text: ..ss -'*-**,.--< jUsiT PUB! !SHiz. ',D —_ tesi- in; jAMES Kr'ZZNTÞvIE!)Y2 s, [miss, si si' First: add Seatinnzrvsc are, kﬂjnr s Commentarces sictsf'zc Law; as ling/and: ".gjzsiL'ctsisi'Tf as}, i 90; superior, to the British, f'dJJ w Amch Cans ix smitsicly more Yaluaﬄc, as it Lontains _ ;TES o; REÞEKENCE ct saddle; amcdicion, n five wts. octava—. ;sisi—ct-ct. f , AND OF ssssCmmanwcalt/z qsss Virgina. "Wl'fﬂ ctss' si si .sisssie NTUNXNG ss 30 spun luxh iu-chcts as appeared nc- ;; ssss cesssssiary m i arm - I _ si Winter oftfz-echws osV-iz- gima _ . ffssfpssa lctsiiemshr cf the Health.! twin-no * PB S'r. GEctO. TUCKE R, i — o'f Law m Ih: siUx iwmzy of \\ iiiiamsi mssMny, and osic at the In} g es of the ; zsisiiGcncra. Court of Virg ma. 1 zsigssshcﬂykm. 18. (I ! 1 ct ral Gmrnmert as Zhe U Siaies, ! sssssi "'Fmsx NOUCE. ssss Czsectos IAMES SMITH, a Banl'm'stt. , TVHEREAS - ommrsslon of Baikruptcy, fsi. nnded upon the ?"? 'of Congrcss passes. on the 4: h day of Aprl, si_—-:- 80), entitlctca " Assn act to esiablish an imifor' m . gem of Banruptcy througnruc the Unucd '" hath been awarded and issued sonh a sin James Smith, of detdes, in the state of si'ctgma, Merchant, and he hav'u g been declar L'; Bankrnptn—he is hereby rquizcd t \ snarrcnder If to tffc Commissioncrs,1n !} :: said C. m m named, or a majnr part of them, si n hi- ] ss --lfosssictzctctctsiizctxctctzfsct Ddsi'sillsi/ MP-ctsisi'fctf'ﬄsi'ss ct ctssctMruSNowsinr-ctn, ' si. Last, whose titles himself is "Pondersi," really at a loss to know what is the significance of the late conduct of the board of directors, and does he not know that even a worm when viewed as den on will turn endless writheish? Does he in a deed beliette that the Americans are such as to submit to anything? If he is really uninfamous to late events; it claims he but kind to give him a slight little detail, and with responding he will be surprised at nothing more than the temper and patience, which the Stockholders exhibit upon the occasion. A law had passed the legislature of Virginia authorizing a Tursinpite from Salt Lake, to Little River. A discretion is given to the Stockholders through their directors, to fix the rate of the road between these points. A majority of the Stockholders at that time were citizens of Alexandria. They contemplate the undertaking as a great commercial measure, but with their interest as Alexandrians and Stockholders, is intimately connected the great interest, and accommodation of the public. They represent in their persons the mercantile interest and information of Alexandria. In October last... They supposed they discovered strong symptoms of a disposition in some of the directors to come to a decision, in which that interest was deeply involved. Their attention was thus drawn more particularly to a consideration of the subject. They presumed their situation, and opportunities enabled them to form an opinion upon general principles, as to the adoption of a Northern or Southern route. They ventured to what is called the "interview" with the editors of Alexandria? "Curious" a question of the  !1 c! '.'3 0! this 'ct'm 'mc'msh, Dccember, and M mdzsy, the 9:h _ ct—Df ]anuary next, at 10 0 c'!0ck m the !)re. ;— on each day, ac theCmunisssi me.' Office, 4 i_h'-uctssie of Benjamin; Parke) in the town of she estate and eﬀects, when and where he me ;;fsisict'siﬄtots may attend to grove their debts , at the g—TLssmxd meeting to chlse azaxgnces , and at the "In!- kissing, the said Bankzupt is required to Limb his examinacion. &" Allpersonsiudebted to the said Bankrupt, or who have any of his efszcts, are not to :my or ue-. Jisieeprhe same, but to whom the Commissicncrs ! Jsissml} direct. ?. W .ss ,,ct -,— Bzxjssaxim PARKE, ] sss.;f:csict'"sisiss " Secretzry to the Coz.11mss-oners. Lsssi csi9simmiss'mncrs Office, . , d ? kqderICk—siburg, ]) c. !, [803- ? ; GLORUL N.- LYLES 5 ; {if _6 Res ctsifuii) informs his triends and the pubiic sssi' siencn! that he has received a g-ec 5628} supply of ss, - Fat}! and !!intez Goocls, ctjGsiWÞ besiofilrsss lar she at his time in Fu: sex street, ssss-WW Mþmst reason-abie terms. Also, ssct "To" A quantity of Seine Twine. 1 Now. to. ' d4w ss si\sisi:' Þctctsisi. ctctssjsi ' si ' FQLL dALct-J} A fitly, healthy,y yuucg \':9_ro . is? . ofun- ct nxpua'zable character. Acsis Iy i.:- she Psszssz cr. avesiÞNztsi; d A l'þss—sict '. '. JUST Risi' FIV (45, ; TW wmctm-sssii PI \ \ O F-si) ? I'I- sct w {me 'xt-{uid an lo'w :.chrmss it spc'c-IV ,ss psigica— \ siWLctWsi-sixde. " , BLY. md 2?" A si'sssiss. End-9; 14-.'a si, w Tq be Sossisi, sight-tuum to the iiﬂct Willi imi 19} men: of M-mn ct ctsisissssgsi' si Page, deceifeziss, -ofi M rndzy me?. I day of ja. ss may ne'xc, i'r {air, it 11 f.si the wax fair da), sictm "Knob-held, hiskss: t* refidencc,, As)! the GMmjona- P70þe My 0: Zongzng . to szzs Estasictc. si-si! Wfishp or about one H-ndrcd and Sixty was N EG R () E S, bar,; wend:-nue]! she stock et Hsi wscsis, three Mxlee, axe, Sheep, sinPia meanen U: to.: Is,- and about 'jsifct'siWssbnieh si Com'. Amongst the Negroes are ;_ct;=_3y'<ss-ct very valuable Caxpzntcrs, three excellent AND! me, two Milk.-:; and s me o'hes tra: —s. ;:siZ-{W The great-:: part; if not the n' hole, of this WM psswþcrsy, wille: said on a credis oft: .?" sisct; {he purchasing giving bond wish approv. ;sssictfi {ty, * to bear in:-me!} fxosin the. date; if not si? ss Sssss YÜQKL "A" sums Under two: W dullazs ' ?jf'ctssssi'ssi' Zfsshne ]: akso w dis-mse of, at plsiivatc saL, and MMWWB mine, a number of ctsssi'ct 3 ;? L () 11 8 ' ffctssssJlZI-{aowertnm counky of Hanover, including {she Tobacco Waterways at that place, a Hook ous Lssm in the town of Baxh, or Borsilcy Springs, {sig— tmþsooo?- if! Of ' TENNESSEE LANDS, ngg to (and efiazc. si si ssAH perform having claims against said He, will please make them known as speedily usspufisibic, and these indebted will, it is hoped, 3si bow: in making payment to ssigifssss sssi ss. Robert Patton, sissvsissg—sict Admssinistracor with the Will annexed. Independence, Dec. :.& With a postponement of the decision; give time for reflection. No necessity exists under the law to decide now. Pause a little. What is their reply? Let their subsequent conduct answer. They refuse a postponement, and adopt a Northern route by the Court-House against the opinion of two of their colleagues, at least as well qualified as to decide on the interest of Alexandria as as they were, and this Opinion supposes by a majority of the Stockholders, representing the collected mercantile information of the town. They do not stop here. The annual election of directors had been postponed from September to December. In about a month the powers of these directors would cease. But the evil might be corrected by new election. This must be prevented. Let us go to work upon the upper end of the map, expend money, make contracts, cut down trees, and clear a road from Little River to the Court House. By these measures we tie the Stockholders neck and heels, and increase the difficulty of a future change, however necessary to express it. Induce us to be necessary, and proper in their view. And what is now demanded by these directors, and their friends? What are their complaints and treats? The Stockholders feeling the injury, as Well as the indignity offered them, can only look forward for relief. "Press to me approaching election. They furnish measures for this purpose. A meeting is called, and then for sooth they are asked to postpone, and for whom? For the very men who had refused a short delay for resumption a few days before. Suffice it to say that, to call attention to the stockholders' dung, they discover some little sensation and are preparing for the convention at the stockholders' meeting. They say, "This is the matter with satisfaction." "What is this serious exertion to induce what has been done?" "The constituted authority has decided upon the route, and fixed it to go by the Court-house. Why not? Shall the Stockholders kiss the red, wherewith they have been beaten? Should they be asked to respect men to office who have so recently discovered a disposition, to resist, and disregard fraud the wishes of their Constituents, who ever clearly expressed? Are they willing to, trust their impositions? intrusted interests to the management of the several gentlemen? Can they hope for more indulgence and attention in this subject? Future? This is the preper reward of such conduct? The Director's act against the interest and wishes of the Stockholders, must then it is modestly asked, will you admit what has been done? Surely you will submit to the constituted authorities. Yes, they have submitted, and they must submit whilst the powers of the present directors last. Happy for the interests of the Stockholders, as they are but of short continuance, and notwithstanding every effort to embarrass and compromise their future operations, the members of Monday next, will afford a final application of the system of appointments; and the peaceable and equitable remedy. Noisszsssi-sisiwilctl the Stockholders be deterred from expressing their opinion upon the subject of the question of the route, by the terms which have been thrown out. Ponsider asks, and he asks it in the languages of sin threat, "can a new board rightfully alter what has been established?" It is answered, most unquestionably it can. It will possess every power over the subject with the present board. This power is given by the law. It is necessary to the execution of the law. Of the other powers of the law. This discretion over the subject has already been exercised, and must continue to be exercised until the road is finished, notwithstanding all the tribunals, and all the exertions of lawyers to the contrary. But even if an alteration could not be rightly made, it seems impossible that these three directors can be the choice of those men, whose request for a postponement has been disregarded. Nor will another objection in the same style, which has been urged with much less zeal, prevent the Stockholme expressing their opinion in favor of the southern route by Centerville, to wit, that the law requires the maid to be as straight as the ground will admit; that this road was therefore not intended for the southern people, and that if the southern route is adopted, which will take away custom-ere from Durhams, Fredericksburg, and Richmond, the legislature in tenderness to these towns will repeal the law, or, in the opinion of "Pon, the Stockholders will be brought before the state tribunals, by the misuse of their statute. One part of the objection certainly comes with a very bad grace, from men professing a regard for the interest of Alexandria; nor is it believed the same scoure would be reciprocated by those towns. It is however an awkward act now, of a consequence which must inevitably follow from the adoption of the southern route, to wit, the bringing the southwestern people to the Alex. market; customers which cannot have any other means of route. They have no water transportation, and must depend upon a Turnpike. Can he legislature then be supposed to deny them this accommodation, or to refuse them a chance of making a choice of markets? Alexandrianism, its capital will be their best maid-at; they will come to it. It is they have a road. The southern route by Centerville receives the most great roads leading from that country, to wit, the Guinea and the Red House rocks, at points the most convenient and inviting. Nor can Frederickburg and Dumfries complain of this route, because it generally pursues the present road, which has been established and used since the sixteenth settlement of the country. Many large markets. Manufacturing mills in the southwestern country, such as the Thoroughfare, Buckland, Carter's, Ewell's, &c. now bring their flour to Alexandria; are they to be discouraged and rejected, because they may be considered in point of distance and situation, the natural customers of other towns? There is not more force in the objection that this road must be straight. It is impossible that language are can be more plain or expressive, than that made use of in the Turnpike law. It gives a discretion as broad as the occasion required. Two points are fixed by law—the route to unite those points is submitted to the company through their directors, Gas's being had to the distance, nature of the ground, and other circumstances. Among other circumstances, the accommodation of the public and the interest of the company, are considerations proper and it is necessary to be taken in view, (15 to 16) are that too great objects of the turnpike let. The south-west of the counties are accommodated, who are perhaps as wealthy and will be as good customers to Alexandria as any other. These people will be in six or seven miles to the southwest by The Court house route, and will be compelled to go to the expense for other markets. The people about Multleburgh will also be accommodated in astonishment to their water transportation, with a road three miles shorter than they at present. The tell to the company will be increased three-fold, and the undertaking will yield something zestified. To the Stockholders, which cannot be the case on the other side, the toll will be increased three-fold. This route, then, is supposed not only by the same, but the spirit of the law—and such has been the practical interpretation given to it by the directors themselves. Look at their surveying, Five out of six have been directed and made in compensation of Centerville, and the process is said from Centerville to Lassie River. These were expensive to the company; and why made, the legal way must be pushed? Not even an assizes, a very way to this moment, and the judge in the Court there—no until the month. Were the DE rq ims maizsmsssi & :,ss Londoim Director has insisted on his act, and by the reasons urged in his suit, a suit must be made. But how, under the laws, can the law be changed so that the act of the court is not a legal one? The effect of the act is to ensure that the law is not properly administered. At some? The Londoner, on the other hand, says he had visited the country north at the Oum House, and had his "dinner" had, whether it was not cost money, to make it run-sides, then win, said, "I will, said, "I will." By virtue of the law, it does not appear that he had the law; nor should you hesitate at this instance, with what is considered an infringement upon the law, much less should the law be violated. And as such, I have decided an offense, of which and to no doubt. But Mr. Sommers had said in his report that nothing would be done to ensure the right of the House. We were the persons, it is said, in making such a deliberate attempt to limit the line on this instrument? Had Mr. Sommers ever seen such a question to examine the ground with this view? But it is said that the speech of the Louisiana Director, and mark the consistency of the Directory. The Directory, it is said, has been authorized to take into view other considerations: but shortness of consideration, and the nature of the ground, and yet. He air-signs two all) reasons for departure. From the strait line, and going to the Court House. His words are chase—"But there were other reasons in favor of that direction; by hearing that far south, we enquire those coming from the south-east coast, to join us without any loss in distance; the south too from Alexandria to the Court House, and that above, which leaves the old road below Little River, and passes by the Gum Soring to the Court House, must be kept open, and it was of some consequence to take in ties. Now here as she two very considerate tons, to wit, the accommodation of the public, and the interest at the cross-country, which are urged in favor of the Centerville route. Can of the construction belong to the Court House and Loudoun, answer to Centerville, and the south-western counties? It is how is it discovered that this law was made for the former and not the latter? Again, why depart from a strait line going to the Court House? It is farther, and the ground it is believed not better. The reason assigned is the saving to the Company, in the purchase of ground; and this is not a consideration at which of the existence, or the nature of the ground. The same observations apply to the strait route to Centerville. When, neither the letter, the spirit, nor the practical interpretation of the law, is against the adoption of the southern route, away with the object. In which has been urged with so much significance, and so little sense, by the Directors and their friends, away, also, with the idle threats of retaliation, tribunals, and legislative interference. The whole apparatus of law, with all its terrors. have been brought into view to frighten and alarm; but the dockholders are "nor the soles they have been represented; they have too much firmness and intelligence, to be diverted from their object by such stuff. If the route by Centerville is a "misuse" of the statute, it has been called, and therefore may be asserted; so, let the same reasons, may that by the Court House. For it has been stated, on good authority, that better ground may be had north of the Court House, than "on the route adopted." But it seems nothing is to belettuntrted; every engine is to be set in motion to dragoon the Srnt-kht-ldets of Alexandria, into a soprsctr: of the present Directors. The lawyers have raised up a " saw head and bloody bones," to srigliten the poor, simple Alexaidrians, and a deputarion from Fredetitk and Sltenttndnah are erltsted in the service. These gentlemen express great as t :ntsh-sinent 'that the Sznrltholdets of Atct:xandria and its neighhorhond, which are a mnjsiirity of the whole nanher, lh void wish to give :: t'i reCtion to th-s soasiJ, to soit their own conveni me:; that is, by going toCss-ntesi-rville, to'RC c.:mmo-Zate a greater moon;-crof pen;-le, tziincreasa the toil of the C-Jtnpany, and. to extend their atotntnet'cial conne-itinn. It is no: believed ths: more than one of these gentleman is a Stt:ckhoid er. The Alexandziece then are to make a ton-i for them, for Frederisik and Slaenandoah, which shall snorrcn their present (lifts-net: that-e milec, sini, lorsotitit, thry are to be theatenc'l wi;h f-si-G indignatin'n and; (;Psilolct'ction of these Counticfii ifct' cuts-e they will not make it on the nearest si-ffiss-j/t ronte. And, upon the same principle, they may, anl I so;:posi: W-ll, object to the Court H'fllsc rOtite; t'or they seem to have takcnlct'pspilssiblf since they ram-: to Alexasslrizq) the in): me: prctation of the law with the thrczDizcssfiurs, But fhc-sc grnxicmcn, pcrhzsips, are not pmshnnd lawyers. When they shaii be sacislssicd that the more by Centezvillc is " according- to the true intent and meaning of the law," is is pscsumci they have me muchrcspect fm the lgwct-si m " op pos: the paymrfnt &! calls on il"--{)ut is ches shouhl so refuse, fortunately for the CUIUPWJv's_ the law has providd-d them with the suirahic and "effi-si'nci-ms means so [am/des] 3 pag'mcnt. ]Jo n.": know in what pan of Frcsilczitk and szsiitswnj-'\lsict-f1 these gentlvmcn rcsidc ; but it is believed, that :: cmzsisicshbic' portion of (imsc c<m:ss.nc.=. would uﬂs thank them ior, thisopposiziun ma shutizem row-: Apropns, how medy sh-rscs have these two coun ties tctkrn in the Turnpikc Compzmv ? Should the Court House for-te be adopted, there is mach-'t language which she ctpebch over the Ridge. sijct well as of the Sou'sih Wsi-zkcrn countics. may za dress to xhc-ssScockboldcrs, much more afarming—ctasi (he thread is wizhmt remedy. {: is {his—fﬂsi-sisi .. 