Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1805-07-17 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.
VOL. II.]
WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 17, 1805.
[NO. 1.
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 PORT GLASGOW, The fast-sailing British a med Ship LADY NELSON, Robert M'Allister, Master, expected to sail by the 1st August, 73 hds. tobacco, and some cotton will be received on freight, if immediate application is made to Robt Maitland & Co. Has excellent accommodations for passengers. Apply to the Master on board. July 10. 3w 811
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. June 6. tf William Pennock. 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 application will be given. Apply to Robert Maitland & Co. July 8. 3w 802
FOR CHARTER, The good Ship TICONIC, Burthen about 310 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. WHO HAS ON BOARD SAID SHIP, 3000 Bushels Coarse SALT. July 8. tf 799
FOR SALE, FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The American Ship ELIZA, Joseph Bunting, Master:— Burthen 176 tons, or 230 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 18 months old, and well found in every respect. For freight or passage, apply to Freedland & Gillies, in Petersburg, or to N. Heron. July 8. tf 805
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
TOMORROW, WILL BE LANDED, On Gibson's Wharf, from the Schooner Bar. George Poulton, Master, from Tenerife. 73 Pines, 42 Hhds. 24 Qr Casks, 3 Pipes VINEGAR. 43 Barrels Fresh WALNUTS. 3 do. ALMONDS. For sale on very moderate terms. Apply to Edward Roberts.
THE SAIL SCHOONER, is offered for sale, or charter—burthen 73 tons, a staunch vessel. Apply as above. July 8. 2w 810
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. 1m 786
For Freight or Charter, The fine new American Ship MECHANICK, V. Bagley, Master, burthen 250 tons, or about 350 hds. tobacco, now ready for the reception of a cargo. ALSO, The fine new Brig MERRIMACK, Batchelor, 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 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 McBride, 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—30 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
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
LANDING THIS DAY, ON NEWTON'S WHARF, The Cargo of the Schooner DIANA, Baufier, Master, from St. Bartholomew, 23 Hogsheads, 22 Barrels, 9 Hogsheads RUM. 5 Pipes TENERIFFE WINE. And a parcel Manufactured IRON WARE. Moses Myers. July 12. tf 818
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. 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
LANDING From on board the Schooner JOHN, from Guadalupe—and 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.
PART THE FIFTH. Translated from the MS. of J. H. de Croissail, By L. H. GIRARDIN, Professor of Modern Languages, &c. &c. in William and Mary College. July 12. tf 816
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 12-4 Table Cloths; 9-8 and 6-4 Plain, Book, Cambric, and Jacquet Muslins; Coloured and Embossed Cambric Muslins; 4-4 and 6-4 Elegant Laced Cambric and Leno Muslins; Leno and Laced Shawls; Ladies Silk-Netted Parasols and Cane Umbrellas; 6-4 Tamboured and Satin-Sprigged Muslins; Checked Pullicat and Blue Romau Handkerchiefs; Madras do; Plain, Drabs, and Twilled-Stripe Naukeens; Cotton Cassimeres; Grandereis do; Sewing Silk; Mens' Best Beaver Gloves; Cotton and Silk Suspenders; Net and Elastic do; Gilt Pins; lb. Pins assorted; and Gentlemen's Best London Hats. ALSO—JUST RECEIVED, VIA NEW-YORK. 4-4, 6-4, and 7-4 Plain and Damasked Silk Handkerchiefs and Shawls, with netted Fringes; Long Silk Shawls, do. do.; Chambray Muslins; Common and Fine Calicoes, and Plaid Chintz; Figured Blue Silk; Black Striped Satin; India and French Back and Coloured Lustings; Handsome Italian Plaid; Extra 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 Tassels; Cotton Trimming; Black, Blue, Pink, White, and Yellow Crape; Linen Cambric; Long Lawns; Pink, Blue, and Buff Cambric-Muslins; Ladies Black Morocco and Coloured Kid Slippers; Apron Checks; 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 Osnaburghs, and Ticklenburgs; 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, 100 Crates well assorted EARTHENWARE. 12 Casks do. GLASSWARE. Just received by the ship Charleston, from Liverpool. A. Maclure. May 31. tf 732
REMOVAL. THE SUBSCRIBERS Have removed from MAIN-STREET, to their NEW FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE, in MARKET-SQUARE. Gilliat & Mackinder. April 3. tf 555
250 Barrels Superfine, 250 do. Fine, 100 do. X Midlings, 150 do. do. } FLOUR. 50 do. Ship, 90 do. Navy, } BREAD. 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 NANKEEN. 10 Boxes Imperial, do. TEA. 10 Chests Young Hyson, do. } ENTITLED TO DRAWBACK. 12 do. Hyson, do. } ALSO ON HAND, 30000 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. tf 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 QUEENSWARE, well assorted. May 29. tf 723
WANTED, Two Hundred Cords 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 Alicante, and for sale by the Subscriber, 200 Hogsheads Choice RED WINE, 3,500 Bushels SALT. Moses Myers. July 8. tf 800
112 Puncheons high proof Grenada RUM, Landing this day on our wharf, from on board the Schooner Thomas. C. & F. Whittle. July 8. tf 808
State of North-Carolina, } Superior Court of Law and Equity—April Term, 1805. Edenton District, } Complainant. WILLS COWPER, vs. Thomas Newton, Richard Blow, Wm. Vaughan, Slaughter, as the President and Directors or the Disrael Swamp Canal Company, and William Davies, William Plumbe, and Theodoric Armistead, Defendants. In Equity.
The Defendants in the above cause having failed to appear and put in their answer to the Complainants 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 Theodoric 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 813
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 2500l. 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 a 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. law 568
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 Powells 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 to 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. —A Tract of Land belonging to this Seat, contains 1300 acres extending nearly two miles on the banks of the river, (about half a days 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 need less.—Collier Harrison, Esq. of Charles City, who has viewed the Land and is well acquainted with its quality, will be good enough to shew it.—A credit of 9, 13 and 16 years will be given for the greater 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
ARISTOTLE.
Magna anima contentio adhibenda est in explicando Aristotele Cicero, Frag. Prol. Frequentabant ejus domum optimi juvenes et verum viam, velut ex oraculo petent. Hos ille formabat, ut verus gubernator, litora et portus, et quid secundis flatibus quid adversis natis noscat, docebit, et communi ductus officio et amore quodam operis. QUINTEL. 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 ages 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 complete 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 Ethics and Politicks; COMPRISING 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 excellence.
Any remarks upon the character of the STAGYRITE as a Philosopher and a Politician, or any praise of his writings on Ethics and Government, might, on the part of the Editor and in this place, be regarded as an unprofitable supererogation. He stands confessed and universally acknowledged, the greatest master of the Science of Politics; 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 accuracy 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.
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, situated 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 gentlest accommodations. 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 law3m T. WHITCOMB.
Avis aux Francais. LE SOUS-COMMISSAIRE des relations Commerciales de France, à la résidence de Norfolk en Virginie, informe les Citoyens Français, que ceux d'entre eux qui auront de demandes à faire, doivent s'adresser aux Commissaires: & que, dorénavant, les demandes adressées directement au Ministre de France près les Etats Unis, resteront sans réponse. OSTER. June 15. law3 764
TO RENT. THE Store, Cellar, and Counting Room, No. 41, Main Street, at present occupied by Messrs. GILLIAT & MACKINDER. Apply to Thomas Willock. April 1. tf 548

This day the PUBLICK LEDGER enters upon its second year. It becomes the grateful duty of the proprietors to acknowledge that the reception it has met with has been such as they cannot but be flattered by. While they have endeavoured, with a conscientious regard to what they consider right in politics, to discharge, diligently and carefully, the duties which they imposed upon themselves, they have seen their labours rewarded, not only by the approbation of their political friends but by the opposition and detraction of their political enemies. Supported by the former, but still more secure from the solid basis upon which their opinions are erected, the open and insidious endeavours of the latter have proved equally abortive. It affords the Editors no small degree of satisfaction to reflect, that the Publick Ledger has excited both the fears and the resentments of those who are the avowed enemies to the political institutions of our country; of those philosophists whose delight is innovation; whose object is the overthrow of all regular establishments, civil and religious—in short, they perceive with pleasure that it is held in abhorrence by the Democrat, the Jacobin, the Deist, and the Atheist. It has merited this fate, not by the talents employed upon it, but on account of the purposes to which these talents have been devoted. Firmly attached to the constitution of the United States, and reverencing that Religion which the beneficence of the Almighty has revealed to us, they have been, as often as they have had occasion, the zealous, though weak and humble, advocates of both; the open and unyielding opponents of those by whom they are opposed. Yet are not the friends of the Ledger only to be found among the federal party; to a very considerable number of respectable and intelligent Republicans, in and out of Norfolk, it is indebted for patronage; and to those in particular would the proprietors wish to make the expression of their gratitude acceptable. Difference of Political opinion has not had such influence over their minds, as to make them unite with those mistaken zealots, who, while toleration is their unceasing theme, would punish every deviation from their standard, as a crime of the most heinous character; and who have sought, by almost every species of abuse and denunciation, to silence the Ledger, or to withdraw from it the publick suffrage. But while the Editors laugh with contempt at the fruitless efforts used to injure or to intimidate them, they can appeal to their consciences for the correctness of their intentions in what they have from time to time written: they have, however, no reluctance to apply to a less partial judge, which they hope to find in the breasts of their readers, and their witnesses shall be the impression those writings may have made upon the minds of the candid, and liberal portion of the community. Believing that this impression has been as favourable as they ought to expect, they shall make their past the example for their future conduct.
The acknowledgments of the proprietors are not, however, to be made for favours of approbation only: a more substantial good claims their warmest return of thanks. They began their publication with a comparatively small support; and, indeed, without any hopes of remunerating their expenses for the current year: they now see their subscription list very nearly double what it then was, its increase has been gradual, and, therefore, the more gratifying, as they are thence led to suppose that it proceeded from the satisfaction afforded by their publication. But their thanks are chiefly due to their Mercantile friends, whose liberal patronage enables them to say, what has seldom been said by so young an establishment, that before it was six months old it was equal to its own maintenance, and that, from this source principally, its strength has been increasing daily. They hope and believe that their endeavours to render themselves useful, have not been unnoticed. Whatever may have been the success of those endeavours, they have been constant and sincere. They can only promise for the future that their exertions shall not be relaxed: to their friends in particular, and to the commercial interest of their country in general, they owe a high duty, and they will unremittingly endeavour to discharge it, in a manner corresponding to the expectation of others, and to their own interest. They hope they may now look upon their paper as firmly fixed. But this, instead of making them indolent, will stimulate them to greater industry and perseverance: and they begin the second year with the cheering prospect of going through it as much to the satisfaction of their friends as the first, and even more to their own advantage.
Toasts.—We have received the request of A. B. to republish certain Toasts given at a late celebration of the fourth of July. It may not, perhaps, have escaped the notice of all our readers, that, since the establishment of the Ledger, to this day, we have abstained from the publication of toasts given upon any publick occasion. A conduct so different from that pursued by the generality of our editorial brethren, may subject us to the imputation of affecting singularity; to avoid which, we shall offer some of the reasons which influence our conduct in this particular.—The publication of toasts are made from one of two motives, a belief that they are the expression of publick opinion, or from the taste and elegance of sentiment which they contain. Now, so far are we from believing that toasts are an expression of publick opinion, that we know they seldom meet the approbation of the company in which they are given. That business is managed in such a way, that two or three of the most forward will dictate to an hundred. Each individual concludes that, whatever may be his opinion, it is not prudent in him to oppose what
he imagines has met the approbation of a majority; so true it is that the smallest numbers acting in concert are an overmatch for large numbers unprepared to meet measures which have been matured by previous deliberation.
Upon the other motive for publication, we do declare as our opinion, that the most inveterate enemy of our country, could not expose it more effectually, than by selecting and publishing a collection of toasts given at many of our publick festivals. For the truth of this, let any reader of taste take up any set of toasts, and then say if even the best of them are not in general unworthy of notice. As for those which are the effusions of national antipathy, and political intolerance, they merit the contempt and indignation of every liberal man.—Upon the whole, thinking that we cannot promote the publick good, but might be the instruments of imposition, by giving for publick opinion, the intemperate effusions of the zealots of party, and believing that we should too frequently expose the taste and genius of our country, we have taken a ground upon this occasion, from which we shall not recede, until the reasons which induced us to take it shall cease to exist.
Our correspondent A. B. will know that political considerations do not prevent a compliance with his request.
Being on the subject of toasts, we cannot forbear to observe the progress of innovation in this custom. Heretofore it has been understood that a toast was to drink the health, or, in other words, was a pledge of security and well-being; and thus, by plain deduction, to toast is to express our good wishes. But our wise democrats, having beat the round of compliment to themselves and their principles, have made toasts the means of abuse. It cannot escape attention that Mr. Adams has been introduced at several publick festivals, for the purpose of reviling his publick character. Great-Britain has been toasted with a view to abuse the government and character of that nation. The propriety and policy of such conduct may be explained by those who adopted it: for our parts we consider it as unworthy of that liberality of which we are everlastingly boasting.
In the Ledger of Friday, some observations were made on the decree of the Judge of the Court of Vice-Admiralty of New-Providence, in the case of an American vessel sent into that Island for adjudication. The remarks submitted were intended to shew that the Judge did not pronounce the law as settled by the Court in England. The opinion which we offered, was drawn from an unquestionable source, but as all our readers may not have access to the same source, we now present an extract from a compendium of the rules of law relative to colonial intercourse in an appendix to the fourth volume of Robinson's Reports.
It is impossible, in our judgment, for any man to mistake the law, hence we are driven to a conclusion, that this decree, had its origin in something worse than error.
Soon after the commencement of the late war (a), the first set of instructions that issued, were framed, not on the exception of the American war, but on the antecedent practice, and directed cruisers "to bring in for lawful adjudication, all vessels laden with goods, the produce of any colony of France, or carrying provisions of supplies for the use of any such colony." The relaxations that have since been adopted, have originated chiefly in the change that has taken place, in the trade of that part of the world, since the establishment of an independent government on the continent of America. In consequence of that event, American vessels had been admitted to trade in some articles, and on certain conditions, with the colonies both of this country and of France. Such a permission had become a part of the general commercial arrangements, as the ordinary state of their trade in time of peace. The commerce of America was therefore abridged by the foregoing instructions, and debarred of the right generally ascribed to neutral trade in time of war, that it may be continued, with particular exceptions, on the basis of its ordinary establishment. In consequence of representations made by the American government to this effect, new instructions to our cruisers were issued, 8th January, 1794, apparently designed to exempt American ships, trading between their own country, and the colonies of France. The directions were, "to bring in all vessels laden with goods, the produce of the French West India islands, and coming directly from any port of the said islands to any port in Europe."
In consequence of this relaxation of the general principle in favour of American vessels; a similar liberty of resorting to the colonial market for the supply of their own consumption, was conceded to the neutral states of Europe. To this effect, a third set of publick instructions issued 25th January, 1798, which recite, as the special cause of farther alteration, "the present state of the commerce of this country, as well as that of neutral countries," and direct cruisers "to bring in all vessels coming with cargoes, the produce of any island or settlement of France, Spain, or Holland, and coming directly from any port of the said islands or settlements, to any port of Europe, not being a port of this kingdom, nor a port of the country to which such ships, being neutral ships (b), belonged."
(a). November 6, 1793. (b). The port of the country of the vessel is here only mentioned. The court of admiralty has, however, allowed the benefit of the same rule, to cases of a neutral vessel of one country, going from an enemy's colony to the port of the owner of the cargo, being also a neutral port. Rosalie and Betty , in 2 Adm. Rep. p. 343, and other cases.
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FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. Friday, February 22.
HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT. THE UNITED STATES vs SAMUEL CHASE. SPEECH OF CHARLES LEE, ESQUIRE.
May it please this Hon. Court— WE are now arrived, Mr. President, in the course of the defence, to the first article of impeachment. I have, sir, been led to believe, that the present prosecution is brought before this hon. court as a court of criminal jurisdiction, and that this high court is bound by the same rules of evidence, the same legal ideas of crime, and the same principles of decision which are observed in the ordinary tribunals of criminal jurisdiction. The articles themselves seem to have been drawn in conformity to this opinion, for they all, except the fifth, charge in express terms some criminal intention upon the respondent. This doctrine relative to impeachment is laid down in 4 Black. 259, and in 2 Woodeson, 611. "As to the trial itself it must of course vary in external ceremony, but differs not in essentials from criminal prosecutions before inferior courts. The same rules of evidence, the same legal notions of crimes and punishments prevail. For impeachments are not framed to alter the law, but to carry it into more effectual execution, where it might be obstructed by the influence of too powerful delinquents, or not easily discerned in the ordinary course of jurisdiction, by reason of the peculiar quality of the alleged crimes. The judgment, therefore, is to be such as is warranted by legal principles and precedents." The constitution of the United States appears to consider the subject in the same light. By the third section of the third article, "the trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury," and by the fourth section of the second article, the nature and extent of the punishment in cases of impeachment is defined. Hence it may be inferred that a person is impeachable only for some criminal offence. With this view, I have examined and re-examined the fifth article of impeachment, to know against what the defence should be made. Looking at it with a legal eye, I find no offence charged to have been committed, and although it may seem strange, it is not the less true, this circumstance has produced the greatest difficulty and embarrassment in what manner the defence should be made. That this hon. court may perceive that I have not misapprehended the article, I will pray leave to read it. "And whereas it is provided by the act of congress, passed on the twenty fourth day of September, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-nine, intitled "An act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," and that for any crime or offence against the United States, the offender may be arrested, imprisoned, or bailed, agreeably to the usual mode of process in the state where such offender may be found; and whereas it is provided by the laws of Virginia, that upon presentment by any grand jury of an offence not capital, the court shall order the clerk to issue a summons against the person or persons offending, to appear and answer such presentment at the next court; yet the said Samuel Chase did at the court aforesaid, award a capias against the body of the said James T. Callender, indicted for an offence not capital, whereupon the said Callender was arrested and committed to close custody, contrary to law in that case made and provided."
This article charges no evil intention, no offence, no crime, yet the respondent is required to make a defence, and is to address his defence to this court as one of criminal jurisdiction.
I do not mean to produce authorities to this high and learned tribunal, to shew that a judge cannot be impeached for a mere error of judgment in any instance of his judicial conduct. I wish for none better than those produced by one of the hon. managers of the prosecution (Mr. Clark) to prove this position 2 Bacon, 97, and Jacob's law dictionary, title Judges. The eloquent advocate just sat down, (Mr. Key) has fully established the same doctrine. If then this be admitted, where or what is the crime charged in the fifth article. The whole charge is, that, by authority of the judge, a process called a capias was awarded against Callender, when that process ought to have been a summons. It is not alleged that the capias was awarded by any corrupt or evil intention of any kind. If then the article contains no charge of a crime, there must be an acquittal. Upon this point, I hope I may be permitted to remind the court of an observation of another of the hon. managers, who opened the comments upon the evidence for the prosecution (Mr. Early.) He stated, and he stated truly, as a general rule of jurisdiction, that if there be no evil intention set forth in the charge and proved, the party accused must be acquitted. With these remarks, if this was an ordinary case before an ordinary tribunal, I might dismiss this part of the accusation, and it may seem scarcely proper to occupy the precious time of this hon. court, so near the close of its session, in defending the respondent any further against such a charge, but I feel too much respect for the house of representatives who have preferred this article, and the hon. managers who support it, not to give it a fuller investigation.
The article may perhaps be understood to produce an important inquiry: the inquiry how far the power of impeachment possessed by the house of representatives shall extend. Although the constitution declares that "the house of representatives shall have the sole power of impeachment," yet I trust there is some limit to this power, and that a judge cannot be impeached for a mere legal error in his judicial conduct, when no crime is imputed to him. An impeachment is an accusation of a most serious nature, and the people of the United States have not vested the power of impeachment exclusively in the house of representatives in congress, they have established tribunals who are to possess the power of impeachment. I hold in my hand a little book which contains the most valuable matter; it contains the constitutions of the several states; by referring to them we find that in almost every instance, that a power of impeachment may be exercised under the state authority. When, therefore, the doctrine of impeachment is about to be fixed in regard to the limits of the power of impeachment by a judgment of this high and honourable court, a judgment is about to be given that will be a precedent for the tribunals of the several states. An example is about to be set to the tribunals of the several states, that will influence and direct their decisions in the construction of their constitutions relative to the power of impeachment. The words used in some of these instruments are the same with the words in the constitution of the United States upon this subject.
Is there not some limit to the power of impeachment, a power which we find can be exercised by so many authorities in this country? If there be a limit, what better limit can be set, than that of high crime and misdemeanour in office, as appears by the constitution to have been intended.
Let us now examine whether judge Chase, in issuing a capias against Callender after he had been presented for an offence not capital, has been guilty of a high crime or high misdemeanour in office. Surely the managers should have pointed to the proofs, if any there were, of a corrupt and evil intent with which this act was done. I have already referred to
those parts of the constitution which shew that no impeachment can be maintained but for a crime. If the court will turn their attention to the article now under consideration, they will perceive that no crime is charged in express terms, and therefore the accused ought not to be held to answer it; but an idea has been suggested by the honourable managers, that as the article charges an unlawful act to have been done, a criminal intention must be presumed, unless the respondent shews it to have been innocent. This principle, however true it may be in some cases, is not applicable to the present case. If the act charged be malum in se , the rule of law may be as has been stated, but if the act be malum prohibitum , the rule is otherwise.
In order that the honourable court may not have the least difficulty on this subject, I will undertake to shew that the learned judge acted, in this instance, strictly according to law, and if this be shewn, there will remain no foundation for the present charge.
It is well established as a general rule of jurisdiction, that a court which has jurisdiction over an offence, may award process concerning it, and compel the party to appear. This may be seen in 2 Hawk. p. 13, sec. 15, 16. The cognizance of offences against the statutes of Congress is vested in the circuit courts of the United States, 1 vol. laws of the United States, p. 55. From the principle just stated, the circuit court acquired the power of awarding process to compel such offenders to appear in that court when they became vested with a power to try the offence. A presentment or indictment of a grand jury is sufficient evidence to authorize the court to award process against the offender. This is not only the evidence upon which a court usually proceeds, but it is recognized in the fifth article of the amendments to the constitution. We find there a restriction upon the power of the courts; "no person shall be held to answer for a capital or other infamous crime, unless by a presentment or indictment of a grand jury," &c. which restriction carries the implication, that by a presentment or indictment, the party shall be held to answer. If an offender may be held to answer to an accusation in this form, it follows as a matter of course, that the court is bound to award process to compel him to answer.
I know no process by which a person can be apprehended except by a capias. In the present trial we have heard of a bench warrant, but that too is a capias awarded by a judge sitting in court. In all cases of misdemeanours where the punishment is by imprisonment or fine, a capias is proper process, according to the practice of the king's bench in England. For this I refer the court to a passage read at another day from Gilbert's treatise upon the origin of the king's bench, page 308. So also the doctrine is laid by judge Blackstone, in regard to those cases where it is not intended to proceed to outlawry, 4 Black. Com. 319.
A capias, therefore, in the case of Callender, was the proper process, according to common law principles, and the English authorities of modern date. In reason and common sense, a capias is the proper process where the offence is punishable by imprisonment, and we all know that Callender was charged with an offence punishable by fine and imprisonment. In such a case, a summons would be a notification to the offender to abscond or remove himself out of the reach of the court.
If any doubt can yet remain as to the propriety of issuing the capias, it will be entirely removed by attending to the laws of the United States. The 14th sec. of the "act to establish the judicial courts of the United States," gives power to the circuit courts to issue all writs necessary for the exercise of their jurisdiction, and agreeably to the principles and usage of law, and the 11th sec. of the same act gives exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States to the circuit courts, except otherwise directed by that or some other statute. The court which awards the writ, is to decide what process is necessary for the exercise of its jurisdiction, and agreeably to the principles and usage of law in each particular case.
The 33d sect. of the same statute contains a great deal of important matter in regard to the present inquiry.—"That for any crime or offence against the United States, the offender may, by any justice or judge of the United States, or by any justice of the peace, or other magistrate of any of the United States where he may be found, agreeably to the usual mode of process against offenders in such state, and at the expense of the United States, be arrested, and imprisoned or bailed, as the case may be, for trial before such court of the United States, as by this act has cognizance of the offence: And copies of the process shall be returned as speedily as may be, into the clerk's office of such court together with the recognizances the magistrate, before whom the examination shall be, may require on pain of imprisonment. And if such commitment of the offender, or that witnesses shall be in a district other than that in which the offence is to be tried, it shall be the duty of the judge of that district where the delinquent is imprisoned, seasonably to issue, and of the marshal of the same district to execute a warrant for the removal of the offender, and the witnesses or either of them, as the case may be, to the district in which the trial is to be had. And upon all arrests in criminal cases, bail shall be admitted except where the punishment may be death, in which cases it shall not be admitted but by the supreme or circuit court, or by a justice of the supreme court, or a judge of the district court, who shall exercise their discretion therein, regarding the nature and circumstances of the offence, and of the evidence and the usages of law. And if a person committed by a justice of the supreme court, or a judge of a district court for an offence not punishable with death, shall afterwards procure bail, and there be no judge of the United States, in the district to take the same, it may be taken by any judge of the supreme or superior court of law of such state."
Here it is expressly authorized that a judge of the circuit court may order a process for the arrest of the accused for any crime or offence against the United States, agreeably to the usual mode of process of arrest against offenders in the state where the court is holden, and the offence committed. A summons is not a process of arrest. I call upon the learned managers to point out any other process by which a person can be arrested, even in Virginia, except by a capias. In England, in Virginia, in Maryland, in every state, the process of arrest is by a capias.
There is another statute of congress on the subject of process, which passed on the second of March, 1793. It contains eight sections, relates as well to criminal as civil matters. The seventh section is in the words following, "that it shall be lawful for the several courts of the United States, from time to time, as occasion may require, to make rules and orders for their respective courts, directing the returning of writs and processes, the filing of declarations and other pleadings, the taking of rules, the entering up judgment by default, and other matters in the vacation, and otherwise in a manner not repugnant to the laws of the United States, to regulate the practice of the said courts respectively, as shall be fit and necessary for the advancement of justice, and especially to that end to prevent delays in proceedings."
I know not what language can convey a more complete power to the court over its process, than is given by the passages from the statutes which have been cited. An uniform rule in the courts of the U. States is very desirable that offenders and criminals may be brought to trial by the like forms in every state, for violations of the statutes of congress. To allow one kind of process in Virginia, and a different

one in Maryland, for the same offence, would be an heterogeneous and unequal mode of administering justice. A construction ought not to be given to the statutes of congress, which admits of such a system if it may possibly be avoided. Shall it be said that in one state a man who publishes a libel shall be arrested immediately and brought to trial and punished, while in another state another person who has committed the same offence, shall be served with a process that shall be notice to him to make his escape;—and shall it be said that such a rule shall be applied applied to cases where imprisonment is part of the punishment? It has been in proof, that in Maryland it is usual to arrest by capias in cases of misdemeanour, and to try the traverser, at the same term at which he appears. Are the courts of the United States, if sitting on one side of the Potomac, to be governed by one rule; and, if sitting on another side of the same river, to be governed by another rule; in cases of crime or offence against the laws and constitution of the United States? It can never have been the intention of congress, that any such variety of proceeding should be allowed in practice, or that the process should be any where a summons, in cases of offences which were to be punished by imprisonment.
This can be further illustrated by attention to the laws of congress inflicting punishment upon certain crimes passed in the year 1790; for perjury, for bribery, for obstructing by force the service of legal process, for importing slaves from foreign parts, for violence to an ambassador, and for other offences relative to ambassadors, the punishment is fine and imprisonment. See 1st vol. laws of U. States, page 111. The process in all these cases is to be the same; if a capias is proper in one it is proper in all, or if a summons is necessary in one, it is necessary in all.
Suppose in regard to an ambassador who has applied to our secretary of state for the punishment of an individual, who may have done violence to his person or to one of his family, that a summons shall have been issued to the offender who should abscond or remove himself. It would be deemed very strange, perhaps incredible, by the ambassador, if he should be told by one secretary of state, that the offence being committed in Virginia, it was necessary to summon the party to appear before the court, and instead of obeying the summons he had removed himself entirely, but if the same matter had been prosecuted in Maryland, the offender might have been instantly arrested and punished; the President of the United States regretted that the offender had escaped with impunity, but the escape was according to law. Would not such an explanation be apt to be conceived an affront to the understanding of the ambassador.
On a former occasion I read a rule of the supreme court, made in August 1792, by which the judges declared, "that they considered the practice of the courts of king's bench in England, as affording outlines for the practice of this court, and that they will from time to time make such alterations therein as circumstances may render necessary;" and on the same occasion reference was had to the practice of the king's bench, to shew that a capias was a proper and usual process. But it is neither necessary nor correct to admit that the rule of the king's bench in England is absolutely a rule for the circuit courts of U. States. It furnishes a good outline of practice. The true position is that neither the king's bench nor the state laws furnish rules to the federal courts in regard to process, which are positively binding on them, but these courts are to establish their own rules under the direction and controul of the statutes of the United States.
It is a known and undisputed maxim, that the criminal code of each sovereign state furnishes the rule in prosecutions in the state courts, and it is confined to offences against such state. An offence against the commonwealth of Virginia, is not an offence against the United States; and therefore the laws of Virginia which regard offences against itself, will have no effect touching offences against the United States, unless congress by their express statute has given to them some effect. The laws of Virginia and of every state, have declared how an offence against such state respectively shall be prosecuted, but they are not to be applied to the circuit court of the United States, sitting in such state, and holding cognizance of crimes against the United States. In confirmation of this doctrine, suffer me to avail myself of the opinions of some very distinguished characters in the Virginia convention which adopted the constitution. An eminent judge who presided in the highest court of that state for a long space of time, I mean judge Pendleton, laid it down as too clear to be disputed that the powers of the federal judiciary should be co-extensive with the powers of the federal legislature. In this opinion Mr. Geo. Mason coincided with that gentleman, although he was opposed to him in almost every other. Of the same opinion was another distinguished member of the convention, who now holds the high office of secretary of state. (3d. vol. Virginia debates, pages 108, 121, 190.)
Unless, then, congress has made the laws of each state the rules of process to bring offenders before the circuit courts, those laws do not bind the circuit courts in this respect, and there will be no foundation for the doctrine, that a circuit court of the United States ought to be governed by the laws of a state in respect to process to bring the party to answer. Where is such a statute of congress? Not in their statute books, as I humbly conceive none such has been produced.
The honourable managers have referred to the 34th section of the statute already mentioned, and upon that alone they rely. The words of the section are as follows: "And be it further enacted, That the laws of the several states, except where the constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States in cases where they apply." We are to take the whole expressions of the section together, and this section is to be considered conjointly with all the other provisions of the statute. It makes the laws of a state the rules of decision in trials at common law where they apply. The laws of the state are to be rules of decision in trials. The process which is awarded to bring in a party to stand his trial, is obviously different from the trial itself: rules of decision in trials, are not rules of process antecedent to the appearance of the party. What is a trial at common law? A trial may be said to begin with impanelling a jury, and to end with the judgment of the court: 4 Black. 352. A capias that is issued for the purpose of bringing the party to a trial by arresting his person, cannot therefore be deemed a part of the trial itself. Whether the traverser appears with or without process is seldom deemed material; it is only after he is brought to answer that his trial can commence.
If the construction contended for by the managers be admitted it will make this section militate against the 14th and 33 sections of the same statute, which expressly provide upon the subject of process. Besides, it is unnecessary to give this construction, inasmuch as the statute provides amply respecting the steps preparatory to the trial. The 29th section regulates the mode of summoning a jury. There is no defect in the provisions of the statute which establishes one system that is to prevail every where, in regard to matters prior to the trial. Why would congress provide, in respect to process, as they have done in the 14th and 33d sections, if they meant to adopt the various laws of each state in regard to process, as has been contended by the managers? Congress has declared what kind of process may be used in the circuit courts, and that process of arrest may
be used. Our construction is warranted by the rule of the supreme court that has been quoted, which rule was made long after the statute of 1789, and which statute is as obligatory on the supreme court as upon a circuit court. It is also warranted by the judgment of the circuit court in Pennsylvania district, in the case of the United States against the insurgents, determined in the year 1795, before the respondent was elevated to the bench of the supreme court (2 Dal. 340, 341.)
In giving his opinion on the 34th section of the statute, judge Peters observes, "although in ordinary cases it would be well to accommodate our practice with that of the state, yet the judiciary of the United States should not be fettered and controuled in its operations, by a strict adherence to state regulations and practice. As to the clause in the law of the United States, directing that "the laws of the states (with great exceptions) shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States," I do not think it applies to the case before us."
In conformity to the rule of the supreme court and the authority of the case just cited, judge Chase determined that the law of the state of Virginia, which requires a summons to be issued in cases of the commonwealth, did not apply to the court of the United States. Why let me again ask, should this section receive the construction contended for by the hon. managers? It has been shewn that the laws of the United States provide fully in regard to the process to be issued by their courts;—that for be furtherance of justice, such a construction is neither necessary nor convenient, and is inconsistent with other parts of the same statute. It was therefore perfectly correct in the court to bestow no attention upon the laws of Virginia concerning the process to be awarded against Callender. When a resentment was found by the grand jury, it was duty of the court to act; it was their duty to award a proper process for arresting the offender. This is not only warranted by the principles and reasons already adduced, but is inferable from various passages of the laws of congress, particularly from the 19th and 20th sections of the statute passed 30th April, 1790, 1 vol. p. 108.
The learned counsel who defended Cender, appear from the testimony to have taken some improper opinions relative to the criminal side of the United States. The subject was, as they, new to them, and for this reason, let me remark they might readily have fallen into error. It appears that they not only thought it was competent for a jury to decide upon the constitutionality of a law, but so that it belonged to the jury to assess the fine up the traverser, because a jury has that power the laws of the state in respect to offences against the state. In the like manner it is erroneously said the present prosecution, that the laws of the state in respect to process, are the rules which should guide the circuit courts of the United States.
I have, Sir, endeavoured to shew in first place, that there is no charge of criminality laid in the article of impeachment, and therefore that the respondent ought to be acquitted. And, in second place, I have endeavoured to satisfy the court, that the act stated in the article to have been done by judge Chase, was correct and legal, in itself and if legal, there remains no ground to presume or infer the smallest degree of evil intention. This point of view he will also stand acquitted.
(To be Continued.)
MARRIED—On Saturday last at Kebleville the Revd. ANTHONY WALKER to Mrs. FISH, both of Princess Ann county.
PHILADELPHIA 8. Extract of a letter from Liverpool, dated July 28, received by the Cato.
"I must observe that the general situation of trade here at present is far from holding out a cheering prospect, being almost unprecedently dull languid, arising, as you will readily imagine, from the state of uncertainty and apprehension which prevails concerning the French and Spanish fleets which sailed from Cadiz."
A gentleman, who resided some time after-dam, and left that city on the 1st May, the French exercise a severe tyranny over the Batavians. A French brig is stationed near the coast, which detains every ship going to, or coming from England under neutral colours. A Dutch brig is stationed in company with the French, but only for form sake. The French brig sends on board the ships a French commissary with a gens d'armes, and four or five soldiers to take possession of the ship. The captain of the neutral vessel, and the passengers, are ordered on board the French, where their pockets are searched, and any letters, papers found upon their persons are taken from them. On board the detained vessels they break open trunks and boxes belonging to the passengers, and visit and search every part of the ship where they think it possible any merchandise or manufacture can be concealed, and cut open and damage the ship without any regard to the injury which they or intend to make any reparation, should the accusations prove unfounded. The passengers are ed personally in the most rude and impertinent manner, and, after the search, are frequently detained several days, when the visit is repeated, sometimes, and perhaps thrice, under the idea that the first search the passengers would be off guard, and practice no further concealment. This rigour and severity are exercised in the sense of the Batavian brig, which dare not interfere, and is thus obliged to give the sanction to the violence and rapacity of the French marauders. The only compliment paid to the French brig is the formality required of the captain and passengers to show their passports to the Dutch commander, and have them registered by him. The French do not permit the Dutch fishermen to go within a short distance from shore to sea, and oblige them to return within a given time, lest they should give information to the English. Patrol boats of the French traverse the coast and shore, constantly at night, to prevent a boat or skiff from plying to sea.—London paper.
PROVINCE OF UTRECHT.
The following Remonstrance of the Inhabitants of the Province of Utrecht, against the new Constitution, contains an ingenious and spirited Protest against the Inquisition of that form of Government by the hands of a Foreign Nation:—
"ALL THE UNDERSIGNED CITIZENS AND INHABITANTS OF UTRECHT, TO THE PRESIDENT AND MEMBERS OF THE STATE DIRECTORY THE BATAVIAN REPUBLIC.
"Fellow Citizens, "A new plan of a Constitution being again proposed to the Batavian people, in order to its being subjected, without delay, to their assent or rejection, and as we have it not in our power to make known the reasons for our dissent at the time of voting, we are obliged to defer our observations on the investigation, and mature consideration of the said plan, the same appeared to us, far from amending the present constitution, to be, on the contrary, able to produce much greater evil, which, sooner or later, must necessarily proceed therefrom to the nation; and we therefore feel no difficulty in stating that the plan, according to our view of it is at variance with the interest of the people of Batavia, and
that Republican Liberty, for which our ancestors have sacrificed so much blood and treasure. It appears from the contents of this plan, that
I. "The possessions and property of the inhabitants are left at the mercy of the most arbitrary disposition of the political power, the experience whereof has proved of great injury to so many eminent inhabitants from the year 1795, down to the present time, without obtaining any redress, notwithstanding their just complaints have been presented against these abuses; which is the cause of so much dissatisfaction at this time.
II. "That, by the said plan, justice, and the course of the law, that palladium and sacred support of liberty, which was still left free by the present constitution, and which ought always to remain free unto all the inhabitants in all cases, is impeded, and can be suborned in the most arbitrary manner, which cannot be limited by any constitution, since it is the incontrovertible right of every member of society.
III. "That the Supreme Power is placed above every law, and a most unlimited, nay despotic authority is committed to one person, as it were, under the old title of Pensionary of the Council, a power, much greater and more extensive than ever belonged to the ancient Counts of Holland, and to the late Stadtholders, nay, which even exceeds that of a Constitutional King, there being abandoned to him without the least limitation:
1. "The whole supreme administration of the national pecuniary means, to dispose of them according to his pleasure.
2. "The free disposal of the whole military force of the country, as well by sea as land.
3. "The arbitrary nomination of all high functionaries, and the free appointment of the administration of the place where the government resides, to the prejudice of the right of its inhabitants to the free election of their own magistrates.
4. "The exclusive right of alone making propositions in the Assembly of their High Mightinesses, and the limitation of the power of that Assembly, which cannot deliberate on any other subjects but such as are proposed to it by him; thus, when he is silent, all are silent, and a deadly lethargy ensues.
5. "That he is made accountable to no man, but only to the Supreme Being, who is contemplated with far too much looseness and liberty; for there surely a wide door is opened for every body's contumely, upon which the people of Batavia must entirely depend, and embark all their concerns.
"A power, therefore, of which one of the Members of the Legislative assembly has justly observed, if the person who possesses it be a Cato, manumwealth may possibly be happy for the time being; under his controul.
"And is it now eligible and prudent for the inhabitants of this country, to adopt a plan of a constitution of that nature upon an uncertainty, and for the nation to be hazarded upon the chance whether a Cato or a Caesar shall be at any time placed at its head? With great reason did the aforesaid member exhort the inhabitants of this country to watch diligently over this point, that they might not deliver themselves up indiscriminately to despotism and violence, and thus suffer themselves to be fettered with bonds of slavery.
"These are the reasons, Citizens, why we, as well for us as for our posterity, are neither willing nor able to resolve upon the acceptance of a Constitution, by which, under the specious forms of old names or titles, the most arbitrary Government may be introduced.
"Far be it, nevertheless, that by this our rejection of the proposed plan, we should be understood to approve of the existing Constitution in the whole, and with you in any wise improvement of a more concentrated administration: No, the contrary is the fact! for if we are to speak out what we think, and what our hearts dictate, we have experienced none but unfortunate years since the year 1795; and the sound words of Equality, Liberty, and Fraternity, of Batavian Liberty, of Unity and Indivisibility, of pretended Patriotism, and of a far-famed and loud the bitterest fruits to the principal part of the nation, to those who have not enriched themselves by the treasures levied at so dear a rate.
"We long, therefore, for a change, but at the same time for an improvement; and nothing will be more agreeable to us (this we speak confidently in the name of the whole nation) than, after being so long tossed to and fro, to see for once a good plan of a constitution offered, resting solely upon the basis of rights, of equity, and of sound politics; by which liberty and divine worship should be maintained, every individual protected in the possession of his lawful property, justice exercised without impediment, so that even the meanest inhabitant may obtain his due right; and by which the Supreme power may not be placed above the law, and a sovereign and unlimited authority not entrusted to any single individual, whosoever he may be, and by whatever appellation he may be distinguished.
"And how greatly is it to be lamented, Citizens, that in the present instance, an inconsiderate enthusiasm should have deviated so far from the Union, and placed every thing upon a vague foundation; from the union, by which our Republic, under the blessing of God, had risen to the highest summit of felicity; from the Union, by which every man's real liberty was provided for, and divine worship duly maintained, without tyranny or compulsion of conscience; and all predominance of one province over the others was duly prevented; and by which, as you yourselves have not obscurely hinted in your note to the legislative body, the country has experienced such happiness during two centuries.
"And if this be true, as it is undoubtedly, can the nation desire any other plan of a Constitution than such a one as being purged from all former defects, as much as is consistent with the present circumstances, shall be principally founded upon the Union?
"If, however, the critical circumstances in which we are involved by a ruinous war, require for that period a concentrated administration, to give more energy to the decrees which are to be passed for the welfare of our country; well then, in that case, let us follow the steps of the ancient Romans, and appoint until the peace, or for a limited time, five years the longest, a dictator, after the Roman manner; us name even the intended person (Schimmelpennick) to this pre-eminence, and let all necessary power and authority be entrusted provisionally to him, without impairing the people's liberty; but let us by means deprive the nation thereof forever, under, institution, the consequence of which may be the arbitrary oppression, under which we must suffer and endure violence, or be reduced to the miserable necessity (like so many other respectable nations, which have already removed their resistances to other countries) of quitting this our native soil once so free; but to the introducing of this constitution after so many sacrifices as we have made to it, we must, therefore, in giving our suffrage, reject the proposed plan, with the most decided negative.
Utrecht, April 4, 1805." "EXCELLENT MR. R. J. SCHIMMELPENNICK, AMBASSADOR FROM THIS COUNTRY TO THE MAJESTY THE EMPEROR OF THE FRENCH. "The people of Batavia had sanguinely flattered themselves that they should receive, under your
concurrence, a wise plan of a constitution, they were as sensibly affected on seeing the state-directory offer a plan to the nation, for its assent or rejection, by which the liberty of the inhabitants of this country is, in our opinion, undermined in all its parts.
"Now, since no faculty is given or permitted at the time of voting, to state the reasons of our rejection, we have thought proper to inform the state-directory of those reasons by a note, at the same time taking the liberty to transmit to your Excellency a copy of that note, to which we refer you, for the sake of brevity.
"And although we have declared by that note our willingness to agree with the state-directory, in assenting to establish an improved plan of a constitution, as nearly as possible upon the upon; and in order to bestow, during the present critical circumstances, more energy on the decrees for the welfare of our country, by a more concentrated administration, to commit the necessary power and authority for a limited time to a person, in whose abilities, probity, and love of his country, the people of Batavia might safely confide, and have made no difficulty to propose the directory for that purpose in the said note, the moment certainly appears to us the properest person to save our country from decay and ruin; we yet think, on being called upon in a solemn manner, that we ought not to give our assent to the establishment of a constitution, which may have for its consequence, sooner or later, for us, or for our posterity, the most arbitrary despotism.
"Although we are well convinced, considering the manner of voting, by which all those who do not appear are understood to have assented, that our hopes and expectations will not be fulfilled; yet we, for ourselves, could not resolve to adopt a plan, by which the people of Batavia may some time be reduced to a low dependence; desiring, sincerely, that your excellency will be pleased to take in good part this our act, done for the good of our country, and reasons more amply stated in the aforesaid note to the state-directory, as being of the greatest interest to every inhabitant.
We remain,
"Your Fellow-Citizens."
"Utrecht, April 4, 1805."
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Brig Mary Louisa, Farrer, 18 days from St. Jago de Cuba, Coffee, Cotton &c. Thos. Willock. Sch'r Nancy Washington, Britt, 24 days from Antigua, Rum, Warren Ashley.
The ship Industry, Rice, hence for Rotterdam, was spoken May 31, in lat. 46, 40, long. 30,—36 days out.
The sch'r Ann Ballard, of this port, sailed from Barbados for Tobago, the 28th June.
The ship Sheffield of this port, which got on shore in the Delaware got up to Philadelphia, on the 7th inst. after having had to lighten a considerable part of her Cargo. The vessel or Cargo sustained no damage.
CUSTOM-HOUSE—ENTERED.
Brig Nancy, Christ'e, Cape of Good Hope. Sch'r Nancy Washington, Britt, Antigua.
CLEARED.
Ship America, Jeffred, London. Sch'r Friends Adventure, Dickson, St. Bartholomews. Thomas & Henry, Ewell, Antigua. Farmer, Boyd, Richmond.
HERBERT'S Packet will sail for Baltimore TOMORROW. July 17.
SALE AT AUCTION.
On Friday, the 30th 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 1750 barrels for 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. July 17.
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. 10 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 under 500 dollars, 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. July 17.
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 payments will be accepted. For terms apply to Messrs. William & Henry Haxall, of Petersburg, or to John Cowper.
Thomas Willock. July 17.
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.
FOR SALE,
On board the ship Rebecca, A FEW THOUSAND BUSHELS
BONAVISTA SALT.
JAMES HERRON. July 17.
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. L. July 17.

MARTIN FISK, HAS FOR SALE, 200 Sacks Fine Liverpool SALT. 80 Casks Mynon and Hyson Skin TEAS—of a very late im- portation, and of a superior quality. 10 Hogsheads 5 years old Antigua RUM. Pennington's LOAF SUGAR, in Hds. and Bbls. May 27. tf 712
TO PRINTERS. Having had advice of a Font of Letter being shipped for us from England, we would dispose of A FONT OF BOURGEOIS TYPE, Upon which the PUBLIC LEDGER has been heretofore print- ed; specimens of which are seen in our editorial articles. It consists of 600 lbs. WELL-ASSORTED LETTER, has been in use but nine months, and is almost as good as new— Should the whole be too large, such as might be inclined to purchase ONE HALF of the font, will please to make applica- tion by letters post-paid, or personally at our office. J. Cowper & Geo. L. Gray. Norfolk, May 8.
TO RENT, A convenient DWELLING HOUSE on Fea 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 26. tf 774  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, 40,000 do. Porto Rico, 5,000 do. St. Domingo, } COFFEE. 10 Puncheons Windward Island RUM. 50 Quarter Casks Old SHERRY. 50 Hogsheads Prime Richmond TOBACCO. 500 Barrels FLOUR—Principally Superfine. 100 do. MESS PORK. 100 Boxes First Quality RAISINS. All of which they will dis- pose 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 46 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 Aitchison, Esq. are desired to send them to the subscriber, and those indebted are requested to make payment to Mary Aitchison, 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. 128 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 HOURS: 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 Vir- ginia, for Certificates of One Hundred and Fifty-Nine Shares of Stock, in his own, and Fifty-Seven Shares in the name of Benjamin Harrison, Esq.—The Scrip of the beformentioned 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
LANDING, At Commerce-Street Wharf, from the Brig Paragon, Capt. Ambley, 107 Puncheons high proof Jamaica Rum. Which is offered for sale on very liberal terms, by Redmon & Fritb. June 11. tf 753
WILL BE LANDED Tomorrow Morning on Gibson's Wharf, 35 Puncheons of Antigua RUM, 15 Do. 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 HAL, by some called HENRY. He is abt 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 Ne- gro. He wore when he went off a striped cloth jacket and trousers, 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. Theode- rick 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 with- out 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 dol- lars; and 50 dollars additional for such discovery of the per- son or persons who assisted his escape, as may lead to his or their conviction. M'Pherson & M'Phail. 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, On board the Schooner Father & Son, John Hopkins, Master, from Guadalupe, and Antigua, 1,000 lbs. Good Mucovado SUGAR. 500 lbs. Green COFFEE. 100 Puncheons Antigua RUM. All of which they will dis- pose of on liberal terms, by Donaldson, Thorburn & Co. tf 796
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. 6 791
WANTED, A WET NURSE. Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger. May 29. tf 721
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 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 draw- ing 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 from 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. Blount's American Coast Pilot. Also for Sale, Bell-Mettle Skillets of Superior Quality. Carrage Wheel Boxes, Bouches, and Solid Brass Sheeves—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, HOTT'S LANE, near 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
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. 729
JOHN C. NIEMEYER, Has received in addition to his former assortment GERMAN GOODS, 45 packages German Linens, &c. chiefly en- titled to drawback, Consisting of Platillas, brown Hollands, ters, Wine Glasses, and Britannias, Basket Flasks, &c. Sheeting, extra fine 1 1-8 3 Boxes English Mustard. yard wide, 8 Boxes Cloths, Blankets, Coat- Dowlas and Creas of the best ings, &c. quality, Andirons, Waffleiron, Shirt linen, Diapers, Coffee mills, Bird cages, and Bed Ticking for Mattresses, Seeds of all kinds, Bed Bunts fine 1 1-4 to 2 Table matts, & Straw plates, yards wide, Suspenders of the best kind, Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, Violins, Flutes, Clarinets and Brown Hemp Hessian, Fife, Harp strings and Brown and White Rolls, Violin strings, elegant Russia Sheetings and light Bows and Instruction books Canvass. Looking Glasses, a large ALSO, assortment of Baskets, fine Velvet Ribbons no. 2 to 150, and common do. do. Toys Plush for Saddles, black Sat- cheap by the quantity. tin for waistcoats, ALSO, Brussels Lace 4 to 20 dolls. 90 boxes first quality Ha- per yard, cheap Edgings, vanna Segars, German Nuns Thread, patent 50 do. good quality St Needles, India sewing Silk, Jago do. Made Shirts, Thread Stock- 140 do. Short Pipes, ings very fine, Razors, 200 lbs. Shoe Thread, Spectacles, and Penknives, of 2000 Coffee bags good qua- the very first qualities, lity, Che p Jewellery, fine Scis- 400 Gunny do. sars, Muffs and Tippits of 250 M. com cheap Needles, Martin Skins, 60 M. Toy marbles, 15 boxes Tumblers, Decan- 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 pay- ment One Hundred Hogsheads good Tobacco STEMS.—Ap- ply as above. December 5. tf 273
MISSIONARY MAGAZINE, AND EVANGELICAL INTELLIGENCER. A FEW Copies of this work, for January, February, March, April, and May, are now read for delivery to subscribers, at the office of the PUBLIC LEDGER. Persons desirous to encourage a work whose object is the diffusion of religious knowledge, are requested to send their names to Mr. Gray's office as early as possible. A few copies of the complete set from the first of the year, yet re- main undispersed at Philadelphia, and can be procured by early application. Price 25 Cents each Number—Payable on delivery. June 29. tf 784
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. } 13 Quarter Casks Sherry WINE. 30 Crates well assorted EARLY NEW WARE. 9 Casks do. GLASSWARE. 5 Cwt. Dry White LEAD. Half Tea STEEL. 4 Hogsheads Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR. 1238 Barrels Superfine, } FLOUR. 490 do. Fine, } 50 Hogsheads Petersburg, } TOBACCO. 50 do. Richmond, } 44 do. Lowland, } April 29. tf 693
JUST RECEIVED, By the ship Roba & Beesey, Capt. Richardson from London, and for sale by the Subscriber, A LARGE SUPPLY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES, of all kinds. Patent Medicines, Perfumery, &c. &c. Also received by the ship Almirante, Capt. Stover, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, Consisting of Amputating, Trepanning, Cupping, M d wifery. Tooth of different sorts, Crown and Common Lancets, and Surgical Pocket Instruments &c. &c. HARDHAM'S SNUFF, No. 9. Also, by the ship Olive Branch, Capt. Le Breton from Bristol, A LARGE & EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF GLASS & FURNITURE, For Apothecary's and Practitioner's Shops. Those who favour us with their orders will be supplied on the most reasonable terms, and the articles of the best and freshest quality, as our importations are regularly twice a year, and laid in with cash, from the most respectable Druggists in London. MEDICINE CHESTS made up as usual. Also, a few elegant Mahogany Chests of the newest construction, with furniture complete, PERRY'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS. Frederick Heermann & Son. July 17. 2aw 12m. 1
VALUABLE LAND FOR SALE. THE Subscriber, intending to leave this State, wishes to dispose of the Land he at present resides on. It is a tract of EIGHT HUNDRED ACRES, beautifully situated upon Cape Charles; having the Atlantick upon one side, and the Chesapeake upon another. There is upon it as good a FISHERY is any in Virginia. There are interspersed through- out the plantation, a number of SALT SPRINGS, so strongly impregnated with salt as to bear a new-laid egg. Oysters, Cockles, and Fish of all kinds may be obtained from the wa- ters immediately at the door. The land is very productive, esteemed annually good for 500 barrels Indian Corn, and 2000 bushels of Oats, and is now in capital order. The Fishery alone has yielded, in one spring, upwards of 700! In short there are but very few Plantations offered for Sale, which quite so many advantages: and nothing but a desire to pursue his professional business could induce the present proprietor to sell it. Should it not be sold before the Fall, it will be leased for a term of years. Conditions will be made known on application to Thomas V. Custis. May 3. 1aw 648
NEW CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY, ON TOWN POINT, A mall 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 also provided with a good stock of Iron; and with a sufficient number of skilful workmen. He has on hand a constant supply of Nails, Flooring Brads, and Sprigs, which he offers for Sale at the reduced prices as follows, by the keg, 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. 9d 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 / SSORTED. LEV DORSEY. March 18. tf 503
NOW LANDING From on board the Brig Fame, from Havana, and Scituate, & Fins, from Antigua, 170 Hogsheads 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. ALICANT 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 f my last winters stock, equal to any imported. Joseph Hayes. August 24. tf
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. Nov. 16. tf 396
AN APPRENTICE wanted. Nov. 16. tf 396
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 DOL- LARS, he 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, intending to leave this State, wishes to dispose of the Land he at present resides on. It is a tract of EIGHT HUNDRED ACRES, beautifully situated upon Cape Charles; having the Atlantick upon one side, and the Chesapeake upon another. There is upon it as good a FISHERY is any in Virginia. There are interspersed through- out the plantation, a number of SALT SPRINGS, so strongly impregnated with salt as to bear a new-laid egg. Oysters, Cockles, and Fish of all kinds may be obtained from the wa- ters immediately at the door. The land is very productive, esteemed annually good for 500 barrels Indian Corn, and 2000 bushels of Oats, and is now in capital order. The Fishery alone has yielded, in one spring, upwards of 700! In short there are but very few Plantations offered for Sale, which quite so many advantages: and nothing but a desire to pursue his professional business could induce the present proprietor to sell it. Should it not be sold before the Fall, it will be leased for a term of years. Conditions will be made known on application to Thomas V. Custis. May 3. 1aw 648
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3000 lbs. of WOOL, For sale—low for cash—by Philip Collins. June 11. tf 754