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Sale,
Barrel, fuperfiric flour,
Half barrels ditto,
Barrel, oilot, midling and ihip bread,
Keg. crackers; boxe. herring.,
Barrel, prime pork,
Puncheon. 4th proof rum,
Pipe. Holland gin,
Ditto French brandy,
Hhds. codec,
Qr. calks Malaga win*,
Mufcovado sugars
boxes turpentine loap,
Ditto rpould and dipt candle*.,
Green chair.,
Bril, and iron wire lifters,
Two pair card table*,
One pair breakfall ditto, .
Boxe* liatt
Do. § linens, printed cotton*, hosiery.
Feb. 16. mot
Just Received,
Per Bng Sally, and For Sale by
Arnold C? Tingiey,
4 Pipes Holland Gin,
joo Empty Gin Case.,
3~0 Bars bell Sw*eds Iron,
JO Bundles German Steel,
it Coils Cordage,
4 Ditto Bolt Rope,
30 Piece* RufHa Duck,
jo Ditto Ravens Duck,
1 Baikft Houle, Hearth Ss Clothe^Brulhe.,
10,000 Feet Northern Pine Boards.
Alio, BILLS on Philadelphia, New-York,
01 Boston- February 16. 11.10 s.
A quantity of RICE,
In whole and hall Tiercrs—and excellent
Sea-1 fland COTTON,
For Sale bv
JOHN Win. WILKINS.
F-bpiarv TO. n 101.
4* l 1 UR ISALK,
Lot No. 18, Wallnngton Ward
wi;b a convenient Dwelling-House, Kitchen,
icc. thereon. For terms apply to Win. Nor
r.ient, Efj or the lublctiber, on Wilmington
liland.
S. COWLING.
February 16. n tot
~^toxease;
hor a term ts Three or Five Yean,
’ | '’ ■IA ‘ well known Lot of Land, lituated in
1 Duke-ft icct, fronting the Market-square,
adjoining the lot on which Citizen Smith’s
new builuigs are ; and also for laic, a valuable
live acre Lot, filuaied on the Spring-Hill road,
about on* mile and a half from tin. city. For
term* apply to
SHEFTALL SHEFTALL.
PERLA SHEFTALL.
February 16. n.iOi.
n'WJeT to remove any doubt, that the Inha
bitant!., or others may have, retpeiling the
authority of the Collector of Tax, for Chat
ham county, for felling certain Negroes, a.
advertised by him, to take place the ibtli
mllant : Thff following i. published.
IN SENATE, February Ift, 1798.
Mr. Jones, from the committee on Finance,
reported, and the lame being read, was agreed
to, and is as tollows :
IUE Committee of finance report, that
whereas, bv a communication from his Excrl
icncy the Governor, with a report from Wil
liam Norment, Tax-Colleftor, encloied ; it
appear* that Thirty-five Negroes, or therea
bouts, were brought fome time in the month
of September toil, into the port of Savannah,
i:i the schooner Ixuma, Callahan, and
that the Corporation of the City of Savannah,
committed the laid Negroes to the Jail, in the
fa:d City, on suspicion of their having been
brought from someone of the French Weft India
1 Hands, and that they were Negroes, known
in the laid lilands, by the name of Brigands,
and were therefore dangerous to the place, and
fatety ol the fine ; and whereas it appears that
the laid Corporation, did afterwards difeharge
and lei at linerty, a part, or the whole of the
said Negroes, without notifying the said Win.
Norment, Tax-Coilrcfor, by which the State
may he deprived of part of its revenue, and
whereas it also appear*, the faidWilliam Nor
tnent, 1 ax-Collector, hath seized and adveruted
for sale, feverai of the laid Negroes.
Beit resolved, That hi Excellency the Go
vernor, be required to order the said William
Norment, Tast-colledor, to fell and dil'pofe
of the laid Negroc*, in terms of the Ait, for
impofmg a Tax lor the year 1797.
Exit ail from the | vurnal.
Win. ROBERTSON, Secretary.
In the Houle of Representatives, ad Februa
ry, Read and concurred in.
Tell, JAMES M. SIMMONS, Clerk.
I do certify the foregoing to be a true couv
of a Refulution. * r;
Palled ill and 2d February, 1798.
Taken from the Executive Files,
f Signed)
TIIOMAs JOHNSON, Secretary I.D.
Savannah, 13th February 1708.
Sl A 1 E-HOUSE, Louisville 3d Feb. 1798
On a concurred Refulution, of the ill & *d
of February mftant, ordered, That William
Norment, Colleaor of Tax, lor the county of
Chatham, tor the year 1707, do immediately
proceed to (ale, and difpoVal of the Thirty-five
Lh h ’ lr ° m thc Exurna,
>c. fmieiS U ’ ldfr Tax Law tor th “
Ly haveSd ’° r ai u nUny therfof * he
W to the said aft ‘and lrUC ’^ rcra ’
\ ftr such fair, do hc ,m^ utcl y
B *n the Treasury. 1 the proceeds thereof
V (Signed)
THOMAS JOHNSON, t . a.
Columbian jftufeum, &c.
CONGRESS of the UNITED
STATES.
Hovss or RiriKSKKTATIYIS.
ARTICLES
Exhibited by the House of Representa
tives of the U nited States, in the name
of thcmfclves and of ail the people of
the United States, againfL WILLI
AM BLOUNT, in maintenance of
their impeachment against him for
High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Article i. That, whereas the
United States, in thc months of Februa
ry, March, April, May, and June, in
the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and ninety-seven, and for many
years then past, were at peace with his
Catholic Ivlajelty, the King of Spain;
and whereas, during the months afore
faid, his said Catholic Majesty and the
King of Great-Britain, were at war
with each other ; yet the said William
Blount, on or about the months atore
faid, then being a Senator of the United
States, and well knowing the premises,
but disregarding the duties and obliga
tion! of his high Ration, and designing
and intending to dillurb the peace and
tranquillity of the United States,and to
violate and infringe the neutrality there
of, did confpird, and contrive to create,
promote, and set on foot, within the ter
ritory and jurifdidion of the United
States, and to conduct and carry ®n,
from thence, a military hostile expedi
tion against the territories and domin
ions oi his said Cathoiic Majcfty in the
Floiidas and Louisiana, or a part there
of, for the purpose of w retting the fame
from his Catholic Majeity, and of con
quering the fame for the King of Great-
Britain, with whom his said Catholic
Majesty was then at war, contrary to
thc duty and trult of lus Ration as a
Senator of the United States, in viola
tion ot the obligations of neutrality,ancl
against thc laws of the United States,
and the peace and interests thereof.
Art. 2. That, whereas on the twen
ty-seventh day of Oftober, in the year
ot our Lord one thonland seven hundred
and ninety-five, a treaty of friendlhip,
limits and nav Ration had been made and
concluded between thc United states
and his Cathoiic Majesty, by the firth
article whereof it is stipulated and a
greed, “ that the two high contracting
parties ihall, by ail the means in their
power, maintain peace and harmony
among the several indian nations who
inhabit the country adjacent to the lines
and rivers, which, by the preceding ar
ticles, lrom the ,boundary of the two
Flondas. And the better to obtain this
eft'eit, both parties oblige themselves ex
prefsiy to restrain by force aii holtili
ties on the part of the Indian nations
lying within thdir boundary, so that
Spain will not fuller her Indians to at
tack the citizens of the United States,
nor the Indians inhabiting their terri
tory ; nor will the United States per
mit these last mentioned Indians to com
mence holtilities against the fubjetls oi
his Catholic Majeity or his Indians, in
any manner whatever.” Yet the laid
William Blount, on or about the months
oi February, March, April, May and
June, in the year of our Lord one
thouland seven hundred and ninety
feven, then being a Senator of the U
nited States, and well knowing the
premises, and that the I'ajd United Mates
were then at peace with his said Catho
lic Majeity, and that his Catholic Ma
jesty wasat war with the King of Greac-
Britain, but disregarding the duties of
lus high Ration, and the stipulations of
the laid treaty, and thc obligations ot
neutrality, did conspire and contrive to
excite the Creek and Cherokee nations
of Indians then inhabiting within the
territorial boundary of thc United States,
to commence holtilities against the fub
jeds and polfeilions of his Catholic Ma
jeity, in the Floridas and Louisiana, lor
the purpose of reducing the fame to the
dominion of thc king of Great-Britain,
with whom his Catholic Majesty was
then at war as aforefaid, contrary to the
duty of his trult and Ration as a Senator
of the United States, in violation of thc
said treaty of friendlhip, limits and
navigation, and ot the obligations oi
neutrality, and against the laws of the
United States, and the ptace and inter
ests thereof.
Art. 3. That, whereas, by the or
dinances and ads of Congress tor regu
lating trade and intercourse with the
Indian tribes, and for preserving the
peace on the frontiers, it has been made
lawlui tor the President of the United
States, in order to ensure the continu
ance of the friendlhip of the said Indian
tribes, to appoint iuch persons, from
time to time, as temporary agents, to
reside among the Indians, as he lhall
thick fit; and whereas, in purfoancc of
the said authority, the President of thc
United States, on or about the eighth
day of September, in thc year of our
Lord 1796, did appoint Benjamin Haw
kins to be principal temporary agent for
Indian affairs, within the Indian na
tions fouthof the river Ohio, and north
of the territorial line of the United
States ; and whereas the said Benjamin
Hawkins accepted the said appointment,
and on the twenty-firft day of April,
in the year of our Lord 1797, and for a
long time before and afterwards, did
exercise the functions, powers and du
ties attached to the fame, yet the said
William Blount, on or about the said
twenty-firft day of April, in the year of
our Lord 1797, then being a Senator of
the United States,and well|knowing the
premises, did, in the prosecution of his
criminal designs and of his conspiracies
aforefaid, and the more effectually to
accomplilh his intention ot exciting the
Creek and Cherokee nations ot Indians
to commence holtilities against tue fub
jeds of his Catholic Majesty, further
conspire and contrive to alienate and di
vert the confidence of the said Indian
tribes or nations from the said Benja
min Hawkins, the principal temporary
agent aforefaid, and todiminifh, impair,
and destroy the influence of the said
Benjamin Hawkins with the said In
dian tribes, and their friendly inter
course and underltanding with him;
contrary to the duty of his trult and sta
tion as a Senator of the United States,
and against the ordinances and Jaws of
the United States, and the peace and in
teretts thereof.
Art. 4. That, whereas by the ordi
nances and adts of Congress alorefaid, it
is made lawlui for thc President of the
United States, toeftabiifh trading hous
es at such places and poftt on the wel
tern and southern frontiers, or in the
Indian country, as he lhall judge moft
convenient for carrying on a liberal
trade with the Indian nations within
the limits of the United States, and to
appoint an agent at each trading house
eftablilhed as aforefaid, with such clerks
and afliftants as may be necessary for the
execution of the said adls; and where
as, by a treaty made and concluded on
the lecond day of July, in thc year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and ninery-one, between the United
States and the Cherokee nations of In
dians, inhabiting within the limits of
the United States, it is stipulated and
agreed, “ That the United States will
lend such and so many persons to refule
in said nation as they shall judge proper,
not exceeding four, who lhall qualify
themselves to ad as interpreters,” and
whereas the President of the United
States, as wed in purluance of the au
thorities in this article mentioned, as of
the ads ot Congress referred to in the
third article, did appoint James Carey
to be the interpreter for the United
States to the said Cherokee nation of
Indians, and afiiftant at the public tra
ding house, eftablilhed at the Tellico
biock-houfe in the Rate of Tenneflce ;
and whereas the said James Carey did
accept the said appointments on thc
twenty-firft day of April, in the year ot
our Lord one thousand levcn hundred
and ninety-seven, and for a long time
before and afterwards did exercise the
fund!ionsandduties attached to the fame;
yet the said William Blount, on ora
bout the laid twenty-firft day of April,
in the year last aforefaid, then being a
Senaror of the United States, and well
knowing thc premises, did, in prosecu
tion ot his criminal designs, and in fur
therance of his conspiracies aforefaid,
conspire and contrive to seduce the said
James Carey to assist in the promotion
and execution of his said criminal inten
tions and conspiracies afQrefaid; con
traiy to thc duty of his trust and Ration
as a Senator of the United States, and
against the laws and treaties of the U
nited States, and the peace and interests
thereof.
Art. 5. That,whereascertaintribes
or nations of Indians inhabit within the
territorial limits of the United States,
between whom, or many of them, and
the settlements of the United States,
certain boundary lines have, by succes
sive treaties, been stipulated and agreed
upon to separate the lands and poffeliions
ot the said Indians, from the lands and
poffefiions of the United States and citi
zens thereof ; and whereas, particular
ly by the treaty in the last article men
tioned to have been made with thc
Cherokee nation, on the second day of
July, in the year of our Lord one thou
sand seven hundred and ninety-one, the
boundary line between the United States,
and the Cherokee nation was agreed and
defined ; and it was further stipulated,
that the fame should be ascertained and
marked plainly by three persons appoin
ted oa thc part ts the United States,
and three the pair of thei#
nation ; and whereas, by another trea
ty, made w ith the laid Cherokee nation
on the 26th day of June, in the year of
our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and nioery-four, the said herein before
recited treaty oi the second day of July
in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and ninety-one, was con
firmed and eftablilhed, and it was mu
tually agreed that the said boundary
line (hould be actually ascertained and
marked in the manner preferibed by the
said last mentioned treary ; and whereas
inpurfuance of the said treaties, com!
missioners were duly nominated and ap
pointed on the part of the United States
to afeertain and mark the said boundary
line ; yet thc said Willi am Blount oi
or about the twenty-firft day of April
in the year of our Lord one thoufanl
seven hundred and ninety-seven, then
being a Senator of the United States
and well knowing the premises, in fur!
ther prosecution of his said criminal de
signs and of his conspiracies aforefaid,
and the more effectually to accomplilh
his intention of exciting the said Indians
to commence holtilities against the fub
jeds of his Catholic Majesty, did fur
ther conspire and contrive to diminifa
and impair the confidence of the said
Cherokee nation in thc government o£
the United States, and to create and fo
ment difeon tents anddifaffedion among®
the said Indians towards the govern
ment of the United States in relation to*
the afeertainment and making of the*
laid boundary line, contrary to thc duty
and trust of his station as a Senator of
the United States, and against the peacte
and interests thereof.
And thc Houle of
by protestation, saving to themselves th#
liberty of exhibiting, at any time here
after, any further articles, or other ac
cusation or impeachment against thc faief
William Blount, and a’fo of replying
to his answers which he lhall make u:u®
the said articles, or any of them, and off
offering proof to all and every the afore
faid articles, and to all and every other
article., impeachment of accufation*
which lhall be exhibited by them, aa.
the case lhall require, to demand thair
thc said William Blount may be put to
answer the said crimes and misdemea
nors, and that such proceedings, and ex
aminations, trials and judgments, mar
be thereupon had and givenas are agreea
ble to law and justice.
The articles having been agreed to*
without amendment (except a mere ver
bal one) the committee rose, and the
house having also agreed to them.
Mr. Sitgreaves moved that the Mana
gers be appointed on the part of the
house for the purpose of conducting th#
impeachment ; and eleven was agreed te
be the number.
Fuel day, January 30.
The bill appropriating money for
holding a treaty with the Indians claim
ing lands in the states of Tenncffee, or
N. Carolina, was read the third timer
and paifed.
Mr. Sitgreaves said as it was yes
terday laid, that the rules of the houfw
refpeding the appointment of committee®
did not apply to the present case, ie
would be well for the house to fettle m
question before it proceeded to thc elec
tion of managers of the impeachment”
which might arise in the business, viz.
whether a majority or a plurality of
votes w’ere to make a choice. The fol
lowing was proposed and agreed to.
“ Resolved, That in thc ballot for
managers on the part of this house, of
the impeachment against Wm. Blount,
a majority of the whole number of mem
bers present (hall make a choice; that if
more than 11 members shall have a ma
jority, 11 of the highest lhall be chosen,
and it any two or more members having
a majority of votes and (hall be equal in
number, the fame lhall be decided by
new ballot.”
The lerjeant of arms proceeded to col
lect the ballots, which being done, the:
lpeaker appointed Mefi'. Foster and J one*
as tellers.
Who reported the following ele&cd.
Mess. Sitgreaves, 76 votes. Bayard,
69. Harper, 65. Gordon, 62. Pinck
ney, 33. Dana, 52. Baldwin, 48.
Scwall, 49. Holmer, 46.
Mr. Baldwin fuid, that perceiving
fome of the committee which had for
merly afted upon this business, did not
pofiefs so much confidence as others, h
Ihould beg the house to excule him from
serving as one of the managers of the
impeachment.
Mi. Brookes thought it was curi
ous that after having obtained a majori
ty of votes, the gentleman from Geor
gia (hould complain of not having the
confidence of the house. Did the gentle
man xpe<ft to have received the whole
91 votes? Except a batter retftfi wav
No. ioi.