Essequebo and Demerary Royal Gazette 1811 February 26

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26th, 1811.

His Excellency having been pleased to grant leave of absence to C. T. Tinne Esq. Deputy Secretary and Deputy Receiver of the King's Chest, has thought fit to appoint Alex. Tinne Esq. as Acting Deputy Secretary and Acting Deputy Receiver of the King's Chest, during the absence of the said C. T. Tinne Esq. of which all to whom these may concern will take notice accordingly.
King's House, this 26th February 1811.
By Command,
L. Van Rossum, Govt. Secty.

Theatre Royal. [heading]
                        23d February 1811.
By Permission of His Excellency the Governor. [centered]
Miss Emily and Louisa Pieck solicit the Patronage of their Friends and the Public, and inform them that on Friday next, the 1st March, will be Performed at the Theatre Royal of their Benefit:
A Concert. [centered]
Of Vocal and Instrumental Music. [centered]
Part 1st. [centered]
Overture de l'impressario, Piano, Miss E. Pieck.
Quartetto for the Clarionet, by Mr. Haggart.
Composed by Pleyel. [centered]
The favorite Song of The Girl of my Heart, by Mr. Vining.
Grand Sonato for Piano, [centered]
dedicated to the Queen of Great Britain, composed by Pleyel, by Miss Louisa Pieck, accompanied by Mr. Haggart on the Flute, and Mr. Markordt on the Violoncello.
Overture. [centered]
Part 2d. [centered]
A favorite Concerto, Piano Forte, by Miss Louisa Pieck, accompanied by Gentlemen Amateurs.
The much admired popular Song called The Post Captain, by Mr. Vining.
The favorite Sonato of La Colombe Retrouve, Piano, by Miss Emily Pieck, composed by Van Esch.
The favorite Song of The Flowers of the Forest, by Miss Louisa Pieck.
Finale. [centered]

By Permission of Colonel Stewart, the Band of the Royals will attend.

The Gentlemen of the Theatre having kindly offered their service, will Perform, after the Concert,
The much-admired Farce called [centered]
The Grand Sultan. [centered]
Tickets to be had of Miss Emily Pieck at the House of Mr. Henry Austin, Middle Street, Bridge Town; at the Royal Gazette Office, at the Union Coffee House, and of - Obermuller Esq.

Spermaceti Lamp Oil and Wood Hoops, [heading]
For Sale by the Subscriber. [heading]
Also,
Perry and Cyder,
Cogniac Brandy,
Hollands,
Old Rum,
Irish Mess Beef and Pork,
And variety of other Articles, see former advertisements.
Henry Osbn. Seward.
Cumingsburg, 26th February 1811.

The Subscribers particularly request all Persons indebted to them will come forward and settle their respective accounts, for the preceding and previous years; as they will willingly receive any kind of Produce in payment, at the current Cash prices, they trust in being prevented the painful necessity of recurring to legal process for recovery, which they will otherwise be compelled to have recourse to without respect to persons.
They have on sale, a few Kegs of real Bristol Temper Lime, which will only be sold for immediate payment in Cash, except to constant customers.
J. L. & G. M. Forrester.
Demerary, 26th February 1811.

Run from the Ship Argo, on Sunday Night:
Six Seamen, viz: - [centered]
James Yates, [right pointing brace inclosing the next listed and indicating 'Englishmen.']
Edward Young,
William Morgan, [right pointing brace inclosing the next two listed and indicating 'Welchmen.']
Owen Owens,
Griffith Williams,
And William Young, Irishman.
Two Joes Reward for each of the above Seamen will be given to any Person or Persons who will give any Information that may lead to their apprehension, or will deliver them to the undersigned on board, who hereby Cautions all Masters of Vessels or other Persons from Shipping or Secreting the above Seamen, as the Law will be enforced to the utmost extent.
William Procter.
Demerary, 26th February 1811.

For Sale by the Subscriber, at the Premises lately occupied by Jno. Madden Esq. the Cargo of the Schooner Three Friends, Capt. Mereen, from Bath, viz. -
Lumber, Scantling,
Red Oak Staves,
Flour, Rice, Fish, Sheep, &c. &c.
Wardrop & Ferguson.
Demerary, 26th February 1811.

To Let. [heading]
A Convenient Dwelling House, situated on the Brick Dam, Stabroek, and at present occupied by - Ferguson Esq. it has suitable Out-buildings, such as Kitchen, Wash-House, Negro Rooms, Horse Stable, &c. all in good repair. Apply to
Stabroek, 26th Feb. 1811. J. R. Brandt.

Picked Up near the Block house, a Schooner's Boat. The Owner thereof may have the same on application to W. Francis, at the Store near the Fort, where the Boat is to be seen, on paying the expences incurred. Camp, 26th February 1811.

Marshal's Office. [heading]

By Authority of His Excellency the Governor, Notice is hereby given to whom it may concern, that the Execution Sales of Plantations Chance and Nooyt Gedagt, which were to take place on the 28th February and 2d March next, is postponed until the 26th and 28th of March next, when the said sales will take place, and those concerned are requested to attend.
Demerary, 25th February 1811.
Marts. Smit, First Marshal.

PUBLIC VENDUES. [heading]

On Friday the 15th March, by order of H. H. Luhrs Esq. on Plant. Herstelling, next to Plant. Providence, in consequence of his leaving the Colony: - Several valuable Negroes, consisting of Field people, Washerwomen and House Boys, also milch Cows, Sheep, a Chaise Horse, Household Furniture, &c. At a credit of Six and Nine Months.
February 26th. Kingston & McBean.

Public Vendues in Essequebo. [heading]
On Tuesday the 5th of March next, at the Vendue Office, by order of the Executors of the Estate of N. Dauwes decd; - A Negro, and Wearing Apparel.
On Saturday the 9th of March, on Pl. Richmond Hill, Leguan Island, by order of R. Nugent Esq. q.q. the Estate of F. Flood decd: - Household Furniture, two Negroes, two Horses, and a Cow and Calf.
Essequebo, 20th February 1811.
B. Hebbelinck, D. V. M.

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

Henry Austin in 14 days or one Month from Feb. 4th.
John Buchannan, in 14 days from the 4th February.
Saml. Ramsden, in 14 days, from 11th Feby. 1811.
John Fraser, in ditto or 6 Weeks, from 11th ditto.
John McGarel, in ditto or ditto, from 11th ditto.
C. J. A. Stakman, in 14 days, from 11th ditto.
Jeanette Burton and 3 Children, in ditto, from 11th do.
Mrs. Ann Whitaker, in 14 days or 6 Weeks, from 14 do.
Mrs. Sarah Nurse, in ditto or ditto, from 14th ditto.
Margt. Fraser, in ditto or One Month, from 15th do.
F. A. Barrow, in 14 days or 6 Weeks, from 15th do.
John Crone, in ditto or ditto, from 15th ditto.
N. Rousselet in 14 days, from 16th February.
Fras. Haggart, in 14 days or 3 Weeks, from 18th Feb.
Miss Leah Ince, in 14 days or 6 Weeks, from 20th do.
A. TINNE, senior Clerk.

By Virtue of an Order of the Honorable Court of Justice of the Colony and Dependent Districts of Demerary, dated 26th January 1811, are hereby summoned all the Creditors of the abandoned Estate formerly cultivated under the name of La Conception, to give in, at the Secretary's Office of this Colony in the chief town of Stabroek, their claims, with the vouchers relating thereto, on the first day of the Ordinary Session of the said Court, in the month of March next, when the Court will decide on the preference or priority of such claims, and decree perpetual silence with respect to those who shall not have given in their claims by that time.
Court House, Stabroek, Demerary, this 25th February 1811.
Alex. Tinne, Actg. Dy. Secty.

By Virtue of an Order of the Honorable Court of Justice of the Colony and Dependent Districts of Demerary, dated 26th January 1811, are hereby summoned all Colonial and other Creditors of the neat proceeds of the Sale of Plantation Ameliswaard, to give in, at the Secretary's Office of this Colony in the chief town of Stabroek, their claims, with the vouchers relating thereto; on the first day of the ordinary Session of the said Court in the month of March next, when the Court will decide on the preference or priority of such claims, and decree perpetual silence with respect to those who shall not have given in their claims by that time.
Court-House, Stabroek, this 25th February 1811.
Alexr. Tinne, Actg. Dep. Sec.

No arrivals from Europe or the Islands.

The Concert. - The lovers of music, vocal and instrumental, if we may judge from the judicious selection of pieces and songs, and the well-known taste and skill of the several performers, will, on Friday next, according to advertisement, be presented with one of those feasts of reason and those flows of soul, which seldom fall to the lot of residents so far from home! - Miss Pieck's proficiency on the piano, and her exquisite vocal powers, would have been of themselves sufficient, we believe, to secure the attendance of a numerous auditory; but the addition of her sister's charming musical abilities, (who is arrived from Berbice expressly for the occasion,) will, doubtless, render the night memorable in the annals of the theatre, not only for admirable execution, but for an over-flow of liberal, scientific, and highly gratified patronage! - The Sultan will also assist, we make no doubt, the general attraction, and its performance be truly respectable.

Vessels Entered and Cleared. [heading]

Entered. [heading]
Feb. 25. Sch. Shark, Cap. Hicks, from Surinam, Lamp oil, &c.
---- 26. ----- Three Friends, Mireen, Bath, Lumber & fish.

Cleared. [heading]
Feb. 25. Schr. Ranger, Capt. Fernald, for Newbury Port.

Mr. Printer,
I know of scarcely any entertainment, derived from desultory reading, greater than the comparisons that occasionally arise in our minds, between characters and events of former times, when analogous to recent circumstances, that make a lively impression at the present moment. About thirty years ago, very many quotations from Shakespeare were applied, in the public papers, with great felicity, to the persons and actions of the passing time: but, exhausting the subject, they at length drained the humour to the very dregs. They even brought to my mind, after so great a lapse of time, by my accidentally taking up the other day, Dr. Johnson's tragedy of Irene; into which I had not looked for even a longer period. The following Dialogue struck me as so descriptive of the unfortunate state of Holland, and of the exhausted mines of wealth belonging to the bank of Amsterdam, supposed formerly to have been under the Stadt House, that little more is required than to substitute Holland for Greece, and France for Turkey, to suppose the play descriptive of scenes, which it preceded by more than half a century.
Papyrius Cursor.

Irene. - Act. I. [heading]
Leontuis. [centered]
Yet Greece enjoys no gleam of transient hope,
No soothing interval of peaceful sorrow;
The lust of gold succeeds the rage of conquest,
the lust of gold unfeeling and remorseless!
The last corruption of degraded man!
Urg'd by the imperious soldier's fierce command,
Have groaning Greeks break up their golden caverns,
Pregnant stores that India's mines might envy,
The' accumulated wealth of toiling ages"

Demetrius. [centered]
That wealth too sacred for their country's use!
That wealth too pleasing to be lost for freedom!
That wealth, which, granted to their injur'd prince,
Had rang'd embattl'd nations at our gates!
But, thus reserv'd to lure the Wolves of Turkey,
Adds shame to grief, and infamy to ruin!
Lamenting Av'rice now to late discovers
Her own neglected in the public safety.

Leontuis. [centered]
Reproach not misery: - the sons of Greece,
Ill-fated race! so oft besieg'd in vain,
With false security beheld invasion..
Why should they fear? - That power that kindly spreads
The clouds, a signal for impending showers,
To warn the wand'ring linnet to the shade:
Beheld, without concern, expiring Greece,
And not one prodigy foretold our fate.

Demetrius. [centered]
A thousand horrid prodigies foretold it;
A feeble government, eluded laws,
A factious populace, luxurious nobles,
And all the maladies of sinking states;
When public rapine, grown too strong for justice,
Shows his bold front, the harbinger of ruin, -
Can brave Leontuis call for airy wonders,
Which cheats interpret, and which fools regard?
When some neglected fabrick nods beneath
The weight of years, and totters to the tempest,
Must Heaven dispatch the messenger of light,
Or wake the dead, to warn us of its fall?

Leontuis. [centered]
Well might the weakness of our empire sink
Before such foes, of more than human force;
Some power invisible, from heaven or hell,
Conduct their armies, and assist their cause!

Demetrius. [centered]
And yet, my friend, what miracles were wrought
Beyond the power of constancy and courage?
Did unresisted lightning aid their cause?
Did roaring whirlwinds sweep us from the ramparts? -
'Twas avarice shook our nerves - that vice, Leontuis,
Still froze our veins, and wither'd all our powers!

Leontuis. [centered]
Whate'er our crimes, our woes demand compassion.
Each night, protected by the friendly darkness,
Quitting my close retreat, I range the city,
And weeping, kiss the venerable ruins!
With silent pangs I view the tow'ring domes,
Sacred to prayer, - and wander through the streets,
Where commerce lavished unexhausted plenty
And jollity maintained eternal revels.

Demetrius. [centered]
How chang'd! - alas! -

Stabroek: Printed and Published
Every Tuesday and Saturday Afternoon
By Edward James Henery.
 

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