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i • 1 4- 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.” 1 * 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.” 'riPr; ¥ 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 * 4