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Vol i> lands in that ftatc would be afFe&ed by the conftruftion. Mr. Holland and Mr. Gillespie alfu cxprefied their doubts on this head. *Mr. Svvanwick hoped the question would be put off till Monday ; in the mean time gentlemen might have an op portunity of making up their minds on the fubjefl so as to harmonize together. Mr. S. Smith said it would be impru dent and improper to force the decision of the question at preient. He hoped it would not be indited upon. Mr. Williams said any delay in their decision would add to the loss already sustained by the farmers and merchants in the sale of agricultural produ&ions. For the fake of accommodation he would, however, consent to apoftpone nient of the question till to-morrow. Mr. Tracey hoped the question might be poftponeJ, if gentlemen wiihed it, cither till to-morrow or Monday. Mr. Hillhoufe hoped the question would be postponed till Monday, when he hoped more unanimity would pre vail in the decision. Mr. Bourne, Mr. Christie and Mr. Cooper, wiihed the adjournment to be till to-morrow only. The question was put and carried for to-morrow. Mr. Gillespie then moved that a call ot the house be made for to-morrow at twelve o’clock, which was agreed to. Mr. Goodhue, chairman of the com mittee of commerce and manufailures, reported an act to continue in force an act in the date of Maryland, for the ap pointment ofan health-officer at the port of Baltimore, which was twice read and ordered to De engrafted for a third read ing. Mr. Baldwin called up the bill rela tive to the military eliabiilhment; upon which the house formed itfelf into a committee of the whole, and after agree ing upon fome amendments, one of which was the introduction of a troop or two of light dragoons into the eftabliihment, the committee rose, and had leave to fit again. Adjourned. H A GUE, March 5. . The day before yesterday, being the day fixed :or opening the national aifem bly, all the members after having verifi ed their powers, met at the hall fixed on for the convocation, where a coaamif fion from the dates general came ibiemn ly to enftal them. The president of the Itates-general pronounced a diicourfe feitable to the occasion, announcing in fuoltance that the states now regarded tneir cxiftence as terminated. Citizen Peter Paulas, elected afterwards to tne presidency of the national aflcntbly b. toe unaru nous voices ot the members, a 0 fwered him, and was in veiled with the nation -1 sears, the dittiaguilhing mark cl his new dignity. Yesterday the provincial adminiftra t;ca or Holland was constituted, and heid their fir ft fitting. This day a com mittee from thence appeared at tne bar pt the aiTe.nbly, when the president in formed them that the alfembly would Rot intermeddle with the domefticaf i?*irs otany particular province. LONDON, March 13. Corn Exchange. We have the pleasure to fay there was a considerable supply of both Eng lilh and foreign wheat, which enables the millers to reduce the prices at least ss. per quarter. There was a great deal of barley, which was fold without difficulty, and at a reduction ot fully is. per quarter. Oats continue plentiful, and were dull sale at rather lower prices. Malt is low er. General prices as annexed. Englifti wheat, per quarter, 104s. 513. 118s. Foreign do. 1033. 108s. Rye 60s. 61s. Barley 355. 6J. 365. 6d. 37 s * Malt 435. 6d. 465. 6d. Oats 235. 2 65. Do. Poland and fine, 265. 6d. Trick beans 375. Horse do. 593. Boil ing peas, 68s. 70. Flour per lack 90s. March 16. v A mail from Hamburgh arrived this morning. There is now hardly a possi bility of any event occurring to prevent the recommencement of holtilities—ail ftdes fce.n bent upon the decision of arms, at an incalculable expence of human wretchedness and tniiery, and only wait till the weather (hall permit them to take the field. , The national convention of Holland appears at last to be organized, and pro ceeding to the cxercife of its legillative functions. , Anew field for revolution Teems to opening in the western world, The a R liaas in south America have for fome tnne been so troublesome to the Span i that they have at iaii found it ns Columbian jfclufettm, &c. ceffary to fend out a considerable force for the fafety of their fettlcment in Mexi co. “ Great things often rife from small beginnings.” Yesterday arrived at Falmouth the Princels Royal packet, capt. Skinner, in 39 days from Tortola. Captain Skinner brings the agreeable intelli gence, that his majeftv’s (hips, the Ma jeilic and Matilda, with fcveral fail of transports, were arrived at Martinique; and it was reported that in ail between 2 and 300 troops of the armament of ad miral Christian, had arrived at the place of their destination ; so that there are now about 6000 men fit for service in the illands, a force which it is believed, will at ieaft. keep the enemy at bay. It will be seen by our report of the proceedings in the house of commons last night, that the bill for the abolition, of tiie fiave trade has been 101 l by a ma jority of four. The surprise and con sternation which per vaded the house on the occasion, exceeded any thing of the kind we ever before witneifed. To Mr. Wilberforce’s complacency, in postpon ing this question from day to day, for the accommodation of Mr. Dundas, is to be attributed the late which has thus befallen it. FLY MOO FH, March 14. Late yesterday evening arrived in Hamoaze, the American icnooner Ran ger, captain Benjamin Atkins, from Breil, in baliaft, from which place file failed the 29th ult. In this veftfti 19 Britilh prisoners came passengers, being all that remained at Brest: among whom arc captains Edward Bartlett, ot Wey mouth, Richard Walker, of Sunder land, and Mr. Richard Jetfery Holland, Chaplain of his majesty’s fa ip Auda cious, who was captured on his paifagc from Gibraltar. Wliilft the Ranger was at Brest, two large frigates, and fix fail of transports, failed from thence ; their destination generally supposed for the Weft-Indies. Bhe was detained three days, and pre vented fromputting to sea, until these drips were clear ot the Ffeuch coast. The day that the Ranger left Brest, a fleet of merchantmen, consisting of 60 fail, arrived there from Bourdeaux, un der convoy of two frigates: they were chiefly lodcnwith wine and brandy. It was reported at Brest, that a force had failed from L’Orieat for the Weft indies ; and that part of the French lquadron that were fome time since at Cadiz, had alio failed for the Elands. Desertion among the sailors and sol diers is very great ; fome time ago 16,000 troops were embarking from Brest to L’Orient, to embark for the Welt-Indies, but not more than 4000 reached ; the others deferred on. the road between the two places. Fhe maritime exertions of the French are now wholly pa.d to their privateers. Upwards ot 200 fail of Engliih cap tured vellels are now laid up in Brest harbour : the French are now daily dis posing of them at public fates, to neu trals and others. Seven fail of the line and five frigates were at anchor in Brest water ; and with refpeft to their equipment, nearly ready ibr lea, but they are not one-third man ned ; the greaceft part of the French seamen are employed on board privateers, a great number of which are now at Brest, preparing for sea. Thepalfengers that came in the Ran ger,were marched from Morlaix to Brest, at wnich place they report, that provi sions of every kind are abundant, and ve ry good, bread for 335, per cwt. Frelh beef two-pence halt-penny per pound, and other provisions in proportion to it. BOS TON, April rS. /The fubferiber wilhes the editor of the Chronicle to publish the following account of the infamous treatment he and others recevedat Port-au-Prince. 1 failed from New-London, 20th De cember, in the brig Samuel, capt. Tri on, bound to Pprt-au-Prince, where we arrived the 20th January. The cargo of the brig was fold, and another eno-aved, and taken on board, and we expected to fail for New-Lon don in a day or two. A day before we were to fail, a press-gang, from a Brit ish frigate, came on beard, and prelTed my felt and four other seamen, and carri ed 11s on board a Britilh Ihip, where we remained 11 days, doing duty ;at length we conceived a plan to cfcape by swim ming; accordingly myfelf, Jacob Par mater, and Thomas Harris, plunged in to the water, and made for a Philadel phia brig, which lay between our brig and the Britilh lhip, about two miles distance. On our paifagc, Thomas Har ris had. the whole calf of his leg bit off by a lhark. I arrived firifc to the brig, took her boat, went back and brought the wounded man and the other on board the brig. The capt. was not on board, his mate said he dare not harbour us, and we mult be carried on board the man of war again; this we refufed : I then jumped into the water, and swam to a Connecticut fehooner, took her boat, went on board the brig, and brought my comrades to said fehooner (our brig having failed.) Upon our complaint, a merchant by the name of Anderson, went with Jacob Panne ter on board the Britilh vessel under pretence af relcafing the other two. But inlteadofa release, he was ordered to the gang-way, and received four dozen, and then put into irons below. Myfelf and Thomas Har ding concealed ourfclves, for fome days, and then took paifagc in the fehooner James, and arrived at New-London, ha ving 101 l our whole adventure, beiides being cruelly treated. JOSHUA WHITING. Bolton, April 14, 1796. NEW-YORK, April 23. The property arrived here from In dia, Canton and other parts of the world within a month pait, is computed at up wards ot twelve millions of dollars. Were the United States at war, it would have cost fix millions to have got home the above property. PHILADELPHIA, April 28. Arrived here the lhip Lad/ Louisa, of New- York, Capt. Cooper, 4 months from Canton, and two months trom the Cape ot Good Hope, in which came pallenger, the owner Mr. A. E. Van Braam Houchgceft, an old citizen ol America, late chief of the Dutch direc tion in China, and feconcl iu theembaf fy of the Dutch company to the empe ror at Pekin, with aa intention to lettle in that country of peace and happinds, where he means to spend the remainder of his days. Five native Chinese have arrived in the Lady Louisa. The following is the letter which wc yesterday mentioned to have been re ceived by thecoinmitteeappointcd to enquire into the situation of the foa oi General La Fayette. u Rampagh, N: Jersey, March 28, 1796* (translation.) fe Sir—l have just received the hon orable refulution, which the merits of my father have procured for me. Deign to express to the representatives of the people of America, his gratitude ; my youth forbids me yet to speak of mine. Every day recalls to me what he taught me, at every period of his life, so full of vicissitude, and what he has repeated in a letter written from the depth of his pri son. “I am convinced (he fays) that •the goodness of the United States, and the tender nebs of my paternal friend, will need nothing to excite them. “Arrived in A.merica, fome months since, J live in the country, in Ncw- Jersey, occupied in tfiepurfuits of my education. I have nfi wants ; if I had felt any, I (houW have ant we red to the paternal solicitude of the President of the United Mates, either by confiding them to him, or by accepting his offers. I lhali hereafter confider it a dutv, to impart them to the house of representa tives, which deigns to enquire into my situation. “ I am as happy as a continual in quietude relative to the objedt of my tirlt affe&ions will permit. I have found benevolence wherever I have been known, and have often had the fa tisfadtion of hearing those who were ig norant of my connedtions, speak of their interefl in the fate of my father, express their admiration of, and partake the gratitude I feel for, the generous Dr. Bollman, who has done so much to break his chains. “ It is amid all these motives of emu lation, that 1 shall continue my Every day more convinced of the duties which are imposed by the goodness of Congrcfs, and the names i have the honor to bear. George IVojhingten Motier La Fayette. The Hon. Edward Livingfton,- Chairman, &c. BALTIMORE, April 19. Extract of a letter from a gentleman of this town T now ,vs Port-de- Paix y to hit friend in this towiiy dated March 24. “ Since writing the foregoing, 1 hear from the Cape, that as soon as major general Tuflkin, a black man, who re ceived his commiifion from the national convention of France, and who com mands at Gor.aives, heard of the irapri fonment of Leveaux, he immediately marched his army beiore the Cape, and feat in a summons, faying, “ I have heard that you have imp rilbned my chief; lam here with ten thousand men ; two guns will be the signal to render him to my camp in half an hour ; 1 do not en quire ol you wherefore it is done ; it is enough for me, to know that my chief is in prison ; he is appointed by the con stituted authorities of France, and (hall he protected in his command. But should. you be hardy enough not to listen to me I will commence to destroy you by fire and iword.” In confequertce, they im mediately liberated him and Perroud, and order is rettored. “ Wc have been embargoed upwards of a month, which prevented your hear ingfrom me folonga time.” jestmt WMKemia—m- wi— I—mxmm— ~SAVANNAHTMay 20. A French paper, under date of Fe bruary 20th, announces that Mr. Ad e t is recalled from the United .States, and is tobefucccededby Mr. Fantano > of Bourdeaux. (jfti” Th? fubferiber will receive ami attend to any information that may be given, by* Owners or Mailers of V-ff?ls, an the iubje/fc oi the tollowinj; letter, at the Cultomhoufc in this city. JOHN HARBERSHAJyr, Collcftor of the Cuiloms for Savannah. (Cl RCULAIt.) Department ot State, iMirch 25m, 1706. SIR, ‘ 1 THE Newl'papers fretju-ntly give accounts of impairments of American Seamen, and of other outrages Committed upon our ci izens, by Britilh (hips of war. But how ever well found and these relations beyyot other documents will be required whenever r ■- paration for these wrongs shall he d-*ioanded. lain tner-rore dtrefled. by the Prendent ot the United S.a’tes, to endeavour to obtain cor rect informa! ion on this lubjett, verified bv tie oaths oi the informants. Such of these a* ihall enter the port of Savannah will fall under yourj notice, and l muit requril you to have their depofiuons taken, at the public exprnoc, in the molt fair and impartial manner, before a Notary Public, and tranfinitted front time to time to tins oiiice. I am, reipectfully Sir, “Your obedient fcivant, TIMOTHY PICKERING. The Colleftor ol the Port of Savannah. a2 marine ENTERED INWARD. Id ay. Days. id Ship Elizabeth, Harris, C 1 arleflon. io CLEARED OUT. Br;g Margaret Blackford, New York. Welcome Return, Labbrtc, Philadel. Sloop Drifvollo, Smith, St. Mary's. L 0 S BETWEEN Mr. M'Call’s house, and El - Gi ifTitlis’s, on the Bay, an outfids Gold WATCH CASE. Whoever will deliver it to Mrs. M-Call, or Edward Griffith, shall hand Comely rewarded. Savannah, May 20. n.aj.tf. 15 Dollars Reward. RUN-away from the Suhfcriber, about five days ago, a Negro fellow,called LUBIN. aged about eighteen years, live feet eight inches high, or there about, he is marked on the brcail; he has a mild countenance, is well known by a. number of the inhabitants of this city. He in rather slim in appearance, and bis legs from sick ness or otherwise, thin and maigre ; fpeak* French and Englifli, having been in this Rate with me, near twenty months. Any p rion, lodging him in goal, and giving information tc* Joseph Clay, junr. Efcj. shall receive the a bove reward. CHARLES HEEMS. Savannah, May eo. n. 23.61.*. 10 Dollars Reward. STOLEN out of the Office of the Coium in an Museum, on the 16th instant, a fafh ionable French Silver WATCH, very flat, with a gilt Chain and with a Reel pip% has the name of I hounchttrd, (if rightly recoile£l cd) on the face. Whoever will deleft the- Thief with the Watch, shall receive the above reward, or r, Dollars for the Watch only. If the above Watch, should be offered for talc to any of the Goldfiniths in this city, they will please to stop it, and the person offering it for sale, and give information to tne Printers of the Columbian Museum, who will pay the* above reward. Savannah,. May 20, i7Q6- > r t„m N O T I C E. I HAVE purchased a traft of Land of Mr. John Williams, situated in Efhngl.ain coun ty, about fifty mile*, from Savannah, on the Augusta road, half a mile from Savannah river, adjoining lands of Mr. Hudson, and others. Any perfen or perfon*, having any claims a gan'iß the laid land, are requested to make their claims before the dr-ds are executed. BERNARD BOYER, For ADRIEN LESFAURES. Savannah, May 20. n0.23.tf. For Charldton, The SCHOONER /S&l E 8 T H K R ’ ‘Mp f Capt. We l l s : WILL Sail on We e.-Uiay jfi next. —For Fi eight er IV face, apply to the on baa'd, or IONATHAN BROOKS. . J At Alger- •• WFart. Sa nna’u May *7 91