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THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
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WILMINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1809.
No. 47
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DOCUMENTS,
Which accompanied the Message of the President of the United States.
From Mr. Erskine to Mr. Smith.
Washington, Aug. 14, 1809.
SIR,
I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 9th inst. informing me that you had just received a letter from Mr. Pinkney, inclosing a printed paper, purporting to be a copy of a dispatch to me from Mr. Canning, which states, among other things, 'from the report of your conversations with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Smith, it appears.'
"1st. That the American government is prepared, in the event of his majesty's consenting to withdraw the orders in council of January and November 1807, to withdraw contemporaneously on its part, the interdiction of its harbors to ships of war, and all non-intercourse and non-importation acts, so far as respects Great Britain, leaving them in force with respect to France and the powers which adopt, or act under, her decrees.
"2d. That America is willing to renounce during the present war, the pretension of carrying on, in time of war, all trade with the enemies colonies, from which she was excluded during peace.
"3dly. Great Britain, for the purpose of securing the operation of the embargo, and the bona fide intention of America to prevent her citizens from trading with France and the powers adopting and acting under the French decrees, is to be considered as being at liberty to capture all such American vessels as may be found attempting [to trade] with the ports of any of those powers, without which security for the observance of the embargo, the raising it nominally with respect to Great Britain, alone would, in fact, raise it, with respect to all the world."
The explanations which you request of me upon that subject, shall be given with candor—and I will proceed, accordingly, to lay before you, an abstract of the communication which I laid before his majesty's government relative to the unofficial conversations which I had held with Mr. Madison (then secretary of state) Mr. Gallatin, and yourself, at the time, and upon the occasion, alluded to by his majesty's secretary of state (Mr. Canning) in that part of his instructions to me, of which you inform me, you have received a printed copy from Mr. Pinkney.
Upon referring to my dispatches, addressed to his majesty's government, of the 3d and 4th December last, in which these communications are detailed, I conclude that the conversations alluded to, must have been held some days previous to that period and were to the following effect—
Mr. Madison (then secretary of state) is represented by me to have urged various arguments, tending to prove that the U. S. had exerted all their efforts to persuade the French government to withdraw their unjust restrictions upon neutral commerce, and that recourse might have been had to measures of more activity and decision against France than mere remonstrances, but that in the mean time, Great Britain had issued her orders in council, before it was known whether the United States would acquiesce in the aggressions of France, and thereby rendered it impossible to distinguish between the conduct of the two belligerents, who had equally committed aggressions against the U. S.
After some observations, Mr. Madison is stated by me, at that time to have added, that as the world must be convinced that America had in vain taken all the means in her power to obtain from Great Britain and France a just attention to her rights as a neutral power by representations and remonstrances, that she would be fully justified in having recourse to hostilities with either belligerent, and that she only hesitated to do so from the difficulty of contending with both—but that she must be driven even to endeavor to maintain her rights against the two greatest powers in the world—unless either of them should relax their restrictions upon neutral commerce—in which case, the U. S. would at once side with that power against the other which might continue its aggressions.
That every opinion which he entertained respecting the best interests of his country led him to wish that a good understanding should take place between Great Britain and the United States, and that he thought that the obvious advantages which would thereby result to both countries were a sufficient pledge of the sincerity of his sentiments.
These observations, sir, I beg leave to remark, were made to me by Mr. Madison about a month after the intelligence had been received in this country of the rejection by his majesty's government of the proposition made through Mr. Pinkney by the president for the removal of the embargo as respected Great Britain, upon condition that the orders in council should be withdrawn as respected the United States: and his sentiments were as I conceived, expressed to me in order that I might convey them to his majesty's government, so as to lead to a reconsideration of the proposition above mentioned with a view to the adjustment of the differences upon that subject between the respective countries. But I never considered that Mr. Madison meant that the government of the U. S. would pledge themselves beyond the proposition respecting the embargo, as above stated—because that was the extent of the power of the president by the constitution of the United States.
I understood, very distinctly that the observations of the secretary of state were intended to convey an opinion as to what ought and would be the course pursued by the United States, in the event of his majesty's orders in council being withdrawn.
In these conversations and opinions, you concurred, as reflected from the tenor of several conversations which I held with you at that period.
With respect to the second point, as stated in your letter to be contained in a "dispatch from Mr. Canning," I beg leave to offer the following explanation:
In the course of a private interview I had with Mr. Gallatin, (the secretary of the treasury) he intimated that the non-intercourse law which was then likely to be passed by the congress, might be considered as removing two very important grounds of difference with Great Britain, viz: the non-importation act, as applicable to her alone, and also the president's proclamation, whereby the ships of Great Britain were excluded from the ports of the United States, while those of France were permitted to enter—but that by the non-intercourse law, both powers were placed on the same footing. He did not pretend to say that this measure had been taken from any motives of concession to G. Britain; but as, in fact, those consequences followed, he conceived they might be considered as removing the two great obstacles to a conciliation.
He adverted also to the probability of an adjustment of another important point in dispute between the two countries, as he said he knew that it was intended by the United States to abandon the attempt to carry on a trade with the colonies of belligerents in time of war, which was not allowed in time of peace, and to trust to being permitted by the French to carry on such trade in peace, so as to entitle them to a continuance of it in time of war.
As it may be very material to ascertain what "trade with the colonies of belligerents" was, in my conception, meant by Mr. Gallatin, as intended to be abandoned by the United States, I feel no hesitation in declaring, that I supposed he alluded to the trade from the colonies of the belligerents direct to their mother country, or to the ports of other belligerents, because the right of such trade had been the point in dispute; whereas, the right to carry on a trade from the belligerents to the United States had never been called in question, and had been recognized by his majesty's supreme court of admiralty; and the terms even upon which such colonial productions might be re-exported from the United States had been formally arranged in a treaty signed in London, by the ministers plenipotentiary of both countries, which was not indeed ratified by the president of the United States; but was not objected to as to that article of it which settled the terms upon which such trade was to be permitted.
Such was the substance, sir, of the unofficial conversations which I had held with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and yourself, which I did not consider or represent to his majesty's government as intended with any other view than to endeavor to bring about the repeal of the
orders in council by shewing that many of the obstacles which had stood in the way of an amicable adjustment of the differences between the two countries were already removed, and that a fair prospect existed of settling what remained; since the United States had exhibited a determination to resist the unjust aggressions upon her neutral rights, which was all that Great Britain had ever required; but I certainly never received any assurances from the American government that they would pledge themselves to adopt the conditions as preliminary, nor did I ever hold out such an expression to his majesty's government, having always stated to them that in the event of his majesty's thinking it just or expedient to cause his orders in council to be withdrawn that the president would take off the embargo as respected England, leaving it in operation against France and the powers which adopted, or acted under her decrees; according to the authority which was vested in him at that time by the congress of the U. S. States, and that there was every reason to expect that a satisfactory arrangement might be made upon the points of the colonial trade which had been so long in dispute between the two countries.
As to the third condition referred to by you, specified in Mr. Canning's dispatch, I have only to remark, that I never held any conversation with the members of the government of the United States, relative to it, until my late negotiation—or had ever mentioned the subject to his majesty's government—t having, for the first time, been presented to my consideration in Mr. Canning's dispatch to me of the 23d of January in which that idea is suggested, and is stated to have been assented to by Mr. Pinkney.
It would be unavailing, at the present moment, to enter upon an examination of the "pretensions set forth in Mr. Canning's letter of instructions" (which you are pleased to term) "extraordinary."
I consider it, however, to be my duty to declare that, during my negotiation with you which led to the conclusion of the provisional agreement, I found no reason to believe that any difficulties would occur in the accomplishment of the two former conditions, so far as it was in the power of the president of the United States to accede to the first, and consistently with the explanation I have before given to the second point: On the contrary I received assurances through you, that the president would comply (as far as it was in his power) with the first condition, and that there could be no doubt that the congress would think it incumbent upon them to assert the right of the U. S. States against such powers as should adopt or act under the decrees of France as soon as their actual conduct or determinations upon that subject could be ascertained—but that in the mean time, the president had not the power, and could not undertake to pledge himself in the formal manner required to that effect.
I received also assurances from you, that no doubt could be reasonably entertained that a satisfactory arrangement might be made in a treaty upon the subject of the second condition mentioned in Mr. Canning's instructions according to my explanation of it in the foregoing part of this letter, but that it would necessarily form an article of a treaty in which the various pretensions of the two countries should be settled.
The third condition you, certainly, very distinctly informed me could not be recognized by the president, but you added what had great weight in my mind, that you did not see why any great importance should be attached to such a recognition; because it would be impossible that a citizen of the United States could prefer a complaint to his government on account of the capture of his vessel while engaged in a trade absolutely interdicted by the laws of his country.
Under these circumstances, therefore, finding that I could not obtain the recognitions specified in Mr. Canning's dispatch of the 23d of January (which formed but one part of his instructions to me) in the formal manner required, I considered that it would be in vain to lay before the government of the United States the dispatch in question, which I was at liberty to have done in extenso had I thought proper. But as I had such strong ground for believing that the object of his majesty's government could be attained, though in a different manner, and the spirit, at least, of my several letters of instructions be fully complied with, I felt a thorough conviction upon my mind that I should be acting in conformity with his majesty's wishes; and accordingly, concluded the late provisional agreement on his majesty's behalf with the government of the U. S.
The disavowal of his majesty is a painful proof to me that I had formed an erroneous judgment of his majesty's views and the intention of my instructions; and I have most severely to lament that an act of mine, (though unintentionally) should produce any embarrassments in the relations between the two countries.
It is a great consolation to me, however, to perceive that measures have been adopted by both governments to prevent any losses, and to obviate any inconveniences which might have arisen to the citizens or subjects of either country from a reliance on the fulfilment of that provisional agreement; and I cannot but cherish a hope, that a complete and cordial understanding between the two countries may be effected.
I beg leave to add that it would have given me great happiness to have contributed to so desirable an object, and to offer you the assurances of the great respect and high consideration with which I remain, sir, your most obedient humble servant,
D. M. ERSKINE.
The Hon. Robert Smith, Sec. &c. &c.
The Secretary of the Treasury to Mr. Erskine. Washington, 13th August, 1809.
SIR,
I do not believe, that in the conversations we have had respecting the practicability of an adjustment of the differences between the United States and Great Britain, we ever have misunderstood one another. Yet as from Mr. Canning's instructions lately published by our government, it would seem that some opinions are ascribed to several members of this administration, which they did not entertain, it appears necessary to ascertain whether on any point a misapprehension can have taken place.
I will forbear making any observations on what in the instructions is called the third condition, since it is not asserted that that inadmissible proposition was suggested at Washington.
The points embraced in Mr. Canning's first proposition formed the principal topics of our conversations, relative to the revocation of the orders in council. Yet in the manner in which that proposition is expressed, it goes further than had been suggested by the members of the administration. It is sufficiently evident from the proceedings of congress, both previous and subsequent to the unratified agreement of April last, that the United States intended to continue the restrictions on the commercial intercourse with France, while such of her decrees as violated our neutral rights continued in force, and to remove those restrictions in relation to Great Britain, in the event of a revocation of the orders in council. But that state of things, so far as related to France, was to result from our own laws known or anticipated by our government when they authorized an arrangement; and it was not proposed by us that the continuance of the non-intercourse with France should be made a condition of the arrangement. With respect to that subject, I will add an observation, though not immediately connected with the object of this letter. I think that the object of that proposition, so far as it agreed with your previous understanding of the intentions of this government, has been substantially carried into effect on our part. It is true that your government might at the date of the instructions have expected from the incident proceedings of congress, that Holland would be embraced by the restrictive laws of the United States. Not only so ever was the omission nominal, since American vessels were at the time by the decrees of that country refused admission into its ports;—but under the same construction of our laws by which the commercial intercourse with Holland was permitted, that with Portugal was also considered as legal in the event of that country being occupied by the British troops in the name of the prince regent.
It is therefore principally as respects the second condition which relates to the colonial trade that erroneous inferences might be drawn from the expressions used in Mr. Canning's instructions. Although the subject must have been mentioned here incidentally, and only in a transient manner; as it is one to which I paid particular attention, and on which my opinion had never varied, I think that I can state with precision in what view I have always considered it, and must have alluded to it.
1. I never could have given countenance to an opinion that the United States would insist or that it would be proper to insist as a condition whatever respecting the revocation of the orders in council. The two subjects were altogether unconnected, and I am confident that such a proposition was never suggested either by you, or any member of this administration, and that an arrangement could be effected only on the basis of a considerable degree of reciprocity; and it is with a considerable degree of surprise that I see your government now asking not only a resistance to the French decrees, but the abandonment of a branch of our commerce, as the price of the revocation of the orders in council. This seems to give a new character to a measure which had heretofore been represented as an act of retaliation reluctantly adopted, and had been defended solely on the ground of a supposed acquiescence on the part of the United States in the injurious decrees of another nation.
2. In the event of a treaty embracing all the points in dispute, and particularly that of impressments, without which I trust no treaty will ever take place, it was my opinion, and I may have certainly expressed it, that if the other subjects of difference were arranged, that respecting the colonial trade would be easily adjusted. I had considered the principles recognized in a former correspondence, between Lord Hawkesbury and Mr. King, on the subject of the colonial trade, and subsequently again adopted in the treaty negotiated by Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney, as a general basis agreed on under different administrations, by both governments, from which neither could now recede, and susceptible only of modification as to details. The instructions to our ministers in London on this subject had also been published and were known to your government. I therefore believed that the United States, in the event of a treaty, would

will be disposed to waive for the present, in the manner and on the terms contemplated by those instructions, their right to that branch, and to that branch only, of the colonial trade, known by the name of direct trade , that is to say, the trade carried directly from belligerent colonies to the belligerents in Europe, when that trade was not permanent, in peace as in war permitted by the laws of the country to which those colonies belonged. The right to a trade between such colonies and the United States generally, and to that in colonial articles between the United States and other countries, never can, or will in my opinion, be abandoned, or its exercise be suspended by this government. On the contrary, it is solely in order to secure, by an express treaty stipulation, that trade against the danger of interruption, and thus by a mutual spirit of accommodation to avoid collisions, that the abandonment of the direct branch can ever be assented to.
Permit me therefore to request, that you will inform me, whether you understood me on those two points, as I certainly meant to be understood; namely, that the relinquishment , during the present war, of what is called the direct trade , was alone contemplated; and that no arrangement on that subject was suggested as a condition of the revocation of the orders in council.
I have the honor to be, with the highest respect and consideration, sir, your obedient servant.
(Signed) ALBERT GALLATIN. Hon. D. M. Erskine, minister Plenipotentiary, &c. &c.
Mr. Erskine to the Secretary of the Treasury. Washington, August 15th, 1809.
Sir, I have the honor to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 13th inst. in which you have been pleased to say that although you do not believe that in the conversation we have had respecting the practicability of an adjustment of the differences between the United States and Great Britain, we had ever misunderstood each other; yet as from Mr. Canning's instructions, lately published by my government, it would seem that some opinions are ascribed to several members of this administration which they did not entertain, it appears necessary to ascertain whether, on any point, a misapprehension could have taken place.
In answer to your enquiries, I have great satisfaction in assuring you that there appears to have been no misunderstanding respecting the substance or meaning of the conversations which have passed between us, as stated in Mr. Canning's instructions alluded to.
After the most careful perusal of your statement of the purport of our conversation, I do not discover any material difference from the representation I have made to the secretary of state (Mr. Madison) of my conversation with Mr. Erskine. As far as I will then go, I have stated that I was informed that the relinquishment of the direct trade was alone contemplated; and that no arrangement on that subject was suggested as a condition of the revocation of the orders in council.
During the conversation which we had respecting the practicability of an amicable adjustment of the differences between the two countries, which the relinquishment by the United States, during the present war, of what is called the direct trade , was suggested by you. I concurred that you had been authorized to make the relinquishment of the direct trade to the belligerents of Europe, when that trade was not permanent, in peace as in war permitted by the laws of the country to which those colonies belonged.
I never supposed that you intended to convey an opinion that the government of the United States would make any arrangement respecting the colonial trade as a condition of the revocation of the orders in council, nor have I ever represented to his majesty's government that such preliminary pledges would be given.
With sentiments of the highest respect, I have the honor to be, sir, your most obedient humble servant. (Signed) D. M. ERSKINE. The Hon. Albert Gallatin, &c. &c.
Mr. Canning to Mr. Pinkney. Foreign Office, May 27th, 1809.
Sir, According to the intimation which I gave you in our last conference, I have now the honor to enclose to you a copy of the Order in Council which his Majesty has directed to be issued for the purpose of preventing as far as possible any encouragement or demand to be made by the United States, who may have entered into commercial speculations on the faith of the unauthorized engagements of Mr. Erskine previously to the notification in America of his Majesty's disavowal of those engagements.
Having had the honor to read to you, in extenso the instructions to which Mr. Erskine is not furnished, it was necessary for me to enter into an explanation of those points in which Mr. Erskine has acted, not only not in conformity, but in direct contradiction to them.
I forbear equally from troubling you, sir, with any comment on the manner in which Mr. Erskine's communications have been received by the American government, or
upon the terms and spirit of Mr. Smith's share of the consideration.
Such observations will be communicated more properly through the Minister, whom his Majesty has directed to proceed to America—not on any special mission (which Mr. Erskine was not authorized to promise, except upon conditions not one of which he has obtained) but as the successor of Mr. Erskine whom his Majesty has not lost a moment in recalling.
I have the honor to be with great consideration, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, (Signed) GEORGE CANNING.
[Here follows the order in council of May 24th, 1809, as published in the Gazette of the 26th July.]
Mr. Pinkney's answer. Great Cumberland Place May 29, 1809.
Sir, I have received the communication which you did me the honor to address to me on the 27th inst. and will hasten to transmit it to the Secretary of State of the United States.
No business has been of information from my government concerning the transactions in America to which your communication alludes; having only reached me, I can only express my surprise that the conciliatory arrangement concerted and concluded, as you have done me the honor to inform me, between the American Secretary of State and his Majesty's accredited Minister in Washington, acting in consequence, and professing to act in pursuance, of regular instructions from his Court, are not likely to have all that effect which was naturally to have been expected from them.
I have the honor to be, With great consideration, Sir, Your most obedient, humble servant, WM. PINKNEY.
The Right Hon. George Canning, &c. &c. &c.
[Here follows Mr. Gallatin's circular to the collectors of the revenue bearing date the 9th day of August last, and Mr. Madison's proclamation, same date, and at that time published, revoking his former proclamation opening commercial intercourse with Great Britain, in consequence of Mr. Canning's disavowal of Mr. Erskine's arrangement with this country—published in the Gazette of the 12th of August.]
Gen. Armstrong to Mr. Smith, Secretary of State. Paris, Sept. 4th, 1809.
Sir, The letter of which I send you a copy, was received during my absence and detained in Paris, till my return. The note promised in it has not yet been received. Mr. Warden informs me, that the Council of Prizes has been ordered to suspend their proceedings with regard to our vessels.
I have the honor to be, sir, with high consideration, Your most obedient and Very humble servant, JOHN ARMSTRONG.
Count Champagny to Gen. Armstrong. Vienna, August 8th, 1809. Translation.
Sir, You have desired that one of the American vessels which are in the ports of France might be authorized to depart for the United States with your dispatches. I have taken the orders of his majesty on the subject of this demand, and his Majesty always disposed to facilitate your communications with your government has permitted the departure of the vessel you shall designate. Inform the ministers of the marine and of the finances of this disposition, requesting them to secure the execution of it so soon as you shall have made known to them the name of the vessel and the port to which it is to depart.
I have the honor, sir, to apprize you that I shall forthwith address to you a note by order of his Majesty on the actual situation of our relations with the United States. Please to profit by the departure of the vessel to make this known to the Federal government, and permit me also to send by that conveyance some dispatches to the Minister Plenipotentiary of his Majesty to the United States.
Accept, sir, the assurances, &c. &c. (Signed) CHAMPAGNY. His excellency General Armstrong, &c. &c. &c.
Extract of a letter from Gen. Armstrong to Mr. Smith, Secretary of State. PARIS 19th September, 1809.
"I received on the 6th instant, on my return from Holland, two notes from Count Champagny, copies of which I have the honor to enclose. In one of these you will find an exposition of the principles which have governed, and which will continue to govern the conduct of his majesty with regard to neutral commerce. To this, which was offered as a definitive answer to our propositions, I have believed that any reply, before I had received the further instructions of the president, would have been premature."
"Mr. Lawrence arrived at L'Orient on the 9th, and Mr. Hiswell at Paris with your dispatch of the 12th of August last, on the 12th inst. I immediately communicated to Count Champagny the president's proclamation, interdicting anew all commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain, and gave such other explanations as the case appeared to require."
Extract of a letter from Count Champagny to Gen. Armstrong, dated Altenburg, Aug. 22d, 1809.
[Translation] "I have the honor to address to you the subjoined note, which his majesty has ordered me to send to you, and which I have announced in my last dispatch. If France does not do at this time all that the United States of America can desire, your government will be able to see that neither prejudice nor animosity influences its conduct; that it is the effect of its attachment to principles which the Americans, more than any other people, are interested in supporting, and of the necessity of reprisals, which circumstances impose. The emperor will consider as an happy event that which shall enable him to contribute to the prosperity of America, in leaving to its commerce all the liberty and all the extension which can render it flourishing."
[Here follows a letter (which includes the whole of the documents) of M. Champagny's to Mr. Armstrong, dated Altenburg, August 22d, 1809, on the subject of neutral rights, which was published in the Gazette of the 29th ult. It was copied from a London paper of Oct. 18th. On comparing it with the translation of the same letter made at Washington, we perceive no difference except in the phraseology.]
Treasury Department, December 7th, 1809.
Sir, I have the honor to enclose a report prepared in obedience to the act entitled "An act to establish the Treasury Department." I have the honor to be, Very respectfully, Sir, Your obedient servant, ALBERT GALLATIN.
The Honorable The President of the Senate.
REPORT. In obedience to the directions of the act supplementary to the act entitled "An act to establish the Treasury Department," the Secretary of the Treasury respectfully submits the following report and estimates:
The duties on merchandise and tonnage which accrued during the year 1807, amounted, after deducting the expenses of collection, to dolls. 26,126,043
From which deducting for debentures issued on account of re-exportations, 10,067,191
Left for the nett revenue accrued during that year 16,059,157
The same duties during the year 1808 amounted, after deducting the expenses of collection, to 10,581,559
From which deducting for debentures issued, and which on account of the embargo did not exceed 249,396
Leaves for the nett revenue accrued during that year, as will appear by the statement [A] 10,332,163
The statement [B] exhibits in detail the several species of merchandise and other sources from which that revenue was collected during the year 1808; and the statement [A] gives a comparative view of the importations and re-exportations of the several species of merchandise for the years 1807 and 1808, shewing thereby distinctly the effect of foreign aggressions and commercial restrictions on the importations of foreign articles.
From the returns already received for the three first quarters of the present year, and from the general knowledge of the importations made during the two last months, it is believed that the gross amount of duties on merchandise imported during the whole year will, after deducting the expenses of collection, amount to about ten millions of dollars.
But as the debentures issued on account of re-exportation, principally of colonial produce, will amount to about 5,500,000 dollars, the nett
revenue will be about four millions and a half.
It appears by the statement [C] that the sales of public lands have during the year ending on the 30th of September, 1809, amounted to 143,000 acres; and the payments by purchasers to near 500,000 dollars. The proceeds of sales in the Mississippi Territory being, after deducting the surveying and other incidental expenses, appropriated in the first place to the payment of a sum of 1,250,000 dollars to the state of Georgia, are distinctly stated.
It appears by the statement [D] that the payments on account of the principal of the public debt, having during the same period amounted to near 6,750,000 dollars, the reimbursement of the 8 per cent. stock having taken place on the first of January last. But the aggregate of payments on account of principal and interest will not for the two years 1808 and 1809 exceed the sum of sixteen millions of dollars appropriated by law.
The same statement shews that about 34,700,000 dollars of the principal of the debt have been reimbursed during the eight years and eight months ending on the first of April, 1801, and on the 30th September, 1809; exclusively of more than six millions of dollars paid in conformity with the provisions of the convention with Great Britain and of the Louisiana convention.
The actual receipts into the treasury during the year ending on the 30th of Sept. 1809, have amounted to dolls. 9,315,753 16 Making together with the balance in the treasury on the 1st of October, 1808, and amounting to 15,846,717 52
An aggregate of 23,162,470 68 The disbursements during the same year have consisted of the following items, viz.
Civil department including miscellaneous expenses, and those incident to the intercourse with foreign nations, 1,459,633 25
Military and naval establishments including the Indian department, viz.
Military, including arms and fortifications, 3,366,493 12
Navy, 2,379,267 80
Indian department, 292,303 84
Interest on the public debt, 6,937,974 76
Reimbursement of principal of the public debt, 3,126,149 15
Amounting together, as will appear more in detail by the statement [E] to 10,608,757 14
And leaving in the treasury on the 30th September, 1809, a balance of 17,333,534 67
5,828,986 01
23,162,470 68
Whence it appears that the expenses of government, exclusively of the payments on account of the principal of the debt, have exceeded the actual receipts into the treasury by a sum of near thirteen hundred thousand dollars; and that the deficiency, as well as the reimbursement of the principal of the debt, have been paid out of the sums previously in the treasury, or in other words out of the surplus of the revenue of the preceding years.
The outstanding revenue bonds may, after deducting the expenses of collection, and allowing for bad debts, be estimated to have amounted on the 30th of September, 1809, to dolls. 7,500,000
The duties on the importations during the last quarter will not probably, after making a similar deduction, fall short of 2,800,000
All those will be due prior to the 1st day of Jan. 1811, and make together with the balance in the treasury on the 30th September, 1809, and amounting as above stated to 5,800,000
An aggregate of 16,100,000 The expenses of the present quarter though not yet precisely ascertained will not probably, including the payments on account of the public debt, exceed 3,600,000
Leaving on the first day of January, 1810, a sum of 12,500,000
About twelve and a half millions of dollars in cash or bonds payable during the year 1810 and applicable to the expenses of that year. This estimate, however, is founded on the supposition that the amount of debentures payable in that year will not exceed two millions of dollars, and that the receipts during the year arising from importation subsequent to the first of January next, and from the sales of land, will be sufficient to pay those debentures and to leave at all times in the treasury at least one million of dollars.
Estimating the expenses of a civil nature, both domestic and foreign, for the year 1810, at the same amount actually expended for those objects during the preceding year, or at about dolls. 1,500,000
And adding thereto the annual appropriation of 8,000,000
For the public debt; (of which sum about three millions seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars will be applied to the final reimbursement of the exchanged six per cent. stock;)

It follows that unless the aggregate of the expenses for the military and naval establishments should be reduced to about    5,000,000    12,500,000  
three millions of dollars, a loan will be necessary to make up the deficiency. That state of the treasury had been anticipated; and for that reason an increase of duties had been respectfully submitted in the last annual report. But should that measure be now adopted, it would not, on account of the terms of credit allowed for the payment of duties, supercede the necessity of a loan for the service of the year 1810, commensurate with the extent of those establishments and with the appropriations which may be made for the support by congress. No precise sum is suggested, since this must vary according to the plans which may be adopted in relation to foreign nations, and will particularly depend on the decision of congress on the question of war or peace. It is sufficient to state that if the actual expenditure of the year 1810 for military and naval purposes should be estimated at the same sum which was disbursed by the treasury for those objects during the year ending on the 30th September, 1809, and extending as above stated six millions of dollars; the deficiency according to the preceding estimates would amount to three millions; on which supposition it would seem prudent, in order to provide against any deficiency in the receipts beyond what has been estimated, to authorise a loan of four millions of dollars.
In the event of war the necessity of rendering it efficient and of calling for that purpose into action all the resources of the country, is too obvious to require any comment. On that subject nothing will at this time be added by this department to the suggestions respectfully submitted to the two preceding annual reports. Loans reimbursed by instalments and at fixed periods after the return of peace, must constitute the principal resource for defraying the extraordinary expenses of the war. For the support of public credit, the basis on which rests the practicability of obtaining loans on reasonable terms, it appears necessary that the revenue should in the meanwhile, be equal to the interest on the public debt including that on the new loans, and to all the current expenses of government calculated on a peace establishment, or, for the present, to about eight millions of dollars. An immediate and considerable increase of the existing duties will, it is believed, be requisite for that purpose in order to cover the defalcation which a maritime war must necessarily produce in a revenue almost exclusively depending on commerce. That increase appears preferable in the present situation of the United States to any other source of taxation, and is not in time of war liable to the objection of its encouraging smuggling. It is only in the event of that revenue being still more affected by a war than is apprehended, that a resort to internal taxes either direct or indirect may become necessary.
If war should not be resorted to, it does not appear requisite, unless congress should resolve on a permanent increase of the military and naval establishments in time of peace, to lay at present any additional duties, beyond a mere continuance of the two and a half per cent. known under the name of "Mediterranean fund." It has already been stated that an increase of the import would not supply the deficiency which may take place in the year 1810, and exclusively of the reimbursement of the loan which may be wanted for the service of that year, all the national expenses calculated on a peace establishment and on the average of the actual expenditures of the six years 1802 to 1807, will not exceed eight millions of dollars for the year 1811, and eight millions after that year.
For the only portion of the existing debt which according to law it will be practicable after the year 1810 to reimburse, will, exclusively of the annual reimbursement of the six per cent and deferred stocks, consist only of the converted 6 per cent. stock, which amounts to less than two millions of dollars. The payments, on account of the annual appropriation of eight millions of dollars, for the debt cannot for that reason (except for the purpose of reimbursing the loan which may be wanted for the service of the year 1810) much exceed six millions of dollars for the year 1811, and four millions of dollars annually after that year. The expenses for the year 1811 and the ensuing years may, therefore, if calculated on a peace establishment, be estimated as follows, viz.
  Civil expenses, domestic and foreign, 1,500,000   Military and naval establishments (including the Indian department) calculated on the average of the actual expenditure for those objects during the six years 1802—1807, as will appear by statement (F.) about 2,500,000   Interest on the public debt, including the annual reimbursement on the six per cent and deferred stocks, 4,100,000   Total of the annual expenses after the year 1811, 8,100,000   Reimbursement of the converted six per cent stock, 1,860,000   Total of expenses for the year 1811, $9,960,000 
Whatever may be the decision of congress in other respects, there is a subject which seems to require immediate attention. The provisions adopted for the purpose of carrying into effect the non-intercourse with England and France, particularly as modified by the act of last session under an expectation that the orders of council
of Great Britain had been revoked, are inefficient and altogether inapplicable to existing circumstances. It will be sufficient to observe that exportation by land is not forbidden, and that no bonds being required from vessels ostensibly in the coasting trade, nor any authority vested by law which will justify detention, those vessels daily sail for British ports, without any other remedy but the precarious mode of instituting prosecutions against the apparent owners. It is unnecessary, and it would be painful to dwell on all the effects of those violations of the laws.—But without any allusion to the efficiency or political object of any system, an inquiry with a view, to its execution, it is incumbent to state that from the experience of the two last years, a perfect conviction arises that either the system of restriction partially abandoned must be re-enacted in all its parts, and with all the provisions necessary for its strict and complete execution; or that all the restrictions, so far at least, as relate to the commerce and navigation of the citizens of the United States, ought to be removed.
All which is respectfully submitted. ALBERT GALLATIN, Secretary of the Treasury.
Treasury Department, December 7th, 1809.
Congressional Register.
In Senate.
Monday, December 11. Mr. Pope, from the select committee to whom was referred the bill from the House of Representatives supplementary to the act "extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana Territory and for other purposes," reported the same without amendment; and the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
Mr. Pope, agreeably to notice, presented a bill in addition to an act regulating the laying out and making a turnpike road from Cumberland in the state of Maryland, to the state of Ohio. [The bill contemplates an additional appropriation of 50,000 dollars for this object.] The bill was read and passed to a second reading.
The bill to repeal an act entitled "an act to suspend for a limited time the recruiting service," was read a second time, and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
The resolution approving the conduct of the executive in refusing to receive any further communication from Mr. Jackson, the British minister, was read a third time; and, without debate, on the motion of Mr. Goodrich, was decided by yeas and nays as follows:
Yeas—Messrs. Bradley, Brent, Condit, Crawford, Gailhard, German, Giles, Gilman, Gregg, Griswold, Lambert, Leib, Meigs, Matthews, Parker, Pope, Reed, Smith of Md. Sumpter, Turner—20.
Nays—Mr. Goodrich, Hillhouse, Lloyd, Pickering—4.
[Absent on this vote Messrs. Anderson, Bayard, Champlin, Franklin, Robinson, Smith of N. Y. Tait, Thruston, and Watesides; of whom those in Italics have not appeared in their seats during the present session.]
The bill to present the abuse of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by foreign ministers within the United States, was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading without debate.
December 12. The bill supplemental to the act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana Territory, was read the third time and passed.
The bill to repeal the act for suspending for a limited time the recruiting service was read a third time; and, on motion of Mr. Bradley, the further consideration of the bill was ordered to be postponed to the 1st day of August next.
House of Representatives.
Monday, Dec. 11.
The following gentlemen compose the committee of post office and post roads, to which has been referred a number of petitions and resolutions on the subject of post roads: Messrs. Rhea, (T.) Helms, Thompson, Desha, Stanford, Calhoun, Troup, Morrow, Davenport, Crittenenden, Goldsborough, Whitehill, Potter, J. Smith, Upham and Wilson.
On motion of Bacon, Resolved , That a committee be appointed for the purpose of enquiring whether any and what alterations or amendments are necessary to be made in the act entitled "An act to promote the progress of useful arts, and to repeal the act heretofore made for that purpose;" and that said committee have leave to report by bill or otherwise.
Mr. Whitman, from the committee appointed on the 6th inst. to present to the president of the United States a resolution of the same date, reported that the committee had performed the duty assigned them, and that the president had signified that the information requested (relative to Danish, British and French captures of our vessels) should be communicated so soon as it could be prepared by the proper department.
On motion of Mr. Morrow, the house resolved itself into a committee of the whole, Mr. Helms in the chair, on the bill allowing further time for issuing and locating military land warrants.
The blanks in the bill were filled so as to allow a further term of three years for that purpose. The committee then rose and reported the bill, which as amended was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow.
A paper was received from the Senate, by Mr. Otis, their secretary, in the form of a joint resolution, approving the conduct of the executive in relation to the refusal to receive any further communications from Jackson.
The resolution was read a first and second time, referred to a committee of the whole, and made the order of the day for Thursday next.
Tuesday, Dec. 12. A letter was received from the Secretary of the Treasury, enclosing a statement of the district tonnage of the United States.
A report was also received from the Secretary of the Treasury, in obedience to the act for regulating the currency of foreign coins.
Several petitions of a private nature were presented and referred.
THE GAZETTE.
Wilmington, December 16, 1809.
LATEST FROM EUROPE.
By an arrival at New York, Dublin papers to the 7th of November have been received, containing London dates to the 3d of the same month. The following are the outlines of their most prominent contents:
The British cabinet, it appears, consists of the following members. Mr. Perceval, Lord Eldon, Lord Liverpool, Lord Bathurst, Mr. Ryder, Lord Grenville, Lord Westmoreland, Lord Harrowby, Mr. Dundas, Lord Mulgrave, and Lord Bathurst.
The ministry have determined that the Island of Walcheren is to be returned at every risk and loss. The utmost exertions were also to be made for the preservation of Portugal; and all the disposable force in England were under orders for these two destinations.
Various accounts are afloat respecting Bonaparte—some accounts have him still at Vienna, insane; others state that he arrived at Paris on the 26th November—and others state that he was on his way to Spain, and that the whole military force of France and Germany would soon be in the Peninsula.
It was reported in London that the British ministry had given orders for the total evacuation of Spain by their troops; and another rumor adds that the Spanish junta had given similar orders. Be this as it may, it is certain that the Spanish patriots do not appear to have the most cordial affection for their British friends; and the British do not entertain a very exalted opinion of Spanish prowess.
Two deputies have arrived from the Tyrolese insurgents, for the purpose of soliciting pecuniary assistance from England.
It was reported that negotiations were progressing in an indirect manner between the British government and France, for the establishment of a general peace.
The peace between France and Austria is officially announced in the Paris Monitor.
By the remonstrances of the Russian minister at Copenhagen, the privaters are called in; and American vessels can now pass the Sound untested, on condition of their paying the dues.
The Duke of Portland is dead; and the princess Amelia dangerously ill of an affection of the liver.
The king of England has issued a proclamation, under date of Oct. 18, pardoning all seamen and mariners who have deserted, on surrendering themselves; and another proclamation of the 24th October, offering a pardon to all deserters in the land service, who may surrender themselves.
A letter from Dublin of the 6th of November says, "The packet has brought an account that an order in council is expected to appear immediately in the Gazette, prohibiting the landing of American produce that has been landed or warehoused in any place since they left America, except from British ships or American ships with English licences. This seems intended to drive you to your embargo, which, from experience, it is expected you cannot maintain."
French Town & New Castle Road.
The bill to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from the town of New Castle in this state to the line of the state of Maryland, in the route or direction of French Town on Elk river, and to extend the same by the nearest and best practicable course to French Town, was on Monday last, read the second time in the house of delegates of the state of Maryland; and on motion the question was put that the title be changed to "An act to incorporate a company for making an artificial road from French Town on Elk River in Cecil county, state of Maryland, to the Delaware line, in a direction towards the town of New Castle." Resolved in the affirmative, and the bill passed.
The grand jury of New Castle county have presented James A. Bayard and Nicholas Van Dyke, for neglecting to attend in congress.—The following is a copy of the presentment.
The grand inquest of the state of Delaware and the body of New Castle county, being engaged in the business severally brought before them, and reflecting as in duty bound by their oaths and affirmations, on the causes productive of injury to their fellow citizens, (their opinion that the present being a critical period in the political affairs of our country, and one which requires the united wisdom of all the members of the national legislature, to avoid or provide a remedy for the evils which threaten the U. States,) under these circumstances they
consider it highly improper, that those who are chosen to represent this state in the councils of the union should withhold their services, sacrificing by that means the interest of this state, and affording an example which, if permitted to become general, would eventually cause the destruction of that constitution which is our boast, and with it those liberties which we hope to deliver unimpaired to our posterity.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
Mr. Jones, I OBSERVE in your last number, a writer under the signature of Zeno, making some observations, in consequence of some remarks on the reference law, by "A Friend." The observations of Zeno shall be attended to; also, a writer who signs himself "A Citizen," in the same number, shall not go unnoticed by A FRIEND.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT on the 24th inst., at the house of JOHN CROW, in the town of New-Castle, will be received, proposals in writing for renting the Newport Ferry. The person or persons who may be desirous of renting the same will at the same time produce an engagement, in writing, from one or more persons, who shall be engaged to be bound for the rent that may be offered, and also for the faithful performance of the several duties required of the keeper by law.
John Crow, Zachariah Derrickson, } Com'rs. John Lynam, December 9th, 1809. 124dec.
In the Court of Chancery.
Thomas Robinson, surviving ex'or. of Abraham Robinson, dec'd.
James McIlvain and Mary his wife, and Thomas Perkins and Sarah his wife.
IN the Court of Chancery of the state of Delaware, held at New-Castle, for the county of New-Castle—Bill filed Feb. 10th, 1808—Subpoena issued, &c.
Upon the petition of the complainant Thomas Robinson, and upon the affidavit of Francis Haughey, esq. late sheriff of New-Castle county, it is ordered by the Chancellor, this tenth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, that James McIlvain and Mary his wife, two of the defendants 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 failure so to do, that the said bill be taken pro confesso.
NICHOLAS RIDGELY, Chancellor.
New-Castle County, ss.
I DO CERTIFY, That the above is a true extract from the record thereof Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court, at New-Castle, this fifth day of December, A. D. 1809.
HUGH W. RITCHIE, Reg'r. in Ch'ry. for N. C. County.
For Sale,
A VALUABLE PLANTATION,
CONTAINING 200 acres of Land, situated in Mill Creek hundred, New Castle county, and state of Delaware. There are on the premises a very comfortable dwelling house, a good barn, hay house, &c. all in good order.—A considerable portion of the ground is well timbered, the remainder arable and meadow.
The natural soil is good and may be improved at a small expence, being situated within a short distance of an extensive lime stone quarry.—Possession may be had on the 23d of next March and the terms of sale known by applying to John Stockton in Wilmington, Dr. James McCamont in New Castle, or Joseph England near the premises, who will also show the property, if called on.
New Castle 15th Nov 1m
To Sportsmen.
WILL be let out for hunting, on Christmas Day the 25th inst. at 10 o'clock in the morning, at the Indian Queen corner of Market and Queen streets,
A Wild Deer,
Where persons desirous of partaking of the pleasures of the chase are requested to attend.
Wilmington, Dec. 6, 1809. 5t
Sein Twine and White Rope Manufactory.
PLOUGH Lines, Plough Traces, Bed Cords, Halters, Bed Laces, Sewing and Seine Twine, warranted equal to any imported, for sale by
John Hedges.
Dec. 6, 1809. 6m
Notice
IS hereby given, that the subscriber intends to apply to the Legislature of the State of Delaware, at its next Session, for a law empowering certain persons, therein to be named, to improve and straighten Murderhill Creek, in Kent county.
Walter Douglass.
Murderhill Mills, Nov. 4, 1809. 1f

Genuine Lee's Elixir!!
A sovereign remedy for Colds, obstinate Coughs, Catarrhs, Asthmas, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumptions.
A single trial of this medicine will prove its efficacious quality in restoring a perspiration common to healthy people, it dislodges and expels the tough viscid phlegm or mucus, strengthening the weakened vessels of the lungs, thus striking at the root of the disorder; the symptoms of course are effectually and permanently conquered. The great number of cures performed by this elegant and useful preparation, is sufficient to convince those that labour under colds, coughs, &c. of being immediately relieved. For the information of those persons, if any there be, that have not heard of the balsamic qualities of LEE'S ELIXIR, we give the names of the following persons, who are well known to our citizens in general as persons of integrity and strict veracity. From the following certificates it will plainly appear, that a three years consumption, a common cold, or cough, are all with ease removed by LEE'S ELIXIR.
To Parents who may have Children afflicted with the
Whooping Cough,
This disorder is of the first magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, checks the progress and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable—the Elixir is so perfectly agreeable and the dose so small that no difficulty arises in taking it.
Messrs. R. Lee & Sons.
The superior qualities of your Medicine called LEE'S ELIXIR, induces me to give you this certificate for publication, to point to my suffering fellow mortals the road to health, the most valuable of all earthly possessions. For upwards of three years I have been afflicted with a severe cough, tightness of the breast, lowness of spirit, and a gradual wasting of the flesh, having tried different medicines recommended for such cases with at receiving an actual benefit; fortunately one of your advertisements was given to me and I immediately applied to Mr. Vance, 173 Market Street, for some of your ELIXIR which has contrary to the expectations of my friends, restored me to my former good state of health. Any information will be given by me.
George Harwood, Market street, Baltimore.
Messrs. R. Lee & Sons.
You are at liberty to publish for the good of others, the benefit I have received from your excellent preparation, called "Lee's Elixir" Being afflicted with violent pain in the breast, loss of appetite and debility of the whole system, which rendered me unable to attend to business, being advised to try your Elixir, I procured two bottles of Messrs. Warner & Hanna, which has entirely removed the complaint, and restored me to a perfect state of health. From the good effects of your Elixir I was led to suppose your other medicines were equally efficacious which induced me to give your Worm Lozenges to my children, and with pleasure I inform you, they had the desired effect. Any other information I shall give on application to me at my house 515 street, Baltimore.
John Keller.
Messrs. R. Lee & Sons.
I was attacked with a violent cold, a severe cough and pains in the breast, which continued to grow worse; during which time my appetite failed and my voice altered so much, that it was with the utmost exertion I could pronounce a single sentence louder than my breath. Some of my friends having observed to me, that much good had been done by Lee's Elixir, advised me to procure a bottle from Messrs. Warner & Hanna, which I accordingly did, and to their persons, unacquainted with the merit of this medicine, it will appear astonishing that three doses should remove the pains in my breast, and the use of the bottle restored me to perfect health.
J. A. Smith, Market street, Fell's Point.
Lee's Worm Destroying Lozenges, which effectually destroy all kinds of worms from persons of every age.
The following is not a singular instance of the effects of worm in adults.
Messrs. R. Lee and Son,
For a long time I was afflicted with fainting fits, gushing in the bowels, pains in the stomach and a wasting of the flesh—the advice of an eminent physician proved useless—nothing now appeared but the melancholy prospect of death; when happily my husband recollected the many cures said to have been performed by Lee's Lozenges, a box was procured from Messrs. Warner and Hanna, which has entirely removed every symptom of the complaint.
Having experienced so much benefit myself, I think it my duty to recommend them to all my acquaintance—several boxes have been sent by me to my father's family in Bethlehem to be distributed among my friends who might be afflicted with worms. Any other information will be given by applying to
R. Catharine Walker, Market street Edward Higgins,
South street, Baltimore, administered Lee's Lozenges, agreeable to the directions, to his child of 14 months old—the first of which expelled a Worm measuring 20 inches long & near half an inch thick, the second dose expelled another 16 inches long & the same thickness, and a quantity of small worms mixed with slime, &c. The child enjoys a good state of health.
Thousands of our fellow citizens have received benefits from the above Medicines when reduced to the last stage of disease, and many families of the first respectability have given public testimony of the astonishing cures performed with the above preparations. The proprietors are well assured that a single trial of any article here enumerated, will convince the most prejudiced person in its utility.
To detect counterfeits, observe that none can be genuine without the signature of
Michael Lee, & Co. (Late Richard Lee & Son.)
N. B.—Each and every medicine above enumerated, have directions describing their mode of use in the most perfect manner.
Sold at
the bookstore of Mathew R. Lockerman next above the Bank of Delaware, Market-Street, Wilmington.
December 9, 1809. 1y
To be Rented,
For one or more years, and possession given the 25th of March next.
A PLANTATION,
Well known by the name of
Bread & Cheese Island.
IT is situated on White Clay Creek, five miles from Wilmington, two from Newport, and half a mile from Staunton. The situation is healthy and pleasant, and convenient to mills markets and places of public worship.
A large portion of the land is marsh meadow, in excellent order, and well calculated for grazing. The improvements are, a good dwelling house and kitchen, and all necessary out houses for the accommodation of a large stock. As it is presumed that any person wishing to rent will first desire to view the premises, a further description is deemed unnecessary.—For further particulars enquire of the subscriber, in the village of Newport.
Aron Justis.
November 22, 1809, oc
Take Notice.
WAS taken up on suspicion of being a vagabond, and now confined in the jail of Chester County, Pennsylvania, a Black Man, who calls himself Shadrack Macklin , appears to be about 21 or 22 years of age; about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high; full face; thick lips; a small scar under his right eye; says he was brought up with Sampson Davis, a colored man, and a house carpenter, near Milford in the state of Delaware, and set free by him, March 1809, but has no credentials to show this was the case.
Any person owning said black man, is desired to come forward, prove his property, pay charges and take him away before the 17th of December next, otherwise he will be discharged from prison.
Thomas Evans.
West-Chester, Nov. 28, 1809. 4/
To Let,
And may be occupied after ten days notice, the following property—For terms enquire of the subscriber.
No. 1. A convenient two story Brick House, garden, stables, &c. The house is situated on Prospect Hill, on the north-west side of Washington street, equally convenient to each Market-house.
No. 2. A Grass Lot on the north-east side of Washington street and in front of No. 1.
No. 3. Three acres of land, two thirds in grass that has been mowed three times in the season, and one third in pasture ground, situated on Second street on the corner of Adams, Jefferson and Madison streets, the two last named streets laid out but not opened.
No. 4. A convenient Brick Tenement, 36 by 30 feet, situated on the corner of Second and French streets. All the passage round this house paved with brick, and a hydrant of spring water near the kitchen. Stables and carriage house will be let with this house, if required, convenient to the house.
Allen McLane
Wilmington, (Del.) Oct. 25, 1809.
Notice
IS hereby given, to all whom it may concern, that application will be made to the General Assembly of the State of Delaware at their next session at Dover, for an act authorizing them to bank off, stop and drain the waters, marsh, low lands and cripples of the North-West Branch of Duck Creek, at or near Mr. Edward Roberts's farm, in Thoroughfare Neck, Assopquimink hundred, New-Castle county and State of Delaware.
John Fennemore, John Taylor, Thomas Emory.
Aug. 12 3m
To be Rented
AND possession had immediately the Store-Room and Cellars under the Printing-Office of the Delaware Gazette.—For particulars enquire of the Printer. Nov. 8, 1809. 364.
WILMINGTON COLLEGE.
THE Trustees of Wilmington College take pleasure in being able to announce to the public the revival of the Latin school in this institution, under the immediate care of Mr. Bigelow and general superintendence of the Rev. Dr. Read. The healthy situation of Wilmington, its character for morality, the goodness of its market and choice of best boarding houses, joined to the evidence of Mr. Bigelow's capacity as a teacher, and the long and justly established reputation of Dr. Read as a successful preceptor, all concur to recommend this seminary to the attention of Parents and Guardians, anxious to promote the education and improvement of the youth entrusted to their care, especially when they are further assured that the other departments of the College are provided with tutors fully adequate to their appointments, and of unexceptionable moral characters.
By order of the Board,
ROBERT HAMILTON, EBENEZER R. A. SMITH, JOHN RUMSEY, WILLIAM PRYCE,
July 22, 1809.
For Sale,
AT the Book-Store of M. R. LOCKERMAN, Weems' Lane of Washington, containing a fund of information and amusement.
An interesting history of the Knight's Templars, their origin, character and persecution.
The history of the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon; containing memoirs of his life and writings.
Patricio sketches of Ireland, written in Connaught, by Miss Owenson.
Poetic Trifles, by John Henry Mills, comedian. The Wild Irish Girl, by Miss Owenson. Montalba a novel; Armenian or Ghost Seer; Joseph Andrews; Roderick Random; Charlotte Temple; the Drownd'd Wife; the Vicar of Wakefield; Blair's Lectures; Goldsmith's Rome; Jess's Surveying; Jackson's Book-keeping; the Clerk's Magazine; and a great variety of histories, voyages and travels, day-books, journals and ledgers, and writing-books of every description; writing paper, slates, scales and dividers, quills, inkstands, wafers, &c. &c.
That scientific author speaking of the French and Indian wars about the time of Braddock's defeat describes the effect the news had in England thus: "Swift as the broad-winged packets could fly across the deep, the news was carried to England. Its effects there were like that of a stone suddenly hurled against a nest of hornets. Instantly, from centre to circumference, all is rage and bustle.... The hive resounds with the maddening insects; dark tumbling from their cells they spread the hasty wing, and shrill whizzing through the air, they rush to find the foe. Just so in the surrounding island, from queen to house to ale-house, from king to cobbler, all were fierce for fight. Even the red-nosed porters, where they met, in the streets, to talk of ENGLAND'S wrongs, and, as they talked, their fiery souls were seen to glow more fiery still, and more deform. They threw their packs to the ground, and leaping into the attitude of boxers, with sturdy arms across and rough black jaws stretched out, they bent forward to the fancied fight! The frog-eating foe, in shinsless ruffles and long lank cue, seems to give ground; then rising in their might, with fire-streaking eyes they press hard upon him, and coming in, hand and foot, with kick and cuff and many a hearty curse, they show the grogging crowd, how damn 'em! they would thump the French!" September 6, 1809.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons that the Subscriber intends applying to the Legislature of the State of Delaware, at their sitting in January next, on behalf of the Heirs and legal Representatives of William Peery, deceased, and John Lanke, deceased, for the condemnation of a certain Mill stream on the head of Mill Creek, above Holland's mill, in Broadkiln Hundred, Sussex.
James Peery.
October 14, 1809.
Take Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that application will be made to the Legislature of this State, at their next session, for a law to enable the owners of a parcel of Marsh lying on the south side of Port-Penn, between that place and the Piers, to embark the same.
David Stewart.
Port-Penn, Oct. 24, 1809. Law.tf
Matthew Kean
INFORMS his friends and the public that he has opened a Dry Good Store of the west side of Market Street, next door below the corner of Second Street; where he offers for sale a handsome assortment of reasonable goods on moderate terms. Wilmington, June 17, 1809.
Notice.
SUCH persons as are indebted to the estate of ESTHER YARNALL, deceased, either by bond, note, or book-debt, are requested to make immediate payment to John Warner and John Terbert, or either of them, who are legally authorised to receive the same. And those who have claims against said estate are requested to present them for settlement.
William Warner, Ex'r. Feb. 11, 1809. tf
James Gardner,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public that he has removed his store to the east side of Market-street, one door above Spackman & Grubbs, (nearly opposite the post-office) where he has opened a large assortment of elegant Dry Goods among which are,
  Blue, black, brown, drab, cobalt, bottle green, grey, and dark mixed superfine cloths  Marseilles quiltings    Cassimeres  Fustians and jeans    Bennet's patent cord  Lute strings    Coatings and flannels  Sinshaw and Mantas    Forest cloths  silks    Velvets and constitution cords  Silk & york tan gloves    Bevereens  Bandanna and Madras handkerchiefs    7-8 and 1-4 Irish linens  Cannel's hair shawls    blue & yellow nankens  Checkered and striped linens    Wide and narrow cotton cassimeres  Damask shawls    Chintzes and calicoes  Russia & dowlas linens    Cambriek and common dimities  Rattinetts & bombazets    Calimancoes  Red & greenocking baize    Durat and Jones' spinning  Brown hollandss    Cotton and worsted hosiery  Suspenders    Colored, chambray, cambric, jacksnet, mull-mull, India, British, book-gurrah, bafta, & jeno Muslins  Umbrellas & parasols     Black satins and florintines     Scissors & pen-knives     Silk hose     Gilt & plated buttons     Oil cloths     Trunks     Morocco & kid shoes     &c. &c.  
N. B. Country Store Keepers supplied on the lowest terms for cash or the usual credit.
James Gardner
Patent Washing Machines.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has, some time ago, purchased an exclusive right of making and vending Patent Washing Machines throughout the hundreds of Brandywine and Christina, in New-Castle county, a number of which machines he has already made, which have been tried by divers persons and highly approved of, as they save a great part of the labour of washing in the usual way, and are less injurious to clothes. He will continue to make and have a supply of them on hand, which he will sell on reasonable terms to such as favour him with their custom; and will also sell to any person a right to make and use them within the hundreds aforesaid.
ABRAM GEST, Wilmington, Jan. 21, 1809. tf
John Dixon
HAVING succeeded Warner & Topbert in the grocery business, at the stores lately occupied by them on Market-street wharf; offers for sale on the most moderate terms, for cash or the usual credit, A General Assortment of Groceries.
And hopes by a strict attention to business, to merit a share of the public patronage.
The Packet, Sloop HOPE, Capt. MIENER with good accommodations for passengers, will ply between this Town & Philadelphia as usual—all freight sent by said packet will be carefully attended to. Wilmington, July 8, 1809.
NOTICE,
IS hereby given, to all whom it may concern, that Joseph Vincent intends to apply to the legislature, at their next session, in order that he may be enabled to ascertain the boundaries, of part of a certain tract of Land, called Round Pond enlarged, situated in Broad Creek hundred, in the county of Sussex; which said part of Land was directed to be laid off to Sally M. Houston, under whom he claims, by the last will and testament of John Houston, dec'd.
JOSEPH VINCENT.
Nov. 12, (15) 1809. 6t
HARLAN'S
Square Sun-dial Compass.
THE subscriber has invented an instrument to survey by the sun, which in every respect supercedes the needle, and not being subject to attraction or variation, will point out the variation of the needle at sea, and the time of the day. It may be seen at Richard Baker's, Bradford, near the Forks of Brandywine, till the 25th of March next. The said Baker will show any gentleman the practice and principle of the instrument for one quarter of a dollar.
JEHU HARLAN
Nov 13, 2809. 4t