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TmriSH VICE CONSUL'S OFFICE, Savannah, 18 tb January, *798. TJ EGULAR attendance will be given at this office XV every day, (Sundays excepted) from ten until one o’clock, where in future tees will be required for the bufi nefi tranfadted tliertsin. JOHN WALLACE. THE subscriber informs his friends, his cuftoraers, and the public in general, that he has now returned to his former situation, north fide of Johnson’s-square, from which he was forced'to retire on the calamitous night of tlie 26th November, 1796, where he proposes again carry ing on the ) TAILOR’S BUSINESS \ in its different branches, and flatters himfelf that upwards of 25 ycaVs pra&ice in this place will enable him to give fatisfa&ion to thole who may continue or choole to employ Lira. BALTHASER SHAFFER. January tB, 1798. „ Marlhal’s Sale. nrm.be fold, on the second Tuesday in February next, at the Gourtboufe in Savannah , between the hours of 10 and 2 o’clock, f I ’’HE following NEGROES, belonging to the Estate w A of John Baker, Esq. deceased, taken under execu tion at die suit of Semuel Cbalfet, whose judgment is the £rft obtained agdnft the said Estate, viz. George, Bristol, Prince, Agripp*, Isaac, Toney, Boston, Qualh, Sam, men? Patty, Nanny, Flora, Cumba, Maria, Amoretta, Sue, Tenah, Sabina, yramen; Rachel, Abraham, Sue, Peggy, Mary, Will, children. Conditions cafli. * O. BOWEN, Mar find. Savannah, January tq, 1798. ‘Kp f iCE is hereby given, That all BADGES granted JLN by the Corporation of this City expired on the 3 111 day of December last, and that the BADGES for the pre sent year are now ready for delivery at my office. Thole Concerned will please to take notice, and govern th*rafelve< accordingly. By order, THOMAS PITT, C. C. Savannah, January 18, T 798. ’ 7 N6 I 1L k. ALL persons having any demands against the Estates of David, Jane, or Robert Bell, deceased, are re quested to fend them in, properly attested, to the subscriber, who also requests all thole indebted to the said Estates to avail themselves in making payment before the Bth Februa ry, otherwise they will find their accounts in the hands of lift Attorney at Law. EdwaHD Griffith, Adrtfmiftrator, with the will annexed. Savannah , January 18, 1798. w INFERIOR COURT, CHATHAM COUNTY. N Ordered, * I “'HAT the ColieAors of County Taxes, the Overseers A of the Poor, Commiflioners of the Hospital and Poorhouse Lottery, do attend, at the Courthouse in this city, on Monday the 29th day of January instant, with their accounts and vouchers, for settlement. It is likeii'ife ordered , That such persons as intend to keep Taverns or Billiard Tables, or to retail Spirituous Liquors, the ensuing year, within the County of Cuatham,. (the Jyrifdidtion of the City of Savannah excepted) do apply to the Justices of the Inferior Court, at the fame time and placfe, by petition, in ‘which they are to name their securities, and-tlie place in tended for a tavern, free* j • JUSTUS H. SCHEUBER, c.. c. c. c. Savannah , the 15 tb January, *798. INFERIOR COURT, CHATHAM CO UNIT, December Term, 1797. THE following persons having-becn duly fummonpd to attend as Jurors this Tenn, but made default, via. Owen Owens, Samuel Hajwfhond, Jeremiah Vallotton, Thomas Pederc, John Bexley, John Barnard, Stephen Blount, ’l'homas Haiper, Nicholas Miller, William Barnard, Robert Mitchell, John C. Smith, James T. Lawrance, and Thomas M‘Call, Andrew M‘Credie,. Ordered, -That they be fined each fum of 20 dollars, un -lefs they IheW good and fufficient cause of excuse, made on oath before any Justice of the -Peare, and filed -in the Clerk's Office of this Court, within 30 days after publica tion hereof. ‘ JUSTUS IL SCHEUBER. Savannah, the \stb January, 1798. O*” N the petition of Wilfiam Rolfes and Sarah Holies, Bating, that Ilaac Laroche, late of the city of Sa vannah, m the Bate aforelaid, the father of the said Sarah Rolles, was poffefled of a deed of feoffment, given and signed by Ambrose Barr, bearing date tlie ——day of seventeen hundred and sixty-seven, for all that Town Lot, in the town of Savannah, known by tire number 17, be- S inning at a Bake on Joachim-street, and running n. 12 eg. £.132 feet, to a (lake ; from tltence s. 60 deg. £. 662 links to a stake on Joachhn-ftrex-t; andthence n. 78 w. 421 feet 4 1-2 inches to tl* beginning; bounded n. e.-by a (beet of 40 feet, s. by Joachim-street of 40 feet, and w. by the Earm-ftrett o i 66 feet; which (aid lot is the figure of a triangle, and Kes in Yamacraw; a copy whereof, as nearly as your petitioner could recoiled, was annexed to the (aid petition, is now lodged in the Clerk’s Office, with an affidavit, purfuaut to the a£t of 22d February, 17851 tfra* the fa*d feoffment was loft or deftroyod during the Lae war, and praying the benefit intended by the Bud act; and other ciicumftant proof being aifo laid before the Court; it is ordered, Tay the deed of feoffment be eftabldhrd, M on tfei said William Rolles and Sarah Russes a notice as therein required, fpwc of fix months, 1* one of the pablw Ga- Jrftx, of this Bate, unless cauldfliaU bedhewn to the cort trii R S’ r "wlthtn the said fix montlin or other matter tlall ap pear to the Court against tlie latA- ExtraH from tbs Minutes , JaSU4 p • uacu, c. s. C. C* c* St. Andrew’s Society, r T Members of the St. Andrew's Society of Georgn nee aPC ret fo ; 10 mee * at the Merchants and Planter* Ormeehoufe, or Wednefilay the 7:h February next, at 7 o’clock in tlie evening, being a quarterly meeting. By order of the Prrfident, w > Geo. Woodhouse, Sec’y. January 18, 1798. On Tuesday the 27 tb of February next will be fold, at , public auction, VTHF COT T\ JOHNSON'S SQUARE Where Mr. John Wallace lived, known by No. 3 Tyr conncl tithing Derby ward. Conditions calh. a J. D. DICKINSON, AudVionier. x x x.x x h x xxxx R 0 M OSobcr |{. THE French Minister has demanded of our Govern inem, 1 ft, a categorical declaration eitlier for or a gainst the Frendi Republic; adly, a sum of money, toge tlier with provifiom awl ammunition; and 3dly, tlie ac knowledgment of tlie Gifu!pine Republic. r l'he answer to the firft demand is dictated by our known inability to resist; to comply with the second is utterly impolfible, owing to the exbatifted Bate of ourfinames; and as to the third, the Pope has resolved to receive a Cifatpine Minister. ‘ Brejl, 03 ,ber 16. The orders received from Paris for the general disarming of onr Oiips of tlie line continue lo be executed. The diftrtfs of the naval and military offi< ers, surgeons, &c. here, i3 very great; 7 months pay is now due to them, and no ftqs seem tie taken for its difeharge. From this-ftaternent it is needitfs to detail our wants, they are severe beyond mtafure. Paris, 03ober 27. Ifecree of tlie Executive Dire&ory. 5 Brjcrfiaire, 03ober 26. The Executive Directory decree as follows: Article 1/ There Ih-tU be assembled without delay, ro the Giafts of the Ocem, an ar-ny, wliich Bull take the name of Tbe Army of England. 2. The Citizen General Buonaparte Is named Comman der in chief of tliis army. It will be commanded provili onaliy by the Citizen Defalx, General of Divition, whq for this purpose is to repair immediately to Rennes. 3. The Minister at war is charged with the execution of tliis decree, which Bull be inferred in the bulletin of the litWß* (Signed) REVEILLIKRR LEPEAUK, PreGdenu t Decree of the Directory. 5 Brumaire. The Executive Dirt clary con tide ring tjjat Queen of Portugal, instead of lending a pure and fimpfe ratification f the treaty of pv - ace com lulled with the Executive Direc tory on tlie 23d Thermklor, witiiiu the two rfionth , fixed by the treaty, has put her forts and principal places into the hands of the Engliih anny, decrees, as follows: The treaty between the French Republic and the Queen of Portugal, concluded cn tlie 23d Thennidor, an,a not” ratified by the latter party, is to be regarded as null and void. The Minister for foreign affairs is hereby ordered to no tify to M. d’Aranjo Daveredo, ‘Minifter Plerfipotentiary'of the of Portugal, that he Bird! without delay with draw from the territory of the Republic. (Signed) REV El LLI ERE LEPEAUX,’ Pref.de nt. November 6. Brevoft, called Bclfrrt, one of tlie Chief* Lcf the Chouans, has been Tot at Caen. Government, wd understand, L in pificffion of Ihrtain proofs, that ~-*3,009 ipurders have been committed in the fouthemdepartments, and yet; Wil.ot and Cos. used to allure the public that these dep iraments enjoyed thAnoft perfect tranquillity and peace. being the anriiverfary of the fnftaliation of the Executive Directory Paris was illuminated on theoccafion. * Many of the PlenipotcntiariesV.f the Princes of the Em pire have already set out for RaftadL So.ne indeed have already arrived there. The secret articles of the treaty condu IrffwatHTht Em peror begin to tje executed. The Austrians have already evacuated Mentz, and t'ne ranch lra\e entcrei it. The de Metteruich, it appears, has refufed to ac cept the office /if Plenijwtentiary at the Congrels. : l’he Emiaeror therefore has apprnnted t!>e Baron de Degelmann. The Directory, we understand, has ordered an anrrv of 30,000 Bien to be aiicnielcu, deitmed to act against Portu- Ba|*.8 a |*. * The two Councils ratified the treaty of peace concluded - between Austria anrf France this day. Amjterdam , G3obcr 2c. It is of moment, both for the glory of the Batavian nation and for the encouragement of our navy, tint Europe Ihould have an exact idea of tlie engagement of tlie 1 ith October. The Engliih fleet, of 24 foil of the fine a. 1 federal frigates, was greatly fuperi r to ours in point cf strength and weight of uietil. The Engliih had 600 guns more tlian the Dutiji. ld,ty, moreover, gained the wind and broke our line, by tlie fkilful of stacking our centre en eebiquier, tlie Tallying point of width was formed by Blips of zoo guns. While they defeated our left it appears f;-om nuraberlefs evident fafts tliat they were beaten on tie right. Tliey were the firft to Iheer off. An English ship was funk, and great numbers of tlieir dead arc continually driving on Ihore. llttiieS, tliey made ule of bacon and other comhuftibl* matteis in this engagement, as tliey did in the action of Dogger Bank, means proscribed bv the laws of war, and fiom wliich a generous enemy would recoil w ith herror. | Hague, OHober ah. in tlie luting cf the (focaviar, j Convention of yefttnlay Citizen Oudorp, after a iuitable 1 mtrydaetion, made the following morions: 1. That the Memberi of this Convention ar,d the dis j ferent CommitteesjhalL, for the fpaze of nx weeks, wear t ’ mourning in honor of the heroes flam i.i t be. engagement 1 of the 1 ith, o -.bitch mourning jhall be a black cupt or bandage on the left arm . 2. Thai a medal or bonorarv token Jhall be btflovrtd oji tbofe orfeers or fttiors who Jhall be deemed to have | deftrxed veil ’f their country, as a regard for their b> a very. r. T hat an he made as ff ‘l.vl flble, by a Marine LouM Marti A. v>betb\ ;y A Commanders of the been deficient j * ‘* Jf 1 ty, that if such are fouM they may 1 mmedt ::y - < }**• | n;Jbed, and the brave Jkd tneritorious not j jj l ‘**■ jvji ccnfures . | 4. Tbat on one of Dl highefi headlands b<’ 1 mont and Wyk-op-Lct. hs near as pojflpl i ■ ‘ ’ •where the engagement fas f .ught, a mono?’ ni ]'• ‘ erc3ed, with fuitabL fnferiptions, to e J * as p'Jftble, the braveryhibicb defended t ■ ‘‘\ ?> 1 Batavian flag. t* 5. That in the and throughout the rep Mic, a ceremony of folenA jjtiourning Jhall be ctlchrqt- tn honor of the brave bidtes who have fall in in l^e c3u J G of their country. ! 1 I A number of petiti qte have been prefenU 1 f' nm va ’ wa citizens of Amfterhrs requesting tlie Convention imme diately to take meafiirA for fitting out another fleets mu railing the ferns of limey neceffaly for it; eqtTpmftit .nd • payment. SubfcriptiAs for this purp ife have been <lj> in several places, anjifconfiderable sum; Inve been ‘J !) - feribed. j London, Novetifijr 2. Tliis day Lord’ Northvlk, Bolton, Wtllefley, fe.d Wodehouse, took the oaths wd their feats in the Hiife of Ixirds. \ ‘Fl.e King being fitted on hi! throne, and the C nvr ns attending at tlie bar Jin the usual manner, his Maiedi q>- ( tried tlie felTion with ifie following 1110 ft gracious felted a! u My Lords art Gentlemen, u It is a matter. <l concern to me that thee; rf-tft entleavors which I nave continued to employ, since ids met you in Parliaroiit, to restore M-my fubjetfts the Rf* lings of peace, on liiure and honorable terms, have urth?” pily been rendered iiefflcl la 1 . u The declaratifi wliich I have raufed to be and the other papep which I have directed to belaid before you, will, I am confident, abjudundy prove to you, nd to the world, ‘that every ffep has been taken on my which could tend to accelerate the concfofiun of ffea re i, and that the long delay and final rupture of the negoteti T are fofely to be a bribed to tlie evasive conduft, un warrantable preti nfiops, and the inordinate amhitioni of those with whom we have to conten 1, and, above ail, to tlieir inveterate auimofity ag iipft these k'ngfe'm . M I have the foil left r dianee, under the bfe.h ■g. of fro* vidence, on the rigor and wjflom of your c iv'fcls, ah I oft tlie zeal, magnanimity, and courage, of- a great and free people, fenfibic that they arc contending for their cfert-d interests, and determined to fti w themselves worthy 0: the Lleffings which they are struggling to prv^rve. “ Compelled as we are, by t. e m--ft e/ideat ntcefTity, to persevere in the defence of all that is dear to us, til a more just and pacific spirit Ihill prevail on the part <)f'-he enemy, we have the fati ,faction of knowing that we poifels means and resources proportioned to tli-Eobjects vrhic.;arc at stake. ■ u During tlie perif>d of ffoftilities, and under tl ft na votfktble pre feu re of accumulated burthens, our revfeiui-; has continued highly productive, our national'induftry has ten •-extent.. J, .and our commerce has furpafecd its former lim its. * q- A* “ L / “ The public spirit of my people has been e|Mi tly oifplayed ; my troops, of every dtfeription, hav®’ ired frelh claims to tliedfeem anTaumir .tidn of theirßoj :ry; and the repeated fuccefees of my navy over all ouMisirtnt enemies have been recently crowned by the lignSu': de*, cilivc .viefory .with whir.li Providence lus.rewaid*® -tb. ex ertions of my fleet under the -command of Admiral in. and .Duncan. ” u No event could be attended witii more im:xxta n t n l beneficial cdnfequences, or form a more brilliant addn to’ the numerous and heroic .exploits wl.ich, in the-cov ;o£ the present war, liave railed to a pitch hitherto uaeqLLd the naval glory of the countrv. w Gentlemen of the House ‘f Commons, ‘ K I have directed the estimates for the enl hingyerto be laid before you. ihe state of the war, joined t. fee happy ctmfequences of our recent, I'ucceT:, will, I s { admit of fome diminution of expence, consistently tv : die vigorous efforts which our situation indispensably rt es. In what may be the bdl mode of ddWyi die heavy txpencc which will Bill be unavoidable, you v . I ‘■am persuaded, bear-in mind that the preient crisis p its every motive to animate you to the nv'ft efte&ual arvai- I rited cfwftionsi J,ie true valuff’of any temporiry fa . s J v/iiich yon may find neceffiry for this puipofe can 0: ; e f tftimuted by comparing, t e.n’with the impoit*#ce o . porting effectually our public ere Ft, an and conUnna'-.'. ;.•* enemy that, while we retain an ardent delire for f cluli.on of ,xace, on fafe and honorable terms, wtvft the means, as wJI as the determination, to foppo ‘ fe vigor this arduous contcft, as long as it rmy be y for maintaining tlie faitty# honor, and indeptnflt j[ these kingdoms. . n ■ “ My Lords and Gentlemen , “ Alter the experience I have had of your laynl ,] J attachment to me, and of your anxious regard for jt! >. I * rests of my fobjedls, I have only to recommend so 3 4n the fame prin doles and conchfek. M Tpe events of every day mull more and morel ou with a just sense of the we derive fr . * ei>d and religious eftablif..me:its, ar.d wlnA|have I , 1 diftinguilhed us among all the nations of IftajPope. bit flings can only be preferred by incufoatiqAnd en: a due reverence and obedience to the law*ly reprr; with promptitude every attempt to diftHfe our in:* tranquillity, and by maintaining i happ. ‘ ftitution which we iiftierit from our ancelfßfoa whlc fe-curity and happiness of every dais of mjMpbjett.. ally depend.” November 7. It is the inugnia of tbajOKler of 4. anier wmch Lord Duncan has been prcfdßw with b.d Enqitrdr of Ruflia. y November 8. At one port on the lame# deck cf Venerable, in the late action, file had 1 dHpft out •, killed and wounded by the bursting of h fl <( the uiM/.zle of tlieir owm gun. The w.rd iu both iliouldrrk, close to his the fractured ikult of <1 man killed on tlie MBer Ik ring rc'od in ycur newspaper of