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■ atf; ‘j verV accidental diicoverv, which
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I 111 w " August 5.
K a London paper of June 10, fays:—
I , (our iaft letters from the Hague Hate,
E L , rhpre are not at this time 2000 French
B throughout the whole United Pro
i] vl Q en Macdonald having promised a re-
H 0 f 4 000 ducats at Naples for the
I 0 f Cardinal Rufiy ; the latter has of-
I a ‘ rev vard of 16,000 ducats for Mac
[ Donald's head.
PHILADELPHIA, August 1.
I a letter from Kingston, dated the Bth
I instant, received by the Montezuma, fays—
“ Accounts are just received from Je-
I rernie, informing, that a defpejate battle
had been fought between the armies of
Touiffant and Rigaud, in which Rigaud
tv'-s defeated with great llaughter, and him
le!f wounded.”
Other accounts from Hispaniola state,
that Ri°aud occupied Genaives and Petit
Trau. At the latter place, all the whites
are fait! to have been massacred.
Tcuiffand's party, (the negroes) are de
nominated “ Aiiftocrats that of Rigaud,
(the mulattoes) “ Republicans." The lat
ter have exercised the mod unheard of cru
elties upon such of their enemies as have
fallen into their hands.
August 6.
A letter receiyed by the schooner Lis
bon, arrived at the fort in 36 days from
Lilbon, mention that 3 Spanish 74’s have
been taken by the British and carried into
Gibraltar.
Letters from London, received in this
city by the Chesapeake, mention the total
overthrow of the French armies.
A letter is received in town of the 17th
of June, from Lilbon, brought by the
fcfiooper Lilbon, capt. Cox, which states;
“ That the French fleet were still in Tou
lon, blockaded by lord St. Vincent with
22 fail of the line—that the Spanish fleet
had put into Carthagena, in a most deplo
rable situation, said to have been from their
express determination not to join the
French fleet.” No mention was made of
3 tail or" Uks t'iiie iVf«>rted to have been sent
into Gibraltar bv the Englilh. Accounts
had also been received at Lilbon of the res
toration of the king of Naples to his king
dom, and of the total deftrudlion of the
French armies in Italy.
BALTIMORE, August 8.
We yesterday publilhed, as we received
the accounts of the disasters of the French
armies; but on reflection, are of opinion
that they are fabrications. Those advices
were two days later from London, and
from Turin to the 24th May, at which
timeMoreau’s head quarters were at Couir.
On the 13th May (2 days after the date of
Suwarrow’s forged letter) an affair of posts
only took place in the neighborhood of
Aleffandria, between which time and the
29th April no general atiion had taken
place, nor indeed, even up to the 24th of
May. We did our duty in expeditiously
detailing the intelligence as it came to hand,
but we think it likewise necessary to lay
before such of our readers as do not take
time to make their own observations, the
ground on which it rests.
HER A L D.
AUGUSTA,
WEDNESDAY, August 2 i,* 1799.
FOREIGN OCCURRENCES.
IN Italy and Switzerland fortune
seems to smile, and uninterrupted fuccels
to attend upon, the Ruffian and Austrian
forces—Religion, moral propriety and
public order, are regaining those antient
possessions from which the revolutionizing
exertions of unprincipled despots had ex
peled them. Frorq the account given by
the French general in Switzerland, to his
government, we find he is advancing back
wards with lingular rapidity, and Ihould
he be enabled, as we have no doubt he will,
to continue his retrograde progression, he
may hereafter have it in his power to force
his way within the acknowledged limits of
the French Nation; and on the principle
of military or political sociability, tis not
improbable that he may be escorted, or
attended to the neighborhood of the Di
dire&ory by the combined armies. The
Many Headed Monster will in ail likelihood
in the courfeofthe present year;experience
some of the blessings resulting from that
system of war and disorder for which it has
manifefted such a uniform predilection.—
News intereftingand important may fhort
!y be expeCted from the Mediterranean—
The objeCts of the French and Spanish
armaments whicKentered that sea, has been
Iruftrated by a divifiort of the squadrons,
and tis not improbable that previous to
their re-union they may change their com
manders. The conduCt of the American
government is a fubjeCt of aftonifiiment to
the Directory of France—defeated in their
places—fruftrated in their intrigues, their
insidious policy rendered ineffectual by the
wisdom of the American Executive, and
their designs overthrown by the union of
our citizens, they begin to alter their tone,
and to think of treating with refpeCt those
whom no villainy could corrupt, and no
threats intimidate. Merlin is now Presi
dent of the Directory in place of Barras—
The new President is the medeft man who
did not desire any part of the docieur de
manded of the American ministers, be
cause he was provided for out of the pri
zes taken from American merchants.
DOMESTIC AFFAIRS.
The 17th of July, the anniversary of the
diff)lution of the treaties between the United
States & Fi ance, has been celebrated in Bos
ton, Hartford and several other places with
ipiendid dignity; from this era may be tru
ly dated the real Independence of our
country: previously thereto, the unfuf
peCfing virtue of our citizens, and their ill
direCfed gratitude, gave an extendve op
portunity for the injurious exercise of
French influence. The duties paid to our
government on the cargo of the (hip Nep
tune lately arrived froui China, amount to
feventy-five thousand dollars.—A marble
monument has been ereCted at Lexington,
in commemoration of those who firft fell
in the cause of the American Revolution;
this does not appear like a decay of the
fpirie which eflablifned our national sove
reignty. The Aurora, the Argus , and the
Connecticut “ Bee ” are found to be vehicles
of pretty accurate information, but the
mode of getting at the information to be
relied on, contained in these papers, is ge
nerally, to reverse in toto, the statements
they make, and then with a reafonabie
allowance for exaggerations, their accounts
will stand tolerably correCL The Editors
of these papers are ufuaily as independent
of truth as propriety in their statements,
and the ardour with which they advocate
French principles and French policy, is
only to be equalled by their infamous vi
rulence against the government of their
own country. —Joseph Perkins a private
soldier having been convidte'd of desertion
in the state of New-York, and the part for
bearance of the government having failed
to produce the beneficial effedls wiflied for,
and this difgraceful offence continuing to
be repeated, the- exercise of legal severity
became absolutely necessary, and the cri
minal was executed with awful folemnitv
at Fort Jay, on the 24th ultimo.—We
have from various parts of the continent
the pleasing accounts of general health and
plentiful crops.
Commodore Truxton, it is Paid, has re
signed his command in the navy of the
United States. • [ Gaz. U. S ,
By Yesterday’s Northern Mail.
NEW-YORK, August 3.
On Saturday afternoon arrived the fliip
Boyne, captain Reed, 47 days from Lon
don, via Portsmouth. By this veffd
London papers are received to the 10th
of June, inciufive, which are three days
later than any European information
heretofore had from tnat quarter.
LONDON, June 9.
The Hamburg rmi! of the 31st arrived
in town iaft night by express, and has bro’t
the important intelligence of the TOTAL
DEFEAT cf the FRENCH ARMIES
in Italy, the junction of the Imperial ar
mies in Switzerland, See.
After a battle which Lftcil 14 hours,
%
Moreau, severely wounded, with three of
his generals, and 6000 men have been made
prifnners by the Ruffians, who left Scoo
of the enemy dead on the field of battle.
A letter from Milan, of the 15th, states,
this aftion to have decided the fate of Ita
ly. The Ruffians on the 14th took Va
lenza, by afl'ault.-—Alleffandria, as well as
Turin, is now in poflellion ; and the Pied
montefe peasants have occupied mount
Cenis, and thereby cut off the remnant of
Moreau’s army from France.
DEFEAT of MACDONALD’S ARMY.
A letter from Berlin, of the 28th ult.
states, that a messenger had that day arriv
ed from Italv, with advice that the corps
of general Macdonald, which had advan
ced through Tuscany, for the purpose of
joining the army of Moreau, had been at
tacked by the Auftro Ruffian army, near
Lucca, and totally defeated ; and their
commander made prisoner.
From the Hamburg Mail.
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Milan, May 14.
The following letter of field marshal Su
warrow has been publiflied here :
“ On the 13th instant, at 5 o’clock in
the morning, the French were attacked by
the Imperial and Ruffian army, in their
strong position between Turin and Coni.
The battle was one of the bloodied, and
lasted till night. It will beone of the mofl
remarkable in hiftory, and terminated at
last in our favor. The French have left
8000 men fiain on the field : 6000 prison
ers are already in our power. YY r e had
3000 men killed or wounded. The French
have loft almost all their artillery; 150
pieces of cannon, and 200 ammunition
waggons are already in our poflellion : four
of the enemy’s generals are taken prison
ers, among whom is the commander in
chief, Moreau.”
LETTER EXTRAORDINARY.
To the French Directory, on their lajl
overthrow in Italy.
13th Prairial.
“ Citizens Hire Hers !
I write this from the field of
{laughter !—The dejlinies have dealt some
stubborn blows on all around ! If the ene
my have not been made to bite the dull,
the fault is none of mine ! —YVe have had
more than common powers to contend
with !—The treachery of Britain has found
means to combine some o lour own ele
ments against us !—The /now, at the foot
of the Alps, though frozen fifteen feet in
folidtty, at my command, basely yielded
to the pickaxes of the Rufjian pioneers : and
;he and the Po , halted in their course,
to give the enemy fafe paftage ! —I denounce
these wayward elements , as no longer obe
dient to the will of the Great Nation!
Health and fraternity !
(Signed) «MOREAU.”
CITY COUNCIL,
Augusta, 14//; August, 1799.
On Motion , Rejolved ,
THAT the Council will on the firft
Thursday in September next, pro
ceed to the appointment of a City Marshal,
with a salary of two hundred dollars per
annum. Candidates for this appointment
are requested to leave their applications in
writing, in the mean time with the Clerk.
ExtraH from the Minutes ,
Joseph Hutchinson, Clerk.
N~O TIC E! ‘
TWENTY POUNDS PENALTY.
IMMEDIATELY after the expiration
JL five days from the date hereof, the
law will be put in execution against all
persons without refpeft, who let houses to
Negroes in Augusta, or to Whites for the
use or occupation of Negroes. A. B.
August 21.
TO BE LET,
TO PICK OUT.
ONE or two hundred acres of Cotton,
which isjuft now Uegining to open,
it is to let both upon (hares,and upon hire
by the hundred weight, and a liberal fliare
or hire will be given by the subscriber,
who will furnilli negroe houses for any ne
groes so impioyed, and feperate houses for
every undertaker who picks upon {hares,
to ftcre his cotton until he is done picking
out, and he will divide his fields into such
proportions as may suit any number o!
hands. The subscriber observes that con
sidering the cotton when picked out is at
the market place to fell it, he thinks hands
not immediately or otherwise advantage
ously employed may be so on this btifinefs,
he wiilalfo engage toginn the cotton when
divided, that belongs to the picker-out for
less than he ever has or will ginn any oth
er cotton ; he will furnifh plank at every
different cotton house for drying as it is
picked out. —For further particulars ap
ply to
John Hammond.
August 2r. (651.)
Benjamin & Wm. H. Burroughs^
In Addition to their former Ajfortment ,
HAVE RECEIVED A SUPPLY OF
Seasonable GOODS:
Now and for Sale low for cask,
at their Store upper end of%Bp.oAD-
Street, second doore above Thomas
Cumming, Esquire.
CHINTZ and Callicoes,
Dimitys and Muflinetts,
Ginghams, Humhums,
Linens and Cambricks,
Needlework’d Muflius,
Strip’d and Crofsbard ditto,
Book and Jaconett Muslins, and Hkfj.
Shawls, Pocket Handkerchiefs and
Cravatts,
Laces and Edgings, aflbrted,
Ribbons, Sattin and Chinea,
White and colored Kid Gloves*
Mens Bever ditto,
White and black Silk ditto,
Mens Silk and Cotton Hose,
Womens ditto, ditto,
'Silk and Plain Nankeens,
Colored Sarcenets,
Black and White Luftring and Sattin**
Black Moad,
Durants and Taboreens,
Bird eye Stuff, See.
Brown Holland and Oznaburgs,
Silks, Threads and Tapes,
Superfine black, white and colored
Cafli meres,
Ditto, blue, black and mix’d Cloths,
Womens Shoes,
Pattent Buckles,
Fancy Ear Drops and Bobs,
Sword Canes, Pomatum,
Hair Powder and Starch,
Gunpowder,
Hyfon and Souchong Tea,
Brown Sugars,
Coffee, Chocolate, Allspice,
Pepper, Ginger, &c. £sV.
A L S O,
AN ASSORTMENT OF
D r GOODS,
Suitablefor the approaching Season, which
will be fold at reduced prices for cash.
August 21. (ts. 6 )
Harris, Maher & Co.
HAVE RECEIVED,
From Liverpool , Philadelphia and New- York*
THE FOLLOWING
GOODS}"
— nz. —
ELEGANT Plated Harness Furniture,
fafhionable,
Ditto, Brass ditto, ditto, ditto.
Twelve dozen Windsor Chairs, plain and
falhionable,
Cordage, tar’d and white,
Paints and Oil,
Lampblack, in lb. papers,
Tea, Bohea and Souchong,
Coffee, Molasses,
Sugar, refined, Jamaica and Havannah,
Wine, Port and Sherry, excellent,
Brandy, Bourdeaux and Northern,
Rum, Jamaica and New-England,
Holland Geneva, and Marooning Cafe3,
Empty Bottles and best Corks, tstc. &c.
—A L S O,—
A COMPLETE ASSORTMENT OF
SADDLE R'T\
And one pair large, Elegant Parlour
LOOKING GLASSES.
Auguff 21. (6 2t.)
Patrick Gallagher,
TAYLOR VLADIES HABIT-MAKER,
MO3T refpe&fully inform the public
that he has commenced Bufinefsat
the louse next door to Mr. Carrie’s on
broad-street, where he intends carrying
on the fame, in its various branches. He
flatters himfelf from his long experience of
the above business, in the cities of Dublin
and Philadelphia, to merit the patronage of
a generous public. Such gentlemen a3
may favor him with their commands, may
rely on their execution with neatness and
dispatch.
August Bi. (ts. 6)
Ten Dollars Reward.
[ , m ]P) ANAWAY from the
; iw Jk'\. Subscriber in July last,
a NEGRO MAN named
bob, about fix feet high, 34
years of age, country born,
well known inand about Au*
• ilAflnriav gufta, has been accustomed
to go the river as a boat hand. The above
Reward will be paid to any person who
will deliver him to the fubferiber, or fe
cufe him in jail fe that he may be had,
and ail rejffonable charges paid.
. Hezekiah Jones.
Columbia County , August at. (3 l *6)