Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1809-09-06 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLIC LEDGER. SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PREMIA LAUS.
VOL. VI.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 6, 1809.
NO. 200.
The new copper fastened Brig HEROINE, Capt. John Maxwell, is offered for Freight or Charter, burthen 200 tons or 1600 barrels...
For New-Orleans, The regular Packet Brig SPANISH LADY, Richard Hurst, master, will sail on the first day of October...
For Charter, The Ship William & Mary, E. Tipling, master, burthen 230 tons, will carry 2000 barrels or 220 hogsheads...
20 hogsheads St. Kitt's MOLASSES, 60 do. Sugar, 50 do. Jamaica Coffee, 3 do. Guadalupe do., 200 do. St. Domingo do.
Stanch VESSEL, Of 150 to 180 hogsheads wanted.
Eighty Dollars Reward. RUN-AWAY from the Subscriber on Monday the 25th inst. two likely Negro Men...
The Great Match Race! For Two Thousand Dollars, Will be run on WEDNESDAY the 13th of September next...
NEW GOODS. WOOD & HASTINGS, HAVE JUST RECEIVED 50 packages Spring and Summer GOODS.
LANDING At Newton's wharf, the CARGO of the Brig George, from Martinique, Consisting of Fine Muscovado SUGAR, in Hds.
FOR RENT, A HOUSE and LOT, On Catharine-Street, adjoining Mr. Wm. Thomson's position may be had immediately...
Who will give Cash for 100 cords WHARF WOOD, on delivery? RICHARD TAYLOR.
150 Barrels New HERRINGS, For Sale by JENNINGS & RODDEY. THE COTTAGE, contains twenty acres of rich and well enclosed Land.
Now landing from on board the Schooner Fair American, from St. Domingo, 24,000 feet MAHOGANY, of the first quality...
1,400 lbs. Spanish TOBACCO. 12 pipes Cogniac and Bourdeaux BRANDY, 3000 bushels Turk's Island SALT...
Now landing from on board the Schooner Success, from Portsmouth, 16 kegs BUTTER, 18 boxes SOAP, 1 barrel SALTS...
NOTICE. I intend to leave this State about the first of October next, and request all persons having claims against me to bring in their accounts...
Just Published. Proofs of the Corruption of General JAMES WILKINSON, And of his connection with Aaron Burr...
Manchester Academy. In consequence of the intended removal of Mr. JOHN WOOD to the City of Richmond, on the 25th September next...
State of North-Carolina, Superior Court, April Term, 1809. JAMES R. BENT, vs. ADON CURTIS. In Equity.
THE Defendant in this suit having failed to appear and file his answer agreeable to law, and it being represented to the Court...
Wig-Wam Garden. NINE PINS AND QUOITS, a cure for sedentary habits. I wish to Sell on moderate terms, A Valuable Tract of LAND.
NOTICE. THE Partnership of T. & W. A. ARMISTEAD is this day dissolved by consent of parties. The settlement of accounts devolves on W. A. ARMISTEAD...
DOCTOR R. BALFOUR, Will take a Young Gentleman into his Shop as a Student of Medicine. That large Dwelling-House, pleasantly situated on Town-Point, Main-street...
Who wishes to Sell, 259 ACRES OF LAND, Lying in the County of Princess-Anne, on the Eastern Branch of Elizabeth River, distant from Norfolk about 5 or 6 miles...
LANDING From the Schooner Virginia, Capt. Wheeler, from St. Vincent, 50 puncheons RUM, 50 hogsheads retailing MOLASSES.
LOST OR MISLAID. The following LAW BOOKS: 4th Volume of Robinson's Admiralty Reports, 5th do. Comyn's Digest; Powell on Contracts.
I will sell very reasonable The following LAW BOOKS: Bacon's Abridgment, Gwillim's Edition, Pownall on Contingent Remainder and Executory Devices...
ANTIGUA RUM. Landing from on board the sch'r Catharine Soper, 25 puncheons Antigua RUM, And in Store, 15 punch. choice 6 years old RUM.
NOTICE. All those having claims against the Estate of JOHN CALVERT, deceased, are hereby requested to bring them in properly attested...
NOTICE. I intend to petition the next General Assembly, to pass a special act, authorizing the Overseers of the Poor, or Commissioners for that purpose...
FOR SALE, 2 Carriages and 6 excellent HORSES, 2 Shires in the Norfolk Theatre, 1 Pew in the Episcopal Church, 1 Pew in the Presbyterian Church...
A GREAT BARGAIN. Wig-Wam Gardens for Sale. For sale, water, and health, none superior. Green Coffee and Leaf Sugar, 20,000 lb. choice Green COFFEE, 6,000 lb. best Philadelphia Leaf SUGAR.
THE COMMISSIONERS For Paying the Streets in Norfolk, desire to contract for as much clean stone as may be necessary for the paving of Market-Street...
Bills on London. For Sale by J. & W. Southgate, May 3.
Just Received, A few bales very fine India Cottons, suitable for Sheerings, Nankenees of superior quality; Bandana Handkerchiefs, Sewing Silks; Russia Sheeting, &c.
A BARGAIN OFFERED, In a fine and Valuable FARM, in the County of Princess-Anne. THE Subscriber is disposed to sell his Plantation called LEVEL GREEN, situated in the county of Princess-Anne...
50,000 lbs. prime Green COFFEE, For Sale by J. & W. Southgate, July 12.
SPRING GOODS. WOOD AND HASTINGS, Have just received a small supply of SEASONED BLE GOODS, among which are 4-4 Irish LINENS, part extra quality...
BROAD CLOTHS, Best Superfine Black, Blue, Olive, Brown, Red, Green, Drab, Mixed & Plain Cloths; middling and common do. One case Gunterman's Silk Plush Hats.
NOTICE. The Subscriber desires all persons who have claims against him to present them for settlement, and those who are indebted to him are requested to make immediate payment.
FOR SALE AT THIS OFFICE, Price 37 1/2 Cents, A few Copies of LETTERS, Under the signatures of SENECA and of A FARMER. Comprehending an examination of the conduct of our Executive, towards France and Great-Britain...
From the Editor's Preface. Our public enterprises, in their commencement, are always called forth great virtue and talents. Thus the present occurrences of the day prove, that the loss of our commerce for years has not turned our nation aside from that steady excellence of their rulers and faithfulness of their subjects...
NOTICE. Among the pens which have particularly attracted the public eye, and which have been found highly interesting to the subject of letters, the following are particularly recommended...
NOTICE. According to the new law, the Subscriber is now in the City of Norfolk, and has removed his Office to the corner of Market-Street and Main-Street.

AN ERROR CORRECTED.
The cause of an extraordinary nature, was decided the last term of the Hastings Court of this Bo...
We are not present at the argument, but wretched indeed would be the state of our commerce, if our courts were to countenance such actions.
The preceding article is republished, in order to correct a most material mistake committed by us. Instead of a British privateer, we should have said a French privateer.
French Diplomacy.—In our last, we presented our readers with evidences of the candour of the British ministers upon various occasions, as reported by gentlemen who are of the republican party.
How great is the force of truth! One hundred, or rather one million of times, have the democrats insisted that the X. Y. Z. story was all a fabrication, as received from the French government.
The duplicity of Talleyrand, can only be matched by the insolence of Champagny. Let every independent American read these documents, and then ask himself what security we have in a French alliance.
We however believe by a candid examination of all matters, an adjustment may be had, in which if we require cannot be obtained, we may obtain enough to satisfy the honour of the nation, and its interests for the present.
Col. Pickering, says the Raleigh (Democrat) Story has addressed a letter to Mr. Wigner, editor of the Baltimore American, in which he refutes the charges made against him in the Whig, published by Baptis Irvine.
The cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea all who inherit, shall dissolve.
Our honest tar, not so well understanding poetry as to roof a mainsail, characteristically construed it thus:
The Cloud captain Towers, St. George's Palaces, Solomon's Temple, the great globe itself, yea All who inherit it, shall dissolve.
Turning to his companion, in amazement, he exclaimed (as many good democrats now do of Canine) L—d Jack, what a terrible fellow he must be!
GOOD NEWS.
The fruits of the Archduke's victory—the continental powers begin to recover their freedom. Holland again opens her ports; and the king of Denmark has assured our consul (Pitcairn) that all American property in his dominions shall be safe.
From the Boston Patriot.
LETTER
From the Hon. E. Gerry, to Mons. C. M. Talleyrand.
[The following letter is in answer to an official note from Mons. T. published in the Patriot of May 20th.]
To His Excellency CHARLES MAURICE TALLEYRAND, Late Minister of Foreign Relations, and now a Prince of Imperial France.
Your official letter, dated Paris, the 11th Fructidor, 6th year, (the 28th of August, 1798,) to Mr. Pierson, then secretary of Legation at the Hague, has been lately published by his excellency Mr. Adams, late president of the United States, and contains remarks on my conduct while on that embassy you refer to.
After the rupture of the negotiation, by the dismissal of my colleagues, and the publication throughout Europe of our despatches, then indeed you "used," and might be stated, you repeated, "your endeavours to enter on a negotiation with myself."
Your letter next states, "that your correspondence with Mr. Gerry, until the day of his departure, is a curious monument of advances on your part, and of evasions on his."
association, which has been mentioned in his past, the rights, honour and independence of his government, and of himself.
If then, sir, your protestations were not vague, why did you not, in the informal mode agreed on, discuss fairly and substantially, the important subjects of the negotiation?
Your letter then proceeds to state, "that you wished to encourage Mr. Gerry by testimonies of regard, that his good intentions merited."
That he "wanted decision" to close with your degrading propositions, is conceded; it is demonstrated by the correspondence you refer to; and it therein appears also that he was "irresolute" to do wrong.
As a duty which I owe to myself, I have transmitted copies of this letter to yourself, through French and American channels, which will ensure the delivery of it.
Accept my assurances, sir, of all due consideration and respect.
Cambridge, July 1809.
From the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser.
"As the British have treated us perfidiously, it is requisite, for the interest of our country, that we should endeavour to conciliate France."
Boston Chronicle.
A mysterious secrecy has as long enveloped our French affairs, that the real state of our difficulties with that nation, is profoundly undiscoverable.
From a letter from General Armstrong to M. Champagny, of the 10th of July, 1808, after mentioning the destruction of four American ships by Admiral Boudin.
"Whether his majesty's government does or does not justify the conduct of rear admiral Boudin in burning on the high seas, the ships and merchandise of a neutral and friendly power."
To this interesting inquiry, the French government has not deigned to give an answer. General Armstrong in a letter to Mr. Madison, dated July 26, 1808, says—
"I owe it as well to you as to myself, to declare that every attempt to draw from the government of France, such explanations as would have met with the friendly and equitable views of the United States, has hitherto failed."
The following is an extract of a letter from the same, dated Bourbon, August 26, 1808:
"I would immediately return to Paris, to renew my discussions with M. Champagny, either personally, as you suggest, or by writing, had I not a most solemn conviction, that any new experiment made at the present moment, in either form, would certainly be useless, and perhaps injurious."
We will trouble the reader with one extract more, 'Tis from a letter of General Armstrong to Champagny, on the subject of the Berlin decree.
"If," says the general, "I had drawn no argument from the treaty of 1800 nor from the laws of nations, your excellency will not be at a loss to assign to this omission its true cause. It would surely have been a useless formality to appeal to authorities, not only practically, but even professedly extinct."
Thus has France wantonly and perfidiously set at defiance the laws of nations, and the treaty of 1800. In direct contempt of these authorities, she has requisitioned millions of our property; burnt and destroyed our ships; imprisoned and cruelly treated our seamen unhoused; our commercial relations with the world; and produced distress and dismay in our land.
Our resident minister in France has, as he declares, directed at least, twenty notes to that government, for the purpose of obtaining some mitigation of these multiplied injuries—and the result in every instance has been, the adding of insult to injury.
But notwithstanding these well authenticated, monstrous outrages on the part of France, (so say nothing of those ill-omened mysteries which are separated from our view by the veil of secrecy) there are not wanting, in this country, friends, in human shape, who with infinite zeal, are perpetually preaching up the importance of endeavouring to conciliate France.
Fellow Citizens! These creatures of Buonaparte, in order to effect an alliance with regenerating France, would willingly fit their deadly talons on the very vitals of your liberty!
From the N. Y. Mercantile Advertiser.
Non-Intercourse.—Ship owners, agents, and shippers of goods, be on your guard, as many people entertain incorrect opinions of the extent of the present non-intercourse law.
A Friend to Commerce.
From the North American.
Non-Intercourse.—It may perhaps tend to throw some light upon the long dispute, whether the non-intercourse law has been legally revived by the president against Great Britain, to observe, that if the first proclamation is regarded as importing a positive and unconditional revocation of the non-intercourse as to England, it was void, because unauthorized by law.
All the democratic "wise-acres," who agreed at the suggestion, that the law was not extinguished to En-