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Te Hid lilthi it/ Cl 4 * Til’ VENT PRESIDENT. It is now almost teduced to a certainty, that Mr. JcSt'l's..n will retire from the presidential chair, at the expiration of his present term. The first wish of our hearts must necessarily he, that his successor may be not less able and •Virtuous than himself; and the first question which occurs must be, who is to be that succes sor ; _ where is he to be found ; by what princi ple", i", he to be selected ? Tlris question becomes still more important at the present moment from the peculiar cir cumstances of the times. Two men are alrea dy held up throughout the union as the osten sible candidates for the office; and it becomes us, ere the seeds of dissention are too hastily sown, to consider; not which of these men ought to be preferred; but what means of selection ought to be adopted; how th*-se diseentions are to lie prevented ; in fact, whe ther these dissentions are likely to originate in the cause itself with which some have sup posed them to be inseparably connected. Let us once be persuaded, that such schisms are not necessarily connected with the candi dates themselves; and it will go’a considerable way towards preventing their appearance among the great body of the people. We shall not now enter upon the question ; of how far it is proper to select the next pre sident from Virginia. Y\ : e have certainly no desire to push forward a • ndidate from cur state; and Wc should acquiesce without the smallest dissatisfaction in the election of any other candidate from any other state by the other, republicans of the union, if he Were equally well qualified with the worthiest of our sons. Let us suppose, however, a possible and per haps a probable ease : Let us suppose, that after the most comprehensive view of the in terests of the union, it may he determined to select the next candidate from Virginia. Let us suppose that this selection is to rest upon Madison and Munrce. Is this situation inev itably to produce ail those embarrassments which some have fearfully anticipated? We think not. On or.c important point the public mind of Virginia seems in be completely misinformed. Many have inferred from the distinguished pretentions of these two gentlemen, that they will both be certainly brought forward for the next presidency ; and that they already experi ence those heart-burnings and jealousies which are incident to a state of actual competition. But this is not the fact. Net the slightest mis understanding affects the intercourse ot these celebrated men : their cordiality is complete; the friendship which once subsisted between them, is as strong as ever. The most favourable consequences may be expected to result from this friendly under standing. So long as it continues, no selfish incitements of ambition crof jealousy can be expected to disturb their own friendship or the performance cl the duties which diev mu tually owe to their country. The most sacred of these duties is to preserve the harmony and concert of the republican party, entire and unbroken ; for upon these principles hangs the prosperity of their country. So long as this unfriendly understanding continues, they v ill combine rather than oppose their exer tions; they will consult together for pro mo ing the interest of their country, instead of separately pursuing whatever may promote their own personal aggrandizement. It is an unfounded and may be a fatal sup position, that these patriots will be easily, di rectly or without the most absolute necessity brought into competition with each other. Let their zealous and disinterested friends for bear to sow the seeds of disunion among them ; the utmost harmony of movement mav be an ticipated from their feelings feels for each oili er and for their country. Let us suppose that the time is already come, when the able and enlightened Munroc, shall be landed once more on bis native shores. What may be ex pected to be the deportment of Madison and Mur,roe ? Say rather, what is the best course recommended to them by their coun try ? Their first object of enquiry should be, whe ther a president ought to be elected from Vir ginia ? They will determine how far the equal rgkt of Virginia to give another president to the union ought to be voluntarily sacrificed to the desire of allaying those ill-founded jealous ides against her, which have been excited and fomented by the federalists of th° north ; how far the pretensions of a Virginian would of thc%;selves disturb the harmony which at pre sent subsists between the republicans of the north and the south ; and whether there are candidates in the other states, who have talents and pretensions equal to their own. Let us however suppose that all these diffi r.uhics are satisfactorily settled ; that the re publicans of the other states are willing to se lect once more a candidate from Virginia ; that this wish is formally arid fully and iclared ; what then is the obvious duty of these patriotic men ? To raise at once the cry of opposition? to lift the rival banners of the White and the Reel Rose ? to distract the repubiicaa party into ’Sects, and our country into hostile schisms ? No. Far from these things is the path of their duty, and it is to Ire hoped, the course of their conduct. Madison and Munroc will hold an amicable conference ; the friends of each and the friends of their country will assist them with the fruits of their experience. They will onr *■ e together the principles, on which they would separately determine to administer the government; and they would consequently de . eide how far it v. ould lie possible and propei for them to oc-oper&tc or to oppose each *tiict. They would compare together the relative chances which eai h of them possessed of ob taining the republican suffrages of the union ; and they would consequently determine which ol them was most likely to obtain success and least likely to divide the republican intescst. Other comparisons might be loi nied, other im portant arrangements might be adjusted for keeping the republican party together, for pro moting their own interest as well as that of their country. What danger most seriously threatens the republican party ? It is disunion : it is the breaking into those little schisms, which create and nourish so many little independent sects. If the bond of union be once destroyed ; if the spirit of concert which animates the republi cans in one mass, be exchanged for a little tri fling attachment to particular sects ; the puri ty of the republican party is gone for ever. They will then support men and measures, not because they pursue the original republican creed ; but because they wish to advance their own particular interests, li these interests are not to be secured by the ir own individual strength, one party will not hesitate to conclude a treaty of compromise with their former op ponents ; and their principles will gradually be come mixed and adulterated. 1 he dominant parties of New-\ ork and Pennsylvania furnish a sufficient example of this motley and dis graceful combination. But whoever is to he selected as the candi date ot the republicans, there are at least cer tain firi/icipLs, which should govern that selec tion. We shall not particularly dwell upon tho ge neral qualities ol integrity, of experience, of strength of mind : that integrity , which is as much superior to the intrigue of a public, as the vices of a private life : that experience which is not less acquainted with the interior state of our country, than with the present ra velled and distracted condition of the nations of E urope, with whom our executive has so many and perhaps too many points of contact: that strength of mir.d which not only has the perspicuity to sec a truth, but the firmness to act upon it. These properties it is scarcely necessary to touch upon; they arc of eternal importance : but there arc two or three others peculiarly connected with the circumstances of the times, Let us elect no rrinrt, who is not deeply and unalterably opposed to any compromise with the Yazoo Fraud. Let no man be supported, who is not a roost decided opponent of federal principles. It is not, enough that he should be a republican of yesterday ; who has risen into a little tempo rary popularity by one or two services render ed, to his country ; but he must be one that has been tried by the unerring test of experience ; bleached by the hoary hand of time, and his principles attested bv man-: winters of federal persecution. But this is not enough. He must be a republican of a sound heart and of nerves as ragkl as iron. Not such a one as governor M'Keanof Pennsylvania or Lewis of New-, Vork ; who abuse the principles of federalists, while they personally truckle to the party ; who accept their aid, while they pretend to ab jure their principles, These qualities seem to me of too great I'm-* portance to be forgotten in the character of our next president. Indeed they appear under such an imposing magnitude to my own mind, that if my present impre sins continue, I shall support no candidate for he presidential chair, whose sentiments on these points shall not have been most explicitly stated by himself or at least by some of his confidential friends ; nor perhaps until he has pledged himself in some form or other, never to abandon thorn. LUCIUS. Nezv Drug & Medicinal STORE. I KE Subscribers notify the public, that they bare cflablifhed in this placd, A DRUG & MEDIC INAL STORE, and feel themselves juflified in faying, that they can fupp'y practitioners of Physic and country fiores with Medicine, Shop Furniture, Surgeon’s Intlrume its, ] Patent Medicine, dec. upon as liberal terriis as they can be purchased for in this place. Much care having been bellowed in the selection of the various articles, and in making the officinal pre parations, they can with propriety Warrant them as genuine. Medicine Chests, will be put up at any price from 20 to 150 dollars with printed directions, and containing moll or all the articles generally requiicd lor families and plantations. ITt life & Mendenhall , Practitioners of Medicine, Boltons’ brick Buildings on the Bay. Savannah, April 23. 39, Direct Tax . n o y 1 c E. T’HF. Collectors of theDirefl Tax, for the Diffridt of Georgia, are notified that the Supervisor’s Office is transfered to the office of Commissioner of I oans, in the city of Savannah,to which pia e they are hereby called on to forward their return in regular order, and to pay over such sums as have been by them collected, ‘ on account of the above Tar, without delay. As the \ compensation to Collectors, depends on their attention and punctuality, it is presumed an early compliance with this call will be made, especially as a length of time has already elupfed since any remittance has been made by them. The Collectors of the F*cife and Inturnal Revinue, who hold balances, arising from that source, are, also, particularly required to difehage the fame, and to fet* tie their accounts. James .diver. Ccmtr.iff'r. of I.oans, acting Supeivifor. Commifiionets Office, Georgia,) Bnvaouah, 2ad April, 1807. 5 L 3? Savannah, THUSDAY EVENING, APRIL 55, 180 T. 1 HOMas Jeffhsox, President of the United titan sos America. To all to whom these presents shall come Greeting ; JAMES BARRY, esq. having pro duced to nle his commission as Consul of his Royal Highness the Prince Regent of Portu gal, lor the state ol New-York, and those east ward thereof, 1 do hereby recognise him as such and declare him free to exercise and en joy such functions, powers anil privileges, as are allowed to the consuls of such friendly pow ers, between whom and the United States there is no particular agreement for the regulation of the consular functions. In Testimoney whereof, I have rausoil these letters to be made patent, and the seal of the United States, to be hereunto affixed. Given under my hand at the city of Wash ington, the twentieth day of March, in the year of our Lord, one thou sand eight hundred and seven, and of the Independence of the United States of America, the thirty-first. TII: JEFFERSON. By the President, JAMES MADISON, , Secretary of State. Burr killed Hamilton—and the faction de nounced him ! he traduces the administration, and forms a plan to dissever the union—and now, forsooth, the federalists are offering their lives, their fortunes, to protect the traitor i 11— Inconsistency, thou art the child, the offspring of federalism.— Petersburgh Republican The following is a copy of a curious Election hill, actually delivered in loan English member parliament, by a Publican, after the late gen eral election: To eating !fi freeholders above l. s. d’ stairs, for Sir. John, at 3s. 3d.ev ery head, * 12 6 To eating 11 more below stairs and two clergymen, after sup- Pt;r- 1 15 9 To six beds in one room, and four in another, at two guineas eve ry bed, three or four iu every bed, 3S 15 0 To 2.” horses in the yard all night at 3d. every one of them, and for a man watching them all “ffiht, 15 5 To breakfast and tea next day, for every one of them, and as many as they brought with therm as near as I can guess, 4 12 0 To beer, porter, and punch, for the. first day I am not sure, but I think mr the three first (lavs and a half of the election, as little as I can guess, and he very exact, is, in all, or therca- bouts, _ _ 7D 15 5 To shaving, dressing, and crop ping the heads of 4.3 Freehold ers. for Sir John, at 13d. for every one of them, 2 5 h t. 116 1 7 In pbicc of Jemmy Ca+r, JOHN ITODGHES. (t In the midst of Life we are in Death.” Among the sufferers by the dredful accident which occurred in London, on the 23d of Feb ruary, at the execution of the throe murder ers, was Mr. \V illimn Bradford, eldest soil of the late Mr. ‘i homas Bradford, of this city. This young man was in the 17ih year of his age—he left this country about ten months since, to perfect himself in his business : And while a fond and anxious mother, was felicita ting herself upon the favourable account she was receiving of the virtues and talents of a be loved son, all her hopes arc suddenly blasted, by account of his premature death During the short period of his residence in London, the suavity of his manners, and his deligcnce and attention to business, had secured him the esteem of those who, from a previous know ledge of bis character, were prepared to offer him their friendship.—- Asa son and brother lie was dutiful and affectionate—and his budding virtues promised a rich reward for the cart: and attention bestowed on their cultivation.—But, alas, how frail are all sublunary cultivations! In the morn of life, in the full bloom of health, while hope sparkled in his eye, and in anticipa tion looked forwards to many years of happi ness and joy, he is suddenly cut off and num bered with the tenants of the grave.—Charles ton Times. Washington, (Geo.) April 11. I he weather continues remarkable cold for the season—it has for some days past, if recol lection does not deceive us, been colder than it was the last of December. It has also been very dry lor some weeks previous to last Wed nesday night, when we were favored with a plentiful rain ; which was accompanied with heavy and almost continual thunder, and very high wind ; and preceded by one of tne most tremendous hail storms that has fallen at this place, or its neighborhood, for many years past. We are credibly informed that some had stones were found, an hour after, which measured upwards of eight inches in circum ference. The curliness of the season saved the planters fro;** an immense loss : even trie wheat WTrt nr> in a state- ft? stjjicieru forward ness to be susceptible of much injury and 1* is to the circumstance of the wind not begin ning to blow hard until after the hail had fallen, that vve are at this time indebted for the com fort and convenience of glass windows. As it is, we have heard of no very material damage being done. Wc are told that notwithstanding the extraordinary coldness of the spring, 1110 fruit trees are not much hurt. PORT OF SAVANNAH. CLEARED. Brig Dehby, Clintock, PuMi Sloop Polly, Rhodes, St. SimonF CHARLESTON, AFRII. 17. Tht/htp Belfajl came up this morning. Ships Pierce Manning, Putman ; and Lynch, fur this purl, were to Jail in a few days af ter the Plonghboy. Brig Rolls, ‘_’f days from'.his port for Copenha gen, was fpoLen March 12, in hit. -Kb long 13. Copt. Sherwood left at Angola Jhip Daphne* Belcher , of this port , The Jhip Juno, Pi/her , and brig Minerva, —, fur this purl, had jailed three weds before Capt. S. The brig Union, Rich, from this port for Am - Jhrdam , has put into Huvnnna, in dijlrcfs, hav ing sprung a-leak in lat. 35. long. 73. Ihe Jhip IVnodrop Sims, Heath, for Canton; brig Anne-Jane, Perriteau, for Bordeaux ; and brig Manina, Green wood, fur Tenerife ; all from Philadelphia, went ajhore in the late gale, about 7 Miles injide of Cape May, and bilged. A fchocner loaded with cotton, at anchor near Brook-Haven, cut away her majls in the %aic of the 31.i7 nil. Four other vtjfels are Jbid to have beta driven ajhore about 10 miles above that place. Schooner Juno, from the IVeJI Indies fur Prov idence, R. J. was cajl away on Lvng-IJland; the cargo and one man lojl. Ship Salty, Hcwes, of this port, has arrived att Boston from Havannah. The P air tot, P reach 71-, got under way ill Annapolis, on the [id instant, and dropped duwrl the Bay, preparatory to proceeding to sea. a pl. Lancaster, arrived at Portland, from Guadaloupc, informs, that he spoke in lat. [ls,'lnw'. Ob, the American ship Brutus, of 30 guns, and MO men, 15 days from New-Turk, in a very Laly condition, making 18 inches water in 15 minutes : had her stern very much shattered, havivv had two days before, an engagement with an Pai ji.dt Jt .gate mar Bermuda ,* hail a brig ui company tet assist tin tn, should occasion require. *** A lciv Passengers can be <ve!l accommodated in the Cabin of the Ship PROSPERI TY,capt. Ray, to I.iil ior Liverpool in 6’ or 7 days* Apply on board to capt. Ray, or to J ittp for &. Scarf)rough. April 21. a gg. ***The ship Kabby, Captain Rider, Pott Liverpool, cun take fifty bales of Cotton on Freight, and will sail on the 24th instant.—j Apply to S. & C. Howard. April 18. 37. A CONCERT.’ WILL EE CIVE.V AT THE l-.XC IIA NC E* On Sat unlay Evening the 2.5 th inst. By G. 11. GILBERT. AHUtIatMtNT OF THE MU3UI. ACT FIRST'. Grand Symphony, Pleycf* S° n K> By an Amateur* A Naval Engagement (for the Piano) Forte) with accompaniment*. C C. H. Gilfert, Minuet, Ilayd’n. Variation on the Piano Forte, Charles Gi.feit Finale, Mozart, ACT SECOND. Overture on the Piano Forte, for four ) hands, J Steibelr. • t ’ on S By an Amateur) Variations on the Piano Forte, Charles Gillert Grand Overture, Mozart^ ff The Concert to begin precisely at half pad seven o’clock. T ICKETS—One Dollar each, to be had ftitt tr. r 1 s j ,11 clxa it y Wat. t Room, and the evening of Performance, at the door. Chambers, Chatham Inferior Court. John Mead, \ On the petition of John Mead, Adsrn. C dating that he is confined in the Gardner Tuffis.j jail of this county for debt, by pro cess from the justice- court ; that In: is unable to pay the debts for which he is confined, or to give hail tr anlwer the fame, or to support himlelf during his con finement, but is willing to deliver up all his efUte, real and personal, for the benefit of his creditors, .not praying to be admitted to the benefit ol the infolvene debtors aftts of this date. It. is ordered that notice of this application h- f -rvec? upon each of the creditors of the laid John Mead, and be publiflmd in one of the Gazeites; that they may appear at the Court-lloule in Savannah, on the fecoud I hurfday ol Mi) next, to fiiew cause, il any they have, wily the prayer of the laid petitioner fliould not be gianted. Edward Telfair, 7 James Alger. ■*’ c * c * April 33 23 FOR SALE. A VALUABLE TRACT OF LAND, on this Mortar Sw nnp containing five hundred acre'—s. well calculated for the culture of Rice. Should cop pofal to pur chafe he made in fix weeks from this date, it will be fold at Public Auction...ln the interim, foe* cinis apply to ... 11. £>a^cr.uui'se, efq, or to Ann Stuart. April 20, >, mb