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he United States,
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rcafury be, and nc
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p or vcffel, a ccr
titlc such unregi
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granted to onre
iwned by citizens
ind carrying a sea
document issued
die United States,
me said ad, inti
in a further (urn on
cpcnces incident to
Tient thereof, and
•“ debentures."
ACON, Speaker
Repre/entatl'vet
/ice- Preftdent of
, and Preftdent
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*n News.
tv. May 24.
i the ship Mercury, in
London, has extended our
London papers to the 11 th
hout adding much political
, our former Hock,
n n who came pttffenger in the
cu r t from London, brought
.sfrJnMr. King, American mi
it r the court of Great-Britain,
* efe yesterday forwarded to the
tty of Hate. We learn that Mr.
p ntended leaving London theenfuing
»’ *er for France, on his return to the
»ted Start*.
One of the moH important circumHances
we have to announce is, the suspension
of payment itx specie, at the Bank of
England.
On the sth ult. the Premier opened the
budget. The sum required for the ser
vices of the current year, is Hated by
him at twenty-fix millions five thousand
pounds, which is provided for by a loan
on the terms as mentioned in the opposite
page. He likewise required provision
to he made for paying the intereH of ninc
ty-feven millions additional debt, amount
ing ro 3,200,000!. for which he took
three leading dalles of objefts of taxati
on, viz. An inercafe of two millions on
malt, hops and beer; one million from
an increase and modification of the affclT.
ed taxes; and one million from the ex
parts and imports. In the course of his
fpcech on this fubjeft, lie mentioned that it
was the in r enrion of the government to
difeharge the National Debt, and that
the raeafares which had been- adopted,
would produce that effeef in forty.five
years.
LONDON, April 1.
Lord Cornwallis landed at Dover from
Calais, at four o'clock yeflerday after
noon.
Lord Whitworth is making every ne
ccffiiry preparation for his speedy depar
ture for France.
April 10.
We underfiand it is at present the in
tention of government to ratify the Deft
nittvc Treaty of Peace on Monday, and
dispatch it to Paris. It will probably
there meet the ratification of Spain return
ed back from Madrid, which with the
ratifications of France and Holland, may
be expeded there about the end of the
week. In about ten days after lord
Whitworth will set out for Paris.
In announcing that the final arrange,
tnenj of tgcneral Peace is so near at hand,
it is with much pain we give to thfc pub
lic any information tending to damp their
joy. We received private advices from
the continent yeflerday, which, in addi
tion to the contents of the public papers,
leave very little doubt that the flames of
war juH extinguished in the WeH of Eu
rope are on the eve of being rekindled in
thcEaH. We are assured the event which
every one has so plainly forefeen is on the
point of taking place ; that the Partiti
on of the Turkish Empire is agreed
upon, and that Buonaparte has succeeded
in persuading Russia, AuHria and Pruflla,
tempted by the profped of agrandize
meut, to enter into his views. It is
poflihle that Mr. Bafiett, the mefienger,
brought official intelligence of this to our
Mini Her a few days ago* We under Hand
Russia and AuHria, will immediately in
vade the Turkish dominions.
This intelligence comes by a private
channel; but it reHs on good authority,
and is Hrongly supported by the contents
of Foreign journals. From the French
German and Dutch mails, received ye‘- *
flerday, we have made extrafts under the
head “Turkish Empire," which will en-
able our readers to judge haw far cur o
pinion is founded. It appears, the French
• miniftcr at Constantinople, received idif
patches of great importance ; that the
English Miniftcr at Vienna received a
meflengcr, from Constantinople with dis
patches of great importance also ; the
Grand Seignior and the Divan, expefted
’ the ultimatum of England with impaM.
.ence, as it was reported Austria and Ruf
fta had agreed to seize upon her Weftern
Provinces, which are in a state of anar
" chy ; that the Archduke Charles had call
ed from his hermitage Field martial Co.
bourg, and is busily engaged with him in
organizing the army; that the Austrian
troops at Hungary are in motion, and
their designs of seizing upon several Turk
ish proyipces is no longer doubtful; that
24,‘dbb' , mfen in Transylvania alone ; that
diifncron) Austrian armies are alfembling
r in Eastern Gallicia to seize Moldavia; and
that cordons df troops are on the frontiers
of Bosnia and Sfervia, which are to co-o
perate ' with Ruffian troops destined to
take pofleflion of the Turkifli towns of
Bender and Aikarjnan. While these for.
midable measures are pursuing against the
Turks, they are embroiled with the En
glish on account of the maffacte of the
Beys. The Turkish empire left alone,
and attacked as it will be by all the great
military powers of Europe, must fall ;
Buonaparte will then obtain his objefts,
Egypt and Greece, in defiance 1 of the
Britiih marine. If be cannot reach them
by sea, he will by land: and the very
pretext will be used by the great military
powers for partitioning Turkey, which
they lately used for their attempt to par
tition France. The ** d'f order ,
and confufton , will be found so great, as
to threaten the very exiftencc of civil so
ciety ; no regular government” will be
able to exist, uulefs the Turks are reduc
ed, and the fcencs ailing in Poland, at
tempted in France, will be repeated in
the territories of the Ottoman Porte.
All these powers want is dominion; prin
ciples and morality are mere cants. Since
they find by “ the rcfult of experience and
the evidences of fails” that they cannot
1 obtain it in France—why—a slice of Tur
key will do as well, t
Should a general attack upoft the Tur
kilh empire be made, what part will
England take I Ten years ago Mr. Pitt
delired, and parliament voted it too!
that we (hould go to war with Ruflia
rather than allow the ceflion of a Angle
Turkish town to her. Will England
now fee the whole empire broken up,
Greece, Egypt taken, India threatened i
In the Definitive Treaty, England gua
rantees the integrity of the Turkish em
pire against France ; but France in the
firft inltance will probably not interfere.
Russia and Austria will do the business
while France and Prussia will receive their
dividend of the spoil.—Or even should
France interfere, (he will no further vio
late the Definitive Treaty refpedling
Turkey, than (he has done the prelimi
naries refpefting the integrity of Portu
gal ; a (lep to which minilters have sub
mitted. Perhaps Mr. ’Addington allud
ed to this approaching war, when in con
cluding his speech on the budget, he ex
prefled a hope of preserving peace, by
fleering clear erf the quarrels of other na
tions.
According to the latcft letters rested
at Vienna from Constantinople, the&jCfe
tary of the firjtifh -legation, Mr. StKat
ton, is fafely arxiytpl in Egypt, where
divisions continue to prevail between the
Turks and the natives, in confeqnence of
the unfortunate maffacte of the Beys,' .
Letters received from Bourdearfx state,
that on the arrival of Mr. Nappcr Tandy
at that’port, he was treated with marked
diftinftion, having been waited upon by
the Commander in Chief, General Dufour,
with whom, and the whole of the Etat
Major, he dined the day after he landed.
TRENTON, May 18.
The ** Hudson Gazette a federal pa
per, in the (late of New-York, fays—
Never has Republtcanifm been so com
pletely manifefted in this state as at
the lad cledlion: Both Houses are now
decidedly Republican.”
Another paragraph in the fame paper
fays—“ It is afeertained that about three,
fourths of the Aflembly will be genuine
Republicans; and thus has Republican
ism triumphed more completely at the last
election than on any former occafion.’*
WASHINGTON CITY, May 31.
Ycfterday the President of the U
nited States arrived from Monticcllo.
A letter to the Editor, received by the
Dyett, arrived yetterday from New-Or-
Icans, mentions, that advices had been
received there, that the province of Looi
* fiana, was to remain under (he Spanish -\
jurifdidlion—an intelligence highly grati
fying to the refidente in that place. The
»v
governor had granted pcrmifllon for ino- ■
eolation, which had been at firft prohi
bited ; this indulgence had abated the fa
tal effcfts of contagion, and fears and ap
preheaftons of further fatality began to
subside. N, r. D> Ad.
NORFOLK, May 13.
We deemed it prudent heretofore to be
filcnt on this intcrefting fabjeft, in'order
that a more complete difeovery of the
meditated plot might be made; but as it is
generally believed that it has been difeo
vered in its commencement, lilence is con-~
fidered ro L r ncccfl'arv :we therefore
lay before our readers such fafts as we
have been able to col left from sources
deemed authentic, and from our own
knowledge.
For forae months past information from
various quarters had been conveyed to the
civil and military authorities of the bo
rough, that an tnfurreftioa was in con
templation, and that it was to take place
during the Easter hollidays. All accounts
agreed in flaring, that the signal of re
volt was to be given by setting fire to
the town. The various informations re
ceived, did not, however, appear fuffi.
ciently well founded to apprehend any of
thole fufpefted. Strong patroles were
ordered to reinforce the ordinary watch,
and every precaution taken to guard a
gainst mifehief.
On the Thursday before Easter Mon
day, a negro fellow was taken up (for
want of having a pass) on his way from
Princcfs Anne to this town, who gave
information that three negroes (two of
whom arc now under sentence of death,
the other has not been as yet tried) had
solicited him to join in setting the town
on fire on Easter Monday night. No
thing could be m:re clear and positive
than his testimony. Several were named
by the above three as being also concern
ed, and taken up; but as no proof hut
hearsay evidence appeared against them,
they have been difeharged.
The fate of the unfortunate wretches,
(Jeremiah and Ned) who are to be exe
cuted to-morrow, will be a fufficient
warning to the rest of those deluded peo
ple, who, upon a moment’s refteftion,
must be fatisfied, that from the iqilitary
strength of this place, all their wicked
attempts must end in their own ruin.
Letters from Halifax and Charlotte
counties inform, that nightly meetings
were very general among the negroes Tn
the above counties; that quantities of arms
and ammunition have been found con
cealed ; that numbers of the ringleaders
have been taken up, seven of whom have
been. sentenced to death, and immediate
execution: Throughout the whole erf' the
state of N. Carolina (particularly the
lower counties) infurreftion among those
mifereants seems to have been very gene
ral ; which leaves us no room to doubt
but a horrid maflfacre of the whites was
intended by the negroes of this and the
adjoining dates.
RALEIGH, June 1.
Mare about the NEGROES.
A gentleman who last week pasted
thro’ the lower copuifes of North Caroli
na, informs that the people in general are
much alarmed at the conduft of the ne
groes ; that nightly patroles of horse and '■*
foot are regularly kept, and that num- V .
bersofthe deluded wretches are in con
linemen t.
On Saturday the t jth inst. there were
two negroes tried at Camden, found guil
ty, and executed on the evening of the
fame day. At Currituck two more were
hanged on Wednesday last and it is ex
pected that many wilffaffet at Elizabeth
City, the jail of which place, is full of ne
groes, whose trials cdmcon'this week.
An attempt to liberate those in Eliza
beth City jail was made last week, by
fix stout negroes, mounted on horseback ;
four of the fellows 'frere '"taken, the other
two made their efv:ape.
One of the Magttt rates at Elizabeth
City, sent us the-Tollowing depofuion,
to which we give* an early insertion ;
Mingo , the property of Jesse Reding,
on oath declares, That at Old Wile’s
houfc (JohnftoneV Quarter) five weeks
past last Sunday, he heard Tom Copper fay,
that he was the General to command this
county, in a plot to kill the white peo
ple, and that he Tom Copper offered a
paper to all to ftgn that would join him :
and that he, the deponent, saw John
ftone’s Lawrance, David, Big Charles,
Old Will, Swans’s George, Old London,
Jack , Falling's Dick, Kelfe's Jacob,
Pendleton’s Aaron and JtJfc and Red
ding’s Drew, ftgn it 1 that this depon
nent had been to Tom Copper's* camp in
company with Johnftone's David last
* This fellow, we arc told, has a
camp in one of the fvvamps, and is out
la wed.
Thtwfday night, when David I
expeded to our.do the white folks ■
'‘taken before ms, •.■—
CHARLES *GRIc£
May 20, 1802. * H
CHARLESTON, May 2 n B
Extract of a letter from a refpedabie ~,.H
chant, of this city, dated 'HB
Off Gnadaloupe, jyh HH
“ The flags are to be changed at i\\ BH
tinique, on the 27 th of June,
the French and English. I left
.v-fland oh laflthere was *[■
count before 1 came away, that
of the line, some frigates, and tranfJß
with five or fix thousand troops s
from France for Guadaloupe. On
day, being close in with that
heard a very heavy firing of can., I
feeing a number of vessels close to W
land, we flood in and spoke with a flo, I
crouded with forae of the unlortunat*
people that had quit the Island : they b?l
ing in want of water, I had the boal
hoisted out, and sent them a hogfhead/anj
a barrel of pilot bread for the children!
They informed capt. Haynes, ■ that oil
the 4th inll. the above fleet arrived at!
Point Petre, and landed some of theitl
men, without the leait refinance- and!
on Monday lafl, about 2 o’clock,' PJVI.I
they arrived in the harbour of Batfeterre I
not expeding any and madel
good their landing—the rcvolters having!
the co mmand of the forts, began to fire I
on the troops and shipping, and killed!
300 of the troops. That' evening they )
fat fire to all. the plantations within a I
mile of the town. A very heavy fire was I
kept up by each party all that night—the |
shipping were obliged to put to sea. Be, |
ing dole in with the harbour on Tuefday |
night, heard a constant firing on Ihore. |
On Wednesday, just before day, the Ihip- |
ping flood in with the land. Soon after |
we heard a very heavy cannonading, I
which laftefl the whole day. At SP. M. |
flood close in with the harbour, and saw l
one of the Chips with no fails set on her I
fore or mizen mast, and her head being I
to the (bore, we concluded the mud have I
surrendered to theforr, as the rest of the I
Chips were Handing off dose to tfye wind.” I
anssss= »i; I
6dr SUBSQUPTIONS for the Na' I
noNal printed by I
Samuel H, Smieh\a/( the City of Wash- I
ington, price per annum, paid I
in advance, wjn he rwerved in Augulta,
by CLAUDIUXMAGNAN.
ROADS and STREETS.
SEALED Proposals for amending and
keeping in complete repair for one
year, the streets within the limits of
this city, and the roads and bridges with,
in three miles thereof, will be received by
cither of the fubferibers, until the 25th
instant, indufive. It is expeded that
the contractor, whoever he may be, will
give bond with approved security, at least
in double the amount of the contract, to
the City Council, for the faithful per
fomwnceof his duty, wdiich security lhall !
be announced by him in his proposals; and
that the contractor immediately after exe*
cuting the bond as aforefaid, proceed to *>
repair the fame, and that he has them in
♦ (Complete order within fix weeks thcreaTT""
ter—rthc whole of which ftiall be fubjefl
to line Tiiperintcndance and examination of
the City Council or either of them.
The con trader lhall receive his com
pensation quarterly, to be computed from
the date of the bond. •
N. B. Proposals will be received for
any part, or the whole, of the repair*
aforefaid, as may be moll convenient
WALTER LEIGH.
• - ■ ■ JOHN MOORE,
GEORGE WATHINS, '
Committee .
Council- C ham ber t
June 11, 1802.
TO BE SOLD, very low,
AFE W Calks of brft
SHERRY WINE, at one dollar
thirty-Ceven and a half cents per gallon.
— ALSO -
Great Supplies of LIQUORS and GRO-
C ERIKS,
F. PHINIZY.
Augnfla, June 11. _
SHERIFF’S SALE.
On the frfi Tuefday in Angufi next, at
Columbia courf-kou/s,
WILL AA S OLD ,
TWO likely girls nam
ed Cloc and Clsrtmdy, between the age
of fifteen and. twenty ; the proper
ty of Richard Jones, levied on by vir
tue of an execution obtained in favor,ol
John Gafrctt.
ISAAC WILLINGHAM, S her if
jfune-z.