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CHARLESTON, Dec. to* '\Ve arc informed that Mr. Richard <il:»rk, architect fromAuguffa, Georgia, i t lS contracted tor building the bouth-Cu rulina college, to be.greeted in Columbia. The work we underßand, is to be com menced immediately. • A Barbadocs paper of the 30th Oclo her fays—We underlhmd that so great a mortality prevails among the French troops at Martinique, that they have a baadoned Fort Royal or Fort de France, where near 300 men and 40 officers had died, and that the contagion hud follow ed them to Fort Defaix, (late Fort Bourbon) they are about to Pnuc thatgar rifon up also, and remove to Grand Morne The town of Sr. Pierre is, however, healthy. It Teems that they are determined at Martinique to prohibit all commercial intercourse with the Biitilh colonies; for weuaierltand.tiut all veffls arriving there from any of our illands, are cfofely watch ed, and those leaving it cloftlv examin ed, nd every article feezed that comes tinder a mercantile defeription. The brig Jane, fro u hence to that illand, has been detained, and a guard pat on board, for having flour in. The Americans are pro hibited importing every article of produce hut rice and fifh, the latter of which pays a duty of one dollar per cwt. We have received by the Mercury, regular hies of London papers to the 9th October On a haily perusal, wc do not notice any articles ofTufficent moment to \ detain the press. The wretched inhabi. tants of Switzerland arc diitraded with civil djffe'ntions—fevcral actions have tnken place with alternate success, be tween the pcafantry and the troops of the Helvetic Republic :—Buonaparte, howe ver, has assumed the power of fettling their differences; and has addressed a pro chmation to the inhabitants oi that coun try, which affords an admirable picture of the Fird Consul’s character, and a fa- Ititary lesson to other nations of what they might expert from his gcncrofity, were they laid at his mercy. He tells the Swiss, that he had resolved not to inter fere in their affairs; hut the miseries of \Vhich they were the victims, had moved him to compassion, and he had now deter mined to become the efficacious mediator of their differences ; and detires them to link upon his interference as a bhjjing Jent f>j Divine Providence ! ! ! COLUMBIA, (s. c.) Dec. 10. On Wedncfday fall the legillature of this slate proceeded to ballot for a gover nor,Vdieutenant governor, a senator to congress, a fetretary of date and a far fey or general, when janes Burchill Ri chaydfon, E'.'q. was defied governor, E \l zckiel Pickens, Esq. lieutenant-governor, I Major Pierce Butler, senator to congress, I Daniel Huger, Esq. secretary of date, and ■ John Bynum, Esq, surveyor-general. I GEORGIA, OoLETUORPE COUNTY. EZEKIEL Gillam being duly sworn, faith, that five notes of hand were loft , 111 cr dolen out of his p ffeffion fume time in (I this month. Four of which rfotfs were I fur eightewadollars each, and* the .1 far sixteen doliqrs, given by Hugh Haw. ■ thorn, made payable so Afthup Crawford, ■ allot' them due on before -lad Chrilt gj mas, and indorfed Crawford to ■ this deponent. Also of hand 1 given by John Gray to tnSc deponent, I Lr thirty five dollars, due the tldl day of ■ September lad. Also one ncucoaf hand ■ given by William Hatchett to this de ll ponent, for eighty-nine dollars Tome odd I cents, due also on the firft day of Sep | tember lad, on which (bine credits were I entered, I EZEKIEL GILLAM. H Sworn to hefote me this I 30th Nov. 1802. || Pechy Bledsoe, j.p, I CAUTION! I All persons arc forvvarned hot i to purchase or trade for hud nutos, orci -1 ther of them, the perfons'by whom ■ they were hereby forbidden to I pay the contents ol the aforefaid feverai m Rotes to any other or peribns but la the fubferiber, who is\he only person en. || titled to receive ine fame, and who ne- I either directly or indirectly, fold or : j hran.ferred ajlfor either of i\d notes. 1 X EZEKIEL GILLAM. hiovefnher 30, THE public is hereby norih ,l c’.r.at Conrad Liverman has opened Piu- I v Ate Entertainment where he now oi ves » on Ellis-ilreet, below the Market, I r all Religious and well difpof.d per. I funs— warranting good usage for man ’ I an d bead, on moderate terms. December 14. [ AUGUSTA, Dec. 18. L'JU j vUit, Dt e. I iSo 2 > Mr. Smith, Having obfervcd in your lull paper the publication of a copy of a later from the Hen. Albert Gallatin to rayfelf, which it appears you had extracted from the Mo. tutor, and which is so incorrectly printed as to render it almost unintelligible.*-1 am induced to forward you a cor reef co py, and to request its infertiou in your next. The copy pullilhed in the Monitor must have been obtained Irom one of the clerks of the general aftembly, before which, copies ol the original were laid, and w he ther the incorrcrtnefs is with cither of them, or the printer, I cannot fay, hut u is so palpably erroneous, 1 trull you will think with me, that in jufticc to Mr. Gallatin, it ought to be re-publilh ed. I am, See. G. R. CLAYTON. Copy of a letter front the Hon. Albert Gallatin , to George R. Clayton , Secre tary to the Executive Department of Georgia. 'Creafury Department , Sept. 8, 1802. Sir— l had the honor to receive your letter ol the I 2th tit. enclofmg a ftare ment of the monies which have been with drawn from what is called the “ Yazoo Dcpolit,’* The United States being now, in con fequcnce of their agreement with the state of Georgia, placed in the fame re relation towards the (t Yazoo claim , ams,” in which the date formerly f ood, it is of importance that they Ihould be turnilhed with such documents or infor mation, in poffclScn of the state, as may enable them tally to repel improper claims, or, if congrels (hall think it molt eligible to make a compromise, as will af ftlt in rendering such compromise as ad vantageous to the public as circumltances will admit. On that account, the commiffioncrs on the part of the United States, whole duty it is to make a full statement tocon grel's at their next leflion, of the nature, extent, and prelent lunation of all claims derived, or pretended to be derived from Georgia, are desirous of obtaining Irom the Itate, the copies of the law's under which the sums fpecilied in the statement you inclofed were withdrawn, and also the particular evidence under which each sum was paid to the applicants. 1 will, therefore, thank you to communicate and transmit to this department, or to the Secretary of State, such tfanferipts as are neccftary for that purpose, as well as every other information relative to the formation and fubfeqnent modifications of the several companies, which you will confider as calculated to throw light on the fubjert. 1 regret that the illness of the gover nor ftiould be the cause W'hich prevented his writing, and from a fear that the fame - —reason may continue to operate, have di reded this letter to yon. I have the honor to be, Sec. On Wednesday last an elcrtlon was held at the court.houfe for a member to reprelent this Itate in the congrcfs of the United States, until the 4th of March next —Peter Early, Esq. had 57, andjo feph Bryan, Esq. 25 votes. Extract of a letter , dated Port-au-Prince , l 2th November, to a gentleman of this place, “ The department of the North has been evacuated, except the Cape, St. Ni chola Mole, and the illand of Tortudas, in the Weft,Gonaives, Vcrrettes and Lar cahaie, are also evacuated. Gen. Leclerc is dead with grief, and the jacobin ge ncral, Dugua, and his secretary, have poisoned themselves after the terrible af fray that has taken place at the Cape, the result of which has not anfwercd the ex portations of these two mifereants who connived with the Brigands. All the town negroes at the Cape have either been Ihot or drowned, as also all the black prisoners. The fame step has been pur sued when the troops have fallen back on i St. Marc’s. General Rochamhcau has fueceeded to general Leclerc. He knows and fees but the happiness of the colonists, with whom he furrouads himfelf, and he has our confidence. The South still holds out, as also Jcre mie, in which place more than 1000 ne groes have been killed. A Cordon has been eftablilhed at Miragoane, which preserves this part of the illand from the revolted. General Uiahin commands here frnce Roeh.imbeau has been to the C ape to be there at ths hsad of Jp rejmnent,’-' 'Bxtrafl ajr a.totL r leiie*, ft . n Kngjhn, J a mate a, to the Jute, dated Octobi t J 3, ISO 2. “ I’hc colonial a(Tembly here have re folvcd, that in the event of an evaluati on ot Sr. Djmmgo, Oobody Ihould he permitted to land, not only the Blacks, but even the Whites.” A duel has taken place at Kingston, Jamaica, on the 4th of September, be tween colonel Magnan and Mr. Jouettc ; ’ the former was Ihut and died on the spot. Letters by recent arrivals at Bollon, (late the loss at the late tremendous fire in Liverpool, (England) at 1,300,000!, llerling. In addition to the to,cool, given to Dr. Jenncr, by the Britilh Government, for the difeovery of the Kinc-Pock, a fub feiption is opened in order to afford him a farther reward, •M In the Miffiflippi Herald of the September, we observe the arrival of the schooner Nancy, capt. Morris, at that place from Philadelphia. The following extrait from the log-book will convey fomc idea concerning - the navigation of the Miffiflippi river;—June 30, the schooner failed from Philadelphia. July 28, arrived at the Havannah, and was only permitted to water, Atrguft 17, arrived at Ncw-Orleans and proceeded the fame day up the liver.- On the 26th reached Baton Rouge, and on Scptcmlicr 13 arrived at Natchez—a navigation of 28 days from New-Orleans. $53" Agreeably with their an nual cull on;, the Volunteer companies of Infantry and Rangers will attend Divine Service to-morrow in uniform, in honor of the memory of the venerated WASH. INGTON. MARRIED, On Sunday evctiing lift, Mr. Jacob Danforth, of this city, merchant, to the amiable Mils Polly Johnson, of the fame place. Ibe Subfcribcrs to the Augujla Dancing Njjeinbhei ate requclled to attend at Afbtpn's Tavern, this even ing at 7 o’clock. Jockey Chib Races . I'HE Edcefied Jockey Club Races -vmi.oininer.ee tor the thud time, at the Cuerokee Ponds, on ThuiT day the 13th of February next. Firff day's purse, three mile heats, horses flatting to be foaled and railed in Edgficld, Abbeville, Laurence, New berry, or Barnwell djutricts, in South- Carolina, or Richmond or Columbia, in the Hate of Georgia, and owned by 4 member of the Club. Second day’s races, two mile heats, no horse, mare or gelding above four years old allowed to Hart, and them to be foaled, raised and owned in the fame manner as those running the firH day. Third day, a fweepHake, one mile heats, horses, mares, &c. to be foaled, raised and owned in the fame manner as those Harting the two firH days. v , John Power, Leßoy Hammond, j Ephraim Ferril, }► Stewards. Joshua Hammond, j David Boswell, J HfC December 13. i— ' - BANKRUPTCT. IN the matter of Eleazer. Early of AuguHa, Merchant. A major part of the commiflioners in this case, having granted the bankrupt, Eleazer Early, a certificate —ft is order ed, That the usual notice he published in the Augufia Chronicle, and the State In telligencer in Savannah, that uniefs ob jeftions are filed in the clerk Vs-office, by the fecund Monday in January, 1803, the judge will allow and confirm the cer tificate. Rxtraft from the Records, RICHARD M. STITES, CUrk. December I 5, 1802. NOTICE. THAT all persons indebted to the e state of Mofcs Green, deceased, of Burke county, are rcq'idted to come for ward and make payment on or by the 20th day of January next, as there can be no longer indulgence given ; and all persons having any demands againH the said cltare are requclled to bring them forward pro perly attcflcd. JUDITH GREEN, Adm'x. December 14. ■ C j ■Jc -Of. u - PUBLISHED axdTORSALI* AT OFFICE, THE " “ Georgia and South-Carolina ALMANAC FOR THE YEAR i 8 o —— ..... _ . —* R U M for SALE, AT GooD-AlSj or delivered ia Aagufta, a* low as it can be injw ported from any of the Hate*. V GIN and WHISKEY at them usual low prices. OS WELL LVEtfCo. December ij. - - - , . ( To Rent, by the Year, T'HE Houfc and Lot formerly occu pied by Abfalom Rhodes, fronting Greene and Jackson Itrects, cn the new road eroding at Fury's Bridge on thu Bcaverdattt. Also the Lot cliff of the Methodist Meeting-Hoi/e, formerly the poffeiiion ct John Bedingfield—For terms apply to S; i h Mead or George Wotlfinger. » December ! 4, ’ OT - N O T I C E. Thofc indebted to Samuel Barnett are inf r.ned that their refpeftive accounts and obligations will be placed in the hands of an attorney for collisi on on the firff day of Fcbruaiy next, should they remain unfeulcd at that pe riod. HUGH Nesbitt, jgent.t Decmher 17, T i» n ucThn es bpj tC ■’ Intending ro leave this place in the fpiing, lolicits thofc indebted to him to make as speedy payments as they poffihly can. He has a Northward made CHAISE, and fame decent FURNITURE for Tale. % Dccerhber 17, TO BE RENTED, f•; rHE Houfc and Lot on Broad at present in puff fli on of Mr. L. Coleman. Puff fflon will be given the Ift of Jtnuary, ISOJ. A. BEALL. * December 16. Notice is hereby given , rHAT Joseph Dunn of Wr.rwtt county, Hate of Georgia* did, on the Bth day of this inff. fraudulently of dandeffinely get from me a note of hand, ' payable by Alexander Klewdlcn to my fclf for 30 dollars cents ; also, an ordet from Archdas Flewcllen in my fa vor, on Howel Williams, for three dol lars, Ido therefore hereby forwarn all perfens from trading for either of said pa pers, as 1 have never received any fatis faftiun for the fame. WILLIAM BIRD. Warren county , Dec, 11. 2l' ,m =- GEORGIA, Oglethorpe County, By Matthew Rainey, clerk of the covrt of ordinary for said county, WHEREAS Elizabeth Jfohnfon and Will.am jfohnjon have applied to rue for letters of odminijlration on the e- Jiaii and ejfcfls of Benjamin fohnfon, late, of this county , dec e fed, THESE are. therefore to cite and adrno nijh all andftngular the kindred and cre ditors of the fedd deceafedy to he and ap~ tear at my office, on or before the 26 th day of December next, to Jhew cauje, if any they have, why [aid letters Jhould noil be granted. Gl VEN under my hand at office, t ’tis. 26 th day of Nov. 1802. M. RAINEY, c. c. o. GEORGIA, Oglethorpe County. By Matthew Rainey, clerk of thet court of Ordinary for said county . WHEREAS H nry Sorrow and Sa muel Sorrow have applied to me for letters oj admimjlralien on the tjlato and effiUls of William Sorrow, late oj this , county, dec. St JJESE art therefore to cite and admo nish all and fmguLr the kindred and cre ditors of said deceased, to be and appear at my office, on or before the goth day of December next , to ffuw cause , if any ihef have, why said Utters Jhould not be grunt ed. GIVEN under my hand at office* this goth day of Nov. 18' 2. M. RAINEY, c. c. o. so R EN T, ~ dnd imm'diatr Vojf [fi>n given, The STORE and HOUSE, at prefrnt occupied by Mr. Thomas Jones, «■ good a ft and for bulinefs a* any ia rbiiplfcc. DAVID