Western Sun, Volume 1, Number 21, Vincennes, Knox County, 27 January 1808 — Page 1
THE
WESTERN SUN
EACH CENTURY HAS ITS PECULIAR MODE OF DOING BUSINESS, AND MEN GUIDED MORE BY CUSTOM THAN BY REASON, FOLLOW WITHOUT ENQUIRY, THE MANNERS WHICH ARE PREVALENT IN THEIR OWN TIME.—HUME.
VOL. I.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1808.
NO. 21.
Extract from the law for levying and collecting a tax on land, and for other purposes. Be it enabled &c. That the courts of common pleas
of the leveral counties in this
teritory, shall within fifteen
cdays after the first day of January nextm and within 15 days after the first day of January quadrenially, thereafter, or at any special court
by them to be appointed for
that purpofe, which they are hereby authorifed at an v time
to hold, (hall appoint an aflef-!
;fbr for the purpoles hereafter
Mentioned, each -of whom fliall before they begin the du ties of their refpedMve office, take and fubferibe the following oath or affirmation before any judge or juftice ot the faid county, 1 A certificate of which oath or affirmation fliall be delivered to the aflef for refpedUrely, and a copy thereof tranfmitted without delay to the clerk of the court of common pleas of the county, to be by him filed in his office ; in cafe of the death, refufal to aft, refignation, or
removal from the county of
the laid affclfor, the faid court
of common pleas (hall as soon
as may be thereafter, at any
fpecial court to be held for
that purpofe, appoint a per fon to fupply fuch vacancy,
who fliall take ami fubferibe
the fiuac oath or affirmation
as the cafe maybe, as by this
aft is directed to be taken &
fubferibed by each affeffor ;
Provided always, that no Iheriffor deputy fherilT, of any county fliall be eligible to cxercifeihe duty of aKeflor under tlii 3 aft. 5 9. The judges of the court of common pleas, orally two ot them ihall allcmblc the ccurt houfe of their proper county, on the lirll
Tucfday of the month of May next, and the firft Tucfdays of the fame month quadren nially thereafter, ec the clerks fliall lay before them the faid ablt rafts of affeffment valuation of lands io made by the faid afTcffbrs in manner and form aforefaid, and the laid judges (hall, and they are hereby im powered and nutho
rifed to hear any complaints
of improper orj partial affefp men or valuation of lands, which may have been made by the fiiid a(Telforsf and to
make fuch alerauons therein
powers with which he was invefted.
The news ciYcn from Por
and even
as they, or a majority of them
(hall thmkreaionable and jultVjthc nrazils others that rcncli were about to inv
- LONDON, November s.
tueai, i js various,
contradictory. U appears certain tHat tlu minifters- of France & Spain had withdrawn from Lifbon. But an official intimatiqn of this had been publifned at
Lifbon, conncftcd with a de
claration of the hope that this
event would not be followed
by hoftiiities.
Other accounts fay that tht Portuguefe government wen-
on the eve or departing for
tne
invade
the country, and others that
1 r
oith 0-f the 5 Hi pare cf thr
The objeft of Mr. Rofe's
miffion, we are given to un-
derftand, is to propofe to A
merica, a- compenfation for rehgning the colloniel carry
ing trade ot France, by fuf-
pending our own navigation
law in favor of America, and
permitting her to trade unre-
ftriftedly in the produce of
our Weft India iflands.
PARIS, Octobers. Private letters from Fititrland announce, that there i
no hope ot conciliation with
the United States cf America in confequencc fir J. Craig, has failed with a fqiudron ol one 74, three frigates, and fcvcral tranfports with three regiments on board, deluded to defend Nova Scotia anc) Canada againlt the attack ot the Americans, who have al ready organized a militia ot one hundred thoufand men, and lined their coalfs wih for midable batteries ! ! October 10. By the decree of his imperial tnajefly Bonaparte, dated jtli October, citizen Pi chon, charge d'afiYirs near
the United States of America was deprived of his functions for having amonoU other charge?, gone beyond the
m
Drolen Blundehufs, is alfo received, and fhs.ll be auendecto in due time.
- Ji ,,,itc..'. PHILADELPHIA, Dec, U. Latest and ?crij important'
Tht iollowing intereHinif artitlrs are co
jMed from Lang and Turners'' -New York Gazette of tkis niorninir.
; FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
New-lark Dec. 13. The time has arrived when public anxie-
ty relpeling our foreign afflirs will fuori1 ' beall'iyecL Conprefs will prohably in few. -
ddys l)e in poITeflion of ever)"1 ncceiTary-
50 mai;e up a aeciuon. vve man loon knw whether our . affaisV,Vrhh England arc to be fettled, or whether the new de
termination of .-.Bonaparte is to have its proper effect on the minds of thofcr to
whom the welfare and ptoipenty ol t(UJ
country is committed. '
i he long expected fchr llevenge captaia .
Read, arrived uc this Dort on . Satfurdav e-
veiiinp from England' and France, with
li(p:itclcs of the highett importance from
mr. Iunrce our minifier at London, and .
nir. Armflrong our minidcr at Paris She failed from England cn the 16th of OJfc.
nd from Cherburg in Fraucc, n the 9th r
November.
On the nature of the difjntches, 'we
have no other information, than thty arc ot the utmoft imnortance. Dr. Bullus
who is the bearer of them (and who went
out in the Revenge) IfaOeurd 0.1 Wthe
feit of governtnent with all p.lnble ipeed. He reached town in a hired boat federal , hours before the Revenge got up. We are informed by the office rs of the Revenge that Bonapartr had declared to mr. Arrr.Qrongj our miniflrr at Pris. that their fliouM be W NEUTRALS 1 This is a fict we have no commcnti to make. The Revenge- b&d 33 day; from Cherhurg, and 27 i'rem England. There had bren an embargo'at Clierburg for fix weeks in cr-nfrqurnce of th.e fitting out tf a fri- . rritc hrig which had tint yet fded. . I biig Appollo Vaughan of Bolton, tMcd 1111 tier convey of the R.evengr, by fiiffial nrrinifiinn. hivijif" n?V i)Oird mr.
A report Was Current al iu.doin, American minifier at the court'
ol JMauriu, with ins Lirnuy anu Juit. 1 uc
Revenge Ins fuflrrird in ih- late g.des on
tlir todlt very frerly, and has ainvtd almofl a yKfk. On the 27th ult. lier gum
were thrown overboard to Uvc the vend and livrt.
Mr. lUft fiilrd for America onthe 'Gth
of November, in the Statira Frigaie Mr.
Muinoe had not left Kngl.md Gtcat Britain had grantrd letters of marque and1
rcpriiHls againlt Denmark
the ports of Portugal had
been actually (hut againfl; the
EnglHn. The Englifli tniffion to the Ottoman Porte had entirely
failed, and the emperor ot
Morocco had determined it is
faid, to withold all fupplics
from Gibraltar.
The temper of the Ruffian
court ir rcprcfented as ex
irernely hollile to G. Britain,
and it was reported that an
emharno had been aclunllv
Liid in the KtMIun ports on al
Knnhfh veffeh.
Conadt on the 27th of cpt.
that lord Collingwood had re :civc:l orders to pollcfs himle!i ot he Kuluon fleet in the Mcdiierrancan.
'
TIIK WKSTKIN SUN.
We hive hsd no nud tor t!ir Ult twi - .
tor winch we U14II not nreicr.a t(.
alfiti the c.aufc we have cotdr quently no
thing new on the fuhjecl ot peace or war.
vind;
Th.e contir jition of M'Ferron's
ration unavoidably JOpOned ; it Hul.
ne rcfumed in our rext.
Alexowitr, has been rrr-ived, and flial. 's duly attended to. The condufion cl
In the houfe of re prrfentstiver cf t!ie U. . n the 111 inil. Mr. Rai:dolp!i offered : hz i d'.ow'n g refolutions, which on the
fucprdlng dy were agieed to.
R"frlv-d, 'I'hat provif.on ourlit to tnuie by hw for the adec'i'-'e and com-f-rt-iUc fjpport of Inch ttiirrrs and fol-U'-rx rf t!;e lite r?volutionry v"',r and re Hill living in Hate i"dr.mcr in a 'onr.tiy whicfi owci its liberty to their valor. Rf-lved, That piovifion rtin-.h: to he ud-ly f.r arn.irg r cj'iivping tlc fhfdr r.ilitia or ti e LVi-'d S;-tr. I'riVvrd, 'I'hat ptovifson ct'l-t to be ::ndr 1 y pr''urirg a 'irmidahls taU cf C:ld jf ilziy for tht fcrvict eT .!so