Portland gazette and Maine advertiser., 1810-11-05

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All hands ahoi cofle within hail ship
mates a bit if you pie. e-now dye see 2
years since this very month l undertook,
mind ye, just to zip sDu the wink what
some of the crew would be at. You re-
member the time my hartes when every
mothers son Of us got turned ashore, al der
the lee OF starvation, wFen we were getting
every day on shore r Allowance, when the
enemy hunger 10, KID iand at us-Yes, and
lit the wind hadat Rreez'd little we
shouldn't have got 20 windWsrd OF him at
Ait shs, never forgst to remember the
ZOOS MS majesty gave me. My own car
case was, dye zee. maSe like a horn Ian.
thern than . sailors lall. But let's hear
no more about these iroW DAYS splinter my
standards if l ever lik'd 'em at all Now
every nan aboard knows well enough how
al this came about sy, because we had a
parcel Of luhberly ofiicess aboard, but no
-uficstion now AZ this present time, for
he tiller head it isn't @ecessary, as All Of
e. an without even pair Of spectacles see
when ave are well used. You remember
my lads that some Of the crew tried to pre-
vent our worthy officer, WHITMAN, from
being On the quarterdech last cruise-ay,
and these outlandish lubheTs want to keep
him al home the next voyage, bat all the
crew we'll know that WHtrMAN's a sailor,
came in at the hawse-hole and knows what
he's about, aAd pom honor it does my old
tar colored sides good to see him give di-
rections in squall or gale--he understands
himself well you may depend, and what's
more the crew ali know it. They very we'll
know he treats all alike, and hasn't ships
cousin aboard. We have always had good
grog, and plenty Oft, and he's never put
US on allowance once--prstty solid argu-
ments, messmstee, IN favor of our friend
WHITMAN. Yes, and no wonder the crew
like him, and CRY out, WHITMAE forever
for better heart than his ives never
stcw'd into any mans waist--and dye tht1k
here isn't some aboard want he should
stay ashore next ctui;c Yes, myhesrties,
IFS true, although you starc--for dye see,
they are pratlng about putting The tiller
ropes into the hands Uf one VIM Widgery,
as he's csiled. Now by the star5oard man
brace if he's to Gun / believe thcre'l be u
Robbery kick'd up every watch. Yes. and
III engage that these lubbers who now
want Widgery on the quarterback Of the
! Cumberland would be glad TO set him alrif
before one passage is half made. Why
he'd have us on short allowance in hurry
-sy, and he one Of the embargo gentry,
. and they say he's no political ssiIor, does
not know dead light from cat harpen,
nor cross tree from the jib hauIy ards-he
always takes an observation left handed,
and is always in a fog bank. Now lads,
allow me to say t'wont do to ship DIS jos
tice Widgery-no, let's put stopper upon
hIm AZ once. Let every NAP aboard the
Cumberland be 1t the Capstan at ten
o'clock This Day, and let's see if we can't
re snip our faithful aud worthy commander
NHTrMAE--thsn the ship will make good
weather Mind ye, and bring to all We see,
pilot 'em up to the poll, and If you see any
who haven't had AN observation lately tell
'em how the land lays and warn 'em off the
lee shore, and just give 'em 10 understand
bat, dye sec, whereabouts the shoals are
that fIs. rtttYYharlan h.a Laan ,.,rr ~
when these mulberry democrats. as they are
calI'd have commanded.
BOB BACKSTAY.
Lar "A. N--Portiapa Ligii Bearing S. Z
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Ciiizens Of PorArnd.