Berkeley and Jefferson intelligencer (Martinsburg, Va.), 1805-08-02 00:00:00

Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer.
[No. 11 of VOLUME VII.]
FRIDAY, August 2, 1805.
[WHOLE No. 323]
THE subscribers, having completed one session at the Academy in Charles-Town, being conscious that no means have been knowingly omitted which were thought necessary for the improvement of the youth under their care, and having the satisfaction to hope from the great increase in the number of Pupils, that their endeavours have met with approbation, most respectfully inform the public, that they have entered on another session, and have engaged an assistant.
The prices for Tuition, exclusive of 50 cents for the winter session from each scholar for firewood, and 12 1/2 cents each session for keeping the building in order, are as follows:
  Reading, Writing, and common Arithmetic,  2 50 per Qr.    The highest parts of Arithmetic, including the Branches of Mathematics,  4 00    Grammar, Composition, Geography and the use of the Globes, and the Latin Greek and French Languages,  4 00    The money to be paid at the end of each quarter.
As the greatest order and good understanding has hitherto subsisted, they have no doubt but every thing will progress conducive to the well-being and credit of the Seminary, and they are determined (if possible) to increase their zeal and activity in a cause of so much importance to the happiness of individuals, and the good of society. At the conclusion of the last session the number of students of both sexes were 79, and the present having commenced with a considerable addition, must be circumstances which they humbly hope will give pleasure to the founders of the Academy, and encourage them to continue their patronage and support to the institution.
LEVI HEATH, FRANCIS TILLETT.
July 26, 1805.
STRAYED from the subscriber's plantation near Martinsburg, about the last of May, an Iron Gray MARE, about 3 years old, with a small white mark in her forehead, is between 13 and 14 hands high, branded with the letter V on the near shoulder, and has never been shod. One dollar reward and reasonable expenses will be paid to any person who will return said mare, or give such information that I get her again.
ABRAHAM VAN METRE.
July 26, 1805.
Public Sale.
WILL be sold at public vendue at the late dwelling plantation of Mrs. Margaret Evans, dec. at the Big Spring, about two miles from Martinsburg, on the 15th of August next, a Negro Woman and Child, Horses, Cows, Sheep, Hogs, Household and Kitchen Furniture, Farming Utensils, a Waggon and Geers, one Still of 120 gallons, and a number of other articles too numerous to particularize:—A reasonable credit will be given. Terms will be made known on the day of sale. The sale will begin about 9 o'clock.
EPHRAIM EVANS, Ex'r.
WILLIAM BENTLEY, Adm'r.
July 26, 1805.
Patterson's old Mill.
THE subscriber has got the above Mill in complete order for the reception of Wheat or any other Grain. He will manufacture Wheat as it has heretofore been done at said Mill, and will be responsible that all Flour manufactured by him shall pass inspection if safely carried or delivered at the ports or places of inspection—In case of condemnation, a certificate from the inspector mentioning the cause thereof, together with the brands and marks of the barrels, will be necessary before the difference can be made good.
ROBERT CHRISTY.
July 26, 1805.
NOTICE.
WAS taken up as an Estray by the subscriber living on the Potomac River, in Hampshire County, Virginia, on the 7th June 1805, a flea bitten Gray HORSE, supposed to be 20 years old, near 14 hands high, cat hammed, bad footed, a scar or navel gall on the hind part of his back, paces generally, apparently crest-fallen; appraised to eleven dollars. The owner is requested to prove property, pay charges, and take him away.
ISAAC WORTHINGTON.
July 26, 1805.
Messrs. Samuel Craig, Anthony Kennedy, and Patrick Campbell, take Notice,
THAT on Saturday the 24th day of August next, between the hours of six o'clock in the morning and six o'clock in the evening of the same day, at the house of Col. David Hunter, in the town of Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia, I will take the depositions of said Hunter, William Riddle and James Faulkner, to be read in evidence upon the trial of a suit in Chancery, depending in the Court of the said County, where I am complainant, and you, as trustees of Tabb & M'Affry, Michael M'Kewan, James Faulkner, and Richard M'Sher-ry, are defendants.
I am,
Yours, &c.
JOHN O'FERRALL.
Martinsburg, July 26, 1805.
SIX CENTS REWARD.
RAN away from the subscriber about the 7th instant, an apprentice boy named Thomas Hazlewood, 20 years old last winter, is about 5 feet 8 inches high, has dark hair, and is slim made; had no clothes with him, but those he had on, which were of coarse home made stuff. The above reward will be given (but no thanks) for returning him.
EDWARD SOUTHWOOD.
Berkeley County, July 26, 1805.
Public Sale.
WILL be sold at public vendue on Wednesday the 7th day of August next, (on the premises) the plantation on which the subscriber now lives, situate on Opeckon creek, six miles from Martinsburg, containing 85 acres of good land, about 75 of which are cleared, the balance in excellent timber. The improvements are a convenient Dwelling House, good Barn, Stables, Corn House and other necessary buildings—an excellent Apple orchard with a variety of other fruit trees, and a Well of good never-failing Water near the house. The sale will begin about ten o'clock, when the terms will be made known.
ABRAHAM VAN METRE.
July 26, 1805.
Lewis & Robert Willis,
Have just received and are now opening
a variety of
SPRING and SUMMER
GOODS.
Selected from the newest and most fashionable importations, together with a general assortment of
Queen's Ware, Glass Ware, Hard Ware, Saddlery & Cutlery.
They have also on hand,
  Imperial,  French Brandy,  Wines.    Hyson,  Sherry,    Hyson Skin,  Port &    Souchong & Bohea,  Lisbon,    Holland Gin,  N. E. Rum,     Rye Whiskey, & Apple Brandy,  Crowley and Blistered Steel, &c. &c.   
All of which they are determined to sell unusually low for Cash, or approved of Country Produce. They are with much respect, the public's obliged and humble servants.
Martinsburg, April 12, 1805.
Shepherd's-Town, July 19. MARKET REGULATIONS.
WITH a view to encourage the industrious part of the community to expect a fair, ready, and equal sale of all such articles as may hereafter be brought to the Shepherd's-Town Market, by making it necessary for the inhabitants of said town to attend said market, it is expressly enacted by the Trustees of said town; That no article shall be sent out of the Market-House, within the market hours, on any pretence whatsoever, unless the purchaser of said article, or some person for him or her, shall have made his or her appearance in the Market-House in the course of the morning. And in case any article shall be sent out of the said Market-House, contrary to this act, it shall be the duty of Mr. William Eaty, the sworn clerk of said Market and his successors in office, to seize the said article or articles as forfeited by the infraction of this law, and to sell the same for the highest price he can obtain; and the money arising from all such sales, shall be by him paid into the hands of the treasurer, to be appropriated towards lessening the taxes of said town. Markets are held on Wednesdays and Saturdays as usual, and it is expressly enjoined on the clerk of the Market, that he cause strict attention to be paid to the market hours, which are, from fair day light to 8 o'clock, from the first of April to the first of October; and from fair day light to 9 o'clock from the first of October to the first of April. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the 25th instant.
By order of the Trustees,
JOHN NEARSLY, President.
Teste,
R. WORTHINGTON, Secretary.
RAN away from near the White-Post in Frederick County, on Sunday the 28th of April last, a
Negro Man, named John,
about 18 years of age, he is about 5 feet 8 inches high, stout made, and has a remarkable scar on one of his cheeks occasioned by a burn, had on a dark coloured cloth roundabout, lead coloured casimere pantaloons, and an old wool hat. Twenty Dollars Reward will be paid for apprehending and returning said negro to the subscriber, or securing him in jail so that he gets him again.
SAMUEL DUNAWAY.
July 5, 1805.
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Public Sale.
ON Friday the 2d day of August next, will be exposed to public sale at the late dwelling house of the Rev. Richard Swift, dec. all the personal property of the said deceased, consisting of Horses, Cows, Hogs, Sheep, and a quantity of Household and Kitchen Furniture. Six months credit will be given on all purchases amounting to more than three dollars, the purchaser giving bond with approved security. The sale will begin at 9 o'clock, when due attendance will be given by
LEWIS B. WILLIS, Adm'r.
July 19, 1805.
Twenty-Five Dollars Reward.
WAS stolen from the subscriber on the 30th of May last, in Hampshire County, a handsome, double cased silver Watch, there was no number or maker's name on the inside plate, but number 14 was on the end of the stem; it had a handsome chain of pinchbeck metal gilt, a white glass seal with the letter F on it, a straight key with a small blue stone set in it. Thomas Mason, the person who stole the said watch, was at work at Mr. James Wright's, in Berkeley County, on the 7th inst. when he had the said watch in possession. Whoever will deliver the thief and watch to the subscriber shall have the above reward and reasonable expenses, or four dollars for the watch.
ROBERT WILLIAMS.
Hampshire County, July 19, 1805.
Mill to Let.
THE subscriber will rent her Merchant and Grist MILL, formerly occupied by Samuel Moore, in sight of Martinsburg. Possession may be had the first of August next.
ANN HUNTER.
July 19, 1805.
Cheap Goods.
THE subscriber has just received from the City of Philadelphia, and is now opening a large supply of remarkably Cheap Goods, consisting in part of 4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens, 100 pieces elegant Chintzes and Calicoes of the newest patterns, 1 trunk Fashionable Muslins of different kinds, a handsome assortment of Dimities and Leghorn Bonnets, 4 bales India Muslins, Nankeens, Apron Checks, a handsome assortment of best Brussels Laces and Edgings, extra Long Silk Gloves, and a variety of other articles.
He has also received a large supply of
BAR-IRON and CASTINGS.
English Blister'd and Crowley STEEL;
Also—A parcel of good old WHISKY, distilled in Maryland.
The above Goods having been chiefly purchased for Cash, on the lowest terms, I am happy to inform my friends and the public generally, that I am now enabled to supply them, with such Merchandise as they may want, on good terms.
THOMAS C. SMITH.
Martinsburg, May 10, 1805.
TO BE RENTED,
IF not privately disposed of before, to the highest bidder, on the 14th day of December next, if fair, or the next fair day, three TENEMENTS, two and a half miles westward of Charles-Town, Jefferson County; viz. the first supposed to contain 345 acres, the second 125 acres, and the third 90 acres.—For terms apply to
GEORGE S. WASHINGTON, Near the premises.
July 19, 1805.
Fresh Fancy Goods.
THE subscribers beg leave to inform their friends and the public, that they have just received from Philadelphia, and are now opening a very extensive assortment of
Nice Fashionable
GOODS.
Consisting of
Elegant Damask Silk Shawls, Laced Cambrick ditto, Pic nic Gloves and Mitts, Fancy laced and plain Cambrick Muslins and handsome Dimities, Artificial Flowers, Leghorn and Willow Bonnets, Handsome plaid Silks, Chintzes and Calicoes, Ladies Morocco and Kid Slippers, Germantown Prints, &c. &c.
Have also on hand,
Hugh & John Long's prime SICKLES, Waldron's Cradling and Grass Scythes, Cerman ditto and Cutting Knives—BAR-IRON, CASTINGS and STEEL, All of which they are determined to sell uncommonly cheap for cash.
They have a large quantity of WHISKY and APPLE BRANDY, of excellent quality, which is offered for sale on low terms.
SELBY & CROW.
Shepherd's-Town, June 21, 1805.
A variety of BLANKS for sale at this Office.

THE CLAIMS OF THE BRITISH WEST INDIA COLONISTS.
To the right of obtaining necessary supplies from America, and of employing the necessary means of effectually obtaining those supplies under a limited and duly registered intercourse, stated and vindicated, in an answer to Lord Sheffield's Strictures.—By G. W. Jordan, Esq. F. R. S. colonial agent for Barbadoes.
POLITICAL economy, it seems, like religion, has its bigoted as well as its rational professors; and examples of each kind are afforded by the parties who now demand our consideration. So closely attached is Lord Sheffield to the navigation laws that he will allow no deviation from them, however imperiously required by circumstances; and the dictates of policy, or the calls of humanity, or the pressure of famine, are in his mind scarcely adequate excuses for any departure from the rigid enactments of our marine regulations. His lordship had censured the Dutch property act, the repeal of the American countervailing duties, and the admission of American shipping into our West India Islands, under licenses severally granted by the privy council here, and by the respective governments of the islands abroad. Mr. Jordan, however, triumphantly combats the views of the noble lord on all these points. The first two, indeed, are now merely events of past history; but it should seem that Mr. Jordan was of opinion that it would facilitate his success in debating the latter point, if he showed that, in matters of like import, lord S. was not entitled to the credit which previous reputation had a tendency to secure to him, but that on the contrary his ideas were confined, and that he laboured under prejudices which materially misled him.
In order to comprehend the third point in dispute we must take a brief historical view of it. Mr. Jordan informs us that various articles, of which the colonies are in want, cannot be supplied by Great Britain, among which are those of the first necessity; and the American states, when subject to Great Britain, were accustomed to furnish these commodities to the West India islands; that they were principally conveyed in American bottoms; that the purchasers paid for them in produce; and that, when the American war broke out, the colonies, debarred of this important traffic, were reduced to extreme hardships. When peace became re-established, the necessity of a renewal of this intercourse between the islands and the American main land was universally felt and admitted; and accordingly it was allowed and regulated by the 28th of the King. In passing this statute, the legislature took it for granted that the circuitous voyages of British ships; vessels furnished by the colonies which still remained in England, and such as the islands themselves would build—would be fully adequate to the transport of the American supplies; and it therefore enacts that these goods shall be imported solely in British bottoms. The expectation has completely failed; so that, from the date of the statute to the present time, licenses sanctioned by parliament have been issued by the privy council here, and by the several governments of the islands, dispensing with its provisions, and allowing the admission of American vessels, in order to prevent the inhabitants from starving, and to supply them with materials to enclose the produce which was to be conveyed to the mother country. The legislature, in passing the before mentioned act, recognized the necessity of the intercourse between the islands and America, and had no idea of shackling it by directing an inadequate mode of carriage; but that the mode which it did establish was wholly inadequate, the experience of more than ten years demonstrates. Nothing can more strongly prove this fact, than the regular issue of licenses dispensing with the provisions of the statute during the whole of that time. The council at home is above suspicion; and the governors abroad, as is here shown, exercise the power under a very serious responsibility.
'I know,' says the author, 'the case to have occurred, when during the continuance of war, and whilst Great Britain, in extreme distress, had opened her ports to all ships, and paid bounties upon all species of corn and grain, and upon Indian corn among the rest, drawing thus from the colonies all means of supply, instead of sending them any, that
letters of the strictest and harshest tenor were received by the chief of a colony respecting the admission of American vessels, and holding out in prospect the dangers annually indemnified against, although the colony was at that very time in a state of the greatest distress, and many whites and negroes had actually perished of famine, or of diseases which famine had provoked. At this very period supplies of flour, embarked in this kingdom for the colonies, were by order actually relanded and retained.'
Lord Sheffield is here shown to have censured the licenses, without stating the urgent circumstances which rendered them absolutely indispensable. It is also proved that he charges the merchants and planters with seeking an unlimited intercourse with America, while they only solicit that the wisdom of the legislature should provide effectual means for carrying on that restricted communication, without which the islands cannot subsist, and which Great Britain has hitherto allowed.
Mr. Jordan is anxious not to entrench on the claims of the parent state; he acknowledges her right to monopolize the whole trade of her colonies, and all its appurtenances, imports, exports and carriage; but if from choice or necessity, she abandons any part of this commerce, as in the case of the present instance with regard to the more heavy articles required by the colonists, she ought either to leave them to supply the defect in their own way, or else should effectually make this provision on their behalf.
The British government sanctioned the intercourse, but it provided an insufficient channel for it; and when the legislature had granted such permission, shall it be a reproach to the planters and merchants to require that without which the grant is ineffectual, that without which they must have died of famine, and the produce have perished for the want of the means of package? Yet it is such a dispensation with the requisition of an imperfect act of parliament which the noble lord so strongly censures. It is not a dispensing power, as opposed to a regular and established law, that forms the burden of his lamentation, but the existence of the dispensations in any shape: yet the real situation of things proclaims that the islands would have been depopulated, and their produce wasted, if the act of parliament had been as he desired, rigorously enforced.
It is here justly observed that if Great Britain allows a colony to carry on a branch of commerce with another state, it ought to be governed by the same policy with that which regulates the like intercourse on the part of the mother country. Now Great Britain allows goods to be imported in its own shipping, and in that of the state of which they are the produce; the principal navigation laws are therefore founded in national reciprocity, and it would be impossible to pass more strict navigation statutes, seeing that they effect other states as well as the state enacting them. In our traffic then, with another nation, the ships of that nation and the ships of this country indifferently import the goods belonging to that nation.
If we place a colony in the same situation with regard to a branch of commerce, it is natural that the same rule should be observed; namely, that the goods imported should be brought indifferently in the shipping of Great Britain, or of the colony, or in the shipping of the country whence they are derived.
Mr. Jordan, who views his subject in all its bearings, rightly remarks that another state is a party in this matter; that we must legislate with her in view as well as ourselves; and that we ought to observe the reciprocity which is consulted in the chief navigation acts. We may enact that we shall export or import in colonial or British bottoms between the colony and America, but America will have a right to complain of the want of reciprocity, and most probably will not fail to exercise that right. The colony, quoad this particular traffic should be regarded as identified with the Metropole; and the same rule should direct the intercourse with foreign states.
It is also a very important observation of this author, that if in peace we supply the colonies with American articles in British bottoms, the conveyance of the same articles in time of war in American bottoms will be, on our own construction of the law of nations, a contraband trade, and be liable by lawful capture by our enemy; whereas by acting on the provisions of our leading marine statutes, that is, by admitting American produce (to the extent limited by the 28th of George III.) to be brought indifferently in English or American bottoms, the colonies in time of hostility
will, in regard to necessaries and other essential articles, be put out of all hazard. We trust that considerations so ably stated, and so temperately urged, will not long fail of producing the desired end, namely, an act which would effectually secure to the colonies the benefits contemplated by the 28th of the king, but to which it has proved utterly inadequate.
If the colonial intercourse with America is confined to its legal limits, and Mr. J. observes that such is the vigilance of the revenue officers, that there can be no apprehension of this not being done, it ought to be regarded with satisfaction rather than jealousy; since it can only grow in proportion to the great carrying trade with England. It is he tells us, as little the interest, as it is the duty of the West India proprietors, to wish that this valuable monopoly should be invaded. On the part of himself and his constituents, he renounces any intention of directly or indirectly diminishing this grand source of British wealth; and on the contrary he contends that the necessary regulations which he recommends, if once fixed on a legal and unchanging basis, would materially increase the consignments to the parent state. For the particulars of the detail into which Mr. Jordan enters, we must refer our readers to his very able and instructive pamphlet.
Assured of the present victory the author invites his adversary to a fresh contest—and since the point which the noble lord is solicited to discuss, possesses interests not merely as a subject on which political polemics may try their skill and knowledge, but claims our notice in various other respects, of incomparably greater importance, we shall record the challenge on our pages—not so much from the hopes of occasioning a literary tournament in which the present champions will take the lead, as in the more gratifying expectation of calling the attention of various good judges, and of the government, to a topic which strikes us as being of the utmost consequence.
Over the remaining heads of recapitulation, as already disposed of, I hasten that I may supply your lordship with matter for further consideration, and with other subjects of strictures, I wonder that the free ports of the West Indies have escaped your lordship's animadversion. These are ports established for the purpose of carrying on a trade in which none but foreign vessels are or can be employed. I introduce this subject, not merely for the information of your lordship, but for the purpose of drawing the attention of government thereto. Here is indeed, a formidable invasion of the navigation and colonial systems of the empire. Yet I introduce this subject for the express purpose of recommending to government to extend these principles and practices now applied, and obtaining in only particular cases and situations, to the general and permanent establishment of a trade, not limited to ports and places, but to be limited to all the British West India islands and colonies.
It is possible to open a South American trade, as well as that of North America, which without any respect to the nature of the shipping employment, shall by a due enumeration and restriction of the permitted articles, of exchange or carriage with perfect safety, and propriety, increase indefinitely the British import, export, and carrying trade, of the West India islands.
These islands are so disposed along the coasts, or stretched across between the principal points of South and North America, that access to them from both the continents may at all times be had by the simplest and cheapest species of navigation. The approach of British vessels to the continent of South America is partially or totally forbidden by the great European powers who possess it. Under these circumstances, British vessels cannot be used in the intercourse with it. Great Britain therefore, of necessity indeed, but with her accustomed wisdom, has opened certain ports in the colonies to vessels of these foreign countries, in order that they may bring the enumerated articles she desires to obtain, and that they carry the enumerated articles she wishes to dispose of, or such as are necessary to support the trade. The first enumeration contains articles of territorial produce of that part of the continent, and bullion among the rest; the other consists of goods of British manufacture, or import, or articles of territorial produce of the islands. Great Britain does not upon this occasion consider her navigation and colonial systems, as not at any time, upon any occasion, or under any circumstances to be invaded. She looks to the objects and purposes of those
systems. She wants raw materials; she wants markets for her various articles of manufacture, commerce, and produce; she wants encouragement and extensive employment for her shipping. By neglecting all consideration of the use, as militating against her navigation and colonial systems, of these petty vessels, which serve to associate her islands with the continent, she obtains all the objects of those systems, materials, markets, and increased carriage. The ports of her islands become the ports of the continent, and these vessels are only as the port vessels and lading droghers of other countries. British ships carry to, and bring away from the islands the commodities laden in, and unladed from these vessels, and neither their employment or their numbers is to be contemplated or calculated upon by Great Britain, but as proofs of the extension of her own commerce and proper navigation.
Instead, therefore, of a port in Grenada, a port in Dominico, two in Jamaica, one in Tortola, one in the Bahamas, it might upon these principles well be recommended to Great Britain, to extend the provisions of the Free Port Acts to all the islands, or to the custom house ports of all the islands. It might further be proposed, by enlarging and combining all the principles and practices which alike prevail in the West India intercourse with the northern and southern portions of America, to form one general, simple, and consolidated system, that should connect them all, which should embrace and comprehend the present enumerated articles of import and export between the whole continent and the islands, and permit between them the employment, jointly with British ships, of one decked vessels, of all the countries growing the commodities imported into the islands. I submit the proposal to the severity of your lordship's strictures, I suggest it for the consideration of ministers.
In this view of the subject what is there to be objected against North American vessels of this description, that will apply to the Spanish launches of South America, and what is there to recommend the droghers of Oronoko, and of the river of Amazons, that will not also favour the sloops and schooners of the Delaware and the Chesapeake? they are all but as the country boats of all the other nations of the world, employed wherever our commerce extends, to bring to and deposit in ports of access, commodities for use or for transport. They are auxiliary and subservient to the great traders of the deep who may pass by them with their woven wings without jealousy or envy.
I again most seriously and earnestly recommend to his majesty's ministers, to establish a general American intercourse with all the British West India colonies upon these general principles, and I do not hesitate to say, that if Great Britain still continues to refuse the employment of these petty vessels, for these purposes, and in the manner proposed, that she sacrifices, and continues to sacrifice her navigation, to her navigation and colonial systems.
If we have been taught, at an immense expense, to think justly on the subject of colonies, and we have exploded the notion of a right of taxing them, we ought to have regarded the attempts to tax foreign states as scarcely less impracticable, or less unjust. As this is an error which, like the fatal one before committed, is calculated for popularity, we insert the able exposure of it by the pen of Mr. Jordan:
Unfortunately during the late war an idea was taken up, against all principles of political wisdom and public justice, to tax foreign nations, by retaining part of the drawback, upon the re-exportation of sugar from Great Britain. This was a great breach of parental faith, on the part of G. Britain; it was a great breach of justice thus to take away a portion of the accidental profits of commerce which they only are honorably entitled to, who risque at all times equally the loss and the profit. Like all other great violations of principle, this also was attended with consequences directly, indirectly, and remotely injurious to all whom it affected. One of the remote and indirect consequences was, an attempt made for the first time, in the ports of the colonies, to establish those distinctions between the exports to the United States, in British and American vessels. Sugar and coffee were either absolutely prohibited to American vessels, or limited to specified portions of their return cargoes. Considerable impediments to the obtaining supplies or necessaries were thus vexatiously created and perpetuated, and great inconveniences sustained. Not among the least

was the considerable drainage of specie, complained of in all the colony. American vessels are compelled either to leave, a particular colony without dealing, or they draw out from amidst the population of the country, those last portions of gold or silver money which, retained amidst the ranks of society, by all the principles and energies of political existence and combination, yield only to the most powerful actions, and like the last portions of moisture which give form and solidity to natural bodies, are only in the extremest cases separated and carried off. The specie thus obtained was immediately laid out to purchase without restriction, return cargoes of produce among the foreign islands, to their great encouragement, and to the considerable vexation and injury of the British colonists. This drainage of specie was attended with considerable loss, not only to the planters, but to government also, in the article of exchange. From a considerable per centage, and in our market where the money point of exchange is fixed at forty per cent, government could frequently only get twenty-five per cent, or a smaller percentage on the bills she was obliged to sell for the purposes of maintaining her establishments. This certain loss, considerably overbalancing any contingent interests, deserves the attention and regulation of government.
This unprincipled and abortive attempt to tax foreign nations, by importing among them commodities loaded with domestic duties, was at length abandoned. Something like a better system has succeeded. Regulations have been formed, according to which, although at times and under increasing portions of the drawback on sugars may be retained, yet, in compensation for this, it is with some apparent fairness provided, that in other cases a bounty shall be superadded when the prices fall beyond a certain point. There is, indeed, in the ascending scale of bounties but one solitary step of compensation, whilst in the descending the drawbacks are diminished through many and various degrees of decline, into total extinction. All assurance also is suspended, as to the permanent benefits of this argument by its limited existence, and consequent dependence upon uncertain opinions, and upon political events and combinations yet more uncertain.
From discussions of this sort, all questions of finance ought upon principle to be excluded. Whatever sacrifices commerce may make to navigation, she should make none to revenue.
Readers who prefer instruction to amusement will set a high value on the present pamphlet; and the superior orders of persons will discern in it much of that accuracy and precision which men of scientific views and habits sometimes happily introduce into the treatment of subjects on which moral probabilities are alone concerned. We take leave of it with the acknowledgement that it has highly gratified and instructed us; and we cordially recommend it to the attentive perusal of all who are possessed of either commercial or political influence.
Latest FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
PHILADELPHIA, July 6. By the unremitting attention of our New-York Correspondents, we are in possession of a file of London papers to the 26th May, from which we make several extracts for this day's Gazette.
The London papers are nearly filled with remarks respecting the Toulon Fleet, the reports of the rout of Lord Nelson; the mauling conduct of the Rochefort squadron in the West-Indies; and the debates in Parliament on Lord Melville's case; but we have found and copied several articles which will interest the American readers:
"A Courier arrived at Vienna on the 7th May, with dispatches contradicting the report of a treaty of Alliance having been concluded between England and Russia."
"The Dey of Algiers is said to have declared war against Spain."
"The news of the sailing of the Brest fleet is contradicted—Their late movements was a mere feint, intended to prevent the British from sending a reinforcement to the West-Indies."
"It appears that the British are contracting for an immense quantity of shipping for the conveyance of Russian troops. A proposal has, it is said, been made in the north of England for 40,000 tons."
"There was a considerable degree of alarm in Ireland, on the 15th of May, in consequence of an apprehension that the Toulon and Cadiz squadrons intended to make a descent on that country."
BOSTON, July 17.
War with Tripoli. —A letter from Malta, of April 19, says preparations for the Tripoline Expedition were then making with great activity. A vessel had been dispatched with military stores for the claimant of the Bashawship, who was to be enabled to attempt to regain his rights, and was to attack Tripoli by land, while the American squadron bombarded it from the sea. The united effort against the hostile usurper, the present Bashaw, was probably made in June.
A letter from Antigua, says, "You have doubtless heard of Lord Nelson's being off this place, in pursuit of the combined fleet. Various conjectures of the destination of the French and Spanish fleet are afloat;—some say for Trinidad, others Jamaica, others Europe, others the Mediterranean, &c. I doubt much Nelson's overtaking them; if he should, notwithstanding he has but one arm and one eye, and but about half their force, he will, I doubt not, give his usual good account of them. It is said the combined fleet have dispatched vessels in various directions, to meet and board American vessels, to give them false accounts of their course, &c. for the purpose of leading Nelson astray, as by similar means he was led up the Mediterranean; and he, it is said, is going directly to the English channel, should he not fall in with them, presuming it is their object to unite in the threatened invasion of England, &c. Should the combined fleet, by false reports, induce him to leave the West Indies, they will, it is said, return here again and attempt the capture of our islands; in the mean time I should not be surprised if, to avoid Nelson, they should approach your southern coast, and even anchor in Hampton Roads! Should they return, however, we shall be every way prepared to chastise their temerity. I have thus given you our reports, &c. and leave it to time to substantiate them, or to do them away."
By the ship Belvidere, capt. Shenk, from Liverpool.
LONDON, May 25.
An officer of one of the ships lately captured by the Bold gun brig gives a most formidable account of the number of the enemy's flotilla in the ports of Bologne, Vimereaux, Eastaples, Calais, Ostend and Dunkirk. He swells the total amount to 5000; is confident that the attempt at invasion will be made this summer; that the French fleet will come out and fight ours, and that whilst they are fighting us with their ships of the line, their large frigates will release the flotilla from the different ports, and convoy them to our shores. The number of men encamped on the Bologne coast is fifty thousand.
NEW-YORK, July 26.
FOREIGN NEWS.
Selected from London papers to June 6.
LONDON, June 3.
Of Adm. Cellingwood's progress or destination we are still uninformed. He sailed with sealed orders, which were not to be opened until he reached a certain latitude.
The Spaniards, it appears, are still very active in all of their ports, and expect to take a very active share in the war. It is stated that the fleet from Carthagena, of six ships of the line, sailed from Carthagena on the 27th of April. We have no certain accounts where this fleet is gone unless it be to Cadiz, and no intelligence of its passing the Straights has yet been received.
A disorder nearly resembling the plague of Turkey in its symptoms and mortality, lately broke out at Oujem, the capital of Scindea, and it is stated to have carried off seventy thousand persons in the course of a few days. The principal inhabitants fled from the city on the first alarm, and the troops at length refused to perform the duties of the garrison, and marched into the country, whither it is feared they may have carried the distemper. At the date, however, of the last accounts it was understood that the fever confined its ravages to Oujem, and its immediate vicinity.
June 4.
Lord Gardner's fleet consists of twenty-eight sail of the line, which were left all well on Thursday last. Eight or nine of the ships are three deckers. His Lordship is now able and will shortly be made so, to send a detachment off to any of the southern ports of France, or the coast of Ireland, as may be required.
LIVERPOOL, June 8.
Considerable bustle is excited by the
late movements in the harbour of Bologne. The enemy have made some demonstrations, as though part of the flotilla was meant to be sent out, and great activity is observed among the troops on shore. This has called for additional vigilance in our cruisers, and the force on this station is to be immediately and considerably augmented. The Dutch ports are also watched with additional attention.
PLYMOUTH, July 20.
Schooner Miles Standish, Capt. Davis, arrived this day from Lisbon, 48 days passage. Captain Dulton came passenger and is the bearer of dispatches for government from Mr. Munro, respecting the negotiations between Spain and the United States. Mr. Munro, had left Madrid, the negotiations having been broken off. Capt. Dulton proceeds on to Washington immediately.
SALEM, July 23.
French and Spanish Fleet. —By the account brought by capt. Frye it appears that the combined fleet, on the last of June, had made a good progress in their passage across the Atlantic. At the same time we hear nothing of the pursuing British fleet.
Capt. Frye informs, that our squadron of Gun Boats had arrived safe at Gibraltar.
MARTINSBURG, August 2.
Yesterday afternoon four persons were killed by lightning on board a small vessel in Ocaquay creek, near the mills—one of them belonging to this town, Mr. Isaac Janney; two others resided at and near the mills, Messrs. Robert Lindsey and Beckwith Koepfer; the fourth a black man. We understand, just as the vessel was getting under way, they stepped on board to sail about two miles for pleasure, and had not been there more than five minutes before they met their untimely end.
[Alexandria D. Adv. of July 18.]
SELECTED TOASTS,
for the 4th of July.
The following toasts were drunk at Sheffield (Mass.) under the discharge of cannon; [Farmer's Museum.]
The Constitution of the United States —In the hands of its enemies, stabbed and bleeding: Heaven grant that its wounds may not be mortal.
The memory of our beloved Washington and Hamilton —Hand in hand they established our independence and liberty: May their spirits be the guardian angels of our country.
John Adams —His name will ever animate the festivals of American freedom.
The President of the United States —We must submit to the powers that be.
Judge Chase, and the honest Senators of the United States.
The American Eagle —By our economising administration, degraded to take roost on a gun boat.
THE BIRTH DAY OF FREEDOM.
A N O D E.
Sung on the 4th of July, at the celebration of American Independence, by the young Federal Republicans of Boston.
[Written by one of the company.] Tune—HAIL COLUMBIA.
SONS of Freedom! Hail the day, Beaming with the golden ray Of LIBERTY our Fathers won; The Liberty our Fathers won; Who say'd their land with Blood and toil,
And gave to us to reap the soil. Let haggard care be banished hence, Fective joy exalt each sense; Every breast with pleasure glow— ADAMS bids us keep it so.
CHORUS.
Youthful patriots join the lay, Hail our Freedom's Natal Day, Let our sires enraptur'd see, Like themselves we WILL BE FREE!
Louder strike the thrilling lyre, Let the patriotic fire In every throbbing bosom glow; In every throbbing bosom glow?
Freedom's Birth-Day claims our joy And shall our noblest strains employ, We'll ever hold the Heav'n born day Sacred to each jocund play, Festive revel, pomp and show; ADAMS bids us keep it so.
Youthful Patriots, &c.
INDEPENDENCE! loud proclaim, Through the brazen trump of fame: To Heaven let the notes aspire, To Heaven let the notes aspire, And martyrd Heroes join the song, While echoing spheres the strains prolong.
A Nation celebrates her Birth! Gladness, pleasure, joy and mirth, With our goblets here shall flow; ADAMS bids us keep it so.
Youthful Patriots, &c.
WASHINGTON'S immortal name, Highest on the list of fame. Let all revere, and shout his praise. Let all revere, and shout his praise. He bade unjust oppression cease, Obtain'd us Liberty and Peace. And while we celebrate on earth The joyful day that gave them BIRTH, He approving looks below; Smiles to see us keep it so.
Youthful Patriots, &c.
ADAMS! Patriot, Hero, Sage, Next on Glory's brightest page, Who didst our barque in safety guide; Who didst our barque in safety guide; Retir'd, thy grateful country prays That peace may gild thy future days. Bestow thy blessing while we join, On this day round fair freedom's shrine For whose birth libations flow; THOU hast bid us keep it so.
Youthful Patriots, &c.
Yet we pause, and drop a tear; These who bought the prize so dear, And gave their lives in Freedom's cause, And gave their lives in Freedom's cause, Deserve the tribute due to all That in the cause of virtue fall. But they're in bliss and from above, Smiling with celestial love, View with joy their sons pursue Freedom, Fame and Virtue too. They will sanction what we vow! Make the Oath; they hear us now; Heaven! we appeal to thee; Like our sires, WE WILL BE FREE!
Lands to Rent.
TO be leased several valuable Lots in Maidstone Manor on the Potomac river in the county of Berkeley, about 5 or 6 miles above Williams Port, containing from 150 to 300 acres; on one of these is an excellent situation for a Distillery, with wood very convenient. If application is shortly made, it is probable the present tenants would seed the fields on reasonable terms. No person need apply who has not a sufficient force of his own to cultivate and keep the Tenements in proper repair. For terms apply to the subscriber on the premises, who has also 16 or 18 Lots to let in Patterson's-Creek Manor, in the county of Hampshire.
RAWLEIGH COLSTON.
August 2, 1805.
FOR SALE, A HOUSE and LOT, on Martin Street, adjoining Spring Ally; also a HOUSE and one Quarter of a Lot, fronting on the said street. On the first mentioned Lot are a number of bearing Fruit Trees of different kinds. The said Lots are near a well of good water, and would suit particularly well for tradesmen. The terms will be made known by inquiring of the subscriber. JOHN GOOSEMAN. Martinsburg, August 2, 1805.
REMOVAL.
THE subscribers respectfully inform their customers and the public in general, that they have removed their Store to that well-known Corner House, just at the end of the Market-House, and immediately opposite Mrs. Juliana Eckhart's tavern, where they are opening in addition to their former stock a variety of
New Goods.
They have also just received a large quantity of home-made LINEN (fine and coarse,) ditto twilled BAGS, clean FLAX, &c. They continue to keep coal and upper LEATHER, BAR-IRON, crowley and blistered STEEL, PAINTS, patent and other MEDICINES, &c. &c.
All which they offer for sale remarkably cheap.
JAMES & JOHN LANE. Shepherd's-Town, July 10, 1805.

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FOR SALE, A PLANTATION, containing a- bout 180 acres, about 100 of which are cleared; there is a convenient Dwell- ing House and Kitchen and a good Barn on the premises; near the House is a Well thirty feet deep, which never goes dry when kept clean; on one part of the Plantation there is a large and excellent Spring.—The Land is of a superior qual- ity; it lies on the road leading from Martinsburg to Boyd's Ferry, and is about six miles from the former place.— For terms apply on the premises, or to the subscriber in Martinsburg. IGNATIUS PRICE. January 25, 1805.
More Fresh Goods.  JUST received, and are now opening, a large and general assortment of Summer Goods and Groceries, which, in addition to his former supply received this spring, makes his assort- ment at present very general, all of which will be sold unusually low for cash. Also, HERRINGS of the Bal- timore inspection by the barrel, and a quantity of H. & J. Long's and Z. Burns' noted SICKLES, Waldron's Cradling and Grass SCYTHES, &c.  He has also for sale, some handsome Bear-Skins, for Trooper's Caps and Holsters. JAMES FAULKNER. Martinsburg, June 14, 1805.
SUMMER GOODS.  THE subscriber has just received and is now opening, an elegant assortment of MERCHANDIZE, suitable for the present season, which he takes the liberty of offering to his friends and the public in general uncom- monly cheap, consisting in part of the following articles, and a number of o- thers too tedious for insertion:  Dowlas and Ticklingburgs, Russia Sheetings and Drillings, Brown Holland, 9-8 Irish Sheetings, 4-4 and 7-8 Irish Linens, 10-4 Damask Table Cloths, 4-4 and 5-4 Diaper Linen, 9-8 and 12-8 Apron Checks, Fustians and Jeans, Nankeens, Cotton Hosiery, Mersailles Vest shapes, Silk and Cotton Suspender, Umbrellas, Fashionable Chintzes and Calicos, Low priced ditto, Coloured Cambric Muslins, Low priced ditto, Dimities, uncommonly cheap, 12-8 Damask Silk Shawls, Extra long pic nic silk Gloves, A variety of elegant Laces and Edg- ings, low priced, Lutestring and coloured Satins, Ribbons, Book and Yaconet Muslins, Morocco and Kid Shoes, A large assortment of Extra and Ha- bit Silk Gloves.  THE above mentioned articles are of a superior quality, and to be had at very reduced prices. The subscriber has also received a complete assortment of  Groceries and Hard-Ware;  He has Waldron's Grass and Cradling Scythes, Moiland and Grum Creek Whet Stones. He assures his friends and cus- tomers generally, that he will sell those articles on very accommodating terms, and begs leave to solicit their custom as usual.  WARRANTED Bolting Cloths, Superfine, Common and Midling, of the first quality, for sale on the usual terms. PHILIP NADEBOUSCH. Martinsburg, June 7, 1805.
BERKELEY COUNTY, ss. June Court, 1805. MICHAEL M'KEWAN, Complainant, vs. GEORGE LINDENBURGER, Defendant. In CHANCERY.  THIS day came the Complainant by his Counsel, and it appearing to the Court that the defendant is not an in- habitant of this Commonwealth, it is or- dered that the defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in August next, to answer the complain- ant's bill, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer and continued 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. Attest. DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.  BERKELEY COUNTY, ss. June Court, 1805. Daniel M'Kenney, Comp't, against Samuel Woods, Def't. In CHANCERY.  THE Defendant, Samuel Woods, not having entered his appearance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Commonwealth, on the motion of the Complainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said De- fendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in August next, to answer the bill of the Complain- ant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berkeley and Jefferson Intelligencer, for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County.  A Copy. Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
FOR SALE, Pursuant to the last will and testament of Robert Creighton, dec'd, a valuable Tract of Land, Lying in the County of Berkeley and State of Virginia, three miles from the town of Martinsburg, on the road lead- ing to Williamsport, eighty-five miles from the City of Baltimore, seventy-five from the City of Washington, and eigh- ty miles from the town of Alexandria— containing six-hundred acres, one half cleared and under good fence, the ba- lance well clothed with timber: There are on said land a number of never fail- ing springs, and a sufficient quantity of Meadow: This Tract would suit well to be divided, as there are two Dwelling Houses, two Double Barns, and two Orchards of choice Fruit. It lies five miles from the river Potomak, the nav- igation of said river is now completed, produce may be conveyed down the river to the City of Washington and to the town of Alexandria at a small expense. For terms apply to William Riddle, of the town of Martinsburg. A good title will be made the purchaser by WILLIAM RIDDLE, and WM. CREIGHTON, } Ex's.  BERKELEY COUNTY, ss. February Court, 1805. Robert Kennedy, Executor of Thomas Kennedy, deceased, Comp't against Daniel Kennedy and others, Def'ts. In CHANCERY.  THE Defendant Daniel Kennedy, not having entered his appear- ance agreeable to an act of Assembly and the rules of this Court, and it ap- pearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that they are not inhabitants of this Com- monwealth, on the motion of the Com- plainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in August next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berke- ley and Jefferson Intelligencer, for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County. A Copy.  Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
BERKELEY, ss. June Court, 1805. William Stuart, Comp't against Josiah Raymond, Tunis Newkirk, Geo. Newkirk, Reuben Newkirk, Samuel Swearingen, Gideon Goss, Joseph Wallingsford, Thomas Cox, Rignal Butt, Henry Holman, Adam Myers, Bazil Cross, Baldry Butt, William Bennett, Richard Morelatt, Abraham Morelatt, sen. George Lanchart, John Grove, James Likens, Nathaniel Linthicum, Cornelius Simmons, George Filson, John Strode, Jer- emiah Strode, William Godman, Pe- ter Seaburn, William Seaburn, David Harris, John Lamer, Jacob Hoover, John Harrison, James Warren, John Smith, Edward Mercer, Rignal Green, Joseph Foreman, Christopher Parrott, Thomas Cox, John Randall, Anthony Turner, Robert Burns, John Jones, Thomas Shepherd, Aar- on Farthing, Joseph Ingle, George Mason, Jacob Comegis, John Butt, Frederick Imhoof, Swearingen Ray, Lewis Wisenall, and Jacob Smurr, Defendants. In CHANCERY.  THE Defendant, Josiah Raymond, not having entered his appear- ance agreeable to an act of Assem- bly and the rules of this Court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court, that he is not an inhabitant of this Com- monwealth, on the motion of the Com- plainant by his Counsel, it is ordered that the said Defendant do appear here on the Monday after the third Tuesday in August next, to answer the bill of the Complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in the Berke- ley and Jefferson Intelligencer, for two months successively, and published at the door of the Court House of the said County. A Copy.  Teste, DAVID HUNTER, C.B.C.
FOR SALE, Two likely Virginia-born Female SLAVES. one sixteen the other eighteen years old. They have been accustomed to house and out work. Apply to the Printer. June 28, 1805.
CHEAP GOODS.  The subscribers beg leave to inform their friends and the public generally, that they have just received and are now opening a large and general assort- ment of MERCHANDIZE , among which are the following articles, viz.  FANCY laced and plain Cambrics, Pink, yellow, blue, black and drab do. Lawns and Linen Cambrics, Cross barred, striped, Jaconet and Book Muslins, Striped, corded and Cambric Dimities, Lutestring, Sattins, Moats & Persians, Chintzes, Calicos and American Prints, Ladies and Gentlemens elegant embroi- dered Hose, White and coloured ditto, Pantaloon ditto, Pink laced, pink and black, picnic, En- glish and French extra Silk Gloves, Kid and Fawn ditto, 7-4, 6-4, and 5-4 elegant Damask Silk Shawls, A variety of Silk, neted Cambric, Book and Jaconet ditto, Scarlet, chocolate and blue Bandanae Hankerchiefs, Flag, Maddrass, Catty, Longee and Pullicat ditto, Silk, Linen and Cotton Romals, with a variety of Pocket and other Handk'fs, Green, blue and dove Silk plush Bonnets, Leghorn ditto and Boards, Wreathes, Artificial Flowers & Feathers Sattin, Lutestring, Saracenet, striped & cross-bar'd Fancy Ribbands, Kid, Morocco, Stuff and Leather Slip- pers, Silver and Ribband Ornaments, Superfine Broad Clothes & Cassimerees, Sattin, Mersailles, and Fancy-figured Janes Waistcoating, Coloured wide and narrow Nankeen, Cotton Cassimerees. A large assortment of coarse Muslins, such as Burboon Gurrabs, Jallapore and Janna Lawns, and India Baftas, Irish, German and British Linens fully assorted, Striped Bed Ticking and striped Linens, Linen and Cotton Checks, Madeira, Sherry, Port and Malaga Wines, 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, French, Peach and Apple Brandies and good old Whisky.  A complete assortment of Groceries— Hard-Ware and Cutlery, among which are Andvills, Visis, Cross-cut and Mill Saws, Scythes, &c. &c. Spinning Cotton and Flax—  All of which articles were selected with the greatest care, from the latest impor- tations, and are now offering for sale at the most reduced prices, for Cash or Country Produce. MORROW & BROWN. Shepherd's-Town, May 24, 1805. [6w]
European & East India GOODS.  JUST received and now opening by the subscriber, an extensive variety of the Latest Improved Fashions, of su- perior quality, well assorted and select- ed from the present Importations; also a general assortment of HARDWARE and GROCERIES .—All of which he highly recommends to his friends, cus- tomers and a liberal public, at the most reduced cash prices. Impressed with sentiments of gratitude for the flattering encouragement he has heretofore experi- enced in his line of business, all friends and customers will please to accept his best respects. JEREMIAH EVANS. Martinsburg, May 24, 1805.
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