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['l'c to the Spanish Naval Officers.
i ft tnere a brig bound to the Havan
trowitjr, ofNew-Bedford, to fail in ten
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' '- co unt of flour and meal infpeCted in
the city of New-York, for the la ft fix
ir.unhs, ending June 50th.
So. 500 bat -els flour,
7,183 half barrels do.
1,162 barrels middlings,
g,m do. rve flour,
4,196 do. Indian meal,
878 hogsheads do.
103,034 Total.
B Robert Mott, Inferior.
■ PHILADELPHIA, July 8.
m recent panic with which the pub
-9i: c irind was agitated'by the occurrence
■ fa few ludden deaths in the lower dis
■ trl ftsof the city, has, we are happy to ob-
H i‘. v e entirely subsided, with the difap
■ prance of its cause. From the most re
■ Seftable authority, we are allured, thatthe
I Jty, at present, enjoys a more general de
■ £te of health than is usual at this season
9 |the year; and that, under the bleflingof
9 jp r ovidence, and the vigilance and atten-
I (ion of our citizens, we have the pleasing
9 profpecft of enjoying, during this summer,
■ an uninterrupted flow of health and prof
-9 P er ' tVi ~11
9 The spirit of exaggeration which has
I tone forth on the late occasion, is an ex
-9 cmpiification of what may be effected by
I the prevalence of groundless alarm.—ln
I all the surrounding towns and villages the
I inofl frightful reports are circulated and
I™ believed with avidity, of the deftru&ive
progress of the yellow fever in this unfor
innate city. The daily number of deaths
is ascertained at every tavern with arith
metical precision, and the final ruin of bu
siness predicted with every symptom of
ungenerous delight. In New-York, these
rumours have crept into the public prints.
The Commercial Gazette, among other
advices, mentions that one of our banks
had actually removed !—Notvvithftanding
these ungenerous rumours, we have the
fatisfaftion to obfervethem circulate with
out producing on our business, any visible
cffeCt.
REPORT
Os the Sextons of the different Churches
of thenumberof funerabattheirgrounds
the 24 hours preCeding 12 o’clock, Ju
ly 9,1799.
- Returned by John Jarvis.
Chr ft Church, o
Sr IWrc r i child.
St. Pauls, o
2d Prelbyterian, o
3d Prelbyterian, -1 child.
Saoyjs Prefhyrerian, o
Affctciate Church, o
St. Mary’s Church, 1
Trinity Church, o
Friends, o
Free Quakers, o
Swedes Church, o
German Lutheran, o
German Reformed Prelbyterian, o
Moravians, o
Methodists, o
Univerfalifts, o
ift Prelbyterian, no return.
Jews, no return.
July 16.
COMMUNICATION.
YELLOW F E r E R.
There is no set of men among us who
make so much uproar about th> restraints
iir.pofed to prevent the introduction of
the fever as the merchants; and yet they
are always the fir ft people to found un
founded terror, and extend unnecessary
alarm. The firft serious accounts we re
ceive of this scourge being amongst us is
generally from extracts of letters of our
own merchants returning upon us from all
quarters. A merchant is informed by his
clerks or runners perhaps, that the fever is
very bad : this is enough for him : all his
letters of the day are burthened with this
precious authentic intelligence, and flies
to every corner of the continent, and
comes back to us in “ extracts of letters
from a refpeCtable mercantile house in
Philadelphia.” The very obliging corres
pondents of these gentlemen never lose a
moment to carry their letters to the press;
and thus from our own counting houses
an absurd terror is diffufed over the whole
country to be exceeded in its pernicious
coniequences only by the yellow fever
itfelf.—ln your paper of last evening we
find from New-York, that one of these
“ refpeCtable mercantile houses” has writ
ten that “ the fever is actually here and
has made some considerable progress.”
The firft part of this “ painful fenter.ee” is
extremely hypothetical, and the last abfo
hiteiy falfe. It is certainly true that cases
will give great alarm now that would have
excited no attention before 1793. In the
commencement of this week there were a
few ambiguous cases pronounced by some
phyfic.3ns to be nothing more than com
rcion bilious fevers fucli as have ever been
Sr Ppfprc r
St. Pauls,
But I believe no physician of any eminence J
has declared any one case to be unequivo- v
cally the malignant, infectious fever that
desolated our city last, year. So much as
to the existence of the fever here at all;
and as to its having made considerable pro
gress, it is an assertion so utterly and noto
riouily without truth or foundation that in
Philadelphia it needs no contradiction.—
We have ever been candid in confeffing
t t O
the danger when it reallv existed : let us
continue to be so; but no man fliould ven
ture to give currency to so dreadful a re- \
port without the best information and most
unequivocal testimony. TRUTH.
PETERSBURG, July 5.
By an extract of a letter from a gentle- '
man in Culpeper cohnty, to a gentleman J
in Philadelphia, published in the Aurora, 1
it appears that General Lee is not duly elec
ted to Congress ; but that, in conlequence \
of a number of bad votes , on Gea. Lee’s
poll, Mr. Jones is again returned duly ;
eleCled.
HERALD.
AUGUSTA,
WEDNESDAY, July 24, 1799.
IN yesterdays northern papers we ob
serve no very late interesting foreign news
—a confirmation of the defeats of the
French on the Rhine, though pleasing can
hardlv be said to be new—The Swiss hav
ing tasted the comforts of French frater
nity, will in all probability with the aid
of the Austrians, fend the fraternizing gen
try with a rapid movement out of Swit.
zerland. The capture of Milan in Italy
by the Ruffians will be a means of reliev
ing many from bayonet embraces. No
account of the destination or situation of
the Brest Fleet is perfectly fatisfadory\ we
remain in hopes of their being fafely and
handsomely Nelson i zed. —In Philadel
phia the apprehensions of the citizens ref
peCting the yellow fever have been allevi
ated and we hope and believe, that there
will be no appearance there this season of
that fatal disease, which cloaths the town
in sackcloth and fills every house with sor
row and mourning. It is suggested that
(jirdckcry *uiti teat orlgliidtcd ttlC lCpWi vs
the fever,credulity was ready tofweartothe
truth of it, and the babbling news monger
gave it general circulation. The 4th of July
has been celebrated in various places with
uncommon brilliancy and splendor.
Those who calculate upon benefits from
ourdifunion would do well to confider the
sentiments expreflfed in the toasts given at
the numerous public dinners on the auspi
cious birthday of our nation—they will
difeover inthem the true American spirit;
a unanimity of sentiment, an energy of
mind, a just confidence in government
and a general approbation of public mea
iuresjthat could only arise from just reflec
tions uninfluenced, by party considerations
—reflections in which felfifh considera
tions are loft in a virtuous regard for the
general good. Commercial intercourse is
opened under certain reftriCtions between
the United States and some ports in St. Do
mingo—American beef and pork will no
doubt relifli wellwiththe hungry Islanders.
Some foreign agents are now and then giv
ing a jog to the Indians on the weftern and
southern frontiers and urging them to afts
of hostility; prudence would not be an
improper plant to cultivate in the Spanish
dominions and in the Indian fettlements—
the difference between contending against
the consolidated force of the Union, and
the inefficient exertions of an individual
State, has been forcibly exemplified , and if
properly attended to,may save much trou
ble and render hunting more secure. The
Hate rains have filled many hearts with glad
ness, and caused numerous fields to flou
nfh and look gay —now and then on a
thirsty spot, the corn looks faint and dry
like a poor mortal parched up with a fever s
and too far exhausted to be recovered by
cooling draughts, or refreftiing drops, but
upon the whole we congratulate our rea
ders on the pleasing prospect of abundant
crops, and an ample reward to the indus
trious husbandman.
«<►
By the PRESIDENT of the United
States of America.
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS by an aft of the Congress
of the United States, pafled the 9th day of
February last, entitled “ An aft further to
suspend the commercial intercourse be
tween the United States and France, and
the dependencies thereof,” it is provided,
That at any time after the palling of this
aft, it fliall be lawful for the President of
the United States, if he fliall deem it expe
dient, and confident with the interests of
the United States, by his order, to remit
and discontinue for*thgflrtigjbeing. the re
straints and prohibitions faid aft
imposed, either with refpeft to thgFrench
republic, or to any island, port It
belonging to the said republic, wittr*
a commercial intercourse may fafely be re
newed ; and also to revoke such order,
whenever in his opinion the interest of the
United States fliall require; and he is au
thorized to make proclamation thereof ac
cordingly.
And Whereas the arrangements which
have been made at St. Domingo for the
fafety of the commerce of the United
States, and for the admiflion of American
vefleis into certain ports of that island, do
in my opinion render it expedient, and for
the interest of the United States, to renew
a commercial intercourse with such port.
Therefore, I JOHN ADAMS, Pre
sident of the United States, by vir
tue of the powers veiled in me by thea
bove recited aft, do hereby remit and dis
continue the restraints and prohibition
therein contained, within the limits and
under the regulations here following, to
wit:
1. It fliall be lawful for vefleis which
have departed or may depart from the U
nited States, to enter the ports of Cape-
Francois and Port Republican, formerly call
ed Port-au-Prince , in the said island of St.
Domingo, on and after the firftday of Au
gust next.
1 No veflel fliall be cleared for any
Ollici poii. Tn 3t. Donrtngo, than Cape*
Francois and Port Republicain.
3. It fliall be lawful for vefleis which
fliall enter the said ports of Cape-Francois
and Port Republicain, after the thirty-firft
day of July nexr, to depart from thence
to any other port in said island between
Monte Christi on the north, and Petit-
Goave on the weft; provided it be done
with the consent of the government of St.
Domingo, and pursuant to certificates or
pafiports exprefling such consent, signed
by the consul general of the United States,
or consul refidingat the port of departure.
4. All vefleis failing in contravention of
these regulations, will be out of the pro
teftion of the United States, and be more
over liable to capture, seizure, and confif
cation.
Given under my hand and the seal
of the United States, at Philadel
aa a, phia, the twenty-sixth day of
June, in the-year of our Lord
s ifeventeen hundred and ninety
nine, and of the Independence
of the said states, the twenty
third.
JOHN ADAMS.
By the President ,
Timothv Pickering,
Secretary of State.
TREASURY \
June 26, 1799.
(CIRCULAR.)
To the Collectors of the Customs.
Sir,
I HEREWITH transmit a copy of a
Proclamation which has been ifliied by the
President of the United States, remitting
and difeontinuing, from and after the 31st
day of July next, in refpeft to a part of the
island of St. Domingo, the prohibitions
and restraints imposed by an aft of con
gress pafled on the 9th of February, 1799,
intitled “ an aft further to suspend the
commercial intercourse between the Unit
ed States and France and the dependencies
thereof.”
The diftrift with which commerce is
permitted by this proclamation, compre
hends the ports in the northern and well
era parts of the island, between Monte
Christi and Petit Goave. In refpeft to all
other ports in the Island, the reftriftions
imposed by the aft of congress, remain in
force.
The ports of Cape-Francois and Port
‘.vo ports A
granted immediately; althougftlfiey c «n- \
not be entered until the firft AugutL \ r c[~
ids which may attempt to enter othsr 5
ports, without special permitfion, as here-*
after mentioned, will be liable to leizure
and confifcation.
It is expected that permidion will be
granted to veflels which fliall have male
report at one of the ports of entry before
UKntioned,to proceed tor purpofcs ofcom
merce, to any other ports Within dis
trict aforefaid. When the conlcm of the
gov ernment of St. Domingo can be obtain
ed for this purpose, the American veffds
will be furnidled with certificates or pass.
ports exprelfing such permidion, which
will be signed by the consul general of the
United States, ortne coninl relkiing at the
port of entry ; the certificates of paflpom
aforelaid, are to be exhibited to the collec
tors of the customs, on the arrival ofanv
veflel in the United States, except from
one of the ports of entry above mentioned.
Vefiels which may proceed from one of
the ports ot entry to any of the out ports
within the diftrift above mentioned, with
out passports expressing the permidion of
the government of Sr w j[j
Afnerican veflels which may
goes in the idand of St. Domingo, are tSJ
proceed therewith directly to tome port
in the United States ; if such veffds (hall
be detained or captured, while proceeding
on a voyage elsewhere, they will not be
intitled to claim the interposition of the
American government in their favor.
The niaders and owners of American
veflels are to be cautioned, as they would
avoid the rifque offeizure in St. Domingo,
not to permit any Frenchmen to embark
on board their veflels for any part of the
said ifl.md, without special passports from
the secretary of date.
No persons except citizens of the Uni
ted States, are to be brought from the idand
of St. Domingo, unless they produce the
written passports of the general in chief of
the army of St. Domingo, authording their
departure, and alio separate passports from
the consul general of the United States.
(Signed)
OLIVER WOLCOTT.
——Mjjt
The SUBSCRIBER,
Respectfully informs the citi
zens of Augusta, that he has just
commenced the HOUSE CARPENTER.
and JOINERS BUSINESS in this place,
and hopes to diare their favors equal to
that of his exertions and merit in givii
general fatis.adion.—At the fame° time
thinking I may have enemies of whof'e ill
intent I am as yet unaware, but I flatter
myfelf with the pleating hope, though a
stranger to many, that none will too bafli
ly give credit to the fade affertiuns of any
base columniator.
OBADIAH CRAWFORD.
July 24. ts. 2 .
Private Board
ing at Mr. Hutchinson’s, Corner of
Washington & Ellis-Streets.
July 24. ts. 2.
FOR SALE,
TWO PAIR MAHOGANY
Dining Tables.
Apply at this Office.
July 24. ts. 2.
WAN T E D,
AN active Boy about fourteen or fif
teen years of age, as an Apprentice
to the Carpenter and Joiner’s trade—None
need apply but such as can come well re
commended, and is willing to be bound
till of age.
SAMUEL DUNHAM.
July 24. ts. 2,
Wanted to Hire.
A SMART negro boy about seven
teen years of age. Apply at thu
office.
July 24, 1799.
• *** THE Oration delivered on
the 4th July by IVilliam J. Hobby,
is now in the Press, and will be rea
dy for the fubferibers on Monday
next.
July 24.
WANTED,
A Boy of about 13 or 14 years of age,
who has received a liberal education
and can come well recommended, as Ap
prentice to the Printing-Business.—Apply
at this office.
July 17.