Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1804-11-03 00:00:00

WHOLESALE PRICE-CURRENT.
NORFOLK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1804.
Table with 5 columns: ARTICLES, Unit, From, To, Remarks. Lists prices for various goods like Bacon, Beef, Brandy, Bread, Butter, Candles, Coal, Cocoa, Coffee, Cordage, Cotton, Duck, Flour, Fish, Fustick, Gin, Grain, Hemp, Hides, Indigo, Iron, Lead, Meal, Mahogany, Molasses, Peas, Pepper, Pimento, Pitch, Pork, Raisins, Rice, Rosin, Rum, Salt, Soap, Sugar, Shingles, Staves, Tar, Tobacco, Tallow, Turpentine, Wax, Wines.
Premiums of Insurance on American Property.
Table with 2 columns: Destination, Premium. Lists premiums for various locations like Great-Britain, Ireland, France, Holland, Bremen, etc.
Prices of Stocks.
Virginia Bank, 6 dolls. per share, advance. Norfolk Marine Insurance Company, shares 60 per cent. advance. Dividend off United States Bank, 530 dolls. per share. Exchange on London, Par.
I HAVE FOR CHARTER, THE BRIG ANN & FRANCES, CARPENTER—Burthen 1500 Barrels. AND FOR SALE, THE BRIG TRYALL, Lying at Marsden's Wharf.
FOR LONDON, THE AMERICAN SHIP DUMFRIES, RICHARD BEARD, Master:— To sail about the 20th November, having three-fourths of the cargo engaged.
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, THE SHIP OLD TOM, Samuel Davis, master. Burthen 240 Hlds. Tobacco or 2000 barrels.—For terms apply to the master on board, or to Jacob Morgan.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, For a Port in the West-Indies, A good staunch fast sailing Schooner. Burthen 9 to 1200 barrels, to which immediate dispatch will be given, by applying to J. Galwey.
FOR LIVERPOOL, The well armed Ship DUNROBIN CASTLE, Expected to sail in all November. Tobacco or Naval Stores will be received on freight, on low terms, say 60s. per hld. and 9s. per barrel.
FOR CHERBOURG, THE BRIG FRANKLIN, S. HILL, Master. Burthen about 220 tons—the is a staunch, strong built vessel, and will receive a few hogheads tobacco at a moderate freight.
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The excellent fast sailing Brig ELIZA, Henry Brown, Master. Burthen 200 hogheads; is ready for receiving a cargo.
FOR BOURDEAUX, (To sail early in November,) The Ship THOMAS, Captain Boush. Two-thirds of her cargo engaged. Freight will be taken on low terms, if immediately offered.
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The American Ship NANCY, Captain TURNER, Burthen 240 Tons. C. & F. Whittle.
FOR CHARTER, The good American Ship SARAH, Abel Rawson, master: Burthen 318 tons; will carry about 450 hds. tobacco—now in complete order for the reception of a cargo.
WHO HAS FOR SALE, 59 Hlds. Richmond TOBACCO. 18 do. Petersburg do. 200 Bbls. excellent PORK. 80 do. FLOUR. 10 Puncheons Antigua RUM. 20 do. Grenada do. 20 Pipes Holland GIN. A quantity of well cured BACON. Do. HOGS LARD. Do. COARSE SALT.
FOR BOURDEAUX, The fast sailing Ship SHEFFIELD, JOSIAH COWPER, Master: Will sail in six weeks, one half of her cargo being engaged.
WE WANT A vessel of 150 Hogheads, for a Port in France—immediate dispatch will be given. C. & F. Whittle.
A few barrels Superfine Flour, of old Wheat, a-float.
FOR CHARTER, The Ship BRUTUS, JOHN BUNCE, Master:— 236 tons burthen—a stout well built vessel; three years old, and completely found in every respect.
LANDING FROM THE BRIG ANN MARIA, from MADEIRA, AND FOR SALE, 5 Pipes, 6 Hlds. and 8 Qr. Casks, Fine old London P. M. Wine.
WHO WANT TO CHARTER, A vessel of about 1500 barrels, to load for a port in Great Britain. Sept. 1. tf 109
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The Copper bottomed Brig MARY LOUISA, Captain George Farrer:— Burthen 1200 barrels—now ready to receive a cargo.—Apply to the master on board, or Thomas Willock.
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The American Ship PETER, Captain Sayward. Burthen 250 hlds. tobacco, or 2000 bbls.—For terms apply to Phinehas Dana.
FOR CHARTER, The excellent new ship ARCTURUS, Samuel Winsor, master: Burthen 900 tons—She will be ready in three days to receive a cargo.
Who offers for Sale, on board said ship, 55 SPARS. 10,000 Feet 3 inch PLANK. 28 Barrels Continental RUM.
LANDING THIS DAY, From on board the Schooner FIVE SISTERS, from St. Martins, 61 Hogheads good SUGAR. 14 do. RUM. 2 do. MOLASSES. 7 Tons FUSTICK.
ALSO, Landed from the Schooner CATHERINE STEPHARD, from Antigua, 58 Hlds. well flavoured ANTIGUA RUM. For sale by R. C. Jennings & Co.
LANDING THIS DAY, On Newton's Wharf, from the Brig Orpheus, from Valentia, her Cargo—Consisting of 60 Pipes WINE, 48 do. BRANDY, 34 Frails FIGS, SALT—and A quantity of CORKS.
LANDING THIS DAY, On Newton's Wharf, from on board Schooner ELIZA, Capt. Johnson, 60 Puncheons ANTIGUA RUM, FOR SALE BY Wilson, Cunningham & Co.
Notice is hereby given that a petition will be presented to the Legislature of Virginia, at its next session, praying that the articles of Flour, Bread, Beef, Pork, Fish, Naval-Stores, and Lumber, shall be inspected at the place of exportation.
FOR SALE, 126 Barrels Superfine, 40 do. Fine, 32 Hlds. Prime RICHMOND TOBACCO. Some very excellent fire GRATES. Edward Johnston.
NORFOLK HOTEL, 128 Main-Street. SOUP EVERY DAY, From 11 'till 2 o'clock. H. Benbridge.
SLATE. I HAVE NOW ON HAND AND FOR SALE, A large quantity of SLATE, (which is said by good judges to be equal to any,) and will contract for any quantity, to be delivered in a short time. William Hartshorne, jun.
LOST, On Sunday between town and the race ground, A Black Morocco Pocket Book; Containing a seaman's protection for James Warren, given at New-York in 1800, a bill of sale of a sloop belonging to Guernsey, indentures for Henry Tumain, the name of the subscriber in a note of agreement for a voyage to Barbados.
SALT. Just arrived in the Dunrobin Castle, a Cargo of excellent Liverpool Stoved Salt.
FOR SALE, On board the Ship SHEFFIELD, at WILLOCK'S Wharf, 1400 BUILDING STONES, hard and of a superior quality. Apply to Josiah Cowper.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT a Petition will be presented to the next General Assembly, praying alterations and amendments to the Act entitled, "An Act to reduce into one, the several acts for regulating Pilots, and ascertaining their fees."
WE HAVE FOR SALE, 100 hlds. Richmond and Petersburg Tobacco. 300 barrels superfine Flour, fresh. 20 puncheons Jamaica and Windward Island Rum. 500 barrels Pork, in shipping order. 200 pieces Nankens, first quality. 50 barrels and half barrels Alexandria Crackers. A few cases of Noyeau, and two new Cables.
FOR SALE, SUPERFINE AND FINE FLOUR, and CROSS-MIDLINGS, by Thomas Ritson. Church-Street, October 27.
FISK AND STEARNS, Have just received by the Schooner MARIA, from Boston, IMPERIAL, HYSON, YOUNG HYSON, HYSON SKIN, of the last importation. 200 Boxes MOULD CANDLES.
ALSO ON HAND, A general assortment of GROCERIES. October 6. tf 166
LANDING A Town Point, out of the BRIG MARY LOUISA, from St. Thomas, A Parcel of Choice SUGAR. In hogheads, tiers and barrels, for sale—also, From on board the MARIA, Capt. HATTON, from BOURDEAUX.
COLOGNE MILL-STONES. THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE COLOGNE MILL-STONES, of all dimensions, from Hand-Mill-Stones of 22 inches, to those of 4 feet 8 inches, of the best quality.
BAR and ROD IRON, and STEEL, of all kinds. Jesse Hollingsworth & Son. Baltimore, Aug. 15. tf 77
THIS DAY Will commence landing, on Newton's Wharf, the Cargo of the Swedish Brig NICANOR, E. LENBERG, Master, from Gottenborg, Consisting of a choice assortment of SWEEDISH IRON. NAH. RODS. RUSSIA & RAVENS DUCK. LINENS assorted, and A few Hogheads CLARET.
BILLS ON PHILADELPHIA. Apply to C. & F. Whittle. July 24. 38
NOW LANDING ON NEWTON'S WHARF, From on board the Ship DART, Captain PECK, from CADIZ, 300 Qr. Casks SHERRY WINE, of superior quality, and 2000 Butheis SALT. For sale by Richard Bowden & Co.
THE President and Directors of the Marine Insurance Company of Norfolk, have this day declared a semi-annual dividend of fifty cents per share, which will be paid to the Stockholders or their legal representatives, at any time after the 26th day of this month; and until the 27th of this month, there will be no transfers of stock made in this office.
John Cowper, Sec'y. Office of the Marine Insurance Company of Norfolk, 15th October, 1804.

JUSTIFICATION OF MOREAU.
The few copies remaining unsold, will be disposed of at this office, at thirty-seven and one half cents each.
The Mail had not arrived when this paper was put to press.
EMPEROUR NAPOLEON!—We feel an almost irresistible propensity to laugh, every time the idea of the wonderful metamorphosis of Napoleon Buonaparte into a French Republican Emperour, presents itself to our mind's eye. And we should certainly be guilty of that most unpardonable act of indecorum, were we not admonished, restored to serenity, or forced into seriousness, by the miserable canting, or lugubrious whinings, of our democratic brethren.
Well may they lament his apostasy. He was once the object of their idolatrous worship. He has deceived them. And they know not how to apologize for the mistaken confidence they reposed in him. With some he is an object of compassion: they contemplate him, as Milton did Satan, in his faded glory—“faded but not extinct”—they discover that
His form has not yet lost All its original brightness, nor appears Less than Arch-Angel ruin'd."
By others he is now as unmercifully loaded with execration, as, but a short time ago, he was bedaubed with praises, less deserved. He who was then the great, the wise, the good, the friend of man, the pacificator of the world, the patron and protector of liberty; is now in his best features a tyrannical hypocrite. He who, in the month of October 1803, was the just and equitable chief of the “enlightened government of France;” in October 1804, is a gloomy, selfish Despot, who, to gratify his own inordinate lust of power, would rivet the chains of slavery on the universe!!!
With the majority of Federalists he is just what he ever was, and what they have ever represented him to be:—a grasping, ambitious, insatiable, and blood-thirsty tyrant. In the square of Toulon, in the streets of Paris, in Italy, in Egypt, and on the Imperial throne, he is the same; he is, and must continue to be, Buonaparte. His character is traced in the blood of the innocent; it never will be effaced.
In the Richmond ENQUIRER, of the 8th Sept. there is one of the numbers of a paper called the Rainbow , (written, as we are informed, by an association of some of “the choice and master spirits of the age”;) in which will be found the sentence that follows.
“Buonaparte might have ranked with the Scipios, the Catos of antiquity; he is now associated with the despots of Europe. His venerated name would have gone down the stream of time, ‘till time should be no more, and unfading laurels have encircled his immortal brow:—it will descend with accelerating disgrace to the latest posterity; and infamy, eternal, everlasting, will be inseparably connected with his name.”
The venerated name of Buonaparte!!! Was it the butchery of the Toulonaise that excited the veneration of this writer? Would the massacre of Paris confer immortality? When, in Italy, he put whole Municipalities to the sword, was he there to collect his unfading laurels? Did his assumption of the name of Brutus rank him with the Scipios and the Catos of antiquity? The cool and deliberate destruction of the Jaffese , the inhuman murder of his fellow-soldiers; find nothing in ancient history with which they can be compared.—Yet all these, and numberless other atrocities, were performed in his days of glory and virtue; when he was earning these unfading laurels; when his name was pronounced with veneration; when his brow merited, the wreath of immortality. No; his name will never die: it stands, by almost every act of his life, “Damn'd to everlasting fame.”
“It will descend with accelerating disgrace to the latest posterity; and infamy, ETERNAL INFAMY, WILL BE INSEPARABLY CONNECTED WITH IT.” But it had well deserved, and had become indisputably yoked with this companion, long before his assumption of imperial rank.—That act may serve to render him ridiculous, but it adds little to the catalogue of his crimes, and is scarcely observed to augment the immeasurable monument of infamy, which he has raised to perpetuate the memory of his deeds.
And yet it would appear as if, not only the writer of this number of the RAINBOW , but every other of his party, view this as the only reprehensible, the only disgraceful act of Buonaparte.—This was to be expected. The name, and not the thing, we have long since known to be the object of their attention. They had no objection to all power being possessed by Buonaparte, under the denomination of CONSUL FOR LIFE; but the same powers become criminal the moment they are exercised under the title of KING or EMPEROUR. He who might lawfully, and in perfect consistency with the principles of liberty, do every arbitrary act under one title, attempting the same under another is guilty of treason against the liberties of his country. Consistent and profound Statesmen! Will ye pretend to say that the new constitution of France, confers on Buonaparte the exercise of any power, essentially connected with liberty, which he did not before possess?
Insurance against Fire. Knowing that many of our subscribers, in Norfolk and other parts of Virginia, are much interested in the regulations established by the Phoenix Insurance Company of London, we have thought it to be the duty of the Agents to have those regulations advertised in some of the southern papers. However, as we perceive no inclination, on their parts, to extend that knowledge beyond the circulation of a New-York paper, we have determined to give their advertisement one insertion. It will be seen in the last page of this day's publication.
The article from the Evening Post on the trade with St. Domingo, will fully reward any reader who has a taste for keen and delicate satire, as well as for sound argument.
THE LAY-CURATE.
DISCOURSE I.
“HEARKEN TO ME—I ALSO WILL SHEW MINE OPINION.” With these words began the son of Barachel the Buzite, the youngest of those who are proverbially called “JOB'S COMFORTERS”—His intention was not to flatter his self-justified hearer, for “he knew not to give flattering titles”, but to repress his apparent presumption:—not to convince him that the evils which had, in such rapid succession, overtaken him, were unprovoked, but to teach him humility before their author:—not to impress him with an unworthy opinion of himself, but to instruct him in the unerring righteousness and awful majesty of God!—It was a mighty task, yet it devolved upon one who had not acquired the strength of years:—It was every way worthy the wisest of the children of men, yet it became the duty of the unexperienced:—It might have imparted new dignity to the hoary patriarch, yet it was reserved for the youngest of the household.
If there be in those our days of corruption and wickedness, even one man who, in the pride and arrogance of his soul, could rashly say—“I am clean without transgression, I am innocent, neither is there iniquity in me”—To him might the answer be returned—“behold in this thou art not just”—But it better becomes the LAY-CURATE to practise the humble modesty, than to advance false pretensions to the censorial wisdom, of Elihu the Buzite. To his small flock, wherever scattered, to those who may deign to listen to his “opinions”, he would stretch forth his hands, and in a voice conscious as that of the self-accusing Publican, he would say come and hear me, ye who are frail and erring like myself; “I also am formed out of the clay; behold my terror shall not make ye afraid; neither shall my hand be heavy upon ye”—Receive the lesson of a mortal; and where wisdom speaketh by his mouth do not turn away from her words; where he may go astray in his judgment, and utter the saying of folly, throw your mantle over him and cover the errors of your brother.
Among the various motives which have, at different times, induced men to become the authors of systems, and the writers of books, intended to instruct others more wise than themselves, the most pure are the hope of being useful to their fellow-creatures, or of improving their own fortune. Might the LAY-CURATE be allowed to say why he has taken upon himself the duty of exhorting his brethren, why he has laid an unconsecrated hand upon things holy and sacred, he would enter into and search the chambers of his heart, and would declare that neither vain desire of fame, nor pride of talents, has there an habitation, nor in working him to his present purpose any agency; but that “the spirit within him constraineth him”. He had heard of heads on which the sacred oil had never descended conceiving divine things, and uttering the maxims of truth with the oracular voice of the inspired sage. He had dwelt with fervour on the beneficent labours of a LAY-PREACHER; he had treasured in his heart the wise lessons of BENI-HESDEN; and, animated by the hope of contributing his mite to the goodly work, he said—“I will answer also my part—I also will shew mine opinions.”
It is far from being the intention of the LAY-CURATE to interfere, in his “opinions”, with the functions of the altar, or to trespass, with unhallowed feet, on the sacerdotal dominion. To the deep-searching wisdom which penetrates the councils of the All-wise and unfolds the mysteries of Godliness, he dare not presume to lay claim.—Let those whose education and studies have qualified them for the discharge of that high and important duty “bear witness to the light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world”:—Let those on whom the holy spirit has breathed his benign and purifying influence, “make straight the way of the Lord”:—Let those who by a life of innocence and well-doing exemplify the precepts they are appointed to deliver, testify for “the Lamb of God”:—Let those who, by constant meditation on futurity, have detached their minds from terrestrial and corruptible things, cry to us with an admonitory and paternal voice, “repent ye”—And let us listen with awful and deferential attention:—Let us regard them with veneration as the chosen servants of the Most-High:—Let us write their instructions on the tablets of our heart:—Let us apply their advice, and improve by their example:—But let us not in any wise profane their divine calling, by assuming it without authority, or by applying it to purposes for which it was not designed.
The LAY-CURATE is nothing better than a mere worldlyling. He hath communed with the “simple ones”: he hath been drunk with “the wine of violence”: he hath “walked in the path of the wicked”: but he hath at last heard “the voice of wisdom”: “he hath turned at her reproof”. While he meditates on the follies of his youth, he will speak in the language of experience:—he will remember wherein he has erred, and he will call upon others to avoid the same dangers:—although he may himself stumble, he will endeavour to preserve others from falling:—while he strives against the inordinate propensities of his own heart, he will essay to regulate the desires of others:—without pretending to any superior degree of virtue in himself, he will combat against the vices of the world:—In this warfare he will not presumptuously erect the standard of piety, but he will fight under the banners of truth.
Fear not ye who tremble at the austerity of the Divine, the echoes of whose footsteps the sacred pavement never returns; he will not awaken the terrors of conscience by thundering in your ears the curses denounced against the perverse and the negligent; but he will seek to make you love virtue because she is amiable!—Be not alarmed ye ten-
der and susceptible, if, himself no stranger to egaremens du coeur —to the wanderings of the heart—he should pursue yours when it strays out of the narrow limits of prudence, and urge its return from the devious path of sentiment to the straight road of duty:—he will probe your wounds with the tenderness of a fellow-sufferer:—he will console you as one whose breast has been exposed to the flowing tide of the affections; who has struggled against the impetuous current of the passions; who has been tossed upon the agitated billows of love; but without being overwhelmed by the waves!—Ye whose god is wealth, do not apprehend that he comes to steal from you the palladium of your happiness, when he may exhort you to “remember them that are in bonds; and them that suffer in adversity”:—think not that he advises you to be liberal overmuch, when he may counsel you to say unto your oppressed neighbour, whom your abundance may have once relieved, “go, and come again, and to-morrow I will give”:—For these are the true uses of wealth, to apply it to promote the exertions of honestly industrious, to wipe the tear from the cheek of wretchedness, to chase away the sorrows of the needy: then, indeed,
“It blesseth him that gives and him that takes!” Ye who revel in sensual gratifications, should he dash from your hands the poisoned bowl when your lips are prepared to imbibe its contents, blame him not, ‘tis your good alone he wishes!—To whomsoever he may address himself, it will not be in the lofty language of command, but in the soothing tone of solicitation; he may be didactical, but his accents shall be mild, & his rules practicable; he will not set himself up as a censor morum , but “he will shew his opinions”.
As he is under no obligation to pursue any regular plan, nor to appear at any stated periods, he may be eccentric both in time and manner. According to the humour of the moment, he may be disposed to laugh with the gay and the innocent, or to weep with the sensitive and the suffering. Whenever he may think that he can to advantage admonish his flock, he then will remember “that his tongue hath spoken in his mouth”—then, “he will speak that he may be refreshed”—then, “he will shew his opinions.”—But on whatever subject he may exhort, disclaiming all the advantages of holy ordination, he will in all things be
A LAY-CURATE.
The British frigate mentioned in our last as having arrived in the Roads, is La Revolutionnaire , of 40 guns, Captain HOTHAM. She left England Sept. 4, with a convoy for Madeira, from whence she proceeded to the Cape de Verds; from those islands her passage to our Capes was but sixteen days. Captain BERRSFORD, appointed to supercede Captain BRADLEY in the command of the Cambrian , off New-York, came passenger in La Revolutionnaire . It is understood that the recall of this last mentioned officer, has been in consequence of the remonstrance of our executive, against his wanton abuse of our neutral privileges and sovereignty, during his cruise off New-York. We are pleased with this prompt attention on the part of the British cabinet, as it evinces a desire to preserve unbroken the friendship that exists between the two nations. But here we apprehend all redress of the injury will terminate. We cannot know what may have been the style of the executive, on this occasion. But should Mr. Jefferson, or any of his friends, expect that any further punishment awaits Captain Bradley, the expectation will turn out to be chimerical. It has not been the custom of the British government to disgrace their officers at the instance of any foreign nation. They may punish him as they punished Captain Loring. He may perhaps be degraded from the command of a 44 to the command of a 74. With this punishment Mr. Jefferson must rest contented; and Captain Bradley will have no cause to be dissatisfied, or to consider the American government his enemy.
Jerome Buonaparte. By the late arrivals we are given to understand that there is some reason for believing that it has at last pleased His Imperial Majesty to receive his brother again into favour, and to admit that he is not dishonoured by an alliance with the daughter of one of the most wealthy and respectable merchants in the United States. We hope the report is not premature, although we think that should it be the case, that he has so far condescended from his Imperial dignity , there must be better reasons for it than the one assigned, merely the view of a picture. However praised the beauty of Mrs. Jerome Buonaparte may have been, it is not of that brilliant or extraordinary kind, as, by a coup d'œil, to dazzle the imagination of an emperour, or to mollify the flinty heart of ambition. Tyrants have ever been subject to strange freaks; and this may be one of the many by which he has been actuated. His displeasure in the first instance was a ridiculous parade of affection. If either party had cause to complain of disgrace in the family alliance, it was not Buonaparte. If either of the sisters-in-law should have cause to blush on receiving the salute of the other, as being unworthy of it, it cannot be Elizabeth. The daughter of a man of honour, who herself has never transgressed its laws, might, indeed, blush on seeing herself so nearly allied to pollution—But Josephine has now, in the common phrase, been made an honest woman .
The Emperour of the French is recognized by the Emperour of Germany.—By capt. Ferguson's packet we have received late Baltimore papers.—The most important article we can extract from them, is the State Paper containing the patent of the new title of the Emperour of Germany, Hereditary Emperour of Austria , in which will be seen a direct recognition of the imperial title of Buonaparte —The usurpation of the Corsican is even cited as a precedent.
The St. Domingo Trade.—The following speculations on the trade carried on from this country with the blacks of St. Domingo, will not fail to attract the serious notice both of the merchant and the politician. The subject is highly interesting to the community, and is well deserving of ample discussion and deliberate consideration.
To the Editor of the Evening Post.
SIR, Having in a former paper noticed our relations with Spain, something shall now be said on those with France. The ideas about to be developed have lain long in the writer's mind, but various reasons restrained him from making them publick. Having once lived in the society of what are called publick men, he knows they are apt to be displeased with anything which has the appearance of advice. We had then also occasion to observe that, because they have better opportunities to obtain information than those who move in the private walks of life, they frequently look at the speculations and projects of individuals with contempt. But of this no man, however humble, would willingly be the object. In addition to these considerations, it must not be forgotten, that he who is of the proscribed party, is an object both of hatred and suspicion to those in power. That he therefore should propose any thing is the ready way to prevent its adoption, and may subject him moreover to the charge of a high misdemeanor: that of presuming to censure those whom our Sovereign Lord the people delighteth to honour. For it is natural that those who believe our rulers to be the very best of all possible men and ministers, should also believe that they have done every thing right, and nothing wrong. From whence it follows as a necessary consequence, that to hint at any thing they may have left undone, will be considered as unfair and unfounded censure. It is probable, therefore, that to point out either the errors or the omissions of our excellent President, and his most excellent coadjutors, will be alike useless and invidious. Yet 'tis hard that a person embarked in the same ship and holding a considerable interest in the cargo must, when he sees them running her into a perilous situation, hold his tongue under pain of being thrown overboard.
Some years ago a man might perhaps have found grace and favour with the party now in power by recommending measures favourable to the great nation, even though they had been pernicious to our country. But times are much changed. That nation, wearied with the throes, the agonies of democracy, has submitted her affairs to the direction of a man whose achievements shed a lustre on her condition, and even on her crimes. And now our doctors have taken it in such dudgeon that France will no longer swallow their potions and their pills, as to be offended at any thing which can in any wise be agreeable to his imperial majesty. This single circumstance would induce them to reprobate any measure, no matter how useful to us. It is rather unfortunate for poor America that, all Europe being now under the dominion of emperours and kings, her foreign relations must be maintained with people of that description; while at the same time there seems to be no way so effectual to please the prevailing party here, as to preach up a crusade against crowned heads. But this measure might not as things are now circumstanced be quite advisable, for some of those folks who wear crowns are a little irritable. And although it shall really be admitted that our brave militia would easily drive their veteran legions into the sea, yet the war would cost some dollars; of which, by the sagacity exhibited in our financial arrangements, we have a plentiful scarcity. Now since our people, if we are to believe what was said in the senate by our worthy mayor, will not submit to taxes; it may be doubtful (in case of war) how far the all-accomplished Albert Gallatin would be able to execute the sublime project of paying our debts. And it would be a pity to stop him in the high road of those successful experiments by which our debts have not been encased above fifteen millions since he began to pay them off. This circumstance, so honourable to our administration, cannot fail to excite the wonder of an admiring world, when it is considered that they have not laid on more than a million since they took off seven hundred and fifty thousand at the instance of that most intelligent and most provident statesman the never-to-be-sufficiently-admired Thomas Jefferson, jure divino philosopher of Monticello, voto democratico President of the United States, Plebiscito et Senatus Consulto Sovereign Lord of Louisiana, and specialis corum gratis protegee of Cheetham and Duane. There is still another reason Mr. Editor, why your correspondent has not made an earlier communication of his sentiments. He is one of those miserable things they call federalists. But though he has the weakness to be proud of that title, he could never bring himself to believe that folly and vice would, if adopted by his party, become wisdom and virtue. He has had sometimes the misfortune to differ in opinion from respectable men, and he has now the serious apprehension that what he is about to say will be disagreeable to some of his friends. But the case is serious and urgent, wherefore without regard to party he will boldly address himself to his country.
AMERICANS ATTEND!
A commerce has long been carried on between the citizens of the United States and the negroes of St. Domingo. It is said, and believed, that this commerce is on our part unrestrained, and that papers are regularly given for it in our custom-houses. It behoves you therefore to consider this conduct in itself, and in its consequences. The maxims by which trade is frequently conducted are so well known that none but a school boy would oppose lucrative traffic by the feeble motives of justice or humanity. Arguments of that sort may be addressed to sovereigns and to senates, but there are no pins to hang them on in a compting-house. They would be wholly out of place among prices-current, invoices, and bills of lading. A merchant may kidnap half a thousand negroes in Africa, and sell them in St. Domingo, and then furnish them with arms to destroy their master, without the slightest inconsistency. You might as well charge democrats with inconsistency, because after complaining of the excessive power of poor old Adams, they made the modest Jefferson despot of Louisiana. Truth is, the merchant was constantly in pursuit of money, and the democrat consistently in pursuit of office. These observations will demonstrate to our merchants that nothing in this paper is levelled at their conduct, or intended for their consideration. They will pursue their lawful commerce; and if they quit it when the government shall have thought proper to make it unlawful, more is not reasonably to be expected.
When therefore our conduct is spoken of, our national conduct is to be understood, and not the acts of individuals. To simplify the case, let us suppose a French province or English country to be in open rebellion, and that America should furnish provisions, arms, and ammunition to the rebels. Twenty years ago the fact would have appeared much stronger stated simply as it is, an insurrection of slaves; but we have since that day become so excessively philanthropic as to give a preference to the blacks over people of our own kind: and therefore it is that, to avoid undue bias, we are forced to shift the scene across the Atlantic. Suppose then we had thought proper to supply provisions, arms, and ammunition to the insurgents in the Vendee, would not the French directory have considered it as equivalent to a declaration of war? If George Washington had openly and knowingly permitted a conduct of this sort—

Pause there. He commanded and enforced a strict neutrality. Even this was not (by some) not sufficiently favourable to France. And yet there seems to be no good reason why an exception should have been made in her favour. It will not be pretended that the murder of that monarch who had been our friend, when in danger, and on whom, in the moment of great zeal, we bestowed the title of Protector of the Rights of Mankind, was a sufficient reason with Americans. It will hardly be alleged that the taking of our property without cause, and even without pretext, was a proper inducement. And now that certain spirits are a little cooled, it will not be argued that the French had entitled themselves to our favour by the butchery of women, of children, and of men dedicated to the service of God. To a grateful, an honourable, and humane people, these are strange recommendations. Indeed if our hoary chief had thought proper to cast his influence in the opposite scale, there was no want of matter for a manifesto. He might have made a strong appeal to every sentiment that ennobles the heart, justice, truth, humanity, and honour.
Washington is now mingled with the mighty dead. He has been. And the se who blamed his conduct occupy his place. They blamed him because to France he was only neutral, merely just. They would that he should have given aid, conferred favour. And how is it now? Is it just to carry on commerce with her revolted subjects? Is it a favour to assist them in butchering her adherents? Can this be defended on the ground of national right? Can it be excused by the conduct of those wretches whose hearts still blacker than their skins have exceeded in cruelty even the Parisian populace? Or have we reached that depth of infamous degradation, where those who claim our friendship must prove their title by their crimes?
But it is said in excuse, and there are minds which never daring to be greatly right, seize with eagerness an excuse for being meanly wrong, that the situation of St. Domingo has not been officially communicated. And must it then be officially communicated that the sun shines at noon? or is this thing less notorious than the noon day sun? your friend is attacked by ruffians, and with calm indifference you see him perish, because he has not officially communicated his danger. This would be strange conduct. But in the present case, you do not merely look on, you whet the dagger for his heart and present it to the assassin. This conduct is so shocking to every principle, that it seems a phenomenon in the moral world. We indulge a practice, in full peace, which if exercised against us, even in war, we should complain of as atrocious. During the war with Britain, what was the opinion of America when it was proposed to put arms into the hands of her slaves to butcher their masters? can christian rulers forget the precept of our master, "whatsoever you would that men should do unto you, do you even so unto them"? and are we ruled by christians, presided over by an arch christian.
Another excuse may, perhaps, be offered, viz. That while we were at war with Britain, and considered by her as rebels, France traded with us as being in fact independent. This method of avoiding instances to justify equivalent procedure, is not without inconvenience. If the instance be not correct, it wants the due weight of argument; and if not applicable, it proves nothing to the point: but it may, at any rate, be again quoted where the application would be unpleasant. On the present occasion, the instance, as far as it goes, works the other way; for it shows that Britain thought the conduct of France a justifiable cause of war. And as to the application, it may be doubted whether the negroes of St. Domingo are to be considered in the same point of light with the United States of America. Some indeed, it is said, go so far as to say that we are in duty bound to assist these our black fellow-men, in the recovery of their natural rights; that those who reduced them to the condition of slaves have committed an un pardonable sin, which every human creature may justly avenge, in his private and separate capacity; that he needs, for this purpose, no other commission than that broad code called the Rights of Man, which has lately been discovered and promulgated by the luminaries of the present age. To enter the lists of argument with gentlemen of this cast, would answer no purpose, since we can neither agree on the weapons nor the laws of combat. Entreating them, therefore, not to preach their doctrine south of the Delaware, we confine ourselves to the single remark, that one nation has no right to judge another. And without pretending to decide on the merits of philosophy or religion, but leaving each to judge for himself, according to his principles or his appetites, it is submitted whether it be proper to inculcate either religion or philosophy by fire and sword? and whether, before we become the knights errant of black Dulcinea, and combat for the freedom of other men's slaves, we should not begin by liberating our own?
There is a circumstance in the present case which merits more attention than seems to have been hitherto given. Some of our seamen bound on these voyages to St. Domingo, have been taken, and are, (it is said) in the way of being hanged. A catastrophe by no means improbable. But whether it happen or not, the treatment of those unfortunate men resembles that which is usual to criminals, and not that which prisoners of war might reasonably expect. If some dozens of our fellow-citizens should be hanged, by order of general Ferrand, will our government sit down quietly under that dispensation? In that case the friends of the unfortunate may believe it was not right to give legal countenance to a trade, and suffer those engaged in it to be hanged. Party spirit has, alas! gone so far to destroy our national spirit, that pitiful fellows will ask the pitiful question, whether the victims were federalists or deocrats. But if there be amongst us bosoms which feel the beating of American hearts, they will be torn with anguish.
It becomes us, however, to enquire, what the French government will do on this occasion. And to this effect we must place ourselves in their situation. Let us then try to suppose that we have high spirits; that we have dignity of soul; in a word, that we are fit to be trusted with national concerns. Three modes present themselves for consideration. The first is to declare war, the second to inflict capital punishment on those taken in the fact, the third to remonstrate. To the first mode it might be objected, that, under present circumstances, it would be imprudent to drive the United States into an alliance with Great Britain; so that if war should be deemed proper, it ought to be deferred to a favourable occasion. That notwithstanding appearances, it is possible the hostile acts may have been committed by individuals, without the privity, much less the approbation of government. That things odious are not to be presumed: and that a sovereign owes it to his own dignity not lightly to charge the rulers of another country with acts of baseness. To the second mode it might be objected, that there would be at least precipitancy, and perhaps inhumanity, in putting individuals to death for acts which, though criminal, may have been undertaken by order of their sovereign. That these men pretend to be justified by regular authority under the laws of their country, attested by the proper magistrate. That if, indeed, the insult had been offered by a foreign government, the offended dignity of his imperial majesty cannot be appeased by the sacrifice of a few wretched seamen and supercar-goes. That he owes it to himself, to his nation, to the great society of nations, to demand a fuller satisfaction. To the third mode it might be objected, that remonstrance, on occasions like the present, is
a mean resource of timidity and weakness. That national interests may indeed be the subject of treaty, but that national honour cannot; because it is not susceptible of division or of modification. It is complete or it is nothing. To remonstrate, therefore, where honour is concerned, is to commence a treaty where the surrender of its object. To go farther might be improper. This hasty sketch will suffice to shew that it might be concluded to make, in the tone of offended dignity, a peremptory demand on our government to avow or disavow the obnoxious conduct. If disavowed, an instant order to execute all who have been taken in this traffick, without delay and without mercy. If avowed, a demand of immediate satisfaction proportioned to the nature of the offence. That satisfaction must of course depend on circumstances; but it is to be hoped the conduct of Louis the Fourteenth towards Genoa would not be taken as a rule. It would neither be honourable nor convenient that our excellent president should be sent over to Paris to beg the emperor's pardon for trading with his negroes. It is not possible to say what will happen; but if this cloud passes off easily, we shall have more cause to rejoice at our good fortune than to boast of our good conduct.
Admitting, however, that we should escape for the present, we are not rashly to conclude that all is over. We have done all in our power to establish a precedent most dangerous, most detestable. We have furnished aid and arms to those who have revolted from the authority of a nation with which we stand in the relations of peace and amity. We have for this purpose engaged in commerce with men, or rather monsters in the shape of men, who, after their revolt, have butchered all who continued faithful to the government, even defenceless women and innocent children. Why rence the matter? We have assisted slaves to massacre their masters! In trading with those slaves we have received the price of blood! the blood of babes! And who are we that have done this accursed thing? We are a people who have a million of such slaves in the heart, the very vitals of our country: in that part of it which is most feeble, most defenceless. And yet we, even we, have by our conduct justified, nay, invited, not our enemies but our friends to assist those slaves in murdering their masters. If by a timid, blustering, crouching conduct, we involve ourselves in a war with Spain, and the officers of his catholic majesty arm the negroes in Virginia and the Carolinas, shall we have the poor resource of the miserable, to complain? And to whom? Not to man? for we have offended against the laws of humanity. And shall we dare complain to God, when his "even-handed justice commands the ingredients of the poisoned chalice to our own lips."
Surely if there be a nation on earth which, beyond all others, should have frown'd on the revolt of St. Domingo, America is that nation. She ought to have assisted France in reducing these negroes to obedience. It was our interest. It was our duty. It was our interest because we might, by the well timed advance of a sum of money, have laid the foundation for commercial privileges of inestimable value. And we had then, by the providence of a federal administration, large sums in the treasury. An ample fund for the boasting and for the prodigality of those who succeeded. It was our duty, not only on the general principle of succouring our fellow creatures in cases of sudden disaster, but on the special ground that it was in some sort our own case. It is essential to our domestic peace and security, that a conviction be established of the impossibility of success in a revolt of slaves against their masters. Doubts on this subject, and the consequent hopes, are murderous to our fellow citizens in the southern states. Let no man pretend to talk of the rights of slaves, and of the injustice of masters. Those masters are not amenable to us, but to a higher tribunal. They will be judged by him who readeth the heart, and so shall we. We have no right to do evil that good may come thereof. The right to hold men in bondage is indeed questionable, and is well worthy of consideration to those who have assumed it. But as to the crime of murder there can be no question.
Federalists, deocrats, Americans of every state party, and description! look at this subject, examine well all its bearings, consider well the consequences both immediate and remote. And you in particular, who sit on high and are clothed with authority, and dignity, and honour, and power, prepare yourselves for events. Let your lamps be trimmed, and pour in fresh oil that when the dark hour cometh you may shed light on the path you may direct us to pursue. This will be expected. It will be required.
WASHINGTON, October 29.
Commodore BARRON arrived at Gibraltar with his squadron on the 12th August last. On his arrival he found several dispatches from Mr. Simpson, our consul at Morocco, all stating in strong terms the hostile disposition of the Emperor of Morocco against our commerce, and the preparations making by him to send out three frigates and two galleys upon a cruise. Mr. Simpson urging the indispensable necessity of leaving two of the frigates upon that station, the commodore accordingly left the Congress, captain Rogers, and the Essex, captain James Barron. The following extract of a letter from captain Rogers to the Secretary of the Navy, discloses the result.
United States Frigate Congress, GIBRALTAR BAY, August 30, 1804.
Sir, I have the honour to inform you that I have this instant arrived here with the Congress and Essex direct from Tangier, from which place I sailed on the 27th inst. Our passage has been long owing to a strong Levant gale which lasted from the night of the 27th until the morning of the 29th, and drove us through the Straits into the Atlantic.
In my last communication dated Tangier Bay, 17th inst. I informed you of Commodore Barron's having sent the Congress and Essex on this coast, in consequence of advices received from Mr. Simpson, our consul at Tangier, of my intention to leave the Essex to watch the conduct of two galleys at that place, and of proceeding immediately to Sallee to inform myself of the movements, and if possible, of the intentions of the Emperor's three ships mentioned in Mr. Simpson's communications to Commodore Barron, copies of which the latter gentleman has forwarded to you. I did so and arrived and anchored before Sallee, on the 20th, (taking Arzilla, Mamora, and Larache, in my route) where I found the three ships in question, and to all appearance nearly ready for sea. After lying three hours at anchor, within about five miles of the town, with American colours flying, and a signal indicative of friendship, and a wish to communicate with the shore, without any apparent disposition of the like on their part, I weighed anchor and stood within the range of a common shot of the ships, without any further success in bringing about a communication, although every means which a friendly demeanour could suggest, were used. However I have no reason to suppose that hostile intentions on their part were the cause of my not succeeding, but that they either did not comprehend the meaning of the signal, or were afraid to venture off. On the 21st after repeating again in the same way as on the preceding day, my wishes to exchange civilities without any appearance of success, and fearing that a further attempt on the subject might lead to suspicions unfavourable to a good understanding, I made sail and pursued my course back to Tangier, where I again on the 27th joined the Essex. At Larache I found the Meshouda (cidevant Tripoline) in a state of ordinary, but at Arzilla and Mamora there was not a single vessel of any description. On
my return again to Tangier I made the usual signal to communicate with our consul, and in an hour after had the pleasure of receiving advices from him corroborating my own opinion, "that whatever grounds there might have been for suspicion, they were so far removed as to admit of one of the ships leaving this coast." Two days after I left Tangier for Sallee, the two galleys which the Essex was left to watch, sailed, and one of them was boarded by her in sight of Tangier. This circumstance serves to prove that they had no orders to capture American vessels, or they certainly would not have gone to sea while the Essex was in sight. These two galleys, with the three ships at Sallee, comprise the greater part, if not the whole marine force of Morocco. Since the galleys sailed I have heard of their being at Cadiz. The ships are inside of Sallee Bar, and I have reason to believe there is but little probability of their going to sea this summer, as I am told there never has been an instance of their large cruisers going to sea for the purpose of cruising, after the 19th of September. I shall leave this the instant I get water on board sufficient for six or seven weeks which I am in hope will not take longer than to-morrow evening, and proceed direct to Tripoli, where I flatter myself, (if captain Preble has not made a previous attack) I shall yet arrive in time, to co-operate with Commodore Barron; for I should be greatly mortified if the Congress did not share a part of the credit to be derived from the reduction of Tripoli, by inscribing a lasting and honourable remembrance of her name on its walls.
STATE PAPERS
Relative to the new assumption of title by his Imperial Majesty Francis II Emperor of Germany.
VIENNA, August 15.
"His Roya', Imperial, Apostolick Majesty, arrived in this city on the 10th inst. from Baden, to assist at an extraordinary conference of state, at which were present his royal highness the archduke Palatine of Hungary, the chancellor of Hungary, that of Bohemia and Austria, that of Transylvania, the Tavernicus of Hungary, and the President of the chamber of Finances and of the Bank.
"In consequence of the supreme determination which has been declared in this council of state, the following patent is published:
PATENT.
"We Francis II, by the grace of God elected Emperor of the Romans, always August, King of Germany, of Hungary, and Bohemia, of Galicia, Lodomeria, &c. Archduke of Austria, Duke of Burgundy and Lorraine, grand duke of Tuscany, &c. &c.
"Though we have already attained by the Divine will, and by the choice of the electors of the Roman and Germanick empire, to a dignity which leaves no room to desire any augmentation of titles and consideration, it is, however, our duty, in our quality of chief of the Austrian house and monarchy, to provide for the maintenance and preservation of that equality of hereditary titles and dignities with the first sovereign and powers of Europe, which belongs to the sovereigns of Austria, both on account of the ancient lustre of their house, and in regard to the extent and population of their estates, comprehending independent kingdoms and principalities, so considerable, and which have been secured to them by possession, agreeably to the right of nations, and by treaties. To establish, in a durable manner, this perfect equality of rank, we have determined, and think ourselves authorized, after the example which has been given us in the preceding century by the imperial court of Russia, and that which is now given to us by the NEW SOVEREIGN OF FRANCE, to confer also on the house of Austria, as far as relates to its independent states, the hereditary title EMPEROR. We have therefore resolved, after mature reflection, solemnly to assume and to establish, for us and for our successors, in the unalterable possession of our independent kingdoms and states, the title and dignity of HEREDITARY EMPEROR OF AUSTRIA (as the denomination of our house,) in such a manner that all our kingdoms, principalities, and provinces shall, invariably, retain the titles, constitutions, prerogatives, and relations which they have hitherto enjoyed.
"According to this supreme decision and declaration, we decree and enact—
"I. That immediately after our title of elected emperor of the Romans, shall be inserted that of Hereditary Emperor of Austria, after which shall follow our other titles of King of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary, &c.—then those of archduke of Austria, Duke of Styria, &c. and those of the other hereditary countries. But as since our accession to the throne, there have successively taken place, in the possessions of our house, several changes, which have been confirmed by solemn treaties, we at the same time make known the undermentioned titles, newly regulated, according to the present state of things, and our will is, that they be introduced and employed in future.
"The title of imperial Prince and of Imperial Princess, shall be given and conferred with that of Archduke and archduchess, as well as royal highness, to our descendants of both sexes, and to those of our successors in the sovereignty of the house of Austria.
"III. As all our kingdoms and other possessions must retain, without restriction, their present denominations and relations, this is understood in particular of our kingdom of Hungary, and of the countries which are united to it, and also of such of our hereditary states as have hitherto been in immediate relation with the Germanick empire, which ought in future to preserve the same relations with it agreeably to the privileges granted to our house by the Emperors, our predecessors.
"IV. We reserve to ourselves the right of determining hereafter the solemnities which shall take place at our coronation and that of our successors as Hereditary Emperors. Those however which were practised at our coronation, and at that of our predecessors, as King of Hungary and Bohemia, shall continue to subsist in future without any change.
"V. This Declaration and ordinance shall be published and carried into execution throughout all our hereditary kingdoms and states, without delay, and in the accustomed forms. We have no doubt that all our states and subjects will receive, with gratitude and patriotick interest, this disposition, the object of which is to maintain the consideration of the Austrian Monarchy.
"Done at Vienna, the 11th of August, 1804".
On the day before yesterday, the following Note was delivered in to the Protocol of the Diet, accompanied by a letter from the Envoys of the Emperor and King, to which was annexed the Imperial Patent.
NOTE.
"The Royal and Electoral Bohemian, and Archducal Austrian Legations, have received from their Sovereign, the annexed pragmatical ordinance, by virtue of which has Imperial Royal Majesty, as ruler of the Austrian Monarchy, has resolved, pursuant to the example of France, and from the motives therein stated, to assume the hereditary Imperial title.
"The undersigned Legations do not fail to inform the General assembly of the Empire thereof; and whereas his Majesty has already issued special Letters of notification to all his Co-estates of the Empire, he doubts not but they will be received in the most friendly view.
"As by this new hereditary dignity no alteration is made in the relations in which the German Hereditary States stood to the Roman Empire, conformably to the expressed tenor of the pragmatical ordinance; the undersigned Royal, Electoral Bohemian and Archducal Austrian Legations, have received express orders,
precisely to declare, that no alteration is thereby intended in the other political relations and references; but, on the contrary, that his Majesty will take a double consideration, invariably to continue the friendly, candid, and benevolent sentiments which hitherto endeavoured to show to all his co-estates. (Signed)
"Frederick Count Stadion.
"Egidius Joseph Charles Von Fahnenberg."
"Ratisbon, August 24, 1801."
This day the following Note was communicated on the part of Sweden.—
NOTE.
"Pursuant to the note received by the general assembly of the empire on the 25th inst. from the illustrious electoral Bohemian, and Archducal Austrian Legations, relative to the Austrian Imperial title, the present loyal and dutiful legation finds itself induced to declare. That whereas his majesty the king of Sweden certainly takes a sincere part in any communication tending to the benefit and satisfaction of his majesty, the Roman Emperor, and his august imperial house; nevertheless, his royal majesty, as well in his quality as a guarantee of the constitution of the empire, as also particularly as a state of the empire, conceives the object proposed to stand in such an inseparable connection with the composition of the German empire itself, that the same had better be laid before the assembly of the empire, not merely as a notice, but as a point for discussion, that all the members may have an opportunity of expressing their ideas founded upon the constitution. (Signed)
"Knut Bildt."
"Ratisbon, August 26, 1804."
At this day's Diet comitial vacancies were resolved upon, to last to the 11th of November next.
VIENNA, August 18.
The following note has been transmitted by the Vice Court and State Chancellor to the Corps Diplomatick at Vienna:
His imperial majesty has commanded the undersigned Vice Court and State Chancellor to notify to M——, that his majesty has been pleased to assume the dignity of hereditary emperor of Austria, and to cause himself to be proclaimed as such.
M—— is requested to communicate this to his court. The emperor hopes that this communication will be received in a manner perfectly agreeable to the connection which so happily exists between the two sovereigns, and that the object of the same will be considered as adapted to publick circumstances. Induced by these to assume the imperial dignity, his majesty is at the same time convinced that this resolution cannot in any manner be detrimental to the relation in which he stands to the German empire, and the different countries which compose the Austrian monarchy.
The undersigned assures M—— of his most particular esteem.
His imperial majesty has appointed a grand council of state to be held on the 21st, under the presidency of the principal Chamberlain, the Prince of Starhemberg, and attended by the principal Court Chancellor, and other officers of the court, in which the ceremonial of the coronation and the festivities on the occasion will be arranged.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Ship Yorkshire, Lee, 8 weeks from Rotterdam, Ballast, Warren Ashley. Oct. 14 in lat. 38° N. lon. 60° W. spoke the brig Rachel, of and from Alexandria for Cowes.—18th lat. 38° N. lon. 69° W. ship Maria, of Wilmington, Del. 7 weeks from London for Philadelphia.—29th lat. 37° N. lon. 74° W. schooner ——, Towers, 36 hours from Baltimore for Bourdeaux.
Schooner Experiment, Nash, 21 days from Guadalupe, via St. Thomas, Sugars, Nash & Chowning.—25th Oct. lat. 35° N. lon. 74° W. spoke a schooner from Tenerife bound to this port, deeply laden, had lost her mainsail.—39th, lat. 37° N. lon. 75° W. brig Eliza & Mary, Riley, 3 days from New-York for Jamaica;—Left at St. Thomas, Schooner Sally, Lark, of Philadelphia, just arrived. Capt. L. left at Trinidad, Sch'r Fanny-Sewell, Owens, landing cargo. Schooner Success, Town, 4 days from Philadelphia.
Ship Atlantick, from Havannah for this port, has put into Charleston in distress.
PORT OF NORFOLK—ENTERED.
Ship Industry, Vibert, Jersey. Yorkshire, Lee, Rotterdam. Brig Jane, Cock, Jamaica. Sch'r William Henry, Spotswood, Guadalupe. Harriot, Brown, Baltimore. Eliza, Ferguson, do. Lydia, Livingston, Antigua.
CLEARED.
Ship Jeanie, Cowan, Hull. Sch'r Sarah, Gibson, Barbadoes. Mary Johnson, Bayton, Trinidad. William Henry, Spotswood, Tappahannock. Samuel, Clarke, New-York.
FOR SALE,
By order of the Administrators on the Estate of William Drummond, deceased, late of Fredricksburg,
The Sch'r PLOUGH-BOY, Burthen 96 tons or 800 barrels; she is only 18 months old, is well fitted and found, and now ready to receive a cargo.—A credit of six months will be given to the purchaser, for a note with an approved endorser.
For FRANCIS S. TAYLOR, Agent, DAVID HENDERSON, and ALEX. DUNCAN, Nov. 3. 212
3000 bushels coarse SALT a-float, FOR SALE, BY
Nov. 3. A. Maclure. 209
ALEXANDER CLARK,
Boot and Shoe-maker,
At the head of Maxwell's Wharf, Wide Water Street, Has in addition to those of his own manufactory, received from Philadelphia and New-York, an assortment of the best
BOOTS AND SHOES,
And intends in future to keep a constant supply. Three boys of respectable connections, from 12 to 15 years of age, will be taken as apprentices to the above business. Nov. 3. 210
A BOAT FOUND.
TAKEN up near Watson's Creek, Warwick county, in October 1803, A BOAT of the following description—Her length on the gunwale is 17 feet, her width 5 feet 6 inches, red bottom with white boot-top, inside, below her seats, red, above them, a lead colour; on the inside of her stem she has large diamond painted black, and oval on her stern—seats of the same colour—Her bow and stern seats have iron knees, her transom and gunwale knees are iron; she has a ring-bolt in her bow, and an eye-bolt in her stern below the locker. The owner, by proving his property and paying charges, may have her on application to
Peter Ridley. Nov. 3. 211

PHOENIX INSURANCE COMPANY, IN THE CITY OF LONDON.
The Directors of this respectable Assurance Company having nominated and appointed the subscribers to be their agents in the state of New-York in North America, for procuring Insurances against loss or damage by fire, and for receiving the premiums thereon, and directing and transacting such other business as may be requisite or necessary to be done as their agents, &c. &c.
They therefore avail themselves of the earliest opportunity of communicating to the publick, the following Proposals, received from their constituents, and to give this notice that they will attend to all applications made to them for insurances, at their office, No 87 Waterstreet, New-York.
THEOPH. & AND. BACHE.
Letters, post paid, will be duly answered.
PROPOSALS
FROM THE PHOENIX COMPANY OF LONDON, FOR INSURING HOUSES, BUILDINGS, STORES, SHIPS IN HARBOUR, GOODS, WARES, AND MERCHANDIZE, FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE.
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* * * In this office no insured person is liable to any call to make good the losses of others; but in cases of fire, the sufferer will be fully indemnified by the Company. The Company also make good losses on property burnt by lightning.
RATES OF ANNUAL PREMIUMS TO BE PAID FOR ASSURANCE AGAINST FIRE.
No. I.
Hazards of the first class —Brick or Stone Buildings, covered with tile, slate or metal.—Furniture or Merchandize not hazardous, contained in such buildings.—For sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars, in one risk, 25 cents per annum per 100 dollars.
No. II.
Hazards of the second class —Buildings having the four walls entirely of brick or stone, carried through the roof, and covered with boards or shingles.—Furniture or Merchandize not hazardous, contained in such buildings.—Hazardous goods viz. Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Salt Petre, Flax, Hemp, Oils and Tallow, in buildings of the first class.—For sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk, 37 1-2 cents per annum per 100 dollars.
No. III.
Hazards of the third class —Buildings constructed partly with brick or stone, and partly with wood; or having either of the four walls of frame work filled in with brick.—Furniture or Merchandize not hazardous, contained in such buildings.—Hazardous goods, viz. Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Salt Petre, Flax, Hemp, Oils and Tallow, in buildings of the second class.—For sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk, 50 cents per annum per 100 dollars.
No. IV.
Hazards of the fourth class —Timber or slight buildings covered with shingles or boards.—Furniture or Merchandize not hazardous, contained in such buildings.—Hazardous goods, viz. Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Salt Petre, Flax, Hemp, Oils and Tallow, in buildings of the third class.—For sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk, 75 to 100 cents per annum per 100 dollars.
Ships in Port and their Cargoes; Ships building or repairing; also, barges and other small craft, with goods on board, may be insured against fire.
* * * Larger sums may be insured by special agreement. All buildings in contiguity to other hazardous buildings, or in other respects situated disadvantageously, will be charged at an extra premium. The rates may also in some cases be proportionably moderated upon timber buildings in the country, or when standing single and detached, or attended with circumstances of peculiar security.
†† Tallow-Melters, Soap-Makers, Brewers, Vinegar and Sweet Makers, Hemp and Flax Dressers, Printing-Houses, Coopers, Carpenters, Cabinet Makers, Coach Makers, Malt-Houses, Bakers, Ship-Chandlers, Boat Builders, Rope-Makers, Sugar Refiners, Distillers, Chemists, Varnish-Makers, Turpentine-Works, Theatres, and all Mills and Machinery, are deemed extra hazardous, and the rate upon such risks will be proportionably increased.
CONDITIONS OF INSURANCE.
I. Persons desirous to make insurance on buildings, are to deliver in to the agent the following particulars, viz.—Of what materials the walls and roof of each building is constructed.—Whether the same are occupied as private dwellings, or how otherwise.—Where situated.—Also the name or names of the present occupant. Each building must be separately valued, and a specified sum insured thereon—and in like manner a separate sum insured on the property contained therein.
All manufactories, which contain furnaces, kilns, stoves, cockles, ovens, or otherwise use fire heat, are chargeable at additional rates.
In the insurance of Goods, Wares or Merchandize, the building or place in which the same are deposited, is to be described; also whether such goods are of the kinds denominated hazardous, and whether any manufactory is carried on in the premises. And if any person or persons shall insure his or their buildings or goods, and shall cause the same to be described in the policy otherwise than as they really are, so as the same be charged at a lower premium than is herein proposed such insurance shall be of no force.
II. Goods held in trust, or on commission, are to be insured as such, otherwise the policy will not extend to cover such property.
III. No loss or damage to be paid on fire happening by any invasion, foreign enemy, civil commotion, riot, or any military or usurped power whatsoever; nor for damage done by fire occasioned by earthquakes or hurricanes: but this company will make good losses on property burnt by lightning.
IV. Books of accounts; written securities, bills, bonds, tallies, and ready money, cannot be insured.
V. Jewels, plate, medals, or other curiosities, paintings and pictures, are not included in any insurance, unless such articles are specified in the policy.
VI. Persons insuring property at this office, must give notice of any other insurance made elsewhere on their behalf on the same, and cause such other insurance to be endorsed on their policies, in which case each office shall be liable to the payment only of a rateable proportion of any loss or damage which may be sustained; and unless such notice is given, the insured will not be entitled to recover in case of loss.
VII. No order for insurance will be of any force, unless the premium is paid to the agent, or unless a sum has been advanced, and the agent has delivered his receipt on account of the office; and all persons desirous to continue their insurances must make their future payments annually within fifteen days after the day limited by their respective policies, or the same will be void.
VIII. All persons assured by this Company sustaining any loss or damage by fire, are forthwith to give notice to the Company's Agent, and as soon as possible after to deliver in as particular an account of their loss or damage, signed with their own hands, as the nature of the case will admit of, and make proof of the same by their oath or affirmation, and by their books of accounts or other proper vouchers, as shall be reasonably required; and shall procure a certificate under the hands of a magistrate or sworn notary of the city or district in which the fire happened, not concerned in such loss, importing that they are acquainted with the character and circumstances of the person or persons insured, and do know, or verify believe, that he, she, or they, really, and by misfortune, without any kind of fraud or evil practice, have sustained by such fire, loss and damage to the amount therein mentioned; and until such affidavit and certificate are produced, the loss money shall not be payable; also, if there appears any fraud or false swearing, the claimant shall forfeit his claim to restitution or payment, by virtue of his policy.
IX. In case any difference or dispute shall arise between the the assured and the Company, touching any loss or damage, such difference may be submitted to the judgment and determination of arbitrators indifferently chosen, whose award in writing shall be conclusive and binding to all parties: And when any loss or damage shall have been duly proved, the insured shall receive satisfaction to the full amount thereof, without allowance of any discount, fees, or other deduction whatever.
X. Persons chusing to insure for seven years, will be charged for six years only; also, for a less number of years than seven, will be allowed a reasonable discount.
* * * Persons desirous of effecting Insurances, are requested to make application to Messrs. THEOPHYLAT and ANDREW BACHE, in New-York, who are appointed the Company's Agents, and are fully authorised to grant Policies on behalf of the Company. London, 1804.
ANTIGUA RUM.
THIS DAY, Will be Landed, on our Wharf, from on board the Schooner Gertrude Pinkney, Captain Barry, 86 Puncheons Antigua RUM. Which will be sold on moderate terms, for Cash or approved Notes. C. & F. Whittle. October 25. tf 189
LIVERPOOL SALT. QUEEN'S WARE, in Crates well assorted. DUFFEL BLANKETS, in small Bales. 10 and 20d. Flat Pointed NAILS, in Casks—and LIVERPOOL COAL. If taken from along side the ship Jane , Capt. Colley, will be sold low. Apply to William Pennock.
WHO OFFERS FOR SALE, 114 Puncheons Jamaica RUM. Imported in the Sarah, Capt. Herbert. October 23. tf 187
Will be landed this day on Newton's Wharf, from on board the Schooner Ann Eliza , Capt. Smith, from this Coge, 75,000 wt. GREEN COFFEE. For sale by Wilson, Cunningham & Co. August 24. tf 85
FOR SALE,
500 Barrels first quality Navy Bread. 200 do. Pilot. do. 200 do. Ship. do. 500 Quarter Barrels Crackers, fresh and of a superior quality. All of which will be sold on liberal terms. Stephen Harris. July 17. tf. 8
Office of Discount and Deposit, Norfolk, July 24, 1804.
WANTED TO PURCHASE,
A few thousand Pounds Sterling, in approved endorsed Bills on London, at sixty days, or bills drawn on any other place, and made payable there. Robert Oliphant, Cashier. July 24. 36
We are this day landing on our wharf, from on board the British Schooner Sprightly , from Kingston, 12 Hogheads, } PRIME SUGARS; 4 Barrels, } 23 Tierces, } FIRST QUALITY COFFEE. 38 Barrels, } 13 Barrels CASTOR OIL. 59 Bags GINGER. 2 Tons EBONY WOOD. 10 Barrels of LIMES. All of which we will dispose of on liberal terms. C. & F. Whittle. July 31. 50
FOR SALE,
12 Puncheons ANTIGUA RUM. 15 do. GRANADA do. 5 Pipes HOLLAND GIN. 20 do. COUNTRY do. 12 do. FRENCH BRANDY. 2 do. ALICANT do. 22 Qr. Casks SHERRY WINE. 10 do. MALAGA do. PORT and CLARET WINE, in casks & bottles. 6 Barrels PORK—and about 1000 Dozen PORTER, of my last winters flock, equal to any imported. Joseph Hayes. August 24. tf 95
Wanted to hire by the year,
An active Negro or Mulatto Man, who has a good character for sobriety, docility, and attention. Enquire at the office of the Ledger.
NORFOLK RACES,
Will commence on the 2d Monday in November.
1st day—for 3 years old Colts, that never won a Purse or Sweepstake of more than 200 dollars, with 80lbs. on each, one mile heats, 40 dollars entrance, play or pay; the subscription to be kept open until the 10th November. The colts intended to run, must be particularly described to the subscriber, and an exchange of mags will be allowed.—Two colts entered.
2d day—the Ladies Purse of 100 dollars, one mile heats, with catches, entrance 10 dollars. The horse that wins the first three heats, will be entitled to this purse. Ninety yards will distance. 20 minutes allowed to rest.
3d day—a purse of 400 dollars, four mile heats, entrance 20 dollars, weight for age, 150lbs. on the aged Horse.
4th day—a Give-and-take Sweepstake, two mile heats, entrance 50 dollars.
5th day—a purse of 200 dollars, two mile heats, entrance 15 dollars, weight for age.
6th day—a Handy Cap Purse of 150 dollars, will be proposed. The rules and regulations will be established on the 2d day's running.
* * * No boy will be allowed to ride until he is dressed with a jockey cap, silk jacket and half boots—tackets and litter-bound for race horses gratis—barges of all descriptions will be found at cost. Gentlemen who will run for the four mile heats at these races, and let the subscriber know of their coming 8 or 10 days before, their groom and boys shall have their board gratis.
R. H. Coche.
October 9. 156
NOW LANDING
From on board the Brig Maria , Robert Hutton, master, from Bona Vista,
30 Pipes OLD COGNAC BRANDY, fit for immediate use.
211 Hhds. CLARET, fit for the West India Market.
100 Cases, do. do.
50 do. Vin de Grave. do.
500 DEMIJOHNS.
2 Trunks of Silk Stockings, Silk and Kid Gloves and Fans. For sale by William Pennock. Sept. 1 tf 115
TEN DOLLARS REWARD.
RUNAWAY from Mr. Caleb Williamson, living in Princess Anne County, a Negro Man named JOE; about five feet nine or ten inches high; had on when he went away, a short blue jacket, and Fearnought trousers; he has lost one of his eyes by the discharge of a gun, but which one is not recollected. I expect he is looking about Norfolk or Princess Anne, as I hear he intends going to the Northward. I will give the above reward to any person who will bring him to me; or Eight Dollars if secured in any jail, so that I get him again.
All masters of vessels, and others, are for warned harbouring or employing said negro.
Hillary Parsons.
Portsmouth, Oct. 9. tf 171
A MEETING of the new HOLDERS in Christ Church, is requested on Monday next at the Church, at 11 o'clock, for the purpose of electing Trustees, Treasurer, &c. for one year. October 30. 291
FALL AND WINTER GOODS.
THE SUBSCRIBER Has received by the Brig Commerce , from London, and Ship Bertrus , from Liverpool, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS, which he offers for sale, by Wholesale or Retail, on moderate terms. Richard Taylor.
ALSO—A FEW BALES BEST TWILLED SACKING. Sept. 22. tf 150
FALL GOODS.
WE are now landing from the Brig Commerce , from London, an extensive assortment of FALL GOODS, among which are assorted packages, calculated for the West India market, entitled to drawback; which will be sold at low advance, by Gilliat & Mackinder. August 21. tf 92
NORFOLK HOTEL.
THE Subscriber informs his friends and the publick, that he has opened an HOTEL in that convenient house formerly the NAVY TAVERN No. 128 Main Street, where he hopes by his attention, to give satisfaction to those who may favour him with their company.
He will always keep the best liquors; and Private Parties will be furnished with Dinners, Suppers, or Relishes, at the shortest notice.
BOARDERS accommodated by the week, month, or year. Henry Benbridge. October 9. tf 170
FOR SALE—A BARGAIN.
THE SUBSCRIBER, WISHING TO DECLINE THE RETAIL BUSINESS, OFFERS FOR SALE, HIS WHOLE STOCK IN TRADE, AMOUNTING TO ABOUT $20,000. CONSISTING OF
DRY GOODS, Cutlery, Hardware, Cagings, Nails of all sizes, and a number of other articles.—The whole will be sold on very low terms, and a liberal credit will be allowed, on bond with approved security.—Also, the balance of the lease of his Store, equal to any hand in Norfolk, if required. Property in the Borough of Norfolk, or Lands in the neighbouring counties, Publick Securities, &c. will be taken in exchange. For further particulars, apply to James Tucker.
WHO HAS FOR SALE, ON VERY LOW TERMS, A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, on the South Branch of the Potomack. August 23. tf 97
WILLIAM HARTSHORNE, JUN.
OFFERS FOR SALE, At the store he has lately taken on Marsden's Wharf 10 Pipes HOLLAND GIN. 30 Tons of IRON, in Bars from 4 to 6 eights of an inch square. 10 do. do. from 1 to 2 1-2 inch square. 300 Pieces BANDANNA HANDKERCHIEFS. October 18. tf 180
STORAGE.
THE Subscriber will receive Goods on Storage, at his convenient Fire Proof Store, on Marsden's Wharf. William Hartshorne, Jun.
OILS, PAINTS & WINDOW GLASS, Of all kinds, colours, and sizes. For sale by N. Gregory, opposite the Market.
An ASSISTANT wanted—also, an active YOUTH to be employed in the store.—Liberal wages will be given to TWO ABLE HANDS, to turn a Pain Mill. July 8. tf 3
FOR SALE,
New-York BEEF and PORK.
ALSO,
200 barrels Smithfield PORK.
Robert Gibson.
July 17, 1804. tf 17
LANDING THIS DAY ON WARREN'S WHARF,
113 Tierces RICE. 19 Hogheads SUGAR. 10 do. MOLASSES. For Sale by Warren Ashley. August 2. tf 55
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
RUNAWAY from the Subscriber in the City of London, some time in the month of May, 1799, a mulatto slave, named HENRY, at that time aged about 18 years, and was about five feet ten inches high; he is probably now upwards of 6 feet. Henry was a remarkable handsome mulatto, and had a fine countenance; his hair rather of the wool kind, but tied in a short queue.—He called himself Henry Brent , which name he had put on one of his arms with Indian Ink, either Henry Brent or H. Brent , I do not recollect which; he had also on the same arm an anchor and cable, and some other figures, done by a sailor on a voyage to the East Indies in the year 1797.—It is very probable attempts have been made to erase the name and figures above described, but it could not have been done without leaving some traces and scars.
I have just received information that Henry was seen in Norfolk on the 16th of last month, where I am inclined to think he has been lurking for some time—I will give the above reward to any person who will deliver said slave to me, at Col. John Cooke's, Stafford county, near Aquia, or fifty dollars if secured in any jail so that I get him again—Information given in a letter per post, directed to me at Col. John Cooke's, near Aquia, will be immediately attended to.
John W. Bronaugh.
N. B. I am told the above slave is known in Norfolk at this time by the name of Puddy or Purdy . July 17. tf 15
WANTED IMMEDIATELY,
A QUANTITY OF Red and White Oak Drawn Staves, for which cash will be given.
ALSO,
White and Pitch Pine Merchantable Boards.
ROBERT MAITLAND & Co. Sept. 27. tf 157
FRESH TEAS.
Just received and for sale by the Subscribers, IMPERIAL, } TEAS, HYSON, } YOUNG HYSON, } Of a very late importation, and of a superior quality.
ALSO—IN STORE,
15 Hhds. Prime Sugars. 10 Pipes French Brandy. 100 Casks Nails—all sizes. 10 Hhds. Prime Green Coffee. 10 do. Molasses. 50 Barrels Whiskey. 200 Bags Shot, No. 1 to 8, B. & B. 50 Casks best English Gunpowder. 50 Boxes 8 by 10 best Crown Glass. 50 Kegs White Lead, ground in Oil 30 Boxes Pipes. 20 Casks Copperas. 5 ditto Refined Salt Petre. 10 Boxes Wool Cards. 10 ditto Spermaceti Candles. 50 Bundles Printing Paper. 100 Ream Writing ditto. 20 Bags Black Pepper. 30 Boxes Dixon's best Mustard. 500 lbs. Race Ginger. 50 Barrels Beef & Pork—Boston Inspection. A few Tons Iron Ware—assorted. ALSO,
A small consignment of HARDWARE—assorted. Which will be sold at Cost and Charges. Fisk & Stearns. July 8. tf 2
INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE.
Phenix Fire Office, London, May 1, 1804.
THE numerous and destructive Fires which have happened within the period of the two last years, in different parts of Europe and America, (more particularly in the towns of Liverpool in England, Gothenburg in Sweden, and Norfolk in Virginia,) render it proper to remind all persons who possess property in the United States of America, of the utility of insurance.
The Phoenix Office of London, is an institution sufficiently known by the very large and important losses it has paid, in consequence of the extensive conflagrations in the cities and towns of America to such sufferers as have had the prudence to protect their property, by insurance.—The Phoenix Company deeply regret that, owing to the experience of serious and continued losses, upon the buildings and stores in the timber towns, no alteration nor remission on such risks can be made at present—but the Directors hope, from the increase of brick and stone buildings, and other improvements of security, that the period is not far distant, when they will be able generally, to mitigate the rates of insurance in North America; and they confidently presume that the promptitude and honour with which they have uniformly fulfilled their extensive engagements, have unequivocally established the solidity, credit and good faith, of the Company.
The Phoenix Company grant insurances upon buildings, goods, and ships, whilst in dock or in harbour, from loss or damage by fire, upon the most moderate and equitable terms; and persons desirous of securing their property by policies from this company, are requested to transmit their orders to their correspondents in Great Britain. July 31. 43
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED,
Tuesdays, Thursdays, & Saturdays,
BY
JOHN COWPER & GEORGE L. GRAY.
OPPOSITE THE EXCHANGE COFFEE-HOUSE.
Price Five Dollars and Fifty Cents yearly, in advance.