The Delaware gazette (Wilmington [Del.]), 1809-09-30 00:00:00

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
VOL. I.]
WILMINGTON, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1809.
[NO. 25
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To the Public.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public that he has purchased the whole stock and trade late of the firm of John & Wm. Patterson, saddlers, and removed to the west side of Market street a few doors below Third street, where he continues to carry on the above mentioned business in all its various branches, and has constantly for sale a large and elegant assortment of articles in his line, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms.
William Patterson.
Wanted, as apprentices to the above business, one or two active boys, of from 14 to 16 years of age. ap 22 3m
John Dixon
HAVING succeeded Warners & Torbert 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. MILNER, 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.
A VALUABLE Tract of Land for sale, At Private Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale the tract of Land on which he at present resides, situate in Mill-Creek hundred in the county of New-Castle and state of Delaware, containing two hundred and fifty acres more or less, with a comfortable dwelling house and kitchen, a cellar, barn, and a good stone spring-house thereon erected, a young apple orchard, and a variety of other fruit trees of the best quality; it is well watered by a number of excellent springs; on said tract there is near twenty acres of good timothy meadow land, about forty acres now in clover, a large proportion of woodland—and the residue good arable land capable of improvement to a high state of cultivation, being within one mile of limestone where it can be had on reasonable terms eight miles from Wilmington and six from New-Port on the main road leading from thence to Lancaster. As it is presumed any person inclining to purchase will view the premises, it is thought unnecessary to give a further description—it will bear a division into three parts, and will be sold either the whole together or in parts as may best suit the purchaser. If it is not sold at private sale on or before the 28th day of September next, it will be sold at public sale on the premises on said day, and a liberal credit given for a considerable part of the purchase money, at which time attendance will be given and the terms made known, by
JAMES OCHETREE.
Wilmington, June 24, 1809.
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 Christiana, 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
To Brewers.
To be rented, and possession given the first of tenth mo. (October) next, a large and convenient Brewery, with every necessary apparatus in complete order, situate in the borough of Wilmington. This Brewery is well supplied with good water, and convenient to a good barley country. As it is presumed that any person inclining to rent would first desire to view the premises, a further description is deemed unnecessary. The terms will be reasonable: for particulars apply on the premises, or to the subscriber at Abbot's and Sheward's brewery, Philadelphia.
Caleb Sheward.
7th mo. 19th, 1809. tf
A quantity of good malt and casks may be had of the present tenants.—A lot of marsh, about two acres and a half, to let, with or without the Brewery.
DR. DODDRIDGE'S RISE AND PROGRESS Of Religion in the Soul.
MR. ROBERT PORTER, of this town, has issued proposals for publishing the above excellent Book, by subscription, on good paper, and with a plain common sized type, at the very low price of fifty cents.
Perhaps, next to the Bible, this is the best book extant for private and family use.—No one is better calculated to awaken, convince and convert sinners, and to conduct them in the straight and narrow path to Heaven; as doubtless the experience of many can witness. No one is more highly esteemed by pious people of all denominations, as is abundantly evident from the numerous editions it has passed through both in this country and Europe.
As the proposed price is only half the sum it is now selling for in most of our Book-stores, it will be seen, that neither the Printer, nor any persons who promote the work, have any object in view, but the good of souls, and the glory of God.
It is presumed that every one who wishes for the spiritual rise and progress of religion in his own soul, or his family, will subscribe, and that all friends of religion will encourage the work.
Recommendation by New-Castle Presbytery. Whereas ROBERT PORTER, has issued proposals for printing Dr. Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, at a very low price.
Resolved, That the Presbytery do recommend to the people under their care, to subscribe for said excellent Book. September 9, 1809.
For the prevention and cure of bilious and malignant fevers is recommended
Lee's Anti-Bilious Pills.
Prepared by Richard Lee and Son Baltimore. Persons wishing to purchase this valuable medicine are requested to be particular in enquiring for Lee's Anti-Bilious Pills, put up in wooden boxes, having on the outside wrapper the signature of Richard Lee & Son—this is necessary as there are other pills of the same name.
The operation of these highly esteemed pills is perfectly mild, and the experience of thousands has proved, they may be used in very situation in life without the least inconvenience or damage.
They are admirably adapted to carry off superfluous bile, and prevents its morbid secretions—to restore the appetite, produce a regular habit of the body, promote free perspiration, and thereby prevent colds, so often attended with fatal consequences to the lives of thousands—and seldom, if ever, fail to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. Habitual costiveness, and its opposite, are removed by their wholesome influence, as also those diseases arising from them, head-aches and sickness at the stomach.
It is almost unnecessary to state, that on the regular habit of the system, the health of mankind depends. To condone to this all-important object, perhaps no medicine was ever more generally successful than these pills—they never do harm, and at least nine times out of ten afford relief to those who use them for the purposes for which they are intended.
With the most perfect confidence we recommend these pills to the public, and will only further add, that their operation is always pleasant, and that they leave nothing of that coddiness behind them too often attending medicines designed for similar purposes.
Ten years have justified us in stating these facts, during which we have had a very extensive and constantly increasing sale for this truly valuable medicine.
Sold by Mathew R. Lockerman, Bookseller,
Next above the Bank of Delaware, Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware. Aug. 23, 1809.
TO THE LADIES
of faces and complexion are injured with Freckles, Pimples, Black worms, Tan or Ayburn, Ring worms, Prickly heat, &c.
To those persons is recommended,
Lee's Persian Lotion,
A certain remedy for removing those disagreeable barriers to beauty, the proprietors with the most sacred regard to truth, and the credit of their medicine assure the afflicted, that all the different appearances above enumerated, are in a short time subdued by wetting the parts affected, with this pleasant fluid, according to the directions on each bottle.
Persons therefore who regard, either what is due to themselves, or the favour and opinion of the world, who can distinguish between the comeliness of health, and the deformity of disease, and who can weigh the advantages which belong to, and are inseparable from an engaging appearance, to which perhaps, they themselves, have by nature, the strongest claims are seriously assured, that these advantages, so far as belonging to a good skin, are to be obtained by the use of his Lotion, however violently they may happen to be afflicted.
Instead of the studious, and debilitating course of medicines, which patients went through formerly, and which, perhaps, they are still too frequently obliged to undergo, it is now found, that the greatest number of these complaints, are more certainly, and speedily removed by the use of local remedies merely, than they ever were by a contrary course.
LEE'S LOTION.
Is celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and repellant minerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin, of every kind, it operates mildly, without impeding that natural, inalienable perspiration, which is so essential to health, yet its effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately soft and clear, improving the complexion and re-restoring the bloom of youth. Sold at the Bookstore of Mathew Lockerman. Aug. 23, 1809.
Each article has on the outside wrapper the signature of RICHARD LEE & SON. Persons not attending to the above, are liable to be imposed upon.
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, Appoquinimink hundred, New-Castle county and state of Delaware.
John Fennemore, John Taylor, Thomas Emory.
Aug. 19. 3m
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 intrusted 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 unexceptionable moral characters.
By order of the Board,
ROBERT HAMILTON, EBENEZER A. SMITH, JOHN RUMSEY, WILLIAM PRYCE,
July 22, 1809.
NOTICE
IS hereby given to the Electors of New-Castle County, who are qualified to vote for Members of the General Assembly, that an Election will be held at the Court house in the Town of New-Castle, at the same time and in the same manner as Senators and Representatives for the said County are elected, to choose as Commissioners of the Levy Court and Court of Appeal for said County, one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of Christiana, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the removal of John Warner, one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of Whiteclay creek, one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of Pencader, one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of Red-Lion, and one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of St. George's—to supply the places of Thomas Phillips, Morgan Jones, Anthony Higgins and David Stewart, whose seats have become vacant by the expiration of terms.
HUGH W. RITCHIE, C. P.
August 30, 1809.
For Sale,
At the Book-Store of M. R. LOCKERMAN, Weems' Life 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.
Patriotic sketches of Ireland, written in Connecticut, by Miss Owenson.
Poetic Trifles, by John Henry Mills, comedian.
The Wild Irish Girl, by Miss Owenson.
Montalbert a novel: Armenian or Ghost Seer; Joseph Andrews; Roderick Random; Charlotte Temple; the Drown'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 was like that of a stone rudely 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 sea-girt island, from queen-house to ale-house, from king to cockney, all were fierce for night. Even the red-nosed porters, where they met, bending under their burdens, would stop, full out, in the streets, to talk of ENGLAND'S wrongs; and as they talked, their fiery snouts were seen to grow more nerly still, and more deform. Then crowning 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 toe, in shirtless ruffles and long tank co., seems to give ground; then rising in their might, with fire striking eyes they press hard upon him, and coming in hand and foot, with kick and cuff and many a heavy curse, they shew the gorging crown, how damn 'em! they would thump the French."
September 6, 1809.
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, corbeau, bottle green, grey, and dark mixed superfine cloths Marseilles quiltings   Carssimeres Fustians and jeans   Bennet's patent cord Lute strings   Coatings and flannels Sinshaw and Mantas silks   Forest cloths Silk & york tan gloves   Velvets and constitution cords Bandanna and Madras handkerchiefs   Bevercens Cammel's hair shawls   7-8 and 4-4 Irish linens Checkered and striped linens   blue & yellow nankeens Damask shawls   Wide and narrow cotton cassimeres Russia & dowlas linens   Chintzes and calicoes Rattins & bombazets   Cambric and common dimities Red & green bocking baize   Calimancoes Brown holland   Durant and Jones' spinning Suspenders   Cotton and worsted hosiery Umrellas & parasols   Colored, chambray, cambric, jaquet, mull-mull, India, British, hook, gurrah, bafta, & leno Muslins Black satins and florantines   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.

The Gazette.
Wilmington, September 30, 1809.
Citizens of Delaware! on TUESDAY NEXT you are to exercise the important right of suffrage. In the discharge of this inestimable right—this patriotic duty—it behoves you to think, speak and act as Free-men, as citizens of United America...
Men of Seventy-six! who have done your duty in the "times that tried men's souls," repair to the polls—your example will do more than you are aware of—it will confirm your children and grand-children in the principles for which you fought and bled...
Sons of Freeholders, between the age of twenty-one and twenty-two, do not forget that the laws of the state entitle you to vote, though you may not have been assessed, or paid a tax.
Sons of Erin, whose hearts beat high for the Rights of Man, it is scarcely necessary to remind you of your duty—you will not neglect to exercise correctly the inestimable privileges to which the laws of your adopted country entitle you.
Federalists, who are Americans at heart—whose patriotism swells for the substantial interests of your country—listen to the voice of truth, and pursue its dictates. We recommend to your serious consideration the following luminous article, which, except some trifling alterations, we copy from an address to the Federalists of New-Jersey, by A Washington Republican.
As citizens of the American Republic; as Free-men, and the only free-men on our globe, the privilege of electing our rulers is one of the greatest importance; and the obligation of exercising this privilege in a becoming manner, is a duty from which none can exempt themselves, without manifesting a total disregard of the immense favors which a kind and benificent Providence has conferred on them, in permitting them to choose their own rulers, and being governed by their own laws.
Nor is it less a dereliction of duty to himself, his friends and his country, for a man to absent himself from the polls, unless prevented attending by circumstances which he cannot control.
Thus much by way of pointing out the immense value of the privilege, and the importance of the duty.
You are free-men, and doubtless you desire to remain free-men: you desire to see your country flourishing, prosperous and happy; and not only so, but you desire that your children may long enjoy these blessings...
ings; for the man who looks not forward to the future good of those to whom he gave a being, is not among the number whom I address.
Have you reflected how much all these good things depend upon those whom you may select to fill the various offices in your gift? I fear not:—It is my wish to awaken your reflections—to impress upon your minds the importance of selecting men to fill the offices which become vacant on the 3d of October next...
I wish to address you as a Republican speaking to Federal Americans. It is far from being my wish to offend—far from being my intention to excite the angry passions. Let not such a suspicion find an abiding place with you.
In the first place, what is federalism, what is republicanism? Why these distinctions among Americans, who should know no distinctions; and who in union only, can find safety?
Are we not disagreeing about which foreign nation is most friendly to us, when none are friendly, when all are hostile?
Is it not necessary that I should confess to you that the republican party formerly expected most friendship from France; need I say that the federal party do still expect most friendship from England?
Fatal predilections! fatal partialities! Foreign nations take advantages of our divisions to injure, to insult, to wrong our country.
Is it not sufficient that the republicans have entered their solemn protest against the wrongs of France; can you not do the same with respect to England?
Is it possible that you can longer believe your own government in the wrong, and that of England in the right; and if you do not believe this, why oppose your own government, and support that of England?
Am I mistating the case, when I say that the federal party oppose their own government, and support that of England?—Suppose I used language the contrary of this and said, The federal party have uniformly supported their own government, while contending for our rights, and opposed that of England in the unnumbered wrongs it does us—Yourselves would say my statement was not true.
And is it possible that part of the American people are in battle-array against their own government, and that on the side of a government which has heaped upon us unnumbered wrongs!
Are the republicans in battle-array against their own government, on the part of France? No. For were they so, then farewell to liberty; for with us, liberty could find no resting place—no home.
Federalists, weigh well in your minds this all-important circumstance, that our national government is now contending for our rights with the most formidable European powers; and, to obtain what is our just due, our united strength is barely sufficient.
I anticipate your answer to this; I know you will say (for you have been instructed to say these things, by men whose interest it is to deceive you)—I know you will say why did our government get into these contentions with foreign powers?
As though our government in this, was criminal, as though it had sought contentions, or as though it could avoid them. When will you be convinced that our government has sought peace, that it has made many sacrifices to obtain and preserve it, as its past and present negotiations clearly demonstrate?
Does not the late conduct of the English government, in rejecting the arrangement made by their minister, Mr. Erskine, clearly shew with what difficulty an arrangement could be obtained; and when obtained; if found a little favorable to us, by permitting us to trade to the continent of Europe, they still refuse to abide by it?
Will nothing convince you that these European nations are hostile to us, but an actual invasion of our country; must the blood of our citizens again crimson our plains, to show that those nations are not friendly?
Is it a new thing that these European nations have done us injury and wrong?—No, surely. The histories of the administrations of Washington, and Adams, equally prove that to do us wrong, is, with them, but their daily labor.
Is there any man so ignorant, or so wilfully perverse, as to deny that both England and France have wronged us under all the different administrations? Certainly there is none.
Why then expect an exemption from these evils under the administration of Jefferson or Madison; or how do you expect it, but by refusing to repel their insolent aggressions?
Should I say to you that, the government of England being Monarchical, is friendly to our republic, and the people of England, being commercial, are friendly to our merchants, yourselves would come forward and deny the correctness of my statement and say it was not true. What? A monarchy friendly to republics—merchants friendly to those who rival them in trade, and who take a part of the great mass of commerce! No, it cannot be. Thus would you reply to me:—Why not then believe me when I tell you, that to defend our liberty, and secure our commercial rights, we must unite our councils, and our strength.
How unfortunate for our country that the only accusations of any importance brought against the men selected to rule, should relate solely to foreign affairs.—Could we but accuse men (I mean the republicans) of any crime relating to home affairs, so as to procure their dismissal from office, foreign nations might suppose that, in a contest with them, we should be united—but now, our accusations against these men, go to justify foreign nations, whatever may have been their conduct to us.
It is not among the circumstances least favorable to the Republican Administration, that to find the ground of an accusation against them, their enemies must seek amidst the contentions that we have with foreign nations. Could they but bring some charge against them that was more susceptible, of proof, or more immediately under the inspection and notice of the people, how much sooner they would be heard.
How many things might be urged in justification of the Republican Administration.
Was it for mal-administration in relation to foreign affairs that the federalists were deprived of power? No:—for had their not been weighty charges against them on other grounds, nothing could have prevented them ruling until this hour.
Look back to the days of federalism, and see, if during the administration of that man who was particularly stiled a federal President, I mean John Adams, you can discover so many good things, unmixt with evil, that you desire a return of them. Certain I am that, however some leading federalists may attempt to brave the public sentiment, none of them wish a return to the state of things that then existed.—No;—if they were only candid, they would all join with their aged President, (now more wise by experience) and reprobate the measures that himself and them did then pursue.
Where then the crime of arresting men in a career which some of themselves have confessed led on to ruin? And if no crime in stopping them, surely it is no crime to prevent them again commencing the same untoward journey.
I would ask every DELAWARE FEDERALIST, what they can promise themselves, or their country by a return to federal measures. Nothing, surely, worth the change. And, what are the mighty crimes of the republicans, that they are so unfitting to administer our government? Alas! their crimes are, that the European governments do us wrong!
Is it a calculation of federal men that the United States will again submit to their government? Vain hope! Foolish expectation! Never can those events take place until federalism has totally changed.
One of the opportunities have offered for the federal leaders to have redeemed their political characters; but these they suffered to pass by. They are accused of being the English party in the United States, and had they seized the opportunity of the outrages of England, to declare against her, their former political sins would have been forgiven, and themselves reinstated in the public favour.
Is it not an astonishing circumstance that the leading federalists should maintain such an obstinate attachment to England? And, if they attempt to persuade themselves that there is no such attachment, they practice a deception upon their own understandings. A friend suggests to them that if they would only demonstrate that they are not the partisans of England, and give the slightest evidence of an attachment to France on the part of the republicans, their elevation to power is certain.—In this remark I trust they will see only the admonition of a friend, and the advice of one who is neither a partisan of England or France.
I would ask these federal gentlemen, what is their prospect of gain, of advantage, of profit, from an attachment which has hitherto proved so fatal? No sooner do they gain some little credit with their fellow-citizens, than some outrageous conduct of their English friends ruins their characters, bankrupts them in political reputation, and dashes from their lips the cup of expected honors and rewards. How much more advantageous it would be for our federal dealers in political merchandize, to set up business for themselves, and dismiss their English partners. It is true their capital at commencing would be somewhat smaller, but they might (and I hope would) acquire honesty, and save judiciously, and in time become respectable traders.
In soliciting you to dismiss your English friends, I am aware of the objection you make on the ground that, to secure us from the formidable power of France, the friendship of England is necessary. But is not this an ideal danger? Do you not affright your imaginations with what has no existence? Have you not continually represented France as being scarcely able to stand up against her continental enemies, when it suited your purposes? Unquestionably you have. Austria, you say was formidable to her; Spain would stop her career; Holland was wearied out with her oppressions; Italy was only waiting the favorable moment to shake off her yoke; Germany felt her humiliation; yea even France itself was ready to rise in arms against the Corsican usurper. These things you have said, and a hundred times as much, when it suited your views to represent France as weak, feeble and divided!
But admitting that the power of France was really great, and that she was hostile to us, would it be a safeguard for us to seek the protection of England? No: this would be seeking refuge in the paws of the Lion, from the jaws of the Tyger. Look at home my friends, unite with our countrymen, and aided by Heaven, you can protect yourselves.
Let us discuss a few points more, and close the friendly conference.
Either England has, or has not wronged us. This (UNFORTUNATELY FOR US) is a question yet to be determined in the minds of many honest men!
If England has wronged us, then are those who justify her (knowing that she has wronged us) inexcusably guilty before God, and before their country.
If England has not wronged us, how could her minister promise a redress of wrongs, and that they should not be repeated?
If England has wronged us, then are those wrongs unredressed, and she still continues to inflict them.
If England still continues to wrong us, then does every act of opposition to government, in relation to foreign matters, still encourage her to proceed, and Heaven only knows at what distant point these wrongs will end.
Men of Delaware! Are you fathers? Then call your children before you, and let them plead this case, for I am certain that their pleadings will not be heard in vain.—Are your fathers, and can you see all the future prospects of your children blasted in the bud? What hope of future happiness for them can you dwell upon, when you contemplate that wide spread ruin, and destruction to the prosperity of your country, which the European nations have planned and are executing? Think of these things, and see if an union with your fellow-citizens, in supporting our virtuous Chief Magistrate, while he is contending for your rights, is not the best policy you can possibly pursue.
Men of Delaware! I inquire not what are your occupations, pursuits or stations in the allotment of Providence. Whether farmer, mechanic, or merchant; lawyer, physician or divine: whether (like myself) you labour for your daily bread, or whether Providence, in its dispensations has assigned you what is thought a happier station. These things are immaterial. Your good, your interest, your ultimate object is, or should be, one, and that ONE, to procure for your country an exemption from those evils which the European nations are bringing upon it.
You ask, "will not the election of federal men, procure an exemption from these evils? I answer, NO. For federal men have uniformly said that "England had done us no essential injury"—that these evils are not brought upon us by foreign nations; that the measures adopted from time to time to procure a redress of grievances were not necessary, or were improper and by every other means in their power have they opposed our national government, while it has been contending for our rights; always seeking to cast the blame on their fellow citizens, and exempt foreign nations from all censure.
Such conduct on the part of your leaders evinces a very great want of intelligence, whereby they were prevented seeing the true source of the evils that afflict our country, or a total want of principle, which renders them still more unfitting for any office in your gift.
Thus does an American, a native of your state address you: he holds no office, and seeks none: he has no friends in office, or desiring to be. Thus does, and thus would he plead your cause, were he certain, that in the next hour he must be summoned to plead his own, before the Almighty Father of the Universe.
Accept, therefore, this assurance of my sincere desire for your political good, though you should call in question the correctness of the council I have given."
Pursuant to public notice, a number of Democratic Republicans of the borough and vicinity of Wilmington assembled at Anderson's Tavern on the evening of the 26th instant, to make arrangements relative to the approaching General Election. John Wan, Esq. was called to the Chair, and Ziba Ferris appointed Secretary. The following persons were appointed as
COMMITTEE OF VIGILANCE.
Jacob Derrickson, William Young, John Gregg, William Garretson, Paul McGill, William Boyd, James Arbuckle, James Hogg, Michael Mcgeer, James Gardner, William Robertson, Thomas Moore, William Smith, Isaac Anderson, Peter Vandiver, William Shipley, General J. Wolf, David Kirkpatrick, Samuel Ware, Joseph Seeds, Michael Lavery, John Simp...

son, James Simpson, John Chandler, Enoch Moore, Joshua Richardson, Andrew McCall, James Cochran, Carlton Wilson, Thomas Cryer, Joseph C. Hartley, John Hendrickson, Isaac Hendrickson, Washington Rice, Andrew Taylor, Wm. Chandler, Wm. Young, Wm. Larkin, Samuel Carnahan, Joseph Jones, James Collins, Thomas Morrison, James Clelan, Samuel Ross, John Shipley, Wm. Seal, Thos. Shipley, Thomas Little, Wm. Bryant, Valentine M'Neal, John Spots, John Taylor, Matthew R. Lockerman, John B. Thomas, Allan Thomson, Allan M'Lane, Wm. P. Brobson, N. G. Williamson, Levi Springer, Joseph Hendrickson, James Roney, Wm. Houston, John Agustus, John M'Minn, Robert Galbreath, H. C. Garrett, Archibald Armstrong, David Sidham, Joseph Sidham, Aquilla Star, Joseph Linam, M. McKenney, Charles Anderson, John Brynburg, Jonathan L. Graves, Wm. Robinson, far.—Joseph Derickson, T. Sterne, Edward Hamilton, Hugh Fanagan, E. J. Dupont, James Gibson, Andrew Peterson, Chester Beckley, John Hadden, Andrew Crips, John Crips, Benj. Crips, Matthew Crips, Jacob Crips.
To the Editor of the Delaware Gazette. SIR, It is the common observation, that "Laws were never made for men of honor," and that that class of men who are entitled to the appellation of honesty, don't require compulsory process to compel them to conform to their engagements, is applicable in affairs of business, it can be no less so in politics. The refined part of mankind appear to have established by common consent, a principle of exact punctuality in those engagements which are not within the power of civil coercion. Hence it has been a leading principle with the democratic party to always submit to the will of the majority, and who ever has seceded, either directly or indirectly, from this rule, has seldom failed to incur the contempt and indignation of his political brethren. Considering that the democratic party have always been the patrons of improvement—the advocates of the amelioration of man in society; and that in so doing they have had to counteract the opposition of vigilant, and in this state, of almost invincible enemies—it is difficult to imagine a more despicable character, than one who while he professes to belong to the party, covertly attempts to tear asunder the political bonds by which the party are connected. The highway man who runs the risk of his life, in boldly arresting a man's property from him in the street—or to speak more applicably—the political opponent who manfully contends for the justness of his principles on a fair and open ground is entitled to ten thousand times more respect, than the mean underhanded, pretended friend, who silly intrigues with men, whom he would be ashamed to countenance in public, to effect the downfall of a prominent character.
I was led into the preceding observations, by reflecting on the indecent and unmanly opposition that has been made to Mr. Andrew Reynolds, as the candidate on nomination, for the representative of this county in the senate of the state, since the Red-Lion meeting of the 23d instant.
Perhaps the business of the party was never conducted more fairly and honorably than at the present time; nor do I believe there ever was more general satisfaction given.
Pursuant to public notice, printed in both the Wilmington papers, and in 200 hand bills distributed through the county, a very large and respectable meeting of the democratic republicans, took place at the Red-Lion Tavern, in order to determine on the method to be adopted, for forming the county ticket. In this meeting two methods were proposed for selecting the candidates—that of hundred elections—and, the one heretofore adopted—that of delegates. The delegate system met the approbation of a large majority of the meeting, and in pursuance to its decisions, delegates were sent from each hundred and convened at the Red-Lion on Saturday the 23d instant, to form the county ticket. After the characters were put in nomination as candidates for the different offices, a motion was made for adopting the ticket as it stood, but before a vote of the House was taken on the question, a gentleman from Christiana Hundred objected to the ticket on account of its containing the name of Andrew Reynolds, as representative for Mill Creek Hundred—He stated that he did not believe Mr. Reynolds was the choice of his own hundred—that he did not believe he would be liked in his (Christiana) Hundred—He was called on to state his charges against Mr. Reynolds; as it would be unfair to condemn a man without some crime being alleged against him, it was perfectly reasonable that his faults should, whatever they are, be laid before the public, of which they would judge. But the gentleman from Christiana Hundred did not and most probably could not state any thing to the prejudice of Mr. Reynolds. The delegates from Mill Creek Hundred, who had unanimously concurred in putting Mr. Reynolds on nomination stated that they had been elected delegates, for the express purpose of doing so, and that he was the choice of a large majority of the people of Mill Creek Hundred. The debate ended here, and the ticket was adopted as it stood. So little attention was paid to the denunciation of Mr. Reynolds, if the observations of the gentleman from Christiana Hundred may be called a denunciation, that afterwards when there was a general ballot for a candidate for senator, it appeared on counting out the votes that Mr. Reynolds had a considerable majority for that honorable situation, in opposition to Dr. Alexander. Thus we see that not only a majority of the people of Mill Creek Hundred but of the delegates of the whole county, concurred in the nomination of Mr. Reynolds, and eagerly seized that opportunity to give him their support, for the first office in the power to bestow.
But the public who are to be appealed to on this occasion, deserve an explanation of the true reason of this misplaced opposition. Mr. Reynolds was one of those firm independent democrats, who three years ago opposed the nomination of Mr. John R. Phillips as candidate for the office of sheriff. This Mr. Reynolds certainly had a right to do. His opposition was open and above board—he never refused to give his reasons for opposing him. However, Mr. Reynolds, by his opposition, incurred the hatred, not only of Mr. Phillips himself, but of his friends in Mill Creek and Christiana Hundreds; and ever since it has been the object of their constant exertions, to deprive him of a seat in the legislature, without meeting with any success. Chagrined and grown desperate, at length, with their repeated disappointments, they appear this year to have determined to violate every principle of moral and political duty to effect their object. They have availed themselves of the circumstance of the elopement of Mr. Reynolds' negroes, to publish the falsehood of his having disposed of them to a southern trader. The virtuous and respectable Abolition Society is made the dupe of their wicked designs, and are called upon to inquire into the matter.—They do so, and find the allegation to be false. His enemies knew that the bare suspicion of being guilty of a crime of that nature, would injure his reputation.
They next attempt to render him abnoxious to the religious prejudices of the people, by asserting that he rescued his hay from being lost, by saving it on Sunday. It is by such mean vulgar insinuations, too low for the notice of a gentleman, that they have endeavored to effect the downfall of a man who could not be reproached with the want of moral rectitude or political duty.
If a man's consequence is to be estimated by the company he frequents, certainly the character of his decided enemies, will throw some shade of darkness or lustre over his reputation. It was indicated before. John R. Phillips was the leader of the enemies of Mr. Reynolds—and it can be proven that the notices which were circulated through Mill Creek hundred on the 26th inst. for the purpose of calling a meeting to oppose him, were in the hand writing of Mr. Phillips, and circulated by himself. And Mr. John Harlin becomes so far the dupe of Mr. Phillips, as to write a letter to the committee of vigilance in Wilmington, to suspend printing the tickets until they should hear the proceedings of this meeting!!
It is now well known that a design is on foot to prevent Mr. Reynolds from being supported. It would be insulting the good sense of the people to inquire whether they will submit to this nefarious imposition.—But if a split is attempted, the engagements to support Perkins and Porter is violated, and anarchy in the Democratic party will be the consequence.
THE VOLUNTEER. At a meeting of the Delegates from the different hundreds of Newcastle county, at the Red-Lion, on Saturday, the 23d inst. the following Ticket was agreed upon, to be supported by the Democratic Republicans of the said County.
SENATOR. Andrew Reynolds M. C. H. REPRESENTATIVES. Robert Forward B. W. H. William D. Phillips C. H. Archibald Alexander N. C. H. Benjamin Chambers W. C. C. H. Samuel H. Black P. H. Jesse Higgins R. L. D. Enoch Thomas St. G. H. Levy Court Commissioners. Isaac H. Starr C. H. George Gallispie W. C. C. H. Thomas Stewart, junior P. H. Anthony Higgins R. L. H. Jacob Vandergrift St. G. H.
FOR THE GAZETTE. Democratic Republicans of New-Castle County,
The Election is fast approaching—the important day is close at hand, when you are again to exercise the glorious privilege of freemen—to elevate the men whom you delight to honour. Consider well your duty as electors, and suffer not your prejudices or partialities to mislead you. Remember that candidates fairly selected by the people should be supported by the people. Are you then prepared to give your united support to the ticket formed by your delegates? Every Republican, whose creed is "principles and not men" must answer this question in the affirmative. That every man is pleased to a degree of ecstasy with this ticket cannot be expected.—Nor is it to be presumed that there ever was, or ever will be a coun-
ty ticket formed, in which the candidates were all the particular favourites of every voter. But when a man abandons the ticket fairly formed by his party, because his favourites were not placed on it, he certainly makes men his object and not principle. It is to be hoped that there is not such a democrat in New-Castle County. If we even squabble in forming a ticket, let us, as they have done in Philadelphia, unite in supporting it when it is formed. This ticket was fairly formed. It will inevitably receive the general support of the democratic party.—Hence every democratic citizen in the county, who neglects to vote this ticket entire, even though he should not vote with the Federal party, will indirectly aid the cause of his political enemies. Men and not measures are his governing object.
Federalists have prided themselves very much on a division in the democratic ranks. I trust there is no democrat in this county, that will even neglect to vote through sourness, much less vote against his own party and principles.
AN AMERICAN. BRITISH FRIENDSHIP.
The following men, known to have been native Americans, have been impressed from American vessels, and are now on board the Cherub sloop of war, at Halifax, Th. T. Tucker, commander. This ruffian has been in the practice of impressing Americans whenever in his power, and taking from them their protections. We have this information from a respectable manner, who was released from his vile duress on board this sloop by Admiral Cochran, and who is now on board the sloop Julian, lying at India-wharf, from Halifax.
James Kearney,* branch pilot for Delaware bay; William Prince, sail-maker, from New-York; Daniel Collyer, sailor, born in the state of Pennsylvania; James Mance, born on Long Island, state of New York; George Melium, sailor, born in Pennsylvania; John Carter, a house carpenter, born in Virginia; William Franklin, sailor, born in New York.
* This man served his time, as stated by our informant, with Th. Forrest, at Cape May, was taken from the schooner Messenger, off the Delaware Capes, by his majesty's brig Hart, and transferred to the Cherub. It is presumed that an application from his friends to Admiral Cochran, accompanied with proper documents, would procure his discharge, and perhaps of his companions in bondage, as it has that of our informant, which we have seen under the hand of capt in Tucker.
Our informant is Mr. John Sleight, mariner, of New Brunswick, New Jersey, who will be happy to give any information to the friends of his late fellow-sufferers, or to others who may see fit to interpose their good offices in their behalf. [Best. P. S.]
Bonaparte and Moreau are the two military colossi of the times. Such has been the transcendency of their achievements; and the splendour of their names, that they admit not of a comparison with any other living character. Charles of Austria, the federalists' "first captain of the age," though distinguished in counter-marches and defeats, bears but a secondary rank in the scale of greatness. A few remarks, founded on a recollection of the conduct of these generals in the field, may be read with some interest at the present juncture.
Moreau is consummate in conducting a retreat; Bonaparte in never suffering such a movement (unless as a feint) to become necessary. To a chief who fights only to conquer, & never fails in the plan of a campaign, the science of retreat would be useless and cumbrous. Moreau is unequalled in the art of extricating an army from difficulty and danger. Bonaparte in that of never allowing his army to fall into either. Moreau can seize on opportunities as they offer, and is calculated to sustain the most obstinate conflict. Bonaparte is capable of creating opportunities; and conducts his attacks with such impetuosity, that victory generally declares for him, before obstinacy can be displayed on the part of the enemy. Moreau qualified to receive an attack with invincible firmness, and repoint with equal courage, possesses a happy assemblage of talents for defending his country against invading armies; but looking down on the mere business of defence, it belongs to Bonaparte alone to conquer, and bring even the mighty empire of Germany to his feet. In battle Moreau resembles the cliff that receives unshaken the fury of the tempest; but Bonaparte, the impetuous thunderbolt, whose lightning nothing terrestrial can withstand. Moreau is, indeed, a great general, a perfect epitome of the art of war; but Bonaparte, the child of Fortune, the pupil of Genius, Bonaparte, superior to the discipline of military schools, is formed by nature for a conqueror. Pub. Adv.
WANTED. As an apprentice to the blacksmithing business, a lad of from fourteen to fifteen years of age. For particulars enquire of the subscriber, at Brandywine Mills. CHARLES TATEM. September 16, 1809. lawth.
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THE subscriber, Executor of Jane Owens, late of the county of Sussex and state of Delaware, deceased, being authorised to make sale of the real estate of said deceased, situate in the county of Sussex, doth hereby give notice that he will dispose of the same, at public vendue, on Wednesday the eighth day of November next, at Johnstown, in the county aforesaid, between the hours of 10 o'clock, A. M. and 5 in the afternoon. The terms of purchase can be known by applying to the subscriber near Johnstown. William Carlisle. September 20, 1809. 4t.
Domestic Manufactures.
THE Patriotic citizens of Delaware, who are disposed to encourage American Manufactures, and thereby promote the independence of our country, are informed that the subscriber has now on hand and for sale, at the Factory at Staunton, (New-Castle county) a good supply of Cassameres, Drab and Mix'd—also, a few pieces of coarse Cloths, and Felting for Paper-makers, all which will be sold low for Cash, either by the piece or smaller quantity. Mordecai McKinney. Newport, (Del.) 16th Sept. 1809.
To the Electors of New-Castle County.
Fellow-Citizens, I hereby tender you my sincere acknowledgements for the favour conferred on me by nominating me as the candidate for the office of Coroner, and beg the favor of your votes and interest in my behalf for that office at the ensuing General Election; the duties of which should your suffrages place me therein, shall be faithfully performed by your obliged friend and fellow-citizen, Alexander Porter. Wilmington, Aug. 30, 1809. tf
Matthew Kean
INFO MS his friends and the public that he has opened a Dry Good Store on the west side of Market Street, next door below the corner of Second Street; where he offers for sale a handsome assortment of seasonable goods on moderate terms. Wilmington, June 17, 1809.

Poetry.
FOR THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
THE DOWNFALL OF SWITZERLAND.
On the French entering Switzerland—the great birth place of Liberty.
Oh! vengeance on the fierce, aspiring foe That brought on thee, dear Switzerland! the woe With which fair Freedom's chosen sons now groan, Strike their high-breasts, and send to heav'n the moan.
Countless the plaints that meet compassion's ear, Hark—freedom's stand—great Underwald complains And draw from pity's breast the melting tear, And Uri sad her sluice of sorrow drains—
Thy verdant plains, fair land! and swelling grounds Are heard to groan, while vales reflect the sounds— Curs'd be the day when tyrants trod thy dales, Crush'd Freedom's flower, borne on oppression's gales!
Accurs'd the day when Gallia's armour gleam'd, And o'er thy glens her flags terrific stream'd! Then, then began alas! the dire affray, Untimely sending us a gloomy day
The noblest sons of Tell to deathless fame— Their's was the glory, the survivor's shame! For country then, they fought—and nobly bled For country then, they gasp'd—and sought the dead;
The tender husband then, and loving wife— Both old and young were seen to join the strife; The man of hoary locks to form the line, And beardless youths in foremost ranks to shine.
Then, then, to gain the hero's deathless name Thy sons aspir'd, and sought immortal fame: But all, dear land! were vain—nor heroes all, Nor patriots brave could stop thy hapless fall.
In vain thy heroes fought—in vain they sigh'd, For freedom's cause; they toil'd in vain—and dy'd— No more thy happy swains with looks so mild Shall tune their pipes melodious sweet and wild;
No more thy maidens fair in groupes are seen To join the dance, and path the verdant green. Thy brightest days are gone—the days of yore When freedom sway'd, but now she sways no more.
Once did fair freedom to thine eye disclose Her buds in beauties vying with the rose, Then did the flowers their op'ning sweets unfold Nor felt the noon-tide heat, nor ev'ning cold.
Now fell oppression holds her wintry reign, And blasts the beauties of the enamell'd plain. Amid the gen'ral wreck they prostrate lie Of aid forlorn, . . . alas! they soon must die.
DIEGO.
THE HOUR I LOVE.
I love an hour, oh, 'tis divine, And mem'ry's bland attractive pow'r, Bids life's gay visions all combine To enhance the blisses of that hour.
'Tis when the pilgrim twilight sheds, O'er groves grown wild, its mantle grey, When the lone woodman homeward treads, And lightly chaunts the roundelay.
I love, when at the bourne of day, The white surge murmurs on the shore, Upon the sedge crown'd cliff to lay, And list me to the ocean's roar.
I love, when Spring's first blossoms breathe Their spicy odours to the gale, The silver hawthorn's shade beneath, To sit and hear the wanderer's tale.
But much I love, when Autumn throws Her silver lustre o'er the fields, Pomona blushes on the boughs, And Ceres golden treasures yields:
By some pure runnel in the dell, At evening 'neath the moon's pale ray, To hear prophetic fancy tell, How blows the Rose—its quick decay.
Then Hope, sweet Hope! exclaims again, 'Spring will return—the rose shall bloom!' And heav'n-ting'd lillachs deck the plain, Exulting o'er their transient tomb.
This heav'nly hour! is dear to me, From its toil, care, and sorrow free!
Miscellany.
GUSTAVUS VASA.
The following very interesting anecdote respecting this great monarch, and truly patriotic hero is related by Mr. Kerr Porter, who had added to his high reputation as an artist by a considerable display of literary merit, in a very intelligent and amusing work, which does honor to his talents and character. The author, who with laudable enthusiasm visited the spot in Delectalia, where that great monarch sought a refuge from the Danish Usurper, obtained the sub-
joined narrative, and the tradition is so exact, and derived from such respectable sources, as to admit of no doubt of its authenticity.—After describing the place in general he says
"On a little hill just mentioned, stood a very ancient habitation; of so simple an architecture, that you would have taken it for a hind's cottage, instead of a place that, in times of old, had been the abode of nobility.
It consisted of a long barn-like structure formed of fir, covered in a strange fashion with scales, and odd ornamental twistings in the carved wood. But the spot was hallowed by the virtues of its heroic mistress, who saved by her presence of mind, the life of the future deliverer of her country. The following are the circumstances alluded to; and most of them were communicated to me under the very roof.
"Gustavus, having, by an evil accident, been discovered in the mines, and after having been narrowly betrayed by a Swedish nobleman, bent his course towards this house, then inhabited by a gentleman named Pearson or Peterson, whom he had known in the armies of the late administrator. Here, he hoped, from the obligations he had formerly laid on the officer, that he should at least find a safe retreat—Pearson received him with every mark of friendship, nay treated him with that respect and submission which noble minds are proud to pay to the truly great, when robbed of their external honors. He seemed more afflicted by the misfortune of Gustavus, than the prince was for himself; and exclaimed with such vehemence against the Danes, that, instead of awaiting a proposal to take up arms he offered unasked to try the spirit of the mountaineers, and declared that himself and his vassals would be the first to set an example, and turn out under the command of his beloved General.
"Gustavus was rejoiced to find that he had at last found a man that was not afraid to draw his sword in the defence of his country, and endeavoured by the most impressive arguments and the prospect of a suitable recompence for the personal risks he ran, to confirm him in so generous a resolution Pearson answered with repeated assurances of fidelity: he named the gentleman and the leading persons among the peasants, whom he hoped to engage in the enterprize. Gustavus relied on his word, and promising not to name himself to any one while he was absent, some days afterwards saw him leave the house to put his design into execution.
"It was indeed a design, and a black one. Under the specious cloak of a zealous affection for Gustavus the traitor was contriving his ruin. The hope of making his court to the Danish tyrant, and the expectation of a large reward, made this son of Judas resolve to sacrifice his honor to his ambition, and, for the sake of a few ducats, violate the most sacred laws of hospitality, by betraying his guest. In pursuance of that base resolution he went straight to one of Christiern's officers, commanding in the province, and informed him that Gustavus was his prisoner. Having committed this treachery, he had not courage to face his victim, and telling the Dane how to surprize the Prince, who, he said, believed himself to be under the protection of a friend, (shame to manhood, to dare to confess that he could betray such a confidence!) he proposed taking a wider circuit home, while they, apparently unknown to him, rifled it of its treasure. "It will be an easy matter," said he, "for not even my wife knows that it is Gustavus."
Accordingly the officer at the head of a party of well armed soldiers, marched directly to the lake. The man invited the house, while the leader,
abruptly entering, found Pearson's wife, according to the fashion of those days, employed in culinary preparations. At some distance from her sat a young man in a rustic garb, lopping off the knots from the broken branches of a tree.—The officer went up to her, and told her he came in king Christiern's name to demand the rebel Gustavus, who he knew was concealed under her roof. The dauntless woman never changed colour; she immediately guessed the man, who her husband had introduced as a minor's son, to be the Swedish hero. The door was blocked up by soldiers. In an instant she replied, without once glancing, at Gustavus, who sat motionless with surprise, "If you mean the melancholy gentleman my husband has had here these few days, he has just walked out into the wood on the other side of the hill. Some of those soldiers may readily seize him as he has no arms with him.
"The officer did not suspect the easy simplicity of her manner; and ordered part of the men to go in quest of him. At that moment suddenly turning her eyes on Gustavus, she flew up to him and caught the stick out of his hand, exclaiming, in an angry voice, unmannerly wretch! What sit you before your betters?—Dont you see the king's officers in the room? Get you out of my sight, or some of them shall give you a drubbing! As she spoke she struck him on the head with all her strength; and opening a side-door, There, get into the scullery, cried she, it is the fittest place for such company! and giving him another knock, she flung the stick after him, and shut the door.—Sure, added she, in a great heat, never was woman so plagued with such a clout of a servant.
The officer begged she would not disturb herself on his account; but she affected great reverence for the king, and respect for his representative, prayed him to enter her parlour while she brought some refreshment. The Dane civilly complied; perhaps glad enough to get from the side of a shrew: and she immediately hastened to Gustavus, whom she had bolted in, and by means of a back passage conducted him in a moment to a certain little apartment, which projected from the side of the house close to the bank of the lake where the fisher's boat lay, she lowered him down the convenient aperture in the seat, and giving him direction to an honest curate across the lake, committed him to Providence."
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 Torbert, 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.
Notice
IS hereby given to all persons indebted to the late John Baldwin deceased, that they are required to make immediate payment of the several sums due from them—And all persons having any demands against the same are requested to present their accounts properly attested for payment to the subscriber, the executor of the last will and testament of the said John Baldwin.
John Baldwin.
Wilmington, Sept. 13, 1809.
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living in Somerset county, state of Maryland, a negro fellow named PHILIP BROWN, about five feet eight or nine inches high; a little knock kneed, a blacksmith by trade, has a yellowish complexion, and is a handy sensible fellow at any business; had on when he went away a country made over jacket, striped with red and black; a pair of country made long trousers, dyed a dark colour, old hat, shoes, and tow linen shirt. Whoever takes up the said negro and brings him to me shall have the above reward if taken out of the state of Maryland.
LAMBERT HYLAND.
District Court.
Delaware District, ss.
WHEREAS a libel hath been filed in the District Court of the United States, by GEORGE READ, Esq. attorney for the said district, against 9 bags coffee, 1 barrel coffee, 1 barrel sugar, 2 pots sweet meats, 1 keg raisins, 100 oranges, and 12 pine apples, of the value of $ 150 lawful money or the U. States, seized for violating the revenue laws.
And whereas the honorable GUNNING BEDFORD, Esq. Judge of the said District Court, hath ordered the 4th day of October 1809, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for holding a special District Court at the Town-Hall in the borough of Wilmington, for the said Trial, agreeably to the prayer of the said Attorney: Notice is hereby given, That a special District Court will be then and there held for the trial of the premises, and the owner or owners, and all persons who may have or claim any right, interest or concern therein, are hereby cited and admonished to be and appear at the time and place aforesaid, to show cause if any they have, why a final decree should not pass, pursuant to the prayer of the said bill.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON,
Clerk of the District Court, Wilmington, September 20, 1809. 4t
District Court.
Delaware District, ss.
WHEREAS a libel hath been filed in the District Court of the United States, by GEORGE READ, Esq. attorney for the said district, against the schooner JAMES, her tackle, apparel and furniture and the cargo found on board, seized for violating the act of Congress, entitled, "An act to amend and continue in force certain parts of the act entitled "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes."
And whereas the honorable GUNNING BEDFORD, Esq. Judge of the said District Court, hath ordered the 4th day of October, 1809, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for holding a special District Court at the Town-Hall in the borough of Wilmington, for the said trial, agreeably to the prayer of the said Attorney: Notice is hereby given, That a special District Court will be then and there held for the trial of the premises, and the owner or owners, and all persons who may have or claim any right, interest or concern therein, are hereby cited and admonished to be and appear at the time and place aforesaid, to show cause if any they have, why a final decree should not pass, pursuant to the said bill.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON,
Clerk of the District Court, Wilmington, September 20, 1809. 4t
District Court.
Delaware District, ss.
WHEREAS a libel hath been filed in the District Court of the United States by GEORGE READ, Esq. attorney for the said district, against the schooner EMMA, her tackle, apparel and furniture, of the value of $ 150 lawful money of the United States, and now lying in the Delaware district, the same vessel being seized as forfeited by the collector of the said district for violating the act of Congress, entitled, "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies and for other purposes."
And whereas the honorable GUNNING BEDFORD, Esq. Judge of the said District Court, hath ordered the 4th day of October, 1809, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for holding a special District Court at the Town-Hall, in the borough of Wilmington, for the said trial, agreeably to the prayer of the said Attorney: Notice is hereby given, That a special District Court will be then and there held for the trial of the premises, and the owner or owners, and all persons who may have or claim any right, interest or concern therein, are hereby cited and admonished to be and appear at the time and place aforesaid, to show cause if any they have, why a final decree should not pass, pursuant to the prayer of the said bill.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON,
Clerk of the District Court, Wilmington, September 20, 1809. 4t
For Sale, or Rent,
A FARM within two miles of Port-Penn, on the main roadleading to that place: it contains seventy or eighty acres of woodland, forty-two acres of marsh, in the Augustine Marsh Company, the residue plough-land of a good quality. There is two tenement houses and a new frame barn on the premises. The mansion house will want some repairs to make it comfortable. Should the property not be sold by the 1st of November next, it will then be rented for a term of years. Also, for sale, or rent, Eleven acres in grass lots adjoining the town of New-Castle. For terms, apply to JOHN STOCKTON in Wilmington.
August 30, 1809. 1 p. w. till 1 Nov.
To the Electors of New-Castle County.
Fellow-Citizens, Having been selected by the Republican interest of this County for the office of Sheriff, permit me respectfully to solicit your support for that office at the General Election in October next.
TH: PERKINS.
Naamans-Creek, June 3, 1809.