Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1806-01-27 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.
VOL. II.]
MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1806.
[NO. 83.]
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK; PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE PAPERS TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS—ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF FIFTY CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY-FIVE CENTS PER SQUARE FOR EACH SUCCEEDING INSERTION.
FOR NEW-YORK, The Ship NANKING, Will sail in six days—Freight will be taken on moderate terms—Apply to Phinehas Dana & Co. January 20
FOR FREIGHT, The Schooner UNION, Burthen 90 tons, Benjamin Buck, Master—A freight for the West-Indies will be preferred—For terms apply to Martin Fisk.
Who has for Sale, 20 casks choice pickled Cucumbers, 50 kegs No 1 BUTTER, for family use. January 20
FOR LIVERPOOL, The Brig COMMERCE, John Price, Master, Will sail in ten days, and can take 40 or 50 hds. on freight, if immediate application be made to Moses Myers. January 17.
FOR BOSTON, The Sch't LAURANY, Capt. HICKERSON, will sail in 4 or 5 days. For freight or passage apply to Martin Fisk.
Who has this Day landing from said Vessel, 70 Barrels No. 2, BEEF, 50 do. 1, do. } Boston Inspection. 20 Halfdo. 1, do. 30 Barrels MACKAREL, 40 do. N. E. RUM, 50 Boxes Fresh CHOCOLATE, 100 do. Mould CANDLES, 100 do. Brown SOAP, 20 do. Spermaceti CANDLES, Fresh Hylson and Young Hyson TEA, And a small invoice of SHOES, SOAL, LEATHER, CALF SKINS, and BOOT LEGS. In Store, 10 Hogsheads choice Antigua RUM. Jan. 13.
FOR CHARTER, The Schooner LIBERTY, Joshua Bangs, Master, An excellent vessel, will carry about 1200 barrels—For terms, apply to the master on board, or to Moses Myers. January 8.
FOR A PORT IN FRANCE, The fine, newly coppered, fast sailing SHIP HIGHLAND MARY, Will take freight to amount of 200 hogsheads Tobacco on liberty; will be ready in a few days.—Apply to Mr. PETER GORDON, or to Geo. Murray & Co. January 8.
For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The complete and fast sailing Brig MERCHANT, 178 tons, or 1400 barrels, JOHN PIKE, master, in complete order for the reception of a cargo. For terms apply to Martin Fisk.
Who wants a FREIGHT also for the Schooner ELIZABETH, B. Joy, Master, 650 barrels burthen. Apply as above. January 6.
FOR CHARTER, The Brig HARRIOT, Robert Leech, Master, Apply to Phinehas Dana & Co.
Who have received per said Brig, 7 hogsheads N. E. RUM, 17 barrels do. 9 do. SUGAR, 12 do. BEEF, 10 casks RAISINS, 1 hhd. MOLASSES, 9 quintals FISH, 2 bbls. MACKAREL, 5000 BRICKS. January 3.
The fine new fast sailing Schooner FAME, Wm. Warnum, master, burthen about 700 barrels, now in complete order for the reception of a cargo—will take a freight to the West-Indies if applied for in a few days. Apply to the master on board, or to D. R. Waddey & Co. Dec. 30.
THE SLOOP GEORGE, Russell Towler, Master, burthen about 400 barrels, wants a freight to Charleston, S. C. or Savannah. Apply to the master, or D. R. Waddey & Co. Dec. 30.
For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The American BRIG THOMAS, A. HANNAU, Master, burthen about 1500 barrels Flour. For terms apply to Robert Gibson. Dec. 30.
For Freight or Charter, The good Ship Amiable Antoniette, John Williams master, now in complete order to receive a cargo—A port in France will be preferred. Apply to the master on board, or to William Hartshorne, Jun. Dec. 30.
FOR SALE ON VERY LIBERAL TERMS, The good Brig COMMERCE, Burthen 1100 barrels—Apply to William Hartshorne, Jr. Who offers for Sale, SHERRY, MALAGA, TENERIFFE, particular LOAF SUGAR, CLARET in hds. and boxes, FIGS in frails, Alexandria CRACKERS. January 24.
Crafts and Boats Wanted. I want Immediately, Two or three flat bottomed VESSELS, from fifty to seventy-five tons, not drawing more than six feet water when loaded, to go to Lynhaven Bay. Also, One or two large LONG-BOATS, capable of carrying out an Anchor of 2,500 weight. John C. Niemeyer. Jan. 22.
FOR CHARTER, The Schooner LAURA, Captain Burgess—99 tons burthen, eighteen months old, in complete order for the reception of a cargo—A freight to Portugal or to the West-Indies will be preferred—For terms, apply to the Captain on board, or Richard Blow. Who has for Sale, 2000 best twilled SACK-BAGS. Jan. 22.
For Freight or Charter, The Brig ELIZABETH, Robert Barclay, Master, Burthen 1300 barrels. Apply to John Davis. Portsmouth, Dec. 27.
FOR SALE, On board the Ship Julia, Capt. Vickery, from Liverpool, 10,000 Bushels SALT. For Charter, to a Port in France, The Ship JULIA, Capt. Vickery—burthen 364 hogsheads, in complete order, and will be ready to receive a cargo in twenty days. The Ship PORTLAND, Capt. CALLENDER, is also offered for Charter to a Port in France; she will carry 315 hogsheads, and is now ready to receive a cargo. Apply to C. & F. Whittle. Who have for Sale, 100 Bales Upland COTTON, of a good quality. December 2.
A MAN ACQUAINTED with Farming and Gardening, will meet with encouragement by applying at the Cottage, near Portsmouth—The publick are hereby notified, that I have rented the above Farm, and forbid any further passage through the fields, under penalty of the law. Robert Bashall. Jan. 22.
Now landing at Newton's wharf, out of the brig Heron, capt. Lufkin, from Guadalupe, 6000 weight Green COFFEE, 15 hds. Clayed, and 20 hds. Muscovado SUGARS, 43 hds. and 31 bbls. MOLASSES.—For Sale by C. Fry. Jan. 22.
SWEDISH IRON. A few tons just received by schooner Mohawk, from Copenhagen, for Sale by Moses Myers. Jan. 22.
Norfolk Drawbridge. THE President and Directors of the Norfolk Drawbridge Company, have this Day declared a Dividend of Seventy Cents on each Share in the Capital Stock of the said Bridge, equal to three and half per cent. for the half year, which will be paid after the 12th February, on application to William Cammack, Treasurer. Jan. 22.
ST. UBES SALT. The CARGO of the Swedish Ship Princess Wilhelmina, consisting of about 14,000 bushels St. Ubes SALT, of an excellent quality—For sale on liberal terms if taken a-float. Apply to Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. Jan. 22.
Just arrived, and will be landed at Campbell and Wheelers wharf, out of the British brig Mary, from St. Vincents, 40 Hogsheads Prime SUGARS, and a few puncheons RUM—to be sold on liberal terms by Robert Dickson. Jan. 22.
FRANCIS SMITH, Has opened his Vendue and Commission Office at the Store lately occupied by Messrs. Bowman and Walker, No. 48, Main-Street. Jan. 20.
If George William Clarke who left England for this Country in July, 1802, is living, he will hear of something to his advantage on application at this office. Norfolk, Jan. 15.
Wanted to Purchase or Hire, A smart active Negro MAN, From 20 to 23 years of age. Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger. Jan. 10.
JUST LANDED, 25 Hogsheads Choice MOLASSES. For Sale by Thos. H. Parker. Jan. 10.
FOR SALE, 250 bbls. Superfine FLOUR, Afloat. Apply to James Maurice & Co. January 6. Landing this day from on board the Schooner Liberty, Joshua Bangs, master, from Jamaica, 68 Puncheons RUM. For Sale by Moses Myers. Dec. 30.
FOR SALE, The cargo of the Sch't Sophia, Capt. Harding, from Bordeaux, consisting of Hogsheads and Cases of old Claret, by Moses Myers. January 3.
FOR SALE, The CARGO of the Schooner Elizabeth Margaret, now landing on Marden's Wharf, 342 Boxes White & Brown Havana Sugars, 28 Hogsheads MOLASSES, 5 do. HONEY. —For terms apply to John Brown. January 6.
Sugar & Coffee. THIS DAY landing on Campbell's wharf, from on board the schooner Venus, capt. Goodwin, from Berbice, 21 Hogsheads Prime SUGARS, And a few Bags Prime GREEN COFFEE.—For Sale by Martin Fisk. Jan. 1.
All persons having claims against the Estate of ROBERT WARREN, deceased, either by bond or open account are desired to bring them forward for settlement, and those indebted to make immediate payment to Warren Ashley, Administrator. December 9.
FLOUR. 700 Barrels Mayo Mills of excellent quality, afloat, for Sale by Moses Myers. Dec. 27.
HUNTER & GATEWOOD, Have received per Ship Jane, Captain Colley, from Liverpool, the balance of their supply of
FALL AND WINTER GOODS, Which in addition to their former importation from London, makes their assortment general and complete—it consists of almost every article of useful and fashionable goods too tedious to enumerate, which they offer for sale, at their Store No. 129, Main Street, by Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms for cash, or short payments. November 8.
KENDAL COTTONS. The Subscribers have received per Ship Industry, captain Wright, from Liverpool. A few Bales low priced Kendal COTTONS, which they offer for Sale on liberal terms. Hunter & Gatewood. December 20.
FOR SALE, Liverpool Salt, Kendal Cottons, &c. The CARGO of the Ship Industry, Noah Wright, master, from Liverpool—Consisting of 12,000 Bushels SALT, 8 Bales Kendal COTTONS, 10 Cases COPPER, 18 and 20 oz. 18 Sugar BOILERS, of 150 gallons each, 3 Hogsheads SKIMMERS and LADLES, 4 Casks Copper NAILS.—Apply to William Pennock. December 20.
FOR SALE, On board the schooner Rising States, lying at Newton's whf PRIME PORK, MESS BEEF in half barrels, PRIME do. in do. New-York BUTTER, SALMON in kits, Boxes HERRINGS, Kegs NEFS TONGUES, MOULD CANDLES. Jesse Newcomb. Dec. 20.
BANK NOTES LOST. A letter dated Williamsburg, 27th November, 1805, directed to Messrs. Thos. & Wm. M'Candlish, merchants, Norfolk, containing Bank Notes to the amount of Two Hundred Dollars, as below described, and supposed to have been deposited in the Post-Office, has either been lost, mislaid, or taken a wrong direction—It is hoped that any person who may have become possessed of the same, accidentally or otherwise, will forward it on to the subscribers, as payment of the Notes have been stopped at the respective Banks. D. No. 1124, United States Branch, Norfolk, Dec. 6, 1804, - - - - - 100 Dollars. B. No. 97, Virginia Branch, Fredericksburg, February 6, 1805, - - - - - 100 Dollars. Wm. M'Candlish, & Co. Williamsburg, Dec. 9.
A VERY VALUABLE PROPERTY. WILL BE SOLD To the Highest bidder, for ready money, on the premises, on Saturday the 15th day of February next, by virtue of a deed of trust, executed by Richard Bate, to secure the payment of $833 dollars 33 cents, with interest thereon from the date thereof, due to Rambaut & Gerson & George Pegram, Jun. and the expenses of the sale, TEN ACRES OF LAND, Lying upon Appomattox River, within one mile of the town of Petersburg, with the water, grist, and manufacturing Mills, Bake-houses, Distillery-house, and other houses of improvements erected thereon. Pleasant Akin, for Henry Cugneau and Pleasant Akin. Petersburg, Dec. 30.
FOR RENT, And immediate possession given, The WAREHOUSE lately occupied by Mr. Edward Roberts—Also, The WAREHOUSE lately occupied by Mr. Edward Johnston. —For terms, apply to Robert Gibson. January 20.
FOR SALE, A Tract of Wood LAND, about six miles from Ferry Point, adjoining the Lands of Mr. Plume, Mr. S. Whitehead, and Mrs. Mosely, containing about 300 acres, mostly covered with Pine suitable for Masts and Spars, and about two miles from a good landing on the Eastern Branch: a great bargain may be had, and payments accommodating to the purchaser. Also for Lease, for a number of Years, A WHARF in Gosport, about 100 feet front on the river, and about 180 feet on a 60 feet street; the whole the property of Mrs. Clift, of Gosport. For particulars apply to R. Thompson. Portsmouth, Jan. 6.
THE SPIRIT OF THE PUBLICK JOURNALS; BEING an impartial selection of the best original Poetry, Essays, &c. and which have appeared in the newspapers of the United States during the year 1805. The Editors of News papers who exchange with the Baltimore Evening Post, are requested to give the above advertisement a few lines in their papers. When published, a copy of the work will be sent to each office. August 28.
THE Subscribers will give orders on TURK'S ISLAND for cargoes of SALT, and receive payment for the same on delivery, by drafts on this place at 60 days sight. James & Thomas Tucker. January 17.
ADVERTISEMENT. To be Sold, on the first day of February Court-meld, on the Court-House Ground, for CASH, A TRACT of LAND, containing about seventy-five acres, more or less, lying on Broad Water road, between Andrew Woodley's Store, and the place of Robert Tynes, dec'd—Sold under a Deed of Trust executed by Henry and Ridly Applewhite, to secure the payment of a Bond, dated 5th February, 1802, on demand 21st June, 1802, and payable unto Andrew Woodley, for the sum of seventy-three pounds, fourteen shillings, and two pence half penny.—An undoubted title will be made to the purchaser. Samuel Woodley, Trustee. Isle of Wight, Jan. 13.
LANDS FOR SALE. 750 acres lying near the New Dragon Bridge, in King and Queen County. This tract will be disposed of altogether, or divided into lots of 2 or 300 acres to suit purchasers. ALSO, 400 acres in the county of Gloucester, lying near Capabosack ferry, and in the neighbourhood of Mr. William Jones, and Mr. Thomas Fox, and distant about eight or nine miles from the Court-House. ALSO, 1140 acres in Middlesex county, lying on the Pianketank River, which affords the greatest abundance of Fish, Crabs, and Oysters, of superior quality. On this tract (generally called Barn Elms) there is a commodious Dwelling-House, with all the necessary out-houses, for the convenience of a large family. As it is presumed that no person will be disposed to purchase without first seeing the lands, it is deemed unnecessary here to give a description of them, or the terms on which they will be sold. The subscriber may be consulted on the business any time after the date hereof at Barn Elms. Carter B. Berkeley. December 6.
NOTICE. The Members of the Mutual Assurance Society, against Fire on Buildings of the State of Virginia, are hereby requested to attend their Annual General Meetings, to be held on the first Monday in January next, which is the sixth day of the said month. Any Member which doth not attend, at the said Meeting, in person or by proxy duly authorised, will be represented by the Member of the State Legislature, of the County, or the Senator of the District, wherein such absentee resides. W. F. AST, Principal Agent, M. A. S. ** The Printers in this State are requested to insert the above once a week for four weeks. Richmond, Nov. 25, 1805.
GERMAN GOODS. JOHN C. NIEMEYER, Has lately received and offer for Sale, the following Goods, for Cash, or on convenient credit, for approved Notes, viz. 1000 Bags of 2 and 3 bushels, in bales of 600 each. 1000 East India Gunny Bags. 190 Pieces Tickenburgs and Osnaburgs. 400 Brown Rolls. 400 White Rolls, different qualities. 100 White Platillas. 75 Brown Hollands. 100 Bretannias. 20 Dowlass. 62 Fine White Flanders Sheeting. 25 Shift Linen of 20 to 100 dollars per piece of 37 yards. 40 Fine Bed Bunts and Bed Ticking. 390 Velvet Ribbands, No. 2 to 150. 30 Russia Sheeting, and Diaper. 320 Dozen Snuff Boxes. 100 Boxes Baltimore Window Glass, in whole and half boxes, viz. 8 by 10, 9 by 11, 9 by 12, 10 by 12, and 12 by 14, at the manufactory prices, with the addition of the usual charges. A few Barrels Philadelphia bottled Porter. 105 Boxes Short Pipes. 120 Spanish Segars, of different quality. 150 lbs. Shoe Thread. 130 Twine. 15 Boxes Glass Ware, of different kinds, cut and plain. 37 Barrels Turpentine. ALSO, 20 Dozen of Shoe Brushes. Violins, Flutes and Fifes. ditto Strings and Bows. Looking Glasses of all kinds. Nuns' Thread and Fine Lace. Thread Stockings, Plush for Saddles. Coffee Mills.—Beads, and Bird Cages. Razors, Spectacles, and Penknives, 1st quality. Backgammon Tables, Dice, Cards, Chessmen. Fowling Pieces, Pistols, and Agut Flints. Crooked Horn and Ivory straight Combs. An Invoice of Japanned Ware. do. do. of Mill Saws, Augers, &c. 40,000 Marbles. And a great variety of other Articles. Apply as above; September 25.
BLANK NOTES AND CHECKS for both Banks, printed on paper of a superior quality for sale at this Office.

THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
TO SHOW THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME, HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
MONDAY EVENING, JAN. 27, 1806.
Owing to an accident, the figures denoting the number of wounded in two of the British ships were omitted in our last. On board the Royal Sovereign the number was 61, and on board the Dreadnought 23.
Private letters from Washington state, that the secret deliberations have terminated, and that nothing has been done, except debating on propositions. MR. RANDOLPH, it is confidently asserted, was in a minority upon every question, and what is more surprising, the federalists supported him in every measure. What those measures were is not stated; we conjecture that they were such as would produce expense, naval and military establishments. The building of the seventy-fours we are assured is abandoned.
When men have adopted, and adhere to certain maxims, the errors of which, experience has proven, it is an unprofitable task to expose them. There is no man who thinks, that if we had in the last four years, have built ten or twelve line of battle ships, and six frigates, that we should have now to discuss neutral rights, or have suffered the pillage of our property on the ocean. However our sage legislators may think, and however they may act, they will find that they must either abandon commerce, or create a respectable naval force to defend it. If we are not much mistaken, and we speak from correct information, the last and next quarterly returns of the impost will furnish a practical lesson upon the necessity of a naval force.
It is stated from Washington, that a proposition has been submitted and rejected in the house of representatives, the object of which was to place under the direction of the President, a sum not exceeding two millions of dollars, for the purchase of the Floridas, and thus to terminate our territorial disputes with Spain.
Report says, (and we give it only as such) that GENERAL TURREAU's bill has been favourably received; in other words, we understand that the Senate has passed the bill to stop the intercourse with St. Domingo. For the honour and dignity of our country we are truly concerned, that it had not been judged expedient to adopt this measure before. The humiliating circumstances under which this bill has passed (if it has passed) are such as must diminish, if not destroy any satisfaction, which its warmest advocate (being an American in heart) could experience.
Aware of the difficulties, which those who have the management of our publick concerns, must experience upon ordinary occasions, difficulties which the present situation of publick affairs must increase, we have viewed the measures of our government with liberal indulgence, and while we have sometimes thought the other men might be found, who, in our opinion, would discharge their functions with more advantage to the publick, we have not opposed measures which we had no cause to complain of, because they were not the measures of those in whom we have more confidence. But we cannot forbear expressing our astonishment at the conduct of the administration upon the subject of these remarks.
To us it appears, that a very plain conduct would have saved the country from the most mortifying situation. When Mr. Turreau presented his complaints, the president could have informed him that the object of his demands would not be complied with, except with the concurrence of the legislature. Mr. Turreau's note is dated in October, the dispatches from General Armstrong we presume were received in November by Mr. Skipwith, as they are dated in August, and Mr. Skipwith left Paris in September.
We can only account for the withholding of the communications of the French government, on the part of the President, from a belief which he entertained, that the bill might pass, without any of the communications being made publick, and thus the insolence of the French government, might have never been known, beyond the circle of governmental observation.
The bill, we have little doubt, will pass the house of representatives, which being known in St. Domingo, will bring a new enemy upon our commerce. Between the cruisers under General Ferrand's orders, and the corsairs of Dessalines, our commerce with Cuba, Jamaica, &c. will be greatly harrassed, if not destroyed.
DIED—Suddenly on Tuesday morning last, in Princess-Anne, Mr. WILLIAM CORNICK.
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From the National Intelligencer.
Examination of the BRITISH DOCTRINE, which subjects to capture a neutral trade, not open in time of peace.
We recommend the perusal of this pamphlet to every man ambitious of making himself accurately acquainted with the doctrine recently set up by Great Britain, and with the arguments by which it is attempted to maintain it. The magnitude of the subject, the deep interest it has excited, the interesting effects it may have on the prosperity, and eventually, perhaps, on the peace of the country, make it the duty of every American citizen, alive to the honour and interest of his country, to form precise and definite ideas respecting it, that he may be qualified to determine what measures it may be proper to adopt to avert injuries which might otherwise be oppressed.
sive. The discharge of this duty will be greatly facilitated by the perusal of this tract, in which the subject is discussed in a calm, able and comprehensive manner.
Its length forbids the giving it entire. We shall occasionally, however, offer an extract, calculated to awaken publick attention. It commences as follows:
In times of peace among all nations, their commercial intercourse is under no other restrictions than what may be imposed by their respective laws, or their mutual compacts. No one or more nations can justly control the commerce between any two or more of the others.
When war happens between any two or more nations, a question arises, in what respect it can affect the commerce of nations not engaged in the war?
Between the nations not engaged in the war, it is evident that the commerce cannot be affected at all by a war between others.
As a nation not engaged in the war remains in the same relations of amity and of commercial pursuits, with each of the belligerent nations, as existed prior to the war, it would seem that the war could not affect the intercourse between the neutral and either of the belligerent nations; and that the neutral nation might treat and trade with either, or both the belligerent nations, with the same freedom as if no war had arisen between them. This, as the general rule, is sufficiently established.
But inasmuch as the trade of a neutral nation with a belligerent nation might, in certain special cases, affect the safety of its antagonist, usage, founded on the principle of necessity, has admitted a few exceptions to the general rule.
Thus, all instruments of war, going into the hands of one belligerent nation, may be intercepted, on the high seas, by its adversary.
In like manner, a neutral trade with a place actually besieged, is liable to be interrupted by the besiegers.
It is maintained also on one side, though strongly contested on the other, that the property of a nation at war, in a neutral ship, may be seized and condemned by the enemy of that nation.
To these exceptions, Great Britain has undertaken to add another, as important as it is new. She asserts a right to intercept the trade of neutrals with her enemies, in all cases, where the trade, as it respects the ship, the cargo, or even the individual port of destination, was not as free before the war, as it is made during the war.
In applying this doctrine, the British government and courts have not, as yet, extended it beyond the trade of neutrals on the coasts, and with the colonies of enemies. But it is manifest, that this limitation is founded on considerations of expediency only; and that the doctrine is necessarily applicable to every other branch of neutral commerce with a belligerent nation, which was not open to the same nation in time of peace. It might indeed with equal reason be extended farther. It might be applied to the case of a trade legally permitted to foreign nations in time of peace, but not actually carried on by them in time of peace; because in time of peace actually carried on by the nation itself: and which is taken up by foreign nations in time of war only, in consequence of the war, which by increasing the risk or by finding other employment for the vessels and seamen of the nation itself, invites neutral traders into the deserted channels. In both cases, the neutral intervention may be said to result from the pressure of the war; and in both cases, the effect is the same to the belligerent; since in both, neutrals carry on for him, a trade auxiliary to his prosperity and his revenue, which he could no longer carry on for himself; and which at the same time, by liberating his naval faculties for the purposes of war, enable him to carry on the war with more vigour and effect. These inferences cannot be impaired by any sound distinction, between a trade of foreigners with colonies, and a trade of foreigners with the ports of the mother country. Colonies, more especially when they are altogether subject to the same general parts of the same dominion or empire. A trade, therefore, between a colonial port and a port of the parent or principal state, is precisely of the same nature with a trade between one and another port of the latter: and a trade between a colony and a foreign port is, in like manner, precisely the same with the trade between a foreign port and the parent country; which is only a more considerable part, as a colony may be a less considerable part, of the same country or empire. Previous to the late political union of Ireland with Great Britain, the relation between those two islands was strictly analogous to the relation between Great-Britain and the West-Indies. Was any difference ever entertained between a coasting trade from a British to a British port, and a trade from a British port to an Irish port; or between a trade from a foreign port to an Irish port, and a trade from a foreign to a British port? In the nature of things, and in the eye of foreign nations, the cases were the same. If any difference existed, it was merely circumstantial, such as may be incident to all cases essentially the same; or merely municipal, such as may result from those regulations of trade, which all sovereigns have an acknowledged right to make. It would not be unfair, therefore, in examining the doctrine asserted by Great-Britain, to view it in the whole extent of which it is susceptible. But the latitude in which it is avowed, and carried into operation, sufficiently demands the serious attention of all nations; but more than any, that of the United States, whose commerce more than any is the victim to this belligerent pretension. To prepare the way for this examination, several remarks are to be premised.
First. The general rule being, that the trade between a neutral and belligerent nation is as free as if the latter were at peace with all nations, and the cases in which it is not as free being exceptions to the general rule, the exceptions, according to a received maxim of interpretation, are to be taken strictly, against those claiming the benefit of the exceptions, and favourably for those claiming the benefit of the general rule.  Secondly. The exceptions being founded on a principle of necessity, in opposition to ordinary right, the necessity ought to be evident and urgent. In proportion as the necessity may be doubtful, and still more, in proportion as the sacrifice of neutral interest would exceed the advantage to the belligerent, the exception fails.  Thirdly. The progress of the law of nations, under the influence of science and humanity, is mitigating the evils of war, and diminishing the motives to it, by favoring the rights of those remaining at peace, rather than of those who enter into war. Not only are the laws of war tempered between the parties at war, but much also in relation to those at peace. Repeating then, that every belligerent right to control neutral commerce must as an exception to the general freedom of commerce, be positively and strictly proved, and the more strictly, as the exceptions are in a course of restriction rather than extension, the question is ready for examination, whether it be a part of the law of nations, that a trade ordinarily shut in time of peace, and opened to neutrals in time of war, is liable, as much as a trade in contraband of war or with a blockaded port, to capture and condemnation.  It will not be overlooked, that the principle, as thus laid down, does not extend to any of the cases, where a new trade, though opened during a war, is not opened on account of the war, but on considerations which would produce the same measure, if no war existed; from which follows another important observation, that taking into view the probable occurrence of such considerations, the still greater probability of a mixture of such with considerations derived from the war, the impossibility of distinguishing the proportion of these different ingredients in the mixture, with the evident disadvantages of rendering more complicated, instead of simplifying, a rule of conduct between independent nations, to be expounded and enforced by one of the parties themselves it would seem to require no great effort of candour to acknowledge the powerful objection in practice, to such a principle, were it really embraced by the most specious theory.
But without dwelling on this view of the subject, however just in itself, the principle in question will be tried:
First—by the writings most generally received as the depositaries and oracles of the law of nations.
Secondly—by the evidence of treaties;
Thirdly—by the judgment of nations, other than Great Britain;
Fourthly—by the conduct of Great Britain herself.
Fifthly—by the reasoning employed in favour of the principle.
unforeseen accident thwart us, my next will be dated at Bengazi. The Arabs and Moors are universally with us, and, if we had the means of subsistence, we might march 20 or 30,000 from the borders of Egypt, who from time to time have taken refuge here since the usurpation of Jessuf Bashaw."
EXTRACTS.
Mr. Eaton to commodore Barron.
ALEXANDRIA, 14th February, 1805.
"I calculated to leave this on Sunday, and in two days after to proceed on our march with Hamet Bashaw to Bomba, by the desert, where it is hoped we shall meet reinforcements, and supplies sufficient to secure positions at Derne and Bengazi. This, we are of opinion, will require two additional small vessels and a bomb ketch. A gun boat also would be thought too hazardous. Two brass field pieces (4 pounders) with their trains and ammunition, and 100 stand of arms, with cartridges, will be requisite. And to place the success of the expedition beyond the caprice of incident, 100 marines, with bayonets, should be at hand, to lead a coup de main, in case of necessity. By the time we shall have arrived at Bomba, I shall have disbursed about 10,000 dollars which we have taken up on credit of Messrs. Briggs and Brothers, 4000 dol. of which sum capt. Hull has drawn bills on Malta and London; the balance we have promised shall be sent up in one of the small vessels. Ten thousand dollars more at least, will be necessary, to accomplish our views on Derne and Bengazi. The Bashaw assures me that he will be able immediately to refund these sums when established in those provinces. And to indemnify the United States for all expenses, arising out of a co-operation with him, he pledges the tribute of Denmark, Sweden and the Batavian republick, in case of recovering his throne, which may be calculated upon as a certain event, if measures to that effect are supported by suitable energy and address. He engages also to release to you, without ransom, capt. Bainbridge, his officers, and all American prisoners, who may be in captivity at Tripoli; to stipulate with the United States a permanent peace, without tribute, and on the footing of the most favoured nation. He engages that in case of future war, captives shall be treated as prisoners, and not as slaves, and subject to reciprocal exchange. He will surrender the enemy and his family and chief admiral into our hands, in case he does not escape by flight, to be held as hostages. And he agrees to deliver up to you, if required, all vessels of war, which shall have been employed against the United States by Jessuf Bashaw."
CONTINUATION Of Documents accompanying the PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE, respecting the application of HAMET CARAMALLI, Ex-Bashaw of Tripoli.
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Captain Bainbridge to George Davis, esq. at Tunis. TRIPOLI, January 27th, 1805.
SIR, I have been anxiously expecting to hear from you, and to receive some information on the determination of our government. Not one word on that subject have I yet heard. I am anxiously expecting letters from commodore Barron. I believe the Bashaw is very desirous of peace, and has great apprehensions of the intended attack, and was a negotiation to be attempted, I think it very probable that it would succeed, for the apprehension of the attack might have as great an effect as the attack itself; and should the attack prove unsuccessful, he will no doubt continue in demanding a considerable sum. As I am quite ignorant of the force that will be brought against this place, I cannot give my opinion of the probable effect it may have. We offer our most fervent prayers that the greatest success may attend it. I cannot say what the bashaw's demand will be, but I believe he would take at this moment much less than what he demanded of commodore Preble last August. Our funds are all exhausted, and bills on Tunis are at a great exchange against the drawer. Pray, have you heard of Eaton? In your next, which I anxiously expect soon, I shall receive a great deal of news I hope. I assure you, was it not for our friend, Mr. Nissen, we should suffer considerably for necessaries in our close confinement; but he is a friend in need, of course, a friend indeed.
P. S. By the Danish consul. "The bashaw is now very attentive upon your transactions with his brother in Alexandria. A camp is going against Derne. Give me leave to tell you that I found your plan with the bashaw's brother very vast, and that you sacrifice your prisoners' lives in case of success."
EXTRACTS.
William Eaton, esq. to the secretary of the navy.
ALEXANDRIA, 13th February, 1805.
"The letters which have passed between captain Hull and myself, copies of which are herewith annexed to a duplicate of that I had the honour to address you on the 13th December, convey a detail of our transactions since that date. The appensions then entertained of impediments on the part of the Mameluke beys were just. The bashaw separated himself from them with his suite immediately on receiving my first letter from Cairo, and repaired to Fium, a neutral province; but the evening of his departure thirty Arab chiefs were put in chains by the Mameluke bey Osman Bey Berdici, to prevent their following him with their tribes. Of four copies of the vice roy's letter of amnesty, which I despatched by different conveyances not one reached him. Three Mattes in disguise of Arabs, charged with one of them, entered the Mameluke camp, were arrested, the packet taken from them and they sentenced to death. They intoxicated the centinel, who was an European renegado, and escaped to Fium; by whom the bashaw obtained the first information of that act of grace, and it was not till he joined me at Demanhour that he first saw the letter. This has delayed our measures and given us embarrassments. My three enterprising mattes are with me, but we have no returns from any of the other three couriers."
"The bashaw had already determined to take the desert of Lybia to Derne, giving for his reason, which I think a sound one, that by taking shipping and separating himself from the Arabs, they would lose all patience if not confidence also, and abandon his cause. He has consequently moved round the lake and will to-morrow take his station at Arabs Ton, 30 miles westward of the old port of Alexandria, where I am to join him with a detachment from the city, next Sunday, and proceed with him to Bomba, at the head of 500 men, and there take post. Meantime captain Hull repairs to the rendezvous for suitable reinforcements and supplies to secure an establishment at Derne and Bengazi. Those provinces in our possession will cut off from the enemy and turn into our own channel a source of provisions, and will open a free intercourse with the interior of the country. I have requested of the commodore, for this purpose, an hundred stand of arms with cartridges, and 2 brass field pieces with trains and ammunition, and also a detachment of 100 marines, if necessary, to lead a coup de main."
"I calculate the whole expenditure of cash in this expedition, including expenses in Egypt, will amount to 20,000 dollars. Further disbursements and supplies will be necessary to carry this plan into final effect. But to indemnify the United States, I have entered into a convention with Hamet Bashaw, to pledge the tribute of Sweden, Denmark, and the Batavian Republick; which convention I shall reduce to writing and forward by captain Hull, if time permit; otherwise by the earliest occasion."
"Day before yesterday, an envoy arrived in a ketch from Jessuf, bashaw of Tripoli, to the governor and admiral of this place, for the express purpose of prevailing on them to stop Hamet Bashaw from going out of the country. Intelligence of our having left Syracuse for this place, with a view of taking him away, was conveyed to the enemy by a resident at Malta, known by the name of Solouquet H. Conte Gallini. I do not know his real name. The agent made great promises in the name of his master to these Turkish commanders: But perceiving they seemed not to have full faith in his assurances, he resorted to the sensibility of their compassion; if Hamet Bashaw was permitted to return, Jessuf must fly the kingdom or lose his head. The subjects of Tripoli were getting weary of the war with these new infidels; they could not learn from their movements their intentions, and were attacked unawares: the bashaw believed he could resist them upon his batteries; but if they made a descent with his brother, his people would all leave him. This statement comes from the private secretary of the governor, who is secured in our interest, who heard the cause of Jessuf Bashaw argued before the governor and admiral."
"I don't learn what effect it has taken, but if the client has not the means of touching a more sensible nerve than a Turk's pity, his case is forlorn. At any rate we are secure against his influence by the secure position we have taken. Except, therefore, some"
unforeseen accident thwart us, my next will be dated at Bengazi. The Arabs and Moors are universally with us, and, if we had the means of subsistence, we might march 20 or 30,000 from the borders of Egypt, who from time to time have taken refuge here since the usurpation of Jessuf Bashaw."
EXTRACTS.
Mr. Eaton to commodore Barron.
ALEXANDRIA, 14th February, 1805.
"I calculated to leave this on Sunday, and in two days after to proceed on our march with Hamet Bashaw to Bomba, by the desert, where it is hoped we shall meet reinforcements, and supplies sufficient to secure positions at Derne and Bengazi. This, we are of opinion, will require two additional small vessels and a bomb ketch. A gun boat also would be thought too hazardous. Two brass field pieces (4 pounders) with their trains and ammunition, and 100 stand of arms, with cartridges, will be requisite. And to place the success of the expedition beyond the caprice of incident, 100 marines, with bayonets, should be at hand, to lead a coup de main, in case of necessity. By the time we shall have arrived at Bomba, I shall have disbursed about 10,000 dollars which we have taken up on credit of Messrs. Briggs and Brothers, 4000 dol. of which sum capt. Hull has drawn bills on Malta and London; the balance we have promised shall be sent up in one of the small vessels. Ten thousand dollars more at least, will be necessary, to accomplish our views on Derne and Bengazi. The Bashaw assures me that he will be able immediately to refund these sums when established in those provinces. And to indemnify the United States for all expenses, arising out of a co-operation with him, he pledges the tribute of Denmark, Sweden and the Batavian republick, in case of recovering his throne, which may be calculated upon as a certain event, if measures to that effect are supported by suitable energy and address. He engages also to release to you, without ransom, capt. Bainbridge, his officers, and all American prisoners, who may be in captivity at Tripoli; to stipulate with the United States a permanent peace, without tribute, and on the footing of the most favoured nation. He engages that in case of future war, captives shall be treated as prisoners, and not as slaves, and subject to reciprocal exchange. He will surrender the enemy and his family and chief admiral into our hands, in case he does not escape by flight, to be held as hostages. And he agrees to deliver up to you, if required, all vessels of war, which shall have been employed against the United States by Jessuf Bashaw."
In consideration of the friendly offices of his majesty the king of the two Sicilies, towards the squadron of the U. States, Hamet Bashaw invites his majesty to renew with him their ancient friendship, & professes to him a peace on the same footing as that to be stipulated in his convention with the U. States. If time and circumstances admit, we shall reduce this convention to writing, and forward copies by capt. Hull—otherwise it will be done at Bomba. At the invitation of the bashaw and divan, and in conformity to the sentiments expressed to me by the secretary of the navy, I have taken on myself the command in chief of the bashaw's army, and the direction of all operations by land, and I cannot but flatter myself we may realize success of our expectations on this coalition; and that you will have the glory of carrying the usurper a prisoner in your squadron to the U. States; and of relieving our fellow-citizens from the chains of slavery, without the degrading condition of a ransom.
CONVENTION
Between the United States of America and his highness Hamet Caramalli, bashaw of Tripoli
GOD IS INFINITE.
ART. I. There shall be a firm and perpetual peace and free intercourse between the government of the United States of America, and his highness Hamet Caramalli, bashaw, the legitimate sovereign of the kingdom of Tripoli, and between the citizens of the one and the subjects of the other.
ART. II. The government of the U. States shall use their utmost exertions, so far as comports with their own honour and interest, their subsisting treaties, and the acknowledged laws of nations, to re-establish the said Hamet bashaw in the possession of his sovereignty of Tripoli, against the pretensions of Jessuf bashaw, who obtained said sovereignty by treason, and who now holds it by usurpation, and who is engaged in actual war against the U. States.
ART. III. The U. States shall, as circumstances may require, in addition to the operations they are carrying on by sea, furnish the said Hamet bashaw on loan, supplies of cash, ammunition and provisions, and if necessity require, debarkation of troops, also to aid and give effect to the operations of the said Hamet bashaw by land against the common enemy.
ART. IV. In consideration of which friendly offices, once rendered effectual, his highness Hamet Caramalli Bashaw engages, on his part, to release to the commander in chief of the forces of the United States, in the Mediterranean, without ransom, all American prisoners who are, or may hereafter be, in the hands of the usurper, said Jessuf Bashaw.
ART. V. In order to indemnify the United States against all expense they have or shall incur in carrying into execution their engagements expressed in the 2d and 3d articles of this convention, the said Hamet Bashaw transfers and consigns to the United States the tribute stipulated by the last treaties of his majesty the king of Denmark, his majesty the king of Sweden, and the Batavian republick, as the condition of peace with the regency of Tripoli, until such time as said expense shall be reimbursed.
ART. VI. In order to carry into full effect the stipulation expressed in the preceding article, said Hamet Bashaw pledges his faith and honour, faithfully to observe and fulfil the treaties now subsisting between the regency of Tripoli and their majesties the kings of Denmark and Sweden, and with the Batavian republick.
ART. VII. In consideration of the friendly disposition of his majesty the king of the two Sicilies towards the American squadron, his highness Hamet Bashaw invites his said Sicilian majesty to renew their ancient friendship, and proffers him a peace on the footing of that to be definitively concluded with the United States of America, in the fullest extent of its privileges, according to the tenor of this convention.
ART. VIII. The better to give effect to the operations to be carried on by land in the prosecution of the plan, and the attainment of the object pointed out by this convention, William Eaton a citizen of the United States, now in Egypt, shall be recognized as general and commander in chief of the land forces which are or may be called into service against the common enemy. And his said highness Hamet Bashaw engages that his own subjects shall respect and obey him as such.
ART. IX. His highness said Hamet Bashaw grants full amnesty and perpetual oblivion, towards the conduct of all such of his subjects as may have been seduced by the usurper to abandon his cause, and who are disposed to return to their proper allegiance.
ART. X. In case of future war between the contracting parties, captives on each side shall be treated as prisoners of war, and not as slaves, and shall be entitled to reciprocal and equal exchange, man for man, and grade for grade, and in no case shall a ransom be demanded for prisoners of war, nor a tribute required as the condition of peace, neither on the one part nor on the other. All prisoners on

both side shall be given up at the conclusion of peace.
ART. XI. The American consular flag in Tripoli shall for ever be a sacred asylum, to all persons who shall desire to take refuge under it, except for the crimes of treason and murder.
ART. XII. In case of the faithful observance and fulfilment on the part of his highness, said Hamet Bashaw, of the agreements and obligations herein stipulated, the commander in chief of the American forces in the Mediterranean, engages to leave Hamet Bashaw in the peaceable possession of the city and regency of Tripoli, without dismantling its batteries.
ART. XIII. Any article suitable to be introduced in a definitive treaty of peace, between the contracting parties, which may not be comprised in this convention, shall be reciprocally on the footing of the treaties subsisting with the most favoured nations.
ART. XIV. This convention shall be submitted to the president of the United States for his ratification. In the mean time there shall be no suspension in its operations.
Done at Alexandria in Egypt, February 23, 1805, and signed by said Hamet bashaw for himself and successors, and by William Eaton on the part of the United States.
Additional article secret.  His highness Hamet Bashaw, will use his utmost exertions to cause to surrender to the commander in chief of the American forces in the Mediterranean, the usurper Joseph Bashaw, together with his family, and chief admirals called Mawrud Rais, alias Peter Lisle, to be held by the government of the United States as hostages, and as a guarantee of the faithful observance of the stipulations, entered into by convention of the 23d February, 1805, with the United States, provided they do not escape by flight.  Commodore Barron to William Eaton, Esq. MALTA, 22d March, 1805.  SIR, By captain Hull, who arrived in this harbour with the United States, brig Argus under his command, on the 10th instant. I received your favours addressed to me, together with communications for the secretary of the navy, and copies of the correspondence betwixt yourself and captain Hull, relative to your proceedings, from your arrival in Egypt, until his departure from thence; also by the hands of Mahomed, secretary, a letter from his excellency Hamet Bashaw, announcing his junction with you, all which I have perused with an attention and deliberation which the important and interesting nature of their contents demands. I cannot but applaud the energy and perseverance that has characterized your progress through a series of perplexing and discouraging difficulties, to the attainment of the object of your research, an attainment which I am disposed to consider as a fair presage of future success.  On receipt of these communications by captain Hull, I did not lose a moment in making the necessary arrangements for sending you succours, and I now dispatch the Argus brig, with the Hornet sloop under her convoy, carrying a variety of stores and provisions, according to the accompanying list. Captain Hull will shape his course for Bomba, direct, where he calculates on finding you, with the Bashaw and his army, and where he supposes you will make a stand. I have directed him to deliver these stores to you, to be applied as your discretion may direct. He has also under his charge a sum in specie, amounting to seven thousand dollars, which is likewise to be placed at your disposal. By the time these vessels establish a communication with you, you will have been enabled to form a correct opinion as to the prospect of ultimate success, & thence to estimate the advantages likely to result to our affairs from this co-operation, and by this opinion you must be guided in the application of the succours. Should you have encountered unexpected difficulties and obstacles, which place the chance of success upon more than precarious ground, your own prudence will suggest the propriety of not committing these supplies, and the money, uncontroled to the power of the bashaw; indeed, in the point of view in which I regard the measures already pursued, as well as the subject of co-operation generally, I conceive we ought to treat with the utmost caution. It is far from my wish, sir, to damp your ardour, or that of your companions in arms, by laying too great a stress upon the cold maxims of prudence, whereby the tide of success is often lost: something, I am aware, should always be left to fortune, in enterprizes of this nature; but I must own there are certain things expressed in your dispatches, which, when brought to the test of my instructions from home, give birth to feelings of doubt and uneasiness; these I deem it incumbent on me to point out to you with candour and explicitness, in order that we may be fully understood. You must be sensible that in giving their sanction to a co-operation with the exiled bashaw, government did not contemplate the measure as leading, necessarily and absolutely, to a reinstatement of that prince in his rights to the regency of Tripoli. They appear to have viewed the co-operation in question, as a means which, if there existed energy and enterprize in the exile, and attachment to his person on the part of his former subjects, might be employed to the common furtherance and advantage of his claims and our cause, but without meaning to fetter themselves by any specific and definitive attainment as an end, which the tenor of my instructions and the limited sum appropriated for that special purpose, clearly demonstrate. I fear by the convention you were about to enter with Hamet, and by the complexion of other measures, that a wider range may have been taken than is consistent with the powers vested in me for that particular object. These apprehensions may, perhaps, prove groundless, on further representations from you; but under my present impressions, I feel it my duty to explain, explicitly, that I must withhold my sanction to any convention or agreement committing the United States, or tending to impress upon Hamet bashaw a conviction that we have bound ourselves to place him upon the throne. The consequences involved in such an engagement cannot but strike you forcibly, and a general view of our situation, in relation to the reigning bashaw and our unfortunate countrymen in Tripoli, will be sufficient to mark its inexpediency. I shall consider it my duty, as it is certainly my inclination, to afford you every and compatible with the authority vested in me, and commensurate with the means which have been placed at my disposal, and you may rely on the most active and vigorous support from the squadron, as soon as the season and our arrangement will permit us to appear in force before the enemy's walls; but I wish you to understand that no guarantee or engagement to the exiled prince, whose cause, I must repeat, we are only favouring as an instrument to our advantage, and not as an end itself, must be held to stand in the way of our acquiescence to any honourable and advantageous terms of accommodation which the reigning bashaw may be induced to propose; such terms being once offered and accepted by the representative of government appointed to treat of peace, our support to the ex-bashaw must necessarily cease. You will not, however, conceive that these considerations, important and necessary as they are, ought to induce us at once to abandon the benefits which the measures you have adopted seem to promise. I conceive a perseverance in these by no means incompatible with a total freedom from any trammels, with respect to a definitive object, which freedom I deem it all important to preserve, especially when I view the peculiar situation in which captain Bambridge and his fellow-sufferers may be placed by this co-operation. If, by your energy and exertions, added to the supplies now sent forward, you succeed in getting possession of Derne and Bengazi, we may calculate, that, having received this impulse from our strength, the bashaw will, himself, possess sufficient energy, courage and talents, and if accounts are correct, sufficient interest among the people, to move on with firm steps, and to conduct his friends and followers to the gates of Tripoli. Every support will, of course, be given to him by a systematic union of operations with the squadron, so as to enable him to get in the rear of the town; but should he be found deficient in those qualities, or that it appears we have been deceived in regard to the disposition of the inhabitants, he must be held as an unfit subject for further support or co-operation. I beg leave to mention to you, that as we are short of officers, the services of all will be wanted on board the respective ships, as soon as we enter upon offensive measures. Should you conceive, however, that any serious disadvantage may result from withdrawing those with you, I have no objection to their remaining as volunteers; but it is impossible for me to comply with your requisition for 100 marines to be sent to the coast. Such a step in the present posture of affairs, far exceeds my powers, and, besides, as we are rather short of hands, I could not feel myself justifiable in detaching so considerable a force from the squadron. I have not been unmindful of your requisition for field artillery, which I think, with you, is essential, but here it was impossible to procure it; I therefore despatched some days since, the Congress frigate to Messina, where I hope to obtain four field pieces complete for service, and as soon as they arrive they will be sent to the coast with the necessary ammunition. As I am still too unwell to write you with my own hand, I must refer you to captain Hull, in whose judgement and discretion I have the fullest confidence, for information on several collateral points, and for my sentiments on others. In this letter I have endeavoured to explain, as clearly as possible, what are my ideas with respect to the wishes and intentions of our government, and what I feel to be the extent of my authority, relative to the co-operation of Hamet bashaw. I reiterate my fixed resolution to afford you every support and assistance which are consistent with the powers and resources vested in me, adding, at the same time, my dissent from any guarantee, covenant or engagement, by which the United States may be committed, to place the exiled prince on the throne, or any condition which militates against the most perfect and uncontrolled power of choice and action, in concluding a pacification with Jussuff bashaw, should he offer terms honourable and advantageous to our country. I should be wanting in justice to you, sir, as well as to the officers who have shared thus far your toils and dangers, were I not to express my full reliance upon your courage, energy and perseverance, as well as my ardent desire that your most sanguine expectations may be realized. The observations which I here convey to you are far from being intended to cool your zeal or discourage your expectations, but they are what I conceive it necessary to make, & are drawn from me by the purest feeling of duty, and as such, permit me to recommend them to your calm and candid consideration, and I request that you will make them the subject of conversation with captain Hull, who is fully possessed of my sentiments. (To be continued.)  NINTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.  PROCEEDINGS OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. TAKEN FOR THE PUBLICK LEDGER.  FRIDAY, January 17. BRITISH AGGRESSIONS.  The doors of the house were opened this day, for a short time, when a message in writing from the President was read by the Speaker.  It contained two copies of letters of the Secretary of State, to Mr. Monroe; the first on the impressment of our seamen; and the other, on the aggressions committed on our trade, and on the doctrine lately laid down by the British respecting the rights of neutrals.  With the message were also memorials from N. York, Philadelphia, Newburyport, Charleston—the insurance companies of New-York, Norfolk & New-port.  That part of the message, which referred to spoliations, was referred to the committee of Ways and Means—the other part, which relates to impressed seamen, to a select committee of seven.  A short debate arose on the propriety of the committee, to which these different parts of the message should be referred.  Mr. Thomas moved the reference to a committee of the whole on the state of the Union.  Mr. Nicholson thought the subject more connected with that part of the message already referred to the committee of Ways and Means, and he moved the reference in question to that committee.  Mr. Crowninshield moved, that it be referred to a select committee.  Mr. Dana said, that the message embraced two distinct points; he thought that which related to spoliations, and the doctrine of the British respecting the trade of neutrals, might go to the committee of Ways and Means, and the other respecting impressed seamen to a select committee.  Mr. Nicholson altered his motion to this effect, which was carried.  OHIO COMPANY.  Mr. Gregg made a report on this memorial, which states, that since the date of the memorial, legislative provision had been made for all the objects prayed for except one. This is a grant of land for schools of twenty miles square. Not granted.  ILLINOIS COUNTRY.  Mr. G. W. Campbell presented the petition of the citizens of this country, praying that a certain district may be incorporated into a separate territorial government, and that they may be permitted to hold slaves. Their petition states, that in the counties of Randolph and St. Clair, they laboured under certain grievances from the manner in which the territorial government was conducted.  Referred to the committee on Indiana affairs.  YAZOO CLAIMS.  On motion of Mr. Gregg the following resolution was agreed to:  Resolved, That so much of an act entitled "An act regulating the grants of land and providing for the disposal of the lands of the U. States south of the state of Tennessee," as appropriates any portion of said lands for the purpose of satisfying, quieting, or  * This must be a mistake, there has been no memorial from the Insurance Company of Norfolk; the individual merchants upon whose property depredations have been committed, have presented memorials, which we presume are those alluded to.  Ed. Ledger.  compensating any claims to the said lands, derived from any act or pretended act of the state of Georgia, and neither recognized by the articles of agreement and cession between the U. States and the state of Georgia, nor embraced by the two first sections of the above mentioned act, be repealed.  It will be remembered, that early in the present session Mr. Gregg first brought forward this resolution. He now said, that he thought it had been referred to a committee of the whole house, but that he found it was not the case. He therefore moved that the said resolution be referred to such committee: which was carried—aves 58—noes 21—and appointed for the 1st of January next.  TRADE WITH THE INDIANS.  Mr. Tenney, of the committee of revision and unfinished business, offered a bill to continue in force an act establishing trading houses with the Indian tribes.  Referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures. Adjourned till Monday.  FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,  VIA NEW-YORK.  Private Correspondence.  "PARIS, Nov. 9.—The naval victory of lord Nelson has been known here for these two days past, and has occasioned the greatest consternation among all classes of people, but particularly so among our military and our merchants. Louis Buonaparte spoke, however, very slightly of it last night in his wife's party. He said, that it might induce the Emperor to conclude another peace, but that the final conquest of Great-Britain, though postponed, would never be relinquished by his majesty, but with his death. It was, and would be, the principle object of his reign." On the other hand, an increase of prices of colonial productions was the immediate consequence; and while our funds lowered two per cent. interest for ready money, advanced two per cent. in the month. We do not yet hear all the particulars of this battle, but we apprehend that this is the third Toulon fleet destroyed, en masse, by your nation within these last ten years.  "All our troops on the coast, and in the interior, have marched, or are ordered to march for the Upper and Lower Rhine, and every thing makes us dread another general war, another paper money, another maximum, and, perhaps, another famine. Many of the sailors of our gun boats perform garrison duty instead of our soldiers, and complain bitterly, not only on this account, but because their pay is behind hand for seven months.  "Rouen contains one of government's depots of conscripts; last week a friend of mine saw there four thousand of them ordered upon duty, to shoot one of their comrades who had deserted, together with a miller who had concealed him. They at first unanimously refused, alleging, that they were soldiers, and not executioners. Fifty gens d'armes soon, however, called them to order, and the criminals suffered. The parents, brothers, and sisters of the conscript, and the widow and children of the miller are still in irons, expecting the Emperor's determination with regard to their fate. Such is our love of glory, and our military spirit, that out of sixty substitutes procured by parents of the departments of the Lower Seine, some have received twenty thousand livres, and none less than fifteen thousand livres, for serving our Emperor.  "A confidential stock broker of Talleyrand's always holds out hopes of peace, while a confidential agent of Berthier is shewing orders for the collecting of two armies of observation of one hundred and twenty thousand men, in Holland and on the Lower Rhine. Of these troops, twenty thousand are to be commanded by General Brune, and fifty thousand by General Lefevre.  "Hautefrive is now composing for the Moniteur a most violent diatribe against the Emperor of Russia for visiting Berlin, and against the king of Prussia for receiving his visit, without the permission of the Emperor of the French.  "The Electoral Prince of Bavaria is much feasted by the Imperial Buonaparte. It is said that he is to serve as an aid de Camp under Napoleon, and that his sister has been put in requisition, for his Serene Highness Prince Eugenius de Beauharnois, the Viceroy of Italy."  DEAL, Nov. 24.  "Rear Admiral Sir William Sydney Smith in his Majesty's ship Antelope, with the Trusty, Vestal, Venus, Valoros, Hecla, Explosion, Prospero, Vesuvius, Discovery, Otter, Basilisk, Flamer, Firm, Exerton and Bruizer, Sceptre armed ship, arrived from off Boulogne, not being able to make the attack, the wind being at N. W. It is reported that Sir Sydney lost his gig with fourteen of his best men, being drove on shore on the enemy's coast, and made prisoners."  DOVER, Nov. 23.  "Owing to the unfavourable wind that has prevailed ever since Sir Sydney Smith's squadron sailed from hence, a regular attack could not be made, and I suppose will not now be attempted, at least for some time to come, as the ships this morning quitted Boulogne Roads and are now standing over for this coast. I am informed that out of the launches which went away from here with the fleet, only four are come back, as the gun brigs which had the remainder in tow were obliged to cut them adrift, being unable to work out of Boulogne Bay with them astern, the wind being right on the shore, and a heavy sea setting in. Sir Sydney Smith's new invented double boat, called the Cancer, received so much damage alongside of the ships, as to render her unserviceable."  November 24.  "Arrived in the roads, from the French coast, the Fearless, Manly and Firm gun brigs; also the Sceptre armed ship. Sir Sydney Smith's squadron has come into the Downs."  "The Hecla has towed into the Downs the Sagittarius, which she picked up on the night of the 21st instant, off Boulogne, full of water. She was prevented from sinking, and the crew saved, by Sir Sydney Smith's plan of lining with cork, in imitation of the Life boats."  Another Letter same date.  "Never was expectation more alive to success; never were arrangements better calculated to insure it, than in our squadron on Thursday last: that evening being destined for the grand attack. A finer day for preparation could not have shone; the sea was smooth as glass; the wind in the very quarter that was most to be desired, blowing a gentle breeze from E. N. E. At noon, the gun brigs, and rocket launches in tow, stood to the Northward, and anchored a-breast of Ambleteuse, just at Shal-rang, it having been determined that they should run down along the enemy's line, lying in the Road, at night fall, with the last of the ebb. By half past four, P. M. every thing was completely arranged on board the gun brigs and rocket launches, under the immediate inspection of Mr. Congreve, who is the inventor of this new system of bombardment, as it may fairly be called.—Upwards of a thousand shell and carcase-rockets were fixed in the frames from which they were to be fired in volleys—the shell-rockets, at a low angle intended to be poured into the French brigs at anchor; the carcase rockets, each carrying as much carcase composition as is fired in one round by an eight inch mortar at 5 of elevation, were to be reserved for throwing into the bason.—The trains were laid that were des-  tined to pour them, by hundreds in a volley to the devoted vessels of the enemy. About eight o'clock, the Admiral went over the side of the Antelope, to move his flag on board the Diligence, sloop of war, in which vessel, as she draws but little water, and is armed with ten 24 pounders on a side, the gallant Sir Sydney meant to lead the attack in person. Never was more ardour and enthusiasm displayed than at the moment by all ranks. More than a hundred armed boats followed the Admiral to the Diligence, cheering him with reiterated demonstrations of their ardour for the contest; which though every one felt must have been successful, yet every one knew must be dearly purchased; seeing that the enemy were fully aware of our meditating the attack for that night, and had been heating his furnaces for red-hot shot, not only from one end of the bay to the other, but even on board every one of the gun brigs.  "The evening was still every thing that could have been wished, and a little after eight the signal was made for the bomb ships to open in the bay as the prelude to the attack; the effect was truly sublime and every heart now beat with accumulated hope.—The admiral's flag was now flying on board the Diligence, the signal was made for the gun brig to lead in, and they were actually under weigh, headed by the admiral himself. All was yet well; but scarcely had the line got under weigh, scarcely was the first volley of rockets discharged, when on a sudden, the wind shifted round to the north west, and in an instant blew a gale. Every one who has been in Boulogne bay knows what must have been the immediate consequence; from the smoothest surface, the most agitated surf came tumbling in upon us. The largest vessels of the squadron were in imminent danger of going ashore, and the smaller ones were rolling gun-wale to gun-wale. Victory was in a moment snatched from our grasp. The admiral was most reluctantly compelled to annul the signals of attack—the bombardment ceased—such of our ships as were under weigh were with difficulty towed off the shore, many that were not, were compelled to slip their cables. The confusion became general—false fires were burning in all directions—the armed boats were hurrying back to the vessels, many of them constrained to take shelter in the first ship they could make. In a shift of wind so unexpected and so violent, it is not difficult to conceive the damage that has been sustained in the smaller craft, and in the apparatus belonging to them. What the extent of it is, we are yet ignorant, as the gale increasing in the night, and blowing hard all day yesterday, the squadron is yet dispersed. Three of the launches, however, are known to have gone down, but without the loss of any lives. It is too much to be feared, that so much damage has been received that the operation cannot be renewed on the same scale this year. One good effect, however, has resulted—that every man in the squadron, and every one of the enemy too, it is believed, who witnessed the commencement of the attack, is satisfied that the destruction of Boulogne may yet be accomplished, when the elements are not against us."  AUCTION.  Will be Sold, on Tuesday next, the 28th inst. at 12 o'Clock, at Willock's Wharf, The Copper bottom BRIG JUPITER, Burthen about 180 tons—Terms 60 days, approved negotiable notes.—Inventory to be seen on application to Francis Smith, V. M. Jan. 24. 461  Wanted to Charter, A SHIP, of about 300 hogheads burthen, to load for Falmouth and a Market. —Also—  A VESSEL, of about 1000 barrels, to load for Madeira.—Apply to Robert Maitland, & Co. Jan. 27. 4w 464  For New-York or Charleston, The Sch'r BOSTON, ELIAS SEELY, Master, burthen 95 tons.—For freight or passage apply to the master on board, or to John Macgowan. Jan. 27. 1* 463  FOR SALE, A few Thousand Bushels St. Ubes SALT, a float. A small invoice about 2501. sterl. worth of HARDWARE, Consisting of 3d, 10d, and 20d, Nails, Spikes, Locks, Hinges, &c. Some Old London Particular MADEIRA WINE, Oliveira's Brand, warranted genuine, in pipes, blds. and qr. casks, 8 blds. choice MOLASSES. First quality SUGAR in barrels. Old Peach and Apple BRANDY in barrels. N. E. RUM—COFFEE in bags, &c. The whole of which will be sold low for short payments. Francis Smith. Who expects by the Mahala from New-York, 5 pipes old 4th proof Cogniac BRANDY. January 27. 3c 465  FOR SALE.  The Subscribers by virtue of a power of attorney, executed to them by Coventon Simkins, will sell to the highest bidder, at publick sale, at Northampton Court-House, on the first day of Northampton county court in February next, to wit, on the second Monday in said month, The HOUSES and LOT of LAND, lately occupied by the said C. Simkins, at Northampton court yard. There are a commodious two story dwelling house of good wood and other materials, a frame kitchen, barn, and carriage-house, other necessary out houses, &c. Four and a half acres of valuable LAND, with a highly improved garden—The situation is an eligible one for a merchant, tradesman, or man of profession—Immediate possession will be given. John Simkins. George Lewis. John Brickhouse, Jr. Northampton, Jan. 17. 15 457  TO RENT.  THE Warehouses at present occupied by James Herron on my wharf, capable of storing 4,000 barrels flour, and free from danger of high tides—Possession may be had of them on the first of September next; if agreeable, the Wharf may be had with them.  Also, for Lease, for a term of Years, The Wharf adjoining mine, newly repaired, 56 1-2 feet in front, running back from 2 to 250 feet, with sufficient well made ground for the erection of warehouses—at the end of the wharf, there is water for any ship, with a convenient Lumber Yard. For terms apply to John Davis. Portsmouth, July 29. 2aw tf 2b  JUST RECEIVED, From Charleston, and for Sale at this Office, PRICE ONE DOLLAR, A FEW COPIES OF  INDEPENDENCE,  Comedy, in Five Acts, as performed at the Theatre Charles-ton, with unbounded applause, By WILLIAM LOO. Of St. George, Dorchester, South-Carolina. October 4. 6t

FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
GILLIAT AND MACKINDER, Have received by the Ship PLANTER, BOSTON, from London, and FREDERICK, from Liverpool, their supply of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, And will be Sold on Low terms, for Cash, or approved Acceptance in Town—Amongst which are 17 Bales of Napt. Cottons, 16 Boxes Boys' and Men's Hats, 8 do. of Knee Blankets, 6 Trunks of Manchester Goods, 9 do. White and Red Flannels, 4 Boxes Cutlery, assorted, 10 do. White Plains and Kerseys, 50 Casks Shot, 12 do. Blue do. 150 Kegs of Gunpowder, 14 do. Blue & Green Half Thick, 4 do. Seine Twine, 6 do. Stripe and Grey Coatings, 6 Trunks Men's and Women's Worsted Hose, 2 do. Yarn Hose, 3 Bales of Osnaburgs, 2 do. Carpeting and Carpets, Fleecy Hosiery, for Ladies' and Gentlemen's wear, 8 do. Mixed Peannaughts, Muslins, Dimities, Calicoes, &c. &c. The above packages are well assorted. September 16. tf 145
TO RENT, Two Brick-Houses, No. 22, and 23, in Church-Street, near the Old Church.—They are well calculated for Dry Goods Stores, having been occupied for several years by persons in that business; they have four rooms upon a floor, a cellar, and a pump of good water in the yard; also a garden attached to each. Apply at this Office. Jan. 10. 3w 425
PICKLED OYSTERS Put up by the Subscriber at the shortest notice—orders left at the Store of Mr. Deccors, No. 1, Campbell's Wharf, will be punctually attended to. Samuel Bailey. January 8. 3w* 418
Warranted Eight-Day CLOCKS. THE Subscriber begs leave to inform the Inhabitants of this Borough and its vicinity, that he has taken part of that Shop now occupied by Mr. Chapman, at the head of Bank-Street, where he offers for Sale a number of warranted Eight-Day Clocks, direct from his Manufactory—and a good assortment of imported Watches, Watch Materials, and Jewellery, viz. Breast Pins, Ear Nobs, Hoops, Rings, Pencil Cases, Fancy Hair Combs, do. Sliders, do. Paste Flowers, Watch Seals, Keys, Chains, and Watch Glasses. CLOCKS, Time Pieces, and Watches, carefully cleaned and repaired, and all favours gratefully acknowledged. Nathaniel Munroe.
ALSO FOR SALE, 800 Sets assorted KNIVES & FORKS, 90 Doz. Double Spring BRACES, 25 Pair Plated CANDLESTICKS, RAZORS and PENKNIVES, 4 Barrels CRANBERRIES, 6 Kegs Pickled CUCUMBERS, 2 Barrels WALNUTS, 6 Dozen Mens' Fine HATS. December 23. 4w 374
To be Leased, For one or six years, and possession to be had on the first of January next. A Commodious BRICK-HOUSE on Smith's Point, now occupied by Mr. Harris—all convenient offices, and a good garden are annexed to this tenement—For the accommodation of a tenant, an adjoining lot may be had. P. Barraud. November 18. tf 288
NOTICE. All persons having claims against the Estate of ROBERT REINS, deceased, are requested to bring them forward properly attested, that provision may be made for payment. James Callis, Adm'r. Dec. 11. tf 340
Twenty Dollars Reward. RUN-AWAY from the Subscriber on the night of the 30th November last, a Negro Man named JOE, well known in this Borough, about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, of a light brown colour, high cheek bones, well made and very active, has a remarkable scar upon his neck just under the jaw, and has lately been burnt in the hand and whipped—Whoever will apprehend said Negro, secure him in some jail, or give such information so that I get him again, shall receive the above reward—Masters of vessels and others are forbidden harbouring or conveying away said slave, as the law will be strictly enforced against any person or persons so offending. Wright Southgate. December 13. tf 348
FOR SALE The Cargo of the Brig Paragon, Captain Aimley—Consisting of 157 Puncheons high proof JAMAICA RUM. 7 Hogsheads MOLASSES. Redmon & Fritb. Who have removed to the second Fire-Proof Store, on Gibson's Wharf. November 13. tf 271
THE SUBSCRIBER, Has removed to the third fire proof Warehouse on Gibson's wharf, where he has for Sale, Antigua and Jam. Rum by the bhd. Loaf and Brown SUGAR—A few bags COFFEE, A few pipes & bds. London particular & Teneriffe WINES, 120 cases very excellent 7 years old CLARET. And is now Landing from on board the ship Catherine Shepherd, Capt. Webb, from Antigua and Nevis, Antigua and Nevis Rum and Molasses. HARRISON ALLMAND. December 27. tf 384
Green Coffee and Sugar. Now Landing from on board the Schooner Lydia, captain Livingston, from Guadalupe. 41 Hogsheads SUGAR, 8 Bds. 14 Tierces } BEST GREEN COFFEE. 12 Bags For Sale by William Pennock. December 16. 3w 354
THIS DAY LANDING, From on board the Schooner Eagle, Captain Cross, from Bourdeaux, 160 Casks CLARET, 981 Cases assorted do. 66 do. do. White do. 30 Baskets SWEET OIL, 2 Trunks and 3 Cases Ladies' and Men's SHOES, 8 Cases Mens' and Children's Silk and Beaver HATS, assorted. DEMJOHNS, ALMONDS, NUTS, &c. &c. For sale on liberal terms, by John & James Galwey, Commerce-Street Wharf. WHO HAVE ON HAND, 75 Boxes White & Brown Havanna SUGAR. September 6. tf 128
MRS. MACDOUGAL, INFORMS her friends and the publick, that she has taken that handsome house belonging to Mr. Roberts, in the centre of Market Square, where she will receive Boarders on moderate terms—the strictest attention will always be paid to the diet rooms, and lodging, and every endeavour used to render a transient or permanent abode at her house satisfactory. September 25. tf 169
GARDEN SEEDS.
The Subscriber has for Sale, at the Store of Mr. James Dowdall, opposite the New Market, Fresh Garden Seeds, Imported in the ship Shepherdess, from London—Also, Some CHOICE SEEDS, of this Country's growth, that can be warranted good, viz. EARLY FRAME PEA, Early Nicholas do. Early Charlton do. Early Pearl do. Golden Hotspur do. Dwarf Marrow do. Tall Green Marrow do. Imperial Green do. Prolific do. Leadman's Dwarf do. Blue Prussian do. Crown and Cabbage do. Early and late Cauliflower, Early York CABBAGE, Early Sugar Loaf do. Early Battersea do. Madeira do. Drum Head do. Winter do. Red Dutch do. Green Savoy do. Scotch Kail—Red Beet, Orange and Early Horse Carrot, Solid Celery—Cured Parsley, Turkey, Early Frame, Short Prickly and Long Prickly Cucumbers, Cured Endive, Dwarf Kidney Beans of all sorts—Arbour Beans, Broad Leaved Leek, Silver Skinned, James, Madeira, and Blood Red Onion, Grand Admiral, Brown Dutch Ice, Cabbage, Green Coss, and Aleppo Coss Lettuce, Scarlet, Short Top, Salmon, and Red and White Turnip Radish, Parsnip—Rape, White and Brown Mustard, Round and Prickly Spinage, Early Dutch, Norfolk, Han-
over and Stone Turnip, Fennel—Furze—Split Peas, Salsify, Scorzonera—Pepper Grass, Large Windsor, Long Pod, White Blossom, and Garden Beans, Canary and Hemp Seed, Ocre—Brocoli, Red and White Clover Seed, Lucerne and Timothy do. SWEET HERBS, Thyme—Golden and Green Pulegium, Clary—Borago—Pot Mary Gold—Dill, Sweet and Bush Basil—Skerritt, Winter and Summer Savery, Sweet Majoram. FLOWER SEEDS, Double Balsom—Capsicum, Rocket, Dwarf, and Branching Larkspur, Convolvulus Minor & Major, Another Grandiflora—India Pink, Glob of various sorts—Negella Romana, Agrostemma Coelios—Onothera Purpuria, Scorzonera Tingitana—Tulips of all sorts, Dwarf, Red, Yellow, and Tall Red Cockscum, Chrysanthemum Irecolor—Jubas, Mixed China Aston, Cassia and Senna Fistula, Hyanthos Muscaria—Piots, Ranunculus—Anemones, Asparagus Roots. James Hay.
Who solicits the patronage of the publick, and being a regular instructed Gardener, offers to his customers his services either to the culture or the proper season of sowing. Jan. 13. tf 428 Landing from on board the Brig Commence, Price from Lisbon, 72 Pipes, 30 Hhds. 162 Qr. Casks, 5 Pipes, 1 Hhd. } Dry L. P. Lisbon Wines. Red do 100 Frails Fresh FIGS—all in good order and fit for immediate use, to be Sold on low terms. Apply to Oliveira, Fernandes, & Co. Who have in Store, Very Old Genuine MALMSEY in Hogsheads, do. do. Brazil WINE do. and qr. casks, do. do. L. P. Madeira do. do. New do. do. do. in Pipes do. do. Old do. do. L. M. do. do. Sweet do. do. Lisbon Wine, do. Old do. do. L. P. Sherry do. do. do. do. Com. do. do. Calcevillos, Bordeaux CLARET in Boxes, Old Cogniac BRANDY, do. Holland GIN, do. Wine VINEGAR, do. Old Antigua RUM in Puncheons, New Jamaica do. do. SWEET OIL in Hhds. ALSO, Jamaica COFFEE in Bags and Tierces, do. SUGARS Hhds. And a few Boxes Spanish CHOCOLATE. N. B. Private Families, Captains of Vessels, and country Gentlemen will be accommodated with the above in small quantities. Jan. 10. 5w 424
Richmond Academy Lottery, NOW DRAWING, CONTAINING One Prize of Ten Thousand Dollars, Besides several other large Prizes. ** TICKETS for Sale by the EDITOR OF THIS PAPER. November 15. 279
FOR SALE, 90 Tons LOGWOOD, 20,000 Feet MAHOGANY, 2000 Feet Mahogany BOARDS, 150 Hogsheads Richmond TOBACCO, afloat. Apply to John Granbery. Who offers for Rent, A DWELLING HOUSE, very pleasantly situated near Boush-street, lately occupied by Col. Davies. December 2. 5w 317
LADIES FASHIONABLE SHOES. SEVERAL Trunks of Ladies plain and fashionable LACED KID SHOES, and Gentlemen's fashionable London made do. just received by the ship Planter, Captain Boush, and for sale by Gilliat & Mackinder. September 9. tf 136
FOR SALE, On board the Schooner Rising States, captain Newcomb, lying at Newton's wharf, 30 hhds. MOLASSES, 100 HIDES. Phinehas Dana & Co. Dec. 20. tf 364
OFFICE OF DISCOUNT AND DEPOSIT, U. S. Norfolk, January 20, 1806. WANTED TO PURCHASE, A few Thousand Pounds Sterling, in approved endorsed Bills on London, at sixty days, or Bills drawn on any other place, and made payable there. ROBERT OLIPHANT, Cashier. January 20. tf 443
A PARCEL OF CHOICE Russia and Ravens DUCK, Landing, and for Sale by Moses Myers. Also, 1000 bushels Lisbon SALT, afloat. January 20. 3w 445
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
GENUINE GARDEN SEEDS, Imported in the Ship Shepherdess, from London, for Sale, CONSISTING OF Windsor Beans, Long Pod do. White Blossom do. Early Mazagon, Early Frame Pea, Early Charlton do. Early Nicholas do. Golden Hotspur do. Crown and Egg do. Imperial Green do. Spanish Mosotto, do. Large Roundleaf do. Dwarf Prolific do. Dwarf Marrow do. Tall Green do. Wells Marrow do. Early Yellow Snap, Negro French do. Black Speckled do. Purple Speckled do. Chinese and Scarlet do. Harbour and White do. Early Salmon Radish, Salmon and Scarlet do. Short Top and Naples do. Red and White Turnip do. Long White Transparent do. Black Spanish do. Early York Cabbage, Sugar Loaf do. Early and Late Battersea, Madeira & Turnip Rooted do. Large Drum Head do. German Red do. Colewort and Borecole, Green and Yellow Savoy, White Brocoli, Hardy Green do, Purple Branching do. Early and Late Cauliflowers, James' Keeping Onion, Madeira and Welch do. Red and Silver Skinned do. Norfolk Field Turnip, Red, Round, and Yellow do. Hanover and Stone do. Tankard do. Ice and Cabbage Lettuce, Hardy Hammersmith do. Brown, Dutch, and Loaf do. Green Turkey Cucumber, Early Frame do. Patagonian do. Long and Short Prickly do. Large Orange Carrot, Early Horn do and Parsnip, Red and White Beet, Fall and Dwarf Nasturtion, Solid Celery, Double Parsly, Green Curled Endive, Broad Leaved Leek, Salsify and Scorzonera, Artichoke and Asparagus, Chardon and Chervil, Pimpernell and Root Scarcity, Round and Prickly Spinage, Broad Cress and Pepper Grass, Mushroom Spawn, Hemlock and Okra, Saffron and Rape.
A choice assortment of Garden, Flower, and Herb SEEDS; White and Red Clover; Lucerne, Furze Top, Bed Top, and Burnet Grass SEEDS: Furze SLED for making Hedges. Likewise, Scotch and Pearl Barley, Oatmeal, and Fine Durham Mustard—By the next arrival he will be further supplied with the best of those articles. Samuel Osborne, Main-Street, near the Old Market place. Dec. 16. tf 352
WM. H. MCCUTCHEN, No. 41, MAIN-STREET, Has received and offers for Sale, a general assortment of DRY GOODS, At the most reduced prices for CASH, Among which are, 6-4 and 7-4 Cloths, Cassimeres, Coatings, Forest Cloths, Rose and Striped Blankets, Red, Green, and Blue Serges, Red and Green Baizes, Flannels, Fancy Cords, Thicksets and Velvets, 7-8 and 4-4 Irish Linens, German Dowlasses, Ticklenburgs and Hessians, Brown Hollands, India Cottons, Cotton Stripes, Blue Gilla Handkerchiefs, Pulicat and Romal do. Silk Shawls, 5-4 and 6-4 Sattin Check Cambric Shawls, Guernsey Frocks, Swansdowns, Turkey Downs, and Toilettes, Men and Womens' Worsted and Cotton Hose, Pins, 3 1-2, 4 1-2, & 5 1-2 lbs. White and coloured Threads, Dimities, Muslinets, Printed Jeans and Marseilles Quiltings, Bombazines, Wildbores, and Durants, Ginztes and Calicoes, Furniture do. Black and Coloured India Persians, Bandanna and Flag Idks. 9-8 & 6-4 Cambric Muslins, 7-8, 9-8, and 6-4 Black and Coloured do. do. Book Muslins and Book Muslin Handkerchiefs, Fine India Book Muslins, Linen Checks, Ribbons, Fine India Sewing Silks, English do. do. Purple and Fancy Shawls, Madras Handkerchiefs, Coat and Vest Buttons, Scissars, Razors & Penknives. ALSO, A few Pipes Country GIN. December 4. tf 324
BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE, Norfolk, Virg. Jan. 18, 1806. HIS Britannick Majesty's Consul to the State of Virginia, in consequence of instructions by him received from his government, takes this method of communicating to such officers on the British half-pay establishment, as are resident within his district, the following Notice from the Army Pay-Office, in London, in respect to the form of the Certificate required from British half-pay Officers, by whom it is highly essential that the regulations therein specified should be strictly complied with John Hamilton, Consul. PAY-OFFICE, Horse-Guards, August 28, 1805. NOTICE is hereby given by direction of the right honourable the Pay-Master General of his majesty's forces, that in affidavits of Officers on half-pay and military allowances, who reside in the United States of America, commencing subsequently to the twenty-fourth day of December 1805, will not be passed at this office, unless the officer's place of residence, and also the county, district, or place for which the magistrate acts, before whom the said affidavit is made, (the competency of whom must be certified by the British Consul, if any shall be resident in the province or state, or by the governor, chief justice, or some other person in authority in the government thereof,) are therein specified, agreeable to the undermentioned form. D'd. Thomas, Accountant. A. B. maketh oath, that he had not between the twenty-fourth day of _____ and the twenty-fifth day of _____ any other place, or employment of profit, civil or military, under his majesty besides his allowance of half-pay, (or his military allowance, as the case may be) as a reduced _____ in the Officer to sign his name here, together with his place of residence. Sworn before me at _____ this _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord _____ The Magistrate to sign his name here, and the county or place for which he acts. N. B. Complaints must insert in their affidavits the following words between the words "Majesty," and "besides," viz. "or any Ecclesiastical Benefice in Great-Britain or Ireland." No alterations or interlineations of any sort will be allowed to be made in the above mentioned affidavit. January 20. tf 446
New Beef, Candles, N. E. Rum, &c. The Subscribers offer for Sale, at their Warehouse on Commerce-street wharf, 450 bbls. No. 1 & 2 Beef—Boston inspection, 400 boxes MOULD CANDLES—different sizes, 100 hhds. Refined SUGAR, 16 do. and 40 bbls. N. E. RUM. Phinehas Dana & Co. January 20 tf 447
EAGLE TAVERN. The Subscriber has taken that eligible stand in Market-square, and has to inform his friends and the publick in general, that he will spare no pains to make them as comfortable as possible while with him—he would be glad to take in Eight or Ten Gentel BOARDERS by the Year. Thomas Glenn. January 15. 3m 433
NOTICE. THE Subscriber being desirous to close his unsettled concerns, requests all those who have accounts against him to present them at his office for adjustment, and persons indebted to him to make immediate payment. John Hamilton. October 14. tf 201
Soap and Candle Manufactory.
THE Subscriber informs the Publick, that his Manufactory in Bank-Street, is now in complete operation, and having employed a skillful workman as manager in the United States, he expects a part of the publick patronage. Henry McDowell. N. B. FLATTS for Shoe-Makers, Tailors, &c.—Cash given for Tallow and Grease. December 20. tf 370
FRESH RICE. THIS DAY landing from the Sloop Astra, captain Prior, from Charleston, 80 tiers fresh RICE, which I will sell low. MARTIN FISK. ALSO, 50 Barrels MACKAREL, and 1 Tro a Sloop For, 50 do. HERRINGS. 5 capt. Chase. Dec. 16. tf 313
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, AT HIS LUMBER YARD ON CALVERT'S WHARF, 700,000 SALE SHINGLES, 50,000 BUILDING do. 50,000 STAVES—White and Red Oak. 10,000 CYPRESS PALES, 5,000 CEDAR and CHINQUAPIN POSTS. Also—shall keep a supply of PLANK and SCANTLING. Thomas H. Parker. August 19. tf 77
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 3. tf 659
BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE, Norfolk, Virginia, August 31, 1805. HIS Britannick Majesty's Consul to the State of Virginia, in consequence of instructions by him received from his government, hereby gives notice, to the merchants concerned in the trade to His Majesty's Dominions, that according to the terms of the Act of the 37th of the King C. 97, no British built vessel captured by His Majesty's enemies, afterwards purchased by citizens of the United States, and sailing under a Sea Letter can be admitted to entry under the said Act, as an American vessel. John Hamilton. 114
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. 5d per lb.  Sheathing do. 7 1-2d per lb.  6d, do. 10d per lb.  4d, do. 3d per M.  3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do.  8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d, Brads, 8d per lb.  4d, do. 4s 6d per M.  3d, do. 3s do.  2d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do.  2d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do.   ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. LEVIN DORSEY. March 18. 503
REMOVAL. THOMAS LUMSDEN, Watch-Maker, &c. HAS removed from No. 3, Water Street, to the Brick-House at the corner of Rothery's Lane and Main-Street, opposite Captain Pearnock's, and lately occupied by Doctor Hodges.—Grateful for favours experienced, assures his friends and customers that every effort will be exerted to merit a continuation of their patronage. October 23. 3M 227
TO RENT, (And immediate possession given,) A Convenient Dwelling House, near the Presbyterian Church, lately occupied by Thomas Newton, jun. Esq. It is in a pleasant part of the town, has a large garden and necessary out-houses, and a good well of water. For terms apply to John Brown, Marsden's Wharf. November 13. tf 275
NOTICE. WHEREAS a certain JOHN BARLIE, of Hampton, in the county of Elizabeth City has now in his possession certain NEGROES by the names of Esther and Child, Clary, Rose, Harry, Cary, Edmund, Phebe, and Jude, which he illegally detains contrary to the last will and testament of Isaac Hawes, of the county of Essex—And whereas the legal process of law is resorted to in order to ascertain his right therein, I do hereby (as Guardian to MARY WALLER BARLIE, who I contend is the legal Heir of said Hawes) forward the said John Barlie from selling, or otherwise disposing of the said Slaves—And I do further forward all persons from purchasing them, or any part thereof—All masters of vessels and others are also forwarded from transporting, conveying away, or secreting any of the said Slaves, under the penalty of the law, which will be strictly enforced by WM. WALLER, Guardian. Hampton, Dec. 5. tf 334
The CARGO of the Ship Eliza, Obediah Smith, master, from Bordeaux, will commence landing This Day on Newton's wharf, consisting of 440 Hogsheads choice CLARET, 293 Cases do. 143 do. WHITE WINE, 180 Boxes Fresh PRUNES of excellent quality, for Sale by Moses Myers. November 18. tf 287
Great Dismal Swamp. FOR SALE.—Three Sixteenths of the New Lebanon Estate, and One Sixth of the Old Lebanon Estate, which comprises a large portion of the most valuable TIMBER of the Swamp; they are intersected by the Canal now almost completed, which connects a water carriage from those Estates with the waters of the Chesapeake.—The terms of Sale will be moderate, and a reasonable accommodation of time will be given for two thirds of the purchase money. For particulars apply to Wm. M. Harvey, near Nixonton, N. C. Jan. 1. law ttf Feb. 396
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, OPPOSITE THE EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE, Price Five Dollars and Fifty Cents yearly, in advance.