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Newspaper
Augusta Chronicle
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1809
Page
1
A quantity of ROYAL DEMI and WRITING PAPER of good quality is offered on commission from the Mill in Columbia South Carolina. Apply at the Chronicle Office.
The sale of property previously advertised for the Estate of Rohit Watkin was postponed to the first Tuesday in November by order of the sheriff. The new date is set for November 4, with the sale to proceed at the time and place previously announced.
On the first Tuesday in November the Sheriff will sell the mortgaged property at the Market-house in Augusta at the usual hours. The notice names the property and local proceeding details for auction.
The listing details property seized to satisfy executions against the estate of the late Col. Watkins. Names include Hetty and her children George Will Carter Teanar Hariot Wahan Lancaster John Ramy Cary Jim Amy Burell Tom Dick Jack William and young Dick, and Baron Rosella with Camilla Charlotte and infant. Baron's property levied to satisfy an execution against Anderson Watkins in favor of Thomas Gardner Co, pointed out by A Rhodes Sheriff. Also notes a previous judgment against the administrator on notes owed by the estate and levies to satisfy that debt.
On Friday December 29 at Christian Duckworth's house the personal property of Jeremiah Duckworth deceased will be sold. Items include enslaved people, horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, goats, a wagon and gear, household goods, wheat and corn. The sale continues daily until everything is sold with terms announced that day. The estate asks debtors to pay promptly and creditors to present claims by January. The Duckworth plantation includes over 100 acres, a framed dwelling, kitchen, barn, and other buildings on the Greensborough Augusta road with two adjoining plantations to be rented concurrently.
At a late London Common Council meeting resolutions urged a public address to the King and lighting Guildhall on October 25 while opposing a corporate dinner. Aldermanic opposition centered on the need for congratulation amid wars, taxes, and policy failures, with Mr Waithman delivering critical excerpts. He urged withholding a celebratory day, citing costly wars, habeas corpus suspensions, and bad governance. The motion sought to substitute an amendment distancing the city from the royal rejoicing.
Beil's Weekly Messenger criticizes Lord Wellington for vanity and perceived bias in papers supporting him. It notes costly Franco-Spanish campaigns, questions judgment, and predicts a future History of the Campaign that may exalt Napoleon over Wellington. It contrasts praise with perceived partiality and asserts the general bravery but limited judgment of Wellington.
in a caustic critique English figures are mocked for toasting Bonaparte while in Spain. The piece condemns Marquis Wellesley and cabinet revelry, calling the dinners a display of vanity and drunkenness amid war, and laments their perceived neglect of serious cause. It also reports an incident at sea as the schooner Sarah Milner from Kingston Jamaica was hit by a swordfish at sea, wounding the crew and detailing recovery of the weapon.
A natural history note asks how wood became charcoal at a depth of fifty four feet near Washington. It ponders what transformed it into charcoal and whether the earth’s surface ever lay so low as fifty feet beneath the present level.
The Rev Wa Hates D D once of Killefandra and former Oriental Languages professor at Dublin University publishes a learned work proposing a new chronology. He argues the Creation fire should be fixed at 411 years before Cyrus rather than 4004, shifting the current world year from 5813 to 7220.
Dr. Rose of Lancaster proposes a cheap method to purify well air. Place a peck of unflacked lime in a box, add water to slacken the lime, then lower it into the well during fermentation to cleanse the air and reduce danger when descending.
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