Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1806-10-06 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.  SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PRÆMIA LAUD.
VOL. III.]
MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 6, 1806.
[NO. 35.]
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
Freight for Philadelphia, Room for Forty Puncheons is wanted in a good vessel, to sail without delay.—Ap- ply to Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. Who have just received on consignment, 20 boxes well assorted wool and cotton CARDS, No 6, to 10, manufactured by Thomas Pearsall, New-York—For Sale at prime cost. October 3. 3 229
For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The Barque PETERSBURG ; she is now ready to take in a cargo either for Europe or the West-Indies, the former would be pre- ferred.
A Freight is also Wanted for the Snow WENTWORTH , for the West-Indies, she is also ready for the reception of a cargo. George Wilson. October 1. 3 221
Received per the Sloop Farmer's Daughter, from Jamaica, 41 puncheons high proof RUM. For Sale by Wilson, Cunningham, & Co. Freight will be taken on low terms for EDENTON, on board said Sloop, if immediately offered. Sept. 29. 210
For SALE, 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. 202
For Freight or Charter, The Ship JUNO , Thomas Ritson, mas- ter, burthen 3000 barrels Flour, or 375 hhd. Tobacco; will be ready to receive a cargo in 15 days. ALSO, The Ship COURTNEY , Wm. Bryant, master, burthen 1800 barrels Flour, or 250 hogsheads Tobacco; now ready to receive a cargo. ALSO, The Ship INDUSTRY , Noah Wright, master, burthen 3000 barrels Flour, or 375 hogsheads Tobacco, now at City Point, and will be ready to re- ceive a cargo in 15 days. William Pennock. Sept. 22. 199
For Liverpool, The good ship LAURA , Thomas Hoole, master, burthen about 260 hhd. Tobacco, will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. For Freight or Charter, apply to Alexander Maclure. Who has on board said vessel for Sale, 1500 sacks Liverpool filled SALT, 12 crates Bottles; 20 do Earthenware. And in Store, 8000 bushels Liverpool stoved SALT, 73 crates Earthenware; 38 Hogsheads Tobacco, 5 pipes L. P. Madeira Wine, 10 do. fine old Sicily do; 4 do. Spanish Brandy, 3 hhd. Cognac Brandy; 2 pipes N. E. Rum, 3 do. old Jamaica Rum; 30 casks Claret Wine, 24 casks Glass Ware well assorted, 16 boxes Window Glass, 8 by 10, 10 do. Castile Soap; 25 baskets 12 cases Anniseed. 20 pieces Hessians; 250 Salt Sacks. Sept. 19. 195
For Liverpool, The new, staunch, and remarkable swift- sailing Ship ELIZA , John W. Treadwell, master, will sail by the 1st of October, having two thirds of her cargo engaged. For freight, apply to the master on board at Goham's wharf, or Phinehas Dana. Sept. 17. 189
For Freight or Charter, The very fine Ship MENTOR , Stephen Waterman, master, burthen 350 Hhd. now ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to the master on board, or to N. Heron. Sept. 12. 172
For CHARTER, The Ship LIVE OAK , Gerrard Yarrell, Master, burthen 280 tons, in good order, and can be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. For terms apply to the master on board, WILLIAM PENNOCK. Who has for Sale, on board said Ship, 100m. feet Merchantable BOARDS. Sept. 8. 162
For Freight or Charter, The Ship JANE , Melzar Joy, master, burthen 188 tons, can be ready to receive a cargo in ten days. Apply to the master on board, or Phinehas Dana. Who offers for SALE, 77 Puncheons Jamaica RUM, Imported in said Ship. Sept. 3. 144
For Sale or Charter, The fast sailing Sch't CAROLINE , James Gilbert, Master, burthen 120 tons, or 850 barrels. Will be ready to receive a cargo in 4 days. Apply to Francis Smith. Who is now landing and for Sale, from said schooner, on Maxwell's wharf, 23 Puncheons choice Grenada RUM. August 29. 124
For Freight or Charter, The good Ship JASON , Titus Salter, master, burthen 240 tons, can be ready to re- ceive a cargo in two days. For terms apply to the master on board, or to Phinehas Dana. August 29. 130
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
For ANTWERP, The good Ship PATSEY , David G. Bowles, master, burthen 370 tons, lying at City Point, having more than half of her cargo engaged and now receiving it on board—For the remainder, about 500 bales of cotton are wanted, which will be taken at a moderate freight, if application be immediate- ly made to Mess. Gallego, Richards, & co. Richmond; Rambaut, Gemon, & co. Petersburg, or to James Maurice, & co. August 25. 109
For Freight or Charter, The good Ship ALEXANDER , Miles King, master, can be ready to receive a cargo in ten days— For SALE, 12,000 bush. Liverpool stoved SALT, 30 Crates of well assorted CROCCERY WARE. Also—An extensive assortment of FALL GOODS, Which will be disposed of on low terms, for Cash. J. & W. Southgate. August 27. 116
We want a freight of Tobacco, For the Ship JULIA , Captain Vickery, to a port in France, but then 300 hogsheads. C. & F. Whittle. August 25. 112
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. 102
For LONDON, The well known elegant Ship ALMIRA , Captain Whipple, three years old, and bur- then 300 hhd.—She will be ready to receive a cargo in three days, and has a considerable part of it engaged; for freight of the remainder, or passage, (having excellent accommo- dation) apply to Capt. Whipple on board, or N. Heron. August 20. 98
For Sale or Charter, The fine staunch, fast sailing Brig ANN ELIZABETH , Richard Owens, master, 4 years old, burthen about 1300 barrels, and will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. Apply to John Brown. Who has received from Madeira by said Brig, a few pipes, hogsheads, and quarter casks London particular Madeira WINE, which will be sold low by applying as above. August 11. 66
For Freight or Charter, The fast-sailing Brig ELIZABETH , Robert Barclay, master, burthen 1300 barrels, will be ready for the reception of a cargo in a few days. Apply to John Davis. Portsmouth, July 16. 968
NOTICE. Petitions will be presented to the next General Assembly of this State, for the following objects, to wit:
 1st. To alter the present mode of electing the Common Council of the Borough of Norfolk, and to sub- ject the voters to fines for non-attendance at elections.  2d. To enable the Mayor, Recorder, and Common Council to enforce, by bye-laws, similar to those in Alexandria, the paving of the Streets, and more effectually to remove nuisances and improve the health of the town.  3d. To extend the jurisdiction of the Corporation Courts, so as to allow process for apprehending cri- minals and fugitives, to be served any where upon the wa- ters within the limits of the Port of Norfolk and Portsmouth.  4th. To authorise the Corporation Court to keep or let out the right of Ferryage from the Borough of Norfolk to the opposite shores of Elizabeth River and Hamp- ton, and to apply the profits thereof towards the support of an Hospital, for the reception of indigent sick persons (not belonging to any vessel) who may be seized with the Yellow Fever, or other diseases incident to seaport towns.  5th. Further to amend the Charter of the Borough of Norfolk, in such a manner that the same person may be re-elected Mayor from year to year, not exceeding years; and, altogether with the Aldermen, to receive such compensation for his or their services as the Common Council shall deem reasonable, to be paid either out of the general funds of the town, or by tax upon bills of health, warrants of survey upon vessels, taking depositions under foreign commissions, and so forth.  6th. For an amendment to the Dock Law, so as to permit the fixture of Flood Gates at the the lower bridge, on the back creek, to keep in or let out at will, the water, for the greater comfort of the surrounding inhabitants, as well as for the improvement of the navigation of the creek below the bridge.  7th. To amend and explain the acts of As- sembly, respecting the appointment and duties of Harbour Master, in such a manner as shall in future prevent any in- terference between those who may be appointed by the coun- ty courts, and those to be appointed by the courts of the cor- poration—Letting each to depend upon their own industry, "as to bring vessels to their moorings in the harbour," but not to interfere with vessels avowedly bound to, or which may be at the wharves or docks of the other.  8. To extend the limits of the Borough, so as to include from the creek on the west side of the aids of George Kelly, deceased, to the bridge near the Sycamores, and from thence down the meanderings of the creek to the river.  9. To incorporate a Company for the pur- pose of cutting a Canal from the head of Piume's to Tanner's Creek. Sept. 29. una 207 
RICHARD JEFFERY, & Co. Have just received from London by the last arrival, a very full assortment of DRUGS & MEDICINES, Of the best quality, which are offered for Sale on moderate terms at No. 66, Main-Street.—Attention has been paid to procure every article of the most genuine kind; and it is intended to have the assortment regularly furnished from the best markets; among a great variety are now offered the following:
 Aloes, Allum,  Ether of Vitriol, Antimony,  Aqua Fortis,  Pale, red, and yellow Bark,  of superior quality.  Borax, Camphor,  Cantharides, Cochineal,  Cream of Tartar,  Camomile Flowers,  Cinnamon, Colocynth,  Calomel, Flowers of Benzoin,  Ginger, Glauber Salts,  Epsom do.  Rochelle do.  Guins Ammoniac, Assafoetida,  Benzoin, Guaiacum,  Gamboge, Myrrh, Kino,  Scammony, and Arabic,  Litit, Liquorice refined,  Manna Flake,  in sorts,  Magnesia in small and large  squares, Musk, Nutmegs,  Opiam, Jalap, Rhubarb,  Ipecacuanha, Tartar Emetic,  Balsams Capivi, Tolu, Peru,  Spirit of Lavender,  Spermaceti, Sugar of Lead,  Letharge of Gold,  Saltpetre refined,  White Wax, Venetigrease,  Essences of Bergamot, Le-  mons, and Lavender,  Quicksilver, Lunar Caustick,  Sal Ammoniac.  In addition to the above importation from London, they have from Liverpool a variety of GLASS WARE, suitable to Apothecaries—PHIALS and GALLI- POTS by the crate or in smaller quantities—NORTH'S MA- CHINES, URINALS, BREAST PIPES, SHELLS, &c. MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family use, and orders from the country executed with care and dispatch. October 1. 216
NOTICE. I forwarn all persons from harbour- ing or trusting my Wife ELIZA COOK on my account, as I am determined not to pay any debts of her contracting from this date. Thomas Cook. October 1. 217
NORFOLK BOROUGH. In Common Pleas, Sept. 27, 1806. ON motion, Resolved, that Mr. John Southgate, Mr. Richard L. Green, and Mr. John Bramble, be a com- mittee for the examination of all accounts against the Corpo- ration, till the 24th June next, and that this resolution be published three weeks in the Norfolk Herald and the Publick Ledger. A copy, Teste, 213 Wm. Sharp, c. c. h.
THE SUBSCRIBERS TO Carpenter's Monthly Register, are informed that Nos. 10, 11, 12, are received, and will be delivered to the Subscribers on application at the Office of the Publick Ledger. October 1. 214
ROBBERY!!! Ranaway from on board the brig Lioness , WILLIAM SYMES , a Lascar by birth, about 22 or 23 years of age, has lost the palate of his mouth, which causes him to speak through the nose—He took out of a trunk eighty-four Dollars in silver, and a variety of wearing Appa- rel. Whoever will apprehend said Symes, and secure him in jail shall receive TWENTY DOLLARS reward. Marmaduke Dove. October 1. 218
FOR RENT, That large and convenient WARE- HOUSE on my wharf, in the town of Portsmouth. The facility of receiving and delivery of grain, or salt, from this store-house, will make it desirable to any person who may be in the habit of having those articles on hand—I have also a large Lumber Yard, and a shed erected for storing To- bacco or Naval Stores, which may be had with or without the Ware-House. For terms, apply to Mr. George Wilson in Norfolk, or to Thomas Peirce. Smithfield, October 1. 3 222
COCKE & SANFORD, Have received per the Father and Sons from London, and Laura, from Liverpool, an extensive assortment of Fall and Winter Goods, viz.
 Blue, Black, Bottle, Drab, Mild'd Drab, Liver, and Claret, } Superfine CLOTHS,  Fashionable Casemires; Union Cloth; Swansdown and Silk  Waistcoating; coarse Woolens by the piece or bale; Blan-  kets and Flannels do. do.; Irish Linens and Osnaburghs;  best Seine Twine; Twill'd Sacking; Coarse and Fine Hats in  cases; Velvets, Cords, and Corduroys; Calliees, Cambrics,  Ginghams; Silk, Silk and Cotton Chambrays; White, Blue,  Black, and Italian Crapes; Bombazettes, Bombazets, and  Wildbores; Carpets and Carpeting; 100 kegs Gun Powder;  4 Ton Shot; Fowling Pieces; Cutlery assorted in Boxes.  Sept. 19. 193 
We wish to Purchase, a quantity of White R. O. bbl. & hhd. STAVES. J. & W. Southgate. Sept. 15. 181
Landing from on board the schooner Hurriot, 60 Tierces RICE, and a few bales of COTTON—For Sale by Fisk & Catlett. August 20. 100
FOR SALE, 40 Hogsheads prime TOBACCO, (Petersburg inspection,) 100 Barrels prime PORK, 20 Casks Hibbert's PORTER, Madeira and Malaga WINES, &c &c.—Apply to Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. Sept. 28. 297
GREEN COFFEE.
40 Tierces } Fine Jamaica Coffee, 40 Barrels } Landed from the Sloop Union. For Sale by William Pennock. Sept. 8. 163
We have for SALE, on low terms, London particular 18 Pipes, 11 Hogsheads } Madeira WINE, 3 Qr. Casks } A Cargo of Ise of May SALT, 600 Sacks Liverpool stoved do. 20 Hogsheads low land TOBACCO. J. & W. Southgate. August 18. 87
FOR RENT, The three large and commodious Ware- Houses on the lower end of Gibson's Wharf.—Possession may be had immediately, by applying to John Southgate, or William Dickson. Feb. 26. 534
HUNTER & GATEWOOD, Have received per schooner Father and Sons, capt. Hopkins, from London, part of their supply of FALL GOODS, consisting of a handsome assortment of Best superfine broad Cloths, and Cal- simeres; fashionable Waistcoating; Gentlemen's Beaver and peter Silk Hats; silk, cotton, and worsted Hosiery; fine Irish Linens; Diapers, Sheetings, and Long Lawns; hand- some fine pure Callicoes; a few elegant Ladies' Shawls, and a variety of Fancy Articles. They are in expectation of receiving by the first arrivals from Liverpool, a supply of
Woolens, Hardware, &c. &c. Which will make their assortment very general, and which they will dispose of on the lowest terms by wholesale or re- tail, for cash or good paper. Sept. 5. 152
The friends of Thomas Norman, John Marshal, William Norris, Elijah Russel, and John Hub- bard, (who represent themselves to be citizens of Virginia,) have been impressed into the British service, for want of do- cuments to prove their citizenship, will apply at this Office, and give a description of their persons, measures will then be taken to obtain their discharge. Thomas Newton, Collector. Collector's Office, Norfolk, } August 18, 1806. 86
To Rent or Lease, for one or five years, A commodious BRICK-HOUSE, Situated on Smith's-Point, lately occupied by the Subscri- ber; to this tenement is annexed an excellent garden, &c. Apply to Thomas Price. Who has for Sale, A likely NEGRO MAN, about 22 years old; an excellent house servant, and has been accustomed to drive a carriage. July 11. 898
FOR SALE, 430 Shares MARINE STOCK, For Cash—Enquire of the Editor of this Paper. August 25. 113
FOR SALE, A handsome CHARIOT, and two well broke Bay HORSES. Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger. September 24. 203
SALT. 11,000 bush. Liverpool Blown SALT, loose and in sacks, on board the Ship Juno, captain Ritson, will be sold low if applied for immediately. William Pennock. Sept. 22. 200
600 Sacks Fine Liverpool SALT, For SALE by William Dickson. Sept. 5. 150
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
Richard & John Taylor, Have received by the Ship Alexander, from Liverpool, and Father and Sons, from London, an extensive assortment of Seasonable GOODS, which they offer for SALE by wholesale and retail, on mo- derate terms, for Cash or approved paper. Sept. 5. 155
200 barrels new superfine FLOUR, A float—For sale by Fisk & Catlett. Sept. 15. 180
For SALE by the Subscribers, a general assortment of Ship Chandlery, Cordage, and Cables, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 inches, English PAINTS and OIL, Sheathing PAPER, Bar IRON, TOBACCO, Richmond Inspection; FLOUR, FORK, Prime and Cargo, New-York Inspection, 200 Gin CASES; 20 Boxes SEGARS. They have also on hand, an extensive and good as- sortment of GROCERIES. Noble, Arbuthnot, & Co. March 31. 623
10 Groce Wine & Porter BOTTLES, 700 Groce CORKS, 500 lb. excellent GLUE, 11,000 two and 3 Bushel BAGS, 105 Boxes Window GLASS, 175 do. 1st qual. Spanish SEGARS, 27 Packages German LINEN. For Sale by John C. Niemeyer. July 28. 22

THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
TO SHOW THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME, HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
TUESDAY MORNING, OCT. 7, 1806.
The length and interesting nature of the intelligence received by the ship Sheffield, have induced us to suspend publication until this morning.
On Sunday arrived the Ship Sheffield, Capt. Davis, in 48 days from London; from captain Davis, and a friend who came passenger in her, and from our mercantile friends, we have received the Courier, Times, Sun, Cobbett's Journal, and the Independent Whig (a new Paper) from the 6th, to the 16th of August. These papers do not afford so much detail of intelligence as we might reasonably have expected; the most prominent articles we have selected for this day's publication.
Upon the very important event of Peace, the same anxiety and uncertainty existed there, as now exists here. The expectations of peace were not, however, so sanguine as they had been, and if the stocks are to be considered as a political barometer, those expectations must have declined very much since our last advices. Omnium, which had been as high as twelve, actually left off on the 16th at 4 o'clock, at five and an half. There had been a gradual decline from the 8th to the 16th, except a few occasional advances, the effect of stock-jobbing management, but the decline was too powerful to be resisted.
The manner in which Lord Lauderdale had been received at Paris, was not less reconcilable to the rules of decorum, than repugnant to every idea of accommodation. Strange as it may appear, it is no less so, than true, that on the fourth day after his arrival at Paris, he had not had an interview with Talleyrand. If the negotiation progresses at this rate, our quidnunc must arm themselves with a little more patience, than they have appeared disposed to exercise on this occasion.
From the Paris, and other Continental Journals, it appears, that at the juncture of Lord Lauderdale's arrival at Paris, the French government was deeply occupied in the affairs of the German empire. That venerable empire, though constructed of crude materials, which has existed for centuries, is tumbled from its base, and all its leading features will be, or is by this time, so completely effaced, as to leave no traces of its former dignity and strength; upon this subject our readers are referred to the note of M. Bacher, the French plenipotentiary at Ratisbon.
In England, we understand, that all ranks and parties are averse to peace, upon such terms as would not deliver the nation from the present burthen, which the war imposes. The unanimity and patriotism of the nation, become daily more conspicuous; and if war is to continue, the exertions of Britain will exceed any calculation that has been made.
It is with great pleasure, and we say it with confidence, that the very best understanding exists between our ministers in London, and the British government. Mr. Monroe and Mr. Pinckney are both much respected, and confided in; the appointment of the latter was very satisfactory in England, and afforded a pleasing evidence of the friendly disposition of our government, notwithstanding our prohibitory law, which it was expected would be repealed in some way or other.
Dispatches from our Ministers in London, as late as the middle of August, received by the Sheffield, were sent on to Washington by the mail on Sunday. —The grand expedition, supposed for the Mediterranean, came down Channel the 18th of August.
The ship John and Alice, sailed from London about the 6th of August, having on board the baggage of Mr. Erskine, the British minister.
A letter which we have seen from an American captain of much intelligence, from Barcelona, as late as the last of July, states, that the Tunisians and Tripolitans, have a very considerable force at sea, and that the Americans in the Mediterranean are under considerable alarm.
Extract of a letter from a commercial gentleman in London, dated the 14th August, received per the ship Sheffield.
"Business of every kind is dull here, except what is connected with the stocks, and the dealers in cotton. When Lord Lauderdale embarked for France, omnium rose to 12 3-4 per cent. from 7 per cent. but it has been gradually going down again, and is now about 9 per cent. premium. When the idea of a peace first became prevalent, cotton was very dull at seventeen pence half-penny per lb. some sales have lately been made at twenty pence, under an opinion that a peace will extend the demand for manufactured goods, in proportion to the restriction which it is the policy of France at present to impose on all British manufactures.
"Tobacco has fallen about ten per cent. in consequence of the appearance of peace.—As to Flour, no great change has yet happened, but if the harvest is as productive as it is expected, that article will possibly fall considerably.
"We are without any intelligence from Lord Lauderdale since he reached Paris, and the opinion for peace and war seem nearly equal."
NEW YORK, Sept. 29.
We are informed by the capt. of the ship Joseph, from New Orleans, that in consequence of the intrusion of the Spaniards in crossing the Sabine, and the hostility evinced by their seizing upon an American post, a few miles from Natchitoches, with an avowed determination of maintaining an encampment with our troops there; that Gov. Claiborne had sent on an express, which produced an order for the immediate levy of the militia, who, in concert with the regulars, were ready, at moment's notice to march, and oblige them by force, to re-cross the river.
NEW ORLEANS, August 29.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman at Fort Adams, to his friend in this city, dated August 25. "As to our war-like affairs on the Red River, nothing has transpired since my last. Gov. Claiborne, and his adjutant general are going to Natchitoches, captains Lockwood and Hains, left this to day for that post, and col. Kingsbury with the troops will follow to morrow, our militia are mustered and under drill."
WASHINGTON, September 20.
From information, which may be relied on, it appears that the Spanish forces had, in the beginning of August, passed the Sabine river, and entered the territory of the United States. Their whole strength is represented to amount to about one thousand, under the command of Col. Errara. Col. Cushing, the American commandant, was at the last date stationed at Natchitoches, with a force of between four and five hundred men, which, with the troops ordered from Fort Adams, and other posts, would probably amount to between six and seven hundred. Governor Claiborne was actively engaged in making arrangements for calling out the militia, if such a measure should prove necessary. Col. Cushing had on the 5th August despatched Major Porter to Col. Errara, to advise him of the existing state of things between the United States and Spain, that negotiations were actually depending between them, and urging the impropriety of making any change in the situation of the armed force of either nation which should alter the state of things on the delivery of the country to the United States; and informing him that any invasion of the territory of the United States would be resisted.
Col. Errara, who was on this side of the Sabine, at Prudhomme, about 40 miles from Natchitoches, replied on the ensuing day, that, in obedience to instructions, it was his purpose to keep the territory against all hostile attempts, it being considered as a dependence of the province of Texas.
Some of the accounts represent the Spanish forces as being within twelve miles of Natchitoches; the most authentic information, however, from that post, which is no later than the 20th of August, says no apprehension was entertained for its safety, nor was it thought that an attack was meditated on it. Nat. Intelligencer.
CHARLESTON, September 23.
Captain Jones arrived yesterday, left Havana on Monday last. A few hours after sailing saw a French 74 gun ship, with the loss of her fore and main-topsails and mizen-mast, running in for the Moro, and a British frigate in chase. As soon as the frigate came within gun-shot, the 74 lay too, opened her lower ports, and commenced firing. After exchanging a few shots, the frigate finding the metal of the French ship too heavy, sheered off, and the 74 got safe into the Havana, where she fired an imperial salute, which was returned by the Spanish 74 lying in that port. Capt. Jones states, that the French ship discharged upwards of 100 shot. A number of shot were also fired at the frigate from a Spanish fort, but it did not appear that she sustained any damage.
The French ship is no doubt one of Jerome's squadron; and the British frigate we believe to be the Cerberus, of 32 guns, captain Selby, as she was the only British cruiser off Havana. Times.
Foreign Intelligence,
From London Papers received at the Office of the Publick Ledger, by the Ship Sheffield, Captain Davis.
LONDON, August 10.
No messenger is yet arrived with intelligence of the Earl of Lauderdale having reached Paris.—His Lordship reached Calais at 10 o'clock last Sunday morning, and would arrive at Paris on Monday night.—It was expected that Basilio would have returned yesterday with an account of his Lordship's arrival.—But perhaps Lord Lauderdale thought it best to keep Basilio till he had had an interview with the minister Talleyrand.
ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, Aug. 9.
Copy of a letter, transmitted by Earl St. Vincent. MARS, AT SEA, July 29, 1806.—Lat. 45, deg. 9 min. N. long. 4 deg. 50 min. at Noon.
SIR,
I beg leave to acquaint you, that I continued in pursuit of four of the enemy's frigates the night of the 27th inst. although I lost sight of them, as also of the squadron under your command, soon after it was dark, except the Africa, which we saw until about eleven o'clock, on the lee-quarter, when she was observed to burn some false fires. We steered about a point free the whole night, with a light in the stern, standing to the southward, and carried a press of sail; I was induced so to do, from observing the course the enemy's squadron was steering when first seen, and judging that it would increase their difficulty of getting to leeward of us; it had that effect most fully, for, at daylight yesterday morning, they were discovered precisely in the same bearing as on the previous evening, though at a greater distance, except their sternmost ship, which we appeared to be gaining on; this induced the French commodore to tack with his three headmost ships, and join her, and formed in line of battle on the larboard tack, I thought, and hoped, with a determination to try the fortune of war, which was what every one on board the Mars most anxiously wished; but, after making some signals, about three in the afternoon he made off with three frigates; the other continued her course under an extraordinary press of sail; and, finding she was the only one we had gained on during a chase of 150 miles, and the day far spent, I still kept after her till six o'clock, when in the midst of a violent squall of wind and hail, we were ranging upon her lee quarter; after the first shot, she struck her colours just at the moment our broadside was about to open on her. She proved to be La Rhin, a very fine French frigate of 44 guns, 18 pounders on the main deck, and 318 men; only four years old, commanded by capt. Chesneau; the squadron was commanded by Mons. Lamarre Lameillerie, in the Hortense, with the Hermoine and Themis frigates, on their return from Porto Rico. Soon after La Rhin had surrendered, on the squall clearing away, the other three frigates were seen standing to the south-east; and I regret that the weather, which has yet prevented our removing more than one third of the prisoners, made it impracticable for me to pursue them farther. I cannot conclude without expressing my admiration of the conduct of every officer and man in this ship, during a chase of 24 hours, against so superior a force, with very bad weather and incessant rain; several of our sails were split and replaced with alacrity; and, in short, had the remainder of the French squadron waited our approach, from the great zeal manifested by every person on board, I have no doubt but our efforts would have been crowned with complete success in their destruction.
I have the honour to be, &c.
ROB. DUDLEY OLIVER.
To Captain Keats, Superb, &c. &c.
P. S. The Rhin hove overboard in the chase six of her quarter deck and fore castle guns, and a bow-er anchor.
August 12.
ADMIRALTY-OFFICE, August 12, 1806. Copy of a letter from capt. Stiles, of his majesty's ship the Adamant, to William Marsden, Esq. Adamant in False Bay, Cape of Good Hope, May 2d, 1806.
SIR,
I have the honour to inform you of the arrival of his majesty's ship under my command, at this anchorage, with the victuallers (Alexander and Royal Charlotte), accompanied by the Spanish ship Nostra Senora de los Dolores, alias La Reparadora, of 30 guns, (12 and 24 pounders,) and 315 men, commanded by Stanislaus Comaud, an officer in the Spanish Navy. We fell in and captured her on the 6th inst. in lat. 30 deg. 30 min. S. and long 15 deg. 20 min. W. She had been out a month from Monte Video, in the Rio de la Plata, and had taken nothing. I have great satisfaction in announcing the capture of this ship to you, as from her magnitude and force she might have done much mischief to the trade on the coast of Africa; her crew are a desperate set of French, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Americans, the principal officers French; she had authority from the Vice Roy to wear the colours of the king of Spain, and had a company of Spanish infantry on board. She is a strong well built vessel, about four years old, coppered, and copper-fastened, and is, in my opinion, well calculated for his majesty's service. I have, &c
JOHN STILES.
Copy of another letter from capt. Stiles, of his majesty's ship Adamant, to William Marsden, Esq. ST. HELENA, June 25, 1806.
SIR,
Four days before I parted with the East India convoy, I fell in with and captured a Spanish ship of war of 30 guns and 350 men; the particulars of which I beg leave to inclose in a letter, No. 1. I arrived in Table Bay, with the Victuallers, on the 20th of May; and, having seen them in safety, without anchoring myself, I immediately proceeded to sea on my returning to St. Helena, according to their lordship's orders; but meeting with a most violent gale of wind from the N. W. and being very short of water, having been three months from England, without touching at any place, with 315 prisoners) both my maintop-sail yards carried away, and my people very much afflicted with the Scurvy, I thought myself justified in bearing up for Simon's Bay, for refreshments. The French Admiral, Willeaumez, with six sail of the line, was in these seas about six weeks ago; his intention was to have gone to the Cape; but, hearing it was in our possession, he was obliged to go to Fernald de Noronha for water, and has not since been heard of. The Cannonier Frigate, (late his majesty's ship Minerve,) put into False Bay about the 1st of May, not knowing the Cape was in our hands, and sent her boat on shore with a Lieutenant, who, with his crew, are prisoners on board this ship. As there was no man of war in either Table or False Bay, and as she did not quite fetch into the proper anchorage, she got away, and it is supposed she is gone to the Isle of France, where the Piedmontese is lying blocked up by the Russel, lord Duncan, and Psyche. I have the honour to be, &c. J. STILES.
August 13.
We this day resume our extracts from the last of the Hamburg mails.
The French armies are on the alert in every part of Germany. No rational conjecture can be formed as to the precise object of these extraordinary movements. The general presumption, however, is, that they are connected with the projected changes in the constitution of the German empire. To controul Austria, and awe Prussia and her Allies, is more essential to the consummation of Buonaparte's plans at the present moment than ever. It is stated in our private letter, that his Prussian majesty is extremely dissatisfied with the new arrangement, and that he meditates some serious opposition to it. All the troops in Holland have suddenly received orders to advance to the Ems, and the Prussian forces under general Blucher are likewise defiling towards that river. There are not wanting people on the Continent who speculate upon the probability of a quarrel between these two Powers. That Prussia, by a great parade of her military strength, may endeavour to extort something from Buonaparte is by no means unlikely; it would be consistent with her usual course of policy. But that she seriously meditates upon going to war with France, is reconcilable with no principle whatever of her ordinary prudence.
The repeated conferences between the French ambassador at Vienna, and the Austrian minister, are said to be on the subject of the German Confederation. It has, we understand, been proposed to Francis II. to commit a kind of political suicide upon himself, and to abdicate his title as head of the German empire. Should the emperor consent to this, without some kind of struggle, we cannot perceive how he or those who succeed him are to avail themselves of his present protests, remonstrances, or opposition. These menacing movements among the French armies might, however, have been the consequence of instructions transmitted previous to the conclusion of the treaty with Russia. That important event does not appear to have been matter of general notoriety in Germany, so late as the 29th of last month.
It is yet to be seen whether Prussia has consented to the plan and principles of the new German League. It is supposed that a proposal has been made to her from France, to place herself at the head of a Northern German Confederacy, as the latter intends to do with the Southern League. There are few, however, of the German princes, who will be anxious to place themselves under the protection of Prussia at this moment.
Buonaparte is expected to be present at the first meeting of the Deputies of the new German Diet, which is to take place at Frankfort on the first of next month. The German papers contain the principal features in the new system, but their details offer nothing interesting to the generality of English readers.
August 14.
A state paper* of some importance, the declaration of his Prussian Majesty to the Hanoverian deputies, will be found in a subsequent column. The last part of it contains, we believe the first mention which that sovereign has thought proper to make of England, as connected with the country of which he has lately taken possession. It is also so far interesting, as it explains his motives for incorporating Hanover with the Prussian monarchy. The deputies are told, that experience has proved "that England cannot protect them; that they can be protected by Prussia alone, and that the welfare and security both of Hanoverian states & the Prussian monarchy depend upon their union and incorporation." Are we to conclude from the tone of this declaration, that his Prussian Majesty is determined to maintain his hold upon Hanover? It will, we are persuaded, be no easy task to induce him to give up that country, for where can he find an equivalent for the loss of it? The new federative system which is about to be introduced into Germany precludes him from any hope of ever recovering Anspach or Bareuth. After having driven Austria out of the empire, Buonaparte will scarcely be guilty of the indiscretion of suffering Prussia to occupy her place. Prussia will therefore struggle hard to retain what she has acquired. Her * Will be given in our next. Ed. Led.
commercial prosperity has ever been but a secondary consideration. It is to territorial aggrandizement that the course and bent of her policy have been invariably directed. The recent changes in the condition of the Continent, as well as the new order of things which is about to be established there, cut her off from all hope of farther extending her dominions. It is not unlikely that Hesse and Saxony will find it necessary to separate themselves from Prussia, and cleave to the new league. All the disposable part of Westphalia is in a fair way of being appropriated, either by the king of Holland, or his neighbour the duke of Cleves. Holstein, Hanover, and Swedish Pomerania, are, therefore, the only parts of the north of Germany, to which his Prussian majesty can look for an indemnity for the great sacrifices he has made in Franconia. With respect to the first it is known, that propositions of importance enough to have brought Count Bernstorff to Berlin, was tendered to and rejected by the Court of Denmark last war. The integrity of the Swedish dominions is guaranteed by Russia, Hanover, therefore, offers the only source from which his Prussian majesty can derive compensation, and it looks as if he were determined to maintain the footing he has acquired there. Times.
We have the pleasure to state, that the most flattering expectations were yesterday entertained of Mr. Fox's recovery. Several of the ministers called, and Lord Grenville and Lord Howick transacted business with him.
August 15.
We yesterday announced the arrival of Basilio, the messenger, from Paris, without hazarding any conjecture as to the nature of the despatches of which he was the bearer. Some of our co-temporaries were rather more adventurous. They concluded, from causes no doubt very sufficient to their minds, that the intelligence which he brought was, in the highest degree, satisfactory. The extraordinary scene which took place at the stock exchange, yesterday, evinces that the speculators had no great confidence in the opinion of our fellow journalists.—
After various fluctuations, Omnium left off at 3 1-4 per cent. lower than the price at which the market opened. The various reports which contributed to produce this uncommon depression, will be found under another head. Some of them are to be regarded as the fabrications of the moment. Such, we apprehend, are the revival of the maritime confederacy of the North, and the rumour of alliance offensive and defensive between Russia and France, to be particularly directed against this country. Though we have reason to fear that the ardour of the emperor Alexander's friendship towards us is a good deal abated, we can scarcely believe that he has commissioned M. D'Oubril to go to that extreme. In fact, we believe the fall in the funds was rather the result of the arrival of Lord L. Gower, and the opinion which he might be supposed to convey of the disposition of the court of St. Petersburg, than any thing which transpired respecting the nature of the despatches from Lord Lauderdale.
The question of peace, we have reason to think, will not be long undecided. A cabinet council was held yesterday on the subject of the despatches brought by Basilio, and a messenger was sent off last night with the answer of his majesty's government. If the enemy be sincere in his desire of peace upon fair and honourable conditions, Ld. Lauderdale will continue the negotiation. Should any disposition appear to protect it, for the purpose of deluding us, converting our wishes and credulity to a source of profit, and disarming the Continent, by shewing to it the futility of any hope it might build upon the strength and resources of Great Britain, we are persuaded, after such a discovery, his Lordship will not remain at Paris one hour longer than it may be necessary for him to obtain his passports and prepare for his journey. Ibid.
Last night we received Paris papers to the 7th, and Dutch to the 12th instant. Their contents are of the highest importance.
Buonaparte, by a decree dated the 3d instant, and inserted in the Moniteur of the 5th has ordered that fifty thousand men of the conscription of the present year should be immediately called out. To the decree are added some observations, calculated to dissipate the apprehensions which this extraordinary measure may be expected to excite, not only in France, but in every part of the Continent within the reach of her arms. It is endeavoured to represent it as a common military occurrence, from which no inferences in favour either of peace or war ought to be made. Why has it been found necessary then to accompany it with explanation, the effect of which will be the very reverse of what is apparently meant to be produced? What are the powers of the Continent to look to, when they see the strength of the French army carried to the highest point, as it avowedly will be by the incorporation of these fifty thousand conscripts? Is there one of these sovereigns who can repose in security for a week when he finds, that even in peace it is to be maintained within ten thousand men of its full war establishment? If one gigantic power is to retain its strength and means of oppression and annoyance, while all the other states are called upon, as it were, to lay down their arms, not only their temporary safety, but their very existence, are at the mercy of that power. The ambiguous terms in which the peace of the Continent is alluded to, are of themselves, independently of the movements of the French armies, sufficient to excite strong suspicions that tranquillity is far from being restored. The article expresses "a hope that the affairs of the Continent are about to be settled." Surely, after having dictated peace to Austria, negotiated successfully with Russia, and secured the friendship and alliance of Prussia, this is a subject upon which Buonaparte might have given a more explicit assurance to the continent, than this equivocal declaration. What are we to think of his views and intentions when nominally at peace with all the world except this country, we see him calling out the conscription, a measure which he did not consider as necessary, even previous to the battle of Austerlitz, and while the event of the late campaign was yet undecided. The obvious inference is, that his ambition, "making the meat it feeds on," is without bounds or measure, and that he confidently looks to the entire subjugation, with the exception perhaps of Russia, of every power upon the continent of Europe.
The plan of the new constitution for Germany, or, as it is to be henceforth called, "the league of the Rhine," has been officially notified by Bacher, the French minister to the Diet of Ratisbon. It is curious to hear Buonaparte assigning as reasons for putting an end to the ancient code, the very events and calamities which he has been so instrumental in producing. The peace of Lunéville, and the peace of Presburgh, have contributed more to the destruction of that venerable edifice, than all the attacks which it has ever suffered from foreign force or domestic treachery and commotion. The first shook the foundation; the second has converted the superstructure into one extended ruin. The concluding observations in M. Bacher's note merit much attention. After having by this new league assured as he hopes, the perpetual tranquillity of the Continent, we should have expected that the Charge d'Affaires would have finished the sense with saying, that his master would apply himself to cultivate the arts of peace, and diffuse its blessings among his people.—No such thing. Fortunately, there is still something

in the condition of Europe worthy to occupy his ever active mind. He has yet one wish remaining—to employ the means which Providence has given him in restoring the liberty of the seas, establishing freedom of commerce, and thus assuring the tranquility and happiness of the world." And it is with a man who puts such sentiments into the mouths of his ministers, and who himself declared, after the surrender of the idot Mack at Ulm, that "he wanted only ships, colonies, and commerce," that we are to look for a sincere and permanent adjustment of differences?
August 16.
Basilico arrived at Deal at ten o'clock yesterday morning, and immediately embarked on board the Speculator lugger, which landed him on the French coast about 4 o'clock. He will, in all probability, reach Paris this evening. It has been reported that another communication has been made to our government by lord Lauderdale since Basilico left Paris. But we have not heard of the arrival of any other messenger.
The funds declined still further yesterday, and omnium left off at 5 1-2, and the three per cents. at 61 5-8. This morning they opened a little better—the former being at 6 1-4, and the latter at 62 1-8. It is idle to pretend that so great and rapid a fall has been occasioned by any another cause than the unfavourable aspect of the negotiation. It is positively asserted, that M. Talleyrand delayed seeing lord Lauderdale for three or four days after he arrived at Paris, upon the pretence of being occupied upon other objects which would not admit of a moment's delay. This mode of treatment cannot be considered in any other point of view, than as an intentional slight. It seems as if Buonaparte wished to exhibit to the world the spectacle of an English ambassador waiting his minister's leisure—"I am not in the vein to-day—thou troublest me."
He appears to wish to protract and evade till he has arranged and executed his new plan of a German confederacy. He will then consent to negotiate with us, upon the principle he has avowed in his note to the diet of Ratisbon. "The liberty of the seas, and the freedom of commerce," expressions not all connected with the subject matter of the note, but introduced for the purpose of affording us an insight into his policy. If he persist in that policy, peace is impossible—for we need not remind our readers of the sense and meaning which he attaches to those expressions; upon the subject of commerce, Buonaparte is little better informed than a child. He has adopted a certain set of ideas, to which he clings with all the obstinacy of ignorance, that the commerce of Great-Britain is detrimental to the continent; as if the continent had not at least as much, if not more, need of a commercial intercourse with us than we have with the continent.—There is not a part of Europe which does not feel the benefit of our commercial superiority—nor are two blades of grass made to grow where but one grew before, which are not in some measure indebted for that improvement to the trade of Great-Britain.—When Buonaparte talks of the freedom of commerce, that is, the freedom of no commerce, no manufactures which shall not be dependent upon his will, does he not see that we too if we choose to retort upon him, might say that we would not permit any commerce by sea, but such as we choose, and that France herself should not receive a pound of coffee, or sugar, or cotton, or any produce that must be brought by sea, without our permission? When Buonaparte menaces this country with excluding us from all influence or concern with the continent, that he is the master of it, it would be quite as competent for us to say to him, that he shall have no influence nor concern with the seas, that we are the lords of the ocean, and will shut him up in Europe, and exclude him from all intercourse with three quarters of the globe.
The language of the ministerialists, since the arrival of Basilico, as our readers may easily suppose from the fall of the funds, is so little favourable to the idea of any successful termination of lord Lauderdale's mission; that they are preparing us for his speedy return, and for a maritime confederacy against us in the North.—From such a confederacy we have nothing to fear, and we perfectly agree with them, that in the end it would only contribute to display in a more signal manner the power, the greatness, and the resources of this country.
Courier.
We are happy to add that no fears are entertained for the safety of the homeward bound Jamaica fleet, which was seen in the Gulph on the 14th ult. by an American ship, which is arrived at Liverpool.—It consisted of 150 sail, and was expected to get through the gulph on the 15th.
The feelings of our readers in perusing the letter from St. Thomas in yesterday's Courier, corresponded, we have no doubt with our own.—A respectable paper of this morning states, that many harsh reflections were in consequence cast upon admiral Cochrane.—But it is not admiral Cochrane upon whom harsh reflections should be cast—a brave, active, and gallant officer, the whole of his conduct affords us a sufficient guarantee that not the slightest blame is imputable to him. If the letter from St. Thomas be true, we are sure that he will justify himself for declining an engagement under the disparity of force of his own squadron to that of the enemy. But why was his force inferior? Why were the hearts of our gallant sailors to be suffered to be almost broken, by being forced to decline an engagement with the enemy? The harsh reflections should not be cast upon admiral Cochrane, but upon the administration. Why did they delay so long sending a fleet to the West-Indies? Sir John Warren did not leave Spithead till the 4th of June. Six weeks are no long passage for a fleet, and thus Sir John would not reach the West Indies till the 18th July. For any thing the administration knew, admiral Cochrane, instead of having four ships of the line, might have been left with only two; for one of his ships, the Veteran, had been sent out, not to reinforce him, but the convoy—the convoy might not have arrived till after the arrival of the French squadron at Martinique—the homeward bound leeward island fleet, too, might have sailed before the arrival of the enemy, and would of course have sailed under the convoy of one of the admiral's little squadron. Fortunately, however, neither of those events took place; but that they did not take place was not the effect of any measures adopted by the administration. We press these points the more upon our readers, because of the lofty claims of the present ministers to confidence; because of their presumptuous pretensions to the concentration of "all the talents, weight, character and consequence in the country;" because of their repeated attacks upon the naval administration of lord Barham, which lord Howick in particular, so pointedly and repeatedly condemned. But this subject we should pursue further, were it not that an instance is on record of a newspaper having been prosecuted by lord St. Vincent, whose pupil lord Howick is, and convicted of a libel before lord Ellenborough, for saying lord St. Vincent as first lord of the admiralty had neglected his duty.
But is it only of the conduct of the ministry in the West-Indies that we have to complain? What force have they sent to the Mediterranean? How many ships has Sir Sidney Smith with him, and what measures have been taken to blockade Carthagena and Toulon?
Ibid.
Mr. Fox continues to gain strength daily, but yesterday transacted some official business, had a conference with lord L. Gower respectively.
lordship's late embassy to Petersburg. Mr. Fox, it is believed, will soon quit London for a country retirement, in order that his health may be more speedily re-established.
As every circumstance connected with the gallant defence of Geta is of importance, it will gratify curiosity to learn the particulars of the accident which compelled the prince of Hesse to retire from that garrison. He was wounded by a cannon shot in the very act of examining the breach which had been effected by the fire of the enemy. No fatal consequences were apprehended from the accident, but it was however so serious, as to compel him to give the command to another. This event hastened the fall of the place; for after it occurred, the vigour of the besieged drooped apace.
From the French papers.
PARIS, July 26.
"The Russian Counsellor of state, D'Oubril, departed for St. Petersburg a few hours after the signing of the peace between France and Russia. It is said that he will travel night and day, in the hope of being no more than a fortnight on his journey; in which case, the ratification of the Emperor of Russia may be expected within a month. Before he set off, he hired an hotel for the new Russian ambassador."
July 27.
"On the 6th inst. gen. Lauriston departed from Ragusa, and gen. Morlot from Stagno. They placed a corps of Russian troops and Montenegrins between two fires, killed great numbers of them, drove them from the state of Ragusa, and pursued them to the mountain of Montenegro, taking a quantity of ordnance and ammunition."
"The Montenegrins have committed the most dreadful barbarities on the poor inhabitants of Canale and the province of Ragusa, during the time that the French troops, shut up in that citadel, left them masters of several provinces. The Russians have re-embarked, and sailed for Corfu."— Moniteur .
July 28.
"The siege of Gaeta commenced on the 7th instant. The firing continued incessantly to the 18th. At four o'clock in the afternoon, the breach in the place and in the citadel was practicable. Gaeta was on the point of being carried by assault, when the garrison demanded to capitulate, and surrendered in sight of an English squadron of six men of war."
"His Imperial highness prince Eugene, viceroy of Italy, and commander in chief of the French army in that kingdom, has sent an account from Venice, dated the 21st July, that a Russian squadron having, in the month of June, disembarked a considerable force at Cattaro, to which 10,000 Montenegrins and Greeks joined themselves. Gen. Lauriston thought that, with the 2,000 men which he had, he could not make head against 16,000 enemies, especially as the Turkish commandant of the fort of Zrinia had permitted his neutrality to be violated. He therefore judged it proper to shut himself up in the town of Ragusa. This place was speedily invested. Gen. Lauriston caused the position of St. Mark to be occupied, and erected a battery of 40 pieces of cannon on the side towards the sea. He had procured provisions for six months, and was abundantly provided with warlike stores. The Montenegrins spread themselves over the Ragusan territory, and there committed the most horrible excesses. Nothing could equal the rage which the Greek sectaries displayed towards the Christians, and the inhabitants of the republic of Ragusa. The women were violated, infants burned, and the old men beheaded. After 20 days of blockade, the Russians and Montenegrins commenced the siege. Twenty pieces of cannon were landed, as well as the mortars; the cannonade and bombardment lasted seventeen days. The Ragusans gave every assistance which circumstances demanded, with a devotion and activity without example. They knew that the Montenegrins would murder them all. They discovered for the French an attachment extremely affecting. Their houses were destroyed by the bombs, without their zeal being either altered or diminished."
July 30.
"The hopes of peace with England become every day more general: it is the only subject of conversation. Many persons suppose that peace may be proclaimed about the 15th of August, and that the festival, so dear to the French people will be celebrated at the same time, with the admiration and gratitude of all Europe."
August 6.
"The English ambassador, lord Lauderdale, accompanied by two secretaries, and Basilico, the Messenger, arrived on the 3d inst. at Calais, and yesterday in this capital."
An imperial decree, dated the third of this month, ordains a levy of 50,000 conscripts, taken from the 80,000 authorised to be placed in a state of activity by the decree of the 2d Vendemaire, year 14. They will be divided among the different corps of the army. The 30,000 Conscrips remaining from the 80,000, will form the reserve of the year 1806.
The Official Journal, on the occasion of this measure, contains the following note:
"The Senatus Consultum of the 2d Vendemaire, year 14, placed at the disposal of Government the conscription of 1806. The third Coalition appeared under such an aspect, that the levy of 80,000 men seemed then necessary to support the glory of the throne, & to defend the dearest interests of the country. But before the end of the month Vendemaire, the success at Ulm had given such an advantage to our arms, that the emperor considered the calling out of Conscription of 1806 as unnecessary, and confined himself to calling out the reserve."
"At present, of the 80,000 men of Conscription of 1806, the emperor has judged that the calling out of 50,000 is necessary. If, as every thing leads to hope, the affairs of the Continent are about to be settled, these 50,000 men will serve to replace the soldiers who shall receive their discharge, and return to their families. If, on the contrary, which there is no reason to think, the period of the repose of the Continent is not yet arrived, these 50,000 men, by completing the different corps on the war footing, will carry the French army to its highest degree of strength."
"In any event, then, this levy is necessary; even if we had enjoyed profound peace, we should always have called out, if not 50,000, at least 40,000 men. Since the last review, 20,000 men have been discharged; and by the result of the reviews of this year, it is probable that an equal number will again return to their homes."
"Nothing, therefore, ought to be inferred favourable either to war or to peace, from this operation, which is almost annual. It is done at the ordinary period; sufficiently late for the harvest being finished, sufficiently soon to enable the young men to join their corps before the unfavourable season commences, and to perfect themselves in discipline during the winter."
The Moniteur of this day contains the following article:
"General Lauriston has written from Ragusa, under date of the 15th July, that that city enjoyed the most profound tranquility, and that its territory was quite free from brigands. He adds, that, during the whole period of the blockade and siege of Ragusa, he had only 40 men killed, and 120 wounded. He praises the behaviour of his troops and the zeal of the natives."
The Moniteur also communicates the list of promotions of the brave men who distinguish themselves at Ragusa and before Gaeta.
The Holy Crown of Thorns, which was given to St. Louis, in 1238, by Baudouin, emperor of Constantinople, and which happily has been preserved amidst the religious profanations which have marked our revolution, will be transferred with all possible solemnity into the Metropolitan Church of Paris, on Sunday the 10th inst. Plenary indulgences will be given to the pious who may assist at the ceremony, with the requisite qualities.
RATISBON, August 1.
This day M. Bacher, Charge D'Affaires of France, remitted to the Diet the following note:
"The undersigned Charge D'Affaires of his majesty the emperor of the French and king of Italy, at the general Diet of the Germanic empire, has received orders from his majesty to make the following declarations:
"Their majesties the kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, the sovereign princes of Ratisbon, of Baden, of Hesse Darmstadt, of Nassau, and the other principal princes of the South and West of Germany, have taken the resolution to form among themselves a Confederation, which places them in safety from all the uncertainties of the future, and they have ceased to be states of the empire."
"The situation in which the treaty of Presburg placed directly the courts allied to France, and indirectly the princes whom they surround, and who are their neighbours, being incompatible with the condition of a state of the empire, it became necessary for those courts, and for the princes, to arrange on a new plan the system of their relations, and to cause to disappear an inconsistency which would have been a permanent source of agitation, of inquietude, and of danger."
"On her side, France, so essentially interested in maintaining the peace of the South of Germany, and who could not doubt, that the moment when she should have caused her troops to repass the Rhine, discord, an inevitable consequence of relations contradictory or uncertain, ill defined and ill understood, would have exposed to new danger the repose of nations, and again, perhaps, lighted up a war upon the Continent: bound, besides, to promote the welfare of her Allies, and to enable them to enjoy all the advantages which the treaty of Presburg secured to them, and which she had guaranteed, France could only see in the Confederation which they have a natural consequence and necessary completion of the Treaty."
"For a long time, successive changes, which have gone on augmenting from age to age, had reduced the Germanic Constitution to be only a shadow of itself. Time had changed all the relations of grandeur and of strength which originally existed among the members of the Confederation, and between each of them, and the whole of which they made a part. The diet had ceased to have a will that belonged to itself. The sentences of the supreme tribunals could not be put in execution. Every thing attested an enfeeblement so great, that the federation tie no longer presented any guarantee, and among the powerful was only a cause of dissension and discord. The events of the three coalitions carried this enfeeblement to its utmost length. One Electorate has been suppressed by the union of Hanover with Prussia; a Northern Power has incorporated with his other States one of the provinces of the empire; the treaty of Presburg has assigned to the kings of Bavaria and Wurtemberg, and the elector of Baden, the plenitude of sovereignty; a prerogative which the other electorates would claim, and be entitled to claim, but which could accord neither with the spirit nor the letter of the Constitution of the empire."
"His majesty the emperor and king is therefore obliged to declare, that he acknowledges no longer the existence of the Germanic Constitution; at the same time, nevertheless, recognizing the entire and absolute sovereignty of every one of the princes of whose states Germany at this day consists, and preserving with them the same relations as with the other independent powers of Europe."
"His majesty the emperor and king has accepted the title of protector of the Confederation of the Rhine. He has done so only from the pacific views, and that his meditation, constantly interposed between the weak and the strong, may prevent every kind of dissention and disorder."
"Having thus done enough for the dearest interests of his people and of his neighbours—having provided as much as lay in his power for the future tranquility of Germany, which has been constantly the theatre of war—in putting a period to the contradiction which placed the nations and the princes under apparent protection of a system really contrary to their political interests and their treaties, his majesty the emperor and king hopes that the nations of Europe will at length lend a deaf ear to the insinuations of those who wish to cherish eternal war upon the continent; that the French armies which have passed the Rhine, shall have passed it for the last time; and that the people of Germany will see no longer, in the history of the past, anything but the horrible picture of disorders of every kind, of devastations, and of massacres, which war always brings in its train."
"His majesty has declared, that he would never extend the boundaries of France beyond the Rhine: he has been faithful to his promise. At present, his only desire is to be able to employ the means which providence has entrusted to him, for the purpose of asserting the liberty of the seas, of restoring to commerce its liberty, and securing the repose and happiness of the world."
"Ratisbon, Aug. 1, 1806. (Signed) "BACHER."
The kings of Bavaria and of Wurtemberg, the electors arch-chancellor and of Baden, the Landgrave of Hesse, the Prince of Hohenzollern, the prince Salm Kyrbourg, and the prince of Ysembourg, have this day sent a declaration to the Diet, in which they renounce the Germanic union, and announce their resolution to form among themselves a new confederation, under the guarantee of the emperor of the French.
BREMEN, Aug. 4.
To day an account was received here, that the Prussians were marching to the Ems. A Prussian army of 40,000 men is assembling near Munster. On the 2d inst. the Prussian garrison marched out of Osnaburgh, and troops have broken up from other parts of Westphalia.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Ship Sheffield, Davis, 48 days from London, Dry Goods, &c. sundry persons.—Left the Downs the 18th Aug.—The Shepherdess, Wills, of and for this port, was to sail in 10 or 12 days. The ship John & Alice, for this port, sailed about the 6th Aug.—Sept. 15, in lat. 43, 25, long. 49, 10, spoke the ship Jane, Appleton, from St. Petersburg (29 days from the Landsend) bound to New-York, all well.—17th, lat. 43, 25, long. 51, 30, spoke the ship Liverpool Packet, Chase, of Portsmouth N. H. from Liverpool bound to New-York, out 35 days.—28th, lat. 43, 23, long. 62, 30, spoke ship Xenophon, Inkley, of Plymouth, out 35 days, bound to New-York. On the first inst. was boarded from the Amazon frigate, of the fleet of Sir J. B. Warren, in company, then in lat. 37, 40, long. 74, 11, standing to the eastward. On the 2d was boarded from the Cambrian frigate, the Circe in company, bound to Halifax. Off Smith's Island was boarded from the Leopard of 50 guns; by all treated with great politeness, and not detained a moment by any.
Ship Ocean, Hinichman, 22 days from Marseilles, Wine, Brandy, &c. Moses Myers.
British brig Neptune, Grisey, 58 days from Jersey, and 11 from Newfoundland, Salt, H. Brunet.
Sloop Katy Maria, Storer, 4 days from New-York.
The brig Fame, Stone, of this port was at Barcelona the 5th of Aug. Brig Catharine of this port has arrived at Montego Bay (Jam.) Ship William from this port, has arrived at Green Island (Jam.) The brig Thomas of New-York, bound to Nantes, arrived at Plymouth the 10th Aug. detained. The ship Ruby, Shaw, from Charleston—Alexandria, Weston, from Georgetown—and brig Joseph, Elsworth, all arrived at Cowes the 10th Aug.—Brig —, Wilson, 16 days from Baltimore, touched at Cowes the 10th Aug. and proceeded to Rotterdam. The ship James from Baltimore to Amsterdam, laden with Sugar & Coffee, detained at Plymouth the 9th Aug. The American ship Hetty, —, from Rotterdam to Cork, detained at Falmouth the 8th Aug.
Sales at Auction.
THIS DAY, the 7th instant, will positively be SOLD, on a credit of 12 months, at the Market-House, precisely at 11 o'clock, the NEGROES George, James, Sue, Kitty, and Polly, belonging to the estate of Col. John Willoughby, deceased, pursuant to an order of the Worshipful Court of Norfolk County.
The Commissioners.
To-Morrow, (Wednesday) the 8th inst. at XI o'clock, will be SOLD, for account of the underwriters,
One Bale of Coarse WOOLENS, marked diamond P. U. No. 2, damaged on board the ship Laura, captain Hool.
William B. Lamb.
October 7.
1 234
BY WM. B. LAMB.
To-Morrow, (Wednesday) the 8th inst. at XI o'clock, will be SOLD, at his office, for approved paper, at 60 and 90 days,
20 Chests Young Hyson TEA,
26 Terces Green Coffee, 14 Hogsheds, 29 Terces Sugar, 18 Punccheons 3d proof Rum, 3 Hogsheds and 3 quarter casks Madeira Wine, 1 Pipe French Brandy; 14 Cases of Gin. October 7. 1 236
On Friday, the 10th inst. at 11 o'clock, will be SOLD, on Patterson's wharf, at Town Point, on account of the owners, underwriters and others concerned, 70 Hogsheds } Jamaica SUGARS, 6 Terces Damaged on board the brig Jane, Charles Copping, master, put into this port in distress—Terms of Sale, Cash. George Wilson, V. M. October 7. 2 237
For Sale or Charter, The Ship ALFRED, Captain Patch, 2 years old, 420 horsepower built on the best fast, and can be ready to receive a cargo in all this week. Apply to the master at Frost's wharf, or to Christopher Fry. October 7. tf 235
FOR RENT, That commodious Fire-Proof STORE and DWELLING-HOUSE, situated on Main-Street, between the one occupied by the subscribers and the house formerly the Navy Tavern. J. & W. Southgate. Who have just received a few cases superior quality of Mar-tinique CORDIALS. Oct. 7. tf 230
TO RENT, The HOUSE on Market-Square, lately occupied by Mrs. McDougall, as a boarding-house. Apply to Edward Roberts. October 7. tf 231
For SALE—Afloat, 450 barrels } Superfine FLOUR. 50 half barrels James Herron. October 7. 2 232
Stolen from the Subscriber's Dining Room, on the evening of the third instant, Three Silver TABLE SPOONS, stamped in three places on the back I. R. and marked B. P.—Also, Five TEA SPOONS, stamped Brooks, and cyphered K.—Should any of the above be offered for sale, all Siversmiths and others are requested to stop them, and give information to Miles King, M. No. 81, New-street.
Office of Discount and Deposit, U. S. Bank, Norfolk, Sept. 22, 1806. WANT TO PURCHASE.
A few Thousand Pounds sterl. in approved endorsed Bills on, or payable in London at sixty days sight. Robert Oliphant, Cashier. Sept. 23. tf 196
COPPER NAILS.
Just received by the Father and Sons, capt. Hopkins, from London,
1700 wt. 4, 6, 10, & 24d wrought Copper NAILS, suitable for boat building. For Sale by Waddey, & Co.
Eastern Shore, Northampton Court-Yard, Sept. 12. 1m 194
For Rent or Lease,
The WHARF in Gosport, late the property of Bartholomew Clinch, deceased, in cum-jure order, finished in the best manner, and with an extensive yard, the water sufficiently deep for the largest vessels.—This property is well worthy of the attention of mercantile men. For terms apply to William Wilkinson. Gosport, Oct. 3. tf 224
One Hundred Dollars Reward,
FOR apprehending (and lodging in any jail so that the Subscriber may get him again) Negro CHARLES, who ran off the last of July, without any reason, as he never received any punishment from me. He is about 25 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches high, stout made, and remarkably black, has lost two of his front teeth, plays well on the violin, & is remarkably complaisant and smiling when spoken to, saying yes to almost every word said to him; he has been accustomed to go in a craft, and well acquainted with farming. I purchased him some time ago of a Mr. Hinton, at the mouth of Rappahannock, who wrote me as soon as he had received my money, and returned home, to be on my guard, as he expected he would run off; but I did not profit by his advice, supposing the treatment I gave would induce him not to leave me—I will give Thirty Dollars if taken within fifty miles of Norfolk: Fifty if over fifty miles, or One Hundred Dollars if taken out of the state and delivered to me—I will likewise give Fifty Dollars to any person who will give me information as to a convict any one of harbouring, employing, or carrying him out of the state, having a firm belief he has been harbouring by persons in the vicinity of this place. Adam Lindsay.
Hermitsage, near Norfolk, Oct. 3. 1m 223

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.
PROPOSALS
From the PHOENIX COMPANY, OF LONDON, For Insuring Houses, Buildings, Stores, Ships in Harbour, Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE.
INSURANCE from loss or damage by Fire, has been found a measure of great importance to the happiness of families, and has given additional security to commercial transactions. The distinguished approbation with which the publick throughout Great-Britain received the improved system of this Office, occasioned frequent application for the Insurance of Property in the principal cities and towns of Europe and America, and induced the Company, many years since, to extend their plan to the Western Continent. The Phoenix Company can refer to the unerring test of experience to ascertain their character; and, gratified by the unbounded confidence they have obtained upon the continent of America, and for the purpose of facilitating to the inhabitants the means of effecting insurance on their property, the Directors have lately determined to extend the sum which they have been accustomed to insure in any single risk, and have arranged Rates of Premium upon the various descriptions of property, which they trust, will be found moderate, just and equitable. The promptitude with which this office has adjusted the claims of sufferers, and the solidity of the funds, are so well known, than to refer those who desire information, to the merchants of London, with whom they correspond.
** In this office no injured person is liable to any call to make good the losses of others; but in case of Fire, the sufferer will be indemnified by the company. The company also make good losses on property burnt by lightning.
Rates of Annual Premiums to be paid for Assurances against Fire.
No. I. Hazards of the First Class, viz. Brick or Stone Buildings, covered with tile, slate, or metal. Furniture or Merchandise, not hazardous contained in such buildings.
For sums not exceeding 10,000 Dollars in one Risk, 37 1-2 Cents per annum, per 100 Dollars.
No. II. Hazards of the Second Class, viz. Buildings having the Four Walls entirely of Brick or Stone, carried through the roof and covered with boards or shingles. Furniture or Merchandise, not hazardous, contained in such buildings.
Hazardous Goods, viz. Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Salt-petre, Flax, Hemp, Oils, and Tallow, in buildings of the first class.
For sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk, 56 1-4 cents per annum per 100 dollars.
No. III. Hazards of the Third Class, viz. Buildings constructed partly with brick or stone, and partly with wood, or having either of the four walls of frame work, filled in with brick. Furniture or Merchandise not hazardous, contained in such buildings.
Hazardous goods, viz. Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Salt-petre, Flax, Hemp, Oils and Tallow, in buildings of the second class.
For sums not exceeding 10,000 Dollars in one Risk, 75 Cents per annum per 100 Dollars.
No. IV. Hazards of the Fourth Class, viz. Timber or slight Buildings covered with shingles or boards. Furniture or Merchandise not hazardous, contained in such Buildings.
Hazardous Goods, viz. Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Salt-petre, Flax, Hemp, Oils, and Tallow, in Buildings of the third class.
For sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk, 100 to 150 cents per annum, per 100 dollars.
** Ships in port and their Cargoes, Ships Building or Repairing; also, Barges and other Small Craft, with Goods on board, may be insured against Fire.
†† Larger sums may be insured by special agreement. All buildings in contiguity to other hazardous buildings, or in other respects situated disadvantageously, will be charged at an extra premium. The rates may also in some cases be proportionably moderated upon Timber Buildings in the country, or when standing single and detached, or attended with circumstances of peculiar security.
††† Tallow-Melters, Soap-Makers, Brewers, Vinegar, and Sweet Makers, Hemp and Flax Dressers, Printing-Houses, Coopers, Carpenters, Cabinet-Makers, Coach-Makers, Malt-Houses, Bakers, Ship Chandlers, Boat-Builders, Rope-Makers, Sugar-Refiners, Distillers, Chemists, Varnish-Makers, Turpentine-Works, Theatres, and all Mills and Machinery, are deemed extra-hazardous, and the rate upon such risks will be proportionably increased.
CONDITIONS OF INSURANCE.
I. Persons desirous to make Insurance on Buildings, are to deliver in to the agent the following particulars, viz.—Of what materials the walls and roof of each building are constructed, as well as the construction of the buildings contiguous thereto—whether the same are occupied as private dwellings, or how otherwise—where situated—also, the name or names of the present occupiers.
Each building must be separately valued, and a specified sum insured thereon—and in like manner a separate sum insured on the property contained therein.
All Manufactories which contain Furnaces, Kilns, Stoves, Cooks, Ovens, or otherwise use Fire-Heat, are chargeable at additional rates.
In the Insurance of Goods, Wares, or Merchandise, the building or place in which the same are deposited, is to be described; also, whether such goods are of the kinds denominated hazardous, and whether any manufactory is carried on the premises. And if any person or persons shall insure his or their buildings or goods, and shall cause the same to be described in the Policy otherwise than as they really are, so as the same be charged at a lower premium than is herein proposed, such Insurance shall be of no force.
II. Goods held in trust, or on commission, are to be insured such property, otherwise the Policy will not extend to cover such property.
III. No loss or damage to be paid on Fire happening by any Invasion, Foreign Enemy, Civil Commotion, Riot, or any Military or usurped Power whatever; nor for damage done by Fire occasioned by Earthquakes or Hurricanes: but this Company will make good losses on Property burnt by Lightning.
IV. Books of Accounts, Written Securities, Bills, Bonds, Tallies, and Ready Money, cannot be insured.
V. Jewels, Plate, Medals, or other Curiosities, Paintings, and Sculptures, are not included in any Insurance, unless such articles are specified in the Policy.
VI. Persons insuring Property at this office, must give notice of any other Insurance made elsewhere on their behalf on the same; and cause such other Insurance to be endorsed on their Policies; in which case each office shall be liable to the payment only of a rateable proportion of any loss or damage which may be sustained; and unless such notice is given, the insured will not be entitled to recover in case of loss.
VII. No order for insurance will be of any force, unless the premium is paid to the agent, or unless a sum has been advanced, and the agent has delivered his receipt on account of the office; and all persons desirous to continue their insurance, must make their future payments annually within fifteen days after the day limited by their respective policies, or the same will be void.
VIII. All persons assured by this company, sustaining any loss or damage by fire, are forthwith to give notice to the Company's agent, and as soon as possible after, to deliver in as particular an account of their loss or damage, signed with their own hands, as the nature of the case will admit of, and make proof of the same by their oath or affirmation, and by their books of accounts or other proper vouchers, as shall be reasonably required; and shall procure a certificate under the hands of a magistrate or sworn notary of the city or district in which the Fire happened, not concerned in such loss, importing that they are acquainted with the character and circumstances of the person or persons insured, and do know, or verify believe, that he, she, or they, really, and by misfortune, without any kind of fraud or evil practice, have sustained by such fire, loss and damage to the amount therein mentioned; and until such affidavit and certificates are produced, the loss of money shall not be payable; also, if there appears any fraud or false swearing, the claimant shall forfeit his claim to restitution, or payment by virtue of his policy.
IX. In case any difference or dispute shall arise between the assured and the company, touching any loss or damage, such difference may be submitted to the judgment and determination of arbitrators indifferently chosen, whose award in writing shall be conclusive and binding to all parties. And when any loss or damage shall have been duly proved, the insured shall receive satisfaction, to the full amount thereof, without allowance of any discount, fees, or other deduction whatever.
X. Persons chusing to insure for seven years, will be charged for six years only; also, for a less number of years than seven, will be allowed a reasonable discount.
** Persons desirous of effecting Insurances, are requested to make application to RICHARD TAYLOR, in NORFOLK, who is appointed the Company's Agent, and is fully authorised to grant Policies on behalf of the Company. LONDON, 1806. 4wiawf 158
FOR SALE.
The subscriber resolved to remove to the country, and improve his Lands, offers for Sale The following valuable PROPERTY, viz.
In Elizabeth-City, four valuable Establishments, chosen from the plan of the town, now thriving rapidly, consisting of TWO LOTS or one acre of ground, whereon I live, lying on the Post-road and Main-street, containing a Dwelling-House complete, almost new, 30 by 27, with an additional new chamber on the ground floor, 14 by 15, very airy; a complete dairy and store-room new, under one roof, with a snug cellar, and a platform from the chamber to the dairy, which renders the passage quite dry in the wettest season; a good Smock-house and Kitchen; a snug well finished Store-house, with a back shed and fire place; a two story Ware house new, proof against rats, with a back shed; and every other out-house and garden complete; the whole seat decorated with trees and clover in a handsome manner, and in every respect remarkably pleasant.
Two other Lots opposite the Court-House, on one of which stands a convenient Dwelling-House, with two good chimneys, now occupied as a store, and is an excellent stand for business; on the other Lot is very convenient stables and carriage house, built of juniper, all under the same roof, 45 by 15, stalls for 6 horses and room for 2 carriages.
Two Lots adjoining near the water, handsomely enclosed with juniper, one cultivated as a garden, and the other well set in clover, by far the pleasantest lots in town to build on, commanding a full view of Pasquotank River from town to the entrance, and fronting the south; one piece of Ground back of said lots occupied as a Ship-yard, and is very convenient for the purpose, with the privilege of a creek and handsome beach at the mouth to draw a family seine, where small fish are to be taken every day in the year; a good Smith's shop (with tools if required) and good negro-house on the premises; one unimproved Lot on the S. W. corner of the town.
Sixty Acres of Wood Land, adjoining the town, parted only by the line, all high land, and on the publick road leading out of the Main-street, where lots are valuable and daily applications for them, greater part very good land for clover and grain.
One Lot, Warehouse and Wharf, formerly occupied by C. & F. G. G. the wharf is new and well filled in with stone and sand, 104 feet in front, well framed with square timber, cypress above water; a Warehouse on the lot, 40 by 24, lately repaired, two stories high, and every apparatus for earcening and graving vessels, of which a number apply.
A very handsome and well built Schooner, burthen about 700 barrels, now on the stocks, can be launched and completed in two weeks; a Sloop of 20 tons, four years old, now in the carpenter's hands, and will come out complete.
In Camden county, at Raymond's creek, on Pasquotank River Shore, a Piece of LAND at a very publick landing, where much business has been done to advantage for a number of years, in the heart of a lumber and grain country, containing fourteen acres, on it a good Dwelling-house, with four rooms and piazza, out-houses, a good store, and ware-house separate, both two story.
Some valuable Negroes, Men, Boys, Women and Children, all of which will be sold on reasonable terms, in the whole or separate, for cash, good paper, or West-India produce, by application to
Charles Grice.
Elizabeth City, N. C. Sept. 18. 2m 201
NEW CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY,
ON TOWN POINT, A small distance below County Wharf, Wide Water Street.
THE Subscriber has, at a considerable expense, fitted up, in addition to his other business, a complete set of machinery, adequate to finish 500 to 600 lbs. of Nails daily. He is also provided with a good stock of Iron; and with a sufficient number of skilful workmen.
He has on hand a constant supply of Nails, Flooring Brads, and Sprigs, which he offers for Sale at the reduced prices as follows, by the keg, for cash only, viz.
8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d Nails, at 7 1-2d per lb. 8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d Brads at 7 1-2d per lb. 6d, Nails at 9 1-2d per lb. Sheathing, do. at 7 1-2d per lb. 6d, Brads at 4s 6d per M. 4d, do. at 2s 9d per M. 3d, do. at 2s 3d per M. 4d, Nails at 2s 9d per M. 3d & 2d. do. at 2s 3d per M.
ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. LEVIN DORSEY. June 2. tf 783
NORFOLK BOROUGH.
At a Quarterly Session Court, continued and held the 30th day of August, 1806.
John Gardiner, jun. Jonathan Worth, and Woodbridge Olin, Merchants, trading under the firm of John Gardiner, jun. and Co. AGAINST Francis and Francis, G. Robinson, absent debtors, Conway and Fortescue Whittle, and John Davis, Defts.
The Defendants Francis and Francis G. Robinson, not having entered their appearance, and given security, according to the Act of Assembly, and the rules of this Court; and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the Complainants by their Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendants Francis and Francis G. Robinson do appear here on the fourth Monday in November next, and answer the Bill of the Complainants, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some paper printed in the Borough of Norfolk for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-House of this Borough: and it is further ordered, that the Defendants Conway and Fortescue Whittle, and John Davis, who have effects of the said Francis and Francis G. Robinson, in their hands, do not pay, convey away, or secret such effects, but retain them till the further order of this Court. A Copy, Teste, William Sharp, C. N. B. C.
GERMAN GOODS.
JOHN C. NIEMEYER,
Offers for Sale the following GOODS, for Cash or on convenient credit, for approved Bills only, viz.
5000 Bags 3 & 3 bushels, loose and in bales, 6000 East-India Gummy Bags, 330 pieces Hessian and brown Rolls, 325 pieces white Rolls, of four qualities, 140 pieces Tickenburgs and Oznaburgs, 160 pieces Platillas, white and brown, 15 pieces Dowlas, 20 do. Checks, 40 do. Britannias, 40 do. Rouans, 45 do. best Flemish Sheeting, 20 do. fine Bed ticking, 24 do. Matras Ticking, 18 do. German Canvas, 15 do. do. Shirt Linen, 44 yards each, from 63 to 110 dolls per piece, 14 do. 37 yds. each, at 36 to 75 dolls per piece, 24 do. Velvet Ribbons, assorted, 40 boxes English crown window Glass, 70 do. Baltimore window Glass assorted, at the manufactory prices, for cash, 2000 wt. Lamb's Wool, superior quality, 5000 doz. German Phials, very cheap, 2000 bunches red Garnet Beads, 300 doz. Watch Christals, assorted, 25 do. coarse thread Stockings, 10 do. fine do. 100 boxes of Godfroid's Spanish Segars, 75 do. 2d and 3d qualities, 12 boxes about 2000 straws, 1-3 pint Tumblers, 3 do. Wine Glasses and Decanters, 23 do. China and elegant cut Glass V'are, 5 do. Toys, 6000 Toy Marbles, 1 case fine Hats, 100 wt. Twine, 120 doz. gold and silver Hat Cords, 35 boxes short Pipes, three groce each, 350 wt. Canary Seed, 1 cask Glue, Spectacles green and plain, an elegant assortment to suit all ages, Goggles plain and green, Pistols, an elegant assortment, do. 1 case superior Hair Triggers, Fowling Pieces, elegant double barrels; do. common, single do. Flutes, patent and plain, Fifes, Octaves; Tambourins; Flageolets, double and single, Violins, and elegant bows, Instruction Books, & Musick, Violin Strings, Bridges, and Screws.
Also a complete assortment of the following Articles, viz.
Fifty assorted Trunks, Oil Cloth, Coffee Mills, German Razor Hones, Morocco Shaving Cases, do. Pocket Books, do. Segar Boxes, Spectacle Cases, Windsor Soap, Hand Lanthorns, best Tortoise Shell Combs, Ivory & Horn do. fine Razors & Penknives, Pocket Knives of all kinds, Knives and Forks, Snuffers very elegant, Brass Candlesticks, Coffee Toasters, Shoe Brushes, Cloth do. Mill Saws, Frying Pans, Shovels, Tongs, and Pokers, Fish Hooks, Table Mats, Battle Doors and Birds, Bell Metal Kettles, Waffle Irons, Wafer Irons, German Lace & Thread, Bird Cages & Baskets, Black Silk Velvet, 2000 Agate Flint, Jewellery and Crystal Beads, Toilet Looking Glasses, common do. assorted, Snuff Boxes, Umbrellas, Plush for Saddles, Passage Lamps, Chamber Lamps and Wicks, Backgammon Tables, 800 Dice, elegant Chess Men, and Cribbage Boards. Apply as above. May 16. tf 744
SECOND CLASS.
SCHEME OF A LOTTERY, For the Benefit of WILLIAM and MARY COLLEGE.
5,938 Tickets at 10 dolls. each, dolls. 59,380 4,685 do. at 15 do. do. 70,275 10,623 129,655 Deduct loss on 2000 Tickets renewed, 4,500 Dolls. 125,155
To float in the wheel, and come out as chance may direct.
2 Prizes of 5000 Dollars, each, Dolls. 10,000 4 do. 2000 do. 8,000 16 do. 1000 do. 16,000 16 do. 500 do. 8,000 32 do. 200 do. 6,400 160 do. 100 do. 16,000 232 do. 50 do. 11,600 750 do. 20 do. 15,000 1 do. 155
Stationary Prizes are, 1 Prize first drawn, after 1000 Tickets are out, 500 1 do. 2000 500 1 do. 3000 500 1 do. 4000 500 1 do. 5000 500 1 do. 6000 500 1 do. 7000 10,000 1 do. 8000 500 1 do. 9000 500 1 do. last drawn, a Prize 20,000 1223 Prizes. Dolls. 125,000 9400 Blanks.
The superiority of this Scheme to the one first proposed, is so obvious, that little need be said in recommendation of it. Those inclined to adventure, will see that their chance for obtaining prizes is greatly increased; that pending the drawing, their small prizes may be immediately invested in other tickets, thereby giving them a chance for prizes of considerable magnitude. To those who have drawn prizes of 15 dolls. in the First Class, as well as to those who have drawn blanks, information is now given, that the prizes may at their own option be renewed by tickets in this Class, and their blanks also, but upon the payment in the latter case of 10 dollars with each blank, provided such prizes and blanks, with the cash, be remitted free of postage, to Robt. Greenhow, merchant, in Williamsburg, agent and treasurer, or to William Newsum, Post-Master, in Norfolk, previous to the commencement of the drawing, after which period no renewal will be made. When to the prospect of individual advantage that may result to each adventurer, is added the patriotic reasons which induced the legislature to authorise this Lottery, it is ardently hoped that the disposition of tickets, will soon enable the commissioners to certify, that the drawing has commenced; which event, the agent assures the public, shall be expedited by every means in his power. Robt. Greenhow, Ag't & Treasurer. June 18. tf 842
NOTICE.
The Copartnership of P. DANA, & Co. being dissolved by the death of Mr. STEPHENS PARHAM; business in future will be transacted by Phinehas Dana. August 20. tf 93
FOR SALE, The LOT and HOUSES,
whereon John Hamilton, Esq. the British Consul resides; on it are a three story Dwelling-House, an Office, a Kitchen, and other houses necessary for family use—a Well of good Water newly fitted, and a Garden lately paled in, a Warehouse and Cellar under it, the remains of a Wharf which will make a good foundation to build on, with all the privileges of lots situated on the river of extending a wharf—Also, two hundred and seventy-one and half acres of well timbered Land, with a good Fishery on Willoughby's Bay, taking in the mouth and part of Mason's Creek, where the best of Fish and Oysters can be conveniently taken—Also, a Lot in Smithfield, between Mr. Purdie's and Capt. Todd's lots For terms apply to Thomas Newton, He and No 39 1/2 bis
August 1. tf 39 1/2 bis
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the Estate of DANIEL McPHERSON, deceased, are requested to exhibit them immediately to the Subscriber duly attested; those indebted to said estate, are informed that an immediate payment is indispensable. John Mc'Phail, Ex'r. August 1. tf 38
JOHN C. NIEMEYER,
Has just received for Sale, 260 Pieces India COTTONS, 10 Boxes half pint TUMBLERS, 2 Casks German STEEL, 12 Bales Coarse LINEN, 5 Hampers BOTTLES. Also on hand,
10,000 BAGS of 2 and 3 bushels, loose and in bales, 800 Pieces BAGGING in bales, 160 Boxes best Spanish SEGARS, 700 Groce CORKS, 90 Boxes English and Baltimore Window GLASS. Sept. 26. 6w 206
TO RENT,
For the ensuing year, or lease for a term of years, that well known and Valuable PLANTATION, Curle's Pasture; it has lately been under a lease of ten years, to George Hope, sen. of Hampton, which lease expires the last day of December, 1806. It has a very valuable orchard on it, joins Hampton on one side, and Hampton river on the other, so that its produce may be conveyed to market without the convenience of land carriages. For terms apply to Lockey Curle. Warwick, September 24 6w 208
The partnership of Taylor, Barraud, and Hansford, will be dissolved by mutual consent on the 1st day of October next. All those indebted to that concern, or to Taylor and Barraud, are requested to settle their accounts—The business will in future be conducted by Barraud and Hansford. James Taylor, P. Barraud, Lewis Hansford. Sept. 15. 4w 178
Ten Dollars Reward,
IS offered for a Maltese Boy, about 15 years old, bound to serve the subscriber seven years—This boy while in Richmond last May, with one Albert, a baker, was taken off, (as informed) by a master of a craft from Rocketts, to Norfolk, where he has been since seen often; and first, on board of a schooner called (as I am informed) the Amelia Ann, of Norfolk, William B. Baily, commander—This Boy is so remarkable in person, that the slightest examination must discover him; he is very low and thick, has a remarkable large flat head, and still more remarkable feet, short and round, which occasions him to walk warbling and with apparent difficulty and exertion to get on at all; his complexion very fair, his mouth so contracted, that he cannot open it more than half its natural extent, and on his forehead and chin a very deep scar, which he says marks the accident which injured his mouth, he speaks tolerable plain English—He was bound in Malta, in 1804, by name of John Zarra, and since on board ship, he got the name of Andrew, which he always passes by. The above reward will be given on delivering the said boy to Mr. Theo. or Mr. Thomas Armistead, Norfolk, and an addition of Five Dollars more, if delivered in Richmond at the Swan Tavern, to Major John Moss, or to the subscriber, Ryland Randolph. Richmond, Aug. 16. law2m 97
Left in the necessary out-house on
Rothery's wharf, the 16th instant, a double case SILVER WATCH, maker's name John Wood, Liverpool, No. 903. On her face is the subscriber's name, in printed capital letters, arranged in the place of figures, beginning at one o'clock, thus, Edw'd S. Harwood, and on the outer case is in cypher the initials W. S.
The person who has taken the said Watch from the above place, or if any person has become otherwise possessed of her, it is hoped they will, on seeing this advertisement, leave her at the Office of the Publick Ledger, or deliver her to the owner, who will give a reward of FIVE DOLLARS for the same. Edw'd S. Harwood, Sept. 19. law3w 190 Marsden's wharf.
A valuable Tract of LAND for Sale.
The Subscriber will sell his Plantation called Level-Green, adjoining the town of Kempsville, in the county of Princess Anne. There is on the farm a Dwelling-House and orchards; it contains about 500 acres, and the land is excellent; it's figure is a square, and it's local position handsome and eligible, lying on the Eastern-Branch of Elizabeth river, and also on the publick road leading to Norfolk. It is conveniently situated with respect to Norfolk market, being about 5 miles distant by water, and 9 by land. It is contiguous to Broad-Creek, which abounds in good oysters; it is well timbered, and has a good landing. 'Tis not extravagant to say, that from the timber alone, a net sum may be made annually, if not entirely, equal to the purchase money. Any person who may wish to view the Land, will apply to Mr. Willson on the premises, to Mr. Charles Sayer, William Bishop, James Robinson, or William White, all of whom reside in the neighbourhood. The purchaser will be accommodated in a long credit. Tully Robinson. Princess-Anne, August 8. tf 63
FOR SALE, A Valuable PLANTATION,
Lying on Crooked River, Camden county, in the State of Georgia, twenty-two miles from the town of St. Mary's, and about the same distance from the sea; containing 1770 acres, 250 of which are the very best sea-island cotton land, are well cleared, and have only been planted three seasons; there are above 200 acres more of the same quality, with a considerable quantity of large live oak timber on it, and also some excellent Rice Swamp Land.
The Buildings consist of one handsome two-story Dwelling-House, a Kitchen, Ginning-House, three Cotton Houses, a Barn and Store-House, and a number of framed Negro Houses, all of which are new, and built of the best materials. This Plantation is situated high, possesses very good water, and is remarkably healthy; there is every convenience for ship-building, the river being navigable for a vessel drawing 18 feet water, and in no river is there to be had a more abundant supply of oysters, with a great variety of other fish. There will also be sold with the Land, One Hundred and Twenty NEGROES, who are now upon it, ninety of whom are taskable, and among them several good tradesmen, the remaining thirty are likely young Slaves.
For terms of Sale apply to Captain George Ker, St. Mary's; or to the Honourable Judge Stephens, Savannah; Adam Tunno, Esq. Charleston, or to Thomas Hamilton, Sept. 29. tf 212 Norfolk.
For Rent, or Storage received,
That large and commodious WAREHOUSE, on Hutchings' wharf. For terms, apply to John Brown, or Wm. Cammack. August 4. tf 44
NORFOLK:
PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS,
FOR THE PROPRIETOR, DEPOSITE THE EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE per No Five Dollars and Fifty Cents yearly, in advance