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B O S T O N, May i.
time-partuulafs refp filing- tfu cap t tire of
‘ the ship William, of Portland.
Capt. Jones, arrived here on Saturday
from Porto-Rico; brought home several
pf his unfortunate countrymen who had
been taken by the French, and robbed of
every thing they poflVflld. From the
collected information of capt. J. and his
paflengers, it appears, that the (hip Wil
liam, capt. Strong, of Portland, on has
homeward bound paflage from Grenada,
by a French privateer with
a Spanish crew, and the captain and all
the crew taken on board the privateer,
excepting the mate and one seaman, re
luming twe officers and seven Spanilh fai
tfora to take charge of the (hip—(hortly
afte( the privateer had left the (hip, the
Spaniards on board menaced the two A
tneticanjt, who not Fond of brooking the
infulr, and irritated by their cowardly
behaviour, repelled their mfolt, by fe
»ere reproaches—the affair becoming se
rious, the mate ordered the boy, an A
,merican, who belonged to the privateer,
to take the helm, and himfelf and com
panion armed themselves as well as they
could, the mate with an axe—-the two
officers then interfered, and the bloody
affray began—one of the officers was kil
led by the ma'c with his axe, and the other
severely wounded, together with inoft of
the Spanjfla sailors—the affray continued
for the space of four hours, when the
crew agreed to give up the (hip to the
(wo Americans, provided they would
grant them the long boat, and provisions
Sufficient to proceed to the neared French
port—this was agreed to—but before
they had got ready to embark, another
French privateer hove in fight— took pos
session of the ship, and carried her into
Porto-Rico where the two Americans
were imprisoned and put in irons, to be
sent, like malefaftors, to St. Domingo;
where it is supposed, they will fuffer
death, not for an outrage of the laws of
humanity, but for bravely defending
themselves againd affalfins, greatly une
qual in point of numbers and weapons.
Captain Jones would have found means
to have refeued these unfortunate men,
bad he been able to have remained a night
longer in port; but several British (hips
.of war appearing off the coad, he was
‘ apprehensive of an err:bargo being irame
. diately laid, and,putto sea.
NEW-YORK, May 4.
It if said, that a Jubilee, or splendid
'patriotic celebration of the next cen
tuary {1800) .is in contemplation by a
number of advocates of Reajon, Humani
ty and Liberty in this country, to be
imitated by poderity every century, in
commemoration oSthe great events that
may have taken pBRf during the hun
dred years.
‘ PHILADELPHIA, May 9.
Saturday lad the (hip Liberty, captain
Ramage, dropt down to New-Cadle,
bound to Hkvre-de-Grace. This vessel,
we are informed, is fernifhed with a
« palfport from the British minider, for
citizen P. A. Adet, late minider pleni
potentiary from the French republic,
who goes passenger, and will embaik in a
day or two.
The (hip Dominick Terry, captain
De Hart, arrived on Saturday, left Li
verpool the 18th of March, but brings
no newspapers, as the captain was o-
Tjliged to give them up to the officers of
a French corvette, who boarded him off
(he Irish coad. They plundered the
ship of live dock, chiefe, &c. and a
number of letters, but did not examine
♦he letter bag. Captain De Hart in
forms that bank paper in England had
fuffered a depreciation of five per cent,
and that dollars were current at
Captain Gardiner, in 18 days from St.
Croix, informs, that on the toth of
April, a large fleet, confiding of all the
naval force that could be collefled, with
about 10,000 troops, failed from Marti
nique, dedined, it was supposed, for an
attack on Guadaloupe. He heard no
news of Porto-Rico, or Sr.* Euilatias
being taken, as was lately reported here.
, *lcaptain of a schooner arrived in
this port from Norfolk, which he left on
Tuefday last informs, that captain Bar
tov’s frigates were ready for sea when he
latled, and would probably depart soon
in the face of the British squadron, rely
ing upon their fad failing.
Tbt fame captain confirms the intelli
gence contained in an extr»&-of a letter
from Norfolk which lately appeared in
the Aurora, refpeßing the (belter given
by one of the British vessels of war to
three defcrters-fTom the fort.* The En
£li(b commander is laid to have isfufed
giving up the men, on the ground, that
as they w.,e Irifnmen by birth he had
the bed right to them,
To what lengths the British mean to
go in their career of insult and injury
is difficult to determine; we hope this
lad indance of aggression is their ne plu.s
ultra. To this they have come Uy re
gular Reps. Nemo suit repents turpif
fmus. They fiifl impressed American
citizens if British torn. This they
found men in our councils (0 vindicate.
They next, as in the iadance of the
Squirrel, have imprefled American ci-'
' tizehs, in che face of protefitoris , brouglrf
them into our ports and there'kept them
in confinement. They then* as ini the .
indance of the fame vessel, openly re
cruited in our territory by public adver
tisement; and have lately at Norfolk
avowedly received and protelled Ameri
can deferlers, and encouraged indeed their
defertion by the temptation of a large
bounty.— Quofque tandem ?We (hall
not be long (übjeft to these indignities.
We underftaiid, that adminidration have
taken decisive deps to vindicate the A
merican character, thus infaltingly tram
pled on in our very ports. - •
ExtraEl of a Utter from Cape Francois ,
April 10.'
41 The Enghfh are now driven from,
every pod which they occupied in the
interior of this island. I expeß that ve
ry soon they will be in pofiefiion merely
of the ports of Sr. Marc, Port au- Prince,
Jeremie and le Mole ; and these I hope,
ere long, they will be forced to aban
don.”
The rate of exchange between this
country and London, is repeatedly quo
ted in our prints as at par. The fad is,
since it has been known here that the
b?nk of England flopped payment in
coin, there have been no buyers, and of
course no rate of exchange can with
truth be quoted. Persons will not buy,
knowing; that when their bills reach
London, payment will be offered in de
preciated paper, or paper liable to de
preciation. And indeed, those who
have credits in England, will be cau
tious how they draw, led paper being
refufed for their bills (for we have net
yet heard it is made a legal tender) they
return proteded. Such is the date of
commercial ctedit in Britain, that, by
the 4a lt arrivals, iuflyufUuus wc ape told,
have been received by the creditors here
to English mercantile houses, not to re
mit in bills, but to place the property
here to the bed advantage.
Communicated for publication*
In consequence of the representations
made by the merchants of Vcra,C;uz
and the farmers of Mexico in general, se
conded by the vice roy, the king of
Spain has annulled the per million he had
granted to various individuals for the in
troduction of flour from the United
States into the Havannah, as prejudicial
. to the intereds of his American fubjeCts.
Owing to this circumdance, we un
derdand Mr. Yznardy, late agent to
count Januco, who had obtained one of
those grants, not having any further bu
siness in this country on account of said
nobleman, has lately taken hi 6 paflage
sot the Havanhah,' where we are inform
ed he is gone in quality of American
agent, relpeßing the capture of Ameri
can vessels, carried into the ports of
Cuba by French cruizers.
PITTSBURGH, April 29.
Brigadier general Wilkinson, com
mander in chief of the army,, left this
place on Tuefday lad for fort Washing
ton—he will proceed from thence to
Detroit, and visit all the pods in that
quarter.
The 4th regiment, commanded by
• colonel Thomas Butler, we underdand is
ordered, tor Knoxville, in the Hate of
Tenneflee, to protect the frontier inhabi
tants from the depredations of the In
dians in that quarter.
NORFOLK, May*.
On Friday last, the British ships of
war which lay in Hampton Roads for
feme time, under chexommand of admU
ral Pandepnt- (ailed on a erujze.
This morning the French frigates un
der the command of commodore Barney ,
which have lain here for feme months,'
unmoored and dropt down the river, for
the purpose of going to sea.
PETERSBURG, May 16.
\efterday was the day appointed by
the president of the United States* for
the meeting of both houses of
in Philadelphia.—This is the fird uiitance
in which the chief magiftrare has exercis
ed the authority vetted in him by rhe
con.litutioa, of calling corgrefs
• tlef whenever aoyetnergcp cy /hall len
der it expedient . • ,
The unhappy mifunderflandtng which
has- for feme time fublxiled between this
countiy and France, wj)l, no dcubr, be
a prim,ary ohjeft of their attention.
That it may be fpcedily removed and
the differences between the two-nations
amicably adjutied, must certainly be the
earned with of avery fiitnd to the peace
and interest of this country. Various are
the reports and conjtdlutcs with icfpetf
L to the measures that will mo/l probably
be proposed, as calculated to effcdlt this
ohjetf. It has been pietty generally be
lieved in the country, that an embargo
will be immediately laid on all the vel
fels in our ports. Whatever means may
be used, we have no doubt, but that
they will be the result of mature delibe
ration, aided by a knowledge of all co
la'eral circumstances. ,
It seems to be generally thought, that
were the fame measures adopted, which
were pursued when we were firnilatly
circumdanccd with Great Britain, that
there would be very little obftru&ion to
the federation of that harmony which
formerly fubhfttd between the two re
publics. France is a powerful nation,
and has a right to expttl the fame eti
quette in fending an envoy extraordinary,
as was used towards an implacable and
inveterate enemy. ;
' : We are, at present, in a very wretch
ed filiation. A great part of our veflels
sent to the Weft Indies, are captured and
condemned with very little of
reftitution—.thofe bound to British ports,
by the French, and these bound to
French ports by the British. It is hoped
that some expedient may be hit upon to
extricate us from our difficulties without
.referring to the “ Scourge of Nations.”
CHARLESTON, May j 9.
Exir,acl of a letter from St, da
ted the 1 sth inflant.
The reports of a cession of the Flori
dan and Louiftana by the king of Spain
to France, in exchange for the Spanish
part of St. Domingo, before ceded by
treaty, arc unfounded.
A propoftrion to this effc.6l, was eer
tainly made by Spain, before her decla
ration of war against Great-Britain, and
in order to prevent that event; but im
mediately after the declaration of war
by Spain, an-order was sent to the Spa
nifh minister at Paris, to rfctraff ir, and
you may rely upon it, that it will not
take place.
There are fetious expeditions of an
attack on this port by the Britifhit is
looked for from the Bahamas, where
there is said to be a force collecting for
the purpose. The fort of St. John’s
■has been given up and the forces drawn
in here; every preparation is made for
its defence, which will be made bravely
and resolutely. There are a number of
Frenchmen and Americans here, who
will set the Spaniards-no bad example.
It is a matter of great Turprife, that
when almost all the northern ports are
thronged with idle veflels, a number are '
not dispatched for this port.
Very little more than one third of our
daft crop, is said to have been exported ;
large vessels have been and are frill much
wanted here.; freights have rarely been
higher than they are at present, viz.
from five pounds ten (hillings to fix
pounds per ton, to different parts of
Europe.
A letter from a captain of a veflel in
the Havannah, to his owner in this city,
dated the yt/t infant, fays there are cer
tain accounts there of the surrender of
Porto Rico to the English.
We have nothing new by the Harriett
and Ann, Rider, from Port-de Paix and
Cape Francois. The British are if ill
cruizing off there with eight fail of the
line and three frigates; a tew Americans
flip in however, now and then.
The adminiftrarion continue to seize
the cargoes of those which get in, and
pay better for Their prefect feizares than
the past. They have entirely forgotten
.. £heir old debts.
Nfltftic 3ay, between Port-de-Paix and
Jean Rebel, was the pLce where the
British ran in the French 44 gun frigate
Harmony; file was blown up by the
French.
Captain Rider confirms the account
of the British cutting out the American
veffris at Jean Rebel.
Provisions are very high at Port-de-
Paix, flour wtflfld bring 40 dollars per
barrel, if lo!d to the inhabitants.
SAVANNA H, May 23,
One hundred and twenty-eight pieces
of cannon, 24 and 32 pounder®, are fi-
r.>2;£ Tci the tijitcS) it ihsi]
Furnace near Providen-e— they alji
proof except cue. They a;c oinai e 3
wi;h the American Eagle. “]
Arthur Fenner, Esq. is re-e!eft t( j.
verr.or of Rhcde-Jlhnd, and
Porter, Esq. deputy governor. t;
Lecture on vijironomy,
SEVERAL Gentlemen r ,j
dent in the country , havij
expressed a delire that Mr. Sane
wich would deliver a ledturto
this magnificent system ne:
Thursday evening, prefumir
the court will rife before tlW]
originally appointed S. ishajl
in forwarding the apparatil
And humbly presumes his re
fpedable town fubferibers v;i
not be offended—as he intend
repeating his le<fture on tk.
day.
Tickets half a dollar— f|j
file at Mr. Sandwich’s andti
Office.
Sheriff's* Sale. I
On Tuefday th« 4/(1 day of July next,l
the market-house in Augulta, betml
the hours of 10 and 3 o’clock, *
W ILL B E S OXm
r T I HE one half of a tobacl
Jlut lately pur chafed by Robert M
Tiycre and J. H. Montgomery ; alfotm
lot and improvements whereon, Robert M
Tiycre nozo lives. Taken under txctm
as the property of said M i Tiycre tbJcM
fy Elizabeth Mann . I
LEWIS HARRIS, D.S.rM
Auguda, May 26, 1797. 9
‘ NOTICE. I
'“THAT the neceflary repiJ
wanted at Campbell’s and dim
mond’s warehoifes will pofitivdy IxlttU
the lowe/t bidder at this place on the i;l
June next, at to o’clock in the/oremm
unlcfs the proprietors have then zn a nl
J enable slate of forwardnefs by that
ROBERT WARE, 7 v
SAME. CRAFT ON, > Ctmsr’J
JAMES CORBS, " 1 * I
CampbeUton , May 20, 1797.- |
Notice is hereby given , I
r T'HAT after the expiration J
nine months , an application nil :fl
■made to the inferior court of thecmM
Greene for leave to fell part of atwM
land lying on Richland creekffM
lands of Alexander Currey and tht aim
m\, near Grcenefborough, belongingti fl
ejlate oj Pet‘r Martin, dm a fed. 1
ELIZA MARTIN, dddM
WM. MELTON, AdmrM
March 3, 1797. 1 1
GEORGIA, - ] fiv Matthew R«B
(L. S.) I Esq. Rcpjtum
Oglethorpe county, f Probats for B
J county. J
WHEREAS IVUliam EUy, A&B
plied to me for letters if &B
nif ration on the ejlate of James f/fsß
late of this county, dec. B
THESE are therefore to cite flnikß
nifi all andfingular the kindred tf»>B
ditors of the said. deceased, to be ai'fl
pear at my office, on or before the
of June next, to fnew cause, if
have, why letters of adminijtralion
not be granted. B
GIVEN under my hand
my of ice, the 27 th day of
1797, and in the lift y ear : B
Independence of the United
of America .
■x. . "^Bi
GEORGIA, 7By Matthew RB
(L. S.) SjEfq .RtgifttroiM
Oglethorpe county. J bats for (aid <**B
WHEREAS Seymour &&4B
applied to me for letters of
niflration on the ejlate of Edward
Lite of this county , deceased, , B
THESE are therefore to cite and
nifti all and singular the kindred
tors of the said deceased, to be and BI
at my office, on or before the if*
June next, to Jhew cause ,
have, why letters of admimftrationjß ß
not be gra n ted. t B
GIVEN under my hand
my office, the 27th d'V
1 797 ; and in the 21 y (i \
Independence of the o ni (A V
of America, M