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AMSTERDA M, OaXr *7.
The rear admiral Biois dc 'ftt lk>ng,
) commanded the tli 5 ;■* Brutus, of 74
l»uns, in the engagement of the 11th, i*
now ar anchor in the harbour of Gore.
This {hip bthaved very well, and had
(even of the la-geft Englilh
(hips, one after the other ; two 3 deckers
attacked her once along fide ; but the
KtigUih were obliged to difcOiuinue. The
brave admiral Blois deTreilong has loft
his right arm. NotwithUanding his wound,
he continued his command with coolness.
On the evening, as he lay at anchor, he
wa3 attacked by an Englilh veil'd of 44
guns* but which he repuifed. Vice ad
min! Story has arrived in the Texel, with
i-j (hips of the line and frigates; although
we have loft in this engagement -8 (hips of
the line, the loss of the Englilh is like
wise confideiable. They fay that one of
their (hips of go * ins, fighting with the
Leyden of6B guns, was funk.
LONDON, OSlober 26.
Fayette, anJ his fellow fuffe
rers, are not, as has been flared in the
various Englilh papers, at. the house of
Mr. Parilh of Hamburgh, but at that of
Mr. Williams, the prefimt American con
sul at that place.. Mr. Rufus King the
Ambaflador from the United States in
1. >ndon, has received a letter from Mr.
Williams, which (fates that the unfortu
nate gen. miaifefta the fame warm a:tach
tn-.ntfor America that he formerly poffef
f' 1. As the gen. is unwilling to under
take a voyage at this unfavorable season
cl the year, he hjs taken a house about
-6 miles from Hamburgh, where, with
Lis family and unfortunate companions,
he will tefide till the spring when they
will embark for America.
WILMINGTON, Dumber 21.
Tne (lore of major William Robeson,
cf Newport, in the flat *of Delaware, was
broke open on the night of the 6th of
L> member, 1797* and robbed of sundry
articles, among which were twenty Cot
ton-Mill Lottery Tickets, from No. 1181
to 1200.
£:s* The Printers in thefeveralfates will
pleaje to give this a place in their paper.
There are now building in the port of
Philadelphia Tor the use of the Dey of
Algiers, which, it is foppofed, are to be
pid for out of the subsidy agt ed to be
id lowed by this country to the Day for
Lis alliance, a (hip of 20 gnns, brig,
f venty five feet keel, to mount 22 guns,
and a fehooner, sixty five feet keel, to
carry 18 guns 1 . The fbip is building by
Mr. Bower's, in Kensington, and the
brig and fehooner by Mr. Humphreys.
They are v.Ty handsome veffcls, and will
fj on be ftnilhed.
The United States fehooner Hamdai
lah, which lately failed from Philadel
phia for Algiers, was also pnrehafed in
Baltimore for the Dey, and was loaded
v-nth ammunition and military Holes, tor
his use.
A letter from Cadiz, of a late date,
mentions, that notwithstanding the ho
stile appearances of the Britifti and Spa
nish fleets, an open communication be
tween them was kept up, and that admi
ral Maflbredo, with his suit, haJ dined
with lord St. Vincent, oa board the
Ville de Paris.
AH the United States treops on the
f* a-board, have been ordered to join the
Weftero army, under general Wilkinson.
The newly invented cannon at Bengal,
{ftys a London paper) which is said to be
so light as to be able to be transported on
■men's (boulders, will add much to the
terrible effefts of war.—We may soon
expeft to hear a dreadful word of com
mand : —Shoulder y dot forty-eight poun
ders /"
Ext rad of a letter from the North of Ire
land\ dated Auguf 3.
« Lord Blaney, at the head of 1000
troops, has pitched bis camp at Fintona;
he barns from ten to twenty houses every
d y, and so bent on the total deftruftion
of the poor unfortunate people who may
have incurred his displeasure, that he
does not even fuffer them to refeue their
furniture from the devouring flames.
The manner in which he proceeds in
taking prisoners is by scouring the coun
try with his dogs of war for tonr or five
miles round, driving the miserable peo
ple before him to any plain which his
lordibip ibirika proper; He then takes
out his lift of informations, and swears
every man 40 his name, such whose
names he had cm his lift he lodges in the
jail of Armagh. In (hort, there is no
thing expe&ed by the people here but
that he will lay the whole country wade,
In my *e*t I will give you a more par
ticular account of the fuffcrings of the
people in this parr of the country."
KNOXVILLE, December 27.
It is her.- reported and believed, that
on the night proceeding the day on which
the people laid to be fettled upon Indian
t«nJs, in P'-rcil’s VjHcy, were c-mpcl
l?d, by military power, to qjit house,
home, anu property; seven women, *
wives of th ofe dillteffed citizens, were
delivered of so many childten. It don't
require the ipirit of phrophefy to predict
that these children, a3 well as all others
of Tenneflee, whether born or to be
born for ycat3 to com?, will be taught
from the time they can lisp the dealing
woids of papa and mama, to execrate th j
source and the inllrnments of the oppref-’
f*on of their parents. Let it be admitted
far a moment that the Authority exists in
the federal government' to remove by
military power, such people as appear, Ly*-,
the extenlion of Hawkins's line, to Oe
upon Indian lands; is it not then a vio
lent aft of oppreflion to compel thousands
of men, women, and children, at the
immediate approach of winter, upon a
(hort notice, to quit house and home, and
to feck shelter in a new country, where
they could find it ? The fame authority
or power which could permit them to
remain a m nth or more after the line
was run, could have extended the time
cf their continuance in their houses until
•
the winter was over, if they had so pleaf
cd. The principle that goes to one pe
riod goes to another, provided the rfe
moval be in any reajonable time. The
Indians themselves have exprefled their
disapprobation of this hasty and inhuman
removal; consequently no doubt can be
entertained but they would have cor.ftrued
the removal next April or May as within
a reasonable time. By (h it time these >
unhappy people might have looked o** l
f,r oth?r pUs*. Settlement, and not
have been exposed in camps in the woods,
upon the ftdes of brooks, in the cold,
rain, flow, and froft of a winter that
to be uncommonly severe, de
fiitute of the common nect..aries of life.
Let such an aft be exercised or attempt
ed to be exercised upon an equal number
of the inhabitants of any of the large and
civilized cities of the United States, would
the result be pafiive obsdier.ee and non
lefiftance ?
CHARLESTON, Jan. 1.
His excellency Robert Liston, his Bri
tannic maj? fly’s ambassador to the United
States, and his lady, arrived last evening
in this city, on a tour through the Southern •
States; he has taken his lodgings at Mr.
Ken's, in Broad Street.
January 4.
Capt. Tuffs, left Lisbon on the 30th
of October, A few days before his leaving
that port, earl St. Vincent, with eight fail
of the line, arrived from their station off
Cadiz. Captain Tuffs did not learn the
purport of his arrival; but was informed
that the force earl Sr. Vincent had left
behind was fully adequate to the purpose
of keeping the Spanilh fleet in port.
Tranjlated for the State Gazette.
From Hamburgh papers to the 21st Oft.
received by the (hip Nancy.
PARIS, Qdober iz.
Since the three American commissioners
have had a conference with the rmnifler
for foreign affairs, the direftjry will this
day nominate who are to treat
about the misunderstanding between the
two republics.
January 3.
On VVednefday evening the brig Sal
ly, Joseph H. Akins, mailer, arrived in
Rebellion road, in 33 days from Bor
deaux.
Captain Akins left Bourdeaux on the
9th of November. Four days before
he failed, captain Woodman, of the brig
Aurora, of this pert, then in Bourdeaux,
received the following letter from gene
ral Pinckney;
Paris, Odober 9, 1797.
M Sm~-As it is poflible our negocia
tions with this republic may not have a
favorable issue, -and that my colleagues
and myfelf may be ordered to leave
France, and as I underltar.d you are
bound to Charleston, where I would with
to go with my wife, daughter, secretary,
and perhaps two other gentlemen; 1
(hould be glad to know if ycu take paf
fsngers, and have accommodations for
them, and what are your terms, and the
latest time you fail. Be so good as to
write me. This is not to be considered
as an engagement to go in the Aurora,
but merely as a letter requesting informa
tion. I remain, very refpeftfully, you r
most obedient servant. Signed,
CHARLES C. PINCKNEY.
Capt. Woodman.
N. B. I think the Aurora is a (hip;
(hould Ihe-not be accommodated for pas
sengers, can you inform of any veflel at
Bourdeaux that is, and about to fail on
the 20th November for Charleftou, or
near it."
As capt. Akins positively asserts, that
the letter from general Pinckney was re
ceived but 4 days before he failed, it is
probable that there is a mistake in the
date of the- copy of the kuer,
and th '.t it ought to be the 29th of Ofto
ber inltead of the 9th, which would give
5 days, the time the couriers take to go
from Paris to Bourdeanx. The poft
feript to the fetter* we think, coofiriß3
this opinion; for, if the general expc&cd
to be ordered away early in Oftobcr, he
would hardly put off his voyage to the
20th of November.
As captain Woodman would not be
ready'to Tail in a iluic than 20 days,
captain Akins thinks it probable, that in
case the commissioners are ordered away,
general Pinckney will arrive in captain
Woodman's vessel.
At the date of general Pinckney's let
ter, the American commissioners had
been 30 days in Paris; and though'they
had addressed a letter to the minister of
foreign affairs, they were still without a
hearing.
In consequence of this information,
the American merchants in Bourdeaux
were much alarmed, and they had been
advi ed to get their property out of
FrarC? as f on as poffihle, as there was
a general opinion prevailing, that there
would be a rupture between France and
this country.
A Hamburgh paper, under the Paris
head of o£loU** r 8» fay ? j that the French
demanded of the American commission
ers, as the bails of negotiation, a
large sum, it was said feventecn millions,
byway of indemnification. Bat captain
Akin, who faileJ a month later, heard
nothing of this particular.
It was confiiently reported in Bour
deaux, that new pro;ofals for peace had
been made by the Esgliffi government,
to the direftory of France; but as soon
as the terms offered were made known,
the meff'nget received orders to leave
Paris in the course of an hour.
The emperor of Germany had acceded
to the terms of peace held out to him by
France, in consequence of which there
had been rejoicings and illuminations at
Bourdeaux on the occasion, about 10
days before captain A. failed. Five dif
ferent couriers brought the news of peace
with the emperor to Bourdeaux.
General Buonaparte, and his army,
in consequence of the peace with the em
peror, had received orders to leave Ita
ly, and prepare for another expedition;
it was generally said, that Portugal would
be his objeft, tho* others wero of opinion
that an invasion of England would be at
tempted.
A number of persons, implicated in
the late conspiracy, had been apprehen
ded in Bourdeaux, who were to be ba
nished.
. The French were preparing for an ex
pedition, but where, it was not known.
Capt. Akins undetftcod that lord Sr.
Vincent's fleet had retired from before
Cadiz.
The French cruisers take all American
vessels bound to or comiug from an Eng
li(h port.
ExtiaEl of a Utter from an American gen
tleman in Bourdeaux to his correfpondcnt
in this city , dated the 16th OHooer.
** There is no change in our favor; our
plenipotentiaries are all in Paris, ftnee
near two weeks, and there has 00 kind
of explanation taken place; they have
delivered their credentials to the minister
of foreign affairs, and the executive has
given no answer, not appointed any per
son to treat with them. We ate entirely
at a loss to forefee the issue of this bufi
neto ; in the present stage, it has rather
an awkward appearance, tho' we cannot
believe a rapture will take place between
the two countries; as yet there are small
indications of it. War is decided on
with England; and with Germany, the
negociations are, by this day, certainly
ended, and peace concluded, or holtilitics
re-commenced."
From the fame , November 9.
“ In consequence of the hottile ap
pearances with America the bearer of
this has changed his deflinatioo, and tells
me he will touch at Charleflcn. I don't
think for ray own part that there will be
■» rupture with the United States, yet the
ftegociation at Paris is likely to be with
out success, and it is said oar miniflers
are preparing to depart. There is no
change in the condu& towards onr com
merce i and four vessels carried into
L'Oriear, have been condemned at Vans .
in the court of appeals. Peace with the
emperor is made definitively ; the French
have dictated."
• Captain Akins intended to fail for a
French port tn the Wet! Indies, but, in
consequence of the news ficm general
Pinckney, he thought it best to return
to America; he brought no rewfpapers.
The {hip Aurora, Brown, failed from
Bourdeaux,* for this port, 20 days before
capt. Akins.
SAVANNA H, January 5. •
Ou Wcdneftlay'laU arrived the brig J*f
ferfon, capt. Morris, in r 8 days (tom St.
'Croix. While he lay there accourt's ar
rived from Guadalor.pe, that Vittof
Hughes had issued orders to take all Ame
rican vellels, going to or coming from
any port. Same day arrived capr. Tit
comb, in 1y days from St. Bartholomews?
who confirms the above intelligence. A
few day# previous to capr. Morris's fail
ing accountstiad been received tromStacia,
of the capture of a bug from Nf#v. H-v e u t
capt. Miller, with a cargo of hiorfes, &c.-
and condemned.
January 9*
On Friday arrived in the river, from
Liverpool, after a passage of 55 days, the
(hip Elizabeth, capt. Webb. By her we
have been favoured with London and
Liverpool papers to the 2sth Oit. from
which we have made copious extracts lor
this day’s Museum.
Extratt of a letter from a refpettable house
in Liverpool , to their friends in this ci
ty, dated November gth, 1797.
“ Peace is now finally concluded be
tween the emperor oi Germany and the
French republic, but we are sorry to add
that hostilities feern likclv to continue be
• • 0
tween this country and the latter."
The following paragraph , tr copied from n
Liverpool paper o f the 28 th Qttober.
London, October 25.
The Reda&eur of the 19th contains a
long investigation of the nature of the drf
pute between the French republic and the
United States. From this paper it ap*
pears that the grand objrft of comprint
urged by the French government, is the
treaty of commerce, between this country
and America, negociatcd in >794. From
the decided language which it (peaks on
points that are immediately to become
the fubjeft of diplomatic investigation, it
seems expedfed that the Americans (half
make great concessions to France. The
event of this dispute may be of ferioo*
importance to. this country, because the
concession, demanded from the Ameri
cans, mud be a renunciation of the prin
ciples of the treaty of 17941 and in pro
portion as the demands of the French are
admitted, the privileges of Great-Britain
mad be facrificed.
Just received and for sale by tbt
Subfcriler,
AN additional supply of crockery
ware in crates well aflbrted, empty
bottles in crates of 18 dozen; hali pint
tumblers in boxes of 12 dozen; done,
jars aad pitchets of 2 and 3 gallons each;
window glafu in fmaii boxes 8 by 10;
table fait in (mall batkets, and excellent
LONDON PORTER in calks.'*
ISAAC HERBERT.
Jan* 13, 1798.
SHERIFFS SALE.
At the court house of Hancock cnnnty*
in the town of Sparta, on the firit
Tuefday in March next,
fV I L L BE SOLD,
170 acres land, more or ltfs,
lying on the waters of Fulljotne's (reek, of
present occupied by Ijham Hogan ; taken at
the property of fa\d Hogan • Aifo, one
negro boy, nom d Edon, fix of seven yeart
old ; taken as the property of Harris Ni*
ckolas, in the pojf'fjion of Jacob BtiifUs*
Terms CASH.
WILLIE ABERCROMBIE, D. S.
January 1, 1798.
SHERIFF’S SALE. .
On the firfl Tuefday in March next, at
the courl-hoyfe in Lincoln county,
WIXLBES OLD,'
Agreeable to law, the following, negro,
TO WITS
XT ANCE, taken under execu
tim as the property of Edward
Bond, to fatisfy a judgment obtained a
gainfl him in the superior court of Lincoln
county, by George Barnes id Co, Condi*
tions CASH.
ROBT. HUGHES, S. 1. C.
, January t, 1798*
TO.BE SOL a;:
At the plantation of the fubferiber, living
in Columbia county, at the mouth of
the Uchee creek, Savannah river, 00
the fird Monday in February next.
'CNFTEEN hundred bufnels of
L c<rn, ffteen ihoujctnd weight of fod
der, a hanJrfvme flock, of cuitU aud hogsi
one /mail waggon and gears, plantation
utenfU, &c. &ei A credit of nine months
will be given for the above article f, the'
purchafert giving bond, with two.approvtd
ftiuriiies, ths nst to betaken away
-1 until Ihe terms of sale are complied btitk,
PETER STUBBLEFIELD.
January 12, 1798.