Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1807-11-06 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE And PUBLICK LEDGER  MENTIENCIAM SUA PRIMA LUST
VOL. IV.]
FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1807.
[NO. 49.]
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS SIX DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAY- BLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE PAPER TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS—ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF FIFTY CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS PER SQUARE FOR EACH SUCCEEDING INSERTION
For Charleston and Savannah, The fast-sailing Schooner VENUS, James Welden, master, will sail with all possible dispatch. For freight or passage, apply to Robert Simington, Maxwell's wharf, or to the master on board at Southgate and Dickson's wharf. November 2.
For NEW-YORK, The very fast-sailing Schooner HARRIOT, burthen 420 barrels, George Fitzhugh, mas- ter, will be ready to receive a cargo on Wed- nesday next. For freight or passage, having good accom- modations, apply to the master on board at Maxwell's wharf, or R. Simington. November 2.
For FREIGHT, The fast sailing American Ship UNITED STATES, Thomas Harding, master, bur- then 210 tons, and will carry from 240 to 250 hogsheads tobacco; she is well found and a good vessel in every respect, and only 18 months old. For terms apply to the master on board, or
Fisk & Catlett. Who have for Sale on board said Ship, 6000 bushels Liverpool SALT, which will be sold low if taken immediately from a long side. October 30.
For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The Ship WILLIAM & MARY, burthen 280 tons, or 2100 barrels, now ready for the reception of a cargo. Apply to Solomon Bedinger. October 28.
For Freight or Charter, The American registered Ship CHAR- LOTTE, burthen 200 tons, now in the har- bour, and ready for the reception of a cargo. A part of a freight will be accepted to Jamaica or to Cuba, and the ship dispatched without any delay. Apply to Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. October 19.
For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The Brig JOSEPHINE, burthen 140 tons, will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. Apply to Thomas Willock. October 14.
Scotch Coals and Empty Bottles. 100 tons of the former and 200 crates of the latter, import- ed in the ship industry from Glasgow—For Sale by William Pennock. Who offers The said SHIP, burthen 260 tons, for Charter. October 7.
Liverpool SALT and COAL, For sale on board the ship Jane, William Colley, master— Apply to the subscriber, William Pennock. Who offers said SHIP, burthen 420 tons, and the ship COURTNEY, burthen 200 tons for charter. October 5.
For Freight or Charter, The Ship THOMAS, captain Boush, will be ready immediately. GEO. MURRAY, & CO. Who have for Sale, Old Antigua, Jamaica, & W. I. Rum, Madeira, Port, and Cane Wine, Sugar in hogsheads and barrels, 50 crates well assorted Earthenware. September 23.
For CHARTER, The Ship LIVE OAK, Gerrard Farrell, mas- ter, burthen 300 tons, and will be ready to re- ceive a cargo in a few days; she is particu- larly well constructed for the carrying of masts and timber— Apply to the master on board at my wharf, or the subscriber. William Pennock. September 21.
Just received from New-York by the regular Packets, 16 hhds. 1st qual. Muscovado Sugars, fit for retailing, 7 pipes 4th proof Brandy, 8 pipes Country Gin, 15 bottles Russia Duck, 6 Chefs Hysan Tea, 52 barrels prime Pork, 32 do. prime Beef, 10 do. prime cargo do. New-York inspection.
And the Cargo of the Schooner Victory, captain Jo- seph Prindle, at Campbell's wharf, consisting of 850 Cheeses, weighing 12,000 lb. 200 bushels Irish Potatoes, 62 barrels prime Pork, 22 barrels cargo Pork, 31 do. prime Beef, 14 do. do. cargo Beef, 500 complete Sheathing Boards
A FREIGHT Is wanted for a SCHOONER, of about 600 barrels, to any part of the West Indies; Antigua would be preferred. Ap- ply at No. 1, Commerce-street, to William Hull, jun. 1w&2w2w October 2.
Now landing from on board the Schooner M'Nabb, Roger Quarles, master, from Leghorn, 120 hogsheads Bordolese CLARET, 95 casks Roll Brimstone, 100 boxes Castle Marble Soap, 50 tin boxes Saffron, 5 cases Florence Silks of all colours, a great many black, 2 hhds. shelled Almonds, 100 half chests Linen Oil, of 30 flasks, 100 boxes Linen Oil, 12 bottles each, 3 cases Chip Hats. For Sale by William Pennock. October 12.
85 Tierces RICE, For Sale by George Raincock. October 9.
St. Mary's College.
GRAND LOTTERY,
BALTIMORE.
Authorised by the General Assembly of the State of Mary- land; the Scheme of which Lottery, is the most brilliant ever offered to the citizens of the United States, containing be- sides a large number of other good prizes,
  1 prize of - 30,000 Dollars,   1 do. of - 15,000   3 do. of - 10,000   2 do. of - 5,000   8 do. of - 1,500   7 do. of - 1,000 
Not two blanks to a prize, and the lowest prize twelve dol- lars. The Scheme contains only 21,500 Tickets; 10,000 of which are actually sold to a company of gentlemen in New-York, to whom the managers have obligated themselves to commence the drawing in the City of Bal- timore, on THURSDAY, the 31st day of December next, and to draw 500 tickets per day
Tickets and Shares are now selling in a variety of numbers, and very rapidly at Ten Dollars and an half each, for a very short time, at G. & R. WAITE'S truly fortunate Lottery Of- fice, corner of Market-street and Charles-street, Baltimore.
The grandeur of the Scheme of the above Lottery, to- gether with an assurance from the managers that it will positive- ly commence drawing on the 31st day of December next, have been a sufficient inducement for the subscribers to come to the city of Baltimore, for the express purpose of facilitat- ing the sale of the Tickets.
G. & R. Waite.
One of the above firm will personally attend the drawing daily to take down the numbers correctly, as will also one of their clerks.
The next New-York Lottery will not commence drawing till April next. Tickets of which Lottery may be had at Waite's Offices, in Maiden Lane, New-York.
N. B. Distant adventurers accompanying their orders with Bank Notes of any description, to either of Waite's Offices in Baltimore or New-York, may have Tickets and Shares forwarded to any amount with the utmost punctuality, and the earliest advice sent them of their success. All prizes sold by G. & R. Waite will be paid by them. A list of all prizes drawn will be sent to the Printer of this Paper, for the in- spection of adventurers.
October 14. 3m
NOTICE.
Those who have claims against the es- tate of PHILIP COLLINS, deceased, are requested to bring them in to the subscriber properly authenticated; and those indebted, are requested to make immediate payment, otherwise suits will be commenced against them, as the si- tuation of the estate will not admit of any indulgence.
Jane Collins, Adm x .
October 23. tf
200 boxes Mould CANDLES, 30 half boxes brown Soap, 10 boxes white do. 60 bags Coffee, 5 tierces do. prime green, 4 hogsheads and 10 barrels loaf Sugar, 12 do. Muscovado do. 10 quarter casks Old Sherry Wine, 2 hhds old L. P. Madeira do. 5 hhds. Red Port, 50 do. retailing Molasses, 15 crates well assorted Queen's Ware, Country Rum and Gin in hhds and pipes—For Sale by Phinehas Dana. June 8. tf
FOR SALE, 15 qr. casks Gorden superior Sherry WINE, 21 pipes Holland Gin; 17 do. Country do. 15 boxes superior Imperial Tea; 40 do Young Hyson, 23 do. Hysan; 6 do. Souchong; 1 Bale Ticklenburgs, 2 cases white Platillas; 14 boxes 10 by 12 Window Glass, 400 pieces Yellow Nankeens. The above are a consignment, and will be sold low for cash or approved paper, by Mackinder & White. October 23. 6
THE SUBSCRIBER
Has removed to the brick store at the head of Camp- bell's wharf, fronting said wharf and Wide Water- street, where he offers at wholesale or retail his as- sortment of
Groceries and Ship Chandlery, Among which are 14 hogsheads Muscovado SUGAR, 1 do. and 6 barrels loaf do. 6 do. Antigua, Jamaica, and Grenada Rum, 3 pipes French Brandy, 2 hhds. and 6 bottles Rye Whiskey, 4 barrels Apple Brandy, 1 do Peach do. 10 bags Coffee, Imperial, Hysan, Young Hyson, and Souchong Teas, Pepper, Pimento, and Nutmegs, Madeira, Sherry, and Port Wines, London and Philadelphia Porter, English Cheese, Bar Iron and Castings, Nail and Spike Rods, German Steel, Powder and Shot, Tar, Pitch & Turpentine, Paints and Oil, black and bright Varnish, Canvas and Cordage, Nails and Spikes. Also just received, 20 boxes Lemons, 12 half bbls. Beef Tongues, 20 Kegs Tongues and Sounds, 40 kegs and 2 bbls. Salmon, 3 bbls. Mackerel, 15 cases Sallad Oil, 1 cask Currants, 10 boxes Olives, Capers and Anchovies, 6 dozen bottles Cayenne Pepper, 3 do. do. Pickled Peppers, 30 boxes Soap, 20 boxes Candles, 50 barrels Alexandria superfine and fine Flour. John D. Haldane. July 31. tf
FOR SALE, By JOHN GRANBERY, On Commerce-Street, 50 tons Logwood, 20,000 feet good Mahogany, 50,000 feet square Oak Timber, 30,000 do. square Pine do. 100 barrels Pork, 100 tierces Rice, 5 pipes French Brandy, 10 quarter casks Lisbon Wine, 15 hhds. Jamaica Sugars, 5 hhds. Loaf Sugar, 2 puncheons Tabago Rum, Gun Powder, Segars, Clocks, Soap, Red and White Oak Staves. He has for Rent a Ware-House on Commerce- Street, and a very comfortable Dwelling-House near Boush- street. Sept. 30. 6w
FOR SALE, Just received per Capt. Palmer's Packet, from Alexandria, Fresh Jamieson & Anderson's PILOT BREAD and CRACKERS, in barrels and kegs, And a few firkins best Shenandoah BUTTER. T. Butler, Wide Water-street. Nov. 2. 3w
Extracted from a Pamphlet entitled "A FAITHFUL PICTURE of the POLITICAL SITUATION of NEW- ORLEANS, at the close of the last, and the be- ginning of the present year."
(Continued from our last)
But among all the proceedings of the new govern- ment, that which excited most particular disgust and abhorrence was the vile system of espionage avow- edly adopted for the discovery of disaffected per- sons. As perhaps upwards of a dozen depositions, privately taken at New-Orleans, and transmitted by gen. Wilkinson to the federal government, have al- ready appeared in the publick prints, the fact is of course unquestionable. The depositions published, however, make but a small part of those taken.— No man however unknown, or of little considera- tion, was refused as an informer. Many indeed who were publickly lost to reputation, and actually in- famous, were received and even sought for, to swell the torrent of information which poured from all quarters, in multiplied proof of the suppositious dis- affection of the country, and magnifying the imagi- nary dangers of the moment. The expedient of tak- ing information secretly, to be used secretly, with- out any notice to the individual whose reputation is affected by it, however pure the motive or patriotic the intentions of those who resort to it, is at best unjust, dangerous and cruel; an expedient not only unworthy of a free government and subversive of the first principles of civil liberty and equal justice, but one to which none but the most determined ty- rannies have ever resorted. In many European countries which are far from being free, such means of information would be spurned at; means perhaps almost exclusively reserved for the gloomy cham- bers of the inquisition, and the Dyonisian closet of gen. Wilkinson. How often may a story be even conscientiously related, implicating an innocent man in crimes for which he could with ease exculpate himself by a satisfactory explanation of deceitful appearances? But as the officers of government pro- ceeded to New-Orleans, a man was frequently ac- cused there, thence denounced at the City of Wash- ington, and published throughout the United States as a convicted traitor, six weeks or even two months, for the mails are extremely irregular, be- fore he knew himself to be even suspected. With such cautious secrecy was information collected that the magistrate sometimes administered an oath and certified that the deposition was sworn to, with- out having been permitted to read it. When pow- er stoops to such mean and disgraceful methods of obtaining its ends, there are but too many among the weak and the wicked who embrace that oppor- tunity of raising themselves to fancied importance for the moment, by embellished disclosures of pre- tended secrets; and what is still more to be execra- ted, indulging their private resentments or a natu- ral malignity of temper in fabricated tales of de- traction. Thus slander like the mole, cut reputa- tion at the root unseen. Most of the persons inju- red were first openly attacked at a great distance, and in a quarter where they were for the most part unknown; where consequently all advantage of pre- vious character was unavailing to them, and they had no means to meet the blow with the prompti- tude necessary to repel it.
The effect of these measures in society was such as they naturally tended to. No man in New Or- leans felt himself safe; and in truth few escaped sus- picion. It was well known, that even loose un- guarded expressions sportively uttered in publick or in private, were instantly carried to head quarters, and there officially dressed up in the solemn garb of sedition. Neighbours avoided each other reci- procally as spies and traitors, neither could tell why. Private friendship was every where poisoned and sick with mutual distrust. The temper of society generally was soured; there were but few however dared to murmur aloud. In short, such a gloomy scene of abject dismay and fearful silence had never before been witnessed in that city, since the sangu- inary administration of gen. O'Reilly; whose mem- ory is to this day, and ever will be there preserv- ed in the archives of publick abhorrence: and who would still perhaps have stood single in the distin- guished detestation of Louisiana, had not gen. Wil- kinson so eminently entitled himself to a participa- tion in his immortality.
But to return to Swartwout and Ogden. Im- mediately on the release of the latter, when he could testify to the imprisonment of his companion, for Swartwout was on board the same vessel, a writ was taken out for his release also. But it could not be served in time to prevent his removal to a place of confinement under the immediate orders of the General, and consequently out of the reach of the law.
Even Ogden's release was of little service to him. On the 19th December he was again arrested while sitting at dinner in a publick boarding house, and carried into confinement. Mr. Alexander at the same time shared the same fate. And as if the ge- neral took a delight in making the citizens feel how effectually he had humbled them under his feet, the Orleans troop of horse were selected for the odious and painful duty of arresting those gentlemen. Throughout the winter indeed this troop, consisting of the most respectable citizens, were constantly employed in the most scandalous and degrading du-
* George Pollock, Esquire, a justice of peace at New-Orleans, is named as one of the magistrates who thus humbly aided in the cause of his new mas- ters.
† When Louisiana was formerly ceded by France to Spain, the colony were much dissatisfied with the change. And gen. O'Reilly, the first Spanish go- vernor, arrested all those suspected of spreading the dissatisfaction. Some he transported, and others he caused to be shot in the publick square in the ci- ty of New-Orleans.
ties; hunting down their fellow-citizens, impress- ing negroes and cattle, searching boats, and in short, as a kind of gen d'armes to the General, acting in the loathsome capacity of mere bailiffs and runners.
A detachment of the troop was stationed at Manshaw, about a hundred miles above the city, to intercept and search boats ascending the river, seize upon all suspicious persons some of whom were particularly named,* and give notice of the ap- proach of the enemy. A company of regulars was also stationed, with like orders, a short distance a- bove the town, at a place called the Willow Point, where accordingly, many boats were stopped, and several men and women and even infant children were occasionally detained as prisoners of state.
Once more on the behalf of Ogden, and also of Alexander, two writs of habeas corpus were allow- ed by judge Workman, and served upon the general. Not yet wearied with the reiteration of unsuccess- ful experiment to re-establish the ascendancy of the prostrate laws, nor to be deterred from the strict line of his sacred duties by the menaces of lawless pow- er, or the denunciations of corrupt slander, this judge kept with a firm step along the path which the law had marked out for him, the only path that leads to justice. The General's returns to these writs were as usual insufficient. A rule of the court accordingly directed to the General to amend his return. Im- affected compliance with this rule the returns were altered, but still continued insufficient; and an at- tachment against the person of gen. Wilkinson was applied for.
Matters having been thus pushed to extremity be- tween general Wilkinson and the laws of the coun- try, it only remained now to be finally determined which should prevail. At this interesting crisis the court paused. General Wilkinson was at the head of about a thousand troops; the strength of the country was also in his hands, the volunteers being the flower and only efficient part of the milit- ia. Even the sheriff of the court was a captain in the battalion.† As to any energy in the civil admin- istration of the country, it would be in vain to look for it perhaps at any time while Claiborne was chief magistrate, and still more hopeless at such a season. Judge Workman therefore, plainly saw, that without some better prospect of support, he would only expose himself and his court to further indignity by any attempt to enforce process against the General. On the 5th of January he accordingly addressed a letter to the Governor, representing the difficulties of his situation in plain and manly terms. "I deem it my duty," said he in the letter, "before any decisive measures are pursued against a man who has all the regular force, and in pursuance of your publick orders, a great part of that of the territory at his disposal, to ask your excellency whe- ther you have the ability to enforce the decrees of the court in which I preside, and if you have, whe- ther you will deem it expedient to do it in the present instance."
To this letter the judge received no answer. On the 12th of the same month he again wrote and en- larged on the same subject. The second letter com- menced with saying, "Not having received any an- swer to my letter to your excellency of the 5th inst. and considering your silence on the subject of it as a proof, in addition to those that previously existed, that your excellency not only declines the per- formance of your duties of chief magistrate of the ter- ritory, but actually supports the lawless measures of its oppressor, I have adjourned the court of the county of Orleans, sine die ." To this letter the Governour paid no more attention than to the first. And on the next day the Judge addressed the Speak-
* Among those named in the General's orders was John Marsden Pintard, Esq. who, in descend- ing the river with his family was accordingly arrest- ed. He has since published a most amiable cor- respondence between himself and the General on the occasion, in which the latter expresses his regret at the mistake under which Mr. P. was arrested, as- suring him that it was the unintentional consequence of a general regulation, restricting persons descend- ing the river, and not intended for him.
† Gen. Wilkinson's first Return.
General Wilkinson requests the hon. Judge Work- man may have the goodness to receive the General's answer to the Superior Court of the territory in the case of the traitor Bollman, as applicable to the traitors who are the subjects of this writ.
(Signed) JA. WILKINSON.
On motion of Mr. Livingston, ordered, that James Wilkinson, to whom a writ of habeas corpus was directed, commanding him to bring up the bodies of James Alexander and Peter V. Ogden, make a further and more explicit return thereto, or shew cause on Monday next, at the opening of the court, why an attachment should not issue against him.
Further return of General Wilkinson, in the case of Peter V. Ogden.
The undersigned, commanding the armies of the United States, has taken upon himself the responsi- bility of arresting Peter V. Ogden, on a charge of misprison of treason against the government and laws of the United States, and has the honour to inform the hon. James Workman, judge of the county of Orleans, that the body of the said Peter V. Ogden, is not in his power, possession or cus- tody.
(Signed) JA. WILKINSON.
New-Orleans, Dec. 26th, 1806.
On this return, Mr. Livingston moved that an at- tachment do issue against brigadier general James Wilkinson.
(The same return and the same motion were made in the case of Mr. Alexander.)
† George T. Ross, esquire, who lost his office on account of the independence of his conduct at that time.

er of the House of Representatives, then in session, on the subject; and transmitted copies of his letters to the Governor, together with the necessary documents relating to General Wilkinson's contempt to his court, and the adjournment of it sine die , without having issued the attachment against the General. The Judge's letters and representations were now becoming troublesome; and accordingly on the evening of the day afterwards, the 14th of January, he was arrested and confined by Wilkinson's orders. Being shortly afterwards liberated, he wrote two more letters to the Governor, one of the 25th of January, and the other of February, urging him, but still in vain, to restore the powers of the civil authority. But at length, as he observed, "he could not either by solicitation, remonstrance, or just reproach, induce Governor Claiborne to support him in bringing Gen. Wilkinson to condign punishment." Judge Workman, on the 23d of February resigned his office. The Judge's letters have been given to the public at length in a pamphlet printed at New Orleans last spring, and contain many just and severe strictures on the conduct of Gen. Wilkinson, expressed with elegance and force.
Some short time after the arrest of Ogden and Alexander, assurances were publickly given, through the friends of Governor Claiborne, that no more arrests of that nature should take place. And the publick attention was again wholly engrossed by the preparations then in forwardness, to oppose the army of Col. Burr, whose advance guard, consisting of two thousand men was confidently reported by the General to have been at the mouth of the Cumberland, under the command of General John Adair, who was represented as a hard and intrepid soldier, of high military character and distinguished talents. By this time it was supposed that he must have reached Natchez at least; and many with anxiety looked out daily for him and his host; when lo! this redoubtable chieftain actually arrived in town, and not a little astonished at the high command with which rumour had honoured him in Kentucky, where in fact he had not been for a great length of time. He took lodgings in a publick boarding house, and appeared to be in weak health. Adair's arrival, which happened on the 14th of January, excited some sensation in town, but one different from that of alarm. His presence at that moment, and in such a manner, at once dissipated the few remaining fears of the city; and placed the parade of Wilkinson's military preparations, his warlike speeches, and important intelligence from the upper country, in so ridiculous a point of view, that the citizens every where laughed heartily at the absurdity of the late alarms. It is easy to perceive that such an unlucky incident, and the consequent change of publick impressions, were to Wilkinson insupportable. The gibes and jests that rung through the city were not to be endured. Few feel the stings of ridicule more poignantly than the solemn buffoon, who after a short lived reign of imposition, is suddenly stripped of his importance, and stands exposed to publick contempt in all the majesty of falsehood, emptiness and folly. Wilkinson, however, was not prepared to strike his flag; and accordingly determined on one more struggle to maintain his ascendancy, and it possible make the people look serious again. Accordingly, about four o'clock in the afternoon two or three companies of regulars, under the command of Lieut. col. Kingsbury of the United States' infantry, besieged General Adair in his boarding house, and arrested him while at dinner, by the orders of General Wilkinson.
At the same time the drum beat to arms. The troops secured the streets. The volunteer companies hurried to their respective places of rendezvous. And three other citizens were arrested by parties of the Orleans troop of horse; namely, Judge Workman, whose arrest has been already spoken of; Mr. Bradford, editor of the Orleans Gazette; and Mr. Kerr, who has been already mentioned as taking out the first writ of habeas corpus for the release of Ogden. Judge Workman at the time of his arrest was dining in company with Judge Matthews of the superior court, and Judge Hall of the United States' district court, who warmly remonstrated against the arrest, and in vain warned those who executed it of the consequences.
Kerr's arrest occasioned some surprise. This gentleman had been for several years in the habits of intimate friendship with Governor Claiborne, and was generally believed to have been high in his confidence and very serviceable to his government. He was then a colonel in the militia; and it was scarcely a week before, that the important duty of arming the regular militia of the city was entrusted to him, and for that purpose nearly a thousand stand of arms were delivered to him from the publick stores. It was well known however that his opinions were unfavourable to the measures of Wilkinson; and that he had strenuously urged the Governor to oppose them. It was even said he made a proposition to the Governor, to authorise him to place himself at the head of a party of the militia, and arrest General Wilkinson, on his own responsibility, and ship him for the City of Washington.
His disposition in Kerr could not have been altogether unknown at head quarters, it is only surprising that he should have so long remained unmolested. A few days before, the Governor informed him that some secret representations had been made, injurious to his reputation as a citizen and a soldier; and Kerr having every reason to believe that the charges came from the General, demanded his arrest as a militia officer, that he might be confronted with his accusers, and meet their accusations openly before a court martial. He afterwards demanded an exhibition of these charges; but they never made their appearance, at least in that shape, and the arrest was taken off without trial.
To Kerr's arrest by Wilkinson it is certain that the Governor had not assented; as immediately on hearing of it, he interceded for his release; claiming him as his own prisoner already under military arrest by him, as commander in chief of the militia. And on the General's hesitation to comply, the Governor remonstrated with much spirit against his conduct. It would have been inconvenient to Wilkinson to break openly with the governor. He therefore yielded to him in this instance. And Colonel Kerr and Judge Workman were next morning taken before Judge Hall, on a writ of habeas corpus, which but for the Governor's interposition would probably have been but of little avail.
* It is remarkable that all the military arrests in N. Orleans took place in the afternoon, about dinner time. Whether the jolly god was necessary to any of these outrages is unknown.
CONGRESS.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
[The proceedings of the 27th were uninteresting, we have omitted them.]
WEDNESDAY, October 28.
The unfinished business of yesterday respecting the appointment of standing committees was taken up; and the amendment of Mr. Blount, directing their election to be by ballot, being under consideration,
Mr. Blount said he did not think it necessary to use any arguments in support of his motion, but, as he considered it as embracing an important principle, he would take the liberty of calling for the yeas and nays upon it.
The yeas and nays were agreed to be taken. The question being called for, the Speaker stated to the house, that the clerk had not yet prepared an alphabetical list of the members, so that he could not proceed to call the names of the members in the manner prescribed by the rules of the house.
Mr. Blount supposed it would make no difference if the names of the members should be called by states. He only wished to see how gentlemen who had so strenuously advocated the balloting for these committees heretofore would now vote. He hoped the house would unanimously agree to dispense with the rule of the house on this occasion.
The question was then put, but there being a few negatives the rule could not be dispensed with.
Mr. Blount declined withdrawing the motion for taking the yeas and nays, & an alphabetical list was directed to be prepared.
Mr. Thomas was informed that it would take half an hour to make out the proposed list, and as there was other business on the table, he moved that the present motion should lie on the table for one hour.
Mr. Van Cortlandt thought this a novel procedure. He believed it would not be in order to postpone the business, except to a day certain.
The Speaker said, that a motion might be made at any time for a resolution to lie on the table without specifying any time.
The motion for laying on the table was carried, there being 76 votes in favour of it.
On motion the house took up for consideration the resolution yesterday received from the Senate, for the appointment of two Chaplains, to interchange betwixt the two houses weekly, which was concurred with, there being 85 votes in favour of it.
Mr. D. R. Williams said that the order passed yesterday respecting newspapers, was an exact copy of the resolution on that subject which had been entered into for several years past, and upon which a different construction had been put by the two houses. One part of the members took papers for their own information, and another took them for the information of their constituents. Those of us (said Mr. W.) who are solicitous to send information to our friends abroad, agreeably to our construction of the resolution, have received only half the advantage from it which had been received by others. [Mr. W. here read the resolution which provides that each member shall be served with three daily papers or as many of such other newspapers as they may direct.] Under this resolution the members of this house supposed they could only take three papers, whether daily or not: whereas the members of the Senate understood that they might take the value of three daily papers in as many others as they thought proper. That a fair construction of this order might be had, he moved that it be reconsidered.
After a few unimportant remarks on the subject,
Mr. Randolph said, that the house was about to establish a dangerous precedent in a very unimportant case. It was in cases of this description that dangerous precedents crept in. It is proposed to reconsider a deliberate act of this house. Passed just now? No; passed yesterday. To what may this lead? This house may at some future time, do a deliberate act, and the succeeding day, in a thin house, that act may be rescinded; may, on another day, be again reconsidered, and again reinstated.—And if a precedent of this kind be established, it will be impossible to come to a definitive conclusion on any question. He had himself expected, and very probably the Speaker may so think on mature reflection, that a motion to reconsider what was done yesterday, is not in order; but if it should be otherwise determined, he trusted this house would not countenance such procedure. He would rather never read another newspaper as long as he lived, than attempt a reversal of this decision.
Mr. Quincy agreed with the gentleman from Virginia as to the impropriety of reversing the order of yesterday; but he thought the decision of the Speaker was correct, according to the rule of the house, which he read: and observed that that rule contained no limitation within which motives for reconsideration were to be made.
Mr. Randolph supposed the gentleman from Massachusetts had misunderstood him. He did not mean to question the decision of the chair; he did not understand that there had been any decision; he had supposed the circumstance to have escaped the observation of the chair. But if the course proposed, were correct, and any act of this house may be reconsidered on a successive day, (he spoke of acts in which the other branch of the legislature did not concur) it would be in order to reconsider the appointment of any of the officers of this house; and no member would say that it could be in order to reconsider such an appointment.
Mr. D. R. Williams acknowledged the justness of the observations of the gentleman from Virginia. The gentleman from Massachusetts, in order to obviate the difficulty into which they had got, had pointed out a different mode of accomplishing his object. He would therefore withdraw his former motion, and offer in its place, the following resolution:
"Whereas doubts have arisen as to the construction of the order of yesterday, respecting the furnishing of newspapers to the members of the house of representatives; to remove which,
Resolved, That the clerk be directed to obtain newspapers from any number of offices which members may direct, provided the expense does not exceed the amount of the price of three daily newspapers." Agreed to.
The Speaker informed the House that the Clerk had prepared an alphabetical list of the members. Mr. Blount hoped the question on his amendment to the resolution for appointing standing committees would immediately be taken.
The question on the amendment was then taken by yeas and nays—Yeas 24—Nays 87.
The question on the amendment being lost, the original resolution which vests the appointment in the Speaker was agreed to without a division; and the following standing committees thereupon appointed:
Of Elections—Messrs. Findley, Williams, (S. C.) Clay, Lambert, Blake, Sturges, Elliot.
Of Claims—Messrs. Holmes, Moore, (S. C.) Nelson, Pitkin, Seaver, Johnson, Humphreys.
Of Commerce and Manufactures—Messrs. Newton, McCreery, Cutts, Dana, Marion, Thomas, Porter.
Of Ways and Means—Messrs. Campbell, Ten. W. Alston, Eppes, Smilie, Tallmadge, Fisk, Montgomey, (Md.)
Of Publick Lands—Messrs. Boyle, Morrow, (Ohio), Goodwyn, Russell, Darby, Ely, Smelt.
Of Revival and Unfinished Business—Messrs. Closson, Van Rensselaer, Durell.
Of Accounts—Messrs. Moore, (of Md.) Stedman, Milnor.
The House then adjourned.
THURSDAY, October 29. A communication was received from N. B. Vanzandt, who officiated as clerk during the recess, informing the house that he had made the usual contract with Messrs. A. & G. Way for the printing, Mr. Patterson for the stationary, &c. Referred to the committee of accounts.
A communication was received from the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing an account of the extra expenses incurred in the Navy Department, since the 22d day of June last, for the year 1807, which was ordered to be printed.
The Secretary adds, that the general estimates will be ready in the course of next week. The general head of this report of extra expenditure are as follows:
For ordnance and military fortifications, $310,550 60 For repairs of vessels, 151,896 73 Provisions, 81,468 15 Marine corps, 29,902 82 Pay of 1100 extra seamen, boys, petty-officers, &c. 74,754 29 Timber for 73 gun-boats 87,500 00 $686,067 59
After this subject was disposed of, a motion was made to adjourn, which was negatived, 24 only rising in favour of it.
A communication was received from the legislature of the state of New York, praying for an appropriation for the fortification of the city of New York, accompanied by several resolutions expressive of their opinion, that the commercial and agricultural interests of that state are equally affected by its unprotected situation. Ordered to be printed.
Mr. Rhea (Tenn.) offered the following resolution, which was agreed to, and ordered to be printed: "Resolved, That the Committee on publick lands do enquire into the expediency of laying off and describing by certain metes and bounds, the tract of country to which the Indian title has been extinguished within the limits of Louisiana, and to include all the settlements within the said territory, and of having the said tract or country laid off into townships and sections, half and quarter sections agreeably to the several laws heretofore made for surveying the publick lands of the United States; and also to enquire into the expediency of granting one quarter of a section to every free male white person who now resides thereon, or who will within five years actually improve and reside thereon."
Mr. Dawson moved that the House should go into a Committee of the whole on the state of the Union.
Mr. Thomas wished this business might be laid over till to-morrow. Gentlemen had not yet had sufficient time to examine the President's communication.
The House agreed to go into committee of the whole, there being 47 for it, and 42 against it.
The Speaker called Mr. Dawson to the chair; but he declined, stating he had prepared some resolution which he was about to offer.
Mr. Basset was then requested to take the chair; and
Mr. Dawson offered the following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That so much of the message of the President of the United States, as relates to aggressions committed within our ports and waters by foreign armed vessels; to the violations of our jurisdiction; and the measures necessary for the protection of our ports and harbours, be referred to a select committee.
2. Resolved, That so much of said message as relates to violations of our maritime rights, be referred to the committee of Commerce and manufactures.
3. Resolved, That so much of said message as relates to our intercourse with the Indian Tribes be referred to a select committee.
4. Resolved, That so much of said message as relates to our military and naval establishments, be referred to a select committee.
5. Resolved, That so much of said message as relates to our finances, be referred to the committee of Ways and Means.
6. Resolved, That so much of the said message as relates to enterprises against the publick peace, and the means of preventing the same, and of punishing their authors, be referred to a select committee.
The first resolution being under consideration,
Mr. Quincy thought this resolution embraced objects unconnected with each other, and objects of magnitude sufficient to warrant a separation of them. The first part of the resolution relates to aggressions committed in our ports and waters. The most material object contained in the President's message, said Mr. Q. has relation to an attack upon one of our vessels by an armed ship of a particular nation, and all the other circumstances mentioned are stated merely as aggravations of this attack. He therefore submitted with deference to the committee, the propriety of referring whatever relates to the attack on the Chesapeake to a select committee; and entering into a separate resolution for the appointment of a distinct committee to consider what may be necessary for the further defence of our ports and harbours. Under this view of the subject, he
would offer an amendment to the resolution in question. He wished to add after the word "resolved,"
"That so much of the message of the President of the United States as relates to the attack made on the frigate Chesapeake be referred to a select committee; and that the committee be instructed to enquire into the circumstances of that attack, the causes assigned for making it, and the manner in which it was repelled, and to report the result of such enquiries in detail to this house."
Mr. Q. stated his object for wishing to give an enquiry in this direction was, in the first place to submit the most prominent subject in the message to a distinct committee—a subject which stood most prominent in the publick mind—a subject which had occasioned a great degree of irritation, and concerning which it was expected the publick would no longer remain ignorant of all the circumstances of the transaction. The message of the president, he said, properly led to this enquiry, and this house ought to pursue it. But he was not for a mere reference of the subject, leaving the committee to act as they might chuse upon it; he wished specific instructions to be given them. Indeed he considered the honour of the nation deeply concerned in the object of the last part of his proposed amendment. He hoped, therefore, the matter would not be huddled up, but that a proper enquiry would be entered into in the manner proposed.
Mr. Elliott enquired of the chairman, if an amendment offered to a resolution which embraces the same objects with the original motion, ought not to be considered as a complete substitute. It appeared to him that this was the case at present, and that the motion of the gentleman from Massachusetts could not therefore be in order.
The Chairman did not consider the proposed amendment as a substitute for the original motion, and therefore he in order.
Mr. Alston could not conceive the object of the gentleman from Massachusetts in making this motion. He surely does not mean to justify the conduct of the British. It will be time enough to enter into an enquiry on this subject hereafter. The matter is proposed to be committed generally, and the committee will make such a report as they think proper. If this report should not be satisfactory to the gentleman from Massachusetts, he can propose any modification of it which he may judge necessary. Does the gentleman mean to cramp the operations of the committee, by giving them his special instructions? he hoped no step would be taken which should be calculated to narrow the inquiries of this important committee.
Mr. Dawson observed, that the gentleman from Massachusetts had mistaken his intention in offering the resolution under consideration. He did not mean the proposed committee to enquire particularly into the attack on the Chesapeake. Such an enquiry would be at present premature. When the time arrived for taking up this subject, he should be as ready as the gentleman from Massachusetts, or any other gentleman to enter upon it. Mr. D. read that part of the message of the president which has reference to this affair, and asked the members of the committee if it would not be altogether premature to go into this subject before the house received the information which the president of the United States has said, he expects shortly to be able to lay before them? his object was to make the ground of reference as general as possible.
Mr. Quincy said, that the gentleman from North-Carolina had asked what was his object in making this motion. He would answer that it was to have the whole detail of the affair respecting the Chesapeake laid upon our tables. It was asked if he meant to justify the British. He knew not why this question should be put. His motion was a plain one. He wished to have the fact which he called for before him, and he should not then be afraid to meet the gentleman from North-Carolina, or any other. His principles and feelings were as purely American as those of any gentleman. He wished to gain facts, and to obtain these he thought it best to fix on single objects, and not to extend our views over the whole horizon. In reference to what had fallen from the gentleman from Virginia, what he had proposed would have nothing to do with our negotiation abroad. No expression of the opinion of this house is required. All that is asked, is that the committee shall collect a detail of facts. The committee will not make their report until they think proper; but the enquiry ought to be instituted. Suppose our dispute with Great-Britain should be amicably settled, would not this enquiry be necessary? would you not enquire into the causes which led to the attack? he considered the dispute as being not only between us and Britain, but between us and France. At any rate he wanted the facts and when they were before the house, a correct judgment might be formed of the affair. The honour of the nation was concerned to know whether a proper degree of resistance had been made to repel the attack of the British by our officers; if not, the opinion of this house ought to be expressed on the occasion.
Mr. Elliot felt equally anxious with the gentleman from Massachusetts to receive the information required by his proposed amendment; but he could not consent to suppress the original resolution proposed by the gentleman from Virginia. He did not rise to appeal from the decision of the chair, or to question the correctness of its opinion; but his own ideas of the spirit of the rules of this house would govern his vote on this occasion were every other consideration out of view. This rule states that "no new motion or proposition shall be admitted under colour of amendment, as a substitute for the motion or proposition under debate." Without appealing from the decision of the chair, he could not help considering the present motion to be a violation of this rule, as it was, in his opinion, under colour, a complete substitute for the original motion. He thought one part of the information required by this amendment was altogether unnecessary. He alluded to that part which asks for the manner in which the attack was repelled. Every man, woman and child in the United States knew that no resistance was made. If he were to vote for the resolution, he should wish the word received to be used instead of the word repelled; but as he had already stated, he believed the motion was in conflict with a rule of the house, and therefore he could not vote for it.
Mr. Smilie said, there was one thing which the gentleman from Massachusetts himself, on recollection, must think improper—that was, that part of the motion which relates to the manner in which the attack was repelled. He understood the commander of the Chesapeake was now on trial, and he

hoped this house would not do any act which might have an influence on that trial. Whether that officer acted properly or improperly will be determined by the proper tribunal before which it will be tried. Indeed he saw no necessity for this amendment. The original resolution gives the committee full power on this subject, and it cannot be supposed that a committee of this house will not do their duty. He had no doubt but that before this business was got through, there would be complete information before the house. We should know whether the seamen taken from the Chesapeake were really British subjects or American citizens. The inquiry will force itself upon us; and the resolution as it stands will be sufficient for the purpose.
Mr. Quincy rose to explain. The gentleman from Pennsylvania had said that he deemed it improper to pass this resolution at this time, because of the effect it might have on the trial now pending. If the object of this motion had been to obtain from the house a vote of censure on one side or the other, he should now have proposed it: it was merely a direction to the committee in what manner they were to proceed, and to collect a statement of the facts attendant on this occurrence. If the principle were correct, that this house should be prevented from exercising its duties on any point because a trial was pending in some of the courts, what would be the consequence? nothing further would be necessary to evade inquiry than to put an officer under arrest, bring him to trial, and postpone the decision from time to time, and thus prevent this house from performing its duty. He saw no weight in this argument.
The amendment was rejected, without a division. The resolutions being gone through, a motion was made for the committee to rise, which being agreed to, the speaker resumed the chair, and the house immediately took up the resolutions, and agreed to them unanimously.
The House then adjourned.
PHILADELPHIA, October 30.
Latest from Denmark.
Captain Jeffries, of the ship Neptune, arrived at this port yesterday from St. Petersburg and Elsinore—sailed from the latter place (which is only 20 miles from Copenhagen) on the 6th inst. and informs that the Danes still kept possession of Elsinore—that Copenhagen continued to hold out, and it was thought would do so with obstinacy. The British commenced their attack on Copenhagen ten days before captain J. reached Elsinore. The town had been several times on fire, owing to its being generally attacked at night—in the day time, very little was done on either side. Capt. J. saw the town on fire on the morning of the 4th. A British frigate was taken by the Danes, owing to her too near approach to the Crown batteries. Copenhagen had not been attacked by sea, at capt. J's departure.
At St. Petersburg there did not appear to be any interruption to the good understanding heretofore subsisting between Russia and England. The Russians, however, lament the loss of upwards of 100,000 of their best men, and attribute it to the English.
October 31.
Yesterday arrived brig Ariel, from Bristol—A passenger on board brought a Bristol paper of the 12th of September, containing London articles to the 10th, but it falling into the hands of the owners, they were unwilling to oblige us with it—however, from a hasty perusal of it on board the brig, we could not find that it contained any news from the Continent or Copenhagen, later than already given, or any one article of importance, unless the mention of an expedition fitting out from England, to take possession of Madeira—may be so.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman lately resident in China, dated Canton, April 17.
“The affair between the English Company and the Chinese government is at length adjusted, chinchings, &c. &c. The Chinese government ordered up for trial the 52 sailors, belonging to the Neptune that were on liberty when the affair happened.—This order was complied with on the part of the Company, and about the 25th of March the sailors arrived in Canton, under the protection of a company of marines, from the Lion ship of war. After they had reached Canton, the Mandarins intimated that they must be taken inside the city for examination. This was resolutely opposed, and it was finally agreed that the trial should be held in the company's old factory—the lower part of which was accordingly fitted up in great style with yellow and crimson silk, carpets, cushions, chairs, tables, &c. the whole intended to represent the Emperor's court. The business now appeared favourable, but was soon shaded by another serious occurrence: The Mandarin who was to sit in awful judgment required, that the chief of the Company, the captain of the Lion, and the commodore of the Company's ships, should not be permitted to sit in his presence during the trial. This was not acceded to, & threats were uttered on the part of the British. The Mandarin was equally obstinate, and the business assumed a very serious aspect. As the Mandarin could not come himself, or send one of High Order, he sent one who was willing that the British should sit at their ease in good elbow chairs. Thus arranged, about the 6th inst. the trial commenced, and of the 52 sailors, 11 were selected as the most guilty, and laid over for “further proof.” On the 9th, the 11 were again brought up for trial, and 2 were selected as the guilty persons, who were again laid over for further investigation.—On the 11th the two were again brought forward, one of them adjudged guilty, and ordered to be kept in possession of the Company until the pleasure of the Emperor shall be known. The British ships are now loading, and will sail in about a fortnight. What fate awaits the sailor retained, is uncertain, but it is probable that the Mandarins would rather touch a few of the Security Merchant's dollars, and keep the affair from the Emperor, than retaliate the outrage against their countrymen. In this case not less than 100,000 dollars will be necessary to patch up the affair.
For SALE,
73 punch. choice Antigua RUM, 30 do. Grenada do. 600 bushels CORN, 80,000 drawn White and Red Oak STAVES, 60 barrels Pork.
George Wilson.
WALKER'S Packet will sail for Baltimore the first fair wind. Nov. 6.
THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
FRIDAY EVENING, NOV. 6, 1807.
The Mails once more.—We are again under the necessity of inviting the publick attention to this subject. It is evident that the object of the postmaster-general in contracting for the carriage of a mail on both the north and south sides of James river, was that a mail should arrive and depart here every day. During the summer establishment this has been the case, and the publick found great advantage and convenience thereby. But now both mails arrive and depart so as to defeat the postmaster's object. The following is the winter establishment:—
The Northern Mail will close on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 4 o'Clock, P. M. and will arrive on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 6 P. M.
The Southern Mail will arrive on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, at 6 P. M. and will close on Tuesdays and Thursdays, at 8 o'clock P. M. and on Sundays at 10 A. M.
It is to be hoped that this inconvenience may be remedied, by obliging the contractors to run their stages so as to arrive and depart upon alternate days; if not, the additional expense incurred in carrying a mail on both sides of the river may be saved to the publick. We presume it was not with a view to lighten the carriage, that a contract was made to carry a mail on both sides, but for the object already stated.
Our readers will observe by our congressional proceedings, that the proposition of balloting for general committees was negatived, and the appointment as heretofore, left to the speaker. We do not pretend to know on what account, or for what reason, but so it is, that John Randolph has not been placed upon any committee. It may have been, (and we hope it is so) that Mr. Randolph was not disposed to be a member of any committee. We can hardly imagine that the speaker forgot Mr. Randolph, for we think he has had a few memoranda, that will make the name of John Randolph familiar to him, as long as the history of a back stairs administration shall be remembered.
It has become the fashion of the times, to brand any man, who endeavours to show that our country ought not to go into an unnecessary, or an unjust war with Great-Britain, with the epithets of British advocate, tory, &c. At this rate it would follow, that whenever those who have the direction of publick affairs, or as Mr. Cheetham says, whenever a few “mad caps” choose to plunge the country into a war, every one must be silent, or be accounted an enemy to the rights and interests of his country. The interests of our country forbid war, when it can be avoided without dishonour to the nation, by a surrender of our rights as an independent people, but we are not sensible that the protection of deserters from the service of foreign nations on board of our merchant ships, is connected with our honour or independence.
The Editor of the Virginia Argus, has honoured the Editor of this paper with a column and a half of his paper, for which we thank him, and shall at some future day endeavour to repay in quantity, what we may fail in quality. The concluding paragraph is all that we shall notice at present.
“We shall take no further notice of his remarks, except to declare that impartial posterity, when it reads the history of the present times, will give the administration of Thomas Jefferson the glory of having acted up to the principles recommended by Washington.”
Such a warm, and we hope sincere tribute of acknowledgment to the soundness of federal principles, coming from such a source, affords us almost as much satisfaction as if we really believed posterity would so decide. It affords us great consolation to observe, that the Argus is not the only democratically paper, that feels and acknowledges the excellence and wisdom of the principles recommended by Washington, which are truly federal principles.
NORFOLK RACES.
Yesterday the Ladies' Purse of $100 was run for—one mile heats, the best three in five. Mr. Ball's Brandy, 1 1 1. Mr. Wilson's Surprize, 2 2 2. Mr. Ingram's Ann Penn, dis.
From the National Intelligencer.
MESSAGE.
The communications of the President to Congress at the annual opening of their session, always interesting, are rendered peculiarly so at present by the threatening aspect of affairs. Different opinions have, for some time past, been entertained by the publick. As, on the one hand, a strong hope, arising from the predominant wish of every genuine American, was cherished of the full adjustment of our differences with Britain, so on the other an apprehension, equally strong, prevailed, perhaps in an equal degree, that those differences would appear, from the information of the executive, likely to lead inevitably to a state of hostilities. Neither, however, of these results are announced by the President, and the mind is compelled to rest in nearly the same state of uncertainty to which it has been already so long consigned.
There are, however, some points of information embraced by the message that must give peculiar satisfaction to the people, and afford some grounds for hope that the differences between the two nations may be amicably adjusted. Of these is the intimation of the circumstances under which the re-
turned treaty was signed by our ministers and submitted to the government. From these, it can only be viewed in the light of a project, which left all ultimate determination to the President. Two conclusions may be drawn from this fact; first, the full power of our government to adopt or reject it, without the slightest room for improper imputation; and secondly, the doubt, to say no more, whether Mr. Monroe and Mr. Pinckney themselves actually approved it. On this last point we pretend to no special information, and it is possible that the qualified inference drawn may be unsound. But it is of light import compared with that previously specified. Of even the absolute rejection of the project, the British government could have no reason to complain; for, in being told by our negotiators that it was framed against their instructions, they were advised of its probable fate. Instead, however, of an absolute negative, it has been submitted to negotiation, and the two nations may occupy the same ground in which they stood previously to its formation.
We shall here offer no remarks on the calumny cast on the president, on the assumed fact that the project had been signed by our ministers under the same circumstances in which treaties are ordinarily signed, and on the charge of his having instructed them to conclude a treaty on principles, which after its formation he determined to reject, except to observe that on this, as on many other memorable occasions, falsehoods propagated against the same man have, after having had their day, been invariably dispelled by the light of the truth. At such a crisis of affairs, when every arm may be required for defence, we shall not hesitate to avoid, to the utmost of our power, not only crimination, but even recrimination. If our political adversaries will press their discontent at this moment, we warn them that the fault will lie at their door.
With regard to the recent conduct of the Leopard the president well remarks that on such “an outrage no comments are necessary:”—adding that “its character has been pronounced by the indignant voice of our citizens with an emphasis and unanimity never exceeded.”
The suggestion of the policy of refusing admittance to all armed foreign vessels into our harbours, is entitled to the attentive consideration of the legislature. If such an inhibition, unsupported by a strong force, should as it probably would, prove no security against preconceived aggression, it might at least have the effect of averting many of those collisions that arise from foreign ships of war habitually frequenting our ports.
The publick will regret with us the unsettled state of our affairs with Spain. The possession of the Floridas is an event infinitely desirable, and we have every motive to wish that that possession may be the offspring of pacifick arrangement.
Passing over the measures adopted for the better fortification of our ports and harbours, we reach what appears to us, on first impressions, an excellent idea. We refer to that part of the Message which suggests the formation of the seamen of the U. States into a militia to be called on for tours of duty in defence of the harbours where they may happen to be. Should a more mature examination of this point, develop no great evils likely to ensue from such an arrangement, the President will merit the thanks of his country for the intimation. To us it appears to be perfectly feasible and consonant to the principles which ought to prevail under every government, and particularly a republican government in the preservation of which every citizen, whether employed on the land or the water, as equally interested, and whose services it consequently has a right to demand, whenever the general interests require them, of which the government only can be the judge.
The nation will applaud the spirit with which the Chief Magistrate has assumed the responsibility of providing military stores, notwithstanding the want of legal provision; they will also thank him for inviting the attention of Congress to the defects which exist in the criminal code, and more especially relative to the crime of treason, which recent occurrences have so glaringly exposed as to supersede the necessity of any comment.
At a period, so interesting as the present, the flourishing state of the finances will be a topic of high felicitation. The past year appears to have furnished a revenue of sixteen millions, which exceeds, we believe, the revenue of any antecedent year, even when excises and a direct tax were in existence; and which yields a sum of three millions beyond our annual expenditures. But, still higher will be the satisfaction at the official intimation that there are now in the treasury eight millions and a half unappropriated. With such resources, should the injustice of a foreign government drive us into hostilities, the means of defence actually possessed will be abundant; and should the subsisting differences be amicably settled, as we trust they will be, the means of carrying forward internal improvements on a scale, that shall ensure a diffusion of incalculable benefit, will be still more ample, and thus remove every obstacle that can be apprehended to such a measure.
May this be the closing scene of an administration, not less rich at present in the affection of its country, than it will be hereafter distinguished by the gratitude of prosperity!
CHEETHAM & PAINE.
From Cheetham's American Citizen.
The following note was handed to me yesterday. My reply to the bearer through the medium of my Clerk was, that I had no answer to make to such insolence.
As to the second paragraph of old Tom's note, which I beg leave to observe must have been written when he was drunk, I will just remark, that one of the suits of Maturin Livingston against me, which was tried at Albany, and in which the jury gave 500 dollars damages, was for some poetick lines sent to me from the country; the other was for an article written I believe by myself. Both were, however, in every thing material, true, although from the venues being laid at Albany, and from other circumstances which it is now useless to mention, it was not in my power to adduce testimony to prove the truth. The suits of Morgan Lewis against me, nine in number, are instituted merely to get money, from the chances of the law, and not because the publications on which they are predicated are false. In 4 of the 9 suits he has declared, and of the 4, 2 are for writings of my own, to which the most captious and determined villain could hardly take an exception; one for a pindarick
ode, written by an ingenious friend, which appeared in my paper during the fever of 1805, and the other for an able communication under the signature of Cato on the subject of Arnold's murder of little Betsey Van Anburgh. On what the remaining five are commenced, I cannot tell, nor shall I be able to say until Mr. Lewis has declared; but the truth is that all the suits are mercenary and malicious. My time will, however, come. I must adopt the European policy of a balance of power. I will try to make Maturin Livingston, one of the owners of the Morning Chronicle, accountable for all the libels which have appeared in that paper against me.
During the controversy with Lewis, as with that of Burr, I run every hazard to promote the welfare of the republican party. Threats were made, suits instituted, and patronage withdrawn, but I hope I may be allowed to say that I still persevered. In the course that I have pursued I find nothing to regret. I would indeed under similar circumstances have recourse to similar means. I do not even regret that Tom Paine and the other little rascals of the party are insidiously endeavouring to injure me for the very exertions I have made and the risks I have run for the welfare of the cause.—I do indeed sometimes feel a little angry at the base ingratitude of the wretches, but I am consoled with the reflection that the old friends of the cause, those who are distinguished for uniformity of conduct, for talents and for standing, are still the same prudent, enlightened, and worthy friends. To your Tom Paines, his associates, and his abettors, I tender the homage of my contempt and defiance.
I shall meet Tom Paine in court with as much pleasure as can be derived from a meeting with such a pestilent outcast, and if I do not prove him the drunken and blasphemous wretch, and the scandalous betrayer of Mr. Jefferson's letter (if he received such a letter) I have represented him to be, then will I contentedly suffer whatever odium may follow in the train of a failure.
NOTE.
“October 27.—Broome-street, three doors from Bowery.”
“MR. CHEETHAM,”
“Unless you make a publick apology for the abuse and falsehood in your paper of Tuesday, October 27, respecting me, I will prosecute you for lying.”
“It is by your talent for abuse and falsehood that you have brought so many prosecutions on your back. You cannot even state truth without running it to falsehood. There was matter enough against Morgan Lewis without going a syllable beyond truth.”
“THOMAS PAINE.”
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Sch't Rising States, Newcomb, and sloop Katy Maria, Storer, 5 days from New-York.
PALMER'S Packet will sail for Alexandria in a few days. Nov. 6.
The Schooner Jefferson, Carlton, will sail for New-York on Sunday next. For freight or passage, apply to the master on board at Campbell's wharf.
Sales at Auction.
By Virtue of a Deed of Trust, executed to me by Mr. Thomas Lawson, for the purpose of securing the payment of a certain sum of money therein mentioned, together with the legal expenses attending the said Trust, I shall on SATURDAY, the 14th instant, at XII o'Clock, proceed to sell at the Exchange Coffee-House, to the highest bidder for ready money,
THE LOT in the rear of John Nivison's, Esq. on which are two spacious and elegant BRICK-HOUSES, with all the necessary out buildings, at present in the occupation of said Mr. Thomas Lawson, and Mr. Thomas Warren.
Cary Selden.
November 4.
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Valuable Property for Sale.
In pursuance of a Decree of the Circuit Court of the United States for the Virginia District, in a suit there depending between William Young Coker, Plaintiff and Carter B. Page and Rebecca his wife; Chapman Johnson and Mary Ann his wife; William Nicholson, Margaret Nicholson, an infant under the age of twenty-one years, by John Cringan her guardian; and Agness Nicholson an infant under the age of twenty-one years, by Andrew Nicholson, her guardian, Defendants.
Will be Sold at Auction, for ready money, on the premises, on the 25th day of November,
That Valuable TENEMENT,
in the Borough of Norfolk, now in the occupation of Mr. James Herron—and the unimproved LOT OF GROUND opposite thereto. The Sale will commence between 11 and 12 o'clock in the forenoon.
C. Copland, Commissioner.
October 21.
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Pennsylvania BUTTER,
of the first quality in small kegs; And a few tons of BAR IRON.
For Sale by
SAMUEL COLEMAN.
November 6.
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I have appointed WILLIAM H. THOMPSON, Esq. my attorney.
William Gray.
November 6.
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To the kind Publick.
About 15 years ago, Edward Hay, of Boston, by trade a Hatter, and dealer in goods, married one Mehitable Webb, of Wethersfield, Connecticut. In the same year they removed to Lenox, in the state of Massachusetts, where they had one child—Thence they removed to the southward, and from the best information that their friends have obtained, they were at or near Philadelphia in 1794. Since that time no information whatever has been received concerning them, and it is apprehended that she parents, if not the child, have fallen victims to the fever, which, in a subsequent year, raged in that city. But as to which one or the other of them, or some other child of theirs, may be still living, the relations feel anxious to be informed. And if they be living and will make their relatives a visit, or will give information of their place of residence, they may hear of something to their advantage. Or if they be dead, and any one will be kind enough to send an account of it the friends will be obliged. The object of this advertisement is to request of the kind publick any information which may be relied on, respecting their being alive or dead. Information may be sent by mail or otherwise to the Rev. Joshua Williams, living in Herwinton, (Con) and county of Litchfield, or to William Webb, living in Wethersfield, county of Hartford. Herwinton, Con. Oct. 27.

Wood and Hastings, No. 76, Main-Street, Have received from London and Liverpool, via Baltimore, 60 packages composing a complete assortment of  Fall and Winter GOODS; Amongst which are Best blue, black, bottle green, and olive broad Cloths; fashionable Cassimeres; coarse Cloths; coarse and fine Coatings; Flannels and Baizes; Kendal Cottons; blue and white Kerseys and Halfhicks; blue and drab Plains; Flannels; Rose and striped Blankets; Carpets; Swans- down; Bennett's Cord and Toilette; Vesting; Durants; Calimancoes; Ruffles and Bumbazetts; Manchester Cords and Velvets; silver Cords and tabby Velvets; Irish Linens; Sheetings; Diapers and bed Ticks; Calicoes; Dimities; Cambric Muttins; Ginghams; fancy Mullins; Hosiery; Pins; Thread, &c. &c.
Also, an assortment of  French Lutestrings; silk Velvets; black and white silk Hose; silk Gloves, assorted colours; fancy silk Handkerchiefs; white silk Gloves; leather do.; Crapes; silk Cords and Taffets; Gauze and Cotton Trimmings, &c. LIKEWISE,  10 bales India Cottons, 2 do. Coarse Linens; 1 chest white Rolls. October 5. tf
J. & W. SOUTHGATE, Have now received the whole of their Fall Assortment from London and Liverpool, amongst which are the following  Best superlative Navy Blue, London Brown and Bottle Green Cloths, fashionable Cassimeres, Coarse Cloths of every description, Superfine white and Scarlet Flannels, Hosiery of every description, 5-4, 7-8, and 4-4 Irish Linens, Superfine Hollands for Shirting, Oznaburgs, Tow and Flaxen, Kendal Cottons in small assorted bales, Manchester Goods of every description, Best London Seine Twine, Nails 4d, 6d, 8d, 10d, 12d, & 20d, Diamond head Spikes, all sizes, Glazed Gun Powder and Shot. ALSO,  10 packages of German LINENS, Consisting of Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, Hessens, Beedens, Flax- en Rolls, Platillas, &c. entitled to debenture, all of which will be sold for cash, or on liberal credit for good paper. September 28. 2m
Fall and Winter GOODS. The Subscribers have received by the ship Nabby, from Liverpool, and Planter, from London, an extensive and general assortment of  Seasonable and Fancy GOODS, Amongst which are  20 bales Negro Cottons and Kerseys, 10 do. Rose and Dutch Blankets, 8 do. Plains and Halfhicks, 15 do. Cloths, Coatings, Fearnoughts, &c. 6 do. Flannels and Baizes, 2 do. superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, 10 do. Twilled Sacking, 5 do. British Oznaburgs, 10 cases Hats, 5 do. Irish Linens and Sheetings, 20 trunks fashionable Goods, 4 casks Seine Twine, 6 tons Shot, 50 kegs F and F Gun Powder, also an assort- ment of Hardware, Cutlery, Nails, &c. All of which they offer for sale by the piece or package, on the lowest terms for approved paper. Richard & John Taylor. September 25. 2m
MACKINDER & WHITE, Have received from London in the ship Planter, and Nabby, from Liverpool, their  Fall and Winter GOODS. The best superfine Black, Navy Blue, and fashionable mix- ed Cloths, Cassimeres, Patent Cords, Swansdown, black silk Florentine, Gentlemen's patent silk and beaver Hats; La- dies' Trafalgar, Calabria, Buenos Ayres, and Cottage beaver Bonnets; Children's beaver Caps and Bonnets; Ladies' plain and fancy Kid and Morocco Shoes; red and black Morocco Nelson's comforts; Gentlemen's Hellan and Spanish Boots, and dress Shoes and Pumps; superior rich gold Epau- lettes; lace and silver Fringe; plain, tamboured, and Leno Muslin for dressers; Calicoes, Chambrays, and Ginghams; rose and striped Blankets; Kendal Cottons; strong white Plains; mix- ed Fearnoughts; Flannels; Manchester Cords; blue and drab Plains; Dimities and Musselines; 4-4 Irish Linens; 5-4 and 6-4 Sheetings; Hosiery; Cutlery in boxes assorted; coarse Hats do.; Nails, Window Glass, &c. The above are offered for sale by wholesale or retail, at the lowest terms for Cash or approved paper. September 25. tf
FALL GOODS. We have received per the ship Nabby, from Liverpool, a handsome assortment of  Woollen GOODS, well suited to the approaching season, and are in expectation of a further sup- ply by the first arrival from London.  J. & W. Southgate. On hand, a few very fine  Toned, Grand, and Patent Piano Fortes. September 16. 2m
COCKE & SANFORD, Have received by the ship Nabby, from Liverpool, an as- sortment of  Fall and Winter GOODS, Consisting of Cloths of all qualities, Cassimeres, Bennett's patent Cords, Flannels, Blankets, Kendal Cottons, Yam, Worsted and Cotton Hosiery, Powder and Shot, and a small assortment of Sadlery. They expect by the first arrival from London, a further supply of fashionable fancy GOODS. September 14. 2m
For SALE, Imported in the Galliot Fortune, captain Norton, from Te- neriffe,  100 pipes and 90 hhd. L. P. Tene- riffe WINE, of superior quality. Apply to Phinehas Dana. September 28. tf
Coarse Liverpool SALT, For Sale on board the Ship Courtney, capt. Bryant, lying at my wharf. Apply to William Pennock. Who has on hand,  Liverpool Blown and Cadiz SALT. September 16. tf
Landing from on board the Georgiana, from Amsterdam,  Choice GIN in pipes, Holland Sail Cloth, Ticklenburgs, Glassware in small cases, Old Hock in cases of one dozen, Linseed Oil in casks, Dutch Smoking Pipes in cases, a quantity of empty Jugs — For Sale by Moses Myers. Sept. 30. tf
Liverpool Stoved SALT. For Sale on board the ship Jane, capt. Colley,  350 tons Stoved SALT, on moderate terms, if taken from along side — Apply to Robert Maitland & Co. October 2. tf
For SALE, 2 elegant Bay Horses, a complete match, 2 do. grey do. do. 1 remarkable fine bay, and one very excellent grey Horse — For which, Notes of the Bank of Newbern and Cape-Fear, or Proc. Money will be taken in payment — Apply at the Of- fice of the Publick Ledger. Sept. 25. tf
Landing from the ship Planter, and for sale at the subscriber's, at a low advance, A PARCEL OF  Woolleins, Bed Ticks, Hosiery, and other GOODS. Thomas Blanchard. September 28. tf
We want to Purchase, A few Shares of STOCK in the Vir- ginia Bank. Campbell & Wheeler. May 22. tf
St. Mary's College Lottery of Balti- more. TICKETS for Sale by Rowland & Triplett. October 16. tf
Now landing from the schooner Prudence Mary, from New-York,  17 hhd. first quality SUGARS, 54 barrels prime Pork, city inspection, 70 boxes Mould Candles; 5 hhd. double refined Sugar, 5 pipes Brandy; 25 reams Writing Paper, 2 trunks fine and coarse French Lace, which will be sold at a low rate for Cash. Apply at No. 1, Commerce-street to William Hull, Jun. October 16. tf
MAYO MILL FLOUR, in barrels and half barrels, of new wheat and superior qua- lity for family use — For Sale by Moses Myers. September 16. tf
At Private Sale, By S. MARKS, Jun. Corner of Commerce and Water-street,  10 hhd. Antigua, 12 do. N. E. 50 barrels do. RUM, 30 hhd. and 20 barrels Sugar; 10 pipes Country Gin, 8 pipes Cognac Brandy; 130 boxes Mould Candles, 6 boxes Spermaceti Candles; 4 bales striped Blankets, 3 bales Blue Duffels; 1 do. fine Cloths; 2 do. blue Plains, 2 do. Rugs; 1 do. Check Shirts, 54 do. Ticklenburgs and Oznaburgs; 2 do. Hessian, 1 trunk Madras Handkerchiefs. October 24. tf
Landing this day out of the schooner Diana Talbot, Capt. Strong, from Martinique, 113 hogsheads, 3 tiers, and 1 barrel  First quality SUGARS, And 25 barrels best Green COFFEE — For sale on liberal terms by Christopher Fry. October 9. tf
For RENT, A commodious small DWELLING, with all suitable out-houses and a good garden, pleasantly si- tuated on Smith's Point. Possession may be had on the first of November. P. Barraud. October 5. tf
Liverpool and Cadiz SALT, loose and in Sacks — Also, 150 crates Queen's Ware, and China of su- perior quality — For Sale by William Pennock. August 26. tf
For RENT, The STORE, No. 86, Main-Street, with or without the house. Thomas Blanchard. September 28. tf
For RENT, The Store, Compting-Room & Cellar, at present occupied by Mess. Wood & Hastings, no. 90, Main-street. Apply to Thomas Willock. August 24. tf
REMOVAL.  WOOD & HASTINGS, Have removed to No. 76, Main-street, opposite Market- square, (lately occupied by CATON & VEALE) They have on hand a general assortment of  English, India and French Goods. September 11. tf
For SALE, at 60 and 90 Days, 55 hogsheads first quality SUGAR, 20 chests Young Hyson Tea; 5 pun. 3d proof Rum, 4 pipes country Gin. William B. Lamb. October 23. 6t
For RENT, That commodious Dwelling-House, adjoining the Subscriber's, at present occupied by Mr. James Dykes; — also a convenient Dwelling-House near the Bridge, adjoining Mr. Archer's, at present occupied by Mr. Nichol- son; — also that pleasant retired House on Brewer-street, oc- cupied by Stephen Harris; and some Ware-Houses on my wharf, with or without the wharf. For further particulars apply to James Tucker. October 12. tf
Forty Dollars Reward, Will be given to any person who will apprehend and deliver to Warren Ashley, Esq. of Norfolk, or the subscri- ber, two runaway Negro Men, named JEMMY and JEF- FERY, purchased a short time since as part of the Glebe property in Hampton. Jemmy is about 22 years of age, very strong and well built, and about 5 feet 9 inches high — Jeffery is at least 6 feet high, about 21 years of age, very black and likely. These Negroes absconded from the sub- scriber with a wish to be sold in Norfolk or Hampton, where they have been seen frequently since their having quitted my plantation. All captains and masters of vessels are her- by cautioned against receiving them on board, or employing them in any way. Henry Heffernan. Globe, Middlesex, July 4. tf
Twenty Dollars Reward. BROKE from the jail of Halifax on the night of the 19th August, a Negro Man named ABRAHAM, who was confined as a run-away. He is about 5 feet 8 inches high, of a yellow complexion, his nose flat, form straight and rather spare, speech stammering, particularly when alarmed; and has, or had when he left home, a mark of the appearance of a scar on his right cheek bone. He was pur- chased in the year 1814, of Dr. William Somerville, of Cal- vert County, Maryland, for which place I presume he is aiming. Whoever will secure the said Negro in any jail so that I get him, shall receive the above reward. Hinton James. - Hano ver County, N. G. Oct. 28. 3
For SALE, 2 elegant Bay Horses, a complete match, 2 do. grey do. do. 1 remarkable fine bay, and one very excellent grey Horse — For which, Notes of the Bank of Newbern and Cape-Fear, or Proc. Money will be taken in payment — Apply at the Of- fice of the Publick Ledger. Sept. 25. tf
GERMAN LINENS, &c. 16 bales coarse Linen, 450 pieces Paper Hangings, 4 do. Ruffa Sheetings, 80 boxes Window Glass, 3 boxes German Rolls, 100 do. Short Pipes, 2 do. Rouans Sheeting, 120 do. Spanish Segars, 1 do. fine Flanders do. from 8 to 20 dollars per box, 3 do. Platillas, 300 doz. empty Bottles, 1 do. fine Dowlas, 200 wt. nealed bottling Wire, 2 do. Table Cloth, 800 do. Glue, 1 do. common Shirt Li- nen, 11,000 best Coffee bags, 1 do. extra fine do. 4,500 cheap Gunny Bags, 1 do. Bed Tick 2 yards wide, 5 boxes Tumblers, Decan- ters, &c.
Also, 6 elegant Terefril Globes, A large invoice of Lace, 3 pair large Looking Glasses, Jewellery and Dice, in gilt frames, of the first Elegance Chessmen, Elegant marble Statues, Flagcolets and Clarinets, Urns and Vases, Violins, Bows, and Fifes, Liquor Casks, Oil Cloth, Flutes with four and six keys, Wafer and Waffle Irons, do. patent lined, Coffee Mills and Toasters, Ladies' Dressing Boxes, Velvet Ribbons, Toilet Looking Glasses, Fine Thread Stockings, Shaving Cakes, Elegant Cutlery, Elegant Writing Desk, An invoice of Watches, Scarlet Plush for Saddles, Watch Crystals and Beads, Seine and Sewing Twine. For Sale by Niemeyer & Von Kapff. September 11. tf
SAMUEL COLEMAN, Opposite the Market westward, has a very extensive assortment of  ENGLISH KID SHOES, in all the variety of that article, of the latest (legal) impor- tation, with the necessary embellishments. An extensive assortment of Boston SHOES of a great variety of kinds. Also, a good assortment of New-York SHOES, of which kind particularly, he is enabled to sell the best Shoes in town — since no other person here, that he knows of, is largely supplied from that place; the superiority of the workman- ship of New-York is well known to many people, and will be known by all who try it. A considerable assortment of British, New-York, Phila- delphia, and Boston BOOTS — and is in expectation of a large quantity of Shoes and Boots of all descriptions from New-York, which will be sold at the prices of that place, wholesale and retail. He has just received,  New-York SHOES and BOOTS, and an assortment of Mr. Vernon's elegant Baltimore Boots at least equal, it is believed, to any made on this continent. Being anxious to sell off his Boston Shoes and Boots, he will take in retail for Men's finest Shoes 10s. 6d. and in the same proportion for others — Sawmills Boots at 6 dollars — He will also reduce the price of English Kid Shoes with heels, to 10s. 6d.; without heels to 9s. He has for Sale, a considerable quantity of  India COTTONS, very low for Cash. May 27. 2awtf
Cash will be given for a few tons of  Old Copper, Brass, and Pewter, for the use of my Foundry. Leven Dorsey. Who offers for Sale,  50 Casks CUT-NAILS, assorted, at his Nail Manufactory, on Town Point. July 27. tf
At the Old CUT-NAIL Manufactory, corner of Main and Church-streets, the subscriber keeps on hand constant supply, and can furnish at short notice, any quantity of  Nails, Flooring Brads and Sprigs, At the following reduced prices, by the Keg — for cash only, viz: — 8, 10, 12, and 20d Nails and Brads at 7 1-2d lb. 6d. Nails, 9 1-2d 4d. do. 2s. 9d. m. or 11d 3d. do. 2s. 3d. or 12d Sheathing, 7 1-2d 6d. Sprigs, 4s. 6d per M. 4d. do. 2s. 9d 2d. and 3d. do. 2s. 3d He offers also for cash only —  HOOP IRON ASSORTED. Thos. Seaman. tf
Leather, Cordage, and Loaf Sugar. The subscriber will hereafter expose for Sale at his Ware-house on Campbell's wharf the above Articles, of the manufacture of Norfolk, at reduced prices for Cash, or on short credits only. Theo. Armistead. He will sell or lease for a term of years, the STORES at the end of Marsden's and Rothery's wharves. Feb. 20. tf
Richard Jeffrey & Co. No. 66, Main-street, corner of Bank-Street, have just re- ceived from London, per the ship Planter,  An assortment of MEDICINES, of the first quality. Also, a few hundred weight refined Salt Petre, Hardham's Snuff, No. 9, and 37, in 1-2 and 1-4 pound canisters, Violet, Benzoin, Windsor and Shaving Soap, Evan's best Crown Lancets, Tooth Brushes of superior kind, Refined Liquorice, &c. They have on hand, and are in daily expectation of receiv- ing from Amsterdam, all kinds of GLASS WARE, suitable to Apothecaries. MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family use, with printed directions, put up as usual. October 5. tf
NOTICE. The subscriber intends to leave the United States in the course of a few weeks. He requests all persons having demands against him to present their ac- counts for settlement, and those indebted to make im- mediate payment, as no further indulgence can be given. William Gray. October 28. tf
One Hundred Dollars Reward. RAN-AWAY from the Subscriber, living in Nansemond, within one mile of Scott's Landing, a negro man named MO- SES, who since he has run off has changed his name to TOM SCOTT, having bought a free negro's pass registered in the Court of Isle of Wight county, by the name of Tom Scott; he is about 26 years of age, black complexion, about 5 feet 6 or 7 inches high, rather stout and well made — he has a plea- sing countenance when spoken to, and lips in his common talk, but much more so when angry or talks fast; he was brought up on a farm, but as he has been run-away for these four years, he has been employed on board of different vessels, and now has the appearance of a sailor. I understand he was at Norfolk on the 30th last month as a sailor in one of the Baltimore Packets; he has a scar on his right wrist, occa- sioned by a burn, and a small knot between the elbow and shoulder of the right arm, occasioned by a whip. As he purchased the free negro's pass as above mention- ed, it will appear on examining the pass and the fellow, that there are no marks as mentioned on this fellow in the pass un- less they are interlined. — I forewarn all masters of vessels from carrying the said negro man out of the state, and all persons from harbouring him. I will give the above reward to any person that will deliver him to me, or secure him in Norfolk County Jail. Ann Carstarphen. Nansemond County, October 5. 3c
For SALE, 2 elegant Bay Horses, a complete match, 2 do. grey do. do. 1 remarkable fine bay, and one very excellent grey Horse — For which, Notes of the Bank of Newbern and Cape-Fear, or Proc. Money will be taken in payment — Apply at the Of- fice of the Publick Ledger. Sept. 25. tf
Landing from the schooner Catherine Shepherd, Capt. Driver, from Antigua,  96 punch. choice Antigua RUM, sixteen of which are five years old and very fine. In Store,  Antigua and Tobago Rum, French Brandy, loaf and brown Sugar, barrelled Pork, Havana Se- gars, manufactured Tobacco, and 300 barrels superfine New Flour. Harrison Almand. October 5. tf
Just landing from the schooner Packet, capt. Luce, from Philadelphia,  25 pipes high fourth proof Cogniac BRANDY. And from the Richmond Packet, captain Le Fort, from New-York,  5 bales soft shelled ALMONDS, 30 bags Bottle Corks; 7 pipes Bordeaux Brandy. In Store, 50 barrels prime Pork; 20 do. Mess; 72 do. Beef, 20 do. Mess Beef; 30 hhd. first quality Sugars, 6 pipes Country Gin. Imperial Hyson, Young Hyson, Souchong, and Hyson Skin Teas; 500 Northern Cheeses, 25 pieces Plains — For Sale by William Hull, Jun. October 23. 6t
Thomas H. Parker, Offers for Sale,  His Great-Bridge MILL, newly fitted up to run two pair of stones — The advantages of this mill are very great, only ten miles from Norfolk, is si- tuated on a never failing stream; although he works at pre- sent only two pair of stones, yet the stream affords an abun- dant supply for ten pair — Also, a MILL (known by the name of Bell's Mills) about two miles farther, now in com- plete order, running one pair of stones and two faws — This Mill is supplied with water from very extensive swamps, and in wet season very plentifully; at this place there is a force, the situation of which, for a lumber mill, is equal if not su- perior to any in that part of the country — This Mill can be supplied with excellent timber from a tract of land only one mile distant from it, which the owner also offers for sale. This tract contains between 5 and 600 acres, almost entirely covered with timber; the soil, the owner confidently be- lieves, is not inferior to any in the lower part of Virginia — Any person purchasing this Plantation would have the benefit of a reed swamp within three miles of it, in which any num- ber of cattle may be kept fat during the whole winter. October 5. tf
400 barrels Tar, 20,000 pipe Staves, 30,000 White Oak Hogshead 50,000 Red do. do. 100 Barrels Flour. — For Sale by L. Mansfield. Portsmouth, May 8. tf
To RENT, That commodious TAVERN oppo- site the Borough Court-House, at present occupied by Mr. Thomas Holliday, and possession given the 15th of next month. Also for Lease, That vacant LOT on Commerce and Little Water-Street. For terms apply to James Tucker. July 22. tf
For SALE at my Brew-House, Strong, Table, and Ship BEER, by the hogshead, barrel, and half barrel — and a constant supply of bottled PORTER in packages and by the dozen. And in Store,  Wines, Liquors, and Groceries, wholesale and retail. Joseph Hayes. Feb. 13. tf
FOR SALE, 50,000 white oak hogshead draw Staves 50,000 red do. 30,000 rough do. 20,000 Cypress Pales 2,000 Cedar and Chinquepin Posts 50,000 building Shingles. Proby, Harman & Co. March 3. tf
For SALE, A Valuable PLANTATION, lying on Fleet's Creek, Lancaster county, and on the bor- ders of the Chesapeake Bay, mouth of the Rappahannock, containing about 200 acres of rich well timbered Land; 50 of which is in cultivation — attached to it is an Island of 31 1-2 acres, with a comfortable settlement now tenanted out; the improvements on the manor is a Dwelling-House, Kit- chen, Barn, Dairy, &c. The distance from Norfolk is but an easy day's sail; this Plantation possesses the best range for cattle in the county, with an excellent thatch and herring fish- ery, good oysters, two good orchards one peach and the other apple. Any person inclined to purchase, will apply to Wil- iam Danison, or to the subscriber in Norfolk, who will at any time take a run to this valuable place to view the premi- ses. It will be further observed, that the above place will be sold a great bargain. H. Prescott. I do likewise offer for Sale, my right and title to a valuable part of Willoughby Point ESTATE, containing 217 acres, and a probability of 400 acres, low for cash, or any article of produce which will command a trade, as I am determined to get clear of it as quick as pos- sible; the land lays dry, is rich, well timbered, and is with- in 300 yards of the Chesapeake shore — I have I know constantly on hand, a quantity of Manufactured TOBACCO, of an excellent quality. H. P. September 18. 1awtf
For SALE, A few hundred pounds of  English PRINTING INK, of the first quality. — ALSO,  A few Reams first quality English Foolscap PAPER. Apply at the Ledger Office. Sept. 17.
NOTES OF HAND, according to the new form established by the Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, for sale at this office. ALSO,  NOTES for the Virginia Bank; Checks; Bills of Lading, and of Exchange, printed on pa- per of superior quality; and Shipping Articles on large pa- per, and approved form. LEDGER OFFICE.
NORFOLK:  PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK,  BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, OPPOSITE THE EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE Price Six Dollars yearly, in advance.