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Vol 1. Mejfrs . Powers C3* Seymour, By infertirg the following piece from 4he Augusta Centinel, you will gra tify a number of your Cufiomers. y: To TIM SHARP: March 16, 1796. Dear Sir, lAM truiy sorry to find the firft offi cer in oar font hern republic, under the particular influence and immediate direction of General jackfon, who 1 think the moll dangerous man to the peace and good order of any free people on this continent —witness the last af fembiy, and Judge Olborne’s trial.— I w jU give you an instance of his influ ence over our chief magistrate ; a few minutes proceeding the rife of the lait tetriflature, Col. M l Neil informed the house by a letter to the Speaker, that he declined accepting the appointment of fudge to the'middle diflrict; it was not confildered as the proper channel, and the letter was directed to be lent to the Go vernor ; by this time is was ten o’clock at night, a confiderabie number of the members had dropt off:—About twelve o’clock I went round to several of the boarding houses, with a letter addrefled to the Governor, requesting him to appoint Judge Walton, who was the only candidate, except M‘Niel; there were not more than thirty-five mem bers then remaining in town, about 25 of them signed the letter to his e xcclleu cy ; this I then thought, and do itill think, was fufficient to guide him in his choice; but it seems that Gen. Jackson, advised him otherwise, and on Saturday la If he appointed William Few, Esq. a man of no legal abilities, partial in all his actions, and upon the whole, with out any one good qualification to recom mend him. This was done by one man, contrary to the prayer of Judge Talia ferro and other signers, the rneaneft of which, I conceive to be infinitely pre ferable tew his honor, in point of under handing, and equal in common honeity, and of better principle than the Gene ral. To add to the misfortune, the ap pointment is disagreeable to nine tenths of the inhabitants of the diftridt, and at leait to twenty-nine thirtieths of Co lumbia county ,the rqfidence of the j udge, who mud know him better than the go vernor, with ail his art and dissimula tion—so much lor popularity. You have begun a correspondence with his excellency, to which you owe this letter; as I thought his conduct reprehensible, indeed unpardonable, and you appear to be capable of painting him in his true colours, and this is such a glaring- in ltance of his duplicity. Iv, tlh you to dress up the business and let the world fee his clover, foot again, lam, yours sincerely, Timothy Touchtru th. —, H O U S £ of REPRESENTATIVES. March 14. Mr. W. Smith, cremated a bill from the committee of ways and means, for further fupporcing public credit, and for paying off the public debt, which was read a firft and time, and ordered to be committed to a committee of the whole. Mr. Giles thought the challenge which had been given to the member from Georgia was a lerious breach of the privileges of that house, and he trusted the house would take uo the busi ness m a proper manner. For this pur pose, he moved that the gentleman be re queued to draw up a itatemer.t of the affaiv in writing and lay it before the house. ‘ . After a number of observations from different members upon the best mode of proceeding in the business, Mr. Baldwin laid fome papers on the table containing a statement of the affair, which were read, and the further consideration of the business put off till to-morrow. Mr. Baldwin said, that when he was called out of the house, on the occasion which he had before Hated, his furprize to find Mr. Frelinghuyfen interested in the fubje£t, induced him immediately, on his being made acquainted with his name, to fay, that tho’ his person was not known to him, he had long had much refpedf for his name ; that he begged bim to be assured he had as much confi dence in him as Mr. Gunn could have, that inasmuch as he had thought proper to interelt himfelf on the occasion, he had without doubt made himfelf ac quainted ijfith the fubjed, and mull have tound fome grounds to believe that he had attempted to suppress or with-hold tome lenatorial paper. That as he could r ‘ot fuffer such imputation to rest upon him for a moment, he was willing to submit to his infpedion the letters and papers of his colleague as had been before Columbian itflufetmt, &c. 1 Hated, that he might be at once fatisfied. Mr. Baldwin said further that he had not intended to insinuate in any thing he had laid to the house, that Mr. Fre linghuyfen unnecessarily consumed time on the occasion, that what he had said was merely to give a fletcment of the lad; that as the queltion of Mr. Fre linghuyfen whether it was not an inter ruption to him, and whether he lhould cull on him again at the house, it is very probable it migb t have been asked and related, but the imprefiion of the im portance of being immediately relieved from the imputation of being guilty of f uppreffmg official papers so absorbed his attention, that if the questions were ask ed he mult fay with truth, he did not recoiled them. He begged leave again to allure the house that ne had never in tended to insinuate that Mr. Frelinghuy len had bee . guilty of rudeness in his manner, or unaeceflarilv consuming time. Mn W. Smith wished the unfinilhed business might give way, to take up the report of the committee on the naval ar mament, in consequence of the inellage jull received from the president on that fubjed; as it was very material that immediate attention fliouid be given to the business. He thought fome fort of compromise might be entered into with out taking up much time. Mr. Gallatin said that as the meflage was only just received from the presi dent, they cannot with propriety go in to the business immediately. He thought w ith the gentleman who pro— poled the measure that a compromise might be agreed upon, and for that pur pose he had drawn,up a resolution. Bui as tne fubjed of a compromise was new, and had not before been mentioned, he tnought if belt not to be gone into sud denly. Nor did he think it right that the question which had lor many days engaged their attention, and which mult be drawing towards a termination,lhould be postponed. A day or two could not be of great consequence to the proposed business. Mr. S. Smith wifined the resolution mentioned by Mir. Gallatin might be raid on the table, which was agreed to, and Mr. W. Smith withdrew’ his mo tion. The resolution was to the follow ing efFed. “ Resolved, that the president be au thorized to suspend the proceedings un der the ad paifed March 27, 1794, for providing a naval armament, uniil the day of any thing to the contrary notwithstanding.” Adjourned. ? BOSTON, March 24. Verbal information froraeapt. Black ler, wh° failed from Liverpool the 10th of February. On the night of the 22d of Jan. the prefs-gangat Liverpool prefi’ed an .Ame rican lailor (as they had done several times before) and carried him to their house of rendezvous. Those repeated ii*iuits so irritated the American faiicrs, that tiiey aifcinbled in a body of about ~s°> went to the house, and demanded their companion. They were refilled, admittance, and entered by force, and regained the man; and after placing the recruiting captain and officers in the centre of the room, compelled them to uncover, and give thiee cheers to the United States of America. Ou die 27th, an instance of the fame,kind occurred. 1 he labors again aifembled, and took from the press-gang an American whom they had pressed—beat the whole gang severely, threw two of them Lto the dock, where one was drowned, killed one on the spot, and the remainder fled. On the 2d of February, the American captains in port were summoned to ap pear before the mayor, and magistrates of Liverpool. They accordingly ap peared, and v/ere requeftedby the mayor to keep their Tailors under more subjec tion, and nor fuffer them to break the peace, as they had done repeatedly, in insulting the press-gang. He added, that as long as they behaved themfelvcs with civility they lhould be protected by the laws of the land, but that if they re newed their intuits, they should be pun ished with the utinoft severity of the law. ‘The captains in answer replied, that America was at war with no nation— but that their citizens had been repeat edly infultedby the Jiritifh lhips of war. # That they were the citizens ot an inde pendent nation, and would receive no inlults with impunity from the fubjedts ot any nation. And that the attempts to irnprefs their men-was an outrage and inlull that the Engliih government diu not juftify—and that if they would not trouble the Americans, they would con duct themfeires with proptiety, and not trouble them. After this not an Ame rican was moleftcd —their conduct wa* such as juftified the title of freemen, and they supported the honor of the nation to which they belonged. PHILADELPHIA, March 23. Dear Sir, THE uncandid statement of Mr. Baldwin, on the fubjed of our late cor reiponuence, as published in several of the papers in this city, lhews that he has taken no pains to conceal his inten tion of leading the public mind to a be lief, that the object of iny communica tion was to extort from him private letters, and in the manner of it, to inter rupt his speaking upon a question before the Houle of Keprefentatives; than either of which nothing is further re moved from the truth. The papers ap plied for were of a public nature, and the application was made the day before the pretended interruption. When the reprefentativcof a free peo ple, to whom reipecl and confidence ought to be attached/ riles in his place, and makes abortions so unfounded, it mufl arise from a desire- to conceal his own meanness or fears, or to criminate the conduct of others ; and it has become a duty which 1 owe to myfeif, and to the public, to remove such falfe impreflions by all the means in my power. Having understood that you have intimated, and to fome of the Committee of Privi leges, that Mr. Baldwin had laid to you, both before and after the delivery of the note by General Frelinghuyfen, that he did not intend to speak upon the l’ub je:t then before the committee of the whole, I am conij: rained to apply to your jaftice for the amount of that fact in writing. lam fully apprized, Sir, of the dencacy annexed to private conver sations : but this cannot be confide red in that point of light, from the publici ty of tne occasion, and the communica tion cf it already made; and favoring the caufc of truth, I flatter myfeif with your ready compliance. 1 will only add, that neither the public nor youriclf would have been troubled upon this bu siness, but for the choice of Mr. Baldwin, which lias thrown upon me the necessity of making the truthknown. I am with great refped and esteem, Dear Sir, Your obedient Servant, J. GUNN. $ Hon, Col. Hampton. BALTIMORE, March 25. Last Yvednefday evening, arrived the brig Fanny, Cape. Hopkins, from Cape Francois, which place ihe left the 2d. inst. By this arrival we are enabled to contradict the account of Cape Francois being declared in a date of Blockade by the British. ‘1 hrough the fame channel we learn, that Admiral Parker, about the latter part of February, summoned Fort Dau phin to surrender, as that place was by the treaty ot peace between France and Great-Britain, ceded to his majeuy. iheSpanilh commandant replied, that ue knew of no such treaty, and if Admi ral Parker approached the place,lie would be fired upon. Molt of the troops had gone to the Mole. — Mil 111 SAVANNAH. April 22. A Paris paper of Dec. 27, mentions that the American Minister had been robbed at his own house. Mr. Duval, a R.eprefentative in Con gress from the Hate of Maryland, has re iigaed his feat, in consequence of being appointeda J udge of the Supreme Court or that date. ‘The bill for the relief of American Seamen has palled. It allow* 13,000 dollars for paying agents. General Sir Henry Clinton, died in England on the 21 ft Dec. last. The National Debt of Great may be estimated at prefeat at 345 mil lions, the interest of which 15 about 13 millions a year; or one million each lunar month; —being 350,0001. a week; 41661. for every working day of ten hrurs, or 791. a minute, for the interelt of the debt! ! V CIVIS to GRACCHUS, is re c fitted, but poftponedfor want of room. Marine KegtScr. ENTERL D INWARD. April, Days. 19. Sloop James, Weft, Charleston, 1. Brig M-rgenrithe, St. CJbes, ft. fcioopOlinda, Laughton, Charleston, 1. Schooner Thankful, Hand, Reported :or New-York, i3. CLEARED OUT. Schooner Neptune, Dickir.fon, Charleston. Sloop Harriet, Bemiis, ‘St. Miry’s. cO. Schooner Experiment, Willis, do. _ Schooner Ir.duflry, Todd, Charleston lryalfi Mims, GlaDow- At Public Auftion. OnfUESDAT , the 26th injt. Will be SOLI), by the Subscribers on Moore's Wharf, 8 Hhds. and io Bbls. SUGAR. . ’ IS’ Bags of PEPPER, Sc 16 Bbls. of CRAM BERRIES. Belcher & Dickinson. Savannah, April 22. 2 t. ‘Marshal's Sales. On Monday the 24/ day of May next, will be Sold at the Court-House m Sa vannah, at I I u’Clock in the lore noon*: 920 Acres of LAND, in Waldington County, granted to Alex ander Daniel Cuthbert, and by him conveyed to Dock James Houftoun, laid to be good land : 500 Acres of Land, mentioned in the Grant, to be in St. I auls parifii, granted to Dr. fames Houftoun, said to be prime Tobacco Land:— Aiio, 30 Barrels Rice. I he above pointed out by one of the Executors to laid cftatc.—Alfo, that Well known Plantation called Colerain, opposite to Onflow illand, about ten miles from Savannah, on the River; said to contain 600 acres.—Conditions of Sale, CASH. ‘ Geo. I. HULL, i). M. 1). Q. N. I<. Plats us the fame to be shewn on the day of lido. Ma rfbal's Off r, Savannah, April 21 ft, 1796. nls For LIVERPOOL, 1 be Danifn Brig /Emm Morgenritlie, V^C-*iY? Capt. Kavne, WILL fail about the 20tiiMay ; For Frtightor Passage, ap ply to ROBERT BOLTON. Savannah, April ?2th. 15-ts. — , mm* 5 Dollars Reward. Absconded from the Subscri ber the 4th inst. an Indented \7o wan Servant, by name HANNAH FULLER, aged about nineteen years - a low well sett w’oman, fair complexion and hairS—All persons are forbid har bouring the above servant, on pain of being dealt with according to law. FRANCIS MALLERY. Savannah, April 15. n 15. NOTICE. IF any of the Heirs, Executors, or Administrators of the estate of Mr. Ruduolph Strohaker deceaied, will ap ply to the Subscriber properly qualified by law, they may hear offiomcthing to the advantage of said estate. DAVID CRUGF.R. Charleston, (S. C.) April 6. *ls-41 GEO R G I A, ) BY Edward White, Regijler (E.S.) vof Ptabates for the County of Ed. White. J Chatham,in the State ajorefaia. WHEREAS, Robert Watts, of the City of Savannah, merchant, hath made ap plication to me, for Letters of Adminiftratioa on the estate and eflcbts of James Sheward, la‘.9 of the fame place, merchant, deceased ; Thefa are therefore to cite and admonish all and An gular, the Kindred and Creditors of the said deceaied, to be and appear before me at my Office in the City of Savannah, on the eiltday of May next, to Ihew cause if any they have, why Letters of Admiriifttation should not be granted him. Given under my hand and Bal 2t Savannah, the 21st day ol April, in the year of our Lord 1796 ; and in the 20th year of Ame rican Independence. 20 Dollars Reward. TANARUS) AN away from (he Sub k** TV scriber's plantation, oa /■Sfiea Savannah Back River, a few •> days ago, a Negro Man, named (• SAMPSON, lately purehafed dyf *P r - Dilworth, of Cain<le:i County, in this State ; he is tull t> teet. high, very black, his head piet ;ty grey, walks upright, is supposed to be be tween’ 4Q and 50 years of age, and forinvrly belong’d to the estate of the late Henry Sourby ; he is well known m th 1 * foutheru parts of thii State, being ufedtogo between S:. Mary’s and Savapnah. in a i.,:>at with Mr. Dilworth, ami is fupi ol :d to o- g me to St. Mary V, ileautort, New-River or lo:ne of the Sea 1 {lands, as he went away - n'a lmall Canoe.—A Reward of t’w . DDLI 1 dS, will be paid forappre "'•ndin; and deli , ■nu 1 him to me in Savan nah. —.toy p~! 1 n harboring hi.n may expett to be prolecutrd. John Glen. Savannah, April 18th. at