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fcuide on the pretext either us withholding the; Wonted to the British flag, or of smug gling in defiance of British tews. This extension of the British law to font leagues from the sho:e is inferred fivnt an act of parliament passed it', the year 173 >. 2 . C. 35) the teVms of which comprehended afi vessels, foreign as well as Biinh. It is possi ble, however, that the foi mer are constructive ly excepted. Should your inquiries ascertain this to lie case, you wiii find yourself on La ter ground, than the conccs ion here made. With respect to the compliment paid to the British flag, it is also pos :file that more is here conceded than you may find to he necessary.— Afterthe peace of 1783, this compliment was pc re mo. wily withheld by France, in spite oi the remonstrance of (B eat-Britain ; uijd it re rnni-fls for your inquiry, w nether it did not con tinue to be refused, notwithstanding the failure at Amiens to obtain from Great-B>itain a for mal renunciiiori of the claim. From every view of the subject, it is rea sonable to expect that the exception of the narrow seas from the stipulations against im pressments, will not be inflexibly maintained. .Should it he so, your negotiation, will he ai an end. The trmh is, that so great a proportion ot our trade direct and circuitous, passes thro’ ’ those channels, and such is its peculiar expo sure in them to the wrong practised, that with such an exception, any remedy would he very partial. And we can never consent to pur chase a partial remedy, by confirming a gener al evil, and by subjecting ours. Ives to our own reproaches, as well as to those of other nations. Isir. Thornton, in answer to 0.,e from me, of both w.iich copies are inclosed, as from con versations with Air. Merry, that the facility which would be given, particularly m lae Brit ish channel, by the immunity claimed tor Ame rican vessels, to the escape of traitors, and the desertion of others, who, e services in time of war may be particularly* important to any* ene my, forms one of the pleas for the British p.uc tice of examining American crews, and will he one of the objections to a formal relinquishment of it. This plea like all the others, admits a solid . and satisfactory reply. In the first place, if u could prevail at all against the neutral claim, it would authorize the seizure of the persons de scribed only, and in vessels bound to a hostile country only ; whereas the practice of impress ing i s applied to persons lew if any of whom are aiiedged to be of either description, and to ves sels vlii hersoever bound, even to Great-Bi itam herself. In ’he next place it is not only a preference of a similar object on one side to a greater object'd) the other; but a sacrifice of right on one side, to expediency on die other •side. FROM THE NATIONAL INTELLIGENCER. There is no doubt that, whatever hope may be entertained ot preserving peace, we ought to be prepared for war, as it is most probabl. - we ahuil haw it. It therefore becomes the nation by ali tile means in their power, to prepare foi an event which will require their greatest ex ertions. For we venture to predict, that the w ,r, once begun by our country, will be waged on our part with a dutermin >ti>n to make our enemy feel the lull weight of that vengeance that a free and powerful nation possesses the power of inflicting.—Justm proportion to the value we set on peace will he the greatness oi our efforts to shorten the period us war, and crown that effort with victory Let not B.i tuin imagine that we shall again exhibit die same languid and inactive scene of hostilities that characterised our revolutionary struggle. Fiiice that era we have more than doulneci our numbers, and our wealth, and resources, an,, consequently our means of resistance, have Ttiore than quadrupled. We have ten limes as much circulating - specie. •* We have an established credit, on which the government may draw to an almost unh jmted amount. Our navigation is ten times as great, which may be, and probably wouid he, nearly the whole of it, converted into letters of marque and reprisal, which, by the extent of their captures, wouid probably yieid us a more li beral supp,y of foreign production than is at present received through the ordinary chan nels of trade. And as to the sale of our surplus produce, t:ie very war would increase the demand lor it, while it diminished its amount. Foi, in _ tbe iirst place, as a considerable number of the bands usually employed in agriculture, would be engaged in defending tlie country, cither as regulars or miiitiu, it wuuld follow necessa rily that a less aggregate amount of produce wouid lie raised, leaving consequently a smal ler surplus than in ti ..es of peace. And, in the second places the European demand would remain the same ; notwithstanding all the obstructions given by the utitish fleet to its fi ee passage over the ocean, such is the nature of most of the articles, and the absolute neces sity of obtaining them, that Britain, from an indispensable regard to her own interests, would continue to supply herself with them th “ough neutral channels. Neither her sub jects can live, nor her manutactuiqs go on without them. It m.-.y be safely inferred from these consi derations that there is not the least room for apprehension that our products will sustain any such depression in price as they experi enced during the revolutionary war. There is one other ciicumstance that will, in no incon siderable degree, prevent this effect. Many of our citizens, now engaged in agricul ture, will turn their avienuun to manufactures *h; necessary effect of which will be a diminu- . ti# in the quantity of our surplus production by lessening the number of growers and in- | creasing the number of consumers among our selves. YVc do not pretend to say that war | v. ill liit de press the p iec of produce ;we only 1 mean to contend that this depression will be oy no means so great or ruinous us it was during the late war. Among the most illustrious displays of una nimity and American spirit, is that evinced in the state oi Connecticut. This stale, hitherto so distracted by political feuds, holds an mini- ■ ri led sentiment on the outrages of the British • 1 he following ts taken from a Federal pi mt, 1 published at Mew-Haven, the soul of govern- ; meiit. | “ ’l lie anniversary of our independence was commemorated in this ci y, with a spirit truly national. Until after intelligence of the out- . rage committed off the Capes of Virginia had j arrived, no measures had been taken for a ge neral ceicbi alien of the day ; but roused by this event, a mcetint of the citizens was con vened at the State-House, on Thursday even ing, and inspired by a spirit of conciliation wor thy ot this awftil crisis in our history, a vote was taken without a dissenting voice, that a committee ot arrangements should he appoint ed and selected from both politiral fwrties. The gentlemen thus chosen were assiduous in tne task assigned them ; and although the inter vening time was extremely short, every neces sary preparation was completed. The trails- j actions of the day, the reader w ill find recor ded in the adjoining column. But injtis.ice would be done to our own feelings,and vve trust ; to those which universally prevailed, did we! p.tss iii silence the harmony and unison of sen- 1 tinient which pervaded the guests. The num ber who partook at the festive board was near- | ly two hundred ; composed of citizens who i lihve long been arranged under they banners of opposite politics. Yet the dragon -of party found no whi perers here. On this day every unsocial principle was made a w illing sacrifice at the Shrine of patriotism. \\ e most cordial ly reciprocate.— ,l ri fay every succeeding fourth of July find us inspired by the same spirit.” KINGSTON, (J.) June 30. For a few day s pad, the weather lias wore a very unlett ed and threatened aspect, and on Sunday night last, a It-vere (quail of w ind, accompanied with a fab of rain,commenced in this city, and lulled for l'ome time, but no other injury ent’ued from it than blowing down a few o and fences. The wind, however, continued in a great degree, boisterous during the night, and yeßer duy morning, between nine and ten o’clock, began blowing with increased violence, threatening coniide rabie injury to the (hipping in the harbor, leveral ol which broke from their moorings and drilted aganill the wharves, particulai.y ionie us the prize vi lie is, as also tile Valentine and Susannah, merchantmen, both of which received conhderah.e injurythe tatter fpi ingnig her bowsprit,! udder, fee. ; but we regret moll to lla.e, j that the Baroness Longuieul, merchantman lately ar tiveti in ballad from the Rio de ia Plata, broke from her anchors & upset immediately after : the crew loitu nutely clung to the lides, aim were a.l prelerved except one pool hoy w ho went down into the cabin to luveliis 1 clothe-.on [ erceiviagt he veflclgoing, but tne water rulh ed in so fad, that he vas unfartimaiaiy drowned. Great ‘ hopes ire entertained that the vellei will be railed,’ being very light, and every endeavor uled by cutting ■ away her topmalls, clearing the rigging, &c. A llup’s boat with eighteen barrels of fu-jar, was likewil’e un fortunately funk, and it is laid lome of the people in . her were drowned. iVlany of the wharves received considerable damage front the thumping oi the drifting I velTeis agaiud them ; it is ado fuppoled that wherries ; and different passage boats, mult have uplet during the < severity of the w ind. . July 1. We are extremely happy to mention, that the boy, who was fuppoled to have pel idled in the cahili ol the Buronefs Longuieul, has been molt providentially per lerved, to the altomlhment ot the whole community. It appears tnai'he got into a iiituation where he was just enabled to keep Ins head above waier, gamed a linn looting with his lect, and a hold above with his hands, and that he remained ii: tins perilous date un.il yelter- 1 day morning, when,on the veilid righting couliJerably, Iroai the afliftaiice affoi ded her, he rame through one of the cabin windows, and nailed a boar which was pas ling c.ole by, to take him on more, tor he was lo ex ti cm y we-ua and exhauited, thai tie was uiidnie io make , any tin tl.tr efforts to lave Ins hie, or even vvlien landed to Hand on ills legs. .Audi a miraculous eleape irotn cue jaws of d* ith might seem aunolt toiavour the doctrine of predeftuiatioii. GL )RGI A, yßv Thomas B u k'.clerk i the Court 1 I- 8 >of Ordinary for rlit- C unty o. Chat j Th. Baurke. ) ham, in the Hate aforel’aid. WHEREAS Be"jarrin Anll.-v, his made ap- j pheation f r iette.-s of aammitba ion on the el.ate I and elfects of Adam Bea;h, late of the city of! savannah, elq ilecenled, a principal creditor. Thefeare therefore to cue and admnmfh all and iin gular the kindred and c.editors of the decealed to nle their bjecnons (if any they have) mmy office, on or before the s</h day of Auguli next, otherwile letters of admrni Itrition wdi be granted him. Given under my hand arid leal, this 29th day of July, m the year of our Lord, one thouland eight hundred and v -11, and in the tlirty ie cor.d year of American Independence. 80 GEORGIA, I By Thomas Bourke.c erk oftheC’ urt h. S. sos Ordinary tir the County of Chat Tb. Bourke. j ham in the Hate afoielaid. WHEREas liazen Kamiiall, lias made applica tion lor letterr of adminiltrati-n on the eltate arid effects of Rrofper Huob ird, late of the city of Savan nah, deceafel, as creditor. Tliefe are therefore to cue a idadmonilh all and lin gular the kindred and creditors of the deceased to file their objections (if any they have) in my officq, on or hi fore the tcylh day of Auguli next, otherwile letters of admimltratiou will be granted. Giv n under my hand and leal, this 29'h day of Jnly, in the rear of our Lori, one thoul'and eignt hundred and I’tven, and in the thirty se c nd year of American Independence. 80 JAMES McKOXKY begs leave to acquaint his friends and the public in genera that be is a CANDIDATE for the Cuckk of the Makx e r ; andlodicits their fuflerage at the next enlu ing election. July UA Tt 80 Savannah, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 30, 1807. Never <lo we recollect to have seen our hur hoi so completely destitute of shipping; as at present—excepting tince sail at Five Fathom, there is not a square tigged vessel iit the port. A letter from (,’h lesion, says, 4i the pack ets ais. .ai mi—captain Brown lias been thir ty days wailing for a wind.” Piucks Cun he \ 7’ —S’.,’ r 1 ss ah. Cotton. Sea-Island 37 1-2 cents Upland - - - 18 a 19 1-2 Co.n ------- -- -- fel 50 scarce Flour 8 75 aS 9 lce - - - - 325 a 3JO dull. MARKET TRICES. i?c. Cotton on i hursdav last 15 cents, this is something. —Salt in abundance at 75 vents ; the sootier the planters lay in a few bushels the bel ter, for Turks Island belongs to die British, as yet —Beef and mutton mote plantil’ul, but not cheaper than in our last— Chickens scarce, and dear of course—Water Mellons, Squashes, &c. much riper, and in profusion—Peaches coming in baskets, but clinging for want of cash— Horse apples, a drug—Tar and Feu hers in some demand—Musqtietoes just in season— Caterpillars seeking what they may devour, and British bu.ggs swarming on the coast, but not expected they will ever again be able to wing so high up into Georgia as Col. Brown’s Old Foil.— Avgusta Chronicle. Tates* Sails. — A person in England has obtained a patent for making vessels’ sails in anew manner. The principal difference be tween the new and old mode we believe is, that in the new, the sails are made with the canvas crosswise. It is said they last longer, reef better and stand better upon the wind. Shocktng Accident —Five children, the family ot Mr. John M Singley, living on Poplar Ridge, Scipio, Cayuga county, were poisoned last week by eating wild parsnip or lmishquash root. ‘i lie children, while playing about the house, had dug up some of this root and eaten it—the baneful quality of which proved so powerful, that two out of the five died, notwith standing every medical assistance. The other three are in a fair way of recovery. It is to be hoped that this melancholy event will make people very careful in digging up this root, when observed near their houses—and. that they will correct their children when found eating any kind of wild lietbs. durora Ga zette. We have before remarked, that (he procl imarior. of the preMerit -va as nervous an I efficient'as the law oA which it is predicated will permit. We now learn that every exertion is making to complete all the gun boat* aurhoriied by Jaw. and to lay oirq.fo :ho bed pos sible advantage he appropriation* ffir fortifications. The governors of the fever.d His es hive been lequired to hold in readiness rheir quotas of 100,000 men The ftatr of lVnnfylvania is to lurnilh 15,9:5.5 militia, of whom 1500 are to hr horse, and H'KV artiilery. We believe this draft will be about one lixth of ali the mili tia in the {late. In every diftridt of the union, we mark the moll lively fenfihi'ity and the mol determined spirit. ’1 lie fee mgs o; the government arc in harmony with thole of the people. We know no measure of defence, or preparation in the power of the executive, which has not been adopted. Congress ought and cettainiy will be ca’led very loon. We wish them aflembled to (peak the lenfe ol the whole nation, and to rake such a com manding lofty Hand, as fliall Convince not only Great- Britain, hut the whole world, that we will live free and independent, and that we poiTefs the courage, Hrength and resources necessary to sccuie thole hles liilg*. PuiLADzieillA PAI'tK. BENNINGSEN. The present commander in chief of the Ruffian ar my, is of Englilh defeent He com nanded a div.fion of the Ruffian forces at the battle of AuHerlitz. If we are to form an idea of this m n1 ’ charadler, from some pars-of tiie history of ins pa,t lit',, we caunot helita e to pronounce him a greater savage, if poflible, than the celebrated and ferocious Suwarrow. Beuningfen is, ne of the twelve affiiffins who murdered the lateemperor Paul, father to the present emp-ror Alexander. He was one of the molt conspicuous actors in the abomina ble feme of base treachery and midnight murder, which deprived of life the man who had loaded him with honors. The twelve affaflins entered the empe rors bed chamber at midnight. After tin hrron Zon bofthad declared to the unfortunate Paul that they had come to take his life, the emperor’s firni.iefs, and the te ms ol keen reproach in which he atldreffed himfelf to Zonbolt and his lavage accomplices operated so for c bly on their guilty confcienees, th ,t tneir courage, (or a thort time, failed them, when Benningfen, perceiving the effedt Paul’s intrepidity hud produced, reanimated his associates by crying out, “ it is ovkk with us iv wr iuimi him 10 kscaPf. !” Zonbolt then made the firll blow at the emperor, and broke his right arm, and by hi* audacity, drew on the irielu.ute vilhany of his accomplices, when they ah fell upon him,dragged him along by the hair of his head, and prolonged In, fufferings by every species of barbarity their cruelry could invent—ltabbing him repeatedly in the molt ten der places, until quite exhauited with their own efforts and lavage ferocity, one among them palled a lcarf round the emperor's neck anu Strangled him to death ! Yet this lame Benningfen is the lame man in whom Alexauder, the son of the murdered Pair, reposes the utinoll coufid-nce, and to whom he has entrusted the management of the military affairs ofliiaempire. This is the monlter for whole l'uccefs tile Briiilh govern ment are continually offering up prayers and petitions to the throne of tile omnipotent Deity ! ! Since wiiting the above we have difeovered that Benningfen was a major in one of the Hanoverian re giments, which George 111. lent to this country, dur ing our revolution, to cQt the throa, of our farmeis, and take poffefliou of their farms.—ibid. Died, on Wednesday the 22d inst. master John Bahnahd Cooi'Kii, aged I ye.,i, 3 months and 18 days, and son of M. John Cooper of this ci'q. To the Pditors of the Keening Ledger. Messrs. 1 ditors —l lie Federal Republican Advocate has this day conic forth, for the second time, without n |,cuing Lis lipsanv thing farther than nn u ly to say, as he did the first day, that lie meant to speak. 1 certainly expected to bate seen ad istiing spoutcr —a great chiifiuin for the principles of otir Constitution, hut alas ! tins Scots-Aiiie.iican Advocate is completely mum l I ei Haps he waits (as the fraternity ge nerally do) for a fee before he pleads ; and as this is 110 doubt the case, and we aie all vciy • curious to hear him, do be so good, Messrs. Editors, as to give a hint in one of your papers to have a sum made up, by way of subscription, that we may for once enjoy the satiafaction of hea; ing him talk. The news he scrapes and draws from old papeis is all so very stale , that to-day I thought 1 had taken up a wrong num ber, and, to satisfy myself, was obliged to look at the date. One anecdote however, which lie had got copied in, I confess amused me, but it was to think how pat to the purpose his coun tryman's saving applied to himself—for he would certainly be the better “ if you'd gie him a pair o’ spurs.’’ A MONITOR. Savannah, 30 th July , 1807. Regimental Orders. Brigadeir General Floyd, HAVING ordered the tirlt Rig ment of Militia to be lieid incomplete reedinel's,to march at a m < meats warning, armed and equiped far actual ser vice. The major of the firll Battalion, and the c im mandants of the 2d Battalion, Artillery, aid H.-rfe companies, are ordeied to inspect their relpecuvi. C mimands, On Tuesday the 4th of August, between the hours of 3 and 5 o’clock P. M. Ever) soldier will appea- arwed with a mufqu -t and bayonet, belts and c:irtrid K e box, and twenty.four rounds of ball cartridges, and 3 I'pare tiinis. Any loldier wilhn g a nfufqutt can be accommoda t'd <”i application to ‘lie Lieutenant Colonel, and complying with the requelt of the permanent com mittee of citizens. At s o’clock precisely the iH and *d battalions, artillery and iiorfe will a (Tumble on the South C< m mons, and form the Ri-girrent. The Lieutenant C, lonel is liighly gratified with the unremitting attention paid by the Officers of ihe Regiment, to tlie discipbivng of their commands, & appreciates as he ought the pr.-imbude oftheciti zcnsfir their Uriel at tendon and affnluity in qualify. mg themselves for the arduous duty <f f ldiers W hatever hope is enr r'aired from tlie motleranon of iu. government, for the preleivation of peace, we ought not in our preparations for war’ as It is moll p>. babh war we (hall have The hnllil lity of the Briiilh ailmimllration, nay, of the whole na'ion to .ur pr.i ciptes a>e well km wn. ‘Thtyare l>o haughty, iniperthis and confident in their Hreng ti > fie ocean, to deal just-ce where it is due. Thc.r equity iu peace, our ei flavtd feaimn. tec. pluiHleit.. metchants can attelt, and tlieir tnt.cy in war, the inhabitants of •ur towHs ddtrnyed h. liie> 111 the Kevoiu >nnary War, yrt renvmbet. On our wiVitreij ■ h only il es our f.ifety relt The Lieut. Colonel is ci. hat in the day of trial every citizen will provehimleif a soldier and auue Ame rican. The alarm men are required to hold themfclv. s in readme 1 , with rounds < Ihali cariiTclg* and on the a laim being hear, they are to tmn out iu their relpt.'live and Hinds lih the line compan es. Any I liber mu f tenng on any occali >n out of hts own (liitria, as dillmpudhed in Reg mental Orders of sad May last, will lie considered a defaulter and dealt wiin accord ingly. By order of Lieutenant Colonel Johnston. I*. N. Brinsmade, Adit. J"’. v T° A 80 ORDLUS. ’"I"’ HE ?n l Company of the ill lU'talion Cnat t him Regiment, are direfled to meet at th* M. fleet Uouli , at half pad five o’clock, p m on M ndays, IVedncflays, and Fridays for the pur polt <.f (lulling. Our present lunation rrqunes that we fh’ uhl he prepared to meet any coiilcquerice that may prelent nlelf. Any appeal to your feelings in c. ulcqiience of the wr ngs we have Tuffered as an independeiit nation, would he unnecelfary. How ever grentelul peace may be to our c untry, nothing Ih >rt of ample reparation can p,- l’erve it—a.,d (houhl an appeal to arms be the result, your hofims will heal high to ohe. die fign.d— when the General Go. vernmeri r,f o U r country (liall cad upon you to retal- b) every jt’ll and honorable means. By order of ‘captain Pemberton, Thomas Flint, o. s. Savannah 30th July, 1807. Br>. Administrator’s Sale. WILT, bes ‘ld, on die 12th day ol Sep'embev next, at the house f Wi liam Carr, the real arid perl’ mal ellate rd A chibald C.trr, decealed, ■co firing of 100 seres Lund, Horses, Cattle, Hogs, Il ruf hod and Ki chen f tirniturr, Plan'at toil To Is stc Conditions, n monti.s credit, with notes antt’ lecuriiy. Susannah Carr, Admr'x. William Carr, Adm’r J*y as *c. 80 GEORGIA, \ By I'homas Bnuikt,clerk of the court L S. \of Ordinary, for the c unty of Chat -Ih. B’ ut-ke 3 ham, in the Hate a I ore I aid WHEREAS Haiph Clay has made application lor letters ■ f .idm nitration lie ellate and effects of James C ay i .te of the city ol Savannah, dec aled as nearest of kin I hide are there.lore to cite and admonifli all and fin ,;u ar the kindred a> and creditors of the decealed to 11 e their objections (if any they have) in my office, n or before the 29th day of Auguli next, otherwise iettrs of adinmi trarion will be granted Given node r my hand and leal, this 29th day of July, in tlie year of our Lord, one rhoufand eight hundred and seven, and in the thirty- se cond year of American Independence. 80 ((.j” rile Attorney (ieneral’s OHice is removed to Mr. SnrUtr’s tenement, five door* Itolow Stephens’*!. Thomas U. P. Charlton. June 3i 66