Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1808-11-25 00:00:00

The Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
Martinsburg, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
No. 27 of Vol. X.
FRIDAY, November 25, 1808.
Whole No. 495.
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Subscriptions received at the office of the Intelligencer. JOHN HUTCHINSON. June 3, 1808.
RAN away from the subscriber living in Madison County, Virginia, about the first of September last, a Negro man by the name of Glauber; he is about five feet four or five inches high, stout made, his fore-teeth are very wide apart; he is of a brownish cast, but not a mulatto; it is supposed he is lurking about either in the County of Berkeley or Frederick. Ten dollars reward, with all reasonable charges, will be given for securing the said Negro in any jail, so that I get him again. ANGUS RUCKER. November 18, 1808.
CHEAP GOODS.
THE subscriber is just opening a handsome assortment of Fall and Winter Goods , which he pledges himself to the public to retail on as good if not better terms than any other person—Those who doubt, have only to call and price them.
Among his late purchases are: Low priced Cloths and Flannels, Mouselin costing for Ladies' wear, Swansdown vest shapes; Toilett and Royal do. President's Constitution & Fancy Cords Blankets from 10 3/4 to 6 3/4, Britagnas, Elegant and Common Shawls, Remall and Madras Handkerchiefs, Cotton Bandanas, Shirting Cambric, Plain and Cross-bared Lute strings, Morocco Shoes all sizes, A beautiful assortment of Leno Muslins, do. Cotton Lace, do. for trimmings, Fancy Calicoes, Extra Long Cotton Gloves, Leghorn Bonnets all fashions, A very large and beautiful assortment of Plain and Fashionable Silk Bonnets, Loaf and ps. Sugar, Imperial, Hyson, Y. Hyson, Hysonkin and Green TEAS; French Brandy, Jamaica Spirits, Holland Gin, Madeira and Lisbon Wine, Fish Oil, Spirits Turpentine, British Oil, Crowley and Blister'd Steel, 8 by 10 window Glass, Tin-Ware, Wool Hats, well made and finished, a large quantity of Bar and Strap IRON.
LEVI PRICE. Martinsburg, Oct. 21, 1808. N. B. Highest price given for Hemp, Flax, Linen, Bees-Wax, Flax-Seed, Wheat, Rye and country produce in general.
Mr. Richard Chenoweth, Take Notice,
THAT on the 24th day of December next after the date hereof, in the house in which Mr. Edmund Graham now lives, in the town of Martinsburg, County of Berkeley and Commonwealth of Virginia, I intend to take the depositions of Samuel Chenoweth, John Chenoweth and Richard Chenoweth, which I intend to offer in evidence on the trial of a suit in Chancery, now depending and undetermined in the County Court of Berkeley, in which I am complainant, and you are defendant; said depositions to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit for that purpose.
Your's, &c. PHILEMON CHENOWETH. November 18, 1808.
Stray HOGS.
TAKEN up trespassing on the plantation of the subscriber, near Martinsburg, five STRAY HOGS, two of them Sows about eighteen months old, one white, the other blue, neither of them marked, appraised to two dollars and fifty cents each; also, one red Barrow with black spots, one white Barrow with black spots, and one Barrow with white foreparts and red hindparts, supposed to be two years old, and valued at three dollars each—these barrows have large holes in each ear.
WILLIAM M'COY. Big Spring, Nov. 18, 1808.
WHEREAS some evil disposed persons make a practice of entering on my lands adjoining Joseph Foreman's mill tract and bounded by the lands of Newkirk, Henry French, widow Miller, widow Nichols and Renches tracts, near the mouth of Back Creek, Berkeley County, cutting down and hauling away my timber; I hereby forwarn all persons from entering on the said land and committing any kind of trespass as I am determined to prosecute any person that shall be found guilty of cutting down timber hauling it away, burning or otherwise committing waste in the timber. ELON MILLER. November 18, 1808.
WHEEL-WRIGHT.
THE subscriber hereby informs the inhabitants of Martinsburg & its vicinity that he still continues his occupation as a WHEEL-WRIGHT, he makes Plax, Wool and Cotton Wheels, Check Reels, Windsor Chairs and all other kinds of Turning, he will likewise repair old work for his old customers, he will take in exchange for new work all kinds of country produce at the market price, he has at present on hand, a quantity of work such as Windsor Chairs of the newest fashions, house joiners and cabinet makers may also be supplied with large bench and clamp screws, or any other kind belonging to joiner turning, Merchants near or at a distance may be supplied with Tar Cans as usual, either by the single dozen or gross. A short credit will be given to punctual persons.
All those in arrears are desired to call and discharge their balances either in cash or country produce, either will be accepted. He still resides in his old stand in Burke street, near James Faulkner's Stores.
MICHAEL KERRNS. Nov. 18, 1808. [8w.]
Six Cents Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, on the 25th of September last, an apprentice boy named JOHN SHERRED, about sixteen years of age. Whosoever takes up said runaway, and returns him to me, shall receive the above reward, but no charges or thanks.
JONATHAN WICKERSHAM. Darksville, Nov. 18, 1808.
BY virtue of two deeds of trust bearing date the 2d day of November, 1807, made to us by John Robinson and Margaret his wife, to satisfy and pay sundry sums of money paid by Jacob French, William Rush and Robert Christy, as securities for the said John Robinson, as late deputy Sheriff for Nicholas Orrick, will be sold at the Court House of Berkeley County, on the 27th day of December next, for cash, one Lot in the town of Martinsburg, on Queen Street, known in the plan of said town by No. 21, on which there are a convenient brick Dwelling House, and sundry convenient out Houses. Also, a Tract of Land containing five hundred acres, situate in said County, on the head of Cherry's branch. DAVID HUNTER, ALEX. COOPER, Trustees. November 18, 1808.
From the National Intelligencer.
The Documents accompanying the Message of the President, being too extensive for insertion in one paper, we have considered it most satisfactory, in the first instance, to publish the following, which will furnish a tolerably correct idea of the situation of our foreign relations, with the ground taken by our government. In subsequent papers the whole of the documents shall be given.
Extract of a letter from General Armstrong to the Secretary of State, dated Bourbon l'Arrehambault, 28th August, 1808.
"Since my arrival at this place I have been honoured by the receipt of your dispatch of the 21st ult. and would immediately return to Paris, to renew my discussions with M. de Champagny, either personally, as you suggest, or by writing, had I not the most solemn conviction that any new experiment made at the present moment, in either form, and of official character, would certainly be useless, and probably injurious."
FROM MR. PINKNEY to Mr. CANNING. Great Cumberland Place, August 23d, 1808.
SIR—I have had the honour, in consequence of the orders of the President, to recal your attention, in the course of several recent interviews, to the British orders in council of the 7th January and 11th of November, 1807, and to the various orders founded upon, or in execution of them; and I now take the liberty to renew, in the mode which I have understood to be indispensable, my instances on that subject.
I need scarcely remind you, Sir, that the government of the United States has never ceased to consider these orders as violating its rights, and affecting most destructively its interests, upon grounds wholly inadmissible both in principle and fact.
The letters of Mr. Madison to Mr. Erskine, of the 20th and 29th of March, 1807, produced by the official communication of that minister of the orders of 7th of January, and the answer of Mr. Madison, of the 26th of March, 1808, to a like communication of the orders of the 11th November, contained the most direct remonstrances against the system which these orders introduce and execute, and expressed the confident expectation of the President that it would not be persisted in.
That expectation has not yet been fulfilled, but it has, notwithstanding, not been relinquished. The President is still persuaded, that its accomplishment will result from a careful review by his majesty's government, made in the spirit of moderation and equity, of the facts and considerations which belong to the occasion.
It is not my purpose to recapitulate in this note the statements and reasonings contained in the above-mentioned letters of Mr. Madison, in support of the claim of the government of the U. States, that the British orders be revoked. I content myself with referring to those letters for proofs which it is not necessary to repeat, and for arguments which I could not hope to improve.
But there are explanations which those letters do not contain, and which it is proper for me now to make. Even these, however, may be very briefly given, since, you have already been made acquainted in our late conversations, with all their bearings and details.
These explanations go to shew, that while every motive of justice conspires to produce a disposition to recal the order of which my government complains, it is become apparent, that even their professed object will be best attained by their revocation.
I had the honour to state to you, Sir, that it was the intention of the President, in case Great Britain repealed her orders, as regarded the United States, to exercise the power vested in him by the act of the last session of Congress, entitled "An act to authorise the President of the United States, under certain conditions, to suspend the operation of the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States, and the several supplementary acts thereto," by suspending the embargo law and its supplements, as regards Great Britain.
I am authorised to give you this assurance in the most formal manner—and I trust, that upon impartial enquiry it will be found to leave no inducement to perseverance in the British orders, while it creates the most powerful inducements of equity and policy to abandon them.
On the score of justice, it does not seem possible to mistake the footing upon which this overture places the subject; and I venture to believe, that in any other view there is as little room for doubt. If, as I propose, your orders
should be rescinded, as to the United States, and our embargo rescinded as to Great Britain, the effect of these concurrent acts will be, that the commercial intercourse of the two countries, will be immediately resumed—while, if France should adhere to maxima and conduct derogatory to the neutral rights of the United States, the embargo continuing as to her, will take the place of your orders, and lead with an efficacy, not merely equal to theirs, but probably much greater, to all the consequences that ought to result from them.
On the other hand, if France should concur in respecting those rights, and commerce should thus regain its fair immunities and the law of nations its just dominion, all the alleged purposes of the British orders will at once be fulfilled.
If I forbear to pursue these ideas through all the illustrations of which they are susceptible, it is because the personal conference to which I have before alluded, as well as the obvious nature of the ideas themselves, render it unnecessary.
I cannot conclude this note without expressing my sincere wish that what I have now suggested, in conformity with the liberal sentiments and enlightened views of the President, may contribute not only to remove the more immediate obstacles to the ordinary intercourse of trade between your country and mine, in a manner consistent with the honour of both, but to prepare the way for a satisfactory adjustment of every question important to their future friendship.
I have the honor to be, With the highest consideration, Sir, Your most obed't humble serv't, (Signed) Wm. PINKNEY.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State, dated 24th September, 1808, London.
"I am now enabled to transmit to you a copy of Mr. Canning's answer, received only last night, to my note of the 23d of August.
"I regret extremely that the views which I had been instructed to lay before this government have not been met by it as I had at first been led to expect. The overture cannot fail, however, to place in a strong light the just and liberal sentiments by which our government is animated, and in other respects to be useful and honorable to our country."
From Mr. CANNING to Mr. PINKNEY. Foreign Office, September 23d, 1808.
The undersigned, his majesty's principal secretary of state for foreign affairs had the honor to receive the official letter addressed to him by Mr. Pinkney, minister plenipotentiary of the United States, respecting the orders in council, issued by his majesty on the 7th of January and 11th November, 1807.
He has laid that letter before the king, and he is commanded to assure Mr. Pinkney, that the answer to the proposal which Mr. Pinkney was instructed to bring forward, has been deferred only in the hope that the renewed application which was understood to have been recently made by the government of the United States to that of France, might, in the new state of things which has arisen in Europe, have met with such a reception in France, as would have rendered the compliance of his majesty with that proposal consistent with his majesty's own dignity and with the interests of his people, as it would have been with his majesty's disposition towards the United States. Unhappily there is now no longer any reason to be

lieve that such a hope is likely to be realized; and the undersigned is therefore commanded to communicate to Mr. Pinkney the decision which, under the circumstances as they stand, his majesty feels himself compelled, however unwillingly, to adopt.
The mitigated measures of retaliation announced by his majesty in the orders in council of the 7th of January, and the further extension of that measure, (an extension in operation but not in principle) by the orders in council of November, were founded (as has been already repeatedly avowed by his majesty) on the "unquestionable right of his majesty to retort upon the enemy the evils of his own injustice"—and upon the consideration that "if third parties incidentally suffered by these retaliatory measures, they were to seek their redress from the power by whose original aggression that retaliation was occasioned."
His majesty sees nothing in the embargo laid on by the President of the United States of America, which varies this original and simple state of the question.
If considered as a measure of impartial hostility against both belligerents, the embargo appears to his majesty to have been manifestly unjust, as, according to every principle of justice, that redress ought to have been first sought from the party originating the wrong. And his majesty cannot consent to buy off that hostility which America ought not to have extended to him, at the expense of a concession made not to America but to France.
If, as it has more generally been represented by the government of the U. States, the embargo is only to be considered as an innocent municipal regulation which affects none but the United States themselves, and with which no foreign state has any concern: viewed in this light, his majesty does not conceive that he has the right or the pretension to make any complaint of it, and he has made none. But in this light there appears not only no reciprocity but no assignable relation, between the repeal by the U. States of a measure of voluntary self-restriction, and the surrender by his majesty of his right of retaliation against his enemies?
The government of the U. States is not now to be informed that the Berlin Decree of Nov. 21, 1806, was the practical commencement of an attempt not merely to check or impair the prosperity of G. Britain, but utterly to annihilate her political existence, thro' the ruin of her commercial prosperity; that in this attempt almost all the powers of the European continent have been compelled more or less to co-operate; and that the American embargo, though most assuredly not intended to that end (for America can have no real interest in the subversion of the British power and her rulers are too enlightened to act from any impulse against the real interest of their country) but by some unfortunate concurrence of circumstances, without any hostile intention, the American embargo did come in aid of "the blockade of the European continent" precisely at the very moment when, if that blockade could have succeeded at all this intervention of the American government would most effectually have contributed to its success.
To this universal combination, his majesty has opposed a temperate but a determined retaliation upon the enemy—trusting that a firm resistance would defeat this project, but knowing that the smallest concession would infallibly encourage a perseverance in it.
The struggle has been viewed by other powers not without an apprehension that it might be fatal to this country.—The British government has not disguised from itself that the trial of such an experiment might be arduous and long; though it has never doubted of the final issue. But if that issue, such as the British government confidently anticipated, has providentially arrived much sooner than could have been hoped; if "the blockade of the con-
tinental" as it has been triumphantly styled by the enemy, is raised even before it had been well established; and if that system, of which extent and continuity were the vital principles, is broken up into fragments, utterly harmless and contemptible; it is nevertheless important in the highest degree to the reputation of this country, (a reputation which constitutes great part of her power) that this disappointment of the hopes of her enemies should not have been purchased by any concession; that not a doubt should remain to distant times of her determination and of her ability to have continued her resistance—and that no step which could even mistakenly be construed into concession should be taken on her part, while the smallest link of the confederacy remains undissolved; or while it can be a question whether the plan devised for her destruction has or has not either completely failed or been unequivocally abandoned.
These considerations compel his majesty to adhere to the principles on which the orders in council of the 7th January and the 11th November are founded, so long as France adheres to that system by which his majesty's retaliatory measures were occasioned and justified.
It is not improbable indeed that some alterations may be made in the orders in council, as they are at present framed; alterations calculated not to abate their spirit or impair their principle, but to adapt them more exactly to the different state of things which has fortunately grown up in Europe, and to combine all practicable relief to neutrals, with a more severe pressure upon the enemy.
But of alterations to be made with this view only, it would be un candid to take any advantage in the present discussion; however, it might be hoped, that in their practical effect, they might prove beneficial to America, provided the operation of the embargo were not to prevent her from reaping that benefit.
It remains for the undersigned to take notice of the last paragraph of Mr. Pinkney's letter. There cannot exist on the part of Mr. Pinkney, a stronger wish than there does on that of the undersigned, and of the British government, for the adjustment of all the differences subsisting between the two countries.
His majesty has no other disposition than to cultivate the most friendly intercourse with the United States.
The undersigned is persuaded that Mr. Pinkney would be one of the last to imagine, what is often idly asserted, that the depression of any other country is necessary, or serviceable to the prosperity of this. The prosperity of America is essentially the prosperity of Great Britain, and the strength and power of Great Britain are not for herself only, but for the world. When those adjustments shall take place, to which, though unfortunately not practicable at this moment, nor under the conditions prescribed by Mr. Pinkney, the undersigned looks forward; it will perhaps, be no insecure pledge, for the continuance of the good understanding between the two countries, that they will have learnt duly to appreciate each other's friendship; and that it will not hereafter be imputed to Great Britain, either on the one hand that she envies American industry as prejudicial to British commerce, or on the other hand, that she is compelled to court an intercourse with America, as absolutely necessary to her own existence.
His majesty would not hesitate to contribute, in any manner in his power, to restore to the commerce of the United States, its wonted activity; and if it were possible to make any sacrifice for the repeal of the embargo, without appearing to deprecate it as a measure of hostility, he would gladly have facilitated its removal as a measure of inconvenient restriction upon the American people.
The undersigned is commanded, in conclusion, to observe,
that nothing is said in Mr. Pinkney's letter of any intention to repeal the proclamation by which the ships of war of Great Britain are interdicted from all those rights of hospitality in the ports of the United States, which are freely allowed to the ships of his majesty's enemies.
The continuance of an interdiction, which, under such circumstances, amounts so nearly to direct hostility, after the willingness professed, and the attempt made by his majesty, to remove the cause on which that measure had been originally founded, would afford but an inauspicious omen for the commencement of a system of mutual conciliation; and the omission of any notice of that measure in the proposal which Mr. Pinkney has been instructed to bring forward, would have been of itself a material defect in the overture of the president.
But the undersigned is commanded no further to dwell upon this subject than for the purpose of assuring Mr. Pinkney, that on this and every other point in discussion between the two governments, his majesty earnestly desires the restoration of a perfect good understanding, and that his majesty would decline no measure for the attainment of that object, which should be compatible with his own honor and just rights, and with the interests of his people.
The undersigned requests Mr. Pinkney will accept the assurances of his high consideration.
Mr. Madison's letters to Gen. Armstrong. Mr. Madison, Secretary of State, to Gen. Armstrong, Minister Plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris.
(EXTRACT.) Department of State, May 22, 1807. "The two last letters received from you were of December 24, and January 16.
"The decree of November 21, communicated in the first, had previously reached us, and had excited apprehensions which were repressed only by the inartificial import of its articles, & the presumption that it would be executed in a sense not inconsistent with the respect due the treaty between France and the United States. The explanations given you by the minister of marine, were seen by the President with much pleasure, and it only remains to learn that they have been confirmed by the express authority of the Emperor. We are the more anxious for this information, as it will fortify the remonstrances which have been presented at London, against the British order of January 7th. Should it, contrary to expectation, turn out that the French decree was meant, and is to operate, according to the latitude of its terms, you will of course have made the proper representations, grounded as well on the principles of public law, as on the express stipulations of the convention of 1800. Nothing, besides, could be more preposterous, than to blend with an appeal to neutral rights and neutral nations, a gross infraction of the former, and outrage on the sentiments of the latter, unless it be to invite a species of contest on the high seas, in which the adversary has every possible advantage. But on the more probable supposition, that the decree will not be unfavourably expounded, it will be still necessary to press on the French government a dispatch of such orders to their cruisers in every quarter, as will prevent a construction of the decree favourable to their licentious cupidity. The moment your letter was received, the answer of the French minister of marine to your note was communicated to General Turreau, with a call on him to transmit it immediately to the French Governors in the West Indies. This he readily engaged to do. But notwithstanding this precaution, there are proofs that the West India privateers have, under colour of the edict, committed depredations, which will constitute just claims of redress from their government.
"Mr. Erving has forwarded a
Spanish decree also, avowedly pursuing the example and the views of the French Emperor.—The terms of this decree are even more vague, or rather more broad, than those of the prototype; and, if not speedily recalled or corrected, will doubtless extend the scene of spoliations already begun in that quarter; and of course, thicken the cloud that hangs over the amity of the two nations."
Extracts of a letter from Mr. Madison to Gen. Armstrong. Department of State, February 8th, 1808.
"Your letters and communications by Dr. Bullus, were duly delivered on the 14th day of December. The same conveyance brought a copy of the sentence pronounced by the French prize court in the case of the Horizon, giving a judicial effect to the decree of Nov. 21st, 1806, as expounded in the answer of Mr. Champagny to your letter of the 12th Nov. 1807.
"Whilst the French government did not avow or enforce a meaning of the decree of November 1806, in relation to the United States, extending its perview beyond the municipal limits, it could not in strictness be regarded as an infraction either of our neutral or conventional rights; and consequently did not authorise more than a demand of seasonable explanations of its doubtful import, or friendly expostulations with respect to the rigour and suddenness of its innovations.
"The case is now essentially changed. A construction of the decree is avowed and executed, which violates as well the positive stipulations of the convention of Sept. 30th, 1800, as the incontestable principles of public law; and the President charges you to superadd to whatever representations you may have previously made, a formal remonstrance in such terms as may be best calculated either to obtain a recall of the illegal measure, so far as it relates to the United States, or to have the effect of leaving in full force all the rights accruing to them from a failure to do so."
"That the execution of local laws against foreign nations on the high seas, is a violation of the rights of the former and the freedom of the latter, will probably not be questioned. A contrary principle would in fact imply the same exclusive dominion over the entire ocean as is enjoyed within the limits of the local sovereignty, and a degradation of every other nation from its common rights and equal rank.
"If it be contended that the decree, as a retaliation on the other belligerent, at the expense of neutral nations is justified by a culpable acquiescence in the prior measures of that belligerent, operating through neutrals, you will be able to deny such acquiescence, and to urge moreover, that on every supposition, the retaliating measure could not be justly enforced, in relation to neutrals, without allowing them at least a reasonable time for choosing between due measures against the prior wrong, and acquiescence in both. The copy of the representations to the British government, thro' its minister here, on the subject of its orders of January, 1807, will at once disprove an acquiescence on the part of the U. States, and explain the grounds on which the late extension of the French decree of November 1806, is an object of just remonstrance.
"The conduct of the French government, in giving this extended operation to its decree, and indeed in issuing one with such an apparent or doubtful import against the rights of the sea, is the more extraordinary, inasmuch as the inability to enforce it on that element exhibited the measure in the light of an empty menace, at the same time that it afforded pretexts to her enemy for severe retaliations, for which ample means are found in her naval superiority.
The accumulated dangers, to which the illegal proceedings of the belligerent nations have subjected the commerce and navigation of the United States, have at length induced congress to re-
sort to an embargo on our own vessels, as a measure best fitted for the crisis, being an effectual security for our mercantile property and mariners, now at home and daily arriving, and at the same time neither a measure nor just cause of war. Copies of this act were, soon after its passage, transmitted to Mr. Pinkney, with an authority to assure the British government that it was to be viewed in this light, and that it was not meant to be the slightest impediment to amicable negotiations with foreign governments. He was requested to avail himself of an opportunity of communicating to you and Mr. Erving this view of the subject, and I hope that you will have been thence enabled to present it to the French government. Not relying however on that indirect opportunity, I send by this another copy of the act, with an instruction from the President, that you make it the subject of such explanations as will guard against any misconception of the policy which led to it. It is strictly a measure of precaution, required by the dangers incident to external commerce, and, being indiscriminate in its terms and operation towards all nations, can give no just offence to any. The duration of the act is not fixed by itself; and will consequently depend on a continuance or cessation of its causes, in a degree sufficient in the judgment of the legislature, to induce or forbid its repeal. It may be hoped that the inconveniences felt from it by the belligerent nations may lead to a change of the conduct which imposed the inconveniences of it on ourselves. France herself will be a sufferer, and some of her allies far more so. It will be very agreeable to find in that consideration, and still more in her sense of justice, a sufficient motive to an early manifestation of the respect due to our commercial rights.—The example would be worthy of the professions which she makes to the world on this subject."
"February 18.—Since the above was written, I have been under a decree of indisposition which has suspended the proposed continuation of it, and which now will oblige me to be very brief; the more so, as the vessel has been some days detained which was engaged for the special purpose of conveying public dispatches and private letters to Europe.
"The delay has enabled me to inform you that Mr. Erskine, a few days ago, communicated, by instructions from his government, its late decrees of November 11, and those forming a sequel to them.—The communication was accompanied with assurances, that much regret was felt by his Britannic majesty at the necessity which the conduct of his enemy had created for measures so embarrassing to neutral commerce; and that his majesty would readily follow an example of relinquishing such a course, or even of making relaxations pari passu with his enemy.
"In remonstrating against the injustice and illegality of the French decree, I am aware that you may be reminded of antecedent injuries to France and her allies, through British violations of neutral commerce. The fact cannot be denied, and may be urged with great force, in our remonstrances against the orders to which Great Britain has given a retaliating character; since the French decree, might, on the same ground, be pronounced a retaliation on the preceding conduct of Great Britain. But ought the legitimate commerce of neutrals to be thus the victim and the sport of belligerents, contesting with each other the priority of their destructive innovations; and without leaving either of them, to neutrals even the opportunity or the time for disproving that culpable acquiescence, which is made the pretext, by both, for the wrongs done to them? And I must repeat, that, apart from all questions of this nature, the French decree, or at least the illegal extensions of it to the United States remain chargeable with all the ingenuity which has been pointed out.

I had, by accounts from Hamburg, Bremen, Holland, and Leghorn, that the trade and property of our citizens have been much vexed by regulations subaltern to those of the original decree of November 21, 1806. How far the complaints are founded on proceedings violating our public rights, or on such as are unfriendly and inequitable towards our citizens, who have placed their property within those jurisdictions, you will be able to decide better than we can do at this distance; and the President refers to your own judgment, the kind of representation to the French government, which those and other analogous cases may require."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Madison to General Armstrong. Department of State, 2d May, 1808.
"Since my last, of which Lieut. Lewis was the bearer, I have received your several letters of 27th December, 22d January, 15th and 17th February, with their respective inclosures."
"That of the 15th January, from Mr. Champagny to you, has as you will see by the papers herewith sent, produced all the sensations here, which the spirit and style of it were calculated to excite in minds alive to the interests and honour of the nation. To present to the United States the alternative of bending to the views of France against her enemy, or of incurring a confiscation of all the property of their citizens carried into the French prize-courts, implied that they were susceptible of impressions by which no independent and honorable nation can be guided; and to prejudice and pronounce for them the effect which the conduct of another nation ought to have on their councils and course of proceeding; had the air at least of an assumed authority, not less irritating to the public feelings. In these lights, the President makes it your duty to present to the French government the contents of Mr. Champagny's letter, taking care, as your discretion will doubtless suggest, that whilst you make that government sensible of the offensive tone employed, you leave the way open for friendly and respectful explanations, if there be a disposition to offer them, and for a decision here on any reply, which may be of a different character."
"Congress closed their session on the 25th ult. For a general view of their proceedings, I refer to the series of newspapers heretofore, and now forwarded, and to other prints which are added. Among their acts of chief importance is that which vests in the president an authority, to suspend in whole or in part the embargo laws."
"The conditions on which the suspending authority is to be exercised will engage your particular attention. They appeal equally to the justice and the policy of the two great belligerent powers now emulating each other in violations of both. The president counts on your best endeavors to give to this appeal all the effect possible with the French government. Mr. Pinkney will do the same with that of Great Britain. The relation in which a recall of its retaining decrees, by either power, will place the United States to the other, is obvious, and ought to be a motive to the measure, proportioned to the desire which has been manifested by each, to produce collisions between the United States and its adversary, and which must be equally felt by each to avoid one with itself."
"Should wiser councils or increasing distresses induce Great Britain to revoke her impolitic orders against neutral commerce, and thereby prepare the way for a removal of the embargo, as it applies to her, France could not persist in the illegal part of her decrees, if she does not mean to force a contest with the United States. On the other hand, should she set the example of revocation, Great Britain would be obliged, either by following it, to restore to France the full benefit of a neutral trade, which she needs; or by persevering in her obnoxious or-
ders, after the pretext for them had ceased, to render collisions with the United States inevitable. "In every point of view, therefore, it is so clearly the sound policy of France to rescind so much of her decrees as trespass on neutral rights, and particularly to be the first in taking the retrograde step, that it cannot be unreasonable to expect that it will be immediately taken."
"In whatever degree the French government may be led to change its system, you will lose no time in transmitting the information to this department and to Mr. Pinkney; and by hired conveyance, if necessary. A correspondent instruction is given to Mr. Pinkney."
"It is of the greater importance, that you should receive from each other the earliest notice of any relations, as each government is under a pledge to follow such an example by the other. And it is not of less importance that the president or congress should be acquainted with the facts, that the proceedings here may be accommodated to them."
"That you may know the grounds on which the British orders of November, have been arraigned by this government, I enclose a copy of the answer to Mr. Erskine's note communicating them, a copy of the note being also enclosed."
"The other documents communicated, will put you in full possession of the relations of the United States with Britain, as resulting from their issue of our general negotiations, and from that of the mission of Mr. Rose. This dispatch is forwarded by Mr. Baker, who takes his passage from Baltimore, in a vessel engaged, as was the Osage which sailed from New-York, for the special purpose of public and mercantile correspondences with Europe. She will proceed in the first instance, to L'Orient, where she will leave Mr. Baker, and thence proceed with dispatches for Mr. Pinkney, to Falmouth, where she will remain a few days to receive communications from him; she will then return to L'Orient, in order to bring back Mr. Baker with your communications."
[TO BE CONTINUED.]
Congressional Register. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
November 14. On motion of Mr. Newton, the committee on military and naval affairs was instructed to enquire into the expediency of authorising the president to engage an additional number of seamen. There are at present but 1400 provided for by law. The following resolution was offered by Mr. Blackledge:
Resolved, That the committee of commerce and manufactures be instructed to enquire into the expediency of authorizing the president of the United States to employ an additional number of revenue cutters, and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise.—Carried.
Mr. Mumford offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States and the several acts supplementary thereto, be immediately repealed, so far as to permit the vessels of the United States to clear out for countries not subject to the French decrees or British orders of council.
This resolution was referred to the same committee with those offered last week on the same subject.
The Speaker observed, there was no business before the house except the order of the day on the resolution for the repeal of the embargo law.
Mr. Chittenden: As the house have made a call for information which will probably have a bearing on this subject, and as some gentlemen have expressed a wish to see it, before they vote on the question, I shall not call for that order to-day.
A little before one, on the motion of Mr. Smilie, the house adjourned. Tuesday, Nov. 15. Mr. Sawyer, after a few preparatory observations, offered the following resolution:
Resolved, That it is expedient for the United States to open a communication and trade, with the West India islands generally. Committed to the committee of the whole to whom was referred Mr. Chittenden's resolution.
Mr. Rhea, of Ten. from the committee on post offices and post roads, reported a bill authorising the members to transmit by mail, the president's message of the 8th inst. and the documents which accompanied it, free of postage. Twice read, and ordered to a third reading to-morrow.
At half past 12, Mr. Newton moved an adjournment—lost. About 13 minutes after, without doing any further business, on motion of Mr. Pinkney, an adjournment took place. Wednesday, Nov. 16. The bill for authorizing the members to
transmit by mail, free of postage, the president's message of the 8th inst. and the documents which accompanied it, was read a third time, and passed.
Mr. Chittenden, called for the order of the day on the resolution offered by him on Thursday last, for a repeal of the different embargo laws.
Mr. Smilie, said he was of opinion that the house, throughout this business had pursued an irregular course. It was well known they had a select committee, in whom was referred all business touching our foreign relations. To that committee this resolution ought to go. He therefore moved that the committee of the whole be discharged from the farther consideration of the subject, with a view, should it prevail, to move a reference of it to the select committee which he had specified.
The speaker said the motion would not supercede that of the gentleman from Vermont.
On going into a committee of the whole on Mr. Chittenden's resolution, a discussion was called for, and only thirty-one rose in favor of it. The call was therefore refused.
Mr. Cook offered a resolution to the following effect:
Resolved, That the act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States, and the several acts supplementary thereto, be repealed, so far as to permit vessels of the United States to clear out for any port or place not subject to the decrees of France or the British orders in council; and THAT THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES BE PERMITTED TO ARM AND EQUIP THEIR MERCHANT VESSELS, FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEFENDING THEM AGAINST FRENCH AND BRITISH PRIVATEERS, WHEN BOUND TO ANY PORT OR PLACE NOT ACTUALLY INVESTED OR BLOCKADED.
Mr. Elliott observed, that the first part of the resolution was already referred on the motion of the gentleman from New-York, (Mr. Mumford.)
Mr. Cook consented to omit the first part.
That part of the resolution printed in Capitals was then referred to the committee of the whole house to whom has been referred Mr. Chittenden's resolution. Adjourned.
THURSDAY, Nov. 17. Mr. Livermore presented the petitions of between four and five thousand of the qualified voters of Massachusetts, praying for a repeal of the embargo laws. Referred to the committee of the whole house, to whom was referred Mr. Chittenden's resolution.
November 18. The house were engaged in private or uninteresting business, until half after twelve. They then resolved themselves into a committee of the whole on the bill abolishing the power of Territorial governors. This bill takes from the Territorial governors the power of proroguing and dissolving the assemblies. Its passage was opposed by Messrs. Babb and Troup, and supported by Mr. Poindexter. The committee reported progress—and were refused leave to sit again—Mr. Troup then moved for an indefinite postponement of the bill. On this motion Mr. Poindexter called for the yeas and nays: They were—Ayes 57—Nays 52. The house then adjourned till Monday.
MARTINSBURG, Nov. 25.
The Enquirer gives a detailed statement of the votes in a number of the Counties of this State for Electors, which offers the following results. For the Madison ticket $7,536, and the Monroe ticket 1,411.
Supplies of money and produce, to the amount of seventeen millions of dollars, have been subscribed in the island of Cuba, for the use of the Spanish patriots—to which the free blacks have contributed 6,000 boxes of sugar.
GENERAL ORDERS. RICHMOND, Nov. 9th, 1808.
THE President of the United States has deemed it necessary to require, by virtue of an act of Congress passed the 30th of March last, of the Executives of the several states and territories, to take effectual measures to organize, arm and equip according to law, and hold in readiness to march at a moment's warning, their respective proportions of 100,000 militia, officers included.
The Governor, therefore in obedience to the requisition of the President, and in pursuance of an advice of the Council of State, directs, that ten thousand one hundred and ninety eight of the militia of this commonwealth, being her quota, be detached and duly organized into companies, Battalions, Regiments, Brigades and Divisions, within the shortest period that circumstances will permit, to be completely equipped with arms and accoutrements fit for actual service, including blankets and knapsacks; and in all respects prepared to take the field at a moment's warning.
The detachment will be composed of 890 Artillery, 640 Cavalry, 735 Riflemen, and the residue Infantry; and will be apportioned among the several Brigades of the State agreeable to details to be furnished by the Adjutant General.
The appointment of all the general officers as also of the field officers of the Artillery, Cavalry and Riflemen, will be made and communicated by the executive at a future day. The selection of all the other field officers is confided to the Brigadier generals; and in the performance of this duty, the governor, in pursuance of the earnest recommendation of the President, has to urge upon them the importance of selecting such officers, as can, in all respects, be relied on, in case the detachment shall be called into actual service.
The mode of appointing the inferior staff is prescribed by the Act of Assembly, to which the commandants of Regiments will refer. The superior staff will be appointed when their services shall become necessary.
Any corps of volunteers who, previous to orders for taking the field, may tender their services conformably to the second section of the aforesaid act of Congress of the 30th of March last, will be received according to their numbers, as part of the
quota of this state, as will also any company or companies of volunteers, either of Artillery, Cavalry or Infantry, who may associate and offer themselves for the service agreed to by an act of Congress passed on the 24th of February, 1807. In the event of three volunteers tendering themselves under either or both acts of Congress than shall amount to the quota required from any particular regiment or Brigade, the excess will not be rejected, but will be specially reported.
It is deemed highly important that the detachment shall be completed, within the shortest period practicable; and, to this end, it is directed, that drafts, where necessary, shall be made with as little delay as possible; for at any time thereafter, and before orders for taking the field, they may be substituted by volunteers under either act of Congress; but a preference will, at all times and in all cases be given to volunteers for twelve months, over those for six months. For the purpose of ensuring still greater dispatch, the Brigadier Generals will make their returns by express, directly to the Adjutant General; and all communications between the Brigadiers and the Commandants of Regiments, will, in like manner be carried on by express.
When the detachments shall have been completed, the respective corps will be exercised, drafted militia by the officers set over them, and volunteers by their own officers, if organized at the time of tendering their services, and if not then organized, by officers to be taken from the Regiments to which they may belong; but they will not remain embodied, nor be considered in actual service, until by subsequent orders, they shall be directed to take the field.
It is understood that the requisition made in the summer of 1807 is discharged, except that portion which consisted of volunteers for 12 months under the act of Congress of Feb. 24, 1807—who are liable to be called on to do military duty at any time the President of the U. States shall judge proper, within two years from the time their services were accepted.
Correct inspection returns of all the corps forming the detachment now directed, will be made with the least possible delay to the Adjutant General, who will transmit copies thereof to the Secretary of War.
Separate returns will be made of those who may hereafter have volunteered, or may hereafter volunteer under the last mentioned act of congress.
The love of peace characterizes the American people and the American Government. We have wished to be spectators only of the conflicts which agitate and desolate the world; and if the observance of the most impartial neutrality, and the most scrupulous regard to the rights of others, could ensure to us a continuation of the blessings of peace, we should never know the evils of war. But, from every quarter, we have experienced evasions and restrictions, injustice and aggression. Even our independence is assailed by a blow aimed at some of its essential rights. Our remonstrances and our just demands for reparation have been answered by continued and by aggravated injury. We have exhausted all the stores of negotiation, and how we are warranted to be prepared for war. Now therefore, in the time to manifest the love of country by rallying around her standard, and pressing forward in her service. The Governor confidently relies on the patriotism of his fellow citizens in general and on the active and zealous cooperation of the officers of every grade, in giving to the Requisition of the President, the most prompt and effectual execution. He confidently hopes that the whole quota of Virginia will be composed of volunteers, ardent in their country's cause, and engaged for the longest period authorized by law; and that, adding, discipline to their valor, they will present a band formidable indeed to the enemies of their country.
WM. H. CABELL. Agent.
SAMUEL COLEMAN, D. A. G.
TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The communication from Washington Academy in this state came to hand too late for this day's paper.
A "Federalist" shall be attended to next week.
The piece signed R Newman is in type, but unavoidably postponed for the present. Advertisements omitted shall be promptly attended to in our next.
MR. VAN RUTHERFORD, TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the 24th day of December next, after the date hereof, I intend to take the deposition of Joseph Roe, at the house in which Mr. Edmund Graham now lives, in the town of Martinsburg, County of Berkeley and Commonwealth of Virginia, to be read in evidence on the trial of a suit in Chancery, brought and now depending in the County Court of Berkeley, wherein I am complainant, and you the defendant. Said deposition to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit from the County Court of Berkeley for that purpose.
Your's, &c. EPHRAIM LOWMAN. November 25, 1808.
Take Notice.
ALL persons indebted to the subscriber for the services of his Stud Horse Mutchell, for the years 1807 and 1808, are requested to come forward on or before the 15th December next, and discharge what may be due;—those who neglect this notice, will certainly have suits brought against them after that time, without respect to persons. ANTHONY TURNER. November 25, 1808.
Journeymen Tailors.
Two or three good Journeymen Tailor, are wanted immediately, to whom liberal wages will be given. JOHN DAUGHERTY. Shepherd's-Town, November 25, 1808.
NEW GOODS.
The subscribers have just finished opening a handsome assortment of Fall & Winter Goods, from which the following articles are selected:
SUPERFINE Broad Clothes, fashionable colours. Common ditto. Superfine Cassimere, ditto. Ladies elegant Pelisse Cloaks, Brown, blue and mist Coatings, Forest Cloaks, Plaids and Kerseys, Devonshire Kersey, Blue, red and green Baize, Mist, Superfine and common Flannels, all colours. Toilettes, olive, mint and black. Constitution Corvis, Velvets, Fancy Cords, Corduroys and Thicksets, Ladies Pelisse Velvets, handsome colours, Black, green, brown and scarlet. Bombazines, Woolen and Cotton Hosiery, well assorted. An elegant assortment of Silk ditto, Fancy and plain Silks for Ladies dresses, Plain, spotted and Trafalgar Leno Mulls, 6-4 and 4-4 Cambric ditto, India Jaquet ditto, ditto Book, ditto, Common do. ditto, Chintzes and Gingham, Fancy and plain Ribbons, 6-4 Cambricks and 3-4 Dainties, well assorted. 6-4 and 4-4 Black Cambric Mulls, Silk and Cotton Chambrey ditto, India Mulls, well assorted. Ladies extra laced eleven, Silk and Cotton, Leghorn Hats and Bonnets, Ladies fashionable Plush Hats, trim'd complete. Fine Thread and Cotton Laces, very cheap, 4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens. Russia Sheetings and Ducks, White and brown Ticklenburgs, Country Linen and Twill'd BAGS, Mahogany fram'd Looking Glasses, ditto Dressing ditto. An elegant assortment of China, Glass and Queen's Ware. Elegant japan'd Tea-Trays, A large assortment of Groceries and Liquors, Paints and Medicines, Bar-Iron, Strap-Iron and Steel, 7 by 9 and 8 by 10 Window Glass. ALSO.
A good assortment of Hard Ware, Cutlery and Cutlery, among which are a few elegant Plated BRIDLE BITS and heavy STIRRUP IRONS, together with almost every article in the Merchandise line, all of which they offer very cheap for Cash. R. WORTHINGTON, & Co. Shepherd's-Town, November 25, 1808.
WILL be sold at public vendue on the 16th day of December next, a lease on a small tract of Land, containing about 22 acres, about four acres of which is in timber; this Land is part of the estate of the late Joseph Wallingsford, deceased, and will be sold for cash, to pay sundry executors against said estate; the sale will commence at twelve o'clock. JOHN ROBERTS, Acting Adm'r. November 25, 1808.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the 24th day of December next, after the date hereof, I intend to take the deposition of John Turner and Lewis Meeks, at the house in which Edmund Graham now resides, in the town of Martinsburg, County of Berkeley and Commonwealth of Virginia, to be read in evidence on the trial of a suit in Chancery, brought and now depending in the County Court of Berkeley, wherein I am complainant, and you the said William M. Sterrett and John Gritten are defendants. Said deposition to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit from the County Court of Berkeley for that purpose. Your's, &c. EPHRAIM LOWMAN. November 25, 1808.
TAKE NOTICE.
THAT on the 24th day of December next, after the date hereof, I intend to take the deposition of John Turner and Lewis Meeks, at the house in which Edmund Graham now resides, in the town of Martinsburg, County of Berkeley and Commonwealth of Virginia, to be read in evidence on the trial of a suit in Chancery, brought and now depending in the County Court of Berkeley, wherein I am complainant, and you the said William M. Sterrett, Aaron Steed, John Gritten and John Kennedy, & Co are defendants. Said deposition to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit from the County Court of Berkeley for that purpose. Your's, &c. EPHRAIM LOWMAN. November 25, 1808.
Observe This.
THE holders or owners of slaves, in Shepherd's-Town and its neighbourhood, are hereby cautioned against suffering them to come on my land, at night or on Sundays, without a written pass, as I have suffered considerably from their depredations, and am determined to punish severely, all who may hereafter be found on my premises without a written permission from their masters. ANTHONY TURNER. November 25, 1808.
Attend to this Notice.
ALL persons are cautioned against purchasing from, selling to, or in any manner dealing with, any of my negroes, my waggoner Jack excepted, as I am determined to punish to the utmost limits of the law every person who may offend in this way in future. ANTHONY TURNER. November 25, 1808.

Public Sale.
TO be sold at public sale, on Friday the 25th of November next, if fair, if not, the next fair day, at the late dwelling house of Christopher Vansant, dec'd, four miles from Shepherd's Town and adjoining Captain Abraham Shepherd's, all the personal estate of said deceased, consisting of Horses and Cattle, among which are several valuable Milch Cows, a large flock of Sheep, a number of fat Hogs, a parcel of Wheat and Rye, a quantity of Corn in the heap, about thirty-five acres of grain in the ground, a Wagon and Gear, a Cyder Mill, and a number of tight casks, Farming Utensils, a Desk and several valuable Beds, Household and Kitchen Furniture, and many other articles too tedious to mention. Nine months credit will be given on note with approved security. The sale to begin at nine o'clock, when the terms will be made known.
BENJ. COMEGYS, Ex'r. November 4, 1808.
VALUABLE LANDS & MILLS FOR SALE, ON CREDIT.
Pursuant to a decree of the Chancery District Court held at Staunton pronounced on the 4th day of April, 1808 in a suit therein depending between Jas. Purvis, complainant, and the Executors and Heirs of John Donaldson, dec'd and others, defendants, will be exposed to sale, on the premises, on the 22nd day of December next, FOUR ACRES OF LAND , situate in Berkeley County, Virginia, in the neighbourhood of Ocracoke, or Middletown, adjoining the lands of the late William Baldwin, Isaac McKown and others, being a valuable Mill-site, with a Mill thereon. This tract, with the Mill, will be sold by the undersigned Commissioners, to the highest bidder, on the following credit, to wit: One third of the purchase money to be paid at the end of one year, from the day of sale—one other third at the end of two years from the day of sale—and the remaining third at the end of three years from the day of sale. All such payments to be well secured by bond with approved security, and also a lien on the property.
Also, on the 24th day of December next, will be sold, by the same Commissioners and on the same credit as THREE ACRES OF LAND , situate in Frederick County, Virginia, on both sides of Opiguon Creek, adjoining Seaver's and Jonas Etker's containing fifty and one half acres, with a valuable MERCANTILE MILL and other improvements thereon. The sale to take place on the premises, and the payment to be secured as above mentioned.
ROBERT PAGE, CHARLES MAGILL, ALFRED H. POWELL, OBED WAITE, November 4, 1808.
Be Cautious.
I HEREBY forward all persons whomsoever from purchasing of, or selling to, (my negroes) any article or commodity without my consent being first obtained in writing:—And more especially I desire that no person shall sell them any spirituous liquors.—Those who offend against this notice, may rest assured that I am on the watch, and that I am determined to prosecute all offenders with the utmost rigour of law.
MAGNUS TATE. November 4, 1808.
TO BE LET,
and possession given immediately THE House in which Mr. John Roberts now lives, adjoining the Clerk's Office, Martinsburg. It is a convenient and comfortable dwelling, and would suit a mechanic, with a small family.
JOHN ALBURTIS. October 28, 1808.
Fresh Fall & Winter GOODS.
THE subscribers respectfully inform their old customers and the public generally, that they have just received from the city of Philadelphia, and finished opening, one of the largest and best assortments of GOODS since commencement. It is thought by them (however usual with others in a similar line of business) to be entirely unnecessary to the channel of public advertisement to assert the very moderate terms on which they will be disposed of for Cash—when by a judicious and an impartial inspection every purchaser shall be advantageously informed.
Among the entire assortment is comprised the following, viz: Superfine and Common Broad Cloths, ditto ditto Cassimeres, ditto ditto Coatings, ditto Kersey Meltons, Snapped Price, Devonshire, Kersey, Dble. Mill'd Drab Cloths, Forest do. Hunter's Patent Satinett, Hauberk and Peasecoat, Fancy Window Cords for window-painting, ditto Swansdowns, Red and Green Baize, S. fine and Common Flannels well assorted, Rose Blankets, Striped ditto, President and Constitution Cords, Velveteens and Velveteens, Thicketts, Corduroys, Ladies' Pelise Velvets, Bennetts and Fancy Cords, Ladies' Frons Tippets assorted, Gentlemen's Combs, ditto, Yellow, Red, Brown and Blue Bandanas, Hdkfs, Madras Shawls and Hdkfs. of various descriptions, Damask Silk and Cotton Shawls, Diaper Table Cloths and Towels, Bed Tickings assorted, a complete assortment of fine Ivory Combs, Quillback dressing ditto, Elegant pocket and common ditto, Ladies' most fashionable Tortoise and Common ditto, Ladies' fashionable Plush Hats trimmed complete, ditto, ditto Bonnets, Artificial Flowers, ditto Wreaths, Ostrich &c. Feathers, Tippets assorted, Silk and Cotton Umbrellas, Veils, Broad Thread and Cotton Lace, Fine Thread Edgings, Spider-Net Sleeves, Plain, Spotted and Trafalgar Leno Mullins, Black ditto, ditto Shawls and Hdkfs. Extra Long Silk Gloves, Pic-Nic ditto and Mitts, Short Silk Gloves, Beaver'd ditto, Raw Silk Stockings, Furniture Cotton Tassels, Ladies' Silk and Cotton ditto, assorted complete, S. fine Linen Cambricks, 5-4 and 4-4 Cotton ditto, 5-4 and 4-4 Black ditto, 4-4 S. fine Crapes assorted, Narrow Black do. Laced Clock'd and Plain Cotton Hosiery assorted, Gentlemen's S. fine Angola ditto assorted, ditto Worsted ditto, German full'd ditto, Mahogany framed Looking Glasses, Common and Pocket ditto, Morocco and Leather Slippers elegantly assorted, ditto Childrens ditto Black Satin, Italian, &c. Silk for dresses assorted, Nett Braces, Patent Silk, Leather and Cotton suspenders, S. fine English Chintzes, the most elegant Figures, India and American prints, Pink, &c. Fine Gingham, Irish and Country Linens, White and Brown Russian Sheeting, Ticklingburgs, Dowling, &c. &c. Gin, Cognac Brandy, Jamaica Spirits, N.E. Rum, Rye Whisky, Sherry, Lisbon and Malaga Wines, Ground Allum and Fine Salt, Havana, Muscovado, Loaf and C. Sugars, Best Green Coffee, Spanish Cigars, Cavendish, James River and Plug Tobacco, best Sugar-house Molasses, Hyson, &c. Teas, Nutmegs, Cloves, Pepper, Allspice, Cinnamon, Camphor, Turkey Cotton Yarn, best Tennessee Spinning ditto, Crowley and Blister'd Steel, also an extensive assortment of Brit and M c Pherson's Bar-Iron, a large quantity of China and Queen's Ware handsomely assorted, Martinique Cordial in bottles. We return sincere thanks for past favours and hope nothing on our part shall be wanting to merit a continuance.
THOMAS C. SMITH, & Co. Martinsburg, 21st Oct. 1808.
20 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living near Opeckon in Jefferson County, Virginia, on Monday the 6th instant, a Negro Man named ELISHA , about twenty one years of age, about five feet eleven or eight inches high, well made, rather slow in his speech, and is remarkably fond of liquor.—Had on when he went away, a new shirt and trowsers of strong home-made tow linen, striped awansdown jacket, and roundabout made of fulled lundy of a drab colour, the under part of the sleeves made of cloth nearly of the same colour, a wool hat about half worn, with hat band and a buckle, the hat band wrapped round with brass wire, and coarse shoes much worn. I will give twenty dollars reward and all reasonable expenses for the apprehension of the said Negro, if he is returned to me, or secured in jail, so that I get him again.
ABRAHAM CORRELL. June 17, 1808.
An Overseer Wanted.
I SHALL want on the 24th day of December next, an OVERSEER , who can come well recommended for his honesty, industry and capacity for business.
ELISHA BOYD. Sept. 23, 1808.
Ladies fashionable Bonnets and Hats.
Just received, a great variety of Fashionable Bonnets and Hats, Wreaths, Artificial Flowers, Ostrich Feathers, Lace Veils, Broad Thread Lace, Patent Cotton, ditto, Fine Thread Edgings, Lace Sleeves, Spider Net, ditto, Extra long Silk Gloves, ditto White Kid, ditto, Short Kid and Silk, ditto, Kid, Morocco & Leather Slippers, Figured and plain Leno Mullins, Cambricks, ditto, Chintzes and Calicoes, Dimities, Irish LINENS, Home-made, ditto, Twilled Bags, FLAX, Ticklingburgs, &c. &c.
They also have on hand, Medicines and Paints, Soap and Upper Leather, Nice Fair-tops, Calf-Skins and Boot-Legs, Bar-Iron, Steel and Nails, Bacon, Flax-seed Oil, Well-seasoned Plank.
A complete assortment of China, Glass, Queens, Stone, Tin, Wooden and Potter's Ware. Also,
Cast Nuts for grinding Fruit.
Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, Flannels, Velvets, Constitution & Presidents Cords, Mill-Saws, &c. &c. All which they are selling very cheap.
JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's Town, } September 2, 1808. } P.S. Cash paid for Hides and Skins.
LANDS for sale.
A BARGAIN may be had in the purchase of the places where John Files and Basil Cross now reside, containing five hundred acres of good lime stone LAND, binding on Opecon Creek, distant about five miles from this place and six from Shepherd's Town. The buildings are comfortable, with a mill seat on Opecon.—The title good, the price low and the payments will be made easy to a punctual man. Those who are inclined to buy, may know the terms on application to John Baker, Esq. at Shepherd's Town.
BENJAMIN ODEN. Martinsburg, Nov. 20, 1807.
Carriage Manufactory.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has now in his employ, at his Carriage Manufactory in Shepherd's Town, Virginia, a number of excellent workmen from the most fashionable Cities, which will put it in his power to furnish his employers, on a short notice, with Carriages of any description, finished in the most elegant, or in a plain and neat style, at reasonable prices.
Old Carriages will be handsomely repaired, at cheap rates. He makes Drums and Fifes, Paints Floor Cloths, &c. His local situation, will always enable him to procure timber and other materials of the best quality, and he is determined that no pains shall be spared to make his work handsome and serviceable.
GEORGE MILLER. Shepherd's Town, Sept. 2, 1808.
James Maxwell's NIGHT SCHOOL
will be opened on Monday evening, November 7, in the Stone School-House, Martinsburg. October 28, 1808.
WRITING PAPER for sale at this Office.
Mr. Denis Cahil, acting Executor of James Quinn, dec'd. Joseph Minghin and Luke Ternan.
TAKE NOTICE. THAT on the tenth day of December next after the date hereof, I intend to take the depositions of Thomas Sharp, sen. Henry Miller, jun. and Luke Pentony, at the house in which Mr. Thos. Tabb now resides, in the town of Martinsburg, county of Berkeley, and commonwealth of Virginia, to be read in evidence on the trial of the suit in Chancery, brought and now depending in the County Court of Berkeley, where in I am Complainant and you the said Denis Cahil, acting ex'r. of James Quinn, dec'd. Joseph Minghin and Luke Ternan are Defendants. Said depositions to be taken by virtue of a commission issued in said suit from the County Court of Berkeley for that purpose. Tours, &c. ALBERT STEPHEN. November 4, 1808.
Prime Soar and Upper Leather FOR SALE.
THE subscriber now has, and will have during the fall and winter, PRIME SOAR at twenty-two cents per pound, by the single side; a generous reduction will be made by the quantity. Some well finished Upper and Calf-Skins, with part casé, will be taken in exchange for Soar. Ebenezer Campbell. N. B. An exceeding good Iron Mill, with all the apparatus for grinding bark, will be sold Cheap, Shepherd's Town, Virg. September 30, 1808.
Look Here!
I HAVE lent 1st Vol. Peter Pindar; 5 Vols. Plutarch's live's; 4 Vols. Pope's Works; 2 Vols. Blackstone's Commentaries; 4 Vols. Goldsmith's Animated Nature; 2 Vols. Spectator; 3 Vols. Peregrine Pickle; 2 Vols. Federalist, (by Hamilton) 5 Vols. Clarissa Harlow; 5 Vols. Swift's Works, viz. 3rd, 9th, 11th, 15th, and 25th.—Together with a great number of other valuable Books, which at present I cannot recollect, owing to the great length of time they have been loaned: Most of these Books, I believe have been lent to Gentlemen of Martinsburg; but whosoever may now have the possession of them it is earnestly requested, that a return of them be immediately made to me, or to Capt. Meminger of Martinsburg.
MAGNUS TATE. November 11, 1808.
Wanted immediately.
A lad from 16 to 17 years of age, to learn the Gun-Smith's business. JOHN WHETSTONE. Martinsburg, Nov. 11, 1808.
October Court, 1808. John E. Fryatt, Complainant, against George Eskridge and Henry Shroeder, Defendants. In CHANCERY.
THE defendants not having entered their appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendants do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in January next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court-House of said County. A Copy. DAVID HUNTER, C.S.C.
Clock Making and Watch Repairing.
THE subscriber informs the public that he has removed from Frederick County to Martinsburg, where he intends to carry on the CLOCK making and WATCH repairing business ; he has opened shop in the house belonging to Robert Cockburn and where J. Alburtis formerly kept his Printing-Office; where he will be thankful to all who please to call on him in that line, and all Watches that are repaired in his shop are warranted for one year, accidents excepted, and all Clocks made by him are warranted to be good.
He will give a generous price for old Copper and Brass. REES BRANSON. 10th mo. 28th, 1808.
BOOT AND SHOE MANUFACTORY MARTINSBURG.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his customers and the public, that he still occupies his old stand, between the Post-Office and Printing-Office, Martinsburg; that he has lately made a considerable addition to his stock of leather, (which is of the best quality) and shall constantly keep by him a large assortment, so that none who may please to employ him, will ever be disappointed; he will be careful in always keeping the best workmen, and from his own particular attention, feels an assurance, that he shall be able to give satisfaction to his customers—Boots and Shoes, of every description, will be carefully made, agreeable to directions—He intends to keep, ready-made, a variety of work for Ladies and Gentlemen—Having a large stock of Leather on hand, he will be able to give a short credit to punctual persons who may wish it. He is thankful for the favours already received, and will endeavour in future not to be undeserving encouragement. RICHARD HICKSON. April 1, 1808.
Land for Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale a valuable tract of LAND lying on Opeckon Creek, about four miles from Martinsburg, containing about 120 acres, about 60 acres of said tract is Limestone, and the remainder first-rate Slate Land; there are on the premises an Apple and Peach Orchard of good Fruit, and a number of other Fruit trees; there are two springs of never failing water on said tract, a comfortable dwelling house and other out-houses; about seventy acres of cleared Land, about six acres of Meadow, and about twenty acres of good Meadow ground; the remainder of the Land is well timbered. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises. JOSEPH VANMETRE. November 11, 1808.
CAUTION.
ALL persons are hereby cautioned against fishing, fowling, or passing through the enclosures of the subscriber, on any pretence whatever, or from committing any other unlawful depredations on his property, as he is positively determined to prosecute to the utmost limits of the law every person who may be found so offending in future. CONRAD KOWNSLAR. Mill-Creek, Oct. 7, 1808.
The following BLANKS, printed with NEW and ELEGANT TYPE, are always kept for sale at this Office: DEEDS, Common BONDS, ONSTABLE'S BLANKS, Delivery BONDS, DECLARATIONS, Promissory NOTES, Replevin BONDS, Appearance Bail BONDS, &c.