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EFFECTS OF THE EMBARGO.
IMPORTANT CASE.
In the Superior Court, in Equity, before Judge Charlton.
Ex parte—PAUL GRIMBALL, complainant.
This was a bill in equity, stating, that several judgments had been obtained at law against the complainant (Paul Grimball) for near 5000 dollars, while he had a judgment in his favour for 8000 dollars suspended by an appeal; that executions had been issued against him, and a sale threatened, which, if it took place, would prove ruinous to the complainant, inasmuch as near double the property would be sacrificed now, at a forced sale, which it would have required only four months ago to pay these judgments; and praying an injunction to delay any further proceedings at law for the present.
The case was argued on the seventh instant, LEAKE, the complainant's solicitor, stated, that the bill sought relief on two grounds—
1st. Equity will relieve, on grounds of publick utility or convenience:
Because a national measure [the embargo acts] ought not to produce individual ruin, when this court can prevent it.
2d. Equity ought to relieve, from the peculiar situation of the party:
Because the complainant was deprived at law of a rightful advantage.
LAWSON and STILES, for plaintiffs in execution, opposed the granting the injunction principally on the ground, that it could not issue from the apprehensions of the party; that no levy or sale was yet ordered; and that the complainant ought to give security before the relief prayed for could be obtained.
Upon which, his honour pronounced the following decree:
GEORGIA, CHATHAM COUNTY.
Superior Court, April 8, 1808.
EX PARTE, PAUL GRIMBALL—IN EQUITY.
By Judge Charlton.
The complainant in this bill, states, that executions have been issued against his property, and a levy and sale threatened; that if a sale is made by the sheriff, at this time, when the pecuniary embarrassments, occasioned by the embargo acts are so general and distressing, it will involve him in ruin, as no price, or a fair price, can be obtained for his property, and that he has no other means of paying his debts.
Upon these grounds, he applies to the chancery side of this court, for the writ of injunction to restrain a sale under these executions. I shall not bottom a decision upon the peculiar circumstances of this case only, or as a particular case, involving such features of hardship and oppression, as render necessary, the interposition of this branch of the court. On the contrary, I shall view this as a case in which all our citizens are interested, and as calculated to establish a precedent for the general benefit.
I ask this question:—Is it not against equity and conscience—is it not in the highest degree oppressive, to compel the sheriff to obey the mandate of a writ of execution, when the facts are before the whole publick, that the sale of produce, in its usual course of traffick, is suspended, or bought up by monied men from the necessitous planter for a song. From the planter, who must sacrifice his crops to prevent a greater sacrifice—who must sell to obtain provisions (if a cotton planter) for his negroes and necessaries for his family—who must sell for this song, to prevent his negroes (a more valuable property, and upon whose uninterrupted labour and increase, the future support of himself and children depends) being knocked off under the hammer of the sheriff, at a price far less than one half their cash value? Is this picture overcharged? Is it not rather a correct delineation of the distresses of the agricultural interest at this moment? If it is, then relief ought some where to be found.
It has been, and is at this hour, a subject of sufficient magnitude, to require one of the extraordinary meetings of the legislature, which the constitution authorises. But, until a legislative suspension of sales is given to the people, cannot relief be afforded by this court?
I have given to the powers with which the law and the constitution have invested me their full deliberation: and though I do not possess all the powers of a lord chancellor, because, by our local system, the interposition of a jury is required in equity cases, yet that system cannot, and does not, interfere with these matters in chancery, which in their nature must be exclusively referred to the discretion of the court. Of this nature, I consider applications for the writs of injunction.
An injunction is a prohibitory writ restraining a person from committing or doing a thing which appears to be against equity and conscience.
This is the simple definition given by one of the elementary compilers, and it is sufficiently comprehensive for me to adopt it.
The principal use made of this writ, is, to restrain some rigorous proceedings at law.
I shall then consider whether a sale by the sheriff at this crisis of our national affairs, big with calamities, as I have before described, to the agricultural interest, should be restrained as a rigorous proceeding at law—and as a proceeding against equity and conscience.
1st. Is it a rigorous proceeding at law? An execution is the last stage of our common law proceedings. It places the person, or the property of the defendant, at the mercy of the judgment of the creditor, who may make his election. I am speaking of the execution of which nothing can be alledged in chancery against its parent judgment. Of this nature are the executions before us; and they assume the appellation of rigorous proceedings,
Because there is no remedy at law, and unless a remedy is found some where ruin stares the defendant in the face—a ruin not brought on himself by a want of probity, or of property in his possession, exceeding probably ten times, in the executions, but a ruin brought down upon him by a necessary measure of the national legislature and government, which unfortunately obstructed the channels through which he had been accustomed to pay his debts, probably with punctuality.
2d. Is it a proceeding against equity and conscience?
This is the broad basis of the writ of injunction.
It is admitted by both sides that no remedy can be had at common law. When we resort to law, it is expected that precedents will have their full weight of authority; and though precedents may militate with that justice which the peculiar circumstances of a particular case may require, yet, for the sake of general and uniform rules, a Judge will seldom deviate from an established and settled principle to accommodate the circumstances of one case however strong the reasons may be to exempt it from the operation of precedent.
In the case of Doe v. Pott, 2 Dougl. 720, Lord Mansfield is reported to have said, "the absurdity of lord Lincoln's case is shocking; however, it is now law." This observation of his lordship, may be selected as the most strongly illustrative of the authority given by common law judges to precedent.
A Court of Equity is not so trammelled. It is governed by uniform rules of evidence, and a respect is evinced in that jurisdiction for precedents, yet they are seldom permitted to stand in the way of the particular circumstances of each case.
A lord chancellor of Great Britain is almost as omnipotent as parliament. Give him but a strong hold on an equitable principle, and he will be sure to substitute the intention of an act of parliament for its letter—he will push aside precedent for abstract honesty. What are the many cases in the equity reports, on the statutes of frauds and perjuries, but indirect repeals of the plain and literal requisites of that all-important statute?
It is only necessary to advert to the nature and law equity to account for the latitude of power given to the latter.
The law is stubborn and unbending. It marks out for itself a course from which no fascinations can allure—no obstacles impede.
It neither relents nor forgives. It issues its mandates, and will be obeyed. It takes into view no consequences.
Tot justitia, is its maxim, whether contemplating its operation upon a nation or an individual.
We perceive at once, that such should be the nature and effects of law, they necessarily result from that indiscriminating and eternal justice upon which the common law is founded.
Our ancestors felt, as we have felt after them, the necessity of some tribunal, armed with the attribute of alleviating the inexorable ableness of the law. This tribunal is called a court of equity, whose decisions are guided by the particular circumstances of each case.
This court of equity lends mercy to the law and steps in as a kind of mediator between rigid justice, as established by the artificial institutions of society and that justice which traces its origin to the laws, of nature and of God.
In cases like these before me, the law places every thing at your disposal. It holds out to you the means of rioting upon the spoils of your neighbour, your debtor or the community.
The nation, in order to redress itself for outrages on its sacred rights, imposes distresses on its own citizens. These distresses are the deprivation of those means which heretofore poured wealth or competence into the lap of the planter.
His ostensible wealth is, however, now the same. He shows you his cotton, his rice and his negroes. He proves to you, that his property has even greatly accumulated since he engaged to pay you your debt; but to pay that debt now, he tells you he is unable, unless a sale is directed by the sheriff, the consequence of which would be a payment to you of four fold; for a sale of his property now, would amount to a diminution of quadruple its intrinsick and just value, and in that ratio, less than it would have sold for at market, previous to the embargo.
How immense, and at the same time, how unrighteous are the advantages which the creditor derives, if he himself becomes the purchaser, and pays with his judgment! How much more unrighteous and against conscience is a purchase, under these circumstances, by a capitalist, who with his ready money, speculates upon the misery and the ruin of the unfortunate debtor!
Time has not been allowed me to search for opposite cases in the books. I do not recollect, at this moment, any cases reported in the English authorities involving the principles of the cases before us.
I shall therefore bottom my decision upon the abstract grounds—that cases of this description involve hardship and oppression—that they are against equity and conscience—that they are promotive of injury to the publick—that they enable monied men to accumulate usurious wealth—and that they tend to convert a just and salutary measure of the government into a political disaffection, through the medium of the feelings of distressed and persecuted debtors.
Let the writ of injunction, therefore, issue, to stay sales upon these executions, until the first day of September next—the complainant depositing with the sheriff, when required, to meet the day of
sale, sufficient property, the valuation of which to be ascertained by the price at market, three months preceding the embargo act.
EX PARTE, R. M. MAXWELL.
GEORGIA, } Superior Court, April 8th, 1808. Chatham County. } IN EQUITY.
This case standing upon the same footing as the above—it is ordered, that a writ of injunction be granted to stay sales upon executions mentioned in the bill, until the first day of September next—the complainant depositing with the sheriff, when required, to meet the day of sale, sufficient property, the valuation of which to be ascertained by the market price, three months preceding the embargo act.
From the American Daily Advertiser.
INTERESTING LAW INTELLIGENCE.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES.
Opinions delivered March 25, 1808, in the case of
CRUDSON, } vs.
LEONARD, }
JOHNSON, Justice.—The action below was instituted on a policy of insurance. On behalf of the insurers it was contended that the policy was forfeited by committing a breach of blockade. It is not and cannot be made a question that this is one of those acts which will exonerate the underwriters from their liability. The only point below was relative to the evidence upon which the commission of the act may be substantiated. A sentence of a British prize court in Barbadoes was given in evidence; by which it appeared that the vessel was condemned for attempting to commit a breach of blockade. It is the English doctrine and the correct doctrine on the law of nations, that an attempt to commit a breach of blockade is a violation of belligerent rights, and authorises capture. This doctrine is not denied, but the Plaintiff contends that he did not commit such an attempt, and the court below permitted evidence to go to the jury to disprove the fact in which the condemnation professes to proceed.
On this point I am of opinion that the court below erred.
I do not think it necessary to go through the mass of learning on this subject, which has so often been brought to the notice of this court, and particularly in the case of Fizmimmons, argued at this term. Nearly the whole of it will be found very well summed up in the XVIII chapter of Mr. Park's treatise.
The doctrine appears to me to rest upon three very obvious considerations—the propriety of leaving the cognizance of prize questions exclusively to courts of prize jurisdiction—the very great inconvenience, amounting nearly to an impossibility of fully investigating such cases in a court of common law—and the impropriety of revising the decisions of the maritime courts of other nations whose jurisdiction is co-ordinate throughout the world.
It is sometimes contended that this doctrine is novel, and that it takes its origin in an incorrect extension of the principle in Hughes and Cornelius. I am induced to believe that it is coeval with the species of contract to which it is applied. Policies of insurance are known to have been brought into England from a country that acknowledged the civil law.
This must have been the law of policies at the time when they were considered as contracts proper for the admiralty jurisdiction, and were submitted to the court of policies established in the reign of Elizabeth. It is probable that at the time when the common law assumed to itself exclusive jurisdiction of the contract of insurance, the rule was too much blended with the law of policies to have been dispensed with, had it even been inconsistent with common law principles. But, in fact, the common law had sufficient precedent, for this rule, in its own received principles relative to sentences of the civil law courts of England. It may be true that there are no cases upon this subject prior to that of Hughes and Cornelius, but this does not disprove the existence of the doctrine. There can be but little necessity for reporting doctrines upon questions that cannot be controverted. Since the case of Hughes and Cornelius, the doctrine has frequently been brought to the notice of the courts of Great Britain in insurance cases, but always with a view to contest its applicability to particular cases, or to restrict the general doctrine by exceptions; but the existence of the rule, or its applicability to actions on policies is no where controverted.
I am of opinion that the sentence of condemnation was conclusive evidence of the commission of the offence for which the vessel was condemned, and as that offence was one which vitiated the policy, the defendant ought to have had a verdict.
WASHINGTON, Justice.—The single question in this case is, whether the sentence of the admiralty court, at Barbadoes, condemning the brig Fame and her cargo as prize, for an attempt to break the blockade of Martinique, is conclusive evidence against the insured to falsify his warranty of neutrality, notwithstanding the facts stated in the sentence, as the ground of condemnation, is negatived by the jury?
This question has long been at rest in England. The established law upon this subject in the courts of that country is, that the sentence of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction, condemning the property upon the ground that it was not neutral, is so entirely conclusive of the fact so decided, that it can never be controverted directly or collaterally
in any other court having concurrent jurisdiction. This doctrine seems to result from the application of a legal principle which prevails in respect to domestick judgments and sentences of foreign courts.
It is a well established rule in England, that the judgment, sentence or decree of a court of exclusive jurisdiction directly upon the point, may be given in evidence as conclusive between the same parties, upon the same matter coming incidentally in question in another court for a different purpose. It is not only conclusive of the right, which it establishes, but of the fact which it directly decides. This rule when applied to the sentences of courts of admiralty, whether foreign or domestick, produces the doctrine which I am now considering upon the ground that all the world are parties in an admiralty cause. The proceedings are in rem, but any person having an interest in the property may interpose a claim, or may prosecute an appeal from the sentence. The insured is emphatically a party, and in every instance has an opportunity to controvert the alledged grounds of condemnation by proving if he can, the neutrality of the property. The master is his immediate agent, and he is also bound to act for the benefit of all concerned, so that in this respect he also represents the insurer.
That irregularities have sometimes taken place to the exclusion of a fair hearing of the parties, is not to be denied. But this furnishes no good reason against the adoption of a general rule. A spirit of comity has induced the courts of England to presume that foreign tribunals, whether of prize or municipal jurisdiction will act fairly, and will decide according to the laws which ought to govern them; and publick convenience seems to require that a question which has once been fairly decided, should not be again litigated between the same parties, unless in a court of appellate jurisdiction.
The irregular and unjust decisions, of the French courts of admiralty of late years, have induced even English judges to doubt of the wisdom of the above doctrine in relation to foreign sentences, but which they have acknowledged to be too well established for English tribunals to shake; and the justice with which the same charge is made by all neutral nations against the English as well as against the French courts of admiralty, during the same period, has led many American jurists to question the totality of the doctrine in the courts of our own country. It is said to be a novel doctrine, lately sprung up, and acted upon as a rule of decision in the English courts, since the period when English decisions have lost the weight of authority in the courts of the United States. It is this position which I shall now examine, acknowledging that I do not hold myself bound by any such decisions made since the revolution, although as evidence of what the law was prior to that period—I read and respect them.
The authority of the case of Hughes and Cornelius, the earliest we meet with as to the conclusiveness of a foreign sentence, is admitted; but its application to a question arising under a warranty of neutrality, between the insurer and insured is denied. It is true that in that case the only point expressly decided was that the sentence was conclusive as to the change of property effected by the condemnation. But it is obvious that the point decided in that case depended not upon some new point peculiar to the sentences of foreign courts, but upon the application of a general rule of law to such sentences. The case as far as it goes places a foreign sentence upon the same foundation as the sentence or decree of an English court acting upon the same subject; and we have seen that by the general rule of law, the latter, if conclusive at all, is so as to the fact directly decided, as well as to the change of property produced by the establishment of the fact. Hence it would seem to follow that if the sentence of a foreign court of admiralty be conclusive as to the property, it is equally conclusive of the matter or fact directly decided. What is the matter decided in the case under consideration?—That the vessel was seized whilst attempting to break a blockade—in consequence of which she lost her neutral character; and the change of property produced by the sentence of condemnation is a consequence of the matter decided that she was in effect enemies property. Can the parties to that sentence be bound by so much of it as works a loss of the property, because it was declared to be enemies' property, and yet be left free to litigate anew in some other form the very point decided from which this consequence flowed?—Or upon what just principle, let me ask, shall a party to a suit, who has once been heard, & whose rights have been decided by a competent tribunal, be permitted in another court of concurrent jurisdiction, and in a different form of action to litigate the same question and take another chance for obtaining a different result.
I confess I am strongly inclined to think that the case of Hughes and Cornelius laid a strong foundation for the doctrine which was built upon it, and which for many years past has been established law in England.—This opinion is given with the more confidence, when I find it sanctioned by the positive declarations of distinguished law characters—men who are of all others the best able to testify respecting the course of decisions upon the doctrine I am examining, and the source from which it sprung.
In the case of Lotbian vs. Henderson, 3 Bos. and Pull. 499—J. Chambre speaking upon this point says, that the sentence of the French court was in that case conclusive against the claim of the assured, agreeably to all the decisions upon the subject beginning with the case of Hughes and Cornelius, (confirmed as that was by the opinion of lord Holt, in two subsequent cases,) and pursuing them

LAW INTELLIGENCE. We have selected for our paper of this day, some interesting law intelligence, which is commenced in our first page. The suspension of justice by the decision of one of the courts of Georgia in consequence of the Embargo, is one of the most serious evils which has yet been produced by that measure. It must afford pleasure to notice the very able answer of Mr. Desaussure to the Grand Jury of one of the South Carolina districts upon the same subject, after which it would be an intrusion upon our readers and presumption in us to offer any observations. The decision of the supreme court of the United States, settling for the first time in that court the question "that the sentence of a foreign court of competent jurisdiction, condemning the property upon the ground that it was not neutral, is so entirely conclusive of the fact so decided, that it can never be controverted directly or collaterally in any court having concurrent jurisdiction," is interesting to the mercantile community and underwriters particularly.
TO THE HON. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. SIR, I persuade myself from the measure which I have adopted, that this short address may reach you, and that it will not be deemed unworthy of your notice. The extraordinary zeal which your letter to Mr. Otis, and which you avow was designed for publication, displays in support of neutral rights, was not a little surprising to those who had noticed your conduct in the negotiation between this country and Prussia.
I think, Sir, you were minister resident in Holland, when your father, then being President of the United States, appointed you Minister Plenipotentiary to the court of Prussia, the object of which was the renewal of the treaty concluded in 1785, between this country and that, and which had expired. You accordingly did in concert with the Prussian minister negotiate and conclude the treaty which now exists.
It is not necessary to examine and collate the articles of the two treaties, the first appears to have the basis of the last, except in the instances I am now to notice.
The principle "that free ships should make free goods" is a favourite principle with the zealous advocates of neutral rights, accordingly in the first treaty we find the following stipulation:
"Art 12. If one of the contracting parties should be engaged in war with any other power, the free intercourse and commerce of the subjects or citizens of the party remaining neutral with the belligerent powers, shall not be interrupted. On the contrary, in that case as in full peace, the vessels of the neutral party may navigate freely to and from the ports and on the coasts of the belligerent parties, free vessels making free goods, inasmuch that all things shall be adjudged free which shall be on board any vessel belonging to the neutral party, although such things belong to an enemy of the other; and the same freedom shall be extended to persons who shall be on board a free vessel, although they should be enemies to the other party, unless they should be soldiers in actual service of such enemy."
Let us now Sir, examine the article which was substituted by you in place of that which is quoted, and to which it was intended to correspond, it is as follows:
"Art. 12. Experience having proved, that the principle adopted in the twelfth article of the treaty of 1785, according to which, free ships make free goods, has not been sufficiently respected during the two last wars, and especially in that which still continues, the two contracting parties propose, after the return of a general peace, to agree either separately between themselves, or jointly with other powers alike interested, to concert with the great maritime powers of Europe, such arrangements and such permanent principles, as may serve to consolidate the liberty and the safety of the neutral navigation and commerce in future wars. And if in the interval, either of the contracting parties should be engaged in a war, to which the other should remain neutral, the ships of war and privateers of the belligerent power shall conduct themselves towards the merchant vessels of the neutral power, as favourably as the course of the war then existing may permit, observing the principles and rules of the law of nations, generally acknowledged."
To mitigate the evils of war, has been the object of America in all her treaties, in which spirit, the first treaty has a remarkable provision, and is found in the latter part of the 23d article, containing provisions in case of war. "All merchant and trading vessels employed in exchanging the products of different places, and thereby rendering the necessaries, conveniences, and comforts of human life more easy to be obtained, and more general, shall be allowed to pass free and unmolested; and neither of the contracting parties shall grant or issue any commission to any private armed vessel, empowering them to take or destroy such trading vessels, or interrupt such commerce." Your treaty in article 23, is word for word with the first treaty, until it comes to words quoted, when it stops.
It is difficult to conjecture any good reason for the omission of such important and philanthropic provisions. The papers, whose columns are now loaded with panegyric on your patriotism, did endeavour to account for the omission of these provisions. The Paris journals and their agents in this country, did not hesitate to denounce you as the tool of the British ministers at the Hague and at Berlin. It was boldly asserted that the British minister at Ber-
the present period. "It is true," he observes, "that in Hughes and Cornelius the question upon the foreign sentence arose in an action of trover, and not in an action on a policy of assurance, where the non compliance with a warranty of neutrality is in dispute. But from that period to the present, the doctrine there laid down respecting foreign sentences has been considered equally applicable to questions of warranty in actions on policies, as to questions of property in actions of trover." Le Blanc J. says—"That these sentences are admissible and conclusive evidence of the fact they may decide, it seems not safe now to question: from the time of Car. 2. to this day, they have been received as such without being questioned. In the discussion of the nature of such evidence before the house in 1776, it seems not to have been controverted; and the cases I may say are numberless, and the property immense, which have been determined on the conclusiveness of such evidence, in many of which cases, the forms in which they came before the courts in Westminster Hall, were such as to have enabled the parties, if any doubts had been entertained, to have brought the question before a higher tribunal."
Laurence J. also speaking of the legal effect of a foreign sentence, upon this point says—"as to which, after the continued practice which has taken place from the earliest period, in which, in actions on policies of assurance, questions have arisen on warranties, to admit such sentences in evidence, not only as conclusive in rem , but also as conclusive of the several matters they purport to decide directly, I apprehend it is now too late to examine the practice of admitting them to the extent to which they have been received, supposing that practice might upon the argument have appeared to have been doubtful at first."
Rooke J. Lord Eldon and Lord Alvanley , all concur in giving the same testimony, that the doctrine under consideration had been established for a long period of years, by a long series of adjudications in the courts of Westminster Hall.
I cite this case for no other but to prove by the most respectable testimony, that the case of Hughes and Cornelius decided in the reign of Car. 2. had by a uniform course of decisions from that time been considered as warranting the rule now so firmly established in England. And when the inquiry is, whether the application of the principle laid down in that case to questions arising on warranties in actions on policies, be of ancient or modern date, I think I may safely rely upon the declarations of the English judges when they concur in the evidence they give respecting the fact. It is true that no case was cited at the bar recognizing the application of the rule to questions between the insurer and insured prior to the revolution, except that of Fernandez and Da Costa , which I admit was a nisi prius decision. But were I convinced that the long series of decisions upon this point from the time of Hughes and Cornelius , spoken of by the judges in the case of Lothian and Henderson , had been made at nisi prius, it would not in my mind weaken the authority of the doctrine. It would prove the sense of all the judges of England, as well as of the bar, of the correctness and legal validity of the rule.
It is not to be supposed that if a doubt had existed respecting the law of those decisions, the point would not have been reserved for a more deliberate examination before some of the courts of Westminster Hall. But the case of Fernandez and Da Costa receives additional weight when it is recollected that the judge who decided it was Lord Mansfield , and when upon examining it we find no intimation from him that there was any novelty at that day in the doctrine. To this strong evidence of the antiquity of the rule may be added that of Judge Buller , who at the time he wrote his nisi prius considered it as then established.
That the doctrine was considered as perfectly fixed in the year 1781, is plainly to be inferred from the case of Bernardi and Motteaux , decided in that year. Lord Mansfield speaks of it as he would of any other well established principle of law, declaring in general terms that the sentence, as to that which is within it, is conclusive against all persons & cannot be collaterally controverted in any other suit.
The only difficulty in that case was to discover the real ground upon which the foreign sentence proceeded, and the court in that and many subsequent cases, laid down certain principles auxiliary to the rule for the purpose of ascertaining the real import of the sentence, in relation to the fact decided as between the insurer and insured. For if the sentence did not proceed upon the ground of the property not being neutral, it of course concluded nothing against the insured, since upon no other ground could the sentence be said to falsify the warranty.
It was admitted by the counsel for the insured, that as between him and the insurer, the sentence is prima facie evidence of a non compliance with the warranty. But if they are right in their arguments as to the conclusiveness of the sentence, I would ask for the authority upon which the sentence can be considered as prima facie evidence. Certainly no case was referred to, and I have not met with one to warrant the position.—If we look to general principles applicable to domestick judgments they are opposed to it. We have seen that the judgment is conclusive between the same parties upon the same matter coming incidentally in question. The judgment of a foreign court is equally conclusive except in the single instance where the party claiming the benefit of it applies to the court in England to enforce it, in which case only the judgment is prima facie evidence. But it is to be remarked that in such a case the judgment is no more conclusive as to the right it establishes than as to the fact it decides. Now it is admitted that the sentence of a foreign court of admiralty is conclusive upon the right to the property in question; upon what principle then can it be prima facie evidence, if not conclusive upon the facts directly decided. A domestick judgment is not even prima facie evidence between those not parties to it, or those claiming under them, and such would clearly be the rule and for a similar reason as to foreign judgments. If between the same parties the former is conclusive as to the right, and as to the facts decided, this principle if applied at all to foreign sentences which it certainly is, is either applicable throughout upon the ground that the parties are the same, or if not so, then by analogy to the rule applying to domestick judgments, the sentence cannot be evidence at all.
Upon the whole, I am clearly of opinion that the sentence of the court of admiralty at Barbados condemning the brig Fame , and her cargo as prize on account of an attempt to break the blockade of
Martinique, is conclusive evidence in this case against the insured to falsify his warranty of neutrality. If the injustice of the belligerent powers, and of their courts, should render this rule oppressive to the citizens of neutral nations, I can only say with the judges who decided the case of Hughes and Cornelius —let the government in its wisdom adopt the proper means to remedy the mischief; I hold the rules of law when once firmly established to be beyond the control of those who are merely to pronounce what the law is, and if from any circumstance it has become impolitic in a national point of view, it is for the nation to annul or modify it. Till this is done by the competent authority, I consider the rule to be inflexible.
Judges Chase and Livingston dissented, and judge Todd, not having been present at the argument, gave no opinion—so that this judgment is reversed by the opinions of the Chief Justice, judges Cushing, Washington and Johnson.
At the Circuit Court of Colleton District, begun to be held on Monday, the 11th of April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and continued from day to day by Mr. Desaussure, who sat as judge, under a special commission issued by the governor, on account of the sickness of judge Grimké:
On the second day of the court, and before any of the civil business was gone into, a paper, of which the following is the substance, was delivered to the court by the grand jury:
To his Honour Judge Desaussure. Presentments of the Grand Jury. The grand jury of Colleton District, South Carolina, on the second day of the term, are unanimously of opinion, that so far as the power rests with his honour the judge, he should suspend the proceedings of this court, in all civil causes, until the meeting of the legislature in June, as a continuation of the regular proceedings of the courts of justice, under the distressing effects of the present embargo, in this momentous crisis, would prove ruinous to a large and respectable part of the district.
The grand jury further recommend to all officers of inferior judicatory in this district, to suspend, as far as in their judgment they may deem it good, all proceedings in civil cases, until the determination of the legislature of this State shall be known. The Court, after a short consideration, gave in substance the following answer:
That the court had considered the application of the Grand Jury, and though all proper respect was felt for that body, it was impossible to comply with their request.—That Judges were appointed to administer justice and to give the laws their full operation, not to suppress or impede them.—That they took a solemn oath to perform this duty, which they could not dispense with themselves from performing.
That neither the constitution nor the laws entrusted to the judges this power, of suspending the course of judicial proceedings—and there was no example in this state, within the knowledge of the Court, of the judges having claimed or exercised this power. On the contrary, after the revolutionary war, when many citizens were ruined, and all were deeply injured, in their fortunes, the judges continued to give a free course to justice, in civil as well as in criminal cases, until the legislature thought proper to interfere and to pass such laws as they deemed the occasion to require.
That the court being of opinion that any judge, (setting where he did) who would suspend the proceedings of the court, would be guilty of a dereliction of duty, and of an usurpation of power, for which he would be liable to punishment by impeachment, could not possibly comply with the request of the grand jury.
The court added, that perhaps all had been said, which duty required; but, as the grand jury appeared apprehensive of great inconveniences from the free course of judicial proceedings, in civil causes, it might not be improper to say a few words on the policy of the measure recommended; which might satisfy the grand jury, that the course which they recommended was not calculated to promote the permanent interests of the community.
The legislature had been induced, by the great losses and actual sufferings of the people, during the revolutionary war, to interpose between debtors and creditors, by passing instalment laws, and acts of a similar nature, which delayed or altered the course of justice, in civil causes; and, undoubtedly, some temporary relief was thereby given.—But experience had shown that these laws ultimately produced mischievous effects; for, by relaxing the tone of the laws, the morals of the citizens were also relaxed; all confidence was destroyed, and all credit done away. The consequence of this was, that the value of all property was very greatly diminished, and infinite and general distress was produced. From this state of things resulted a degree of irritability in the community, which was ready to break out into disastrous civil discord.
The pressure of these evils was so great and so universally felt, that perhaps it might be truly said, that to them might be chiefly attributed the preparation of the publick mind for the adoption of the federal constitution, which promised to restrain the exercise of such irregular powers by the state legislature. By that great instrument, the bond of our national union and prosperity, it was expressly provided, amongst other things, (in the 10th section of the first article) "That no state should pass any ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contract."—How, then, can the judges do that without law, which no state could authorize?
What a sudden, extensive, and beneficial change had taken place in the national and individual prosperity, by the adoption of the federal constitution, and by the operation of its restraining as well as its active powers, was familiar to all who were old enough to remember that period—the return of a regular and full administration of justice in civil causes seemed to bring with it the return of the golden age and all its attendant blessings; and demonstrated the truth and wisdom of the maxim, that justice is the great standing policy of civil society. The court added, that it sincerely hoped that the evils apprehended by the grand jury would not take place—that it might reasonably be expected that the present state of things would not be of long duration; and even if that hope should be disappointed, the court earnestly advised a reliance on the known tenderness and forbearance of creditors, who being members of a liberal community, partook of its character—rather than a resort to any irregular measures which would tarnish the honour of the state, and produce more mischiefs than those intended to be prevented.
lin, would have been highly offended by provisions in a treaty, to which his government was so decidedly opposed. For my part, Sir, I do not impute to you any such unworthy motives, but as it was generally understood that the Prussian negotiator wished the provisions which were omitted to be inserted, & that the opposition came from you, it would be gratifying to many to know what were the reasons that produced your opposition, and particularly to
A FEDERAL REPUBLICAN.
BALTIMORE, May 3.
The ship Dumfries , captain Hancock, arrived at this port, in 35 days from Liverpool. By the politeness of the owner we have been favoured with London dates to the 25th of March. They contain little of interest.—Captain Hancock informs that the general sentiment in Liverpool was for peace, that on the doors of the warehouses, was written "PEACE WITH AMERICA OR NO KING."
Extract of a letter from a respectable commercial house in Liverpool, to their correspondent in this city, received by the Dumfries , March 26.
"As to the orders in council, we are sorry to acquaint you that the efforts of the merchants of Liverpool, London, Manchester and Hull, against the pernicious measures, do not seem likely to be at present successful; but we entertain a strong persuasion, that they cannot be of long continuance. The distresses of the weavers and mechanicks, in the manufacturing districts, are already very great, and, it appears to us, cannot fail to increase as long as the orders continue."
It is a singular circumstance, that the present positions of the British troops in Sicily are precisely the same which Pompey occupied during the civil wars of the second triumvirate. So long as Pompey maintained the command of the sea, Sicily, which he had seized, was safe from the power of Octavius; and when his fleet was beaten, the local advantages of the country would have enabled him to have starved his enemies, had not a mutiny among the troops delivered the island into their hands.—N. Y. Paper.
Continuation of extracts from London papers received by the ship Rolka , Capt. Garey , from Falmouth,
LONDON, March 18.
We have already mentioned the capture, by the Matchless privateer of Guernsey, of the Spanish brig letter of marque Antelope , of 16 guns, with a valuable cargo on board from Callao , bound to Buenos Ayres and Lima . By Spanish Navy Lists found on board the Antelope , corrected to the beginning of this year, their navy, it appears, consists at present, of the following ships, viz.
 AT CADIZ. 9 sail of the line, 7 frig. and 18 corvettes in Com. 8 ditto, 6 ditto, 7 ditto Ordinary.  AT FERROL. 6 sail of the line, 4 frig. and 18 corvettes in Com. 3 ditto, 3 ditto, 7 ditto, Ordinary. 3 ditto, 1 ditto, 1 ditto, Building.  AT CARTHAGENA. 10 sail of the line, 2 frig. and 9 corvettes in Com. 3 ditto, 7 ditto, 4 ditto, Ordinary. 
There were also found on board the Antelope , Spanish Gazettes of a late date, which contain dispatches from Don Santiago Llorens, detailing the particulars of the defeat of gen. Whitelocke's attempt on Buenos Ayres . The Spaniards state their loss in that unfortunate affair to be 11 officers, 281 men killed; 26 officers, 488 men wounded, and 105 missing; making a total of 921 killed, wounded, and missing.
March 26.
In our last accounts from Gibraltar it was stated, that Sir Sidney Smith had arrived there. We understand he was preparing to sail for the Brazils , as Commander in Chief on that station. He was expected to take his departure on the 6th or 7th inst.
Accounts had been received at Gibraltar before the sailing of the last packet, that Napoleon was positively expected at Valadolid in a short time, to arrange affairs in Spain to his satisfaction. He will never attempt anything serious to Gibraltar , till he has made arrangements as will put the whole Spanish force at his disposal.
Advices from Madrid state, that a Decree, bearing date 21st January, 1808, had been published there, prohibiting the sailing of any vessel belonging to the nations in alliance with France and Spain .
The reason assigned for this act of the government is, that such vessels may not fall into the hands of the British.
It is stated from Mexico , that in case Buonaparte succeeds in revolutionizing Spain , the people of that country are not inclined to throw off the yoke of foreign dominion, and raise among themselves an independent government.
PORTUGAL.
" Hibernia , off Lisbon, Feb. 21, 1808. "A French gun vessel placed to guard the mouth of the Tagus, was cut out four nights ago by a boat belonging to the Confiance , under extraordinary circumstances."
"The Confiance had anchored close in shore for the purpose of watching the motions of the Russian squadron; a boat with a midshipman and fifteen men were ordered to row round the ship during the night; they however, took it into their heads to go into the Tagus, and after rowing near the Russians without being discovered, on their return boarded this vessel, commanded by a lieutenant and fifty men, three of whom were killed, and nine wounded. Swords were their weapons, not a shot having been fired on either side: she was not missed until the morning, although she lay within musket shot of the immense batteries of St. Julian and Belém Castles."
"A flag of truce was sent in next day by the Confiance with the wounded; but Junot was so much enraged at the circumstance that he sent orders to the batteries to sink her; but she had reached the city before his orders could be put in execution. The wounded were, however, received; but after marching the officer and boat's crew about as prisoners for some hours, they were sent on board the French commodore's ship, with a guard, for the night. Junot, however, thought proper to order their release in the morning, and they returned to their ship in the course of the day. The general had placed the greatest confidence in this

lieutenant, and had given him positive orders to guard against our boats. The midshipman has been promoted to the Alfred.
"The Portuguese were quite overjoyed on the occasion, and frequently expressed their hopes and expectations of an English army coming to their relief. The French are not without their fears of this, as they are disarming and disbanding the Portuguese troops. Several of their officers have got on board here, and some have been shot, for endeavouring to inflame the minds of the people, according to Junot's account."
PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE.
BANKS OF THE ELBE. March 11.
The conjectures which we have so long formed are realized: the French army, with permission of the Danish government, has entered Holstein, to proceed through Zealand, and the other Danish islands, against Sweden, whose sovereign the relentless Bonaparte has sworn to dethrone. It was on the 5th inst. that 1500 French horse entered the city of Altona, preceded by two Hamburg city dragons, with drawn swords, to serve them as guides. The men halted on the 6th, when Bernadotte reviewed them, and about 10,000 Spaniards, in a field belonging to the city of Hamburg, called the Holy Host Field. The citizens of Altona are allowed a mark a day for the keeping of every man, at the expense, it is said, of the Hanse Towns. On the 7th, early in the morning, the cavalry bearing the name of the duke of Ahrenberg assembled, consisting of all nations, but very fine young men, and continued their march. They have since been followed by French and Spanish corps of artillery, cavalry, and infantry. The French have also marched into Holstein from the side of Lubeck, and by this time the greater part of Holstein, not excepting Rendsburg, the king of Denmark's residence, is full of French and Spanish troops. In three days the whole Spanish army, under the command of the marquis of Romana, will have left Hamburg and its environs, to proceed through Holstein, over the Belts, to Zealand. At Apenrade, and all the ports of Holstein and Schleswick, all the great and small craft is under orders to take on board French and Spanish troops; and at Copenhagen all the gun boats and merchantmen, with one ship of the line, and four large Danish East India men, fitted out as frigates, and carrying 36 guns each; besides a number of Danish brigs, cutters, and pilot boats, manned by French and Danish sailors, are to carry over the troops. The French will, it is said, attack Sweden in four or five different places. The troops destined for the expedition are under the command of Bernadotte, and will, it is said, amount to nearly 70,000 men. The appearance of a most respectable British fleet in the Sound and Baltick becomes therefore absolutely necessary, to save the crown of his Swedish Majesty, and prevent his throne from falling into the hands of the combined French and Russians. Bernadotte himself set out at six o'clock on the 8th inst. in the evening, from Hamburg, for Penneberg and Rendsburg; and the statement given in the Correspondent, of his having taken the road to Lubeck for Stralsund, is wholly false. No posts from Holstein or Denmark are now expected, as the French and their allies will probably stop them till a blow shall have been struck. By all accounts, the French have made great preparations for a descent on Sweden in the ports of Wismar, Rostock, and Stralsund, and the island of Rugen. All letters are opened by the French, and all travellers are searched, and all papers and parcels are examined. In short, the greatest secrecy prevails, and is visible in every measure attending this important expedition, which threatens to annihilate the political existence of the noble-minded Gustavus and his family. The Danish islands, particularly Zealand with Copenhagen, ought to be checked and awed immediately, to prevent the consequences of this enterprise. It is the general opinion here, that if the British fleet does not arrive speedily, Sweden is lost. The French and Spanish armies, assisted, it is said, by the Danes, are to be all at Copenhagen, Cronenburgh, Elsinore, and other parts of Zealand, on or before the 25th or 26th inst.
Admiralty Court. Doctors Commons.
March 15.
Phoebe, Hampton, master.—This American vessel, laden with Batavian produce, sailed from thence to Baltimore, and was captured on a voyage to Amsterdam. It was contended on behalf of the captors that this was a continuous voyage; on the part of the claimants it was contended that, under all the circumstances of the case, this was not a justifiable seizure, and that the claimants were entitled to compensation.—The court restored the ship and cargo, and allowed five weeks demurrage.
March 25.
Logan, Mayrick, master.—This vessel, under American colours, laden with a cargo of cotton, sugar, and various other articles, on a voyage from New-York to Amsterdam, was seized whilst lying in the harbour of Cowes, by one of his majesty's gun-brigs, as a drou of admiralty. It appeared that this vessel, on her arrival near Amsterdam, was warned by a British cruiser not to proceed there, that port being under blockade, which warning she immediately obeyed and steered for the port of Cowes, where she put in. The court restored ship and cargo.
Active, King, master.—This American ship, laden with a cargo of salt, taken on board at St. Ubes, was in the prosecution of her voyage to Philadelphia at the time of capture. The court was of opinion, that the ship was forfeited under the order of council, she having sailed after the knowledge of it must have arrived at the port of St. Ubes; but with respect to the cargo, the master not being proved to be the agent of the owners thereof, the court held that not to be affected by the act of the master, and therefore restored the cargo.
Amsterdam Packet, Sisson, master.—This American vessel, with a cargo of colonial produce, bound from New-York to Amsterdam, was captured by a gun-brig and carried into Yarmouth. The property was restored as claimed, and the question of damage subsequent to the capture reserved, and also the question of captor's expenses.
Catharine, Wood, master.—This vessel with a cargo of wine from Guernsey to London, was captured by a French privateer, and her crew taken out, except two or three; but night coming on, these persons forced the Frenchmen back, and brought the vessel into Dover. For this conduct a claim of
salvage was set up. The court pronounced the salvors to be entitled to one-sixth of the property. Charlotte, Candler, master.—This American vessel, laden with crockery ware, &c. bound ostensibly to Madras, put into the Cape of Good Hope, where she disposed of a part of her cargo, and was afterwards seized by one of his majesty's ships of war on her return voyage. Ship and cargo condemned, on the ground of importing contraband into the enemy's colony.
FROM BELL'S WEEKLY MESSENGER.
Invasion of Sweden by Russia.
The pressure of matter of more immediate interest compels us to be unusually brief in our customary political article. There is, in truth, little of novelty; and such is the universal curiosity excited with respect to a domestic occurrence, that it would perhaps be more gratifying to the large majority of our readers, if we were to remit, for the present week our ordinary task of speculation.
Russia has at length broken into Sweden, with an army, as it is reported, of twenty thousand men. This outrage has been preceded with the decorum of a manifesto, the tenor of which, as applied to Russia, has somewhat surprised us. His new alliance with France has communicated to the emperor Alexander much of the old Jacobinical taint, and engrafted upon a constitution, naturally and studiously loyal, and once enthusiastically aristocratic, the very worst slip and scion of the obsolete democracy. An innovation of this sort will ill agree with a Russian stamina, and when the emperor of the North shall begin to chatter out of the French revolutionary vocabulary, he must have a sharp look out lest his subjects take a fancy to the same sort of reading.
The Rights of Man is a very short and easy catechism, and soon learnt by heart; and when the emperor Alexander attempts to batter down the government of a rival sovereign by a weapon of this sort, he should have a care lest it be retorted upon himself. It is an instrument of subversion more powerful than an army. The word of command is sufficient to discipline a body of revolutionists, and the tactics of rebellion are soon got by heart. France, in none of her shapes, and least of all in her present, is congenial with the interests of Russia; and it was so well understood by the empress Catharine, that she separated her country from the contagion of French principles by the strictest line of circumvallation. The emperor Alexander should have pursued the same policy. He might have sheltered himself from contempt after his defeat by France, had he retreated with dignity into a wise and impenetrable neutrality. He was never so far defeated or reduced, but that he was safe at home; and it was not necessary to any contingent interest of his government to become the meanest understepper of French malevolence.
He should have remembered the lesson that was handed down to him by his predecessors, who have filled the Russian throne.—He should have remembered what a column of pure native granite was required to form the pedestal of his statute who had professed to emulate the example of Peter the Great.
His grandmother, though a foreigner born made herself a Russian; his father, with the best intentions in the world, though born in Russia, ruined himself by becoming a foreigner in his own kingdom. Safe in his native glory, and in the surrounding affections of his own subjects, he insinuated himself into all the intrigue of the French cabinets, and was rewarded with their usual compensation—assassination and contempt. The emperor Alexander should have his eye fixed upon these examples; and not challenge (what we trust he never will experience) the same fate, by pursuing the same councils.
With respect to the invasion of Sweden, we confess we felt no great alarm for the safety of that kingdom, provided the French troops can be kept upon the continent, and Sweden be recruited by a competent British force.
There is nothing very formidable in a Russian army, and in a country where there are no magazines for them, they are not likely to stay long.—If the Swedish war can be protracted till the arrival of the British troops, the soldiers of the emperor Alexander must return home or be starved.
Of all places, at this period of the year, the northern parts of Finland are least suited to a campaign; and of all powers, Russia is the least adapted to make active movements out of winter quarters—Her system of warfare is purely barbarous; her tactics are those of a Tartar horde—commissaries and magazines are almost unknown in her army—Unless, therefore, her enemy feeds her, she is unable, when removed from her own country, to subsist herself.
If the Swedes, therefore, can keep the Russians in check till they are strong enough, by means of British reinforcement, to attack them, Russia, we trust, will be overwhelmed with disaster and confusion.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Ship Calpe, Moore, 32 days from Bona Vista, Salt, Robert Maitland.
Sch'r Minerva, Lewis, 11 days from Boston.
CAPTAIN GARY has favoured us with the following list of American vessels sent into the ports of England, under the late Orders of Council.
Ships Manila, Burrell, from Port-au-Prince to Gottenburgh, at Portsmouth, under adjudication; Eliza Ann, Cox, New York to Amsterdam, at Portsmouth, sent in Nov. last; Logan, Myrick, New York to Amsterdam, vessel and cargo restored; Holland Trader, Sinclair; New York to Amsterdam, at Cowes, warned off; Amsterdam Packet, Sisson, New York to Amsterdam, at Colchester, drove to sea and towed in again; Live Oak, Yarrell, Norfolk to London, captured by the French, retaken and condemned for salvage; Sansom, Rogers, New York to Cherbourg, at London, after laying 9 weeks at Plymouth; Mary, Fosdick, Alexandria to Amsterdam, at Plymouth, ordered to London to discharge; Ann, Howland, Charleston to Bordeaux, at Plymouth, condemned; Virgin, Weld, Baltimore to Amsterdam, at Bristol, going to discharge; Pamela, Tyler, Bordeaux to Bremen, condemned; Thalia, Sellman, Bordeaux to Philadelphia, at Falmouth, waiting trial; Susan, Howard, Bordeaux to New York, under adjudication, vessel bifged; Morning Star, Hopkins, Boston to Bordeaux, warned in and discharging at Ports-
mouth; Powhatan, Norman, Baltimore to Amsterdam, at Plymouth, ordered to London to discharge; Globe, Coffin, Baltimore to Amsterdam, at Plymouth, under adjudication; Ocean, Bunker, Nantes to New York, cleared by compromise (arrived at New York); Montezuma, Smith, Philadelphia to Antwerp, warned off, and gone to London to discharge; Volunteer, Martin, Philadelphia to Tonningen, at Plymouth, waiting further proof; Two Friends, Williams, Baltimore to Antwerp, at Plymouth, cleared and to proceed to port of destination; Polly, Ledet, New York to Bordeaux, cargo discharging at Plymouth; Ontario, Nye, Salem to —, at Plymouth, cleared, appealed for by captors; Edward & Charles, Jones, from — to Bordeaux, at London to discharge; Young Elias, Danelot, Philadelphia to Bordeaux, at Plymouth, waiting trial; Hamlet, Jackson, Philadelphia to Holland, at Falmouth, going to London to discharge; Mary, Kemble, Boston to Holland, at Falmouth, going to London to discharge; Otis, Leeds, New York to Leghorn, at Falmouth, warned off, destination uncertain; Alknomack, Bulstead, — to Bordeaux, at ditto, ditto; Delaware, —, New York to Lisbon, at Falmouth, bound to Madeira; Active, King, St. Ubes to Philadelphia at Falmouth, condemned.—Brigs Virginia, Gordon, Norfolk to Nantes, gone to London to discharge; Othello, Terrett, New York to Nantes at Plymouth, waiting further proof; Huron, Hill, Bordeaux to New Orleans, at Plymouth, waiting trial; Stephen, Baker, Bordeaux to New York at Plymouth, waiting trial; Eliza, Cummings, New York to Bordeaux, at Plymouth, vessel condemned, cargo waiting further proof; Friendship, M'Kever, Philadelphia to Bremen, discharging at Falmouth; Sally, Brown, Philadelphia to Bordeaux, at Portsmouth, waiting orders; Syren, Sulger, Philadelphia to Bilbao, at Weymouth, condemned; Daniel & Frederick, Myers, Philadelphia to Rochelle at London, discharged, and taking freight for Gottenburgh; Newton, Daley, from Baltimore to Holland, at Falmouth, intending to proceed to Amsterdam; David Green, Ward, Boston to France, at Falmouth, going to London to discharge; Increase, Wedger, Marblehead to Bilbao, at Falmouth, bound home with her cargo; Betsey, Macey, Boston to Bilbao, at Falmouth, vessel condemned, cargo restored; Caroline, Dorke, New York to Bordeaux, at Falmouth, waiting trial.—Schooners Experiment, Bechinnee, Lisbon to Bordeaux, at Portsmouth, waiting trial; Nonpareil, —, Baltimore to Bordeaux, at Plymouth, waiting trial; Hope, Jones, Bordeaux to New York, at Falmouth, detained by order of government; George, Lord, Bordeaux to New Orleans, at Falmouth, vessel condemned, cargo restored; Morning Star, Sterry, Bordeaux to New London, at Falmouth, vessel condemned; Fanny Sewell, Gale, New York to Bilbao, discharging at London; Jane, Hull, Boston to Bilbao, warned off, at Falmouth, and bound home with cargo.—30 Ships, 10 Brigs, and 7 Schooners—In all 47 vessels.
WALKER'S Packet will positively sail for Baltimore TO-MORROW. May 6.
THESPIAN SOCIETY.
The Members of the Thespiian Society are requested to meet at the Borough Tavern on Saturday evening, the 7th instant, at 6 o'clock. May 6.
WANTED.
A few Virginia BANK SHARES. Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger. May 6.
FOR RENT,
THE STORE-HOUSE on Main-Street, lately occupied by Hunter & Gatewood, immediate possession may be had. Apply to John Nivison. May 6.
Will be Sold to the highest bidder, on MONDAY the 16th instant, at the Dwelling-House of the late Phinehas Dana, Esq. deceased, All his Household and Kitchen FURNITURE,
Several very likely House Servants; an elegant Philadelphia made Coach, with plated Harness nearly new; two handsome Bay Horses, well matched and well broke; a very good Driver, and a valuable Ship Carpenter. The terms will be made known on the day of sale.
THE DWELLING-HOUSE
of the deceased is offered for rent—also, that occupied by Wright Southgate, Esq.—A House in Bermuda Street, lately occupied by Mr. Allan Gortham—A House in Wide Water Street—A Store on Commerce-Street wharf, and one half of the Wharf known by the name of Gortham's wharf. JAMES YOUNG, Adm'r. May 6.
Pursuant to a Deed executed by JOHN GWYN for the benefit of his creditors, will positive be Sold for cash, on the 10th day of this instant, on the premises, the following
HOUSES and LOTS in Portsmouth, to wit, a small piece of Land situated on Middle-Street, with a large two story Dwelling-House and Kitchen thereon, lately occupied by John Reynolds, subject to the payment of a debt due to John Calvert.
One half the LOT and HOUSES
thereon, situated on the same street, at present occupied by Mr. Tomkins, subject to the life estate of Mrs. Catharine Cooper therein; the Houses on this Lot are a two story Dwelling-House and necessary out houses. THE TRUSTEE. May 4.
All persons are cautioned against
purchasing the HOUSES and LOTS in Portsmouth, advertised for sale by the Trustee of John Gwyn, on the 10th instant, for reasons that may be made known by the administrator of Walter Gwyn, deceased. Portsmouth, May 6.
A Meeting of the Creditors of
JOHN COWPER & CO is requested at the Exchange Coffee-House on Thursday next, the 12th instant, at 12 o'clock. James Tucker, Assignee of John Cowper & Co. May 6.
Military LANDS for Sale.
1100 acres of LAND lying in the State of Ohio, on the waters of the Little Miami, in two different surveys—The subscriber having seen the Land, can affirm that there is no Land in that State superior to it in point of fertility, situation or climate. Any person wishing to purchase the above Land will know the terms by applying to CHARLES SNEAD, living in Northampton, Eastern-Shore, Virginia. May 2.
LABOURERS WANTING.
The President and Directors of the Viamal Swamp Canal Company want to hire for the ensuing season, a number of hands to work on the Canal; they will be provided with good wholesome food, and the usual quantity of whiskey per diem—liberal wages will be given, and their wages paid at the end of every month. Apply to Richard Blow, William Cummack, or Samuel Proctor, Overseer. May 6.
RICHARD & JOHN TAYLOR, Have received by the Ship Rolin, Captain Garry, from London,
A few Packages of GOODS,
suitable for the season. They have also on Hand, Cambrick; common and furniture Calicoes; plain and striped Dimities, White and coloured Jeans; Irish Linens, Sheeting and Cotton Shirting; London superfine Cloths and Cassimeres, 4-4 and 6-4 Cambrick Muslins; Ginghams, Silk and Cotton Chambrays, Ladies' and Gentlemen's Gloves and Hosiery, of all kinds, Sacking, Ozenburgs, and Brown Rolls, Pipes by the box, and Copperas by the barrel,
And an assortment of HARDWARE, NAILS, &c.
all of which they will sell low for Cash, or undoubted Paper at Sixty Days—Also for Sale, 150 barrels NEW PORK, 50 kegs Lard; Old Jamaica Rum and Sugar. May 6.
FOR NEW-ORLEANS, The new Brig LOUISIANA PACK-ET, Richard Hurst, master, will sail directly for that port the first of June. For freight or passage, having excellent accommodations, as she is intended for a regular packet, apply to Jennings & Roddey. May 1.
For SALE,
An elegant and fine toned HARP, made in Paris, and lately imported, with spare strings, and a large collection of MUSIC; the price 250 dollars Apply at the Ledger Office. May 6.
1500 sacks SALT, Liverpool filled, 6000 bushels do. loose, a 30 crates Earthenware—For Sale on board the Ship Sachem, by A. Maclure. May 6.
EDUCATION.
MISS FLETCHER,
Respectfully informs the publick that she intends opening SCHOOL on Monday the 8th instant, in that healthy and pleasantly situated House, No. 9, at the corner of Holt and Chapel-Streets, where she will give Les ons to a few young Ladies in the following branches of Female Education—Reading, Writing, Grammar, Geography, Arithmetic, Marking, Flowering, Lace Work, Tambouring, Embroidery, Fillingree, Drawing, and Painting—Miss F. will take but a small number of pupils, and to the morals, manners, and improvement, every necessary attention shall be paid. May 6.
A STRAY COW.
Came to my place near Fort Norfolk, about 12 months ago, a large RED COW; she has lately had a Calf, and may now be of some use to the owner, who is required to prove his property, pay expenses, and take her away. Francis S. Taylor. May 6.
SHOES.
E. STURTEVANT, No. 77, Main-Street, Has received per schooner President, and is now opening a supply of Ladies' Morocco & Kid SLIPPERS, Misses' Kid, Velvet, and Morocco do.
ALSO, by appointment, Byrne's celebrated incomparable JAPAN VARNISH, for Boots and Shoes. This composition unrivalled for its excellence, as well as being highly beneficial to the leather, produces the most beautiful shining black ever beheld. May 4.
VIRGINIA, to wit: At a Chancery District Court held in the City of Williamsburg, the 26th day of April 1808 Robert, John, and Frances Howard, infants under the age of twenty one years, by Henry Howard their father and next friend,
Plaintiffs. Against Mary Sclater, widow and devisee for life of John Sclater, deceased, Richard and William Sclater, sons and devisees of the said John Sclater, deceased, Edmund Tabb, Frances Tabb an infant under the age of twenty one years, Frances Powell, Elizabeth Smith, and Miles Cary, executor of John Sclater, deceased, and as executor of the said John, who was executor of Richard Sclater, deceased, Defendants.
On the motion of the plaintiffs by their counsel, Sarah Tabb is assigned guardian to the infant defendant Frances Tabb, to defend her in this suit, and the defendant Edmund Tabb not having entered his appearance and given security according to the Act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the Court that he is not an inhabitant of this country: It is ordered, that the said defendant do appear here on the first day of the next term, and answer the bill of the plaintiffs, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the Newspapers published in the Borough of Norfolk, for two months successively, and posted at the front door of the former capitol in this city. A Copy, Anthony Robinson, C. C.
NORFOLK BOROUGH. At a Husting's Court, continued and held the 29th day of October, 1807. John Barrett, and Blandinah his wife, Plaintiffs. Against William James, administrator with the will annexed of Daniel Hutchings, Defendant.
This cause this day came on to be heard on the bill, answer and exhibit filed, and the arguments of counsel; on consideration whereof, it is decreed and ordered, that the defendant exhibit to Master Commissioner Cowper, all accounts and vouchers in his hands relative to the estate of his testator, and the account of sales of the said estate so far as the same has been administered by him, as well as an account of any sum or sums of money, or effects which may have come into his hands from the estate of Elizabeth Hutchings, the former executrix or administratrix, the property of said D. Hutchings, deceased—And that the Master Commissioner state and settle the said accounts, and report the same to the Court, with any matter specially that either party may require. A Copy, Teste, William Sharp, C. C.
The parties in this cause are desired to attend with their books and papers at my Office, on Tuesday the 10th day of next month, (May) at 10 o'clock in the forenoon of said day. John Cowper, M. C. N. B. Master Commissioners Office, Norfolk Borough, April 27, 1808.

FOR BOSTON, The Schooner BARTHOLOMEW , Capt. Crawford, will sail in a few days. For freight or passage apply to the master on board at Newton's wharf, or to
Christopher Fry.
April 29.
TIMBER.
The following Timber is wanted for the Navy Yard at Gosport—Persons disposed to furnish it will be pleased to make immediate application to Theo. Armistead, N. A.
Timber Feet A 6 Gurdur Beams —47—10 by 12 B 40 Joists —36— 3 12 C 40 do. —18— 3 12 D 7 Gurdurs —30—12 12 E 7 do. —20—12 12 F 7 do. —38—12 12 G 7 do. —48—12 12 H 20 do. —40—12 14 I 20 do. —28—12 14 K 30 do. —36— 3 12 L 35 do. —33— 4 12 M 76 Principal Rafters —30— 4 10 & 4 by 6 N 38 Collar Beams —28— 4 9 O 46 Peasants —33— 4 5 P 40 do. —24— 4 5 R 186 Jack Rafters —30— 3 5 S 186 do. —20— 3 5 T 186 do. —24— 3 6 W 16 do. KP —16— 4 10 Y 35 Plats —33— 4 12 The above Timber must be of Heart Pine or Poplar.
April 29.
ADVERTISEMENT.
A good Price will be given for the First Vol. of the History of France, BY GIFFORD. This Book was sent to the late Mr. M'rick to be bound, and sold at Auction with the rest. Apply at the Ledger Office. April 29.
SAMUEL COLEMAN, Market-Street, westward of the Market, has established
A Boot and Shoe MANUFACTORY. For this purpose he has employed the journeyman who were lately in the service of Mr. Walker—as those are said to be the best workmen in the place, and as he is determined to spare no expense in getting the best materials, it is probable that those who will be well served who choose to promote an institution so favourable to the interests of Norfolk, inasmuch as that it will give employment to a considerable number of people, and it will be made extensive in proportion to the encouragement given to it.
New SHOES from New-York, as usual for Sale—such as have been generally sold in retail at 9s. and 8s. 3d. for 7s. 6d.; those at 15s. for 13s. 6d. except of Morocco leather; Ladies' Morocco Slippers at 8s. 3d. for 7s. 6d. and in nearly the same ratio for every other kind of Shoes, where the former prices will bear reduction.
VERNON'S BOOTS, which are no doubt the most elegant made in the United States. Having on hand nearly 200 pair of Boots, he be- lieves there are very gentlemen who cannot be fitted. A few hundred bushels of ground Allum Salt; India Cot- tons; Brown Sugar, &c. &c. as low as they can be sold for a profit, for Cash. April 23.
STOLEN from a House in this Borough, about the 15th or 16th instant,
TWO TABLE SPOONS, both marked T. M. G. in a cypher. Any person that will inform the Editor of this paper where the Spoons can be obtained, shall be well rewarded. N. B. Silversmiths and others are requested to stop them if offered for sale. April 23.
On Hand, A few qr. casks of choice Teneriffe WINE. And a few kegs fresh Dutch HERRINGS—For sale by the Subscriber. Moses Myers. April 23.
COW-POCK.
The Subscriber informs those who wish to be vaccinated, that a parcel of fresh matter lately received from Philadelphia, has succeeded, and is now fit to inocu- late from. George Balfour. April 20.
STOLEN, A SILVER CANDLESTICK, Stamped on the base J. Lownes. The negro woman who it suspected took it about a fortnight since, may have offered it for sale or pawn for rum, of which she is very fond—FIVE DOLLARS will be given to the person who may bring it to the Office of the Ledger. April 22.
NOTICE.
Lost, a CERTIFICATE , certifying my right to four Shares in the Virginia Bank Stock, in con- sequence of which I shall make application to the Bank for a new one. I request that any person who shall get possession of it, will return it to the subscriber. Edward Watson. April 15.
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 canisters, Violet, Benzoin, Windsor and Shaving Soap, Evan's belt-Crown Lozenges, 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 use, with printed directions, put up as usual. October 5.
BANK STOCK LOST.
LOST, Certificates for Ten Shares of VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, standing in the name of Ann and Rebecca Begg.— Any person who has, or may find the said certificates, will please to deliver them to the subscriber. Wm. G. Camp. April 13.
Intending to leave the country for a few months, I have appointed Mr. William Dickson my attorney. Bartholomew Redmon. April 7.
BOOTS.
Elegant Hussar & Backstrap BOOTS, Just received and for Sale by Wood & Hastings, Opposite Market-Square. Feb. 8.
NOTICE.
The Copartnership of RICHARD BOWDEN, & Co. having expired, Richard Drummond is authorised to receive and pay the debts of said concern. Moses Myers, Richard Bowden, Richard Drummond. February 2.
Cognac Brandy, Hollands Gin, Coun- try do. in pipes, Rice in tiers and half tiers—For Sale by C. & F. Whittle. February 24.
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.
Wines, Liquors, and Groceries, wholesale and retail. Joseph Hayes. Feb. 18.
For SALE, 45,000 wt. good COFFEE in bags, 94 puncheons old St. Kitts RUM MOSES MYERS. January 8.
For SALE, 73 punch. choice Antigua RUM, 30 do. Grenada do. 600 bushels CORN, 60,000 drawn White and Red Oak STAVES, 60 barrels Pork. George Wilson. November 4.
NOTICE.
The Subscribers have removed to the Ware-House, No. 6, on Newton's wharf, formerly occupied by Messrs. John D. Haldane, & Co. JENNINGS & RODDEY. January 8.
First quality Jamaica COFFEE. Just received and for Sale, 77 tiers and 24 barrels prime Green COFFEE. James & Thomas Tucker. December 28.
For RENT, The Store, Compting-Room & Cellar, at present occupied by Mess. Wood & Hastings, no. 90, Main-street. Apply to Thomas Willock. August 24.
For SALE, 2 elegant Bay Horses, a complete match, 2 do. grey do. do. 1 remarkable fine bay, and one very excellent grey Horse— For which, Notes of the Bank of Newbern and Cape-Fear, or Proc. Money will be taken in payment—Apply at the Of- fice of the Publick Ledger. Sept. 25.
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 convenient House, where Mr. Cornelius Calvert formerly lived; they have very fine gar- dens and all convenient out-houses—possession may be had on the first day of May next, on application to James Tucker. April 13.
Mackinder & White, Have just received from on board the schooner Liberty, Capt. Lewis, from Philadelphia, 150 boxes fresh Imperial and Hyson TEAS, of superior quality. Also,
A fresh supply of Hollands GIN, Tickenburgs, superfine Cloths, Gentlemen's Silk Hats, Parasols, &c.—Which they offer for Sale on the lowest terms, for cash or approved notes. N. B. A few barrels of prime Smithfield MESS PORK. April 15.
ENGLISH GOODS.
Appleton & Co. By the John Adams, St. Johns, from Liverpool, No. 16, Calvert-Street, Baltimore, have received their regular sup- ply of GOODS , calculated for the present and approach- ing season.
Cambrick and Common Callicoes, Plain and striped Dimities; Printed Marseilles Vesting, White Jeans; Furniture Chintz; do. Dimities, London Superfine Broad Cloths; do. do. Cassimeres, Yorkshire fine Cloths and Cassimeres; patent Nankeens, Cords; Grandurells; Cotton Cassimeres, 6-4 and 4-4 Cambrick Muslins, Japan, Haricord, and Check do. plain and figured Mull do Leno, Victory, and Riddle Muslin; coloured do. do. do. 4-4 plain Book do.; Ginghams; Silk do. Satin, Persian, and Sarsnet; Bonnet Silks; Silk Gloves, Silk Handkerchiefs; Fancy Shawls, Cotton Umbrellas, do. Braces, do. Laces and Footings, do. Quiltings, English Kid Gloves Cotton Hosiery, Handkerchiefs, Fringe and Bed Lace, Cotton and Linen Checks; Buttons; Birmingham Ware In Store, a few dozen gentlemen's best Beaver Hats, from Marseilles. These goods will be sold low for cash, or undoubted pa- per at 60 days. April 15.
NORFOLK, April 25, 1808. MR. GEORGE REID, Sir—Take notice that I shall take the deposition of Ma- thew Hubbard, senior, at the office of Robert B. Taylor, at- torney at law, in Norfolk, between the hours of ten in the morning and four in the afternoon of Friday the 27th day of May next, to be used in a suit depending in the Borough Court of Norfolk, wherein I am plaintiff and you are defend- ant. This notice is given in this mode, as you do not reside within the State of Virginia, and have no known agent or at- torney within the state to whom notice can be given. I am, your obedient servant, TILDSLEY GRAHAM.
For SALE, 4000 bushels Ground Allum SALT, And a few well assorted crates of EARTHENWARE. George Murray, & Co. December 7.
Fresh Imperial TEA. Just received 17 boxes fresh Imperial TEA, of the present year's importation.—Also on Hand, 25 tons assorted BAR IRON, 50 barrels and a few hogsheads Muscovado Sugar, 40 barrels and bags Green Coffee; 25 hds. old Antigua Rum, 20 hds. Molasses; 8 pipes French Brandy, 10 crates assorted Queen's Ware, A few quarter casks of Sherry and Teneriffe Wine, Whiskey in barrels; Loaf Sugar, New-York prime Pork and Beef; 30 casks cheese, A few barrels Mackerel; Soap; Candles; Demijohns, &c. For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. February 26.
NOTICE. The partnership of Ellis & Sprigg, of Hampton, is this day by mutual consent dissolved—all per- sons indebted to the said firm are requested most earnestly to come forward and pay their respective balances to Mr. C. Sprigg; and all those who have claims against said firm, to produce them to said C. Sprigg for settlement. Samuel Ellis, Per his Attorney in fact, Robert Gibson, Corbin Sprigg. Hampton, February 17.
For CASH or approved Discountable Paper, 20 bales best Russia CANVAS, 1 do. Ravens Duck; 1 do. Mattress Tickings, 65 packages German Linen—For Sale by Niemeyer & Von Kapff. February 26.
Now landing from the schooner Prudence Mary, from New-York, 17 hhds. first quality SUGARS, 54 barrels prime Pork, city inspection, 70 boxes Mould Candles; 5 hhds. double refined Sugar, 5 pipes Brandy; 25 reams Writing Paper, 2 trunks fine and coarse French Lace, which will be sold at a low rate for Cash. Apply at No. 1, Commerce-street to William Hull, Jun. October 16.
Just got to Hand. 22 chests Hyson TEA, will be sold low for cash. George Wilson. Nov. 18.
Now landing from on board the schooner Mohawk, Roger Quarles, master, from Leghorn, 120 hogsheads Bordolease CLARET, 96 casks Roll Brimstone, 100 boxes Castle Marbled Soap, 50 tin boxes Saffron, 5 cases Florence Silks of all colours, a great many black, 2 hhds. shelled Almonds, 100 half chests Lucca Oil, of 30 flasks, 100 boxes Lucca Oil, 12 bottles each, 3 cases Chip Hats. For Sale by William Pennock. October 12.
WOOD & HASTINGS, No. 76, Main-Street, Have just received an additional supply of Staple and Fancy GOODS, Among which are Black Silk Velvet; Tabby, do.; Black Silk Floren- tine; Silk Handkerchiefs; do. Fancy Shawls; Convex Na- vy Buttons; fashionable Coat do.; a variety of French Goods; 2 trunks Cambrick Muslins; 2 cases Linens; 2 bales Cotton Checks; 1 do. Gilla Handkerchiefs; 5 do. India Cottons, assorted, some very fine for Shirtings; a variety of Woolens.
They have also on hand a general and extensive assort- ment of WOOLLEN GOODS. Every description of fancy Muslins and Dresses; Velvets; Constitution and President's Cords; Dimities; Carpets; Hosiery, &c. &c. On consignment, just received, Hussar and Backstrap BOOTS; La- dies' Kid and Morocco Shoes; Men's coarse do.; coarse and fine Hats. The above GOODS will be sold at very reduced prices for Cash, or undoubted credit, by wholesale and retail. December 11.
The Subscriber grateful for past fa- vours, takes the liberty of informing the publick, that in ad- dition to his BEER and PORTER HOUSE, he has rented the upper apartment of that commodious house situated at the corner of Wide Water and Commerce-Streets, formerly occupied by Mrs. Bryan, which he has opened as a Tavern, by the name of the GLOBE TAVERN, and will keep a con- stant supply of the best of Liquors; and for the accommo- dation of customers, he will keep a constant supply of prime New-York Ale, Philadelphia Beer and Porter. Solicitous for a share of publick patronage, he assures those who may favour him with their custom, that every atten- tion will be paid to give satisfaction. Gentle Boarders can be accommodated by the week, month, or year, upon moderate terms. Good Stabling and forage for a few horses. WILLIAM TONKIN.
Two TENEMENTS situated on Town-Point, will be rented cheap, together or separate.— For terms apply as above. April 7.
For SALE, On board the ship Damascus, Robert Duckendorff, master, at Commerce-Street Wharf, Coarse Liverpool SALT, St. Vincent's RUM and MOLASSES. Moses Myers. April 15.
For RENT. The STORE in Market-Square, now occupied by the subscriber. For terms apply at his office. Thomas Blanchard. April 7.
The Subscriber having resumed his former Business of Commissioner and Broker, will buy or sell Goods on Commission, post Books, adjust Accounts, and procure Money on good paper or merchandise, at the shortest notice. James Maurice, No. 44, Church-Street March 30.
A WET NURSE FOR SALE.
A Strong NEGRO WOMAN, with a good breast of Milk, and her Boy six weeks old—The Woman is used to washing, ironing, and house-work. ALSO,
A NEGRO WOMAN, an excellent Cook and House Servant. Apply at the Ledger Office. April 22.
CASH for Warwick STAVES. Moses Myers. April 20.
6000 bushels Stoved SALT, 50 crates well assorted Earthenware—For Sale on board the ship Sally, by A. Maclure. March 2.
NOTICE. I am again compelled to solicit all those indebted to the estate of PHILIP COLLINS, deceas- ed, to make immediate payment, as no longer indulgence can be given. Jane Collins, Admr'x. December 9.
AT PRIVATE SALE, BY S. MARKS, JUN. 60 hogsheads St. Kitt's RUM. March 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.
At Private Sale, By S. MARKS, Jun. Corner of Commerce and Water-street, 10 hhds. Antigua, 12 do. N. E. 50
barrels do. RUM, 30 hhds and 20 barrels Sugar; 10 pipes Country Gin, 8 pipes Cognac Brandy; 150 boxes Moule Candles, 0 boxes Spermaceti Candles; 4 bales striped Blankets, 3 bales Blue Duffs; 1 do. fine Cloths; 2 do. blue Plains, 2 do. Rugs; 1 do. Check Shirts, 54 do. Tickenburgs and Oznaburgs; 2 do. Heffians, 1 trunk Madras Handkerchiefs. October 24.
THE SUBSCRIBER Has removed to the brick store at the head of Camp- bell's wharf, fronting said wharf and Wide Water- street, where he offers at wholesale or retail his as- sortment of
Groceries and Ship Chandlery, Among which are 14 hogsheads Muscovado SUGAR, 1 do. and 6 barrels loaf do. 6 do. Antigua, Jamaica, and Grenada Rum, 3 pipes French Brandy, 2 hhds. and 6 bbls Rye Whiskey, 4 barrels Apple Brandy, 1 do. Peach do. 10 bags Coffee, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, and Souchong Teas, Pepper, Pimento, and Nutmeg, Madeira, Sherry, and Port Wines, London and Philadelphia Porter, English Cheese, Bar Iron and Castings, Nail and Spike Rods, German Steel, Powder and Shot, Tar, Pitch & Turpentine, Paints and Oil, black and bright Varnish, Canvas and Cordage, Nails and Spikes.
Also just received, 20 boxes Lemons, 12 half bbls. Beef Tongues, 20 kegs Tongues and Sounds, 40 kegs and 2 bbls Salmon, 5 bbls. Mackerel, 15 cases Sallad Oil, 1 cask Currants, 10 boxes Olives, Capers and Anchovies, 6 dozen bottles Cayenne Pepper, 3 do. do. Pickled Peppers, 30 boxes Soap, 20 boxes Candles, 50 barrels Alexandria superfine and fine Flour. John D. Haldane. July 31.
A Cargo of Liverpool Stoved SALT, For Sale on board the ship Mars. Moses Myers. April 18.
6000 bushels St. Ubes SALT —afloat. IN STORE,
35 puncheons 3d and 4th proof Antigua Rum, 100 hogsheads Sugar, principally Antigua, 40,000 wt. Green Coffee; 850 Demijohns, 7,500 bushels coarse Salt; 100 barrels Rye Whiskey, 30 tiers London Brown Stout, 20 hogsheads Philadelphia Ale and Porter, 150 barrels superfine and fine Flour; 40 kegs fresh Raisins, 10 pipes London particular Madeira Wine, fit for use, 600 ready made Check Shirts; 20 hds. Petersburg Tobacco, 50 barrels Pork; 100 barrels Sugar; a few cases Hermitage For Sale on liberal terms by C. & F. Whittle. February 6.
Thirty Dollars Reward.
RANAWAY from the Subscriber on the 22d of last month, a bright mulatto, named CALEB, about 24 years of age, bow legged; he has a red mark upon his neck just below his right ear, (as well as I can recollect.) I will give the above reward to any person or persons that will se- cure the said negro so that I get him again, and if delivered to me all reasonable charges shall be paid. H. PITTS. Northampton, Eastern-Shore, Virg. April 11, 1808.
Landing from the schooner Antelope, Capt. Putnam, 100 hhds. & 12 tiers MOLASSES, 24 bags Green Coffee. Also received from New-York, New Mess and Prime PORK, Mess and Prime BEEF. For Sale by Jennings & Roddey. April 13.
The following prices will be given in Cash for 500 or 600 cords of BARK, deliverable at my Tan Yard,
Spanish Oak, $ 6 per cord, Willow or Water do. 5 Red do. 4 Young White do. 3 50 Beach Bark, - - 3 50 With a view to prevent disappointment to those who pro- cure this article, arising from the uncertainty of the quantity which may be brought to market, I will receive all which may be delivered at my landing before the first day of June, provided it be well cured and in good order. Theoderick Armistead. April 4.
NORFOLK:
PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, Opposite the Exchange Coffee-House. Price Six Dollars yearly, in advance.