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.tliil.-—it is added, that previous to the capture,
. French commiilioner, Santhonax, had attempt
, 1 to burn the prison, in which were near 800 pri
‘ 1 v:rs: -That they had been very happily rescued
•Vorn inch a horrid death, and that afterwards
nthonax himfelf had been taken, and was by the
v opiilace torn into pieces.
AUGUST A, December 7.
Sortiefrom-Dunkirk.
In addition to the official letter from fir James
?v!urray, publiftied iu our lafi, the following parti,
cuiars are given-in a London paper of Sept. 12.
.After mentioning fume particulars, as‘Raffed in the
said oljfcial letter—the account concludes thus :
“ In the beginning of the attack the Andrian
advanced polls were all driven in. The 14th va
j •Ament, however, under major Rossy by a firm
reiiilanee, and fuppofted by the flank companies of
the 37th and 53d, afforded time to the AnlVrians
%o rally and return to the charge a mod severe
contest now took place, and continued above three
hours. The slaughter on both tides was very great
particularly in the Andrian regiments which
//ere Rationed on the beach, and exposed to the
■ire of the French gun boats.
The Britiih unfortunately, from the want of na
val foice, were not able to oppose these gun boats.
Jj\t length the enemy thought proper' to retire
vithin the town. The Britiih lo'R, according to
fine. Gazette, 22 killed, and 51 wounded, the
Außrians 200.
Among the killed, was the celebrated engineer,
col. Moncrieff-—a grape snot ft ruck the upper part
of his head, which it fractured in a dreadful man
ner, and carried away part of his ikull. His death
W£S not instantaneous.
Col. Moncrieff had been in the army from his
infancy j he had feived in America, and was one
of the molt experienced office s of the Britiih corps
of engineers. The batteries, which he directed
again!! Valenciennes, were found, after the iur
rendcr of the place, to have done the mod damage
of any that played upon it. He was nearly in his
fiftieth year,”
The President of the United States arrived at
Germantown, from his feat in Virginia, ou the 2d
ultimo.
"Ex trad of a letter from Norfolk to a gentleman in
Savannah , dated November 2.
(( We have had moil dreadful weather sos fomre
time paR. A vend which lately failed from the
Cape with 65 passengers on board, men, women,
.and children, all put into her by order of theCcrm
hiiffaTy Santhonax, was wrecked and totally 101 l
near Cape Henry; only one sailor laved his Lie.;
A more dismal seen? was never viewed by human
eye than after the ftofm ; the snore was covered
•With dead bodies. The unfortunate remains of
the Whites at the Cape were ail (hipped in eight
vends for Baltimore, under eicort ol the frigate
La Fine, which wasalrnoft finking irom her leak)'
condition. It is reported tnat Santhonax is on
board the frigate, but it is conjeClured lie will not
be so imprudent as to land in the United States,
where the naileries of thou fan ds, cccafioned oy h»s
£cndufl and policy, would fife in juil vengeance
itgainft him. ,J
The Britiih September packet, we are informed,
is arrived at New-York.
In the French Convention on the i 6th of August,
was decreed, that the French people a eel area,-
tbm* the organ oi\ their Representatives that it is
about to rife in amass for the defence of Vs liberty
and constitution, hid to deliver France from heroic-.
Ary ; that the committee of public welfare fund
• nrefent to-morrow (the 17th inst.) the mode 01
organizing this grand national movement; that
eighteen members ofthe conventionffiall be sent to
the different departments to diredt the ope rat ons
of the primary aR cm biles with refpecl to the demand
for arms, men, fubuftence, forage, and horses;
ad that the convention shall concert witn t *e
committee of public welfare and the executive
council, the affeiinbling arid direct'oll of tneioro.,
ynd of the mearts which have been executed.
Cant. Weeks* of the snip Henrietta, lately ar
iveA at Philadelphia from Oilend, informs, that
, n rKe joth of September the army commanded by
Duke of York was defeated, with lnimenie
daughter, by the French troops at Dunkirk.
MARRIED.J Mr. John Perry to Mrs. Fuza-
Simmom , widow of Mr. Charles Simmons,
• 'Lot! of this place. , ~ .
DIED.] On the 26th ult. at the he 11,2 of Major
Charles Abercrombie, in Greene county. Matter
jams s Smiters, aged 13> Rcp-fon j a * l,es 4 *
Ef}. of this place.
— I For sale,
HOUSE and LOT next to Mr. Fur;.,.
A in Telfair street. Inquire rs JACKSON .
Argufa, Dec, 4, 1793*
Augufis, l*Vcembcr 3;, 1703.
TO one’s jcljy either in matters of Ttpuia-
A tion or a fault, 1.1 the injury proceed from what
quarter it may, is a duty zohieh every man owes him
jeljy and has been and will be exereijed zn every coun
try and under every Jortn of government; and he
who would deem an apology ncceffary for the exerafe
of this right , or el.uni it among the privileges of a
free people, would, mdkinks, recur to pitiful princip
les indeed, That the Governor of the state of Geor
gia. has the indubitable and coujiitutional power of
appointing his feertiaries is c pofiiion as incontejlible,
asth.it “ the. Liberty of the profs /hail remain inviol Ue,”
—or that, l, i:\ common with others, ought to be re
puted innocent, until 1 can found guilty of mrd-con
dudl in ujk However numerous icere the complaints
made to Gen; Mathews concerning the conduit of the
je retones of the lax Executive; what could have
induced the. Governor ol the Rate to make them
the thmA’i'f his remarks t—For who does not com
j
bine the a.xum hnces of * removal from office* and
* complaints of offwi.il conduct’ and conclude the
former ,o be the ref ult of the latter? Gould not the
power operate, without any thing like, reasons being
fportid or affignti ! But jacrijai ig the reputation of
an individual is perhaps of less confequencc than to
account for the change! And let me obftrve. that
complaints could not be ma te to Gen. M—of
t lie con dud of Governor Telfair’s' sec ; the
re< itetl to him by an in dividual of any real orfuppojed
injury done by than, can be conji acred of no greater
moment tiiaot the retailing of a piece of news orJcandal
by one old woman to another. Without affording any
■kind, of official merit, / challenge an invtjiigauon of
my conduct either m the courts pointed out by law for
the adjudication ofinjruttions in cjftie, or by the
more honorable [mode of impeachment.
WILLIAM URQITIART.
TX THEREAS it appears that all government
VV is given into the hands of Col. A—
to tear up the Creek Nation root and branch (with
his regiment) we wiPn the privilege of building a
fort, forty miles in the wildemefs, would be grant
ed, sos he tells us if he could get that ellab
lithcd, lie then would a(k the Creek Nation no
odds; for my part I think as. hey and his regiment
has it to do—l would wiih the ftorteil meafurcs
taken with (peed. 1 fuppofc it might have been
done e’re this tlm-r. But men will not turn out,
for a number of them is at home almoß half their
time; but if the fort is built, I’ll be bound we have
them our then day and night—And we think it
will be built; for we are told that Col. A is
now in Augußa with hisfwcrd and regimentals'oh,
and is determined.to have it dene—and we all
conclude that his influence is very great —and we
are told here that the Hon. General Mathews is
eleCled Governor; and we believe him to be a
very good man—but think Rrange that Cel. A—
did*not go it. He tells us there is no temporary
line between us and the Creek Nation at all; and
we believe it—we liice all our proceedings vefy
well, only once a Moon we make up a scout, and
does nothing, and gives a bill each time on the
public for about athoufand rations.
* A SPECTATOR.
Wilkes, Nov. 10, 1793.
-
TO BE LE T,
On rent, for the enfiling year,
ONE hundred acres good low ground on Savan
' nah liver, under good fence, joining Canpp
bcllton, and within one mile of Auguaa, apply
t 0 JOHN HAMMOND.
$ Nov. 28, 1793.
J G R EAT BARGAIN.
W ILL BE SOL D,
At private [ale,
rpHAT valuable and well known plantation
I "whereon John Lamar formerly lived, situate
on Savace's, otherwise Read’s creek, in Columbia
countv, where the fubferiber at prefect re,ides,
only nine miles from Augusta ; containing three
hundred acres of land, on which are a large dwel
ls? house and other convenient out buildings, a
large barn 60 by 20 feet, a less one also 20 by 20
fe< Likewife, a valuable grid mill, with a suitable
feat for a saw mill, 120 acres ot open land, clear
ed mnftly within the space of ux years pall.
One or two male young Negroes will fee receiv
ed in part paymei.it, cr Richard Keatings receipt
aor ini! Pope’s and rnv joint bond, or G. Mulker ~,
attorney, receipt again!! ibid bond, or any of my
outfianding papers on juR account. Appl) to t.e
fubferiber o„ the LA;vSAR .
Nov, 15> 1793*
-r-> /"v T) ,« \ T -J7
F v.* iv o A 1/ F,
At the Market-Uqu.se in Augusta j
0* ibe jirjt iucfduy in January next,
TWO LOib, Nupibers 79 and 83.
Conditions C YSH, or anv d^.o t
due by tiie Board of Trullees tor the
Richmond Academy.
j. MERIWETHER, C!L B. T.
Auzirftai Dtcemoer 6, 1793.
SHE RTF E’ 7~ SALES.
On T ntfday the Jevcnth day of January next, at
the Couri-houfe in Wajhmgton county* Jutes to
be&in at 10 o’clock)
Will be sold,
The fallowing. TRACTS of LAND* viz* ,
TWO hundred and four thousand acres of laud,
on the Ohoo.ue and Canouchee rivers, but
ting; and hounding ort all fulcsby vacant land.
One hundred and twelve thousand seven hundred'
acres of land; near the Alatamaha and Ooonee
rivers, bounded weft by Sharp, Stallings and
Flournoy’s land, fouth weft by Fann, Bennington,
Simms, Carlyle, Frederick, Rowell, Powell mid
Tenivill’s land, southeast by Tennill.caft by Te*v
nill, north by Jackson, Longstreet’s and vacatiC
land.
One hundred and forty three thousand acres of
land, buftingand hounding north east by Canouchee
fiver and Jones' land, east by Harper, Taylor's
and vacant land, fouth by vacant land, southwest
by vacant arid Tennill’s land, northvveft by vacant
land.
Two hundred and eighty seven and an half
of land on both lides ot Ohoopie river, includndg
t».e big flioals of Ohoopie.
The whole seized undef execution agairift Ro
bert Montibrt, Alexander Johnston Skiers, and
Patrick Crookfhanks, as the property of CroOk
ftianks and Montfort. Conditions CASH.
H. BREAZEA&, S. W. C.
IVaJhingt&n county, Dec. 2, 1793. ,
TO BE SOLD,
On the Jr ft Tusfday in January next, at Wayne, f
borough, in Burke county, the f ollozuing’YK AC 1 S
of LAND, executed for the payment of the tax
for 1792. <
ONE hundred acres belonging to John; Hig
gins. v
650 ditto to Patrick Carr.
400 ditto to James Harvey.
200 acres in Wafnington county, belonging
to Peleg PvOgers.
100 acres belonging to John Permenter.
200 ditto belonging to Henry Horn.
200 acres belonging to William Kennedy.
118 ditto belonging to Thomas Eliott.
THOMAS VICK, C. B. C.
At the lame time and place will be fold 200 acres
of land adjoining Savannah river on the south-east,
on the north-east lands of Wm. GibbonlJ, and on
the south-west to lands granted Wm. Shirly.
WILLIAM CHRISTIE.
Dec. 3, 1793,
“ To B E LE T,
THE HOUSE and LOT at the north-weft
comer of VVafinngton and Elliot-streets,
on which there is a good liable, kitenen
aftd fmofcc-houfe, together with a good garden
well fenced in—For further particulars apply to
the fubferiber on the premises, who will give pof
feuion on the (lift day ot February next.
ANN DIXON.
December 6. 1793*
~N~O T I C E.
SOME time in June last I purchased of William
Shroplhire, Js. Murphy and Phelps Haynes,
a Negro ‘Wench, named Suck, for which I gave
two bonds in the sum of eleven thousand weights
of tobacco—one to Shroplhire and Murphy for
seven thousand three hundred thirty-three weight,
and the other to Phelps Haynfcs for three thouland
fix hundred andfixty-lix weight, payable the firft
of January next. Being jaow very well convinced
they had no right to fell said wench, I hereby
forwarn all persons from purchaling or trading for
either of laid bonds.
JEREMIAH DICKEN.
December 4, 1793*
T N O TICE. ‘
IN.confequence of inftru&ions received from the
Agent of the United States, for Applying the
Troops in Georgia, the parties concerned in the
different branches of the Contracting Department
are requested to take Notice—That no fuppiies of
Provision or Forage are to be furnilhed to parties
intended to act oifcnuvely against the Indians.
B. SMITH, Contractor