Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1809-09-08 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.  SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PREMIA LAURA
VOL. VI.
FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 3, 1809.
NO. 251
The new copper fastened Brig HEROINE , Capt. John Maxwell, is offered for Freight or Charter, burthen 200 tons or 1600 barrels, and is complete readiness for the reception of a cargo. For terms apply to the captain, or
John Tabb. Who offers for Sale, 60 hogsheads TOBACCO, Richmond Inspection, particularly selected September 4
For New-Orleans, The regular Packet Brig SPANISH LADY , Richard Hurst, master, will sail on the first day of October next. For freight or passage, having excellent accommodations, apply to Jennings & Roddey. August 23.
For Charter, The Ship William & Mary , E. Tipling, master, burthen 250 tons, will carry 2000 barrels or 280 hogsheads Tobacco, is in complete order, and ready to receive a cargo. Apply to D. Sanford, or F. Smith. August 19.
60 hogsheads St. Kitt's MOLASSES, 60 do. Sugar; 50 do. Jamaica Coffee, 3 do. Guadalupe do. $2,500 wt. St. Domingo do. 200 bales Sea-Island and Upland Cotton, 1000 hogsheads Richmond and Petersburg Tobacco, 2000 bushels coarse Salt; 15,000 do. Liverpool blown do. 6 pipes Old London particular Wine, 80 crates Queen's Ware, assorted, 150 barrels Superior and Fine Flour, Russia and Raven's Duck, Count's Gin, Rum, &c. For Sale on liberal terms by C. & F. Whittle. A Good Stanch VESSEL , Of 150 to 180 hogsheads wanted. July 28.
Eighty Dollars Reward. RAN-AWAY from the Subscriber on Monday the 28th inst. two likely Negro Men, one by the name of FRANK, the other SOLOMON; Frank is slim built, tolerable black, can handle almost any kind of tool, I expect he has got different suits of clothes. Solomon is also slim built, not quite so black as Frank, has on one of his legs a large scar, recited near by a tree, it looks quite white, and he sometimes ties his hair. Frank is about 27 years of age, Solomon about 20, they are both of them, and I expect they have got free passes and will endeavour to get to Norfolk, or may go to the Sinking Swamp. I will give the above reward for both, or Forty Dollars for either if lodged in any goal so that I get them again, and all reasonable expenses if brought home. SAMUEL McGUIRE. Chowan County, near Edenton, September 4, 1809.
The Great Match Race! For Two Thousand Dollars, Will be run on WEDNESDAY the 13th of September next, over the Norfolk and Portsmouth Jockey Club Course, between WRANGLER , raised by Col. Seiden, and SIR SOLOMON , by Mr. Nash. Four mile heats, each to carry 100 wt. It is expected that from 10 to 15,000 dollars will be betted on this famous race, as the Horses are considered the best on the continent. August 9.
NEW GOODS. WOOD & HASTINGS, HAVE JUST RECEIVED 30 packages Spring and Summer GOODS, Comprising almost every description of Goods suitable for the present season. They will be sold at very low prices for cash, or acceptance in town. June 14.
LANDING At Newton's wharf, the CARGO of the Brig George , from Marseilles, Consisting of Fine Muscovado SUGAR, in Hhds. Clayed Sugar: White and Brown in boxes, Green Coffee; and a few tons Lignumvita. For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. July 27.
FOR RENT, A HOUSE and LOT, On Catharine Street, adjoining Mr. Wm. Thomson's; possession may be had immediately by applying to the subscriber. Who will give Cash for 200 cords WHARF WOOD, on delivery. RICHARD TAYLOR. July 6.
150 Barrels New HERRINGS, For Sale by JENNINGS & RODDEY. August 19.
Will Sell or Rent for a term of years, that desirable LITTLE RETREAT , called THE COTTAGE. It contains twenty acres of rich and well enclosed Land, ditched and free from any stagnant water. The purchaser or renter may have possession time enough for a crop. Tenants will be accommodating; if not disposed of before I leave home, application must be made to Mr. James Young, of Goochland. WILLIAM LEIGH. August 19.
Now landing from on board the Schooner Fair American , from St. Domingo, 24,000 feet MAHOGANY , of the first quality, which will be sold low for Cash, or approved Notes, at 60 and 90 days, by Bowden & Milhado. ALSO, 1,400 lbs. Spanish TOBACCO. August 23
12 pipes Cogniac and Bourdeaux BRANDY. 900 bushels Tuck's-Island SALT. Fresh Imperial and Hyson TEA. 10 Hogsheads retailing MOLASSES. For Sale by Joseph Hayas. August 23
Now landing from on board the Schooner Success , from Portsmouth, 16 kegs BUTTER; 18 boxes SOAP, 1 barrel SALTS; 10 do. M.F. RUM, 19 bales HAY; 3000 feet PINE BOARDS, 1 box STRAW and CHIP HATS. For Sale by JENNINGS & RODDEY. August 28
NOTICE. I intend to leave this State about the first of October next, and request all persons having claims against me to bring in their accounts for settlement; all those indebted will please come and settle by note or otherwise. WILLIAM TONKIN, Town Point. August 19.
Just Published. Proofs of the Corruption of General JAMES WILKINSON, And of his conspiracy with Aaron Burr, With a full refutation of his slanderous allegations in relation to the character of the principal witness against him By DANIEL CLARE, of the City of New-Orleans. "Justice tho' slow, is sure, vengeance O'er takes the swiftest villain's guilt" Letters by M. De St. Evermond, and Waller—Vol. 4th American Register—Shakspeare's Plays, the first complete edition in America, in 17 volumes. For Sale by Bonsal, Conrad, & Co. August 23
Manchester Academy. In consequence of the intended removal of Mr. JOHN WOOD, to the City of Richmond, on the 25th September next, the Trustees of the above Academy, are desirous of engaging a TEACHER of the Languages and Mathematics, to supply the station he now holds. On application to the Treasurer of the Academy, resting in Manchester, the terms will be made known to any gentleman of liberal education and moral conduct. Manchester, Aug. 22, 1809
State of North-Carolina, } Superior Court, April Chowan County. } Term, 1809. JAMES R. BENT, } vs. } In Equity. ADON CURTIS. } THE Defendant in this suit having failed to appear and file his answer agreeable to law, and it being represented to the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this State, it is therefore ordered that notice be given to the said ADON CURTIS in the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger, for the space of six weeks; that unless he appears at or before the next term to be held in the town of Edenton, on the first Monday after the fourth Monday in September next, and file his answer, judgment pro confesso will be entered up against him. By Order, J. B. BLOUNT, C. M. E. C. C. August 23.
Wig-Wam Garden. NINE PINS AND QUOITS, a cure for sedentary habits. July 26.
I wish to sell on moderate terms, A Valuable Tract of LAND, Well timbered, containing 460 acres, more or less, surveyed by Mr. George Nicholson, County Surveyor. The Land lies within two miles of the head of the Western Branch, near Hall's Mill, where Mr. John Corlew has erected a Saw-Mill, and made an excellent road near the land for carting timber, &c. The Land is under a small encumbrance to Mr. Edward Brown, by a Deed in Trust. Terms of Sale. Three Hundred Dollars must be paid on giving the titles to the Land to discharge the Deed in Trust and other encumbrances; the balance of the purchase money to be paid in six and twelve months, if not paid and approved endorser will be required. Any person holding a Bond, Note, or Book Account against me will be taken as part payment for the above property. WILLIAM TONKIN, Town Point. August 19.
NOTICE. THE Partnership of T. & W. A. ARMISTEAD is this day dissolved by consent of parties. The settlement of its concerns devolve on W. A. ARMISTEAD, who is authorized to grant discharges, and on whom all persons having claims against the Firm, are requested to call. January 3. W. A. Armistead and George Kelly, have entered into Co-partnership. Their business will be conducted under the Firm of ARMISTEAD & KELLY. January 16.
BEST FRENCH HATS, Now opening and for Sale by WOOD & HASTINGS. Also, just received on consignment, 3 Trunks CALLICOES, 3 Boxes Shirting Cotton, 1 do. Cobain do. 1 1/2 do. Mullins; 1 do. Chamois, French Sewing Silk. June 26.
DOCTOR BALFOUR, Will take a Young Gentleman into his Shop as a Student of Medicine. August 19.
For SALE or RENT, That large Dwelling-House, pleasantly situated on Town-Point, Main-street, at present occupied by the subscriber. That large Fire-Proof Warehouse on Wide Water-street, and a small Dwelling House adjoining in Holt's lane. Possession of all or any one of them may be had immediately if required; also one end of the House in Fay's-co-street, at present occupied by Robert B. Taylor, Esq. as his office. Daniel R. Waddey.
Who wishes to Sell, 259 ACRES OF LAND, Living in the County of Princess-Anne, on the Eastern Branch of Elizabeth River, distant from Norfolk about 5 or 6 miles by water, running across the main road from this to Kempville; part of which is heavily timbered with oak, pine, ash, &c. July 28.
Gingham, Calicoes, and Shirtings. WOOD & HASTINGS, Have just received via Philadelphia, 4 Trunks CALICOES, 3 do. GINGHAMS, 4 do. COTTON SHIRTINGS, part very fine July 3.
LANDING From the Schooner Virginia , Capt. Wheeler, from St. Vincent's, 50 puncheons RUM, 40 hogsheads retailing MOLASSES. For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. August 7.
LOST OR MISLAID. The following LAW BOOKS; 4th Volume of Robinson's Admiralty Reports, 5th do. Comyn's Digest; Powell on Contract ALSO, The 2d, 4th, and 12th Volumes of CARY'S AMERICAN MUSEUM; and a folio edition of PIMY'S Natural History, printed in the Old English Black Letter, and in the reign of Elizabeth or James I. I will sell very reasonable The following LAW BOOKS; viz. Bacon's Abridgement, Gwillim's Edition, Feame on Contingent Remainder and Executory Devises, Coulson on Equity & Respinasse's Nisi Prius, Jones's Law of Bailment; Gilbert's Law of Evidence, Harrison's Chancery Practice; Selwyn's Practice in B. R. Mansfield's Pleas; Lilley's Entires, Pothier on Obligations; Powell on Contract. These are mostly London, and the latest editions. John Coterper. July 17.
ANTIGUA RUM. Landing from on board the Sch'r Catharine Shepherd, 25 puncheons Antigua RUM. And in Store, 15 punch. choice 6 years old RUM. For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. July 21.
NOTICE. All those having claims against the Estate of JOHN CALVERT , deceased, are hereby requested to bring them in properly attested; and all persons indebted to the same, to make immediate payment to Richard Taylor, Executor. June 19.
NOTICE. I intend to petition the next General Assembly, to pass a special act, authorising the Overseers of the Poor, or Commissioners for that purpose, to be appointed, to sell the GLEBE LANDS , in the County of Matthews, whereof I am the incumbent, and the interest arising from such sale to be annually applied to my use during my life, or my continuance as the incumbent minister. Also to sell the BRICK WALLS of the Church, commonly called the New Church, being now in a perishable situation, and the money to be applied as other monies directed by law arising from the sale of Glebe Lands. Armistead Smith. August 19.
FOR SALE, 2 Carriages and 6 excellent HORSES, 2 Shares in the Norfolk Theatre, 1 Pew in the Episcopal Church, 1 Pew in the Presbyterian Church, Household and Kitchen Furniture; 3 Miles Cove, 1 Tract of Land in Wake County, N. C. 640 acres, 1 Tract of Land in Granville County, N. C. 700 acres. A Negro Family, consisting of a valuable Gardener, his wife and three small children. Should the above mentioned articles not be disposed of in a short time at private sale, they will be sold at Publick Auction—payment will be taken in Tobacco at the market price, or in Newbern and Cape Fear Bank Notes. For further particulars apply to William H. Thompson. July 3.
A GREAT BARGAIN. Wig-Wam Gardens for Sale For sale, water, and health, most superior. July 21.
Green Coffee and Loaf Sugar. 20,000 lb. choice Green COFFEE 8,000 do. fine quality Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR. For Sale on reasonable terms by Jennings, Thorp, & Co. August 19.
THE COMMISSIONERS For Paving the Streets in Norfolk, are desirous to contract for as much clean stone Sand as may be necessary for the paving of Market-Street; and also for 100 tons of coarse Gravel. They would prefer the stone very to be upon the spot as the paving progresses, but if this cannot be done, it may be laid upon the wharf nearest to the work. Ready cash will be paid for it as it is delivered. June 28.
Bills on London, For Sale by J. & W. Southgate. May 8.
Just Received, A few bales very fine India Cottons, suitable for Sheetings, Bandanas Handkerchiefs, Nankeens of superior quality; Bandanas Handkerchiefs, Sewing Silks; Russia Sheetings, &c. For Sale by Wood & Hastings. May 3.
A BARGAIN OFFERED, In a fine and Valuable FARM, in the County of Princess-Anne. THE Subscriber is desirous to sell his Plantation called LEVEL GREEN , situated in the county of Princess-Anne. It contains about 200 acres; and, as it may be advantageously divided into two or three Farms, the subscriber will accommodate a purchaser, in selling, either the whole or a part. He will also give a long credit. This tract of Land is certainly the most desirable in the county, lying on the Eastern branch of Elizabeth River, and distant from Norfolk Market only five or six miles by water, and 8 or 9 by land. The soil is excellent, about one half of the tract being cleared land, and fit for immediate culture; the other is heavily timbered with Oak, Pine, Ash, and Hickory. He has also the advantage of several good landings—Any one disposed to view the land, and to purchase, may apply to the absence of the subscriber, to James Roddey, or John Read, who reside in the neighbourhood. Tully Robinson. Dec 7.
50,000 lbs. prime Green COFFEE For Sale by J. & W. Southgate. July 11.
SPRING GOODS. WOOD AND HASTINGS, have just received a small supply of SHASONS BLE GOODS , among which are, 4-4 Irish LINENS, part extra fine 4-4 and 6-4 Cotton Cambricks, 7-8 and 4-4 Cotton Shirtings, Superfine and common Calicoes, Gingham; Madras Handkerchiefs, Fine Coded and Faded Dunettes, Mons and Womens' Cotton Hose; do. Silk do. Cotton Umbrellas; White Jeans, very fine, Royal Cord and other fashionable Vestings, Plain and Fancy Muslins, Elegant worked Muslin Short Dresses; See Sackets, Nankeens; Kid Gloves; Mens' Buckskin do. BROAD CLOTHS, Best Superior Black, Blue, Olive, Brown, Blue, Drab, Mixed, &c. Broad Cloths; middling and common do. One case Gentlemen's Silk Plush Hats. The above with our Goods on hand, comprise every kind some assortment, and will be sold at low prices for Cash only. April 7.
NOTICE. The Subscriber desires all persons who have claims against him to present them for settlement, and those who are indebted to him are requested to make immediate payment. John Hamilton. July 3.
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, Price 37 1/2 Cents, A few Copies of LETTERS, Under the signatures of SENECA and of A PATRIOT . Comprehending an examination of the conduct of our Executive, towards France and Great-Britain, and a defence of the present crisis has arisen, originally published in North American. From the Editor's Preface. Great publick exigencies, in free governments, have always called forth great virtue and talents. Thus the passing occurrences of the day prove, that the lapse of even a few years has not turned our nation aside from those illustrious examples of their rulers and followers of their predecessors, which our government could not have been established without.
Should we survive the fraud, prejudice and power, which have conspired for our ruin, we shall not owe it more to the timely illustrations of the sage, and the heroic devotion of the patriot, than to native good sense and unswerving attachment to liberty in the body of the people. We have here another proof, that the American nation has remarkable capacity for its intelligence, as for its patriotism, and an inextinguishable adherence to national freedom. The enemies of our country, upon both sides, have electrified the whole continent with the retired, the timid, the wavering, and the timid, have all been brought into the ranks of their country, which is determined to save the country. By such means, it must be saved!
Among the pens which have so powerfully contributed to this conservative alarm, in the publick and important cause of the subjoined letters. His discerning candour, and unswerving argument, have chased away the sophistry and pretended delusions, which the hand of power has endeavoured to impose upon us. These explanations on publick affairs, in a circumstance which the present time has rendered so interesting, than the quality of the writer, and the capacity of the reader.
NOTICE OF REMOVAL. According to the notice last published in the Norfolk Gazette, Office of the Subscriber and Printer, is removed to the corner of Market-Street and Main-Street, opposite the Theatre.

FOUNDATION OF THE MILITARY POWER
OF FRANCE
Extracted from the Salutary Review of January
of the Constitution, a Recueil Chronologique des Lois et des Arrêts du gouvernement, des Décrets, Impératifs relatives à la Levée des Contingents , à leur remplacement aux dépenses de service, &c. depuis l'an VI, jusque compris l'an XVI. Avec Tables, &c. 8vo. pp. 270. Paris, 1806.
We have war, and we detest despotism; and wish earnestly that there were no occasion to study the organization of the one, or the resources of the other. But when war is inevitable, and despotism overbearing—and when both together are darkening the whole horizon of the civilized world, it becomes of all things the most necessary to enquire how they have been united, and in what manner their combination has contributed to their success. It is now our indispensable duty to think, to make ourselves acquainted with the structure of that military establishment which has triumphed so fatally over every other to which it has yet been opposed—to ascertain how far its excellencies may be copied among a free people; and to determine to what extent its efficacy or permanence may be rendered precarious by the oppressions, which it entails on those who are subject to it.
The perusal of the work before us, which has been recently transmitted from France, with a full commentary of facts, by a diligent and judicious observer, has enabled us to lay before our readers some materials for such an enquiry; and to direct the attention of our countrymen to the internal organization of a power which must be understood before it can be resisted; and with which we can neither be at peace nor at war in safety, till we comprehend in some measure the nature of the foundations on which it rests. The book is entitled " Code de la Conscription ," and contains a chronological series of laws enacted since the year 1793, on the subject of the military conscription of France. It should be remarked, that the new French jurisprudence has been promulgated under the various titles of the civil, rural, commercial, and criminal codes—and this, the " Code de la Conscription ," which, no doubt, is, of the whole Napoleon Corpus Juris , most dear to the modern Justinian, and most odious to his "great and good subjects."
Tacitus somewhere observes of Tiberius, that his speeches to the senate, by the "involution" of the style, at once betrayed the character of their author; and seemed to shadow out the picture of his cautious, dark, and crooked policy. This volume, consisting of 270 close printed pages, obscure and even unintelligible in all its clauses of lenity, and clear only in its provisions of vigour, might suggest a similar observation, and be traced to the ruminations of an ambitious and sanguinary despotism. In fact, the extreme difficulty which we (with no vulgar helps) have experienced in collecting the scope and import of this extraordinary volume convinces us that to the great majority of Frenchmen, the whole must be as incomprehensible as the mysteries of Eleusis, or the traditions of the Cabala. There is an oracle at hand indeed, which will readily expound one half the mystery. The military tribunals will soon make them understand the penalties annexed to disobedience; but they have, and can have no instruction as to their immunities.
For it is a remarkable and most instructive fact, that notwithstanding the voluminous annotations daily issuing from the French press on every other branch of the imperial jurisprudence, no one has yet been bold enough to publish a single word to elucidate the text, or blazon the moderation of the Code de la Conscription .
It is impossible even to glance at this volume without being struck with the extreme anxiety which these statutes betray to enforce conformity both in the execution and the victim. The enumeration of cases is so complete as to preclude the possibility of evasion. The publick functionaries have their respective provinces most accurately marked out; and are furnished with distinct formule for every act of office. The severest and most unrelenting punishment is inflicted upon all who, from negligence or corruption, or pity, give countenance to the slightest relaxation. The diseases which give right to exemption, are detailed with a jealous and disgusting minuteness. Precautions are multiplied without number to secure the persons of the conscripts; and while they are decorated with the title of " Defenceurs de la Patrie " the uniform tenor of these laws and the tone of bitter reproof which pervades them afford conclusive evidence of a general aversion for the trade of war, and serve to convince us that these Achilles are not easily roused to arms, whatever enthusiasm they may afterwards display in the field. Some few provisions are introduced on the subject of voluntary enlistments; but as no bounty is allowed it is evident that they do not enter into the serious consideration of the government. The old compromise between the military exigencies and civil constitution of the state; between the effluvia of the rich and the wants of the poor; between the ambition of the sovereign and the rights of the subject; is rejected with disdain by the imperial republic; and the student is dragged relentlessly from his closet and the peasant from his hiding place, by an indiscriminating and unqualified coercion. But habit soon renders submission if not cheerful at least easy; rapine furnishes sources of abundance and emulation; courage becomes a virtue of necessity; strength is acquired by discipline; military ardour kindled with competition; and experience too fatal to prove that from such elements armies may be compounded alike formidable for discipline and valour.
We shall now proceed to lay before our readers a connected view of the law of the conscription as it is now enforced, and to interweave with those statements such illustrations of the present state of the French empire, as may be necessary to develop the whole organization of conquest. No subject at the present moment, can claim so terrible an importance. The levies of those continental nations, which still preserve the forms of independence, are, it is said, to be moulded upon the same model; and the conscription is undoubtedly the vis motorix of that great engine to which France owes her aggrandizement, and on which she relies, for the future increase of her dominion. Her politicians excitedly applying the language of Vegetius concerning the legions, it seems rather an inspiration of divine wisdom than the offspring of human invention. The plan of universal conquest, imputed originally to Lucius, and with more truth, perhaps ascribed by Mr. Burke to the directory, is now, not merely digested into a regular system, but may actually be said to be in a course of execution; and to be proceeding with a steadiness and success which must strike alarm in the most confident and unthinking. The world in the opinion of all Frenchmen, is to be again subdued by the discipline and arts of Rome. Polard's Polybar, Michelen et Livy, and Montesquieu on the Grandeur et Décadence , are more than ever the models from which they draw their lessons of perseverance and cunning. The reading classes of France have always been fond of historical research, and have been the most ardent admirers, and the most active imitators of antiquity; and their government has availed itself of the prediction, for the victorious legions of Greece and Rome, (2) that they might rise to overlook altogether individual interests, and tastes, and enjoyments, both in their
foreign politics; and in the details of their internal economy. They admit no unbounded adoration of the sovereign. All the capacities, talents, genius, and habits of private life, are unreservedly wrested to the production of force, for the subjection of the globe, or, as co-ordinate with the object, for the aggrandizement of the reigning family. The changes of form in their government, have occasioned no remission in this pursuit. It has always been spoken of among them with confidence and zeal. Events have recently brought it more into notice, and nothing now remains but to achieve the ultimate object, " la grande pensée ," as it is emphatically styled in the entries of Paris.
That our readers may the better understand our abstract of the laws on the conscription, it is proper to premise, that France is divided into about 30 military governments, subject to a general division and his staff, to which commissaries are attached as executive officers. The civil division consists of 122 departments; 24 of which have been acquired since the overthrow of the monarchy, exclusive of Tuscan, not included in any part of this statement. The departments are divided into districts or arrondissements , from 3 to 5 in number; the arrondissements into cantons, and the cantons into municipalities, amounting to about 35,000. Each department is governed by a prefect and his council, composed of a commissary of police, a mayor, and certain inspectors, denominated counsellors of prefecture. The district or arrondissement , by a sub-prefect and his council, of a similar formation. The cantons and municipalities are under the supervision of the administration composed of the civil authorities, with a president at their head. A mayor, a commissary of police, and two officers of the government, styled adjuncts are allotted to every division having a population of 5000 souls. The several authorities are in strict subordination to each other, and at the control of the prefects and sub-prefects, who themselves are charged with a weighty and inflexible responsibility as to the military levies.
The conscription was first published in the form of a general law, by the council of ancients in the year 1793 and has since undergone some slight modifications. (3) The directorial plan is attributed to Carnot, who in the revolutionary language, is said "to have organized victory in the French armies." Its author, who was enthusiastically devoted to the forms of antiquity, and still preserves, within the rays of the imperial purple, all the simplicity of ancient manners, found his model in the constitution of the Roman republic, which made every citizen a soldier before the age of 46—in their annual levies, which admitted of no exception—and in the peremptory orders issued by the consuls to the magistrates of Italy, specifying the number of troops required, and the place of assembly.
By the law of the directory, all Frenchmen are pronounced soldiers; and when the country is declared in danger, are liable to be summoned to its defence.
In any other conjuncture, "the wants of the army are relieved by the conscription;" and the requisite number of conscripts is determined by the senate or legislative body at the suggestion of the executive government. The law which limits the whole number, regulates at the same time, the contingent of each department, proportionally to its population. Within eight days after publication, the prefect distributes this contingent among the districts, by the same rule; and the sub-prefect among the cantons and municipalities. All Frenchmen between the full age of 20 and 25 complete, are liable to the conscription. They are each year thrown into five classes; the first of which consists of those who have completed their 20th year on the 1st Vendemaire, or 16th Sept. preceding; the second of those who, at the same period have terminated their 21st year, and so on, in the order of seniority. Thus, the conscript who has attained the full age of 25, remains liable until the month and day just mentioned. The municipal administrations are bound to prepare lists framed from the registers of births, and from common notoriety, which particularize the name, domicile, stature, &c. of all the individuals subject to the conscription within their jurisdiction. The same individuals are also bound to enroll themselves with a similar specification at the office of the municipality, as soon as the law is published. Both lists are then transmitted to the prefects, who are responsible for their accuracy, and who immediately consign them over to the minister of war.
Eight days are allotted to the preparations of the lists. The conscripts are then assembled in each canton and examined by the administration or by a special commission created ad hoc by the prefect. The merits of all pleas of exemption are scrutinized at these meetings. Such as plead infirmities if able to attend are examined on the spot; and if not are visited at their dwellings "by the inspectors" and health officers. The latter, generally physicians in the army, are not selected until the moment of examination; and to obviate collusion must belong to a district different from that of the conscript. The final decision of all cases of exemption is referred to a commission of higher resort, composed of the prefect, the general officers and commissaries of the department. When these claims are disposed of lists are formed of those who are adjudged competent to serve, whether present or absent; and the sub-prefect then proceeds to the "drawing" or designation by lot of such as are to constitute the quota of the district. Tickets regularly numbered to the amount of the names on the list are publicly deposited in an urn and indiscriminately drawn out by the conscripts or their friends. The lot falls upon those who draw the numbers below the amount of the quota. The higher numbers drawn by the rest are annexed to their names in order that they may be forthcoming in their order, should any casualty disable their predecessors. Absentees not presenting themselves within a month after the drawing, are declared refractory, proclaimed throughout the empire, and pursued as deserters.
These are the conscripts of the "active service." But besides these, the law requires an equal number to form what is termed in contradistinction, the conscription "of the reserve." The members of the reserve are nominated with the same formalities, to march only in cases of emergency; are regularly organized and carefully disciplined, within their own department; from which they are not suffered to absent themselves. A third body is then created, of supplemental conscripts, equal in number to one fourth of the whole contingent, and destined to fill up the vacancies which may be occasioned before junction at head quarters, by death, desertion, or other causes. If the supplemental should not be adequate to this purpose, the reserve supplies its place; and at all events no deficiency is permitted, as each canton is accountable for its full assessment.
No Frenchman, under the age of 80, can travel through the empire, or hold any situation under government, or serve in any public office, unless he can produce a certificate, duly authenticated, attesting that he has discharged his liability to the conscription.
All the authorities are bound in solidum, and under the severest sanctions, to observe that the conscripts are assembled, reviewed, and dismissed to their destination, without delay. They are marched under an escort of gendarmes, and in bodies strictly limited to the number of 100 to various quarters or depots throughout the empire, and there supplied with arms and clothing. They are never permitted to exit in separate battalions, but are individually ( nominativement ) draughted into, or
transferred through, detachments of the pre-existing army, to which they are attached in exceedingly small detachments, and sometimes from an astonishment.
Dispenstations are made for the higher military tribunal of the prefect; and are provisional or definitive, according to the nature of the disability pleaded. For all diseases pronounced curable, the discharge is temporary. The infirmities which tend to disqualify, are discriminated with the nicest care, and accompanied by copious scientific explanations. The minister of war reviews the decisions of this tribunal; and if a suspicion of partiality arise, orders the medical inquiry to be renewed. The party released pays an indemnity to the government the amount of which is proportioned, by the prefect, to his taxes, or those of his parents. No exceptions were originally allowed to the law "of active service;" but at this moment, the eldest brother of an orphan family, the only son of a widow, or of a labourer above the age of seventy, or one who has a brother in the active service , may, on soliciting the indulgence, be transferred to the reserve. The same privilege is accorded to those who have taken the order of subdeacon in the ecclesiastical seminaries. Parents continue responsible for their absent children, until they can produce an official attestation of their death. (4)
The Directory admitted of no substitution; but the severity of this principle is now relaxed in favour of such as are adjudged "incapable of sustaining the fatigues of war," or, "whose labours and studies are deemed more useful to the state than their military service." Proxies are therefore received only ad libitum ; not as to matter of right; and never without a special mandate from the minister of war. The cons. just furnishes a sum of 20 dols. (100 fracs) for the equipment of his substitute, who must be between the age of twenty-five and forty, of the middle size at least, of a robust constitution, of a good character certified by his municipality, and himself beyond the reach of the conscription laws. He bears the sin-name of his principal, in order that the latter may be known and compelled to march, should his proxy desert, or be lost from any other cause than death, or wounds received in battle within the term of two years.
All the enacting clauses of this system are fortified by heavy denunciations against publick functionaries, parents , or others who contribute to defeat or retard its operation. Any health officer or other functionary convicted of furnishing a false certificate of infirmity, &c. is subjected to five years imprisonment in irons. All civil and military officers, even of the highest rank, convicted of favouring the escape, or concealing the retreat of a fugitive, are exposed to excessive fines. Conscripts detected in counterfeiting infirmities, or mutilating themselves, are placed "at the disposition of the government" for five years, to be employed in such publick labours as may be judged most useful to the state. The absentees or refractory conscripts, whose apprehension is secured by the most minute and efficient precautions, besides undergoing the corporal punishment entitled on their offence, are amerced in a sum of fifteen hundred francs, equivalent, from the comparative value of money in the two countries, to about seventy pounds sterling. This sum, together with the expenses incurred in the pursuit, is levied inexorably on the real property of the father or mother, should the fugitive possess none in his own right. (5)
Nine garrison towns are designated throughout the empire, as depots for the refractory conscripts. They are lodged in the citadels, subjected to a most rigid discipline, and made to work in the arsenals, or on the roads, clad in a particular uniform, with their heads closely shaved. Five years constitute the term allotted to this confinement; but it is added, "that they are to be gradually draughted into the army, as they give tokens of docility and reformation!" Every conscript absenting himself for twenty-four hours from his depot , is punished as a deserter. A special council of war is assembled to decide upon cases of desertion. The penal sanctions are, 1st, death; 2d, the punishment of the ball ( la peine du boulet ); and 3d, publick or hard labour.
The nature of the ball, the punishment of the ball, merits notice. An iron ball of 8 lbs. weight, and fastened to an iron chain of 7 feet in length, is attached to the leg of the deserter. He, in the first instance, bears his sentence read on his knees, and is condemned to hard labour during ten hours daily, and in the interval of rest, to be chained in solitary confinement. This sentence is rigorously executed, and embittered by all the external marks of ignominy in dress and appearance. The duration of this punishment, which is ten years, is prolonged, and an additional ball fastened to the leg, in cases of contumacy or serious disobedience. We have remarked a curious provision connected with this double delinquency.
The party is solemnly interdicted under pain of two years imprisonment in irons, from fixing himself, after he is set at liberty, within twenty leagues of the seat of government! The third class of punishment ( les travaux publics ), is exempt from the iron ball; and in other respects, only differs from the preceding in the length of the term, which is but three years. A fine of 1500 francs is inseparable from all cases of desertion. Death is inflicted on the deserter to the enemy, and on him who is deserting from the punishment of the ball, carries off his own arms or those of his comrades. The punishment of the ball is adjudged to such as escape into the interior of the empire with their uniform, or with the effects of another; or from the publick labours which are inflicted upon those who are guilty of simple desertion into the interior. Intime of war, every officer or soldier absenting himself 48 hours from his corps, without permission, is reputed a deserter. The laws on the subject of desertion are read to the whole French army on the 1st Sunday of every month.
We have thus given a brief abstract of the law of the conscription, collected from the code itself. We shall now proceed to state the nature and effects of its execution, as represented to us by an observer, who, with the best opportunities, has witnessed them, in almost every part of France, during the progress of three levies.
The grand characteristic of the present administration of France, is relentless inflexibility. A host of informers secures the fidelity of the executive officers. Cases of the most signal and barbarous rigour, of which we have already given a few examples, crowd all the daily gazettes of the empire, and even the journals of Paris, into which they are compulsively and awkwardly thrust, in order that the quickening impulse of fear may be propagated, through the entire mass of servitude. (6) The columns now before us might nearly warrant the inference, that those tribunals which the weakness and depravity of our nature have rendered indispensable to all civilized communities, are in France, exclusively occupied with one species of delinquency, happily unknown to the rest of the world. They entitle it, Escroquerie en matière de conscription , or the extortion of money from persons liable to service, under fraudulent promises of procuring them an exemption. A stranger in this "great nation," is haunted by the spectre of the police; but the native is attended by another "foul fiend," still more hideous, and threatening him with more degrading violations. We have it from good authority, that a traveller frequently meets, on the high roads, and particularly in the vicinity of great cities, 20 or 30 of those miserable beings, denominated refractory conscripts, guarded by a body of gendarmes, and
together with a bag of disgrace (7) on a horse, a talk, or a badge of disgrace (8) on a horse, a talk, or a badge of disgrace (9)
NOTES.
(1) The new jurisprudence, in the highest degree defective in theory, and vexatious in practice, is created upon a principle which will be found in almost all their internal regulations—that a new government every thing should be new. "Whoever," says Machiavel, "makes himself lord of a state (especially if he suspect his ability to keep it) must, as the best course, make every thing as new as himself; after the magistracy, create new titles, confer new authorities, enlarge old corporations, advance the poor, impoverish the rich; that what is said of David may be said of him: 'He filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he sent empty away.'—Discorsi, lib. 1, c. 26.
(2) "Considering what is good," says Machiavel, "I am of opinion that the same fortune and prosperity may be expected by any prince or state which exercises the same arts and industry as the Romans have done before them." "The way of enlarging their empire was peculiar to the Romans; and certainly no better is to be found. Nobody thinks of restoring the old discipline of the Romans. None of our people will believe that it is possible to do now what was anciently done. They deceive themselves, and commonwealths, which have an ambition of extending their empire, must do it by the ways of the Romans. We have their examples before our eyes, and may follow it if we please," &c. Discorsi, lib. 2, c. 1, 4, &c.
(3) The " Requisition " which preceded this system was of a character still more arbitrary. Mr. Burke entitles it "A sweeping law of unprecedented despotism."
(4) We find on the subject of dispensation, two decrees, which should be noted, One, p. 160, of the year ninety-nine, by which all workmen engaged in the manufacture of arms and gunpowder, or employed in the national magazines of salt-petre, &c. are exempted; and in another p. 104, of the year 1802, enacting, that conges equal in number to one fourth of the whole body of soldiers and subalterns in the army, should be given to such as had served irregularly during the whole war, or during five campaigns, as soon as they could be replaced by new recruits. The inspector charged with the distribution of these conges , is enjoined, however, to remind the soldiers how much they are in the wrong to abandon the first of professions ( la premier des etats ) In the year '98, the law was repealed which exempted married persons from the conscription. Depere, and with him Malthus, attributes the increased proportion of births in the country, anterior to that period, to premature marriages, to avoid the military levies. (Malthus, b. 2, c. 6.) " Les mariages prematures et multiplient par la crainte des loix militaires ," are particularly noticed in the statistical reports of the prefects for the year eight.
(5) It will not be impertinent to exemplify here, the immoderate rigour exercised on the points now before us, by a few paragraphs taken at random from the journals of the country. The following is from the Mercure de France of August 1807: "Jean Vidal senior, of the commune of Orhon, in order to enfranchise his son from the conscription, had employed a false document, knowing it to be false. This document was the record of his birth, in which it was stated that he was born in 1784; although the real period of his birth was 1744. His object was, to be considered as having attained the age of seventy one , and therefore entitled to claim for his son the indulgence of the law. The special court of criminal justice has, by a decree of the 21st July condemned this person to eight years labour in irons, to be branded with a hot iron on the left shoulder, to an exposition of six horses, and to the expenses of the prosecution, and of 400 c. of the decree." The two following are from the Journal de l'Empire of August 2d and 7th: "The tribunal of corrective police ( police correctionnelle ) of Paris, finished yesterday the trial of seven persons charged with extortion from conscripts. "Escroquerie en matière de conscription." Tessarie, a surgeon's apprentice, was accused of having blown into the ears of a multitude of conscripts, a powder calculated to excite inflammation, and of having received from their friends, for this service, various sums between two and three thousand livres, somewhat more than one hundred pounds from each . Six other persons were accused of making him known to different conscripts, and of sharing in his profits. While one of these, a goldsmith, called Lugo, the father of three children, took his place at the bar, his wife was carried to the grave, having died of fright, when she was told that her husband had been summoned to appear before the tribunal to answer to a charge connected with the conscription. This melancholy catastrophe induced the tribunal to mitigate his punishment. The rest, among them a woman of some respectability, suffered the utmost rigors of the law." The second case is not a little singular. "The military commission of Turin (department of the Po) decided in the course of last July a new case of delinquency, with regard to the conscription. Two inhabitants of Turin were convicted by this commission, of having forestalled ( accapare ) a great number of substitutes for the department, by maintaining them at their own expence, in houses appropriated to this object, and then selling them out at an advanced price, to the conscripts who wished to have proxies. This traffic, says the Moniteur , by which the substitute receives but a small sum, while the broker receives a large one, must always prove injurious to the poor classes.
(6) In the winter of 1807, a member of the congregation of St. Sulpice, of the name of Fressinous, undertook to deliver, every Sunday evening, in the church of St. Sulpice, lectures on christian morality ( lamorale Chretienne .) His auditory was numerous, and consisted principally of young men, attracted by a well merited reputation for eloquence. After three discourses he was summoned before the police, interrogated concerning his views, and informed, that he could not possibly continue, unless he consented to inculcate on his hearers the sacred duty of obedience to the Conscription . The lecturer resisted, alleging that this topic was irreconcilably foreign to his subject, and with much difficulty was, at length permitted to resume his labours, at the urgent intercession of Cardinal Maury Salmoner of the king of Westphalia , once the unbounded advocate of the Bourbons, now the grateful pensionary and humble parasite of the Buonapartes!
(7) We find in the Journal de l'Empire , under the Paris head of the 21st October, 1807, a paragraph, in which it is stated, that a recent act of amnesty had brought back to their colors two hundred and four refractory conscripts, and ninety-two deserters of the department of Orne; of which department, the whole contingent does not amount to more than 692 in a levy of 1806.
THE CHARITY SCHOOL.
THOSE Gentlemen who are desirous of establishing the Institution, which has lately been in operation for four months, are requested to leave their names with Messrs. A. & J. Jordan & Co. as soon as they can conveniently do so, that the probability of carrying the design into effect may be ascertained. This notification is respectfully addressed to those by some well-wishers to the plan, who are vainly desirous of seeing the poor children of this Borough rescued from ignorance and vice; and who will most readily cooperate with other of its patrons in the undertaking.

FOR SALE  100,000 feet OAKS  100,000 feet HICKORY Proby, Harriman, & Co.
BOOT AND SHOE FACTORY. THE SUBSCRIBER takes the liberty of informing the inhabitants of Norfolk and its vicinity, that he has commenced business in Main-Street, two doors from the Exchange-Coffee House, where he has laid in, selected by himself in Philadelphia, an assortment of materials in the line of his profession, such as  Boot Legs, Tops, Vamps, and Cali Skins, Of a superior quality; together with an assortment of Morocco and Kid Skins of different patterns and colours, and such as now worn by the fashionable of England and France. He has brought with him some workmen from Philadelphia, equal to any in the United States; and begs leave to suggest to the Ladies that he has employed a person solely for the purpose of making fashion-able Shoe-Heels—SPANG LANE done in the neatest manner, equal to that of London, as in Philadelphia he procured some of the most fashionable patterns by the late arrivals from England. From the knowledge he has of business, having worked in some of the best factories in London, Dublin, and Philadelphia, he offers himself to give general satisfaction to those who favour him with their orders; added to which his prices shall be reasonable, as Cash will be required for every article on delivery.
John Fry. August 9  Millinery and Mantua-Making Business. THE SUBSCRIBER informs the Ladies of Norfolk, Portsmouth, and their vicinities, that she has arrived here from Philadelphia, and has opened Shop in Main-Street, No. 101, next to Mr. Peter Ellett's, where she carries on the above business in the most fashionable manner. This she is enabled to do, having provided herself with the latest and most fashionable PATTERNS from England and France.
ELIZA FRY. Who has for Sale, a fashionable assortment of Ladies' Kid and Morocco SHOES, Of the best quality. August 9.
J. MORAN, Has just received per the Schooner Rising States, captain Gilbert, via New York, in addition to his former supply, AN ASSORTMENT OF  Ship Chandlery and Hardware; Among which are the following, London White Lead, Sheet Lead, Wedging Hoes, Tea Kettles, Handsaws, &c. August 7.
VIRGINIA BANK STOCK. WANTED TO PURCHASE, VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, For which Cash will be given. Application to be made to the SECRETARY of the MARINE INSURANCE COMPANY. JOHN GRANBERY, President Office of the Marine Insurance Company of Norfolk, Dec. 14.
JOHN PENDREY'S Boot and Shoe Manufactory, NO. 70, MAIN-STREET. The public are respectfully informed, that he has furnished himself with a quantity of the choicest materials in his line of business, and has in his employ some of the best workmen in the borough, and having been long experienced in the business himself, his factory will not be conducted by proxy; he therefore hopes to merit the patronage of the gentlemen of Norfolk and its vicinity, and assures them that no pains shall be wanting on his part to give satisfaction to those who favour him with their commands. N.B. Orders for Double Backstays, single do. and Cosmacks, executed with the greatest dispatch. August 1.
FOR RENT. That large and commodious  Three Story Fire Proof House, on Wide Water-Street, at the head of Rothen's wharf, lately occupied by Messrs. Noble and Arbuthnott & Co. as a Shipchandlery Store. Apply to Lillias M'Pherson. May 12.
AVIS. Le Propriétaire de ces beaux Jardins à "Brigg's Point" est disposé de les vendre pour un Prix modique. L'Emplacement, l'Air & l'Eau les rendent désirable ou pour le Séjour d'un Amusement du Public. Juillet 31.
LANDING This day on Commerce-Street, from the Schooner Two Brothers, Capt. Nicholls, 9 pipes, 30 hogsheads particular Teneriffe WINE, 25 quarter casks superior quality Teneriffe WINE, For Sale by Moses Myers & Son. ALSO, 100,000 feet Northern BOARDS, on board the Ship Orestes July 6.
NEW RICE. Just received, and now landing from the Schooner Ploughboy, 15 Hogsheads NEW RICE, For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. July 26.
FOR RENT. A TWO STORY HOUSE, with a large and excellent Garden, pleasantly situated on Smith's Point. The House is now undergoing repairs, and will be ready for the reception of a family in a few days—Apply to William Plume, & Co. August 7.
TENERIFFE WINE. Landing from the Brig Androscoggin, Capt. Corran, Old London P. Teneriffe WINE, In hogsheads and quarter casks—For Sale by Noble & Arbuthnott, & Co. July 12.
Eagle Fire Company of New-York. Office of the Company, No. 50, Wall Street.  PROPOSALS For Insuring Houses, Buildings, Stores, Ships in Harbour, Goods, Wares, and Merchandise,  FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE. THE Legislature of the state of New-York, having incorporated the Eagle Fire Company of New-York, with a capital of five hundred thousand dollars, (with the liberty of increasing the same, if the business of the company should require it, to one million of dollars,) for the sole purpose of insuring buildings, and every kind of personal property from loss or damage by FIRE; and the capital of five hundred thousand dollars having all been paid, or secured to be paid, according to law: the directors feel a particular satisfaction in offering to their fellow-citizens, throughout the United States, the means of security against that kind of loss which so frequently, in an unsearchable moment, involves in destruction the earnings of a life of industry and frugality, and reduces the independent and affluent, together with their families, to poverty and distress. To provide an additional guard against calamities of this nature, has been the primary motive of this INSTITUTION: and the directors engage to conduct its concerns, with a fairness, candour and liberality, which will justly entitle it to the confidence and patronage of the public. * No insured person will be liable to make good the losses of others; but in case of fire, the sufferer will be fully indemnified—The Company also make good losses on property burnt by lightning.
Classes of Hazards, and Rates of Annual Premiums for Insurance against Fire.  HAZARDS OF THE FIRST CLASS. Brick or Stone buildings, covered with slate, tiles, or metal. Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings. 62 1-2 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.  HAZARDS OF THE SECOND CLASS. Brick or Stone buildings, covered with wood. Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings. 93 3-4 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.  HAZARDS OF THE THIRD CLASS. Buildings, the sides of which are part of brick or stone, and part of wood. Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings. 125 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.  HAZARDS OF THE FOURTH CLASS. Buildings, the sides of which are entirely of wood. Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings. 187 1-2 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk. Ships in Port, or their Cargoes, Ships Repairing or Building, may be insured against Fire. This manner of classing hazards will give a general idea of the rates of insurance, but there will necessarily be an increase of premium in all cases where the local situation, and other circumstances, increase the risk: such as joining, or being contiguous to wooden buildings, or buildings occupied in carrying on hazardous business—distance from water—no engines or firemen in the town or place, &c. &c.—The premiums may also, in some cases, be reduced on wooden buildings in the country, when standing single or detached, or attended with circumstances of peculiar security:—But in all cases, if the sum to be insured on or in the same building exceeds 10,000 dollars, an additional premium will be required. Boilers, Tallow Chandlers, Brewers, Maltsters, Bakers, Rope Makers, Sugar Refiners, Distillers, Chemists, Varnish Makers, Stable Keepers, Tavern Keepers, China Glass, or Earthenware Sellers, Oil and Colourmen, Turpentine Works, Paper Mills, Printing Houses, Cooperage, Carpenters, Cabinet Makers, Coach Makers, Boat Builders, Ship Chandlers, Apothecaries, Theatres, Mills and Machinery, and all Manufactories that use Fire Heat, are deemed extra hazardous, and must be particularly described in the policy; and for all such risks an additional premium will be required.
Conditions of Insurance. I. All applications for Insurance must be made at the office of the company, in writing; and the subject offered for Insurance accurately described. II. If the property offered for insurance is within the district of a survey of this company, he will examine and report thereon, but if not within any such district, then the applicant must himself furnish an accurate and just description thereof, viz. of what materials each building is constructed; whether occupied as private dwellings, or how otherwise; where situated; the name of the present occupier; how situated with respect to other buildings. And in the insurance of goods, wares and merchandise, the place where the same are deposited, is to be described; also, whether such goods are of the kind denominated hazardous, and whether any manufactory is carried on in the premises, all which is to be certified and attested in such manner as the nature of the case may admit. And if any person or persons shall insure his or their buildings or goods, and shall cause them to be described in the policy the value than they really are, so as the same be charged at a lower premium than is herein proposed; or if such description be false or fraudulent, such insurance will be void and of no effect. III. Goods held in trust, or on commission, are to be declared as such; otherwise the policy will not extend to cover such property. IV. Every Policy of Insurance, made by this Company, shall be sealed with its seal, and signed by the President and Secretary; and the person for whose interest the insurance is made, must be declared and named therein; nor can any Policy, or interest therein, be assigned but by consent of the Company, expressed by endorsement made thereon. V. No Insurance will be considered as made or binding, until the Premium is paid. VI. Persons insuring property with this Company, and who have already made other Insurance on the same property, shall give notice thereof in writing, at the Company's Office, before, or at the time of the execution of the Policy; and persons who, after insuring property with this Company, have Insurance made on the same property elsewhere, shall, with all reasonable diligence, notify the same in writing at the Office of the Company, and have the same endorsed on the policy, or otherwise acknowledged in writing; in default whereof, the Policy shall cease, and be of no effect: and in case of loss, each party insuring shall be liable to the payment of a ratable proportion of the loss or damage which may be sustained. VII. No loss or damage by fire will be paid, that may happen or take place in consequence of any invasion, civil commotion, riot, or military or usurped power whatever. VIII. Books of Accounts, Written Securities, Notes, Bills, Bonds, Deeds, Ready Money, or Bullion, cannot be insured. IX. Jewels, Plate, Medals, or other Curiosities, Paintings and Sculptures, are not included in any insurance, unless such articles are specified in the policy. X. All persons insured by this Company, sustaining any loss or damage by fire, are forthwith to give notice to the Company, and as soon after as possible, to deliver in as particular an account of their loss or damage, signed with their own hands, as the nature of the case will admit of, and make proof of the same by their oath or affirmation, and by their books of accounts, and other proper vouchers, as shall be reasonably required: and shall make oath, whether any and what other insurance is made on the same property; and shall procure a certificate, under the hand of a magistrate, notary public, or clergyman, most contiguous to the spot where the fire happened, and not concerned in such loss, that they are acquainted with the character and circumstances of the person or persons insured; and do know, or very likely believe, that he, she, or they, really, and by misfortune, and without fraud or evil practice, have sustained by such fire, loss and damage to the amount therein mentioned; and, until such affidavit and certificates are produced, the loss shall not be payable.—Also, if there appears any fraud, or false swearing, the claimant shall forfeit his claim to reimbursement or payment, by virtue of his policy.
XI. In case any difference shall arise, respecting any loss or damage, it may be submitted to the judgment of Arbiters, mutually chosen, whose award in writing shall be binding on the parties. And when any loss or damage shall happen, the insured shall pay for the same in thirty days after the loss shall have been ascertained and proved, without allowance of discount, fees, or any deduction whatever. XII. Insurance may be made for seven years, by paying the premium for six years, and for a less number of years than seven, a reasonable discount will be allowed.
The Subscriber being appointed Surveyor for the Eagle Fire Company, upon application, will survey, and value, such buildings, (or property contained therein) upon which Insurance may be required. Feb 18 Francis Foster, Church-Street, Norfolk.
Genuine Patent and Family Medicines, Celebrated for the cure of most diseases to which the human frame is liable. Prepared by T. W. DYOTT, M. D.  THE CELEBRATED  Stomachic Elixir of Health. (Price one dollar and Fifty Cents) Which has proved by thousands, who have experienced its beneficial effects, to be the most valuable medicine ever offered to the public, for speedy relieving and curing the cramp, pain, and wind in the stomach and bowels, carrying off flate fluous bile, removing habitual costiveness, pickles at the stomach, severe head ache, &c. For the dysentery or flux, cholera morbus, severe gripings, and other diseases of the bowels, and the summer bowel complaint in children, it has proved a certain remedy, and restored to perfect health from the greatest debility. Persons afflicted with pulmonary complaints, or disorders of the breath and lungs, even in the most advanced state, will find immediate relief. Common coughs and colds, which are generally occasioned by obfuscated preparation, will be found to yield to its benign influence in a few hours. In rheumatic or consumptive complaints, horseflesh, whale-flesh, shortness of breath, and the hooping cough, it will give immediate relief.
Patent Stomachic Wine Bitters. (Price One Dollar.) These celebrated and well known Bitters are composed purely of vegetables of the most innocent yet specific virtues, and are particularly recommended for re-fortifying weak constitutions, cleansing and strengthening the stomach, and increasing the appetite; they expel worms in all ages, but from their simplicity and safety, are a most natural and effectual vermifuge, when administered to children; they are gratefully warm, and pungently aromatic; they are extremely serviceable in all fevers, but particularly so on the approach of warm weather, when bilious habits experience such total loss of appetite; they are also a certain preventative against the complaints so common in the spring and fall seasons, such as intermittent fevers and agues, long autumnal fevers, dysenteries, &c.
DR. ROBERTSON'S  Vegetable Nervous Cordial, OR,  Nature's Grand Restorative, Is confidently recommended as the most efficacious medicine, for the speedy relief and cure of all nervous complaints, improprieties of the blood, seminal weakness, and various complaints, resulting from diffipated pleasures, residence in warm climates, the immoderate use of tea, the unskilful or excessive use of mercury, and diseases peculiar to females at a certain period of life.
DR. ROBERTSON'S  Celebrated Gout & Rheumatic Drops. A safe and effectual cure for the gout, rheumatism, lumbago, stone and gravel, swellings and weakness of the joints, sprains, bruises, and a kinds of green wounds; the cramp, pains in the head, face and body, stiffness of the neck, chilblains, frozen limbs, &c. Since the above invaluable medicines were first discovered by Dr. Robertson, upwards of Seven Hundred Thousand Persons have experienced their happy and salutary effects, many of whom from the greatest debility. These Medicines, which by being timely administered, will prevent the progress of many fatal diseases. The Proprietor wishes to afford every information relative to the efficacy of the above Medicines in a small compass by exhibiting a list of exemplary cures, attested by respectable characters, for the satisfaction and encouragement of the afflicted—for which purpose such cures have been selected at different times and been inserted, as might display the alternative power of physics. But as the number of cases are now become so numerous, I am obliged, instead of identifying the particulars, only to print an abstract of several testimonials, referring the reader to peruse the pamphlet, left at the Book-Store of Messrs. BONSAL, CONRAD, & Co. Norfolk June 5.
Phoenix Fire Office No. 13, MARKET-SQUARE, NORFOLK.  INSURANCE UPON SHIPS. NOTICE is hereby given that at the following premiums only, will henceforward be charged by this company for insurance from fire upon Ships, Vessels, and all Water Crafts, and also upon Cargo on board, in the seaports and rivers of Virginia and North-Carolina. One month 12 1/2 cents per $100 Two do. 20 do. Three do. 25 do. Four do. 30 do. Five do. 35 do. Six do. 40 do. Seven do. 45 do. Eight do. 50 do. Nine do. 55 do. Ten do. 60 do. Eleven do. 65 do. Twelve do. 70 do. The above premiums will be charged for any sum not exceeding 40,000 dollars in one risk; but a separate sum must in all cases be specified on the ship and another on the cargo. Richard Taylor, Agent.
FOR SALE, A neat well finished Fire-Proof  DWELLING-HOUSE, situated in Cumberland-Street, and at present occupied by Miss Ellegood. Also, one half of a very valuable Water Property, fronting Elizabeth-River 410 feet, thence towards the shore 900 feet; also, an unimproved Lot, well enclosed, adjoining Capt. John Store's Dwelling-House; and a House and Lot in York-Town, in a very eligible situation for a retail business, being adjacent the Ferry to Gloucester, one end fitted up for a shop. For terms apply to ROBERT GIBSON. Who finding for a long time past his own applications for the collection of his debts in vain, has appointed Mr. Thomas Davis, (who is well acquainted with his accounts) his attorney, with full power and instructions to close said debts as promptly as possible, that he may be enabled to satisfy his creditors. May 8.
Niemeyer and Von Kaff, Offer for Sale at their Warehouse, in Water-Street, for Cash or approved Paper only, the following  GERMAN LINENS, 630 pieces SACKING, 35 pieces SHIRTS & MEN, 200 do. OZNAEBURGS and 45 do. FINE SHIRTS & MEN, TICKLENBURGS, 70 do. TABLE CLOTHS, 450 do. WHITE ROLLS, 30 do. BEU TICKING, 80 do. HESSIAN do, 65 do. STOUT RAVENS, 50 do. FAC PLATILLAS, DUCK. ALSO,  11,000 BAGS of different sizes and qualities. 110 boxes Spanish SEGARS, 160 dozen half pint DECANTERS, 40 do. Crown GLASS, 120 dozen WINE GLASSES, 150 do. English PIPES, 100 pair WAFFLE IRONS, 5 gross empty BOTTLES, 350 pieces PAPER HANGING, 600 do. CORKS, 100 pieces OIL CLOTH, 100 wt. Bowling WIRE, 4 cases PORT WINE. 20 gross Cowskin WHIPS, 600 wt. GLUE, 100 wt. Ozanburg THREAD, 600 Straws half pint and gill And at their Store in Main-Street,  Looking Glasses, Glassware, Cutlery, and fancy Articles. We will take in barter, about 25,000 wt. of Green Coffee.
Boot and Shoe Manufactory.  SAMUEL COLEMAN, Opposite the Market, (westward) has received by captain Lewis, on Monday last from Philadelphia, a large quantity of the best  Boot Legs, Vamps, Tops, &c. that has (probably) ever been in Norfolk. With the Philadelphia Upper Leather for Boots—the choice of Sole and other Leather here—good workmanship—great attention—no disappointment—a regular bred foreman—and a tolerable supervisor—He has already furnished and will continue to furnish, better Boots and Shoes and better treatment to customers than has been rendered here by any person in this way; on these conditions only he expects custom. He has now from Baltimore, &c. three good HANDS for Ladies' Work, and a good flock of KID and MOROCCO; all the materials and workmanship shall be good, or an allowance made for that which is not; but the greatly increased price of all the materials, and the high price of labour in this way, will not admit of the Shoes being sold at the price of the run-work, generally offered for sale here. He is now getting almost all kinds of Boots & Shoes made. The advantage of getting Boots and Shoes made in the place of good materials and workmanship, where the responsibility of the manufacturer is bound, is too obvious not to be seen except by those who have eyes and will not see. He has on hand a large assortment of Boots, where gentlemen may be fitted at any time, with a certainty of getting such as are good, as he has no run work done, and a large assortment of Shoes of nearly all kinds. His terms are cash only.
A LEASE  For the eligible PROPERTY he now occupies is to be disposed of—it has about three and an half years to run.  Martin's Double Brand FLOUR, In barrels and half barrels, manufactured solely for family use. July 6.
FOR RENT. A Convenient Dwelling House on the Main-Street, near the Bridge, next door to Mrs. Archer. Also, That commodious House on Catharine-street, at present occupied by Mr. James Dyke, adjoining the subscriber: they have excellent gardens, and all convenient out-houses. Also, A very convenient Dwelling-House, just finished, on Commerce-street. For terms apply to James Tucker. August 15.
FOR SALE, A very valuable Tract of LAND, Containing eleven hundred acres, situated at the mouth of York River, in Gloucester County, remarkably pleasant and healthy, abounding with the finest fish, oysters, and wild fowl. The soil is well adapted to the culture of corn, small grain, tobacco and cotton; there is about 400 acres cleared and under good fences—the range for stock of all kinds is equal if not superior to any, having a large firm salt marsh attached to it. The timber is fully sufficient for the use of the plantation. The improvements are a good Overseer's House, an excellent Barn, Corn, and Negro Houses. Should have no objection to divide the Land, so as to suit purchasers, provided the whole could be sold—one third of the purchase money will be wanted in cash, the balance will be made easy; a great bargain may be had in the purchase, and the privilege of sowing 130 acres in small grain in the fall, which is now in corn; possession at Christmas next. Any person who may wish to purchase, it is presumed will view the premises, which will be shown by Mr. William Thornton, who resides on the plantation, or the Subscriber, William K. Perrin. Gloucester County, June 24, 1809.
Just Landed, 104 barrels Muscovado SUGAR. 10 boxes clayed do. 150 barrels Old Rye Whiskey, 150 do. Alexandria superfine Flour, 200 do. Middlings—For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. Who offers for RENT, A Dwelling-House with five Rooms, pleasantly situated in the fields. May 17.
FOR SALE, 100 hogsheads choice MOLASSES. JAMES FOUNG. July 11.
THE SUBSCRIBER Wishes to Sell, and will Sell or Rent on moderate terms, That very excellent Wharf and Lot, in the town of Gosport, at present occupied by William Smith; the Wharf, Warehouse, and Dwelling-House are all in good repair. Thirteen Lots in the Town of Suffolk; And the following Property in Norfolk, Two good Fire-Proof Warehouses on the Eastern side of Commerce-Street, Nos. 4 and 6. Two Dwelling-Houses and Lots on Boush-street, in good repair, and very pleasantly situated. Apply to John Granbery. September 14.
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, Opposite the Exchange Coffee-House. Price Six Dollars Yearly, in advance.