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tire directory, an account of the terms of peace
that France had offered to any of the allies, or that
the allies had offered to France.
May 16. We mentioned on Friday last, on the
authority of a Londen paper of the ioth March, a
report of M. Vincent being appointed minister from
France to this country, inllead of M. Fontain , who
was formerly announced. On a review of our la
te!! accounts, we find, under Paris dates of the 16th
March, the following notice taken of that buGnefs:
“ The molt severe accusations have been brought
against Fontaine, whom Charles de la Croix had
caused to be named ambassador to the United States
of America. That citizen remains in France, in
order to make the reflitutions demanded from him
by the departmental administration of Gironde;
and citizen Vincent, formerly an officer of engi
neers, goes out as minister plenipotentiary to the
American government.”
An English minilterial paper dates the French
army had been reviewed and had declined taking
the oath of hatred, to royalty . We do not give full
credit to this intelligence; but the enaction of this
new oath by the French legiilature warrants a con
jecture, that a disposition to restore monarchy is
believed to be encreafing. We have little faith in
the efficacy of oaths. Those who take the most,
pay the lead regard to them. No nation ever swore
so often to obey particular constitutions as the
French—and no nation during the fame time, ever
violated them so often or with so little ceremony.
If the French are in general real republicans in
principle, they want no oaths—if they are not,
oaths will not make them such.
In the supreme court of judicature of this date,
held at the city hall of this city, last Saturday, sen
tence of imprisonment for life, in the date prison
so be erefted in the city and countv of New-York,
and, until its erection, in the gaol of this city, was
pronounced againd David Green, otherwise called
Alexander Howard, for parting a fotged bill of
exchange, purporting to be drawn by Mei Tr. Brown,
Benson, and Ives, merchants, of Providence, oa
Mr. Nicholas Cook, of this city, merchant.
A like sentence was parted on Amanda Coe, for
uttering a counterfeit note of the bank of the Uni
ted States.
Thomas Donnelly, for grand larceny, was sen
tenced to two years imprisonment.
Several others, convicted of petit larcenies, were
ordered to be imprisoned for diort periods.
A correspondent who has visited the Prcfident’s
house at the Federal City, fays, that the kitchen
alone, is large enough to hold the house of repre
sentatives of congress, and that the Senate may
find room to fit in the chimney corner. He cannot
conceive where a President will be found, who is
rich enough to buy suitable furniture for such im
mense appartments.
* PHILADELPHIA, May 14..
Ou Thursday evening arrived in town from New-
York, with his lady and suit, his excellency Ro
bert Liston, Esq. his Britannic majesty’s envoy
extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to the
United States of America.
ExtraEl of a letter from London , dated the id of
April.
“ I arrived at Plymouth the 30th ultimo. I
(hould be exceedingly happy had I it in my power
to inform you that we have arrived to a good mar
ket; but unfortunately that is not the case. For
four or five weeks pad flour and wheat have been
on the decline, and the belt flour now fells for s6f
sterling per barrel, which will not be near the firft:
cost in Philadelphia. My friends have informed
me that all kinds of provisions are much lower in
every part of France than in England. The Roe
buck arrived two days before us, the Prudence ar
rived this day at London.”
May 17. On the 18th of March, the third pay
ment was made on the last Britifli loan, and notwith
standing the extreme scarcity of money, flock rose
the whole day—a'ftriking proof of the immense re
sources of monied men in England.
One Bins, said to be an emiflary from the Lon
don correlponding society, has been apprehended
at Birmingham, by a warrant from the Duke of
Portland. His crime is reading political leftures,
jn violation of the new {edition aft.
Great efforts are made in France by the remains
of the Jacobins, to revive their system of terror.
New Clubs in Paris spring up as fall as former ones
are suppressed, and an address has been circulated
at Strafburgh, to stimulate the soldiers and in
habitants to overturn the present constitution.
The Bricifh Naval Commanders in the Medi
terranean treat the Grand Signior, just as they do
smaller powers ; they chafe French ships of war
into Turkish ports and under the very guns of the
forts.
Captain M‘Cutcheon, on the 12th infl. was board
ed by La Concorde, French frigate, Handing in for
the Capes of Virginia, the captain of which in
formed a French gentleman on board captain M‘-
Cutchcon, that war was declared between England
and Spain.
There is a letter in town which fays that a Spa
nish and French fleet of 42 men of war and trans
ports, having on board thirty thousand troops, are
on their pafljge to St. Domingo.
FAYETTEEVILLE, May 26.
Extrati of a letter from a Gentleman in Corgrefs f
dated Philadelphia , May 10.
11 There is no kind of doubt that the delivery of
the Wcfte/n Posts depended on oar agreeing to make
the appropriations, and there is a strong probability
that a detention of them would have immediately
been followed by a renewal of an Indian war, and
all the horrors and expences attending such an event.
In addition to this, it was to be expetteJ that some
of our mercantile people, who have loft veflels and
cargoes by Britiih depredations, would attempt to
obtain rellitution by reprifids, or some such means.
These & like events would undoubtedly joon involve
us in hoflilitics; for I am rather induced to think the
Britiih are not very anxious about the treaty, and
might calculate to obtain more value from a {late of
war, than any. other fituatioU at present, by which
they could by their maritime force sweep from the
American people the whole of our veflels, and by
such a (lep remove an apprehenflon which now
strongly prevails on the other fide of the water,
that from the rapid eticreafe of American navigation
since the adoption of the federal government, the Bri
tifi carrying trade a rill have a dangerous rival to
contend with , and one that is more likely to injure
the great share which G. Britain formerly had not only
in the carrying trade of America, but in that of other
nations , than any other nation on earth— therefore if
they could, at a time when they are armed cap-a-
I a °d have war veflels in all parts of the world,
* us into a squabble with them, their interest,
their pride and their difpofuion to cut down a dan
gerous rival in commerce, would affoid them a
fine excuse to gratify th*ir zoifhes, to set our navi
gation back 50 years or more, by destroying all the
veflels of oyr country—the whole Britiih property
in America would not compensate one fourth of
the damage. I here are many other real caufcs
which demand extreme caution and delicacy of
conduit as regards our peace and happiness: These
and many other circumllances make it ncceflary
for the government and people of America to adl
with unanimity, and incline to conciliatory mea
sures.”
S A V A N N A H, May 27.
Extract of a Utter from a gentleman in Philadelphia,
to his friend in this town.
“ Mr. Lee, the federal attorney general, has at
length brought forward his report on the Georgia
claim; it (fates those fails, which has been long
since (fated by the farmer, to the people of Georgia.
Thepurchafers exercifeinfinite address, to wave the
claim of the union; how it rolls yet
among the arcana of unknovdjjfln^; fails sup
ported by records, too inevitable
loss to that.ftate. Will this of the
folly of those maniacs, by whom they have been
dilhonored? I fear not. When the tolly of the
Pharaohs have become so far ofFenfive to the deity,
as to merit exemplary punilhntent, they were har
dened under the ftroke9 of corrHfti >n. The firft
favored lot is his, who has not merited or met
misfortune; the next, his who has not been finit
ten in vain.”
AUGUSTA, June 4.
Law information to those who have claims upon his
Briranic majesty for his late piracies, copied (tom
a Liverpool paper of the 10th March j 796.
A merchant of Liverpool, in the reign of James I.
having a demand on the king of Spain, for some
damages which he had fullained by one of the Spa
nilh men of war; and not having any other means
of procuring redress, according to the advice of his
counsel, proceeded agaiult his majelly in Weftmin
(ler Hall, where, for want of an appearance, the
king was after some process, outlawed; whereupon
Gondemar, the Spanilh ambaflador immediately
paid the money; the king his mailer, having at
that time several suits against the Englilh merchants
depending, he could not, during the outlawry,
proceed as plaintiff.
General Knox, we understand, has declined ac
cepting the appointment of commiflioner, to fettle
the Eaflern boordary of the United States.
DIED. On Friday the 27th ult. at the house
of John Wilson, Esq. Mr. John Blair.
Augufla, td June, 1796.
THE Trustees of the Richmond Academy are
requelled to meet at Mr. Urquhart’s, on
Monday next, at 10 o’clock, A. M.
By order of the President,
Wm. URQUHART, C. B. T.
ELOPED from the fubferiber's plantation, 0:1
Sunday morning last and ftom his bulinefs,
Henry Hail, late of Germany, and his wife Mar
garett with a female child, about fix months old,
all of them, and by theii own content, indentured
to me for the term of four years. I therefore for
warnall persons whatsoever from harbouring, feed
ing or trading with them, as they may depend on
being dealt with as the law in such case directs.
Henry is about 25 years old, who had on a pair of
new Ofnaburg overalls his outside jacket, with
sleeves, of his own German manufacture. Marga
ret is dear about the fame age, had on a new (Lift
and petticoat homespun corton, and is much ftoutet
as a woman than he as a man, he being dim made.
Whoever will apprehend said servants, so that I
get them, 01 deliver them to me, (hall be handfotnely
rewarded for their trouble.
JOSHUA GRINACE.
ColvndiA iQuaty, June 2, 2 7^6*
SHERI F F’s S A L-E S.
On'the firft Tuefday in July next, at the court*
house in Columbia county,
WI L L B E SOL D,
The following property :
140 acres of land, Columbia county,
whereon John M ( Catty now lives, on the waters of
Maddox's creek, joining lands of Joseph Stubs and
Mordecai Sanders ; taken by execution at the infiance
oj the executors of B. Andrew.
150 acres land, Columbia county,
whereon John Maddox now lives, with good im
provements, joining lands of Gulikely Beall, lying
on the Euchee creek. 800 acres land Wilkes county,
when surveyed, joining lands of DudUy Harris and
Furgufon, on the waters oj Broad river j taken as
the property of [aid John Maddox by execution at
the inflance of David Eluker for William Walker.
One brown Bay gelding; taken as the
property of Baxil Jones, by execution at the inflance
of Dreadxit Pace ,
550 acres land, Columbia county,
whereon col. James Stallings now lives, known by
the name of Mount Pleas ant, joining lands of Lafh
ley and Daniel M*Gee, on Savannah river ; taken
as the property of said Stagings, by execution at the
inflance of E, White for William Shirtlijf.
Conditions cajh.
W. Drane, S. C. C.
June 2, 1796.
COLLECTOR'S SALES
On the 3d Tuefday in July next, at the court house
in the county of Scriven, between the houis of
ten and one o'clock.
WILL BE SOLD ,
The following trails of land for the arrears of taxes
due lor the year 1794 and back, viz.
ONE trail of one hundred acres, on the south
west fide of Great Ogechee river, in said coun •
ty, adjoining land of William Cone and James Cook,
granted to James E. Powell.
Also, one trad containing one thousand acres lying
on the fouth-wefl fide of Great Ogechee river, ad
joining land of William Cone and James Cook,
granted to James E. Powell.
Alfa one trad of two hundred acres, lying near
the mouth of Little Ogechee, granted to David M l
CaU.
,Also, another trad of five hundred acrei, adjoin
ing the said David M'CaU, near the mouth of Little
Ogechee.
Also, one trad containing three hundred acres,
bounded fouth-wcfl by Great Ogechee river, adjoining
land of col, John Green on one fide and William
Parimore and the heirs of Parimore on all other
fldlS. 1
Also, another trad of two hundred acres •
Also, another trad of three hundred acres /up- '
poftd to be the property of Cain*
Also, one trad containing /even hundred and fifty
acres, lying on Savannah river adjoining lands of
Jesse Barnes, John Conyers, jun. and More's land,
the property of— Cain.
Also, one trad containing two hundred and ten
acres, lying in Savannah river swamp, adjoining
land of Stephen Butler and William Crijley, the pro
perty of George Abbot Hall.
Also, two hundred acres granted to Sarah Folefom,
adjoining land of Netherclift, and on all other fits
vacant at the time ofjurvey.
Also, one hundred acres formerly the property of
Isaac Fords, dec. lying on Ogechee, adjoining land
of Allen Dixfon, James Cafwtll and Joseph Jackson «
JOHN BUFORD, T. C. S. C.
May 28, 1796.
In the Superior Court , Burke , February
16, 179^.
Present, JwdoeWaltom.
I /"AN the petition of William Hobbs, fluting that
being pojfejfed of a note of hand signed Jofepk
Moore, bearing date in the year one thoufand/even
hundred andJeventy-fve for the sum of ten pounds
to be p iid in cattle or horse flejh, a copy whereof as
nearly as petitioner could recoiled was annexed to
said petition and is now lodged in the clerk's office,
together with an affidavit pursuant to an ad 0) izd
February 1785, that the said note was lofi during
the late war, and praying the benefit intended by the
said acl, and other circumjlantial proof being made
and laid before ihe court. It is
Ordered, That the said note be eflablifhed as di
re did by this ad, on the said William Hobb's pub
hjhing a notice as therein required for the space of fix
months in one of the public Gazettes of this fate, un
itfs cause shall be shewn to th' contrary within the
said fix months, or other matter Jhall eppear to the
court against the fame .
Extraft from the Minutes,
ABm. JACKSON, Clerk .
TO BE SOLD,
On Monday the 6th infl. at the flore of Mr. A. Jnnis,
at ten o'clock in the forenoon ,
A qarter caflc of WINE,
Advertifeu in May 1795 for the information of the
owner.
LUB HARRIS.
May 1 1, 1796.