The Delaware gazette — Wilmington [Del.], 1810-01-13 00:00:00, page 1

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TO BE RENTED,
Or More the 25 t/i of
And possession given on
March next,
(if A LL that valuable property formerly occupied
(Jl\. by Col. Thomas Duff, Esq. in the village
!®f Newport—consisting of a large commodious
gbrick dwelling-house, pleasantly situated on the
Knain street and elegantly fronting the river
iChristiana, well calculated for a large store, and
Kps thç Turnpike road leading from the Gap Ta
1 Lancaster to that place is now in consi
pern or
iderable forwardness, and will probably be car
ried into effect in the course of the next sum
finer, it will certainly be one of the most eligible
'•pots for business in the state of Delaware. It
has every convenience, such as a good garden,
stabling and other houses, &x. &c.— A
rn.
liandsome EÀRM of excellent land, contiguous
Sto the town
will be let with ir, and two or
«three Lots in the vicinity thereof, well adapted
as the renter may think proper to
for grass, or
There are also eight acres of first
»pply them,
rate Marsh, now in good order, a small distance
The terms of rentin» said pro
from the town.
; perty muy be known by applying to THOMAS
DUFF, Esquire, residing at Mrs. Huggins's,
F Wilmington.
I N. B.—No part of this property will let be
I Separate from the other.
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1 Wilmington, Dec . 8 th, 1 80 ').
In the Court of Chancery.
Thomas Robinson, surviving cx'or,
of Abraham Robinson, dec'd.
vs.
»James Mcllvain and Mary his
wife, and Thomas Perkins and
Sarahs his wife.
N the Court of Chancery of the state of Del
T
aware, held ar New-Castle, for the county o
■New-Castle— Bill filed Feb. [Oth, 1808—Sub
' poena issued, &c.
Upon the petition of the complainant Thoma.
Robinson, and upon the affidavit of Franco
( HaUghey, esq. late sheriff' of New-Castle conn
f ty, it is ordered by the Chancellor, this thirties
[ day of November, in the year of our Lord on 1
1 thousand eight hundred and nine, that Jam.
Mcllvain and Mary his wife, two of the defen
liants in the said bill of complaint, do appear h
this Court on Saturday the tenth day of March
next, to the-said bill of complaint, and on fail
ure so to do, that the said bill be taken pro
çanfesso.
NICHOLAS R1DGELY,
Chancellor,
AVa'- Castle County, ss.
I DO CERTIFY, That the abovi
is a true extract from the reconi thereof,
Gi
1 the seal of the said
ven unde! my hand
Court, at Nev,-Castle, this fifth day of Decem
ber, A. D, 180ff.
HUGH W. RITCHIE,
Reo'r. in CU'ry. for N. C. County.
For Sale ,
r T'HF. cargo of the schooner Caroline,
Captain Markley, from Lisbon—can
! taining
90 M iys of Salt, of (he (list quality.
3000 Kis. Cot k Wood.
(>ÉB|Groce Corks.
Jars Grapes.
41 B-'Xf-s Bloom Raisins.
30 F rails-Figs. ,
A Quantity of Fancy Work Baskets.
' Apply to
John Iledrick
>
fU'C Wharf.
imngton,
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WILMINGTON, ;3A . Urd'AY
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GARY 13 1810.
NO. 55
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SOLI UDE.
B.v Miss C. M. W * il ben, of Rhode-Idtnul.
Sweet are the stiil, sequestered »roves,
Where musin» melancholy roves,
At eve unseen ;
Where mu*in ; melancholy
roves,
And heavenly contemplation loves
To haunt tile
green.
The lonely cot, the secret cell,
Where sober s.u!n"sa loves to dwell,
Are dear to
me ;
Dear is the slow
mcund'ring. brook,
An. I dear the shade of yon broad oak,
My favorite ti
Ver»
There, oft as evenin»*. dusky shade
Envelopes rv'rv silent »lade,
3 I'cuslve stray
Arid whilst the last fun beams .if Ii»ht,
Retreating, leave the world to m»hr,
I mark their
ivcy.
Dear Solitude, thou piarid qnect.,
O, sober btow and look serene,
Thy shades I love ;
I or heaven-born genius marks 'he way,
And where thy gentle foot-steps stray,
'The muses rove.
Oh ! »uide mflKi :
hy blest retreat,
The still, sequester'd, silent seat
Of sacred peace ;
Where not a breath of passion rude,
Or blighting envy, dare intrude,
To damp my bliss.
The moss rose seeks the silent glade,
Spreads all her beauties to the shade,
And blooms unknown;
So on thy bos.»« 1 «..ti'.l rest,
Secure to be supremely blest
With thee alone.
UHMHra
^tsr-Uam?.
THE PEA>AN 1' AND HI.', HOG.
In a country village the
re was a
labourer who'kilfbd his hog; t
Hid
as it wastl
e custom in these cases
to send pieces of tiie
meat, sausa
ges, black pudding, liver, &ce.
to
all the neighbours,
our peasant.
who had already received innume
rable presents of this kind,
a
who found if he adhered to this
custom, that he should have noth
ing left for himself, confiding in
one of his neighbours, told him.
I have killed my hog, and T l
should send a piece to all from
whom I have received,there will be
none for myself—now I prey you
advise me what is best to be done ?
To which his neighbour replied.
Were I in your case, I would hang
up my hog at the open
window
for the greater part of the night,
and the next day I would tell eve
ry body that it was stolen,—by
this means I should be
excused
from making presents.
The labourer much pleased at
-fis friend's advice, returned home
and put it in practice. The giv
er of this friendly advice,not failing
to profit by me darkness of the
night, seized the hog and carried
aim home. How astonished
was
the peasant, when early in the
morning, he found nothing of his
hog ! He raved at his neighbour's
invention which he had the even
ing before so much approved of.
He
sallied out to give the alarm,
and t te first he met was
s friend
ly adviser, to whom he related
the whole of the affair,
saying,
Oh, neighbour, what do you think
—tney have stolen my hog !
There, there, says his
neighbour
5
that's right,
stand to it—you
the sam
;i
me
to every
one
you meet—insist upon
it, and they will all bebeve you.
The peasant soon began to swear,
and to protest by the saints,
that
he was
no; in joke, but that his
absolutely gone.
D(
nog w
;
rhe
stronger he
was
in ex
pressions of g
. ,,r
i rage, the I
more fervent 1
y did his neighbour
tell him, t
s right, my friend,
stand to it
•l
at is the only method
i- neighbours believe
to
e v
j
t—and iheii.from sympathy,those
ed rt. will dis
you nave ret
pence with your pvese v.s !
A n ACE OF PIGMIES,
/1
the 20th oi
April, Or. Cl
LO
h !m laid 'n fore
the Royal Soei
cty of London,
sorae particulars
respecting a
race of pigmies, said
to c'X st as a nation in the centre
oi the Island of Madagascar. A.
M. Bandin, who had visited that
1 and spent 50 days among
Is!
the and who was in the French
w<
Indies, had one of these be
ings preserved ; it was a man of
about 33 years of age. measuring
only 32 inches, but perfectly pro
portioned in all parts. A child oi
a year old was also preserved in
spirits, and measured only one
foot. These people are represen
ted as being much fairer than the
other natives, and of a bright cop
per colour ; they are also said to
be very ingenious, to be expert !n
bows and u rows, or javelins ; and
One account s
generous,
them to have longhair,and anoth
er short and woolly. They arc
also very numerous, Mr- Baldwin
having seen above 8000 in one
town The women are said to have
little brea;
and almost, so that
the children are fed with a
S
milk. Dr Chisholm, who person
ally inspected and measured these
preserved bodies,concludes, t' a a
pigmy race should no longer be
considered as fabnous, and that
such has now been discovered in
Madagascar. Some other Frenc :
voyagers have likewise mentioned
the existence of these singular
people.
From Cubic;'. I!',i /■:■ 1.1 teal Ii gt 'cr.
THE JUBILEE
This would seem :o be the year of
jubilees ; for, the iteople of vVarsaw .
of Madrid, of Vienna, of Naples,
and of many other places are, by
dv public prints, said to be tea
ing bonfires and illuminations, and
j.
singing Te Deems ; that is to say.
singing psalms of praise to God. Ii
is true, indeed.that in these in. t ,nee-.
God is to be thanked for the birth,
life, and deeds of the emperor Na
poiean, and 'for the manifold bless
joyed under his benignan
ings m
' \vh<- e.i» our -,iconic
sway ;*
,.rr>
posed to thank Gad inform, to
ii g
psiams of praise to their cieator. to.
the birth life, and décris of out
king, and * for the blessings enjoyed
under his benignant sway and
moreover, to bestow, at the same
time, a few execrations upon that
same Napolean, on whom the other
n i<ions of Europe are bestowing so
many blessings, and whom
SOTTst
of our people ;$iert to be a despot a .
merciless squeezer.and grinder of his
abject subj; <Ts, and, whom some of
'hern accuse of being a most pro
found hvprocrite himself, while eve
r y, aye every men her of his family,
female
hs well as'male, is so corrupt,
in h
rt ^.loathsome in cart ass,as to
b,' fit for little else than to be thrown
. i
clung-hill—Bmaparte's peo
•o :
pit- never describe, in this way. our
sovereign and his family ; or, Î have
missed the descriptions ; but 'ought
not our jubilee people to be cauyous
how they thus describe
a sovereign,
whom so
and nations
many cuits
seem resolved to honour with public
juicing ! Surely those who live un
11
der a
man's sway must know hud
best ?
The people at Paris, must
know the
emperor Napolce.n better
'ban we can know him. They may
have a taste different from ours :
bur, then,
observe, our taste is as
different fro m
theirs. Our people
lhink Estrange, that the French can
j ike-. SnCli a sovereign as Naportujl
but our people should not folget that
it is possible that the French may
ihiuk it as strange, that we should
like such a sovereign as George-.he
third. In short,
that the
mg
French arc our enemies, and are like
ly to continue such. I think we ..ci
very imprudently in goading them in
this way about their " Hare of sla
very." It appears to me that our
wis' st way would be to let them re
main in ignorance of the great bless
ings, which we exclusively enjov, and
which, hitherto, they have not seemed
disposed to envy us. Why should
we fret ourselves abput their slavery ?
Let hern be slaves, if they choose it
it sj long as vve remain so free and
happy.—It is peculiarly unfortunate,
too, that these "wretched Skives'*
should be, as it were, out of triera
spite- making jubilees all ever it;
t m*
pire, and prai-dng God for pre- wing
the life, anti prolonging ? he
Sfo
of the man, who, as on- p- oA is
vert, rules them « hit a rod of iron nd
jobs thtm almost of the neers-a-ies
if life.
In answer to this, onr Jubile
tell us, that these inti;
pie
IS
ofiove and gratitude are not st
that the people, of France, Austria,
Spain, Italy, Poland, &.c. &c. hate
hun and his authorin', and cv. ry limb
and branch and shoot and bud of his
debauched and corrupted family,
;han which,
is a-»si ned then is
not. in all history, ancient or rood >n,
an instance of ant .»n< family, in any
na■ ion, or in any rank of life, more
completely void of every thing it ;e
pripciple. whether of mm tiliiv rn of
honor; and, that of cut c
far
S' ■
from rejoicing, and praising L<<xl lor
his existence, they would, if 1 1 - i• to
"heir own will, if unreMrai.. d b. the
.nnumerabie troops that cv v where
have a bayonet pointed o their
breasts, put up public prayers for his
extermination lest, by an neck!
this race should be multiplied -
Now, though this answer may do
very well u ith mm, assembled over
I he bottle, and particularly w ith such
as.are able to bear the versts of the
pensioned poet, Fitzgerald, yet,
Ï am afraid, that persons, 'Bin rake
time to refit Cl, will not be so vastly
su i-fied with this answer ; o> tf
y should, I an* afi aid they wilt be
led to draw theref'om conclusion» un
favorable to the motive* of our j ibi.
lec people ; because, if it be a fact,
well established, and urn qui vocally
acknowledged, that in stveial other
countiies of Eu'Ope, the p. opie do
make bonfires dance, illuminait
♦heir houses, drink, gtog. and sing
anthems in honor of a man ;vhom