Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1806-06-02 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.
VOL. II.]
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1806.
[NO. 157.]
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Landing from Trinidad, A parcel of Prime SUGARS, in hogsheads and barrels. For Sale by R. Dickson.
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FOR BOSTON, The Schooner SILVER, Captain Levin, will sail in 3 or 4 days. For freight or passage, apply to Fisk & Catlett.
Who have for SALE on board said vessel, 50 Tons of PLAISTER of PARIS, which will be sold low if taken from along side. May 23. 756
FOR LONDON, Direct, The excellent American Ship MINERVA, J. W. Hall, master, will freight freight on the most reasonable terms. For particulars apply to the Subscriber at the Exchange Coffee-House, or to the master on board. May 21. 753 Thomas Payson.
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Who offers for Sale the CARGO of the said Brig, consisting of Lisbon Salt, Lemons in boxes, and a few frails of Figs; which will be sold low for Cash, if taken from on board. Portsmouth, May 12. 748
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The SHIP ECHO, 300 hogsheads burthen, is offered for sale or charter; she is now ready to receive a cargo. Apply to C. & F. Whittle.
Who are landing from on board said Ship a parcel of very First quality SUGARS, in large hogsheads and barrels—IN STORE, BOTTLED PORTER & ALE, fit for immediate use. April 30. 708
For Freight or Charter, The Brig EDWARD & CHARLES, Edward Pettigrew, jun. Master, burthen 1300 barrels, will be ready to receive a cargo in 6 days. For terms apply to Phinehas Dana, & Co. Who have received per said brig, A few hds. and quarter casks particular Te-naride WINE, which they offer for Sale. April 16. 673
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Wanted to Purchase, Fifty Shares of Virginia Bank Stock, for which Cash will be given. Apply to the Editor of this Paper. May 30. 775
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FOR SALE, 6 pipes London Market Madeira Wine, in hogsheads and quarter casks—Will be sold on long credit and very cheap, or will be bartered for INDIAN CORN—Apply to the Editor of this paper. May 28. 770
FOR SALE, On reasonable terms, at Mr. Riffaud's Gardens, Blue NANKINEES, Company Long and Short Yellow do.; Hessians; Cholets; Wrapper Oznaburgs; Irish Linen; Brown Soap, Mould and Dipt Candles; Young Hyson Tea; Muslins, Flowered and Tamboured Muslin Shawls, Cheek Campie and Leno Tamboured do.; Thread; Chintz, Chocolate, Flag, and Blue Bandannoes. May 28. 773
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From a LONDON PAPER.
STATE PAPER.
Memorial of Baron von Hardenberg, Minister of State to the King of Prussia, to Lord Harrowby. Berlin, December 22, 1805.
Mr Lord, Conformably to the answer I have already had the honour to transmit to your excellency, to the question which you addressed to me relative to the security of the troops of his Britannick majesty, in the North of Germany, I hasten to lay before you the positive assurances which I have the pleasure to be able to communicate to you.
Your excellency is acquainted with the present state of affairs. You will first perceive that, at the point to which matters have now come, since the unfortunate battle of Austerlitz between Austria and France, in consequence of the return of the great Russian army, and the total uncertainty in which we are with regard to the intentions of Napoleon towards Prussia, the utmost caution is absolutely necessary. The bravest army cannot always reckon upon success; and the interest of the world, to prevent any attack upon her at the present moment, when she would have to bear the whole burden of the war; and no confederacy adapted to circumstances has been formed; for, in case her armies should prove unsuccessful, the last ray of hope, to maintain the security and independence of the continent, would be extinguished.
The king still animated by the same wish to establish a general peace on a permanent footing, and if possible, to the satisfaction of all parties, must consequently have been ardently desirous that his mediation, stipulated in the convention signed on the 3d of November at Potsdam, should have been accepted by France. In an interview which Count Von Haugwitz had with the Emperor on the 28th November that monarch maintained a disposition to accept of this mediation on the following conditions:
1st That during the negotiation no troops of his Britannick majesty, nor any Russians or Swedes, should advance into Holland to commence warlike operations there, after their departure from the North of Germany.
2d That a more extensive circuit should be allowed to the fortress of Hameln, in order to relieve the distress of the garrison for provisions.
The king could not accept these propositions under the circumstances of the moment in which they were made; but these have totally changed, and in the present conjuncture his majesty has not only judged them admissible—upon condition that the Emperor Napoleon engages, on his side, to not send any troops into the north of Germany, as long as the negotiations shall continue, and that he shall not undertake any thing against Hanover during the same interval—but even favourable, as time will thus be gained to take more deliberate measures, and to prepare for every contingency; either in case war should break out, or this intermediate state of things would lead to a definitive negotiation.
That no time may be lost, his majesty has sent Major Von Kuhl to the French head quarters, that this arrangement may be carried into effect. At the same time count Haugwitz has received the necessary instructions, bearing date the 19th inst. and the king has given France to understand, that he shall consider the occupation of Hanover by French troops as an act of hostility.
Agreeably to what I have just said, his majesty has authorised me to inform your lordship, that in conformity with the assurances already given, in case the troops of his Britannick majesty and the Russians should prove unfortunate, the king engages for the security of the troops of his Britannick majesty in Hanover, and grants them perfect liberty, in case of necessity, to retreat to the Prussian army, and to the states of the king, but with the following modifications, which circumstances render necessary:
1st That they take their positions in the rear of the Prussian troops, and abstain, during the period of the intermediate negotiation, from every movement and step of a provoking nature towards Holland.
2d That in case the Prussian troops shall be attacked by the French, his majesty may rely with perfect confidence on the support and co-operation of the troops of his Britannick majesty; as long as they shall continue in the north of Germany. His majesty has given orders for a respectable corps to advance into Westphalia, and will adopt every necessary measure for security and defence. The Russian troops, under the command of general count Tolstoy, are already at the entire disposal of his majesty, as the emperor Alexander has fully authorized him to dispose of them at pleasure; and likewise of those which are under general Benningsen, in Silesia.
I therefore request your excellency to write as speedily as possible to lord Cathcart, the commander in chief of the troops of his Britannick majesty, and to prevail upon him to take, without delay, such steps as are necessary for these different purposes; and in particular to comply with the invitation that will be transmitted to him by the order of the king; through count Kalkreuth, to consult personally with him and count Tolstoy on the positions which the troops of his Britannick majesty, the Russians, and Prussians, will have to take in consequence of the above mentioned arrangements.
As the Swedish troops are in the same predicament with the troops of his Britannick majesty and the Russians, it would be extremely desirable to prevail upon his Swedish majesty to conform to this arrangement.
I hope that to this end, your lordship will act in concert with prince Dolgorouky, whom his imperial majesty of all the Russias has charged with every thing relative to the destination of the Russian army. In case his Swedish majesty will resign the conduct of his troops to count Tolstoy, the king is ready to give them the same guarantee which he offers to the troops of his Britannick majesty, during their continuance in the north of Germany.
3d. With regard to the provisioning of the fortress of Hameln, it is conceived that the grant of a certain district, from which the garrison might themselves procure provisions, would be attended with great inconveniences, both in respect to the subjects of his Britannick majesty, and on account of the collisions which might thence ensue between the troops. It, therefore, appears preferable, to furnish necessaries from the Hanoverian territory, through an intermediate person, to whom general Barbour must send a statement of what he wants for daily consumption, and on whose requisition the Hanoverian ministry will take care that it be delivered at the place appointed for that purpose. But Gen. Barbour must, on his side, engage to remain quiet within the town of Hameln.
Conformably to these ideas, the king has sent Mr.
Von Krusemark, lieutenant-colonel of the Gards du Corps, and adjutant to field marshal Von Mollen-dorf, to Hanover. I have given him, for my part, a letter to the minister of his Britannick majesty, at Hanover, and another for general Barbour, that the necessary arrangements for providing immediately for the subsistence of the garrison of Hameln, may be made, and put into execution without delay.
I have now nothing left, my lord, but to refer to the verbal communication I had the honour to make to you, and to entreat you to take in general such steps as you shall think expedient for carrying into execution the whole arrangement which I have had the honour to submit to you. I request you to have the goodness to inform the commander in chief of the troops of his Britannick majesty, that it is only in case he shall think proper to accede to this arrangement, and to adopt such measures as shall depend upon him for carrying it into execution, his Prussian majesty can possibly engage to guarantee the security of the troops of his Britannick majesty. In case of attack on the part of the French, it will, however, be necessary, that the conduct of the whole should center in one point, and it appears natural that the oldest in rank should then assume the chief command. It would consequently devolve upon general count Kalkreuth, both for the above reason, and likewise because he being in the vicinity of the enemy, would be best able to judge what measures to adopt.
I repeat to your excellency the assurance of the high consideration with which I have the honour to be, my lord, your excellency's, &c. (Signed) HARDENBERG. (Sen.)
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FOR RENT, (And immediate possession given) The HOUSE lately occupied by Messrs. Shanks & Binford, in Brewer-Street. Apply to Robert Gibson. May 19. 730
SPRING GOODS.
GILLIAT AND MACKINDER, Have received per the Ship Dumbies, from London, their Supply of Spring GOODS, which consist of a general and well selected assortment. Also, a fresh supply of Ladies' fashionable Kid SHOES. April 25. 698
FOR SALE, The Cargoes of the schooners Mohawk, capt. Quarles, and Wasp, capt. Kemp, this day received, consisting of 270,000 wt. Prime Green COFFEE, 27 Bags and 2 Barrels SUGAR, 4000 wt. LOGWOOD—Apply to Wilson, Cunningham, & Co. May 14. 738
NOW LANDING, Hyson Hyson Skin Young Hyson } TEAS, A few Hogsheads Grenada RUM. For Sale at Marsden's wharf, by James M'Clenachan. Who would receive Goods on Storage, at his fire-proof Warehouse, on Marsden's Wharf. May 12. 732
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FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
From Papers received at the Office of the Publick Ledger, by the Ship Isabella, Capt. Boyington, in 39 days from Liverpool.
LONDON, April 11.
WAR BETWEEN PRUSSIA & SWEDEN.
The second mail brings the important intelligence that the King of Prussia is about to make war upon Sweden.
A body of eighteen thousand Prussians has received orders to occupy the Duchy of Lauenburgh, and to act against Swedish Pomerania. The corps will be divided into two columns, under the orders of gen. Kalkreuth and Schmettau. They were to march on the 7th of this month.
General Kalkreuth's corps, on its arrival at Ukerunde and Pasewalk, was to wait for further orders. It consists of the grenadier battalion of Schlieffen; the grenadier battalion of Hulsen; the regiments of Borke, Pirch, and Braunschweig-Oels; ten squadrons of the regiment Pfalz-Bayern; besides artillery.
The troops under Gen. Schmettau were assembling in the country between Havelberg, Perleberg, and Kyritz, and are intended to occupy Lauenburgh. They are composed of the grenadier battalion of Hausten, the regiments of Kleist, Tschammer, Kalkammer, and Reitzenstein; a regiment of cuirassiers, and a battalion of hussars.
The king of Sweden has made every preparation to defend himself vigorously at Stralsund.
The Prussian minister at Hamburg has notified to the English minister resident there, that no interruption whatever will be given to the mails.
April 12.
We have received German papers and private communications to the 6th inst. A letter of the 5th contains the following important intelligence:
"A body of eighteen thousand Prussians has received orders to occupy the Duchy of Lauenburgh, and to act against Swedish Pomerania. The corps will be divided into two columns, under the orders of generals Kalkreuth and Schmettau. They were to march on the 7th of this month."
"General Kalkreuth's corps, on its arrival at Ukerunde and Pasewalk, was to wait for further orders. It consists of the grenadier battalion of Schlieffen; the grenadier battalion of Hulsen; the regiments of Borke, Pirch, and Braunschweig-Oels; ten squadrons of the regiment of Konigin; the regiment Pfalz-Bayern; besides artillery."
"The troops under Gen. Schmettau were assembling in the country between Havelberg, Perleberg, and Kyritz, and are intended to occupy Lauenburgh. They are composed of the grenadier battalion of Hausten, the regiments of Kleist, Tschammer, Kalkammer, and Reitzenstein; a regiment of cuirassiers, and a battalion of hussars. The letter adds, that the king of Sweden has made every preparation to defend himself vigorously at Stralsund."
The substance of this letter is given in the Hamburg Correspondent , of the 5th, and the truth of it cannot be questioned, as, in the present situation of Hamburg, no editor would insert an article of that description, without authority. This proceeding of Prussia is not merely a declaration of hostilities, but an act of war. Had the Swedish troops continued in Lauenburgh, after Prussia had taken a formal, unqualified possession of Hanover, of which it is a part, we should not be inclined to disapprove the conduct of the court of Berlin. The king of Sweden would have been guilty of a violation of the independence of Prussia, if, after a due notification of the cession of Hanover, and having been released from his engagements, both by Russia and England, he had persisted in maintaining a position in that territory. If the representations of Prussia were slighted by him, she would be fully justified by every principle of the law of nations, in expelling him by force of arms. But this is not the case. The Swedish troops were withdrawn from Lauenburgh, before the Prussian Patent, inserted in another part of our paper, was published. The order of his Swedish majesty, announcing the actual return of his army to Pomerania, precedes by one day the proclamation of the king of Prussia.
A letter, dated from the Swedish head-quarters, at Laage, in Mecklenburg, the 30th March, states, that the Swedish troops quartered in that vicinity were shortly to be withdrawn into Pomerania; they consisted of three brigades, one of which is commanded by his Swedish majesty in person, who had left Ratzburgh on the 27th, and taken his leave of the people of Lauenburgh. The king of Prussia cannot, therefore, fairly complain of any refusal, on the part of Sweden, to withdraw her troops, but that he will seek a pretence on that ground is very probable. The determination of the king of Sweden and the proceedings of Prussia, certainly are so near to each other in point of time, that Prussia may say she was obliged to force the Swedes to withdraw into Pomerania; but for invading Swedish Pomerania, she can have no just cause.
It does not appear that Hamburg itself has yet been occupied by any French or Prussian troops. The French, who were at Hameln, have all marched to Wesel. The Prussians have the task of executing Buonaparte's commands, in and near the territories he has ceded.
It is said, that after the grand military fete which is to take place next month, in Paris, Buonaparte, will set out for Venice and Naples, and that part of his equipage has already arrived at Turin. The object of his visit to Naples is, no doubt, to assist at the coronation of Joseph Buonaparte, the new king of Naples. A principal object is also to be carved out in Italy for Madame Buonaparte, his mother. The Pope is to reside at Venice, under the title of Patriarch. But for what distinguished favour the palace of the Vatican is reserved, we have no information. Germany, we understand, is still doomed to suffer new revolutions and changes. Two new federative states are still to be formed in it; but the materials are not mentioned.
April 14.
It appears that so late as the 6th of this month, the king of Prussia had taken no measure for seizing upon the British vessels in the ports within the circle from which, agreeably to the proclamation of count Schulenburg, of the 28th ult. British vessels were in future to be excluded. A vessel, the Omnium , Marshall, has arrived in the river, which left Bremen on the 6th. The Prussian government seem to have calculated upon the same acquiescence of our ministers, in the hostile measures they had resolved to adopt. The answer of count Hardenberg to the merchants of Berlin, and on their application to know whether they had reason to apprehend hostilities on the part of this country, in consequence of the occupation of Hanover, shews that no retaliation on our part was dreaded. The blockade of the Elbe, Weser, and the detention of Prussian vessels, must, therefore, have excited the utmost surprize at Berlin.
As the connexion between France and Prussia leaves little room to think that the retaliation to which we have resorted, will, in the first instance at least, produce a change of determination, it is expected that matters will proceed to open hostility. Prussia has already done to us the utmost injury in her power to inflict; but the extension of the principle we have already adopted, to the Ports of the Baltic, which, with the co-operation of Sweden and Russia, could easily be effected, must completely put a stop to all her foreign trade. Indeed, while it is
supposed that Buonaparte will insist upon 'shutting the sound against us, which he cannot do, it is clear that we can easily do it against his ally, the king of Prussia, by suffering no vessel bound to a Prussian port, to enter the Baltic. A few vessels stationed near the mouth of the Sound, could effect that object.
That the principle which has dictated the exclusion of British vessels from Prussian ports, which has led to the attack by Prussia on Swedish Pomerania, may be extended to the demand from Denmark of a concurrence in the measures which France thinks calculated to distress this country, there seems much reason to apprehend. It is said that general Rapp, who was lately at Hanover, at Hamburg, &c. was to go to Copenhagen, with proposals to that government, relative to those ends, and insist on shutting the Sound.
The Prussian court are in considerable alarm, lest the emperor Alexander should take hostile measures in consequence of the connection Prussia has formed with France. Indeed, it is not easy to see how the emperor of Russia can remain an unconcerned spectator of the transactions, in which Prussia now takes so active a part. If he forbears to move, it must be from a conviction of the inutility of an appeal to arms; by no means from an approbation of what has been done.
It has been said, that the Russian troops had occupied Warsaw, and were about to take possession of Prussian Poland. This, however, is a report for which, at present, there is no foundation. The emperor of Russia, nevertheless, even if he should keep his armies inactive on the side of Prussia, must continue actively at war with France. He must, to the utmost of his power, protect the king of Sweden, and defend his influence in the North of Europe, now so completely set at defiance. On the South of Europe he is compelled to fight for the Turkish empire, which Buonaparte now so clearly aims at reducing under the subjection of France.
On the determination of Russia the course of operations in the North of Europe will probably depend.
It is thought that if Prussia persists in the system she has begun, Mr. Jackson, our minister at Berlin, will immediately be recalled.
Dutch papers to the 9th have been received. They contain no account of the proceeding of the states general since their meeting on the 1st. It is still believed, however, that if some proposal for the change of the government of that country has not already been made, it will soon come forward. If the states general refuse to sanction it, which, from their silence is inferred, they will show more energy than we supposed them to possess. But if they refuse to concur, Buonaparte, if he has the object at heart, will proceed without their assistance. Indeed, from the views of his federal system now developed, it would be singular if Holland were not to form one of the affiliated states under a leading member of the new Dynasty.
The rumours on the Continent respecting the projects of Buonaparte are incessant, and, from the past, nothing appears extravagant. Private letters from Germany say, that Buonaparte is now engaged in a negotiation with the court of Madrid, the object of which is to procure from Spain the cession of the whole of Catalonia to the river Ebro. For this cession Spain is to be indemnified by the acquisition of Portugal. The prince regent of the latter to be sent off to the Brazils. We cannot, however vouch for the truth of this intelligence. It may by some be thought as probable that he aims at the dominion of all Spain, as that he covets a part.
It is understood to be the present system of Buonaparte to put an end to all the subordinate powers and territorial sovereigns in Germany; and to limit the number to a few, among which the possessions of the rest are to be divided. Those to be preserved are Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Wirttemberg, Baden, Hesse Darmstadt, and Brunswick. The duke of Brunswick, it is still said, is to have an electorate.
In consequence of the blockade of the Elbe and Weser, &c. several American vessels for those rivers have been brought in. This gave rise to a report that the dispute with America had assumed a more serious aspect, whereas the contrary is generally believed to be the case, and that the affair will ere long be amicably adjusted. Morning Chronicle .
Whilst the British ships blockade the Ems, the Elbe, the Weser, and the Trave, the rest of the Prussian ports are rumoured to be blockaded by the Russians. The captain of a vessel arrived at Hull from Hamburg, states, that he was informed by a mercantile house at Hamburg, that the Russian fleet were blockading Danzig, Stettin, and Konigsberg. But we are inclined to think this rumour premature. Though Prussia has ordered British vessels to be excluded from the ports and rivers in her possession, or under her control, we have not heard that she has issued orders for seizing them. Does she think that by that forbearance she will deter us from detaining ships under her flag? She can hardly, we should imagine, suppose that after she has shut her rivers and ports against our ships, we shall either suffer them to be open to her vessels, or permit those vessels to navigate the seas unmolested.
As the Sound being shut against us, Denmark will scarcely do it if she could; nor indeed could she if she would. But upon this measure of shutting the Sound, Buonaparte and Prussia seem to have formed the most mistaken notions. It is not Denmark that can shut it—it is Great Britain that can shut it—she can as effectively prevent a French, Dutch Prussian, or any other vessel from entering or leaving the Sound, as she can prevent any vessel from entering or leaving the Ems.
In the mean time orders, it is said, have been sent to Mr. Jackson to leave Berlin, and Baron Jacobi will soon, we suppose, leave London.
The conduct of the Prussian government has rendered it extremely unpopular to its own subjects—and considerable dissatisfaction has been manifested by the Prussian army at the subserviency of the cabinet to the will of France. Count Haugwitz, the prime supporter of the French interest, has rendered himself in the highest degree unpopular—whilst Count Hardenberg, who advised the king of Prussia to reject those degrading counsels which tended to render him dependent upon France, is the subject of universal esteem and affection. Where the politics of a Haugwitz prevailed, a Hardenberg could not remain with honour. Count Hardenberg has resigned his post of cabinet minister. The Gendarmes of Berlin complimented the ex-minister on the day of his resignation, by a serenade before his hotel.
Dutch papers have arrived to the 8th inst.—it is not from them that we derive any intelligence of the state of Holland. The papers to the 8th do not afford us the slightest information with respect to the deliberations of the states general. It was supposed that that assembly would break up last Tuesday, never perhaps to meet again. It were too much to suppose, that Holland will be permitted to retain her present form of government. A branch from those precious trees , the Buonaparte or Beauharnois, will be planted in the United Provinces. Louis Buonaparte is mentioned as the intended sovereign.
The Dutch are, to a man, discontented; the war is unpopular; the French are detected; commerce is nearly at a stand; the funds are falling; taxes increasing; and yet Buonaparte will demand of the Dutch their grateful acknowledgments for the be-
nefits they have derived from his alliance, and tells them he gives them a further mark of his grace and favour in placing them under the mild sway of a member of his illustrious house .
By way of preparing and paving the way for the new changes, a strong French force began to enter Holland last Wednesday; they are to expand to and impress upon the people the value of Buonaparte's protection and friendship, and to repress any of those disorders and excesses which the populace might commit in the height of their joy and transport at the blessings conferred upon them. Courier .
The letters from the Lisbon Mail, which were delivered on Saturday, mention, that the French & Spanish prizes taken in the battle of Trafalgar have been put into a temporary state of repair, in Gibraltar Bay, and only waited for a fair wind to sail for England.
The Omnium , capt. Marshall, arrived in the river from Bremen, brings intelligence, that up to the 6th inst. no interruption had been given to the trade of our vessels with that port.
A letter from Petersburg, dated the 26th ult. states, that the Russian troops about to enter Turkey amount to 73,000 men; and that a corps of reserve was forming on the frontiers of Bessarabia. The Russian armies in Poland have, since the 20th of January, been reinforced by nearly 30,000 recruits from Livonia, Estonia, and their neighbourhood.
Upon the subject of the negotiations between G. Britain and France, the following article appears in the Amsterdam Courant :— "According to all accounts, it seems that France has made proposals of peace to England, but nothing further is known. The British Cabinet have held two councils upon the subject of these proposals, which were made by M. Talleyrand to Mr. Fox, and also through baron Jacobi, the Prussian minister."
The sailors belonging to the Prussian vessels, detained in the Thames, are loud in their execrations of the French government, for its fatal influence over their country; and, in consequence of their pay being stopped while the ships are under embargo, several hundreds of them are soliciting for employment in our merchants' service.
April 17.
The mails continue to arrive with regularity. The Hamburg mail, due yesterday, arrived this morning, and has brought news of considerable importance.
The seizure of the post that commands the mouths of the Cattaro, has given rise, as it was natural to expect, to serious discussions between all the three powers, Russia, Austria, and France. France in the first instance urged that the cession of it to the Russians was a violation of the treaty of Presbourg, and demanded the immediate evacuation of it by the Russians. Austria communicated the French remonstrance to the Russian ambassador, and required the post to be restored to her for the purpose of ceding it to France. The Russian ambassador Rasumowsky returned an answer to the Austrian government, in which, referring to the treaty of Presbourg, he reminded them that they had engaged to cede Venetian Dalmatia in 40 days. From respect to the emperor of Germany, he had not only waited 40 days, but several weeks before he took any step towards commencing hostilities against France, in Dalmatia. This delay of Austria in the cession could only be attributed to one of two causes:
The one, that a change had taken place in the dispositions of the treaty of Presbourg;
The other, that the delay had been occasioned by a condescension on the part of Austria towards France, who not being ready to collect her forces in Dalmatia, had solicited that delay in order to evade the attack of Russia, who was ready.
The first of these causes, the Russian ambassador considered as of no avail, because notification, as required by the law of nations, of any change in the disposition of the treaty, had been made to the court of Petersburg. As to the second cause, which he believed to be the true one, it afforded Russia a motive for acting with more vigor and decision in order to prevent the delay from being productive of injurious consequences to her.
The place, therefore, as we predicted, will not be given up, and Russia has gained the double advantage of having acquired a strong and important post, and yet acted in strict conformity with the law of nations.
Yet it should seem as if Buonaparte suspected some connivance between the two imperial courts in the affair of Rocco di Calabro. He has resumed an attitude of menace and military preparation. The force which was on the point of returning to France, has received orders to remain in Bavaria. Marshal Berthier, the new Prince of Neufchatel, who was on the point of quitting Munich, has delayed his departure, and the journey of the king and queen of Bavaria, who were on the point of setting out for Milan, has been put off. The Bavarian general Deroy, with several engineers, had been ordered on a sudden to the Tyrol, which, however, will never, we will venture to predict, be securely possessed by Bavaria. A corps of French engineers has been sent to Brannau, which is not to be given up, but it is to be placed immediately in such a state as to be able to stand a siege. Buonaparte thus hopes to intimidate Austria into a compliance with his demands; but how can she comply with them? Russia will not give up the important post. Buonaparte, in all probability, will urge the seizure of it as a ground for Austria's acceding to the demand which he had made, and which had been refused, of granting him a passage through Bohemia, to attack the Russians. Upon that subject the Russian ambassador has declared, that if the demand of a passage be complied with, Russia will feel that she is entitled to the same permission whenever she may think it necessary to march thro' Bohemia to attack the French.
While these events are passing at Vienna, Prussia evinces a considerable degree of indecision and hesitation. The troops that were ordered to march to occupy the Duchy of Lauenburgh have received counter orders, and, as the Swedish troops have already evacuated part of the Duchy, the Prussian troops have been ordered to take possession only of that part which may be entered without obstacle. Prussia is unwilling, either from a fear of Russia, or from a sense of the universal dissatisfaction which her conduct has excited amongst her own subjects, to commence hostilities against Sweden. Meanwhile the king of Sweden, still pursuing the "even tenor of his way," nothing daunted by the menaces or movements of Prussia or France, is determined to defend himself with all possible vigour. He has published within these few days a declaration from his head quarters at Laage, in which he announces, that so long as the Duchy of Lauenburgh shall continue under his protection, he will consider any attack upon it in the same point of view as an attack upon his own territories.
Some advices from Embden by the way of Holland, assert, that an order has been issued to prevent British ships from leaving that port. No such order appears to have been issued at Hamburg, nor does it seem as if the intelligence of an embargo upon Prussian ships had reached Berlin, when the last accounts were despatched from thence.
At the council held yesterday, an order is said to have been prepared for extending the EMBARGO upon PRUSSIAN SHIPS to the SHIPS OF HAMBURG, BREMEN, and all other ports which are under the influence or dominion of Prussia or France.
* A territory in Venetian Dalmatia.
The convoys from this country for the ports belonging to Russia, Sweden, and Denmark, will sail as usual. The following notice was issued by the council chamber, at Edinburgh, last Sunday.
SAILING OF CONVOY.
Notice is hereby given, that instructions have been received to order the convoy to the Baltic to proceed immediately with the ships bound to the ports belonging to Denmark, Sweden, and Russia; that the commander of the convoy will be directed not to take with him vessels bound to any other ports in the Baltic, and that the convoy will sail from Leith Roads on Tuesday the 15th inst.
Council Chamber, Edinburgh, April 3, 1806.
VIENNA, April 2.
France has not failed to complain of the occupation of Cattaro by the Russians, and circumstances have furnished her with some very specious reasons for this complaint, as 80 Austrians were still in the fortress when the Russians took possession. Great complaints have in consequence been made to the Cabinet of Vienna, which, it is said, has given grounds for suspicion of bad faith, secret intrigues, a culpable understanding with the Court of St. Petersburg, &c. The Austrian Ministry endeavoured to prove the contrary; but being forced to enter into explanations with the Count Razumowsky, and to demand the evacuation of Cattaro, they are said to have received in substance the following answer:
"Courts neither have nor can have any other rule for their political conduct than the acts, documents, and public treaties which found and establish the interests and respective obligations of powers towards each other. Now, by the treaty of Presbourg, you engaged to cede Venetian Dalmatia to France, forty days after the signing of this treaty. His Russian imperial majesty, from respect to the emperor of Austria, not only waited till that time was elapsed, but placed an interval of several weeks between its termination and his hostilities against France in Dalmatia. Russia could attribute the delay of Austria only to two causes; either a change in the disposition of the treaty of Presbourg, or a condescension towards France, who, not having yet had time to collect all her forces, and take measures to defend the point menaced, had required this delay from Austria, in order to evade the attack of Russia, who was then ready; that as to the first of these suppositions, it could be of no avail; because neither Austria nor France had officially notified this change in the stipulations of treaty, a necessary condition in the law of nations. And that as to the second, which he believed to be the true one, it became precisely a motive for the cabinet of St. Petersburg to act with more vigour, in order not to risk a delay which would have defeated its projects."
The same Ambassador is said to have added, that if a passage through the Hereditary States were granted to the French, it was expected that Russia would demand the same favour whenever her security might require it.
FROM THE REPERTORY.
Boston, May 17.
IMPORTANT.
When those, whose solemn duty it becomes to protect the rights of their fellow citizens, whether from corruption or whatever cause, violate that duty and act an unfriendly, nay, an unjust and hostile part, it may certainly be considered as an important circumstance—one in which the publick is deeply interested. Such conduct in the agents of government gives a character to government, which must alarm every man, who has any thing at stake—any possession which he cannot defend and secure by the strength of his own arm.
The conduct of general Armstrong, our plenipotentiary at the court of St. Cloud, has excited considerable attention in Europe and America. By his conduct, not only the rights of individuals have been sacrificed, but the reputation of the nation if it can still be considered vulnerable, has grievously suffered.
The powers vested in general Armstrong as minister of this government in France, are generally known. The manner in which he has exercised those powers, has been partially explained; but certain documents which we have just received from France, and which will soon be received in various parts of the United States, will exhibit our minister in a point of view, by no means equivocal.
Before we copy these papers, it may not be amiss to give a sketch of the history of the New-Jersey, her capture, condemnation and acquittal. The ship New-Jersey , belonging to an opulent and respectable house in Philadelphia, that of Messrs. Nicklin and Griffith, both citizens of the United States, was captured in the year 1798, on her passage from Canton to Philadelphia, by a French privateer, and carried into St. Domingo, and condemned. Messrs. Nicklin and Griffith, in order to avoid the embarrassments of an interruption of their voyage, deposited in the hands of the agent for the French government, the valuation of the ship and cargo, which by mutual agreement, was to be disposed of, according to the decision of the council of prizes in France.
The council of prizes determined in favour of Messrs. Nicklin and Griffith, and the case came before the American commissioners, under the treaty of 1803, who awarded them the whole amount of their claim, upwards of two hundred thousand dollars, to be paid from the funds, arising from the treaty for the cession of Louisiana. In this stage of the business, our minister, Mr. Armstrong, interfered, and objected to the payment of more than three elevenths of the sum allowed. His reasons for this interference, having been already published, need not here be repeated, as they are contained in the papers before us. The particulars of the case having reached America, the secretary of state, by order of the president, instructed Mr. Armstrong that the underwriters should be considered as standing in the place of the original proprietors. A copy of these instructions was likewise forwarded to the agents of Messrs. Nicklin and Griffith, which circumstance not being known to Mr. Armstrong, he betrayed himself into a dilemma, which the pamphlet we now copy will strikingly explain.
SEQUEL OF A CORRESPONDENCE.
Between his excellency, general Armstrong, minister plenipotentiary of the United States, at the court of France, and the agents of the owners and insurers of the ship New-Jersey , indemnification for which had been decreed by the court of prizes, and allowed by the American board of commissioners to be drawn from the funds arising from the cession of Louisiana.
NOTICE.
The agents of the owners and insurers of the ship New-Jersey , have been informed of the decision of the president of the United States, relative to the claims of the owners and insurers of said ship, and of the letter which he had caused his excellency, the secretary of state of that republic to address on this subject, to his excellency the American minister plenipotentiary.
They consequently expected, from the minister, information as to what had been done on the occasion; and requested it by two letters, the first of which obtained from the secretary of Legation, by order of his excellency, the answer quoted in the beginning of the second.
The reasons and motives explained in this, relieved their hopes; but to the second letter, they have, as yet, received no answer.

They have therefore determined to cause a number of copies to be printed, to remind his excellency of the subject, and to forward the same by various channels to the United States, where their employers will be compelled to pursue the course of justice due to their claim, if the MINISTER OF THEIR COUNTRY persists in refusing it to them, against the intentions of his government, and the information which he had received from the secretary of state, relative to those intentions.
The letter addressed to his excellency general Armstrong, in French and English, was as follows: His excellency General Armstrong, minister plenipotentiary of the United States.
PARIS, December 30th, 1805.
Sir,
We, on the 16th ultimo received from those concerned in the New-Jersey, a letter directed to your excellency, which, they informed us, was from the secretary of state, and contained the president's directions relative to said claim.
Said letter we had the honour of enclosing to you on the 17th of said month, informing you that we were waiting such new communications as it was likely the letter would make necessary.
Instead of receiving the communication we expected, we were on the 19th of the said month, honoured with the following answer which you thought it proper to direct your secretary to make us.
PARIS, November 19, 1805.
GENTLEMEN,
"I have the directions of the minister of the United States to acknowledge the receipt of your note of the 17th, enclosing a letter from James Madison, esq. secretary of state of the United States. The minister does not think with you, that the contents of the letter aforesaid, must make further communications between you and him necessary. You appear to have been ill advised with respect to these contents: they have in them neither wishes nor directions from the president of the United States, relative to the New-Jersey. Nor any thing more, than an opinion on the construction of the treaty, (which were the case not terminated) would not apply to the case you represent.
I am, gentlemen,
Your most obedient servant,
D. B. WARDEN.
Secretary to his excellency the minister of the United States. Messrs. Du Pont de Nemours and La Grange."
A duplicate of Mr. Madison's letter which we have received open, (and which we think it useless to copy here, as you have received the original) sheews that Mr. Warden was mistaken when, by your direction, he informed us that "your excellency did not think with us, that the contents of the letter aforesaid must make further communications between us necessary, and that said letter contains nothing more than an opinion on the construction of the treaty, which were the case not terminated) would not apply to the claim we represent."
We on the contrary, find by Mr. Madison's letter, that the same contains "the sentiments of the president of the United States relative to the very case of the New Jersey; such an opinion, so truly conformable to the rules of the matter in question, must, when considered as an official act, be looked upon as a rule by which American minister in foreign countries ought to be guided."
Those sentiments of the chief magistrate, and of a man, too, whose abilities and virtues are so universally admired, are that "he considers the general principle on which the question turns, a supporting the claims of the American underwriters to the benefit of the convention, when they have paid the loss of the original owners, citizens of the United States."
This opinion, Sir, we take pointedly to apply to the case of the New-Jersey, for which the Secretary of State's letter was specially intended; and indeed the opinion must obtain whether the whole or part only of the underwriters have paid the risk they had insured; for in case they have, they must, according to the rules of justice and to the President's opinion, recover what they had paid; and in case they have not, the insured have preserved their title to their property, to a full restitution of which, general Hedouville has pledged the French loyalty; a restitution which the council of prizes have directed, and which the American board have sanctioned.
We may now be permitted to inquire what your excellency's objections have been to the effecting of the full restitution alluded to. You have given it as your opinion that the underwriters had not an equal right with the insured; and after altering your mind upon the subject, after writing us on the 31st of January, that you transmitted us your declaration of the neutrality of the vessel and cargo, that "we might avail ourselves of it, in the further prosecution of our claims as agents of Messrs. Nicklin and Griffith & the various insurance companies whom we represented," you again resumed your former opinion, and in so unfortunate a manner, that the French government, whose only wish could be to fulfil a sacred covenant, and to effect a restitution which the council of prizes had decreed and which was by the American board declared to be fully embraced by the convention, appear to have yielded to your opinion that right elevenths of the claim ought to be rejected, taking at the same time a receipt, the consequence of which seems to be that you alone, or your government, become answerable for the deficiency.
We can see no motive for such an objection on your part, but your opinion aforesaid that the underwriters are not entitled to the same restitution with the insured, a point respecting which you are now officially informed, by the secretary of state, that the President thinks otherwise and that his sentiments are in favour of the underwriters.
It cannot be supposed that you still entertain any doubt about the New-Jersey's owner's title as American citizens, since by your said letter of January 21st you informed us that "the policies of insurance and other documents which we had submitted to your inspection at different times, had entirely removed any doubts you might have had with respect to the fact that the New-Jersey and her cargo were American property."
The misrepresentation that had been made upon the subject, and the effect it had with you, was the more to be deprecated as the whole of the owners are persons most advantageously known in America, the lady of one of whom (Mr. Griffith) has the honour of being related to you.
It is then a well ascertained fact that the whole of the claimants are American citizens; and had not this been the case, they would not have repeatedly been declared to be entitled to the benefit of the conventions of 1800 and 1803.
Had their title as American citizens been questioned, the New Jersey would not have been restored to them by the council of prizes, the American commissioners would not have declared them to be entitled to the Louisiana money, nor would your excellency have agreed to the restitution even of three elevenths of their indisputable claim.
But the point of the citizenship being once granted, the consequence must be that right elevenths of the claim were rejected merely because you considered this portion of the claim as belonging to the underwriters, and because your opinion was that said underwriters, were entitled to no redress or restitution whatsoever.
But this is the very point to which Mr. Madison's letter relates; he officially informs you that the President entertains a different opinion upon the subject, and that he looks upon the underwriters as standing exactly upon the same footing with the insured.
Hence we may infer that, far from being foreign to our claim, Mr. Madison's letter was exclusively intended for the same, since it contains the President's sense respecting the only point, a wrong construction of which has been the cause of denying eight elevenths of the amount.
Hence we may infer also that the only objection you may possibly have had against the claim, being so explained and done away by the letter, the President's wish must implicitly be understood to be that a full restitution be effected.
Said inference must be right indeed, unless your excellency had other motives for thus rejecting so large a part of the claim, which we cannot suppose to be the case: 1st. because we can see no other pretence for rejecting the claim; 2d. because your excellency's wisdom warrants us that you would not, chiefly after you had been grossly imposed upon, respecting the very material point of the citizen, have either listened to or adopted new motives of exclusion, without fairly having the same disclosed to those concerned.
No body better than your excellency, knows that the laws and manners of your country can admit of no arbitrary measures, of no decision which is not supported by motives openly declared to the party concerned, and by which said party might, in the dark, be denied the eight elevenths of a just and considerable claim; no body better than you knows that the American law has not vested a Minister, nor any officer under the American constitution, with the right of denying any one the benefit of a treaty, to which, as being "the law of the land," all Americans are equally entitled.
The claimants in the case of the New Jersey, have then as a kind of birth right to be informed whether any motive, besides the one alluded to in Mr. Madison's letter, has become a bar to the full admitting of their claim.
If any such exists, we solemnly engage to do it away also.
If there is none but the one alluded to it is the President's will that the claim be admitted.
To the above we beg leave to add, as observed by us to his excellency the French minister, that the claim must either be good or bad, for the whole of it. Hence the unavoidable consequence that the claimants are unjustly wronged to the amount of 800,000 francs, in the first case, and that the American treasury are wronged to the amount of 300,000 francs in the other case.
Such precedent cannot stand upon the records of so pure and wise an administration as the American one; and we trust you will not hesitate in granting us the following our prayer, either to disclose to us the new motives by which you have been guided; or, if no new motive has occurred, and the opinion respecting the underwriters has been the only ground upon which the claim has been reduced, that you will, the ground being now happily removed, obtain from the French minister and government, an additional allowance equal to what remains due to the claimants upon the Louisiana funds.
The personal regard which said minister justly entertains for your excellency, added to the responsibility which a refusal on his part must attach to your government and to yourself, induces us to hope that your demand will be readily complied with.
Whether there be funds sufficient left, is more than it is in our power to say. But in case they were wanting, we must, after doing every effort in our power to support our constituents' rights in this country, trust the same to the justice of their own country and the authority of the American law.
We must conclude with observing freely how sorry we have been to find it stated in your secretary's answer to us, that the case is terminated. We can in few words convince your excellency that it is not.
1st. When we have received the 300,000 francs and given our receipt accordingly, to which said expression must allude, we did it merely because upon our declining it at first, the French minister positively declared to us that, "should said sum be refused, we should have nothing at all."
2d. The powers we had from the claimants, were intended only for a fair and full restitution of the amount of the claim. Hence the inference that we had no authority to compromise or agree to so heavy and so unjust a sacrifice, and that, when compelled to do it, if we have received a partial payment only, the claimant's rights cannot, in the least, be impaired by it.
3d. A settlement of this kind can never be compared with the one made between individuals in the usual course of judiciary proceeding. We admit that where two parties being of age, after being at law, come to compromise, said compromise must be a bar to their respective claims, because every party had the right to support and defend his claim and to abide by the decision of the law.
But the case is quite the reverse in an administrative settlement, that is, a settlement between an individual claimant and a government. Governments, as being the source of justice, set as judges in their own cause, and their party is denied the privilege of debating or otherwise supporting his rights. Hence the necessary inference that an administrative settlement can never be said to terminate a case, unless the same be just and equal to the demand; because, as long as there is something unpaid, the claimant is, right, supposed to have made a reservation of what he could not inforce an actual payment of, for which he must trust to the justice of his debtor, and for which he has a fair claim as soon as the indebted government perceive that they were mistaken and that they have but partially done that justice which it was their wish and duty to do full and complete.
These rules are constantly practised by the French administration whose agents are sensible that from the very circumstance of their being judges in their own cause, no act of theirs can be set up as a bar against the creditor, as long as justice was not completely done.
As to the American government, the same rule ought the more to prevail in this case, as their Representatives, through errors of which no man is exempt, and which said government has officially disclaimed, has been the author of the enormous and unjust reduction which the claim has experienced.
We trust therefore that your excellency will not consider this as being a terminated case; that you deem it right and proper to grant us our said request viz. Either to have the balance of the claim discharged, or to state to us whether any and what motives, besides the one alluded to in Mr. Madison's letter, has and still does prevent the discharging the whole amount aforesaid.
Should your excellency refuse both these two points, we think it our duty to persist in the protestation we have already made, as well as those which the claimants themselves have made both in their memorial to the secretary of State of the 25th July last and in their letter to you of the 9th of August.
With the highest regard, we have the honour to be,
Sir, Your Excellency's most obedient humble servants, J. M. DE LA GRANGE. DU PONT."
FIVE DOLLARS REWARD.
STOLEN or Drifted from the Ferry Steps, on Sunday last, a NEW YAWL, about 15 feet long, has never been painted, her bottom payed with pitch. The above reward will be given to any person who may deliver said Boat to Phinehas Dana, & co. June 2. 793
THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
TO SHEW THE VERY AGE AND BODY OF THE TIME, HIS FORM AND PRESSURE.
MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 2, 1806.
CAPT. BOYINGTON, of the ship Isabella, in 39 days from Liverpool, has favoured us with a file of London papers from the 4th to the 17th of April.
The contents of these papers, are in part given in this day's paper, and are interesting, inasmuch as they announce some events portentive of others of great magnitude. The flames of war appear to be once more about to desolate the continent of Europe.—France, Russia, Austria, & Prussia, with Sweden, appear in a state that cannot continue long. The retreat of the main body of the French troops from Germany had commenced, when they were suddenly halted. The French are directing their attention to Turkey, all which the Russians are uncommonly jealous, and appear determined to oppose them. About the middle of March the Russians seized a strong post in Dalmatia, called Rocca de Calabro, then garrisoned by the Austrians, and which was to be given up to France. The Austrian commander pleaded the weakness of his force, as an excuse for surrendering it. But this did not satisfy the French Emperor, who suspected some connivance between Austria and Russia. What has more provoked the French emperor, and alarmed him, is the sudden seizure of a more important post or country in Dalmatia, by the Russians, called Cataro, some account of this will be found in this day's paper, under the Vienna head, and that of London of the 17th of April.
On another hand, the Kings of Prussia and Sweden, were on the point of coming to blows, when as it appears by the latest accounts, the Prussian troops were halted. The conduct of the king of Prussia, has something very mysterious in it, as regarding Great-Britain. After the seizure of Hanover, and the exclusion of British commerce from all the North of Germany, the king of Prussia must have expected that Great-Britain would retaliate by all the means in her power, accordingly not only has (as we before knew) Great-Britain embargoed all Prussian vessels, but orders were issued to bring in all Prussian, Hamburg, and all vessels of States under the influence of Prussia; between the 10th and 17th of April, upwards of three hundred sail were brought into British ports, whose fate, with those embargoed, and such as were, and may hereafter be stopped, will depend on future events. What excites our notice is, that to the date of the last advices, British ships were permitted to depart freely from Hamburg, and the other ports under the orders of Prussia. Time must explain these matters to us, at present they are almost inexplicable.
The British convoy for the Baltic had sailed. The system of blockade of all the North of Germany has commenced with vigour, and a number of American vessels bound to those ports had been stopped and detained. We see no hint of blockade being extended to France or Holland. Accounts of the rejection of Mr. Wright's famous bill, had been received, and produced great satisfaction.
The accounts of negotiations for peace are too vague to merit attention, and are mostly from Holland, whose fate a few days would decide. No doubt was entertained, but that she would receive a French ruler. The French Journals are very severe on the Batavian government, on account of the capture of the Cape of Good Hope, which they do not hesitate to impute to treachery or imbecility, but chiefly to the former, the more so as the Moniteur asserts, that the Emperor offered to send some French troops to garrison the town and defend the settlement, which the Batavian government declined to accept. The general to whom the Batavian government entrusted this important settlement, (say these French Journals) was a partizan in the house of Orange, and was wounded in the commencement of the revolution fighting against France.
Captain Boyington received from the American Consul at Liverpool, the following NOTICE.
"I have authentick information that his Britannic majesty has judged it expedient to establish the most rigorous blockade of the ports of the Ems, the Weser, the Elbe, and the Trave.
"American Consulate, Liver- pool, 11th April, 1806."
Captain Boyington was requested to give a copy of this notice to the captains of all American vessels he might fall in with, on his passage.
A letter received by Ferguson's Packet from Baltimore, dated on Friday states, that on that day a vessel had arrived from Liverpool, with advices to the 22d April, which say that the blockade had been extended to Holland. We think, with all our respect to the writer of that letter, that there is some mistake in this, and that the letter had been written under first impressions, and from report. Capt. Boyington left Liverpool the 22d of April, he says, that he was at first informed that Holland was included, but that upon further enquiry he found that it was not.
Mr. COOPER made his third appearance on our stage on Saturday last, in the character of Othello , in which we will venture to say, that high as public expectation had been raised, he surpassed it. The bad support which he received in some of the most interesting scenes, was sufficient to have embarrassed him, as it certainly disgusted the audience, his superior powers, however, conquered all difficulties, and increased the admiration of every one present.
FOR SALE,
A pair of well broke young Carriage HORSES, and a London made PHLETON. Enquire at this Office. June 2. 787
FOR SALE,
A likely Negro MAN, 25 years old. Enquire at the Office of the Publick Ledger. June 2. 788
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
Sch't Fair American, Hore, 20 days from Jamaica, Rum, C. & F. Whittle.—May 21, Cape Florida bearing west, 3 leagues distant, spoke ship Josiah Collins, Dalton, from Jamaica bound to Philadelphia. Sch't Hope, Sprague, 14 days from Mariel, Molasses, William Pennock. British ship Ann, Porteous, 46 days from Jamaica bound to Liverpool, in distress—cargo Coffee, Sugar, & C. & F. Whittle. British ship Atlas, Clementson, 56 days from Jamaica bound to Liverpool, in distress—cargo Rum, Sugar & C. & F. Whittle. Brig Anne, Forsyth, 45 days from Marseilles, Wine, Brandy, &c. Edward Roberts.—Left there Ship's Ocean, Hinchman, of and for Norfolk in 25 days; Betsey, Clipman, of Boston, detained by the American consul on account of not having certificate of property and roll of equipment.—Brigs Daniel & Mary, Foster, of and for Boston in 3 days; Mary, Butler, of Philadelphia, uncertain; Mary, of Charleston, performing quarantine.—May 28, in lat. 33, 30, long. 72, 30, spoke ship Dolphin, of and from Charleston bound to the Cape of Good Hope, 5 days out. Brig Milton, Chamberlain, 16 days from Martinique, Sugar & Coffee, Moses Myers.—The sch't Argus, Small, of this port, was to sail in 4 days for Baltimore.—May 24, in lat. 23, 29, long. 67, 59, spoke brig Rolla, of and from New-York, bound to St. Jago de Cuba, 14 days out.—May 27, in lat. 27, 17, long. 69, 39, a brig from the City of St. Domingo, bound to New-York, 9 days out. Portuguese ship Pas Triunpho, Trinidade, 52 days from Lisbon, Salt & Fruit, Oliveira, Fernandes & Co. Ship Isabella, Boyington, 39 days from Liverpool, Salt & Crates, Phinehas Dana, & Co.
HERBERT'S Packet will sail for Alexandria, first fair wind. June 2.
Norfolk Chamber of Commerce.
THE Members are reminded that THIS EVENING is their regular Meeting, and that the hour of meeting is 7 o'Clock. June 2. 785
NORFOLK THEATRE.
The Public are respectfully informed, Mr. COOPER has been prevailed upon to perform for two Evenings more, and THIS EVENING, (Monday) June 2, Will be presented, the Tragedy, of
DOUGLAS,
Or, The Noble Shepherd. DOUGLAS, MR. COOPER, To which will be added, the Farce of IRISHMAN IN LONDON.
The Doors to be opened at Six, and the performance to commence at Seven o'clock, precise y.
Admittance, One Dollar. The Subscribers are respectfully requested to send for their Tickets at the house of Mrs. West.
June 2. 1 791
On Wednesday next, the 4th of June, at 10 o'Clock, on Holt's Wharf, at 4, 6, and 9 months, The CARGO of the Schooner Bellona, from St. Domingo, 6 Barrels GUM GUIACUM, 6 Tons LOGWOOD; 81 HIDES, 24 Dozen HOGG SKINS, 103 Logs MAHOGANY, 5 Tons LIGNUM VITE.
James Taylor, jun. At the same time The Schooner BELLONA, a staunch good vessel, burthen about 600 barrels. June 2. 1 790
For Sale, Freight, or Charter, The new Sch't CAROLINE, Burthen 120 Tons, is in complete order and ready to receive a cargo. Apply to
Francis Smith. Who has for SALE, 150 Casks Stone LIME. June 2. 31 789
For Freight or Charter, The new SHIP, ISABELLA, Captain Boyington, burthen 450 hds To- bacco. Apply to the Master on board, or to Phinehas Dana, & Co. Who have for sale on board said Ship, 6000 bushels Liverpool stoved SALT, 180 Sacks do do and 30 Crates well assorted QUEEN'S WARE.—Apply as above. June 2. 1 794
A LOT OF GROUND,
Nearly opposite to Mr. Collins's, on Smith's Point, fronting on York and Butte streets, 55 feet by 180.—If not sold at Private Sale before Wednesday, the 4th inst. it will on that day be Sold at Public Auction, at the Exchange Coffee-House, at the hour of 12 o'Clock.—For terms, apply to William Hartshorne, jun.
Also, at Private Sale,
A PHLETON and HARNESS, nearly new; a COACHEE and HARNESS; and a likely CHAIR HORSE that goes well under the saddle.—Apply as above. June 2. 1 786
THE LAST NOTICE.
As very little attention has been paid to my Advertisement of Feb'y last, I am under the necessity of assuring such as do not come forward and settle with me, on or before the 19th inst. they will after that period find their Bonds, Notes, or Accounts, in the hands of an Attorney, with instructions to sue indiscriminately.
William Leigh. June 2. 784
A few barrels of LIMES, for sale by James Wallace. June 2. 31 792
NEW CUT-NAIL MANUFACTORY, ON TOWN POINT, A small distance below County Wharf, Wide Water Street.
THE Subscriber has, at a considerable expense, fitted up, in addition to his other business, a complete set of machinery, adequate to finish 500 to 600 lbs. of Nails daily. He is also provided with a good stock of Iron; and with a sufficient number of skillful workmen.
He has on hand a constant supply of Nails, Flooring Brads, and Sprigs, which he offers for Sale at the reduced prices following, by the Keg, for cash only, viz.
 6d. 10d. 12d. and 20d Nails, at 7 1-2d per lb.  6d. 10d. 12d. and 20d Brads at 7 1-2d per lb.  6d. Nails at 9 1-4d per lb.  Sheathing, do. at 7 1-2d per lb.  6d. Brads at 4d per M.  4d. do. at 2d per M.  3d. do. at 2d per M.  4d. Nails at 2d per M.  3d & 2d do. at 2d per M.   ALSO—HOOP AND BAR-IRON ASSORTED. J. DORSET. June 2. 795

LANDING From on board the Schooner Isabella, James Pitts, master, from Lisbon, 3000 Bushels loose SALT, 16 Pipes London Particular Lisbon WINE, 2 Hogsheads do. do. 50 Boxes Sweet ORANGES; 60 do. LEMONS, 408 Fails White FIGS, 200 do. Comadre do. superior quality, 300 lbs. Superior CHOCOLATE, 160 do. KERNER do. ALMONDS, 7 Bushels soft shelled do. 6 Cases assorted LIQUORS, 4 do. do. do. 2 do. MARASQUINO—All fresh and in good order for Sale on moderate terms, by Oliveira, Fernandes, & Co. May 9. 6t 723
D. R. WADDEY, & Co. Have just received over the Ship Dumfries, from London, an additional assortment of SHIP CHANDLERY, Among which are a large quantity of BUNTING, broad and narrow, of every colour, which they offer for Sale. ALSO ON HAND, Teneriffe WINE, Holland & Country GIN, 4th Proof Cognac BRANDY, of superior quality, Hibbert's Brown STOUT, in cases of 6-12 dozen, Double Gloucester CHEESE, Old L. P. Madeira WINE, fit for immediate use, Muscavado SUGAR, in hds. and bds.—LOAF do. in do. N. E. RUM and WHISKEY. May 9. tf 718
SPRING GOODS. COCKE AND SANFORD, No. 40, Main-Street, have received over the Ships Two Brothers from Liverpool, and Dumfries from London, an extensive assortment of SPRING GOODS, consisting of Irish Linens assorted, 5-4 and 6-4 Sheeting, French Cambricks and Long Lawns, Fine Pocket Handkerchiefs, 7-8 and 8-4 quarter Diapers, Table Cloths, Chamber Muslin, Cambric do., Cambric Dimities, Furniture do., Fashionable Shawls, Lace Veils, Black net Shawls, Superfine Cloths and Cassimere, Cotton Cassimere and Granddells, Umbrellas and Parasols, Kid Shoes, Hats assorted, in cases, Seine Twine, Oznaburghs and Hempen Rolls, Cotton and Silk Hosiery, Checks and Stripes, Calicoes and Ginghams, Fashionable Waistcoating, White and coloured Janes, Powder, Shot, &c. &c. ON HAND, Yellow NANKEENS, first chop, Berboom GURRAHS and 8000 wt. BACON, April 23. 2m 695
SPRING GOODS. RICHARD TAYLOR, Has received by the Ship Dumfries, from London, a handsome assortment of Spring and Summer GOODS, which he offers for Sale by wholesale and retail, for Cash or approved paper. April 25. 2m 696
Landing on Gibson's Wharf, from on board the Schooner Catherine Shepherd, Capt. Webb, from Surinam, a choice CARGO of MOLASSES in hogsheads and tierces, And from on board the Sch'r Union, Capt. Buck, from Antigua, Antigua RUM of superior quality. In Store, Tobago RUM, Madeira and Teneriffe WINE, 7 years old; Medoc CLARET in cases of 1 dozen each; A few kegs Hog's LARD, &c. Harrison Allmand. The Sch'r Catherine Shepherd is offered for Sale. April 28. tf 704
Landing from on board the Ship Susan and Sarah from Bordeaux, 80 Pipes choice 4th pf. Cognac BRANDY, 100 Cases Medoc WINE, of Portet Canet, of the vintage of 1800, 50 Cases FRUIT in Brandy, 50 do. CAPERS, OLIVES, and ANCHOVIES. On hand of former importations, 500 Hogsheads CLARET; 200 Cases do. Entitled to drawback, and for Sale by Moses Myers. March 26. tf 613
ROBERT GIBSON, Has removed to the Fire-Proof Ware-House in Wide Water-Street, nearly opposite Commerce Street. Feb. 28. tf 586
TO RENT, (And possession given immediately.) That commodious STORE on Main-Street, No. 22, near the old market-place, together with a large Cellar and other apartments, well calculated either for Groceries or Dry Goods. ALSO, Two large DWELLING-HOUSES, with Stores in front, on Bank-Street.—Apply to Robert Farmar. Who has for Sale, on low terms, A few CANAL SHARES, The property of a gentleman to the Northward. April 4. tf 640 Will be landed Tomorrow on Commerce-Street Wharf, 118 Bags Caracas COCOA, 18 Barrels Superior quality SUGAR, 1 Tierce do. do. 9 Bales COTTON—For Sale by Jas. & Thos. Tucker. April 16. tf 660
PROPOSALS BY ROBERT D. RICHARDSON, For Printing by Subscription, for the benefit of Mrs. WINCHESTER, a Pamphlet, entitled A Plain Political Catechism; Intended for the use of Schools in the United States of America, by the late Rev. Elhanan Winchester, author of a "Course of Lectures on the Prophecies, &c. &c." CONDITIONS. I. The work will be printed on paper of a superior quality, with a handsome type, and will comprise in small octavo, about eighty pages. II. It will be put to press as soon as subscriptions can be obtained for five hundred copies; and no money will be required but on the delivery of the book. III. The price for each copy, neatly covered with blue paper, will be Fifty Cents. Among the various Political Tracts which have been published in these United States, there are but few more entertaining, and truly interesting, than the Political Catechism, by Elhanan Winchester, that distinguished Republican.—The accuracy of his information, the elegance of his diction, and the extent of his knowledge, in addition to the genuine spirit of candor which this production breathes throughout, unite to prove, that it may not only be a valuable acquisition to the rising generation, but highly beneficial to experienced politicians. Subscriptions received at this Office. April 2. tf 639
30 Pipes Country GIN, 10 do. real Cognac BRANDY, 20 Puncheons W. I. RUM, 15 Quarter Casks Old Sherry WINE, 30 Barrels WHISKEY, 3 Hogsheads Apple BRANDY, 30 Bags PEPPER, 50 Boxes Mould CANDLES, 30 do. Dipped do. 2 Bales Fine CASSAS, 5 do. Beerboom GURRAHS—For Sale at reduced prices by S. Marks, jun. & Co. April 2. tf 631
IRISH LINENS, &c. The Subscriber has received from Dublin, by the Ship Intrepid, a choice assortment of Irish Linens, Sheeting, Diapers, &c. which he offers for Sale on moderate terms Richard Taylor. May 10. 2m 747
SPRING GOODS, Received by the DUMFRIES from LONDON, for Sale by J. & W. Southgate. April 25. 3w 694
FOR SALE, 3000 Pieces Yellow NANKEEN, 11 Boxes Imperial TEA, 6 Chests Hyson do. The above of the best quality and entitled to drawback. Apply to Robert Maitland & Co. WHO HAVE ON HAND, Hibbert's best bottled Porter and Brown Stout. Also, Old L. P. Madeira Wine, fit for immediate use. March 5. tf 560
CASH Given for Twenty Shares of VIRGINIA BANK STOCK. Apply to the Editor of this Paper. March 14. tf 579
NOTICE. MARTIN FISK has taken Mr. CHARLES J. CATLETT into partnership, the business in future will be transacted under the firm of Fisk & Catlett. Who have for Sale, 4000 pieces Yellow NANKEENS first chop, Fresh Imperial Hyson and Young Hyson TEAS, 150 Crates Crockery WARE, well assorted, 8 Tons Patent T-SHOT, assorted, 75 Kegs English GUNPOWDER, 100 Boxes London Crown GLASS, 100 Kegs White LEAD, ground in oil, 1300 lbs. Seine TWINE, 130 Casks NAILS, assorted, cut, and wrought, 50 Bolts OZNAEBURGS, 200 Boxes Mould CANDLES, 25 do. Spermaceti do. 50 do. Fresh CHOCOLATE, 200 lbs. Spanish float INDIGO, 50 Boxes fresh MUSTARD, (Dixon's Manufactory) 100 Rheams Writing PAPER, 200 do. Wrapping do. ALSO—This Day Landing, 50 Barrels BEEF, Boston Inspection, 50 do. MACKAREL, 12 Hogsheads choice retailing MOLASSES. Feb. 24. tf 525
FOR SALE, BY THE SUBSCRIBER, AT HIS LUMBER YARD ON CALVERT'S WHARF, 700,000 SALE SHINGLES. 50,000 BUILDING do. 50,000 STAVES—White and Red Oak. 10,000 CYPRESS PALES. 5,000 CEDAR and CHINQUEPIN POSTS. Also—shall keep a supply of PLANK AND SCANTLING. Thomas H. Parker. August 19. tf 77
NORFOLK BOROUGH. At a Hustings' Court, continued and held the 29th day of April, 1806—Moses Myers, James Taylor, jun. and John Camp, are appointed to hold the Election for Common Council-Men, for the present year, in Ward No. 2. A Copy, Teste, WM. SHARP, Clerk. Pursuant to the above order, an Election will be held at the house of Moses Myers, on the 24th next month. Moses Myers, James Taylor, jun. John Camp. May 23. tde 761
Twenty Dollars Reward. WILL be given to any person for delivering to me at Surrey Court House, or securing in any jail so that I get him again, a Negro man, formerly the property of Capt. Samuel Ellis, of Cobham, known by the name of BLUE JOHN, about 6 feet 2 inches high, remarkably well made, about 35 years of age, speaks French very well, and has been accustomed to going by water. I suspect he is about Norfolk. All masters of vessels and others are forewarned employing or carrying him off. Richard Mason, Surrey Court House. May 28. 2w 768
BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE, Norfolk, Virginia, August 31, 1805. HIS Britannick Majesty's Consul to the State of Virginia, in consequence of instructions by him received from his government, hereby gives notice, to the merchants concerned in the trade to His Majesty's Dominions, that according to the terms of the Act of the 37th of the King C. 97, no British built vessel captured by His Majesty's enemies, afterwards purchased by citizens of the United States, and sailing under a Sea Letter can be admitted to entry under the said Act, as an American vessel. John Hamilton. 114
COW-POX. The subscriber informs the publick, that some VACCINE MATTER which he has received from Philadelphia, has succeeded; and that those persons who have been prevented taking the disease from the loss of the infection here, can now be inoculated. George Balfour. Feb. 12. tf 503
For Sale by the Subscriber, at his Bake-House, on Commerce-Street, 500 Barrels Navy BREAD, 200 do. Superior Pilot do. 100 do. Ship do. All of which will be sold on reasonable terms, or exchanged for West-India produce. Stephen Harris. PILOT BREAD in half barrels of a superior quality, for Sale as above. March 26. tf 614 Lost or Mis-sent, Fifty Reams of Demy Printing PAPER, shipped at New-York about the 25th of December last, on board the Amanda, Capt. William Smith, directed to the care of Messrs. Gracie, Anderson, & Co. Petersburg. Information of the above will be thankfully received by William Boylan. Halifax, April 30. tf 724
WANTED, 25 Shares of Virginia Bank STOCK. Apply to the Editor of this Paper. April 4. tf 643 For SALE by the Subscriber, a general assortment of Ship Chandlery, Cordage, and Cables, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 inches, English PAINTS and OIL, Shacathing PAPER, Bar IRON, TOBACCO, Richmond Inspection; FLOUR, PORK, Prime and Cargo, New-York Inspection, 200 GIN CASES; 20 Boxes SEGARS. They have also on hand, an extensive and good assortment of GROCERIES. Noble, Arbuthnot, & Co. March 31. tf 623
FOR RENT, The three large and commodious Ware Houses on the lower end of Gibson's Wharf.—Possession may be had immediately, by applying to John Southgate, or William Dickson. Feb. 26. tf 534 Now landing from on board the Sch'r Eliza Ann, captain Herbert, from Guadalupe, 64 hogsheads Prime Sugar, 10 Tierces 65 Barrels } Best Green COFFEE. 43 Bags } For Sale by William Pennock. April 30. tf 709
For Sale by the Subscriber, 10 Chests Young Hyson TEA, 5 do. Imperial do. 13 do. Gunpowder do. Moses Myers. April 28. tf 700
135,000 wt. Prime Green COFFEE, Landing this day on our wharf, for sale on liberal terms. C. & F. Whittle. April 16. tf 668
Landing from on board the ship Sheffield, and for Sale by the Subscriber, on their Wharf, 282 Hogsheads CLARET, 50 Cases do. 6 do. BURGUNDY, 36 do. HERMITAGE, 25 do. Sallad OIL, 25 do. Preserved FRUITS, 25 do. OLIVES and ANCHOVIES—All of very superior quality, and entitled to drawback. C. & F. Whittle. March 24. tf 601
I wish to Purchase, Six or Eight Negro BOYS, from 15 to 18 years of age. Thomas Warren. April 15. tf 661
We have received by the brig Fame, Capt. Cox, from Jamaica, 75 Puncheons high proof RUM, 4 Hogsheads MOLASSES—For Sale by Redmond & Frith. Feb. 24. tf 525
All persons having claims against the Estate of ROBERT WARREN, deceased, either by bond or open account are desired to bring them forward for settlement, and those indebted to make immediate payment to Warren Ashley, Administrator. December 9. tf 339
I will give the following prices for 200 Cords of Oak BARK, to be delivered at SALTER'S, free of damage. Spanish Oak, - - 10 dolls. per Cord, Willow do. - - 9 do. do. Red do. - - 8 do. do. Young White do. - - 7 do. do. Theo. Armistead. April 23. 3m 687
FRESH TEAS. Just received from Philadelphia, in whole, half, and quarter chests, Imperial, Hyson, and Young Hyson } TEAS. all of this Spring importation, and we warrant them of the very first quality imported, by wholesale or retail. Fisk & Catlett. Who have this day landing, 75 tierces choice NEW RICE, in whole and half tierces. April 21. tf 683
WANTED TO PURCHASE, A NEGRO WOMAN, who is a good House Servant and Sempstress; one without children will be preferred. For one well recommended, a liberal price will be given. Apply to the Editor. Feb. 3. tf 479
MRS. MACDOUGAL, INFORMS her friends and the publick, that she has taken that handsome house belonging to Mr. Roberts, in the centre of Market Square, where she will receive Boarders on moderate terms—the strictest attention will always be paid to the diet rooms, and lodging, and every endeavour used to render a transient or permanent abode at her house satisfactory. September 25. tf 169
FOR RENT, (And possession to be had immediately) A comfortable small TENEMENT, on Smith's Point, neatly fitted up; having two rooms below with two closets in each, and three rooms above, a new double storied Brick Kitchen, and other requisite out buildings. A spacious Garden and large front Yard are attached to this Tenement. P. Barraud. Jan. 29. tf 466
FOR SALE, A HOUSE and LOT, (or a part thereof) situated on the west side of Great Water-Street, at the head of Woodside's wharf, running to Holt's Lane; the House is 60 feet in front and 30 in width; the Lot 60 feet in length and forty feet deep, renting at 936 dollars per year—on a lease for 99 years renewable for ever, subject to an annual ground rent of 120 dollars.—Enquire of the Editor of this paper. April 21. tf 685
FOR RENT, The Store, Compting Room & Cellar No. 41, Main-Street, lately occupied by Mr. Wm. McCutchen. Apply to Thomas Willock. March 17. tf 446
FOR SALE, A likely Negro MAN, about 20 years of age, not sold for any fault, but for want of employment; price 320 dollars. Apply to the Editor of this paper. May 7. 1aw3w 719
BLANK NOTES AND CHECKS for both Banks, for Sale at this Office.
JUST RECEIVED, By the ship Roba & Hesse, Capt. Richardson from London, and for sale by the Subscriber, A LARGE SUPPLY OF DRUGS AND MEDICINES, of all kinds. Patent Medicines, Perlumery, &c. &c. Also received by the ship Almina, Capt. Siover 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.
One Hundred Dollars Reward. WILL be given, to white or black, that will deliver to me dead or alive, a negro named DAVEY, who runs away from me on the 5th instant. He is about 5 feet 9 inches high, very black, well made, and very active, with a full face, and speaks pretty when spoken to. He has been a servant to a family as a carriage driver, and has been lately put to the ship carpenter's and caulker's trade, and works well at the latter. As he is a lazy fellow, no doubt, will attempt to live with some person as a servant. He made an attempt to run away from his former master, and made for the northward, but was apprehended in Virginia, where he is well acquainted, particularly in the towns, and I have no doubt but his intention is again to get off to the northward, either by land or water. I recollect a very notable white speck on his two upper middle fore teeth, which will be discovered on examination. He may have other marks for what I know, not having owned him more than four years. I cannot describe any particular ones about him, but make no doubt he has scars, as he has been whipped before I purchased him. He is very fond of spirits, and will get drunk when he has an opportunity; plays cards, and is much given to roguery. He wore off with him blue negro cotton clothing, and had second hand clothing; but no doubt he will change both his clothing and his name, as he is an artful fellow; and if taken, will night; and when taken, if not well secured, will make his escape. I do hereby forward all masters of vessels and others from harbouring or carrying him off at their peril. The above reward, and all travelling expenses, will be paid, if the distance exceeds 75 miles. John Drew, Jr. Port Tombstone, near Edenton. March 17. tf 587
VILLAINY EXPOSED. On the 11th of August, 1805, JOHN ROBERTS, master of the Schooner Aurora, of Baltimore, sailed from Norfolk with 500 bales of Coal, taken at City Point from on board the ship Bellisle, John Hair, master, from Glasgow. The said Coal was shipped for Mr. Merry, the British minister at Washington; but instead of proceeding to that place, the said Roberts went round to Philadelphia, and there disposed of the Coal on his own account; after which he sold the vessel, and has not been heard of since. It was stated by him at Philadelphia, that the Coal was Virginia produce, and he entered a protest on oath before Nicholas Diehl, Esq., Notary Public in Philadelphia, asserting that he sailed from Norfolk bound to Baltimore, with the Coal on board as ballast; and having in a heavy gale of wind sprung his foremast, was drove out to sea, and compelled by stress of weather to put into that port. Being bound to an adjoining state, and the cargo under the value specified in the 14th section of the Coasting Act, he was authorized to proceed without a clearance; but on his arrival at Philadelphia, being other than a district in the same or an adjoining state, in order to his being permitted to an entry he made the said protest, and reported his vessel agreeably to the 22d section of the said act, declaring at the same time that the cargo was shipped by and consigned to himself. Should the said JOHN ROBERTS have returned to Baltimore, or his residence elsewhere be ascertained, it will be subserving the cause of justice to make it known to the Collector of that port, or those of Philadelphia, Norfolk or Petersburg. February 28. tf 535
BRITISH CONSUL'S OFFICE, Norfolk, Virg. Jan. 18, 1806. HIS Britannick Majesty's Consul to the State of Virginia, in consequence of instructions by him received from his government, takes this method of communicating to such officers on the British half-pay establishment, as are resident within his district, the following Notice from the Army Pay-Office, in London, in respect to the form of the Certificate required from British half-pay Officers, by whom it is highly essential that the regulations therein specified should be strictly complied with. John Hamilton, Consul. PAY-OFFICE, Horse-Guards, August 28, 1805.
NOTICE is hereby given by direction of the right honourable the Pay-Master General of his majesty's forces, that the affidavits of Officers on half-pay and military allowances, who reside in the United States of America, commencing subsequently to the twenty-fourth day of December 1805, will not be passed at this office, unless the officer's place of residence, and also the county, district, or place for which the magistrate acts, before whom the said affidavit is made, (the competency of whom must be certified by the British Consul, if any shall be residents in the province or state, or by the governor, chief justice, or some other person in authority in the government thereof,) are therein specified, agreeable to the undermentioned form. D'd. Thomas, Accountant.
A. B. maketh oath, that he had not between the twenty-fourth day of _____ and the twenty-fifth day of _____ any other place, or employment of profit, civil or military, under his majesty besides his allowance of half-pay, (or his military allowance, as the case may be) as a reduced _____ in the place of residence. Sworn before me at _____ this _____ day of _____ in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five. The Magistrate to sign his name here, and the county or place for which he acts. N. B. Chaplains must insert in their affidavits the following words between the words "Majesty," and "besides," viz. "or any Ecclesiastical Benefice in Great Britain or Ireland." No alterations or interlineations of any sort will be allowed to be made in the above mentioned affidavit. January 20. tf 446
NORFOLK: PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK, BY WILLIAM DAVIS, FOR THE PROPRIETOR, OPPOSITE THE EXCHANGE COFFEE HOUSE Price Five Dollars and Fifty Cents yearly, in advance.