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Mei ns & Mackay
OCCUPY the wfearf and flores late In poiTeflisn of Mr*
John Cuningham, inferior to none in thE city for
the (loreage and (beamy of pfepertv.—ln the
Shipping and Fa&orage Line
they offer their ferrtces te the Public, and flatter tbemfelves
tlrat every fatisfaftion will be afforded tbofe who may em
ploy them.
THEY HAVE FOR SALE,
15 pipes Bourdeaux brandy,
13 ditto Spanilh ditto,
70 barrels (hip bread, and
20 ditto pilot ditto.
Savannah, January i, 1798.
3 Boxes Hats aflorted, at a low
advance; 28 Barrels Mufcovado Sugar; for faie by
GAIRDNERS & MITCHEL.
January 27.
Opening by Georgs Ralston,
A Handsome AJfort merit of
Printed, lam oreri, an 1 Plain Muflms.
Also, lately Received, \
Two Caf,s of Lidiei, Gentlemens, Boys
Beaver Hats.
February 1.
NOTICE \% hereby given, That John Cuningliam,
late of Savannah, Merchant, who has lately re
moved to Great Britain, did, on fjie fifth of January
last, by deed of alfignment, duly executed,\ransLr and
aflign to the fubferiber, all mortgages, judgments, fjaecial
ties, notes, books of account, and other evidences of debts
due to the said John Cuningham, and to John Cuningham
and Cos. for t e purpose of paying and fatlsfying a judg
ment obtained m behalf of Simplon and Davifon, of London,
Merchants, against the said John Cuningham, in the Cir
cuit Court of the United States for the IXftrcl of Georgia,
in the term of April 1 All persons indebted to the
said John Cuningham, or John Cuningham and Cos. are re
quested to make payment to the fubicriber before the firft
dav of April next, at which time suits will be commenced
iodifcriminately against thofb who fail to comply with thy
requilitiort. CRAIVFORD DAVISON,
Dated January 25, 1798.
Marshal’s Sales.
Will be fold, at the Courtboufc in Savannah , on Tburf
day the ijl cf March next , between the hours of X
and II o’clock ,
ONE Thirteenth Part cf a Plantation, or 7' raft of
Land, containing 6032 and 3-4ths acres, known by
tlie name of Monteitb , l’cized as the property of James
Greenbow, surviving Copartner of Greenhow and and elfair,
the former purthafer not complying with the conditions of
faie. Ad IN, That Undivided Halt Part or Meiety of.the
Wharf Lot, with the-Shares and Improvement thereon,
situated under the Bluff in the city of Savannah, at prelent
occupied by Owen Owens, set forth by the Plaintiff’s At
torney to latisfy anxrriecution in favor of David M‘Credie.
’ r 0. BOWEN , MarJhaL
Savannah, February r, 1798.
SHERIFF’S SALbS.
ON thr fuft Tuf fdv, heii g h 6h da , f March tuxt,
‘h Coui'houfe tn'hr Cuy if S v.nndu, between ihe houij
ol Xmml lil o'clock, W LL BE iOLP,
Two Negro. Men,
Mi-d on lo fa >tfy aii dgmem obtained by Peter Deeraux, Esq.
agatt.fl Peter Henry Moiei, Esq. and poimed out to be the pro
jKriy oi th'. said M s rc , 11 it is fa and, bv ih pi.int ff.
Affo at ‘he fame ;lace W4LL BE SOLD,
All that Lot of with the Buildings
th-reon, in he et.y ‘ ( Savannah, known by Wo. 19 .W.fhirgton
Wr , ron’ eg S . Ju.ian ftrcit, otnnie| 60 i in
9: f-'t in drp h, a 1 prrfnt in h v (T (Tio i of Own Owen ,
Eft}, (c'ted at tne p openy of Mr, Jap'es Murtl-ei, ilfreafct',
’ MCHARD-WALL, s. c. c.
S vann-h, iff Feb>ury, 1798. \
SWtliljr'F's SAL.b.
■T BE SOLD, m th?- firft Turfday in April u x, at
\Y ‘hr C “irrh’ ufc in the city of S.vanrah, bciwieu the
h-.iysof X tui 111 o’clock,
/ The following Tra<flg of Land,
tit-d r f xfciH'nn ai Ihe property of R f,er Paike Satinde-j.
Esq. dfifaf* I ', < fat aly fut (i yfx cutioni ; One Haf* of Ds
turr'i PRintl, fi'tui in the Atatamaha, containing 500 aues
t>l. tht fi H <|Mk' ify of fl# land. 6so Acres in Libtr.y courtly,
fo'iM/ly Hu t'V f William (one , Esq. iteceaf-.H, ad
Lite'ln r.ft ■ i ‘•* of ‘ h said R”;er Parkff^Saunde;a, b- 104 a
body of rr)( va u~hl# and highly cultivated nee land,
Acre* tirkttlr-ti trr irmttc tn f'U-Couty„ tßi Acres in di to.
350 A.c* iff <t HER, *co Acrra m dit'o. A Moieiy es 39 Tr 6ts
01 iteo *rr.*thii4 KtanLlm ci un y. Acres 1 Waft>-
Jn jton county A Mai ty o‘ 375 A tea in (.rcene comuy. r o
Aateann Sapclo. 4al Acru m !t. Andrew's parish.
RICHARD WALL, S. C. C.
Savannah, tftFcbtuirv, 1798.
CI 1 Y SHERIFF'S SALfcisi
ON Tirfdav ibe 6 h Mai&b next, ictvvecn the of X
and 111 oL ! ®ck, at the Courtboufe in PrarkttH
WILL BE SOLD, %
A Sulkey and Harness, also an.elegant Bay
Gelding fit the saddle or chair,
tiken as the property of J*co& Cunes, poiuted cut by the
plant ts.
also,
Two Year3 Lease of a Lot of Land in Ya
macraw, tog-ther w h he Improvements the>eon, tikenasthe
prr.per-v Thomaj Mitchell, cece.fetl, ptrioud out uy the
p a miffs Aitorr.ry.
PETER S. LAFFITTE, S. C. S.
Savartnah, ift Febiusrv, 1798.
ALL persons having any demands against the Estate
of David Wilson, decealed, are deli.-e l to fend in
their accounts duly at tufted, and those indebted thereto to
make immediate payment, otherwise fuiti will be tom
rucuted agaiuft them.
DELPHI A WILSON, Admrx.
U CIT7COUSCIL. 7<)“
ON motion of Mr. Young, seconded by Mr. Hobcrt
fon, , ,
Rcfotvec l, Tbtj notice be given m the next Gazettes of
♦lie city, forbidding the faie of ft wetity-fi’ e Negroes, ad
veruftd by Mr. Noment, Tax Collector of C tatham coun
ty, as being forfeited to the Hate, the said Negroes being
confined by the Corporation, under the following cl.iufe of
a law of the Date, entitled, M An Aft to organize the Mi
litia In the leveratYlett Counties of this State, palled the 22d
Februarv', 1796, as measures have been and are now taking
by the Corporation for carrying the laid clause into effcdl,
viz. -
And be it further enacted, .That .the Officers of the
Militia in the firft brigade in the firft division (hall be au
thorized and empowered, in their refpeedive patrdl uiilricts,
to apprehend any Negro, Mu flee, or Mulatto, freeman
or freemen, flav e or Haves, who lhall hereafter in
any port.of this Prate from any of the Weft India
hama Illands, and to keep such M;:flees, Negroes, or Ivlu
lattoes, in dole and faie custody, until they can be exam
ined before the Corporation of Savannah, or any three
Justices of the Peace for any of the counties lying in the
laid division, who to caule Inch free
man or freemen, ilfffeaWdJyes, to be exported at the ex
igence of the importer or ovVner, which Inch importer or
owner is hereby made liable for, as veil as for the expence
of apprehending or keeping such persons.”
Extract from the Minutes,
THOMAS PITT, C. C.
l o $ r,
BETWIXT Meins and Mat kay’s wharf and the
Twelve Mile Stone cn the Augnfla road, Lift
A Red Cornelia i Seal ftt in God;
device, a coat of arms; motto, “ Fro Fatria .” Ihe
finder returning it to f.Lc Printers wall receive Five Dollars
reward. ‘’ 4
‘January 26.,
NHEkJFKs SALES.
TO BE SOI D, on TucMa ih- 6th cl.iv ot March ext, at
he Cos 1 thoufe m the couniy of Scr ven,
The follov-ing Property, \iz.
Elf ’ en Hun 1 red A res o’ L n \ inc u; ing a >er V good
Saw MiH, a Dwct'inghoiFe and Out Bui and ngs, on wh.ch t'
dePridant lives, Six likely Country born Nig'ors and Stxiy
H*ad ol Cat'll-. All b> and under rxerutir-n aai ft_J .hn Greene
bn. at the fait of the Executo-s of BctjammW. l.amfon and
Sat ah M Her.
Also at . he-fame time arid p’aff, Twa li indred Acres o!
Lend on Savannah river, rs the fi ll qu-iuy fw.imp, fosd as the
pi opr tty of Caltb and Daniel He wei, at the futt ot the Executor
of Treutlen.
* JOHN BRYAN, S. S. C.
59'h January, 170,8
HARTFORD, December if?.
\T TE are unhappy to learn from various parts pf inju
’ V ries having been received from mad dogs ; the last
Salem paper mentions, that two or three children have been
bitten in that town within a few days.
The Authority and Selectmen of New Haven have, in
pursuance of a vote of that town, offered a reward of 50
cents to each person who fliall kill and destroy a dog going
at large within the limits of that town, and have requested.
four perl’ ris particularly to attend to the business of destroy
ing them.
Hew Fork, December 25. The Gazette of the United
States lays, The brave Capt. Burgess, who was killed in
the late engagement with ‘the Dutch fleet, was connected
with fome worthy families in Philadelphia, and well known
to many of its molt refpe£tal>!e inhabitants, to whom he
had recommended hirafelf by the dignity of his mind and
tl|e amiableness of his disposition.
While tears of Empathy flow freely for this afflieftiag
calamity, which Aas deprived his relatives cf a son and a
brother, and the nation of one’ of its 1110 ft diftinguilhed offi r
cers, let consolation be drawn from this reflection—as his
lifarwas eminently irreproachable, his death, in'fuch acaufe,
wayenvia’oly gloiious; he expired, as it were, in the arms
r,f/\ ieftory, having borne his part nobly in a conflict the
ilTue of which has railed the naval character of England
f?ven beyond its former great-ids. •
January 8. Died, at New London, Mr. John Weeks,
aged 114; he married his tenth wife when 106, flie was
only 16! His grey hairs’ had fallen off, and were lately
renewed by a dfrk head.of hair; anew fat of teeth had
made their appearance; and, a few hours previous to his
death, he eat three pounds of pork, two or three pounds of
bread, and drank nearly a pint of wine. [This comes from
a person of the above place, who knew the man,]
Philadelphia , December 29 *-~*Blood is drawn. —
Grot. CXl!in, of the fchconer Friendlhip, of this poit, ar
rived at New York from Acquin, informs, that on the 25th
November, off Cape Nichola Mole, he was boarded bv an
officer from the British frigate Severn, of 44 guns, a'fhip
then in fight, under the Platform, which he informed Capt.
Od'.in was, the Perseverance, Wiliiamfon, from Philadel
phia, which vessel was 11 days out, had fallen in under the
Weft Caicos with a French privateer schooner of 6 guns,
and after an action of 4 hours obliged them to ftieer off;
the Perseverance was bound to Port au Prince.
Wc are lorry to hear that leyeral of the gallant Ameri
can seamen were wounded; but we trail that a time will
come whan they wiil be revenged.’
January. 9. Died, in the morning of the 3d inst. the
Rev. Jacob Duc’ie. fie was a god man, and a good
Ciiriftian; exemplary in his'morals, mild and affecVionate
in his dil’ooiitions, and of tmi venal benevolence. While
disease and extreme infirmity clouded the latter years of a
life, in its commencement unuftully brilliant, they did not
dHWhthatrbefrfiilncfii, n fUnati-uu and equanimity, found
ed on the basts of unaffected religion, which he poiTtfTed
in an uncommon degree. “ Blelfed are they who die in
the Lord, lor they rest from their labors.”
Harri/burgb, January 3 On Saturday evening last a
Jury of inquest was summoned, in conlequence of* female
infant being found dead in a house in this town. It ap
pears that a certain Sally Taylor, a tingle woman, having
been too often in conjunction with the opposite sex, and
not wiftung her offspring defamed with illegitimacy in this
ccsifdriou; vr irld{ to k ths terrible refolutitfi to (mother
her child, and denying flic ever had any, but by the timely
search of a number cl .the hugbffwrthn innocent viftint
wa-, found fecretecl between tiie bed and bolster, where the
inhuman wrrtch of a mother luftyred it to ftrtiggle away
itsdife. One would think that her copartner in guilt, who
ever he is, must possess very uneond'ortable moments on
refleftin? his having been the cauli; of lb much cruelty.
The mother was committed to prilbn on Monday morn
ing to meditate on the awful doom that awaits her.
We wifti u'c could ft op here, without detailing any
further inhuman depredations of-mankind, especially at the
commencement of anew year, but fate has decreed other
wise. On Saturday and Monday 1 ift were brought to town
and fafely iinprifoned, John Hauer, C. M : Manus> and
Francis Cox, for the wilful murder of Mr. Francis Shitz;
the particulars, as near as we have been able to collect,
are as- follow : Francis Shitz, with his brother Peter Shitz,
had been at a neighboring vendue on Thursday last, -and
returned in the evening something fatigued, as the former
had laid himfelf on a bench near a stove to rest, while the
latter retire! to bed in an adjoin'mg anartment; they had
not been long- in this tranquillity before a female of the
house dUcovcrcd a light in the kitchen, and opening the door
was frightened at the appearance of federal men, -and im
mediately endeavored to awaken Mr. Francis Shitz; but
Ihe had only in part effixfted her purp< fe, when one of the
ulTaffins presented a pift )l to his head, which he difeharged,
and killed him ort the spot. In the mean time two others
proceeded,to tie bed room of the brother, Mr. P. Shitz,
with axes, and at the firft stroke which one of them made
•his axe caught the cord of the curtain, which in fome me a
fure flopped the force of the blow; he was, however, very
much cut on the (boulder, win ch can fed hinh to leap from
his bed to the floor, and to have, the presence to seize the
chair, with which he knocked them both down; but in
leaving the room he received another deep wound on his
posterior, which did not prevent lTim> however, from lock
ing the dcor, escaping cut of a window, and retreating to
the where he placed himfelf in a narrow passage,
armed with a pitchfork; but after waiting a cpnfiderable
time, and finding the murderers had gone, he repaired im
mediately to Shaffer’s Town, a distance of two miles, not
withstanding his weakness with loss. of blood, where he
spread the alarm, and by the vigilance of the inhabitants
the above named were taken. It is to he remarked, that
this intrepid young man, who thus defended himfelf, is
only 17 years of age, and, although at prelent very much
indilpofivtv th ere are great hopes of his recovery.
motive which led to the above horrid deed is thought!
to have originated with John Hancr, brother in b w to the
decealed, who expected to fali heir to a very coiifiderabie
estate, had he accompllflied his wicked [mrpofe.* 4
Fetcrfburg, January 5. On Friday morning last, at
Richmond, an unfortunate Ex Noble of France, urged by
motives and actuated by fe things wHich perhaps were ■known
only to himfelf, terminated his existence by (hooting him
lllf.
The day following in Richmond a Mr. Henry Ander
son, of that city, in a fit of intoxication, wantonly, and
without anv provocation, (hot a poor Negro in the street.
Char left cn, January 23. From the Havana we learn
that a Britifti privateer had lately taken four (hips out of a
Spanish fleet from La Vera Cruz ; the rest of the fleet had"”
arrived at the Havana. The prizes were said to have foms
money on board, and were taken in fight of the Moro and
of several Spanish (hips of the line and frigates at anchor.
During the embargo upon the merchant (hips at the
Havana two frigates were ordered to Porto Rico. ’ On
their passage one of them was taken by a Britilh frigate;
tht other returned to the Havana.
‘There had lately been an engagement off the Havana
between a Spanish frigate and a Brkifli (loop of war, and it
was believed the latter would have taken the former if a
fudJen breeze had notjenabled her to escape.
January 25. In the Court of Selfions yesterday John
L. Welch was tiffed for breaking open the (lore ok Mr.
John T. Schmidt, and dealing .thereout a quantity of dry
goods. He was found guilty, but recommended to mercy
by the Jury. b,
A squadron, composed of the following Clips of war,
with TSO prisoners, fafielon tlae 1 ith inst. from Gape Ni
chola Mole for Jamaica, to take on board fome more pri
soners, wfth which they were To proceed to Laguira, on
the Spanish Main, to procure the exchange of the crew of
the Britilh frigate Hemiione, which if refufed they intended
to lay fiegs to: Thunderer, 74 guns; ‘Hannibal,. 74;
Carnatic, 74; Valiant, 74; Thames, 3.8.
. - - - ■■ u *
SAVANNAH, February 2.
Requifttion rs the Executive Dircclory of France tt)
the S-xvifs Government,
EXECUTIVE DIRECTORY.
29 Fruclidcr, September 15.
THE Executive Directory, convinced that the million.
of Mr. Wickham to the Helvetic Cantons has no
reference whatever to the refpeflive in te rest of England
and Switzerland, and that his foie objatft is to excite and
further plots againlt the internal and external lecurity of
the t rench Republic, charge Citizen Mingaud to invite and
require the Government of the Canton of Berne, and also
tne other Helvetic Cantons, if nectffary, to give directions
lor iMr. \\ ickham’s immediate departure from the teirito
ries of Switzerland.
(Signed) EEVEILITRE LEPAUX, Preu
LAGARDE, Sec. Gen.
Reply of the Canton f B erne.
The Republic of Berne, always holding in the highest
eftimarion the good intentions of the French Republic, has
taken into mature conlideration the note transmitted to
tliem by Citizen in the name of the Executive
Directory oi the French They have to remark,
that for nearly a century palt .Britifti Agents or Ministers
have uniformly redded in Switzerland, and that Mr.
V ickliam, whole departure from Switzerland is required by
the Executive Directory, being accredited to all the States
ot the Helvetic Confederacy as Minider Plenipotentiary,
the Republic or Berne cannot decide separately on a fubjevFt
which lo essentially involves the rights of others, and the
neutrality of the Helvetic Body, as declared and recognized
by all the powers now at war. The Government of Berne,
always employed in maintaining harmony and good under-