Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1803-07-15 00:00:00

Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 16 of Volume V.]
FRIDAY, July 15, 1803.
[Whole No. 224.]
MARTINSBURG, Berkeley County, Virginia; Printed and published by JOHN ALBURTIS.
TERMS OF THE INTELLIGENCER.
The price of this Paper is two dollars per annum, one dollar payable at the time of subscribing, and one when the year expires. Distant subscribers pay for the whole year in advance. The price of Advertisements, to non-subscribers, is one dollar per square for three weeks insertion, and for continuance after that time 25 cents per week; Subscribers will continue to receive a reduction of one-fourth on their advertisements.
HENRY GIRD, AUCTIONEER.
RETURNS his respectful thanks to those who have employed him in that line, particularly the Executors of the late Gen. George Washington. The approbation of a number of characters of such respectability, is to him highly flattering. He trusts that from his knowledge in that business, his readiness to attend at any distance, and his moderate charges, will entitle him to a share of public patronage.
He continues his STARCH and HAIR POWDER manufactory, and has on hand at present, a quantity of both, of the first quality.
Orders left with Mr. John Alburts will be attended to.
July 8, 1803.
INFORMATION WANTED.
ANY person knowing any thing of a certain THOMAS CORSE, Sen. formerly residing at the head of Chester, Queen Ann's county, Maryland, will much oblige his Relations by giving information where he is, if living; and, if dead, when and where he died. When he was last heard of, he was said to be in the neighbourhood of Baltimore. Any information of said T.C. will be thankfully received at the Office of the Federal Gazette, Baltimore, by
JOHN CORSE.
July 3, 1803.
NEW STORE.
The subscriber has just received, and is now opening A VERY HANDSOME ASSORTMENT OF
Dry goods & Groceries,
Suitable for the present season, all which he will sell on very moderate terms, for Cash or Country Produce.
HE returns unfeigned thanks to his friends and customers, and flatters himself that the Assortment which he constantly keeps, the moderate prices at which he sells, his assiduity and endeavors to please, will ensure him a continuance of their custom.
JEREMIAH EVANS.
Martinsburg, July 1, 1803.
THE subscriber wishes to employ by the month, one or two JOURNEYMEN HOUSE JOINERS, who can produce recommendations as to their capability and attention. To good workmen constant employ and generous wages will be given. Application may be made to me, at Mrs. Pendleton's, in Martinsburg, or to Mr. John M'Pher-son, at his Mill, on Bull-Skin.
WILLIAM M'COUGHRTRY.
July 1, 1803.
SIX CENTS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber some time in March last, an Apprentice boy named ARCHIBALD WILLIAMS, about 5 feet 8 or 9 inches high, has short light coloured hair, was 20 years old last May. Had on when he went away, a fur hat, a brown cloth coat, nankkeen pantalettes, swandown waistcoat, shoes, stockings, &c. The above reward will be paid, but no thanks given for returning said runaway.
JAMES STERRETT.
Berkeley County, July 1, 1803.
More New Goods
From the Cities of New-York, Philadelphia and Baltimore.
THE subscribers beg leave to acquaint their friends and the public generally, that they are now opening a very Handsome and General supply of
Fresh Goods
OF EVERY DESCRIPTION.
They deem it unnecessary to particularise each article that composes their assortment, suffice it to say, it consists of almost every article that this neighbourhood or country requires. We return our sincere thanks to our friends and the public, for their generous encouragement since our commencement in business, and hope we shall be able to merit a continuance. As usual we now have for sale LEATHER, CASTINGS, BAR-IRON and STEEL, and a complete assortment of PAINTS, Patent and other MEDICINES, together with a large quantity of OLD RYE WHISKY—and we again solicit the early communications of our friends, either personally or otherwise.
JAMES S. LANE, & Co.
Shepherd's-Town, July 1, 1803.
CHEAP SPRING and SUMMER GOODS.
THE subscriber has just received, and is now opening at his Store in Martinsburg, a Large and General Assortment of
Fresh Goods,
bought in the City of Philadelphia, which have been selected from the latest importations from Europe and the East-Indies. Also, a complete Assortment of
Stationary,
Consisting of Histories, Travels, Novels, School-Books, &c.
A General Assortment of
Groceries,
Hard-Ware and Cutlery, Weaver's Reeds, Crumcreek and Dutch Sitch Stones,
Bar-Iron,
Both from Hughes' & Speers' iron-works. As the greater part of these Goods have been purchased with Cash, he flatters himself he will be able to sell them on very reasonable terms for Cash or Country Produce. He returns sincere thanks to his friends for the encouragement he has received in his line of business for more than ten years past, and hopes to merit a continuation.
WILLIAM RIDDLE.
June 3, 1803.
NEW STORE.
HAVE opened adjoining the GLOBE INN, a large and general assortment of
Dry Goods, groceries & Ironmongery.
Also, a number of articles in the Paint, Dye-stuff & Drug line,
Which they offer for sale at moderate profits for Cash or Country Produce, and beg leave to solicit a share in the custom of the place and neighbourhood.
Martinsburg, June 3, 1803.
WANTED IMMEDIATELY
AS an Apprentice to the HATTING BUSINESS, an active well disposed Boy, between 14 and 16 years of Age.
CHARLES D. STEWART.
Martinsburg, July 1, 1803.
BLANK DEEDS
For sale at this Office.
NEW STORE.
THE subscribers take leave to inform their friends, and the public generally, that they have removed their Store across the Street, into the corner Brick House, near the Market, where in addition to their former stock, they have opened a Large and General Assortment of
SPRING GOODS.
The same being purchased for Cash, from the latest arrivals in Philadelphia, Baltimore and Alexandria, by one of the firm, they are confident that they will now be able to sell Goods cheaper by 12 1-2 per cent, than any sold in this place before; and to convince our friends and the public, we only solicit them, as they pass along, to give us a call, for
BARGAINS
Are now to be had of us, for CASH or COUNTRY PRODUCE,
5 N. B. Cash will be given for MERCHANTABLE WHEAT, delivered at our Mill.
P. NADENBOUSCH, & Co. Martinsburg, May 13, 1803.
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber living near Shepherd's Town, Jefferson County, Virginia, on the 25th instant, a Negro Man named CHARLES, though it is very probable he will change his name to Isaac, as it is suspected he has obtained a pass belonging to another person. He is 33 years of age, very black, about 6 feet high, hollow eyed, has some difficulty in speaking plain, when spoken to, and on close examination his great toes are nearly without nails. Had on when he went away a pair of striped cotton pantalettes with buttons at the ancles, a fine ruffled shirt, a fine muslinet vest, white flannel coat, and as he took away other garments with him, it is likely he will change his dress. Twenty Dollars will be given to any person that will secure him in any jail so that I get him again, or if brought home the above reward, paid by me
JOHN STIP, jur.
July 1, 1803.
A TAVERN TO RENT.
I WILL rent my Tavern at Orange Court-House, Virginia, about forty miles west of Fredericksburg. This place has as many advantages as any other tavern in Virginia, being in the centre of four public roads and the only house of public entertainment kept at Orange Court House. The house is large and commodious, being eighty feet long with ten rooms in it, and a cellar under the whole house, with a good Kitchen, Meat House, Ice House, and stabling sufficient for 100 Horses, a Spring of excellent Water, which is conveyed to the bar, and other parts of the house, and is exceeded by no place for marketing. The situation is remarkably healthy, and the neighboring society friendly and agreeable. I will give possession this fall. For particulars apply to the subscriber, living on the premises.
PAUL VERDIER.
July 1, 1803.
NOTICE is hereby given, that on the 2nd day of August next, at the House of Joseph Tiffin, in the Town of Chillicothe, and State of Ohio, the Deposition of Nathaniel Willis will be taken, in the Suit depending in the District Court held at Winchester, wherein James M'Glaughlin is Plaintiff, and the subscriber is Defendant.
JOHN KEARNET.
July 1, 1803.
FOR SALE,
AT the Subscribers Black Smith Shop, opposite Capt. John Robinson's Tavern, a LARGE and GENERAL ASSORTMENT of
IRON,
OF the best quality, which he will sell low for CASH.
JOSEPH CHAMBERS.
Martinsburg, May 6, 1803.
THE subscriber respectfully informs the inhabitants of Shepherd's-Town and its vicinity, that he has commenced the WEAVING BUSINESS, in all its various branches in that place, nearly opposite Mr. Philip Shutt's Tavern, where all kinds of Weaving, such as Coverlids, Carpeting and Diaper, and all kinds of plain work, will be executed in the neatest and most durable manner, and hopes from the goodness of his work, to merit the encouragement of the public.
JACOB WISEHART.
May 13, 1803.
Doctor SAMUEL J. CAMER, HAS settled in Shepherd's-Town, directly opposite Mr. Lane's store, and commenced the Practice of PHYSIC and SURGERY. He will not boast of what he has done, or can do, but having had nearly as good opportunities, as Europe or America could afford, he will endeavor to recommend himself by his practice.
May 13, 1803.
FOUR DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the subscriber living in Shepherd's-Town, on Friday the 29th of April last, a Dark SORREL HORSE, near fourteen hands high, eight years old this spring, has a remarkable ill-natured look, and is very hard to be caught, has a black spot near his rump about the bigness of a man's hand, and has some grey hairs in his mane; he was raised near Garrards Town, Berkeley County. The above Reward and all reasonable expenses will be paid for returning said horse.
JACOB HAINES.
June 3, 1803.
Valuable PROPERTY for sale.
TO be sold or rented, the Plantation whereon I now live, containing 267 acres, a part of which is sown down with wheat and rye. There are several springs in convenient situations, two of which are strongly impregnated with sulphur. On this place are a good Apple Orchard, and about 12 acres of Timothy Meadow, and more can be made. Two convenient dwelling houses, one of them two stories high, the other one and an half. Also a new Merchant Mill, and Saw Mill, working under a 19 feet fall on Sleepy Creek, with two overshot water wheels; the Grist Mill has one pair of French Burns, and one pair of Alleghany stones, 4 1-2 feet diameter. The stream on which the Mill stands is navigable. Timber is floated down to the Mill, from the upper country, and plank, &c. can be rafted from the Mill down to the river Potomak. This property is situate 6 miles from the Potomak river, and 4 miles from Bath, Berkeley County, Virginia. The terms, &c. may be known by applying to the subscriber.
FREDERICK SNYDER.
April 29, 1803.
BATH COFFEE HOUSE.
THE subscriber in the most respectful manner returns his sincere acknowledgments for the honor conferred upon him by those Ladies and Gentlemen who were so obliging as to give him a call last season, and takes this method of informing them, that he is induced from the distinguished patronage he experienced the last season, to go to considerable additional trouble and expense in making the Coffee House, &c. as convenient as possible for their reception this season. The Coffee House being so very convenient to the Bath Square, gives it the preference, on that score, to any house of entertainment at Bath. With sentiments of great consideration, I remain the Public's humble servant.
ANDREW GOULDING.
Bath, Berkeley County, June 24, 1803.
A FRESH SUPPLY of LEE and CO's highly approved and valuable PATENT MEDICINE, is just received and may be had at the office of the Intelligencer.

LATEST FOREIGN NEWS.
LONDON, May 21.
This morning arrived a mail from Holland, and two from Hamburg.
According to intelligence from Vienna, 40,000 Austrian troops are to be detached to Italy, to cover the frontiers of Dalmatia, Istria, and the Venetian territory.
The French army in the neighbourhood of Nimèguen is stated to be daily augmenting. Great movements have also been observed among the Prussian troops in Westphalia.
The accounts from Italy repeat, that a French and Italian army is assembling on the frontiers of the Papal States.
The departure of Lord Whitworth was known at the Hague on the 25th, and occasioned the greatest consternation. The funds fell upwards of five per cent. French troops are pouring into Holland, which is menaced with the greatest distress, if not with total ruin.
The military movements for the defence of the coast have already commenced. Orders have been issued, to stop and to send into British ports all Dutch vessels.
An express arrived in town last night, stating, that Lord Nelson sailed yesterday forenoon from Portsmouth in the Victory, to take the command in the Mediterranean.
Lord Keith has arrived at Sheerness, and has hoisted his flag on board the Zealous.
Sir James Saumarez struck his flag on Thursday at Sheerness, and sailed in the Kite, Capt. Phipps. He has received his commission of commander in chief on the Jersey and Guernsey station.
All the large Dover and Sandwich cutters are hired by government, to be attached as cruisers to the different squadrons.
Our letters from Brighton state that near 100 privateers have already sailed from the French ports of Cherbourg and St. Maloes.
By a gentleman who arrived yesterday at Helvoetsluys, we learn, that two French frigates lay off that port with their sails bent ready to put immediately to sea.
May 22— evening. —Orders have been sent to India, both over land, and by a vessel of war, announcing the renewal of hostilities, and conveying directions for the occupation of Pondicherry, &c.
Letters from the Hague state, that the French troops in the Batavian republic are to be augmented to 80,000 men, and that they are to be commanded by Gen. Victor. The English squadrons continue to cruise off the Texel and the Meuse, and will stop any ship coming in or going out.
The minister, it is reported, will on Friday announce his intention of contracting for a loan, not to exceed twelve millions. It is likewise said, that he will then give notice of a lottery, to consist of one hundred thousand tickets.
Lord Whitworth and his suite arrived last night at Whitehall at eleven o'clock, in two coaches and four, and two chaises and pair, with four outriders.
The Gazette of Saturday night contained an Order in Council for prohibiting for two months, from the 11th inst. the exportation of naval stores; and another of the same date, allowing vessels employed in the African trade to take on board carriage-guns, swivels, &c. for their defence against an enemy.
Russia, Austria, and Prussia, have severally declared their intention to preserve the strictest neutrality in the coming war. Prussia has denied the assertion made in most of the Foreign Journals, that she meditated the occupation of Hanover, and the shutting up of the Elbe and Weser against the commerce of England, his Majesty declaring that he will preserve the free navigation of those rivers, and maintain the independence and neutrality of Hanover. Communication to this effect was received by the Regency on the 26th ult. and despatched to London.
The Emperor of Russia in reply to the letters addressed to him by the Chief Consul, and conveyed to Petersburg by the Chief Brigade, Colbert, on the subject of the difference with England, has declared that, should a war result from it, he will exert his whole influence and power to preserve the neutrality of the North. The recent armaments in the Russian dominions, although professedly against Sweden, are supposed to have been made with this view, the more especially as the naval equipments are still continued, notwithstanding the adjustment with the court of Stockholm.
BRIDGETOWN, (Bar.) June 11.
The anxious interval between our last publication, in which we had looked for something important and decisive from England, has not passed without some interest, but has been marked by such strong measures as shew the vigilance and activity of the naval department on our station. On Wednesday night, his majesty's ship Cyane, Capt. Maxwell, brought into Carlisle bay the French transport L'Adelaide, 29 days from Rochelle, bound to Martinique with troops. The principal officer is Lieut. Col. Peitavy Cheade 2d Bataillon de la 197 Demi Brigade; and there is an adj. major, 22 other officers, and 329 men on board. Also a French Bark L'Alters, commanded by M. Le Jeune, a lieutenant de Vaisseau, with 6000 barrels of powder, 18 24 pounders and shot and shells, from L'Orient 42 days, bound to Martinique. The above ships are at anchor off Charles Fort, with sails unbent and rudders unsipped.
Thursday evening intelligence was received from St. Vincent, of a French brig with 100 troops on board, bound to Tobago, having been carried into that port by his majesty's sloop Hornet, Capt. Hunt.
MARTINSBURG, July 15.
We are requested to inform the public, that the rev. J. Bond, will preach at the Court-House in this town next Sabbath, at 11 o'clock, A. M.
We have received by the last mail, the New-York papers which contain the formal declaration of his Britannic Majesty against the French nation; its length has rendered it impracticable to give it a full insertion in this paper; we make such extracts as are deemed sufficient.—The complaints of his majesty are many, but the leading ones are as follows.
After asserting his sincere disposition to render the peace permanent, upon the established principles; among the proofs of this disposition, on his part, his majesty says—As soon as the treaty of Amiens was concluded, his majesty's courts were open to the people of France for every purpose of legal redress, all requisitions were taken off property; all prohibitions on their trade which had been imposed during the war were removed, and they were placed, in every respect, on the same footing, with regard to commerce and intercourse, as the inhabitants of any other state in amity with his majesty, with which there existed no treaty of commerce.
To these pacific views, and this conciliatory conduct on his part, he opposes the conduct of France. The prohibitions which, had been placed on the commerce of his majesty's subjects, during the war, have been enforced with increased strictness and severity; violence has been offered in several instances to their vessels and property; and in no case has justice been afforded to those who may have been aggrieved in consequence of such acts, nor has any satisfactory answer been given to the repeated representations made by his majesty's ministers or ambassadors at Paris.
He next complains that an extraordinary number of persons were sent over by the French, in character of commercial agents, to reside in all the principal towns in his dominions; a right which could only be obtained by treaty. The real object of those persons were to obtain certain knowledge of the different harbours, and military places. This he considers as decisive indication of unjust designs on the part of the French government.
That they continue to maintain an army in Holland, against the express letter of three solemn treaties.
That they have, contrary to the treaty of Luneville, invaded Switzerland.
That they have annexed to France—Piedmont, Parma, Piacenza, and Elba; without allotting any provision to the king of Sardinia, whom they had deposed from his territory.
That when his majesty interfered to preserve the integrity of Europe, and to avert the evils which threatened the Swiss nation, the right of his majesty to do so was denied, there being no stipulation to that effect in the treaty of Amiens; although justified in doing so by the laws of nations.
On the subject of the island of Malta, his majesty protests his constant willingness to comply with the treaty in that particular. That he even consented to admit Neapolitan troops into that island on the demand of the French. But asserts that at no period since the conclusion of the treaty, had the French any right to call upon him to withdraw his troops—that the independence of the island had
not been guaranteed according to stipulation; that the order is not now the same as that to which he was bound to deliver it; the langues of Arrogan and Castile having been separated from the order of Spain; a part of the langue of Italy having been abolished by the annexation of Piedmont and Parma to France; there existing strong reason to suspect a design to sequester the property of the Bavarian langue; and the intention having been avowed to keep the Russian langue within the dominions of the emperor.
That from these reasons, and the conduct and views of the French in Egypt, Syria, and the Ionian islands, his majesty holds that he would not have been justified in evacuating Malta. And that until the terms of the treaty, of which the tenth article forms only a part, were complied with, he could only make one answer to the alternative represented by France, which was in peremptory and menacing language—"the evacuation of Malta or war."
He then notices several indignities offered by the French government to his crown and to his people.
In the report of Colonel Sebastian, an accredited agent; containing the most unwarrantable insinuations against the government, against the officer commanding his forces in Egypt, and against his army in that quarter.
In the indecent communication made by the First Consul to the Legislative body, in which he affirms that 'Great-Britain cannot, singly, contend against the Power of France.' Which could be considered in no other light than as a defiance, publicly given, in the face of all Europe.
In the conduct of the first consul to his majesty's ambassador, at a public audience, in presence of the ministers of most of the governments of Europe.
In the publication of a manifesto at Hamburg, containing a most gross and opprobrious libel against his majesty; thereby 'propagating throughout Europe the most unfounded and offensive calumnies against his majesty and his government.'
In the repeated calls made upon his majesty 'to violate the laws of hospitality, with respect to persons who had found an asylum in his dominions.'
And in the requisitions repeatedly urged by the French government, 'that the laws and constitution of his country, should be changed relative to the liberty of the press.'
This list of indignities he concludes cannot be the effect of accident, but 'forms part of a system which has been adopted for the purpose of degrading, vilifying, and insulting his majesty and his government.'
His majesty then appeals to Europe and the world for the justness of his complaints and conduct. Declaring that 'he will be ready to concur, even now, in any arrangement by which satisfaction shall be given to him, for the indignities offered to his crown, and to his people, and substantial security afforded against further encroachments on the part of France,' &c.
We have thus endeavoured to give a short analysis of this instrument, which we have not been able to lay, at length, before our readers.
WASHINGTON CITY. MONDAY, JULY 4. OFFICIAL.
The Executive have received official information that a Treaty was signed on the 30th of April, between the ministers Plenipotentiary & Extraordinary of the United States and the Minister plenipotentiary of the French Government, by which the United States have obtained the full right to & sovereignty over New-Orleans, and the whole of Louisiana, as Spain possessed the same.
An erroneous opinion has gone abroad, that, in part purchase of Louisiana, we are to pay our merchants for French spoliations committed during the last war—not so; the claims for these spoliations have been formally relinquished by treaty. The claims now provided for, are understood to be those arising from purchases made by the French from our citizens of-provisions and supplies for their fleets and armies in the West Indies; indemnification for French bills drawn on Hamburg and protested, &c. &c. in short for all contracts made between authorised agents of France and American citizens.
[New-York Herald.]
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Nevis to his friend in Norfolk, dated the 14th June, 1803.
"So far does commodore Hood think of the appearances of war, that he has sent
into Barbadoes two French frigates and three transports bound from France to Gaudaloupe."
Extract of a letter from Antigua, dated 15th June.
"Three American ships with French troops on board, bound to St. Domingo, have been detained and sent to Barbadoes and St. Vincent. All our troops are ordered up to Barbadoes."
[New-York paper.]
A letter from Plymouth dated the 22d inst. says, "Last night was sent in here the French brig La Margareta, Faures, from Bordeaux to St. Maloes, captured on Tuesday by the ship Acasta of 38 guns, in the Bay of Biscay. She also captured a Dutch dogger, but parted company with her two nights ago. It appears a great number of privateers are fitting out in France, especially at Bordeaux, and many of them are nearly ready for sea. Among them is the famous ship privateer Braave, which was so uncommonly successful during the last War."
Sir Sidney Smith has taken a very rich French merchantman, and sent her into the Downs.
A large Dutch ship from Surinam for Rotterdam, is sent into the Downs by the Grampus and Jalouse.
The Phenix, Wildboar, from Surinam, is sent into Sheerness by the Amelia frigate.
The Vrow Constantia, from Surinam to Amsterdam, is sent into Plymouth by the Daris frigate.
The De Jong William Ling, from Amsterdam for Rotzen, is sent into Yarmouth by Admiral Thornborough's squadron.
A letter from a gentleman in Bordeaux, received at Charleston, dated in May, says, "I should not at all be surprised to see bad times in France—They are now taking up all the young men under twenty-eight years of age for the army, which has occasioned a revolt, as I learn, yesterday within a few miles of Bordeaux; a party of military, by the name of the Gens d'armes, employed by the government to take such youths, for each of which they receive a Louis D'or, these young men fired upon them at a place called Blye, on which there was blood shed—the same thing has happened at Paris; these measures may result in an internal revolution, which God forbid."
Arrived, brig Lucy, Humphries, from Barbadoes. Capt. H. informs, that when he sailed an expedition was fitting out at Barbadoes, against one of the French islands, supposed to be Martinique. [Alexandria paper.]
DISTRESSING FIRE.
Extract of a letter from Montreal, dated June 11.
"Our town has just suffered from a most destructive fire. Fourteen houses burned to the ground in one of the suburbs; and at the same time (it is supposed on a plan formed) the prison took fire, communicated to the Episcopal church, a Catholic church, and finally, in consequence of the high winds, extended to the lower principal street, burned 12 houses more, and the College. Nothing but the walls of all these important buildings are standing."
[From the Ulster Gazette.]
Next to scolding about the taxes, and praising Jefferson to the clouds for his economy; nothing delights one of your true, rank, bitter democrats so much as the use of the word tory . It happens very unluckily for these gentry however when news comes of a removal, in nine instances out of ten, the victim is one of those who fought and bled by the side of Washington in the day of our country's danger. But fortified with a double front of brass, they still are mighty great republicans, and detest the federal party because they did not cut the throat of every tory that was found in the country at the close of the revolution. To endeavor to reform those who hold this sort of opinion by wholesome counsel would be throwing pearl before swine.—We reason not with them. There is however a large part of the democratic party who are not only honest, well meaning but humane also and who only want a knowledge of facts, to enable them heartily to despise the wretched miserable stuff which their demagogues make them swallow. We have many, very many things to say—we appeal to no passions; if we can successfully approach the understanding our utmost wish is satisfied. We do state confidently that it is in our power to prove all the democratic cant from begin-

ning to end to be as false, as hollow as the heart of hypocrisy itself. Once more let it be understood that we mean not to offend the great body of those who call themselves republicans—we have no doubt they are friends to their country; all we mean to show is that they are deceived, and imposed upon by those who only pretend to be what the mass of the people really are: honest . And this we do not purpose to prove by flourishing abuse; we shall do it by stating facts ; which the most hardened democrat, who knows any thing, dare not contradict.—We do not expect to produce conviction in a moment—alas! the chains of that fiend deception cannot be severed at a blow; all that we can expect is to undo them one by one; the task indeed is grievous almost to affliction; but we undertake it and it shall be performed. 'Powerful as the truth; it must prevail.'
Let us return to the immediate subject of this article. The federal crime which has enraged many is, that they have been friends to the tories, and this has been urged by self-styled republicans as an unpardonable crime. In this country the crime of toryism is supposed to be even hereditary; that it falls from father to son; and is as incurable as any hereditary disease. It is to be punished "unto the third and fourth generation." and is so much worse than original sin, that it admits of no atonement. So say the patriots of Ulster; such is the doctrine of the tender-hearted friends of liberty; such is the misanthropy of men who are great advocates for freedom, and for freedom of opinion too. These however are not to be most condemned; it is the leaders who infuse such cruel, unchristianlike doctrines into their unguarded minds who deserve execration. Duane who prints the Aurora, a democratic paper at Philadelphia, who for some years has been bell weather to the flock; so much so that in one of his papers he has called himself "the organ of the public will"—Duane, who never goes to the city of Washington but he dines with the president and Tom Paine. Though he is only a raw Irishman six or eight years in this country—(for foreigners are all the go now .)—This Duane never deigns to speak of the federalists in his paper without calling them the Tory Party . Though they are the followers of Washington and his maxims; but by the way Washington is as much abused by the leaders of this democratic party, as the rest of the tories that fought by his side during the whole war. To satisfy the reader of this truth we shall publish an extract from this same Aurora which will settle that point at once.
The democrats with president Jefferson at their head, or rather president Jefferson with the democrats at his tail;—have been in full glory for two years and more. Having made toryism a ground of accusation, if we prove, that they have dismissed from office revolutionary soldiers, and that fact is universally known, and have appointed first rate tories, we convict them according to their own doctrines. They, not we, have stated the act to be criminal; we only prove them guilty of what they themselves condemn; upon consequence they stand convicted upon their own confession.
No. I. Daniel Ludlow, was a tory during the whole war was all that time with the British in New-York. James Watson was an officer in the Connecticut line, afterwards became navy agent, a place worth many thousand dollars—Under Jefferson Watson was removed, and Daniel Ludlow, is now navy agent in his place.
No. II. Tench Cox, was so great a tory, that he was declared guilty and attainted of treason by the Pennsylvania legislature. Tench Cox piloted the British army into Philadelphia. Mr. Jefferson has given Tench Cox a place in the revenue department worth 3000 dollars a year.
No. III. A certain Stephens of the state of Georgia, was at first in the American service—Deserted to the British—received a commission under George the Third—Was attainted of treason by an act of that state. Mr. Jefferson has made him judge of the federal court.
No. IV. Old Erving was a Boston tory; went over to the English and has always remained with them; his son came over a few years ago and Jefferson has sent him back to London with the appointment of American consul, there.
No. V. Archibald Kerly was an officer in the British fleet on our coast. The democrats in New-York have elected him at different times an assemblyman, and to the convention.
* Callender says, he is not ORGAN of the public will; he is only the AGITATOR of the president.
No. VI. James Warner native American was a corporal in the British service in New-York; has often been, and at present is assemblyman from that city.
No. VII. William Edgar was a tory trader in Canada during the war; sold tomahawks and such like innocent playthings to our Indian brethren as Mr. Jefferson somewhere calls them. Having made a great fortune he resides in New-York; was elected to the late convention; and once or twice to the assembly by the New-York democrats.
Shall we go on; or is it enough? Is it hypocrisy or what is it that has induced the brass-fronted democrats to call the federalists tory-party ? We hope, nay we enjoin it on every nonsensical bawler in the country, into whose hands this paper may fall; that whenever the word tory rises in his throat to swallow it down again; hard and bitter as it may be, he must approve what his masters do,—we leave all such to the mortification of their own reflections.—To a reflecting public we leave this part of our work; with a promise that when we reason with them, every argument shall be bottomed on fact; substantial fact. We will expose the inside of this whited sepulchre until the mock republicanism of the day shall be laughed to scorn in the land.
French method of stacking Wheat.
A GENTLEMAN who had noticed the modes of agriculture, on the banks of the Rhine, in Flanders and in France, has remarked that the people of those countries commonly stack their wheat and leave it in the field. Their manner of stacking is as follows: "they set one sheaf upright, with the ears uppermost, and round that place a circle of many other sheaves with the ears uppermost, inclining on the first sheaf; and when so placed, they look like the figure of an extinguisher, then they lay an horizontal circle of sheaves, with all the ears in the centre, and cover those ears in the centre with a loose sheaf or two. Thus placed they are protected from all wet, and may remain six weeks or two months, as safe, as in a barn."
Harvest-time is the most busy season, with the farmer, in the whole year; by stacking his wheat and other grain in the field, he can finish his harvest sooner; he may cart the sheaves in at leisure times; and by reason of their exposure to the air for several weeks, they thresh much easier, than sheaves which, immediately after binding, are housed in binding, are housed in a tight barn.
The writer remarks, that this French and German method of stacking has been adopted in some of the Southern counties of England, to the great benefit of the farmers and the public.
THE LADIES.
The critics of the fair sex tell us they are vain, frivolous, ignorant, coquettish, capricious, and what not. Unjust that we are! It is the fable of the Lion and Man ; but since the ladies have become authors they can take their revenge, were they not too generous for such a passion. Though they have learnt to paint, their sketches of man are gentle and kind.
But if the ladies were, what surely misanthropes call them, who is to blame? Is it not we who spoil, who corrupt, who seduce them?
Is it surprising that a pretty woman should be vain when we daily praise to her face her charms, her taste, and her wit? Can we blame her vanity when we tell her that nothing can resist her attractions; that there is nothing so barbarous which she cannot soften; nothing so elevated that she cannot subdue; when we tell her that her eyes are brighter than day; that her form is fairer than summer, more refreshing than spring; that her lips are vermillion; that her skin combines the whiteness of the lily with the carnation of the rose?
Do we censure a fine woman as frivolous when we unceasingly tell her that no other study becomes her but that of varying her pleasures; that she requires no talents but for the arrangement of new parties; no ideas beyond the thought of the afternoon's amusement? Can we blame her frivolity when we tell her that her hands were not made to touch the needle, or to soil their whiteness in domestic employments? Can we blame her frivolity when we tell her that the look of seriousness chases from her cheek the dimple in which the loves and the graces wanton: that reflection crowds her brow with care, and that she who thinks, sacrifices the smile that makes beauty charm, and the gait that renders wit attractive?
How can a pretty woman fail to be ignorant, when the full lesson she is taught
is, that beauty supersedes and dispenses with every other quality; that all she needs to know is, that she is pretty;—that to be intelligent is to be pedantic; that to be more learned than one's neighbor is to incur the reproach of absurdity and affectation?
Shall we blame her for being a coquette, when the indiscriminate flattery of every man teaches her the homage of one is as good as that of another? It is the same darts, the same flames, the same beaux, the same coxcombs.—The man of sense, when he attempts to compliment, recommends the art of the beau, since he condescends to do with awkwardness what a monkey can do with grace.—With all she is a goddess, and to her all men are equally mortals. How can she prefer when there is no merit, or be constant when there is no superiority?
Is she capricious? Can she be otherwise, when she hears that the universe must be proud to wait her commands;—that the utmost of a lover's hopes is to be the humblest of her slaves; that to fulfil the least of her commands is the highest ambition of her adorers?
And are women so unjust to censure the idols made by their own hands? Let us be just; let us begin the work of reformation: when men cease to flatter, women will cease to deceive; when men are wise, women will be wise to please. The ladies do not force the taste of the men; they only adapt themselves to it. They may corrupt, and be corrupted:—they may improve, and be improved.
For the INTELLIGENCER.
Considerations addressed to deists.
In the xvi chapter of Mark's Gospel at the 16th verse it is thus written—He that believeth and is Baptized shall be saved, but he that believeth not shall be damned.
If, after all the boasted reasoning of deists, Christianity should happen to be true, this text is, to them, the most awful and tremendous that can possibly be imagined; nor is it the only one that speaks the language of terror to unbelievers, many more might be cited to show the danger of resisting the evidence that God gave of his son. It is impossible to demonstrate that Christianity is not true; the evidence in favor of the genuineness and authenticity of the writings of the Apostles, who tell us that they saw and heard the miracles and preaching of Christ, and were eye witnesses of the facts they relate concerning him, are much stronger than any that can now be produced to prove the contrary, and thousands, nay, millions of the most learned men for seventeen hundred years past have set their seal to the credibility of the gospel history, and if modern believers should be in an error it is certainly on the safe side. For
If Christianity should not be true, I see no inconvenience in adhering to it—it exalts our ideas of the Supreme Being, by a more extensive knowledge of his nature and attributes, and has a powerful tendency to ameliorate the state of society, by proposing for the observation of man, a system of morality infinitely superior to any thing ever produced by the most renowned among the ancients; it affords great consolation to a virtuous mind struggling with adversity, by the promise of a better life; it affords an ample foundation for hope to rest on, amidst all the vicissitudes of this mortal life, and should it prove to be a fiction at last, I see not why a sincere believer may not enjoy as much tranquility of mind, at the hour of death, in the consciousness of having conducted himself through life agreeable to its dictates, as he who rejects it.
If, therefore, a deist should attempt to proselyte a christian to deism , what possible advantage can he promise him by such a conversion? None at all, neither in life nor death. On the other hand a believer acts rationally who endeavors to proselyte a deist to Christianity, because, if it should not be true, he cannot possibly be a loser by such conversion, and if it should be true, the advantages to both are incalculable; in the former case, every thing may be lost without the possibility of gaining; in the latter, every thing may be gained, without the possibility of losing. Which therefore is the safer course let reason decide.
A LAYMAN.
At a Court held for Brooke County, and continued on Friday the 3rd day of June, 1803.
N. L. John Holcraft, John Spivy, John Ashby and Peggy his wife, Joseph Pentecost, John Robb and Catherine his wife, Dorsey Pentecost, Sarah Pentecost, James Ashbrooke and
Lucey his wife, George Pentecost and Rebeckah Pentecost, heirs at law and legal representatives of Dorsey Pentecost, deceased.
vs. William Johnston, Gabriel J. Johnston, John Harrison and Elizabeth his wife, Benjamin Johnston, jur. Ann Johnston, General W. Johnston, Robert Johnston, Davis Floyd and Susanah his wife, heirs at law of Benjamin Johnston, deceased, and Peter Peterson. In CHANCERY.
THIS day came the Complainants, by their Counsel, and it appearing to the Court that the Defendants, William Johnston, Gabriel J. Johnston, John Harrison and Elizabeth his wife, Benjamin Johnston, jur. Ann Johnston, General W. Johnston, Robert Johnston, Davis Floyd and Susanah his wife, heirs at law of Benjamin Johnston, deceased, are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth. It is ordered that the said Defendants do appear here on the second day of the next August term, to answer the Complainants bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith published for two months successively in the nearest Virginia Gazette, and also to be posted up for two months successively at the door of the Court-House of this County.
A Copy. Teste, JOHN CONNELL, C. B. C.
At a Court held for Brooke County, and continued on Thursday the 2nd day of June, 1803.
A. C. John Murphey.
vs. Mary Murphey and Elizabeth Murphey, heirs at law of Cornelius Murphey, deceased. In CHANCERY.
THIS day came the Complainant, by his Counsel, and it appearing to this Court, that the said Defendants are not inhabitants of this Commonwealth. It is ordered that the Defendants do appear here on the second day in the next August term, to answer the Complainants bill, and that a copy of this order be published in the nearest Virginia Gazette for two months successively, and also be posted up for two months successively at the door of the Court House of this county.
A Copy. Teste, JOHN CONNELL, C. B. C.
FOR SALE.
A VALUABLE Tract of LAND, situate at the bridge on Opequon Creek, about two miles from Martinsburg, Berkeley County, containing 273 acres, more than 200 acres of which are cleared, is good arable land, and the rest in timber, about 70 acres of good bottom land, all of which can easily be converted into meadow. As it is presumed no person will purchase without first viewing the property, it is not tho' necessary to descend to particulars.—The premises will be shewn to any person inclining to purchase by Mr. Philip Conine, who at present occupies them, and the terms made known on application to the subscriber.
DANIEL VANMETRE.
July 15, 1803.
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STRAYED from the subscriber living in Jefferson County, near Bull-skin, on the 15th ult. two horses, one of them a sorrel and the other a dark bay; the sorrel is about fourteen hands three inches high, has a white spot about the bigness of a dollar on the near side of his neck.—The bay is about fourteen hands high, is well formed, trots and paces, shod all round with old shoes, those on his fore feet are not fellows.—Any person securing said horses and giving me information so that I get them again, shall have the above reward and all reasonable charges.
SAMUEL HIBBINS.
July 15, 1803.
RAN away from the subscriber on the 19th of June last, an apprentice boy named William Kelley, about 5 feet 3 or 4 inches high, and is 16 years of age. Had on when he went away a pair of striped cotton trowsers, a yellow cashmere waistcoat, a home-made linen shirt and a half-worn wool hat. Six cents reward will be paid, but no thanks given for returning the said runaway.
JOSEPH MENNER.
Berkeley County, July 15, 1803.
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FROM THE PORTFOLIO.
A CHALLENGE TO CARE.
COME, Care, with thy legion of herd-loving ills.
The combat I shall not decline; My second's a Spaniard—a fiery cigar, And my weapon's a bumper of wine.
Number two at Joe Hardy's, I'll choose for the ground.
To mark out the distance be thine, Care! take the first shot—stay, but ere we begin,
Let's shake hands o'er a bumper of wine.
Now charge well thy weapon, with frowns of the girl,
Whom hope has recorded as mine, I'll knock off the ashes, and puff my cigar.
And charge thee, with bumpers of wine.
Be thy next charge composed of Poverty's frowns,
To whose aim oft a life we resign, I'll encircle myself, in a volume of smoke, And toss off a bumper of wine.
Thy third, the mad rule of political foes, At this I shall never repine;
I know I may turn them, whenever I will, With a bumper of Burgundy wine.
A modern Kantippe, cross, ugly, and old.
Still the contest I shall not decline, If she scold, I have ever a remedy near, In a bumper of noise-loving wine.
Nor at Poverty's frowns, nor the frowns of my girl,
Nor at Jacobin foes I'll repine, E'en an old woman's tongue, tho' it wind-mill-like rue, Has no terrors when mellowed by wine.
But Care! I've a secret to whisper thy ear;
I have told it to no ear but thine; If you would, that in grief, I go down to my grave, Let me thirst for a bumper of wine. HILARIO.
CERTAIN DEATH.
I shall die, in the height of despair; Should my Delia persist to deny; I shall die, with delight, if the Fair, Would attend to my tale, and comply.
How can I then cease to lament, Since the fate of my passion is sure; My death, is the certain event, Alike of the evil or cure.
From the New-York HERALD.
Wag as it will, The world for me.
OLD BALLAD.
So says ROBERT—so said Monsieur SCARON—so said RABELAIS;—and so says every man, who loves the bread of quietness, who has a vine or figtree of his own, or does not trouble himself more about his neighbor's fruit-garden, than his own rood of potatoes. It is this fashionable dipping into politics, hunting for chapters of accidents in news papers, racing through every nook and corner of towns and cities, and meddling with what belongs more to the man in the moon, than to us; that makes so many wry faces, thin carcasses and long funerals. Out upon you, sons of spleen, misanthropy, mischance and melancholy—consider what a fuss you are making in this fruitful world, and what clouds and darkness you are raising at noon day!—What with grumbling men, fidgeting women, sighing lovers, and swearing politicians, things have come to a fine pass, and moralists have their hands full of business, and they are welcome to it; for ROBERT has no idea of standing centinel on a steeple, to watch the weathercock. If the folly of the few has produced madness in the many, let that be settled between Mr. Wiseacre and Mr. No-acre. ROBERT has long since thrown his cares to the wind, and now jogs on, through the many and the few, as happy as you please. Let those talk of insensibility, who plague themselves with brooding over the most trivial occurrences;—cursing their stars for evils of their own begetting; and snarling at their neighbors, for being happier than themselves. Yes, let such pretty philosophers rave,
and shake hands with Zeno and Xantippe: as for ROBERT, he continues his song.—
"Wag as it will The world for me," &c.
There is a neighbor of mine, whose face is the saddest picture of distress your eyes ever beheld. This moment he passes my window, looking as if pinched by the tongs of Dunstan. Such a rueful and woe-begone countenance is only to be found in Hoggarth's picture of famine, or sketch of the Rump-parliament. Yet, believe me, few people have better means of a rosy face and laughing eye. He has a wife of comely form and notable disposition; children healthy and affectionate; and Providence has blessed him from the upper and nether spring.—Notwithstanding all this, the old fellow is for ever repining; trembles at the mention of a jail, and is nearly starved, through fear of famine. He once, it is true, lost an old barn by fire; but then, that same season, a vessel of his arrived from a voyage, in which she had "cleared" him a thousand pounds. But alas! he can never forget the old barn, and at the cry of fire starts, as if bit by a mad dog. As to his dress and living; I have no concern with them; but his manners and morals are too infectious and disgraceful to pass unnoticed. "Methinks," says a mumping moralist, "this man eateth the bread of carefulness." That is all true enough, Sir; but the old father of proverbs hath observed that the liberal soul shall be made fat; and he that watereth shall be water'd also himself—and further, (for Sancho Panza is not a greater lover of proverbs) a merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance; but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken. Now, sir, is there any thing like a merry heart, a liberal soul, or a watering disposition in this man? Unless a leaky eye and snivelling nose are exhibitions of gratitude and a merry heart, the master sign is not to be found about him, and he will be lifted, like a dead weight, into the scale of retribution. From such men, in the church service, let us ever exclaim,—"Good Lord deliver us."
WILL WAGSTAFF is a very different sort of being; he is one of those easy, industrious and happy souls, who take time as it goes; though the present is not the horizon that bounds his views.—"He sings a little and works a little, and laughs a little"—and swigs the pleasures of life, though his draught is no better than small beer, or purling water. If in company with a grave physiognomist, it makes no odds; he fears not a discovery of what he is; nor lengthens he the redundancy of his face, to suit the gravest son of morality. "Bless your soul," says WILL, "let's be happy while we can—none of your whining boys, this is a time for laughter; unless you have lost some near friend, or been guilty of some very bad trick; in which case, solitude and sobriety are much more becoming."
All for scattering roses and sun-beams through his journey, he steps not aside, unless by so doing he helps a fallen brother, or heightens his own felicity. You may talk to him about gravity and demure faces, from sun-rise till sun-set; it stops not a single pleasure, or draws from him any other ejaculation than—"You are an odd fellow." O! tempora, O! mores, like the adventures of Capit. Kid , or the cruelties of Barbara Allen , are chanted by him, as witticisms on the morals of the age. In sober truth, our friend WILL knows nothing of that complaint, which maketh the heart sick. He is conscious that many noisy patriots long to be fat pensioners, that many great men have little souls, and that many white faces conceal black hearts, but his too great a value for his own peace and happiness, not to be on good terms with virtue and vigilance. He rises with a smiling countenance, and goes to bed, humming the chorus of some cheerful song.
A mathematician may solve a problem before him, nay, under his very nose—and that too, with all the flourish of argument and assurance of pedantry;—WILL whistles at his own ignorance of crooks and angles, grams and diagrams, spheroids and hyperboles; he does not bite his nails, or curse his school master for not having forced him beyond tare and tret; but rather thanks God that he is not like that man, elated by soap-bladders and entangled by cob-webs.
ROBERT RECONNOITRE.
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