Vol. 1*
barthelemi.
The following is the last communica
tion from Mr. Barthelmi, to tlie hate
of Bafle, dated 15th Prairial, June 2d.
** Mighty Liras, _
t( From authentic intelligence it ap
pears, that the army under the command
ofConde ate on their march towards
your frontiers, to resume the position
ihey occupied the lad campaign. I can
not', Mighty Lords, retain from calling
your attention to the avowed object of
that corps of Emigrants, and admoniih
ing youtodevife t he molt effectual means
for the maintenance-of the neutrality of
your territory, and to repel any aggref
iion that may be made upon it.
(( I have reason to believe, that the
measures you have already concerted
with the confederate dates for this pur
pose, together with the reinforcements,
coinpofed of the Helvetic contingents,
cannot tail to give the Executive Direc
tory of the French Republic the utmost
confidence in the moil scrupulous ob
iervance of your duties as a neutral
country.
“ You will not I hope, Mighty
Lords, miilake the interference of the
French government, when, in conformi
ty to my inftrudions, 1 again folic:t
yourattention refpe&ing Conde’s army.
The only object 1 have in view on the
present occafton is, to preserve the tran
quility of your Canton, and an carncil
desire to avert from your frontiers and
all the co-estates, those calamities which
to me appear the neccffary ccnfequence
of neglect and the want of a clear under
hand ir.g at the present moment.
“ The proper dispositions have been
made by our generals, all poffiblc pre
cautions taken on the confines of France
to repel any aggreftion that may be made
by the enemy, after traversing your ter
ritories, and should this band of emi
grants have the temerity, if despair it
ielt should drive them to so forlorn an
expedient, as to advance with arms in
their hands to the very bosom of the
French ration, they cannot by any pos
sibility escape dcftruction. May God
preserve you, See.
(Signed) BARTHELEMI.”
In a few days after the receipt of the
above letter, M, Ochs, Burgomailer of
the state of Balle, let out for Paris.
LONDON, J une 22.
The French fleet from Toulon is at
sea, but have not hitherto (hewn any dis
position to meet the English. squadron,
under admiral Jarvis, which is now on
the coafl, keeping a drift look out after
them.
By letters from the continent, nolcfs
than twelve capital houses have failed
m different parts of Italy. ‘Two of
these failures are at Milan. The ir
ruption of the French into Italy is eith
er the cause or the pretext of this disas
ter, which has excited great coniterna
rion in the mercantile world. One
houfc in London is said to have loil
500,0061. on the occasion.
t The obligations imposed upon the
king of Sardinia by the French, to
b.tnifn from his dominions Madame
Artois, his own daughter, is an act of
wanton cruelty at which human nature
mull Ihudder.
_ According to accounts from Leghorn,
the merchants have packed up all their
mod valuable effects ready to (hip them
on board the veflels in the Mole, under
expectation cf a \ ilk Irom the French
army.
BR I S T>o L, June 27.
“ A Paris paper received to-day,fays,
me intended journey.of General Piche
pu to Stockholm, was not to negotiate,
! >ut to exert his military talents againlt
the Ruffians, which has been prevented
and the machinations
u Pitt—Our government now in their
turn reiufe to acknowledge the Swedish
jMivoy, viz. an! agent to the Empress,
it r true la Kepubhque —The French
Hercules is invincible.”
Ihe Ifabeila, Given, of this port,
c ut oft at Melimba, on the coast of
- /’ca, by the Haves. The Captain
cmg on ffl ore trading, was saved, as
ere a jp 0 t j ie c q. e f_ mate aQ( j fi ve ot q crs
‘ 11 “ e< : r f w > who jumped overboard and
VP by a Liverpool trader.
w e Bent, of Liverpool,
cf S A c , ut ln Cango river, on the coast
ter the 2 ° th of March ; themaf
an and people, except two, got on board
uc critanuia.
: KINGSTON, (Jam.) July 7.
ttcr from, a gentleman in the city of
Ja'ii °™ n 8 o’to 0 ’ t 0 btsfritnd in this town, dated
*" rsi, ch pnvate-r Brutus, since her
u lzn captured three rich English
I he a - rn loon fail on another cruize;
doi J rn “" d y°f. i nand--She is capable of
-aajjjd. ln 4 being well armed and
* a: ** remarkably fail upon a wind.
Columbian jEuCeum, &c.
! hT. JOHN’S, (Antigua) July 25.
Two Dutch 50 gun ships and three
frigates, we Underhand, are arrived at
Deir.arara.
A hevere cannonading was heard to
the louthvvard of this ifiand for fevcral
Inuij on l'hurfday evening iaft, but
tiie caulawe have not been able to learn.
Admiral Biigh, it is said, may be
expected, every moment at Barbadoes,
with ..e remainder oljthe troops, pro
nvie ! Mr {he reduction of the Illand of
G -aualoupe.
Sr. VINCENT’S, July 20.
On Monday lafl orders arrived here
from the commander in chief at Mar
tinique, tor the immediate removal of
the Charibs from this ifiand.
In consequence of the orders above
dated, the Charib chiefs were immedi
ately required by major general Hunter
to attend him, and several were accord
ingly efcorced into town yesterday by a
party ot troops ; when they were in
formed of the illand ofPallifeau being
appropriated for their temporary resi
dence, in which lituation they would be
supplied with fufficient proviftons and
water for their fubfillence, and in their
ultimate removal be fumilked with
every article that could either be nccef
fary or ufeful for their exillcuce. They
were also forcibly given to underlland
by the general, that if they did not fur
render by Tuesday morning, hollilities
would then instantly commence againlt
them.
PROCLAM A TIO N.
Excellency JAMES SEATON,
Efj. captain general and governor m
chief in and oner his mayfly's jlands 0*
St. Vincent, Bequia, and Juch other
the islands commonly called the Grena
dines, as he to Northward of Carria
cou, chancellor , ordinary and ‘nice ad
miral of the Jame, &c. CSV.
WHEREAS there (till exists a great
demand for many articles of the growth,
produce, and manufacture of the United
States or America, and of the southern
continent, and of the islands in the Weft
indies, under the dominion of foreign
powers in amity with Great-Britain,
(of winch there is no profpecl of receiv
ing supplies in British bottoms) I have
therefore thought it fit and expedient,
by and with the advice and cor.fent of
his majesty’s council, to ilTue this my
proclamation, hereby permitting and al
lowing for the use of the inhabitants the
free importation into this ifiand, in any
veflels whatever belonging to the fub
jefls of any power or date in amity with
his majeily, pitch, tar, turpentine, malls,
yards, bowfprits,’ ftaves, heading,
boards, timber, shingles, and lumber of
any fort j live itock of all kinds, bread,
bilcuit, flour, peale, beans, potatoes,
wheat, rice, oats, barley, and grain of
any fort; such commodities refpedtivcly
being the growth and production of any
of the territories of the United States
of America, or of the southern continent
and islands in the Well-Indies as afore
faid, % the lpace of fix months from
the date hereof.
And it is further permitted that su
gar, molafles, rum, coffee, and cocoa, be
bartered for any of the aforefaid com
modities, and exported in such veflels
within the time limited.
Given under my hand and seal at arms,
at Kingston, this 19th day of J uly,
1796, and the 36th of his majef
ty'sreign. JAMES SEATON.
By his Excellency’s command,
James Seaton, Scc’ry.
NASSAU (N. P.) Augufl 23.
\Ve have a report, by the way of
Turk’s Ifiand, ofa British 32 gun fri
gate having, in the end of July, two ac
tions on two following days, with a
French frigate of 44 guns, in both of
which, the republican had the woril,
andwasat lafl followed into St. Tho
mas’s by a victorious antagonist.
The gallant capt. Vaugan of his ma
jesty’s sloop of war Alarm, we are lorry
to learn, has lately loft his life at sea, by
being washed overboard in a florm.
NOR. FOLK, Augufl 15,
On Friday night lalt, about 12 o’-
clock, the sloop. Harriot, Capt. Weeks
bound from Richmond to Philadelphia,
was run fowl of by the Thetis frigate,
oft’ the Capes: they had only time to
lave the crew and rigging, when flue
went down.
This morning arrived the Schooner
Swallow, Capt. Mopre, in eleven days
from the Mole. The Captain informs,
that two French frigates have been cap
tured off St. Domingo, by a (hip of the
line and another veil'd, and sent to Ja
maica.
August 30.
By a pilot arrived in town this morn
ing, we learn of the arrival of Capt.
Barney oft’ the Capes, with a 74, and
two 74’s cut down gun lhips;
they came along the coast from the south
ward, in company with fevcral Ameri
can schooners, and made the Capes yes
terday afternoon. There were two
Britilh frigates and a brig to the east
ward of the Capes, who, on difeover
ing them flood off ihore N. E. and the
French lhips crowded fail and Hood af
ter them ; when last seen they were but
a ihort dillancc apart.
A schooner from the Mole, 14 days,
(now in the Roads) was boarded by
one of the French frigates ; an officer
learnt their force and number of men,
which he laid was 1000.
The above squadron arrived at the
Havannah from the Cape on the 9th in
llant, and failed from thence on the 11 th.
It appears from the following para
graph in a London paper, that the dif
ference between the Algerines and the
Dar.es is terminated.
. The Danish consul at St. Übe’s, has
given notice, * £ that the court of Spain,
through theminifter, the prince of peace,
iiad given official notice, that the 450
Algerine Tailors, captured by a Danilh
ihip, had been released and were return
ed to Algiers. That the consul at Ma
laga had communicated intelligence to
the fame eftedt, and that several Danish
veflels had been met by the Algerine
trailers, and questioned and examined
merely in the customary manner, and
undetained. That therefore there was
lot any of Danish veflels pasting
irec.”
PE TERSBURG, September 2.
Letters from Norfolk bring further
information of the English squadron be
ing off the Capes, and of capt. Barney’s
having arrived with three lhips of war,
aid being in chace. These letters fur
ther fay, that a firing was heard off tkc
Capes, and it was conjcflured that the
frigates under the command of capt.
Barney had come up with the English
squadron.
The accounts in the Norfolk papers
received by yesterday’s mail, gave rife
to a report, tliat the aforefaid English
squadron was no more that the Thetis
and Prevoyante; but the information by
private letters corroborates it to be the
squadron under the command of admiral
Murray, which Tailed from Haliiax on
a cruise on the 2d instant.
NEW-YORK, Augufl 27.
By the schooner Two Friends, Capt.
Place, 15 days from Cape NicholaMole,
we learn, that on the 21st July, about
4 o’clock a. m. the brigands, about
700 in number, made an attack on an
out poll of the British garrison at that
ifiand, but were repulsed; they soon
rallied, and in the second attack, forced
the British from their redoubt, which
was situated on a hill. About an hour
afterwards, the British returned with a
Tmall reinforcement, and attacked the
entrenchment, routed the brigands, and
regained their position. The brigands,
however, carried off their provilion,
ammunition, See. The whole number
of the Britilh did not exceed 100, the
commander of whom, a major, was killed.
Our informant, who was on the ground
so >n after the engagement, fays a con
siderable number of the brigands were
killed.
From Surrinam.
We learn by Capt. Lowell, arrived
at Boston, that the embargo is off. lit
continued on for sixty days. Upwards
of fifty fail of Americans being collect
ed, part of which llarred immediately
on its suspension. ‘The Dutch have a
64jTeveral frigates, and other armed
veflels at Surrinam. Notwithstanding
which, an English frigate anchored at
the mouth of the harbour, and continu
ed there for several days. The inhab
itants of Surrinam, differ much in po
litical opinion.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 24.
Philip Parry Price Middleton, pro
prietor of a large tracl of land on the
Ohio, has been lately convicted in Lon
don, of enticing artificers to emigrate
to the United States, and fcntenced to
pay a fine of 5001. sterling, and to be
confined in the prison of Newgate for
one year. Mr. Price has been impris
oned previously upwards of 6 months—
he had engaged labourers and cultivators
to the number of 1200, the greater part
ofwhomjhave since arrived in several
parts of the United States.
AUGUSTA, September 8.
It is said in a London print of June
17, that Joel.B\ Rlo w, the celebra
ted. champion of freedom, is appointed
the American Minister at Algiers,
SAVANNAH, Sept. ij.
Arrived at Dover, June 21st, in the
Minerva, Turner, from Boston, Charles
Gore, Esq. Commilfioncr of the United
States.—He set out immediately for
London.
The [Brig Apollo, Capt. Robinson,
on her passage from this port to New-
York, on the 19th of Augult, in lat.
28. 17, was boarded by the British fri
gate Prevoyante, Capt. Wemyfs, who
overhauled his papers, and took one
man, James Hamilton, not an Ameri
can, but who had been 20 years in this
country. —Capt. Robinson went on
board for the purpo/e of getting him
clear, but returned with another m his
room, being an American born.
Dr ed, on the nth instant, Captain
Samuel Clark, of the Sloop Bet-
Icy, from Rhoda-I(land.
M'jffrs. Po avers & Srymoxt *.
BE pLafed to publiih in your paper,
the following certificate of Dr. Baron’s,
and an extract ofa letter from Dr. Chi
chclter, two gentlemen of the highest
rcipedability in tlicir profefiion anil cha
racter. Trusting they will tend to re
lieve the anxiety of many citizens here,
idpectmg their friends and acquaintan
ces in Charleston, from the various ex
aggerated reports here of mortality in
tnat city, and oblige your molt obedi
e .t servant,
A Subfc fiber.
Savannah, Sept. 12th, 1796.
I DO hereby certify, tliat there is
at preient no malignant fever ofa conta
gious nature, cxifting in this city, and
known either to the members of the
Medical Society or myfelf.
Alex. Baron, m . and.
Charhjlan, yhSept. 1796.
Extract of a Letter from Dr. Cliichcf
ter of Charltjlou, to a gentleman in this
City. 5
“ As to the endemial fever, that has
ocoafioned so much alarm to the Inhabit
ants of Savannah, I can, from my own
experience, and the concurrent testimo
ny of my medical brethren, venture to
pronounce, that there is nothing conta
gious in its nature.”
By GEORGE WASHINGTON,
Pres 1 us nt,
Os the United States of America.
A P R OCLAMA T I O N.
. WHEREAS a treaty of Triendfhip.,
limits and navigation,between the Uni
ted States of America and his Catholic
inajefty, was concluded and signed at
St. Lorenzo e’l Peal, on the twentv
leventh day ol Ottober, one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-five, by the
plenipotentiaries of the United States
and of his Catholic mujefty, duly and
refpedively authorized for that purpose,
which treaty is in the words following
viz. 6
\ litre follows the Treaty, as already
pith If bed in the Columbian Museum—-
vide No. 25 & 26.]
And Whereas, the treaty has by
me, by and with the consent of the senate
of the U. States, on the one part, and
by his Catholic Majesty on the other,
been duly approved and ratified ; and
the ratifications were duly exchanged
at Aranjuez on the 25th day of April,,
one thousand seven hundred and ninety
fix: Now, therefore, to the end that
the said treaty may be executed and ob
served with punctuality, and the moft
since re regard to good faith, on the part
of the United States, I hereby make
known the premises ; and enjoin and
require ail persons bearing office civilor
military, within the United States, and
all others, citizens or inhabitants there
of, or being within the fame, to execute
and observe the said treaty accordingly.
In testimony whereof, I have cau
sed the leal of the United States
(L. S.) of America to be affixed to
these presents, and signed the
fame with my hand.
Done at the city of Philade!
phia, the second day of Au
gust, in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred
and ninety-fix, and of the In
dependence of the United
States ot America, the twenty
fir it.
G. WASHINGTON.
By the P ref dent,
Timothy Pickering,
Secretary of State*
CLEAR tit OUT
Snow William, VvVlJs, Kiagfton. Tamaici.
Schoon-r Uiackney, Uarten, S. Thomai.
Polly, Savage, Hird wick.
Nepiune, Dickinson, Charleston,
—— Saucy Jack, li‘'ggq VVaftiirgton, N. C.
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