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RUTLAND, (Ver.) n. On Monday last, the of the United States was opened in TnH|own, The judges were the honorable Bmhrod Walhington and Elijah Paine. Jodgc Walbington gayc an excellent charge to the graM jury, dating their duties with much precision and elegance. We aig happy to hear that no bills of indiftmen| were found. Much business of a civil na4R| turc has been done : and we have the plea- * fare to add, that the ability, impartiality and dignity of the federal court, appears to give general fatisfadion ; and a full convidion of the neceflity and utility of the inftifution. NEW-YORK, Oficber 23. A gentleman of this city has put into our hands a lettej from Cape-Francois, dated the 13th September. It mentions, that no part of the cargo of a veflel just arrived from Ncw-York, would clear the expcnccs—-lumber would not fetch the firfl cod. Veflcls were continually arriv ing from every part of America, of which a great number leave the place and proceed to ports to the leeward. Lumber has he —come prohibited, on account of the great quantity arrived there, as also dry goods in foreign bottoms in a few da)s. Another letter, dated 2 jth Sept, from 1 refpedable mercantile houfc in Cape- Francois, dates, that all hind of business an* at a Hand, except building houTes, which were going on very brifldy. Flour was from 10 to iz dolls, beef 12, pork 20 to 22 ; hogflard 30s. butter 20 to 255. All kinds of dry goods prohibited. Coffee, molaffcs, rum and tadia and dy ing woods, (except gayac) are permitted for exportation ; the duty on coffee is 16 francs 66 centimes, equal to 307 cents of a dollar per quintal. Coffee was in de. maud, and very scarce, from 20 to 225, Oflober 25. By the brig Eliza and Mary, captain M‘Neil, which arrived on Saturday in 36 days from Havre, we have received from our correspondent at that place, Lon don papers as late as the 6th of Septcm. ber and Paris to the 14th. A rumour prevailed in Paris of the death of general la Fayette, better known in this country by the title of the Marquis de la Fayette, and always esteemed by every true Ame rican, as the friend of our country in the times that tried men's fouls . We sincere ly hope that the report is premature, as it is unattended with any circumstances or particulars. A treaty of peace be tween France and the Porte, has been ex changed and ratified, it is dated the 6th Thermidor (26th June.) By the 2d ar ticle of this treaty, the French are to en joy, in the territories of the Sublime Porte, every privilege enjoyed by any other power. The French nation is more over entitled to the free and uninterrupt ed navigation of the Black Sea, with all the privileges and protection extended to merchant vdfels navigating that sea. In . return, a reciprocity of privileges are granted to Ottoman vessels in the ports of the French republic. The French repub lic and Sublime Porte, by the sth article, mutually guarantee the integrity of their rtfpetii-ve poss jjions. The treaty between France and Algiers, as more interesting to Americans, in consequence of the situ ation of the United States, with these piratical powers,' is given at full length, together with M. Talleyrand’s report. The spirited letter of the firft: consul to the Dey of Algiers, may serve as a ufe ful precedent to our government, in its ncgociations with the very high and very magnificent Dey of Tripoli. Condescension and tribute are all what the Iflimalites want; but they manage these things better in France ; and it is to be fmcercly hoped, that the example of Buonaparte will not be overlooked. The modify with which he speaks of the de crees of the Deity again!! his foes, will be obvious to every reader. The editor of the Times, cannot refrain from ex prefling his indignation, with all humi lity, at the contemptuous negled with which his sovereign has been treated, in the adjustment of the affairs of Germany, by the great powers, France, Russia and Pruflla; an oversight certainly very in sulting to the British nation. Capt. M. informs us that Thomas Paine failed from Havre about the firft of Sep tember, in the (hip London Planter, for Baltimore; and that a French fleet was fitting out at Brett on a fecrct expedition. Capt. Wilson of the (hip Cotton Plan, ter, informs us, that on the Bth August a fleet of French transports failed from Ca diz under convoy of a cutter brig, for St. Domingo or Louisiana. It was said they had 10,000 men on board, under command of a general who had Teen much adive fcrvicc in Europe. These troops were all from the army of Italy, A French 20 gun Hiip and cutter brig, bound to Tobago, with a French governor on board for that island; two other 20 gun (hips and a cutter brig from France, bound to Toulon to join a fleet said to be de stined to aft against the Turks, had left Cadiz previous to the failing of the Cot ton Planter. PHILADELPHIA, Odober 2*. From the Boston punts a reader not in |. titnate with Heady habits would be apt to that the naturalizations which have taken pljlce for some months part, were the constitution and to law ; that the* nulld Irljh just caught, were chucked a fhorc like stock fifh, trundled up in wheelbarrow# to court, there emp tied out and pafled thro’ a kind of ceremo ny which converted them without law or order into No man, who had any other ideas tharffthofe of unfufpefting confidence, could bel|tve these pious news paper editors and believe that hundreds of men were fruttrajetkin their hopes of na turalization by tM law of 14 years, of which Mr. Bayard was the mover — and to secure whose future elevation, he be came the prime mover of that 14 years law ; no man would belive unless he knew the little regard which Jieady habits pay to faft when it suits them, that all those who have been naturalized must have been five years resident in the United States, sworn allegiance to its government and paid taxes duly arte fled,.—Yet such is the case. But the Centinel and other tory prints are confident, the fame motives which gave rife to the 14 years operate against the 5 years law, and it is not the law or the men that they really objeft to —it is their political principles... Ninety, nine in an hundred who come to America have a praftical knowledge of despotic and profligate governments; they come here the more devoted to liberty and hu man rights; and they are more ardent in aflerting the principles of liberty, than those who having never lived under op pression, feel not the impulse of experi ence to make them equally aftive in sup. porting freedom. Odober 26. In the eleftion of Maryland the force of the counties, as stated in the following lift, may be depended on : REPUBLICAN. Walhington, Frederick, Prince Georges, Anne Arundle, Baltimore county, Har ford, Caecil, Queen Ann’s, and Talbot, all republicans—36. Kent 3, Caroline 3, Somerset 2, Baltimore city 2, and Anna polis 1 —ll. Total 47, ANTI.REPUBLICAN. Allegany, Charles, Montgomery, St. Mary’s, Calvert, Worcester, and Dor. chester, all anti-republicans—2B. So merset 2, Kent 1, Caroline 1, and Anna polis I—s. Total 33. Republican majority— 14, WASHINGTON CITY, Odober 29. The United States frigate Boston, cap, M‘Nei’l, arrived here on the 26th instant from the Mediterranean. Yesterday was executed JAMES M‘ GIRK, sentenced todeath for murdering his wife. PETERSBURG, Nov, 5. We learn that Col, Thomas Wynns has been elefted a representative to congress, by a very large majority, for the Eden ton diftrift, in this state, in the place of Charles Johnson, deceased. [Raleighpap. The present Governor of North-Caro lina being ineligible to a rc-cleftion by the next aflembly, we understand the Fe deralists have taken up the Supervisor Col. Polk. The Republicans named for that office, are, colonel J. B. Alhe, of Hali fax ; James Turner, Esq. of Warren, and colonel Joseph Taylor, of Granville. The Britilh packet, Prince Ernest, capt, Petre, arrived at New. York the 26th ult. with the September mail—lhe failed from Falmouth the 7th of Sepi, By the Little Sarah, arrived at New- York from New-Orleans, we learn, that that port was to be (hut against the entry of American veflels ten days after her de parture, which was the 20th September. The American property in that place, was to be brought away in veflels then there. The inhabitants hourly expefted the French. RALEIGH, November 2. Abraham Bradley, jun. Esq. Assistant Post-Mailer General, pafled through this city on Friday last, on his way to Geor gia, for the purpose, it is said, of mak ing some arrangements neceflary to the eftablilhmcnt of a Line of Stages from Pcterfburg, Virginia, to St. Mary’s, for the conveyance of the Mail 3 times a week. We are informed that Colonel Holmes of Virginia, has contrasted to carry the mail upon the above plan from Pcterfburg to Fayetteville,—-and that the Colonel is desirous of farming out so much as from Raleigh to Fayetteville- GEORGETOWN, (s. c.) Oft. 1 6. On Sunday last information was bro’t to this town, that a number of negroes had been landed at Long Bay from a French frigate which has been lately Teen off the coalt, and that the people of Wac camaw were constantly in a state of a larm. This information coming from a source which admitted of very little doubt, caused the officers commanding in town;to colled their men immediately, many of whom marched that evening, and others who were colleded from the country followed them on Monday morn, ing. Those who set off on Sunday even ing, had almost reached the place where the landing was said to have been effed ed, when they were informed that the alarm was falfe. It appears to have ori ginated from a French negro’s having been taken up in the night, near Long Bay, who, it is supposed, is a run-away. We are forty to state, that the country for some distance above this place was alarm ed, and the men adually on their march. It is much to the honor of the citizens that they turned out to a man, although some of them had just arisen from the bed of sickness j but it is to be feared, that such falfe alarms will have a tendency to prevent the like attention to duty when danger is adually at hand. We understand that the bulinefs will undergo an investi gation. CHARLESTON, November The brig Clide, capt. M‘Call arrived yesterday from Liverpool, and brings London papers to the 22d September. It appears by them that general Lafnes had been received very coldly by the First Consul, on his return from Lilbon. So far from having his wrongs redressed, he has been exiled to his country feat in Nor mandy. It is stated that his disgrace is irretrievable. The office of minister of police, over which Fouche presided, is abolilhed. The celebrated Garnerin defeended from his balloon, by the aid of a parachute, on the 22d of September, The Britilh parliament was to meet for the dispatch of bulinefs on the 1 6th of November. Considerable troubles cxift in Switzer land. The Grand Duke of Tuscany in tends viliting Paris, in hopes that his si tuation, as to indemnities, will be amelio rated, The dominions of the King of Sar dinia, on the continent, are united by a decree of the French Government, to the French Republic. Paffwan Oglou has succeeded in making his peace with the Turkish government. A new republic called the Valais, has been eftablilhed by consent of the French and Helvetic repub lics 5 its independence was proclaimed in a molt superb manner, by the envoys of tbefe republics on the sth of September at the city of Sein. Messrs. Freneau & Williams, Please to insert the following in your ufeful paper, and you will oblige a fub feriber. AS the legillature will meet the latter part of the prelent month, and a great ma ny new members will be upon the floor, the writer of this hopes they will differ in opinion with their predecessors, and open the ports for the importation of Africans. The fad is, gentlemen, that notwith standing the severe law passed last session, hundreds of new negroes have been im ported and fold in the different irdets of Edifto, St. Helena and Port-Royal, du ring the present year, and, wonderful to tell, that persons are as eager to purchase as you can poftiply conceive. Thefore, open the ports and lay a duty of thirty dollars per head ; what a handsome reve nue will this bring into our treasury ! The ad is confidercd a bad one, and sure ly it is if the citizens will not be bound by it. On the other hand, hordes of new negroes have been for sale at Savan nah, through the whole course of this year, and numbers of the citizens of this state go thither and purchase, particularly those parishes that are contiguous to it. The writer of this has never purchased one, as a refpeder of the law ; at the fame time he thinks it very hard that he can not be upon a footing with his neighbors, who will fetch home five, ten and some twenty at a time. K. L, The Bahama Gazette, of Odober 5, fays—** This day were executed, near the Water-Battery, below high water mark, Willoughby Davis and Richard M*Evoy, agreeably to the sentence of the high court of admiralty, by which they were convided of piracy. His ex cellency governor Halkett, we under stand, has extended his majesty’s mercy to the other four criminals.” Died, in this city, on Tuefday even, ing last, ia the 58 th year of his age, the honorable John Matthews, Efu r I merly governor of this state, and’Cj | lately, one of the Judges of the Com ,1 I Equity. At the commencement of tj! I American revolution this valuable 1 I now lamented man, was one of the firft, 1 refill the wrongs imposed on his country" I (he knowing his integrity and worth I which, in every tranfaftion ot his lif e ’ S Ihone most conspicuous, called him to t e ’ 1 councils, and soon after he was appoint?! I a delegate to Congress. In this i mpo ! I tant place, his abilities and patriotic ar* m dor deservedly obtained for him the re! I fpedl and veneration of that dignified bo I dy. He was in that station when this I state was taken poffeflion of by the Britifi I army. As soon as the American force! I led on by the gallant Greene, were ena.* I bled, with success, to oppose the invaders I of his country, Mr. Matthews attended I him, and was alfifting with his counsel un, X til their final defeat at Eutaw. ■ Soon after that period the legiflsture | was convened, when, to reward his emi. I nent services, he was called by it to the I chair of government.—At no period has I that office been surrounded with more dit. ■ Acuities and trying circumstances than 9 when he undertook it: nevertheless, his 1 abilities, his gentlemanly -manners, and I his upright demeanor, caused him to be I refpefted by all, ~ While as chief magi. I ftrate he fupporte#% dignity of the state I with firmnefs, every indulgence and favor, I compatible with his duty, was cheerfully I extended to those in distress. After the 1 evacuation of this city, and when his tunc I as governor was expired, he was called up I on by his fellow-citizens to represent them I in the legillature, which, on creating ? Court of Equity, appointed him one of the Judges: In fulfilling the duties of this office, he was always just, always impartial in his views, and candor con flantly marked his proceedings. In : word, by the death of this good man, South-Carolina is deprived of one of her most deferring citizens, and his friends of a most agreeable and edifying afibciaie. ** Swift to the dull defeends each honor’d name That raised their country to these heights of fame : • # Sagts that plann’d, and chiefs that led the way To Freedom’s Temple—all too soon de cay. Alike submit to one unaltered doom, Their glories doling in perpetual gloom ; Like the dim splendors of the evening fade. While night advances to complete the shade ; LOST, ON the Bih instant, a Red Morocco POCKET BOOK, with the Sab feriber’s name wrote in it, containing a promissory note* of twenty dollars and fnndry other paftoi, also half an Eagle in gold, fuppofeo* ty be left between Campbcllton and or Augusta and Col. Mead’s OppV Mill. Whoever may have foundit, anckwill return it to the fubferiberymall be Randfomely Re warded for tlreir trouble. NEWELL W. HERBERT. November 13. CAUTION! SOME time in May or June iBot, I signed a note to Jacob Danforthi with Turner Mann, for fourJiundrcd dollars—the said Danforth (raded the said note to Firtpatrick, on condition that\c woulAfueon said note when due, I obmplicd with my part the conditioi\<By paying two hun dred and ten doHwSuif said note to Fitz patrick, in pjtfknceyof Mr. Danforth; and the condition toV)anforth and ray felf has tprt yet been complied with, I forwarn all persons trading for said note, as I hold myfelf exonerated, nor will I pay any more, as the principal is nour and has been ever since in Augnfta. H, CRUTCHER. November 13, GEORGIA, Lincoln County* By Willi am Harper, clerk oj the court of ordinary for said county • WHEREAS Milly Lankford has ap plied to me for letters of difmif fion on the est ate to nd effeELs of John Lan ford, late of this county, dec, THESE are therefore to cite and admo nish all and ftngular* the kindred and cre ditors of said dectafed, to be and appear at the next court of ordinary to be held on the 2zd day of November next, to fhtw cause, if arty they have , why said letters Jhould n6t be granted. Given under my hand at office , this Athday of Obi. iBoi. j Wm. HARPER, C.C.O.