Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1805-07-22 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.
VOL. II.]
MONDAY EVENING, JULY 22, 1805.
[NO. 3.]
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK; PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE PAPER TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS—ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF FIFTY CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS FOR EACH SUCCEEDING INSERTION.
FOR FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The copper-bottomed Brig MARY-LOUISA, GEORGE FARRER, Master:— Burthen 1200 barrels—will be ready to receive a cargo in three days. Thomas Willock. July 19. tf 7
FOR A PORT IN FRANCE, The good Ship SHEFFIELD, Captain Josiah Cowper, About 450 Hogsheads burthen, expected from Philadelphia in fifteen days, when she will be in immediate readiness for the reception of a cargo. A full freight, or partial shipments will be accepted. For terms apply to Messrs. William & Henry Hasell, of Petersburg, or to John Cowper. Thomas Willock. July 17. tf 5
FOR FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The Schooner BELLONA, DAVID PATTEN, Master:— Will take in from 7 to 800 barrels. For terms apply to Moses Myers. July 17. 3w 1
FOR PORT GLASGOW, The fast-sailing British med Ship LADY NELSON, ROBERT M'ALLISTER, Master, expected to sail by the 1st August, 75 hhds. tobacco, and some cotton to be received on freight, if immediate application is made to Robert Maitland & Co. Has excellent accommodations for passengers. Apply to the Master on board. July 10. 3w 812
FOR LONDON, THE SHIP ROBA & BETSEY, William J. Richardson, Master, Will sail with all convenient speed, two-thirds of her cargo being engaged. For freight of the remainder or passage, apply to the master on board, or to the subscriber. William Pennock. June 6. tf 747
WANTED TO CHARTER, A BRITISH SHIP of 250 to 300 Hogsheads—And An AMERICAN one of the same description. C. & F. Whittle. June 4. tf 737
WANTED TO CHARTER, A SHIP Of from 200 to 300 tons burthen, to load with lumber, for a port in Jamaica.—Immediate despatch will be given. Apply to Robert Maitland & Co. July 8. 3w 802
FOR CHARTER, The good Ship TICONIC, Burthen about 500 hogsheads Tobacco.—For terms, apply to Moses Myers. July 8. tf 803
FOR CHARTER, The American Ship REUNION, Burthen 280 tons—she will be ready for the reception of a cargo in fifteen days. Warren Ashley. July 8. tf 799
WHO HAS ON BOARD SAID SHIP, 3000 Bushels Coarse SALT. Phinehas Dana & Co. July 8. tf 804
FOR SALE, FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The American Ship ELIZA, JOSEPH BUNTON, Master:— Burthen 176 tons, or 250 hogsheads tobacco. For terms apply to the Master on board, or to Phinehas Dana & Co. July 8. tf 804
FOR LONDON, The Ship MENTOR, STEPHEN WATERMAN, Master:— Burthen 350 hogsheads tobacco.—Will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days, and will sail by the last of this month. She is a very fine vessel of her burthen, and well found in every respect. For freight or passage, apply to Freeland & Gillies, in Petersburg, or to N. Heron. July 8. tf 810
TOMORROW, WILL BE LANDED, On Gibson's Wharf, from the Schooner Bessie , George Poulton, Master, from Tenerife. 78 Pipes, } TENERIFFE WINE, 24 Qr. Casks, } of a good quality. 3 Pipes VINEGAR. 48 Barrels Fresh WALNUTS. 3 do. ALMONDS. For sale on very moderate terms. Apply to Edward Roberts.
THE SAID SCHOONER, is offered for sale, or charter—burthen 75 tons, a staunch vessel. Apply as above. July 8. 2w 810
For Freight or Charter, The fine new American Ship MECHANICK, V. BAGLEY, Master, burthen 250 tons, or about 350 hhds. tobacco, now ready for the reception of a cargo. Also, The fine new Brig MERRIMACK, BACHELOR, Master, burthen 145 tons, or about 1400 barrels flour, now ready for the reception of a cargo. For terms apply to Robert Gibson. June 27. tf 782
FOR SALE, FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The Schooner VIRGINIA, WILLIAM FORSYTH, Master:— Burthen 1200 barrels, a good vessel, and will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. Apply to Edward Roberts. July 8. 2w 806
FOR LONDON, The American ship ABERDEEN, WILLIAM MORGAN, Master:— Burthen about 450 hogsheads tobacco.—Intended to sail by the 1st of August—can take on freight about 200 hogsheads tobacco, and 50 bales cotton. For terms apply to J. & W. Southgate. July 5. tf 792
FOR LIVERPOOL, The good Ship ALEXANDER, MILES KING, Master:— Will sail in all the month of July—part of her cargo being engaged. For freight of the remainder, or passage, apply to J. & W. Southgate. June 29. 1w 786
FOR FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The American Ship REBECCA, GILBERT FOWLER, Master:— Burthen 450 hogsheads tobacco, in complete order to receive a cargo, and will be ready in 15 days. For terms, apply to Phinehas Dana & Co. Who have received per said Ship from Bonavista, 10,000 Bushels coarse white packing SALT. For Sale, on moderate terms, if taken from alongside. July 15. tf 819
FOR CHARTER, The British Ship DUNROBIN CASTLE, JOHN M'BRAIDE, Master:— Burthen 280 tons, carries 14 guns and men suitable. Clyde, or Liverpool, will be preferred. Robertson & Brown. June 8. tf 732
FOR BREMEN, The good fast sailing Ship COMMERCE, JACOB ADAMS, Master:— Will sail in about twenty days—80 to 100 hogsheads can be taken on freight, if immediate application be made to Moses Myers. A few passengers can be accommodated. Apply as above. July 12. tf 817
LIBRARY. THE Subscriber put an advertisement in the "Herald" a few days ago, to which he did not affix his name, respecting the establishment of a Library, in this place. It now comes forward and requests those gentlemen who feel a disposition to become subscribers, to form a plan for the forwarding of the same.—He does not presume to offer one of his own forming, but leaves it entirely to their better judgment. He will attend with the utmost punctuality to the interest of the subscribers, in consideration of receiving a small emolument for his services. He has two reasons for wishing a Library to be established; the first is, he believes it would be the means of forwarding his own interest, and the second is, it will be a great advantage to society. John King, At Gilliat & Mackin's. July 19. 3w 8
10,000 Bushels Liverpool Stoved SALT, For sale, on board the Brig Betsey , at our Wharf. C. & F. Whittle. July 19. tf 8
PARASOLS & UMBRELLAS. TWO CASES FASHIONABLE PARASOLS & UMBRELLAS, Just received from Philadelphia, and for Sale, below the usual prices. Jacob Klein, No. 111, Main-Street. July 15. 3w 820
SPRING GOODS. PHILIP HENOP, Has Received, by the Ship Dumfries , from London, a complete and extensive assortment of FASHIONABLE DRY GOODS. CONSISTING OF FINE Corded and Tape-Stripe Furniture and Cambric Dimities; 6, 7, 8, 10, and 12-yd. Table Cloths; 9-yd. and 6-4 Plain, Book, Cambric, and Jacquet Muslins; Coloured and Embroidered Cambric Muslins; 4-4 and 6-4 Elegant Laced Cambric and Leno Muslins; Leno and Laced Shawls; Ladies' S-k-Nettet Parasols and Canes; Umbrellas; 6-4 Tamboured and Satin Sprigged Muslins; Checked Pulicat and fine Roman Handkerchiefs; Madrasdo; Pail, Drabs, and Two-yd. Striped Nankens; Cotton Cassimere; Grandereis do.; Sowing Silk; Mousel's Best Braver Gloves; Cotton and Silk Suspenders; Net and Elastic do.; Gilt Pins; lb. Pins assorted; and Cotton Men's Best London Hats. Also—Just Received, 111 NEW-YORK. 4-4, 6-4, and 8-4 Plain and Damasked Silk Handkerchiefs and Shawls, with netted Edges; Long Silk Shawls, do. do.; Chamois; Linens; Common and Fine Calicoes; and Plaid Calicoes; Engrailed Blue Silk; Beige Striped Sattin; India and Breton Back and Coloured Lustings; Handsome Italian Plain, Leno Silk Gloves, assorted; Flesh Coloured Pic Nic Mitts and Gloves; Plain White, Flesh Coloured, and Black, Laced and Sanded Silk Stockings; Superfine Laced and Sanded White Cotton do.; White Net Cotton, Leno, and Black Lace Veils; Floss, Thread and Embroidering Silk; Silk and Cotton Cords and Passels; Cotton Trimming; Buck, Blue, Pink, White, and Yellow Crape; Linen Cambric; Long Lawns; Pink, Blue, and Buff Cambric-Muslins; Ladies Black Morocco and Coloured Kid Slippers; Apron Chocks; Plain Paper and Tiffany Fans:— TOGETHER WITH A great variety of other Fancy Goods of the most fashionable kinds imported; A few bales of English and German Ozanburgs, and Tickenburgs; Linen Checks; India Cottons; Bandanna Handkerchiefs; &c. &c. &c. ALL OF WHICH HE WILL SELL, ON THE LOWEST TERMS, BY WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. April 26. tf 624
FOR SALE, On board the ship Rebecca , A FEW THOUSAND BUSHELS BONAVISTA SALT. JAMES HERRON. July 17. 3w 6
LANDING THIS DAY, ON NEWTON'S WHARF, The Cargo of the Schooner DIANA ,—Baptist, Master, from St. Bartholomew, 22 Hogsheads, } CHOICE SUGAR. 22 Barrels, } 9 Hogsheads RUM. 5 Pipes TENERIFFE WINE. And a parcel Manufactured IRON WARE. Moses Myers. July 12. tf 818
NOTICE. THE PARTNERSHIP OF SAMUEL SAUNDERS & Co. Is this day dissolved by mutual consent, and those who have accounts with the said firm, will please come forward for immediate settlement to SAMUEL SAUNDERS , who is duly authorized by the concern to adjust the same. Samuel Saunders, P. Henop. N. B. The business in future, will be carried on by SAMUEL SAUNDERS , and ROBERT C. JENNINGS , and Co. under the firm of SAMUEL SAUNDERS & Co. July 12. tf 814
REMOVAL. THE SUBSCRIBERS Have removed from MAIN-STREET, to their NEW FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE, in MARKET-SQUARE. Gilliat & Mackinder. April 3. tf 555
FOR SALE, At 60 and 90 days. 50 Puncheons 3rd. proof RUM. 30 Hogsheads Prime SUGAR. 25 do. 2nd. quality do. 10 Pipes GIN. William B. Lamb. July 17. 3w 4
LANDING From on board the Schooner Juno , from Guadalupe—end for Sale, SIXTY-SIX HOGSHEADS, AND A FEW BARRELS MUSCOVADO SUGAR. Moses Myers. July 12. tf 815
JUST PUBLISHED, And for Sale at the Book Stores of BONSAL, CONRAD & Co. and A. C. JORDAN & Co. Price 62 1-2 Cents. REVOLUTIONARY ANNALS, Or History of the French Revolution, from the Convocation of the States-General to the peace of Amiens. Translated from the MS. of J. H. de Croisset, By L. H. GIRARDIN, Professor of Modern Languages, &c. &c. in William and Mary College. July 12. tf 816
PART THE FIFTH. FOR SALE, 100 Crates well assorted EARTHENWARE. 12 Casks do. GLASSWARE. Just received by the ship Charleston , from Liverpool. A. Maclure. May 31. tf 732
250 Barrels Superfine, } 250 do. Fine, } FLOUR. 100 do. X Millings, } 150 do. do. } 50 do. Ship, } BREAD. 90 do. Navy, } 10 Quarter Casks Sherry WINE. For Sale by JAMES MAURICE & Co. April 12. tf 589
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, 3000 Pieces YELLOW NANKEN, 10 Boxes Imperial TEA. 10 Chests Young Hyson, } ENTITLED TO 12 do. Hyson, } DRAWBACK. A SO ON HAND, 50000 lbs. Mocha COFFEE, entitled to drawback. French BRANDY, in Pipes. Holland and Country GIN, in do. Loaf SUGAR, per Hogshead. Fine Old L. P. Madeira WINE, in Pipes, Hhds. and quarter Casks—And 500 Barrels Superfine FLOUR—Apply to Robert Maitland & Co. June 27. 6w 780
NANKEENS AND TEAS. 5000 Pieces YELLOW NANKEENS, of the first Chop. 30 Chests Hyson and Imperial TEAS. Both entitled to drawback.—For sale by Martin Fisk. WHO HAS THIS DAY LANDING, From the Ship Charleston , Capt. Hall from Liverpool. 100 Crates QUEENS WARE, well assorted. May 29. tf 723
State of North-Carolina, } Superior Court of Law Edenton District, } and Equity—April Term, 1805. WILLS COWPER, vs. Complainant. Thomas Newton, Richard Blow, Wm. Vaughan, Slaughter, as the President and Directors of the Dismal Swamp Canal Company, and William Davies, William Plumbe, and Theodrick Armistead, Defendants. The Defendants in the above cause having failed to appear and put in their answer to the Complaintants Bill of complaint, and it being made appear to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Thomas Newton, Richard Blow, William Vaughan, Slaughter, William Davies, William Plumbe, and Theodrick Armistead, are not to be found in this State; It is therefore ordered, that unless they do appear and put in their answer to the said Bill of Complaint, on or before the first day of our said Court of Equity, to be held for the District of Edenton, at the Court-House in the Town of Edenton, on the Sixth Day of October next, that the said Bill shall then be taken pro confesso and act for hearing exparte—And it is further ordered that the Clerk and Master of this Court do cause this order to be published in the Norfolk Gazette and Publick Ledger , for the space of three weeks successively, that the said Defendants may have notice thereof. By Order, Alex. Millen, C. & M. E. E. D. 9t 819
112 Puncheons high proof Grenada RUM, Landing this day on our wharf, from on board the Schooner Thomas . C. & F. Whittle. July 9. tf 808
WANTED, Two Hundred Cards Wharf Wood, For which a generous price will be given. Apply to Thomas Warren. May 29. tf 720
JUST RECEIVED, Per the Ship Reunion , from Alceste , and for sale by the Subscriber, 200 Hogsheads Choice RED WINE. 3,500 Bushels SALT. Moses Myers. July 8. tf 800
CAMPHOR AND BARK. THE SUBSCRIBER, HAS JUST RECEIVED, 200 lbs. REFINED CAMPHOR. In small convenient Casks of 2 lbs. each.—Also, RED, YELLOW, AND PALE BARK, Fresh—Apply to N. Gregory. July 5. 6w 791
BY AUTHORITY. RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY. CLASS No. II. 4000 Tickets at 10 dollars each—dolls. 40000 1 Prize of dolls. 10000 1 of 5000 5 of 1000 5000 20 of 500 10000 50 of 100 5000 50 of 50 2500 100 of 25 2500 227 40000 First drawn ticket after 500 are drawn, dolls. 500 after 1000 500 after 1500 500 after 2000 1000 after 2500 1000 after 3000 1000 after 3500 1000 after 3950 10000 The above Lottery will certainly commence drawing the first Monday in November, or sooner, if the tickets are sold. Tickets for sale at the Office of the Publick Ledger . 722
LEVIN DORSEY, On Town Point—Wide Water-Street. Has Received by the Dumfries, from London, in addition to his former assortment of MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS, &c. Adams's Patent Globes—12 inches. Brass and Wood Compasses—Assorted. Quadrants. Night and Day Telescopes—Assorted. Telescopes for Day only. Patent Time Glasses. From 1-4 to 1-2 minute, and for one and two hours. Gunter's Scales and Dividers—Assorted. Charts, for the West-Indies, and America. Moore's Epitome and Daily Assistant. And has on hand, Blunt's American Practical Navigator—Last edition, with a copious appendix. Blunt's American Coast Pilot. Also for Sale, Bell-Mettle Skillets of Superior Quality, Carriage Wheel Boxes, Bouches, and Solid Brass Sleeves—Assorted. Hoop and Baltimore Bar-Iron—Assorted. All kinds of Mathematical Instruments Repaired, as usual. April 26. tf 628
THE SUBSCRIBER Having opened Tavern in the EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE, will be glad to take in TEN OR TWELVE GENTLE BOARDERS by the year. Peter Kemp. May 6. tf 654
REMOVAL. JAMES TUCKER, Has removed to No. 1, Holt's Lane, (at Main-Street, WHERE HE OFFERS FOR SALE, ON REASONABLE TERMS, HIS STOCK IN TRADE, CONSISTING OF A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF HARDWARE, NAILS, &c. May 8. tf 659
JOHN C. NIEMEYER, Has received in addition to his former assortment GERMAN GOODS, 45 packages German Linens, &c. chiefly entitled to drawback. Containing of Platillas, brown Hollands, Britanias, Sheetings, extra fine 1 1-8 yard wide, Dowlass and Creas of the best quality, Shirt linen, Diapers, Bed Ticking for Mattresses, Bed Bunts fine 1 1-4 to 2 yards wide, Tickenburgs, Oznaburgs, Brown Hemp Hessian, Brown and White Rolls, Russia Sheetings and light Canvas. Also, Velvet Ribbons no. 2 to 150, Plush for Saddles, black Sattin for waistcoats, Brussels Lace 4 to 20 dols. per yard, cheap Edgings, German Nuns Thread, patent Needles, India sewing Silk, Made Shirts, Throat Stockings very fine, Razors, Spectacles, and Penknives, of the very first qualities, Chep Jewellery, fine Scissors, Muffs and Tippits of Martin Skins, 15 boxes Tumblers, Decanters, Wine Glasses, and Basket Flasks, &c. 3 Boxes English Mustard. 8 bales Cloths, Blankets, Coatings, &c. Andirons, Waffleiron, Coffee mills, Bird cages, and Seeds of all kinds, Table mats, & Straw plates, Suspenders of the best kind, Violins, Flutes, Clarinets and Fifes, Harp strings and Violin strings, elegant Bows and Instruction books Looking Glasses, a large assortment of Baskets, fine and common do. do. Toys cheap by the quantity. Also, 90 boxes first quality Havana Segars, 30 do. good quality St. Jago do. 140 do. Short Pipes, 200 do. Shop Thread, 2000 Coffee bags good quality, 400 Gunny do., 250 M. com cheap Needles, 60 M. Toy marbles, 1 case superior Quills, &c. I will sell the above Goods low for cash or approved bills, or in barter for Coffee, and will take in payment One Hundred Hogsheads good Tobacco STEMS.—Apply as above. December 5. tf 273
TO RENT, A convenient DWELLING HOUSE on Fen Church-Street, fronting the Fields leading to Brigg's Point—with a good garden and out buildings attached to it. Enquire of JAMES SMITH , near the same. June 20. tf 774

Extract of a letter from a gentleman dated St. John's River, (Province of East Florida,) July 9th, 1805, to his friend in this Borough.
"You no doubt have heard of the capture of a ship, brig, and a sloop, that sailed out of Norfolk under British colours, by a privateer schooner from St. Augustine, commanded by captain Hooper. Those vessels arrived safe off St. Augustine bar, and there delivered greater part of their cargo; the ship and brig drawing too much water to come over the bar, proceeded up St. Mary's River, together with the privateer, and were there moored under the Florida shore, at a place called Rose's Bluff, about one and a half miles from St. Mary's. On my arrival at St. Mary's, I there found an English schooner, tender to the British frigate Cambrian, mounting 18 guns and 70 men, taken a few days previous by the Cambrian, and sent to St. Mary's, for the express purpose of re-taking those prizes, (the schooner was previously a French privateer, and had two American captains on board when taken.)—She lay about one hour at anchor off St. Mary's, and then proceeded immediately up to the ship, which was prepared for action, and which had collected the whole force of the privateer, together with her own crew and the brigs, to make the best defence she could. She then, it was said, mounted 8 or 10 guns and 40 men, exclusive of some militia that had collected on the Bluff, within fifty yards of which the ship was moored. The tender brought up on a sand bank, within 120 or 130 yards of the ship, in a situation to expose her to a complete rake from every gun of the ship, when she could only bring her two bow guns to bear for a length of time; a severe fire from both parties commenced, and lasted for one hour, at the expiration of which time, the tender manned three of her boats, and proceeded immediately to board, notwithstanding they were under a heavy fire of grape shot from the ship, and the militia from the Bluff. The boats on meeting so warm a reception from that quarter, proceeded on the other quarter between the ship and the Bluff, where they were exposed between two fires, and notwithstanding all those difficulties, boarded the ship, and at the striking of the colours, there was not one Frenchman on board the ship alive, whether any escaped to the shore or not, is, as yet, not ascertained, nor was it known when I left St. Mary's, how many were killed on board the tender; yet from the intrepidity of both parties, and the spirited attempt of the English to board in so desperate a situation, many must have been killed, and no doubt but the tender received considerable damage, as she was aground the whole of the action. The Cambrian lies off St. Mary's bar. I was within half a mile of the scene of action, from the commencement, and can assure you it was a sight as grand as solemn. Excuse the unconnected account, and impute incorrectness to great haste."
"The action commenced about 5 o'clock on Saturday the 6th July, and I left St. Mary's about 12 o'clock that night."
By a circular letter from the Secretary of State dated on the 12th July, 1805, the Consuls and Commercial Agents of the United States are instructed to forbear to issue any certificate whatever relative to purchases of foreign vessels by citizens of the United States, except to such persons as may satisfy the Consuls and Commercial Agents, that the purchase was made without knowing this alteration in their instructions; and they are also restrained from allowing the exception itself after the expiration of two months from the date of the advertisement they are directed to publish of this instruction. Nat. Intel.
We regret to have to state the arrival of a vessel from St. Domingo at this port, on board of which are several persons ill of the yellow fever. It is some satisfaction and must be a source of confidence to the publick to reflect that altho' there were upwards of 50 cases last year in the hospital of our Lazaretto, that thro' the energy and vigilance of the board of health, and the officers of the establishment, we were as secure against the disease in this city as if it had not existed. The vessel to which we allude is the Nancy, capt. Leake, and arrived yesterday morning from St. Domingo, she has on board 20 officers and soldiers labouring under battle wounds who it appears were taken out of the hospital at that city.
Unfortunately for capt. Leake, he has lost one of his crew on the passage, with all the malignant appearances of yellow fever; and the capt. himself and another of the crew are both in a dangerous state of the disease. The cargo of the vessel is mohogany and logwood. There is a third person on board sick also. The sick have been landed and placed in clean, comfortable and airy apartments and the usual attention and tenderness of the institution will be bestowed on the unfortunates.
A deputation from the board of health this morning visits the Lazaretto, and every care will be bestowed to effect the important ends of the institution, the preservation of the city from imported disease. Aurora.
We learn from Newport, that on Saturday last there arrived at that place, a French privateer schooner. Soon after her arrival, she was boarded by a Custom-house officer. The answers given to the interrogatories of the officer being unsatisfactory, her papers were demanded. From which it appeared she had no regular commission, but only authority for cruising, from the French Consul at New-York. She was immediately ordered to sea, and soon afterwards sailed. Many persons were of opinion that she ought to have been detained. [Boston Palladium.]
BOSTON, July 10.
Messrs. Adams & Rhodes,
I send you for publication, a copy of a protest made by the late captain Isaac Bridges, of this town, his mate and crew, before the American Consul at Faya. This worthy but unfortunate man, died of his wound at said island on the 18th of April last, after languishing ten days in extreme distress. It may be some satisfaction for his friends to learn, that the honours paid him at his interment exceeded any thing of the kind ever witnessed at Faya. Their excellencies the governor and the grand judge, all the military and civil officers, foreign consuls and mer-
chants—in short, all the respectable people of the place, filled with emotions of pity for the unhappy fate of the deceased, and fired with indignation against the privileged assassin who was the author of it, composed the melancholy procession.
Anno Domini, 1805.
Consulate-Office, District of } Faya, April 2, 1805.
BE IT made known and made manifest unto all persons whom these presents may concern, that on this present day, the second of April, in the year of our lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, at the lodging house of Isaac Bridges, master of the brig Hannah, of Newburyport, 1 John Street, Vice Consul for the United States of America, of the Island of Faya and Azores, came at his request, he the said captain being unable to appear in my Consulate-Office, declared that he sailed from Newburyport on the thirteenth of March, in the said brig, sound and staunch, for these islands, loaded with American produce, and other articles not prohibited by the treaty between the belligerent powers; that nothing material occurred during his voyage, till the thirtieth of said March, in lat. 29, with a heavy sea running, which caused the vessel to make much water; he, the said captain Bridges, observed a vessel at the stern; that a short time after, the said vessel fired a gun to leeward; he, the said captain immediately showed his colours and took in sail to let him come up, and soon observed that said vessel was an English cutter. At half past one P. M. he hailed captain Bridges, and ordered to send his boat on board of him, but the sea being very turbulent, he, the said captain Bridges, observed to said cutter that his boat was too small, and at the time he would not trust himself in it, particularly not knowing how to swim; that if they wished to search his brig, they might come and do it at their own peril. They returned in answer that he, the said captain should not heave his boat out, they immediately would fire on him, and said captain Bridges, observing such obstinacy, told them to fire and be damned, and that he knew the neutral laws and the treaty between England and the United States. Soon after, said utter fired several muskets upon him, said Bridges, though he had the main-top-sail on the cap-aback, the fore-top-sail clued up; by the bye, said cutter came round said brig Hannah, and fired a second time, musket and great guns, and at the third time that she fired, he, the said Bridges, received two severe wounds in the thigh and groin, and his life being in great danger, in consequence of said wounds, he, the said captain desired me to take his protest, as he does protest against the barbarous proceedings of the captain of said cutter, whose name he declares to be PHILIP LE ROUZ, and said cutter, Providence, of London, not only for his life, but for all loss, costs and damages whatever, that the said brig may sustain in the disposal of her cargo, which he also declares to be under his consignment and care. All which being solemnly sworn on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, by said Isaac Bridges, his mate, Joseph Cazneau, Philip Pepple, Anthony Robert, William Brown, John Colere, mariners, to be truth.
ISAAC BRIDGES, Captain. JOSEPH CAZNEAU, Mate. PHILIP PEPPLE, } ANTHONY ROBERT, } Mariners. WAL. BROWN, } JOHN COLERE, }
I do hereby certify, that the above is a true and faithful copy, taken from the original, deposited in this my Consular Office. In witness whereof, I have set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, this 27th day of May, 1805.
(L. S.)
JOHN STREET.
NEW-YORK, July 15.
Translated for the Mercantile Advertiser.
CONSTITUTION OF HAYTI.
We, H. Christophe, Clerveaux, Vernet, Gabart, Petion, Gessard, Toussaint Brave, Raphael, Roman, Latondrie, Capois, Magny, Dant, Conge, Magloire Ambrose, Yoou, Jean Louis François, Gerin, Moreau, Fervu, Bazelaïs, Martial Besse:
As well in our own name, as in that of the people of Hayti, who have legally constituted us faithful organs and interpreters of their will; in presence of the Supreme Being, before whom all mankind are equal, and who has distributed so many species of creatures on the surface of the earth for the purpose of manifesting his glory and his power by the diversity of his work: In the presence of all nature by whom we have been so long a time considered as out-cast children:
Do declare that the tenor of the present constitution is the spontaneous and invariable expression of our hearts and the general will of our constituents; and we submit it to the sanction of H. M. the Emperor, JACQUES DESSALINES, our deliverer, to receive its speedy and entire execution.
Preliminary Declaration.
Article 1. The people inhabiting the Island formerly called St. Domingo, hereby agree to form themselves into a free State, sovereign and independent of any other power in the universe, under the name of Empire of Hayti.
2. Slavery is for ever abolished. 3. The citizens of Hayti are brothers at home; equality in the eye of the law is incontestably acknowledged; and there cannot exist any titles, advantages, or privileges, other than those necessarily resulting from the consideration and reward of services rendered to Liberty and Independence.
4. The law is the same to all, whether it punishes, or whether it protects.
5. The law has no retroactive effect.
6. Property is sacred, its violation shall be severely prosecuted.
7. The quality of citizen of Hayti is lost by emigration and naturalization in foreign countries, and by condemnation to corporal or disgraceful punishments. The first case carries with it the punishment of death and confiscation of property.
8. The quality of a citizen is suspended in consequence of bankruptcies and failures.
9. No person is worthy of being a Haytian who is not a good father, a good son, a good husband, and especially a good soldier.
10. Fathers and mothers are not permitted to disinherit their children.
11. Every citizen must possess a mechanic art. 12. No white man, of whatever nation he may be, shall put his foot on this territory with the title of master or proprietor, neither shall he in future acquire any property therein.
13. The preceding article cannot in the smallest degree affect white women who have been naturalized Haytians by government, nor does it extend to children already born or that may be born of the said women. The Germans and Poles naturalized by government are also comprized in the dispositions of the present article.
14. All exception of colour among the children of one and the same family, of whom the chief magistrate is the father, being necessarily to cease, the Haytians shall henceforward be known only by the generic appellation of Blacks.
Of the Empire.
15. The Empire of Hayti is one and indivisible. Its territory is distributed into six military divisions.
16. Each military division shall be commanded by a general of a division.
17. These generals of division shall be independent of one another, and shall correspond directly with the Emperor, or with the general in chief appointed by his Majesty.
18. The following Islands are integral parts of the Empire; viz. Samana, La Tortue, La Gonaive, Les Caverites, La Soane, L'Isle-a-Vache, and other adjacent Islands.
Of the Government.
19. The Government of Hayti is entrusted to a first Magistrate, who assumes the title of Emperor and commander in chief of the army.
20. The people acknowledge for Emperor and Commander in Chief of the army, JACQUES DESSALINES, the avenger and deliverer of his fellow citizens. The title of Majesty is conferred upon him, as well as upon his august spouse the Empress.
21. The person of their majesties is sacred and inviolable.
22. The state will appropriate a fixed annual allowance to her Majesty the Empress, which she will continue to enjoy even after the decease of the Emperor, as princess dowager.
23. The crown is elective, not hereditary.
24. There shall be assigned by the state an annual income to the children acknowledged by his Majesty the Emperor.
25. The male children acknowledged by the Emperor shall be obliged, in the same manner as other citizens, to pass successively from grade to grade, with this only difference, that their entrance into service shall begin at the fourth demi brigade, from the period of their birth.
26. The Emperor designates, in the manner he may judge expedient, the person who is to be his successor either before or after his death.
27. A suitable provision shall be made by the state to that successor from the moment of his accession to throne.
28. The Emperor, and his successors, shall, in no case and under no pretext whatsoever, have the right of attaching to their persons any particular or privileged body, whether as guards of honour, or under any other denomination.
29. Every successor deviating from the dispositions of the preceding article, or from the principles consecrated in the present constitution shall be considered and declared in a state of warfare against the society.
In such a case, the Counsellors of State will assemble in order to pronounce his removal, and to choose one among themselves who shall be judged the most worthy of replacing him; and if it should happen that the said successor oppose the execution of this measure authorised by law, the Generals Counsellors of State shall appeal to the people and the army, who will immediately give their whole strength and associate to maintain Liberty.
30. The Emperor makes, seals, and promulgates the laws; appoints and revokes, at will, the Ministers, the General in Chief of the Army, the Counsellors of State, the Generals and other agents of the Empire, the land and sea officers, the members of the local administrations, the commissaries of government near the tribunals, judges, and other public functionaries.
31. The Emperor directs the receipts and expenditures of the State, surveys the Mint, of which he alone orders the emission, and fixes the weight and the model.
32. To him alone is reserved the power of making peace or war, to maintain political intercourse, and to form treaties.
33. He provides for the interior safety and for the defence of the state; and distributes at pleasure the sea and land forces.
34. In cases of conspiracies manifesting themselves against the safety of the State, against the Constitution, or against his person, the Emperor shall cause the authors or accomplices to be arrested and tried before a special Council.
35. His Majesty has alone the right to absolve a criminal or to commute his punishment.
36. The Emperor shall never form any enterprise with the view of making conquests; nor to disturb the peace and the interior administration of foreign colonies.
37. Every publick act shall be made in these terms:
"THE EMPEROR I. OF HAYTI, AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMY, BY THE GRACE OF GOD AND THE CONSTITUTIONAL LAW OF THE STATE."
Of the Council of State.
38. The Generals of Division and of Brigade, are of right members of the Council of State, and they compose it.
Of the Ministers.
39. There shall be in the empire two ministers and a Secretary of State. The minister of finances having the department of the interior, and the minister of war having the marine department.
40-44. [Interior regulations respecting the ministry.]
Of the Tribunals.
45. No one can interfere with the right which every individual has of being judged amicably by arbitrators of his own choosing, whose decisions shall be acknowledged legal.
46. There shall be a justice of peace in each commune. Any suit amounting to more than one hundred dollars shall not come within his cognizance. And when the parties conciliate themselves at his tribunal, they may appeal to the tribunals of their respective districts.
47. There shall be six tribunals established in the cities hereafter designated, viz. at St. Marc, at the Cape, at Port-au-Prince, Aux-Cayes, Lance-a-Veaux, and Port-de-Paix. The Emperor determines their organization, their number, their competence and the territory forming the district of each. These tribunals take cognizance of all affairs purely civil.
48. Military crimes are submitted to special councils and to particular forms of judgment.
49. Particular laws shall be made for the national transactions, and respecting the civil officers of the state.
Of Worship.
50. The law admits of no predominant religion.
51. The freedom of worship is tolerated.
52. The state does not provide for the maintenance of any religious institution, nor of any minister.
Of the Administration.
53. There shall be in each military division a principal administration, whose organization and inspection belong essentially to the minister of finances.
General Dispositions.
Art. 1. To the Emperor and Empress belong the choice, the salary, and the maintenance of the persons composing their court.
2. After the decease of the reigning Emperor, when a revision of the constitution shall have been judged necessary, the council of state will assemble for that purpose, and shall be presided by the oldest member.
3. The crimes of high treason, the delapidations of the ministers and generals, shall be judged by a special council, called and presided by the Emperor.
4. The armed force is essentially obedient, no armed body can deliberate.
5. No person shall be judged without having been legally heard in his defence.
6. The house of every citizen is an inviolable asylum.
7. It cannot be entered into in case of conflagration, inundation, reclamation from the interior, or by virtue of an order from the Emperor, or from any other authority legally constituted.
8. He deserves death who gives it to his fellow.
9. Every judgment to which the pain of death or corporal punishment is annexed shall not be carried
into execution until it has been confirmed by the Emperor.
10. Theft shall be punished according to the circumstances which may have preceded, accompanied, or followed it.
11. Every stranger inhabiting the territory of Hayti shall be, equally with the Haytians, subject to the correctional and criminal laws of the country.
12. All property which formerly belonged to any white Frenchman, is incontestably and of right confiscated to the use of the state.
13. Every Haytian who, having purchased property from a white Frenchman, may have paid part of the purchase money stipulated in the act of sale, shall be responsible to the domains of the state for the remainder of the sum due.
14. Marriage is an act purely civil, and authorised by the government.
15. The law authorises divorce in all cases which shall have been previously provided for and determined.
16. A particular law shall be issued concerning children born out of wedlock.
17. Respect for the chiefs, subordination and discipline are rigorously necessary.
18. A penal code shall be published and severely observed.
19. Within each military division a publick school shall be established for the instruction of youth.
20. The national colours shall be black and red.
21. Agriculture, as it is the first, the most noble, and the most useful of all the arts, shall be honoured and protected.
22. Commerce, the second source of the prosperity of states, will not admit of any impediment: it ought to be favoured and specially protected.
23. In each military division a tribunal of commerce shall be formed, whose members shall be chosen by the Emperor from the class of merchants.
24. Good faith and integrity in commercial operations shall be religiously maintained.
25. The government assures safety and protection to neutral nations and friends who may be desirous of establishing a commercial intercourse with this island, they conforming to the regulations and customs of the country.
26. The counting houses and the merchandise of foreigners shall be under the safeguard and guarantee of the state.
27. There shall be national festivals for celebrating Independence, the birth-day of the Emperor and his august spouse, that of Agriculture and of the Constitution.
28. At the first firing of the alarm-gun the cities will disappear, and the nation rise.
We, the undersigned, place under the safeguard of the magistrates, fathers and mothers of families, the citizens, and the army, this explicit and solemn covenant of the sacred rights of man and the duties of the citizen.
We recommend it to our successors, and present it to the friends of liberty, to philanthropists of all countries, as a signal pledge of the Divine Bounty, who, in the course of his immortal decrees, has given us an opportunity of breaking our fetters, and of constituting ourselves a people free, civilized, and independent.
Signed. H. CHRISTOPHE, &c. (as before.) Having seen the present Constitution:
We, JACQUES DESSALINES, Emperor I. of Hayti, and Commander in Chief of the army, by the grace of God and the constitutional law of the state.
Accept it wholly, and sanction it, that it may receive, with the least possible delay, its full and entire execution throughout the whole of our empire. And we swear to maintain it, and to cause it to be observed in its integrity to the last breath of our life.
At the Imperial Palace of Dessalines, the 20th May, 1805, second year of the Independence of Hayti, and of our reign the first. DESSALINES. By the Emperor,
JUSTE CHANLATTE, Secretary General.
FROM THE LONDON MONTHLY REVIEW,
For April, 1805.
The Claims of the British West-India Colonists.
To the Right of obtaining necessary supplies from America, and of employing the necessary means of effectually obtaining those supplies under a limited and duly regulated intercourse, stated and vindicated, in answer to Lord Sheffield's Strictures. By G. W. Jordan, Esq. F. R. S. Colonial Agent for Barbados.
Political economy it seems, like religion, has its bigots as well as its rational professors; and examples of each kind are afforded by the parties who now demand our consideration. So closely attached is Lord Sheffield to the navigation laws, that he will allow of no deviation from them, however imperiously required by circumstances; and the dictates of policy, or the calls of humanity, or the pressure of famine, are in his mind scarcely adequate excuses for any departure from the rigid enactments of our marine regulations. His Lordship had censured the Dutch property act, the repeal of American countervailing duties, and the admission of American shipping into our West-India Islands, under licences severally granted by the privy council here, and by the respective governments of the Islands abroad. Mr. Jordan, however, triumphantly combats the views of the noble lord on all these points. The first two indeed, are now merely events of past history; but it should seem that Mr. Jordan was of opinion that it would facilitate his success in debating the latter point, if he shewed that, in matters of like import, Lord S. was not entitled to the credit which previous reputation had a tendency to secure to him, but that on the contrary his ideas were confined, and that he laboured under prejudices which materially misled him.
In order to comprehend the third point in dispute we must take a brief historical view of it. Mr. Jordan informs us that various articles, of which the colonies are in want, cannot be supplied by Great Britain, among which are those of the first necessity; that the American States, when subject to Great Britain, were accustomed to furnish these commodities to the West India Islands; that they were principally conveyed in American bottoms; that the purchasers paid for them in produce; and that when the American war broke out, the colonies, debarred of this important traffic, were reduced to extreme hardships. When peace became re-established, the necessity of a renewal of this intercourse between the Islands and the American main land was universally felt and admitted; and accordingly it was allowed and regulated by the 28th of the King. In passing this statute, the Legislature took it for granted, that the circuitous voyages of British ships—vessels furnished by the colonies which still remained to England, and such as the islands themselves would build—would be fully adequate to the transport of the American supplies; and it therefore enacts that these goods shall be imported solely in British bottoms. This expectation has completely failed; so that, from the date of the statute to the present time, licences, sanctioned by parliament have been issued by the privy council here, and by the several governments of the islands, dispensing with its provisions, and allowing the admission of American vessels, in order to prevent the inhabitants from starving, and to supply them with materials to enclose the produce which was to be conveyed to the mother country. The legislature, in passing the before mentioned act, recognized the necessity of the intercourse between the islands and America, and had no idea

of shackling it by directing an inadequate mode of carriage; but that the mode which it did establish was wholly inadequate, the experience of more than ten years demonstrates. Nothing can more strongly prove this fact, than the regular issue of licences dispensing with provisions of the statute during the whole of that time. The council at home is above suspicion; and the governors abroad, as is here shown, exercise the power under a very serious responsibility.
'I know,' says the author, 'the case to have occurred, when during the continuance of war, and whilst Great Britain, in extreme distress, had opened her ports to all ships, and paid bounties upon all species of corn and grain, and upon Indian corn among the rest, drawing thus from the colonies all means of supply, instead of sending them any, that letters of the strictest and harshest tenor were received by the chief of a colony respecting the admission of American vessels, and holding out in prospect the dangers annually indemnified against, although the colony was at that very time in a state of the greatest distress, and many whites and negroes had actually perished of famine, or of disease, which famine had provoked. At this very period, supplies of flour, embarked in this kingdom for the colonies, were by order actually relanded and retained.'
Lord Sheffield is here shown to have censured the licences, without stating the urgent circumstances which rendered them absolutely indispensable. It is also proved that he charges the merchants and planters with seeking an unlimited intercourse with America, while they only solicit that the wisdom of the legislature should provide effectual means for carrying on that restricted communication, without which the islands cannot subsist, and which Great Britain has hitherto allowed.
Mr. Jordan is anxious not to entrench on the claims of the Parent State; he acknowledges her right to monopolize the whole trade of her colonies, and all its appurtenances, imports, exports, and carriage; but if from choice or necessity, she abandons any part of this commerce, as in the case of the present instance with regard to the more heavy articles required by the colonies, she either ought to leave them to supply the defect in their own way, or else should effectually make this provision on their behalf. The British government sanctioned the intercourse, but it provided an insufficient channel for it; and when the legislature had granted such permission, shall it be a reproach to the planters and merchants to require that without which the grant is ineffectual, that without which they must have died of famine, and the produce have perished for want of the means of package? Yet it is such a dispensation with the requisitions of an imperfect act of parliament which the noble lord so strongly censures. It is not a dispensing power, as opposed to a regular and established law, that forms the burden of his lamentation, but the existence of the dispensations in any shape; yet the real situation of things proclaims that the islands would have been depopulated, and their produce wasted, if the act of parliament had been, as he desired, rigorously enforced.
It is here justly observed that, if Great Britain allows a colony to carry on a branch of commerce with another state, it ought to be governed by the same policy with that which regulates the like intercourse on the part of the mother country. Now Great Britain allows goods to be imported in its own shipping, and in that of the state of which they are the produce; the principal navigation laws are therefore founded in national reciprocity; and it would be impossible to pass more strict navigation statutes, seeing that they effect other states as well as the state enacting them. In our traffic, then, with another nation, the ships of that nation and the ships of this country indifferently import the goods which belong to that nation. If we place a colony in the same situation with regard to a branch of commerce, it is natural that the same rule should be observed; namely, that the goods imported should be brought indifferently in the shipping of Great Britain, or of the colony, or in the shipping of the country whence they are derived.
Mr. Jordan, who views its subject in all its bearings rightly marks that another state is a party in this matter; that we must legislate with her in view as well as ourselves; and that we ought to observe the reciprocity which is consulted in the chief navigation acts. We may enact that we shall export and import in colonial or British bottoms between the colony and America, but America will have a right to complain of the want of reciprocity, and most probably will not fail to exercise that right. The colony, quoad this particular traffic, should be regarded as identified with the Metropole; and the same rule should direct the intercourse with foreign states.
It is also a very important observation of this author, that, if in peace we supply the colonies with American articles in British bottoms, the conveyance of the same articles in time of war in American bottoms will be, on our own construction of the laws of nations, a contraband trade and be liable to lawful capture by our enemy; whereas, by acting on the provisions of our leading marine statutes, that is, by admitting American produce (to the extent limited by the 28th of George III.) to be brought indifferently in English or American bottoms, the colonies in time of hostility will in regard to necessaries and other essential articles, be put out of all hazard. We trust that considerations, so ably stated, and so temperately urged, will not long fail of producing the desired end; namely, an act which would effectually secure to the colonies the benefits contemplated by the 28th of the King, but to which it has proved utterly inadequate.
If the colonial intercourse with America is confined to its legal limits, (and Mr. J. observes that such is the vigilance of the revenue officers, that there can be no apprehension of this not being done,) it ought to be regarded with satisfaction rather than jealousy; since it can only grow in proportion to the great carrying trade with England. It is, he tells us, as little the interest as it is the duty of the West India proprietors, to wish that this valuable monopoly should be invaded. On the part of himself and his constituents, he renounces any intention of directly or indirectly administering this grand source of British wealth; and on the contrary he contends that the necessary regulations which he recommends, if once fixed on a legal unchanging basis, would materially increase the consignments to the parent state. For the particulars of the detail into which Mr. J. enters, we must refer our readers to his very able and instructive pamphlet.
Assured of his present victory, the author invites his adversary to a fresh contest; and since the point, which the noble lord is solicited to discuss, possesses interest not merely as a subject on which political polemicks may try their skill and knowledge, but claims our notice in various other respects of incomparably greater importance, we shall record the challenge in our pages: not so much from a hope of occasioning a literary tournament in which the present champions will take the lead, as in the more gratifying expectation of calling the attention of various good judges, and of the government, to a topic which strikes us as being of the utmost consequence.
Over the remaining heads of recapitulation, as already disposed of, I hasten that I may supply your lordship with matter for further consideration, and with other subjects of stricture. I wonder that the free ports of the West Indies have escaped your lordship's animadversion. These ports, established for the purpose of carrying on a trade in which none but foreign vessels are or can be employed. I introduce this subject, not merely for the information of your
lordship, but the purpose of drawing the attention of government thereto. Here is indeed a formidable invasion of the navigation and colonial systems of the empire. Yet I introduce this subject for the express purpose of recommending to government to extend these principles and practices now applied, obtaining in only particular cases and situations, to the general and permanent establishment of a trade, not limited to ports and places, but to be opened to all the British West India islands and colonies. It is possible to open a South American trade, as well as that of North America, which without any respect to the nature of the shipping employed, shall, by a due enumeration and restriction of the permitted articles of exchange or carriage, with perfect safety and propriety increase indefinitely the British import, export, and carrying trades of the West India islands.
These islands are so disposed along the coasts, or stretched across between the principal points of South and North America, that access to them from both the continents may at all times be had by the simplest and cheapest species of navigation. The approach of British vessels to the continent of South America is partially or totally forbidden by the great European powers who possess it. Under circumstances, British vessels cannot be used in the intercourse with it. Great Britain, therefore, of necessity, has opened certain ports in the colonies to vessels of these foreign countries, in order that they may bring in the enumerated articles she desires to obtain, and that they carry the enumerated articles she wishes to dispose of, or such as are necessary to support the trade. The first enumeration contains articles of territorial produce of that part of the continent, and bullion among the rest; the other consists of goods of British manufacture, or import, or articles of territorial produce of the islands. Great Britain does not upon this occasion consider her navigation and colonial systems, as not at any time, upon any occasion, or under any circumstances to be invaded. She looks to the objects and purposes of these systems. She wants raw materials; she wants market for her various articles of manufacture, commerce, and produce; she wants encouragement and extensive employment for her shipping. By neglecting all consideration of the use, as militating against her navigation and colonial systems, of these petty vessels, which serve to associate her islands with the continent, she obtains all the objects of those systems, materials, markets, and increased carriage. The ports of her islands become ports of the continent, and these are only as the port vessels and lading droghers of other countries. British ships carry to, and bring away from the islands the commodities laden in, and unload from these vessels, and neither their employment or their numbers is to be contemplated or calculated upon by Great Britain, but as proofs of the extension of her own commerce and proper navigation.
Instead, therefore, of a port in Grenada, a port in Dominica, two in Jamaica, one in Tortola, one in the Bahamas, it might upon these principles well be recommended to Great Britain, to extend the provision of the Free Port Acts to all the islands, or to the custom house ports of all the islands. It might further be proposed, by enlarging and combining all the principles and practices which alike prevail in the West India intercourse with the northern and southern portions of America, to form one general, simple, and consolidated system, that should connect them all, which should embrace and comprehend the at present enumerated articles of import and export between the whole continent and the islands, and permit them the employment, jointly with British ships, or one decked vessels, of all the countries, growing the commodities imported into the islands. I submit this proposal to the severity of your lordship's strictures, I suggest it for the consideration of Ministers.
In this view of the subject, what is there to be objected against North American vessels of this description, that will not apply to the Spanish launches of South America, and what is there to recommend the droghers of the Oronoko, and of the river of the Amazons, that will not also favour the sloops and schooners of the Delaware and the Chesapeake? They are all but as the country boats of all the other nations of the world, employed wherever our commerce extends, to bring to and deposit in ports of access, commodities for use or for transport. They are auxiliary and subservient to the great traders of the deep who may pass by them with their woven wings without jealousy or envy.
I again most seriously and earnestly recommend to his Majesty's Ministers, to establish a general American intercourse with all the British West India colonies upon these general principles, and I do not hesitate to say, that if Great Britain still continues to refuse the employment of these petty vessels, for these purposes, and in the manner proposed, that she sacrifices, and continues to sacrifice her navigation, to her navigation and colonial systems.
If we have been taught, at an immense expense, to think justly on the subject of colonies, and if we have exploded the notion of a right of taxing them, we ought to have regarded the attempt to tax foreign states as scarcely less impracticable, or less unjust. As this is an error which, like the fatal one before committed, is calculated for popularity, we insert the able exposure of it by the pen of Mr. Jordan:
'Unfortunately, during the late war, an idea was taken up, against all principles of political wisdom and publick justice, to tax foreign nations, by retaining part of the drawback, upon the re-exportation of sugar from Great Britain. This was a great breach of parental faith, on the part of Great Britain; it was a great breach of justice thus to take away a portion of the accidental profits of commerce which they only are honourably entitled to, who risked at all times equally the loss and the profit. Like all other great violations of principle, this also was attended with consequences directly, indirectly, and remotely injurious to all whom it affected. One of these indirect and remote consequences, was an attempt made for the first time, in the ports of the colonies, to establish those distinctions between the exports to the United States, in British and in American vessels. Sugar and coffee were either absolutely prohibited to American vessels, or limited to specified portions of their return cargoes. Considerable impediments to the obtaining of supplies or necessaries were thus vexatiously created and perpetuated, and great inconveniences sustained. Not amongst the least was the considerable drainage of specie, complained of in all the colonies. American vessels are compelled, either to leave a particular colony without dealing, or they draw out from amidst the population of the country, those last portions of gold or silver money, which, retained amidst the ranks of society by all the principles and energies of political existence and combination, yield only to the most powerful actions, and like the last portions of moisture which give form and solidity to natural bodies, are only in the extremest cases separated and carried off. The specie thus obtained was immediately laid out to purchase without restriction, return cargoes of produce among the foreign islands, to their great encouragement, and to the considerable vexation and injury of the British colonies. This drainage of specie was attended with considerable loss, not only to the planters, but to government also, in the article of exchange. From a considerable percentage, and in our market, where the money point of exchange is fixed at forty per cent. government could frequently get only twenty-five per cent. or a smaller per centage on the bills she was obliged to sell for the purposes of maintaining her es-
tablishments. This certain loss, considerably overbalancing any contingent interests, deserves the attention and regulation of government.'
'This unprincipled and abortive attempt to tax foreign nations, by importing among them commodities loaded with domestic duties, was at length abandoned. Something like a better system has succeeded. Regulations have been formed, according to which, although at times and under increasing prices, increasing portions of the drawback on sugars may be retained, yet, in compensation for this, it is with some apparent fairness, provided, that in other cases a bounty shall be superadded, when the prices fall beyond a certain point. There is, indeed, in the ascending scale of bounties but one solitary step of compensation, whilst in the descending the drawbacks are diminished through many and vigorous degrees of decline, into total extinction. All assurance also is suspended, as to the permanent benefits of this arrangement by its limited existence, and consequent dependence upon uncertain opinions, and upon political events and combinations yet more uncertain.'
'From discussions of this sort, all questions of finance ought upon principle to be excluded. Whatever sacrifices commerce may make to navigation, she should make none to revenue.'
'Readers who prefer instruction to amusement will set a high value on the present pamphlet; and the superior orders of persons will discern in it much of that accuracy and precision, which men of scientific views and habit sometimes happily introduce into the treatment of subjects on which moral probabilities are alone concerned. We take leave of it with the acknowledgment that it has highly gratified and instructed us; and we cordially recommend it to the attentive perusal of all who are possessed of either commercial or political influence.'
From a London Paper.
INQUEST ON LORD MELVILLE.
The departure of this nobleman having been extremely sudden, and, by his friends, altogether unexpected, they at first flattered themselves it might be a case only of suspended animation, and had immediate recourse to the resuscitative process of the Humane Society, but all hopes of restoration entirely vanished. As soon as it was generally known that it was all over with him, various conjectures were afloat in the minds of those not intimately acquainted with the circumstances. Some imagined, that as he was an High Admiral , he might probably have been taking a naval excursion, in one of his own catamarans , and was drowned. Others said, there was an infallible reason for believing that was impossible . At the same time it was supposed not to be altogether incredible that he had been blown up . The news reached the ears of the Coroner, he thought it his duty to hold an inquest. The surgeon who attended, declared it was extremely difficult to particularize all the disorders which had occasioned the Noble Lord's final exit ; that extraordinary pains must have been used, and much expense incurred, in keeping the system together, and preventing a more early dissolution . There were evident signs of occasional loss of power, but this had probably been counteracted by frequent change of place , excursions to the North , sitting over the smoke of burnt paper , and trying the effects of sea air . One of the Jurymen asked, if there was any appearance of his Lordship having been in the stocks ? The surgeon replied, there certainly were marks which led him to form such a conclusion, but some pains seemed to have been taken to confine and efface them.
On the examination of some intimate friends, it appeared that his lordship had been long addicted to quackery , and was particularly fond of all patent medicines ; that he had always been his own Physician , and was in the habit of prescribing largely for himself, and all his friends and relatives.
It further appeared, from the evidence of an hon. Admiral, that he and others had lately received a regular diploma, authorizing them to superintend the general health of the navy, and to propose remedies for all complaints and disorders which might come to their knowledge; and, having reason to suspect that his lordship, while treasurer, had been infected with a dangerous distemper, which, by contagion, might produce the most fatal effects, and that he had also given countenance to the employment of unfair practitioners, they determined to subject his lordship to personal examination. The noble lord, however, from motives of delicacy , refused to give a full statement of his case, upon which, from a conviction that the disease must be of a very disreputable nature, a grand consultation was recommended. The result of the inquiry was the discovery of an extremely, bad habit , of long standing, occasioned by the misapplication of metallic substances , the inevitable consequence of the administration being left in dishonest and unskilful hands . Much noxious matter was collected, which indicated the necessity of an immediate discharge , and evident symptoms appeared of an approaching mortification . No relief had been obtained from the copious exhibition of the Jesuit's bark , and he had in vain called in the aid of a celebrated Doctor , who on receiving a Nobleman's diploma , had lately been admitted to practice in the higher circles .
Purgation, amputation , and other operations being proposed to take place in the National Theatre , for the benefit of the students, it was reported by some of his Lordship's friends, who had visited him, that he was quite resigned to his fate, wished to avoid the shame, pain, and publicity of any attempt to affect a radical cure , and begged to be permitted to go off as privately as possible .
Some of the Jury seemed to be of opinion, that he had made away with himself, but the Coroner wisely remarked, that though the Noble Lord had certainly shortened his own existence , as all men do who lead bad lives , yet it was evident he would have lived longer if he could, and as all new and extraordinary cases demand the adoption of new and appropriate terms, he would recommend them to find a verdict, which they unanimously agreed to—that the Noble Lord died by Stealth .
We have not yet been able to ascertain how his remains are to be disposed of, as many of his friends have expressed a determination to keep him in spirits as long as they can. He had unfortunately given umbrage to the Saints , who conceived that his fondness for dispenstations , his sale of indulgencies , and his request to receive absolution , were circumstances too suspicious to be passed over, and his being finally excommunicated by the Abbot of St. Stephen's , cut off all hopes of his being safely deposited at Westminster . It is possible he may be behalenly sent to the family vault in Scotland , where no church rites are necessary, and where, when a friend is gone , he is silently consigned to oblivion without ceremony .
CUSTOM-HOUSE—ENTERED.
Ship Mentor, Waterman, New-York. Spy, Farwell, Guadaloupe. Brig Betsey, Thompson, Galway. Sch'r. Antelope, Williams, Cherry-Stone. Dagsborough, West, Lumber-ton. Margaret Tingey, English, New-York. Rising States, Newcomb, do. Eliza, Butler, Alexandria. Sloop Julian, Tingle, Lamberton. Favourite, Canter, Petersburg. CLEARED. Ship Reward, Moulton, Falmouth.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Ship Mentor, Waterman, 9 days from New-York, Ballast, N. Heron,—13th inst. in lat. 39, 40, long. 73, 50, spoke brig Eliza, Ogley, 60 days from Malaga, bound to New-York—inform'd capt. W. that the combined French and Spanish fleet had sailed from Carthagena, and had got out the straits destination unknown. Ship John, Spalding 12 days from New-York, Ballast, Richard Biow. Sch'r Success, Town, 10 days from Philadelphia. Sch'r Antelope, Williams, 22 days from Montserrat, via Cherrystone, Rum, to the Master. Sch'r Margaret Tingey, English, 9 days from New-York. Sch'r Rising States, Newcomb, 11 days from New-York. Sch'r Enterprise, Fitzhugh, 11 days from New-York. Ship Minerva, Glenn, 43 days from Cadiz, Salt, William Thompson. Hampton. Brig Julia, Trask, 60 days from Cherbourg, Ballast, C. Fry.—Left there 22d May, ships Hazard, of Boston; Elizabeth, Sherman, Newbedford, bound to Russia.—Brigs Spy, Fowler, for Bourdeaux; Hannah, Hartshorne, Philadelphia—June 29, lat. 37, 41, long. 63, 30, spoke sch'r Rachael, Woodbury, 4 days from Beverly, bound to Grenada—25th, lat. 37, 23, long. 63, 50, brig Lovely Lass, of and from Philadelphia, bound to Madeira, 5 days out—July 13, lat. 37, 30, long. 71, 30, Brig Commerce, Stanley, of and from Salem, bound to Havana, 6 days out. Sch'r. Ann Eliza, Williams, from Baltimore bound to Havana. The third day after leaving Cape Henry, sprung his foremast in the partners, which proved to be rotten; put back to refit. Brig Ranger, Bradley, 14 days from Newburyport, Ballast, C. Fry.
Walker's Packet will sail for Baltimore on Wednesday next. July 22.
Newcomb's Packet will sail for New-York on Sunday next. July 22.
Ferguson's Packet will sail for Baltimore on Sunday next. July 22.
SALE AT AUCTION.
On Friday, the 28th instant, Will be Sold, (Sale to commence at 12 o'clock,) At Commerce-Street Wharf,
THE GOOD BRIG NANCY, As she arrived from the Cape of Good Hope, an excellent strong built vessel, of the burthen of 1730 barrels or thereabouts, a British built vessel, remarkably well found, and may be sent to sea at a small expense.—Inventory may be seen at my office any time before the day of sale.—Terms approved notes 6 and 9 months. John Granbery, V. M. tds 2
SALE AT AUCTION.
On Friday the 16th day of August, will be Sold, At Publick Auction, on Commerce-Street Wharf, Sale to commence at 10 o'clock,
THE ENTIRE CARGO OF THE BRIG NANCY, AS IT ARRIVED FROM THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE Consisting of the following articles, viz: 125 Casks, containing 15,000 gallons CAPE WINE, some of a superior quality. 22 do. of CONSTANTIA, MUSCAT, & STEEN WINES. 2 Cases of CONSTANTIA WINE. 80 Casks, } ALOES—Containing 50,000 lbs. 63 Casks, } 19 Casks, containing 9,000 lbs. of TAMARINDS. 19 Cases of ARRACK. 250 lbs. NUTMEGS. 4 Hogsheads BRANDY, with some other articles. Terms of sale, will be—all sums under 100 dollars cash—all sums above 100 and not exceeding 1000, notes with approved indorsers, at 60 days—and for all sums above 1000 dollars, notes at 120 and 180 days. John Granbery, V. M. tds 3
FOR LIVERPOOL, The British Brig BETSEY, 300 hogsheads burthen—will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days; a large proportion of her cargo is now engaged, for the balance apply to C. & F. Whittle. July 22. tf 10
FOR SALE, The Ship MOSELLE, Burthen 525 tons, with all her materials as she now lies at Leffingwell's Wharf, in Portsmouth.—Inventory may be seen by application to the Subscriber. Terms of sale, 3, 6, and 9 months. ALSO, The Brig JOSEPHINE, Burthen 164 tons, with all her materials, now lying at the same wharf.—Inventory may be seen by application as above.—Terms of Sale, 60 and 90 days. Leon Hesdra. July 22. 3* 11
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The good American Ship JOHN, A. M. SPALDING, Master:— 297 tons burthen, a staunch, strong, tight vessel, now in complete order for the reception of a cargo—For terms apply to the Captain on board, or Richard Blow. July 22. tf 12
AMERICAN PRINTED COTTONS. LEWIS LANNAY, OF THE HOUSE OF M'CULLOCH & LANNAYS CALLICO MANUFACTURERS—BALTIMORE. Informs the Publick that he has just opened an assortment of Collicoes, Shawls, and Pocket Handkerchiefs, of their own Manufacture, in one of Mr. Graham's houses, behind Messrs. Caton & Veale's Store. The prices of the above articles, and peculiar goodness of the colours, are worthy of the attention of Dealers in that line.—Those who wish to supply themselves, will do well to apply without delay, as he intends making but a short stay here.—He has also a few barrels
STARCH & HAIR-POWDER, of the first quality. July 22. 5* 12
NOW LANDING, 90 Bags Prime Green COFFEE. For sale by Moses Myers. July 22. tf 14
FOR SALE, 200 Barrels lately inspected FLOUR, now a-float in the harbour. Francis Smith. July 22. 3 15

WETTENHALL'S GREEK GRAMMAR.
JUST PUBLISHED, AND FOR SALE AT WILLIAM P. FARRAND & CO'. Classical Book-Store, No. 185, Market-Street,
FARRAND'S EDITION OF WETTENHALL'S GREEK GRAMMAR.
An Edition literally translated into English, as far as Prosody; with a full variation of the examples of Adjectives; also, variations of a participle in each tense; with a table of Abbreviations explained.
The translator has been politely favoured with the following letters, which he offers as testimonials in favour of his Edition of WETTENHALL'S GRAMMAR.
DEAR SIR, You ask my opinion, whether it be better that a Greek Grammar, intended for the use of schools should be in Latin or in English; and I can give it the more readily, as my opinion is and ever has been what, I presume, you would, on this occasion wish it to be.
I think, that not only the Greek, but all other Grammars, which we have occasion to use in our schools, should be in English: because it is certainly desirable, that whatever is to be committed to memory should first be, if possible, perfectly understood; and because I am persuaded, that even the best of our scholars understand their native language better than any other.
If, in proposing to me this question, you have been influenced by any solicitude with respect to the demand which there may be for your translation of WETTENHALL, I am confident that it is wholly unnecessary, for, if I am not much mistaken, there will hereafter be little or no demand, in any part of the United States, for any other Wittenhall than that with which you are now about to furnish us.
I have looked over it as far as your Translation goes; and though I cannot say, that I find in it no inaccuracies, yet I can say truly, that there are but very few, and those of no great consequence; whilst, as to the quality of the paper, the size and neatness of the type, and the general correctness which every where prevails in it, it is far superior to any other edition of that work which has been hitherto published in this place.
MR. WM. P. FARRAND. SIR, The Professors in Dickinson College, who have carefully examined the first sheets of your English translation of WETTENHALL'S GREEK GRAMMAR, observe, with pleasure, that the work is executed in an accurate manner—the additional notes are highly useful, and the type is neat and elegant. It is their wish and hope, that your performance—a work that must have cost much pains and expense—may be duly estimated by the public, and that it may encourage and aid studious young men to acquire an accurate knowledge of one of the most admired and useful languages of antiquity.
On behalf of the Faculty, ROBERT DAVIDSON, President.
MR. WM. P. FARRAND. DEAR SIR, For almost a century, common sense has exhibited and rejected the absurdity of teaching the Roman tongue by the use of a grammar written only in the language it is intended to illustrate, and to which the pupil is a perfect stranger. As at the time you begin the study of Greek, their acquaintance with the Latin is very partial, the operation of the same principle is correcting the impropriety of teaching the elements of the Greek through the medium of that language. This is the more necessary, as in some grammars, particularly in Dr. WETTENHALL'S, the style has in it more of the refined elegance of the scholar than of the requisite simplicity of the teacher.
Contemplating the correctness of your translation, the useful notes you have added, and the general utility of the work, I cannot avoid expecting as well as hoping that in its extensive circulation you will find your deserved reward.
W. STAUGHTON. MR. WM. P. FARRAND. Philadelphia, October 25. 489
POLYGRAPHICK PAINTING.
THIS art, so long kept a secret and exclusively practised by the Polygraphick Society in London, is now in the possession of a citizen of the United States lately arrived from Europe; who proposes to execute, by subscription, two hundred copies from an original Allegorical Painting in the Shakespeare Gallery, New-York, by permission of the Proprietor: being
A PORTRAIT OF WASHINGTON, Supported by Liberty, Virtue, and Justice. Virtue is holding the emblem of the reward he merited. In the right of the piece, America, characterised as an Ab-original, is seated in a pensive posture, lamenting her loss. In the left is Painting turning to History, for a subject worthy of her art, who is supposed to answer,
"THERE IS NONE MORE WORTHY THAN WASHINGTON." The whole forming a more emblematical tribute to the memory of that great man, than has yet been offered to the public.
To those who esteem his publick services and his private worth, and to the Patrons of improvements in the fine arts, this work is dedicated. Such as are already furnished with different engravings on this subject, will, it is hoped, still find room for the present undertaking, when they consider, that it will be a Painting, and the design new, executed by a process, which renders it more durable than oil painting—that it requires no glass—that while their prints contain, perhaps a faint resemblance only, this work affords a correct likeness, with the addition of six beautiful allegoric figures. The price also is reduced so as to leave, on comparative merits, no objection.
Subscriptions, at Eight Dollars each, payable on delivery, (which is very little more than the price of an engraving of the same size) are received by Conrad & Co. Booksellers, Philadelphia, and Bonsal, Conrad & Co. Norfolk.
IT IS ALSO PROPOSED TO EXECUTE Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Washington, by the same process, on subscription, of Four dollars and fifty cents each. It is a principal aim of this work, to produce the most correct likenesses of this amiable couple.
* * The Artist presumes that the secret art of Polygraphick Painting is known only to himself, in the United States; having travelled from the Carolinas to Massachusetts, without finding a master of it. By this Art, original paintings may be multiplied, so as to render it difficult to point out the difference. The Polygraphick picture, of the two, when compared together, is the most brilliant, and the nature of the process cannot fail rendering it more durable. In fine, the whole is so exact and beautiful a copy, that the mind is lost in conjecture as to the method in which it is executed.
Philadelphia, June 4, 1805. 1aw 1N. 777
FOR SALE, Pursuant to the Will of William Samuel Peachy, deceased.
Peachy's Manufacturing Mills and Store-Houses. LYING in the County of Prince George, on Powell's Creek, a navigable stream of James River, and on the main stage road from Norfolk to Petersburg, with about six acres of Land belonging thereto. One third of the purchase money will be required at the end of eighteen months and three years credit will be given for the residue. The Gentleman at the Mills will be good enough to show them.—For terms apply to Mr. Robert Maitland of Norfolk, or to Thomas Griffin Peachy of Williamsburg.
ALSO FOR SALE, That beautiful Seat on James River (about four miles from the Mills) called FLOWER DE HUNDRED. The Tract of Land belonging to this Seat, contains 1800 acres extending nearly two miles on the banks of the river, (about half a day's sail from Norfolk, and five hours from Petersburg) considerable part of the Land is fit for the cultivation of Wheat and Tobacco; it has some valuable Low Ground, and a great deal of Meadow Land, from which in its natural state, great quantities of Hay may be made; the Land also abounds with good Timber:—The Houses, Garden, Orchards, and other improvements, are extensive and valuable.—As it is presumed that no person would purchase such an estate without first viewing it, a further description is thought needless.—Collier Harrison, Esq. of Charles City, who has viewed the Land and is well acquainted with its quality, will be good enough to show it.—A credit of 9, 13 and 16 years will be given for the latter part of the purchase money, and for the residue four annual payments will be required.—An indisputable title will be made.—The price may be known by application to Mr. Robert Maitland, or to Mary W. Peachy, and Thomas G. Peachy, of Williamsburg.
March 25. tf 523
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER,
82 Puncheons Windward Island RUM. 35 do. Jamaica do. 10 do. Old Jamaica do. 10 Pipes Holland GIN. 8 Pipes 4th proof Cognac, } BRANDY. 12 do. do. Alicante, } 17 Pipes, } FINE OLD SICILY WINE. 4 Half Pipes, } 2 Qr. Casks, } 4 Half do. } 15 Quarter Casks Sherry WINE. 30 Crates well assorted EARTHENWARE. 9 Casks do. GLASSWARE. 5 Cwt. Dry White LEAD. Half Ton STEEL. 4 Hogheads Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR. 1238 Barrels Superfine, } FLOUR. 489 do. Fine, } 50 Hogheads Petersburg, } TOBACCO. 50 do. Richmond, } 42 do. Lowland, }
A. Maclure. April 29. tf 653
NEW CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY,
ON TOWN POINT, A small distance below County Wharf, Wide Water Street.
THE Subscriber has, at a considerable expense, fitted up, in addition to his other business, a complete set of machinery, adequate to finish 500 to 600 lbs. of Nails daily. He is also provided with a good stock of Iron; and with a sufficient number of skillful workmen.
He has on hand a constant supply of Nails, Flooring Brads, and Sprigs, which he offers for Sale at the reduced prices as follows, by the keg, viz.
10d, 12d, 20d, Nails, 8d per lb. 8d, do. 9d per lb. Sheathing do. 7 1-2d per lb. 6d, do. 10d per lb. 4d, do. 3s per M. 3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. 8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d, Brads, 8d per lb. 6d, do. 4s 6d per M. 4d, do. 3s do. 3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. 2d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do.
ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. LEVIN DORSEY. March 18. tf 303
NOW LANDING
From on board the Brig Fame, from Havana, and Schooner Lydia, from Antigua, 170 Hogheads MOLASSES. 129 do. RUM.
For sale by William Pennock. May 27. tf 716
FOR SALE,
12 Puncheons ANTIGUA RUM. 15 do. GRENADA do. 5 Pipes HOLLAND GIN. 20 do. COUNTRY do. 12 do. FRENCH BRANDY. 2 do. ALICANTE do. 22 Qr. Casks SHERRY WINE. 10 do. MALAGA do. PORT and CLARET WINE, in casks & bottles. 6 Barrels PORK—and about 1000 Dozen PORTER, o my left winters flock, equal to any imported.
Joseph Hayes. August 24. tf
IRISH LINENS.
THE SUBSCRIBER Has received in addition to his London Goods, a large assortment of Irish Linens, Sheetings, Diapers, Dowlas, Hardware, &c. Per Ship Charleston, Captain Hall, from Liverpool, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms.
ALSO, 300 Pieces Twilled SACKING. Richard Taylor. May 31. tf 729
COW-POX.
THOSE persons who wish to avoid catching the Small-Pox which now exists in this Borough, are informed that the subscriber has again succeeded in introducing the Vaccine Infection, and that he now has several arms fit to inoculate from.
* * He has returned to his old shop at the lower end of the new market.
George Balfour. AN APPRENTICE wanted. Nov. 16. tf 326
NOTICE.
RAN AWAY from the Subscriber living in Edenton, his Mulatto Boy SAM—he is about twenty-one years of age, trim and well built, and large behind—he has two scars on the top of one of his feet, I think the right one—Whoever will take u said boy, shall receive TWENTY DOLLARS, be sides the expense of carrying him to Norfolk—I want him delivered to Mr. John Granbery, at that place.
Samuel Butler. Edenton, May 30. 6w 743
NOTICE.
THE subscriber owes some money, which he is determined shall be speedily paid; added to which his low state of health, calls loudly for his retirement from business. He therefore offers his stock of goods for sale, on the most liberal terms—This assortment has been selected from the best importations within the last twelve months; and amounts to about £3000. currency. As the situation occupied by him is not equalled by any other in the lower country, and as it can be obtained for a number of years, he hopes some of his friends will consider it to their advantage to purchase the goods, and take the stand—Nothing but the second reason assigned in this advertisement, would induce him to quit the stand—But owing to his health he must and will quit business, for one time at least. He has two small crafts, and be quantity of naval stores and lumber subject to his creditors.
JOHN K. RANDOLPH. N.B. Those indebted must make payment in sixty days or give their bonds. Nansemond, April 5. 1aw 568
NOTICE.
CONCERT-HALL, Boston, May, 1805.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs his Friends and the Publick, and those Gentlemen of the Southern States who may visit this part of the Continent, during the summer season, that the house known by the name of Concert-Hall, situate in a very central and pleasant part of the town, (corner of Court and Hanover Streets) has been fitted up at a very great expense with the genteel accomodations. Those Gentlemen who may wish for Boarding and Lodging, it is presumed cannot find a more eligible and convenient house, or a more grateful reception than from the present occupant of Concert-Hall, whose assiduity to serve them shall exceed the liberality of their patronage.
765 1aw 3m T. WHITCOMB.
MARTIN FISK,
EAS FOR SALE, 300 Sacks Fine Liverpool SALT. 30 Chests Hyson and Hyson Skin TEAS—of a very late importation, and of a superior quality. 10 Hogheads 5 years old Antigua RUM. Pennington's LOAF SUGAR, in Hds. and Bbls.
May 27. tf 712
ARISTOTLE.
Magna anima contentio adhibenda est in explicando Aristotele
CICERO, FRAG. PHIL.
Frequentandum ejus domum optimi juvenis et veram viam, velut ex oraculo petent. Hos ille formabat, ut vetus gubernator, litora et portus, et quid secundis flatibus quid adversis ratib poscat, docebit, et communi ductus officio et amore quodam operis. QUINTIL.
To proceed orderly in this (i: e: the study of politics) the foundation should be laid in inquiring into the ground and nature of civil society; how it is formed into different models of government; and what are the several species of it. Aristotle is allowed (to be) a master in this science; and few enter upon the consideration of government without reading his politics. LOCKE.
Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics afford not only afford the most perfect system of Scientific Morality, but exhibit also the powers of the most compact and best constructed system which the human intellect ever produced upon any subject.
DR. RENNELL.
PROPOSALS,
BY GEO. L. GRAY, OF NORFOLK, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF
Aristotle's Ethicks and Politicks; COMPRIISING HIS PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY.
Translated from the Greek; and illustrated by introductions and notes, a Critical History of his Life, and a new Analysis of his Speculative Works.
BY JOHN GILLIES, LL. D. &c. Historiographer to His Britannick Majesty for Scotland.
CONDITIONS.
The work shall be comprised in two large octavo volumes on a good paper, and a new type to be cast on purpose. The price to subscribers will be four dollars for each volume, in boards; payable on delivery of the work.
* * With the last volume shall be given a list of the subscribers; and no greater number will be printed than may be subscribed for.
** Persons who obtain ten subscribers, and render themselves accountable for the amount, shall be entitled to one copy gratis; and for any number above ten the customary commission. The usual deduction will be made to Booksellers who subscribe for ten, or a greater number of copies.
†† The work will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers to defray the expense shall have been obtained.
N. B. The price of the English Edition, in two volumes, is Eighteen Dollars, the subscriber to the present edition saves ten dollars of that sum; and the Editor engages that it shall rival or surpass the imported publication in elegance.
Any remarks upon the character of the STAGYRITE as a Philosopher and a Politician, or any praise of his writings on Ethicks and Government, might, on the part of the Editor and in this place, be regarded as an unprofitable supererrogation. He stands confessed and universally acknowledged, the greatest master of the Science of Politicks; and few modern writers on the subjects of which he treats, have passed him by without avowing their gratitude to him, and their admiration of his profound researches.
By the citizens of the United States, a people possessing more civil liberty than has ever before been enjoyed by any nation on earth, it is hoped that an author who is of all others most capable of instructing them in the nature and blessings of such a government as they have instituted, whose remarks result from a close examination of the theories of upwards two hundred commonwealths, will be received as a most welcome guest. To a people who, by the nature of their civil institutions, are individually liable to be called upon to regulate the affairs of the community, he will prove an useful companion and monitor. Too high an opinion cannot reasonably be entertained of a work which LOCKE declares to be necessary to every man who would understand the nature of politics; of a Philosopher to whom the learned GROTIUS assigns the most exalted rank, "whether estimated by the perspicuity of his method, the acuteness of his distinctions, or the weight and solidity of his arguments."
Of the translation little farther need be said, than that it is universally allowed to have been executed with fidelity, and certainly with much clearness and elegance. The learned author of the Pursuits of Literature, not otherwise much inclined to favour the Historian of Greece, says "I think we are much indebted to DOCTOR GILLIES for offering to the public an English translation of the two most important treatises on MORALITY and POLITICKS which antiquity can boast. No man can read these works without being wiser and better."
Reflecting upon the great utility of such a work to a people who make politics so much their study, the Editor deems it unnecessary to load these proposals with recommendatory quotations, from the vast crowd of civilians and philosophers who have voluntarily endeavoured to discharge the debt which every man to science owes to this universal teacher. It is under the hope of rendering a service to his fellow-citizens, independent of local motives, that he has undertaken the weighty task of republishing a work so important; and he hopes that his success will fully justify him for attempting, at this time, to give to the world a cheap, and he pledges himself that it shall be a correct, edition of these most useful of the labours of ARISTOTLE.
NORFOLK, Virginia, 1804.
MRS. RIVARDI'S ACADEMY.
REVEREND SIR,
YOU had the kindness to allow me, two years ago, to look upon you not only as one of the chief protectors of the establishment under my charge, but also did me the honour of becoming, in conjunction with Dr. B. Rush, J. B. McKean, R. Smith, and A. Morris, Esquires, one of the Trustees of my Seminary. This condescension has at all times rendered me extremely anxious to deserve your patronage; indeed I ascribe in a great measure the credit which the establishment I hope has generally obtained, to that circumstance. Few persons are yet informed of the favour so politely conferred on me, as the greater number of my pupils are from abroad—On several occasions you had the goodness to express the satisfaction which you, and all those who have honoured our school-rooms with their visits, derived from the improvements of the young Ladies, as well as from the manner in which the Seminary is conducted.
I have never taken the liberty of publishing your letters of approbation,—Would you and the other gentlemen permit me to make it known, that I am authorised to consider you as Trustees of the Institution, I should not only esteem it a distinguished mark of your approbation, but a certain mean of assuring the full confidence of those Parents and Guardians who have intrusted their children to my care.
With great respect,
I have the honour to be, Reverend Sir, Your very humble and obedient servant, MARIA RIVARDI.
The Right Reverend Doctor WHITE.
April , 1805.
MADAM, THE high opinion we entertain of your qualifications for the arduous and diversified duties of the institution under your direction, and the evidences which have been presented to us, at examinations, of the improvement of the Young Ladies, who possess the advantage of being your pupils; induce us to comply with your request, by the present testimony of our approbation of your Seminary, and to express our wishes for the success of an institution so useful to our city, and so honourable to you.
We are, Madam, your very humble servants, WILLIAM WHITE, BENJAMIN RUSH, J. B. M'KEAN, ROBERT SMITH, ANTHONY MORRIS,
Mr. RIVARDI. Philadelphia, April 24. 1aw 6w 609
GILLIAT & MACKINDER,
Have received their assortment of
SPRING GOODS,
By the ship DUMFRIES, from London.—Assorted Packages for exportation, entitled to drawback. April 24. 622
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE FOR SALE,
ON THEIR WHARF,
70,000 Weight Prime Jamaica, } COFFEE. 40,030 do. Porto Rico, } 5,900 do. St. Domingo, } 10 Puncheons Windward Island RUM. 50 Quarter Casks Old SHERRY. 50 Hogheads Prime Richmond TOBACCO. 500 Barrels FLOUR—Principally Superfine. 100 do. MESS PORK. 100 Boxes First Quality RAISINS.
All of which they will dispose of on liberal terms. C. & F. Whittle. June 4. tf 736
TO BE LET OR LEASED,
BY PRIVATE CONTRACT,
For such number of years as may be agreed upon,
That very advantageous Building Lot, on the South side of Main-Street, adjoining the Lands of Stephen Wright, Esq. extending 40 feet in front, and about 110 feet deep.—Also,
TO RENT,
TWO COMMODOUS
THREE STORY BRICK TENEMENTS
on Little Water Street, conveniently situated for Grocery Stores. For particulars apply to Francis Smith. June 11. tf 758
NOTICE.
ALL persons having claims against the Estate of the late William Atkinson, Esq. are desired to send them to the subscriber, and those indebted are requested to make payment to
Mary Auchison, Administratrix. June 29. tf 783
NORFOLK HOTEL.
THE Subscriber informs his friends and the publick, that he has opened an HOTEL in that convenient house formerly the NAVY TAVERN No. 123 Main-Street, where he hopes by his attention, to give satisfaction to those who may favour him with their company.
He will always keep the best liquors; and Private Parties will be furnished with Dinners, Suppers, or Relishes, at the shortest notice.
BOARDERS accommodated by the week, month, or year Henry Benbridge. October 9. tf 170
THE Subscriber intends applying at the Bank of Virginia, for Certificates of One Hundred and Fifty-Nine Shares of Stock, in one of the Fifty-Seven Shares in the name of Benjamin Harrison, Esq.—The Scrip of the before-mentioned is lost, if found, it is requested it may be returned, it being of no use but to the proprietors.
Fortescue Whittle. June 4. tf 738
WILL BE LANDED
Tomorrow Morning on Gibson's Wharf, 35 Puncheons of Antigua RUM, 15 do. Old RUM, and sold cheap for cash or approved paper at 60 days, if taken away before it is put in store.
Robert Gibson. May 10. tf 674
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from our Cooperage, a Negro Man named HAT, by some called HENRY. He is about 25 years old, about 5 feet 5 inches high, his face inclining to the colour of a mulatto, short thick neck, hoarse voice, walks straight, and is upon the whole a likely and well-made Negro. He wore when he went off a striped cloth jacket and trowsers, but carried with him a variety of other clothing.—He is fond of dress; and is very artful. He can read, and is by trade a Cooper. He formerly belonged to Mr. Theodore Morrison, of Prince George County, from whom he ran away, and was taken up in Norfolk, about six years ago; at which time we purchased him. He went off last night without the slightest provocation.
We will give a reward of 25 dollars to the person who may apprehend him in Norfolk, and secure him so that we may get him again—If taken out of the county, and delivered to us, we will give 50 dollars reward; if taken out of the state, and returned to us, we will give the above reward of 100 dollars; and 50 dollars additional for such discovery of the person or persons who assisted his escape, as may lead to his or their conviction.
McPherson & McPhail. Norfolk, Virginia, May 7. tf 657
MARTIN FISK,
Has this day landed from the Ship Glory, from Liverpool, AN ELEGANT ASSORTMENT OF
CUT GLASS,
For family use—such as Decanters, Wine Glasses, & Tumblers. July 5. tf 795
SUGAR, COFFEE, AND RUM.
THIS DAY WILL BE LANDED,
From on board the Schooner Father & Sons, John Hipkins, Master, from Guadalupa, and Antigua, 40,000 lbs. Good Muscovado SUGAR. 12,000 lbs. Green COFFEE. 125