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From a French Paper.
Extract from the Register of the Secretary oj
State.
Imperial Head Quarters, at Warfa’w, January 14.
“ We Napoleon. Emperor of the French,
See. have decreed, and do decree as follows :
1. So long as the fate of the Polish countries
conquered from the king of Prussia, remains
undermined by a definitive’peace, these coun
tries shall be governed by a Provisional Admin
istration.
2. Thi s government shall consist ol seven
members, under the name of the Government
Commission.
3. The Government Commission shall no
minate a President out of their own body, and
also chuse a Secretary.
4. Five persons shall likewise be chosen
from among them, to whom the direction of
the various branches of the public administra
tion shall be entrusted, viz. a director of jus
tice, a director of the interior, a director oi” fi
nance, a director of war, & a director of police.
5. These directors shall act in common with
the Government Commission. The decisions
of the. latter shall be sanctioned by the majority
of voices.
6. The Government Commission shall have
full power over the proceedings of the direc
tors of each department, either to sanction or
annul them.
7. The present division of the country into
six departments, viz. that of Warsaw, Posen,
Kalitsel, Bforr.berg, Flock, and Byaiistock,
shall bo retained.
8. The members of the Government Com
mission are nominated, viz. the Marshal count
Mulacrowsk Gulaltowski, president of the
chamber of France, count Stansiaus Potocki,
f count Dryalinski, the president of the chamber
of Finance at Katsch, Belinsk and Sobodewski.
Napoleon.
{L. S.) Flugues Maiiet.
The Government Commission hastens to in
form the inhabitants of these countries, of the
supreme will of his Majesty the Emperor of
the French, and to inform them that its func
tions have commenced. Poles! accept with
gratitude this new proof of the benevolent care
of Napoleon. Contribute to the common good
to the utmost of our power, and receive our as
surance that we will not neglect any thing that
can add to the present and future welfare of
our country.
The present Protocol shall be printed and
inserted in the newspapers, and published in
the towns, &c. by sound of trumpet.
Given at Warsaw, in the session of the Go
vernment Commission, Jan. 13, 1807.
Stanislaus Naiexcz Malachows,
President.
LIVERPOOL, February 26.
Extract of alette’- from cajilain I I'm. Day, of
the American shift Bristol Packet, bound from
this fort to Philadelphia, captured by a Span
ish privateer, and recaptured by the .Vile cut
ter and sent into Falmouth , dated 1 9!h hist.
Eight days after 1 left your port, in lat. 40,
Sl-, 0, long. 15, W. I had the misfortune to fall
in with a Spanish privateer of 18 guns and 120
men, who fired a gun and brought me to un
der English colours, and ordered me to con e
on board with my papers, where I was detained
several hours, during which they had two boats
constantly going and bringing on board the pri
vateer, all my live stock, spare cordage, blocks
and provisions, mv own and passengers’ weal -
ing apparel, and every thing else they could
lay their hands on, then sealed up the ship’s
papers and letter bag, and sent me on board
with a prize-master, his mate and nine Span
iards, telling me they had orders to detain eve
ry American who had no consular certificates
of their cargoes being American property. On
the sixth day we were near losing the ship, be
ing on the French coast within half a mile of
the breakers ; it was then proposed, if I would
take charge of the ship the crew should obey
my orders, it then blowing a gale of wind dead
on shore, accordingly I put about with the
ship’s head to the northward, and at 8 A. M.
saw a sail to the W. standing towards us, which
proving to be a king’s brig, I was ordered be
low, and when hailed the answer given was ‘ to
Bordeaux, from Boston,* and with this answer
the cutter would have left us, had I not fortu
nately loosed one of the dead lights and with
the waving of my hat given her a signal. She
then, bad as (he weather was, and much to her
c edit, hove about and sent her boat aboard,
with three hands, by which I returned the
Spanish prize-master, his mate and three Span
iards, and the gale encreasing the cutter was
not able to send me any further assistance. I
therefore proceeded as instructed, to this port,
where I arrived on the 17th inst. and have ap
plied to the American consul here for assist
ance respecting my protest, and now wait your
directions to enable me to proceed according
to destination.
Sir Home Popham has received notice of
trial, and the Court Martial for that purpose
will be held on board a flag-ship at Portsmouth,
on Monday next. The court will consist of
nine admirals and four post captains ; the for
mer of whom, namely, admirals Montague,
Coffin, Yo-ng, Stanhope, Rowley, Holloway,
Gower, Vashon, and Strachan, will all hoist
their flags at Portsmouth and Spilhead, on Sa
turday next. The court will be opened on
Monday, pro forma, and on the following day
evidence will be heard in support of the charges.
Letters from Sir Edward Peliew’s flag ship,
dated in July last, state, that three of the ene
my’s privateers, which did much damage to
our trade in the India seas, have been taken :
one of them is the Bellone, of 36 guns, which
made so many captures in the European ret*,
before she was •ent to the East Indies.
LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Feb. M.
JJaylis vs. Carden.
This was an action to recover 501. under the
following circumstance :—Mr. Sergeant Shep
herd said his cliant was an industrious staynia
ker, and often indulged himself, in his leisure
hours, by reading the newspapers. Unfortu
nately, in these moments of relaxation, his eye
caught an advertisement, which held forth such
fascinating prospects, that he was determined
to find out its author. In consequence, he
made application to the defendant, from whom
he learned, that, by great assiduity, and a tho
rough knowledge of chemistry, he had brought
to perfection a liquid for cleaning boot tops,
and required only a very small capital to rea
lise a fortune. The learned Sergeant said, his
client was not much enraptured at first with
the defendant’s story ; especially, as he could
not convince him of the necessity of having
clean boot tops to trudge through the streets in
dirty weather. The defendant, however, after
several interviews, persuaded the plaintiff to
advance 501. to purchase fixtures, compounds,
See. for which he was to have half the profits.
Business commenced, and the defendant (to
use the words of the learned Sergeant) com
pletely humbugged the public ; for he sold a
great quantity of his mixture. Ilis client
could net bring the defendant to any kind of
settlement, and wished to have nothing more
to do with the concern, provided the defendant
would return him the 501. he had advanced.
This proposal was rejected by the defendant,
who said he would return him 35i. “ by way of
getting lid of him as a partner and if he did
not accept of that offer, lie had better file a bill
in the court of Chancery. This conduct of the
defendant (said the learned counsel) reminded
him of a story, related by a learned brother,
which, with his lordship’s permission, he would
state:—
“ A gentleman, who resides in the Temple,
was much troubled with a strange cat—he wish
ed to have it destroyed, and for that purpose
employed Ins servant, an Hibernian. After a
few days had expired, enquiry was made res
pecting the cat—whether the animal was dis
posed of, never to return. ‘ O yes,’ says Pat,
‘ I put her into one of your bags, and left her
in the court of Chancery.” Here the learned
judge enquired whether a legal instrument had
passed between the plaintiff and defendant ;
and being answered in the affirmative, Iris lord
ship was of opinion, that the action would not
lie, and the plaintiff was non-suited.
Savannah,
SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL IP, 1807.
•a—mu. 1 ! --r-T maaNu** ‘urov. aux . ,rri
By the following paragraph, taken from a
Greenock paper of the 2,3d February, it will
be seen with what mercy, justice is administered
to 13; itish (slaves) troops. \Vho could suppose
that ar.v mortal iit existence could bear FOUR
HUNDED LASHES at one time, with safety
to his life ? Would not these unfortunate crea
tures have welcomed death, in any shape, after
receiving 400 lashes, knowing they had, the one
600, Sc the other 1100 to receive ? And for what ?
For attempting to stab an officer—perhaps an
overbearing tyrant. This may be iightly tho’t
ofby the hardened and unfeelirigbut the humane
and merciful must shudder at the idea of a
fellow-creature’s being so barbarously murder
ed, for it can hardly be supposed they could have
survived the whole punishment assigned them.
“ On Tuesday se’ennight the troops in the
garrison at Gosport, and in the neighbourhood,
were marched to Ililsea Barracks, to witness
the punishment of Kennedy and O’Callaghan,
privates of the 54th regiment, who had been
sentenced by a court mar'ial held on teem, to
receive, one of them 1500, and the other 1000
lashes, for attempting to stab with their bayo
nets, an officer of the 31st regiment, who inter
fered to advise them to orderly conduct, on find
ing them engaged in a quarrel in the streets.
The crime was so enormous and aggravated
in its circumstrnce, that they were ordered
to receive as many lashes as could with safety
to their lives be inflicted on them ; and each of
them received upwards of four hundred lashes
at that time.”
I. IFF. OF WASHING TON.
We observe in a London paper of the Ist
January, says the Norfolk Ledger, that the
Life of Washington, by Judge Marshall, com
plete, is advertised lor sale, in two editions;
price in boards, printed on vellum, seven guin
eas ; on demy, two and an half guineas, ‘i he
publisher makes the following remarks:
“ The public will learn with interests, that
the literary monument which has long been
projected to the memory of the most illustri
ous character of modern times, is at length
completed. No apology can be requisite lor
erecting such a monument to him, who was
the first in war, the first in peace, and the first
in the hearts of his fellow citizens; to him
who was the founder of a great and prosperous
empire, and whose moderation and pure pat
riotism, challenge the imitation of all statesmen.
This performance of Judge Marshall, has al
ready been distinguished by the most honora
ble and unequivocal testimonies; it has been
hailed as an acquisition to standard literature ;
and it has has been considered as deserving, in
point of execution, a place by the side of Ro
bertson’s Charles the fifth, and as unrivalled
in the authenticity ptf iu materials, by any
work in the entire cornfass of history and bl*
wgraphy.”
The enemies of the administration are in
dustriously engaged in indeavoring to produce
two efleets.
First, to excite the public indignation against
general W ilkinson on account of the arrests
made by him at Ncw-Orleans.
And secondly , to produce the impression that
these acts arc sanctioned by the administration.
It is not our purpose, at present, to enter in
to an argument on these two points. But as it
is highly desirable that the people, who in this
country arc the ultimate judges of every poli
tical question, should have as much light shed
on this subject as circumstances allow, wc of
fer no apology for presenting them with the
following extract, taken from Findley’s history
of the Pennsylvania insurrection of 1794.
These extracts will shew—
That the military invasion of civil power, of
which Ihe federalists so vehemently complain,
were committed on that occasion as v eil as re
cently.
That thev were committed during the ad
ministration of general Washington.
That they were many of them committed,
if not by his authority, by an army under his
command.
That he deprived no officer of his commis
sion for committing them.
That he did not even censure them.
That they were principally committed at the
direction of Alexander Hamilton, an eminent
lawyer, who could not, as Wilkinson perhaps
to a certain extent might, plead ignorance of
the law in justification.
That they were committed at places incom
parably freer from danger than that appre
hended at New-Orlenns.
That the blood of innocent unoffending men
was spilt.
That several of these violations of law took
place, although a federal judge was present ,
with the army, who was above ail suspicion of
being concerned in the insurrection.
That the privilege of the writ of Habeas
\ Corpus was actually suspended, not merely
] while the accused was in his passage horn one
j place to another, but for months afterwards at
| the then seat of the general government,
j These circumstances are not adduced an I
j proofs either of the correctness of the procec
| dings in the insurrection of 1794, or of the ie
| cent proceedings at Ncw-Orleans; but to shew
j that, at emergencies of imminent peril, real or
jj apprehended, the regular course of justice is
| frequently obstructed or abandoned ; and also
I to shew that measures were pursued under
j geneivi Washington, the purity of whose mo
| lives arc not questioned, which infringed the
civil authority to a much greater extern than
those taken by Williinsoi—A at. Intelligencer.
INDIAN LANGUAGE.
It is observed by John L. Gardner esq. in
j one of his communications to Dr. Mitchell
| that “ there are many words in the Ei.i. cnaux
| and Algonkin languages, exactly like those of
ij the Mantocl; Indians on the easternmost ex
tremity of Long Island, and which seem in
part to justify an observation of M‘Ker.zie in
his journey from Canada to the Pacific ocean,
that there ate three distinct nations on the con
tinent ot Amelia. Ist The Equimaux, who
probably came from Greenland. 2d the inha
bitants on the borders of the Pacific below the
[attitude of 55 degrees north ; and 3d. Those
oi the midland or middle legion, whose course
j has been from the Atlantic towards the
I Pacific, Similarity of languages, 1 conceive
| to be a more certain mcathod of tracing the
| origin of savage nations, than similarity of cus-
I toms, which among uncivilized nations are
nearly the same from the ancient Hebrew, to
the modern nations of American Indians.” In
addition to the curious and interesting publica
tion on the native American languages, made a
few years ago by Dr. Barton, the public may
expect much more information from the col
lated vocabularies of the Aboriginal tongues,
which will appear in the narrative of captains
Lewis and Clark, in their late expedition across
the continent of North America from the Po
tomak Vo Columbia ri # r, soon to be offered to
their impatient fallow citizens.— •■lbid.
The principle adopted by the Jucjge of the
Vice-Admiralty court of Antigua, is this aif
French goods are entered for exportation, there
can be no doubt of an ultimate French destina
tion—that they were duly imported, is not suf
ficient. I must have good and sufficient proof
that these goods were not imported for the
purpose of being exported, but had become
part of the national stock.” An order for fur
ther proof is decreed as to the French ankles;
the American produce acquitted.—Acw- York
paper ,
On the second reading of the slave trade a
boliation bid indemnities in certain cases was
allowed, and the debate on the ( ommittalofthe
bill adjourned until this day —Liverpool Puper.
The body of Mrs Stone, an elderly lady, was
found murdered, in Prince William’s parish,
about two miles below Port Republic Ferre, on
the Bth instant The deed had been perpetra
ted the day before, by a negro woman belong
ing to the deceased; who, after having com
mitted the murder, returned home lo the fami
ly, where she staid ail night ; in the morning,
when the body of her mi .tress was discovered,
she confessed that she had committed the deed.
—Charleston Paper.
DIED at his plantation in South-Carolina,
on tire ! 3lh inst. Mr. William White , in the 58 .fi
year of Ids age. He has left a widow, children,
gad army \n hmvni their Ivss,
Ish m Clay, superintendent of Tybce Light.
Yesterday afternoon, in this city, Mr.
Andrew MCredie, a native of Scotland, and for
many years a respectable resident of Savannah,
PORT OF SAVANNAH.
AKHIVED.
Ship Martha, Fawn, Liverpool
William, Rockwell, Do.
Brig Two Friends, Curtis, Bolton
CLEARED.
Brig Fair Trade, Burrows, St. Croix
Snow Fanny, Warner, New-Yo-lc
Captain Curtis poke ship General Eaton, Cl hours
from this port, bound to New-Yoik.
Cxaulf.svox, April 13
Ship Camilla, from lienee for Amftcrdam, was lpok*
en on the 22d ult. in lat. 03, long. 78.
Ship Cornelia, l’olt, from hence for Amilerdam, was
spoken, 50 hoars out.
April 14.
The Spanish ptivaterr fehooner Juliana, mounting
4 fixes and 1 twenty-four pound-r,with 70 men, laid
in company with the Martha Crawley, to cruise off
this port.
On the ° !th ult. rapt. Walih fpnkt in the river, fchr.
Mercury, from this port for New-Oi leans, out 24
days; Hup Huron, from Jamaica, lor New-Orlean. .
('a the 27th, spoke fehooner Centurion, Waller, of
New York, going up the river April I it, (poke fchr,
Republican, Carroll, from Philadelphia for Havanna,
17 days out.
*** The fliij) jXaibij, Captain Rider,
Lou Lit eupool, can lake fifty bales of Colton
on Freight, and will sail on the 24th instant.
Apply to
S. Sc C. Howard.
April 13. 37.
Presbyterian Church, 15th .4pr 7 1807.
Rksotved, that a meeting of the PEWIIOLDERS
he hold on Sunday next at noon.
Union Society.
THE Members of rhe Union Society are desired t<
convene at the City-Hall, on THURSDAY, the ii:.cl
inflant, prcciftly at nine o’clock in the forenoon, in
order to tranfacX the usual bufmefs of the daj , and ce
lebrate the anniverfery.
A Si R MON wid be preached before the Society
by the Rev. Mr. Kollock, at twelve o’clock, in t!.
New Ptefbyterian Church, St. James’Square.
Peter ,S. Lnffitte, ficcietarv.
Aril 9 33
For Boston,
jMs ’p. am T
ffi'vds TT-P’ I'nan ship,
t-.vf •* J.'Jl'v/if I’* *
v , * 9 Pattf.rson, •aalt,
wi'l take a few hales of Cotton on Freight, on mode*
rate terms, and will fail iu a lew days——apply to tho
captain on board, oi to
Samuel & diaries How rd.
April 18. -7
Received
Per ship William, captain Rock unit, from I.h•
erp 001,
100 pieces best Inverness Cotton
IoUJv ‘ige
22 casks Nails, assorted
For sale by
John H White & C>.
April 18 l £ f
Negroes For Sale.
HT WO gangs, confiflingof thirty prime NEGROES,
* are offered for iale, togethn, or iii familie.,, for
cafli ot biiUon London, If not difpoled of before this
firfl Tuefdny in May next, they will on that day he
fold at the Court-House, to the highetl bidder. Ap
plication may be made in the mean time, to
J. Caig R. Mite! ck
April 18 37
FOR SALE.
■jT WO HUNDRED ACRES, or more, of prim®
A C.O I lON LAND, in Bryan county, 1 anchor,iu
ly situated on the fait*, and in view of Sunbury ; foi*
particulars, apply to Mr ROBERT HABERSHAM*
Savannah, or to the fubferiber,
1 enj min Ward,
at Tivoli, Bryan County.
-April 18. 37
Will be Sold
ON TUESDAY tire 28th instant, between 10 and *
o’clock, at Jordan’s landing, Thunderbolt, ASM AI I,
BOAT, taken from negroes, supposed to have fiedea
her, and regularly advertiled.
April lb.
To Let,
’I 'HAT airy well situated HOUSE, in Fever,{burgh,
i lately occupied by Janies Shaffer, deceased For
terms, aj ply on the prcnnlcs to Susanna:! SiiAri tsc,
or to
Frederic k Sh: filr.
April 18. 37
Detect the Villain.
WHOEVER detects the Thief, who took rnf
HORSF out of his halter, from my inspection
after midnight lad, and in lieu,left a dying black ho:fa
by the bridge, near my house, (hall be amply reward
ed (if said villain is a white man) and five dollars lit
the Horse alone, with reul'ot,able txpenccs
Said horse isa Imall sorrel, bulb tail, hlaife face, ].U
left eye blemilhed, bought fix days ago, of Daniel
Mdntoib, in i own, and likely i. generally known .a
his.
Frunei:-; S. Miller.
Ogechcc ro:c:! } rppotile Pollock’s Inch rare!,
April U'—37