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Savannah, TUESDAY EVENING, MAY £6, !FO7. Captain Edwards of the ship Sampson, ar rived at New-York on the sth inst. from Ma dras, informs, that while he lay there, Admiral Sir Edward Pellcw, arrived there in the Cul loden from Batavia, having been into the harbour a second time with a British squadron and burnt, run aground, and destroyed six Dutch vessels of w ar, different sizes. There was a great scarcity of rice at Madras. The government had offered 110 star pago das the garce, if delivered within six months, payable in bills of Bengal, 5 per cent, below par. Lieut. Collins, of the British frigate Merpsi chore, who, in the month cf September last, in the town of Madras, killed an American sea man belonging to the barque Harper, captain Lander, of Salem, was tried at Madras in the following month, on a charge of murder. The jury found him guilty of manslaughter only, and he was punished byline and an iniptis enmeht of two months. The day after his release, Admiral Sir Thomas Trowbridge put him on board the Blenheim as first lieu tenant. The United Stated Xavatforce, vow in the Missi ssi/i/i, consists of the following vessels : GUN'S. Schr. Revenge, 12 ? Capt. Read, flag ves sel, com. Shaw. - fyctch .Etna 14 Captain Jones. Vesuvius, 14 Leonard. Gun-boat, No. 11, 2 Dexter. 12 2 JBainbridge 13 2 Alexis-. 14 2 Patterson. Gun-barge Victory, 2 Henley. Total—so Two hundred and thirty-one American ves sels arrived at the port of Amsterdam, from Jan. 1, to Dec. 31, ISO 6, viz j'rom B altimore, 5 6 Boston, 27 Beverly, 1 (’ harleston, 16 Georgetown, 2 Newburyport, 7 New-Orlcans, 2 New-York, 65 -Norfolk, 5 Philadelphia, 23 XoTicr To Maiuxrrs. —The Light House a‘ Sshith’s-Point,on the Potomack, being short ly to he taken down, no light will appear their for some months. —Norfolk paper. The frigate' Ciif.sapeke, Captain Gordon', v',:i this day drop down below.the Branch, and witi proceed to Hampton Roads with the first fair wind.— National Intelligencer. May 8. Resigned. —Henry Hill, agent of the United States, for the-relief and protection oi their seamen, at Jamaica.— lbid. The annual Spanish ship, from Manilla to A.noy, has been captured by the British frigate Phaeton, captain Wood, The. prize is valued on a moderate Computation at 250,000 pounds sterling. —A ew- York paper. Neh'-Tork F.lecT’ios. —*Ih the whole of the sotuhern election district, Mr. Tompkins, the candidate of the disorganizing faction, has obtained a majority of 1723 over Mr. Lewis. The returns from the middle districts are. not complete, but it is expected that it will give a majority for Lewis of about 1700. Ihe south ern and middle districts may, the refore, be con-1 sidered as balancing each other, and the fate of the election will of course depend upon the eas- : tern and western districts. Prom the best in formation which we can obtain, the probability seems to be that Tompkins is elected.— lbid. LiftEAßt IsTEii.iGt.KCE. — It is with plea- j sure we announce to the public, (says theivew- York Citizen) that the Life of Washington, by llamsay, is ready for, and will be put to press in a few days, in this city. Several gentlemen ! who have seen the manuscript, do hot hesitate i to pronounce it, what would naturally be ex- ! pocted from the author and the subject, a work Os the most classic elegance. It will be com prised in one volume, octavo, and printed in an manner. IMPORTANT INSURANCE DECISION. tn the District Court qf Pennsylvania, Monday , Play 4. The argument of Marshal, vs. the Deleware • Insurance Com/ianj , on the case of the Roll y, ’ iva? closed this morning, and judgment given i for the defendants—that they are only liable ! for an average loss.” The principles of the decision are highly important, deciding,for he first time, expressly, 1. That the state of tluffact, not of the intel ligence, at the time of the abandonment, must decide the question of a total or average loss. 2. That capture and restitution before aban donment, though not known here, defeats the claim for a total loss. 3. That the property being safe, although not actually in the possession of the assured, the right to abandon, and claim as for a total loss, cannot be exercised, at a period subse quent, with or without notice of the f.ict here. Judge Washington only declared the leaning of his mind ; as he thought, the fact of actual restitution to the insured, before the hour of abandonment, sufficiently established by the evidence of the Roila. From Plymouth, 2 Portsmouth, 4 Providence, 5 Newport, 2 Salem, 4 Savannah, , 2 Virginia, 2 Wilmington, 1 Batavia, 1 Canton, 4 court or vice-admiralty. Nassau, Tuesday, Muv 5. ‘ Before the -vorsfu/fil Hmrtj AJoretoh Dyer, esq. Sole Judge and Commissary . Sally, Johnson, master, .'.further proof cast. Mr. Armstrong, solicitor-general exhibited fur ther proofs with respect to the shipments of Margaret 1). Schutt and Messrs. Kirk & l ,ukcns of Charleston, merchants, which he prayed to he admitted, and the said shipments to be restored as claimed. Mr. Kerr prayed that the said proofs be reject ed, and the said goods condemned. His honor the Judge, having heard the said Further proofs read, and the arguments of advo cates arid proctors on both sides thereon, decla red them to be insufficient; finally dismissed the claim interposed bv the said Margaret 1). Schutt and Kirk 8c I.ukens; pronounced the said goods to have belonged, at the time of the capture and Seizure thereof, to enemies of the crown ol Great-Ilritain and Ireland ; & as such, or otherwise, subject and liable to confiscation; and by interlocutory decree, commanded the same as good and lawful prize to the ptivatc ship of war Fancy, Henry Wood, Esq. com mander. On Wednesday afternoon', Elizabeth Don nelly was brought to the Pennsylvania hospital, wi.'h her leg very much shattered, and her bo dy burnt and bruised, hv the bursting of a shell idled with combustibles, which a man who came to her hush md’s house, offered for sale, with a parcel of old iron. In the shell there was a plug, which the ven der advised David Donnelly to burn out, by pulling it into the fire. er followed, than the she'd went off. with an ex plosion that alarmed his neighbours. I Several of them who came to assist the fami ly, found the clothes were on fire on Donnelly, his wife and chi!A which thev soon extinguish ed, but not until the sufferers wore injured by the burning. The doors in the room and ceil ing were broke through in different directions. David and bis child arc attended asout patients of the hospital dispensary, and his wife is tak en good care of in the house. How the ven der of this sheil came by it. is unknown, but if any person sold it to him w ithout mentioning the circumstance of its bemg charged, it w'ns \ very inconsiderate, if not u barbarous act.— An Da. Adv. Canandaigua, Ma-ch 01. IToP.hin AfuRDF.K.—A most diaboheal deed was committed at Caladonia, Genesee, on Thursday evening last, by one James M'Lean, a Scotchman, who, with a number of bis coun trymen, were drinking together, Ruing some what intoxicated, a dispute arose alxiut a few pence which M'Lean was told he ought to pav for whiskey, and on refusing, was called a sneak which so enraged him that he seized sn axe, and instantly killed oiie of the disputants, by - blow that nearly cut oft* his neck-"-on his fall ing, another of them, while stooping to take him up, received a similar blow from the infu riated Ruffian, which also dispatched him !! The names ofthe men killed are Wm. Cry and Lochlin JVPLouthlin, The wicked perpetrator of this she king butchery made his escape before the inhabit - . ants rallied to take him, but he was apprehend-, ed on Saturday in Lincoln and is at present lodg ed in the jail of this town. THE AR T OF PRINTING. When we look round the world, and con template the comforts and conveniences which the gig ntic powers of art have superadfted to the spontaneous bounty of nature, a sentiment of pious gratitude ascends to that “giver of every good and every perfect gilt,” who has made man so shrewd and penetrating an ani mal, so fertile in ingenuity, so provident-and successful m seeking resources to guard against the casual evils ot his existence and to meliorate his condition. Ii I list, ious among the arts of invention, stands the Art of Printing. Its first appearance was a new aeru in the history of our species : an event involving and securing the dearest inter- I csts of the human -ace. Too long had a cruel i superstition held mankind in the heaviest ! chains of spiritual thraldom ; too long hud the despotism ofignoiance filled the political at mosphere with thick clouds and deadly va pours: Printing arose"—threw round her on every side the enlivening irradiations of reason: Revelation and science were taught to wear the garb and speak tbe language of common sense; the holy scriptures, translated into the vernacular tongues, were made familiar to general approhension. J t was then tile demons of mischief, unequal to the contest, withdrew forever ; the mitre and crown lost their false lusture ; and power began to assume the form of protection, friendship and peace. To whom we are, under God, indebted for this beautiful art, does not clearly appear. The cities ofMentz and Haerlcm, the one in Ger many and the other in Holland, have long con tended for the priority of the discovery; and the claim of individual invention seems to he equally balanced between Guttenberg and Faust of the, former city, and Koster of the lat ter. Inquiry and discussion have done all they could to fix the merit of this important inven tion, but without success. Numerous claim ants liuvi- perplexed the decision with their dissenlions ; and as it is a question of fact and not o<* ratiocination, we may safely say, if it is not yet ascertained it never will be. To the world at large the question is not momentous. It is the consequences and net the origin of the dis;tvery which lay claim to our adnfica ticr.. Indeed tfe may challenge all history to adduce a single event which has occasioned so astonishing a revolution i:i t! - affairs of men. T lie learned lore of ancient times was ponde rous and Unwetldy. The , aukw3fdness and em barrassment ot multiplied manuscripts levied an enormous tax upon the \ affi ne.’ of the. hon est inquirer, and erudition was startled at re viewing her own labours. The human mind, wanting the gentle excitement of facile intelli gence, was sunk in torpidity, or if roused to ac tion, was roused by unnatural impulse, roused to pursuits of avarice, and ambition, a stranger to the love of wisdom, a sweet commerce with ourselves, and a diffusive spirit of communica tive knowledge. Those, are some among the. happv conse quences of this sublime art . The very exer cise of it is attended with a peculiar pleasure, such as few others in an equal measure inspire. I he compositor at Ins case may consider him self the organ of intelligence to thousands,Sus taining a character of influence over an exten sive'region. The pleasing images of duty to God, love to nis kind, sacrcdncss of truth and usefulness to the. world, flow from his employ ment raid rise in sweet succession in his mind. Tie feels himseli serving the cause of mail, and iiislabiur becomes his pleasure. t’OUT OF SAVANNAH. ARRIVED’. Sloop Nancy, Gorham, Charleston ci.EAitr.m Ship Mary Sc Eliza, Simmons, Liverpool Brig Hope, Place, Ditto Cleopatra, Headley, New-York Schr Edward I’rehble, Southerland, Jamaica” Aurora, Carville, Charleston Sloop Mary Ann, Gregory, New-York • CaarLkston May 22.1R07. ’ rirof vrw i• pv built on tne Ohio, and bonnd for New-OrliMits in attempting to pa,, the Rapids or the lath April lass, {truck on the rocks,and iiukeely tilled* with water. A* this me,merit tiic Ihorcs, terraces arid windows were filled with anxious fpcet.-.tors, enjoying a doubtful pieafure, but in a few minutes their fiv'pettfe was decided with the fate of the ftips, which lay wrecks upon the rocks! 4he apparent, perilous fittta tioc of the crews and gentlemen on board Was dreadful; m Inins without rudders or keels, tumbling from .rock to rock, and rolling from fide to lisle, in a current which runs twelve or fourteen miles an hour, without a pos sibility of being relieved from tbe (bore. Fortunately for the lives on boil and, the ships filled on the rocks with out going to pieces. Mar °F, Ar rived ship Rofonrce, jVTugee, in 72 days from Ri vet Elate. Captain Magee bit at Montevideo, March to, th nj Mary, iiunbury, o’ ihlHmore; liafluuv, Pe deikin, ditto; schooners Sopbrotiia, Mariner, ditto; ships Patty. Knowles, of Philadelphia ; Typer, Webb, ditto; Betfey,-Jones, ditto; Hampden, Mabuty, ot Newport, R. ;.i .Swift, Beecher, ditto; Charles and Harriet, Filuale., and tto , (loop Aurora, Buckley, ditto ; (hips Arrow, Fletcher, of Button ; Perteverance, Ste vens,_ ditto ; Atperb. Lombard, ditto; brig Mentor, C-onev .nit, ditto ; fth’r. Molly, Morris, ditto; (hip Fran, Dijf.jy, (J .Salem ; Flip Minerva, I.aidlor, of I Char'eflon, loading for Europe's brig Minerva, Ger cun,ditto, .lading for the Mediterranean If ting Erankhn, Ebrenftrom, of Charlefiort, bad pr- c,tede . i-p to I’uends Ayres, in hopes to Jet per mi't'on to fell her Haves. 1 be (h't> Geor-re nul Mary, Hn.vett, rif Newno-t, had been at Buenos Ayres, and it wasrffoorted (he had I left it. Ship Rufus, T):d n <*r, of Bode n, f-.iVd f rom \'onts video on the (ft of Match, fur Condon—rapt. Maveii (poke her on the ."th of April, in tat. il'j. long. 2(7. W. Ship Ann, Dounifen, o( Brillol ; and brig Juno Bates, of Providence, p. i, were taken by tbe British “Mr-i., y had entered the River Plate, and on the Fth ot lebritary lent A; to the Cr.peof Good liotielcr tri al. ‘ Ship Bengal, of KV'—-"''-’.:, in gnine’ into Mald.a iiartio ahi.ut the middle of January, (buck on a rock and bilged. The (hips Hampden, ar.d Cotton Planter, towed her up to Montevideo, blit a gale irg on, (h drifted alhore on a point of rocks oppodpethe td\Vn, &nd went to pieces; part of the cargo was frved. Off Tortudas, capt. Williamson (poke (hip Brutus, 57 daj s from Liverpool, bound to New-Orient,*', (ante time, two fail in fight, One of them the blip Orleans,, Tobey, front Philadelphia. Cajtt. ChecseW informsts,that th'e privateers out of Antigua capture almost every American veffcl front the French illands, and as the French capture or rob ail American veflefs hound to Jamaica, &c. our com merce is in a very hopeful way between them. The Industry tailed Trom Antigua, in Company With the brig Jane,Lynch,for New-York, (he having been de tained i-'O days, and part of the mu-go condemned. I,eft at Antigua, fchoorier , Connor, from Cburlefton, 1 bfStu-.d to tit. Thomas. Brig Eliza, ot Philadelphia, to fail for St'. Thomas in 4 or 5 days ; and nrimy ether velfels names not rccn'.lc And. *** The Pews in the Baptist Church will be disposed of on Monday next, the firft day of june, for fix months from that period...thole in arrears for PEW RENT, are deli red to call arid fettle the fame -prior to that period with either of the subferibers, JOSEPH DAVIS, 3 15. BROOKS. (- Trustees, Wm. PATTERSON.J May 2(5. 10 Dollars Reward. f7 0 jj ABSENTED herfelf, since the j * ij 9 ? b irdiatit, a Negro woman na j LjU"-Cv, ij ni °d HOLLAND, well knowa I || \ ij in Savannah, as a vraiber-wom l!;'i J a " about 30 y o a rs of age, dark complexion, large rnodth, thick >-?-<; ,j L r , in Hat tie tail, Horn and raw - • boned, when qacitioncU, answers readily with a coarse voice. Ao I hrve reai'on to fttppofe ibe willies to leave this. Hate, through per fuaiion—l do hereljy caution a'l maiterr, of velfels and others from cmcealing or carrying off said Ne gro, as they may depend on being prol'ecurod to the litmoil rigor of the lav/. The above re ward and all feafonabie charges will be paid for lodging her in any Jail tn die United .Stater, and adviiing her uwner thereof, .rdehvering her in Savannah, to Java Morrica. *,* It is not unlikely that ihc may have a forged pat's, and will endeavor co pa*s herfeif as a free Y^man, May 23 AUCTION. 1 rt-MORROJJ , the 21th instant. Will he sold on Bolton's, (late Clay's ITho ••/; ) RESERVE, . -°>2 lilitis. prime Muscovado SUGAR: “av* ticuiar chop 21 hags prime GREEN COFFEE, Landing from die sloop NANCY. Rale to commence at 11 o'clock. S. 11. Stackhouse, Auct’r. May 2fi AUCTION. o.\ 7 HIRSDAY the 28M instant will oe sr without reserve at. Smith Cf Botukk’s wharf Bhe sioop NANCY, vlyV'&./qJc of Ba'timore, burthen fifty fix tens, w * found and ready (or lea, an invertort*’ may he seen by applying tothe captain on board or ad Mr. A. G. O’mlek’s store. Rale to commence, at 11 o'clock. N. M’Locd, Auct'r. At Private Sale. Three butts Loudon Brown Stout Porter, firft qua ity. May 26. CO PAR TXERS/lIP J ORMEI). i lie fubfcrlbers having entered into Copartnerfhip uh (ier the firm of Woods & Tufts, Offer for sale , at the Savannah Shoe-Store, A GENERAL ASSORTMENT OF pool's, SHOES & SUPPERS, Whtca they have juit received from Bollon. New York and Philadelphia, Daniel Woods. Francis Tufts. May 2C tr 5s Notice. fubferiber being desirous his latff * business to a final close, acquaints thole who aro indebted to hifii, that Mr. hY.incis Tufts, at the Savan nah Shoe Store, is amhorifed to receive monies, and o’ve dis charges ; that he will call bn£e on all in arrears', and lucli as do not then pay or liquidate, will be lued without difUmftion. Daniel Woods. May 26. xr 1 5a Robert M'ackic, IIAS FOR SALE. Old Coginac Brandy, old Jamaica Rum, Holland Gin* Maderia Wine, bell London Porter, Newark Cider in bottles, Double Glouccf'er .111 H AfnelffiAn Cheese; i Teas, Coffee, Chocolate, Black Pepp ■, .V uliard and Vinegar, 1.0.-1 and Brown .Sugars, i>w f, Poik, Baton and hiih, with abuoH every article in the GROCERY LINE, whit h. lie will warrant to he of the brff. Having a con-- lidi ruble ftocic <l. hand, ai.t the Ivafon fad apiuo.au i iw when hut httio hulii’es can be done, induces him to (ell foralmoH colt a:.d ‘charges, to thole who ntay want them by the quantity for SEA-S’l ORBS 01 I'AMIJ Y USA As u i.turple < I which, the'F-enih Brandy Ja maica Ku at, and Holland Gin, v. dl he (old at one dinar and twenty.live cents p* r gailoll, by the three gallons and upwards,and .II other tilings in proportion, her cathuniy, without, which, none need to apply, lliay tuu-llrcct, near the Bay. way i.li m 53 Spruce Beer, Cyder AXD PORTER HOUSE. r ij TIE Subscriber respectfully infclrms (liev J. public and his customers in general, that he carries on bis Brewery of SPRUCE BEER, as usual, at his Store in Bay Lane, opposite the Ekchifrige, where it may be had every week day. A i.so, lie's! bottled Cyder, London Porte 1 y Ale, best old Port, Madeira and other Wines, the choicest Liquors and Groceries, best Go shen Cheese, and a few eroccs of velvet Corks. llc also keeps a supply of Spruce Beer at bis former Store, opposite the Homan Catholic. Chapel. JO IIX BltiAß. P.S. Those who would wish to have Beer oft Sundays, will please to get supplied ora Saturday. May 2d t. 53 R U T T E R. last Received, 37 Regs choice Butteri For Sale low, by A. S. Richards. May 23 l 52 Notice. The following articles were forwarded hy captoirt Xf.lsou, rs the schooner Jour, from Philadel phia, (arrived at Charleston) and stored with the subscribers. 2 barrels marked S. V/. addressed to Jos. Wigfill, Savannah. 2 whole arid one half ditto marked G. S. addrcfftdf to John Turnbull, Fsqr. 4, bundles Fruit Trees, directed to tbe care of Nr. F. H. Wellman, for Jos. Stiles, Ksqr The owners or their agents are notified, that if trA fame are not. called tor previous to the loth of June next, they will then be let up at attrition, to fatufy tb charges thereon, Knox U Pope. May :3 u f