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Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
Martinsburg, Va. Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
No. 19 of Vol. X.
FRIDAY, September 30, 1808.
Whole No. 487.
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FRESH GOODS
Now opening.
THE subscribers have the pleasure to inform their friends, customers and the public generally, that they have just received and are now opening at their Store (Mr. Kearsley's well-known corner) in Shepherd's-Town, a complete and handsome assortment of
SPRING & SUMMER GOODS.
consisting of almost every article in the mercantile line, which have been purchased low, and will be sold on as favorable terms as any goods that will be offered this season.
They return their thanks to all those who have been pleased to call on them since their commencement in business, and flatter themselves with a continuance of the same, as they are determined that no pains shall be spared to accommodate those who may favour them with their custom.
R. WORTHINGTON, & Co. Shepherd's-Town, May 20, 1808.
THE subscribers, in addition to their former assortment, have just received and finished opening a complete and handsome variety of
SPRING & SUMMER GOODS.
(too extensive to particularize,) among which are an elegant assortment of Ladies' and Gentlemen's fashionable Manufactures, together with
A very general selection of the most permanent
EUROPEAN, INDIA and other Merchandise, the whole of which they most respectfully recommend to customers particularly, and a liberal public generally, at the most reduced Cash rates—For all former favors conferred they gratefully request permission to return public thanks, hoping in all respects relative to their line of business to merit a continuance of patronage.
THOMAS C. SMITH, & Co. Martinsburg, May 13, 1808.
The subscriber has just received a large quantity of
BAR-IRON, which he offers for sale on the lowest terms; ALSO Crowley and Blister'd STEEL.
Waldron's prime Cradling Scythes
for sale at one dollar and twenty five cents. He sells Brown Sugar as low as it is to be had in Baltimore by the quarter cwt.
He particularly solicits all those who wish to purchase GOODS for Cash to call on him, as he will undoubtedly make it to their advantage.
LEVI PRICE. Martinsburg, June 10, 1808.
Clock making & Watch repairing.
THE subscriber acquaints his friends and customers, that he is still carrying on the above business at his residence in Frederick County, on the main road leading from Martinsburg to Winchester, eighteen miles from the former and six from the latter place, where he will be thankful for any orders in his line, and trusts he shall be able to execute them with satisfaction to his employers.
He has now in his employ John Grove, well known as an excellent Watch repairer—and for the convenience of persons, in or near Martinsburg, who may want their watches cleaned or repaired, he has engaged Joseph M'Feely of that place, to receive them for him, to whom they will be returned when finished.
Watches repaired by him will be warranted to perform accurately for one year, accidents excepted.
All Clocks made by him, will, as usual, be ensured to perform with accuracy.
He makes Mill-Brands of every description.
DAES BRANSON. 6th Month 10th, 1808.
From Mr. Richard Saunders, to a friend in a neighbouring State.
LETTER III.
No my friend, I am far from thinking all the leaders of your party bad men, but there are of them even in your own town whom you know to be unprincipled and wicked, and who have been so from the beginning. You know the man who denied his father and mother—but I hate to dwell on the dark side of human nature. Yes, I answer to your question respecting the future president if we are obliged to choose between the two men, I would, as the least evil, choose George Clinton, and yet God knows, to what evils the choice would lead us. George Clinton had firmness and virtues in the revolutionary war! he was poor and honest—he is now rich, and his age, if it does not now, will soon unfit him for the exertions of mind which the office of president requires—his nephew De Witt, and not himself, will be president. De Witt is a man who marches straight forward over every impediment to his object—his object is power and grandeur. But what in the name of wonder have the federalists to do with Madison or Clinton, or any other man who hates them and would send them all packing to the Devil if he could; your friend Cheetham said in his last paper that Clinton detected the federalists when, says he, did gov. Clinton promote a federalist to office—was there an instance during his whole term as governor of this state? I believe Cheetham is right—Sir, the federalists ought to have their bones broke if they vote for one or other of your candidates—no, they have done evil long enough that good might come of it. Witness their partial votes for Burr, (who ought to have been hanged, although not by his friends the democrats, whom he brought into power in this state.) Witness their more general vote for Morgan Lewis, after the contempt with which his son-in-law Maturin treated them—how have the federalists been disappointed and disgraced by taking up your quondam friends; and they will be disgraced, and I wish they may, if they ever again mix in your affairs—touch pitch and be defiled. No, I trust the federal electors will vote for a man in whom they can confide; and in which of your candidates can they confide? In Madison, a Virginian, a pupil of the man who would make every state kneel to the old dominion, and destroy our trade and
assports? or in Clinton whose heart closes at the sight of a federalist, and who would shut out forever from his eyes the light of heaven, could every federalist be hid in darkness? Should we vote for men who either love or fear France? No we ought neither to love or fear any nation under heaven, we ought to do justice to them all, and fight like men, when they persist in doing us wrong.
You may think as you please of your political friends, but in my conscience I believe they have brought us to the brink of ruin. Is not every thing that was great under the administration of Washington and Adams become small? are we not poor at home, and despised abroad, our ships taken by one nation, burned by the other, our navy dwindled to gun boats, and keel boats, and mud scows; our army of 1800 men, more or less, commanded by a man solemnly charged at the public tribunal with bribery and corruption; our liberty violated, the habeas corpus act set at nought, our treasury consumptive, our trade annihilated, and our constitution falling daily to pieces? Well might the judicious Tappan Reeve, on the eve of the election of Jefferson, say to one who asked whether Jefferson or Burr should be voted for—"If you want your constitution killed at once, vote for little Aaron—if to die of a consumption, vote for Thomas Jefferson." Yes, he was right, and you and I my friend, I fear will live long enough to see every thing that was once thought good and honorable, consumed by the destroying fire of democracy—Down with the judiciary; down with the constitution; down with the Saviour, says Thomas Paine, the friend of Thomas Jefferson, and down with the deity, says the man who tells us that it matters not whether we believe in one God or twenty!—No, I would take neither of your candidates—We have better men of our own—Yes, a million of better men, and the people of this unhappy country will shortly confess it.
I wish to heaven you would write to me about something else than politics, I do not want to offend, or to say things which may hurt your feelings, but when you speak I must answer and I cannot answer and say peace when there is no peace. Believing as I religiously do, that the measures of your party tend to the ruin of our country, I cannot, when an opportunity is given, be silent.
Your friend, RICHARD SAUNDERS.
LETTER IV.
You still harp, my friend, on the gag law and the direct tax, and the moderation of Mr. Jefferson in not prosecuting those who calumniated him. The truth is, he dared not do it, I told you before that I did not like this bringing men's private failings before the world—Strike at their vices if you please, which tend to the ruin of their country, but let their private chamber vices alone, if there are any private vices, which do not more or less tend to make them unfit for a high station—You know very well however, that Mr. Jefferson's moderation and contempt of the charges were not the reasons of his silence—Ely in Massachusetts, and the men in Connecticut said so much against your president, and that in so public a manner, that his friends thought themselves obliged to call them to account. Was the business ever prosecuted? No, nor never will be; your president knew better than to let them bring their proof. The direct tax was made a bug bear of by the designing office hunters—You know they told most abominable lies about it—said the hearths and window lights were taxed, and a thousand other stories equally devoid of truth. The fact was that the great land holders paid the tax—My neighbor M'C—b, who owns wild lands on the lake, paid more tax than all the county beside—there
was not a man in our town who paid three dollars—No, they lied to the people, and told them John Adams was to be king, and they were to have lords and a standing army, and their children were to be taken away from them and made quancha of, to guard the king's palace, and all such stuff, and scared them to death, but now they begin to find out the difference between king Adams, as they called him, and king Jefferson, or rather king Democrat. An honest man of your party told me other day, that it was not so much for the tax itself, for it cost him but little, but it was upstart fellows who suspected it that made him mad—they put men in his collectors, said he, who were surly and overbearing, but I see, said he that our own people are going on in the same way. Our office-men are beginning to ride over poor people; I was knocked down, because I said I had a right to carry my produce from Washington to lake Champlain, and threatened by the sheriff, if ever I dared to say such a thing again, he would send me to jail. I see, said the man, that let who will be long in power, they get too saucy, and trample on the poor people.
It may have been that the federalists rode the high horse; but they never, my friend, galloped him at the rate your friends have done; it is true they laid a dry tax, and an embargo for 30 days, and began to raise an army because they expected a French invasion—Your party raise an army when every body knows the British will not come—and the French cannot come. Your embargo is eternal, and takes from us more in an hour than all the dry and wet taxes we have ever paid. Tom Leiper and Tench Cox and Billy Dunne, the French printer, say the people like it—We shall see if this is true. I know that the people in our town, aristocrats and democrats, whigs and tories, all say that it is a dreadful tax, which they don't see the use of. Suppose you do starve 50,000 British, what good will that do you—it won't make our situation any better. Will it pay our debts?—Your friends call it a dignified attitude I would however, rather sit double on a load of wheat for which I expected to get 12s. a bushel, than go to prison in a dignified attitude. No, the attitude to which we are coming as fast as we can, is the creeping, begging attitude! We must creep to Virginia, and creep to France, and creep to De Witt Clinton, and the other great men of the nation, before long—Yes, I know that though gov. Clinton, as a northern man, may dislike the embargo which he sees is ruining his friends, as well as his enemies; he would not dare, was he president to-morrow, to do it away; the party at the northward, would be afraid that if he did, the party at the southward would quit them. No, no, whatever democrat reigns, the same measures will be pursued. The Jefferson and Madison and Monroe men wish to destroy the northern commerce, we are getting richer and more powerful than they are; and the Clinton men will agree with their brethren for fear of the loss of power. You know how things are going on as well as I do, you can see. Did you ever hear of such dreadful tyranny as we groan under—neither flour nor bread nor any thing else can be brought from one part of the United States to another without governor Sullivan or governor Langdon, or some other democratic governor shall give a permit. The stamp act was a fool to this. It is worse than the inquisition! Why, sir, there is not a king in Europe but Bonaparte that would dare to do such a thing—not let our own citizens eat without a permit! If merchants or others break the laws, punish them—cut their heads off if you please—but don't starve your own people for fear the British should get a bit of bread. It is bad enough for us whose grain is rotting—but it is infinitely worse for our poor eastern neighbors who know

where it is, but can't get it. I am always, notwithstanding our political differences, your friend.
RICHARD SAUNDERS.
Late and Important News FROM SPAIN.
NEW YORK, Sept. 17.
By the arrival last evening of the ship Shepherdess , captain Doane, in 46 day from Cadiz, we have received the official details (in Spanish) of two bloody battles which were fought at Baylen and Anjujar on the 18th and 21st of July, between the Spanish Patriots and the French army under the command of Generals Dupont and Gobert, in which the latter were completely defeated, and made prisoners. We have procured translations for this evening.
Since putting the above in type, a gentleman of this city, has handed us a letter from his correspondent in Cadiz, containing the following highly important additional intelligence.
Cadiz, July 23, 1808.
"The paper inclosed contains the details of the capture by the troops of this single Province, of an entire French army, which consisted, when it left Madrid, of 22,000 men. The capitulation was signed on the 21st instant. The prisoners actually surrendered are said to exceed 16,000, and at this time there remains not a single Frenchman in arms in Andalusia. In most of the other provinces, the whole mass of the people have displayed a determined spirit of resistance to the French, and several very bloody battles have been fought, which have uniformly terminated favourably to the Spaniards, particularly at Valencia and Saragossa, where two very considerable bodies of French have been totally cut to pieces—in short the Spaniards appear so unanimous and so zealous in their determination to drive the French out of the country, that I am not without great hopes of their complete success. As yet no general government has been formed—but the Junta or Councils, established in each province, for its temporary government, have taken the most decided measures to oppose the enemy with success, by obliging all the inhabitants between the ages of 16 and 45, to serve in the army, without distinction of rank. Envoys have been sent to England, to demand supplies of arms and ammunition—these have been received in the most flattering manner by the government of Great Britain to whom this revolution is all important, and the subject of much exertion. But while I rejoice that Bonaparte is likely to be stopped in his career to universal despotism, I very much fear it will increase the difficulty of bringing our disputes with Great Britain to a favorable conclusion."
29th July.
"The post from Malaga has just arrived, and brings letters dated 26th inst. containing the following information—viz; That on the 25th in the afternoon, a Xebec from Ivice, entered that port, and brought intelligence, that before her departure from that island, an English frigate had arrived there in a damaged state, having been in an engagement, which had taken place in the Mediterranean, between an English squadron, commanded by Admiral Thornborough, and a French fleet of eleven sail of the line, from Toulon, with troops on board destined for Spain. When the frigate left the fleet, two French ships were sunk and two taken, and the English were in pursuit of the others. The letters say that the account is fully believed in Malaga, and that an express has been sent off by the government of that place with the news to the Junta of Seville."
[Translated for the Evening Post.]
The Field Marshal Don Theodore Reding has sent the following dispatch, dated on the 22d instant, to his Excellency Signior Don Francisco Xavier Castanos, General in Chief of the army of operations of Andalusia:
Most Excellent Sir, since the dispatch which I transmitted to your Excellency on the 17th inst. informing you of the attack made by the division under my command upon that of Gen. Gobert, who was killed in the action,
and whose division was dislodged from all the positions which it had taken contiguous to Baylen, and completely beaten, and of the reasons which induced me to return to Menjicar; I passed in the afternoon of the 17th the river Guadalquivir, and took a position that night—on the 18th at day break I was joined by the second division under the command of Field Marshal the Marquis de Coupigny, and we both marched towards this town for the purpose of attacking the enemy if he occupied it.
As soon as I arrived, in obedience to your excellency's orders, I disposed the columns of attack facing towards Andujar. At three in the morning of the 19th, when the troops were forming to begin their march, Gen. Dupont with his army attacked our camp, and commenced a fire of his artillery, with a design doubtless, to surprise us; but with the quickness of lightning, all the troops of the two divisions, led by their worthy officers, flew to the points attacked, assisted by the artillery of both. At sunrise our troops were in possession of the heights which they formerly occupied, and the enemy commenced their attacks upon various points of the line, having the advantage of forming their columns under cover from our fire in consequence of their occupying a better position protected by their artillery.
At every point they were repulsed, and in their turn assailed, notwithstanding the violence of their attacks, which they repeated without more interruption than was necessary to fall back and form new columns, until half past twelve, but were fatigued, without being able to gain ground, although they had several times broken our lines of defence with the intrepidity of troops accustomed to conquer, and penetrated to our batteries, which were that day served in a manner which astonished and terrified the enemy, and which has few examples: for they not only immediately dismounted all the artillery of the enemy, but routed whatever columns presented themselves, always protecting the points attacked, and varying their positions as circumstances required.
General Dupont then placed himself with the other generals at the head of the columns supported by the artillery, and made a last attack with admirable boldness; but with no better success, and we are told by the enemy that 14 of their guns were dismounted, that their loss amounted to 2000 men killed and many wounded, among the latter Dupont and two other generals.
In this situation Gen. Dupont requested to capitulate, and hostilities were suspended in both armies, it being agreed that they should remain in their respective positions, and the consequence of the valour and constancy of the brave troops composing these two divisions has been the total defeat and capture of the army of Dupont, and that of Bedel has shared the same fate, with the difference only of receiving their arms at the time of embarkation, notwithstanding the position which the latter took contrary to the laws of war after the suspension of arms granted to it, and to its General in Chief.
[The remainder of this dispatch contains only an enumeration of the Spanish officers who distinguished themselves, and an eulogium on their conduct; it thus concludes:]
I glory in having commanded such worthy troops, who have sustained the honour and reputation of the Spanish nation, and shews how capable they are of supporting the noble cause which has obliged them to take up arms in defence of their Religion, their Sovereign and their Country, and who in two actions only, have destroyed the enemy and accomplished the design of the wise government which employed them and reposed in them its confidence.
REDING.
Baylen, July 22, 1808.
Most Serene Sir,
I have the satisfaction of acquainting your highness, with the complete victory obtained since the battle of Baylen. Gen. Dupont and the whole of his division, with their arms, artillery, baggage, &c. are prisoners of war. The others, who were not in the action, although they are not in the same
situation, are included in the capitulation, and obliged to return to France by sea, so that not one Frenchman remains in Andalusia.
The particulars will be communicated to you, by my nephew Colonel Don Pedro Agustin Giron, adjutant general of Infantry, and until you receive circumstantial details, your highness may be assured, that the bravery of the troops and officers, their constancy, sufferings and privations correspond with the sentiments which your highness entertains of them, and which the army merits, and with the opinion which I have of their patriotism and zeal for the public cause.
I make bold to request your highness to fulfil for me the vow which I have made, to dedicate this action to the glorious St. Ferdinand. God preserve your highness many years.
Head Quarters at Andujar, July 21, 1808.
XAVIER DE CASTANOS.
His serene highness the President of the Supreme Council.
Yesterday, the 20th, Spain, or rather the army of your highness, obtained the most complete victory which the nation has seen for many ages. The result is an imitation of the battle of Pavia; in one moment the Andalusians are freed from the French arms.—The division of Dupont, with every thing belonging to it, and all its generals, are captured, and the other divisions which occupied his majesty's dominions, from the summit of the Sierra to Baylen, evacuate the Peninsula by sea. This is the substance of the treaty which his excellency Gen. Castanos and I had the honour to sign last night, and as we were in camp at midnight, exhausted by fatigue and watchfulness, it is not possible at present to transmit to your highness, the details of the capitulations and battles, but I shall do it as soon as time permits.
This pleasing intelligence will be communicated by Don Pedro Agustin Giron Lieutenant Col. of the columns of Provincial Grenadiers with the rank of Col. and Adjutant General, an officer of the highest merit, who by the talents and bravery which he has displayed in many actions and particularly in this army has rendered himself worthy of whatever favors your Highness may be pleased to bestow upon him.
I have ordered allegiance to be sworn this day to our new King Don Ferdinand VII. which had not been performed in this city, the Te Deum to be sung, and illuminations for three nights.
God preserve your Highness many years—Head Quarters at Andujar, July 21, 1808.
EL CONDE DE TILLY.
His Serene Highness the President and the Members of the Supreme Council of Spain and the Indies.
Battle between the Spaniards and French, near Valladolid.
The intelligence we have to communicate to day is of a different complexion from that which we have for some time had the happiness of laying before our readers. The Spanish Patriots have sustained a check in Leon—Government last night received dispatches from Sir Thomas Dyer, dated on the 16th, from Benevento. They state that a battle was fought on the 14th between the Spaniards under General Cuesta, and the French under general Lassolies. We stated on Saturday that general Cuesta was at Villepanda, and that it was his intention to march against Valladolid, with a view of cutting off the communication between the enemy in the North of Spain and the troops at Madrid. The French were aware of his intention, and of the importance of keeping Valladolid if possible. They marched to meet the Patriots—the battle took place at Rico Seco, near Valladolid.—The force of the Patriots was—
Infantry, 14,000
Cavalry, 800
Besides a body of peasants, and twenty-six pieces of cannon.—The French had in
Infantry, 10,000
Cavalry, 2,000
And a very great quantity of cannon. The ardor and impetuosity of the new levies in the Patriot Army were not to be restrained, and consequently they fell upon the French, and in the
first onset drove the enemy back, capturing four pieces of cannon, which they spiked. But the battle being fought on an extensive plain, the Patriots were not able to secure their flanks, and their cavalry was much inferior to the enemy's—The latter, in consequence, were able to take them in flank, and the Patriots, who had the advantage in the outset, were not able to preserve it. They were, after four hours and a half's fight, from eight till half past twelve, compelled to retreat. But this they effected in good order to Benevento, under cover of a Spanish regiment of carabineers, leaving behind them 13 pieces of cannon. But the French, superior as they were in cavalry, suffered so much in the battle, that they were unable to pursue them, and they did not even enter Rico Seco till four hours after the battle. It was reported that the French general Lassolies was killed, as his horse was said to have been found without a rider. General Cuesta remained at Benevento when Sir Thomas Dyer sent off his dispatches on the 26th, and as reinforcements were pouring in from all parts, it was hoped he would soon be able to attack the enemy with every prospect of success.
It is undoubtedly of the greatest importance that the French should, if possible be cut off from Madrid, but certainly the plains of Leon and Castile afford a great advantage to the enemy, who have a superiority of cavalry and artillery, and who fight against troops not yet completely disciplined.
It is with regret that we communicate the above intelligence; but it was not to be expected that victory would attend the Patriots in every encounter. That in the outset they should have made at all against the French is to be wondered at. Besides there is nothing in this defeat disgraceful to them—far from it. There was no great inequality of numbers, and the enemy, by being so superior in cavalry, fought with manifest advantage. The Patriots behaved with great courage—they were not thrown into confusion—they retreated in good order, and the French did not dare to pursue them. The enemy, we have no doubt, will see no reason to be proud of their success. The affair of Rico Seco affords them a specimen of the kind of resistance they have to expect in every part of Spain. The defeat of gen. Cuesta, therefore, does not by any means weaken our belief that the French will not be able to conquer Spain.
Domestic Intelligence.
BALTIMORE, Sept. 21. DISTRESSING GALE.
During the gale last evening, great damage was sustained by the shipping in the harbor. We have reason to fear that many lives were lost, and much injury sustained, more than has come to our knowledge, as many pleasure boats and bay craft were in the river at the time the gale commenced; and as its violence during half an hour, from N. W. exceeded any thing of the kind witnessed for many years past. We are informed that a Packet bound to the Eastern shore was upset, from which were lost five persons; but have not learnt their names. Fifteen or twenty sail, amongst which were several fineships, broke their fasts and were driven with great violence high and dry on the south side of the basin. We anticipate with sorrow, fearful accounts from the Bay and Coast.
Since writing the above, we are informed that one of the vessels upset was commanded by Capt. Brown, bound to Cherrystone; captain amongst the lost.
A Gentleman direct from Sackett's Harbour (says the Albany Crisis ) has politely favoured us with the following particulars relative to the conduct of Mr. Jefferson's embargo keepers at that place.
A few more RED-COATS, with Wilkinson at their head, and we should be completely under Military Law .
On Monday, 29th ult. Capt. Edes took in at Sackett's Harbour a cargo of pot-ash, and the Collector, Hart Massey, Esq. granted him a regular clear-

ance. In the afternoon of that day proposals were made to Capt. Edes by the Collector for a charter of his vessel, (a schooner of 80 tons) for the use of the United States, and several conversations ensued on that subject between them, together with Lieut. Cross, the commanding officer of the troops stationed at that port. In the evening of the same day, however, the contract was abandoned entirely by the Collector and Capt. Edes, about 2 o'clock, Tuesday morning, Lieut. Cross entered the schooner with a file of soldiers, woke up the men, sent them out of the vessel, and compelled Capt. Edes to quit his schooner by presenting to his breast a pocket pistol, accompanied with threats. On Tuesday morning Capt. Edes having stated the above facts on oath before William Baker, Esq. a Justice of the Peace, obtained a peace warrant from him against the said Cross, which was handed to Mr. Ambrose Pease, a constable of said village. Mr. Pease soon after meeting Lieut. C. in the street, informed him that he had a process against him, and that he must accompany him to Esq. Baker's. Lieut. C. peremptorily refused to go, alledging that he was not amenable to the civil authority, and ordered the sentry, who was about 10 feet distant, to fire on him. The sentry aimed, snapped his piece twice, and the inhabitants disarmed him. Lieut. C. then drew his pistol, but was prevented from executing his purpose by the inhabitants who disarmed him and took him into custody. The inhabitants, highly exasperated, then collected to the number of 50 or 60, armed with axes, pikes, &c. and threatened to massacre the soldiers, and collected around the tents, but were persuaded to desist by the interference of a number of reflecting men. Lieut. Cross, expressed a wish to visit his room, which was permitted him, but no sooner had he entered it, than he seized his cutlass and threatened to kill them, (his keepers) unless they left his room. He was again disarmed, and when I left Champion, on Thursday, was confined in the store of Mr. Hooker, until proper proceedings could be had by the civil authority against him. The Sheriff of Jefferson county left Hurland at day light on Wednesday morning, having been sent for on express.
On Monday the Vault of the Court Room in the North Wing of the Capitol fell down. Several workmen, under the direction of Mr. Yno. Lenthall, the clerk of the works, were under the vault, lowering down that part of the centre which still stood under it, just before it fell. A loud crack gave notice of their danger, and all of them escaped out of the windows, or under the adjoining vaults; excepting Mr. Lenthall, who, to judge from the place in which his body was found, wanted only a single step to have secured his retreat also. But being under that part of the arch, the centre of which had been removed on Friday; he was suddenly buried under many tons of bricks, and must have been instantaneously deprived of sensation and life.
As all the buttresses of this vault are standing, without the smallest failure, it is not easy satisfactorily to account for the sudden falling of the work.
Nat. Intelligencer.
From our correspondent at Havana, dated the 26th August—received via Baltimore.
"The people here continue firm and steadfast in opposition to the French. Some of the inhabitants had lately shown a disposition to be troublesome in their conduct towards the public officers suspecting them to be in French interests. But the Governor in a spirited and well-timed proclamation declaring it not possible such an attachment could exist now towards that nation, and threatening to bring the GALLICATORS to a hard reckoning, has silenced them, and every thing is quiet. Very large patriotic contributions are making towards the expenses of the war." [ New York Gazette.
The emigration from Vermont and New York State, by the way of Buffalo to Canada within these last three months, has, we are told, been very considerable indeed. Constrained by the calamities resulting from an oppressive and insupportable embargo,
and its consequent idleness, families, waggons and carts, are daily passing into the British territories, with a hope of ameliorating their situation.
Martinsburg, September 30.
Alexandria price Current on the 24th instant.
FLOUR, Superfine $ 5 25 Ditto, at Baltimore, 5 50
We are highly gratified (says the Baltimore North American) to have it in our power, to announce to the public the success which true principles are about to attain in the important county of Frederick. We are enabled to say, with as much confidence, as an approaching election will admit of, that there is no fear but that the Legislative representation from that country will be completely federal. The candidates are gentlemen of private and political worth, and we congratulate the State, that among them is John Hanson Thomas.
Capt. Mott, the ringleader of the unfortunate affair in Vermont, in which Ormsby &c. were killed has received his trial, and is found guilty of murder. Eleven others who were also concerned have been apprehended, against some of whom indictments for murder have been preferred, and others who were also engaged in the affair have been charged with being guilty of high treason.
London, July 4.—Out of nineteen empires, kingdoms, and principalities, into which Europe appeared geographically divided in 1789, Bonaparte and his family are now, 1808, actually in possession of ELEVEN! The population of these countries is estimated at 69,000,000 persons, and the armed force at 2,026,000.
Extract of a Letter from a respectable American in Cadiz, dated July 28, to a Gentleman in Baltimore.
"Our Junta of Government have been much occupied with a signal victory gained over the French army, and with the arrangements necessary to be made for near 17,000 prisoners taken.
"The vessels detained at Algesiras under the French decrees, have been ordered by the Council of Seville to be delivered up; but the delays and embarrassments interposed by the officers at the former place, have hitherto prevented their liberation, which however is expected to take place very soon."
The captain of the schooner West Indian, arrived at Baltimore on Saturday morning from Jamaica, states that the embargo is most severely felt in that island—that flour is 48 dollars per barrel, and cod fish 39 dollars per cwt—and every other article of necessity at a proportionate price.
At a meeting of the Democratic Republicans of Jefferson county, at the house of Capt. Geo. Hite, in Charles Town, on Tuesday the 13th inst. Geo. North, Esq. was chosen chairman and Mr. John Humphreys secretary—when the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, the affairs of the people of the U. S. under the guidance of the present administration, have been conducted with wisdom and prudence, and with a due regard to the people's freedom, honor, happiness and safety.
Resolved, That the many and important services rendered his country through a series of years, the undoubted talents, the well-tried patriotism and integrity of our fellow citizen, JAMES MADISON, pre-eminently point him out as the fittest person for our next president: We therefore highly approve of the nomination made by a great majority of the Republican members of Congress, of James Madison for our President, and George Clinton for Vice-President, and pledge ourselves to support their election by every fair and honorable means.
Resolved, That, upon the most mature reflection, we cannot but approve of the law laying an Embargo, and the continuance of it, until the causes by which it was produced, are removed: We therefore warn our Republican friends, and the friends of their country,
to be aware of the insidious attempts to weaken their confidence in our government, and earnestly exhort them to stand by and support, and not, by opposing it, divide weaken and distract ourselves, and thereby encourage and strengthen our enemies.
Resolved, It is with astonishment and concern we hear the evils of the present times attributed to the embargo, when it must be evident to all who can and will read, that those evils proceed from the British Orders of Council, and French Decrees, which not only go to the entire destruction of our commerce, but aim the deadliest blows at our independence. We deprecate that spirit which actuates the enemies of the administration, to heap on their own government detraction and abuse, and misrepresent their acts, while they virtually approve and applaud the conduct of our enemies. But at the same time we cannot forbear to express our admiration at the candour and ingenuousness of the late president, Mr. John Adams, Mr. William Gray, (of Salem) and other highly distinguished Federalists, who loosing themselves from party, hesitate not to declare their entire approbation of the measures pursued by the government and administration with respect to our foreign enemies.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this meeting, Col. JOHN MORROW is a proper person to be chosen at the next election, to represent this district in Congress, and that they will support his election by every fair and honorable exertion in their power.
Resolved, That this meeting do recommend Capt. Smith Slaughter, and Daniel Morgan, Esq. to the voters of Jefferson county, as proper persons to represent them in the next General Assembly of Virginia, and pledge themselves to support their election by all honorable means.
Resolved, That Capt. Geo. Hite, Capt. Richard Baylor, Doctor J. W. Davis, and John Dixon, Esq. be a committee to correspond with the Republicans of Berkeley and Hampshire counties, upon the subject of our next Congressional election.
Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions be signed by the president and secretary, and offered for publication in the Farmer's Repository, and Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
GEO. NORTH, President, J. HUMPHREYS, Sec'y.
The positions taken in the foregoing Resolutions, shall, at a future time, be discussed in this Paper.
Exitors.
At a respectable and numerously attended meeting of REPUBLICANS, held at Mr. Cephas Beall's inn, for the purpose of nominating a Congressional candidate for the ensuing periodical sessions, it was unanimously voted that Capt. JOHN MORROW should take the chair, and William Sommerville act as secretary; whereupon it was, unanimously, Resolved, That the Hon. JOHN MORROW, our present representative, in consideration of his sound moral, and political principles, and undeviating conduct—his intelligence, firm patriotism, long tried and faithful services, is justly entitled to our fullest approbation—and, we do therefore nominate him accordingly, and by every legal, fair and honorable means we shall, as much as in us lies, endeavour the success of his election—whilst we respectfully beg leave to recommend in the most earnest manner to all of our Republican brethren a like adoption, and effort as we now pledge ourselves to, in his favour—For, "EVERY MAN HIS OWN MAN"—"DIVIDEN"—"FALL."
Resolved, That a permanent committee be raised, to consist of the seven persons following, a majority of whom shall be competent to act, viz. Captains Levi Hough, George Robinson, William Gregory and Lewis B. Willis, and Messrs. William Long, John Drinker and William Sommerville, whose special duty it shall be, to correspond with such, or whoever may, (if any) be appointed by our sister Councils of the district—(whose communications are hereby respectfully solicited)—and to transact all other matters relative to the pending election, which may compare with their standing and means—Also, to select not less than twenty, nor more than twenty-five persons, distinguished for their patriotism, activity and zeal, as a committee of vigilance, on whom they will earnestly enjoin the high obligation of inculcating upon their fellow citizens, the great duty of not suffering themselves to be imbued ill-founded prejudices against their faithful friends and ablest public Characters—to guard against erroneous impressions, however plausible or artfully attempted to be made relative to public and general measures and events—to reflect, that as cause and effect will invariably accord—then, if the past and present system has rendered the People happy, because the most saving peaceful and secure: So must such in future prove; Therefore to be unanimous, persevering and alert—and we must succeed.
3dly. WHEREAS, tho' in common with our fellow citizens of the UNION, we cannot but feel the extreme pressure arising from an interdicted intercourse with foreign nations: Yet viewing it as the only alternative, or choice left betwixt indiscriminate and all-ruining plunder of the property, and sequestration of our sea-faring citizens, at the expense of their personal liberty and comfort, the support and solace of
their bereaved families, and of that of the great maritime interests of the nation—(all thus eventually liable to be cut off by the two most powerful and vindictive Belligerents of Europe, who, it would appear, are determined alike to sacrifice both friend and foe, so as they may but crush each the other)—And, an expensive, a demoralizing—a bloody and, for us it is impossible to say when or how, terminable WAR—We therefore cannot withhold our unqualified assent, as to the constitutional, as to the just, the expedient, and indispensable necessity of the precautionary measures adopted by the National Legislature at their late sessions—whilst the EXECUTIVE, in execution of the arduous and important duties hereby necessarily imposed, as well as generally, we most conscientiously aver as our belief, Has deserved well of the country.
4thly. HOWEVER impelled to applaud the purity of the motives, the nobleness of the principles, and disinterestedness of the aim which has induced the retirement from office of that truly great because really good man, THOMAS JEFFERSON—To whom we sincerely wish the due and full reward of all his personal merits, and patriotic labours. Yet we cannot but express our unfeigned regrets—thereat—But we are led to view with a consoling confidence, the next nearest possible acquisition of his services—of his virtues, and that Governmental system by him so long and successfully pursued, (the privation of which the Nation is soon now to sustain, and would otherwise, doubtlessly, more feelingly deplore, were it not that) in the substitution of a MADISON, all these we hope to see realized—And, that the venerable Father of '76, GEORGE CLINTON, will continue still to serve his country by occupying and honouring the Senatorial Chair.
ORDERED, That the foregoing, duly signed and attested, be offered for publication in the Berkeley and Jefferson Papers.
JOHN GRAY, Chairman.
Attest. WILLIAM SOMMERVILLE, Sec'y. Martinsburg, Sept. 17th, 1808.
POSTSCRIPT.
By the arrival of the ship Alknomac, at N. York, London dates to the 28th July, two days later than those received via Boston, contain no news of consequence. The Swedish army has retired within its own frontiers and the Russians is said to have withdrawn from Finland. Accounts from Oporto state that the force under Junot is stronger than was at first supposed and that he has received reinforcements. The Spanish Gen. Cuesta with 71,000 men is said to be in pursuit of a French force of 17,000 under Besalieres.
Correspondents.
"A Federalist" was in type, but, to give place to the important Spanish news in this paper, obliged us to postpone its publication.
"Phil" and "A Virginian" are received, and for the same cause omitted this week.
Beakeley, ss. August Court, 1807. George Bowman, Complainant. AGAINST John Bowman and Joseph Foreman, Defendants. In CHANCERY.
THE defendants, not having entered their appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered, that the defendants do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in November next, to answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of said County.
A Copy Teste. DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
Prime Soal and Upper Leather FOR SALE.
THE subscriber now has, and will have during the fall and winter, PRIME SOAL at twenty-two cents per pound, by the single side; a generous reduction will be made by the quantity. Some well finished Upper and Calf-Skins, with part cash, will be taken in exchange for Soal.
EBENEZER CAMPBELL. N. B. An exceeding good Iron Mill, with all the apparatus for grinding bark, will be sold Cheap.
Shepherd's Town, Virg. [2m.] September 30, 1808.

SHEPHERD'S-TOWN RACES Will commence on my field near this town, on Wednesday the 19th of October next, and continue for three days. The first day's purse will be fifty dollars, four rounds to a heat, which is supposed to be about three miles. The second day's purse will be thirty-five dollars, three rounds to a heat, and the third day will be a Sweepstake of about twenty dollars, two rounds to a heat, free for any horse, mare or gelding, the winning horse the preceding days excepted; four horses to start each day or no race. Five per cent. entrance for each horse, to be paid the day preceding each days race, or double at the stake. Judges will be appointed and each race will be run and conducted agreeable to the rules of the late Charles-Town Jockey Club, except horses starting for the Sweepstake, will carry each a feather. All disputes will be settled at the pole. No person will be permitted to erect a booth on the ground unless he is a subscriber for at least ten dollars to the races. Tolls will likewise be required from all persons not subscribers to the race, for which purpose a gate will be erected.
DANL. STALEY, Manager. Sept. 23, 1808.
P.S. No person will be permitted to sell Beer, Cyder and Cakes, on the ground, unless they pay four dollars each towards the races.
An Overseer Wanted.
I SHALL want on the 24th day of December next, an
OVERSEER,
who can come well recommended for his honesty, industry and capacity for business.
ELISHA BOYD.
Sept. 23, 1808.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT there will be sold on the premises, commonly called Lurgen , to the highest bidder at Public Sale, on Saturday the 8th day of October next, two improved Lots of LAND joining the south side of Martinsburg, on both sides of the new road leading to Winchester, Charles-Town, &c. containing four and a half acres each, on which are a comfortable dwelling house, a good stable and a good fowl house, a large garden with a number of fruit-trees, a well of living water, all inclosed under a tolerable good fence. The said lots will be sold separate or together as may suit the purchasers, subject to Mrs. E. Smith's lease which will expire next March, and also D. Shofstall's, only till the present crop of Buckwheat is cut, but the rents and profits will belong to the purchaser from the day of sale. One half the purchase money will be required in hand, and the other half in two equal annual payments with sufficient security. A good title will be made the purchaser. The sale will begin at half past two in the afternoon of that day, when due attendance will be given by me or my agent.
CATHERINE M'KEWAN.
Sept. 23, 1808.
The said lots together would suit for a nursery man, a Distiller, a Butcher, a Schoolmaster, a public house, or any kind of tradesmen.
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away on Saturday night the 27th of August last, from the subscriber living on Back Creek, Frederick County, Virginia, a Negro man named Michael, whom I bought of Le Roy Dangerfield of the said County, on the 11th of July last. He is of a dark complexion and of middle stature, probably about five feet nine or ten inches high; one or more of his fore teeth are out; but do not know what number; from the loss of them he will be discovered to hiss a little; he has rather a simple look; when he is interrogated, will be apt to answer yes indeed or no indeed . A reward of ten dollars with reasonable charges will be given if brought home, or secured in any jail, so that I get him again.
ROBERT LOCKHART.
Michael is about 22 years of age. September 16, 1808.
Public Sale.
WILL be sold at Public Vendue, on Monday the third of October next, at the house of Michael Teasy, deceased, in Shepherd's-Town, all the personal property of said Teasy, consisting of the following articles, viz:
An assortment of GROCERIES, among which are Loaf Sugar, Spirits, Wine and Whisky; also one Mare and Colt, Cows, Hogs, one Eight-day Clock, a number of Feather Beds and Bedding; also all kinds of Household and Kitchen Furniture, with a number of articles too numerous for insertion. Twelve months credit will be given, the purchaser giving note or bond, with approved security. The sale will commence at 10 o'clock on said day, if fair, if not the next fair day, and continue from day to day until the whole is sold. Attendance will be given by
JACOB WELSHHANS, } HENRY COOKUS, } Shepherd's-Town, Sept. 23, 1808.
NOTICE.
THE Co-partnership existing between Ebenezer Campbell, Samuel M'Knight and John M'Knight, is this day dissolved by mutual consent.
EBENEZER CAMPBELL, SAMUEL M'KNIGHT, JOHN M'KNIGHT. Shepherd's-Town, Sept. 9, 1808.
Carriage Manufactory
THE subscriber respectfully informs the public, that he has now in his employ, at his Carriage Manufactory in Shepherd's-Town, Virginia, a number of excellent workmen from the most fashionable Cities, which will put it in his power to furnish his employers, on a short notice, with Carriages of any description, finished in the most elegant, or in a plain and neat style, at reasonable prices.
Old Carriages will be handsomely repaired, at cheap rates.
He makes Drums and Fifes, Paints Floor Cloths, &c.
His local situation, will always enable him to procure timber and other materials of the best quality, and he is determined that no pains shall be spared to make his work handsome and serviceable.
GEORGE MILLER. Shepherd's-Town, Sept. 2, 1808.
LANDS for sale.
ON Monday the 21st of November next, being the 1st day of the Court of the County of Berkeley for that month, at the Globe Tavern in Martinsburg, I will sell at public auction for ready money, a very valuable tract of LAND containing about 226 acres lying about a mile and an half from the town of Martinsburg. There are on the premises a good dwelling house, kitchen, barn, &c. and the whole is in tenanted condition. It will be shown on application to Mr. Samuel B. Harris in whose tenure it now is, and possession will be given to the purchaser on the 1st of April next.
This property was some years since sold under a deed of trust from Michael M'Kewan and wife for the benefit of Gen. Swann and others of the city of Baltimore to whom it now belongs. It is encumbered with an old Mortgage which will be extinguished prior to the sale. Full information as to the title will be given on application to
PHILIP C. PENDLETON. Martinsburg, Virginia, } August 12, 1808.
FLAX SEED.
The subscriber gives the highest price for clean FLAX SEED. L. PRICE. Martinsburg, Sept. 16, 1808.
WRITING PAPER
For sale at this office.
Ladies fashionable Bonnets and Hats.
Just received, a great variety of Fashionable Bonnets and Hats, Wreaths, Artificial Flowers, Ostrich Feathers, Lace Veils, Broad Thread Lace, Patent Cotton, ditto, Fine Thread Edging, Lace Sleeves, Spider Net, ditto, Extra long Silk Gloves, ditto White Kid, ditto, Short Kid and Silk, ditto, Kid, Morocco & Leather Slippers, Figured and plain Leno Muslins, Cambric, ditto, Chintzes and Calicoes, Dimities, Irish LINENS, Home-made, ditto, Twilled Bags, FLAX, Ticklingburgs, &c. &c.
They also have on hand, Medicines and Paints, Soap and Upper Leather, Nice Fair-tops, Calf-Skins and Boot-Legs, Bar-Iron, Steel and Nails, Bacon, Flax-seed Oil, Well-seasoned Plank.
A complete assortment of China, Glass, Queens, Stone, Tin, Wood-en and Potter's Ware.
Also, Cast Nuts for grinding Fruit.
Superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, Flannels, Velvets, Constitution and Presidents Cords, Mill-Saws, &c. &c.
All which they are selling very cheap. JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's-Town, } September 2, 1808. P.S. Cash paid for Hides and Skins.
LANDS for sale.
A BARGAIN may be had in the purchase of the place where John Files and Basil Cross now reside, containing five hundred acres of good lime stone LAND, binding on Opecon-Creek, distant about five miles from this place and six from Shepherd's-Town. The buildings are comfortable, with a mill seat on Opecon. The title good, the price low and the payments will be made easy to a punctilious man. Those who are inclined to buy, may know the terms on application to John Baker, Esq. at Shepherd's-Town.
BENJAMIN ODEN. Martinsburg, Nov. 20, 1807.
PROPOSALS
FOR PRINTING BY SUBSCRIPTION, The Armenian Skeleton, By WILLIAM HUNTINGTON.
THE publisher has been induced to offer a new American edition of this work to the public from the scarceness of it, (it being almost out of print) and with the hope that its circulation will be a great public good, and have a tendency to point out to mankind after righteousness the true path in which it may be found. He trusts that it will richly repay those for its perusal who are in search after Divine truths; all who wish to see the glorious Gospel promoted and spread through our land, he doubts not, will feel a disposition to encourage this scarce and valuable work.
The publisher is not actuated by interested views in offering this work to the public; his sole object is the dissemination of truths necessary for every human creature to be acquainted with; he only wishes to obtain as many subscribers as will pay for the printing, his own situation being such as to put it out of his power to have it republished without the aid of others.
The work will probably make from 250 to 300 duodecimo pages; it shall be well printed on good paper, and the price, half bound, shall not exceed one dollar; those who wish them bound in leather can have them at the additional expense of binding; if the number of subscribers should be equal to his expectation, the price in all probability will be less.
The work will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers are obtained to pay for the printing.
Subscriptions received at the office of the Intelligencer . JOHN HUTCHINSON. June 3, 1808.
Notice to Carpenters.
THE Commissioners of the town of Bath, having impowered me to contract with a workman to construct new Baths, I hereby give notice, that I wish to receive proposals on that subject, as speedily as possible.
RAWLEIGH COLSTON. September 9, 1808.
A GENERAL meeting of the Overseers of the Poor of Jefferson County, is directed to be held at the house of Mr. Brown, in Shepherd's-Town, on the first Monday in October next, at ten o'clock in the morning.
By order of the President. JAMES BROWN, C. O. P. September 9, 1808.
20 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living near Opecon in Jefferson County, Virginia, on Monday the 6th instant, a Negro Man named ELISHA, about twenty one years of age, about five feet seven or eight inches high, well made, rather slow in his speech, and is remarkably fond of liquor—Had on when he went away, a new shirt and trowsers of strong home-made tow linen, striped swansdown jacket, and roundabout made of fulled lindsey of a drab colour, the under part of the sleeves made of cloth nearly of the same colour, a wool hat about half worn, with a hat band and buckle, the hat band wrapped round with brass wire, and coarse shoes much worn. I will give twenty dollars reward and all reasonable expenses for the apprehension of the said Negro, if he is returned to me, or secured in jail, so that I get him again.
ABRAHAM GORRELL. June 17, 1808.
BOOT & SHOE MANUFACTORY
MARTINSBURG.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his customers and the public, that he still occupies his old stand, between the Post-Office and Printing-Office, Martinsburg; that he has lately made a considerable addition to his stock of leather, (which is of the best quality) and shall constantly keep by him a large assortment, so that none who may please to employ him, will ever be disappointed; he will be careful in always keeping the best workmen, and from his own particular attention, feels an assurance, that he shall be able to give satisfaction to his customers—Boots and Shoes, of every description, will be carefully made, agreeable to directions—He intends to keep, ready-made, a variety of work for Ladies and Gentlemen—Having a large stock of Leather on hand, he will be able to give a short credit to punctilious persons who may wish it. He is thankful for the favours already received, and will endeavour in future not to be undeserving encouragement.
RICHARD HICKSON. April 1, 1808.
BAR-IRON.
WE have now on hand a complete assortment of Antietam BAR-IRON, which we intend keeping constantly.
R. WORTHINGTON, & Co. Shepherd's-Town, May 20, 1808.
The following BLANKS, printed with new and elegant type, are always kept for sale at this Office: DEEDS, Common BONDS, CONSTABLE'S BLANKS, Promissory NOTES, &c.