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moft officer like manner, and the attack
made with great gallantry.
La Unite was reputed one ol the great
cll iailers in the French navy, and is a
very fine frigate, only seven years old.
The wife of the Governor of the Port
of Rochfort, Madame Le Large and her
family, were on board, who with her
son, an ensign of the Chip, I fuffered to
return to France in a neutral veil'd, tak
ing in the parole of the young man not
to serve until exchanged.
Indefatigable, Falmouth, 26 April, 1796.
Sir, 1 have the moft feniible pleat are
indeiiring you to inform my Lord Com
miilioners of the Admiralty of my arri
val at this port, accompanied by the
, French national trigate La Virginic, of
44 guns, eighteen and nine pounders,
and 3+o men, commanded by Citizen
Bergeret, Capitaine de VaitLau, who
failed from Brest singly, four days ago,
tocruife oft*the Lizard in this favourite,
which is confide red the fineft ship and
faded failerin the French navy, and ol
the largest dimensions, being 15S feet
long, and 45 broad. *
On Wednesday morning the 20th
instant, after I had sealed my dispatches
for their lordffiips, lying too under the
lizard, with the squadron, waiting for
the French frigate La Unite, our prize,
to weather that point, I obierved alhip
coming in from the sea, which in my
mind looked rather suspicious ; and on
her not answering the private signal,
when (he tacked from us, I immediately
gave chace to her, accompanied by the
Amazon and La Concorde (having by
signal directed Le Revolutionary to at
tend her prize into port, and the Argo
to proceed to Plymouth.) The supe
rior failing of the Indefatigable gave me
the fatisfadion of coming up with her
after a chafe of fifteen hours, and run
ning one hundred and sixty-eight miles.
Fortunately the wind prevented her
from Peering for Ufhant, or ihe mult
have escaped.
A little past midnight I commenced
aftion with the enemy, which was close
ly continued under a crouded fail, for
one hour and forty-five minuteSi The
enemy, who fought gallantly, was by
this time much crippled, her mizen-mall:
and main-top-malt being (hot away ;
the Indefatigable was not much disa
bled ; but having loft her gaff and miz
en-top-maft, the main-top iail w-as ren
dered ufeiefs by an unlucky shot cutting
both leech-ropes. In this situation we
palled the enemy without the power of
avoiding it, having nc after-fail to back,
and I had long difeovered we had not
only to combat a ship of large force, but
that her commander was completely
maacr oi his profellion, in whole pre
sence I could not commit myfeif with
impunity, by throwing my Ihip in the
wind, without iubmitting to be raked
by him.
■She had not at this time struck, and
we kept'dole a-head of her, reving
new braces to enable us to bring the
ship to, to renew the attack.
.4 : t ‘ lls pencd La Concorde appeared
m fight, dole under her stern, and upon
the enemy lecmg her, (he fired a gun to
leeward, and struck her light, as a fi >-
nal of lurrenaer. 0
Although a very few minutes would
have placed the Indefatigable again a
long fide of her, I a.n confident (he
would not have surrendered without
farther reliftance, had not the Concorde
fv> timely came up.
Edw. PelCew.
KINGs rON, (Ja.naica,) June 4.
, * j Cow-Bay, about nine o’clock on
ednefday evening, the schooner Mar
louin, from Jeremie, fell in with the
cnocner Barbara, capt. Glegg, when,
acfl mi fmking the other for an enemy,
an engagement took place, which lulled
p >r upwards of an hour, in which the
pa.oara had her fails and rigging much
l 1 | Ur V Marfouin one man kil
f aiid three or four badly wounded.
On r U ESDAY,
1 he igth July next.
A th mRE °f TelfWtf Gibbons, on Tel
fair’s Wharf,
Will be Sold, ‘
Sundry Articles of
toufcholrl Furniture,*
*y BEQ'-T A1R S ’ TABLES, a Mahoga-
A-so BEDDING, &e - 0
I ? asE AIDING CHAIR.
* CART “T ck CATTLE, atCoflon’s Bluff,
Ri-. l •’ an a BOAT that will carry 33 bbls.
D\vid vr - I ? art °f l he perfonai property of
nUl o ri ‘t, Esq. dcccaled.—Condi cions,
O f dcr of tht F reevtors ,
Savann.i fiI3BONS, Audion’r.
June l 0) , 79 p. 2g
i ‘ ‘
\i"’ 1 entire to the Print
* ° uSne& wanted-apply at this Office.
Columbian j&iufeum, %
iror if)c Columbian Spufcum.
Mejfieurs Powers & Seymour,
BY the help of your neat type, let me
request the citizens of Savannah
to look about them.
I have of ten heard old people fpcak of
a book which had been much read in
the days of our grand-fathers. The
volume is almott obiolete now, but feve
ralof its ftoties have been taken out,
and by the aid of tradition, kept alive
to this daw
Among these (lories, there was one
often tolu us when we were children, con
cerning a city of very ancient times,
which had been funk in the dead lea, for
the wickedness of its inhabitants. There
is one part of this story, which I believe
I lhall never forget, “ That before thole
bad men had been finally abandoned to de
ft ruction, God Almighty had proposed
to spare the w iiole of them, on condition
they would prodace only ten righteous
persons, belonging to the city. That
not being able to raise that number, they
were cqnfigned to sudden perdition, by
a fearful earthquake ; and not a lb a;
but three were excempt from the gene
ral ruin. One man and his two daugh
ters were wife enough to believe what
was threatened—took warning in time,
and made their escape.”
The people of modern cities fliould
look about them —they know not the day
nor the hour, when the ground beneac.,
them, may be torn asunder by convul
sions ; the llreet where they live turned
to a noisome lake, or a hideous cavern ;
or the whole city metamorphosed into
a drcadly sea, like that of Sodom and
Gomorrah. For thole bad men the
story speaks of, were not the only w retch
es whom the pit has swallowed up alive.
Many other cities have met the fame ca
tastrophe, in much later times. Read
the Fortuguefe annals of ’55, and learn
the melancholy tale of Lilhon. Pcrufe
the Spanilh chronicles of ’72, and note
the subversion of Guatimala ; then turn
to the memorable events of the two Sici
lies in ‘B3, and you will find a tragical
account indeed, of no less than 80 or a
100 towns and villages, with 40 thou
land inhabitants,all loft beyond redemp
tion, by an earthquake so powerful and
exrenfive, as to throw the whole pro
vince of Calabria under the ocean.
However (earthquakes and tornadoes
out of thequeftion) thereare many other
means, by w'hich just heaven scourges
unhallowed cities. Unconquerable fires
melt down their buildings, and give
wings to their riches to fly away. A
fubtile pell ilence, sweeps off its hundreds
and its thousands, as with the besom of
dellruHion. These fubliinejudgements
of heaven have long been the terror of
the old world. They have at length,
found their way to the new. Let all
the people of the new world look about
them —hold themfclvcs in readiness for
thele great feenes of public difinay—for
a time when an earthquake may furprize
them —for a time when their cities or
heufes may be enveloped with devour
ing flames over their heads, or w.hen a
lethiferous fever may carry off fcorcs
of their fellow citizens in a day.
People of southern cities look fiarf,
about you. —Plagues, fires, and commo
tions of the globe, are not the only disas
ters which may betal you. Infurre {lions
are not impracticable ; majfacres are not
impolfibie ; robberies are not.uncommon.
What milder than robberies, can be the
conference of that remarkable idleness,
we difeover every where around us.
Idleness the parent of incalculable mif
chief, indulges itfelf openly without the
lead referve—ldleneis ever prognosti
cates a rapid race to ruin. • *
A city of righteous mcn v has nothing
to fear j but where A fufch a r cuy*To be
found ? Even
persons of that cftkraCtf.r,'’might ensure
us proteClicyv,; Bujralewe certain we
hold in every city ‘even that (mail num
ber ? t \**
1 hen ye Rev. Clergy, spare no pains
to make us righteous.—Ye Elders of the
city, exert yourbelt endeavours to make
us honest, and to keep us so.—Nightly
guards, be vigilant at your posts, to keep
us in faiety.—Officers of health, do your
utmost to hold the pcltilence at bay.—
Officers of cleanliness, ply well the means
in your power, from the east to the weft
of the city, that we may have whole
foine streets to walk in, and a pure at
mosphere to breathe.
Citizens all, be persuaded todifeharge
with promptitude, yourbounden duties,
in your departments. Plant
-1 rs , attend closely to your acres.—Mer
chants j import all the conveniences of life,
before you bring us any luxuries.—Me
- han-.cs, f ‘ keep your Jhops, and your
jhops will keep you.'’—Gamblers and
Swindlers, quit the city without lofsof
time ! Mtnofcl.Kers and S Peculator take
yourfelvcs off! Idlers and Saunters of
every dclcription, be gone front, us!
Leave the honest men, and the industri
ous to themselves.—l hey have not sent
for you yet, and you lhould keep out of
the way till you are called for. Shift
your head-quarters immediately ! find
fome reputable business to employ you,
or the fate of the idle, drunken C-s-k,
may loon be yours, who cut his own
throat the other day, in a paroxysm of
infinity. But if you do not mean to
reform, no matter how soon you follow
him and htsexample. The community
can very well spare you, and the world
would be happily rid of you.
Citizens of Savannah, look about you —
Id fays - Yhe BRA MIN.
SAVANNAH, July Tff
WE promised our readers in our Lift,
fome particulars on the fubjeft of the
failure of the late Treaty.—The Indians
we are informed, were prejudiced in the
nation against the disposal of the lands,
by fome unfriendly persons ; and re
ports declared to them, among a variety
of others, that they were to encounter
the Georgia militia when they came
down to treat. Whether this was the
reason or not, of certain regulations of
the Federal Commiflioners, we cannot
fay ; but by those regulations, the Com
niffioners of the State were forbidden
to enter the Indian encampment, or hold
conversations with them, without the
palTporc or permit of one of the Coin
mifltoners of the United States ; and a
imall militia guard, which the Executive
had ordered for the protection of the In
dian articles, procured by the State, for
the purposes of the treaty, were forbid
landing with their arms, although with
in the adlual limits and ordinary jurif
di&ion of the State—at which, pffence
was taken by the State Commiflioners,
as infringing the rights and lessening
the consequence of the State, and debar
ing the Commiflioners from the means
of conciliating the affection of the In
dians, and thereby procuring the objeft
of their million. It also appears that
the place for the talks, was at firtt with
in the garrison of Coleraine, but was af
terwards altered to Mufcoghe, within
the Indian encampment, where the Com
mifliouers of Georgia had no access,
without a permit from one of the Fede
ral Commiflioners, and w’hich it seems,
our State Commiflioners did not conde-
beneath the dignity of
the State, to request. The Indians
drew up their talk in writing, in the
absence of the State Commiflioners, at
Mufcoghe, and did not deliver it <vi<va
voce, as is ever usual among Indians, but
delivered it through the Commiflioners
of the United States ; although the
next day, they gave a talk viva voce, to
the Commiflioners of the United States,
in answer to the “Prendcnt’s invitation.
The Indians in that answer to the talk
of Georgia, refufe to give up their
lands, and in another effort made by the
Commiflioners of Georgia, they were
flopped by the Federal piquet; and af
ter reaching Mufcoghe, under the aus
pices of a federal officer, and entering
on the fabjedt of the purchase, they
were told by Aleck Cornels, a Chiefin
the Creek Nation, and one of the Uni
ted States Interpreters, that it was ufe
iefs today any more about the lands,
that they came determined not to part
with it, and that they did not want to
hearany moreabout it. This the Bird
tail king afterwards confirmed, declaring
that their refufal was fixed on in the na
tion. The Commiflioners of this State ,
have, we are told, in conlequence, pro
ferted against the proceedings of the
Commiflioners of the United States,
and the Superintendant oflndian affairs;
and have further protested against the
payment, or liability of payment, by the
State of Georgia, of any lhare of the ex
pence attending the treaty, as not hav
ing had a fair, open, and honorable op
portunity of purchase from the Indians.
It is said the law of the United States,
.inserted in this day’s paper, for regu
lating trade and intercourse with the
Indian tribes, arrived at Coleraine dur
ing the treaty, and was very forcibly
explained by the Commiflioners of the
United States. Had the Indians been
disposed to cede their lands prior there
to, this law was fufiicient to make them
retraft. We hope our citizens will en
deavor to preserve peace and harmony,
by refpe&ing the laws of the United
State: ; but how far the frailties of hu
man nature will permit our citizens on
the Frontier, to restrain from crossing
the line after their own property, and
perhaps within their own view, in pos
session of an Indian chief, when pro
perty may le the only Negro, or only
plough hyrfe, and of course the only de
pendence ol a poor man, with a numet”
ous family for their subsistence • or how
far they will permit his neighbors qui
etly to behold this industrious
being confined in a Federal Garrison,
and carried to North or South-Caro
lina tor trial, remains yet in embryo.
Died fuddcnly, on the 12 th inst. in
Burke county, Mr. Joseph Watts
- In this City, on the 13th, Mrs.
Ann Watts, wife of Mr. Robcr
Watts, Merchant. j
entered in hard.
Days>
13. Schooner Delight, Gibbs, Africa, s i.
ij. Cornelia, Ihomas, Jamaica, uo.
CLEARED Oi/T. 6
Sloop Olinda. Laughton, Charleflon.
Dove, Brown, d 0
Batchelor-Packet, Jamicfon, St. Mary’s.
Bng Eliza, Donham, Boston.
Schooner Nancy, Cartwright, Charleflon.
Brothers, Cono rs,
Hawk, Swain,*
Phenix, Seymour, Beaufort.
Induflry, lodd, St. Mary’s.
Sloop William, Lufcomb, do
Ship induflry, Oram, Barbados
B ALTIMORE, June is.
\ efterday arrived the schooner Polly,
Capt. Barnet;, 12 days from Nevis.—.
Captain Barnes informs, that he was at
Martinique when the news of the arrival
of a breach fleet reached that place j
the Engliih and aristocrats were in the
utmost confufton, but endeavoured to
keep the intelligence as secret as pofli
ble tor fear of a revolt. While Capt.
Barnes lay at Martinquc, a l'ccond de
tachment of wounded from i>t. Lucie ar
rived there ; he law upwards of 200 of
them hlmfelt, among whom were two
colonels, all mangled by grape and lan
gredge of the French, in a moft terrible
manner. They received those marks cf
honor in an attack made on Morne For
tune, in which a part of the 27th and
the whole of the 31st were entirely mow
ed down ; the French admitting then?
to advance within a few paces, and then
unexpectedly opening upon them with
fevcral 42 pounders, charged with lan
gredge ami grape. Captain B. thinks
the (laughter must have been immense,
from the fit nation of the wounded 110
law, and from the secrecy observed.
Dan!. Hamjon & Cos.
Inform the Public that they have moved theic
GROCERY to Air. C. Poluck’sStore, front
ing the Market, where they have
FOR S A L E,
Old Jamaica and other RIJM, BRANDY,
Loat and Mufcovado SUGAR,
MOLASSES & COFFEE,
Cherry BRANDY & PORTER,
Hyfon and other TEAS,
SOAP and CANDLES, and sundry otheft
Articles in the line.—AlTo,
Mens fine and coarse Shoes,
Boots and Bootees,
Ladies Leather Slippers, and a small
Invoice of STATIONARY, See.
Savannah , July 15. 39-tF.
John Hamilt on,
INFORMS his friends, that he has moved
from where he formerly lived, to the cor
ner of Earnard Street, fronting the South Com
mon, where he continues keeping a Boarding
House and stabling as usual.
Savannah, July 15. 39*tf.
Sixty Dollars Reward.
RUN-away from my plantation, at Afhe
poo, S. Carolina, on Wednesday night,
the 6th inst. a Negro fellow, named 808,
country born, a jobbing carpenter by trade,
and about forty years of age ; he is artful and
fenfiMe, and will probably change his namo
and dress ; he has a remarkable Targe fear a*
orof* hij leg, jull below bas knee pan, and com
monly wears a large beard. Any person de
livering the above mentioned fellow t 6 me, at
Afliepoo, or any of th<f Gaols in the said ftato
of South-Carolina or Georgia,'fhalP receive tha
above reward in specie, exdufivc of charges*
and a further reward of One Hundred Dollars,
on convitfion of his being employed or har
boured by any white perlon,
EDMUND BELLINGER.
N. 0. The night the fellow went away, a
perlon (by information Hall) slept at
; said plantation, who said he lived between the
river Altamaha and St, Mary’s, in the state of
Georgia, and luppolcd to have enticed him off.
E. B.
South-Carotina, July a, 4t.
TOST O P enTng,
AND FOR SALE,
At the Store formerly occupied by Mr. Merrilies,
A FRESH ASSORTMENT OF
Drills and Medicines,
p s _ also —
A haridfome aflortm-nt of Ginghams, Hum
hums, Iritli Linens, Callicoes, Muslins, Ladic*
ilk Shawles, French Handkerchiefs, Cotton
Hose, striped and clouded Nankeens, Cafli
mers, Mens black and white Hats, Sec. Sec.—
Likewise Superfine and Fine FLOUR, with a
ew Barrels MIDDLINGS.
G. W. NICHOLS & Cos.
Savannah)*Julv 5. 36-ts
l he bALE of the 236
Prime SLAVES, per F.agle Capt. Holland,
will be continued at private Sale, from,day
day until the whole arc disposed of, by
CAIG, MACLEOD & Cp.
July 8,
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