The Delaware gazette (Wilmington [Del.]), 1809-11-25 00:00:00

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
VOL. I.]
WILMINGTON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1809.
No. 41
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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, sad- dlers, 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 reason- able 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 & Tor- bert 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 busi- ness, to merit a share of the public patron- age.
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. 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 re- sides, situate in Mill-Creek hundred in the county of New-Castle and state of Dela- ware, 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 vari- ety 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 propor- tion 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 Wil- mington and six from New-Port on the main road leading from thence to Lancas- ter. As it is presumed any person inclining to purchase will view the premises, it is thought unnecessary to give a further de- scription—it will bear a division into three parts, and will be sold either the whole to- gether or in parts as may best suit the pur- chaser. If it is not sold at private sale on or before the 28th day of September next, it will be sold at public sale on the premises on said day, and a liberal credit given for a considerable part of the purchase money, at which time attendance will be given and the terms made known, by
JAMES OCHELTREE.
Wilmington, June 24, 1809.
Patent Washing Machines.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has, some time ago, purchased an exclusive right of making and vending Patent Washing Machines throughout the hundreds of Brandywine and Christiana, in New-Castle county, a number of which machines he has already made, which have been tried by divers persons and highly ap- proved of, as they save a great part of the labour of washing in the usual way, and are less inju- rious 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 per- son 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, sit- uate 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 pre- mises, a further description is deemed un- necessary. 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 tenant.—A lot of marsh, about two acres and a half, to let, with or without the Brewery.
For the prevention and cure of various and mali- cious 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 en- quiring 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 thou- sands has proved, they may be used in every situation in life without the least inconve- nience or damage.
They are admirably adapted to carry off in- perfluous bile, and prevents its morbid secre- tions—to restore the appetite, produce a regu- lar habit of the body, promote free perspiration, and thereby prevent cold, so often attended with fatal consequences to the lives of thou- sands—and seldom, if ever, fail to remove a cold, if taken in its first appearance. Ha- bitual 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 man- kind depends To conduce to this all-import- ant object, perhaps no medicine was ever more generally successful than these pills—two me- dical men, and at least nine times out of ten afford relief to those who use them for the pur- poses for which they are intended.
With the most perfect confidence we can re- commend these pills to the public, and will only further add, that their operation is al- ways pleasant, and that they leave nothing of that cloying taste behind them too often attend- ing medicines designed for similar purposes.
Ten years have justified us in stating these facts, during which we have had a very exten- sive 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.
Take Notice.
NOTICE is hereby given that applica- tion 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, be- tween that place and the Piers, to embank the same.
David Stewart.
Port-Penn, Oct. 24, 1809.
Lawff
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.
Agricultural.
THE GRAPE.
We have at present in our coun- try 13 vineyards, each from half, to two and an half acres; the oldest now, three and an half years. The plants or cuttings principally obtained from Mr. Legaux, near Philadel- phia, from gentlemen's gardens in the vicinity of Baltimore, and a few raised from the seed of the white Leghorn grape (which however, do not yet bear) Some also were obtain- ed from other inland gardens. They are all in the most flourishing condi- tion—and, in all probability the number of the vineyards will by next spring be double.
Plants have been obtained from this county, and a commencement made in Shanandoah county, Virgini- a, which promises the greatest suc- cess. There are at present about half a dozen European Vine garden- ers in the county, among which, is one Austrian; the others Witem- bergers and Swiss. But the Ameri- can Germans have commenced this useful business with great assiduity; and in a few years this will, without doubt, form an extensive branch of our culture; particularly as the A- merican Germans are unwilling to cultivate the Vine like the Europeans with the hoe; but arrange it so that the labour can be done with the plough.
The European gardens have chief- ly planted their vines (as they have been accustomed to) 4 feet apart; But the Americans have deviated from this method, and planted them from 5 to 6 feet apart; which is suf- ficient. Experience has already, and will in future, fully justify this method; as the vine in this country grows much more rapidly strong and higher, than in Europe; the heat also being much greater, they will consequently require more space and air: and as in this manner more labour can be performed in a day, with one horse and plough than with 12 hands.
Notwithstanding the late frosts last spring and the uncommon drought during the summer, have done mate- rial injury to the first vineyards; each of them has, nevertheless, produced several barrels of wine. The grapes we have (which consist at least of a dozen different kinds) are of excellent quality, and those from Mr. Legaux are of the best; such as the Constantia, the Black, the Blue, the Red and White Frontignac, the White Sweet- water, the Rhine, Claret, &c. &c.
We have no vines from Hungary; but all of American growth; notwith- standing they have been all brought from Europe. There is not the smallest doubt, but that the culture of the vine will succeed in this country to our utmost wishes. It is chiefly necessary to guard against situations, where the late spring frosts can have too much effect.
N. B.—The Wirttemberg emi- grants, near Fort Bragg, brought with them a number of vines; a few of them grew and produced fruit ob- tained soon.
coast of Virginia, and contains between 3 and 4000 acres. Island there were lately be- and 600 sheep, which were ly wild; and are supposed originated from the commo- the country, which were the Island about 20 years change which has been the quality of the fleece period, and which is att- situation, climate, and said to be astonishing. Mr. Custis thinks this to any in the world; a ger than the Merino when full grown from inches in length, and son In quality, he states it superior, as the shee much, and in some They are generally year, for which pur- ken by stratagem. of these sheep afford hints to the breeder animal.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER
THE NEW WORLD
No. XIII.
AN ENQUIRY INTO THE NATURAL STATE OF THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES.
The analogous influence condition of things in America by the actual character of the residing among us. This be found to prove, that how- sources from which our pop- ed, the powerful influences understandings and habits here, occasion them to rec- actistics. The mutual aid in Europe between christ- Mahometans, do not exist idea. The Hebrew left to er which governs the co- no cause to hate, or to fe- bor, who does him no i- stance. When a Maho- not very remote, has Constantinople, at even- was ordered to be slain. us have thanked our co- vea, that they enjoy p- conscience in this land.
American christians, thu- and love to every neigh- ple christians as hypoc- mild and tender religion other countries, was ten- and cruelty.
The inconsistencies of the name of Jesus. Chris- Jew could find no peace, simplicity and self-deny- quantity into pomp, volu- of power they did not f- therefore, with us as m- trists, in the love of God differing in their priva- they believe the Messiah reverently submitting th- our fellow creatures to can command the light is sufficient for our co- the Hebrews from E- many and Portugal many essential parts are amalgamated with Americans, in the liberty, humanity, a description of me- generally attached States, and they are any other church to constitutions.
It may be correctly al- equally civilized, has den- structure of its various a degree from its own w- as the united Americans, nal than any others in our Nor has any people vari-

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one language is spoken by a people with a very small exception, among persons who have at some time settled inhabitants. — In the United States, the information of the business, from which we have been separated, languages are spoken by numbers of the four grand divisions. In the United States, no publications relating to the country are ever found to bear a forcible sway of law or of natural strength. — Remote from the metropolitan separated from each other by distance and interests. These observations with an invidious design, among national character, are made by natural and habitual use, may be fairly presumed, that they may really possess natural and versatile character.
formed and altered by the laws or moral causes. It is a fact that general principles are applied, after mature consideration. — The United States, as to produce the laws are not only to govern, but also to produce the laws. This coincides with the opinions of the many, and is, because it gratifies the interests of the many. — An impressment, a gabelle , a corvée , the tithe in the church in America, are all taken from their native exemptions from those burdens, and suffer all the hardships of war, before they are protected by the constitution of our country, without the necessity of dependent conditions of the Americans, civil uniformity, unknown to the empire, and highly inimical to the national character. — In this observation, for it is a fact that the free blacks regularly adopt the dress, apparel, furniture, and manners of the whites. They are generally Calvinists and Methodists, where all the christian are free observation. It is a fact that the United States, to adopt a civil constitution, the inhabitants of the American, and East Indian states, could fully enjoy national government, not only easy in this way, but also in the consideration of our principles, is contemplated by political science, as an in- divine power. It is a fact that the intellect of the red and black races is sensibly better than that of the whites. As we cannot distinguish the whites by the same rule, we must apply it with respect to the free blacks. Divine Providence has ordained their political family, and we have the same supreme authority, and justice among all men alike — pains, and essence to persuade them of economy, our civil and our religion; or in our national plan of government. So of the blacks, and places, though it is a fact that their numbers and circumstances, are increasing, humanity, and it is a fact that they are very gradual, and their natural condition is such, that the humani- has raised the blacks to a condition, which is little inferior class of beings, and practice of the salutary morals and religion the merit on the part of the whites is clearly manifested to the un-
of personal and hereditary slavery. Did the laws of Greece or Rome go further? Do those of the modern empires of Europe go so far in respect to their white or African slaves? — When it is considered with what ease and promptitude doctrines so new as those of the Newtonian philosophy were adopted in all free countries, and even in others, though they were the fruit of the wisdom and learning of a single mind, it will not be considered as improbable, that the political principles of the North Americans, and their manifest beneficence to the many, should as easily and promptly become objects of adoption and attachment to those persons who arrive among us from foreign shores. These acceptable principles occasion all men, who have not opposing interests or prejudices, to rally round them, to partake of their nature and spirit, and thus exhibit the same characteristics. Republican principles, or in other words, their own just rights and interests must be acceptable to the unbiased mass of every community, and this must occasion them, where it is safe and lawful, to be nationally embraced and exhibited. Many, many, all may enjoy these personal rights. A few only can enjoy the advantages of aristocracy. The citizens of this country therefore, as well naturalized as native, easily and quickly assimilate themselves in a cautious opposition to the power of a few, and an open legitimate maintenance of the rights of the whole of the members of the community.
COLUMBIANUS. (The next number will close these sketches of our national character.)
FROM THE ENQUIRER. Points in dispute between Great Britain and the United States. No. I.
It seems, that many censures have been cast upon the last administration, for a supposed want of liberality towards Great Britain. As these reproaches may be shown to be destitute of any foundation, by recurring to the terms which were proposed to Great Britain as the basis of a treaty, it seems a matter of some moment to exhibit what these propositions were. There is another advantage in such an Essay — It is not every man who is able to shift a long diplomatic correspondence — and to trace the terms which were successively offered and rejected. To show the actual state of this question, the following elucidations are submitted:
The two most important points in dispute were, 1st. the Colonial Trade , 2d. the Impressment of our Seamen .
1. As to the Colonial Trade. — The Secretary of State, in his joint letter of instructions to Messrs. Monroe and Pinkney permits them to take the article of 1801, supplementary to the treaty of June of that year, between Great Britain and Russia, as the rule of their conduct — This article abandons the point of carrying, in time of war, the produce or merchandise of the colonies, &c. direct to the mother country, and vice versa from the mother country to the enemy's colonies.
ports beyond the Cape of Good Hope, where a market was to be had — nor were "the importations from beyond the Cape of Good Hope, more especially the cotton fabrics of China and India, to be sent as heretofore to the West Indies or the Spanish Main, where they not only now yield a great profit to our merchants, but being mixed with the produce of this country, facilitate and encourage the trade in the latter." Besides, as Mr. Madison truly observes, the greasy cruisers who swarm on the ocean might easily convert the similarity of the manufactures of Europe, and those of China and India, into a pretext for new interruptions and vexatious of our trade.
Surely then, on this point, the last administration were disposed to go as far in the spirit of accommodation and peace, as its bitterest enemies would desire. They went further than the British government itself, after a solemn report of the advocate general, thought necessary to require in the year 1801. There has lately been an indirect proposition in some of the republican prints to abandon this colonial trade. But there is a distinction which ought certainly to be taken. The United States ought not to be plunged into a war for this trade — neither ought they to abandon it in a commercial treaty with Great Britain. It is one of the rights of our commerce — one of the privileges attached to the freedom of the seas — but it may be our interest to go, as far as the last administration went, to modify this abstract right, in order to appease the commercial scruples of Britain. A reservation of the whole right accruing to us, may be made in the same article of the treaty.
2. Impressment of seamen. — The great point which has been uniformly insisted on by the U. States, is, that on the high seas no seaman whatsoever should be taken from an American vessel ; in other words, that on the high seas, no vessel of the U. S. should be searched for seamen, nor any seamen impressed from on board — this rule, however, has been pressed by our government in one or two different forms.
In the letter from the secretary of state, of January 3, 1804, two schemes are laid down for the guidance of our minister, one of them called the first proposal, the other second and ultimatum. The 1st was, that no person whatsoever shall upon the high seas and without the jurisdiction of either party, be demanded or taken out of any vessel belonging to either party, by the public or private armed ships of either, unless such person be at the time in the military service of an enemy of such other party. The 2d was made with any eye to an objection which had been started by the British government; that is "the facility which would be given, particularly in the British channel, by the immunity claimed for American vessels, to the escape of traitors and the desertion of others whose services in time of war may be particularly important to an enemy." To obviate this objection it was laid down, in the ultimatum, that, in addition to the immunity specified in the first proposal it was to be understood, this article was not to exempt any person "on board the ships of either of the parties, from being taken therefrom by the other party, in cases where they may be liable to be so taken according to the laws of nations, which liability, however, shall not be construed to extend in any case to seamen or sea-faring persons, being actually part of the crew of the vessel in which they may be, nor to persons of any description passing from one part to another part of either of the parties."
In the joint letter of May 17, 1806, addressed to Messrs Monroe and Pinkney, the secretary of state authorises them, in case the preceding ultimatum should not be pleasing to the British government, to substitute one of this import : that no seaman or sea-faring person (thus doing away the generality of the terms of the first proposal) "shall upon the high seas, &c." thus proceeding in the words of that proposal down to words "and private armed ships of either" and concluding with these words "and strict orders shall be given for the due observance of this engagement." The article in these terms, (says Mr. Madison) was with the acquiescence of Lord Hawkesbury and Mr. Addington, concerted between Mr. King and Lord St. Vincent, on the approaching renewal of the late war. It was frustrated by an exception of the narrow seas, inserted by Lord St. Vincent, an exception so evidently inadmissible both in principle and in practice, that it must have been intended as a pretext for evading the stipulation at that time."
The correspondence of our ministers exhibit all their difficulties and their measures on this important question. Objections were urged by the British commissioners as to the efficiency of the local authorities of the U. States in apprehending and restoring deserters from their vessels. These might immediately go to sea, beyond the reach of the local authorities — and besides, according to the English law, the term "deserters" was confined to such only, as should leave their ships of war. To remove these two objections, our ministers submitted a project, in the first place, making it penal for the commanders of each other's vessels to take deserters from the vessels of the other, under such circumstances, and also making it the duty of each government to restore them upon their arrival in their respective ports, on suitable application and proof ; and 2d. extending the meaning of "deserters" to such as should leave the merchant vessels. At first this project seemed to go down with the British commissioners, they expressly agreed to propose an article to the cabinet, to that effect — but at the very next interview, all their scruples and difficulties recurred — they had been consulting the board of admiralty and the crown officers in Doctor's commons — and they asserted it to be the prerogative of the king "to require the services of all his sea-faring subjects against his enemy, and to seize them by force wherever found, not being within the territorial limits of
another power." All that they did to avoid a furtherance of any adjustment, was to make the tender of a counter project , which explicitly reserved the right of search and impressment , on the high seas, of such as were not the subjects of the other — but stipulating for the enactment of laws on both sides, inflicting heavy penalties on the commanders of the belligerent ships, who shall impress native subjects of the neutral or other, not being the subjects of the belligerent, from on board the neutral vessel, on any pretence whatever — and on the other hand, making it highly penal in the subjects of the neutral, to grant any certificates of the birth and country of sea-faring persons, without due proof of the same. This proposition however is nugatory and ridiculous — the domineering spirit of the commanders — their ingenious and arrogant use of every avenue which is left open for abuse — the temptation laid open by spoliations on the rich commerce of the United States in case of war, to produce the state of things — are all cogently exhibited by the secretary of state as irresistible reasons for putting an end to the discretionary power of these commanders. To which may be added, that as mistakes in such cases would really be inevitable, the British cabinet could soon acquire the art of contriving apologies for not enforcing their penalties . As in the case of Bradley , the punishment of their officers would be a promotion .
At length the treaty was signed by our ministers without any article on this subject. They had received a note from the British commissioners, promising "the observance of the greatest caution in the impressing of British seamen, and prompt redress on the representation of injury sustained by our citizens" — but this note was not considered as sufficient by our government, and the omission was justly considered as an insuperable objection to the treaty.
Throughout the whole of this transaction, the last administration has certainly made the most liberal advances, consistently with the consecrated principle, which forms the Vade mecum of our seamen and our commerce. The British assure us, that they do not desire the services of our own seamen — we certainly do not require the aid of their's. The only point, therefore, is to fix on some means of assuring and ascertaining the subjects of each. And the only question is, which is the best expedient, to refer the decision to a hasty examination of an impetuous commander on the high seas, accompanied by all the vexations which are incident to the detention and search of one of the rights, and by a sacrifice of one of the assuming prerogatives of the British king — or to refer it to an impartial tribunal, constituted on shore, and accompanied with legal precautions calculated to prevent the employment of each other's seamen in our respective vessels. Certainly there can be no question as to the balance of advantages arising from these two projects. Our government has maintained a principle, which they surely could not have abandoned.
The other points in the treaty are reserved for the next No.
JUNIUS. FROM THE LONDON INDEPENDENT WHIG.
To his royal highness the Duke of York.
SIR — If, on your retreat from office, you had gone into actual retirement, I should not now have the cruelty to disturb you; I would respect the shelter which misfortune reserves for the followers of her victims, and leave you in that privacy which is equally suited to the moderation of your talents and your virtues.
Your royal highness will be convinced that I am not to be easily impressed by common opinion, when I will admit that your existence has not been altogether useless to the state. — To establish any valuable truth one example is better than a thousand reasons — we have a natural suspicion of theory, and might have lingered through ages of scepticism before we could have found so strong an example as that supplied by your royal highness — that no degradation can disqualify a man for the service of his country — that the most vulgar vice can give a lesson of morality, and the meanest thirst of power a triumph to the constitution.
I know that, to your delicacy of feeling, nothing is likely to be more unexpected or perhaps more painful than a public charge of the cardinal virtues. The double accusation of piety and patriotism is, it must be owned, rather oppressive to the blushing humility of a man who has hitherto succeeded in concealing his virtues from the suspicion of even his most intimate friends. But, Sir, if I am not mistaken, you were born for a public example! Other men may rest their claims on the gratitude, you deserve your reward from the justice of the country — " Septimam virtutem quæras " — and it is a duty which I dare not decline, to draw your buried merits up to light, and demand for them the honor which is their due.
I must be permitted to pause in your panegyric: an old man's imagination sinks before the task of following you through your course of glory; and, in an age when every thing seems full of alteration, it is no slight gratification to have discovered so striking an example of a total defiance of change, a mind steadily pursuing its original impulse; turning neither to the right nor to the left; neither to be awed by the chilling formality of reason, nor ashamed by the sneering impertinence of ridicule.
But to have enemies is the natural fate of merit. Your enemies may endeavor to represent your course as easy and scarcely requiring any thing more than a due contempt of those restrictions which vulgar minds may hold sacred " Facilis descensus Averni ." Yet I defy their bitterest malice to give another instance of a man who has devoted such opportunities and such industry to his purpose, or whose progress has been

once so regular and so precipitate—so rapid and so undeviating.
Other candidates for fashionable fame have exercised their faculties upon parts of the system; your royal highness may have a few superiors at the gaming table or the four-in-hand club, the race course or the stew—but, for the range of the universal science, you are without a competitor! You surpass them as far as the rapidity of instinct outstrips the tardiness of instruction—and for each and all, from the penning of a love letter to the capitulation of an army, you are unequalled, unlimited, inimicable.
I can easily conceive that patriotism like your's would feel somewhat restless in retirement; a consciousness of superior abilities naturally urges to their exertion. It is reported that you condescend still to direct the arrangements of the commander in chief's office; and, as if it were your determination to dazzle us with a blaze of mingled virtues, add a splendid self denial to a princely patriotism, contenting yourself with the pay and patronage of the command, and leaving to another the undivided honor of the responsibility.
But it is absurd to estimate you by the conceptions of common men. You have probably some secret instinct, some dark and prophetic consciousness that you have not yet fulfilled the end of your being, and paid your debt to your country. Some meditations on your past services to the empire may have marked out for a memorable duty; that like the favorite slaves of the ancient tyrants, your assistance is necessary to the last hour of her renown; and that no other hand can so effectually shorten the pain of her final struggle.
Report has even gone so far as to say that the appointment of lord Chatham to the command of the expedition is nothing more than an ingenious contrivance for your royal highness's immediate and public resumption of authority.—As a friend to the feelings of an injured patriot, I would not advise you to trust too much to this intriguing expedient. You still have to feel the prejudice to which merit like your's must always be exposed! You have already escaped its violence; a second plunge might not be equally fortunate. The tide of public opinion still runs strong against you. Your robes of office may have hitherto kept you on the surface, but they have been too much drenched not to have lost their buoyancy. They would be too heavy for your feebleness. You would be swept away at once by an irresistible torrent, and your country would have to lament the obscure waste of a life whose last moments should have been given to her interests, consecrated by the solemnities of national justice and devoted to the ends of national example.
Beware; I warn you, beware of taking on you the command of the army; it will be your ruin. But you must learn your fate by some humble crime! If you are to suffer, let justice take its course; but the soiled and trampled laurels of our army must not be the wreath that binds the victim.
Stay, sir, if you would not have every parent in the land raising curses on your head. Stay in your retirement; it is fittest for you. You may there best exhibit and indulge all those qualities which natures like your's feel as the first privileges of rank and opulence. You may be a Tiberius at Caprea, or a Domitian at his villa, and alternately enjoy the pure festivities of the one and philosophic solitude of the other.
Beware of intruding yourself into command; the last army of the empire must not be again trusted with you before an enemy. I dread to look upon the consequence. You have made me feel more than I tho't so many years had left to me! You have roused an old man from the borders of the grave! I have not meddled with public affairs for many years. I thought that in viewing the public eye on the Grations and Mansfields of my day, I had done my measure of service to my country; but I can serve her yet. I have been the best friend of your royal highness's family, and am personally your's when I warn you against daring to take any share of the public authority.—You can be safe only when you are obscure! The tiger, in his cage, may be suffered to live an object of fearless abhorrence and cheap curiosity; but, once let loose, it becomes the duty of every man to arm himself against the violence of the royal savage.
If you are not this moment the virtual commander in chief, why is the influence of your resentments so fatally predominant? Why is your enmity a simple ground of exclusion? Must we trace the serpent in every dark and sinuous winding of his retreat, by the infection of his trail?
Why, when such a man as Chatham is employed, is such a man as Ferguson thrown out of service? Is it because he took the single resolution of doing his duty with equal heroism in the senate and in the field? Or is it that you think it but fair to acquaint us with the principles on which a higher rank may empower you to act, and take this opportunity of declaring that no man can be permitted to serve his country till he has turned traitor to his conscience, and that the duties of the army are contrary and hostile to the rights of the people?
It may be for your interest to meditate on those charges. I have still some hopes of your amendment. I will confess that, on this point, the general opinion is opposite to mine. Your friends attribute your past conduct to a persevering folly—your enemies to an obstinate vice. Both agree that, as your errors were the work of nature, it is absurd to hope for their reformation—that, as you rushed into crime without reflection, so you will continue in it without remorse. But, in my intercourse
with you, I have observed a certain principle which has been termed the beginning of wisdom. The most degrading stain on other characters, is properly the paving of virtue in your's. If your feelings are not to be touched by the wrongs of the people, let your fears be roused by their resentment. The wrath of British men is slow, but it is progressive; the effect of heavy injury, embittered by continual insult; not easily roused, but once roused, not to be laid without substantial justice; it will not be satisfied with cutting off the contemptible minions that cling round and prey upon you—it will be neither in your hereditary rank nor in your remembered services to protect you! The conflagration which has hitherto slumbered, or only thrown out its casual blaze, shall awake; it shall not be content with feeding on the dry and worthless weeds that lie at your feet, it shall rise to the mighty of the forest, and, in their parched and blasted verdure, leave only the more striking monuments of its unsparing desolation.
Public forbearance has been exhausted; the people cannot submit to further insult; they will not comprehend the honest policy of redeeming your character at the expense of your country—and, by the appointment of such men at Chatham and Dundas, proving to the nation that your's are not the only hands by which it may be ruined.
Is my lord Chatham a man fit to be put at the head of a British expedition? What are his merits? Where are his exploits of successful intrepidity or practised skill? Is it for his political virtues or his martial prowess? Is it that your love of justice has been enraptured by the good natured impartiality which has made him the pliant instrument of so many administrations? Or is it that you reason from his civil to his military accomplishments, not unjustly inferring that the man who has spent his whole life in the barter of office, will be peculiarly dextrous at a convention, and in spite of Hondscoote and the Helder, obliterate even your renown in the art of capitulating with the enemy?
You are not yet totally ruined. I dare not bid the vilest criminal despair. Your duty is plain; dismiss those miserable substitutes of your's; send old Dundas to Chelsea and his pension; send Chatham in his cheap indulgences, his reversions, and his half pay; tell him that the people will not suffer him to serve them; that they are beginning to know and to despise such men; that their service is not the private sinecure it used to be; and that, if they have punished the tripping honor of a prince they will not be more lenient to the stately perfidy of a peer!
Then, sir, instantly retire; misfortune has but yet done half her works; she has brought you to shame, let her now bring you to repentance! It would be useless to disguise from you that the period must be long and the remorse sincere, before the empire can consider you as the son of its sovereign.
But I once more warn you to beware of retrieving your character by any sudden experiment on popular applause! If it be true that from lord Chatham's incapacity you look to its success, and from that to your assuming the command with some comparative eclat, no language can be strong enough for your reprobation. But the plan has too much of laboured treachery for your indolence. This would not be the spirit of the soldier struggling fairly in the great cause which would ennoble his fall. There is another character; it has probably suggested itself to your royal highness: it is the cowardly marauder, lingering behind till the danger is over, and then stealing forth in darkness and security, to insult the bodies of the dead, and bring home an unresisting spoil from the desolation of the field.
JUNIUS.
The Gazette.
Wilmington, November 25, 1809.
MARRIED—On Thursday evening last, at Christiana-Bridge, by the Rev. Mr. Pryce of this borough, Mr. Amos Freeman, to Miss Hannah Clinton.
From the National Intelligencer.
The following letter, said to be addressed to the British consuls is taken from the Independent American. We are authorized to say that its contents, so far as they contradict the article published in this paper on the 13th instant relative to the course of the negotiation between our government and Mr. Jackson, are unfounded.
(CIRCULAR.)
Washington, Nov. 13, 1809.
Sir, I have to inform you with much re-
gret, that the facts which it has been my duty to state in my official correspondence with Mr. Smith, have been deemed by the President of the United States to afford a sufficient motive for breaking off an important negotiation and for putting an end to all communication whatever with me as the minister charged with that negotiation so interesting to both nations, and on one most material point, of which an answer has not even been returned to an official and written overture. One of the facts alluded to has been admitted by the Secretary of State himself in his letter to me of the 19th Oct. viz that the three conditions forming the substance of Mr. Erskine's original instructions were submitted to him by that gentleman; the other, viz. that that instruction is the only one in which the conditions were prescribed to Mr. Erskine for the conclusion of an arrangement on the matter to which it related, is known to me by the instructions which I have myself received. In stating these facts, and in adhering to them as my duty imperiously enjoined me to do, in order to repel the frequent charges of ill faith which have been made against his majesty's government, I could not imagine that offence would be taken at it by the American government, as most certainly none could be intended on my part; and this view of the subject has been made known to Mr. Smith. But as I am informed by him, that no further communication will be received from me, I conceive that I have no alternative left, which is consistent with the King's dignity, but to withdraw altogether from this city, and to wait elsewhere the arrival of his majesty's commands upon the unlooked for turn which has thus been given to his affairs in this country. I mean in the interval to make New-York the place of my residence, where you will henceforward please to direct your communications to me, as I shall be accompanied by every member of his majesty's mission.
I am, &c. (Signed) F. J. JACKSON.
From the same.
The following extraordinary article is copied from the Independent American of yesterday:
The National Intelligencer of yesterday has published Mr. Jackson's circular to the British consuls with the following introduction:
[Here follows the first paragraph in the preceding article.]
"It might be well for Mr. Editor Smith, to inform the public by what authority he makes this declaration. His, we are informed—we are authorized, &c. are intended to impress an idea on the public mind that he has his intelligence from the office of the Secretary of State. But WE are authorized to say, that Mr. Secretary Smith never authorized Mr Editor Smith to make the declaration contained in the above quoted paragraph.
Solely to guard against misconception, we deem it proper to say, that the declaration published in this paper of the 22nd instant, as quoted above, is strictly correct.
NOTICE
IS hereby given, that an industrious man, as a Farmer, with a small family, well recommended for honesty and sobriety, will meet with encouragement to attend a small Farm near the town of New-Castle by applying to the subscriber.
John Crow.
New-Castle, Nov. 25, 1809.
NOTICE.
A Public Lecture, introductory to a Chemical course, will delivered in the Town-Hall, on Saturday evening the 2d of December.
Wilmington, Nov. 25, 1809.
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TO THE LADIES These faces and complexions are injured with Freckles, Pimples, Black worms, Tan or Ayburn, Ring worms, Prickly heat, &c.  To those persons is recommended,  Lee's Persian Lotion,
A certain remedy for removing those disagreeable barriers to beauty, the proprietors with the most sacred regard to truth, and the credit of these medicines allure 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, an agreeable from an engaging appearance, in which perhaps, they
themselves, have by nature, the strongest claims are seriously assured, that these advantages, so far as being to a good skin, are to be obtained by the use of his Lotion, however violently they may happen to be afflicted. Instead of the noxious, and debilitating course of medicines, which patients went through formerly, and which, perhaps, they are still too frequently obliged to undergo, it is now found, that the greatest number of these complaints, are more certainly, and speedily removed by the use of local remedies merely, than they ever were by a contrary course.
LEE'S LOTION. Is celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and repellant minerals (the basis of other lotions) and of unparalleled efficacy in preventing and removing blemishes in the face and skin, of every kind, it operates mildly, without impeding that natural, 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.
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.
WILMINGTON COLLEGE.
THE Trustees of Wilmington College take pleasure in being able to announce to the public the revival of the Latin school in this institution, under the immediate care of Mr. Bigelow and general superintendence of the Rev. Dr. Read. The healthy situation of Wilmington, its character for morality, the goodness of its market and choice of best boarding houses, joined to the evidence of Mr. Bigelow's capacity as a teacher, and the long and justly established reputation of Dr. Read as a successful preceptor, all concur to recommend this seminary to the attention of Parents and Guardians, anxious to promote the education and improvement of the youth entrusted to their care, especially when they are further assured that the other departments of the College are provided with tutors fully adequate to their appointments, and of unexceptionable moral characters.
By order of the Board, ROBERT HAMILTON, EBENEZER 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, wafers, &c. &c.
* That scientific author speaking of the Great and Indian wars about the time of Braddock's defeat describes the effect the news had in England thus:— "So far as the broad-winged hawks could fly across the deep, the news was carried to England. Its effects there was like that of a stone rudely hurled
at 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 hell-whizzing through the air, they rush to find the foe. Just so in the scattering island, from queen to base to ale-house, from king to cobbler, all were fierce for fight. Even the red-nosed puffers, where they met, bending under their burdens, would stop to talk, and as they talked, their fierce eyes 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 held forward to the fratricidal fight! The trampling toe, in shirtless ruffes and long hank-cure, seems to give ground, then rising in their might, with fire still in their eyes they press hard upon him, and coming in, head and foot, with kick and cuff and many a hearty curse, they shew the grizzling crown, how damn 'em! they would thump the French."
September 6, 1809.
James Gardner,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public that he has removed his store to the east side of Market-street, one door above Spackman & Grubbs, (nearly opposite the post-office) where he has opened a large assortment of elegant Dry Goods among which are:
  Blue, black, brown, drab, cochem, bottle green, grey, and dark mixed superfine cloths  Marseilles quilts, prattias and jeans, Lame strings, Sashes and Mantuas    Cassimeres     Benner's patent cord     Goatlegs and flannels     Forest cloths     Velvets and constitution cords     Beverens     7-8 and 4-5 Irish linens     blue & yellow nankeens     Wide and narrow cotton cassimeres     Christies and calicoes     Tamback and common dimities     Callimacoos     Durand and Jones' spinning     Cotton and worsted hosiery     Color'd, chambray, cambric, jaccanet, mull-mull, India, British, book-gurrah, bafta, & leno Muslins    N. B. Country Store Keepers supplied on the lowest terms for cash or the usual credit.
James Gardner
Notice.
SUCH persons as are indebted to the estate of ESTHER VARNALL 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 authorized to receive the same. And those who have claims against said estate are requested to present them for settlement.
William Warner, Ex'r. Feb. 11, 1809.
For Sale, or Rent,
A FARM within two miles of Port-Penn, on the main road leading to that place: it contains seventy or eighty acres of woodland, forty-two acres of marsh, in the Augustine Marsh Company, the residue plough-land of a good quality. There is two tenement houses and a new frame barn on the premises. The mansion house will want some repairs to make it comfortable. Should the property not be sold by the 1st of November next, it will then be rented for a term of years. Also, for sale, or rent, eleven acres in prairie adjacent to the town of New-Castle. For terms, apply to JOHN STOCKTON in Wilmington. August 30, 1809.
NOTICE.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persons that the Subscriber intends appearing 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, for the condemnation of a certain Mill stream on the head of Mill Creek, above Holland's mill, in Broadkiln Hundred, Sussex.
James Peery. October 14, 1809.
WANTED,
AS an apprentice to the blacksmithing business, a lad of from fourteen to fifteen years of age. For particulars enquire of the subscriber, at Brandywine Mills.
CHARLES TATEM. September 16, 1809.
Was Found,
On the 2d instant, a Red Morocco Pocket-Book, on the road between St. Georges and Cantwell's bridge. The owner may have it by applying to Jacob Vandegrift. Oct. 4, 1809.
Treasury Department, March 28, 1809.
WHEREAS, in conformity with the provisions made by law, for the reimbursement of the Exchanged Six per Cent Stock , created by the second section of the act intitled "An act supplementary to the act intitled an Act making provision for the redemption of the whole of the public debt of the United States," passed on the 11th day of February, 1807, it has been determined by law that the Certificates of said stock, designated by the permanent numbers contained in the annexed schedule, should be reimbursed on the first day of January next.
NOTICE is hereby given to the proprietors of Certificates of EXCHANGED SIX PER CENT STOCK , created by the act aforesaid, and bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed schedule, that the principal of the same, will, on surrender of the certificates, be paid on the first day of January 1810, to the respective stockholders or their legal representatives, or attorneys duly constituted, either at the Treasury or at the Loan Office where the stock then to be reimbursed may then stand credited to the proprietors thereof.
It is further made known for the information of the parties concerned, that no transfers of the certificates of exchanged stock bearing the permanent numbers contained in the annexed schedule, from the books of the Treasury, or of any Commissioner of Loans, will be allowed after the first day of September next. And the interest on all the certificates contained in the said schedule will cease and determine on the day preceding the day hereby fixed for the reimbursement thereof.
Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury.
SCHEDULE.    5 16,201 39,006 49,348   7 16,222 39,041 49,375   95,17 16,238 39,044 49,354   5,018 16,218 39,045 49,365   5,021 16,219 39,053 49,367   5,022 16,249 40,001 49,378   5,023 16,246 40,005 49,383   5,024 16,249 40,011 49,384   5,029 16,255 40,021 49,394   5,035 16,238 40,023 49,408   5,040 16,270 40,027 49,413   5,046 16,275 40,036 49,418   5,051 16,255 40,040 49,428   5,054 16,250 40,043 49,432   5,061 16,282 40,049 49,437   5,067 16,293 40,073 49,449   5,079 25,001 40,008 49,452   5,084 25,013 40,107 49,454   5,093 25,003 40,113 49,455   5,095 25,009 40,129 49,463   5,094 25,012 40,131 49,469   5,098 25,013 40,139 49,471   5,099 25,019 40,141 49,476   5,012 25,042 40,142 49,481   5,019 25,084 40,143 49,484   5,026 25,075 40,155 49,487   5,029 25,059 40,166 49,488   5,037 25,104 40,170 49,493   5,040 25,111 40,176 49,500   5,041 25,112 40,181 49,501   5,042 25,113 40,185 49,502   5,045 25,116 40,188 49,502   5,047 25,117 40,193 49,507   5,049 25,127 40,194 49,508   5,052 25,134 40,197 49,509   5,055 25,137 40,201 49,510   5,056 25,148 40,202 49,511   5,060 25,151 40,207 50,008   5,061 25,154 40,220 51,002   5,063 25,167 40,235 53,015   5,064 25,169 40,241 53,024   5,076 25,175 40,252 53,031   5,077 25,178 40,255 53,032   5,088 25,179 40,260 53,049   5,091 25,187 40,262 53,053   5,105 25,197 40,271 54,001   5,120 25,263 40,273 54,009   5,121 25,269 40,275 54,012   5,129 25,212 40,279 55,010   5,154 25,213 40,286 55,026   5,158 25,219 40,289 55,029   5,171 25,225 40,293 55,044   5,175 25,223 40,299 55,046   5,177 25,232 40,310 55,055   5,183 25,231 40,331 55,056   5,184 25,239 40,337 455,06   5,185 25,243 40,310   5,189 25,255 40,314 
BANK OF DELAWARE,
November 1, 1809. THE Directors of the Bank of Delaware have declared a dividend of twelve dollars on each share of stock for the last six months, payable to the stockholders or to their representatives, after the 10th instant. By order of the board. JOHN HAYS, Cashier.
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.