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CHARLESTON, Dec. u.
Jlxtratl of a letter from an American cap
l tain t to a gentleman in this city, dated
BovrdeauXf OQohtr 4.
«« The peace with the emneror is bro
ke"; and yesterday accounts came of ge
neral Buonoparte having gained a com
plete villory over the Adrians in Italy ;
lie has taken and slain 30*0001 with their
colouts, artillery and baggage. This is
the news of the day.**
SAVANNAH, Dec . 19.
An obliging fubfetiber his favouied us
with an printed at Grenada,
which contains the following particuiais
©f an engagement between the Eng*ifli.ai.4
Dutch fleets, cjF the coaf. of Holland, the
contents ot which was brought there by a
king's packet after a (holt passage, and
received here by the brig Hannah, caot.
Tate, in 17 days from that port.
From the LONDON GAZETTE
EXTRAORDINARY.
Admiralty Ojfi «, O ', 16.
* Capt. Fairfax, of the Venerable, arri
ved this morning, with dispatches from
Adam Duncan, Esq. Admiral ot the Blue,
commander in chief of *his majtfty's (hips,
Arc. employed in the north seas, to Evan
Nepean, fecrerary of the admiralty, of
Which the following are copies; :
Venerable at Sea, October 13, 1797*
off the coast of Holland.
Sir,
' Be pleased to acquaint the lords com
aiiflioners ofthe admiralty, that judging
ir of consequence their lorV-lhtps (hould
hive frt Carty information as poffihle ofthe
d feat oh the Dutch fleet, undei the com
mand of admiral de Winter, I dispatched
the Rose cutter at 3 P„ M. on the 12th
{roth) with* ftiort letrpr to you imnr di
tclv after the action was ended. I have
»ow further to acquaint you for their
Jordfhips information, that on the night
ofthe 10th, after I had sent away my Kt
ter to you of that date, I placed my squa
dron in fiich a fitoation, as to prevent the
enemy from returning into the Texei
without my falling jn with them. A? 9
o’clock in the morning of the 12th, I get
fight of capt. Trollope's (quadrun with
flying of an enemy to leeward. I
immediately bore up and made the figna
for a genera! chafe, and soon got fight of
them forming on the larbord tack to re
ccive us, the wind at N. W. As we ap
plashed near 1 made signal for the fqua
dron to (horten fail, in order to conned
them. Soon after I made the’ land be
tween Camperdown and Egmont, ab wt
9 miles to leeward of the enemy, and find
ing there was no time to be loft In mak
ing the attack, I made the signal to bear
up, break rhe enemy's lint, and engage
her 'to leeward,, each (hip her opponent,
by which I got between them and the
land, whither they were fall approaching.
My signals were obeyed with the
greatest promptitude, and vice admiral
Onflow in the Monarch, bore down on
the enemy's rear in the most gallant man
ner, his division followed his example,
and'the allion 'commenced about 40 mi
nutes past 12 o’clock; the Venerable
foot} got through the enemy's line, anil
I began a close allion with my divifi >n
t n their van, which lasted near two hours
and a half, when I observed all the malts
of the Dutch admiral's ship to go by the
.. Foard, Ibe was defended, however, for
some time, in a most gallant manner,
Fut being overprefled by numbers, their
.colours were struck, and admiral de
Winter was soon brought on board the
Venerable, and looking round me, I ob
f*rved the (hip bearing the vice admiral’s
flag, was also difmafted, and had surren
dered to vice admiral Onflow, and that
inany others had likewise struck; finding
e were in nine fa.hom water, and not
farther than five miles from the land, my
attention was f> much taken up in get
ting the heads of the disabled ships off
shore, that I was not able to diftinguiih
the number of ships captured, and the
wind having been constantly on the land
since, we have been unavoidably much
dispersed, so that I have not been able
to gain an exall account of them, but we
have, taken pofftfiion of eight or nine,
more of them had struck, but taking ad
vantage of the night, and being so near
their owja cost, they fnccceded in gel*'
ting off, and some were seen goir.g in the
Texei next morning.
It is with the greatest pleasure and fa
tisfa&ion, I make known to their lord
ships, the gallant behaviour of admiral
Onflpw, the captains, officers, .seamen,
and marines of the squadron, who all ap
peared aduared with the true British
spirit, at least those I had the opportuni
ty of feeing. One of the enemy's ships
caught fire in the altion, and drove very
near the Venerable, but I have the plea
sure to fay it was extinguished, and (he
is one of the (hips in out poffcffion. The
fqnadron has fullered much » n tbeir
mails, yards, an*} rigging, and many of
them have loft a number of men, howe
ver in no proportion to that of the ene
my. The carnage on board the two ships
th;.t bote the admiral's fl*gs has been be
yond all description, they have no less
than 250 men killed and wounded on
board each ship; and here I have to la
ment t’e loss of captain Butgefs, of his
majeftv's ship Ardent, who brought that
ship into action in the most gallant man
ner, but was unfortunately killed soon
after. However, the ship continued the
action close, until quite disabled. The
public have ioft a good and gallant offi
cer in captain Burgess, and I with others,
a sincere friend. Captain Trollop's exer
tions and aCtive good conduit, in keeping
fight of the enemy's flvet until I came up,
have been truly meritorious, and I trust
will meet their j jft reward.
I fend this by cap'ain Faiifax, by
whose able advice I profited much dur
ing the a&ion, and who will give their
lordships any further particulars they
mav wjfti to know. As many of the fhip's
of the fqnadron are much disabled, a.!d
several cf the prizes difn afted, I shall
make the heft of my way to the Nore.
•* I am, &?. „
ADAM DUNCAN. '
Names ofthe veffds captured.
D~!ft, Verdrovn, £6 gnus, 3'jmrn;
Infpedur*, vice admiral Rcyntis, and
rear admiral Meuse, 74 guns, and £SO
men; » s » 450 me- ;
WafTinear, Holland, 64 guns, 450 men ;
Vryheid, or La Libcrti, adrmni Win
ter, 74 guns, 55:3 men ; A’kmaar, Kratt,
C 4 guns, 350, men; admiral Drwies,
Togers, 63 450 men ; H'rcule,
Vavkvfoch, 64 gout.; Geivkeid or L"
Egilite, Kuyier, 64 guns, 430 men;
Ambuscade, Huy, 32 guns, 270 men ;
Munihendam, Lanaute, 44 guns, 330
mm.
AUGUSTA, Dec. 23.
Congress of the United States.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES,
T turf day t November 30.
Mr, Baldwin presented a runonflranee
from the Legislature of Georgia, com
plaining of the law regulating the inter
course of the United States with the In
dian tribes, and also of the operation cf
exifling treaties. Referred to a feleft
committee of three members • M firs,
P.nckney, Venable and Nat. Smith.
Also a petition from a corps of militia,
pra.ing compensation for services per
formed for the United States. —Referred
to rhe fecrerary of war.-
Mr. Gallatin presented the memorial
of certain citizens called quakers, in the
name of the annual meeting of that b:dy,
lately held in Philadelphia. The peti
tioners, he raid, were present. The me
morialilts state the diitrefled situation of
134 of their bUck brethren in North
Carolina, who notwithflanding they have
been manumitted, are now held in bon
dage, by cruel and retrofpedive laws.
These, and other iniquitous alls, they
alledge, have a tendency to bring down
rhe judgments of God upon the country.
The calamity lately experienced in this
city ought they fay, %q make, us eager to
do away all iniquity. They refer the
house to the folemr* engagements of con
grefs in the year 1794, respelling
and their then determination to itifcou
rage horse-racing, cock fighting, &c.
This, they said, was a foiemn covenant
with the Almighty; but how, they alk,
has it been fulfilled ? Encouragement
has been given to play houses, rioting,
drunkenness, chambering and wanton
ness. National evils, they said, pro
duced national judgments; they there
fore pray God to irflaence the minds of
the house to do away these iniquities.
This petition being read by the clerk,
Mr. Gallatin moved that it be read a se
cond time. This motion produced a
very warm and very important debate
( which, for want of room is deferred till
to morrow)—The second reading was
opposed, on the grounds of the petition's
containing rotbing upon which the house
L ~could constitutionally all, and on account
of its touching a fubjeH, the difeuflioo of
which, in that house, always excited
great jealousy and uneasiness in the south
ern states, by Messrs. Harper, Rutledge,
Sewall, Macon, J. Parker, Ifi>ac Par
ker, Blount, Gordon and Venable.
The second reading was supported on the
ground of its being the uiual course of
business, as being refpeUful to the pe
titioners, and as being most likely t 6
produce the best effells; as if 4 commit
tee were appointed to make a report
thereon, whatever the report might be,
it would be more likely to give fatisfac
tlon to the ; petitioners, whom alf fßtift
allow formed a iefpeftable part of the
community, than to treat the petition
with the contempt which some gentlemen
had proposed, by MefFrs. Gallatin,
Thatcher, Lyon, Swan wick, Allen, U
vjngfton, Bayard, Nicholas, Edmond
and S, Smith. v
1 he question for a second reading was
at length tiken and carried— -53 volts be
ing in the affirmotive.
Mr. Gallatin moved that it be referred
to a {cleft committee, which was agreed
ter, 59 members being for it. The com
irmtee appointed werei Mtfrs. Sitgreaves,
Nicholas, Dana, Scbaieman and S. Smith.
We onderdand that a considerable num
ber of Brjnfh lhipsof war are now lyi'g
in Hampton roads, where it is-supposed
they intend to winter. - KG.
A Dublin 6aper dates, that 2446 fooms
are now idle in the cotton, fi;k, duff,
broad doth and mauutaftorea;
leaving 11458 indadrious hands unem
ployed, and their families without bread.
on Thursday Ia fL Mr. Jambs
Clarke, Merchant of this place^
4. -0-0- ifr OO ♦
ISAAC HERBERT
Begs leave to inform his friends and the
pub ic in general, that he has lately
received
A LARGE AND GENERAL SUPPLY OF
Dry Goods , Liquors & L
Groceries ;
Which he will diipoie ot very low for
C-lh or Produce, at his dore upper
end of Broad-ftreei, amongst which are
the following, viz.
WEST iNDIA Rum
Northern Ditto
Hollands gin
Cogniac brandy
Sherry and Tmeriffe wines
London porter in bottles
Molafles '
Loaf and brown fugara
H> frn and b hea teas
Ccffee and chocolate
Salt and faltpetre - - . v
Brimdone and gun powder
Shot and bar lead
Bed London pewter
Crockery, gtefs and tin ware
Iron pots and Dutch ovens
Frying pans and grid irons
Bar iron and German steel
4!. 61. sd, 1 ol» and 20J. nails
Locks a> d hinges
Broad hoes, axes, adzes, drawing knives
and hammers
Scythes and reap hooks
M il, cioffcut, tenon and hand saws
Cotton and woofcaids
Mens fine (hoes
Ladies and milles morocco dippers, See,
Sec, See,
Datmoer 23, 1797.
L O S T,
A Tobacco note infpefted at Call's ware
house, viz.
E. P. 1468 1665 144 1521.
DANIEL TWYER.
December 22, 1797.
J SHERIFF'S RALE,
Agreeable to law* at the court-house of
Hancock county, in the town of Spar
; ta, on the firft Tuefday in January
next, • .
fVILLB E SOLD,
ONE rraft of land, the property of
theexecutotsof Benjamin Ship, de
ceased, (by ordet of court,) and one ne
gro .woman, named Pat, taken as the
property of John Whatley.
H. HOLT, S. H. C.
November 24, >797* _ ’
Five hundred Dollars Reward,
VKTHEREAS on the night
* * between the nth and nth infant,
my free ferry flat was fiolen from my laird
ing near the Harrisburg ware-house on Sa
vannah river and cut in feveralplaces with
axes so as to render her unfit for firvice.
And whereas I have good reason to believe
that John Hammond of Campbellton was
the infigator to such villainy , now there
fore that the ptrfons concerned in the said
offence, may be brought to condign pnnifh
merit, / do hereby offer a reward of FIVE
HUNDRED DOLLARS to any person
who will apprehend and prosecute to con
vidion, any white man concerned in the
said felony, and TWENTY DOLLARS
for each negro so concerned and who jhnll
be prosecuted to convidion within nine
months from this date,
EZEKIEL HARRIS.
November 17, 1797.
(£5" A free ferry flat will be ready to
accommodate faff eagers on Saturday week.
fcj- THREE Dollars and
twenty-five cents in cafli is giv
en for feed cotton at my mills in
Wilkes County,
JAMES HUTCHINSON.
St . John the Evangelijl.
WEDNESDAY the 27th instant,
being the fefliva* of Sr, JOHN
thi EVANGELIST, the members of
ForsVth’s Lodge ate requested to
convene at tbt<ir Lodge room, precisely
at 9o' l tck, A. M. in order to cele
brate fbe fame.
The Lodge will from thence proceed
to St. Paul's Church, whete a iVrmoa
suitable to the occainn will be preached
by the Rev. brother Adam B ■yd’.
Dinner will be feived op at the Lodge
Room, precifelv at 3 o'clock, F. M».
The company of (ranfeient brethren i»
requeued. *
1 ulcers at two dollars each to be had
of brother*
H. Holmes,! .
F. Balia?d, j g
H. Crofsle, J» p
A. Knox, & . •
J. Barden, j
By order the Wcrfhipfvl Masts,
JOHN NEWMAN, Stef*
Da ember Is, 1797.
"s heriff's sales: *
f On the Atd Tuefday in January next, aC
the cou’rt-houfe in Greene county,
WILL b e sol d,
A LL that piece or parcel of
i an( i containing four hundred and
thirteen acres, joining Si!l well’. lands and
ethers, on the head water* of Shvuldtrbonc
creek, in the poffcjfion of Robt* Ajlons and
Daniel Parker; taken by execution aj the
property of Matthew Woods* to jatisfy
Jos. CarmichaU, &c. Conditions cajli.
Al/o, one trad of land containing thirty*
fve acres, joining Willium Baldwin’s land
and Efqtnrt Cooper's on Little Beaver dam,
one feather bed and furniture, One ckcfl,
one loom , one table anfl Jeveral other artu
cits too tedious to mention ; taken under
execution as the property of Joseph SpracU
len tofatiijy Baling. Conditions cajh,
GEO. REID, D. S.
SHERIFF'S SALE.
On the firtt sue fday in January next, at>
the court house of Lincoln county, .
WI L L 3 E SO I'D,
Agreeable to law, the following negroes*
• TO wet,
ARLES and Kent, taken
under execution ■ to jatisfy a, judgment
obtained agamji J Pi. ilhp Thermun in tha
juperior court of Wilkes county, by W n«
Thurmond. Conditi >*f CASH.
ROBERT HUGHES, S.L.C.
November 23, 1797*
wTTL We ToIIJ,
At public auftion, on the Tuefday int
January next, in the sewn of Lonif
ville, the following tra£ te-of land, viz.
ONE of three hundred acres
in Liberty county , on t, fc? public land
ing road , bounded by Rog tr~ JCiUfaWs r
James Jeffrey's* and the glebe 'bands the
other of fve hundred acres , called the
Whe*e House Trad, in. Chat hi tm county ,
on the fouth fide of Great Og tehee and-
Canauchee , formerly the propert v of Sir
James Wright, fold by the of
the Wajhington county academy / twelve
months credit wilt be given clear of inttpeft %
bond with approved security will M rc~
quired, perhaps the land may not It? in
the counties above-mentioned , as divifans
havefnce thepurchaft tqkeh place.
FRAs. TENNILLE, "l
JOHN WATTS, I 2*
H. BRAZEAL, f §
jMATTHKW HARRIS.
November 8, 1797.
~fTo ¥~T~c~e.
A LL persons having any de
■L -L rnands agamfl the ejtdte of Benja
min Bowers, dec, are defred to bring them
in properly attejted ; and those indebted to
said tfcate' are desired to make immediate
payment.
LUD HARRIS, Adm'r.
MARY BOWERS, Adm’n*
December 4, 1 797. * .
Nolice is hereby Given,
TTHAT the fubferiber fore*
•A warns all persons from trading for,
or receiving two r otes of his, git ten to J%~
lius Sanders in November 1796, for eighty*
two dollars andJonte cents each, payable
one in December 1797, and the other
1798. JAMES HALL.
Hancock, Dec. 6, 1797#