The Delaware gazette (Wilmington [Del.]), 1809-10-21 00:00:00

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
VOL. I.]
WILMINGTON, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1809.
[NO. 31]
Printed and Published On Wednesdays and Saturdays BY JOSEPH JONES, In Market street, a few doors above the Bank of Delaware.
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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. up 22 3m
John Dixon
HAVING succeeded Warner & 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 OCHELTREE. 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.
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 Abbotts and Shewards Brewery, Philadelphia.
Caleb Sheward. 7th mo. 19th, 1809.
A quantity of good malt and casks may be had of the present tenants.—A lot of mash, about two acres and a half, to let, with or without the Brewery.
For the prevention and cure of chills and malarial 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 every situation in life without the least inconvenience or damage.
They are admirably adapted to carry off unperilous bile, and prevent its morbid secretions—to restore the appetite, and to restore the habit of the body, to promote free perspiration, and thereby prevent cold, &c. often attended with fatal consequences to the lives of thousands—and seldom, if even, 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 body, the health of mankind depends. To conduct to this all-important object, perhaps no medicine was ever more generally successful than these pills—then never do them, 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 costiveness behind them so 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
The faces and complexion are injured with Freckles, Pimples, Black worms, Tan or Fyburn, 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 these medicines 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.
Perfons 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, th
themselves, have by nature, the strongest claims are seriously assured, that their advantages, so far as belong to a good skin, are to be obtained by the use of his Lotion, however violently this may happen to be afflicted.
Instead of the tedious, 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 general 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 dependent 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, insensible 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 restoring the bloom of youth. Sold at the Bookstore of Matthew 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 cripplings 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. 12. 5m
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, } Committee
July 22, 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 memorials of his life and writings.
Patriotic sketches of Ireland, written in Connaught, by Miss Owenson. Poetic Tiffies, 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, wafer, &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 hives 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-rolling island, from queen-hive to ale-house, from king to cockney, all were fierce for fight. Even the red-nosed porters, where they
met, bending under their burdens, would stop, full bur-in the streets, to talk of ENGLAND'S WRONGS; and, as they talked, their fiery shouts were seen to grow more shrill, and more deform. Then throwing 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 jostled folk! The frog-eating toe, in shirtless ruffies and long lank cue, seems to give ground! then rising in their might, with striking eyes they press hard upon him, and coming in, hand and foot, with kick and cuff and many a hearty curse, they show the grizzling 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, cobalt, bottle green, grey, and dark mixed superfine cloths  Marseilles quiltings    Cassimeres  Linen and jeans    Bennet's patent cord  Linen strings    Coatings and flannels  Sashes and Mantua silks    Forest cloths  Silk & yarn tan gloves    Velvets and constitution cords  Banjamia and Madras handkerchiefs    Bevereens  Camel's hair shawls    7-8 and 4-4 Irish linens  Checkered and striped lians    blue & yellow nankens  Damask shawls    Wide and narrow cotton cassimeres  Russia & dowlas mens    Chintzes and calicoes  Business schombarits    Cambric and common dimities  Red & greenocking balze    Calimancoes  Brown hollandes    Durant and Jones' spinning  Suspenders    Cotton and worsted hosiery  Umbraclo & parasols    Colored, chambray, cambric, jackedet, mull-mull, India, British, book-gurrah, bafta, & leso Muslins  Black satins and florentines     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
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.
For Sale, or Rent,
A FARM within two miles of Port-Penn, on the main road leading to that place: it contains seventy or eighty acres of woodland, forty-two acres of marsh, in the Augustine Wash 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. p. w. till 1 Nov
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.
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.
Was Found,
On the 2d instant, a Red Morocco Pocket-Book, on the road between St. Georges and Cantwell's bridge. The owner may have it by applying to
Jacob Vandegrift.
Oct. 4, 1809.

THE NEW WORLD.
No. III.
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATIONAL CHARACTER OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
We have seen that the illustrious discoverers of America were enterprising natives of distinguished Italy—of Genoa, of Tuscany and of Venice.
The sentiments on the northern section of this continent, which were within the limits of our present dominions, or may be considered as near enough to have influenced our character, were made under the auspices of various European powers, and were originally composed of their citizens and subjects. In the course of our growth through infancy and youth to our present manhood, migration to America has taken a much wider range. We have seen, we have felt the influence of the minds, the hearts, the manners, and the habits of man from every civilized society, and every church. Let us calmly revise the facts, which relate to our settlements, and to our constant accessions of people from abroad.
The establishment of stations for settlement and commerce was commenced by the French in the provinces of Canada and Acadia or Nova Scotia in 1605 and 1611. The discovery of Louisiana in 1641, was followed at later periods by considerable French migrations. These two colonial establishments of France became incorporated with the American states of our late empire by the treaty of Paris in 1763. Many of the Acadians were transferred by England into our provinces. At the peace of 1788, Canadians came into our country as permanent citizens, and Americans passed over sea into the two Canadas. The French revocation of their edict of Nantes had scattered the followers of Calvin, under the name of Huguenots over the face of our country. The names of Jay, Boudinot and Laurens, clearly descended from that stock, will be found on the short list of our Presidents of Congress in the first ten years of our revolutionary history. The names of Jay, Galliard, Bowdoin, de Lancey and others, are on the list of the governors in the times of the provinces and of the commonwealths. They appear often as members of our legislatures, and as ministers and officers of various religious societies and guardians of our seminaries of learning in many of the states. As the French have always rejected the preference of the eldest son in the disposition of intestate property, as these French sought this country to preserve the rights of conscience, as they introduced a number of valuable books, and their modes of business, education and worship, it cannot be supposed that they have not contributed to form the actual character of the existing American people. In the retention of all things, which interfere with the rights of conscience, in the rejection of the rights of primogeniture, and in the rejection of commerce in the human species, the descendants of the French in united America have manifested the general characteristics of our free nation.
The Swedish and Danish blended settlements within our present dominions were early and considerable for that time. They purchased of the Indians all the country, on both sides of the Delaware, calling it the New Swedenland Sweden, and made settlements on both shores of that river and of its extensive bay. They scattered themselves on the various streams which the Delaware receives. The states of New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Delaware, contain a number of Swedish churches, with ministers derived from that of episcopacy, at this day. They are very similar to the other members of the Lutheran church in these states. The ground plot of the city and liberties of Philadelphia were compromised, in part, with the Swedish settlers by William Penn. The ancient town of New-Castle on Delaware was founded by the Swedes more than fifty years before the grant of Pennsylvania, and was then called Stockholm. The Christiana creek, in the county of New-Castle, was called after the queen of Sweden. The settlements of that nation on the waters of the Delaware, at the time that the Dutch acquired them, were greater than any other colony of the Swedish nation. Except indeed the purchased island of Saint Bartholomew, it is not remembered that they have had any other permanent colonial establishment. The civil law which prevailed in Sweden and the principles of which were highly influential in Denmark, did not favor the idea of any right from primogeniture, the prevailing spirit of the American law of descents. Having no sugar colonies at the time of their settlements adjacent to the Delaware, the Swedes and Danes had little information or practice in the slave trade, and have contributed probably to facilitate the early and known opposition to that trade, which arose in the middle states.
The enterprize, the wealth, the freedom, the sobriety and the religion of the Dutch render their early and prosperous settlements in this part of America, particularly worthy of consideration. Their forts and marts extended from the western bank of Connecticut river, and the city of Albany to Hoar kiln or Lewis town, near the southern cape of Delaware bay. They had acquired the town of New-Castle or Stockholm, from the Swedes, and called it New Amsterdam. Their settlers had extended in New York, Connecticut, east New Jersey, west New Jersey, Delaware, the south western
corner of Pennsylvania, and the eastern shore of Maryland, when their whole possessions in our middle states, called the New Netherlands, were conquered by Great Britain in 1764, and were divided under charters to the American provinces of Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania and the lower territory of York and Penn, known at present as the Delaware state. The influence of the Dutch, after this conquest, continued to be such that there were seven governors of New-York of that stock, and one of New-Jersey. There are at this time not less than eighty Dutch Calvinistic churches in the United States. They are as zealous friends of religious liberty as the rest of the Americans, and the New-York and New-Jersey legislatures in which they are most numerous, corrected the English law of descents, as soon as the separation from Great Britain enabled them to give to the laws the proper spirit of our nation.
The German people, having little concern in navigation, there has not been, at any time, a commencement of a separate German colony within our present dominions. But great numbers of the natives of the protestant and catholic states of that immense confederated empire have migrated hither in search of liberty of conscience, and establishment in life. William Penn made an early visit to the continent of Europe, with a view to inform the German people of his new and liberal establishment. The agitations of Europe in consequence of the struggles of the followers of John Huss, Luther, Calvin, Menno and others of less note in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and of the counter exertions of the church of Rome and its powerful supporters, rendered even the wilds of America more lovely than the most cultivated scenes of persecuting Europe. In regard to the prospects of a comfortable establishment, fair accounts of this country seemed to render it a second land of promise. The vast number of German emigrants which have resorted to our shores in a term of more than one hundred and twenty years, has exhibited the persons, the language, the habits, the churches, and some of the spirit of the laws of that great and ancient empire. It is not ascertained whether the wise and excellent founder of Pennsylvania derived from his own wisdom and virtue his celebrated modification of the law of descents, or whether his respect for the law of Moses or his visit to Germany, where he found the great opposition between the English law and the Justinian system in that respect, occasioned him to adopt the idea. Certain it is that in this respect, as well as in their pursuit of religious liberty, the migrators from Germany must have attached themselves to these two objects, which are so conspicuous and influential in our national character. The Germans, like the Swedes, had no participation in sugar colonies, were consequently free from interest and practice in the slave trade, and were ready to co-operate in its decided arrestation. From this stock, we have had an illustrious President of our Philosophical Society, eminent professors in the medical department of one of our Universities, ministers of nearly two hundred churches of the Lutherans, Calvinists, Roman Catholics, Mennonists, Moravians, Tankers, and some other religious societies. A governor and a vice-president of a state, many generals of the militia, speakers of the national and state legislatures, and other members have also been drawn from the natives of Germany or their numerous descendants. The theology, the language, the arts, the manufactures and the typography of the Germans are very conspicuous and widely extended in the United States of America.
COLUMBIANUS.
From the BOSTON CHRONICLE.
"Our convenience must yield, to Britain's right to exist."—See the Repertory of the 6th inst.
The English, in all their impositions upon America, whether it relates to the attacking of our vessels and murdering their crews, or to the destruction of our commerce, have invariably found encouragement and support from certain federal editors in the United States. As soon as they have committed an outrage, they have only to refer to particular newspapers printed in the United States, not only for an entire justification, but for proof that they were entitled to our gratitude for not proceeding to greater extremities! It seems that these men have been informed by their British Correspondents, that England will shortly issue a new edition of the Orders in Council, corrected and improved, by their authors, with great additions, alterations, &c. In other words, that the Orders in Council, annihilating the commerce of the U. States, are shortly to be followed by others, for the indiscriminate seizure and plunder of American property wherever they take it.—No sooner do these receive this information, than they immediately commence the degrading task of defending it, and of endeavoring to reconcile the merchants of the U. States to the loss of their property.—They advance, in support of their doctrine, the following unprecedented and inadmissible position.
"Self preservation, with nations as with individuals, takes precedence of every other principle of natural law. It will justify any thing that becomes necessary to that object. A nation's rights raise as her danger increases. If from the unproductiveness or the devastations of an ene-
my, I hunger, and have no other means of supplying myself, I have a right to demand what is necessary, of him who possesses it. If he will accept any thing I can spare in exchange, it is well. If he will not, I am justified in using superior force, if I possess it, to obtain relief. His convenience must yield to my right to exist. The law of nature goes one step further. In the last extremity before I perish, I have a right to use my force—and if resisted, to destroy him who withholds from me what is necessary to my existence."
Here G. Britain is informed by a publication in one of our most populous seaports, that she has a right to "demand what she wants of us who possess it." That when she meets our vessels on the high seas, if they refuse to resign themselves into her hands quietly, she has a "right to use her superior force to compel it"—And that "if they resist, she has a right to destroy them—and will be justified in doing it." If the writer means that G. Britain will be justified in this conduct by any law either of nations or of nature, it is very much doubted: nor shall we be inclined to believe it, until he produces his authority. But, if he wishes to inform us that he intends to justify it, it will be nothing uncommon or unexpected. No doubt that the men who have heretofore justified the murder of our citizens, who have justified the impressment of seamen and the Orders in Council, will now justify and encourage the English in their contemplated plan of deprecation on American property.
We condemn the Algerines and Tripolitans as pirates, but if this doctrine is correct, could they not plead necessity as an excuse for their depredatory conduct, as well as the English? His Algerine Excellency might say, that from the depredations of his enemies, his funds were greatly reduced, and he was therefore compelled to seize our property to supply himself. If the state of Tunis should be threatened by its foes, the Tunesians might declare, while pouring their broadsides into the American ships, that our "convenience must yield to their right to exist."
What say the merchants to this doctrine? Will they subscribe to its orthodoxy? Is it consent to their ideas of justice, that when they send out a vessel, the British, or any other nation, have a right to take possession of her for their own use, and that if she resist, they have a right to fire upon and destroy her? Will they continue to encourage a paper which advances tenets so repugnant to every principle of justice, and so hostile to their interests and the interests of the country?
From the Same.
AMERICANS!—Beware of Wakes in Shep's clothing.
The last loyal Repertory says, that "from unimpeachable sources of information, it is well known that the Canadian people are perfectly satisfied with the government under which they live; that they know too well how to appreciate the blessings of the British Constitution, to be willing to barter their advantages and happiness for any other."
Whether such things as these are written in New-England, Old-England, or his Majesty's adjacent provinces, it makes no difference. The intention of the author is evident. But if he wishes to make the people of the United States believe that the British Constitution is preferable to the American, he may give up his enterprize in the beginning. The American people too well appreciate the blessings which result from their free, Republican Constitution, to indulge for a moment the most distant idea of exchanging them for Monarchical or Aristocratical systems.
We recollect the remarks of the Repertory, upon the Oration of Wm. Ch. White, Esq. The Constitution of England was then held up, to the people, doubtless with the view of exciting their approbation. We were also favored with the promise of some extracts from this inimitable Constitution—but which, however, have not yet appeared. If the Repertory expects to convert the partiality of the people of these States for republicanism, into a veneration for monarchical institutions, it has undertaken a Herculean task, in which it will never succeed. Even with all the aid of its Canadian Correspondents, (Officers of the Crown, unquestionably,) it will fall infinitely short of the contemplated object.
The "Communication" signed "VERAX," in the last Repertory, is an additional proof of the
The Repertory, in the introduction to this Communication, unblushingly confesses that it was received from a Correspondent in Canada! The people of the United States must feel themselves under infinite obligations to his Majesty's officers in the neighbouring provinces for their great kindness in sending political communications to their agents in the United States for publication! In this communication, the Constitutionalists of the United States, the friends of their country and its government, are stigmatized as "demoralizing demagogues," a deceptive epithet, which they learnt from their Junta friends in this quarter. The British Constitution is held up as the model of all that is perfect in the science of government—and much abuse is lavished upon the Chronicle.
close correspondence between some of our papers, and the agents and officers of England in Canada. It goes strongly to prove, that the Northern Confederacy, (composed of English agents in Canada, and Anglo-Americans in the Northern States,) is still in existence. Their cloven foot was discoverable, when they took advantage of the embargo, and threatened (what their weakness alone prevented them from executing) a separation of the states.
From the BOSTON PATRIOT.
THE BAIT.
[If we are to judge from outward appearances, the "Copenhagen Jackson," will be as civil and pacific as a fish-hook! We do not pretend to judge whether the following is extraordinary, or the ordinary recommendation of diplomatic characters. If, however, this kind of court plaster do not prove that Mr. Jackson, or his master thought him a subject of suspicion, it ought perhaps to induce us to suspect that either or both wish to play upon our credulity. It is sufficient that Mr. P's business lies between himself and our executive, in whom we have full confidence, and that such are the impressions on the public mind, that he will find it too late to open a separate negotiation with the people of America in any section of the union—even should his majesty's papers in New-England become again the channels of correspondence for the ministers and their minions.]
EXTRACT OF A LETTER
From a distinguished character of the Society of Quakers, in England, to his friend in Cambridge, (Mass.) dated July 5th, 1809.
"Although some years have elapsed since our last meeting at my house in Clapham, yet in hope that those agreeable days of old are not entirely forgotten, I beg leave to introduce my respectable friend Francis J. Jackson, recently chosen to be our Minister Extraordinary to the United States, as a gentleman of high character and talents, with whose family I have been long acquainted. Believing as I do, that he comes to you in the "spirit of peace," and so confident in the hopes of applying an healing plaster to the recent wound, that he takes over his wife and children; I cannot but wish well to such a mission of peace. It has ever been my fervent wish to witness a perfect harmony between the two nations, founded on a reciprocity of interests. I have therefore given him letters to my friend GORE, and to such others whom I most esteem in New-York and Philadelphia."
"Ere this, the public prints have probably informed you of the decease of my beloved and venerable uncle DAVID BARCLAY, a loss irreparable to his family and numerous connections to whom he afforded the highest example of human perfection. He closed his long, honorable and useful life in as sudden and easy a manner as could be wished; his illness not lasting an hour, when he ceased to live without sigh or struggle. His plans were congenial with those of thy invaluable relation Dr. Fothergill, especially in that of living rather than dying rich, and in being his own executor."
[Is it probable that a man, like the writer of the above, distinguished not merely for opulence, but weighty, and worthy, and venerated in point of character, would have spoken thus of "Copenhagen Jackson," if he did not know him to be a man whom a Quaker of the first rank would not fear to recommend. Centinel.]
From the Democratic Press.
The "distinguished character" who is the author of the above letter, is Mr. David Barclay, a brewer in London. One of the most devoted tools of William Pitt when living, and now equally devoted to Canning and Dundas. He has some influence and it was on account of that influence that Pitt, Dundas and Co. used to visit his brewery, and there eat beefsteaks and drink port wine. The above letter is only one copy of a circular which was sent to a great number of persons in the cities of the United States. From what we have heard on the occasion it is probable that no minister ever brought from the country which sent him, so many letters of introduction to the citizens of the country, to whose government he was accredited as Mr. Jackson. So great has been the number, that Mr. Jackson despaired of ever delivering them in person, and sent them on to the persons to whom they were directed by his servant.—We congratulate governor GORE on this new link in the chain which binds him to the mother country, and stimulates him to the unfurling the banners of the American Republic against those of imperial France.
The Gazette.
Wilmington, October 18, 1809.
MARRIED.
On Thursday evening last, by the Rev. Dr. Read, Mr. Henry Vining, Printer, to Miss Rebecca Lyle, all of this town.
Same evening, by the Rev. Dr. Read, Mr. George Haning, to Miss Kiah Archibald, both of this place.
A late London paper gives a detailed statement of the French naval force, from which it appears that France has yet, notwithstanding its diminution by capture, a formidable navy, consisting of six vessels of 120 guns, sixty one sail of the line, and forty eight frigates; and even this estimate is supposed to be under rated.

Boston, October 16, 1809.
LATEST FROM CADIZ.
The brig Corporal Trim, Capt. Elwell, arrived here on Saturday last, in 36 days from Cadiz. Capt. E. left the city on the 8th Sept. but brought no papers:—He reports, that General Cuesta had resigned his commission, and left the Spanish army;—that Sir Arthur Wellesley was retreating towards Portugal, for the purpose of re-embarking on board a fleet of transports, which was said to have arrived on the coast.—Capt. E. did not learn that any battles had been fought, or that any battles had been sought, to those already known in this country.
It was also reported at Cadiz, that the cause of Sir Arthur Wellesley's falling back toward the sea coast, was the total want of provisions, and not through fear of the enemy; that the Central Supreme Junta, had not dissolved; but on the recommendation of the British Commander in Chief to have the provisional authority of the country placed in the hands of the Bishop of Toledo, as Regent, it was expected some change would take place in the government.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
WHIG and TORY.
These revolutionary epithets distinguished friends of the revolution and enemies of the revolution; or, in other words, the whigs were friends and supporters of our government, both in men and measures, while the tories condemned our own government, and justified Great Britain both in men and measures. The whigs rejoiced at the American success—the tories at British success. The whigs ruled the nation, and the tories hated them for it. Britain called the tories her friends, and the whigs her enemies.
Wherein does there exist a difference between the parties of the revolution and those of the present day? If none, it is fair to resume the former epithets—they are better understood, and admit of no changes: whereas a faction, as really tories as the enemies of the revolution, by annually changing their title from Federalist to Federal-Republican, then American Republican, then British Republican, &c. deceive many honest men.
The tories now pretend, first—that opposition to government does not constitute a tory in the revolutionary sense: secondly, if it does, that the now whigs were tories during the Adams administration. But here again they intend to deceive—Opposition in favor of our own country does not make a tory; but opposition to our own government in favor of a foreign government, does. The whig opposition began with the British treaty, because by that treaty our rights and interest were sacrificed to a foreign nation—England. This same system of sacrificing rights, of conniving at impressment, at search, at capture, at even giving up a man, (who said he was a citizen) without trial, to execution, [Robins] and every other outrage, was persevered in at the expense of every American and Republican feeling to the end of the chapter. Hence, therefore, the whig opposition was consistent with whig principles.
To bolster their claims, the tories claim that their opposition arises from a partiality manifested by the government against England. But let them show such a partiality as that article of the British treaty which authorised British cruisers to capture American vessels bound to France with our own grain, and take them into port, paying freight, commissions and certain per centage, in order to starve France, then truly republican! England is monarchical and inimical, yet should the American government, in order to starve her, agree by treaty with France, as Jay did with England, the cry of partiality would be well founded. Such then is tory consistency.
But it will be said the whigs gave opposition in favor of France during the Adams administration. This is not admitted, except where the measure was for aiding Britain to destroy republican France, as in the Jay treaty. It will, also, be said, the whigs now rejoice at French success, when destroying independent nations. But it still proceeds from love to our own country and government; for as it is England which has stirred up every one of these nations to fight her battles against France, and for every success of England she inflicts a new stripe of punishment on us, we rejoice only in what saves us from injury. Yes, says a tory, it is the fleet of Britain which must save you from the tyranny of France. Her saving, is indeed the saving of the wolf to the sheep—she keeps off France, that she may plunder us herself. Why not treat us with decency if she means us a good? We know, however, that France fights for the liberty of the seas at present, and England to tyrannize over them. Let England agree to the liberty of the seas, and if France don't we will join her against France. We know also this pretended fear of France is hypocritical and deceptive. We know these
same tories favored England equally when there was no danger from France, when France was republican and struggling against all Europe.
To recriminate, however, is not the purpose. Nothing in times past, subsequent to the revolution, ought to be compared to British Orders in Council requiring us to come and pay tribute on our own produce for the liberty of the sea. The measures to repeal this they opposed. When pressed by our repelling measures and forced to solicit an adjustment which relieved their wants, and this adjustment is violated, the tories justify it. Yea, to so great a height do they go, as to outstrip British outrage, and tell us by anticipation to expect England to take still higher grounds, and justify it by the law of self-preservation. Thus modern Toryism fills up the character of revolutionary Toryism in every feature, and indeed exceeds it in many. Let the friends of government, therefore, no longer modestly call them what they are not, Federalists —this title they have projected in their endeavors to separate the union— Republicans they are not—they love monarchies and hate republics. In short, their words and actions—their associates and members, and the avowed friendship declared in parliament between them and the British government, mark and proclaim them TORIES.
A WHIG.
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 13 pieces of Irish linen, of the value of 120 dollars; the said goods were seized for having been landed without a permit, contrary to the Revenue Laws.
And whereas the honorable GUNNING BEDFORD, Esq. Judge of the said District Court, hath ordered the 13th day of November, 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, October 21, 1809.
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 550 bags of coffee, of the value of 12000 dollars; 6 bags of coffee of the value of 160 dollars, and 5370 wt. of lignum vitae, valued at 450 dollars—seized as goods imported contrary to 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 13th day of November, 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, October 21, 1809.
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 16 bags of coffee, of the value of 600 dollars, and a part of 2 barrels of limes, of the value of 20 dollars; seized as goods imported contrary to the act of Congress entitled "An act to amend and continue in force an 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 13th day of November, 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, October 21, 1809.
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 49 bags of coffee of the value of 1000 dollars, and 7 seroons of tobacco, valued at 25 dollars; seized as goods imported contrary to 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 13th day of November, 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.
October 21, 1809.
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 thirteen bags of coffee, of the value of 260 dollars; two kegs, 5 demijohns and 30 bottles of castor oil, of the value of 32 dollars; half a barrel of limes and oranges, of the value of 2 dollars, and 400 wt. of old copper, valued at 40 dollars—seized as goods imported contrary to 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 13th day of November, 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.
October 21, 1809.
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 Little George Evers , its tackle, apparel and furniture; seized for importing goods contrary to 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 13th day of November, 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.
October 21, 1809.
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 11 bags of coffee, of the value of 350 dollars; seized as goods imported contrary to 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 13th day of November 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.
October 21, 1809.
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 MARY , her tackle, apparel and furniture; seized for importing goods contrary to 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 13th day of November, 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.
October 21, 1809.
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 148 bags of coffee, value of 3000 dollars; 23 tons, 13 3/4 wt. Lignum Vitae, valued at 460 dollars; 11 bags coffee, valued at 300 dollars; 2 bags coffee, valued at 40 dollars; 5 bags coffee, valued at 100 dollars; and 16 kegs of sausages, of the value of 15 dollars—seized as goods imported contrary to 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 13th day of November, 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.
October 21, 1809.
District Court.
District of Delaware, 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 68 bags of coffee, value 1500 dollars; seized for being imported contrary to 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 13th day of November 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.
October 21, 1809.
COMPANY ORDERS.
THE Wilmington Light Infantry Blues will meet, armed and accoutred, at the usual place of parade, on Saturday the 21st instant, at 2 o'clock P. M.—Punctual attendance is particularly requested. The roll will be called precisely at half past two, and all absentees fined, agreeably to the Rules and Regulations of the Company.
By Order,
JOSEPH JONES, Sec'y.
Oct. 18, 1809.

Poetry.
THE SWISS EMIGRANT.
Farewell, Farewell my native land, A long farewell to life and thee! On thy last rock I glittering stand, Thy last rude rock, how dear to me!  Once more I view thy vallies fair, But dimly view, with tearful eye; Once more I breathe thy healthful air, But breathe it in how deep a sigh!  Ye vales with downy verdure spread, Ye groves that drink the sparkling stream, As bursting from the mountain's head; Its foaming waves in silver gleam.  Ye lakes that catch the golden beam That floods with fire yon peak of snow, As evening vapours bluely stream, And stilly roll thy volumes slow;—  Scenes, on this bursting heart impress'd By every thrill of joy, of woe; The bliss of childhood's vacant breast, Or warmer youth's impassion'd glow;  The tears by filial duty shed Upon the low, the peaceful tomb, Where sleep, to blest, the reverend dead, Unconscious of their country's doom.  Say can Hevostia's patriot child, A wretched exile, bear to roam, Nor sink upon the lonely wild, Nor die to leave his native home?  His native home!—no more has he— He scorns in servile yoke to bow, He scorns the land no longer free, Alas—he has no country now!  Ye snow-clad Alps, whose mighty mound, Great nature's adamantine wall, In vain oppos'd your awful bound To check the prone descending Gaul:  What hunter now, with daring leaps, Shall chase the Ibex, o'er your rocks, Who clothes with vines your craggy steeps, Who guards from wolves your rambling flocks!  While now the free-born sons of soil Lie sunk amid the slaughtered brave, To freedom true the stubborn soil Shall pine and starve the puny slave.  Spoilers, who pour'd your ravening hands To gorge on Latinum's fertile plains, And fill'd your bold rapacious hands, From Legal domes, and sculptured fanes,  What seek ye here? Our niggard earth, Nor gold-nor sculptured trophies owns; Our wealth was peace and guileless mirth, Our trophies are our tyrant's bones.  Burst not my heart, as dimly swell Morat's proud glories on my view; Heroic scenes, a long farewell, I fly from madness and from you.  Thou vanquished land, once proud and free, Where first this feeling breath I drew, This heart must ever beat for thee, In absence near—in misery true.
Miscellany.
AGAINST DRUNKENNESS.
If by an awful visitation of Divine Providence, there were spreading over all parts of this country, a foul and loathsome leprosy, which poisoned and disfigured the bodies of its victims, and affected their minds with madness or with idioecism; if this leprosy had siezed a great part of our useful labourers and rendered them a burthen to the community; if the prospects and the hopes of a large portion of our promising young men had been already blasted and destroyed by it; if it had infected more or less, every town and every village, and were spreading its ravages, from year to year, wider and yet wider: if this were the actual condition of our country, there is no telling how great would be the alarm. Neither this nor any similar calamity, Heaven be praised, has been brought upon our country by the direct hand of Providence, which has showered on us blessings without number and in great abundance. But human folly and wickedness abuse the kindness of Providence and change its blessings into curses.
Let sober reason judge, whether drunkenness, habitual drunkenness , be not as bad, nay even worse, than
the fatal leprosy I have described. It impairs and corrupts both body and mind, and brings down the noble creature man to a level with the brute. It destroys all moral principle, all sentiments of honor, all feelings of humanity. It changes good nature to churlishness, a kind husband to an unfeeling monster, a dutiful son to an unprincipled villain, without natural affections, and an industrious thriving man to an idle vagabond. It preys upon and devours every thing that is estimable and amiable both in disposition and in character; it eats up the substance of its votaries, and is an inlet to all other vices, and to every evil and calamity almost that can be named.—This detestable demon might say in truth, "my name is legion; for we are many. Many indeed are the evils, the calamities and abominations that follow in the train of drunkenness."
"Who hath woe? Who hath sorrow? who hath contentions? who hath wounds without cause? Who hath redness of eyes?"—The drunkard. Whose fields are neglected and overgrown with thorns and brambles? Whose house is tumbling in ruins for want of necessary repairs? Whose broken windows are repaired only with rough boards or stuffed with rags? Whose wife is consumed with weeping? Whose babes are suffering hunger and nakedness?—The drunkard's. Who disturb peoples' repose with their midnight revellings and yells? who are the persons most commonly engaged in quarrels, in fightings, in riots, and in all scenes of confusion and uproar? Drunkards. Who are the lowest of all madmen, the most despicable of all idiots?—Drunkards.
The natural idiot, and the madman that has become so by the act of God, are objects not of reproach but of compassion. But the drunkard, who is in fact an idiot or a madman for the time being, is so by his own voluntary act; he wilfully quenches in himself the lamp of reason, and with his own snicidal hands destroys that noble faculty which had distinguished him from the beasts that perish.
LONGEVITY IN LINCOLNSHIRE.
When the famous Turketul, who had been chancellor of England, and one of the greatest warriors and statesmen of his time, retired from the world, and became abbot of Croyland he found five very aged Monks in a monastery, to whom he paid particular attention. Father Clarenbold, the oldest of these Monks, died A. D. 973, after he had completed the 168th year of his age. The second who was named Swarling, died in the same year, at the age of 142. The third, who was called Father Turga, died the year after, in the 115 year of his age. The two other Monks, Brunc and Ajo died about the same time, whose ages are not exactly known though they must have been very old, as they both remembered the old Abbey of Croyland, which had been destroyed by the Danes in the year 870. These acts are related with much confidence by Ingulphus, who was abbot of Croyland, and wrote from the historical register of that Abbey. When we recollect, also, the very recent instance of longevity in Elizabeth Shaw's case, who died at Keal Cotes, aged 117, we think Lincolnshire not so unhealthy as generally reported.— Lon. Pap.
THE GRATEFUL GUEST.
The late Joseph Younger, who was prompter to Convent Garden theatre, during the management of Mr. Coleman, one day met old Lewis, who formerly played at Cheltenham, before their majesties, and seeing he was apparently in great distress, took him home with him, gave him some clothes and kept him to dinner. After
the cloth was removed, and the bottle in circulation Younger observed that Lewis was rather melancholy; upon which his grateful guest observed as follows. "I was just reflecting what a hard case it is, that a man of talents like myself should go about half naked and half starved, whilst such a d—d stupid rascal as you are, lives in luxury, and have it in your power to give me clothes and provisions."
INSTANCE OF FRUGALITY.
Mr. Mattenson was formerly curate at the parish church of Petersdale, in Westmoreland for the period of 60 years, the annual stipend of which many years did not yield more than 12l. and never exceeded the sum of 18l. Upon this slender pittance, he contrived to maintain a wife comfortably, and bring up and educate a family of four children. While curate of this parish he buried his mother, and officiated as minister of the second marriage of his father; he christened his wife, and published his own banns of marriage: he christened and married all his children, and gave his only son a good classical education so as to qualify him for the University. This venerable man lived to the age of 90 and died in 1736, universally respected by his parishioners, after having accumulated a fortune of 1000l. His son is at present master of the grammar school at Kowther.— Lon. Pap.
SMALL LIVINGS.
According to the official returns laid before the house of commons, it appears that the number of livings under the value of 150l. per ann. in England and Wales, is 3291; out of these are 7 not exceeding 10l. per annum; 53 from 20l. to 30l.; 151 from 30l. to 40l.; 187 from 40l. to 50l.; 353 from 50 to 60l.; 327 from 60l. to 70l.; 261 from 70 to 80l.; 261 from 80 to 90l.; 271 from 90l. to 100l.; 237 from 100l. to 110l.; 253 from 110 to 120l.; 312 from 120 to 130l.; 167 from 130 to 140l.; and 132 from 140l. to 150l. per annum. From the above, St. David's, Fly, Norwich, and Rochester, are excepted, as certificates have not yet been received from these dioceses.— Ibid.
Wilmington College Lottery.
THE seventh day's drawing will take place on Wednesday, the 6th of December next. At no stage of the lottery has there been an equal inducement to a adventurers with the present. The chances for the highest prize has increased almost one third: and on the next day there will be a stationary prize of $150. The flattering prospects of gain, joined to the laudable object of the Lottery, it is confidently hoped will induce such as of the remaining tickets as will enable the trustees speedily to complete the drawing—the price of tickets is now $3 50, and will be increased on the next day's drawing.
Let it be remembered that so great a prospect of gaining $5000, and at the same time promoting the prosperity of so valuable an institution for the small sum of $3 50 will seldom if ever again occur!
October 14, 1809.
Real and Personal Estate.
TO be offered for sale, at public vendue, on Wednesday, the 25th inst. at 10 A. M. at the Dwelling House of the late Alexander McAlister, deceased, in the borough of Wilmington, in Market street, two doors below the Lower market house—The real estate, being the three story Brick House lately built by the said deceased, and Lot of Ground thereto belonging, situated as aforesaid—The personal estate consisting of Beds, bedding, Desk drawers, Tables, and sundry articles of Household and Kitchen Furniture.
By order of the Executor of the deceased. Hance Naff, Auctioneer. October 14, 1809.
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.
A NEW REPUBLICAN PAPER, Political, Commercial, and Historical, To be published Daily for the City, and twice a week for the Country, WILL BE COMMENCED On the first day of November next, under the title of
The Columbian,
And delivered at the yearly price of Eight Dollars for the City, and Four for the Country paper—payable in all cases half in advance.
THE OBJECTS OF THE COLUMBIAN WILL BE, To maintain and vindicate the rights and immunities of the United States, as a free, sovereign and independent nation, against the pretensions, the violations, and the aggressions of any and every foreign power. To support the constitution and government of the United States, and of the individual states, in their several and distinct provinces; and to sustain and uphold the liberties of the people. To defend the privileges and measures of the general government, as administered under Mr. Jefferson, and continued by Mr. Madison, and of the present administration of this state under Mr. Tompkins. To disseminate correct and useful American sentiments, and to subserve and cherish the republican systems and institutions of the United States. To cultivate and promote the union, the harmony, and the prosperity of the republican party in this country, and to discountenance and oppose whatever local partialities and personal collisions may threaten to impair or jeopardize its interests.
AND FINALLY, To contain such mercantile, historical, and agricultural information, occasionally variegated with literary and miscellaneous pieces as shall best fulfil the usual purposes of a newspaper, and gratify the hopes and expectations of its patrons.
The foregoing outlines, it is presumed, are sufficiently distinct and expressive of the purposes for which the COLUMBIAN is to be established, to enable every reader to decide on the degree of encouragement to which the attempt is entitled. Subscriptions will be received by post-masters and other holders of proposals in the different parts of the state.
The names of the subscribers are requested to be returned previous to the day of publication, directed to the Editor, at Hudson, or at the Post-Office, New-York; and the papers will be regularly forwarded, by mail or other conveyance, agreeable to direction.
Charles Holt.
New-York, September 5, 1809. 22—6t *.* Subscriptions to the COLUMBIAN received at the Office of the Delaware Gazette.
TO BE SOLD,
At Public Vendue,
ON THURSDAY the 26th INSTANT, on the premises, a Plantation, situate in Mill-Creek Hundred, New-Castle County, and State of Delaware, bounded by lands of Wm. Jordan and others, and containing 200 acres, more or less, well proportioned in woodland, upland and meadow. There are on the premises a good log house, and several never-failing springs of excellent water. It will be sold separate or altogether, at may best suit the purchaser.
Also, for Sale,
At the time and place aforesaid, a tract of land adjoining the abovementioned plantation and lands of James Mendenhall and others, whereon is erected a Log House and Frame Barn, 30 by 40 feet. Mill-Creek runs through a part of this place, and there is a never-failing spring of good water near the dwelling house. This place, also, contains a suitable proportion of woodland and meadow. The above described property is situated within 7 miles of Wilmington, and 5 of Newport, and the Gap and Newport Turnpike road will run through it. It is thought unnecessary to be more particular in description, as it is presumed persons inclining to purchase will first desire to view the premises. An indisputable title will be given. The sales will commence at TEN O'CLOCK on said Day, and conditions will be made known, by
Robert McBeath.
October 11, 1809.
To Farmers & Graziers.
MR. Bennet Downs having purchased a plantation to which he intends to remove. I will lease for a term of years, to any person who comes well recommended, that most valuable Farm which was the residence of the late Alexander Porter, Esq. situate five miles south of New-Castle, three miles east of Christiana Bridge, two miles north of the Red Lion Inn, and nine miles from Wilmington. It contains about 280 acres of arable land, 75 acres of banked meadow, an extensive cripple, and good wood range for stock to three of the fields.—If desirable, the tenant may have the crop of growing wheat. Apply to Nicholas Van Dyke, Esq. or to
T. M. Roman.
October 18, 1809.