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THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
VOL. I.J
WILMINGT ON, SATU k»A Y JANUARY ^
1810.
NO. S3
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TO BE RENTED,
And possession given on Or before the ZSth of
March next,
A LL that valuable property formerly occupied
by Col. Thomas Duff, Esq. in the village
of Newport—consisting of a large commodious
brick dwelling-house, pleasantly situated on the
main street and elegantly fronting the river
Christiana, well calculated for a large store, and
the Turnpike road leading from the Gap Ta
as
vern or Lancaster to that place is now in const',
derable forwardness, and will probably be car
ried into effect in the course of the next sum
it will certainly be one of the most eligible
tner
spots for business in the state of Delaware. It
has every convenience, such as a good garden,
bam, stabling and*otber houses, ire. Scc .—A
handsome F ARM of excellent land, contiguous
to the town, will "be let with it, and two or
three Lots in the vicinity thereof, well adapted
for grass, or as the renter may think proper to
apply them. There are also eight act es 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 TIlC^l AS
DUFF, Esquire, residing at Mrs. Hug*
ns's,
Wilmington.
N. B.—No part of this property will let be .
separate fiom the other.
tf:
Wilmington, Dec. 8 th, 180!).
In the Court of Chtinccrj.
Tliomas Robinson"; surviving ex'or.
of Abraham Robinson, dec'd.
VS.
lames Mcllvain and Mary his
wife, and Thomas Perkins and
Sarah his wife.
TN the Court of Chancery of the
state of Dcl
A aware, held at New-Castle, for 1
the county of
NeW-Castie—Bill filed Feb. 10th, 1808—Sub
poena issued, See.
l/pon the petition of the complainant Thomas
Robinson, and upon the affidavit of Francis
llaughey, esq. late sheriff of New-Castle coun
ty, it is ordered by the Chancellor, this thirtieth
day of November, in the year of our Lord one
thousand eight hundred and nine, that James
Mcllvain and Mary his wife, two of the defen
dants in the said bill of complaint, do appear in
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
confesso.
NICHOLAS RIDGELY,
Chancellor.
New-Can tic County , tf.
I DO CERTIFY, That the above
is a true extract from the record thereof. Gi
ven undet my hand and the seal of the said
Court, at New-Castle, this fifth day of Decem
ber, a. D. 180p.
HUGH W. RITCHIE,
Reg'r. in Ch'ry. for N. C. County.
For Sale ,
'S' H E cargo of the schooner Caroline,
Captain Markley, from Lisbon—con»
turning
P0 Moys of Salt, of the first quality.
Ü0O lbs. Cork Wood.
<j 00 Groce Coiks.
(i Jars Grapes.
41 Boxes Jocuta
tw
SO Frails Figs.
A Quantity of Fancy Woik Barkets.
Apply to
John Hedrick,
Ctrifnn- House W larj.
Y :!iu?riu*»n,- 7'
4t
Froru the Freeman's Journal,
MY YOUTH.
Adieu, dear hours of infant joy,
When life indeed could please :
Each trifle, then, could cha
And mirth could
every hour employ,
No cares obtruding to annoy,
My heartfelt ease !
Oft then, to pass a fleeting hour,
I've loiter'd in the glade,
Oft enter'd the sequester'd bo
wer,
To pluck from thence a fragrant flower,
Or seek a refuge from the sho
wer,
Within the shade !
But, like a shower, those days have fled,
Not to return
again ;
Ah ! thro' what woes I've since been led ;
How oft for them a tear I've shed,
And wish'd me number'd with the dead :
But wish'd in tain !
On many a silent eve, alone,
Unconscious have I stray'd;
nil the young night to noon had grown,
I lie moon in peeriess rplendour Bhone,
And o'er the hcav'ns was lustre thrown,
In stars array'd !
Oft as I stray'd the glen along,
With melancholy mien,
I've heard, the hollow rocks
among,
The croakings of the owlet's
tongue,
And listen'd to the doleful
song
That gloom'd the scene !
But now these young delights are o'er,
Nor ever can be mine ;
My fate 'twere impious
to deplore,
Ah ! let me thtn
repine no more,
Hope future blessings, and adore
The hand divine !
I: es, there's a coming hour, when I
Shall spread a flut'ring wing ;
And to the narrow
mansion cry,
O ! grave where is thy victory ?
" O ! death, thy sting ?"
[The following co'rect and beautiful picture of
the approach of morumg is from Rose's poem
.
entitled the " The Red King."}
But now the mist hung thin and low,
Or drifted o'er the moor-land slow,
In many a curling wreath :
His whistle first the plover blew,
Then sharp and shrill the black cock crew,
And flapp'd along the heath.
Thin amber clouds bespoke the prime ;
These chang'd to red ; and in less time
Than I can tell the story,
Through Dear-Leap's grove of aged oak,
And Langley's shadowy thickets, broke
The Sun in all his glory.
And with a lusty roundelay,
The throstle! .welcomed in the day,
And, towering from the lair,
The skylark from his feathers flung
The dew-drops, mounting as he sung
His matins in mid air.
I 11 r .T~. -mu m il » —..
ABiscellatip.
From (he Raleigh Star.
DUELLING.
A FRAGMENT.
-A stream of fight issued
from the window ; several persons
were seen passing within, and the
moanings of sorrow could not be
mistaken. I approached nearer.
On a bed lay a female apparently
in the agonies of death, and on the
right side kneeled a little girl of a
bout 11 years of age, whose grief
was loud. On the other side stood
a boy of about 15—he was engag
of
ed in prayer ; and the emoti
grief, despair and hope were alter
nately and strikingly exemplified.
An old woman, who from her ap
pearance had seen many moons,
was preparing some medicine at a
table, while a male child, just able
to talk, stood pratiing near the pil
low. I will go to bed with mama,
said the child. Your mama, my
d--ar is very ill, sobbed the son.—
The child would not be restrained.
O!
mama, why dont you speak ?
it is your little Frank. Flow I will
scold the doctor man,he has made'
my mama sick—let me kiss my ma
ma ; when she was well she used
to smile and call me her good little
boy now she looks so sad and so
white—she dont smile now, added
he mournfully. At this simple but
heart touching effusion, those pre
sent burst into tears. It v/as not
the obstreperous gust of thought
less despair which evaporates in
sound, but that tender indefinable
sensation produced by a sudden
impulse of heart too great for si
in
lence, and is refined by .tears. It
to
seemed to re-light the vital taper
to
which burned tremulously in the
expiring parent ; she opened her
eyes. My child, said site-—an aw
ful silence prevailed—my children
jour mother leaves you id a few
of
moments ; all before me is dark,
nor can I presume to foretell my
future destiny. The hope I have
in the First Cause gladdens my dy
ing moments ; to Him alone I re
ly
sign whatever part of me may sur
vive this wreck of matter : He will
do with that part whatever he de
signed when he formed it ; nor can
the supplications of a worm alter
the Eternal will ! I could there
fore depart without a sigh, without
a fear ; but ye helpless, friendless
orphans, where will ye find anoth
er parent ? In the great wilderness
of the world you will be lost, or
al
savage man will.devour you. This
good woman, who has shared my
better days, will not desert my chil
dren when I am no more. She
ceased. I'he silver cord was about
to snap—the invisible fire was a
bout extinct, and nature's finest
production was about to become a
mass of inert matter ! ! The young
est boy, who with a brimful eye
had been attentively contemplat
ing the pallid visage of his expir
ing parent, exclaimed, mama, give
your little Francis one more kiss-—
'twas too late-—she cast a look of
maternal tenderness on the child,
d,
sank on her pillow, and exp
This fine woman, beautiful even
when encircled in the chilly arms
of the omnivorous tyrant, married
early in life the man she loved.
They were not wealthy ; but had
enough In a state of uncommon
serenity they passed several years,
till fate snatched away the hus
band, who was slain in a Duel.
This melancholy event hastened
her dissolution, and she died of a
broken heart ! I ! Thou fiend in
human shape, thou advocate for
duelling, approach yon silent bed ;
gaze on that lovely form, whom
Indirectly thy blood stained arm has
See the fair flower thy
lain low.
pestiferous breath has blasted—
mark the weeping orphans whom
thou hast abandoned tö the "
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.
cy of a rude stream then a sk thy
heart if this be charity.
Where yon willotfr hangs its
mournful head, and courts the me
lancholy tombstone, lies the victim
of thy deadly passions. The father
of a family, their only stay upon
earth, is cut off.
Thou hast sapped the trunk, ot
the withered branches bestrew the
plain. What compensation canst
thou make for the evils thou hast
committed. Like a ruthless demon
carnage and desolation have mark
ee thy progress, but thy peace has
received a wound which rime can
not heal,
£ -%
1 i l 1 ; ! . y.
From the Richmond Enquirer.
Points in dispute between Great Britain and the
United States.
No, III.
The principal point:-, of commercial
relations between the two countries
are, lit. the restrictions on commerce
in the ports of either. 2d. Our trad©
to the British West-Indies—and 3d.
to the East-Indies.
As to the 1st, " the most natural
arrangement," says the secretary of
state, in his joint letter of May 17th,
1806, "will be, simply to agree, that
the two parties shall enjoy in the ports
of each other, in regard to commerce
and navigation, the privileges of the
most favored nation. But the arti
cle should be framed so as to embrace
—1st, every privilege, and particular
ly the exemption from higher duties of
description either on exports or im
ports, and including convoy duties ,
that are paid by the most favored nati
on ; 2nd all the possessions of Great
Britain in every part of the world,
which will secure admission at all
times in both the East and West-In
dies, on the same terms as are now or
may in future, be enjeyed by the moss
favored nation." "If," continues Mr.
Madison, " it shall be thought eligi
ble to place the reciprocal commerci
al privileges of the two nations on a
more definite basis than they would
be placed by the general expression
of the most favored naton (a stipulati
on which is liable to the difficulty of
ascertaining the equivalent tobe giv
en, in cases where a privilege is gran
ed by one of the contracting parties to
another nation, in exchange foi some
favor, which the other contracting
party cannot specially give) it may be
done, either by abolishing .ail alien du
ties, either on vessel and cargo, or
both, and reciprocally placing the
vessels of the other nations on the
same fooling with national vessels,
conformably to a provision in which
Great Britain concurred by an act of
prrliament, in the year 1802 ; or, by
fixing the maximum of alien duty,
which each nation shall have the right
to impose on the vessels or cargoes of
the other nation. But should the last
plan be adopted, care must be taken
—1st, That in fixing the maximum
of the alien duty to be levied on
all charges whatever, and
vessels
under whatever name known, wheth
tonage, light house money, port
er
charges, &c. shall be included. 2d,
That the maximum of the alien du
tv to be levied on merchandize impor
ted in the vessels of the other nation
(beyond the duties levied on similar
articles imported in the national vess
;
els) shall be per centage on the value
of the merchandise itself, and not on
the original duty. 3d. That the right,
of imposing such maximum duties,
either on the vessels or merchan
dise, shall never be exercised, So as
the other etipnlatie'y
to contravene