The Delaware gazette (Wilmington [Del.]), 1809-10-04 00:00:00

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
VOL. I.]
WILMINGTON, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1809.
[NO. 26]
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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 22th 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 Machine
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 Sheward's 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 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 various 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 every 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 conduct 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 coqueness 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
If faces and complexion are injured with Freckles, Pimpler, 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 fixed 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.
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 belong to a good skin, are to be obtained by the use of this Lotion, however violently they may happen to be afflicted. Instead of the fadious, and debilitating courses 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 bleni 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 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. 12. 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 adeq. are to their appointments, and of unexceptionable moral characters.
By order of the Board, ROBERT HAMILTON, BENEFER A. SMITH, JOHN RUMSEY, WILLIAM PRYCE, Committee. July 22, 1809.
Notice.
SUCH persons as are indebted to the estate of ESTHER YARNALL, deceased, either by bond, note, or book debt, are requested to make immediate payment to John Warner and John 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.
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 Cennought, by Miss Owenson. Poetic Tales, by John Henry Mills, comedian. The Wild Irish Girl, by Miss Owenson. Montalbert a novel; Armenian or Ghost Net; Joseph Andrews; Roderick Random; Charlotte Temple; the Drownded Wife; the Vicar of Wakefield; Blair's Lectures; Goldsmith's Rose; 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:—Swifter 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 five reasons with the maddening insects; dark tumbling from their cells they spread the heavy wing, and shrill whizzing through the air, they rush to find the foe. Just so in the sea-walling island, from queens house 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 out, in the streets, to talk of EXCAUSE'S wrongs; and, as they talked, their fiery snouts were seen to grow more fiery still, 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 bend forward to the finched fight! The frog-eating toe, in shirtless ruffes and long lank eue, 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 cuse, they show the orgarine crown, how damn 'em! they would hump 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  Cassimeres  Beunet's patent cord  Coatings and flannels  Forest cloths  Velvets and constitution cords  Bevereens  7-8 and 4-4 Irish linens  blue & yellow nankeens  Wide and narrow cotton cassimeres  Chintzes and calicoes  Cambric and common dimities  Calimancoes  Durant and Jones' spinning  Cotton and worsted hosiery  Colored, chambray, cambric, jackanet, mull-mull, India, British, book, gurrah, bafta, & leno Muslins  Marseilles quiltings  Fustias and jeans  Lute strings  Sinhaw and Mantua silks  Silk & york tan gloves  Bandanna and Madras handkerchiefs  Cammel's hair shawls  Checked and striped linens  Damask shawls  Russia & dowlas linens  Rattinetts & bombazetts  Red & green bocking baize  Brown holland  Suspenders  Umbrellas & parasols  Black satins and flannels  Scissors & pen-knives  Silk hose  Gilt & plated buttons  Oil cloths  Trunks  Morocco shoes, &c. &c.  N. B. Country Store Keepers supplied on the best terms for cash or the usual credit. James Gardner.

Intelligence.
Extract from the Messina Gazette of July 31, 1809.
A vessel under a neutral flag from Civita Vechia has furnished us with the copy of a declaration issued by his holiness Pius VIIth, at the time of the sacrilegious invasion of all his dominions, and of the patrimony of the church; and likewise of the sentence of excommunication issued against Bonaparte and his accomplices, on the 10th of June: which acts of the pope are herewith published, to render them more generally known throughout the catholic world.
PIUS POPE VII.
The disastrous designs of the foes of the Apostolic See are at length completed.
After suffering the violent and iniquitous spoliation of the fairest and most considerable portion of our dominions, we now behold ourselves deprived entirely, under unworthy pretexts and with the most grievous injustice, of all our temporal sovereignty, with which our spiritual independence is closely connected. This consolation accompanies us, under the pressure of this severe persecution, that it has not been incurred for any wrong done to the emperor, or to France, which has been always the object of our tender fatherly solicitude; nor on account of any worldly political artifice; but because we would not betray our duties or our conscience.
No one, who professes the Catholic religion, and much less he, who presides over and is principally bound to announce it, can displease God for the sake of pleasing men.
Bound moreover to God, and to the Church, to transmit our rights whole and entire, we protest against this new spoliation, and declare it null and void.
We reject with the most determined resolution the assignment of any allowance intended for us or the members of our college (of cardinals) by the emperor of the French.
We should be overwhelmed with disgrace in the sight of the Church, if we submitted to receive our subsistence from the hands of the Usurper of her patrimony.
We resign ourselves entirely to divine providence, and to the devotion of the faithful servants of God, and shall be satisfied piously to conclude the bitter career of our painful life.
We adore with profound humiliation the inscrutable designs of God. We invoke his mercy over all our good subjects, who will be always our joy and our crown ; and after having discharged, in these most distressing circumstances, our duty, we exhort them to preserve, in all integrity, their religion and faith, and with sighs and tears between the porch and the altar , to unite themselves with us in supplication to the supreme father of light, that he would graciously be pleased to work a change in the wicked designs of our persecutors. Given at our Quirinal Apostolical palace, this 10th June, 1809.
L. S.
PIUS POPE VII.
Conclusion of the Sentence of Excommunication.
PIUS POPE VII.
By authority of the Almighty God, and of the Saints Peter and Paul, we declare you, Napoleon Bonaparte, and all your accomplices (co-operators) in the act, which you are now executing, to have incurred the censure of excommunication; under which by our apostolical letters, cotemporaneously published and affixed at the places in this city, we declare all those to have fallen, who, since the forcible invasion of this city on the 2d of February, 1809, have committed the violences against which, not only our successive secretaries of state by our orders, but we ourselves have protested in two consistorial allocutions (discourses) of the 16th of March, and 11th July 1809; and the same penalty attaches to all mandatories, supporters, advisers, and all others who have executed themselves, or procured the execution of the abovementioned usurpations and violences. Given at Rome at the church of S. Maria Major, June 10, 1809.
L. S.
PIUS POPE VII.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Defence of Mr. Jefferson's Administration. No. VIII.
Pacification of the Indians. —In illustrating the character and measures of an administration this topic will always command attention. Whether we consider the relative condition of the aborigines and the whites and the reciprocal claims of each on the other, the influence which the treatment of the former has on national character, or the peculiar difficulties which have invariably attended our intercourse with them, we shall be satisfied that this branch of authority calls for a species of talent rarely possessed by rulers.
It is not necessary, at this day, to vindicate the character of the aborigines of our country,
or to prove that, on a comparison with any other savage nations, they will be found to have possessed superior traits of moral and intellectual character. It is sufficient for our present purpose to say, that in the estimation of the whole community, except that portion of it which from their position is exposed to perpetual collisions of interest or passion, they are considered as entitled to all that justice and humanity which are compatible with a gradual encroachment on and occupation of their grounds. There can be no doubt of the moral right of a civilized community, as it progresses in numbers, to appropriate to the use of its citizens, the tracts of land in the previous occupation of savages; because the very condition in which the latter are implies their total inability to render it the instrument of that beneficence which was intended by the author of nature to bestow on the human race. But, while this right in the abstract is justly viewed as indisputable, it is nevertheless subject to conditions and limitations which are equally binding on the civilized community. It is the duty of the latter to obtain possession of it, if possible, by pacific means, and even to make considerable sacrifices of their immediate interest to secure this end; if compelled eventually to resort to force, to apply it in such a way as to inflict the least possible injury on the savages; and, above all, once possessed of it, to administer justice with an equal hand to the white and red people, giving the latter, so far as practicable, an equivalent for their land, in the arts and comforts introduced among them. Power thus dispensed, will aim at elevating instead of depressing their situation, at increasing their happiness instead of driving them by persecution to despair, and at cherishing instead of exterminating their race. To effect these desirable ends, it is necessary to inspire them with two sentiments—a conviction of your power and of your justice.
Now, it will be found by a review of the measures in relation to this point adopted during the administration of Mr. Jefferson, that these two cardinal ends have been fully secured, and that it is principally owing to those measures that a complete pacification of the Indians has been accomplished. During the administrations of his predecessors, either an active warfare was carried on with them, or in the intervals of a hollow peace the frontiers were constantly exposed to alarm. Ever since he assumed the Presidency, all warfare has ceased, and alarm on the frontier been dissipated. This has not arisen from any abandonment of our pretensions. On the contrary we have during this period acquired more land than in any equal antecedent period, and our western population has advanced with greater rapidity than it ever previously did. These happy and beneficent effects have flowed from the enlightened and just policy of a cabinet, intimately acquainted with human nature, and bent upon exercising power with a single eye to the happiness of those on whom it was exercised. The means pursued are in themselves extremely simple; so plain and obvious, that we are surprised at their not having been universally applied in the intercourse of civilized and savage communities. This surprise, however, is dispelled, when we contemplate the fatal agency of superstition and a spirit of conquest in past ages. Heretofore the sword has invariably opened the way to power, and the fetters of superstition have uniformly completed the victory. Governments wielded by soldiers and priests, having despoiled the conquered of their property, have concluded by attempting to deprive them of the consolations of their religion. In the first result they have generally succeeded; but scarcely ever in the last. The religious sentiments, received from our fathers, are generally so dear to our hearts, that we prefer a sacrifice of life to their abandonment, and whatever outward conformity, we may exhibit to the creed of our conquerors, the conscience remains impregnable. With these ideas, doubtless, on his mind, Mr. Jefferson has taken no pains to force upon the nations the Christian religion; he has suffered them to enjoy the religion of their fathers. But he has done that which has entitled him to their warmest benedictions; he has sent among them such men as Hawkins and Meigs; men beneficent, enlightened and practical, who have taught them the blessing of property, and the advantages to be reaped from the cultivation of agriculture and the arts. Under these auspices, the progress they have already made, is wonderful. Many of them till the ground, which they have enclosed, raise fruit trees, and are industriously occupied in domestic manufactures, for the prosecution of all of which they have been liberally supplied with the means by the agents appointed by the government. And in this way, in the short period of eight years, more substantial progress has been made in civilization, than can be shewn by the annals of the world to have been taken place in any other region in half a century.
Let ignorance and tyranny, then, continue to join in the cry against philosophy. While it is directed to such beneficent objects; while it seeks its highest gratification and finds its brightest glory in increasing the mass of human happiness; while it exhibits the new and illustrious spectacle of reclaiming man by the arts from the savage state and increasing his felicity by the comforts of civilization—it will continue entitled to our highest reverence, and those who dispense its blessings to our warmest regard.
The robber is generally the first to cry out "stop thief." This is an age almost as old as the world, and may be considered as illustrating a native propensity of vice.
How happily does this maxim, politically applied, suit the present times! The opponents of the administration charge the republicans with a desire to embroil the country in the complicated horrors of a war with England—Why? Be-
cause the republicans have any such desire? No; but because they themselves hope under this calumny to cover their efforts to embroil their country in a war with France. This is their object ; to effect which their measures have been steady, persevering, strenuous.
The era at which their labours to attain this end commenced covers their motives with a blaze of light that, properly improved, must dissipate all obscurity. That era was the French revolution. It was at that illustrious period, when a nation of twenty five millions of human beings broke their fetters and asserted the dignity of freemen, that a deadly hatred was engendered, which has sustained no abatement even to the present day. Whence this hatred? From any injury which we had then received from France? No one pretends it. From any danger with which she then menaced us? So far from this, she was then the object of commiseration instead of terror. No, it is not to these motives that this hatred is to be ascribed; but to the obstacles which that revolution threatened to raise to the gay and splendid hopes of political aggrandizement that danced in no distant perspective before the enraptured view of a set of men, who from the beginning of the world have considered themselves as the legitimate rulers of nations. To this bright vision of anticipated honours the revolution, if successful, threatened a total dissolution. It was then that this body of men took their ground, from which they would have been driven with disgrace but for the untoward events that followed.
But a short period elapsed before England joined the confederacy, and this instantly produced a new accession of strength in this country to the hatred of France. Before this period the enemies of the revolution were few and silent; this event at once added greatly to their number and emboldened the timid. British influence was instantly exerted, in all its extensive ramifications, through almost every fibre of the community. It embodied into a phalanx old Tories, English agents, aristocrats or monarchists in principle, merchants indebted in England or those in the receipt of favours from her. This body of men, living for the most part in our towns, rich, intelligent, active and restless, for a time gave a tone to their politics and manners from which, indeed, they have not yet completely recovered. This tone was extended into the country and reached even the government itself.
England had been the first to violate our maritime rights. She had no sooner formed a treaty of peace, pledging herself to respect our rights as an independent nation, which she had acknowledged us to be, than she commenced a career of injustice towards us, retaining the possession of our forts and territory, instigating the savages to the most merciless warfare, and preying upon our defenceless trade on the ocean. This scene of iniquity continued until the celebrated treaty negotiated by Jay. At the very moment when that treaty was on the eve of ratification and after its signature by the plenipotentiaries of the two governments, she issued her provision orders, which without notice swept the ocean of at least a moiety of our merchant vessels. During all this time, what was the conduct of France towards us? She had then a powerful marine floating on the ocean and contending with England for its empire. Did she seize our vessels with notice, much less without notice? No. Having stipulated with us for the liberal principle, that free ships should make free goods, she long continued to adhere to this term, although deeply prejudiced by its operation. A recurrence to official documents will establish these positions, and prove that, during the earlier periods of General Washington's administration, while the conduct of England towards us was the topic of indignant complaint, that of France was, in the main, the subject of approbation. Excesses and even outrages were committed by her cruisers, but they were soon acknowledged and reparation made for them.
About the close of General Washington's administration the scene changed, and France, guided by erroneous counsels, listened to the intemperate dictates of revenge. She perceived, or fancied that she perceived, the poison of British influence diffusing itself over the whole surface of our country. With this influence she identified a mortal hatred to herself. The example of England, which she had beheld with horror, she now herself imitated, and under the hollow pretext of retaliation, committed an extensive pillage of our vessels. The attitude, which the American nation took on that occasion, was honorable; the sentiments it inspired were worthy of an independent nation. France had injured us, and resistance became a holy duty. The virtue and spirit of the people dictated resistance, and we did resist. But mark the tone and conduct of that class of people, who now, as they have long been, are strenuously by open or insidious means promoting hostilities with France. Look at the public prints of those days, peruse the speeches of grave senators and flippant representatives, attend to the language of the Secretary of State intoxicated with power and elevation, listen to the intemperate strains of President Adams himself; and say whether the honest servant of the times was not exacerbated and envenomed by the most disgraceful hatred of France, and say whether this hatred did not spring from partiality to England, and antipathy to the system of equal rights, whose security was the object, although unfortunately it was not the result of the French revolution. I would, says Senator Tracy, "arm every man, woman, and child in America, against every man, woman and child in France."
Pickering, (blush, Americans, for the national degradation) in a state paper, alluding to the French, exclaims "the tyger crouches before he springs on his prey," and President
Adams himself, notwithstanding his incorruptible honesty, condescends to use language in the highest degree unworthy of his exalted station. By these means, the national sentiment was literally converted into a whirlwind, and menaced, in its raging intolerance, to sweep before it every barrier of liberty. Alien and sedition laws were framed, the cockade of terror was mounted, mobs were embodied, a vindictive denunciation pervaded every corner of the country and silenced freedom of speech, and the reign of terror as it was not more emphatically than truly styled, was in full triumph. British Tories and American aristocrats exulted in the conviction that they had gained their darling object. But they were mistaken. It was reserved for the virtue of President Adams, alarmed at the snares laid for it, and probably appalled at the precipice to which he had unwarily drawn the liberties of his country, to re-occupy independent ground, and in the very teeth of his confidential counsellors, to heal the rupture with France. If these facts are not sufficient to prove the existence of the party we have portrayed, look at the treatment of this quondam favourite from that memorable era. Hamilton was the first to attempt to write him down with his colossal pen, since which he has had the full contents of the vial of federal wrath showered down upon him. A liberal and reciprocal treaty, in all its parts, was formed with France. How was it received in this country? With universal approbation by the republicans; but with distrust and opposition by the party we are portraying. Every republican member in the Senate voted for, while a large number of the federal members voted against its ratification, although it was negotiated by Messrs. Elsworth, Davis and Murray, three distinguished federalists. Can there be a stronger argument, to prove the earnest desire of a portion of the federal party, at all events, to have war with France?
For six years from this era, our affairs with France were undisturbed, and she even admitted us to an enjoyment, almost without restraint, of her colonial trade. This is not specified as a favor done by her to us. One nation ought never to expect a favor from another. All that we have ever demanded, or expected, has been justice. But France had the wisdom to perceive her true interests, and not to forego them from an idle jealousy or criminal enmity to us.
Did we during this period experience the same liberal treatment from England? On the contrary, it was during this period that above three thousand of our seamen were impressed, that Pearce was murdered at our very doors, and that successive orders of council were issued legalizing an iniquitous spoliation and seizure of our goods and vessels. It was thus that injury, until our merchants, those meek and patient souls, even they called upon the government in the most clamorous strains for its energetic interposition. At their call it did interpose and sent a special mission to London. Still, however, our wrongs remained unredressed, our rights, our interests, and our character continued to bleed at every pore.
It was now that France, unjustly and weakly, we admit, resolved to treat us in the same way we had been so long treated by England; and forthwith launched those decrees against our trade which still endure as a monument of her folly, inflicting still greater injury upon herself than upon either us or her enemy.
These new occurrences ought to have established a new era in national sentiment. We should, as one man, have resolved to resist both English orders and French decrees. We should have silenced the apologists of either. We should have rejected with disdain the plea of retaliation, as totally inapplicable to us, however applicable to each other. We should have rallied round our own government as our only shield against danger, and, imitating the virtues of our forefathers, have resolved to endure every privation of interest eventually to secure our rights and maintain our honor un tarnished. Was this universally done by us? No; and herein is found another illustration, vivid as a sun-beam. The republicans supported their government in its impartial measures, although those measures are now generally allowed to have operated even more injuriously on France than England, and were more sensibly felt by the republican than the federal sections of the union. But did the party, we are delineating, act with the same patriotism? No.—They began with traducing the motives, and ended with opposing, even by physical force, the measures adopted; they took part with, and even played in the hands of the common enemy.
Mr. Madison was called to the presidency, and one of his first acts was the arrangement entered into with Mr. Erskine on the part of the British government. This agreement fully restored our amity with England, and threatened our peace with France. The party we are portraying, as might be expected, extolled it and the new President to the skies. The republicans were equally warm in the expression of their approbation, and demonstrated to the satisfaction of every reasonable man, that from

justice and total exemption from the French influence ascribed to them. And, notwithstanding the disavowal of the British government, it is a most fortunate circumstance that the arrangement with Mr. Erskine was made. It has proved to the satisfaction of every man, whose esteem is desirable, that our government, and the great body of those on whom they must rely for support, are devoted to the true interests of the nation, and see those interests neither through the jaundiced medium of French or British attachments.
On taking this review, we are no longer surprised at the change which has recently taken place in public opinion. The delusion which had before extensively prevailed, is dissipated. The honest portion of the federal party, superior in number and talents to the residue, have awakened as from a dream, and appear determined to shake off their connection with their unworthy associates.
They have justly become alarmed for their reputation. They have realised their total degradation and ruin, if they continue to unite their destinies with them. Having suffered themselves to pause, to reflect, and to judge for themselves, their native American feelings have revived, and they have patriotically resolved to support their government so long as its measures are just and honorable. We rejoice to behold this temper, and we trust it will endure, that foreign nations may learn that whatever is respectable among us will be embarked as in a common cause against their injustice.
As to the republicans of the U. States, they are the last to wish a war with England, so long as it is not forced upon us by their wrongs. What can they gain by such a war? Not the government; for they possess it already. Not the increased prosperity of the country, in which, being at least three-fourths of the whole nation, they are most deeply interested; for they know that war, however it may terminate, is always injurious. Not an accession of liberty; they are satisfied with that they possess. Not a subversion of the constitution; they would defend it with their blood. No. By war they know they have nothing to gain. Their power, the popularity of their government, its revenue, their liberties, all make the preservation of peace to them an inestimable object. Nothing can induce them to jeopardize it but the good of their country; and when that shall imperiously require it, is there an American base enough to say, that it ought not to be hazarded?— Nat. Intel.
Among the ridiculous calumnies with which a number of the federal prints teem (other respectable prints of this denomination, we admit are characterised by a far different tone) none is more unfounded than that which ascribes to the republicans a disposition to foment our misunderstandings with England into war. Because the late disavowal of Mr. Erskine's arrangements has excited, the general indignation of the nation and produced a universal conviction that the motives of such a government ought to be viewed with distrust, and that until its conduct shall be explained, it is absurd to talk of its justice or friendship; because its continued violations of our rights, when the cause it assigned itself for them has ceased, have been inculcated as furnishing strong grounds for the opinion that we have nothing to calculate upon but that which shall be extorted from its fears; because, under these circumstances the nation is guarded against the dangers of false security—we are told that there is a strong desire to precipitate the U. S. into the horrors of war.
The folly of this language is the best evidence of the forlorn situation to which the opposition to the existing administration is reduced.
The charge of French influence, so dexterously urged against Mr. Jefferson, by the leading federalists is altogether abandoned in relation to Mr. Madison.
Our existing measures, by which commercial intercourse is prohibited with England and France, were sanctioned by every federal vote in the senate, and by a large portion of the votes in the house of representatives. Even Pickering and Quincy voted for them.
The arrangement made with Mr. Erskine has been extolled to the skies by the federalists.
The recent proclamation of the President reinstating the provisions of the non-intercourse has also met with their general approbation.
The talents, the virtues, the moderation, the independence of Mr. Madison, are the constant theme of federal applause.
Nothing, in short, has been done by him, that is not approved.
Still an attempt is persisted in to divide the people, by exciting their fears and fomenting their suspicions of the eventual course that shall be pursued by the administration.
There can be but one motive for this otherwise inexplicable conduct. It must be to prepare the public for that denunciation which it is intended to oppose to whatever measures shall be finally taken by the government. In this nation, as in every other where any freedom exists, there will always be an opposition composed of malcontents, of men who have been disappointed in their personal views, who have coveted honors or offices denied them by the
government; of men, who, from the peculiar structure of their minds, are destined to be in eternal opposition to any government; and of weak men, who, for a variety of causes, are the ill-fated victims of political delusion. Such are the materials of which the present opposition is composed. The honorable conduct of the government, by a fortunate concurrence of circumstances, has become so manifest, as to have shaken from their fealty most of the talent and respectability of the federal party. Enlightened and honest federalists, having become convinced of the pure views of administration, disclaim to lend their aid to the calumnies of faction; for the opposition is reduced even more in talent than in numbers. It is not surprising that, in this forlorn condition, the abortion of hope should have produced the madness of despair, and that the few federal prints which still hold out should exhibit the ravings of bedlam, and be scuffed with the most incoherent nonsense. Lid.
The following paragraph is from the Boston Gazette of Monday. He who can read it without detesting the sentiment and its authors is not entitled to the appellation of an American. Because our trade to the whole continent of Europe is likely to be restored, it is represented by these vipers as a calamity. From such patriots as these, "Tar and Feathers deliver us."
"We FEAR the Report of Mr. Armstrong, having negotiated a new Treaty with France will prove to be true. We have prepared the public mind to expect such an event; and if we are not deceived in the character and views of our cabinet (which we sincerely hope may be the case) such a CALAMITY will most assuredly fall on the country."
Who will say there is not British influence in this. It is British politics to a T.— Salem Reg.
We never said that France "had done us no injury," as certain politicians have said of Britain, whose injuries in comparison are as the loins to the little finger of France. And because France even at the eleventh hour may be disposed to do us justice, we cannot conceive how any American, except an Anglo American , can consider the accommodation of our differences with France as a calamity! We would in our turn ask the editors of the Boston Gazette how many attempts to negotiate with Great Britain have been made by our government, how many insults we have received from her hands, and how many attempts they have made to justify that power in the commitment of these wrongs?— Id.
The Gazette. Wilmington, October 3, 1809.
We feel it a duty to apologise to Deas on account of the transposition of a line in the second stanza of the Downfall of Switzerland , as published in our last. The reader will have the goodness to make the alteration which his understanding will readily suggest.
The President of the United States, and Secretary of State, arrived at Washington on the first instant.
Latest from England. —By arrivals at New-York we are in possession of London dates to the 16th of August. The most prominent articles of intelligence are substantially as follows:
It is now reduced to a certainty that a severe battle was fought on the 26th and 27th of July, between the French and combined British and Spanish armies, at a place called Telavera , on the north side of the Tagus , little below its junction with the river Alberche . Agreeably to the British official account of this engagement it appears that the French were 40,000 strong, a force stated to be greatly superior in number to the troops opposed to them, and that it terminated in the defeat of the French, with the loss of 20 pieces of cannon, ammunition, tents and some prisoners—their loss in killed and wounded is estimated at 10,000 men. The loss of the British in killed, wounded and missing, is stated to one-fifth of the whole British troops engaged. No account is given of the loss of the Spanish part of the army; but as we may reasonably infer that it was not proportionably less than the British, it may be fairly concluded, agreeably to their own statement, that the loss of the combined army could not have been much less than that of the French. A number of officers of distinction were killed on both sides.
Firing was said to have been heard on the French coast, supposed to have been occasioned in consequence of the Preliminaries of Peace having been signed between Austria and France, and that by one of the articles the emperor Francis consents that the French shall occupy Vienna and the Archduchy of Austria for six years.
It was stated on the authority of letters from Holland, that Bonaparte had determined to incorporate the whole of that country with France; and that his brother Louis, is to be made king of the territory about to be wrested from Austria.
The gloom which envelopes the political horizon, says a London paper, is rapidly increasing and forms a lamentable contrast to the sunshine of hope with which it was so lately illumined. In the interval between the battles of Aspern and Wagram, the people of England, deluded by pompous artificial narratives under the plausible title of "Austrian Official Accounts," by daily fabrications from the Banks of the Elbe, the Weser and Danube; by fallacious statements of the flight of King Joseph from Madrid; and the critical distress of Napoleon at Vienna—believed the moment to have at length arrived, when the mighty armament preparing on our coasts should give the final blow to the paramount ascendancy of France on the continent of Europe. Mean while the preparations of Napoleon silently but vigorously approached maturity—and that attained—within one short week the Empire of Austria was crushed to atoms. From that moment the grand object of our expedition was frustrated—the blow was struck, and it was impossible to hesitate in believing that our efforts had been protracted until the accomplishment of the grand object of the armament had become impracticable. The expedition, however, at last sailed on the 29th of July; and on the 8th of August, an army of 50,000 British troops, the best appointed, perhaps, of any equal number of men ever assembled for a military purpose, and supported by an irresistible fleet, is hovering before the town of Flushing, a place which we have been led to believe, from many quarters, and some of them most respectable, would tell an easy conquest to even a flying squadron with a few thousand men. The probable result of the expedition will be the reduction of Flushing—and an unsuccessful attempt to ascend the Scheldt—for the city of Antwerp does not at present appear in much greater danger than the town of Chatham. Whether in the present circumstances of the country, the island of Walcheren is an adequate result of the efforts of such an armament, we leave to wiser heads to determine.
ELECTION.
We have delayed this day's publication till a late hour, in order to lay before our readers a correct statement of the Polls of New-Castle County.
   DEMOCRATIC. FEDERAL.     Senator. Senator.   A. Reynolds 1271 James Rogers 209   James Stroud 212 James Stroud 207   Representatives. Representatives.   Robert Forwood 1506 Wm. Tally 218   Wm. D. Phillips 1512 James Canby 217   Benj. Chambers 1514 Wm. C. Frazier 213   Sam. H. Black 1511 Alex. Forrester 133   John Brad 1510 Saml. Thomas 219   Jesse Higgins 1436 Joshua Carter 215   Enoch Thomas 1504 Sheriffs.   Sheriffs. Benj. Ogle 461   Thomas Perkins 1259 James Eves 174   Th. Richardson 1293 James Stroud 197   Couriers. Couriers.   Alex. Porter 1301 Benj. Hersey 407   Levi Springer 1236 Wm. McClung 212   L. Court Commissioners. Samuel Keen 213   Isaac H. Starr 1515 L. Court Commissioners.   George Gillaspie 1514 Wm. Armor 216   J. Stewart, jun. 1514 Nat. Boulden 216   Anthony Higgins 1309 James Ross 214   Jacob Vandegrift 1514 James Miles 220   John Reynolds 215  
   List of Hundreds, with the number of votes given in each, October 3, 1809.     Brandywine Hundred 172   Christiana do 469   Whitclay-Creek do 273   Mill-Creek do 215   Redclay-Creek do 185   Pencader do 115   Red-Lion do 81   St. Georges do 171   Appoquinimink do 53   1734  
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.
Take Notice.
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, with 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 3 in the afternoon. The terms of purchase can be known by applying to the subscriber near Johnstown. William Carlisle. September 20, 1809.
Matthew Kean
INFOI 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.
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 Felt for Paper-mak'g, all which will be sold low for Cash, either by the piece or smaller quantity.
Mordecai M c Kinney. Newport, (Del.) 16th Sept. 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 per annum—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 subscribe 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 varied 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—64 ** Subscriptions to the COLUMBIAN received at the Office of the Delaware Gazette.
District Court.
Delaware District, ss.
WHEREAS a libel hath been filed in the District Court of the United States against GEORGE READ, Esq. attorney for the said district, against the schooner EMMA , her tackle, apparel and furniture, of the value of $500, lawful money of the United States, now lying in the Delaware district, the said 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 FORD, 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.
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 FATH. September 16, 1809.

Poetry.
My Native Home.
O'er breezy hill or woodland glade, At morning's dawn or closing day, In summer's haunting power array'd, Or pensive moonlight's silver ray : The wretch in sadness still shall roam, Who wanders from his "Native Home."
While at the foot of some old tree, As meditation soothes the mind, Lull'd by the hum of wandering bee, Or rippling stream, or whispering wind, His vagrant fancy still shall roam, And lead him to his "Native Home."
Though love a fragrant couch might weave, And fortune heap the festive board, Still mem'ry oft would turn to grieve, And reason scorn the splendid hoard ; While he, beneath the proudest dome, Would languish for his "Native Home."
To him the rushy roof is dear, And sweetly calm the darkest glen, While pomp, and pride, and power appear, At best the glittering plagues of men ! Unsooth'd by those that never roam, Forgetful of their "Native Home."
Let me to summer's shades retire, With meditation and the Muse, Or round the social winter fire, The glow of tempered mirth diffuse ; The winds may howl, and waters foam, I still shall bless my "Native Home."
And Oh ! when youth's extatic hour, And passions' glowing noon are past, Should age behold the tempest hour, And sorrow blow its keenest blast, My shade no longer doom'd to roam, Shall find the grave a peaceful home.
Disceallany.
HOW TO TAME A TURBULENT HUSBAND.
A tale of the Fifteenth century.
A tradesman who lived in a village near St. Albans, had been twice married and ill treated his wives so as to cause their death. He sought a third, but as his brutality was well known in the place where he dwelt, he was obliged to go fifty miles off for a wife.
He obtained one, and after he brought her home all the neighbours came to visit her, and acquaint her in what manner her husband used to treat his former wives. This sometimes surprised her, but she resolved to wait patiently till her lord and master might take it into his head to beat her. She did not wait long for her husband was a terrible fellow.
One morning he waited on his lady with a cudgel, and was preparing himself to make use of it. "Stop," said she. "I fancy that the right which you now pretend to have over me is not mentioned in our marriage contract : and I declare to your worship you shall not exercise it." Such a stinct speech disconcerted the husband so much, that he laid down his cudgel, and only began to scold her. "Get out of my house," said he, "and let us share our goods." "Readily," said she "I am willing to leave you" and each began to set aside the moveables. The lady loosens the window curtains, and the gentleman unlocks an enormous large trunk in order to fill it with his property ; but as he was leaning over to place some articles at the bottom, she tripped up his heels, and pushed him in, and locked the lid.
Never was man in a greater passion than our man ; he threatened to kill her, and made more noise than a wild boar caught in a trap. She answered him very quietly. "My dear friend, pray be calm, your passion may injure your health ; refresh yourself a little in the comfortable trunk ; for I love you too much to let you out now you are so outrageous ;" in the mean time she ordered her maid to make some custards and cream tarts, and when these were baked and ready, she sent round to all the neighbouring gossips to come and partake of her collation.
This was served up, not on a table, but on the lid of the trunk. Heaven knows what pretty things the husband heard all these famous tattlers publish in his praise, in such a case, a wise man must submit and give fair words. So did our friend in the chest. His language was soothing, he begged pardon, and cried for mercy. The ladies were so good as to forgive him and let him out of the trunk. To reward him for his good behaviour they gave him the remainder of the custards and tarts. He was thus completely cured of his brutality, and was afterwards cited as a model for good husbands ; so that it was sufficient to say to those who were not to take care of the trunk, to make them as gentle as lamb-like himself.
STRANGE CASUALTIES.
How many ways hath death to surprise us ! Let us even omit mentioning the common causes of death who would have suspected that the Duke of Brittany should be pressed to death by a croud at the entry of Pope Clement into Lyons ? Have we not seen some of our kings killed by titering ? and did not one of his ancestors die by the justling of a hog ? Eschylus, endeavouring to avoid being buried in the ruins of a house, was killed in the field by a tortoise-shell tumbling upon his head from an eagle's talons. Philip, the eldest son of Louis le Gros, was choaked by a grape stone ; an emperor killed with the scratch of a comb ; and Aufidius, by stumbling against the door as he entered the council-chamber. The poor judge Bibulus, whilst he reprieved a criminal for eight days, was in the interim himself condemned to death ; and whilst Caius Julius, the physician was anointing the eyes of a patient, death closed his own.
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 Honourable 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 Honourable 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
50 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the Camp Meeting, in Winchester County, on Monday the twenty-eighth of August last, a NEGRO MAN named ISRAEL, upwards of thirty years of age, about six feet high, with a very bright yellow complexion, the property of Miss Polly Elzey of Somerset county, and hired the present year by the subscriber to James Tunnip, of Somerset. Any person who will take up said Negro and secure him so that the owner gets him again, shall, if taken out of the state, receive the above reward, and if taken in the state, and out of the county, Twenty-Five dollars—and if taken in the county, Fifteen dollars, to be paid by
Robert Elzey.
Somerset County, Princess Ann, } September 12, 1809. 9t.
VIRGINIA.
General Assembly begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the Commonwealth, the thirty-third.
AN ACT giving further time to the proprietor of certain lands, forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same.
[Passed February 1st, 1806.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the proprietors of lands forfeited to, and vested in the commonwealth, by the non-payment of taxes, agreeably to the act, entitled "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth," may redeem the same, by paying into the treasury of this commonwealth, on or before the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, all arrears of taxes due thereon. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof.
A copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and six, and of the commonwealth the thirty-first.
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth."
[Passed 20th January, 1807.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That, when the taxes on any tract or parcel of land shall have heretofore remained, or shall hereafter remain unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or parcel of land shall be forfeited to the commonwealth, and shall not be subject to location. Provided Nevertheless, That, the tract or parcel of land so as aforesaid forfeited, shall be subject to the redemption of the former rightful and proper owner at any time within three years after such forfeiture shall have accrued, upon payment of the taxes due thereupon, according to the following rules, to wit. That if the said taxes shall be paid in the first year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid all interest of twenty-five per centum per annum on the amount of the said taxes from the time they became due, till paid. If the said taxes shall be paid in the second year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of fifty per centum per annum on the amount of taxes due as aforesaid ; if the said taxes shall be paid in the third year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of one hundred per centum per annum, as aforesaid ; Provided also, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unsound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased, on their paying all taxes due, with an interest thereon at the rate of ten per centum per annum on the amount due as aforesaid.
All acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next.
A copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the commonwealth the thirty-third.
AN ACT providing for the redemption of certain lands forfeited by the non-payment of taxes thereon.
[Passed February 6th 1809.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That all lands hereafter forfeited or hereafter to be forfeited to the commonwealth for the non-payment of taxes, by virtue of the laws now in force, shall be redeemable at any time within three years from the time when such forfeiture hath heretofore accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, and until the first day of March next succeeding the expiration of the said term of three years, on payment of the taxes due thereon, with an interest of ten per centum per annum one each year's tax, from the time when the same became or shall become due, until the time of such redemption. Provided nevertheless, That all lands heretofore forfeited, shall be redeemable a like manner, and on payment of the like interest, on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.
Be it further enacted, That the Auditor of public accounts shall, on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on or before the first day of March in every year thereafter, deliver to the
collector of the taxes of each county, a list of all forfeited lands therein, as on the first day of March preceding, had become irredeemable, which list shall be forthwith posted or hung up in the most public place in the court-house of the county.
Be it further enacted, That on the first Monday in August in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on the first Monday of August in every year thereafter, the collectors shall proceed, by public auction, at the door of the court-house of each county, to sell to the highest bidders each tract of land contained within the list of such forfeited lands, as were irredeemable on the first day of March in the preceding year for want of money.
Be it further enacted, That if at any such sale the former owner or owners of any forfeited tract of land so about to be sold, or any person for him, her or them, or in his, her or their behalf, with or without any authority or direction for that purpose, shall appear and pay the taxes due thereon, with interests as aforesaid, until the time of such sale, such tract shall not be sold, but an entry of such payment shall be made by the collector on the list aforesaid, and a receipt for such payment given to the person making the same in the name of the former owner or owners, and thereupon such land shall be taken to be redeemed, and the forfeiture accrued thereon, shall be, and the same is hereby fully waived and remitted.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner or commissioners of the revenue, annually, on the first Monday in August, to attend at the court-house of the respective counties, and to take and make out a list of the sales to be sold by the collector, specifying the name or names of the former owner or owners, the sums paid and to whom sold, which list the commissioner or commissioners shall forthwith transmit to the Auditor of public accounts, who shall charge the collector with the amount of sales appearing thereon.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector to pay annually into the public Treasury, all such sum or sums of money as he shall receive by virtue of this act, deducting a commission of five per centum thereon, which payment shall annually be made on the same day on which the taxes collected in the same year shall be payable.
Be it further enacted, That the lists of sale so certified and taken by the commissioners, or either of them, shall be sufficient to charge the collector or his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators therewith, on any motion to be made to recover the same by the auditor of public accounts. And if any collector shall make default in the payment of any monies by him received, by virtue of this act, at the time hereby required, such collector, and his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators, shall be liable to all such fines, interests, damages and costs, and be recovered in the same manner as in case of a default in the payment of the commonwealth's revenue.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector making a sale by virtue of this act, to make out and execute to the purchaser a deed in fee simple for the lands purchased, reciting the cause of sale, and in every action or suit at law or in equity, in which a former owner or owners of any tract of land so sold and conveyed, his, her, or their heirs, devisees, or other person or persons claiming under him, her or them, shall contest the validity of the sale so made, the onus probandi shall lie on the party so contesting.
Be it further enacted, That the commissioner or commissioners for discharging the duties required on them by this act, shall be entitled to receive from the public treasury a commission of one and an half per centum on the amount of sales, on a warrant from the auditor of public accounts.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts, at the public expense, to cause a copy of this act, and of an act passed the first day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled "An act giving further time to the proprietors of certain lands forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same, and also of an act passed on the twentieth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled, "An act to amend an act, entitled "An act, more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth," to be published for six months successively in the present year, and for three months successively preceding the first Monday in August in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to be published in some newspaper, of general circulation, cited in each of the United States, if any such there be.
And be it further enacted, That the duties enjoined in this act to be performed by the collectors, shall where the sheriff is collector, be performed by the high sheriff in person, and every purchase made, wholly or in part, by the sheriff or his deputy, or by any other person being a collector, or by any other person, wholly or in part, for the use of such sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being a collector shall be void ; and every sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being a collector, making any purchase, either wholly or in part, for himself, or procuring any other person to make such purchase, wholly or in part for the use aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $500, to the use of the public, to be recovered by bill, plaint or information, in any court of record having jurisdiction thereof.
This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
A copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
April 22-1809