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THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
VOL» I J
WILMINGTON, W... ; ,\
JA Y i\NUARY 17 1810.
NO. 56
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TO BE RENTED,
And possession given on or before the 2
oJ
March next ,
A LL that valuable property formet !y occupied
by Col. Thomas Duff, F>q, in the village
of Newport—consisting of a large commodious
brick dwelling-house, pleasantly situated on the
t and eleg-tally fronting the river
main sr
Christiana, well calculated for a large store, and
as the Turnpike road l eadmg from the Gap Ta
vern or Lancaster to that p'ace is now in consi
derable forwardness, a>ut uiil pfol'sbiy he car
tlie course of tbe next sum
ried into effect
m
incr, if '"ili certainly be one of the most eligible
..pots for business in the state of Delaware, rt
lias every convenience, such as a good garden,
barn, stabling and other houses, fcc. &c.—A
handsome FARM of excellent land, contiguous
to the town, will be let with it, and two or
three Lots in the vicinity thereof, well ad-pled
for grass, or as the renter may think proper to
apply them. There are also eight acres of first
rate Marsh, now in good order, a small distance
from the town. The terms of renting said pro
perty may be known by applying to i HOÎVÏAS
DUFF, Esquire, residing at Mrs. Huggins's,
Wilmington.
yj, ß. _Mo part of this propcity will let be
separate fiom the other.
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Wit/iiingtoii, Die. 8 th t 1 80p
In tbe Court of Chancery.
Thomas Robinson, surviving ex'or.
on, dec'd.
of Abraham Bo
vs.
flames Mcllvain tint! Mary his
wife, and Thomas Perkins and
Saraii iiis wife.
N the Court of Chancery of the state of Del
I
aware, held at New-C'itlle, for the county of
New-Castle—Bill filed Feb. lOili, 1808 —Sub
-poena issued, Sec.
Upon the petition of the complainant Thomas
Hobinsc-n, anil upon the affidavit of Francis
Haughey, esq. late sheriff of Now-Castle coun
ty, it is ordered by tiie Chancellor, this thirtieth
day of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred arid nine, that James
Mcllvain and Mary his wife, two ot the defen
dants in the said bill of complaint, do appear in
this Court on Satuiday the tenth day of Marco
next, to the said hill of complaint, and on fail
ure so to do, that the said bill be taken p.o
crtil'csso.
NICHOLAS BlDC ELY,
ChaticcHor>
JSfcT'-Ca\lh- Cuunhu
I DO CERTIFY, That the above
is a true extract ftom tlie record thereof,
Gi
ven mulct nw hand and the seal ot the said
Court, ut New-Castle, this fifth day of Decem
ber, A. D. 1 8O9.
HUGH W. RITCHIE,
Reg'v. in Cl.'ry. for N. C. County.
For Sale ,
THE cargo of the schooner Caroline,
A Captain Markley, from Lisbon—con
taming
J 10 Men s
of Suit, of the first quality.
£000 ihs. Cm k Wood.
Ü 00 Groce Corks.
far* G
ipes.
:s Bloom Raisins,
41 Bo
DO F
rails Figs.
A Q-ratiiiiy of Fancy Work Baskets.
Appiy 10
John Hedrick,
Cttstciia-House Jf
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■'Vi'.oJiactop, TV.
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Proin Cobbetu Weekly Polit ical Register.
j
THIS Jt BtLKE.
The 25th of this month is it
seems considered, by some per
sons ; at least, as a day for the ex
pressing of national joy ; that it is,
in short, to be a day for jubih-e ,
that is to say, of rejoicing and ail
sorts of merriment and signs of
gladness ; and it is to be so,
for what ! Why, it seems,be
can
upon that day, the king enters I
upon the fiftieth year of his reign.
Now, sir, if I had no other obj-c
tion to your proposition than t' -.i :
;
which is founded upon the nature
of the occasion, if its general pnn- j
ciple, and, if the jubilee were ex- ;
pressively stated to be merely a \
mark of personal respect towards j
his majesty, under whose reign j !
was born, I would very willingly
have joined your subscription ; but
sir.so far from this being die case,
so far from its being expressly
declared, that the jubilee is to be
regarded as a mark of personal re
spect towards the
Pig, it is per
;i
lectly notorious, t
t with those
individuals who have take n ti t;
lead in the thing, and who indeed,
first set in on the root, the object
is any thing but that wnich 1 have
described, and, that one of foe
main purposes is, in this n.a
to obtain what will be const- ed
into "a general approbation of all
ministerial measures of this long
and unfortunate reign"—rati ter
than aid in effecting which pur
pose, I shall run the risk of ex
posing myself to your implied
charge of disloyalty, of the jus
tice and recency of which charge
ak more particularly by
-, ...
1 Will Si
and-by
But let us enquire *. little closc
cr into this subject of rejoicing
You call upon me to rejoice on
the 50th aniversary of the king's
accession to the throne. Now
even viewing the matter in
the best possible light : even
supposing, that you wish the it:- I
bilee to be held with reference to I
, - ,i ,
the King solely, to the king person. I
ahy ; why snould you have i. •- I
rejoice at this time in particular i
You certainly would not call u;.»ot;
us, your neighbours, to exprès.
our joy that49vears of the king's reign
are already past ; to clap our hands
and to shout because he has nass
ed nine years beyond the age of
man ; to sing and dance and drink
for joy because the king is very
old ; to be full of joy, to overflow
with gladness, in short, because
the king has attained to an age,
which according to the course of
nature, must render the remainder
of his reign of but short duration.
No : it certainly is not at t his that
you call upon us to rejoice. But
at what then,'would have us re
joice ? If not at the old age of the
king, which is just the same thing
as the mere length of reign; if
not at this, you must then wish us
to rejoice at and to celebrate the
changes and events of his reign,
and, in this way, to express cur
gratitude for the good which the
t
as derived from those
nation
j changed and events. Let us there
fore, seq whether those changes
and events arc such as call upon
us for expressions of joy and grat
nude.
When the king mounted the
throne ; the debt, of which the
nation pays the interest in taxes
to
amounted to about 90 millions, it
uounts to nearly 700 milli
now
of
ons ; and one year's taxes, now is
of
• s nearly equal to what the whole
v then was. The poor rates of
I '
jgland and Wales then arnount
1 to about a million and a quarter
•'
; annually ; they now amount to
'more than six million annually.
The number of parish paupers was
j
• hen about two hundred thousand ;
;
of
'hat number is now about twelve
\
hundred thousand. These are prêt
j "
good proof;, sir, that we have no
!
cause to rtjoicc at the
changes of j
this reign But, sir, there vs one,
;
which will he very pat to your pur
pose, when you have thepoor labour
ers of Droxiord parish assembled on
the jubilee-day ; and that is that
when this reign began, it cost the la
bouring man five days work to earn
"
a bushel of flour ; and that now it
cos « himlOdavs work to earn a bus'i
eiof flour; and that ifhe happens to
have three children, it is upon the
common run of wages utterly im
possible for him to earn bread enough
for bis family to eat, to say nothing
of meat, drink cloathing fire and
house and house rent. Pray, sir,
state the fa£t to the young ones ; the
old ones need not be told of it. State
this faél to them, and if they do not
rt-joic-.- it is very strange indeed.—
Then, sir, if you should have some
politicans in the higher seats of the
festival ".on mav entertain them with
the his'o-y ofthe las» fifty years glo.
lies, m diplomacy and in war. You
mav relate to them how we lost
the continent of America for the sake
of a law ; and how. for the sake, of
other taxes and of corruption, we got
possession of vast commit s in the
East, through the means of which
countries enterprising young men,
with scarcely a second shirt to their
hacks, and with not much greater
stock of ideas, contrive so to
draw upon the taxes raised in En
their estates.
as to oust from
' W ' vvh ° m the , s5ld , la * es
X
bren paid. — From these tojv.es y> u
,„ av ' dimee int0 matter3 0 f a war
ükê natuse « you may remind the
* j,,._ d j*' audfonce of'the capture a
whole British army at Saratoga, and
another at York town. Dunkirk and
Helder will ol course become tne
''.erne of your praise, after which in
'' ue place,will fo> JU rro tu-ios
Ayres, Cintra. Corunna, lalavera and
Walcherin. You will, then, doubt
enumeration of
less, attempt, an
those who have been slain during du
thirty years of war with which this
nation has been blessed out ol the
Nor would it be amiss
happy fifty,
if you were to say before the convi
vial guests a detailed account of those
who have lately died at Walcherin,
and wounded left behind by our gen
of the
erai in Spain, to the mercy
err.y cf those
French •. aye to the
te
' lovai" wri
very French, whom th
"blood
ters in Er.glatnd denominate
thirsty '-villains.
ft
Returning again to the blesings of
our present state, and the cause we
tv remind your
have for joy, you
hea r ers, that the king's servants
tn
have intro
t j, e ; r extreme care of us
duced a very considerable body cf
foreign troops into the country ; a
whole legions of Germans,horse,foot
and artillery. You may remind
them of the present state of Ireland,
and bid them not forget the number
of years during the present reign,
that saw the personal security aft
suspended, and during which years
many of their countrymen were kept
for years, in jail ; without being bro't
to trial from lirst to Iasi. If this be
not enough. If you find them still
backward in rejoicing, remind them
of the taxes they have to pay, and
of the purposes to which they are ap
plied : and, pray do-sir. show them
that there an many individuals inc
c.ure placent- n,&many pensioners,one
of whom swallows tip more taxes, in
one month, than goes to the keeping
of ihe poor in Dr oxford for a whole
year. Should they still be insensi
ble to your eloquence, remind them
of the history of the darling, not for
getting your old neighbour ; late a
tenant of Newgate, Your reverend
coa djutors may explain to them the
case of the holy doctors O' Meant
and of the reverend Mr. Beazely and
bid any one produce, if he can any
thing the like thereof in any other
reign. Any loyal lady, who chances
to be present, may enter upon the
rise, progress, and suspension of the
" d< licate investigation and, if
they still remain unmoved, why tell
them yourself, sir, the history of the
Garniers and their sinecure.
B' it known, then, to those of ouf
neighbours, amongst whom you have
circulated your letter, that loyalty
now a days, means the getting of a
good round sum annually out of the
taxes or at least, it means living upon
the public. For this we have a fine
practical instance in Mr. Gamier
of Wickham, who though he has ne
ver, during his whole life-ime. done
for the public one single hour's ser
vice ; thonghit has been given in
evidence before the house of com
mons that he never has meddled a* all
with any business for the public ;
though these facts ere indisputable,
this Mr. Gamier dota get of thu
public money upwards cf twelve
thousand pounds a year, arising from
an cffic-, which he has enjoyed ever
since he was a boy at school, with
u hich though notformerly so profita
ble or nearly so profitable as at pres
ent,was always a place of gieat profit.
1 hit cotnl sum that be ir-nni have, during
the whole time, cleared by this place, cannas
hr l'-ss ihm three nr four hundred thousand
pounds. If that is not a proof of loyalty, *
do not know what is a proof of ioyaltv. Hoi
M r. Gamier has given a still stronger pruufc
of his lovahy ; for, not content with pocket
ing, ont of the public money, twelve thous
and pounds a year, under the denomination
of profus of his office of apothecary general;
not thinking this a sufficient proof of his at
tachment to the king and his government,
what does he do, hut gets a post ir the ar
my at the pay of ten shillings a day ! not
content with twelve thousand pounds a year
out of the public money, out of the taxes
that we pay ; not conteut with 'hi, immense
sum for doit g nothing, for, observe, is is
proved, upon oath, 'ha ht has never med
dled with anv part <it i
.usines» : not con
tent with twelve thousj J a year for doing
nothing, he aalen for, and gets Trom the go
vernment whose conduct we are to have a
jubilee to applaud; he gets from that gov
ernment an allowance of ten shilling a day
as a medical officer in the army ; and while
hr lives constantly at Wickham, hr is now
actually in the receipt of this ten shillings
a day 'unless it Ire veav lately taken off) ous
ofthe taxes that we pitv. Aye, well, indeed,
mav men like this hold a jubilee in praise
of tins long reign of war-and taxation : this
icigti, the wars of which have perhaps put
ihe pockets of the Garniers not less
in u
;hau two hundred thousand pounds.
From the Virginia Argus.
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