Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1808-11-23 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE And PUBLICK LEDGER.  SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PRÆMIA LAUD.
[VOL. V.]
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1808.
NO. 56.]
For CHARLESTON, The Regular PACKET PLOUGHBOY, Capt. Hall, momentarily expected from Baltimore. For freight or passage apply to D. R. Waddey, Esq. co.
Nov 16. BRIG MOSES MYERS. NOTICE—All those who had an interest in the American Brig Moses Myers, Barcal, Master, or her cargo, captured by the French in the year 1800, on a voyage from Madeira to Norfolk, and re-captured by the British privateer Rover, and carried into Halifax, Nova Scotia, by applying to the subscriber, will receive their proportion of the funds collected from the captors, by the agents of the claimants, according to a decree of the high court of appeals in Great-Britain. Robert Maitland. November 4.
FOR CHARTER, The new Ship GEORGIANA, Edward Chamberlain, Master—Burthen 380 bds. is ready for a cargo. Apply to MOSES MYERS. Oct. 28.
The Ship SHEFFIELD, NOW LOADING For LIVERPOOL, will sail as soon as permission can be obtained. She has elegant accommodations for a few passengers, if applied for in time; otherwise small freight will be taken. Apply to Josiah Cowper. Oct. 26.
For Charter, to the West Indies, The fast sailing brig STRANGER, John Perkins, master, burthen about 1300 barrels, is ready to receive a cargo. Moses Myers. October 19.
For LIVERPOOL, The fast-sailing coppered Ship CALEDONIAN, John Dickson, master, burthen about 500 bds. of tobacco—will receive on freight a cargo immediately, and sail on the embargo being off. Also for Freight or Sale, The fast-sailing coppered Ship ARTIC, Samuel Davis, master, Philadelphia built, burthen 200 tons, seven years old, now ready to receive a cargo. October 7.
Also for Freight or Sale, The Brig EXPERIMENT, Henry Dickson, master, burthen 140 tons, and will carry 1100 barrels flour. For terms apply to William Dickson. October 7.
For Charter, The Ship JANE, Burthen 420 tons. THE Ship INDUSTRY, Burthen 280 tons. AND THE Ship COURTNEY, Burthen 200 tons. Those Ships will be ready to receive cargoes in 15 days, and may commence loading for any port where an American vessel can with safety go to—the freight to be settled when a clearance can be obtained. Apply to William Pennock. October 5.
FOR SALE, A fine New SCHOONER of 125 tons burthen, will carry about 1000 barrels, now ready to launch, her cabin and joiner's work complete, built in Mathews. Also, A very handsome Pilot-Boat built SCHOONER, of 120 tons burthen, measures 83 feet on deck, complete, and can be launched in a few days. Also, One ditto of similar dimensions, can be launched in a month, the rigging of the two last is now fitting. Also, A new BRIG of 180 tons, completely fitted, now lying at Loyall's wharf. Also, A VESSEL of 185 tons, on the stocks, can be launched in a month. This vessel is of superior model and workmanship, and all her materials completely seasoned. For terms apply to Wilson & Cunningham. September 28.
COW POCK. DOCTOR BALFOUR informs those persons who have not had the Small Pox, and who are anxious to avoid being susceptible of it (as it is said to exist in the county of Princess Ann about Nott's Island, and there has been a case in Richmond,) that he now has several arms with a genuine vaccine pock, fit to inoculate from. He will take a young man as a Student of physic. Nov. 16.
NOTICE. All persons indebted to the estate of David Patterson, deceased, are desired to make immediate payment; and those having claims to render them properly attested, to D. R. WADDEY, Adm'r. Nov. 16.
FOR SALE, 30,000 acres valuable LAND, situated upon the river Washita, in one of the most fertile parts of Louisiana.—Particulars with regard to local advantages, situation, title, and the most favourable terms to purchasers, will be made known by application to THOMAS TUNNO, in Charleston, or MORRIS MILLER, in Savannah. Feb. 8.
CAUTION. THE PUBLICK are cautioned against crediting any of the crew of the ship John, of Liverpool, as I will not be responsible for any debts they may contract. John Gilmer, Master of the ship John. Nov. 18.
FOR RENT, And possession given the 25th December, The HOUSE on Catharine Street, now in the occupancy of Mr. James Herron.—Apply to John Taylor. Nov. 18.
TO BE RENTED, And possession given the 1st of January, The HOUSE and LOT on Catharine Street, occupied by Mr. Francis S. Taylor, adjoining Mr. John Taylor's. ALSO, The Fire Proof WAREHOUSE on Maxwell's wharf, now in the occupancy of Mr. John Macgowan, to which is attached a valuable privilege with respect to wharfage. Apply to John Nivison. Nov. 18.
Ten Dollars Reward WILL be given to any person who will apprehend and commit to Norfolk Borough Jail, or deliver to the Subscriber negro man GEORGE, a blacksmith by trade, commonly called George Smallwood, well known in and about Norfolk, belonging to the estate of D. Patterson, dec'd about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, lame of one leg, which is very much swelled—he has a wife somewhere near Mr. K. Fairclough's near Tamer's creek, where I suspect he is lurking. I do hereby forewarn all persons from harboring or employing said negro at their peril—also from employing or harboring any one of the negroes that belongs to said estate, with out my knowledge. D. R. Waddey, adm'r. Nov. 18.
Five Dollars Reward. RUNAWAY from the Subscriber on the 13th of November, a Negro Woman by the name of DAIN, she is of a dark complexion, a thin face, and about 40 years of age. The above reward will be given to any person or persons who will confine her in any jail so that I get her again, or by delivering her to me No 48, Church Street. Defort. N. B. I forewarn all masters of vessels from carrying her away. Nov. 18.
For SALE, or will be Bartered, in part for Tobacco, Flour, or Naval Stores, 150,000 wt. Muscovado SUGAR, 500 hds. MOLASSES, 500 sacks Liverpool SALT, 5000 bushels Catiz SALT , superior quality, 25 crates QUEENS WARE. James Young. October 21.
British Consulate Office, Norfolk, Virginia, 14th Nov. 1808. HIS Britannic Majesty's Consul having received official intelligence from Rear Admiral the Honourable Sir Alexander Cochrane, K. B. Commander in Chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels employed, and to be employed at Barbados, the Leeward Islands, &c. &c. that the French Leeward Caribbean Islands are declared in a state of strict naval blockade, pursuant to orders signed to him; and the said commander in chief having desired that His Excellency to that effect may be made as publick as possible, the Consul accordingly annexes a copy of the same for the information of all persons concerned within his district. Nov. 14.
BY The Honourable Sir ALEXANDER COCHRANE, K. B. Rear Admiral of the Red, and Commander in Chief of His Majesty's Ships and Vessels employed and to be employed at Barbados, the Leeward Islands, &c. &c. WHEREAS an intimation has been received from the Right Honourable Lord Viscount Castlereagh, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, that the strictest naval blockade is to be established over the Leeward French Caribbean Islands—The several captains, commanders, and commanding officers under my orders, are hereby authorized and directed, to stop all neutral vessels destined for any of the Ports of the said Islands; and if they shall appear to be ignorant of the existence of the blockade, and have no enemy's property on board, the masters of such neutral vessels shall be apprized thereof, and warned not to proceed to such ports, and a notice written to that effect upon one or more of the principal ship papers. But if a neutral vessel shall appear to have been so warned or to be otherwise informed of the existence of the blockade, or to have sailed from her last clearing port after it may be reasonably supposed that it is notified, she might have been made publick thereof, and yet be found attempting, or intending to enter either of the ports of the said Islands, such vessel shall be seized and sent into port for legal adjudication. And with respect to neutral vessels coming out of the said ports having any colonial produce, goods or merchandise on board, appearing to have been taken after knowledge of the Blockade—Such vessel shall in like manner be seized and sent in for legal adjudication. Given on board the Belleisle, Carlisle Bay, Barbados, 14th October, 1808. ALEXANDER COCHRANE. By command of the Rear-Admiral, JOHN S. TRACEY.
FOR RENT, And immediate possession given, that commodious Fire Proof Dwelling House, situated at the corner of Commerce and Wide Water Streets, now in the occupancy of the subscriber as a tavern and boarding house, and formerly occupied by Mrs. Blynn in the same, line. The house is in good order and clear of all incumbrances and will be rented on very moderate terms. The person who takes the house can have a part of the furniture at a low price with a liberal credit. Likewise will be rented with the upper part of the house if wished for, the Beer and Porter House, which is fitted up in a neat and handsome manner. For terms apply to the Subscriber upon the premises. Wm. Tonkin. Nov. 14.
ALSO, will be rented a Lot on Town Point, well enclosed, with a dwelling house in good order, calculated for two families, with Kitchens and other out houses—also a large Shed, which may be converted into a carpenter's or cooper's work shop. The terms will be made very reasonable. Apply as above. Nov. 14.
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS Accompanying the President's Message. [CONTINUED FROM OUR LAST.]
From Mr. Madison, Secretary of State to Mr. Pinkney, dated April 4, 1808.
(Extracts.) "My last was of March 22, and went under the care of Mr. Rose. I now forward printed copies of the correspondence with him, on the subject of his mission, and of the antecedent documents, relating to the case of the Chesapeake. As soon as the voluminous residue of the communications made to congress issues from the press, it shall also be forwarded. You will find that they include certain documents relating to France, which were thought proper for the knowledge of congress at the present crisis."
"To these communications, I add copies of Mr. Erskine's letter to me, on the subject of the British decree of November last, and of my answer. And that you may have a view of the ground which has been taken, with respect to the French decree of November, 1806, and to the judicial exposition in the case of the Horizon, giving it an illegal operation against the United States, I enclose copies of two letters to general Armstrong on those subjects."
"The President made to Congress, a few days ago, other communications relating to the present crisis with Great-Britain and France; among which were Mr. Erskine's letter, now enclosed, and a letter from Mr. Champagny to general Armstrong, explaining the course meditated by the French government with respect to the commerce of the United States. These, being excepted from the confidential character attached to the others, have been published, and will be found among the printed enclosures. Your letter of February 20 was included in the communications to Congress, but not in the exceptions."
"The conduct of the two great contending nations towards this country, as it will now appear to it, and to the world, fully displays their mutual efforts to draw the United States into a war with their adversaries. The efforts, on both sides, are too little disguised to be worthy the discernment of either, and are addressed, moreover, to motives which prove great ignorance of the character of the United States, and, indeed, of human nature."
"From the posture in which Mr. Rose's final reply to the compromise proposed to him, placed the question of adjustment, in the case of the Chesapeake, it remains with the British government to resume it, if adjustment be their object. Whether a tender of reparation will be made here, or to you, will also lie on that side. It will certainly be most becoming that government, under all circumstances, to make the reparation here; and this course might, or right, be insisted on by this government. The President, nevertheless, in the liberal spirit which always governs him, authorises you so accept the reparation, provided it be tendered spontaneously; but charged with no condition, unless it be, that on the receipt of the act of reparation here, the proclamation of July 2, shall be revoked; and provided the reparation shall add to the disavowal of the attack on the Chesapeake, an express engagement that the seamen retained shall be immediately restored, and that the guilty officer experience an exemplary punishment. The reparation will be the more satisfactory, and not exceed a just expectation, if the restoration of the seamen be made to the very ship from which they were wrested, and if provision be made for the wounded survivors, and for the families of those who lost their lives by the attack."
"I must repeat however, that it is considered entirely proper, that the reparation should be offered here, rather than in London; and it is only in the event of a decided repugnance in the British government to make it through a functionary here, that you are to accept it there."
"The answer to Mr. Erskine's letter on the British orders will furnish the grounds to be taken in your communications with his government on that subject. If the cabinet can be brought to view the orders in their true light, a revocation of the whole of them cannot fail to take place, unless they mean to violate every maxim of justice, or are fixed in hostile purposes against the United States. In not regarding the orders, indeed, as acts of hostility, and in trusting for redress to the motives and means, to which they have appealed, the United States have given the most signal proof of their love of peace, and their desire to avoid an interruption of it with the British nation."
"Still it is to be understood, that whilst the insult offered in the attack on the American frigate remains unexpiated, you are not to pledge or commit your government to consider a recal of the orders as a ground on which a removal of the existing restrictions on the commerce of the United States with Great-Britain may be justly expected."
"The two letters to general Armstrong of the 22d May, 1807, and February 8th, 1808, are proofs of the sincerity and impartiality with which the President has proceeded in relation to the belligerent parties; and may, perhaps, assist you in repressing unjust suspicions imbibed by the British cabinet. It would be happy for all parties, the belligerent, as well as the United States, if truth could, in this case, be made to prevail; and if the retaliating rivalry of the former against the latter could be converted into an emulation, as politic as it would be magnanimous in both, to take the lead in a fair, lawful, and conciliatory course towards a nation which has done no wrong to either. Should the experiment be made on either side, it would probably be followed on the other; and it could never happen that the side first doing justice would suffer on that account."
"In the present state of our relations to Great-Britain, it would be premature to mark out the course to be pursued with respect to further negotiations on other topics than those above-noticed. You are
authorised, however, to continue your interpositions in behalf of our impressed, or detained seamen; and in the event of a repeal of the British orders, and of satisfactory pledges for repairing the aggression on the Chesapeake, to enter into informal arrangements for abolishing impressments altogether, and mutually discontinuing to receive the seamen of each other into either military or merchant service, conformably to the instructions on this point transmitted by Mr. Purvis."
"You will find by a passage in Mr. Rose's reply of March 17, that the British government does not maintain the principle, that the obligation of the United States extends beyond the discharge of deserters from their publick service; and by an order of the navy department here, already carried into execution, of which a copy is enclosed, that it has lately been decided that no foreign seamen, whether deserters or not, shall serve on board our ships of war. The principles respectively manifested by these documents, ought to facilitate such an adjustment as is contended for by the United States."
Extract of a letter from the same to the same, dated April 30, 1808.
"My last was of the 4th inst. and went by a British packet from New-York. I now forward a copy of it."
"Congress ended their session on the night of the 25th inst. The series of newspapers, herewith sent, affords a view of their proceedings subsequent to the communications last made to you. Some other prints are included, which throw light on the workings of public opinion, and the state of public affairs."
"You will find that the critical posture of our foreign relations has produced provisions of different kinds for our greater security; and particularly that no pains have been spared to stop every leak by which the effect of the embargo laws might be diminished. I refer you also to the report made to the Senate, by a committee, on the documents relating to the affair of the Chesapeake, and on the letters of Mr. Champagny and Mr. Erskine; and indicating the spirit which may be expected to influence the future policy of this country, if kept under the excitement resulting from the system now pursued against it."
"You will observe, at the same time, that whilst a determination is sufficiently evinced against a dishonorable acquiescence in the despotic edicts enforced on the high seas, the United States are ready to resume their export trade, as soon as the aggressions on it shall cease; and that in a hope that this might happen during the recess of Congress, the President is authorised, in such an event, to suspend, in whole or in part, the several embargo laws."
"The conditions on which the authority is to be exercised, appeal equally to the justice and policy of the two great belligerent powers, which are now emulating each other in a violation of both. The President counts on your endeavors to give to this appeal, all the effect possible with the British government. General Armstrong will be doing the same with that of France. The relation in which a revocation of its unjust decrees by either will place the United States to the other is obvious, and ought to be a motive to the measure, proportioned to the desire which has been manifested by each to produce a collision between the United States and its adversary, and which must be equally felt by each, to avoid one with itself."
"Should the French government revoke so much of its decrees as violate our neutral rights, or give explanations and assurances having the like effect, and entitling it therefore to a removal of the embargo, as it applies to France, it will be impossible to view a perseverance of Great Britain, in her retaliating orders, in any other light than that of war, without even the pretext now assumed by her."
"In order to entitle the British government to a discontinuance of the embargo, as it applies to Great Britain, it is evident that all its decrees, as well those of January, 1807, as of November, 1807, ought to be rescinded, as they apply to the United States, and this is the rather to be looked for, from the present administration, as it has so strenuously contended that the decrees of both dates were founded on the same principles and directed to the same object."
"Should the British government take this course, you may authorise an expectation that the President will, within a reasonable time, give effect to the authority vested in him, on the subject of the embargo laws. Should the orders be rescinded, in part only, it must be left to his free judgment to decide on the case. In either event you will lose no time in transmitting the information to this department, and to general Armstrong; and particularly in the event of such a course being taken by the British government as will render a suspension of the embargo certain or probable, it will be proper for you to make the communication by a courier to general Armstrong, to whom a correspondent instruction will be given, and to provide a special conveyance for it hither, unless British arrangements shall present an opportunity equally certain and expeditious."
Extract from Mr. Madison to Mr. Pinkney, dated July 18th, 1808.
"Your communications by Lieutenant Lewis were safely delivered on the evening of the 8th instant."
"As it had been calculated that the interval between the return of Mr. Rose, and the departure of Lieut. Lewis, would give sufficient time to the British government to decide on the course required by the posture in which the affair of the Chesapeake was left, its silence to you on that subject could not fail to excite the particular attention of the President; and the appearance is rendered the more unfavorable by the like silence, as we learn from Mr. Erskine, of the dispatches brought to him by the packet which

left England and arrived at New-York at nearly the same time with the Osage. I have intimated to Mr. Erskine the impressions made by this reserve, without, however, concealing our hope that the delay does not imply a final purpose of withholding reparation, and that the next communications from London will be of a different import. They must at least ascertain the real views of the British government on this interesting subject.
"There was certainly no just ground for Mr. Canning to expect any particular communications from you on the arrival of the Osage, unless they should have grown out of such accounts from France as would second our demands of justice from Great Britain, particularly the revocation of her orders in council. And in imparting to him what you did from that quarter, every proof of candor was given, which the occasion admitted."
If Mr. Canning was disappointed, because he did not receive fresh complaints against the orders in council, he ought to have recollected that you had sufficiently dwelt on their offensive features in the first instance; and that as he had chosen to make the formal communication of them to this government, through another channel, it was through that channel, rather than through you, that answers to it would be most regularly given."
"The communications and instructions forwarded by Mr. Purvis, who was a passenger in the St. Michael, will enable you to bring the British government to a fair issue on the subject of its orders. It is nothing more in view than it is willing to avow, it cannot refuse to concur in an arrangement, resinding on her part the orders in council, and on ours, the embargo. If France should concur in a like arrangement, the state of things will be restored, which is the alleged object of the orders. If France does not concur, the orders will be better enforced by the continuance of the embargo against her, than they are by the British fleets and cruisers—and, in the mean time, all the benefits of our trade will be thrown into the lap of Great Britain. It will be difficult, therefore, to conceive any motive in Great Britain to reject the offer which you will have made, other than the hope of inducing, on the part of France, a perseverance in her irritating policy towards the United States, and on the part of the latter, hostile resentments against it."
"If the British government should have elected the more wise and more worthy course of meeting the overture of the President in the spirit which dictated it, it is to be hoped that measures will have been taken in concert with you, and through its minister here, for hastening as much as possible the renewal of the intercourse which the orders and the embargo have suspended; and thereby smoothing the way for other salutary adjustments."
"It appears that the British government, not satisfied with the general blockade by her orders of November 11th, has superadded a particular blockade, or rather a diplomatic notification of an intended one of Copenhagen and the other ports in the island of Zealand; that is to say, a strict and legal blockade of the whole island. The island cannot be much less than two hundred miles in its outline, and is described as abounding in inlets. It is not probable, therefore, if it be possible, that a blockade, within the time defined, could be carried into effect. And as all defective blockades, whether so in the disproportion of force to the object, or in the mode of notification, will authorise fair claims of indemnification, it is the more necessary that guarded answers should be given in such cases, as heretofore suggested."
"Since the British order of [blank] evidently inviting our citizens to violate the laws of their country, by patronizing on the high seas their vessels destitute of registers and other necessary papers, and therefore necessarily smugglers, if not pirates, the circular letter of Mr. Huskisson, has made its appearance, in which the United States are named as alone within the purview of the order. A more extraordinary experiment is perhaps not to be found in the annals of modern transactions. It is levelled moreover against a nation, towards which friendship is professed, as well as against a law, the justice and validity of which is not contested; and it sets the odious example, in the face of the world, directly in opposition to all the principles which the British government has been proclaiming to it. What becomes of the charge against the United States for receiving British subjects, those too expressly and particularly prohibited from leaving their country, to elude the prohibition, or to tempt, by interested inducements, a smuggling violation or evasion of laws, on which Great Britain founds so material a part of her national policy? In the midst of so many more important topics of dissatisfaction, this may not be worth a formal representation. But it will not be amiss to let that government understand the light in which the proceeding is regarded by this. I have already touched on it to Mr. Erskine, with an intimation that I should not omit it in my observations to you."
"The French decree, said to have been issued at Bayonne, has not yet reached this country. Such a decree, at such a time, has a serious aspect on the relations of the two countries, and will form a heavy item in our demands of redress. It is much to be regretted at the same time that any of our vessels, by neglecting to return home, and conforming to the arbitrary regulations of one belligerent, should expose themselves to the arbitrary proceedings of another. So strong and general an indignation seems particularly to prevail here against the Americans in Europe who are trading under British licenses, and thereby sacrificing, as far as they can, the independence of their country, as well as frustrating the laws which were intended to guard American vessels and mariners from the dangers incident to foreign commerce, that their continuance in that career ought to be frowned upon, and their return home promoted in every proper manner. It appears by information from our consul at Tangiers, that great numbers of our vessels are engaged in a trade between Great Britain and Spanish ports, under licenses from the former, and that the experiment proves as unsuccessful as it is dishonourable; the greater part of them being either arrested in port, or by French and Spanish cruisers."
(To be Continued.)
Landing on Newton's wharf, from schooner William, 212 hogsheads, 40 tiers, 15 barrels } MOLASSES, A few hds. and bbls. SUGAR, 9 bbls. and 5 bags Green COFFEE. FOR SALE BY Christopher Fry.
THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. 23, 1808.
With heartfelt sorrow, we lay before our readers the proceedings of congress of Thursday last, from which we are satisfied that THE EMBARGO WILL CONTINUE. Those who have not attended to Legislative proceedings, may imagine, that as the majority was so small, and as six or seven members, opposed to the embargo, were absent, that there is yet some reason for hope. But the question being only to consider the measure, and the majority being against it, we consider it settled, for among those who voted in the affirmative on this question, are some of the warmest advocates for the embargo, such as Messrs. Macon, Cloyd, &c.
We anticipate the despair, which will pervade among those, whose hopes for future support, depended on the revival of commerce and industry. To look forward to another year's embargo, is too painful—those who estimate their future sufferings by the past, will find that the former will exceed the latter beyond all comparison.
We had thought that every one had abandoned the embargo, as a measure of coercion; after being informed by official communications, that neither of the great belligerents cared for it, we did not expect to hear gentlemen in congress talking about the price of wheat in England, the price of flour in the West-Indies, and the probable wants of the Patriots of Spain and Portugal. But it is natural enough for those, who have no resources in their own minds, to look for aid from extraneous causes, however remote.
It seems now to be admitted by all that the situation of the country is highly critical, and that difficulties present themselves on every side: it is demanded by the ruling party, in a tone of arrogance, very unbecoming in those who have had the uncontrolled management of our publick affairs for eight years, "What is to be done?" That is indeed a serious question, and under our present situation, very difficult to be satisfactorily answered. Among the first, and we believe, the most effectual modes of relief from our distresses, would be the removal of all those, who have had any agency in bringing the country into the present condition, and that too, as soon as possible.
The persons who are now in power, talk as if the country was now for the first time in difficulty. But there are those, who remember that our country has been in situations equally perilous, but, from which the sterling talents, and integrity of the Federal Administration delivered us, with equal honour and advantage.
Have the people forgotten the machinations of Genet, aided by the zeal of his numerous partizans? Washington defeated them all, and saved our country from the destructive consequences of revolutionary frenzy, and what would have been worse, from French domination.
In 1793 and 1794, Great Britain, commenced her system of depredation on our commerce, and carried it to an extent that threatened its annihilation. The federal administration did not abandon all commerce; on the contrary our countrymen were indemnified by the British government for those depredations.
Again in 1798, France, at a time when she and her allies had numerous and powerful navies, thought proper to disregard treaty and publick law, and to attack our rights on the ocean. It is true that the federal administrations spared no exertions to conciliate France, but when they found her deaf to the calls of justice and honour, the sword was drawn, and every real American must remember with pride the honour with which our country came out of the contest. Our commerce, instead of being checked by the short war, was extended beyond all former example. No entangling alliance was formed with the rival of France, when the latter came to a sense of justice, our hostility ceased. If the same spirit which animated our councils, at the epochs we have enumerated, had existed when the Berlin Decree issued, we should never have heard of orders in council, or perpetual embargoes.
DIED—On the 14th inst. at Frankford (Pen.) Captain STEPHEN DECATUR, sen. late a Captain in the United States' navy, and one of the Patriots of our Revolution.
From the Baltimore Federal Gazette.
The designing and tyrannical conduct of the French government towards the United States, is at length permitted to appear to the American people. Before the publication of these documents, we had scarcely any thing but the conjectures of the federal writers, which, though now confirmed, even beyond their fullest extent, were generally contradicted by the friends of administration.
It is to be feared that the length of these documents will deter many from perusing them with attention; but I earnestly solicit the friends of neutrality and good order, not only to read them themselves, but to recommend them to their neighbours, and especially such as are not in the habit of reading the federal papers.
In comparing the remonstrances of the New-York minister with the instructions of the Virginia secretary, the publick will be able to appreciate the independent stand made by the late friends of administration of the state of New-York, and the reasons why those documents were not permitted to be seen, until after it was thought the election of Mr. Madison, and the exclusion of col. Monroe, general Clin-
ton, or general Pinckney from the presidency was secured.
Abler pens will pursue the tortuous windings of the champion of demeritick diplomacy; but permit me, whilst the subject is fresh on the minds of the people, to raise the mirror in which they may at once have a full length view of its deformity. It shall not be by subtle logic, much less by sly innuendo; out of his own mouth shall he be judged, and without further preface.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Madison to Mr. Erskine, the British minister, dated March 25, 1808.
"At the date of the latter orders of November 11, (1807) it appears that the only aggression which had then occurred (the condemnation of the Horizon the 16th October) was pretty certainly unknown to the British government, and could therefore have no share in producing the alleged retaliation."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Madison to Mr. Armstrong, the American minister at Paris, dated the 22d May, 1807.
"But notwithstanding the precaution, there are proofs that the West India privateers have, under colour of the edict (French decree of the 21st November, 1806) committed depredations, which will constitute just claims of redress from their government. Mr. Erskine has forwarded a Spanish decree also, avowedly pursuing the example and the views of the French emperor. The terms of this decree are even more vague, or rather more broad than those of the prototype; and if not speedily recalled or corrected, will doubtless extend the scene of spoliation already begun in that quarter, and of course thicken the cloud that hangs over the amity of the two nations."
A Federal Republican.
MASSACHUSETTS LEGISLATURE.
IN SENATE, November 11.
The joint committee on the subject of the choice of electors, made the following REPORT:
It is hereby ordered and directed by the legislature of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, that on the day of November instant, at o'clock in the noon, the senate and house of representatives will meet in convention, and by joint ballot elect and appoint nineteen persons as electors of president and vice-president of the United States, not being senators or representatives in the congress thereof, or persons holding any office of trust or profit under said United States, one at least shall be an inhabitant of each district which is assigned for the choice of representatives in the congress of the United States. And whereas it may so happen that one or more of the electors so elected and appointed may be prevented by death, sickness, resignation, or otherwise, from attending on the first Wednesday of December next to give in their votes. It is further ordered and directed, that the said electors appointed by this legislature, be, and they are hereby directed to meet at the State-House in Boston, on Tuesday, the sixth day of December next, at ten o'clock in the forenoon, for the purpose of supplying such vacancies. And the said electors who may then and there be present, are hereby empowered to fill up all vacancies which may happen as aforesaid, by electing by ballot, from the people at large, so many suitable persons eligible by the constitution, for electors of president and vice-president of the United States, as may be necessary to supply such vacancies, and to declare the persons so appointed by said electors present, and empowered as aforesaid; or the major part of them, to be elector or electors of president and vice-president of the United States, duly appointed for the purpose, and certify the same to the executive authority of this commonwealth, that the persons so appointed may be entitled to the certificate of their appointment. And it is hereby further directed that the said electors shall meet at the State-House in Boston, on the first Wednesday of December next, being the seventh day of said month, and vote by ballot for president and vice president of the United States; and make distinct lists of all persons voted for as president and vice president, and of the number of votes for each, which lists they shall sign and certify and transmit sealed to the seat of government of the United States agreeably to the provisions of the constitution and law thereof. And the secretary of this commonwealth is hereby directed to transmit without delay to each elector who may be appointed in manner aforesaid, certificates of his appointment. And the executive authority of this commonwealth is hereby requested to cause the lists of said electors to be made, certified and delivered to them, conformably to the provisions of the law of the United States.
NEW-YORK LEGISLATURE.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY.
Saturday, November 5.
Mr. Bulkley, of Madison, offered a resolution for requesting the representatives of this state in the Congress of the United States, to use their endeavours to get the embargo laws repealed. Ordered to lie on the table.
The house went into committee of the whole, on a bill sent down from the senate, which was stated to be of such importance as to demand the immediate attention of the house. The two first clauses, which related to the inspection of flour in the county of Kings, passed without debate.
The third clause was then read, the object of which was, to allow the exportation of flour from this state, which had been marked "bad" by the inspectors.
Mr. Van Vechten expressed his astonishment at the introduction of such a clause; and, in a few words, exposed its absurdity: He contended, that it would wholly defeat the object of our laws for the inspection of flour—that the character of New-York flour was now high in foreign markets, owing to the severity of our inspection laws; but that, if this provision prevailed, it would open the door, nay, invite to innumerable impositions, and destroy the credit of the flour of this state. He could discover no good reason for the measure.
A New-York member, Mr. Fairlie, if we mistake not, undertook to explain the object of this clause. He said, that in consequence of the merchants not being allowed to export bad flour, the citizens of New-York were compelled to eat it—that the bakers imposed upon them, &c.
At length, after a little boggling and hesitation, the petition on which the clause was grounded, was read—when, behold! it appeared, that in consequence
of the embargo, large quantities of flour had spoiled in New-York; and that if the owners could be permitted to export it, they might send it to Great Britain, where it might be used by the manufacturers for starch!
Was there ever a more striking picture of the degradation of our country? The embargo was laid to starve the British; and the non-importation act to run her manufactories. This has been openly avowed by the democrats in the house of assembly, who have exultingly referred to the riots at Manchester, as a proof of the effects of these measures. Now an application is made to the legislature, by our own citizens, for permission to export their flour, spoiled by the embargo, for the purpose of making starch for the use of the very manufacturers whom this embargo was intended to starve. Thus giving to the British the same flour, at a reduced price, which, but for the embargo, they would have purchased at our own price. Surely "the embargo tells," as the Register says.—Crisis.
MR. BULKLEY'S RESOLUTION.
Resolved, if the honorable the Senate concur herein, that the Senators and Representatives from this State to the Congress of the United States, be requested to use their best endeavors to procure a repeal of the act laying an embargo, and all the acts supplementary thereto, and that the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Assembly certify copies of this resolution, and immediately transmit the same by mail.
This resolution was taken up, in committee of the whole, on Monday, when the following substitute was proposed:
Whereas the constitutional right of repealing the act imposing the embargo on the ships and vessels belonging to the citizens of the United States, and the acts supplementary thereto, is vested in the congress of the United States; and whereas that body is about to convene, and from the communications which will be made by the executive department, will be much better informed of our relative situation with the European belligerents, than the legislature of this state are or can be; and inasmuch as our representatives in congress will carry with them the feelings and wishes of the people; and this house reposing full confidence in their discernment and patriotism—therefore, Resolved, that it would be inexpedient on the part of this house, at this time, to give any instruction or express any opinion upon the repeal of the said acts; and that the further consideration of the resolution to that effect, be postponed until the first Tuesday in February next.
A warm and animated discussion ensued, when the question on the substitute was taken and carried, 59 to 47—the two Lewisite members from Dutchess voting with the federalists in favor of the original resolution and against the substitute.—(ib.)
The following resolution was moved in the house of assembly, on Tuesday, by Mr. Bloom, of Dutchess, and seconded by Mr. Brinckerhoff, but no order whatever was taken upon it.
Resolved, That a select committee of this house be appointed to take into consideration that part of the speech of his excellency the governor, concerning the situation of the foreign relations of the United States, and the laws of congress, as well as the decision of the executive relative to an embargo on the trade and navigation of the citizens of the United States, and that the said committee be empowered to collect all the information which may throw light on the subject of their enquiries, and to request the justices of the supreme court of judicature of this state, to give their opinions on the constitutionality of the said laws, in order to enable this house to ascertain, if the power of regulating commerce with foreign nations, implies the power of suspending indefinitely its action, without a declared state of war with the belligerents, who treat us with injustice, or any provocations from the nations who treat us with amity; and that the said committee shall propose to the house the measure deemed by them the most eligible to ameliorate, if possible, the situation of the citizens of this state, and of the union, with a just regard for the sovereign rights, delegated to the general government, and a dignified sentiment of the sovereignty of the states, which compose the American confederacy; and that the same committee shall make their report at the next session of the legislature.
PHILADELPHIA, November 14.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Washington, to his friend in this city, dated Nov. 11, 1808.
"I regret I have not the power of giving you more agreeable information relative to our political affairs. Our horizon appears very gloomy. It is probable congress will go on pretty much in the old way; a great deal of secret messages and conclave. This was formerly said to be contrary to the genius of republicanism. If the world could form an opinion from what transpired of the conclave acts or doings last winter—nothing has been communicated the present session which might not and ought not immediately to be given to the publick; and this seems to be the opinion of many sensible men. If the secret message is to have an influence on the continuance of the embargo, the people have a right to demand a knowledge of the facts.
From the publick communication there does not appear the least reason for continuing this horrid destructive measure. If there is, the same reason may probably continue to the end of time. On the part of France, no doubt there is the utmost hostility; nothing but a formal declaration of war is wanting; the substance is shown us in every point. It will not now be denied by the executive, that the emperor has declared, we shall not be neutral; he has declared that we shall either be "his allies or enemies." This I affirm to be fact, and the executive dare not deny it. On the part of the British government, there appears not the least difficulty in preserving peace, should our government be disposed. As the correspondence is printing, the publick will shortly be enabled to judge for themselves. The orders in council seem to be the principal objection on the part of our government.
A friend has given me the following extract from the correspondence, which will exhibit the disposition of the British government on that subject. And I am informed there are other passages more striking; indeed this appeared to me to be the case from the reading of the dispatches. Speaking of the orders in council—"His majesty would not hesitate to contribute in any measure in his power to restore to the commerce of the United States its wanted ac-

“tivity; and if it were possible to make any sacrifice for the repeal of the embargo without appearing to deprecate it as a measure of hostility, he would gladly have facilitated its removal, as a measure of inconvenient restriction upon the American people.”
A motion has been made for repealing the embargo laws. This will be discussed; but from the reception it met with upon its introduction, I entertain very little expectation of its success. It has been said by some, “if the measure be oppressive, why do not the people petition for its removal?”
It is a fact that not a single petition has been presented to congress upon the subject. But, sir, it is not only a continuance of the embargo that is intended, but a total destruction of our commerce. People will soon repent they did not believe, what they will soon feel. They have been told repeatedly, that the ruling party aimed at the destruction of our commerce; but they have not believed it, as appears from the result of a majority of the elections. Thinking now they are secure in the election of Mr. Madison, they begin to throw off the mask. Mr. Eppes (son-in-law of the President and who may be presumed to be the organ of the party) has introduced a motion or resolve, for a total suspension of commercial intercourse with Great Britain, its Islands and dependencies. It is true he has coupled France with Great Britain, but of what importance is that? We have no commercial intercourse with France or its Islands or dependencies, except Guadalupe and Martinique. Should the executive prevail in this, it will be war with Great Britain and must be received in that light by that nation; and this appears to be the thing they are driving at.
The destruction of our commerce is the price they mean to pay for a war with that nation, in aid of French aggrandizement! One would imagine, that receiving such positive assurances from Bonaparte, that he would only consider us as “allies or enemies”—it would have been a signal for recalling our minister from France. On the contrary, he is still continued to supplicate and endeavor to mollify this inexorable tyrant, and induce him to believe that America will go to war with Great Britain, if he will deal a little more kindly with us. Having got into his possession one hundred millions of francs worth of American property, (about twenty millions of dollars) seized and taken from us in the most unjust and treacherous manner, it is condemning every day in his courts, before the eyes of our minister, who is entreating and trying to beg off all in his power; but can receive no satisfaction whatever. From all I can learn the conduct of Mr. Armstrong is very proper; and my information is correct, I exceedingly regret, that his advice is not followed: I believe it would relieve us from all our difficulties; and I am confident the people would be of the same opinion.
Had there been any chance for bringing in Mr. Clinton, our affairs would have worn a very different aspect. But having lulled the people into a belief that the embargo would be raised at the opening of congress, and having thereby secured the elections—they will begin immediately with their great work; and God only knows what is to be the end. I speak now as to the disposition of the people to bear all this; for I entertain no doubt of their carrying their designs into effect, so far as regards commerce.
But, oh! my country, what is to be your wretched situation! Deprived of your commerce, how can that numerous class dependent upon it, sustain themselves and families? Can you give up your cities and pleasant dwellings, and go back into the wilderness and cultivate plantations? You may think the supposition of the necessity extravagant, but believe me this must be your situation, if the wild schemes of the ruling party are effectuated. Pardon this apostrophe, my friend, but really the subject affects me. You will ask me, what is to be done in this perilous time? Alas! I am incapable of giving you advice. Enough has been told the people, but they seem not to believe. The wisdom of the divine saying cannot be too much admired: “If they believe not Moses and the prophets, even if one were sent from the dead they would not believe.” When they severely feel, they may then believe, though too late to do any good. The people of the commercial states will probably take the subject into consideration; and although there is no difference in fact, between the commercial and agricultural interests, yet people who superficially consider the subject are apt to suppose there is. There is no man of any consideration but must admit, that commerce and agriculture mutually aid and support each other, and are dependent on each other for support. But strange as it may seem, many persons have imbibed the idea that agriculture and commerce are at war with each other, and have variant and conflicting interests, and unhappily this extravagant and destructive idea is inculcated by men in power. The absurdity of the hypothesis is well exposed by the fable of the belly and different members of the body. And agriculture and manufactures would experience as calamitous effects as the members did, when they made war, as described by the philosopher. Excuse the prolixity of this letter, and believe, as I am, &c.
BOSTON, November 15.
LEGISLATURE.
On Saturday last the hon. Senate passed an order for the appointment of Electors for President and Vice President in convention of both houses on the 14th inst. (yesterday).
The question of concurrence was debated in the house on Saturday, and decided in the affirmative yesterday—ayes 244, nays 204. The convention was accordingly formed, and the following distinguished citizens were appointed
ELECTORS FOR MASSACHUSETTS.
At large—Hon. Caleb Sturgis.
Hon. Francis Dana.
Districts.
 Suffolk, Hon. John Brooks,  Essex South, Moses Brown, Esq.  Essex North, William Bartlett, Esq.  Middlesex, Ebenr. Bridge, Esq.  Worcester S. Benjamin Haywood, Esq.  Worcester N. Josiah Sturges, Esq.  Hampshire S. John Hooker, Esq.  Hampshire N. John Barrett, Esq.  Berkshire, Daniel Dewey, Esq.  Norfolk, Ebenr. Warren, Esq.  Bristol, Samuel Tobey, Esq.  Plymouth, Joshua Thomas, Esq.  Barnstable, Lemuel Williams, Esq.  York, Andrew P. Fernald, Esq.  Cumberland, Samuel Freeman, Esq.  Kennebec, Samuel S. Wild, Esq.  Lincoln, Jeremiah Bailey, Esq. 
The whole number of votes given in convention was 269, and unanimous for the above candidates. There were 130 democratic members present; but they declined voting.
ACQUITTALS FOR TREASON.
RUTLAND, (Vt.) Nov. 3.
The extra session of the circuit court of the United States, for the district of Vermont, which convened at Burlington last week, for the trial of sundry persons recently indicted for treason was adjourned on Tuesday week. The court was opened on Monday morning last, with the trial of one of the Hoaxes, and closed about twelve o'clock at night. The jury acquitted him. The prosecutor then entered a nolle prosequi in the case of the other two, and the court adjourned.
CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
SENATE, Thursday, November 17.
The bill this day sent from the house of representatives “to authorize the transportation of a certain message of the president of the United States, and documents accompanying the same, free of postage,” was read three several times by unanimous consent, and passed.
The senate resumed the consideration of Mr. Bradley's motion of yesterday, “to refer so much of the president's message as relates to the Barbary powers, and the unjustifiable proceedings of the dey of Algiers towards our consul at that regency, with the documents accompanying the same to a select committee,” and having agreed to the same:
Ordered, That Messrs. Giles, Bradley, and Smith (of Md.) be that committee.
Mr. Anderson submitted the following motion for consideration:
Resolved, That copies of the memorials of the merchants of Boston, Salem, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Norfolk, which were presented to the senate during the first session of the ninth congress, relative to the infringements of our neutral trade, together with the resolutions of the senate predicated thereupon, be printed for the use of the senate.
Mr. White laid on the table the following motion for consideration:
Resolved, That the president of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the senate, so far as he may deem consistent with the public safety, the reasons which have induced the late call upon the governors of the respective states to have their quotas of 100,000 militia drafted, equipped, and ready to march at a moment's warning, and the service on which it is apprehended there may be a necessity for employing them.
Mr. Thurston gave notice, that to-morrow he would ask leave to bring in a bill to reward Andrew Joseph Villard, for an invention of public utility. When the senate adjourned.
Friday, November 18.
Mr. Thurston, agreeably to notice, asked and obtained leave to bring in a bill to reward Andrew Joseph Villard for an invention of public utility; and the bill being read the first time was ordered to a second reading.
The senate resumed the consideration of the motion made yesterday “for printing the memorials of merchants presented during the first session of the ninth congress.”
Mr. Anderson wished Norfolk to be stricken out, and Newburyport to be inserted in lieu thereof; which was agreed to.
A motion was made by Mr. Lloyd to amend the resolution, by adding the following words: “and also of the memorials presented to congress in the year 1798, by sundry citizens of the United States, in opposition to permission granted to the merchants of the United States to arm their vessels.”
Mr. Lloyd understood that the principles contained in the memorials presented at the first session of the ninth congress, protested against the application of the rule of 1756; he wished to have in view the memorials in opposition to permission to arm merchant vessels—his only object in offering this amendment was to obtain information.
General Smith, of Maryland, could not perceive any connection between the times of '98 and the present. He preferred the original motion, and, therefore, wished the gentlemen from Massachusetts to present a separate resolution.
Mr. Mitchell was not a member of the senate in the year 1798, when these memorials were presented. He wished all the information he could get on the subject, and hoped the amendment would prevail.
Mr. Giles also wished for the information called for by the amendment, but would not vote for any resolution which would impede the papers called for in the original motion. Going back to the year 1798, he thought was taking an unnecessary retrospect of our situation then. He knew of no connection between the times. He would vote against the amendment, but would vote for the information in the form of a distinct proposition.
The question was then taken on agreeing to the amendment, and determined in the negative. Adjourned till Monday.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Thursday, November 17.
Mr. Livermore presented a volume of petitions from certain inhabitants of Newburyport, Ipswich, Gloucester, Manchester, Beverly, Wenham, Hamilton, Rowley, Boxford, Bradford, Topsfield, Middleton, Salisbury, Amesbury, and Haverhill, in the state of Massachusetts, praying for a repeal of the embargo laws.
The following is a passage from one of the petitions, and will shew the vein in which it was written and the spirit which it breathes:
“Your memorialists would further represent to your honourable body, that they have witnessed with great surprise and alarm, a systematic attempt among the ENEMIES OF THE PEOPLE, to excite a belief among the people that our nation has in its power only a choice of evils: that an embargo or war with Great Britain is our only alternative; an opinion which appears to your memorialists wholly without foundation—WHATEVER INJURIES THE UNITED STATES MAY HAVE SUSTAINED from that nation, we cannot perceive that a war with HER would be either NECESSARY or JUST! while she evinces on HER part a disposition for an AMICABLE SETTLEMENT of all subjects of controversy; and especially, when we view her as almost alone maintaining a contest, on the success
of which depend the rights and liberties of the civilized world.”
This passage was twice read at the request of a member: when Mr. Livermore said, as they were all alike it would be unnecessary to read the whole, and moved to refer the petitions to the committee on the whole to whom was referred sundry resolutions touching the repeal of the embargo laws.
Mr. D. R. Williams said, as there was a repetition of the same sentiments throughout the whole, and he did not exactly understand the meaning of those which appeared in the first, he called for the reading of another of them. Accordingly a second petition was read, and they were finally referred as moved by Mr. Livermore. Mr. L. moved for the printing of the petitions, which was refused—ayes 17.
Mr. Macon said he wished to submit a few resolutions to the house, expressive of his sentiments with respect to our foreign relations. Several motions had been made touching that point, none of which, however, embraced his ideas completely. Mr. Macon in a very spirited manner, said he had been astonished that so many propositions had been submitted, none of which contemplated a continuance and enforcement of the embargo. Shall we submit? Will the American nation bow her neck, and calmly yield to the taxation of Britain, of France, as it were their dependencies? Where is the spirit which so panted as from Europe? Shall the embargo be repealed and nothing be submitted in its stead? Where is the spirit of '76? Where is that temper which enforced a rigid non intercourse as it had been a law from Heaven? Has it been absorbed by the spirit of gain? Shall a few wicked, a few abandoned characters, compel the majority to relinquish a measure so salutary for the country? Mr. Macon then said, he thought the stand we took last year a proper one, and ought to be persevered in; that it ought not to be abandoned at the moment it was about to be most efficient. Advertising to the petitions presented by Mr. Livermore, he said he was always willing to treat with respect any petition coming from any portion of the people, but he would not tamely sit there and hear himself charged as an “enemy of the people.” Had it not been for those petitions he should not have advanced his motion at present. He then referred to the proclamation issued by the British inviting our vessels out, promising them security, whether they had clearance papers or not. If (he said) the European powers had entered into an agreement to injure us, they could not have assailed us with greater effect. He wished to give the committee all latitude, and had therefore made his resolutions as general as possible: He then submitted the following:
Resolved, That the committee appointed on that part of the president's message which relates to our foreign relations, be instructed to inquire into the expediency of excluding by law from the ports, harbours and waters of the United States all armed ships and vessels belonging to any of the belligerent powers, having in force orders or decrees violating the lawful commerce of the United States as a neutral nation.
Resolved, That the same committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of prohibiting by law the admission into the ports, harbours and waters of the United States, any ship or vessel belonging to or coming from any place in the possession of any of the above-mentioned powers, and also the importation of any goods, wares and merchandise, the growth, produce or manufacture of the dominions of any of the said powers.
Resolved, That the same committee be instructed to inquire into the expediency of amending the act laying an embargo and the several acts supplemental and addition thereto.
Mr. Macon made several very pertinent remarks in addition. He said there was a time when the cry was that our seamen were not protected; now the cry is that you will not let them go out to be taken. There were only three points which presented themselves for consideration, to wit:
 1. Embargo.  2. War.  3. Submission. 
The last, (said he) I throw away. This nation never will submit. Which then is best—Embargo or war? Arm and send out your vessels and you will have war directly: He preferred the embargo. He had been told that flour was from 30 to 50 dollars per barrel in the West-Indies, and wheat as high as 14s sterling in Great Britain. The embargo must have a great effect in Spain and Portugal, where large armies were quartered, and where the pursuits of agriculture were neglected. Perseverance in the embargo would settle all our differences. The embargo was not the cause of our present privations. The orders and decrees of the belligerents were the cause. Let us endeavor to scuffle along under our difficulties rather than submit. If those who own the principal can hold out, those interested can surely afford to lose the freight. The consequences of war in these unruly times are incalculable: It used to be the custom for nations to fight each other; but at present the belligerents appeared to fight every nation but themselves.
After some conversation with respect to separating the last resolution from the two first (during which Mr. Quincy said the impression that the embargo would be raised was universal in the northern states) the two first resolutions were agreed to; and the last, by consent of Mr. Macon (from a suggestion of Mr. W. Alston's) was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Chittenden called up his resolution relative to a repeal of the embargo laws, but the house refused to go into committee of the whole on the subject. On dividing, Mr. Quincy called for the yeas and nays, which being assented to, they were taken, and were as follows:
AYES —Messrs. L. J. Alston, Bassett, Blackledge, J. Campbell, Champion, Clay, Clopton, Colpepper, Dana, Davenport, Elliott, Ely, Goldsborough, Gray, Harris, Heister, Hoge, R. S. Jackson, Jenkins, Kelly, Lambert, Lewis, Livermore, Lloyd, Macon, Marion, Masters, Milnor, D. Montgomery, Mosely, Mumford, Newbold, Pitkin, Quincy, Randolph, M. Richards, Riker, Russell, Sloan, Smelt, J. R. Smith, S. Smith, Stanfield, Stedman, Sturges, Swart, Taggart, Taylor, Upham, Van-Horn, Van Rensselaer, Wilbour, D. R. Williams, and N. Wilson—56.
NAYS —Messrs. W. Alston, Bacon, Barker, Bibb, Blount, Boyd, Brown, Burwell, Butler, Calhoun, G. W. Campbell, Cutts, Dawson, Desha, Durrell, Eppes, Findley, Franklin, Garnett, Ghould, Goodwyn, Green, Helms, Holland, Holmes, Howard, Humphreys, Isley, Johnson, Jones, Kirkpatrick, Love, McCreery, J. Montgomery, N. R. Moore, Jer. Morrow, Jno. Morrow, Nelson, New-
TON, Nicholas, Porter, Pugh, Rea, of Pen. Rea, of Ten. J. Richards, Say Shaw, Smilie, Southard, Storer, Thompson, Troup, Verplanck, Wharton, Wilitchell, and A. Wilson—58.
A message was received from the senate announcing the passage of the bill for franking the President's message of the 8th inst.
Mr. Van Allen, from the committee of enrolled bills, reported said bill as duly enrolled.
Mr. Say presented the petition of John Bishop, James Clement, and Thomas Sparks, shot manufacturers, which represent that great efforts are making by foreign manufacturers to prevent the domestic manufacture of shot, and soliciting congress to encourage it by a duty on that article.—They state that at present there is no duty on shot, the only being only upon lead—whereas copper is imported free of impost, the duty thereon being upon the article when manufactured: They assert that they make shot of all kinds, equal in every respect to that imported, and at a less price; that it is impossible to contend with foreign manufacturers if the article without protecting duties are laid; that there is another shot manufactory in Philadelphia, under the direction of Paul Beck, and that either of the two are competent to supply the consumption of shot in the United States sufficient to supply the demand for that article for domestic use, and suggest the propriety of encouraging the working of those mines.
The petition was referred to the committee of commerce and manufacture.
Several other petitions and resolutions of a local description were presented and referred as usual.
Friday, November 18.
After some local business, Mr. Smilie moved that when the house adjourn, it adjourn to Monday:—He remarked that the committee which had the subject of our foreign relations before it would shortly report (he understood on Monday) when the house would be enabled to proceed with the great concerns of the nation. To give that committee time to consummate its report he made the motion. It was agreed to and the house adjourned.
THE SALE OF THE PROPERTY OF THE ESTATE OF DAVID PATTERSON, dec'd. will be continued, at his Wharf, on Friday the 25th instant, at 10 o'clock.—By order of the Administrator, S. Marks, Jun. Nov. 23.
Office of Discount and Deposit, Bank of Virginia, Norfolk, No. 22, 1808.
IN conformity to a resolution of the Board of Directors, all notes offered and made payable at this Bank from and after the 29th inst. must be similar in form to those made payable at the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States at this place.
Thomas Williamson, Cash'r. Nov. 23.
FRESH SHOES.
E. STURTEVANT,
No. 77, MAIN STREET,
Has now landed from the Schooner Lady Hope,
A Large Assortment of SHOES, &c.
Ladies' Kid Sit-pans, and shoes, do. with ties, do. sit-heels, do. Mocco, do. and ties, with Spring, Winter, burg, Welte and Italian heels.
do. Black and coloured Velvet Slippers and Ties, do. Florentine Slippers.
do. Mocco Boots and Slippers with cork soles, do. do. B boots, with shoe and pump soles, do. Leather Boots with thick and thin soles.
Womens' Leather Slippers and Ties, &c.
Gentlemen's Shoes of various descriptions.
Miles' Morocco Slippers and Ties, all colours.
do. Velvet Slippers, do. Leather Slippers and Ties; do. Leather Boots, thick and thin soles, &c.
Serated Shoes of every quality and price.
50 pairs Fishermens' Boots, &c.
1 bale Duffs; 1 do. Duff Bankers;
1 cask Supply of Ammunition Bed Ficking;
2 bales American Factory Cotton; 1 bale Gilla Handkerchiefs;
50 Trunks Boat Legs;
Upper Leather, Calfskins, and Sole Leather;
1 cask best Channel Netiles; Priming Wires and Brushes;
Eagle, Harry Nth, Mary Andrew, and Highlander Playing Cards; 100 reams Wrapping Paper, first quality;
Shoe Makers' Tools, Morocco Skins, all colours; Hatters' Trimmings, &c. &c.—For Sale Cheap! November 23 3
JUST RECEIVED.
By the Rising States, Captain Gilbert,
A SUPPLY OF
Withington's New York double ALE, first quality, brewed this fall.
Also on hand a quantity of
Barnes' New York double ALE, first quality, on draught and in bottles.
Philadelphia PORTER,
by the barrel or dozen. Wm. Tonkin. Nov. 23.
FOR SALE,
100 bbls. prime New-York PORK,
40 casks CHEESE.
Jesse Newcomb. Nov. 21.
Boot and Shoe Manufactory.
SAMUEL COLEMAN,
Opposite the Market, (westward) has received by captain Hand, from Philadelphia, a quantity of the Highest Priced Boot Legs, Vamps,
Soles, and other Materials, for his Factory. He has also Sole Leather, which has been in tan seven years; with these, the best workmen he can get, and the greatest care and punctuality, he believes the people of this place and its vicinity, may be as well served as by any factory in the union. His Stock at present is as good as this country can furnish, and he intends to use no other kind, the price of course must be higher, and when the Boots go the money must come, having found in a number of instances that a few days means six or twelve months, and an application even then for the money is ample cause of enmity.
He has on hand a large assortment of BOOTS and SHOES.
ALSO, SALT, LONDON PORTER, &c. &c.
Fresh SHOES from New-York
for Ladies, of red, green, and black Morocco, with 1, 2, and 3 ties.
JOURNEYMEN WANTED.
The best Boot and Shoe Makers, not only such as can, but such as will do the best work in all cases, may meet with as much encouragement in my factory, as in any in this state, or any state in the union north of this.
October 3.
NOTES OF HAND,
according to the new form established by the Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, for sale at this office.

FALL GOODS.
WOOD & HASTINGS, Have just received a general assortment of SEASONABLE GOODS, Which they will sell at very reduced prices for CASH, by Wholesale and Retail, at No 76, Main-street. October 19
MACKINDER & WHITE,
OFFER FOR SALE, FOR CASH or APPROVED NOTES, 2000 barrels NAVAL STORES, 100 bales Georgia Upland COTTON, 28 bales New Orleans do. 62 barrels APPLE BRANDY, 20 hds. Richmond TOBACCO, 20 hds. York-River, do. 24 hds. Petersburg, do. 100 barrels Smithfield and Carolina PORK, 22 pipes HOLLAND GIN, 9 pipes COUNTRY GIN, 100 boxes FRESH IMPERIAL and GUNPOWDER } TEAS. 40 boxes YOUNG HYSON And 500 bbls. Fresh Alexandria Superfine FLOUR. ALSO, A General Assortment of DRY GOODS, suitable to the Season. Nov. 14 eM
MR. LEROY ANDERSON'S
REMOVAL, LEAVING this place destitute of an ESTABLISH- MENT for the EDUCATION of YOUNG LADIES; and Mrs. CAMP having determined to remain here another season and to receive boarders as heretofore; I propose, in conjunction with Mr. George Blackburn, professor of Mathematics in the College of William and Mary, to undertake the charge of an Academy in the same house, wherein it was usually kept next door to Mrs. Camp's. In this Academy, young ladies will be taught all the bran- ches more immediately conducive to mental improvement, and those ornamental accomplishments which are deemed so necessary that they have become an almost indispensable part of female education. Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic; the English Gram- mar, Geography, and History, will constitute the English Department, the charge of which will be undertaken by Mr. Blackburn. Under the denomination of accomplishments will be com- prehended the French Language; Music, Drawing and Dancing; which will be taught by me. Mr. Blackburn's acknowledged scientific abilities, and his skill and experience as an instructor of youth; our united exertions; and our punctilious attention to the duties of our respective departments, induce us to hope that our lessons will be attended with all possible advantage to our pupils. Parents and Guardians who feel disposed to encourage this establishment will be informed of the terms by applica- tion to
A. Plunkett,
Teacher of the French Language in Wil- iam and Mary College. N.B. The tuition will commence on the 15th day of November next, and close on the 15th day of July following Williamsburg, October 26. 1m*
FOR SALE On board the British ship Halliday, capt. Marshall, just arrived from Liverpool, 355 tons stoved SALT, 145 do. common do. 100 crates well assorted Earthenware, and 12 dozen Mats—by C. & F. WHITTLE. September 5. tf
FOR SALE, 3000 bushels Liverpool SALT, a-float. In Store. At their establishment near Campbell's wharf, 100 pieces Russia Canvas, 60 do. Raven's Duck, 300 do. English do. 1 to 7. With a general and extensive assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY, on liberal terms by Noble & Arbuthnott, & Co. October 7. 6w
FRESH GOODS.
WOOD AND HASTINGS, Have just received, Cambricks and Common Callicoos, Cotton Shirtings, Cotton Cambricks, Irish Linens, Long Lawns, Linen Cambricks, &c. ALSO, A few pieces of best London Superfine Broad CLOTHS, and most fashionable Coat BUTTONS, which with their Goods on hand, will be sold at very low prices for Cash. September 9. tf
SAMUEL J. DYCHER,
FROM LONDON, Informs the Inhabitants of this Borough and its vicinity, that he intends carrying on the following Branches of Carving and Gilding, viz. Looking Glass and Picture Frames made to any pattern; as it is reasonable to expect that there is a num- ber of Looking-Glass, Picture Frames, Ornaments, &c. wanting repair and re-gilding, and a risk of sending such articles to the northward, the disadvantage of not being pre- sent to have such work executed to suit any particular fancy, the artist flatters himself a liberal publick will encourage him in his profession. Orders from any part of the Borough or Country will be attended to. Prints, Needle Work, and Drawings, framed in burnish gold; black and gilt Edge Frames, with glasses plain or enamelled; and gilt, oval, or square Prints and Paintings cleaned. D. has on hand PATENT PERPETUAL ALMANACKS, the utility of these Almanacks to every description of per- sons in ascertaining the day of every month for 2300 years to come in a second of time, also to give the day that any per- son was born on; there is upwards of ten thousand already sold, the third plate is now engraving in New-York; they may be had in sheets, or framed and glazed to any price or pattern—they have been put in frames from 2, 6, and 8 dol- lars—Country Merchants or traders supplied upon liberal terms, purchasers will be taught their use in a few minutes. The likenesses of GEN. JACKSON, handsomely coloured; also, the likeness of the Rev. HENRY HOLCOMBE; the number of Subscribers in the different States to the above likenesses, it is hoped will induce a liberal publick to encour- age the artist in his profession. Bed and Window CORNICE made to any pattern. N.B. One of the persons in the business is in possession of finally eradicating that dreadful malady the GRAVEL; the stone is dissolved let the magnitude of it be ever so great, by a decoction of simple roots; many valuable lives are lost by the operation of cutting. The Poor cured gratis, and persons at a distance supplied with directions. Orders sent to No. 53, Main-street, opposite Mrs. Street's, will be attended to. September 12.
TURK'S-ISLAND SALT,
FOR SALE, On board the Swedish schooner Gustaf Adolph. Apply to Wilson & Cunningham. October 21.
German Linen for Exportation.
NIEMEYER & VON KAPFF, OFFER FOR SALE At their Warehouse in Water-Street, at the corner of Maxwell's wharf, for cash, or approved paper only. 54 packages of German Linen, consisting of 140 pieces Osnabrigs, 60 pieces Tickenburgs, 500 pieces White Rolls, 900 Headens, 80 pieces Hessians, } Entitled to Drawback. 1 case Plaitings, 1 case Shirt Linen, 1 case Sheetings, ALSO, 40 pieces best Russia Can- vass, 65 do. Topgallant Duck, 8000 Coffee Bags, 3,500 Gunny Bags, 90 boxes best Spanish Se- gars, 50 boxes English Pipes, 700 Straws 1-2 pt. Tumb- lers, 50 doz do. Decanters, 350 pieces excellent Oil Cloth, 350 pieces Paper Hanging, 5 cases Port-Wine. And at their Store in Main-Street, a great va- riety of Cutlery and Fancy Articles. Apply as above. Nov. 9.
J. & W. SOUTHGATE, OFFER FOR SALE, For Cash or short credit, at their Store, No. 1, corner of Commerce and Main-Streets, A General Assortment of GOODS, suitable to the present and approaching season; AMONG WHICH ARE, Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, 6-4 and 7-4 coarse Cloths, Flannels, Baizes, Coatings, Thicksets, Corduroys, Blankets, Plains, Halfhicks, Scarlet Cardinals, &c. &c. Kendal Cottons in assorted bales, Coarse Hats in assorted boxes, Nails and Spikes of all sizes, F and FF glazed Powder and Shot—ALSO, 200 good Bacon Hams, 30 kegs Lard, 50 barrels Smithfield Apple Brandy, 100 sacks Liverpool fine Salt, 60 barrels very white Allum Salt, 80 barrels good Coffee, Likewise, 2 grand and 6 small fine toned PIANO FORTES. And a handsome English made GIG and HARNESS, almost new September 21 3m
Phoenix Fire-Office, Norfolk.
NOTICE. The following Policies issued from this Office expire in the month of November, viz. 283,156 283,160 283,164 157 161 165 158 162 166 159 163 167 168 Richard Taylor, Agent. November 4.
Female Education. MISS FLETCHER has removed her School to the house formerly occupied by Mr. Kirk as a School-House, (probably better known as the Old Methodist Meeting- House) where she continues to teach Young Ladies the fol- lowing useful and ornamental branches of Female Education, viz. Reading, Writing, Grammar, Geography, and the E- lements of General History. Also, a variety of Needle Works, Tambouring, Embroidering, and Filigree. All these branches are taught by Miss F. for 32 dollars per an- num. The French Language, Music, Drawing and Paint- ing, are taught if required; for which an extra charge of 2 dollars per quarter, is made, for each branch. Nov. 11. tf
FOR SALE In our Ware-House, where the largest vessel can come along side, 15,000 bushels of CORN, 2000 do. do. white, 50 bales Cotton. Also, 4000 bushels coarse SALT, 150 sacks Ground Allum do. 45 hogsheads old Antigua Rum, do. Jamaica do. 40 hogsheads Sugar, 80 barrels do. A few casks excellent Port Wine, Coffee in hogsheads, Madeira Wine, 45 crates Earthenware, Tobacco from several inspections. GEO. MURRAY, & Co. September 9. tf
THE SUBSCRIBER Wishes to Sell, and will Sell or Rent on moderate terms, That very excellent Wharf and Lot, in the town of Gosport, at present occupied by William Smith; the Wharf, Ware-Houses, and Dwelling-House are all in good repair. Thirteen Lots in the Town of Suffolk; And the following Property in Norfolk, Two good Fire-Proof Warehouses on the Eastern side of Commerce-Street, Nos. 4 and 6. Two Dwelling-Houses and Lots on Boush-street, in good repair, and very pleasantly situated. Apply to John Granbery. September 14. tf
NOW LANDING On our Wharf, and for Sale on a liberal credit, from on board the British Schooner Commerce, Capt. Collins, from Jamaica, A Cargo of high proof RUM. C. & F. Whittle. September 2. Leather, Cordage, and Loaf Sugar. The subscriber will hereafter expose for Sale at his Ware-house on Campbell's wharf the above Articles, of the manufacture of Norfolk, at reduced prices for Cash, or on short credits only. Theo. Armistead. He will sell or lease for a term of years, the STORES at the end of Marsden's and Rothery's wharves. Feb. 20. tf
JOHN PENDRED'S
Boot and Shoe Manufactory, No. 70, MAIN-STREET. The publick are respectfully informed, that he has furnished himself with a quantity of the choicest ma- terials in his line of business, and has in his employ some of the best workmen in the borough, and having been long ex- perienced in the business himself, his factory will not be con- ducted by proxy; he therefore hopes to merit the patronage of the gentlemen of Norfolk and its vicinity, and assures them that no pains shall be wanting on his part to give sat- isfaction to those who favour him with their commands. N.B. Orders for Double Backstraps, single do. and Cos- sacks, executed with the greatest dispatch. August 1. tf
FOR SALE, On board the British ship John, capt. Gilmer, just arrived from Liverpool, 250 Tons STOVE SALT, loose and in sacks. 50 crates QUEEN'S WARE—By C. & F. Whittle. October 24 tf
FOR RENT, That convenient Dwelling-House, on Brewer Street, the property of Mr. John Davidson, at pre- sent occupied by Mr. Stephen Harris. Also,
That commodious House on Catha- rine-street, at present occupied by Mr. James Dykes, ad- joining the subscriber; they have excellent gardens, and all convenient out-houses. Also,
A very convenient Dwelling-House, just finished, on Commerce-street. For terms apply to James Tucker. Who has in Store,
A few thousand bushels Liverpool stoved SALT, loose and in sacks, that will be delivered in small or large quantities to suit the purchasers. August 15. tf
We have for SALE on our Wharf, 200 hogsheads MOLASSES, 53 do. superior quality Muscovado Sugars, 37 do. inferior do. 238 bags Guadalupe Coffee; 10 puncheons Rum, 60,000 wt Jamaica Coffee, in bds. barrels and bags, 10,000 do. Laguna do. 80 kegs Raisins, 20 cases superior quality Claret, 6000 bushels Ivice, 8500 do. St. Ubes, 2500 do. Turks-Is- land, 5000 do. coarse Liverpool Salt, 10 pipes old Madeira Wine; 4 do. Country Gin, 50 barrels Rye Whiskey; 20 hds. Philadelphia Porter, 1 new 14 inch Cable 120 fathoms. C. & F. Whittle. July 13. tf
Fifty Dollars Reward. RUN-AWAY from the Subscriber on the 26th Decem- ber last, a Mulatto Man named TONEY, a Black- smith by trade; he is about 24 years of age, 5 feet 10 inches high—had on when he went away a dark cloth suit out coat and pantaloons—his right foot has been broken, which causes him to limp, and is much larger than the other—He travelled in the stage from Edenton to Suffolk, the 28th December last. I have understood he went by the name of Benjamin James while in Suffolk—I expect he will endea- vour to pass as a free man. The above reward will be given to any person who will secure him in any jail so that I get him again, and all reasonable charges paid if delivered to me in Plymouth, North-Carolina. JOHN WALKER. August 26. 11m
FALL GOODS. Richard and John Taylor, Have received by the Ship Hero, from Liverpool, part of their FALL SUPPLY, and are in daily expectation of the remainder by the next arrivals, to compleat their assort- ment, consisting of Kendal Cottons, Kersseys, Rose and Striped Blankets, Flannels, Baizes, Yorkshire Plains, Half- hicks, 5-4 and 6-4 Cloths, do. Coatings, Bearskins and Fri- zes, Carpets and Carpeting, Pipes, Copperas, Nails, Spikes, Powder and Shot. Also, an extensive assortment of Fine and Fancy Goods, Manchester, Cutlery and Hardware, of which they will sell by the package, piece, or retail, on very low terms for Cash or approved Paper. They have likewise for Sale, Prime Carolina Pork and Lard, Old Jamaica Rum, and a few bales of Twilled Sacking. September 16. 2m
Ten Dollars Reward For Negro ALECK, purchased of Mr. Hubbard of this place, of a very dark complexion, has lost his upper fore teeth; had on when he went away a coarse cheek shirt and cassimere pantaloons, long coat and white hat; he was seen near Tarborough's Ferry, York, where I suspect he is still lurking, or at Williamsburg where he has a wife. George Veale. August 22. tf
THE SUBSCRIBER Respectfully inform the publick, that they intend, under the auspices of Dr. Haller, to open a SCHOOL for both sexes on the 1st of October next, at his Plantation called Chesterville, in the vicinity of Hampton in Elizabeth-City County. They propose to teach the following branches, viz. Read- ing, Spelling, Writing, English Grammar, Arithmetick and Geography, History, Book-Keeping, Belles Lettres, &c. Languages, comprehending Latin, Greek, French, Italian, &c. Terms of tuition for each pupil of the junior class, embra- cing the first section, Five Dollars per quarter—for the sen- ior or class Eight Dollars per quarter. For such Scholars of both sexes as do not reside in the vi- cinity of this institution, board may be obtained on very mo- derate terms in the neighbourhood, or with the manager of Doctor Haller. Young Ladies who wish to be instructed in Musick, besides the above mentioned branches, may be ac- commodated with the use of a Forte Piano, and tuition for ten dollars per quarter. Charles G. Lefrere. Thomas Miller. Chesterville, Elizabeth-City County. September 24, 1808. 1aw6w
NORFOLK DRAW BRIDGE. At the instance of some of the principal Stockholders of this Company, a General Meeting of the whole is re- quested at the Exchange Coffee-House in Norfolk on Mon- day the 5th of December next, at 10 o'clock in the fore- noon, to take into consideration a subject of high interest to the concern. L. Wheeler, Pres't. Wm. Pennock, James Taylor, jr. Nov. 14. 3w
Richard Jeffrey & Co. No. 66, Main-street, corner of Bank-Street, have just re- ceived from London, per the ship Planter, An assortment of MEDICINES, of the first quality. Also, a few hundred weight refined Salt Petre, Hardham's Snuff, No. 9, and 37, in 1-2 and 1-4 pound cannifers, Violet, Benzoin, Windsor and Shaving Soap, Evan's best Crown Launets, Tooth Brushes of superior kind, Refined Liquorice, &c. They have on hand, and are in daily expectation of receiv- ing from Amsterdam, all kinds of GLASS WARE, suitable to Apothecaries. MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family life, with printed directions, put up as usual. FOR SALE, 3000 bushels Turk's-Island SALT, Now on board the Sloop Julianna, Capt. Stowe. Also, 21,000 feet MAHOGANY, A few puncheons Old Antigua Rum, New do. Molasses, Sugars, Indian Meal in barrels. John Granbery. September 21. tf
DR. ROBERTSON'S Celebrated Stomachick Elixir of Health. Which has proved by experience, to be the most valuable medicine, ever yet offered to the publick for curing the Gout, Cramp, or wind in the Stomach; also a certain cure for the Dysentery, or Bloody Flux, Cholera Morbus, severe Grip- ings, and all other diseases of the bowels, and it never fails to remove a cold if taken soon after its first appearance. It is also celebrated for carrying off superfluous bile, removing habitual costiveness, tickness at the Stomach, severe head ache, &c. &c. The following certificates are selected from the many re- spectable ones lately received by the proprietor, and are now in his possession. Certificate of Mr. William Julian, carpenter and builder, No. 69, South Fifth-Street, Philadelphia. SIR—My wishes to promote the interest of superior merit, and to afford consolation to the afflicted, induces me to request you will lay my case before the publick, as an in- contestible proof of the astonishing efficacy of Dr. Robert- son's invaluable Stomachick Elixir of Health. I do hereby certify, that I was seized most violently with the dysentery, or bloody flux, which reduced me so much that I was confined to my bed, and became so weak that I could not move without assistance. My situation at that time became seriously alarming, as no relief could be obtained, I was given over, and even death would have been desirable to me, had not a friend of mine, who by chance called to see me, who had just recovered from a similar complaint, though not so severe as mine. He informed me that he was cured by tak- ing Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, and advised me to send to you for a bottle. I immediately did so, and by following your instructions given with the bottle, before I had taken half a bottle, I found myself much relieved, and my disorder greatly abated, and by continuing to take it, in one week I was able to walk out, and in less than a fortnight was able to attend to my business. I therefore recommend every family to be provided with this invaluable medicine, particularly those who live at a distance from the country, where assistance cannot be immedi- ately obtained. As I am convinced that Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, is the most effectual remedy in the world, I have since recommended it to several of my friends in similar complaints, who have always been relieved immediately after taking it. Should any person with to be more fully convinced of my case, I will with pleasure ex- plain it to them by applying to me. I am with a due sense of the benefit I have received thro' the efficacy of your medicine, Sir, your humble servant, WM JULION.
Mr. Drott, Philadelphia, July 15th, 1807. Certificate of Mr. George Stokes, South Water Street, Philadelphia. SIR—For the benefit of the afflicted, I think proper to inform you that Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, has been to me, of the most essential service. I had been a long time afflicted with a pain in my Stomach, and continual head-ache, attended with a tickness at the Stomach, which brought on a vomiting and lax, which continued on me until I became in a very weak state, without being able to get any relief, until I tried one bottle of Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, which entirely cured my disorder, except a weakness and want of appetite, for which I have since taken Dr. Robert- son's Stomachick Wine Bitters, which quite restored my strength and appetite, and I now enjoy better health than I experienced for many months before—As I consider your me- dicines to have been the means of saving my life, I solicit you to publish my case for the benefit of others, who by abid- ing by the directions given with your invaluable medicines, will embrace the same means by which I have happily effect- ed my recovery. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, GEORGE STOKES.
Mr. Drott. Philadelphia, August 1, 1807. ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATES. Of Mr. John T. Solomon, Sixth near Race-Street, Philadelphia. SIR—For the good of the publick and benefit of the af- flicted, I think proper to inform you, that having laboured for upwards of six months, under a very bad cough, attended with a difficulty of breathing, pains in my breath and side, and a tickness at my Stomach, having lost all appetite, I became so very much reduced in my strength as to be unable to walk. I was considered in a consumption, and given up for a lost man. In this hopeless situation I had recourse to Dr. Robertson's Stomachick Elixir of Health, and to my great astonishment, before I had taken one bottle, found myself very much relieved. I expected a great quantity of phlegm, which has eased me of one of the most violent coughs that ever man had; I have taken it regularly ever since, and now find myself completely recovered, and shall certainly, for the benefit received, recommend it as far as I can, believing it to be a most efficacious medicine in the above complaint. I am, Sir, with great respect, Your obliged humble servant, JOHN T. SOLOMON. August 22.
Mr. T. W. Drott. August 22. Certificate of Mr. John Lee, Philadelphia. DEAR SIR—By the administration of Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, and that the publick may be acquainted with the good effect I have received from it, I wish you to publish the following: About a fortnight ago I was seized with the influenza, or a violent cold attended with a pain in my limbs, and a violent cough, which settled on my lungs, and having been for some time before in a weakly state, I expected a consumption must soon have followed, had I not been advised to try Dr. Robertson's Elixir of Health, which has effectually removed my complaint, and I now feel better health than I have for some time before. It is impossible to say too much in favour of this invaluable medicine, as I am clearly convinced it is the most efficacious remedy ever offered to the publick, in the above complaint. I am, Sir, your obliged servant, JOHN LEE. November 11.
The above Medicine is sold wholesale and retail by the pro- prietor, T. W. DROTT, No. 11, North Second-Street, Phi- ladelphia; and by appointment at BONSAL & CONRAD'S Book Store, Norfolk; and at SOMERVILLE & CONRAD'S, Peterburg. May 23. 1aw1y
FLOUR. FOR SALE, BY JOHN GRANBERY, AT HIS WARE-HOUSE ON COMMERCE-STREET, A small quantity of very excellent New Flour, in barrels and half-barrels, now on hand, fit for family use, and a regular supply expected from the Columbian Mills— Richmond inspection. CASH given for good new flour barrels and half-barrels. Nov. 9. tf
FOR SALE, or will be Bartered for Tobacco, 78 puns. choice Old Demarara RUM, James Young. October 19. tf
FOR SALE at my Brew-House, Strong, Table, and Ship BEER, by the hogshead, barrel, and half barrel—and a constant supply of bottled PORTER in packages and by the dozen. And in Store, Wines, Liquors, and Groceries, wholesale and retail. Joseph Hayes. Feb. 18. tf
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, Opposite the Exchange Coffee-House. Price Six Dollars Yearly, in advance.