Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1804-12-24 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.
VOL. I.]
MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1804.
[NO. 70,
FOR SALE, FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The America Brig CATHARINE, Joseph Seaward, Master:—
Alexander Lechie.
Portsmouth, December 21. 3 298
FOR LONDON, The MEDWAY, A fine coppered ship under English colours.
Robertson & Brown.
Who have Landing out of Brig George, HIGH PROOF JAMAICA RUM.
December 21. 6 302
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, To the West Indies, the new, staunch, and fast sailing Brig HARRIOT.
William Hartsborne, jun.
December 21. tf 299
FOR SALE AT PUBLIC AUCTION, On Thursday 17th January next, at 12 o'clock, at three, six, nine, and twelve months credit.
MONTICELLO,
Just returned from her second voyage, now lying at City Point; burthen 479 2-3 tons, built under the particular inspection of Captain John Wilson.
WILLIAM BOWDEN,
Acting Executor to Robert Moore, deceased.
Petersburg, Dec. 10. tds 296
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, To any port in Great Britain or Ireland, the British ship MEDWAY, William Poles, Master:—
Robertson & Brown.
Who are Landing on Town Point, 20 Pipes, 20 Hogsheads, 14 Qr. Casks, Fine old London Particular MADEIRA WINE.
December 14. 2w 285
FOR SALE, The fast sailing Schooner FRIENDS ADVENTURE, Elegantly fitted for a Packet, and burthen 55 tons, she is in complete order, and the terms will be made easy.
Robert Gibson.
December 14. tf 287
FOR NEW-YORK, The Schooner HARRIER, Charles Dixon, Master:—
Christopher Fry.
December 12. 3 277
FOR NEW-YORK, The fast sailing Schooner FATHER & SONS, Henry Aberdeen, Master:—
THEO. ARMISTEAD.
Dec. 10. tf 277
FOR LIVERPOOL, The good Ship MOSES MYERS, Burthen 350 hogsheads; has part of her cargo engaged, and may be ready to sail by the 1st January.
November 26. tf 251
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.
William Pennock.
December 5. tf 269
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, The remarkably fast sailing copper-bottomed Ship THOMAS WILSON, Christopher Tompkins, Master:—
December 5. tf 270
Now landing on Rothery's Wharf, from on board the brig Ann Elizabeth, A CHOICE PARCEL OF ANTIGUA RUM, Which will be sold low if taken from the Wharf.
John Brown.
Who will take a Freight for the above BRIG, Burthen 1300 barrels, if application be made in a few days.
December 3. tf 268
FOR CHARTER, The American Brig FACTOR, one year old, burthen 163 tons, will carry about 1500 barrels—a freight to the West-Indies will be preferred.
Richard Blow.
November 28. tf 260
FOR BOURDEAUX, The good Ship ECHO, Burthen 350 bds. For terms apply to the master on board, or to Moses Myers.
November 23. tf 255
FOR SALE, A very superior PILOT BOAT, Just launched, of the following dimensions, 38 Feet 6 inches Straight Keel.
Now lying at Newton's Wharf. For terms apply to Wilson, Cunningham & Co.
WHO HAVE IN STORE, 25,000 lb. COFFEE, 20 Tierces Dutch LINSEED OIL.
November 16. tf 233
FOR SALE or CHARTER, The good Ship PATSEY, David G. Bowles, Master, Burthen 370 tons, will carry 600 hogsheads Tobacco. For terms apply to the Master on board, or to Moses Myers.
Who has for Sale, on board said ship, About 5000 bushels Isle of May SALT.
November 12. tf 227
LANDING From the Brig ANN MARIA, from MADEIRA, AND FOR SALE, 5 Pipes, 6 Hhds. and 8 Qr. Casks, Fine old London P. M. Wine.
Apply to Robert Maitland & Co.
WHO WANT TO CHARTER, A vessel of about 1500 barrels, to load for a port in Great Britain.
Sept. 1. tf 109
FOR SALE ON LIBERAL CREDIT, The well found fast sailing Schooner EMELY, James Sampson, Master:—
Moses Myers.
November 26. tf 252
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER, To Europe or the West-Indies, THE AMERICAN SHIP YORKSHIRE, William Lee, Master:—
About twelve months old—burthen 290 tons, and will be ready for the reception of a cargo in ten days. For terms apply to the Captain on board, or to Warren Ashley.
November 8. tf 220
FOR CHARTER, The Ship BRUTUS, John Bunce, Master:— 236 tons burthen—a stout well built vessel; three years old, and completely found in every respect. She will be ready to receive a cargo in the course of a few days. For terms apply to N. Heron.
Sept. 18. tf 142
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE FOR SALE, 90 hogsheads Sugar, 60 pipes Cognac Brandy, 30 puncheons Windward Island Rum. And are now Landing, 26 puncheons 3 year old W. Island Rum. ROBERTSON & BROWN. BILLS on New-York at short date.
Dec. 3. 3w 266
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 Refreshes, at the shortest notice. BOARDERS accommodated by the week, month, or year Henry Benbridge.
October 9. tf 170
WANTED IMMEDIATELY, A QUANTITY OF Red and White Oak Drawn Staves, for which cash will be given. ALSO, White and Pitch Pine Merchantable Boards. ROBERT MAITLAND & Co.
Sept. 27. tf 157
FALL AND WINTER GOODS. THE SUBSCRIBER Has received by the Brig COMMERCE, from LONDON, and Ship BRUTUS, from LIVERPOOL, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF FALL AND WINTER GOODS, which he offers for sale, by Wholesale or Retail, on moderate terms. Richard Taylor.
Sept. 22. tf 150
NOW LANDING On Newton's Wharf, from the Schooner THREE SISTERS, 20 Puncheons St. Croix RUM, 3 Hogsheads do. SUGAR. Also—From on board the Schooner CURROTOMAN, 16 Hogsheads SUGAR, superior quality. 8 Bags best GREEN COFFEE. For sale by Wilson, Cunningham & Co.
December 3. 3w 271
CASH WILL BE GIVEN FOR WHEAT, PEASE, AND FLAX-SEED, By the Subscriber, at his warehouse on Marsden's wharf. THEO. ARMISTEAD.
November 19. 5w 241
FALL GOODS. WE are now landing from the brig Commerce, from London, an extensive assortment of FALL GOODS, among which are, assorted packages, calculated for the West India market, entitled to drawback; which will be sold at low advance, by Gilliat & Mackinder.
August 21. tf 92
NOW LANDING On Campbell's Wharf, from on board the Schooner CHANCE, Captain Abbott, from St. Martin's. 37 Hogsheads, 3 Tierces, 17 Barrels, 5 Puncheons Jamaica Rum, 4 do. St. Martin's do. 400 Spanish Hides. ALSO, 270 Barrels Tar, 14 do. Turpentine, 17 do. Rosin, 13 do. Varnish, 21 Casks Spirits Turpentine in shipping order. All of which will be sold on moderate terms, for cash or approved notes. John Stratton.
December 21. tf 300
TO LEASE OR RENT, For a term of years, THAT valuable House lately the residence of Mr. Cornelius Calvert, deceased—together with the WHARF, which has been extended out into deep water, so that ships of any burthen may lie at it—with WAREHOUSES, &c. For terms apply to James Tucker.
November 28. tf 258
Notice is hereby given that a petition will be presented to the Legislature of Virginia, at its next session, praying that the articles of Flour, Bread, Beef, Pork, Fish, Naval-Stores, and Lumber, shall be inspected at the place of exportation. Sept. 29.
FOR SALE, SUPERFINE and FINE FLOUR, and CROSS-MIDLINGS, by Thomas Ritson.
Church-Street, October 27. tf 194
FOR SALE, 100 Hhds. Petersburg TOBACCO. Part of which is afloat. A. Maclure.
Nov. 21. tf 242
NOW LANDING, AND FOR SALE, 100 hogsheads prime old Petersburg and Richmond TOBACCO. C. & F. Whittle.
December 12. tf 278
LIVERPOOL SALT. QUEEN'S WARE, in Crates well afforded. DUFFIL BLANKETS, in small Bales. 10 and 20d. Flat Pointed NAILS, in Casks—and LIVERPOOL COAL. 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. tf 137
NOW LANDING ON NEWTON'S WHARF, From on board the Ship DART, Captain Peck, from Cadiz, 500 Qr. Casks SHERRY WINE, of superior quality, and 2000 Barrels SALT. For sale by Richard Bowden & Co.
August 9. tf 60
FOR SALE, A LIKELY NEGRO GIRL, 18 years of age, accustomed to house work, and sold for want of employment. Apply at the office of the Publick Ledger. December 14. tf 282
THE SUBSCRIBER, HAS FOR SALE, 1200 Dried Spanish Hides, 24 Bales Cotton, 18 Bales Cocoa, 5 Bundles Tanned Leather, 16 Hogsheads, 17 Barrels, 13 Pieces Russia Casks, 7 do. Raven's Duck, 6 Kegs Good Chewing Tobacco, 15 Tons Fustic, 20 Logs St. Domingo Mahogany. Apply at his office on Market-square. EDWARD ROBERTS. Who will give Cash for Corn, Dees-Wax, and Pipe Staves. December 14. 3w 288
50 Puncheons ANTIGUA RUM, 150 Barrels prime NEW YORK, 300 do. CAROLINA, 500 Half Barrels CRACKERS, 50 Hogsheads Petersburg TOBACCO, 45 do. CLARET, 5 Barrels COCOA, 12 Cases NOYEAU.—For sale on liberal terms by C. & F. Whittle.
November 6. tf 219
CASH FOR Red and White Oak Hogshead Staves, with a proportion of heading. WE HAVE FOR SALE, 1,000 Barrels TURPENTINE, 1,000 do. TAR, 100,000 Red and White Oak Hhd. STAVES—and 8 Pipes of BRANDY. Gilliat & Mackinder.
November 8. tf 222
CLOVER SEED. THE SUBSCRIBERS Have received from Philadelphia, a quantity of Pennsylvania RED CLOVER SEED, of this years crop. John Rorke & Co.
November 26. tf 246
19,000 Bushels Isle May SALT—afloat. 150,000 Weight of Muscovado SUGAR, 340 Pipes of 4th proof Spanish BRANDY, 50 do. Valenica WINE, 10 do. Cognac BRANDY, 180 do. Best Holland GIN, 100 Casks do. 1200 Empty GIN CASES, 40 Hogsheads, 30 Cases, 20 Pipes, 10 Hogsheads, 10 Qr. Casks, 200 Pieces Rufina SHEETING, 260 do. Ravens DUCK, 75 do. Holland do. 100 Barrels Boston BEEF, 50 do. PORK. For sale on reasonable terms, and long credit by Moses Myers.
November 26. tf 250
LANDING THIS DAY From the Schooner SUSAN, from Jamaica, on Newton's Wharf, Fifty Three Puncheons RUM. For sale by Moses Myers.
December 19. tf 295
FOR SALE, By the Subscriber at Gosport, a parcel of choice JAMAICA RUM, Just arrived in the George. John Cox.
December 19. 1m 294
FINE SALT. FOR SALE—A-FLOAT, 3000 Bushels LIVERPOOL SALT. William Hartsborne, jun.
December 19. tf 295
LIVERPOOL SALT. The Cargo of the Brig Catharine, now lying at Newton's Wharf, for sale by Moses Myers.
December 19. tf 297
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD, WILL be paid to any person who will deliver to the subscriber in this city, or to Gilliat & Mackinder, about 17 years of age. He has a long and smiling countenance, small legs, is round shouldered, his colour is between black and mulatto. He has been always employed as a house servant, and does not understand any other kind of business. He had a great variety of wearing apparel, all of excellent quality, much better than is usually given to servants. There is great reason to believe that he was decoyed or inveigled away by the master of a northern trading vessel, and it is probable he will endeavour to go to Norfolk or Hampton for the purpose of getting on board; and as he is well acquainted on the stage road, and has very good address, he will probably pass for a free man. Thomas Gilliat.
December 19. tf 293
FOR SALE, 120 Hogsheads of old Richmond and Petersburg TOBACCO. MOSES MYERS.
December 19. tf 291
REDEMPTIONERS—FARMERS. THE time of service of a German family of Farmers, consisting of a Man, his Wife, and Daughter, of about 8 years old—very healthy, industrious, and well disposed people, having three and a half years to serve; they are desirous of being employed on a plantation, where their services would be found very profitable. Apply to the Printers. December 19. 2w 292
H. BOUCHER, Offers for Sale, at Mr. Delivre's Store, No. 20, Church Street, a large and fresh assortment of Hardware, Jewellery and Perfumery, Which will be disposed of at the very lowest prices—Viz.
HARDWARE. Elegant brass Andirons, all sizes, Do. Shovel and Tongs, do. Do. Pokers, Fine and common Bellows, Knives and Forks of all kinds, Pocket Knives, Penknives, Razors, Scissors of different kinds, Snuffers and Stands, Tea Boards, Bread Baskets, Bottle Stands, Morocco Pocket and Memorandum Books, Thread Cases plain and complete, White Chapel Needles, Gimblets, Dressing Combs, Ivory fine do. Tortoise Shell do. Horn do. Brass Thimbles steel bottoms, Grid Irons, Curry Combs and Brushes, Wafer, Do. of Meliss des Carmes, &c. &c. &c. Snuff Boxes, Pocket Looking Glasses, Shaving Boxes with Glasses, Tooth Brushes, Shoe do. Blacking, Pearl Beads, Necklaces, A large assortment of Walking Sticks, &c. &c. JEWELLERY. Gold Lockets and Breast Pins, Gold Ear and Finger Rings, Gold Watch Keys, Gold mounted Combs, Silver Soup Ladles, Silver Table and Tea Spoons, Silver Sugar Tongs, Silver Pencils, Silver mounted Pocket Books, and Thread Cases, &c. &c. &c. PERFUMERY. Superfine Hair Powder, Pomatum, Wash Balls, Windsor Soap, Essences, Water de Cologne, Do. de Meliss des Carmes, &c. &c. &c.
Dec. 14. 1m 299
JOHN C. NIEMEYER, Has received in addition to his former assortment of GERMAN GOODS, 45 packages German Linens, &c. chiefly entitled to drawback, Consisting of Platters, brown Hollands, Britanias, Sheeting, extra fine 1 1-8 yard wide, Dowlass and Creas of the best quality, Shirt linen, Diapers, Bed Ticking for Matrasses, Bed Bunts fine 1 1-4 to 2 yards wide, Ticklenburgs, Osnaburgs, Brown Hempens Hessians, Brown and White Rolls, Russia Sheeting and light Canvas. ALSO, Velvet Ribbons no. 2 to 150, Plush for Saddlers, black Satin for waistcoats, Brussels Lace 4 to 20 dols. per yard, cheap Edgings, German Nuns Thread, patent Needles, India sewing Silk, Made Shirts, Thread Stockings very fine, Razors, Spectacles, and Penknives, of the very first qualities, Cheap Jewellery, fine Scissors, Muffs and Tippits of Martin Skins, 15 boxes Tumblers, Decanters, &c. I will sell the above Goods low for cash or approved bills, or in barter for Coffee, and will take in payment One Hundred Hogsheads good Tobacco STEMS.—Apply as above. December 5. tf 273
Also, 90 boxes first quality Havana Sugars, 50 do. good quality St. Jago do. 140 do. Short Pipes, 300 lbs. Shoe Thread, 2000 Coffee bags good quality, 400 Gunny do. 230 M. com cheap Needles, 60 M. Toy marbles, 1 case superior Quills, &c. Landing on Taylor's Wharf, 17 Pipes, 4 Half Pipes, 2 Qr. Casks, 4 Hf. Qr. Casks, 34 Hhds. MUSCOVADO SUGAR. For sale by A. Maclure.
November 26. tf 245

To-morrow being Christmas Day , this paper will not be published until Friday, unless something of importance occurs, in which event, we shall publish an extra sheet.
FIRE IN NEW-YORK. —By captain Parrot, of the schooner Sarah , who arrived here on Saturday last in 48 hours from New-York, we have received the following distressing particulars.—On the morning of the 18th, a Fire broke out in that city, in a cooper's shop, at the head of Coffee-house slip, went up to Pearl-street, to Front-street, and from thence to Governor's lane to the water. Capt. Parrot states that about fifty houses were burned, the loss from the part of the city, where the fire happened, must have been, we fear, very great in merchandise, as well as valuable buildings, the loss capt. P. states was estimated at two millions of dollars. We hope this will prove an exaggerated estimate, and that we shall have the satisfaction of announcing it to be such in a day or two.
Ten or twelve vessels at the wharves lost their sails and rigging, and their hulls were saved with much difficulty.
From our correspondent at Washington, we learn, that the more moderate Republicans, feel much concern at the violent measures which are pursuing.—These gentlemen have cause for alarm, they have lighted up a flame by which they may be themselves consumed. The impeachment of Judge Chase , excites serious reflections, and the more reasonable part of the republicans consider the charges as frivolous in some instances, and malicious in others.
There is no circumstance we think that will produce happier effects, than a dignified and liberal conduct in the Senate upon this occasion.—If party spirit and political intolerance penetrate this high and solemn tribunal, we may take a long farewell of political happiness.
Although we well know that a majority of the Senators are the political opponents of Judge Chase , we feel a respect for the honour of our country which forbids to suppose that the highest Court of Justice will take for a model of procedure, those Tribunals of Revolutionary France, where condemnation and accusation were the same, and where the sentence was pronounced before the accused was heard.
DIED. —On Friday morning, at Kempsville, Mr. WILLIAM CURRIE , Merchant.
The British frigate Cambrian , arrived at New-York, the 14th inst. from Halifax.
FOR THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
THE LAY-CURATE.
DISCOURSE V.
GELET MARY—WHO BESTOWED MUCH LABOUR ON US.
The Apostle of the Gentiles to the christian brethren at Rome, chooses to convey his sense of the merits of a young female proselyte in the above words; which, although not expressed according to our modern Gallick or English idiom, will be found to import as much as the most formal assurances of 'high consideration.'
The reader is naturally prepared to enquire, who was this female for whom the apostle intends such flattering acknowledgement? This, however, not being distinctly declared, remains a subject of conjecture; and the context and concomitant history must serve as data for the enquiry.
It is not improbable that she was a Greek; for she is mentioned in immediate connexion with Epenetus, who is declared to be the first fruit of Apostleship in Achaia. She may have been an Asiatic of the city of Ephesus; because Aquila and Priscilla, who are also here mentioned, had resided in that city about three years, and had now returned to Rome after the death of Claudius, and the abrogation of his decree which first occasioned their removal to Corinth; and it is likely that Mary may have accompanied them to Italy. That she was not a Roman we may infer, not only from her name, but from this circumstance, that the Apostle had not yet been at that capital at the date of this letter. He addressed his brethren at Rome from Corinth the second time he visited Greece:—but subsequent to this was his accusation before Felix; his trial before Festus; his appeal to and appearance before Cæsar.
To whatever country Mary may have belonged is not very material. She was now at Rome; and her memory is, by this greeting of the Apostle, transmitted to succeeding ages with such peculiar distinction, and such a strong mark of approbation, that her name might be the pride, as her virtues ought to excite the imitation of the best of her sex, of every country.
It is with a purpose to bring into view some domestick female virtues, that the LAY-CURATE has chosen this Apostolical greeting as his text. He would recommend to his fair countrywomen the conduct and character of individuals of their own sex, whose acts and habits in social life are recorded as examples; not only of the purity of the christian character, but for the observance of the cardinal virtues, and the fulfilment of those duties peculiarly assigned to their station.
It is pleasing, it is gratifying, and instructive, to imagine the exemplification of the cardinal and domestick virtues, in the history of the wife of Aquila! Not only does Priscilla receive tokens of the Apostle's gratitude and acknowledgements every time her husband is mentioned, but she is particularly distinguished as his helper in his great work.—Fervid and active benevolence was, from the first, conspicuous towards PAUL in Corinth: they not only
made him one of their family for eighteen months, while he co-operated with them in the secular employment of tent-making, but also, as would appear from his own account, saved his life on some occasion at the hazard of their own. Their liberal beneficence must also have been conspicuous, for he says "they deserve the thanks of all the churches of the Gentiles."
How easy is it to suppose that this worthy family took an earnest part, while at Corinth, in promoting the contributions that were made for the support of the poor brethren at Jerusalem and elsewhere. For frequent mention is made of the liberality of the churches of Achaia in this respect. In all these virtuous and praiseworthy actions Priscilla bore not a passive but an active part. In all their peregrinations the benediction of the Apostle follows her and her husband. After their sojourn at Ephesus, whither they had accompanied him, they return to Rome, and receive the greeting in the context; and again, when, after some years, they return to Ephesus, Timothy, who was a Bishop or Presbyter of that church, is requested to deliver to them the salutations of Paul.
Among the female christians of that time, the bearer of this Epistle to Rome deserves not to be overlooked. PHEBE seems to have been a Deaconess of the church of Cenchrea, which was a small maritime town near Corinth. That she had been conspicuous for good qualities is manifest, not only from her being selected as the bearer of this important trust, but also from the strong recommendation given of her by Paul, and the reasons subjoined, "for, says he, she hath been a succour of more than of myself."
Of what particular kinds were the virtues of Mary and of Phebe, or in what manner they were made serviceable, we are not told: but it may easily be discovered that they were not ascetic; neither those of the blind devotee nor of the starched prude; but such as become every human being, and are peculiarly ornamental to the woman, those of efficient benevolence, and domestick usefulness.
If his fair readers are now preparing to exclaim—what is the object of all this research, and where is the benefit we are to derive from those historical conjectures? Is not the exordium already of such length, that there is not room for much doctrine in the discourse? If such be their disposition of mind, the CURATE can only recommend to them the exercise of one of their virtues, patience!—He has not unwittingly deviated from the accustomed form of didactical instruction. If he can, before he closes, place one or two useful truths in a favourable point of view, he will hope to be excused for his circumlocution.
He would, then, wish to recall to the minds of his female friends, the consideration of the part they have to act, and the duties they have to perform in life; and to discover whether they are not of those kinds which have here received Apostolical approbation.
Virtue is immutable. That which was in itself excellent eighteen centuries ago, to-day is the same. The degree of delicacy which has been, by the progress of learning and refinement, superinduced upon female manners, in latter ages, is not always favourable to moral habits. Though tenderness, timidity, and nicety of feeling, be in their nature amiable, and though the exhibition of them may frequently conduce to the excitement of that sympathy which constitutes one of the best blessings of our sex, yet how often do they lead to excess in their indulgence, or are over-rated in the power attributed to them. Whenever they are calculated upon as charms to attract, or qualities to inspire regard, they cease to be auxiliaries to virtue. An affectation of shrinking timidity of heart, and over-weening delicacy of sentiment, may soon be converted into reality. All know the effect this reality has upon the nerves; and from the close connexion between the physical and moral faculties, the mind soon becomes unfit for the discharge of any positive duty.
That this affectation is encouraged beyond any reasonable ground in modern education, is daily seen by those who are accustomed to enquire into the cause of what they behold. The occasions of alarm and suffering which unavoidably occur in families, and require the exertion of great patience and fortitude, are sufficient to convince us that woman is not naturally weak in constitution and temper. Indeed were it so, we should be compelled to conclude that the CREATOR had not adapted the means to ends with that happy foresight which we every where discover in his plans.
Without regarding the notions of Mrs. Wolstonecraft on the abstract rights of women, the LAY-CURATE is decidedly of the opinion of those who would rather form the sexes to a resemblance of character, than contrast them with each other. Virtue, wisdom, presence of mind, capacity, application, are not sexual qualities: they belong to mankind; to all who have duties to perform and evils to endure.
Female duties and destination are distinctly comprehended in the original mandate of divine appointment:—"And he said it is not good for man to be alone; I will make him an help meet for him". This not only points out marriage as the destination of women, but also the character they are to sustain in that relation,—a companion and an helper. Any elucidation of those exercises whereby the wife realizes the helmate is unnecessary: they are practically understood. The LAY-CURATE, however, would exhort his young countrymen, not to undervalue that knowledge which will best enable them to discharge those functions. They will not be rendered less amiable by possessing such information.
A justly celebrated writer [Dr. Aikin] after having observed that the arts of housewifery should be regarded as professional by the woman who intends to become a wife, thus happily adds—'and to select one for that station who is destitute of them, or
disinclined to exercise them, however otherwise accomplished, is as absurd as it would be to choose for your lawyer or physician a man who excels in every thing rather than in law or physic'.
The LAY-CURATE thinks it an easy matter for his countrywomen to convert their virtues into valuable substitutes for fashionable extrinsick embellishments, the languor of sensibility, and the refined arts of coquetry. The cares and the pleasures of life equally require an union of the sexes; but the happiness of a husband does not require those foreign aids; or rather it is not to be secured by such alone. That union whose basis is esteem, and whose cement is respect, must surely be the strongest and most pleasurable.
That the women of his country may excel in those qualities which truly are estimable, and are peculiarly adapted to the parts they have to act; that in the discharge of their religious, relative, and personal duties, they may secure an approbation which is superior even to that of an Apostle; and that in conjunction with their duty to God, they may display the valuable domestick virtues of Mary and of Phebe, with the charitable dispositions and active benevolence of the wife of Aquila; are the greatest blessings that can be asked for, in their behalf, by
A LAY-CURATE.
Congressional Register.
SECOND SESSION OF THE EIGHTH CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES.
Commenced at Washington, November 5, 1804.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Monday, December 10.
Debate on the bill for establishing a Court for the adjudication of prize cause in certain cases.
Mr. R. Griswold said there was some difficulty occurred to his mind in the very outset of the bill. The constitution of the United States declares that all their judges shall hold their offices during good behaviour. Yet the first section of the bill declares that the judge of this court shall hold his office during the existence of the war between the United States and any of the predatory powers of the states of Barbary, and the 9th section goes still further, in abolishing the duration of the office, by giving power to the President to abolish the court when he may think proper. By the constitution the President is empowered to nominate, and by and with the advice of the Senate to appoint judges; but no where by that instrument, is he authorised to abolish a court or annul the office of a judge of the admiralty, as this section attempted to authorise him to do. He asked the gentleman who reported the bill to justify this arrangement of a judge of admiralty holding his office either during a war, or at the discretion of the President. In order to try the principle he moved to strike out the first section of the bill.
Mr. Rodney did not know that he had it in his power to satisfy the scruples of the gentleman from Connecticut, but if he had, he would endeavour to remove them. He considered this case as one sui generis , dependant upon its own peculiar circumstances; and he should not bring into view the question extremely analogous, which had been so much controverted a few years back, but had been then set at rest, namely, that judges, appointed under the law of the United States when once the courts were abolished, and their jurisdiction taken from them, shall not still continue judges of the land, and receive a salary for being idle, or worse than idle.
The case of last session, in forming a temporary government for the Louisiana territory, was precisely on the principle of the bill, and the gentleman will find upon inspecting the law that the judges in that territory only hold their offices for four years. The tenure in that case is a term of years, and is surely as strong a case as the one to be provided for by the bill, both courts being erected, or to be erected, out of the original limits of the United States at the time of adopting the constitution; and he believed the constitution when it declared that the judges of the supreme court and inferior courts should hold their offices during good behaviour, confined itself to the then territory of the union, and not to judges out of the United States. There is another section of the constitution which gives to Congress the power to make all laws necessary for carrying into execution the other powers granted by that instrument, and under this power it becomes congress to make provisional regulations for temporary contingencies, and we are authorised to establish a temporary judiciary out of the United States, because the exigency occasioned by the exercise of the constitutional power of declaring war imperiously calls for it.—Without such a provision as that contemplated in the bill, our gallant tars would be fighting to little effect if there was no judicial authority for the condemnation of Tripolitan vessels after capture.—The terms of the constitution do not apply to cases of this kind. This question was talked over in the select committee and the committee were unanimous, that we were as much at liberty to fix the duration of the judges, to this case, as we were to fix the term of four years as the period of the establishment of the courts in Louisiana.
Mr. R. Griswold said the case did not compare.—The judiciary power vested in the judges of the territory of Louisiana, was not that judiciary power of the United States mentioned in the constitution, and therefore the variation of the tenure might be justified; but in the present case they were about to vest a judge with the proper constitutional power of an United States judge, exercising admiralty jurisdiction, which is a regular judiciary power of the United States; and although it was to be exercised out of the territory of the United States, it was nevertheless the power alluded to in the constitution, and an inferior court to be established by congress, the judge of which is to hold his office during good behaviour; and no gentleman on that floor could deny that this judge was bound in his decisions by the laws of the United States binding on the district, and other judges of the union. He did not see that the point he had made out on the present question was the same as that alluded to in the repeal of the late judiciary law; what was then to be contended for was the repeal of the law, and not whether congress had the power of removing the judges. The present was not repealing a law in order to abrogate the office, but it was creating a new court and providing for the appointment of a judge thereto, who by the constitution is to hold his office in that court during good behaviour. Yet this bill declares that the office shall be limited to the war with the Barbary Powers. He did not think that the measure was warranted by the constitution.
Mr. J. Randolph said that this was an old question in a new shape, it was not in the same words, but it turned upon the same pivot. If Congress possessed the power when a court became useless to abolish it, certainly they had the power when creating a court for a particular purpose to declare that, when that purpose was answered, the court should be discontinued. Where was the difference between creating
a judicial court now and at the end of the Tripolitan war (or any definite period of time) annulling it, and specifying in the law creating the court that it should cease and be discontinued at the end of the Tripolitan war, or at any definite time hereafter? So far as related to the judges there was more of speciousness in the claim of him who entered into an office the term of whose existence was not defined in the law creating it, than of him who knew when he accepted an appointment that on a certain contingency or at a certain time his office was to cease and be discontinued.
In regard to the ninth section, without seeing it in the very objectionable point of light in which it was viewed by the gentleman from Connecticut, he thought the bill would be as well without it. Whatever might be the relative situation which he might hold on that floor, he should always be averse to an unnecessary accumulation of patronage and power in the hands of the executive. The salary bill the next session of congress, supposing peace in the mean time to be made with Tripoli, was no object.
Mr. Elliott did not view the subject in the same point of light as the gentleman who had preceded him. He did not consider the first section as limiting the duration of the court, but merely authorising the President by and with the advice of the senate to appoint a judge of admiralty in the territory of some foreign nation at war with the same nation with which we are now at war. But the 9th section gave the President the power of abrogating this court after it should be established. He would never consent to give the president the power to abrogate any judiciary tribunal whatever. He should therefore vote for retaining the first section and subsequently for striking out the 9th.
Mr. Nelson, as one of the committee who had reported the bill, begged to be permitted to assign some reasons in its defence. He did not pretend to understand the forms of proceeding in this body. The short time he had the honour of a seat on this floor forbade his aspiring to that knowledge; but in all the legislative bodies with which he was acquainted, it is not deemed parliamentary to argue against the first section of a bill that the last section is imperfect or incorrect. When a bill is to be considered by sections, the merits or demerits of each is to be considered by itself. Now the first section does not fix the time at which the law shall expire or the office shall cease; and although the constitution says that judges shall hold their offices during good behaviour, who is there here that can say that this office may not last during the life of the judge, nay, may not last to the end of time, for no man can say when the war will end. But admitting it to be in order to refer to the 9th section while discussing the first, he would ask how did that infringe the constitution? The power to abolish the office is fixed somewhere, and when once abolished, and the officer left with nothing to do; will it be yet contended that he shall still be entitled to receive his salary? Does the constitution prohibit Congress from making a judge a justice, or a commissioner, call him what you please, an extraordinary emergency, and insist upon his holding such office during good behaviour? He had always construed differently. The idea of a tenure during good behaviour in the office of a judge was borrowed from England, and there it was considered as a great point gained over the crown, by which they were appointed, and upon which they had heretofore been wholly dependent. But was it ever contended that the British parliament, including king, lords and commons, were incompetent to dismiss them from their seats; it never was so contended, nor it never can be so contended with success; and though here the president has not the power to remove inferior judges, yet the legislature may remove them with their offices, and the body of the people may remove them by an expression of their sovereign will; but perhaps these remarks are unnecessary and need not be dwelt upon. He would vote against striking out the clause.
The question was taken on striking out the first section, and lost with a division.
Mr. Lucas moved to strike out the 9th section, and assigned for reason that Congress ought not to attempt to do that indirectly which could not be done directly. The fundamental principle of the constitution was the separation of the powers of the government. The judge therefore ought to be independent of the executive for the tenure of his office; by this section he is rendered altogether independent upon the will of the president. There is no limitation as to the time or to the power which the executive may exercise over the judge. He may not hold his office even during the present war, for during the present war it is only made lawful for the president to appoint such an officer, and by this section it is also made lawful for him to abolish the same when in his opinion it shall be proper to do so. It may be said that the judge cannot be removed, unless the court is suppressed; this is but an evasion, for the president has not the power of actually removing him, yet he can virtually do so, and the effect upon the judge is exactly the same. This power is unconstitutional in itself, and dangerous as a precedent. He hoped it would not be granted—nor did he see any necessity for it on the ground of expediency, even supposing congress had a right to vest the power in the president. It is well known that congress are enjoined by the constitution to meet annually, and if the usefulness of the judge should cease on the cessation of the war, the inconveniences which may ensue, or the expense which might accrue, would be short and inconsiderable; for congress will meet in 9 months after the close of the present session. It will be therefore better to leave it to congress to abolish this court when they see cause for it, than transfer the power into other hands.
Mr. Rodney had no great objection to striking out the clause, because he thought the bill adequate to its object without it. The eighth section he observed established a principle that had heretofore been considered of considerable importance, viz. that a judge shall not receive a salary beyond the time he continues in the exercise of the duties of his office. The committee had supposed it possible that a speedy end might be put to this war, and thereupon conceived it necessary to charge the treasury with the payment of the judges and other compensations beyond the term of service. He was himself much averse to vesting in the president any unusual or extraordinary power; but he thought a proclamation by the president was an official proceeding proper to attract the attention of the executive authority of foreign nations to its subject matter. He was the proper organ to express the will of the law and to give information to those interested. Although, in all human probability, the war will not continue long, he had no objection to the clause being struck out.
Mr. Smilie said, if it had not been in the bill, the bill would have been well enough without it; but as it was in, he was not inclined, through an unfounded jealousy, to strike it out. He would ask gentlemen to point out any probable ground for jealousy of the president in the exercise of this power; for he took it for granted that, the constitution furnished no obstacle. Its injunctions in regard to judges holding their offices during good behaviour, extended to the courts of the United States, within the limits of the several states represented on this floor. Now the law itself cannot affect the person or property of any citizen within the United States, and as its usefulness may suddenly cease after the close of the session, he did not see why we should subject ourselves to a single dollar's expense, which might be prevented by the immediate publication of the president's proclamation.
(To be continued.)

December 7, 1804.
The committee appointed "to prepare and report proper rules of proceeding, to be observed by the Senate in cases of impeachment," submit the following
REPORT.
Whensoever the Senate shall receive notice from the House of Representatives, that managers are appointed on their part, to conduct an impeachment against any person, and have directed the said managers to carry such articles to the Senate, the Secretary of the Senate shall immediately inform the House of Representatives, that the Senate is ready to receive the managers, for the purpose of exhibiting such articles of impeachment agreeably to the said notice.
When the managers of an impeachment shall be introduced to the bar of the Senate, and shall have signified that they are ready to exhibit articles of impeachment against any person, the President of the Senate shall direct the sergeant at arms to make proclamation; who shall, after making proclamation, repeat the following words: "All persons are commanded to keep silence on pain of imprisonment, while the grand inquest of the nation, is exhibiting to the Senate of the United States, articles of impeachment against"
after which the articles shall be exhibited, and then the President of the Senate shall inform the managers, that the Senate will take proper order on the subject of the impeachment, of which due notice shall be given to the House of Representatives.
A summons shall issue, directed to the person impeached, in the form following:
The United States of America, ss. THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
To Greeting: Whereas, the House of Representatives of the United States of America, did, on the day of exhibit to the Senate, articles of impeachment against you, the said in the words following, viz:
(here recite the articles) and did demand that you, the said should be put to answer the accusations as set forth in said articles; and that such proceedings, examinations, trials, and judgments, might be thereupon had, as are agreeable to law and justice. You, the said are therefore hereby summoned, to be and appear before the Senate of the United States of America, at their chamber in the city of Washington, on the day of then and there to answer to the said articles of impeachment, and then and there to abide by, obey and perform such orders and judgments as the Senate of the United States shall make in the premises, according to the constitution and laws of the United States.
Hereof you are not to fail. Witness Vice-President of the United States of America, and President of the Senate thereof, at the city of Washington this day of in the year of our Lord and of the independence of the United States, the
Which summons shall be signed by the Secretary of the Senate, and sealed with their seal, and served by the sergeant at arms to the Senate, or by such other person as the Senate shall specially appoint for that purpose; who shall serve the same, pursuant to the directions given in the form next following:
A precept shall be endorsed on said writ of summons, in the form following, viz:
United States of America, ss. THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES,
To Greeting: You are hereby commanded to deliver to, and leave with if to be found, a true and attested copy of the within writ of summons, together with a like copy of this precept, showing him both; or in case he cannot with convenience be found, you are to leave true and attested copies of the said summons and precept, at his usual place of residence, and in whichever way you perform the service, let it be done at least days before the appearance day mentioned in the said writ of summons. Fail not and make a return of this writ of summons, and precept, with your proceedings thereon endorsed, on or before the appearance day mentioned in said writ of summons.
Witness Vice-President of the United States of America, and President of the Senate thereof, at the city of Washington, this day of in the year of our Lord and of the independence of the United States, the Which precept shall be signed by the Secretary of the Senate, and sealed with their seal.
Subpoena shall be issued by the Secretary of the Senate, upon the application of the managers of the impeachment, by the party impeached, or his counsel, in the following form, to wit:
To Greeting: You and each of you are hereby commanded to appear before the Senate of the United States, on the day of at the Senate chamber in the city of Washington; then and there to testify your knowledge in the cause which is before the Senate, in which the House of Representatives have impeached Fail not.
Witness Vice-President of the United States of America, and President of the Senate thereof, at the city of Washington, this day of in the year of our Lord and of the independence of the United States, the which shall be signed by the Secretary of the Senate, and sealed with their seal. Which subpoena shall be directed, in every case, to the marshal of the district, where such witnesses respectively reside, to serve and return.
The form of direction to the marshal, for the service of subpoena, shall be as follows.
The Senate of the United States of America. (Seal.) To the marshal of the district of You are hereby commanded to serve and return the within subpoena, according to law. Dated at Washington, this day of in the year of our Lord, and of the independence of the United States, the Secretary of the Senate.
The President of the Senate shall make all necessary preparations in the Senate chamber, and all the forms of proceeding, while the Senate are sitting for the purpose of trying an impeachment, and all forms during the trial, not otherwise specially provided for by the Senate.
He shall also be authorised to direct the employment of the marshal, or any officer or officers of the district of Columbia, during the trial, to discharge such duties as may be prescribed by him.
That at 12 o'clock of the day appointed for the trial of an impeachment, the legislative and executive business of the Senate, shall be postponed. The Secretary shall then administer the following oath or affirmation to the President.
"You do solemnly swear or affirm, that in all things appertaining to the trial of the impeachment of you will do impartial justice, according to the constitution and laws of the United States." And the President shall administer the said oath or affirmation to each Senator present.
After which the process which shall have issued and served on the person impeached, and the return
thereon, shall be read. And the Secretary shall administer an oath to the returning officer, in form following, viz: "I do solemnly swear, that the return made and subscribed by me, upon the process issued on the day of by the Senate of the United States against is truly made, and that I have performed said service, as then described: So help me God!" Which oath shall be entered at large, on the records.
The Secretary shall then give notice to the House of Representatives, that the Senate is ready to proceed upon impeachment of in the Senate chamber, which chamber is prepared with accommodations for the reception of the House of Representatives.
Counsel for the parties shall be admitted to appear and be heard upon an impeachment. And upon the attendance of the managers, the person impeached shall be called to appear and answer the articles of impeachment exhibited against him. If he appear, or any person for him, the appearance shall be recorded, stating particularly, if by himself, or if by agent or attorney; naming the person appearing, and the capacity in which he appears. If he does not appear, either personally, or by agent, or attorney, the same shall be recorded. All motions made by the parties, or their counsel, shall be addressed to the President of the Senate, and if he shall require it, shall be committed to writing, and read at the Secretary's table; and all decisions shall be had in open court, by ayes and noes, and without debate, which shall be entered on the records.
Witnesses shall be sworn in the following form, viz: "I do swear, (or affirm, as the case may be) that the evidence I shall give to this court, in the case now depending, shall be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So help me God."
Witnesses shall be examined by the party producing them, and then cross examined in the usual form.
If a Senator is called as a witness, he shall be sworn, and give his testimony standing in his place.
If a Senator wishes a question to be put to a witness, it shall be reduced to writing, and put by the President.
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
Gleanings from our London Papers by the Union.
LONDON, October 15—20.
GIBRALTAR.
We are happy to lay before our readers the following official account of the sickness which has prevailed at Gibraltar, which appears to be neither malignant nor contagious:—
Extract of a letter from general Sir Thos. Trigg, To the right hon. Earl Camden, dated Gibraltar, the 20th Sept. 1804.
On the appearance of the sickness in this Garrison (on the subject of which I had the honour to address your Lordship on the 15th instant), it became necessary to ascertain its extent as nearly as possible, and that every means should be used to stop its progress.
I think it due to the merit of Major-General Barnett, to acquaint your Lordship, that he undertook this task with the greatest readiness and zeal; and it is not less my duty to state, that Doctor North, the head of the medical department, and Doctor Bird, Surgeon of the Navy Hospital, came forward in the handsomest manner: they have visited numbers of the inhabitants, and have manifested great zeal, and shown their skill in their profession.
The other medical officers of the Garrison have also acted in a manner much to their honour.
Two surgeons have been particularly appointed to visit the poorer sick. I have ordered medicines to be issued from the medical store, and a subscription has been entered into to furnish them with wholesome food. Thus medical aid, medicines, and sustenance, have been afforded to many persons, who, from their poverty, would have been destitute of the advantages. Many lives have been saved, and the progress of the disease in some manner stopped.
Dr. North, Dr. Bird, and the medical officers, with only one exception, are most decided in their opinion that the disorder proceeds from the great heat and unfavourable state of the atmosphere, and that it is neither malignant or contagious.
In addition to the intelligence of the suppression of the Leyden Gazette, which we announced two days ago, we have to add, that The English Merchant, a paper published at Schiedam, has been also suppressed by the order of the French Commander in Holland. They were both published for the last time, on the 6th of this month.
The following letter was affixed to the statue of Pasquino at Rome:—
Holy Father—You are going on a journey to Paris to bless Buonaparte, and to give him the Bourses. Are you not afraid of being opposed on the road by the ghosts of St. Lewis, and of the murdered Lewis XVI. and thus to become a second Balaam, who was opposed by an Angel, when riding on an ass; for though you may ride in a carriage, be assured, Holy Father! that wherever you appear on this expedition, the ass will not be wanting.
FRENCH FRATERNITY.
A letter, dated the 3d instant, from the Hague, contains the following intelligence:—"The communication with England by neutral vessels, hitherto tacitly allowed to us by our French oppressors, though absolutely necessary to enable us to pay their extortions, has lately met with many obstructions, and it is even reported, will soon be entirely prohibited, at least until the final change in our government has been organised, and the grand expedition shall have sailed. The four last bags with ship letters, that arrived from England, have been seized by the French, and carried to the camp of Zeist, where Marmont, and the minister Semonville, assisted by some secret agents from Paris, opened every letter. All vessels suspected of coming from, or having touched at England, have been rummaged and visited in the strictest manner, both in the Texel and in the Meuse, to find out English correspondents. Several persons have in consequence been arrested, both here, at Amsterdam, and at Rotterdam, and many bills of exchange have been lost or taken away, to the great loss of our merchants, and the great detriment and confusion of our commerce. Foreigners may perhaps think, that a great conspiracy has been discovered, or a mediated insurrection prevented, and that they are the cause of these measures of severity; but no such thing: we continue patiently, and in silent anguish, to bear the heavy yoke imposed upon us by Buonaparte; we suffer, sigh, but pay without opposition, because the spirit and energy of our ancestors have been buried with our liberty and independence. Of this the Corsican and his satellites are well convinced.—This was, therefore, merely a revolutionary financial operation, and to find out what money our principal capitalists have still in the English funds, or preparatory to some new pecuniary requisition from France, under the name of loan, to pay the extravagant expense of her foreign tyrant's coronation, and, as some pretend, the ceremony for the installation of our own ruler or rulers.—That this must be the cause few doubt, as all the arrested persons, in opening their purses, have opened the doors of the prisons for their reception, and the French commercial agents are busy in taking a list of our richest inhabitants, and to gain information of the amount of their for-
tunes. Emigrations to Hamburg, Denmark, Russia, Sweden, and America, have consequently increased; and, should Buonaparte continue some time longer his present system in this country, in some few years it will contain nothing but tyrants, beggars and slaves."
A great proportion of the inhabitants of Louisiana speak French; hence they make a complaint against the government provided for them by Congress, because it has introduced Anglo-American forms and principles, and the English language. They state that many errors take place in consequence, through the want of a perfect knowledge of both tongues. It is to be hoped, that the American Government and legislature will take especial care to maintain what they have done in this respect, without injury to any man's rights. In the diffusion of their language the French have had a mighty auxiliary for more than a century past, all over Europe; and they do still most zealously attend to their old policy in this point. If the Americans encourage this foreign language, and let it become the vernacular dialect of Louisiana, French books, of course, will alone be read by the vulgar, and every thing will, by degrees, be perfectly Frenchified; the name of the Province, and of its chief towns too, are French. The incurable vanity of Frenchmen will lead them always to connect themselves with the government of France; and thus America will find, in the consequences of her new fraternization, that she is only nursing up a state, to be made use of as an instrument in the hand of her most dangerous enemy, for intriguing and caballing in the Senate and Legislation.
The following observations are written by a merchant of Toulouse:
"The free navigation of the Black Sea, obtained by the celebrated Catharine II. by the treaty of 1779, in consequence of her victories over the Turks is likely to produce a commercial revolution, if not similar to that which took place after the first European navigator doubled the Cape of Good Hope, which will at least equally form an era in the history of commerce.
"The Crimea, and all the parts of New Russia, bordering on the Black Sea, inhabited previously to that event by shepherds who had almost no idea of agriculture and commerce, are at present covered with polished and laborious inhabitants, their tents and scattered huts being all at once transformed into villages, intermixed with towns. These countries, formerly a desert, have acquired an extraordinary fertility, and produce all kinds of grain. The genius of Catharine was not limited to this extraordinary metamorphosis; ports were constructed, canals were dug; rivers rendered navigable, conveyed from the most remote provinces of Russia timber for building, and every thing which is understood in commerce under the name of productions of the North, as well as iron and copper from the abundant mines of Siberia; in a word, colonies from all nations have been attracted to that country, in order to bring agriculture to perfection, and to create manufactures.
"Already the port of Odessa, frequented by the ships of most maritime nations, had become a general entrepot; a ready the Russian flag had become familiar in the Mediterranean. Provisions coming from the North could only arrive in that sea by the Straits of Gibraltar; they arrived there from thenceforward by the new channel, with incontestible advantages, if it were only on account of the shortening of the passage, and sea risks infinitely less in the Levant than in the North Sea.
"France will incontestibly participate, in this respect, in the common advantage offered by this innovation. Notwithstanding it cannot be denied that there is a disadvantage to be feared, particularly for the country which I inhabit. I mean respecting the commerce in grain. I doubt not that the outlet afforded by the Black Sea has already given a blow to this commerce, and contributed to produce a diminution of the price of grain in the ci-devant Languedoc. In effect, the grain of these departments, which had an advantageous outlet by Spain, being now in competition with that of the Crimea, will necessarily experience a depression.
"I have this year seen a number of Russian vessels enter the ports of Spain, particularly that of Barcelona. From that time the corn of these countries suffered a reduction, which allowed them to be exported at an equal price. It is not necessary to look far for the principal cause of the depression which has taken place this year; and if, from want of reflection, the proprietors should attribute it to any other motive, it would be wrong.
"The retrogradation in the price of corn will astonish us still less, if we consider France in its actual extent, with a considerable increase of territory, to the north as well as the south, and almost all corn countries, of which the superfluities were formerly exported, and which, now a-days, flow back into the interior, if we consider that, on the ancient territory, the harvest is greater than it was fifteen years ago; if we consider, besides, the great clearing of lands which have taken place in the United States of America, the increase of the commercial marine of the Anglo-Americans, the facility with which they can furnish Europe with corn, and finally, that these same Anglo-Americans now furnish with provision the colonies, which formerly consumed a part of the French harvests; we shall perceive, I say, a combination of motives which concur, with the exportation from Odessa, to keep the grain down; for if, in the interior, there is more real abundance, and as we add a greater foreign competition, the result cannot be problematical. I do not believe the consumption can increase so as to uphold the price; I should think, on the contrary, that it has diminished with us, for this reason, that the indigent class, now more at their ease than they were formerly, consume more meat and less bread.
"It will be perceived that the consequences which I draw from the causes which I have deduced are inevitable; but should the landholder be afflicted at it? I have at the same time established that great advantages were attached to it; he will experience the happy effects of it like all the other classes of society.
"Let us admit that this circumstance attends to reduce the interest of capital placed in land; but we must recollect, at the same time, that if the corn has mounted for some years to a very high price, the enhancement was owing on the one hand to the profligacy of the circulating medium during the existence of paper money; and, on the other, from the extraordinary consumption required by a constant state of general war, during which it was necessary to supply different armies with provisions. These two causes, which were only transitory, no longer producing the same effects, the level must consequently be established. Besides, when and in what country could the possessor of landed property hope to obtain an equal interest from his money with the manufacturer and commercial speculator? The former, it is true, may lose a harvest by a frost; it is an unfortunate, but only a transitory occurrence; his capital remains; while the other, obliged to have recourse to hazardous enterprises, incessantly exposed to the risques of the sea, to reverses, to failures, often loses all his fortune. It is then neither just nor reasonable to suppose that the lot of these classes is equal.
"I am not ignorant that in political economy, it is a great and difficult question to know whether it be most advantageous to the general mass of population, that corn should be at a low or at a high price. It is
what I will not take upon me to decide; agriculture will gain by it, eatables will lower, the markets will be supplied in greater abundance, the artisan, the tenant, the soldier will live cheaper; the labour will be lower; the interest of money will fall likewise; manufactures of every kind will be able to employ a greater number of hands; they will even attract foreign workmen. Our exportations infinitely more numerous, will give a balance in our favour, and our manufactured merchandise will resume in competition, the rank which they held when labour and capital were at a rate which admitted of great enterprises; then all branches of industry and labour will be able to resume their proper course, and to concur in augmenting the national prosperity."
Journal du Commerce.
The length of time which has elapsed since we received any intelligence from Holland, induces us to believe that an embargo has been laid on the shipping in the Dutch ports. Whether it has been occasioned by any change in the government, or has been ordered by the French to punish the Dutch merchants for their refusal to comply with some pecuniary demand, we know not. It has been rumoured that several bags of letters have recently been seized on their arrival in Holland, and opened by the French, probably with a view to direct them in their designs upon the purses of some Dutch houses.—But if any embargo exist in the Dutch ports it will be but of short duration—the French themselves would be sorry that the communication should be entirely closed. The price of insurance, however, for English goods or colonial produce destined for the Dutch market, has been doubled within these few days.
The following flourish we take to be the ne plus ultra of sycophantick adulation to the Imperial risen sun of this wonderful era!—"In fact, between the death of Charlemagne and the proclamation of Napoleon the First, the French Empire, all Europe itself, have experienced an inglorious interregnum; and generations have been born and died without admitting a truly great man."—Courier de Leige. Courier.
Gazette Marine Memoranda.
ARRIVED.
Schooner Sarah, Parrot, 48 hours from New-York.
In Hampton Road, bound to Baltimore, ship Hamilton, Vickers, 70 days from the River Jade. Left Ships General Mercer, Miller, and Friendship, Stod-dart, to sail for Baltimore in a few days; ship Nancy, Hobbs, of Baltimore, discharging.—Sailed in company with ship George and Harriot, Allen, for Boston, and brig Polly and Nancy, Groom, for Baltimore.
The sloop President, of New-York, John Ashton, master, from Antigua in ballast, bound to Baltimore, was cast away off Smith's Island, on Thursday night, Wednesday on the edge of soundings spoke brig Nancy, Roberts, of and from Philadelphia, in great distress, having 5 feet water in the hold. Capt. Roberts was making for the first port.
The ship Zephyr, Pearse, of Portsmouth, N. H. from this port for Jamaica, is lost on the Grand Caicos.
CHARLESTON, December 10.
On Wednesday morning last, off Cape Hatteras, captain Drummond experienced a gale of wind, with a heavy sea, in which he sprung his bowsprit, lost his boat, and otherwise received considerable injury.
CUSTOM-HOUSE—ENTERED.
Brig Harriot, Davis, Dighton. Lucy, Foster, Boston. Susan, Farley, Ipswich. Sch'r. Adventure, Hardie, Martinique.
CLEARED.
Ship Helena, Stewart, Barbados. Sheffield, Cowper, Bourdeaux. Brig Thomas & Sarah, Dechamp, Guernsey.
MR. DUCOING,
Respectfully informs the Ladies and Gentlemen of Norfolk and its vicinity, that his Practising Ball will be This Evening, when he hopes to be honoured with their company. Dec. 24. 304
NOTICE.
TUESDAY next being CHRISTMAS DAY, this Office will not be opened for the transacting of business.—All Bills, or Notes, payable on that day, must be retired the day preceding.
ROBERT OLIPHANT, Cashier.
Office of Discount and Deposit, No. folk, December 24. 307
FOR KINGSTON, (JAMAICA.)
The good ship OCEAN, B. LUMBARD, Master:—To sail with all convenient speed; will take freight and passengers on reasonable terms if applied for in time, to the master on board, or to
CHRISTOPHER FRY.
December 24. 3 306
FOR FREIGHT OR CHARTER,
The new and fast sailing Brig SUSAN, MICHAEL FARLEY, Master:—Burthen 173 tons, or 1600 barrels—in complete order for the reception of a cargo. For terms apply to the master on board, or to
PHINEHAS DANA.
December 24. tf 309
FOR CHARTER,
The good fast sailing Brig LUCY, CHARLES FOSTER, Master:—Burthen 1000 barrels. For terms apply to
MOSES MYERS.
December 24. tf 303
NOTICE.
THE Subscribers and Members of the Mutual Insurance Company against Fire on Goods and Furniture in the State of Virginia, are hereby requested to attend their Annual General Meeting, to be held agreeable to their constitution on the second Wednesday in January, which being the ninth day of next month, by ten o'clock, A. M. at the General Office of Insurance in the City of Richmond.
W. F. AST, Prin. Agent, M. I. C. Richmond, December 10, 1804. td 305
Wanted to Hire for the ensuing Year,
An active NEGRO GIRL,
about 11 or 12 years of age, for which a liberal price will be given. Apply at the Publick Ledger Office. December 24. 3 301
TO BE DISPOSED OF BY SUBSCRIPTION,
AN ELEGANT PAIR LOOKING GLASSES,
Thirty inches by fifty-seven; and a
HANDSOME ORGAN,
Playing 30 tunes—to be viewed at Mr. Riffaud's Long Room, THIS EVENING—the subscription paper in possession of Mr. Ducuing. December 24. 308
On Tuesday the first day of January, I will sell to the highest bidder, before the Borough Tavern, at 12 o'clock for ready money,
TWELVE SLAVES,
belonging to the estate of Otway Byrd, deceased. Theo. Armistead. November 26. 344

DEPARTMENT OF MISCELLANY.
THE END OF WRITING.
These fair sheets of foolscap which thus ye are soil- ing, Still cutting, and scribbling, and blotting, and spoil- ing; This paper, I say, had an honest beginning, Being born of good flax, and begotten by spinning; To the loom in due time, and the rag shop it past, Into leaves of fine foolscap converted at last. Now seiz'd by the wits' it incessantly teems, Or with visions in verse, or political dreams; Till his Worship, just rous'd from his afternoon's doze, With a pipe of Virginia regaleth his nose: Then twisted, and twirl'd, and condemned to the taper In a puff is consum'd this unfortunate paper! It is thus my good friels, that truth setteth be- fore ye, Of your boasted employment—the tragical story; Your choicest productions, what'er be their name, Will end, at the best, in the vapour of fame: That vapour, my friends, do ye think it will stay? Like his Worship's last whiff, it will vanish away!
THE HISTORY OF HYPASIA.
[FROM GOLDSMITH.]
Man, when secluded from society, is not a more solitary being, than the woman who leaves the duties of her own sex to invade the privileges of ours. She seems, in such circumstances, like one in ban- ishment; she appears like a neutral between the sexes; and though she may have the admiration of both, she finds true happiness from neither. Of all the ladies of antiquity, I have read of none, who was ever more justly celebrated than the beauti- ful Hypasia, the daughter of Leon, the philosopher. This most accomplished of women was born at Alex- andria, in the reign of Theodosius the younger. Nature was never more lavish of its gifts than it had been to her, endued as she was with the most exal- ted understanding, and the happiest turn to science. Education completed what nature had begun, and made her the prodigy not only of her age, but the glory of her sex.
From her father she learned geometry and astro- nomy; she collected from the conversation and schools of the other philosophers, for which Alexandria was at that time famous, the principles of the rest of the sciences.
What cannot be conquered by natural penetration and a passion for study? The boundless knowledge, which at that period of time was required to form the character of a philosopher, no way discouraged her; she delivered herself up to the study of Aristotle and Plato, and soon not one in all Alexandria understood, so perfectly as she, all the difficulties of those two philosophers.
But not their systems alone, but those of every other sect were quite familiar to her; and to this knowledge she added that of polite learning, and the art of oratory. All the learning, which it was pos- sible for the human mind to contain, being joined to a most enchanting eloquence, rendered this lady the wonder not only of the populace, who easily ad- mire, but of philosophers themselves, who are sel- dom fond of admiration.
The city of Alexandria was every day crowded with strangers, who came from all parts of Greece and Asia, to see and hear her. As for the charms of her person, they might not probably have been men- tioned, did she not join to a beauty the most striking, a virtue that might repress the most assuming; and though in the whole capital, famed for charms, there was not one who could equal her in beauty; though in a city, the resort of all the learning then existing in the world, there was not one who could equal her in knowledge; yet, with such accomplishments, Hypasia was the most modest of her sex. Her reputa- tion for virtue was not less than her virtues; and though in a city divided between two factions, though visited by the wits and the philosophers of the age, calumny never dared to suspect her morals, or at- tempt her character. Both the Christians and the Heathens, who have transmitted her history and her misfortunes, have but one voice, when they speak of her beauty, her knowledge, and her virtue. Nay, so much harmony reigns in their accounts of this prodigy of perfection, that in spite of the opposition of their faith we should never have been able to judge of what religion was Hypasia, were we not informed, from other circumstances that she was a Heathen.
Providence had taken so much pains in forming her, that we are almost induced to complain of its not having endeavoured to make her a Christian; but from this complaint we are deterred by a thou- sand contrary observations, which lead us to rever- ence its inscrutable mysteries.
This great reputation, of which she was so justly possessed, was at last, however, the occasion of her ruin.
The person, who then possessed the patriarchate of Alexandria, was equally remarkable for his vio- lence, cruelty, and pride. Conducted by an ill- grounded zeal for the Christian religion, or perhaps desirous of augmenting his authority in the city, he had long meditated the banishment of the Jews. A difference arising between them and the Christians, with respect to some publick games, seemed to him a proper juncture for putting his ambitious designs into execution. He found no difficulty in exciting the people, naturally disposed to revolt. The pre- fect, who, at that time com- manded the city, inter- posed on this occasion, and thought it just to put one of the chief creatures of the patriarch to the torture, in order to discover the first promoter of the conspiracy. The patriarch, enraged at the injustice he thought offered to his character and dignity, and piqued at the protection which was offered to the Jews, sent for the chiefs of the synagogue, and enjoined them to renounce their designs, under pain of incur- ring his highest displeasure.
The Jews, far from fearing his menaces, excited new tumults, in which several citizens had the mis- fortune to fall. The patriarch could no longer con- tain; at the head of a numerous body of Christians, he flew to the synagogues, which he demolished, and drove the Jews from a city, of which they had been possessed since the times of Alexander the great. It may be easily imagined that the prefect could not be- hold, without pain, his jurisdiction thus insulted, and the city deprived of a number of its most industri- ous inhabitants.
This affair was therefore brought before the em- perour. The patriarch complained of the excesses of the Jews, and the prefect of the outrages of the patriarch. At this very juncture, 500 monks of Mount Nitria, imagining the life of their chief to be in danger, and that their religion was threatened in his fall, flew into the city, with ungovernable rage, attacked the prefect in the streets, and not con- tent with loading him with reproaches, wounded him in several places.
The citizens had by this time notice of the fury of the monks; they therefore assembled in a body, put the monks to flight, seized on him who had been found throwing of a stone, and delivered him to the prefect, who caused him to be put to death without further delay.
The patriarch immediately ordered the dead bo- dy, which had been exposed to view, to be taken down, procured for it all the pomp and rites of burial, and went even so far as himself to pronounce the fu-
neral oration, in which he classed a seditious monk among the martyrs. This conduct was by no means generally approved of; the most moderate even among the Christians perceived and blamed his indis- cretion; but he was now too far advanced to retire. He had made several overtures towards a reconcilia- tion with the prefect, which not succeeding, he bore all those an implacable hatred whom he im- agined to have any hand in traversing his designs; but Hypasia was particularly destined to ruin. She could not find pardon, as she was known to have a most refined friendship for the prefect; wherefore the populace were incited against her. Peter, a reader of the principal church, one of those vile slaves, by which men in power are too frequent- ly attended, wretches, ever ready to commit any crime, which they hope may render them agreeable to their employer; this fellow, I say, at- tended by a crowd of villains, waited for Hypasia, as she was returning from a visit, at her own door, seized her as she was going in, and dragged her to one of the churches called Cesarea, where stripping her in a most inhuman manner, they exercised the most inhuman cruelties upon her, cut her into pieces, and burnt her remains to ashes. Such was the end of Hypasia, the glory of her own sex, and the aston- ishment of ours.
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 ad- justment 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 Hogsheads First Quality Sugar.  20 do. Second do.  Loaf Sugar, in hlds. and bble.  12 Pipes Bourdeaux Brandy.  Madeira, Port, and Malaga, Wines, in pipes and quarter casks.  20 Casks London Porter, 6 doz. each.  20 Casks Hyson, Young-Hyson, and Hyson-Skin Tea—Fresh.  60 Boxes Fresh Chocolate, No. 1 and 2.  50 do. Mould Candles.  50 do. Dips do.  20 do. Spermaceti do.  150 do. Brown Soap.  50 do. Cheese, 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.  500 Reams Wrapping Paper.  100 do. Writing do.  150 do. Printing do.  150 Casks Wrought 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.  20 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 Flax-Indigo.  10 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 & 10 London Crown Glass, 50 feet each.  50 Belts Oznaburghs.  Scine Twine.  50 Kegs London White Lead, ground in Oil.  30 Boxes Tobacco Pipes.  Paint and Sweeping Brushes, of all kinds.  100 Sides Seal 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. tf 250
NOW LANDING
From on board the Brig Maria , Robert Hutton, master, from Barn- stable.
 30 Pipes Old COGNAC BRANDY, fit for immediate use.  211 Hds. CLARET, fit for the West India Market.  100 Casks, do. do.  50 do. Vin de Grave.  500 DEMIJONS.  2 Trunks of Silk Stockings, Silk and Kid Gloves and Fans. 
For sale by William Pennock.
Sept. 1 tf 115
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 ABLE HANDS, to turn a Pain- Mill.
July 8. tf 3
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 from.
* He has returned to his old shop at the lower end of the new market.
George Balfour.
An APPRENTICE wanted.
Nov. 16. tf 326
ANTIGUA RUM.
THIS DAY, Will be Landed, on our Wharf, from on board the Schooner Genera Pinkney, Captain Barry,
86 Puncheons Antigua RUM.
Which will be sold on moderate terms, for Cash or approved Notes.
C. & F. Whittle.
October 32. tf 189
LEVIN DORSEY;
At the corner of Fayette and Wide-Water-Streets, Town-Point DAM'S Patent Globes, 12 inches diameter, with com- passes in the bottom, very complete.
Quadrants, black and red ebony, with single and double ob- servation.
Ditto—with tangent screws, 12 inches.
Aeromatic Telescopes, for night and day, on the latest and most improved construction, in a portable size, with sliding sun-shade.
Telescopes, of the common kind, for night and day observa- tions, or for day only, of every description.
Circumferenters, of the best qualities.
Mariner's Compasses, in brass and wood.
Pocket Compasses, in brass, of different sizes.
Time-Glases—four, half-hour, 28, and 14 seconds.
Gunter's Slides; Brass Dividers; &c. &c.
Engraving the following Atlases, FOR THE USE OF NAVIGATORS.
Hamilton Moore's Epitome and Atlas.
General Charts of the Coast of America, from Boston to Phil- adelphia.
Ditto—Continued, with directions.
Ditto—West-Indies, and Demerary, with directions.
Ditto—Windward Islands, with do.
Ditto—Gulf of Florida, with do.
Ditto—Windward Passage, with do.
West-India Pilot, with directions.
ALSO,
A few tons of Baltimore Bar-Iron, afforded, by the ton or less quantity—Composition Bolts and Spikes—Punches—Car- riage-wheel boxes, of all sizes—all which he will warrant good. N.B. All kinds of MATHEMATICAL INSTRUMENTS re- paired, at the shortest notice.
* Orders for every species of Brass-Castings received and immediately executed at his foundry, and the work deliver- ed as above.
August 7. tf 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 Qrs. Casks SHERRY WINE.  10 do. 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. tf 96
COLOGNE MILL-STONES.
THE SUBSCRIBERS HAVE COLOGNE MILL-STONES, of all dimensions, from Hand-Mill-Stones of 22 in- ches, to those of 4 feet 8 inches, of the best qua- lity.—ALSO,
BAR AND ROD IRON, and STEEL, of all kinds. Jesse Hollingsworth & Son.
Baltimore, Aug. 15. tf 77
INSURANCE AGAINST FIRE.
Phenix Fire Office, London, May 1, 1804.
THE numerous and destructive Fires which have happened within the period of the two last years, in different parts of Europe and America, (more particularly in the towns of Liverpool in En- gland, Gothenburg in Sweden, and Norfolk in Vir- ginia,) render it proper to remind all persons who possess property in the United States of America, of the utility of insurance.
The Phoenix Office of London, is an institution sufficiently known by the very large and important losses it has paid, in consequence of the extensive- conflagrations in the cities and towns of America to such sufferers as have had the prudence to pro- tect their property, by insurance.—The Phoenix Company deeply regret that, owing to the experi- ence of serious and continued losses, upon the build- ings and stores in the timber towns, no altera- tion nor remission on such risks can be made at present —but the Directors hope, from the increase of brick and stone buildings, and other improvements of security, that the period is not far distant, when they will be able generally, to mitigate the rates of insurance in North America; and they confidently presume that the promptitude and honour with which they have uniformly fulfilled their extensive engage- ments, have unequivocally established the solidity, credit and good faith, of the Company.
The Phoenix Company grant insurances upon buildings, goods, and ships whilst in dock or in harbour, from loss or damage by fire, upon the most moderate and equitable terms; and persons desirous of securing their property by policies from this company, are requested to transmit their or- ders to their correspondents in Great Britain.
July 31. tf 48
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 Simira , Capt. Stover,
A LARGE ASSORTMENT OF SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS,
Consisting of Amputating, Trepanning, Cupping, Idivisery. 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.
ALSO, a few elegant Mahogany Chests of the newest construction, with furniture complete, PERRY'S ANTI-BILIOUS PILLS.
Frederick Heermann & Son.
July 17. 2aw 12m. 1
OLIVIERA, FERNANDES AND CO.
HAVE FOR SALE, WINES,
Of the first quality, engaged genuine, by the bottle, gallon, quarter cask, or pipe.
   years old. years old.     Brazil, 6 Caravellos, 3   London Particular, 5 Lisbon London Par. 5   Ditto, 4 Ditto, Table, 5   Ditto, 3 Sherry London Par. 5   Port Particular, 3 Ditto, Table, 2   Ditto, Table, 2    Farmers, Country Gentlemen, and Captains of vessels, will be supplied with the above in small quantities, on the most reasonable terms, and the qualities warranted genuine.— Country produce will be taken in exchange. Also on hand, Rum, Cognac Brandy, Holland Gin, Sugars, &c. December 14. tf 280
NOW LANDING
From on board the Schooner Lyra , Capt. Livington, from Antigua 115 Puncheons RUM.
For sale by William Pennock.
WHO WANTS TO PURCHASE, RED AND WHITE OAK STAVES—and 22 INCH SHINGLES. November 5. tf 291
FOR SALE,
ONE OR MORE OF THOSE FIRE-PROOF WAREHOUSES,
Lately built by the Subscriber on Maxwell's Wharf. The goodness of the materials, the fidelity of the workmanship, and the pains which have been taken to secure them against fire from without, must render them an object to the Commission interest. The wharf has been newly repaired, and is in ex- cellent order. The Warehouses are at present rented to mer- chants of the best respectability, for one year. For terms en- quire of the subscriber.
J. K. READ.
December 14. tf 281
TUITION.
The Rev. JOHN C. BROCKENBROUGH, RETURNS his grateful acknowledgements to his patro- nizing friends and the publick; and informs them that he will recommence his school at York-Town, on the 3rd of January next; where he will take under his charge a number of pupils, of both sexes, not exceeding twenty-five.
THE SEVERAL BRANCHES OF LITERATURE Which he proposes to teach, are the following, The Latin and Greek Languages—The English Language, grammatically—Plan Reading—Writing—Common Arith- metick—History—Geography.
HIS TERMS ARE, For those desirous of being instructed in any of English Branches, FIVE POUNDS per annum—For the Dead Languages SEVEN POUNDS TEN SHILLINGS.
HE WILL ALSO TAKE AS BOARDERS, Four or five pupils of either sex—not exceeding twelve years of age at twenty-five pounds per annum; if over that age at thirty pounds per annum—in which sums are included the charges for instruction, washing and mending. Each pupil is to pay his quarter in advance, and fur- nish his half cord of wood: boarders are to furnish their own beds; and none will be admitted for less than one year. December 1. tf 274
PHILADELPHIA BOTTLED PORTER.
ORDERS forwarded to the Subscriber (if accompanied with cash) will be promptly complied with, for the above article, put up by experienced Bottlers, under their particular direction, at the rate of one dollar eighty-seven and a half cents per dozen—bottles included.
Isaac W. Morris & Co. BREWERS, Pear Street, Philadelphia. 12th Month 1st, 1804. tf 275
Notice is hereby given, to all whom it may concern, THAT I claim right to twenty shares in the Dana & Comp Company Canal , formerly the property of Benjamin Jones, sold by the Sheriff of Camden, by virtue of an execution against the said Jones, issuing out of the Superior Court for the district of Edenton, North Carolina; and I forewarn all persons from any sale or transfer of the same.
Wills Cowper. Gates, December 7, 1804. tf 273
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, Castings, 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 hand 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 par- ticulars, 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. tf 97
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