Jenks's Portland gazette. [volume] (Portland [Me.]) 1799-1802, 1801-01-19
General MISCELLANY.
Description of Hamburger.


Northern part of Europe. There is not an
infance of one, Whole commerce and popula.
ton have iDcrealed 70 much within the ipace
of ten years. According to the official report
it has I3o, 900 inhabitants. For a long time
The population Of Copenhagen has been com
pared to that Of Hamburger but we now
nave certaiR knowledge, that the trf of thefe
towns has not more than $4,000 inhabitants.
Hamburger has become the depot of Euro
pean commerce fnce the decline of Amacr.
dam it is we'll known that great number of
merchants have reforted thither from different
parts Of Europe, taking their property along
with them. To Judge Of the extent Of its COM
mercial concerns, We have nothing to do but
TO acquaint ourielves with the quantity Of in.
ports in the cQurlc Of the lat year. In the ar
tcle of coffee alone there were not lefs than
forty fix millions Of pounds, almoR the whole
Of which came from Engliih and American
ports, viz. from Liverpool 1907 900; from
London 4. sos 900 from Newyork 4, St,ooe;
from Philadelphia $4,000; from Baltimore
SA65cco and what is remarkable, from the
/ iland of St. Thomas A. I67,OO4 pounds the
I Importation of fugar amounted to $1,000. GOO
+ Of pounds, which alto came chiefly from the
Englifh and Americans. The number OF veI-
ALAS of which three only came from Cadz /;
! III from AmRerdam 1913 from London !;
+ 50 from Newcatlle S. from Bourdeaux n
i from r ia from China and 40 from
| ibe Unted States Of America.
Hamburger dilpatched l. veiIels in the whale
6hery, and it turned out remarkably we'll =
i To make the matter clearer BY companion, we
fhall add, that in the courfe of the fame year
only 1901 velels arrived in the port of Am
4 Serdam Of which z73 came from Bremen, 2
from Cadiz, IS from Bourdeaux, AZ from Lon
4 don III from Hamburg sc.
n So exteniive a trade mutt neceharly have
brought about a remarkable change in the
manners, cutons, and tate of the people OF
i Hamburger. The rhode Of living, for example,
Vi is very different from what it was ten years
n ago. You find in almoa every part of the
town French rsfawafers, the greater part Of
II them gentlemen under the old regimen, men
II Of principle who have preferred this manner Of
Fl earning iubliaence to others lefs hOnelt. At
ihofe houies you are ferved exactly in theFrench
manner and by French fervants and fome
Of them are diainguilhed at the fame time by
4 acleanGnels truly Englih.
II The entertainments at Hamburger, are Gump
81 uous land the tables are lpread with the chocelt
Z yiands On the other band, in private their
family dinners are prepared with frugality
Becoming men who are KILLED in calculation.
What renders A rsGtence AZ Hamburger mott
II agreeable IS, that every one may hve'there as
Il he pleales. The Engli(hman, for intance, will
n find plenty Of private houies, where they live
II inthe file Of bis country and fpeak the Ian
guage the fame with the Frenchman, and
{ mott other nations. In this city there are not
only inns, according to the Englifh fafhion,
but even chop.houfes IA fort of Engliih ale
houle, fays the foreign writer of this article,)
RobbeIies are very rare and this is GER
iainly owing to the general competency and
II good morals of the place. Very feldom does
" che hear Of a murder. There are but few
"A qarrels in the ltreets, and it is not common to
meet perfons in Rate Of ntoxcation.
There is, perhaps, no town where it is 70
much the cua ON 70 make excurfOns on Sun
\ day in the country. Every family, in the lealt
degree opulent, has a country houfe. They
.Aeommonly leave the city on a Saturday after
r moon and return on Monday morning; and
y they either take party Of friends wirh them
Tor receive their Wits at their villas on Sunday
hs The infer Tor clafes on this day fill the taverns
land public houfes, which are very numerous /;
Iat fome they dance, at others they play at
~ iSnles, and at all thefe, pipe is a fAvorte
It is iurprifng Gnce Hamburger is 70 great
AlF increafed that they have not yet re!orted TO
6Nhe accom- mediation Of hackney coaches; there
iqts not even carriage, in the nature Of an En-
kiilh Gage coach, TO carry perfons backward
!. sfand forward at certain hours between Ham
xkurgh, Altoona, WAndfbeck, sc. though fuch
an eflabliHu7rnt would certlialv anCUer well
* thofe VINO might have iuGiciep. entsrprize to
b Itt it on foot.
ID AT HambnrPh we fee perpetually new build
bog. though building is not in general the rage
the Hamburghers. They build becauie
lhey find il neotf&ry. The price Of houies
:. las increafed. within a few years, 50 nay 100