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after his return to West-port the keel for the new vessel was laid . In 1795 his schooner of 6 9 tons burthen was launched , and called ** The Ranger . " Paul possessed two small fishing boats , but his money was exhausted and the cargo for his new vessel would require a considerable sum beyond his present stock .
To supply his waats he sold his two boats and placed on board his schooner a cargo valued at 2000 dollars . He had not sufficient information of the commercial condition of the different parts of the United States to direct him on * such a course as would yield a certain profit on his cargo , but he supposed some of the Southern States would furnish a market where
he could trade without loss . He sailed to Norfolk on the Chesapeak Bay , and there learned that a very plentiful crop of Indian , corn had beer * gathered that year on the eastern shore of Maryland , and that he could procure a schooner load , for a lovy price , at Vienna , on the Nantkoke river . Thither he speedi y sailed , but on his arrival the people were filled with astonishment and alarm .
A vessel owned and commanded b y * a person of colour , and manned with a crew of the same complexion , was unprecedented and surprising . The white inhabitants were Struck with apprehensions of the injurious effects which such circumstances would have on the
minds of their slaves , but perhaps they were still more fearful that , under the veil of commerce , he had arrived among them with hostile intentions . They probably suspected that he wished secretly to kindle the spirit oi rebellion , and excite a destructive revolt among their slaves . Under these notions
several persons associated themselves for the purpose of preventing Paul from entering his vessel or remaining among them . On examination , his ¦ papers were found to be correct , and the Custom-house officers could not legally refuse the entry of his vessel . Paul
combined prudence with resolution * Although his schooner was entered in opposition to the association , he did not assume an air of triumph , or use the language of defiance to hi $ opposers . He conducted himself with candour , modesty and firmness * and
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pfefeed in & or 10 volumes , 8 vo . A part , price 3 s . containing six sheets of letter press , will be published every two months . The first part will appear in a few months . The work , we believe , will be principally conducted by Mr . John Clennell , of Newcastle upon
Tyne , F . S t A . Edinburgh and Perth , assisted by literary men in England and Scotland . We are happy to learn that the professors of Aberdeen Old and New College , and Glasgow , have offered every assistance in their power , and hope their example will be followed by others in similar favourable
situations . An EXPOSITION of the Historical Books of the NEW TESTAMENT , with Reflections subjoined to each Section , by the iate Rev . Timothy Ke » rick , will appear in the course of this summer . It will form three volumes , in royal 8 vo .
• Mr , JOHN HILL ,, Merchant , Hull , -author of letters in vindication of the Methodists , £ cc . has in the Press " Thoughts on . the late proceedings , and discussions concerning the Roman Catholics . " It is expected to be out during the present month . ( July . ) Mr . NIGHTINGALE ' S Work on the
Wesleyan'Methodists > is now published in a thick octavo Volume , under the title of " A Portraiture of Methodism , being an impartial view of the Origin , Progress , Doctrines , Discipline and Manners of the Wcsleyan Methodists ; in a series oi L-ettets addressed to a Lady /' This work has already excited considerable interest , and will , we doubt not , have a very extensive circulation . ^
The same author has also nearly ready for publication , a volume of Original Poems *
MISCELLANEOUS . BRIEF MEMOIRS OF CAPT . FAU 1 . CUFFEE . ( Concluded from p . 287 . ) His owners sent him off to Philadelphia to dispose of his cargo . His pecuniary circumstance * were by this time so much improved that he resolved to re-commence business on his
own account . While in Philadelphia he purchased iron necessary to make bolts and other work suitable for -a schooner of 60 or 70 tons , and spoij
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1807, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2381/page/47/
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