Mirror of the times & general advertiser (Wilmington, Del.), 1804-02-25 00:00:00

Mirror of the Times, & General Advertiser.
No. 442.
'With friendly hand we hold the glass, To all, promiscuous as they pass;
Should folly here her likeness view, We fret not that the MIRROR's true;
If the fantastic form offend, We make it not, but would amend.'
VOL. 5.
Printed, at the Franklin Press, Wednesdays & Saturdays, by JAMES WILSON. Sign of Shakespeare, Market-Street, WILMINGTON, Delaware. Intelligence, Essays, Communications, &c. (POST-P.A.D) will be gratefully received, and promptly attended to.—Advertisements inserted on the most moderate terms.
[FOUR DOLLARS A-YEAR.]
SATURDAY, 25th FEBRUARY, 1804.
[TWO DOLLARS IN ADVANCE.]
THE subscriber feels grateful for the encouragement he has received in the line of his business, since he established his Stage between Wilmington and Newcastle. While he thus makes this acknowledgment for favors received, he informs his friends and the public, that hereafter the fare of passengers must be paid at the place of starting. The trouble and inconvenience, of opening small accounts, as well as the losses he has sustained, has obliged him to establish the foregoing as a general rule, at which he hopes no reasonable person will be offended.
ISRAEL PUSEY.
17th Feb.
440 4
Extract from the Minutes
Of the Agricultural Association, held agreeably to public notice, at Mrs. Huggins' Tavern, Wilmington, Del. Feb. 8, 1804.
A Number of gentlemen having met, Henry Latimer, was chosen Chairman, and William Young, Secretary:
It was then unanimously agreed, to enter into an Agricultural Association. Dr. James Tilton, Jacob Broom and William Young, were appointed a Committee to prepare a draft of a constitution to be laid before the next meeting.
The secretary was enjoined to continue the invitation, to all persons disposed to unite with and to promote the objects of the Association.
Adjourned, to meet again at Mrs. Huggins' on the 2d Wednesday of March, at 2 o'clock P. M.
Published by order of the Association.
WILLIAM YOUNG, Sec.
THE subscribers intending to decline the GROCERY business, offer for sale their present stock of Goods, comprising a general assortment. A considerable part of those goods were purchased for cash and will be sold on the most reasonable terms.
They will also dispose of the lease of the Still-House they at present occupy, together with all the apparatus necessary for the distillation of Rum or Whisky. Apply to
VANDEVER & TEST.
Wilmington, 18th Feb. 440 4
To Let, for one or more years, A Three Story Brick HOUSE,
WELL calculated for a Store, the room being large will answer any kind of business. There are good accommodations for a family, being five rooms and a good kitchen, with a cellar under the whole. The situation is very pleasant and healthy, the stand for business is one of the first in the Borough, being on High street, 4 doors from the Bank of Delaware, and opposite the old upper market house. For further information enquire of
FRANCIS O'DANIEL.
Wilmington Feb 18. 440 9
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TEMPLE OF APOLLO.
"Hung with the choicest laurels of the Muse And studded with the brightest gems."
SUCH THINGS WERE.
SCENES of my youth! ye once were dear, Though sadly I your charms survey; I once was wont to linger here, From early dawn to closing day. Scenes of my youth! pale sorrow flings A shade o'er all your beauties now, And robs the moments of their wings, That scatter pleasure as they flow. While still, to heighten ev'ry care, Reflection tells me—Such things were.
'Twas here a tender father strove To keep my happiness in view; I smil'd beneath a mother's love, Who soft compassion ever knew. In them the virtues all combin'd, On them I cou'd with faith rely, To them my heart and soul were join'd, By mild affection's primal tie; Who smile in heaven, exempt from care, Whilst I remember—Such things were.
'Twas here, where calm and tranquil rest O'er pays the peasant for his toil, That first in blessings I was blest With glowing friendship's open smile. My friend, far distant doom'd to roam, Now braves the fury of the seas; He led his peaceful, happy home, His little fortune to increase; While bleeds afresh the wound of care, When I remember—Such things were.
'Twas here, e'en in this bloomy grove, I fondly gaz'd on Laura's charms, Who blushing own'd a mutual love, And sigh'd responsive in my arms. Though hard the soul conflicting strife, Yet Fate, the cruel Tyrant, bore Far from my sight the charm of life, The lovely maid whom I adore: 'Twould ease my soul of all my care, Could I forget that—Such things were.
Here first I saw the morn appear Of guiltless pleasure's shining day; I met the dazzling brightness here, Here mark'd the soft declining ray.
Beheld the skies, whose streaming light, Gave splendor to the parting sun, Now lost in sorrow's sable night, And all their mingled glories gone! Till death, in pity, end my care, I must remember—Such things were.
From the New-York Weekly Museum.
FAME of MARY's conquests brought The God of Love her charms to view, To wound th' unwary maid he thought, But soon became her conquest too.
He dropp'd, half drawn, his feeble bow, He look'd, he rav'd and sighing pinn'd, And wish'd, in vain, he had been now, As painters falsely draw him—blind.
Disarm'd he to his mother flew, Help! Venus, help thy wretched son, My sad condition thou may'st view, For Love himself's, alas! undone.
To Cupid now, no lovers prayer Shall be address'd in suppliant sighs, My darts are gone, but oh! beware, Fond mortals! of my Mary's eyes.
VARIETY.
SENSIBILITY.—A FRAGMENT.
Not that affected stuff which screams at the light of a spider, or faints at the agonies of a dying fly, and yet can spurn a beggar from the door, or treat an aged parent with neglect!—Delia has too much good sense, too much greatness of soul, to play off such frightful distortion of features, and such pitiful debility of mind, through an equally pitiful affectation. No; she has the sensibility of a heart naturally tender and exquisitely benevolent. Her soft melting eye bespeaks a soul that is united to all around her, and ready, with a sister's feeling, to mingle their joys and sorrows. If she confers a favor, it is with an air of satisfaction that more than doubles its worth. And if obliged to deny, it appears to give her such generous distress, that you cannot but love the poor girl, and feel yourself her debtor. When we have seen her at a single word from her mother, fly to her harpsichord, and play with as much spirit as some others would exert to please a young lover—or, when we have seen her, beautiful as an angel, kneeling by her gouty father, with all the tenderness of a young bride, helping him on with his shoe—or, when we have seen her in high spirits, and the finest chat, all at once turn serious and silent on hearing the breath of slander; we have felt that if there be any one grace which more lovely than another makes a young woman look like an angel, it is a sensibility like Delia's. This sweet sympathy with the pleasures and pains of others; this lively expression of joy at seeing her acquaintance; this amiable benevolence shining, I like to have said speaking, in the countenance, is more than beautiful, it is beauty itself. It can make a homely woman handsome, and a handsome woman an angel. It is beauty in hand and beauty in reversion; it insures that tenderness in the future wife, which kindles the lover's flame to rapture; it insures the dutifulness in the daughter, which caules the parent, with weeping joy, to bless his God for such a child; and it insures that compassion in the mistress and in the mother, which sweetens every duty of domestic life, and renders our families the nurseries of all those gentle virtues that adorn and bless mankind.
Inventions, Discoveries, and Improvements.
The subscribers, having set up the Salt-works, in Dorchester, Mass. upon the new invented mode, think it proper, for the general good of individuals and the public, to give some brief account of the improvements. Those who have seen, and carefully looked into them, are agreed, they must be of great utility. EVAPORATION, is the chief though not the only object improved upon.
The water is brought into troughs, elevated to whatever height the owner may choose; and from them, brought down upon the face of the reflectors, which stand over inclined planes, or platforms. The water is carried down by cleets, which are also reflectors, which convey it forwards, and backwards, over the face of the large reflectors, until it be brought down to the head of the platforms, over which it is conveyed, again by cleets, until it runs backwards and forwards (the
little rivulets being about 1 inch and an half separated) until it traverses the whole surface, from which it is conducted into Vats, and carried back again by pumps into the troughs, if not sufficiently pickled; and then carried again over the face of the reflectors, and platforms, as before. The reflectors are also the roofs, which are much less costly than those in the evaporation, answer a most important purpose. When the water is pickled, it also stands, under reflectors, and tenles, if any choose to improve the latter, which doubtless, will very soon chrysalize the brine. An hundred feet in this way, it is believed, will much exceed a thousand in the former. What is an agreeable consideration is, much of the works in the old way may be added to these, to the very great profit of the owners, because the chief of their works are vats and roofs, the latter of which only are lost. However, the advantage arising from the cheapness of the roofs in the new invention, and these being turned into reflectors, will a great deal more than repay the damage.—One hundred feet, prepared for pickling the water, will very soon prepare great quantities to be put into the salt rooms or vats, in which the salt is made; and hence at comparatively a very small expence of time, much greater quantities of salt, can be produced, than ever have been before. Those who wish to go into salt making, may here be let into a full understanding of the mode.
We have not made the trial, but the above is our opinion, and the opinion of all who have attended to the process.
JAMES ROBINSON. EDWARD ROBINSON.
AMERICAN ANTIQUITIES.
Some very extraordinary structures have lately been discovered on the banks of the Little Miami river, state of Ohio. They consist of structures bearing every evidence of an acquaintance with the arts of civilization and of science, and from their great extent leave little room for enquiry as to the ancient state of this continent, which sets aside all former hypothesis.
These works, considered as military fortifications, are not confined to one position, nor to that rude uniformity which distinguishes the works of unrefined nations.
The principal course of fortifications which are situated a few miles from the Ohio, are composed of a number of squares and oblong communications, adapted to the position of the ground; several rising banks and hills are chosen as points of defence: and circular as well as rectangular structures present themselves; which are connected by long chains of works—of various lengths from half a mile to a mile.
It is remarkable that the communication is preserved and sallyports open covered by interior breast works, adjoining the neighboring springs; the sides of the hills form a natural talus or glacis to the general range of the works, and a covert way is cut from each of the sallyports to the springs. In one point where there is a spring somewhat distant from the main fortress, a small fortress appears—the size of the greater may be conceived by that of the less which forms a parallelogram of 662—by 331 feet. The sides of some of the squares are from 1000 to 2000 feet. And one of the communications extends to the distance of 2864 feet.
One of the most extraordinary of the discoveries of these antiquities, is what we call a turnpike road, formed of stone, which issues from one of the sallyports of the greater fortification more than 20 feet wide and has been traced to the extent of three miles from the works, in good order.
Twenty miles above the greater fortification on the same river is another series of works, upon similar principles. There are no ditches to any, but great ingenuity is perceptible in the choice of positions and the application of art to the line of apparent defence.
A Mr. Ludlow found in one of the works an iron ball of 70 pounds weight, which has thrown great difficulty in the way of enquiry. May it not have been adventitiously placed there? Or does it belong to the ancient works?
Aurora.
LITERARY.
Proposals will shortly be issued from the office of the Repository, in Philadelphia, for printing by subscription, An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, particularly the African, translated from the Latin dissertation of the Rev. THOMAS CLARKSON, A. M. which was honored with the first prize in the University of Cambridge for the year 1785; with additions: "Neque premendo alium me extulisse velim."—This work is written in a style of elegance which recommends it to the polite reader, and is replete with arguments which will render it interesting to the friends of humanity.
(BY AUTHORITY.)
AN ACT
Making appropriations for the support of the military establishment of the United States, in the year one thousand eight hundred and four.
BE it enacted, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That for defraying the expense of the military establishment of the United States, for the year one thousand eight hundred and four, for the Indian department, and for the expense of fortifications, arsenals, magazines and armories, the following sums be, and the same hereby, are respectively appropriated, that is to say:
For the pay of the army of the United States three hundred and one thousand four hundred and seventy six dollars:
For forage four thousand and fifty six dollars:
For the subsistence of the officers of the army and corps of engineers twenty eight thousand and eighty two dollars and eighty three cents and one half of a cent:
For the subsistence of non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates one hundred and sixty three thousand eight hundred and thirty nine dollars and thirty seven cents and one half of a cent:
For cloathing, eighty thousand dollars:
For bounties and premiums, fourteen thousand dollars:
For the medical and hospital department, ten thousand dollars:
For camp equipage, fuel, tools, expense of transportation and other contingent expenses of the war department, seventy one thousand dollars:
For fortifications, arsenals, magazines, and armories, one hundred and nine thousand eight hundred and ninety six dollars and eighty eight cents:
For purchasing maps, plans, books, and instruments for the war department and military academy, one thousand dollars:
For the Indian department, seventy five thousand five hundred dollars:
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the several appropriations, herein before made, shall be paid and discharged first out of any balance remaining unexpended of former appropriations for the support of the military establishment, and secondly, out of any monies in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.
NATHL. MACON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
JOHN BROWN,
President of the Senate pro-tempore.
February 10, 1804.
APPROVED,
TH: JEFFERSON.
SENATE OF THE U. STATES.
Debate on the Amendment of the Constitution.
December 2.
Mr. Taylor's Speech—concluded.
Sir, the endeavor to excite a national jealousy against the idea of amending the constitution, is in my view, infinitely more dangerous and alarming, than even the attempt to marshal states against states. The gentleman from Connecticut, (Mr. Tracey) has twice pronounced with great emphasis "man is man," and attempted to make inferences against all attempts to amend our constitution, from

the evil moral qualities with which human nature is afflicted! Sir, he has forgotten, that governments as well as nations are constituted of men and that if the vices of governed man, ought to alarm us for the safety of liberty, the vices of governing man are not calculated to allay our apprehensions. Sir, it is this latter species of depravity which has suggested to the people of America, a new idea, enforced by constitutions. Permit me, to illustrate this new idea, by the terms political law & municipal law . The former is that law, called constitutional, contrived and enacted in the United States, to controul those evil moral qualities , to which this creature "man" is liable, when invested with power! The latter is that law enacted to controul the vices of man in his private capacity. If the former species of law, should be suffered to remain unchanged, the effects would be the same, as if the latter should remain unchanged. Both, unaltered, would be evaded by the ingenuity, avarice and ambition of public man , as well as private man . And therefore it is as necessary for the preservation of liberty, that constitutions or political law, should be amended from time to time, in order to preserve liberty against the avarice and ambition of men in power, by meeting and controuling their artifices; as it is, occasionally to amend municipal law, for the preservation of property against the vicious practices of men not in power.
To illustrate this argument, I will repeat a position which I lately advanced, namely, that the substance of a constitution may be effectually destroyed, and yet its form may remain unaltered. England illustrates it.—The government of that country took its present form in the thirteenth century; but its aspect in substance has been extremely different at different periods, under the same form. Without taking time to mark the changes in substance, which have taken place under the form of kings, lords, and commons, it will suffice to call our eyes upon the present state of that government. What are now its chief and substantial energies? Armies, debt, executive patronage, penal laws, and corporations . These are the modern energies or substance of the English monarchy; to the ancient English monarchy they were unknown. Of the ancient, they were substantial abuses; for whether these modern energies are good or bad, they overturned the ancient monarchy substantially, without altering its form. Under every change of administration, these abuses proceeded. The outs were clamorous for preserving the constitution as they called it; for though divorced from its administration, the hope of getting in , again caused them to maintain abuses, by which their avarice or ambition might be gratified upon the next turn of the wheel ; just as in Prussia, where divorces are common, nothing is more usual than for late husbands to affect a violent passion for a former wife , if she carried off from him a good estate ! And the ins , fearing the national jealousy, and the prepossession against amending the form of government, and meeting new abuses by new remedies, brought no relief to the nation. So that under every change of men, abuses proceeded.
The solution of this effect exists in the species of political craft similar to priest craft . Mankind were anciently deprived of their religious liberty, by a dissemination of a fanatical zeal for some idol; in times of ignorance, this idol was of physical structure; and when that fraud was detected, a metaphysical idol in the shape of a tenet or dogma was substituted for it, infinitely more pernicious in its effects, because infinitely more difficult of detection. The same system has been pursued by political craft. It has ever labored to excite the same species of idolatry and superstition, for the same reason, namely, to conceal its own frauds and vices. Sometimes it sets up a physical, at others, a metaphysical idol, as the object of vulgar superstition. Of one, the former " grand monarch of France "; of the other, the present " church and state " tenet of England, is an evidence.—And if our constitution is to be made like the " church and state " tenet of England; a metaphysical political idol, which it will be sacrilege to amend , even for the sake of saving both that and the national liberty;—and if, like that tenet, it is to be exposed to all the means which centuries may suggest to vicious men for its substantial destruction ; it is not hard to imagine that it also may become a monument, of the inefficacy of unalterable forms of political law, to correct avarice and ambition in the new and multifarious shapes they are forever assuming.
A constitution may allegorically be considered as a temple for the preservation of
the treasure of liberty. Around it may be posted one, two or three, or more centinels; but unless these centinels are themselves watched by the people, and unless the injuries they are frequently committing upon the temple are diligently repaid, such is the nature of man in power, that the very centinels themselves, have invariably broken into the temple, & conveyed away the treasure. And this be-cause of the delusion inspired by political idolatry, which forbids nations to meet abuses by amending their governments or constitutions; and teaches them that municipal law alone will suffice for their happiness.
Permit me, Sir, to illustrate this argument by declaring how I would proceed, if such was my design, to destroy the constitution of the United States; premising that I speak prospective and not retroactively. I would have recourse to those very energies which constitute the English monarchy; armies, debt, executive patronage, penal laws and corporations. I would endeavor by these monarchical energies, to produce the same effects as in England; and I would hide my intentions by exciting a fanatical adoration for the constitution, which I would endeavor to make a metaphysical idol; and which I would myself adore—in order to destroy . Whilst I pretended to be its devotee it should become my screen.
This Sir will be the consequence, if the people of the United States, should become jealous of the amending the constitution ; and therefore this species of jealousy so industriously attempted to be excited, is this calculated if could operate, to bring upon them the utmost calamity. Abuses of a political system will happen; and amendments only can meet abuses. Public opinion, and not an idolatrous tenet, is the element of our policy; and however the gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Pickering) may deride the opinion of the people , it is the element in which our policy is rooted, & which can at all times be safely entrusted with moulding their form of government.
Mr. PICKERING here explained. Sir, I quote gentleman's ideas and not their words; is it not true that the gentleman ridiculed a recommendation of this very amendment, even from a state legislature, because of some grammatical inaccuracy; and that he reasoned against the possibility of knowing what the public opinion was; and yet, however inaccurately it may be expressed, that gentleman certainly has had sufficient evidence to convince him, that public opinion is really a noun substantive .
It has been urged, Sir, by the gentlemen in opposition, in a mode, as if they supposed we with d to conceal or deny it, that one object of this amendment, is to bestow upon the majority a power to elect a vice president. Sir, I avow it to be so. This is one object of the amendment; & the other (as to which I have heretofore expressed my sentiments) is to enable the electors, by perfecting the election of a president, to keep it out of the house of representatives. Are not both objects correct—if, as I have endeavored to prove, the constitution in all cases wherein it refers elections to the popular principle, intended that principle to act by majorities? Did the constitution intend that any minor faction, should elect a vice president? if not, then an amendment to prevent it, accords with, and is preservative of the constitution, permit me here again to illustrate by an historical case. England in the time of Charles the Second, was divided into two parties; protestants and papists; and the heir to the throne was a papist. The protestants, constituting the majority of the nation, passed an exclusion bill; but it was defeated, and the minor papist faction, in the person of the duke of York, got possession of executive power. The consequences were, domestic oppressions and rebellions, foreign wars occasionally, for almost a century, & the foundation of a national debt, under which the nation has been ever since groaning, and under which the government will finally expire.
Had the majority carried and executed the proposed exclusion of James II. from executive power the English would have escaped all these calamities. Such precisely may be our case. I beg again that it may be understood, that in this application, I speak prospectively, and not retroactively.
But it is far from being improbable, that in place of these religious parties, political parties, may arise of equal zeal and animosity. We may at some future day, see our country divided into a republican party and a monarchical party. Is it wise or according to the intention of the constitution, that a minor monarchical faction, should, by any means, acquire
the power of electing a vice president; the possible successor to executive power? Ought a republican majority to take the national liberty upon the frail life of one man? Will not a monarchical executive, overturn the system of a republican executive? And ought the United States to shut their eyes upon this possible danger, until the case shall happen, when it may be too late to open them?
Sir, let us contemplate the dreadful evils which the English nation have suffered, from the cause of investing executive power in a man hostile to the national opinion; and avoid them. They suffered, because their exclusion bill was abortive. Election is our exclusion bill. Its efficacy depends upon its being exercised by a majority. It is only a minority, which can render election insufficient to exclude monarchical principles from executive power. It is against minority that election is intended to operate, because minority is the author of monarchy and aristocracy .
Shall we Sir, be so injudicious as to make election destroy the principle of election, by adhering to a mode of exercising it now seen to be capable of bestowing upon a minority the choice of a vice president; shall we make election, invented to exclude monarchy's handmaid for its introduction? Or shall we if we do not see monarchy at this day assailing our republican system, conclude that it never will; altho' we know that this system has but two foes, of whom monarchy is one? No, Sir, let us rather draw instruction from the prophetic observations of a member of the English house of commons, whilst the bill for excluding James II. was depending; who said:
"I heard a lion in the lobby roar Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the door, And keep him there? Or shall we let him in, To try if we can get him out again."
Instead of shutting the door, the English left it open; tyranny got in; and the evils produced by its expulsion, to that nation, may possibly have been equal to those which subversion would have produced.
Sir, much has been said about the rights of minorities, and the tendency of this amendment to keep up party spirit. I wish I could hear these rights of minorities defined. It is easy to comprehend the justice of the position, "that every individual in society, has equal rights, whether he belongs to a majority or a minority;" but the idea of a minor faction, having political rights, as a faction, to me is incomprehensible. On the contrary, I consider all minor factions, as inflamed, excited and invigorated by a prospect of success; just as the popish faction in the period quoted of the English history, was kept alive and propelled to make attempts, which they never would have made, had it not been for the excitement arising from a prospect of gaining possession of executive power; to here, if at a future day, a minor and monarchical party should arise, that also will be propelled and excited, by the chance of getting possession of executive power, to keep party spirit alive, and to make attempts, which they never would have made if no such excitement existed. Hence the amendment, if it will have the effect of depriving a minor faction of the possibility of getting possession of executive power, will suppress and not provoke party and faction.
Mr. President, we have been warned by a picture of the evils produced by the French revolution, to forbear to amend our constitution; for what end I am at a loss to conjecture. Sir, how are these arguments intended to apply to the people of the United States? If the state of national information in France, has disqualified the great mass of that nation for the enjoyment of self government, does it therefore follow, that the people of America are disqualified for self government? If this state adapts the French nation for the species of government now existing in France, does it follow, that we are adapted for a similar government? Sir, it is our superior degree of national knowledge, which enables us safely to use national opinion as an element of government. This is evinced by facts. In France, constitutions were several times made and amended, without producing good effect; in America, constitutions have been in many instances, perhaps to the extent of sixty or seventy made, repeated and amended, without producing the least disturbance or evil effects in a single case. Changes in France, even often for the worse; here, generally, and perhaps constantly for the better. It is because the public will is here rooted in a sufficient degree of public knowledge, to preserve a moderate and free government. Shall we sacrifice this will, and the right to amend our constitution to a species of metaphysical idolatry, although we owe to these sources all the prosperity
and happiness we now possess. For the doctrine; "that it is a species of political sacrilege to amend constitutions and that the people should be jealous of every such attempt;" is precisely the best means to destroy the right in the people to do so. It is a doctrine levelled against the people themselves, under the predominance of whose will the right can only be exercised; and tending to throw this mode of national self defence against the arts of avarice and ambition, into the background; whilst these foes can carry on their encroachments upon liberty and property, by form of law. Let not then, Sir, the people of the United States be deterred from exercising their right to alter their constitutions, so frequently and so successfully exercised, by a picture of the French revolution.
Finally Mr. President, this amendment receives my approbation and support, because I think it conformable to public opinion, evidently the special recommendation of sundry states, and the concurrence of a great majority of the representatives of the people in the other house; because it accords with the principle of self government that this expression of the public will should be obeyed, that the right of the nation to amend the form of its government, should, upon that ground, be solemnly recognized; because elections the result of preference, are more consistent with moral rectitude, than those influenced or guided by intrigue, party artifice, or the intrigues of diets; and because it was the intention of the constitution, that the election of a president and vice president should be determined, by a fair expression of the public will by a majority, and not that this intention should be defeated by the subsequent occurrence of a state of parties, neither foreseen nor contemplated by the constitution or those who made it.
Mr. WRIGHT would offer but a few words. It had been observed that our government is the result of a compromise. So are all federal governments. The reference to the old confederation and their voting by states amounted to nothing conclusive; the old congress possessed no legislative power, they had only an executive and recommendatory power. The constitution was produced by the necessity of the case; no impost could be levied by the old congress, and to preserve the benefits of the revolution Virginia called the convention. He could not account for the opposition of the gentleman from Delaware, as he would not strike the amendment out if it formed part of the constitution.
Mr. WHITE—The gentleman apprehended my expression.
Mr. WRIGHT—I took the gentleman's words down—they were these—"If the amendment formed part of the constitution I would not vote for striking it out." He then went very largely into a recapitulation and reply to the various points of discussion, and asked if it was consistent with the principles of the government that our laws should be like those of the Medes, and Persians, their form immutable and error eternal. He asked if gentlemen would not think it a hard case if men were placed in the two first offices of government who were neither the choice nor agreeable to either party? Yet this would not be more inconsistent or absurd than to have any one man so placed contrary to the fundamental principles of representative government, the will of the majority. Every gentleman must recollect what a scene was exhibited in the legislature of Pennsylvania at the late election, which could have its origin in intrigues alone, and which ended at length in a compromise which gave the most populous state in the union the real value of no more than one vote; the same intrigues existed in Jersey, where an organized plan existed to place a man in the executive chair against the wishes of the nation, unchosen and unintended for the executive chair by either party.
Here we provide a remedy for such evils—we offer you the certain means of frustrating and rendering them hopeless; we offer you a designation. But it is said this is a party question. Gentlemen appear not to look round them; or to overlook facts staring them in the face, do we not see gentlemen of opposite parties in politics on both sides of this question? Is it from party views the gentleman from South Carolina opposes it?
He was as much a friend to the principles of a majority governing as any man, but here it was a different question which he thought principally concerned—it is to prevent the disgrace and injuries of intrigues; it is to prevent men not intended to be chosen from being edged into power. At the last election, what did we see? An attempt made by

a party in truth hostile to the man at that time, endeavoring to put him into the executive chair! And for what purpose? For the purpose of confusion—to distract and divide the country, and to lay the foundation of another factious administration on one already humbled by public indignation. Had they succeeded in corrupting a single man from his duty, would it not have been usurpation of the worst species. What did his colleague say, that after this project of wrong had failed, another was meditated, it was even supposed to set up a man who had not a single vote; and that had they attempted to carry it into execution, the people would not bear it. And the gentleman from Connecticut expresses his astonishment that the people would not bear usurpation, while he confesses that his section of the union would have been quiet spectators of the act! He knew that the people of Maryland felt the danger and were determined to resist it, not with their arms folded out with energy of freemen, and such was the sensation which the meditated wrong had occasioned such was the spirit of the people to resist it, that some of the most opulent men in the state found it time to interfere.
This amendment then is intended to prevent the recurrence of such alarming dangers. Does it deprive any one or any state of right? Is it not fit, that if I am called on to vote for president and vice president that I should have my free choice? Is it then consistent with reason that I should be compelled to vote for one man upon equal terms whom I do not think has equal talents or equal claims to my confidence? Is it fair that I should be reduced to the alternative of choosing a wise man and a fool, in order to give the former a chance. Are not the small states as well secured by this amendment as the large? If this amendment was not intended why has it not been guarded like those parts which cannot be changed before 1808? In this senate the small states have their security—their equal representation, and in the provision against a change being made in their representation here without the consent of each.
The gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Adams) has drawn all his eloquence in force, he has collected all his vengeance, and pours out the vials of his wrath upon Virginia. Why this vehement, this toothless rage against that state, which in evil times had indeed stood firm, the rock of our political salvation; to whom we looked in the hour of adversity for counsel, for succor, for statesmen and leaders of our armies. To her we were indebted for a Washington, and is it because we are indebted to her for other great men that this jealous rage is vociferated against her. Is it to be supposed that with her 24 votes for president she can control all the rest? We hold the true federative counterpoise, the other house has the democratic or popular, for he knew no difference. Nine or ten are destined to be small states, and will always have a majority here? Gentlemen when they cannot make good their case by argument or fact, endeavor to make it out as well as they can.—Hence we have declamation about small and large states, and hence to many warnings against touching the constitution. But who are they who wish to tear up this constitution? Two propositions have been offered of infinitely more force on the principles of the constitution—one to abolish the office of vice president altogether, the other to limit the election of president. We wish to provide against an evil not foreseen, and to supply the deficiency; the gentlemen wish to tear a part of the constitution altogether. And who have proposed and advocate these creatures? The opposers of this amendment. So that when reverence for the constitution is spoken of these amendments must be abandoned. Experience, Sir, is worth a thousand volumes of experiments. Had it been foreseen at the last election, that such events could have proceeded from the principles of honor and good faith being rigidly observed by the republicans, many would have opposed their uniform vote and cast their vote a way rather than lay the country open to intrigue and its consequences.
He had thought the number five would equally answer the purposes of election. Arguments had convinced him that three would be still more safe; because it would give the greater certainty of a choice by the people. And was there a man in that house who would dare to say that the people ought not to have the man of their choice? They look for the security of that right and the principle of designation secures it. Is there any man who as an elector would prefer the uncertainty of two for a certainty of one. Some affect to say we strike at fundamental principles. But we say we wish to at error & give stability to republican representative principles. The constitution says the president shall be chosen by electors; he believed there was a unitant spirit against democratic republicans and their electors, which would fly from the people and their electors, which would fly to the constitution itself and tell the people it ought to be amended; that error should be perpetual, and experience fruitless; this was no d. Our greatest blessing and our d. we have the power and the right to correct wrongs without the re-
sort to arms which nations are ever exposed to where abuses are rendered sacred and hereditary. On the subject of this amendment so far as it concerns designation, he believed the public mind could not be better known—could three fourths of our legislatures and two thirds of both houses of congress commit treason and treachery on themselves. He was decidedly for the amendment, and for the number 3.
Mr. WHITE—the gentleman says the old congress has no legislative powers. Did they not raise armies, emit money, both high legislative acts.
Mr. WRIGHT—the gentleman is wholly mistaken, the several states raised armies, and monies were raised by state contributions—all the power they had, was to recommend to the states and make requisitions upon the state grants.
LOUISVILLE, (Geo.) Dec. 23. On Wednesday the 14th instant the circuit court of the United States was opened in this town, by the hon. Wm. Stephens, judge of this district, which has been sitting since. There being no matters of criminal nature, to continue the grand jury, they were discharged on Saturday, after delivering the following presentments:
We the grand jury of the sixth circuit court of the United States, for the district of Georgia, cannot omit expressing our satisfaction, that no matter has presented itself requiring official censure, which affords the pleasing inference of a growing improvement and reformation in morality and good order.
While we view with sensibility, the outstretched arm of desolating war abroad, nerved by ambition and self pride of a few tyrants, we must felicitate our fellow citizens that those calamities are averted from us by Divine Providence, and we feel ourselves duly impressed with gratitude and thankfulness to the Author of all good, that through him, we have a national Head, by whose wisdom, temperance and fortitude, we have escaped oppression and the horrors of war, and take this opportunity of calling on our fellow citizens to bear in mind the precipice they have escaped, and to be watchful in their efforts, that the disguised and insidious endeavors of the common enemy prevailed not, in obtaining places of trust.
The glorious and transcendent acquisition of the Louisiana territory effected by means of wise, equitable and just, will be a monument of never dying honor to our Chief Magistrate who combines the energy of a Ruler, the wisdom of a Sage, and the affection of a Parent.
With deference we tender his honor judge Stephens, our respects & with pleasure offer this public expression of the high consideration we feel for his ability and prompt attention in the discharge of the duties of his station, and recommend this our presentment to be published.
JARED IRWIN, Foreman (formerly governor of the state, and now a Brigadier General.)
NEW-YORK FEB. 20. By the Schooner Hector, we have received Jamaica papers to the 19th inst. but they contain nothing but a few marine articles.
Mr. M'Douell, who came home in the Hector informs, that an embargo was laid on all vessels at Barracoa about the 12th ultimo, in consequence of an expedition that was on the eve of sailing against the island of New-Providence. This enterprise was to be conducted by the French who were lately obliged to leave St. Domingo. It was said the force to be employed consisted of 6000 men part of which was to come from St. Jago de Cuba. A number of privateers were also fitting out at Barracoa.
The inhabitants of Nassau having been apprized of the above expedition, sent an ex-piquet to the Governor, who was at some other part of the island.
Mr. M'Douell, also gives the editor of this Gazette the following particulars:
Barracoa, [Cuba] Jan. 12. "Arrived at this port, the Sch. R. Russell, of New-York, in possession of the French. Previous to her coming in to this port, they had endeavored to deface the name upon her stern, by washing it over with tar; but it still appeared conspicuous enough to be seen at some distance. Suspicion arose amongst the American seamen respecting the capture of this vessel. The writer of this, in company with capt. Robertson, of the Sally, and capt. Easter, of the Sch. Fanny, of Charleston, went on board of the R. Russell, and enquired how, where, and when she was taken, and what became of the captain and crew—to those questions, no satisfactory answers were received, which induced them to believe that the master and people were murdered. The prize master on this arrival made application to the governor for permission to dispose of the cargo of the R. Russell, but was refused admittance; and on the 15th, the governor ordered the R. Russell out of the harbor, lading officers on board, at the same time, to see that his orders were strictly adhered to. After getting out of the harbor, she worked up along shore toward Cape Maze the wind from the eastward." [The above Sch. Sally, of Charleston, was lost on Bird Rock, Crooked Island.]
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES U.S. FRIDAY, Feb. 17. 1804.
Mr. Claiborne, from the committee appointed to bring in a bill making further provision for extinguishing debts due from the United States reported a bill.
Referred to a committee of the whole on Monday.
A message was received from the President of the United States, by Mr. Harvie, his secretary, giving certain information respecting the situation of the lands of the United States in the vicinity of Detroit.
Mr. Rodney, to whom was referred a memorial from W. H. Harrison, President of the convention of the Indiana territory, and other memorials, made a report.
Referred to a committee of the whole on Monday.
The House resumed the consideration of the unfinished business of yesterday, viz. what day should be made the order to the committee of the whole to consider the bill laying a TAX of ten dollars upon every SLAVE IMPORTED into the U. States."
Saturday, Feb. 18. Mr. Eppes offered the following resolution:—
Resolved, That a committee be appointed to enquire whether the monies drawn from the treasury of the United States on account of the marine corps from the year 1798 to the end of the year 1803 have been faithfully applied to the public service in conformity to existing laws, which was immediately taken up, agreed to, and referred to Messrs. Eppes, Sands, M c Cree, Leib, and Boyle.
Mr. Moore offered a resolution, instructing the committee of Commerce and Manufactures to enquire into the expediency of authorizing the President of the United States to employ persons to explore such parts of the province of Louisiana, as he may think proper, and to report their opinion thereon to the House.
The resolution was agreed to—Ayes 53.
Dr. Mitchell, from the committee of Commerce and Manufactures, made a report on the subject of laying duties for the support of light houses.
The report is accompanied with several documents, and concludes with a resolution that a duty of 40 cents a ton be laid on foreign vessels entering the ports of the United States for the support of light houses.
THE MIRROR, &c.
Not too rash—yet not fearful, —We aim to be just.
WILMINGTON, 25th FEBRUARY.
The BRETHREN of LODGE No. 14, are requested to meet at the TOWN-HALL on Thursday Evening next, at 6 o'clock.
BENJAMIN MASDEN, Sec ry . Feb. 25.
Extract of a letter from Demerara, dated Dec. 27. American vessels are daily arriving at this port. The markets are glutted with our produce—provisions are mere drugs—lumber and clapboards still support their prices, the demand for them is very great. It is expected Americans will shortly be prohibited the exportation of sugar and coffee; even now they are permitted to take away just the amount of their inward cargoes, without paying an extra duty of one dollar per hogshead.
Capt. Gardner arrived at Philadelphia, informs that the most active preparations were making at N. Providence to receive the French who threatened them with a visit from Cuba. The whole of the Militia were under arms, and a powerful flotilla was equipping to meet the enemy at sea. The sloop of war Stork lay there, and considerable succors were expected from Jamaica.
On Sunday morning, the French frigate La Pursuivant, of 44 guns, dropped down below the fort at Baltimore, in order to proceed to sea—She was elegantly dressed with the flags of almost every commercial nation. On passing down she fired a salute of twelve guns, which was immediately answered by an equal number from Fort M c Henry. She underwent a thorough repair in that port, the expense of which, is estimated at seventy thousand dollars.
Capt. Lewis, who arrived at Charleston, the 8th inst. from Jamaica, informs that when he left there the prospect of a Spanish war was over. The sloop of war captured by the Eolus frigate, had been restored and was repairing; a number of other Spanish vessels which had been detained in different ports in expectation of the war were likewise released.
Amendment of the Constitution. The Legislature of New-York has ratified the amendment to the Constitution of the U. States—of the votes in the Senate we had information last Saturday—considerable debate took place in the house of Representatives, and on the question being taken in the committee of the whole, the yeas were 79, nays 14—the resolution was previously agreed to in the house without opposition.
The Legislature of New-Jersey has also adopted the amendment to the constitution.—It passed in the House of Assembly by a majority of 9 votes.
The Peace establishment of France, as published in the Monitor at the commencement of the present year, exceeded by forty millions of livres the expenditure of the last year of the preceding war. The army was fixed at 213 millions, and the marine at 126 millions; or together, about fifteen millions sterling.
The independence of St. Domingo, is in many points of view an event of magnitude in its consequences not perhaps generally considered or foreseen—the following is a statement of the population of the West India islands in 1787 from a French work entitled "Tableau de la Grande Bretagne."
   Whites Blacks Mulattoes & free negroes     Lucaye isles 2,052 2,241   Jamaica 30,000 250,000 10,000   Grenada 1,000 23,926 1,200   St. Vincent 1,450 11,853   Barbadoes 16,167 62,115 823   Dominique 1,236 14,967 445   Antigua 2,590 37,808   St. Christopher 4,000 26,000   Nevis 600 10,000   Montserrat 1,300 10,000   Les Virges 1,200 9,000   Bermuda 5,462 4,919   12,468   St. Domingo (in 1790) 32,650 249,000 7,055   Martinique (in 1776) 11,619 71,268 2,892   Guadaloupe (in 1779) 13,261 85,327 1,382   St. Lucia (in 1776) 2,397 10,752 1,050   Tobago (idem) 2,400 11,000 1,100   25,947   Totals 129,384 890,176 25,947  
The legislature of Vermont have at their adjourned session granted a Turnpike from Lake Champlain, through the four northern counties in that state to Connecticut river, in the most convenient direction for Portland, 170 miles—by the name of the Northern Turnpike Company in Vermont.
Elbridge Gerry, esq. having declined standing a candidate for the governmental chair of Massachusetts, a writer in the Boston Chronicle has proposed to the republicans to support James Sullivan, esq. as Governor and Wm. Heath, esq. as Lieutenant Governor.
At a General Convention of the Democratic Republican members of the General Court of New-Hampshire, and of a large number of respectable citizens from the different parts of that state, which was held in the town of Concord on the 28th day of Dec. last—for the purpose of agreeing upon the proper candidates to fill the different offices within the state for the year ensuing, and for adopting such a system of measures as should appear best calculated to promote union and harmony among the republicans and for obtaining the election of the advocates of peace, union and the constitution—It was, after mature consideration, unanimously agreed that their highly respected and esteemed fellow-citizen—the long tried patriot, Col. JOHN LANGDON, should again be supported as the republican candidate for the office of Governor—and that the hon. Levi Bartlett, Joseph Badger, Benj. Pierce, Nahum Parker, and Ezra Bartlett be supported as candidates for the office of Councillors, for the respective counties—and that the following gentlemen be the candidates for Senators in the several districts, viz Gen. Clement Storer, Nicholas Gilman, esq. col. Wm. White, Timothy Dix, jun. esq. col. John Waldron, Nathl. Shannon, esq. J. K. Smith, Robert Alcock, esq. col. Elisha Whitcomb, gen. Amasa Allen, capt. Wm. White, and col. William Tarleton, and that they do generally and severally receive the united and undivided support of the friends of republicanism whose duty it shall be, to make every honorable exertion, in their power to effect their election, and that all private piques, personal dislikes, rivalships and jealousies should be sacrificed on the occasion to promote the public good, bearing in mind this maxim that "united we stand, divided we fall."
Consumed by fire, on the 8th inst. the Forge & Anchor shop belonging to Daniel Ross, esq. situate in the town of Willsborough, county of Essex, and state of New-York. Loss estimated at ten thousand dollars.
"Pale DEATH with equal foot strikes wide the door Of splendid halls and hovels of the poor."
OBITUARY.—Died At Charleston, S. C. in the 46th year of his age, Mr. JOHN PARKER, a native of this state, and several years a respectable inhabitant of that city.
In Portland, Mr. DANIEL GEORGE, aged 45, late publisher of the Eastern Herald, &c.—He was a good mathematician, and an honest, intelligent man.
In Walkill, of the Hydrophobia, JAMES WILSON, in the 17th year of his age, after a few days illness. The bite of the dog which produced his awful disorder, he received four months before.
PORT OF WILMINGTON. CLEARED, Brig Eagle, Baker, St. Bartholomews.
TAKE NOTICE. All persons having any demands against the estate of WILLIAM WHANN, late of Pendercar hundred, deceased, are hereby requested to bring in their accounts properly attested for settlement to the subscribers on or before the first day of May next, and all those indebted to said estate are requested to make immediate payment, otherwise legal methods will be taken to recover the same, by
SAMUEL WHANN, } Ex'rs. JAMES STUART, jun. } Feb. 23. 442 4p
PLAISTER OF PARIS.
ANY quantity of this article, so successfully used as a manure, may be had ready ground to suit farmers, and put up in casks if desired, on application to Samuel Thomas, Cantwells Bridge; Kennard & Cummins, Duckcreek; John & William Torbert, Camden, or the subscribers at Brandywine Mills.
TATNALL & LEA. 2 Mo. 22d. 442 10
NOTICE. All persons indebted to the estate of DAVID WEST, deceased, are requested to make immediate payment, and those who have demands against said estate, are desired to produce their accounts legally attested for settlement, to
ANN WEST, Ex'rs. Who offers for Sale
A Small Tract of Woodland, CONTAINING about 45 Acres, in Appoquinimink hundred, 3 miles from Duck creek landing, of whom particulars and terms of sale may be known.
Wilmington, 2d Mo. 23. 442tf JOSHUA PIERCE & Co. continue the NAILING business at the Factory occupied by DAVID WEST. They manufacture all kinds of Cut Nails and Brads, and have now on hand a quantity of each kind.

WAR DEPARTMENT, Feb. 8th, 1804.
Notice is hereby given,
THAT separate proposals will be received at the office of the Secretary for the Department of War, until the eighteenth day of May next ensuing, for the supply of all rations which may be required for the use of the United States, from the 1st day of October, 1804, until the 30th day of September, 1805, both days inclusive, at the following places, viz.
First. At Niagara, Detroit, Michilimackinac, Chikago, Fort Wayne, the post on the Miami of the Lakes, and at any place or places, where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Ohio, and at any place or places within the Indiana territory north of the 41st degree of north latitude.
Second. At South West Point, Tellico, Knoxville, Nashville, and within the Cherokee nation between Tennessee and Georgia, and on the Tennessee river, and on the road between said river and Nashville, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Tennessee and Kentucky.
Third. At the garrison near Vincennes, on the river Wabash.
Fourth. At Fort Massac, near the mouth of the Ohio, Kaskaskia, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Indiana territory, south of the 41st degree of north latitude, (Vincennes excepted.)
Fifth. At St. Louis, New Madrid, and any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in Louisiana, north of the settlements on the river Arkansas.
Sixth. At Chickasaw Bluffs, Arkansas, Natchez, Fort Adams, Fort Stoddart on the Mobile and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the Mississippi territory, and on the road between Natchez and the Tennessee river, (the post on said river excepted.)
Seventh. At New-Orleans, and any place or places on the Mississippi river, below Fort Adams, and at Opeloula, Natchitoches, and at any other place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited in Louisiana, not before mentioned, or provided for.
Separate proposals will also be received as aforesaid, for the supply of all rations, which may be required for the use of the United States, from the first day of January, 1805, until the 31st day of December of the same year, both days inclusive, within the several states herein after mentioned, viz.
Eighth. At Fort Wilkinson, Cockspur Island, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Georgia, and on the Indian boundary between Georgia & the Creek nation.
Ninth. At Charleston, Rocky Mountain, on the head waters of the Santee, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of South and North Carolina.
Tenth. At Norfolk, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Virginia.
Eleventh. At Fort M'Henry, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Maryland & the district of Columbia.
Twelfth. At Fort Mifflin, Pittsburg, Carlisle, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Thirteenth. At Fort Jay, West Point, Albany, Schenectady, & at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New-York, (Niagara excepted.)
Fourteenth. At Fort Trumbull, Fort Wolcott, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the states of Connecticut, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Fifteenth. At Fort Independence, (Boston harbor) and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of Massachusetts, (the district of Maine excepted.)
Sixteenth. At Portsmouth, Portland, and at any place or places where troops are or may be stationed, marched or recruited within the state of New-Hampshire and the district of Maine.
A ration to consist of one pound and one quarter of beef or three quarters of a pound of pork, eighteen ounces of bread or flour, one gill of rum, whisky or brandy, and at the rate of two quarts of salt, four quarts of vinegar, four pounds of soap, and one pound and one half of candles, to every hundred rations. The prices of the several component parts of the ration should be specified; but the United States reserve the right of making such alterations in the price of the component parts of the ration aforesaid as shall make the price of each part thereof bear a just proportion to the proposed price for the whole ration.
The rations are to be furnished in such quantities, that there shall at all times, during the term of the proposed contract, be sufficient for the consumption of the troops at Michilimackinac, Detroit, Niagara and Chikago for six months in advance, and at each of the other posts on the western waters for at least three months in advance, of good and
wholesome provisions, if the same shall be required. It is also to be permitted to all and every of the Commandants of fortified places or posts to call for at seasons when the same can be transported, or at any time in the case of urgency such supplies of like provisions in advance, as in the discretion of the Commandant shall be deemed proper.
It is to be understood that the contractor is to be at the expense and risk of issuing the supplies to the troops, and that all losses sustained by the depredation of an enemy, or by means of the troops of the United States, shall be paid by the United States at the price of the articles captured or destroyed as aforesaid, on the deposition of two or more persons of creditable characters, and the certificate of a commissioned officer, stating the circumstances of the loss, and the amount of the articles for which compensation shall be claimed.
The privilege is understood to be reserved to the United States of requiring that none of the supplies which may be furnished under any of the proposed contracts, shall be issued until the supplies which have been or may be furnished under contracts now in force, have been consumed, and that a supply in advance may be always required at any of the fixed posts on the Sea board or Indian frontiers, not exceeding three months.
H. DEARBORN, Secretary of War. 440 saw May 18.
TO BE SOLD,
And Possession given at the 25th of March next.
ALL that Brick three story corner HOUSE, fronting David Branton's tavern, Market street, and the upper market house, in the Borough of Wilmington, with the lot and back buildings, belonging to and in possession of the subscriber, together with all his STOCK in trade, consisting of a neat and general
ASSORTMENT OF DRY GOODS.
The buildings are pleasantly situated in a healthy part of the town, and are large and commodious.
Any person wishing to purchase may view the House and Goods and know the terms, which will be made easy.
BENJAMIN MASDEN. Feb. 6. 437 14
Farmers Attend!
TO BE SOLD at private sale, at the subscriber's in the Town of New Castle, A Valuable Tract of Land, in the hundred of New Castle, within one mile and a quarter of the aforesaid town, and three of Wilmington. The aforesaid tract is divided into two farms and contains about two hundred and fifty acres of land, about eighty acres of the same are in wood, there are on the premises, two farm houses, two barns, two wells of good water, and a good apple orchard.
The whole of this land is inclosed with a good cedar fence, is a high and healthy situation, and commands a handsome view of the town of New Castle and river Delaware. The improving state of the town aforesaid, and the proposed canal which, if brought into Christiana creek, will be within half a mile of the said farm, will render it well worthy the attention of any person who may be desirous of attending market, and having a pleasant country seat.
N. B. If not sold before the 17th of March next, it will be offered at public sale at the subscribers on that day.
JAMES M'CULLOUGH. Feb. 10. 438 11
NOTICE. All persons having demands against the estate of John Lea, Esq deceased, are desired to present their accounts, legally attested for payment—and those indebted to the estate, by bond, note or book debt, are requested to make immediate payment to the subscribers.
JOHN WARNER, } Exr's JAMES LEA, } Wilmington, July 28. 382
For Private Sale,
AT the Wilmington Vendue Store, on low terms for cash or short credit, Cloths, Silk, Casimeres, Cotton, } Hosiery Velvets, striped & plain, & Worsted, } Bandana, Flag, Sister- } Holland linens, soy, China and French, } Bed Ticks, silk handkerchiefs, } Pins, With a variety of other seasonable dry goods.
IRONMONGERY and CUTLERY. West India Rum, French Brandy, Rye and Apple whiskey, Cherry Rum, about 1500 bushels Lisbon Salt, &c. &c. Also a few American manufactured cotton counterpains and blankets.
GEORGE SUTTON. 14th Dec. 422
Wholesale and Retail Ironmongery Store.
SPACKMAN & GRUBB, 5 doors below the sign of the Indian King, Market street, have imported in the late arrivals from London and Liverpool, a large and extensive assortment of IRONMONGERY, CUTLERY, and BRASSWARES, amongst which are Anvils, Vices, Mill-Saws, Cross-Cut do. T. Crowly Steel, Waggon-Boxes, and Sad Irons, which they will dispose of by wholesale and retail, on the most reasonable terms for cash or the usual credit. They also keep on hand a general assortment of Paints, Oil, Glass, Castings, Country and English blistered Steel.—Herd Grass, Timothy and Clover Seeds. Wilmington, 11 Mo. 19th. 414
LUMBER.—The subscriber continues to keep an extensive and regular supply of Boards, Shingles, Scantling, Lathes and every other article in his line of business, at his LUMBER-YARD, on Hemphill's wharf.—Best Carolina Shingles by the cargo, or any quantity. JOHN DONALDSON. January 1. 17 179
PRINTING of BOOKS, PAMPHLETS, HAND-BILLS, and all kinds of BLANKS will be executed with neatness and dispatch at the MIRROR Office.
To be Sold at Private Sale, AGREEABLY to the last will and testament of ROBERT BRYAN, deceased, that Valuable FARM, his late residence, containing about 233 Acres, 163 arable, 40 woodland, and 30 of marsh meadow in good order, adjoining lands of Kenney Johns and Isaac Grantham, esqrs. The marsh is well banked and fields enclosed with good fences. This farm is natural to clover and not inferior to any in the neighborhood for the production of grain &c. The situation is pleasant and agreeable, nearly equidistant from Newcastle and Christiana Bridge, about 3 miles from each, being on the road leading from the first mentioned place to the Red Lion tavern, and convenient to grist and merchant mills. The improvements are a two story brick dwelling House and Kitchen, with three rooms on each floor, carriage House, Granaries, Barn and Cribs to contain one thousand bushels of Indian corn, all in good repair; a well of excellent water, apple and peach orchards of the best fruit.—From the dwelling house there is a beautiful prospect of the Delaware for a considerable distance up and down the river. It is needless to be more particular, as those who incline to purchase, will no doubt first view the premises.
INGEBUR BRYAN, Ex'rx. JOHN BRYAN, Ex'r. Newcastle Jan. dred, 5th January. 428 23
For Sale,
A quantity of Peach & Apple BRANDY, ACCOMACK PARTICULAR, A few barrels first quality CHERRY RUM, Jersey cured HAMS, Green COFFEE, West India RUM of different qualities, A quantity of Cayenne PEPPER of superior quality, in large and small bottles, American, Holland & English battle POWDER, a general assortment of SHOT, Powder horns, shot belts & bird bags, with a general supply of GROCERIES, by THOMAS CRYER. Wilmington, July 23. 380
For Sale a Lot of Land,
CONTAINING about 25 Acres, with an old log House thereon, in the county of Newcastle, about four miles from Newcastle, bounded by lands of Kenney Johns, esq. Mr. Foreman and others: for further particulars and terms of sale apply to GEORGE SUTTON, Aufr. Wilmington, 6th Jan. 428 tf
At a respectable Democratic Republican meeting of the state of Delaware, held at Dover on the 20th of January 1804, pursuant to public notice, the following gentlemen selected as Conferees by the people from the several counties of this state for the purpose of selecting and recommending suitable persons to be supported as candidates at the ensuing general election for the offices of Governor, and Representative to Congress for the state of Delaware;—when Thomas Perkins, esq. being unanimously appointed Chairman, and Risdon Bishop, Secretary—the following resolutions were unanimously agreed to:—
Resolved, That the Conferees do nominate, select and recommend to their fellow citizens of the several counties in this state, JOSEPH HASLETT, Esq. for the office of Governor, and CAESAR A. RODNEY, Esq. as Representative to Congress, to be voted for at the ensuing general election, being persons of acknowledged talents and unquestionable integrity, and in all respects worthy of the high trusts reposed in them.
Resolved, That the Conferees will support the said Joseph Haslett, Esq. as Governor, and Caesar A. Rodney, Esq. as Representative to Congress—at the ensuing general election by all honorable and proper exertions, and they do recommend them to their fellow citizens as worthy to be supported for those high and important offices.
Resolved further, That the proceedings of this meeting be published in the Mirror, and that eight hundred copies of the same be published in bills to be distributed equally in the several counties as aforesaid for the information of the people. THOMAS PERKINS, Chairman. RISDON BISHOP, Secretary. Dover, Jan. 20.
Newcastle Conferees. * George Read, Esq. Thomas Perkins, Esq. William Herdman, John Warner, John R. Phillips, John M'Beath, Richard Foard, John James, Thos. Fitzgerald, Esq. Abraham Staats, Esq. Kent Conferees. Abraham Pearce, Esq. Risdon Bishop, John Faris, Andrew Gray, John Fisher, Esq. Dr. John Adams, Ferdinand Casson, Esq. Sussex Conferees. William Waples, Peter Hall, Joseph Collins, Esq. John Collins, Nich. G. Williamson, esq. Dr. John White, James Miller, Manaan Bull, William Vaughan.
FORTY DOLLARS REWARD.—
Ran away from the subscriber living near Georgetown x roads, Kent county, Maryland, on the 9th day of January last, a negro lad named NATHAN, about 17 years old, but small for that age. He is very talkative and when spoken to has a down look; had on when he went away, a white fulled kersey round jacket and trousers and a brown cloth jacket with sleeves, much worn, white yarn stockings and fine hat much worn.—The above reward will be given for securing said lad in any jail so that I get him again, or if brought home reasonable charges paid. Feb. 6. JAMES WOODLAND. 439 4p
This day is Published And for sale at the Mirror Printing-office and Book Store, BLOOMFIELD'S POEMS, Comprising The FARMER'S BOY, and RURAL TALES &c. &c. price 60 cents. Nov. 26.
WHOLESALE GROCERY STORE.
JOHN WARNER & Co. have now on hand at their store, Market street wharf, Wilmington, a fresh supply of goods, consisting of the following articles, viz.
25 Hhds. prime Port-au- } Green Coffee, Prince Molasses, } Raisins in kegs, Muscovado Sugars by the } Soap and Candles, bhd. and barrel, } Pepper, Lump and Loaf Sugar, } Allspice, Bohea, } Ginger, Hyson, } Madder, Young Hyson, } TEAS. } Allum and Indigo, Hyson Skin, & } } Saltpetre, Suchong } } Powder and Shot, 4th proof Jamaica Spirits, } Hamilton's Scotch Snuff, 2d. 3d. & 4th proof Rum, } in kegs and bottles, New-England } do. } Coarse and fine Salt, 4th proof Cognia Brandy } Spanish Segars by the box of an excellent quality, } Plug Tobacco, Sherry, } } Red Laces, Lisbon, } } Traces and Plowlines, Malaga, and } } Wrapping Paper, Port } } &c. &c. They also advise their friends that WILLIAM WARNER & Co. No. 45 S. Water street a few doors below Chesnut street, Philadelphia, continue to keep a regular supply of Groceries by Wholesale. Orders to either store will be promptly attended to. Their packets with Samuel Bash's continue to ply as usual between this and Philadelphia, one leaving the next wharf below Chesnut street, Philadelphia, every day, or their wharves, Wilmington. JOHN WARNER & Co. June 17. 370
OTAHEITE TAVERN.
THE Subscriber respectfully informs his friends, and the public in general, that he has taken that noted tavern, The Queen of Otaheite, in Market-Street, where every possible attention on his part shall be exerted to support the credit of the house. His larder shall always be well supplied—his wines, spirits, &c. of the best quality, and every accommodation provided suitable for the comfort of travellers, and the enjoyment of select companies, or others, who may please to favor him with their company. CHARLES HAMILTON. 63- Horses taken at livery by the week, month, or year. Wilmington, March 30. 347
LUMBER-YARD.
Clark & Simmons, keep constantly for sale at their Lumber Yard on Market-Street Wharf, a large assortment of articles in their line of business, among which are Pannel White Pine, Carolina & Cypress shingles, from 13 inches to 3 feet. Common do. do. 2 inch heart & sap Plank Inch & quarter heart do. 2 do. white pine do. Inch do. do. Plastering Lathes, Square edge & half price Oak Scantling & Lathes, Sap do. do. &c. &c. Inch & half-inch Cedar. Heart Scantling. Sap do.
NOTICE. The subscribers, to whom an assignment has been made of the effects of Hugh Lindsay, late of the Borough of Wilmington, Grocer, in trust for his Creditors, do hereby give notice, that a dividend will be made on the 10th day of March next at the house of David Branton, of the money arising from the sale of the effects (so far as they have come to the hands of the subscribers) amongst the creditors of the said Hugh Lindsay, according to the terms and conditions of the said assignment. All the creditors of the said Hugh Lindsay will please also to take notice to produce their claims for settlement before the said day to either of the subscribers, otherwise they may be excluded from the benefit of the said dividend. JOHN REYNOLDS, } Assigners. JOHN WARNER, } CROPLEY ROSE, } Wilmington, 8th Feb. 437 12 p
For sale, at Public sale,
ON fifth day (Thursday) the first day of the third month (March) next, not previously sold at private sale, at the Queen of Otaheite tavern, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the following described houses and lots situated in the Borough of Wilmington, viz:—
No. 1. A red frame house and lot fronting on King street, between Hanover and Queen streets. No. 2. A vacant lot fronting on King street, adjoining No. 1. 3. A frame house and lot on King street, adjoining No. 2. 4. Two frame houses, and lots on French street, in the same square with the above. 5. A lot with a frame building, suitable for a Chair house.
All the above property is delightfully situated and will be sold together or separate, to suit purchasers, and the terms made easy. For further information apply to JAMES BRYAN. Wilmington, 2d mo. 4th 436 8
MEDALS OFFERED.
Extract from the minutes of "The Philadelphia Company of Booksellers" Jan. 13, 1804.
Resolved, That a Gold Medal of the value of Fifty Dollars, be given to any person, who shall on or before the first day of July next, manufacture and produce to the President of this Company, the greatest quantity of Paper, and of the best quality, fit for printing, (not less than ten reams) of OTHER MATERIALS, than linen, cotton, or woolen rags.
And, That a Silver Medal of the value of twenty dollars, be given to any person, who shall on or before the 1st day of July, manufacture and produce to the President of this Company, the greatest quantity of Good Wrapping Paper, not less than forty reams, of OTHER MATERIALS, than those usually employed for that purpose. Extract from the minutes. (Signed) MATHEW CAREY, President.
Attest, WM. BRADFORD, Sect'y. N. B. The printers of News-papers are requested to insert the above a few times.
NOTICE.—All persons indebted to the estate of JOSEPH THOMAS, late of the village of Stanton, in the county of Newcastle, deceased, are required to make immediate payment, and all those who have demands against the said estate, are requested to present them for settlement. JOSEPH CHAMBERS, } THOMAS STAPLER, } ISAAC H. STARR, } 2d Mo. 17th. 440 4