Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1806-12-19 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE And PUBLICK LEDGER.  SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PREMIA LAUDIS
VOL. III.]
FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1806.
[NO. 67.]
WHOLESALE PRICE-CURRENT
NORFOLK, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1806.
   ARTICLES. per From To Rem. etc.     BACON lb. 10 15   Beef, cargo bb. 8 50   Prime 9 50 10   Mess 13   Brandy, Sp. 1st p. gal. 80 81   2d p. 82 85   3d p. 84 87   4th p. 90 93   Fr. 3d p. 1 4 1 10   4th p. 1 10 1 15   Peach, 90   Apple, new, 50   Bread, Pilot 100lb. 6   Navy. 4 50   Ship 3   Butter, Export. lb. 16 18   Candles, Dipt 19   Mould 22   Sperm. 54   Coal, English bus. None.   Virginia 22   Cocoa, Island 100lb. 20 22   Caraccas None.   Coffee, W. India lb. 30 32   Cordage, Country 100lb. 15   Foreign 10 11   Cotton, Geo. Upland lb. 23 24 Scarce.   Sea Island   St. Domingo 28   Surinam None   Duck, American bolt. Scarce   Ravens 16 17   Russia 20 22   Holland 26 28   No. 1 to 7, English 34 40   Flour, Sup. bb. 7   Fine 6 6 50   X Middlings 5 5 50   Middlings 5   Fish, Cod, dry quin. 3 50 4   Herrings bb. 4 25 4 50   Shad 7   Fustick ton. 40 42   Gin, Holland, 1st p. gal. 1 10 1 15   N. E. 1st p. 68 70 None   Grain, Wheat bus.   Corn 80 Brisk.   Barley   Oats 30   Hemp, Russian ton. 275   Hides Dried lb. 10 12   Hog's-Lard 16 None   Indigo, Flotant None   N. Orleans None   Iron, Pig ton. None   American ref. 120 125   Russia 100   Logwood, Bay 55 60   Camp. 65   Meal, Kiln-dried bb. 4 4 50   Mahogany, Bay sq. feet 12 15   St. Dom. 15 20   Molasses, gal. 1 25   Peas, Black-eyed bus. 75 80 Scarce.   Pepper, lb. 19 20   Pimento, None   Pitch, bb. 2 75 3   Pork, Cargo 15   Prime 17   Mess 21   Raisins, cask.   ditto, box. 4 20 4 25   Rice, 100lb. 4   Rosin, bb. 3 50 3 75   Rum, Jamaica, 4th p. gal. 85 87   Antigua, 3d p. 82 85   St. Croix, 3d p. 80 85   W. Island, 3d p. 75 77   Country, 48 50   Salt, St. Mart. bus.   Turks Island, 85   Isle May, 80   St. Ubes, 65   Cadiz, 65   Liverpool, 55 58   Soap, Brown, lb. 11 12   Brown, 17   Castile,   Sugar, Muscovado, 100lb. 9 11   Hav. Brown, 10   White, 14   Shingles, Cyp. 22 in. M. 3 50 3 75   18 in. 3   Staves, W. O. bhd. 28 30   pipe 50 60   barrel 15   do. red oak 20   Tar, bb. 2 50   Tobacco, Richmond, 100lb. 6 50 7   Petersburg, 6 6 50   Rappa, 4 50 6   Tallow, Russia, lb. None   American, 14 16 Scarce   Turpentine, bb. 2 75   Wax, Bees, lb. 37 None   Wines, Madeira, pipe. 200 300 Plenty   Lisbon, gal. 1 25 1 30   Teneriffe, 86 90   Sherry, 1 20 1 25   Port, pipe. 160 220 Scarce   Malaga, gal. 90  
Premiums of Insurance on American Property.
   To Great-Britain, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, without the Straights of Gibraltar. 3 4 1-4   France, Holland, Bremen, and Embden, 3 5 6   In the Mediterranean, - - - - -   Gibraltar, Madeira, Canaries, Azores, and Cape de Verd Islands, - - - - - 3 1-2 4   British and Neutral Windward Islands from Barbadoes to St. Thomas - - - - - 3   Jamaica and Honduras - - - - - 5 6   Porto Rico, - - - - - 3 1-2 4   Havana, - - - - - 3   City of St. Domingo, - - - - - 4   Persia, India, and China, - - - - - 5 5 1-2   Coasters, - - - - - 1 1-2 5  
Prices of Stocks.
   Virginia Bank, par. little to be had.   Norfolk Marine Insurance Company, 10 per cent. discount.   United States Bank, none in the market.   Exchange on London, 433 1-3 dolls. for 100l. sterl.  
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK; PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE PAPER TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS—ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF FIFTY CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER SQUARE FOR EACH SUCCEEDING INSERTION.
For CHARLESTON, The fine fast-sailing schooner ELIZA , intended to run as a regular packet, will positively sail on the 21st instant, having one half of her cargo engaged. For freight of the remainder, or passage, apply to the master on board at Maxwell's wharf, or to Francis André.
Who offers for Sale, 15 hlds. Muscovado Sugars; 25 bags Coffee; 6 pipes country Gin; 2 do. Holland do.; 5 do. French Brandy; 40 firkins Philadelphia Butter; 5 ton Iron, assorted; 50 sacks Liverpool Salt; 20 bbs. Rye Whiskey; 25 do. prime Herring; 14 chests Hyslop, Young Hyslop, Imperial and Souchong Teas; 5 crates Earthenware, well assorted; 10 bales Brabant Sail Cloth. Who will also dispose of a likely NEGRO FELLOW, about 19 or 20 years of age, who is a complaisant house-servant. Dec. 15. 3
For LONDON, (to sail in about ten days,) The ship ALFRED , Capt. J. Patch, has good accommodations for passengers, and can take some small freight, if application be soon made to the master, or
Christopher Fry. December 15. 3t
For BOSTON, The Schooner COLUMBIA , captain
Hawes, will sail in a few days. For freight or passage apply to
Fish & Catlett. Who have for Sale on board said Vessel, 200 bbs. Beef, (Boston inspection) 5 bales India Cottoons, 1 cask Seine Twine, 10 doz. Shovels. Dec. 10. tf
For Freight or Charter, The good Schooner CARLTON , James Johnson, master, burthen 1100 barrels, now ready to receive a cargo. Apply to captain Johnson, or
Wilson, Cunningham & Co. December 10.
For LONDON, The good Ship Charles Carter , to sail in twenty days, having three fourths of her cargo ready to go on board. For freight or passage (having elegant accommodations) apply to
Donaldson. Who give Cash for rough Timber on board said ship at Lee's wharf.
For FREIGHT or CHARTER, The Ship PHILIP , coppered, burthen 1000 tons, will receive a cargo. Apply to
John Davis, Master, on board said ship at Lee's wharf, or to the agent (accommodations) apply to
Oct. 28. tf
For LONDON, The fine Ship John Davis , Capt. John Davis, has good accommodations for passengers, and will receive a cargo. Apply to
October 10. 248
For LONDON, The Schooner MARY , burthen 100 hogsheads Tobacco, draws an easy draft of water, and is well calculated for a craft, for which purpose she was built—she will be sold low and on long credit.
Warren Ashley. Sept. 24. tf 202
For a Port in France, The fast sailing Ship Highland Mary , Part of her cargo is engaged for the Bay of Biscay.
George Murray, & Co. August 20. tf 102
We want a freight of Tobacco, For the Ship JULIA , Captain Vickery, to a port in France, burthen 350 hogsheads.
C. & F. Whittle. August 25. tf 112
For KINGSTON, (Jam.) The British Ship Dunrobin Castle , John Cooper, master, mounting 12 guns, with men answerable, and having a considerable part of her cargo engaged, will be despatched by the 25th inst. For freight or passage apply to
Robert Dickson. 1000 Sacks SALT, for sale low. Dec. 1. St
For FREIGHT or CHARTER, the fast sailing new Schooner THREE FRIENDS , captain Sears, burthen 100 tons—A freight to the West-Indies would be preferred. For terms apply to the master on board, or
FISH & CATLETT. Who have for Sale on board said vessel, 15 tons flat and square bar Iron; 1 do. German Steel, 120 barrels No. 1 & 2 Beef; 40 casks Sherry Wine, 12 bales India Cotton, assorted, 100 boxes Chocolate and Spermaceti Candles, 1000 wt. white Ginger in the root; 15 trunks Shoes assorted, 400 sides Leather; an invoice of Dry Goods suitable for the afon, which will be sold very low. Nov. 10. tf
For Freight or Charter, The Ship ELIZA , William Daggett, Master, 400 hogsheads burthen.
C. & F. Whittle. Who have for Sale on board the said Ship, 10,000 bushels St. Ubes SALT. August 29. 128
REFLECTIONS ON THE PRESENT STATE OF GERMANY.
BY M. GENTZ.
From what quarter shall we now look for aid? Government and the publick opinion have jointly plunged us into our present cruel situation. The former have ceased either to hear or understand us; and what is still more dejecting, they are no longer capable of hearing us, because the excessive oppression and danger have robbed them of their freedom and their frankness; to attempt to operate upon the latter, appears fruitless, because the possibility of success, pre-supposes the existence of that which has vanished without the hope of return—I mean the desire of a happier state, the disposition that abhors letters, and the courage that endeavours to cast them off. One brilliant prospect still remains, and this, to our inexpressible consolation, no tricks of fate are able to obscure. Men of strong, pure, and virtuous minds, however small their number, must form a solid and indissoluble union, must alternately instruct, and encourage, and animate and inspire each other. Their covenant is the only power, the only unvanquished coalition which can now defy the force of arms, which is now capable of giving liberty to the nations, and peace to the World. This covenant, may likewise be baffled in single contests; but all that it can lose is the field of battle: a glorious retreat is still open to it.—When all around is involved in general ruin, it intrenches itself on an inaccessible height, shuts up with itself, beyond the reach of the conqueror, the most precious treasures of humanity, and preserves them for a more fortunate generation.
You who, surrounded, amid the wreck of time, with death and devastation, have preserved the first and the most valuable of blessings, a comprehensive and independent mind, a warm and upright heart, a feeling for the sacred rights of humanity, the courage to sacrifice every thing for their sake, and the confident expectation of a more auspicious day. You genuine heroes of the age, invincible against the general calamity, ever victorious in spirit and in truth, wronged by the multitude, and perhaps fortunately despised or hated by the haughty disturbers of the world, who are honoured as deities by some, but above all, you high-minded men who are worthy of your name, you soldiers of your country, whom no misfortune can subdue—be not weary, and sink not into despair! He who created you to reconcile posterity with the present generation, prepared for you obstinate conflicts and tremendous trials.—Wherever you cast your eyes, you are surrounded with images of ruin and in imitations to despondency. The world is trampled, trampled upon, dismembered, and humbled. Part of the Princes publicly wear the yoke of a foreign master; some are, allured by empty titles, or by empty pretence, co-operated in the universal ruin; some were himself involved, even in the moment of political apostasy, in the moment of securing the fruit of his perfidy.
Those that still seem to exist, around whom the name of power, and the shadows of power—most are ripe for destruction; by a most dastardly policy, by voluntary and shameful capitulations, by measures which deprived of the respect of the world and the confidence of their subjects, they deserved the fate that awaits them. The few who cherish a noble, upright, and truly German spirit—such still there are, O Germans; and you know them—are so weakened, so powerless so paralysed by fresh-inflicted wounds, by the comparative smallness of their dominions, or by a thousand circumstances and restraints, that scarcely anything but their good will is left us. The energies of our great Nation are dissipated, divided, conducted on every side into sluggish brooks, or putrid swamps, or faithless channels, and lost to every real national purpose. All the barriers of our country are overthrown: our frontiers, when the enemy is already in our midst—are stripped of every means of defence; our most flourishing cities and provinces are parcelled out, sold, exchanged again and again, and given to natives and to foreigners; riches, honourably acquired, disappear; manufactures dwindle and decay; ports and markets are shut up. But not only is the body of the empire mutilated, maltreated, and abused; the soul has likewise received a mortal wound. In vain would you seek among the mass of your people, in vain would you look in courts, and among the great of the land, for that exalted sensibility, that manly grief, that energetic, that hopeful sorrow, which announces a resolution to save. Your complaints are uttered to the winds—your descriptions of the general destruction are treated as mere pastime, as literary curiosities; there, where you are still permitted to disturb the publick in its slumber, you are highly favoured, if you are tolerated as troublesome friends and well meaning enthusiasts; most listen to you with displeasure, and even the better disposed with anxiety; and the moment is evidently approaching, when a long melancholy silence will be the law of your civil existence, and the severe, but imperious condition of your personal liberty.
All this, and more than this—for who can fix the limits of the evil!—you will endure: not merely with fortitude and equanimity, but with the proud, the animating consciousness of invincible superiority, if you are great and strong enough never to be untrue to yourselves. Your immediate influence may be obstructed, the sphere of your operations may be circumscribed within narrow limits, your hands may be fettered, and your mouths closed by power; but these are only the out-works of your strength; your immovable resolutions; your unalterable principles; your invariable, silent protestation against every thing that overbearing violence attempts to execute or to justify; the lively conviction produced alike in friend or foe, that the War between injustice and you will not terminate in false negotiations, will not be interrupted by hollow armistices, or end in faithless treaties; the worthy, bold, ever-upright, and ever prepared attitude in which you will appear to your contemporaries—these are your unperishable weapons. Your mere isolated existence strikes constant terror into the oppressor, and it is in the oppressed a source of inexhaustible consolation.
Never forget, that the spot on which you are placed, is the centre of those enterprises, by which, sooner or later, Europe must be released from slavery; the code of despotism must be destroyed; the proud aerial structure of perishable power must be overturned, and a new, immortal covenant, must be formed between freedom, order, and peace, for a more happy posterity. Nor England, nor Russia, can effect this; both are desirable as confederates; both are invaluable as counterpoises and allies; but the actual work of deliverance must prosper on German soil. Hence must regeneration proceed; as here the work of devastation and ruin was accomplished. Europe fell through Germany; through Germany she must rise. It was not the energy or the arts of France—it was not the wild convulsive power which issued from the horrible abyss of the revolution—it was not the preponderance, or ability of a creature of that revolution, which has lifted the world from its axis—but the voluntary defencelessness of Germany. Our baleful intestine divisions, the mutual jealousy of our Princes, the reciprocal antipathy of their subjects, the extinction of every genuine sentiment for the general interest of the nation, the relaxation of patriotick spirit; these are the conquerors, the destroyers of our liberty; these have been our moral enemies, and the enemies of Europe. Could we have united we, in the hour of danger, in the hour of general need, have resolved to be Germans, we might have defied every storm; not one foot of German soil had then become the prey of a haughty foreigner; not one single member, no, not one single member, no, not even the weakest of the well-constructed body politick of Europe had fallen off. Nay more, we should have enjoyed the glory of restoring France—sick, deeply distracted France, to real health—for who can confound her present state, her unnatural, bloated corpulence, with genuine health!—to a peaceable, harmonious existence, to a reconciliation with herself: a deed which, if accomplished in a proper sense, and with instruments judiciously selected, would, at the same time, have strengthened and perfected the social system of Europe, both in the whole and in part, for many centuries.
This, brethren, we might have effected, and this opportunity we have wantonly renounced. But if any thing is capable of rescuing us from this abyss of weakness, in which we are now expiating our faults, it is that same resolution, by which, at an earlier period, we should have been preserved from the commission of them. Separated, we were overthrown, united only can we rise again.
It is impossible that a nation like ours, however it may have been humbled and insulted, deserted and betrayed; however it may have for a time forgotten itself, dazzled by internal artifices, or discouraged by calamity and defeat, should not at length recover from the most shameful and the most cruel degradation: it is impossible that so much personal superiority, and such a profusion of natural talents, such penetration and advantages of various kinds, as we comprize in our bosom, should not sooner or later collect into one focus, thence animate the whole, and break through all ineffectual barriers; it is impossible that from this venerable stock of such manifest excellence, from this Mother Country of European monarchy, from so many families, bound by the renown of their great forefathers, to transmit a sacred inheritance to their posterity, out of so many princely races, still surrounded in this evening of all greatness with the beams of ancient splendour, a perfect hero a deliverer, and an avenger, should not at length arise, to wipe the tears from every eye, to replace us in our everlasting rights, to re-edify Germany and Europe.
To prepare for this guardian angel, let him appear when he will, resolute and useful instruments, subjects hostile to illegitimate sovereigns, avowed enemies to tyrants, a people obedient to lawful authority; to provide for the altar social order, and of a virtuous love of liberty, intelligent and worthy priests, and for the posterity a nursery of energetic minds and valiant champions, to prevent any similar calamity from again overtaking mankind—this is your important duty.
Antigua Rum and Prime Sugars. THIS Day landing on our wharf from on board the Schooner Henry Morris , her CARGO, which will be disposed of on liberal terms, by
C. & F. Whittle.
IN STORE, Jamaica Sugars in hlds. and bbls.; Martinique do. in hlds. and tiers; Jamaica Coffee in hlds. bbls. and bags; do. Rum; Antigua do.; do. Molasses; do. Shrub; Baltimore Navy and Pilot Bread; Isle of May Salt.
WANTED, A good staunch VESSEL, burthen 100 to 150 hogsheads tobacco, to load for Europe. Dec. 17. tf
The American Ship AMIABLE ANTONIETTE , Captain Williams, burthen 450 hogsheads tobacco, is offered for Charter by
C. & F. Whittle. December 17. tf
NOTICE

COMMUNICATION.
The Brig Ann & Frances, Captain Gifford, from Cadiz bound to New-York, with a cargo of Wine & Salt, belonging to Hicks, Jenkins & Co. of New-York, was captured on the 26th November on St. Georges Bank, (and ordered for Bermuda) by the Cambrian frigate Captain Berresford.
The Ann & Francis sailed from Cadiz, on the 23d Oct. in which port eleven sail of French and Spanish line of battle ships, were lying apparently ready to sail. Admiral Collingwood was blockading the port with 12 sail of the line, by the look out frigate, of whose fleet the Ann & Frances was boarded the day on which she sailed, and treated with great politeness, after being detained only about forty minutes.
Died at Richmond on the 2d instant Captain CHARLES POTTER.
It was said that the ship in which Mr. Merry had taken his passage for England, waited only for a copy of the President's message to congress. Perhaps Mr. Jefferson was apprised of this circumstance, and therefore omitted in his first communication to recommend the suspension of the non-importation act; for, it is confidently believed, that between the delivery of the first and second message (an interval of only 24 hours!) he did not receive from our Ministers at London, any fresh assurances of the progress of their negotiations.
It is understood at Washington, that Mr. John Randolph, not being nominated by the speaker, to the committee of Ways and Means, or to any other of the standing committees was owing entirely to his own request.—It was even hinted, so powerful was Mr. Randolph's influence in the house, that it was at his suggestion that Mr. Clay was placed first on that committee.
John Randolph in a very pointed manner, evinced his indifference, if not contempt, for the President's Message, at the opening of the session. During the reading of it, he stood leaning against the Clerk's desk, vacantly poring over an old volume of the Journals!—The Speaker did not call to order!
Philad Gaz.
Select committees appointed by the speaker pursuant to the several resolutions on the President's Message.
Committee on the first resolution—Spanish aggression.
Messrs. J. Randolph, of Virginia; Fisk, of Vermont; Sanford, of Kentucky; G. W. Campbell, of Tennessee; Brown, of Pennsylvania; Goldsborough, of Maryland; Butler, of S. Carolina.
Second resolution—Fortification of towns, &c.
Messrs. R. Nicholson, of Maryland; P. K. Thompson, of Virginia; Talmadge, of Connecticut; Rea, of Pennsylvania; Thomas, of New-York; Elliot, of Vermont; Wynns, of N. Carolina.
Third resolution—Crimes against the United States.
Messrs. Dawson, of Virginia; Smilie, of Pennsylvania; Bly, of Massachusetts; Sloan, of New-Jersey; J. W. Thompson, of N. Hampshire.
Fourth resolution—Slave Trade.
Messrs. Early, of Georgia; T. M. Randolph, of Virginia; J. Campbell, of Maryland; Kenan, N. Carolina; Cook, of Massachusetts; Kelly, of Pennsylvania; Van Rensselaer, of N. York.
Fifth resolution—Western Waters.
Messrs. Alston, of N. Carolina; Barker, of Massachusetts; Blake, of New-York; J. Whitehill, of Pennsylvania; Morrow, of Virginia.
Sixth resolution—Surplus revenue.
Messrs. Bidwell, of Massachusetts; Rhea, of Tennessee; Bedinger, of Kentucky; Morrow, of Ohio; Olin, of Vermont; Betten, of N. Hampshire; Stanton, of Rhode-Island; Sturges, of Connecticut; Sailly, of New-York; Lambert, of N. Jersey; R. Whitehill, of Pennsylvania; Broome, of Delaware; Lloyd, of Maryland; Barnwell, of Virginia; Holland, of N. Carolina; D. R. Williams, of S. Carolina; Early, of Georgia.
Committee on the President's Message relative to Great-Britain.
Messrs. J. Randolph, of Virginia; Marion, S. Carolina; Van Cortlandt, of New-York; M'Creery, of Maryland; Chandler, of Massachusetts.
Committee on the resolution relative to evidence in contested elections.
Messrs. Bidwell, of Massachusetts; Halsey, of New-York; Smith, of Pennsylvania; Smith, of Virginia; Pitkin, of Connecticut.
Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads.
Messrs. Varnum, of Massachusetts; Meriwether of Georgia; Hough, of New-Hampshire; Dwight, of Connecticut; Chittenden, of Vermont; Sammons, of New-York; Southard, of New-Jersey; Baird, of Pennsylvania; Broom, of Delaware; Covington, of Maryland; Clopton, of Virginia; Winston of North-Carolina; Earle, of South-Carolina; Morrow, of Ohio; Sanford, of Kentucky; G. W. Campbell, of Tennessee; Knight, of Rhode-Island.
Yesterday arrived the ship Pittsburgh, captain Killey, from Hamburg, and furnishes us with Hamburg papers of the 18th Oct. but, any news by them is anticipated by a later arrival at New-York.—He mentions that there had been great rejoicing observed by the British men of war all along the French coast, supposed on account of their victory over the Prussians.
True American.
The Spanish fleet of 12 sail of the line, it appears on the 26th and 30th of September, made demonstration of putting to sea, but on the appearance of
Lord Collingwood's squadron, they immediately retired to the inner harbour of Cadiz.
On the 14th of October, the French frigate La Salamandre moored off Guernsey, was destroyed by a small squadron of British men of war. The Contance of 20 guns got ashore during the action. Capt. Borrowes was killed.
The French ship Regulus, of 80 guns, Commodore L. Hermite, arrived at Brest on the 3d of Oct. after having been chased by most of the Channel fleet.
VIRGINIA ASSEMBLY.
A Bill for amending the act "to extend the jurisdiction of justices of the peace" has passed the House of Delegates—Ayes 79—Noes 59.
The object of the bill, is to empower two justices, to give final judgment in all cases, where the sum in controversy does not exceed 20 dollars. And if it exceeds 10 dollars, a stay of execution for forty days is allowed.
The following Resolution, which has been offered in the house of delegates by Mr. J. H. Blake, and referred to a committee of the whole, was on Saturday last, referred to a select committee. It was contended by the advocates of this measure, that such legislative expressions of the publick will, were only justifiable on extraordinary and urgent occasions, and that there existed no crisis at present which called for a measure, foreign to the sphere of ordinary legislation, which might produce in its progress, unnecessary altercation and debate.
"Resolved, That the General Assembly of Virginia have an entire confidence, in no wise diminished, but increased, in the patriotism of the views and wisdom of the conduct of the President of the United States; and that the present administration merits and ought to receive the most cordial support of this Assembly." Vir. Argus.
The following letter was sent by the king of Prussia, to general Von Klatschfeldt, commandant of the royal guards at Potsdam:
"Though it was my first intention to come to Potsdam to-morrow, to be present when the battalions march out, I have been obliged to relinquish my design, on account of several temporary affairs and business which intervened. Let the troops therefore be informed, in my name, that I wish them all high and low, much happiness on the occasion of their march. What I have a right to expect of them, and the high degree of confidence which I have placed in them, have long been known to each individual; I shall therefore not repeat it. Hitherto the Prussian army has known how to preserve its glory—it will not suffer it to sink now. But if we can obtain our object without the sword, that is to say, the necessary security of our own, and the neighbouring states, so much the better—otherwise, rather than flatter ourselves with the vain, though honourable hope of peace, I shall expect that each of these states think of distinguishing itself more for the general welfare against the enemy. I wish you the continuance of your health, and hope to see you all together in a short time."
FREDERICK
The following list comprizes all the principal towns in France, which contain more than 30,000 inhabitants in each, viz.
  Paris 547,756 Liege 90,000   Marseilles 96,413 Strasburgh 90,000   Bordeaux 90,992 Cologne 90,000   Lyons 88,919 Orleans 41,000   Rouen 87,000 Amiens 41,000   Turin 79,000 Nismes 41,000   Nantz 77,162 Bruges 41,000   Brussels 66,297 Angers 41,000   Antwerp 56,818 Montpelier 41,000   Ghent 55,161 Metz 41,000   Lille 54,756 Rheims 41,000   Toulouse 50,171 
There are also twenty-two cities, in which the population is more than 20,000, but not exceeding 30,000 inhabitants in each.
The vineyards in France are stated to produce annually 492,750,000 gallons of wine of various qualities and prices. The best oil is produced in Languedock, and the best honey in Narbonne. The first mulberry trees in France were planted by Francis I. in 1564, to whom the northern departments of that country are indebted for their silk manufacture.
A plantation of indigo has been established in the department of Vauciuse, on an estate belonging to M. Icard de Bataglini. From the result of this experiment, it appears that this plant may be naturalized in that part of the South of France.
VIRGINIA LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF DELEGATES.
Tuesday, December 9.
Mr. Smyth (of Wythe) reported from the committee for courts of justice, that the committee had, according to order, had under their consideration, several petitions to them referred, and had come to several resolutions thereupon, which he handed in at the clerk's table, where the same were twice read and agreed to by the house as follows:
1. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the borough of Norfolk, praying that an act may pass, authorising the pavement of the streets in the said borough upon the plan in the said petition mentioned, is reasonable.
2. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the said borough, praying that an act may pass, authorising the appointment of a mathematical surveyor, & processioners for the said borough, under the regulations in the said petition prescribed; that the common hall of the said borough may be required to procure the necessary instruments and apparatus for the said surveyor, and that he may be compelled to perform certain acts in the said petition mentioned, is reasonable.
3. Resolved, that it is the opinion of this committee, that the petition of sundry inhabitants of the said borough, praying, for the reasons therein mentioned, that the act entitled "An act concerning the docks and wharves in the borough of Norfolk," may be so amended as to authorise the fixture of flood-gates at the lower bridge on the Back creek, an arm of Elizabeth river, is reasonable.
Ordered, That bills be brought in pursuant to each of the said resolutions, and that the committee for courts of justice do prepare and bring in the same.
COMMUNICATION.
On Wednesday the 5th inst. when it was currently reported and generally believed in this place, that col. Burr had left Lexington, Joseph H. Daveiss attorney for the United States for this district, appeared in court, and after some preliminary observations calculated to excite great expectation, read the affidavit which appears in this paper, and moved the court for capias against col. Burr, and for compulsory process to compel the attendance of witnesses.
The judge conceiving the application of a novel nature, and the form very unusual, took time to consider. It happened that col. Burr had not left Lexington and on hearing of this proceeding, sent a messenger to Frankfort, to inform the court that he should on the day following present himself to meet any enquiry. On Friday col. Burr arrived in Frankfort attended by several gentlemen from Lexington; on Saturday morning he presented himself in court, his appearance caused much sensation—to his enemies it was evident chagrin—to the impartial, that is to nine-tenths in the house, it gave the utmost satisfaction.
Before col. Burr came into court, the judge delivered his opinion which may be seen in this paper—col. Burr rose and in a brief impressive manner stated his surprise at a proceeding so extraordinary at a time when he was supposed to have left the state, with some other remarks, which cannot be correctly detailed, and offered to meet, and invited any investigation in any form, provided it were prompt.
Mr. Daveiss professed to be ready to proceed as soon as the witnesses could be had, and on consulting the marshal said that the attendance of the witnesses could be procured by Tuesday evening; that he would engage to proceed on Wednesday morning, and that in case an indictment should be found, that he would also be ready to proceed forthwith to the trial; to this col. Burr assented. A grand jury was empaneled from persons in court, immediately sworn and adjourned to attend on the next Wednesday morning, when they would receive a charge from the judge. On the same day subpoenas being granted, the deputy marshals were sent to Louisville, Jeffersonville, Lexington, Danville and other places, to summon witnesses, principally persons supposed to be the confidants of col. Burr.
These events having circulated rapidly throughout the country and generally mingled with error and exaggeration, excited great solicitude and expectation. On Wednesday morning (yesterday) this town was crowded with persons from all quarters, beyond any former example; all was eagerness and impatience. The witnesses who had been summoned attended without an exception, the court was open, the grand jury was called and appeared. The judge was expected to deliver his charge, but he delayed and moved that the grand jury be discharged, declaring that he was not prepared to proceed with the enquiry, by reason of the absence of a witness whom he deemed material.
The disappointment and chagrin of a crowded audience was universal. The publick mind has all along been strongly in favour of col. Burr, and burst forth without disguise. It is said that some of the facts may tend to disprove the charge of sedition, which is the only charge against him. It was believed that the grand jury would have been indicted, but the judge, on receiving the information he had from the absent witness, and of the truth of the information given to him, delayed the proceedings.
It is said then the names of the grand jury were called, of whom attended, one more than half the number, Daveiss, this one was by him sent to the district of Jeffersonville, (opposite to Frankfort) where he had some days previously been present at the session of the legislature of which he is a member; the grand jury was discharged on the 5th inst.—It is said that the judge had any command to this effect, either directly or indirectly, and that this would have no influence with Mr. Daveiss in his affidavit or in instituting the prosecution.
Publick sentiment since in the Ledger.
On Saturday last, Judge Innes, delivered the following opinion on the subject of the motion against Colonel Burr, made by the federal attorney on Wednesday preceding:
The question to be considered.—Has this court a power to award process against the accused, and to compel the attendance of witnesses upon this motion—and if the court has such power, is the evidence adduced sufficient to warrant the measure.
Four kinds of proceeding have been known and pursued in order to convict persons of crimes and misdemeanors—1st, By an application to a justice or judge out of the court—2d, By presentment of the grand jury—and 4th, By information.
The present application is not embraced by either of these modes of proceeding. It is a new case resting on the discretion of the court, and as this decision may be considered a precedent in future, I have thought it my duty to take time and mature the subject, because the proposed measure being preventative—no injury would arise by a little delay.—No instance has occurred (within my recollection) since I have become acquainted with judicial proceedings, where a crime or misdemeanour has been committed of a motion being made to a court to award process, to arrest the offender in the first instance; neither have I knowledge of the existence of a law to authorise it.
In any case where a court awards process it is predicated upon some previous act already done, which gives the court cognizance of the subject and brings the case in a legal shape before that tribunal; this being performed, the power to adopt every necessary measure to attain the object and end of the law and to perfect justice is vested in a court.
The magnitude of this case, not only as it relates to the community—but to the accused, requires that the proceeding be pursued with regularity, caution and circumspection. If the facts stated in the affidavit be true, the project ought to be prevented and the offender punished—Yet in doing this, the regular legal steps pointed out by usage or by law, ought to be pursued. If on the other hand
the accused be innocent, the strong arm of power ought to be confined within its proper limits—the known rules of proceeding; and on no occasion but extreme necessity ought a judge to be induced to exercise a power which rests on discretion. The law then becomes unknown, and the best judge may be considered a tyrant, because it then depends upon his whim and caprice—It will not be uniform, but is liable to change with the opinion of every judge.
These reflections extend to the general principle arising out of this case. Admit however that they are erroneous—to award process would be improper—it would be an act of oppression; because there is no legal evidence before the court to authorise an arrest of the person accused. The evidence is the oath of a person, who has been informed by one not upon oath, that the deponent believes the fact to be true. I have no doubt of the truth of the affidavit—that is, that the deponent has been informed of the fact stated; and it is possible the fact as stated is true—yet it is not legal evidence, and not being legal evidence the court cannot act upon it.
Upon this view of the subject, I am compelled to declare—that as the case is a new one—as no precedent has been shewn to justify such a proceeding; as the law is silent on the subject; and as there are two other modes of proceeding which are regular and well understood, viz. by applying to a judge out of court and obtaining a warrant upon legal evidence—or by the court ordering a grand jury to be summoned instances, and preferring an indictment—this motion is overruled.
FROM THE UNITED STATES GAZETTE.
Abstract of the exports and imports of the vice royalty of Buenos Ayres, through the intendancies of Aroquiapa and Cuzco in Peru in the year 1789.
  Imports through Aroquiapa.   68,000 quintals (of about 20 gallons each) of Brandy manufactured in various parts of Peru, a $13 3/4 $918,000   3,000 quintals of Locumba wine, 8 24,000   500 quintals of Mages wine, 5 2,500   2,800 jars of Victor and Moguigua wine, 10 28,000   18,000 fanegas of Indian corn (of 155 lb. each) 4 72,000   4,600 arobas (of 25 lb. each) of oil 6 7,600   17,000 arobas of cotton (of 25 lb. each) 1 17,000   3,100 fanegas of flour (of 155 lb. each) 5 15,500   18,500 arobas of dried peppers, 2 3/4 50,875   5,000 arobas of sugar of Aroquiapa, 6 30,000   10,000 arobas do. of Cumana, 7 70,000   16,000 lb. of Indigo, 2 32,000   4,000 vars (nearly of one yard each) of cloth made at Cuzco, 2 1/2 9,000   16,000 lbs. of Chocolate, cts. 25 4,000   $1,300,475 
  Imports through Cuzco.   655,200 vars of baize of domestic manufacture, cts. 50 $327,600   112,800 vars of do do cts. 31 35,250   23,700 arobas (of 25 lb. each) of sugar, $5 118,600   320 blankets, domestic manufacture, 6 1,920   1,280 do do 8 10,240   640 do do 5 3,200   1,200 arobas of wool coloured, 25 30,000   120,000 vars of cotton cloth, domestic manufacture, cts. 37 1/2 45,000   1,600 packages of cotton, $3 4,800   400 arobas of do. 2 800   6,000 books of goldleaf 1 1/4 7,500   400 do of silver docts. 31 125   Saddles, 1,000   9,333 gold and silver thread for embroidering, $3 28,000   960 boxes of preserves 1 1/2 1,440   24 arobas of cochineal, 25 600   2,900 packages of dried peppers, 4 1/2 13,050   960 do of coca, the leaf of a plant masticated by the inhabitants of Peru, Chili & Buenos Ayres, 6 5,760   2,000 fanegas of flour, (155 lb. each) 8 16,000   14,000 fanegas of Indian corn do 5 70,000   250 fanegas of wheat, do 6 1/2 1,625   200 fanegas of barley do 1 3/4 350   Unenumerated article, 11,645   722,860 
Total imports into the viceroyalty of Buenos Ayres from Peru, $2,023,335
Exports from Buenos Ayres to Peru through Aroquiapa.
  Cattle, jeered beef and sheep, $214,000   900 quintals of tallow, 11,000   Coca, 85,000   Tin and copper, 29,260   Wool, cheese, butter, dried potatoes, and a variety of other articles, 50,000     $389,260 
  Exports through Cuzco.   20,000 mules, $15 300,000   20 seroons of Paraguayan tea, 52 1/2 1,050   24,000 lb. of wax. cts. 50 12,000   750 quintals of soap $20 15,000   120,000 heads of sheep, cts 50 60,000   30,000 arobas of uncleaned wool, $1 30,000   1,500 quintals of tallow, 12 18,000 

  50 cargas (of 82 lb.)   of cheese, 10 500   20,000 pieces of jerked   beef cts. 43 3/4 8750   Unenumerated articles, 30,220   475,530 
Total exports from Buenos Ayres to Peru, $864,790
Abstract of the imports and exports of the province of Chili in the year 1789, in its commerce with the ports of Chili:
  Imports from Lima to Concepcion in Chili,   12,000 arabs (of 25 lb. each)   Sugar, $2 3/4 33,000   12,000 var of woolen cloth of domestic manufacture, 28 cts 3,375   30,000 vars of cotton do do do 8,437   2,560 lb. of indigo, $2 5,120   1,400 vars of cloth made of Quito, 2 3/4 3,150   230 jars of rice, 2 460   8,000 blocks of mineral salt, 1 8,000   Unenumerated articles, 8,000   69,542 
  Imports of Valparaiso from Peru.   57,272 arobas of sugar, $2 3/4 157,500   250,000 vars of cotton cloth, dom. ma-   nufacture, 28 cts. 70,312   140,000 vars do do do 39,375   9,000 lb. of indigo, $2 18,000   8,000 vars of Quito cloth, 6,750   600 jars of rice, 2 1,200   12,000 blocks of min. salt, 1 12,000   Unenumerated articles, 25,000   330,137 
  Imports of Coquimbo from Peru.   Sugar, cloth, indigo, rice, &c. &c. 58,637 
Total imports into Chili from Peru only, 458,316
  Exports from Chili to Lima in Peru.   FROM VALPARAISO.   168,000 fanegas [of 127 lb. each, being the fanega of Chili]   of wheat, $1 1/4 210,000   20,000 quintals of tallow, 5 100,000   6,000 do copper 9 54,000   3,000 do white rope, 10 30,000   2,000 arobas of Paraguay tea, 3 3/4 7,000   6,000 lb. of almonds, 25 cts. 1,500   Nuts, fruits of various kinds, cheese, butter, &c. &c. 30,000   $432,500 
  FROM COQUIMBO.   7000 quintals copper in pigs, 8 56,000   10000 lb. wrought do 37 1/2 cts 3,750   1500 jars of wine, $5 7,500   200 quintals of salt fish, 20 4,000   500 quintals of salt fish, 5 2,500   1500 Vicuña skins, 1 1/4 1,874   Thread, 500   76,125 
  FROM CONCEPCION.   50,000 fanegas wheat (127 lb.) $1 1/4 52,500   5,000 jars of wine, 7 35,000   1,000 quintals of tallow, 5 5,000   102,500 
Unenumerated articles from the different ports of Chili to Lima, 110,500 And also from the said ports to the minor ports of Peru. 46,600
Total exports from Chili to the ports of Peru only, $768,300
The preceding abstracts being made from publick documents, must be considered as authentick. In the same documents we find an enumeration of the charges incident to the carriage of the different articles, whether by land or by water. Among these we find that the freight of a fanega of wheat from Chili to Peru is 1 dollar and 25 cents; the Chili fanega weighing 127 lbs must be equal to about two of our bushels, and as the cost of the article is also 1 dollar 25 cents per fanega the bushel of our measure will cost about 62 1/2 cents; and thus it appears, that the freight of this article is equal to its first cost.—Again, we observe that when this same wheat is exported from Peru to the frontiers of Buenos Ayres, it is valued at 6 dollars and 50 cents per Peruvian fanega of 155 lbs. equal to about 2 and a half bushels, or at the rate of about 4 dollars and 90 cents per fanega of Buenos Ayres, or 2 dollars and 45 cents per bushel, which we are to presume is the current price of Peru. From which it is evident that a bushel of wheat which cost in Chili at the second or third hand, only 62 1/2 cents, sells at the place of consumption for 2 dollars and 45 cents, nearly four times its original at the place of embarkation. To bring this matter home to ourselves let us suppose that a barrel of flour costing here only 8 dollars, should be sold in Carolina for 32 dollars. or rather supposing what under similar circumstance would be more likely, that a barrel of flour cost here 2 dollars, and should be sold in Carolina at 8 dollars, what then would be the situation of our farmers? precisely that of the farmers in Chili, who are now a degraded race instead of being the pride and strength of their country as ours are; and that this representation may not be considered as fanciful, let us examine what Vancouver the latest traveller in that country says of the peasantry:—In his journey from Valparaiso to St. Jago the capital of Chili, he found a number of men employed in mending their roads, and was surprised to find that their wages, which being paid by the king were probably very high, were only about 11d. sterling. He was surprised that, in a country so well calculated to yield plentiful crops, they were not occupied in agriculture. But Vancouver was ignorant of the causes which produced the misery he everywhere saw on the road. He did not know that a bushel of wheat which produces $2 per bushel in England did not yield more than 50 cents, if even so much to the farmer in Chili. We shall in a future number make some extracts from the journal of this traveller, which will place beyond all doubt
the miserable condition of the Chilians, in one of the finest countries in the universe. Let us connect these facts with an invasion of this country by the English, and we shall not hesitate to say that under skilful management a series of most interesting events must necessarily follow.
WASHINGTON December 10. We have received a communication from Mr. Jonathan Dayton, of New Jersey, in the following terms:
"The National Intelligencer informs, that two distinguished federalists—one, lately a United States Senator—the other, an eminent contractor at Pittsburgh, are engaged in furnishing the supplies for Mr. Burr."
"Thus far the quotation appears to have been taken, totidem verbis , from your paper, and I find that several other prints after giving the paragraph quoted from you to the publick, add a further declaration, as if upon the same authority, that the person first alluded to is myself. Although a contract or engagement of the kind referred to, carries with it no certain evidence of guilt or unfair design (because frequently practised, and necessarily too, by those who purchase, and prepare to settle and improve large tracts of wilderness) yet I am not willing to permit my name to be used as one of the contracting parties in a business with which I have no concern, and to which some reproach is intended to be attached. I shall not be disbelieved by you, or by any who know me, and whose good opinion is estimable, when I assure you, as I now do, that I have entered into no contract or engagement of the kind referred to, whether for the furnishing of provisions, boats, or supplies of any sort."
Having thus admitted this communication, as in fairness we consider ourselves bound to do, we reinsert the articles referred to, the contents of which, the reader will perceive, are highly misrepresented; contenting ourselves with observing that the articles were grounded on information, then believed, and still believe to be correct.
The National Intelligencer of the 12th November, contains the following article: "It is affirmed as an unequivocal fact that a contract has been entered into with Comfort Tyler for furnishing, on the waters of the Ohio, about the beginning of October, provisions at the highest market prices . This is vouched by creditable men, who declare they have the information from those who likewise seen the contract. The fact is likewise corroborated by several persons to whom offers of purchase were made, but who declined entirely from the mysterious appearance of the business."
In the paper of the 17th, the following article is added:
"We are informed that two distinguished federalists are parties to the contract for furnishing provisions on the waters of the Ohio, alluded to in our last; one of them not long since a Senator in the United States, and the other an eminent contractor at Pittsburgh."
From a Jamaica Paper received at the Bridge by the ship Live Oak, Capt. ...
KING'S SPEECH. The following very spirited address was presented to his Majesty by the House of Commons, on the delivery of the Charlotte packet:
"Most gracious Sire, We, your Majesty's most loyal and dutiful subjects, the Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, beg leave to represent to you, that we have been informed of the arrival of the Charlotte packet, and the good news it brings of the success of your Majesty's arms in America, and of the good state of your affairs in that quarter. We are deeply sensible of the good news, and the success of your Majesty's arms, and the good state of your affairs in that quarter. We are deeply sensible of the good news, and the success of your Majesty's arms, and the good state of your affairs in that quarter."
"Induced by the CHANCELLOR OF THE EXCHEQUER, your Majesty's royal command was given, that we be engaged in the African slave-trade. We are deeply sensible of the good news, and the success of your Majesty's arms, and the good state of your affairs in that quarter. We are deeply sensible of the good news, and the success of your Majesty's arms, and the good state of your affairs in that quarter."
"The system which had thus originated and had been thus promoted was first made the subject of parliamentary discussion at the period when all those establishments, which experience and the wisdom of former ages had sanctioned, were in danger of being sacrificed to the visionary and frantic schemes of innovation and theory. The first measures proposed in the British Parliament for a direct abolition of the slave-trade, after a full investigation by the examination of witnesses, were unattended with that success which the propellers of those measures, according to the temper of the times and their own mistaken notions of humanity and justice, hoped for and expected; the various proceedings which have since been introduced into Parliament, until the late session, with the same view, have terminated in the same manner."
"But the mode of proceeding and the resolutions that were lately adopted have excited in us the most serious alarms that when the measure of abolition shall be again discussed, at the first meeting of the next session of parliament, it will be persevered in to its accomplishment, and that we shall be denied the undoubted right of being heard before we are deprived of our property, or of adducing any evidence upon a question so deeply involving our fortunes and our lives. We state with confidence to your Majesty, and if permitted could prove, that the consequences of such a measure will be ruinous and fatal."
"To the colonies it will put an immediate stop to the progress of all new settlements, and occasion a diminution of the number of labourers, which it has
been already proved, and we can assert from experience, in contradiction to the false calculations of theorists, cannot be kept up without a regular supply. A more immediate consequence will be the loss of the white population at present composing the militia, the principal defence of the country, by taking away the hope and the means of bettering their fortunes, their only inducement for coming to these islands; many persons already settled and attached to the soil will, from the same causes, emigrate to countries where they will meet with more encouragement and protection; and those who, from necessity, must remain, will be left exposed to all the calamities attendant upon revolt and insurrection. We shrink with horror from a contemplation of those scenes which a neighbouring country has frightfully exhibited, the inevitable result of theory and experiment."
"To Great Britain the consequences will be the loss of her colonies, and with them the loss of a commerce which employs one thousand and sixty ships, more than sixteen thousand seamen, contributes one third to her whole exports and one third to her imports, pays annually in duties to her revenue upwards of three millions, consumes of her manufactures six millions, and involves a capital belonging to British subjects of two hundred and twenty millions sterling. The immense nation-loss, and the long train of individual misery and distress, which must ensue from a sacrifice of these great branches of industry and commerce, one of the principal sources of the revenue and the foundation of the naval superiority of Great Britain, we forbear to enlarge upon, but they must be severely experienced in all parts of the empire. Sound policy must forbid such a sacrifice; but if the sacrifice be made, justice at least demands compensation for the injury sustained. Compensation cannot be authorised without proof of delinquency: our characters have been traduced, but delinquency has never been proved; the evidence which our opponents have adduced, negatives the fact; compensation, therefore, for a loss which an act of the imperial legislature occasions, becomes a matter of unquestionable right: but this right is rejected, and publick faith and national justice are doomed to give place to the visionary schemes which enthusiasm has produced in the minds of speculative men, regardless of the misery and destruction which await their projects."
"All our efforts to obtain that redress to which, as British subjects, we are entitled, have been unavailing; the gracious interposition of your majesty's undoubted and useful prerogative alone remains to avert our threatened ruin. Relying on that justice from your majesty which is denied us by Parliament, and reposing with confidence on that wisdom and paternal solicitude which your majesty has always shown towards the interests and welfare of all your subjects, we earnestly, yet most respectfully, pray your majesty to vouchsafe to exercise that prerogative which the constitution acknowledges of the crown, to preserve the properties and lives of our faithful people in these colonies, and to secure the interests of the British empire."
Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED. Rainbow, Hathaway, 21 days from St. John's; Rum & Molasses, Warren Ashley.—Left St. John's 10th inst. for New London—schooner Ranger, Croker, Edenton, N.C. Victory, Pickett, of Salem.—Left St. John's 10th inst. for New London—schooner Nancy White, Holter, from St. John's 10th inst. for New London—schooner Margaret, from Madeira, bound for New London—10 days out. Nash, 32 days from Tobago, 1000 hds. Sugar, 1000 hds. Molasses, 1000 hds. Rum, 1000 hds. Wine, 1000 hds. Brandy, 1000 hds. Pepper, 1000 hds. Salt, 1000 hds. Tallow, 1000 hds. Candles, 1000 hds. Soap, 1000 hds. Starch, 1000 hds. Blue, 1000 hds. Indigo, 1000 hds. Coffee, 1000 hds. Rice, 1000 hds. Flour, 1000 hds. Bread, 1000 hds. Butter, 1000 hds. Cheese, 1000 hds. Eggs, 1000 hds. Milk, 1000 hds. Cream, 1000 hds. Yogurt, 1000 hds. Sour Cream, 1000 hds. Buttermilk, 1000 hds. Whey, 1000 hds. Lactic Acid, 1000 hds. Casein, 1000 hds. Fat, 1000 hds. Protein, 1000 hds. Carbohydrate, 1000 hds. Salt, 1000 hds. Water, 1000 hds.
The ship Warrington from Boston bound to this port, went on shore at the light house on Cape Henry on Monday night, and is bilged—part of the cargo consisting of Rum and Beef, it is expected will be saved.
Kingston, (Jam.) Nov. 22. Arrived at Port Royal, Nov. 14, sch'r Amanda, Baldwin, from Wilmington—16th, brig George, Blanchard, from Newburyport—17th, ship Hannah, Kenney, Philadelphia; brig Hiram, Church, Wilmington; ship Merry Quaker, Brown, New York; brig Eliza, Pendleton, ditto; John, Martin, Alexandria.
Sailed from Port Royal, Nov. 16, brig Mary Ann, Harper, for Alexandria—17th, brig Dasher, Darrell, New York; Eliza, Taylor, Charleston; sch'r Trial, Patterson, Newbern—18th, ship Johanna Adriana, Poort, Charleston; brig Mary, Foster, ditto; sch'r Four Sisters, Dowling, Philadelphia—21st, brig Friends, Metcalfe, Charleston; sch'r Abigail, Berry, ditto.
Cleared at the Custom House for departure—Ship Charlotte, Pelham, for Wilmington; brigs Ceres, Bates, New York; Eliza, Hatch, Charleston; Two Brothers, Jones, Beaufort.
CUSTOM-HOUSE—ENTERED.
Ship Live Oak, Yarrel, Jamaica. Indian Packet, Rindge, Dublin. Rose, Johnston, Maranens. Brig Chassmont, Dale, Guernsey. Sch'r Experiment, Nash, Tobago. Rainbow, Hathaway, St. Lucea.
CLEARED.
Sch'r Swallow, Barclay, West-Indies.
DEAGLE'S Packet will sail for Baltimore the first fair wind. Dec. 19.
Landing from the Ship Ocean, from Marseilles, 600 hds. 100 cases Claret; 13 do. Vin-de-Grave, 57 pipes Brandy; 175 cases Sweet Oil; 25 do. Olives, 5 cases Capers; 20 do. Anchovies; 2 do. Fine Hats. 50 bags Corks. For Sale by Moses Myers.
Who has in Store, also for Sale, 150 pipes Cogniac Brandy; 120 hds. good Sugars, 60 bags Coffee; 100 cases choice old Claret, 20 pipes Westport Gin; 800 empty Gin Cases, 10,000 bushels Lisbon and Isle of May Salt. October 13.
Sales at Auction.
LANDS for Sale. BY VIRTUE of a Deed in Trust, executed by PRESTON BOWMAN, to secure the payment of a sum of money due by him to JOHN EVERY, will positively be sold without reserve, on MONDAY the 29th instant, at the Exchange Coffee House, the following
LOTS OF LAND, situate in the Borough of Norfolk, viz. one Lot beginning at the intersection of Bute and Dunmore-Streets, running thence along Bute-street to Yarmouth-street, thence to York-street, thence to Dunmore-street, and thence to the place of beginning.
One Lot beginning at the intersection of York with Yarmouth-streets, thence 198 feet along Yarmouth-street, thence to Dunmore-street, thence to York-street, thence along York-street to the beginning.
And another Lot situate on the Main-Street between the lane leading down to Gen. Matthews's, and the land belonging to the estate of Col. Tucker.—Terms of Sale, Cash.
John Nirison, James Taylor, jun. } Trustees. Rob't B. Taylor. tds December 17.
For Sale or Charter, The good Brig PEACE, ca. tain Swain, burthen about 1100 barrels, can be ready to receive a cargo in three days. Apply to the master, or December 19. 3
For Freight, The new and fast sailing schooner RISING SUN, 86 tons or 700 barrels, Burges, master, will take a freight either to the West-Indies or any port in the United States on moderate terms—For which apply to the master on board, or
Fish & Cullet. Who has for Sale, A few hds. N. E. Rum; and 4 pipes country Gin, December 19. tf
Ground Alum SALT. TWO thousand bushels Ground Allum Salt, for Sale on board the schooner Lydia, capt. Livingston, at my wharf. Who offers The said Schooner for Charter, burthen 1100 barrels Flour. Dec. 19. tf
For CHARTER, The brig Fair Manhattan, Wm. Wolfendale, master, burthen 1000 barrels Flour, now ready to receive a cargo—Apply to WM. PENNOCK. Who is receiving from different vessels, 50 hds. St. Croix Sugars, 1st quality; 150 pieces Russia, 80 do. Ravens Duck; 200 bbls. prime Pork, New-York inspection. Dec 19 tf
For Freight or Charter, The fine Ship India Packet, William Rindge, master, burthen 400 hds. tobacco, can be ready to receive a cargo in two days—Apply on board, or to PHINEHAS DANA. December 19. tf
NOTICE. THURSDAY next being Christmas Day, this Office will not be open for the transacting of business.—All Bills or Notes payable on that day, must be retired the day preceding. Applications for Discount, must be lodged in Office on Tuesday. Robert Oliphant, Cashier. Office of Discount and Deposit, Bank U. States, Dec. 19, 1806.
For Sale, BILLS of Exchange, drawn by Edward Stopford, Esq. commander of his Majesty's ship Chichester, at 30 days sight on the commissioners of the navy, for repairs to said ship—Apply to WM. GRAY. December 19. tf
Sugar and Raisins. LANDING this day on our wharf from on board the schooner Carlton—132 hds. 5 tiers, 3 barrels prime SUGARS—And from on board sloop Katy Maria, 100 kegs Malaga RAISINS, all of which we will dispose of on liberal terms and long credit. C. F. Whittle. December 3. tf
Mountain BUTTER, OF a superior quality just received, and for sale on low terms if applied for immediately. J. & W. Southgate. 1m December 15.
Cogniac Brandy and Pepper. TWENTY pipes Cogniac Brandy; 20 bags black Pepper, this day landing from schooner Weymouth—For Sale by FISKE & CATLETT. December 15. tf
Alspice and French Brandy. FIVE hundred lb. Alspice, and 5 pipes choice 4th proof French Brandy, landing on Maxwell's wharf from schooner Weymouth, from New-York. And in store, just received, A few casks very excellent Salt Petre; 500 lb. best double and single Gloucester Cheese; 100 bushels black eyed Pease; 10 pipes Hollands Gin; 40 barrels 3d proof Peach Brandy, for sale by Price & Waddey. 3t December 15.
Wine, Raisins, Lemons, &c. LANDING from the brig Ann, on Gibson's wharf, from Malaga—20 qr. casks Wine; 400 qr. barrels Sun Raisins; 10 boxes Lemons; 30 barrels Anchovies; 600 boxes Bloom Raisins; 500 do. Muscadel do—For sale by Edward Roberts. Said BRIG is offered for Charter, burthen 1200 barrels. Dec. 15. 3t
TEN DOLLARS REWARD. STRAYED or stolen last night, from the door of MR. JOHN WARREN, a BAY HORSE, with a Bridle and Saddle. The saddle has a buckskin seat, the boss on the right side of the pommel has been lost, a striped casimere saddle cloth, plated stirrups and furniture. The horse is shod before, is about fifteen hands high, has some remarkable white spots on his feet, and a star in his forehead. Whoever will deliver the said horse to the subscriber, shall receive the above reward, and if stolen One Hundred Dollars, upon conviction of the thief.
Also, strayed from the commons, a PIED COW, red and white spots, very saddle backed, one of her horns has been knocked off, the bone standing, her ears split down the middle and one half cut off, one on the upper and the other on the lower side; whoever will give information of the above Cow, so that I can get her again, shall receive Five Dollars reward, and reasonable charges paid, if brought to James Tucker. Dec. 15.
NOTICE.
The Copartnership of P. DANA, & Co. being dissolved by the death of Mr. STEPHEN PARRAN; business in future will be transacted by Phinehas Dana. August 20. tf 95
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for the United States and Virginia Banks, for sale at this Office.