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The movements in this direction would be ‘
under any circumstances ud'.antus>eous —it the
place were taken, the Russians would have their
Jett turned, and their rear endangered.
Their magazines would be either destroyed
or captured ; and by the occupation oi the aie
liiel and Neimen rivers, the supplies fiom the
interior would be intercepted, and the Russians
be hemmed up in the arid and sandy country ;
of S-maland, and they would have no choice of j
making a future stand but by an abandonment 1
of Koningsberg, and a hasty retreat intoSamo- j
gitia or perhaps to Courland.
If the Russians on the other hand, should de
termine to suppoi and cover Grodno ; the left
wing under Rernudotte, was within two day’s
inarch of that place ; and the issue of an attack
is not difficult to foresee.
We lay much stress on the character of the
general who commands the French right.—
ilia name is very familiar to the Russian ear
ever since their campaign in Swisserland.
The circumsti cos of the army and their
movements very much strengthen those con
jectures, which we threw out under the title
of a project for the ca-n/iuigii a levy weeks ago.
We consider it as improbable that any ac
tion, other than a mere beating up of quarters,
which is generally performed for purposes of
discipline rather than to make an impiessiun,
can have taken place, at any period before tiie
2 >th of April; a few days after or before ; un
less Massena might with Ins cav. !ry and horse
artillery have attempted Grodno, uy a 10 t/i tie
vuiin —a matter by no means improbable ; but
we speak of the. grand army.
i
NORFOLK, May 21.
The following case of suicide, which happen
ed on board the packet schooner Huldah and
Ann, from New-York to this port, was handed ;
to us by tne subscriber :
t: A young man who came on board at New-
York to work his passage, was observed by tie
rac e to have talked incoherently on .Sunday
ni; lit, and next day at noon, he came on deck
apparently much disordered in intellect, took
oil’ his hat and threw it overboard ; on which,
captain Fitzhugh and his passengers thought
fit to confine him, lest he should jump over
board, which was sccordiogly done in the fore
castle, after taking the precaution of searching
him for a knife, or any thing else with which
he might destroy himself, and removing every
thing oi the kind in the fore-castle. As soon
as he was settled below, I went down to exam
ine him. 1 found him talking and looking wild
ly. requesting me, it I was a doctor, to dress
his back, and to observe how the} had lacerat
ed it, that they had given him ten dozen lashes
&c. Thinking that he might have received
some corporeal punishment, which made this
fatal impt ession upon his mind, 1 looked at his
back, and could not perceive the smallest trace
of a lash ever having been inflicted upon him;
his pulse was ninety, tongue and skin natural,
the pupils of the eyes much dilated, accompani
ed with a vacant stare.
I gave him 120 drops of tincture of opium in
a iitbe weak toddy, with an intention of repeat
ing the dose, if necessary, when the effect of
the first should have ceased ; but it appeared
to have no effect whatever, and at 3 o’clock
he forced his way on deck, and with much dif
ficulty was prevented from jumping overboard;
he was fore ed down again, and in less than an
hour afterwards the mate came and told me
that he had cut his throat; upon which I ran
up from the cabin to the fore-scuttle, where I
saw him standing, all bloody, with a razor in
his hand, and in a menacing posture to prevent
any c,,e going down—he then cut into his ab
domen, and across the flexore of the left arm,
still holding the razor in his hand to prevent
ar.y one going down, which the smallness of
the scuttle rendered it impossible to do, with
out being cut by him. ihe loss ol blood was
now so great that he staggered and dropped
the razor, on which he was laid hold of and
brought on deck, when he expired. On exa
mination, it was found that the razor with
which he committed the horrid deed, was one
of a case contained in a hair trunk belonging
to him, which escaped notice, and which he
bioke open, having, it is supposed, lost the
key. It appeared, by the razor in the case
being bloody, that he had attempted his pur
pose with that also. II is name appears, from
papers found, to be Patrick Kennedy, late a
steward of one of the gun-boats.
M. Ch adwick, surgeon, late of Grenada.
[The above unfortunate man was lately mar
ried to a genteel young woman in Portsmouth.]
i We understand that the President has just
received a letter from the Bey ofTunis, couch
ed in terms of friendship towards the United
btutes. and that information by the smne oppor
tunity, was received at the department of state
from colonel Lear, of his having effected an en
tire adjustment of our differences with the Bey.
—jYai. Intel.
A passenger in the brig Ceres, arrived at
New-York from Guadeloupe, informs that a
v, ,sel arrived there from St. Thomas the day
before he sailed, with intelligence, that a French
squadron out of Rochefort had taken the Cape
et Good Hope Capt. Shepherd, of the Ceres,
states, that a British vessel, from England, for
Cape Francois, with a cargo of 200,000 dollars ‘
value, was brought into Point-Petrc by a French
privateer, the day before he sailed.
The Boston Repertory states, that the recent
tumults in the university of Cambridge have
been quelled; that tranquility is again restor
ed- and that the literary exercises of the college
now proceed as usual.
In a Paris paper of the 2d of April, there are ‘
a' , vert'--ed for saie, by public vendue, three
HUNDRED PRUSSIAN VPS: ELS, serneU ill the ‘
per ts oi .Bordeaux and i.iOoui ne .
FEDERALISM UNMASKED.
I'rom the Columbian Gazet'e.
Since the meaning of the extract fiom the
letter of Gaylord Griswold is doubted by some
persons, and since his oath possibly may mis
lead others, in their conceptions of the same.
I will add the two paragraphs which precede
the extract—they arc as follow :
“ You do me great honor in compliments...your
j caution again ft young memb rs {peaking too much is
J fure’.y juft,hut not appiicab eto me. I have been veiy
silent as von no doubt twiy have Seen noted by the Utica
democratic paper; in that paper great inquiry was
made, 1 was presumed loft, by not appearing in the
paper in the debates.
“ The federal party take very Tittle part in the de
bates. We leave them to manage their afi.iirs in their
own way, and you may depend upon it they manage
bad enough ; all want the honor of lpeaking and go
verning ; they quarrel, fco and and almott fight; no
hing prevents their fighting but want of courage.
“ The movements of liurr and fturb the quiet of their
fouls...he will ftiake the very centre of their conc ave.
You may left iffui td,my good lei tow, that if our friends
but plat true, Burr wif cliaftise these uiurpers of
• power with a rod they deferve...he is no more one
■ of their party, though lor certain pur poses mull so
appear...rely upon this as true. He is the only perlon
who can chastise these fe lows...and policy dictates
OUR UNITY TO GIVE HIM A SUPPORT.. ALL OUR
federal friends now in this city have the fame
oppinion...ail the judges of the supreme court are unit
ed with us in this opinion. It is a matter of great fur
prile among our iedera friends here how Hamilton Lan
take so imprudent a part. Report fays that H—n made
a long fpeecli in favour of Hauling and against Burr...
all our lederal triends now in this city are lot king up
1 with anxiety to the election of New-York ; rheir only
hopes are founded on the success of £u rr...though j
this Ihoiild not be known to any but real friends, j
W hat have we to expect from Laming...he is nomin- <
ared by Clinton, and Spencer, and their creatures...lie <
mutt and will be their tool. The old go vet nor is to 1
be vice preiident, and ail will be muted to the great
t rr.dmmfTTh of democrac) by ties too ftrorg to be broken ■
| V\ e car. do nothing of OUI iclves againit the niigh y tor- *
; rent...(had we not then rather join the enemy of our
, enemy than the enemy oi jtfurr and us both? ‘Think
i well of this qneftion 1 G. GRISWOLD.”
j The affidavit oi Mr. Griswold upon the sub
j ject ol’ the above extract is as follows :
1“ Herkimer County ss.
“ Gaylord Grisvvo'd of the town and county of Her
kimer, being du!y sworn on the holy evangeiifts of
i Almighty God, depofeth and sairh,that he never had
any knowledge whatioe v er of any piot or p.ots, combi
's nation or combinations, between the federalifts of this
f state or any othei state in the union, and Aaron
. Burr,hoitile to the conftiti.tion or government ol the
. Un te States, or this Itate. Neither does he know or
t has he at any time known of any combination or ar-
I' ’ rangumenc between the federaiifts and laid Burr, lor
any purpose whatsoever. ,
“Gaylord griswold.”
Sworn the 25tli day of April, 1807, before me Water
Frih, justice of the peace.
Hei e, fellow citizens, you have fully in view
two productions oi Gaylord Griswoiu—judge
i 3 of their consistency and inconsistency—read •
:] the letter and then read the oath, li Gay lord 1
J Griswold was vile enough, while he was the
, ? repiessutative of a free people, to write such a
. j letter, whcthei the contents of it were true oi?
false- he certainly would be vile enough to
i swear to the contents of his affidavit! Then
. i let the world judge whether his affidavit helps
: him, yea or nay. .et the world the judge
between him and me—whether he was most
guilty in writing the letter, or I in publishing
. the same ?
As to the letter I wrote to him, it was in an
swer to one he had first written to me ; which,
however, was iiltie more than a cover to Ins
maiden speech in congress. I then consider
ed it, on his part, as fishing for a compliment';
! civility demanded that I should return the
compliment, which I did accordingly, as in my
letter which lie has published. i was then a
federalist, and can say as Raul said, “ 1 was
j zealous towards God as ye are all this day, I
| persecuted this way,” &c until the receipt of
j this letter —l then halted — it contained, to my
! understanding, plots, too gross to be couute-
nanced.
1 frankly acknowledge, from having read for
| the most part federal newspapers, I had enter
j ttiincd very unfavorable sentiments towards
governor Clinton, and also towards judge Spen
cer. But upon a close investigation into the
charges brought by the federalists against those
two gentlemen, I found them to be without
foundation and totally false. I now have an ex
. | alted, a reverential opinion of governor Clinton,
j and view him justly enti led to the high station
jhe now fills. Judge Spencer is, not only in
| my opinion, but in the opinion of every man
| who speaks of him, a most able judge ; he ac
. . quits himself with honor equal to any judge
who has graced tiie bench of our supreme
court—he not only merits my esteem but has
it in a superla’ive degree,
j As to Mr. lord’s affidavit, I wholly deny the
4 truth of it: and I will venture to affirm that
. ; there is not the solitary instance of another
man in the world, who will s; y that I ever ad
. , vocated the election ol Burr. My nearest
neighbours and acquaintance bear me witness,
i that I never advocated his election ; i( ever I
mentioned such a thing it lias totally escaped
;my recollection. By Mr. Ford’s affidavit, it
t would appear I had been the first projector of
■ the whole plot! ! This is swearing too much,
j No man will believe that this combination ori
. ginated with me. ‘I o plot a scheme like this,
requires the cunning of a Burr ; and to propa
gate and prosecute it, requires the depravity of
a Griswold. J. Hatheway.
Hume, IS lay 2, 1807.
~
A passenger in the schooner Amazon, that
arrived at New-York on the 22<l ult. in 22 days
| from i rimdad. informs, that a few days before
j they sailed, a flag of truce arrived at Trinidad
! from the Main, with an account of the death of
I the Prince of Peace, occasioned by a kick front
! one of his high-mettled chargers. The news
{ was received direct from Madrid.
Savannah,
SATURDAY EVENING. JUNE 13, 1807.
A schooner from New-Orleans, for one of
the Atlantic states, was spoken a lew days since
ofi Havana, on board of which was general Wil
kinson, who has been subpoenaed as a witness
against colonel Burr.
General William Eaton, the late hero of
Derne, is chosen a Representative to the gen
eral court of the commonwealth ot Massachu
setts, for the town of Brimfield.
Circular letter from Tobias Lear , Esq. dated
Tuni St March 1.
Sir—l have the honor and sati- r action to in
form yon, that the differences which existed
between the United States of Americn, and the
Regency of Tunis, and which, on the depart
ure of the Tunisian ambassador from the U
nited States, threatened to terminate in a rup
ture between the two nations; are now happi
ly and honorably settled. And the commer
cial intercourse between the citizens of the U.
States and this regency, may he carried on with
as much security and advantage, as that of any
other nation with whom the Bey is in friend
ship.
To the several consuls of the U. States
in the Mediterranean.
E r tract of a letter from an officer of the United
! States army , at Eor'-Stoddert to his friend in
st ‘seusta, dated April 14.
, M 1 he Spaniards at Mobille have assumed
i a degree of insolence altogether intolerable.
• In open opposition to the assurances which we
: last fall received from general Howard of Pen
i sar.nla, of the free passage of our vessels and
1 eftecL, by Mcbille, they put our people to the
j trouble, risk ami expence oi unlading every
article of 1 heir cargoes, and make them pay u
toll of 12 per cent, thereon. The schooner
Victory, of New-York, left this port a few days
ago, with a cargo of cotton, for New-Orleans,
1 the duties on which, at the Mobille, amounted
to 1. 140 dollars. The sloop Castor, laden with
stores for the troops at this place, and goods
for the Choctaw factory, has been detained
since the middle of last month, under the pre
text that some of the papers are wanting to ena
ble them to.pay the duties.”
In arlditi n to the foregoing, a detachment
of United States troops, under major Sparks,
5 which had been ordered to Fort Stoddert by
gen. W ilkinson, in April last, has been coni
- pel led to return to New-Orleans, the Snanish
1 commander at Mobile having refused it per
mission to pass that post.
j LITERARY NOTICE.
1 It is with pleasure we announce to the pub
lic, that Mr- John lloff has now in press, in
> considcutblc forwardness, Dr. Buchan’s FA
MILY WEDICAL WORKS, containing his
DOMESTIC MEDICINE Ulld ADVICE TO MO
THERS. The fit.st is taken from tiie last revis
ed edition of the doctor’s, in 1798, which con
tains considerable improvements and additions;
■ and we understand the present Charleston edi
tion will contain, besides said improvements,
many important and large additions. We wish
the industrious and enterprising publisher suc
cess. We have seen the print and paper, and
pronounce it will be a handsome & very cheap
. edition. —Charleston City Gazette.
i THE EDI FOR of the NATIONAL
IN 1 liLLIGENCER, having, from a regard
to his health, determined to exchange his pre
sent profession for one less laborious, oilers to
■ dispose of his establishment, consisting of the
National Intelligencer, printed three
times a week, and the Universal Gazette,
pi inted weekly.—This disposition will only be
made to a person of sound republican princi
ples. It is desirable that the terms should be
arranged by personal communication with the
Editor.
The Editors of Republican prints through
out the union will confer a favor by inserting
this advertisement a few times in their papers.
TRIAL OF CAPTAIN WHITBY.
A court martial assembled on hoard the Gladiator,
in Portsmouth harhor, on the 16th and 17th of April,
to enquire into the conduct of captain Whitby, late of
his majesty’s !hii> I.eander, who, by order of captain
Jihn P. Beresford, of his majesty’s (hip Cambrian,
(about April last) then commander in chief of his ma
jesty’s Blips and vefiels on the Halifax station, was
dirt-died to cruize off New-Y'ork, for the purpose of
gaining information, and who, by letter dated the 6th
of IViay last, to captain Beresford. repreient.d, that
Oil the 25th ol the preceding month, several vcffels
were coining down from the light-house, near New-
York, and, as they persisted in not attending to the
firft (hot fired from the Leander, when closely pursued
several of the said vessels were boarded, and among
the number that did not bring to, was a coaiting
(loop, on board of which, it appeared, by various let
ters and papers tranfn itted by captain Beresford to
the admiralty, an American leaman was unfortunately
killed by aftiot fired from the Leander,'or from form;
other of his majesty’s (hip, and vefiels then under the
orders of captain Whitby. The court having enquir
ed into the conduct of captain Whitby, on a charge of
violating the neutrality of a nation in amity with his
majelty, and having, on the 25th of April last, with
in the waters and jurifdibtion of the United States
of America, un.awfully, wilfully, and of his malice
aforethought, rauled a Ihot to he fired from his ma
j jelly’s (hip Leander, thereby one john Pierce, a citi
zen of America, was seriously killed and wounded ;
and having heard tiie evidence in support of the charge,
and captain Whitby in hi. defence; and having ma
turely c< nlidered the whole, w ere of opinion, that the
charge had not been proved, and did adjudge captain
Whitby—to be acquitted.—London paper, April 21.
Married , on the 7th instant, b the rev. Mr.
Cloud, Mr. William Jones, to M’s. Mart
TltlLLitLlr.it.
PORT OF S YYA.WAIk
arrived,
B? g Two Friends, Curtis, Boftoti, 16 days... Geo.
Anderson Me rchandize.
Snow Diana, Pinckney, Gibraltar, 52 days... Jan.
Wallace—BullalL
cleared.
Brig Lovely Lass, Wheeler, New-York—Jas. &Wm.
Magee.
Sloop Ranger, Beck, ditto—master.
Tile Liverpool Packet, Kinnaird, and Sarah and
Fliza, Holland, from Savannah, have arrived at Liver
pool.
The Nancy from Savannah, for Gibraltar, has been
captkred by the Spaniards, and lent into Algefiras.
New-York, May 25.
The brig Augusta, 112 days from Manilla, for Bal
timore, was captured on the 17th instant, ithin 6or 7
miles of Cape Henry, by the Btitiib frigate Me'ampus.
and sent to Halifax. The pilot that brought up the
(hip Merchant had charge oi the Augusta, at the time
Ihe was captured.
A fipanilh schooner from Vera Cruz for Havanna,
with 61,000 dollars on board, has been captured by an
Eng ifli hrig.
1 be schooner Mefienger, White, from Barce ona, wins
captured off Cape Henry, by the Me ampus and sent to
Ha ifax.
iff?™ The staunch and fast-sailing
Brig PALLAS, for I.IVEUPOOI , can take SIX-
I Y BALES OF CO (’TON, under deck, and fifty
bales on deck, it immediate application is made, to
S. & C. Howard.
June 13 6l
Linseed Oil.
Received on configument, fifteen caffs I.INSF.ED
OIL, which will lie fold very I- w Rice or Cotton
will be taken in payment. App yto
1 aylor &. Scarbrough.
J ,me 3 B— 6i
Wanted immediately,
300 pieces HANGING TIMBER,
Os large d,mentions, and from twentv-two to forty
five or fifty feet long, well fquaredand butted,
AND,
30,000 xu/iite-oak I fogs fiend Staves.
James Wallace.
j lie M— 6i
Spruce Beer.
THE Subscriber has taken the (tore lately occupied
by Meflrs Higgins and Hadden, nearly opposite
Mrs. Scrimmeger’s, in Bay Lane, where he carries on
the SPRUCE BI.ER BREWERY, and where his
.■fiends and the public in genera’, may be accommodated
with any quantity of the very belt quality.
Ak xantkr k/clannoy.
June 13. M . 6,
Boarding.
A few gentlemen can be genteelly accommn.
da'eil with Boarding and Lodging at Mrs. ANN
SrCUl's, near the Exchange, and opposite Alex
ander Haberlham’s Drug and Medicine Store
June i j. E -6 1
LO s T
SOME short time fmce.a small Patent POCKET
BOOK, the pencil of which is inferred m a qu U
As the book contains nothing but feme mem :and
ums, only < f use to the c wt <r, any perlon finding
ti e lame, will rect-v a hntable reward and thank.,
ii delivered to the printeis.
June i 3 a,
auction:
? ~ “I
tie’- ’ if d.’ ■ a
On Thursday irxl, June 18th.
Will be sold a the dwelling house orcufiied by
Mr. ‘Human M. Woqdbridge, at the east end
of Urout'h!on-street ,
All his House and Kitchen Furniture,
CONSISTING OF
1 Sofa
1 Pia"a Forte, approved by the firft Amateurs
) Desk, with glass book case
Sideboard, Secrt-tary, ‘fables, Chairs, Bed (leads.
Prints, Looking G uffes, with a variety of
CROCKERY & GLASS WARE.
ALSO,
One Horse and Chair with a top.
Conditions Cafh...Sale to commence at 4 o’clock P. M.
IVilliam IVuodbridge , Auct’r.
June 13 61
Chambers, Chatham Countv,
Inferior Court, \2th June, 1807
Df. James Ewell, 1
ats. I
Jonathan Cooper. J
ON the petition of James Ewed doctor of physic,
dating that he is confined in the gaol of this coun
ty for debt, at the luit ot Jonathan Cooper by process
from the Superior Court of the county of* Chatham}
that he is unable to pay the debt for which he is con
fined or to g ve bail to answer the fame, or to support
himlelf during his confinement; but is willing to deliver
up all hr, estate, real and perfonul, for the benefit of his
creditors, and praying to be admitted to the benefit of
the inlolvent debtor’s atfts of this Itate.
It is orderkd. That notice ot this application be
served upon each of the creditors of the said fames
Ew ell, ana be publilhed in one of the gazettes of the
city of Savannah, that they may appear at the Court-
House in the said city of Savannah, on Friday the
3d day ofluly next, to (hew cause, if any they have,
why the prayer ol the aid petitioner Ihould not be
granted.
Edw<rd Telfair. )
A. S. Bulloch, S , ' l c - c - c ’
1 Je 13 sci .