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[From the Baltimore American.]
Poland and Kosciuszko.
ABOUT to take its station once more among the nations of the earth, Poland at this moment must be an interesting subject of reflection for every intelligent and philosophic mind. Under this impression, we have prepared the following sketch for the gratification of the readers of the American.
Poland was anciently famed for Hunters, being full of plains, woods, wild beasts, and every kind of game, and derives its name from Pols or Pole , a Slavonian word which is said to signify a country fit for hunting. On the whole, the climate is healthy, and the soil is fertile in corn, vast quantities of which are sent from thence down the Vistula to Dantzic, and which are bought up by the Dutch or other nations. The pastures, especially in that part called Podolia, exceed all description in richness; and the cattle, it is said, cannot frequently be seen in consequence of their extreme luxuriance. It has mines of silver, iron, copper, salt and coals; the interior parts contain large forests, which furnish timber in abundance; fruits, herbs, and grapes are produced there, but the wine seldom or never comes to perfection; the chief rivers are the Vistula, the Neisser, the Boristhenes, the Bug, and Dwina; it contains also a few lakes; the country abounds with wild animals, among which are horses, wolves, bears, elk, deer, asses, and wild oxen. Poland (including Lithuania) has been supposed to contain 14,000,000 of inhabitants: in their persons the Poles make a noble appearance; their complexions are fair, and their shapes are well proportioned; they are brave, honest, and hospitable; and their women sprightly, yet modest, and submissive to their husbands. Their diversions are warlike and manly. They usually travel on horseback, and are extremely hardy. The mode of living of the nobles is very sumptuous, ceremonious, expensive, and showy. The Poles are divided into nobles, clergy, citizens and burghers; and the peasants are divided into two sorts,—those of the crown, and those belonging to individuals. Their dress is singular; they shave their heads leaving only a circle of hair on the crown and men of all ranks generally wear long whiskers; they wear a vest which reaches down to the middle of the leg, and a kind of gown over it lined with fur and girded with a sash, but the sleeves fit as close to their arms as a waistcoat. Their breeches are wide and make but one piece with their stockings; they wear a turban or bonnet; their shirts are without collar or wristband, and they wear neither stock nor neckcloth. Instead of shoes they wear Turkey leather boots, with thin soles, and remarkably deep iron heels bent like a half moon. The habits of the women is a simple Polonaise of long robe edged with fur. The peasants in winter wear sheepskins with the wool inwards, and in summer a thick coarse cloth, but no linen. Copernicus was a native of Poland; but that country is not celebrated for learned men. It contains three universities; one at Cracow, one at Wilna, and one at Posen. Warsaw is the real capital, and is computed to contain 70,000 inhabitants. Poland was once a formidable kingdom, to which Prussia was in a state of vassalage, and the title of king of Prussia was never acknowledged until the year 1764. Russia also, in the beginning of the seventeenth century, saw its capital and throne possessed by the Poles, while Austria in 1683, was indebted to a king of Poland for the preservation of its metropolis, and almost for its very existence. These three powers, however, in 1772, entered into an alliance to divide and an-
member the kingdom of Poland.—This partition was projected by the king of Prussia; and altho' they would gladly have divided the whole of that unfortunate country, (Poland) policy taught them to rest for a while contented with only a third of the republic instead of the whole, as they at first contemplated. The partitioning powers forcibly effected a great change in the constitution. But in 1791, the king and the nation in union, and without foreign intervention, established another constitution. By this the throne was declared hereditary in the house of Saxony—Many of the nobles, however, regretting the sacrifice of some of their privileges, had recourse to the court of Russia; their declarations agreeing with the ambitious views of Catherine, she sent an army to Poland under pretext of guaranteeing the constitution of 1764; in consequence of which the last was overthrown. The real object of the Empress was to make a second division of this country, which took place in 1793. The unreasonable severity of the oppression excited the people to resent such accumulated wrongs. Fitted with indignation they loudly complained of such unheard of injustice. They claimed the protection of those powers who had become guaranteees of the treaty of Oliva, a treaty that had assured to them the indivisibility of their territory, and which had long been regarded as the grand charter of the north.—Some of these powers made remonstrances with as little effect as the Poles themselves. The Polonaise displaying that enthusiasm, which the ardor of self defence inspires, unanimously agreed to secure their country or perish in the attempt. An army was hastily levied, and the command given to Prince Joseph Poniatowsky, whose inexperience and premature notions, rendered him very unfit for such an important undertaking. The nation could oppose 150,000 men to the designs of the Empress; but under such a frivolous leader they could never be brought to act in that firm and decided manner which was necessary to the salvation of their tottering country. It was then the nation demanded the abilities of the gallant Kosciuszko; tho' a Lieutenant under Prince Joseph, he displayed talents which procured him the love of his country, the resentment of Russia, and the esteem of the rest of Europe. 120,000 Russians arrived in Poland, and on the 10th of October a dreadful battle took place with the Russians under Ferzen and the troops under Kosciuszko. The Russians were at first repulsed by the Poles, who, not content with the advantage they had gained abandoned their favorable position on the heights, pressed on to attack in their turn, which threw their troops into confusion, and the Russians forming themselves anew, the rout soon became general. The fight lasted from seven in the morning till noon. Kosciuszko flew from rank to rank, was continually in the hottest of the engagement, in the course of which he had three horses killed under him. At length he fell; and a Cossack, who did not know him in the peasant's dress, which he constantly wore wounded him from behind with a lance. He recovered and advanced a few steps, but was again knocked down by another Cossack who was preparing to give the fatal blow when his arm was arrested by a Russian officer, to whose wife Kosciuszko had a short time before politely given leave of departure from Warsaw to join her husband. The unfortunate hero entreated of the officer to put an end to his life; but the latter preferred making him a prisoner. He was transported to Peterburg, where he, with some more brave men, were long emerged dungeons. The Poles fought with a degree of valor approaching to fury. The Russians summoned Warsaw to surrender, and on being refused, Suwarrows commanded his soldiers to mount to the assault, over the dead bodies of their comrades and enemies.—The Russians sprung to the charge with inconceivable impetuosity. Six Russian columns presented themselves at once before the lines at Prague. The Poles after bravely defending themselves, endeavoured to find safety in retiring into Warsaw. In their retreat they were met by another body of Russians and a wretched slaughter ensued. After a conflict of eight hours, the resistance on the part of the Poles ceased.—Five thousand Poles are said to have perished in the assault; the rest were imprisoned or dispersed. The houses were plundered by the barbarous Russians, who, after the battle had ceased better than ten hours, set fire to the town and began to massacre the inhabitants. The king of Poland formally resigned his crown at Grodno in 1795; and was afterwards removed to Peterburg, where, (living on a pension granted by the court of Russia) he remained a sort of state prisoner till his death in 1798. The Polish king, tho' he had openly declared against the partition, was long suspected of being too partial to the views of Russia. The people even confidently believed that their king favoured the partition then in agitation, as he afterwards publicly declared that it was necessary to submit to the ascendant of the Russians. After the treaty of the partition was ac-
ceded to by the members of the diet convened for that purpose, many of the principle members hastened to the king and upbraided him with conspiring to ruin their country. He at first tried gentle means to appease their anger, but finding that this moderation made them more unjust in their accusations, he rose up, threw his hat on the ground, and said to them haughtily:—
"Gentlemen, I am weary of listening to you. The partition of your miserable country is a consequence of your ambition, of your dissensions, of your eternal disputes. To yourselves alone you ought to attribute your misfortunes. If no greater portion of land remained to me than this hat would cover, I should still, in the eyes of all Europe, be your lawful but unfortunate king."
Kosciuszko had the fortune to be freed from his prison, after the destruction of his country, when he went to England, where he was received by the enlightened and liberal men of that nation with distinguished respect. He afterwards visited the United States of America, from whence he returned to France, where he no doubt has been waiting for the present crisis in the affairs of his country, (which has been long expected) to make himself useful to his country.
On the fate of Poland and the gallant conduct of Kosciuszko, Campbell the Scots poet has the following beautiful and animated lines in the first part of his "Pleasures of Hope."
"O! sacred Truth! thy triumph ceas'd awhile, And Hope, thy sister, ceas'd with the toilsome war, When leag'd oppression pour'd to northern shores, Her whistler Pandours, and her fierce Hussars, Wav'd her dread standard to the breeze of morn, Peal'd her loud drum, and twang'd her trumpet horn, Tumultuous horror brooding o'er her van, Pregaging wrath to Poland—and to man! "Warsaw's last champion from her heights survey'd, Wide o'er the fields, a waste of ruin laid. Oh! Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save! Is there no hand on high to shield the brave? Yet, though destruction sweep these lovely plains, Rise, fellow-men! our Country yet remains! By that dread name we wave the sword on high, And swear for her to live!—with her to die! He said, and on the rampart-heights array'd His trusty warriors, few, but undismay'd; Firm pac'd and slow, a horrid front they form, Still as the breeze, but dreadful as the storm; Low murm'ring sounds along their banners fly, Revenge or Death—the watchword and reply; Then peal'd the notes, omnipotent to charm, And the loud tocsin toll'd their last alarm! "In vain alas! In vain ye gallant few! From rank to rank your volly'd thunder flew: Oh! bloodiest picture in the book of time, Sarmatia fell unwept, without a crime; Found not a generous friend, a pitying foe! Strength in her arms, nor mercy in her woe; Drop'd from her nerveless grasp the shattered spear, Close'd her bright eye, and curb'd her high career; Hope, for a season, bade the world farewell, And freedom shriek'd—as Kosciuszko fell!"
Poland, including Lithuania, is 700 miles in length, and 680 in breadth.—Since the dismemberment of the kingdom the number of the inhabitants is rated at about 9,000,000, of which 6,000,000 are Jews. The provinces taken by Russia are the largest, by Austria the most populous, and by Prussia the most commercial.
FROM THE AMERICAN.
To the people of the U. States.
A Citizen of the United States, attached to no party, conforming with no fashion, bound by no ties of sympathy to the personal interests of any man; and disclaiming alike to advocate the cause of traitors, or to connive at a plausible infraction of the constitution, steps forward to address you, with the feelings of a patriot, in the language of truth.
A plan had been conceived in the bowels of your country, by a man once bearing high honors about him, to sever your union, to destroy your constitution, your
form of government, and to sacrifice your liberties at the shrine of "energetic" rule. (a) The fact is supported by pointed and positive testimony: The evidence is not light, rash, nor presumptive; but plain, clear and decided. Burr, the projector of the design, declared it himself, in a personal interview, to general Eaton; who, on his oath, before a judicial and competent tribunal, with deliberation and circumspection, on the Holy Evangelists, in the presence of his God and his country, solemnly proclaimed it to the world. Numberless incidents corroborated the disclosure of Eaton. The emissaries of Burr were roaming through the Western Country. (b) Many of them were not men accustomed to the pursuits of laborious life, or such as would justify a suspicion that they were about to settle lands, to engage in agricultural pursuits, and by their industry make a blooming garden of the wilderness; most of them were men reared in fashionable life, teeming with lofty notions of human nature; some ardent, vigorous, and enterprising; some thoughtless, headless, and boyish. These circumstances no hay-poorly, no cunning, no art could conceal: Connected with the cyphered letter, (c) the confessions, and broad hints (d) of several of the associates, they leave little room for doubt: And however the chieftain of the plot may evade or prevaricate; however he may affect innocence, or play off the arts of recrimination, (e) the voice of the unbiased and temperate citizen will pronounce him guilty. Among the associates there were also men of years and experience, who had been respected by their countrymen, and distinguished by the honors of office. The names of these were used more easily to dupe the young and the volatile; and ripe age, setting the example, gave a higher tone to the nerve of youth.
Completing throughout the Western Country, and conspiring against the unity of these states; seducing individuals to embark in the undertaking; (f) building boats; (g) purchasing provisions; (h) drawing large sums of money from the banks; (i) and veiling his actions in mystery; (j) the nation became justly suspicious of Burr's proceedings; and rousing to a sense of danger, one universal alarm pervaded the country: The enemies of liberty smiled at the prospect of approaching ruin which threatened your republican institutions, whilst the friends of free principles, collected and firm, stood ready to meet the impending danger in what ever shape it might present itself.
At such a crisis, when our laws were powerless, (l) to arrest the impetuous of reason; when the Emporium of the West was threatened with speedy, certain and overwhelming ruin, the commander of your army, acting under the obligation of an oath to support and preserve the constitution; (m) in full possession of strong evidence of the guilt of certain of the associates, (n) resolutely supplies the deficiency of the laws, seizes on several noted persons of the conspirators, whom the civil authority was too emaciated to secure; and not wishing to insult the Courts of Judicature by retaining them prisoners within their jurisdiction, and refusing to deliver them up when in his actual possession and demanded by the Habeas Corpus, sent them to the seat of the general government, there to be dealt with, not according to martial forms, but agreeably to the provisions of the laws—of those laws, which the event has proved inefficient to punish them. Yet something was gained by the transportation of their persons: The members of a dangerous and daring cabal, existing in New-Orleans, were widely dispersed, and a concert of design, in the most critical moment for their scheme rendered impracticable.
Grave hypocrites, when thwarted, will be sturdy; and inexperienced youth obstinate of temper, if arrested in its designs. When detection overtakes the first they assume the language of indignant virtue; and when exposure reaches the last, they become violent and unruly. In these reflections may be found the solution of the conduct of Bollman and Swartwout, of Livingston and Alexander, of Adair and Ogden. Hunted to their secret recesses, where were found many proofs of their guilt, they turn with brazen and unblushing fronts on general Wilkinson, who, like Ithuriel, with his spear, exposed them in their truest shapes to the world.
"Up they start, Discover'd and surpris'd. As when a spark Lights on a heap of nitrous powder, laid, Fit for the tun some magazine to store Against a rumor'd war, the snaky train With sudden blaze diffus'd inflames the air; So started up, in their own shapes, the Fugitives."
They have denounced him as a military tyrant, seizing innocent men and confining their persons, whilst engaged alone in lawful pursuits. To those denunciations the commander of the army opposes nothing but fortitude and perseverance—the heroism of Cook with the cool resolution of Eli Gama. He had, like either,
to struggle in a tempestuous element, and pursued an unrequited course: Happy, if at last he can encompass his laudable intention, without being destroyed by savages, and explore his way along the dangerous path he has adventured on for the salvation of his country.
When summoned before a judicial tribunal at New Orleans, the commander of the army divested himself of his military habiliments, and appeared in the plain garb of a citizen: He held himself accountable to the laws of his country, and explaining his motives with manliness and freedom, he threw himself on the good sense and justice of the nation. He had not seized the culprits with the view of deportation to a foreign clime, immuring them in a dungeon, or confining them to a military execution or the scaffold; but with the intention of delivering them to the executive authority at the seat of the general government, to be dealt with as their crimes might deserve. Conveyed to Washington City, by the President of the U. States, the Associates of Burr were delivered to the custody of the law. By the highest judicial authority in the country, which invaded the jurisdiction of an inferior but independent court, (a) they were declared entitled to their freedom, having committed no crime which the existing laws of the country could reach and punish.
Thus acquitted, the coadjutors of Burr, with ranking vindictiveness, commenced the yell of vengeance—and, like a cat of nine lives, they have diverted the general attention from themselves, their chief, and his fell purposes, to the man who at the risk of fortune, fame, and life, had boldly traced their iniquitous steps and arrested them on the threshold of treason. They who had daringly looked forward, through robbery and murder, to the destruction of the liberties of the people, appealed, audacious calumny! to the constitution of their injured country. They denounced, boldly, the commander who had prevented the accomplishment of their traitorous project, and complained, unblushingly, of being deprived of the rights of citizens! The press, which should be alone the vehicle of virtuous sentiments, and unprevaricating truths, was to them the medium for the manifestation of their foul passions, fierce anger, and licentious affections.
Exposed to their fury, to the lies, their malicious machinations, you, my countrymen, abandon Wilkinson? Will you give him up to the burning vengeance of his infuriated enemies? Will you behold him like Ixion, surrounded by serpents, without taking all potent voices in his defence, and has nobly ventured his all to save
He has violated your laws—Saved the Republic. This admission and the apology Had he folded his arms, and permitted treason verge of accomplishing less, to a point where he unable to arrest it; would the triumphant traitors ascend; when prostrate at their common right of vor; would you souls, have cur conduct of the and have ex the name to act
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miscreants in the convulsive ebullitions of guilt, and the placid tranquility of innocence.
Weigh, I pray you, these considerations—and do justice to Wilkinson—to his motives—and his actions.
A FREEMAN.
NOTES.
(a) "He (Burr) laid he would turn Congress, neck and heels, out of doors; assassinate the President, seize on the treasury and the navy, and declare himself the protector of an energetic government." See Eaton's Deposition .
(b) See the various accounts contained in letters from respectable characters to the westward, as published in the different newspapers throughout the United States.
(c) The cyphered letter is a curious document, and its genuineness has never been questioned. Dr. Bollman, who was the bearer of that letter to Gen. Wilkinson, has been on this head as silent as the grave. The letter plainly indicates a project contrary to the laws of the U. States. After stating that Burr had obtained funds, and actually embarked in the enterprise, it says, "Detachments from different points, and under different pretences will rendezvous on the Ohio." And adds, "send me four or five of the commissions of your officers, which you can borrow under any pretence you please." Then observes, "it will be necessary to determine whether it will be expedient to seize on or pass Baton Rouge." All this proves that the enterprise was unlawful. Why place detachments at different points under different pretences? Why want the officers' commissions? Why seize on Baton Rouge, if the undertaking was legal? Honorable enterprise does not need a pretence ; he must have wanted the commissions for a sinister purpose; and the question of seizing on Baton Rouge was very unlike a justifiable procedure. In all the letter there is not a word of acting by authority from the U. States—Burr quoted a higher power—"The Gods (says he) invite to glory and fortune." By appealing to plural deities, it is likely he meant the Heathen Gods; for surely none else would "invite" him to such a diabolical business.
(d) See the conversation held by Gen. Wilkinson with Swartwout, Bolling, & Alexander—the latter (his declaration of innocence to the contrary notwithstanding) averring vehemently that "It (the conspiracy) will succeed—Burr will be here (at New Orleans) the beginning of March. Vide the President's communication to Congress of the 26th of January."
ur, in the rancour of his heart and disappointment, terms "A man notoriously the Spanish Government." He is wicked and foolish. How Wilkinson may be, that circumstance does not justify nor lessen Burr's charge, under Burr's and, in his letter to Cowles Meade, might be led to doubt whether Burr that man of great mind which he represented to be.
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The Star. Lynchburg. Thursday, April 2.
The following information was yesterday obligingly communicated, by a gentleman just from Richmond.
"Aaron Burr was apprehended about the 18th of February last, within 20 miles of the Spanish line, and escorted by a strong guard as far on his way to Washington as Fredericksburg, when they were met by a message from the President directing them to conduct him to Richmond. They arrived with him at that place on Thursday evening last—still under guard—at the Eagle Tavern. They only wait the coming of Mr. Rodney, the Attorney General for the U. S. when he will be immediately examined before Gen. Marshall. On Friday he was visited by Gentlemen Wickham, Randolph & P. N. Nicholas. Mr. Nicholas remained with him but a very few minutes—the other two were in the room, that, and the greater part of the next day. The documents from the President were brought to that place on Saturday, and the only evidence they contained was the same exhibited against Swartwout and Bollman. The general opinion in Richmond is that, he (Burr) will not even be committed for further trial."
George Poindexter, Esq. Attorney General of the Mississippi Territory, is elected to Congress by the Legislature of that Territory.
A Duel was fought last month, opposite Natches, between Cowles Meade, Secretary of the Mississippi Territory, and Captain Robert Sample, of Wilkinson county. The first fire was ineffectual; but at the discharge of the second, Mr. Meade received a wound in his right thigh, of which he was fast recovering.
A letter from Commodore Rogers (says the Boston Palladium) states, that after he had conveyed the Tunisian Ambassador home, he heard observations from him, that induced him to apprehend a rupture between Tunis and America.
It has been emphatically said, that "perhaps the burning of coals to convert water into steam, and with that steam raising coals and water from the mine, is the most complete triumph of human skill over physical difficulties."
[From the Carolina Weekly Messenger.] Good food for milch Cows.
Beat up in a mortar, dry corn cobs; pour boiling water over them, or boil them in a pot; stir them frequently while boiling;—and when cold, give it to your cows, which is nearly as good as boiled peas for milch cows, and certainly a very economical food. The experience which I have had of this cheap good food induces me to recommend it to my brother planters. A Planter.
TACTICS OF THE NEW SCHOOL. Order of battle.—Place in the front rank the King, the Nobility, and the great Generals, all who advised to the war, all who will gain most by the victory, or lose most by a defeat.
In the centre, those next in dignity and interest.
In the rear rank that class of poor brave soldiers, who always have been in front.
Such an order of battle would put an end to wars. Witness.
Dr. Walcot, alias Peter Pindar, is employed in printing a new collection of Odes and Elegies in his own inimitable style, to be entitled Tristia , or the Sorrows of Peter . The idea is founded on his alleged exclusion from his share of the loaves and fishes during the late changes in Administration. Loa. Papi.
[From the Boston "Emerald."] Desultory Selections.
The taste of some people is so fastidious that there is no possibility of pleasing it.—Do you offer them poetry, they wish prose; do you give them entertaining literature, they can bear nothing that is trifling; science they consider as dullness, fiction as levity—having no standard of taste, they have no determinate ideas of excellence; they blame the author, when themselves are in fault, and attribute to his want of understanding what should be carried to the account of their own folly.
Piety.—If ye are able to resist (said Darius to the Sythians) stop and bravely fight. If ye dare not acknowledge thy master.—The king of the Sythians replied: I neither fly nor fear any man. It is our custom to wander quietly over our vast domains during war as well as peace. We know no blessing like liberty, and acknowledge no master but the Gods. If thou wouldst prove our valor, come and insult the tombs of our fathers.
Contempt.—Bollere said contempt was a pill which might be swallowed, but which it was impossible to chew without making a wry face.
From the Virginia Herald.
To the Freeholders of Virginia. Fellow Citizens;
You have seen a resolution entered into by your representatives of the lower house of this state, in order to get your ayes and noes, respecting the call of a convention, to make amendments to the state constitution, if necessary; which resolution was rejected by the senate, upon what ground I leave to that honorable body to explain. If the free people of this state wish amendments to the constitution, they have an undoubted right to say so; and the plan adopted by your representatives, I think a very good one, to gather your minds on that subject. Then would it not be well for you as free men, at your next election, to pursue the plan proposed, and thereby express your wishes to the next general assembly of this state? The different counties of Virginia, it is hoped, will see it a duty incumbent on them to adopt the above resolution; and printers generally in this state, will please to give this address a place in their respective papers.
I am, fellow citizens, Your most obed't servant, FRANCHISE. Feb. 15, 1807.
On the 23d Feb. in the afternoon, a negro man and his wife were crossing the river Susquehanna, on the ice—the ice parted and these unfortunate persons were carried down the river on separate pieces. When nearly opposite Havre de Grace, they called for assistance from persons who were on the bank of the river and who brutally scoffed at their danger, and left them to their fate.
David Van Scoter, the ferryman employed by the General Post-Office at Havre de Grace, with a very laudable zeal, and at great personal hazard, put off in a small boat to their assistance—the man was got on shore—but the woman, who was surrounded by accumulating cakes of ice must inevitably have perished, as the night was setting in, and the boat, unable to approach her, had returned; when
Commodore Rogers, with a spirit worthy of a seaman, and highly honorable to humanity, taking a piece of plank, passed from the man to the woman, until he reached the woman, brought her to land, when she was nearly perished with cold being himself benumbed in this noble attempt to rescue her. Phil. Pup.
At a Supreme Court, held for the Mississippi Territory, at the town of Washington, on Tuesday the 3d Feb. 1807.
The Grand Jury of the Mississippi Territory, on a due investigation of the evidence brought before them, are of opinion that
Aaron Burr has not been guilty of any crime or misdemeanor against the laws of the United States or of this their Territory, or given any just occasion for alarm or inquietude to the good people of this Territory.
The Grand Jury present as a grievance, the late military expedition, unnecessarily as they conceive, fitted out against the person and property of said Aaron Burr, where no resistance had been made to the ordinary civil authority.
The Grand Jury also present as highly derogatory to the dignity of this government, the Armistice (so called) concluded between the Secretary, acting as Governor, and the said Aaron Burr.
The Grand Jury also present as a grievance, destructive of personal liberty, the late military arrests, made without warrant, and as they conceive, without other lawful authority; and they do seriously regret that so much cause should be given to the enemies of our glorious constitution, to rejoice in such measures being adopted in a neighboring Territory, as if sanctioned by the Executive of our country, must sap the vitals of our political existence, and crumble this glorious fabric in the dust.
PHILANDER SMITH, Foreman.
BALTIMORE, MARCH 16 Extract of a letter from a gentleman of unquestionable character, dated New-Orleans, 17th Feb. 1807.
"I must acknowledge that Burr is the most consummate scoundrel and artful liar I ever had an acquaintance with. The inclosed proclamation of Governor Williams will shew that he has run for it. I send you some scraps of his talent for lying, by which he has amused and deceived the good people of the Mississippi Territory, until he took his measures for effectuating his escape. Burr says he has a Port Folio, and by which he is to damn Wilkinson; but this Port Folio is in the possession of his daughter, and contains, he says, among other things, Wilkinson's receipt for 100,000 dollars!!! Where did Burr get that sum? And what has Wilkinson done with it? for neither have been remarkable for possessing much of the precious metals: Yet, silly and improbable as this lie was, there were people at Natchez who affected to believe it, the better to aid Burr in deceiving those whose duty it was to hold the traitor secure. What was the fact? That Wilkinson, from his small means, actually advanced Burr one hundred and fifty dollars at St. Louis, which has never yet been repaid. His own damnable letters to gen. Wilkinson by his associates Swartwout and Bollman, he now says are the fabrications of Yrujo! D—n him, I did believe that he would have gone to the stake sooner than to have descended to the vulgar baselessness of telling palpable lies. A radical change has become indispensably necessary here in the public officers. The quondam friends of Gov. Claiborne have said in open court, that they did not confide their plan to him, because "he was too feeble and unworthy of trust."—Brigade-Major Col. Kerr (of the militia) who fled from Bengal for his virtuous deeds, was taken by the hand, fed and clothed by Claiborne. This man has been tried for high crimes, &c. &c. Although the proofs, from men of honor, were as lucid as the beams of the sun, he has been acquitted—and how? by a jury which could not agree. In the course of this trial Judge Workman, who stands indicted for the same crimes, and was admitted to plead in behalf of Kerr, declared that "he was the author of a secret combination for the purpose of revolutionizing Mexico;" and Doctor Watkins, the Mayor, when giving his testimony in favor of Kerr, averred that "he was a member of the same combination, which was bound to secrecy by oath." Workman is also a fugitive. He edited a paper at Charleston, and came here literally a beggar, and yet is a man of talents. Claiborne fled, cloth-
ed, and made him a judge with a salary of 2,000 dollars per annum; and how has he acquitted himself for those multiplied acts of benevolence?—Why, he has declared to Lieut. Murray that "Claiborne's heart was as black as his hat." Why did he thus insult the Governor? Because Claiborne refused to draw out the militia, and array them against the General and the troops of the United States, to protect this outlandish judge, and two or three of his brothers in iniquity: And yet, for arresting such fellows, and preventing the horrors of civil war, is poor Wilkinson blasted by the denunciations of those very men who have invariably denounced the government for its want of energy. A copy of the deposition of Ensign Small I now send for your amusement, & that you may better form an opinion of the consummate art that has been employed to promote this nefarious enterprise. What has become of Burr? This I cannot answer. Some think that he has escaped to the Spaniards."
BY ROBERT WILLIAMS, Governor of the Mississippi Territory.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS Aaron Burr, Esq. late Vice-President of the United States was bound in a recognizance to appear at the Supreme Court of this Territory, himself in the sum of five thousand dollars, and two securities in the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars each, "to answer any Bills of Indictment that might be found against him, and to continue to appear from day to day, until dismissed by the said Court," which he has failed to comply with, and as it appears has made his escape.
I DO, THEREFORE, issue this my proclamation for apprehending the said Aaron Burr, Esq. and by the powers and authorities which I possess, will pay or cause to be paid, to any person or persons who will take the person of the said Aaron Burr, and cause him to be delivered to me at this place, or to the President of the United States, the sum of Two Thousand Dollars.
Given under my hand at the town of Washington, this 6th day of February, 1807. ROBERT WILLIAMS.
"CORPS OF INVINCIBLES."
Among the many citizens of the Western country who offered their services to suppress the late Conspiracy, were a number of veterans in Tennessee, all above fifty years of age, [15 of whom were old revolutionary officers, viz. 1 general, 2 colonels, 4 majors and 8 captains,] who formed themselves into a Company, and offered their services to the commanding officer of the district in the following handsome address:
To Major-General Andrew Jackson.
"At a moment when great sensibility, and even fearful apprehensions for the welfare of our country, has been excited, from one end of the continent to the other—When our government, the best calculated of all others, for the attainment of individual security and happiness, has sounded the tocsin of alarm, to be on the alert in suppressing combinations of men, hostile to the integrity of the union and interest of our country—It behoves all men, either aged or youthful, to coalesce in their attachment to their country. In the affections of the citizens our government exists; not in oppressive and unnecessary coercion, as in other countries. These principles which eminently characterize republican institutions, clearly demonstrate that every citizen, whatever his situation may be, ought to contribute, in some mode, to the support of the government under which these inestimable blessings are enjoyed. The infirm, by their opinions and exhortations—to them experience belongs—they know the inalienable blessings of freedom of thought, speech and action—security of person and property. PATRIOTISM is their claim, tho' not exclusively, in a country of freedom—This is an important

crisis, when limits of legal active exertion ought not to be sought with a microscopic eye. So far as our bodily powers will admit, we cheerfully submit to the rigors of military institutions. Our country will require nothing unnecessarily of us. The thread of age will not be broken, but it will be used to the extent of its strength.
"Under these impressions we agree to embody ourselves. Aged and infirm as we may be, we offer our services and fortunes to our country in support of its laws and constituted authorities."
FATE OF MIRANDA'S CREW.
(TRANSLATION.)
City of Carracas, July 25, 1806. The captain general, with the advice and approbation of the auditor of war, (a judge appointed to hear the first appeal in military affairs) condemned the companions of the TRAITOR Francis Miranda, to the following punishments, viz.
To be Hanged.
James Gardner, Gustavus Adolphus Benguet, Charles Johnson, Miles Hall, John Fers, Francis Ferguson, Thomas Donahue, Thomas Billop, Daniel Kemper, Paul Francis George, a Portuguese.
All the above were commissioned officers under Miranda, and above 25 years of age.
Transportation to the forts at Boca Chica (at the entrance of the harbor at Carthagena) for 8 years hard labor.
Benjamin Nicholson, Samuel Price, Robert Stephenson, William Long, Henry King, William Paix, George Forquison, Joaquim Hoyt, Abraham Head, William Burnside, William Coante White, Daniel Newberry, Samuel Tocher, Henry Sperry, Pompey Grand, Benjamin Davis.
Transportation to Omoa for 10 years.
John O. Sullivan, David Heleete, Henry Ingerser, John Birch, Robert Saunders, John Estzell, Paul Nangui, Jeremiah Powell, John Sherman, Daniel Mackey, John Hays, John Elliot, Thomas Gill, John Moore Bayley Negus. Transportation to Porto Rico for 10 years.
Moses Smith, James Grant, Matthew Buchanan, David Winston, Joseph Bernet, John Vancel, Frederick Riester, Finias Raymen, Eden Burghman, John Scott, Stephen Bantis, Alexander Behanen, William Lippincott.
Boys—Confined at Bocachica, until the determination of the king: — Reng, Joseph Hedele, Joseph Smith.
The foregoing judgments have been regularly executed.
FROM THE SCIO TO GAZETTE. Chillicothe, Feb. 26.
The governor of this state has obligingly favored us with a copy of a letter from the President of the United States, which gives us much pleasure in publishing, inasmuch as it is a just tribute of praise bestowed upon our constituted authorities, and those of our fellow-citizens who distinguished themselves by their patriotism in the late occurrence, relative to the conspiracy formed by Col. Burr, and must confound with shame, those who were base enough, either to throw obstacles in the way, or to attempt to turn into ridicule their united efforts for the public good.
"Washington, Feb. 2d, 1807."
SIR, The pressure of business during a cession of the legislature, has rendered me more tardy in addressing you than it was my wish to have been. That our fellow citizens of the west, would need only to be informed of criminal machinations against the public safety, to crush them at once, I never entertained a doubt. I have seen with the greatest satisfaction, that among those who have distinguished themselves by their fidelity to their country, on the occasion of the enterprize of Mr. Burr, yourself and the legislature of Ohio, have been the most eminent: the promptitude and energy
displayed by your state has been as honorable to itself, as salutary to its sister states; and in declaring that you have deserved well of your country, I do but express the grateful sentiment of every faithful citizen in it. The hand of the people has given a mortal blow to a conspiracy, which in other countries would have called for an appeal to arms, and has proved the government to be the strongest, of which every man feels himself a part. It is a happy illustration too, of the importance of preserving to the state authorities all that vigor which the constitution foresaw would be necessary, not only for their own safety, but for that of the whole. In making these acknowledgements of the merit of having set the illustrious example of exertion for the common safety, I pray that they may be considered as addressed to yourself and the Legislature particularly, and generally to every citizen who has availed himself of the opportunity given, of proving his devotion to his country.
"Accept my salutations and assurances of great consideration and esteem."
Signed, TH: JEFFERSON. His Excellency Gov. TIFFIN.
From the Aurora.
WHO WANTED ENERGY?
The Federal papers have commenced a new attack on the Government; and behold, it is for exercising too much energy!  Wilkinson and his little army, are charged with destroying the Constitution and Liberties of the People. This is a precisely what has always been foreseen and feared, by Republicans. Every Army is dangerous to civil Liberty. They possess the natural power, or physical Force, to trample on the Rights of the People; and, to expect any Army never to use the power it possesses is contrary to Reason.
It is indeed a new Testimony against Energy. The Testimony of Friends is always suspicious. That of Enemies is never doubted; so far as it goes against them; and there they have committed themselves: For, rather than leave the Government without blame; or give it the credit of having obtained such triumphant Glories, unsullied; they now shift their ground, and abuse the Government for having done the very thing which they, before, alleged it for not doing, and alleged could not be done, for want of Force or Energy. Never did party exhibit such mental Imbecility, as Federalists. Like the infatuated Politicians of Europe, with whom they sympathize, the most formidable Arguments against them are furnished by themselves. It is not surprising that they obtain no Credit from their own Readers! No Wonder they have written themselves and their Presses out of Credit!
But what is this new Offence? It is the Crime of seizing the Persons, as a set of Conspirators and Spi's , who were endeavoring to corrupt and establish a Usurper—and transporting them to the Seat of Government, for Trial.
And pray, did not General Washington do the same, to ten times the number of poor ignorant Whiskey Boys , who opposed a species of Law the most odious that Wickedness ever contrived; and only resisted the Excise Officers who came to tax their Whiskey? And did not General M c Pherson , under President Adams , do the same to poor Fries and Sheaffer , and his Dutch Comrades; not for opposing a new Burden in the Land-tax; but for illegal Proceedings under it? And is it possible that General Wilkinson , under the extreme Alarm which the Menaces of these Traitors excited, by their vaunting of 5 and 10 thousand troops pouring down the stream, to overwhelm him and his Band on the Island of Orleans, without Retreat; is he to be blamed, for removing such daring Bloods out of the way?
Suppose they had been suffered to raise a Party to co-operate with
Burr ; would this please federalism? Astonishing Impudence!
What would have been done by (their Favorites) his Majesty's Generals, in Ireland , with such Villains caught in his Camp, and tempting his Person?
To Wilkinson the Country is indebted, beyond Price, for his Patriotism. The motive is the measure for Praise. The Error of the Means is no Abatement of the Praise due to his Firmness & Decision, in an unexampled Case; in an Emergency impossible to be calculated; and where the Law afforded no Direction, nor Power to save. Every thing, well intended, is justifiable by the Laws of Self-preservation: And the Inconvenience of 4 or 5 men: of whose Treason no honest and candid Man can entertain a Doubt; is not to be put in Competition with the safety of a Nation. Errors may be corrected, but Neglects cannot. The utmost which can happen, for the Act, is Damages. And, if a set of Traitors who transported themselves to him, for purposes of Corruption of him and his Army, can suffer Damage by his transporting them back; let the Government pay the Damage, and transport them back again, now all is quiet, for Trial there.
Whatever be the Result; whatever be the Violation of the Letter or Spirit of the Constitution; let it be always remembered, that it is the Fruit of Energy ; the effect of Force ; the Product of that very Establishment so much contended for by Federalists, and against, by Republicans.
NATURAL CURIOSITY.
As a person was passing on a road in Buckingham, Bucks county, about the 28th of August last, soon after sunrise, he saw before him what he took to be a snake, but on closer examination found to be small worms, generally about a quarter of an inch long, striped of a dark brown color. They appeared advancing a few at a time; but the procession preserved the regular form of a snake about two feet and a half long; the head, neck, body, and tail, distinctly formed; and what rendered the resemblance more complete, the thicker parts were somewhat raised, by several tiers of worms laying one above the other. They were crossing a rut in an oblique direction, but this did not interrupt their uniform order of marching, or the exact resemblance of a snake. A wild cherry sapling was near, in which they had probably been bred.
A very correct and intelligible lad, about the same time, saw the same kind of worms, travelling in a like procession, in Kingwood, New-Jersey, with this difference only, that the head appeared divided into two parts. He watched their movements, for a considerable time, until they had advanced some distance, without changing their order or appearance, when meeting with an obstacle in their way, they separated, as individually to seek for food, or for a sheltering retreat.
These strange phenomena are related by persons whose characters, so understanding, precision and veracity, may be fully relied upon.
Many curious enquiries may arise on the subject—whether the order of procession of the reptiles was natural to them, & only accidentally the resemblance of a snake? or by instinct? or by what kind of design they assumed that form—a security against being devoured by birds, or any other enemy? the order of creation is altogether wonderful, and in many instances, past finding out. Self preservation appears to be the first and principal wish of all animate beings; and perhaps all of them be supplied with some appropriate means for the purpose.
(Observatory.)
MOVING PILLAR OF SAND.
In the deserts of Nubia, in Africa. At Waadi el Halloub we were surprised and terrified by a sight, surely one of the most magnificent in the world. In that vast expanse of desert, from W. and to N.W. of us, we saw a num-
ber of prodigious pillars of sand at different distances, at times moving with great celerity, at others stalking on with majestic slowness; at intervals we thought they were coming in a very few minutes to overwhelm us; and small quantities of sand did actually more than once reach us. Again they would retreat so as to be almost out of sight, their tops reaching the very clouds. There the tops often separated from the bodies; and these, once disjoined, dispersed in the air, and did not appear more. Sometimes they were broken near the middle, as if struck with a large cannon shot. About noon they began to advance with considerable swiftness upon us, the wind being very strong at north. Eleven of them ranged along side of us about the distance of three miles. The greatest diameter of the largest appeared to me at that distance as if it would measure ten feet. They retired from us with a wind at south east, leaving an impression upon my mind to which I can give no name, though surely one ingredient in it was fear, with a considerable deal of wonder and astonishment. It was in vain to think of flying; the swiftest horse, or fastest sailing ship, could be of no use to carry us out of this danger, and the full persuasion of this rivetted me as it were to the spot where I stood, and the canals gained on me so much in my state of lameness, that it was with some difficulty I could overtake them.
The same appearance of moving pillars of sand presented themselves to us the next day in form and disposition like those we had seen at Waadi el Halloub, only they seemed more in number and less in size.—They came several times in a direction close upon us, that is, I believe, within less than two miles. They began immediately after sunrise, like a thick wood, and almost darkened the sun: His rays shining through them for near an hour, gave them an appearance like pillars of fire. Our people now became desperate: The Greeks shrieked out, and said it was the day of judgment. Ismael pronounced it to be hell, and the Tuscorories, that the world was on fire. I asked Idras if he ever had before seen such a sight? He said he had often seen them as terrible, though never worse: but what he feared the most was that extreme redness in the air, which was a sure presage of the coming of simoom.
A literary gentleman lately arrived in this city from England furnishes us with the following information. On the 16th day of June 1796, one hundred young scientific gentlemen, who had then just finished their education in the Colleges of England and Scotland, met by appointment at Yarmouth, where they resolved, under the strictest injunction of secrecy, "that each of them should, in order to obtain correct information of the world, and of the customs, manners and dispositions of mankind, quit their Island and reside for ten years successively in different foreign countries particularly specified; and that they should on the first day of September, 1807, again meet together in London for the purpose of reading over their different journals and of preparing the same for publication." This strange resolution was actually put in practice and on the first of January, 1807, it was known to some scientific men in London, that 13 of the young adventurers had died, and that the remaining 87 would certainly meet next summer according to agreement. It was said that one of these adventurers had constantly resided in the city of New-York, where he had collected a most valuable mass of information.
(Com. Adv.)
There are now living, in the town of Biddeford, Massachusetts, 17 persons upwards of 70 years of age; the aggregate amount of whose ages are 2834 years; 24 of them will average 80 years each; 3 of them compose one family, a father, son and daughter, whose ages, add-
ed together amount to 243 years; the last census taken in the year 1800.
In Philadelphia, from May 1, 1806, to January 3, 1807, there were 1344 deaths, 729 adults and 615 children, of consumption 168, apoplexy 26, casualties 23, cholera morbus 141, convulsions 68, dysentery 45, of fever 35, but one malignant case; drunkenness 6, palsy 14, hooping cough 32, small pox, nat. 18, inoculation, 2, suicide 7, worms 45, teething 28.
List of Letters
Remaining in the Post-Office, Lynchburg, 31st March, 1807.
 B. John Burlet, Wm. Burter, Jonas B. John Burges, Waid Boatwright, Alexander Baken.  C. Nelson Crawford 4, John Clark 3, Mrs. Ann Corle, Micajah Clark, W. P. Claiborne 2, Daniel Chestwood, Archilous Crews, John Carter, Wm. Coopo, Hoshah Carlen.  D. John Dabney, Thomas Dillon, Micajah Davis.  E. William Edwards, Robert Fleming, Elias Fisher, William Firth.  G. William Gregory, Mrs. Margaret Gwarkins, Miss Eliza Gwarkins, Mrs. Lucina Galison 2, John M. Gordon.  H. Moses Hurt.  J. Capt. P. Johnson, Charles Johnson, Richard Jones, Thomas Jenkins, Rowland Jones, William Jackson.  L. George Lambeth, Thomas Lucas, Meredith Lambeth, Esq. John Lester, sen. Wm. Lee, John Lee, Jas. L. Lamkin 3, Jas. Lee 2, William J. Lewis, Esq.  M. John McAlister 2, Joel Mann, John Murrell, Mrs. Charlotte Mosley.  N. Henry W. Nichol, Reuben Norvell, John Netherland.  P. Capt. Joseph Poindexter, William Pennock, John Pennock, William Pettijohn, Rev. Joseph Purnell.  Q. William Quarles.  R. Isaac Rucker, George Raveley, Edmund Reed, Anthony Rucker, Charles Raveley or James Telford 3.  S. James Shearer, James Smith, John Stone, James St. Clair.  T. John M. Telford, William John H. Trent, Capt. Isaac Caleb H. Turner, Richard T. Col. Charles Talbot, Trent, jr. Thomas Tinsle.  W. Jesse Woodroof, Merit White, Simon M. Willis 2, Moses Watkins, Sen. Messrs. William & David Mason. 
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Miscellany.
From the Aurora.
BANKS AS THEY OUGHT TO BE.
Since writing on this subject, I have met with several of the projected banks...
That the Constitution contains such a prohibition is certainly true...
The question is, as to an emitting bills of credit within the meaning of the Constitution...
The consequence then is that my project so far as relates to the States, is impracticable...
And general. Whereas the State's power to coin money would be variable...
And general. Whereas the State's power to coin money would be variable...
And general. Whereas the State's power to coin money would be variable...
And general. Whereas the State's power to coin money would be variable...
And general. Whereas the State's power to coin money would be variable...
And general. Whereas the State's power to coin money would be variable...
And general. Whereas the State's power to coin money would be variable...
might continue such, or close his accounts as he chose.
But there is no doubt those used to receive 10 or 12 per cent. would oppose...
That the States have not the right to coin money, or emit bills of credit...
It will ill become the friends of banks to contest the right or power of congress...
I thank the Jew, for teaching me that word.
100 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. Added to the national debt during three years...
50 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. Only were in the treasury...
204 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. taken from the national debt during the two first years...
150 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. Were in the treasury...
During those two years the actual saving to the nation amounted to about...
720 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. Have been paid on the principal of the national debt...
1000 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. Will have been paid on the principal...
2000 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. At the present rate of annual appropriation...
1400 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. Would have been added by that time to our debt...
20 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. Were paid by the last administration for collecting the direct tax...
Now the tax itself is extinct. Mr. Adams was authorised to borrow a sum of money and pay...
3 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. Per annum, more interest for it than would have procured the whole as easily and as soon.
Without these taxes, these swarms of collect-ors, and these loans after the year 1803...
60 TONS OF PRECIOUS SILVER. In the treasury, at the immediate command of government...
This is all provable by arithmetical process—allowing the first federal calculation of 30 tons to be a million.
It is not the mere insinuation of a senator electioneering for himself...
It is matter of fact—demonstrable to any one acquainted with the four rules of arithmetic...
It is truth—and the 60 tons, falsely said to have been stamped for tributary purposes...
And the third and last thing which I wonder most of all at, is, that young men should be so doltish...
A Quaker woman's Sermon. DEAR FRIENDS, There are three things I very much wonder at.
The first is, that children should be so foolish as to throw up stones, brick-bats and clubs...
The second is, that men should be so foolish, and even wicked, as to kill one another...
And the third and last thing which I wonder most of all at, is, that young men should be so doltish...
And the third and last thing which I wonder most of all at, is, that young men should be so doltish...
And the third and last thing which I wonder most of all at, is, that young men should be so doltish...
And the third and last thing which I wonder most of all at, is, that young men should be so doltish...
From the Baltimore American. It was after the desperate and bloody day of the battle of Arocole...
TO GENERAL CLARK.
Your nephew, Elliot, was killed in the field of the battle at Arocole. This young man was accustomed to the din of arms...
This letter a divine of the first talents would not blush to own. The observations are just, and the reflections pertinent.
The emperor of the French has not his equal among the potentates of Europe. It is, then, matter of astonishment to find him successful in all his wars...
In the court which Bonaparte pursues, it is to be lamented that his talents and acquirements will only serve him to confoundate more firmly a military despotism...
Virginia.
At a Quarterly Court held for Pittsylvania County, the 16th day of March, 1807.
Obediah Owen, Plff. vs. Jesse Wilson, George Adams, & Greenberry Wilson, Dts.
THE Defendants Jesse Wilson and Greenberry Wilson not having entered their appearance and given security...
A Copy—Teste WILL P. HARRISON, D.C.P.
Advertisement.
FOR SALE five hundred & five acres of first rate Tobacco LAND lying on Harris's creek in Amherst County...
ROBERT H. ROSE. 23d March, 1807.
N. B. On the above plantation there is a considerable quantity of Corn for sale...
Notice.
To be sold to the highest bidder, at public auction, for Ready Money, on the 5th day of May next...
AMES CRAIG, Trustee. 10th March, 1807.
GOUTY
Imported last fall by Brown & Rives
WILL stand the ensuing season, at my stable, in Amherst County, five miles from New Glasgow...
Gouty
Is a beautiful Bay, ten years old, in high health and vigor, five feet three inches high...
Gouty
WAS got by Sir Peter Teazle (unquestionably the best Stallion in England) his Dam the famous Yellow Mare...
Gouty
RUM but three times, owing to an injury received in the fore leg. In 1799, for the Derby Stakes...
ROBERT RIVERS. February 10th, 1807.
CAMP-MEETINGS
AT WHITSUNTIDE, Colonel Tate's field near Lynchburg; to commence on Friday the 15th...
It is expected this will be one of the greatest gatherings of both Preachers and People ever seen in this part of the country...
Also, a CAMP-MEETING will be held at King's Wood Meeting House, in Amherst county...
WILL BE SOLD
To the highest bidder, for ready money, at John Hook's Store, near Hallsford, in Franklin County...
Bowker Preston, Benjamin Booth, } Trustees. Franklin City, March 16, 1807.
Virginia, to wit:
At a Quarterly Court held for Pittsylvania County, the 16th day of March, 1806.
Vincent Shelton, Plff vs. John Davis, Elizabeth Duncan, widow of Benjamin Duncan deceased...
THE Defendants Elizabeth Duncan, widow of Benjamin Duncan, dec'd, Melinda Duncan, Squire Duncan, Anne Duncan, Abner Duncan and Julia Duncan...
A Copy—Teste WILL TUNSTALL, C.P.C.
Notice.
ALL persons indebted to the Estate of WILSON DAVENPORT, late of Lynchburg, are requested to make immediate payment...
WM. PRESLEY CLAIBORNE, Ex'r 10th Feb. 1807.
Crust Deed.
BY Virtue of a Deed of Trust executed to me by John Franklin, for the purpose of securing sundry debts due from him to John Davis...
LAND
On which the said Franklin resides, situated in the county of Campbell, on the main road leading to Richmond...
JOHN EABNEY, Trustee. March 12th, 1807.
Notice.
BY Virtue of a Deed in Trust, executed to me by Wilson Davenport, to secure to Samuel Irvine the payment of three hundred and thirty-two pounds...
GEO. D. WINSTON, Trustee. Lynchburg, 25th March, 1807.