Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1808-12-23 00:00:00

The Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
Martinsburg, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
No. 31 of Vol. X.
FRIDAY, December 23, 1808.
Whole No. 499.
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The Federal Republicans of Berkeley, Jefferson and Hampshire, have resolved to support Major James Stephenson as a Candidate for Congress, at the election in April next. Dec. 2, 1808.
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Subscriptions received at the office of the Intelligencer.
JOHN HUTCHINSON. June 3, 1808.
JUST OPENED.
A great variety of Ladies Fashionable White BEAVER HATS with and without Pink and Yellow unders, in full trim; BLACK, ditto; PLUSH BONNETS, &c. &c. Our assortment is very extensive and complete as to Fancy and other Articles.
We are happy to inform our friends (at a distance) and the public in general, that having made large purchases, previous to the late rise of Goods in Philadelphia and Baltimore, we are enabled to serve them on better terms with many articles than they are to be had, at this time, in either of the aforementioned cities. If ever it was an object for purchasers at a distance to call on them, they are confident they will find it greatly to their advantage to call this season.
While many articles are both scarce and high, we have them Plenty and Cheap. JAMES & JOHN LANE, Shepherd's-Town, Dec. 2, 1808. Cash paid for HIDES and SKINS.
Will be sold by public vendue, on Wednesday the 4th of January next, at the plantation of Laurence Hensel, deceased, near Shepherd's-Town, all the personal property of the said deceased, consisting of
ONE Negro Woman and her three Children; two boys and a girl; Horses, Cows, a good fat Beef, Sheep and Hogs; fat Hogs in the pen; two road Wagons; Wheat, Rye, Oats, Barley and Flax-seed; a quantity of Hay in the mow and stack; Hay in the bundle and broken Hemp; a quantity of old Rye Whiskey; Apple Brandy and Cyder; one eight day Clock; one Crosscut Saw, a stone Sledge and Crowbar; Farming Implements of almost every description; Household & Kitchen Furniture, among which are some good Beds and Bedding, and many other articles too numerous to mention. Twelve months credit will be given, the purchaser giving bond with approved security. The sale will commence at ten o'clock, and continue from day to day until the whole is sold. MICHAEL HENSEL, HENRY COUTZMAN, Executors. December 16, 1808.
ATTENTION!
The Martinsburg Independent Blues! You will be particular in meeting at your usual place of parade in Martinsburg, on Saturday the 31st instant. JAMES FAULKNER, Captain. December 16, 1808.
Wanted immediately.
A lad from 16 to 17 years of age, to learn the Gun-Smith's business. JOHN WHETSTONE. Martinsburg, Nov. 14, 1808.
Manufacture of Flour.
THE public are respectfully informed, that the subscriber has now got the Mills in complete repair for the reception of Wheat and other Grain, and for the manufacture of Flour, &c. he will make it a point always to keep in his employ persons well acquainted with the business, and will take care that no pains shall be spared to give every satisfaction to his customers—He will stand the inspection of all Flour manufactured at his Mill, when the wheat is merchantable.
He has lately erected a Machine for the purpose of pounding and grinding Plaister of Paris, by which one ton can be ground in an hour; also a Machine for shelling corn, which shells fifty bushels in an hour; and another for grinding corn with the cob—He will be grateful for the custom of the public, and do every thing in his power to give general satisfaction. WILLIAM B. KING. Mill-Creek, Dec. 16, 1808.
Will be sold by public auction, on the subscriber's residence, on Monday the 23d day of January next, the following articles: HORSES, Cows, Young Cattle, Sheep and Hogs, a Plantation Waggon, Farming Implements, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and a variety of other articles too numerous to mention. The sale will begin early in the day. Due attendance and a reasonable credit will be given by JOHN DUNCAN. December 16, 1808.
Negroes to Hire.
THE Executor of JAMES STRODE, dec'd. will Hire to the best bidder, on Saturday the 31st inst. at the dwelling house of Henry Bedinger, SUNDRY SLAVES belonging to said estate for one year. Terms will be more fully explained at the time. HENRY BEDINGER, ABRAHAM SHEPHERD, Executors. December 16, 1808.
Land For Sale.
I WILL give a great bargain in part of the Tract of Land bought from Mr. Joseph Chambers, lying in Berkeley County, State of Virginia, within six miles of Martinsburg and one of the Sulphur Spring, containing about 1100 acres, and bounded by the Sulphur Spring road, the lands of Mr. Amos Mendenhall and Stroud's heirs—There is on the premises a comfortable Dwelling House, &c. an Apple Orchard of good Fruit, and a never-failing Spring. About seventy acres of Land are cleared, some Meadow made, and eight acres in readiness to make Meadow of the ensuing spring—The whole tract lies level and is well divided into different fields, enclosed with good fences. The wood land is heavily timbered. There are about twelve acres sowed in wheat in new land, which I will sell with said land. I will take in part payment, a new well-made light Waggon and two middle sized young horses well-broke to the gears. For further information and terms, apply to the subscriber adjoining said premises. WILLIAM LINE. Berkeley County, Dec. 16, 1808.
Wanted immediately.
A lad from 16 to 17 years of age, to learn the Gun-Smith's business. JOHN WHETSTONE. Martinsburg, Nov. 14, 1808.
To Lease.
THE subscriber wishes to lease for four or five years, his Farm in Berkeley County, whereon Mr. Benjamin Pendleton now lives, lying on the road leading from Martinsburg to Williamsport, within two miles of the Potomac, and about the same distance from an excellent Merchant Mill. This tract contains about 340 acres, 250 of which are cleared, the soil is inferior to none in Berkeley County, and lies well for cultivation—One half of the money for which it will lease for the above term, will be required in hand, and the balance at the expiration of the lease. A more particular description is deemed unnecessary as any person wishing to lease, will first view the premises, which will be shown by Mr. Pendleton, and the terms made known by the subscriber, living on Long Marsh, Frederick County. JAMES CLARE. December 16, 1808.
DOCUMENTS
ACCOMPANYING THE MESSAGE OF THE PRESIDENT. (continued)
General Armstrong to M. Champagny. Paris, April 9, 1808.
SIR, Having submitted to the government of the United States, copies of the Imperial decrees of the 21st of November, 1806, and 17th December, 1807, and of the expositions which your excellency has been pleased, at different times, to give of them, I have recently received the instructions of the president to remonstrate against both the provisions and operation of the said decrees, on the ground of their infringing, as well the positive stipulations of a particular treaty, as the incontestable principles of public law.
In discharging this duty, your excellency will permit me to recall to your remembrance the twelfth and fourteenth articles of treaty made between the United States and France, on the 30th of September, 1800. These articles provide,
1st. That "it shall be lawful for the citizens of either country to sail with their ships and merchandise (contraband goods always excepted) from any port, whatever, to any port of the enemy of the other, and to sail and trade with their ships and merchandise, with perfect security and liberty, from the countries, ports, and places of those who are enemies of both, or of either party, without any opposition or disturbance whatever; and to pass not only directly from the places and ports of the enemy aforesaid to neutral ports and places, but also from one place belonging to an enemy to another place belonging to an enemy, whether they be or be not under the jurisdiction of the same power, unless such ports or places shall be actually blockaded, besieged, or invested."
2d. That "vessels sailing for a port or place belonging to an enemy, without knowing that the same is either besieged, blockaded, or invested, may be turned away from such port or place; but they shall not be detained, nor any part of their cargo (not contraband) confiscated, unless, after notice of such blockade or investment, they shall again attempt to enter; but they shall be permitted to go to any other port or place they shall think proper."
3d. That "free ships shall give a freedom to goods, and that every thing shall be deemed to be free and exempt, which shall be found on board the ships belonging to the citizens of either of the contracting parties, although the whole or any part thereof, should appertain to the enemies of either; contraband goods being always excepted."
These stipulations are not more clear in themselves, nor of more indisputable application and authority in the present case, than the injunctions of public law, by which they are enforced, viz. that local regulations (enforcing by virtue of convention) cannot apply to foreign nations on the high seas, without violating the rights of the one, and the freedom of the other; that blockades can only exist, when there are so situated that no serious attempts can be made to approach them without exposing the parties assailing them to eminent danger; that merchant vessels may be visited without any degradation to the flag of the nation to which they belong, &c. &c. &c. But why multiply proofs of a position which is not denied? Does not the official report of our enlightened predecessor, of the 21st November, 1806, admit the illegality of the original decree? Does it not expressly say, that the doctrines of blockades introduced by England are monstrous and indefensible? and that the practice, like the doctrine, is a mockery of right, and an insult upon reason? After strictures so severe, because unjust, what can be said for the policy of France, which differs in nothing from that of England? Has your excellency attempted to defend either the theory or the practice of this policy, on the ground of its conformity to the principles of public law? Or have you done more at any time, or on any occasion, than to seek a justification for it as the part suggestion, that the United States have acquiesced in the measures of England? And how has even this suggestion been maintained? By an exposition of the wrongs inflicted on American commerce! and which have been notoriously practiced by all the belligerents in turn. Have not the ships of the United States been encountered by all? Have they not been turned from their original destination? Have they not been dragged into foreign ports for adjudication? Have they not in several instances been burnt on the high seas? Is not the argument, founded on this state of things, equally good for either, or for all the belligerents? And can France derive from it rights which do not equally accrue to her enemies? There is, however, another and a better answer to this suggestion, which your excellency has already seen in the letter I had the honour of writing to you on the 16th of February last, viz. that the suggestion is neither well nor plausibly founded; and that the United States neither have submitted, nor will submit, to the usurpations of Great Britain, nor to those of any other nation.
Accept, sir, &c. (Signed) JOHN ARMSTRONG. His Excellency, the Minister of Foreign Relations.
Extract of a letter from General Armstrong, to Mr. Madison. Paris, April 12th, 1808.
"I have detained Mr. Lewis till to day, on the supposition that my letter of the 2d instant to M. de Champagny would be answered. This was, however, a mere accommodation to forms, since the absence of the emperor and that of the minister of foreign relations, rendered this supposition highly improbable. There being then no public reason for Mr. Lewis's longer stay in Paris, and the permission to the Osage to prosecute her voyage to England not including one to France, I have thought it

best that he should embark with such dispatch as were ready, proceed to Falmouth, in England, and thence, after receiving Mr. Pinkney's orders, return with all possible expedition to the United States. He has accordingly been instructed to this effect."
Extracts of a letter from the same to the same, dated
PARIS, 25th June, 1808.
"The St. Michael arrived at L'Orient on the 1st instant, and, like the Osage, was immediately put under sequestration. It was not till the 2d, that Mr. Baker arrived here."
"The remonstrance ordered, with respect to the terms of Mr. Champagny's letter of the 15th of January, shall be executed the moment the prince of Benevent returns from Valenciennes; and I hope, in a way, which, while it makes the French government sensible of the offensiveness of those terms, will not obstruct the road to friendly and respectful explanations on its part."
"To give this a chance of finding Mr. Livingston at Bordeaux, I must close it here."
The same to the same.
PARIS, 18th July, 1808.
Sir,
I avail myself of the detention of the Arcadius to transmit copies of two letters, which I have written to M. de Champagny: the one, in execution of the president's orders with regard to the offensive terms, employed by that minister in his note of the 15th of January last; the other demanding from him on the part of his government, an avowal or disavowal of the conduct of rear-admiral Boudin, in burning, or otherwise destroying, on the high seas, four American ships and their cargoes.
I have the honour to be, sir, With very high consideration, Your most obedient, and Very humble servant, (Signed)
JOHN ARMSTRONG.
Secretary of State.
Extract of a letter from General Armstrong to Mr. Champagny, dated Paris, July 4, 1808.
"It has been made the duty of the undersigned to bring to the view of the French government an official note, addressed to him on the 15th of Jan. last by his majesty's minister of exterior relations, and which, in the opinion of the president, is calculated to derogate from the rights of the United States, as an independent nation. The note is in the following words, viz. [See Mr. Champagny's letter of the 15th January, 1808.]"
On this note, the undersigned would remark, 1st. That the United States have a right to elect their own policy with regard to France; and that it is only while they continue to exercise this right, without suffering any degree of restraint from either power, that they can maintain the independent relation in which they stand to both: whence it follows, that to have pronounced, in the peremptory tone of the preceding note, the effects which the measures of the British government ought to have produced on their councils and conduct, was a language less adapted to accomplish its own object, than to offend against the respect due from one independent nation to another: and 2dly. That the alternative to be found in the last paragraph, and which leaves the United States to choose between an acquiescence in the views of France against Great Britain, and a confiscation of all American property sequestered by order of H. I. M. is equally offensive to both governments: To France, as it would impute to her a proposition founded in wrong to individuals; and to the United States, as it would imply, on their part, a subjection to pecuniary interests totally inconsistent with their principles, and highly dishonorable to their character.
His excellency will be persuaded that the president, in directing the undersigned to make this representation, had no object in view beyond that of seeking an explanation, which cannot but
tend to promote the harmony of the two powers."
General Armstrong to M. Champagny.
PARIS, July 10, 1808.
Sir,
Your excellency will see by the inclosed extracts from two letters which his majesty's minister of marine has done me the honor to address to me on the 18th of April and 13th of June last, that the property taken from the four American ships, destroyed by rear-admiral Boudin, has been placed under the jurisdiction of the imperial council of prizes, to be judged by it, as a case of ordinary capture.
To your excellency, it will be unnecessary to remark, that whatever may be the decision of this council in relation to the merchandise which has been saved, the case presents a question of much higher import, and entirely beyond the jurisdiction of a maritime court, viz. the kind and degree of reparation which shall be due for the ships and merchandise which have been destroyed? and by way of opening this subject, your excellency will permit me to ask, whether his majesty's government does or does not justify the conduct of rear-admiral Boudin, in burning, or otherwise destroying, on the high seas, the ships and merchandise of a neutral and friendly power?
I pray your excellency, &c. (Signed)
JOHN ARMSTRONG.
Extract of a letter from General Armstrong to the secretary of state, dated
PARIS, July 26, 1808.
"It would have given me the highest pleasure to have drawn from this government such explanations, on the general subject of our differences with them, as would have met the friendly and equitable views of the U. States; but I owe it, as well to you as to myself, to declare that every attempt for that purpose, hitherto made, has failed, and under circumstances, which by no means indicate any change in their respect for the better."
Extracts of a letter from the same to the same, dated
PARIS, August 1, 1808.
"I wrote a few lines to you yesterday. Two weeks have gone by without any new condemnation. My remonstrances continue to be unanswered."
"P.S. I enclose a copy of my note of yesterday to M. de Champagny."
Extract of a letter from General Armstrong to M. Champagny, dated
PARIS, August 6, 1808.
"Mr. Armstrong presents his compliments to M. de Champagny, and begs leave to inform him, that having for some time past made trial of the artificial waters of Tivoli, without any useful effect, his physician has prescribed for him those of Bourbon & Archambault. Should M. de Champagny have any communication to make to Mr. Armstrong, he will be pleased to address them as usual to the Hotel de Legation Americaine, Rue Vaugouard, No. 100, whence they will be regularly and promptly transmitted to Bourbon."
"On leaving Paris, Mr. Armstrong thinks proper to state his regret, that the political relations of the two powers should continue to wear an aspect less auspicious to their future good understanding, than is wished for by those who are the friends of both."
"That his majesty has a right to make such municipal regulations as he may deem proper with regard to foreign commerce, neither is, nor has been denied, for example, he may forbid the entry into the ports of France of American ships which have touched in England, or been destined to England; and he may either sequester or confiscate such vessels of the United States as shall infract these laws, after due promulgation and notice thereof; but beyond this the United States
hope and believe that his majesty will not go."
"M. de Champagny will not fail to seize the distinction which these remarks present, between the authority of municipal regulations, and that of public law, and will decide whether it does or does not offer a ground on which the good understanding, so long and so usefully maintained between the United States and France, may be preserved, and a degree of intercourse between them revived, which shall have the effect of reanimating their former industry."
"Does his majesty fear, that the balance of trade, arising from this renewed industry, would go to the disadvantage of England? means are certainly not wanting to prevent this consequence. Would it not be entirely avoided by making it a condition of the commerce in question that all ships leaving France shall take (in some article or articles of her produce or manufacture) the full amount of the cargoes they bring hither?"
"Ships, sailing under this regulation, would, or would not, go voluntarily to England. If they went voluntarily, it would only be, because that country afforded the best markets for the productions of France; in which case the habitual results would best balance for her manufactures, would begin to pay one to the United States on the productions of France. Could France with a state of commerce more prosperous than this?"
"If, on the other hand, the American ships did not go voluntarily to England, but were captured and sent in for adjudication, it may be fairly presumed, that the United States could no longer hesitate about becoming a party to the war against England."
"Thus, in either case, the interests of his majesty would be directly advanced by the measure: in the one, the wants of France and her colonies would be not only regularly supplied, but she would herself become an entrepot for the supply of the continent; in the other, the wishes of his majesty, as expressed in February last, would be directly promoted."
"Mr. Armstrong has the honor of renewing to Mr. de Champagny, the assurances of his very high consideration."
[To be continued.]
Congressional Register.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
December 17.
SALT.
The following resolution, offered by Mr. Livermore, was ordered to lie on the table:
Resolved, that the committee of commerce and manufactures be instructed to enquire into the expediency of permitting certain vessels to depart from the harbours of the United States, for the purpose of importing SALT, and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise.
QUESTION OF NON-INTERCOURSE DECIDED.
The following resolution again under consideration:
Resolved, That it is expedient to prohibit, by law, the admission into the ports of the United States of all public or private, armed or unarmed ships or vessels belonging to Great Britain—or France—or to any other of the belligerent powers, having in force orders or decrees violating the lawful commerce and neutral rights of the United States—and also the importation of any goods, wares or merchandise, the growth produce or manufacture of the dominions of any of the said powers, or imported from any place in the possession of either.
Mr. Rhea (Ten.) supported it in a speech of two hours. Mr. Taggart opposed it in a speech of the same length.
The resolution was divided into different questions as marked by the dashes (—) in the resolution; and after many motions to adjourn, and amendments offered, which were withdrawn or declared out of order, about 9 o'clock
the question was taken on the following member of the resolution:
Resolved, That it is expedient to prohibit, by law, the admission into the ports of the United States of all public or private, armed or unarmed ships belonging to Great Britain, and carried by yeas and nays, 93 to 29.
Previous to taking the first question Mr. Gardiner spoke for half an hour against the part interdicting British vessels.
And the question being taken on the next member—or France, was carried, 97 to 24.
And the question being taken on the next member—or to any other of the belligerent powers, having in force orders or decrees violating the lawful commerce and neutral rights of the U. States—was carried, 96 to 26.
Mr. Randolph now made a speech of two hours and a half against the remaining clause of the resolution.
When, at near 12 o'clock, the question was taken on the last clause in the following words—"and also the importation of any goods, wares or merchandise, the growth, produce or manufacture of the dominions of any of the said powers, or imported from any place in the possession of either," and carried, 92 to 30.
The question was then, at 12 o'clock, taken on the whole resolution, and carried, 94 to 30.
The question was then put on the following resolution:
Resolved, That measures ought to be immediately taken for placing the country in a more complete state of defence, and CARRIED UNANIMOUSLY.
Both resolutions were referred to committees; and thus after eighteen days debate, the House concluded the agitation of the subject for the present about twenty minutes after 12.
SENATE, December 17.
The bill to authorize and require the President of the United States to arm, man and fit out for immediate service all the public ships of war, vessels and gun boats of the United States, was read the third time and passed. The bill appropriates 400,000 dollars.
The bill making further provision for enforcing the Embargo was read the third time; when a debate commenced on its passage. Mr. Goodrich spoke at length against the bill, when the Senate adjourned, without taking the question.
LONDON, October 22.
"Ships of the Bay of Biscay, October 6."
(EXTRACT OF A LETTER.)
"Since I last wrote to you, the right of the French army has been put in motion; but their operations have neither been brilliant, nor are they likely to be attended with any advantage to them; on the contrary, it is probable they will lose more men than they can gain by their late attack on Bilboa."
"This attack was made very unexpectedly on the morning of the 26th Sept. by a French column consisting of 10,000 infantry and 1500 cavalry, and produced the greatest consternation among the inhabitants, from the recollection of the atrocities committed by the enemy in their last visit; tho' I am happy to add on the present occasion, they have conducted themselves with more moderation; probably from conviction that their situation is not very tenable. In fact, I have little doubt, but that the next intelligence you receive will be of their being driven out of Bilboa if not cut off in that position; as general Blake is now at Pries, with 40,000 men, and General Palafox is at Logrono, with 30,000; while Marquis de la Romana, with 8000 Spaniards, is expected to land in the neighborhood of Bilboa; and the whole amount of the French armies on the Ebro, is estimated at less than fifty thousand. Castanos is also advancing with another large army, and Cuesta preserves the communication between Gens. Blake and Palafox, with an army of 10,000 men. You may there-
fore expect important news ere long."
"But to return to the late evacuation of Bilboa by the Spaniards. The marquis of Portago not finding himself strong enough to resist the French column, with a garrison of only 5000 men and being too far in advance from general Blake to receive timely succors, resolved to fall back on Valmaseda, which he did in the most masterly manner in the face of the enemy, without losing a single man, the French not choosing to make the least attempt to bring him to action, although they had more than double his numbers, a tolerable proof this of the respect with which the Spaniards have inspired their enemies."
BALTIMORE, Dec. 14.
On the morning of the 6th inst. a duel took place near Belle Air, in Harford County, between Abraham Jarrett, Esq. Register of Wills, and Henry Dorsey, Esq. Clerk of the County. They stood at the distance of ten yards, facing each other, and exchanged two shots. Both of Mr. Jarrett's shots took effect, but neither of the wounds are very dangerous.
Accounts received this morning from Matanzas, mention the arrival at that port of a schooner in 28 days from St. Lucas, bringing Spanish dates to the 3d of October.
The reports by this arrival are that Gen. Cuesta had completely surrounded King Joseph and 30,000 French troops—that the latter had offered to capitulate upon certain terms, which were refused; and it was said that nothing short of an unconditional surrender would be accepted.
The French in Barcelona were also closely invested, and it was expected could not long hold out.
The Deputies from the different provinces had assembled at Madrid, and formed a provincial government, at the head of which they had placed the Count Florida Blanca.
These accounts had excited the most extravagant demonstrations of joy at Matanzas—The colors were taken from the shipping, the inhabitants, as a substitute, hung out their bed linen, &c.—A procession paraded the streets, carrying branches of trees, &c. while the air resounded with the cry of vive la Ferdinand!
SALEM, Dec. 4.
In the Mohawk, from Livorno, came passengers, capt. Folger, late master of the American brig Atalanta, seized and condemned in France, under the Berlin decree; capt. Waterman, late of the Mentor, of N. York, which vessel was burnt by the French Russians at sea, under the barbarous decrees of their master.
Captain Folger informs us, that he left Paris the 30th of August, and escaped in an open boat from St. Maloes on the 18th of September, after a severe struggle with the guard-boats. While he was at Paris large bodies of troops were marching from the camp near that city for Quilim; and it was represented that Bonaparte was sending forwards upwards of 300,000 men for the conquest of that kingdom for his brother Joseph. There can indeed be no doubt but he will exert all the force he can spare from other objects, for this purpose. Capt. F. represents, that the conduct of the French prize courts is most infamous—that they do not even observe the forms that decency might require to cover their injustice—and that he has actually seen the summary process of the condemnation of several vessels with so little ceremony or deliberation, that there was not even a pen put to paper in the business.
Captain Waterman, of the Mentor, belonging to New York, was from a Spanish port in the Mediterranean; on his passage he was boarded from an English man of war, but suffered to proceed without any endorsement of papers; afterwards he had the misfortune to meet with two French frigates, and was boarded from one of them; after examination, they were about dismis-

sing him, when one of his sailors (a foreigner, who now calls himself a Frenchman) informed of their having been spoken by the English, on which capt. W. was required to alter his declaration or they would burn his vessel, and he and his crew be made prisoners of war; but he refused to make any alteration, and remonstrated against their yielding to the testimony of such a fellow, against all other circumstances—but in vain; part of the Mentor's cargo was taken out; the crew carried on board the frigate, and in the night capt. W. was invited upon deck to behold his ship in flames!
On board the frigate they were treated worse than the English prisoners; they were afterwards carried into France—marched to Brest and imprisoned—from thence through other prisons to Verdun, his mate and some of his people hand-cuffed on their march. At length, after a tedious correspondence with Gen. Armstrong, and assurances from him that he had done every thing in his power by petitions for their release, capt. W. insisted that he should demand it, in the name of his country; it was finally obtained, after being a prisoner for nearly five months, from March to July, during which time he had been the tenant of thirty-two different prisons!
The Legislature of New-Jersey adjourned on Saturday the 26th ult. On the preceding Thursday, a Resolution was offered to both houses, that they be requested to use their endeavors to procure a repeal of the Embargo laws. The yeas were 47, nays 20—all the democratic members voting for, and all the federal members against the Embargo—majority 3.
On Friday Mr. Dodd, of Morris county, moved an address (which had been drawn up) approving of the measures of the general government, and censuring the opposition thereto. Many alterations were moved to strike out a certain part of the address. This Mr. Whitehead opposed and it was sustained by 18 against 17. The address thus agreed to by a majority of one was ordered to be engrossed. It was sent to council for concurrence. Council refused to pass the address unless the house acceded to the alteration proposed by Mr. Pearson, and after it was bandied backward and between the two houses IT WAS FINALLY LOST, and thus ended the farce. The violent men of the democrats upon this failure looked as if they had lost all their friends...the more moderate said they were glad it was negatived.
BLOCKADE. From the Barbados Mercury of Oct. 23.
It appears from all that we can learn, that it is the intention of our naval commander to carry into the most rigid effect the orders of government for the blockade of the enemy's islands. We understand that for the more effectually doing this, a cordon of eighteen or twenty frigates and sloops, and some smaller vessels, will be kept constantly cruising off Martinique and Guadeloupe, while stationed at Prince Rupert's, Dominica, and Gros Islet (St. Lucia) for the facilities of supplying them without the necessity of their leaving their stations; by which means all commerce and intercourse will be obstructed, and the enemy consequently thrown into the most distressing embarrassment; and as an essential object towards effecting this, by cutting off all supplies from them. Official notification of the blockade has been transmitted to the United States.
LANCASTER, Dec. 13. This day arrived at the imperial city of Lancaster, accompanied by his serene highness, the Duke of Puddleducks, his Tannic Majesty, Solomon II, by the grace of ignorance, King of the Gid-poles.
Died on Saturday the 10th inst., his Excellency James Sullivan, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, aged 63 years. This is the fourth Executive officer who has died in office in Massachusetts since the Revolution, viz: Hancock, Sumner, Gill and Sullivan.
[Boston Gaz.]
Washington City, Dec. 19. Letters have, we understand, been received from Mr. Pinckney on the 10th October. They are said to contain nothing of importance.
In reply to the enquiries of a committee of the House of Representatives, the secretary of the navy has returned the following answer:
NAVY DEPARTMENT, December 7, 1808.
SIR, I have received your letter of the 3d instant, and, in answer, have the honour to state, that the accompanying paper, marked A, exhibits the additional number of officers and seamen required for the public service; none of which could be employed without the authority of a special act of Congress. The same paper also exhibits the number of marines required, in addition to the present establishment; for the employment of which provision by law will be necessary.
Paper B. exhibits a view of the annual expense of maintaining in service the number of officers, petty officers, seamen and marines, required, in the opinion of the president, in addition to the number already estimated for in the annual estimate presented to the House through the Secretary of the Treasury.
This additional estimate, added to the estimate presented through the Treasury department, will make the different items of the necessary appropriations as stated below, viz:
  For pay and subsistence of the officers, and pay of the seamen, 1,077,834   For provision, 490,354 51   For Hospital account, 30,000   For repairs of vessels, 43,000   For contingent account, comprising freight, stores, rents, commissions to agents, traveling expen- 450,000   For pay and subsistence of the marine corps, 186,320 70   For clothing, 44,699 50   For military stores, 6,706   For Hospital account, 3,000   For contingent account, 19,038   For Navy Yard, 60,000   For Ordnance, 130,000   Dollars, 2,662,948 21 
I have the honor to be, respectfully, sir, your most obedient servant,
RT. SMITH. Hon. R. Nelson, Chairman of the Committee on Military and Naval Establishments.
A states the additional number of officers, seamen and marines, required for the public service, which cannot be employed, without the authority of a special act of Congress, as follows—234 Midshipmen, 2,000 seamen, 144 corporals, and 162 private marines.
The Intelligencer. MARTINSBURG, December 23, 1808.
The Hon. JOHN TYLER , one of the Judges of the District and General Courts, is appointed Governor of the Commonwealth, in the room of the late Chief Magistrate, whose constitutional period has expired.
Mr. Edward C. Davis is appointed Register of the Land Office.
Virginia Legislature. Leave has been given to bring in "A bill to suspend the operations of executions during the embargo, and ninety days thereafter."
Pennsylvania Legislature. A resolution has been offered to SUSPEND all SALES for debts during the embargo, and referred to a committee to report thereon.
The General Assembly of Maryland have passed an act for the staying of executions, &c. during
the continuance of the several acts of Congress laying an Embargo, and for six months after the said acts shall be repealed.
A Nashville paper of the 10th ult. says, "We have just heard that the great preacher LORENZO DOW , died lately in the Mississippi Territory, where he had just removed his family."
The bill "authorising the President to employ twelve additional Cutters," was read the third time in the House of Representatives on the 9th inst. and after some debate to recommit it, passed.
READ AMERICANS!!
Among the newspapers just received by the Schooner Friendship, arrived this morning from Liverpool, and bringing dates to the 26th ult. we have one containing a Spanish state paper, published by Don Pedro Cevallos, the First Secretary of State, and despatches to his Catholic Majesty, Ferdinand the 7th. This paper is entitled "Exposition of the practices and machinations which led to usurpation of the crown of Spain, and the means adopted by the emperor of the French to carry it into execution." This state paper is pronounced by the English the most interesting and important document that has appeared during the war. Among other things it contains a secret treaty entered into between Bonaparte and the Prince of Peace, on the 27th October 1807, of which we have only room to insert a single article, but that we do insert and call upon every man in the U. States in French pay to read it.
"XII. His Majesty the Emperor of the French and King of Italy, engages to recognize his Catholic Majesty the King of Spain, as Emperor of the TWO AMERICAS, when every thing is ready for his Majesty's assuming that title, which may be either at the general peace, or at farthest within three years therefrom."
Thus North America was fairly bargained and sold and transferred by Bonaparte to Spain more than a year ago. Pohl says Duane, all friendship, all love and friendship positively, and so says Mr. Eppes. N. Y. Herald.
The New York Gazette says that the Argus ship of war sailed a week ago for France, whether she is gone to snatch Mr. Armstrong from his perilous situation.
LOOK OUT!!!
It is said, that orders have been given to march all the force of the United States, south and west of the Delaware, to New Orleans. It is expected, that requisitions of 1000 militia from the Orleans and Mississippi territories will be made, and that Congress will be called on for 5000 or 2500 seamen, to man the gun-boats and smaller ships—forty of which, it is expected will be destined for Lake Pontchartrain and the Mississippi.
Enquirer. Extracts of a letter from Surinam, dated October 15.
"Flour plenty—1000 bbls. arrived on Sunday in a brig from Norfolk, and obliged to go away as he could not get more than 20 dollars a barrel."
It is said that the cotton of Brazil is increasing, to the detriment of our own, to an alarming degree. The Brazilians are about making arrangements to import slaves in great numbers, which they expect will enable them soon to supplant the American cotton. Considerable quantities of cotton seed are already sent to Brazil.
The losses by the depredations of the belligerents sustained by the merchants of Newburyport and its vicinity alone, as stated in an exhibit annexed to their memorial to the Secretary of State of the U. States, amounts to 233,877 dollars and 22 cents.
Captain Edward Kittot, com-
mander of the English man of war Schubin, it is said, has, in the most elegant and benevolent manner, petitioned the government of Carthagena for the release of the hapless Americans taken under Miranda.
One of the first fruits of the triumph of Snyder's party in Pennsylvania, is the election of the notorious Leib as senator of the United States.
The Comet again.
The Comet, which at this period last year first made its appearance seems again to have directed its erratic course towards our sphere. It bears due east, and may be seen every evening at seven, somewhat below a straight line drawn between the planet Jupiter and the leading star in Ursa Minor, at about two thirds distance from the planet, and forming nearly a right angled triangle with the Pleiades. The tail is not so perceptible as last year, but its nucleus is visible to the naked eye. [North American.]
General CASTANOS, who now commands in chief the gallant armies of Spain, is an officer of experience in battle, has been wounded, and is only in his 47th year. PASCAL is also in the prime of life.
The Iris frigate arrived in England about the 10th of October, having under its convoy twelve transports, with three thousand Merino sheep on board, an invaluable present to the King from the Junta of Galicia.
Patent Medicines.
Lees' Anti-Bilious Pills,
For the prevention and cure of malignant Bilious complaints; the operation of these pills is perfectly mild, so as to be used by persons in every situation, and of every age.
The Indian Vegetable Specific,
A safe and radical cure for Venereal complaints of every description.
Lees' Essence & Extract of Mustard;
A certain & speedy cure for Rheumatism, Gout, Palsy, Numbness, White swellings, sprains, bruises, &c.
Lees' Worm destroying Lozenges,
Celebrated for the cure of all complaints arising from Worms, and from Indigestion or obstructions in the stomach and bowels—and are so innocent in their nature, so mild in their operation, that they are used in every season of the year, by the most delicate women, and infants of the tenderest age, with invariable success.
Lees' Ointment for the Itch,
Warranted to cure by one application.
Lees' Restorative,
Long celebrated for the cure of nervous disorders, indigestion, impurity of the blood, inward weakness, immoderate evacuations, Female complaints, obstinate Gleet, Hysterical affections, pains in the back and loins, cramp in the stomach, &c.
Lees' Genuine Corn Plaster.
Lees' Elixir, The most certain remedy known for colds, obstinate coughs, Catarrhs, Asthmas, sore throats and approaching consumptions—affords immediate relief, and in a short time entirely removes the HOOPING COUGH.
do. Restorative Tooth Powder,
The above Medicines to be had at L. Price's Store, Martinsburg
JUST OPENED,
A great variety of Ladies Fashionable White BEAVER HATS, with and without Pink and Yellow under, in full trim; BLACK, ditto; PLUSH BONNETS, &c. &c. Our assortment is very extensive and complete as to
Fancy and other Articles.
We are happy to inform our friends (at a distance) and the public in general, that having made large purchases, previous to the late rise of Goods in Philadelphia and Baltimore, we are enabled to serve them on better terms with many articles than they are to be had, at this time, in either of the aforementioned cities. If ever it was an object for purchasers at a distance to call on them, they are confident they will find it greatly to their advantage to call this season. While many articles are both scarce and high, we have them
Plenty and Cheap.
JAMES & JOHN LANE, Shepherd's-Town, Dec. 2, 1808. Cash paid for HIDES and SKINS.
NOTICE.
Those that are indebted to me by Note, are informed that unless payment is made by the 10th day of Jan. 1809, their respective obligations will be put out of my hands.
L. PRICE. Dec. 23, 1808.
Notice This.
THE friends of the late THOMAS FLAGG, dec'd, and the public at large are hereby informed that on Tuesday the 12th day of December next, (being court day) a house of
ENTERTAINMENT
will be opened at the sign of General Morgan, (being the late residence of the said deceased) where every thing for the accommodation of travellers and others will be constantly kept. The house will be under the care and superintendence of the subscriber, who solicits a share of the public patronage, and pledges himself that every exertion will be used to render satisfaction to those who may call on him.
JOHN JAMESON, jun. for the benefit of himself, the widow and heirs of Thomas Flagg, deceased. Charles Town, Nov. 25, 1808.
JOHN TIMMONS, jun. Wheel-Right and Chair-Maker,
RESPECTFULLY informs the inhabitants of Martinsburg and its vicinity, that he is now carrying on the Wheel and Chair-making business, in the house of Nicholas Chopper, formerly occupied as a poor-house, in the main street Martinsburg, nearly opposite Joseph Chambers black smith shop, where he has on hand a handsome assortment of Wheels and Chairs, which he will dispose of on reasonable terms, for cash or country produce; he will be very thankful to those who will favor him with their custom, and he engages that every piece of work shall be done in a serviceable and handsome manner.
Martinsburg, Dec. 23, 1808. He proposes to have a raffle for Chairs on the 31st of this month in the house in which he lives.
Cash given for clean Linen and Cotton
RAGS, at the Office of the Intelligencer.