Essequebo and Demerary Royal Gazette 1811 January 08

TUESDAY, JANUARY 8th, 1811.

PUBLIC VENDUES. [heading]

On Monday the 28th inst. at the Vendue Office, by Order of Colin Elder, the half Lot No. 86, North Dam, Stabroek, with the Dwelling House thereon 28 feet by 14 feet, with a good side Building, Kitchen, Oven and Necessary, the half Lot being newly railed in and in good Order with Garden &c. it would answer any person well, who wished for a retired residence after the hours of Business.
Jany. 8th. Kingston & McBean.

On Wednesday the 30th January at the store of Joseph Hill. - Printed callicoes, muslins, table cloths, towels, chintz furniture, checks, Irish linens, platillas, britannias, sheeting, huckaback, pocket handkerchiefs, Negro cloathing, flannel, green baize, bed tick, romal and Madras handkerchiefs, coloured nankeens, granderels, shirting callicoes, coats, coatees, black silk and other vests, trowsers, jackets, cloth pantaloons, shirts, hosiery, silk and cotton umbrellas, hats of every kind, saddles, bridles, japan and tin ware, ironmongery, tripe, tongues, hams, cheese, butter, potatoes, split pease, soap, candles, Madeira onions, vinegar, paint and lamp oil, white lead and other paints, hoes, shovels, cutlasses, cogniac brandy, perry, porter and ale, black pepper, loaf sugar, raisins, currants, tea, spices, powder and shot, broad cloth, jewellery, London boots and shoes, glass and earthen ware, bar iron of various kinds, puncheon hoops, &c.
January 8th. Kingston & McBean.

SECRETARY's OFFICE, [heading]
DEMERARY. [heading]
 

John Foal, in 14 days from the 14th Decb.
Aaron Bryant, in 14 days or 6 Weeks, from Dec. 24.
A. De Rick, in 14 days, from 27th do.
Isaac Lazarus, in do. from 28th do.
P. C. Mickerts will send to Berbice, in 14 days from 2d January 1811, a Negro Woman named Phillis, the property of A. G. Burmester.
Jane Wise, in 14 days, from the 2d January 1811.
P. L. Monier, in 14 days or 6 weeks, from Jan. 4th.
Mary Lynch, in 14 days, from the 5th January.
A. TINNE, senior Clerk.

Joseph Paxton. [heading]
Has just received per Ship Mary, Capt. Ferguson, from Liverpool, the following Goods, which he will sell at the Store adjoining the Druggist's Shop of John Lewis Esq. very cheap for immediate payment, viz: -
[first column]
New Cork butter in half firkins,
Yorkshire Hams,
Hung beef,
Tripe in Jars,
Single and double Gloucester cheese,
Mess beef and pork in half barrels,
Onions in hampers,
Mustard and Vinegar,
Sallad oil, and pickles,
Raisins and currants in jars,
Turkey figs in do.
White wine and brown stout Vinegar,
English sweet meats assorted,
Almonds in boxes,
Soap and Candles,
White, Yellow and red Paint and paint oil,
Green do. in small pots,
Gentlemens fine black, blue, bottle green, and fancy Coats, and coatees,
Do. Black florentine and Marseilles Vests.
Do. cassimeres and Stocking nett Pantaloons,
[second column]
Do. white & striped Jean trowsers,
Glover's best Hessian and Jockey boots,
Do. mens laced, ancle and dress shoes,
Ladies half boots, Morocco kid, and cream coloured shoes,
Jean and black Velvet,
Gentlemens fine black and drab beaver hats,
Do. silk do.
Boy's and Girls do.
Servants Glazed do.
Negro hats,
Stationary assorted in trunks
Superfine broad cloths assorted,
Cotton braces,
Linen and cotton checks,
Pullicat and Madrass handkerchiefs,
White Lining Calico,
Corded dimity,
Check shirts,
Nails assorted from 4dy to 30dy.
Earthen ware assorted in crates,
[end columns]
An Elegant Piano Forte with additional keys and Dampers, Pedal highly ornamented.
American-Street, 5th January 1811.

On Sale [heading]
The Cargo of the Schooner Sally, Capt. Davis, from Portsmouth, N.A. viz: -
Lumber,
Staves, R. O. and W. O. Shooks,
Scale and Cod Fish,
Corn, Sheep, Turkeys.
Chorley & Cook.
Jany. 7th, 1811. J. H. Albouy & Co.

Lost. [heading]
By the Subscriber, two Notes of hand drawn by H. F. Sloane and William Jeffery Esqrs. dated the 25th day of October 1810, one for Fifty Joes and the other for Twenty-five Joes, also a Note of William Jeffery's for Four Joes, all in my favour. A great obligation will be conferred and a Reward paid to any Person who has found or may find the said Papers, on delivering them to Alexr. Reith Esq. in Stabroek, or to me at the Post Morocco. Mr. Sloane and Mr. Jeffery are requested to refuse paying the Notes, should they be presented, as they are not endorsed by me.
Demerary, 7th January 1811. H. K. Linau.

Absented himself from the Subscriber on the 1st instant a Negro Man named Tom, well known as a Pilot. - All Persons are forbid harbouring or employing the said Man and Masters of Vessels from taking him off the Colony, as the Law will be rigidly enforced against such offenders.
Jany. 7th, 1811. William Gibson.

Runaway from the Subscriber, a Negro Boy named Liverpool, well known about Town, and has got sore on both feet with cloth round them. Whoever will apprehend and bring him to the Subscriber on Lot No. 4 in Kingston, shall be Rewarded for their trouble.
January 8th, 1811. Thos. Riding.

[Sailing ship icon] The new Ship Perthshire, Capt. John McKinlay.
Now in Berbice River, will be down here in a few days to load immediately for Glasgow.
She has on board a Cargo of best Newfoundland Cod Fish, which will be sold at a moderate price for prompt Payment.
Fraser, Campbells & Co.
Cumingsburg, 8th January 1811.

Drifted. [heading]
From the the [sic] Ship Aurora, laying at Berbice, a new Six Oared Pinnace, 21 feet long, Carvel built with White Bottom and Black above, Yellow moulding, swivel stock in the bow and is supposed to have been seen towed in here a few days ago. Whoever can give information of the above Boat will be handsomely rewarded by applying to Messrs. Fraser, Campbells & Co. and if found in the possession of any Person or Persons after this public intimation he or they will be prosecuted as the Law directs.
Malcolm McDougal.
Cumingsburg, 8th January 1811.

Demerary Ferry. [heading]
Whereas, it appears to the Undersigned that by giving credit to Passengers crossing the Ferry, it has put it out of their power to fulfil their engagements.
They hereby make known, that in future, no person will be allowed to pass the Ferry without immediate payment, (except those who have contracted by the year, who are also requested to call and pay their respective contracts; and renew the same before the first day of February next, otherwise they will be considered as not to have contracted any longer.)
And all those indebted to the Ferry, are requested to call and make payment of the same before the 31st inst. in order to avoid disagreeable measures which must inevitably ensue.
Lelyveld & Co.
January, 5th 1811.

Plantains for Sale. [heading]
Any Quantity will be deliver Weekly at a moderate price. Application to be made on Plant. Perseverance, Canal No. 3. January 7th, 1811.

Runaway from the undersigned on the 1st January, without any known cause whilst sent upon a message, a Negro Man named Wakenam. Whoever will bring him to the Subscriber shall receive a Reward of One Joe.
January 8th, 1811. James Campbell.

The three-masted Schooner Packet Dispatch, came in on Sunday with the Mail due for November. She brings no News of so late a date as we were previously in possession of.
The Mail for Europe will be closed at the Post Office at twelve o'clock to-morrow, and the Packet will sail in the Afternoon.

We are requested by a correspondent to insert the following: -
Considerations regarding the loss of Merchant Seamen [centered]
by Fever [centered]
The loss of Seamen to our Merchant service from sickness on board the Ships lying in the Rivers of these Colonies, and at a time too when the Inhabitants on shore are generally healthy, is a circumstance which deserves a most serious consideration and demands every possible enquiry to ascertain the causes which operate to destroy so many useful and highly valuable Men, as are occasionally carried off by fever in the course of one sickly season. - At this time the Shipping is very unhealthy, and it appears that the rainy season, the most favourable to the Inhabitants on shore, is the most unhealthy to the Seamen on board Ship.
That Men who are in the daily habits of hard labour, and who expose themselves carelessly to every vicissitude of heat and cold, should get fever in a climate like this, is not to be wondered at. Bit it does not appear that they suffer us much while discharging their outward cargoes, as while taking in for a homeward voyage.
From this we are naturally led to conceive that not mere fatigue alone, and even the changes from heat to cold, are necessary to produce fever among the Seamen, but that the impure air which they breathe while employed in stowing the Ship, and generated by uncured sugars, wet cotton bags, and coffee perhaps not thoroughly dried, is the principal active cause of fever - and when we add too, that in a rainy day in this country, the naturally heavy unelastic atmosphere of the Climate is hardly equal to displacing the artificial impure air generated by such a combination of unwholesome smells.
But if this impure air cannot be displaced, might it not be changed by the introduction of nitrous gas? - This is a question which hardly admits of a doubt, and which most certainly deserves a trial.
The introduction of this practice of fumigating Ships in His Majesty's Navy has saved, it is said, many useful men, and as it can be adopted with perfect safety, it ought to be adopted upon every principle of humanity. At the same time, it is submitted to the Merchants and Captains loading their Ships, whether they should not more generally employ Negroes in the more laborious part of stowing the hold, and it is presumed that this is practicable under the direction of one of the crew, and altho' the whole of the Ship's crew were necessarily kept below to direct the stowage, they would not be by any means so liable to get fever, when not fatigued by hard labour as under the influence of that cause which is known to induce fever - namely, fatigue.

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Every Tuesday and Saturday Afternoon
By Edward James Henery.
 

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