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b ,* n> T near the feat of the war between
fouir.int and Rigaud—the camp
S n ihe formf >* Leogaue, having an ar
•of 12.00 0 men, which is to befollow
"?bv another body of men as numerous,
f ' Port-au-Prince, which gives him
I! ojns to fcnJ ftron S P arties to form a
!^ on a nd surround Jacmel, which place
I Think, is at this time in the power of
Touflkint, according to the reports whidh
were in circulation ' yesterday. General
Cuvier is very much grieved at this, and
v in fear of losing his life every moment—
Jg persists in keeping neutrality, and all
his officers of color around him are in fa
vor of Rigaud, again ft their chief general
Touflaint. Therefore, it seems that a cruel
war is going to be carried on against the
people of color' —and the army of the iftrth
nd weft are numerous enough to pursue
them to the very end of the island. Thus
vou fee, my dear friend, that this coromo
iion will ccft many more lives—blot has
already began to flow, and all the environs
of Jacmel have again been destroyed by
fire from which place I have received my
letters, and they all agree with the verbal
accounts from that quarter.' It is further
said that the inhabitants of Aux-Cayes,
fearful of the return of their despaired gen
eral, are leaving the place, although at pre
sent in a tranquil Hate.”
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PHILADELPHIA, August 16.
We recently detailed to the public, the
particulars of the recapture of the ship
Harmony, captain Snell, from London to
this port, by Mr. Nelson, the male, the
cook, steward and paflengers, in which
Mrs. Collet and her After bore a part con
spicuous with firmnefs and humanity. We
now learn, that on a trial for salvage, be
fore judge Peters, which terminated last
week, the court decreed to each of the la
dies 2000 dollars, to the cook 3000, to the
steward 3500, to one of the men paflengers
6500, and to the brave Nelson 8090. —
We learn, however, that an appeal has.been
made to an higher court for a reduTien of
the salvage.
The following is one of the numerous
instances that might be given of.the urn
juftifiable countenance and fupgort which
the French piratical cruisers experience in
Spanish ports—ln ordinary matters, the
receiver of stolen goods k is considered. as
culpable as the thief; and surely, in na
tional concerns, he who “ aids, comforts
and abets” an enemy, in lawlessly annoy
ing one property, deserves t;o share, with
that enemy, our execration and resent
ment. /
Exrraty t Morris, qj the ,
brig Franklin, to Ms 'trtmer, dated Campea
chy, 1799. Pi
“ Dear Sir,
“ The present will inform 'you that I
failed from Vera Cruz the 14th ult. bound
to your port; and on the 16th, about 15
leagues from the land, was captured by the
privateers Buonaparte and La Moche, two
veflels armed and fitted out of this place,
about one month ago, failing under, French
colors. They took pofleffion and convey
ed me and the brig Nancy, of Baltimore,
(also from Vera Cruz) to this port, where
we arrived the 3d inst. The crew, at the
request of the captors and their agents,
were put into confinement immediately as
prifonersof war ; myfelf and the other of
ficers were permitted the liberty of the
town, which we still enjoy. The Nancy
with a cargo of 140,000 dollars amount,
regularly cleared, her cargo was difeharg
ed the third day after her arrival here, and
the property will be fold in a few days
without giving any notice thereof to the
supercargo, or any kind of security.
From this conduift I have not the leaf!
doubt but the Franklin will share the fame
fete.
“ Myfelf and papers will be examined
to-morrow, a lift of them you will find
annexed. A war with France and the U
nited States, is strongly talked of here, and
as readily believed; to confirm it the
French have lately got one or two veflels
here as prizes, with commiflions; tbefe
documents serve as a cover for the go
vernment to permit them to bring in all
veflels that they please to fay are trading or
their papers are not according to the laws
°f France. By this means they readily ob
tain an order for felling the property, and
°y depositing the money in the public of
fice, look for a condemnation when they
please—You kno'w that they ardeafy to be
obtained in any of the French Islands
Fhe captain and agent aflured me, that
they did not suppose that they should be
|°‘ e to obtain a condemnation for the
ranklin these 4 or’s months, as Guada
lupe was the place he intended to fend
to, provided they met with any difficulty
f Hispaniola : under these circuit; fiances,
there is little to hope, for any veflel that is
brought in here; in the next place, it is
tmpoffible for me to follow the papers to
defend the cause, as I know not when or
vv ‘ lCre they will be carried to.”.
August 20:
~ [ ls ft itb great fatisfaflion, we are ena
c;-d to state, that the reports of to-day
refpe&ingthe sickness in this city are high
ly favorable.
In the twenty-four hours ending this
day at 10 o’clock, there were fix inter
ments in the city hospital buryal ground,
two of these were from the hospital. No
return from the other burial grounds of
the city, is at present made to to the board
of health ;we presume, however, that the
mortality of the city has experienced no
very alarming increale.
In New-York a very serious alarm pre
vails. Sanguine hopes are there conceiv
ed of their being able to conquer the dis
ease; in which expectation we fervently
hope they may succeed.
ExtrnH of a letter from the supercargo of the
brig Ruth and Mary, to his ozutter hi this
city, elated Havannah, August 4 tk, ’99.
“ I failed from the capes of Delaware
the 24th June, and nothing occurred of
notice until the 12th July, when we were
boarded by armed English brig of twenty
guns, treated politely and difmifled with
out detention. On the 22d off the Baha
mas, a privateer belonging to New-Provi
dence, boarded us, and took out of the
brig five men whom they kept on board
the privateer for fourteen hours, exhorting
them at the fame time, by an offering of
150 dollars each, to declare the property
on board the brig, contraband; but noth
ing they could bring forward/ or urge* in
fluenced the men to swerve from their du
ty ; at length finding them invulnerable
to their a<fts of villainy, they difmifled us,
with seeming reladance. Several veflels
that failed about or before us from Phila
delphia have not yet arrived. '
BALTIMORE, August 19.
COMMUNICATION.
On Saturday was launched from her
ways, at the yard of Mr. Price, Fell’s Point,
an elegantly modelled Cutter , for the ser
vice of the United States. She is pierced
for 14 guns, and*equals Or exceeds the o
ther beautifully conftru£ted veflels, with
which Mr. Price has recently graced the
bosom of the old ocean.
We have the pleasure to learn, (fays a
Providence paper,) that the sick which,
were landed from the frigate General
Greene, on Coasters Harbor island, are all
recovered, and on board again. The ship
is refitting and will soon fail on a"cruize.
August it.
[0 F F I C 1 A L.\
Extraft of a letter from an American , reji
tknt at Surrinam , dated July it, 1799,
received in Philadelphia , August 17.
“ I thick it ought to be publicly
known, that this market is glutted to such
a degree with almost every artiffe of lire,
that cargoes are felling at great loss; fay
from 30 to 50 per cent; and produce very
high; coffee at 9 1-2 to 10 ftivers ; cotton
17 to 18; and scarcely any to be found e
ven at those prices* 'So that to the mer
chant, it is undoubtedly better that his pro
perty should bp taken, than that it should
come into this port.”
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PETERSBURG, August 27.
FIRE!
On Saturday morning last, about half
after one o’clock, a fire broke out in Ro
bert Boiling’s tobacco warehouse at the
upper end of Old-street, which, by the
time the citizens had aflembled at the place,
was 'too much enveloped in flames to ad
mit of extinilion—Their attention, there
fore, was immediately turned [towards lav
ing the tobacco, and we are happy to learn,
that out of abouttwelye hundredhogfheads
th t public loss is not more than two hun
dred and eighty. The supposition is, that
some base mortal designedly set fire to this
house. f, '
The copduft of the black people upon
this occalion, deserves the highest praile.
As if prompted by the influence of felf
intereft, they, were seen to strain every
nerve for the fake of their mafiers. Quere.
Will not a fubfeription beraifed to reward
and encourage such of these men as par
ticularly distinguished themselves ?
SAVANNAH, August. 30.
The following intelligence is received from a
ftbfcriber, at St. Mary's, dated Au
*799*
“ On the morning of the 21st inst. three
veflels came over the bar of St. Mary’s,
and anchored at nearly an equal distance
between Cumberland and Amelia Islands.;
they prove to be two privateers from Pro
vidence and a prize flbbp, one of the pri
vateers is a schooner mounting ten guns
and between 6oand 7omen, chiefly blacks,
commanded by an Italian named Tidier.
The other is a kind of a Calley, with one
large lateen fail, mounting one 12 poun
der and about 40 men, commander is na
med M‘Gee: They have the well known
Providence privateerffnan Tom Johnston,
on board, as their spy and pilot.
These veflels on comming in, hoisted
on board the Galley, a French national
flag, with the American flag over it, as if
a prize to the schooner, who had Ameri
can colors at her main-top-mafthead,—-
These intended deceptions had the desired
efFeft, for the Spanish commandant on A
meiia, Captain Martenius, and the Cap
tain of the Spanish Galley, then laying in
view, imprudently went in their boat
along fide ofthe privateers (supposing them
friends) and were detained pjrifoneis. A
few hours after this, the crews pf the pri
vateers went in boats and took pofleffion
oftheSpanifhGalley, mountinga 24poun
der and several swivels, without a gun be
ing fired, as there was but eight men on
board the Galley, and these ignorant of
what had taken place. The Spanish post
on the island fell of course, not having
more then ten men, and not a single piece
of artillery at the place.
The next day, the commander of the
privateers fuffered the whole of the Spa
nish prisoners to depart for St. Augustine.
The British flag is now flying on Amelia,
and I am told that these worthy descen
dants and followers of Kid and Blackboard
intended to establish a rendezvous there.
The whole of this tranfa&ion is consi
dered by most people here, as a vary wan- !
ton piece of business, and highly injurous
to this country, as it wiil be the means of
breaking up the present settlements on A
melia, and as far as St. John’s, and remo
ving settlers the most favourable to Ame
rica. 4;'. -
The principal objeft of these privateers,
was to have fallen in with the fliips from
France, that were obliged to go from New-
York with their cargoes, two of which had
arrived at Amelia, and re-fhiped their car
goes on board American veflels, and had
failed for New-York. I find they would
have taken the American veflels, had they
fallen in with them. Another of these
ships that put into Charleston, was expec
ted. Thele circumstances were known
to the beforementioned Johnston, who ar
rived here in a sloop from Providence a
bout a month past, under colour of taking
a load of cattle from St. Simons. —He re
turned to Providence, and brought these
plunderers; but finding the velfels gone
from Amelia, one of tne privateers procee
ded to Charleston bar, and fefit her boat
with Johnston to town, where he found
that the (hip had failed two days before
for Amelia; on this she pushed back to
where they now are. The ship does not
appear, and from the time she has been
out, it is believed she is taken, as the Lark
British sloop of war was cruising for her—
These privateers took a Danish Schooner
that was lately at Savannah, called the
Little Tartar, loaded with coffee, bound to
Florida, and sent her for Providence —
TV pi\tc sloop is from St. Augustine
bouna to Savarmahj Siffbn matter.
How long these privateers will be al
lowed to remain at Amelia, or what will
he their future movements, is uncertain
with us here—as it is the general wish of
inhabitants to know nothing* of them,
whilst we remain ifndifturbed by them.
Pray Messrs. Printers, will you be so
good as to inform the citizens of the , sou
thern counties, what is become of ourße
venue Cutter and two Galley’s: we think
they must have gone on some foreign ex
pedition, as we have not seen or heard of
them for several week s,” *.
H E R A L D.
A U G U~S T A,
WEDNESDAY, September 4, 1799.
UNITED STATES’ NAVY.
VcJJels in, Service.
FRI G ATES.
Guns.
, United States 44.“ Commodore Barry
Constitution 44 Captain Ta^ot
Insurgent 40 Murray
Confteliation 36 v
Boston 3a - Little
m J -V " V
SHIP 9
Portfmduth 24 M‘Niel
Ganges 24 Tingey
G. Washington 24 Fletcher
Merrimack 24 Brown
Delaware 20 ——Baker
Montezuma 20 Malony
Baltimore 20 ■■ Speak
Herald 18 “Sever
BRIGS.
Pinckney f 18 ——Heywood
Norfolk 18 Williams
Richmond 18 -Barron
Eagle 14 Campbell
Pickering 14 Chapman
SCHOONERS.
Governor Jay 14 Leonard
Virginia 14 "Bright
General Greene 10 - Price
Diligence
Scammel Adams'
South-Carolinia Paine
COTTERS.
Eight
Vejfels Building.
FRIGATES. <
Guns.
44 at N. York by the pub
44 do. by the citiz.
44 at Philadelphia do.
. 44 atNorfolk by the pub
$6 Pottfmomh(\ T ri) J>.
32 Salem Tiy the citu-.
John Adams 32 Charleftnndo. nearly
ready for sea.
SHIPS.
General Greene 24 R. Island by the pub.
capt. Perry
Conhefticut 24 Middletown, 'ditto,
Try on
Adams 3$ N. York, do. Morris
Maryland 26 Baltimore, bv the
■ If citizens, Rogers
Chesapeake 24 do do.
Messrs. Randolph & Bunce,
An awful warning is held out
to corre& the firft appearances of paflion,
a very refpetfable woman fell a viftim last
Thursday ! The tremendous effe&s of her
hulbands r3ge the preceding Friday !
A particular statement of the evidence
which appeared on the Coroners lnqueft,
might injure the offender on his future
trial, and is therefore withheld for the
present. Mentor.
DiedJ on ThUrfday last, in her s4th
- year, after a few days severe illness, which
(he bore with great patience, and chriftian
resignation, Mrs. Otarity Lee y wife of WiU
liam Lee, Esq. of this county.
She had been the widow, the wife, and
the mother of a number of children, w hdtn
flie had raised with the most tender circum
fpe&ion—hurtheried with the care of in
fants, separated from the helping hand of
a father and a husband by a cruel file
had to meet the horrors and vdcHTitudes of
the late revolution and her steady and
virtuous mind enabled her to stem the ror-\
rent of these difficulties, with reputation to
herfelf and credit to her family and friends,
whom she hasnow left, with an hulband,
to mourn the irreparable loss of a truly af
fectionate and valuable mother and help
mate. She was in truth the friend to alb
By her neighbors, she will be long remem
bered—to them she was indeed a sister—a
mother. Her amiable difpofmon and ex
emplary deportment through so long a
course ofyears, could not fail to infare her
the esteem and confidence of her numer
ous friends and acquaintances; and her
loss justly inspires a fympatfiifwg tear of
sorrow.
On Saturday night last, Mr.
Henry May, Merchant, aged 36 yea Hi.
BOAD_TAX.
THE Subfcribcr wifi attend at his house
nexrMoNDAY, Tuesday and Wed
nesday, for the purpose of receiving the
Rolad Tajc, agreeable to an Ordinance
parted by the City Council, on the firft of
last month.
T. Sandwich, City Colkhor.
September 4. •
for sale,
a NEAT-New-York made
RIDING CHAIR,
With or without Plated Hamefs.
By Benj . & Wm.H. Burroughs.
- September 4. (ts. 8.)
Henry Darnell,
TAYLOR ts HABIT-MAKER,
NEXT DOOR ABOVE ME. CARRIES,
.BROAD-STREET.
Respectfully informs the public,
that he has commenced the above
business in all its various branches. He
flatters himfelf from his experience and at
tention to business, to merit the patronage
of the public : Such gentlemen as may
favor him with their work, may depend
on its being executed with neatness and
dispatch, and on the most reasonable terms.
Sept. 4. (ts. 8.)
WILL BE SOLD,
At tht Hmfe of WidowTec, on the \\th in
fant, at ten o'clock in the forenoon,
ALL the personal Property o£
Michael Fee, deceased.—Likewise will be
rented, the Gin Houfe,’Cotton Engine
and Lot in Springfield, at present occupied
by John Fee, for the term of oneyear, from
the 15th Oftober next, porteflion may be
had sooner than then.
• All the creditors of Michael Fee, de
ceased, are requested to hand in their re
fpeftive accounts attested, to
George Fee, Adminifrator.
Elizabeth Fee, Admir.illratrix.
BROUGHT TO JAIL,
ABOUT the twenty-third of last
month, a NEGRO WENC H, nam
ed Nanny, she is of a small stature, about
forty-five years of age, speaks broken eng
lifh, and fays she belongs to Seth Thomp
fom of WHkes County—The owner is de
sired to come and prove his property , p*y
charges and take her away.
JAMES FOX, Sheriff, *. c.
September 4. (8 ts.) I
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