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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