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flows one broad, gutter.-! p T.riplc. of vrhick • tle others seem to lie hut •> so many rorol- i lattes and c.rplar.-.-tions. Fi tre is not one ol j tl’uso branches. v>Y It rut! .rises the st tznrc I of vessel’- be ted fit” of to ri.c Engll- h Isles ; nor docs the 1..1 Ji i-fimsterof mati;;e, 3a his letter to Geirf ml krnv ‘ mg, caitntenanec in the slightest degree, this uv.w-1 inference ftoin the usual definition of the right ci’ block ade. Here then is the ambiguity. In. the first article is employed r tern-, v.-filch, according to the established interpre t ion of language r.nd to Talleyrand’s ova report, would justify the most exorbitant encroach.! tents upon our trade. But the other at licit s, which are seemingly put forth as only inferences Irons the first, do not in the slightest degree coun tenance these encroachments. Why this am biguity ? Was itto prompt the French cruisers to make depredations upon all vessels trad ing with England—and then the government was either to confirm or disavow them, ac cording as circumstances which should af terwards arise, v ould make the one or the other course most politic—We i me not so ex alted an opinon of the cabinets of Europe, as ■wholly to acquit the French government of such a design. As to Deeres’ letter to Con. Armstrong, it would have given us much more satisfac tion, had lie not referred the ultimate deci sion of our doubts to Mon. Talleyrand, and thus hung up the question, for some other construction to be given, as the convenience of Hie French government might choose todictate. COLONEL BURR. f v , .Natchez, February 10. On Monday 2d inst. an adjourned session of flt< Supreme Court of the Mississippi Territo ry was held in the tow nos Washington, to j which Aaron Burr was recognized'to appear k j answer such Bill of Indictment as might then i and there he exhibited against him. Colonel j Burr appeared on the day mentioned in bis j recognizance, attended by his counsel. U iiliam ! B. Shields and Lyman Harding, Esq’s. Agree ably to a venire facta* issued by Hon. Thomas Kodncy.and Peter 11. Bruin, a jury oi seventy two ft ee-hoidet s appeared in court, and on the day following twenty-three of their number were selected by the Court as a C rand Inquest. The- Hon. Thomas Rodney then delivered to them a comprehensive ami impressive charge, ?.ud the Court was adjourned till ten o’clock the succeeding day—at which time Mr. Poin dexter, the attorney-general, moved the court to discharge the Cl rand Jury. He stated, that ab.c.r examining the depositions submitted, he did not discover any testimony which, brought the offence;; charged against col. Burr, within the jurisdiction of the Courts of the Mississip pi territory; that tire Supreme Court of the M ississippi Territory was not a court of ori ginal jurisdiction, either criminal or civil, and could take cognizance only of points reserved at the trial in the respective Circuit Courts, w.iere all criminal prosecutions must originate, according to the statutes of the Territory. He further observed, that in order to secure the public salety, the Territorial Judges ought im mediately’ to Convey the accused to a tribunal competent to try and punish him (if guilty of the charges ailedged against him) which they might legally do, and thereby ef fectually prevent the contemplated military ex pedition against Mexico, and maintain inviolate the laws and constitutions of the United States. He therefore hoped, that inasmuch as the at torney prosecuting for the United States had no bills for the consideration of the grand jury, that they would be discharged. Col. Burr made several observations against the rnoti ,>. and remarked, that if the Attorney- Genera! had no business for the grand jury, hr had, and that therefore they ought not to be r!t .missed. On this motion the Court was divided. Judge Bruin declared himself oppo sed to discharging the Grand Jury, unless Col. Bu r was also instantly discharged from his* recognizance. i he Attorney General then withdrew and the grand jury were directed to retire to their Toom, who in the course of the day returned with sundry presentments, w hich are given at large in this day’s .Messenger. We deem it unnecessary to remark that the ;c presentments were not founded on any bill exhibited to the grand jury, and that being negative, they met no farther attention than a mere perusal. On Wednesday evening, the grand jury were discharge t, and col. Burr demanded a re- I lease from 1 is recognizance—this the court re fused. He did not appear in court on Thurs day morning, as was expected, and in a day or two. it was reduced to a certainty, that he had made his escape. [(On which governor A iliiams issued a pro olamarion, offering a reward of two thousand dollars for him, and lie was apprehended by major Pei kins, and lieut. Gaines, commanding at Fort Stoddcrt, Tombigbee.” We understand that his excellence govern or W iliiams, intended to seize on the person of col. Burr, the moment he was discharged by the j udicial authority. Jl a supreme ee-tr*, held far the Mkdsdppi Ter ritoru, at Hi Town of Washington, on ‘X ues d'ithe 3d of February ISO 7. 1 he grand jury of the Mississippi Territo ry. on a one investigation of- the evidence b •fore them, arc of that Aaron Be it has not been -realty of any crime or mit ? gainst tir laws of the'United States <bc*r ‘ aril’ y* or gh'cn any jus occa smo ; vr aJ a r:n or >• gtii- tude to th’ good pco- J- of this Territory. The grand jury present as a gricvrrtcc, the i lute military expedition, unnecessarily as they | conceive, fitted cut against the person and pro- I petty of said Aaron Burr, where nu resistance had been made to the oidinury civil authority. The grand jury also present :r highly dero gatory to tite dignity of tins gov ernment, the ar il -slice (so railed) concluded between the se cretary. acting as governor, and the said Aaron Bair. 1 ire grand jury also present as a grievance, and; ;ructive of personal liberty, the late milita ry arrests, made without warrant, and as they conceive, without oil.or lawful authority ; and titer do seriously regret that so much cause should be given to the enemies of our glorious constitution, to rejoice i:t such measures being adopted in a neighbouring Territory, as, if sanctioned by the executive of our country, must sap the vitals of our political existence, and crumble the glorious fabric, in the dust. Philander Smith, Foreman. Extract of a letter from o gentleman of respecta bility, to his friend in Charleston, dated Chester Court-House, (S. C.) March 15. “Col Burr, under a guard of eight men, passed through this place for Washington City, yesterday. l.t appears from governor Williams’ proclamation, that col. Burr had entered into recognizance, himself in the sum of ft 3000, and tw o securities in the like sum, to appear at the Federal Court, in the Mississippi terri tory to answer to certain charges which were to be preferred against him ; that he had failed to appear at the Court, agreeably to his recog nizance, and fled, intending to go to the Spani ards at Pensacola; but was fortunately taken in disguise, by one of the officers commanding a station on the Mobile river, and sent by him immediately for the Federal City. “ When passing my piazza, which fronts j on the street', he jumped from his horse, and i begged the protection of some young men, j who vcrc standing before it; enquired for a j rnagis.ralc—when urged and threatened by the guard, to remount, he refused, declaring he j would rather be put to death, than go on ; hut was forced on his horse, and hurried away. “ The guard do not speak to him, or suffer j him to be spoken to; he has attempted to bribe them, but I suppose this will not do. Mr. Burr's dress which he had on, is the same as when lie w a#laken—very eoorse homespun, i,n old hat, great coat, with a tin cup by liis side j and rode on a bear-skin.” ——•; ©; -nm- THE TREATY. Richmond, March 13. It is iiq longer doubted, that the British trea ty has been rejected by the President, and upon two most solid objects ;—That it was perfectly silent on the impressment cf our seamen; and that it contains only the conditional ratification oft ic British government; the condition being that we shall resist w hatever encroachments may be attempted upon our neutral rights by the late decree of France. It appears, that the President has made no secret of this opposition, or oi the source from which it proceeds. And indeed, this conduct stands justified by two very obvious advantages: Ist. That our merchants should be prepared for the execution oi the non-importation act. i hey knew that the suspension of this act con tinues till the 31st of June, and that its further suspension till the 14th <# December, lies w ithin the breast of the President. It is pro per there.lore, that our merchants should begin to calculate the possibility of an event, which the adoption of the treaty would have dis pelled. 2d. The French government should not be suffered for a moment to suspect, it is our (lisjtosition to make a common cause with Cxt - eat-Britain against her. They should know in the most positive nr.itner, that so far as there is any thing on the face of the treaty which looks like this co-opcration, it has receiv ed the most decided opposition of our govern ment. The present is a most delicate crisis for the U. .States. It is not only their interest to keep aloof from the present contentions of Europe, but to impress this idea upon the belligerent powers.. We should avoid the appearence of every thing which may produce any unfound ed suspicion of our attachments or partialities. \\ e should beware, how we furnish France wit it any specious pretexts to carry the execution of her blockading decree, farther than site does at present; for no power has more frequently employed pre. for the gratification of her own desires. Let us then cordially admit, that whatever were (lie other advantages, which the treaty se cured to us, it was for our real interest that it should he most promptly and peremptorily re jected by our administration. It ri our interest to have no treaty, which shall not most explicitly guarantee the rights of our seamen. Or which shall prepare the smallest possible means for a gradual and conclusive co-operation with Great-Britain, or which shall produce the slightest suspicion of such an event. What then ? I.ct us wait for a sight of the dispatches of our commissioners, before we pretend to understand what are the relations in .which we now stand to Great-Britain ; how far it was proper, why, and in what form our roinnus: toners have submitted it to the eye of our government. ; Was the ease of impressed seamen excluded fro.;i the treaty itself, that it might He reserved for future discussion, and afterwards introdn erf! under supplementary artk Ic ? Or was it firs” introduced into the body of the treaty itself, stad this article afterward* struck out by the British cabinet, with a positive assu rance that we need not at any time expect such a arorablc provision ? What was the precise tenor of the memo randum annexed by the British cabinet in re gard to the French decree ? \\ as the treaty, clogged by this insuperable difficulty, approved by our commissioners ; or did they simply send it to this country to con sult the w ishes of our own cabinet, ami perhaps merely to inform them of the prevailing dispo sition of the British government ? It is said that some weeks since, the Presi dent sent new explanations to our commission ers, most positively instructing them to enter into no treaty with Great-Britain which did not most explicitly secure the rights of our sea men. It was impossible for him at that time to have given any instructions or. the blockading decree of F ranee ; of course no instructions could have been sent upon this subject. It is most probable that these instructions did not reach our commissioners before the 27th ofDccembcr— Enquirer. Savannah, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 24, 180.*. A passenger in the Ann-Janc, arrived at Philadelphia from Bordeaux, informs, that Bo naparte was about assembling an army of 1,000,000 men— 6oo,ooo of whom lie meant to leave in his rear, while he marched at the head of 400,000 to Russia, to settle his accounts with the emperor Alexander. It is reported, and in such a manner as en titles it to our belief, that on receipt of the pro clamation declaring Great-Britain blockaded, Mr. Madison requested Gen. Turreau to in form him how it was intended that proclamation was to act as to this country, and that the Gen eral’s answer was that the U. States w ere to he exonerated from its operation.-— Alex. Expos. On Friday morning a duel was fought on the western margin of the Mississippi, oppo site this city, between the honorable Cowles Mead, and captain Robert Sample, of ‘W il kinson County. The first fire was exchanged without doing mischief, but at the discharge, of the second, Mr. Mead received a wound in his right thigh, of which we are happy to sav he is last recovering. —Mississippi Alessen , r, February 10, APPOINTMENTS. Mebiwether Lewis, Governor of Upper Louisiana. Thomas Todd, of Kentucky, Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the new circuit recently established. W.isnnrctfoy, Jpthrci. K. We discharge the painful duty of announc ing the death of ABRAHAM BALDWIN, a member of the Senate of the United Slates, from Georgia. He died on the morning of the 4th inst. We expect, in a subsequent paper, to be able to give a sketch of Mr. B’s character. ARRANGEMENT OP THE iXNEX’.r.. Pall-bearers—General Sumter, General S. Smith, Dr Logan, Mr.Tracy, Mr. Gilman, Mr. turner Chaplains of the two Houles Phtsk.aNS—Dr. Weems ami ] >/. Jones Mourners —Me fir 5. Milled?. and Early V ice-Preiideiit and Secretary, preceded by ti. _ Ser geant of the Senate Member* of the Senate Speaker and Clerk of the House of Representatives, preceded by the Serjeant _t Arms Members of the House of Repr. (entatives Heads of Departments Foreign Minillers Mayors and Citizens of Washington and Georgetown The (''literal to proceed this morning, pre cisely at ten o’clock in the forenoon, from the house of Mrs. Hamilton, Capitol-Ilill, to li.e burying ground at Rock-Creek Church. Married, in Bulloch county, on the lliih inst Mr. Jehu Lveuitt, jr. to Miss Mary J >. ns. Prices Current—Augusta, March ’.l. Cotton 1i to 1 cents. Tobacco 8 5 5 3 Flour North' n. Superfine ft li to 12 Corn for sa!e ? On board the fehoener Potltr, juli arrived from Edenton, Nortb-Caroiina. ALSO, 1 trunk coarse Shoes St several empty Trunks. Apply on boarJ.at Smith raid Boutko's wharf, to N. SMITH. March 24, <j£. Wanted Immediately, BY the year, two Negro Men and one Boy.. for which liberal wages will be given. ..ALSO...To contract for one hundred cords of Pine Wood, deliver able at my brick yard on the Ogeechee road, near this city. DAVID POLOCK. March 24. l Wants a Situation IN a store or compting house, a young man, who can produce good recommendations. A line addrclTed to C D. and left with the printers, will be duly attend ed to . March 24. fa 25 Bills of Lading, For sale a*. tics ofil.u. PORT OF SAVANNAH? ARRIVED. Ship Nab by. Rider, Grenada Schr. Polly, Smith, Georgetown Mary & Francis, Drummond, Jamaica lnduftry, Brown, Chai iettuu. Sloop Nancy, Gorham, ditto Delight, Cooper, ditto CLEARED. Ship Eleanor, Ives, Charleftoti Favorite, Mackie, Jamaica Juno, Toby, Liverpool. The brig Pilgrim, Smith has arrived at New-York from hence— 23 days pa age. The schooner Harriet, Weft, arrived at Charleftoo on Thursday last, from this port. 011 Tuelday last, capt. Rudolph, (arrived at Charles ton) (poke a schooner 40 days from Jamaica, bound to Savannah. The sloop Mahalu, Prior, from Savannah for Phila delphia, has put into Norfolk in distress, having Hit her rudder and ftiftained other damages. Capt. White of the Britiih Packet, arrived at New- York, from Falmouth, v. as boarded on his pajTage by tile Britiih (hip of war Minerva, by the captain of which be was informed, that three French frigates bad Pipped out of Brest for the Welt-Imlies. Three days afterwards, cant. \V law the frigates. Tlie snow Alba, capt. Nye, and schooner Swift, capt. •G in, from this port, have arrived at Jamaica. The latter was to fail on the 15th inftnnt. Capt. Swift was Hoarded on the 20th Feb. oil Turk’s Utaiui, by a French privateer, of 6 guns and <>o men, and robbed of all his apart, rigging, ihn t-cahle, mam-ihert, downhalls, oars, end all his provisions, except enqugh to last three days. Capt. S. was likewise robbed of bis cloatiis, and his mate of Ins watch. ‘1 iie For, V. hitnev, on her palVage from Wilmington to kingiton, was ooardetl by r a hiencb felucca priva teer—the crew of which broke open (vt letters, and plundered her of cabin-stores and every other article they could take away. The privateerfmen were in j<> milerable a Hate that they commenced devouring feint ed their plunder immediately, and with such avidity, that it appeared they had been previoully in a ilate of starvation. The Britiih frigate Circe, capt. Piget, iias captured and lent into Tortola, a V‘ ry y luable fliip of 700 tons, from Cadiz bound to Vera Cruz, with quickfiiver, ami supposed to be worth from <iO to 70,0001. iferling. Capt. Allen, of the (hip Monk, was boarded by ‘ha Britiih (loop of war Bermuda, (lis. hours from New- York, for Bermuda) Capt.A. was ordered onboard the (loop of war with his papers, where they were itrirtly examined, andbimlcll treated in a very rough manner and released. During the time capt. A. wasort board tiie Hoop of war, the oliicers that were sent 01* board the Monk broke open capt. Alien’s df Ik, and robbed him of twenty doul.'loons. Capt. A. further in forms, that the Bermuda had ill tow the fliip Destiny„ from Campuuchy for New-York, which (he had cap tured and ordered for Bermuda. AUCTION. POSTPONED <>:. ACCOUNT or THE WEATHER, TO-MORROW tin: Milt instant, (If a fair day) Will be sold on Bolton’s (late Cltnfs) wharfs without reserve, 40 lthds. vfcry prime MOLASSES 15 ditto Ist quality Muscovado Sugar 36 puncheons superior Boston Rum. JUST LANDING. Immediately after y on Burroughs Cf Sturgcs * wharf, 20 puncheons Boston RUM. Oondiiions, all sums over 300 dollars, notcsi v.elh approved endorsers at 60 days. Sale to commence at 1 1 o’clock. S. 1L STACKHOUSE, Auct’r. Match 24 26 AUCTION. Valuable Lands. OJ\ X I'ESI) A I, ‘th Apr nr el, will he sold a£ the Lei rt-/fosse, ( if not disposed of before then at pri vate sate,) Nine hundred acres of Land, old survey, in Camdeit Co..uty, in two trails on the fojth fide of little Satell*. river, hounding on (aid river to the north, and known • Blub, oppoflte to Clark’s creek, original grant dated 171>7. J ive hundred acres on the head ol Clover creek, Camden county,granted in 17(57. The above trail* contain a coufider.ihle quantity of prime Cotton Land, Terms made known by applying at my store, Market T uare, where pints of the land may he icon. NORMAN JcFLhOD, Auct’r. March 24 26 BILLS ON New- York and Boston, At a shot l sight, for sale ry S UMUEL l: CHARLES HOWARD. March 24. 26. S. and C. Howard, OFFER FOR SALE, ■The Ct.rgo of the Ship .Vacnr, from Grenada 7 bring fid Puncheons Tweet flavored RUM, and JO Jlhds. MOLASSES. —A L S O The Cargo of the Schooner A'lxrtr ’df F/txxcrl) from Jamaica , being Logwood and Fustic. March 24. 2d For Liverpool, The excellent, new Ship aathe greatest part of her ca.-g ready to go on board...will fail (17 the 15rft April. For Freight of SCO bales of cotton, apply to the matter ,a board, or to SAMUEL & CHARLES HOWARD. March 24 26 Bill s on New-York, At a fi.ort fight, for (ale By * Jsonus U William Oecraisx 2