The Delaware gazette (Wilmington [Del.]), 1809-12-23 00:00:00

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
VOL. I.]
WILMINGTON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1809.
NO 49
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TO BE RENTED,
And possession given on or before the 25th of March next,
ALL that valuable property formerly occupied by Col. Thomas Duff, Esq. in the village of Newport—consisting of a large commodious brick dwelling-house, pleasantly situated on the main street and elegantly fronting the river Christiana, well calculated for a large store, and as the Turnpike road leading from the Gap Tavern or Lancaster to that place is now in considerable forwardness, and will probably be carried into effect in the course of the next summer, it will certainly be one of the most eligible spots for business in the state of Delaware. It has every convenience, such as a good garden, barn, stabling and other houses, &c. &c.—A handsome FARM of excellent land, contiguous to the town, will be let with it, and two or three Lots in the vicinity thereof, well adapted for grass, or as the renter may think proper to apply them. There are also eight acres of first rate Marsh, now in good order, a small distance from the town. The terms of renting said property may be known by applying to THOMAS DUFF, Esquire, residing at Mrs. Huggins's, Wilmington.
N. B.—No part of this property will let be separate from the other.
Wilmington, Dec. 8th, 1809.
In the Court of Chancery.
Thomas Robinson, surviving ex'or. of Abraham Robinson, dec'd.
vs.
James McIlvain and Mary his wife, and Thomas Perkins and Sarah his wife.
IN the Court of Chancery of the state of Delaware, held at New-Castle, for the county of New-Castle—Bill filed Feb. 10th, 1808—Subpoena issued, &c.
Upon the petition of the complainant Thomas Robinson, and upon the affidavit of Francis Haughey, esq. late sheriff of New-Castle county, it is ordered by the Chancellor, this thirtieth day of November, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and nine, that James McIlvain and Mary his wife, two of the defendants in the said bill of complaint, do appear in this Court on Saturday the tenth day of March next, to the said bill of complaint, and on failure so to do, that the said bill be taken pro confesso.
NICHOLAS RIDGELY, Chancellor.
New-Castle County, ss.
I DO CERTIFY, That the above is a true extract from the record thereof. Given under my hand and the seal of the said Court, at New-Castle, this fifth day of December, A. D. 1809.
HUGH W. RITCHIE, Reg'r. in Ch'ry. for N. C. County.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT on the 24th instant, at the house of JOHN CROW, in the town of New-Castle, will be received, proposals in writing for renting the Newport Ferry. The person or persons who may be desirous of renting the same will at the same time produce an engagement, in writing, from one or more persons, who shall be engaged to be bound for the rent that may be offered, and also for the faithful performance of the several duties required of the keeper by law.
John Crow, Zachariah Derrickson, } Com'rs.
John Lyman,
December 20th, 1809.
124dec.
POETRY.
From the Maryland Herald.
THE MANIAC.
BY A LADY.
When the clear waters glow in the bushes of even, On the cliff of the ocean where murmurs the breeze, The maniac hails the pure breathings of heaven, That bear her wild notes o'er the whispering seas.
They charm the lone spirit that watches the cave, Prepar'd for her home in the wrath of the storm, When it rush'd in its strength from the maddening wave, And tore the proud rock to shelter her form.
Beneath its rude arch till the dawning of morn, Fearless, child of distraction, she lingers alone, While the wind on her locks waves the dew from the thorn, When she pillows her head on the cold mossy stone.
No voice thrilling soft through her labouring breast, Hails in accents of joy the wanderer home: No kind melting sound bids her wild spirit rest, When the cold howling blast her heart pulses be- numb.
But she hears in her dwelling, so lonely and rude, When the moon setting beams on the western rocks die, O'er the murmuring breast of the blue heaving flood, The music of peace in the gales of the sky.
And oft when the moon settles clear on the seas, Ere she hides her cold urn in the clouds of the west,
A voice from on high mingling oft with the breeze Wakes the storm beaten wretch from her feverish rest.
Oh! it steals o'er her spirit so plaintive and sweet, Like the voice of love to the cold-breaking heart, Ere the warm pulse of agony ceases to beat, Or the forms of delight from the swimming eye part.
She beholds the convulsions of nature unmov'd, Yet she weeps while the warblings of paradise charm, But they say 'tis the spirit of one whom she lov'd, When her heart in the moments of transport was warm.
And when the faint cadence at distance expires, Her desolate breast feels the horrors return That cloud her dark soul while the slow wasting fires Of maddening woe in her wild bosom burn.
She scales the grey cliff that o'er shadows her cave, And 'neath the dark boughs of the withering tree, She chatters to the wandering gale of the wave, That nighters the slumbers who rest in from p.
Laws of the Union
[By Authority.]
AN ACT
Supplemental to an act, entitled "An act extending the right of suffrage in the Indiana territory, and for other purposes."
BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That the governor of the Indiana territory, for the time being, be, and is hereby authorized and empowered to apportion the representatives among the several counties in said territory, as he shall think proper, having regard to the numbers limited in the fourth section of the act to which this is a supplement, and to issue his writ for the election of such representatives agreeably to the apportionment which he may name, at such time as he shall deem most convenient for the citizens of the several counties in said territory.
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, that so soon as the legislature of said territory shall be convened the number of representatives in each county thereof, shall be regulated by the general assembly.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall occur in the legislative council, by death, resignation or removal from office, or when from either of said causes there shall be no delegate from said territory to the congress of the United States, the governor shall in either case be authorized to issue his proclamation, directing an election to be held to supply such vacancy according to law.
J. B. Varnum,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Andrew Gregg,
President of the Senate pro tempore.
December 15, 1809,
APPROVED,
JAMES MADISON.
From the National Intelligencer.
EXPOSITION
Of the conduct of the Hon. FRANCIS JAMES JACKSON, In his correspondence with ROBERT SMITH, Esquire, Secretary of State.
CONTINUED.
In conclusion, Mr. Jackson confesses in his letter of the 12th of October, that he is not instructed "to promise to the government of the United States any formal agreement to be substituted for that which his majesty had been under the necessity of disavowing," and that, as to the orders in council, "it is matter of indifference to G. Britain, whether the order in council be continued, or an arrangement by mutual consent substituted in its room." This, with his preceding observations, furnished nearly a complete development of the nature and tendency of Mr. Jackson's mission. "The real and unqualified interdiction of all trade with the enemy," he contended to be correct in principle declared it to be a doctrine which Great Britain would never cease to maintain, admitted that he had no new propositions to make, and that his sovereign, adhering to the spirit of the orders in council, was totally indifferent as to the form, but would by no means relinquish the substance of them; or, in other words, if the United States would by compact accede to the provisions of the orders, then, indeed, his Britannic majesty would agree to substitute such compact for the orders in council. So far from this being a repeal of the orders in council, it was a demand on the American government to ratify them by law .
At this point of the discussions, the president would have acted perfectly correct in relinquishing all correspondence with Mr. Jackson on the subject of reconciliation. Great Britain was resolved to maintain her anti-neutral system, Mr. Jackson had nothing new to offer, he did not even come prepared to make an explanation; his style of correspondence was supercilious, his predominant temper irritating, and the whole train of his logic repulsive to a good understanding between the two countries. He was, to be sure, if that which he says be true, "directed to receive and discuss proposals which the secretary of state might be authorised to make to him." In other words, he was to constitute himself a tribunal for deciding upon the propositions of the American government. He would "receive and discuss proposals," just as the war office or post office of the United States would receive and discuss proposals for supplying the troops with provisions or for carrying the mails; and the sum total of his instructions seems to have been to advertise the secretary of state that Mr. Jackson would thus "receive and discuss proposals," and by faintly intimating that he was authorised "eventually" to conclude a convention, to entice the president to bid up for a contract, Mr. Jackson would not come out forthwith and be that would be acceptable to him; but if Mr. Smith could reach his mark, if he could guess (for it amounts to this,) what the instructions of the new envoy were, then Mr. Jackson would unfold the true object of his mission; he would descend to open his port folio and expose his secret. His conduct in this particular is precisely as if a man should say "I have nothing to offer in behalf of peace, nor can I, indeed, say exactly what I will agree to; but you may go on proposing, and if the president gives me enough for it, I will sell him a convention." Even admitting the president could have demeaned himself to this species of diplomatic legerdemain, to this kind of hide and seek correspondence, what prospect did Mr. Jackson's actual intimations hold out to him? None, that was at all consoling: the whole political landscape painted by the new minister was barren and dreary. Although the successor of Mr. Erskine would not affirm positively what his sovereign would do, yet he very plainly designated what he would not do. He would not rescind the orders in council upon any other terms than a substitution by compact of similar provisions in their stead; he would never cease to maintain the prerogative of a total and unqualified interdiction of all trade with the enemy; and, essentially speaking, he would not consent to abandon a single prominent feature of that maritime policy, against the whole system of which the constituted authorities of America had uniformly protested. Where, then, was the use of making proposals to Mr. Jackson? Did he imagine that the American government, in the pursuit of its rights, would waste its time and its labor for his amusement, to frame propositions merely to be received, and discussed, and rejected by him? The gentleman has by this time discovered that he undervalued the cabinet of Washington, and committed his fame and his feelings (if feelings he has any,) to the thorns of ridicule and contempt.
But the American administration would not be provoked into an early and abrupt rejection of the hope of accommodation, even through such an ungracious minister as Mr. Jackson. The president and his counsellors appear to have been determined to probe Mr. Jackson more closely as to the object of his mission,
and to bring him strictly to the test, in the expectation that he had still in store the precious balm which was to heal the festering wounds of the nation. Accordingly, Mr. Smith addressed to him on the 19th of October, a very lucid and masterly letter, the commencement of which exposes the frivolity of the exception which Mr. Jackson had taken to the prescription of written for verbal communications.—The reader must be amused with the awkward and embarrassed escape which the new envoy makes from the perplexity of ignorance and humiliation which he had presumptuously brought upon himself. No additional weight can be given, by any remarks in this place, to the overwhelming arguments by which Mr. Smith demonstrates the propriety of Mr. Jackson's presenting a formal explanation of the true cause of the disavowal of Mr. Erskine's arrangement, nor to the sagacity and just reasoning with which the secretary of state points out an untruth advanced by the representative of his Britannic majesty relative to that explanation having been made in London to Mr. Pinkney; nor any force added to the repulsion of Mr. Jackson's insinuation that the government of the United States had manifested no dissatisfaction at the disavowal of the arrangement.
It is in his letter of the 19th of Oct. Mr. Smith states, that Mr. Erskine "did present for his consideration the three conditions" contained in the printed dispatch of Mr. Canning of the 23d of January; but that, finding they were rejected, Mr. Erskine proposed others which others were accepted. It is particularly recommended to the reader to peruse two or three times, and with attention, that part of Mr. Smith's letter in question which immediately follows this statement; it places the subject in so clear a light that it cannot be mistaken; and, in a special manner, let the expression of the secretary of state be remarked, viz: "That he [Mr. Erskine] had, or, at least, that he believed he had sufficient authority to conclude the arrangement, his formal assurances during our discussions were such as to leave no room to doubt." Upon this ground, then, the American government acted, namely; Mr. Erskine verbally suggested three propositions which have since appeared to be the three conditions embraced in the dispatch from Mr. Canning of the 23d of January, and which were rejected by Mr. Smith; and, when the late British minister proposed others more consonant to equity and of course more agreeable, he gave formal assurances to the secretary of state, that he was authorised to make them the basis of the arrangement. Mr. Erskine did not tell Mr. Smith (nor does Mr. Smith say he did, and Mr. Jackson himself does not openly assert it) that the three conditions first suggested were the only ones which his instructions contained. The secretary of state made no enquiry in that respect. It was none of the secretary's business. It was for Mr. Erskine to look to it that he did not disobey the orders of the king his master. Mr. Smith was treating with the British accredited minister; a minister with a full general power to act for the British government. Mr. Erskine never showed his instructions to Mr. Smith, as Mr. Jackson admits; but merely in a verbal way, as any man in making a bargain would do, proposed them experimentally. He did precisely what an individual does at market; when he could not make the arrangement, for, in other words, purchase what he wanted at one price, he gave another. If he disobeyed his instructions, that, as Mr. Smith very justly remarks, "is a question essentially between him and his government." Mr. Erskine himself in his letter to Mr. Smith, asserts unreservedly, that "he conceived he had conformed to his majesty's wishes; and to the spirit, at least, of the instructions." To this opinion he adhered to the last moment of his remaining in the United States; and the only revolution that appears to have taken place in his mind in relation to the subject, was a painful conviction, occasioned by the disavowal, "that he had formed an erroneous judgment of his majesty's views and intention," which is an observation that Mr. Erskine makes in his letter of the 14th of August to the secretary of state, and which is a severe reproof on the British government; fully implying, that although the instructions of Mr. Jackson's predecessor justified the arrangement, yet that it was neither the "view" nor the "intention" of the British ministry that any arrangement on reasonable terms should have been entered into.
To the testimony of Mr. Erskine, and to the reason of the case, is added the explicit declaration of Mr. Smith, that the circumstance that the dispatch of the 23d of January from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine was the only one which authorised him to propose conditions, "was for the first time known" to the government of the United States by Mr. Jackson himself, in his letter of the 11th of October: "and (Mr. Smith continues) I need hardly add, that if that dispatch had been communicated at the time of the arrangement, or if it had been known that the propositions contained in it, and which were at first presented by Mr. Erskine, were the only ones on which he was authorised to make an arrangement, the arrangement would not have been made." There is no duplicity in this language; it denies all knowledge of the real nature and extent of Mr. Erskine's instructions; and avers, if they had been known to be such as Mr. Jackson asserts them to be, no compact would have been made. It will be seen in the conclusion

By which feeble sophism the new envoy attempts to evade the force of this fact.
Referring the reader to the correct elucidations which are given by Mr. Smith, in his letter of the 19th of October, on the several interesting topics in dispute between the United States and Great Britain, and particularly to the conciliatory offer of the president to comprehend the orders in council in a general negotiation, the writer of this exposition proceeds to the letter of Mr. Jackson to Mr. Smith of the 23d of October. This letter is remarkable, among other points, for the very unsatisfactory explanation it furnishes of the reasons for disavowing Mr. Erskine's arrangement. It was disavowed, Mr. Jackson asserts, because his predecessor had no authority to conclude it. There is no reference to the equity and justice of the terms; no " strong and solid reasons " in relation to the rights of the United States. But, simply, the act was disavowed, because the minister was unauthorised to conclude it. This, certainly, is a convenient , if not a legal excuse. It is one which may at all times and under all circumstances be resorted to. Nothing more is necessary than to declare that a minister has not comprehended his instructions, and the most solemn engagements are at an end. But this is neither law nor good faith. Supposing that the violation of instructions is good cause for disavowing an arrangement, the mere saying so is no competent and satisfactory explanation to the disappointed party. It is incumbent on the disavowing party to show that they have been violated; that is, the disappointing party should prove the fact of violation. Mr. Jackson has not done this. He refers to a printed dispatch of the 23d of January, and offers his bare word for all the rest. Where are the "several" letters of instruction mentioned by Mr. Erskine? Why not produce the original paper of the dispatch of January 23d, that is, the manuscript of it? Why in an official proceeding, refer to a copy which appeared in the newspapers? And where is the instruction relative to the Chesapeake? Did Mr. Erskine exceed his orders in that respect also? Mr. Jackson says he did;—but Mr. Jackson produces no copy, (not even a printed one) of the instruction on that head. Is this what Vattel (an authority fully admitted by Mr. Jackson,) would call a " strong and solid reason ?" Mr. Jackson's mere word, unsupported by corroborating vouchers or circumstances, cannot be received as evidence in the case; yet he offers no other; and in this view it is worthy of notice, that Mr. Jackson claims for himself that weight of credibility which he denies to Mr. Smith and to the president. It requires that his solitary declaration (a declaration vitiated by his tergiversations) should be taken in support and for full proof of a fact, and at the same time more than insinuates that Mr. Smith's word, and the asseverations of the president through Mr. Smith, are not entitled to belief.
The reader will observe, that Mr. Smith in his letter of the nineteenth of Oct. says, "the declaration that the dispatch from Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine of the 23d of January is the only dispatch by which the conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it relates is now for the first time made to this government." Mr. Jackson had read this observation when he wrote his reply of October 23d, from which the following is an extract:
"So far from the terms which he [Mr. Erskine] was actually induced to accept having been contemplated in that instruction, he himself states that they were substituted by you [the secretary of state] in lieu of those originally proposed."
(To be continued.)
Message
From the President of the United States, transmitting extracts from the correspondence of Mr. Pinkney.
To the House of Representatives of the United States.
Agreeably to the request expressed in the resolution of the 18th inst. I lay before the House extracts from the correspondence of the minister plenipotentiary of the United States at London.
JAMES MADISON.
December 16, 1809.
Brief account of an official conversation between Mr. Canning and Mr. Pinkney, on the 18th of January, 1809, continued on the 22d of the same month.
[Transmitted by Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State.]
I dined at Mr. Canning's with the corps diplomatique , on the 18th January. Before dinner he came up to me, and entering into conversation, adverted to the report which he said had reached him that the American ministers (here and in France) were about to be recalled. I replied, that I was not aware that such a step had been resolved upon. He then took me aside, and observed that, according to his view of the late proceedings of congress, the resolutions of the house of representatives in committee of the whole appeared to be calculated, if passed into a law, to remove the impediments to arrangement with the United States, on the subject of the orders in council and the Chesapeake, by taking away the discrimination between Great Britain and France in the exclusion of vessels of war from American ports. He added that it was another favorable circumstance that the non-importation system, which seemed to be in contemplation, was to be applied equally to both parties, instead of affecting as heretofore Great Britain alone.
I proposed to Mr. Canning, that I should call on him in the course of a day or two for the
purpose of a free communication upon what he had suggested. To this he readily assented; and it was selected that I should see him on the Sunday following, (the 22d) at 12 o'clock, at his own house.
In the interview of the 22d, Mr. Canning's impressions appeared to be in all respects the same with those which he had mentioned on the 18th; and I said every thing which I thought consistent with candor and discretion to confirm him in his disposition to seek the re-establishment of good understanding with us, and especially to see in the expected act of congress (if it should pass) an opening for reconciliation.
It was of some importance to turn their attention here, without loss of time, to the manner of any proceeding that might be in their contemplation. It seemed that the resolutions of the house of representatives, if enacted into a law, might render it proper, if not indispensable, that the affair of the Chesapeake should be settled at the same time with the business of the orders and embargo, and this I understood to be Mr. Canning's opinion and wish. It followed that the whole matter ought to be settled at Washington, and as this was moreover desirable on various other grounds, I suggested that it would be well (in case a special mission did not meet their approbation) that the necessary powers should be sent to Mr. Erskine.
In the course of the conversation, Mr. Canning proposed several questions relative to our late proposal; the principal were the two following:
1. In case they should wish either through me or through Mr. Erskine, to meet us upon the basis of our late overture, what way was the effectual operation of our embargo as to France, &c. after it should be broken off as to Great Britain, to be secured? It was evident, he said, that if we should do no more than refuse clearances for the ports of France, &c. or prohibit under penalties voyages to such ports, the act which my letter of the 23d of August, and my published instructions, proposed to have in view, would not be produced; for that vessels, although cleared for British ports, might, when once out, go to France instead of coming here; that this would in fact be so, (whatever the penalties which the American laws might denounce against offenders) could not, he imagined, be doubted; and he therefore presumed that the government of the United States would not, after it had itself declared a commerce with France, &c. illegal, and its citizens who should engage in it delinquents, and after having given to Great Britain by compact an interest in the strict observation of the prohibition, complain if the naval force of this country should assist in preventing such a commerce.
2. He asked whether there would be any objection to making the repeal of the British orders and the American embargo cotemporaneous? He seemed to consider this as indispensable.—Nothing could be less admissible, he said, than that Great Britain, after rescinding her orders, should for any time, however short, be left subject to the embargo in common with France, whose decrees were subsisting, with a view to an experiment upon France, or with any other view. The United States could not upon their own principles apply the embargo to this country one moment after its orders were removed, or decline after that event to apply it exclusively to France, and the powers connected with her in system.
I took occasion towards the close of our conversation to mention the recent appointment of admiral Berkeley to the Lisbon station. Mr. Canning said, that whatever might be their inclination to consult the feelings of the American government on that subject, it was impossible for the admiralty to resist the claim of that officer to be employed (no other objection existing against him) after such a lapse of time since his return from Halifax, without bringing him to a court martial; although I did not understand him to say that this would be the case. He said that admiral Berkeley, in what he had done, had acted wholly without authority. I did not propose to enter into any discussion upon the subject, and therefore contented myself with speaking of the appointment as unfortunate.
In both of these conversations, Mr. Canning's language and manner were in the highest degree conciliatory.
Extract of a letter from Wm. Pinkney, esq. minister plenipotentiary of the United States in London, to the Secretary of State, dated London, May 23, 1809.
In the interview which took place, (on May 25) Mr. Canning said, that the British minister had acted in his late negotiation and engagements with you not only without authority, but in direct opposition to the most precise instructions; that the instructions actually given to him had been founded on his letters received here in January, in which were set forth the particulars of several conversations that had passed between him and Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and yourself, but especially the two last; that it appeared from these conversations, that, in the opinion of the persons with whom they were held, the government of the United States would be willing that Great Britain should consider the measures then contemplated by congress, relative to non-intercourse, and the indiscriminate exclusion of belligerent vessels from our waters, as presenting an opening for the renewal of amicable discussions with this country; that it would be disposed, in the case of the Chesapeake, to receive as reparation, in addition to the prompt disavowal and recall of admiral Berkeley, the restoration of the seamen forcibly taken out of that vessel; that, on the subject of the orders in council, it would have no objection in case they were revoked as regarded the United States, to repeal the embargo and non-inter-
course laws as to Great Britain, and to continue them as to France and Holland and such other countries as should have in force machine edicts similar to those of France, so long as those edicts remained; that it would allow it to be understood that the British cruisers might capture American vessels attempting to violate the embargo and non-intercourse laws so modified; that it would even agree to abandon, during the present war all trade with enemies' colonies from which we were excluded in peace; that it was prepared to regulate by treaty the commercial relations of the two countries upon the basis of the most favored nation, or upon that of reciprocal equality; and, in a word, that it was extremely desirous of re-establishing the most perfect good understanding and the most friendly connexion with Great Britain.
Mr. Canning proceeded to inform me that in consequence of these representations, some parts of which he said I had myself confirmed in two conversations in January, he had framed and transmitted to Mr. Erskine two sets of instructions, dated the 23d of that month, but not forwarded till some time afterwards, the first of which related to the business of the Chesapeake, and the second to the orders in council, and the proposed commercial arrangements. These instructions, together with the passages in Mr. Erskine's letter, written I believe in December last, which contained the abovementioned representations and some other details which I ought not to repeat, Mr. Canning read to me.
Although Mr. Canning made me acquainted with Mr. Erskine's instructions, he did not in any degree apprize me of the explanations, transmitted by that minister, of the grounds and motives of his proceedings; and I could not be sure, from any thing which Mr. Canning had stated to me, that I had been made to understand the exact nature and character of the transaction. I believed, therefore, that it behooved me to be particularly careful how I received what Mr. Canning thought fit to disclose to me. In looking back upon the past I discovered no inducements to a less cautious course. I remembered that Mr. Canning had not told me in our conversations in January (one of which occurred the day before the date of his letter to Mr. Erskine) that he intended to confide to him such powers as he must then have been in the act of preparing, or indeed any powers at all. That in our conferences in April, after the arrival of the Pacific, the same reserve was practiced.—That in the last of those conferences Mr. Canning admitted only (and that too upon being pressed by me) that in the business of the Chesapeake, he "had written to Mr. Erskine, in compliance with what he understood to be my wish, that the settlement of that affair should be transferred to Washington," that even then the time when he had done so was not mentioned; and that as to the orders in council, I was suffered to suppose that negotiation in America had not been authorised. It occurred to me, moreover, that as it had already been decided that Mr. Erskine was to be disavowed, and as that decision had been made public through the board of trade, I could not hope to prevent that disavowal, and that with my imperfect knowledge of facts, it might be worse than useless by labored discussion to attempt it.
With these impressions I could do little more than manifest my concern that conciliatory arrangements between the American secretary of state and his majesty's accredited minister at Washington, acting in consequence of professing, in pursuance of orders from his court, were not likely to have the result which was naturally to be expected from them. I undertook, however, to declare with confidence, that the American government had met Mr. Erskine's proposals in a just and friendly spirit, and with a sincere desire that, while its own honor and essential interests were fairly consulted and maintained, a liberal respect should be shown for those of Great Britain.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State, dated London, June 6th, 1809.
Mr. Canning tells me that the conversations detailed in Mr. Erskine's letters did not, as I had supposed, suggest that the government of the United States would allow it to be understood that British cruisers might stop American vessels attempting to violate the embargo and non-intercourse, continuing as to France, &c. after they should be withdrawn as to Great Britain.—They suggested that the United States would side with the power revoking its edicts against the power persevering. This Mr. Canning says he considered (although he did not so insist upon it in the recapitulation contained in his instructions to Mr. Erskine) as comprehending what I thought he had represented the actual suggestion to be, and what he supposed I had said to him in an informal conversation, at his house in Britton street, on the 22d of January, in an answer to one of his enquiries.
It will, I am sure, occur to you, as the fact is, that the little which I might have thrown out upon that occasion did not look to the admission of Mr. Canning's object into any stipulation between the two countries, and that I viewed it only as a consequence that might and would, if France persisted in her unjust decrees, grow out of arrangements similar to those offered by us in August last.
Having no longer any authority (as Mr. Canning knew) to speak officially upon that or any other point connected with the orders in council, and being desirous that this government should propose negotiation at Washington, as well concerning the orders as the affair of the Chesapeake, I avoided as much as possible explanations upon details which would be best managed at home by the department of state, and endeavored to speak upon what Mr. Canning proposed to me, in such a manner as that
without justifying the expectations on my part, or forsaking what was due to the honor of my own government, I might contribute to produce an effort here towards friendly adjustment.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to Mr. Smith, dated London, June 9, 1809.
Mr. Erskine's instructions concerning the orders in council having been laid before the house of commons, are now printed. You will find them in the newspaper inclosed.
It is not improbable that when Mr. Canning read these instructions to me, I inferred from the manner in which the three points stated in the 5th, 6th and 7th paragraphs are introduced and connected, that they were all considered as suggested by Mr. Erskine's "report of his conversations with Mr. Madison, Mr. Gallatin and Mr. Smith;" whether I was led by any other cause into the mistake of supposing that the third (as well as the first and second) was so suggested, I am not sure, and it is not very material.
Mr. Canning's misconception of some informal observations from me in January last, has been in part mentioned in my letter of the 6th inst. But the published instructions shew, what I had not collected from hearing them read, that he understood me to have stated, "that the American government was itself aware that without an enforcement by the naval power of Great Britain, of the regulations of America with respect to France, those regulations must be altogether nugatory." It cannot be necessary to inform you that in this, as in the other particulars alluded to in my last letter, I have been misapprehended.
I ought to mention that the strong and direct charge against the American government of "manifest partiality" to France, introduced without any qualification or management of expression, into a paper which Mr. Erskine was authorised to communicate in extenso to you, did not strike me when that paper was read to me by Mr. Canning.
Extract of a letter from Mr. Pinkney to the Secretary of State, dated June 23d, 1809.
I had an interview yesterday with Mr. Canning.
In conversing upon the first of the conditions, upon the obtaining of which Mr. Erskine was to promise the repeal of the British orders in council, and a special mission, I collected from what was said by Mr. Canning, that the exemption of Holland from the effect of our embargo and non-intercourse would not have been much objected to by the British government, if the government of the United States had been willing to concede the first condition, subject to that exemption. Mr. Canning observed that the expedient of an actual blockade of Holland had occurred to them as being capable of meeting that exemption; but that Mr. Erskine had obtained no pledge, express or implied, or in any form, that we would enforce our non-intercourse system against France and her dependencies; that our actual system would, if not re-enacted or continued as to France, terminate with the present session of congress; that for aught that appeared to the contrary in your correspondence with Mr. Erskine, or in the president's proclamation, the embargo and non-intercourse laws might be suffered without breach of faith to expire, or might even be repealed immediately, notwithstanding the perseverance of France in her Berlin and other edicts; and that Mr. Erskine had in truth secured nothing more, as the consideration of the recall of the orders in council, than the renewal of American intercourse with Great Britain.
Upon the second of the conditions mentioned in Mr. Erskine's instructions I made several remarks. I stated that it had no necessary connection with the principal subject; that it had lost its importance to Great Britain by the reduction of almost all the colonies of her enemies; that Batavia was understood not to be affected by it; that it could not apply to Guadalupe (the only other unconquered colony) since it was admitted that we were not excluded from a trade with Guadalupe in peace; that I did not know what the government of the United States would upon sufficient inducements consent to do upon this point; but that it could scarcely be expected to give the implied sanction which this condition called upon it to give, to the rule of the war of 1756, without any equivalent or reciprocal stipulation whatsoever.—Mr. Canning admitted that the second condition had no necessary connection with the orders in council, and he intimated that they would have been content to leave the subject of it to future discussion and arrangement. He added that this condition was inserted in Mr. Erskine's instructions, because it had appeared from his own report of conversations, with official persons at Washington that there would be no difficulty in agreeing to it.
Upon the third condition I said a very

few words. I restated what I had thrown out upon the matter of it in an informal conversation in January, and expressed my regret that it should have been misapprehended. Mr. Canning immediately said that he was himself of opinion that the idea upon which that condition turns could not well find its way into a stipulation; that he had nevertheless, believed it proper to propose the condition to the United States; that he should have been satisfied with the rejection of it; and that the consequence would have been that they should have intercepted the commerce to which it referred, if any such commerce should be attempted.
Congressional Register.
In Senate.
Wednesday, Dec. 13.
Mr. Pope presented a petition from the inhabitants of the Mississippi territory east of Pearl river, praying for a division of the territory. Ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. Meigs gave notice that to-morrow he should ask leave to bring in a bill to authorise the surveying and making of certain roads in the state of Ohio, as contemplated in the treaty of Brownstown, in the Michigan territory.
Thursday, Dec. 14.
Mr. Leib submitted the following motion for consideration:
Resolved, That the president of the United States be requested to cause to be laid before the senate a copy of the correspondence between him and the governor of Pennsylvania in the case of Gideon Olmsted.
The bill to prevent the abuse of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by foreign ministers within the United States was, on motion of Mr. Giles, recommitted to a select committee.
The bill to extend the time for issuing and locating military warrants, was read a third time and passed.
Agreeably to notice given, Mr. Meigs asked and obtained leave to bring in the above-mentioned bill, which was read, and passed to a second reading.
Friday, December 15.
The above-mentioned bill was read the second time and committed to Messrs. Meigs, Bradley and Pope, to consider and report thereon to the senate.
Mr. Bradley submitted for consideration the following resolution.
Resolved, That the secretary of the treasury be and hereby is requested to lay before the senate a statement of the payments which have been made by the respective states of the direct tax; designating, as far as may be, what sums are unaccounted for by the supervisors, what sums are in the hands of collectors, and the persons in whose hands such monies are; and what sums are still due from any of the respective states.
[Committee appointed agreeably to the 22d rule, for conducting business in the senate; Messrs. Gilman, Griswold and Mathewson.]
Monday, Dec. 18.
The bill from the house of representatives to revive the act for the relief of the refugees from the British provinces of Canada and Nova Scotia; was read a first time and passed to a second reading.
Mr. Smith of Md. agreeably to notice introduced a bill for the relief of Joseph Summer, Simon Phillipson, William Hamon, Archibald M'Call, and Isaac Clason, which was read and passed to a second reading.
The motion submitted by Mr. Bradley on Friday last was taken up and agreed to.
Mr. Giles, from the committee to whom was recommitted the bill to prevent the abuse of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by foreign ministers within the United States, reported the same with amendments; which were read and ordered to lie on the table.
Tuesday, Dec. 19.
The vice president attended and took the chair of the senate.
A message was received from the president of the United States enclosing the correspondence between him and the governor of Pennsylvania relative to the case of Gideon Olmsted, which was read and ordered to be printed.
The bill to prevent the abuse of the privileges and immunities enjoyed by foreign ministers within the United States was read and ordered to be engrossed for a third reading.
House of Representatives.
Wednesday, Dec. 13.
A report was received from the secretary of the treasury, enclosing, in pursuance of a standing resolution of the house, a statement of the drawbacks payable on articles exported from the United States in the years 1806, 1807 and 1808, compared with the amount of duties collected on the same respectively. From this statement the following abstract is made:
Table with 2 columns: Years, Duties rec'd., Drawbacks payable. Rows for 1806, 1807, 1808.
Ordered to lie on the table. Mr. Van Horn called for the consideration of the resolutions laid on the table by him a few days ago relative to repealing drawbacks, &c.
with a view of having them referred to a committee.
After some debate three of the resolutions were referred to the committee of commerce and manufactures, and two rejected.
Those referred relate to the prohibition of the exportation of domestic produce in any other vessels than those owned and who ly navigated by citizens of the U. States; to laying an additional discriminating duty in favor of vessels of that description; and to modifying or repealing the laws allowing drawback.
Those rejected relate to prohibiting exportation from our ports of foreign goods in American vessels; and to prohibiting American vessels from carrying articles of foreign growth from one foreign port to another.
Mr. Gold, for the purpose of obtaining correct information relative to our affairs with England, submitted the following resolution, which after a debate, was carried—85 to 36.
Resolved, That the President of the United States be requested to lay before this House such information contained in any dispatch from the American minister in London, relative to the instructions of Mr. Canning to Mr. Erskine of the 23d of January, 1809, and relative to any communications and conversations between the American minister and Mr. Canning antecedent or subsequent thereto on the same subject, as may not, in the opinion of the President, be improper to be communicated.
Thursday, Dec. 14.
Mr. Nelson, from the committee appointed on the subject, reported a bill for the relief of the infirm, disabled and superannuated officers of the late revolutionary army, and of the present army of the U. States.
YAZOO CLAIM.
Mr. Bacon moved that the petition of the New England Mississippi Land Company should be referred to the committee of claims.
After considerable debate the question was taken and it was carried—yeas 60, nays 56. [In our next we shall record the names of the voters on this important question.]
Friday, Dec. 15.
The bill to revive an act for the relief of the British refugees from Canada and Nova Scotia, was read a third time and passed.
Mr. Troup made a motion for printing certain documents of the state of Georgia, relative to the Yazoo Lands, which were ordered to lie on the table.
Monday, Dec. 18.
The following resolutions submitted a few days since by Mr. M'Kim, were again called up and adopted.
Resolved, That the committee of commerce and manufactures be instructed to enquire into the expediency of prohibiting, by law, the importation in foreign ships or vessels, of all goods, wares and merchandise, not of the growth, produce or manufacture of the country to which the ship belongs, excepting in the ships of such countries as, by permanent regulation, permit our ships or vessels, as freely and beneficially as their own, to import into their territories, the produce and manufactures of foreign countries.
Resolved, That the committee of commerce and manufactures be instructed to enquire into the expediency of laying an additional import duty on distilled spirits imported in foreign ships or vessels from ports or countries, in which American vessels are not permitted, by permanent regulation, to a fair participation in such trade; and that the committee have leave to report on these resolutions, by bill or otherwise.
A message from the president containing the letters from Mr. Pinkney, published in the preceding columns, were received and read.
On motion of Mr. Poindexter, the house adopted a resolution instructing the committee on the public lands, to enquire into the expediency of repealing certain parts of the act to prevent the illegal settlements on, and to expel intruders from the public lands of the U. States.
Mr. Fisk reported a bill, making provision for taking the third census of the people of the U. S. and their territories; which was read twice, and referred to a committee of the whole on Monday next.
Mr. Poindexter offered the following resolution, which was adopted:
Resolved, That the Secretary of State be requested to lay before the House an abstract of all British patents, warrants, or orders of survey, filed in his office agreeably to the several acts of Congress, regulating grants of public lands south of Tennessee.
The Gazette.
Wilmington, December 23, 1809.
MARRIED—On Saturday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Pryce, Mr. William Hickman, of Smyrna, (Del.) to Miss Elizabeth Carmell, of Brandywine-Hundred.
—, on Thursday evening, by the same, Mr. John Day and Miss Sarah Cling, both of Christiana-Hundred.
—, on the same evening, by the same, Mr. Joseph Robinson and Miss Amelia Carter, both of Brandywine.
The following very singular petition, with about eighty signatures from different parts of this state, we understand, says the Savannah Republican, has made its appearance in the senate, where it received a first reading, and was ordered to lie on the table.
To the honorable the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives and the members thereof, of the state of Georgia, in general assembly met, greeting:—
The petition of your petitioners, humbly prays your honorable body to take under your serious consideration, our present judiciary system and penal code of laws, and make such amendments and alterations therein, as, in your wisdom and judgment, you may deem most conducive to the peace, security and happiness of the good citizens of this state, so as to dispense with, and totally obliterate the most useless feasts that ever disgraced the human society, (to wit, the lawyers) who have so successfully learnt the trade of living; and not only that, but some have been artful enough to monopolize large estates at the expence of other good citizens of this state; and we, your petitioners, as republicans, believing in the equal rights of man, and also that the Deity in the creation, did not contemplate lawyers—having made no distinction in the formation of man, but left the lawyers as adequate to the pursuit of honest labor as the rest of mankind.
We therefore think it a hardship, if no plan can be devised, whereby the good citizens of this state can, constitutionally, come at their just dues and demands, without being in a manner compelled to be scoundrel out of at least one third of them—having gone through the hands of a creature called a lawyer. We therefore pray your honorable body, if compatible with the constitution, you would make such alterations as would extricate the good citizens out of the jaws of those devouring monsters—then the good citizens of this state will once more return to the primitive state in which mankind stood affected to each other, before any such creature as a lawyer existed. It has been said, that Sampson slew his thousands with the jaw-bone of an ass, but, in our opinion, the jaw-bones of lawyers (assisted by their tongues) have since devoured their millions to one slain by that of the ass. Only grant our request, as far as consistent, and we your petitioners, as in duty bound, will pray."
Burlington Pork.—Under date of Burlington, December 1, a gentleman gives the following particulars:—
I send you the weight of four extraordinary hogs, that were weighed alive this morning in the hay scales of this place. They were littered in January 1807, and are the property of Mr. Ellis Wright, who has taken them to Philadelphia.
Table with 2 columns: Weight, Size. Rows for largest, second, third, fourth, Total, Height, Length, Round.
The others are nearly the same size. These form part of a litter of 13, partly of the English and partly of the Guinea breed—Four or five of the litter were killed at 11 months old, and weighed near 400 each. The sow when fatted and killed weighed 250, and the boar was very small. From the great size of these hogs you may well conclude they are not fat. So far are they from it, that the owner is doubtful whether he will kill them before next season. If he does not they will average 1000. They are handsome clean looking hogs, almost white, and without that slouch look that large hogs commonly have.
James Hewitt, of Pennsylvania, was tried at the Old Bailey, in England, on the 5th October, and sentenced to twelve months imprisonment, and to pay 500 pounds sterling fine, for seducing a mechanic to come to this country—that is, for telling an acquaintance that he could live easier, cheaper and better in America than in England. The mechanic, on his part, had to give bond and surety not to leave the country. The government of Great Britain appears to be closely imitating the Egyptian government of old—starving and oppressing the people at home, and refusing to let them go to the land "flowing with milk and honey."
Marine List.
PORT OF WILMINGTON.
ARRIVED. Schooner Polly, Bragger, from Cuba.—Cocoa, castor oil and dye woods. Caroline, of Vienna, Wm. Markey, from Lisbon.—Salt, fruit, &c.—Consigned to the owner on board.
* This vessel parted her best bower anchor on the 10th inst. near the Brown in Delaware bay, and grounded near Lewis Town creek, about 4 miles from the Light House. Saved all her cargo, under the inspection of the revenue officer at Lewis Town, with little or no damage, or cost, except lighting the vessel.
A Grand Communication
OF the Grand Lodge of Delaware will be held at the town of Dover, in the county of Kent, on MONDAY the 15th day of January next, at ten o'clock in the morning, at which time and place the Masters, Wardens and Past-masters of the several Lodges in the state of Delaware are requested to attend.
Published by order of Jesse Green, Esq. Right Worshipful Grand Master.
EDW. ROCHE, G. Sec. Wilmington, Dec. 23, 1809.
For Sale,
A Lot of Ground,
SITUATE at the corner of Walnut and Second streets, in the borough of Wilmington, containing 34 perches and a half; on which there is a commodious two-story dwelling House, with Kitchen, Stable, Coach-house, Wash-house, Smoke-house, Garden, and a pump of good water in the yard. The terms may be known, upon application to Mr. Michael Dawson in Wilmington, or to the subscribers in Philadelphia.
THOMAS MONTGOMERY. GEORGE LATIMER.
December 23d, 1809.
To be Rented,
And possession given on the 25th of March next,
A LARGE and very convenient brick Dwelling-House, (with piazza and kitchen adjoining) situate in the village of Christiana-Bridge, in New-Castle county, and state of Delaware: together with a large hay-house, carriage-house, and good stabling for horses and cattle. The dwelling-house is 44 feet front, 20 deep; finished in the best manner, and in complete repair.
Also—about ten acres of LAND, in a very high state of cultivation, adjoining the above described premises; which will be rented with, or separate from the same, as may be agreeable to the person renting.—For a further description of the property, and terms, apply to Mr. Daniel Smith, the tenant in possession, or to the subscriber in New-Castle.
JAMES COUPER.
New-Castle, Dec. 23, 1809.
For Sale,
THE cargo of the schooner Caroline, Captain Markley, from Lisbon—containing
90 Moys of Salt, of the first quality. 3000 lbs. Cork Wood. 600 Gross Corks. 6 Jars Grapes. 41 Boxes Bloom Raisins. 30 Fruits Figs. A Quantity of Fancy Work Baskets. Apply to
John Hedrick, Custom-House Wharf.
Wilmington, Dec. 23.
NOTICE.
ALL those persons who are friendly to a removal of the seat of justice of New Castle county, from its present to a more central situation; and more particularly those who have petitions for said removal, in their possession, with signatures thereto—are hereby requested to attend (with such petitions) a meeting to be held at the house of Charles Allen, in the village of Christiana Bridge, on Thursday the 28th inst. to concert measures for carrying the same into effect, and to transact other business of the utmost importance.
Dec. 20.
To Sportsmen.
WILL be let out for hunting, on Christmas Day the 25th inst. at 10 o'clock in the morning, at the Indian Queen, corner of Market and Queen streets,
A Wild Deer,
Where persons desirous of partaking of the pleasures of the chase are requested to attend.
Wilmington, Dec. 6, 1809.
BREWING.
THE subscriber having commenced Brewing for the season, begs leave to inform his Town and Country Customers that he has STRONG & TABLE BEER of an excellent quality, constantly on hand, which he will dispose of at the usual prices. All orders will be promptly attended to.
Joseph B. Shipley,
Wilmington, Nov. 1, 1809.
Sein Twine and White Rope Manufactory.
PLOUGH Lines, Plough Traces, Bed Cords, Halters, Bed Laces, Sewing and Seine Twine, warranted equal to any imported, for sale by
John Hedges.
Dec. 6, 1809.
Notice
IS hereby given, that the subscriber intends to apply to the Legislature of the State of Delaware, at its next Session, for a law empowering certain persons, therein to be named, to improve and straighten Murderbill Creek, in Kent county.
Walter Douglass.
Martin Mills, Nov. 4, 1809.

Genuine Lee's Elixir!!
A sovereign remedy for Colds, obstinate Coughs, Catarrhs, Asthmas, Sore Throats, and approaching Consumptions.
A single trial of this medicine will prove its efficacious quality in restoring a perspiration common to healthy people, it dislodges and expels the tough viscid phlegm or mucus, strengthening the weakened vessels of the lungs, thus striking at the root of the disorder; the symptoms of course are effectually and permanently conquered. The great number of cures performed by this elegant and useful preparation, is sufficient to convince those that labour under colds, coughs, &c. of being immediately relieved. For the information of those persons, if any there be, that have not heard of the balsamic qualities of LEE'S ELIXIR, we give the names of the following persons, who are well known to our citizens in general as persons of integrity and strict veracity. From the following certificate: it will plainly appear, that a three years consumption, a common cold, or cough, are all with ease removed by LEE'S ELIXIR.
To Parents who may have Children afflicted with the
Whooping Cough,
This discovery is of the first magnitude, as it affords immediate relief, checks the progress and in a short time entirely removes the most cruel disorder to which children are liable—the Elixir is so perfectly agreeable and the dose so small that no difficulty arises in taking it.
Messrs. R. Lee & Son,
The superior qualities of your Medicine called LEE'S ELIXIR, induces me to give you this certificate for publication, to point to my suffering fellow mortals the road to health, the most valuable of all earthly possessions. For upwards of three years I have been afflicted with a severe cough, tightness of the breast, lowness of spirits, and a gradual wasting of the flesh, having tried different medicines recommended for such cases without receiving an real benefit; fortunately one of your advertisements was given to me and I immediately applied to Mr. Vance, 173 Market Street, for some of your ELIXIR which has contrary to the expectations of my friends, restored me to my former good state of health. Any information will be given by me.
George Harwood,
Market street, Baltimore.
Messrs. R. Lee & Son,
You are at liberty to publish for the good of others, the benefit I have received from your excellent preparation, called "Lee's Elixir" Being afflicted with violent pain in the breast, loss of appetite and debility of the whole system, which rendered me unable to attend to business, being advised to try your Elixir, I procured two bottles of Messrs. Warner & Hanna, which has entirely removed the complaint, and restored me to a perfect state of health. From the good effects of your Elixir I was led to suppose your other medicines were equally efficacious which induced me to give your Worm Lozenges to my children, and with pleasure I inform you, they had the desired effect. Any other information I shall give on application to me at my house 517's street, Baltimore.
John Keller.
Messrs. R. Lee & Son,
I was attacked with a violent cold, a severe cough and pains in the breast, which continued to grow worse; during which time my appetite failed and my voice altered so much, that it was with the utmost exertion I could pronounce a single sentence louder than my breath. Some of my friends having observed to me, that much good had been done by Lee's Elixir—advised me to procure a bottle from Messrs. Warner & Hanna, which I accordingly did—and to those persons, unacquainted with the merits of this medicine, it will appear astonishing that three doses should remove the pains in my breast, and the use of the bottle restored me to perfect health.
J. A Smith,
Market street, Fell's Point.
Lee's Worm Destroying Lozenges, which effectually destroy all kinds of worms from persons of every age.
The following is not a singular instance of the effects of worm in adults.
Messrs. R. Lee and Son,
For a long time I was afflicted with fainting fits, griping in the bowels, pains in the stomach and a wasting of the flesh—the advice of an eminent physician proved useless—nothing now appeared but the melancholy prospect of death; when happily my husband recollected the many cures said to have been performed by Lee's Lozenges, a box was procured from Messrs Warner and Hanna, which has entirely removed every symptom of the complaint.
Having experienced so much benefit myself, I think it my duty to recommend them to all my acquaintance—several boxes have been sent by me to my father's family in Bethlehem to be distributed among my friends who might be afflicted with worms. Any other information will be given by applying to
E. Catharine Walker,
Market street.
Edward Higgins,
South-street, Baltimore, administered Lee's Lozenges, agreeable to the directions, to his child of 14 months old—the first of which expelled a Worm measuring 20 inches long & near half an inch thick, the second dose expelled another 16 inches long & the same thickness, and a quantity of small worms mixed with slime, &c. The child enjoys a good state of health.
Thousands of our fellow citizens have received benefits from the above Medicines when reduced to the last stage of disease, and many families of the first respectability have given public testimony of the astonishing cures performed with the above preparations. The proprietors are well assured that a single trial of any article here enumerated, will convince the most prejudiced person in its utility.
To detect counterfeits, observe than none can be genuine without the signature of
Michael Lee, & Co.
(Late Richard Lee & Son.)
N. B.—Each and every medicine above enumerated, have directions describing their mode of use in the most perfect manner.
Sold at
the bookstore of Mathew R. Lockerman next above the Bank of Delaware, Market-Street, Wilmington.
December 9, 1809. 1y
To be Rented,
For one or more years, and possession given the 25th of March next,
A PLANTATION,
Well known by the name of
Bread & Cheese Island.
It is situated on White Clay Creek, five miles from Wilmington, two from Newport, and half a mile from Staunton. The situation is healthy and pleasant, and convenient to mills markets and places of public worship.
A large portion of the land is marsh meadow, in excellent order, and well calculated for grazing. The improvements are, a good dwelling house and kitchen, and all necessary out houses for the accommodation of a large stock. As it is presumed that any person wishing to rent will first desire to view the premises, a further description is deemed unnecessary.—For further particulars enquire of the subscriber, in the village of Newport.
Aron Justis.
November 22, 1809, oc
Take Notice.
Whereas on suspicion of being a vagabond, and now confined in the jail of Chester County, Pennsylvania, a Black Man, who calls himself Shadrack Macklin , appears to be about 21 or 22 years of age; about 5 feet 7 or 8 inches high; full face; thick lips; a small scar under his right eye; says he was brought up with Sampson Davis, a colored man, and a house carpenter, near Milford in the state of Delaware, and set free by him, March 1809, but has no credentials to show this was the case.
Any person owning said black man, is desired to come forward, prove his property, pay charges and take him away before the 17th of December next, otherwise he will be discharged from prison.
Thomas Evans.
West-Chester, Nov. 28, 1809. 4t
For Sale,
A VALUABLE PLANTATION,
CONTAINING 200 acres of Land, situated in Mill Creek hundred, New Castle county, and state of Delaware. There are on the premises a very comfortable dwelling house, a good barn, hay house, &c. all in good order.—A considerable portion of the ground is well timbered, the remainder arable and meadow.
The natural soil is good and may be improved at a small expence, being situated within a short distance of an extensive lime stone quarry.—Possession may be had on the 23d of next March and the terms of sale known by applying to John Stockton in Wilmington, Dr. James McCalmont in New Castle, or Joseph England near the premises, who will also show the property, if called on.
New Castle. 15th Nov 1m
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, Appoquimsink hundred, New-Castle county and State of Delaware.
John Fennemore, John Taylor, Thomas Emory.
Aug. 12 8m
For Sale,
AN excellent MILCH COW. For particulars enquire of the subscriber, at Brandywine Mills.
James Jefferis.
Nov. 15, 1809. 4t
To be Rented
AND possession had immediately the Store-Room and Cellars under the Printing-Office of the Delaware Gazette.—For particulars enquire of the Printer. Nov. 8, 1809. 36 f.
WILMINGTON COLLEGE.
THE Trustees of Wilmington College take pleasure in being able to announce to the public the revival of the Latin school in this institution, under the immediate care of Mr. Bigelow and general superintendence of the Rev. Dr. Read. The healthy situation of Wilmington, its character for morality, the goodness of its market and choice of best boarding houses, joined to the evidence of Mr. Bigelow's capacity as a teacher, and the long and justly established reputation of Dr. Read as a successful preceptor, all concur to recommend this seminary to the attention of Parents and Guardians, anxious to promote the education and improvement of the youth intrusted to their care, especially when they are further assured that the other departments of the College are provided with tutors fully adequate to their appointments, and unexceptionable moral characters.
By order of the Board,
ROBERT HAMILTON, EBENEZER A. SMITH, JOHN RUMSEY, WILLIAM PRYCE,
July 22, 1809.
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 Connaught, by Miss Owenson.
Poetic Trifles, by John Henry Mills, comedian.
The Wild Irish Girl, by Miss Owenson. Montalbert a novel; Armenian or Ghost Seer; Joseph Andrews; Roderick Random; Charlotte Temple; the Drown'd Wife; the Vicar of Wakefield; Blair's Lectures; Goldsmith's Rome; Jess's Surveying; Jackson's Book-keeping; the Clerk's Magazine; and a great variety of histories, voyages and travels, day-books, journals and ledgers, and writing-books of every description; writing paper, slates, scales and dividers, quills, inkstands, waters, &c. &c.
That scientific author speaking of the French and Indian wars about the time of Braddock's defeat describes the effect the news had in England thus:—Swift as the broad-winged packets could fly across the deep, the news was carried to England.—Its effects there was like that of a stone rudely hurled against a nest of hornets. Instantly, from centre to circumference, all is rage and bustle.... The hive resounds with the maddening insects; dark tumbling from their cells they spread the hasty wing, and shrill whizzing through the air, they rush to find the foe. Just so in the sea-rolling 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 to but, in the streets, to talk of ENGLAND'S wrongs; and, as they talked, their fiery souls were seen to grow more fiery still, and more deform. Throwing their packs to the ground, and leaping into the attitude of boxers, with sturdy arms across and rough black jaws stretched out, they held forward to the fancied fight! The foe-eating toe, in shirtless ruffles and long lank cue, 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 hearty curse, they shew the giggling crown, how damn 'em! they would thump the French."
September 6, 1809.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons that the Subscriber intends applying to the Legislature of the State of Delaware, at their sitting in January next, on behalf of the Heirs and legal Representatives of William Peery, deceased, and John Lanke, deceased, for the condemnation of a certain Mill stream on the head of Mill Creek, above Holland's mill, in Broadkiln Hundred, Sussex.
James Peery.
October 14, 1809.
Take Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that application will be made to the Legislature of this State, at their next session, for a law to enable the owners of a parcel of Marsh lying on the south side of Port-Penn, between that place and the Piers, to embank the same.
David Stewart.
Port-Penn, Oct. 24, 1809. law.tf
Matthew Kean
INFORMS his friends and the public that he has opened a Dry Good Store of the west side of Market Street, next door below the corner of Second Street; where he offers for sale a handsome assortment of reasonable goods on moderate terms Wilmington, June 17, 1809.
Notice.
SUCH persons as are indebted to the estate of ESTHER YARNALL, deceased, either by bond, note, or book-debt, are requested to make immediate payment to John Warner and John 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. tf
James Gardner,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public that he has removed his store to the east side of Market-street, one door above Spackman & Grubbs, (nearly opposite the post-office) where he has opened a large assortment of elegant Dry Goods among which are,
  Blue, black, brown, drab, corbeau, bottle green, grey, and dark mixed superfine cloths  Marseilles quiltings, Rustians and jeans    Cassimere  Lute strings    Bennet's patent cord  Sinshaw and Mantua silks    Coatings and flannels  Silk & york tan gloves    Forest cloths  Baniana and Madras handkerchiefs    Velvets and constitution cords  Cammel's hair shawls    Bevereens  Checkered and striped linens    7-8 and 4-4 Irish linens  Damask shawls    blue & yellow nankeens  Russia & dowlas linens    Wide and narrow cotton cassimere  Ratines & bombazetts    Chintzes and calicoes  Red & greenocking baize    Cambric and common dimities  Brown hollands    Calimancoes  Suspenders    Durant and Jones' spinning  Umrellas & parasols    Cotton and worsted hosiery  Black satins and florentines    Colored, chambray, cambric, jackanet, mull-mull, India, British, book, gurrah, basta, & leno Muslins  Scissors & pen-knives     Silk hose     Gilt & plated buttons     Oil cloths     Trunks     Morocco & kid shoes &c. &c.  
N. B. Country Store Keepers supplied on the lowest terms for cash or the usual credit.
James Gardner
Patent Washing Machines.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has, some time ago, purchased an exclusive right of making and vending Patent Washing Machines throughout the hundreds of Brandywine and Christiana, in New-Castle county, a number of which machines he has already made, which have been tried by divers persons and highly approved of, as they save a great part of the labour of washing in the usual way, and are less injurious to clothes. He will continue to make and have a supply of them on hand, which he will sell on reasonable terms to such as favour him with their custom; and will also sell to any person a right to make and use them within the hundreds aforesaid.
ABRAM GEST.
Wilmington. Jan. 21, 1809. tf
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.
NOTICE,
IS hereby given, to all whom it may concern, that Joseph Vincent intends to apply to the legislature, at their next session, in order that he may be enabled to ascertain the boundaries, of part of a certain tract of Land, called Round Pond enlarged, situated in Broad Creek hundred, in the county of Sussex; which said part of Land was directed to be laid off to Sally M. Houston, under whom he claims, by the last will and testament of John Houston, dec'd.
JOSEPH VINCENT.
Nov. 12, (15) 1809. 6t
HARLAN'S Square Sun-dial Compass.
THE subscriber has invented an instrument to survey by the sun, which in every respect supercedes the needle, and not being subject to attraction or variation, will point out the variation of the needle at sea, and the time of the day. It may be seen at Richard Baker's, Bradford, near the Forks of Brandywine, till the 25th of March next. The said Baker will show any gentleman the practice and principle of the instrument for one quarter of a dollar.
JEHU HARLAN.
Nov 13. 1809. 4t