Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1808-01-04 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE And PUBLICK LEDGER  EST. 1808. AM. ST. AM. ST. L.
VOL. IV.]
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4, 1808.
[NO. 73.]
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS SIX DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYA- BLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE PAPER TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS—ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF FIFTY CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS PER SQUARE FOR EACH SUCCEEDING INSERTION.
For Freight or Charter, To any Port in the West Indies, the Schoon- er VICTORIA, burthen 95 tons or 800 bar- rels. Apply to William Hull, Jun. December 21. tf Commerce-forest.
FOR CHARTER, The fine new Ship PLUTARCH, George Bacon, master, burthen about 350 hogsheads. Moses Myers. Dec. 16. tf
For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The American Ship MINERVA, Henry Keele, master, burthen 400 hds. tobacco will be ready to receive a cargo in ten days— Apply to Alexander Leckie, or Thomas Willock. Who have for Sale on board, 8000 bushels Liverpool SALT. December 4. tf
Scotch Coals and Empty Bottles. 100 tons of the former and 200 crates of the latter, import- ed in the ship Industry from Glasgow—For Sale by William Pennock. Who offers The sail SHIP, burthen 260 tons, for Charter. October 7. tf
Liverpool SALT and COAL, For sale on board the ship Jane, William Colley, master.— Apply to the subscriber, William Pennock. Who offers said SHIP, burthen 420 tons, and the ship COURTNEY, burthen 200 tons for charter. October 5. tf
FLOUR—A float. 500 barrels superfine FLOUR, Rich- mond and Fredericksburg inspection. Rowland & Triplett. In Store, Family FLOUR of superior quality, And a few firkins of good BUTTER. Dec. 21. 3
St. Mary's College Lottery of Balti- more, Will commence drawing on the 31st instant, when the price of Tickets will be advanced. It is recommended to those wishing to adventure to apply immediately—Tickets now selling rapidly at Eleven Dollars, and but few remaining for Sale by Rowland & Triplett. December 18. tf
Landing at Newton's wharf the Cargo of the sloop Dispatch, Samuel Hawley, master, from New-Ha- ven, consisting of Pork, Beef, Cheese, Hay, and 10 do- zen Brooms. For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. December 18. tf
For RENT. The STORE, No. 86, Main-Street, with or without the house. Thomas Blanchard. September 28. tf
For RENT, (Possession to be had the 1st of January.) The STORE-ROOM on Commerce and Water-streets, lately occupied by Mr. Edward Clarke, it may be had with or without a Room in the second story—it is very spacious, may be immediately accommodated for two stores, and will be rented in that manner if preferred. For terms apply to John Nivison. December 28. 6
For RENT, (And immediate possession given.) The Brick-House, Store, and Cellars, at the corner of Gilbert's Lane, on Main-street, near the market, an excellent stand for a Dry Good or Grocery Store Apply to Niemeyer & Von Kapff. December 28. tf
First quality Jamaica COFFEE. Just received and for Sale, 77 tierces and 24 barrels prime Green COFFEE. James & Thomas Tucker. December 28. tf
At the Old CUT-NAIL Manufactory, corner of Main and Church-streets, the subscriber keeps on hand constant supply, and can furnish at short notice, any quantity of Nails, Flooring Brads and Sprigs, At the following reduced prices, by the Keg—for cash only, viz—
8, 10, 12, and 20d Nails and Brads at 7 1-24 lb. 6d. Nails, 9 1-24 4d. do. 2s. 9d. m. or 11d 3d. do. 2s. 3d. or 12d Sheathing, 7 1-24 6d. Sprigs, 4s. 6d per M. 6d. do. 2s. 9d 2d. and 3d. do. 2s. 3d He offers also for cash only— HOOP IRON ASSORTED. Thos. Seaman.
From the London Independent Whig.
THE PROCLAMATION.
The proclamation respecting Deserters and expatriated seamen, that has lately been issued from the manufactory of Messrs. Canning & Co. is equally objectionable as a principle of right and as a measure of political expediency.—It is couched in such loose and ambiguous terms, that it may be aptly compared with Milton's "palpable obscure," and will be pronounced, by those who have read its contents, to be "finely confused" and very alarming." While it affects to concede a great deal it yields nothing, and, under the pretended mask of conciliation and forbearance, conceals the most unrelenting severity and arbitrary oppression. We cannot compare it with anything better than with the cur in the fable, who was perpetually snarling and shewing his teeth when he had no longer the power to bite. As a proof of its want of precision, it confounds and mingles together, without distinction or discrimination, aliens, emigrants, naturalized citizens, deserters, and traitors; and renders them all equally liable to the pains and penalties of high treason, without limitation or reserve. It sets out with declaring, that "great number of mariners and seafaring men, our natural born subjects have been enticed to enter into the service of foreign states, and are now actually serving as well on board the ships of war belonging to the said foreign states as on board the merchant vessels belonging to their subjects." Now, beside that this sentence omits to specify whether these mariners and seafaring men were at the time of their being enticed away, or entering into foreign service, enrolled, registered, and actually serving on board, our own vessels, it leaves us in complete uncertainty, or at least it does not clearly explain, whether, by the words foreign service, we are to understand any other power, friendly or neutral, or a power with whom we are at war.—This certainly is a most essential consideration; because, in the former case, seamen so entering can be reputed only as emigrants, but in the latter are undoubtedly guilty of desertion and liable to the punishment of high treason. If the sentence comprehend within its meaning mariners and seafaring men, whether in actual service or otherwise, and if, by the term foreign service, be intended that of any other country, whether in amity or at war with us, then does this proclamation, or naval manifesto, promulgate a doctrine not only new and unprecedented but manifestly cruel, impolitic, and unjust. The right of migrating to other countries, or entering into the service of a neutral or friendly nation, has never yet been questioned or denied; and it has only been when men have quitted the actual service of their own country, at a time of war, for that of its enemies, or have been taken prisoners, with arms in their hands, fighting against it, that they have been punished as deserters or traitors. But here is a sweeping clause that includes all classes and denominations, whatever of voluntary or involuntary exiles; that denies to the poor and friendless, the discontented or persecuted, inhabitant of one country the wretched consolation of seeking refuge or procuring subsistence in another; that excludes him from the rights of political citizenship in any quarter of the civilized world, binds him down to everlasting misery, slavery, and dependence, and finally dooms him to an ignominious death as a traitor; if compelled to render his active services in defence of that country which affords him shelter and support. What must be the fatal and inevitable consequences if this extraordinary measure be carried into effect! The golden rule of quid tibi vis fieri id fac alii , or, do unto others that which ye would they should do unto you , will scarcely be convenient or agreeable to ourselves. Have not the armies and navies of Great Britain been continually recruited, manned, and navigated, not only by the soldiers, seamen and pilots of foreign nations, but even of our very enemies? Nay, do we not at this moment boast, that the Danish Sailors are volunteering their services to navigate their own captured vessels, and steer them to an English port!!! What would become of our merchants, their vessels or their merchandise or how would our East and West India commerce be safely conveyed to the ports and harbours of England, if foreign nations were to imitate our conduct, issue forth their naval manifestos, and recall their seamen from our service? Let the Dutch, Portuguese, Swedish, and American, sailors testify to the truth and justice of our observations; let the numerous naked shivering Lascars answer, who are enticed into our East India service and landed on our shores, where they are afterwards abandoned and neglected to rot in our dungeons or perish in our streets. Grating as it may be to our pride, and humiliating to our national vanity, yet truth demands that we should remind our countrymen that the most signal exploits and eminent
services have frequently been performed by foreigners and deserters. The proud standard, wrested from the invincible legion of Buonaparte on the burning plains of Alexandria, was obtained by a French deserter; who, notwithstanding the base and invidious efforts to rob him of his well-earned reputation, fully substantiated his claims to publick favour, and received a merited reward. If this principle of reclaiming our seamen, and preventing their entering into foreign service, be set up and strictly enforced, we see no reason why it may not be extended to soldiers as well as seamen, and maintained by foreign powers by land as well as sea; we shall then have an ample opportunity of observing which will be the greater losers by this new military and naval code. We cannot surely deny the equity of the lex Talionis , nor refuse to other nations the right of retorting our own doctrines on ourselves; unless, indeed, we can prove to the world, what some of us profess to believe, that we have a standard of Political Morality applicable only to ourselves, and that our only rule of right is our Empire of the Seas!
From the Same.
THE PRESENT WAR.
We have now, for nearly sixteen years, waged a most fierce and destructive warfare against the French government; (for, the short interval that elapsed between the signing and the rupture of the treaty of Amiens can scarcely be considered any other than as a temporary armistice, or breathing-time , between the contending parties;) during which period, we have expended millions upon millions of the public treasure, and poured fourth torrents of human blood; and it nevertheless still remains a question to be asked of the moralist and politician, whether any and what benefits have accrued to the people of this country from a perseverance in the contest, and what is the real and definite object of the present war. To those, who consider a state of warfare as the very element or condition of our nature, or estimate it as the most useful and honorable means of procuring fame or emolument,—who believe that the great mass of mankind are born only to perpetual wretchedness and slavery, and that the lives of the many ought to be sacrificed to the comforts and conveniences of the few ,—it would be absurd and useless to address the present question. With them, war is but as an idle pastime, or a curious tale: they listen to its multiplied dangers and distresses, just as accident or interest prompt their feelings or excite their attention, with an eager curiosity or a listless indifference, regardless of the dreadful miseries that accompany its progress, and insensible to the numerous evils that follow in its train. To those, on the contrary, who view war as foreign to the original nature and habits of man, who was formed by his benevolent Creator to promote the happiness not seek the destruction of his species; to subject the earth and its productions to his lordly will and dominion, and not to oppress and ensnare his fellow-creatures; the question will not only be proper but easy of solution. They will see in it, at all times, and under any pretences, a baneful curse and not a blessing; a complication of hateful vices, and a system of violence, cruelty, oppression, fraud, and injustice: alike injurious to the morals and virtue, and destructive of the welfare and security, of mankind. It is in vain, however, that the sober voice of reason, the enlightened dictates of philosophy, or the more sacred principles of revealed religion may attempt to arrest the mad career of folly, or remonstrate against the fatal delusion. Political institutions have created the sad necessity, by exciting the motives and offering the occasions for war; and the prevalence of custom and the force of prejudice have reconciled us to its practice, and contributed to render that expedient and prudent , which would otherwise have been reprobated as unnatural and unjust . It is not here intended to detain the reader with any desultory observations on the abstract evils of war; unhappily for mankind, the history of all nations, and of every people since the creation, bears an ample and a damning testimony of the incessant robberies, murders, and devastations, that have ravaged and disfigured the habitable globe. In discussing, however, the merits, and deciding on the wisdom and justice, of any particular war, as arising out of political views, and applicable to existing times and circumstances, it may be useful to bear constantly in our remembrance its original character and features ; to consider it as one of the most horrible scourges and calamities that can possibly afflict and desolate human nature; and therefore not to be lightly estimated nor rashly encountered, without an imperious and overwhelming necessity, or a just and adequate provocation.
Applying these preliminary and introductory reflections, and, as an appropriate and striking instance recurring to the present war, we would fain enter into a serious and solemn investigation of its peculiar nature, origin, and progress, the motives that gave it birth and the consequences it has produced. The inquiry may be long, but it will not therefore be considered as tedious or uninteresting. The cut bono is a question not less useful in politics than in morals; though it seldom happens that it can admit of so easy or satisfactory a reply.—After a deliberate and impartial scrutiny, divesting ourselves of local partialities and national prejudice, we may, perhaps, unfortunately discover, that the present war between Great-Britain and France is one, from which, commenced and conducted as it hitherto has been and still is, we cannot and we ought not to expect success; and that, as it was begun for the avowed purpose of crushing the infant liberties of another nation , there is too much reason to apprehend that it will terminate in the destruction of our own!
For SALE, A likely Negro GIRL, about 16 years of age, has been brought up in the house, and sold for no fault. Apply to the printer. January 1. 3
REMOVAL. The Subscriber has removed to the large Fire-Proof Ware-House at the head of Maxwell's wharf, in Wide Water Street, where he offers for SALE, 7 pipes Country GIN, 20 barrels Whiskey, 30 do N. E. Rum, 15 hds. do. do. 50 do. Mackarel, 30 do Shad, 150 kegs Salmon, 150 kegs Tongues and Sounds, 50 boxes Soap, 60 boxes Mould Candles, 50 do. Spermaceti do. 25 do. Chocolate, 38 do assorted Cotton Cards, 4 chests Hyson Tea, 150 reams Writing Paper, 1 case Diapers, 150 sacks Liverpool Salt, 7 tons assorted Swedish Iron, 50 bundles Nail Rods, A quantity of coarse Woollen Goods—low for Cash. Edward Clark. Who transacts business on Commission, as usual. Jan. 1. tf
The copartnership of ROBERT MAITLAND, & Co. expires this day—ROBERT MAIT- LAND is fully authorised to adjust the concern. Robert Maitland, J. Lenox & William Maitland. December 31. 3
LOST, On the 30th December last, between the end of Maxwell's wharf, and the Store of Wm. Plume & Co. a BAG, containing TWO HUNDRED AND FOR- TY DOLLARS in Silver; also a POCKET-BOOK, contain- ing a Bank Note of Ten Dollars, and sundry other papers— Any person finding the same, shall be rewarded with FIF- TY DOLLARS, and no questions asked, by leaving them at this Office. January 1. 3*
Phoenix Fire Office. The Subscriber, Agent to the PHOENIX ASSURANCE COMPANY, of London, for the State of Vir- ginia, begs leave to inform the publick, that he is now fully empowered to subscribe Policies of Insurance for property against Fire throughout the United States of America, in conformity to the Proposals herewith subjoined. N B. FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS can be insured in one risk on Buildings and their contents, and also on Ships and their Cargoes on board, in the First Class, but in all cases where Ten Thousand Dollars are exceeded, a special agree- ment must be made with the Agent, and an increase of pre- mium added to those mentioned in the proposals, of not less than one eighth per cent. on the whole sum insured. Richard Taylor. September 8. 157
NOTES OF HAND, according to the new form established by the Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, for sale at this office.
NOTES for the Virginia Bank; Checks; Bills of Lading, and of Exchange, printed on pa- per of superior quality; and Shipping Articles on large pa- per, and approved form. LEDGER OFFICE.
Those who have claims against the es- tate of CHARLES WILLETT, deceased, are requested to bring their accounts properly authenticated; and those who are indebted are particularly requested to make payment as no indulgence can be given. William Storr, } Executors. Thomas Davis, } September 30. 1aw3m
THE SUBSCRIBER Begg leave to inform the publick, that he makes and has for sale, the following articles: American, French and German Cakes, Iced beaten ditto Almond and Raisin do. Mincemeat and Maccaroni ditto. Jumple and Buonaparte do. and many others too nume- rous to mention here. He makes all sorts of Pies, Sweet Cramberries and Apple Tarts; Puffs, and all kinds of Pastry. For exportation—Sausages; Geese and Turkey Legs pre- served in hog's lard; Boulogne Sausages, and every sort of Cordials. Those who honour him with their commands may rely on being served with punctuality, by DENNIS, December 21. 3* No. 30, Church-Street. 400 barrels Tar, 20,000 pipe Staves, 30,000 White Oak Hogshead do. 50,000 Red do. do. do. 100 Barrels Flour. For Sale by L. Mansfield. Portsmouth, May 8. tf

The Southern Mail, will in future leave this on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday mornings at 5 o'clock A. M. arrives here on Sunday, Wednesday, and Friday, and will be closed on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 o'clock P. M.—The Hampton Mail arrives and departs as usual.
We invite the very serious attention of our readers to the French decree published in this day's paper. This case may be considered as conclusive, and selected no doubt for the express purpose of showing in part the extent to which the blocking decree is intended to be pushed by the French government. If any case could have formed an exception, this might have been that case. The ship was not sent by her owners to England, but carried there contrary to their intention and wishes, and after leaving England was shipwrecked on the coast of France.
Now what are we to think of all this, after the assurances which were satisfactory to general Armstrong & our government, that France did not intend to include the United States in this decree. We must conclude that either our government has been miserably duped, or that the government of France has been basely treacherous. Whether general Armstrong ever received any assurances beyond the "Je pense," and "Je crois," which are now disavowed, we know not, nor are we likely to know soon, for the mysterious secrecy with which every thing that can inform, is kept from the people, leaves but little hope that we shall ever be better informed.
There can be no doubt that such an attack, as is contained in this decree, upon America, in contempt of her right, as a sovereign and independent nation, and in violation of a treaty, might and does furnish cause of war. We are, however, very far from wishing a war with France, because from that moment we should of necessity become parties in the war generally, and from which we might not find it easy to extricate ourselves at our will. By acting on the defensive as we have before done, we should be able to settle our disputes at our convenience, and in our own way, whenever France from a sense of justice or any other consideration should be disposed to meet us.
We have lately received a few numbers of the Independent Whig, a London opposition paper, from which we have republished two articles in our first page. If these articles furnish no information, they afford an evidence of the liberty of the press in that land of tyranny and corruption.
The government of England avers, that the war in which it is engaged, has been undertaken to preserve the existence of the nation; the Independent Whig denies the assertion, and among other strong observations says, "that England cannot expect, nor does not deserve to be successful." And yet it does not appear that the editor was tarred and feathered, or otherwise molested, but goes on the same style in several succeeding numbers of his paper. The government and people adopting Mr. Jefferson's theory "leaves reason to combat error."
Some few months since the leading democratic papers expressed their suspicions mingled with their indignation, that the British government would endeavour to blend the affair of the Chesapeake with the intricacies and mazes of negotiation upon other subjects, in which the honourable reparation that our country had a just right to expect, would be frittered away by the arts of diplomacy; this was their language, nay, their very words. Well now that they understand (as they say) that Mr. Rose has been sent to negotiate upon this subject specifically, they exclaim that this country ought not to negotiate upon this subject separately, and that if he comes upon this object only, he may as well go home. What are we to infer from this strange contradiction?
From an unforeseen accident, we shall be compelled for a few publications, to print on paper of an inferior quality to that which we have been accustomed to use.
DEATHS.
On Friday evening, Captain SPENCER TINKHAM, of Wiscasset.
On Saturday morning, Mrs. MARTHA THORBURN, the amiable consort of Mr. James Thorburn, of this place.
ADDRESS TO THE PRESIDENT.
The following is the address to the President of the United States, agreed upon by the General Assembly of North Carolina on the 11th inst. with the yeas and nays upon its passage.
To Thomas Jefferson, President of the United States.
Sir, The General Assembly of the state of North Carolina, convened at a moment when the independence of their country, in whose welfare they feel, and are on all occasions ready to manifest the liveliest solicitude, is attacked; when their rights are invaded, their citizens seized, their property plundered, and their remonstrances disregarded, by a nation uniformly and notoriously hostile, and who appeals only to power to justify her conduct. When the Union of these States, which they sincerely desire may be perpetual, is endangered by the machinations of a disappointed man and his adherents, who have sought to subvert, because they could not direct the measures of government; they feel it
their duty to assure you, sir, of their entire approbation of those measures which have been pursued for the defence and interest of their common country.
We will not, sir, recount the many benefits which you have borne to your country from foreign courts, whilst engaged in the cause of Freedom: We will not review the eminent advantages derived from your talents and virtues, whilst employed in high and responsible offices at home; nor will the limits of an address permit us to enumerate the blessings which have flowed from the administration of our publick affairs since the memorable period of 1801. We will only say, that in whatever point of view we regard you, whether in private or publick life, we perceive such uniformity of conduct, such firmness of character, such an entire resignation on the one hand, and so great ability to act on the other, that we have abundant reason to rejoice, that in a person called to preside in the councils of his country, the Statesman, Philosopher and Patriot are so happily and conspicuously united.
Although we are sensible that you, Sir, whose time and talents have been entirely devoted to your country's good, the pleasures of domestic ease and retirement from the busy scenes of life, would now be particularly inviting; yet when we reflect that the period is probably near at hand, when the exercise of your patriotick virtues will be particularly important to your country, perhaps essential to its preservation, we cannot forbear most earnestly to solicit, that at the next presidential election, you will not deny your countrymen the pleasure of again selecting you for the discharge of those important duties, for the performance of which you appear so eminently qualified.—And may that Being who regulates the affairs of men below, when the period of our final separation shall arrive, receive you into those mansions of bliss, reserved for those who have deserved well.
Yeas and Nays in the Senate.—Yeas 47—Nays 11.
Yeas and Nays in the Commons.—Yeas 83—Nays 35.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Washington dated, Dec. 11, 1807.
"The ground taken by our government on the subject of the attack upon the Chesapeake has been sanctioned even by the British ministry, who in the most unqualified manner have disavowed the orders of admiral Berkeley, have disclaimed in the most pointed terms every pretension to search a national ship for deserters; and have declared themselves willing to make proper reparation for the aggression. You know, that I was as averse to the encouragement or enlistment of deserters, as the warmest friend to the British navy could possibly be; and that I thought our government ought to keep this identical outrage entirely separate from every other topic of controversy. This opinion I still retain; and if the extraordinary mission from England should be accomplished on principles avowed by Mr. Canning,* I have no doubt that war between the two nations may yet be avoided. To this end, I would contribute every possible and to soften points of controversy which can be left open, to retreat from extremities which can be shunned, and to preserve Peace where I can have no hope left, that the parties can ever meet upon terms of amity.
"With respect to the Non-Importation act, I wish you to understand that it is no favourite of mine. I have to some urged its immediate repeal; not with a view to any effect which it can produce upon Great Britain; but with reference to its probable effect among ourselves. It had my approbation on two years ago, because the merchants throughout the union called upon congress for some measure to aid negotiation with England; and because the administration, and a great portion of our people, had a confidence in its efficacy, which could only be tested by experience. The experiment has been made. Whatever good effect it could produce it seems to me is past. It is too much, or too little, for the present state of things; and its effects will distress our own people, without producing the purpose for which it was intended beyond the Atlantic. I believe the administration, for their own sakes, ought to give it up. But so long as the executive, the responsible department, believes that this measure will help and not hinder them, in negotiation, I think its repeal ought not to be pressed by its opponents in congress. Your petition, as I presume it will be, if couched in respectful terms without tincture of party spirit, I have no doubt will be treated with due consideration; and may perhaps be acceptable to the government, as furnishing an apology for abandoning what I believe they do not rely upon with much confidence. There is a bill now before the house to modify the act, and I suppose any modification for which you ask, may be introduced, if they should be thought just."
*The readiness of the British Government to make reparation for the attack on the Chesapeake. (Boston Centinel.)
From the National Intelligencer.
A TRANSLATION
Of the decision of the Imperial Council of Prizes in the case of the American ship the Horizon stranded on the coast of France. Under the decree of the 21st Nov. 1806.
The Imperial Council of Prizes has rendered the following decision. The papers relative to the affair of the stranding of the American ship the Horizon being taken into consideration the result is as follows:
The American ship the Horizon belonging to Mr. John McClure and Mr. Alexander McClure, brothers, of Charleston, cleared out in the month of September 1804, under the command of the latter for Zanzibar on the eastern coast of Africa, with a cargo of different kinds of merchandise for account and risque of these two brothers.
The papers with which this vessel was furnished were,
 1st. A register dated at Charleston on the 3rd of Sept. 1804, proving the property to belong to the brothers, the McClures.  2nd. A passport from the President of the United States dated on the same day, for the ship Horizon going from Charleston to the Isle of Zanzibar.  3rd. A Mediterranean passport of the same date.  4th. The list or roll of the men composing the 
crew, signed by the captain and certified by a Justice of the Peace at Charleston on the 3d September 1804.
5th. The act of engagement of the people composing the crew at the time when the vessel was cast away, and of which the first article is dated on the 20th Jan. 1807.
There were besides many papers relative to the cargo, which were perfectly regular.
It appears by a declaration of capt. McClure that the Horizon went first to Goree where he sold a part of his cargo, which was replaced by articles of that country; that from thence he made sail for the River de la Plata; that on the 30th April 1805, he was stopped at the entrance of that river by an English privateer who released him under an agreement signed by the two captains that the validity or invalidity of the prize should be decided by four merchants of London; he then touched at Buenos Ayres where he sold his cargo and afterwards went to Monte Video the only port designated for the clearance of foreign vessels, that at this port his ship was freighted by the correspondents of the house of Brentano and Virbreta to carry to London a cargo of merchandise and that this circumstance determined captain McClure to give up the project of going to Zanzibar, that towards the end of September 1805, the captain left Monte Video in company with the brig Simeon belonging also to him and his brother, on board of which he put, destined for London, the merchandise belonging to their concern, with the exception of some things which he kept on board his own vessel with a sum of about 2200 dollars partly in specie and partly in ingots of gold and silver; that the voyage of the brig Simeon was fortunate; but that the ship Horizon was so much injured in consequence of bad weather that she was obliged to put into Lisbon to refit; that during her stay in that port captain McClure succeeded in obtaining from the Spanish government a permit to trade in the Spanish ports on the Pacifick Ocean; that in consequence he gave an order to purchase on his account at Lisbon 100 tons of quicksilver, an article necessary for the working Spanish mines in the new world; that the captain hastened to finish his voyage to London with a view of making up a cargo for Lima and coming back to Lisbon to take on board his 100 tons of quicksilver; that in consequence he made sail in the month of June 1806; but that the English frigate the Diana went out of the port the same day that he did, captured him, and carried him to England where by a decree of the High Court of Admiralty of the 16th of September of the same year, the cargo was confiscated as having been taken (on board) in an enemy's colony and the ship released, as well as the merchandise belonging to captain McClure. After the captain had obtained the release of his ship, he occupied himself in England, in forming a cargo for Lima, he was to go back to Lisbon to take on board there his quicksilver, and to receive there the permit of the Spanish government, which had been granted him. The bill of lading of the cargo taken on board at London, is dated on the 22d of May, 1807; it contains the detail of merchandise, of which this cargo is composed, and for which no freight is stipulated, inasmuch as it was on account of the captain. The destination is announced to be, for Lima and other ports of Spanish America.
On the 30th of May last the Horizon set sail from the Thames, she was soon overtaken by a storm, and on the 30th of the same month, she was thrown on the rock called the Ranneyer on the coast of Clouan, near Morlaix, where she was wrecked. The commissary of the marine employed on that part of the coast having been informed of this event, went to the place to make the necessary enquiries, and to take the proper steps to save the property.
On the 1st of June the American captain was examined, on the 7th of the same month he submitted to a second examination, as well as all the other men of his crew, all their answers concurring to prove that the ship as well as the cargo was really the property of capt. McClure and his brother, both citizens of the United States.
The administrators of the marine of Brest have by a decision of the 10th of the same month sent to the council to decide on this affair, manifesting an opinion that the imperial decree of the 21st November, 1806, did not seem necessarily to apply to the case of the Horizon; this ship not having touched willingly, but from necessity on the coasts of France.
Two memorials with many papers to support them, were produced to the council, under date of _____ for the capt. Alexander McClure and John McClure, his brother. They begin by complaining of the pillage which had been committed by a great number of individuals who had gone on board at the time of the stranding of the vessel. It is proved, say they, afterwards, by the papers on board, that the ship and the cargo belong to subjects of the United States of America, and are not enemy's property, so that from this statement the releasing of the wreck of the ship, and the residue of the cargo could not be susceptible of difficulty. Even the consideration due to the unfortunate, has effected the release of vessels, which by stress of weather had been obliged to take refuge in the ports of an enemy. They examine afterwards their case in relation to the decree of the blockade of the English ports, of the 21st November. In the first place they have maintained that it could not be applied to American vessels, as it contains no order derogatory to the convention of the 1st October, 1800; moreover they have said that before leaving England, capt. McClure went to consult the ambassador of the United States in London, to know if under the regulations of that decree, there would not be danger of being stopped on going to sea with a cargo of merchandise taken on board in England; that this ambassador had answered him no, since it followed from an answer given on the 24th Sept. by the minister of the marine and of the colonies of the French empire to the ambassador of the United States at Paris; of which the latter had sent him a copy; that this decree placed no other restraint on the navigation of American vessels than that of their not being admitted into the ports of France, when they came from the ports of England with cargoes taken on board there.
In support of this declaration he has produced a copy of the letter from his excellency, the minister of the marine and of the colonies, of the 24th Sept. which was given to him by the ambassador of the United States to the French government.—This ambassador has added to it at the same time, a letter under date of the 14th Sept. in which he
tells capt. McClure that he had sent a copy of this same letter to the ambassador of the United States at London to make such use of it as his prudence might suggest. He has added that his excellency the minister of the marine and of the colonies had himself sent a duplicate to the French ambassador in America to serve as an instruction to the French marine in the West Indies, so far as related to the commerce of the United States, and that the ambassador had made a communication of it to the government of the United States. The conclusion which capt. McClure drew from this letter was, that if the decree of the 21st November was applicable to American vessels he had been led into an error by means of the French government, since the minister of marine could not but be considered as its organ in a diplomatic and ministerial correspondence. Since then having learnt that, from a decision given by his majesty, as to the scope which his decree of the 21st November ought to have, it results that it is applicable as well to Americans as to all other neutral vessels, he has renewed the plea, that it was the answer of the minister of the marine which had led him into error; he has said that if it was necessary even in France to consult the emperor as to the way in which the decree of the 21st November was to be understood, it could not be a crime in him, a foreigner, not to be more enlightened than the authorities who had asked an interpretation of it. He has contended that it is only from the day of that decision that the decree in question could be made to apply to American vessels which should not conform to it in future. Moreover, in observing that it would be impossible under any point of view in which the affair could be considered to confiscate the wreck of his vessel and the parts of the cargo which were saved, that which did not belong to the fabrics of England nor come from her colonies, he has insisted that the 7th article of this decree does not pronounce against neutral vessels coming from England more than a prohibition to their entry into the ports of France, and that neither their confiscation nor that of their cargoes is pronounced by the 8th article, save only when they are introduced there by means of a false declaration. Now, said he, it is not in consequence of a false declaration that I have touched on the coast of France, it is in consequence of my shipwreck, and it will be a violation of all the laws of equity to confiscate the wreck of my property, making my misfortune a crime.
The Brothers, the McClures concluded by asking permission to receive the proceeds arising from the sale which may have been legally made of the wreck of their ship, and of certain things belonging to their cargo, as also the part of the said cargo which had been saved from a deduction of the costs of salvage, with authority in case of insufficiency of the proceeds of the salt to pay the said costs; to go on to sell so much of the merchandise yet remaining as would do it, under full reservations particularly to prosecute in any form all persons whomsoever, for the restitution of the effects which had been illegally taken and embezzled, and to sue for such interest and damages as could be legally obtained; and generally with a reservation of all rights, exceptions, &c.
Such are the facts and circumstances of the affair.
Upon which, the demand in writing of the imperial attorney general placed this day on the table was taken into consideration, and the report of Mr. La Coste, member of council, was heard.
Considering the neutrality of the ship and of the cargo, as being proven agreeably to the requisitions of the convention of the 1st October, 1800, there would be good ground to release the whole, was it not found that there was some merchandise (in the cargo) of English origin, and consequently within the purview of the imperial decree of the 21st November, 1806. That it is true that this article in declaring such merchandise good prize, had specially in view captures made at sea; but that the question whether property taken from a wreck ought to be restored, or confiscated, having always been solved under the 14th article of the law of the 26th July, 1778, according to the character which the capture at sea of that property would have given it, there is no ground to introduce here a new distinction, which, however, philanthropick it may seem, has nevertheless not as yet become the usage of any maritime nation. That the application of the 5th article of the beforementioned decree to the Americans as to the other people results from the general terms of the article, and from the communication recently made by his excellency the chief justice (le grand juge) relative to the original intention of the sovereign.
As to the rest, the expedition in question having clearly been undertaken after the requisite knowledge of the said decree; no objection can properly be drawn from the general rules, which forbid all retrospective effect nor even in this particular case from the propriety of the act by which the sovereign has pronounced on the question; since this act emanates from his supreme wisdom not as an interpretation of a doubtful point; but as a declaration of an anterior and positive order. That if one of the principal agents of his majesty had given a contrary opinion, the council has not at any time participated in it: besides, this opinion being that of an individual, cannot, however respectable may be its author, balance the former declaration, given in the name of his majesty himself and that if the communication of this opinion had encouraged and served as a basis, and is alleged to many American expeditions and particularly to the one in question, this circumstance which might call for the indulgence of his majesty, in a case where the confiscation goes entirely to the benefit of the state, does not release the council from the strict obligation of pronouncing in conformity to the decree of the 21st November and to the declaration which has followed it. That as it regards the expense of maintaining the crew, and of the salvage, they ought according to the general rule to be borne by the proprietors, proportionably to the restitution which will be made to them, but as it is certain on the one hand that the men belonging to the ship have been retained under the authority of the government; on the other that at the time of the shipwreck a considerable pillage was committed, in consequence of which there has been instituted a criminal prosecution the result of which, it is extremely probable will not completely indemnify the proprietors for the loss they sustained of merchandise not liable to seizure and that this circumstance is of a nature to exempt them from all contribution other than that of the sale—the council releases the American ship the Horizon stranded, on the

30th June last near Morlaix; in consequence of the wreck of the said ship together with the merchandise of the cargo, which, after an examination made in the presence of the agents of the administrators of the marine and of the custom-house, shall be known not to have come either from the English manufacturers or the territories of England, shall be restored to Capt. McClure without a deduction of other expenses than those relating to the sale.
And with respect to the other merchandise of the cargo which from the result of the said examination, shall be known to have come from the English manufacturers or territory, these it has confiscated for the profit of the state, by virtue of the 5th article of the decree of the 25th November, 1806; the whole to be sold under the forms prescribed by law and the application of the proceeds to be made in conformity to the dispositions of the said decree, a deduction being made of all the costs of salvage and of those of maintaining the crew to the time when a notification shall be made to the captain of the present decision.
Done at the imperial council of prizes, sitting at Paris, this 16th of October, 1807. (Signed) BERLIER, President la Caste Reporter.
The following paragraph translated from the Paris Monitor of the 28th October, under the head of United States of America , will give the reader some idea of the erroneous notions that are inculcated respecting this country in France.
PARIS.—“On the 26th October the Congress of the United States opens its session at Washington; no person doubts that the first operation of this assembly will be a formal declaration of war against England. The publick mind is so warmed on this subject, that any member of Congress who should dare to vote for pacific measures, would run a great risk of being very roughly handled by the people. No person can have an idea of the ardour with which they work in all the sea ports to equip ships of war of all kinds, and above all swift sailors to spread themselves over every sea, and ruin the profitable commerce of Great Britain. It appears that their principal attacks, will be directed to the north, towards the coasts of Nova Scotia, and to the south, towards the English islands. The European and East Indian seas will not be exempt from their excursions.”
FROM THE REPERTORY.
PICTURE OF CONGRESS.
Happy is that nation which is allowed to enjoy peace; for then men of the ordinary size of understanding will answer to do the publick business; the political world will indeed at that time almost turn round of itself. But happy is that nation which has several broad shouldered Atlases to uphold the ponderous system when war approaches and threatens to tumble it about our ears in ruins. And happy is our country which has so many great men at this great crisis. Foremost in this pre-eminent list we reckon, and proud we are to reckon the democratic members of Congress from Massachusetts. It seems to be ordained that great statesmen like prophets shall not come to honour first in their own country. Here at home these sons of Atlas did not appear to exceed the common size. Perhaps they have grown since they got to Washington. Court favour does wonders. Lean cattle are surprisingly altered by feeding upon clover. Some philosophers have even made it a question whether mice could not be fattened into Mammoths. Having mentioned the Mammoth, our similes ought to puff up into the sublime. Let us say more fitly for our subject, that it may be, these new splendid orbs turned their dark sides to us, or again it may be, that both sides were dark till they were attracted near their sun, the centre of all their light; or again who knows but it may be that they were comets in their cold and unlighted aphelion at Dracon, Salem and Maine, till they travelled to the centre, where they are continually bathed like the planet Mercury, in sunshine.
To whatever cause it may be owing, this is certain, our Solomons while in council were thought no Solomons while they counselled us at home. It cannot but seem passing strange to every old member of our Massachusetts legislature, whatever his party may be, we say in his heart he must think it strange that men who were no leaders here have become leaders in Congress. They will say, they cannot help saying, how is it that members so obscure and superficial as we know these men to be, have become the guides and orators of the nation. They will ask, are the other Congress men still inferior to them, and at this time, when wisdom with all her lights would scarcely know how to steer the vessel of State, is ignorance our sailing master & rashness at the helm? History is full of Generals, but how few are the Statesmen. And are these men Statesmen? Table at least has told us that there have been nations who were defended by their women, but was there ever a wretched country like our own, that is left in its extremity to be counselled by its children? Is there a man in the state who ever heard the names of these worthies in the majority mentioned as great or wise or capable in difficult affairs—and if neither nature, nor education, nor a ride of 500 miles in the stage has fitted these members to play the part of sages, what are we to think of the lot of our unhappy country which is now committed to such hands? Formerly republicks were submitted by the ambitious great. When genius and a thirst for rule happened to unite in a man the ties of law were found too weak to hold him. Pack-thread will not letter lions. Cesar's means were often bad, but his ends were always great. He would make the Romans the masters of the world that he might be their master.
But we appear to be destined to a more ignoble fate. The white robes of our liberty have not been stained red by ambition, they have however, been tarnished by the dirty hands of its votaries and are always kept wet and dripping from the kennel. Our immediate danger seems to arise from the elevation of the little great-men, who can have no objects in common with the ambitious great, and who can never comprehend the permanent interest of the multitude. So far from wishing to tread in Cesar's steps, they deem it empire to enjoy their seat and glory, enough to protract their popularity till the next election is over. These satisfied men can ask of fortune nothing more. Unaccustomed to close thinking and to the contemplation of remote political contingencies, and blown up with a little brief
authority and a share of newspaper fame, their ignorance becomes indocile, because they set up for teachers. Political maxims trickle from their lips. The gaping printers stand with ready pens to gather up the scattered wisdom, of which the orators feel conscious that they have so great a store left for future speeches. No wonder the orators are delighted and amazed that they had been great men so long before they themselves had found it out. With these impressions upon their minds and finding all that they say is eloquence, they of course conclude that all they would do is policy. Hence it is, that they are such breeders of resolutions and so fierce when a Philadelphia petition would raise an insolent doubt of their infallibility. Hence it is, that those who owe their seats to their cunning, and their politics to their prejudices, are always prompt when wiser men hesitate, and perfectly fearless when other members dread consequences, because those other men can foresee them. When we consider who our Solons are and how they became such, candour almost obliges us to allow that they are answerable for nothing but original sin.
How our great men would use their influence was easily to be foreseen; but how they came to have any influence is still a wonder to those who have measured and weighed them as they were in Massachusetts.
Reader, do you wonder, a great man does not want great men about him. It is better for the lion to be attended by jackals than by other lions. Much genius or any spirit would disqualify a favourite. J. Randolph would want pliancy and fidelity too when his work was dirty. To this cause, fame says, we are to ascribe it, that Mr. Jefferson has renounced him and selected others, who we confess appear to be worthy of his choice.
It is time for the people to rouse and petition to Congress. If our publick men have blustered till they fancied they were really dreaded, let not their false pride plunge us into a war. Let the senseless Non Importation law be repealed.
Every reason that was urged in favour of its becoming a law, is now confuted by experience. We were told that it was a prejick measure, and now we find Great Britain considers it as she well may, an act of cowardly hostility. We were also assured by the members from the back woods, who seem to be the deepest skilled and most active men in Congress, on every question that touches commerce, we were assured that Great Britain was dependent upon us and would yield any point sooner than provoke our displeasure. This wave opinion has gained credit because it was very flattering to Americans to believe that a great empire lies prostrate at our mercy. But alas, our law is so far from knocking our enemy down, that he seems ready to strike the moment we strike. This absurd law is like to be the great obstacle to peace. The President's men, as they are fond of calling themselves, are the champions of this law, and are resolved to have war rather than a repeal. As the act would be useless in war, and has already proved useless as a scarecrow, in which way it was expected to be irresistible, this obstinacy against the repeal seems to be unaccountable.
In some measure, to account for this phenomenon of inflexible stubbornness, without a motive, it is necessary to find some clue to unravel the mysterious conduct of parties in congress. The federalists as a distinct party, have no mysteries. Their conduct has been uniform and consistent from the formation of the government; and as to their political principles, nothing can be more clearly intelligible, not only because they avow them at all times, but because Washington's farewell address has fully explained and vindicated them.
Let us then make some more general reflections. It is beyond all doubt that party is a necessary part of our republick existence. We may amuse ourselves by pretending individually to a perfect independence. This worn out hypocrisy is however confuted at every election, as not one vote is given for any person except the party candidates. We may lament the prevalence of party, we may say, it ought not to be so. But it is so, and so it ever will be as long as our republick subsists. Party will make presidents, and the great chiefs of party will naturally consider the man elected as their President, as the instrument of their purposes. However harmonious the party may be during the contests of the election, and however harmonious they may wish to appear afterwards, no sooner is the man chosen than the chieftains on the successful side begin to jostle each other in their claims upon the president, and the president to feel uneasy in his dependence upon them all. If he is pre-eminently great in himself like Washington, there will be no difficulty in keeping his principal friends subordinate. But a concerted chief whom intrigue and accident rather than nature have made great, will be jealous of his power and of those who were most influential in conferring it upon him. He will look about him for humble associates, who will flatter his greatness without seeming to partake it with him, and by the union of a number of obsequious little men, he will fortify himself against the control of the able men of his party. Accordingly it has happened in a memorable debate that Mr. Varnum undertook to inform congress of what was the private wish of Mr. Jefferson. At present too we see that all the forward advocates of the government are of the like grades of intellect and political reputation. Let others judge for themselves. For ourselves we declare that we do not know where to find one man of distinguished talents in the presidential corps in congress. Happy should we be to have such a man appear among them. A really able man even if he were a bad one, would not aggravate the publick dangers from a blindness to their magnitude. He would soon acquire a political character which would be some pledge to the country for his measures. If his counsels should involve the country, he would expect to share its disgrace. But the present leaders, a genus in nomination, are liable to no such responsibility, and act from no dread of it; obscurity is their city of refuge. Even yet, perverted as we are by faction, political fame is to be acquired by a correct and comprehensive knowledge of the interests of the United States, and by an efficient zeal in promoting them. But popularity is to be earned still cheaper. No little merit will be allowed to him who watches the little fretful humours of the day and gives them utterance. Without understanding the national interests, or being thought capable of understanding them, he will be deemed a faithful representative of the popular feelings. The sons of ignorance can say, this man is our brother, he speaks our language, and almost makes us think that we could answer for members
of congress as well as he. But these humours of the day will change with the day, and the obsequious congress man will change with them. It is his business to please the people, always meaning the least informed part, and if they are served , it must be by his superiors in ability. Yet, though the crisis calls for measures that he is not qualified to frame, and for which he has not the firmness to vote, still he rates his importance too high to permit such measures to pass without cavil and clamour. The pride of opinion is most stubborn among those who adopt their first notions without examination or caution. And now it really seems as if the honour and consistency of Mr. Smilie were, at least to himself and his party, as precious as the peace of the United States. The people most undeniably have no interest in maintaining the non-importation law, but to its makers it appears essential. The people are not to buy the cheaper and sell dearer in consequence of stopping trade: on the contrary, if that rash measure should be persisted in, they will, in all probability, have to buy dearer and not set at all. To the people, then, who ought to have no false pride nor left handed game, to the people who are likely to suffer much to gratify the passions of the government, and it appears probable to suffer as much as the subjects of any ill-advised monarch, to the people let every patriot turn his most earnest exhortations.
It is not too late to raise the voice of remonstrance, and our government would yield obedience. The distress that a war would produce is obvious to every body, and every body, democrat and federalist, stands in dread of it. Notwithstanding the aversion that is expressed towards the English, the voice of the people is against a war—and solemn will be the censure of those who are now so ardent to bring it about. The curses will be deep and perhaps loud. The entire stoppage of our trade is no ordinary responsibility for the government to assume upon themselves.
Supposing the British should do nothing more than take our vessels, yet would not French friendship and alliance overwhelm us. Shall we hear it said France is 3,000 miles off and could not hurt us. In case of a war, would not France claim, and if she claimed, would she not extort from our government the union of our efforts with hers to reconquer Canada and Nova Scotia. Her officers would be sent by dozens into our back country to enlist troops for an expedition. Even if we conquered these provinces ourselves, would our good friend allow us to hinder the re-union of them to the French empire, and indivisible. For what did the Revenge touch at France going and coming, but to propose an alliance in case of a British war? Mr. Jefferson is said to be favourable to such a scheme. Then let him take heed. The day he ratifies such an alliance, he is a prefect, and we are slaves.
WASHINGTON CITY, December 28.
We have had the pleasure of conversing with a respectable and intelligent gentleman just arrived from Detroit. He states that the prevailing opinion on that British settlements in that neighbourhood is that there will be a war between this country and Great Britain. In corroboration of this opinion he states that there are now at Fort Amherstburg, a British post about eighteen miles from Detroit, at least 2,000 Indians, almost exclusively warriors. That they are all armed, and supported at the expense of the British, and with great liberality; that their arms, are guns, rifles and tomahawks; and that since August there has been constantly there between two and three thousand. In case of war, it is expected that, under the auspices of the British, a general massacre will take place, for which they are held in readiness, and from which none but those within the fort can expect to escape. Should such a nefarious measure be resorted to, our countrymen may rest assured a dreadful vengeance will be taken on its perpetrators.
(Nat. Int.)
We have said that the embargo gives no pretext to any foreign nation to make war on us. More may be added. It destroys the temptation to war.
Would war be directed against us on the ocean? There it would find at present but a remnant of our commerce not yet got home from distant voyages, and in a little time, none at all. On that element therefore we shall be invulnerable.
Will it assail us on the other element? There too every tempting object fails. Already our means of defence are forbidding; and the activity and efficacy given to our preparations, by the confinement of our seamen and stores to our own ports, will quickly bid defiance to all the force that can be brought against them. The only spot for which serious apprehensions have been felt is the city of New York; at once the richest and most exposed of our emporiums. But let it be remembered that its resources for defence, are in proportion to those of its commerce. Besides; the preparations already made, with others on foot and in prospect, are placing it beyond the reach of danger. Great as the stake is (much of it by the way the invader's own property), an enemy that counts all the cost of an armament giving even a chance of success, will strike the balance, against the bargain.
Such would be our situation on both elements. What would be that of an enemy, should it be the one most in condition to threaten us? With indefensible territories at our doors; all the wealth that floats on the ocean would also be exposed. There might indeed be a thousand clumsy ships of war parading on that element. But there would be many thousands laden with the commerce of the world, inviting, under a mock protection, the pursuits of our eagle eyed cruisers; swift as the wind; swarming in every sea, and finding a haunt and a home in every port.
War therefore can have no real charms for such an enemy. So far from it that the American nation in preferring an embargo to war, under circumstances demanding one of the two, or a submission to evils greater than either, gives the most signal of proofs that it delights in peace, that the sword is the last weapon it is disposed to employ, and that it allows to interest but little of its weight when put into the scale against humanity.
It is not denied that an embargo imposes on us privations. But what are these compared with its effects on those who have driven us into the measure? We shall be deprived of market for our superfluities. They will feel the want of necessaries. The profits of our labour will be diminished. The supplies that feed theirs will fail. Which of the parties will suffer most? Which will first be tired of the trial?
An embargo will not be without advantages, separate from the immediate purpose it is to answer. It forces frugality in the use of things, depending on habit alone for the gratification they yield. It fosters internal sufficiency for our wants. It will extend those household manufactures, which are particularly adapted to the present stage of our society. And it favours the introduction of particular branches of others, highly important in their nature, which will proceed of themselves when once put into motion, and moreover by attracting from abroad hands suitable for the service, will take the fewer from the cultivation of our soil.
But an advantage most to be prized is the death blow which a perseverance in the measure, till the occasion for it be over, will give to the insulting opinion in Europe that submission to wrongs of every sort will at all times be preferred here to a protracted suspension of commerce. Unfortunately the treacherous language of too many among us has nourished an error to which we may trace most, if not all the maritime aggressions, and unreciprocated restrictions of commerce, which for a long period have been accumulating against us. Neither injury nor insult has been supposed capable of rousing the virtue of the nation, to an inflexible purpose of foregoing the luxuries and profits of trade, however obnoxious or effectual such a mode of redress might be. The opportunity is now afforded for putting an end for ever to this misconception of our national character. Let the example teach the world that our firmness equals our moderation; that having resorted to a measure just in itself, and adequate to its object, we will flinch from no sacrifices which the honour and good of the nation demand from virtuous and faithful citizens. This manly spirit will ensure success, and success in this case will be our defence, and the cheapest of all defences against a repetition of such a remedy. With other injured nations, there may be no choice, but between disgraceful submission or war. A benign providence has given to this a happy resource for avoiding both. It is our duty to avail ourselves of it; and particularly on the present occasion to demonstrate its efficacy.
ibid.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED. Sch'r Richmond, Seaman, 3 days from New York. Sch'r Liberty, Lewis, 8 days from Philadelphia.
On Friday next the 8th instant, at 10 o'clock, will be sold without reserve, for Cash, at the Store on Main-Street, lately occupied by Messrs. Hunter and Gatewood,
A large assortment of DRY GOODS. S. Marks, Jun.
January 4
For SALE, 75 tierces prime green Jam. Coffee, And a few puncheons 5 and 6 years old Antigua Rum; Light and Brown Sugar in hogsheads and barrels; a few sets Table China; fine and superfine Flour, &c.
Harrison Allmand.
January 4
For RENT, (And immediate possession given,) Two Dwelling-Houses on Smith's-Point, near the property of Dr. Barratt, with gardens and out-houses. Apply to
Dr. John Hodges.
January 4
DRAWING ACADEMY.
MR. RENAULT,
HISTORICAL DRAWER, detained in this town against his intentions and interest since the unhappy affair of the Chesapeake, and still more by the embargo, has thought proper to satisfy the solicitations made to him by a number of persons of distinction, to open an Academy of Drawing. Consequently he offers his services to the publick, and particularly to those parents who are desirous of having their children educated in that art, which has always been the admiration of the most civilized nations, and which is the key to all others, as nothing can be made properly without the aid of drawing, the knowledge of which is the soul of fine arts.
Those persons wishing to instruct themselves in that branch of education, either for ornaments or architecture, for landscapes or the human figure, which will be demonstrated geometrically, with the anatomical knowledge of each part of the human frame relative only to painting, or finally to the most prompt and certain principles, will please to call for arrangement at Mr. Renault's, No. 12, Cumberland-Street.
The conditions will be Five Dollars entrance, and Ten Dollars per month; the Scholars will provide themselves with pencils, pencil case, and paper.
The lessons will be given, viz. every day, Saturdays excepted, which days are appropriated for making models. Those persons not wishing to take lessons every day, by taking them every other day will pay the entrance five dollars, and only six dollars per month. There will be two classes each day.
The young gentlemen will be admitted from 9 o'clock until 12 in the forenoon.
The young ladies from 2 o'clock until 5 in the afternoon. Mr. Renault will pay her duty to them.
By this method it is easy to perceive that the lessons will be as copious and advantageous as can be desired, since the length of time is not fixed to a single hour only as it is customary, and the Scholar according to his taste and ardour can make it as long as he pleases.
Mr. Renault dawns flatter himself that an establishment of this kind in this town, can only be favourably received by an enlightened publick, as it is the ornament of youth, which while it instructs and delights in his study, also joins two great advantages, the agreeable and useful, and if an experience of forty years in the art of drawing, entitles him to it, the certain and abridged means with which he intends to teach his pupils, the models always proportioned to the capacity of the scholars, which persuades them of the progress they are making, warming meanwhile their emulation; cares the most attentive, and even minute, which he knows are necessary in the first age of their study; finally the geometrical demonstration of principles which he means to put in practice, gives him, besides, hopes of speedy success, for certainly the scholar that can reason of what he is doing by knowledge of cause, has already understood the rule or science, the hand obey; the sense that commands it, while on the contrary the one that only copy without knowing what he is making for, tracing always hesitating, bluntly, and with such a timidity that his penciling can with propriety be compared to the steps of an infant attempting to walk.
January 4
89 hhds. 60 bbls. 70 bags Jamaica SUGARS.
47 hogsheads Antigua Sugars, 10 do. Rum, 13 do. Jamaica Rum, 10 pipes Madeira Wine, 39 casks fresh raisins, 4000 bushel. coarse Salt, 5000 ready made Check Shirts, 100 bbls. New-York Pork, 10 hogsheads Tobacco, suitable for the West-India market, 30,000 wt. Laguna Coffee.—For Sale on liberal terms by C. & F. Whittle.
Who Won't,
2 to 5000 bushels black eyed PEASE.
December 21.

St. Mary's College.
GRAND LOTTERY.
BALTIMORE.
Authorised by the General Assembly of the State of Maryland; the Scheme of which Lottery is the most brilliant ever offered to the citizens of the United States, containing besides a large number of other good prizes,
 1 prize of - 30,000 Dollars,  1 do. of - 15,000  3 do. of - 10,000  2 do. of - 5,000  8 do. of - 1 500  7 do. of - 1,000 
Not two blanks to a prize, and the lowest prize twelve dollars. The Scheme contains only 21,500 Tickets; 10,000 of which are actually sold to a company of gentlemen in New-York, to whom the managers have obligated themselves to commence the drawing in the City of Baltimore, on THURSDAY, the 31st day of December next, and to draw 500 tickets per day.
Tickets and Shares are now selling in a variety of numbers, and very rapidly at Ten Dollars and an half each, for a very short time, at G. & R. WAITE'S truly fortunate Lottery Office, corner of Market-street and Charles-street, Baltimore.
The grandeur of the Scheme of the above Lottery, together with an assurance from the managers that it will positively commence drawing on the 31st day of December next, have been a sufficient inducement for the subscribers to come to the city of Baltimore, for the express purpose of facilitating the sale of the Tickets.
G. & R. Waite.
One of the above firm will personally attend the drawing daily to take down the numbers correctly, as will also one of their clerks.
The next New-York Lottery will not commence drawing till April next. Tickets of which Lottery may be had at Waite's Offices, in Maiden Lane, New-York.
N. B. Different adventurers accompanying their orders with Bank Notes of any description, to either of Waite's Offices in Baltimore or New-York, may have Tickets and Shares forwarded to any amount with the utmost punctuality, and the earliest advice sent them of their success. All prizes sold by G. & R. Waite will be paid by them. A list of all prizes drawn will be sent to the Printer of this Paper, for the inspection of adventurers.
October 14. 3m
Now landing from the schooner Prudence Mary , from New-York.
17 hlids. first quality SUGARS, 54 barrels prime Pork, city inspection, 70 boxes Mould Candles; 5 hlids. double refined Sugar, 5 pipes Brandy; 25 reams Writing Paper, 2 trunks fine and coarse French Lace, which will be sold at a low rate for Cash. Apply at No. 1, Commerce-street to William Hull, Jun.
October 16. tf
Just got to Hand.
22 chests Hyson TEA, will be sold low for cash.
George Wilson.
Nov. 18. tf
For SALE, or will be bartered for Staves, Corn, or Flour,
5000 bushels Liverpool SALT, loose and in sacks, 1 ton Shot, assorted; 2 ton German Steel.
James Young.
November 13. tf
For SALE, by the Subscriber,
34 hogsheads WHISKEY, 50 crates Earthenware; 10 casks Glass do. 65 boxes 8 by 10, 37 do 10 by 12 Window Glass, 16 groce Wine Bottles; 18 boxes Castile Soap, 1 hogshead and 5 barrels Philadelphia Loaf Sugar, 10 hlids. Petersburg, 2 do. Richmond, and 4 do. York River Tobacco; 15 bales Cotton, 38 whole and 9 half tierces Rice.
A. Maclure.
November 13. tf
Now landing from on board the schooner Mohawk , Roger Quarles, master, from Leghorn,
120 hogsheads Bordolease CLARET, 96 cases Roll Brimstone, 100 boxes Castile Maible Soap, 50 tin boxes Saffron, 5 cases Florence Silks of all colours, a great many black, 8 hlids. shelled Almonds, 100 half chests Lucca Oil, of 30 flasks, 100 boxes Lucca Oil, 12 bottles each, 3 cases Chip Hats.
William Pennock.
October 12. tf
For SALE,
2 elegant Bay Horses, a complete match, 2 do. grey do. do. do. 1 remarkable fine bay, and one very excellent grey Horse—For which, Notes of the Bank of Newbern and Cape-Fear, or Proc Money will be taken in payment—Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger.
Sept. 25. tf
A. M'KINLEY,
Silk, Cotton, and Woollen Dyer,
No. 13, Bank-Street, Respectfully informs the publick that he Cleans and Dyes all kinds of Silk and Satins, finishing them with neatness and dispatch; all kind of Gentlemen's Clothes cleaned and dyed; best standing blue upon Cotton, Linen, Carpets, and Blankets; Cleaned Straw and Chip Hats dyed, dressed, &c. &c.—All commands will be thankfully received, executed on the short notice and on the lowest terms.
November 30. tf
THE SUBSCRIBER
Has removed to the brick store at the head of Campbell's wharf, fronting said wharf and Wide Water-street, where he offers at wholesale or retail his assortment of
Groceries and Ship Chandlery,
Among which are
14 hogsheads Muscovado SUGAR, 1 do. and 6 barrels loaf do. 6 do. Antigua, Jamaica, and Grenada Rum, 5 pipes French Brandy, 2 hlids. and 6 bbls. Rye Whiskey, 4 barrels Apple Brandy, 1 do. Peach do. 10 hys. Coffee, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, and Souchong Teas, Pimento, and Nutmegs, Madeira, Sherry, and Port Wines, London and Philadelphia Porter, English Chesse, Bar Iron and Castings, Nail and Spike Rods, German Steel, Powder and Shot, Tar, Pitch & Turpentine, Paints and Oil, black and bright Varnish, Canvas and Cordage, Nails and Spikes.
Also just received,
20 boxes Lemons, 12 half bbls. Beef Tongues, 20 kegs Tongues and Sounds, 40 kegs and 2 bbls. Salmon, 3 bbls. Mackerel, 15 cases Saffron Oil, 1 cask Currants, 10 boxes Olives, Capers and Anchovies, 6 dozen bottles Cayenne Pepper, 3 do. do. Pickled Peppers, 20 boxes Soap, 20 boxes Candles, 50 barrels Alexandria superfine and fine Flour.
John D. Haldane.
July 31. tf
FOR RENT,
And possession given the 1st of Jan. next, that commodious three story brick DWELLING HOUSE in Church-street, at present occupied by Mr. Barth. Redman. And a convenient two story DWELLING HOUSE, with a fine extensive garden, in the Fields near Smith's Point, at present occupied by Mr. Stratton, possession of which may be had the 1st of January—Application to be made to Wm. Plum & Co.
Nov. 18. tf
SAMUEL COLEMAN,
Opposite the Market, (westward) offers for Sale, Warranted New-York SHOES,
and will return the money when Shoes are bought upon his particular recommendation, if they should not wear well. He thinks he has exerted himself as much to get the best and handsomest Shoes and Boots of the manufacture of the United States as any man in them, and has the assurance of the manufacturers in New-York, Philadelphia, Newark, and Baltimore, where the Shoes and Boots are made purposely for this market , that they shall be in all cases customers' work; and the report of a great number of those who have purchased Shoes, confirms their being so.
He has now on hand,
A general assortment of fresh New-York SHOES. For Ladies there are a variety of new Kid Patterns; Velvet Slippers, different colours, neat workmanship, of Silk & Tabby Velvet; Morocco, Boots, Bootees, and Walking Shoes, to tie and not to tie, with cork soles and without, &c. For gentlemen, Boile's well known stout and light fine seal leather Shoes and Morocco Pumps, with several other kinds; For Misses, a variety of Morocco and Leather. For Boys, very fine for dancing, common, strong, lined and bound, and coarse. For Children, Morocco Bootees, different colours, sized from 3 to 1, leather Pumps, Shoes and Bootees; and for Servants, such as appear to be of very superior quality. There is attached to the Store a very comfortable back room, where Ladies may retire for the purpose of trying on Shoes or Boots.
He has a great variety of English Kid Shoes, some of which having been long on hand, will be sold at 7. 6d.; and a quantity of the most fashionable Embellishments, quite fresh at reduced prices.
He has on hand,
SHOES made by a very faithful workman in this vicinity, of the best wax-leather, in a shape to suit old gentlemen, with which he will be regularly supplied.
Vernon's elegant Baltimore BOOTS, kept in such quantity as to give a probability of fitting any person; sold at the prices in Baltimore.
New-York Pilots' BOOTS, an improvement upon the plan of Fishermens' Boots.
A considerable quantity of Boston SHOES and BOOTS, kept for the purpose of supplying those who must have what they think cheap, not appearing to know, that the best things, are generally, cheapest; these will be sold low.
He is in expectation of a quantity of the most elegant Philadelphia KID SLIPPERS, by the first vessel.
With due encouragement, he is perfectly confident he can supply handsomer and better Shoes and Boots, than has been furnished by any person in this place heretofore; and if better, ultimately cheaper—but without it, it is impossible to keep a good assortment.
He has also,
A quantity of India COTTONS; a few tons of BAR IRON; and Pennsylvania BUTTER in small kegs, nicely pickled, at 20 cents.
Just received by Ferguson's Packet from Baltimore, a fresh supply of
Vernon's Winter BOOTS.
November 27. tf
GERMAN LINENS, &c.
 16 bales coarse Linen, 450 pieces Paper Hangings,  4 do. Ruffia Sheeting, 80 boxes Window Glass,  3 boxes German Rolls, 100 do. Short Pipes,  2 do. Rouans Sheeting, 120 do. Spanish Segars,  1 do. fine Flanders do. from 8 to 20 dollars per box,  5 do. Plaitillas, 300 doz. empty Bottles,  1 do. fine Dowlas, 200 wt. nealed bottling Wire,  2 do. Table Cloth, 800 do. Glue,  1 do. common Shirt Linen, 11,000 best Coffee bags,  1 do. extra fine do. 4,500 cheap Gunny Bags,  1 do. Bed Tick 2 yards wide, 5 boxes Tumblers, Decanters, &c. 
Also,
 6 elegant Terrefrial Globes, A large invoice of Lace,  3 pair large Looking Glasses, Jewellery and Dice,  in gilt frames, of the first Elegance, Elegant Chessmen,  Elegant marble Statues, Flageolets and Clarinets,  Urn and Vases, Violins, Bows, and Fifes,  Liquor Cafes, Oil Cloth, Flutes with four and five keys,  Wafer and Waffle Irons, do. patent lined,  Coffee Mills and Toasters, Ladies' Dressing Boxes,  Velvet Ribbons, Toilet Looking Glasses,  Fine Thread Stockings, Shaving Cafes,  Elegant Cutlery, Elegant Writing Defts,  An invoice of Watches, Scarlet Plush for Saddles,  Watch Chrystals and Beads, Seine and Sewing Twine. 
For Sale by Niemeyer & Von Kapff.
September 11. tf
At Private Sale,
By S. MARKS, Jun.
Corner of Commerce and Water-street,
10 hlids. Antigua, 12 do. N. E. 50
 barrels do. RUM,  30 hlids. and 20 barrels Sugar; 10 pipes Country Gin,  8 pipes Cognac Brandy; 150 boxes Mould Candles,  10 boxes Spermaceti Candles; 4 bales striped Blankets,  3 bales Blue Duffs; 1 do. fine Cloths; 2 do. blue Plains,  2 do. Rugs; 1 do. Check Shirts,  54 do. Ticklenburgs and Oznaburgs; 2 do. Heffians,  1 trunk Madras Handkerchiefs. 
October 24. tf
Richard Jeffrey & Co.
No. 66, Main-street, corner of Bank-Street, have just received from London, per the ship Planter ,
An assortment of MEDICINES,
of the first quality.
 Also, a few hundred weight refined Salt Petre,  Hartshorn's Snuff, No. 9, and 37, in 1-2 and 1-4 pound canisters,  Violet, Benzoin, Windsor and Shaving Soap,  Evans's best Crown Lancets, Tooth Brushes of superior kind,  Refined Liquorice, &c. 
They have on hand, and are in daily expectation of receiving from Amsterdam, all kinds of GLASS WARE, suitable to Apothecaries.
MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family use, with printed directions, put up as usual.
October 5. tf
MACKINDER & WHITE,
Have received from London in the ship Planter , and Nabby, from Liverpool, their
Fall and Winter GOODS.
The best superfine Black, Navy Blue, and fashionable mixed Cloths, Calfmere, Patent Cords, Swansdown, black silk Florentine, Gentlemen's patent silk and beaver Hats; Ladies' Trafalgar, Calabria, Buenos Ayres, and Cottage beaver Bonnets; Children's beaver Caps and Bonnets; Ladies' plain and fancy Kid and Morocco Shoes; red and black Morocco Nelson's comforts; Gentlemen's Hessian and Spanish Boots, and dress Shoes and Pumps; superior rich gold Epaulets; lace and silver Fringe; plain, tamboured, and Leno Muslin for droffes; Callicoes, Chambrys, and Ginghams; rose and striped Blankets; Kendal Cottons; strong white Plains; mixed Fearnoughts; Flannels; Manchester Cords; blue and drab Plains; Dimities and Marceilles; 4-4 Irish Linens; 5-4 and 6-4 Sheeting; Hosiery; Cutlery in boxes assorted; coarse Hats do.; Nails, Window Glass, &c.
The above are offered for sale by wholesale or retail, at the lowest terms for Cash or approved paper.
September 23. tf
For RENT,
That commodious Dwelling-House, adjoining the Subscriber's, at present occupied by Mr. James Dykes;—also a convenient Dwelling-House near the Bridge, adjoining Mrs. Archer's, at present occupied by Mr. Nicholson;—also that pleasant retired House on Brewer street, occupied by Stephen Harris; and some Ware-Houses on my wharf, with or without the wharf. For further particulars apply to James Tucker.
October 12. tf
For SALE,
5 cases only of superior PIGEON-EYE CHAMPAIGN.
Apply to the Editor of this Paper.
Dec. 16. tf
WOOD & HASTINGS,
No. 76, Main-Street;
Have just received an additional supply of
Staple and Fancy GOODS,
Among which are
 Black Silk Velvet; Tabby, do.; Black Silk Florentine;  Silk Handkerchiefs; do. Fancy Shawls; Convex Navy Buttons; fashionable Coat do.; a variety of French Goods;  2 trunks Cambric Muslins; 2 cases Linens; 2 bales Cotton Checks; 1 do. Gilla Handkerchiefs; 5 do. India Cottons, assorted, some very fine for Shirtings; a variety of Woollens. 
They have also on hand a general and extensive assortment of
WOOLLEN GOODS.
Every description of fancy Muslins and Dresses; Velvets; Constitution and President's Cords; Dimities; Carpets; Hosiery, &c. &c.
On consignment, just received,
Hussar and Backstrap BOOTS; Ladies' Kid and Morocco Shoes; Mens' coarse do.; coarse and fine Hats.
The above GOODS will be sold at very reduced prices for CASH, or undoubted credit, by wholesale and retail.
December 11. tf
Baltimore Baker's FLOUR,
of superior quality, for family use, for sale by
T. & W. A. Armistead,
Nov. 18. tf Campbell's wharf.
The Subscriber offers for Sale at his Store in Market-Square,
20 hogsheads W. I. RUM,
10 pipes Cognac Brandy; 5 do. Country Gin,
Sugar—Brown and Loaf, by the barrel or hogshead,
Teas—Imperial, Hyson, and Young Hyson—Also,
A parcel of DRY GOODS,
Consisting of Woollens, Calicoes, Hats, and Hardware.
In addition to the above, he intends keeping a constant supply of
PORK and BEEF.
Bread—Pilot, Navy, and Ship, of the first quality—Families may be supplied with small quantities of Pilot Bread, of a superior quality.
Cordage of any size or description for negotiable notes or West-India produce.
Any orders for the above articles, will be complied with at the shortest notice.
Cary Selden.
Nov. 23. tf
Norfolk Drawbridge Company.
An annual meeting of the Stockholders in the
Norfolk Drawbridge Company, will be held at the Exchange Coffee-House on Monday the 11th of next month, at 10 o'clock.
William Cammack, Treasurer.
December 14. tdm
For RENT,
That commodious Dwelling-House on
Catharine-Street, now in the occupancy of John D. Haldane—possession to be had the 1st day of January next ensuing—Terms made known by application to
John Camp.
December 11. tf
For SALE,
73 punch. choice Antigua RUM,
30 do. Grenada do.
600 bushels CORN,
80,000 drawn White and Red Oak STAVES,
60 barrels Pork.
George Wilson.
November 4. tf
For SALE,
50,000 white oak hogshead drawr Staves
50,000 red do.
50,000 rough do.
20,000 Cypress Pales
2,000 Cedar and Chinquepin Posts
50,000 building Shingles.
Proby, Harmanson & Co.
March 2. tf
For SALE,
Imported in the Galiot Fortune , captain Norton, from Tenerife,
100 pipes and 90 hlids. L. P. Tene-
riffe WINE,
of superior quality. Apply to
Phinehas Dana.
September 28. tf
Coarse Liverpool SALT,
For Sale on board the Ship Courtesy , capt. Bryant, lying at my wharf. Apply to
William Pennock.
September 16. tf
Liverpool Blown and Cadiz SALT.
Who has on hand,
Landing from the ship Planter, and for sale at the subscriber's, at a low advance,
A PARCEL OF
Woollens, Bed Ticks, Hosiery, and other GOODS.
Thomas Blanchard.
September 28. tf
NOTICE.
I am again compelled to solicit all those indebted to the estate of PHILIP COLLINS, deceased, to make immediate payment, as no longer indulgence can be given.
Jane Collins, Admr'x.
December 9. tf
WANTED for the Ship Sheffield,