Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1805-03-01 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLIC LEDGER.
VOL. I.]
FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 1, 1805.
[NO. 98.]
WHOLESALE PRICE-CURRENT.
NORFOLK, FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1805.
   ARTICLES. per From To Remarks     BACON lb. 12 14   Beef, cargo bbl. 9 10   Prime 10 50   Mess 13   Brandy, Sp. 1st p. gal. 80 85   2d p. 87 90   3d p. 96 1   4th p. 1 10   Fr. 5d p. 1 1   4th p. 1 15   Peach, 90 1   Apple, 75   Bread, Pilot 100lb. 8   Navy. 5 5   Ship 3 3   Butter, Export. lb. 22 25   Candles, Dip 17 18   Mould 23   Sperm. 65   Coal, English bus. 25 None   Virginia 25   Cocoa, Island 100lb. None   Carcacas None   Coffee, W. India lb. 30 33   Cordage, Country 100lb. 14   Foreign 10 11   Cotton, Geo. Upland lb. 20   Sea Island None   St. Domingo None   Surinam None   Duck, American bolt. None   Ravens 14 15   Russia 20 21   Holland 22 24   No. 1 to 7, English 34 40   Flour, Superfine bbl. 12 12   Fine 11 50   Middlings 7 50   X ditto 10   Fish, Cod, dry quin. None   Herrings bbl. 4 4   Shad 6 50   Fustick ton. 40   Gin, Holland, 1st p. gal. 90 95 Plenty   N. E. 1st p. 70 75 Plenty   Grain, Wheat bus. None   Corn 1   Barley 42 None   Oats   Hemp, Russian ton. 275   Hides, Dried lb. None   Hog's-Lard 11 12   Indigo, Florent None   N. Orleans None   Iron, Pig ton. None   American ref. 120 125   Russia 160   Logwood, Bay 60 65   Camp. 70 75   Lead, Sheet 100lb. 14 15   Meal, Kiln-dried bbl. None   Mahogany, Bay sq. feet   St. Dom. 12   Molasses, gal. 54 60   Peas, Black-eyed bus. 1 2   Pepper, lb. 19 20   Pimento, 16 18   Pitch, bbl. 3 50   Pork, Cargo 12   Prime 14 50   Mess 16 50   Raisins, cask. Dull   ditto, box. None   Rice, 100lb. 5 50 Indem'd.   Rosin, bbl. 4   Rum, Jamaica, 4th p. gal. 96   Antigua, 3d p. 92 95   St. Croix, 3d p. 90 92   W. Island, 3d p. 64 66   Country,   Salt, St. Mart. bus. 80   Turks Island, 35   Isle May, 66   St. Ubes, 55 60   Cadiz, 80   Liverpool, 11 12   Soap, Brown, lb. 25   Castile,   Sugar, Muscovado, 100lb. 9 12   Hav. Brown, 11   White, 14 50   Shingles, Cyp. 22 in. M. 3 3   18 in. 3   Staves, W. O. hhd. 38 30   pipe 50 70   hhd. head 30   do. red oak 18 20   Tar, bbl. 2 50   Tobacco, Richmond, 100lb. 7 6   Petersburg 6   Rappa, 4 50   Potomack, None   Tallow, Russia, lb. 10 12   American, 14 16 Scarce   Turpentine, bbl. 3   Wax, Bees, lb. 30 35   Wines, Madeira, pipe. 250 350 Plenty.   Lisbon, gal. 1 1 Scarce   Teneriffe, 1 1   Sherry, 1 25 Plenty   Port, pipe. 160 220 Scarce   Malaga, gal. 1 1 Scarce.  
Premiums of Insurance on American Property.
   To Great-Britain, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain, without the Straits of Gibraltar. 3   France, Holland, Bremen, and Embden, 4 4 1-4   In the Mediterranean, - - - - - 4 4 1-2   Madeira, Canaries, Azores, and Cape de Verd Islands, - - - - - 3   British and Neutral Windward Islands from Barbadoes to St. Thomas - - - 3   Jamaica and Honduras, - - - - - 4 1-2 5   Porto Rico, - - - - - 3   Havanna, - - - - - 3   Cape-Francois, (unarmed) - - - - -   Ports in the Bite of Leogane, - - - - -   Ports on the South side of St. Domingo, Persia, India, and China, - - - - - 4 1-2 5   Coasters, - - - - - 1 1-2 2  
Prices of Stocks.
   Virginia Bank, 6 dolls. per share, advance.   Norfolk Marine Insurance Company, shares 60 per cent. advance.   United States Bank, 550 dolls. per share.   Exchange on London, 1 per cent. under par.  
FOR CHARLESTON, (S. C.) The fast sailing packet Sloop FRIENDSHIP , Capt. Oldrige. Will sail in a few days. For passage only, (having excellent accommodations) apply to the Master on board at Campbell's Wharf.
For Sale on board said vessel,  25 Barrels RICE. February 27. 2* 455
I WANT TO CHARTER,  A good tight VESSEL, Of about 1500 to 2000 bushels, to load for Charleston.  JOHN C. NIEMEYER. Feb. 27. 3t 458
I WANT TO CHARTER,  A BRITISH VESSEL, of about 200 tons burthen, for Europe.  MOSES MYERS. February 25. tf 453
FOR ALEXANDRIA, THE SCHOONER ANNE, Captain Jackson, Will sail on Friday. For freight or passage, apply on board at Maxwell's Wharf, or to JAMES WALLACE. February 25. 3 449
Now landing on Commerce-street Wharf, from on board the Schooner Columbia , from Martinico, 7 Hhds. } Sugars of 1st quality. 16 Tierces } 7 Barrels } 14 Hogsheads MOLASSES —offered for sale by PHINEHAS DANA, & Co.
The said VESSEL will take freight for any Port in the neighbourhood of Edenton, N. C. February 22. 446
FOR FREIGHT, (To Lisbon, or Oporto,) THE SNOW MARY, O. Rich, Master:— Burthen 160 tons, a staunch good vessel. Apply to the Master on board at Newton's Wharf, or to WILLIAM PENNOCK. February 18. tf 436
FOR LONDON, The new fast sailing ship MEDFORD, Josiah Barnard, Master:— Will sail by the 21st instant. For passage only (having good accommodations) apply to the Master on board, or to MOSES MYERS.
WHO OFFERS FOR SALE, 1000 Barrels Superfine FLOUR. 100 do. Fine do. February 15. 421
LANDING On Town Point, out of the Schooner Sarah , from Guadalupe, 78 Casks GREEN COFFEE. 40 Hogsheads Clayed and Muscovado SUGAR. For sale by ROBERTSON & BROWN.
ON HAND, OF OTHER IMPORTATION. Jamaica and St. Vincent Rum. Cognac BRANDY. Madeira WINE , old and fit for immediate use. 5000 Bushels Coarse SALT , a-float.—Which will be sold low, taken from a long-side
A FREIGHT For a fine Coppered Ship, of 200 tons, is wanted for a port in France. Apply as above. February 15. tf 426
FOR SALE, FREIGHT, OR CHARTER, The fine fast sailing Brig EDWARD & CHARLES, Edward Pettigill, Jun. Master:— Burthen 150 tons or 1500 barrels—about two years old; will be ready in two days to receive a cargo.—For terms apply to the Master on board, or to PHINEHAS DANA & Co.
WHO HAVE RECEIVED Per said vessel from St. Thomas, and offer for sale, 2500 lbs. Prime GREEN COFFEE. 10 Tons FUSTICK. 2 do. LOGWOOD. February 15. tf 428
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The Schooner VICTORY, Ebenezer Leacock, Master:— Burthen 120 tons, a staunch strong vessel.—For terms apply to the Master on board, or to PHINEHAS DANA & Co.
WHO OFFER FOR SALE, RECEIVED PER SAIL VESSEL FROM SALEM, 18 Hogsheads, } N. E. RUM. 4 Barrels, } 10 Tons PLAISTER PARIS. 120 Small Kegs SOUNDS & TONGUES. February 13. tf 416
NOW LANDING From on board the Ships Juno and Courtney , from Jamaica, 250 Hogsheads RUM. For sale by WILLIAM PENNOCK.
WHO OFFERS FOR CHARTER, THE SHIPS JANE , of 417 Tons.  JUNO , of 260 do.  COURTNEY , of 200 do. All ready to receive cargoes. January 21. tf 358
A vessel of to about 150 200 tons burthen is wanted on Charter, for Jamaica.  JOHN GRANBURY. February 18. tf 434
FOR SALE, (if applied for in three days) The fast sailing Schooner PHOENIX, Now lying at Newton's wharf, burthen 100 tons, and only one year old. Apply to the master on board, or William Pennock.
WHO OFFERS FOR SALE, 50 Tons PLAISTER of PARIS, on board said schooner. December 5. 269
FOR CHARTER, THE AMERICAN SCHOONER THOMAS, Burthen 800 Barrels. In complete order to receive a cargo.  C. & F. WHITTLE. February 13. tf 410
THE Commissioners in a Commission of Bankrupt, awarded and issued against JOHN COWPER & Co. do hereby give notice, that James Howat, Francis S. Taylor, and John Davidson , late Assignees of the Estate and effects of said Bankrupts, have been discharged (at their own request and desire) from being Assignees, and that James Tucker , is appointed Assignee in their stead, and that the said Bankrupt's Debtors, are not to pay their Debts to the Assignees removed. February 13. tf 414
NOTICE. ALL Persons indebted to the Estate of JOHN COWPER & Co. are called on for an immediate settlement. Suits will be issued against all Debtors to the Estate, (who refuse to comply with this request) in ten days from this date.  J. TUCKER. February 13. tf 413
NOTICE. ALL persons indebted to the Estate of CORNELIUS CALVERT , Esq. deceased, are requested to make immediate payment; and if any persons should have any claims, they are requested to bring them forward, properly attested, and they shall be paid by JAMES TUCKER, Executor.
WHO WILL RENT Some Warehouses on Calvert's Wharf, or will receive Goods on Storage, on the most moderate terms. February 13. 5 411
BUTTER FOR SALE BY PHINEHAS DANA & Co. February 11. tf 403
BEING desirous to close my LUMBER BUSINESS, I will sell the remaining Stock I have on hand, on very moderate terms:—Consisting chiefly of a general assortment of Scantling. Also, an excellent large new Lighter. Those that are indebted to me for Lumber, or otherwise, are requested to make immediate payment, as no indulgence can be given.  JOHN STRATTON. February 11. tf 405
FRESH RAISINS.  A FEW FRAILS OF FRESH RAISINS AND FIGS. For Sale by MARTIN FISK. January 11. tf 536
INTENDING to place my property in the hands of Trustees, for the purpose of securing to my Creditors the most equal distribution of it, and being desirous of giving my Trustees as little trouble as possible, I request all persons having accounts with me, to be prepared for an adjustment of them, on or before the tenth of March next.  FRANCIS S. TAYLOR. February 18. 432
AN APPRENTICE WANTED TO ATTEND  A Wholesale & Retail Dry Good Store, a Lad of about 16 years of age, honest, and industrious, of a good education, and genteel connections.—None need apply without solid recommendation.—Inquire of the Printers. N. B. One from the Country would be preferred. February 15. 6 420
WILL BE LANDED, From Brig Triton , from Copenhagen, 40 Tons Petersburg Clean HEMP. 20 do. Best quality SWEDISH IRON. 300 Bolts RUSSIA CANVAS. 100 do. RAVENS DUCK. For sale by WILSON, CUNNINGHAM & Co. February 15. tf 424
DESERTED from this Garrison, on the night of the 13th instant, CHARLES SHUNK , a Private in my Company of Artillerists—he is a German by birth, twenty years old, five feet four inches high, light sandy hair, light blue eyes, fresh complexion, by occupation a Baker. Ten Dollars will be given as a reward, on his delivery at this Garrison.  J. SAUNDERS, Capt. U. S. Art. Commanding. Fort Nelson, February 15. tf 425
FOR SALE,  A PEW in Christ Church. Apply at the office of the Public Ledger. Jan. 21. tf 357
FOR SALE, (If applied for immediately,) The Cargo of the Ship St. Salvatore, consisting of 200 Hogsheads MOLASSES, 30 Tons Campeachy WOOD, 28 Logs choice MAHOGANY.  JAMES HERRON.
ALSO, 150 Barrels MEAL, containing 4 bushels each, prepared for family use. February 22. 3t 447
IF JAMES MITCHELL, a Seaman, who was lately in the Marine Hospital at Norfolk, will apply at the office of the Public Ledger, he will hear that there is still a shot in fortune's locker for him. Any person reading this notice, who can direct our inquiries after the above distressed tar, will, by doing so, perform an act of humanity, and may be the means of relieving a fellow creature from want and misery. February 25. tf 451
ALL those who have any demands against the estate of HANNAH BLAKE , deceased, are desired to bring in their accounts, properly attested, as speedily as possible. I wish to settle the estate immediately, and no further notice will be given by GEORGE WHITTINGTON, Adm'or. Portsmouth, February 25. 3t 452
NORFOLK DRAW-BRIDGE COMPANY, JANUARY, 14th, 1805. THE Directors have this day declared a Dividend of five per cent, on the Capital Stock, for the half year, which will be payable to the Stockholders, or their legal representatives, after the 14th February next. 350 WILLIAM CAMMACK, Treasurer.
I will Rent to any respectable Person, ONE half of the WAREHOUSE occupied by me on Maxwell's Wharf, either the lower or upper part of it.  JOHN C. NIEMEYER. February 20. 3 442
FOR SALE. The co-partnership of READ and MOREIMER having been dissolved by the death of the former,  NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, THAT ONE HALF OF THE
MEDICINAL STORE, BELONGING TO THE SAID FIRM, CONSISTING OF DRUGS and Medicines, Shop Furniture, Utensils, &c. together with the remainder of the Lease for the stand occupied by them, will be offered for sale, at six months credit, for negotiable notes, payable at Bank, on Monday 11th March, at 12 o'clock. If the said property shall not be previously disposed of at private sale—applications for which purpose, are hereby invited.  HELEN READ.
Who also offers for Sale,  An Elegant CARRIAGE, together with an entire new Harness, Travelling Coat, &c. &c. February 27. 13 456
MOLASSES, RUM, SALT, Landing from on board the Schooner Three Sisters , from Tobago, at Commerce-Street Wharf, 30 Hogsheads MOLASSES. 20 Puncheons RUM. For sale by PHINEHAS DANA & Co.

The Impeachment.—We have now before us the "glorious first essay" of the managers; wherein Mr. RANDOLPH, their chairman, to adopt his own words, "has endeavoured, in a manner very tame, to discharge the duty incumbent on him; and to shew the grounds upon which they meant to rely for the conviction of the Respondent."
Better arguments could not have been expected from a man endeavouring to convince others of what he did not believe himself. Mr. Randolph neither could nor does believe Judge Chase to be guilty of "high crimes and misdemeanours."
By this it is not evident that Mr. Randolph's sense of propriety was at variance with his duty? As counsel employed by the House of Representatives to manage its cause against the judge, it was his duty to avail himself of every means in his power, bearing even the slightest colour of lawfulness, to enforce the cause of his client and to procure the conviction of the accused:
Whether the discharge of his duty to those by whom he was employed, required him to make such unfounded assertions as he has done; whether it comports with the dignity of the House of Representatives to have its impeachment supported by false statements; whether the Court of Impeachment does not derogate from its own honour when it quietly listens to a counsellor advancing manifest untruths, for the purpose of misleading it; are questions which we leave others to discuss.
No assertion, however, ought to afford matter of surprise, when coming from a man who is capable of advancing this doctrine, that the case now before the Senate is not to be decided by law, but "by the common sense and common opinion of the world upon it."
influence of a paroxism of his complaint; for surely no man in his perfect mind would have held forth such an opinion to a court, as that it must make its decisions, not according to law and fact, but according to the vague and unsettled notions of an ever-fluctuating populace.
With respect to the law of Virginia which authorizes the court to issue a summons or other proper process, against a person accused of any offence not capital, Mr. Randolph, with masterly acuteness, says that he can prove "that the other proper process mentioned in the law, has always been construed to mean a notice to the party charged to appear at the next court, and answer to the charges against him."
It would be a tedious job to follow Mr. Randolph through the whole of his speech, and animadvert upon every part of it which we think liable to objection. He has wisely passed over the seventh article, which relates to the Judge's conduct in Delaware; and on the eighth he merely gives us his assertion, by which we are to judge of what is right and of what is wrong.
The conclusion of Mr. Randolph's speech is a very illiberal personal application to the Judge; and is besides in a manner very unbecoming a person in Mr. Randolph's situation. It argues a bitterness and asperity of mind, and a malignity of heart, which we had hoped he would have had prudence enough to have concealed.
Fire.—Baltimore was on the 20th and 21st ultimo, alarmed by four fires.—One in Albemarle Street, and one in Grassy Street, Old Town, which did but little damage; another on Bowley's wharf, which destroyed the store, and property, of Mr. Harvey No. 95, in which it originated, and one house on each side, the store of Mr. Solomon Betts, and Mr. Davidson's tavern;
A fire also discovered itself, on Monday the 18th ult. in one of the houses adjoining Mr. M c Laughlin's Union Tavern, George Town, which was occupied by Mr. M. It was, however, got the better of before it reached the tavern. Among the property consumed were the jellies, pies, &c. &c. &c. intended as a part of a purposed entertainment on the 22nd.
We should feel ourselves much obliged to the Editor of the Washington Federalist, if he would be so good as to transmit his paper in duplicate. Since
the commencement of the trial of Judge Chase that paper has not reached us; the speech of Mr. Randolph we first met with in the United States Gazette.
Married, on Wednesday evening, by the Revd. James Whitehead, Doctor GEORGE WASHINGTON MAUPIN, of Portsmouth, to Miss ANNE YOUNG, daughter of James Young, Esq. Merchant of this Borough.
The fast sailing schooner Dash, captain Fisher, arrived this morning, in 5 days from Havana. An embargo had existed for two months previous, and was taken off three days before captain Fisher sailed.
FROM THE UNITED STATES GAZETTE.
Republican Simplicity.—In the days of toryism, when General Washington and Mr. Adams presided over the affairs of our republic, few things were more offensive to our ardent patriots than the court customs which they said were introduced.
Passing over the distant and dignified formality adopted by Mr. Jefferson, of sending his mandates by the hand of one of his domestics, to the representatives of the American people, to be registered by them in the form of laws, instead of meeting them personally and communicating his sentiments upon the state of the Union, according to the practice of his predecessors, we will just remind our readers of the ludicrous farce which was played at the opening of a late session of Congress.
Thus was blasted, by an unlucky incident, one of the grandest schemes of national glory and celebrity, which the present administration has ever formed, or probably ever will form.
Many other things might be mentioned which would equally well evince the abhorrence in which unnecessary ostentation and court forms are held by our present rulers.
At this moment, the man who has been pronounced by the voice of the people (which according to the true doctrine, is the voice of God) to be the second man in the nation for virtue and all the republican accomplishments, but whom the voice of a grand jury of his country has pronounced a murderer, this man, I say is at the present moment presiding in the most august tribunal in the nation.
When Mr. Key, one of the most respectable lawyers in Maryland, appeared before this same republican President of the Senate, as counsel for judge Chase, he was guilty of the indecency of taking his seat with a great coat on!
After all, it is with some degree of concern that we are obliged to mention, that notwithstanding the laudable progress which our present rulers have made, in the short period of four years, towards the introduction of perfect simplicity in the manners and dress of those who are to approach the court, they are still out-done by the lord chancellor of England who presides in the British house of lords.
during the session of the house. For shame, then! that we should be thus lagging behind in improvements so necessary to our reputation as a nation of republicans.
FROM JACKSON'S POLITICAL REGISTER.
The following letter will command the attention, and the solicitude of every good man. Who that loves his country, and respects her institutions—who that regards the integrity of friendly intercourse, and looks for confidence in private conversation—but must view with dread and horror, the attempts that are made to destroy the independence of the most important branch of our government, by means which strike at the root of every enjoyment that man can hope for, either in his political or social relations.
Extract of a letter dated
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12th, 1805.
This morning, after the examination of Mr. Hay before the Senate was concluded, Messrs. Taylor, Nicholas, Mason, and Heath, were examined in succession. From the testimony of Messrs. Hay and Nicholas, it appeared, that with the view of demonstrating the unconstitutionality of the Sedition Law, they had volunteered in the defence of Callender.
Colonel Taylor delivered his testimony with perspicuity and apparent candour. Upon being very improperly interrogated by one of the managers, relative to his opinion of the general conduct of the Respondent on the trial, he said it appeared to him to have been "in a high degree imperative, satirical, and witty."
He also swore that Judge Griffin was consulted upon, and approved of the rejection of his (Taylor's) testimony, which had been denied by the prosecution, and that after it had been rejected, Judge Chase requested the District Attorney to consent to its admission, who refused so to do.
Mr. Nicholas spoke like a man of sense; and considering his party, and, on this occasion, his professional prejudices, I think with some candour. One question that was put to him by the redoubtable champion of the administration, will show what sort of stuff is here demonstrated judicial oppression:
After his testimony was closed, Mr. Randolph stated "that it was conceded by the Respondent and must be admitted on all sides that the quo animo , or the animus in quo , (mark the ridiculous affectation of the youth) which governed the Respondent on the trial of Callender, would be of great importance to the elucidation of the case."
The testimony of Mr. Heath closed the proceedings of the day. It was to prove another private conversation. I did not distinctly hear him, and cannot therefore undertake to inform you precisely what he said."
NEWCOMB'S Packet will sail for New-York on Monday next. Feb. 27.

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES, Saturday, February 9, 1805. HIGH COURT OF IMPEACHMENT. THE UNITED STATES vs SAMUEL CHASE.
The court being called, the managers attended. Judge Chase, with his counsel, Messrs. Martin, Harper, Hopkinson, and Key, appeared and took their seats. The President then informed the managers that the court were ready to hear them on the part of the prosecution—Mr. RANDOLPH rose and spoke as follows: MR. PRESIDENT,
It becomes my duty to open the case on the part of the prosecution. From this duty, however inadequate I might be at any time to discharge it, and especially at the present, both on account of the shortness of time which we have had to answer the lengthy reply of the respondent, and of personal indisposition, I shall not shrink. When I speak of the shortness of the time allowed to reply to the answer of the respondent, I hope I shall not be understood as casting any imputation upon this honourable court, or expressing a wish that the trial may be postponed, because I am that this court would allow us longer time, but a desire for the furtherance of justice, added to the impregnable ground on which the managers stand, induce them to offer themselves ready on the part of the prosecution.
The managers are in this instance to establish the guilt of one of the judges of the supreme court—Of a man capable of being one of the ornaments of his country—and who, if he had made a proper use of his talents, would have done as much good for his country, as he has inflicted wounds upon it by his misconduct. The arraignment of a man of such talents before this tribunal, is one of the saddest spectacles ever presented to the view of any people.—Base indeed must be his heart who could triumph over such a scene.
The first charge with which the respondent is impeached, is relative to his conduct upon the trial of John Fries, for treason.
[Here Mr. Randolph read the first article of impeachment.]
The answer of the respondent to this charge is by evasive insinuations and misrepresentation of facts. He attempts to show that the opinion which he delivered in the case of Fries, upon the law, was the law laid down by his predecessors, in the same court, and once upon the same case. This is an attempt to wrest the charge from the true point on which it stands, and to place it upon another. It is not on account of the illegality of the opinion which the respondent gave that he is impeached, but for the time when he delivered it, and the motives by which he was governed. The charge against him is, that he delivered an opinion in writing, tending to prejudice the minds of the jury, against John Fries the prisoner, before the case had been argued by the counsel. If the managers were to be governed by their own sense of propriety, and not by their duty to those by whom they are employed, they might with safety, in my opinion, rest the case upon the concessions of the respondent himself. The respondent acknowledges in his answer, that he did deliver an opinion on the law, tending to prejudice the minds of the jury against John Fries the prisoner, before the counsel had been heard in his defence. This may be seen by a reference to the answer of the respondent, a part of which I must beg the favour of one of those associated with me to read.
[Mr. Clarke here read a passage of the answer.]
Our object is to prove that the opinion was delivered with an intention to prejudice the minds of the jury against the prisoner—and that the respondent did restrict the counsel in their attempt to cite English authorities which they considered apposite, and also the statutes of the United States, and did debar them of their constitutional privilege to address the jury upon the law as well as the fact. These are facts which we are able to prove by the most respectable evidence. But the respondent assigns as a reason for his delivering his opinion on the law at the time he did, that the law had been settled by his predecessors. What does this prove? That the respondent endeavoured to wrest from the counsel privileges which none of his predecessors conceived themselves authorised to do: to wit, that of addressing the jury on the law as well as the fact. If, as the respondent states, the law was settled twice, after solemn argument, it is an evidence that his predecessors never attempted to debar the counsel from arguing before the jury as to the law. The learned judges who decided the law in those cases, and to whom the respondent has appealed as authority, delivered their opinions posterior to the argument by the counsel and not anterior like the respondent. I repeat again, that it is not for giving the opinion, that the respondent is charged, but for the manner of giving it. It is for having a copy of a written opinion made out for the jury, previous to their hearing argument, and thereby prejudicing their minds against the prisoner. The respondent has also admitted that the counsel for Fries had rested their case altogether upon the law, conscious that the facts could be proven. For this reason they ought not to have been controuled in their defence. If they believed that the law was in favour of the prisoner, they had a right to address the jury upon that, as well as upon the facts, and in debarring them from it, the respondent wrested from the prisoner a constitutional right, that of being heard by counsel. I must be allowed to take what I conceive to be a strong distinction—that there is a material difference between a judge's giving a naked definition of the crime of high treason, and an opinion upon certain overt acts charged in an indictment and applied to the particular case before him. The managers do not deny—the counsel for Fries did not deny, the right of the respondent to deliver his opinion to the jury upon the law respecting high treason, but the difference which I have taken appears evident, and the respondent had no right to deliver a written opinion to the jury concerning the particular case, and before solemn argument by counsel. To illustrate this point, permit me to state a similar case. It will not be pretended that the crime of high treason is better defined than the crime of murder. The latter is defined to be a killing with malice prepense. But although the definition is so well known, was there ever a judge, before the respondent, daring enough to tell the jury that the overt acts charged in the indictment, if proved, amounted to murder and that they must find the prisoner guilty? I believe not. There is a very wide difference between the conduct of a judge who delivers an opinion to the jury upon the law, after solemn argument, and that of the respondent, who prejudged the case. I believe there never has been an instance where counsel have been stopped by the court, when they attempted to prove to the jury that the facts which a prisoner had committed did not amount to murder. The conduct of the respondent in preventing the counsel from addressing the jury upon the law, and of delivering a written opinion, before argument, was entirely novel to the usages of our country. The respondent, aware that the managers were prepared to prove what is charged against him, has in his answer admitted a part of the charge, but a part of it he has denied.—This we are prepared to prove by respectable testimony. We are prepared to prove, that the respondent debarred the prisoner of his constitutional right of addressing the jury by his counsel upon the law. This the respondent has in a manner admitted in his answer, for he says that he informed the counsel for Fries, that if they conceived that the court were
wrong in their opinion as to the law they might address themselves to the court. What would be said of a judge in a case where a person was tried for murder, if he were to inform the counsel for the prisoner that they should not address the jury upon the law, that they should not attempt to prove to the jury that the facts committed, did not amount to murder, but that on that subject, they must address themselves to the court? He would be deservedly censured by every man, and would be considered as unworthy of sitting on the bench of justice—and yet the conduct of the respondent was not dissimilar to this. The jury has a right in all criminal cases to find a general verdict, and a judge of the law, and of course had a right to hear arguments on it. The acts of Congress which the counsel for Fries, intended to have read to the jury, went, in their opinion, to show that the crime which Fries had committed, was less than treason, and made punishable by fine and imprisonment—and yet the same judge, who delivered a prejudicated opinion, prevented the statutes, which were the law of the land, from being read. Not only were the counsel debarred from citing common authorities, and the decisions of courts of justice in another country, but even from citing the laws of the land; although they considered that they were material to the defence of the prisoner.
I must be again permitted to repeat, that it is not for the incorrectness of the opinion delivered by the respondent in the case of Fries, that he stands charged, but for the time when he delivered it, and his motives for doing it. The managers will not undertake to examine the soundness of the opinion, they have nothing to do with that—but the manner of delivering it, was a departure from all precedents, and, what I believe, is novel in all our courts of justice.
I will now proceed to the second article of impeachment. It is, that the respondent overruled the objection of John Basset, who wished to be excused from serving as a juror on the trial of Callender, upon the ground that the opinion of the juror must have been delivered as well as formed, and that upon the words charged in the indictment. In the ninth page of the answer of the respondent, it will be seen, that a new trial was granted to Fries, upon the ground that one of the jurors, after he had been summoned, but before he was sworn, had used expressions hostile to the prisoner. By recurring to the answer of the respondent, it will be found that the opinion which he gave in the trial of Fries, was dissimilar to the one held to be correct in the case of Callender. In the case of Fries, the jury before they were sworn, were asked whether they had formed or delivered any opinion, hostile to the prisoner, or that he ought to be punished. The question was in the disjunctive, not whether he had formed and delivered an opinion, but whether he had formed or delivered an opinion. But in the case of Callender, a different conduct was pursued, and a juror was not to be excused from serving unless he had delivered as well as formed an opinion: Basset could never have seen the indictment, and therefore, according to the opinion given by the respondent, could not be set aside, even although he had a personal and avowed enmity to the defendant. It was perfectly immaterial what Basset's opinion, as to the guilt of the defendant, was, because the only question which was suffered to be put to him, was one, that he was obliged to answer in the negative, to wit, whether he had formed and delivered an opinion upon an indictment which he could not have seen. The respondent, has attempted to justify his conduct in this case, well knowing that the facts can all be proven, and contends that a juror's opinion must be formed and delivered upon the indictment, and not on the subject matter to be tried, to disqualify him from serving. In the case of Callender, the subject matter to be tried, was, whether "The Prospect Before Us" was a libel. If the juror had formed an opinion upon the book which was the matter in issue, that it was libelous, and also opinions hostile to the author, he was not a proper person to pass judgment between the defendant and his country. If Mr. Basset had formed an opinion that the "Prospect Before Us" was a false, scandalous, and malicious libel, and came under the provisions of the act called the sedition act, he was not a proper person to serve upon the jury. Upon the ground taken by the respondent a personal enemy of any defendant might be taken upon a jury, and the defendant could not object to him, because he could not have formed and delivered an opinion upon an indictment which he had never seen.
The third article of impeachment, is for rejecting the testimony of John Taylor, whom Callender believed to be a material witness, upon the ground, that he could not prove all the charges in the indictment. Had this been the case, and John Taylor could only have proved a part of the charges, yet the conduct of the respondent must appear novel and unprecedented to every person. But at the time when the evidence of John Taylor was rejected, the respondent, as well as the counsel for the traverser, were ignorant of what he could prove. But it was rejected upon the ground that he was unable to prove all the charges in the indictment to be true. The charge extracted from "The Prospect Before Us" a book, which with all its celebrity, I never saw until yesterday, was in these words (speaking of Mr. Adams) "He is a professed aristocrat; and has proved faithful and serviceable to the British interest."—The charge was contained in two distinct sentences. The respondent, says, that taken separately, they meant nothing; taken together, they meant a great deal. Yet the evidence of John Taylor was refused, although he was expected to prove the whole charge, according to the meaning of the defendant when he wrote it. He was expected to prove that Mr. Adams had been useful to the British interest in the manner meant by the author of the "Prospect Before Us." I will ask this honourable court, whether it is proper for evidence to be rejected, because incapable of proving all the facts in the case? May not a witness be material, although he can only establish a particular point? As if a fact were proven by one witness would it be improper to admit testimony to strengthen that evidence although the person knew nothing of the facts: as for instance, to prove that he saw the parties together on that day. Suppose two witnesses were adduced to prove facts and neither could prove all; according to the decision of the respondent neither could be admitted to give evidence. The respondent, in his answer, says, that the court have a right to compel counsel to reduce the questions which they meant to propound to their witness to writing, and that it has frequently been done. I do not intend to set up my judgment upon legal questions, in opposition to the respondent's—but I can say without hesitation that it is not the practice in the state in which the case was tried, nor has counsel in Virginia, either before, or since the case of Callender, been compelled to reduce to writing any question which they wished to propound to their witnesses, and to submit those questions to the inspection of the court. But the respondent has set up this curious defence. That he went with a determination to convict and punish Callender, and therefore it was perfectly immaterial whether he could prove a part of the charges to be true or not, if he could not prove the whole, and if but one of the twenty charges could be fixed upon him, he would be perfectly in the power of the court. What was this but pre-judging the case, and a determination of the respondent to procure the conviction of the defendant. But it was impossible for the court to know what John Taylor would prove. For aught they knew, his evidence might have gone to the whole case, and produced from the jury a verdict of acquittal for the traverser. With respect to the coun-
sel's having been compelled to reduce their questions to writing, and submit them to the inspection of the court, it is believed by the managers, to be a course of procedure unusual in courts of justice. I recollect to have been present at the famous trial of Logwood where the chief justice of the United States presided. It must be conceded that the United States were as much interested in the conviction of so notorious an offender, as in that of any libeller whatever. Although evidence of the most questionable sort was brought forward on behalf of Logwood, nothing of that kind took place.—The witnesses were all sworn in chief, and the weight of their testimony was left to the jury. The respondent also refused to postpone the trial of Callender, although an affidavit was filed stating the absence of material witnesses. The ground taken by the respondent in justification of this, is, that the witnesses lived in so dispersed a situation that it would have been almost impossible to procure their attendance at the next court—this was a reason which ought to have operated forcibly in favour of a postponement of the trial, & goes to the conviction of the respondent. With regard to the rude & contemptuous expressions used by the respondent to the counsel for Callender, and the unusual manner in which he conducted himself, I will only refer the court to the testimony which will be offered in this case. But perhaps I shall be told that although such conduct is highly improper and unbecoming in a Judge, yet it is not an indictable offence, and therefore not sufficient cause for a removal from office. In answer to this, I will beg leave to observe, that this is not a case to be determined according to common law, but by the common sense, and common opinion of the world upon it. I do not know whether it would be deemed an indictable offence for a Judge to appear upon the Bench of Justice in a state of total intoxication and to use profane and obscene language, yet I presume it will not be denied that a judge convicted of these offences can be removed by this honourable court.
The fifth article of impeachment, charges the respondent with having awarded a capias against the body of Callender, contrary to the law of Virginia, which was recognized by the act of congress, passed in the year '99 for the establishment of the judicial system of the United States, as to the rules of decision in the federal courts. The defence stated by the respondent, embraces two points—the one that the law of Virginia was passed posterior to the act of congress, and therefore the latter could not have had reference to it—and it was not a rule of decision. It will be necessary to inform some of this court, that the acts of Virginia had by authority undergone an amendment and revision, and the acts thus revised, were published under the title of the Revised Code of the Laws of Virginia in the year 1792, of course a part of them bear date later than they were actually passed. The act in question did pass in the year '88, and was anterior to the act of congress; and being law at the time the latter passed it became a rule of decision for the federal courts held in the state of Virginia.
[Mr. Randolph here read the Law of Virginia.]
But the respondent states his ignorance of the law, and also that he did comply with it by issuing 'other proper process.' We are prepared to prove that the other proper process mentioned in the law, has always been construed to mean a notice to the party charged, to appear at the next court, and answer to the charges against him. But it has been said that this would be a notice to the party to abscond, and therefore avoid a punishment.
In cases not capital, it would be much better for a state, in my opinion, that the offender should go away into voluntary banishment, than to punish him, and suffer him to remain in the state. It has never been the practice of Virginia, for an offence less than capital, to commit the offender to close custody. A capias has never been deemed the proper process—and that awarded against the body of Callender was not warranted by any law of Virginia, which was the rule of decision in that case. But the respondent says that the counsel for the accused forbore to mention this law, and that he could not have been presumed to have known it. The counsel for the accused did cite this very act, not the section which relates to the point under consideration, but in support of their motion for a continuance of the trial, and of the right of the jury to assess the fine. They were told by the respondent that the court were not bound to notice that law, and that although it might be law in Virginia, when applied to their local regulations, but as applied to the courts of the United States the construction was a wild one. Would it not then have been deemed folly in the extreme for the counsel for the accused to have brought forward the same act in order to support any other position which they might take. We are prepared to prove, that unless this decision had been made by the court, that they were not bound to notice the law, the law would have been cited.
But the respondent takes shelter under this doctrine, that the provisions of the act of congress can relate only to state regulations, and not to the statutes of the United States, which he says are not cases at common law. We are prepared and I trust shall be able to show, that the words "trials at common law" were only used to contra distinguish them from the civil and maritime law.
I will pass over the seventh article, and leave it upon the ground upon which it has been placed by the respondent in his answer.
On the eighth article I will observe, that the perversion of the Bench of Justice to the Husting of an Election, was a thing totally variant from, and has no connexion with, the right of speech which the respondent enjoys in his individual capacity. He has no right in his judicial capacity, to pervert the bench of justice into the theatre of his political declamations. But we shall be told that in all those acts with which the respondent stands charged, that he was associated with other judges, who concurred in opinion with him, and were therefore equally guilty with the respondent.
The court will recollect the high standing which the respondent has with every person, for his legal learning and abilities. This court will take all the acts together, and will observe, that in all of them, the respondent appeared to be the sole actor. With talents so conspicuous, and a disposition so irritable, he has been associated in the four several courts where he presided, and where the acts for which he is impeached were committed, with men perhaps of timid minds, and with talents very far inferior to those of the respondent, that they were overawed by him, and were not culpable as the respondent. Whenever we behold the respondent sitting in his judicial capacity, we find the counsel extremely irritable and contumelious; and yet we behold the other judges of the United States, holding courts in the same places, and associated with the same district judges as the respondent, and nothing of this kind appears. Contumacy is only found to exist in those courts where the respondent presides. Great distinction therefore exists between the respondent and these judges who have been upon the bench with him when those violations of law and justice took place. There is a great distinction between a judge anxious for the punishment of men who have violated the laws, and a judge anxious for the punishment of those who violate a particular law. I could, if permitted, turn to a judge who has not been surpassed in this country as a terror to all evil doers—an authority that differed with the respondent in his construction of the law relative to treason—a man second to none for his punishment of notorious offenders, for his regard to the laws, and for his humanity. I will
beg leave to read a passage from a work of his. [Mr. Randolph here read a passage from Tucker's Black-stone.]
I have endeavoured, Mr. President, in a manner very lame, to discharge the duty incumbent on me, and to shew the ground on which we mean to rely for the conviction of the Respondent. Such however is the case that it does not rest on so weak a ground as my arguments. I believe we shall be able to exhibit to this honourable court, a tissue of judicial proceedings never before exhibited in the annals of our country. The Respondent in his answer has appealed to the Supreme Searcher of Hearts, at the last day, for the rectitude of his conduct. When an appeal is made, I feel for the Respondent: but I feel a great relief upon considering that the blood of John Fries, an innocent and oppressed man will not rise in judgment against him. But for the timely extension of that provision of the Constitution, which gives the President the power of granting pardons, the cries of the widow and the tears of the orphan would have cried aloud for justice against him at the throne of Grace—And when at the last day all hearts were laid open, he would have been obliged to accuse himself, and to attest that, in a manner novel and unprecedented, he had procured the conviction of a poor ignorant illiterate German, and sent him without remorse into eternity. But the then President of the United States has saved the Respondent from answering for blood, by granting a pardon to Fries, and by this act, has obliterated the remembrance of a number of his errors from my mind; for mercy like Charity, covereth a multitude of sins; the pure Ermine of justice was not suffered to be dyed with the blood of John Fries.
Mr. Randolph here ended his speech, and the examination of witnesses commenced and continued to near 4 o'clock, when the court adjourned to Monday 12 o'clock.
(The Trial to be continued.)
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED, Schooner Three Sisters, Spear, 22 days from Tobago, Rum and Molasses, Phinehas Dana & Co.—Left there the 4th February, brigs Experiment, Deshon; Alliance, Hatch; Aganora, Townen; all to sail in 20 days for Kennebec—Brig Emmeline, Colard, and schooner Enterprize, Hall, for Boston, in 20 days—schooner Perseverance, Follett, in 2 days for Portsmouth—schooner Mary, Charles, for North-Carolina in 2 days.
Schooner Sylvia, Richardson, from Cadiz, last from St. Kitts, Salt, P. Dana & Co.—Left there 28th January, brigs Bellona, Patton, Kennebec, to sail 1st March; Thetis, Alsop, Hartford; Globe, Ryan, Philadelphia; Benjamin, Little, New-London—February 13, in lat. 34, long. 72, passed a vessel bottom up, supposed to be a schooner from 80 to 90 tons, stern post and forward part of the keel gone, from the appearance of her bottom she could not have been long in that situation—14th, lat. 36, 48, long. 75, spoke schooner Nancy, of and from Boston, 55 days out, bound to Cape Fear—25th, lat. 36, 48, long. 75, ship Mercury, of Wiscasset, 55 days from Leghorn, bound to New-York.
Schooner Mary Johnson, B. Bayton, 24 days from Trinidad, Sugar and Molasses, Moses Myers—Feb. 3, off Trinidad, spoke brig President, Bell, of and from Alexandria, bound in, 32 days out—8th off St. Eustatia, was boarded by the Nimrod, sloop of war; and was informed by the officer that a ship named Intrepid, burthen about 350 tons, loaded with coffee, &c. which had been taken off Jeremie by a French privateer, and ordered to Guadalupe, had been retaken by the Nimrod, and sent to Barbadoes.
Schooner John, W. Dayton, 42 days from St. Thomas, Lignumvitae, Moses Myers. Feb. 15, in lat. 36, 45, lon. 74, 30, in a sudden squall lost his foremast and bowsprit. 27th, lat. 37, long. 73, spoke a Spanish brig, from Teneriffe for Philadelphia, out 55 days: same day schooner Concord, Sharp, 28 days from St. Bartholomews for Philadelphia, who supplied the John with what provisions they could spare, being themselves on short allowance. 24th, lat. 37, 8, lon. 74, ship Suffolk, Jewitt, 14 days from Havana for Boston. 26th, lat. 36, 52, lon. 75, British sloop Pegasus, Wood, 16 days from Bermuda for Philadelphia.
Brig Hero, Deall, 35 days from Martinique, bound to Newburyport, put in in distress. Left at Trinity, Jan. 24, Barque Mars, Pierce, of Newburyport: Just arrived brigs Roboreas, Lambert, Salem; Mary, Lord, Ipswich; Truxton, Laylor, Boston; Industry, Morris, Newburyport: To sail in a week, schooners Pilgrim, Clark, Plymouth; Agnes, Rogers, and Union, Currier, Newburyport; and Adams, Boston.
Schooner Henrietta, Gilpin, 18 days from St. Bartholomews, Sugar and Cotton, bound to Alexandria. Left at that place Feb. 9. brig Fox, Rich, of and from Boston for Barbadoes, put in in distress, with the loss of his foremast and bowsprit, had also sprung his mainmast, and lost 40 head of Cattle. Schooner William, Kelly, of Portland, in distress; also brig Telegraph, Neil, of Portland, last from Liverpool, out 144 days. Schooner Millick, Salem, driven off the coast; and schooner Richardson, of Boston, last from Nantz.
Brig Milton, Fritli, 46 days from Jamaica, Rum, C. Whitlock, Suffolk.
Schooner Ann-Marie, Herbert, from Nevis, has arrived and gone up East-River.
CUSTOM-HOUSE—ENTERED.
Ship Mary, Athol, Liverpool. Brig Hero, Deall, Martinique. Sch'r Three Sisters, Spear, Tobago. Mary Johnson, Bayton, Trinidad. John, Bayton, St. Thomas.
CLEARED.
Sch'r Emly, Stone, West-Indies.
AUCTION.
The cargo saved from the ship Aurora, Capt. John H. Harris, advertised to be sold on the 27th instant, was postponed in consequence of the bad weather, until
TOMORROW, the 2d of March,
When it will be sold, on Rothery's wharf, precisely at 12 o'clock, weather permitting, for the benefit of the owners, underwriters, and others concerned, consisting of
Clayed & Muscovado Sugars & Molasses.
Terms, Cash—by 462 March 1. C. FRY.
FOR NEW-YORK,
To sail in a few days, the Schooner
CHARMING MARY,
Captain POTTER.
For freight of 400 barrels, apply on board at Patterson's wharf, or to
March 1. THOMAS ALLAN.
FOR GUADALOUPE,
(To sail on Sunday next) the fast sailing
Schooner
ADVENTURE,
DAVID HARDIE, Master:—
For passage only, (having excellent accommodations) apply on board at Patterson's wharf, or to
March 1. MOSES MYERS. 460
WILL BE LANDED THIS DAY,
On Newton's Wharf, from on board the Schooner Mary Johnson, Captain Bayton, from Trinidad, and for sale by the subscriber.
67 Hogsheads, } Choice Muscovado Sugar. 11 Barrels, } 5 Hogsheads MOLASSES. MOSES MYERS. March 1. 461

Proposals for Publishing by Subscription, RURAL PRACTICES, Or, A Treatise on the mode of erecting Dwelling-Houses, Publick or private buildings, out-offices, or fencing walls, in pile or common soil, with practical notes and other illustrations and improvements, deduced from actual experience; ALSO, On the mode of Mud Wall living as practised in some parts of England for cottages and fencing walls: with hints upon the best mode of forming farm houses, out-offices, and cottages; and general observations on turnpike reading, with scales of elevation and depression for concave as well as convex roads WITH PLATES. BY S. W. JOHNSON, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.
CONDITIONS. There shall not be any thing introduced but what has either been practised individually by the author, or known to him to have been practised with success and utility. It shall be printed in a neat manner and on good paper, and contain as many plates as will be sufficient to elucidate every part of it, and that in the clearest manner. It will be printed in octavo, and will probably contain between 200 and 300 pages, and shall be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers shall be obtained to defray the necessary expenses. Price to Subscribers, 1 Dol. 50 Cts. Subscriptions received at the Office of the Publick Ledger. Feb. 22. 443
FOR SALE, BY WILLIAM B. LAMB, 30 Puncheons St. Vincents RUM. 15 Hogheads and 23 Tierces SUGAR. 10 Pipes French BRANDY. 5 do. GIN. 13 do. Madeira WINE. 10 Quarter Casks SHERRY. 10 Cases CLARET. 10 Hogheads do. 12 Bags GINGER. 1 Case Black SATTINS. 3 do. Irish LINEN. 7 Bales India COTTONS. 3 Trunks CALLICOES, &c. February 13. 415
NORFOLK HOTEL. THE Subscriber informs his friends and the publick, that he has opened an HOTEL in that convenient house formerly the NAVY TAVERN No. 123 Main-Street, where he hopes by his attention, to give satisfaction to those who may favour him with their company. He will always keep the best liquors: and Private Parties will be furnished with Dinners, Suppers, or Relishes, at the shortest notice. BOARDERS accommodated by the week, month, or year Henry Benbridge. October 9. 170
FALL AND WINTER GOODS. THE SUBSCRIBER Has received by the Brig COMET, from London, and Ship BURNS, from Liverpool, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS, which he offers for sale, by Wholesale or Retail, on moderate terms. Richard Taylor. ALSO—A FEW BALES BENT TWILLED SACKING. Sept. 22. 150
NOW LANDING From on board the Schooner EVANS, Capt. Livington, from Antigua 116 Puncheons RUM. For sale by William Pennock. WHO WANTS TO PURCHASE, RED AND WHITE OAK STAVES—and 22 INCH SHINGLES. November 5. 122
WINDOW GLASS. I have just received for sale, from the Baltimore Manufactory, 34 BOXES WINDOW GLASS. 8 by 10—9 by 11—10 by 12—10 by 12—and 12 by 14.—And shortly expect a large supply of all sizes, commonly used here. The quality of this glass is good, and the prices will be found low. Apply to JOHN C. NIEMEYER. December 23. 315
LIVERPOOL SALT. QUEEN'S WARE, in Crates well assorted. DUFFIL BLANKETS, in small Bales. 10 and 20d. Flat Pointed NAILS, in Casks—and LIVERPOOL COAL. It taken from along side the ship Jane, Capt. Colley, will be sold low. Apply to William Pennock. WHO OFFERS FOR SALE, 114 Puncheons Jamaica RUM. Imported in the Sarah, Capt. Herbert. October 23. 187
A CHOICE PARCEL OF FINE IRISH LINEN, Imported from Dublin, per ship Medford. For sale by MOSES MYERS. February 13. 422
WE HAVE FOR SALE, 650 Barrels Fine, } FLOUR—Haxall's Brand. 350 do. Superfine, } ALSO, 160 Barrels SHIP STUFF, and a quantity FRESH MEAL, in Bags and Barrels. J. & W. SOUTHGATE. February 11. 402
NOTICE. THE PARTNERSHIP OF STRATTON & COLE, Will dissolve by mutual consent, on Thursday the 14th of March next. All those who are indebted to them, are requested to make immediate payment, as no indulgence can be given:—And those who have claims, will bring them in for adjustment, and payment as quick as their business can be settled. On the same day, will be Sold, at Publick Auction, if not previously disposed of at private Sale, ALL THEIR STOCK OF GOODS, CONSISTING OF A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF GROCERIES AND SHOP UTENSILS. ALSO—THE TWO HOUSES, Now occupied by them on Campbell's Wharf, which is a excellent stand for business. JOHN STRATTON, JOSIAH COLE. February 8. 400
Will soon be put to Press, and in a short time published, a work, entitled, REVOLUTIONARY ANNALS, OR HISTORY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, FROM THE CONVOCATION OF THE STATES-GENERAL TO THE TREATY OF AMIENS IN 1802. PART V. Embracing the History of BUONAPARTE During the three first years of his Consulate. Translated from the French Manuscript of J. H. de Croseuil, By L. H. Girardin, Professor of Modern Languages, History, and Geog. by, in the College of William and Mary. Printed for the Proprietors, at the office of the Publick Ledger. February 20. 497
NOTICE. THE CO-PARTNERSHIP OF FISK & STEARNS, Ceases this day, in consequence of the death of Mr. STEARNS. All those that have claims against the said firm, are requested to present them to the subscriber, the surviving partner, and receive their money. And all those indebted to the said company are requested to come forward for the immediate adjustment of the same, as no indulgence can be given. MARTIN FISK. Who informs his friends and customers, that he has returned to his former stand, where he offers FOR SALE,
 50 Barrels new Beef, Boston Inspection.  20 Hogheads First Quality Sugar.  20 do. Second do. do.  Loaf Sugar, in hds. and bbls.  12 Pipes Bourdeaux Brandy.  Madeira, Port, and Malaga, Wines, in pipes and quarter casks.  20 Cases London Porter, 6 doz. each.  20 Chests Hyson, Young-Hyson, and Hyson-Skin Teas—Fresh.  60 Boxes Fresh Chocolate, No. 1 and 2.  50 do. Mould Candles.  50 do. Dipt do.  20 do. Spermaceti do.  150 do. Brown Soap.  50 do. Chesse, first quality, for family use.  50 Casks do. in good shipping order.  50 Boxes Dixon's best Mustard, 3 dozen each.  6 do. Glass Tumblers.  50 Kegs Butter, for family use.  200 Reams Wrapping Paper.  100 do. Writing do.  150 do. Printing do.  150 Casks Wright Nails, 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. 12d. 20d. and 24d.  50 do. Cut do. 4d. 6d. 8d. 10d. and 20d.  6 do. Flooring Brads.  Tacks of different sizes.  30 Bags of Pimento.  15 do. White Ginger in the Root.  30 lbs. Nutmegs.  10 do. Mace.  40 do. Cinnamon.  30 do. Cloves.  100 do. Spanish Float-Indigo.  16 Casks Refined Salt-Petre.  Cotton & Wool Cards in Boxes.  3000 lbs. Copperas.  1000 do. Allum.  500 Bags Patent Shot.  50 Kegs F & FF London Glazed Powder.  15 M. Gun Flints.  100 Boxes 8 by 10 London Crown Glass, 50 feet each.  50 Bolts Oznaburgs.  Seine Twine.  50 Kegs London White Lead, ground in Oil.  30 Boxes Tobacco Pipes.  Paint and Sweeping Brushes, of all kinds.  100 Sides Soai Leather.  20 dozen Calf Skins, Grain and Waxed.  10 do. Boot Legs, of the best quality.  Morocco Skins of all kinds.  1 Trunk of Gentlemen's London made Boots.  1 do. do. do. Shoes.  2 do. Ladies Fancy and White Kid Slips.  20 do. Mens and Womens Leather and Morocco Shoes.  150 Italian Straw Carpets.  100 Small Nova-Scotia Grindstones. 
ALSO, A few gross Hot Pressed Playing Cards, of a superior quality. Nov. 12. 230
The Norfolk Draw-Bridge Company, (For completing the Bridge across the Southern Branch) Will further contract for the following pieces of Timber, to wit,
 24 Piles 38 feet long, 12 by 12  48 do. 46 do. do.  40 do. 56 do. do.  42 Cap Pieces, 34 do. 12 by 14  200 Braces, 11 do. 6 by 14  180 Joists or String Pieces, 27 do. 8 by 9  500 do. 27 do. 4 by 14  118 do. 53 do. 4 by 14  1000 Running feet of Railing, 27 ft. lengths, 4 by 6  17500 Superficial feet of 3 } 30 do. inch plank, in 
The whole of the above Timber must be of the best heart pine, and deliverable between the first of February, and last of March next. They likewise wish to hire by the month, three or four pair of good Sawyers, for which liberal wages will be allowed—or they will contract by the hundred feet for Sawing up into Plank and Scantling, the Timber now in their yard, to the extent of, perhaps, 20 to 25,000 feet of line. The Stockholders in this Company, are respectfully reminded, that the second Monday in January annually, is appointed by their Charter, for the Election of Directors.—The meeting for this purpose, the year first ensuing, will be held at the Norfolk Hotel, at 11 o'clock on that day. December 31. 315
JUST RECEIVED, By the ship Roba & Betsey, Capt. Richardson, from London, and for sale by the Subscriber, A LARGE SUPPLY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES, of all kinds. Patent Medicines, Perfumery, &c. &c. Also received by the ship Almina, Capt. Stover, A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS, Consisting of Amputating, Trepanning, Cupping, midwifery, Tooth of different sorts, Crown and Common Lancets, and Surgical Pocket Instruments &c. &c.
HARDHAM'S SNUFF, No. 9. Also, by the ship Olive Branch, Capt. Le Breton from Bristol, A LARGE & EXTENSIVE ASSORTMENT OF GLASS & FURNITURE, For Apothecary's and Practitioner's Shops. Those who favour us with their orders will be supplied on the most reasonable terms, and the articles of the best and freshest quality, as our importations are regularly twice a year, and laid in with cash, from the most respectable Druggists in London. MEDICINE CHESTS made up as usual. Also, a few elegant Mahogany Chests of the newest construction, with furniture complete, PERRY'S ANTI-BILLIOUS PILLS. Frederick Heermann & Son. July 17. 2aw 12m. 1
FOR SALE, SUPERFINE AND FINE FLOUR, and CROSS-MIDLINGS, by Thomas Ritson. Church-Street, October 27. 194
ARISTOTLE. Magna anima contentio adhibenda est in explicando Aristotele. CICERO, FRAQ. PHIL. Frequentabunt eius domum optimi juvenes et verum viros, venit ex oraculo petent. Hos ille formabit, ut vetus gubernator, litora et portus, et quid secum flantibus quid adversis res poscat, doceat, et communis ductus officio et amore procliam operis. QUINTIL. To proceed orderly in this (i. e. the study of politics) the foundation should be laid, in enquiring into the ground and nature of civil society; how it is formed into different modes of government; and what are the several series of it. Aristotle is allowed (to be) a master in this science; and few enter upon the consideration of government without reading his politics. LOCKE. Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics afford not only afford the most perfect system of Scientific Morality, but exhibit also the powers of the most compact and best constructed system which the human intellect ever produced upon any subject. DR. RENNELL.
PROPOSALS, BY GEO. L. GRAY, OF NORFOLK, FOR PUBLISHING BY SUBSCRIPTION, THE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF Aristotle's Ethicks and Politicks; COMPRISING HIS PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY. Translated from the Greek; and illustrated by introductions and notes, a Critical History of his Life, and a new Analysis of his Speculative Works. BY JOHN GILLIES, LL. D. &c. Historiographer to His Britannick Majesty for Scotland.
CONDITIONS. The work shall be comprised in two large octavo volumes, on a good paper, and a new type to be cast on purpose. The price to subscribers will be four dollars for each volume, in boards: payable on delivery of the work. With the last volume shall be given a list of the subscribers; and no greater number will be printed than may be subscribed for. ** Persons who obtain ten subscribers, and render themselves accountable for the amount, shall be entitled to one copy gratis: and for any number above ten a commission of seven and one half per cent. The usual deduction will be made to Booksellers who subscribe for ten, or a greater number of copies. †† The work will be put to press as soon as a sufficient number of subscribers to defray the expense shall have been obtained. N. B. The price of the English Edition, in two volumes, is Eighteen Dollars, the subscriber to the present edition saves ten dollars of that sum; and the Editor engages that it shall rival or surpass the imported publication in elegance.
Any remarks upon the character of the STAGIRITE as a Philosopher and a Politician, or any praise of his writings on Ethicks and Government, might, on the part of the Editor and in this place, be regarded as unprofitable supererogation. He stands confessed and universally acknowledged, the greatest master of the Science of Politicks; and few modern writers on the subjects of which he treats, have passed him by without avowing their gratitude to him, and their admiration of his profound researches. By the citizens of the United States, a people possessing more civil liberty than has ever before been enjoyed by any nation on earth, it is hoped that an author who is of all others most capable of instructing them in the nature and blessings of such a government as they have instituted, whose remarks result from a close examination of the theories of upwards two hundred commonwealths, will be received as a most welcome guest. To a people who, by the nature of their civil institutions, are individually liable to be called upon to regulate the affairs of the community, he will prove an useful companion and monitor. Too high an opinion cannot reasonably be entertained of a work which LOCKE declares to be necessary to every man who would understand the nature of politics; of a Philosopher to whom the learned GROTIVS assigns the most exalted rank, "whether estimated by the perspicuity of his method, the acuteness of his distinctions, or the weight and solidity of his arguments." Of the translation little farther need be said, than that it is universally allowed to have been executed with fidelity, and certainly with much clearness and elegance. The learned author of the Pursuits of Literature, not otherwise much inclined to favour the Historian of Greece, says "I think we are much indebted to DOCTOR GILLIES for offering to the publick an English translation of the two most important treatises on MORALITY and POLITICKS which antiquity can boast. No man can read these works without being wiser and better." Reflecting upon the great utility of such a work to a people who make politics so much their study, the Editor deems it unnecessary to load these proposals with recommendatory quotations, from the vast crowd of civilians and philosophers who voluntarily endeavoured to discharge the debt which every man to science owes to this universal teacher. It is under the hope of rendering a service to his fellow-citizens, independent of local motives, that he has undertaken the weighty task of republishing a work so important: and he hopes that his success will fully justify him for attempting, at this time, to give to the world a cheap, and he pledges himself that it shall be a correct, edition of these most useful of the labours of ARISTOTLE. NORFOLK, Virginia, Nov. 26, 1804.
FALL GOODS. WE are now landing from the brig Commerce, from London, an extensive assortment of FALL GOODS, among which, are afforded packages, calculated for the West India market, entitled to drawback; which will be sold at low advance, by Gilliat & Mackinder. August 21. 92
NOW LANDING On Newton's Wharf, from on board the Schooner Plough-Boy, Captain Davis, from Martinique, 62 Hogheads, } Muscovado Sugar. 4 Tierces, } 60 Barrels, } 9 do. } COFFEE. WILLIAM PENNOCK. February 15. 423
FOR SALE—A BARGAIN. THE SUBSCRIBER, WISHING TO DECLINE THE RETAIL BUSINESS, OFFERS FOR SALE, HIS WHOLE STOCK IN TRADE, AMOUNTING TO ABOUT $20,000. CONSISTING OF DRY GOODS, Cutlery, Hardware, Cagings, Nails of all sizes, and a number of other articles.—The whole will be sold on very low terms, and a liberal credit will be allowed, on bond with approved security.—Also, the balance of the lease of his Store, equal to any stand in Norfolk, if required. Property in the Borough of Norfolk, or Lands in the neighbouring counties, Publick Securities, &c. will be taken in exchange. For further particulars, apply to James Tucker. Who has for sale, on very low terms, A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, on the South Branch of the Potomac. August 23. 1f
JOHN C. NIEMEYER, Has received in addition to his former assortment GERMAN GOODS, 45 packages German Linens, &c. chiefly entitled to drawback, Consisting of Platillas, brown Hollands, Baskets, Wine Glasses, and Basket Flasks, &c. Sheeting, extra fine 1 1-8 yard wide, 3 Boxes English Muslin. Dowlas and Creas of the best quality, 8 Boxes Cloth, Blankets, Coatings, &c. Shirtings, Diapers, Ansons, Waffleiron, Coffee mills, Bird cages, and Seeds of all kinds. Ticklenburgs, Oznaburgs, Table mats, & Straw plates, Brown Hempens Hessian, Suspender of the best kind, Brown and White Rolls, Violins, Futes, Clarinets and Fules, Harp strings and Violin strings, elegant Russian Sheeting and light Canvas, Boxes and Instruction books Looking Glasses, a large assortment of Baskets, fine and common do. do. Toys cheap by the quantity. Also, Velvet Ribbons no. 2 to 150, 50 boxes that quality Havana Segars, Flash for Saddlers, black Sattin for waistcoats, 50 do. good quality St Jago do. Brussels Lace 4 to 20 dols. per yard, cheap Edgings, 150 do. Short Pipes, 200 do. Shoe Thread, 2000 Coffee bags good quality, 400 Gummy do. German Nuns Thread, patent Needles, India sewing Silk, 250 M. com. cheap Needles, Made Skins, Thread, Stockings very fine, Razors, 60 M. Toy marbles, Spectacles, and Penknives, of the very first qualities, 1 cases superior Quills, &c. Che p. Jewellery, fine Sissors, Muffs and Tippets of Martin Skins, 15 boxes Tumblers, Decanters.
I will sell the above Goods low for cash or approved bills, or in barter for Coffee, and will take in payment One Hundred Hogheads good Tobacco STEMS.—Apply as above. December 5. 273
COW-POX. THOSE persons who wish to avoid catching the Small-Pox which now exists in this Borough, are informed that the subscriber has again succeeded in introducing the Vaccine Infection, and that he now has several arms fit to inoculate Fom. * He has returned to his old shop at the lower end of the new market. George Balfour. AN APPRENTICE wanted. Nov. 16. 326
LEVIN DORSEY; At the corner of Fayette and White Water-Street, Town-Point A DAMS's Patnt Globes, 12 inches diameter, with compasses in the bottom, very complete. Quadrants, black and red ebony, with single and double observation. Ditto—with tangent screws, 12 inches. Aerometrick Telescopes, for night and day, on the latest and most improved construction, in a portable size, with sliding sun-dial. Telescopes, of the common kind, for night and day observations, or for day only, of every description. Chemiforators, of the best qualities. Mariner's Compasses, in brass and wood. Pocket Compasses, in brass, of different sizes. Time Clocks—hour, half hour, 20, and 14 seconds. Gunter's Scales; Brass Dividers; &c. &c. Liberate the following Articles, FOR THE USE OF NAVIGATORS. Hamilton Moore's Epitome and Alhambra. General Charts of the Coast of America, from Boston to Philadelphia. Ditto—Continued, with directions. Ditto—West-Indies, and Demerary, with directions. Ditto—Windward Islands, with do. Ditto—Gulph of Florida, with do. Ditto—Windward Passage, with do. West India Pilots, with directions. ALSO, A few tons of Baltimore Bar-Iron, affected, by the ton or less quantity—Competition Bolts and Spikes—Pouches—Carriage-wheel boxes, of all sizes—all which he will warrant good. N. B. All kinds of MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS repaired, at the shortest notice. Orders for every species of Brass Castings received and immediately executed at his foundery, and the work delivered as above. August 7. 58
FOR SALE, 12 Puncheons ANTIGUA RUM. 15 do. GRENADA do. 5 Pipes HOLLAND GIN. 20 do. COUNTRY do. 12 do. FRENCH BRANDY. 2 do. ALICANT do. 22 Qr. Casks SHERRY WINE. 10 do. MALAGA do. PORT and CLARET WINE, in casks & bottles. 6 Barrels PORK—and about 1000 Dozen PORTER, of my last winters flock, equal to any imported. Joseph Hayes. August 24. 96
NOW LANDING On Maxwell's Wharf, from on board the Schooner SEAMAN, Capt. Somers, from N. York, A CHOICE PARCEL OF OLD COGNAC BRANDY, and a few casks of DUTCH LINSEED OIL. Which will be sold low, by applying to John Brown, Rother's Wharf. November 19. 237
OILS, PAINTS & WINDOW GLASS, Of all kinds, colours, and sizes. For sale by N. Gregory, opposite the Market. An ASSISTANT wanted—also, an active Youth to be employed in the store.—Liberal wages will be given to TWO ABELE HANDS, to turn a Pain-Mill. July 8. 3
LISBON SALT, For sale, on board the Brig Superior, Captain Wallington. Apply to WILLIAM PENNOCK. January 21. 359
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