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SAVANNAH,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, Dec. 10,
fir. . .. ■ “ -—nr.- 1
CORN IN GREAT DEMAND.
There is but little of this article in our mar
ket at present, and we fully believe that almost
any quantity of good corn would readily command
25 cents per bushel, delivered.—We should
have quoted corn in our prices current yester
day at Si 25, instead of 90 a 100 cents. The
probability is that corn will be still higher, on
account of the crops falling short in this section
of our country the past season.
A meeting of Irishmen, and descendants of
Irishmen, was held at Harmony-Hall, in New-
York, on the 25th ult. and attended by a large
number of very respectable gentlemen, for the
purpose of promoting the settlement of Irish em
igrants in the Illinois territory. A Circular,
highly creditable to the occasion, was address
ed to their friends in various parts of the United
States, inviting their co-operation and support.
The following resolutions were offered by Mr.
Emmet, and unanimously adopted—
1. Resolved, That it is expedients form a so
ciety of Irishmen and descendants of Irishmen,
for the purpose of endeavoring to procure from
Congress, a tract of land in the Illinois territory,
to be settled by emigrants from Ireland.
2. Resolved, That every person of the forego
ing description, who shall on or before the se
cond day of December next pay the secretary of
this meeting the sum of five dollars, shall be en
titled to become a member of the said society,
until tlie number of subscribers shall have a
mounted to one hundred, after which time the
subscribers shall be at liberty to elect thir own
officers, and no person shall afterwards be ad
mitted except by ballot.
3. Resolved, That it be recommended to Irish
men and the descendants oY Irishmen, in the
other cities and towns of the union, to form sim
ilar societies, for the purpose of corresponding
and co-operating with that which is about to be
formed in this city.
a n-1 .4, 1 rl r -Q 1 - A*-/•
will shortly take place, and in order to prevent
the loss of time, a committee of fifteen be ap
pointed to prepare the outlines of a memorial to
that body, to be submitted to the consideration
of the society, when formed and organized ; and
also to adopt such measures as they may think
expedient for promoting and accelerating the
organization of that society.
The following gentlemen were then appointed
a committee in pursuance of the 7th resolution.
COMMITTEE.
Andrew Morris, John Meyher,
Thomas Addis Emmet, James Bride,
William Sampson, Cornelius Heeney,
John W. Mulligan, William Patterson,
Thomas Kirk, Col. Mullany,
James Moffit, David Bryson,
Robert Swanton, Capt. O’Sullivan,
Matthew Carroll, James J. M‘Don?ld,
William Jas. M'Nevan, Dennis H. Doyle,
Capt. Skiddy, James Hayes,
Dennis M'Carthy.
COMMUNICATED.
The directresses of the Savannah Free
are again called upon to acknowledge the re
ceipt of “Obscurio’s” donation, so unostenta
tiously bestowed. By the repetition of an act
so disinterestedly munificent, and so conspicu
ously pourtraying that goodness, which flows
from a heart fraught with angelic piety, the
warmest sentiments of admiration are excited;
and the directresses, in offering their thanks in
behalf of those under their care, pay but a
small tribute to the good Obscurio. They,
however, feel assured that his reward awaits
him in heaven ; and the approval of conscience,
in this world, wilf be no small earnest of a par
ticipation in the happiness that is in store for
the good and cluirit able.
Prices at Kingston, Jam. Nov. 13 —Flour
&15; rice 8 ; meal 8 ; pitch pine lumber
51 a 54; R. O. staves 54 ; W. O. ditto 56
a 60; 22 inch shingles 13 a 14. Exchange
on London, 483 dolls, per 100/. sterling.
From the South. —By a gentleman just
arrived from St Mary’s, which place lie left
on Friday evening last, we learn, that, col.
Bankhead with the U. States’ troops have
arrived at Point Petrc. The object of the
concentration of troops at that fort, Aury
appears to lie aware of; and is only wait
ing for vcfcaeU to arrive, when lie and hi*!
black heme's will evacuate the Island of |
Amelia. We also learn, that Woodbine;
has at rived at Pensacola, from New Provij
deuce, nitli au expedition lifted oat (rum
the lattcrplace; and, that he had enlisted
in liis cause a number of Indians and-
It is said that Mac Gregor is with him—we
hope not The United States’ brig Sara
nac took possession of a prize on Thursday
last, going into Amelia. Florida will be
taken possession of by the United States’
troops as soon as the frigate John Adams,
brigs Promethus and Enterprizc, and schr.
Lynx, arrive; which were expected daily.
There was a rumor at Amelia that a Brit
ish expedition was fitting out in some of the
West India Islands, for the purpose of ta
king possesion of the Floridas. At Amelia
the most shameful outrages have been com
mitted by Aury’s troops—several murders
were perpetrated by them with iirpunity—
neither life nor property was safe if with
in the reach of these freebooters and brig
ands. Republican.
We take the present opportunity of adding to
our files another specimen of the eloquence
of
COUNSELLOR PHILLIPS.
A Speech, delivered at a dinner given on Dinas
Island, in the lake of Killarney, on mr. Phil
lips’ health being given, together with that
of mr. Payne, a young American.
It is not with the vain hope of returning
bywords the kindness which have b en lit
erally showered on me during the short pe
riod of our acquaintance, that I now inter
rupt, for a moment, the flow of your festiv
ity. Indeed, it is not necessary; an Irish
man needs no requital for his hospitality;
its generous impulse is the instinct of his
nature ; and the verv consciousness of the
act, carries its recompence along with it.
But, sir, there are sensations excited by an
allusion in your toast, uuder the influence
of which, silence would be impossible. To
be associated with no. Payne must be, to
any one who regards private virtues and
personal accomplishments, a source of pe
culiar pride ; and that feeling is not a little
enhanced in me, by a recollection of the
country to which we are indebted for his
qualifications. Indeed, the mention of
America has never failed to fill me with the
most lively emotions. In my earliest in
fancy, that tender season when immpres
sions, at once the most permanent, and the
most powerful, are likely to be excited, the
story of her then recent struggles, raised a
throb in every heart that loved liberty, and
wrung a reluctant tribute even from dis
comfited oppression. I saw her spurning
alike the luxuries that would enervate, and
yus iegiOHSxnaimv!urtr uasmflg
from her lips the poisoned cup of European
servitude; and, through all the vicissitudes
of her protracted conflict, displaying a mag
nanimity that defied misfortune, and a
moderation that gave new grace to victory.
It was the first vision of my childhood ; it
will descend with me to the grave. But if
as a man, I venerate the mention of Amer
ica, what must be my feelings towards her,
as an Irishman. Never, oh never, while
memory remains, can Ireland forget the
home of her emigrant, and the asylum ofher
exile. No matter whether their sorrows
sprung from the errors es enthusiasm, of the
realities of suffering, from fancy or inflic
tion ; that must be reserved for the scrutiny
of those whom the lapse of time shall ac
quit of partiality. It is for the men of oth
er ages to investigate and record it; but
surely it is for the men of every age to hail
the hospitality that received the shelterless,
and love the feeling that befriended the un
fortunate. Search creation round, where
can you find a country that presents so sub
lime a view, so enteresting an anticipation ?
What noble institutions ! What a compre
hensive policy ! What a wise equalization
of every political advantage ! The oppres
sed of all countries, the martyrs of every
creed, the innocent victim of despotic arro
gance or superstitious phrenzy, may there
find refuge; his industry encouraged, his
piety respected his ambition animated ;
with no restraint but those laws which are
the same to all, and no distinction but that
which his merit may originate. Who can
deny that the existence of such a country
presents a subject for human congratula
tion ! Who can*lcny that its gigantic ad-
vancement offers a field for the most ra
tional conjecture 1 At the end of the very
next century, if she proceeds as she seems
to promise, what a wonderous spectacle
may she not exhibit! Who shall say for
what purpose a mysterious Providence may
not have designed her! Who shallsay that
when, in its follies or in its crimes, the. old
world may have entered all the pride of
its power, and all the pomp of its civiliza
tion, human nature may not find its destin
ed renovation in the new! For myself, I
have no douht of it. 1 have not the least
(doubt, that when our temple* and our tro
phies shall have mouldered into dust—-
when (lie glories o! our name shall be but
| the legend of tradition, and tho light ot our
achievmsut* ouly live in sung ; philosophy’
will rise again in the sky ofher Franklin,
and glory rekindled at the urn ot her
Washington. Is this the vision of a i oman
tic fancy ? Is it even improbable ? Is it
half so improbable as the events which for
the last twenty years have rolled like suc
cessive tides over the surface of the Euro
pean world, each erasing the impression
that preceeded it ? Thousands upon thou
sands, Sir, 1 know there are, who will con
sider this supposition as wild and whim
sical ; but they have dwelt with little re
flection up;;n the records of the past. They
have but ill observed the never ceasing
progress of national rise and national ruin.
They form their judgment on the deceit
ful stability of the present hour, never con
sidering the innumerable monarchies and
republics, in former days, apparently as
permanent, their very existence become
now the subjects of speculation, I had al
most said of scepticism. I appeal to his
tory ! Tell me, thou reverend chronacler
of the grave, can all the illusions of ambi
tion realized, can all the wealth of an uni
versal commerce, can all the achievements
of successful heroism, or all the establish
ments of this worldfs wisdom, secure to em
pire the permanency of its possessions ?
Alas ! Troy thought so once ; yet the land
of Priam lives only in song! Thebes thought
so once ; yet her hundred gates have crum
bled, and her very tombs are but as the dust
they were vainly intended to commemo
rate ! So thought Palmyra —where is she ?
So thought Persepolis, and now—
“ You waste, where roaming lions howl,
Yon aisle, where moans the grey-eyed owle,
Shows the proud Persian’s great abode.
Where sceptred once, an earthly god,
His power-clad arm controll’d each happier
clime,
Where sports the warbling muse, and fancy
soars sublime.”
So thought the countries of Demosthenes
and the Spartan ; yet Leonidas is trampled
by the timid slave, and Athens insulted by
the servile, mindless, and enervate Otto
man ! In this hurried march, Time has
but looked at their imagined immortality ;
and all its vanities, from the palace to the
tomb, have, with their ruins, erased the
very impression of his footsteps ! The
days of their glory are as if they had never
been ; and the island that was then a speck,
rude and neglected in the barren ocean,
now rivals the übiquity of their commerce,
the glory of their arms, the fame of their
philosophy, the eloquence of their senate,
and flie inspiration of their bards! Who
siiairsay, xfii f .i, contemplating the past,that
England, proud and potent as she appears,
may not one day he what Athens is, and
the young America yet soar to be what A
thens was ! Who shall say, when the Eu
ropean column shall have mouldered, atid
the night of barbarism obscured its ruins,
that that mighty continent may not emerge
from the horizon, to rule, for its time, sove
reign of the ascendant! *
Such, Sir, is the natural progress of hu
man operations, and such the unsubstantial
mockery of human pride. But I should
perhaps apologize for this digression.—The
tombs are at best a sad, although an instruc
tive subject. At all events, they are ill
suited to such an hour as this. I shall en
deavour to atone for it, by turning to a
theme which tombs cannot inurn, or revolu
tion alter. It is the custom of your board,
and a noble one it is, to deck the cup of
the gay with the garland of the great; and
surely, even in the eyes of its deity, hia
grape is not the less lovely when glowing
beneath the foliage of the palm-tree and
the myrtle. Allow me to add one flower
to the chaplet, which, though it sprang in
America, is no exotic. Virtue planted it,
and it is naturalized every where. I see
you anticipate me—l see you concur with
me, that it matters very little what immedi
ate spot may be the birth-place of such a
man as Washington. No people can
claim, no country can appropriate him: the
boon of Providence to the human race, his
fame is eternity, and his residence creation.
Though it was the defeat of our arms, and
the disgrace of our policy, I almost bless
the convulsion in which he had his origin.
If the heavens thundered and the earth
rocked, yet, when the storm passed, how
pure was the climate that it cleared ! how
bright in the brow ot the firmament was
the planet which it revealed to us! In the
production of Washington, it does really
appear as if nature was endeavoring to
improve upon herself, and that all the vir
tues of the ancient world were but so many
studies preparatory to the patriot of the
new. Individual instances no doubt there
were; splendid exemplifications of some
■ingle qualification: Ciesar was merciful,
Scipio was continent Hannibal waa pa
tient ; but it was reserved lor Washington
to blend them all in one, and, like tht lovely
chi f ihrarre of the Grecian artist, to exhibit
in one glow olassociated beauty, the prole of
every lootiei Ik the perfection ot every master.
As a general, lie marshalled the peasant
into a veteran, and supplied by discipline
the absence of experience: as a statesman,
he enlarged the policy of the cabinet into
the most comprehensive system of general
advantage; and such was the wisdom of
his views, and the philosophy of his coun
sels, that to the soldier and the statesman
he almost added the character of the sage !
A conqueror, he was untainted with the
crime of blood ; a revolutionist, he was
free from any stain of treason ; for aggres
sion commenced the contest, and his coun
try called him to the command. Liberty
unsheathed his sword, necessity stained,
victory returned it. If he had paused here,
history might have doubted what station to
assign him, whether at the head ofher citi
zens or her soldiers, her heroes or her
patriots. But the last glorious acts crowns
his career, and banishes all hesitation.—
Who, like Washington, after having eman
cipated an hemisphere, resigned its crown,
and preferred the retirement of domestic
life to the adoration of a land he might be
almost said to have created !
“ How shall we rank thee upon glory’s page,
Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage ?
All thou hast been reflects less fame on thee,
Far less, than all thou hast forborne to be !
Such, sir, is the testimony of one not to
be accused of partiality in his estimate of
America. Happy, proud America ! the
lightnings of heaven yielded to your phi
losophy ! The temptations of earth could
not seduce your patriotism!
I have the honor, sir, of proposing to you
as a toast, the immortal memory of George
Washington !
From a London paper, received at Charleston.
LONDON, OCT. 11.
The French journals of Tuesday last
have arrived, but contain little news of im
portance. Grimaldi, the police spy, of
Black Pin memory, has addressed a circu
lar letter to the editors of the Paris papers,
wherein he complains that his honor has
been attacked ; and threatens to publish a
memorial, by which the said honor shall be
vindicated. The Sieur Grimaldi seems not
to understand the comfort of being gradu
ally forgotten.
A change is announced in the home de
partment of the Russian ministry. The
chevalier de Troschensy, minister of jus
-1 tice, retires upon a pension, and is succeed
ed by prince Lobanoff Kostoftsky, general
of infantry. Ilegnault of st. Jean de An
i v,-who-wa to Ko,v*3
: senses m America, has arrived at Aix'-la
. Chapelle, supposed to be on his private
t affairs.
We regret very much to mention, or
•. rather to see it mentioned, that one of the
■ state prisoners confined in York castle has,
, we suppose in a paroxysm of insanity, de
; stroyed himself. The name of the maniac
•is Riley: he had been apprehended some
time ago by an order of the magistrates for
treasonable practices, and whatever his
conspiracies against the state might have
been suffered to mature them, the poor fel
low’s plots against himself have been fatal
. enough. The coroner’s inquest proved his
derangement, and the continuance of it was
, ascertained by his having made an attempt
of the same kind some time before. He
was in consequence watched, but though
three other persons were confined in the
■ same apartment, one of whom slep with
him, he found means to cut his throat. At
present we are but imperfectly acquainted
with the circumstances of the case ; we
hope they will be farther investigated ; but
we must doubt the propriety of confiding
the custody of a maniac, who had already
made one attempt upon his own life, to his
fellow prisoners.
NORFOLK, NOV. 28.
The ship Atlas, capt. Jennison, 46 days
from Havre-de-Grace,bound to Alexandria,
anchored in Hampton roads on Wednesday
evening. Capt. Jennison, who came up to
town in a pilot boat, states, that he is the
bearer of despatches for the French minis
ter at Washington, and has on board sev
eral French passengers of great respecta
bility, as well as several Americans. The
cargo of the Atlas consists of plaister of
paris and some of the furniture for the
palace, at Washington, which, we learn,
constituted a part of the cargo of several
other vessels about to sail from Havre for
the U. States. The Atla9, we learn, brings
an accession to the library of the sage of
Monticello—rare works, no doubt, intended
to furnish some new lights of science, in
aid of the benevolent and patriotic pursuits
to which his attention has recently been
directed.
Capt. J. states, that the subject of the
new pretender to the throne of France,
(claiming to be the legitimate sou of Louis
XVI,) occupied much of the public atten
tion at Havre, ami created < otuitlerable
speculation among politicians. Though’
still kept in confinement at Rouen, !; ere . I
ceived all those nuqks of attention l
pretensions of doubtful validity,would
urally command from those whose interests *
might be immediately affected by their ej .*
tabiishment or rejection. 9
Within a week past the Ohio has ri; tn 9|
more rapidly and higher ttian it was ever *
known to do at this season of the year
such a rise is unusual even in the sprinjl
It is within two feet of the top of the bank*
in front of this town. The rise is estimated*
at more than 40 feet of perpendicular height I
We are fearful it has done considerahlel
damage to the corn along the river. It has,*
however, afforded a facility to emigration *
which has brought a vast crowd of stranger**
into our town. Every day we witness the*
landing of boats filled with emigrants, and*
a vast number pass by bound for Indiana. 9
.tdjip -povt of &auannaf). 1
High Water this bat 10 k. 45 m. a 9
ARRIVED, 1
Ship Congress, King, st. Mary’s, 2 days, in 9
ballast, to J. Battelle, consignee. Spoke off st 9
Alary’s bar, ship Commodore Rodgers, from N*
York bound in. £
Schr. Laura, Lewis, Nevv-York, 11 days, to*
Wm. H. Joyner, consignee—with sugar, bats*
shoes, butter, candles, saddles, salt-petre, fin’*
niture, buttons, pepper, &c. to Johnston & Hills*
M. L. White, I- K Teff't, Win. Gaston, T. Long!*
worth, jr. F. Marston, Taft &. Sibley s, J Battelle*
Hall &. Hoyt, Butler &. Murray, Anson Blake, J.*
Latln-op & co. George Schley, Calvin Baker, J, I
Shaffer, Campbell & Gumming, W. T. Williams,*
C. D. Hayden, Lethbridge St Deuel. P. Brascft,*
Mary Wallace, Wm. Barnes, H. G. Fowler, li *
Kelly, A. Wilkins, and Ralph May—two pas*?-'*
gers. Left the ship Mary-Augusta, and brig’ I
Aurilla, to sail the next day. Spoke, on Hie*
28th ult. in lat. 36, *3,the ship Ocean, 79 (lays 9
from Cadiz, bound to Xew-York—supplied Iter I
with provisions! . *
Schr. Adventure, Builoch, Havana, 9 days, la *
B. M’Kinne & co. consignees—with fruit
lime stone, to the master. The day before the*
A. sailed, sixteen merchantmen, under convoy*
of a government brig, sailed from Havana, bound*
to the windward. Coffee was selling at 18 cent;*
and scarce —flour 17 dollars, and plenty. I
Sloop Resident, Adams, Alexandria, Va. 4*
days, with flour & bread, to Greene &. Lippitt, *
—4 passengers.
The steam boat Enterprize, with the compa-*
try’s freighting boats Nos. 3 and 10 in tow, start-*
ed at 10 o’clock yesterday, for Augusta. 8
Sloop Ann-Maria, Greene, arrived at Charles.*
ton, Btli inst. from New-York, 10 days, bound to*
this port —stopt at C. to land passengers. I
Clearances for this port. 1
sloop Three-Brothers, Pratt, Charleston, Sth inst*
ship Kensington, Silliman, Philadelphia, Ist. inst*
brie Sallv, StQW, , -xlf). - -M-fl
ship Mary-Augusta, Porter, New-York, 29th nit I
ship Adonis, Champlin, do do I
brig Roderick, Harding, do do 1
schooner Saloma, Atwood, Boston, 26th ult. I
Vessels vp for this port. 1
At New-York, Nov. 29, ship Cotton-PiantJ
Fash, to be dispatched immediately ; ship U-*
cy-Ann, Arnold, do. do; ship Adonis, was ti*
sail on the 30th ull. positively; ship Jacksorj
Harsen, positively on the 4th inst. I
At Alexandria, Va. Dec. 1, ship Boston, Fin-*
ley, was up to sail on the 10th inst. 9
Charleston, Nov. 8. 9
Arrived, Br. brig Margaret Boak, Rosi, kiugr
ton, Jam. 21 days, with about 52,000 specie dol
lars ; brig Despatch, Gibbs, Baltimore, 19 days;
brig Eliza, Upton, Salem, a7 days ; schr Satcl
ite, Hilliard, Havana, 13 days, sti£ar, coffee, se
gars and fruit; schrs Phantom, Tomassen, Bar
racoa 10 days; Oranges, plantins, bananas and
lance wood spars ; British schr. Chart, (of St.
Johns, x. ii.) Donga), St. Lucie, 22 days ; schr’s
Maria, Latham, N.York, 5 days ; Tontine, Hoyt,
N. York, 11 days; Mark-Time, Carrs, Norfolk;
Betsey, Fitch, N. London, via Amelia-Island, W
days from the latter ; Mary, Seabury, George
town ; sloop Ann-Maria, Greene, N. York, 10
days—bound to Savannah ; british sloop Gree
nock, M’Nult, Honduras, 20 days.
Cleared, ships Milo, Bronson, Liverpool;
Roger Stewart, Cooper, Greenock; brig Gen.
Ripley, Drew, Boston; Spanish schr Opposi
tion, Lopez, st. Johns; sloop Hazard, Starbuek,
Martinique.
Baltimore, Dec. 2.
Arr. scli’rs Ann-Maria, Stansbury, Port-au-
Prince, 21 days. Left schr. Jane, Fish, for Balti
more ; Gazette, Selby, for N.York; Eliza Bigot,
Waterman, do; Union, Crosby, Norfolk; brig
Heroine, Keel, do. All kinds of American pro
duce plenty.—Also, Gen. Jackson, fr- Philadel
phia ; Elizabeth, Snow, Boston.
Philadelphia, Dec. 1.
Arr. British barque Sarah &. Susan, Parker,
Greenock, via Boston, iron and coal; sell. Com
et, Redwell, Port-au-Prince, 22 days, hides and
fustic; sch. Planter, Diinkwater, Portland; sell.
W illiam, Pittee, do.
Cleared, brigs Gen. Jackson, Tear, W. Indies;
Leamier, Allen, W ilmington, x.c.; sch’rs
lator, Boston ; Holla, Newburyport.
Boston, Nov. 26.
Ar. brig Ontario, Dorr, 174 days from Canton
via the \ iyeyard ; brig Thomas Edward, Ha#
l urks Hand, 19 days salt, sugar and rum ; sell
George Beckwith, Fisher, Havana, 15, molass-j
es ami coffee ; brig Peggy, From st. Eustatia, o*
cape Cod, in ballast; schr. Rising-states, biv>
New-Oi leans, rum, molasses, sugar, and br*^
lettowood; Sally, Hall, st. Peters, n. f. 9
sugar and rum, ,
Cleared—brigs George, Raich, Brazil ;
of Life, Snow, Curracoa; schr. Midas, Sou
worth, Lisbon.
For Providence, n. i.
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