Norfolk gazette and publick ledger (Norfolk [Va.]), 1809-03-13 00:00:00

NORFOLK GAZETTE AND PUBLICK LEDGER.  SINT HIC ETIAM SUA PREMIA LAUD.
[VOL. V.]
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1809.
NO. 96.]
For Freight or Charter,  The Sch'r Two Brothers, W. H. Nichols, master, burthen about 900 barrels, now ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to the master on board at Campbell's wharf, or to Edward S. Waddey. March 10.
THE SHIP  WILLIAM P. JOHNSON, Peter Le Breton, master, burthen 400 hogsheads tobacco, is offered for Charter, will be ready to receive a cargo in three days. Apply on board, or to Christopher Fry. March 6.
FOR SALE, A fine new Pilot-Boat  SCHOONER, of 100 tons burthen, will finish rigging in a few days. ALSO,
The HULL and SPARS, of one about the same size, of similar construction. ALSO,
A full built SCHOONER, of 125 tons, or 1100 barrels; the above vessel now lying at Gorham's wharf. ALSO,
A New Pilot-Boat  SCHOONER, of 120 tons burthen, now on the stocks, will be launched in a week. ALSO,
A VESSEL, of 240 tons, of very superior materials and construction, building in Mathews, and can be launched in three weeks. For terms apply to Wilson & Cunningham. March 6.
FOR CHARTER,  The Ship CLEOPATRA, John Johnson, master, burthen 376 tons, and will be ready to receive a cargo in a few days. This Ship is almost new and remarkably well built—Apply to the master on board, or the subscriber. William Pennock. Who has still unengaged,
The Ships Jane, Industry, and  Courtney. And offers for Sale,
10,000 cubick feet of Pitch PINE Savannah TIMBER, 25 to 35 feet long, and 12 to 15 inches square, 50,000 Rough Hogshead STAVES, 17,000 Drawn Pipe do. 10 Casks HOOKS and THIMBLES, 16 Hogsheads very fine Old TOBACCO, and 93 Boxes Castile SOAP. March 6.
FOR NEW ORLEANS,  The Brig Louisiana Packet, O. Wheelock, master, will sail in 10 or 15 days—For freight or passage (having excellent accommodations,) apply to JENNINGS & RODDEY. February 27.
For Sale, or Freight to New-York, The fine new Pilot built Brig  PATRIOT, Richard Pitt, Master, burthen about 140 tons, now ready to receive a cargo. For terms apply to Wilson & Cunningham. February 23.
FOR SALE,  The Schooner LYDIA, Burthen about 1000 barrels, AND
The Brig NANCY, Burthen from 1300 to 1400 barrels. Both of these vessels are well found; the former now ready to receive a cargo, and the latter will be so in all this week. JAMES YOUNG. February 23.
For Sale or Charter, The fast sailing brig ANN ELIZABETH, burthen about thirteen hundred barrels, in complete order for the reception of a cargo. For terms apply to John Brown, Marsden's Wharf. Feb. 20.
FOR NEW-ORLEANS, The American Ship ELIZABETH, 300 tons burthen, Timothy Tuffs, Master, in complete order, will be ready to depart the 25th inst. For freight or passage apply to the captain on board, or to C. & F. Whittle,
Who are landing per Gould's packet, a parcel of  Choice Baltimore WHISKEY.
NEGROES will be taken in the above vessel at a moderate freight. Jan. 4.
We will dispose of the CARGO of the American Ship Jane, consisting of
Prime Tobacco; Tobacco Stems; and Upland Cotton—And Charter the said SHIP on liberal terms. C. & F. WHITTLE.
Who offer for Sale, 1000 Lds. Richmond and Petersburg COAL, of superior quality, carefully selected, 1000 bushels coarse SALT, suitable for the fisheries. The Ship ELIZA,
but then 420 hogsheads Tobacco, is offered for Charter. February 15.
DOCUMENTS Presented by the Committee appointed on the third inst. "to enquire whether any advances of money have been made to the commander in chief of the army, by the department of war, contrary to law; and if any, to what amount." February 22, 1809. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. DEPARTMENT OF WAR. Accountant's Office, February 13, 1809.
(B.) Statement of monies allowed and paid to brigadier general James Wilkinson, as Indian commissioner, viz.
  extra pay as labourers, while engaged in the Choctaw line of demarcation, in November and Dec. 1802; 252 50   Payment to servant and attendant, having charge of public horses and baggage, from 1st July, 1802, to 1st March, 1803. 160 00   Expenditures while perambulating and establishing the Choctaw boundary line agreeably to the treaty of Fort Adams, from 3d December, 1802, to 28th Feb. 1803, 656 09   Payments made by him for charges incident to establishing the Choctaw and Creek boundaries on the Tombigbee, Mobile and Alabama rivers, from 10th July, 1803, to 20th November following 1,950 43 3/4   3,152 10   Dolls. 12,449 39   Note. It is to be understood that the compensation of general Wilkinson, as Indian commissioner, entered in this statement, commences with his appointment the 12th July, 1801, because the whole was included in one settlement at this office, and the expenditures between that date and the 16th March, 1802, would not be distinctly separated.   Expences incident to forming the treaty of Fort Wilkinson, taken from the account of Wilkinson, Hawkins and Pickens, joint commissioners for holding a treaty with the Indian tribes south of the Ohio, viz:   COMMISSIONERS' TABLE AND OTHER EXPENSES, viz:   For articles for subsistence of themselves, their attendants and horses, per account of Alexander Macomb, secretary, per abstract A. 3,956 98   For articles of household and table furniture, culinary vessels, &c. per abstract A. 445 13   Sundry payments by Alexander Macomb, secretary, per voucher No. 2, in his account, to Samuel C. Hall, for expenses incident to the support of the commissioners' table, for which there are no specific vouchers, per abstract A. 624 07   Dolls, 5,026 20   For the purchase of provisions and supplies furnished belonging to the factory, by Jonas Haldsted, United States' factor, for the use of the commissioners' table, and for the Indians attending the treaty at Fort Wilkinson, per abstract No. 4, and vouchers with Haldsted's account, 5,942 35   For articles furnished the commissioners and the chiefs of the Creek nation of Indians attending the treaty, out of the United States' factory, per abstract No. 1, and vouchers, with Haldsted's acc't. 764 05   Expenditures made on account of the commissioners, exclusive of those for the purchase of provisions, and principally upon their orders, per abstract No. 3, in Haldsted's account, 1,520 15   Payment made by said Haldsted for incidental expense, in procuring provisions, &c. 108 00   Payments made by Alexander Macomb, secretary, for transportation, pay of guides, expressmen, cooks and others employed during the execution of the commission, and in assembling the Indians at the treaty, &c. per abstract B. 665 46   For washing done for the commissioners and their secretary, per abstract B. 169 72   For payments by Alexander Macomb, to Nathaniel Evans and Lt. Walbank, for contingent expenses incident to the treaty for which there are no specific vouchers, per abstract B. 41 75   Payments for expenses and allowances for services of interpreters, and attendants, and travelling expenses of the commissioners, per abstract B. 662 00   Dolls, 9,968 41   Amount of expenditures by the quarter-master-general for the purchase of horses, mules, transportation of Indian goods and other disbursements in relation to the treaties, 3,121 50   Dolls, 14,994 61   DEPARTMENT OF WAR, Accountant's Office, Feb. 13, 1809. WM. SIMMONS, Acc't. dept. war. Dolls, 18,116 11 
  extra pay as labourers, while engaged in the Choctaw line of demarcation, in November and Dec. 1802; 252 50   Payment to servant and attendant, having charge of public horses and baggage, from 1st July, 1802, to 1st March, 1803. 160 00   Expenditures while perambulating and establishing the Choctaw boundary line agreeably to the treaty of Fort Adams, from 3d December, 1802, to 28th Feb. 1803, 656 09   Payments made by him for charges incident to establishing the Choctaw and Creek boundaries on the Tombigbee, Mobile and Alabama rivers, from 10th July, 1803, to 20th November following 1,950 43 3/4   3,152 10   Dolls. 12,449 39   Note. It is to be understood that the compensation of general Wilkinson, as Indian commissioner, entered in this statement, commences with his appointment the 12th July, 1801, because the whole was included in one settlement at this office, and the expenditures between that date and the 16th March, 1802, would not be distinctly separated.   Expences incident to forming the treaty of Fort Wilkinson, taken from the account of Wilkinson, Hawkins and Pickens, joint commissioners for holding a treaty with the Indian tribes south of the Ohio, viz:   COMMISSIONERS' TABLE AND OTHER EXPENSES, viz:   For articles for subsistence of themselves, their attendants and horses, per account of Alexander Macomb, secretary, per abstract A. 3,956 98   For articles of household and table furniture, culinary vessels, &c. per abstract A. 445 13   Sundry payments by Alexander Macomb, secretary, per voucher No. 2, in his account, to Samuel C. Hall, for expenses incident to the support of the commissioners' table, for which there are no specific vouchers, per abstract A. 624 07   Dolls, 5,026 20   For the purchase of provisions and supplies furnished belonging to the factory, by Jonas Haldsted, United States' factor, for the use of the commissioners' table, and for the Indians attending the treaty at Fort Wilkinson, per abstract No. 4, and vouchers with Haldsted's account, 5,942 35   For articles furnished the commissioners and the chiefs of the Creek nation of Indians attending the treaty, out of the United States' factory, per abstract No. 1, and vouchers, with Haldsted's acc't. 764 05   Expenditures made on account of the commissioners, exclusive of those for the purchase of provisions, and principally upon their orders, per abstract No. 3, in Haldsted's account, 1,520 15   Payment made by said Haldsted for incidental expense, in procuring provisions, &c. 108 00   Payments made by Alexander Macomb, secretary, for transportation, pay of guides, expressmen, cooks and others employed during the execution of the commission, and in assembling the Indians at the treaty, &c. per abstract B. 665 46   For washing done for the commissioners and their secretary, per abstract B. 169 72   For payments by Alexander Macomb, to Nathaniel Evans and Lt. Walbank, for contingent expenses incident to the treaty for which there are no specific vouchers, per abstract B. 41 75   Payments for expenses and allowances for services of interpreters, and attendants, and travelling expenses of the commissioners, per abstract B. 662 00   Dolls, 9,968 41   Amount of expenditures by the quarter-master-general for the purchase of horses, mules, transportation of Indian goods and other disbursements in relation to the treaties, 3,121 50   Dolls, 14,994 61   DEPARTMENT OF WAR, Accountant's Office, Feb. 13, 1809. WM. SIMMONS, Acc't. dept. war. Dolls, 18,116 11 
(C.) Abstract of expenditures made by Lieut. Josiah Taylor, assistant military agent, under the directions of brigadier general James Wilkinson and governor William C. C. Claiborne, commissioners appointed to take possession of Louisiana. For 418 1/2 lbs. leaf sugar, 30 do. lump sugar, 44 do. brown sugar, 844 bottles of claret, 196 1-2 gallons maderia wine, 4 do. sherry wine, 1 qr. cask madeira wine, 144 bottles of champagne, 50 do. white wine, 100 do. hermitage wine, 388 do. red wine, 6 do. cordials, 1 do. bitter, 67 gallons brandy, 81 bottles of porter, 1 case of gin, 238 bottles ale, 3 barrels cider, 3 gallons rum, 2 1-8 do. whiskey, 11,350 Spanish segars, 8 bottles capers, 1 box brandy fruits, 1 do. raisins, 497 3-4 lbs. ham, 2 tubs of rounds of beef, 1 bottle Cayenne pepper, 3 lbs. black pepper, 20 do. chocolate, 10 bottles mustard, 47 do. sweet oil, 3 lbs. vermicelle, 16 do. of almonds, 40 do. rice, 12 beever tongues, 1-4 lb. mace, 1-4 do. cloves, 1-4 do. nutmegs, 1-4 do. cinnamon, 1 English cheese, 6 1-2 gallons vinegar, 2 bottles vinegar malle, 2 do. pickles, 3 do. olives, 148 1-4 lbs. cheese, 17 do. hogshead, 24 do. butter, 20 bunches onions, 30 lbs. flour, 2 bks. flour, 1 sheep, 3 bks. potatoes, 19-16 lbs. salt, 300 lbs. bread, 1 tierce Irish beef, 180 lbs. beef, 1 bbl. onions, 4 cases tea, 450 lbs. corn blades, 96 bks. corn, 7 loads hay, 162 1-2 lbs. coffee, 3 1-4 lbs. first quality tea, 48 cords wood, 6 dos. knives and forks, 3 pair plated candlesticks, 2 pair snuffers, 13 barrels charcoal, 30 lbs. bar iron, 1 pair andirons, 1 looking glass, 16 lights of glass, 210 1-2 lbs. spermaceti candles, 1 bbl. hominy, 42 lbs. tallow candles, 280 feet plank, 4 1-2 lbs. castile soap, 1 filtering stone, 24 cordial glasses, 42 goblets, 9 decanters, 6 salt cellars, 24 wine glasses, 24 tumblers, 2 pitchers, 6 dishes, 60 plates, 1 lantern, 1 set dining china. Also, forage for five publick horses, riding express from Fort Adams to New Orleans, sundry groceries not enumerated, dinners for twelve persons for ten days, furniture not enumerated, two tables, cakes, macaroons, confectionary and preserves, pies, tarts, puddings, cakes, biscuit and cabbages, confectionary furnished at different times, sugar plums, washing table cloths and napkins, nine tumblers, eighteen capons and thirty fowls, medicine, &c. NOTE.—The above disbursements were made between the 7th December, 1803, and 24th April, 1804, per vouchers, from No. 1, to 99, and amount to John M. Wight, for provisions and other articles purchased in the market for the use of the commissioners' table, from 26th January, to the 22d April, 1804, inclusively, Ditto, for ditto, on the 23d April, 1804, Ditto, for sixty loaves bread, purchased for ditto, Ditto, for his salary as steward to the commissioners, from 16th January, to 23d April, 1804, inclusively, 99 days at one dollar per day, DEPARTMENT OF WAR, Accountant's office, February 13, 1809. WILLIAM SIMMONS, acc't. dept. war. [To be continued.]
PATENT ILLUMINATORS,
Sky-Lights for Shipping, &c. Giving a more general Light than the common Sky-Light, with one half the expense; and are equally applicable to the state-room, steerage and forecastle, as in the cabin—they are neither liable to break or be damaged by the common traffic of the deck. Apply to E. Sturtevant, Agent. March 10.
Two Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the subscriber on the 1st instant, an apprentice boy named WILLIAM RUTLAND, about 16 years old, light complexion, light hair, and blue eyes, and was born in or near London. I forward all masters and others from harbouring, employing, or carrying said apprentice away; as the law will be strictly enforced against all such offenders. B. Baynes. Portsmouth, March 10.
TAKE NOTICE
That we have applied to the President and Directors for the renewal of SIK. 118 of the Bank of the United States, at Norfolk, on which the following is lost, viz: B. No. 4082, dated Philadelphia, 2d June, 1804, for $100 C. 3320, dated Philadelphia, 2d June, 1804, for $100 E. 727, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan. 1804, for $100 F. 819, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan. 1804, for $100 F. 922, dated Philadelphia, 6th Jan. 1804, for $100 F. 1689, dated Philadelphia, 6th July, 1804, for $100 payable to Robert Taylor, or bearer, at the Office of Discount and Deposit, at Norfolk. A HANDSOME REWARD will be given to any person who may have found the counterfeits of the above Notes, and will deliver them to us. MACKINDEE & WHITE. March 10.
REMOVAL.
The Subscriber informs his friends and the publick that he has removed his
Saddle and Harness Manufactory, from No. 22, to No. 14, Church-street, where he continues to make all kinds of SADDLES; COACH and GIG HARNESS, CAPS and HOLSTERS, and generally all other articles belonging to his profession. He returns his thanks to his friends for the encouragement he has received, and hopes from the superiority of his work, to merit a continuance of their custom, and from the publick he expects that additional encouragement (only) which superior workmanship deserves; and he warrants the workmanship of all articles made in his shop to be far superior to any done in Norfolk, and at least equal to any in the United States. As the times have become difficult, it will be necessary for the future, that the cash should accompany the work when it goes out in all cases; the total inpossibility of collecting outstanding debts renders this regulation indispensable, it will therefore be strictly adhered to. JOHN SIMPSON. March 10.

THE PUBLICK LEDGER.
MONDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1809.
We are informed by letters from Washington, that the nomination of John Q. Adams, as minister to Russia, noticed in another part of this paper, has been rejected by the senate, 17 to 14.
We cannot perceive with what propriety, this government is sending a Minister and a Consul to Brazil, when a Portuguese ship is not allowed to exchange a cargo in our ports, but compelled to depart with the cargo brought here, or in ballast. We do not say that there is any law that warrants this unjust treatment to Portuguese and Spanish ships, but there is an order from the Treasury to that effect, and these orders, are now paramount to law.
The Winchester Gazette says the following is the vote of the senate, on the confirmation of Colonel Duane's appointment.
YEAS—Messrs. Anderson, Condit, Franklin, Gailard, Giles, Gregg, Howland, Kitchel, Leib, Meigs, Millidge, Pope, Robinson, Smith of Md. Smith of N. Y. Smith of T. Sumpter, Thurston, Tiffin and Turner—21.
NAYS—Messrs. Bayard, Crawford, Gilman, Goodrich, Hillhouse, Lloyd, Parker, Pickering, Reed and White—10.
Those in italicks in the minority are democratic members.
Suppressed Documents. The articles which are published under this head, copied from the Boston papers, deserve serious reflection. Of their authenticity we have not the smallest doubt; first, because we know that if false, there are so many persons who could and would detect the imposition, and no person would be so idle as to publish them, and they contain nothing more than what the independent members of congress often, in their speeches, stated in substance. It cannot pass without notice, that these documents, have been before both houses, under the injunction of secrecy.
We should very much like to hear the justification of those men, who voted against the publication of these documents, and also, should we like to hear their justification for pursuing the most hostile measures against Great-Britain, and advocating and palliating the most atrocious conduct of France. Suppose our minister in London, had informed this government, that Great-Britain had seized upon eighteen millions of our property, and that the British king would not permit his minister to speak to him on the subject; that he had declared that our property should be held in sequestration until we took part in the war for or against him? Does any one suppose this information would have been withheld? No—it would have been blazoned in every part of the union, and as it ought to have done, produced evidences of corresponding indignation. The letters of Mr. Armstrong shew the indignities which were offered to our nation, in terms too plain to be mistaken by any but those who it suited to mistake them. And this is the boasted impartiality and dignity of the late administration and its supporters!
Of the intelligence received from France and Guadalupe, via Baltimore, we have but little to remark. It carries its own refutation along with it, if the want of dates and particulars were not sufficient to discredit it. Our readers may form some idea of the fertility of the inventors of news from France by the way of Guadalupe, from the following article of intelligence which is copied from a Savannah paper, received last evening.
SAVANNAH, March 2.
On Monday last arrived here the French schooner La Fortune, from Delay, Guadalupe, which she left 7th February. A passenger informs, that previous to sailing, the French government brig L'Avenurier got into that port from St. Maloes, bringing despatches for the commandant at Guadalupe, and French accounts to the 23d December, which stated that Madrid and Cadiz had surrendered to the French—the former after a loss to the Spaniards and British of 40,000 men; the latter, with little or no bloodshed, in consequence of a threat on the part of the French to storm it. An English and a Spanish squadron, lying in Cadiz at the time, are said to have fallen along with it. Nothing official had transpired at Delay; the despatches having been forwarded immediately on their arrival to the commandant at Basseterre.
On the other hand, the Charleston papers by last night's mail, state that papers from Nassau, (N. P.) had been received to the 23d February. In one of them the editors of the Nassau paper, speaking of some Spanish information, adds—
"We are induced to give full credit to the above account, as it appears substantially corroborated by a letter of his majesty's ship Dispatch, which arrived here with the following communication from him at sea, by one of his majesty's ships, which Dispatch fell in with:
"Three different battles had been fought between the combined armies and the French, the last a decisive one on the 13th December, when Napoleon Bonaparte commanded in person; the French were defeated with the loss of 45,000 men, killed, wounded and prisoners. This news came direct from Cadiz to Porto Rico, likewise from the British consul at Madeira, to Port-au-Prince.
"Captain Lillie further informs that the expedition sailed against Martinique on the 27th ult. under the command of general Prevost, consisting of 14,000 troops, and a British squadron under the command of admiral Sir John B. Warren, and rear admiral Sir A. Cochrane."
We do not for our parts, place reliance on any of these articles of intelligence; events of such magnitude, would have been detailed with more exactness as to time and place.
The United States' dispatch ship Union, is said to be arrived in the Delaware. This ship arrived in England on the 16th December, and as duplicates of letters by her have been received by the Jeanie, we do not expect that she has brought any late intelligence.
A mercantile friend has favoured us with a file of London papers to the 26th of December, received by the ship Jeanie, from the Isle of Wight; their contents are almost devoid of interest. For some days
prior to the 26th, there had been no arrivals from Spain consequently the intelligence by this arrival is no later from Spain, than what has been already published. Great anxiety is manifested as to the affairs of Spain; reinforcements are sending to that country and Portugal to a great extent. The officers who were called from Portugal to attend the court of enquiry into the conduct of Sir Hugh Dalrymple, are all ordered back. Sir Arthur Wellesley is to command in Portugal with an army of 24,000 infantry and 2000 cavalry.
A report of the court of enquiry, was delivered to the Duke of York, as commander in chief, on the 23d of December, and would be published in a few days.
Admiral Apodaca was presented to the King on the 21st of December, as Envoy Extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, from the Supreme Junta of Spain, in the name of Ferdinand the Seventh.
Reports had reached London the 26th December, stating that Buonaparte had suddenly returned to Paris, the cause of which is ascribed to two circumstances; some movements of the Emperor of Austria, and the failure of an intrigue at Constantinople, which had for its object the removal of the Grand Vizier from power, in consequence of which the French minister had suddenly quitted Constantinople.
The commercial restrictions imposed by Napoleon on the continent of Europe, have been productive of the greatest distress, particularly in Holland and Russia.
Our papers are silent on the affairs of Sweden, except what was noticed in our accounts by the Aurora—but private letters by the Jeanie state, that it is expected, Sweden will join the league against England, and shut her ports against that nation, but we do not believe that the king of Sweden will submit to this imposition, and therefore do not place much confidence in the report.
We have inserted in this day's paper, a long article of speculation from the London Morning Chronicle, upon the president's speech, and the matters in dispute between this country and Great-Britain. This article will be pleasing to our democratic readers, at the same time it will inform them, that the liberty of the press exists in Great Britain, and that in discussions between the government of that country and another government, it is not treason for the papers to say that their government is wrong. The opinions published in the Morning Chronicle are ably combated, and completely exposed by the ministerial papers; but we did not perceive any denunciations or threats of "tar and feathers" invoked in aid as substitutes for argument.
Stock Exchange, 26th December, 3 per cents. 65 3-4 percent.
Flour per American barrel 53s. to 57s. 6d. and likely to support those prices, if not to advance.
A continuation of Mr. Bayard's speech has been received, and will be resumed in our next; it came too late for this day's publication.
FOR THE LEDGER.
To BURWELL BASSET, Esq. Member of the House of Representatives of the United States from the York District, Virginia.
When a man offers himself as a candidate to be elected by the suffrages of his fellow-citizens to an important office, it may be presumed that he comes forward prepared to defend himself against every imputation which his opponents may make against him. The privilege of scrutinizing the conduct of such persons, will be exercised, while a spark of liberty and republicanism, remains in the bosoms of Americans.
The period for which you were elected a member of the House of Representatives of the United States, will expire in a few days; and, understanding that you will again be a candidate for that office, I have taken the liberty to trouble you with a few remarks. If you have that consciousness of the rectitude of your official conduct, which is possessed by every man who has discharged the duties of his station, in a faithful and impartial manner, you will boldly come forward and refute the charges alleged against you—you will triumph over your enemies, and prove your innocence to your fellow-citizens, who, at the ensuing election, will prove their approbation of your conduct. If, on the contrary, you do not attempt to refute these accusations—or, if you attempt it and should not be able to establish your innocence, the suspicions which are already entertained by a number of your fellow-citizens, will be confirmed; and they will fix on your character, that stigma, which it will so justly merit.
Did you not, while a member of the Senate of this state in the year 1803, vote for the addition of two counties to this Congressional district, which then contained several thousand inhabitants more than the number required by law, while a number of other districts contained considerably less than the legal number? Did you not on your visit to the Eastern-Shore, in the same year, deny that you had voted thus? And did not Thomas M. Bailey, Esq. of Accomack, who was also a member of the Senate, produce to you the Journals of the Senate, by which the falsity of your assertions was fully proved?—On what principle, can you justify this conduct to your fellow-citizens?
These assertions, Sir, are facts, the correctness of which, you will not be able to confute. They prove that you had no other object in view, in voting as you did, than to prevent this district from sending a federal representative to Congress, which it had generally done heretofore, and which, from the almost unanimous federal principles of the people of the Eastern-Shore, would, probably, have been the case again. After having acted thus unjustly and oppressively, particularly towards the people of the Eastern-Shore, you denied your vote, by which you added falsehood to injustice.
Did you not vote against a resolution, which was
introduced at the last session of Congress, for the publication of the communications from our ministers at Paris and London, to the Secretary of State? And did you not immediately after Mr. Jefferson had recommended their publication, vote in favour of it?—This circumstance, proves that you have no confidence in your own opinions, and that, as a faithful "page of the Presidential water-closet," you vote for any measure which may be proposed by the President.
It is a distinguishing characteristic of the present administration, to magnify the injuries which have been done to us by Great-Britain, while a silence, equally criminal and partial, is observed relative to the aggressions of France. You were, no doubt, actuated by a desire to follow the examples of your political masters, when you lately sent to your constituents so many hundred copies of the speech of Mr. D. R. Williams, of South-Carolina, on the first member of the first resolution reported by the committee of foreign relations, in which speech the conduct of Great-Britain is represented in its worst colours, while the customary silence is observed relative to the conduct of France. It surely would have been much more consistent with the feelings of an independent republican, to have forwarded a speech in which the conduct of both belligerent nations was represented in its true colours.
These remarks, Mr. Basset, are not occasioned by any personal enmity towards you; but, being conscious myself of their truth, I have addressed them to you through the medium of a newspaper, and hope you will adopt the same method of proving your innocence, if it can be proved.
A Freeholder of York District.
February 24th, 1809.
FROM THE BALTIMORE WHIG—March 9.
Great News! —The cause of British iniquity has received a deadly blow. By the arrival here yesterday of the schooner L'Etoile, from Guadalupe, we learn that captain R——, of the schooner Policy from Baltimore, had arrived there from L'Orient, bringing the important news that the French flag was every where flying on the ramparts of Spain. The news was brought down to the 4th of January. Buonaparte had entered Madrid on the 4th of December. Bilbao had been taken, and the "noble English," it is supposed, would be escorted to France, as Buonaparte had issued a proclamation to prohibit the Spaniards from aiding their escape. The Supreme Junta had stipulated for their own salvation, by agreeing to sacrifice the English armies, whom they had consented to give up as hostages for the completion of their contract. It is therefore probable that no part of Moore's army can get on board the English shipping. English goods to a great amount had been seized and confiscated. Junot was marching to Lisbon at the head of a great army.
The L'Etoile was chased in here by two English frigates. The English had attacked Martinique with 12,000 men; but were twice repulsed. In one battle they lost 2,000 troops. They were nevertheless in hopes of reducing the island; as they had effected a landing, and were greatly assisted by their ships which blockaded it very closely. They had lost a 74 and a brig, which were driven on shore under the French batteries. If Martinique falls, Guadalupe, it is thought, will be immediately attacked.
FROM THE FEDERAL GAZETTE.
Arrived the French sch'r. L'Etoile, 16 days from Guadalupe bound to Bordeaux, in distress, having sprung both masts in a chase. The news brought by this vessel is of the most important nature, the particulars that have reached us are, that the British were repulsed in two attacks on Martinique, with the loss of 2000 men, and a 74 (the Captain) which grounded in the attack. They have possession of the town of St. Pierres. Guadalupe was expected to be attacked. The two islands are blockaded by about 60 vessels of war. An express boat had arrived there from L'Orient, which she left 4th January, with despatches. Buonaparte and his brother entered Madrid, on the 4th December; the Junta had surrendered. The French were on their march to Portugal, with Junot at their head. The British troops were retreating to the coast.
It was said the Spanish ports were shut against their embarkation.
From the Boston Gazette, 2d March.
Further and still more Important Suppressed Documents.
This day is published, and for sale at Russell and Cutler's office, a pamphlet, containing the letters, and parts of letters, which our upright and patriotic administration, have suppressed from the body of those documents, they lately published as containing a full and impartial view of the correspondence of our respective ministers at the courts of London and Paris. To these suppressed papers, are added such remarks, as were deemed necessary to the right understanding of important documents, which have been materially mutilated.
"It will be perceived by these documents which are now for the first time published, the authenticity of which may be relied on, and which we challenge Mr. Madison to disavow if he dare, that while the most important facts in the treatment of France to us, and the most interesting opinions of gen. Armstrong, tending to shew the necessity of a war, or of spirited measures against that nation, have been purposely kept back, letters from Mr. Pinkney on the other hand, favourable to Great Britain, and to her views and feelings, have been equally suppressed."
"How they will be received at this time we know not; but it is pretty apparent, that if our people have been so roused, so convinced of the partiality and hypocrisy of the administration in consequence of the glimmering light which was permitted to escape through the speeches of our patriotic members of congress, and the commentaries upon the publick documents heretofore given to the publick, their indignation could hardly have been restrained, if this whole irresistible torrent of light had been once darted forth upon their astonished and affrighted minds."
From the Boston Palladium, of March 3.
SUPPRESSED DOCUMENTS.
A pamphlet, containing very important Documents, which the administration have withheld from the people, was published yesterday. The letters are preceded by correct and useful explanatory remarks and comments. The following observations are prefixed by the editor to one of the letters from our minister to the British Court to Madison:
"The letter from Mr. Pinkney which we now present to our readers, fully establishes a truth which we have all of us well known, that Great Britain is earnestly desirous of a good understanding with us
—that for the attainment of this object, she will sacrifice every thing but her honour and her essential rights."
"That as to the business of TRIBUTE, which our government and members of congress have shamefully made a subject of complaint, it arose solely from our own minister.—He declares that revenue was no object with the British ministry, that they offered to place the affair on the footing of the French decrees, that is, an absolute prohibition; and that the course of imposing a duty was adopted as being more agreeable to our government; and that our government and minister preferred to keep it on as a source of popular complaint."
"Mr. Pinkney declares, that the motives of the government would be acceptable to the President."
From the Boston Centinel.
FURTHER SUPPRESSED DOCUMENTS.
The right which every government possesses to keep secret its intercourse and negotiations with foreign nations, so long at least as they are still pending, has been most grossly abused by the present administration.
Availing themselves of the privilege of secret debate, and of the right to impose injunctions of secrecy on the members of the two houses, they have published just so much, and no more of the correspondence of our government with foreign powers, as would tend to palliate the conduct of France, and exasperate the people against Great Britain.
It will be perceived by the documents which we are now about to publish, the authenticity of which may be relied on, and we challenge Mr. Madison to disavow if he dare, that while the most important facts in the treatment of France to us, and the most interesting opinions of gen. Armstrong, tending to shew the necessity of a war, or of spirited measures against that nation, have been purposely kept back, letters from Pinkney, on the other hand, favourable to Great Britain, and to her views and feelings, have been equally suppressed.
It will be seen, that as the government professed to take hostile ground against both, no honourable motives of policy or prudence, no rules of diplomatic delicacy required the suppression of these letters.
We are happy in being able to give them to the public. We shall place them in order of time, and accompany them with such explanatory remarks only, as are absolutely necessary to the right understanding of such mutilated extracts. The other parts of the same correspondence will be found by our readers among the documents published by order of the senate, early in the present session.
"The first document which we present to the public, is an extract of a letter from Mr. Armstrong to Mr. Madison, dated Dec. 27, 1807, in which our minister declares, that every man in France agrees, that the decrees of the emperor are impolitic; but that no man had the hardihood to state this opinion to the emperor. It results from this correspondence, that so great apprehensions are entertained of the violence of the temper of this tyrant, that we have no means of communicating to him the sense we have of his injustice. As his own ministers dare not express their own convictions, and as the rules of diplomatic forms forbid a direct application to him, we are obliged to submit to all his caprices, without the possibility of remedy. This may be an apology in the minds of the admirers and advocates of this despot, but it proves our case to be hopeless."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Armstrong to Mr. Madison.
"PARIS, Dec. 27, 1807.
"I forwarded to Mr. McEphany a copy of a second and a very extraordinary decree [Milan decree of Dec. 17] of this government, with regard to neutral commerce. Whether it be meant to stimulate Great Britain to the commission of new outrages, or to quicken us in repelling those she has already committed—the policy is equally unwise, and so decidedly so, that I know not a man of consideration who approves of it. It is, however, not less true, that it is as difficult to find one who will hazard an objection to it. T——, [Talleyrand] who in this way is permitted to go further than any other person, dare not avow his opinion of it, nor (bad as he thinks it) do more than state that the present moment would appear to dictate some modifications. To this point he stands engaged to go, and I wait the result with much anxiety. The emperor is expected here on the last day of the month."
"The second suppressed document is a part of the letter of Mr. Madison of the 8th of February, 1808 to Mr. Armstrong. The letter was published as a perfect whole. No reference whatever was made to any suppressed extract, nor was it intimated that any part had been suppressed."
The part now added originally followed the statement, expressed by Mr. Madison, that his Britannic majesty had declared "that he would repeal or relinquish his orders pari passu (with equal pace) with his enemy, France. Mr. Madison in the suppressed extract, now first laid before the public, adds, that he presumes the British government did not contemplate the distinction between that part of the French decrees which operated on land and that part which operated at sea. And the inference is, that Great Britain would not admit the disgraceful distinction set up by our government, that the French decrees so far as they affected our trade on the ocean were unjust; and Mr. Madison concludes with urging a modification only of the French decrees so far as respects the seizure in their ports, and urges it on the ground, not of our rights secured by treaty, but on the effect it would have on the objects of France. That these objects, the destruction of British commerce, would be as effectually promoted by annihilating our treaty and continuing her seizures to her own ports and those of her dependents as by captures on the ocean. The late report of a relaxation of the Milan decree seems to be founded on this treacherous concession of Mr. Madison, and probably was produced by the mean councils of our cabinet."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Madison to Mr. Armstrong.
February 8, 1808.
[To follow the paragraph reading with the words "pari passu with the enemy."]
"Whether the intimations have any reference to the distinctions between such parts of the French decrees as operate municipally on shore, and as such operating on the high seas, violate the rights of neutrals, or to distinction between former restriction, and the late extension of the decree with respect to the United States, Erskine did not seem authorized to say. The probability is, that neither of these distinctions entered in the views of the British cabinet. But it is certainly neither less the duty nor the policy of the emperor of the French, so to vary his decree, as to make it consistent with the rights of neutrals and the freedom of the seas, and particularly with his positive stipulations with the United States. This may be the more reasonably expected, as nothing can be more clear, as has been already observed, than the effect of the decree, as far as it can be carried into effect would not be sensibly diminished by abolishing its operation beyond the limits of territorial sovereignty."
"The next documents in order of time are the suppressed letters of Mr. Armstrong to Mr. Madison

of 22d Feb. 1808, and of the ninth of March of the same year.
The first, which the pure periods of our history would have roused our nation to a flame, contained facts and allegations of the most important tendency, and proofs of a temper, to which no nation ever yet submitted before it was subdued; we now give it to the public.
It appears, that Buonaparte declared we should be either "allies or enemies"—that the amount of property sequestered was upwards of one hundred millions of francs, or eighteen millions of dollars, nearly three times as great as the whole amount of British captures during the whole of 15 years war; that our ambassador at Paris, who cannot be charged with too much spirit, declared that the very magnitude of these sums, rendered all hopes of redress abortive; and that he presumed as soon as we should know from him that France has thus definitively taken her ground—"we should immediately take ours." In other words that we should resist with our whole energies such flagrant insults and violation of our rights.
Yet this letter is suppressed; and it produced no sentiments of indignation in our submissive rulers.—We did take our ground, but it was the ground of base submission—of further humiliation.
The letter of the 9th, hereto subjoined, shews that Buonaparte had stated, that he would modify his decrees, if we could point out a mode in which he could do it without departing from his system; but Mr. Armstrong explicitly states, that he doubted the sincerity of this declaration.—In fact he made a proposal for modification to which no reply has ever been given.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Armstrong to Mr. Madison—Feb. 23, 1808.
"Mr. Patterson offering so good a conveyance that I cannot but employ it. Nothing has occurred here since the date of my publick despatches (the 17th) to give to our business an aspect more favourable than it then had; but on the other hand, I have come to the knowledge of two facts, which I think sufficiently shew the decided character of the emperor's policy with regard to us. These are, 1st: that in a council of administration held a few days past when it was proposed to modify the operation of the decree of Nov. 1806, and Dec. 1807, (though the proposition was supported by the whole weight of the council) he became highly indignant, and declared that these decrees should suffer no change, and that the Americans should be compelled to take the positive character of either allies or enemies. 2d. That on the 27th of January last, twelve days after Mr. Champagny's written assurances, that these decrees should work no change in the property sequestered, until our discussions with England were brought to a close, and seven days before he reported to me verbally these very assurances, the emperor had by a special decision, confiscated two of our ships and their cargoes (the Julius Henry, and Junius) for want merely of a document not required by any law or usage of the commerce in which they had been engaged. This act was taken, as I am informed, on a general report of requested cases, amounting to one hundred and sixty, and which, at present prices, will yield upwards of one hundred millions of francs, a sum whose magnitude alone renders hopeless all attempt at saving it. Danes, Portuguese and Americans, will be principal sufferers. If I am right in supposing that the emperor has definitively taken his ground, I cannot be wrong in concluding, that you will immediately take yours."
Extract of a letter from Mr. Armstrong to Mr. Madison—March 9, 1808.
"The conversation alluded to in the copy of the letter did not take place till the 8th instant, the emperor declared that if means could be found to except American property from the operation of the decree of Nov. 1806, without infringing the principles of the decrees, he would immediately make the exception. No time was lost in communicating this declaration to me, and I was invited to point out the means it required, and assured that they should be immediately submitted to his majesty. Little as I liked the proposition and much as I doubted the sincerity of the declaration out of which it grew, I could not refuse any agency of mine in rescuing so much of the American property sequestered in the ports of France as should come within this new rule. I accordingly wrote the note (a copy of which is subjoined to this letter) pointing out in a few words the property to which that rule would apply. This note was put into the emperor's hands by the prince of Benevento, who, though six days have elapsed, has not yet received an answer."
BALTIMORE, March 8.
THE CABINET.
 Robert Smith, (Md.) Secretary of State.  Albert Gallatin, (Penn.)—the Treasury.  Paul Hamilton, (S. Carolina)—the Navy.  Wm. Eustis, (Mass.)—at War.  C. A. Rodney, (Del.)—Attorney General. 
It is stated in the morning papers, that the following appointments have been made by president Madison:
 John Quincy Adams, Minister to Russia.  Thomas Sumpter, (S. Carolina) Minister to Rio Janeiro, Brazil.  Henry Hill, Consul, do.  David Holmes, Governor Mississippi Territory.  John Boyle, Governor Illinois Territory.  Nathaniel Pope, Secretary do. 
Minister to Russia.—The following explanation is from the Freeman's Journal.
Some time in the course of last summer, the president secretly appointed Mr. Short, one of his confidential friends, a man known to the public only as having once been Charge d'Affaires at Madrid, to the new and high station (created for the occasion) of MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY to the Imperial Court of RUSSIA. We have never had a minister at Russia under the present government, and it is part of Mr. Jefferson's system of "political economics" to diminish the number of our foreign ministers. But Russia is in strict alliance with our friend France, and in a state of "quid war" with our "enemy" Britain. Besides, Russia is one of those countries which are embarrassed by the orders of Buonaparte, and where can be the harm of a friendly correspondence and intimate intercourse between one Embargo Region and another? To be sure it is an improvement upon our system of "secret sessions," to send a Minister Plenipotentiary to distant realms, even beyond ULTIMA THULE, and in time of peace too, all the way with "closed doors." This strange business can only be accounted for by supposing that Mr. Jefferson was anxious to bring about, before his retirement from office, his grand project of an "Armed Neutrality" of all the Embargo Empires and Republics, in order to complete the starvation of Great Britain, in which such flattering progress has been made, under the operation of our own Embargo System.
We are stating to the public truth, sheer truth. This secret appointment was not made known to the senate, whose sanction is necessary to give it legality, until within a few days. Time, manner, all circumstances considered, it is the most singular transaction in all diplomatic history.
THE SETTING SUN!
The nomination, by the President JEFFERSON of an EMBARGO MINISTER PLENIPOTENTIARY to the Court of St. Petersburg, has been unanimously rejected by the Senate of the United States!
HARTFORD, March 1. Legislature of Connecticut.
Last Monday the following report and resolutions, were laid before the house of representatives:
To the honourable General Assembly now in session: The committee appointed to take into consideration the speech of his excellency the governor, and the several communications by him made to the general assembly, respectfully
REPORT.—That they have maturely considered the great and important subjects referred to them, and accord in the opinion expressed by his excellency, that, "whenever the national legislature, in the exercise of power exceed the limits of the constitution, it is the right, and becomes the duty of the state legislatures, to interpose a protecting shield, between the rights and liberties of the people, and the assumed power of the general government." The committee have therefore attentively examined the several acts of congress laying an embargo, and especially the act to enforce the same, approved by the President of the United States, on the ninth day of January, in the present year, and are constrained to declare, that, in their opinion, the powers delegated to the United States, have been exceeded, and encroachments made on the powers reserved to the states respectively, and the people. The committee have therefore prepared sundry resolutions, expressive of this opinion, approbatory of the conduct of his excellency, in his correspondence with the secretary for the department of war, and declaring that it has become the duty of the legislature and executive officers of this state, to withhold their aid, from the aforesaid acts. These resolutions the committee now present, for the consideration of the legislature—they also present a resolution, for the consideration of this state, with the legislature of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and other states, to effect such amendments in the constitution of the United States, as may be necessary, in regard to foreign commerce.
In addition to the foregoing resolutions, they are of opinion, that it is expedient to prefer to the congress of the United States, a remonstrance, protesting against the system of measures, which is in force, and which seems to be contemplated in regard to foreign relations, and also that an address should be made by this assembly to the good people of this state, in this unprecedented crisis of affairs—On this subject the committee ask leave to make a further report.
Extra session of the General Assembly, February 1809. Signed by order of the committee, ELIZUR GOODRICH.
This assembly have attended with anxious concern to the several acts of congress, interdicting foreign commerce, and more especially to an act, approved on the 9th day of January last, by the president of the United States, under the title of "an act, to enforce and make more effectual an act laying an embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbours of the United States."
After solemn deliberation and advisement thereon, the general assembly are decided in the opinion, and do resolve, that the acts aforesaid are a permanent system of measures, abandoning undeniable rights; interdicting the exercise of constitutional privileges, and unprecedented in the annals of nations; and do contain provisions for exercising arbitrary powers, grievous to the good people of this state, dangerous to their common liberties, incompatible with the constitution of the United States, and encroaching upon the immunities of this state.
Resolved, That to preserve the union, and support the constitution of the United States, it becomes the duty of the legislatures of the states, in such a crisis of affairs, vigilantly to watch over, and vigorously to maintain, the powers not delegated to the United States, but reserved to the states respectively, or to the people; and that a due regard to this duty, will not permit this assembly to assist, or concur in giving effect to the aforesaid unconstitutional acts.
Resolved, That this Assembly highly approve of the conduct of his excellency the governor, in declining to designate persons to carry into effect, by the aid of military power, the act of the United States, enforcing the embargo, and that his letter, addressed to the secretary for the department of war, containing his refusal to make such designation, be recorded in the public records of this state, as an example to persons, who may hold places of distinguished trust, in this free and independent republic.
Resolved, That the persons holding executive offices under this state, are restrained by the duties which they owe this state, from affording any official aid or co-operation in the execution of the acts aforesaid; and that his excellency the governor be requested, as commander in chief of the military force of this state, to cause these resolutions to be published in general orders: And that the secretary of this state be and he is hereby directed to transmit copies of the same to the several sheriffs and town clerks.
Resolved, That his excellency the governor, be requested to communicate the foregoing resolutions to the president of the United States, with an assurance that this assembly regret, that they are thus under a sense of paramount public duty, to assert the unquestionable rights of this state, to abstain from any agency in the execution of measures, which are unconstitutional and despotic.
Resolved, That this Assembly accord in sentiment, with the senate and house of representatives, of the commonwealth of Massachusetts, that it is expedient to effect certain alterations in the constitution of the United States; and will zealously co-operate with that commonwealth and any other of the states, in all legal and constitutional measures for procuring such amendments to the constitution of the United States, as shall be judged necessary to obtain more effectual protection and defence for commerce; and to give to the commercial states their fair and just consideration in the union, and for affording permanent security, as well as permanent relief, from the oppressive measures, under which they now suffer.
Resolved, That his excellency the governor be requested to transmit copies of the foregoing resolution to the president of the senate, and speaker of the house of representatives in the commonwealth of Massachusetts, and to the legislatures of such of our sister states, as manifest a disposition to concur, in restoring to commerce its former activity and preventing the repetition of measures which have a tendency, not only to destroy it, but to dissolve the Union, which ought to be inviolate.
BOSTON, March 3. ATTACK ON MARTINIQUE.
Yesterday arrived brig Thomas Jeffrey, capt Powers, from Dominica via Halifax. Left the former place 30th Jan. and the latter the 25th ult. capt. P. informs, that the attack on Martinique was to take place the 31st of January; that Sir George Prevoost was to direct it. The governor of Dominica, with all the regular troops in the island, sailed from that place the evening of the 24th, to join the force from Barbadoes, expected to be off St. Pierres, where the principal landing of the troops would take place, and where, it was generally supposed, they would meet with a welcome reception. The attack on Martinique, was for sometime delayed, owing, it was currently reported and believed, to a difference of opinion between lieut. gen. Beckwith and Sir George Prevoost, as to the probable result;—but by the first December packet arrived at Barbadoes, it was said, Sir George received the appointment of commander in chief of the expedition, and gallantly resolved upon making an immediate attempt.
The sch'r Rachel, from Trinidad for Halifax, has arrived at the Vineyard. The captain states, that the expedition against Martinique sailed from Barbadoes Jan. 28.
From Halifax, Feb. 24.
"The Topaze, French frigate of 44 guns, with 400 men, and 1300 bbls. flour on board for Guadalupe, was taken under the batteries of that island, by H. M's ships Jason, Cleopatra, Hazard and Cherub, on the 22d ult. The Cleopatra was closely engaged with her for half an hour, before the other vessels came up. The Topaze is the frigate that sunk the Blanche. The Cleopatra had only two men wounded."
LONDON, December 24.
Yesterday a mail arrived in town, brought by the Princes Augusta packet, in thirty days from New York to Falmouth, by which we have received New York papers down to the 18th ult. It will be seen from Mr. President Jefferson's message at the opening of the congress, (as far as one can judge from this document of the future policy of the American government) that no change is likely to take place in the relations at present subsisting between it and the belligerent powers. Of the sentiments of the house of representatives respecting the embargo we are yet unable to judge, as the discussion of the question was not to take place till the 14th, and at present we have no account of their proceedings later than the 10th ult.
It appears that, during the recess, the president availed himself of the powers vested in him by an act of the legislature to enter into discussions both with the British and French governments upon the subject of the embargo, and proposed conditions for its removal, accommodated to the respective situations and circumstances of the two belligerent powers. To Great-Britain it was proposed, that if our orders in council were rescinded, the embargo, in as far as it concerns us, should be taken off. It is not quite so clear what was the nature of the propositions made to France. As the revocation merely of the French decrees would not have given adequate security, to the American commerce, gen. Armstrong was not authorised to promise a repeal of the act of embargo, in case that these decrees were repealed: but, says Mr. Jefferson, "it was presumed that a sufficient inducement might be found in other considerations, and particularly in the change produced by a compliance by one belligerent and a refusal by the other, in the relations between this other and the United States."
There is some ambiguity in this part of the communication; but it is not easy to conceive any other change which could take place in the existing relations between this country and America, which would operate as an inducement to Buonaparte to revoke his decrees, excepting actual hostility. We suppose, therefore, that the inducement held out to France to abandon the system which she had been the first to adopt, was the assurance of a declaration of war by the American government against this country, provided we did not follow her example, and repeal those orders of council which he had provoked.—The result certainly affords a strong presumption in favour of the impartiality of the propositions; for they were rejected by us, and the French government never deigned so much as to return an answer to them. Had they been greedily accepted by either party, it might have given rise to suspicion that they had not been quite impartially framed. Their rejection, next to their acceptance, by both, is a proof that no undue favour was shown to the interests of either.
It is quite obvious that the repeal of the embargo, in as far as it regards France, would not be so advantageous to France as the repeal of the embargo, as it regards Great Britain, would be advantageous to this country. In fact to France it would be nothing, to England, on account of the greatness of her maritime power, it would be every thing. And though on first thought, it seems rather unfair, that Mr. Jefferson should have proposed to become a party with France in the war against this country, in case of our refusing to repeal the orders of council, while in the event of the refusal of France to revoke her decrees, he only proposed to continue the suspension of intercourse between America and France, it is not easy (assuming always what he has uniformly held out, that both the belligerents were equally in the wrong, and not wishing to quarrel with either), to conceive any other proposition that could have been listened to. In vain he might have declared the American ports open to French vessels, or given permission to American ships to sail to the ports of France, when the hazard of capture by British cruisers would have operated as a barrier against all intercourse between the two countries quite paramount to the embargo. But as soon as the prohibition against commerce with this country was taken off, what would there have been to oppose it? Some few American ships might indeed have attempted now and then to get into French ports, with the hope of finding a better market for their cargoes; but this contraband traffic never could have been carried on to a great extent, deprived, as they would have been, of all protection from their own government, and exposed to the vigilance of our cruisers, whose activity would have been stimulated by the hopes of prize money.
Supposing also (as the adversaries of Mr. Jefferson's policy in this country will probably contend,) that the proposition made to the French was more favourable than that made to the British government, we should like to know how they will reconcile this opinion with the contempt with which it appears to have been treated by the ministers, and above all, with the boasted tendency of the orders of council, to retort upon him the mischiefs of his own system with tenfold severity. Unfortunately for the reasonings, both of the opponents of Mr. Jefferson and the advocates of the orders of council, Buonaparte, who (devil and monster as they call him) we take to be fully as good a judge of his own interests as they are of theirs, did not think that the pretended partiality shown him by the American president was worth one single word of acknowledgment, or that even the contingent prospect of having America as a belligerent ally, offered advantages at all to be compared with those he derives from his own decrees, fortified as they are in their operation by the British orders of council.
Take the refusal of our government to listen to the proposition made to them in another light. It will be recollected, that one, and indeed the chief, justification of the orders of council, in as far as they affected America, was that America had not manifested any disposition to resist the unjust decrees of France. Mr. Jefferson, availing himself of this plea, which we had formerly set up, observes, "The favourable reception of the proposition to Great Britain was the less to be doubted as her orders of council had not only been referred for their vindication to an acquiescence on the part of the United States, no longer to be pretended; but because the arrangement proposed, while it resisted the illegal decrees of France, involved, moreover, substantially the precise advantages professedly aimed at by the British orders."
Now, we should like to know, whether if, in consequence of the French decrees, all intercourse between them had been immediately prohibited between America and France, by the American government, our ministers would have considered that suspension of intercourse as sufficient evidence of the non-acquiescence of that government in the unjust measures of the enemy. If they answer in the affir-
mative, then we demand, why they discontinued a proposition which must have led either to a revocation of the decrees on the part of the enemy, or to the wish for resistance on the part of the neutral? If they answer in the negative, we desire to be informed, what right they have to dictate to an independent state, whether it shall maintain the relations of war or peace with another power, there being nothing so near to a state of positive hostility as a suspension of all intercourse.
In every view of the case, we must confess, it appears to us that our ministers have acted wrong, and if there was any thing necessary in addition to the consideration we have already stated, to convincing us of the justice of this opinion, it would be that part of the President's message which relates to the progress of manufactures in America. It was by some vainly imagined that America could not do without us, and that we could force her to accept any terms we chose to dictate. Very different indeed, has been the result of our pretensions. Instead of being a trading, she is now become a manufacturing nation, and not only have we, by our overbearing measures, shut ourselves out from a part of raw materials for our manufactures, and lost a market for the produce of our industry and ingenuity, but we are now stimulating the Americans to exertions, from which other countries may one day derive those supplies with which England alone has been able hitherto to furnish them. Her revenue too, instead of falling off to the degree which was apprehended from the suspension of her trade, does not seem to have experienced any material diminution. From the treasury receipts of last year, ending on the 30th of September, after meeting the current demands, two millions three hundred thousand dollars have been appropriated to the liquidation of the capital debt, and instead of being embarrassed by any present defalcation, the only difficulty seems to be about the appropriation of the further surpluses.
Among the documents laid before congress, we have a copy of Mr. Madison's letter to Mr. Erskine, dated on the 25th of March last, in which the orders are denominated "a deep violation of the rights and of the commerce of the United States."
A letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Canaing, of the 27th of August following, shews how easily some of the pernicious effect of these orders, by a certain limitation, might have been avoided, by which the millions of capital belonging to British merchants in the hands of Americans would have been refunded, and most of the advantages of our commerce with them secured. The republican minister, in this official letter, says, "If the orders of council were repealed, all the operation of the embargo, as to Britain, would be rescinded, and by such restriction, the effect of these concurrent acts will be, that the commercial intercourse of the two countries will be immediately resumed; while if France should adopt the maxims and conduct derogatory to the natural rights of the United States, the embargo continuing as to her, will take the place of your orders, and operate with an efficacy not merely equal to theirs, but probably much greater, as to all the consequences that ought to result from them."
Morning Chronicle. Gazette Marine Memorable.
ARRIVED.
 British ship Jeanie, M'Kenzie, 73 days from Isle of Wright, Salt, Robert Dickson.  Sch'r Leander, Lapham, 7 days from Boston.  Sch'r Emily, Burnham, 4 days from New-York.  Bremen ship Mississippi, Mangels, from Baltimore bound to Rio Janeiro, detained by the Revenue Cutter Serapis capt. Besse.  In Hampton Roads, bound to Baltimore, brig Spanish Lady, Hurst, 19 days from New-Orleans. 
On Friday 17th March, at eleven o'Clock on Whittle's wharf, for the benefit of the underwriters,
A quantity of COFFEE in Hhds. damaged on board the British schooner Commerce—and A quantity of brown Havana Sugars in boxes, damaged on board the British schooner Hannah.— Terms, Cash. March 13 2
To be Sold to the highest bidder on
SATURDAY the 18th inst at 12 o'Clock on the premises, Two Small TENEMENTS, in Broad Water-Street, belonging to the estate of Phinehas Dana, deceased. The terms will be made known on the day of sale. James Young, Adm'r. March 6. 6
For Sale, A float, 705 barrels Superfine } FLOUR, 343 do. Fine 644 bushels BRAN, SALT loose and in sacks, by A. Maclure. March 3. 11
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 In our Ware-House, where the largest quantity can come along side,  15,000 bushels of CORN,  2000 do. do. white,  30 bales Cotton.  Also,  4000 bushels coarse SALT,  130 sacks Ground Allum do.  45 hogsheads old Antigua Rum, do. Jamaica do.  40 hogsheads Sugar, 80 barrels do.  A few casks excellent Port Wine, Coffee in hogsheads, Madeira Wine, 45 crates Earthenware, Tobacco from several inspections.  GEO. MURRAY, & Co.  September 9. 11 
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Boot and Shoe Manufacturery,
No. 70 MAIN-STREET.
The publick are respectfully informed, that he has furnished himself with a quantity of the choicest materials in his line of business, and has in his employ some of the best workmen in the borough, and having been long experienced in the business himself, his factory will not be considered by proxy; he therefore hopes to merit the patronage of the gentlemen of Norfolk and its vicinity, and assures them that no pains shall be wanting on his part to give satisfaction to those who favour him with their commands. N. 70. Orders for Double Back-strap, single do. and Cossack, executed with the greatest dispatch. 11

Norfolk Borough. At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809.
Richard Gernon, Complainant, against William and Anthony M. Buckley, In Chancery. and Shanks and Binford, Defs.
THE defendants William and Anthony M. Buckley, not having entered their appearance, and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of the commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants William and Anthony M. Buckley, do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendants Shanks and Binford, who have effects of the said William and Anthony M. Buckley in their hands, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court.
A Copy,—Teste,
Wm. Sharp, c. c.
March 3.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809.
Thomas Holliday, Compt. against William Smelly, Littleton W. Tazewell and Peter Daley, In Chancery. Defs.
THE defendant William Smelly not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant William Smelly, do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendants Littleton W. Tazewell and Peter Daley, who have effects of the said William Smelly in their hands, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court.
A Copy,—Teste,
Wm. Sharp, c. c.
March 3.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809.
Theodorick Armistead, Compt. against Nicholas Peterson and Christopher Fry, In Chancery. Defs.
THE defendant Nicholas Peterson, not having entered his appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that he is not an inhabitant of this commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendant Nicholas Peterson do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendant Christopher Fry, who has effects of the said Nicholas Peterson in his hands, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court.
A Copy,—Teste,
Wm. Sharp, c. c.
March 3.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809.
John Wallace, Compt. against James Brown & Co. of Philadelphia, and Alexander Maclure, In Chancery. Defs.
THE defendants James Brown & Co. not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants James Brown & Co. do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendant Alexander Maclure, who has effects of the said James Brown & Co. in his hands, do not pay, convey away or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court.
A Copy,—Teste,
Wm. Sharp, c. c.
March 3.
Norfolk Borough: At a Hastings Court held the 27th day of February, 1809.
Stephen G. Willis, Compt. against Jonathan Laycocks and Peter Brown, administrators, &c. of John D. White, deceased, and Warren Ashley, In Chancery. Defs.
THE defendants Jonathan Laycocks and Peter Brown, not having entered their appearance and given security according to the act of assembly and the rules of this court, and it appearing to the satisfaction of the court that they are not inhabitants of this commonwealth: On the motion of the complainant by his counsel, it is ordered that the said defendants Jonathan Laycocks and Peter Brown, do appear here on the fourth Monday in May next, and answer the bill of the complainant, and that a copy of this order be forthwith inserted in one of the newspapers printed in this Borough for eight weeks successively, and posted at the front door of the courthouse of said Borough; and it is further ordered that the defendant Warren Ashley, who has effects of the said Jonathan Laycocks and Peter Brown, administrators as aforesaid, in his hands, do not pay, convey away, or secret such effects, but retain them until the further order or decree of this court.
A Copy,—Teste,
Wm. Sharp, c. c.
March 3.
WANTED TO PURCHASE. VIRGINIA BANK STOCK, For which Cash will be given. AND FOR SALE, A few cases LINEN.
Apply to the Printer.
February 13.
For Sale, by the Subscriber, 50,000 weight of Navy BREAD, 20,000 Superfine Flour, do. 3,000 Ship, do. 250 quarter barrels CRACKERS.
400,000 well burnt BRICKS, 2,000 bushels STONE LIME.
PILOT BREAD of superior quality for family use.
Feb. 13.
STOP THE SWINDLERS.
1000 Dollars Reward
WILL be paid for the apprehending and delivery of John Thomas and Honore Monpoey, who absconded from this city on Tuesday last, having swindled several persons to a considerable amount.
JOHN THOMAS is a small thick set well made man, about 5 feet 4 inches high, 34 or 35 years of age, dark complexion, short black hair, and a very black beard, speaks fast and usually with a smile on his countenance, has a remarkable scar on one side of his face, much inclined to dress, pretends to have some knowledge of horses, and frequently rides on a good one. Said Thomas resided for many years in Union-Street, where he kept a boarding house and grocery-store.
HONORE MONPOEY, is about 5 feet 9 or 10 inches high, a Creole of St. Domingo, speaks broken English, of slender make, is lame in one foot, has a dark swarthy complexion, with short coarse curly hair, so much so, that many would not take him for a white man, but from his residence in this city for many years past, he has generally been considered as such, pitted with the small pox, speaks fast, though he stammers while he speaks, usually very slovenly in his dress, pretends to have a knowledge of horses, having lately been in the habit of trafficking in the above species of property, as well as letting public chairs. Monpoey resided at the corner of Westworth and King-streets, where he kept a grocery-store—From their connections, it is highly probable that they have travelled the same road, and may make for St. Mary's, Georgia, or New Orleans.
Five Hundred Dollars reward, will be paid for apprehending and delivering either, or One Thousand Dollars for both. Washington Potter, Wm. Porter, Daniel Latham, Philip Cohen, Joshua Brown, Committee in behalf of the creditors. Charleston, February 20.
300 ton Blown SALT, 100 crates FARTHENWARE, 1 trunk Cotton GOODS, being the cargo of the British ship Aurora, just arrived from Liverpool—For Sale on liberal terms by C. & F. Whittle.
March 6.
BANK NOTES LOST.
R. No. 805, U.S. Office Discount and Deposit, Norfolk, payable to Robert Taylor, President, or bearer, and dated 7th October, 1808, for dollars. 100 S. 842, ditto 7th October, 1808, for 100 G. 901, ditto 6th January, 1804, for 50
I do certify that the Notes mentioned in the foregoing list, were on the 7th instant enclosed by Mr. Warner L. Wormeley, under cover, sealed with the initials W. L. W. on red wax, and directed to "Doctor Elisha Hall, Fredericksburg," that the letter was put into the package for Fredericksburg, which was made up on the night; but the mail not arriving, the bundle (at Mr. Wormeley's request) remained until this morning, when the package was tied and put into the postman's bag, which was, in the presence of Mr. Wormeley, locked and delivered to the carrier. John Chew, P. M. Middlesex, ss. John Chew, this day made oath before me, a magistrate for said county, to the truth of the above certificate, in due form. Given under my hand the 3d March, 1809. Henry Heffernan. Any person to whom the above Notes, or any of them may be offered, is requested to stop them, and give information to Mr. Warner L. Wormeley, of Urbanna; Dr. Elisha Hall, of Fredericksburg, or Warren Ashley.
March 6.
NOTICE. As I am obliged, by the low state of my health, to decline carrying on business, I will sell my STOCK on hand, consisting of SALEABLE GROCERIES, which will be an object worthy the attention of any person wishing to commence the Grocery Business, as I am inclined to sell the whole on reasonable terms. The purchaser may also obtain the Store now occupied by me, on a reasonable rent from Mr. John McPhail, which is well calculated for extensive business, being fitted for a Store and Dwelling-House, and inferior to no stand in the place. I earnestly request those indebted to me to settle their accounts as soon as possible, so as to enable me to discharge my debts. ANGUS MARTIN.
February 23.
MACKINDER & WHITE, Offer for Sale for Cash or approved Notes, 2,500 barrels NAVAL STORES, 3,500 bushels coarse SALT, 2,500 bushels INDIAN CORN, 1,250 barrels Superfine FLOUR, 190 bales Georgia Upland COTTON, 28 do. New Orleans do. 100 barrels Smithfield and Carolina PORK, 54 crates well assorted EARTHENWARE, 40 chests and 20 boxes Hyson & Young Hyson TEA. —ALSO— A general assortment of Dry Goods. September 27.
Mt
Prime Jamaica Sugars, Coffee, and Pimento. Landing this day from the British Schooner Commerce from Kingston, and for sale by C. & F. WHITTLE.
February 27.
LANDING ON COMMERCE-STREET WHARF, the Cargo of the Spanish Brig General Palacios, from Havana, 280 boxes brown Havana SUGARS, 17 hds 85,000 wt. best Green Coffee, And a few boxes SEGARS—For Sale by MOSES MYERS.
February 27.
A BARGAIN OFFERED, In a fine and Valuable FARM, in the County of Princess Anne. THE Subscriber is disposed to sell his Plantation called LEVEL GREEN, situated in the county of Princess Anne. It contains about 500 acres; and, as it may be advantageously divided into two or three Farms, the subscriber will accommodate a purchaser, in selling either the whole or a part. He will also give a long credit. This tract of Land is certainly the most desirable in the county, lying on the Eastern branch of Elizabeth River, and distant from Norfolk Market only five or six miles by water, and 8 or 9 by land. The soil is excellent, about one half of the tract being cleared land, and fit for immediate culture; the other heavily timbered with Oak, Pine, Ash, and Hickory. It has also the advantage of several good landings—Any one disposed to view the land, and to purchase, may apply, in the absence of the subscriber, to JAMES ROBINSON, or JOHN READ, who reside in the neighbourhood. Tully Robinson.
Dec. 7.
Eagle Fire Company of New-York.
Office of the Company, No. 59, Wall Street.
PROPOSALS
For Insuring Houses, Buildings, Stores, Ships in Harbour, Goods, Wares, and Merchandise, FROM LOSS OR DAMAGE BY FIRE.
THE Legislature of the state of New-York, having incorporated the Eagle Fire Company of New-York, with a capital of five hundred thousand dollars, (with the liberty of increasing the same, if the business of the company should require it, to one million of dollars,) for the sole purpose of insuring buildings, and every kind of personal property from loss or damage by FIRE; and the capital of five hundred thousand dollars having all been paid, or secured to be paid, according to law: the directors feel a particular satisfaction in offering to their fellow-citizens, throughout the United States, the means of security against that kind of loss which frequently, in an UNEXPECTED MOMENT, involves in destruction the earnings of a life of industry and frugality, and reduces the independent and affluent, together with their families, to poverty and distress. To provide an additional guard against calamities of this nature, has been the primary motive of this INSTITUTION; and the directors engage to conduct its concerns, with a fairness, candour, and liberality, which will justly entitle it to the confidence and patronage of the public.
No insured person will be liable to make good the loss of others; but in case of fire, the sufferer will be fully indemnified—The Company also make good losses on property burnt by lightning.
Classes of Hazards, and Rates of Annual Premiums for Insurance against Fire.
HAZARDS OF THE FIRST CLASS.
Brick or Stone buildings, covered with slate, tiles, or metal.
Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings.
62 1-2 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.
HAZARDS OF THE SECOND CLASS.
Brick or Stone buildings, covered with wood.
Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings.
93 3-4 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.
HAZARDS OF THE THIRD CLASS.
Buildings, the sides of which are part of brick or stone, and part of wood.
Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings.
125 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.
HAZARDS OF THE FOURTH CLASS.
Buildings, the sides of which are entirely of wood.
Goods hazardous, and not hazardous, contained in such buildings.
187 1-2 cents per 100 dollars per annum, for sums not exceeding 10,000 dollars in one risk.
Ships in Port, or their Cargoes, Ships Repairing or Building, may be insured against Fire.
This manner of classing hazards will give a general idea of the rates of insurance, but there will necessarily be an increase of premium in all cases where the local situation, and other circumstances, increase the risk: such as joining, or being contiguous to wooden buildings, or buildings occupied in carrying on hazardous business—distance from water—no engines or firemen in the town or place, &c. &c.—The premiums may also, in some cases, be reduced on wooden buildings in the country, when standing single or detached, or attended with circumstances of peculiar security:—But in all cases, if the sum to be insured on or in the same building exceeds 10,000 dollars, an additional premium will be required.
Soap-Boilers, Tallow Chandlers, Brewers, Malsters, Bakers, Rope Makers, Sugar Refiners, Distillers, Chemists, Varnish Makers, Stable Keepers, Tavern Keepers, China, Glass, or Earthenware Sellers, Oil and Colourmen, Turpentine Works, Paper Mills, Printing Houses, Coopers, Carpenters, Cabinet Makers, Coach Makers, Boat Builders, Ship Chandlers, Apothecaries, Theatres, Mills and Machinery, and all Manufactories that use Fire Heat, are deemed extra hazardous, and must be particularly described in the policy; and for all such risks an additional premium will be required.
Conditions of Insurance.
I. All applications for Insurance must be made at the office of the company, in writing; and the subject offered for Insurance accurately described.
II. If the property offered for insurance is within the district of a surveyor of this company, he will examine and report thereon; but if not within any such district, then the applicant must himself furnish an accurate and just description thereof, viz. of what materials each building is constructed; whether occupied as private dwellings, or how otherwise; where situated; the name of the present occupier; how situated with respect to other buildings. And in the insurance of goods, wares and merchandise, the place where the same are deposited, is to be described; also, whether such goods are of the kind denominated hazardous, and whether any manufacturing is carried on in the premises, all which is to be certified and attested in such manner as the nature of the case may admit. And if any person or persons shall insure his or their buildings or goods, and shall cause them to be described in the policy otherwise than they really are, so as the same be charged at a lower premium than is herein proposed; or if such description be false or fraudulent, such insurance will be void and of no effect.
III. Goods held in trust, or on commission, are to be declared as such; otherwise the policy will not extend to cover such property.
IV. Every Policy of Insurance, made by this Company, shall be sealed with its seal, and signed by the President and Secretary; and the person for whose interest the insurance is made, must be declared and named therein; nor can any Policy, or interest therein, be assigned but by consent of the Company, expressed by endorsement made thereon.
V. No Insurance will be considered as made or binding, until the Premium is paid.
VI. Persons insuring Property with this Company, and who have already made other Insurance on the same property, shall give notice thereof in writing, at the Company's Office, before or at the time of the execution of the Policy; and persons who, after insuring Property with this Company, have Insurance made on the same property elsewhere, shall, with all reasonable diligence, notify the same in writing at the Office of the Company, and have the same endorsed on the policy, or otherwise acknowledged in writing; in default whereof, the Policy shall cease, and be of no effect: and in case of loss, each party insuring shall be liable to the payment of a rateable proportion of the loss or damage which may be sustained.
VII. No loss or damage by fire will be paid, that may happen or take place in consequence of any invasion, civil commotion, riot, or military or usurped power whatever.
VIII. Books of Accounts, Written Securities, Notes, Bills, Bonds, Deeds, Ready Money, or Bullion, cannot be insured.
IX. Jewels, Plate, Medals, or other Curiosities, Paintings and Sculptures, are not included in any insurance, unless such articles are specified in the policy.
X. All persons insured by this Company, sustaining any loss or damage by fire, are forthwith to give notice to the Company, and as soon after as possible, to deliver in as particular an account of their loss or damage, signed with their own hands, as the nature of the case will admit of, and make proof of the same by their oath or affirmation, and by their books of accounts, and other proper vouchers, as shall be reasonably required: and shall make oath, whether any and what other insurance is made on the same property; and shall procure a certificate, under the hand of a magistrate, notary public, or clergyman, most contiguous to the spot where the fire happened, and not concerned in such loss, that they are acquainted with the character and circumstances of the person or persons insured; and do know, or very likely believe, that he, she, or they, really, and by misfortune, and without fraud or evil practice, have sustained by such fire, loss and damage to the amount therein mentioned; and, until such affidavits and certificates are produced, the loss shall not be payable:—Also, if there appears any fraud, or
also swearing, the claimant shall forfeit his claim to restitution or payment, by virtue of his policy.
XI. In case any difference shall arise, touching any loss or damage, it may be submitted to the judgement of Arbitrators, indifferently chosen, whose award in writing shall be binding on the parties. And when any loss or damage shall happen, the company shall pay for the same in sixty days after the loss shall have been ascertained and proved, without allowance of discount, fees, or any deduction whatever.
XII. Insurance may be made for seven years, by paying the premium for six years, and for a less number of years than seven, a reasonable discount will be allowed.
The Subscriber being appointed Surveyor for the Eagle Fire Company, upon application, will survey, and value, such buildings, (or property contained therein) upon which Insurance may be required. Francis Foster, Church-Street, Norfolk.
Feb 13.
FOR SALE,
The CARGO of the British ship Highlander, from Liverpool, 450 Ton Stoved SALT, 30 Crates WARE.
Robert Dickson.
February 13.
NOTICE.
THE Partnership of T. & W. A. ARMISTEAD is this day dissolved by consent of parties. The settlement of its concerns devolve on W. A. ARMISTEAD, who is authorised to grant discharges, and on whom all persons having claims against the Firm, are requested to call. January 5.
W. A. Armistead and George Kelly, have entered into Co-partnership. Their business will be conducted under the Firm of ARMISTEAD & KELLY. January 16.
At a Meeting of the Proprietors of the
Dismal Swamp Company, held at Williamsburg on the 19th ultimo, a Dividend of TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS on each quarter share was declared; which sum will be paid by a draught from the Managers upon their agent at Suffolk, after the first of March next; proper vouchers of the right of the claimants being produced, and subject to any discount the company may have against the claimants. A Meeting of the Company is to be held annually at Suffolk on the first Tuesday in May, and it is requested the proprietors will be present in their attendance, either personally or by their attorneys. William Nelson, John Bracken, Corbin Griffin, Jas. Henderson, Managers. February 2d.
FOR SALE,
The CARGO of the Schooner Cervo, D. Mourande, Master, from St. Jago de Cuba, COFFEE, in barrels and bags, of the first quality. SEGARS, in boxes— Now Landing at Commerce-Street Wharf. John Granbery. January 23.
THE SUBSCRIBER
Wishes to Sell, and will Sell or Rent on moderate terms, That very excellent Wharf and Lot, in the town of Gosport, at present occupied by William Smith; the Wharf, Ware-Houses, and Dwelling-House are all in good repair.
Thirteen Lots in the Town of Suffolk; And the following Property in Norfolk,
Two good Fire-Proof Warehouses on the Eastern side of Commerce-Street, Nos. 4 and 6. Two Dwelling-Houses and Lots on Boush-street, in good repair, and very pleasantly situated. Apply to John Granbery. September 14.
I WISH to inform those, with the management of whose business I have been entrusted, as well as the Merchants of Norfolk and others, who may have occasion for my services, that I have fixed my residence at Farnham Church in Richmond County, for the purpose of practising Law in the counties of Richmond, Northumberland and Lancaster. I occupy the house which formerly belonged to Peter Temple, Esq. the most eligible situation in the Northern Neck for a lawyer, as well on account of its centrality to the clerk's office, as its central situation; being nearly equidistant from each court house. These circumstances render the situation peculiarly advantageous to conduct the business of those, who have extensive collections which they wish to be speedily made, in any of those three counties. It is so usual for persons offering their services to the public, to make promises of fidelity and attention which are never performed, that I deem it more proper to dispense with professions of this sort, and to suffer the community to judge by my conduct whether or not I be worthy of confidence. Any communications addressed to me at Farnham, Virginia, will be promptly attended to.
Caleb B. Upshur. Feb. 13.
FLOUR. FOR SALE,
BY JOHN GRANBERY, AT HIS WARE-HOUSE ON COMMERCE-STREET, A small quantity of very excellent
New Flour,
in barrels and half-barrels, now on hand, fit for family use, and a regular supply expected from the Columbian Mills—Richmond inspection.
CASH given for good new flour barrels and half-barrels. Nov. 9.
Richard Jeffrey & Co.
No. 66, Main-street, corner of Bank-Street, have just received from London, per the ship Planter,
An assortment of MEDICINES,
of the first quality. Also, a few hundred weight refined Salt-Petre, Hardham's Snuff, No. 9, and 37, in 1-2 and 1-4 pound canisters.
Violet, Benzoin, Windsor and Shaving Soap, Evan's best Crown Lancets, Tooth Brushes of superior kind, Refined Liquorice, &c.
They have on hand, and are in daily expectation of receiving from Amsterdam, all kinds of GLASS WARE, suitable to Apothecaries.
MEDICINE CHESTS for ships and family use, with printed directions, put up as usual.
NOTES OF HAND,
according to the new form established by the Directors of the Office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of the United States, for sale at this office.
NORFOLK:
PUBLISHED THREE TIMES A-WEEK,
BY WILLIAM DAVIS,
FOR THE PROPRIETOR,
Opposite the Exchange Coffee-House.
Price Six Dollars Yearly, in advance.