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Interesting trial* COVET OF GENERAL SESSIONS—SEV-YORK. ______ ft A young woman of a very prepossessing ap pearance was put to the bar by the name ot Re becca i almau, charged with having stolen one muslin gown, sever 1 other articles of icinule wearing apparel, two pair oi gold ear-rings, a gotd thimble, and sundry tiinkets, said to be of considerable value, the propeity of one John George Fi.zgerald. At the mention of this man's nnne a general curiosity appeared to he excited, and the court enquired who he was; but not receiung an answer to its enquiries, the trial was permitted to proceed. The only evidence called to prove the felony was a Mrs. Barron, with whom nea. ly two yeats ago the prisoner lived in a state of servitude. Mr. Fitzgerald and the witness had occupied apartments in the same house ; a tender attach ment. originating probably in sympathy (their a< piaintance hating commenced in prison) had fm s. me time subsisted between tnein, and the witness stood high in his confidence, fie is a t,..d0.r from this port to the Wes’-Indies. Pre vious to his last voyage he deposited Iris trunks in the care of Mrs. Bari on. 1 hey had not been long in her possession before she began to suspect that one of them had been opened, although no marks of violence appeared on it, and the lock was uninjured. She knew not why these suspicions were entertained ; and still less why she fastened them upon the pti souet, whom she had always iouiid to be tcry honest, and whose fideli v she had often rewar ded. To satisfy herself, she procured a black smith to open the trunk, when her suspicions were confirmed ; she missed die articles men tioned in the indictment, although Mr. Fitzge rald had not given her an inventory of what the trunk’ contained, nor had she an opportunity of knowing whether these articles were ever put into it. Mr. Fitzgerald soon afterwards left Isew-Yorlt for the West-Indies ; but Mrs. Bar ron had not communicated to him either her discovery or her suspicions, lest it might em bitter the moment of separation, of itself suffi ciently afflicting. The services of the prisoner being no longer necessary after Mr. Htzge- Talu’s departure, she was discharged without her wages, and at the time oftiial Mrs. Barron continued m her debt. In due course of time Mr. Fitzgerald returned. On the day of his a< rival he flew on the wings of impatient love to console her widowhood. In a lew days af terwards, when the first transports of pleasure were beginning to subside, Mrs. Barron related to him the adventure of the trunk : but the prisoner had then left the city, and no intelli gence could be had where she was to be found. A few weeks ago, as Mr. fizgerald, at the door of Dyde’s ho'el was enjoying the beauty of the neighboring scenery , the prisoner (secure in her own innocence.) passed bv him. He seized her, took her into the hotel, and accused hei of felony. She directed him to the piace where her boxes had been left, and lie took an officer with him and made search, but none of the goods alledgec! tohave been stolen, excepting two gold rings, were found in her possession. She acknowledged to have been at the house of (we believe') a Mrs. Hardy, who also gave her testimony : and, on examination, a hand kerchief containing some “ little bits of calico,” a piece of unwrough muslin, a small slip ot gauze, and a few other articles of equal value, was picked up. No marks being upon any of them (except Y. Z. upon the handkerchief, which Airs. Barron swore was Mr. Fitzgerald’s private mark') they could not he identified. Mrs Barron in the course of her examination gave her testimony with a masculine confidence, and endeavored to enrich it with highly wrought figures of rhetoric and all the embel ishment of a saucy and audacious eloquence.” 1 he counsel for the prisoner (Sampson) sar castically supposed she had been reciting poe try; for hisown part, notwithstanding all the attention he had paid her, he confessed she was above the level of his understanding; and he imagined the court and jury were not a jot wis er than himself. He explained, as well as he was able, the circumstances she had related ; and in summing up to the jury, presented an odious picture of the mora character of the witness and of the prosecutor, and the probable motives by which thev were actuated in the prosecution; drew a comparison between the the latter; and appealed to the judgment of “twelve wise men” whether they could con sign to the state prison at hard labor, for a term of years, such a woman as the prisoner at the bar, on evidence so exceedingly weak and so palpably mq cions. r l he jury, by their verdict, manifested their opinion, that a person who enters a court for the purpose ot seeking justice, ought to do so with clean hands. Without a minute’s consul tation they pronounced the prisoner “ Not Guilty.” When this virdict was recorded, the young woman claimed ail the articles produced as the property of her husband, and the court ordered them to be restored to her. Sir Francis Burdett made a grand tiiumphal procession in London, June 29. He rode on a car about 12 feet high, and surrounded and fol lowed hy tens of thousands, paraded through Several streets to the Crown and Anchor Ta vern. Places were hired in the houses on the Streets through which he passed, and thu ap pearance nearly the same as at the funeral of Lord Neison, the whole route being ornamen ted with arches of laurel, fl igs. &c. The company who dined with him, at the Crown and Anchor Tavern, amounted to more than 2000 persons. The bill of fare consisted of 400 fowls, 200 geese, and every thing else in proportion. 1 A TAEL#, S,having the Land hure.'s oj:hc Different S'atfdns of hitrifie. Nations. Men. Coft.pcrann. per month. I-lance, 6. J.OOO £7 B.uUO,OOU £5,500,000 Russia, 400,000 62,000,000 5,166,666 AUstlia, .320000 42,0(0.000 3,500,000 Prussia, 24,000 3,000 000 .aOOoO Ln land, 180,000 2 7 000,000 2 250, 000 Denmark, 80,000 11,000,000 916 666 Sweden, 75 000 9 000,000 750,000 Holland, 45 000 6,500,000 541,666 Spain, 140,000 19,000,000 583,333 Portugal, 60000 5,500,000 458,333 Annapolis, 60,000 5,500.000 458,333 Turkey, 300,000 59,000,000 3,350,000 Total, 2,284.000 307,500,000 24,724,997 America can turnout abuiit live or six hun dred thousand men, with which, she has no thing to fear from any army in the world. Is. B Ihe above are all standing armies, S<c. and their expends \tdien in actual scrviie.— 1 Quison a Id a1 iy yiav • .Norfolk, August 28. The Troop of Cavalry, under the command of captain R. B. laylor, were yesterday, by ge neral orders, discharged from service. The iorce now in actual service is composed of cap tain Nestle’s Artillery, and captain Reed’s company of Princess-Anne militia, under the command of major Newton. They have many strange reports at Halifax, that keep up the apprehension of a war—Such as, that Moreau had made his peace with Bo naparte ; that in the event of a war, 10.000 men were to be sent to the United States from France, to march into Canada and Nova-Sco tia, under Mrrean ; that French emissaries a e well known by the British government to be in various parts of the United States, and in the British American colonies, particularly Upper Canada ; and that in the latter place, the per son, as well as particular projects of one cmis saiv had been discovered, and instructions had been given for his arrest. Accounts from Detroit state, that the first ef fects of a war with Great-Britain, will be a sa vage warfare on the whole extent of our fron tier, by the Indians ; who, notwithstanding all which our government has done for them, have a settled antipathy to the long-knives, as they call the Americans. 1 hf. Season— A great quantity of rain has fallen this summer, and vegetation is extreme ly abundant. The farmers have experienced some difficulty in getting in their hay dry ; lint their after crops will be heavy. —Boston paper. A learned correspondent observes, that our language has undergone a wonderful alteration smee the period of our great Lexicographer, Dr. Johnson. The names of persons and things are so changed of late, that lie is of opinion a new dictionary should lie immediately publish ed for the information of our Universities, and the public in general. A gay youth, formerly stiled a macaroni, is now called a twaddle. A lady with bare arms, neck, Gcc. generally deno minated a das hint’ belle, is now stiled a skin tiek—a lawyer, a badger —a parson, a rook —a physician, a grope —and a troublesome disor der. long known by the appellation of the Scotch fidd'e. has been lately christened the Caledonian Cremona. Capt. Amasa Delano, of the Shi;) Persever ance of Boston, has received fi om the king of Spain a gold medal, with his majesty’s likeness, as an acknowledgement to capt. I). for the hu mane and spiiited exertions of himself and bis brave crew, in rescuing a Spanish merchant ship in the Pacific Ocean, with a cargo of slaves, v;ho had risen upon and massacred the greater part of the Spaniards on board. The Porto Rico gazette, speaking of Miran da, says, he is now reduced to the station of an overseer of a sugar plantation, and a great part of his artillery and military stores have been purchased at le s than half price by the Spanish government, and are now at Porto-Rico. RAGGF.D WIT. The following ingenious lines close an ad- I vert is: ng address for rags, by Jacob Johnson, in the Richmond Observer. Sweet ladies pray be net offended, Nor mind rhe jells of sneering wags; No harm, believe me, is intended, When humbly I request your Rags, The feraps which you reject, unfit To clothe the tenant of a hovel, May shine in sentiment and wit, And help to make a charming novel. The cap, _r, 1 ted thoughts will raise, 1 he ruffle in defc-iption ffourifh ; V/hilff on the glowing work we gaze, i he thought will love excite and nourish. Each beau in study will engage, His fancy doubtless will be warmer, When writing on the milk-white page That once, pet haps, adorn’d his chatmer. From foreigners who sneer and vapor, No longer forc’d our boohs to buy ; Our gentle belles will furnilh paper. Our sighing beaux will wit supply. EPIGRAM. Ned calls his wife his counter-part, With truth as well as whim; Since every impulse of her heart, Runs counter fti.l to him. Savannah, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 12. e are authorised to state, that I)r. Moses Sheetall will be a candidate at the ensuing election iui members of the legislature. A gentleman vv ho arrived last Thursday evening irom Charleston, mtoims, that a letter was id rived there or the evening of the Bh, (too late for publication in the evening paper of that city 1 stating, that col Bun had been acquit ted oi the charge of high tieason.— Museum. Hie Charleston Times of the 4th instant, slates that on the preceding day, in a house on ILirlcs on’s green, and almost on the banks of Ashley river, the thermometer, placed in a shaded situation, and free cun cut i fair, stood, between the hours of one and three o’clock e. M. at 96 degrees—between the hours of five and six o’clock, it stood at 90 degrees. l etters from Charleston state that city to he very unhealthy ; but say nothing of the yellow fever’s prevailing there, as lias been leported. The influenza, v> hieh first appeared at Ncvv- Yoik, lias, it is said, extended as far southwuicl !y as the state of Virginia. Accounts from different quarters, though not official, mention that both the Flotillas’have been ceded to the United btaicb Mu-York paper of 27th ul. By the arrival of the schooner Clarissa and F.lizu, captain Rcvclle, we wear yesterday fa vored with Kingston papers to the 14th August. 1 he account of the affair of the Chesapeake had reached Kingston, and excited a conside rable sensation. Ihe inhabitants gencaliy de precated a war with Ametica. dind entertained sanguine hopes that matters would be amicably adjusted. Markets, however, h and experienced a considerable change—Rice was advanced to 10 dollars, and lumber, which was previously selling at 40 dollars rose to 70. Other ar ticles oi exportation from the United States were proportional)!y adv anced — Chariest, /tap. ihe islands of Cuada'oupe and Antigua w ere not visited by the hurricane of die 26th of July. Bonaparte is said to have broken and dis graced adn.i a! Lesseignes for his conduct in the action off St. Domingo, on the 20th ot Fe bruary, 1806, when his squadron was destroy ed by admiral Duckworth. Bos on.dlugust 2o. Yesterday afternoon, the Rev. Joseph Clay, late of Georgia, was installed to the oastoral office of the fust Baptist Church and Society in this town. The introductory prayer was offered at the throne of giace, by the rev. Mr. Nelson. An appropriate sermon was preached by the rev. Mr. Grafton. Flic fel lowship oi the%.hurr.lics was presented by Dr. Baldwin ; and the concluding prayer by the rev. Mr. Collier. The several pieces of music were performed in a style of uncommon excellence, anti dm whole scene was solemn and inter esting. appointment bu the President, Archibald Minthome Cocke, of New-York, Commercial Agent lor the Island of Marti nique, DIKD, On Monday morning last, in the 24th year of his age, .Mr. Richard O’Do well, after an illness though but short, not oonreived dangerous, id a te>,v h ts be ore dissolution. Mr. O’Donnell was ;i n live of Ireland, and came to Georgia a few years since, and has lately been engaged largely in trade, under the firm of scott. ‘ ialter k Cos. and lastly under that of Maher k O’Donnell,in this city. The character of Mr. O'Donnell displayed at once bis nation and the gentleman: ardent in bis feelings, polished in his manners, sincere in bis ft ient! hip, he became the favorite of eve ry circle Though not bewailed by family con nection, he will long be re me inbred, and his premature fail regretted by a numerous and admiring acquaintance. ———, on Thursday last, Mr. John Dough erty. printer and a proprietor of the Federal Republican Advocate, a native of Ireland. Died at So ingfield (Vt.) June 21st, John N Mather, in the 66th year of his age. N, B. Israel Mather, heir to said estate, who a few years since went to to the southward, is requested to return home. Si f° Printers in the southern and middle states will confer a favor by inserting the above in their papeis. PORT OF SAVANNAH. ARRIVED. Watson, Liverpool, 65 days—T. an I R. Nwell. Schooner 4n-ora, Carvll'r, Charleffon. Sloop Republican, Brown, do. C it DH 7. There are a number of fma 1 open boats fitted our at I.aguira, which commit depredab- rins-.n our defence, •ef’ commerce. A great number of Am- ri-an vefTe's have been carried in there and Porto fabello, under pretence of having Britifli ‘■ls on V r<l. ■\n embargo was | d ; g on p, e jq.j, j u [ yi „ j,,. ta j c , n ofF'h- 4th of Au-'uT. on all foreign vefTels, on account of the failing of the fleets. No late arriva sa’ Kir", ffon, from this port Markers dull. On the'did July, r e attack on the Chesapeake was not known at K-ra tion. V> illiam Yv r ooctbridcje Hdl sc!/ lors, for cash, or approved paphtri THE FOLLOWING ARTICLES, 75 bays prime Coffee t-O hluK lirff ami infer.or qualify Mufc vado sut e ji u puncheons o,d Jamaica Rum (landed in ISSO-J) 10 ditto ditto St. Croix ditto ditto ;> pipes Cogniac Brandy 10 bheis. liollon Hum 2.1 chcfts Hylon Young Hyfon and Chilian Tel} 10 tons Sweeds Iron (Hat and lqu/re bars) 300 Dumjons, centaiuing 5 gallons each. 20 cases of GLASS WARE) r otttAiMsa 50 straws of Tumblers aflbrteJ, w ith Decanters \Vih* G a fits &c. ’ 10 ditto conti'ning 225 ditto p ain and flowered .0 linu and common Lujuo C4G 5 .10 boxes Wind w Gtais, * by 10 and 10 by 14 10 pieces Flaxen Oznaburgs and Ticklenboi gi 95 ditto German .Sheetings 50 ditto lriih Linen, at low advance ‘.’s ditto German Dowlas 50 ditto Bremen Rot s 95 ditto German Diapers 50 ditto Ravens Duck (very low) 100 ditto while and brown Daiillas 150 loarfe Shirts, luitabj. tor houle fervir*. A hatidlome afl'orunent of damafic Table and Break! Just Cloths Ditto ditto Marfeillcs Counter paters 9 elegant V handeliers, Lamps, and a variety of fino CUT GLASS A QUANTITY OF Red and Yellow OCHRE and LAMPBLACK XN CASKS \VI i H MOST EVERY ARTICLE OR GROCERY, at retail. Also* 21 casks pood retailing RICE, At Thive Do! lit s per cwt. hb. 4. jYorth-hasl corner qf the Exchange* September 12. | FOR SALE) 100 barrels frefh Philadelphia Flout 20 pipes French Brandy 15 boxes brown Soap, by J. Idler Sc Cos. September 12. t FLOUR, &c. * K'O This frtfb fupeifine Flour 20 dirtto ditto Mackerel ffr'i quality Cotton Bagp’njy ‘I iik enburys hy the bolt ba.t bbls Mels Bee 1 ’ for Sale by Gardner Tnf% September 12...t...100 Moore’s Wharfi Auction and Commission Business. WILL IA M W OOD BRI DC, E, rJEINO duly qualified as Attciiomeeb, tender* Jhis services to his triends and the public, m the | AUCTION, COJVIJVII.SS'ON & FACTORAGE MJ- St.Vi SS. I laving tale and convenient Stores, for the reception of every kind of Pkoduli, he hopes from a fliht attention to the imereft of his friends, to merit a fhure i their patronage. September 12. ° fl i j lot) WILL EE SOLI— L'n tk- fi fl t Uf'.SDAY in November next, at the Cos u-fa liouji in Savannah, tntween the hours of to and z O'ctai i , A NBGRO MAN, n,m. (1 l)K K, v'ho is able i A J kdo c mm n Carpeu'et’ wort:, ..ml has been n C - Cuft meet to pet f rm the usu 5 du te of a house |, r van—iid alf'o, h.s mo h , 1)1 AN A—utile fx they sh ukl in the mean time h> ra i l •• priv.re file, d? gee.hly to the wi.l fill/ be h Y ung. A n’li'e* w ill* ;nl appr .ve i end rlrr, pa; ah'r on lie fi-il J IU n,l:lrv with lnturcli Irom the dale, w 1! be re ceivtd in payment. Joseph Clay, Itx'ur. PetToris disposed to purcliafo the above Negeoryi are inlorintd, tliai guarantee utltb will bo give tby the reverend Ji'lepti Ciay. September ii. , 0o LOST. ON Thursday evening, the 10th infant, a Mf!- WORANDUM BOOK, of a finall quarto fire, covered with brown paper; the word “ Georgia,” written on the ou fide, containing a lilt of fome prized in the t..'n 1 I.oftery. Whrtever finds it and d’ liver , if; to Mr. Davin Williford,at Mcffts. B. C. Blocks* will he rewarded. September 12. c* 109 ” I’ and to Chailestoiu . J(j.S 1 hf- Kit failing packet Schooner au'iuha, . ■wiil fail pofxt.'Vely oh nt :rt, wind and wfcatf pf permitting. Jor ur paiTa M*, apply to ihe c;'.p# tain on Ijo * and, a* Bacoil ts. MulOne’b wharf* “eptembtf 12, Qj a The ship Charleston Jins: com menced loading for DIVER *’OOJ., and v. isl t,e din. pitched in fii'een dtja. For freig it of zoo bale:, of cotion, apply to J. & W. Maoee. O Just Received, AND TOR CALF. AT THIS OFFICE, ( I'riii: 25 rents ) A pamphlet written ir. Charleff.cn, entitled THE TOCSJN; OR CALL TO ARMS! an essay ; Being an enquiry into the late of Ofa* Fr fain, n tier ii j us) i fia i; l * i-r V. upon the liberty an j ilifcq tndtiicc oi the United at area oi /ynaeiica.