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    "title": "Letter from Morris Shaff, Lieutenant of Ordinance, to General Williams Requesting an Investigation of Explosion at His Depot",
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    "ocrText": "lity Point ha\nAnjust 109 1864\nGen't 8. Williams.\nAdjt General\nAny of Potomae. General\nI here the\nhonor to request that a board\nThe officers be ordered th investigate\nthe late explosion at this Vepat.\nmy Reapectmes\nyou Ght Senth\nMomis inform shaff\nSity Pouit Va\nters At\nmy power toopponit\nbuy 11th\nthe Board within asked\naugust ,10-1864\nRespe etfully for\npickfully forward the\nfor, and therefore red-\nMomis Shaff\nwere le d, appro.\napplication for the\nSenit of Orduance\nred\naccision of the Sent\nMore Sdie\nGeul Cividi\nViguate that a board of\nofficers be ordered to imoratigate\nLicut Ad t ,Chyal\nCw. G.\nthe late explosion at this Depot.\nMay Guel Circuity\n1452u away of the Polomac\naug 12. 18/24\nas inder Year onlur\nSpinal\nNo \" of the\nHead Quarter, annus of\nthe United States, the\nOrdnance depot-at City\nPoint is the depat-for the\nannis operating against\nRichmond, I question\n(over)\nRice only 13. la S.O.\nrepeal has never been promulgated although the\nsoon\ntained, it will be put in immediate number execution. are\nas\na\nsufficient\nob-\nfor\nnotification of such pretended repeat distinetly\ndescribed it to be dependent on conditions, in\nm30\naw\nwhich the enemy knew Great-Britain could never\nHOMAS CAVE, has opened a\nacquiesce ; and although abundant evidence has\nsince appeared of their subsequent execution.\nStore at No 35 Burling-slip, where the Pub-\n\" But the enemy has at length laid aside all dis-\nlic may be supplied with very superior BRANDY,\n4th and 1st proof-fine rectified and common\nsimulation; he now publicly and soleminly declares\nGIN-clean high proof neutralized SPIRITS-\nnot only that those Decrees still continue in force,\nALCOHOL-various CORDIALS and other Spi-\nat\nbut that they shall be rigidly executed until Great\nrits, upon reasonable terms and credit, or a libe-\nBritain shall comply with additional conditions, e-\nral discount for cash-also in exchange for Rye\nqually extravagant and he further announces the\nWhiskey, Cider Spirits or other Produce: and\npenalties of those Decrees to be in full force against\nmay likewise be had at his Distillery, No. 27 Fer-\nall Nations, which shall suffer their flag to be as it\nry-street.\nis termed in this new Code, denationalized.'\nN. B. A large parcel of fresh emptied Whiskey\nIn addition to the disavowal of the blockade of\nHogsheads and Barrels for sale.\nm30 Im\nMay, 1806, and of the principles on which that\nblockade was established, and In addition to the re-\nI\nVORY & SEA HORSE TEETH.\npeal of the British Orders in Council-he demands\n94 large prime Elephants Teeth, and 40 Sea\nin admission of the principles, that the goods of an\nHorse Teeth, well worth the attention of Comb\nenemy, carried under a ueutral flag, shall be treat-\nMakers and Dentists, just received and for sale by\nUn\ned as neutral; that neutral property under the flag\nPETER SHARPE, No. 19 Maiden-Tane.\nof an enemy shall be treated as hostile ;-that arms\nALSO-TO LET, 3 handsome two story brick\nand warlike stores alone (to the exclusion of ship-\nfront HOUSE, situated in the main street, Brook-\ntimber and other articles of naval equipment )shali\nIvn\nm30\nbe regarded as contraband of war that no\nports shall be considered as la fully blockaded,\nADIES' white chip HATS, of a\nexcept such as are invested and besieged, in the\nsuperior quality, for sale by the dozen or sin-\npresumption of their being taken [en prevention\ngle\nplat.\nApply\nto\nJOHNLEONARD,\ndetre pris], and into which a merchant ship can-\nm50 It\n119 William -street.\nnot enter without danger.\"\nBy these and other demands, the enemy in\nF\nPork and Cheese.\nfact, requires, that Great Britain, and all civiliz-\nORTY bbls. prime and mess Pork\ned nations, sha I renomee, at his arbivrary plea-\n40 casks Cheese, of a superior quality, for\nsale by\nSTRANG & WHITNEY,\nsure, the ordinary and indisputable right of the\nm30aw\n16 South-street.\nmaratime war; that Great Britain, in particular,\nshall forego the advantages of her naval superiori-\nUGARS-1 hhds. and 20 bbls.\nty, and allow the commercial property, as well as\nMuscovado Sugars, for sale by\nthe produce and manufactures of France, and her\nm30\nA. &J. FRANKLIN, 134 Water-st.\nconfederates, to pass the ocean in security, whilst\nthe subjects of Great Britain are to be in effect\nCORNELIUS DUBOIS,\nproscribed from all commercial intercourse with\nFFERS for Sale-\nother nations and the produce and manufactures\n2000 gallons Linseed Oil\nat\nof these realms are to be excluded from every\n30 barrels mess Pork\ncountry in the world, to which the arms or the in-\n100 boxes Vandyke's best Chocolate, 1 & 2\nfluence of the enemy can extend.\n10 hhds. high 4th pf. Spirits, well flavored\n\" Such are the demands to which the British\n5 pipes 4th pf. Brandy, do do\ngovernment is summoned to submit-to the\n300 easks Frankford green Powder\n20 ts. Jones's Snuff\nabandonment of its most ancient, essential, and\n50 bags Island Cocoa\nundoubted maratime rights, Such is the code by\nMadeira, Sicily Madeira, and Pas ley'\nby\nwhich France hopes, under the cover of a neutral\nPar. Teneriffe Wines, superior quality.\nat\nflag, to render her commerce unassailable by sea\nMy30\nnet\nwhilst she proceeds to invade or to meorporate\n61\nwith her own dominions all states that hesitate to\nANKEENS.-800 picces Nan-\nCO\nsacrifice their national interests at her command,\nkeens, of the Maumee ehop, just received\nthe\nand in abdication of their just rights, to adopt a\nand for sale by\nBAILEY & WILLIS,\nCode, by which they are required to exclude, un-\nm30\nNo. 109 Front-street.\nder the mask of municipal regulation, whatever\nis British, from their dominious.\nA\nL. P. Teneriffe Wine.\nsui\n\" The pretexts for these extravagant demands\nFEW casks superior London Particular\nsal\nis, that some of these principles ere adopted by\nTeneriffe Wine, for sale by\nvoluntary compact in the treaty of Utrecht; as it\nm 30 PERIT & LATHROP, 48 South-st;\na treaty once existing between two particular\nNew-Orleans Cotton.\ncountries, founded on special and reciprocal con-\nsiderations, binding only on the contracting par-\nNE hundred and 30 bales of different, late\nties, and ch in the last treaty of peace between\nimportations, for sale by\nthe same powers, had not been revived, were to be\nm 30 1w J. LAWRENCE & CO. 37 Wall-st\nregarded as declaratory of the public law of na-\ntions.\nA\nFEW barrels white Brazils SU-\nGARS, for sale by\n\" It is needless for his Royal Highness to de-\nm 30 2t\nG, BOWEN, 149 Pearl-st.\nmonstrate the injustice of such pretensions. He\nmight otherwise appeal to the practice of France\nR\nUM-6 hads. W. I. Rum, landing\nherself, in this and in former wars, and to her own\nfrom sloop Providence, at Beekman-slip, and\nestablished codes of maratime law; it is sufficient\nfor sale by\nthat these new demands of the enemy form a\nm30\nWM. OSBORN, 63 South-st.\nwide departure from those conditions on which\nthe alleged repeal of the French decrees was ac-\nBrandy, Wine and Silks.\ncepted by America; and upon which alone, er-\nOR Sale at Auction, by David Dunham and\nroneously assuming that repeal to be complete,\nCo. on Wednesday the 3d of June, at 11 o'clock,\nAmerica has claimed a revocation of the British\nat Jones's-wf. west side Coffoe-house-slip\nby\nOrders in Council.\n104 Cognae Brandy\n\" His Royal Highness, upon a review of all\n103 cases White Wine, St. Bris 1804\n72 do. Claret\nHaut brien 1805\nthese circumstances, feels persuaded, that SO soon\n94 do. do.\nSt. Julien 1805, received\nas this formal declaration, by the government of\nFrance, of its unabated adherence to the princi-\nby the schr Little Charles, from Bordeaux.\nW\nples and provisions of the Berlin and Milan de-\nAlso, at Private Salc.\nlo\ncrees, shall be made known in America, the Go-\nThe following articles, received by the same\nverement of the United States, actuated not less\nvessel:--\nby a sense of justice to Great Britain, than by\n1 case Velvets, small pieces, a great variety\nwhat is due to its own dignity, will be disposed to\nof colors\nrecall those measures of hostile exclusion, which,\n1 case Ribbands, assorted\nunder a misconception of the real views and con-\n1. do. Satins, assorted colors\nduet of the French Government, America has\n94 small bags Juniper Bervies.\nexclusively applied to the commerce and ships of\nm 30 4t J. H. LAWRENCE CO. 37 Wali-st.\nwar of Great Britain.\nHy son Skin Tea.\nha\n\" To accelerate a result so advantageous to the\nNDING At Stevens's wharf\ntrue inserests of both countries, and SO conducive\n100 ehests Hyson Skin Tea, Ann and Hope's\nfa\nto the re-establishment of perfect friendship be-\ncargo, for sale by\nPC\ntween them and to give a decisive proof of his\nm 30 1w\nJOHN R. WHEATON, 74 So.st.\nRoyal Highness's disposition to perform the en-\ngagements of his Majesty's Government, by re-\nNE thousand pieces Bandannas\nin\nvoking the Orders in Council, whenever the\nand Flag Hdkfs. just received, for sale by\nad\nFrench Decrees shall be actually and uncondition-\nm 29\nJ. GOODHUE, 44 South-st.\npe"
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