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X. ON DON, March 12.
Mr. Grey eftablifited the very ft rang
fafts which he undertook to present to
the house ot commons beyond the power
of refutaron. He proved these points.
‘lYuki cL-cre kventy-ieven millions
eight hundred theuland pounds of debt,
incurred by the present war, had been
already funded.
That twenty-two millions remained,
floatineand unfunded ; and that this furn
of jn irondred millions had been iquan
dered in the three firft years of this war.
That this was more than double the
expence of any three years of any war
in which this country was ever en
gaged.
That of this sum, almost as much had
been spent without estimate, and confe
quentiy without the authority of parlia
ment, as with it.
That barracks were built for any ar
iiiy of forty thouiand men, to be kept
■up in time of peace.
Th.it by tae new system, the peace
cfablirhment could not be lei's than
twenty-xwo millions per annum.
That the permanent revenue was not
likely to he more than 19,500,0001.
That consequently if peace were made
to-morrow, independent of winding up
of the war expences, there mull be addi
tional taxes to the amount ot 2,500,000!.
to carry on the peace.
That, in Tired violation of the pro
vision ot the ad. ot queen Anne, which
declares that if the bank ihould advance
money to government, without grants
from parliament, they Ihould iorteii
treble she sums advanced, miniilers had
procured large iuins of money in advance
from the bank.
That they had artfully Smuggled in
to sn-uft a clause repealing the whole
lbme provifton in the aft of queen Anne,
and that now the bank was in advance
the enormous furn oi 11 ,Soo,oool.
These arc but a lew of the faffs efbib
lifhed by Mr. Grey, from documents
laid upon she table, and of which print
ed copies were in the hands oi the mem
bers. To these charges Mr. Pitt did
not fay one word. He left every thing
to an evasive vote on the order oi the
day, and his majority was 207 agsinft
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In the paper laid on the table of the
heufe of commons, there is a charge of
49,000]. to M. Puifaye, for buying pro- *
v Lions for the French at the time the
poor Englith were itarving.
Mr. Ha kings’ pen lion is 4000 b a
y ear, for 27 years, from Auguil, 1755,
to which the India company have added
the loan of 50,000 b for 17 years, with
out in tereft, which is therefore an annui
ty of that term of all that it will bring
ofintereft on afiibftantial security.
Mr. Burke is in a rage that his pen
sions of 4000 b a year, did not commence
at the fame term. He therefore threat
ens miniilers with a regicide piece.
The court of the duke ot Wertemberg
is one of the moil splendid of the fmali
principalities ; he has five palaces, the
raeaneft of which is more fupe :b than
Carlton house.
There is no objection to the union
with cur princess on the score of relig
ion, for the reigning duke, though born ,
a catholic, is now a protellant.
DUBLIN', March 3.
Yesterday James Weldon was execut
ed at the front of the New Gaol, pursu
ant to his sentence for high treason.
The board did not fail as i.i ufuai exe-s
cutions, but the man was puihed oIF itj
and remained suspended by the neck for
about ten minutes, when he was hauled
up on the board, and his head fevered
Irom his body, fixed on a pole, and
fhevved to the fpeftators—the execu
tioner crying out “ Here is the head oi
a traitor.” His body was not quarter
ed, but only feared. The body and
head were then put in a coffin, and buri
ed ten feet deep in the inner yard of the
gaol.
He was thirty years old, a (lout and
well made man, and had been three years
an the 7th regiment of dragoon guards.
The executioner was not very expert at
his business, lor he made fcveral chops
with the axe, and at length was obliged
to ule his knife before'he could complete -
iy fever the head.
Hat Manufactory .
A large quantity of LADIES and
GENTLEMENS bed
BEAVER HA I’S. ‘
Warranted, just now finifhing, and for
PETER MADDENS Store,
On the Bay, or the House at the back
thereof, in the Lana, >
By JOHN BJGGS. “+
Savannah, March 15.
NS
1 Columbian slufeum, Sc.
Jror t\)c Columbian ipnCranv*
Gentlemen,
THE unhappy man who has been
fpnrred 0., contrury-to the advice
of the Physicians, and to his own inju
ry, to re-commence an attack on me,
which appeared in your lad paper, I un
derhand is at the point of death. It has
never been my wiih to add to affliction ;
and to make comments on dying ingrati
tude, wouid be fruitiefs as reproving
the winds.— Let him depart in peace,
and I hope, that lie will meet more mercy
at the tribunal he is soon to appear at,
than lie has had tenderneis ior my repu
tation here.
Some few remarks, as to facts, in de
fence of myfeli to the public, are necel
farv, and I have done witft aim forever.
1 was not in the legislature when the
aft Mr. Waldburger alludes to, and of
which he citc>, a ieT.on, breaking in on
Mr. Zuberbuhler s bill, was palled ;
not in (789, as be Jays , but the iird oi
February, 1788.
I never consented to the law giving
this property to Mr. Waldburger; 1
thought if it were proper to apply it
to individual uses, other heirs than that
family were alive ; my oppolition I con
tinued to the lafl stage of the bill, and
for which I appeal to Mr. Milledge.
The letter he has brought forward
was aiter he had made me repeated ad
vances.—At any rate the letter only
proves that I had too favorable an opin
ion of him.
The hundred pounds, he mentions,
was the only compensation I received
for several years attention to military
affairs after the war, and during which
time I expended as much in flationary
alone, and three times more in expences
in attending the different parts of my
command en Indian alarms, as the sum
amounted to.
I did not influence any member of the
legislature to obtain it, and after all, it
was an audited certificate not worth fix
(hillings and eight pence in the pound.
The fifteen hundred dollars which
I never received, and which was never
decided on vvhilft I was in the legislature,
is now molljuftly due me, and Hands
so acknowledged by the senate, for fer<
vices from the beginning of the year
1 1779, to the middle of the year 1781,3s
SBrigade Major to the state, and during
which period, the molt trying service in
America was experienced; but if I had
been in the iegiliaturp, it appears from
the failure of my application, that my
influence there was nctfo great as was
declared.—lt was no reaion however
because I was there, supposing it to be
the case, that a just application ought
not to he made by me for a just debt.
Was not, let me aik, the unhappy
man in the legislature, when Zuberb dr
ier's estate was granted him, and be
tween which period and the time of
Mr. Zuberbuhier’s death thirty, and
not eleven years, as he fays in my case,
had e’apfed. W hich deranged the funds
moit, Mr. Waldburger’s ten or fifteen
thouiand pounds, in that eftatc which he
is in pofteifion of, or my demand of fif
teen hundred dollars, which I never re
ceived. Indeed, I never had one fix
"pence from* the state, for ail my fer vices,
Iroin 1776, till I commanded the State
Legion, and between which period i can
count up a dozen different actions, in 1
which 1 was engaged, to procure the
independence of my country. General
; Clarke, and the western officers, had
their accounts audited for like services,
whilst 1 have been refilled this just debt,
as the journals of the house, and the
Auditor's books, will prove. Conti
nental officers, with whom the state had
nothing to do, iince the refufal of my
demand, have received commutation, of
twice the sum, from her treasury, and
claims similar to mine, have been since
difeharged. Why should it be more
criminal in me, to make application,
than in other officers ? I refer to the
journals of the Yazoo Legislature, in
Cob John MHntofh’s case, and others,
to prove this.
she bar, which Mr, Waldburger
fays,- had no choice, when he was arti
cled to me : though not so numerous,
was a ■ rclbeftable, in my opinion, in the
years 1782 & 1783, as at the present
day. Mr. John Houftoun, Mr. Ste
phens, in 1783 ; Mr. Howly, and Mr.
Stirk, were among the practitioners.
My prafticc, trifling as it may be con
sidered, as my books vvill prove, affor
ded me from three thousand, to three
’ thou fund live hundred pounds ftcriing
per annum—J had at all times, when
Judge Walton had any thing to do with
the law, as an individual, that gentleman
fora client. Law books indeed, were
Tea roe, owing to the ravages oi war ;
but his library was open at all times,
for my young men ; and that li
brary I purchased fome ’confiderable
time before Mr. Waldburger left my
office. He could however, have gone
to either of the other gentlemen at the
bar, if he had been in the flourifhing
circumstances he declares; and I lincere
ly wiih he had done lb. My charge of
ingratitude againfl him could not have
existed. I forbear to enter fully on this
lubjeft again, but at the moment he op
posed my claim, which he aifumes so
much merit for doing, he rose and ac
knowledged the many obligations he
was under to me. For this, 1 appeal to
Doftor George Jones, Col. Samuel
Hammond, and other members of the
legislature of 1793. To Mr. Milledge,
my brother Abraham Jackson, and Doc
tor \ oung, 1 alio appeal, to prove his
repeated confefltons of ingratitude. I
c uld trace Mr. Waldburger, muen far
ther than I have done —but enough—his
fituadon prevents it. I have been com
pelled to make those few observations,
and I am very sorry for it.
JAMES JACKSON.
NEW-YORK, April 15.
A London paper Hates the amount of
neutral property captured by the Bri
tish in 1796 ; at 104,760 quarters of
wheat; 35222 barrels of flour; 9110
quarters ol rye ; 8573 quarters of Indian
corn ; 5 866 quarters of meal ; bolides
lundry finallcr articles. Government
imports in the fame year, 82481 quarters
of wheat ; 1900 do. rye; 2256 barrels
flour.
NORFOLK, April 16.
We scarcely instanced luch a sudden
tranfltion in the weather, as on thnrfdaj
last—The heat during the lore and pan
of the afternoon was so intense, that 2
o’clock the Thermometer was at 80—
at 3 there came on a violent gull attend
ed with tremendous claps of thunder and
lightning, and about 4 there fell a tor
rent of hail, of luch a size as we never
before have seen ; fome of the Hones
were upwards of four inches in circum
ference—there was a number of panes of
glaf - broken—during the hurricane a
1 chooser at Paterson’s Wharf, was
ft ruck by the lightning which Havered
one of her mails to pieces.
PHILADELPHIA, April 2?.
sixty aFt oj a letter from Mart da
ted February 26.
“ Tiie yellow fever, has prov
ed uncommonly fatal to the (hipping in
our bay. One ship, the Majellic, of 74
guns, loft above zoo of her crew in the
course of live months, and the transports
have fullered in equal proportion. Dr.
Charles Weblter ot Edenburg, arrived
here in September, and soon after went
to St. Vincents, where I am sorry to
add, he soon fell a viftim to our fatal
epidemic.”
brom a Correfpondcnt.
It was reported yesterday, and confi
dently a Her ted, that one of the friends
ot order who carried about a reincn
ftranee in favour of the treaty, said that
“he v/ou ! d be one otfivc hundred who
would arm themselves, and turn the
house of representatives out ofdoors.”
The person who heard this declaration,
ought to Hep forward and make it known,
that an incendiary, who like a mush
room, fuddcnly itarted up into a mer
chant, might be taught the consequen
ces of such declarations.
SAVANNAH, May 13.
Married, On Sunday Evening last,
by the Rev. Hugh M‘Call, George
M illen, Esq. of this City, to Miss
Margaret Dennis.
fITT Acricultuiier, will appear in our
next.
rpjrmc Ucgtfter.
entered inward.
May, Days.
10. Ship Irlduftry, Oram, St. Übc’s,t>4.
Schoon-r Esther, Wells, Charkflon, 2.
Experiment, Willis, St Mary, 3.
Sloop Maria, Bartlett, Charlcllon, *
Sloop Janvis, Well, ditto,l.
i*. Schooner Chance, Gaurd, St, Augtiftir.ie, 3.
Hannah, Hammond, reported, for
Chail'.iton, St. Marks, 17.
CLEARED OUT.
u. Brig Betty, Fletcher, Hamburg.
Schooner Betsy, Stevens, New-ProviH nte.
Sloop Rainbow, Harding, CharMton.
Uxbridge-Packet, Moore, St. Marys.
12. Nancy, Nightingale, Charlellon.
Nancy, Weft, ditto.
Either borrowed, or ta
ken from the house of the Subfcribcr, a Volume
of the ENCYCLOPEDIA, Brfurtitica (letter
B.) bound with black leather. Whoever lias
got it in poileflion, isrrqueftcd to r tnrn it.
JAMES ARMSTRONG.
May n ( n.ao
Savannah & Auguil a
.8 T A G E,
WILL ftartfromMajor Brown’s Boarding
House in Savannah,l ever y Saturday ae
Nine o’Clock in the morning ; ani Irom Mrs.
Chines in Augulta, every Wednelday at Six.
o’CHck in the morning.—The Fare sol tach pal
fenger Fight Dollars, with an allowanc tot ,14 lb.
Baggage : All extra Baggage jd.j per Jb. Way
Paih l per mile.—No Seat can be en
gaged till the Money is paid—the Stagt B< ‘• k
will be kept akthc Coftee-Houfs,by Maj.Bi nvt
where S'*a:s tn-ty betaken, l’atl art dc~
delired to i>e punctual to the tune, as th” S ago
waits for ho pet lon.—Extra Baggage mutt b
at the Stage-House, by Seven o'Clock in tb
morning, or run the rilk ot not going.
NATHANIEL IWININC-
Savannah, May 13. at-tt
s JUST LANDING,*
From on board the Schooner Either,
AND FOR SALE ;
2 Hhds. and n Barrels CIDER,
Frclh RAISINS,
Mens SADDLES and BRIDLES,
No. 7. 8, and 10 Cotton CARDS,
6 Calks 4(1, td, and Bd, CUT NAILS,
Mens SHOES. 800 I S & BOOT LEGS*
Ladies MOROCCO SUiPPERS,
Black Floret.t tic do.
M ns White CO L ION HOSE,
HUMIIUM amkN \NKEENS.
JONATHAN BROOKS.
Savannah, May ij. 2t-tf.
NOTICE. ~
THE Subfcribcr, being about to leave the
town fora lew weeks, informs his Iriendft
and Customers, that h'.s bulinds will be carried
on by Mr. Maekee, Ins f reman, and will be
lit i£Hy atlci.dtd to.
JOHN 11. ROBERTS.
May 13, 179 ft n.20.
the SLOOP MARIA,
Captain BARTLETT,
V, 1111 handlome accommo.
dalions for t'eight, or Ton
f /
cay, ior Baltimore.—tor l'at
■ tu, aprfty to
ii LI ER, BAc.S I'M AN e3 Cos.
Savannah, May 13. it.
For “CHARLESTON,”
The SCI IO ON E R
E S T H E R,
Capt. Weus:
SteftS&wtWlLL Sail on Wednelday next.-**
Tor rtoighl or Balfage, apply to the Matter da
board, or
JONATHAN BROOKS, at
Alger’s vVharf.
Savannah, May 13. si-at.
GEORGIA,) BY Edward White, Rcgtjkr
(L. S.j >oj Probates Jor the Count) of
Ed. White. 3 Chatham,in the State ajurefaij.
WiiEREAo, RoberL W’atts, ot the City
oi Savahnah, merchant, hath made ap
plication to me, lor Letters of Adminiltratiou
on the eftatc and eftebts ot James Sheward, Jata
of the lame place, merchant, dec *aled ; These
are therefore to cite and admoniih all and lin
gular, tht: Kindred and Creditors of the laid
decealed, to be and appear belorc me at my
Ofhcc in the City ot Savannah, on the aiitday
oi May next, to shew canle il any they nave,
why Letters of Adminiltrution Ihould not be
granted linn.
Given under my hand and leal at Savannah,
the 2iil day ol April, in the year of our
Lord 179S ; and 111 the 20th year of Ame
rican Independence. 15 —gt.
Edward Griffith,
Watch-Maker, (on the Bay)
MOST refpeftfully informs his CUS
TOMERS, that he has received per
the Brig Apollo ; a Handi'ome
Ajjortmait of Jewellery *
fcr EDWARD GRIFFITH, rc
queifs all thole indebted to him to make
immediate payment, and ail those wtto
have accounts againit him to present
them ior payment.
Savannah, April 19. ni4..tf.
5 Doiiais Reward.
ABSCONDED from the Subferi
her the 4th inst. an Indented Wo
man Servant, by name HANNAH
FU LLER, aged about nineteen years ;
a low well sett woman, fair complexion
and hair.—All persons are forbid har
bouring the above Tenant, on pain of
being dealt with according to law.
FRANCIS MALLERY-
Savannah, April 15. ni s*
The Subfcribcr having taken the
Wharf & Stores of
Meflrs. A. M'Credic, (A Cos.
BEGS leave to inform the Public,
that he will receive on Storage,
every Species of Produce and Lumber.
The drifted attention fluid be paid, and
all Orders punctually obeyed, by
John T. Whittendel.
Savannah, March 25th.
CASII paid for K AGS at this
OFFICE.
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