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&tatc of Georgia,
City of Savannah*
By J o H N G i, F. n , Mayor of the [aid City.
PROCLAM A HON.
\\J H E REAS it hath been repre-
V V fented to the City Council, that
divers mifehievous and evil disposed per
lons under cover of night, make a prac
tice in a mod (hamcful manner of des
troying the public property of this City,
both ufeful and ornaaicntal thereto ; in
order therefore to bring the petpetra
tor or perpetrators of such offences to
fpcedy punilh'ment, and to prevent a re
petition thereof, I do hereby at the in
dance and with the content of the City
Council, offer a reward of Fifty
Dollars to any person, who will
give information of any person or per
mits concerned in such practices, to be
paid on conviction : And it is hereby
earncftly recommended to the inhabi
tants, that they take proper notice of
any future attempt of the like kind, and
to give information thereof, as it is the
duty ol every good Citiy.cn so to do.
Given under mv hand and the
teal of the Corporation at Sa
vannah, this tw'enticth day of
February, in the year of our
, , Lord one thousand seven hun
: “” died and ninety-eight, and in
the tvventy-fecond year of the
fovereinty, and Independence
of the United Mates of Ante-,
rica.
JOHN fiI.F.N, Mayor.
n 4 f ns
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1’ KO M A S Pi TT , C . C .
The Subkribei,
Hasjufl received from New-Yon; a id i ojlon, and \
for file vt r y low,
|\ M AIC A, )
J \Vcft-lnLia.& x Rum.
.\onhrrn, )
Madeira, )
.Sherry A: S Wine.
Tfneiiil'e)
Hollands Ft in,
ill ?.d & ,yh proof French Brandy,
Blatlc Pepper,
Beet, Si.lin in, M.ukarcl,
Pilot and (hip Bread,
Soap and Candles,
t uton Cards, No. 8 & to,
Sw’ and lli and Ruifia Iron,
Ce.inan Steel, &c. Sec.
William Belcher.
Frhruavy 23. a 103.
To JOHN W ERE AT, at Flardwick.
OISEKA IXGiiii Advertisement with your
li; nature, offering lor (ale a trait of land
nmi Hardwick, containing five hundred acres,
l could not doubt from tiie description, ot its
being tlic land originally granted to John
Reynolds, E’q. which you foul and convey
ed to my father, and now pretend to claim ;
to have negieded publishing a caution, would
have been a tacit acknowledgment of your
right lo fell the fame ; the truths Hated in my
advcrulemeiit, will be proven in their proper
place In tiie Columbian Mu form of the 23d
January, y >ur dilpofition is conspicuously ex
pr and: and m language of revengeful and indignant
ire, culinary to that diflembiingflattery which
thro’ hfe you have prattifed (for plunder) to
v\ trdv me and vour lifters family. Your great
* “ prrf, 1 mance” tempered with inventions to
niifl-Nid minds vulgar as your own, ran do but.
bul< Mijury, In delcend to low abuic fiom
your example, would he as unmanly as your
condufci hath Ineu unjust Shelter’d by con
sanguinity and age, you may remain in “ con
tempt.”
THOMAS COLLIER.
Louisville, 14th February 1798.
* JOHN ANDERSON^
JN FORMS his cuftom-'rs, that his wife hav
ing declined ihe Baking Bufmefs, hopes
ail thole indebted, will call and fettle.
lie ha*; for iale, sonic excellent Philadelphia
Superfine FLOUR,
To be rented hu BAKE-HOUSE.
February 23. n. 103-20
NOTICE.
ALL persons having any demands ngamlt
tbc of Matthew Crane, dcceafcd,
arc requeued to render them in for payment,
properly attested 4 and thole indebted are cal
k'd upon to make immediate payment.
CHRISTOPHER 11A1 L, Executor.
Savannah, Feb. 23. n . 103-40
MiirJoaTs Sales. ~~
W ill be told at the Court-House in Savannah,
on Tueiday, the 6th March, between the
hours of 16 & 1 o’clock,
All that House and Lot in
Yamacraw, filtrated on the ftrert running north
of Thomas Gibbons, Esq, &the Federal Gaol,
now in poffelfinn of Mrs. Demeree, fci/.cd as
tfx property of the Reverend John Joicum
Zubley, deceated, to fatisty an execution in
favour of the Reverend John Rogers of New
-1 ork.
O. BOWEN, Marjhal.
— rflmiarv 5 n.98.
1) UN-a wav trom the lubferiber, 011'tlie
~ s lh niftani, a Negro Wench, named
D.ana, about -23 years old, of a yellowifhcotn-
V
Pngbfti, and walks v C ,y stout When (hr
-in away, ihe had on a L* T bio^
,, iuT iver't n v‘ ,nS black hat ’ Whoever
SI be d , t', ‘, t T 10 the fublcril
FliSlL “■‘“"l.t 1 ’ •” ■e.-tve
February 2 . CONNER
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Columbian iHufcum, &c.
For the Museum.
Mtjfrs. Printers ,
THE Citizen of Georgia, having
been dumb and mute for a while, J took
it for granted, that our correspondence
was closed. It appears however, that
he has at lad recovered the use of his
tongue again, by his coining once more
forward, with a curious apology; the
meaning of which is left to be determin
ed, by the well informed part of mankind ;
it is a pity, that the enlightened Citizen,
has not bellowed one more week, upon
maturing and digesting it so, as to ren
der it intelligible to the njl of mankind
also.
The gentleman’s real objeft for his
publications, is (lamped on their very
faces, on that of your Museum, No. 91,
more particularly ; so that any contra
dictory after assertions must butleflenhis
credit ; but to think, that his object
was answered, or for any body to be
lieve the gentleman to be so thoroughly
convinced, in his own mind, of his boafl
ed success; would be offering the grofs
elt insult to his understanding.
My objeft in answering him, has been
and will be, to expose his misrepresen
tations, as lar as they come within iny
reach ; and I (hall always be thankful
to him, for affording me an opportunity
of throwing out occalionally, a little in
formation to that part of mankind , who
are not fufficiently well informed , for
the gentleman’s notice.
As he seems to have a wonderful
knack, at afeertaining inyfterious mat
ters, he is called upon toafeertain, whe
ther it is by vii tue of their former allegi
ance, as British fubjefts by birthright
before the revolution, or by virtue of
their Jernuces being fold to that power, that
the conduct of the persons exposed in the
following extracts, is influenced.
Lxtraft from the Gazette of the United
.States, Philadelphia, Scpf. 20th last.
“ P>y the advices this day published,
it is rendered probable, that the consti
tution makers of Sans-culotte land, that
great nursery of pirates , affhjjins and
robbers are ere this, once more blown up.”
“ Anew, long and violent contest,
will succeed ; but the ijfue will be fa
vourable to France and to mankind —the
King (hall have his own again, and
America and the world (hall have peace ;
adieu then to Meffidor and Prairial, to
Nivos Pluvios and Ventos and Sans
cullottidcs, and all the long train ofcaba
liltic nonsense, which have poisoned the
French name in all quarters of the
world, See.”
John Fenno, is Printer to the senate,
he mull be a Republican.
Extract from the Farmer’s Museum,
printed at Walpole, New-Hampshire,
and edited t>y a Lawyer.
Much has lately been said in favor
of no partiality, either to Britain or
h ranee ; but that Amtrricans ought to
bellow all their enthusiasm upon their
own country. This national sentiment
is, undoubtedly amiable and cor rest.
Mill, it we mult have any attachment
to foreigners, let it extend only to those,
who speak the fame language, who kneel
at the lame altars, who weigh their ju
risprudence in the fame feales, and con
duct in the fame upright moral manner
as ourselves. It we niufl choose between
the gallick cockades, and the British
emblem, let each federalilt, adopt the
language of Mrs. Casey :
llie Britilh Lion is my sign
A roaring trade I’ll drive on,
Kighr Engiifti ut'nge right divine,
Americans may drive on.”
This is one out of many specimens of
federalifm from that paper, which the
C entine l ftiies truly federal.
I he Ueminel, who is the Jlandard of
federal ism, has published near a twelve
months ago, the following independent
paragraph :
“ I hat the people in this country are
not yet ripe for an alliance offenfive and
de fen five with Great-Britain ; but Jug
gijled, that the enjent is probable ; and he
has done, as much as lay in his power,
to promote it.
Another extraft from a Philadelphia
paper of rhe 14th Nov. last.
“ 1 heir (the fcderalifts) public prin-ts
have for a long time squinted towards
monarchy, but now they openly com
mend it. In their clubs and convivial
parties, they are flill more audacious;
witness the following anecdore, which
happened lately at Wilkefharre, in the
county ot Luzerne. The parties were
federalijls , composed ofanumber ofyoung
lawyers, among them was
ot this city, noted for his patriotism , du
ring the American revolution, and as
noted for his J peculations , in that coun
ty* At supper those federalijls drank
the following toast : (< damnation to all
republics and democracies and added by
way of point “ the people of this country
will never be happy until they ‘have a
king.
r l’he above characters appear to be real
citizens ot the United States, and pro
bably call themselves Jriends to their
country also ; but nothing short of war,
and an acceflion to the anti-republican
coalition, would serve that royal junto,
which extends from Georgia to New-
Hampshire, and whose warhoops have
resounded for a while, through the
whole continent; they are however ter
rified now, by the late events in Eu
rope, which brought the coalition to the
last gasp, afraid ot finking with it, the
war-hawk’s have drawn in their horns,
and bewail in silent despair, the mifear
riageof their infdious plots.
I hope, Messrs. Printers, that your
republican fubferibers will want no apo
logy from me—we rough-mouthed de
mocrats aftert our rights, in telling truths
and exposing fa.fts without ceremonies ;
ihould the etiquette of our mushroom
nobility require any formalities of the
kind, the Cit men oj Georgia, who seems
to be a proper judge of that matter, will
be good natured enough, to apologize
for this publication, as kindly as he has
done for fome of my former ones.
I cannot dismiss him however, with
out noticing one of those blundering
mistakes, the gentleman seems so liable
to. He frequently imputes inconsisten
cies to republicans, which none but
ilayes, hirelings and sycophants, can be
guilty of—for it has ever been a system
atical maxim and constant praftice with
federalitts and royaiifts, to adhere to
and stride with foreign and domestic ad
ministrations, right or wrong, through
thick and thin, as far as will answer
their expeftations. The Citizens of rhe
World, and real Republicans all over
the world, know how to make a differ
ence between governments and the ad
ministrators thereof ; the latter they
look upon, as their servants, and ap
prove, or censure their conduftand mea
sures, according as they stick to, or de
viate from honesty and republican prin
ciples ; and they will always express ‘
their sympathetic feelings, for the fuc
cefsful struggles, in favour of those prin
ciples,let it be in France,Turkey orEng
land ; they being fully persuaded, that
the farther those principles will spread
in the old world, the more effectually
will they be secured in this; and that
by crushing the hydra of ariftacracy and
monarchy there, its spawn will dwindle
away here.
The truly republican citizens of the
United States, areconfcious of their be
ing blessed with an excellent constitution ;
they are convinced also, that it contains
within itfelf, a fufficient provision for a
mending calmly and deliberately what
ever may become advifeable upon further
experience; and that the government
which is built upon it, is well adapted
to secure their rights and happiness; but
they do not believe in the infallibility of
their governors and rulers. No! no
more than they do, in that of the Pope,
or the divine rights of kings!
Man is frail by nature, give him but
power, and he will attempt to improve
it; a set of tools ever ready to support
usurpation of power when they have a
profpeft of sharing it, or benefiting by
it, will assist him, m ftretchingand twill
ing the laws and constitution, as far as
fophiltry on their fide, and endurance on
that of the people will go. This is the
anti-republican vermin, which has un
dermined and corrupted all free govern
ments to this day ; and it becomes the
duty of republicans, to be guarded against
their fchetnes and intrigues, and to look
into the conduft of their servants, were
it for no other purpose than that of ena
bling them to make a proper choice
at their eleftions and re-cleftions.
A Citizen of the World .
From the Farmer’s YV iikly Mu.'ei/m.
Prorn the desk ofBERi Hesdin.
if The godly man ccafeth.”
THUS thought the houfelefs child
of want, as she Hood on the door flep of
him, who dealt in silver and gold. Pres
sed hard by pinching poverty, ihe drew
near the portal of Mammon, and, from
his haggard house maid, claimed a small
pittance, to quiet the cravings of nature,
and once more light up the lamp ol life.
Sorrow had cut her with its sharpest
edge ; misery had wafted the beauty of
her person, stolen the roses from her
check, and spread over her, once en
chanting eye, a ghastly Isfhguor. In a
feeble voice, {he asked the tribute of
charity, but, alas! Charity was a pil
grim, who for many years had not fb
journed thither. Mammon was coun-
ting the attributes of his God, in an iron
cheil ; and would not be called from his
devotion, unless it was to reap theharv
eft of his griping usury ; his handmaid
was too much the objeft of companion
to relieve dill refs, and could only bid
her depart in peace, “for the Godly man
ceajeth.”
In our wanderings through this pil
grimage of sorrow, where the thorns of
disappointment continually goad them
that press heedlessly along, and the fair
eft roses of hope wither in our fight, we
are often forced to exclaim, with’ the
psalmist, u the Godly man ceaferh.”
A fanftimonious phiz and mouldy
cruft of bread, seem to make up the sum
of modern humanity. There are, ho w -
ever, people, who, with an ostentatious
parade, diftributc, from their overflow
ing coffers, small pieces of ill gotten
gain, to, they know not whom. Not
from the pleasure of doing good, of re
lieving the languid widow, or wiping
the tear trom the orphan's cheek, but 10
have their aftions reechoed in the mark
et, and set down in the book of creduli
ty, as the eftuiions of a warm heart and
benevolent feelings.
1 here is a kind of poverty, separate
from that absolute wretchedness, which
drives the poor unfortunate to seek re
lief in public alms. It is among beiims
of this class, we look for a diiplay of
that milk of human kindness, whicli
while it warms the cold breast of despon
dency, gives them lhength to rife above
the billow’s of misfortune, and often se
cures happiness for life. Touched by
the preding hand of adversity, and aln'e
to every feeling, they shrink back from
the eye of unpitying observation, and in
secret pine, languiftiand expire.
My God ! How many aie there, now
wrapt in eternal peace, whom the warm
hand of benevolence might have sup
ported in plenty and happiness ? And
how many flill linger on the stormy
bank of existence, whom the small gifts
of unassuming charity may crown with
smiles and rejoicing ?
Say ye, who are (killed in the arcana
of nature, who have watched the mo
tions of the Incomprehensible Being in
animated earth, why are fome children
of men made the reservoirs of fortune
and power, but to scatter peace and plen
ty on the indigent around them ; to me
liorate the. profpeft of life, and help the
humble traveller on his way ? To light
en the burthens of drooping misfortune
and smooth the pillow of “death is the
duty of those, who balk in the funthine
of Providence, till then “ the Godly
man ceafeth.”
BERI HESDIN.
From the New-Jersey Oracle.
o N M 0 D E s r r.
WRITTEN BY A YOUNG LADY,
(Since dcceafcd.J
TRUE and unaffefted Modesty is
ever pleasing and attraftive to those of
a refined mind. It courts the admira
tion of worthy and refpeftabh people,
and charms the attention of those, whom
we are called to converse with in life.
Modesty keeps us from committing many
aftions, which would end in mortifica
tion and disappointment. It guards u3
from utteting many ideas, wnich per
haps would not bear the examination of
rhe wife and learned, and which they
might call it imprudence or impudence
for the young and inexperienced to as
sert. Without this moft agreeable or
nament to add beauty to their behaviour,
youth arc truly disgusting to their su
periors or inferiors. Modesty is a no
ble and genuine quality, without which
we cannot expeft to be truly and fmcere
ly refpefted, but expose ourselves to the
censure of those, who take advantage of
what they fee amiss, without making
proper allowance.
NEW-BEDFORD, Jan. 24.
The following is a lift of Engiifh
Whalemen, captured on the coast of Chi
li, by the Spaniards ;
bbls. fp. oil.
Lydia, Horner, Pata 110 0
Chamclia, Dunn, at Sea. 700
Betsey, Highland, at Lima 600
Beaver, Gardner, at Conception 600
Aldernay, Chafe, at do. 750
Levant, Clark, at Pata 100
Jupiter, Cook, at Valparaze 600
Triumph, Anderfon,at Pifco 500
Commerce, Clark, do. S°°
Joshua Clayton, Esq. formerly go
vernor of the state of Delaware, is eleft
ed senator for that state, to supply the
vacancy occasioned by the refignafion of
John Vining, Esq.
No. 103.