Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1808-05-06 00:00:00

Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 50 OF VOLUME IX.]
FRIDAY, May 6, 1808.
[WHOLE No. 466.]
THE subscriber wishes to procure settlers on a tract of the first-rate Land, containing twenty-five thousand acres, situated on the banks of the river Ohio, in the state of Kentucky, about sixty miles below the Falls—It is said to be finely watered, and well adapted to the culture of Cotton, Hemp, Flax, Wheat, Corn, and Tobacco.—It will be let for twenty-one years, in Tenements of about three hundred acres, on terms advantageous to the Tenants, which will be made known on application to the subscriber residing about three miles from the Falling Waters in Berkeley County.
RAWLEIGH COLSTON. March 11, 1808. [2m]
BOOT and SHOE MANUFACTORY
MARTINSBURG.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his customers and the public, that he still occupies his old stand, between the Post-Office and Printing-Office, Martinsburg; that he has lately made a considerable addition to his stock of leather, (which is of the best quality) and shall constantly keep by him a large assortment, so that none who may please to employ him, will ever be disappointed; he will be careful in always keeping the best workmen, and from his own particular attention, feels an assurance, that he shall be able to give satisfaction to his customers—Boots and Shoes, of every description, will be carefully made, agreeable to directions—He intends to keep, ready-made, a variety of work for Ladies and Gentlemen—Having a large stock of Leather on hand, he will be able to give a short credit to punctual persons who may wish it. He is thankful for the favours already received, and will endeavour in future not to be underserving encouragement.
RICHARD HICKSON.
April 1, 1808.
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTORY,
Nearly opposite the Globe Tavern, Martinsburg.
THE subscriber, from a desire to advance his own interest, to place his business on a more respectable footing, to serve his customers, and to be at all times ready to answer the calls of the public, has now, and intends always to keep in his employ, some of the best and most fashionable workmen; in his line of business; he will also be constantly provided with the best leather that can be obtained—and from an assiduous attention and endeavours to please, has no doubt but that he will be able to give satisfaction to all who think proper to employ him.
Gentlemen and Ladies at a distance, who may please to favour him with their work, may depend on their commands being strictly complied with, and that by forwarding their measures accompanied with instructions, their work can be as well executed here, as at any of the most fashionable towns.
JACOB POISAL.
March 25, 1808.
Bark Wanted.
FOR Black Oak Bark, as we are out of that kind, four dollars per cord for good well packed cords will be given, and a generous price for Spanish and Chesnut Oak, at our Tan Yard in Shepherd's-Town.
CAMPBELL & M'KNIGHTS.
Shepherd's-Town, April 8, 1808.
N. B. Black Oak Bark has usually been but from two and a half to three dollars a cord. [6w.]
YOUNG MATCHLESS, WILL stand this season at Thomas Tabb's stable in Martinsburg, on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays at Jacob Long's stable in Shepherd's-Town, and cover mares at Four Dollars the season, Two Dollars the single leap, if not paid when the mare is covered to be considered as engaged for the season, and Eight Dollars to ensure a foal, but if the mare is parted with, the ensurance to be forfeited; the money for the season to be paid the first of October, and for ensurance when the mare proves with foal.
Young Matchless was got by Col. Burwell's Matchless, and Matchless by his celebrated horse Emperor, and his dam by Capt. Jacob Vandoren's Old Snap. Young Matchless is an elegant dapple gray, sixteen and a half hands high, seven years old this spring, and is well calculated for either saddle or draft. Young Matchless is the property of Abraham Gorrell, and was kept by me last season. A good groom is engaged and strict attention will be paid, but no responsibility for accidents. The season will commence the first of April, and end the last of June.
ANTHONY TURNER.
April 1, 1808.
CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN
Mr. MADISON and Mr. ROSE, On the subject of the attack on the Chesapeake.
Mr. Rose's reply to Mr. Madison's letter published last week.
Washington, March 17, 1808.
SIR,
BEING deeply impressed with the sense of his majesty's anxiety, that full effect should be given to those views of justice and moderation, by which his conduct has been regulated through the whole of the unfortunate transaction whence the present differences have arisen; and of the disappointment of which he would learn the frustration of his just and equitable purposes; I have felt it incumbent upon me, on the receipt of the letter which you did me the honor to address me on the 5th instant, to apply anew to this matter the most ample and serious consideration. It is with the most painful sensations of regret that I find myself on the result of it, under the necessity of declining to enter into the terms of negotiation, which by direction of the president of the United States, you therein offer. I do not feel myself competent, in the present instance, to depart from those instructions, which I stated in my letter of the 26th of January last, and which preclude me from acceding to the condition thus proposed. I should add, that I am absolutely prohibited from entering upon matters unconnected with the specific object I am authorized to discuss, much less can I thus give any pledge concerning them. The condition suggested, moreover, leads to the direct inference, that the proclamation of the president of the United States of the 2d of July, 1807, is maintained either as an equivalent for reparation for the time being, or as a compulsion to make it.
It is with the more profound regret that I feel myself under the necessity of declaring, that I am unable to act upon the terms thus proposed, as it becomes my duty to inform you, in conformity to my instructions, that on the rejection of the demand stated in my former letter, on the part of his majesty, my mission is terminated. And as his majesty's government in providing me with those instructions, did not conceive that after the declaration of his sentiments respecting the affair of the Chesapeake was made known to this government, the state of any transactions pending or unterminated between the two nations could justify the perseverance in the enforcement of the president's proclamation, I can exercise no discretion on this point.
As on a former occasion I detailed, though minutely, the motives for that demand on the part of his majesty, which I with so much concern learn to be deemed inadmissible by the government of the United States, I should here abstain from an exposition of them, which visibly can have no further effect upon the
negotiation, if I did not deem it essential that they should not be left under any misapprehension which I might be able to remove. I shall, therefore, take a short review of the transaction, which has given rise to these discussions, in order the more correctly to, determine the soundness of the principle on which that demand is made.
Certain deserters from his majesty's navy, many of them his natural born subjects, having entered into the service of the United States, were repeatedly and fruitlessly demanded by the British officers, of the recruiting officers of the United States, but were retained in their new service. As it was a matter of notoriety that several of these deserters were on board the frigate of the United States the Chesapeake, they were demanded of that frigate on the high seas by his majesty's ship Leopard, and all knowledge of their presence on board being denied, she was attacked and four of them, one avowedly a native Englishman, were taken out of her. Without being deterred by the consideration of how far circumstances hostile in their nature had provoked, though they undoubtedly by no means justified this act of the British officer, his majesty's government directed, that a positive disavowal of the right of search asserted in this case, and of the act of the British officer as being unauthorized, and a promise of reparation, should be conveyed to the American minister in London, before he had made any representation by order of the United States. This disavowal made on the 2d of August last, was transmitted by him to his government, before the 6th of that month.—But before Mr. Monroe had received his orders to demand reparation, his majesty learnt, with what surprise it is needless to dwell upon, that the president of the United States had interdicted by proclamation bearing date the 2d of July, 1807, the entry of all their ports to the whole of his navy. This surprise was greatly increased, when in the letter delivered by that minister to require redress for the wrong, although it went into details unconnected with it, not only no concern was expressed on the part of the United States, at having felt themselves compelled to enact measures of so much injury and indignity towards a friendly power, but no mention was made of the causes of such measures being resorted to, or even of the fact of their having been adopted. In addition to the embarrassment arising from these circumstances, and the insufficiency of the explanations subsequently given to Mr. Canning, the introduction of a subject foreign to that of the complaint became the main impediment to the success of the discussions which took place in London. When I had the honor to open the negotiation with you, sir, as I had learnt that the president's proclamation was still in force, it became my duty, conformably to my instructions, to require its recall as a preliminary to further discussion: had it not been in force, I was not ordered to have taken it into consideration in the adjustment of reparation, and it was considered as hardly possible that it should not have been recalled immediately upon the knowledge of his majesty's disavowal of the attack upon the Chesapeake, as an unauthorized act. But his majesty could not suffer the negotiation to be carried on, on his behalf, under an interdict, which even if justifiable in the first moment of irritation, cannot be continued after the declaration of his majesty's sentiments upon the transaction, except in a spirit of hostility.
It might have been fairly contended that in the first instance, the exercise of such an act of power, before reparation was refused or unduly protracted, was incompatible with the purposes and essence of pacific negotiation, and with a demand of redress through that channel; but such have been his majesty's conciliatory views, that this argument has not been insisted on, although it might now be the more forcibly urged, as it appears that the government of the United States was from the first sensible, that, even had the hostility been meditated by the British government, it would not have commenced it in such a manner. But the exception taken, is to the enforcement continued up to the present
time, of measures highly unfriendly in their tendency, persisted in, not only after the disavowal in question; the promise of the proffer of suitable reparation; and the renewed assurances of his majesty's amicable disposition, but after security has been given in a public instrument bearing date the 16th of October, 1807, that the claim to the seizure of deserters from the national ships of other powers, cannot again be brought forward by his majesty's naval officers; it is unnecessary to dwell upon the injury and indignity to which his majesty's service is exposed both as touching the freedom and security of correspondents of his agents and accredited ministers in the United States, or as resulting from a measure which in time of war, excludes the whole of his navy from all their ports, which ports are completely open to the fleets of his enemies: it will be sufficient to observe, that even where exemptions from it are granted, they are made subject to such conditions, that of the three last British ships of war, which have entered these ports upon public business, two of them, his majesty's ship Statira having on board a minister sent out for the adjustment of the present differences, and a schooner bearing dispatches, in consequence of their inability to procure pilots, were obliged to enter these waters without such assistance, and were exposed to considerable danger. Great-Britain, by the forms established, could repair the wrong committed, even to the satisfaction of the United States, no otherwise than by the channel of negotiation; yet she avowed distinctly, that a wrong was committed, and that she was ready to make reparation for it; it cannot therefore be contended that the unavoidable delay of actual reparation subjected her to the imputation of persisting in an aggression, which was disclaimed from the first; if this is true, however much she will regret any impediment in the adjustment of a difference, in which the feelings of a nation are so materially interested; can she consistently, with a due care of her own honor and interests, allow it to be concluded on her part, under an adherence to a conduct, which has a decided character of enmity in the proceedings held towards her by the other party.
I know not in what view the perseverance in the president's proclamation up to this moment can be considered, but in that of a measure of retaliation; or of self-assumed reparation; or a measure intended to compel reparation; unless it be that which, if I rightly understand, you define it to be, a measure of precaution.
If, when a wrong is committed, retaliation is instantly resorted to by the injured party, the door to pacific adjustment is closed, and the means of conciliation are precluded. The right to demand reparation is incompatible with the assumption of it. When parties are in a state of mutual hostility, they are so far on a footing, and as such they may treat; but a party disclaiming every unfriendly intention, and giving unequivocal proofs of an amicable disposition, cannot be expected to treat with another whose conduct towards it has the direct effects of actual hostility. If then the enforcement of the president's proclamation, up to the present moment, is a measure of self-assumed reparation, it is directly repugnant to the spirit and fact of amicable negotiation: if it is a measure to compel reparation it is equally so: and by the perseverance in it Great-Britain is dispensed with the duty of proffering redress. But, if it is a measure of precaution, in order to secure reparation, or in order to compel it, it falls under the objections I have just stated. If it is a precaution adopted as a guard against acts of violence apprehended on the part of his majesty's naval officers, it surely cannot be considered as being as effectual a security as that arising from the renewed assurances of his majesty's friendly disposition, which imply a due observance of the rights of nations with which Great-Britain is in amity, by all persons holding authority under his majesty's government; from the disavowal of the pretension of the search of national ships; and from the further assurance of that disavowal given in his majesty's proclamation of the 16th of October last: neither under these con-

current circumstances can the plea of necessity be maintained; and if such a proceeding has not the plea of necessity, it assumes the character of aggression. If these concurrent securities against such an apprehension have any value, the necessity no longer exists: if they are of no value, negotiation cannot be attempted, as the basis upon which it rests, the mutual confidence of the two parties, would be wholly wanting.
From the moment after the unfortunate affair of the Chesapeake, that his majesty's naval commanders in these waters had ascertained that they were safe from the effervescence of that popular fury, and under which the most glaring outrages were committed, and by which they were very naturally led to the supposition that they were objects of particular hostility, and that a state of war against them, requiring precautions on their part, had commenced, no conduct has been imputed to them, which could vindicate the necessity of maintaining in force the president's proclamation. Since that time such of those officers as have been necessitated by the circumstances of the war to remain in these waters, have held no communication with the shore, except in an instance too trifling to dwell upon, and instantly disavowed by the commanding officer; and they have acquiesced quietly in various privations, highly prejudicial to the service they were upon, and in consequence of an interdiction, which had they been regardless of their duties towards a state in amity with their sovereign, and had they not carefully repressed the feelings its tone and language had a direct tendency to provoke in them, would have rather excited, than have averted the evils it was stated to be intended to prevent; were they regardful of these duties, it was unnecessary. Had they felt themselves obliged completely to evacuate the waters of the United States, especially whilst an enemy's squadron was harbored in them, they could have done it; but under the admission of hostile compulsion, and under such compulsion, carried into full effect, his majesty could not have dissembled the extent of the injury received.
In the several cases adduced, in which Great-Britain required certain preliminaries, previously to entering into negotiation, she regulated her conduct by the same principles to which she now adheres, and refused, whilst no hostility was exhibited on her part, to treat with powers, whose proceedings denoted it towards her; and who maintained their right in what they had assumed.
From the considerations thus offered, I trust that neither the order of reason or that of usage are in contradiction to the demand I have urged, nor am I aware how the order of time opposes the revocation in the first instance of that act, which affects injuriously one of the parties and is still avowed by the other.
The subject is thus presented to you, sir, in the light which it was natural that it should offer itself to his majesty's government. It certainly conceived the president's proclamation to rest chiefly, and most materially upon the attack made upon the frigate of the United States, the Chesapeake, by his majesty's ship the Leopard, although other topics were adduced as accessories. In this apprehension it may be held to have been sufficiently warranted, by the precise time at which, and the circumstances under which it was issued, and by its whole context, and the more so, as the impulse under which it was drawn up, appears to have been so sudden as to have precluded a due examination of all the grounds of allegation contained in it. And here I beg leave to assure you, that with respect to the spirit and tone of that instrument, it would be highly satisfactory to me, if I could feel myself justified in expressing on the part of his majesty any degree of coincidence with the opinions you have announced, or when thus appealed to, and making every allowance for the irritation of the moment, I could dissemble the extreme surprise experienced by Great-Britain, that the government of a friendly nation, even before an amicable demand of reparation was made, and yet meaning to make that demand, should have issued an edict directing measures of injury very disproportionate to what it knew was an unauthorized offence, and both in its terms and its purport so injurious to the government to which that demand was to be addressed, and tending to call forth in both nations, the feelings under which a friendly adjustment would be the most difficult. But if, as I learn from you, sir, the proclamation rests substantially on other causes, it is then peculiarly to be regretted, that, together with the demand for redress made in September
last, the government of the United States did not think it fit to offer a negotiation, or an explanation of so momentous a measure, or to declare that its recall must be more or less connected with the adjustment of other alleged wrongs. Neither did it think it necessary to return any answer to the remonstrance given in by his majesty's envoy at Washington, on the 13th July, 1807, in which he represented "that he considered that interdiction to be so unfriendly in its object, and so injurious in its consequences to his majesty's interests, that he could not refrain from expressing the most sincere regret that it ever should have been issued, and most earnestly deprecating its being enforced."
It could not be supposed that a circumstance of so great weight could be overlooked by his majesty's government, in determining the line of conduct to be held in the negotiation: and as little could it be expected to pass it over, when on the failure of the discussion with Mr. Monroe, it directed a special mission to be sent to the United States. It had the less reason to imagine that any other grievances could be connected with that for the adjustment of which I am empowered to negotiate, as Mr. Monroe, in his letter to Mr. Canning of the 29th of July last, had stated with respect to other subjects of remonstrance, that it was improper to mingle them with the present more serious cause of complaint; an opinion to which Mr. Canning declared his perfect assent in his letter to that minister of the 2d of the subsequent month; so that this act was left as single and distinct, to be singly and distinctly considered. His majesty's government, therefore, could not consistently with any view of the subject then before it, or indeed with the just object of my mission, direct or empower me to enter upon matters not connected with that of the Chesapeake: and they could with the less propriety do it, as in order to render the adjustment of differences of such a nature, the more easy and the more conspicuous, the ministers charged especially with such offices have been, with few if any exceptions, restricted to the precise affair to be negotiated. With respect therefore to those other causes of complaint, upon which you inform me that the President's proclamation rests, I cannot be furnished with documents enabling me either to admit or to controvert those statements of grievance, foreign to the attack upon that ship, contained in your letter, or authorized to discuss the matters themselves. I shall therefore not allow myself to offer such comments as my personal knowledge of some of those transactions suggest to me, although their tendency would materially affect both the marked manner in which those transactions are portrayed, and the disadvantageous lights in which his majesty's government is represented to have acted respecting them. I am moreover led to the persuasion that my government will be the more easily able to rescue itself from inculpation, by the inference arising from passages in Mr. Monroe's letter to Mr. secretary Canning, of the 29th of September last, that the differences unhappily existing between the two nations were in a train of adjustment.
If his majesty has not permitted me to enter into the discussion of the search of neutral merchant ships for British seamen, together with the adjustment of the amount of reparation for the attack upon the Chesapeake; it was no wise with a view of precluding the further agitation of that question at a suitable time; but it was that the negotiation might be relieved from the embarrassment arising from the connection of the present matter with the one so foreign to it, and, as it was but too well known, so difficult to be adjusted, of a right distinctly disclaimed, with one which Great-Britain has at all times asserted of enforcing her claim to the services of her natural born subjects, when found on board merchant vessels of other nations; a claim which she founds in that principle of universal law, which gives to the state the right of requiring the aid and assistance of her native citizens. The recurrence, therefore, to that course of negotiation, which had been originally settled between Mr. secretary Canning and Mr. Monroe, and which had been alone broken in upon by the orders subsequently received by that minister, can only be considered as a resumption of that course of things which Great-Britain strenuously contended there was no ground to depart from. I may observe, that this purpose might have been effected without the intervention of a special minister.
It will be in your recollection, sir, that
in our first interview, I stated the condition, which makes the subject of the present letter, before I was informed by you, that the president of the United States would consent to the separation of the two subjects.
I had trusted that the exposition, which I added in my letter of the 26th of January to the verbal explanation I had before offered, of the grounds of his majesty's demand, was both in its purport, and in the terms in which it was couched, such as to prevent a suspicion that they were in their intention derogatory to the honor, or calculated to wound the just sensibility of this nation. I may add that such a supposition could not be reconciled with the various ostensible and unequivocal demonstrations of his majesty's good faith and anxiety, that this transaction should be brought to an amicable termination, which were exhibited even prior to any remonstrances on the part, or by order of this government. The other topics which I felt myself authorized to advance in that letter, in illustration of that amicable disposition on the part of the king, were brought forward from the conviction I entertained that they must be of a nature to be satisfactory to this government, and therefore, such as it was particularly my duty to enforce; but not with a view to rest upon them the right to advance the claim which I have stated.
I may here remark, it is obvious that far from requiring that the first steps towards an arrangement of reparation should be taken by the United States, Great-Britain has already made them openly and distinctly: they are indubitable testimonies to the respect borne and decidedly marked by Great-Britain, to the ties of amity subsisting between the two nations, and of her cordial desire to maintain them unimpaired; and as such alone they were urged.
As his majesty would have derived sincere satisfaction from the evidence of corresponding feelings on the part of the United States, so it would be the more painful to me to dwell upon a series of insults and menaces which, without any provocation of warlike preparation on the part of Great-Britain, have been for months accumulated upon her through the U. States, and but too frequently from quarters whose authority necessarily and powerfully commanded attention.
I ought, perhaps, to apologize for adverting to an incidental expression in your letter, if I did not think it right to remove any ambiguity respecting the nature of the claim which Great-Britain maintained to her seamen, native citizens of the realm, who have deserted from her service to that of other powers: it is, that on demand they shall be discharged forthwith, and consequently they shall instantly be freed from their newly contracted obligations.
Before I close this letter, allow me to state to you, sir, that I have felt it my duty to transmit to his majesty's government, the exposition contained in your letter of the 5th instant, of the various demands on the honor and good faith of Great-Britain, on which the complaint is made, that satisfaction has not been afforded to the United States, and on which conjointly with the affair of the Chesapeake, you inform me that the proclamation of the president of the United States of the second of July, 1807, is founded. It will be for his majesty's government to determine, on the part of Great-Britain, whether any and what obligations remain to be fulfilled by her. Whether any denial, or such protraction of redress have occurred on her part, as to render necessary or justifiable the perseverance in an edict, which, when not necessary or justifiable, assumes a character of aggression; and whether on the result of these considerations, the present negotiation can be resumed on the part of his majesty, with a due regard for his own honor, or with a prospect of a more successful termination.
I have the honor to be, With the highest consideration, Sir, Your most obedient and most Humble servant, (Signed) G. H. ROSE.
FOREIGN NEWS.
BOSTON, April 20.
On Monday evening the excellent ship Sally, Capt. Lewis, arrived here from Liverpool; bringing regular files of London papers and lists, to the 13th March.
In the debates of the British Parliament we find the relations between the United States and G. Britain were made the theme of interesting and repeated dis-
cussion. The immediate cause of these discussions was the passage of the renewed American Intercourse Bill, and a bill to enforce the execution of the late Orders of Council. Our readers will be pleased to find, that both Ministerialists and Oppositionists agreed in deprecating a rupture with the United States; and while the latter contended that the execution of the Orders of Council would tend to annihilate American commerce, and involve the two nations in War; and thus aid the domination of France, the Ministers declared that the measure had for its sole object the chastisement of France and her allies; that the injury which would accrue to neutrals would be merely incidental; and that the Orders had been weakened in their force, and rendered partly obscure, from their desire as much as possible to exempt American commerce from their rigid operation. The debates appeared to be conducted with great spirit and ability; and the interests of the United States found advocates in Lord Grenville, Mr. Windham, Lord Auckland, and others, who have in times past, been denounced in this country as hostile to our interests. The bill to execute the orders of council passed the Commons, March 11th, by a majority of 100. Petitions against the passage of the bill were presented from the London and Liverpool American merchants.
Several petitions praying ministers to conclude peace had been presented to Parliament and had been respectfully received. Counter petitions had also been received; and addresses were signing in various places assuring the King of the entire confidence of the signers in his government at this important crisis. There were no indications of negotiation: nor of a change in the Ministry.
The only continental power remaining not under the influence of France, was Sweden—And between her and England a convention had been concluded, by which the latter agreed to furnish a subsidy of 1,200,000. sterling; and to add a large auxiliary force, in case Sweden should be threatened with invasion. That force was in preparation; and the report was renewed, of the march of the Russians against Sweden.
On the continent the limbs of the vast European Colossus were daily gathering strength—Portugal had become one of them and Junot made the Military Governor over it. The dominions of the Sovereign Pontiff were in translation to his "dear child;" and renewed preparations were in activity for the invasion of Sicily, to be annexed to the crown of Naples; to assist in the conquest of which was said to be one of the objects of the departure from port of the Rochefort squadron.
It was intimated that the Dutch had relaxed in the execution of their decrees; and that produce and manufactures were admitted. This was not, however, confirmed.
In England, the affairs between them and the U. S. excited great anxiety—American produce was high—and American shipping in demand. The distresses of the war were very severely felt; and many of the manufactures were either entering the army or navy, or turning agriculturalists.
Mr. Shuter, who arrived here last night in the Ocean, sailed from Lisbon on the 7th ult. in the brig Hetty, for New-York, but was sent into England by Sir C. Cotton's squadron, and arrived at Plymouth on the 20th. He informs, that 80,000 French troops had arrived in Spain—30,000 in Lisbon—It was generally supposed they were destined against Gibraltar. Portugal was completely subdued—20 millions of dollars was to be raised by the 10th of April for the use of France. All British manufactures to pay one third of their value, and every species of defalcation to be punished with death. A great revolution was on the eve of taking place in Spain—Flour at Lisbon was 18 dolls. There was not an American vessel at that place.
The government of France and Spain have given notice that no Danish, Dutch, French, Spanish, or other ships of their allies, shall be permitted to sail from French or Spanish ports, that they may not run the risk of being captured by the English.
All Algerine vessels have been embargoed in France, in consequence of the refusal of the Dey to give up Genoese prisoners.
RUSSIAN SQUADRON BLOCKADED.
The last accounts received from Gibraltar are said to state that Lord Collingwood blockades a Russian squadron of

nine sail of the line and several frigates, at Trieste, the commerce of which port is also entirely suspended by the operation. The French and German papers represent this Russian force as consisting of 15 ships of different rates, having on board 6000 men.
BALTIMORE, MAY 2. Extracts from letters received at Philadelphia.
"Havannah, April 10, 1808." "The object of the present serves to inform you, that flour is up now to 26 dollars per barrel."
"Kingston, [Jam.] March 29, 1808." "There is not any arrival from your quarter. We now begin seriously to feel the effects of your embargo. Flour is now retailing at 30 dollars per barrel corn meal at 16 dollars; rice 12 and 13 dollars per 100lbs.—The latter article was sold yesterday at 11 1-2 by the fifty tierces! What we will do here shortly God only knows. Nothing is the theme at present but war between America and England. I cannot allow myself to think that this is the case, tho' it seems the general opinion. Yesterday a new governor arrived (say the duke of Manchester,) and London papers to the 25th ult. They are silent as to the difference between your country and G. Britain. A cargo of lumber would now sell well. Shingles, in particular, would pay handsomely. I would advise you to send a cargo of them the very first opening. Corn and fish are the only articles that do not rise rapidly. This is to be accounted for from the great quantity at market, and the abundant crops of provisions."
The sloop Poplar, has arrived at Philadelphia from Grenada, and brings a Grenada paper of the 30th ultimo, which contains an account of a most dreadful FIRE at Port Spain, Trinidad, on the 24th March, nearly the whole of which place was destroyed, leaving the inhabitants in the most distressing situation, threatened, as they are with famine. On this occasion, gov. HISTOP issued a proclamation, bearing date the 25th, the next day after the fire, opening the whole of the ports in the island for the introduction of provisions and lumber for four months, with permission to export any of the productions of the island. Martial law was also declared, and the suffering inhabitants, bearing arms, to be furnished with rations in the same proportion as H. B. M. troops. Vessels had been dispatched to the different islands for supplies of provisions and lumber.
By the brig Hope, captain Andrews, arrived on Monday 18th inst at Marblehead from Gijon in Spain, in the bay of Biscay, we have news from that country to the 10th of last month. It appears that the city of Pamplona, in the kingdom of Navarre and that of Figueras in the principality of Catalonia, had been garrisoned with French troops, with the consent and by order of the king of Spain, and therefore without any opposition from the commandant of the same; that the Rochefort fleet had joined that of Carthagena, consisting of 10 ships of the line, &c. and have proceeded thence jointly to Toulon;—that the general opinion of the best informed class in Spain was that the prince of Asturias, the heir apparent of the throne, would be married to Miss Beauharnois, daughter of the ambassador, a niece of the empress of France; and that Murat had already arrived in Madrid, no doubt preparatory to the coming of the emperor and the consummation of the said event, together with other arrangements, such as allotting Portugal as a dowry to his said niece. There were in Ferrol 5 ships of the line, one new of 120 guns, and 3 frigates ready for sea.
DISTRESS. —An American vessel originally bound from Savannah to Philadelphia, since the embargo, laden with cotton, had the misfortune to be driven off our coast, and was compelled to make the port of Liverpool, in England, in distress, where, however, her cotton came to an excellent market; and where the vessel has been sold.
At the last dates American vessels were in demand at Liverpool, being taken up on some speculation to Russia.
BALTIMORE, April 27. We are informed that a letter has been received by a respectable house in this city, from Bordeaux, by the George, arrived at New-York, which states that Bonaparte had actually commenced the siege of Gibraltar, and had declared that he would take the fortress if it cost him 10,000 men.
SENATE. The following are the Yeas and Nays on the passage of the bill to authorize and require the president of the U. S. to cause to be prepared for service, the frigates and other armed vessels of the United States.
YEAS —Messrs. Adams, Anderson, Condit, Crawford, Gaillard, Goodrich, Gilman, Gregg, Hildreth, Howland, Milledge, Mitchell, Pickering, Pope, Reed, Robinson, Smith of Md. Sumner, Thruston, Tiffin and White, 21.
NAYS —Messrs. Kitchel, Maclay, Mathewson, Smith of N.Y. & Turner, 5.
The following is a schedule of the papers laid by Mr. Daniel Clark, before the house of representatives on the 25th inst.
Pursuant to a resolution of the house, calling on me for testimony relative to gen. Wilkinson's receipt of money from the Spaniards, I now lay before it some original papers corroborating the statement which I have already given.
No. 1. A translation of a letter in Spanish, from Thomas Power, to Don Thomas Portell, dated at New Madrid, June 27, 1796, and containing the reasons why it was proper for Portell to deliver to Power, without an order in writing from gen. Wilkinson, a sum of money which had been placed, for that purpose, in Portell's hands, by the Spanish government of New-Orleans. The original letter is subjoined in the hand writing of Power, with which I am acquainted.
This letter explains the deposition of Mr. Derbigny, and also makes mention of the letters in cypher, from general Wilkinson, to Gayoso, then governor of Natchez, of which a translation in the hand writing of Gayoso, has heretofore been laid before the house. It may be proper to add, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of Gayoso in which the translation is written, and that he has been dead more than eight years.
No. 2. A translation of Portell's answer to the foregoing, dated at New Madrid, on the same day, June 27, 1796. The original is subjoined, in the hand writing of Portell, with which I am acquainted.
The object of this correspondence seems to have been to furnish Portell with the means of explaining to his superiors his motives for delivering the money without a written order.
Nos. 3 and 4, are two original letters in the hand writing of Philip Nolan, with which I am acquainted. Nolan was the confidential agent of gen. Wilkinson in 1796, and has been dead several years.
These two papers are stated by Mr. Power to be secret instructions given to him by gen. Wilkinson, after the latter received the money from Portell, mentioned in Nos. 1 and 2.
The instructions, according to Mr. Power's statement, were given in the hand writing of Nolan, as a measure of precaution against the danger of detection. The 640 dollars, of which they make mention, are stated by Mr. Power to be a part of the sum received for gen. Wilkinson of Portell, which Power after his arrival in Kentucky was obliged to use for the expences of his journey.
No. 5. Is the translation of a letter to the Baron de Carondelet, from Mr. Thomas Power, dated at N. Orleans, May 9, 1797, after his return from Kentucky. The original letter in Spanish is subjoined. It is in Mr. Power's hand writing, with which I am acquainted.—It explains the affair of the 640 dollars, mentioned in the secret instructions, Nos. 3 and 4, and refers to, and quotes the instruction of gen. Wilkinson.
No. 6. Is the translation of the Baron de Carondelet's answer to the letter.—The answer is in Spanish, and in the hand writing of Don Andres Armisto, secretary to the government, which I know. It is signed by the Baron de Carondelet, with whose signature I am acquainted.
DANIEL CLARK.
MARTINSBURG, May 6. Married on Wednesday last, at Middle Creek meeting House, Mr. Samuel Miller to Miss Charity Mendenhall, both of the Society of Friends.
Dispatches have been received (says the Washington Federalist) by government from general Armstrong at Paris. It is said, generally, that they are important, but we have been unable to learn any thing, particularly respecting them.
Mr. Sloan, a member of Congress from New Jersey, has published an address to his constituents, in which he fairly secedes from minutiae , declaring his determination to support Clinton for President; the following sentence extracted from it, will afford some idea of the nature of the disclosures which Mr. Sloan could make. Speaking of his vote at the caucus for Madison, he says,
"I voted for him of choice, not having then discovered a combination of causes and effects, connected with his election, which when discovered, I considered in their nature, and tendency, dangerous to the liberty, and interest of these United States."
"I voted for him of choice, not having then discovered a combination of causes and effects, connected with his election, which when discovered, I considered in their nature, and tendency, dangerous to the liberty, and interest of these United States."
A decree has been issued at Martinique, appropriating ground for the cultivation of articles of provision, as a substitute for those imported from the United States.
The present Pope some time ago called Buonaparte the eldest son of the Church; and to prove his claim to the title, the English wits remark, he is daily levying fines on the estate.
From our latest English accounts, petitions for peace were in circulation for signatures in all the great manufacturing towns in the kingdom. In Manchester and its vicinity the signatures amounted to upwards of 37,000 and in other places to a much greater number.
Died in this County, on Saturday last, the widow A. Miller, aged eighty years.
On Sunday Mr. John Shields, in an advanced period of life, after a short illness.
Same day Mr. Abraham Beller, of a consumption.
On Wednesday Mr. Christian Courtney, of a lingering consumption, with which he had been afflicted for more than seven years.
"Death is the crown of life; Were death deny'd poor man would live in vain. Were death deny'd e'en fools would wish to die."
From the Franklin Repository.
ON THE EMBARGO.
RESORT of brains confus'd! Fell foe To industry! Thou fatal blow To enterprise! shall we not know What wondrous cause Demands, to lie inactive so Beneath thy claws?
Looks forth the joyous spring in vain, The steeds grow fat on worthless grain Demand the collar, and the chain, With slinging heels, They scour the meadow, and the plain, And tilled fields.
His tottering fences to repair, Or fieldward guide his trusty share, The dubious farmer doth not care, But pausing stands, His cumbrous crop of the last year, All on his hands.
Silent the Mill, whilst Hodge is found, O'er half-door bent, in thought profound, With folded arms, he views the ground Of his thoughts, one is, How pay his rent, one hundred pound, And yet be honest.
The market-teams pass seldom, rare The gingling bells salute the ear, Ask now th'unwhistling clown, and hear What brought his cargo? He cries, "it hardly kept me clear," Then damns th' Embargo.
But this—yea more than this, we'd bear, Uumurturing, did not midnight drear, And mystery dark shroud those, who steer Our tempest tost, And lab'ring bark—we shrewdly fear, The compass lost—
Rise GARDENER! their plots define For sterling sense, and logic's thine. Tho' hosts of democrats combine, And hem thee round, No other argument they find, Than "knock 'em down."
You dare be honest, and unscreen The cunning rogue behind the scene Who would corrupt the great machine Of Legislation And give to us some Prince Eugene To rule the nation.
That day-light dreading hand, unblest, We fear is Bonaparte's fist, 'Gainst our Great Chief's lugs hard press'd, Lugs doom'd to bear,
"Dare not to treat with Britain lest I box your Ear."
Who, not contented to have robb'd, Or coaz'd, some Millions from the fob, Of him, who sits upon the Nob Of trust and power, Would hide him quite, beneath his robe, In luckless hour.
O! who would not with thee despise A cringing croud, with blindfold Eyes, Adopting measures, weak—unwise— Ask why they did so, And Jemmy Sloan perhaps replies, "Our Message said so." A FARMER.
JOHN MATHEWS, Of Springfield, in the County of Muskingum, State of Ohio.
WILL lease any number of LOTS, to contain from thirty to fifty acres, of the richest bottom land, lying on the banks of the river Muskingum, in the Military Tract, Range No. 5, Township No. 5, Section No. 2, for seven or ten years, to young single or married men who are disposed to move thereon—They shall have legal satisfactory leases and undisturbed possession for seven or ten years, free from rent or taxes, on the simple condition of occupancy and planting Peach and Apple Orchards and nurseries, as soon as their clearings and openings will permit—And they are requested not to permit the destruction of timber or Oak-bark in the neighbourhood.
The river at this point is navigable for boats of great burden for about four or five months in the year, and is in the immediate vicinity of the richest variety of lands owned and for sale by the United States, which may be purchased in feesimple after exploring so as to suit the purchaser.
May 6, 1808. 4tew.
TAKE NOTICE.
THE public are hereby cautioned against taking an assignment on a note given by the subscriber to James Wright, for seventeen dollars, which becomes due some time in August or September next—The above note having been given for a mare which was under execution at the time she was sold me, in consequence of which I have been subjected to a considerable additional sum, I am therefore determined not to pay said note, until the said costs I have been at are discharged by the said Wright.
JOHN M'INTIRE. May 6, 1808.
NOTICE.
I INTEND to remove from Martinsburg to Cincinnati in the state of Ohio within four months; those who have any claims against me will please call upon me at my house in Martinsburg for settlement, or in my absence to Mr. Ignatius O'Ferrall or Mr. William Sommerville.
The house occupied at present by me, will be rented on very reasonable terms, for one year, to a careful person.
JOHN O'FERRALL. Martinsburg May 6, 1808.
N. B. A credit of twelve months (in place of nine months) will be given for the Household Furniture, &c. advertised by Ignatius O'Ferrall, to be sold on Monday the 16th instant.
JOHN O'FERRALL.
THE ELEGANT HORSE SNIP.
WILL stand this season, at the plantation of Wallace Hannah, on Mondays and Tuesdays, and at Leonard Baugh's, 4 miles from Martinsburg, on the road leading from thence to Williamsport, on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and on Fridays and Saturdays, at my plantation, and cover mares at Four Dollars the season, to be paid the first of October next, Two Dollars the single leap, to be paid at the time the mare is covered, or if not then paid, to be considered as engaged for the season; Eight Dollars to ensure a mare in foal, to be paid when the mare proves with foal; parting with, or removing the mare forfeits the ensurance. The season will commence the first of April, and end the last of June.
Snip is a handsome bay, with a star and snip and one white foot, nearly seventeen hands high, five years old past, is well proportioned, moves well, has a fine carriage, and is suitable for either saddle or harness. He is of the Snap breed of horses, whose services are well known in this country. Strict attention will be paid, but no responsibility for accidents.
ELI BELLER. May 6, 1808.

Public Sale.
WILL be sold at Public Vendue on Thursday the 12th day of May next, at the late dwelling of WILLIAM MACKEY, jun. deceased, a variety of Household and Kitchen Furniture, a Negro Man and Woman, two Cows, one Horse, Secretary, Bureau, sundry Beds and Bedding, two Carpets, one Eight day Clock, together with a number of articles too numerous for insertion. Nine months credit will be given, and bond with approved security will be required. The sale will begin about nine o'clock in the morning.
The JACK now kept by the subscriber, will be offered for sale on the above day.
WILLIAM MACKEY, Admrs. April 29, 1808.
Land for Sale.
THE subscriber wishes to dispose of the FARM which he now lives, situated in Berkeley County Virginia, near Opeckon Creek, about three miles from Martinsburg and seven from Shepherd's-Town, on the main road leading from the former to the latter place—This farm contains about three hundred acres, a part slate and a part limestone land of the first quality, about two thirds of the whole tract cleared, and now in a state of high cultivation, the balance clothed with excellent timber, which will always afford a greater quantity than the consumption of the place will require—A sufficient portion of the land can be converted into good meadow—The improvements are a very comfortable and convenient dwelling house, a large frame barn and stables, with other useful buildings; there is a spring of good water quite convenient to the dwelling, and several other springs rise on different parts of the place, furnishing a sufficient and constant supply of water throughout the year.
The subscriber being desirous to remove to the state of Ohio, will take in exchange for the above farm, land well situated and of good quality in any part of that state; or if a greater part of the price can be paid in hand, a great bargain will be given in it. The terms will be made known on application to the subscriber living on the premises.
ELI BELLER.
April 29, 1808.
THE subscriber earnestly requests those indebted to him, by note or book account, to come forward and settle their respective accounts, and pay at least a part, as some of them have been already of long standing, and justice to his creditors denies him the pleasure of giving any indulgence.
JOHN M'CLEARY.
April 29, 1808.
Mill to be let.
TO be let the stone MILL lately occupied by John Roberts, adjoining Martinsburg, together with a comfortable dwelling house for the miller, and an excellent garden; the Mill has two pair of Burrs in it, with bolung-cloths, chests, screens, &c. all in complete order for manufacturing Flour—It will be rented for one year, or a term of years—Possession may be had immediately—For terms apply to
ANN HUNTER.
Martinsburg, April 29, 1808.
Berkeley, ss. February Court, 1808. William Rankin and Christian Shank, Complainants, against Mary Kelly, executrix of Thomas Kelly, dec. Robert Gustin and Elijah Sutton, Defts. In CHANCERY.
THE defendant, Mary Kelly, not having entered her appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that she is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainants by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said Mary Kelly do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in May next, to answer the bill of the complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court-House of said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
CURRYING.
THE subscriber informs the inhabitants of Berkeley County, that he has commenced the Currying business in the house of Nicholas Roush, adjoining Mr. William Gregory's and opposite to Mr. John Fisher's, in Martinsburg, where he will be able to furnish all who may please to favour him with their custom with all kinds of upper leather and calf-skins, boot-legs and boot-tops, bridle leather, leather for hatters, &c. at a cheaper rate than they can be purchased at any other place in this town or Baltimore; he will take hides in exchange for leather, and will allow the highest price in cash for calf-skins.
He solicits, in a particular manner, the attention of saddlers, of boot and shoe makers, and such other of his mechanic brethren as may want any articles in his line, as they are assured that all kinds of leather furnished by him will be elegantly finished and sold on the most reasonable terms—Equal endeavours will be made to give satisfaction to every other class of citizens who may please to favour him with their custom.
LAZARUS STEWART.
April 29, 1808.
Public Vendue.
WILL be sold by public sale, on Monday the 16th day of May next, at the house of John O'Ferrall in the town of Martinsburg, a variety of Household and Kitchen Furniture, consisting of Beds and Bedding, Chairs and Tables, Sideboard, Desk and Drawers, one eight day Clock, Looking Glasses and a number of elegant Pictures, some valuable Books and a number of other articles too numerous to mention.—At the same time and place will also be sold one Negro wench about sixteen years of age who is accustomed to house and out work. Nine months credit will be given for all sums above two dollars, on bond with approved security. Due attendance will be given by
IGNATIUS O'FERRALL.
Also will be offered for sale the house and Tan-Yard occupied by said John O'Ferrall, or rented if not sold.
N. B. All persons having any claims against John O'Ferrall in the County of Berkeley, will please to render the same to
IGNATIUS O'FERRALL.
April 29, 1808.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber on the 20th December last, a Negro woman named VENUS, about 27 years of age, about 5 feet 4 inches high, of a proportionable size, of a yellow complexion, has a wide mouth and full lips, rather ruff countenance, pock marked, has holes peirced in her ears, has small feet and hands for a Negro, a scar on the right side of her head not far from the crown, is remarkably fond of company and strong drink; had on when she went away a black and white striped lindsey jacket and petticoat, a new wool hat, a gray coating cloak bound with worsted binding, a new red grounded calico habit, a dark grounded ditto, a white muslin ditto, and a quantity of other clothing not recollected; she has been in the neighbourhood of Charles-Town, and about Mr. Dandridge's quarters; she may have obtained a forged pass, and endeavour to pass as a free woman. I will give ten dollars reward for her apprehension if she be taken in Berkeley or Jefferson County; twenty dollars if fifty miles distant; if a hundred miles the above reward, and all reasonable charges paid, if delivered to Mr. Thomas Locke, Martinsburg, or to the subscriber, living near the Warm Springs.
JAMES JACKSON.
April 22, 1808.
Virginia Lands
For Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale several Tracts of Limestone Land, of the first rate quality, containing from 150 to 300 acres, well watered and timbered, lying within half a mile of the Potomac river, in Berkeley County, about seven miles above Williamsport and ten from Martinsburg. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises.
GEORGE NEWKIRK.
September 18, 1807.
THE subscribers inform their friends (customers at a distance) and the public in general, that they have
Superfine Broad Cloths & Cassimere
for sale, on moderate terms, at their Store (by the Market-House) in Shepherd's-Town. They also have a complete assortment of Ladies Fashionable Plush Bonnets, Dry Goods of every description, Hard-Ware, Groceries, Bar-Iron, Plow Molds and Steel of all kinds, Castings, Wrought & Cut Nails of all sizes, A quantity of excellent well seasoned Plank, (fit for immediate use) Home-made Twilled Bags, ditto Linen, Flax, Fresh Medicines and Paints of the best quality, Flax-Seed Oil, Prime Soak, Upper and Harness Leather, Nice Calf Skins and Boot Legs; all which they are selling very Cheap, by wholesale and retail.
They return their sincere thanks to their Punctual Customers, and hope those in arrears will come forward and settle their respective balances (in a short time) as the season has now arrived, that makes it indispensably necessary we should have our money.
JAMES & JOHN LANE.
P. S. They buy Hides and Skins, and give the highest price in Cash.
Shepherd's-Town, March 18, 1808.
Fresh Spring & Summer GOODS.
THE subscribers have just received from the city of Philadelphia, and finished opening, an extensive and general assortment of European, India and American Manufactures, consisting of a handsome variety of Fashionable and other Goods, too numerous to particularize. The whole of which they respectfully recommend and offer on the most moderate terms for CASH. With grateful acknowledgments for past favors, in their line, they hope nothing on their part shall be wanting to merit a continuance.
THOMAS C. SMITH, & Co.
Martinsburg, March 18, 1808.
Berkeley, ss. March Court, 1808. Isabella Lyle, admx. of Hugh Lyle, dec. Complainant. against
Hugh Lyle, Samuel Bray and Nancy his wife, John Lyle, Philemon Chenoweth and Sally his wife, James W. Campbell and Polly his wife, William Lyle, Anne Lyle, Emily Lyle, Samuel Lyle, children and heirs at law of John Lyle, deceased, Dougal Campbell and Sally his wife, Margaret H. Lyle, Robert W. Lyle, Harriet Lyle and Hugh Lyle, children and heirs at law of said Hugh Lyle, deceased, James Wright & Elisha Boyd, Def'ts. In CHANCERY.
THE defendants Samuel Bray and Nancy his wife, not having entered their appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by her Counsel, it is ordered, that the said Samuel Bray and Nancy his wife, do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court-House of said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
PURSUANT to a decree of the Court of Berkeley County, the Commissioners therein named, will proceed to sell, for ready money, on Monday the 16th day of May next, on the premises, a certain Tract of LAND, belonging to the heirs of James Wight, deceased, for the purpose of securing a debt due by said James Wight to Joseph Foreman:—This Land is situated on the river Potomac at the mouth of Back Creek, and contains 172 acres, about 40 of which is good bottom, a quantity of meadow land, about one half of the whole tract cleared, and the balance well timbered, has on it an excellent apple orchard, some peach and cherry trees, a good spring, and the place well watered—the buildings are out of repair.
GEORGE PORTERFIELD, WILLIAM PENDLETON, THOMAS SHEARER,
April 1, 1808. Commissioners.
Berkeley, ss. March Court, 1808. Ignatius O'Ferrall and Frances his wife, late Frances M'Kiernan, Comp'ts, against Peter M'Kiernan, Laurence M'Kiernan, Andrew Goulding and Catherine his wife, late Catherine M'Kiernan, Patrick Ternan and Margaret his wife, late Margaret M'Kiernan, James O'Quin and Susanna his wife, late Susanna Mahony, Michael M'Kiernan, Frances Monahan, late Frances M'Kiernan, Elmer Stirky, late Elmer M'Kiernan, John M'Kiernan, Peter M'Kiernan, Frank M'Kiernan and Barney M'Kiernan, Def'ts. In CHANCERY.
THE defendants, not having entered their appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the complainants by their counsel, it is ordered, that the said defendants do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June next, to answer the bill of the complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court-House of said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
Berkeley, ss. March Court, 1808. Nathan Bull, ex'r. of Robert Bull, dec. Complainant, against Daniel Brown, Defendant, In CHANCERY.
THE defendant, Daniel Brown, not having entered his appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered, that said Daniel Brown, do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court-House of said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
Berkeley, ss. March Court, 1808. William Maslin, Complainant, against Daniel Brown and David Dutton, } Defendants, In CHANCERY.
THE defendant, Daniel Brown, not having entered his appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered, that said Daniel Brown, do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court-House of said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
Battalion Orders.
THE first Battalion of the 67th Regiment of the Virginia Militia, are ordered to muster at Capt. Robert Snodgrass' on Back Creek, on the 14th of May next, and the second Battalion on the 21st of the same month at Darkesville.
ELISHA BOYD, Lieut. Col. Com. 67th Reg. V. M. April 22, 1808.
THE Members of the Berkeley Volunteer Troop of Cavalry, are ordered to attend a Muster, on the first Saturday in May next, in Martinsburg, for the purpose of training.
JOEL WARD, Captain. April 22, 1808.
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia: Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.