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DUTRICT OF GEORGIA.
, . qlh th• bijlnti Court
Chnrics Harris, cforej<ud % having
I ‘’ * ‘ “ and holding Adm:-
( ‘■* rally Jurjdiition %
dhr P rest dent of the United States x to the
Mirjhal of the ft- and Dft nit, greeting t
WJ W K R E AS a Libel Ruth this tlav
yV been filed and ex.Viibited in the
fii-i C turt, by John SAvagc, caprain of
th Schooner Folly, who prosecutes in
this behalf* as well lor biinfelt as for
John Tagarfr, Margaret Foreman, and
others, for tnis,to wit: 7 hat nuhre
-4.H h s(aidSchooner, was, in the month
of Oftolter, in the year seventeen hun
dred aid ninety -ft ve, unlawtully flop
ped, on the high seas, by the crew of
an armed Schooner, called L Egalite,
commanded by one Nicholas De Latic,
and owned by AnJre Redon, and that
thev forcibly t(ok out of his laid Sch x>-
ner) Money and other property, to the
value of twelve thouland dollars, belon
ging to the citizens of the U< ited States
of America : That the laid property
thus unlawfully taken, was brought in
to the port of Savannah, in the diltrift
aforefaid ; that an application was made
to rhe Court of Admiralty in the laid
dill rift, for a restitution of the laid pro
perty, upon which application, thejudge
of the laid Court, did, on the thirtieth
day of December, in the year aforefaid,
order, adjudge, and decree, that the
said Andre Redon and Nicholas De La
tre, make full compensation for the
propet ty taken in manner aforefaid, and
alio ill coll sand damages Curtained there
by, amounting in the whole (exclulive
cf whai was recovered) to the lum ol
eight thoufaud nine hundred and thirty
do lais* id ieverity cents ; and the laid
J id; - did further decree, that the val
ut of die Sloop Cali Inca anti her cargo,
a prize to th* laid Schooner I/hgaite,
br ighfinto the laid port of Savannah,
anu about which 8 suit was then pen
ding n. ‘he C >urt .ft Admiralty, Ihomd
not be paid t < the hands ot the per*
f u - •. loi ling tnc lame, until a decision
or the said luit ; nor then, without tin
iurtler order and decree ol this Court :
That tiic said Slot p Cafiktea and licr
were fold in the laid port of Sa
vannah, a;id the proceet s thereof, at
tic imt of the laid decree, were in the
hands or under the direftion of T io
inas Gibbon , Owen Owens, Nicholas
A ici ix, Simeon 1 hevenet, Kennedy
and Parker, a.idthe laid Andre Redon,
and t .iat they had due notice of the de
i r-e.voreiaid of this Honorable Court :
That rc.titution orcotupemation for the
abo e injury hath not yet been obtained,
nor hoih there appear any prospect ot
mining it, wunout the just and equi
table :nrerferer.ee of this Honorable
Court : That the said Andre Redon,
and Nicholas De I.atre, have hitherto
eva x I, mid ilill c adc a compliance with
the /th decree, and ti at they are at pre
fc . ns Libellant tuppoics, beyond
i..c .i.n.ts ot its jurisdiction : That a
large proportion °t the proceeds ot the
Jr.idjr /e the Caftldra aid her cargo,
now in ti e hands ot Thomas Gibbons,
Owen Owens, Nicholas Anciaux, Ken
nedy and Parker, and Simeon Theve
net, as Agent Factors or purchasers, is
the proper ty of the said Andre Re ion,
and of the crew of the privateer L’Hga
lite, or was at the time of the decreeand
notice a ircfuid, .ind that so much there
oi isbek gsor did belong to the laid
An re Rodon, and the crew who aided
in ;fir comr ill;on of the injury aforefaid,
oughr injulticeand good conscience, to
be ap. lied the indemnification of this
libellant, aid thole for whom ufc he
proiec’Jtes : Now therefore you the
laid Manual, are hereby commanded to
cite a id admonifti the laid Thomas Gib*
bns Owen Owens, Nicholas An
ohin, ‘ srr.eon 1 hem net, Kennedy ami
Parker, and tbeia.d Andre Redon and
all other* that they may lie
and i ipear be ore the judge of the said
Court, to be held at — in the City
of Muannah, on the lecond l'ucfday in
February neAt, to lhew cause, it any
they nae, or can, why the Prayer of
thi> Libellant Ihould not be granted :
Wit ofs the Honorable Joleph Clay,
X iq. Diftrift Judge tiie tweltth day of
January, in the year of our Lord one
thouland seven hundred and ninety-fev
cn, and of the Independence ot the Uni
ted btates the twenty-firth
G. WOODRUFF.
Pro zf a halt re Libellants%
FOB SAL E,
A LO T on the Bay,
IN an Higible fituatiou tor Trade, and having
a liaise wall’d cellar, one <l ac k of Chim
ney* (landing, and fcveral Thouland tv:U burnt
Buck* on the fmoiic*. —Apply to
l. D. DICKINSON.
Dec-, Bs.
Columbian iFlufeum, &o
Lalejl Foreign Intelligence.
BERGAMO, (Italy) Oft. 4.
The French had formed a plan to sur
round the Imperial army, but one of
their divisions came too late, and thus
the feheme mifearried. General W urm.
fer succeeded in defeating the advanced
guard of the Republican army ; Gen.
Chardon was killed on the fput, Dou
eoulet, chief of brigade, was taken pri
soner, and generals* Victor, ihi la in,
Mayer, Murat, and a chief of brigade
were wounded.
There has arrived in Vincenza,
1 j,ooo Austrians, and near Milan,
10,000 French, as reinforcements to
the refpeftivearm 6s.
This day it is reported that the French
Infantry retufed to attack # a redoubt ot
Mantua, to which they were ordered,
and that the Cavalry attempted to force
the others to the execution of their or
ders, when an aft'ray took place between
the two parties, in which 400 men fell.
Thiscircumlta ice the gar nun 01 Man
tua took ad vantage ot, and made a sor
tie, whereby they made many prison
ers, and killed and wounded great num
bers.
HAG UE. Oftcber 1 1.
Letters from Germany state, that a
treaty has been concluded between the
king of Pruifia and elector of Saxony,
and that several German princes have
been invited to accede to it.
About too Ihips are lying at Amlier
dam, laden with Englilh goods, the
propriciors ot which have received leave
to unload them.
LONDON, October 32.
On the 2?d ult. the va .guard of a
reinforcement ot i;,:JOO Auiirians had
readied 7 revile, within two or tiiree
days march ot Ala uua.
An article from Mila:, of the 26th
ult. slates, that the Pope nai gl ven a ne
gative to the terms propoied by the
French.
We do not find the rep rt of genera!
Buonaparte having been taken prisoner
confirmed. On w.e contract, our cor
re/ponue it ltates, that alter lie was rout
ed, he tent off tor the Miianefe,. to ex
pedite the march of reimorcements.
Letters were iikewiie received yes
terday from wlr. Drax.e at Venice, by
which it appears that there were near
30,000 men in Mantua on the 18th ult
wnen he receivcu the last accounts—
-1 here was alio a confiuerab.e number of
lick in the but not near so many
as in the French army, in which the
number of sick was daily increasing.
The Auftria.i troops were, when the
accounts left order lour’ aiann
left they ihould not rciie.cd, as they
were at th.a; time ignorant ol
ments marching from the FyfOL
The attack at >t. George was much
more fatal to the French than the Aus
trians, the former having loft above
2000 men in the affair. The garrison
were in hopes of the army of the king of
Naples a.lifting in obliging the French
to raise the liege.
Ex trail of a letter from Bremen , Oil. 1 1.
“ On the Upper Rhine every thing
goes on to admiration. After the ac
tion at Neuftadt and Ingollvadt, Moreau
fell back, by the ways of Berghaufcn
and Brebach, towards Moriunzelie,
where the Imperial cavalry furprized
and drove him towards the Lech, after
having taken from him z 6 pieces ot can
non, 1 5 ammunition waggons, and 46
baggage waggons—Moreau halted at
Erniting and ObcrdorfF, to make head
againtt the Austrians; but the Imperial
generals, Frolich, Wolte,and Lobknow r
ltz, tell upon him with fuehimpetuolity,
that, after an action w r hich iafted 22
hours, the French army was completely
routed ; 15,000 lay dead on the field ot
battle. It is in consequence ot u.at oai
tle, fodifaftrous to the enemy, that Mo
reau attempted to make ins appcarace
in Franconia.
From the Charlellon City Gazette.
The followin g*Maniffto and D da
ration of War y by the ixing of Spain,
against Great-Britain, was received here
on Monday last, by Mr. John Freder
ick Kern, trom his correlpondeut in the
Uavanna :
THE KING.
ONE of the principal motives which
induced me to conclude the peace with
the French Republic, as soon as lhe be
gan to take a regular and solid form ot
fovernment, w*as the conduft which
Jreat*Britain had observed with me
during the whole time of the war, and
tne just suspicion with which the expe
rience of her bad faith ought to inspire
me for the future, This ihc manifefted
in the mod critical moment ot the firft
campaign, in the manner which Admir
al Hood treated my fleet in 7'oulon,
where he attended foley to destroy all
that he could not carry off wfith hint ;
and his having soon after occepied the
iHand of Coriica, which expedition the
said admiral kept a profound fe*crct irom
Don J uan Langara when they were to
gether in Toulon.
This conduft was vifiblc in the Eng
lish government, by their secretary in all
their negociations with other powers,
especially in tire treaty which was signed
the 19th Nov. 1794, with the United
states of America, without the least rei
peft or confidcration of my rights,
though lhe well knew them.
I have noted it likewiie in her re
pugnance to adopt the plans and idea*
which might lean to put an end to ike
war, and the vague anfwcr which Loid
Grenville gave my ambailador, th* .via;
quis del Campo, when lie aikeu him tm
succors for its continuance. I was con
firmed in the fame opinion by the in
juiiice with which they appropriated
the rich cargo of the retaken bpanilh
lnip called Santiago, or Aquilles, which
ought to have been restored, according
to tne agreement between my tint secre
tary of state and dispatch, the Princr
of Peace, and Lord St. Helens, ambai
l’ador of his Britannic majesty ; and the
detention of the na. al Itores which were
coming to my naval departments on
board of Dutch ftiips, always deterring
to le.:d them by new pretexts and difli
culries. And finally, 1 had no doubt of
the bad faith and proceedings of. Grcat-
Britain, by the frequent and deceitful
arrivals of Englifli veliels on the coaits
ot Peru and Uhili, to car *y on the con
traband trade, and make themfeives ac
quainted with ihe territories, under ttie
pretext of whaie fiihers, a priv iiege they
pretend to by tiieconvention of Nootka.
Such were the proceedings of the
Englilh ministry to support the friend
ihip, good cqrrefpondence, and intimate
confi.fence, which they otfered to Spain
in ah the operations of the war, by the
convention.of the 25th of Alay, 1793.
After I had fettled the peace with die
P reach Repuolic, I had not only the
inoft well founded motives to fufpeft
the intentions of the Englilh to attack
ny polfeifions m America, out 1 received
lireft injuries, which have confirmed
.lie in the reioiution formed by G rcat
iiritain, to oblige me to adopt a part so
contrary to the good ol mankind, long
destroyed by a languinary war which
threatens to annihilate Europe, and op
pose the sincere desires which I have
manifefted at repcared times to termin
ate this daughter, by means of a peace,
offering them my service to obtain it.
Certainly, Great-Britain has shewn
a disposition to direst its- views against
my dominions, by the great armaments
and expeditions lent to the Antilles,
deltined in a great measure against Santo
Domingo, in order to prevent its being
delivered to France, as appears by the
proclamation of the Englilh generals in
that iiland ; in the eftabliihment of their
companies of commerce, formed in
North-America, on the banks of the
river MilTouri, with an intention to
penetrate thole regions unto the South
Sea; and, ultimately, the conquest
which they have lately followed in the
continent of South-America, on the
River Deinerara, belonging to the
Dutch,, which advantageous situation
will facilitate to them the occupation of
other important points.
But they are yet more hostile and
clear, in the repeated insults offered to
mv flag, and the violences offered in the
Mediterranean by their frigates impress
ing trom various Spanilh veiiejs the re
cruits whicn were coming from Genoa
to Barcelona for my army ; the piracies
and vexations with which the Corsican
privateers and Anglo Corsican, protec
ted by the Englilh government of the
iiland, destroy the Spanifti commerce in
the Mediterranean, even entering the
bays of the coast of Caialonia; and the
dete tion of various Spanifti ftiips, load
ed with Spanifti property, carried into
the ports of England under the raoft
frivolous pretences; especially the etn
oargo of the rich cargo of the Spanifti
ihip the Minerva, which was done with
insult to the Spanifti colors, and detained,
although there were presented at the
tribunal the inoftcompetent documents,
authenticated, which proved the said
cargo to be Spanifti property. It has
iot been less insulting in the attempt
made on thecharafter of my ambailador,
Don Simon de las Cafas, by one of the
tribunals of London, which decreed his
arrest, foundedj on a demand made by
the patroon of a veflel for a very fmail
sum of money.
And, ultimately, they have been in
tolerable in the enormous violences to
the Spanith territories on the coasts 0 {
Alicantand Gallicia, committed by the
armed brigs of the Englilh navy, the
Camelion and King George ; and vet,
more insolent and icandalous, in what
happened in the island of Trinidad, to
windward, where the captain of the
English frigate Alarm, Geo. Vaughan,
difenjbarked at the head of his armed
crew, with colors flying and drums bear
ing, to attack the French, to take re
venge of an injury which he said he had
fullered ; disturbing, by such offenfive
proceedings againlt my sovereignty, the
tranquility of the inhabitants of that
illand, with such irritated and audacious
nfults.
1 he Britilh nation has-also given frelh
proofs to the world of its ambitiout
views, and that it kno- s no other law
jthan the aggrandizement of its com
merce, by an universal defpotifntat lea.
< It has, indeed, furpailed the limns of
■ my moucration and iuffering, and oblig
ed me, for the fuppert ot the dignity
jf my crown, the protedion I owe to
nv fubjeds, to DECLARE WAR, by
ny royal order of the sth inflant, com
nunicated to my fuprei e council of
var ; and in coniequcau. of winch 1
nave resolved, that it be eclared and
pubtidled, in this court, z.GAINbT
THE KING OF ENGLAND, his
kingdoms and fubjeds ; and that the
proper orders lie circulated, and the ne
cedary steps taken, which conduce to the
defence of my dominions and beloved
iubjeds, and offenfive to rile enemy:
Prohibiting, as I do hereby prohibit,
all commerce, rrade and communication
between thy fubjeds and those of the
king of England, under such penalties
as are by the different laws made and
provided, in which are comprehended
all my fubjeds aid inhabitants in my
kingdoms and dukedoms,, without ex
ception of any perion or privilege ; ii
oemg my royal will, that, with the
greatest dispatch possible, this declara
tion of war may reach and be notified
to my fubjeds, so that they may pre
lerve their property and persons irons
the iiifuirs ot.the Englilh, and tnai they
may dedicate themfeives to incommode
the enemy by armaments, and oy ad the
ways which arr permitted by me Jaws
of war.
Dated at San the “jib day of
; October, 1796.
I, THE KING.
* To the PUBLIC.
DURING last lummer, my business de
manded my attention in I’biladelphiaand
Baltimore, I therefore Augulta on the 22d
of July, aHC * proceeded on my way to Balti
more, where I arrived on the 10th of August ;
upon the 17’ h of that month, I was there Ceil
ed with a violent fever, which rendered me
unable to proceed or tranfaft any butinef.s un
til the middle of Oftober. 011 the at if Ofto
ber, I left Baltimore, and arrived in Philadcl
phiaonthe My business there, detained
me until the 9th December, and even required
my further attention, had my reduced habit of
bod v, from the severity of the weather, ren.
dered my stay not only imprudent, but dan.
Serous; in consequence of which 1 left Phila.
delphia and? arrived in Savannah on the firfl of
January 1797. My troubling the public with
this Ifatcment, is, in order to free my charac
ter from certain fa lie charges, published in the
Georgia Garettc, of November !?ft, bv Ste
phen Files, which charges I never either hejid
of or saw, until tny arrival here ; but am hap
py to have it now in my power not only to
reply thereto, but generally to confute— viz.
That I have abfc- nd'-d, is fed ft.
That I am due him 3’cm dollars, is Jalfe.
That tlie Carte Blanche is filled up and dis
posed of, /#•
That I carried awav all the notes and paper*,
or any of them, is fatfe.
That I ever received, or even ever saw Wfr.
Berkhoff’s Bills of Exchange, on his brother
>f Amlterdam, or that he ever had themfr Jalfe.
That I ever received Col. John Coopers note
f or 6 Barrels Rice, is Jalfe.
That I ever received Joseph Clark’s order,
■n McflTrs. Cooper and Mulryne, for 55 dol
lars. is fatfe.
That he called at my lodgings in Savannah,
■ immediately preceding that ad vertifement, and
‘aw evry otheF paper therein lpecified {excep
ting; tholeabove accounted for, and Mr I. N.
Brailsford’s tune) is a faU
Those a(T*rtions are not at the expenfe’ of
truth, but can be corroborated by the evidence
of gentlemen of equal veracity, to any in the ‘
United States ; therefore the foie objeft of this
advertisement, mull have been to support his
own credit upon the ruins of my character,
which betrays a heart devoid of every humane
or virtuous sentiment, that can diftinguift the
hone ft man from the Jcnavr, the man of honor
from the aflaflin, or even the man from the
brute. That he has had fome abettors, I arm
informed ; who they are, I know not ; but
this I know—that they, who without the least
shadow of pretence, will calumniate the char
afters of otnera, only to render them on a level
with their own (which mull be deft itute ofev
ery virtue that can give luftre to the human
mind) are the dariteft of affafiins, and the ba
left oi men. That I have been fubjeft to those
vicissitudes of fortune, which even the mod
prudent can’t always avert, is, to me, a matter
of no small regret ; but that I have withheld
any man’s due, when in my power to difeharge
it, or willingly laid plans to deceive, are the
afTertions of falfhood, proceeding from
heart of malevolent envy.
C. NEWALU
* Savannah, ad January 797.
No. 91.