Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1805-05-31 00:00:00

WHOLESALE PRICE-CURRENT.
NORFOLK, FRIDAY, MAY 31, 1805.
Table with 5 columns: ARTICLES, per, From, To, Remarks. Lists prices for various goods like Bacon, Beef, Brandy, Bread, Butter, etc.
Premiums of Insurance on American Property. To Great-Britain, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, without the Straits of Gibraltar.
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The Brig EQUATOR, HENRY MOORE, Master:—
FOR DUBLIN, The fine American Ship YORKSHIRE, WILLIAM LEE, Master:—
STORER'S regular trading Packet CATTY MARIA, will sail in a few days for New-York, part of her cargo being engaged.
WANTED FOR WASHINGTON, A VESSEL. Calculated to carry about 2000 Cubick Feet of thick Stuff and Plank—Immediate despatch will be given.
FOR FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The Brig JOANNA, JEREMIAH BLANCHARD, Master:—
FOR SALE, On board the Ship ROBA & BETSEY, Captain RICHARDSON, CADIZ SALT. William Pennock.
WHO OFFERS FOR CHARTER, The said Ship ROBA & BETSEY. tf 559
WE WANT, A British ship of 250 to 300 hhds. burthen. C. & F. WHITTLE. tf 593
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The fast sailing British Letter of Marque Ship LADY NELSON, ROBERT M'ALLISTER, Master:—
FOR CHARTER, The excellent fast sailing Ship WILLIAM, Moses Hale, Master, burthen 400 hogheads, is now ready to receive a cargo.
DOCTOR HODGES, OFFERS TO LEASE Two Lots of Ground on Rothery's Lane, One Lot running partly on said Lane, and partly Main Street. May 24. tf 704
TO RENT, (And possession to be given 10th June next,) THE HOUSE IN CATHARINE STREET, At present occupied by Thomas Brown. Inquire on the premises, No. 4. May 24. 706
THE SUBSCRIBERS Offer for Sale at their Warehouse on Commerce-Street Wharf, 10 Bales Blue GUINNESS—60 pieces each, entitled to drawback. 50 Barrels No. 1, BEEF. A few Firkins BUTTER. 25 Casks GIN. Phinehas Dana & Co. April 17. tf 602
NOW LANDING, From on board the Schooner Mercury, Captain Smith, from Surinam. A Choice Parcel of MOLASSES. For Sale by John Brown, Rothery's Wharf. Who has on hand, A few Dozen Bottles CASTOR OIL. April 24. tf 621
150 Boxes Bloom, 150 do. Muscadel, } RAISINS. 1000 Barrels Superfine FLOUR. All of superior quality, for sale on a liberal credit. C. & F. WHITTLE. April 12. tf 665
OILS, PAINTS & WINDOW GLASS, Of all kinds, colours, and sizes. For sale by N. Gregory, July 8. tf 3
BY AUTHORITY. RICHMOND ACADEMY LOTTERY. CLASS No. II. 4000 Tickets at 10 dollars each—dolls. 40000
NANKEENS AND TEAS. 5000 Pieces Yellow NANKEENS, of the first Chop. 30 Chests Hyson and Imperial TEAS. Both intitled 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
LANDING ON NEWTON'S WHARF, AND FOR SALE BY THE SUBSCRIBER, 75 Hhds. } PRIME SUGAR. 20 Bbls. } And a few Puncheons of St. Kitts RUM. Moses Myers. May 29. tf 725
COCKE & SANFORD, Have received per the Charleston from Liverpool, COLERAIN LINENS, And HARDWARE well assorted in small packages. May 29. 3w 726
WANTED, Two Hundred Cords Wharf Wood, For which a generous price will be given. Apply to Thomas Warren. May 29. tf 720
WANTED, A WET NURSE. Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger. May 29. tf 721
Landing this day on our Wharf, 50 Qr. Casks Superior Quality SHERRY WINE. 100 Boxes fresh RAISINS. C. & F. Whittle. May 27. tf 710
NOW LANDING From on board the Brig Fanny, from Havana, and Schooner Lydia, from Antigua, 170 Hogheads MOLASSES. 129 do. RUM. For sale by William Pennock. May 27. tf 716
REMOVAL. THE SUBSCRIBERS Have removed from MAIN-STREET, to their NEW FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSE, in MARKET-SQUARE. Gilliat & Mackinder. April 3. tf 555
GILLIAT & MACKINDER, Have received their assortment of SPRING GOODS, By the ship DUMFRIES, from London.—Assorted Packages for exportation, entitled to drawback. April 24. tf 622
COCKE & SANFORD, No. 40, MAIN-STREET. Have imported in the Ship Dumfries, from London, an extensive assortment of useful and fashionable SPRING GOODS: Which they offer on liberal terms, by Wholesale and Retail. April 24. 2m 617
I HAVE JUST RECEIVED, 63 Boxes Baltimore WINDOW GLASS, different sizes—Also, 1000 Gunny BAGS, 1200 Two and three Bushel BAGS. AND ON HAND, 33 Tierces excellent RICE, to be sold on very reasonable terms. A complete assortment of German Linens. JOHN C. NIEMEYER. A Lad from the country of about 16, under a good recommendation, will be taken as an Apprentice. Apply as above. May 27. 1m 717
MARTIN FISK, HAS 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 Hhds. and Bbls. May 27. tf 712
FOR SALE, 50 Hhds. prime Richmond TOBACCO, and 100 Barrels NAVY BREAD—now a-boat. Robert Gibson. May 27. tf 713
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. M'Kean, R. Smith, and A. Morris, Esquires, one of the Trustees of my Seminary.
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 honorable to you.
SUMMER establishment of the Southern Mail, BY THE WAY OF SLEEPY-HOLE. By this route the Mail will get to Washington in 3 days. THE Mail Stage will leave Petersburg on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 1 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Portsmouth the same evening—returning, leave Portsmouth Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 1 o'clock A. M. and arrive at Petersburg the same evening.—The Mail Stage will leave Suffolk on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, at 2 o'clock P. M. and arrive at John Gary's by 4 o'clock, to meet the Petersburg Stage destined for Norfolk, and return to Suffolk the same evening—and will leave Suffolk, Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays, at 3 o'clock A. M. and arrive at John Gary's by 5 o'clock, to meet the Norfolk Stage destined for Petersburg, and return to Suffolk by 10 o'clock. May 27. 715
SAMUEL SAUNDERS & Co. Have taken the STORE lately occupied by Messrs. John Rorke & Co. opposite the New Market, WHERE THEY OFFER FOR SALE, A General Assortment of Groceries: And have just received from Philadelphia, per the Schooner Liberty, Captain Fisher, 20 Barrels RYE WHISKEY. 50 do. APPLE BRANDY. 50 Boxes BLOOM RAISINS. 100 Reams WRAPPING PAPER. April 17. tf 601
TO RENT. THE Store, Cellar, and Compting Room, No. 41, Main-Street, at present occupied by Messrs. Gilliat & Mackinder. Apply to Thomas Willock. April 1. tf 547
LANDING ON OUR WHARF, From on board the Ship OLD TOM, from Porto Rico—Her Cargo of Prime Green COFFEE. do. SUGAR. HIDES. FUSTICK, and MAHOGANY. All which we will dispose of on liberal terms. C. & F. Whittle. April 22. tf 610
SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS. RICHARD TAYLOR, Has received from London per the Ship Dumfries, Captain Beard, a handsome and general assortment of SPRING AND SUMMER GOODS, which he offers for Sale, by Wholesale and Retail, for Cash, or good Paper. April 24. 2m 619
AVIS. J. P. CHEVREUSE, Docteur en Médecine, Réçu à l'Université de Montpellier, et membre de l'Académie de Médecine de Paris, à l'honneur de prévenir le public que son demeure est Cumberland Street, No. 24.—Ceux qui voudront l'honorer de leur confiance auront lieu d'être satisfaits.
J. P. CHEVREUSE, Doctor of Medicine, Graduate of the University of Montpellier, and member of the Academy of Medicine at Paris, acquaints the publick that he resides at No. 24, Cumberland Street.—Those who may honour him with their confidence he hopes will have every reason to be satisfied. May 22. 696
A Negro Woman, and two Male Children, WILL BE SOLD LOW, If applied for in a few days.—Inquire at the Office of the Ledger. May 22. tf 698
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 286

Finding from the uncertain arrival of the Northern Mails that we cannot always avail ourselves of what intelligence it may bring, by printing on the same day; we now inform our friends that our next paper will be published on Tuesday Morning; and will continue during the summer establishment to be issued on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays: Our advertising friends will please to send their favours to our office before five o'clock on the preceding evenings.
Captain Venn from Jeremie, arrived at Baltimore, states, that Admiral Cochrane's squadron was cruising between Cape Donna Maria and Cape Mauze.
DRAWINGS IN THE LOTTERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE.
Ninth Day.
No. 2264—Prize of 500 dollars. Prizes of 15 dollars.
No. 513 485 192 5316 1312 7439 7458 6832 4978 6671 4469 5171 4410 6749.
With sincere regret, we learn, that the Hon. Roger Griswold, and the Hon. Calvin Goddard, two of the Representatives in Congress from this State, have resigned. The real friends to the Constitution of the United States, and the principles upon which it was administered for the first twelve years , we have no doubt will lament with us, the event which we have just mentioned. The people of the State, with pride, have witnessed their exertions in endeavouring to preserve the Constitution and Government from destruction. Mr. Griswold has been in Congress ten years, and during the whole of that period, if we are correctly informed, he has been absent from his seat but one day when the House of Representatives was in session. To his distinguished talents, his perfect acquaintance with legislative duty, his extensive political science, and his commanding eloquence, even his political enemies bear unequivocal testimony; and we doubt not, that the intelligence of his resignation, will be the most pleasing news that has reached their ears for many a year.—We think it no more than justice to say, that he has been for a long course of time, without a rival in the National Legislature.
[Connecticut Courant.]
In the Vermont Gazette , we observe a letter to the editors of that paper from Mr. Elliot occasioned by some remarks of a correspondent who Mr. E. says misquoted a passage from him, and drew false conclusions. After correcting him, Mr. E. makes the following declaration:
Poulton's Adv.
"The Destruction of the Constitution of the United States has been determined on in a private caucus of the junto I have alluded to. A member of Congress, who to say the least, is friendly to this party, made the following declarations, in January last, at Washington —That he felt no attachment to the Constitution but what his Oath of Office required—that he considered three fourths of its framers as fools and knaves —that it was made for the benefit of speculators and merchants , and not for the public good—that the senate is a hospital of incurables, and two thirds at least of its political existence must be destroyed —that the judges ought to be dependent upon Congress—that he wished a committee could be appointed to sit during the whole recess of Congress, to digest alterations of the Constitution, &c. These declarations were made in presence of myself, and Mr. Ellery, a republican senator from R. Island , and Mr. Jackson, a republican representative from Virginia , and appeared to strike those gentlemen with great astonishment. It is to guard the people, not against themselves, but against the " junto " of revolutionists, and at the same time to vindicate my own conduct, that I have written my letters to my constituents. The facts which I have stated are true and my constituents believe them.
"JAMES ELLIOT."
BOSTON, May 20.
From Holland .—Captain Star, of the brig Eliza and Mary, arrived on Saturday last, from Rotterdam, in 46 days passage. He is the bearer of no papers, or verbal information, which throw any fresh light on the subject of European politics; but merely observes, that from the general conversation of the merchants at that place, he understood, there was no prospect whatever of the speedy restoration of peace in Europe.
From the Mediterranean .—A letter, received in town from Malta, of the date of 6th March, states, "That the American squadron sailed three days previous, on different routes, in search of five Tripoline privateers, which they learned were out on a cruise. One Neapolitan vessel which had been captured by them, was retaken off the island of Strombola, and had arrived at Malta."
FROM THE VERMONT JOURNAL.
MR. ELLIOT TO HIS CONSTITUENTS. LETTER VI.
Of the Georgia Mississippi Territory, the state of Georgia, by an act of their legislature, passed Jan. 7, 1795, sold about twenty two millions, (some say forty millions) of acres to our different companies, and the purchase money, amounting to half a million of dollars, a very trifling compensation indeed for so large a territory, was paid into the treasury of Georgia. The original grantees soon after
sold this land in shares of various descriptions, principally to gentlemen in the eastern and middle states. On the 13th Feb. 1796, the succeeding legislature of Georgia passed an act, declaring the former "usurped act" null and void; and all the grants, rights, and claims arising therefrom, of no validity or effect; and that the said territory was the sole property of the state—This legislature also ordered, that in their presence, and that of the publick officers of the state, the several records, documents and deeds, in the several publick offices, should be "expunged from the faces and indexes of the books of record of the state; and the enrolled law or usurped act, publickly burnt." To give greater solemnity to a scene so extraordinary, it has been said that the law and records, like the messengers of Ahazia, were consumed with fire from Heaven; by flames elicited from the sun in his meridian. Whether this account be correct or not most certainly the sun never shone on a more singular transaction. Admitting that the members of the legislature of 1795 were interested in their own grant, as contended by their successors, and the terms of sale furnish, aside from other evidence, a strong presumption against their integrity, yet it cannot be doubted that the legislature of 1797 would have had the same right to annul the rescinding act of 1796, as the legislature of 1796 possessed to destroy the granting act of 1795, and so on ad infinitum . Until now it had never been doubted that the supreme legislative power of every community possessed the power of granting its vacant lands; and such grants had been considered as pledging the faith of the community. If they can be rescinded by succeeding legislatures, or the people themselves, publick faith is but a name, or at most a snare for the unwary. Besides it is repugnant to the principles of natural equity, that a legislative body should sit in judgment upon the acts of their predecessors, and "damn them to everlasting fame," unheard and unconvicted. Whether or not the grant of 1795 was void on the ground of corruption, was a judicial and not a legislative question.
The United States have always held a claim, or pretended claim, to this territory.—I have been told that it was the opinion of one of our ablest politicians that we had a good title; but this may well be doubted. Many proceedings of the general government, however, from time to time, gave strong colour of title to Georgia, if they did not expressly recognise her claim. And as a principle to govern in this case it is stated, that in courts of equity it has been established, "that the true owner of land shall be bound by a sale of a stranger who has no title, if the owners suffer the sale to go on by an innocent purchaser, without giving notice of his title when he has it in his power; and that the case is much stronger against the owner when he has given a colour of title to the seller, and thus helped to deceive the purchaser." The claim of the United States, is not immediately connected with the question between the legislative grantors and the private grantees of Georgia. Other claims of an earlier date, in favour of other companies, in relation to lands in that territory, existed upon the state of Georgia; she finding herself embarrassed by these various claims, and the very singular situation of the business, ceded the whole territory to the United States for a very small consideration, accompanied with a mutual stipulation that the United States should appropriate 5,000,000 of acres to satisfy the claimants, at the discretion of the United States. It is a plain principle of law that no subsequent purchaser shall avoid a precedent purchase on the ground of fraud, but a purchaser for valuable consideration.—If the United States are purchasers for a valuable consideration; they are purchasers from Georgia, and they now claim under the title of Georgia. Few if any believe that the claimants of an earlier date than 1795 have any just claim upon the state of Georgia; the publick faith of the union must therefore be considered as at least tacitly pledged to appropriate the greatest part of the five millions of acres for the claimants under the act of 1795. A bill passed the preliminary stages, authorising commissioners, to settle with the claimants generally, limited in their operations to the appropriation of the five millions of acres. Mr. Randolph opposed this bill with all the powers of his eloquence, and when he found that it was likely to pass, he arrested its progress by the introduction of a set of resolutions, calculated to establish an inquisitorial and censorial power in congress over the state governments, declaring the legislature of Georgia of 1795 to have been corrupt, justifying the proceedings of the legislature of 1796, authorising the state legislatures or even the people themselves to rescind contracts in which the publick faith is pledged, and declaring that the United States were under no obligation to appropriate any part of the five millions of acres to the satisfaction of the claimants under the act of 1795, and that no part should be so appropriated. That I may not be accused of misrepresenting the language or the object of these very extraordinary resolutions, I will transcribe them from the speech of the mover, and reserve my comments upon them for my next letter.
1. Resolved , That the legislature of the state of Georgia were at no time invested with the power of alienating the right of soil possessed by the good people of that state, in and to the vacant territory of the same, but in a rightful manner and for the general good.
2. That when the governors of any people shall have betrayed the confidence reposed in them, and shall have exercised that authority with which they have been invested for the general welfare, to promote their own private ends, under the basest motives, and to the
publick detriment, it is the inalienable right of a people, thus circumstanced, to revoke the authority thus abused to resume the rights thus attempted to be bartered, and to abrogate the act thus endeavouring to betray them.
3. That it is in evidence to this House that the act of the legislature of Georgia, passed on the 7th January 1795, entitled, &c. was passed by persons under the influence of gross and palpable corruption, practised by the grantees of the lands attempted to be alienated by the aforesaid act, tending to enrich and aggrandize, to a degree almost incalculable, a few individuals, and ruinous to the publick interest.
4. That the good people of Georgia, impressed with general indignation at this act of atrocious perfidy and unparalleled corruption, with promptitude of decision highly honourable to them, did, by the act of a subsequent legislature, passed on the 13th day of Feb. 1796, under circumstances of peculiar solemnity, and finally sanctioned by the people who have subsequently engrafted it on their constitution, declare the preceding act and the grants made under it in themselves null and void; that the said act should be expunged from the records of the state, and publickly burnt; which was accordingly done—provision, at the same time being made for restoring the pretended purchase money to the grantees, by whom, or by persons claiming under them, the greater part of the said purchase money has been withdrawn from the treasury of Georgia.
5. That a subsequent legislature of an individual state has an undoubted right to repeal any act of a preceding legislature, provided such repeal be not forbidden by the constitution of such state or of the United States.
6. That the aforesaid act of the state of Georgia (the rescinding act) was forbidden neither by the constitution of that state, nor by that of the United States.
7. That the claims of persons derived under the aforesaid act (the corrupt act) of the 7th Jan. 1795, are recognized, neither by any compact between the United States and the state of Georgia, nor by any act of the federal government.
8. Therefore Resolved , That no part of the five millions of acres reserved for satisfying and quieting claims to the lands ceded by the state of Georgia to the United States, and appropriated by the act of congress passed at their last session, ought to be appropriated to quiet or compensate any claims, derived under any, or pretended act, of the state of Georgia, passed, or alleged to have been passed during the year 1795.
JAMES ELLIOT.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES. Thursday, February 21.
HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT. THE UNITED STATES VS SAMUEL CHASE.
The court was opened at 10 A. M.
Present, the Managers, attended by the House of Representatives in committee of the whole; and
The Counsel of Judge Chase.
MR. CAMPBELL, in continuation.
I will now proceed, as well as my indisposition will permit, to examine in a brief manner the second part of the subject, containing the several charges sounded on the trial of Callender, at Richmond, as stated in the second, third, and fourth articles of the impeachment. I will consider these several articles in the order in which the transactions on which they are founded took place in court. In order to ascertain the motives that actuated the judge, in this whole transaction, it will only be necessary to view his conduct as proved, so far as the same relates to this subject, previous to the trial. The first account we have of the intended prosecution, or I might say persecution, of Callender, is at Annapolis. Here the judge received the famous book, called the Prospect Before Us , upon which the prosecution was founded; and here the determination was formed to convict and punish Callender. The respondent said he would take the book with him to Richmond; that the libellous parts had been marked by Mr. Martin, and that before he returned he would teach the lawyers of Virginia to know the difference between the liberty and licentiousness of the press; and, that if the commonwealth of Virginia was not totally depraved, if there was a jury of honest men to be found in the state, he would punish Callender before he returned from Richmond. This is the evidence of Mr. Mason, nearly in his own words, and no person will pretend to doubt its correctness. What language could be used, that would more clearly shew the partiality and predetermination of the judge to punish Callender, and the spirit of persecution by which he was actuated. Again, on his way to Richmond, according to the evidence of Mr. Triplett, the judge reviles the object of his intended vengeance; states his surprise and regret, that he had not been hanged in Virginia; remarks that the United States had shown too much lenity to such renegades; and after arriving at Richmond, informs the deponent, he was afraid they would not be able to get the damn'd rascal that court. Thus evincing in every stage of this business that intolerant spirit of oppression and vengeance, that seems to have given spring to all his actions. After the indictment is found against Callender, the panel of the petit jury is presented to the judge, he inquires if he had any of the creatures called democrats, on that panel, directs the marshal to examine it, and if there were any such on it, to strike them off. This is the evidence of Mr. Heath, whose character and standing in society are
known to many of the members of this hon. court. And though his evidence is opposed by the negative declarations of Mr. Randolph, who affirms, that he did not present the panel of the jury to the judge, or receive such directions; yet I conceive the court will give more weight to the affirmative declarations of Mr. Heath, with regard to these facts, than to the negative assertions of Mr. Randolph, who may have forgotten the transaction. This point rests upon the integrity and veracity of Mr. Heath. He could not receive the impression of these facts, unless the transaction had taken place; he could not reasonably be mistaken; the affair was new and extraordinary, and must have arrested his attention; and in this case there is no ground to make allowance for a treacherous memory; for it is not pretended that the witness, Mr. Heath, has forgotten the facts, but that they never existed. If you do not, therefore, believe the statement he makes, it must follow that you admit the witness has wilfully and corruptly stated a falsehood; this I presume will not be admitted; but on the other hand, Mr. Randolph may have forgotten the transaction, in the bustle of business, and this will account for the difference in the evidence of the witnesses without impeaching the veracity of either; this mode of reconciling the evidence is agreeable to the rules of law. I take the facts, therefore, as stated by Mr. Heath, to be correct, and they afford an instance of judicial depravity hitherto unequalled and unknown in our country; a direct attempt to pack a jury of the same political sentiments with the judge, to try the defendant. This is a faint representation of the previous conduct of the judge, relative to this subject, before whom the defendant was about to be tried; or rather before whom he was to be called for certain conviction and punishment; for it ought not to be dignified with the name of a trial. With this view, therefore, of the temper and disposition of the judge, and of his previous conduct on this occasion, we will examine the first important step taken in the trial, in which the designs of the judge begin more clearly to unfold themselves, viz. his refusal to postpone or continue the trial until the next term, on an affidavit regularly filed, stating the absence of material witnesses and the places of their residence, being the second charge in the fourth article.
It is admitted by the respondent, in his answer, that an affidavit was filed, which he exhibits to the court, and a motion made thereupon by the counsel of Callender to continue his cause for trial until the next term; and it is proved by the evidence of Mr. Hay and Mr. Nicholas, that as counsel for Callender, they insisted for a continuance of the case, on the grounds stated in the affidavit, and also on other grounds; that they were not prepared to argue the law arising in the case, for want of time to examine the subject, and that the defendant was not, by the laws of Virginia, bound to come to trial that term.—Here it may be proper to shew what are the grounds for a continuance known in law, and to inquire whether those stated in the affidavit come within the decisions heretofore made in courts of justice. On this subject I will refer the court to one authority only, but one equally respectable with any that can be produced on criminal law. Foster Cr. Law, page 2 and 3. Here Mr. Campbell read the case at length, and then observed, that his decision took place in a country where criminal law is executed with as much rigour as in any in the world where there is the shadow of liberty; and yet the affidavit filed in this case, upon which a continuance was granted, only states the absence of material witnesses and the places of their abode; the defendants were not required to state the facts that those witnesses would prove. In ordinary cases the courts do not require this, and in many cases it would be impossible for the defendant to know all that a witness could give in evidence; nor is the defendant bound, except in extraordinary cases, to disclose the evidence that his witnesses, who are absent, can give, as it might endanger his defence and give an advantage to the prosecutor, if so disposed, to procure evidence, whether true or false, to controvert that of the defendant.—The court in the case cited was held by a special commission from the crown, for the purpose of trying offenders for crimes of the deepest dye, and such as are punished in that country with the utmost rigour; yet the court continued the cases of those defendants for such a length of time, as was deemed sufficient to procure their witnesses according to the distances at which they resided. There were in this case no stated terms to which the court could adjourn and continue the cases; they, therefore, fixed upon a reasonable time and adjourned over to such day, in order to enable the defendants to prepare for trial; and it was observed by the court in that case as an additional ground for continuance, that the indictments had not been found until the court sat, and, that, therefore, the defendants had not time to prepare for trial. This was the case with Callender; he had no notice of this prosecution until after the indictment was found, and during the same term; he, therefore, could not have had time to prepare for his trial. The affidavit he filed was stronger and much more full than that in the case cited; it states the absence of a number of witnesses, whose evidence the deponent declares material to his defence. This would be sufficient to authorise a continuance upon a first application, and more ought not to have been required; but the affidavit goes further, and states the substance, as far as the defendant knew, of the evidence the witnesses could give; and also states the want of papers and books, material to the defence, that could not

be obtained without allowing a considerable time to procure them. What more could be stated in an affidavit, for a continuance on the ground of want of testimony, by any defendant who wished to adhere to the truth? Yet a continuance is refused; and the Judge states in his answer as the principal cause of such refusal, that the evidence of all the witnesses stated in the affidavit to be wanting, would not prove the truth of all the charges in the indictment, and would not therefore make a complete justification if procured; and enters into an examination of the charges and evidence to prove this position. This excuse of the accused is founded on a train of the most fallacious and sophistical reasoning that can be resorted to, and is no more than a groundless apology, by which, if possible, to evade the true question and avoid the odium that ought and must attach to such a transaction. It is not denied by the Judge that the absent witnesses would prove in part the charges in the indictment; but he says it ought so appear, they could prove the whole. By this rule, in order to obtain a continuance, the party must show to the court the whole of the evidence necessary to support his case, and the Judge is to compare the evidence with the charges, and must be satisfied that it is sufficient to cover the whole of the case, or he will not grant a continuance; this doctrine is too absurd to require a refutation; it would destroy all the benefit that could arise to parties from the right, so well established in law, of continuing causes upon affidavit of absent material witnesses; and subject the right to a fair and impartial trial, to the mere arbitrary will of a Judge, who would thus assume the right to weigh the evidence wanted, and measure its materiality by his prejudice against the party; this would in fact, tend in many instances to destroy the trial by Jury, and reduce it to a mere form without substance; for the party could not state on oath all that his witnesses could prove, once in a hundred times. But the answer states that the court proposed to postpone the trial for a month, and some of the witnesses go further than the accused himself and say for six weeks; and this is relied upon as showing the disposition of the Judge to accommodate the defendant. This is a pretence to a accommodate that could answer the defendant no valuable purpose. The absent witnesses resided at such great distances, that most of them could not be procured in that time, and this the judge well knew. He even states in his answer, that they lived at such great distances as left no reasonable ground to believe they could be procured at the succeeding term, being six months, and yet pretends that one month or six weeks would be sufficient. But here I must notice, that it is remarkable the counsel for the defendant never heard of this proposed postponement; and I must therefore conclude it was not seriously made; but if it was it only proves that the Judge was determined to try Callender himself, and would not, therefore, on any ground whatever, continue the cause to a succeeding term, at which he was not to be present. He had before determined to punish Callender, and could not trust his case to the management of any other judge. This is of a piece with the rest of his conduct on this occasion, and presents this honourable court and the world with the instance of the most flagrant abuse of common justice, under the sacred sanction of administering the law for the correction of offenders.
The next charge which I propose to examine is contained in the second article of the impeachment, and consists in the judge's overruling the objection of John Basset, one of the jury, who wished to be excused from serving on the trial of Callender, because he had made up his mind as to the book from which the words charged to be libelous in the indictment had been drawn. The constitution secures to defendants charged with crimes, the right of the trial by an impartial jury; any thing, therefore, that goes to show that a man has made up an opinion with regard to the guilt or innocence of the accused, or with regard to the matter in question, or decided it in his own mind, proves him to be disqualified to serve as a juror, because it proves he is not impartial, has a bias upon his mind, and cannot be said to be indifferent. The same doctrine is supported by the laws of England. In order to show this, I will refer the court to 3 Bac. Ab. (new ed.) 756, & also Co. Litt. 158; where it is stated, if a juror has declared his opinion, touching the matter in question, &c. or has done any thing by which it appears that he cannot be indifferent or impartial, &c. these are principal causes of challenge; and therefore such juror would be disqualified. Here it is manifest, that tho' declaring an opinion is good cause of challenge to a juror, if it is not necessary he should declare such opinion in order to disqualify him; it is sufficient that he has done something, whether making up an opinion, or doing any act whatever, by which it appears he is not indifferent, is not perfectly impartial. The objection therefore, made to Basset as a Juror, ought to have been sustained, and he ought to have been excused from serving on the Jury, upon two grounds. First, because he had made up an opinion with regard to the matter of the charge against Callender. This is proved by the evidence of Basset himself, who says, he had seen in a newspaper, extracts stated in the publication to have been taken from the Prospect Before Us; and he stated to the court on the trial, that he had made up his opinion, that those extracts were seditious, and that the author of the book called the Prospect Before Us, or that from which these extracts were taken, was within the sedition act, and therefore punishable under it. It was at the
time notorious and well known that Callender was the author of the Prospect Before Us; it was equally notorious and known, that the indictment against him was founded on that book; and Mr. Basset stated, he had no reason to doubt that the extracts were taken from that book as stated in the papers. Is it not, therefore, clear, that forming an opinion with regard to the extracts, was forming an opinion with regard to the matter charged as libelous in the indictment? No reasonable doubt can exist on this point, and though Mr. Basset did not hear the indictment read, as the court refused to permit it to be read until the Jury were sworn, a measure under such circumstances as extraordinary as it was new; yet he knew the subject matter it contained as well as if he had heard it. The opinion, therefore, that he had made up his mind on this subject, clearly proves he was not indifferent, was not impartial; he had decided the guilt of Callender, in fact, in his own mind, and could not be expected to shake off the effects of such prejudication. He was, therefore, according to the constitution, and the law already cited, disqualified from being a juror, having done an act that showed he was not indifferent, was not impartial, and ought of course to have been excused from serving on the jury. He ought also to have been rejected as a juror on a second ground; because he had not only made up an opinion on the matter in question, but had declared that opinion in publick. It is proved by the evidence of Mr. Basset himself, as well as by that of Mr. Hay and Mr. Nicholas, and also by that of Mr. Robinson, that when he was asked whether he had formed and delivered an opinion upon the charge in the indictment, he stated, that although he had never heard the indictment read, yet he had formed an opinion that the author of the Prospect Before Us was within the sedition act. This, as has been already insisted upon, was the same as forming an opinion upon the charges in the indictment, as he knew the indictment was founded upon that book; & this opinion, which he had formed, he then declared in open court, in the hearing of all bystanders, and before he was sworn as a juror. This was, therefore, according to the rule laid down by the judge and the question he declared proper to be asked, a complete disqualification of Mr. Basset from serving as a juror on that trial. For he had formed and delivered an opinion on the matter in question. And what difference could it make, whether such opinion was delivered a minute or an hour before the juror was sworn on the trial, or a week or a month before? Certainly the effect on his mind must be the same, and he must be equally unfit to serve as a juror in either case. On both of these grounds, therefore, Mr. Basset ought certainly to have been rejected from serving as a juror on the trial of Callender; and this is so glaring an innovation on the impartiality of trial by Jury, (the security of our rights and great bulwark of our liberties,) that when taken in connexion with the rest of the Judge's conduct, it strongly evinces an overbearing disposition, that would not stop at the use of any means, however unjust and illegal, to obtain a desired object. He had told the marshal, if he had on his list of jurors any creatures called democrats, to strike them off. He, therefore, knew the political sentiments of those who were called as jurors, to be favourable to his wishes, as no doubt his direction was pursued. Mr. Basset had declared his opinion, that the author of the Prospect Before Us was within the sedition law who was notoriously known to be Callender. He therefore knew the sentiments of the juror; knew he must be disposed to convict the defendant, and for this reason he would not excuse him from serving on the trial, but would pervert the meaning of the law to make it subservient to his own views.
(To be Continued.)
From the LONDON STAR, March 16.
GIBRALTAR, FEB. 11.
The enemy's gun-boats now intercept every vessel that offers to go out or enter the Bay without convoy. They this morning carried a large ship into Algesiras, supposed to be the George letter of marque, of 16 guns, which sailed from hence for Megadore in the afternoon of the 9th, and which we saw becalmed and attacked by three gun-boats off Tariffa.
Nothing is more astonishing than the neglected state in which this Bay has always been left during a Spanish war. Last war the Spanish gun-boats were quietly suffered to carry English vessels into Algesiras, worth upwards of one million and a half sterling; although we had then several gun-boats here, yet the same thing happened, as at present; no regular crews were ever appointed to the gun-boats, consequently they were never ready when required; and when they were manned upon any extraordinary occasion, it was by men taken from the transports or merchant ships, who were totally unused to the service, and who consequently always fought to the greatest disadvantage.
There are several gun-boats laying in the New Mole perfectly ready for sea, but, of course, quite useless, there not being a single man belonging to them.
It is the opinion of the ablest officers here, that fifteen, or at most twenty English gun-boats, with regular crews appointed to them, would defeat, and drive out of the Bay, any number of gun-boats that the enemy ever could bring to oppose them, and if some such establishment is not soon formed at this place, no vessel of any description will be able to lie here with safety, as experience has shown that men of war cannot even protect themselves in a calm, against the attacks of gun-boats; and
we have undoubted official intelligence, that the Spaniards are determined to do their utmost to burn or force out of the Bay every British ship that offers to anchor here.
The following statement of the force destined by the Spaniards for this purpose comes from unquestionable authority, and may be implicitly relied upon by our Government, and if they neglect the warning thus given to them, woeful will be the consequences:
42 gun-boats, each fitted up with a grate to heat red hot shot; 10 mortar boats, each carrying a large mortar; 2 howitzer boats, each carrying a howitzer to throw a shell of 9 inches diameter; 6 feluccas, armed; 10 xebecs for carrying stores; 12 auxiliary boats, for boarding vessels; 1 boat, with shipwrights and caulkers; 1 corvette, of 18 guns, as a receiving ship.
ESTABLISHMENT.
Ten Post Captains, 40 Lieutenants, 25 Ensigns of the Navy, 1 Surgeon, and 5 Mates, with 2250 sailors and soldiers, and artillery, destined solely for the establishment of the gun-boats. The whole is to be under the command of Don Francisco Maurell, a most active Officer, who himself arrived at Algesiras with the first division, consisting of 12 gun-boats on the 8th of January. The remainder are preparing with all expedition at Cadiz, Barcelona, and Carthagena, and are expected here in the course of this month. Such a force will render it totally impossible for any vessel to lie even twenty-four hours in the Mole, without the utmost risk of being dismasted, or burnt, as the gun-boats may repeat their attacks daily with impunity in calm weather. As a gun boat presents so small an object, and is so low in the water, that not one shot in a hundred will hit them from a ship or a battery on shore, whilst they, on the contrary, can fire with the utmost precision at so large an object as a ship, and the town is completely at their mercy whenever they choose to destroy it.
Perhaps we cannot more forcibly exemplify the truth of the facts stated in the above letter, than by quoting the following extracts from Colonel Drinkwater's history of the late siege.
Page 107. The gun-boats were strongly built, but ill finished; they had a small mast inclining forward from the center of the boat, almost over the bow, upon which was hoisted a latine yard and sail, which at anchor served as an awning to the men on board. They rowed astonishingly swift, and each carried a 26 pounder in the bow. We never had a good opportunity of making any satisfactory observations upon them, but judged from their size that they were about 70 feet long, and 20 broad.
P. 149.—The gun-boats, on the 18th, fired again upon the shipping and men of war cruising in the Bay. The Minerva and Monsieur frigates had several men dangerously wounded, and the Nonsuch had a mast crippled. The navy, after this attack, no longer considered these boats in the same dispicable light as on their first entrance into the Bay.
P. 163.—The attacks of the gun boats were become so active, that we could never promise ourselves a nights repose without being disturbed by a cannonade—and their attacks were more vexatious from the impossibility of being able to retaliate, because they presented to us so minute an object. Whenever the alarm was given of their approach which was generally a little after midnight, the southern part of the rock was in immediate commotion. Their effects have been found so destructive, that all were upon the look out. The troops were ordered from their tents, to places where they were covered from the shot; but the shells were directed to the most sequestered recesses. Such was the terror of the miserable inhabitants, that many of them fled, nearly naked, to the remote parts of the rock, and even here they could scarcely deem themselves secure. In short, no scene could be more deplorable than their distress on these occasions.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Sch'r Union, Baker, 11 days from New-Providence, Molasses and Fruit, C. Fry. Sch'r Liberty, Lewis, 5 days from Philadelphia. Two passengers from the British ship America, Wainwright, from Jamaica, bound to Philadelphia, arrived here on Wednesday night.—They left the ship on Tuesday, in lat. 36, 12, steering N. W. From Lloyd's List, April 8.—Arrived at Falmouth, Courtney, Bryant, from Norfolk; at Liverpool, Glory, Haynes, and John and Alice, Baker, do. at Guernsey, Union, Higginbottom, do.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.
A buoy was placed on the bar of St. Simons the 50th of March, 1805. The bar is in north latitude 30, 58. The buoy is on the outside of the bar, and about one third of the way from the north to the south breaker head, in three fathoms water low tide.
In sailing over the bar bring the buoy to bear west; steer for it, and pass it on either side. After passing the buoy, let it bear E. by S. 1-2 S. which course will carry the vessel between the north breaker, and the middle ground, (so called). On the bar, at low tide, the depth of water is 15 feet; within the bar, 3 1-2 fathoms.
The middle ground extends W. by N. 1-2 N. three miles. It has 10 feet water on the shoalest part. The east end of it is two miles W. from the buoy. There is a good channel on the south, as well as on the north side thereof.
From the buoy to the southward of St. Simons, the course is W. by N. 3-4 N. and the distance 7 miles. The north-east part of little St. Simons, bears north, and the south point of Jekyll Island S. W. W. from the buoy.
There is a swash between the north breaker and the island of St. Simons; the south side of which island is W. S. W. from the swash. To sail through it, just open the extremity of Jekyll and the south point of St. Simons. The depths of low water here is 6 feet.
Custom-House, district of Brunswick, April 12, 1805.
NORFOLK THEATRE.
THIS EVENING, May 31, 1805. Will be presented, (for the first time this season) the favourite Comedy, of THE POOR GENTLEMAN. To which will be added, the Farce of THE PRISONER AT LARGE.
AUCTION.
BY WILLIAM B. LAMB, TOMORROW, (Saturday) 1st June, at 12 o'clock, WILL BE SOLD,
On a credit of 2 and 6 months, with approved indorsers, THE SCHOONER VIRGINIA, Lying at Newton's Wharf, as she arrived from sea. May 31. 730
IRISH LINENS.
THE SUBSCRIBER Has received in addition to his London Stock, a large assortment of Irish Linens, Sheetings, Diapers, Downas, 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
LANDING ON NEWTON'S WHARF, From on board the Schooner Union, Captain Baker, from New-Providence, 60 Hogsheads MOLASSES. 8 Tons LIGNUMVITE. For sale by C. Fry. May 31. 3 731
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
Just Landed and for Sale, on our Wharf, From on board the British Brig Adventure, from Jamaica, 88 Tierces and 22 Barrels fine Green Coffee. C. & F. Whittle. May 31. tf 733
FOR SALE, And entitled to drawback, A few boxes Imperial & Young Hyson TEAS, of the first quality, and of the latest Philadelphia importations. Edward Johnston. May 31. 3t 734
THE NORFOLK RACES,
WILL COMMENCE On WHITSON MONDAY, the 3rd of June. 1st Day, a Sweepstake for 3 years old Colts, one mile heats, 861s. on each; 50 dollars entrance, half forfeit; the mags intended to run must be described to the Subscriber, by the 1st of May, at which time the Subscription closes. To this there are five Subscribers. 2d Day, a Sweepstake for 4 years old Colts this spring (that did not win a Purse or Sweepstake of more than 200 dollars last fall) two mile heats, with 100 lbs. on each, 50 dollars entrance, half forfeit; the mags must be described, and the Subscription will close the 26th May. To this there are three Subscribers. On the same day, there will be a Give and Take Sweepstake, two mile heats, 50 dollars entrance. 3rd Day, the Town and Country Subscription Purse, warranted worth 400 dollars, and the money hung up, 4 mile heats; 25 dollars entrance; weight for age. 4th Day, a Quarter Cask of Madeira, one mile heats, with catches, the best 3 in 5; free of entrance to Subscribers to the Races and, the starter of a horse to any other day's running; to any other person 10 dollars. 5th Day, a Purse of 200 dollars, 2 mile heats, weight for age; entrance 15 dollars. The Boys will be expected to be dressed in a Jockey like manner, and the entrances will be made with the Subscriber the day preceding each day's running. Stables and Litter found gratis. The following Tolls will be required. Four Wheel Carriages, 6s.—Two do 3s.—Each man and horse 1s. 6d.—Each person on foot at the gate 9d.—The bridge as usual. R. H. COCKE. March 6. epflA. 347
PUBLICK SALE.
In pursuance of the last Will and Testament of the late JOHN K. READ, deceased, WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLICK VENDUE, On Friday 7th June, at 11 o'clock, on the premises, THAT SUBSTANTIAL Three Story Fire-Proof Brick Ware-House, On Maxwell's Wharf, occupied by Messrs. M'Clanahan, Anderson & Co.—The terms of payment will be two thousand dollars at sixty days, the remainder in six months, in approved endorsed negotiable notes. Title will be given on payments being made. Helen Read, Executrix. May 13. tds 682
WILL BE SOLD AT PUBLICK VENDUE, On Friday 7th June, at 12 o'clock, on the premises, (If not previously disposed of at private Sale.) A VALUABLE LOT OF LAND, Adjoining the Work-House—Also, AN HALF-ACRE LOT, Opposite to Mr. Henry Bruner's—fronting on three streets. The above is very desirable property, in pleasant and healthy situations, and will be divided into convenient building lots, to suit the purchasers. Those inclining to purchase, are invited to view the property. Further information can be obtained on application to Helen Read. May 13. tds 680
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from our Cooperation, a Negro Man named HALL, by some called HARRY. 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 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. 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 conviction.
M c Pherson & M c Phail. Norfolk, Virginia, May 7. tf 657
DEAGLE'S Packet will sail for Baltimore on Wednesday. May 31.

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 Romual Handkerchiefs; Madras do; Plain, Drabs, and Twilled-Stripe Nankeens; Cotton Cassimeres; Grandereills 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 Sattin; 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 Osnaburgs, and Ticklenburgs; Linen Checks; India Cottons; Bandanna Handkerchiefs; &c. &c. ALL OF WHICH HE WILL SELL, ON THE LOWEST TERMS, BY WHOLESALE OR RETAIL. April 26. tf 624
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
I WISH TO PURCHASE From Sixty to Eighty Cords of Oak Bark, To be delivered at Salters, for which the following prices will be given:— Spanish Oak, 10 dols. per Cord. Willow or Water Oak, 9 do. Red Oak, 8 do. White Oak, (if young and not too scaly,) 7 do. Theo: Armistead. May 15. 6w 684
REMOVAL. JAMES TUCKER, Has removed to No. 1, HOLT'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
NOW LANDING, On Rothery's Wharf, from on board the Brig Ann Elizabeth, Capt. Williams, from Antigua, 40 Puncheons four years old Rum. And a few hds. of the last Crop.—For sale by] John Brown. May 1. tf 642
THE LOTTERY FOR THE BENEFIT OF WILLIAM & MARY COLLEGE, Will Re-commence Drawing Tomorrow, and continue regularly; a correct numerical register of the Blanks and Prizes, will be kept at the Norfolk Hotel, where Tickets may be examined. May 8. tf 658
TO RENT, A large and commodious Brick House, eligibly situated on Wide and Little Water Streets, and calculated for four tenements, which may be rented either separately or together. Helen Read. May 10. tf 666
FOR SALE, The Cargo of the Ship GEORGE, Capt. Read, from Honduras—viz 30 Tons LOGWOOD. 25,000 Feet MAHOGANY. 800 Barrels SARSAPARILLA. John Granbery. May 13. 4w 677
COTTON. FOR SALE—AFLOAT, On board the Schooner Federal Republican, Captain Taylor, from Savannah, 400 Bales COTTON. Martin Fisk. May 13. tf 678
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
Just received from New-York, per the Mary-land Mary—And for Sale, 5000 pieces NANKEENS, and 20 chests fresh Hyson TEA, imported per the Ship Fanny, from Canton. Apply to Robert Maitland, & Co. May 10. 9t 669
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. 4 Half Pipes, } FINE OLD SICILY WINE. 2 Qr. Casks, } 15 Quarter Casks Sherry WINE. 30 Crates well assorted EARTHENWARE. 9 Casks do. GLASSWARE. 5 Cwt. Dry White LEAD. Half Ton STEEL. 4 Hogsheads Philadelphia Loaf SUGAR. 1258 Barrels Superfine, } FLOUR. 489 do. Fine, } 50 Hogsheads Petersburg, } TOBACCO. 50 do. Richmond, } 42 do. Lowland, } A. Machure. April 29. 623
A. C. JORDAN & Co.
HAVE JUST RECEIVED, AN EXTENSIVE SUPPLY OF
Fine Elephant, Imperial, Super-Royal, Royal, Medium, Demy, Folio Post, Foolscap, Hot Pressed Quarto Post, Gilt and Hot Pressed do, Plain Wove do, Extra Thin do, Black Edged do, Royal and Demy Drawing PAPER. Blue Blotting do, Marble do, Log Book do. ALSO, Blunt's Navigator, and Coast Pilot. Walsh's Mercantile Arithmetick. Walker's, Sheridan's, Johnson's, Jones's, Perry's, and En-tick's Dictionaries. Ainsworth's, and Boyer's do. Murray's, Lowth's, Ashe's, Alexander's, Webster's and Buchanan's, Grammars. Adams's, Ruddiman's, Perrin's, and Jay's, do. Elegant Extracts, in small quarto. Caesar, Virgil, and Horace, in usum delphin. Biographical Dictionary. Campbell on Rhetoric. Simpson's Euclid. Life of Sir William Jones. Gale, on Medical Electricity. Mayor's Voyages and Travels. British Classics—Whitby's Discourses. Little's Poem's—Moheim's Church History. American Gardner—Murray's Reader. Peasant's Fate—Gamerster's Progress—&c. Pocket Books—Pounce & Pounce Boxes. Sand Boxes, Ink-stands, Wafers, Sealing Wax, Quills, Pencils, &c. &c. LIKEWISE, A BEAUTIFUL GLASS FRIGATE, Completely rigged. April 25. 1w—1w3w 623
JOHN C. NIEMEYER, Has received in addition to his former assortment GERMAN GOODS, 45 packages German Linens, &c. chiefly entitled to drawback, Consisting 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, Ticklenburgs, Osnaburgs, Brown Hempen Hessians, Brown and White Rolls, Russia Sheetings and light Canvas. ALSO, Velvet Ribbons no. 2 to 150, Plush for Saddlers, black Sattin for waistcoats, Brussels Lace 4 to 20 dols. per yard, cheap Edgings, German Nuns Thread, patent Needles, India sewing Silk, Made Shirts, Thread Stockings very fine, Razors, Spectacles, and Penknives, of the very first qualities, Cheap Jewellery, fine Scissors, Muffs and Tippets 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 matts, & 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, 50 boxes first quality Havana Segars, 50 do. good quality St. Jago do. 140 do. Short Pipes, 200 lbs. Shoe Thread, 2000 Coffee bags good quality, 400 Gunny do. 250 M. com cheap Needles, 60 M. Toy marbles, 1 cases 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
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 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
ALL Persons to whom my Son ARTHUR LEE, is indebted, are requested to make known their claims to RICHARD E. LEE. March 18. tf 507
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 as any in Virginia. There are interspersed throughout 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 waters 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 700l. In short there are but very few Plantations offered for Sale, which unite 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. On the Premises. May 3. 1w 648
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. Blount's American Coast Pilot. Also for Sale, Bell-Mettle Skillets of Superior Quality. Carriage Wheel Boxes, Bouches, and Solid Brass Sheaves—Assorted. Hoop and Baltimore Bar-Iron—Assorted. All kinds of Mathematical Instruments Repaired, as usual. April 26. tf 628
FOR SALE, BY WILLIAM B. LAMB, 30 Puncheons St. Vincents RUM. 13 Hogsheads and 28 Tierces SUGAR. 10 Pipes French BRANDY. 5 do. GIN. 1 do. Madeira WINE. 10 Quarter Casks SHERRY. 10 Cases CLARET. 10 Hogsheads do. 12 Bags GINGER. 1 Case Black SATTIN. 3 do. IRISH LINEN. 7 Bales India COTTONS. 3 Trunks CALICOES, &c. February 13. tf 415
NOW LANDING, From on board the Brig Andross Corbin, from Guadalupe, and Schooner Ploughboy, from Havana. 40 Hogsheads SUGAR. 17 do. MOLASSES. 4 Barrels do. 240 Boxes White Havana SUGAR. 110 do. Brown do. For Sale by William Pennock. April 24. tf 616
JUST RECEIVED, AND FOR SALE BY JOHN N. HAGENAU, No. 36, MAIN-STREET. Estopillas, Britanias, Fine Holland Shirting Linen, Platillas Royal, Brown Holland, 25 Boxes Mould Candles. 25 do. Brown Soap. 30 Firkins first quality Butter. 25 Kegs Richmond Manufactured Tobacco. 30 Dozen Cowskin Whips. Ginger in Kegs, and 25 BARRELS RYE WHISKEY. ALSO ON HAND, Country Gin. Old 5th proof Peach Brandy. New Casks Linseed Oil. April 8. tf 571
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. 10d per lb. 4d, do. 3s per M. 3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. 2d, 10d, 12d, and 20d, Brads, 8d per lb. 6d, do. 4s 6d per M. 4d, do. 3s do. 3d, do. 3s 7 1-2d do. 2d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. LEVIN DORSEY. March 18. tf 503
SAMUEL SAUNDERS & Co. Have just received from London, per ship Dumfries, Capt. Beard 18 Kegs assorted SHOF. 12 Casks Hibbert's BROWN STOUT. 12 do. PORTER. 50 Kegs GUN POWDER. 50 Boxes ASSORTED GLASS. 15 Kegs SCOTCH BARLEY. 1500 lbs. Refined SALT PETER. 15 Boxes FIG BLUE. 12 do. DURHAM MUSTARD. A few Casks COPPERAS. 1 Box Best GUN FLINTS. Also—From the Northward. 50 Barrels Prime PORK. April 29. tf 564
WILLIAM KNOX, HAS FOR SALE, ON MARSWELL'S WHARF, 550 Bbls. Fine and Superfine FLOUR—superior quality 30 do. X MIDLINGS. * * * Families can be supplied with prime Flour, at 12 dollars per barrel. May 3. tf 649
FOR SALE—BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, 50 Hds. Petersburg TOBACCO, of good quality and wts. 1000 Barrels Superfine FLOUR. 385 do. Fine do. 7 do. X MIDLINGS. 99 do. SHIP STUFF. 20 do. SHIP BREAD. 16 Pipes Holland GIN. 7 do. Country do. of superior quality. 14 Batts French BRANDY. ALSO, LOAF SUGAR, per the Hogshead, and Old London Particular Madeira WINE, fit for immediate use—in pipes, hogsheads and quarter casks. Robert Maitland & Co. April 24. 6w 620
250 Barrels Superfine, 250 do. Fine, 100 do. X Midlings, } FLOUR. 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
JACOB KLEIN, No. 111, Main-Street, is now opening a large assortment of 6-4 and 4-4 Cotton Cambricks, Fine Cravat do. Plain Black and Embossed do. Fine India and Mull Mull Muslin, Silk Cuberdolls for Mosquito Nets, Short Silk and Kid Gloves, best English Silk, do. ALSO, Women and Men's Fine Plain and Laced Clock Cotton Hose, Black Laces, Common Blue Stripes, best London Superfine Black Cloth, and two trunks Fine and Common Calicoes, &c. &c. all of which will be sold very low for cash or short credit. May 10. tf 671
WANTED, BY THE SUBSCRIBERS, FOUR HUNDRED CORDS OF OAK BARK; For which the following prices, in Cash, will be given—delivered at their TAN-YARD:— For Spanish Oak Bark, 10 Dollars per Cord. Willow, or Water Oak, 9 do. Red Oak, 8 do. White Oak, if young and not too scaly, 7 do. A FEW CORDS OF BEECH BARK, Will also be received at 7 Dollars per cord. * * * It is recommended to those who get BARK, to bring it in early in the season, for if kept out and exposed to heavy rains, it will not be received. WILLIAM PLUME & CO. March 11. tf 485
NORFOLK BOROUGH. At a Quarterly Session Court held the twenty-fifth day of March, 1805, in the 29th year of the Commencement. William Pennock, Compt. against Stephen Gorham, Peter C. Brooks, John Nickell, Moses Myers, and Cary Selden, Deputy Marshal of the United States, for the Virginia district. Def'ts. THE Defendants Stephen Gorham, and Peter C. Brooks, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the Rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, It is ordered, That the said Defendants Stephen Gorham, and Peter C. Brooks, appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the Bill of the Complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper printed in this Borough, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-house of said Borough: And it is further ordered, That the Defendants John Nickell, Moses Myers, and Cary Selden, do not pay, convey away, or secret any debts or effects in their hands, belonging to the other Defendants, until the further order or decree of this Court, concerning the same. A Copy, Teste, WILLIAM SHARP, C. N. P. C. 584
NORFOLK BOROUGH. At a Quarterly Session Court held the twenty-fifth day of March, 1805, in the 29th year of the Commencement. George Wilson, Compt. against Thomas Harris, and George Veale, IN CHANCERY. THE Defendant Thomas Harris, not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the Rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the Complainant, by his Counsel, It is ordered, That the said Defendant Thomas Harris, appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the Bill of the Complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper printed in this Borough, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-house of said Borough: And it is further ordered, That the Defendants Caton & Veale, who have effects of the said Thomas Harris in their hands, do not pay, convey away, or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this Court, concerning the same. A Copy, Teste, WILLIAM SHARP, C. N. B. C. 585
NORFOLK BOROUGH. At a Quarterly Session Court continued and held the twenty-sixth day of March, 1805, in the 29th year of the Commencement. Samuel Ramsay, Compt. against Ephraim Robinson, Def't. THE Defendant not having entered his appearance, and given security according to the Act of Assembly, and the Rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth: on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, It is ordered, That the said Defendant appear here on the fourth Monday in June next, and answer the Bill of the Complainant; and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in some newspaper printed in this Borough, for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the Court-house of said Borough. A Copy, Teste, WILLIAM SHARP, C. N. B. C. 583
MADAME COULON, NOUVELLEMENT arrivée dans cette ville, à l'honneur de prévenir le public, qu'elle montre à pincer de la HARPE.—Les personnes qui voudront l'honorer de leur confiance, trouveront en elle toute la douceur et l'amabilité que convient à enseigner aux jeunes demoiselles.—Elle se loge, maintenant, chez M. Prin, épicier, Town-Point, No. 27.
MRS. COULON, LATELY arrived in this Borough, takes the liberty of informing the Publick, that she teaches to play on the HARPE.—Those who may honour her with their confidence, will experience all the tenderness and attention which are requisite in those who undertake the instruction of Young Ladies.—She lodges at present at the house of Mr. Prin, grocer, No. 27, Town-Point. May 20. 1m 692
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. do. MALAGA do. PORT and CLARET WINE, in casks & bottles. 6 Barrels PORK—and about 1000 Dozen PORTER, of my last winters flock, equal to any imported. Joseph Hayes. August 24. tf
300 barrels Superfine FLOUR. 70 hogsheads Prime Richmond TOBACCO. 100 barrels Mess PORK. FOR SALE, BY C. & F. WHITTLE. March 20. tf 513
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 some time at least. He has two small crafts, and ba 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. 1w 568
The Subscribers have for Sale 100 Hogsheads Old TOBACCO. 106 Puncheons high proof Jamaica RUM. 30 Hogsheads CLARET. 200 Barrels Superfine FLOUR. 200 do. Prime PORK. C. & F. WHITTLE. February 6. tf 397
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 PUBLICK LEDGER has been heretofore printed; 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 application by letters post-paid, or personally at our office. J. Cowper & Geo. L. Gray. Norfolk, May 8.
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY J. COWPER AND G. L. GRAY. OPPOSITE THE EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE. Price Five Dollars and Fifty Cents yearly, in advance