Essequebo and Demerary Royal Gazette 1812 December 15

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1812.

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The King's House. [heading]
DEMERARY. [heading]

PROCLAMATION,
By His Excellency Major-General HUGH LYLE CARMICHAEL, Acting-Governor in and over the Settlements of Demerary and Essequebo, President in all Courts and Colleges within the same, Vice-Admiral, &c. &c.
By Virtue of an Act, passed in the 52d Year of His Majesty's Reign, entitled "An Act to allow British Plantation Sugar and Coffee," &c. and by special Instructions received from the Right Hon. Lord Bathurst, one of His Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State - I do hereby, in the name of His Royal Highness the Prince Regent, cause the same to be issued and published in the manner and form following. And all Persons concerned, are hereby directed to conduct themselves accordingly.
Give under my Hand and Seal-at-Arms, at the King's-House, George-Town, Demerary, this Twelfth Day of December, One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twelve, and in the Fifty-Third Year of His Majesty's Reign.
(SIGNED)
H. L. CARMICHAEL.
By His Excellency's Command,
JOHN EYRE,
Assistant-Government-Secretary.

An Act to allow British Plantation Sugar and Coffee, imported into Bermuda in British Ships, to be exported to the Territories of the United States of America in Foreign Ships or Vessels; and to permit Articles, the Production of said United States, to be imported into the said Island in Foreign Ships or Vessels.
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WHEREAS it is expedient to allow Sugar and Coffee, the Produce of any British Colony or Plantation in the West Indies, imported into the Island of Bermuda in British Ships or Vessels, to be exported from the Port of Saint George in the said Island to the Territories of the United States of America in Foreign Ships or Vessels; and to allow certain Articles of the Growth or Production of the Territories of the said United States to be imported into the said Island in Foreign Ships or Vessels, and to be re-exported from thence in British-built Ships or Vessels to British Islands in the West Indies; be it therefore enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the Authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for Sugar and Coffee, the Produce of any British Colony or Plantation in the West Indies, imported into the Island of Bermuda in any British Ship or Vessel, to be exported from the Port of Saint George in the said Island of Bermuda to any part of the Territories of the United States of America, in any Foreign Ship or Vessel belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty, above the burthen of Sixty Tons, any Law now in force to the contrary notwithstanding.
II. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful to import Tobacco, Pitch, Tar, Turpentine, Hemp, Flax, Masts, Yards, Bowsprits, Staves, Heading, Boards and Plank, Timber, Shingles, and Lumber of any Sort, Horses, Neat Cattle, Sheep, Hogs, Poultry, and Live Stock of any sort, Bread, Biscuit, Flour, Pease, Beans, Potatoes, Wheat, Rice, Oats, Barley, and Grain of any sort, such Commodities being of the Growth or Production of the Territories belonging to the United States of America, from the said Territories to the Port of Saint George in the Island of Bermuda, in any Foreign Ship or Vessel belonging to any Country in Amity with His Majesty, any thing in an Act passed in the Twenty-eighth Year of His present Majesty's Reign, intituled [sic] An act for regulating the Trade between the Subjects of His Majesty's Colonies and Plantations in North America and in the West India Islands, and the Countries belonging to the United States of America, and between His Majesty's said Subjects and the Foreign Islands in the West Indies, or in any other Act to the contrary notwithstanding.
III. And be it further enacted, that it shall and may be lawful to and for any of His Majesty's Subjects to export any of the Articles before enumerated which shall have been imported in any Foreign Ship or Vessel from the Territories of the United States, into the Island of Bermuda, from the said Port of St. George, to any of His Majesty's Islands or Dominion in the West Indies, in British-built Ships or Vessels owned and navigated according to Law.

For Sale, [heading]
A Few Dozens of Patent Double and Single-spring Trusses, Surgical Instruments, Tooth Keys, &c. They are a Consignment, and will be disposed of very reasonably for Cash. Apply to
Dec. 14. RICHARD BATTY.

ALL Persons having any demands against the late T. G. Heyliger, Esqr. of these Colonies, are requested to send in the same to his widow, Mrs. M. Heyliger, at Plantation Dartmouth, west-coast of Essequebo. - Dec. 8.

WANTED - an Overseer, who is well acquainted with the business of a Coffee-Plantation, and who can take charge thereof in the absence of the Manager. Any active sober mean, with the above qualification, will receive, in addition to his salary, if his conduct give satisfaction, such encouragement, as will make it an object for him to exert himself for the benefit of the Plantation. Application to be made at the Printing Office. - Dec. 14.

FOR SALE, [heading]
Imported in the Diana, from Glasgow, and the Bridget, from Liverpool:
Assorted Irish Linen, Linen Huckaback, and Damasks
Russia Sheeting, and Dowlas,
Platillas, Britannias, and Blue Salempores,
Kentings, and Finest Plain Cambric,
Common wearing, Planters', and Dress Shoes,
Assorted White and Brown Hosiery,
Musquito Netting and Lawn,
Newest Fancy Muslins, Robes, Shawls, Handkerchiefs,
Pullicate and other Handkerchiefs,
Ginghams, Calicoes, Dimities, &c. &c.
And on hand, imported per Thomas: [centered]
Barrels of Salt, Hogsheads of Tobacco, and Firkins of New Butter,
Old Jamaica Rum,
White and Black Beaver, Silk and Leghorn Hats,
Fashionable-made Coats, Checks, Flannels, Thread, &c.
Salad Oil, Peruvian Bark, Patent Boiling-house Lamps,
Music, Music Paper, Piano Forte and Violin Strings,
Violin Bows, &c. &c.
Wanted - A quantity Empty Pipes and Arrow Root.
Dec. [blank] JAMES AIKIN

JUST landing from the Bridget, Capt. Kennan, from Liverpool, and for sale Cheap for Cash:
Lancashire hams, Gloster cheese, Irish mess beef in half barrels, ditto pork, ditto butter in half firkins, red herrings, potatoes, port wine, small jars of raisins, currants and almonds, London porter, table beer, pearl barley, tradesmen's and tailors' cloathing, white, green, and Spanish brown paints, paint oil and brushes, cotton and coffee bagging, superfine new English flour, &c.
Dec. 10. HUGH DOUGLAS.

IMPORTED in the Bridget, from Liverpool, and ship Diana, from Glasgow, and for sale at the store of Archibald Iver: -
Prime mess beef and pork in barrels and half ditto, best rose butter in firkins and half ditto, soap and candles in small boxes, port wine, loaf sugar, Irish linen, diaper, Dutch sheeting, brown ditto, anchor dowlas, printed calicoes, ladies' and gentlemen's silk and cotton hose, Welch flannel, boat cloaks, ship mattresses, Bristol temper lime, gunpowder and shot, copper skimmers and ladles, boiling-house lamps, copper liquor pumps, ditto funnels, a general assortment of carpenters' and coopers' tools, negro cloathing, sets ivory-handled knives and forks, buck handled ditto, tinned iron spoons, &c. Dec. 12.

IMPORTED in the Ship Diana, from Glasgow, and for Sale by the Subscribers, in the House opposite Messrs. Hugh M'Kenzie and Co. in Robb's Street, viz
Mess beef and pork in half barrels, tongues in kegs, butter in whole and half firkins, potatoes and herrings, porter and ale, salad oil, port wine, loaf sugar, soap and candles, white lead, paint and paint-oil, lamp oil, nails assorted, puncheon iron hoops and rivets, cutlasses, handsaws and handsaw files, chalk lines, frying pans, corkscrews, box and trunk locks, desk locks and hinges, chamber-door locks, brass table-hinges, knives & forks, hook-and-eye and HL hinges for doors and windows, socket chissels assorted, stationery, Osnaburg, Irish linen, linen table-cloths, imitation Russia sheeting, tapes and threads assorted, Hessian boots, planter's shoes, youth's ditto, glassware assorted, superfine cloth coats, waistcoats, flannel jackets, prints, Britannias, platillas, Kentings, Salempores, gentlemen's silk and beaver hats, tradesmen's and negroes' hats, ladies, and gentlemen's plain cotton hose, boys' and girls' ditto, ancle socks, negro blankets, ladies' parasols, blue, red and white handkerchiefs, Madras ditto, ladies' brown beaver hats, cotton and linen checks, cambric muslin, shoe brushes, cordage assorted, from 9 thread to 4 1/2 inches, and a few hawsers, 5 1/2 to 6 inches.
Dec. 10. W. DOUGLAS & Co.

FOR SALE, by the Undersigned, at their Store in Cumingsburg - Part of the Cargo of the Brig William Rathbone, brought here from St. Thomas, in the Schooner Fanny: -
Silk and beaver hats, boots and shoes, saddlery and stationery, a large assortment of medicines, salad and paint oil, flax and tow oznaburgs, check shirts and duck trowsers, coarse and fine pullicates, a few very elegant fowling pieces, an elegant sabre, a case of worsted stockings, and a variety of other articles.
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[sailing ship icon] For Barbados, Martinique, and Guadeloupe, the fast-sailing pilot-boat schooner Fanny, having excellent accommodations. Will sail in a few days. For passage only, apply to the Master on board, or
December 11. GARDEN, KING, & Co.

In consequence of the unsettled state of the weather, the Fourth Subscription Ball, which was to have taken place on the 16th instant, is postponed until further notice. - Dec. 12.

Marshals' Office. [heading]

BY authority duly obtained, from His Excellency the Acting-Governor, I, the undersigned Acting-Deputy First Marshal, will expose for sale unto the highest bidder, in the presence of two Counsellors Commissaries of the Honourable Court of Justice, and their Secretary, at the Court-House, George-Town, on Tuesday the Fifth day of January, 1813 - in behalf of A. Meertens versus H. H. Denny, the 1/8 (one eighth) share in Lot No. 14, situated in Cumingsburg, George-Town, with the buildings thereon, viz: - a dwelling house 33 feet long by 20 feet wide, two stories high, the frame of Colony wood, shingled with wallaba shingles, and inclosed with colony plank, with a Porch to each front, a Logie (work) 84 feet long, by 30? feet wide, covered with shingles, the frame of Hardwood, a kitchen and necessary; at present occupied by the Defendant.
Any person or persons having right, claim, or interest, on the above-named Premises, and wishes to oppose the sale thereof, let such person or persons address themselves to me, the Acting Deputy First Marshal, stating their reasons of opposition in writing, when I will appoint him or them a day of hearing before the Honourable Court of Justice for the trial of the same; and those intend to purchase, please attend the sale on the day and place above-written.
Rio Demerary, 5 December, 1812,
B. TEYSSEN, Jun.
Acting Deputy First Marshal.

BY Authority duly obtained from His Excellency the Acting-Governor, I, the undersigned Acting-Deputy-First-Marshal, will expose for sale unto the highest bidder, in the presence of two Counsellors-Commissaries of the Honourable Court of Justice and their Secretary, at the Court-house, George-Town, on Tuesday the Fifth day of January, 1813.
In behalf of H. A. Eberhardi, Executor to the Estate of H. H. Luhrs, deceased, versus I. F. Engels, the following Negroes, viz. - Edward, Nancy, and Amba, with her sucking child.
Any person or persons having right, claim or interest in the above-named Negroes, and wishes to oppose the sale thereof; let such person or persons address themselves to me the Acting Deputy First Marshal, stating their reasons of opposition in writing, when I will appoint him or them a day of hearing before the Hon. Court of Justice for the trial of the same; and those intend to purchase, please attend the sale on the day and place above-written.
Rio Demerary, the 5th December, 1812.
B. TEYSSEN, Jun.
Acting Deputy First Marshal.

BY Authority duly obtained from His Excellency the Acting Governor, I, the undersigned Acting Deputy First Marshal, will expose for sale, unto the highest bidder, in the presence of Two Counsellor Commissaries of the Honourable Court of Justice, and their Secretary, at the Court-House, George-Town, on Tuesday the Fifth day of January, 1813: -
In behalf of J. B. Henery, versus the Proprietor of the Saw-Mill, cum annexis, in Madewiny Creek, under the administration of Chs. de Beausobre - All and every part of the land which belongs and is attached to the said Saw-Mill, consisting of fifty rood of land in fa�ade, a pole being there fixed by the Sworn Land Measurer M. Downie; to say, the same parcel of Land purchased on the 8th of January, 1806, from Harris Drayton, dec. in q.q. of his children, by C. de Beausobre, and on which the Saw-Mill Steam Engine stands erected (but out of repair) under a hard-wood logie, about 60 feet long, by 20 feet, covered with walaba shingles. Also a dwelling-house 40 feet long, by 20 feet, more or less, all of hard-wood, covered with wallaba shingles, containing below an old forge and bellows, out of repair, and a little out-house.
Any person or persons having right, claim, or interest in the above-named premises, and wishes to oppose the sale thereof, let such person or persons address themselves to me the Acting Deputy First Marshal, stating their reasons of opposition in writing, I will appoint him, or them, a day of hearing before the Honourable Court of Justice for the trial of the same; and those intend to purchase please attend the sale on the day and place above-written.
Rio Demerary, the 5th December, 1812.
B. TEYSSEN, Jun.
Acting Deputy First Marshal.

BY Authority duly obtained from His Excellency the Acting-Governor, I, the Undersigned Acting Deputy First Marshal, will expose for sale, unto the highest bidder, in presence of Two Counsellors Commissaries of the Honorable Court of Justice, and their Secretary, at the Court-House in George-Town on Tuesday the Fifth of January, 1813.
In behalf of Thomas Naghten, q.q. H. McCalmont and Co. versus the Representative or Representatives of the Estate of G. Crafts, deceased; a Lot of Land, without the Buildings thereon, and occupied by Mr. Wm. Jeffrey, situated in Cumingsburg, bounding on the north by the lands of the Hon. T. Naghten. And those inclined to speculate, please attend the sale on the day and at the place before written.
Rio Demerary, 11 December, 1812.
B. TEYSSEN, Jun.
Acting Deputy First Marshal.

SECRETARY's OFFICE. [heading]

This is to inform the Pubilc, that the following Persons intend quitting this Colony: -
Abel Allen, and Lady, in 14 days or 6 weeks from Dec. 4.
Secretary's Office, Demerary, December 5, 1812. [sic]
CHARLES WILDAY,
Sworn Clerk.

PUBLIC VENDUES. [heading]

On Wednesday next the 16th instant, at the Vendue Office, by order of Messrs. Fullerton, Oliverson & Co. for account of the Underwriters and others concerned in the Ship Maxwell - Her masts, rigging, sails, long-boat, anchor-stock, &c. condemned by a Board of Survey.
December 12. ROBERT KINGSTON.

On Wednesday the 16th instant, will be exposed for Sale at the Vendue-Office [see 18121205EDRG] . . .
On the same day, 100 barrels of new flour, now landing from the Bridget, Capt. Kennan.
December 5. ROBERT KINGSTON.

On Thursday next the 17th instant, will be exposed for sale at the store of L. M'Bran [sic – M'Bean?], Esq. in American street - port wine, gin, old rum, white-wine vinegar, tobacco in barrels, black pepper, cordage, white lead, black and yellow paint, neatsfoot and paint oil, Madras handkerchiefs, calicoes, nankeen, dimity and jean, muslin, tape, black silk handkerchiefs and Florentine, ???? cambric, cotton and linen check and stripe, Osnaburgh, red flannel shirts, sailors' trowsers, tradesmen's and boys' hats, ladies' shoes, Hessian and back-strap boots, umbrellas, paper and blank books, red and white bunting, union-jacks and burgees for colony-boats, grapnels, cooper scales with beams and weights, hinges, locks, hand-saws and files, planes, swing looking-glasses, &c.
Also a book-case, with the following books, viz. - Johnson's Works, Malone's Shakespeare, Paley's Philosophy, Goldsmith's England, Hook's Roman History, Hume's England, Smollet's Continuation, Hume's Essays, Robertson's America, ditto Charles V, Colman's Miscellanies, Gillies' Ancient History, Plutarch's Lives, Blair's Lectures, &c.
December 12. ROBERT KINGSTON.

On Monday the 21st, and Tuesday the 22d December, at the store of Messrs. James Robertson, & Co. - The whole of their stock of Merchandize, which will be sold without reserve. The sales on both days to begin exactly at 10 o'clock, A. M.
December 12. ROBERT KINGSTON.

On Thursday the 24th of December, by order of James Jackson & Co. at their store in American-street - the right and title to the premises at present occupied by them; they are all in good repair, and afford every convenience for an extensive business, and may be viewed every day previous to the sale. - Also their remaining stock of goods, without reserve, consisting of the following articles - Irish mess pork in half barrels, excellent Madeira wine per dozen, old rum in kegs, loaf sugar, table cloths, netted muslin, vest-patterns, and quilting, a parcel of books, consisting of English and French Grammars and Dictionaries, Scot's Geography, Letter-Writer, Swift's Works, Yorick's Journey, Falconer's Shipwreck, Mair's Book-Keeping, Leighton on Peter, Harvey's Meditations, Scotch Heiress, Adventurer, Romain's Works, History of Glasgow, blank-books, travelling maps, slates, pencils, &c. mixed spices in canisters, fish sauce and pickles, Day and Martin's blacking, plane-irons, hinges and bolts, coopers' jointers with spare-irons, broad axes, adzes, rivets, saws, hammers and iron squares, metal tea-spoons, gilt and plated buttons, paint and tar brushes, negro jackets, ditto trowsers and Guernsey frocks, tea-trays, iron pots, boiling-house lamps, sein twine, single and double blocks, mast-hoops, jib-hanks, grindstones, cordage, an iron-chest, rum-vats, a parcel of trunks, and what further may appear on the day of sale.
December 12. ROBERT KINGSTON.

HOUSE-FRAMES WANTED. [heading]
WANTED to Contract for the Erection of the following, on the Second Island in Demerary River viz. A House-Frame, 50 feet long by 30 wide, 10 feet high, boarded with Greenheart plank, inch and half thick, and shingled with Wallaba shingles: Two Logies, each 70 feet by 30 wide, 12 feet high, and covered with Troolies: - and to furnish 1,500 Greenheart Laths, 10 feet long, 4 inches broad, and one and half inch thick, and 60 Greenheart Posts, 10 feet long, 7 or 8 inches square.
Any Person, willing to erect and furnish the above, will please to send in tenders, on or before the 30th instant, to the Hon. W. Robertson, Second-Fiscal, or to
H. B. FRASER,
Commissary.
Demerary, Dec. 15, 1812.

Arrived since our last - The Ship Isabella, the Phoenix, Norburne; and the Berbice Mail-Boat - from Barbados. Also the Brig Penelope, Perkins, from Newfoundland. - No News.

The only Foreign Article our limits have admitted of, in the present number, is the American General Van Rensselaer's weeping account, of the surrender of 900 Trojans, he had placed under the command of Brigadier General Wadsworth; and the consequent failure of all those bugely-wise plans he had formed for the Annihilation of the British Army! and the Conquest of Canada!

LOCALITIES. [heading]

From what appears in our first page, from the King's House, as well as the well-known fact of sugar having been ordered by proclamation at home, to be used by all brewers throughout Great Britain - we see much cause of additional congratulation, so far as it concerns our fellow-colonists. - The declaration, on the part of Government, that St. George's in Bermuda is a Free Port, or, in other words, the Key by which the West India Planter may open the Door of a valuable Foreign Market, and Dispose of his Produce - is not only a wise and liberal measure in the first instance; but, in the second, is particularly gratifying - for it is another proof that our British Enemies are not near so successful as they could wish to be! They may slander; but it seems the determination of the Illustrious Regent, that they shall not ruin us! An Elliot may degrade; a Brougham may vilify; a Wilberforce may preach till doom's day! But the scene is shifted. The People are become enlightened! Jackson is become The Advocate of the West! and the Regent is become The Redresser of Grievances!

We announced in our last, the return of the Opossum, with a Ship in company, which we hoped would have proved a prize. She, however, appears to have been destined for Surinam, for freight; but, falling to leeward, her captain determined to run for this river. She was, when met with by the Opossum, under the protection of the Crane sloop of war. She is the Isabella mentioned among the arrivals.

At the Meeting yesterday, pursuant to public requisition at Marsh's Hotel, we understand that a Committee was appointed to prepare an Address to Admiral Sir Francis Laforey, on the subject of Naval Protection for these coasts. But it is stated, though we know not with how much truth, that the Opossum, the Lightning, and the Crane are already appointed; and therefore, we presume its presentation will be postponed.

The Packet will depart this river on Friday.

Complete justice, we find, has not been done to the Passengers in the Bridget, in any statement yet made, of the gallant defence of that vessel. We therefore now attempt it, as justice to all, either in reference to praise or censure, is certainly the duty of a Public Press! - To those gentlemen generally, it appears, Captain Kennan ascribes, in a great measure, the successful result of the contest; but particularly to Mr. Donald Ross, from whom proceeded, at a very critical moment, that instantaneous and well timed cheer, which renewed, as it were, suspended animation, and the effect was - victory! Having said thus much, however, we must lay personality aside; for when we reflect upon the result of so unequal a conflict, we feel ourselves bound to say, that, from the captain to the cabin-boy, there does not appear to be one whose conduct was not highly meritorious, and of whose name the most honorable mention does not deserve to be made! - The Bridget we find, mounted only fourteen 18 pounders, and had a crew of only thirty-six men and five boys - but the Privateer had nineteen guns, and was apparently full of men! The Passengers were, Messrs. D. Ross, H. Kemmis, D. Dun, and W. Dun.

BROUGHT to the Colony-Jail, on the 1st instant, a BAY-MARE; and which, if not claimed in fourteen days from the date hereof, will be sold at Public Vendue to defray the expences.
December 12. SAMUEL JACOBS, Cipier.

IMPORTED in the Ship Diana, from Glasgow and Medeira [sic] - a general assortment of Provisions, Dry Goods, Plantation Stores, Hardware, Iron Hoops, Boat Anchors, Glassware, Saddlery, Cordage, Tar, Paints and Paint-Oil, Lamp Oil in jugs and casks, soap and candles.
Also, London Particular Madeira Wine, in pipes, hogsheads, and quarter-casks; and finest Old Malmsey and Sercial, in half-quarter casks.
Dec. 12. WARDROP & FERGUSON.

FOR SALE by JAMES GENTLE and Co. cheap for immediate payment in cash or produce, the following Assortment of Goods:
Hams, butter, soap, candles, beer, brown stout, Jamaica rum, refined sugar, salt, saddlery assorted, coffee and cotton bagging, negro clothing, cotton and linen checks, Russia sheeting, salempores, cotton shirting, Irish linen, cambrics, thread, Romal handkerchiefs, silk, beaver, and Leghorn hats, shoes, cordage assorted, &c. December 12.

Demerary Ferry. [heading]
The Undersigned hereby informs the Public, that it is entirely out of his power to give any Credit to Passengers crossing said Ferry; and also that no Slaves will be allowed a passage, unless they previously produce a Pass from their Master, in consequence of the disagreeable circumstances that may arise to the Undersigned therefrom.
Dec. 8. W. F. D. Schirmiester.
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