Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1805-06-08 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.
VOL. I.]
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1805.
[NO. 130.
WHOLESALE PRICE-CURRENT.
NORFOLK, SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1805.
Table with 5 columns: ARTICLES, per, From, To, Remarks. Lists prices for various goods like Bacon, Beef, Brandy, Bread, Butter, Candles, Coal, Cocoa, Coffee, Cotton, Duck, Flour, Fish, Fustick, Gin, Grain, Hemp, Hides, 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 Straits of Gibraltar. France, Holland, Bremen, and Embden, In the Mediterranean, Madeira, Canaries, Azores, and Cape de Verd Islands, British and Neutral Windward Islands from Barbadoes to St. Thomas, Jamaica and Honduras, Porto Rico, Havanna, Cape-Francois, (unarmed) Ports in the Bite of Leogane, Ports on the South side of St. Domingo, Persia, India, and China, Coasters. Prices of Stocks. Virginia Bank, 15 dolls. per share, advance-In demand. Norfolk Marine Insurance Company, shares 20 per cent. advance-Dull. United States Bank, 580 dolls. per share. Exchange on London, 1 per cent under par.
FOR BOSTON, The Schooner DIEDAMIA, Capt. Howes. Will sail in three or four days-for freight or passage, apply to Martin Fisk.
Who has for sale, her cargo, consisting of MOLASSES, RICE, AND COTTON. June 6. tf 746
FOR LONDON, THE SHIP ROBA & BETSEY, William J. Richardson, Master. Will sail with all convenient speed, two-thirds of her cargo being engaged. For freight of the remainder or passage, apply to the master on board, or to the subscriber. William Pennock. June 6. tf 747
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The new and fast sailing Ship NATIVE, LEVI PETERSON, Master:- Burthen 400 hogheads tobacco.-For terms apply to the Master on board, or to Phinehas Dana & Co.
Who have received her said ship, and offer for sale, 300 Spruce SPARS, of large size-and 20,000 BOARDS. June 4. tf 742
WANTED TO CHARTER, A BRITISH SHIP of 250 to 300 Hogheads-And An AMERICAN one of the same description. C. & F. Whittle. June 4. tf 737
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The Brig EQUATOR, HENRY MOORE, Master:- Burthen 250 hogheads Tobacco.-For terms apply to the Master on board, or to Phinehas Dana & Co. May 29. tf 727
FOR DUBLIN, The fine American Ship YORKSHIRE, WILLIAM LEE, Master:- Expected to sail by 25th June-she has good accommodations; for passage only, apply to the Captain on board, or to Warren Ashley. N. B. The Yorkshire will sail from Dublin to Liverpool. May 27. 3w 711
WANTED FOR WASHINGTON, A VESSEL Calculated to carry about 2000 Cubick Feet of thick Stuff and Plank.-Immediate despatch will be given.-Apply at the Navy Yard, Gosport. May 15. tf 686
FOR FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The Brig JOANNA, JEREMIAH BLANCHARD, Master:- Burthen 1100 barrels-in complete order for the reception of a cargo. Apply to Phinehas Dana & Co. May 8. tf 660
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The fast sailing British Letter of Marque Ship LADY NELSON, ROBERT M'ALLISTER, Master:- Burthen 200 tons-will be ready to receive a cargo in the course of ten days.-The Lady Nelson carries 12 guns and men in proportion. A freight to Liverpool, or Glasgow, will be preferred. Apply to Robert Maitland & Co. May 22. 3w 697
DOCTOR HODGES, OFFERS TO LEASE Two Lots of Ground on Rothery's Lane, One Lot running partly on said Lane, and partly Main Street. May 24. tf 704
THE SUBSCRIBERS Offer for Sale at their Warehouse on Commerce-Street Wharf, 10 Bales BLUE GUINNESS-60 pieces each, entitled to drawback. 50 Barrels No. 1, BEEF. A few Firkins BUTTER. 25 Cases GIN. Phinehas Dana & Co. April 17. tf 602
NOW LANDING, From on board the Schooner Mercury, Captain Smith, from Surinam, A Choice Parcel of MOLASSES. For Sale by John Brown, Rothery's Wharf. Who has on hand, A few Dozen Bottles CASTOR OIL. April 24. tf 621
ALL Persons to whom my Son ARTHUR LEE, is indebted, are requested to make known their claims to RICHARD E. LEE. March 18. tf 507
NANKEENS AND TEAS. 5000 Pieces Yellow NANKEENS, of the first Chop. 30 Chests Hyson and Imperial TEAS. Both entitled to drawback.-For sale by Martin Fisk.
WHO HAS THIS DAY LANDING, From the Ship Charleston, Capt. Hall from Liverpool. 100 Crates QUEENS WARE, well assorted. May 29. tf 723
LANDING ON NEWTON'S WHARF, AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, 75 Hhds. PRIME SUGAR. 20 Bbls. PRIME SUGAR. And a few Puncheons of St. Kitts RUM. Moses Myers. May 29. tf 725
WANTED, A WET NURSE. Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger. May 29. tf 731
LANDING, From the ship Gaspard from Amsterdam, and for sale by the Subscriber, Holland's SAIL DUCK. CHECKS and STRIPES in cases. CLASS WARE-STONE JUGS. HERRINGS in small kegs. Empty GIN CASES, &c. Moses Myers.
Who has on hand, A supply of excellent GIN, of former importations. June 6. tf 744
NOTICE. RAN AWAY from the Subscriber living in Edenton, his Mulatto Boy SAM-he is about twenty-one years of age, trim and well built, and large behind-he has two scars on the top of one of his feet, I think the right one.-Whoever will take up said boy, shall receive TWENTY DOLLARS, be sides the expense of carrying him to Norfolk-I want him delivered to Mr. John Granbery, at that place. Samuel Butler. Edenton, May 30. 6w 748
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE FOR SALE, ON THEIR WHARF, 70,000 Weight Prime Jamaica, 40,000 do. Porto Rico, 5,000 do. St. Domingo, COFFEE. 10 Puncheons Windward Island RUM. 50 Quarter Casks Old SHERRY. 50 Hogheads Prime Richmond TOBACCO. 500 Barrels FLOUR-Principally Superfine. 100 do. MESS PORK. 100 Boxes First Quality RAISINS. All of which they will dispose of on liberal terms. C. & F. Whittle. June 4. tf 736
THE Subscriber intends applying at the Bank of Virginia, for Certificates of One Hundred and Fifty-Nine Shares of Stock, in his own, and Fifty-Seven Shares in the name of Benjamin Harrison, Esq.-The Scrip of the beforementioned is lost, if found, it is requested it may be returned, it being of no use but to the proprietors. Fortescue Whittle. June 4. tf 738
I WISH TO PURCHASE From Sixty to Eighty Cords of Oak Bark, To be delivered at Salters, for which the following prices will be given:- Spanish Oak, 10 dols. per Cord. Willow or Water Oak, 9 do. Red Oak, 8 do. White Oak, (if young and not too scaly,) 7 do. Theo: Armistead. May 15. 6w 684
THE LOTTERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE, Will Re-commence Drawing Tomorrow, and continue regularly; a correct numerical register of the Blanks and Prizes, will be kept at the Norfolk Hotel, where Tickets may be examined. May 8. tf 658
TO RENT, A large and commodious Brick House, eligibly situated on Wide and Little Water Streets, and calculated for four tenements, which may be rented either separately or together. Helen Read. May 10. tf 666
FOR SALE, The Cargo of the Sloop GEORGE, Capt. Read, from Honduras-viz 30 TONS LOGWOOD. 25,000 Feet MAHOGANY. 800 Barrels SARSAPARILLA. John Granbery. May 13. 4w 677
THE SUBSCRIBER Having opened Tavern in the EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE, will be glad to take in TEN OR TWELVE GENTEL BOARDERS by the year. Peter Kemp. May 6. tf 654
REMOVAL. JAMES TUCKER, Has removed to No. 1, HOLY 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
NOW LANDING, On Rothery's Wharf, from on board the Brig Ann Elizabeth, Capt. Williams, from Antigua, 40 Puncheons four years old Rum. And a few hds. of the last Crop.-For sale by John Brown. May 1. tf 642
COCKE & SANFORD, Have received per the Charleston from Liverpool, COLERAIN LINENS, And HARDWARE well assorted in small packages. May 29. 3w 726
INTENDING to leave the United States for a few months, my business will be transacted during my absence, by Messrs. R. C. JENNINGS & Co.-A careful Young Man will attend my Wharf and Store, receive and deliver as usual. John Cox. May 29. 3w 724
SAMUEL SAUNDERS & Co. Have just received from London, per ship Dumfries, Capt. Beard 18 Kgs assorted SHOT. 12 Casks Hibbert's BROWN STOUT. 12 do. PORTER. 30 Kgs GUN POWDER. 30 Boxes assorted GLASS. 15 Kgs SCOTCH BARLEY. 1500 lbs. Refined SALT PETER. 15 Boxes FIG BLUE. 12 do. DURHAM MUSTARD. A few Casks COPPERAS. 1 Box BEST GUN FLINTS. Also-From the Northward. 50 Barrels Prime PORK. April 29. tf 364
OILS, PAINTS & WINDOW GLASS, Of all kinds, colours, and sizes. For sale by N. Gregory, July 8. tf 3
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS.
RICHARD TAYLOR, Has received from London per the Ship Dumfries, Captain Beard, a handsome and general assortment of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, which he offers for Sale, by Wholesale and Retail, for Cash, or good Paper. April 24. 2m 619
FOR SALE-BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, 50 Hhds. Petersburg TOBACCO, of good quality and wt. 1000 Barrels Superfine FLOUR. 385 do. Fine do. 7 do. X MIDLINGS. 99 do. SHIP STUFF. 20 do. SHIP BREAD. 16 Pipes Holland GIN. 7 do. Country do. of superior quality. 14 Butts French BRANDY. ALSO, LOAF SUGAR, per the Hoghead, and Old London Particular Madeira WINE, fit for immediate use-in pipes, hogheads and quarter casks. Robert Maitland & Co. April 24. 6w 620
FOR SALE, BY WILLIAM B. LAMB, 30 Puncheons St. Vincents RUM. 13 Hogheads and 28 Tierces SUGAR. 10 Pipes French BRANDY. 5 do. GIN. 13 do. Madeira WINE. 10 Quarter Casks SHERRY. 10 Cases CLARET. 10 Hogheads do. 12 Bags GINGER. 1 Case Black SATTINS. 3 do. Irish LINEN. 7 Bales India COTTONS. 3 Trunks CALLICOES, &c. February 13. tf 415
NOW LANDING, From on board the Brig Andross Coggin, from Guadaloupe, and Schooner Ploughboy, from Havanna. 40 Hogheads SUGAR. 17 do. MOLASSES. 4 Barrels do. 240 Boxes White Havanna SUGAR. 110 do. Brown do. For Sale by William Pennock. April 24. tf 616
WILL BE LANDED Tomorrow Morning on Gibson's Wharf, 35 Puncheons of Antigua RUM, 15 do. Old RUM, and sold cheap for cash or approved paper at 60 days, if taken away before it is put in store. Robert Gibson. May 10. tf 674
FOR SALE, BY C. & F. WHITTLE. 300 barrels Superfine FLOUR. 70 hogheads Prime Richmond TOBACCO. 100 barrels Mess PORK. March 20. tf 518
JACOB KLEIN, No. 111, Main-Street, is now opening a large assortment of 6-4 and 4-4 Cotton Cambricks, Fine Cravat do. Plain Black and Embossed do. Fine India and Mull Mull Muslin, Silk Coderdolls for Musquito Nets, Short Silk and Kid Gloves, best English Silk, &c. ALSO, Women and Men's Pine Plain and Laced Clock Cotton Hose, Black Laces, Common Blue Stripes, best London Superfine Black Cloth, and two trunks Fine and Common Callicoes, &c. &c. all of which will be sold very low for cash or short credit. May 10. tf 671
WANTED, Two Hundred Cords Wharf Wood, For which a generous price will be given. Apply to Thomas Warren. May 29. tf 720
A Negro Woman, and two Male Children, WILL BE SOLD LOW, If applied for in a few days.-Inquire at the Office of the Ledger. May 22. tf 698
Summer establishment of the Southern Mail, BY THE WAY OF SLEEPY-HOLE. By this route the Mail will get to Washington in 3 days. THE Mail Stage will leave Petersburg on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 1 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Portsmouth the same evening-returning, leave Portsmouth Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 1 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Petersburg the same evening.-The Mail Stage will leave Suffolk on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 2 o'clock P. M. and arrive at John Gary's by 4 o'clock, to meet the Petersburg Stage destined for Norfolk, and return to Suffolk the same evening-and will leave Suffolk, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 3 o'clock A. M. and arrive at John Gary's by 5 o'clock, to meet the Norfolk Stage destined for Petersburg, and return to Suffolk by 10 o'clock. May 27. 715
TO RENT. THE Store, Cellar, and Compting Room, No. 41, Main-Street, at present occupied by Messrs. GILLIAT & MACKINDER. Apply to Thomas Willock. April 1. tf 547
NORFOLK HOTEL. THE Subscriber informs his friends and the publick, that he has opened an HOTEL in that convenient house formerly the NAVY TAVERN No. 128 Main-Street, where he hopes by his attention, to give satisfaction to those who may favour him with their company. He will always keep the best liquors: and Private Parties will be furnished with Dinners, Suppers, or Relishes, at the shortest notice. BOARDERS accommodated by the week, month, or year Henry Benbridge. October 9. tf 170
FOR SALE, 30 Hhds. prime Richmond TOBACCO, and 100 Barrels NAVY BREAD-now a-float. Robert Gibson. May 27. tf 713
PRESTON'S ILLUSTRATIONS. The Subscribers to Richards's Edition of Preston's Illustrations of Masonry, are requested to call for the Copies at the Office of the Publick Ledger. March 27. tf 541

REVOLUTIONARY ANNALS.—The fifth and last part of this work will in a few days be exposed for sale, being now in the hands of the book-binder. We have a full persuasion that it will not only deserve but receive the approbation of the publick.
BATTLE OF MARENGO.
From De Croixueil's Revolutionary Annals.
Bonaparte had performed in less than one month what he had promised to effect in two. On the 2nd day of June, he entered Milan, caused the Te deum of victory to be sung in the churches of that city, and re-organized the Cisalpine Republick.
How great was the surprise of Mons. De Melas! An army, fifty thousand strong, composed of intrepid veterans, and youthful warriors glowing with enthusiastic ardour for glory, commanded by chiefs still in the prime of life, but who, during eight years of uninterrupted warfare had acquired the maturity and experience of the most advanced age;
Suchet, whose intrepidity had been chained for a while by so many hostile legions, was, at length, advancing towards Nice, and into Piedmont: The troops left by General Melas in the maritime Alps dispersed at his approach, or fell by his victorious sword.
The God of battles reserved to Berthier the satisfaction of obtaining in person a signal and complete victory. The remembrance of this memorable action will not be obliterated by the glorious engagement which, four days after, decided the fate of Italy, and promised peace to France.
All the energies imparted to human beings in a most eminent degree, are, in this heroic engagement, conspicuously exerted, and wonderfully displayed. The prize contended for is no less than an empire; its possession hangs on the fate of the day, and it is disputed by two gallant chiefs, each of whom rises superior to man.
the most brilliant conquests of France. The oath was decisive....On the 14th day of June, the two armies, eager for battle, stand forth in formidable array; a narrow space now separates them, and adds new terrors to their menacing attitude. The tremendous cry which announces and precedes the havoc of war has already been heard.
It is not a little amusing to compare the style of the French patriots of the present day, with that of the same patriots ten or twelve years ago. Without recurring to the language of 1793, 4, & 5, we will merely submit to our readers the following specimen of the servility of the present year; and remind them that such degradation is the natural consequence of a system of licentious democracy.
PARIS, 25th March 1805.—The Council of State having been, on Sunday last, introduced to his Imperial and Royal Majesty, Mr. Defermon, one of its Presidents, spoke as follows.—
"The members of your Council of State are attached to your sacred person, by love of your virtues, and gratitude for the blessings you have conferred. Every thing that can contribute to your glory or your pleasure, becomes the dear object of their thoughts and their prayers.
"That people, as well as the French, owe to your mighty genius, their liberty, their political existence, and their happiness. Animated by the same sentiments, they have followed our example. You have deigned to crown their wishes: and there now exists between the two nations, no other rivalry than that of best proving their fidelity, love, and devotedness to your Majesty!"
To which his Imperial & Royal Majesty replied. "I am deeply affected by the sentiments which you have expressed, in the name of Council of State. I am well persuaded that the constant and zealous endeavours of its members, are to promote the happiness of my people, and add to the splendour of my crown; for amongst them I have always recognized my true friends."
DRAWINGS IN THE LOTTERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
Table with 2 columns: Prize amount, Numbers. Thirteenth Day: Prizes of 15 dollars. No's. 2150 5436 7082 4958 168 347 7117 2218 5584 1205 1604 296 1896 7493 2995 695 5378 7886 4836 5631 3828 1010 4323 426. Fourteenth Day: Prizes of 500 dollars—Nos. 3816 4567. Prizes of 15 dollars. Nos.—316 327 428 452 7559 7811 5073 7960 6358 6604 4582 4379 5285 7499 4880 1638 3349 5880 6695 7653 5157 6922 1596 4294.
In a quotation, third column, third page, of our last, for
Det primos versibus annos Maconiumque bibat felicif ectorer fontem. read Det primos versibus annos Maconiumque bibat felici pectore frontem.
The ports in Jamaica are open. A letter was received in New-York the 29th inst. containing the following postscript.
"Palmouth, (Jamaica) May 5. We are now to advise you, that accounts are actually received of the ports of this island being further continued open for six months."
This news is confirmed by arrivals at Baltimore from Jamaica. Capt. Burroughs who arrived yesterday, in 43 days from Morlaix, does not bring papers so late as accounts already received from France by Amsterdam, but has related some particulars which place the naval sortie from Brest in a different point of view from the French statement, and is undoubtedly more correct.
The Editor of the Philadelphia Register, is indebted to the goodness of a friend for the following letter: LISBON, April 14, 1805.
"Believing the brig Acorn, bound to Boston, to be still at Belem, I loose no time in informing you that an official advice was received last night from Sir John Orde, that the Toulon fleet, (24 sail, of which 13 are of the line) had got into Cadiz; whether with the intention of making any stay, or coming out immediately in junction with the Spanish ships, is not known.
THE ENQUIRER AND AURORA.
The editor of the Enquirer in his paper of yesterday has borne down on the Aurora and given it a broadside, from which it will never be able to recover. To criticise or even to notice all the particular charges brought by Mr. Ritchie against the organ of the publick will, would be tedious and unnecessary; some of them, however, we must notice.
Speaking of the former administration, Mr. Ritchie remarks—"I was at that time young, and I admit with you that I am still inexperienced in the current incidents of that day. Hence many acts of your life may have escaped my memory, which would command ALL MY DETESTATION, &c."
"I would touch lightly upon your clandestinely removing the book of the treasury office, copying out their statements and publishing them to the world. I should scarcely know which most to condemn, the means you employed, the mismanagement and corruption of the treasury you exposed, or the suspicious firing of the war and treasury offices, by which all the chances of detection were forever destroyed."
This is severe enough. But it is just in Mr. Ritchie to condemn Dunn for breaking into the treasury, for publishing false statements, or statements intended to make false impressions, or for his supposed attempt to prevent detection by setting fire to the treasury or war department? Mr. Ritchie is not the first person who has published suspicions of Duane's being concerned in setting fire to the treasury department: if that fire was not the effect of accident, we think there can be little doubt who was principally concerned as contriver and instigator, if not executor of the business. But it is, we ask, proper in Mr. Ritchie to condemn Dunn for publishing these statements? Let it be remembered that Gallatin was concerned with Duane in this business: let it be remembered that by the false statements of Pickering's, Wolcott's accounts, &c. Mr. Jefferson came into office. This one great stroke of policy in Gallatin, Dunn, &c. turned the scale. Let Mr. Ritchie remember that this same scoundrel of a Duane is the man who has been particularly honoured and patronised by Mr. Jefferson and by the administration. Is it fair, we ask, because Duane has now lost his character and influence among the democrats, so that, like an old hound, whose teeth are too dull or too defective for biting, he can do the party no more service; is it fair, we ask, to turn him adrift, to expose him, to leave him to shift for himself? Duane's conduct relative to taking the books from the treasury, and publishing false statements, or even his setting fire to the treasury office, if he did so, cannot, in our opinion, be considered more base than Mr. Jefferson's correspondence and pecuniary connexions with Callender.
A democratic administration rewarded Duane. Mr. Ritchie says, speaking of federalists and democrats—"The principles of the two parties are incapable of any amalgamation; no toleration can reconcile, no concessions can combine, &c." We agree with Mr. Ritchie that federalists are not of such principles as some leading democrats, who could pour the bounties of government in abundance into the lap of this Dunn; who rewarded him for his principles and his conduct. Was it in this respect that Mr. Ritchie intended to point out the difficulty of reconciling federal with democratic principles?
Mr. Ritchie seems very much troubled in mind thro' fear that some of the democrats would think him not sufficiently inimical to federalism; hence he is continually telling us of the great difference of principles between the two parties. Mr. Jefferson says that the principles of the two parties are the same; but there are shades of difference in opinions. Surely the great ends in view are the same; and there can be no difference of principle only where the principles of the democratic party are not good: such as breaking into the treasury office, or setting fire to it; hiring Callender or Duane to libel good men; deceiving the people with all kinds of false tales, telling them that their good is the only object in view, when in fact they mean only their own good, &c. &c.
Mr. Ritchie speaks of his great unwillingness, to express with plainness and sincerity, his sentiments of the Aurora-man; and acknowledges that to prevent it, he has "immolated his own feelings on the altar of his party." This confession does much honour, to his candour, and little honour indeed to his political morality. An editor of a paper ought to know no party but truth, reason, justice and second principles.
The editor of the Enquirer, concludes with observing—"You may think the comparison a vain one, but I feel at present, like the traveller on the top of the Alps, who hears the thunders rolling beneath his feet without danger or perturbation."
Why yes—to be sure, Mr. Ritchie may, by comparison with Dunn, be thus high—and yet, in truth—not be very high neither.
This severe piece of the Enquirer on Dunn is written with more spirit, correctness, perspicuity and efficiency, than any thing we have yet noticed from Mr. Ritchie's pen. It has some faults which we have noticed; it has some few others we have not stoop to notice. We hope it will have a suitable effect on the Aurora-man;—and while Mr. Ritchie is correcting the great faults of others, we hope that reformation at least will commence where we are told charity ought always to begin.
Virginia Gazette.
THE HORROURS OF WAR.
FROM THE HUDSON BALANCE.
When the sweet smiling morn rolls her orb thro' the sky, And the white clouds are flying afar, I rove Through the grove, While no danger is nigh; And with pensiveness utter a heart-broken sigh, As I think on the horrors of war!
FROM THE VERMONT JOURNAL.
MR. ELLIOT, TO HIS CONSTITUENTS.
LETTER VII.
The first of Mr. Randolph's resolutions respecting the Georgia Claims is in the following words.
Resolved, That the State of Georgia were at no time invested with the power of alienating the right of soil possessed by the good people of that State in and to the vacant territory of the same, but in a rightful manner and for the general good.
This is not objectionable as an abstract proposition; but it needs the addition proposed by Mr. Lyon, viz.—"of which such legislatures (the state legislatures of Georgia) are the constitutional judges."
Second resolution.—That when the governors of any people shall have betrayed the confidence reposed in them, and shall have exercised that authority with which they have been invested for the general welfare to promote their own private ends, under the basest motives, and the publick detriment, it is the unalienable right of a people, thus circumstanced, to revoke the authority thus abused, to resume the rights thus attempted to be bartered, and to abrogate the act thus endeavouring to betray them.
It was proposed by Mr. Lyon to amend this resolution in such a manner as that it should not justify a violation of publick faith; and every honest man ought to be opposed to it without such a qualification.
Third resolution.—That it is in evidence to this House that the act of the legislature of Georgia, passed on the 7th January, 1795, entitled "An act, passed by persons under the influence of gross and palpable corruption, practised by the grantees of the lands attempted to be alienated by the aforesaid act, tending to enrich and aggrandize, to a degree almost incalculable, a few individuals, and ruinous to the publick interest."
Congress have no power to receive evidence of the corruption of a state legislature, or to act as accusers or judges in such a case.
Fourth resolution.—That the good people of Georgia, impressed with general indignation at this act of atrocious perfidy and unparalledled corruption, with a promptitude of decision highly honourable to them, did, by the act of a subsequent legislature, passed on the 13th day of February, 1796, under circumstances of peculiar solemnity, and finally sanctioned by the people, who have subsequently engraved it on their constitution, declare the preceding act and the grants made under it in themselves null and void; that the said act should be expunged from the records of the state and publickly burnt; which was accordingly done; provision, at the same time being made, for restoring the pretended purchase money to the grantees, by whom, or by persons claiming under them, the greater part of the said purchase money has been withdrawn from the treasury of Georgia.
Congress have no more power to justify the legislature of 1796, than they have to condemn that of 1795.
Fifth resolution.—That a subsequent legislature of an individual state has an undoubted right to repeal any act of a preceding legislature, provided such repeal be not forbidden by the constitution of such state, or of the United States.
A succeeding legislature has no power to repeal a law of a preceding one, by which the publick faith was pledged, although the constitution may be silent on the subject.
Sixth resolution.—That the aforesaid act of the state of Georgia (the rescinding act) was forbidden neither by the constitution of that state, nor by that of the United States.
This Congress has no right to say; and if they do say it, it amounts to nothing.
Seventh resolution.—That the claims of persons derived under the aforesaid act (the corrupt act) of the 7th January, 1795, are recognized, neither by any compact between the United States and the state of Georgia, nor by any act of the federal government.
This is not in fact, upon a candid construction of the instruments alluded to, and a view of all the circumstances of the case. At least it appears so to me; to the honourable mover of the resolutions it appears differently.
Eighth resolution.—Therefore resolved, That no part of the five millions of acres reserved for satisfying and quieting claims to the lands ceded by the state of Georgia to the United States and appropriated by the act of congress passed at their last session, ought to be appropriated to quiet or compensate any claims, derived under any act, or pretended act, of the state of Georgia, passed, or alleged to have been passed, during the year 1795.
This would be a violation of publick faith and of every principle of political expediency. By an act of Congress, approved March 3, 1803, a general appropriation is made of the five millions of acres, and a particular course is prescribed for the claimants to pursue in the exhibition of their claims, in consequence of which they have already been subjected to considerable expense as well as labour.

The United States never paid a cent for the five millions of acres, and but a mere trifle for the remaining part of the territory. Nothing can be clearer, therefore, than that it would be expedient to quiet the claims. But the great objections which I have constantly urged to the resolutions are founded upon the idea that they are repugnant to the constitution of the United States.
By the constitution, the states are interdicted from passing laws impairing the obligation of contracts. The act of 1795, created a contract upon the face of it, and if it be alleged that the apparent contract was void on the ground of corruption, the question must be determined by a court of law, and not by a succeeding state legislature, or by Congress. By one of the first amendments of the constitution, all those rights and powers, appertaining to the States, and not expressly yielded to the general government, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. The legislative powers of the state of Georgia, alluded to in these resolutions, belong to the class which has never been given up to the Union. We have no power therefore to make any decision upon their validity or invalidity, or to delineate the sphere or extent of their operation. It would be an act of usurpation. Whatever idea may be entertained of inquisitorial and censorial powers, in relation to other subjects, there can be no doubt that this would be an assumption, on the part of Congress, of inquisitorial and censorial powers over the state governments.
Applicable to my conduct in opposing those famous resolutions is the sentiment of the mover in reference to his able efforts in supporting them. "It will be a subject of never failing self gratulation to me that I have done so, as it would have been of remorse had I done otherwise."
JAMES ELLIOT.
BOSTON, MAY 27.
By the arrival of the brig Superb , captain Bosworth, from Liverpool, we have been supplied with London and Liverpool prints to the 22d April. The contents of these papers, though they afford no extraordinary details of intelligence, of a general nature, present many indications of active and immediate operations, both by "flood and field." Among the few articles we have been enabled to select, from the latest dates, it will be observed, that very important despatches had been received from Russia, and that they were understood to be highly favourable to the prosecution of the war; that the Grand Secret Expedition had actually sailed; that the naval armaments in the ports of France, Spain, and Holland had made many dispositions for putting to sea, having received on board large quantities of troops and military stores.
TOULON FLEET OUT.
Capt. Folger, arrived here on Saturday, in 35 days from Lisbon, is the bearer of the very interesting intelligence of the escape of the French fleet from Toulon. He states, that on the 14th April, the Docile transport ship, capt. Lamb, arrived at Lisbon, despatched from Sir J. Orde, off Cape St. Vincent, to the British minister, with news of the Toulon fleet being off Cadiz, consisting of 10 sail of the line, and 4 frigates; that the Defence , of 74 guns, narrowly escaped being taken, as she lay with her yards and topsails down when the French fleet hove in sight. The English minister at Lisbon, immediately ordered out two packets, the Orpheus frigate and a gun brig, then in port, with despatches for England; the brig was however obliged to put back, having sprung her bowsprit and foremast in crossing the bar. Forty-six hours after sailing, capt. F. spoke the British fleet under Sir J. Orde, consisting of two 74's and 3 frigates only, standing for England.
Capt. Folger further advises, that the French minister had arrived at Lisbon, and was escorted from Bellisde Castle to that city, by the nobility and Prince's Horse Guards. Jerome Buonaparte had set out for France, by the way of Madrid; and his lady was a passenger, on board the Erin , which came out of Lisbon in company with capt. Folger, bound for Amsterdam.
Accounts had been received at Lisbon of the capture of two valuable Brazil ships off the Isle of Corvo by the Algerine squadron.
In corroboration of the intelligence brought by capt. Folger, we learn, that capt. Trefethen, arrived at Portsmouth, on Thursday last, from Marseilles, reports, that on the 8th April, about 10 leagues E. of Gibraltar, he passed the Toulon fleet, of 19 sail of vessels, viz. 11 ships of the line of which 3 were of 80 guns, 6 frigates, and 2 brigs, having on board 7 or 8000 chosen troops, commanded by Gen. Lauriston; on the 9th he again passed the fleet in the Gut, then steering W.
In the earlier dates of our present files of London papers, much is said of the improper conduct of Lord Melville, while in office, at the head of the Admiralty, and a very general interest excited by the manner in which the affair has been discussed in Parliament. It appears very fully, that his Lordship was actually guilty, either of speculating himself with the publick money, for his private interest, or knowingly suffering his Secretary, (Mr. Trotter) to do so, to an immense amount; and that in consequence thereof he has been compelled to resign his office, and suffer the disgrace of having a Resolution passed against him in Parliament, of gross violation of the law, and a high breach of duty.
Lord Hawkesbury is said to have been appointed to the office of First Lord of the Admiralty, thus vacated; and that Lord Harrowby succeeds to the Secretaryship of the Home Department.
LONDON, April 18.
There is no truth in the report of the expedition so long preparing at Portsmouth having been countermanded. On the contrary, there seems to be an intention of enlarging the scale on which it was at first to be conducted. All the armed defence ships, lately stationed in the Downs, have gone round to Portsmouth, having been previously fitted up as transports, and having taken on board a number of flat bottomed boats.
It is reported by those who pretend to be in the confidence of Ministers, that the despatches which were received from St. Petersburg, last Monday, contain the most satisfactory assurances of the complete failure of the various articles employed by the French government to detach the Emperor Alexander from the interests of this country. The principal article of a treaty of alliance between his Majesty and that Sovereign are said to be already agreed upon; and on the same authority we are assured, that only a few points of detail remain to be adjusted previous to a formal communication being made, on this important subject, to both Houses of Parliament. After the repeated disappointments which have been experienced, relative to the co-operation of Russia, the publick cannot place much confidence in the promises made to them upon this occasion.
April 19.
The friends of Lord Melville and Mr. Trotter have set up, as their defence, that the publick has been defrauded of nothing by all their speculations with the property which was (not) entrusted to their care. But the publick is at this moment defrauded of every sixpence of the profits they have made by this illegal traffick; and that it may conjecture what may have been the amount of them upon 134,000,000. sterling, which have been illegally passed through their hands, let it be remembered, that Navy bills have been at a discount of 15 per cent; that they bought Navy bills with these millions; and if they could have employed
them all in this speculation alone, the profits might have amounted to 150,000. per million, or 20,100,000. sterling.
The termination of the discussion relative to Lord Melville, has excited a greater degree of interest in the metropolis, than any event of late years, either foreign or domestic. The publick have recognized in their representatives, the faithful guardians of their interests, not to be seduced from their duties by the artifices of eloquence, or intimidated by the menaces of power. The British Constitution, in its most conspicuous and effective member, has been fully displayed, not in the theoretical and abstract perfection, but active and exemplary utility. The pens of a thousand encomiasts could not produce so magnificent an eulogium.
April 20.
The expedition sailed yesterday from Portsmouth, under convoy of the Queen and the Dragon .
A Russian General is said to have arrived with despatches from Petersburg of great importance. They have not transpired, but are believed to be extremely favourable.
Despatches were yesterday received from Admiral Lord Gardner off Brest, which state, that the enemy had made some movements that indicated an intention of venturing to sea the first favourable opportunity.
At Ferrol, a similar disposition appears to be manifested by the French and Spanish squadrons. The following intelligence is contained in a letter from an officer on board his Majesty's ship Indefatigable , dated off Ferrol, April 2:
"Every opportunity that occurs, we make it our business to sail in and off the harbour's mouth of Ferrol, to reconnoitre the French and Spanish squadron, living there. They consist of six sail of the line, two frigates, two sloops and one brig, Spanish. At Corrunna, there is one French frigate, making altogether 14 sail of the line, two frigates, two sloops, and one brig."
"The French are already manned, and have a great number of troops on board, and are expected to sail hourly. The Spaniards are not sufficiently manned as yet. Yesterday we boarded an American ship that had just come out from Ferrol, and the captain assured us that the French would in the course of a few days put to sea, and that they were supposed to be destined for the West Indies."
NEW-YORK, May 30.
Gun Boat No. 7, which sailed with the frigate John Adams for the Mediterranean, returned to this port yesterday, having sprung her mast on the 21st inst. in lat. 37, long. 67.
GREAT-BRITAIN.
CASE OF LORD VISCOUNT MELVILLE; ON THE COMMISSION OF NAVAL INQUIRY.
Authentick Copy of a letter from the R. H. Lord Melville to the Hon: the Commission for Inquiring into Naval Abuses, &c. &c. &c.
GENTLEMEN—Having read your tenth report, and observing particularly the following paragraph in the 141st page, "However the apprehension of disclosing delicate and confidential transactions of Government might operate with Lord Melville in withholding information respecting advances to other departments, we do not perceive how that apprehension can at all account for his refusing to state whether he derived any profit or advantage from the use or employment of money issued for the service of the Navy. If his Lordship had received into his hands such monies as were advanced by him to other departments, and had replaced them as soon as they were repaid, he could not have derived any profit or advantage from such transactions, however repugnant they might be to the provisions of the Legislature for the safe custody of publick money."
I think it necessary to state the following observations, in order to place in their just view the grounds on which I declined answering your question, and which you appeared not to have accurately understood.
When you first called upon me for information, I stated to you that I had not materials on which I could frame such an account as you required me at that time to prepare, and in a communication with Mr. Trotter, before my examination on the 5th Nov. last, I learnt, for the first time, that in the accounts that he had kept respecting his private concerns, he had so blended his own private monies with what he had in his hands of publick money, that it was impossible for him to ascertain, with precision, whether the advances he had occasion to make to me, in the course of his running private account with me, were made from the one or from the other aggregate sums which constituted his balance with Messrs. Coutts. This circumstance, which I understood Mr. Trotter had distinctly communicated to you, made it impossible for me to return any other answer than I did to the general question which you put to me—"Whether Mr. Trotter had applied any of the money issued for carrying on the current service of the Navy, for my benefit or advantage?" and to this circumstance I uniformly referred in my answers to other questions respecting the manner in which Mr. Trotter applied the money in his hands.
When you put the question to me, "Whether I did direct or authorize Mr. Trotter to lay out or apply, or cause to be laid out or applied, any of the money issued for carrying on the current service of the Navy, to my benefit or advantage?" My answer was, "To the best of my recollection I never did." That answer I now repeat. Had you proceeded to inquire whether I ever had any understanding, expressed or implied, with Mr. Trotter respecting any participation of advantages derived from the custody of the publick money, or whether I at any time knowingly derived any advantage to myself from any advances of publick money, I should have had no hesitation in declaring, as I now declare, that there never was any such understanding, nor any thing like it, between Mr. Trotter and myself: that I never knowingly derived any such advantages: and that whatever emolument accrued to Mr. Trotter in the conduct of the pecuniary concerns of the office, was so far as I am informed, exclusively his own.
With respect to any advances which Mr. Trotter might make on my private account, I considered myself as debtor to him alone, and as standing with regard to him, in no other predicament than I should have done with any other man of business, who might be in occasional advance to me in the general management of my concerns entrusted to him. It is impossible for me to ascertain from any document or vouchers in my hands, or now existing, what the extent of those advances might have been at any particular period. The accounts which you have inserted in your report I never saw till I saw them in the report itself. They are no accounts of mine, nor am I party to them. They contain a variety of sums issued nominally to me, which never came into my hands, and they give no credit for various sums received by Mr. Trotter on my private account for my salary as Treasurer of the navy and other sources of income of which he was in the receipt nor do they take any notice of the security of which he was in possession for the repayment of any balance at any time due to him from private funds.
With respect to the sums of naval money advanced to me, and applied to other services. I do not feel it necessary to make any additional observations, except to declare, that all those sums were returned to the funds from which they were taken, having i
no instance, been withdrawn from it for any purpose of private emolument or advantage.—Before I conclude, I wish to correct an inaccuracy which I observe in one part of the evidence in Appendix No. 7, page 172. The question is put to me, "did you derive any profit or advantage from the use or employment of money issued for carrying on the current service of the Navy between the 10th of August, 1702, and 30th of April, 1703; or between the 1st of February 1784, and 31st December 1785, during which period you held the office of Treasurer of the Navy?" Which question I there answer by a reference to the answer given to a similar question put to me before. This answer is inaccurate in so far as it contains a reference to Mr. T's mode of blending his funds in private account with Messrs. Coutts.
Mr. Trotter was not Paymaster till the year 1786. The circumstances, therefore relative to Mr. Trotter's account, which precluded my returning an answer to your former questions, do not apply to the periods specified in that mentioned, and I can therefore have no difficulty in declaring, that during those periods I did not derive any advantage from the use or employment of publick money, issued for carrying on the service of the navy. Having stated these facts, it is almost unnecessary to add that I am at any time ready to verify them upon oath.
I have the honour to be, &c. &c.
MELVILLE.
ANSWER OF THE COMMISSIONERS. Office of Naval Inquiry, Great George-street, April 2, 1804.
My Lord—We have received your Lordship's letter of the 28th of last month, by which you intimate that we appear not to have accurately understood the ground on which you declined answering our questions, and submit to us some observations in order to place those grounds in their just view; and also express a wish before you conclude, to correct an inaccuracy in one part of your evidence, and a readiness to verify by your oath facts stated in that letter.
If it be the object of this communication, that we should again require your Lordship's attendance; for the purpose of being examined, touching these matters, and that we should make a supplemental report upon the result of that examination and such other examinations as we might thereupon judge necessary, there can be no disinclination on our part (as far as we are concerned in the proceeding) to meeting your Lordship's wishes: but it appears to us the inquiry, which is the subject of the tenth report, has attained that period, when it would not become us to adopt such a measure, merely upon the suggestion of any of the parties, to whose conduct that report relates.
We were occupied several months in investigating the mode of conducting the business of the office of treasurer of the navy: those who were examined by us had the fullest opportunity of stating and explaining all things which related to the management of that department, or to the share which they respectively had in it; and of correcting, at any time, during the progress of the inquiry, any mistakes which might inadvertently have been made. Our opinion and observations, upon the irregularities and abuses which we discovered, were formed and drawn up with the utmost care and deliberation; and they are now submitted to the three branches of the legislature, as the act by which we are appointed, requires. If it could be made to appear upon a representation to them that any thing has been omitted on our part, that any misunderstanding or error had occurred, and that a further inquiry is advisable upon these, or any other grounds, it would be forthem to direct such further inquiry, and to decide by whom, and in what manner, it should be prosecuted; but in the present circumstance, it appears to us that we cannot with propriety resume it.
Your Lordship's most ob't humble serv'ts. CH. M. POLE, EVAN LAW, JOHN FORD, N. NICHOLLS, W. M. PREAD.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
British Barque Medway , Parker, 6 days from Alexandria, Ballast, Alexander Maclure.
Ship Emily , Burnham, 13 days from Antigua, Rum & Molasses, C. Fry.—June 1, in lat. 32, long. 73, 11, spoke brig Sophia , Norman, 69 days from the Isle of France, bound to Baltimore.—Same day, lat. 32, 15, long. 73, 40, Sloop Mary , —, 10 days from St. Croix, bound to Providence, R. I.
Brig Paragon , Ainsley, 24 days from Jamaica, Rum, Redmon & Frith.—May 29, in lat. 25, 44, long. 83, spoke brig Minerva , Newell from Jamaica bound to Savannah, had been plundered several times on his outward passage by French and Spanish privateers.—The crew of the schooner Twins-Brothers of Baltimore, captured some time since from St. Domingo, was put on board of him by a French privateer, without provision or water.—The brig Fame , of Biddeford, was picked up off Cape Maize, by the British schooner Flying-Fish , and brought in 3 days before Capt. Ainsley sailed—she had been in possession of the French, and on the appearance of the Flying-Fish , they scuttled and deserted her—she had lumber on deck and in the hold—Several Trunks of Umbrellas, boxes of Linen, Fans, Soap, and Candles were found on board.—Left at Port Antonio, brig Milton , Frith, to sail in 10 days for this port.
Sch'r Sukey , Gilbert, 5 days from Charleston, Ballast, Wilson, Cunningham & Co. A schooner from Norfolk bound to Charleston, run ashore on Georgetown bar, 28th May—vessel and cargo supposed will be lost.
The brig Good Friend , Savin, of and from Philadelphia, bound to Porto Rico, was captured the 16th May, in lat. 18, 30, long. 62, 30, by his Britannick Majesty's schooner St. Lucia , Aisquith, Commander, and carried into Antigua, on suspicion of having gun-powder on board.
The Thomas & Sarah, Dechamps, of and from Guernsey, arrived at Antigua, the 18th May.
Brig Juno , hence arrived at Bourdeaux, in 30 days.
IRISH LINENS.
THE SUBSCRIBER
Has received in addition to his London Goods, a large assortment of Irish Linens, Sheetings, Diapers, Dowlas, Hardwares, &c.
Per Ship Charleston , Captain Hall, from Liverpool, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms.
ALSO, 300 Pieces Twilled SACKING.
Richard Taylor.
May 31.
729
GILLIAT & MACKINDER,
Have received their assortment of
SPRING GOODS,
By the ship DUMFRIES , from London.—Assorted Packages for exportation, entitled to drawback.
April 24.
622
NORFOLK THEATRE.
On MONDAY EVENING, June 10, 1805.
Will be performed, a celebrated Play, called THE MOUNTAINEERS.
To which will be added, the Farce of THE MOCK DOCTOR.
The Doors to be opened at half past 5, and the performance to commence at half past 6 precisely. ADMITTANCE ONE DOLLAR. 751
FOR CHARTER,
The British Ship DUNROBIN CASTLE, JOHN M'BRIDE, Master: Burthen 280 tons, carries 14 guns and men suitable. Clyde, or Liverpool, will be preferred. Robertson & Brown. June 8. tf 752
FOR CHERBOURG,
(To sail by the 20th instant,) THE BRIG VIRGINIA, Capt. Hill. Burthen about 240 hogheads. For passage only, having excellent accommodations, apply to the Master on board, at Campbell & Wheeler's Wharf, or to John Newell, Jun. Who has just received by the brig Franklin , from France, A FEW PACKAGES OF Silks, Silk Hose, Laces, Gloves, & Cambricks, Suited to the West-India market.—Also a few baskets Burgundy and Champaign Wine. June 8. tf 748
THE CO-PARTNERSHIP UNDER THE FIRM OF DIONIS & Co.
Was dissolved, by mutual consent, on the 22nd of April last. June 8. 3* 749
RIFFAUD'S GARDEN,
WILL BE ILLUMINATED THIS EVENING, Saturday June 8, 1805. A good band of Musick will be provided, and the company will be entertained with FIREWORKS. I. A Fancy Wheel. II. A Cross of Malta. III. A large Sun, revolving at three different times. The Gates will be opened precisely at eight o'clock.—Admittance one quarter of a dollar—to be returned in refreshments at the Bar. June 8. 1* 750
FOR SALE,
100 Crates well assorted EARTHENWARE. 12 Casks do. GLASSWARE. Just received by the ship Charleston , from Liverpool. A. Maclure. May 31. tf 732
NOW LANDING
From on board the Brig Fame , from Havana, and Schooner Lydia , from Antigua, 170 Hogheads MOLASSES. 129 do. RUM. For sale by William Pennock. May 27. tf 716
REMOVAL.
THE SUBSCRIBERS Have removed from MAIN-STREET, to their NEW FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE, in MARKET-SQUARE. Gilliat & Mackinder. April 3. tf 555
COCKE & SANFORD,
No. 40, MAIN-STREET. Have imported in the Ship Dumfries , from London, an extensive assortment of useful and fashionable SPRING GOODS. Which they offer on liberal terms, by Wholesale and Retail. April 24. 2m G17
I HAVE JUST RECEIVED,
63 Boxes Baltimore WINDOW GLASS, different sizes—Also, 1000 Gunny BAGS, 1200 Two and three Bushel BAGS, AND ON HAND, 35 Tierces excellent RICE, to be sold on very reasonable terms. A complete assortment of German Linens. JOHN C. NIEMEYER. A Lad from the country of about 16, under a good recommendation, will be taken as an Apprentice. Apply as above. May 27. 1m 717
LANDING
From on board the Schooner Friends' Adventure , Capt. H. Dickson, and for Sale by the Subscriber, 125 Boxes White and Brown Havana Sugar. Robert Gibson. April 8. tf 568
MARTIN FISK,
HAS FOR SALE, 300 Sacks Fine Liverpool SALT. 30 Chests Hyson and Hyson Skin TEAS—of a very late importation, and of a superior quality. 10 Hogheads 5 years old Antigua RUM. Pennington's LOAF SUGAR, in Hhds. and Bbls. May 27. tf 712
NOTICE.
THE subscriber owes some money, which he is determined shall be speedily paid; added to which his low state of health, calls loudly for his retirement from business. He therefore offers his stock of goods for sale, on the most liberal terms—This assortment has been selected from the best importations within the last twelve months; and amounts to about 2500. currency. As the situation occupied by him is not equalled by any other in the lower country, and as it can be obtained for a number of years, he hopes some of his friends will consider it to their advantage to purchase the goods, and take the stand—Nothing but the second reason assigned in this advertisement, would induce him to quit the stand—But owing to his health he must and will quit business, for some time at least. He has two small crafts, and be quantity of naval stores and lumber subject to his creditors. JOHN K. RANDOLPH. N. B. Those indebted must make payment in sixty days or give their bonds. Nansemond, April 5. law 563
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(And possession given in April or May next,) The House at present occupied by the Subscriber in Catharine-Street. JOHN DAVIDSON. March 4. 466

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JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE AT WILLIAM P. FARRAND & CO'S. Classical Book-Store, No. 185, Market-Street, FARRAND'S EDITION
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An Edition literally translated into English, as far as possible; with a full variation of the examples of Adjectives; also, variations of a participle in each tense: with a table of Abbreviations explained.
The translator has been politely favoured with the following letters, which he offers as testimonials in favour of his Edition of WETTENHALL'S GRAMMAR.
DEAR SIR, You ask my opinion, whether it be better that a Greek Grammar, intended for the use of schools should be in Latin or in English; and I can give it the more readily, as my opinion is and ever has been what, I presume, you would, on this occasion wish it to be.
I think, that not only the Greek, but all other Grammars, which we have occasion to use in our schools, should be in English: because it is certainly desirable, that whatever is to be committed to memory should first be, if possible, perfectly understood; and because I am persuaded, that even the best of our scholars understand their native language better than any other.
If, in proposing to me this question, you have been influenced by any solicitude with respect to the demand which there may be for your translation of WETTENHALL, I am confident that it is wholly unnecessary, for, if I am not much mistaken, there will hereafter be little or no demand, in any part of the United States, for any other Wittenhall than that with which you are now about to furnish us.
I have looked over it as far as your Translation goes; and though I cannot say, that I find in it no inaccuracies, yet I can say truly, that there are but very few, and those of no great consequence; whilst, as to the quality of the paper, the size and neatness of the type, and the general correctness which every where prevails in it, it is far superior to any other edition of that work which has been hitherto published in this place.
MR. WM. P. FARRAND. JOHN ANDREWS. SIR,
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THE Subscriber, intending to leave this State, wishes to dispose of the Land he at present resides on. It is a tract of EIGHT HUNDRED ACRES, beautifully situated upon Cape Charles; having the Atlantic upon one side, and the Chesapeake upon another. There is upon it good a FISHERY as any in Virginia. There are interspersed throughout the plantation, a number of SALT SPRINGS, so strongly impregnated with salt as to bear a new-laid egg. Oysters, Cockles, and Fish of all kinds may be obtained from the waters immediately at the door. The land is very productive, esteemed annually good for 500 barrels Indian Corn, and 2000 bushels of Oats, and is now in capital order. The Fishery alone has yielded, in one spring, upwards of 700L. In short there are but very few Plantations offered for Sale, which unite so many advantages: and nothing but a desire to pursue his professional business could induce the present proprietor to sell it. Should it not be sold before the Fall, it will be leased for a term of years. Conditions will be made known on application to
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One Hundred Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from our Coupemage, a Negro Man named HAL, by some called HENRY. He is about 25 years old, about 5 feet 5 inches high, his face inclining to the colour of a mulatto, short thick neck, hoarse voice, walks straight, and is upon the whole a likely and well-made Negro. He wore when he went off a striped cloth jacket and trousers, but carried with him a variety of other clothing. He is fond of dress; and is very artful. He can read, and is by trade a Cooper. He formerly belonged to Mr. Theodore Morris, of Prince George County, from whom he ran away, and was taken up in Norfolk, about six years ago; at which time we purchased him. He went off last night without the slightest provocation.
We will give a reward of 25 dollars to the person who may apprehend him in Norfolk, and secure him so that we may get him again—if taken out of the county, and delivered to us, we will give 50 dollars reward; if taken out of the state, and returned to us, we will give the above reward of 100 dollars; and 30 dollars additional for such discovery of the person or persons who assisted his escape, as may lead to his or their conviction.
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NORFOLK BOROUGH.
At a Quarterly Session Court held the twenty-fifth day of March, 1805, in the 29th year of the Commonwealth.
William Pennock, Compt. against Stephen Gorham, Peter C. Brooks, John Nickell, Moses Myers, and Cary Selden, Deputy Marshal of the United States, for the Virginia district. Defts.
THE Defendants Stephen Gorham, and Peter C. Brooks, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the Rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, It is ordered , That the said Defendants Stephen Gorham, and Peter C. Brooks, appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the Bill of the Complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper printed in this Borough, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-house of said Borough: And it is further ordered , That the Defendants John Nickell, Moses Myers, and Cary Selden, do not pay, convey away, or secret any debts or effects in their hands, belonging to the other Defendants, until the further order or decree of this Court, concerning the same.
A Copy, Teste, 584 WILLIAM SHARP, C. N. B. C.
NORFOLK BOROUGH.
At a Quarterly Session Court held the twenty-fifth day of March, 1805, in the 29th year of the Commonwealth.
George Wilson, Compt. against Thomas Harris, and George Veale, IN CHANCERY. and James Caton, trading under the firm of Caton & Veale, Defts.
THE Defendant Thomas Harris, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the Rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the Complainant, by his Counsel, It is ordered , That the said Defendant Thomas Harris, appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the Bill of the Complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper printed in this Borough, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-house of said Borough: And it is further ordered , That the Defendants Caton & Veale, who hath effects of the said Thomas Harris in their hands, do not pay, convey away, or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this Court, concerning the same.
A Copy, Teste, 585 WILLIAM SHARP, C. N. B. C.
NORFOLK BOROUGH.
At a Quarterly Session Court continued and held the twenty-sixth day of March, 1805, in the 29th year of the Commonwealth.
Samuel Ramsay, Compt. against Ephraim Robinson, Deft. IN CHANCERY.
THE Defendant not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the Rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, It is ordered , That the said Defendant appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the Bill of the Complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper printed in this Borough, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-house of said Borough.
A Copy, Teste, 583 WILLIAM SHARP, C. N. B. C.
BY AUTHORITY.
RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY.
CLASS NO. II.
4000 Tickets at 10 dollars each— dolls. 40000 1 Prize of dolls. 10000 1 of 5000 5 of dolls. 1000 5000 20 of 500 10000 50 of 100 5000 50 of 50 2500 100 of 25 2500 227 40000
First drawn ticket after 500 are drawn, dolls. 500 after 1000 500 after 1500 500 after 2000 1000 after 2500 1000 after 3000 1000 after 3500 1000 after 3950 10000
The above Lottery will certainly commence drawing the first Monday in November, or sooner, if the tickets are sold.
Tickets for sale at the Office of the Publick Ledger. 722
FOR SALE,
Pursuant to the Will of William Samuel Peachy, deceased. Peachy's Manufacturing Mills and Store-Houses. LYING in the County of Prince George, on Powell's Creek, a navigable stream of James River, and on the main stage road from Norfolk to Petersburg, with about six acres of Land belonging thereto.—One third of the purchase money will be required at the end of eighteen months and three years credit will be given for the residue. The Gentleman at the Mills will be good enough to show them.—For terms apply to Mr. Robert Maitland of Norfolk, or to Thomas Griffin Peachy of Williamsburg.
ALSO FOR SALE,
That beautiful Seat on James River (about four miles from the Mills) called FLOWER DE HUNDRED.—The Tract of Land belonging to this Seat, contains 1800 acres extending nearly two miles on the banks of the river, (about half a days' sail from Norfolk, and five hours from Petersburg) considerable part of the Land is fit for the cultivation of Wheat and Tobacco; it has some valuable Low Ground, and a great deal of Meadow Land, from which in its natural state, great quantities of Hay may be made; the Land also abounds with good Timber:—The Houses, Garden, Orchards, and other improvements, are extensive and valuable.—As it is presumed that no person would purchase such an estate without first viewing it, a further description is thought needless.—Collier Harrison, Esq. of Charles City, who has viewed the Land and is well acquainted with its quality, will be good enough to show it.—A credit of 9, 13 and 16 years will be given for the greater part of the purchase money, and for the residue four annual payments will be required.—An indisputable title will be made.—The price may be known by application to Mr. Robert Maitland, or to Mary W. Peachy, and Thomas G. Peachy, of Williamsburg.
March 25. tf 523
AVIS.
J. P. CHEVREUSE, Docteur en Médecine, Reçu à l'Université de Montpellier, et membre de l'Académie de Médecine de Paris, à l'honneur de prévenir le public que son demeure est Cumberland Street, No. 24.—Ceux qui voudront l'honorer de leur confiance auront lieu d'être satisfaits.
J. P. CHEVREUSE,
Doctor of Medicine, Graduate of the University of Montpellier, and member of the Academy of Medicine at Paris, acquaints the publick that he resides at No. 24, Cumberland Street.—Those who may honour him with their confidence he hopes will have every reason to be satisfied.
May 22. 696
COW-POX.
THOSE persons who wish to avoid catching the Small-Pox which now exists in this Borough, are informed that the subscriber has again succeeded in introducing the Vaccine Infection, and that he now has several arms fit to inoculate from.
** He has returned to his old shop at the lower end of the new market.
George Balfour.
An APPRENTICE wanted. Nov. 16. tf 386
SAMUEL SAUNDERS & Co.
Have taken the STORE lately occupied by Messrs. John Rorke & Co. opposite the New Market,
WHERE THEY OFFER FOR SALE,
A General Assortment of Groceries:
And have just received from Philadelphia, per the schooner Liberty, Captain Fisher, 20 Barrels RYE WHISKEY. 50 do. APPLE BRANDY. 50 Boxes BLOOM RAISINS. 100 Reams WRAPPING PAPER. April 17. tf 601
WILLIAM KNOX,
HAS FOR SALE, ON MAXWELL'S WHARF, 550 Bbls. Fine and Superfine FLOUR—superior quality. 30 do. X MIDLINGS. ** Families can be supplied with prime Flour, at 12 dollars per barrel. May 3. tf 649
250 Barrels Superfine, } 230 do. Fine, } FLOUR. 100 do. X Midlings, } 150 do. do. } 50 do. Ship, } BREAD. 90 do. Navy, } 10 Quarter Casks Sherry WINE. For Sale by JAMES MAURICE & CO. April 12. tf 589
FOR SALE,
12 Puncheons ANTIGUA RUM. 15 do. GRENADA do. 5 Pipes HOLLAND GIN. 20 do. COUNTRY do. 12 do. FRENCH BRANDY. 2 do. ALICANT do. 22 Qr. Casks SHERRY WINE. 10 do. MALAGA do. PORT and CLARET WINE, in casks & bottles. 6 Barrels PORK—and about 1000 Dozen PORTER, o' fine last winters flock, equal to any imported. August 24. tf Joseph Hayes.
SPRING GOODS.
PHILIP HENOP,
Has Received, by the Ship Dumfries, from London, a complete and extensive assortment of FASHIONABLE DRY GOODS.
CONSISTING OF FINE Corded and Tape-Stripe Furniture and Cambrick Dimities; 6, 7, 8, 10, and 12-4 Table Cloths; 9-8 and 6-4 Plain, Book, Cambrick, and Jacquet Muslins; Coloured and Embossed Cambrick Muslins; 4-4 and 6-4 Elegant Laced Cambrick and Leno Muslins; Leno and Laced Shawls; Ladies Silk-Netted Parasols and Cane Umbrellas; 6-4 Tamboured and Sattin-Sprunged Muslins; Checked Pullicat and Blue Romau Handkerchiefs; Madras do; Plain, Drabs, and Twilled-Stripe Nankeens; Cotton Cassimeres; Grandereils do; Sewing Silk; Mens' Best Beaver Gloves; Cotton and Silk Suspender; Net and Elastic do; Gilt Pins; lb. Pins assorted; and Gentlemen's Best London Hats.
ALSO—JUST RECEIVED, VIA NEW-YORK. 4-4, 6-4, and 7-4 Plain and Damasked Silk Handkerchiefs and Shawls, with netted Fringes; Long Silk Shawls, do. do; Chambray Muslins; Common and Fine Calicoes, and Plaid Chintz; Figured Blue Silk; Black Striped Sattin; India and French Back and Coloured Lustings; Handsome Italian Plaid; Extra Silk Gloves, assorted; Flesh Coloured Pie Nic Muts and Gloves; Plain White, Flesh Coloured, and Black, Laced and Sanded Silk Stockings; Superfine Laced and Sanded White Cotton do; White Net Cotton, Leno, and Black Lace Veils; Floss, Thread and Embroidering Silk; Silk and Cotton Cords and Tassels; Cotton Trimming; Black, Blue, Pink, White, and Yellow Crape; Linen Cambrick; Long Lawns; Pink, Blue, and Buff Cambrick-Muslins; Ladies Black Morocco and Coloured Kid Slippers; Apron Checks; Plain Paper and Tiffany Fans:— TOGETHER WITH A great variety of other Fancy Goods of the most fashionable kinds imported; A few bales of English and German Osnaburgs, and Ticklenburgs; Linen Checks; India Cottons; Bandanna Handkerchiefs; &c. &c. &c.
ALL OF WHICH HE WILL SELL, ON THE LOWEST TERMS, BY WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. April 26. tf 624
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER,
82 Puncheons Windward Island RUM. 35 do. Jamaica do. 10 do. Old Jamaica do. 10 Pipes Holland GIN. 8 Pipes 4th proof Cognac, } BRANDY. 12 do. do. Alicant, } 17 Pipes, } 4 Half Pipes, } FINE OLD SICILY WINE. 2 Qr. Casks, } 4 Half do. } 15 Quarter Casks Sherry WINE. 30 Crates well assorted EARTHENWARE. 9 Casks do. GLASSWARE. 5 Cwt. Dry White LEAD. Half Ton STEEL. 4 Hogsheads Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR. 1238 Barrels Superfine, } 489 do. Fine, } FLOUR. 50 Hogsheads Petersburg, } 50 do. Richmond, } TOBACCO. 42 do. Lowland, }
A. Maclure. April 29. tf 633
WANTED, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS,
FOUR HUNDRED CORDS OF OAK BARK;
For which the following prices, in Cash, will be given—delivered at their TAN-YARD:—
For Spanish Oak Bark, Willow, or Water Oak, 10 Dollars per Cord. Red Oak, 9 do. White Oak, if young and not too scaly, 7 do.
BEECH BARK,
Will also be received at 7 Dollars per cord. ** It is recommended to those who get BARK, to bring it in early in the season, for if kept out and exposed to heavy rains, it will not be received.
WILLIAM PLUME & CO. March 11. tf 485
LEVIN DORSEY,
On Town Point—Wide Water-Street. Has Received by the Dumfries, from London, in addition to his former assortment of
MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, &c.
Adams's Patent Globes—12 inches. Brass and Wood Compasses—Assorted. Quadrants. Night and Day Telescopes—Assorted. Telescopes for Day only. Patent Time Glasses. From 1-4 to 1-2 minute, and for one and two hours. Gunter's Scales and Dividers—Assorted. Charts, for the West-Indies, and America. Moore's Epitome and Daily Assistant. And has on hand, Blunt's American Practical Navigator—Last edition, with a copious appendix. Blount's American Coastal Pilot. Also for Sale, Bell-Mettler Scales of Superior Quality. Carriage Wheel Boxes, Bouches, and Solid Brass Sheeves—Assorted. Hoop and Baltimore Bar-Iron—Assorted.
All kinds of Mathematical Instruments Repaired, as usual. April 26. tf 628
A. C. JORDAN & Co.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED, AN EXTENSIVE SUPPLY OF
Fine Elephant, Imperial, Super-Royal, Royal, Medium, Demy, Folio Post, Fooscrap, Hot Pressed Quarto Post, Gilt and Hot Pressed do. Plain Wove do. Extra Thin do. Black Edged do. Royal and Demy Drawing PAPER. Blue Blotting do. Marbled do. Log Book do.
ALSO, Blunt's Navigator, and Coast Pilot. Walsh's Mercantile Arithmetic. Walker's, Sheridan's, Johnson's, Jones's, Perry's, and Entick's Dictionaries. Ainsworth's, and Boyer's do. Murray's, Lowth's, Ashe's, Alexander's, Webster's and Buchanan's, Grammars. Adams's, Ruddiman's, Perrin's, and Jay's, do. Elegant Extracts, in small quarto. Cesar, Virgil, and Horace, in usum delphin. Gale, on Medical Electricity. Mavor's Voyages and Travels. British Classics—Whitby's Discourses. Little's Poem's—Mosheim's Church History. American Gardner—Murray's Reader. Peasant's Fate—Gamerster's Progress.—&c. Campbell on Rhetoric. Simpson's Euclid. Biographical Dictionary. Life of Sir William Jones. Pocket Books—Pounce & Pounce Boxes. Sand Boxes, Ink-stands, Wafers, Sealing Wax, Quills, Pencils, &c. &c.
LIKEWISE,
A BEAUTIFUL GLASS FRIGATE, Completely rigged. April 26. 1w—law 3w 623
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 skilful 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. 3s. 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. tf 503
JOHN C. NIEMEYER,
Has received in addition to his former assortment
GERMAN GOODS,
45 packages German Linens, &c. chiefly entitled to drawback,
Consisting of Platillas, brown Hollands, tets, Wine Glasses, and Butanias, Baskets, &c. Sheeting, extra fine 1 1-8 3 Boxes English Mustard. yard wide, 8 bales Cloths, Blankets, Coatings, &c. Dowlas and Creas of the best quality, Androns, Waffleiron, Shirt linen, Diapers, Coffee mills, Bird cages, and Bed Ticking for Matrasses, Seeds of all kinds, Bed Bunts fine 1 1-4 to 2 yards wide, Table matts, & Straw plates, Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, Suspenfer of the best kind, Brown Hempens Hessians, Violins, Flutes, Clarinets and Brown and White Rolls, Fifes, Harp strings and Russia Sheetings and light Canvas, Violin strings, elegant Looking Glasses, a large assortment of Baskets, fine and common do. do. Toys cheap by the quantity. ALSO, Velvet Ribbons no. 2 to 150, Push for Saddlers, black Sattin for waistcoats, Brussels Lace 4 to 20 dols. per yard, cheap Edgings, German Nuns Thread, patent Needles, India sewing Silk, Made Shirts, Thread Stockings very fine, Razors, Spectacles, and Penknives, of the very first qualities, Cheap Jewellery, fine Scissors, Muffs and Tippits of Martin Skins, 15 boxes Tumblers, Decanter, Wine Glasses, and Baskets, &c. ALSO, 90 boxes first quality Havana Segars, 50 do. good quality S Jago do. 140 do. Short Pipes, 200 lbs. Shoe Thread, 2000 Coffee bags good quality, 40