Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1808-09-07 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE And PUBLICK LEDGER  EST 1808
[VOL. V.]
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 7, 1808.
NO. 23.]
FOR SALE On board the British ship Halliday, capt. Marshall, just arrived from Liverpool,  355 tons stoved SALT, 145 do. common do. 100 crates well assorted Earthenware, and 12 dozen Mats—by C. & F. WHITTLE. September 5.
The Rt. Hon. Charles James Fox's Historical Work.  Bonsai, Conrad, & Co. and Birch & Small, Announce that they have just received from London, and will speedily publish, THE HISTORY of the early part of the Reign of JAMES THE SECOND, By the Right Hon. CHARLES JAMES FOX. To which is prefixed, a copious Address to the reader, by Lord Holland, under whose care it was published: and an Appendix, containing the Correspondence between Louis the 14th and Mr. Barillon on English affairs. Correspondence between the Earl of Sunderland and the Bishop of Oxford, respecting Mr. Locke. The Bill for the preservation of the King's person. Account of Rumbold, from Lord Fountainhall's M. S. memoirs. It will be comprised in one handsome octavo volume—price 2 dolls. 50 cents in boards. The copy from which they print cost 30s. sterling, in London. September 5.
FOR SALE 12,000 bushels fine Liverpool SALT, By Moses Myers. Who has now landing, and will continue to have a constant Supply of Superfine FLOUR, of new wheat for family use, from the Mayo Mill. September 2.
NOW LANDING On our Wharf, and for Sale on a liberal credit, from on board the British Schooner Commerce, Capt. Collins, from Jamaica, A Cargo of high proof RUM. C. & F. Whittle. September 2.
WILLIAMSBURG, August 22, 1808. To all whom it may concern, be it known, that the mercantile house of GREENHOW & COLE is this day dissolved. The Subscriber will dispose of His well assorted Stock in Trade, on terms specified in the Enquirer, of Richmond, under this date; and if not Sold before the first day of October next by wholesale, they will be retailed (nothing preventing) at very reduced prices for CASH ONLY. 16t RO. GREENHOW.
At a Court held for Norfolk County, the 19th day of July, 1808. Alexander Love, Plaintiff, Against Alexander Falconer, and John Hamilton, Defendants. The Defendant Falconer, 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 this Court that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the Plaintiff by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of November Court next, and answer the bill of the Plaintiff, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some Newspaper of the Borough of Norfolk for two months successively, and posted at the front-door of the Court-House of this County. A Copy, Teste, Wm. Wilson, Jun. C. N. C.
FOR RENT, That convenient Dwelling-House, on Brewer Street, the property of Mr. John Davidson, at present occupied by Mr. Stephen Harris. Also,
That commodious House on Catharine-street, at present occupied by Mr. James Dykes, 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. Who has in Store,
A few thousand bushels Liverpool stoved SALT, loose and in sacks, that will be delivered in small or large quantities to suit the purchasers. August 15.
Fifty Dollars Reward. RAN AWAY from the Subscriber on the 25th December last, a Mulatto Man named TONEY, a Blacksmith by trade; he is about 24 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high—had on when he went away a dark cloth suit coat and pantaloons—his right foot has been broken, which causes him to limp, and is much larger than the other—He travelled in the stage from Edenton to Suffolk, the 28th December last. I have understood he went by the name of Benjamin James while in Suffolk—I expect he will endeavour to pass as a free man. The above reward will be given to any person who will secure him in any jail so that I get him again, and all reasonable charges paid if delivered to me in Plymouth, North-Carolina. JOHN WALKER. August 26.
Ten Dollars Reward. Deserted from Gosport Navy Yard, July 28, 1808, BENJAMIN PHILLIPS, a Private in the Marine Service, 24 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, dark hair, light eyes, and fair complexion. Edward Hall, Lieut. M. C. August 17.
NOTICE. All persons indebted to the estate of WILLIAM DAVIS, deceased, are requested to come forward and make payment; those to whom said estate is indebted are desired to bring in their claims authenticated. William Dickson, Executor. Portsmouth, July 22.
IMPORTANT SUMMARY OF SPANISH NEWS. From the Liverpool Courier, July 6. Since our last the affairs of Spain have assumed a more interesting and decided appearance. A variety of documents, containing proclamations and addresses which have been issued by each of the parties now struggling for empire have been received and published; and we may venture to affirm, that if the impression produced by those issued by the patriots has been as deeply felt in Spain as even in this country, an enthusiasm must have been excited in the bosoms of all true Spaniards, which may bid defiance to the power and policy of the myrmidons of the usurper.
The first series contains the state papers published in the Moniteur , as the documents accompanying the accession of Joseph Buonaparte to the throne of Spain. The first of them is a congratulatory "address of the supreme Junta of the government to his majesty the emperor and king." The second is a "letter from the cardinal archbishop of Toledo to his majesty the emperor and king" wherein the supple prelate begs that "his imperial and royal majesty will look upon him as one of his most dutiful and loyal subjects, and instruct him concerning his high purposes." The third is the proclamation of the supreme junta to the Spanish people, in which the character of the old government is portrayed in the most hideous colours; and a long pompous description is given of the "lofty destiny" to which Spain will be raised by the new sovereign, and by the intimate connexion which will consequently take place between the two kingdoms. A great part of this and the following "address of the deputies to the extraordinary junta" is taken up with exhorting the rebellious Spaniards to submit to the new order of things, pointing out to them the folly and hopelessness of resistance, and threatening the obstinate with all the horrors of military vengeance. This is the first notice that has been taken of the resistance which has been made in Spain to the French troops; and it is easy to discover thro' the attempts that are made to shew its insufficiency a considerable degree of irritation and alarm.
These papers fully prove, if proof were wanting, the statement already made, that Spain has been betrayed by a party of Spaniards, in the pay of, and wholly devoted to France. The fawning sycophancy and the creeping submission, however, of the men who compose the junta, have gone something beyond our suspicions. But of what are they not capable? When the sacred fire of patriotism becomes extinct in the human bosom, when men of influence in a nation once touch the bribe of foreign gold, when private prejudices operate independent of the public welfare, or when the independence and honour of a country are no longer regarded as sacred deposits in the hands of a citizen to be preserved by the most painful sacrifices, and given up only in death itself; the dastard shrinks appalled from the standard of his country, and crouches at the footstool of the first tyrant that holds the rod over his head. All that supports the dignity of man is forever lost, every step he takes out of the line of duty is dyed in deeper infamy, and the wretch becomes capable of any enterprize however dark, and of any employment however degrading. These observations often verified, were never more strikingly so than in the Spaniards, (if they may be still allowed to wear the name) who have aided in the late revolution, and endeavoured to justify their conduct in these proclamations. They have accepted a king of the Buonaparte growth, with all due respect and with the warmest gratitude; and they affect to boast that Napoleon has guaranteed the inviolability of the Spanish dominions; but the hypocrites, in the warmth of their adulation, have shown that they were prepared to have entered into any of the purposes of the great emperor, even to the dismemberment of the Spanish empire and its incorporation with France. They appear somewhat dissatisfied that Napoleon has left Spain so much as the shadow of remaining a separate state from France.—"O that there were no Pyrenees," say the patriotick members of this supreme Junta; "This was the constant wish of good Spaniards." Thus having broken down the moral restraints of fidelity to their country, and respect for the laws, they become impatient with the natural barriers in which nature had drawn a proud line of separation between Spain and the enemy of the human race. "O that there were no Pyrenees! that we might fraternize more closely with the disturbers of the world, that our country may become an easier conquest, that the armies of the usurper may support our perfidy, secure us from the vengeance of our abused countrymen, and aid us in the plunder of our nobles, our merchants, and our sanctuaries." Their wish was granted, the Pyrenees sunk before their treachery; and what advantages Spain possessed
in the natural strength of her encircling mountains, were rendered nugatory by the moral imbecility of the sanction which first deceived, and then prostrated her ancient government at the feet of the unprincipled Corsican. But if they were no Pyrenees for traitors, if their perfidy opened the passes of the country, there are Pyrenees for the Patriots, whose arms are nerved to avenge the cause of the slaughtered citizens of Madrid. Mountains have been in all ages and countries both the cradle and the asylum of liberty and independence. Spain abounds with them, they will be their rallying places; there they may collect their forces till like the storms which gather on their summits, they thunder down their vengeance upon the tyrants of the plains, and expiate the guilt of their invaders and betrayers in their own blood; "O that there were no Pyrenees" may prove an ominous presentment, as well as an apostrophe of disgraceful adulation.
We turn from these addresses, which are equally intended to blind and divide the people, and to incense a tyrant, with a mixture of disgust and exultation. We hope the time is not far distant when the satellites of despotism who penned them will meet with their just reward, at the hands of their injured country; or be doomed to remain the despicable retainers of a despicable king without a kingdom, the puppet of his brother usurper who dare not set his foot upon the territory which has been ceded to him with so much ceremony at Bayonne. A brighter page of the history of Spain is now opening. One glowing spirit of patriotism has diffused itself over the greatest part of that extensive country, and the voice of indignation bursts from every quarter. Galicia, strong in its natural passes, has established a Provincial Council, and opened its ports of Corunna and Ferrol to the British:—Austria, which is still stronger, and has been called the cradle of Spanish Independence, not only stands foremost in the glorious cause, but has already declared that it is at peace with England, Leon which affords an easy access to both Castiles: Murcia, with the venerable Count Florida Blanca, formerly minister of foreign affairs, aged 76, at its head: Valencia whose armed force is commanded by Don Cebillon, an able officer: Biscay which has received the patriotic troops:—Aragon, &c. have all joined the confederacy, and are taking the most active measures against the common enemy. The other provinces, being more immediately under the French military, have not yet declared themselves. Thus the French are almost completely encircled; Barcelona is the only port in their possession, whilst the patriot provinces have St. Sebastian and Cijon, Ferrol, Corunna, and Vigo, Cadiz, and Carthagena. The supplies of the French must in consequence become very precarious; and if the communication be intercepted according to the intention of the patriot chiefs, between France and Madrid, their subjugation is indubitable. In calculating, however, the probable issue of this contest, we are not to forget, that resistance on the part of the Spaniards was begun late; that French troops were introduced into the heart of the country before that resistance was even projected; that they were suddenly left without a government, and are yet without a general head; that they have to oppose the best disciplined armies, led by the most experienced officers; and that they have to contend with artifice as well as the force of the enemy, whose sinuous policy is as formidable as his arms. It is a circumstance also not very favorable to Spain, that in her southern provinces there are not less than 100,000 Frenchmen, employed as servants, knife grinders, wandering minstrels, and in the petty mechanical arts; most of whom have acted as spies, and all may be rendered serviceable in various ways to the French armies.
Almost every thing depends upon the union of the Provinces in one common design, and upon the interruption of the communication with France. Should there be a division in the patriotic councils, or should the French be able to pour a great military force into the country, all is lost. On the other hand there are many circumstances which are highly in favor of the patriotic cause. There are but three passages through the Pyrenees into Spain, and 10,000 troops aided by the mountaineers, are able to defend them, and in perfect security themselves to destroy whole armies. A foreign army in Spain must often march two or three days without meeting with a drop of water, which must be carried with them in leathern bags on mules, which the inhabitants only can supply. Spain has few fortified places to shelter an army continually harassed; one general defeat would ruin a foreign army; but should the inhabitants sustain ten defeats the country would not be conquered: they would rally in the mountains and the northern provinces, and maintain even in small bodies an unceasing and destructive war. Neither the Romans
nor the Moors ever wholly conquered Spain. Nor does the Spanish military force weaken these expectations. The war establishment of the regular force is, by the late regulations, 117,000 men; and tho' Bonaparte has artfully taken 60,000 of these out of the country, we may at least reckon on 40,000 effective men yet remaining. Of these, 30,000 are said to have joined the patriots. The militia amounts, in time of war, to 32,000 and few military states of Europe can boast of a body better regulated or more capable of maintaining that reputation for valor which the Spanish nation has acquired. All these are undoubtedly attached to their country; this is also the case with the people of all the provinces; however they differ in character and habits (and differ they do,) in this they are all one. There is, in all an hereditary hatred to the French; the strongest sense of national independence; and a courage and perseverance which is not often equalled, and never exceeded. Nor does the valor of the Spanish troops give place in the smallest degree to the French.
The conquest of the lines on the Pyrenees, achieved by 5000 men, under the command of Don Antonio Ricardos; the taking of Bellegrade by the same general; the defence of that fortress afterwards by the Marquis Tailefantaro; and the defence of Rosas by general Izquierdo; and storming of Castel Pignone, in Navarre, by the general in chief Don Ventura Caro; the defence of that frontier by the same general, who had but 8000 men under his orders to cover thirty two leagues of country, attacked by the enemy of superior force; these are recent instances in support of the assertion; and when the details of the fights at Madrid and Sierra Morena shall reach us, we shall be able to add splendid feats of successful heroism, more recent still. The French, however, will be found superior in discipline, not to the Spanish regular army, but to the troops the patriots will bring to oppose them, which will be chiefly composed of inhabitants of all ranks, whose love of the country has led to her standard before they have become fully acquainted with military forms. But their numbers which are now estimated at 350,000, will supply this deficiency, if they be conducted with caution and ability. Able officers we know they have. There is Palafox, Cebillon, the marquis of Santa Cruz, and others, under whom the Spaniards will fight with enthusiasm. The marquis of Santa Cruz is about 34 years of age, of great repute for personal courage and military science, and of so little inclination to become a subject of Buonaparte, that he has been heard repeated to declare that "he would willingly travel a hundred miles on foot, for an opportunity of shaking Buonaparte by the hand properly!"
Such are the probabilities on both sides, and we think them much stronger in favour of Spain than of France; that is, if the accounts we have received be substantially true, and we have no reason to doubt it. The strength of a nation is the spirit of the people; and the Spanish people have not engaged in this contest on which, perhaps, hang the destinies of Europe, certainly those of Spain, with the coolness of men who have no interest in the cause, and are hired to fight battles not their own. The councils and individuals which could write such addresses, must feel, and that feeling of insulted honour, of abused rights of personal and national injuries, is in every sense of the word, Spanish feelings. All ranks, stung with the treachery and cruelty of their merciless foe, have drawn the sword, and they must now throw away the scabbard. There is no retreating; they have passed the Rubicon, and desperation must be added to valour. The pulse of Europe beats high with expectation. The patriots of Spain fight in an amphitheatre, where the half of the inhabitants of the globe are spectators. If Spain triumph, the signal of general insurrection is given. The oppressed states of Europe which have been subdued, pillaged, and enslaved, will rise upon the tyrant, and hurl him to his fate; but if Spain fall within the grasp of the usurper, we stand appalled at her destiny.
Portugal was invaded and ransacked, for no other crime than holding a commercial intercourse with England. Tuscany has been by a late decree added to France because she was suspected of partiality to England; and the Pope has been stripped of his dominions because he was tardy in declaring war against the English hereticks. If so severe a punishment has followed these peccadillos, what an abyss has the despot prepared for the bold and daring patriots of Spain! Men who have exposed his crimes, who have denounced his perfidy and ambition, who have ridiculed him, who have attacked his troops, who have seized his fleet in the ports of Cadiz. They have taken for their word "Vengeance for the Spanish blood spilt at Madrid," and they must likewise inscribe on their banners "Death or Victory."

THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 7, 1808.
Our mail papers furnish us nothing in the shape of news, unless we call the extravagant report by the way of Trinidad such. The account carries refutation upon the face of it. It is said to have been received by a vessel eleven days later than the vessel dispatched by Lord Collingwood—agreed—and that brings us down to the first of July from Cadiz. We have long been in possession of advices from Gibraltar to the tenth of July. The invasion of France by the patriots of Spain—recovery of the royal family—defeat and flight of Buonaparte, border too much on the marvelous to deserve serious attention.
The Spanish patriots will have to sustain many severe defeats before they can expect to drive the invaders of their rights and liberties from their country.
Every thing we hear and read, confirms us in the belief that the embargo will not be raised, until (to use the expression attributed to Mr. Gallatin) the people by their voice proclaimed to their rulers, shall raise it. By petition is one way, and may be successful, but the most sure and certain means of attaining the object, will be by elections. In almost every part of the union, we perceive exertions are making to secure a change of measures by a change of men. The election first in order, and first in interest, is that of Representatives to Congress for the State of New-Hampshire; it took place on the 29th of last month, and being by general ticket, the representation will be all federal or all democratick. It is not in our power to hazard an opinion as to the result, having nothing to form an opinion upon, except the newspapers, which on both sides offer their wishes instead of their opinions. We anticipate that the contest will be very sharp, for neither side appear confident of success.
The Richmond Enquirer, after some general remarks on General Wilkinson, concludes that having lost the confidence of a majority of the nation, that the General ought to be removed from his command....To this sentiment, which if yielded to, would bring our representative government to a pure democracy, we cannot give our assent, whatever may be the object. Socrates was put to death, and Aristides was exiled, by the majority of the people. In a government like ours, let no man be condemned upon popular clamour only. We offer no opinion as to General Wilkinson, the principles of our constitution, are alone on this occasion intended to be defended....If it was our opinion, that General Wilkinson was innocent of all that has been imputed to him, we should never recommend a punishment the greatest that a military man could receive.
Last year the article of Salt was purchased by wholesale for 60 cents per bushel, it now sells for eighty cents. At the same time it yielded a revenue of 20 cents per bushel, it now yields nothing. There is a British ship in this port with a cargo of Salt of about 22,500 bushels; now if there is any truth in arithmetick, what with the advance in the price, and the loss of the revenue, the government of this country give to the British merchant in this small transaction only ten thousand dollars! And this is one of the ways, by which we are to ruin British commerce.
DIED—At the Great-Bridge on Monday night, Miss M. SCOTT.
The following is a circumstantial statement of the poll in Newbern district for a member of congress.
Table with 2 columns: Name, Votes. Rows include Craven, Crateret, Lenoir, Jones, Greene, Wayne, Johnston with their respective vote counts.
* At the Nauthanty election in Wayne county, where Blackledge received 300 votes, and Stanly only 20, there were 32 votes counted out more than voters. A fellow of the name of Joseph Martin, insisted on putting his ticket in the box; he was suspected and not indulged; his ticket was examined and found to contain 10 small tickets not more than one sixth of an inch wide, upon each of which was written "Blackledge." His senate ticket contained 5 for Rhodes. A number of this kind were taken from the congress box, and accounts for the supernumerary 32. Deduct these from Mr. Blackledge's poll, and the federal majority is 217.
Mr. Rose's Negotiation once more.—Having been absent from the city a few days, Mr. Smith's reply to our article on the subject of the above-mentioned negotiation was not seen by us until yesterday. Mr. Smith opens his observations by quoting the following paragraph from our paper.
"MINISTERIAL MISREPRESENTATION." "We copy the following paragraph from the last National Intelligencer, for the purpose of once more contradicting the assertion that our government agreed with Mr. Rose to separate the affair of the Chesapeake from all others in discussion. As often as the leading democratic prints repeat this falsehood, so often will we expose and refute it."
To which Mr. S. subjoins: "The wretched quibbler who is the author of the remarks which follow the extract from the Intelligencer, has quoted a passage from Mr. Madison's luminous letter of the 5th of March, and by giving it a tortuous construction, has endeavored to prove that a separation of the subjects was not agreed to."
"Appealing to plain sense, and unwilling to occupy our columns with a labored essay to "prove by force of argument a man's no horse," we quote Mr. Rose's answer to Mr. Madison's letter of the 5th of March—an authority which it is presumed the editor of the U. States Gazette will not contest."
"It will be in your recollection, sir, that in our first interview, I stated the condition which makes the subject of the present letter, before I was informed by you, that the President of the U. S. would consent to the separation of the two subjects."
"Perhaps the sagacious commentator may be able to prove that the words "before I was informed by you" signify "I never was informed by you." Now we like this. Whilst the executive hirings deal in general expressions, it is often difficult to surround them; but whenever they are stupid enough to descend to particulars, we are sure to have them. The executive prints stated, on the rupture of the negotiation, that the president had consented to separate the affair of the Chesapeake from the other subjects of the negotiation. The plain language of the correspondence directly contradicted this statement. They were told of it and exposed.—Their defence now turns out to rest on the above paragraph in Mr. Rose's last letter. This is making a use of that expression of the minister, which we never could imagine it capable of. We did not at the time, nor can we now discern any thing in it, but a severe reproof on the President, or his secretary, for a breach of promise, in refusing to comply with what they promised. This, however, is merely a remark en passant, for we have nothing to do with what they said; it is with what they did, we concern ourselves on the present occasion. We appeal to the record—"He (the President) has authorized me, in the event of your disclosing the terms of reparation which you believe will be satisfactory, and on its appearing that they are so, to consider this evidence of the justice of his Britannic Majesty as a pledge for an effectual interposition with respect to all the abuses," against a recurrence of which the proclamation was meant to provide, and to proceed in concert with you to a revocation of that act," &c. To which portion of the letter Mr. Rose replies, plainly evincing his own understanding thereof, "I do not feel myself competent in the present instance to depart from those instructions which I stated in my letter of the 25th January last, and which preclude me from acceding to the condition thus proposed. I should add, that I am absolutely prohibited from entering upon matters unconnected with the specific object I am authorized to discuss, much less can I then give any pledge concerning them."
We do not even solicit the candour nor fear the prejudice of any one who will take the trouble of perusing this article, perfectly satisfied that with all such the subject must now be put to rest for ever. We shall feel much obliged to any democratick editors who will furnish us with an apology for reviving the discussion of this subject; as the oftener it is canvassed the more effectually it will be impressed upon the minds of the American people, that our government refused to accept the proffered reparation for the attack upon the Chesapeake, except upon condition that the British government should comply with certain important demands made by our executive, which were no way connected with that affair. U. S. Gaz.
* By turning to the proclamation, the reader will refresh his memory with a knowledge of the abuses alluded to.
MR. JEFFERSON'S MANDARIN, Proves to be nothing but a PEDLAR, outside of the gates of Canton—the following card having been put up in the bar-room of Mr. Peck's Hotel in this city, by the Mandarin himself:
TUNQUA WINCHONG, Has constantly on hand—at Wholesale and Retail, Teas, Silks, Nankeens, Fans, &c. CHINA-STREET, CANTON. It would be curious to know, what American Mandarin has been credulous enough to promote Tunqua's speculation, or interested enough to advance his own? North Am.
OF THE VERMONT INSURRECTION, SO CALLED.
From the beginning of the disturbances on the lake, it was so well understood that the friends of Mr. Jefferson were the chief opposers of the land embargo, we saw no need of making distinctions in the refractory; for while we disapprove embargo-measures, we equally disapprove opposition to the laws.—But not so the democrats—they are more severe on their own party than we ever attempted to be, and we could not at first see the policy of pelting their old friends so cruelly.—But as in the Burr affair, their object is now again discovered: yet they were extremely unlucky in selecting the Black-Snake affair for the development. Soon as this happened the Federalists were (particularly in some parts of Vermont) declared to be the authors of the murder and the plotters of the insurrection.—Such was their business, while they knew, as well as we, the truth of what we here state from personal knowledge, having lately been on the ground.
Every person concerned in opposing Farrington, and in the consequent murder, were democrats.—Mott, the leader, has for some time been one of Mr. Jefferson's officers in the custom house, which he left but about three weeks before the last affair. And who rallied to secure these murderers, and paid attention to the funeral of the unfortunate sufferers? The citizens of Burlington and its vicinity, a great majority of whom are federal. Who has been the most active custom-house officer? Mr. Woolsey, a federalist, who we are told is about to be removed. And will the administration drugglers tell us what democratic monied institution furnished cash to purchase much of the produce that is run? Will they tell us how the soldiers can consume all the pork and put-one of the administration commissaries has constantly purchased? Will they tell who owns much of the produce that is occasionally stopped, and more that is winked at and passes? Will they tell all that is felt, seen, and publicly proclaimed in Vermont? Or do the administration and their prints take such pains to increase the insurrection, to facilitate the running of produce, to appoint speculators to watch runners; all to brand the federalists with, at last, through the adroitness of their party at misrepresentation? If so; let them drive on—it will most certainly be to their own destruction. (Troy Gazette.)
PLYMOUTH PATRIOTICK PROCEEDINGS.
At the request of nearly 200 citizens, a legal town-meeting was held in Plymouth, on Thursday last, when a vote to petition the President to remove, either partially, or wholly, the existing embargo, passed unanimously, and a committee consisting of J. Thomas, W. Davis, A. Bartlett, Z. Bartlett, Esqrs.; Messrs. J. Bishop, T. Jackson, Jan, and B. Hedge, were appointed to draft a petition, which was unanimously adopted—as follows:
To the President of the United States. The inhabitants of the town of Plymouth in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, in legal town-meeting assembled, respectfully represent:—
That inheriting the principles of their ancestors, who combined the generous love of freedom, with a due submission to the laws and institutions of legitimate government, they have acquiesced without remonstrance, in all the measures of your administration, whatever opinion they may have entertained of their character, and however distressing may have been their operation.
But the long protracted laws laying an embargo on the extensive navigation of the United States, and the unprecedented restrictive provisions contained in them, is so novel an experiment in the history of commerce, and is fraught with so numerous a train of political and moral evils, that they would betray not merely a destitution of patriotism, but a want of proper regard to the constituted authorities of their country, did they not remonstrate against the further continuance of this anti-commercial system, and express their idea of its ruinous tendencies, in manly and decent language.
The inhabitants of this town, deriving their subsistence altogether from commerce, and especially that laborious branch of it, the cod-fishery, prosecuted in Massachusetts from its earliest settlement with an enterprize and hardy industry, luminously displayed in your excellency's report on the subject of the fisheries, from the entire inhibition of their exportation, are involved in unexpected and unexampled embarrassments. With large quantities of fish perishing in their stores; without any stimulating inducement to industrious exertion; and having no resources but those resulting from commercial employments, the prospect before them is melancholy in the extreme.
That "they can provide for themselves the comforts and conveniences of life without recurrence to distant countries," is abundantly refuted by the well tried experience of their ancestors, who guided by the hand of Heaven to these shores, came as mere cultivators of the soil; but were compelled by imperious circumstances in spite of their usages and habits, to abandon their agricultural pursuits, and resort to the treasures of the ocean, and the exportation of those treasures to distant countries, for the means of support.
While the dangers of traversing the Atlantic are diminished, and some of the accustomed avenues of trade are opened, as well by the conclusive struggles of the Spanish nation, for the rights of self-government, against the most wanton usurpation the world has ever witnessed as by the relaxation of the orders of the British council, in favor of that oppressed people—they candidly confess, that their own sympathies are deeply excited, by these magnanimous struggles, and it will in their opinion, tarnish the splendor of our own glorious revolution, should the U. States refuse to reciprocate those beneficial aids received in the progress of it, from that gallant nation.
Prohibitory laws that subject the citizens to grievous privations and sufferings, the policy of which is at least questionable and the temptations to the violations of which, from the nature of man, are almost irresistible, will gradually undermine the morals of society, and introduce a laxity of principle, and contempt for the laws, more to be deplored than even the useless waste of property.
From these and other weighty considerations, your memorialists pray the President, wholly or partially to suspend the embargo laws, if his powers are competent to that object, and if not to convene congress at an early period, that an immediate repeal of them may be obtained.
TOWN MEETING.
At a legal meeting of the inhabitants of the town of Portland, held at the court house in said town on Monday, the 15th day of August, A. D. 1808, to take into consideration the peculiar and distressing situation the community is placed in, by reason of the interdiction of all foreign commerce, and to advise on the expediency of stating the same to the executive of the general government, and to petition for a repeal of the embargo laws, and to adopt such other measures as may tend to promote the general welfare—SAMUEL FREEMAN, esq. was chosen moderator.
Voted, That the subject be committed at large to a committee of five, to consider and report thereon. The following gentlemen were then appointed for that purpose:—Woodbury Storer, Prentiss Mellen, Matthew Cob, Daniel Tucker, and George Cradbury, esqrs.
Then adjourned until next day, 10 o'clock.
Tuesday, August 16, 1808. The town assembled, according to adjournment, and the committee made report, which was read, and after debate accepted, as follows:—
The committee, to whom was referred the first article in the warrant for this meeting, having considered the subject, beg leave to report, that it is in their opinion highly expedient to present a respectful petition to the president of the United States, praying him to suspend the embargo laws, so far as he has power; and if any doubt should arise to his authority, that he would convene congress for the purpose of repealing them. But your committee cannot refrain from stating some of the losses and embarrassments to which the inhabitants of this town are subjected, in consequence of the embargo and some of the reasons on which their opinion is founded. In that wise policy which raised a revenue for the support of government, from duties imposed on vessels and on foreign merchandise, the merchants, of the United States saw a sure pledge for the protection of their commercial interest, and under the influence of this assurance, the enterprising spirit of the inhabitants of Portland, fostered by the commercial advantages of their local situation, early induced them to vest their property in ships and to embark their fortunes on the ocean. The uninterrupted enjoyment of these rights and privileges for a series of years cherished a belief that they were permanently established and secured—but their hopes have been blasted and their enter-
prizes defeated by a sudden and unlimited embargo. On enquiry, your committee find that the whole amount of shipping owned in this district, as appears by a report of the secretary of the treasury of the United States is forty thousand and one tons, of this, about three thousand tons are now on foreign voyages that commenced before the embargo, and about two thousand tons are employed in the coasting trade, leaving thirty-five thousand tons now embargoed—
This 35,000 tons of shipping valued at 35 dollars per ton, the average price before the embargo, is 1,225,000 dollars. The interest on this sum at 6 per cent is, 73,500
The warfage of 35,000 tons at 20 cents for every 100 tons, will amount in one year to 25,550
The quantity of shipping fish on hand when the embargo took place, owned by inhabitants of Portland, is about 35,000 quintals, which at 3 dollars per quintal, the current price at that time amounts to 105,000
Under the operation of the embargo, part of this last mentioned property has been wasted, and great expense has been incurred to save the remainder from spoiling. A large proportion of those fish were bought at the price above stated; and if what is now on hand were sold at the highest price that any have brought since the embargo, they would not fetch more than one dollar and an half per quintal, and the loss would exceed 52,500
The number of labourers formerly employed on the wharves, and in loading the vessels which are embargoed, was at least one hundred, who are now nearly destitute of employment, and the loss to them, at one dollar per day, allowing 300 working days in a year, is 30,000
The number of mechanics of different classes, who were regularly employed about those vessels, and now out of employment, was at least one hundred and fifty, the loss to them at one dollar and fifty cents per day, is 67,500
Masters of vessels thrown out of employment by the embargo, say fifty, at sixty dollars per month, their loss is 36,000
The same number of mates of vessels in the same situation, at thirty dollars per month, their loss is 18,000
Making in the whole, a clear loss of 303,050
But if we calculate the charter of these vessels at two dollars per ton per month, and allow them to be employed ten months in a year, the charter would amount to 700,000
Your committee further report, that the amount of duties paid at the Custom-house, in Portland, since the embargo took place, amounts (according to their best information) to about one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; to pay which, great sacrifices of property, at publick and private sale have been made, and have added greatly to the mercantile distress.
To these losses may be added the incalculable evils which arise from the restrictions and embarrassments of our coasting trade the destruction of our fisheries, the loss of our seamen, the general stagnation of business, the loss of credit, the universal depreciation of property, and innumerable other losses, privations and embarrassments, which are daily oppressing every class of the community—in the continuance of the embargo we foresee also the destruction of the revenues of the country, which can only be supplied by superadding to our present distress the accumulated evils of a direct taxation.
But your committee confidently hope and proudly believe, that the inhabitants of Portland would sustain all these losses, privations and embarrassments with patience, firmness and cheerfulness, so long as the honour of their country or the preservation of their liberties and independence demand the sacrifice—and however dark and mysterious may have been the circumstances under which these restrictions were imposed, we will not impeach the motives of government—but if the measure was adopted as an experiment, the event must long since have convinced its most zealous advocates, that instead of conciliating or coercing the nations of Europe, it has proved fatally destructive to our own interest.
Impressed with these sentiments, and impelled by a belief that the political and commercial changes in Europe authorize the president of the United States to suspend or remove the restriction on our commerce, in whole or in part, your committee have prepared a petition which is herewith respectfully submitted to the consideration of the town.
WOODBURY STORER, Per order.
Portland, August 16, 1808. [Here follows the petition published in the Ledger the 31st ult.]
The Spirit of '74 revived....The following towns have already voted petitions to the President of the U. States, to remove or suspend, in whole, or in part, the Embargo Laws, viz:
Table with 3 columns: Towns, Popu. in 1800, Manner. Rows include Boston, Newburyport, Beverly, Portland, Wiscasset, Bath, Wenham, Berkeley, Hallowell, Shrewsbury, Gloucester, Newbury, Scituate, Cohasset, Cambridge, Amesbury, Topsfield, Plymouth, New-Bedford with their respective population and voting details.
Opposed to this great population, are about 30 Selectmen in five or six towns. [Bost. Cent.]
[The town of New-Haven was unanimous in its petition.]
From the N. Y. Evening Post. Mr. Madison's paper, the Washington Monitor, is labouring hard to bring us into a war with Buonaparte. In the last number he asks, "But Collingwood—by whose authority did he act? Had

"not the British a hand in causing Mr. Young to be seized by the Seville Junta?—This is really a serious business. It is a violation of the usages and laws of all civilized nations, infracting the rules and privileges of safe conduct guaranteed for the dispatches of every public minister in a similar case." The attempt, in Mr. Colvin, to excite public indignation against the British on this occasion, is equally atrocious and ungenerous. To prevent their colonies from falling into the hands of Buonaparte's agents, the patriots of Spain passed a general order to detain all persons who were charged with dispatches. Mr. Young falling into their hands, they found upon him the very papers which they so much dreaded, under cover to the American Secretary of State! Knowing the sensibility of the Spaniards on the subject of their colonies, and the fervour of public sentiment in every nation when in a state of revolution, we are surprised at their moderation, when the proofs of our consul's guilt were found in his possession. Instead of giving him up to the fury of the populace, they liberated him, with orders to proceed to whatever port he pleased, but at all events immediately to leave the kingdom. Not daring to trust himself any longer among the justly infuriated Spaniards, he hastens to Gibraltar as an asylum, and thence voluntarily takes his passage in a British vessel for England, in order to make himself secure from Spanish cruizers.
At the time Mr. Colvin penned the paragraph endeavouring to excite suspicions against England as having instigated the Spaniards to seize Young, he must have known that he had no grounds whatever to attempt to fix that act on the British. If Young had suspected that they were at the bottom of it, would he have gone to Gibraltar?—Would he have taken passage in a British vessel in preference to that of any other nation, and have sailed for England instead of coming home? No, all these circumstances, on the contrary, prove that Young though he could be safe from the fury of the Spaniards only by throwing himself into the arms and putting himself under the flag of England, who was the new and adored ally of the patriots.
Mr. Colvin, who seizes with avidity every circumstance which can be tortured to forward the views of his employers, would make the seizure of Young by the Spaniards in the very interior of Spain "as a just cause of war" against Britain.—Does this gentleman, who is so feelingly alive to national honor, recollect the arrestation and imprisonment of our consul, Mr. Kuhn, at Genoa, about 18 months ago, by order of Buonaparte's officers? That gentleman is now in this country, and his papers are still in Paris. He can attest to the fact. There is this difference between the cases of Young and Kuhn, that the former was found guilty and the latter innocent. Did we ever hear that Mr. Jefferson complained of the imprisonment of his Genoa Consul by Buonaparte? No, it has been hushed up, and because done by him who the Paris papers boast "directs the interests of America" we shall never hear a word about it. Let the administration papers cease then to raise a clamor against England for an act done by the oppressed patriots of Spain. Do not let them imagine that they will thus be able to screen our executive from the suspicion of being concerned with Young. This can only be done by Mr. Jefferson's coming out boldly before the world, disavowing the act and disgracing his agents, either by bringing them to trial, or taking away their executors. Unless this is done, the world will be impressed with the opinion that Young did not lend himself to this shameful business and quit his functions at Madrid without authority. As, from its present aspect, this is very tender ground, we would advise the administration journals to tread lightly on it. Perhaps, aware of this, they are solicitous to ward off the blow in time, and by raising a hue and cry against England, take all the odium and execration from their own shoulders by throwing it on that nation.
FROM THE CHARLESTON COURIER.
The effects which the Embargo has had on Foreign Powers.—Of any produced, which the sapient majority in congress contemplated, the people of these states are at this day ignorant. We are told by these legislators, whose foresight, it appears has not exceeded their humanity, that this measure would shortly bring the belligerent powers to our own terms, by starving their West-India possessions; yet, although it has been in operation eight months, neither of these events have taken place. France and England, are determined not to give way; neither are their colonial possessions in a state of starvation.—So far from this being the case, we are informed, that in many instances the French islands have been supplied with provisions, at an advanced price, by their enemies, the British.—Another effect has also been produced by this inhibition, which its authors never calculated on; it has rendered Great-Britain more independent of this country than ever she was, and has induced her to turn her attention to other quarters for those supplies, which she formerly received from us. The democratic party, indeed, exultingly tell the people that the riots which have lately taken place at Manchester, in England, have been occasioned by the operation of the embargo act; but, to every one who is capable of reflection, these assertions only serve to show to what miserable expedients they resort in its defence. A little consideration will convince every one, who has not renounced the use and authority of reason, that a more barefaced attempt to impose on the credulity of any people, never was made. It is well known that Manchester is the centre of the cotton trade in England, and that almost all the goods, there manufactured, are composed of that article. The only possible way in which the manufacturers could be affected by the embargo, we find they have guarded against; for the latest accounts represent the stock of cotton on hand as abundant, and state that their supplies of this staple from the Brazils and other quarters had increased, in proportion as those from this country had decreased.—The real cause of these riots, which the pretended friends of order and good government among us rejoice so much at, will be found in the tyrannical decrees of the Corsican, which, by shutting the ports of continental Europe against British goods of any kind, have rendered the manufacturers unable to allow the labourers that increase of wages, which it seems they have demanded. In addition to this, we have been semi-officially informed, on the return of the Osage from France and England, that the embargo has produced no kind of effect; and that both these powers
determined not to recede from their respective positions. So far from relaxing, we find that Napoleon is issuing new decrees, and committing further depredations on what little American commerce is still afloat. The effects which the embargo is likely to produce, remain to be considered. The late events in Spain and the emigration of the Portuguese government to the Brazils, have opened to the commerce of the world countries yielding every article which the United States produce, and afford every reason to apprehend that, if this act is not speedily repealed, the nations which hitherto have been the consumers of our produce will no longer remain our customers, and that it will give a death blow to that intercourse with foreign powers and mutual exchange of commodities, which have advanced the United States in power and opulence, and to a height of prosperity unexampled in history. There is already too much cause to fear that the channels of trade, which hitherto poured an incessant flood of riches into the heart of our country, have been diverted from their course, never to return; that the tide of wealth, which washed our shores, has ebbed to flow no more, and that the bright prospects of "A land enriched with the sweetest dews of Heav'n," have been forever blasted, in order to give a visionary philosopher an opportunity of trying the effects of a policy which he has been for years planning, and which, unhappily for our country, has at length been afforded him. There is another view in which the embargo law may be placed, in which nothing but accumulated evil is to be seen. The consequence which this inhibition may be productive of, if not shortly taken off, will, in all probability, be felt, especially by the southern section of the union, when those who were its authors have mingled with their kindred dust, and are only remembered to be held in execration. There is too much reason to believe that the destruction which it has brought on the commerce of the country has, perhaps, forever alienated the affections of the inhabitants of the northern and eastern states towards the government, and paved the way for an event which will put a period to the existence of a nation, to which none ever had fairer prospects. These gloomy apprehensions ought not, however, to create despair, but rather ought to rouse the people from the lethargy in which they have too long indulged, and stimulate them to the most noble exertions. There is yet "a cordial balm in Gilead," and a hope in the intelligence and patriotism of our fellow citizens; if, then, at the ensuing elections throughout the union, they but exercise with judgment the greatest privilege that freemen can enjoy, they will be able to remove, not only the evils we suffer, but those more dreadful, which may be anticipated from a continuance of the embargo. BRUTUS.
[A late London paper after some remarks on Spain, presents the following view of the rest of Europe, under French domination. Holland, forced to abandon her constitution, which had grown out of the manners and habits of her people, has been created a kingdom, and is in a state of the utmost distress. Naples has been compelled to accept a king of the Buonaparte stock, and is kept down by the sword of the soldiery and the axe of the executioner. The Pope, who crowned the destroyer-general of Europe, has been deprived of his power, and the aged members of his sacred college driven from their homes with the utmost scorn and contempt. Tuscany, first erected into a kingdom, then deprived of its sovereign, and finally melted down into the territories of France. Switzerland deprived of her liberties, which she had exercised without offence to any power in Europe, and converted into a dependence upon France, until it shall please the destroyer-general to give her some other form of government. Venice and Genoa, shorn of their honours and independence, their Dogs and their councils, united to France, and all their commercial prosperity and importance gone. Germany without manufactures, without trade, withering under the most oppressive exactions, and treated like a captured town. Prussia, the most useful friend that France ever had, almost blotted from the map of Europe, and reduced to the utmost misery. Austria curtailed of her power and waiting with trembling anxiety to see what new demands France may make, and what portion of her territories she may be permitted to keep. Portugal vexed by the most cruel exactions, a prey to misery and famine. Such is the condition of the continent, which has had the blessing of French alliance or interference—and such are the proofs which Buonaparte has afforded of his pacific spirit, of that wise and benevolent policy which labours for the welfare and happiness of the world!—whilst England! who has not had the benefit of his counsels; whom he has not been permitted to interfere with; who has exposed the cant of his professions; scorned his menaces and defied his power, stands in the midst of her own ocean, unmoved and immovable—She is the ark of Noah, which has survived the moral deluge that has overwhelmed all the rest of Europe.
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THE PUBLICK LEDGER. WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPT. 7. 1808. Our paper was ready for press, when Capt. Ferguson's packet arrived from Baltimore in 26 hours. We were favored with a Monday evening's paper, from which we extract the following:
From the Philadelphia Gazette. THE ST. MICHAEL'S LETTERS ALSO SEIZED. Extract of a letter from a respectable house in France, to a friend in Rotterdam, dated June 13, and sent here to a house interested in the contents. "A vessel has arrived at L'Orient, from Baltimore, with dispatches for gen. Armstrong. She left Baltimore the 5th of May. All the private letters were seized and sent to Paris.—Congress adjourned the 25th April—the embargo was rigorously continued. Apprehension prevailed of a war with France. We hope we may soon receive our letters by her; some of the letters by the Osage are not delivered yet. The sale of the brig Sally's cargo began today; we expect others will follow. Things grow worse every day. The Court of Prizes at Paris condemned a short time ago the following vessels, as per letter from the Consul General of 10th of June, viz. the ships George, Rising Sun, Aurora, America, Hope and Thomas Jefferson—this looks friendly!"
From the Boston Centinel of August 31. NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION, FEDERAL!! On Monday last, an election of five representatives to the XIth congress by a general ticket, was held in the state of New Hampshire. The following names composed the two tickets— FEDERAL. Nathaniel A. Haven, William Hale, John C. Chamberlaine, James Wilson, Daniel Blaisdell. DEMOCRATIC. Clement Storer, Daniel M. Durell, Jedediah K. Smith, Francis Gardner, Charles Cutts. We have heard the result in the following towns; and have taken the votes in the congressional election of 1804, as comparative. 1808. 1804. Fed. Rep. Fed. Rep. In 42 towns 4356 3205 3456 2823
AUSPICIOUS PROSPECT. We are assured by gentlemen of intelligence, who arrived in town last evening from New Hampshire, that the federal ticket for national representatives, had succeeded by a handsome majority.— LAUS DEO! Ibid. The election of members of the XIth congress took place yesterday in Rhode Island. Great exertions, we learn, would be made on both sides. The federal candidates are Elisha R. Potter, and Richard Jackson. The democratic, Jonathan Russel and Isaac Wilbour. We confidently expect agreeable tidings to-morrow of the result of the election in Rhode Island.
From the New York Evening Post of Friday. RHODE ISLAND ELECTION, FEDERAL!! MORE REFRESHING NEWS. By the packet Alonzo, Westport, that left Newport, (R. I.) on Wednesday morning, we learn from actual returns, received just before she left there, that it was ascertained that the two federal members for congress had carried their election by a handsome majority, and that it was beyond all doubt that there would be a large federal majority in the next legislature of that state.
We have likewise seen a letter from a gentleman in Providence, dated last Wednesday morning, saying that returns had come in from all but three or four towns, which gave a majority for the federal ticket of 350. The towns to be heard from were decidedly federal, which would swell the majority to between six and seven hundred. New-York, Sept. 2. By the ship Truro, arrived in the Delaware from Londonderry, we have received the evening Correspondent of the 14th July, containing London dates to the 12th. We have extracted the following interesting news from this paper. Gazette.
DUBLIN, July 14. SAILING OF THE EXPEDITION. The interesting circumstances to which the hopes, the pride, and the affections of the United Kingdom are so closely united, took place on Tuesday last at Cove. The wind being round at east, the signal for weighing was made, and in a few minutes his majesty's ships the Donegal, 84, capt. Malcolm, and the Resistance, and Crocodile frigates, forming the convoy, were under sail. The Resistance was the van ship, and was followed by the transports, after which the Donegal, with Sir Arthur Wellesley and his staff on board, stood out to sea. In passing Carlsle fort a mutual salute of 15 guns was fired, between the battery and the ship, which was re-echoed by shouts of an immense assemblage of persons on shore, who crowded on the adjacent heights. The entire fleet stood out to sea under a propitious breeze, and went soon out of sight, accompanied by the prayers and the blessings of an admiring multitude. Should the intelligence prove well founded, that Buonaparte's sister, Madame Murat, has fallen into the hands of the patriots, it cannot be looked upon as a trifling circumstance. He who is so earnest in the exaltation of his family to Royal Power, cannot be indifferent to an event which throws into the hands of the most ardent and exasperated enemies, a personage of so much importance as his own sister, and the wife of one of his most favoured and useful generals.
MOST GLORIOUS NEWS!! Correspondent Office, 9 o'clock. The arrival of the London papers of Monday, and several Spanish Journals, as also communications from Gibraltar, have induced us at this late hour to stop the press to give a summary of their Glorious contents, for our country subscribers. The journals are filled with victory after victory on behalf of the noble Spaniards, which are too voluminous for us at present, to detail here, may, however, be generally summed up in the following brief outlines. The surrender of the French squadron to the Spaniards.
The defeat of the French division under the orders of Dupont, near Cordova by gen. Echavania. Another column, commanded by Leleque, routed by gen. Palacios.—No quarters given. The division of Morey, has suffered loss in the neighborhood of Cuenca. In Madrid, 7 or 8,000 only remain, who have retired within entrenched camps, apprehensive of an attack, which was daily expected from the combined forces of Arragon, Valencia and Andalusia. All the provinces of Spain are under arms, and propose to assemble the General Cortes, or Grand Council of the Nation. To the above we have to add, that letters which reached us from Gibraltar, state, that all the French in the neighborhood of Barcelona, have been killed or taken prisoners by the patriots under gen. Espeleta.
Admiralty Office, July 11. The dispatches from Sir Charles Cotton down to the 14th of June, confirm the reports of the general spirit of detestation of the French government in Portugal, in many parts of which it has been formally abolished, and that of the Prince Regent re-established. By a letter from captain Creyke of the Eclipse, dated Oporto, 20th June, it appears, that owing to the treachery of Don Oliveira, governor of Oporto, (now confined as a traitor), the French were enabled to re-establish their authority, which they maintained until the 16th June, the day of Corpus Christi, when an attempt was made for to carry the French flag in the procession. This incensed the populace to such a degree that, under the countenance of the priests, they rose en masse, broke open the depots, supplied themselves with 25,000 stand of arms, and together with the regulars, formed a most determined and enthusiastic army.—From this moment all French authority ceased, and every man either French, or suspected of being inclined to the French interest, was arrested.
The bishop of Oporto is elected governor.—An army of 20,000 men was sent to meet the French, who, with a corps of 9000 men had marched within six leagues of Oporto. The provinces Trasor Montes, Minto and the northern parts of Beira, have risen in arms, to the amount of one hundred thousand men, inclusive of the force in Oporto. Gen. Spencer arrived off Lisbon in the Scout brig, on the 24th June, and after communicating with Sir C. Cotton, returned to join the forces off Cape St. Vincent. A dispatch has also been received from admiral lord Gambier, enclosing a letter from captain Digby, of the Cossack, dated off St. Andero, 25th June, by which it appears that on the 23d, the French entered the place, previous to which the boats of the Cossack and Comet, spiked all the guns on fort Salvador de Ano, and fort Sedra, and completely destroyed the magazines with 500 barrels of powder, and a quantity of other stores.—The boats had just returned round the point de Ano, when a considerable body of French dragoons appeared on the hill."
A French prize sent into Plymouth brings accounts that the traitors of the aristocracy who had joined Napoleon's court at Bayonne, were fighting for the French against the Spanish populace in the province of Biscay, which reaches from Bayonne to St. Andero—a small tract, and which seems to be the only Spanish territory now occupied by the French. The French have taken possession of St. Andero with 3000 men, but before they arrived the boats of his majesty's ships Cossack and Comet had landed, spiked all the guns, and blown up the magazine. In that quarter it is reported that Buonaparte is marching to Madrid with an army of 100,000 men. We do not believe it—he will be careful how he ventures to advance into the heart of a country where every human being is a patriot, and every patriot ready to sacrifice himself for his country.
Papers and letters have been received from Holland. The former contain a proclamation of Louis Buonaparte, stating, that king Joseph was received in Spain with the most ardent demonstrations of joy, and that perfect peace and tranquillity prevailed throughout that whole kingdom, particularly at Madrid and Cadiz. The Dutch papers contain nothing else of importance.
We are sorry to observe, that some symptoms of a riotous disposition and resistance to the laws, have appeared in the parishes of Donnycloney and Tullylish, in the county of Monaghan, where the sale of some lands (Bleary) was recently attempted to be stopped, accompanied by acts of outrage and violence.
A meeting of the magistrates & gentlemen of that county was, in consequence, convened on the 4th inst. at Monaghan, when a public expression of their reprobation was made known, in resolutions to resist such unlawful attempts, and to bring the perpetrators to condign punishment.
Our working silk manufacturers appear to be recovering from their late despondency, as they shortly expect a large supply of raw silk from the ports of Spain, and tho' it may not be of so fine a quality as that of Piedmont, Lucca, Calabria, &c. yet it may be made to answer several purposes in the silk trade, and to afford employment to numbers of the people who are literally famishing, and their families in a perishable state.
Muscovado and clayed sugars are in such quantities, at present, in the stores of our merchants, that they are still looking down, as we have no foreign markets as yet to send them to. Coffee falls under a like predicament.
Russian iron is now exhausted, but there is a tolerable stock of Swedish iron on hand, which is of a superior quality to the former; but Swedish is rather inferior even to that of Russia. We however, still expect large supplies of that of Sweden.
The French fleet remains quiet at Toulon. It now amounts to 12 sail of the line; two Russian line of battle ships having gone into that port.
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At a Court held for Northampton County, the 14th day of July, 1808.
Thomas D. Simkins and William Simkins, an infant by Thomas D. Simkins, his guardian, Complainants. Against Coventon Simkins, John Simkins, John Brickhouse, Junior, and George Lewis, Defendants. The complainants having filed their bill more than three months, and the court being satisfied that Coventon Simkins one of the defendants, is out of this commonwealth, it is ordered, that the said Coventon Simkins do enter his appearance to this suit on the first day of November next, and give security for performing the decree that may be made in this case, or the Court will on that day proceed in the suit in like manner as if an appearance had been entered; and it is further ordered, that a copy of this order be posted at the front door of the Court-House of this County, and published in the Publick Ledger for two months successively. Thomas L. Savage, Clerk.
NORFOLK BOROUGH. At a Hustings Court continued and held the 24th day of May, 1808.
Thomas Jones, Compt. Against Thomas Wright, administrator with the will annexed of Thomas Newton, deceased, Defendant. The defendant not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of the court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth; on motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant do appear here on the fourth Monday in July next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-House of the said Borough. William Sharp, C. C.
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Chancery District Court held in the City of Williamsburg, the 26th day of April 1808.
Robert, John, and Frances Howard, infants under the age of twenty-one years, by Henry Howard their father and next friend, Plaintiffs. Against Mary Sclater, widow and devisee for life of John Sclater, deceased, Richard and William S. Sclater, sons and devisees of the said John Sclater, deceased, Edmund Tabb, Frances Tabb an infant under the age of twenty-one years, Frances Powell, Elizabeth Smith, and Miles Cary, executor of John Sclater, deceased, and as executor of the said John, who was executor of Richard Sclater, deceased, Defendants. On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, Sarah Tabb is assigned guardian to the infant defendant Frances Tabb, to defend her in this suit, and the defendant Edmund Tabb 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 Court that he is not an inhabitant of this country; It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Newspapers published in the Borough of Norfolk, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. Anthony Robinson, C. C.
ADVERTISEMENT.
To a Gentleman who has not been seen or heard of by his friends in his native country since March, 1806. This gentleman may with perfect safety, both as to publick and private concerns, impart his situation and place of residence to THE EDITOR OF THIS PAPER, who can give him any information about his family. This advertisement is made by those most interested in him, and the reference may be confided in.—The gentleman to whom it is addressed, will know it by these circumstances. He left his native country in March 1806.—He was the only surviving son of his father, whose name was Thomas, born 1740, and married M. E. His brother John who was elder than him, had died before him. His two sisters were C. & A. of whom the former was dead before 1806. He was born in the parish of B., where the estate of his ancestors is. Educated at I. in the county of R. and taken care of by his aunt Cecilia. July 15. tf
NOTICE.
The partnership of Wilson, Cunningham & Co. having been dissolved by mutual consent—all those indebted, as well as those who have claims against them, are requested to settle the same with Alexander Wilson or J. B. Cunningham, who are fully authorised to liquidate the business of said concern. William Pennock, Alexander Wilson, James B. Cunningham. Norfolk, July 13, 1808. The business heretofore carried on by the above firm will be continued by the Subscribers, under the firm of Wilson & Cunningham. Alexander Wilson, James B. Cunningham.
DR. ROBERTSON'S Celebrated Stomachick Elixir of Health.
Which has proved by experience, to be the most valuable medicine ever offered to the publick for curing the Gout, Cramp, and wind in the Stomach: also a certain cure for the Dysentery, or Bloody Flux, Cholera Morbus, severe Gripings, and all other diseases of the bowels, a dose never fails to remove a cold if taken soon after its first appearance. It is also celebrated for carrying off superfluous bile, removing habitual costiveness, pickles at the Stomach, severe head aches, &c. &c.
The following certificates are selected from the many respectable ones lately received by the proprietor, and are now in his possession.
Certificate of Mr. William Julion, carpenter and builder, No. 69, South Fifth-Street, Philadelphia.
SIR—My wishes to promote the interest of superior merit, and to afford consolation to the afflicted, induces me to request you will lay my case before the publick, as an incontestible proof of the astonishing efficacy of Dr. Robertson's invaluable Stomachick Elixir of Health.
I do hereby certify, that I was seized most violently with the dysentery, or bloody flux, which reduced me so much that I was confined to my bed, and became so weak that I could not move without assistance. My situation at that time became seriously alarming, as no relief could be obtained, I was given over, and even death would have been desirable to me, had not a friend of mine, who by chance called to see me, who had just recovered from a similar complaint, though not so severe as mine. He informed me that he was cured by taking Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, and advised me to send to you for a bottle. I immediately did so, and by following your instructions given with the bottle, before I had taken half a bottle, I found myself much relieved, and my disorder greatly abated, and by continuing to take it, in one week I was able to walk out, and in less than a fortnight was able to attend to my business.
I therefore recommend every family to be provided with this invaluable medicine, particularly those who live at a distance in the country, where assistance cannot be immediately obtained. As I am convinced that Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, is the most effectual remedy in the world. I have since recommended it to several of my friends in similar complaints, who have always been relieved immediately after taking it. Should any person with to be more fully convinced of my case, I will with pleasure explain it to them by applying to me.
I am with a due sense of the benefit I have received thro' the efficacy of your medicine, Sir, your humble servant, WM JULION.
MR. DYOTT, Philadelphia, July 15th, 1807.
Certificate of Mr. George Stokes, South Water-Street, Philadelphia.
SIR—For the benefit of the afflicted, I think proper to inform you that Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, has been to me, one of the most effectual service. I had been a long time afflicted with a pain in my Stomach, and continual head aches, attended with a sickness at the Stomach, which brought on a vomiting and lax, which continued on me until I became in a very weak state, without being able to get any relief, until I tried one bottle of Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, which entirely cured my disorder, except a weak state and want of appetite, for which I have since taken Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Wine Bitters, which quite restored my strength and appetite, and I now enjoy better health than I experienced for many months before—As I consider your medicine to have been the means of saving my life, I solicit you to publish my case for the benefit of others, who by abiding by the directions given with your invaluable medicines, will embrace the same means by which I have happily effected my recovery.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE STOKES.
MR. DYOTT, Philadelphia, August 1, 1807.
ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATES. Of Mr. John T. Solomon, Sixth near Race-Street, Philadelphia.
SIR—For the good of the publick and benefit of the afflicted, I think proper to inform you, that having laboured for upwards of six months, under a very bad cough, attended with a difficulty of breathing, pain in my breast and side, and a sickness at my Stomach, having lost all appetite, I became so very much reduced in my strength as to be unable to walk. I was considered in a consumption, and given up for a lost man. In this hopeless situation I had recourse to Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, and to my great astonishment, before I had taken one bottle, found myself very much relieved. I expected a great quantity of phlegm, which has eased me of one of the most violent coughs, that ever man had; I have taken it regularly ever since, and now find myself completely recovered, and shall certainly, for the benefit received, recommend it as far as I can, believing it to be a most effectual medicine in the above complaint.
I am, Sir, with great respect, Your obliged humble servant, JOHN T. SOLOMON.
MR. T. W. DYOTT, August 22.
Certificate of Mr. John Lee, Philadelphia.
DEAR SIR—By the administration of Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, and that the publick may be acquainted with the good effect I have received from it, I wish you to publish the following:
About a fortnight ago I was seized with the influenza, or a violent cold attended with a pain in my limbs, and a violent cough, which settled on my lungs, and having been for some time before in a weakly state, I expected a consumption until soon have followed, had I not been advised to try Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, which has effectually removed my complaint, and I now feel better health than I have for some time before. It is impossible to say too much in favour of this invaluable medicine, as I am clearly convinced it is the most effectual remedy ever offered to the publick, in the above complaint.
I am, Sir, your obliged servant, JOHN LEE.
MR. DYOTT, November 11.
The above Medicine is sold wholesale and retail by the proprietor, T. W. DYOTT, No. 11, North Second-Street, Philadelphia; and by appointment at BONSAL & CONRAD'S Book Store, Norfolk; and at SOMERVILLE & CONRAD'S, Petersburg. May 23. lawly
WILLIAM PENNOCK
Has removed his Counting-Room to No. 4, on his own wharf. July 29. tf
NORFOLK BOROUGH. At a Hustings Court continued and held the 25th day of May, 1808.
Cornelius Cruywaygan, Compt. Against Maritziz Boztellis and Moses Myers, Defendants.
The defendant Maritziz Boztellis 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 now ordered that the said defendant Maritziz Boztellis, do appear here on the fourth Monday in July 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 defendant Moses Myers who hath effects of the said Maritziz Boztellis in his hands, do not pay, convey away, or secrete such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court.
A Copy, Teste, WILLIAM SHARP, C. C.
Two thousand Spanish HIDES,
For Sale by William Plume, & Co. June 6. tf
Dr. Tissot's celebrated Gout and Rheumatism Drops.
The Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, and the various disorders of the same nature, are so exquisitely painful, and so difficult to be cured, that they have justly excited the utmost stretch of medical investigation. Some professional gentlemen have excelled in one department of the sciences; others in another. Dr. Tissot particularly has long been renowned for the superiority of his prescriptions in chronic diseases, and the length of time which elapsed during his sole attention to the nature and effects and cure of these affections, render the medicines which he recommended of invaluable importance. The beneficial effects of these drops, have been so often experienced, and their extraordinary efficacy has been attested by witnesses so numerous and so unimpeachably credible, that incredulity itself cannot doubt the virtues of Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops. Large quantities have already been vendred, and the sale is now become so general, and their certainty in curing the disorders of a chronic nature is so completely ascertained, that certificates of their unbounded utility are now unnecessary. Testimonies of their value, and a volume of attested cases performed by them, may be seen upon application at T. W. Dyott's genuine Drug and Patent Medicine Warehouse, No. 57, South Second-Street, Philadelphia.
The price of Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops, is only two dollars per bottle, with copious directions.
Generous allowances made to those who buy to sell again. Of the many respectable testimonies of the effects of the above Drops, which have been received by the proprietor, we beg leave to annex the following:
Certificate of General Ridgely of Hampton.
I certify that having received a blow on my knee, which induced severe pain and swelling, I was advised to apply to Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops, and on bathing the part with them only a few times, agreeably to the directions, they effected a perfect cure. Another time my wrist was affected with rheumatism to such a degree, as to render my hand for the time useless, when on application of the same remedy in like manner, the disorder in the course of twenty-four hours was entirely removed.
I therefore, from the experience I have had of the efficacy of said medicine, consider it a beneficial act to recommend it in similar cases to others.
(Signed) C. RIDGELY, of Hampton.
Certificate of John Gibson, Esq. one of the Directors of the Farmers' Bank of Maryland.
I certify that about a year since, my foot received an injury by a fall; in a few hours after it was affected with a most excruciating pain, so that I was unable to walk, with crutches. I was apprehensive that this accident would induce a severe fit of the gout, with which I had been frequently attacked. In this situation one of my friends highly recommended and earnestly advised me to apply Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops; I immediately procured them and made the application; in less than three hours the pain entirely abated, which had been so severe, as to deprive me of sleep for several nights. By a few further applications, a perfect cure succeeded. I have frequently since in other cases, both used them myself, and recommended them to others with invariable success.
(Signed) JOHN GIBSON.
Certificate of Mrs. Mary Taylor.
I, Mary Taylor, No. 135, Plum-Street, Philadelphia, aged upwards of seventy years, having been afflicted with very violent rheumatism pains for more than eight years, being recommended to apply Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops, on only using half a bottle every rheumatism affection was completely removed, and I have continued free from all pain ever since; as witness my hand.
MARY TAYLOR.
The above drops are sold wholesale and retail only by BONSAL, CONRAD, & Co. Norfolk.
ALSO, DR. ROBERTSON'S Patent Stomachick Wine Bitters.
Celebrated and well known for their superior qualities in reforming weak constitutions, destroying Worms, cleansing and strengthening, giving a proper tone to the Stomach, and increasing the appetite—a frequent use of them is a certain preventative against those complaints so common in the spring and fall. Such as intermitting fevers, agues, autumnal fevers, dysenteries, &c. &c. They are particularly serviceable to those who make long sea-voyages, and are exposed to unhealthy climates, as a powerful preservative against contagious disorders.
PRO BONO PUBLICO. Patent Water-Proof Brunswick Blacking,
prepared with oil, which softens, preserves, and beautifies the leather. Words cannot set forth its just praise, nor can it transcend qualities be truly known, but by experience; it is especially calculated for, and particularly recommended to sportsmen and gentlemen who are much exposed to the wet—Also for cleaning Harness, as it will effectually prevent the water from penetrating, preserve the leather from cracking, and render it supple and pleasant to the very last, giving it also a beautiful jet black gloss, a proof of which may be seen at the warehouse.
The above Blacking is prepared and sold only by T. W. DYOTT, at his Medical Warehouse, No. 11, North Second-Street, Philadelphia; sold also by his appointment, at BONSAL, CONRAD, & Co's Book-Store, Norfolk; and at SOMERVILLE & CONRAD'S, Petersburg.
Where also may be had, The IMPERIAL WASH,
And new invented LIQUID, For taking out stains, and preserving the quality and colour of saddles, and tops of boots. May 20. lawly
NOTICE.
All persons are forewarned from crediting my wife CATHARINE IYES, on my account, as I am determined to pay no debts of her contracting from this date. The utmost rigour of the law will be enforced against any one who is detected in harbouring her.
Robert Ives. August 24. 7*
NOTICE
Is hereby given to all persons having claims against the estate of THOMAS BARK, deceased, that they must be brought forward for settlement previous to the 1st of December next, properly attested; all those indebted to said estate will make immediate payment, or suits will be brought indiscriminately—the above notice will be plead in bar against delinquent creditors, by Peter Foster, Executor. August 24. tf
Ten Dollars Reward
For Negro ALECK, purchased of Mr. Hubbard of this place, of a very dark complexion, has lost his upper fore teeth; had on when he went away a coarse check shirt and cassimere pantaloons, long coat and white hat; he was seen near Tappahosier's Ferry, York, where I suspect he is still lurking, or at Williamsburg where he has a wife. George Veale. August 22. tf
JOHN PENDRED'S Boot and Shoe Manufactory,
No. 70, MAIN-STREET.
The publick 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 Backstraps, single do. and Cossacks, executed with the greatest dispatch. August 1. tf
NOTICE.
The partnership of Ellis & Sprigg, of Hampton, is this day by mutual consent dissolved—all persons indebted to the said firm are requested most earnestly to come forward and pay their respective balances to Mr. C. Sprigg; and all those who have claims against said firm, to produce them to said C. Sprigg for settlement.
Samuel Ellis, Per his Attorney in fact, Robert Gibson, Corbin Sprigg. Hampton, February 17. tf
Norfolk Drawbridge.
The Directors have declared a dividend of Fifty Six Cents on the Stock of this Company, for the half year ending the 10th inst. which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal representatives after the 10th August next.
William Cammack, Treasurer. July 13. tf
LANDING
This Day from the schooner Adventure and brig Eliz., 55 hlids. sup. qual. Muscovado Sugar 34 do. and 40 quarter casks particular Teneriffe WINE—For Sale by Moses Myers. July 6. tf
NOTICE.
We have for SALE on our Wharf, 200 hogheads MOLASSES,
53 do. superior quality Muscovado Sugars, 37 do. inferior do. 238 bags Guadalupe Coffee; 10 puncheons Rum, 60,000 wt. Jamaica Coffee, in bhd. barrels and bags, 10,000 do. Laguira do. 30 kegs Raisins, 20 cases superior quality Claret, 6000 bushels Ivia, 8500 do St. Ubes, 2500 do. Turks-Island, and 5000 do. coarse Liverpool Salt, 10 pipes old Madeira Wine; 4 do. Country Gin, 50 barrels Rye Whiskey; 20 hlids. Philadelphia Porter, 1 new 14 inch Cable 120 fathoms. C. & F. Whittle. July 13. tf
NOTICE.
The Copartnership of RICHARD BOWDEN, & Co. having expired, Richard Drummond is authorised to receive and pay the debts of said concern. Moses Myers, Richard Bowden, Richard Drummond. February 2. tf
NOTICE.
The Subscribers have removed to the Ware-House, No. 6, on Newton's wharf, formerly occupied by Messrs. John D. Haldane, & Co. JENNINGS & RODDEY. January 8. tf
NOTICE.
For SALE at my Brew-House, Strong, Table, and Ship BEER, by the hoghead, barrel, and half barrel—and a constant supply of bottled PORTER in packages and by the dozen. And in Store, Wines, Liquors, and Groceries, wholesale and retail. Joseph Hayes. Feb. 18. tf
NOTICE.
Mackinder & White, Have just received from on board the schooner Liberty, Capt Lewis, from Philadelphia, 150 boxes fresh Imperial and Hyson TEAS, of superior quality. ALSO, A fresh supply of Hollands GIN, Ticklenburgs, superfine Cloths, Gentlemen's Silk Hats, Parasols, &c.—Which they offer for Sale on the lowest terms, for cash or approved notes. N. B. A few barrels of prime Smithfield MESS FORK. April 15. tf
NOTICE.
For RENT, The Store, Compting-Room & Cellar, at present occupied by Mess. Wood & Hastings, no. 90, Main-street. Apply to Thomas Willock. August 24. tf
NOTICE.
Leather, Cordage, and Loaf Sugar. The subscriber will hereafter expose for Sale at his Ware-house on Campbell's wharf the above Articles, of the manufacture of Norfolk, at reduced prices for Cash, or on short credits only. Theo. Armistead. He will sell or lease for a term of years, the STORES at the end of Marsden's and Rothery's wharves. Feb. 20. tf
NOTICE.
Fresh Imperial TEA. Just received 17 boxes fresh Imperial TEA, of the present year's importation—Also on Hand, 25 tons assorted BAR IRON,
80 barrels and a few hogheads Muscovado Sugar, 40 barrels and bags Green Coffee; 25 hlids. old Antigua Rum, 20 hlids. Molasses; 8 pipes French Brandy, 10 crates assorted Queen's Ware, A few quarter casks of Sherry and Teneriffe Wine, Whiskey in barrels; Loaf Sugar, New-York prime Pork and Beef; 30 casks Cheese, A few barrels Mackerel; Soap; Candles; Demijohns, &c. For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. February 26. tf
NOTICE.
Phoenix Fire-Office. The Subscriber, Agent to the PHOENIX ASSURANCE COMPANY, of London, for the State of Virginia, begs leave to inform the publick, that he is now fully empowered to subscribe Policies of Insurance for property against Fire throughout the United States of America, in conformity to the Proposals herewith subjoined.
N. B. FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS can be insured in one risk on Buildings and their contents, and also on Ships and their Cargoes on board, in the First Class, but in all cases where Ten Thousand Dollars are exceeded, a special agreement must be made with the Agent, and an increase of premium added to those mentioned in the proposals, of not less than one eighth per cent. on the whole sum insured. Richard Taylor. September 8. tf
NOTICE.
FOR SALE, 30,000 acres valuable LAND, situated upon the river Washita, in one of the most fertile parts of Louisiana.—Particulars with regard to local advantages, situation, title, and the most favourable terms to purchasers, will be made known by application to THOMAS TUNNO, in Charleston, or MORRIS MILLER, in Savannah. Feb. 8. lawly
NOTICE.
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, Opposite the Exchange Coffee-House. Price Six Dollars Yearly, in advance.