Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1806-05-19 00:00:00

THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK; PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS FIVE DOLLARS AND FIFTY CENTS PER ANNUM, PAYABLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE PAPER TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS—ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF FIVE CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS PER SQUARE FOR EACH SUCCEEDING INSERTION
FOR CHARTER. The excellent American Barque Two Brothers, George Swain, Master, burthen 200 tons, will carry about 250 hogsheads tobacco, now in complete order to take on board a cargo. For terms apply to Richard Blow.
May 16. tf 708. For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The American Ship MINERVA, J. W. Hall, master, burthen 270 tons, staunch and full built, can be ready to receive a cargo in five days. For terms enquire at the Exchange Coffee-House, of Thomas Payson.
May 12. tf 727. FOR CHARTER, The excellent American SHIP EDWIN, 2 years old, Francis Gentry, master, burthen 300 bds. is now ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to Moses Myers.
May 12. 3w 731. FOR CHARTER, The Ship DIANA, Francis Noble, Master, burthen 160 tons—For terms apply to Moses Myers.
April 28. tf 701. FOR FORDEAUX, The Ship Susan and Sarah, For freight or passage, apply to Capt. Marlow, or to Moses Myers.
April 25. tf 607. FOR CHARTER, The American Ship FOXWELL, Mitchell, master, burthen 200 tons, and now ready to receive a cargo. Apply to the Subscriber, William Pennock.
April 23. 3w 692. FOR CHARTER, The good Ship FAME, 315 bds. burthen, now in port and in complete order to receive a cargo—A freight to Falmouth and a Port in France will be preferred. Apply to C. & F. Whittle.
April 18. tf 676. FOR LIVERPOOL, The good Ship MONTICELLO, John Donahue, Master, two thirds of her cargo being now read, she will positively be despatched by the 10th May—100 bds. tobacco and a little cotton will be taken on freight, if immediate application is made to R. Maitland & Christian, Petersburg, or to Robert Maitland, Esq. Co.
April 18. 4w 677. FOR SALE, The new Brig BETSEY, Burthen 155 tons, now lying at Calvert's wharf—The terms will be made accommodating to the purchasers. Apply to the master on board or to Phinehas Dana, Esq. Co.
April 18. tf 678. FOR AMSTERDAM, The good Snow ECHO, Jacob Forman, Master, Will carry 330 hogsheads—For freight or passage, apply to the master on board, or to Moses Myers.
April 16. tf 667. Wanted to Charter, Two or three VESSELS, from 30 to 100 tons burthen, to load at Nixons, from N. C. for which a liberal freight will be given. Apply to James M'Clenachan.
March 31. tf 728. The SHIP ECHO, 300 hogsheads burthen, is offered for sale or charter; she is now ready to receive a cargo. Apply to C. & F. Whittle.
Who are landing on board and ship a parcel of very First quality SUGARS, in large hogsheads and barrels—IN STORE, BOTTLED PORTER & ALE, fit for immediate use. April 20. tf 708.
FOR PHILADELPHIA, The fine new Brig SARAH, F. Hall, Master, will be ready for the reception of a cargo on Monday next, 14th inst and will positively sail in ten days—For freight or passage, having good accommodations, apply to the master on board at Macleay's wharf, or to D. R. Waddey, & Co.
May 7. tf 731. For Freight or Charter, The Brig EDWARD & CHARLES, Edward Pettengill, Jun. Master, burthen 1300 barrels, will be ready to receive a cargo in 5 days. For terms apply to Phinehas Dana, Esq. Co.
Who have received per said brig, A few bds. and quarter casks particular Tenneriffe WINE, which they offer for Sale. April 16. tf 675.
Now Landing and for Sale, New-England RUM in bds. and bbls. Malaga WINE in quarter casks, New-York PRIME PORK, Russia and Raven's DUCK, Two Casks CORDAGE, Mould and Dipped CANDLES, SOAP in Boxes, Imperial and Souchong TEAS—By James M'Clenachan.
Who would receive Goods on Storage, at his fire-proof Warehouse, on Marsden's Wharf. March 19. tf 695.
GERMAN GOODS. JOHN C. NIEMEYER,
Offers for Sale the following GOODS, for Cash on convenient credit, or for approved Bills, viz.
5000 Bags 2 & 3 bushels, loose and in bales, 6000 East-India Gummy Bags, 330 pieces Hessian and brown Rolls, 525 pieces white Rolls, of four qualities, 140 pieces Ticklenbargs and Oznaburgs, 160 pieces Platillas, white and brown, 15 pieces Dowlas, 20 do. Checks, 40 do. Britannias, 40 do. Romams, 45 do. best Flemish Sheeting, 20 do. fine Bedtickling, 24 do. Mattress Tickling, 13 do. German Canvas, 15 do. do. Shirt Linen, 44 yards each, from 65 to 110 dols. per piece, 14 do. do. 37 yds. each, at 36 to 73 dols. per piece, 240 do. Velvet Ribbons, assorted, 40 boxes English crown window Glass, 70 do. Baltimore window Glass assorted, at the manufactory prices, for cash, 6000 wt Lamb's Wool, superior quality, 5000 doz. German Pins, very cheap, 2000 bunches red Cane Beads.
Also a complete assortment of the following Articles, viz.
Fifty assorted Tanks, Oil Cloth, Coffee Mills, Gunner Razor Blades, Morocco Shaving Cases, do. Pocket Books, do. Sugar Boxes, Spectacle Cases, Windsor Soap, Hand Latticework, best Tortoise Shell Combs, Ivory & Horn do. fine Razors & Penknives, Pocket Knives of all kinds, Knives and Forks, Snuffers very elegant, Brass Candlesticks, Coffee-Potsters, Shoe Brushes, Cloth do. Mill Seives, Flying Pans, Shovels, Pongs, and Pokers, Fish Hooks, Table Mats, Battle Doors and Beds, Bell Metal Kettles, Waffle Irons, Water Irons, German Lace & Thread, Bird Cages & Baskets, Black Silk Velvet 2000 Yards Flannels, Jewellery and Crystal Beads, Toilet Looking Glasses, common do. assorted, Snuff Boxes, Umbrellas, Puff for Saddle, Passage Lamps, Chamber Lamps and Wicks, Backgammon Tables, 800 Dice, elegant Chess Cards and Cribbage Boards. Apply as above. May 16. tf 744.
For Rent, or Lease, Two Fire-Proof WARE-HOUSES, on Maxwell's Wharf—To permanent tenants the terms will be moderate—And for Lease.
A convenient building LOT, fronting on Main-Street 40 feet, and about 120 feet in depth. This Lot is advantageously situated near the Old Market place. Apply to Francis Smith, Agent for the Proprietors. May 16. 6t 753.
JONN MARTIN—Turner, RESPECTFULLY informs the public that he carries on the TURNING BUSINESS in all its various branches, at Mr John Miller's Block-Shop, on Pennock's Wharf—Orders mutually attended to. May 16. 3w 740.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber, on Sunday evening last, my apprentice boy JOSIAH SPENCER, about 15 years of age, has a large scar on his right cheek, a smaller one on his forehead, had on when he went off, a white cotton jacket, mouselis vest, small clothes, too long as such, but not long enough as pantaloons, with three buttons on each knee, and straps for knee-buckles; had no hat nor shoes; I should offer a small reward for him, but am sufficiently loser by him, as he carried off with him two watches, one a small plain gold French make, no name nor number but in the case 3315, the other a small silver one also of French make, no name, number 966. I will give five cents, a watch key and glass, for apprehending the said run-away. I forward all masters of vessels and others from harbouring or taking him away. Charles Davidson, Head of Maxwell's wharf. May 16. 5t*c 743.
FOR SALE, The Cargoes of the Schooners Mohawk, capt. Quarles, and Wasp, capt. Kemp, this day received, consisting of 270,000 wt. Prime Green COFFEE, 27 Bags and 2 Barrels SUGAR, 4000 wt LOGWOOD—Apply to Wilson, Cunningham, & Co. May 14. tf 733.
British Consul's Office, Norfolk, Virginia, 12th May, 1806. His Britannick Majesty's Consul, in consequence of information by him received from the king's envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the United States, hereby gives notice to the merchants and others whom it may concern, that it is the intention of lieutenant-general Sir Eyre Coote, K. B. his majesty's lieutenant-governor of Jamaica, to extend the duration of the Proclamation issued by lieutenant-general Nugent on the 17th November, 1805, relative to the importation permitted from the United States of America, to the island of Jamaica, for a further period of six months from its expiration; that is to say, from the 30th of June to the 31st of December, 1806. 734.
One Hundred Dollars Reward. LOST about the middle of last week, a BANK NOTE, of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, at New-York, of 500 Dollars. The finder will be entitled to the above reward on application at No. 18, Market-Square. May 14. 3t*c 736.
Landing on M'Clure's wharf, from the Sch'r Liberty, Capt. Lewis, from Philadelphia, 6 Hhds. Penington's labelled LOAF SUGAR. And on Maxwell's wharf, from Sch'r Remittance, Captain Treat, from New-York, 12 Pipes choice 4th proof Cogniac Brandy, & A few bales Bottle CORKS—For Sale by Price & Waddey. May 14. 3t 737.
SPRING GOODS.
GILLIAT AND MACKINDER, Have received per the Ship Dumfries, from London, their Supply of Spring GOODS, which consist of a general and well selected assortment. Also, a fresh supply of Ladies' fashionable Kid SHOES. April 25. tf 698.
BRITISH NEW ADMINISTRATION.
No. III.
The first Lord of the treasury, Lord Grenville, must be regarded as the head of the ministry though when we see by whom he is surrounded, it cannot be supposed he possesses the power of a chief. The parties combined in the new cabinet may be thus classed:—The Grenville party consists of no more than Lord Grenville himself, and perhaps Earl Spencer. The Fox party consists of Mr. Fox, Mr. Erskine, Mr. Grey, Lord H. Petty, Mr. Windham, Lord Fitzwilliam. The Addington party of Lord Sidmouth, and Lord Ellenborough; while the Prince of Wales's party has only Lord Moira. It is surprising to find Lord Grenville in such company.—His friends know that it is seven or eight years since Mr. Pitt's constitution began to break; and two years ago he was so ill at Bath, it was apprehended he could not live long. The king was dangerously indisposed about the same period. This was the time chosen by the Grenville party for forming a coalition with Mr. Fox, who certainly was a much better life than Mr. Pitt, while circumstances seemed to bring the crown very near to the head of the Prince of Wales. At that time a Caricature print was published of the Grenvilles, led on by Mr. Fox and his party, falling down to worship the rising sun, surmounted by the Prince of Wales's feathers. If the Grenvilles had resolved to desert the King and Mr. Pitt the moment they began seriously to decline in health, this certainly was the time for carrying that resolution into effect. They then went over to Mr. Fox, on no one publick principle except that of succeeding to power; and they seem now to have consented to become his servants now that he has been previously the masters of Mr. Pitt. Under these circumstances we fear the genuine principles of Lord Grenville will not be allowed the weight we wish them to possess in the cabinet. His lordship is a very upright able statesman, and there can be no doubt that he will discharge the duties of his office advantageously for the publick; but as prime minister, giving a tone in council, we fear he cannot be viewed. Upon him however we must chiefly rely for the protection of our most valuable interests. Lord Grenville has broken up the Pitt party, by going over to Mr. Fox, as effectually as the duke of Portland, Lord Spencer, &c. broke up the Fox party in 1793, by going over to Mr. Pitt. There was this great difference however between the two: the duke of Portland acted on principles inculcated by Mr. Burke; Lord Grenville acted upon no principle but that of turning out Lord Sidmouth, whom he now brings in again.—On our policy towards France, the duke of Portland and Mr. Pitt were agreed; on our policy towards France, Lord Grenville and Mr. Fox were at complete variance. Love of power seems to have been the only motive that prompted Lord Grenville to join the old opposition, and yet when he has joined them, we are sorry to see he has not so much power as we wish. Very little can be said either for or against the appointment of Lord Henry Petty as chancellor of the Exchequer. He is a young man of very promising talents, though they may be overrated.—Scores of as able young men as his lordship may be found in the House of Commons, and by what good fortune he has been placed in so high a situation, with a seat in the cabinet, we know not. Mr. Whitbread, for instance, is a man of much superior talents.—Mr. Sheridan long applied himself to the study of finance, and is a man of first-rate abilities—but he!—he supported the Government against the mutiny in the Navy, and he never can be forgiven. Besides, he made speeches against Buonaparte three years ago, and contributed to raise a general military spirit in this country, in opposition to Mr. Windham. His crimes are enormous. Lord H. Petty, a young man of yesterday, is to have a high office and seat in the cabinet, but not Mr. Sheridan? and Lord Ellenborough is to have a seat in the cabinet without any office at all, but not Mr. Sheridan. No!—he possesses no more ability than brother Bragge, and therefore give him brother Bragge's office of Treasurer of the Navy. We are told indeed in the Morning Chronicle that Mr. Sheridan has precisely the situation for which he asked; but there is a way of telling men to ask for no more than will be granted. Did all the cabinet ministers ask for their situations? Were they not nominated by Mr. Fox and Lord Grenville? Why was it put upon Mr. Sheridan in particular to ask for what he wanted? Was not this the very way to give him little? Did Mr. Grey ask for the Admiralty? did Lord Henry Petty ask for the office of Chancellor of the Exchequer? or did Lord Ellenborough ask for a seat in the cabinet without an employment? Mr. Sheridan could not ask for any thing very high when it was put upon himself to solicit; but if Mr. Sheridan's modesty prevented him from making such high and eager demands as Mr. Francis, was it not the duty of those who call themselves his friends, to have felt his claims, and to have asserted his importance, by placing him in the cabinet as well as Lord Henry Petty? But no; Mr. Sheridan occasionally preferred serving his party, and an example must be made of him.
The appointment of Mr. Grey as first Lord of the Admiralty, is one at which we look with very considerable apprehension. Mr. Grey is a man of as high honour, of integrity as spotless, as any man in the kingdom. He is the last man in the world to do a mean thing, or to take a step which his conscience does not commend. But he is a man of a petulant, capricious temper; easily led, harsh, precipitate, and impetuous; he trusts too much to his conscious rectitude, acting hastily, and with a high hand because he feels himself strong in the honesty of his intentions. We must admire the feelings of such a man, but we cannot trust much to his prudence. Believing himself right, he regards other men as in the wrong, and he proceeds as if his own judgment were infallible. Of all men in the world this is the last for a reformer, especially a reformer of our naval system, which should be touched with great delicacy. We would rather have seen Lord St. Vincent again first lord of the Admiralty than Mr. Grey. This gentleman is avowedly placed at the head of that great department, to carry Lord St. Vincent's plans into effect; and the strong, the old family friendship and connexion that has existed between them, leaves no doubt that Mr. Grey will be completely in his lordships hands. Admiral Markham, Lord St. Vincent's particular partisan, is to be one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and Mr. Grey's chief adviser. Lord St. Vincent had rendered himself very unpopular by his conduct when in office; and had he again been appointed, he would have been compelled to proceed with great caution; but Mr. Grey, unknown to the navy, is known only to the publick as a gentleman of very high character and pure intentions. Such a man will be able to urge bad measures, should St. Vincent prevail on him to adopt such, with more authority than Lord St. Vincent him-
self could. The St. Vincent system will be stronger in Mr. Grey's hands than in those of Lord St. Vincent. That this system should be revived in surprising, when we recollect how much it was execrated by what was called the new opposition, by Lords Grenville and Spencer, and particularly by Mr. Windham, in whose weekly journal, the most gross and incessant abuse of Lord St. Vincent and his conduct, as first Lord of the Admiralty, appeared. We believe indeed that the design of the new opposition at that time was merely to shake the Addington ministry, of which Lord St. Vincent was a main prop; but they cannot avow, though by reviving the system on which Mr. Grey has shewn himself well qualified for the St. Vincent system, and that is the prosecution of the Press. At the time Lord St. Vincent was at the head of the Admiralty, the lawyers desks groaned under the load of briefs in prosecutions for libels on his lordships; and we all know how rashly Mr. Grey took up the prosecution against the Oracle last spring. He has heard from his own friends so much on that subject that it is unnecessary we should say more, than just remind the publick that Mr. Grey will be quite as likely as Lord St. Vincent to put down with a strong hand any thing that may be published against his measures. We are extremely sorry that Lord Spencer was not appointed first Lord of the Admiralty, and we know so are the navy and the publick. His lordship gave the highest satisfaction both to our navy and to the Commercial world. From a coalition ministry the country reckoned on the benefit of his services at least at the head of the Admiralty; but cruel must be the disappointment when they find, that instead of the Spencer they are to have the St. Vincent system. Lord Spencer, it is well known, disapproved highly of Lord St. Vincent's conduct, and we suppose he declined accepting the Admiralty, when he found that the St. Vincent system was to be revived by order of Mr. Fox.
No. IV.
We know not whether to regard the appointment of Lord Sidmouth to a seat in the cabinet, or his acceptance of that seat, with the present men, as the most extraordinary. In the spring of 1803, Lord Sidmouth broke off his negotiation with Mr. Pitt, because the return of Lord Grenville to the cabinet was insisted upon. Lord Sidmouth saying, after what had passed, he never could sit in the cabinet with Lord Grenville; but now he allows his name to be submitted to the king by this very Lord Grenville, for the very lowest office in the cabinet. With what cordiality can Lord Sidmouth act with Lord Grenville and Mr. Windham after their abuse, representing him as the greatest bungler, the most wretched and contemptible pretender, the most ignorant and mischievous minister, that ever held an employment? and such being the opinions of these gentlemen, will not they expect Lord Sidmouth to set the chairs and hold the door as porter to the cabinet council, that being the only office, as they must think, in which he can render himself useful? We might indeed contend, that the opposition journals a year ago contended, that Lord Sidmouth, being in the cabinet, is in fact prime minister; that he is now as much the master of Mr. Fox and Lord Grenville, as he then was of Mr. Pitt. This would be perfectly true; but we disdain to resort to such quibbling and falsehood. For trembling, we must confess that Mr. Fox, and Mr. Pitt alone, is master of the cabinet. Whatever may be the personal feelings between Lord Sidmouth and the Grenville party, on publick principle, his lordship can associate less with Fox than with the Grenvilles. Mr. Fox stigmatised the Addington ministry from the beginning to the end, the treaty of Amiens excepted; and most unjustly did he this time four years represent it as equally violent and oppressive with the one which had gone before, composed of Lords Grenville, Spencer, Mr. Windham, &c. On the great question, the war with France, Mr. Fox is decidedly against Lord Sidmouth; nay Mr. Fox has often accused his lordship of having been guilty of a most atrocious crime in provoking the present war; and yet this high state culprit, Mr. Fox, now hands into his majesty's councils as a fit colleague and assistant! The Sidmouth and the Grenville parties have the bitterest private feelings to suppress before they can act together; the Sidmouths and the Foxites—one or the other of them must renounce their publick principles respecting France before they can co-operate. As the coalition now act on the principles of exclusion, we can only account for their admission of Lord Sidmouth into the cabinet, by supposing they doubt their strength in parliament. His lordship having been first lord of the treasury at the last general election, has some twenty or thirty votes in the house of commons. When the present parliament is at an end, Lord Sidmouth will probably receive a pension, with a notice that his services are no longer necessary.
On Lord Sidmouth the blame must fall of having broken up the Pitt party. He should have known that the moment Mr. Pitt opposed his administration on he must retire; but his "Connexions," the hungry set by whom he is surrounded, at whose instance he deserted Mr. Pitt last year, and to satisfy whose craving he now shrinks into the cabinet; his "Connexions" as the Times call them, so wrought on his vanity and ambition, that they persuaded him he could stand alone. The consequence was, that the Pitt party, the most active half of it at least, the Grenville half, joined Mr. Fox. Had Lord Sidmouth in the spring of 1803, when the negotiation took place between him and Mr. Pitt, for the return of that gentleman to office; had Lord Sidmouth then submitted to Mr. Pitt's plan, the whole of the Grenville party would have come into power with Mr. Pitt, and the Fox party would have been left to coalesce with Sir Francis Burdett. In that case the present loss of Mr. Pitt would not have been so severely felt. It would have been more honourable to Lord Sidmouth, and better for the country had he accepted a seat in the cabinet under Pitt and Grenville, than under Fox and Grenville. But it has been the consequence of his vanity and ambition, to break up and destroy the party which gave him being as a publick man; and to place his foes at the head of our government, with a power scarcely to be controuled, the foes at which the country has for 15 years looked with dread and trembling, if not with horror. Lord Sidmouth may perhaps think that his having done this, will give him claims on Mr. Fox; but no—Mr. Fox knows better. After Lord Sidmouth made peace with France, it was his obvious and unquestionable policy to have taken Mr. Fox and his party into the cabinet to support him in that great measure, in which they would probably have succeeded. But Lord Sidmouth was too fond of being the great man, and could not admit Mr. Fox into the cabinet, as that gentleman present, he knew there would be an end to all his greatness. Mr. Fox would of necessity have been the first man, and Mr. Addington and have not forgiven Lord Sidmouth whatever he

Anxious to lay as much of the foreign intelligence as possible before our readers, we were under the necessity of postponing the publication of our paper until this morning.
By captain Block, in 32 hours from New-York, we received the papers of that city of Thursday, which contained a vague account of a rupture between Prussia, and Great Britain. We must be candid to confess that we placed no reliance in this intelligence because we could not see, upon what ground a rupture between those two governments could happen, unless that Prussia should have acquiesced in the views of Buonaparte, to exclude the commerce of Great Britain from the north of Germany. Perfidious, as we have always viewed the general policy of Prussia, as regarding Great Britain and the allies, we had notoubt ourselves to believe, that she was so degraded, as to obey the mandate of Buonaparte. But we have been mistaken in this particular, as appears from a Liverpool paper of the NINTH OF APRIL, which was politely sent to us by Captain Johnson, of the ship Merchant arrived from Liverpool in Hampton Roads, in 57 days, bound to City Point. By that paper (extracts of which are given in this day's paper) it appears that ALL PRUSSIAN VESSELS IN GREAT BRITAIN ARE STOPPED — war is of course inevitable. All the effects which this event may produce, we do not pretend to calculate on, but we are persuaded that it will be productive of serious inconvenience to both parties, and to the commercial world in general, in which the merchants of this country will come in for their share. It cannot be supposed that this conduct on the part of Prussia, will not be followed by measures of retaliation. The blockade of every port in the North of Germany, may be expected, a circumstance that cannot fail to reduce the price of our own, and the colonial produce in this country, by depriving us of the markets of Hamburg, Bremen, &c.
The king of Prussia has brought himself to that state, which it has been foreseen, and foretold, he would reach, if he did not oppose the views of the French government. As far as relates to Prussia, it must excite no compassion for any thing which she may suffer, but the fate of Hamburg, Bremen, &c. must excite the sympathy of every generous heart, while every independent mind is fired with indignation. The opulence of those cities arose from commerce, and principally in their intercourse with England, and this intercourse, must cease, because Buonaparte wills it!
Great-Britain will, though reluctantly be compelled to treat as enemies, those who submit to the orders of her enemy, and those cities, where commerce has flourished, will become deserted, except by French commissaries and agents, who will squeeze them out of what has been acquired by care and industry. We know that to many of our fellow-citizens, it would be a waste of time to endeavour to prove that Buonaparte only wants the power to make us subservient to his will as he has the nations of Europe. To conquer us, he would not be so mad as to attempt, but that he would interdict our commerce as he has done that of others, we cannot (and we are surprised that any one can) doubt. The British navy is the only obstacle between Buonaparte and universal domination.
Captain Wills, who arrived here yesterday in the Ship Shepherdess, from London, (via Cape de Verds) left London on the 6th of April, he left all his papers but one at the Cape de Verds, which he has favoured us with. Captain W. informs us, that at the time of the embargo on Prussian vessels, it was supposed there were three hundred sail of that nation in the River Thames.
Our readers will observe by this day's paper, an article which corroborates the intelligence lately received of the disposition of the British government towards this country. We refer to the proceedings of the House of Lords on the 5th of April, and the opinions expressed by some of the leading characters in that house.
Captain Vibret, of the ship Dean, from Gibraltar, in 45 days, arrived here yesterday, informs that the United States frigate Essex, Capt. Campbell, and brig Vixen, Capt. Smith, were at Gibraltar when he sailed, from whence they were to proceed to Tangier. Sir Sydney Smith was at Gibraltar, on his way to Algiers, in order to settle the misunderstanding between Great-Britain and that Regency.
THE FRENCH ADMIRAL LINOIS TAKEN. Saturday arrived in Hampton Roads His Britannick Majesty's frigate Tartar, Captain Hawker, from Bermuda. Three days since boarded the American ship Hunter from Lisbon bound to Alexandria. On the 16th of April in lat. 25, long. 33, the Hunter was boarded by H. M. brig Raven, from the squadron, under the command of Sir John Borlase Warren, then in sight, with the French ship Marengo, Admiral Linois, of 84 guns, and the frigate Belle Poule of 40 guns, captured by Sir John, on their passage from India to France, about the middle of March. The squadron consisted of 13 sail, including the two captured ships.
Linois was returning, laden with the spoils of a three years successful cruise. The Hunter went up the bay yesterday.
The DUKE OF BEDFORD, the new viceroy, arrived in Dublin, the 29th of March, where he was received with great demonstrations of respect.
We are as much indebted to Capt. Benthall, of the Flora, as if, according to his wishes, we had received his marine list; we hope that captains who
of the true intention of the party; and that when the transaction was found to have been merely designed to break in appearance the continuity of the voyage, and the property, notwithstanding the landing and paying of duties, had always been condemned.
Long prior, therefore, to the case of the Essex, the American merchants must have known that they attended at all to the proceedings of this Board, that the landing a cargo, and paying or securing duties on it, in their ports, would not suffice to protect their trade between the hostile colonies and Europe; and the present complaint of surprise or want of notice was totally unfounded.
His honour then applied the general rule, thus clearly established, to the case in judgment. Here he observed the claimant had not left them to make out his intention from circumstantial evidence, for he admitted the receipt of letters and prices current from Spain, which determined him, before the arrival of this cargo at Marblehead, to send it forward to Spain. Consequently the subsequent transactions at the American port could not be intended as an actual importation into that country, but were merely used as a cover for his pre-conceived purpose, and the voyage from Laguira to Spain was discontinued for a while in appearance only, not in reality.
Judgment, condemning the property as lawful prize.
Dr. Lawrence as Amicus Curæ , stated to their Lordships, that in the case of the Polly, Lasky, at the Admiralty, an affidavit had been produced, on the part of the claimant, stating the actual payment of the duties, and that the Court was at that period not all aware that the duties were secured by bond in these cases, discharged by debenture in the way that had since appeared. He also mentioned, that by the law of America, as now clearly understood, the importer actually derived a positive advantage by these transactions; or that though the duties are not paid, negotiable debentures are issued on the credit of the bond, and these the importer can put into circulation, until a period at some months' distance, which is allowed for the payment of the bond, or for its discharges by production of these debentures.
PHILADELPHIA, May 10.
FIRE!!
We have this day the painful task of according one of the most disastrous occurrences, that has befallen our city.
About eight o'clock last evening, a fire broke out in the shop of Mr. Burr, trunk-maker, near the northwest corner of Dock and Third-streets. The wind blowing very fresh from the westward, and many of the adjoining buildings being of wood, closely and inconveniently situated, the progress of the flames was rapid, and for some time, threatened to be very extensive.
The active, skilful, and persevering efforts of the several hose and fire companies, aided by the great body of citizens, whose exertions were unremitting, at length prevailed; and the fire was subdued, after consuming, as we are informed, nineteen brick houses and stores, and ten frame buildings.
The house occupied by Mr. Vallence, upholsterer, in Front-street, between Walnut and Chesnut-streets was fired by a brand, which lodged on the roof, and was nearly consumed.
Some of our zealous fellow-citizens received personal hurts, but we do not understand that any lives were lost.
MAY 12.
The following is a list of the buildings destroyed and damaged, by fire on Friday evening last:
James Kerr's house corner of Dock-street and Goforth alley, partially damaged, but saved by the activity of a few citizens on the roof. Two small brick houses, adjoining the above, occupied by Mr. Dubois and Mr. Ward, damaged. A warehouse, full of hides and oil, owned by James Molony, destroyed. A brick house on the east side of said alley, owned by the widow Todd, damaged. Two brick buildings, corner of said alley and Carter's, owned by Mrs. Lamar, destroyed. A currier's shop, brick, in Dock-street, occupied by A. Lowber, destroyed. A large brick house, occupied by Joseph Beale, cabinet-maker, and Mr. Hamilton, teacher, destroyed. A ditto, in Dock, corner of Relief alley, occupied by Mr. Bonsall and Son and Wm. McPhail, destroyed. A ditto, in rear of the above, occupied by Robert Kean, destroyed. Three frame houses on the east side of Relief alley, extending northward of Carter's alley, occupied by A. Ramage, printer's joiner, destroyed. A large frame joiner's shop, S. W. corner of Relief alley, occupied by J. Aitkin, destroyed, property partly saved. Three do. adjoining the above, and extending northward, to Carter's alley, in the first of which from Dockstreet, the fire broke out occupied by Joseph Burr, Windsor-chair and trunk maker, destroyed. One ditto, adjoining John Aitken on Dock, occupied by Richard Loxley, currier, destroyed. A three story brick house adjoining the above, occupied by Oliphant and Wilson, upholsterers, destroyed. A ditto, adjoining Mr. Baldwin, shoemaker, destroyed.
The four following brick houses in Third-street, opposite the United States bank, viz. No. 65 south Third-street, a vacant house, roof burnt. Mrs. Greenway, house damaged, furniture saved. Mr. Dussar's counting house, roof burnt, property and papers saved. Mrs. Hickman's partially injured. A brick house at the head of Carter's alley, south side, occupied by Mrs. Wetherell, destroyed. A frame blacksmith's shop, adjoining A. Ramage, destroyed. Two frame houses, in Carter's alley, south side, occupied by Jos. Burr and John Payne, destroyed. A ditto, on the north side of Carter's alley, owned and occupied by J. Blore, as a printing office, destroyed. A small brick stable, the property of J. Willis, destroyed. A brick house on Carter's alley, opposite Relief alley, occupied by James Molony damaged.
In addition to the above house in Front-street, the corner of Gray's alley, was partly destroyed in consequence of a body of fire, born by the impetuosity of wind, entering a window that was open. Happily however, the flames were prevented from communicating to the adjoining houses; or the probable extent of the devastation would have been incurable.
The ships Xenophon, Connecticut, and several other vessels at the wharves, were also frequently on fire.
The amount of property thus sacrificed is very considerable. Among the sufferers, we understand there are many worthy industrious citizens, who have lost nearly their ALL. It is very desirable that relief should be afforded to objects of this description.
We are concerned to add, that several active and enterprising individuals received considerable personal injury on this occasion.
On the part of the citizens generally we have never witnessed greater vigilance and activity. The engine and hose companies, during the fatigues of upwards of four hours, behaved with extraordinary spirit, and distributed their powers with great judgment. To these and the plentiful supply of water furnished by those invaluable institutions the hydrants, we may confidently ascribe the preservation of an immense amount of property and a large section of our city.
It is remarkable that that very night 15 years ago the same district of this city was laid in ashes by the most destructive fire which Philadelphia had ever experienced, and this is the third conflagration which has happened in the same spot in the month of May.
His honour first briefly stated the single question in the cause to be, whether the voyage in which the property of the claimant was embarked at the time of the capture was a lawful voyage. The cargo in question consisted of cocoa, which had been shipped at Laguira, a port in the Spanish province of Carracas, in South America, on account of the claimant, in the same ship in which it was now captured, and was brought into Marblehead, a port of the U. States, where it was entered and landed, a bond having been given as usual for the duties; but it was a few days afterwards re-shipped in the same bottom, and dispatched on a voyage to Bilbao. Debentures were thereupon granted to the claimant for the amount of the duties, a small part excepted; and these debentures being, at a subsequent period, given up to the Custom-House, and the small balance of duties paid in cash, the bond given on the entry from Laguira.
This, our readers will observe, is the ordinary course of proceeding in like cases; and which, it is contended, on the part of America, amounts to a fair importation into that country, so as to justify the subsequent transmission of the produce of a hostile colony to the mother country, or any other port in Europe, while the contrary is maintained by our Prize Courts.
The master of the Rolls did not enter into those general principles of the law of Nations, on which this country asserts a right to prevent neutrals from carrying on the colonial trade of our enemies in general; principles which have been so often discussed, and so often solemnly recognized by the Lords Commissioners. He only observed, that by the uniform sense of the British board, whatever branch of that trade was not allowed by his majesty's war instruments, was unlawful; and that therefore the only question was fairly within the licence of the royal instructions which applied to it.
His honour then proceeded to expose, in a strain of the clearest and most conclusive reasoning, the absurdity of regarding the deviation from the direct course of the intended voyage, stopping at an American port, the landing and re-shipping the cargo, and the formal proceedings at the Custom-House there, as legalizing a voyage which would otherwise have been unlawful under the royal instructions, when these acts are discovered to have been merely ostensible, and concerted for the very purpose of evading the rule of law.
The true intention of the parties, he observed, might not, in general, be easily discovered, because the same exterior circumstances naturally accompanied an evasive and a genuine importation. But when an intent merely to give a false appearance to the transaction was discovered, it was impossible for the court to give effect to such an intention, by holding that the old voyage was discontinued, and that a new one had commenced, without admitting that the legal character of a transaction was to be determined, not by its real nature, but by the name which the parties choose to give it, and by the false colours which they made it to wear.
The direct voyage from the Spanish colony to Spain was clearly prohibited—but when colonial produce shipped in the former, was designed to be carried in the bottom of the latter, a deviation from the direct course of the voyage, contrived for a mere purpose of giving a new name and a new appearance to the transaction, could not alter the case. It was still in substance and effect a direct and single voyage; and in the construction of plain common sense, it was impossible to view the restriction in a different way.
After illustrating this point much at large, his honour adverted to the circumstances of paying or securing duties, which had been much insisted upon by the merchants of America, as legalizing these voyages according to the former judgements of our Prize Tribunals. In this respect, he said, the Lords Commissioners had been alleged to have departed in a late case, that of the Essex, — Orne, master, from some rule they had previously laid down. But, in case the payment of duties had never been regarded by them in any other light, than as circumstantial evidence of bona fides in the importation into America. It had been supposed, that large import duties were really paid in that country, and if so, to be sure, it furnished a strong indication of a design in the party paying them, to make a real, and not merely an ostensible importation. So the Court of Admiralty had reasonably thought in the case of the Polly, Lasky, master, the first case on this subject; but the learned Judge of that Court had anxiously guarded in his judgement against the notion that this, or any other circumstance, amounted to conclusive evidence, that the importation was genuine, or that the payment of duties of itself gave legality to the trade.
It afterwards appeared, however, in the case of the Essex, that the law of America, in respect to these importations, was very different from what had been stated in the former cases, and had been received as fact, both by the court of Admiralty and this Board. Instead of a large sum being paid for duties, it was found that a bond only was given, and that debentures were issued in return by the custom-house, on the production of which, after the re-exportation, the bond was cancelled, except that very small proportion of the duties paid was retained. It appeared for instance, in the case of the Essex, that of 5278 dollars, the total amount of duties for which bond had been given, no less than 5080 dollars had been satisfied by such debentures, and only 198 actually paid.
It became evident, therefore, that the inference formerly drawn from the supposed payment of duties was groundless; for though it might be presumed that the party who paid so large a sum as 5000 dollars to the custom house, intended an actual importation, the payment of the petty sum of 198 dollars could support no such presumption. Consequently, from the time that the law of America became correctly known to our prize tribunals, the paying or securing duties could no longer be regarded as a material matter of evidence, in cases of this kind.
Here his honour remarked, this country could not be reasonably accused of wishing to prescribe to America what duties she should receive or retain in this species of commerce. If she thought fit to admit of such importations without any duties at all, the only consequence would be, that there would be one circumstance the less, from which the true intention of the importer could be collected. The question still would be as now, and as it always had been, whether the transaction was real and fair, or only a colourable proceeding, in order to evade the rule of law, by concealing the true nature of the voyage.
His honour next declared, that he had carefully looked into the decided cases on this subject, and that he found, not only that there was no difference between them in principle, upon this point, but that they all supported the rule he had first laid down with great uniformity.
To prove this, he went through the leading circumstances of each of these cases, in a chronological order, and shewed, in the most satisfactory manner, that the landing and paying of duties alone had never been regarded by the court as conclusive, but that the question had always turned on the intention of the importer, as collected from all the circumstances taken together; that when positive evidence was in some cases given of both these facts, and when the duties were believed by the court to have been actually paid, still further proof was directed as to insurances, as to offering the cargo for sale in the neutral port, and other circumstances indicative
may think. His Lordship clung to the office of prime minister as long as he could, regardless of the consequences; he next accepted an inferior office under Mr. Pitt, rather than not be in power; and now he accepts the lowest office in the cabinet rather than not be in it. How low this retrograde movement may bring him at last, there is no foretelling; but after all the cant about the honesty of his intentions, we discover in him great weakness as a politician, and an insatiable thirst for office. The coalition are promoting Lord Sidmouth and his friends downwards at the expense of rank and honour in some instances. Lord Sidmouth, once prime minister, and afterwards president of the council, now only privy seal. Lord Buckinghamshire, once secretary of state, now accepts the emoluments of an office, having been deliberately rejected from the cabinet; Mr. Bathurst, once treasurer of the navy, now only to be a lord of the treasury; the right hon. N. Vansittart, once secretary for Ireland and a privy counsellor, now secretary of the treasury. Mr. Addington reposes with Lord Morpeth at the board of control, Mr. Sullivan at another board, and Mr. Bond is to be judge advocate. This is the way in which Lord Sidmouth's "connexions" are provided for; it was because Mr. Pitt would not provide for these very hungry "connexions" last spring that Lord Sidmouth resigned, though very different reasons were publicly assigned. The coalition it seems are more willing to stop the mouths of Lord Sidmouth's "connexions," and to give them a share of the government than Mr. Pitt was. The places are indeed not so high as they may think they deserve; but they seem to be willing to take whatever they can get, and to conclude that half a loaf is better than no bread.
When we hear a cry for an union of rank, talents, and influence, and see Lord Fitzwilliam selected as one of the heads of that union, we are not a little surprised. His Lordship is an Earl, it is true, and so far he has rank; he also has about six seats in the house of commons, so far he has influence; but here his claims to a seat in the cabinet end. There are an hundred who are Earls as well as he, and twenty or thirty who send as many members to parliament. As for talent, he has none that ever we could discover. As a publick speaker he stands very low; he scarcely can be called a publick speaker. But he has talents in the closet we may be told. So may a hundred more Lords for any thing the publick knows; and out of any hundred that could be named, we are tolerably certain that ninety-nine would be as able men as Lord Fitzwilliam. This is all we can say in favour of his Lordship, except that he was at Eton school with Mr. Fox; against his Lordship may be mentioned the very rash manner in which he behaved respecting the Catholics when he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. His conduct blew that country up into a flame, and the rebellion soon after followed. His Lordship is a very good, and a very well intentioned man, not without some share of common sense; but let us hear no more of the cant about honesty of intentions. All our leading men have the best intentions for the benefit of mankind according to their own notions. Fox, Robespierre, Pitt, Buonaparte, St. Vincent, Paine, all have had the best intentions; but the misfortune is, that what some of them have thought good, has been most mischievous. We are proud to say, that ambition is a greater object with all the publick men of this country than private interest. What but ambition can influence such a man as Lord Fitzwilliam, possessed as he is of a princely fortune and every thing to make him happy in private life? But he is ambitious without possessing the abilities necessary to make a figure. He has been a jobber in politics all his life, a hunter for importance in the political world, and his munificence, if not his talents, have made him partizans. He has been nursed and bred up in party. The heir of the Marquis of Rockingham's estates, he aspires to his greatness, and it is said is to have his title. This may be a piece of personal vanity quite harmless in Mr. Fox. He may wish to have a Marquis of Rockingham at the head nominally of the present councils of the king, that he may call it another "Rockingham Administration." He may wish to stamp the ministry with all the marks, and decorate it with the insignia of a Whig, a Rockingham ministry, in which he first started in the character of a patriot. This may be the reason for making Earl Fitzwilliam president of the council, and nominal head of the party. The plan of a whig administration is to place some men of high rank, fortune, and influence at the head, but to have all the talent in men of small fortune or influence, who form the base, and are in fact the real support. The men of large fortune and high title, are flattered with the appearance of great statesmen, and assist with their means those who puff them up into importance. It is a partnership of rank and fortune on the one hand, with talent and industry on the other. As one of these puppets Lord Fitzwilliam may do very well, but many others, the Duke of Norfolk for instance, would have done better. His Grace possesses as large a fortune, as much parliamentary influence, a higher title, and much more ability, though he was not educated at Eton with Mr. Fox.
Notwithstanding the pretended eagerness of the coalition to give the cinque ports to assist earl Chatham in supporting his tide, they have, as we expected, turned him out of the office of master-general of the ordnance. The cinque ports were wanted for Mr. Fox, and bitter is his disappointment. The falsehood of the pretended feeling for earl Chatham is made manifest, by thus depriving him of an income, which, as a cabinet minister, he has possessed so many years. His successor, earl Moira, is a man of considerable abilities; but he has stooped low, and has spared no means to acquire popularity, which he possesses in a surprising degree among the vulgar. His Lordship is, perhaps, too much of a knight-errant for practical politics; he is a very good noble-minded man, possessing a patriotic heart and a great genius. The affairs of his office he will administer purely, and, we make no doubt, in an able manner; but we doubt not that he will assume character, weight, and decision enough in the cabinet. In earl Moira's principles we can put much faith. He is a true patriot, and no servile flatterer of Buonaparte.
(To be Continued.)
PRIVY COUNCIL CHAMBER, MARCH 11, 1806.
Present—Earl Fitzwilliam, Lord Pres't. Duke of Montrose, Lord Auckland, Master of the Rolls, Sir William Wynne, Sir William Scott.
CASE OF THE WILLIAM, JOHN TREFFRY, MASTER.
This case, which was an appeal by an American claimant, from the sentence of the Court of Vice Admiralty of Halifax, came a second time before the board on further proof, on the 24th day of last month, when it was fully argued by the king's advocate for the captors, and by Dr. Arnold and Mr. Stephen for the claimant.
At the close of the argument it was intimated by the court, that they had no doubt what their decision ought to be, but that they wished to refer to the various cases that had been cited in the argument, and on that account only they directed the cause to stand over for judgment on a future day. Accordingly, this day the unanimous judgment of their Lordships was given, in a very able and luminous manner, by Sir William Grant, the master of the Rolls.

are pleased to favour us with marine intelligence, or papers, will deliver them to persons only, who are authorised to receive them.
DIED at Philadelphia, on the 8th instant, in the 72d year of his age ROBERT MORRIS, Esq. —The important services which distinguished the private and public conduct of this gentleman, throughout the American revolution, were such as obtained the confidence and gratitude of his country.
As an individual he gave his best exertions, and embarked his fortune and credit in the common cause, in the darkest periods of the war.
As superintendent of finance, he was eminently useful in organizing the revenue, and in furnishing such supplies to the army, as greatly contributed to a successful termination of the contest.— Pol. Reg.
BOSTON, May 12.
Among the passengers on board the New Galen, arrived here from London, is Rear-Admiral Sir ISAAC COFFIN, Bart. who is appointed to succeed the late Sir Andrew Mitchell , as Commander in Chief of the British naval forces on the Halifax station.—The Admiral is a native of this town, which he left long before the revolution; and commenced his services in the navy. Notwithstanding the late unmerited conduct of the captain of the Leander, off New-York, we are informed, the British government is very favourably disposed towards the United States, and have no doubt of its having been represented to the appointment of an American to the chief command on the British American station, would have a tendency to correct any disagreeable proceedings, and prove highly acceptable to the United States.
On Thursday evening the Gentlemen of Mrs. CARTER'S Boarding-house gave an elegant and sumptuous ball and supper to a number of ladies and gentlemen of this town. All the apartments of that superb and adjoining mansion were opened on that occasion; and decorated in the richest and most fanciful manner. The entries, the great spiral staircases, &c. were covered with garlands, wreaths of flowers and emblematic paintings, and illumined by several hundred variegated lamps, judiciously disposed. The ball, drawing and card rooms were also richly furnished; and all the arrangements were in the most costly and splendid style. The company consisted of about 400 guests, the female part of which afforded an excellent sample of the taste, elegance and beauty of the ladies of Boston. Of the gentlemen present were his excellency governor STRONG , Rear-Admiral COFFIN , the Spanish Consul, &c. About midnight the company adjourned from the ball and card rooms to partake of one of the best suppers the country could afford, and furnished in all the taste and elegance of the excellent hostess.
LATE AND IMPORTANT
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE,
Received at the Office of the Publick Ledger, by the Ship Merchant, Captain Johnston, in 37 days from Liverpool.
LONDON, April 7.
A flag of truce arrived off the harbour of Dover this morning at five o'clock, with dispatches from Boulogne, a man of war brig, bearing in sight, one of our boats took out the dispatches and the French officer, and is now carrying them on board of her, which will, in all probability, convey them to the Downs as before.
Yesterday eight vessels arrived in the river from Hamburg. They form a part of a fleet of 24 sail of British vessels which were lying at Hamburg. The greater part of which have since arrived, according to our letters of this day.
On Sunday the 30th ult. about four o'clock in the afternoon, a sudden and peremptory order was communicated from the British vice-consul, desiring them to quit that place in 12 hours, and the Elbe without delay. This intimation was given in consequence of an official notice by the Prussian consul, declaring that all the ports in the North of Europe, where his Prussian majesty possesses any control, were to be shut against British vessels and British manufactures.
Great apprehensions were entertained at Hamburg that all British property would be confiscated. It is stated that the quantity of British property now there is not so considerable as it was lately. The British subjects are apprehensive for their personal safety.
We have received letters from Gibraltar of the 1st ult. which state, that on the preceding day the Flying Fish schooner, had arrived there from off Cartagena, with intelligence that the Spanish fleet, consisting of eight sail of the line, had quitted that port and put to sea. Their destination is not known. Lord Collingwood would probably have traced them before this time.
On Saturday a report was prevalent in the city, that accounts have been received by government from Bengal, dated early in December, which state, Scindia had rejected the proposals made to him by Sir George Barlow, and was preparing for war, and that the government paper was at six per cent. discount.
By a letter from Kinsale, it appears, that admiral Linois in the Marengo man of war and a frigate was seen on the 7th ult. and kept in sight of till the 11th; there is no doubt that he will be fallen in with, as a man of war and a frigate are cruising for him.
Current Prices of Grain.
CORN EXCHANGE, April 7.
Wheat, 47s. 0d. a 71 0d. Fine do. 72s. 0d. a 76s. 0d. Superfine do. a 78 0d. Fine Flour, 60s. a 65s. Seconds, 55s. a 60s.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Lord Auckland presented on Monday ( April 5. ) his proposed bill of indemnity to all such persons as had advised and carried into execution proclamations for suspending the laws which regulated the intercourse between the West-India colonies and the United States of America. He stated with great perspicuity the nature of that trade from the year 1785 to the present period, and the necessity which produced the occasional relaxations of the navigation laws as applicable to the intercourse between America and the West-Indies. His lordship next explained the nature of the commercial relations between this country and America, and expressed his satisfaction in the growing prosperity of America, which he looked upon as the best security for the continuance of that peace and friendship which he hoped would ever subsist between her and Great Britain.
Lord Holland declared himself strongly in favour of a liberal intercourse between the West-India Islands and America, and declared his intention of proposing a prospective clause to be introduced into the bill, the tenor of which should be to enable the governors to open the ports to American vessels by proclamation.
Lord Grenville professed himself in favour of the principle of occasional relaxation from the strictness of the navigation act, and he hoped the noble lord would bring in a clause to the effect he proposed.—The bill was read a first time and ordered to be printed.
LIVERPOOL, April 9, 1806.
POLITICAL RETROSPECT.
RUPTURE WITH PRUSSIA.
The terror of the French arms, which has now omnipotent in the north of Germany, has at length torn asunder the few faint points of connexion which remained between this country and Prussia; the latter, sunk into the abject and wretched instrument of Buonaparte's desperate views against our commerce, may be considered in an actual state of hostility to our interest and our prosperity. This intelligence was brought by Mr. Jackson, who arrived on Thursday morning at the Foreign Office, from Berlin. It was soon after the subject of long and serious consideration at a full meeting of the cabinet ministers; and dispatches were sent off, in the course of a few hours, to all the out ports, for laying an embargo, not only on all Prussian vessels, but on those bound to Prussian ports, and belonging to the cities and towns of Germany contiguous to the dominions of his Prussian majesty, and within the grasp of his power. Hamburg is at this moment occupied by Prussian troops; and Cuxhaven is not only in their possession, but preparations are making to fortify it, and exclude all access to our trade. Whether the king of Prussian king, terrified lest he should no longer exist as an independent power, has absolutely formed a coalition with France to seize upon Swedish Pomerania, and to deprive Denmark of Holstein, should she refuse to shut up the Sound against us, we cannot undertake to state, but that all intercourse has been cut off with the Elbe, &c. we do not entertain a doubt. The communications brought by Mr. Jackson would, we understand, justify much stronger measures than those adopted by his majesty's government. A complete stoppage to the Prussian shipping, to the shipping of all the free towns of Germany, and to all vessels bound to those ports, has by this time taken place in every one of the ports of England, and will be carried into effect in every one of the ports of Scotland and Ireland before the end of the week. The Baltic and Tonningen convoys have of course been prevented from sailing.
The dispatches, ordering the detention of all Prussian vessels of every description in Dover, Ramsgate, the Downs, and in every other port down the coast, reached Dover on Friday afternoon, and were instantly forwarded to Vice-Admiral Holloway, commanding in the Downs, and to Vice-Admiral Lord Keith, at Ramsgate. Similar dispatches were received the same day by the Port Admiral at Sheerness, who instantly countermanded the sailing of the Northern Convoys, and embargoed all vessels bearing the Prussian flag.
The effect of this intelligence upon the commercial world was felt in almost every branch of the trading and monied interest. The most serious apprehensions are justly entertained for the safety of great quantities of valuable merchandise at Hamburg and other ports, while colonial produce, bought up here to a considerable amount, will, it is feared, remain upon the hands of our merchants. Omnium, from the opening of the market, experienced a gradual depression; and, after a small fluctuation in its favour, finally sunk two per cent. in value. Consols fell one per cent.
A Council was on Saturday held at the Queen's-House, which his majesty went purposely to town to attend. The whole of the Cabinet Ministers were present, except Earl Spencer, who is confined by the gout, when his majesty signed an order for laying an embargo on all Prussian vessels in the different ports of the kingdom. Orders were in consequence forwarded from the Admiralty to the several Admirals at the Ports. The orders previously dispatched to the same effect, as we have already stated, were adopted and sent off by the discretionary power entrusted to Ministers, and his majesty's signature was necessary to confer on the measure all formality of State proceeding. The following is the order which appeared in Saturday night's Gazette on this important subject:
At the Court at the Queen's Palace, the 5th of April, 1806, present, the King's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
Whereas his majesty has received advice that his majesty the King of Prussia has taken possession of various parts of the Electorate of Hanover, and other dominions belonging to his majesty, in a forcible and hostile manner; and has also notified that all British ships shall be excluded from the ports of the Prussian dominions, and from certain other ports in the North of Europe, and not suffered to enter or trade therewith, in violation of the just rights and interests of his majesty and his dominions, and contrary to the established law and practice of nations in amity with each other; his majesty with the advice of his Privy Council, is thereupon pleased to order, and it is hereby ordered, that no ships or vessels belonging to any of his majesty's subjects be permitted to enter and clear out for any of the ports of Prussia until further orders. And his majesty is further pleased to order, that a general embargo or stop be made of all the Prussian ships or vessels whatsoever, now within, or which hereafter shall come into any of the Ports, harbours, or roads within the United Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, together with all persons and effects on board the said ships and vessels; but that the utmost care be taken for the preservation of all and every part of the cargoes on board the said ships and vessels, so that no damage or embezzlement whatever be sustained: And the right honourable the Lords Commissioners of his majesty's Treasury, the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty, and the Lord Warden of Cinque Ports, are to give the necessary directions herein, as to them respectively appertain.
STEPH. COTTRELL.
DUTCH ARMY AT THE CAPE.
We have the satisfaction of announcing the surrender of the Dutch Army, which, after its defeat near the Cape of Good Hope, retreated into the interior. This important event, in consequence of which we are now in full possession of that valuable colony and all its dependencies, was on Saturday communicated in dispatches received from general Sir David Baird and Sir Home Popham. They were brought to the Admiralty about two o'clock by Lieut. Daly of the Diadem, and the following letter was soon after his arrival sent to the Lord Mayor, by whose order it was affixed to the Mansion-House, and posted at Lloyd's:—
"Downing-street, April 5, 1806."
"My Lord, I have the satisfaction to acquaint your lordship, that dispatches have this day been received from Lieut. General Baird, dated at the Cape of Good Hope on the 26th day of January, 1806, stating that General Jansens had, with the forces under his command, surrendered by capitulation on the 16th of that month."
"I have the honour to be, "Your Lordship's humble servant, "W. WINDHAM."
Our readers will find in our Parliamentary proceedings of the week, a correct statement of the means proposed by Mr. Windham, for the improvement of our military establishment. The measures for increasing our Regular Army are in substance nothing more than annexing to the service, advantages which have a natural and necessary influence on the human mind. The gallant youth of the country will no longer be discouraged from offering themselves to fight its battles, by being admitted to that glorious distinction, only on the condition of submitting to the toilsome pilgrimage for life. The option
of an honourable retreat, or more beneficial service at the close of every seventh year, and the certainty of a comfortable provision for them to the end of twenty-one years, must necessarily attract men to the army, and fill them with cheerfulness, ardour, and perseverance in it. No material change will be made in the volunteer system: The only change that will be made will have no other effect, than that of confining the volunteer service to those who are properly Volunteers, and excluding, by means of certain retrenchments, those who were Volunteers only for the consideration of pay and of allowances. By recurring to, and enforcing the best provisions of the Levy en Masse Act, the whole population of the country within the military age is to be successively trained to arms. Thus, in case of invasion, the king's prerogative will have an inexhaustible source from which to fill up the numbers that may fall in battle, and the enemy, even though successful at first, must in the end be overwhelmed by armies undiminished amidst the havoc and destruction of war.
In consequence of the dispute with Prussia, an embargo was on Sunday laid upon all the vessels belonging to that power at present in this port.
BASLE, March 6. —When the prohibition of the introduction of our manufactures into France was intimated to the inhabitants, it created great consternation and some disturbances among the lower orders. Provisions have consequently increased in price, and all trade is at a stand. Meanwhile it is said that a great alteration is proposed in the government of Switzerland, and the predilection which the Swiss have for prince Murat, makes it probable that the deputation lately sent to Paris, was for the purpose of beseeching his Highness or some other French prince to take the government upon him.
March 13. —The Grand-Imman has received the following letter from the Emperor of the French and King of Italy:
" Very dear and great Friend, "We have been much affected upon the receipt of the two letters, which you have written on the 28th of January, 1806, to congratulate us upon the marriage of Prince Eugene Napoleon, our adopted son, with the Princess Augusta, of Bavaria, and the peace signed at Presburgh. You may judge of the interest which we take in the Helvetic confederation, by the care we have manifested in causing the independence of the nineteen cantons to be acknowledged according to the act of mediation. We are charmed with the opportunity of giving you a new pledge of our Imperial good will; and we renew, with pleasure, the assurance that we shall always be ready to seize every occasion of giving you the testimonies of our sincere attachment and affection. We pray God that he will have you in his holy keeping."
"Your good Friend "NAPOLEON."
Paris, Feb. 23.
MUNICH, March 17. —The Emperor Napoleon has sent the following letter to our sovereign, dated Jan. 6. "Sir, my brother—At the moment your troops are returning home to your kingdom, and cease to be under my command, I feel myself to be compelled to express the satisfaction which their service to you and myself has afforded me on various occasions previous to the passage of the Inn, and afterwards in the affairs of Lozer and Iglau in which their valour was conspicuous; and as I wish to give a proof of this satisfaction, I request you will permit me to assign a pension to Gen. Deroy, and to appoint Gen. Von Wrede a grand officer in my legion of honour. To the brave men who have distinguished themselves the most, I assign 40 vacancies in my legion of honour, viz. twenty to officers, and twenty to privates, together with the enjoyment of the pension allowed according to the laws. These rewards are by no means proportioned to their services; but they may be accepted as a proof of my regard and esteem for your army, whose soldiers were animated by the justice of our cause, and the persuasion that they had to defend their sovereign and their country: they were in every respect worthy to form a part of the grand army."
"Your Majesty's good Brother, NAPOLEON."
HAMBURGH, March 26. —General Rapp, who came from Paris to Hameln, with orders for the evacuation of that town and fort St. George, and its surrender to the Prussians, left this city on his return to Paris on the 26th inst. His visit here has been a very agreeable one. He demanded a loan of five millions of livres, promising at the same time that France would take care to protect the liberties of Hamburg, and defend them and her citizens from any foreign aggression. This new exaction has met with a refusal on the part of the senate; and one of its members, Citizen Schults has set out for Paris to make the necessary representations.
WESEL, March 26. —The following Proclamation was published yesterday.
"Napoleon, by the Grace of God and the Constitution, Emperor of the French, King of Italy, &c."
"Their Majesties the Kings of Prussia and Bavaria having ceded to us the Duchy of Cleves and Berg, with their full sovereignty, rights, titles and prerogatives, and agreed to the transfer of each of those Duchies, in their present state, in favour of a French Prince, the object of our election, we transfer the Duchies, with their rights, titles, and prerogatives, in the condition we received them, to Prince Joachim, our well beloved brother, to be by him possessed in their full extent, as Duke of Cleves and Berg, and to descend to his legitimate heirs male for ever, in the order of seniority, to the perpetual exclusion of the females and their descendants."
"But provided that the male heirs, which God avert, should become extinct, the said Duchies of Cleves and Berg, with all their rights, titles, and prerogatives, shall revert to our male descendants natural and legitimate, or in failure thereof, to those of our brother Joseph, or otherwise, to those of our brother Prince Louis, as the Duchies of Cleves and Berg can in no case whatever be united to our Imperial Crown."
"As the excellent qualifications of this Prince have been the principal motives of our choice, from a persuasion of the benefits which will result from them to the inhabitants of Berg and Cleves, so we cherish the hope that the fidelity of the inhabitants will continue to secure the esteem they enjoyed under their former masters, and that they will merit the attention of their new sovereign and our Imperial protection."
"Given at our Palace of the Thuilleries, March 15, (Signed) "NAPOLEON."
PROCLAMATION.
We, Joachim, prince and grand admiral of France duke of Cleves and Berg, decree and ordain,
ART. 1. The imperial act, by which his majesty the emperor and king has ceded and transmitted to us the sovereignty of the Duchies of Cleves and Berg, shall be proclaimed and published throughout the whole extent of both Duchies on the 23d inst.
2. Nothing is to be charged in the civil or judicial administrations of these Duchies. All the magistrates the civil officers, including those of justice and the police in actual employment, shall continue in the exercise of their functions.
3. Dating from the declaration of the imperial act and the present publication, justice shall be administered in our name, and all public acts under our authority, in the same manner as when under the government of our predecessors.
4. Baron Hompesch is charged, as chief of the administration of Cleves, &c. to put the dispositions above-mentioned in execution.
Given at our head-quarter at Cologne, March 21, 1806.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Ship Shepherdess, Wills, 40 days from London, and 22 from the Cape de Verds, Ballast, James Taylor, jun.—Left at London Ship Eliza Doggett ; Julia, Vickery; Thomas, Boush, of this port; Hercules, Dodsworth, of Petersburg.—The ships Cabinet , Woodend, and Rebecca, Nimmo, both of this port, had just arrived from the Mediterranean.— Spike April 23, in 1 d. 18, 56, long. 22, 48, sp. Africa, Bruce, of Charleston, 20 days from London, bound to the coast of Africa. May 5, lat. 20, 42, long. 51, ship Commerce , Stevenson, of and from Portland, bound to Surinam, 20 days out.
Ship Dean , Vibert, 45 days from Gibraltar, Ballast, to the Master.
Sch'r Feronia , Block, 32 hours from New-York.
Ship Merchant , Johnson, 37 days from Liverpool, went up James River on Sunday, bound to City Point.
The brig Wheeler , Besson, of this port, has arrived at Liverpool.
The ship Suffolk , Bryant, of Richmond, sailed from the Downs for the Mediterranean the 9th of April.
The brig Hiram , Cullum, from this port arrived at Falmouth, (Jam.) the 17th of April.
The sch'r Ann Ballard , of this port was at Samana the 26th of last month, where it was expected she would be condemned, as she was coppered, and would make a fine privateer.
The Baltimore Packet Norfolk, Capt.
Mitchell, will sail on Thursday. May 19.
The Pew-Holders of Christ Church
are requested to attend a Meeting, to be held on Friday next at the Church, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon. May 19.
Ship Woodrop Sims for Sale.
To be be Sold at Publick Auction TO-MORROW, the 21st of May, at the Exchange Coffee-Room (if not disposed of before by private sale) the fine copper bottomed
Ship WOODROP SIMS
Barthen 305 tons, built at Philadelphia of live oak and cedar, now in complete order for the reception of a cargo, and well found in every material. For further particulars apply on board, or to
George M'Intosh.
P. S. As it is expected a purchaser will previously examine the Ship, any further description is considered unnecessary an inventory will be seen on board. May 20.
For Sale or Charter
The American registered Brig
FLORA,
William Benthall, Master, burthen about 1700 barrels Flour, will be ready to commence loading in a few days. Apply to the master on board, or to
Alexander Leckie.
Who offers for Sale the CARGO of the said Brig, consisting of Lisbon Salt, Lemons in boxes, and a few frails of Figs; which will be sold low for Cash, if taken from on board. Portsmouth, May 19. tf 748
FOR LIVERPOOL,
To sail with all convenient speed, the new and well found
Ship INTREPID,
Capt. Smith, has only made one voyage; half of her cargo is already engaged. For freight of the balance apply to
George M'Intosh.
May 19. tf 746
For Sale or Charter,
The Brig TRITON,
ready for the reception of a cargo.
On hand for Sale,
270 Hogsheads Antigua RUM,
120 do. } SUGAR,
120 Barrels }
George Murray, & Co.
May 19. tf 751
MR. RIFFAUD,
Respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Norfolk and Portsmouth, that THIS EVENING, May 20, there will be an
Instrumental Concert at his Gardens,
In which Mr. Vogel will perform the celebrated Overture of Lodoviska, with all its accompaniments; a great variety of Marches, Reels, Scots, and others; he will be accompanied by a Clarinet, a Bass, and two Violins.
An elegant FIRE-WORK,
of the composition of Mons. Rosainville, will be exhibited, A running Vertical, representing different colours of Fire and White Ground—A running Horizontal Grandole, forming various basons, terminated by a Jet d'Eau—A running Vertical, bearing in its centre Three Rings of various colours, Sky Blue, White, and Green.
Mr. Riffaud hopes to meet with a liberal encouragement, he will spare no pains nor exertions to deserve the same. He shall take particular care to be provided with the best of Liquors and Ice-Cream.
The price of admittance will be 25 cents for each person, to be paid at the door, where a ticket will be delivered, for which refreshment to the value of the price of admittance will be served at their option.
The performance will begin at half past 7 o'clock in the evening.
No admittance for coloured people or women of the town. May 19. 1* 749
IRISH LINENS, &c.
The Subscriber has received from Dublin, by the Ship Intrepid , a choice assortment of Irish Linens, Sheetings, Diapers, &c. which he offers for Sale on moderate terms.
Richard Taylor.
May 10. 2m 747
FOR RENT,
(And immediate possession given) The HOUSE lately occupied by Messrs. Shanks & Binford, in Brewer-Street. Apply to
Robert Gibson.
May 19. tf 750
GEORGE M'INTOSH,
Has just received by the Ship Intrepid , Capt. Thomas Smith, from Liverpool,
The balance of his SPRING GOODS,
Amongst which is a general and extensive assortment of
HARDWARE & CUTLERY,
which he will dispose of on reasonable terms.—Also for Sale on board of the said Ship,
1400 Bags of Stove SALT,
100 Tons of Ground do.
20 Casks of PORTER,
A few Crates of Liverpool WARE, and Boxes of PIPES, which will be disposed of low, if taken from along side. May 19. tf 745
For Sale or Rent,
The Ware-Houses and Wharf lately in the occupancy of DONALDSON THORBURN, & Co.
For terms apply to
J. & W. Southgate.
May 16, 1awtf 741.

WANTED, 25 Shares of Virginia Bank STOCK. Apply to the Editor of this Paper. April 4. tf 643  For SALE by the Subscribers, a general assortment of Ship Chandlery, Cordage, and Cables, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 inches, English PAINTS and OIL, Sheathing PAPER, Bar IRON, TOBACCO, Richmond Inspection; FLOUR, PORK, Prime and Cargo, New-York Inspection, 200 Gin CASES; 20 Boxes SEGARS. They have also on hand, an extensive and good assortment of GROCERIES. Noble, Arbuthnot, & Co. March 31. tf 623  FOR RENT, The three large and commodious Ware Houses on the lower end of Gibson's Wharf—Possession may be had immediately, by applying to John Southgate, or William Dickson. Feb. 26. tf 534  Now landing from on board the Sch'r Eliza Ann, captain Herbert, from Guadalupe, 64 hogsheads Prime Sugar, 10 Tierces 65 Barrels } Best Green COFFEE. 43 Bags } For Sale by William Pennock. April 30. tf 709  For Sale by the Subscriber, 10 Casks Young Hyson TEA, 3 do. Imperial do. 12 do. Gunpowder do. Moses Myers. April 28. tf 700  135,000 wt. Prime Green COFFEE, Landing this day on our wharf, for sale on liberal terms. C. & F. Whittle. April 16. 668  Landing from on board the ship Sheffield, and for Sale by the Subscriber, on their Wharf, 282 Hogsheads CLARET, 50 Casks do. 6 do. BURGUNDY, 36 do. HERMITAGE, 25 do. SALLAD OIL, 25 do. PRESERVED FRUITS, 25 do. OLIVES and ANCHOVIES—All of very superior quality, and entitled to drawback. C. & F. Whittle. March 24. tf 601  I wish to Purchase, Six or Eight Negro BOYS, from 15 to 18 years of age. Thomas Warren. April 15. tf 661  We have received by the brig Fame, Capt. Cox, from Jamaica, 75 Puncheons high proof RUM, 4 Hogsheads MOLASSES—For Sale by Redmond & Frith. Feb. 24. tf 523  All persons having claims against the Estate of ROBERT WARREN, deceased, either by bond or open account are desired to bring them forward for settlement, and those indebted to make immediate payment to Warren Ashley, Administrator. December 9. tf 339  I will give the following prices for 200 Cords of Oak BARK, to be delivered at Saiter's, free of damage. Spanish Oak, - - 10 dollars per Cord. Willow do. - - 9 do. do. Red do. - - 8 do. do. Young White do. - - 7 do. do. Theo. Armistead. April 23. 3m 687  TO LEASE, A convenient Building LOT, advantageously situated on Main-Street, not far from the Old Market place. Also, Two WARE-HOUSES, on Maxwell's wharf, upon moderate terms. Helen Read. April 23. tf 689  FRESH TEAS, Just received from Philadelphia, in whole, half, and quarter chest,ts. Imperial, } Hyson, } TEAS. Young Hyson } all of this Spring importation, and we warrant them of the very first quality imported, by wholesale or retail. Fisk & Catlett. Who have this day landing, 75 tierces choice NEW RICE, in whole and half tierces. April 21. tf 683  WANTED TO PURCHASE, A NEGRO WOMAN, who is a good House Servant and Sempstress; one without children will be preferred. For one well recommended, a liberal price will be given. Apply to the Editor. Feb. 3. tf 479  MRS. MACDOUGAL, INFORMS her friends and the public, that she has taken that hand some house belonging to Mr. Roberts, in the centre of Market Square, where she will receive Boarders on moderate terms—the strictest attention will always be paid to the diet, rooms, and lodging, and every endeavour used to render a transient or permanent abode at her house satisfac- tory. September 25. tf 169  FOR RENT, (And possession to be had immediately) A comfortable small TENEMENT, on Smith's Point, neatly fitted up; having two rooms be- low with two closets in each, and three rooms above, a new double storied Brick Kitchen, and other requisite out build- ings. A spacious Garden and large front Yard are attached to this Tenement. P. Barraud. Jan. 29. tf 466  FOR SALE, A HOUSE and LOT, (or a part thereof) situated on the west side of Great Water- Street, at the head of Woodside's wharf, running to Holt's Lane; the House is 60 feet in front and 30 in width; the Lot 60 feet in length and forty feet deep, renting at 936 dol- lars per year—on a lease for 99 years renewable for ever, sub- ject to an annual ground rent of 120 dollars.—Enquire of the Editor of this paper. April 21. tf 685  NOW LANDING, Hyson } Hyson Skin } TEAS. Young Hyson } A few Hogsheads Grenada RUM. For Sale at Marsden's wharf, by James M'Clenachan. May 12. tf 732
HUNTER & GATEWOOD, Have received per Ship Jane, Captain Cullen, from Liverpool, the balance of their supply of FALL AND WINTER GOODS, Which in addition to their former importation from London, makes their assortment general and complete—it consists of almost every article of useful and fashionable goods too tedious to enumerate, which they offer for sale, at their Store No. 42, Main Street, by Wholesale and Retail, on the lowest terms for cash, or short payments. November 3. tf 262  LANDING From on board the Schooner Isabella, James Pitts, master, from Lisbon, 3000 Bushels loose SALT, 16 Pipes London Particular Lisbon WINE, 2 Hogsheads do. do. do. 30 Boxes Sweet ORANGES; 60 do. LEMONS, 408 Fruits White FIGS, 200 do. Comadre do. superior quality, 300 lbs. Superior CHOCOLATE, 160 do. Kernels of ALMONDS, 7 Bushels soft shelled do. 6 Cases assorted LIQUORS, 4 do. do. do. 2 do. MARASQUINO—All fresh and in good order for Sale on moderate terms, by Oliveira, Fernandes, & Co. May 9. tf 723  D. R. WADDEY, & Co. Have just received per the Ship Dumfries, from London, an additional assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY, Among which are a large quantity of BUNTING, broad and narrow, of every colour, which they offer for Sale. ALSO ON HAND, Teneriffe WINE, Holland & Country GIN, 4th Proof Cognac BRANDY, of superior quality, Hibbert's Brown STOUT, in casks of 6 1-2 dozen, Double Gloucester CHEESE, Old L. P. Madeira WINE, fit for immediate use, Muscovado SUGAR, in bds. and bbls.—LOAF do. in do. N. E. RUM and WHISKEY. May 5. tf 718  SPRING GOODS. COCKE, MACK, and SANFORD, No. 40, Main-Street, have received per the Ships Two Brothers from Liverpool, and Dumfries from London, an extensive assortment of SPRING GOODS, consisting of Irish Linens assorted, } merces, 5-4 and 6-4 Sheeting, } Cotton Cassimeres and Gran- French Cambricks and Long } drells, Lawns, } Umbrellas and Parasols, Fine Pocket Handkerchiefs, } Kid Shoes, 7-8 and 8-4 quarter Diapers, } Hats assorted, in cases, Table Cloths, } Seine Twine, Chambray Muslin, } Ozanburghs and Hempen Cambrick do. } Rolls, Cambrick Dimities, } Cotton and Silk Hosiery, Furniture do. } Checks and Stripes, Fashionable Shawls, } Callicoes and Ginghams, Lace Veils, } Fashionable Waistcoating, Black net Shawls, } Whit and coloured Janes, Superfine Cloths and Cassi- } Powder, Shot, &c. &c. ON HAND, Yellow NANKEENS, first chop, Beeboom GURRAHS—and 8000 wt. BACON, April 23. 2m 695  SPRING GOODS. RICHARD TAYLOR, Has received by the Ship Dumfries, from London, a hand- some assortment of Spring and Summer GOODS, which he offers for Sale by wholesale and retail, for Cash or approved paper. April 25. 2m 696  A remarkable COW Will be exhibited a few days in Commerce-Street, next door to Little Water-Street. This ANIMAL was taken in the northern part of the state of New Hampshire, and is supposed to be part Moose. It has six legs, four of which resemble those of ordinary Cattle, and used for walking; the other two rise out of the fore shoulders in an erect posture, and can be folded upon the back, where there is a hollow which will hold two quarts of water. One of these legs is large and perfect, having the hoof complete; the other is smaller, having only half the hoof. Also to be seen, HER CALF, Which is equally remarkable for the same Phenomena— The Inhabitants of Norfolk are respectfully requested not to neglect the present opportunity of viewing these extraor- dinary phenomena of nature. ** Admittance 25 Cents—Children half price. May 2. 6* 710  Landing on Gibson's Wharf, from on board the Schooner Catharine Shepherd, Capt. Webb, from Surinam, a choice CARGO of MOLASSES in hogsheads and tierces, And from on board the sch'r Union, Capt. Buck, from Antigua, Antigua RUM of superior quality. In Store, Tobago RUM, Madeira and Teneriffe WINE, 7 years old; Medoc CLARET in cases of 1 dozen each; A few Kegs Hog's LARD, &c. Harrison Allmand. The Sch'r Catharine Shepherd is offered for Sale. April 28. tf 704  Landing from on board the Ship Susan and Sarah, from Bordeaux, 30 Pipes choice 4th pf. Cognac BRANDY, 100 Cases Medoc WINE, of Porter Canet, of the vintage of 1800, 50 Cases FRUIT in Brandy, 50 do. CAPERS, OLIVES, and ANCHOVIES. On hand of former importations, 500 Hogsheads CLARET; 200 Cases do. Entitled to drawback, and for Sale by Moses Myers. March 26. tf 612  ROBERT GIBSON, Has removed to the Fire-Proof Warehouse in Wide Water-Street, nearly opposite Commerce Street. Feb. 28. tf 536  TO RENT, (And possession given immediately,) That commodious STORE on Main- Street, No. 22, near the old market-place, together with a large Cellar and other apartments, well calculated either for Groceries or Dry Goods. Also, Two large DWELLING-HOUSES, with Stores in front, on Bank-Street.—Apply to Robert Farmar. Who has for Sale, on low terms, A few CANAL SHARES, The property of a gentleman to the Northward. April 4. tf 640  Will be landed Tomorrow on Commerce-Street Wharf, 118 Bags Caracas COCOA, 18 Barrels } Superior quality SUGAR, 1 Tierce } 9 Bales COTTON.—For Sale by Jas. & Thos. Tucker. April 16. tf 669
SPRING GOODS, Received by the Dumfries from London, for Sale by J. & W. Southgate. April 25. 3w 694  FOR SALE, 3000 Pieces Yellow NANKEEN, 11 Boxes Imperial TEA, 6 Chests Hyson do. The above of the best quality and entitled to drawback. Apply to Robert Maitland & Co. WHO HAVE ON HAND, Hibbert's best bottled Porter and Brown Stout. Also, Old L. P. Madeira Wine, fit for immediate use. March 5. tf 560  CASH Given for Twenty Shares of VIRGINIA BANK STOCK. Apply to the Editor of this Paper. March 14. tf 579  MARTIN FISK has taken Mr. CHARLES J. CATLETT into partnership, the business in future will be transacted under the firm of Fisk & Catlett. Who have for Sale, 4000 pieces Yellow NANKEENS first chop, Fresh Imperial Hyson and Young Hyson TEAS, 150 Crates Crockery WARE, well assorted, 8 Tons Patent SHOT, assorted, 75 Kegs English GUNPOWDER, 100 Boxes London Crown GLASS, 100 Kegs WHITE LEAD, ground in oil, 1500 lbs. Seine TWINE, 150 Casks NAILS, assorted, cut, and wrought, 50 Keats OZANBURGS, 200 Boxes Mould CANDLES, 25 do. Spermaceti do. 50 do. Fresh CHOCOLATE, 200 lbs. Spanish Indigo, 50 Boxes fresh MUSTARD, (Dixon's Manufactory) 100 Rheams Writing PAPER, 200 do. Wrapping do. Also—This Day Landing, 50 Barrels BEEF, Boston Inspection, 50 do. MACKAREL, 12 Hogsheads choice retailing MOLASSES. Feb. 24. tf 523  FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, AT HIS LUMBER YARD ON CALVERT'S WHARF, 700,000 SALE SHINGLES. 50,000 BUILDING do. 50,000 STAVES—White and Red Oak. 10,000 CYPRESS PALES. 5,000 CEDAR and CHINQUEPIN POSTS. Also—shall keep a supply of PLANK AND SCANTLING. Thomas H. Parker. August 19. tf 77  NEW CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY, ON TOWN POINT, A small distance below County Wharf, Wide Water Street. THE Subscriber has, at a considerable expense, fitted up, in addition to his other business, a complete set of machinery, adequate to finish 500 to 600 lbs. of Nails daily. He is also provided with a good stock of Iron; and with a sufficient number of skilful workmen. He has on hand a constant supply of Nails, Flooring Brads, and Sprigs, which he offers for Sale at the reduced prices as follows, by the keg, viz. 10d, 12d, 20d, Nails, 8d per lb. 8d, do. 9d per lb. Sheathing do. 7 1-2d per lb. 6d, do. 10d per lb. 4d, do. 5s per M. 3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. 8d, 10d, 12d, and 20d, Brads, 6d per lb. 6d, do. 4s 6d per M. 4d, do. 3s do. 3d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. 2d, do. 2s 7 1-2d do. ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. LEVIN DORSEY. March 18. 3m 330  FOR Sale or Rent, A PLANTATION, situated on Hamp- ton Creek, consisting of about 500 acres; being the property on which Mr. W. Brough has long resided. It possesses all the necessary buildings for the convenience of a family, or agricultural purposes. There are some valuable orchards, one particularly of apple, is considered more productive than any other in that part of the country. There is also a Wind- Mill most eligibly situated.—For particulars, application may be made to Mr. G. Hope, Hampton, Mr. John Dunn, Norfolk, or the Subscriber in Richmond, who will give im- mediate possession. James D. M'Caw. Feb. 21. tf 519  BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE, Norfolk, Virginia, August 31, 1805. HIS Britannic Majesty's Consul to the State of Virginia, in consequence of instructions by him received from his government, hereby gives notice, to the merchants con- cerned in the trade to His Majesty's Dominions, that according to the terms of the Act of the 37th of the King C. 97, no British built vessel captured by His Majesty's enemies, afterwards purchased by citizens of the United States, and sailing under a Sea Letter can be admitted to entry under the said Act, as an American vessel. 114 John Hamilton. COW-POX. The subscriber informs the public, that some VACCINE MATTER which he has received from Philadel- phia, has succeeded; and that those persons who have been prevented taking the disease from the loss of the infection here, can now be inoculated. George Balfour. Feb. 12. tf 505  For Sale by the Subscriber, at his Bake- House, on Commerce-Street, 500 Barrels Navy BREAD, 200 do. Superior Pilot do. 100 do. Ship do. All of which will be sold on reasonable terms, or exchanged for West-India produce. Stephen Harris. PILOT BREAD in half barrels of a superior quality, for Sale as above. March 26. tf 614  Lost or Mis-sent, Fifty Reams of Demy Printing PAPER, shipped at New-York about the 23th of December last, on board the Amanda, Capt. William Smith, directed to the care of Messrs. Gracie, Anderson, & Co. Petersburg. Inform- ation of the above will be thankfully received by William Boylan. Halifax, April 30. tf 724  FOR SALE, A likely Negro MAN, about 20 years of age, not sold for any fault, but for want of employment; price 320 dollars. Apply to the Editor of this paper. May 7. 1aw3w 719  BLANK NOTES AND CHECKS for both Banks, for Sale at this Office,
30 Pipes Country GIN, 10 do. real Cognac BRANDY, 20 Puncheons W. I. RUM, 15 Quarter Casks Old Sherry WINE, 30 Barrels WHISKEY, 3 Hogsheads Apple BRANDY, 30 Bags PEPPER, 30 Boxes Mould CANDLES, 30 do. Dipped do. 2 Boxes Fine CASSAS, 5 do. Beeboom GURRAHS—For Sale at reduced prices by S. Marks, jun. & Co. April 2. tf 631  For Rent, The Store, Compting Room & Cellar, No. 41, Main-Street, lately occupied by Mr. Wm. McCut- chen. Apply to Thomas Willock. March 17. tf  One Hundred Dollars Reward. Will be given, to white or black, that will deliver to me dead or alive, a negro named DAVEY, who runs me on the 5th instant. He is about 5 feet 9 in- ches high, very black, well made, and very active, with a full face, and speaks well when spoken to. He has been a ser- vant to a family as a carriage driver, and has been lately put to the shipcarpenter's and caulker's trade, and works well at the latter. As he is a lazy fellow, he no doubt, will at- tempt to live with some person as a servant. He made an at- tempt to run away from his former master, and made for the northward, but was apprehended in Virginia, where he is well acquainted, particularly in the towns, and I have no doubt but his intention is again to get off to the northward, either by land or water. I recollect a very notable white speck on his two upper middle fore teeth, which will be dis- covered on examination. He may have other marks for what I know, not having owned him more than four years. I can- not describe any particular ones about him, but make no doubt he has scars, as he has been whipped before I purchas- ed him. He is very fond of spirits, and will get drunk when he has an opportunity; plays cards, and is much given to roguery. He wore off with him blue negro coat on cloth- ing; and had second ha 'cloathing'; but no doubt he will change both his clothing and his name, as he is an artful fellow; and if taken, will fight, and when taken, if not well secured, will make his escape. I do hereby forward all mas- ters of vessels and others from harbouring or carrying him off at their peril. The above reward, and all traveling expen- ces, will be paid, if the distance exceeds 75 miles. John Drew, Jr. Port Tombstone, near Edenton. March 17. tf 557  VILLAINY EXPOSED. On the 11th of August, 1805, JOHN ROBERTS, master of the Schooner Aurora, of Baltimore, sailed from Nor- folk with 500 bds. of Coal, taken at City Point from on board the ship Belleisle, John Hall, master, from Glasgow. The said Coal was shipped for Mr. Mery, the British min- ister at Washington; but instead of proceeding to that place, the said Roberts went round to Philadelphia, and there dis- posed of the Coal on his own account; after which he sold the vessel, and has not been heard of since. It was stated by him at Philadelphia, that the Coal was Virginia produce, and he entered a protest on oath before Nicholas Ditchell, Esq., Notary Public in Philadelphia, asserting that he sailed from Norfolk bound to Baltimore, with the Coal on board as his last; and having in a heavy gale of wind sprung his fore- mast, was drove out to sea, and compelled by stress of wea- ther to put into that port. Being bound to an adjoining state, and the cargo under the value specified in the 14th section of the Coasting Act, he was authorized to proceed without a clearance; but on his arrival at Philadelphia, being other- wise than in the same or an adjoining state, in order to his being permitted to an entry, he made the said protest, and reported his vessel agreeably to the 2d section of the said act, declaring at the same time that the cargo was ship- ped by and consigned to himself. Should the said John Roberts have returned to Baltimore, or his residence elsewhere be ascertained, it will be subserv- ing the cause of justice to make it known to the Collector of that port, or those of Philadelphia, Norfolk or Petersburg. February 28. tf 535  BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE, Norfolk, Virg. Jan. 18, 1806. HIS Britannic Majesty's Consul to the State of Virginia, in consequence of instructions by him received from his government, takes this method of communicating to such officers on the British half-pay establishment, as are re- sident within his district, the following Notice from the Ar- my Pay Office, in London, in respect to the form of the Cer- tificate required from British half-pay Officers, by whom it is highly essential that the regulations therein specified should be strictly complied with. John Hamilton, Consul.  PAY-OFFICE, Horse-Guards, August 28, 1805. NOTICE is hereby given by direction of the right honour- able the Pay Master General of his majesty's forces, that the affidavits of Officers on half pay and military allow- ances, who reside in the United States of America, commencing subsequently to the twenty-fourth day of December 1805, will not be passed at this office, unless the officer's place of residence, and also the county, district, or place for which the magistrate acts, before whom the said affidavit is made, the competency of whom must be certified by the British Consul, if any shall be resident in the province or state, or by the governor, chief justice, or some other person in au- thority in the government thereof, are therein specified, agreeable to the undermentioned form. D'ud Thomas, Accountant.  A. B. maketh oath, that he had not between the twen- ty-fourth day of December 1805, and the twenty-ninth day of any other place, or any payment of profit, civil or military, under his majesty besides his allowance of half pay, (or his military allowance, as the case may be) as a reduced — in the Officer to sign his name here, together with his place of residence.  Sworn before me at _____ this _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five. The Magistrate to sign his name here, and the coun- ty or place for which he acts.  N. B. Chaplains must insert in their affidavits the following words between the words "Majesty," and "besides," viz. "or any Ecclesiastical Benefice in Great Britain or Ire- land." No alterations or interlineations of any sort will be allowed to be made in the above mentioned affidavit. January 20. tf 446  100 Tons Liverpool coarse SALT, on board the brig Diligent, will be sold low if taken from along side.—Also, 450 Liverpool filled sacks of fine SALT—by Alexander Machine. April 28. tf 702  For Sale at this Office, A SHORT NARRATIVE, Of the Military and other events of the Life of JACOB PAYNE; Who has been blind for more than twenty years past—Task- en verbatim from his own mouth, and sent to Press without transcribing—To which is subjoined, AN ANTIDOTE, Against the Bite of Poisonous Reptiles, &c.  NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, OPPOSITE THE EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE Price Five Dollars and Fifty Cents yearly, in advance.