Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1806-02-07 00:00:00

WHOLESALE PRICE-CURRENT NORFOLK, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1806.
Table with columns: ARTICLES, per, From, To, Remarks. Lists prices for various goods like Bacon, Beef, Brandy, Bread, Butter, Candles, Coal, Cocoa, Coffee, Cordage, Cotton, Duck, Flour, Fish, Fustick, Gin, Grain, Hemp, Indigo, Iron, Logwood, Lead, Meal, Mahogany, Molasses, Peas, Pepper, Pimento, Pitch, Pork, Raisins, Rice, Rosin, Rum, Salt, Soap, Sugar, Shingles, Staves, Tar, Tobacco, Tallow, Turpentine, Wax, Wines.
Premiums of Insurance on American Property. To Great Britain, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, without the Straights of Gibraltar. 4 1-2 5. France, Holland, Bremen, and Embden, 4 5. In the Mediterranean, - - - - - 5 6. Madeira, Canaries, Azores, and Cape de Verd Islands, - - - - - 4 4 1-2. British and Neutral Windward Islands from Barbadoes to St. Thomas - - - - - 5. Jamaica and Honduras - - - - - 12 1-2. Porto Rico, - - - - - 6. Havana, - - - - - 4 1-2 5. Cape Francois, (unarmed) - - - - - cannot be insured. Ports in the Bite of Leogane, - - - - - be insured. Ports on the South side of St. Domingo, - - - - - 5 1-2. Persia, India, and China, - - - - - 2 2 1-2. Coasters, - - - - - 2 2 1-2. Prices of Stocks. Virginia Bank, 4 per cent. under par. Norfolk Marine Insurance Company, 12 1-2 per cent discount. United States Bank, none in the market. Exchange on London, 426 2-3 dollars for 100l. Sterling.
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK; PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE 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 a Port in France, The fine coppered SHIP BELFAST, Geo. W. GARMAN, Master, burthen about 400 hogheads Tobacco, great part of her cargo being engaged; she will sail with all convenient speed—For freight of the remainder, apply to Messrs. Rambaut, Gerson, & co. of Petersburg, Mr. Warren Ashley, or John & James Galwey. Feb. 3. tf 486. Wanted Immediately, A VESSEL, Of about 150 tons, to bring a cargo of Logwood from Lynhaven Bay. Apply to John C. Niemeyer. Feb. 3. 9t 483.
FOR LIVERPOOL, The Brig COMMERCE, John Price, Master, Will sail in ten days, and can take 40 or 50 lds. on freight, if immediate application be made to Moses Myers. January 17. 488. FOR CHARTER, The Schooner LIBERTY, Joshua Bangs, Master, An excellent vessel, will carry about 1200 barrels—For terms, apply to the master on board, or to Moses Myers. January 8. 5w 483.
FOR A PORT IN FRANCE, The fine, newly coppered, fast sailing SHIP HIGHLAND MARY, Will take freight to amount of 200 hogheads Tobacco on liberty; will be ready in a few days—Apply to Mr. Peter Gordon, or to Geo. Murray, & Co. January 8. tf 419. The fine new fast sailing Schooner FAME, Wm. Warham, master, burthen about 700 barrels, now in complete order for the reception of a cargo—will take a freight to the West-Indies if applied for in a few days. Apply to the master on board, or to D. R. Waddey, & Co. Dec. 30. tf 387.
THE SLOOP GEORGE, Russell Towler, Master, burthen about 400 barrels, wants a freight to Charleston, S. C. or Savannah. Apply to the master, or D. R. Waddey, & Co. Dec. 30. tf 388. For Freight or Charter, The good Ship Amiable Antoniette, John Williams master, now in complete order to receive a cargo—A port in France will be preferred. Apply to the master on board, or to William Hartshorne, Jun. Dec. 30. 391.
Wanted to Charter, A SHIP, of about 300 hogheads burthen, to load for Falmouth and a Market. Also— A VESSEL, of about 1000 barrels, to load for Madeira—Apply to Robert Maitland, & Co. Jan. 27. 4w 464.
FOR SALE ON VERY LIBERAL TERMS, The good Brig COMMERCE, Burthen 1100 barrels—Apply to William Hartshorne, Jr. Who offers for Sale, SHERRY, MALAGA, TENERIFFE, particular LOAF SUGAR, CLARET in hlds. and boxes, FIGS in frails, Alexandria CRACKERS. January 24. tf 462.
LIVERPOOL SALT. A Cargo of Stoved SALT, on board the Alexander—For Sale on moderate terms by J. & W. Southgate. A few hundred bushels COALS. Feb. 3. 3w 487. ST. UBES SALT. For SALE on board the Swedish Ship Redliheten, Captain Fagerberg, A quantity of excellent St. Ubes Salt. Apply to Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. Feb. 3. 2w 458.
Jamaica and Grenada } RUM, Prime and } Mess } PORK, Petersburg & } TOBACCO, For Sale by Rapahannock } C. & F. Whittle. Feb. 3. 6t. 478.
Norfolk Drawbridge. THE President and Directors of the Norfolk Drawbridge Company, have This Day declared a Dividend of Seventy Cents on each Share in the Capital Stock of the said Bridge, equal to three and half per cent. for the half year, which will be paid after the 12th February, on application to William Cammack, Treasurer. Jan. 22. 42th Feb. 455.
A DARING ROBBERY!!! One Hundred Dollars Reward.
LAST EVENING, between the hours of 7 and 9 o'clock, and while the family were at Meeting, the house of the Subscriber was broken open, and his desk by means of a false key opened, out of which was taken a small black Morocco Pocket Book, containing 380 Dollars in Bank Notes, among which is a Post Note of the Bank of the United States for 100 dollars, remarkable for being endorsed where it is joined, and in the middle N. RAY, written in a very elegant hand; the number or date not remembered. There were likewise in the pocket book, a note of hand of captain William Miller's, for 219 dolls. and 19 cents, payable 30 days after date, teste, James Davis; also an order drawn by Geo. Butler on Robert Gibson for 20 dolls.; three Tickets in the William and Mary College Lottery, Nos. 6283, 6286, 2356, endorsed on the back, Davis, Walker, and Yancey, together with various other papers of no use to any person but the subscriber. Likewise stolen from out of the desk, two Doubleleons and an English Guinea; on one of the Doubleleons are the letters M. K. in cypher; also between 80 and 90 Dollars in Silver. The above reward will be paid to any person who can give such information that I may recover the whole of the notes and money, or in proportion to so much as may be recovered—And I will give Fifty Dollars to any person who will discover the Robber, so that he may be prosecuted to conviction. E. M. Walker. Portsmouth, Feb. 5. tf 491.
Landing from on board the Portuguese Ship Boa Nova, Fresh Walnuts, Lemons, Oranges, Figs, Raisins, and Baskets of different sizes and qualities. Oliveira, Fernandes, & Co. Feb. 5. 3t 492.
FOR SALE, A HOUSE and LOT, in the fields, adjoining Mr. Edward Guy's—If not disposed of at private sale before the fourth day of March, it will on that day be Sold at Publick Auction on the premises. Terms made known by application to Joshua Guy, Church-Street. Feb. 5. tf 469.
NOTICE. I request all persons having claims against the Estate of JOHN WADDEY, Sen. deceased, of Northampton County, Eastern Shore, Virginia, to bring them forward properly attested on or before the first day of June next, as I shall plead this notice in bar against all claims that may appear after that date. I. R. Waddey, Executor to the Will annexed. Northampton Court-Yard, Feb. 1. 2m 490.
TO RENT, A Ware-House on Commerce-Street Wharf—Apply to William Plume, & Co. Feb. 3. tf 482.
Now landing from on board the Sloop Director, and for SALE at the Ware-House formerly occupied by Messrs. James and Thomas Tucker, Maxwell's-wharf, 5 Pipes Cogniac BRANDY, 5 Hogheads MOLASSES, 20 Casks Malaga WINE, 20 Barrels SUGAR, 20 do. Prime New-York PORK, 20 do. do. BEEF, 10 do. do. APPLES, 30 Boxes Mould and Dipped CANDLES, 10 do. SCAP, 10 Chests Souchong } TEA, 2 do. Imperial } 1 do. Hyson } All of which will be Sold low or exchanged for Country Produce. James M'Clenachan. Feb. 3. tf 485.
CAUTION. Landlords and Shop-Keeper are hereby cautioned against trusting any of the crew of the Swedish Ship Redliheten, as I am determined to pay no debts of their contracting. S. P. Fagerberg, Captain. Feb. 3. 4t 484.
WANTED TO PURCHASE, A NEGRO WOMAN, who is a good House Servant and Sempstress; one without children will be preferred. For one well recommended, a liberal price will be given. Apply to the Editor. Feb. 3. tf 479.
SWEDISH IRON. A few tons just received by schooner Mohawk, from Copenhagen, for Sale by Moses Myers. Jan. 22. tf 454.
ST. UBES SALT. The CARGO of the Swedish Ship Princess Wilhelmina, consisting of about 14,000 bushels St. Ubes SALT, of an excellent quality—For sale on liberal terms if taken a-float. Apply to Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. Jan. 22. 6t 456.
Just arrived, and will be landed at Campbell and Wheelers wharf, out of the British brig Mary, from St. Vincent, 40 Hogheads Prime SUGARS, and a few puncheons RUM—to be sold on liberal terms by Robert Dickson. Jan. 22. 6t 457.
FRANCIS SMITH, Has opened his Vendue and Commission Office at the Store lately occupied by Messrs. Bowman and Walker, No. 48, Main-Street. Jan. 20. tf 451.
If George William Clarke who left England for this Country in July, 1802, is living, he will hear of something to his advantage on application at this office. Norfolk, Jan. 15. tf 435.
Wanted to Purchase or Hire, A smart active Negro MAN, From 20 to 23 years of age. Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger. Jan. 10. tf 426.
JUST LANDED, 25 Hogheads Choice MOLASSES. For Sale by Thos. H. Parker. Jan. 10. tf 426.
COMMUNICATED BY A COMMERCIAL FRIEND.
COURT OF ADMIRALTY, DOCTOR'S COMMONS, WEDNESDAY, September 13th, 1805.
MARIA—JACKSON, MASTER. (Before the Right Honourable Sir William Scott.)
SENTENCE.
COURT.—This question arises from the voyage of the vessel which went from the Havanna to Providence and landed her cargo, was there refitted, and, after taking on board part of the same cargo which she took in at the Havanna, came on to the port of Amsterdam.—There are two questions in this case; first, whether the goods so carried were not liable to confiscation; secondly, whether the ship which has been employed in such a voyage is not liable to the same penalty? It is certainly held that a continued voyage from the colony of the enemy to the mother country, would, under his Majesty's instructions, subject the cargo to confiscation.—The question then is, whether it is a continued voyage or not, which in some cases is very difficult to determine; it is a question of fact which must depend upon circumstantial evidence, upon which the Court is to judge with great caution, and give no more than the proper weight due to it.—The first case which turned upon the colonial principle was the Essex, Orne, which is not novel.—It is a settled principle of law, that a claim unbroken, merely making that sort of importation which does not amount to a bona fide importation into the neutral country, does not alter the nature of the voyage; it leaves it a voyage to the port, to which it was originally intended to be carried, and there sold—what does not incorporate the goods into the commerce of the enemy, does not alter the nature of the thing. The principle is old. The first case which came before the observation of the Court was the Essex, Orne; it is not immaterial to state the substance of that case—it was a ship belonging to an American, with an intention of coming to Europe, not to be destined to Spain at all; the cargo was meant to be sold at Lisbon, but the market was dull, and the vessel proceeded to Barcelona, there sold her cargo, & another cargo was put on board, the produce of Spain: she then came to Salem for further orders, and from thence went on with this cargo to the Havanna, which voyage was adopted by the owner himself.—It appeared clearly that the original instructions to the master from the owner were, that the vessel was to go to the Havanna: the Lords considered this a continued voyage, and done with the knowledge of the owner, who is bound by his agent's act.—There are other cases which have come on in this Court, and they have been determined upon their own particular merits, as such cases must be, because it is evidence of intention, and that may be slighter or stronger, according to the circumstances of the case.—The first case was the Enoch, Doane, in which it appeared that broad fact of intentions, namely, a direct charter-party that she should go from Boston to the port of the enemy: that there was that original engagement, there was no reason to doubt, because the charter-party describes it; therefore it is a conclusive fact, and requires no hesitation or caution in the Court on its determination.
The next case was the Rowena, which case I did not distinguish in effect from the Enoch; but it was determined on its own facts—it wanted the decisive fact of the charter-party—but there were other strong circumstances in this case; it appeared clearly that the vessel's habit of trade had been in this way, viz. going backwards and forwards to the colony of the enemy, and coming on to the country of the enemy in Europe. There was one circumstance which appeared, that the whole cargo was brought from the colony of the enemy and carried to the mother country, and that hardly time was allowed at New-York to land the cargo, and put it on board again. Under these circumstances the court held that they were purposes of a similar nature, and that the intention of sending this cargo from the colony of the enemy to the mother country in Europe, was an original intention. In the case of the Respect which came on afterwards, it did appear that there was but a short time between the landing the goods in America and carrying them on to Europe, but there was a suggestion on oath, that these goods which composed the greater part of the cargo had been intended for sale in America, and the court thought it was bound to support the averment on oath, which the parties had made, and that it would take them out of the rule; these are the cases that have occurred. The present case comes now to be considered on its own facts, and it is necessary for the court to see whether it is to be considered as a continued voyage or not. In the first place there are no letters on board the ship to show an intention as in the Essex, Orne, directed to the Havanna, therefore it differs certainly from that case. In the next place, there is no charter-party, as occurred in the case of the Enoch, Doane. How is it distinguished from the case of the Rowena? I cannot but think that it differs in two or three circumstances, and it is upon circumstances alone, that the court can construct its judgment. I think in this case that no habit of trade of this kind appears; this was pressed against the others, and therefore will act favourably towards this case in that respect. And it is favourably distinguished in another respect, it is not going to the mother country of the colony from whence it is brought, but to another country. I think the effect would be the same, but it breaks a little into the effect of evidence as to intention; but where it is going not to the mother country of the colony, but to a great place of trade, the emporium of Europe, that is a circumstance that ought to be dismissed from my view.—There is another circumstance of evidence, namely, that it is not the whole of the original cargo, the great part of an assorted cargo. When there is a whole cargo brought on from the colony of the enemy to the mother country, as in the case of the Rowena, it is different from that which composes a miscellaneous cargo, picked up at different ports, for different persons. Where the whole is carried, it shews more original intention than where the cargo is broken and only a part carried. Upon these grounds, therefore, I am of opinion, that this case is substantially distinguished from these which have occurred; I think these are circumstances and facts to shew in all probability that it might have been the party's intention to have sold these goods in America, and finding the market bad, he took up the resolution of sending these goods on to another market in Europe. I am not to be supposed to abandon the principle in any degree, but I think I am bound to permit the claimant to support the averment, that in the first instance, it was his intention to have disposed of these goods in America. I shall give him the opportunity of doing that. (Further proof ordered of an intention to dispose of the goods in America.)

A special meeting of all the Members is requested on SATURDAY Evening next, the 8th inst. at 7 o'clock, on business of importance.
Luke Wheeler, President.
Feb. 7.
BRITISH RELATIONS.
The aspect of our political relations with Great-Britain, has not at any time been more serious than at present, and all the wisdom and firmness of our councils, and patriotism of the people are requisite in the present conjuncture. It must afford the most consolatory hopes to observe the unanimity of sentiment which prevails among every description of our fellow citizens upon principles; in measures which it may be expedient to adopt, there may be some difference of opinion. With the exception of Mr. WRIGHT's sanguinary bill, no subject was ever discussed with more moderation, candour, and in our humble judgement, with greater ability, of which the memorial of the merchants and traders of Baltimore, concluded in this day's paper, affords one, among many instances. After the many luminous discussions which we have published on the subjects of controversy, it would be equally arrogant and unnecessary to add a single remark of our own upon the principles under consideration.
It is not supposed, as we have already observed, that all are of the same opinion upon the means. As to the bill introduced by Mr. Wright in the Senate, it is presumable, that we shall never hear more of it, the resolution of Mr. Gregg being substituted in its place. This resolution, if examined with the attention its importance merits, is not without exception. It goes too far in one view, and not far enough in another view. What effect it will produce in Great-Britain cannot be ascertained at this time, and is of course matter of opinion. If (as we are inclined to imagine she will) she should consider it as a cause of war, then the resolution does not go far enough, because it puts our vessels and cargoes in her power, while our own acts will keep theirs out of our power. Setting aside the hostile appearance of this measure, the resolution cannot pass in its present shape, without violating our treaty with Great-Britain, and which she may consider as cause of war. The last clause of the 15th article of that treaty says, "Nor shall any prohibition be imposed on the exportation or importation of any articles to or from the territories of the two parties respectively, which shall not extend to all other nations." Now it does not appear, without any infraction of this part of the treaty, that we can lay any prohibition on British merchandise, without extending the prohibition to that of other nations.
If the resolution passes in its present shape, Great Britain may consider this treaty dissolved, because a violation of one party authorises the same on the side of the other party. But if Great-Britain is disposed to consider the measure in a more serious manner, and proceed to extremities, then surely we shall be sorry to regret that we had not gone further.
If the measure is intended only as a measure of precaution, then it goes too far, for an embargo, which would operate alike upon all, and furnish no just ground of offence to any, would answer the end proposed.
There is certainly no solid distinction, between making war directly, and provoking it indirectly, if then the measure proposed is to result in war, it is nothing more than common prudence to keep as much of our own property at home as possible, and not to diminish our resources when they will be most wanted, and not to trust to the moderation of a government, who it is contended, attacks us without provocation.
This resolution we apprehend is calculated to obviate the objections, which the agricultural interest might raise to an embargo. The protection of government ought to be extended to every class of its constituents.
It is sincerely to be wished that such measures may be pursued as will promote the publick good, but measures, which only irritate without injuring, are not likely to produce the desired end. Mistaking our wishes for our opinions, we cannot help thinking that a solemn appeal to the wisdom and justice of the British nation, might avert incalculable distress to both countries.
The principle contended for by Great-Britain, contained in the instructions of November 1793, was more comprehensive than those now contended for, because it prohibited all intercourse with the enemies' colonies, yet we find that the principle was given up, upon the representations of this government.
It may be observed, and with great reason, that it is the principle as well as the practice, that is objectionable. If, however, Great-Britain will abandon the practice as relates to us, it does not appear to be sound policy to make war for principles, the discussion of which, peace may soon render needless.
That an embargo will be the soundest measure, is evident, because by that we should embarrass the colonies of Great Britain, if to embarrass her is our policy. The resolution now proposed, besides exposing the property of our citizens to seizure, is not calculated to produce the inconvenience to Great-Britain, which an embargo would, for her colonies by this resolution, would derive all the convenience of the present intercourse. Her colonial produce would find its way to this country in various ways, nor would her manufactures be so completely prohibited as some imagine. In whatever way the resolution is considered, it does not ap-
pear calculated to produce the desired end; but if it should pass, it is to be hoped that it will not take effect until a period, which will allow an opportunity for further negotiation.
This subject had been thus far noticed by us, when we received the National Intelligencer, which we insert in our paper of this day, without paying much deference to the opinions of the most inveterate opposition print in England.
We conclude with expressing our firm conviction that non-importation, without non-intercourse and an embargo, will be one of those half-way measures, that will rather expose the imbecility, than evince the firmness of our councils.
THE PUBLICK have expected with no common degree of anxiety, the reply of the British Minister to Mr. Monroe's note on the subjects of controversy between the two governments. Whether any reply had been made, at the date of Mr. Monroe's last advices, or if given, a communication of it has been made to Congress, or not, we cannot undertake to say. We do not perceive that the Washington papers take any notice of such a communication being made, from which we infer that it has not been received, or if received, has not been made.
The resolution for laying a tax of ten dollars per head on the importation of slaves into the United States has passed the House of Representatives.—Ayes, 79—Nays 25.
The uncommon warmth which this resolution produced, was not more singular than the arguments of those who opposed it. They said that the state of South-Carolina was pointed at in the resolution; if that state chooses to continue a practice which every other state disclaims, the fault is with the state. The members from that state said that the constitution of the United States permitted the importation, but the constitution also permitted a tax of ten dollars per head to be laid on them.
HON. DUNCAN McFARLAND.
We noticed in our last a communication from this gentleman, an honour which was equally unexpected, and unsolicited. He complains of the notice taken of him in this paper, and says that in our remarks we were "mistaken, satirical and abusive." Except a doubt which we expressed, as to the place of his birth, we made no assertion, which his own communication does not confirm.
We did not intend to be satirical or abusive, and we are sure that we were not so, unless that the regret which we expressed, that a man in such an honourable station, should get into such dishonourable circumstances, may be satirical and abusive.
Mr. McFARLAND's defence of himself we shall not publish, for many reasons. It is unintelligible in many places, and in every part, the most confused statement we ever perused; malice itself could not wish a better opportunity of exposing him than by publishing his communication.
His statement has no other evidence to sustain it, but his own ipse dixit , and as his innocence or guilt will be established in April before a tribunal of justice, a publication of this statement becomes less necessary. We very sincerely wish him "a good deliverance," for we are not so much politically opposed to him, as to wish for the degradation of his constituents, by a conviction of the crimes wherewith he stands charged.
Died yesterday, Mr. GEORGE CAPRON, of this Borough.
William and Mary College Lottery.
EIGHTEENTH DAY.
Prizes of 15 Dollars.
Table with 10 columns of numbers representing lottery prizes for the 18th day.
NINETEENTH DAY.
Prizes of 500 Dollars.
Prizes of 15 Dollars.
Table with 10 columns of numbers representing lottery prizes for the 19th day.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
The awakened spirit of the nation will hail with satisfaction the resolutions laid by Mr. Gregg on the table of the house of representatives on Wednesday. There are those who regret, and we rank ourselves of the number, that the unjust conduct of Britain has not received from the representatives of the nation an earlier notice. As soon as that injustice appeared to be deliberate and systematic, we considered it as requiring a firm and vigorous resistance. Entertaining no doubt of the adequacy of our resources to command redress, or to punish injustice, we should have rejoiced, if congress had refused an attention to all minor concerns until they had unequivocally manifested their determination to repel the aggressions of this power.
But another course has been pursued. And now, although we cannot but deprecate the delay which has taken place, we are ready to acknowledge that it has been attended with some peculiar benefits. It has served to convince every one that our councils, exempt from a spirit of precipitation or passion, have been solicitous to shew by their patience and forbearance, an ardent desire for a good understanding with foreign nations. It has likewise given an opportunity to our fellow-citizens in every part of the union to make themselves acquainted with the important subject presented to their consideration, and to express their sentiments on it, together with the course proper, in their opinion, to be pursued. It has further enabled the representatives of the people to become better acquainted with the subject than they might otherwise have been; and no doubt can be entertained but that they have by this time reflected calmly and dispassionately on the best course to be pursued without being exposed to that aberration which sometimes springs from the vehement collision of conflicting opinions.
In every aspect, in which the subject can be viewed, it is now ripe for legislative discussion a great national question presented itself under more favourable auspices.
The people are indignant at the wrongs committed upon them; and there is but one sentiment as to the necessity of taking some firm and vigorous steps. While, however, the undissenting voice of the nation demands some measures of vigour, reposing confi-
dently in the discernment, the fidelity and the spirit of the government, there has been no premature or embarrassing dictation of measures. The field of legislation is large and unoccupied. These who are to bear the responsibility are left free to adopt the measures which shall be deemed by them the most expedient. And let them rest assured, that whatever diversity of sentiment may exist in this point, there is not a good citizen, who will not, when the legislature shall have prescribed the course to be pursued, not merely acquiesce in it, but who will not with a vigour suited to trying occasions, give it that energetick support that shall insure it a complete success.
With justice on our side, with the bold consciousness it inspires, and with an undiminished love of peace, we may, perhaps, be compelled by the folly of others, to develop the energies of a republican government. Should this prove the case, we shall be woefully mistaken, if it is not made to appear, that the power of a free people is not only competent to the maintenance of their own rights, but that it may likewise be made terrible to those who invade them.
Even the proposed measure, pacifick as it is, and short of the length to which circumstances may eventually drive us, will, if carried into effect, strike dismay throughout the empire of Britain. Her embarrassed trade and ruined manufactures, should she persist in her ill-starred policy, will present a more eloquent remonstrance than she has been accustomed to hear. It may be, and we sincerely hope it will be, that the foresight of these evils will induce her to abandon the unjust principles and practices which have produced this solemn crisis.
In connection with this topic, we offer to our readers the following account by Cobbett , in his Political Register of the 26th October, of the dispute between the United States and Great Britain. The subject is so important, that the fullest information should be given upon it; nor is it uninteresting to be apprized of the feelings and impressions of the adverse party.
DISPUTE WITH AMERICA.
"As this dispute is of considerable importance in itself, and as it is likely to give rise to much publick discussion, it will be proper to state, at the outset, the nature of the case, in a manner somewhat more full and correct, than it has yet been stated in the publick prints. The first information of the existence of the dispute was communicated to the publick through the Morning Chronicle of the 16th inst. and as it is pretty evident that the article alluded to came from the pen of some one who wished to put the people of this country upon the American side of the dispute, the insertion of the article here, previous to my statement of the case, will, I hope, be regarded as proof of that fairness, which, it is my wish, should be apparent in every part of that share, however trifling it may be, that I shall venture to take in the discussion."
"It appears from the American papers) that an account of the decisions which have recently taken place in our courts of admiralty, had been received in America, and had given rise to the most serious complaints against this country. The papers are full of the matter, and they threaten reprisals in a way which demands, on our part, a little reasonable reflection on our conduct. The Americans complain of all the European powers in different ways, and perhaps with reason. It is material that our readers should know the precise nature of their complaint against us, and we shall endeavour to state it in a few words. So long ago as the year 1799, an American ship called the Essex , Orne, took in a cargo of wine at Barcelona for Salem, and paid the custom-house duties there; it was then re-shipped on board the same vessel, and the ship sailed for the Havanna . In her voyage she was taken by an English cruiser, & carried into a West India island, where, after a long discussion, she was declared a lawful prize, as Spanish property. An appeal was made to England, and the case came on to be argued here about eight months ago, when the counsel for the captors set up an argument, for the first time, founded on an old & almost obsolete practice, that the touching at Salem, and landing of cargo there, was a mere subterfuge, that the original intention was to carry the cargo to the Havanna , and that, in fact, the voyage from Salem to the Havanna was a continuation of the original voyage. The lords of Appeal said this was a most important consideration, and required time to deliberate upon it. After an interval of three months they decided upon this argument, that it was a lawful capture.—As soon as this decision became known in our navy, cruisers seized and brought in a number of vessels under the same circumstances, and several decisions have been made. The first was the case of an American vessel, which took in a cargo of sugar at Guadaloupe , carried it to New-York, there landed the sugars, paid the duties, &c. forthwith re-shipped them, and sailed for Antwerp. In the voyage the ship was taken, and on a trial before Sir William Scott, he solemnly decided, on the new argument, (which, however, he said, was founded on an old doctrine) that it was a continuation of the original voyage, and the ship was condemned. Many others followed. It was a God-send to our men of war and privateers, the Americans conceived themselves perfectly safe in pursuing this course, as it had been acted upon without question through the whole of the last war. Several instances have occurred indeed, where the ships brought in upon this pretext have been released. Whenever the captured party could exhibit satisfactory proof that the cargo was originally intended for the American market, that it was advertised for sale, exposed in an open store, offered at a price, &c. and that it was evidently re-shipped only because the owner could not find a purchaser, then it has been held that the capture was not legal. But the course of the trade was the other way; and though it was a doctrine good only until it came to be known, yet the depredations upon America, to which it has given rise, is enormous. And this complaint is that the practice having gone on, without interruption or question, during the whole of the last war, and until this decision on the case of the Essex , they ought in fairness, to have had notice of our return to the old obsolete practices; and that all the condemnations made without such notice, are unjust, violent, and hostile. These are the facts as we understand them. We trust we have stated the case fairly. A strong memorial has been presented by the American minister to lord Hawkesbury on the occasion; and his answer, as transmitted a few days ago, was, that it was a case of such importance as to demand time for serious investigation. We trust it will receive serious investigation, and also a candid, speedy, and fair answer. We have had too much of hasty violence and tardy atonement. Our maritime strength does not so much depend on our power of seizure as on the freedom of our commerce. And we ought not, either in justice or in policy, to drive America to measures of reprisal. If she should lay an embargo on all the exports to our West India islands for only six months, what would be our condition? And even without that act of vengeance, a non-importation agreement of British manufactures for one year, would be a loss to this country of seven millions sterling.—The observations with which this article closes, will demand some little notice by-and-by. At present it is necessary only to say, that they appear to betray the origin of the statement; and if it should be found
that I am correct, it will certainly be evident, that this statement is not so.
(Conclusion of remarks in our next.)
LETTER
From ACHMET BASHAW, to the President of the United States.
[Accompanying the message from the President of the United States, of the 13th January, 1806.]
EXCELLENCE,
For nearly eleven years, I have been labouring under the weight of misfortune; but, notwithstanding which, my distress was never equal to that which the actual combination of circumstances has made it.
My residence was near Cairo, when there arrived in Alexandria, a brig commanded by capt. Hull, in company with gen. Eaton, who came recommended to me by Mr. Briggs, H.B.M. consul, and enquired of him where I could be found. My place of abode being made known, a courier was dispatched for Cairo, by order of the general, and on his arrival at Razid, a second one, which came to Cairo, directed to the house of Tussuf Bashaw, an officer of the Ottoman Porte, who received a letter in which he was requested to suffer me to pass without interruption, in order that I might co-operate with the Americans to take Tripoli. These things being communicated to me, caused me to reflect seriously, whether they could be true or not. All doubts were dissipated by general Eaton meeting in Cairo, my secretary, named Mahumed Mezuluna, to whom he consigned another paper, and in company with two Maltese, arrived at Said, my place of residence, and delivered to me a dispatch, urging me to leave that place immediately, in order that we might have a meeting (as really happened) in the city of Damintur, where the general was made known to me, as one who had been sent hither by your excellency for the conquest of the kingdom of Tripoli. I engaged to go with him to Syracuse, and also to keep myself secret, from which circumstance, I was necessarily compelled to abandon all I possessed, and thus lose my horses, camels, &c. Previous to my leaving Damintur, general Eaton assured me the peace would never be made, unless I was placed in my own seat (throne) and often swore by himself that he would never take me from where I was for the sole purpose of making the conquest.
I did not, however, fail to suggest to the general, that in case Jussuf Bashaw should actually remain conqueror, what part would he take in my favour, as I should not be able to remain any longer in the Turkish dominions. I was answered, if the combinations of war should prove favourable to Jussuf Bashaw, that a pension would be granted me, sufficient to maintain my family and suite; the people and money demanded by me, to effect this object (for such a movement) were ready; and that I had better expedite my secretary to capt. Hull, to inform him, that the general had to conduct me from Upper Egypt to Syracuse, but that I could not trust myself at sea in the manner he had. My envoy having executed his commission, arrived first in Syracuse, and afterwards in Malta, in consequence of the absence of capt. Hull from the first (place) and whom he afterwards found in the second place (Malta) and executed his embassy. He was answered by the same (Hull) that every thing I could possibly want was ready, and in fact, there was sent me a vessel, laden with supplies and provisions, accompanied by the brig commanded by capt. Hull, which arrived at Bomba, delivering to the general and myself a dispatch (to him directed) from the commodore, in which he renders Hull responsible for every thing I might want; I then asked for cannon, powder and other warlike supplies, and was answered that a frigate was hourly expected, and that they would be sent to me. I afterwards left Bomba, in company with gen. Eaton, and we pursued our route towards Derne, arriving near it in 12 hours. Such a voyage made me extremely happy, as well as my people, while the manner in which we were treated by the general, excited universal admiration; his dignified soul (conduct) merits applause. We were scarcely on the 12th hour of our voyage, when we saw a sch'r which brought us two pieces of cannon, and nothing more. After an attack of two hours, in which all the troops applaud and admire the courage of general Eaton—Derne was taken (as the people of that country were much in our favour) and in which attack the general was wounded in the hand.
After the capture of the city, we received from the chiefs of the brigands, letters offering to join us. After ten days a troop of cavalry and infantry (of the enemy) advanced; they were twice broken and put to flight by us. We now asked from the schooner, which had been sent us, people and arms, while there remained a respite and peace, and were waiting an answer, respecting our demand for people, and arms, in order that we might go and take Bengaza and Tripoli; in the mean time arrived a frigate which we supposed had brought us people, but she landed a Turkish ambassador from Jussuf Bashaw, who informed the general of the alliance of Jussuf Bashaw with your excellency; saying that the said Bashaw would restore my family, and that your excellency would give me in the name of the U. S. a pension. The same evening of the arrival of the frigate, the general informed me, that I must embark with all my people; and thus was again compelled to abandon all I possessed—the general having prevented the Turkish ambassador from landing, and thus we parted for Syracuse, where we found the whole squadron.
I daily expected my family, when finally I was told that he (the Bashaw) would not let them go; having thus broken his word, I demanded of the general, to be replaced in my own country, which was also denied me, saying that he had no orders to that effect from your excellency, and it is thus I find myself in this country, with the small pension of two hundred dollars per month, and on which sum I am to support myself with a number of people.
Such a state of things make me feel that the weight of misfortune has only increased; and for the first time I am completely abandoned, and by a great nation; I therefore fling myself on the mercy of your excellency, who under the influence of just laws, will not fail to render me that justice which oppression and misfortune entitle me to.
With the hope of an early reply from your excellency, I remain, &c. &c. &c.
(Signed) ACHMET BASHAW, SON OF ALI BASHAW, &c. &c. Syracuse, August 5th 1805. His excellency the President of the United States of America.
TO THE President of the United States, AND THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Of the U. States of America, in Congress assembled. THE MEMORIAL OF THE MERCHANTS AND TRADERS OF THE CITY OF BALTIMORE. [CONCLUDED.]
It is obvious that the reason, in case of the America , proceeds upon a presumption, that, as the trade was, by the standing laws of France, even up to that moment, confined to French ships, any ship, found employed in it, must be a French ship. The reason,

in the other case, does not rest upon the idle presumption, but takes another ground; for it states, that, by reason of the trade, in which the vessel was employed, she became a French vessel. It is manifest that this is no other than the first idea of adoption, or naturalization, accommodated to the change attempted to be introduced into the state of things, by the actual, or pretended, discontinuance of the special licences. What then is the amount of the doctrine of the seven years war, in the utmost extent which it is possible to ascribe to it? It is in substance, no more than this—that, as France did not at any period of that war, abandon, or in any degree suspend, the principle of colonial monopoly, or the system arising out of it, a neutral vessel, found in the prosecution of the trade, which, according to that principle, and that system, still continuing in force, could only be a French vessel, and open to French vessels, either became, or was legally to be presumed to be, a French vessel. It cannot be necessary to show, that this doctrine differs essentially from the principle of the present day. But, even if it were otherwise, the practice of that war, whatever it might be, was undoubtedly contrary to that of the war of 1744, and as contrasted with it, will not be considered by those who have at all attended to the history of these two periods, as entitled to any peculiar veneration. The effects of that practice were almost wholly confined to the Dutch, who had rendered themselves extremely obnoxious to Great Britain, by the selfish and pusillanimous policy, as it was falsely called, which enabled them during the seven years war, to profit of the troubles of the rest of Europe. In the war of 1744, the neutrality of the Dutch, while it continued, had in it nothing of complaisance to France. They furnished, from the commencement of hostilities, on account of the Pragmatic sanction, succours to the confederates, declared openly, at the time, in favour of the Queen of Hungary, and finally determined upon, and prepared for war, by sea and land. Great Britain, of course, had no inducement, in that war, to hunt after any hostile principle, by the operation of which, the trade of the Dutch might be harassed, or the advantages of their neutral position, while it lasted, defeated.
In the war of 1756, she had this inducement in its utmost strength. Independent of the commercial rivalry, existing between the two nations, the Dutch had excited the undisguised resentment of Great Britain, by declining to furnish against France, the succours stipulated by treaty; by constantly supplying France with naval and warlike stores, through the medium of a trade systematically pursued by the people, and countenanced by the government; by granting to France early in 1757, a free passage through Namur and Maastricht, for the provisions, ammunition and artillery belonging to the army destined to act against the territories of Prussia, in the neighbourhood of the Low Countries—and by the indifference with which they saw Nieuport and Ostend put into the hands of France, by the court of Vienna, which Great Britain represented to be contrary to the barrier treaty, and the treaty of Utrecht. Without entering into the sufficiency of those grounds of dissatisfaction, which undoubtedly had a great influence on the conduct of Great Britain, towards the Dutch, from 1757, until the peace of 1763, it is manifest that this very dissatisfaction, little short of a disposition to open war, and frequently on the eve of producing it, takes away, in a considerable degree, from the authority of a practice to which it may be supposed to have led, as tending to establish a rule of the publick law of Europe. It may not be improper to observe, too, that the station, occupied by G. Britain, in the seven years war, (as proud a one as any country ever did occupy) compared with that of the other European powers, was not exactly calculated to make the measures which her resentment might dictate peculiarly respectful to the general rights of neutrals. In the north, Russia and Sweden were engaged in the confederacy against Prussia, and were of course entitled to no consideration in this respect. The government of Sweden was, besides, weak and impotent. Denmark, it is true, took no part in the war, but she did not suffer by the practice in question. Besides, all these powers combined, would have been as nothing, against the naval strength of Great Britain, in 1756. As to Spain, she could have no concern in this question; and at length, became involved in the war on the side of France. Upon the whole, in the war of 1756, Great Britain had the power to be unjust, and irresistible temptations to abuse it. In that of 1744, her power was, perhaps, equally great, but every thing was favourable to equity and moderation. The example afforded on this subject therefore, by the first war, has far better titles to respect, than that furnished by the last.
In the American war, the practice and decisions, on this point, followed those of the war of 1744. The question first came before the lords of appeal, in January 1752, in the Danish cases of the Tiger, Copenhagen and others, captured in October 1750, and condemned in St. Kitts, in December following. The grounds upon which the captors relied for condemnation, in the Tiger, as set forth at the end of the respondent's printed case, were: "for that the ship, having been trading to Cape Francois, where none but French ships are allowed to carry on any traffic, and having been laden, at the time of the capture, with the produce of the French part of the island of St. Domingo, put on board at Cape Francois, and both ship and cargo taken, confessedly coming from thence, must (pursuant to precedents in the like cases in the last war) to all intents and purposes, be deemed a ship and goods belonging to the French, or at least adopted and naturalized as such."
In the Copenhagen, the captors reasons are thus given: "First, because it is allowed that the ship was destined with her cargo to the island of Guadalupe, and no other place." "Secondly, because it is contrary to the established rule of general law, to admit any neutral ship to go, and trade at, a port belonging to the colony of an enemy, to which such neutral ships could not have freely traded in time of peace."
On the 22d of January, 1752, these causes came on for hearing before the lords of appeal, who decreed restitution in all of them; thus in the most solemn and explicit manner, disavowing and rejecting the pretended rules of the law of nations, upon which the captors relied; that the first of which was literally borrowed from the doctrine of the war of 1756, and the last of which is precisely that very rule on which G. Britain now relies.
It is true that in these cases, the judgment of the lords was now pronounced upon one shape only of the colony trade of France, as carried on by neutrals—that is to say, a trade between the colony of France, and that of the country of the neutral shippers. But as no distinction was supposed to exist in point of principle, between the different modifications of the trade, and as the judgment went upon general grounds, applicable to the entire subject, we shall not be thought to overate its effect and extent, when we represent it as a complete rejection both of the doctrine of the seven years war, and of that modern principle by which it has been attempted to replace it. But at any rate, the subsequent records of the same high tribunal did go that length. Without enumerating the cases of various descriptions, involving the legality of the trade in all its modes, which were favourably adjudged by the lords of the appeal, after the American peace, it will be sufficient to mention the case of the Vernagig , decided by them in 1785 and 1786. This was the case of a Danish ship, laden with a cargo of dry goods and provisions, with which she was bound on a voyage from Marseilles to
Martinique and Cape Francois , where she was to take in for Europe a return cargo of West India produce. The ship was not proceeded against; but the cargo, which was claimed for merchants of Ostend , was condemned as enemy's property, (as in truth it was) by the vice-admiralty of Antigua , subject to the payment of freight, pro rata itineris , or rather for the whole of the outward voyage. On appeal as to the cargo, the lords of appeal, on the 8th of March, 1785, reversed the condemnation, and ordered further proof of the property to be produced within three months. On the 28th March, 1786, no further proof having been exhibited, and the proctor for the claimants declaring that he should exhibit none, the lords condemned the cargo; and on the same day reversed the decree below, giving freight, pro rata itineris ; (from which the neutral master had appealed) and decreed freight generally, and the costs of the appeal.
It is impossible that a judicial opinion could go more conclusively to the whole question on the colony trade than this.—For it not only disavows the pretended illegality of the neutral interposition in that trade, even directly, between France and her colonies, (the most exceptional form, it is said, in which that interposition could present itself); it not only denies that property engaged in such a trade is on that account liable to confiscation, inasmuch as, after having reversed the condemnation of the cargo, pronounced below, it proceeds afterwards to condemn it merely for want of further proof as to the property ; but it holds that the trade is so unquestionably lawful to neutrals, as not even to put in jeopardy the claim to freight, for that part of the voyage which had not yet begun, and which the party had not yet put himself in a situation to begin. The force of this and the other British decisions, produced by the American war, will not be avoided by suggesting, that there was any thing peculiarly favourable in the time when, or the manner in which, France opened colonial trade to neutrals, on that occasion. Something of that sort, however, has been said. We find the following language in a very learned opinion on this point: "It is certainly true, that in the last war [the American war] many decisions took place which then pronounced, that such a trade between France and her colonies was not considered as an unnatural commerce.—But under what circumstances? It was understood that France, in opening her colonies during the war, declared that this was not done with a temporary view, relative to the war, but on a general permanent purpose of altering her colonial system, and of admitting foreign vessels universally, and all times, to a participation of that commerce. Taking that to be the fact, (however suspicious its commencement might be, during the actual existence of a war), there was no ground to say that neutrals were carrying on a commerce as ordinary as any other in which they could be engaged; and therefore in the case of the Vernagig , and in many other succeeding cases, the lords decreed payment of freight to the neutral ship-owner. It is fit to be remembered, on this occasion, that the conduct of France evinced how little dependence can be placed upon explanations of measures adopted during the pressure of war; for hardly was the ratification of the peace signed, when she returned to her ancient system of colonial monopoly." We answer to all this, that to refer the decision of the lords in the Vernagig , and other succeeding cases, to the reason here assigned, is to accuse that high tribunal of acting upon a confidence which has no example in a singularly incredible declaration. (If, indeed, such a declaration was ever made), after the utter falsehood of it had been, as this learned opinion does itself inform us, unequivocally and notoriously ascertained. We have seen that the Vernagig was decided by the lords in 1785 and 1786, at least two years after France, as we are told, "returned to her ancient system of colonial monopoly;" and when, of course, the supposed assertion of an intended permanent abandonment of that system, could not be permitted to produce any local consequences. We answer further, that this alleged declaration was in fact made, (and we must be allowed to say, that we have found no traces of it out of the opinion above recited), it never was put into such a formal and authentic shape as to be the fair subject of judicial notice.—It is not contained in the French arrests of that day, where it would be proper to look for it, and we are not referred to any other document proceeding from the government of France, in which it is said to appear. There does not, in a word, seem to have been any thing which an enlightened tribunal could be supposed capable of considering as a pledge on the part of France, that she had resolved upon or even meditated the extravagant change in her colonial system which she is said in this opinion to have been understood to announce to the world. But even if the declaration in question was actually made, and that too with all possible solemnity, still it would be difficult to persuade any thinking man, that the sincerity of such a declaration was in any degree confided in, or that any person, in any country, could regard it in any other light than as a mere article, that could give no right which would not equally well exist without it.
Upon the whole, it is manifestly impracticable to rest the decisions of the lords of appeal, in and after the American war, upon any dependence placed on a declaration, of which there is evidence, that it ever was made, which, it is certain, was not authentically or formally made; which, however made, was not and could not be believed at any time, far less in 1785 and 1786, when its falsehood had been unquestionably proved by the publick and undistinguished conduct of its supposed authors, in direct opposition to it. That Sir James Marriott , who sat in the high court of admiralty of Great Britain, during the great part of the late war, did consider these decisions as standing upon this ground, is evident; for, notwithstanding that in the war of 1756, he was the zealous and, perhaps able advocate for the condemnation of the Dutch ships engaged in the colonial trade of France, yet upon the breaking out of the late war, he relied upon the decisions in the American war, as authoritatively settling the legality of the trade, and decreed accordingly.
If, as a more plausible answer to these decisions, considered in the light of authorities, than that which we have just examined, it should be said that they ought rather to be viewed as reluctant sacrifices to policy, or even to necessity, under circumstances of singular difficulty and peril, than as an expression of the deliberate opinion of the lords of appeal, or the government of Great Britain, on the matter of right it might, perhaps, be sufficient to reply to that if the armed neutrality, coupled with the situation of Great Britain, as a party to the war, did in any degree compel these decisions, we might also expect to find at the same era some relaxation on the part of that country, relative to the doctrine of contraband, upon which the convention of the armed neutrality contained the most direct stipulations, which the northern powers were particularly interested to enforce. Yet, such was not the fact. But in addition to this and other considerations of a similar description, it is natural to enquire why it happened, that if the lords of appeal were satisfied that Great Britain possessed the right in question, they recorded and gave to the world a series of decisions against it, founded, not upon British orders of council, gratuitously relaxing what was still asserted to be the strict right (as in the late war) but upon general principles of publick law. However prudence might have required (although there is no reason to believe that it did require) an abstinence on the part of Great Britain, from the extreme exercise of the right she had been supposed to claim, still it could not e-cessa-
ry to give to the mere forbearance of a claim, the stamp and character of a formal admission, that the claim itself was illegal and unjust. In the late war, as often as the British government wished to concede and relax, from whatever motive, on the subject of the colonial trade of her opponents, an order of council was resorted to, setting forth the nature of the concession or relaxation upon which the courts of prize were afterwards to found their sentences; and, undoubtedly sentences so passed cannot, in any fair reasoning, be considered as deciding more than that the order of council is obligatory on the courts whose sentences they are. But the decrees of the lords of appeal, in and after the American war, are not of this description, since there existed no orders of council on the subject of them; and, of course, they are and ought to be of the highest weight and authority against Great Britain, on the questions involved in and adjudged by them.
The solemn renunciation of the principle in question, in the face of the whole world, by their highest tribunal, in matters of prize, reiterated in a succession of decrees, down to the year 1786, and afterwards, is powerfully confirmed by the acquiescence of Great Britain, during the first, most important, and active period of the late war, in the free and unlimited prosecution, by neutrals, of the whole colony trade to France. She did indeed at last prohibit that trade by an instruction, unprecedented, in the annals of maritime depredation, but the revival of her discarded rule, was characterized with such circumstances of iniquity and violence, as rather to heighten, by the effect of contrast, the veneration of mankind for the past justice of her tribunals. The world has not forgot the instruction to which we allude, & the enormities by which its true character was developed, produced in mystery, at a moment when universal confidence in the honour and integrity of her government had brought upon the ocean a prey of vast value and importance—sent abroad, to the different naval stations, with such studied secrecy, that it would almost seem to have been intended to make an experiment, how far law and honour could be outraged by a nation proverbial for respecting both—the heralds by whom it was first announced, were the commanders of their commissioned cruisers, who at the same instant carried it into effect, with every circumstance of aggravation—if of such an act there can be an aggravation. Upon such conduct there was but one opinion. It was condemned by reason & justice—it was condemned by that law which flows from, and is founded upon them—it was condemned, and will forever continue to be condemned, by the universal voice of the civilized world. Great Britain has made amends, with the good faith which belongs to her councils, for that act of injustice and oppression—and your memorialists have a strong confidence that the late departure from the usual course of her policy, will be followed by a like disposition to atonement and reparation. The relations, which subsist between Great Britain and the U. States, rest upon the basis of reciprocal interests? and your memorialists see in these interests, as well as in the justice of the British government, and the firmness of our own, the best reasons to expect a satisfactory answer to their complaints, and a speedy abandonment of that system, by which they have lately been harassed and alarmed.
Your memorialists will not trespass upon your time, with a recital of the various acts, by which our coasts and even our ports and harbours, have been converted into scenes of violence and depredation; by which the security of our trade and property has been impaired; the rights of our territory invaded; the honour of our country insulted and humiliated; and our gallant countrymen oppressed and persecuted.—They feel it to be unnecessary to ask that the force of the nation should be employed, in repelling and chastising the lawless freebooters, who have dared to spread their ravages even beyond the seas, which form the principal theatre of their piratical exertions, and to mest our shores with their irregular and ferocious hostility. These are outrages which have impressed themselves, in a peculiar manner, upon the notice of our government, and cannot have failed to excite its indignation, and a correspondent disposition to prevent and redress them.
Such is the view which your memorialists have taken, in this anxious crisis of our public affairs; of subjects, which appear to them in an alarming degree, to affect their country and its commerce; and to involve high questions of national honour and interest, of public law and individual right, which imperiously demand discussion and adjustment. They do not presume to point out the measures which these great subjects may be supposed to call for. The means of redress for the past and security for the future, are respectfully and confidently submitted to your wisdom. But your memorialists cannot forbear to indulge a hope, which they would abandon with deep reluctance, that they may yet be found in amicable explanations, with those who have ventured to inflict wrongs upon us, and to advance unjust pretensions to our prejudice.
Signed by order and in behalf of the merchants and traders of the city of Baltimore.
Robert Gilmore, Chairman, J. A. Buchanan, John Hollins, James Calhoun, Alexander M'Kim, David Stewart, Samuel Sterrett, William Patterson, John Donnell, Hugh Thompson, Luke Tiernan, John Swan, William Lorran, William Wilson, Lemuel Taylor, Mark Pringle, Thomas Hollingsworth, Thomas Tenant, William Taylor, John Sherlock, Benjamin Williams, John Stricker, George Sikes, Henry Payson, Joseph Sterrett, Stewart Brown. Baltimore, January 21, 1806.
BALTIMORE, January 29. A certain Don Augustine Pedera of St. Jago, placed a small privateer at the mouth of the harbour to way-lays all neutral vessels coming in, and actually took several and compelled the captains or supercargoes to consign their cargoes to his address before releasement. On a representation of this grievance to the governor, it was redressed, and a promise given that the Americans should not be molested in future. It is however, the general opinion at St. Jago that nothing but a naval force stationed about that island, can completely put a stop to illegal captures. The Spaniards are actually afraid to check the French; and the English cruisers are more desirous to recapture neutrals for the sake of salvage, than to suppress the privateers. We are informed that the atrocities and outrages committed on neutral property by both French and Spanish privateers in the neighbourhood of St. Jago are unparalleled; vessels bound in any direction are subject to capture by their privateers, and when brought in, the Spanish government refuse to interfere in all cases where the French are concerned. A neutral brig cleared from St. Jago for New York (the Susanna) in due form, was brought back by one Dupay, detained some time, and finally released without any damages.
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ARRIVED.
Sch'r Caroline, Fisher, 5 days from Philadelphia. Sch'r Ann Elizabeth, James, of and from Fredericksburgh, bound to Barbadoes, put back in distress, having sprang a leak.
The ship Susan & Sarah, Marner, from this port to Bordeaux, was spoken on the 25th Nov. 8 days out.
BLANK NOTES AND CHECKS for both Banks, for Sale at this Office.
The U. S. Frigate JOHN ADAMS, under my command, on her passage from the Mediterranean towards the Chesapeake, was compelled through necessity to place all hands on half allowance of bread per day. October 8th, 1805, in lat. 27, 19, long. 66, 17, W at 1 A. M. fell in with and spoke the brig Commerce, of Alexandria, John Harper, master, (owner Robt Young, & co.) Lieut. Edward N. Cox, of said frigate, boarded with orders to get supplies of bread or flour.—The note of captain Harper is as follows: John Harper, brig Commerce of Alexandria, out 20 days, no papers, I can let you have what quantity of bread you may want at a reasonable price, the bread is in bags, one bag containing a barrel, Mr. Fish, Portomack Pilot.—In consequence I ordered Mr. John Carr, Purser, on board the brig to get the needful supplies, and on his return, as we had no specie on board, much to my astonishment capt. Harper peremptorily refused to take government bills at sight, and at his own price of ten and a half dollars per barrel for his bread. The foregoing plain statement of facts, is given to show the world the inhumanity of a man, who thus refused to relieve a crew of 265 Americans, the greater part of whom had been nearly three years absent fighting their country's battles. John Shaw.
LOTTERY TICKETS LOST.
The following Tickets in the William and Mary College Lottery, viz. Nos. 1721, 2790, 7202, and 7778, have been lost. The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving them at the Ledger Office. Feb. 7. 498
SUGAR AND COFFEE.
Landing this morning on Town-Point, the cargo of the brig Wheeler, from Guadalupe, consisting of Clayed and Muscovada SUGARS, And Prime Green COFFEE in tiersces. To be sold on moderate terms. Robert Dickson. Feb. 7. 496
FOR NEW-YORK,
The Sloop PATTY.
George Clarke, Master; Will sail the first wind. For freight or passage, apply on board at Myers' wharf, or to Richard Braden & Co. Feb. 7. 496
FOR GREENOCK,
The British Ship MARY,
William Atrol, Master. Part of her cargo being engaged, she will be despatched early in March.—Tobacco or other goods will be received on low freight. Robert Dickson. Feb. 7. 495
FOR BOSTON,
The fast sailing Brig GORHAM,
S. Cleveland, Master.—For freight or passage, apply to the master on board, or to B. Reynolds. Feb. 7. 495
Who has received by said Brig,
10 Hhds. Retailing MOLASSES,
20 Hhds. and 150 bds. N. E. RUM, 120 Bds. No. 1 and 2 BEEF, 100 Boxes CHOCOLATE, 200 do. Mould CANDLES, 60 do. Family CHEESE, 30 do. Spanish SEGARS, 160 Rheams Wrapping PAPER, 2 Boxes Mens SHOES, 20 Dozen SELVES, 10 Casks CUT NAILS, 100 Iron TEA KETTLES. Also in Store,
Bar Iron, Iron Ware of all kinds, Stone, Crockery, and Wood Ware, Groceries, &c. TO LET,
A Convenient HOUSE in the Fields.
Wanted for the remainder of the Year,
A stout active BOY.
Apply as above. Feb. 7. 493
The celebrated Arabian Horse SELIM,
Which was imported into this state about 5 years ago, and whose Cols are now so universally admired for size and activity, will stand this season at my Stable near the Race-Field; particulars of which will be made known in time. R. H. Cocke. Feb. 7. 497
A VERY VALUABLE PROPERTY. WILL BE SOLD
To the Highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises, on Saturday the 15th day of February next, by virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Richard Bates, to secure the payment of 8333 dollars 33 cents, with interest thereon from the date thereof, due to Rambaut & Gerson & George Pegram, Jun. and the expenses of the sale,
TEN ACRES OF LAND,
Lying upon Appomattox River, within one mile of the town of Petersburg, with the water, grist, and manufacturing Mills, Bake-houses, Distillery-house, and other houses of improvements erected thereon. Pleasant Akin, for
HENRY CUGNEAU and PLEASANT AKIN. Petersburg, Dec. 30. 416
NOTICE.
Under the authority of a Deed, executed by Richard Lively, of the City of Williamsburg, on the 13th day of March, 1801, and duly recorded, I shall sell on the Second Monday in March next, before the door of the Court-House of James-City County,
Two small Tracts of LAND,
Lying in said County, and several LOTS in the City of Williamsburg, conveyed in Trust to me by said Deed, or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay the debt secured thereby to Gilliat and Taylor, together with the charges of Sale, and expenses of the Deed. The Sale will be for Cash. Robert Saunders. Williamsburg, Feb. 3. 481
LANDS FOR SALE.
750 acres lying near the New Dragon Bridge, in King and Queen County. This tract is disposed of altogether, or divided into lots of 2 or 300 acres to suit purchasers. ALSO,
400 acres in the county of Gloucester, lying near Capahosick ferry, and in the neighbourhood of Mr. William Jones, and Mr. Thomas Fox, and distant about eight or nine miles from the Court-House. ALSO,

SALT. Arrived in the Ship Mary, captain Atholl, from Liverpool, A Cargo of STROYED SALT, Which will be sold on accommodating terms, taken alongside. Apply to Robert Dickson. ON HAND FOR SALE, A quantity of LOGWOOD, SUGARS in hds. and bbls. RUM, MOLASSES, COFFEE, and a parcel of choice TEN- ERIFE and MADEIRA WINES, in pipes, hds. and quar- ter casks. Jan. 31 2w 477
At a Court held for Norfolk County, the 20th day of January, 1806. Thomas Davis and Thomas Dickson, mer- chants and partners, under the firm of Davis and Dickson, Pits. In Gilbert Robertson and James Brown, mer- chants and partners, under the firm of Robertson & Brown, and Robert Gib- son, Doffs. Chancery.
THE Defendants Robertson and Brown, not having en- tered their appearance, and given security for perform- ing the Decree to be made in this cause, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are out of the country: On the motion of the Plaintiffs by their Counsel, it is ordered, that they the said Defendants, appear here on the third Monday in April next, and give security for performing the Decree aforesaid. And it is further ordered that the Defen- dant Gibson, who has effects of the other Defendants in his hands, or is otherwise indebted to them, do not pay, convey away, or secret such debts or effects, until the further order of this Court concerning the same. A Copy, Teste, William Wilson, jun. C. C. 13d Mon. Ap. 472
FOR SALE, 250 bbls. Superfine FLOUR, Afloat. Apply to James Maurice & Co. January 6. tf 414
FOR SALE The Cargo of the Brig Paragon, Captain Amuley—Consisting of 157 Puncheons high proof JAMAICA RUM. 7 Hogsheads MOLASSES. Redmon & Frith. Who have removed to the second Fire-Proof Store, on Gib- son's Wharf. November 13. tf 271
THE SUBSCRIBER, Has removed to the third fire proof Warehouse on Gibson's wharf, where he has for Sale, Antigua and Jam. Rum by the hhd. Loaf and Brown SUGAR—A few bags COFFEE, A few pipes & hds. London particular & Teneriffe WINES, 120 cases very excellent 7 years old CLARET. And is now Landing from on board the sch'r Catharine Shepherd, Capt. Webb, from Antigua and Nevis, Antigua and Nevis Rum and Molasses. HARRISON ALLMAND. December 27. tf 384
THE CARGO of the Ship Eliza, Obediah Smith, master, from Bordeaux, will commence landing This Day on Newton's wharf, consisting of 440 Hogsheads choice CLARET, 293 Cases do. do. 143 do. White WINE, 180 Boxes Fresh PRUNES of excellent quality, for Sale by Moses Myers. November 18. tf 287
Green Coffee and Sugar. Now Landing from on board the Schooner Lydia, captain Livingston, from Guadalupe. 41 Hogsheads SUGAR, 8 Hds. 14 Tierces } BEST GREEN COFFEE. 12 Bags For Sale by William Pennock. December 16. 3w 394
HUNTER & GATEWOOD, Have received per Ship Jane, Captain Colley, from Liverpool, the balance of their supply of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, Which in addition to their former importation from London, makes their assortment general and complete—it consists of almost every article of useful and fashionable goods too tedious to enumerate, which they offer for sale, at their Store No. 129, Main Street, by Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms for cash, or short payments. November 8. tf 262
FOR SALE, The CARGO of the Schooner Elizabeth Margaret, now landing on Marsden's Wharf, 342 boxes White & Brown Havana Sugars, 28 Hogsheads MOLASSES, 5 do. HONEY.—For terms apply to John Brown. January 6. tf 412
FOR SALE, Liverpool Salt, Kendal Cottons, &c. The CARGO of the Ship Industry, Noah Wright, master, from Liverpool—Consisting of 12,000 Bushels SALT, 8 Bales Kendal COTTONS, 10 Cases COPPER, 18 and 20 oz. 18 Sugar BOILERS, of 150 gallons each, 3 Hogsheads SKIMMERS and LADLES, 4 Casks Copper NAILS—Apply to William Pennock. December 20. tf 367
THIS DAY LANDING, From on board the Schooner Eagle, Captain Gross, from Bourdeaux, 160 Casks CLARET, 981 Cases assorted do. 66 do. do. White do. 80 Baskets SWEET OIL. 2 Trunks and 3 Cases Ladies' and Men's SHOES. 8 Cases Mens' and Children's Silk and Beaver HATS, assorted. DEMJOHNS, ALMONDS, NUTS, &c. &c. For sale on liberal terms, by John & James Galwey, Commerce-Street Wharf. WHO HAVE ON HAND, 75 Boxes White & Brown Havana SUGAR. September 6. tf 128
Soap and Candle Manufactory. THE Subscriber informs the Publick, that his Manufac- tory in Bank-Street, is now in complete operation, and having employed as skillful workmen as any in the United States, he expects a part of the publick patronage. Henry M'Dowell. N. B. FLATTS for Shoe-Makers, Tailors, &c.—CASH given for Tallow and Grease. December 20. tf 370
KENDAL COTTONS. The Merchants have received per Ship Industry, captain Wright, from Liverpool, A few Bales low priced Kendal COTTONS, which they offer for Sale on liberal terms. Hunter & Gatewood. December 20. tf 367
NEW CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY, ON TOWN POINT, A small distance below County Wharf, Wide Water Street. THE Subscriber has, at a considerable expense, fitted up, in addition to his other business, a complete set of machinery, adequate to finish 500 to 600 lbs. of Nails daily. He is also provided with a good stock of Iron; and with a sufficient number of skillful workmen. He has on hand a constant supply of Nails, Flooring Brads, and Sprigs, which he offers for Sale at the reduced prices as follows, by the keg, viz. 10d, 12d, 20d, Nails, 8d per lb. 8d, do. 9d per lb. Sheathing do. 7 1-2d per lb. 6d, do. 10d per lb. 4d, do. 3d per M. 3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. 8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d, Brads, 8d per lb. 6d, do. 4s 6d per M. 4d, do. 3s do. 3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. 2d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. LEVIN DORSEY. March 18. 503
TO RENT, (And immediate possession given,) A Convenient Dwelling House, near the Presbyterian Church, lately occupied by Thomas New- ton, jun. Esq. It is in a pleasant part of the town, has a large garden and necessary out-houses, and a good well of water. For terms apply to John Brown, Marsden's Wharf. November 13. tf 275
To be Leased, For one or six years, and possession to be had on the first of January next. A Commodious BRICK-HOUSE on Smith's Point, now occupied by Mr. Harris—all convenient offices, and a good garden are annexed to this tenement— For the accommodation of a tenant, an adjoining lot may be had. P. Barraud. November 18. tf 288
FOR SALE, A Tract of Wood LAND, about six miles from Ferry Point, adjoining the Lands of Mr. Plume, Mr. S. Whitehead, and Mrs. Moseley, containing about 300 acres, mostly covered with Pine suitable for Masts and Spars, and about two miles from a good landing on the Eastern Branch: a great bargain may be had, and payments accom- modating to the purchaser. Also for Lease, for a number of Years, A WHARF in Gosport, about 100 feet front on the river, and about 180 feet on a 60 feet street; the whole on the property of Mrs. Clinch, of Gosport. For particulars apply to R. Thompson. Portsmouth, Jan. 6. 1aw6w 411
MRS. MACDOUGAL, INFORMS her friends and the publick, that she has taken that hand-some house belonging to Mr. Roberts, in the centre of Market Square, where she will receive Boarders on moderate terms—the strictest attention will always be paid to the diet rooms, and lodging, and every endeavour used to render a transient or permanent abode at her house satisfac- tory. September 25. tf 169
GARDEN SEEDS. The Subscriber has for Sale, at the Store of Mr. James Dowdall, opposite the New Market, Fresh Garden Seeds, Imported in the ship Shepherdess, from London—Also, Some CHOICE SEEDS, of this Country's growth, that can be warranted good, viz.
   EARLY FRAME PEA, Early Nicholas do. Early Charlton do. Early Pearl do. Golden Hops do. Dwarf Marrow do. Tall Green Marrow do. Imperial Green do. Prolific do. Leadman's Dwarf do. Blue Prussian do. Crown and Cabbage do. Early and late Cauliflower, Early York CABBAGE, Early Early Leaf do. Early Battersea do. Madeira do. Drum Head do. Winter do. Red Dugh do. Green Savoy do. Scotch Kail—Red Beet, Orange and Early Horse Car- rot, Solid Celery—Curled Parsley, Turkey, Early Frame, Short Prickly and Long Prickly Cucumbers, Curled Endive, Dwarf Kidney Beans of all sorts—Arbour Beans, Broad Leaved Leek, Silver Skinned, James, Ma- deira, and Blood Red On- ion, Grand Admiral, Brown Dutch Ice, Cabbage, Green Coss and Aleppo Coss Lettuce, Scarlet, Short Top, Salmon, and Red and White Turnip Radish, Parsnip—Rape, White and Brown Mustard, Round and Prickly Spinage, Early Dutch, Norfolk, Han-    over and Stone Turnip, Fennel—Furze—Split Peas, Salsophy, Scorzonera—Pop- per Grass, Large Wind or Long Pod, White Blossom, and Gar- den Beans, Canary and Hemp Seed, Ore—Brocoli, Red and White Clover Seed, Lucerne and Timothy do. SWEET HERBS. Thyme—Golden and Green Pulsin, Clary—Bonage—Pot Mary Gold—Dill, Sweet and Bush Basil—Sker- rett, Winter and Summer Savery, Sweet Marjoram. FLOWER SEEDS. Double Bals—Capsicum, Rocket, Dwarf, and Branch- ing Larkspur, Convolvulus Minor & Major, Another, Grandiflora—India Pink, Globes of various sorts—Negel- ia Romana, Agrostemma Coelium—Onos- thera Purpuria, Scorzonera Tingitana—Tulips of all sorts, Dwarf, Red, Yellow, and Tall Red Cockcum, Chrysanthum Irecolor— Jubasos, Mixed China Aster, Cassia and Senna Fistula, Hyemialis Muscari—Picts, Pianunculus—Anemones, Asparagus Roots.    Who solicits the patronage of the publick, and being a re- gular instructed Gardiner, offers to his customers his services either to the culture or the proper season of sowing. Jan. 13. tf 428
Richmond Academy Lottery, NOW DRAWING, CONTAINING One Prize of Ten Thousand Dollars, Besides several other large Prizes. ** * TICKETS for Sale by the EDITOR OF THIS PAPER. November 15. 279
LADIES FASHIONABLE SHOES. SEVERAL Trunks of Ladies plain and fashionable LACED KID SHOES, and Gentlemen's fashionable London made do. just received by the ship Planter, Captain Boush, and for sale by Gilliat & Mackinder. September 9. tf 136
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, AT HIS LUMBER YARD ON CALVERT'S WHARF, 700,000 SALE SHINGLES. 50,000 BUILDING do. 50,000 STAVES—White and Red Oak. 10,000 CYPRESS PALES. 5,000 CEDAR and CHINQUEPIN POSTS. Also—shall keep a supply of PLANK AND SCANTLING. Thomas H. Parker. August 19. tf 77
This Day landing, and for Sale, about 50,000 wt. Prime Green COFFEE, Imported in the sch'r Wasp, capt. Kemp, from Aux-Cayes. Wilson, Cunningham, & Co. Jan. 29. 9t 468
THE Subscribers will give orders on TURK'S ISLAND for cargoes of SALT, and receive payment for the same on delivery, by drafts on this place at 60 days sight. James & Thomas Tucker. January 17. 2aw3w 439
BANK NOTES LOST. A letter dated Williamsburg, 27th No- vember, 1805, directed to Messrs. Tho's & Wm. M'Candlish, merchants, Norfolk, containing Bank Notes to the amount of Two Hundred Dollars, as below described, and supposed to have been deposited in the Post-Office, has either been lost, mislaid, or taken a wrong direction.—It is hoped that any person who may have become possessed of the same, accidentally or otherwise, will forward it on to the subscri- bers, as payment of the Notes have been stopped at the res- pective Banks. D. No. 1124, United States Branch, Norfolk, Dec. 6, 1804, - - - - - 100 Dollars. B. No. 97, Virginia Branch, Fredericksburg, February 6, 1805, - - - - - 100 Dollars. Wm. M'Candlish, & Co. Williamsburg, Dec. 9. tf 341
REMOVAL. JAMES TUCKER, Has removed to No. 1, Holt's Lane, near Main-Street, WHERE HE OFFERS FOR SALE, ON REASONABLE TERMS, HIS STOCK IN TRADE, CONSISTING OF A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF HARDWARE, NAILS, &c. May 8. tf 659
All persons having claims against the Estate of ROBERT WARREN, deceased, either by bond or open account are desired to bring them forward for settlement, and those indebted to make immediate payment to Warren Ashley, Administrator. December 9. tf 339
FLOUR. 700 Barrels Mayo Mills of excellent quality, a-float, for Sale by Moses Myers. Dec. 27. tf 331
FOR RENT, And immediate possession given, The WAREHOUSE lately occupied by Mr. Edward Roberts.—Also, The WAREHOUSE lately occupied by Mr. Edward Johnston.—For terms, apply to Robert Gibson. January 20. tf 450
EAGLE TAVERN. THE Subscriber has taken that eligible stand in Market-square, and has to inform his friends and the pub- lick in general, that he will spare no pains to make them as comfortable as possible while with him—he would be glad to take in Eight or Ten Gentel BOARDERS by the Year. Thomas Glenn. January 15. 3m 433
NOTICE. THE Subscriber being desirous to close his unsettled con- cerns, requests all those who have accounts against him to present them at his office for adjustment, and persons in- debted to him to make immediate payment. John Hamilton. October 14. tf 201
BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE Norfolk, Virg. Jan. 18, 1806. HIS Britannick Majesty's Consul to the State of Virginia, in consequence of instructions by him received from his government, takes this method of communicating to such officers on the British half-pay establishment, as are re- sident within his district, the following Notice from the Ar- my Pay-Office, in London, in respect to the form of the Cer- tificate required from British half-pay Officers, by whom it is highly essential that the regulations therein specified should be strictly complied with. John Hamilton, Consul.
PAY-OFFICE, Horse-Guards, August 28, 1805. NOTICE is hereby given by direction of the right honour- able the Pay-Master General of his majesty's forces, that the affidavits of Officers on half-pay and military allowances, who reside in the United States of America, commencing subsequently to the twenty-fourth day of December 1805, will not be passed at this office, unless the officer's place of residence, and also the county, district, or place for which the magistrate acts, before whom the said affidavit is made, (the competency of whom must be certified by the British Consul, if any shall be resident in the province or state, or by the governor, chief justice, or some other person in au- thority in the government thereof,) are therein specified, agreeable to the undermentioned form. D'd. Thomas, Accountant.
A. B. maketh oath, that he had not between the twen- ty-fourth day of _____ and the twenty-ninth day of _____ any other place, or employment of profit, civil or military, under his majesty besides his allowance of half-pay, (or his military allowance, as the case may be) as a reduced _____ in The Officer to sign his name here, together with his place of residence. Sworn before me at _____ this _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord _____ The Magistrate to sign his name here, and the county or place for which he acts. N. B. Chaplains must insert in their affidavits the following words between the words "Majesty" and "besides," viz. "or any Ecclesiastical Benefice in "Great-Britain or Ire- land." No alterations or interlineations of any sort will be allowed to be made in the above mentioned affidavit. January 20. tf 446
TO RENT, Two Brick-Houses, No. 22, and 23, in Church-Street, near the Old Church.—They are well cal- culated for Dry Good Stores, having been occupied for several years by persons in that business; they have four rooms upon a floor, a cellar, and a pump of good water in the yard; also a garden attached to each. Apply at this Office. Jan. 10. 3w 425
THE WAREHOUSES at present occupied by James Herron on my wharf, capable of storing 4,000 barrels flour, and free from danger of high tides—Possession may be had of them on the first of September next; if agreeable, the Wharf may be had with them. Also, for Lease, for a term of Years, The Wharf adjoining mine, newly repaired, 56 1-2 feet in front, running back from 2 to 250 feet, with sufficient well made ground for the erection of warehouses— at the end of the wharf, there is water for any ship, with a convenient Lumber Yard. For terms apply to John Davis. Portsmouth, July 29. 2aw tf 25
THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLICK JOURNALS; BEING an impartial selection of the best original Poetry, Essays, &c. and which have appeared in the newspa- pers of the United States during the year 1805. The Editors of Newspapers who exchange with the Baltimore Evening Post, are requested to give the above ad- vertisement a few ins. in their papers. When publish- ed, a copy of the work will be sent to each office. August 28.
BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE, Norfolk, Virginia, August 31, 1805. HIS Britannick Majesty's Consul to the State of Virginia, in consequence of instructions by him received from his government, hereby gives notice, to the merchants con- cerned in the trade to His Majesty's Dominions, that accord- ing to the terms of the Act of the 57th of the King C. 97, no British built vessel captured by His Majesty's enemies, afterwards purchased by citizens of the United States, and sailing under a Sea Letter can be admitted to entry under the said Act, as an American vessel. John Hamilton. 114
GERMAN GOODS. JOHN C. NIEMEYER, Has lately received and offer for Sale, the following Goods, for Cash, or on convenient credit, for approved Notes, viz. 7000 Bags of 2 and 3 bushels, in bales of 600 each. 1000 East India Gunny Bags. 190 Pieces Ticklenburgs and Oznaburgs. 400 Brown Rolls. 400 White Rolls, different qualities. 100 White Platillas. 75 Brown Hollands. 100 Britannias. 20 Dowlass. 62 Fine White Flanders Sheeting. 25 Shirt Linen of 20 to 100 dollars per piece of 37 yards. 40 Fine Bed Bunts and Bed Ticking. 390 Velvet Ribbands, No. 2 to 150. 50 Russia Sheeting, and Diaper. 320 Dozen Snuff Boxes. 100 Boxes Baltimore Window Glass, in whole and half boxes, viz. 8 by 10, 9 by 11, 9 by 12, 10 by 12, and 12 by 14, at the manufac- tory prices, with the addition of the usual charges. A few Barrels Philadelphia bottled Porter 105 Boxes Short Pipes. 120 Spanish Segars, of different quality. 150 lbs. Shoe Thread. 130 Twine. 15 Boxes Glass Ware, of different kinds, cut and plain. 37 Barrels Turpentine. ALSO, 20 Dozen of Shoe Brushes. Violins, Flutes and Fifes. ditto Strings and Bows. Looking Glasses of all kinds. Nuns' Thread and Fine Lace. Thread Stockings, Plush for Saddles. Coffee Mills.—Beads, and Bird Cages. Razors, Spectacles, and Penknives, 1st quality. Backgammon Tables, Dice, Cards, Chessmen. Fowling Pieces, Pistols, and Agut Flints. Crooked Horn and Ivory straight Combs. An Invoice of Japanned Ware. do. do. of Mill Saws, Augers, &c. 40,000 Marbles. And a great variety of other Articles. Apply as above. September 25. 164
NOTICE. All persons having claims against the Estate of ROBERT REINS, deceased, are requested to bring them forward properly attested, that provision may be made for payment. James Callis, Adm'r. Dec. 11. tf 340
FOR SALE, On board the Schooner Rising States, captain Newcomb, ly- ing at Newton's wharf, 30 hhds. MOLASSES, 100 HIDES. Phinehas Dana & Co. Dec. 20. tf 364
FOR RENT, (And possession to be had immediately) A comfortable small TENEMENT, on Smith's Point, neatly fitted up; having two rooms be- low with two closets in each, and three rooms above, a new double storied Brick Kitchen, and other requisite out build- ings. A spacious Garden and large front Yard are attached to this Tenement. P. Barraud. Jan. 29. tf 466