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following elegant composition to be put
Bp over the fire place in his club-room :
“ No Politic language is here the fort,
•* He that begins it forfeits .a quart ;
King George’s right let us maintain,
And Love and Friendfhiplong remain ;k
“> He ikat refufes is to blame !” j
St. JOHN’S ( Antigua( April 7.
Extract cf a letter from a gentleman in
Grenada, to his friend in this Jjlattd,
dated April 3. _
, “Jn my latt I informed you that the
enemy had drove us from all our out
polls, and that the town was inverted,
and that they were irt great force at Port
Royal and Labay, since which Get .
Nicolls has marched from this with
part of the 9th, ioth, 25th, 2gth, SBth,
one company of the St. George’s militia,
one company of the St. Patricks ditto,
four companies of Black Rangers, 60 ot
the 17th dragoons, and the militia light
ravairy of about 40 —and were at Labay
joined by a part of the Bth and the 3d or
basts from on board an Indiaman, which
had a few days arrived from Barbadoes;
j this force together confuted of about
2200 men. Good Friday in the morn
ing, the aedion commenced by an attack
on Port Royal, a very iirong and almost
impregnable place ; the enemy foughfe
furioully and i'eemcd determined to dis
pute every inch of ground—they were
at lart obliged to give way to our supe
rior discipline and bravery ; at live
o’clock in the evening we got pofleffion
of it by storm, and a molt horrid and
dreadful daughter took place ; the drag
oons and cavalry ported tliemfelve.s in
the mean time in such a lituation as to
cut off the retreat of the fugitives, which
they completely effected, and cut up
about 200 of them in their flight. It
is imagined by the bed accounts, and
from feme women that have flnee come
from the camp, that the enemy have not
101 l less than 500, besides wounded.
As soon as the Engliih flag was display
ed on Poll Royal, Pilot Hill was Hfo
evacuated by the enemy, leaving their
cannon and ammunition behind them.
“ This a flair colt us about 30 killed
and go wounded, among the former is a
Major Edwards of the buffs, Captains
Noeland Forbes of the black rangers,
and two other militia officers.
“ Gen. Nicolls has since been reccn
noitering the ground camp, and am in
formed in every track and path leadin'*
to it, and among the bushes in every di
rection, it is fuocking to fee the number
of dead bodies who have era .vied so far
and at lart died of their wounds.
The Atlanta, of 10 guns, has had a
severe engagement near Guadaioupe,
with a Frencu privateer of 16 guns, lull
ot men, which file gave a smart drefiing
to, and obliged her to make the bell of
her way to that Island.—The engage
ment iaffed about four heurs, and both
veflfels were very much injured, which
was the cause of the privateer not being
taken, as the Atlanta’s fails and rigging
were so much cut and torn so as to pre
vent her coming up with the privateer
which she dialed into port.
BOSTON, May 2.
Ex trad! of a letter from a gentleman be
longing to this town, dated Leghorn,
Jan. z 9, 1796.
“ I think there is too much risk at
prelcnt, for American veflels to come up
thus lar. Not long since, a veil'd be
longing to Leghorn, was taken by a
Turkishcruifer,whether Algerine, Tu
nife, or Tripoliton, there is no know
ing, their flags being similar. Should
your veflel arrive at a port in Spain, I
think itbeil: toorder her loaded, and to
proceed immediately home.”
Orders have been received from the
war-office at Philadelphia, for complet
ing the frigate building in this town,
with all poiiible dispatch.
NORFOLK, May 7.
Yesterday arrived here, the Hoop jen
ny, Capt. Vaughan, in 33 days from
Marigaune. Left there the following
American veflels.
Brig Caroline, Cornell, from New-
Yor* ; schooner Hope, M. Tar box,
Irom Saiem ; schooner William, Smali,
lrom Boflon ; schooner Neptune, Hews,
Irom Philadelphia.
1 lie cargoes ot the above veflels tak
<*n by the administration, and the ves
sels detained in consequence of non pay
ment.
A gentleman wlio came paflenger in
the above veilcl, and was in light of the
adionat Leogane, has furniffiedus with
the undermentioned particulars.
I hat on the 19th March, the Eng
fleet, confining of 73 fail, weighed
anchor at Port-au- Prince. On the 21 It
they began landing the army, and by
2 P,M - the whole oi them were ashore ;
thc X then formed into two columns, un
Columbian JHufeum, cv.
dec command of General Forbes and
Boyer, one of which tiled off to the tail
ward, and the other to the welt of the
town ; the Swiftfure, Africa, and Le
viathan, anchored close to the fort with
springs on their cabies, and commenced
the attack. By this time the wellern
division had formed, and advanced to
wards Leogane. In their rout they paf
lcd through a sugar plantation, where
a large number of French troops were
in’ambu.h, who attacked them with great
intrepidity, and obliged them to fall
back with the loss of 400 men killed and
wounded.
The French them set fire to the plan
tation, and the Engiifli troops advanced
by another route cioie to the town, and
a general action commenced between
the main armies, which continued with
out iutermiilion till dark, when the Bri
rilh troops ..fell back a mile from town.
During the night the Engliih took pof
feilion oi an eminence that commanded
the town, on which theytraifed a battery
ol 2 guns. On the morning of the22d,
at day light, they opened the battery,
and continued playing on the town for
three hours, during which time three
attempts were made to ltorm the town,
but proved unfuccefsful. Ab ut 9 o’-
clock, a body of French troops formed
into two columns, came out ot Leogane,
ftortned the Britilh battery, |and put ali
in it to the {word.
On the evening of the 23d, a cutter
came down from Port-au-Prince to the
commodore, who fired a gun, and made
the signal for raising the liege—by dark
the troops were rc-embarked, and the
fleet got under way, leaving behind
them a few bags of cotton and fome
horses. Every American veflel at Leo
gane, were taken pofleffion of by the
British fleet, and carried to Port-au-
Prince. The town of Leogane was
greatly injured by the {hot from the
lhipping and 4 gun battery. The Rai
lonablc man of war was greatly damag
ed, and obliged, after an hour’s firing,
to flip her cables and retire.
LEXINGTON ( Kentucky) March 26.
Such parts of the treaty lately nego
clatcd between the United States and
Spain, as ref'petrts the western country,
to wit, the free navigation of the Mifji-
Jippi, Nen.v-Grl.ans a free port, (sr. were
announced to the inhabitants of this
toWn on Saturday last—the general joy
of all ranks and deferiptionsof citizens,
was never so conspicuous as cn the above
oceafion ; of which the firing of artil
lery, tolling of bells, bon-fires, lAc. &c.
were evident teiiimonies !
We are informed that the Indians fir
ed on three men a few days ago, on the
waters of Sciota, and that one man and
three horses are miffing.
We have it from good authority, that
the Indians have removed all their wo
men and children from the waters of the
Miami, and have left off’ visiting at fort
Hamilton, though they itill continue
to frequent Grenville on friendly terms.
KNOXVILLE, April 13;
Asa proof of the sincere friendihip
of the Cherokees, we withpleafure in
form our readers, that in the course of
the pall week, three families arrived at
Fort Grainger, on their way to Nalh
ville, confining of twenty persons, men,
women and children, having travelled
from Tugefo, in Georgia, through that
nation, dulant about 143 miles. On
their journey, they were treated with
the greatefl hospitality and friendship by
the Cherokees, and plentifully supplied
with corn at a moderate price.
CHARLESTON, May, i 9 e
Captain Parenchief, who arrived on
Tuesday from Bermuda, has furnilhed
the following lift of the privateers now
cruizing out of that island :
Ship Hawk-foury, Newbold, 18 guns.
Brig Hezekiah Frith, 18 do.
Sch. Hawke, Painter, 10 do.
Sloop Mentor, Smith, 12 do.
Sloop Experiment, Barr, 10 do.
Sloop Favourite, Smith, 4 do.
These veflels are all commiflioned to
take American veflels coming from
1 ranee, or the French and.Dutch Weft-
Indies; part of them are cruizing be
tween St. Bartholomew’s and Guada
lctrpe, the others are to cruize in the
tract of veflels coming from Demarara,
Ileqiiebo, Sec. No American veifeL
have been carried in lately, except a
large (hip from France, which had bce.i
an Engliih Prize, and purchased by an
American : she apparently had nothin
on board but ballad, though it was faiu
there were calks under the ballad, bu;
it was not known what they contained.
A Britifn frigate called the Topaz,
arrived at Bermuda from England, about
eight days before capt, P. left it; fire
brought out a number of officers to re
place a like number which have been
fulpended by governor Crawford.
A veflel arrived from Martinieo four
days before capt. P. left Bermuda; it
was*reported that Ihe brought accounts
that the Engliih fleet did not intend to
attack Guadaioupe this feftfon, but that
they would go against St. Lucea and
Demarara. Ten thousand troops were
laid to be collefled at Barbadoes.
SAVANNAH, May 27.
Extrail of a Letter from a gentleman in
Philadelphia, to his frnndin this town
“ Mr. Lee, the federal attorney gene
ral, has at length brought forward his
report on the Georgia claim ; it Hates
those fads, which has been long since
dated by the farmer, to the people of
Georgia! The purchasers exercise in
finite address, to wave the claim of the
union; how it will terminate, rests yet
among the arcana of unknown events ;
fads lupported by records, too plainly
indicate inevitable loss to that Hate.
Will this convince them of the folly of
1 hole man Lies, by whom they have been
diihonored ? I fear not. When the folly
oi the Pharoahs had become so Ifir offen
iive to the deity, as to merit exemplary
punifftment, they were hardened under
the strokes of correction. The fir ft fa
vored lot is his, who has not merited or
met misfortune ; the next,, his who has
not been font ten in vain.”
A Turkish (hip of the line lately or
dered a Maltese to strike his flag in th j
Archipelago ; the Captain radier tha i
comply, set fire to his magazine, aid
blew up the velfel with fifty men in her.
Died, at Hartford, in Connedicut,
George Wyllys, Esq. Secretary
of that State, in the 86th year of his age.
This venerable gentleman held the of
flee of Secretary of State, and Regirtei
ol the town, about 65 years, by an an
nual election, and about the fame period,
was clerk oi the court of common pleas.
For more than sixty years, his found
health enabled him to attend pablic bufi
r.efs every day, and for forty years to
gether, he declared he had been free from
pain.
MefT. Printers,
IN perusing your paper, I cart a tem
porary glance on a piece which excited
my attention, which was concerning
American teamen, Some scribbler seems
to fignify we have experienced no hard
ships, nor fuffered no insults ; that we
have neither been abuled or insulted, nor
fufferd any degradation Irom the Britilh
commanders of their armed veflels. 1
fliall lay before the world at large, and
in particular my countrymen and every
unprejudiced citizen of the world, the
usage 1 have received, and the Britilh
lenity I have experienced. Being a na
tive of Philadelphia, I embarked as a
fearnan upon a voyage in the lhip Hope,
capt. Healy, bound ior London, at which
place we arrived, or rather in rhe Downs,
2d December, where the Savage Sloop
of War boarded us, and in spite of the ut
fiioft remonft ranees of the officers of our
lhip acquainting them of our being na
tives ol America, and producing our pro
tections, farced ue on board their ship,
where they obliged ns to do duty ; and
in case of our relufal, immediate puxtilh
ment. After being kept ten days, was
lent on board the Sandwich, where we
experienced confinement, as imprefled
men ; after five days, we were orderea
to do duty, or puniftunent would ensue ;
after doing duty a few days, four of us
made our escape to Gravelend, in order
to return to our native country; at
which place we were taken up by aprefs
gang, and two of us made our efi.ape and
workedourway through every difficul
ty to the metropolis London, in order
to fee our only friend the American COll
-- the famous and renowned Mr.
Johnfcn, but before I could have the
pleasure ol feeing him, I was deprived
of my comrade/be was imprefled again,
‘fhe morning following, I waited on
Mr. Johnson and told him I was an
American, and wanted a protection ; I
also acquainted him I was an American
citizen, and had a protection from Mr.
Keele, an eminent lawyer ot New-York,
his reply was, Mr. Keeie s protections
were good for nothing, that any perlon
could get the fame lavor for a trifling
hum, he also informed me 1 muff bring a
man with a long coat to (wear for me.
EDWARD D. SHOEMAKER.
Savannah, May 27, 1796.
(foT The Public arc hereby notified, That,
farm; the. Negotiation with the Indians at Cole
vain, Lhe MAIL irom St. Mary's'and Newport
Bridge, will arrive here about 0 o’clock, P.M
every Monday, and will be doled at 11 o’clock
every Tuesday.
JUSTUS H. SHEUBERt
Savannah, May 47.
marine Kegiffcf,
entered inward.
May, Days.
33. Brig Fanny, Swinburn, New-York, id.
Sloop Harriet, Benrifs, St. Mary's, e.
CLEARED OUT.
Eleven. Sons, Fowler, Ncw-I.ondon.
Ship triendlhip, Orange, Londotr.
Sloop Batch. Packet, Jamicfon, St. Marys.
Schooner Fair Play, Webley, St. Mary’s.
Marcus, Moody, Sav. Lamar, Jam.
ftTf The fubkriber will receive and attend
to any information that may be given, by
Owners or Mall rs of Veflels, on the fubjcCt
of the following letter, at the Cufiomhoufe iu
this city, (
JOHN HARBERSHAM.
Collector of the Cuitoms for Savannah*
(Ci acutAß.)
Department ol State, March 85th, 1708.
SIR,
nHHE Newlpapers frequently give accounts
A ot impreflments ot American Seamen,
and of other outrages committed upon our
citizens, by British (hips of war. But how
ever founded thele relations may be, yet
other documents will be required whenever re
paration tor thels wrongs ihall be demanded.
I am therefore directed, by the Prciident of
the United States, to endeavour to obtain cor
red information on this iubjed, verified by
the oaths ot the informants. Such ot thele as
ihall enter the port oi Savannah will fall under
your notice, and I mutt requeii you to have
heir drpolttions taken, at the public expence,
n the molt lair and impartial manner, before a
ary Paolic, and traMliniitcd from time to
; .mie 10 this Oilice.
I am, refpettfully, Sir,
Your obedient tervant,
TIMOTHY I’fCKERING.
. she Collector ot'thc Port >
of Savannah. aa.^t.
DISTRICT ot GEORGIA.
CIRCUIT COURT of the United States „
April itk, 179 b.
JOSEPH SPENCER, Charles It . rd n, John
‘.Vutiacc, William Middleton, Gilbert Baulic
David Delegal, John Cooper and Charles Ir
vin, having, thougti duly futiimoncd, made de-,
tault as Grand Jurors toi the term aforefuid.
It is ordcr -d, that they be lined in the sum of
ten Pounds each, unlclstheydo make on oath,
a fufficiem excuie, to be filed in the Clerk’s
office, ot this ddfriCt, on or before thefirit day
ot the next term!
And whereas, John Pouller, Francis Davies,
Francis Chauvin, Samuel Fulton, James M’Col
lock, John Warren, and Jonathan Fabian, be
ing duiy summoned as petit Jurors, for the
aoove term, made default. If is ordered, that
they be fined in the turn f Five Pounds each,
unless they Ihall lhew good and fufiicient ex
cuie, after the manner and within the time
above direded ; And it is further ordered, that
the above be pubiiihed in tfie Gazettes, ’four
weeks fucceffiveiy, that the laid defaulters may
have due notice thereof.
By order of the Court,
cilvklea Harris, cink.
Savannah, 20th May, 1796. 2j-dt
jf/H ERE AS, “1 homas Lawrence, James Me—
rilies and John Wlntley being duly sum
moned m attend as Jurors for the DutnttCourt,
on the tenth day otMaymfl a , u , andthmr names
being called, did mane deiauk. It is ordered
tliat each ot them be lined in the sum of Eight
Dollars, unless they do make on oath a fulii
cient. excuse to be tiled in the Clerk’s office of
this diitrict, on or before the firft day of the
next lellion ot this Court, and that this order
be thrice pubiiihed ; n ffie Gazettes, that tlia
laid delaultets may h avc due notice thereof.
Extract j T om the minutes ,
CIIA RLES HARRIS, Clerk.
Savannah, 20th iVl ay> l7g g.
WILL BE SOLD
At COST and CHARGES, if applied for im
mediately, by
ABRAHAM DELYON,
A small Consignment of
GOODS.
CONSISTING OF
Large and small Japanned Waiters,
Double and ling!” Decanter Stands,
Tea and Coffee Urns plain and plated,
Patent Japan’d Tea Kettles, and Lamps,
1 Bale Scotch Sc 1 do. bell German Ozqaburgs,
A tew piecescoarfe Callicocs, Sc Humhums,
Coarse Sc fine fhawles, Bandanno Hankerchiefs,
4 Pieceselegatitcolored Muffin-tor. v/aillcoat,
Corded and plain India Muffin, lome veryfine,
A few pieces belt quality real India Nankceqs,
Blank Books, Loaded Whips mounted.
—ALSO—
Box Jewellery, confining of elegant Gold
Rings, Gold Miniature Chains, Gold Neckla
ces of the newest fafhion and taltc, do. do.
Ear Rings, do. Wires and Bobs, Corel Hands,
jflain and mounted, &c. See.
Savannah, May 27.
F~O It S A L k
f If applied lor ina fewdays)
remarkably faft falfng
found
W&d’Sei BRIG FANNY,
*j>>’ (Ifff Burthen 150 tons,
£ Wit LX AM SwiNSVRN
JuA arrived Irom New-York. She s incom
plete repair and ready to receive a Cargo. FoC
particulars apply to Gaird,ners Sc Mitch
ei, or to the Captai 1 on board, at their (for
merly Shehall’sj Whart, whereau Inven.ory of
’.he materials may be seen.
Savannah, May 25.
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BianK Bills ot Exchange, B.iis
of Lading and Manifeits.
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