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Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 45 of Volume VIII.]
FRIDAY, May 13, 1807.
[Whole No. 416.]
EMILY HAMMOND,
AN AMERICAN NOVEL.
To convey useful instruction without giving offence, is a task attended with peculiar difficulty. When our faults are set before us, even though friendship itself assume the task of correction, the inherent pride of our hearts feels wounded at the fancied reproof, and too often totally weakens every effort for reformation.
Well drawn sketches of real life, however, furnish a means of instruction which nothing but confirmed havens of character can render ineffectual. When we see a course of vicious conduct succeeded by disgrace, misfortune and repentance, and remark the honor, the happiness, and peace of mind which, even in this life, active Virtue confers on her votaries; we receive instruction without suspecting it. Imagination and Passion are interested, and leave an impression on the understanding, which formal advice and abstract reasoning could never have produced. If the following "unvarnished little tale" shall speak Virtue's call to one erring heart, or beguile a single hour from the dullness of ennui, or the pursuit of trifles: the writer will think his trouble amply repaid. To correct the passions, to soften and amend the heart, has been his object: applause is not expected, and apology will not be attempted.
IN the early part of my life, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. Drey a young gentleman from the eastern part of Massachusetts. Youthful attachments are frequently less permanent than their early warmth would lead us to expect; new connections are formed, and new interests arise, as our years increase, and leave us friendship little beyond an empty name. To Mr. Drey and myself, however, these remarks by no means apply. Although engaged in the most active of all employments, while my life presented little more than a scene of peaceable idleness, he welcomed my frequent visits to his family, with all the ardor of youthful friendship. When I felt the warm grasp of his hand, I felt that I was growing grey, while "the joys of other times" rose to my memory in colours almost too vivid to permit the reflection that they were never to return!
Mr. Drey married when young. His lady was an accomplished woman, and in her disposition amiable in a high degree. Unlike too many of our fashionable wives, she found her chief happiness in increasing that of her husband: to lighten the pressure of his cares, and multiply the sources of his enjoyment, seemed less her duty than her delight: and in that affectionate interchange of kind offices arising from a reciprocal desire to please, my friends enjoyed a degree of domestick felicity which I shall look in vain to see excelled.
They had two children, one of whom died in early infancy; and on the other, a promising boy, was lavished all the fond attention which should have been divided among a more numerous family. He received an early education; and, at the age of seventeen, was placed in a course of professional study, under the care of a relation at Philadelphia.
Such was the family of Mr. Drey three years since: my friend now rests in his kindred earth; his amiable wife tenants the clay by his side: while their son, their only and darling child, "the child of many prayers," in whom centered all the fond hopes and expectations which the parental bosom alone can feel: this son, if yet alive, is a wanderer in foreign climes, friendless and destitute, and tortured with the "gnawings of that worm which never dies."
My readers will pardon this short characteristic sketch; it is a tribute due to the memory of my friends.
In the autumn of 1802, I received intelligence that Mr. Drey was dangerously ill. Wishing to see him, with as little delay as possible, I took a seat in the mail-stage, as offering the most certain and expeditious manner of travelling. The first day I rode quite alone; the carriage reached New-Haven about midnight; and after a few hours repose,
I was summoned to continue my journey toward Boston. As I entered the coach, I observed, by the light of the waiter's lantern, a young lady who had entered before me, and placed herself on the back-seat. She was of a delicate form, and apparently in ill health: but the circumstance which most powerfully excited my feelings was, that she carried a very young infant, who appeared, like its unfriended protectress, to be ill prepared for the fatigues of such a journey. The coachman's customary inquiry, "all in?" was answered by a hoarse "yes" from the door, and I found myself on the road, with no other travelling companion than a woman, who seemed, at least friendless, unprovided, and unknown.
The morning was cold and rainy. Drowsy through fatigue and want of rest, I drew my cloak around me, and fell into a kind of half slumber from which, however, I was soon roused by a complaining cry from the infant which my fellow traveller carried: "Hush, poor little outcast! hush, my poor babe," cried she, in a voice of mournful tenderness. "The world has no pity for you! Oh, it is a cruel world!" She pressed her suffering little one to her bosom, and sobbed in anguish. Here was an appeal to my feelings too powerful to be resisted: in the impulse of the moment, I seated myself close by her side—"Young woman! you seem to be distressed—trust an old man: I can have no interest in deceiving you!" "I am distressed!" she replied in a voice scarcely audible; "but I did not mean to complain."
"Have you travelled far?" "From Philadelphia, sir." "Painful! And you go farther still." "To Boston—"
"Who are your friends in Boston?" I inquired hastily. She burst into a passion of tears, and I felt I had asked two much. "I have no friends—no home," she replied—"I expect no pity but from heaven, and I have forfeited even that. For myself, I could suffer in silence—I deserve to suffer; but my babe—oh, sir! my friendless little one has a better claim to compassion!"
"You have both a claim—and be mine the task to guard you! We are all the children of transgression, and if you have erred more than others, your sufferings must have been in full proportion. You are distressed—I claim your reliance on my protection."
There are times when prudence and compassion appear at variance, and when pity would seem to deserve the name of weakness. The unfeeling sensualist may sneer at my credulity; and that cold, timid selfishness which shelters itself under the sacred garb of prudence may "point its iron frown" at actions which it cannot imitate—little do I care. Be it mine to pity the faults and sooth the sorrows of a repentant fellow mortal; and if that Being whose highest attribute is mercy, should throw error in my way, may I ever be the victim of my heart, rather than the dupe of my head!
When we reached Boston, I procured attendance for my protege at one of the inns, and went immediately to the house of a widow lady, with whom I had been intimately acquainted during a former residence in that town. Mrs. Barlow was a quaker, and possessed, in reality, that purity and simplicity of morals so generally apparent in people of her persuasion. To this woman I immediately related my adventure, and concluded with asking her assistance and protection for the unhappy stranger. The ladies, I am well aware, will frown at this: "A witless old cull! Could he not be satisfied with being a fool himself? I wish he had applied to me! I would have shown him the difference between—but let's hear what Mrs. Barlow said to him."
"With the smile of an angel, benevolence on her face, she replied: "Friend J, thou art full of thy whims, but I know thy heart: bring the poor girl to me; I must not be behind thee in succouring the unfortunate." I waited not for a repetition of this offer; and in a few minutes the "way-worn" sufferer was introduced to a protector of her own sex. "Without waiting for any thing but a hasty refreshment, I borrowed Mrs. Barlow's carriage; and in a few
hours had the happiness of embracing my old friend. I found him in much better health than my fears had predicted; his disorder, a severe pleurisy, had yielded to prudent treatment and a good constitution, and he was fast recovering. His son, whom I had not seen for two years, was now at home. This young gentleman seemed exactly what his father was when my acquaintance with him commenced—A strong cultivated mind, assisted by a literary education, and an unusual proficiency in classical learning: a graceful form: a fine open countenance, and a manly spirit, checked by the restraint of true politeness, rendered Everard Drey not only an object of general esteem, but, in a high degree, what our novel writing ladies would call a dangerous man . He was melancholy, however: Some hidden sorrow, which neither the confidence of friendship, nor the anxious inquiries of parental tenderness, could elicit, preyed upon his spirits and impaired his health.
After spending three days with Mr. Drey, my anxiety to see the poor stranger at Boston, led me again to that town. Everard was at leisure, and asked leave to accompany me. We reached the city late in the morning; and while Everard was engaged in conversation with some gentlemen of his acquaintance at the coffee-house, I rode directly to Mrs. Barlow's. That good woman saw me alighting, and met me at the door: "I am glad thou art come, but I have sad news for thee: thy poor girl is sick—sick, I fear, past recovery." On the evening after thy departure for thy friend Drey's, she seemed highly feverish, and begged to retire immediately after tea, she rested little; and on inquiring after her health in the morning, I sent instantly for a physician; and from his opinion I find we have little to hope. She inquires anxiously for thee when her recollection is perfect; but since yesterday noon, she has been almost constantly delirious. This morning she asked to see her infant, which had been placed with a nurse: the poor babe is itself ill, and we strove to evade her inquiry. After repeatedly urging the pathetic request, "Let me, let me see my child—my poor friendless babe!" she wildly cried—"Oh! they have sent it—they have sent it to the hospital!" Her frenzy alarmed us, and we put the child into her arms: She hugged it fondly to her bosom, and said in a low voice: "My sweet little Mary! thy mother is dying! could thy father see us now! but hush—he lives somewhere here: he will say we followed him, troubled him, disgraced him!—Oh no, not for the world would we have him say that! But where is the good man who saved us? Has he forsaken us too? How kind he looked! He is an old man too—he forsake my poor Mary! No, no!" Soon after this she fell asleep; we expect her to awake in her perfect senses, and then I shall wish thee to see her immediately."
Everard now joined us, and as we were seating ourselves at dinner, an elderly gentleman, in a quaker's dress, was introduced, and welcomed by Mrs. Barlow as an old and valued friend—"Friend Hammond," said the worthy woman, "it is many long years since I shook thy hand last; I am glad to see thee; but thou hast come to a house of mourning."
"Mourning, sister! my own heart is a house of mourning; but for whom art thou afflicted!"
"For the poor and the stranger; a lovely young woman, a guest in my house, is now on the bed of death!"
"My poor Emily is among strangers too!" replied the venerable mourner, drying the bitter drop of sorrow from his furrowed cheek. "Oh sister," added he, "I would not trouble others with my griefs; but the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly with me."—Thou wilt remember that when my business compelled me to visit India, I removed my wife and infant daughter to the house of my brother in Philadelphia. My sufferings abroad I will not mention: shipwreck, sickness, and captivity kept me from my native land for ten long years; but heaven blessed my labours with abundant increase, and but now I had returned with the soothing hope of sharing the bounties of Providence with
my beloved family; but my wife is dead, and my daughter—oh sister! my sweet little Emily is lost; ruined, eloped from her friends! And perhaps from disgrace and life together, with all her sins on her head!"
"Who! Emily Hammond!" inquired Everard in breathless agitation.
"Yes, my good young friend, didst thou know my child!"
"God of mercy!" groaned Everard, and sunk senseless on the floor.
We assisted him into the next room and placed him on a bed; but before he had recovered so far as to permit any inquiry after the cause of his emotion, the nurse came from above stairs with a request from the physician who was then attending, that Mrs. Barlow would walk above. She complied immediately; but after a few minutes' absence, she returned in tears.
"Friend Hammond! wilt thou comfort the dying? Friend J, the moments of thy poor girl are numbered and well-nigh finished! she wishes to bless thy kindness with her parting breath!"
Everard had now recovered, and requested to be left alone; and myself and Mr. Hammond followed Mrs. Barlow to the room of the dying stranger. The curtains of the bed were partly drawn, and we had approached close before she observed us. "My father!" with a faint scream was heard from the bed. Mr. Hammond fell on his knees by the bedside, and groaned in anguish: "My child! my poor lost Emily! Oh my sainted Mary! is this our daughter! in this all I have left of thee! Do I find our little prattling Emily thus! Father of mercies! strengthen me to thy chastening! my child! my child! art thou gone!" The poor sufferer had fainted, and our utmost efforts could hardly rekindle the feeble spark of her exhausted frame. She opened her eyes at length, and with a long-drawn sob exclaimed, "My father! forgive me!"
"Forgive thee my child! I bless thee! heaven forgive and bless thee as freely as thy father!"
"It is enough! Everard I forgive you."
An explanation like this I had dreaded; but when the painful certainty left no room for better hopes, I could hardly support the shock. Everard Drey, the son of my old friend, whose constant example and whose daily lesson had been duty, had seduced from innocence and virtue a heart that loved and trusted him; and left to struggle unassisted with the accumulated miseries of grief, sickness, disgrace and penury, the loveliest victim that ever suffered on the altar of sensuality! My own life has not been unmarked with sorrows: I have mourned the loss of friends, and followed my kindred to the grave; but never did my spirit sink within me as at this moment. Ye who have hearts to feel will not ask why I weep at the recollection.
A moment's reflection determined my conduct. I went below; where I found Everard walking the room in an agitation which excited my pity. I beckoned to him, and immediately returned to the chamber; he followed me without answering.
We approached the bed of the dying Emily in silence; she cast her eyes on us, and wildly exclaimed, "Everard!—your daughter!—protect my child! I did not come to disgrace you, Everard! I felt that my days were but few; I wished to see you, to forgive you, and to die!—protect—!" She faltered; her eyes closed; and a single convulsive gasp freed her gentle soul from the sufferings of mortality!
The father watched the expiring struggle of his beloved daughter, and covering his face, lifted up his soul in silent prayer to his God. Not so Everard. "Old man! mourning father!" cried he in the voice of distraction. "See here the murderer of your daughter! Emily was the child of virtue; all the powers of hell were put in array against her! Farewell!" added he with an accent of frenzy: and instantly flew from the house.
Let me be brief. Emily's babe rests in the same grave with its mother; and her wretched father quickly descended to that place "where the wicked cease from troubling." Rumour's hundred

tongues preceded my return to Mr. Drey's. My friend elapsed and died. A rapid decline hastened his beloved wife to join him. Everard is no where to be found; and amid this wide wreck of life and happiness, I seem left alone to tell the tale!!
Daughter of innocence! listen to the voice of age! When the youth of thy fancy points to the flowery paths of pleasure, and with the honied eloquence of desire, cries, "Come, come!" fly, fly from the forbidden path, and trust not the lips that utter deceit! In thine own bosom thou hast a treacherous foe: thy heart bounds at the voice that would lure thee to destruction, & responsive answers to the syren call! Hast thou friends who will mourn thy fall? Lose not the "good name" which years of penitent virtue cannot recover! Hast thou brethren and sisters? Shall the finger of scorn be pointed at them for thy sake! Hast thou parents? Oh, why wilt thou clothe the face of thy mother with shame, and bring down the grey hairs of thy father with sorrow to the grave! Dost thou fear the God who made thee? Think, ere thought shall be distraction! Let thy fancy lead thee to the tomb of Emily Hammond; there read, "seventeen years—disgrace and death!" Fly—oh fly! daughter of innocence, ere the gulf of infamy open to receive thee!
LONDON, March 21.
No Foreign papers had reached town at a late hour last night, though, from the present state of the wind, French papers are hourly expected.—We do not, indeed, expect that those Journals will be found to contain any thing either of interest or authenticity. The armies in Poland have nothing to do but retreat; and the Bulletins will contain nothing but representations of former events, & new pretensions of victory. We confess, however, that we feel some anxiety for their arrival; there are still some important points which they may elucidate, and in which, with common caution on the part of their readers, they cannot well deceive.
The Negotiations at Warsaw must end in some positive determination. Bonaparte will never suffer Austria to remain in her present indecision.—In his present situation, all his motions are necessarily cramped by the apprehension, at least, of her possible hostility. A movement of the Austrian army might, in a moment, cut off his supplies; and, in the present circumstances of the Campaign, endanger the very existence of his army. Is it credible, therefore, that Bonaparte, with his characteristic arrogance and ambition, will suffer the farther continuance of this state of things? What, then, will be his probable course? He will endeavor either to bribe Austria; or what is still worse, to awe or corrupt her Councils.
It is indeed no less lamentable than true, that the French intrigues have obtained a most unnatural prevalence even in the Cabinet of Austria. It was so in Prussia, and hence the alternate resolution and timidity of that unhappy Government. There was no Opposition which was powerful enough to render the best resolutions nugatory, if not to procure the execution of the worst. We much fear—we say it with regret, but we do not say it without sufficient grounds—that there is something of the same kind in the present Austrian cabinet.—The ARCHDUKE CHARLES, the best hope of Europe, and of his own House—has too long and too successfully been opposed by this secret party. We have only to express our hopes, that he may finally prevail over it. The late accounts received by Government are not very favorable.
ADDRESS TO THE PEOPLE OF GERMANY,
By the Commander in Chief of the Imperial Russian Army.
By along series of the most unfortunate events, your country has become a prey to the most cruel and insolent of foes. The manifold sufferings to which you have been subjected are known to the emperor my most gracious sovereign and his majesty is so much the more disposed to take the warmest interest therein, as he himself has sprung from German blood; and mindful of the intimate ties which exist between his imperial house and many of the German princes, he has never ceased to entertain with regard to the German nation, all that esteem to which a people, so numerous, enlightened and virtuous are justly entitled. With this sentiment of the warmest interest in the fate of Germany, are naturally and inseparably conjoined his
majesty's wishes to deliver this empire from its oppressors, and restore it to its just freedom and independence. His majesty will think no exertion too laborious to attain this great object.
Inhabitants of Germany the whole Russian army fights for your interests! Under these circumstances so favorable, shall you alone remain inactive? Shall you be so blinded, as in the present state of things to do nothing for yourselves?
The enemy is at a great distance from his frontiers, in territories, and at a season of the year, which not only do not afford him sufficient means of supply, but also impede all his operations. Will you voluntarily contribute to his relief? Will you act against your own interests? Forget not that you have all possible aid to expect from the brave army entrusted to my command. I trust that I shall victoriously drive back the common enemy of Europe, and convince him that there still remains a people, who, faithful to their country and their monarch, have both the inclination and the power to resist the imposition of his iron yoke. But however probable this success may be, his majesty will still regard it as incomplete, so long as the foe shall not be driven back beyond his natural boundaries; and as this is the only means of restoring the independence of your country, and obtaining a general peace upon secure foundations, his imperial majesty relies with the fullest confidence, that at this finally decisive crisis, the inhabitants of Germany will not only lend no kind of support to the common foe, but, on the contrary, that they will, by a general resistance, render his further stay in Germany impracticable, and throw every possible difficulty in the way of his retreat towards his own frontiers. By this intimate union of the whole Russian force with all the means of the German empire, the common object may be attained, and peace, so anxiously desired, be once more restored to suffering Europe.
Take courage then, brave and virtuous Germans. Reflect on the immortal renown of your ancestors, who in former ages, maintained their independence with the most signal bravery. Unite yourselves under the colours of such of your princes, in whom the unfortunate events of our times have not extinguished a sense of honour, and their own dignity. To this grand and noble purpose of delivering your country from a foreign yoke, sacrifice every private quarrel, every consideration of internal discord, and then shall you compose a formidable whole, capable not only of disputing every inch of ground with the common enemy, but also of ultimately vanquishing and repelling him for ever within his natural frontier.
"In your efforts to attain so glorious an object, you may rely with the fullest confidence on the powerful and continued assistance of the emperor, my most gracious sovereign. The universally acknowledged principles of his imperial majesty afforded you a guarantee, that not only will his majesty not abandon you in the present struggle, but that on the happy termination thereof, he will particularly direct his attention to the restoration of your country, which for succession of centuries rendered your forefathers the happiest people on the face of the earth, and which can only be destroyed by the domineering ambition of an enemy, who makes no scruple of treading under foot the most sacred treaties."
"Given at the Imperial Russian head quarters." (Signed)
"VON BENNINGSEN, General of cavalry, military governor of Lithuania, &c. &c."
NEW-YORK, April 24.
The ship Eliza, captain Smith, left Bourdeaux on the 25th March. We have received by her regular files of French papers to the 20th inclusive.—They add to our former stock of intelligence two more bulletins (the 63d and 64th) from the grand army. The most interesting circumstances being detailed in that of the 64th, we have confined our translations for the present to that article only. When the great pressure of local business shall begin to subside, the 63d will be given to complete our series.
Translated for the Mercantile Advertiser
SIXTY-FOURTH BULLETIN OF THE GRAND ARMY.
OSTRODE, 2d March, 1807.
The city of Elbing furnished great resources to the army. There was found in it a great quantity of wine and brandy. The country of the lower Vistula is very fertile.
The Ambassadors of Constantinople
and of Persia, have entered Poland, and approach Warsaw.
After the battle of Eylau the Emperor passed every day several hours on the field of battle. A horrid spectacle, but duty rendered it necessary. It required much labour to bury all the dead. A great number of bodies of Russian officers were found with their decorations. It appears there was among them a Prince Rephin. Forty-eight hours after the battle, more than 500 wounded Russians remained on the ground that they had not been able to carry off. Brandy and bread was bro't them, and they were successively transported to the hospitals.
Let one figure to himself upon the surface of a square league 9 or 10,000 dead bodies, 4 or 5000 horses slain, lines of Russian knapsacks, pieces of muskets and swords, the earth covered with Bullets—Obus's munitions, 24 pieces of cannon near which were the bodies of the conductors killed at the moment they were making efforts to drag them off, and which appeared more forcibly upon a ground of snow—A spectacle calculated to inspire Princes with the love of peace and the horrors of war.
The 5000 that we had wounded have been all filed off or sent to Thorn and our Hospitals on the left bank of the Vistula upon sleighs. The surgeons have remarked with surprise that the fatigue of this conveyance has not injured the wounded.
Here are some details of the battle of Braunberg. General Dupont marched against the enemy in two columns. General Brayer, who commanded the right column, met the enemy at Ragern, and forced him in the river, which runs in front of this village. The left column pushed the enemy upon Villenberg, and the whole of the division did not delay falling out of the wood. The enemy driven from his 1st position, was obliged to fall back upon the river which covers the city of Braunberg; at first he stood firm, but Gen. Dupont marched up to him into the city, which was strewed with the Russian dead.
The 9th of light Infantry, the 32d, and the 9th of the line which composed this division, have signalled themselves. Generals Barrois, Lahoressaye, Col. Semel of the 24th of the line—Col. Meunier of the 9th of light Infantry—The Chief of Battalion Bouge of the 32d of the line, and the chief of a squadron Hubinet of the 9th of Hussars, have merited particular eulogiums.
Since the arrival of the French army on the Vistula we have taken from the Russians in the affairs of Pultusk and of Golymin 89 pieces of cannon, at the battle of Bergfried 4 pieces; at the retreat of D'Allenstein 5 pieces; at the battle of Deppen 16 pieces; at the battle of Holf 12 pieces; at the battle of Bransberg 16 pieces; at the battle of Ostrolenka 9 pieces; total 175 pieces of cannon.
The remark has been made on this subject that the emperor has never lost any cannon in the armies which he has commanded when in the first campaigns of Italy and Egypt, or in those of reserve, whether in those of Austria and Moravia or in those of Prussia and Poland.
SALEM, May 1.
The Turkish War —By captain William Cook, who arrived here on Wednesday night from Palermo in Sicily, we have some additional particulars respecting the new war which has been commenced between the Turks and Russians, which is likely soon to assume a high degree of interest and importance. The Turks are doubtless considered as acting a part assigned them by Bonaparte; and, as was to be expected, the British have made common cause with the Russians against them. We have already had some reports of the progress of the Russian arms, under Gen. Michelson, in the direct route for Constantinople—Captain C. further informs us of the co-operation of a naval force in the expedition against the Ottoman capital. Dispatches had arrived at Sicily, with orders for Sir Sydney Smith to join Admiral Duckworth, and sail with all possible speed for the Dardanelles, to act in concert with the Russians against the Porte; and they sailed, in consequence, on the 26th of January. We do not know the amount of the British force. The Russians were stated to have twenty-five sail of men of war in the Mediterranean, on board of which was a considerable number of troops: and it was expected that in conjunction they would attack the Dardanelles and pass up to Constantinople. In the mean time fears were entertained for the safety of Admiral Louis, who with a small squadron was, by the last advices, above Constantinople, and who might therefore be arrested on his return into the Archipelago if the Turks
should be apprised in season of the hostility of Great-Britain.
Of the war between the French and Russians no intelligence could be obtained in that quarter, to be relied on. The accounts were such as had passed through French channels, and in general represented Bonaparte as having met with little or no obstruction in his victorious career.
Our countrymen at Sicily were highly gratified at receiving, in London prints of the 5th of January, official accounts of the conclusion of a treaty between G. Britain and America; the more so, as the Paris papers a few days previous had represented the negotiation as likely to fail, and a rupture between the two countries as almost unavoidable. At the same time there was considerable murmuring among the British on the occasion; for, though the conditions of the treaty were unknown, yet there was a general impression that the American commissioners had got the advantage in the negotiation, and that the honor and interest of Old England had not been properly maintained.
Business at Naples and Leghorn was extremely dull, and nearly stagnated at the former place, by means of the continual contributions levied on the merchants by the new government.
NEW-YORK, April 29.
BRUTAL MURDER!
By letters received from Albany, we understand there are no hopes entertained of the recovery of general Solomon Van Rensselaer.
An universal gloom pervades the city of Albany, in consequence of this melancholy event; and its inhabitants, whose feelings are divided between sympathy for the situation of general Van Rensselaer, and indignation and horror at the outrage of his antagonists, have been with difficulty restrained from violence.
The public are already informed, that the cowardly and cruel attack was made by several Clancians, among whom were judge Taylor, Dr. Cooper, and Francis Bloodgood, friends and relations of De Witt Clinton. They have given him a dangerous wound on the head, and caused his wound, received by him in the defence of his country, once more to stream with blood.
Gen. Van Rensselaer was attacked by John Taylor. Not a word had passed on either side. Notwithstanding that Taylor had lain in wait for the general, and was therefore prepared, while the general was taken by surprise, the latter succeeded in parrying every blow of his adversary and would have beat him off, had not Bloodgood and Cooper, who were stationed in readiness, came behind the general, and joined in the assassination.—Bloodgood, who is a powerful man, lifted a large hickory stick, in such a manner as to use it with the greatest effect, and struck the general on the back of the head, so as to beat in the skull, and produce a compound fracture, beyond the skill of surgery to relieve.—On his falling, Dr. Cooper stamped upon his body, and tore open the wound which he long ago received, but which has never been perfectly cured, in fighting the battles of his country against the Indians. He served under general WAYNE, whose special thanks he once obtained for leading a most gallant attack. The general's father, who still lives to behold the miserable death of his son, fought by the side of Montgomery.
RICHMOND, May 2.
On Wednesday last we experienced the severest storm of hail within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. It commenced immediately after Meridian, the wind then increasing to a gale at South Westerly; many of the stones were as large as Pigeons eggs. The damage it occasioned was chiefly confined to the windows, scarcely a house escaping without the loss of many panes of glass, and one had not less than 40 panes broke—Some Lambs in the neighborhood we understand were killed—At sun set the gale increased to a hurricane, accompanied with heavy rain and thunder and lightning, which continued for several hours.—Two houses were struck with the lightning, one on Shockoe hill, and the other next to the bridge in the occupancy of Messrs. Darmstadt, Foster and Satchell, which last was set on fire; but owing to the indefatigable exertions of the citizens, it was extinguished.—These endeavors demand the most grateful applause of the public at large, as the inhabitants turned out at the most inclement season ever witnessed in this city. We learn also that several boats in the

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ALL persons who purchased at sale of the estate of the late Thomas Turner, deceased, are requested to come forward and discharge their obligation, which have all become due. Also, those who were indebted to the deceased in his life time by written obligation or otherwise, who have not yet paid, are called upon to make payment. I will attend at the House of Mr. Edmund Graham in Martinsburg, on the 26th and 27th days of this present month, to settle any just claims that may be made against said estate. All persons concerned are desired to attend.
JOHN TURNER, Ex'r. May 8, 1807.
WHEREAS I purchased of John Lyle, son of Capt. John Lyle deceased, about two years past a Tract of Land containing thirty four acres, I received a Deed for the said Land, and gave Bonds for the purchase money. I have paid off all the Bonds, but one, which is due the first day of this month—since that time I have been informed that the said Land was Mortgaged, in or about the year 1791 by the said John Lyle dec'd, and as I am determined not to discharge the said Bond until the said Mortgage is satisfied, I hereby forewarn all persons whatsoever from taking an assignment on the said Bond.
JAMES WRIGHT. May 8, 1807.
STRAYED AWAY.— TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
A chesnut sorrel mare about fourteen and a half hands high, seven years old. She has lost her right eye, the ball is considerably reduced and the upper eye lash is entirely off. The above described mare left my residence on Sunday the 26th of April last. Whoever will restore the mare shall if obtained in the neighbourhood receive five dollars, if a considerable distance ten dollars.
WILLIAM WATTS. Berkeley County, May 8, 1807.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber, on the 6th instant, a negro man Named PHILIP, about five feet nine inches high, stout made, a small lump on one of his ribs, and a scar on his upper lip occasioned by the kick of a Horse, of a yellowish Complexion and a down look, being the same I purchased some time ago of Joseph Minghini. Any person, securing the said negro in prison and Giving me notice thereof or delivering to me, shall receive the above Reward.
JOHN BURNS, sen. Berkeley County, May 8, 1807.
New Cash Store.
THE subscriber takes this method of informing his acquaintances and the public in general, that he has just opened a handsome assortment of FRESH GOODS (at his dwelling house in Shepherd's-Town.) He deems it unnecessary to particularize each article which comprises his assortment, suffice to say, it consists almost of every article that is most useful and plain (both of Dry Goods and Groceries;) he also has a large quantity of most excellent Potter's Ware, of a better quality than any ever offered for sale in this place before. He assures his friends and acquaintances that the whole of his Goods have been laid in on the very lowest terms, and as he is positively determined to sell very Cheap for Cash or Country Produce, they may with confidence call on him for CHEAP BARGAINS.
BENJAMIN BOYDSTONE. Shepherd's-Town, May 8, 1807.
A Great Bargain; Farmers & Millers Attend.
TO be sold at public auction agreeably to the will of William Henshaw, Esq. dec'd, on Tuesday the 19th instant, if fair, if not, the next fair day, a valuable tract of Land called Springfield the late residence of said Henshaw, deceased; containing about 600 acres of valuable limestone Land with Mill-Creek running through it, on which is a Merchant Mill, Saw and Fulling Mills and Distillery, with several convenient Dwelling houses, barns, stables, &c. with a great number of fruit trees well assorted, it will be sold all together or in several tracts as may best suit the purchasers. It is deemed not necessary to give a full description of the property, any person wishing to purchase can see the same by applying to the subscribers on the premises who will make a good sufficient title, the sale to begin at 11 o'clock, at the mansion house.
At the same time and place one tract of 400 acres lying on Salt Lick Creek, a branch of little Canawa, Monongalia county.
Also, one tract of 300 acres adjoining land of Anthony Self, lying on Stillwell's Creek, a branch of the Canawa in said county.
The terms of the above sale will be one half of the purchase money to be paid in hand, the balance in five equal annual payments, secured by Deed of trust upon the property. Attendance given by LEVI HENSHAW, HIRAM HENSHAW, } Adm'rs. May 8, 1807.
ALL those that purchased goods at the sale of Ann Henshaw, dec'd. are hereby informed, that their notes became due on the first instant, and that if they are not discharged immediately they will be put in the hands of a proper officer for collection. All those who have any demands against said estate are requested to bring them forward, properly authenticated for settlement.
WILLIAM S. HENSHAW, Ex'r. May 8, 1807.
CASH SALE.
TO be sold for Cash, at the Court-House door, on Saturday the 16th instant.—One elegant Desk, two large Dining Tables, two Breakfast ditto, four Bedsteads, Windsor and Split bottomed Chairs, three feather Beds and Bedding, one Tenplate Stove and pipe, a complete set of Hatter's Tools, including dye Kettles, Planks, &c. two Cows, one of which will soon give milk, two Hogs, a number of Roam Hates, besides a variety of Household furniture too tedious to mention. Attendance will be given by MOSES COLLINS. Martinsburg, May 8, 1807.
N. B. There is every thing necessary for carrying on the Hatting Trade.
The above sale was advertised to take place on the 1st and 2nd days of April court, but was postponed on account of the weather.
BOLTING CLOTHS.
JUST received an extensive assortment of best warranted BOLTING CLOTHS, of every description, which will be sold unusually low, by
KENNEDYS & RAGAN. Hagerstown, June 5, 1806. [19]
NOTICE.
THE auditors of John Lemen, dec'd, late of Jefferson County are hereby notified, that agreeably to an order made by the Court of said Jefferson County on the 14th day of last month, distribution according to law will be made by the next Court to be held for said County, among the said creditors who may then prove their claims to said Court in a legal manner, of the proceeds of the sale of the estate of said Lemen, which sale was heretofore made by me in pursuance of a previous order of said Court.
ANDREW WAGGENER, jun. D. Sheriff for A. White, H. Sh'ff of Jefferson County. May 1, 1807.
Berkeley, ss.
April Court, 1807.
Philip C. Pendleton and David Hunter, Executors of Philip Pendleton, dec'd, Complainant,
AGAINST James Breathed, Defendant, IN CHANCERY.
THE defendant, James Breathed, not having entered his appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainants by their Counsel, it is ordered, that said James Breathed do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in June next, to answer the bill of the Complainants, 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 the said County.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
REGIMENTAL ORDERS.
SATURDAY the 23rd of this month is appointed for the muster of the 1st Battalion of the 67th Regiment Virginia Militia, at Robert Snodgrass, jun. on Back-Creek; and Saturday the 30th of said month for the muster of the 2d Battalion of said Regiment, at Buckle-Town. A punctual attendance is required from every individual belonging to the Regiment.
May 1, 1807.
FOR SALE, OR RENT;
AND possession to be given the first of June next, that large, commodious, well finished HOUSE, to which is attached a very extensive and excellent Garden, and Lot of Ground with every necessary out building—all in high cultivation and unexceptionable repair—now in the tenure of Mr. Adam S. Dandridge—lying on Queen's street, betwixt Maj. Boyd's and the late Mr. Strode's Brick Building—one of the most pleasant and least incumbered situations in Town.
For terms, which will be made very accommodating to either the Purchaser or Renter, apply to Mr. Wm. Somerville, resident; or the Proprietor in Charles-Town, Jefferson County, Virginia.
JOHN DIXON. May 1, 1807.
Berkeley, ss.
February court, 1807.
Joseph Foreman, complainant,
AGAINST Jane Wight, Adm'x. of James Wight, dec'd. and Elizabeth Wight and children of James Wight, dec'd. D'f's.
IN CHANCERY.
UPON the motion of the complainant, by his counsel, and it appearing to the court that the defendants have failed to file their answer to the Subpoena in this case, being returned Executed to December court, 1801; It is ordered that the bill of the complainant be taken pro confesso, and the matter thereof be decreed accordingly, unless the defendants, at or before May term next, file their answer; and it further appearing to the court that the defendants since the service of the Subpoena in this cause, have removed themselves out of this commonwealth, it is directed that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer, and contained therein for two months successively.
A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
A variety of BLANKS For sale at this Off.
Fresh Spring goods.
THE subscribers respectfully inform their Friends (Customers at a distance) and the Public in general that they have just received and are now opening at their store in Shepherd's-Town—(By the Market House) A handsome assortment of
Fresh Spring Goods,
among which are
Best superfine Calicoes, very handsome, Common and low price ditto, Superfine Cambricks, ditto low-price, Ladies Fashionable Robes, richly embroidered, ditto Shawls, ditto, A handsome selection of Leno Muslins, French Cambric, and French plain Lawn for Caps, A handsome assortment broad Thread Lace, ditto white and ditto black, Patent do. Ladies and Misses Silk and ditto Cotton Sandal Hose, Ladies Extra long English and French Silk Gloves, ditto ditto white Kid & York Tan, do. Gentlemen white Kid & white Silk ditto, Best superfine Dimities, ditto low-price, Superfine 4-4 Irish Linens, low-priced ditto, and 5-4 Sheeting, Best strong bleached Ticklingburg, Low price ditto and 4-4 German Linens, Rushea Sheeting, ditto Duck, ditto Dowlas and ditto Drilling, A great variety of Cheap Muslins, Fashionable Split straw and Leghorn, Bonnets, Best superfine London Broad Cloths, Second and third Quality ditto, Best Superfine London Camisoles, President's and Constitution Cords, Velvets and Fancy Cords, Cotton Camisoles, English and India Nankeens, Gentlemen Silk and Cotton Hose, Bandannos and Madras Handkerchiefs, Silk and Cotton Chambroy Muslins, Ladies Morocco and Kid Slippers, Gentlemen's nice imported Hats, ditto country made ditto, ditto Marsailles, Muslin-nett and Yanett Vest Patterns, And a few handsome Printed East-India Counterpains, warranted, fast colors. Also on hand a few very Cheap English Silver Watches,
A large supply of Bar-Iron, Plow Molds, Steel and Castings, Boal and upper Leather, Nails of all sizes, China, Glass, Queens, Stone and Tin Ware, with a complete assortment of Fresh Teas of the first Quality, Groceries, Saddlery, Hardware, Paints, Brushes, Oil, Patent and other Medicines; a large quantity of old Whisky, distilled in Maryland out of pure rye. The whole of those Goods have been bought on low terms, and it will be an object to purchasers at a distance to call and see them; (as well as those immediately in this Neighbourhood) as we are selling them uncommonly Cheap.
JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's-Town, April 17, 1807. P. S. They continue to pay the highest price in Cash for HIDES and SKINS.
Spring Goods.
THE subscribers have just received, and are now opening, at their store in Shepherd's-Town, (Mr. Kearney's well known stand) A large and complete assortment of
Choice Goods,
which were purchased in Philadelphia and Baltimore at very reduced prices. They deem it unnecessary to particularize any articles, as they can assure the public that their assortment of GOODS cannot be exceeded by any, and upon a particular examination they are satisfied will give general satisfaction, both as to cheapness and quality;—They therefore flatter themselves that those who wish to get good bargains will call on them, and they pledge themselves that their friends shall not be disappointed.
R. WORTHINGTON, & Co. Shepherd's-Town, April 17, 1807.
CASH given for clean Linnen & Cotton
RAGS
At the Office of the INTELLIGENCER.
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.