Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1808-12-07 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.  SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PREMIA LAUDI
[VOL. V.]
WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 1808.
NO. 62.]
By virtue of a deed in trust, will be sold for ready money, on Tuesday the 13th instant, before the Exchange Coffee House, at 12 o'clock,
A HOUSE & LOT, near Mr. David Pierce's, adjoining the lots of Thomas Newby, dec'd. and John Bramble.
The Trustee. Dec. 2.
To BIRWELL WILKS, Esq. Brunswick County.
HAVING seen a challenge directed by you to Gen. Ridgely of Maryland, wherein you expect no horse which he might name—I will run my Colt Sir Solomon by Tickle Toby, against your celebrated Horse Putomac by Diomed, or any other horse in the United States of America, four mile heats, agreeable to the New-Market rules, over the NEW Course at Norfolk, on the first Tuesday in June, 1809, for the sum of Five Thousand Dollars, or any other amount which you may choose to name. I will also bind myself to procure you good Stables and Litter, and pay all reasonable expenses.
Caleb Boush.
Princess-Anne, Dec. 5, 1808. P. S. I shall expect to hear from you through the same medium, on or before the first day of February next.
FOR SALE. The CARGO of the British brig Eu-phemia , from Liverpool, 210 ton Stowed SALT. Robert Dickson.
Dec. 5. The gentlemen who were members of the CHAMBER OF COMMERCE in the Borough of Norfolk, are respectfully requested to attend A MEETING proposed to be held at the Exchange Coffee House, on Saturday evening the 10th of December, on business important to the honour and credit of that society.
Luke Wheeler. Dec. 5.
TO BE RENTED, AND POSSESSION GIVEN IMMEDIATELY, Several TENEMENTS in the town of Portsmouth—They will be let at REDUCED PRICES, provided good tenants can be had.
Also that desirable little FARM, the COTTAGE, near the Town—The House will be in good repair, and the land is rich.
William Leigh. Dec. 5.
FOR RENT. THE BRICK STORE, Lately occupied by Mrs. Cox, facing the Market. Apply to Messrs. Wood & Hastings, or Robert Taylor, sen'r.
Dec. 5.
THE SUBSCRIBERS Respectfully inform the publick, that they intend, under the auspices of Dr. Haller, to open a SCHOOL for both sexes on the first of October next, at his Plantation called Chesterville, in the vicinity of Hampton in Elizabeth-City County.
They propose to teach the following branches, viz. Reading, Spelling, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetic and Geography, History, Book-Keeping, Belles Lettres, &c. Languages, comprehending Latin, Greek, French, Italian, &c. Terms of tuition for each pupil of the junior class, embracing the first section, Five Dollars per quarter—For the senior class Eight Dollars per quarter.
For such Scholars as do not reside in the vicinity of this institution, board may be obtained on very moderate terms in the neighbourhood, or with the manager of Doctor Haller. Young Ladies who wish to be instructed in Music, besides the above mentioned branches, may be accommodated with the use of a Forte Piano, and tuition for ten dollars per quarter.
Charles G. Lefrere. Thomas Miller. Chesterville, Elizabeth-City County, September 24, 1808.
Boot and Shoe Manufactory.
SAMUEL COLEMAN, Opposite the Market, (westward) has received by captain Hand, from Philadelphia, a quantity of the
Highest Priced Boot Legs, Vamps, Tops, and other Materials, for his Factory—He has also Sole Leather, which has been in use seven years; with these, the best workmen he can get, and the greatest care and punctuality, he believes the people of this place and its vicinity, may be as well served as by any factory in the union. His Stock at present is as great as this country can furnish, and he intends to use no other kind, the cost of course must be higher, and when the Boots are the money must come, having found in a number of instances that a few days means six or twelve months, and an application even then for the money is ample cause of enquiry.
He has on hand a large assortment of BOOTS and SHOES.
ALSO, SALT, LONDON PORTER, &c. &c. Fresh SHOES from New-York for Ladies, of red, green, and black Morocco, with 1, 2, and 3 soles.
JOURNEYMEN WANTED. The best Boot and Shoe Makers, not only such as are, but such as will do the best work in all cases, may meet with as much encouragement in my factory, as in any in this state, or any state in the union north of this.
October 3. tf TO BE RENTED, And possession given the 1st of January, The HOUSE and LOT on Catharine Street, occupied by Mr. Francis S. Taylor, adjoining Mr. John Taylor's.
ALSO, The Fire Proof WAREHOUSE on Maxwell's wharf, now in the occupancy of Mr. John Maclean, to which is attached a valuable privilege with respect to wharfige. Apply to
John Nivison. Nov. 18.
Dr. Tissot's celebrated Gout and Rheumatism Drops.
The Gout, Rheumatism, Lumbago, and the various disorders of the same nature, are so exquisitely painful, and so difficult to be cured, that they have justly excited the utmost stretch of medical investigation. Some professional gentlemen have excelled in one department of the sciences; others in another. Dr. Tissot particularly has long been renowned for the superiority of his prescription in chronic diseases, and the length of time which elapsed during his sole attention to the nature and effects and cure of these affections, render the medicines which he recommended of invaluable importance. The beneficial effects of these drops, have been so often experienced, and their extraordinary efficacy has been attested by witnesses so numerous and so unimpeachably credible, that incredulity itself cannot doubt the virtue of Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops. Large quantities have already been vend, and the sale is now become so general, and their certainty in curing the disorders of a chronic nature is so completely ascertained, that certificates of their unbounded utility are now unnecessary. Testimonies of their value, and a volume of attested cases performed by them, may be seen upon application at T. W. Dyott's genuine Drug and Patent Medicine Warehouse, No. 57, South Second-street, Philadelphia.
The price of Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops, is only two dollars per bottle, with copious directions. Generous allowances made to those who buy to sell again. Of the many respectable testimonies of the effects of the above Drops, which have been received by the proprietor, we beg leave to annex the following:
Certificate of General Ridgely of Hampton. I certify that having received a blow on my knee, which induced severe pain and swelling, I was advised to apply to Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops, and on bathing the part with them only a few times, agreeably to the directions, they effected a perfect cure. Another time my wrist was affected with rheumatism to such a degree, as to render my hand for the time useless, when on application of the same remedy in like manner, the disorder in the course of twenty-four hours was entirely removed.
I therefore, from the experience I have had of the efficacy of said medicine, consider it a most effectual remedy to recommend it in similar cases to others.
C. RIDGELY, of Hampton. (Signed) Certificate of John Gibson, Esq. one of the Directors of the Farmers' Bank of Maryland.
I certify that about a year since, my foot received an injury by a fall in a few hours after it was affected with a most excruciating pain, so that I was unable to walk, with crutches. I was apprehensive that this accident would induce a severe fit of the gout, with which I had been frequently attacked. In this situation one of my friends highly recommended and earnestly advised me to apply Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops; I immediately procured them and made the application; in less than three hours the pain entirely abated, which had been so severe, as to deprive me of sleep for several nights. By a few further applications, a perfect cure was effected. I have frequently since in other cases, both used them myself, and recommended them to others with invariable success.
(Signed) JOHN GIBSON. Certificate of Mrs. Mary Taylor. I, Mary Taylor, No. 135, Plumb Street, Philadelphia, aged upwards of seventy years, having been afflicted with very violent rheumatism pains for more than eight years, being recommended to apply Dr. Tissot's Gout and Rheumatism Drops, on only using half a bottle every rheumatism affection was completely removed, and I have continued free from all pain ever since; as witness my hand.
MARY TAYLOR. The above drops are sold wholesale and retail only by BONSAL, CONRAD, & Co. Norfolk.
DR. ROBERTSON'S Patent Stomach Wine Bitters.
Celebrated and well known for their superior qualities in restoring weak constitutions, destroying Worms, cleansing and strengthening, giving a proper tone to the stomach, and increasing the appetite—a frequent use of them is a certain preventative against those complaints so common in the spring and fall. Such as intermitting fevers, agues, autumnal fevers, dysenteries, &c. &c. They are particularly serviceable to those who make long sea voyages, and are exposed to unhealthy climates, as a powerful preservative against contagious disorders.
PRO BONO PUBLICO.
Patent Water-Proof Brunswick Black- ing, prepared with oil, which softens, preserves, and beautifies the leather. Words cannot set forth its just praise, nor can its transcendent qualities be truly known, but by experience; it is especially calculated for, and particularly recommended to sportsmen and gentlemen who are much exposed to the wet—Also for cleaning Harness, as it will effectually prevent the water from penetrating, preserve the leather from cracking, and render it supple and pleasant to the very last, giving it also a beautiful jet black gloss, a proof of which may be seen at the warchouse.
The above Blacking is prepared and sold only by T. W. DYOTT, at his Medical Warehouse, No. 11, North Second-street, Philadelphia; sold also by his appointment, at BONSAL, CONRAD, & Co's Book-Store, Norfolk; and at SOMERVELL & CONRAD'S, Petersburg.
Where also may be had, The IMPERIAL WASH, And new invented LIQUID, For taking out stains, and preserving the quality and colour of saddles, and tops of boots. May 20. lawly
FOR SALE, Little England Plantation, near Hampton, containing 555 acres of excellent land, about 200 of which are cleared, the remainder under wood, with a Dwelling-House, Offices, &c.
This Plantation has many advantages over most others in the new country. There is a wharf within fifty yards of the house, with sufficient water for any vessel to lie at that can come into Hampton Creek, and the advantage to a farmer of having every thing conveyed to and from so considerable a market as Norfolk by water, is a circumstance of the first consideration. There is an excellent Pump in the farm-yard, with a well sufficient to water any fleet that may generally be in Hampton Roads; from this pump there are water-ways to the wharf, by which a boat can load from 10 to 12 tons of water in two hours—It yielded the late proprietor at one time 700 dollars in twelve months.
The Plantation is most completely fenced by double ditches, staked, and wattled, with some hedges—In short, the House, Offices, and Land, are in such perfect neat and good order, that any person purchasing the place would not have a cent to lay out on it. Those who may wish to view the premises will please apply to Dr. Ward, at Little England—For terms or other particulars, apply to
William H. Thompson. N. B. The Negroes, Stock, and Farming Utensils, will be sold with or without the Plantation. October 7. 2awtf
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.
FROM THE BOSTON CENTINEL.
AMERICAN EXPORTS.
"OUR interest is to throw open the doors of commerce, and to knock off its shackles, giving perfect freedom to all persons for the vent of whatever they choose to bring into our ports and asking the same in theirs.—The ACTUAL HABITS of our countrymen attach them to COMMERCE—they WILL exercise it for themselves."—Jefferson's Notes on Virginia.
MR. RUSSELL.—The only pretexts now left to the apologists of the EMBARGO, are the French Decrees, and British Orders in Council. A recurrence to official documents will show, that these Decrees and Orders affect but a small part of our export trade. I have before me Mr. Gallatin's statement of EXPORTS of the United States for the year ending the 30th September, 1807; which gives the following as the amount of that produce exported to ports and places, wholly free from embarrassment by the British Orders in Council. The amount of risk from the French Decrees is given in a separate column.—I believe the calculation to be correct; and request you to publish it.
Yours, &c. A MERCHANT.
A VIEW OF THE EXPORTS OF THE UNITED STATES.
[Agreeable to Mr. Gallatin's statement for the year ending the 30th Sept. 1807,] to ports free from embarrassment by the British Orders in Council.
   Domestic Produce. Foreign produce. Premiums against French capture.     To Sweden, 56,157 38,567 2 per cent.   Swedish West-Indies, 416,509 911,150 5 do.   Cape of Good Hope, 67,241 94,316 4 do.   England, 16,828,757 1,881,289 Without the Channel 4 per cent.   Scotland, 2,449,941 117,261 Within do. 6 per cent.   Ireland, 1,031,854 28,832 4 per cent.   Guernsey, Jersey, &c. 211,780 268 5 do.   Gibraltar, 119,332 131,221 3 do.   British African Ports, 3,273 1,788 3 do.   British East-Indies, 11,665 82,701 5 do.   British West-Indies, 5,322,276 630,361 5 do.   Newfoundland, &c. 208,611 58,881 2 do.   British American Colonies, 1,129,588 165,944 2 do.   Honduras, &c. 146,876 537,478 5 do.   Madeira, 528,375 69,194 3 do.   Fayal, and other Azores, 21,957 14,976 3 do.   Cape de Verds, 15,237 44,413 3 do.   Brazil, 4,734 144 3 do.   *Malta, 1,504 1,504 6 do.   Morocco and Barbary States, 8,358 34,984 4 do.   China, 84,022 113,258 China, 4, Sumatra, 3 do.   East-Indies, 817,263 593,443   Africa, 369,924 1,026,632 4 per cent.   South Seas, 3,385 5,266 3 do.   North West Coast of America, 10,777 92,933 3 do.   Danish (now British) West-Indies, 1,614,711 1,505,988 5 do.   Spanish European Ports, 1,181,331 3,546,808 { In the Bay of Biscay, 6, Atlantic 3, Mediterranean 5 per cent.   Spanish Colonies in American Indies, and Tenerife, 2,416,144 12,248,818 3 per cent.   Portugal, 829,313 153,173 3 do.   36,109,991 24,140,495 Dolls. 60,250,486  
To this amount may be added Spanish Dollars exported to India and China, and which are not noticed in the report of the Secretary; and may be estimated, at least, at 6,000,000
Dolls. 66,250,486
The above amount may be exported without being subject to the British Orders of Council; and the extra premiums against French Captures would not exceed those above annexed.
In time of profound peace our trade may be fairly estimated at 48,699,592
Foreign, + NOTHING.—To which may be added specie to China and India, 6,000,000
Dolls. 54,699,592
This is supposing the same Domestic Articles, as were exported in 1806, and allowing them to be at the same price; so that the comparison stands thus—
Our Exports, if the Embargo were removed, would be free from any embarrassments from the British Orders in Council—If peace were to take place, and the European nations would assume their trade, as usual, and the prices of our Domestic Articles remain, as the average prices in 1806 (which they would not) we should export 66,250,486
Dolls. 54,699,592
Less $ 11,550,894
Export Trade in time of peace than we might now enjoy, and which sum is to be twice water-borne—once importing it from the place of growth, and again in carrying it to the consumer; and consequently employs shipping appertaining to the carriage of one freight, equal in amount to more than twenty-three millions, one hundred thousand dollars. As an evidence of the correctness of this statement, it will be seen by a recurrence to the statement of the Secretary of the Treasury for the year 1803, that the exports had fallen in that short peace from 93,020,513 dollars, to 55,800,093 dollars. It is to be observed, that we might now enjoy a trade to South America and the Spanish Main, which might be estimated, at least, at from four to five millions of dollars; a considerable part of which would be again exported to Spain and Portugal, and which has never been made any part of the Secretary's Report; because the trade to these countries has been prohibited until lately. It may also be remembered, that the Export Trade does not show the whole advantages of the Colonial Trade, which we might now enjoy; because all we import for our own consumption ought to be added.
NOTES. * The trade to Turkey, Levant, and Egypt not included. † This, in time of peace, must be so very inconsiderable, that it is considered unimportant in this statement.
CAUTION. THE PUBLICK are cautioned against crediting any of the crew of the Ship John, of Liverpool, as I will not be responsible for any debts they may contract. John Gilmer, Master of the Ship John. Nov. 18.
MACKINDER & WHITE, OFFER FOR SALE, FOR CASH OR APPROVED NOTES, 2000 barrels NAVAL STORES, 100 bales Georgia Upland COTTON, 28 bales New Orleans do. 62 barrels APPLE BRANDY, 8 hds. Richmond TOBACCO, 20 hogsheads York-River, do. 24 hds. Petersburg, do. 100 barrels Smithfield and Carolina PORK, 22 pipes HOLLAND GIN, 9 pipes COUNTRY GIN, 100 boxes FRESH IMPERIAL and GUNPOWDER } TEAS. 40 boxes YOUNG HYSON } And 500 bbls. Fresh Alexandria Superfine FLOUR.
ALSO, A General Assortment of DRY GOODS, suitable to the Season. Nov. 14. eM
Richard Jeffrey & Co. No. 66, Main-street, corner of Bank-Street, have just received 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 cannifers, Violet, Benzoin, Windsor and Shaving Soap, Evan's best Crown Lantens, Tooth Brushes of superior kind, Refined Liquorice, &c. They have on hand, and are in daily expectation of receiving from Amsterdam, all kinds of GLASS WARE, suitable to Apothecaries. MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family use, with printed directions, put up as usual. For SALE, or will be Bartered, in part for Tobacco, Flour, or Naval Stores. 150,000 wt. Muscovado SUGAR, 200 hds. MOLASSES, 300 sacks Liverpool SALT, 5000 bushels Cadiz SALT, superior quality, 23 crates QUEENS WARE. James Young. October 21. tf
NOTES, According to the form lately ordered by the DIRECTORS of the VIRGINIA BANK, for Sale at the Ledger Office. Nov. 28.

MONDAY, November 28. FOREIGN RELATIONS.
On motion of Mr. Campbell, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. STORER in the chair, on the report of the committee on the subject of our foreign relations.
The first resolution in the following words, having been read:
Resolved, That the United States cannot, without a sacrifice of their rights, honour and independence, submit to the late edicts of Great Britain & France.
Mr. Campbell opened the debate. He said that ill health had hitherto prevented and might hereafter prevent him from giving that attention to the subject which the all-important crisis would seem to require; it was, however, his duty to bring the subject before the house. The committee having in their report presented to the house the view in which they had considered the subject referred to them, and the reasons generally which induced them to present these resolutions to the house, he said it was not his intention at this time to enter into a discussion of their merits. Those reasons had been deemed sufficient by the committee to justify them in recommending a continuance of the embargo: and as the objections to this, if any there were, could not be foreseen, he would not attempt to anticipate them. According to the view which he himself had taken of the first resolution, it could not require no discussion; it was too clear to require demonstration, and too self-evident to need proof of its propriety. It might indeed seem to require an apology from the committee for presenting a proposition which every American must long since have determined for himself. When the question had been first presented to his consideration, it had appeared to him that it was totally superfluous, and to be doing little more than announcing to the world, that the United States were still independent; but, on further consideration, it had been deemed by the select committee of some importance that in the present critical situation of the United States, they should fix on some point at which all would meet. After a perusal of the documents laid before the house at the opening of the session, Mr. C. said it had been supposed that no one would hesitate in declaring his indignation at the flagrant violations and encroachments on our rights by the belligerent powers, while it had been supposed that some difference of opinion might exist as to the mode of resistance. After it was once determined that they would not submit, that they would repel aggression, it had been supposed that they might with greater probability of unanimity, discuss the course proper to be pursued. With a view to this the committee had presented this resolution to the house. It was expected that all would unite in it and prove to the world that the Representatives of every portion of the American people were determined to maintain their rights, for the belligerent powers really seemed to suppose that the American people had forgotten them, and had therefore assumed the right of prescribing the course of conduct which we should pursue. To submit to regulations of foreign powers which limited the conduct of the American people, and prescribed the rules by which they were to be governed, which pointed out the very ports to which they should or should not go, which fixed the tribute or tax which they should pay, would be not only to abandon their dignity and honour, but to surrender, shamefully surrender our independence. Mr. Campbell said he would not take up the time of the committee in showing that the orders of council of Great Britain, and the decrees of France, were on the part of those nations, an assumption of power to give laws to this country in direct violation of our neutral rights, and an encroachment on our sovereignty. This would require no argument. The real question is, and he, shall we govern ourselves or be controlled by the will of others, shall we become tributary or not, shall we submit, or be independent? And to the committee he cheerfully left the decision of this question.
Mr. Mumford next addressed the committee of the whole. He observed, that although he had the honour of being one of the committee of foreign relations, who framed the report under consideration, he dissented from that report in some respects. We had now arrived at a momentous crisis in the affairs of our country, and he hoped the house would deliberate with that firmness and moderation which became the representatives of the free and independent people they had the honour to represent on this all-interesting concern. However they might differ on smaller points of minor importance, yet when the best interest of the country was at stake, he hoped they would unite in some mode to secure our rights and promote the interests of the United States. The proposition which he had the honour to move a few days ago, was consonant, in some degree, to the instructions offered to our ministers to Great Britain and France, offering to remove the embargo in relation to either, that should rescind their odious decrees. Neither of them having receded, Mr. Mumford said he would continue the embargo in relation to them both. Nay, further, he would inflict the severest penalties on any one who should receive a license, or voluntarily pay a tribute to either of them. He considered them both alike. He wished to see the country placed in a complete posture of defence; but he could not see any good reason why we should not trade with those nations who were willing to receive us on friendly terms, and to trade with us on the principles of reciprocity and mutual interests. This would not compromise the honour of the nation. Even admitting that it might possibly lead to war, which he doubted, he was convinced that the citizens of this country would rise en masse, in support of that commerce which neither France nor England had any right to interdict. He did presume, with all the zeal of some gentlemen for irritating measures, it was not seriously contemplated to declare war against all mankind; he was for having at least a few friends, in case of need. What was our situation now? The President of the United States had told them, after speaking of France and England, that "our relations with the other powers of Europe, had undergone no material changes since the last session." This being the case, our commerce was open with them all, except France and Great Britain and their dependencies. Mr. Mumford said he was well aware that he should be told, if we permitted this commerce to those countries who were disposed to receive us on friendly terms, Great Britain and France would indirectly
receive their supplies. He acknowledged this in a certain degree: but his primary object was to relieve our own country. Where is the patriotick breast that did not beat in unison with the patriotick and valorous sons of Spain? Shall we refuse them a loaf of bread, merely because we are afraid Great Britain and France might possibly cut a slice off as it passed along. Let us take a view of their whole conduct to the United States since their revolution, which had been a series of good offices; they had immediately released our vessels which had been sequestered in the ports of Spain by the iron hand of the soi disant emperor of the west. Let us now turn to the new world. What has been the conduct of that government created by the friends of the patriots in the Havanna? More than fifty vessels had gone out under the permission of the President for the purpose of collecting debts due to them in that island; they have compelled their citizens to pay these debts, and the vessels have returned loaded to the United States, and contributed essentially to its revenue. Is not this truly characteristic of Castilian honour and generosity?
Mr. M. said, he considered the revolution in Mexico, as the most important era which had taken place since our glorious revolution, which, in his opinion, would ultimately lead to securing our south western boundary on a permanent footing; and but for the recent revolution, New Orleans might even now have been in possession of France. When the question of slaves was agitated among the inhabitants of that place, it was not unusual for them to say of the United States, we care nothing about you; we shall soon have other governors. It was no doubt within the recollection of many members of this committee, that a man had been lately taken up at Nagadoches. He had not at the time taken much notice of the report, had considered it but a common newspaper report, or, as it might be called, a display of the arts of able editors; but there had a fact lately come to his knowledge which he conceived to be his bounden duty to give to the committee. It had been communicated to him in such a confidential manner, that he could not mention names, but love of country was with him paramount to every other consideration, and he would state the fact for the information of the committee. A gentleman, (said Mr. M.) an Italian by birth, of a noble family, and who was recommended in our revolutionary war to gen. Washington, a man of genius, after having resided some time in the United States, returned to Europe, and was taken into favour by Buonaparte. At what time it is not known, but such a person was landed in some port on the Atlantic shores, and travelled from thence through your western country. Some time in the month of June, information reached Louisiana, that a French officer of distinction had a conference with governor Grand Pre at Baton Rouge, which occasioned serious conjectures. No more was heard of him till the 21st July, when he passed over to the Spanish lines, wide off from the American post of Natchitoches; he there opened a trunk, and put on his regimentals, and proceeded to the Spanish port of Nagadoches, where he was arrested by orders from the Spanish officers. It was presumed that the information of the revolution of Spain, had not reached him when travelling to the westward. Thus, sir, while we have been threatened in the north, we have been treading on a precipice in the south-west.
I will now proceed to some details in respect to those countries which my motion contemplates. We find by the official report of the Secretary of the Treasury, our exports to
   Domestic. Foreign. Total.     Sweden & her W. Ind. col. 476,656 919,613 1,422,388   Spain and her colonies, 3,998,575 14,226,145 18,224,720   Portugal and colonies, 1,399,616 297,900 1,687,516   Africa & Morocco, 377,282 1,061,616 1,439,898   China, 84,022 113,258 197,280   South Seas and N. West coast of America, 14,162 98,199 112,361  
The trade to Hayti may be considered by examining the annual Report from 1801 to 1802 to be about half the amount of the exports to the French Islands stated to be 6,710,889, half of which is 3,355,444; the greatest proportion of which consists in the productions of our own industry, as the Secretary at that time did not discriminate between foreign and domestic produce. We may from the nature of the trade pay about 10 per cent. on foreign productions.
   Domestic. Foreign. Total.     3,000,000 331,544 3,331,544  
This will open a market for the produce of Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee and New Orleans, the southern, middle and eastern states, and give that life and activity to commerce so much desired by all classes of our citizens.
Mr. M. concluded by saying, that this was his view of the subject for the present. He said we were a young nation, and although he should not shrink from the contest if necessary, yet it became us to act with precautionary steps. If he differed with gentlemen on this subject, it was an honest difference of opinion, and he had no other motive than a love of country.
Mr. Quincy, Mr. Chairman, I am not in general, a friend to abstract legislation. Ostentatious declaration of general principles is so often the resort of weakness and of ignorance; it is so frequently the subterfuge of men, who are willing to amuse, or who mean to delude the people, that it is with great reluctance, that I yield to such a course my sanction.
If, however, a formal announcement of a determination to perform one of the most common and undeniable of national duties, be deemed by a majority of this house essential to their character, or to the attainment of publick confidence, I am willing to admit that the one now offered, is as unexceptionable as any it would be likely to propose.
In this view, however, I lay wholly out of sight the report of the committee, by which it is accompanied and introduced. The course advocated in that report, is in my opinion, loathsome, the spirit it breathes disgraceful; the temper it is likely to inspire, neither calculated to regain the rights we have lost, nor to preserve those, which remain to us. It is an established maxim that, in adopting a resolution offered by a committee in this house, no member is pledged to support the reasoning, or made sponsor for the facts which they have seen fit to insert in it. I exercise, therefore, a common right when I subscribe to the resolution, not on the principles of the committee; but on those which obviously result from its terms; and are the plain meaning of its expressions.
I agree to this resolution, because in my apprehension it offers a solemn pledge to this nation—a pledge not to be mistaken, and not to be evaded, that the present system of publick measures shall be totally abandoned. Adopt it, and there is an end of the policy of deserting our rights, under pretence of maintaining them. Adopt it and we no longer yield at the beck of haughty belligerents the right of navigating the ocean, that choice inheritance, bequeathed to us by our fathers. Adopt it;—and there is a termination of that base and abject submission, by which this country has for these eleven months been disgraced and brought to the brink of ruin.
That the natural import and necessary implication of the terms of this resolution are such as I have suggested will be apparent from a very transient consideration. What do its terms necessarily include? They contain an assertion and a pledge. The assertion is, that the edicts of Great Britain and France are contrary to our rights, honour and independence. The pledge is, that we will not submit to them.
Concerning the assertion, contained in this resolution I would say nothing, were it not that I fear I have so long been in the habit of looking at the orders and decrees of foreign powers as the measure of the rights of our own citizens; and been accustomed, in direct subserviency of them, of prohibiting commerce altogether, might apprehend that there was some lurking danger in such an assertion. They may be assured there can be nothing more harmless. Neither Great Britain or France ever pretended that those edicts were consistent with American rights. On the contrary both those nations ground those edicts on the principle of imperious necessity, which admits the injury done, at the very instant of executing the act of oppression. No gentleman need have any difficulty in screwing his courage up to this assertion. Neither of the belligerents will contradict it. Mr. Turreau and Mr. Erskine will both of them countersign the declaration to-morrow.
With respect to the pledge, contained in this resolution, understood according to its true import, it is a glorious one. It opens new prospects. It promises a change in the disposition of this house. It is a solemn assurance to the nation, that it will no longer submit to these edicts.
It remains for us, therefore, to consider what submission is, and what the pledge not to submit implies.
One man submits to the order, decree, or edict of another, when he does that thing which such order, decree, or edict commands; or when he omits to do that thing, which such order, decree, or edict prohibits. This then is submission. It is to do as we are bidden. It is to take the will of another as the measure of our rights. It is to yield to his power; to go where he directs, or to refrain from going where he forbids us.
If this be submission, then, the pledge not to submit, implies the reverse of all this. It is a solemn declaration, that we will not do that thing, which such order, decree, or edict commands, or that we will do what it prohibits. This, then, is freedom. This is honour. This is independence. It consists in taking the nature of things, and not the will of another, as the measure of our rights. What God and nature has offered us, we will enjoy in despite of the commands, regardless of the menaces of iniquitous power.
Let us apply these correct and undeniable principles to the edicts of Great Britain and France, and the consequent abandonment of the ocean by the American government. The decrees of France prohibit us from trading with Great Britain. The orders of Great Britain prohibit us from trading with France. And what do we? Why—in direct subserviency to the edicts of each, we prohibit our citizens from trading with either. We do more, as if unqualified submission was not humiliating enough, we descend to an act of supererogation in servility; we abandon trade altogether; we not only refrain from that particular trade, which their respective edicts prescribe, but lest the ingenuity of our merchants should enable them to evade their operation, to make submission doubly sure, the American government virtually re-enact the edicts of the belligerents, and abandon all the trade, which, notwithstanding their practical edicts, remain to us. The same conclusion will result if we consider our embargo in relation to the objects of this belligerent policy. France, by her edicts, would compress Great Britain by destroying her commerce and cutting off her supplies. All the continent of Europe, in the hand of Buonaparte is made subservient to this policy. The embargo law of the United States in its operation, is an union with this continental coalition against British commerce, at the very moment most auspicious to its success. Can any thing be more in direct subserviency to the views of the French emperor? If we consider the orders of Great Britain, the result will be the same. I proceed, at present, on the supposition of a perfect impartiality in our administration towards both belligerents, so far as relates to the embargo law. First, to excite discontent in the people of the continent, by depriving them of their accustomed colonial supplies. Second, to secure to herself that commerce of which she deprived neutrals. Our embargo co-operates with the British views in both respects. By our dereliction of the ocean, the continent is much more deprived of the advantages of commerce, than it would be possible for the British navy to effect, and by removing our competition, all the commerce of the continent, which can be forced, is wholly left to be reaped by Great Britain. The language of each sovereign is in direct conformity to these ideas. Napoleon tells the American minister, virtually, that we are very good Americans; that although he will not allow the property he has in hands to escape him, nor desist from burning and capturing our vessels on every occasion, yet he is, thus far, satisfied with our co-operation. And what is the language of George the third, when our minister presents to his consideration the embargo laws? Is it Le Roy s'avisera ? The king will reflect upon them. No: it is the pure language of royal approbation. Le Roy le veut . The king wills it. Were you colonies, he could expect no more. His subjects as inevitably get that commerce which you abandon, as the water will certainly run into the only channel which remains after all the others are obstructed. In whatever point of view you consider these embargo laws, in relation to those edicts and
decrees, we shall find them co-operating with belligerent in its policy. In this way, I grant policy may be impartial; but what has been our American right to navigate the ocean? are abandoned in strict conformity to the decrees of both belligerents. This resolution declares that we will no longer submit to such degrading humiliations. Little as I relish, I will take it as the harbinger of a new day; the pledge of a new system of measures. Perhaps, here, in strictness, I ought to close observations. But the report of the committee contrary to what I deem the principle of the resolution, unquestionably recommended the continuance of the embargo laws. And such is the state of opinion, and particularly that portion of it which I represent, under their oppression, that I cannot refrain from submitting some consideration that subject.
When I enter on the subject of the embargo shrink with wonder at the very threshold. I know not with what words to express my astonishment. At the time I departed from Massachusetts, if it was an impression, which I thought universal was, that at the commencement of this session end would be put to this measure. The opinion was not so much that it would be terminated that it was then at an end. Sir, the prevailing sentiment, according to my apprehension, was stronger than this—even that the pressure was so great that it could not possibly be endured; that it would be absolutely insupportable. And this opinion, I then had reason to believe, was not confined to one class, or description, or party—that even those who were friends of the existing administration and unwilling to abandon it, were yet satisfied that a sufficient trial had been given to this measure. With these impressions I arrive in this city. I behold the incarnations of the great enchanter. I feel spell. I see the legislative machinery begin to move. The scene opens. And I am commanded to forego all my recollections, to disbelieve the evidence of my senses, to contradict what I have seen, a heard, and felt. I hear that all this discontent was mere party clamour; electioneering artifice; that the people of New England are able and willing to endure this embargo for an indefinite, unlimited period longer; some say for six months; some a year some two years. The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Macon) told us that he preferred three years of embargo to a war. And the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Clifton) said expressly he hoped we should never allow our vessels to go upon the ocean again, until the orders and decrees of the belligerents were rescinded. In plain English, until France and Great Britain should, in their great condescension permit—Good Heavens! Mr. Chairman, are men mad? Is this house touched with the insanity which is the never failing precursor of the intention of Heaven to destroy? The people of New England, after eleven months deprivation of the ocean, to be commanded still longer to abandon it, for an undefined period; to hold their inalienable rights at the tenure of the will of Britain or of Buonaparte? A people, commercial in all aspects, in all their relations, in all their hopes, in all their recollections of the past, in all their prospects of the future; a people, whose first love was the ocean, the choice of their childhood, the appropriation of their many years, the most precious inheritance of their fathers, in the midst of their success, in the moment of the most exquisite perception of commercial prosperity, to be commanded to abandon it, not for a time limited, but for a time unlimited; not until they can be prepared to defend themselves there, (for that is not pretended) but until their rivals recede from it; not until their necessities require, but until foreign nations permit! I am lost in astonishment, Mr. Chairman. I have not words to express the matchless absurdity of this attempt. I have no tongue to express the swift and headlong destruction, which a blind perseverance in such a system must bring upon this nation.
But men from New England, representatives on this floor, equally with myself the constitutional guardians of her interests, differ from me in these opinions. My honourable colleague (Mr. Bacon) took occasion, in secret session, to deny that there did exist all that discontent and distress, which I had attempted, in an humble way, to describe. He told us he had travelled in Massachusetts, that the people were not thus dissatisfied, that the embargo had not produced any such tragical effects. Really, sir—my honourable colleague has travelled. All the way from Stockbridge to Hudson; from Berkshire to Boston; from inn to inn; from county court to county court; and doubtless he collected all that important information, which an acute intelligence never fails to retain on such occasions. He found tea, sugar, salt, West India rum and molasses dearer, beef, pork, butter, and cheese cheaper. Resolution enabled him to arrive at this difficult result, that in this way the evil and the good of the embargo equalize one another. But has my honourable colleague travelled on the seaboard? Has he witnessed the state of our cities? Has he seen our ships rotting at our wharves; our wharves deserted, our stores tenantless, our streets bereft of active business; industry forsaking her beloved haunts; and hope fled away from places where she had from earliest times been accustomed to make and to fulfil her most precious promises? Has he conversed with the merchant, and heard the tale of embarrassments—his capital arrested in his hands, forbidden by your laws to resort to a market, with property four times sufficient to discharge all his engagement, necessitated to hang on the precarious mercy of monied institutions for that indulgence, which preserves him from stopping payment, the first step towards bankruptcy? Has he conversed with our mechanics? Has he seen him either destitute of employment or obliged to seek it in labours odious to him, because he was not educated to them? That mechanic, who the day before this embargo passed, the very day that you took this bit, and rolled it like a sweet morsel under your tongue, had more business than he had hands, or time or thought to employ in it, now soliciting at reduced prices that employment which the rich, owing to the uncertainty in which your laws have involved their capital cannot afford. I could heighten this picture. I could show you labouring poor in the almshouse, and willing industry dependent upon charity. But I confine myself to particulars, which have fallen under my own observation, and of which ten thousand suffering individuals on the seaboard of New England, are living witnesses that there is nothing fictitious.
Mr. Chairman,—Other gentlemen must take their responsibilities—I shall take mine. This embargo must be repealed. You cannot enforce it for

any important period of time longer. When I speak of your inability to enforce this law, let not gentlemen misunderstand me. I mean not to intimate insurrections or open defiance of them. Although it is impossible to foresee in what acts, that "oppression" will finally terminate, which, we are told, "makes wise men mad." I speak of an inability resulting from very different causes.
The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Mason) exclaimed the other day in a strain of patriotic ardour, "What! shall not our laws be executed? Shall their authority be defied? I am for enforcing them at every hazard!" I honour that gentleman's zeal; and I mean no deviation from that true respect I entertain for him, when I tell him, that in this instance "his zeal is not according to knowledge."
I ask this house, is there no control to its authority, is there no limit to the power of this national legislature? I hope I shall offend no man, when I intimate that two limits exist;—NATURE AND THE CONSTITUTION. Should this house undertake to declare, that this atmosphere should no longer surround us, that water should cease to flow, that gravity should not hereafter operate, that the needle should not vibrate to the pole, I do suppose, Mr. Chairman—Sir, I mean no disrespect to the authority of this house, I know the high notions some gentlemen entertain on this subject; I do suppose—Sir, I hope I shall not offend;—I think I may venture to affirm, that such a law to the contrary notwithstanding, the air would continue to circulate, the Mississippi, the Hudson and the Potomac would hurl their floods to the ocean, heavy bodies continue to descend, and the mysterious magnet hold on its course to its celestial cyposure.
Just as utterly absurd and contrary to nature is it, to attempt to prohibit the people of New England, for any considerable length of time from the ocean.
Commerce is not only associated with all the feelings, the habits, the interests and relations of that people, but the nature of our soil, and of our coasts, the state of our population and its mode of distribution over our territory, render it indispensable. We have five hundred miles of seacoast; all furnished with harbours, bays, creeks, rivers, inlets, basins, with every variety of invitation to violate such laws as these—our people are not scattered over an immense surface, at a solemn distance from each other, in lordly retirement, in the midst of extended plantations and intervening waters. They are collected on the margin of the ocean, by the sides of rivers, at the heads of bays, looking into the water or on the surface of it for the incitement and the reward of their industry. Among a people thus situated, thus educated, thus numerous, laws prohibiting them from the exercise of their natural rights will have a binding effect not one moment longer than the publick sentiment supports them. Gentlemen talk of twelve revenue cutters additional to enforce the embargo laws. Multiply the number by twelve, multiply it by an hundred, join all your ships of war, all your gun boats, and all your militia, in despatch of them all, such laws as these are of no avail when they become odious to publick sentiment. Continue these laws any considerable time longer, and it is very doubtful if you will have officers to execute, juries to convict, or purchasers to bid for your confiscations. Cases have begun to occur. Ask your revenue officers, and they will tell you that already at publick sales in your cities, under these laws, the owner has bought his property at less than four per cent upon their real value. Publick opinion begins to look with such a jealous and hateful eye upon these laws, that even self interest will not co-operate to enforce their penalties.
But where is our love of order? Where our respect for the laws? Let legislators beware, lest by the very nature of their laws, they weaken that sentiment of respect for them, so important to be inspired, and so difficult to be reinstated when once driven from the mind. Regulate not the multitude to their ruin. Disgust not men of virtue by the tendency of your laws, lest when they cannot yield them the sanction of their approbation, the enterprising and the necessitous find a principal check upon their fears of violating them removed. It is not enough for men in place to exclaim "the worthless part of society." Words cannot alter the nature of things. You cannot identify the violator of such laws as these, in our part of the country, for any great length of time, with the common smuggler; nor bring the former down to the level of the latter. The reason is obvious. You bring the duties the citizen owes to society, into competition, not only with the strongest interests, but which is more, with the most sacred private obligations. When you present to the choice of a citizen bankruptcy, a total loss of the accumulated wealth of his whole life, or a violation of a positive law, restrictive of the exercise of the most common rights, it presents to him a most critical alternative. I will not say how sublime casuists may decide. But it is easy to foretell that nature will plead too strong in the bosom to make obedience long possible. I state no imaginary case. Thousands in New England see in the continuance of this embargo and in obedience to it irretrievable ruin to themselves and families. But where is our patriotism? Sir, you call upon patriotism for sacrifices to which it is unequal; and requires its operation in a way in which that passion cannot long subsist.
Patriotism is a great comfort to men in the interior, to the farmer and the planter, who are denied a market by your laws, whose local situation is such that they can neither sell their produce nor scarcely give it away, and who are made to believe that their privations will ultimately redound to the benefit of the country. But on the seaboard, where men feel not only their profit, but their whole capital perishing, where they know the utter inefficacy of your laws to coerce foreign nations, and their utter futility as a means of saving our own property: to such laws in such a situation, patriotism is to say the least, a very inactive assistant. You cannot lay a man upon the rack and crack his muscles, by a slow torment, and call patriotism to soothe the sufferer.
But there is another obstacle to a long and effectual continuance of this law. The doubt, which hangs over its constitutionality. I know I shall be told that the sanction of the judiciary has been added to this act of the legislature. I honour that tribunal. I revere the individual whose opinion declared in this instance the constitutionality of the law. But it is one thing to venerate our courts of justice; it is one thing to deem this law obligatory upon the citizen, while it has all these sanctions; it is another; on this floor, in the high court of
the people's privileges to advocate its repeal on the ground that it is an invasion of their rights. The embargo laws have unquestionable sanction. They are laws of this land. Yet, who shall deny to a representative of this people the right, in their own favourite tribunal, from bringing your laws to the test of the principles of the constitution?
Is there any principle more wise, or more generally received among statesmen than that a law, in proportion to its pressure upon the people, should have its basis in unquestionable authority, as well as necessity. A legislature may sport with the rights of an individual. It may violate the constitution to the ruin of whole classes of men. But once let it begin, by its laws, to crush the bones of the great mass of the citizens; let it bring every eye, in the land, to the scrutiny of its laws, and its authority, if it would be permanent must possess no flaw in its foundation.
I ask in what page of the constitution you find the power of laying an embargo? Directly given, it is no where. You have it then by construction, or by precedent. By construction of the power to regulate. I lay out of the question the common place argument, that regulation cannot mean annihilation; and that what is annihilated cannot be regulated. I ask this question, can a power be ever obtained by construction, which had never been exercised at the time of the authority given; the like of which had not only never been seen, but the idea of which had never entered into human imagination, I will not say, in this country, but in the world; Yet such is this power, which by construction you assume to exercise. Never before did society witness a total prohibition of all intercourse like this in a commercial nation. Did the people of the United States invest the house with a power, of which at the time of investment that people had not and could not have had any idea, for even in time of fiction it had never existed. But we have precedent. Precedent is directly against you. For the only precedent, that in 1794, was in conformity to the embargo power, as it had been exercised in other countries. It was limited. Its duration was known. The power passed from the representatives of this house only for sixty days. In that day the legislature would not trust even Washington, amid all his well earned influence with any other than a limited power. But away Sir, with such deductions as these, I appeal to the history of the times, when this national compact was formed. This constitution grew out of our necessities and it was in every stage of its formation obstructed by the jealousies and diverse interests of the different states. The gentlemen of the South had certain species of property, with the control of which, they would not trust us in the North. And wisely, for we neither appreciate it as they do, nor could regulate it safely for them. In the East our sentiments concerning their interest in commerce, and their power to understand its true interests was, in a great degree similar. The writings of that period exhibit this jealousy, and the fears excited by it formed in that portion of the United States a formidable objection to its adoption.
In this state of things, would the people of New England consent to convey to a legislature, constituted as this, in time, must be, a power, not only to regulate commerce, but to annihilate it, for a time unlimited, or at all? Suppose, in 1788, in the convention of Massachusetts, while debating upon the adoption of this constitution, some hoary sage had arisen, and with an eye looking deep into futurity, with a prophet's ken, had thus addressed the assembly: "Fellow citizens of Massachusetts.—To what ruin are you hastening? Twenty years shall not elapse before, under a secret and dubious construction of the instrument now proposed for your adoption, your commerce shall be annihilated. The whole of your vast trade prohibited. Not a boat shall cross your harbour, nor a coaster shall be permitted to go out of your ports, unless under permission of the distant head of your nation, and after grievous visitation of a custom house officer." Sir, does any man believe that, with such a prospect, into futurity, the people of that state would have, for one moment, listened to its adoption? Rather would they not have rejected it with indignation? Yet this, now, is not prophecy. It is history. But this law is not perpetual, it is said. Shew the limit to it. Shew by what terms, it can be made more perpetual.
The universal opinion entertained in New England among commercial men, of the total imbecility of this law, as a measure of coercion of either belligerent, is another cause pregnant with discontent, in that country. It may do well enough to amuse ourselves, with calculations of this kind, on this floor; but intelligent merchants, masters of vessels, seamen, who are acquainted with the West Indies, and with the European dominions of both powers, speak with sovereign contempt of the idea of starving either of these powers into submission to our plans of policy. The entire failure of this scheme, after a trial of eleven months, would, I should suppose, have satisfied the most obstinate of its hopelessness. Yet it is revived again at this session. We are told from high authority of the failure of the wheat harvest in Great Britain, and this has been urged as a farther reason for a continuance of this measure. Have gentlemen who press this argument informed themselves, how exceeding small a proportion our export of wheat bears to the whole consumption of the British dominions. Our whole export to all the world of wheat in its natural and manufactured state, does not amount to seven millions of bushels.—The whole consumption of the British dominions exceeds one hundred and fifty millions. Let gentlemen consider what a small object this amount is, in a national point of view, even could the attainment of the whole supply be assumed, as the condition of her yielding to the terms we should prescribe. Are not the borders of the Black Sea, the coast of Africa, and South America, all wheat countries, open to her commerce?
But the embargo saves our resources. It may justly be questioned, whether, in this point of view, the embargo is so effectual as at first, men are led to imagine. It may be doubted if the seed wheat for this harvest is not worth more than the whole crop. I say nothing of the embarrassments of our commerce, of the loss of our seamen, of the sunken value of real estate. But our dead, irretrievable loss, by this embargo, during the present year, cannot be stated at less than ten per cent. on account of interest and profit of the whole export of our country—That is, on the one hundred and eight millions—ten million eight hundred thousand dollars. Not can our loss upon a million tons of unemploy-
ed shipping be stated at less than at twenty dollars the ton, twenty millions of dollars. Thirty millions of dollars is a serious outfit for any voyage of salvation, and the profit ought to be very unquestionable, before a wise man would be able to renew or prolong it. Besides, is it true, that the articles the embargo retains, are, in the common acceptance of the term, resources? I suppose, that by this word, so ostentatiously used, on all occasions, or defence, in case of war, or any other misfortune happening to it. But is this true? Our exports are surplus products—what we raise beyond what we consume. Because we cannot use them they are surplus. Of course in this country they have little, or no value in use, but only in exchange. Take away the power of exchange, and how can they be called resources? Every year produces sufficient for its own consumption, and a surplus. Suppose an embargo for ten years, will gentlemen seriously contend that the accumulating surplus of fish, cotton, tobacco, and flour, would be a resource for any national exigencies? We cannot consume it, because the annual product is equal to our annual consumption. Our embargo forbids us to sell it. How then is it a resource? Are we stronger or richer for it? The reverse; we are weaker and poorer. Weaker by all the loss of motion to activity, by all the diminution of the industry of the country, which such a deprivation of the power to exchange, produces. And what can be poorer than he who is obliged to keep what he cannot use, and to labour for that which profiteth not?
But the inequality of the pressure of this measure of embargo upon the people of the eastern states, is another source of great discontent with it. Every gentleman, who has spoken upon the subject, has seemed to take it for granted that this was a burden, which pressed equally. But is this the case? I shall confine myself to a single fact, although the point admits of other elucidations. Compare the state of Virginia, with that of Massachusetts, in the single particular of the amount of capital embarrassed by this law. Virginia with a population according to the last census, of nine hundred thousand souls, has four millions seven hundred thousand dollars in exports, forty thousand eight hundred of registered shipping at thirty dollars the ton, amounting to one million seven hundred dollars in value; constituting an aggregate of six millions of dollars obstructed by this embargo. Massachusetts, on the other hand, has in exports twenty millions one hundred thousand dollars, and three hundred and six thousand tons of registered shipping, equal nearly to ten millions of dollars, in value; constituting an aggregate of capital in Massachusetts, equal to 30 millions of dollars, obstructed by this law. By the last census, the population of Massachusetts is about six hundred thousand souls. So that in Virginia, nine hundred thousand souls have to bear a pressure of embarrassed capital equal to six millions of dollars, and in Massachusetts, six hundred thousand souls a pressure of thirty millions.—To equitize the pressure of Virginia with Massachusetts the capital of the former ought to be forty-five millions instead of six millions. I wish not to bring into view any unpleasant comparisons, but when gentlemen wonder at our complaints, they ought rightly to appreciate their causes. The pressure resulting from the embarrassments of this immense capital, is the more sensibly felt, inasmuch as it is not divided in great masses among rich individuals, but in moderate portions among the middling classes of our citizens, who have many of them the earnings of a whole life invested in single articles destined for a foreign market, from which your embargo alone, prohibits them.
(To be continued.)
THE PUBLICK LEDGER. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DEC. 7, 1808.
We have the pleasure to present our readers with the excellent speech of Mr. Quincy on our Foreign Relations, in part, which we copy from the Washington Federalist; the rest of the debate is from the National Intelligencer. Our paper is so occupied by this debate, as to exclude almost every thing else.
We take the liberty of referring our readers to an interesting commercial statement, in our first page, from the Boston Centinel. In addition to the amount there stated, may be added the amount of our exports to St. Domingo, not less than three millions of dollars, which from politeness (or something worse) to Buonaparte, we relinquished, three years since.
Non Interourse.—Intending hereafter to notice this measure at large, we shall only say at present, that two effects are certain, the advance in price, of all foreign goods, and the fall of all our own produce. Already have many imported articles risen from 20 to 30 per cent. particularly Salt, Sugar, Spirits, Molasses, &c. while the prices of our own produce are merely nominal, there being no sale for them. It used to be an axiom in trade, "to sell as dear as you can, and to buy as cheap as you can," but philosophical statesmen have inverted that rule.—If there is a nation to which we could wish destruction, we would only give them philosophical rulers, and the rest would follow as a consequence.
COMMUNICATED.
Thursday last, were interred in the family burying ground, in Portsmouth, the remains of Mrs. EMILY DAVIS, wife of Mr. Jesse Davis—This excellent woman manifested during thirty three years, all the amiable and christian virtues which adorn the daughter, the wife, the mother, and the friend. The last six months of her life were marked (with but short intervals) with pain and disease; but the sufferings from them served only to enable her to exhibit the patience and resignation, which belong to the christian character, and to render death, the pleasant and welcome messenger of peace and joy, beyond the grave.
Engagement at Sea.—Capt. Harrison who arrived this forenoon from Martinique, furnishes the following particulars of an engagement between the British brig Carnation, and the French brig Palamire. Oct. 31, lat. 21, long. 52, 30, the English brig Carnation, 15 days from Barbadoes, came across the French brig Palamire, the former carrying 18 guns, sixteen 32 pound carronades, and two long 9 pounders, with 120 men; the latter sixteen 18 pounders, 60 men on deck, and 25 sick below, when an engagement took place. At the third broadside, capt. Gregory, commander of the Carnation, was killed, and it was not long before every officer was wounded and rendered incapable of duty, the gunner and boatswain excepted; the engagement however was continued with unremitted spirit for three hours, but all their ammunition being expended, they were compelled to strike. The French captain being ill of the yellow fever, was carried upon deck and supported by two sailors in an arm chair during the whole engagement: he died 2 days after.
The French brig lost both top masts, and was much wounded in the hull—the English brig received little or no damage. They both arrived in St. Lucia, on Sunday morning, Oct. 23.
The English had 12 men killed, and 25 wounded. The French 5 killed and 12 wounded.
[N. York Com. Adv.]
AUCTION.
WILL BE SOLD, To Morrow the 8th inst. by order of the President and Directors, and on account of the Marin Insurance Company of Norfolk, at 1 o'clock, before the New Market, 60 casks of Prime Green COFFEE. Terms 90 and 120 days.—Notes with approved security, for all sums over 100 dollars, 100 dollars and under, CASH. James Taylor, jr. Dec. 7.
A BARGAIN OFFERED,
In a fine and Valuable FARM, in the County of Princess Anne. THE Subscriber is disposed to sell his Plantation called LEVEL GREEN, situated in the county of Princess Anne. It contains about 500 acres; and, as it may be advantageously divided into two or three Farms, the subscriber will accommodate a purchaser, in selling either the whole or a part. He will also give a long credit. This tract of Land is certainly the most desirable in the county, lying on the eastern branch of Elizabeth River, and distant from Norfolk Market only five or six miles by water, and 8 or 9 by land.—The soil is excellent, about one half of the tract being cleared land, and fit for immediate culture; the other heavily timbered with Oak, Pine, Ash, and Hickory.—It has also the advantage of several good landings.—Any one disposed to view the land, and to purchase, may apply, in the absence of the subscriber, to JAMES ROBINSON, or JOHN READ, who reside in the neighbourhood. Tully Robinson. Dec. 7.
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the estate of William Cary, deceased, formerly of York Town, are requested to present them to the subscriber, for settlement; and all those persons who are indebted to the estate of said Cary, are desired to make immediate settlement—No further indulgence can be allowed. Thomas Griffin, adm'r. York-Town, Dec. 7, 1808. 2w
NOTICE.
ALL persons indebted to the estate of Alexander Macauley, deceased, formerly of York Town, are again called upon for settlement of their debts—Suits will be commenced against all debtors indiscriminately. Thomas Griffin, Surviving trustee of Alex. Macauley, dec. York Town, Dec. 7, 1808. 2w
The CARGO of the British Brig Meanwell, from St. Kitts—Consisting of Prime SUGAR and MOLASSES, For Sale, by C. & F. Whittle. Dec. 5.
The CARGO of the British Schooner Commerce, captain Collins, consisting of COFFEE and SUGAR. For Sale by C. & F. Whittle. Dec. 5.
To Masters, Mates, and Mariners.
INFORMATION WANTED. THE SCHOONER EXPERIMENT, ROBERT LAWRENCE, Master.
Sailed from Norfolk, in Virginia, some time in the month of February, 1806, bound on a voyage to RIO JANARIO, and RIVER OF PLATE, in South America. Information has been lately received that the said schooner was at the Island of Goree on the Coast of Africa, some time in April of the same year, from which she departed the day after her arrival there, and has not been heard of since, by information that can be relied on. Various reports have been received, that the said schooner did arrive at the River of Plate, and was there trading.—It is presumed that if the vessel went from Goree to Rio Janario, and from thence to River of Plate, that there are many persons in the United States, who have seen the said schooner, or master, at one or both of those places.
The Schooner was on her first voyage, Virginia built, of about 95 tons, coppered to light water mark, and had the appearance of a remarkable fast sailing vessel. Robert Lawrence is an Englishman by birth, born in the Isle of Thanet in the County of Kent, about 47 years of age, 5 feet 9 inches high, a stout man, inclined to be fat, of a ruddy complexion, and talks much.
Any person who can give information respecting the above vessel and master, or either, will do a singular service in communicating it to THOMAS FITZSIMMONS, Esq. President of the Delaware Insurance Company, of Philadelphia; JOHN COFFIN JONES, Esq. of Boston, or to the Subscriber. JOHN GRANBERY, President of the Marine Insurance Company of Norfolk. Norfolk, November 23, 1808. 6w
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BRIG MOSES MYERS.  NOTICE —All those who had an interest in the American Brig Moses Myers, Captain Barclay, Master, or her cargo, captured by the French in the year 1800, on a voyage from Madeira to Norfolk, and re-captured by the British privateer Rover, and carried into Halifax, Nova Scotia, by applying to the subscriber, will receive their proportion of the funds collected from the recaptors, by the agents of the claimants, according to a decree of the high court of appeals in Great-Britain. Robert Maitland. Nov. 4.
FOR LIVERPOOL. The fast-sailing coppered Ship CALEDONIAN, John Dickson, master, burthen about 500 tons, will receive a cargo of 500 hogsheads of tobacco—will receive on freight a cargo immediately, and sail on the embargo being off. For LIVERPOOL. The fast-sailing coppered Ship ARTIC, Samuel Davis, master, Philadelphia built, burthen about 200 tons, seven years old, now ready to receive a cargo. Also for Freight or Sale. The Brig EXPERIMENT, Henry Dickson, master, burthen 140 tons, and will carry 1100 barrels flour. For terms apply to William Dickson. October 7.
Superfine FLOUR of Gallego's Mills, For Sale, by James Herron. Dec. 2.
FOR SALE, 30,000 acres valuable LAND, situated upon the river Washita, in one of the most fertile parts of Louisiana—Particulars with regard to local advantages, situation, title, and the most favourable terms to purchasers, will be made known by application to THOMAS TUNNO, in Charleston, or MORRIS MILLER, in Savannah. Feb. 8.
Sixty Dollars Reward. DESERTED from the United States Navy Yard, at Gosport, on the 23d of last month, three sailors, viz. JOHN MORRIS, DAVID MURRAY, and WILLIAM JOHNSTON. MORRIS is a short thick man, about 5 feet 6 inches high, much marked by the small pox; MURRAY is a small man about 5 feet 4 inches high, a dark complexion; JOHNSTON is about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, very much knock-kneed. They deserted with a jolly boat, with a brim-stone bottom, 14 feet long, branded U.S. on the stern, stem and keel. Whoever will deliver the boat at the Navy Yard, shall be compensated for their trouble, and a reward of TWENTY DOLLARS, will be given for apprehending each of the above named deserters. John Shaw, Captain Commanding U. S. Naval Force at Norfolk. Dec. 2.
The Members of the Dismal Swamp Company, are requested to meet at Suffolk on the 28th of December. That place is preferred for a meeting, because it is a very small distance from the land, and the members will have a better opportunity of information as to the whole business of the company than at any other place—Those who may not attend will be pleased to give powers to others to act for them. William Nelson, } Managers. John Bracken, } Corbin Griffin, } Dec. 2.
Norfolk Borough, At a quarterly session court held the 28th day of November, 1808. The Marine Insurance Company of Norfolk, PLAINTIFF, Against Felix Corran, Michael Corran, Noble and Arbuthnot, & co and Theodoric Armistead, DEFENDANTS. THE defendant Felix Corran not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth, on the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant Felix Corran do appear here on the fourth Monday in February next and answer the bill of the Plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forth with inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough: and it is further ordered that the defendants Michael Corran, Noble and Arbuthnot, & co and Theodoric Armistead, who have effect of the said Felix Corran in their hands do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court. A Copy, (Teste,) Wm. Sharp, c. e. Dec. 2.
NOTICE. THE co-partnership of BRUNET & THOMPSON, will be dissolved on the 31st instant. All persons having demands against the said firm, will present their accounts for settlement and those indebted, will please make payment to Wm. H. Thompson, who is authorized to settle the accounts of said concern. Henry Brunet, Wm. H. Thompson. Norfolk, Dec. 2.
FLOUR.  FOR SALE,  BY JOHN GRANBERY, AT HIS WARE-HOUSE ON COMMERCE-STREET, A small quantity of very excellent  New Flour, in barrels and half-barrels, now on hand, fit for family use, and a regular supply expected from the Columbia Mills—Richmond inspection. CASH given for good new flour barrels and half-barrels. Nov. 9.
FOR SALE On board the British ship Halliday, capt. Marshall, just arrived from Liverpool, 355 tons stowed SALT, 145 do. common do. 100 crates well assorted Earthenware, and 12 dozen Mats—by C. & F. WHITTLE. September 5.
FRESH GOODS.  WOOD AND HASTINGS, Have just received, Cambricks and Common Callicoes, Cotton Shirts, Cotton Cambricks, Irish Linens, Long Lawns, Linen Cambricks, &c. Also, A few pieces of best London Superfine Broad CLOTHS, and most fashionable Coat BUTTIONS, which with their Goods on hand, will be sold at very low prices for Cash. September 2.
German Linen for Exportation.  NIEMEYER & VON KAPFF, OFFER FOR SALE At their Warehouse in Water-Street, at the corner of Maxwell's wharf, for cash, or approved paper only. 54 packages of German Linen, consisting of 140 pieces Osnabrugs, } 60 pieces Tickenburgs, } 500 pieces White Rolls, } Entitled to Drawback. 900 Heedens, } 80 pieces Hessians, } 1 case Platillas, } 1 case Shirt Linen, } 1 case Sheetings, } 1 case Table Cloths, } 1 case Bed-Ticking. } ALSO, 40 pieces best Russia Canvass, } 700 Straws 1-2 pt. Tumblers, } 15 do. Topgallant Duck, } 30 doz. do. Decanters, } 8000 Coffee Bags, } 350 pieces excellent Oil Cloth, } 5,500 Gunny Bags, } 350 pieces Paper Hanging, } 90 boxes best Spanish Segars, } 3 cases Port-Wine. } 50 boxes English Pipes, } And at their Store in Main-Street, a great variety of  Cutlery and Fancy Articles. Apply as above. Nov. 9.
F. & W. SOUTHGATE, OFFER FOR SALE, For Cash or short credit, at their Store, No. 1, corner of Commerce and Main-Streets, A General Assortment of GOODS, suitable to the present and approaching season; AMONG WHICH ARE,  Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, 6 3/4 and 7-4 coarse Cloths, Flannels, Baizes, Coatings, Thicksets, Corduroys, Blankets, Plains, Halfbluffs, Scarlet Cardinals, &c. &c. Kendal Cottons in assorted bales, Coarse Hats in assorted boxes, Nails and Spikes of all sizes, F and FF glazed Powder and Shot—ALSO, 200 g and Bacon Hams, 30 kegs Lard, 60 barrels Smithfield Apple Brandy, 100 sacks Liverpool fine Salt, 60 barrels very white Allon Salt, 80 barrels good Coffee, Likewise, 2 grand and 6 small fine toned PIANO FORTES, And a handsome English made GIG and HARNESS, almost new September 21
Female Education. MISS FLETCHER has removed her School to the house formerly occupied by Mr. Kirk as a School-House, (probably better known as the Old Methodist Meeting-House) where she continues to teach Young Ladies the following useful and ornamental branches of Female Education, viz. Reading, Writing, Grammar, Geography, and the Elements of General History. Also, a variety of Needle Works, Tambouring, Embroidering, and Fillingee. All these branches are taught by Miss F. for 32 dollars per annum. The French Language, Music, Drawing and Painting, are taught if required; for which an extra charge of 2 dollars per quarter, is made, for each branch. Nov. 1.
FOR SALE In our Ware-House, where the largest vessel can come along side, 15,000 bushels of CORN, 2000 do. do. white, 30 bales Cotton. Also, 4000 bushels coarse SALT, 150 sacks Ground Allum do. 45 hogsheads old Antigua Rum, do. Jamaica do. 40 hogsheads Sugar, 80 barrels do. A few cases excellent Port Wine, Coffee in hogsheads, Madeira Wine, 45 crates Earthenware, Tobacco from several inspections. GEO. MURRAY, & Co. September 9.
THE SUBSCRIBER Wishes to Sell, and will Sell or Rent on moderate terms, That very excellent Wharf and Lot, in the town of Gosport, at present occupied by William Smith: the Wharf, Ware-Houses, and Dwelling-House are all in good repair. Thirteen Lots in the Town of Suffolk; And the following Property in Norfolk, Two good Fire-Proof Warehouses on the Eastern side of Commerce-Street, Nos 4 and 6. Two Dwelling-Houses and Lots on Boush-street, in good repair, and very pleasantly situated Apply to John Granbery. September 14.
NOW LANDING On our Wharf, and for Sale on a liberal credit, from on board, the British Schooner Commerce, Capt. Collins, from Jamaica, A Cargo of high proof RUM. C. & F. Whittle. September 2.
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.
TO RENT, And immediate possession given, The HOUSE and LOT, with a spacious Garden, on Duke street, at present occupied by Mr. John Stratton. Apply to William Plume & Co. Nov. 25.  TO RENT, The LIVERY STABLES lately occupied by Lewis Armistead, on Wolf street, opposite the United States' Bank—attached to which is a comfortable small two story Dwelling House, and another building which at times has served as a kitchen to the dwelling, or as a blacksmith or farrier's shop to the stable. The whole together, or either separately will be rented on moderate terms, and possession given immediately. Luke Wheeler. Nov. 25.  FOR SALE BY MOSES MYERS. Nov. 25.
FALL GOODS.  WOOD & HASTINGS, Have just received a general assortment of  SEASONABLE GOODS, Which they will sell at very reduced prices for Cash, by Wholesale and Retail, at No 76, Main-street. October 19.
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.
We have for SALE on our Wharf, 200 hogsheads MOLASSES, 53 do. superior quality Muscovado Sugars, 37 do. inferior do. 258 bags Guadalupe Coffee; 10 puncheons Rum, 60,000 wt. Jamaica Coffee, in hds. barrels and bags, 10,000 do. Laquila do. 80 kegs Raisins, 20 cases superior quality Claret, 6000 bushels Peas, 8500 do St. Ubes, 2500 do. Turks-Island, 5000 do. coarse Liverpool Salt, 10 pipes old Madeira Wine; 4 do. Country Gin, 50 barrels Rye Whiskey; 80 hds. Philadelphia Porter, 1 new 14 inch Cable 120 fathoms. C. & F. Whittle. July 13.
FOR SALE, On board the British ship John, capt. Gilmer, just arrived from Liverpool, 250 Tons STOVE SALT, loose and in sacks 50 crates QUEEN'S WARE—By C. & F. Whittle. October 24.  For SALE, or will be Bartered for Tobacco, 78 puns. choice Old Demerara RUM, James Young. October 19.
COW POCK. DOCTOR BALFOUR informs those persons who have not had the Small Pox, and who are anxious to avoid being susceptible of it (as it is said to exist in the county of Princess Ann about Nott's Island, and there has been a case in Richmond,) that he now has several arms with a genuine vaccine pock, fit to it out of season. He will take a young man as a Student of physics. Nov. 16.
Ten Dollars Reward For Negro ALECK, purchased of Mr. Hubbard of this place, of a very dark complexion, has lost his upper fore teeth; had on when he went away a coarse check shirt and cassimere pantaloons, long coat and white hat; he was seen near Tappahannock's Ferry, York, where I suspect he is still lurking, or at Williamsburg where he has a wife. George Veale. August 22.
NORFOLK DRAW BRIDGE. AT the instance of some of the principal Stockholders of this Company, a General Meeting of the whole is requested at the Exchange Coffee-House in Norfolk on Monday the 5th of December next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, to take into consideration a subject of high interest to the concern. L. Wheeler, Pres't. Wm. Pennock, James Taylor, jr. Nov. 14.
FOR SALE, 3000 bushels Turk's-Island SALT, Now on board the Sloop Julianna, Capt. Stowe. Also, 21,000 feet MAHOGANY, A few puncheons Old Antigua Rum, New do. Molasses, Sugars, Indian Meal in barrels. John Granbery. September 21.
JUST RECEIVED, And for Sale, by the Subscriber, 50 hlds. New-England RUM, 180 bbls Boston No 1 & 2 Beef, 60 kegs Family Butter, 50 sacks Liverpool Salt, 50 qr casks D. G. choice Sherry Wine, 30 chests Fresh Hyson Teas, superior quality. 40 boxes Fresh Imperial Teas, superior quality. 150 weight fresh Nutmegs and 100 wt. Cinnamon, 1000 weight Pimento, 100 weight New-Orleans Indigo, 10 hds. and 100 barrels Loaf Sugar, 20 bbls. Hoffman's fine Loaf Sugar, for family use. 50 bags Coffee, 250 boxes Mould and Dipp Candles, 100 boxes old brown Soap, 25 boxes No. 1 & 2 Chocolate, 50 boxes, 10 groce each, T. D. London Pipes. 25 boxes Cotton and Wool Cards, assorted. 50 kegs English glazed Gun-Powder, 5 tons London Patent Shot, assorted. 50 crates Queen's Ware, assorted, with plates and dishes only—also a few crates of Bowls. 100 kegs London White Lead ground in Oil, 50 boxes London Crown Glass 10 by 12, 50 casks, 100 each, Green Copperas. 20 dozen Spades and Shovels, assorted sizes. 50 casks Cut Nails, assorted, from 4 to 20d. 10 ton Sweden's Iron, assorted, small, flat and square bars. 700 Grindstones, assorted, for vessel and plantation use. 150 casks Stone Lime, 30 bundles Northern Hay, 150 Sides Sole Leather, Philadelphia Calf Skins and Boot Legs—Also a quantity of Harness Leather. 6 Trunks Ladies Morocco and Leather Slippers, 1 trunk Seamen's Boots, 200 Reams Writing Paper, 300 do. Wrapping Paper, 10 groce Playing Cards, 100 kegs Wight and Harris's choice Manufactured Tobacco. 50 kegs Leiper's Snuff in pound and half pound bottles, 200 Straws one and half pint Tumblers, 50 dozen Wine Glasses, &c. &c. 50 boxes Dixon's fresh Mustard, Martin Fisk. WHO HAS IN STORE AND AFLOAT, 2000 bbls. Alexandria Superfine Flour fresh ground from new wheat. 50 bbls. Fine Flour, 250 do Superfine Old Flour—and Exchange on Boston at 60 days for $ 2500. November 28.
TURK'S-ISLAND SALT,  FOR SALE, On board the Swedish schooner Gustaf Adolph. Apply to Wilson & Cunningham. October 21.
DR. ROBERTSON'S  Celebrated Stomachick Elixir of Health. Which has proved by experience, to be the most valuable medicine, ever yet offered to the publick for curing the Gout, Cramp, and wind in the stomach: also a certain cure for the Dysentery, or Bloody Flux, Cholera Morbus, severe Gripings, and all other diseases of the bowels, a dose never fails to remove a cold if taken soon, after its full appearance. It is also celebrated for carrying off superfluous bile, removing habitual costiveness, sickens at the stomach, severe head aches, &c. &c. The following certificates are selected from the many respectable ones lately received by the proprietor, and are now in his possession.  Certificate of Mr. William Julion, carpenter and builder, No. 69, South Fifth-Street, Philadelphia. SIR—My wishes to promote the interest of superior merit, and to afford consolation to the afflicted, induces me to request you will lay my case before the publick, as an incontrovertible proof of the astonishing efficacy of Dr. Robertson's invaluable Stomachick Elixir of Health. I do hereby certify, that I was seized most violently with the dysentery, or bloody flux, which reduced me to such a state that I was confined to my bed, and became so weak that I could not move without assistance. My situation at that time became seriously alarming, a no relief could be obtained, I was given over, and even death would have been desirable to me, had not a friend of mine, who by chance called to see me, who had just recovered from a similar complaint, though not so severe as mine. He informed me that he was cured by taking Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, and advised me to send to you for a bottle. I immediately did so, and by following your instructions given with the bottle, before I had taken half a bottle, I found myself much relieved, and my disorder greatly abated, and by continuing to take it, in one week I was able to walk out, and in less than a fortnight was able to attend to my business. I therefore recommend every family to be provided with this invaluable medicine, particularly those who live at a distance from the country, where assistance cannot be immediately obtained. As I am convinced that Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, is the most effectual remedy in the world, I have since recommended it to several of my friends in similar complaints, who have always been relieved immediately after taking it. Should any person wish to be more fully convinced of my case, I will with pleasure explain it to them by applying to me. I am with a due sense of the benefit I have received thro' the efficacy of your medicine, Sir, your humble servant, WM JULION.
Certificate of Mr. George Stokes, South Water Street, Philadelphia. SIR—For the benefit of the afflicted, I think proper to inform you that Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, has been to me, of the most essential service. I had been a long time afflicted with a pain in my stomach, and continual head-ache, attended with a sickens at the stomach, which brought on a vomiting and lax, which continued on me until I became in a very weak state, without being able to get any relief, until I tried one bottle of Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, which entirely cured my disorder, except a weakness and want of appetite, for which I have since taken Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Wine Bitters, which quite restored my strength and appetite, and I now enjoy better health than I experienced for many months before—As I consider your medicine to have been the means of saving my life, I solicit you to publish my case for the benefit of others, who by abiding by the directions given with your invaluable medicine, will embrace the same means by which I have happily effected my recovery. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE STOKES. MR. DROTT, Philadelphia, August 1, 1807.
ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATES.  Of Mr. John T. Solomon, Sixth near Race-Street, Philadelphia. SIR—For the good of the publick and benefit of the afflicted, I think proper to inform you, that having laboured for upwards of six months, under a very bad cough, attended with a difficulty of breathing, pains in my breath and side, and a sickens at my stomach; having lost all appetite, I became so very much reduced in my strength as to be unable to walk. I was considered in a consumption, and given up for a lost man. In this hopeless situation I had recourse to Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, and to my great astonishment, before I had taken one bottle, found myself very much relieved. I expected a great quantity of phlegm, which has eased me of one of the most violent coughs that ever man had; I have taken it regularly ever since, and now find myself completely recovered, and that certainly, for the benefit received, recommend it as far as I can, believing it to be a most efficacious medicine in the above complaint. I am, Sir, with great respect, Your obliged humble servant, JOHN T. SOLOMON. MR. T. W. DYOTT. August 22.
Certificate of Mr. John Lee, Philadelphia. DEAR SIR—By the administration of Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, and that the publick may be acquainted with the good effect I have received from it, I wish you to publish the following: About a fortnight ago I was seized with the influenza, or a violent cold attended with a pain in my limbs, and a violent cough, which settled on my lungs, and having been for some time before in a weakly state, I expected a consumption must soon have followed, had I not been advised to try Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, which has effectively removed my complaint, and I now feel better health than I have for some time before. It is im, ossible to say too much in favour of this invaluable medicine, as I am clearly convinced it is the most efficacious remedy ever offered to the publick, in the above complaint. I am, Sir, your obliged servant, JOHN LEE. MR. DYOTT. November 11.
The above Medicine is sold wholesale and retail by the proprietor, T. W. DYOTT, No. 11, North Second-Street, Philadelphia; and by appointment at BONSAL & CONRAD'S Book Store, Norfolk; and at SOMIRVELL & CONRAD'S, Peterburg. May 23. lawly
FOR RENT, That convenient Dwelling-House, on Brewer Street, the property of Mr. John Davidson, at present occupied by Mr. Stephen Harris. Also, That commodious House on Catharine-street, at present occupied by Mr. James Dykes, adjoining the subscriber; they have excellent gardens, and all convenient out-houses. Also, A very convenient Dwelling-House, just finished, on Commerce-street. For terms apply to James Tucker. Who has in Store, A few thousand bushels Liverpool stowed SALT, loose and in sacks, that will be delivered in small or large quantities to suit the purchasers. August 15.
NOTICE. All persons indebted to the estate of David Patterson, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment; and those having claims to render them properly attested, to D. R. WADDEY, Adm'r. Nov. 16.
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK,  BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, Opposite the Exchange Coffee-House. Price Six Dollars Yearly, in advance.