of Spain, Prussia, Bavaria, and Etruria, are said to be among its Grand Officers; and 400 other foreign and French Ladies of rank and fashion are mentioned as its principal members. The ornaments of these female knights, are stars, worn on the left side of their bosom, and agrettes worn on the right side of their head dresses. Among the ladies already nominated to this distinction, the name of Madame Genlis, Stael, Recamier, Talleyrand, Remusat, Searant, Segur, Le Brunn, Courtin, Duroc, Lauriston, Le Grange, Savary, Lucchini, Monteleas, Holland, and Miss Williams are mentioned. Four ladies in waiting of the Queens of Spain, Prussia, Bavaria, and Etruria, two maids of honor of the Electresses, of Hesse and Baden, with several German and Italian princesses, countesses, and baronesses, are also among our female Chevaliers in petto .
The expenses for the Feete of the 2d of May are calculated 18,000,000 of livres; of which the ci devant Elector of Bavaria has paid 10,000,000. The value of the presents to be distributed on the same occasion is said to be 6,000,000 of livres, taken from the privy purse of our emperor and empress. Besides all the commanders and principal chiefs of the last campaign in Germany, several deputies of each regiment are to be present. It is reported here but with what foundation cannot be determined, that the Kings of Spain and Prussia, and their Queens, together with the Kings and Queens of Bavaria, Wirtemberg, and Hesse, have been invited to this splendid feete , and that few, if any of them, dare decline the invitation.
To remove and keep clear of bed bugs. Alices of the Succotina kind, to be had from most druggists and apothecaries, dissolved in any kind of spirit to the consist-
ence which may be applied to the joint and crevices of the bedsteads, or elsewhere, with a feather, will certainly kill or remove them. About an ounce of aloe, in a gill of spirit, will clear several bedsteads, and the cost be but a few cents. It is a good method to mark the breadth of a finger with the solution, round each foot of the bed-posts. (Phi. Fed. Gaz.)
Mr. Macon, in his Speech on Mr. Gregg's resolution, concluded thus:
"I have stated that which appeared to me to be the best plan to secure our seamen from impressment, but the man who shall actually produce the plan, which shall have the effect, will deserve the gratitude of the nation."
THE PLAN.—Let it be proposed to G. Britain that all and every of her seamen in the king's and merchant's service be branded in some naked and conspicuous part of the body (as the forehead or palm of the hand) with the letters G. R. that is George Rex , and we conceive the point will be settled. Every man wearing this badge, or brand rather, may be justly and without dispute, claimed by the British Government and its officers, as their subjects , wherever found. It may reasonably be presumed that all controversies on this head will be speedily at an end, as it is verily believed that few or no American citizens will condescend to wear the mark of the beast.
Mr. Macon will find that if the British government accede to this simple regulation there will be an end to the impressment of American seamen, and that of course the writer of this paragraph will deserve the gratitude of the nation.
EUROPEAN NEWS.
The intelligence furnished by our late papers from Europe, is sufficiently explicit on the subject of the existing war between France and England. Were the present British ministry disposed (which is by no means the case) to propose terms of accommodation with the Emperor of the Continent, they would not be accepted: the open, avowed and implacable purpose of Bonaparte, being to destroy all the resources of British Commerce on the continent; and by this means, to weaken and embarrass, as far as possible, an enemy, which he cannot reach with his bayonets; and which his navy dare not encounter on the ocean. The farce of invasion, has been played off as long as it could gain admirers; and Bonaparte is too skillful a manager of the political drama, to get up a second time, what he had before convinced the world he could not perform with any credit or profit to himself.—The subjugation of all the continental powers whose independence is not of more service in guiding his plans, than their submission, is now the object which engages his attention, and commands all the vigor of his exhausted mind. With the advantage of this immense power and control, he purposes to carry a warfare which though it may fail to hurl immediate destruction on a country, whose independence as a nation, will be long preserved by the unabated spirit of its government, and the valor of its marine, will continue to furnish with new weapons of offence—with new channels of enlarging his sphere of action—and finally with the means of shutting her out from all intercourse or traffic with any continental power whatever. Boston Gaz.
From the Providence Gazette.
ANECDOTE.—Some, who are as deficient in taste as in Christianity have represented the Bible as beneath the notice of a literary man. We would wish to introduce an anecdote which must be doubly interesting to them, as the man who contended for the inspired writers, was a native of this State. The gentleman above alluded to was once engaged in a controversy with a Clergyman, and declared that no writer, ancient or modern, rivalled Homer in the sublimity of his conceptions. To prove his assertion, he cited the following passage:
"Jove frowns, and darkens more than half the skies." There! cried he, what passage will you find equal to this? A frown from the brow of my heathen omnipotent, overshadows one half the skies with darkness. The Clergyman did not ruminate long for an answer. He opposed him by the following quotation from the 20th chapter of Revelations, verse 11, "And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heavens fled away, and there was no place for them." Your fabled god, he remarked, could only put one half the heavens into a tentment by the distortion of his visage. At the bare appearance of the Christian Deity, creation trembles, and seeks annihilation for shelter. It is honorable to the character of the heathen admirer, that he not only had taste and judgement enough to relish the superior splendor of revelation, but likewise the magnanimity to confess it.
A Natural Step.
At Hamstead assembly, an Irish gentleman, who danced with great spirit, though not perhaps with all the grace of a Vofris , was observed by a Macaroni, who immediately began mimicking him in the most extravagant manner. The Irishman took no notice for some time, but seeing himself the general object of laughter, came very deliberately up to the mimic, and asked, Why he presumed to take him off! You Sir, says the other, you mistake the matter, it is my natural way of dancing. "Is it," said the Hibernian, seemingly accepting the ex-

aufe; well, to be sure no body can help what is natural; but hark ye, my friend, be sure you keep in that natural step all night; for by G—, if you once attempt to make it an artificial, I will break every bone in your skin.
FROM THE LITCHFIELD (CON.) WITNESS.
• What! arm'd for virtue when I point the pen, • Brand the bold front of shameless guilty men, • Can there be wanting, to defend her cause • Lights of the Church, or guardians of the laws? • Could pension'd Boileau lash in honest strain • Flatters and Bigots, e'en in Louis' reign? • Could Laureat Dryden Pimp and Fry'r engage, • Yet neither Charles nor James be in a rage? • And I not strip the gilding of a knave, • Unplac'd, unpenion'd, no man's heir or slave? • I will, or perish in the gen'rous cause; • Hear this, and tremble! you who scape the laws • Yes—while I live, no rich or noble knave, • Shall walk the world, in credit, to his grave. • To virtue only, and her friends, a friend, • The world, beside, may murmur or commend.
An ancient republican (an Athenian if our memory is correct) having been omitted in a choice of three hundred officers, prostrated in the temple, and devoutly thanked his Gods that three hundred men had been found in the city, whom the people had deemed more worthy than himself.
I have often reflected with enthusiastic delight on this action, which exhibited one of the most striking and important features of genuine republicanism.
I have no idea of a true republic separate from the sovereignty of the people.
The sovereign people, like individual sovereigns, are indeed liable to be lulled to a dangerous apathy by flattery, or roused above the proper temper by factious oppositions.
But the errors of an enlightened people are temporary—the remedy of error follows its detection—with them the discovery of the nature of the disease, in the body politic as in the body natural, is the indication of cure—they are their own physicians—of course they will naturally prescribe honestly.
Not so the errors of a monarch, whose first departure from the interests of the people is in a tangent—every progressive inch increases the variation and the velocity, and tends more to insult him and his interests. One error makes others necessary in an accumulating proportion; till a general convulsion only can restore a union of interests.
Where can the sovereignty of a nation be so properly placed as where exists the truest knowledge of the wants of the people, and the strongest interest in providing wily for them?
And where exists this knowledge and this interest, in a greater degree than in the people themselves?
Wherever this sovereignty is placed, however, if placed by general consent, he is the best political member of society who is most observant of its provisions, and most active in support of its dignity.
Whatever the sovereign can give, consistent with the terms of that sovereignty, he can take away.
When the people have delegated power, thence they can withdraw it at the term agreed on among themselves.
And he is neither more nor less a rebel who resists or treats with indignity and insult the constitutional mandate, fairly expressed by the people.
In a republic, a man rises from the body of the people as a cloud rises from the earth—that the wisdom and virtue condensed in him may be dispensed for the refreshment of the ground whence he sprung.
How beautiful, how welcome, when he descends gently from his elevation, and glides peacefully to his original element.
How terrible, how dreadful, when, charged with lightning, he roars as he falls, and blasts when fallen—when he bursts in a tornado, and descends to his original level rather as a visitation than a blessing!
To speak without allegory—How noble a spectacle does a man exhibit, when he resigns placidly his power to the hand which bestowed it—and mingles without a murmur in the mass from which he has been selected.
How odious and disgusting, on the contrary, when he leaves the chair of office reluctant and grumbling, and curses the voice which awakes him from his dreams of power!
We are led to these remarks by reflections on the various dispositions with which different people yield the power which has been delegated to them, when thereto required by the people.
And to these reflections particularly at this time by some recent examples near at hand.
Our native state is dishonored by the childish tenacity with which men in office cling to their seats, and the relative spirit with which they anticipate the voice which only, on earth, can justly call them down from their elevation.
The various expedients to which they have resorted to stifle this voice, and put off the evil day 'yet a little longer,' are the occasion of the present 'rage of party spirit.' The men who hold power, which perhaps has been handed down to them from their grandfathers, are sensible that the voice of the people, if they would leave it to its common current, would call them immediately into the ranks. Reared and ripened as it were, in office, to be separated from it, is to be dismounted from their hobby and cast among strangers. And when they are dropped, or find the necessity of resigning, they console themselves with cursing and reviling the people.
The soul of a man is exhibited at least as fully in the resignation, as in the exercise, of power. When his ambitious desires are either gratified or frustrated; when he has no longer any motive to wear the semblance of better qualities than he really possesses—a bad man will hurl his mask from him, and exhibit those native features which have been hidden for half an age.
Of a contrary nature was the example of Washington. The dignity and cheerfulness with which he yielded the chair to his successor, was a closing scene, worthy of the great drama of which he had been the hero—and made his setting more splendid than his meridian sun.
Without dispute his composure would have been equal, if he had been called away by the electoral voice.
We venture to predict the political exit of Jefferson will be no less cheerful and placid, whether it is made of his own accord, or in consequence of the popular mandate.
But the conduct of Mr. Adams was a blot in the presidential escutcheon. After spending the last hour of his term in taking measures to embarrass his successor, he eloped about midnight, and retreated homeward with the dispatch of a courier?
Mr. Adams seems to have dropped his mantle in Connecticut as he passed; for we hear little more of him since; and from about that time we date the excesses to which the fear of losing office and influence has driven our men in power, as heretofore described.
We have now to descend from such characters as Washington, Jefferson and Adams, to the late hon. John Allen, of Litchfield! a vast and sudden descent! We may be dashed in the fall—but shall nevertheless risk it.
The conduct of this gentleman since he has found the necessity of resigning his offices, is such as excites alternate emotions of indignation, pity, and contempt.
Hopeless of the confidence of his former adherents—equally despairing of reception, as a leader, in the republican party, his former affected suavity and forced blandishments have forsaken him, left him a skeleton of what he was—and exhibited his naturally malignant and tyrannical disposition without a covering.
So fallen, he might sleep, but for public reasons. The political death of a deceiver is seldom without instructive lessons.
This man said, in substance, if not literally, in conversation with a republican of this town, about three weeks ago.
"Sir, I know not how to address you—I can hardly treat you now with civility—I was once very happy to see you at my house, and to converse with you. This democracy cy bewitches you—it bewitches every one who listens to it—men who have become democrats, cannot reason, or converse as they once could."
"Any man who takes the Witness, and, after proper time for reflection, continues to take it, with an idea of supporting it, is a rascal!"
"That Witness is an insufferable partner—The Mercury and Aurora are pure and decent in comparison with it. It must and shall be stopped. If the press is not stopped in August (or at the end of the year) I myself will hire a mob and tear it down."
"I do not talk to you for the sake of your vote—I want it not—I want none of your votes—I will not do public business for such a set of rascals—you may go to hell your own way."
A latent spirit like this has for years pervaded our councils.
A latent spirit like this has instilled its secret poison into the bosoms of those clergymen whom hypocritical intrigues have seduced from the paths of duty.
A spirit like this has been long at work against all claims for redress of grievances.
A spirit like this has prompted those destructive innovations upon our election laws, which have made suffrage a mockery, and tended to make the tenure of office independent of the sense of the people.
A spirit like this has fettered the hearts of deluded people with intolerance, and steeled their bosoms to all charity for men of different opinions.
A spirit like this has brought party zeal to its present heat—and produced that malice, that outrage upon person and character, that habit of malignant persecution, which so much disturbs the community.
A spirit like this has exhibited itself lately in the conduct of John Allen, who having lost the motives which once impelled him to disguise it, finds the most consolation in giving it vent.
A spirit like this will continue to disturb this state until the people shall decree a change of men and measures.
(FROM THE AURORA.)
BE CAUTIOUS OF RUMOR! We are not apt to take for gospel all that is printed in newspapers—nor reported at coffee houses—buying and selling are often affected by rumor—and the rumor is often made to buy in or sell out—to create a demand, or put off a bad article. It is from the frequency of this imposition that the phrase has grown upon a bad article—we conceive the rumor of the renewed coalition, a bad article.
We said on Monday that we should pursue the subject of politics of Europe without blinking the question—We have been cautious at all times of the rumors spread by men whom we have seen so of ten drunk, stupid, and infatuated by British fogs—by the mists of prejudice and error—who have substituted impertinence for intelligence, and sought to flatter those who paid them to their destruction, rather than tell truth for their salvation.
We have looked on the affairs of Europe with the calm and unprejudiced eye of history—and we have calculated thus relative chances of the parties—on the one side we saw marshalled—
Folly, imbecility, incongruity, discordance, corruption, and madness:
On the other side—
Sagacity, force, genius, precision, promptitude, and unity of design. Supposing the parties equally numbered—equally equipped, furnished, paid, and provisioned, and already opposed on the field.—It would be participating in the infatuation which has sunk the powers of Europe beneath the feet of France, to presume that imbecility could contend with effect against genius.
There were the rules of judgment by which we regulated our former anticipations—and by which we shall continue to be regulated on future occasions.
There is a trait in the character of the present ruler of France which we shall just notice here, that the reflecting politician may consider it among the great combination of qualities which fit him for the station to which fortune has elevated him.
He never abandons nor betrays a faith-faultily.
Witness Bavaria, Wirtemberg, Baden. Look on the other side—a separate peace has been concluded at different times.
By Prussia when she deserted the first coalition.
By Russia when she abandoned the second coalition.
By Austria when defeated in the third coalition.
When American valor and constancy overcame English oppression—the miserable loyalists were abandoned on the peace, and left to the generosity of those against whom their swords had been drawn.
When the French noblesse fought a asylum in England, they were sent to Quiberon—to be shot.
Nor has Bonaparte ever surrendered or betrayed the treaties entered into between him and other nations, nor discovered their engagements to their enemies, as was lately done in the English parliament by the publication of the whole plans of the third coalition.
France looks upon Denmark as an ally, and the battle of Copenhagen cannot be forgiven by the Danes. Bernstoff is at Berlin; and corresponding with this fact we find an English fleet of ten ships of war is ordered on a cruise in the Baltic; while the French army of Angereau appears to be destined for the Danish dominion of Holstein, possibly to garrison certain positions capable of co-operating with the design of excluding the British from the Baltic.
While on this part of our subject, we think proper to correct an error into which we were led by relying for accuracy on some of our public prints. We in our remarks of Monday spoke of the death of the prince royal of Denmark, the son of the unfortunate Matilda, sister of Geo. III. The fact is, that this person is still living; the mistake, however, arose from the difficulty of understanding in a country where there are no titled men the peculiar character of certain titles of an apparent value or import. The person who lately died in Denmark, was not the heir apparent to the Danish crown, but the half brother of the Danish king, son of the queen dowager Juliana Maria, so much celebrated for her share in the affair of counts Struensee and Brandt, the reputed paramours of queen Matilda. This Brother of the Danish king obtained the title of hereditary prince during the interregnum, when the dowager queen assumed the whole power. The death of Struensee and Brandt, awakened the Danish nobility, and their moderation was in a powerful manner exemplified, for the dowager queen remained unoffended, and the hereditary prince retained his title, though it was founded on a presumption of the illegitimacy on the death of the
prince royal (son of Matilda) or of the king himself.
From this circumstance of the prince royal being alive, and at the head of a military force in Holstein, we should infer greater difficulties to the French views than otherwise, though we cannot consider the reluctance of a Danish army in Holstein as at all likely to impede the progress of any plan which may be formed for the improvement of Denmark in the general evolution of the British from the Baltic; the appearance of the English fleet in the Baltic, shews that the English cabinet relies more on its great guns than on the influence of the prince royal.
Denmark is weak, and could not single handed maintain a contest against Russia. But Denmark has also cause to apprehend danger from the ambition of Russia, and the long affected, but occasionally suspended, pretensions of Russia to Danish Holstein. These considerations are not overlooked by Bonaparte, who will labour by means of Prussia to close the Baltic and protect Denmark against Russia.
Now unless it had been the fixed determination of Bonaparte to accomplish his purpose, and to protect Denmark, as essential to that purpose, against the Russians, he would not have commenced the enterprise, for his enterprises are not those of hap hazard or rashness in the military steps—the safety of Denmark is essential to his designs—and the means are regulated by which Denmark will be protected and aggrandized.
The war may then penetrate into Sweden—and we may already find the British prints talking of entering the Baltic by the Great Belt, or passage between the islands of Zealand and Fionia, upon the east side of the former of which Copenhagen stands.
This simple circumstance indicates two apprehended events—the first that the passage of the Sound, or the channel between Zealand (Copenhagen) and the Swedish shore is not practicable if Denmark and France combine; the second is that the fortress of Helsingborg, on the east shore of Sweden at the entrance of the sound will be employed to defend the passage and shut the British out of the Baltic.
The intelligence by the recent arrivals shall be the subject of future remark.
AN ACT
Regulating the currency of foreign coins in the United States.
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That from and after the passage of this act, foreign gold and silver coins, shall pass current as money within the United States, and be a legal tender for the payment of all debts and demands, at the several and respective rates following, and not otherwise, to wit:
The gold coins of Great Britain and Portugal, of their present standard at the rate of one hundred cents, for every twenty-seven grains of the actual weight thereof; the gold coins of France, Spain, and the dominions of Spain, of their present standard, at the rate of one hundred cents, for every twenty-seven grains, and two fifths of a grain, or the actual weight thereof. Spanish milled dollars, at the rate of one hundred cents for each, the actual weight whereof shall not be less than seventeen penny weights and seven grains, and in proportion for the parts or a dollar.
Crowns of France at the rate of one hundred and ten cents, for each crown, the actual weight whereof shall not be less than eighteen penny weights and seventeen grains, and in proportion for the parts of a crown. And it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury, to cause alloys of the foreign gold and silver coins made current by this act, to be had at the mint of the United States, at least once in every year, and to make reports of the result thereof to congress, for the purpose of enabling them to make such alterations in this act, as may become requisite, from the real standard value of such foreign coins.—And it shall be the duty of the secretary of the treasury, to cause alloys of the foreign gold and silver coins of the description made current by this act, which shall issue subsequent to the passage of this act, and shall circulate in the United States, at the mint aforesaid at least once in every year, and to make report of the result thereof to congress, for the purpose of enabling congress to make such coins current, if they shall deem the same to be proper, at their real standard value.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first section of the act, entitled "an act regulating foreign coins and for other purposes," passed the ninth day of February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety three, be and the same is hereby repealed. And the operation of the second section of the same act, shall be, and hereby is suspended for, and during the space of three years from the passage of this act.
NATHL. MACON, Speaker of the House of Representatives.
S. SMITH,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
April 10, 1806.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
DEED OF TRUST from Henry Millirous to John Ward, bearing date the 20th day of January, 1806. A tract or parcel of LAND lying and being in the county of Bedford on M'Daniel creek, whereon the said Henry Millirous now lives, containing one hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less.
A Copy,
Teste,
J. STEPTOE, C. B. C.
3W
Bedford May Court. 1806.
John Ward
Plif.
AGAINST
Henry Millirous Deft. } In Chancery
IT appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that a Copy of the interlocutory decree heretofore made in this cause hath been served on the defendant, and he having failed to appear and file his answer according to the terms thereof: It is ordered and decreed that the bill be taken for confessed, and that the defendant be forever barred and foreclosed of all equity of redemption, of, in and to, the land and its appurtenances in the bill mentioned, and that Thomas Lefwich, John Clayton, William Anderson, Mark Anthony, and Samuel Smith, or any three of them be appointed commissioners to sell the land and premises for ready money, and convey the same having advertised the sale thereof for eight weeks successively in some convenient news paper—and out of the money arising therefrom satisfy and pay the complainant the sums of money in the bill mentioned, to wit: the sum fifty five pounds four shillings nine pence; and thirty five pounds nine shillings and ten pence farthing with interest thereon from the 20th of January 1804 till paid, and the costs of recording the Deed of Trust executed by the Defendant, the costs attending the advertisement and sale, and the costs of this suit—and the residue if any to the defendant or his legal representatives—and make report to Court.
A Copy, J. STEPTOE, C. B. C.
THE PLANTER'S AND FARMER'S
ALMANACK
An ALMANACK to be thus designated, will be published annually, in future, at the Star-Office, Lynchburg, and will be ready for delivery for the accommodation of country Merchants, and others, by whole sale or retail, early in every fall. Exclusive of customary matter, pains shall be taken to collect such facts, and such concise information relative to agricultural concerns, the influence and effects of the change of culture, seasons, and seeds, on certain lands, more especially in our own latitude, and climate—the improvements in the raising, management, and preservation of stock, crops, &c. &c. as may tend to promote individual interest, and the public good.
N. B. The astronomical calculations, for the ensuing year, will be by Benjamin Bates, of Hanover county, Virginia.
The omens, prophecies, conjunctions, prognosticks, predictions, incarnations—the auguries, bold guesses, owl-eyed squints, (vulgarly called "bird's eye glances")—the croakings, forebodings, predictions, &c. &c. &c. will be by a set of Sages, Sages, and Wizards, eminent in their way, who to their immortal honour be it recorded, have, tho' to the manifest injury of their own health, and peace of mind, voluntarily, that is to say, of their own free will and accord, devoted their souls and bodies, to our concerns, for half a score months at least!
BY virtue of a Deed of Trust executed to us by William Harris, late of the county of Bedford, to secure certain debts due to William Brown, & Co. and Brown, M'Credie, & Co. We shall on Saturday the 14th of June next, proceed to sell by way of public auction, a tract of
LAND,
Situated in Bedford county, on Elk creek, containing Two Hundred and Twenty Five Acres, more or less, adjoining and bounded by the lands of Joseph Slaughter, John North, Waddy Cobb, Jesse Tait's Estate, and down Elk creek to the said Slaughter's line; the same being a part of a tract purchased of David Wright.
Also the following
SLAVES, to wit:
Rachel, Hannah, Rose, Harriet, Phoebe, Jude, Joanna, Linda, Sukey, Lettie Wallis and Pope.—The sale will take place on the Land, and for Ready Money.—A description of the Land is deemed to be unnecessary, as it is presumed that those who are disposed to purchase will make themselves acquainted with it.
N. B. The badness of the weather made it necessary to postpone the sale, but it will certainly take place on Friday the 11th July next, if fair, if not, on the next (legal) fair day.
William Callaway, } Trustees. Christopher Clark, } John Dabney, } May 10, 1806. (4.W.)
HYMNS.
Just published and for sale at the Star-Office, (Price, Twenty Five Cents,) A choice Selection of Hymns:
This first part, contains the newest and so much admired Spiritual Songs practised with such beneficial effects, during the late Camp, and other Meetings, in the counties of Amherst, and Bedford, and in the vicinity of Lynchburg.
GAMUTS
Also For Sale at this Office.

CHASE'S TRIAL.
This day is published
By SAMUEL H. SMITH.
TRIAL OF SAMUEL CHASE.
An ASSOCIATE JUSTICE of the Supreme Court of the United States, IMPEACHED. By the House of Representatives, for HIGH CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS, before the Senate of the United States.
Taken in short hand By SAMUEL H. SMITH & THOMAS LLOYD.
In two large Octavo Volumes—in Boards, price—to subscribers four dollars and a half—and to non-subscribers five dollars.
A much greater delay has been incurred in the publication of this trial than the Editor contemplated. He has, however, the satisfaction of saying that no effort has been omitted by him to give it to the public at an earlier period. The delay has arisen from the revision of the speeches of the Managers and Counsel. The publication might long since have been made in a less perfect dress; but it was deemed highly desirable that in a case, which, independently of its own importance, might be a precedent in future times, to sacrifice time rather than precision. The work now appears before the public with the expectation of the Editor that it will be considered as meriting the character of an impartial, comprehensive and faithful statement of facts. All the speeches have been revised, and inserted at length, in connection with whatever else formed a part of the trial. Federal City, March 24, 1806.
FOR SALE.
A Valuable Estate in Henry County on the Horse Pasture Creek known by the name of Jordan's Choice containing 1000 acres of the old survey, all of which is of prime quality; adjoining is a new survey of 86 acres well timbered, and on the opposite side of the plantation, 500 acres which tho' it does not join, is sufficiently near and convenient to furnish the necessary supplies of wood for fencing and fuel.
This plantation for 30 years last past has never rented for less than 7,500 dollars. at Lynchburg crop inspected Tobacco, weighing 1250 or upwards per Hogshead—and during that period the rent was 500 dollars per annum.
At present, only one half of the cleared land is under lease for 5.250 lbs. of Tobacco.—Immediate possession of the residue will be given, and further particulars made known by the subscriber, who has also for sale ONE tract of land on Otter about 6 miles below Leftwich's Mill, at present occupied by Mrs. Vanterton, and containing about 320 acres.
ONE tract of land on Jennings creek in Botetourt, containing 800 acres—occupied by John Johnson.
ONE Ditto.—Ditto—occupied by William Young, jun.—containing 200 acres.
ONE Ditto.—Ditto unimproved, containing 400 acres.
ANDREW DONALD. Bedford County, Feb. 24.—1806.
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WILL be sold on the 11th day of August next the following property to wit: about two hundred and twenty-three acres of LAND, the property of Joseph Nicholls, lying in the lower end of Bedford County, on the premises also one hundred acres of LAND, lying near the Ivy Mills in said county, also the said Ivy Mills and one acre of ground on which they are built, also the following SLAVES to wit: Celar, Isaac, Clary, Jude, Milly, and Rachael, the property of said Nicholls, conveyed to me in Trust to secure the payment of several sums of money as by said Deed more fully appears.—The sale of the last mentioned tract of land, will be on the terms, that of the Ivy Mills, and lands at the said Ivy Mills.
THOMAS WIATT, Trustee.
June 20th, 1806.
Memo. the sale of the above mentioned property has been postponed by consent of parties to the day above mentioned, when it will certainly be sold, unless the said Nicholls shall before that time pay the debt aforesaid.
20 Dollars Reward
RANAWAY from the subscribers residing in Botetourt County, State of Virginia, two Negro Men named LEWIS and JACK.—
LEWIS,
is about 26 years of age, 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, very black, but well proportioned, with an open free countenance, and an agreeable appearance; has a full breast, well formed legs, and very small hands and feet for a negro, and possesses considerable information. His back shews, that he has been whipped. He took with him one green Light horse coat, faced white, one pair of neat dimity pantaloons, one fur hat, the under side of which is green, one pair of shoes, lined and bound, and one pair of white thread stockings.
JACK
is about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, 30 years of age, not very black; has rather a shy countenance, is strong and well made, and has a remarkable scar on one of his arms.
It is thought unnecessary to describe this last fellow's clothes, as it is more than probable they may both change them.
Lewis is the property of Robert Ritchey, residing 10 miles from Fincastle, and Jack that of James M'Connell, 7 miles from Fincastle, both on James River, from the former place of which they made their escape last night. The above reward will be given to any person who will secure them in any jail, and all reasonable charges, exclusive of the reward, if brought home, or 10 dollars for either of them.
ROBERT RITCHEY. JAMES M'CONNELL. May 27, 1806. (4x)
Charlotte Court. 6th May, 1806. Charles Haraway, Plif. } IN AGAINST Luke Hazlewood, & Josiah Jackson. Dfts. } Chancery.
THE defendant Hazlewood not having entered his appearance according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not inhabitant of this State.—On the motion of the plaintiff by his attorney, it is ordered that he appear here on the first day of August Court next, and answer the plaintiff's bill, and give security to the satisfaction of the court or performing the decree of the said court.—That a copy of this order be inserted in one of the Virginia Gazettes for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the court-house of the said county.
A Copy—Teste Thomas Read, C. C. C.
VIRGINIA Sc. At a Court held for Bedford County at the Court house the 26th day of May, 1806.
Matthew Hall, Compt. } AGAINST Magorlin Hall, widow and relict of John Hall, dec'd. John Hall, William Hall, Hezekiah Hall, Elitha Hall, Shadrach Brown, and Tabitha his wife late Tabitha Hall, Benjamin Muffgrove, and Keziah his wife, late Keziah Hall, and Jesse Hall, John Hall and Joel Hall—infant children of Jesse Hall, dec'd. heirs, copartners and representatives of said John Hall dec'd. Dfts. } IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants John Hall and William Hall not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this country: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the fourth Monday in August next, and answer the bill of the said complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some one of the newspapers published in this commonwealth for two months successively, and posted up at the front door of the Court-house on two successive Court days.
A Copy—Teste, J. STEPTOE, C. B. C.
AT a Court continued and held for Amherst County the 23th day of May 1806.
Thomas Johnson, Cplt. } AGAINST John Lynch, sen. John Lynch, j. Andrew Lynch, Charles L. Terrell & Sarah his wife, Samuel Mitchell, sen. Samuel Mitchell, jr. Charles Mitchell, Edward Mitchell, and Charles Lynch, jr. Dfts. } In Chancery.
The defendant Charles Lynch, jr. not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of August Term next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a Copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Lynchburg Star, for eight weeks successively, and posted up at the front door of the court-house of this county on some court day.
A Copy—Teste, S. GARLAND, D.C.A.C. VIRGINIA Sc.
At a Court held for Bedford County at the Court house the 27th day of May, 1806.
Joshua Feazle, Compt. } AGAINST John James, William Robertson, and John Gibbs. Dfts. } IN Chancery.
THE defendant John James not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this country: On the motion of the complainant by his attorney, it is ordered that he appear here on the fourth Monday in August next, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be inserted in some convenient news paper published in this state for two months successively, and posted up at the front door of the Court-house of our said county on two successive court days.
A Copy, Teste, J. STEPTOE, jun. D. C. B. C.
At a Court of Quarterly Session continued by adjournment and held for Amherst County at the Court house on Thursday the 22d day of May, 1806
James Penn Executor of Gabriel Penn dec'd. Cpts. } AGAINST M'Dowell surviving part of M'Dowell of Buchanan and M'Dowell. Dfts. } IN Chancery.
THE defendant M'Dowell, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this country; on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the third Monday in September next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Lynchburg Star, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court house of this County on some Court day.
A Copy, Teste, WM. S. CRAWFORD, C. A. C. C.
FOR SALE, A Tract of LAND,
CONTAINING One Hundred and Fifty Acres, lying on the main road leading from Lynchburg to two public Feries on Stanton river, in the county of Campbell, three miles from the Court house.—This place is considered to be an excellent stand for a Tavern or other public business.—The Land lies well, in a pleasant situation, and a considerable quantity of it good for Tobacco. These are eighteen acres cleared last winter and now under a good inclosure.—In case I do not sell privately prior to the first day of August next—on that day I will offer it at Public Sale on the premises.—One half Cash will be required, the balance in twelve months.—Otherwise I will Rent it for the term of Three years, together with Two likely NEGROES. ONE a Woman now in the prime of life, an excellent Cook and capable of any other sort of house business—the other a Boy sixteen years of age.—I will give liberty to clear such a quantity of Tobacco ground as shall be agreed on.—I shall shortly have necessary buildings for the convenience of a family, completed on the place.
Those in either case above mentioned, wishing to trade, are requested to apply to the proprietor residing on the premises.
FRANCIS MILLER.
VIRGINIA. At a Quarterly Court continued and held for Pittsylvania County the 20th day of May, 1806.
Robert Adams, Plif. } AGAINST
Robert Devin surviving Executor of William Devin, dec'd. and Mary Biggers, William Devin, Robert Devin, William Devin, Lucy Devin, Suckey Devin, Bryan M. Devin, Peggy Devin, John Devin, Sally Devin, & Elizabeth Devin, Heirs of Joseph Devin, dec'd. by Bryan W. Nowlin their guardian, Hugh Reynolds, John D. Reynolds, Sarah Reynolds, William Reynolds, Mary Reynolds, Elizabeth Reynolds, Joseph Reynolds, Robert Reynolds, and Margaret Reynolds, by Jos. Reynolds their guardian, James Devin, Alexander Devin, Itham Hubbard, Peter H. Stockton, (Ralph Smith, Stella Smith, Camilla Smith, John Smith, and Samuel Smith, which said Ralph, Stella, Camilla, John and Samuel Smith are the children of Aggy Smith, formerly Aggy Stockton now dec'd. by John Smith their guardian,) John P. Stockton, James Stuart and Elizabeth his wife formerly Eliz Stockton, John Parish and Kiziah his wife formerly Keziah Stockton, Edelle Stockton, Pncebe Stockton, Jehubod Stockton, Lemuel Stockton, Patsy Stockton, and Hiram Stockton, heirs of John Stockton dec'd. Dfts. } IN CHANCERY.
THE defendants Alexander Devin, James Devin, Itham Hubbard, and Peter H. Stockton, not having entered their appearance and given security, according to the act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this State; on the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said absent defendants do appear here on the third Monday in August next, and answer the plaintiff's Bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published in some one of the news papers of this State for 8 weeks successively, and posted up at the front door of the Court house of this county on some court day.
A Copy, Teste, WILL TUNSTALL, C. P. C.
At a Court held for Franklin County, at the Court House, the 6th day of May 1806.
Enock Brower, Plif. } AGAINST Charles Crabaugh & Henry Brower Dfts. } In Chancery.
The defendants not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Plaintiff by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the first Monday in September next, and answer the Plaintiff's bill, and that a Copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some news paper published in this state, for eight weeks successively, and posted up at the front door of the Courthouse of this county.
A Copy—Teste, CALEB TATE, D. C. For JAMES CALLAWAY, C. P. C.
AT a Quarterly Session continued and held for Amherst County, at the Court house, on Wednesday the 21th day of May, 1806.
Parmenas Bryant, Cpt. } AGAINST John M. Griffin and James Stevens jr. Dfts. } In Chancery.
The defendant John M. Griffin not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of Assembly, and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this country; on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the third Monday in September next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a Copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Lynchburg Star, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the court house of this county on some court day.
A Copy—Teste, Wm. S. CRAWFORD, C. A. C. C.
Lueder, Deison, & Co.
HEREBY inform their friends, customers, and the public in general, that they have removed their Store from the house of Doctor John Lynch, on the north side of the main Street to the Large and commodious brick house of Mr. Caleb Tait on the south side of said Street nearly opposite to the Indian Queen Tavern, and Henry Davis & Co's Store, next door above Morris & Dunnington; where they intend keeping their usual supply of dry Goods, with the addition of a good assortment in the grocery line. Lynchburg, June 3.—1806.
Notice,
IS hereby given to all whom it may concern, that a Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly of Virginia, praying that body to form a new District of judicature; to be composed of the Counties of Montgomery, Botetourt, and Bedford; and to erect the Court house for the same in the healthy and growing Town of Salem, in the county of Botetourt, on the great Stage road leading from Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Richmond, to the western country.—This place will be near the centre of the district, with five roads to it from almost every direction. May 20,—1806.
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I HAVE for sale a very valuable Tract of LAND lying in Bedford County on the east side of Little Otter, and on the main road leading from New London to Liberty—containing five hundred and fifty acres—and now in good repair for cropping.—It is deemed unnecessary to give a more accurate description, as it is presumable no one disposed to purchase will contract without first viewing the premises. JAMES STEPTOE jr. Liberty, May 29, 1806.
A Gold Watch Lost.
LOST on Thursday, the 11th of July, in the Town of Carter'sville, an
ELEGANT GOLD WATCH, half capped and jewelled; horizontally constructed; Makers name, MAR-GETTS, London. No. 1 Gold chain, key, and Cornelian seal, set in gold. Whoever will deliver the said Watch, &c. to Mr. Samuel Irvine, of Lynchburg, or Mr. Edmund W. Routes, of Richmond, or to the subscriber, in Amherst, shall receive thirty dollars reward. ALEXANDER B. ROSE. September 23, 1805
THE SUBSCRIBER is now opening in one of Dr. JOHN LYNCH's Brick Tenements, near the Market House, lately occupied by Lueder, Deison, & Co. a handsome assortment of
DRY GOODS
suitable to the present season, among which are a variety of Muslins, Cambricks, Chintzes, Calicoes, Lady's Bonnets, Irish & German Linens, Nankeens, Dimities, Cotton Cassimires, and many other articles too tedious to enumerate—Likewise GROCERIES, Fresh Teas, Loaf & Brown Sugars, Coffee, Rum, and Whisky, which he now offers uncommonly low for ready payments. EDWARD DUFFEL.
TAKEN up by col. Wm. Callaway at his plantation on Elk creek in Bedford County, a bay horse about four feet ten or eleven inches high, supposed to be about thirteen years old, branded on the rear buttock Z. T. and on the off shoulder O. both his hind feet white; also a small Star in his forehead, and shod all round.—appraised to Seventy Dollars, by us JAMES STEPTOE, JOHN NORTH, HENRY BROWN.
Bedford County to wit: The above sworn to before me this 10th day of May, 1806. DAVID SAUNDERS, A Copy, Teste, J. STEPTOE, C. B. C.