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SAVANNAH, January 13.
I’he following is an extra ft of a Lett r
from a gentleman at Lcufville, who's
authenticity may be depended on.
“ On Monday night last, an attempt
was made to let fire to the home cf John
Berrien, Esq. but fortunately difcovcred
in time to prevent its efte&s. It was
placed among a parcel ol rails, piled up
against one ol the out-buildings, and the
smoke from the rags in which thecom
builiblc matter was fixed, difcovcred the
attempt. And on Thurlclay night lait,
fire was placed among fome (havings un
der the (tore of Mr. Posner, and blazed
to a considerable height, but fortunate
ly was extinguiftied without any mate
rial injury.”
Ext raft of a Letter from an American gen
tleman*, dated Najfau (NtW-Provi
dence) 2 yd D comber, 1796.
“ Numbers ol vessels from the Caro
lonas, Virginia and New-York, arriv
ing here with loads of provisions, they
are now a mere drug—Flour has been
offered at 12 dollars per barrel, Corn 1
dollar per buthei, Rice 4dollars per cwt.
Lumber 13 and 1 3 dollars per M.—add
to this, feverai arrivals of provisions arc
expected, and few or no purchasers.”
The northern poll has again arrived
without the mail—four mails are now
due—tor news we wait the arrival, when
we hope to fatisfy the curiosity of the
public, by announcing the ilfuc of the
important election ol Fiefident and Vice-
P refluent.
Married, on Thursday Evening, the
sth instant, James 5m ith, Esq. to
the am abe Miis Kitty M ungen,
of South Carolina.
The following extraCl is taken from the
Rev’d A. Boyd’s Sermon, delivered
in Augusta, on the 27th ultimo, be
ing the feftival of St. John the Evan
gelist, before Forsyth’s Lodge,
No. 14.
(< My beloved Brothers, permit me
here to recommend to your sympathetic
affections, a feene of deep distress, the
conflagration of the commercial capital
of our riflng flat’ .”
u At the time that induflry yieldeth
to the infirmity of our nature, and labor
feeketh red.—When the buitle of tire
busy day is over ; when little doroellic
circles taste and know, how sweet it is
to live in amity and peace. In that still
hour of the night, when no toefin had
founded an alarm, and no appearance of
danger had awakened apprehenfion—
when all believed, that all was well, and
iufpicion had retired from her poll to
sleep.—-In that hour, in that moment of
imagined faiety, on a sudden burfi: forth
the raging element, in flaming torrents
that coniumedail opposition, and rolled
desolation ever more than half of that
flouriihing city. On the wings of the
wind it flew ; and in a lew minutes, the
work of years was reduced to a heap of
rubbilh ; and the bread of hundreds, to
a bed chaffies.”
“ The fun, that had so often (bed
his enlivening rays over its growing
greatness, bet.eid, in that morning, the
rich feene saddened into deflation, and
all the horrors of sudden, overwhelming
ruin. He likewile beheld what deepen
ed the gloom, and made r in more ter
rible. He beheld fathers of families dis
mayed, and almofl llupifled with grief,
because of the means of fupporring a
•wife and children, they are altogether
bereft !--—And more deeply afteCting
ftiii, he beheld the delicate lex prclfcd
all around with little troops of helpless
infants, all doomed to want, piercing
the air with their cries, halt-naked,
, houfelefs, andexpofed to the inclemen
cy of the season, and the keen blall of
,pitiless winds!”
“ But no tongue can utter half their
misery ; neither is it poilible for the
• art to conceive it.—Deep, deep in
<kc3 is their distress. But Thou, who
hath graciously declared thyfelf a ready
help in times of trouble, Thou, O
God, wilt Ihew them mercy. Thou
wilt graciously hear their cry, and in
pity lend relief.”
“ Neither will your aid, my broth
ers, be with-held. It may be accomp’a
nied with a blelfing. At all events, it
will contribute tf> the comfort of the dif
trelled ; and it will give you to experi
ence how great a pleasure it is to sympa
thize with sorrow.
“Itis a rich field for benevolence.; and
happy are they, who have the power to
improve it. ‘
{frP D j ‘tne Service will he perfor
med by the Rev. Mr. Montcath, at the
° r nally intended for the New
1 neat re, the Eaf Common, on Sunday
next, at half pafl 1 o o'clock, A , M.
ALJrs. Printers,
I AM told it has been the prevailing
practice (for fome time pall) amongst the
Gentlemen in the Commtffion line, in
your City, to make out account faies of
produce of the planters, not mentioning
the pur chafer ; so doing, it leaves the
greatest room lor suspicion that them
lelves are purchasers; it so, why Ihould
they be backward in giving their names.
Asa late planter in tnis state, lam anx
ious to know, and am confident it would
be more pleasing for the planter to know
his purenaier—andlubicnbe myfclf
A PLANTER.
(pf The Committee for receiving dona
tions, for the fufterers by the late fires, give
this public information, that they have Hill
part of the fuin on hand, which was appro
priated by the City Council, tor the relief of
inch as might be iu immediate distress. They
solicit payment from such of the Subscribers,
as hav • not yet come forward with the money;
and hope for aid fro* theie who have not yet
given any thing.
partite Kcgtto*
ENTERED IN WA R D.
Brig Newton, Du Coflu, St. Croix , 12.
schooner Amity, Hammonde Chur left on, 3.
sally, Ilsvens, Neon-Tort R. IjianJ , 8.
CLEARED OUT.
sloop fully, Linnell, Hardwick,
schooner Antonio Wallace. Canby, Norfolk Fir.
Lion , Donnell, st. Bartholomews
SALEM, Dec. 20.
A few days fincc, Mr. James Burncs,
a native and inhabitant of this town,
returned home from the Weft-Incli.es,
having fortunately escaped from the En
glish. He*vvas pressed by the Majeltic
Engiilh (hip of war, from on board the
ship Aftrea of New-York, of which
he was 2d Mate ; and was dragged a
bout from iifand to illand, in the Eng
lish service, for more than 7 months.
He was forced, by the point of the
lword, into feverai bloody battles, and
made to fight against the French ; and
because of his unwiilingnefs toad in the
Engiilh fcrvice, h’: fullered from them
the moll (hocking cruelties ; at one time
he lay 19 days in irons, and would have
been llarved to death, had it not been
lor the afliftance ol a woman that was on
beard the Ihip. Once before he attemp
ted to escape, in company with another
American, and swam to a veil'd belong
ing to the United States ; but the Mas
ter would not let them come on board ;
a,tid returning his companion was loft,
he supposed by a Shark. He brings
melancholy and moll painful accounts of
thefufferings of the Americans, pressed
into the Engiilh service, and ot their
perishing by the cruelties exerciied upon
them,’ by the sickness, and in battles,
and by attempting to elcape from a bon
dage and llavery more dreadful than the
Iron Furnace of Egypt. Mr. Barnes
has a family in this town, and has retur
ned with the loss of all his little prop
erty, and, from his appearance, with
the loss of a good conltitution, and of
good health lor ever.
NEW-YORK, December 17.
At a Common Council held on Thurs
day the 13th day of December inst. it
was Resolved, That this board will pay
the sum of Five Hundred Dollars, to
any person who (hall difeoyer and profe
eute to conviction any offenders, who
(hall be found attempting tofet fire to
this city.
We have an accouut, by a vessel from
North-Carolina, that a serious dispute
has taken place at Wilmington, between
the people of that place and the French.
The occalion is (aid, to be the refufal of
fome merchants to deliver to the French
a quantity of sugar, which had been
landed and stored from a prize vessel,
for the purpole of repairing her, before
the French had reimbursed the mer
chants for the monies they had advanced
for the repairs. It is said force was em
ployed ; that two Tailors belonging to
New-York were killed, and the inhab
itants of the town under arms. We
give this as probable, as the report
comes from a refpeftablc quarter,
j Dec. 20.
We observe the ‘appointment of A
gents to prctecl and procure the release
of American Teamen that have been im
preflfed, is likely to produce goodejfcfts.
One good effect which the declaimers a
gainst our government did not intend
nor expert, is, to demonstrate by offi
cial documents, that the Brit ilia vessels
impress very few American Teamen —-that
they do not wilh to impress any—and
that as soon as the men are proved to be
Americans, they are delivered up with
out difficulty.
A moll important difeorery is an
nounced in Philadelphia—the Prefidcnt
of the Bank of Pennsylvania, (who we
understand, is a democrat or partizan
of France) has drawn out of the Bank
Columbian itflufeum, &c.
the enormous sum of one hundred and
eleven thousand dollars, and appropria
ted it to the purpole of his private fpccu
lations—a violent proof ot his patrio
tism ! It is said also that J. S—k and
B. M—n, two other patriots, (and
one of them Plefident of the Democra
tic Society of Philadelphia), who late
ly lived in palaces on speculation, and
were defied members of Congress, flop
ped payment for an immenie amount,
just after they were declared eletledi
Such, Americans, arc your pretended
“ patriots.”
The ileady freeholders of our coun
try, wiilfave the Republic ; but. wore
our government to dej end alone on our
cities, we Ihould Toon experience proofs
offraternity, that would appal humanity.
CHARLESTON, January 6.
Capt. Smith, in the (hip Caesar, from
the Cape of Good Hope, on his passage
here touched at the illand of Ascension,
where the following intelligence was
commuuicaied to him, in writing :
“ All the fettlcments of the Dutch,
in India, are given up to the Engiilh, as
well on the East as on the Weft lide, ex
cept Maccallcr and the Illand of Ja a.
That Banda was given up, was the lait
news we heard before we left Batavia,
which was on the 13th of ju. c, 1796.
The inhabitants of Batavia ex peeled the
Engiilh at the ifiand of Java in tin
month of August. The leprei'cntative
of the Prince or Orange, who in that
character has the chief command of the
Dutch fcttlements in India, was inform
ed by the Engiilh, when they went
through the Straits of Baiie to the Mo
lucca Elands, that they would visit Java
at that time. This gives great uneali
nefs to the inhabitants. The old gene
ral, and his Ton, the director, were busy
in making preparations to receive them.
The soldiers, who formerly wore a biue
uniform with white iappels and a white
feather, were a few days belore our de
parture dressed in blue and orange, and
wore an orange colored leather.
(t The governor of Mallacca fold 200
Sepoys and 180 Hanovrans, together
with two frigates, to clear himfeii ol a
debt he owed ot 200,000 rix dollars.
In the Molucca Illands every thing is
carried on in the fame way, owing to
the condufl of the new governor of Am
boyna, Mr. Cornabe, who was'former
ly at Tinnatc.
“ The representative of|the Prince
of Orange, who commands a great par
cel of raicals and vagabonds, principally
great ones, intends to call upon the gen
tlemen in the service of the company to
deliver up to the Engiilh 100 millions
of Dutch money, whim will be rated at
150 millions ; they will have a particu
lar interelt in doing this, as it will be
the means of clearing them from the
bankruptcy they are in to their mailers.
* VAN KOL,
Citizen of Rotterdam in Holland.
ljland Ajctnfon, 16th Sept. 1796.”
9 NO T I C~E.
BY virtue of a writ from his Excellency th”
Governor, an Election will be held at the
large houte on the Wek end of the Town,
commonly called the Theatre, on Monday the
23d lnit.mt, lor the purpole ot electing a Glerk
of the Superior Court, for this county, in the
room ot James Smith, who has reiigued.
Joseph Clay,
W.m. Gibbons.
January 13. 90
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(J4T The Subscriber informs the Pub
lic, that the confufdJituation of his affairs,
owing to the late and jir fjing fire in this Ci
ty, has been the reajon oj his not attending
to the duties of his office : But now has ta
ken a room at Mr. Ebene’z.er Parker’s, in
Yamacraw , at the boufe lately occupied by
Mrs. Griggs, where he Will attend for the
receipt of the lax for the Year 1796 ,from
IO to 2 o’clock in each day -
P. MILL EDGE, T. C. C. C.
fanuary 3 d, 1797. 87
Gunpowder, in ioolb. Calks,
FOR SALE,
Confiderablv lower than any of the late prices,
By Gairdners & Mitchel.
December 27. ts-85
FOR SAL E,
A LOT on the Bay,
IN an eligible fituatiou for Trade, and having
a Hone wall’d cellar, one tbek of Chim
neys (landing, and feverai Thousand well burnt
Bricks on the Eremites. —Apply to
I. D. DICKINSON.
Dec. 16. Ba,
FOR SALE,
A few hundred Bushels of
Seed Rice, warranted.
For terms , apply to the finferiber, at his plantation.
Francis Courvoilie.
January 3. $7-W-
CAIG MACLEOD fcf Cos.
Have jor Sale,
MADEIRA WINE, in Pipes.
Do. Do. in Calcs at 2 dozen each
at 15 dollars ot case. ’
A quantity of Cotton Bagging.
0/.naburgs—-lrifti Linens and
Rutlia Sheeting.
December 23.’ n .g 4
Loring & Seaver,
Inform the Public, that they have commenced Bate
nefs in the
Com million Line,
And have opened an Afortment of
Dry GOOL)£>,
At their Store, on Clarke’s Wharf uhich they a/iU
dtfpofe of on rcafonable terms Jor C ujk.
I hey have also jor file,
Hyfon & BohejTEA, ol a fupcrior flavor
Gla Is, *
A final 1 quantity of M-dicine,
Mould and Diped CANDLES,
N. E. RUM, and a quantity of ,
Italian SEWING SILK, which they w iU
tell very low pi . lb.
November 15. 74*tf
John N. Brailsfoid,
Having 1 STORE on Clarke’s Wharf convenient
for the reception and fates of all kinds of PRO.
DUCE, pro fifes tr unfailing Rufncjs in the
Coimnniion Line,
HE therefore off rs his fervicesto his Friend*
and ihe Public, both in difpolm<r 0 \ tHeir
Crops and purchaiing, agreeable to their iiihruC
'■oiis. lie flatters himtelf, from experience
ie has had in that line, he will not fail to give
la islaition to all who may favor him with
i heir Commands.
Savannah, November iff. 70
Dank Jno. Gr ven,
Has for SALE, low for Cufh or Froducc,cn
Clark's H harf :
BLUE, Green and white Plains, do. half
t hicks ; Two Point. Three Point and
Duffil Blankets ; befi Allum Salt ; Paints, lad
dies, (hops. Booty, Ladje? Tandals and flippers;
cotton cards, Writing Paper, Ribbons, < alii
cocs and Mullins ; New Rice in Tierces and
Hall Tierces; Tobacco ; so Baggs cotton, and
100,000 Sh'iigles.—-He has alio for sale, Two
Neat Riding Chairs, with Hamel's complete,
and a case of Ladies calU.nanco Ihoes and flip
pers.
December 16. ga
For Sale,
A PLANTATION,
On the Salts:
SITUATED on Red Bird Creek, opposite
the Island ot Oflzbaw, and within ifr.-e
miles of Hardwick, surveyed upwards ot 40
years ago* containing 1076 Acres ; *3O of it u
cleared } a considerable part of which is ieufted
in. 1 his land is very tunable (or Cotton, In
digo or Pfoviuon : Also for Lumber, having
two convenient landings. On the premiles -ue
a Dwelling House and tundry other buildings.
Apply near Savannah, to
Richard Wylly.
Nov - U- ‘74*121.
To be Let.
A PI.AN TAI ION, with a good reservoir
of Water, near Savannah, containing 150
Acre* ot Rice Land Under Dams, 60 Acr of
Provilion, ditto—A Dwelling-House, Barn,
and other convenient Buildings. For further
Particulars, apply to
JOSEPH GIBBONS.
January 3.
FOR SAL E,
960 Acres, being one third of
a tract of valuable Tide Land, on the river
Altamaha, in a good pitch of fide, pcrfrttly
free from frefhes.'—New Negroes will be re
ceived for a greater part of the purchase. the
remainder on a reasonable credit.— For term*,
cpplyto
ROBERT ic JOHN BOLTON.
December 20. gj,
GEORGIA.) By Nathaniel Bacon, Re*
( E h.J X gjler of Probates jo? the County
N. Bacon. J oj Liberty and btate oforejdid.
WHEREAS, William E. Stuar; as princi
pal creditor, hath m.de application t
me tor Letters ot Admiuiftration or. he EHate
and Effects of William Osborn a soldier, late
of the county ot Liberty, deceased. Thcfe are
therefore to cite and admonish all and lingular,
the Kindred and Creditors of the laid deceas
ed, to he and appear before me at my office,
on or before, the 13th day of February next en
tuing, to shew cause if any they have, why Let
ters of Administration Ihould not be granted
him.
Given under my hand and seal, the 13th day
of January 1797, and in the aift year of
American Independence. lawitn
. AsiTzE~OF BREADS
Savannah. January 13, 1797.
FRESH fuperfine FLOUR, maybe pCircha
fed at 14 Dollars the Barrel; therefore,
she 74. Loaf mull weigh, tlb. 6oz.
The 3J ditto, olb. 1102. 8 diams.
ITefh Fine Fiour, at 13 Dollars.
The 7d.Loafmuft weigh, ilb. 9 oz. drams.
The Loaf. olb. 12 oz. drams,
Os which all Bakers and Sellers of Bread are to
take due notice.
WILLIAM 11. LANGE, City Treasurer.
Any Person,
WISHING for one of Mr. F.ve’s COT
TON GIN, will pleale, apply to Mr.
Rots, at Mrs. Kaat> : .
’ r. SPALDING.
V‘c. 87th, lif-tf
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