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No. XLVIII.]
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25.....1806.
[Vol. I.
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Foreign News.
By the arrival of the ship Sally Anne at Boston, dates to the 26th July.
LONDON, July 24. Yesterday Parliament was prorogued by the commission. This event was announced by the following address to both houses:
"My Lords and Gentlemen, His Majesty has commanded us to acquaint you that the state of the public business enables his majesty to close the session of Parliament."
"We are at the same time directed to express to you the great satisfaction which his majesty has derived from your unremitting zeal and diligence, and from that attention to the most important interests of his Empire, which has been so conspicuously manifested in all your proceedings."
"The measures which have been adopted for the permanent improvement of the various branches of our military system, your attention to combine these arrangements with the great object of the public economy, and the regulations which you have established for the speedy and effectual Audit of the Public accounts, call for his majesty's particular acknowledgments."
"Gentlemen of the House of Commons, We have it in command from his majesty to thank you for the provision which you have made for the various exigencies of the public service, particularly by raising, within the year, so very large a proportion of the necessary supplies; a measure in itself highly advantageous, and which must create, both at home and abroad, the most favorable impression of our national resources, and of the spirit which animates the British people. You may be assured that the utmost attention shall be paid to the frugal administration of those supplies which you have so liberally granted."
"His Majesty is particularly sensible of the fresh proof he has received of your affectionate attachment to him, in the provision which you have made for enabling the younger branches of his Royal Family to meet the necessa-
ry expenses of their station."
"My Lords and Gentlemen, His Majesty being always anxious for the restoration of peace on just and honorable terms, is engaged in discussions with a view to the accomplishment of this most desirable end. Their success must depend on a corresponding disposition on the part of the enemy; and in every event, his majesty looks with the fullest confidence to the countenance of the union and public spirit among all ranks of his people, which can alone give energy to War or security to Peace."
Then a commission for proroguing the Parliament was read. After which the Lord Chancellor said:
"My Lords and Gentlemen, By virtue of his Majesty's Commission under the Great Seal, to and other Lords directed, and now read, we do, in his majesty's name, and in obedience to his commands, prorogue this Parliament to Thursday the 28th day of August next."
FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF JULY 21.
Queen's Palace, July 21. James Monroe, Esq. minister plenipotentiary from the United States of America, having received new letters of credence, giving him, jointly with William Pinkney, Esq. the character of ministers extraordinary and plenipotentiaries from the United States, they had this day a private audience of his majesty, to deliver said credentials.
PARIS, JULY 7.
M. D'Oubril, the Russian envoy, actually arrived here yesterday, at three in the afternoon. He alighted at the hotel Change Bateliere.
VIENNA, JUNE 29.
We are positively assured that M. D'Oubril's full powers and instructions relate not only to the affairs of Russian prisoners, but that this minister is authorized to open negotiations for concluding preliminary articles of peace.—Some days before this minister's departure from Vienna, M. Asfetten, counselor to the Russian legation, set out from this city for Petersburg, with important dispatches.
THE FLEETS.
Our coast it is probable will be the scene of a great naval enterprize, as the British fleet, as well as the French, are now near us. On Saturday evening the Melampus frigate, one of the fleet of Sir Richard Strachan, anchored in Hampton Roads. This fleet is composed of the
 Cæsar, 84  Audacious, 74  Belleisle, 74  Bellona, 74  Montague, 74  Terrible, 74  Triumph, 74 
Melampus and another frigate. It appears that Sir Richard Strachan, having heard in the West-Indies, that admiral Williams was on the coast of America, and probably knowing the route which Sir John B. Warren had taken, he lost no time in seeking the French fleet, and it is surprising how they have missed. That the fleet of admiral Williams, and the squadron of commodore L'Hermite, or parts of both, were on the coast there can be no doubt.
The Patriot of 74 guns and the Valereuse frigate, belonging to admiral Williams's fleet are in port, the former at Annapolis, and the latter in the Delaware. The Cybelle frigate belonging to commodore L'Hermite's squadron, is in this port. The following is a list of the French force.
 The Regulus, 80 guns.  Foudroyant, 84  Veteran, 80  Majestic, 74  Rose, 74  Impetueux, 74  Patriot, 74 (at Annapolis)  President, 44  Valereuse, 40 (Delaware)  Cobele, 44 (Norfolk.) 
BOSTON, September 1.
By the arrival at this place, of the regular trading ships John Adams, Capt. Wood, and Sally, Capt. Lewis, we have received our regular files of London papers to the 18th, and Liverpool to the 21st July. They are not fraught with that variety of interesting and important matter, which it was believed they would contain; and the state of affairs at our last dates,
warranted the public to expect—a few extracts are however presented to our readers:—On the subject of Peace, there is nothing to be found in these papers, beyond the fact of a frequent interchange of Couriers and Messengers between the Cabinets of St. James and St. Cloud, except rumor and speculative opinion; which far as they may be allowed to go, are insuspicious to any immediate reconciliation.
BRITISH NAVIGATION LAWS.
Among the important measures which have engaged the attention of the British Cabinet, during the late sitting of Parliament, is that of suspending the British Navigation Laws. This act which has probably passed both branches of the government, meets with much severe remark from the London editors. Bell's Weekly Messenger, in commenting on this step, thus arranges its objections:—
"1. It is an unnecessary innovation upon an established practice,—an immediate and direct sacrifice of much good,—and such would require the proof of necessity, and a greater good, for its suspension."
"2. It is necessary to deduct a most considerable branch from the carrying trade, and as such must either withdraw an equivalent of the capital now employed in the carrying trade, and thus proportionally diminish the shipping of the country; or if the same capital be from necessity continued, when the demand has considerably failed, the profits of the ship owners must be reduced, almost to nothing, and thus the ship trade will be in a short time absolutely deserted."
"3. To supply our colonies not only in American shipping, but with American produce, is a manifest injustice to our own Colonies. That the merchants of Canada will be ruined, whilst the Americans of Maine and New England are enriched at their cost."
"4. That the opening of the colonial market to the American beef and pork must most seriously affect the Irish provision trade;—that the Americans are nearer, and paying no taxes, no insurance, and building their vessels so much cheaper, they can bring their provisions to the colonial market at half the expence and therefore at half the price of either the English or Irish merchants. That the latter therefore must be ruined in the competition, and must be more or less injured in proportion as this competition is more or less introduced.—e. g. as the trade is more or less opened."
"5. That the American vessels being admitted into the colonies, will find no difficulty in introducing contraband articles, to the manifest injury of the fair trader in the Islands, and the British importer or manufacturer.—The teas and East India produce are in America subject to no tax, so that the inducement to contraband trade on the side of the American are irresistible."
"6. Finally that this opening of the colonial market is the first link of an insurrection, which we know not how far it may extend."
The removal of the crews of the Prussian vessels from on board their ships to prison, has been the forerunner, as it was natural to expect of the departure of the Prussian Ambassador Jacob, who has received orders to leave this country, and who is expected to set off about the end of next week.
JULY 21.—Letters from the coast mention, that Calais has lately been bombarded by our cruisers on that station. It appears that while commodore Owen was examining some vessels that had run within the French shore he was fired on from Calais; on which it is added he sent in a flag of truce, declaring that he had been restrained by considerations of humanity from firing on the town; but that should they persist in their wanton attempts to annoy him, he should be compelled to retaliate. A correspondent continues to observe, that an insulting answer having been returned, the commodore ordered two gunboats to play upon the town for eight hours, and that part of it was in consequence reduced to ruins.
The letters A. E. I. O. U. were engraved upon the key of the vault of the emperor in Vienna.—They stood for the words: Austriacorum est imperare orbi universo. "It is alone for the
house of Austria to command the world." Bonaparte ordered the inscription to be erased.
Domestic.
For the following important article we are indebted to the Aurora of the 3d inst.—It must be considered very interesting to our Virginia readers now so much in the habit of manufacturing their own clothing.
[FROM THE AURORA.]
COLD BLUE DYES,
FOR LINEN AND HEMPEN THREAD. Into a cask holding 120 gallons, nearly full of soft water, river or rain water to be preferred, or in proportion for any smaller quantity, pour four pounds of good Indigo, well ground till it is reduced to the consistence of oil, or till you feel no gritty or sandy particles in the paste—to every pound of indigo, add two pounds of flack'd lime, and two pounds of green copperas—the result in which this is mixed is called a wad, and the whole mixture is called, when prepared, the vat. Stir the vat from the bottom every two hours for one day, or more if you choose, it is more convenient to stir it in the course of the day, on being stirred, a fine yellow color and bitter smell, it is then fit for use.
You must not work your wad for some hours after stirring, till it is perfect, after every dying stir your wad. If the vat should be of a pale yellow color, add a little more copperas—if too yellow, a little lime.
When your vat is weak, that is the coloring matter exhausted from use, to give your thread a complete color, replenish it with half the quantity of the before mentioned ingredients; but you must not more than once treat it as a new vat. This fixed vat is calculated for dying twelve pounds of thread at one time. For any person who dyes regularly, it will be found very advantageous to have two vats always in use, as by that means the indigo may be so totally employed in the dye that not a particle will be lost;—when the first vat is worked too much, to give the thread a good color, it can be finished in the second vat.
If the vat is set with good indigo, and brought into a proper working state, for which observation and a few persevering experiments will soon qualify the dyer, four or five minutes will be, at first, long enough to give the thread a good color—if put upon sticks across the tub or vat, and kept continually turning, it will take the color better.
After the thread is sufficiently dyed—wring it out well, that you may not waste your indigo; and have a tub or pan prepared which will contain about six gallons of water, into which pour a tea cup full of the oil of vitriol—run the thread through this liquor pound by pound, wring it well out, and immediately wash it thoroughly in clean water—take care not to add too much vitriol, or it will damage or burn the yarn—the strength of the liquor may be easily ascertained, by a little experience, or touching the tongue with it. If you dye often, it will be found a considerable saving to have a vat fixed for the vitriol—the same liquor will then last a long time, or more vitriol may be added when it is weakened by use—this mixture of vitriol with water is technically called the fowring tub—the vitriol fixes the color—or as dyers call it this mixture is the mordant.
This dye has been found for linen thread equal to any hot dye, ever used—its colors, equally fixed and soft; it will answer also for cotton, but not so well as some others, which we shall communicate to the public.
The simplicity of this dye fits it for any part of the United States, where it may be established without difficulty. One set of vats would dye for a considerable neighbourhood.
In drying your thread after dying, take care not to hang it in the glare of the sun, but prefer the cool shade—
keep it well shook and open to the air during the drying—or it will be harsh and inconvenient to spool.
Prepare your thread for dying by boiling it in strong lye or water impregnated with pot ashes, or wood ashes, washing it well afterwards—Or, even keeping it 24 hours, in simple water may answer.
Indigo may be ground to a paste with pure water in an iron pot, with two cannon or iron balls, till it comes to be smoothe as oil.
Small mills turned by hand, made exactly like a malt mill but smaller, have been lately introduced in England—the stones are furrowed as for a malt mill, but the stones are of what are there called pease or culm—they are of a close texture, and but seldom used in the United States—the others may be found to answer. Burr mill stones will not do.—This mode of reducing the indigo is superior for a large quantity to the iron pot and balls. Have two pans to grind the reduced indigo into each other.—Powd the indigo tolerably fine first, then dilute it with pure water, adding more water as it thickens just sufficient to enable it to run clear from the mill. Continue grinding it till you cannot feel any grit or land like particles between your fingers—which will soon be the case if your indigo is good.
HOSTILE APPEARANCE.
Extract of a Letter from a gentleman at Natchez, dated August 2, 1806.
"On or about the 18th of July last a detachment of Spanish troops, consisting of 300, under the command of Captain Viand, the commandant of Nagadoches, and inspector of his Catholic Majesty in the Interior. Province, arrived, in the Caddo village, near Red River, above Natchitoches, demanded information relative to the exploring party under the direction of M c Kinney, which had passed through their village, and demanded to know if the United States, which the Caddocs had hosted in their town, informing that the flag of the U. S. had no business there, and that that part of the country was within the dominion of Spain, and forbidding the Caddo Chief in future from holding trade, trading, or having any intercourse whatever with the Americans—after which the Spaniards took their departure, in pursuit of the exploring party, and informed the Caddo Chief that they were going to take, kill, or drive them back."
FROM THE BALANCE.
A NEW CASE IN SURGERY.
MR. CROWELL. The singularity of the following case induces me to offer it for publication.
MR. GEORGE MACY, a worthy citizen of this place, after suffering the most excruciating tortures from inflammatory rheumatism, which seemed to pervade the whole system, the head and breast not excepted, for twenty days; at the expiration of which, when to all appearance near his exit, an imperfect crisis formed, and was followed by a species of insanity which favored a determination to take his life; for this purpose, he artfully procured a large-sized tea spoon and impracticable as it may appear, pushed it down his throat, while The attendant was gone to the opposite side of the room by his request. The struggle was violent, and he nearly expired in the attempt; but at last, crowded it so far as to fall into the stomach before assistance could be called. In this deplorable situation I was immediately requested to visit him. As every rational probability of removing the spoon from the stomach, or otherwise, would be abortive beyond doubt, I was efforts of nature, assisting her variety of oily and mucilaginous substances. About thirty-six hours after, he was exercised with severe spasms, (when the spoon probably passed from the stomach into the intestines) after which, his fever formed a more per-

best crisis, and he continued to gain health and strength for about twenty days; when a cutting sensation led to a discovery of its situation, in one of the circumvolutions of the small intestine called ileum, in the right and lower part of the abdomen. Unable to make the short turnings and windings of this part of the passage, it remained in a fixed position for twelve days, with considerable irritation about the parts, and frequent spasmodic contractions.
Believing that any further delay would endanger the passage of the spoon from the intestines into the cavity of the abdomen, unless removed, I, with the assistance of Doctor Talman, proceeded to the operation, as the derailed report. As a more minute account will probably be given in the Medical Repository, suffice it to say, that the incision was made a little below a transverse line with the top of the hip, the intestine divided and secured, after the extraction of the spoon, with the glover's sitch.
Mr. M. abhorring the principle, who deranged at the time that he made the above attempt, and regretting his deviation from the line of medical practice, for relief, suffered the operation with great fortitude without being held. He was now recovered beyond all probable danger from the operation. SAMUEL WHITE. To the Hon. State of New-York, Aug. 26, 1806.
CHARLESTON, August 23. THE GALE.
For three or four weeks past, we had experienced an almost uninterrupted series of W. and S. W. winds, until Sunday evening last, when the wind shifted round to the N. E. and continued vibrating between that point and S. E. for two or three days, though moderate. On Wednesday night an unusual roaring was heard from the bay, occasioned by a heavy swell breaking upon it, which indicated an approaching storm. On Thursday the wind continued fresh at N. N. E. and in the night blew with increased strength: yesterday morning the wind remained in about the same quarter, and in the course of the forenoon increased to a complete gale, accompanied with a considerable fall of rain, and in almost every respect resembling the first approaches of that tremendous gale experienced on this coast in the month of September, 1804. Precautionary steps were taken by our sea-faring brethren in securing their vessels at the wharves: and it gives us pleasure to state that little or no damage had been received by them when our paper went to press last evening, although the gale continued with little or no abatement.
The ship Haley , capt. Manley, with a cargo on board for Havana, belonging to Mr. F. Depau, and riding at anchor in Poor man Hole, we are sorry to state, drifted from her anchors and went ashore on James' Island; but it is expected she may be got off.
The ship Hope , capt. Hunt, from Philadelphia, belonging to Messrs. Kirk and Lukins, with a cargo of flour, goods, &c. also drifted from her anchorage in the river and is ashore on James' Island.
The ship Arctic , capt. Collins, lying at quarantine with a cargo of hides, tallow, cocoa, from Montevideo, and belonging to Philadelphia, also drifted from her anchorage, and went ashore on the reef off Fort Johnson, where there is every probability of her being lost.
The Revenue cutter Hooper Eagle , capt. Payne, drove from her anchorage in Cooper River, and is ashore on James' Island.
A number of trees were blown down in the different streets of the city; but we have heard of no lives being lost.
The storm will undoubtedly be very detrimental to the crops of our planters, which had before suffered considerably from too much rain.
The vessels which were driven ashore in the gale on Friday last, we are informed, are likely to be got off having received very little damage.
The stage arrived on Saturday evening at Hazard's Point, without the Northern Mail, not having been able to proceed farther, with the mail for this place, on Friday, than Santee Ferry, where on attempting to use the ferry boat, the filled. We are sorry to learn, that one of the passengers, Dr. Irving of New York, "who with col. Swartwout, had arrived here the day before, and were on a visit to Georgetown,) received considerable injury from the falling of a tree.
Star Fraud.—To save the burial of as other expenses, two taylors buried in one coffin, not discovered till night, as usual, picking them up the corpse, to his surprise found two bodies and to meet with only persons should be alarmed at pecies of fraud; they may their loss by going halves with (U. S. Gazette.)
Samuel Vail, & Co. Submit to the public the following PROPOSALS, For publishing at St. Louis, in the LOUISIANA TERRITORY, —A Weekly Newspaper— Missouri Correspondent AND Illinois Gazette.
PREFATORY to undertaking the editorial labours of a Newspaper, we presume to offer the following remarks:
While the United States, by their rapid progress in population, agriculture, commerce, and the arts, are becoming every day, more powerful and opulent, the limits of our western settlements are widely extending themselves far beyond our ancient boundaries, even to a very great length into our newly acquired territories, beyond the expectation of the most sanguine of our fellow citizens. Since the important acquisition of Louisiana, comprising a tract of the finest country on the face of the globe—embracing almost every climate between the north and south poles—a tract of country more extensive than all the United States besides, and capable of affording subsistence to more people than all the continent of Europe; with all the necessaries and almost all the luxuries that can possibly be conceived of. We consider this as a rational anticipation, entirely unconnected with any thing prophetic or visionary. There are other considerations which operate powerfully upon our minds, and tend absolutely to induce in us a belief of the growing consequence of the region in question; the citizens of which have a guarantee of all the rights of the citizens of the U. States, in the constitution; and equally entitled to enjoy the rights and security of life, liberty, property and reputation, as well from the invasion of any foreign nation, as from Indian war. Although far removed from the present greatest population of the United States, by the compact of the federal union, the physical force and power of the nation must be extended to the government and people, for their protection forever, or at least so long as the union exists. In this view of the subject we are compelled to believe that the period is not far distant when the face of this healthy and beautiful country will be covered with a numerous population, and that seminary of learning will appear throughout the whole: that the arts and sciences may find their way thither, without the trouble, labour and expense, of importation from abroad. It is believed that no country has yet been discovered, which affords such great temptations to emigrants from the old settled states and foreign countries, as the one of which we are now speaking.
The Missouri Correspondent AND Illinois Gazette
WILL always be open for the exposition of public measures. In the discussion of local questions, the editors will know no party, but will give place to all essays that are couched in decent and correct language. Its columns will contain a summary of the acts and proceedings of Congress during and after their session; and the proceedings of the legislatures of Louisiana and Indiana Territories in detail—together with a due portion of political, historical, philosophical, moral, poetical, and amusing essays.
Ever mindful of the respect due to a Gazette intended for circulation among a numerous, virtuous, and independent people, whose generous patronage we hope to merit and receive—in return for which it will be our endeavour to become useful members of the community, and cultivate a friendly intercourse with all our patrons.
We shall always in an independent manner keep in mind our constitutional guarantee—the liberty of the Press—remembering too at the same time, that the great Montesque, in his Spirit of Laws, has declared, that, "Liberty, without controul, is Licentiousness."
NOTICE.
AGREEMENT to a Decree of the County Court of Bedford, will be exposed to sale on the 10th day of October next, for ready money, a TRACT OF LAND, the property of Sandford Holley, lying in the County of Bedford, and containing 254 acres, to satisfy a debt due from the said Sandford Holley to Holley's administrators:—the sale to take place on the premises.
Julius Hatcher, Charles Stewart, Benj. Robertson, William Rucker, David North. } Commrs. July 29th, 1806.
L Y N C H B U R G. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25.
The destructive effects of the late Tornado throughout the Union, are noticed by all the papers received by last mail.
A Threshing Mill, invented some time ago, in Scotland, is brought into use in Pennsylvania, by a Mr. Whitmer. It threshes and cleans 35 bushels of oats in an hour; and 100 of wheat, in eight hours.
A Philadelphia paper of the 8th states that the ex Spanish Minister Yrujo has received orders from his sovereign to demand of this government the recognition and restoration of his functions as minister. Such conduct on the part of Spain, must be considered a tacit declaration of war.
Mr. Fox is afflicted with a complication of disorders, the most distressing of which is a confirmed dropsy, which leaves no hope of his being ever again capable of encountering the fatigues of his parliamentary duties.
The natives of Botany Bay are proving troublesome to the colony. They attempt to set fire to the buildings, by a mode they have of throwing firebrands to a vast distance by means of the montang or fish giggs.—Governor King has directed the introduction of such of the natives of the South Sea Islands as might be brought to the Bay, in all useful trades and mechanical arts—hence the prospect of extending useful information and knowledge to all the inhabitants of the Islands in the pacific ocean.
READER—Hast thou to do any thing which requires fidelity, rigid attention, and perseverance in the performance? If so, bend to thine own whole undivided attention, both early, and late; rely not stupidly on the professions—the affections of any man. Such commonly are mere breath—hollow! all hollow! True—there are honorable exceptions, but experience and observation are authorized that the instances are so rare!
On Monday afternoon last there fell here very heavy rain, attended with severe thunder. During the week preceding the heat was oppressive (the thermometer from 85 to 87) and the earth so parched as to put a stop to wheat sowing, &c. Since then the weather has been wet and so cold generally as to make a fire comfortable.
A Baltimore paper states that a great part of the crew of the French ship Patriot , now off Annapolis, is sick—Yet the same paper mentions that they consume daily 700 lbs of beef, and 60 dols. worth of bread.
Duncan, the Detroit Custom House officer (report says) has absconded, and swept off seventy-four thousand dollars of public money . Is it credible that any collector would be permitted to have in his possession, at any time, so large a sum?
John Page, Esq. has accepted his appointment of Commissioner of Loans.
The Secretary of War is absent on a visit to Monticello.—Washington Fed.
By the Mail which arrived at Kingston, (Jamaica) with dispatches, adm. Dacres received a letter from adm. Cochrane, informing him of the death of adm. earl St. Vincent. This intelligence had been transmitted from Barbadoes by lord Seafarth, where a running vessel from London had arrived.
The nuptials of an amiable couple are announced in a country paper, the gentleman being of the age of 32, and his lady 19 years old. Upon some friends observing, prior to the ceremony, their advanced years, they very affectingly pleaded the force of an old attachment. Phil. Pap.
AN EMBARRASSMENT. A gentleman sitting in one of the boxes in company with the late Lord North, knowing his Lordship, entered into conversation with him, and seeing two ladies come into an opposite box, turned to him and addressed him with, "Pray for, can you inform me who is that ugly b— that is just come in?" "Q" replied his lordship, with great good humour, "that is my wife." "Sir, I hope you ten thousand pardons—I do not mean her, I mean that shocking monster who is along with her." "That" replied his lordship "is my daughter."
The following apology, for occasional errors is so ingeniously stated, that we do not hesitate to give it a place. It is from a paper lately placed under the sole editor of the Charleston Courier .
FROM THE PEOPLE'S FRIEND. A number of typographical errors have crept into a few of the writings in this paper. Many there are who would resort to the expedient of an errata—but that never did any good in cases of mere verbal mistakes. Some of those errors may be as much owing to the negligence of the writer as to the inaccuracy of the printer. The editor owns that when he has got into the current of quick composition, he loses all solicitude about mere words, and provided he can embody his thoughts to the mind's eye, is not unwilling to leave them to his intelligent readers. To those nice verbalists who like the enraged musicians of Hogarth, writhing with agony at a crack in the harmony, or are ready to expire with sympathy for PRISCAN, he begs leave to speak in the
words used by a great man, now dead, to a friend of his.
The day on which the advertisement of Mr. Burke's celebrated letter on a regicide peace appeared in the newspapers, Mr. Malone, the commentator on Shakespeare, a great scholar and a man of genius, but whose pursuits in literature are being rather of a confined kind, rendered him fitter for a verbal critic, than for an original composer, came running in almost breathless to Mr. Burke, and exclaimed—Good heavens, my dear friend what a misfortune! I am quite afflicted! What's the matter now, Malone? said the great man. "Why in your advertisement in this morning's paper—look ye here it is—here is absolutely a grammatical error. For the antecedent and consequent" (here he was going to repeat LILLY's rule) "Absolutely!" said Burke interrogatively. "Absolutely!" replied Malone. "Then take my advice (said Burke gravely) do not read the work upon any account, for if a grammatical error in the advertisement mortifies you so much, the book itself will certainly kill you. The well meaning pedant felt the poke, and was contented ever after to take the sense and the words of the author for better for worse, as he happened to find them.
Sir Richard Strachan has arrived at Barbadoes with the following ships viz:     Ships  Guns      Char  80.    Belleisle  74.    Triumph  74.    Belona  74.    Admiral  74.    Montague  74.    Thump  74.    Miramagus  74.    La Decade  74.     where they are to remain, in expectation of a French force being out.
Pittsylvania August Court, 1806. Stockley Turner, against Jeff. Hatton, in an action of slander, before a respectable Jury, who knew the worth of character.—Verdict for the plaintiff, damage five thousand Dollars. Robert Pinley, against Joshua Safford, in an action of slander, Verdict for the plaintiff, damage five hundred Dollars.
Matthew Lyon, John Bole, John Rowan, R. M. Johnson, Benjamin Howard, and Joseph Desha, are elected members of Congress, for the six districts of Kentucky.
The 1st inst. was the day appointed by law for choosing the electors of the Senate throughout the state of Maryland.
Montgomery—Robert P. Magruder and Upton Beall, esqs. are elected.
For Prince George's—Walter Bowie and Edward Calvert, esqs.
For the city of Annapolis—Benjamin Ogle, esq.
[CONCLUDED.]
When the Secretary of war's letter was laid before the committee, Mr. Bidwell moved the same proposition which the Secretary of the treasury had some days before put into the hands of the chairman, and which he (Mr. B.) afterwards introduced into the house; viz. a vote of two millions and a continuance of the duties, the proceeds of which constituted the Mediterranean fund. It was rejected, and the chairman directed to draft the report which has been printed with the secret journal, and published in all the newspapers. The committee saw, in the multiplied aggressions of Spain ample cause of war, on the part of a government with which the welfare of its citizens was not paramount to every other consideration. But conceiving that the true interest of the American people (which alone it behoved them to consult) require peace, they forebore to recommend offensive measures.—They believed it to be our policy to reap the neutral harvest, and seize the favorable occasion of extinguishing the public debt—at once the price of our liberties, and the badge of our ancient servitude. So long as this debt remains unpaid, we can scarcely be considered as a truly independent people. The sense of the committee was, neither to make war, nor purchase peace, but to provide for the defence of our actual territory, which the highest authority had announced to have been violated and to be menaced with fresh invasion. On this point they conceived there could be but one sentiment, whatever difference of opinion might exist as to the wisdom of pledging the nation to protect its flag in remote seas, or its ability to afford such protection. A poor attempt has been made to reproach the committee with a want of reliance on the militia, and a preference for the standing army. When it is considered that all the protection thenceforth to extend to the troops, and the nearest states from which the militia could be marched for its defence, are separated from it by many hundred miles of intervening Indian country (not to mention that these states themselves are amongst the weakest in the nation) the incompetency of the militia to the service in question, and the futility of the objection, must become manifest to all. Besides, the president had no occasion to apply to congress for power to call out the militia to repel invasion, that force being, under such circumstances, already at his disposal; and it is worthy of remark, that the far greater number of these would be partisans of the militia, refused to adopt the measure recommended by the executive, (or indeed any other) for giving efficient operation to that great constitutional defence. The report of the committee, although in strict union with the official recom-
mendation of the executive, was rejected by 72 to 58 votes; and the proposition to appropriate dollars for the purpose of defraying any extraordinary expenses of foreign intercourse, which had been previously laid on the table by a member of that committee, before their report to the house, was immediately taken up. The avowed object of this measure was to enable the president to open a negotiation for the purchase of Florida.—A motion was then made by Mr. J. Randolph to confine the appropriation to that object, and agreed to by ayes 73, nays 51. Another motion was made by the same gentleman to render the debt which was proposed to be incurred, redeemable at the pleasure of the U. States. This was carried without a division. But afterwards when the bill was brought into the house redefined its vote for a specific appropriation and the money was left applicable at the discretion of the executive, to any extraordinary purpose of foreign intercourse whatsoever. Mr. J. Randolph also moved to limit the amount which the government might stipulate to pay the territory in question, upon the ground that if congress were disposed to acquire Florida by purchase, they should fix the extent to which they were willing to go, and thereby furnish our ministers with a safeguard against the rapacity of France—that there was no probability of our obtaining the country for less, but every reason to believe, that, without such a precaution on our part, the would exact more. This motion was overruled. When the bill came under discussion, various objections were urged against it by the same gentleman:—Among others, that it was in direct opposition to the views of the executive, as expressed in the president's official communication, (it was on this occasion that general Varnum declared the measure to be consonant to the secret wishes of the executive) that it was a prostration of the national honor at the feet of our adversary; that a concession so humiliating would paralyse our efforts against G. Britain, in case the negotiation then and now pending between that government and ours should prove abortive; that a partial appropriation towards the purchase of Florida without limiting the president to some specific amount, would give a previous sanction to any expense which he might incur for that object, and which congress would stand pledged to make good; that, if the executive, acting entirely upon its own responsibility, and exercising its acknowledged constitutional powers, should negotiate for the purchase of Florida, the house of representatives would, in that case, be left to ratify or annul the contract; but that the court which was proposed to be purified, (and which eventually was purified) would reduce the discretion of the legislature to a mere shadow; that, at its ensuing session, congress would find itself, in relation to this subject, a deliberative body out in name; that it could not, without a manifest dereliction of its own principles, and perhaps without a violation of public faith, refuse to sanction any treaty entered into by the executive under the auspices of the legislature, and with powers to unlimited extent; that, however great his confidence in the chief magistrate, he would never consent to give any president so dangerous a proof of it; that his duties as a member of that house, as the independent representative of an independent people, were paramount to every other consideration; and that he would never preclude himself, by any previous sanction, from the unbiaised exercise of his judgment on measures which thereafter were to come before him; that the house had no official recommendation from the executive for the step which they proposed to take, on the contrary it was in direct opposition to its sentiments as expressed in the confidential message; that the responsibility would be exclusively their own; that, if the president deemed it advisable to purchase foreign territory, he was free to enter into stipulations for that purpose, whilst congress would remain equally free to sanction or disapprove such stipulations; & that, if he thought proper to ask for an appropriation for that object, the responsibility of the measure would rest upon him; but when the legislature undertook to prescribe the court which he should compose, and which he had pledged himself to purify, the case was entirely changed; that that house could have no channel thro' which it could be made acquainted with the opinions of the executive, but such as was official, responsible and known to the constitution; and that it was a prostration of its high and solemn functions to act upon an unconstitutional suggestion of the private wishes of the executive, irresponsibly announced an irresponsible individual, and in direct hostility to his avowed opinions. To every objection, the "Louisiana precedent," as it was called, formed the only answer, although in the latter stages of the discussion, no reply was attempted. The dods were closed, and the minority, whose motives were impeached, and whose persons were almost denounced, were voted down without debate.—In reply to the case of Louisiana, it was said, that it was no precedent at all; that every argument drawn from that source was utterly inconclusive in the present instance; that no two cases could be more dissimilar; that, except the parties being the same, there was no point of resemblance; that, when Spain with held from us the right of deposit at New Orleans, congress had acted on its own investigation alone; they had not been appropriated by the executive of any hostile movement on the part of Spain; the territory of the U. S. had not been injured, nor the persons of our citizens, within our own jurisdiction, violated: It had not been officially announced to congress, that "their protection as well as the spirit and honor of our country, rendered the interposition of the national force indispensable;" the chief magistrate of the union had not officially declared that the act of aggression in ques-

1806, was committed by persons acting, by the orders and under the sanction of the court of Madrid: on the contrary, the house of representatives had expressed, by a formal resolution, their belief, that the wrong in question, had proceeded from the unauthorised misconduct of certain Spanish officers, and declared their determination, in case it should be sanctioned by their government, to redress the injuries, and vindicate the right of our citizens. On that occasion, congress avowed, that they would resort, in the first instance, to an amicable explanation with the Spanish court: on this the fair experiment of negotiation had been tried, and "after five months of fruitless endeavor on our part, to bring them to some definite and satisfactory result," had entirely failed. It could not escape the recollection of the house, to how great an excitement, the denial of a conventional right had, at that day, roused the minds of our citizens. And it must be remembered that the acquisition of Louisiana, which put a stop to these aggressions of Spain, (for which no satisfaction had as yet been rendered) was made, not from the party by whom those offences had been offered, but from one in no wise connected with them. And admitting at this juncture the propriety of our making overtures for the purchase of a country, the possession of which, it was conceded on all hands was highly desirable to us; yet, what measures had we taken, or did we propose to take, for the refusal, on the part of Spain, to ratify her convention with us, signed by her own minister under the eye of her sovereign, pledging her to make compensation for spoliations committed upon our commerce during a preceding war; to indemnify our citizens for the renewal of the same practices, already of great amount, during the present war; for the obstruction of the navigation of the Mobile; for the refusing to come to any fair and amicable adjustment of the boundaries of Louisiana; and for a daring violation by persons acting under the authority of Spain and no doubt apprised of her sentiments and views, of our undisputed limits, which she had solemnly recognised by treaty? Nunc! The denial of the stipulated compensation for the spoliations of a former war; the reiteration of the same practices during the present; the obstruction of the Mobile; the peremptory refusal to adjust the boundaries of Louisiana; the inults committed on our territory, and the violation of the property and persons of our citizens within our acknowledged limits; all seemed forgotten, in the zeal to purchase Florida, or thrown with the national purse into the scale.
The bill nevertheless passed by a great majority. A motion was then made to transmit, by a committee, the following message to the senate:— "By the house of representatives, January 16, 1806."
Essentials of the Senate. We transmit you a bill which has passed this house, entitled "an act making provision for defraying any extraordinary expenses attending the intercourse between the United States and foreign nations;" and in which we require your concurrence. This bill has been passed by us to enable the President of the United States to commence, with more effect, a negotiation for the purchase of the Spanish territories lying on the Atlantic ocean, and Gulf of Mexico, and eastward of the river Mississippi. The nature and importance of the measures contemplated have induced us to act on the subject with closed doors. You will of consequence consider this communication as confidential." Mr. J. Randolph then moved to strike out the words "error Mississippi" and insert "Bay of Perdido"—upon this ground, that the country between the Mississippi and the Perdido was in dispute between the United States and Spain, being a part of Louisiana, "such as it was possessed by France," and conveyed by the treaty of Paris of the year of 1803 to the United States. To the territory in question (embracing both banks of the Mobile, and out of which all our differences with Spain on the subject of Louisiana on this side of the Mississippi, had grown) the executive had advanced, what they deemed an undoubted claim. Upon this claim congress had already legislated, having passed a law, erecting the shores and waters of the Mobile, into a collection district, and it was deemed, that the authorising the president to purchase that portion of the country would not only be a compromise of the national honor, but might fairly be considered as a surrender on our part, of all pretensions to the disputed territory. This motion, however, was negatived—Yeas 59—Nays 68.
It is, perhaps, worthy of remembrance, that, on this, as on most of the other questions arising out of this subject, many of the warmest advocates of the measure eventually pursued, were in the minority. (See the secret journal since published, page 33.) But to the message itself, as well as to the general course of proceeding, this strong, and (as it is presumed) unanswerable objection was taken: That the direction which the house of representatives had chosen to pursue was to be prescribed, not to the senate, but to the president; and that it would be impossible for the executive, even with the ingenuity of Epidius himself, to divine, from a message to the senate, what was the real intention of the representatives of the people: that this message was not to be announced to him, but to the other branch of the legislature, and that, even if it were, his duty was to execute the laws, which should be enacted, and which could not be enlarged, restrained, or modified, in any degree whatsoever, by any message from one house of congress to the other: and the appropriation being for an indefinite purpose of extraordinary intercourse, and not made, in consequence of any inuendo, or recommendation from the president, he must be presumed to be totally in the dark, "as to the secret wishes" of the senate and house of representatives, and to be incapable of inferring the intentions of the legislature, from any thing but the context of the law itself: much less should it be deemed responsible for the execution of plans of which by the general maxims of legislation, as well as by the known principles of the constitution, he must be supposed to be altogether ignorant. As I have said however, this, with every other difficulty that could not be solved, was overruled, and on Thursday the 16th of January, the engrossed bill with the message, above received, was transmitted to the senate. On the day following, when the bill was no longer in the possession of the house, or under its controul, the dispatches of our minister at London, of the 18th and 25th of October, 1805, which had been four weeks lying in the office of the secretary, were laid before the house. Those dispatches which had a most important bearing upon our Spanish relations, which had occupied the attention of the house of representatives for nearly three preceding weeks, during which their doors were closed, produced an instantaneous conviction on the minds of many, the best informed and most influential members of the house, who had hitherto voted with the majority, that the course which they had pursued was wrong. A feeble intimation was indeed made by certain members of the house, presumed to be in the confidence of the secretary of state, that the dispatches had but recently arrived; and this inference was supported by this circumstance, that a single copy, only (perhaps the original) was submitted to the two houses, to be interchanged between them; from whence it was concluded by many, that sufficient time had not elapsed, since their reception, to enable the clerks in the office of foreign affairs to make out duplicates of the papers. But this fact was immediately disproved by Mr. J. Randolph's calling at the secretary of state's office, where he learnt of Mr. Wagner, the chief clerk of that department, as well as from the secretary himself, that they had arrived the week before Christmas; that is, prior to the 21st of December.
sumed to be totally in the dark, "as to the secret wishes" of the senate and house of representatives, and to be incapable of inferring the intentions of the legislature, from any thing but the context of the law itself: much less should it be deemed responsible for the execution of plans of which by the general maxims of legislation, as well as by the known principles of the constitution, he must be supposed to be altogether ignorant. As I have said however, this, with every other difficulty that could not be solved, was overruled, and on Thursday the 16th of January, the engrossed bill with the message, above received, was transmitted to the senate. On the day following, when the bill was no longer in the possession of the house, or under its controul, the dispatches of our minister at London, of the 18th and 25th of October, 1805, which had been four weeks lying in the office of the secretary, were laid before the house. Those dispatches which had a most important bearing upon our Spanish relations, which had occupied the attention of the house of representatives for nearly three preceding weeks, during which their doors were closed, produced an instantaneous conviction on the minds of many, the best informed and most influential members of the house, who had hitherto voted with the majority, that the course which they had pursued was wrong. A feeble intimation was indeed made by certain members of the house, presumed to be in the confidence of the secretary of state, that the dispatches had but recently arrived; and this inference was supported by this circumstance, that a single copy, only (perhaps the original) was submitted to the two houses, to be interchanged between them; from whence it was concluded by many, that sufficient time had not elapsed, since their reception, to enable the clerks in the office of foreign affairs to make out duplicates of the papers. But this fact was immediately disproved by Mr. J. Randolph's calling at the secretary of state's office, where he learnt of Mr. Wagner, the chief clerk of that department, as well as from the secretary himself, that they had arrived the week before Christmas; that is, prior to the 21st of December.
The house of representatives having resolved to incur an expense for the purchase of Florida, the second member of Mr. Bidwell's resolution to continue for years the addition of two and an half per cent ad valorem, imposed by the "act further to protect the commerce and seamen of the U. States," against the Barbary Powers," to make good the same came under consideration.—But this proposition was vehemently opposed by Mr. J. Randolph, who stated, that he deemed it an unconstitutional mode of voting supplies to raise taxes in conclave: that if the members of that house should once come to levy impositions upon their constituents with closed doors, which the votes they should give (to say nothing of the discussion) from the very name of the secret journal, remained concealed from their constituents, there was an end to public liberties. Congress might thus pass any laws, however unconstitutional and oppressive, whilst the people would remain ignorant of the part which their representatives respectively had taken, and be consequently unable to apply the proper corrective, and that however, reasons of state might render it expedient to proceed in this way against a foreign enemy or to give a secret direction, in military expeditions against the common foe, these reasons were totally inapplicable to the impositions of burthens upon the people, or to any curtailment of their rights, with which that enemy could have no concern, and from the knowledge of which he could derive no advantage. The proposition was at that time withdrawn, but on the last day of the session, April 27, this tax was continued: the only ostensible motive is to be found in a message from the executive of the 14th of the same month, intimating the existence of an unfriendly disposition on the part of Tunis towards the U. States. In a future number, some remarks will be offered on the proceedings of congress respecting our relations with G. Britain in a subject, which, if possible, has been more misrepresented, and less understood, than that of the present communication. DECIDUS.
TO ALBERT GALLATIN, ESQ. Secretary of State. WRTS the man, who now addresses you, your secret enemy, you would not receive from his pen the language of advice. He would suffer you to pursue your present career, without a single monitory voice to warn you that it is the career to ruin.
I admire your astonishing talents. I reverence you for the services, which you have rendered to my country. There was a time when the name of Albert Gallatin ranked in my mind with the Cicerons of Rome, and the Tulls of Switzerland: with all that were venerable for virtue, or commanding for talents. That moment is rapidly passing away. Your talents will ever command my veneration; but how narrow is their empire when combined with suspected virtue!
What have you not owed to your adopted country! You were in want of an asylum, and you found it among us. You were a foreigner, and yet were crowned with the representative honors of the nation. You had talents to display, and you found a noble theatre for their exhibition. You became a representative in the state of Pennsylvania: you became a member of congress: you have ascended to the dignified office of the Secretary of the Treasury. In spite of the prejudices imposed on a foreigner; in spite of
the contending claims of native citizens; a republican president invited you to the second department under the administration. Was it then to be supposed, that a man thus honored by the people, and thus selected by its government, should ever adopt an ambiguity of deportment, that exposed him to suspicion?
Did not the re-election of Governor M c Lean find you a most ardent advocate? And are you not at this very moment the sincere friend of his weak, equivocal, and fatal administration?
Who was it, that during the last session of congress, violated his respect to the president, by declaring to Mr. J. Randolph that there was no cabinet; a body which you well know had no constitutional existence?
To what other cause than to the goadings of disappointed pride is this declaration to be ascribed? Was there no cabinet, because you were not always invited to assist in deliberations, not connected with your official department?
Who was it that attempted to spirit up Mr. J. Randolph against the administration: that violated his faith to the government by revealing the deliberations of a cabinet, which he had previously declared to have had no existence? It was it that communicated to the gentleman, the circumstance of a proposition having been laid before the cabinet, upon the negotiation for the purchase of Florida; that drew in-colore to attribute to his imagination, a promise to an open attack upon the executive on the very floor of congress? Who was it that upon being interrogated by congress on this very subject, replied in the evasive style of a Jesuit? who being called upon by a near friend of Mr. Jefferson, in a manner that defied evasion, produced a statement, which was afterwards published to the world in a circular letter, a statement, in which that gentleman could see nothing so very monstrous in the conduct of the administration; nothing which could have justified your secret representations to Mr. Randolph?
Know then, that suspicion is abroad. Know that many republicans are now wavering in their sentiments respecting you, who would once have naked their lives upon your faith. They still waver. They abjure the precipitate vituperation of Athens. But upon your future life they depose the certainty of conviction.
You have approached, Sir, the very brink of the precipice. Suspicion of the republicans of Pennsylvania, you can scarce aspire to any new office within the gift of the people. Once let the General Government be convinced that you are an apostate, and your political existence vanishes forever.
ZENO. Extract of a letter from a respectable merchant in Suabia, dated December 31, 1805.
"The distress with us is so great that my pen is unable to describe it; several hundred villages in upper Suabia, are deprived of the necessaries of life. The inhabitants are without victuals, without clothing, and without money, or other means to alleviate their distress. They see nothing around them but ruin. Empty barns and destroyed orchards; all their cattle taken from them; all employments, by which they used to provide for their families are at an end. In the neighbourhood of Ulm, Memingen, &c. distress has attained its highest pitch. A loaf of bread costs four guilders (one dollar and sixty cents) and a firkin (about half a bushel) (potatoes three guilders (one dollar and twenty cents) The neighbouring countries which were so fortunate as to escape utter ruin, though they themselves suffered much, supply those of Ulm, &c. with articles of the most immediate and pressing necessity; contributing as much as their own distressed situation will permit."
The Statistical tables of France given by Taineau, exhibit the following state of the population of the nation, in 1801: In the 102 departments, are above 3000 communes, containing a population of 33,000,000, exclusively of the departments of Piedmont, which have nearly two millions. The population of Old France is nearly 28,000,000. The acquisitions from Germany, including the Austrian Netherlands, had a population of 4,000,000, and with their territory in Switzerland and Italy, together amounting to 5 millions. The whole then amounts to 35,000,000, without regard to Holland, Switzerland, Tuscany, and the Cisalpine republic. The population of 500 towns is nearly 5 1/2 millions. Paris contains 146,858, and Lyons, 109,500. Since the attention of France has been directed to its military character, the following is the collection made in the war-deposit, of which a periodical work is published, Exclusively of
3000 chosen volumes among which is valuable collection of atlases of 270 volumes of old archives, and 900 boxes of original documents, the deposit has 131 volumes, and 78 parcels of descriptive memoirs, containing at least 50 each, 4700 engraved maps and of each from 2 to 25 copies, and above 7400 valuable manuscript maps or drawings, of marches, battles, sieges, &c. In the course of the war by order of government, it has furnished 7298 engraved maps, 207 manuscript maps or plans, 61 atlases of various parts of the globe, and upwards of 600 descriptive memoirs. It is Gen. Andreossy who is to publish the work which is to extend the usefulness of this collection which the French have made as a tribute to their military glory.— Salem Register.
If a nation could be warned, they would be armed. A timely apprehension is security. It is certain we are not armed—Two or three frigates out of the mud of the Potomac, and two or three in the navy; and fifteen hundred men on twenty six hundred miles of frontier are not an army. A militia is less of an army, when it is very numerous. We are not armed, that is certain. Yet we are in danger. The world's neck already sifers with the weight of its yoke. Its free states have fallen by rows like bricks propped against one another in sport by the school boys. We are in danger, we are not armed; are we warned?
Surely our government is not warned. The civilized and independent world has but one champion left, and that is England. That champion we aid with prohibition of her commerce. It is then impossible that our government can at the same time see the danger, and yet be busy in nothing but to aggravate it. Are the people stone blind? Will they bear with the blunt-axe of a real friend, who calls upon them to open their eyes before slavery comes when it will be no matter if they should be both blind and insensible?
It seems probable that England is in default of the event of the war, and is willing to have peace, that, like the three travellers in a snow storm, she may lie down and sleep and die. Should such a peace be made, few men will doubt that England flees to wake no more.
Still however the sympathy seems to be for England. We forget that our liberty lives not a day beyond her's. ( Reporter. )
The old Scotch Woman's Prayer. In almost all religions was the conceding powers have occasionally offered up prayers to heaven for their success, and the extirpation of their enemies, and each party have generally aided—according to the journals of our cause, O Lord! help us, &c. Considering that the cause of both parties, cannot be precisely just, it would be perhaps quite judicious, and somewhat more modest, to adopt the language, or the spirit of an old Scotch woman, who was a futter in the duke of Marlborough's army. It so happened that this faithful follower of the camp was one evening talking to a venerable sister of the same profession, for not of the same country, on the probable consequences of an engagement expected to be fought between the two armies the next morning. "Well," says the English futter, "Well—it will certainly be a most bloody battle, and all I have to say is "may God stand by the right." "De'il pick out your eye for your wacked with," replied the Scotch one "God stand by Hamilton's regiment waught or awaught! "
In a private conversation, the late Earl of Chatham asked Dr. Henniker, among other questions, how he defined wit. The Doctor replied—"My Lord, wit is like what a pension would be, given by your Lordship to your humble servant—a good thing well applied."
HORRID MURDER! On the evening of the 18th inst. a daughter of the Rev. John Record, of Williamson county, about 7 years of age, on her return from school was cruelly murdered by a negro girl, in a branch of water; the particulars of the murder as far as we can learn, are these:—That for some crime she had been corrected, for which she determined to take revenge; for this purpose she waited at the branch for the return of the girl; when she came to the branch the negro threw her with her face down, into the water, the negro proving the strongest held the girl in the water until she was dead. The negro has confessed the deed. On Saturday last, the chairman of the court passed the sentence for the negro to be hanged in the vicinity of Franklin on the 5th day of September next. Ten. Gaz.
Through the politeness of the hon. Abram Maury, we have received a
Advertisement.
THIS is to give notice that I shall petition the Assembly of Virginia at their next Session, for the Dissolution of the Marriage Contract, between myself and Jeremiah Stone.
POLLEY STONE. Henry County, Sept. 2. 1806.
DIED here on the evening, of the 22d inst. Mrs. Meredith, the wife of Edwin Meredith, house carpenter and joiner.
THE Planter's and Farmer's ALMANACK About the 10th of next month, will be published, and ready for purchase, at the Office, wholesale or by retail, a new Almanack, which will be found highly interesting, or to others, who purchase to sell again.—Confidence is reposed in the liberal patrons of this establishment to aid the sale.—Orders will be thankfully and punctually attended to.
Notice.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of William Anderson dec'd, late sheriff for the county of Campbell, are hereby requested to make payment of the same—Also all persons having claims against said estate are hereby desired to bring them forward as this notice will be referred unto in future.
THO'S LEFTWICH. } A.Mrs. ABNER EARLY. } September 24th, 1806.
All persons having claims against the estate of William Hamersley, dec'd, are requested to bring them forward for settlement—Also all persons that may be indebted to said estate by bond or otherwise, are hereby noticed that punctuality will be required.
ABNER EARLY, Admr. FOR Wm. Anderson, dec'd. Admr. FOR Wm. HAMERSLEY, dec'd.
5 Dollars Reward.
STRAYED from the subscriber living in Lynchburg, on the 28th of July, a bay horse about four feet ten or eleven inches high, four or five years old, neither docked nor branded, trots very hard, has a long tail, some saddle spots on his back, had on shoes when he went away.—Five dollars reward will be given for the horse, he was raised by Eliza. Glacok in Pennsylvania, and expect he will try to get there again.
MARY TOMPKINS. September 16—1806.

PROPOSALS. FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE WORKS OF
Dr. Benjamin Franklin, Philosophical, Political, and Literary. [Hominum rerumque repertor.]
The publication of the writings of Franklin, in a complete edition, was contemplated by the late Benjamin Bache, his Grandson, who transferred the copy which was deviled to Mr. Temple Franklin, for the purpose. It was originally designed that the corrected edition should appear in three languages, and in England, Germany, France and America, at the same time; this design was frustrated by the demise (William Franklin) who it is now believed produced the work and the honorable it reposed in him, for money, to the mortal hatred of the English Ministry and the deceased's age.
As soon as this fact was known, the present editor of the Aurora turned his attention to the selection of every paper and circumstance which could tend to serve and do honor to the memory of a man to whom America is so much indebted; and who as he was the first that in his genius and talents reflected back light on his native country, must continue to be ranked to the latest posterity, among its greatest benefactors and ornaments.
This edition will be published from copies revised and corrected by Dr. Franklin, the corrections of which are in the hand writing of the author, and may be seen by any gentleman, in the possession of the editor of the Aurora.
Early admiration of Dr. Franklin; educated in veneration and reverence of his character—combined with other incidental circumstances not necessary to be pointed out, have concurred to favour the collection by the present editor, of the best materials that could be obtained after the sacrifice of the work by the devisee.
With some industry and with some experience he has possessed himself, not only of the copy with the corrections and additions in Dr. Franklin's hand writing; but also of several articles which have never appeared in any former collection, and of several which have never appeared in print.
Proposals would have appeared long since in this city, had not an advertisement of an intended edition, been published in the English press; the present editor, though it might yet be possible that the edition advertised, was that which Mr. Temple Franklin was entrusted with; but it now appears that the English edition is only a republication of the former compilation with some small additions; but still very deficient, on a comparison with the corrected papers in the hands of the editor.
The whole will now be carefully collected, and the work executed in a style worthy of the great patriarch of American liberty, and apostle of the American press.
The additional papers will form at least a volume, perhaps more—the authentic papers already printed, form three—& it is intended to begin with the second volume, which will be put to press immediately; and to publish the Biography last, so that such additional particulars as may throw any useful light on the life of this great man, may be engrossed on his memoirs; to obtain which, and other important materials, the editor will spare neither pains nor expense.
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Amherst, June Court, 1806.
AN APPRENTICE.
WANTED at the Sir-Office a Lad between 11 and 15 years of age—The better his education, the more suitable and acceptable will he be.
Notice.
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly of Virginia praying for the division of Amherst County.
A FREEHOLDER of Amherst.
NOTICE.
A PETITION will be presented to the next General Assembly of Virginia praying the establishment of a FERRY across James River, from the lands of James Waugh, in Amherst County to the lands of Tamburlane W. W. Davis, in Bedford County.
JAMES WAUGH.
July 19, 1806 3m
NOTICE.
I SHALL Petition the next General Assembly of Virginia, for leave to build a WAREHOUSE, for the reception and inspection of Tobacco, on my lots in the Town of Lynchburg.
ROWLAND JONES. 90th July, 1804. tf.
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Court continued and held for Pittsylvania County the 22nd day of July, 1806.
John Wilson, Plff. AGAINST John Owen, Glen Owen, George Owen, James Rutledge, and his wife, formerly Owen, and Jenney Mosgrove formerly Jenney Owen, Defs. 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 State; On the motion of the plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the third Monday in October next, and answer the Bill of the Plaintiff, and that copy of this order be forth with published in some newspaper of this State 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, WILL. TUNSTALL, C. P. C.
HYMNS.
Just publish: a 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.
TO WILLIAM W. CLAYTON, SIR,
YOU will please take notice that on Monday the 13th of October next between 12 o'clock and 4 o'clock, I will attend at Campbell Court-house in order to take the deposition of Micajah Clark to be read as evidence in a certain matter of controversy now depending and undetermined in the County Court of Bedford, (in chancery) wherein you are plaintiff and myself defendant, at which time and place you may attend if you please—I am &c.
ASHLEY JOHNSON. September 10, 1806. 2w.
For Sale,
WILL be sold to the highest bidder on Saturday the eighteenth day of October next, at the Post Office in the town of Lynchburg, all the personal estate of Josiah Leake, dec'd. consisting of a number of valuable LAW BOOKS, one bed &c. and several other articles of house hold furniture:—A credit of nine months will be given on all sums above ten Dollars, on the purchasers giving bond with approved security, bearing interest from the date if not punctually paid, for all sums under ten dollars cash will be required.
WALTER LEAKE, Admr. Lynchburg, September 3—1806. tdf.
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Court held for Pittsylvania County the sixteenth day of June, 1806.
John Morrice, Plff. AGAINST Joseph Matherley, and Zaccheus Seal, and Rachel Cook, Josiah Cook, Elizabeth Cook, Samuel Cook, and Nancy Cook, children and heirs of Josiah Cook deceased. Defs. 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 State, on the motion of the Plaintiff by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants do appear here on the third Monday in September next, and answer the Plaintiff's Bill, & that a copy of this order be forth with published in some news paper of this State 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, WILL. HARRISON, D. C. P. C.
To Rent,
FOR a year or term of years, and possession given on the first of January next, the
STONE TAVERN
in the Town of Warren, in Albemarle County, which is at present occupied by the subscriber; the tenement is in good repair, and there is attached to it, about fifteen acres of excellent land inclosed and in cultivation; it is an eligible stand, there being no other tavern in the place, and terms will be made easy.
JOHN STAPLES.
George Sullivan
HAS just received, and offers for sale, at his Silver Smith's Shop in the Town of Lynchburg, next door to Stewart & Taliaferro, an assortment of
Methodist Books,
among which are the following, to wit:
Portrait of St. Paul. Fletcher's Letters. Ditto Appeal. Ditto Life. Serious Call. Baxter's Call. Wesley's Primitive Physic. Preacher's Letters. Lee's Life. Abbot's Journal. Dowe's Ditto. [Gious subjects.] Ditto Thoughts on different religious Books. Disciplines.
and a variety of others too tedious to mention.
He intends keeping on hand a constant supply of
Gold & Silver Ware,
and begs leave to tender his thanks to his friends and a generous public, for the encouragement he has met with in his business, and hopes that his attention and punctuality, will authorise a continuance of their patronage.
WATCH-REPAIRING will be attended to and executed punctually and with dispatch, by Joseph Needham, in the same Shop, who requests that those who have entrusted their Watches with him for the above purpose, will call for them, some of which have been in his possession for upwards of 18 months.
Sept. 14, 1806. (3w.)
AN APPRENTICE.
WANTED to the Coach making business an apprentice, a lad of about 14 or 15 years of age. He must be smart, active, and industrious—None else need apply.
MILBY COTTINGHAM. Lynchburg, 15th September, 1806.
Doctor Wilson,
OF the city of Richmond having regularly qualified himself to practice Physic has engaged in the Apothecary business in that place; He has just received at his shop opposite the stores of Messrs. John & Robert Gamble and Neal M'Call his fall supply of Medicines, which embraces a general variety—Experience has too often proved that Physicians are disappointed and their patients injured or lost by using adulterated medicines, or from the ignorance of Apothecaries—Knowing that it is of the first importance his object will be to prepare his medicines genuine and according to principles which regulate the practice of Physicians.
Physicians who live in or visit Lynchburg as well as retailers of medicines may be enabled to judge of his very low price by calling at the Office of the Lynchburg Star.
Families can be served with medicine chests or any article of medicine accompanied with proper directions as to its use.
Richmond, 10th September, 1806. tf.
To be sold,
ON Thursday the 30th day of October next, that valuable tract of
LAND,
formerly the property of the late Col. David Robinson, lying on the north fork of Roan Oak in the county of Montgomery, about six miles east of Christian'sburgh, containing about five hundred acres, forty of which are cleared and in good repair, nearly all bottom of the first rate, five acres of Timothy meadow, a beautiful situation for building on, near to a never failing spring of excellent water, the land is well timbered, and several cabins built thereon—Gentlemen wishing to purchase will be shown the land by applying to Mr. David Robinson near the premises—Terms of sale one sixth part of the price to be paid in hand, the balance as follows, viz. the one half in nine months, the remaining half in eighteen months after the day of sale, bonds and approved security will be required, and an indisputable title made by the subscribers.
WILLIAM ROBINSON, } Ex'rs. A. MONTGOMERY, } July 29th, 1806. 6t.
At Court held for Amherst County at the Court house the eighteenth day of June, eighteen hundred and six.
Major James Benjamin } Coffland, Compl. } In Chancery AGAINST John Smith, Defs. }
THE defendant 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 State, and without the jurisdiction of this Court, on the motion of the complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the defendant do appear here on the third Monday in October next, and answer the complainant's bill, and that a copy of this order be forth with 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,
W. S. CRAWFORD C.A. C. 7
NOTICE.
ON Thursday the 16th October, will be exposed to public sale, on the premises the tract of
LAND
whereon the subscriber now lives containing one thousand and sixty-six acres situate in the county of Amherst, on Pedlar River, sixteen miles from Bethel Inspection—in point of soil inferior to none on said River—its improvements in orchards of valuable fruit, and advantages in raising stock, are equalled by few in this part of the state.—ALSO will be sold at the same time
STOCK
of various kinds, among which are several valuable Brood Mares and Colts, Yokes of Oxen, &c. Carts, a Still, a Set of Smith's Tools, some Household Furniture, several hundred bushels of Grain, the produce of its Orchard the present year, &c. A credit will be given of eighteen months for one moiety of the purchase money, the balance will be required in six months.
JOHN WARE, Sr. Sept. 1, 1806.
ne xcv. Dr. H—, delighting in the good things of this world, indulged his hunger and thirst delicacies, that he found himself in arrear to many of his trading friends. Fortunately for him he had in the rules of the King's Bench, shielded him from the rude inroads of clamorous creditors. The Lord, however, was a man of hurry, and frequently hit upon expedients to keep them in good temper, once preached a sermon to them, and the following text—"have patience and I will pay ye all." He exerted at great length on the virtue and patience. And now, brethren, said he, I am come to the second part of my discourse which—"And I will pay you all"—that I shall defer to a future opportunity.
received and for sale at the Star-Office—Price 50 cents—a PAMPHLET entitled S K E T C H E S
of the History of France FROM THE EARLIEST HISTORICAL ACCOUNTS
To the present time....1806 With some remarks concerning the Life and Achievements of the celebrated NAPOLEON BO-NAPARTE, now Emperor of France.
[By an American.]
Of this very interesting Pamphlet, notice has already been taken in the Star.—It contains a correct and succinct detail of the principal facts and occurrences during the period specified, and the greater and most important part of Bonaparte's official communications, as French General, Consul, and Emperor. The style is energetic, concise, and classical.
TAKEN up by John Gills, living in Bedford County, on Ivy creek, near Eltrays, one a brindle Steer two years old, with some white spots, no horns, and unmarked, appraised to 10 shillings.—One a black heifer two years old, marked with a crop in the right and a crop and nick in the left, appraised to 24 shillings.
Valentine Cox. Thomas Johnson. Samuel Poindexter.
Acknowledged before me, ISAAC OTEY.
A Copy, Teste, J. STEPTOE, C. B. C. April 12—1806. 3w
Black Smith
FROM the pressure of employment on the HORSE SHOEING line, and the encouragement of my friends the public in general in the KNIGHT'S BUSINESS I would to employ a sober, well cited and good Journeyman to the above.
TWO brisk apprentices will be required to the above business.
GEORGE ROBERTS. Lynchburg, August 26th, 1806.