Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1808-02-17 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.  INT HIC ETIAM SUA PREMIA LAUS
VOL. IV.]
WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 17, 1808.
[NO. 92.
THIS PAPER IS PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A WEEK PRICE TO SUBSCRIBERS SIX DOLLARS PER ANNUM, PAYA- BLE IN ADVANCE—SINGLE PAPER TWELVE AND ONE HALF CENTS—ADVERTISEMENTS ARE INSERTED AT THE RATE OF FIFTY CENTS FOR THE FIRST, AND TWENTY FIVE CENTS PER SQUARE FOR EACH SUCCEEDING INSERTION.
6000 bushels St. Ubes SALT—afloat. IN STORE, 35 puncheons 3d and 4th proof Antigua Rum, 100 hogsheads Sugar, principally Antigua, 40,000 wt. Green Coffee; 850 Demijohns, 7,500 bushels coarse Salt; 100 barrels Rye Whiskey, 80 tierces London Brown Stout, 20 hogsheads Philadelphia Ale and Porter, 150 barrels superfine and fine Flour; 40 kegs fresh Raisins, 10 pipes Loudon particular Madeira Wine, fit for use, 600 ready made Check Shirts; 20 bds. Petersburg Tobacco, 50 barrels Pork; 100 barrels Sugar; a few cases Hennessy For Sale on liberal terms by C. & F. Whittle. February 6.
For Sale on moderate terms by the cask or a smaller quantity.
12 tierces Hibbert's Brown STOUT, 13 pipes fourth proof Cognac Brandy, 1 do. old London particular Madeira Wine, 40 bds. Antigua, Jamaica, and V. I. Rum, 7 do. M. Lasses; old Peach Brandy in barrels, Green St. Domingo Coffee in barrels; wrought Nails, Shearing Nails and Spikes; Axes; Bar Iron; Fig Blue, Stone Jug; a quantity of Bran; 9 pieces fine Flannel, Bed Tick of the best quality. John Macgowan. January 28.
FOR SALE, Just received by Deagle's Packet from Baltimore. 150 bags of good Green COFFEE. Wilson, Cunningham & Co. February 6.
NOTICE. The Copartnership of RICHARD BOWDEN, & Co. has expired. Richard Drummond is authorised to receive and pay the debts of said concern. Moses Myers, Richard Bowden, Richard Drummond. February 2.
St. Ubes SALT. The CARGO of the Barque Bremen , consisting of about 6000 bushels excellent St. Ubes Salt, will be sold for cash or good paper. Apply to Donaldson, Thorburn, & Co. February 2.
FOR CASH ONLY.
GERMAN LINENS, &c. 16 bales coarse Linen, 450 pieces Paper Hangings 4 do. Ruffia Sheetings, 50 boxes Window Glass, 3 boxes German Raisins, 120 do. Short Pipes, 2 do. Romas Sheetings, 120 do. Spanish Sugars, 1 do. fine Flanders do. from 8 to 20 dollars per box, 8 do. Platters, 300 doz. empty Bottles, 1 do. fine Damask, 200 wt. nested bottling Wire, 2 do. Table Cloth, 800 do. Glue, 1 do. common Shirt Linen, 11,000 best Coffee bags, 1 do. extra fine do. 4,500 cheap Gunny Bags, 1 do. Bed Tick 2 yards wide, 5 boxes Tumblers, Decanters, &c.
Also, 6 elegant Terrestrial Globes, A large invoice of Lace, 3 pair large Looking Glasses, Jewellery and Dice, in gilt frames, of the first elegance, Elegant Chessmen, Elegant marble Statues, Flageolets and Clarinets, Urn and Vases, Violins, Bows, and Flutes, Liquor Casks, Oil Cloth, Flutes with four and six keys, Water and Waffle Irons, Ladies' Dressing Boxes, Coffee Mills and Toasters, Toilet Looking Glasses, Velvet Ribbons, Shaving Cakes, Fine Thread Stockings, Elegant Writing Desks, Elegant Cutlery, Scarlet Plush for Saddles, An invoice of Watches, Seine and Sewing Twine, Watch Crystals and Beads, For Sale by Niemeyer & Von Kapff. February 4.
FOR RENT. (Possession to be had the 1st of January.) The STORE-ROOM on Commerce and Water-streets, lately occupied by Mr. Edward Clarke, it may be had with or without a room in the second story—it is very spacious, may be immediately accommodated for two stores, and will be rented in that manner if preferred. For terms apply to John Nivison. December 28.
Richard Jeffrey & Co. No. 66, Main-street, corner of Bank-Street, have just received from London, per the ship Planter , An assortment of MEDICINES, of the first quality Also, a few hundred weight refined Salt Petre, Hardham's Snuff, No. 9, and 37, in 1-2 and 1-4 pound canisters, Violet, Benzoin, Windsor and Shaving Soap, Evans's belt Crown, Lancets, Tooth Brushes of superior kind, Refined Liquorice, &c. They have on hand, and are in daily expectation of receiving from Amsterdam, all kinds of GLASS WARE, fuitable to Apothecaries. MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family use, with printed directions, put up as usual. October 5.
Just received and for Sale, 40 kegs first quality BUTTER, Alexandria superfine Flour and Crackers. IN STORE, Holland Gin, Antigua Rum, Philadelphia Porter and Ale, Potowomack Herring. James M'Clenachan. February 8.
From Bell's Weekly Messenger.
MISSION OF MR. ROSE TO AMERICA.
It is a subject of considerable curiosity what may be the purpose of the mission of Mr. Rose, Jun. to America? We have an ambassador already there, and it would be somewhat too gross to consider it as a decent method of providing this gentleman with a pension. Some have very charitably concluded that the object of his journey is re-explain the recent proceedings of the British ministry, and that he is a kind of avant Courier to the late proclamation in the Gazette. Others, however, of which number we confess ourselves to be, attach a reasonable importance to this mission. That it will end in pension is pretty certain; but it has an origin, we believe, in a real and necessary duty.
Before we enter at length into this subject, it is expedient to clear the way, by making our readers acquainted with those peculiar obstacles which oppose our perfect conciliation with the United States.—They have their source in commerce, what nature this commerce is, we shall proceed to explain.
It is one of the effects of a long war between the leading states of Europe, that the nations, which are exempt from their hostilities become subservient to many mutual uses, to which they have been unaccustomed previous to their dispute.—The nature of the quarrel necessarily interrupts the immediate commerce of the belligerent parties, and the neutral nations, by the tacit permission of both parties, engage in some branches of trade which neither can shift without and in other branches, which both are desirous to prohibit.
The mere interruption of intercourse by war throws into neutral hands the trade which the belligerents have been accustomed to carry on together, and the trade which each used to carry on between the other, and third parties.—The admission of neutrals to the former branch of commerce has seldom been objected to; and, if at all this objection has been directed against the other belligerent, and not against the neutral.
The admission of neutrals to the latter branch of commerce has generally been restricted to such articles as shall not be deemed contraband of war; but as these restrictions could be nothing without the means of enforcing them, a necessity, and a right claimed thereupon has arisen from this branch of commerce, of searching neutral traders at sea.
None of these points, however, are at present in discussion. Neither the right of search limited to merchantmen, nor the prohibition of contraband, have for some time been questioned. But a branch of commerce, so important in its extent, and unequalled beneficial to the belligerents, has passed, during the course of the war, into the hands of the neutrals, that the British nation has been clamorous with its government to dispute the neutral right, and interdict the commerce altogether.
This commerce is that which France carries on with her colonies by means of neutral conveyance, and, principally, by the cover of the American flag.
The war has been of so long continuance and the marine of the enemy so completely annihilated, that she has not even had the means to keep up that intercourse with her colonies which was necessary to their municipal government much less to protect her merchants in trading with them. Insurance was too dangerous; neither the merchant nor the insurer were inclined to run the risk.
In this situation, it became the policy of France to carry on by the help of other hands, a commerce which was worse than useless in her own; and hence a large portion of her colonial trade, and much even of her coasting trade, has fallen into the hands of neutral nations, and particularly of the Americans; who have the greatest facility of maritime carriage and the most rising commercial system of the world.
The principal branch of this commerce engrossed by the Americans, is that with the French West-Indian colonies; and as this trade, during peace, was subject to the strict rules of the navigation laws, (which are common to all Europe) a peculiar objection has been taken to its being suddenly laid open by the enemy to neutrals, during war for the evident purpose of screening it from our just hostility.—And this interference of the Americans to assist the scheme of the enemy, has been deemed inconsistent with those relations of neutrality which that country has always professed to maintain.
Those who exclaim against our suffering the longer continuance of this gross abuse, attack us with arguments which appear irresistible.
France, they say, has no navy indeed, but she has the advantage of the marine of the whole world. Every ship is her merchantman; every sailor her subject—Her ships of war may be captured, but her commerce is safe—She
may declare war when she chooses, and, without a ship that can make head against our weakest cruisers, she has a method of protecting her whole trade, without the command of a navy.
She has but to suspend her navigation laws and the seas are filled with vessels that bring home her commerce. The English cruisers may domineer over the sea; but, like crows, that are scared by a bundle of rags, no sooner does a piece of bunten, marked with the thirteen stripes, depend from the mast head, than our brave sailors are compelled to sheer off, and the wealth and commerce of France are carried as safely over the Atlantic, as if lodged in a British 74. She has millions floating which no enemy can reach; she enjoys every benefit of her colonies without the risk of capture or detention; she may fit out nothing but privateers and cruisers to attack our trade and distress our colonies, whilst her own are beyond the efforts of our armed vessels. She lets out her colonies to farm upon a rack rent—which rent she is sure to receive, as she is the only customer for the neat produce; and thus, by a contrivance as ingenious and fortunate for herself, as it is ruinous for us, she unites the whole benefits or war with all the security of peace.
Against conclusions thus seemingly unanswerable, many objections have been made. The controversy has long been public, and the main arguments in reply are in most people's mouths.—There can be little novelty, therefore, in stating them, though there may be much use in a brief summary.
If we prohibit this commerce, one of two things must happen. Either the French will be compelled to carry on their commerce in their own ships, or the English will be allowed to purchase it, and sell it to neutrals in Europe, who will carry it to France, or the produce will be condemned to remain in the colonies.
That the French will not resume this commerce in their own merchantmen is evident, because the British cruisers will either capture their vessels (and thus ship and cargo will be equally lost) or the expense of insurance must be so enormous, that neither planter nor merchant will be able to afford it. Whatever change may take place, the French merchants, during the war, can never venture to resume the colonial trade.
The next question is—Will it be worth while for the English merchants to purchase the colonial produce at the enemy's islands, and sell it to neutrals? Certainly not. We have more produce than we know what to do with in our own colonies; and we believe that at present in the West India warehouses in London, there is remaining, unsold and unbidden for, sufficient rum and sugar to make punch of the Phames. This expedient, therefore, will not answer. It must remain, therefore, to rot in the colonist, or a neutral, America for instance, as nearest at hand, must be allowed to purchase it and carry it to France for a mark-t.
Besides the cruelty of suffering it to perish in the colonies, and its total repugnance to the practice of civilized warfare, which never attacks private property except at sea, the evils of this system would be shared by ourselves, not only by the loss of customers, which we should feel when so much wealth and industry were destroyed in the country of our nearest neighbors, but also from the danger of having scenes of rebellion and confusion in the immediate vicinity of our most valuable colonies—for we may be assured that if the produce of these colonies be unconsumed, the plantations will be neglected or destroyed: and the supplies of provisions failing, the negroes would revolt, and the whole be involved in ruin.
What, therefore, remains to be done, but to suffer the Americans, or any other neutral, to purchase this produce, or to carry it home, which is in effect the same thing: for whether they be real purchasers, or mere carriers, we can never discover, as it is a matter of private bargaining among themselves, and is, in truth, of little consequence.
America can never be much of a gainer by this traffick, because she must inevitably resign it at peace, and her capital must instantly shift into a new branch or remain unemployed altogether.
Such are the arguments of those who contend that America should be permitted to continue this branch of traffick.
We wish, however, to consider it with perfect impartiality, and will place ourselves in the mid-way between both disputants.
It would be unjust, we think, to deprive America of the means of employing a great portion of her capital. The revenues of America are the produce of her carrying trade.—The very source of her existence and independence is the traffick which she carries on for other nations. Have we a right to shackle this industry? Certainly not. But when America lays herself out for a species of commerce derived from her relation as a neutral
to two belligerent powers, which commerce is so unequally beneficial to the belligerent, that it nourishes and supports the one, and cripples and defeats the just objects of the hostility of the other, when a commerce, we contend, of this nature is insisted upon by America, if we have not a right to interdict it, we have at least a right to limit or direct it to an end, as advantageous to ourselves as it has been, for a long time, to the other belligerent.
We acknowledge the right of America, but we have a right of our own: and when the two obligations clash, it is just that both should concede a little, and melt into compromise.
The object, then, of Mr. Rose's mission is to procure this compromise. Its purpose is, as we are given to understand from sufficient authority, to propose to America a compensation for resigning the colonial carrying trade of France—by suspending our own navigation laws in her favour, and permitting her to trade unrestrictedly in the produce of our West India Islands. Here she may freight as many vessels as she chooses with rum and sugar, without interfering with us; for our object is to get the chance of a market for this produce, which abounds at home beyond the demand, and which is absolutely wasting the islands for want of purchasers.
Here therefore, America will have full scope for the capital; but the next question is, will France or the other nations under her influence, be permitted to buy it, when it is acknowledged, notwithstanding the decency of neutral carriage, as the produce of the British West Indies. We believe there is little doubt but they will; and, if the traffick be permitted, it will be infinitely more beneficial to America as the carrier. Her route will be straight forward, her supply more ample, the commodity cheaper, and the risk, except the ordinary hazard of the voyage, nothing at all. Our West India planters must have some immediate relief, or be ruined; and, if it can be brought about, no method seems more feasible than the one proposed.
With respect to France, and the other nations under her controul, they have never been tried with the want of West India produce: having constantly received it by means of the neutral conveyance. What has been the result? Why, a grocer at Paris, notwithstanding the duty, sells his coffee, his sugar, and tobacco cheaper, than the London tradesman! The taste of the nation for these commodities is more general than ever, and it can no wise be the policy of its ruler to interdict the supply. If he does he loses it altogether, and the existence of her colonies in addition; for when we have thus fairly acted towards America and France, we shall in case of a refusal, have an immediate justification to pursue our own interest and stop the French colonial trade altogether.
Napoleon, however, knows better than to interdict—He will publish a manifesto against it, but his excisemen for once, will be pardoned for disobedience.
For the last 15 years, West India produce has abounded in France and upon the continent, and it would not be safe to infringe so much upon the universal comfort, as to exclude the commodity, from whatever hand it comes—more particularly, when it is introduced under the decent pretext of the American flag.
If such, therefore, be the effect of Mr. Rose's mission, and if he succeed in it, we shall deem the ministry well deserving of praise, and the hon. gentleman himself fully entitled to a pension.
One Hundred Dollars Reward.
RAN-AWAY last October from the Subscribers, living in Monroe County, two Mulatto Men, ISAAC CONNER and WILLIAM CONNER, (brothers) both very bright mulattoes. Isaac is about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high, stout and well made, is marked on the under lip with a small reddish spot, and a scar on his forehead occasioned by the stroke of a whip; on one of his feet there is also a scar made by an axe; he is 22 years of age.
Bill is 20 years of age, about 5 feet 10 inches high, also stout and active, and wore his hair in a cue of 6 or 8 inches in length. It is supposed they will attempt to get to Norfolk, as they have some acquaintances there, and were heard of in the neighbourhood of Williamsburg in company with some free mulattoes, who lives on Queen's Creek. Whoever confines them in jail so that we get them again, shall be entitled to the above reward.
John Handley, Martin Franklin.
N B Being very fair, they will no doubt attempt to pass for free men. Feb. 10 12t
BOOTS.
Elegant Hussar & Backstrap BOOTS, Just received and for Sale by Wood & Hastings, Opposite Market Square. Feb. 8.
FOR SALE,
30,000 acres valuable LAND,
situated upon the river Washita, in one of the most fertile parts of Louisiana—Particulars with regard to local advantages, situation, title, and the most favourable terms to purchasers, will be made known by application to THOMAS TUNNO, in Charleston, or MORRIS MILLER, in Savannah. Feb. 8. Jawf

BRAZIL. —The emigration of the royal family of Portugal to Brazil, will be productive of important changes in the political and commercial world, and must excite a desire to become more intimately acquainted with that country.
A gentleman, whose opportunities of acquiring information were great, and whose accuracy and intelligence enabled him to improve those opportunities to the best advantage, has favoured us with the following account of EXPORTS from BRAZIL to PORTUGAL.
   Articles. Quantities. Value in Dolls. Quantities. Value in Dolls. Quantities. Value in Dolls.     Average annual amount of exports from Brazil for five years, from the years 1770 to 1775. Average amount of exports from Brazil for 10 years, from 1775 to 1795. Average amount of exports from Brazil for eight years, from 1795 to 1803.   Diamonds, Other precious stones, Gold, coined & in ingots, 27,890 lbs. 8,146,500 90,000 Carats. 1,100,000 978,500 813,700   Sugar, white 30,800,000 lbs. 2,813,000 52,000 61,000 47,500   Muscovado, 20,020,000 1,150,000 33,990,000 lbs. 9,187,000 61,600,000 lbs. 7,819,500   Tobacco, 6,435,000 500,000 24,750,000 3,600,000 6,000,000 6,000,000   Cotton, 495,000 225,000 1,700,000 1,700,000 2,180,000 2,180,000   Dye Woods, 200,000 8,250,000 650,000 12,430,000 904,000   Other Woods, 12,000 792,000 360,000 1,760,000 800,000   Ship Timber, 65,000 280,000 351,000   Rice, 2,090,000 lbs. 76,000 22,000 19,000   Coffee, 165,000 24,000 78,000 73,500   Cocoa, 880,000 120,000 108,000 123,000   Sarsaparilla, 21,450 4,510,000 133,000   Rocou, 7,040 150,000 187,500   Spices, 30,480 35,000 65,000   Indigo, 1,035 12,800 16,000   Whale Bone, 62,700 32,480 40,000   Hides, dried 10,180 20,360 2,530 20,292   salted 83,910 251,730 90,000 75,000   Whale Oil, 123,550 32,500 37,500   Tanned hides 20,230 406,600 270,000 342,000   All other articles, 86,075 114,000 133,000   500,000 729,000   15,494,520 105,395 276,000   Exported in the same periods. To the Azores, Madeira, Africa, East-Indies,   160,000 200,000 331,000   90,000 83,000 21,000   210,500 370,000 508,500   2,700 4,100 13,500   15,957,720 18,247,505 22,466,092  
The above contains an account of articles as passed through the Custom-Houses; the force trade, or smuggling, being very considerable at all times.
* The cultivation of this article must have increased very considerably, as we are informed that 65,000 bales of Brazil cotton, each weighing 120 lb. were shipped from Portugal to France in the years 1806-7.
The ambition and injustice of Buonaparte, stimulated by his determination to ruin England, will in all probability be productive of greater advantages to his enemy, and injury to himself, than any measure which England could have projected and executed. The emigration of the Royal Family of Portugal to the Brazil, will be the foundation of another independent empire in America. A country abounding with the choicest productions of the earth, and blessed with every climate, with a wise and prudent administration, is destined to take a high station among the nations of the world. A judgment of the wealth of this country may be formed from the table of its exports, published in this paper, bearing in mind its vast extent, under a colonial, and of course a monopolizing system of commerce.
No nation will in the present situation of the world derive such important advantages from this event, as Great Britain will. Brazil tho' independent, will in a commercial view, be a colony to Great Britain, without expense. Accustomed already to the manufactures of England, which were formerly received circuitously from Portugal, Brazil will receive those manufactures directly from England, and habit, aided by political interests, will confirm and cement the connection between the two countries.
The effect which this event may have on the colonies of Spain in South, and perhaps in North America, furnishes matter of much speculation. We shall not be surprized if in a few years, the colonies of Spain, either by force or inclination are united with Brazil, the whole forming one Great Empire. The changes which Buonaparte has before this, in all probability, effected in Spain will hasten the separation between that nation and her colonies. The Spanish line of the Bourbons being cut off, the people of the Spanish colonies may consider the future king of Brazils as their sovereign, who is closely connected in blood with the Royal Family of Spain. It is not probable that a republic will be founded in South America, the influence of an aristocracy, and a Hierarchy, which the policy of Spain has established in her colonies, forbid it. But quitting these speculations, we will examine more immediate and probable effects which may be produced.
The productions of Brazil are many of them important to Great-Britain, the gold, and diamonds the most precious and valuable. The cotton, tobacco, dyewoods, indigo, and hides, will be valuable raw materials to exchange for the manufactures of England. It will not escape the attention of the American planter, and merchant, that the commerce of this country is likely to be effected in a serious degree. The hostile temper exhibited in our non-importation act, will naturally induce Great-Britain to seek customers of a more friendly disposition. The quantity of tobacco which Brazil already produces, is nearly equal to the consumption of Britain and it is certain that Brazil can produce more indigo and cotton, than Great-Britain can possibly require. The price of cotton, as the reader will observe, is about
21 cents per pound, and the quality greatly superior to our upland cotton, and some equal to our best quality. It is but a few years since, that cotton was a staple commodity of this country, a few years more, and perhaps we shall lose a customer who takes nearly two thirds of all we make.
Nothing is more impolitic than to compel a nation who is dependent, to endeavour to become independent. Our non-importation act must prove to the world that we are hostile to the manufactures of England. It would perhaps offend, but it ought not to surprise us, if Britain should lay a heavy duty on our cotton, tobacco, &c. with a view to favour those articles from Brazil, in return for certain advantages to be granted to her manufactures. Such an arrangement is more than probable.
The West-India Islands of Great-Britain can also be supplied with provisions from Brazil, and the Azores can furnish Indian corn until the cultivation of it in the Brazil becomes sufficient to cause it to become an article of export from Brazil, for no country can produce it more abundantly.
We hope, however, that a wise and liberal policy, will be adopted in this country, and in England, and that each government, sensible of the mutual advantages which would flow from such policy, will remove interdictions and restrictions which irritate for the present, and may eventually terminate in a general commercial warfare.
The new empire of Brazils affords also, another opening to American industry and enterprize, altho' Great-Britain may make some arrangements with it, immediately injurious to our interests.
Neither our private information, nor the publick papers furnish any satisfactory information respecting the negotiation now depending. The most profound secrecy prevails. We think that the continuation of the negotiation augers well. Governments like individuals, the more they discuss their disputes, the better is the chance of accommodation.
Congress had taken no measures at the date of our last information, upon the president's communication respecting the Algerine war. The report that the Chesapeake was to be provisioned immediately for six months is premature.
It is said in the political circles at Washington, that the French minister has made serious representations to our government, as the state which the French and Spanish colonies will be placed by a continuation of the embargo. We had always believed that the first complaint from a foreign power would come from that quarter. It is reduced to a certainty, that if the embargo continues long, that those colonies will be reduced to the necessity of starving, or throwing themselves into the hands of England. The commanders may have provided provisions for their troops for some months, but the people of those Islands must suffer greatly.
We are informed in a manner to command our belief, that Mr. Jefferson has lately declared his dread of the enormous and preponderating power of France—How does Mr. Jefferson reconcile this
dread, with the utter neglect of the government to place the assailable points of our country in any posture of defence? or is this recently expressed dread of the enormous power of Napoleon confined to an apprehension that, in the event of our country's subjugation, no discrimination will be made, and that all our citizens, without distinction, or reference to past proceedings, must sink into one common servitude? Pol. Reg.
LATEST FROM PORTUGAL.
Extract of a letter from a mercantile house in Lisbon, dated 29th Nov. 1807, to their correspondent in Boston.
"In consequence of the expected daily arrival of the French army in this city, the Prince Regent, Queen, all the Royal family, and most of the nobility, embarked yesterday, and sailed this morning for the Brazils. This port was declared in a state of blockade the 23d inst. by the squadron under the command of Sir Sidney Smith; the other ports of this kingdom are, however, not included in the blockade."
Americans Taxed to Pay a French Army!
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.
Extract of a letter to a mercantile house of the first respectability in New York, dated
"LEGHORN, Dec. 4, 1807."
"You will be happy to hear that an arrangement has at length taken place with the French General for the release of all goods sequestered by the commission, and the general liberation of the trade of the port, by a contribution, to be raised as a loan by the Chamber of Commerce, for 2,100,000 francs. Part of this loan, notwithstanding the strongest representations, will fall upon the sequestered goods."
"Brig Ann, capt. Caldwell, and brig Mary, captain Randle, both from New York, arrived safe at this port last evening."
Extract of a letter from Lisbon, dated November 26, 1807.
"We are sorry to inform you that on the 23d inst. this government was notified by sir Sidney Smith, commander of the British squadron on this station, that a strict blockade of the river Tagus was instituted; and that he was ordered to enforce it in the most rigorous manner. Never could this have occurred at a more unfavourable epoch; for we are not only totally unprovided with supplies of bread stuffs and other provision; but are also burthened with an increased population of 50,000 men composed of our own naval and military forces collected in this city or in its vicinity, and of the large Russian squadron lately arrived in our river. We are besides in hourly expectation of the arrival of the French army consisting of 40,000 men, which has already passed our frontiers. The concurrence of these evils would reduce us to the extremity of distress, if the blockade had been general, but it is fortunately confined to this river alone, so that we may still receive supplies by the way of St. Ubes. Our prices for all kinds of provisions will rise however to a height hitherto unknown, and adventures from the United States now on the way here, or which may hereafter be undertaken, must yield immense profit."
Should the English hereafter blockade St. Ubes, vessels may proceed for Figueira, a small port to the northward of this, about half way to Oporto, in which as well as at St. Ubes, we shall make arrangements for receiving any consignments which our friends may address to us.
   Indian Corn $ 1 40 a 1 60 per bushel   Flour 12 a 13 bbl.   Pork prime 23 a 25 do.   Beef do. 18 a 20 do.   Tar 4 a 4 do.   Staves pipe 80 a 100 per M.   bhd. 55 a 60 do.   bbl. 35 a 40 do.   White Lisbon 100 a 125 pipe   Salt at Lisbon 5 moy   at St. Ubes 2 81 do.  
"These prices are only conjectured; for since the declaration of blockade, nothing has been done.—As soon as the present consternation has a little subsided, considerable higher prices will be obtained for flour, grain, and salt provisions."
"The above are the wholesale prices on board, calculated in dollars and cents at 809 rs. equal at par to 4s. 6d. sterl. Spanish dollars cost at present 860 rs. or 1 1/2 above par. Bill on London 90 do. Ditto 64d. pr 1000 rs. or 5 1/2 above par."
MESSAGE
FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. To the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States.
I communicate to Congress, for their information, a letter from the person acting in the absence of our Consul at Naples, giving reason to believe, on the affidavit of Capt. Sheffield, of the American schooner Mary-Ann, that the Dey of Algiers has commenced WAR against the United States.—For this no just cause has been given on our part, within my knowledge.—We may expect more authentick and particular information on the subject from Mr. Lear, who was residing as our Consul at Algiers.
TH: JEFFERSON.
Feb. 9th, 1807.
MARSEILLES, 21st Nov. 1807.
SIR,
I had the honour of addressing you on the 5th of last August and 14th ultimo. This, under cover of William Lee, Esq. our Consul at Bordeaux, is to remit you here inclosed a copy of a letter, I just received from our Consul at Naples, dated the 9th instant, begging your reference to its unexpected contents.
I have already advised the American masters and citizens of the United States in my district, and am sending copies of the same to the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at Paris, and the several consuls, in order that they may take proper steps for the safety of our merchant vessels and seamen.
In haste, I have the honour to be,
With great respect,
Your ob't serv't.
(Signed) STEPHEN CATHALAN.
James Madison, Esq. Secretary of the United States, Washington.
NAPLES, 9th November, 1807.
SIR,
I have the honour to inform you, that from the report of captain Ishabed Sheffield, of the schooner
Mary-Ann, of New-York, arrived on the 4th instant in this port from America, it appears that unexpected war has taken place between the regency of Algiers and the United States.—He has declared in this consulate, upon oath, that on the 26th ultimo, he fell in within the Straights with an Algerine frigate of 44 guns, by which he was made a prize of, and which hardly, without any examination, took three men out of this said schooner and ordered her into Algiers, under the charge of 9 Turks, including a boy.—He was in their possession until the 29th, when being near the Barbary shore, he determined himself to endeavour to retake his vessel, in which he had the good fortune to succeed—having thrown four of the Turks overboard, secured four of the others by surprise, whom he embarked in a boat and kept the boy, who is now on board. He after that shaped his course for Italy, and came safe into our Mole on the 4th aforesaid. Capt. S. has further declared, that the brig Violette of Boston, loaded with colonial produce, was also taken within sight of him by the said frigate. And that he had also heard they had captured an American ship and schooner a few days before. I state these circumstances in haste to you, that you may make them known to such Americans as may arrive in port, and take such steps as you may deem most prudent for their safety.
I am respectfully,
Your most obedient servant,
In the absence and by the authority of
Fred'k Doger, consul of the U. S. A.
(Signed) J. B. DACOSTER.
Stephen Cathalan, Esq. Com. and Navy Agent for U. S. A. at Marseilles,
Documents referred to in the President's message of the 20th January, published in our paper of the 2d instant; and are letters from the Baron de Carondelet to Spanish officers, communicated to government by Mr. Clark, and a letter from Mr. C. to the Secretary of State.
TRANSLATION.
Extract of a letter from the baron de Carondelet, dated New-Orleans, July 10, 1796.
I suppose, sir, that you are now at the Bluffs, and in possession of a command which requires firmness, vigilance, conciliation and prudence, as well with regard to the savages as to the Americans; for the evacuation of that important post is not yet so certain as not to admit of doubt, at least so long as the savages remain attached to us. Besides, it is proper to keep in view that the neighbouring states, that is to say, Kentucky and Tennessee, are interested that it should remain in our power, for political reasons which cannot be trusted to paper. You must of consequence keep them in those sentiments, by treating their inhabitants, to whom the liberty of the navigation is granted, with kindness and regard. Let the friendship of the Chickasaws and the satisfaction of the Americans who navigate the river be the basis of your conduct; as for the rest I have not yet received any official news from the court concerning the treaty, which we know nothing of but through the American gazettes.
All the appearances of an approaching peace in Europe have vanished; but it is probable that we shall not have war with England. Fourteen French ships of the line, with ten thousand men, are actually to take possession of the Spanish part of St. Domingo, and France and Spain appear more united than ever. The Spanish inhabitants have lost their slaves.
TRANSLATION.
Extract of a letter from the baron de Carondelet, dated New-Orleans, 12th Sept. 1796.
In answer, sir, to your private letter of the 10th of last month, I will acknowledge to you that I was under the belief that the fort of St. Ferdinand was badly constructed, but not to the degree that you point out to me. You must, however, without augmenting the expenses which its evacuation would render useless, put it in a state to maintain yourself there until I receive new instructions from the court.
Should the court think proper as may very well happen, not to evacuate our posts on the Mississippi, I will dispatch a courier to you in all haste, that you may change the situation of the fort, which ought to be done with all diligence, and so as that it again be sufficiently intrenched to prevent its being surprised or attacked before it is in a state of defence; for this purpose I will send immediate and secret orders to New Madrid and to St. Genevieve, that carpenters, masons, &c. should instantly be sent to you, and you may also count on a reinforcement of troops, which I will send you by the galley Philapa, which I am causing to be re-built, without noise; all these dispositions, I repeat it to you, ought to be prompt and secret. I expect the answer of the court in —
If his majesty, on the contrary, should persist in that the evacuation of the forts must take place, it will be done in the most simple mode towards the commencement of January. In the mean time you must prepare the minds of our Chickasaws, and of the inhabitants of Kentucky and Tennessee, for the one or the other of these events. You ought to make the latter understand that their natural interest leading them to separate at some day (un jour) from the Atlantick states, the occupation of our posts on the Mississippi by the troops of the latter could not but be disastrous to them, since they would cut off all communication between them and us, from whom alone they could, in that case, hope to receive assistance.
Extract of a letter from Daniel Clark, to the secretary of state, dated New Orleans, March 8, 1803.
As a proof that expectations of assistance from ourselves against our own government have been always relied on by the Spaniards, and that they have constantly looked to a division of our western states from the general government, I now forward you an order to receive from Washington Morton, esq. of New York, a sealed packet which I left in his possession when I set out for Europe, and which I then mentioned I would shew you at my return, not thinking at that time that circumstances would occur so soon as to render the disclosure a measure of immediate necessity. Among other papers of less importance in this packet is a small part of the correspondence of the baron de Carondelet with the officer commanding fort St. Ferdinand at the Chickasaw bluffs, in which he suffers his plans and views to be clearly perceived, and which were solely aimed at our destruction; the remainder are, as well as I recollect, copies of talks and letters to and from the Chickasaw Indians; and, by the baron de Carondelet's letter to the officer you will perceive that

the fact I advised you of, respecting the annual pension of five hundred dollars to Uguluyabe cannot be disputed.
Should you think these documents of sufficient importance to require my presence in Washington, to elucidate any part of them, I shall immediately sacrifice all private business of my own, and hasten there; and, in the mean time, will endeavour to collect from undoubted sources such other information relative to this subject as may be acceptable.
Although for four or five years past I had a perfect conviction that the intrigues of the Spaniards with the western country were not for the time dangerous, on account of the incapacity of the governors of this province, and their want of pecuniary means; yet fearful of what might happen in future, should more enlightened and ambitious chiefs preside over it, I could not last year resist the temptation of hinting my suspicions of what had been formerly done in this way to the president at an interview with which he honoured me, and I even went so far as to assert that a person supposed to be an agent from the state of Kentucky, had been here in the end of 1795 and beginning of 1796, to negotiate on the part of that state, independent of the general government, for the navigation of the Mississippi, before the result of the treaty of St. Lorenzo was known, wishing that this hint might induce the president to cause inquiry to be made into the circumstance, which he could easily find the means of investigating; but as he made no other inquiry of me respecting it than merely in what year the thing happened, it then struck me that he must have had other information of the subject, and that he thought it needles to hear anything more about it. By great accident I have lately learned something which induces me to suppose that any information he may have received respecting the measure alluded to, has been incorrect and I request you will mention the subject anew to him, that you may know how far I am right in my suspicions. The information I possessed on the subject, could not from the way in which it was obtained, be accompanied with what would be proof to convict the person concerned, or I should have openly accused him in the face of the world; but to me it amounts to a moral certainty of his guilt, and my conduct to him showed on all occasions, how much I detested his object and his person. The same want of proof positive, sufficient to convict him, prevents me at present from naming him; but if inquiry is diligently made about the influential character from Kentucky, who at that period was so long in Natchez, and afterwards here; what his business was, and what was the idea entertained of him, enough will doubtless be discovered, to put our government on its guard against him and others of his stamp, and against all foreign machinations in that quarter in future.
From the Washington Federalist.
To the People of the United States.
The report of the committee of commerce and manufacture, in the case of W. Haslet, is a laboured apology for the embargo, and evidently intended to quiet the publick sensibility rather than the memorialist. Had this document contained no palpable misrepresentation, I should have said nothing, but look at the following sentence. Speaking of the embargo, they say,
"No charge of partiality can be brought against it, as all nations are placed on an equal footing; their vessels being at liberty to enter our ports and depart at pleasure!"
Here is a barefaced misstatement, and either the committee did not understand their own law, or they intended to deceive the people. A law of this kind no body would complain of, and it is the kind of embargo which Mr. Randolph contemplated; but it is a fact, that the law as it stands does not only prevent our own merchant vessels going out, but the merchant vessels of every nation. Pray gentlemen of the committee "explain."
It is indeed a melancholy fact, that all the important concerns of this country are either wrapt in mysterious darkness, or grossly misrepresented. The embargo and all the measures flowing from it are examples. The decree of Buonaparte and the orders of the British cabinet are instances not less in proof. The President's message of Feb. 2d is in these words—"Having received an official communication of certain orders of the British government against maritime rights of neutrals bearing date the 11th Nov. 1807, I transmit them to congress, as a farther proof of the increasing dangers to our navigation and commerce, which led to the provident act of the present session laying an embargo on our own vessels."
"TH: JEFFERSON."
Here then the President gives a sanction to the cheat of the committee, in his studied phrase of "an embargo on our own vessels" when he published over and over in the Intelligencer, that the embargo operated on all merchant vessels which might come into our ports; no matter of what nation! I challenge any man to say the embargo is confined to "our own vessels" this message and the committee's report notwithstanding. No they all know the embargo is general and it is obnoxious to the people. They know too that the mysterious manner of it has excited universal abhorrence and therefore occasions are greatly sought to counteract the impressions. Yes—these documents, the committee's report and the message, are for the eyes of the populace; whilst the "strong measure" is silently panting after the vitals of the British nation.
How far a President of the United States is bound to disclose to the community the state of our foreign relations I do not pretend to decide. But I do contend that as chief magistrate of a neutral nation, it is a violation of duty and a mockery of publick confidence, to be the apologist for French aggressions and the aggravator of the British.
The above quoted message gives truth, but by no means the whole truth with respect to the British order; and so of his message last session respecting Buonaparte's decree, with this very essential difference, that the French decree was a greater outrage yet it was not expected he said to be enforced on the Americans.
Now reader attend to a plain unvarnished tale which shall unfold the truth—The whole truth and nothing but the truth to the best of my knowledge and belief. England and France have been at War many years—The United States professed to be neutral, tho' we have carried on a commerce which France could not do for herself, to her great benefit
and to the great injury of England. Buonaparte meditating, and indeed has accomplished, the subjugation of all Europe, except Great Britain, issued a decree on the 21st Nov. 1806, declaring all the British dominions in a state of blockade, and interdicting all neutrals from entering her ports or trading in her manufactures. This decree, which has been very properly called a paper blockade, is the more outrageous, because we are the only neutral nation—because we had done France, incalculable services and gone further to assist her than the laws of nations would warrant, and because she had not one single ship that dare venture to sea to enforce the blockade. Britain, fired at a measure aimed at her own defence would be compelled to retaliate. What have we done? Remember we have a treaty with France, which expressly gives us all the advantages which this decree denies, so that it was directly in the teeth of a solemn engagement. Our great general Armstrong applied to one of Talleyrand's secretaries, who answered, that he supposed the decree would not probably be enforced against America, but referred him to Talleyrand. Whether the ambassador did go to Talleyrand, I know not, but we all know that the note of this under secretary was sent here, and the president made a message on it. We know, too, that it was rung from East to West, that we were to be exempt from the decree.
Now mark the issue—our merchants confiding in the president's opinions, sent a great number of vessels loaded as usual to the continent of Europe, by way of England for orders, and when they had all arrived, Buonaparte orders the whole to be seized, and seals put upon their cargoes, at the same time laying an embargo! Here then is the proof of French perfidy—here is the effect of Mr. Jefferson's credulity, and here is the ruin of our citizens. One single unremonstrance and withholding our supplies in the first instance, would have forced the tyrant to repeal his flagitious decree—now the mischief is done, we are courting his insolence and injustice by measures to provoke a war with England. Let us turn to the conduct of England. I have stated that the British ministry had in 1806, told our ambassador they must retaliate upon France if neutrals did not cause a repeal of Buonaparte's decree—This was at least candid—When the ports of Holland and others were blockaded by the British fleet, a great number of our vessels wished to enter them, and the blockade was actually raised to let us go in—No communication of this kindness has ever been made to Congress! It is no under secretary news and I invite an enquiry.
After waiting twelve months in vain for neutrals to negotiate a repeal of Buonaparte's wicked decree, the British have issued the retaliating order so long delayed—and what is its nature? the whole of France and her allies are blockaded, but upon liberal and generous terms—not like the trap set by Buonaparte, to invite our vessels into his ports, and then seize upon them, but that all our vessels might go free of forfeiture which sailed before the 10th of the present month—ninety days after the order issued! Here, I must rebut the boasters of the embargo, with a question to Mr. Gallatin. What, Sir, is the probable loss to agriculturalists and to merchants, by stopping their trade from the 20th December to the 10th February—and what the loss of the duties upon the return cargoes? Whatever this enormous sum may be, is chargeable to our over long sighted president, and to our congress who have acted without any sight.
After the innumerable instances of insolence—of perfidy—of crimes unparalleled in the annals of mankind on the part of France, and the open candid deportment of Britain struggling against extermination, that our government (when Mr. Jefferson has said that our safety was in the British fleet) should labour to provoke a war with England is indeed wonderful. Conjecture is bewildered—and although no man must suspect it can be the effect of corruption, no man can say where corruption has done more.
A SENTINEL.
WASHINGTON CITY, February 10.
We understand that a copy of the address of the Prince Regent of Portugal, on embarking for the Brazils, is received in this city, which we regret that we were not able to obtain for this day's paper. It is said that he has taken with him property valued at one hundred millions of dollars, of which thirty millions are in specie.
Communication. —Mr. Sawyer very strongly insinuated, if not positively asserted on the floor of the house of representatives lately, that Mr. Crowninshield's illness was owing to the hail; and another gentleman who followed him did not fail to use the intimation in his argument; now Doctor Weems, the attending physician, declares that his own colour or any other effect may with equal justice be ascribed to the representative room!!
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 9.
Several letters from Washington state, that the British frigate Statira , was immediately to return to England, leaving Mr. Rose at the seat of government. If this should prove true, it will certainly be no unfavourable augury to the negotiation.
A bill has been read a second time in the house of representatives of the United States, which proposes to give to Court Martial and Courts of Enquiry, thro' the agency of the district judge, where they may sit, the power of coercing witnesses, ect.
The Paris Argus, of December 10, contains the president's message to congress at the present session. The following are the remarks of the editor:
"We have just received American papers to the 30th October. The most important article of their contents is the message sent to congress, at the opening of its session, by the president Jefferson—This message gives the most favourable idea of the situation of the United States, and of the improvements made in the finances and policy of the country. It describes in the most lively colours, the indignation with which the outrages of the British navy have filled the breasts of the Americans, and announces a determined resolution in the United States not to content themselves with the half satisfaction which the British government offered to them, for the purpose of eluding the difficulties of the moment."
February 11.
It is said that the ship Osage , Capt. Duplex, has been taken up to carry messengers and letters to L—
Orient, in France, and Falmouth, in England—to sail on the 12th or 13th instant. She is to return via L'Orient, and will bring dispatches from England and France.
CONGRESSIONAL DOCUMENT.
LETTER
From the Secretary of the Navy, to the Chairman of the Committee on so much of the President's Message as relates to our Military, and Naval Establishments.
Navy Department, January 22, 1808.
Sir—I this day received your letter of the 20th inst. and in answer have the honour to state, that existing laws authorise the executive to employ 1425 able seamen, ordinary seamen and boys.
  The frigate Constitution requires 292   Chesapeake, 292   Ship Wasp, 120   Brig Hornet, 120   Argus, 105   929 
  Which leaves, of the number authorized by law for manning gun boats, 496   That one gun boat requires 24   That 68 gun boats (61 of which are now in actual service, and the remainder are nearly ready for service require 1,632   That the ketches Etia, Vesuvius, Spitfire, and Vengeance, (now in service) require 136   1,768 
From which deduct the number left of those authorised, by existing laws, after manning the Constitution, Chesapeake, Wasp, Hornet, and Argus, as before stated, and there is left 1272.
It hence results that, to enable the executive to man the Constitution, Chesapeake, ship Wasp, brig Hornet, and Argus, and 68 gun boats, and four bomb ketches, there are required 1272 able seamen, ordinary seamen and boys more than the number now authorised by existing laws. I have the honour to be, &c.
R. SMITH.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Sch'r Feronia, Block, 48 hours from New York. Sloop Sally, Reed, 8 days from Rhode island.—Feb. 11, in lat. 39, long. 72, spoke ship Huntress, Peck, 110 days from Batavia, bound to New York.
A Subscription is opened at the Bar of the Exchange Coffee-House, for a BALL on Monday Evening the 22d instant, to celebrate General Washington's Birth. Feb 17. 2
On Friday the 19th instant, at eleven o'Clock, will be Sold before the New Market without reserve,
6 pipes Brandy; 8 hhds. Sugar, 3 puncheons Antigua Rum; 4 pipes Country Gin, and 50 boxes Cod Fish. For all sums under 200 dollars cash, over 200 dollars approved endorsed notes at 60 days.
For Cash,
1 hhd. 8 qr. casks old Madeira Wine. S. Marks, Jun. February 17.
At my Office on Saturday, the 20th instant, at 12 o'Clock, will be sold by order of the President and Directors of the Marine Insurance Company of Alexandria, the Wreck of the
SHIP WILLIAM MURDOCK, as she lies stranded on the Middle Ground. The said ship was built in Newburyport, under particular inspection, is about two years old, 348 tons, and carries 550 hogsheads tobacco.—Terms, Cash.
William B. Lamb. tds
By virtue of a Deed in Trust, executed by Thomas Gibbons and Ann his wife, bearing date the 14th day of September, 1805, to John Patterson and Thomas Smith, to secure the payment of one thousand two hundred and two dollars and ninety four cents, with interest from the date of said deed, due Richard Billings, together with all legal costs and charges necessarily incurred by carrying the said deed into effect, WILL BE SOLD at Matthews Court-House, on the second Monday in March next, being Court Day, at Publick Auction, for ready money.
The Tract of LAND,
conveyed to us in trust by the deed aforesaid, containing two hundred and twenty acres, more or less, situate, lying, and being in the county of Matthews aforesaid, on North River, wherein the said Thomas Gibbons lately resided, and was formerly the property of Doctor Frederick W. Hearn, deceased, and by him purchased of John Hayes.
By the Trustees. tds
February 4. New SHOES from New-York.
SAMUEL COLEMAN,
Offers for Sale such as have been generally sold in retail at 9s. and 8s 3d for 7s. 6d.; those at 15s. for 13s. 6d. except of Morocco leather; Ladies' Morocco Slippers at 8s. 3d. for 7s. 6d. and in nearly the same ratio for every other kind of Shoes, where the former prices will bear reduction.
VERNON'S BOOTS,
which are well known to command higher prices in Baltimore than Boots made by any other person there—reduced to 11 dollars for fair tops, and 9 dollars for Hessian Boots, such as he himself sells in retail for 12 and 10 dollars.
BUTTER at 17 cents in nice order; a few tons of Iron; a few hundred bushels of ground Allum Salt; India Cottons; Brown Sugar, &c. &c. as low as they can be sold for a profit, for Cash. Feb. 17. tf
NOTICE.
All persons having claims against the Estate of DANIEL COOK, deceased, of Nausemond County, are requested to bring them in on or before the first day of May next; those indebted to the estate, are requested to make immediate payment, wishing to settle the estate as soon as possible.
Mary Cook, Admr'x.
N. B. Whereas Bartholomew Redmon, of Norfolk Borough, having a bond in his possession, which was given by Daniel Cook and Edward Frith, jointly, for the sum of 3000 dollars or thereabouts; Edward Frith being exonerated, and the said Redmon refusing to give me up the bond, although there is not one shilling due on account of it, I caution all persons from receiving the said bond in any way whatever, as this notice will be plead in bar against it. Western Branch, Nausemond County, February 17, 1808. tf
Postscript.
Our Paper was ready for press, when the Schooner Feronia, Captain Block, arrived in 48 hours from New-York, who has favoured us with papers, from which the most important contents are copied.
New-York, February 10.
Capt. Williams, of the schooner Sea Nymph, who arrived at this port last night from St. Croix, informs, that the news of the embargo was brought to that place by Capt. Sims, from New-York, and excited great alarm amongst the inhabitants, and that flour immediately rose from 9 to 14 dollars, and other provisions in proportion. Admiral Cochrane had gone from St. Croix to Martinique and Guadeloupe, which places he would declare in a state of blockade, and expected a reinforcement of troops to take both of the above mentioned Islands.
Extract of a letter from a gentleman of respectability to his friend in Philadelphia, dated Bordeaux, 24th Dec. 1807.
"We are in the greatest suspense about America. Three days ago all American vessels in our harbors were boarded each by three soldiers; the captains and crews were prohibited from going on shore and their ship's papers taken and kept for two days; they are however now given up; and although the claims have ceased, yet all apprehensions have not subsided. In one day 16,000 francs, (duties) were received at the Custom-House for goods in entrepot, lest American property should suffer."
February 13.
IMPORTANT.
The following important extract of a letter from Daniel Crommelin and Sons of Amsterdam, was this morning received by the editors of the New York Gazette from Daniel Ludlow, Esq. They hasten to lay it before the publick.
AMSTERDAM, Dec. 30, 1807.
"We have to inform you that this morning we received official intelligence of a proclamation issued by the French emperor from Milan, respecting the navigation of neutrals—the following are the chief heads of this important State Paper.
"Every vessel which has been visited by an English ship, or which has submitted to make a voyage to England, or has paid any duty to the English government, is by this alone declared to have become denationalised , to have forfeited the rights of her flag, and shall be considered as English property.
All vessels which thus through the arbitrary measures of the English government have forfeited the rights of their flag, and might come into our harbours or in those of our allies, or might fall into the hands of our ships of war or privateers are declared to be good and lawful prize.
"Every vessel of whatever nation she may be, or of whatever description her cargo may be, which is cleared out in the harbours of England, or in English colonies, or in places in possession of English troops or steering her course to England, English colonies, or to places in possession of the English troops, shall be considered good and lawful prize.
The British islands are declared in a state of Blockade both by Sea and Land!! The above decree is dated at Milan, the 17th December 1807.
SALEM, February 6.
IMPORTANT NEWS.
By Capt. Chase, who arrived last evening from Malaga, which he left January 7, we received the very important and pleasing information contained in the following circular.
CIRCULAR.
(Copy) ALGIERS, Dec. 16, 1807.
SIR—You have undoubtedly before this, heard that three American vessels had been detained by a frigate of this place, in consequence of the annuities for two years past, not having been sent from the United States, in naval and military stores, as stipulated by treaty, notwithstanding the amount thereof has been repeatedly offered in cash.
These vessels are the ship Eagle of New-York; Thalers from Bristol to Palermo, cargo, glass bottles; brig Violet , of Boston, J. Meret, from Oporto to Leghorn, cargo, sugar, hides, indigo, &c. and schooner Mary Ann , of New-York, I. Sheffield, master, from the Straights of Belle-Isle to Leghorn, cargo, fish. The two former have been in this port upwards of 40 days.
The schooner has not arrived, and is supposed to have made some other port.
The people on board these vessels have been treated very well, and no pillage of any kind has been committed.
I have now the honour to inform you that I have adjusted this business with the Dey, who has received the amount of two years annuities due, in cash, and the vessels are liberated, and that our commerce will receive no further molestation from the cruisers of this Regency.
I pray you will have the goodness to give this as much publicity as possible, for the benefit of all concerned therein.
I have the honour to be, Very respectfully, sir, Your most obedient servant, TOBIAS LEAR.
Wm. Kirkpatrick, Esq. Consul of the U. States of America, at Malaga.
POSTSCRIPT.
December 17, 1807.
We have this moment heard by an arrival from Leghorn, that the schooner before mentioned has arrived in Naples, having been retaken by the captain and part of the crew left on board, who threw overboard four of the captors, and put four others into the boat to shift for themselves.
I have myself received no advice of this, and on application to the Dey, who first sent me the information, he assures me that it shall not alter the arrangements made yesterday, and that our vessels may navigate without fear or molestation. At present their cruisers are all in port.
I have the honour to be, &c. TOBIAS LEAR.
A True Copy. WM. KIRKPATRICK.
Malaga, 5th Jan. 1808.

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NOTICE. The Subscribers have removed to the Ware-house, No. 6, on Newton's wharf, formerly occupied by Messrs. John D. Haldane, & Co. JENNINGS & RODDEY. January 8.
For RENT. The STORE, No. 86, Main-Street, with or without the house. Thomas Blanchard. September 28. tf
MACKINDER & WHITE, Have received from London in the ship Planter, and Nabby, from Liverpool, their Fall and Winter GOODS. The best superfine Black, Navy Blue, and fashionable mixed Cloths, Cashmere, Patent Cords, Swansdown, black silk Florentine, Gentlemen's patent silk and beaver Hats; Ladies' Trafalgar, Calabria, Buenos Ayres, and Cottage beaver Bonnets; Children's beaver Caps and Bonnets; Ladies' plain and fancy Kid and Morocco Shoes; red and black Morocco Nelson's comforts; Gentlemen's Heffian and Spanish Boots, and dres Shoes and Pumps; superior rich gold Epaulets; lace and silver Fringe; plain, tamboured, and Leno Muslin for dresses; Callienes, Chambrays, and Ginghams; rose and striped Blankets; Kendal Cottons; strong white Plains; mixed Fearnoughts; Flannels; Manchester Cords; blue and drab Plains; Dimities and Marseilles; 4-4 Irish Linens; 5-4 and 6-4 Sheetings; Hosiery; Cutlery in boxes assorted; coarse Hats do.; Nails, Window Glass, &c. The above are offered for sale by wholesale or retail, at the lowest terms for Cash or approved paper. Nov. 18. tf
REMOVAL. The Subscriber has removed to the large Fire-Proof Ware-house at the head of Maxwell's wharf, in Wide Water-Street, where he offers for SALE, 7 pipes Country GIN, 20 barrels Whiskey, 30 do. N. E. Rum, 15 hds. do. do. 50 do. Mackarel, 30 do. Shad, 150 kegs Salmon, 150 kegs Tongues and Sounds, 50 boxes Soap, 60 boxes Mould Candles, 50 do. Spermaceti do. 25 do. Chocolate, 28 do. assorted Cotton Cards, 4 chests Hyson Tea, 150 reams Writing Paper, 1 case Diapers, 150 sacks Liverpool Salt, 7 tons assorted Swedish Iron, 50 bundles Nail Rods, A quantity of coarse Woollen Goods—low for Cash. Edward Clark. Who transacts business on Commission, as usual. Jan. 1. tf
Just received and for SALE by the Subscriber, 10 hds. excellent retailing Molasses, 10 quartercasks Sherry Wine, 50 boxes superior bleached Mould Candles, 50 do. Soap, Philadelphia manufacture, 2000 wt. St. Domingo Coffee; 1000 do. best Jamaica do. 3 pipes French Brandy, fourth proof, 1 ton patent Shot; 20 bolts Russia Duck, 20 bolts Ravens Duck; a few boxes best Havana Segars, 4 pipes New-York Anchor Gin. DAVID MILHADO. January 6. tf
The Subscribers have removed to the Brick Warehouse on Merchant's Wharf, and have on hand for Sale, 100,000 W. O. hhd. drawn STAVES, 100,000 red do. do. do. 40,000 rough do. do. do. 50,000 do. barrel do. do. 10,000 pipe do. do. do. 500,000 sale Shingles; 100,000 building do. 10,000 three-tee do.; 5,000 Garden Pales, 5,000 Chinquapin and Cedar Posts. And also for Rent, A commodious WAREHOUSE. Proby, Harmanston, & Co. January 11. tf
For SALE, 75 tierces prime green Jam. Coffee, And a few puncheons 5 and 6 years old Antigua Rum; Loaf and Brown Sugar in hogsheads and barrels; a few sets Table China; fine and superfine Flour, &c. Harrison Allmand. January 4. tf
Now landing from the schooner Prudence Mary, from New-York, 17 hds. first quality SUGARS, 54 barrels prime Pork, city inspection, 70 boxes Mould Candles; 5 hds. double refined Sugar, 6 pipes Brandy; 25 reams Writing Paper, 2 trunks fine and coarse French Lace, which will be sold at a low rate for Cash. Apply at No. 1, Commerce-street to William Hull, Jun. October 16. tf
Just got to Hand, 22 chests Hyson TEA, will be sold low for cash. George Wilson. Nov. 18. tf
For SALE, by the Subscriber, 34 hogsheads WHISKEY, 50 crates Fartherwaite; 10 casks Glass do. 65 boxes 8 by 10, 37 do. 10 by 12 Window Glass, 16 groce Wine Bottles; 18 boxes Castle Soap, 1 hogshead and 5 barrels Philadelphia Loaf Sugar, 10 hds. Petersburg, 2 do. Richmond, and 4 do. York River Tobacco; 15 bales Cotton, 38 whole and 9 half tierces Rice. A. Maclure. November 13. tf
Now landing from on board the schooner Mohawk, Roger Quarles, master, from Leghorn, 120 hogsheads Bordolease CLARET, 96 casks Roll Brimstone, 100 boxes Castle Marble Soap, 50 tin boxes Saffron, 5 cases Florence Silks of all colours, a great many black, 2 hds. shelled Almonds, 100 half chests Lucca Oil, of 30 flasks, 100 boxes Lucca Oil, 12 bottles each, 3 cases Chip Hats. For Sale by William Pennock. October 12. tf
For SALE, 2 elegant Bay Horses, a complete match, 2 do. grey do. do. 1 remarkable fine bay, and one very excellent grey Horse—For which, Notes of the Bank of Newbern and Cape-Fear, or Proe Money will be taken in payment—Apply at the Office of the Publick Ledger. Sept. 25. tf
THE SUBSCRIBER Has removed to the brick store at the head of Campbell's wharf, fronting said wharf and Wide Water-street, where he offers at wholesale or retail his assortment of
Groceries and Ship Chandlery, Among which are 14 hogsheads Muscovado SUGAR, 1 do. and 6 barrels loaf do. 6 do. Antigua, Jamaica, and Grenada Rum, 3 pipes French Brandy, 2 hds. and 6 bbls Rye Whiskey, 4 barrels Apple Brandy, 1 do. Peach do. 10 bags Coffee, Imperial, Hyson, Young Hyson, and Souchong Teas, Pepper, Pimento, and Nutmegs, Madeira, Sherry, and Port Wines, London and Philadelphia Porter, English Cheese, Bar Iron and Castings, Nail and Spike Rods, German Steel, Powder and Shot, Tar, Pitch & Turpentine, Paints and Oil, black and bright Varnish, Canvas and Cordage, Nails and Spikes. Also just received, 20 boxes Lemons, 12 half bbls. Beef Tongues, 20 kegs Tongues and Sounds, 40 kegs and 2 bbls. Salmon, 5 bbls. Mackarel, 15 cases Sallad Oil, 1 cask Currants, 10 boxes Olives, Capers and Anchovies, 6 dozen bottles Cayenne Pepper, 3 do. do. Pickled Peppers, 30 boxes Soap, 20 boxes Candles, 50 barrels Alexandria superfine and fine Flour. John D. Haldane. July 31. tf
For RENT, And possession given the 1st of Jan. next, that commodious three story brick DWELLING HOUSE in Church-street, at present occupied by Mr. Barth. Redman. And a convenient two story DWELLING HOUSE , with a fine extensive garden, in the Fields near Smith's Point, at present occupied by Mr. Stratton, possession of which may be had the 1st of January—Application to be made to Wm. Plume & Co. Nov. 18. tf
For SALE, 5 cases only of superior PIGEON-EYE CHAMPAIGN. Apply to the Editor of this Paper. Dec. 16. tf
Baltimore Baker's FLOUR, of superior quality, for family use, for sale by T. & W. A. Armistead, Nov. 18. tf Campbell's wharf
WOOD & HASTINGS, No. 76, Main-Street, Have just received an additional supply of Staple and Fancy GOODS, Among which are Black Silk Velvet; Tabby, do.; Black Silk Florentine; Silk Handkerchiefs; do. Fancy Shawls; Convex Navy Buttons; fashionable Coat do.; a variety of French Goods; 2 trunks Cambric Muslins; 2 cases Linens; 2 bales Cotton Checks; 1 do. Gill Handkerchiefs; 5 do. India Cottons, assorted, some very fine for Shirtings; a variety of Woollens. They have also on hand a general and extensive assortment of WOOLLEN GOODS. Every description of fancy Muslins and Dresses; Velvers; Constitution and President's Cords; Dimities; Carpets; Hosiery, &c. &c. On consignment, just received, Hussar and Backstrap BOOTS; Ladies' Kid and Morocco Shoes; Mens' coarse do.; coarse and fine Hats. The above GOODS will be sold at very reduced prices for Cash, or undoubted credit, by wholesale and retail. December 11. tf
The Subscriber offers for Sale at his Store in Market-Square, 20 hogsheads W. I. RUM, 10 pipes Cogniac Brandy; 5 do. Country Gin, Sugar—Brown and Loaf, by the barrel or hogshead, Tea—Imperial, Hyson, and Young Hyson—Also, A parcel of DRY GOODS, Consisting of Woollens, Calicoes, Hats, and Hardware. In addition to the above, he intends keeping a constant supply of PORK and BEEF. Bread—Pilot, Navy, and Ship, of the first quality—Families may be supplied with small quantities of Pilot Bread, of a superior quality. Cordage of any size or description for negotiable notes or West-India produce. Any orders for the above articles, will be complied with at the shortest notice. Cary Selden. Nov. 23. tf
For SALE, 73 punch. choice Antigua RUM, 30 do. Grenada do. 600 bushels CORN, 50,000 drawn White and Red Oak STAVES, 60 barrels Pork. George Wilson. November 4. tf
For SALE, Imported in the Galliot Fortune, captain Norton, from Teneriffe, 100 pipes and 90 hds. L. P. Tene-riffe WINE, of superior quality. Apply to Phinehas Dana. September 28. tf
Coarse Liverpool SALT, For Sale on board the Ship Courtney, capt. Bryant, lying at my wharf. Apply to William Pennock. September 16. tf
Liverpool Blown and Cadiz SALT. Landing from the ship Planter, and for sale at the subscriber's, at a low advance, A PARCEL OF Woollens, Bed Ticks, Hosiery, and other GOODS. Thomas Blanchard. September 28. tf
NOTICE. I am again compelled to solicit all those indebted to the estate of PHILIP COLLINS, deceased, to make immediate payment, as no longer indulgence can be given. Jane Collins, Admr'x. December 9. tf
WANTED for the Ship Sheffield, A CARPENTER; also, two young LADS, from 14 to 15 years of age, as apprentices, not to go in the cabin or to cook. Apply to Josiah Cowper. December 9. tf
For SALE, 4000 bushels Ground Allum SALT, And a few well assorted crates of EARTHENWARE. George Murray, & Co. December 7. tf
Leather, Cordage, and Loaf Sugar. The subscriber will hereafter expose for Sale at his Ware-house on Campbell's wharf the above Articles, of the manufacture of Norfolk, at reduced prices for Cash, or on short credits only. Theo. Armistead. He will sell or lease for a term of years, the STORES at the end of Marsden's and Rothery's wharves. Feb. 20. tf
Just received and for sale by the subscriber, from New-York, 4 half pipes 8 qr. casks old London particular Madeira WINE; 20 dozen Old Port do. 20 kegs Beef Tongues; 50 kegs Salmon; 50 do. Mackarel, 30 do. Tongues and Sounds; 20 do. Lard, 20 bbls. Whiskey; 10 hds. N. E. Rum; 100 boxes Candles. Also—100 barrels Flour afloat. CARY SELDEN. December 2. tf
At Private Sale, By S. MARKS, Jun. Corner of Commerce and Water-street, 10 hds. Antigua, 12 do. N. E. 50 barrels do. RUM, 30 hds. and 20 barrels Sugar; 10 pipes Country Gin, 8 pipes Cogniac Brandy; 150 boxes Mould Candles, 0 boxes Spermaceti Candles; 4 bales striped Blankets, 3 bales Blue Duffs; 1 do. fine Cloths; 2 do. blue Plains, 3 do. Rugs; 1 do. Check Shirts, 34 do. Tickenburgs and Oznaburgs; 2 do. Heffians, 1 trunk Matras Handkerchiefs. October 24. tf
One Thousand Acres of LAND FOR SALE, or would be bartered for property in Norfolk. It adjoins the tract on which Grenville Court-House stands, in North-Carolina, and is commonly known by the name of Newby's Ferry. For particulars inquire at the Ledger Office. January 26. tf
Just received for Sale, 25 qr. casks Gordon's old Sherry Wine, 20 boxes Hyson Tea, 30 do. superior quality Young Hyson, 12 pipes Holland Gin, 20 do. Country do. Mackinder & White.
For SALE at my Brew-House, Strong, Table, and Ship BEER, by the hogshead, barrel, and half barrel—and a constant supply of bottled PORTER in packages and by the dozen. And in Store, Wines, Liquors, and Groceries, wholesale and retail. Joseph Hayes. Feb. 13. tf
For RENT, The DWELLING-HOUSE on Granby-street, belonging to captain Victry, next door to Robert Boush, Esq.—possession will be given on the first day of January next. For terms apply to Alexander Wilson. December 18. tf
First quality Jamaica COFFEE, Just received and for Sale, 77 tierces and 24 barrels prime Green COFFEE. James & Thomas Tucker. December 28. tf
Thomas H. Parker, Offers for Sale, His Great-Bridge MILL, newly fitted up to run two pair of stones.—The advantages of this mill are very great, only ten miles from Norfolk, and situated on a never failing stream; although she works at present only two pair of stones, yet the stream affords an abundant supply for ten pair.—Also, a MILL (known by the name of Bell's-Mills) about two miles farther, now in complete order, running one pair of stones and two faws.—This Mill is supplied with water from very extensive swamps, and in wet season very plentifully; at this place there is a fine, the situation of which, for a lumber store, is equal if not superior to any in that part of the country—This Mill can be supplied with excellent timber from a tract of land only one mile distant from it, which the subscriber also offers for sale. This tract contains between 5 and 600 acres, almost entirely covered with timber; the soil, the subscriber confidently believes, is not inferior to any in the lower part of Virginia.—Any person purchasing this Plantation would have the benefit of a reed swamp within three miles of it, in which any number of cattle may be kept fat during the whole winter. October 5. tf
Received per schooner Traveller, from Boston, and for Sale, By EDWARD CLARK, 10 tons small, flat, and square Bar Iron, 100 bundles assorted Nail Rods. Nov. 18. tf
200 boxes Mould CANDLES, 30 half boxes brown Soap, 10 boxes white do. 60 bags Coffee, 5 tierces do. prime green, 4 hogsheads and 10 barrels loaf Sugar, 12 do. Muscovado do. 10 quarter casks old Sherry Wine, 2 bbls old L. P. Madeira do. 3 hds. Red Port, 50 do. retailing Molasses, 15 crates well assorted Queen's Ware, Country Rum and Gin in hds and pipes—For Sale by Phinehas Dana. June 8. tf
For RENT, A commodious small DWELLING, with all suitable out-houses and a good garden, pleasantly situated on Smith's Point. Possession may be had on the first of November. P. Barraud. October 5. tf
For RENT, The Store, Compting-Room & Cellar, at present occupied by Mess. Wood & Hastings, no. 50, Main-street. Apply to Thomas Willock. August 24. tf
At the Old CUT-NAIL Manufactory, corner of Main and Church-streets, the subscriber keeps on hand constant supply, and can furnish at short notice, any quantity of
Nails, Flooring Brads and Sprigs, At the following reduced prices, by the Keg—for cash only, viz.— 8, 10, 12, and 20d Nails and Brads at 7 1-2d lb. 6d. Nails, 9 1-2d 4d. do. 2s. 9d. m. or 11d 3d. do. 2s. 3d. or 12d Sheathing, do. 7 1-2d 6d Sprigs, 4s 6d per M. 6d. do. 2s 9d 2d. and 3d. do. 2s. 3d He offers also for cash only— HOOP IRON ASSORTED. Thos. Seaman.
For RENT, (And immediate possession given,) The Brick-House, Store, and Cellars, at the corner of Gilbert's Lane, on Main-street, near the market, an excellent stand for a Dry Good or Grocery Store. Apply to Niemeyer & Von Kapff. December 28. tf
NOTES OF HAND, according to the new form established by the Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, for sale at this office.
NOTES for the Virginia Bank; Checks; Bills of Lading, and of Exchange, printed on paper of superior quality; and Shipping Articles on large paper, and approved form. LEDGER OFFICE.
Phoenix Fire Office. The Subscriber, Agent to the PHOENIX ASSURANCE COMPANY , of London, for the State of Virginia, begs leave to inform the publick, that he is now fully empowered to subscribe Policies of Insurance for property against Fire throughout the United States of America, in conformity to the Proposals herewith subjoined. N. B. FORTY THOUSAND DOLLARS can be insured in one risk on Buildings and their contents, and also on Ships and their Cargoes on board, in the First Class, but in all cases where Ten Thousand Dollars are exceeded, a special agreement must be made with the Agent, and an increase of premium added to those mentioned in the proposals, of not less than one eighth per cent. on the whole sum insured. Richard Taylor. September 8. tf 157
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, Opposite the Exchange Coffee-House. Price Six Dollars yearly, in advance.