The Delaware gazette (Wilmington [Del.]), 1809-09-27 00:00:00

THE DELAWARE GAZETTE.
VOL. I.]
WILMINGTON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1809.
[NO. 24
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To the Public.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public that he has purchased the whole stock and trade late of the firm of John & Wm. Patterson, saddlers, and removed to the west side of Market street a few doors below Third street, where he continues to carry on the above mentioned business in all its various branches, and has constantly for sale a large and elegant assortment of articles in his line, which he will dispose of on the most reasonable terms.
William Patterson.
Wanted, as apprentices to the above business, one or two active boys of from 14 to 16 years of age. ap 22 3m
John Dixon
HAVING succeeded Warners & Torbert in the grocery business, at the stores lately occupied by them on Market-street wharf; offers for sale on the most moderate terms, for cash or the usual credit, a General Assortment of Groceries.
And hopes by a strict attention to business, to merit a share of the public patronage.
The Packet, Sloop HOPE, Capt. MILNER, with good accommodations for passengers, will ply between this Town & Philadelphia as usual—all freight sent by said packet will be carefully attended to. Wilmington, July 8, 1809.
A VALUABLE Tract of Land for sale, At Private Sale.
THE subscriber offers for sale the tract of Land on which he at present resides, situate in Mill-Creek hundred in the county of New-Castle and state of Delaware, containing two hundred and fifty acres more or less, with a comfortable dwelling house and kitchen, a cellar, barn, and a good stone spring-house thereon erected, a young apple orchard, and a variety of other fruit trees of the best quality; it is well watered by a number of excellent springs; on said tract there is near twenty acres of good timothy meadow land, about forty acres now in clover, a large proportion of woodland—and the residue good arable land capable of improvement to a high state of cultivation, being within one mile of limestone where it can be had on reasonable terms eight miles from Wilmington and six from New-Port on the main road leading from thence to Lancaster. As it is presumed any person inclining to purchase will view the premises, it is thought unnecessary to give a further description—it will bear a division into three parts, and will be sold either the whole together or in parts as may best suit the purchaser. If it is not sold at private sale on or before the 28th day of September next, it will be sold at public sale on the premises on said day, and a liberal credit given for a considerable part of the purchase money, at which time attendance will be given and the terms made known, by
JAMES OCHETREE. Wilmington, June 24, 1809.
Patent Washing Machines.
THE subscriber respectfully informs his friends and the public in general, that he has, some time ago, purchased an exclusive right of making and vending Patent Washing Machines throughout the hundreds of Brandywine and Christiana, in New-Castle county, a number of which machines he has already made, which have been tried by divers persons and highly approved of, as they save a great part of the labour of washing in the usual way, and are less injurious to clothes. He will continue to make and have a supply of them on hand, which he will sell on reasonable terms to such as favour him with their custom; and will also sell to any person a right to make and use them within the hundreds aforesaid.
ABRAM GEST.
Wilmington, Jan. 21, 1809. tf
To Brewers.
To be rented, and possession given the first of tenth mo. (October) next, a large and convenient Brewery, with every necessary apparatus in complete order, situate in the borough of Wilmington. This Brewery is well supplied with good water, and convenient to a good barley country. As it is presumed that any person inclining to rent would first desire to view the premises, a further description is deemed unnecessary. The terms will be reasonable: for particulars apply on the premises, or to the subscriber at Abbotts and Sheward's brewery, Philadelphia.
Caleb Sheward.
7th mo. 19th, 1809. tf
A quantity of good malt and casks may be had of the present tenants.—A lot of marsh, about two acres and a half, to let, with or without the Brewery.
DR. DODDRIDGE'S RISE AND PROGRESS Of Religion in the Soul.
MR. ROBERT PORTER, of this town, has issued proposals for publishing the above excellent Book, by subscription, on good paper, and with a plain common sized type, at the very low price of fifty cents.
Perhaps, next to the Bible, this is the best book extant for private and family use....No one is better calculated to awaken, convince and convert sinners, and to conduct them in the straight and narrow path to Heaven; a doubtless the experience of many can witness. No one is more highly esteemed by pious people of all denominations, as is abundantly evident from the numerous editions it has passed through both in this country and Europe.
As the proposed price is only half the sum it is now selling for in most of our Book-stores, it will be seen, that neither the Printer, nor any persons who promote the work, have any object in view, but the good of souls, and the glory of God.
It is presumed that every one who wishes to see the spiritual rise and progress of religion in his own soul, or his family, will subscribe, and that all friends of religion will encourage the work.
Recommendation by New-Castle Presbytery. Whereas ROBERT PORTER, has issued proposals for printing Dr. Doddridge's Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, at a very low price.
Resolved, That the Presbytery do recommend the people under their care, to subscribe for said excellent Book. September 9, 1809.
For the prevention and cure of various and malignant fevers is recommended
Lee's Anti-Bilious Pills.
Prepared by Richard Lee and Son Baltimore. Persons wishing to purchase this valuable medicine are requested to be particular in enquiring for Lee's Anti-Bilious Pills, put up in wooden boxes, having on the outside wrapper the signature of Richard Lee & Son—this is necessary as there are other pills of the same name.
The operation of these highly esteemed pills is perfectly mild, and the experience of thousands has proved, they may be used in every situation in life without the least inconvenience or damage.
They are admirably adapted to carry off superfluous bile, and prevents its morbid secretions—to restore the appetite, produce a regular habit of the body, promote free perspiration and thereby prevent colds, so often attended with fatal consequences to the lives of thousands—and feldom, if ever, fail to remove a cold, if taken on its first appearance. Habitual costiveness, and its opposite, are removed by their wholesome influence, as also those diseases arising from them, head-aches and sickness at the stomach.
It is almost unnecessary to state, that on the regular habit of the system, the health of mankind depends. To conduct to this all-important object, perhaps no medicine was ever more generally successful than these pills—they never do harm, and at least nine times out of ten afford relief to those who use them for the purposes for which they are intended.
With the most perfect confidence we recommend these pills to the public, and will only further add, that their operation is always pleasant, and that they leave nothing of that costiveness behind them too often attending medicines designed for similar purposes.
Ten years have justified us in stating these facts, during which we have had a very extensive and constantly increasing sale for this truly valuable med-cine.
Sold by Mathew R. Lockerman,
Bookseller.
Next above the Bank of Delaware, Market Street, Wilmington, Delaware.
Aug. 23, 1809.
TO THE LADIES
of faces and complexion are injured with Freckles, Pimples, Black worms, Tan or Aylburn, Ring worms, Prickly heat, &c.
To those persons is recommended,
Lee's Persian Lotion,
A certain remedy for removing those disagreeable barriers to beauty, the proprietors with the most sacred regard to truth, and the credit of these medicines assure the afflicted, that all the different appearances above enumerated, are in a short time subdued: by wetting the parts affected, with this pleasant fluid, according to the directions on each bottle.
Persons therefore who regard, either what is due to themselves, or the favour and opinion of the world, who can distinguish between the comeliness of health, and the deformity of disease, and who can weigh the advantages which belong to, and are inseparable from an engaging appearance, to which perhaps, they themselves, have by nature, the strongest claims are seriously assured, that these advantages, so far as belonging to a good skin, are to be obtained by the use of his Lotion, however violently they may happen to be afflicted.
Instead of the studious, and debilitating course of medicines, which patients went through formerly, and which, perhaps, they are still too frequently obliged to undergo, it is now found, that the greatest number of these complaints, are more certainly, and speedily removed by the use of local remedies merely, than they ever were by a contrary course.
LEE'S LOTION.
is celebrated among the fashionable throughout Europe, as an invaluable cosmetic, perfectly innocent and safe, free from corrosive and repelent 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 essential to health, yet its effects are speedy and permanent, rendering the skin delicately soft and clear, improving the complexion and restoring the bloom of youth. Sold at the Bookstore of Matthew Lockerman.
Aug. 23, 1809.
Each article has on the outside wrapper the signature of RICHARD LEE & SON. Persons not attending to the above, are liable to be imposed upon.
Notice
IS hereby given, to all whom it may concern, that application will be made to the General Assembly of the state of Delaware at their next session at Dover, for an act authorizing them to bank off, stop and drain the waters, marsh, low lands and cripples of the North-east Branch of Duck Creek, at or near Mr. Edward Roberts's farm, in Thoroughfare Neck, Appoquinimink hundred, New-Castle county and state of Delaware.
John Fennemore, John Taylor, Thomas Emory.
Aug. 12. 3m
WILMINGTON COLLEGE.
THE Trustees of Wilmington College take pleasure in being able to announce to the public the revival of the Latin school in this institution, under the immediate care of Mr. Bigelow and general superintendence of the Rev. Dr. Read. The healthy situation of Wilmington, its character for morality, the goodness of its market and choice of best boarding houses, joined to the evidence of Mr. Bigelow's capacity as a teacher, and the long and justly established reputation of Dr. Read as a successful preceptor, all concur to recommend this seminary to the attention of Parents and Guardians, anxious to promote the education and improvement of the youth 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, J. EZER A. SMITH, JOHN RUMSEY, WILLIAM TRYCE,
Committee
July 22, 1809.
NOTICE
IS hereby given to the Electors of New-Castle County, who are qualified to vote for Members of the General Assembly, that an Election will be held at the Court house in the Town of New-Castle, at the same time and in the same manner as Senators and Representatives for the said County are elected, to choose as Commissioners of the Levy Court and Court of Appeal for said County, one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of Christiana, to supply the vacancy occasioned by the removal of John Warner, one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of Whiteclay creek, one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of Pencader, one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of Red-Lion, and one good and substantial Freeholder in the Hundred of St. George's—to supply the places of Thomas Philips, Morgan Jones, Anthony Higgins and David Stewart, whose seats have become vacant by the expiration of terms.
HUGH W. RITCHIE, C. P.
August 30, 1809.
10t
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 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 come fly across the deep, the news was carried to England.—The 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 swirling from their cells they spread the hasty wing, and shrill whizzing through the air, they rush to find the foe. Just so in the sea-girt island, from queen-dense to ale-house, from king to cockney, all were aere for fight. Even the red-nosed porters, where they met, bending under their burdens, would stop, full-out, in the streets, to talk of ENGLAND'S wrongs; and, as they talked, their fiery spirits were seen to grow more fiery still, and more defogm. Then throwing their packs to the ground, and leaping into the attitude of boxers, with sturdy arms across and rough black jaws stretched out, they bend forward to the fancied fight! The frog-eating foe, 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 stick and cuff and many a heavy curse, they slew the groggling crowns, how damn 'em! they would hump the French."
September 6, 1809.
James Gardner,
RESPECTFULLY informs his friends and the public that he has removed his store to the east side of Market-street, one door above Spackman & Grubbs, (nearly opposite the post-office) where he has opened a large assortment of elegant Dry Goods among which are,
  Blue, black, brown, drab, corbeau, bottle green, grey, and dark mixed superfine cloths  Marseilles quiltings    Cassimeres  Fustias and jeans    Bennet's patent cord  Lute strings    Coatings and flannels  Sinslaw and Mantas    Forest cloths  silks    Velvets and constitution cords  Silk & yorke tan gloves    Bevereens  Bandana and Madras handkerchiefs    7-8 and 4-4 Irish linens  Cammel's hair shawls    blue & yellow nankeens  Checkered and striped linens    Wide and narrow cotton cassimeres  Damask shawls    Cuintzes and callicoos  Russia & dowlas linens    Cambric and common dimities  Ratners & bombazets    Calimancoes  Red & green hocking baize    Durant and Jones' spinning  Brown holland    Cotton and worsted hosiery  Suspenders    Colored, chambray, cambric, jacksnet, mull-mull, India, British, book, gurrah, bafta, & leno Muslins  Urretas & parasols     Black satins and flannels     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.

ARRESTATION FOR MURDER.
By the following account taken from the Saratoga Independent American, it appears that a man who calls his name Abijah Sterns, and who in two letters, which he has written since his commitment, to Stephen Jacobs and Elijah Paine, Esqrs. of Vermont, styles himself "Chief Judge of the Supreme Court" of that state, was last week apprehended in the county of Washington, and committed to the jail in Saratoga county, New-York, charged with being the perpetrator of a murder committed at a place called Newtown, in the town of Halfmoon, about 14 years ago.—No account is given in the papers of the causes which have, at this time, led to the apprehension of this man—neither who the person was that was murdered.
BALLSTOWN, September 5.
MURDER. —Many of the inhabitants of this county will recollect that two murders were supposed to have been committed in the place then called Newton, in Halfmoon, about 11 years since. The body of one man was found, suspended, or the appearance of having been suspended by a handkerchief or rope, to a tree or limb; and a dog brought in the skull of another, though we believe the body was never found. Suspicion about this time, fixed on a Mr. Flinn, a tavern keeper near at hand, as an accomplice in the murder. We believe he was apprehended, had his trial, or at least an examination, and was acquitted.
A man by the name of Abijah Sterns, taken in the county of Washington, was on Wednesday committed to the jail of this county charged with the murders. The circumstances which have attached suspicion on Mr. Sterns are singular; and have thrown some light upon the subject, which was never before known. We will relate, as near as we have been informed, his own story; and although we shall not pretend to exactness in every instance, yet shall aim at the substance.
About 14 years ago, he was travelling from Albany to Argyle, and in a piece of woods heard the cries of a man in distress. Stopping, he saw a man at the distance of about 20 rods, tied to a tree, and another knock him in the head with the butt end of a pistol, who then took a knife from his pocket and cut his throat from ear to ear—he saw the blood stream from the wound. The murderer then took a portmanteau, lying at a small distance, ripped it open, and took therefrom two linen bags, containing about 800 dollars in silver, and a large quantity of bank bills. When this was performed, the robber approached Sterns, and demanded his money, 200 dollars, tied in a handkerchief, which he refused to deliver up, although the robber observed he had just killed one man, for his money, and threatened him with instant death. After some parley, they both, side and side, walked back, and about 15 rods beyond the place where the man had just been killed. Of a sudden, a lad rushed out of a thicket of bushes with a club in his hand, and with cries beseeched Sterns to assist him in securing the robber who had murdered his father. The robber standing between the two, drew a pistol, presented it at Sterns, (who begged his life) saying he should kill him to prevent his appearing as a witness; pausing for a moment, he turned round and shot the young man through the breast, who fell dead at his feet. At this time, a man on a black horse, who had not before been discovered, rode out of the bushes, and called to the robber to secure the man, (meaning Sterns) who then ran towards Flinn's. The man on horseback took another path, and attempted to cut off his retreat. Four pistols were fired at him, and in the scuffle was severely wounded. He reached Mr. Flinn's, however, and had his wounds dressed.
This we understand is the amount of the story relative to the murder, as related by Sterns. But it is astonishing that he should have been an eye witness of transactions so horrid, and not have immediately rallied the whole neighbourhood in pursuit of the murderers. We believe, however, but little or no alarm was given at the time; the subject some time after created considerable conversation, till finally it died away and was almost forgotten.
Mr. Sterns asserts that he is Chief Judge of the Supreme Court of Vermont; and has forwarded letters to that state, of which the following are copies. We know nothing of the truth of their contents: they may be true, or he may have a stratagem in view to elude the hand of justice. They however contain all the further information we possess on the subject.
Ballston Jail, August 31, 1809. To Judge Stephen Jacobs, of Windsor.
SIR, I take this opportunity to inform you, that I have been on business to Albany, and on my return to Waterton, have been apprehended on suspicion of murdering a man in Halfmoon, 14 years ago, the same that was murdered by Williams and Adams, who was convicted before you and Judge Paine, and White and Wilson, on the
23d day of January, 1807. Sir, I entreat you to come and see me as quick as this letter comes to you, for I am suffering in prison for the crimes of Williams and Adams. I was wounded and my life almost exhausted by reason of bleeding. I went to Lansingburgh and paid the money for advertising the murderers, and complained to the very same men that have complained of me and thought myself injured for their neglect. I have left a warrant with Mr. Ward, high sheriff in Sunbury, in the county of Worcester, and state of Massachusetts; and another in Boston, to commit them to prison—but have been neglected. I am now suffering by reason of the court of Windsor neglecting to—Sir, have pity on me, and come and see me at liberty; if you come and make known the truth of the business, I can have my liberty, without waiting for any other court. I desire you to come and bring other witnesses of their confession.—This from our humble servant, ABIJAH STERNS.
Chief Judge of the Supreme Court.
To ELIJAH PAINE, Judge of the Circuit Court of the United States.
HONOR'D SIR, I take this opportunity to acquaint you with my unhappy situation. I have been on business to Albany, and on my return towards home, have been apprehended in Greenwich, on suspicion of having committed murder in Halfmoon. Sir, I was travelling from Albany to Argyle about 14 years ago, and came in sight of two who committed murder, namely, Ebenezer Herdall Williams, and Bolton Adams.—On the twenty-third January, one thousand eight hundred and seven, they came into Windsor, Vermont, where I saw them, and accused them of committing the murder, and the judges of the Supreme Court called a Special Court, and they were both convicted of committing the murder in Halfmoon, before Judge Stephen Jacobs, and Judge White, and Judge Wilson, and your Honor, and one of the Judges of the Windsor county, and Judge Hunter, and a number of the Justices of the Peace, and myself.—It was also proved upon the trial of Adams by the oath of Williams and Polly Fox, that Adams had committed murder in Lansingburgh, and that both of them had confessed the justness of the sentence, and they were committed to John, to Page, and another, to commit to prison, but made their escape.—I am now suffering in prison, for the crime committed by Williams and Adams. Sir, I earnestly intreat you to have pity on an innocent man, and come immediately and see me, and set me at liberty. I have left my business so, that it will be a great damage if I am absent long. Sir, have pity on me, on an innocent sufferer, who always wishes that mercy and peace from God the Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ, might be bestowed on all men both in this world and that which is to come; and who esteems it an honor to subscribe himself your most obedient very humble servant, ABIJAH STERNS, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.
Ballston Jail, August 31, 1809.
FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER.
Among the errors extensively imbibed in this country, that appears to be the most extraordinary, which connects our general prosperity with the state of our foreign relations. From the liveliest interest we take in every vicissitude in the affairs of Europe, and in the smiles and frowns of foreign nations towards us, it might be inferred that we were entirely dependent on foreign events, if not for our existence, at least for every thing that renders existence a blessing.
Is this impression correct? If it is we ought to realise our true character and act a part consistent with it. We should reject the lofty notions of independence as the idol dreams of a disordered imagination, and learn the important duty of obedience. We should quietly resign ourselves to our fate instead of rashly struggling against it.
If, however, the impression be altogether incorrect, we are called upon dispassionately to estimate our real character, to fathom our own native resources, and to scorn that dependence, which will probably be found, on a full investigation, to be the source of almost all our divisions and troubles.
Now, experience is the unerring crucible of every thing done by men. What does it teach us? That amidst the dreadful changes and convulsions which have for twenty years agitated the whole foreign world we have remained happy and have grown in prosperity with every succeeding year. Much as we have been alarmed, from time to time, with the menacing aspect of affairs, we have continued to progress, with a steady pace, in riches, in numbers, and in power; while these foreign events, which excited our apprehensions and made us tremble for the consequences, have turned out to be either blessings in disguise; or at worst but momentary checks. Thrones have sunk beneath the nervous arm of Napoleon, and the established order of the European world has tottered to its base. Every breeze has wasted us to the chilling sound of the hurricane, and has filled us with overwhelming presages of our own fate. But time and events have soon undeceived us, and instead of finding ourselves involved in the general ruin, we have advanced, with accelerated steps, toward the goal of our wishes.
England has despotised on the ocean and with a power as irresistible as unjust, has practically seized all the property she could subject to the operation of her iniquitous orders; she has, more especially, poured out the full vial of her wrath upon our offending head. Yet, still, our career in wealth and numbers and power, so far from being interrupted, seems to have been pushed on with augmented velocity.
It may be confidently assumed as a fact, that, for the last twenty years, the United States have progressed in riches, numbers and power, with so uninterrupted a progress, that there has not been a single year, which has not unequivocally displayed a sensible advance; and it may as confidently be added, that our present situation is attended with as striking displays of this fact as any which have preceded it. Yet it must be admitted that at no preceding period has foreign injustice been more aggravated or active, and that we are at present exposed to the greatest evils it is in its power to inflict. Notwithstanding these evils, which develop the extraordinary circumstance of our being equally exposed to the hostility of the whole belligerent world, the interior of our country indicates more unequivocal evidences of prosperity than we have ever before witnessed. The price of labor is unaffected, every man who wants employment easily finds it, our towns are increasing and receiving new embellishments, money is in plenty, institutions that evince a high state of civilization are everywhere springing up, and the great internal improvements of roads and canals are prosecuted on the broadest scale.
If this is a true picture of the state of our country, is it not the most conclusive evidence, that our prosperity depends almost altogether upon ourselves, and that we have consequently attached a false importance to our foreign relations? Does it not prove that a nation of free men, possessed of an abundance of good lands, enjoying every variety of soil and climate, cultivating the arts and reaping their benefits, and above all united by a government well administered, may safely consider their prosperity as fixed on a solid foundation not to be shaken by the injustice of any foreign power, however terrifying. That power may, for a time, deny us the profits of trade, may infringe our rights as a sovereign nation, and heap insults upon injuries; but its injustice will eventually react upon itself, by teaching us to cultivate our vast internal resources, learning how to live in peace among ourselves.
The events of the last three years, have brought this interesting instruction home to the understandings and hearts of the American people. The privations they have caused, have made them feel their independence. The fact is universally realised that they can do without Europe; and could a full statistical view of our progress during this period, in the improved cultivation of our ground, the new roads and canals effected, and the new manufactures established, be presented, more would be done to convince England of the folly of her injustice towards us than can be expected from the profoundest deductions of reason or the warmest remonstrances of justice. Looking forward, with a prophetic eye, to a period by no means distant, she would start appalled at the precipice towards which she is thus hastening, and would instantly measure back the inconsiderate steps she has taken. By striking off every shackle to a free trade, and by becoming the zealous and efficient advocate of neutral rights, she would repress our manufactures and perpetuate our commercial dependence upon her; we should supply her with every raw material she wants, together with provisions, on the best terms, and we should furnish her with a market for a direct or circuitous disposition of her variegated manufactures. Unfortunately, however for her, her policy is short sighted, her councils consult not her permanent interests, but transported by personal animosity, or swayed by personal interests, to gain a momentary triumph, are sacrificing the only solid interests of the nation.
DIPLOMATIC EVENTS.
England, by her minister Erskine, made a treaty with the United States to take effect on the 10th of June.
England by her subsidies (we will not call it 6 millions of British gold ) and diplomatic acts, excited war against Bonaparte by Austria—and disavowed Erskine's treaty.
Bonaparte meeting with his usual success in opening the campaign, at Eckmuhl, &c.—England appointed Mr. Jackson an envoy extraordinary to come and treat with us.
Austria gaining a wonderful victory (in her army, through favour of winds and freshets escaping under annihilation) on the bank of the Danube—England suspends the sailing of Mr. Jackson, whose departure had been announced in the British papers.
On the 5th and 6th of July Bonaparte destroys the Austrian army, and the emperor Francis surrenders the whole Austrian territory—and Mr. Jackson proceeds on his so long intended voyage, and arrived safe in this country.
Now suppose Bonaparte had been defeated instead of the Archduke—would Mr. Jackson have left England?
Or should we have had a new edition of Orders in Council?
Appropos. When a coalition is formed against Bonaparte—England issues her Orders in Council.
When that coalition is dissipated by a
battle of Marengo, Austerlitz, or Jena—She sends a minister to treat with our government.
Thus Orders in Council, or a minister to treat, depends on the fate of the continental battles.
Has not the history of the European war for ten years past established the fact?
Yet Federalists pray for British success.
And the republican, who will not join in chanting the Heligoland Te Deum is called a French partisan! Bee.
ANTICIPATION.
What prospects does the present state of the world afford to America? and what course should we pursue? are momentous questions. The prospect is doubtful, but the principles that should regulate our course are clear.—The first maxims of our government are, neutrality without sacrifice of interest, and peace without sacrifice of honor—or, honest friendship and commerce with all the world, when the world will permit. These maxims have grown with our growth and become inherent and vital principles of our policy—they ought not to be changed—they cannot be changed without risking the consequences of a thorough revolution. But it is said we must have commerce—I take it for granted this is practically true, at least, as a general rule. By what principle shall we regulate our course if war is to be the price of this commerce?
Private interest, party passions and short sighted policy might solve this question, upon the balance of immediate profit and loss—the comparative wrongs we have received from the belligerents—or their relative power of inflicting new injuries. Our true interests which I consider as identified with our honour, will look beyond these deceptive and temporizing calculations. A seven years war in the infancy of our nation proved that our energies even then were competent to the struggle with our Herculean foe. If our ability to prosecute a successful war is less now than it was then, it is time we were put to martial exercise till our former energies are restored. If on the other hand the augmented resources of our population and wealth for the twenty years past, (unequalled even by the acquisition of power to those who now divide the empire of the old world,) have given us as they ought, under our union, proportionate energies for war—we have nothing to fear. If we mean to be a commercial nation, and a nation we cannot be without preserving inviolate our essential rights, we must assert and vindicate those rights on every sea that bears our flag. The contending party that first acknowledges those rights and gives indemnity for the past and security for the future, should receive the first fruits of our commerce, and the first proofs of our friendship. If the other take offence, let us abide the consequence. If neither comply with terms so equitable, let us prosecute an honest commerce with every nation on the globe that does not shackle it with dishonorable restrictions, and authorize our enterprising merchants to arm, and our hardy tars to vindicate our rights from the cannon's mouth, on the first aggression. This will bring the question to a speedy issue—but one of the belligerents will commence offensive operations—perhaps neither. If France choose to be the offender, we shall co-operate with a naval power which in conjunction with the increasing energy and skill of our own, could confine her allied forces forever to the insulated continent, while we should have free access to the rest of the world. If England commence the first act of hostility—what then? Shall we hear our advocates of the British cause preaching up the terrors of bombardment and the solacism of our floating independence, dependant on the protection of the British navy? No. If these cowards think sedition, they will not dare to speak, much less to act treason. We shall soon learn that an invading British ship of war has no terrors without men, & that within swimming distance they will send us, in their own stout hearted tars, more friends than cannon balls. In such a contest, to say nothing of the aid of the rest of the united world, we should find in an appeal to that kindred, sympathizing soul of justice which animates the great mass of the English nation, an efficient and irresistible ally, which would soon put a period to the war on our own terms—the terms of justice and honor.
Bos. Pat.
Certain designing men are as assiduous in seeking occasions to praise our present worthy President as they were to abuse his great and good predecessor. One motive is to vex republicans and sour them against Madison and another is to operate upon the Chief Magistrate himself, as if he were weak and vain enough to be turned by the coarse flattery of his former revilers from the straight path of rectitude into the mazes of federalism and sin. Alas! how sadly are they mistaken in their calculations! Republicans will neither desert Madison nor Madison desert republicanism, though the whole host of Tories should combine their arts to entice him. Several of their editors have sense enough to know this and continue to vent their envy and malice in pitiful insinuations against the friend of Jefferson. These thoughts occurred upon seeing remarks in some federal papers upon the civility with which the Anglo-Carthagenian agent Jackson has been received, which they wisely contrast with the barbarism with which Mr. Jefferson would have treated him! Fit stuff to feed the ignorant! Who does not know that Jefferson always conducted himself with the greatest decorum and politeness towards foreign ambassadors, so that even the

insulting Rose must have acknowledged American hospitality? And who has a right to conjecture that if now in office he would not pay Jackson the same attention? If a minister is received, however infamous he may be, or however base the object of his mission, it is the duty of the government to receive him respectfully. Republicans never thought otherwise and none of them have ever practised otherwise. Nat. Egit.
The Gazette.
Wilmington, September 27, 1809.
At a meeting of the Delegates from the different hundreds of Newcastle county, at the Red-lion, on Saturday, the 23d inst. the following Ticket was agreed upon, to be supported by the Democratic Republicans of the said County.
SENATOR.
Andrew Reynalds M. C. H. REPRESENTATIVES.
Robert Forward B. W. H. William D. Philips C. H. Archibald Alexander N. C. H. Benjamin Chambers W. C. H. Samuel H. Black P. H. Jesse Higgins R. L. H. Enoch Thomas St. G. H. Levy Court Commissioners. Isaac H. Starr C. H. George Gallispie W. C. H. Thomas Stewart, junior P. H. Anthony Higgins R. L. H. Jacob Vandergrift St. G. H.
Sheriff.
Thomas Perkins. Thomas Richardson.
Coroner.
Alexander Porter.
Mr. Jones,
Sir—Having understood that my name has been offered to the public as a Member of the State Legislature, by the Delegates convened at the Red-lion, I take the earliest opportunity, through the medium of your paper, to inform my fellow-citizens, that my present situation totally prevents me from attending to the duties of a Legislator.
A. Alexander.
Fairfield, 26th September, 1809.
FOR THE GAZETTE.
BRANDY-WINE BRIDGE.
It is with pleasure we announce to the public, that one part of the bridge over Brandywine creek is now passable.
The ferry, which was established for the conveyance of travellers across the creek, during the time the bridge was building, was abolished on Saturday last.
The novelty of the construction of the bridge, naturally produced a diversity of opinion respecting the utility of the plan,—but after having received the won't do—never do—and can't do —of hundreds of spectators—we fully believe that it— WILL DO .
We forbear giving a particular account of the construction, believing that the managers will give the public every requisite information on the subject, when the bridge is fully completed. All we can say at present is, that we believe it a good plan —and that people in waggons, carriages, &c. can now cross the creek safe—and without TOLL . MANY.
A gentleman at Porto Rico writes to his correspondent in New-York, that official advices had been received that on the 27th and 28th of July, a most bloody battle was fought in the neighbourhood of Madrid, in which the French lost, in killed, wounded, and prisoners, 48,000 men. The battle is said to have been fought by Gen. Cuesta, in conjunction with the English.
We have now assurances that the English Expedition had reached the coast of Holland, and that the fleet had extended itself from the East to the Western entrance of the Scheld. This country, in the latitude of the Thames, is but 3 degrees east of it. It does not appear that the English have made a descent upon the Continent, but have taken possession of some portion of the Islands which compose the province of Zealand. They reckon four principal Islands on the Western Scheld and as many on the eastern. Walcheren forms the entrance of the west on the north side and Schouwen the entrance of the east branch, on the north side. Flushing is the port of Walcheren on the south side of the island towards the West Scheld. The Capitol of the Province is Middelburg on the Walcheren and its population has been given at 24,000, and it is nearly in the centre of the island. A canal of communication with the West Scheld admits ships of the largest burden and formerly this place was considered as well fortified. Flushing is the fifth town, and was also fortified, and its dock is sufficient to receive a large fleet. Veer on the north part of the island has not a great distance from the East Scheld, but is not so large as Flushing. By landing on the islands the English may not have so readily to penetrate into the Country,
but they will be more secure from any force which the French and their allies can bring against them. It is above two hundred years since Walcheren had joined the States, and in a short time afterwards Flushing was mortgaged to Elizabeth, but upon payment of the loan, it was restored to the States by James. In the middle of the past Century the English represented Middelburg as emblems of a share in their trade with Rotterdam, and as having reduced their customs to divert the trade thither, but its chief trade was with Scotland. At that time every week a passage could be obtained in the Middleburg packets to London. Veer however had the greatest portion of the Scotch trade, which still inclined to Rotterdam. The privileges granted to the Scots in Veer were great both civil and commercial, so that many Scotch families settled in that place. It has always been insinuated that no competition of interest, should induce the inhabitants of this country to be at war with Great Britain. The subordinate character of the commerce of Zealand will receive the strongest local prejudice, from any advantages the English may propose, and may be favorable to a temporary quiet which promises present concurrence with their commercial interests.
From the Danube, the accounts continue very favorable to the French. The Armistice was of such a character, as not to augur well to the Austrians, and as such it was received in England. The French Emperor had admitted an immediate interview with the officers of the Austrian army, and it has been even insinuated with the Archduke Charles himself, but of this event there is no evidence. The French emperor had returned to the Imperial Palace near Vienna, and it is said that the Emperor of Austria had retired from Olmutz in Moravia to Hungary, and it was said that the Archduke Charles was at Igla in Moravia, northwest from Znaim—Igla is the capital of one of the circles, with a population of 10,000, upon a river of the same name, and about the same distance from Znaim as from Brunn, not a degree northwest from Brunn, and not two degrees southwest from Olmutz. It is reported the armistice has succeeded the preliminaries of peace. At first it was said that the French emperor had refused every negotiation for peace, but the language of the bulletin, expresses fully with what temper the Austrians would make their propositions for peace. It is said that Bavaria was to receive the countries as far as the Drave, and the countries south of the Drave were to be added to the Italian kingdom. That the Tyrol was to be given to France. That the German powers were to be rewarded with portions from the Austrian dominions in Germany, and Austria was to retain part of Moravia, Bohemia and Hungary. This distribution whether real or not, is made upon the terms of the Armistice. The Russians were to hold Austrian Poland and the country conquered by their arms. The armistice according to the last accounts had been communicated at Dresden, and had put an end to the operations of that quarter. Some accounts had been given that Gen. La Roche had passed with French troops from Nuremberg to Bareuth, and had had a successful action in that neighbourhood, before the news of the armistice had arrived. According to the bulletins, divisions of the French army had encamped at Holabrun, Znaim, and Nicholsburgh, and the Austrians from Saxony were returning to Bohemia. Holabrun is between Znaim and the Danube and Nicholsburgh is more easterly than Znaim in Moravia.
In the North appearances were in favor of peace between Sweden and Russia. Swedish Ministers were expected at Paris and Petersburg. The Russian troops which had advanced upon the Gulph of Bothnia had retired, but whether towards their northern settlements which had been disturbed by the English, or towards Finland had not been known. It is said that the Russians will hold Finland and the Island of Aland, and will insist upon the co-operation of the Swedes against the English. It is even said that the Swedes were to unite their maritime force with the Russian fleet in the Baltic. The English report a victory gained over a Russian flotilla in the Baltic, and an English fleet has been seen in the Gulph of Finland, in every part of the Gulph. Such are the appearances of returning peace among the northern powers, that we have assurances of the renewed intercourse between Stralsund and Sweden by permission of the commander in Swedish Pomerania, now in the hands of the French. At these circumstances the English have taken alarm, and expect to begin hostilities against the Swedes immediately. The change in the Swedish government no longer appears like a temporary accommodation. The new King Charles has announced his successor Christian of Schleswig Holstein, and the late Gustavus is still held as a prisoner of state, with entire loss of his influence on the government. The English have entered the White Sea, where they can distress the commerce of the Russians. They have taken possession of Kola in Lat. 68, 54, which is upon a river passing from a lake into a bay which bears the same name. In this harbour foreign ships are often found. It is four degrees further north than
Archangel, upon six degrees of less longitude. The English had ships at the Swaino Noss, the point which projects between the North Ocean and White Sea. We now see them in command of the Northern Ocean, at the mouth of the Baltic, of the Elbe, the Scheld, of the Tagus, and at Cadiz, besides having the dominion of the sea in every quarter of the globe.
From Russia we hear that the Emperor was to go in person into Galicia, to visit his new possessions, and that at Petersburg there were strong anticipations of the subjection of all the Turkish provinces in Europe to the power of Russia, and of a Russian prince at Constantinople. We have no accounts deserving great credit respecting the true spirit of Turkey at the present moment of so powerful an invasion of the Empire. Many reports are unfavourable to British influence at Constantinople, and the English are silent upon the subject of their interest in Turkey. It is affirmed, that Gen. Garonne, who had been sent from France into Persia had reached Constantinople. That he had contributed to lessen the English interest, and was upon his return to France to report the state of the Persian Court. We may expect much information upon his arrival.
Salem Reg.
The British frigate Squirrel, of 24 guns, Capt. Townsend, arrived at Halifax 27th ult. from a cruise. On the 21st, she spoke the ship Horace, capt. Beckford, from hence for Russia, with Mr. Adams on board, all well.
The British frigate L'Africaine, is now lying in Hampton Roads; and the U. S. frigate President, Commodore Bainbridge, the Hornet, Captain Hunt, and cutter Ferret, Lieut. Godading, are also in Hampton Roads, ready for sea.
MARRIED,
On Monday evening last by the Rev. Daniel Dodge, Mr. WILLIAM JOHNSON, of Salem, New Jersey, to Miss MARY M'CLANE, of this place.
DIEGO will appear on Saturday.
A NEW REPUBLICAN PAPER, Political, Commercial, and Historical, To be published Daily for the City, and twice a week for the Country, WILL BE COMMENCED On the first day of November next, under the title of
The Columbian,
And delivered at the yearly price of Eight Dollars for the City, and Five for the Country paper—payable in all cases half in advance.
THE OBJECTS OF THE COLUMBIAN WILL BE, To maintain and vindicate the rights and immunities of the United States as a free, sovereign and independent nation, against the pretensions, the violations, and the aggressions of any and every foreign power. To support the constitution and government of the United States, and of the individual states, in their several and distinct provinces; and to sustain and uphold the liberties of the people. To defend the privileges and measures of the general government, as administered under Mr. Jefferson, and continued by Mr. Madison, and of the present administration of this state under Mr. Tompkins. To disseminate correct and useful American sentiments, and to subserve and cherish the republican systems and institutions of the United States. To cultivate and promote the union, the harmony, and the prosperity of the republican party in this country, and to discountenance and oppose whatever local partialities and personal collisions may threaten to impair or jeopardize its interests.
AND FINALLY,
To contain such mercantile, historical, and agricultural information, occasionally variegated with literary and miscellaneous pieces as shall best fulfil the usual purposes of a newspaper, and gratify the hopes and expectations of its patrons.
The foregoing outline, it is presumed, are sufficiently distinct and expressive of the purposes for which the COLUMBIAN is to be established, to enable every reader to decide on the degree of encouragement to which the attempt is entitled. Subscriptions will be received by post-masters and other holders of proposals in the different parts of the state.
The names of the subscribers are requested to be returned previous to the day of publication, directed to the Editor, at Hudson, or at the Post-Office, New York; and the papers will be regularly forwarded, by mail or other conveyance, agreeable to direction.
Charles Holt.
New-York, September 5, 1809. 22—Gt
* * Subscriptions to the COLUMBIAN received at the Office of the Delaware Gazette.
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. lawit.
Take Notice.
THE subscriber, Executor of June Overn , late of the county of Sussex and state of Delaware, deceased, being authorised to make sale of the real estate of said deceased, situate in the county of Sussex, doth hereby give notice that he will dispose of the same, at public vendue, on Wednesday the eighth day of November next, at Johnstown, in the county aforesaid, between the hours of 10 o'clock, A. M. and 3 in the afternoon. The terms of purchase can be known by applying to the subscriber near Johnstown.
William Carlisle.
September 20, 1809. 4t.
District Court.
Delaware District, ss.
WHEREAS a libel hath been filed in the District Court of the United States, by GEORGE READ, Esq. attorney for the said district, against 9 bags coffee, 1 barrel coffee, 1 barrel sugar, 2 pots sweet meats, 1 keg raisins, 100 oranges, and 12 pine apples, of the value of $ 150 lawful money of the U. States, seized for violating the revenue laws.
And whereas the honorable GUNNING BEDFORD, Esq. Judge of the said District Court, hath ordered the 4th day of October 1809, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for holding a special District Court at the Town-Hall, in the borough of Wilmington, for the said trial, agreeably to the prayer of the said Attorney: Notice is hereby given, That a special District Court will be then and there held for the trial of the premises, and the owner or owners, and all persons who may have or claim any right, interest or concern therein, are hereby cited and admonished to be and appear at the time and place aforesaid, to show cause if any they have, why a final decree should not pass, pursuant to the prayer of the said bill.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON,
Clerk of the District Court, Wilmington, September 20, 1809. 4t.
District Court.
Delaware District, ss.
WHEREAS a libel hath been filed in the District Court of the United States, by GEORGE READ, Esq. attorney for the said district, against the schooner JAMES, her tackle, apparel and furniture and the cargo found on board, seized for violating the act of Congress entitled, "An act to amend and continue force certain parts of the act entitled "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes."
And whereas the Honorable GUNNING BEDFORD, Esq. Judge of the said District Court, hath ordered the 4th day of October 1809, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for holding a special District Court at the Town-Hall, in the borough of Wilmington, for the said trial, agreeably to the prayer of the said Attorney: Notice is hereby given, That a special District Court will be then and there held for the trial of the premises, and the owner or owners, and all persons who may have or claim any right, interest or concern therein, are hereby cited and admonished to be and appear at the time and place aforesaid, to show cause if any they have, why a final decree should not pass, pursuant to the prayer of the said bill.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON,
Clerk of the District Court, Wilmington, September 20, 1809. 4t.
District Court.
Delaware District, ss.
WHEREAS a libel hath been filed in the District Court of the United States by GEORGE READ, Esq. attorney for the said district, against the schooner EMMA, her tackle, apparel and furniture, of the value of $ 150 lawful money of the United States, and now lying in the Delaware district, the same vessel being seized as forfeited by the collector of the said district for violating the act of Congress, entitled, "An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies and for other purposes."
And whereas the honorable GUNNING BEDFORD, Esq. Judge of the said District Court, hath ordered the 4th day of October, 1809, at 10 o'clock, A. M. for holding a special District Court at the Town-Hall, in the borough of Wilmington, for the said trial, agreeably to the prayer of the said Attorney: Notice is hereby given, That a special District Court will be then and there held for the trial of the premises, and the owner or owners, and all persons who may have or claim any right, interest or concern therein, are hereby cited and admonished to be and appear at the time and place aforesaid, to show cause if any they have, why a final decree should not pass, pursuant to the prayer of the said bill.
THOMAS WITHERSPOON,
Clerk of the District Court, Wilmington, September 20, 1809. 4t.
Domestic Manufactures.
THE Patriotic citizens of Delaware, who are disposed to encourage American Manufactures, and thereby promote the independence of our country, are informed that the subscriber has now on hand and for sale, at the Factory at Staunton, (New-Castle county) a good supply of Cassameres, Drab and Mix'd—also, a few pieces of coarse Cloths, and Felting for Paper-makers, all which will be sold low for Cash, either by the piece or smaller quantity.
Mordecai M'Kinney.
Newport, (Del) 16th Spt. 1809.

POETRY.
RESIGNATION.
The rose has its thorns; and the violet though fair, From its sweet purple leaves deadly poison supplies, And when bright is the sky, soft and gentle the air, How oft, unexpected a storm will arise!
Yet who would through fear, pass unnoticed the rose, Or shun the perfume of the violet's sweet breath? Or shrink from the air, while the wild zephyr blows, Lest a cloud yet unseen, scatter tempest and death?
The thorn of the rose, when 'tis gathered with care, Has seldom been known the possessor to wound; And the Peasant scarce shudders the tempest to bear Remem'ring the verdure it pours on the ground, The poison conceal'd in the sweet violet's leaves Lies harmless till forced into action by arts And the sorrows of life which mild Patience receives, Have lost half their power to torture the heart.
Bloom on lovely rose: modest violet bloom, Unhurt by the tempest undrench'd by the rain, Yet aanker, alas! may thy beauty consume And scatter thy withering limbs on the plain.
But thy thorn is forgot while we think on thy sweets: The tempest not dreaded, while clear is the sky; And the heart which es gold stern calamity meets, Thanks on blessings receiv'd and repasses the sigh.
ADDRESS TO A HUSBAND.
By Miss Porter.
Oh! grant my prayer, and let me go, Thy toil to share, thy path to smooth— Is there a want, a wish, a woe, Which wedded love can fail to sooth?
At morn, when sleep still seals thine eyes, My hand thy temp'rate meal shall spread; At night my smiles shall check thy sighs, And my fond arm support thy head.
And if thy vexing cares should dart Some hasty word my zeal to chill, Still this unchanging, tender heart, Thy credulous friend shall still.
MISCELLANY.
THE PILLOW.
What a delicious balm is diffused over the whole frame when the candle is extinguished and the head on the pillow! If, on a strict scrutiny of the soul we cannot discover any thing which could offend our fellow creatures, then sleep is almost a celestial reverie.
It is never so delicious or so tranquil, as after a day on which we have performed some good act, or when we are conscious of having spent it in some useful or substantial employment.
The instant the head is laid on the pillow, is that in which conscience delivers its decrees. If it has conceived any evil design, it is surrounded with thorns; the softest down is hard under the restless head of the wicked. In order to be happy, a man must be on good terms with his pillow: for the nightly approaches it can make must be heard.
We must be happy or miserable at night by recollection. Memory recalls our faults and negligences, and this must put us in a method to avoid them, for they will not lose sight of us; they will banish sleep from our eyes, they will intrude in our dreams, they will fatigue us, in order to teach us that there is neither repose nor happiness but in harmony of an upright conduct, and in the exercise of charity.
Happy is the man who can say, when he lies down—No man can reproach me with his misfortune, or his captivity; I have not injured the reputation of any one; I have paid due respect to the property of others, and certain pledge of the repose of families; and the labourer's hire has never remained in my hands at sun-setting, according to the expression of Scripture.
Those testimonies of conscience, those internal enjoyments of soul, give a delicious repose, and still more delicious waking.
A MATRIMONIAL LOTTERY.
A young man of good character and figure, lately proposed a lottery in the Bourdeaux Journal . The conditions as follows: all the widows and maidens who have not attained the age of
32, are invited to take of him a ticket at the price of 25 francs. There are to be 4000 of these tickets. Only one number is to be drawn from the wheel and the fortunate holder is to gain the young man for her husband, and to partake with him the 100,000 francs produced by the lottery!
One Hundred and Fifty Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the subscriber, living in Somerset county, state of Maryland, a negro fellow named PHILIP BROWN, about five feet eight or nine inches high; a little knock kneed, a blacksmith by trade, has a yellowish complexion, and is a handy sensible fellow at any business; had on when he went away a country made over jacket, striped with red and black; a pair of country made long trousers, dyed a dark colour, old hat, shoes, and tow linen shirt. Whoever takes up the said negro and brings him to me shall have the above reward if taken out of the state of Maryland.
LAMBERT HYLAND. September 9, 1809. law 4w.
Notice.
SUCH persons as are indebted to the estate of ESTHER YARNALL, deceased, either by bond, note, or book-debt, are requested to make immediate payment to John Warner and John Torbert, or either of them, who are legally authorised to receive the same. And those who have claims against said estate are requested to present them for settlement.
William Warner, Ex'r. Feb. 11, 1809.
Notice
IS hereby given to all persons indebted to the late John Baldwin deceased, that they are required to make immediate payment of the several sums due from them—And all persons having any demands against the same are requested to present their accounts properly attested for payment to the subscriber, the executor of the last will and testament of the said John Baldwin.
John Baldwin. Wilmington, Sept. 13, 1809.
To the Electors of New-Castle County.
Fellow-Citizens. Having been selected by the Republican interest of this County for the office of Sheriff, permit me respectfully to solicit your support for that office at the General Election in October next.
TH: PERKINS. Naaman's-Creek, June 3. 1809.
WILMINGTON COLLEGE.
THE Trustees are requested to take notice, that a semi-annual meeting of the Board, will be held at the college, on Thursday the 28th day of September, at 10 o'clock A. M.
An examination of the students in the different schools will take place on that day, to which the parents & guardians of the pupils are respectfully invited. It is hoped the trustees will be punctual in their attendance, as business of importance to the institution will demand their attention.
By order, A. HAMILTON, Sec'y. Sept. 16. 1809.
Matthew Kean
INFO: MS his friends and the public, that he has opened a Dry Good Store on the west side of Market Street, next door below the corner of Second Street; where he offers for sale a handsome assortment of seasonable goods on moderate terms Wilmington, June 17. 1809.
To the Electors of New-Castle County.
Fellow-Citizens, I hereby tender you my sincere acknowledgements for the favour conferred on me by nominating me as the candidate for the office of Coroner, and beg the favor of your votes and interest in my behalf for that office at the ensuing General Election; the duties of which, should your suffrages place me therein, shall be faithfully performed by your obliged friend and fellow-citizen,
Alexander Porter. Wilmington, Aug. 30, 1809.
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 grass lots adjoining the town of New-Castle. For terms, apply to JOHN STOCKTON in Wilmington.
August 20, 1809. 1 p. w. till 1 Nov.
50 Dollars Reward.
RAN away from the Camp Meeting, in Wicwasic County, on Monday the twenty-eighth of August last, a NEGRO MAN named ISRAEL, upwards of thirty years of age, about six feet high, with a very bright yellow complexion, the property of Miss Polly Elzey of Somerset county, and hired the present year by the subscriber to James Turner, of Somerset. Any person who will take up said Negro and secure him so that the owner gets him again shall, if taken out of the state, receive the above reward, and if taken in the state, and out of the county, Twenty-Five dollars—and if taken in the county, Fifteen dollars, to be paid by
Robert Elzey. Somerset County, Princess Ann } September 12, 1809. 9f.
VIRGINIA.
General Assembly begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the second day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and five, and of the Commonwealth, the thirtieth. AN ACT giving further time to the proprietor of certain lands, forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same. [Passed February 1st, 1806.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That the proprietors of lands forfeited to, and vested in the commonwealth, by the non-payment of taxes, agreeably to the act, entitled "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth," may redeem the same by paying into the treasury of this commonwealth, on or before the first day of March, in the year eighteen hundred and seven, all arrears of taxes due thereon. This act shall commence and be in force from and after the passing thereof.
A copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the first day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and six, and of the commonwealth the thirty-first.
AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "An act more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth."
[Passed 20th January, 1807.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That, when the taxes on any tract or parcel of land shall have heretofore remained, or shall hereafter remain unpaid for the space of two years, such tract or parcel of land shall be forfeited to the commonwealth, and shall not be subject to location. Provided Nevertheless, That, the tract or parcel of land so as aforesaid forfeited, shall be subject to the redemption of the former rightful and proper owner at any time within three years after such forfeiture shall have accrued, upon payment of the taxes due thereon, according to the following rules, to wit. That if the said taxes shall be paid in the first year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid all interest of twenty five per centum per annum on the amount of the said taxes from the time they became due, till paid: If the said taxes shall be paid in the second year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of fifty per centum per annum on the amount of taxes due as aforesaid; if the said taxes shall be paid in the third year after such forfeiture shall have accrued, there shall be paid an interest of one hundred per centum per annum, as aforesaid; Provided also, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect the rights of infants, femes covert, or persons of unsound mind, until one year after the disabilities shall have ceased, on their paying all taxes due, with an interest thereon at the rate of ten per centum per annum on the amount due as aforesaid.
All acts and parts of acts coming within the purview of this act, are hereby repealed.
This act shall commence and be in force from and after the first day of March next.
A copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
General Assembly, begun and held at the Capitol in the city of Richmond, on Monday the fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and eight, and of the commonwealth the thirty third.
AN ACT providing for the redemption of certain lands forfeited by the non-payment of taxes thereon.
[Passed February 6th 1809.]
BE it enacted by the General Assembly, That all lands heretofore forfeited or hereafter to be forfeited to the commonwealth for the non-payment of taxes, by virtue of the laws now in force, shall be redeemable at any time within three years from the time when such forfeiture hath heretofore accrued, or shall hereafter accrue, and until the first day of March next succeeding the expiration of the said term of three years, on payment of the taxes due thereon, with an interest of ten per centum per annum on each year's tax, from the time when the same became or shall become due, until the time of such redemption. Provided nevertheless, That all lands heretofore forfeited, shall be redeemable in like manner, and on payment of the like interest, on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ten.
Be it further enacted, That the Auditor of public accounts shall, on or before the first day of March, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on or before the first day of March in every year thereafter, deliver to the
collector of the taxes of each county, a list of such as forfeited lands therein, as on the first day of March preceding, had become irredeemable, which list shall be forthwith posted or hung up in the most public place in the court-house of the county.
Be it further enacted, That on the first Monday in August in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, and on the first Monday of August in every year thereafter, the collectors shall proceed, by public auction, at the door of the court-house of each county, to sell to the highest bidders each tract of land contained within the list of such forfeited lands, as were irredeemable on the first day of March in the preceding year for ready money.
Be it further enacted, That if at any such sale, the former owner or owners of any forfeited tract of land so about to be sold, or any person for him, her or them, or in his, her or their behalf, with or without any authority or direction for that purpose, shall appear and pay the taxes due thereon, with interests as aforesaid, until the time of such sale, such tract shall not be sold, but an entry of such payment shall be made by the collector on the list aforesaid, and a receipt for such payment given to the person making the same in the name of the former owner or owners, and thereupon such land shall be taken to be redeemed, and the forfeiture accrued thereon, shall be, and the same is hereby fully waived and remitted.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioner or commissioners of the revenue, annually, on the first Monday in August, to attend at the court-house of the respective counties, and to take and make up a list of the sales to be sold by the collector, specifying the name or names of the former owner or owners, the sums paid and to whom sold; which list the commissioner or commissioners shall forthwith transmit to the Auditor of public accounts, who shall charge the collector with the amount of sales appearing thereon.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector to pay annually into the public Treasury, all such sum or sums of money as he shall receive by virtue of this act, deducting a commission of five per centum thereon, which payment shall annually be made on the same day on which the taxes collected in the same year shall be payable.
Be it further enacted, That the lists of sale so certified and taken by the commissioners, or either of them, shall be sufficient to charge the collector or his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators therewith, on any motion to be made to recover the same by the auditor or public accounts. And if any collector shall make default in the payment of any monies by him received, by virtue of this act, at the time hereby required, such collector, and his security or securities, his, her or their heirs, executors or administrators, shall be liable to all such fines, interests, damages and costs, and be recovered in the same manner as in case of a default in the payment of the commonwealth's revenue.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of every collector making a sale by virtue of this act, to make and execute to the purchaser a deed in fee simple for the lands purchased, reciting the cause of sale, and in every action or suit at law or in equity, in which a former owner or owners of any tract of land so sold and conveyed, his, her, or their heirs, devisee, or other person or persons claiming under him, her or them, shall contest the validity of the sale so made, the onus probandi shall lie on the party so contesting.
Be it further enacted, That the commissioner or commissioners for discharging the duties required on them by this act, shall be entitled to receive from the public treasury a commission of one and an half per centum on the amount of sales, on a warrant from the auditor of public accounts.
Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the auditor of public accounts, at the public expense, to cause a copy of this act, and of an act passed the first day of February, in the year one thousand eight hundred and six, entitled "An act giving further time to the proprietors of certain lands forfeited for the non-payment of taxes, to redeem the same, and also of an act passed on the twentieth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seven, entitled, "An act to amend an act, entitled "An act, more effectually to provide for the payment of taxes upon lands within this commonwealth," to be published for six months successively in the present year, and for three months successively preceding the first Monday in August in the year one thousand eight hundred and eleven, to be published in some newspaper, of general circulation, edited in each of the United States, if any such there be.
And be it further enacted, That the duties enjoined in this act to be performed by the collectors, shall where the sheriff is collector, be performed by the high sheriff in person, and every purchase made, wholly or in part, by the sheriff or his deputy, or by any other person being a collector, or by any other person, wholly or in part, for the use of such sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being a collector shall be void; and every sheriff, deputy sheriff or other person being a collector, making any purchase, either wholly or in part, for himself, or procuring any other person to make such purchase, wholly or in part for the use aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $500, to the use of the public, to be recovered by bill, plaint or information, in any court of record having jurisdiction thereof.
This act shall be in force from the passing thereof.
A copy from the Roll—Teste, J. PLEASANTS, Jr. Keeper of the Rolls.
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