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January 29.
Zxirr.lH rs a letter from Cape Nicbola Mole, dated
December 24, 1797.
u At present every thing is tolerably peaceable in.the
colonv. Since the departure of Santhonax the Brigands
huve made no attempt upon our poffeflions.. It is said,
however, that St. Marc is threatened ; but I doubt whether
the Brigands will make any serious attempt. They will
confine thcmfelves trv petty aggression. What induces me
to believe this is, that Gen. Touflaint continues at the
C.'re, He is not himfelf without uneasiness. Santhonax
li;;s ft ill foine partisans who murmur at his being sent away,
and ToufTaint dreads tlic effects of this difTatisfa&ion.
An EnglilK flag of truce, which arrived two days ago
at the Cape, reports, that the Blacks saw with equal re
pugnance and pain the arrival of a considerable number of
Whites, particularly proprietors, of whom they daily ob
liged home to return to North America; that the evening
previous to his depirture 30 had been embarked on board
one veffd ; and that tlic ‘•eft, confined in the towns, lived
in rejection and contempt.”
January 30. Yesterday morning, about a o’clock, a
daring robbery and burglary was committed at the house at
Bellevue. Mr. Fisher, the keeper *>f the house, arose at
the alarm, and while defending the flairs was fired on and
tlien knocked down. He saw five men, four of whom were
blacked, and the fifth with a white frock over his head.
The villains took Mr. Fisher upstairs, beat his wife, and
then tied them together by the neck. They placed a guard
ever an old man who was lying in another room, and then
proceeded to ransack the house of whatever cafti they could
find, with favcral articles of value,, such as lilver spoons,
clothing, &c. They were all armed with swords and pis
tols. Ti e-attempts of this deflate gang of villains should
excite the vigilance of our citizens to guard against their
future depredations, and if poffibie to bring them to an
earlv apprehenlion.
January 31. On the 1 ith of January the Bi kini Go
vernment (flip Kingftpn, of 16 guns, Capt. Fcrgufon, failed
from Port au Prince for Cape Nichola Mole, and in chafe
of a French Brig ind barge run„pn flnre, where the Captain
and crew abandoned and left her, after which the French
took pofTeffion of her; she was allowed to be a remarkable
faft fuiler.
Pbiltdelpbia, January 17. The Senate have concur
red with the President of file United States in the choice
of Fisher Ames, Bel broil Washington, and Alfred Moore,
Efqrs. for holding a treaty with the Cherokee Indians for
the extinguifliment of the Indian title to certain lands in
the state of Tenneflee.
January 12. 011 Wednesday lad as tlic southern stage
was crofting Gunpowder Creek the ice gave wav, by which
accident Mr. William Compton, of Arch street, was
thrown into tlie water, and so fuddcnly earned under the
ice, by the force of the current, that the attempts of his
fellow travellers to save his life unhappily failed of success.
January 27. Yesterday evening arrived in town, Capt.
Harding Williams, from Guadalupe, (.via Norfolk) who
informs, that about 130 fail of French privateers are fitted
cut at Guadalupe, none of which rate higher than 18 guns,
having inftaiflbns to take all American veftels they meet
with, bound to or coming from Britilh ports, and fend them
in for trial. Thele crullers have also taken fome Americans
bounl to the ports of Guracoa, St. Thomas’s, and St. Bar
tholomew’s. Several American prizes were at Point Petre,
and 5 fail do. at St. Martin’s and St. Euftutia, the names
of which Capt. Williams could not obtain.
* llc further informs t’> at forne very valuable EngVifb prizes
from Europe to the Britifli islands had been sent Into-Gua
tialupe, and that an Engdifh 74 and two frigates lay at the
Saints, not far distant from Guadalupe, who seemed to pay
r.o attention to the depredations committed dally by the
French cruisers.
Two Americans who reside at present in Guadalupe are
owners cf privateers there.
Capt. Williams loft his vefibl and cargo there, and came
paflenger in a velfel arrived at Norfolk in 19 davs paiTage.
Handed for publication by Capt. Williams , of the Jloop
Ably of this pjrt } lately carried into Guadalupe and
Condemned.
Tre day before Capt. Williams failed from Bafieterre a
coat arrived there with fome Frenchmen, who informed
that they belonged to a privateer, which a few days before
ha l captured a brig belonging to Portland. Four of the
m u belonging to tire brig were taken on board the priva
teer. A few days after the American Captain, with the
aftiftancc of fiWne of his crew, retook his velfel after a severe
cor.tcft, in vT.c], fc/eral of the privatcerfmen were com
pelled to j zip “ and. IU then hoisted out his boat,
erffred the ir naining Frenchmen on board, supplied them
with bread aa l wxtey and sent them adrift. Shortly after
their arrival set Buffcterre tire privateer to which they tx*-
I mged arriv'd there with the four men above mentioned.
*i he Cyptxaii finding that his pri :c had escaped beat them in
the-rfioft cruel and unmerciful manner, and had them irn
pnfon; ! hrlnediately, where they remained when Capt.
William lent BafTeterre.
Krfclfi, \fanuary 20. Yesterday arrived the schooner
Somerset, Capt. Stevens, 32 days from Ganaives, bound
to Baltimore, but having sprung a leak, and being ftiort of
provisions, put in here.
Two days previous Stevens’s failing it was cur
sunly r- pnttd the (loop Hope, Capt. Bowel, of and for
OurlefVm, from Petit Guave, was boarded by a French
ba-ge oft tlie well end of Ganul>a Illand, who made the
Captain auJ Matt* jump overboard, and put the rest of the
Vvr.v to death. In the Caicos padage fjxike the brig .Tho
mas, Capt. Parker, from Port de Paix, bound to Charlefi
ton, who give the fv.r.e infjrnntion.
Janu try 25.. Yefier lay arrived the schooner Felicity,
Capt. Kcrttoy, 10 days from the Havana, bound to Balti
more, bt;t put in here with the loss of a cable and anchor.
C xpt. kerne, i fir ms, that the Englilh fliips Roselle,
“late, bound to Norfolk, and tlce Henry, ■ ■ —, to Liver-
P'“'!, both from Jamaica, wore captured by a SpaniOi 64
i.l a frigate, an i brought into the Havana on the Bth
i’.rft. I'iK He-nr, i: laid ta lave a cargo valued at 80,000
dollars.
e F.re 1w r leant that the Pda Spanish frigate was call
a ' v: v or. l.okp; Kerf, a little to windward of Havana;
she to Porto Rice in cpinpanv with anotiier fri
gate called the Gliiile, and had a large fuiri of money on
board. The Glorie fat ed the crew and part of her materi
als, with which (lie returned to the Havana on the 9th.
Richmond, January 23V Aliout 2 o'clock yefUnhy
morning our Theatre wasdeftroyed by fire.—What a fouree
of amulement are we here bereft of!—And how much are
our theatrical entertainers to be commiserated, who thus in
a nioment have been bereft of years of hard earned profit.
It is to be hoped that, should our friend Weft credt his
1 heatre anew, our fellow citizens will vie with eaCh other
in endeavoring to make his loss as light as pofti'ule; it is
now a heavy one; but the generality of a Richmond audi
ence may, and we trust will, in future compenlate it.
Cbarlejlon, February 3. At Hamburgh, November
4, ship William of Charleston, to fail in 7 days for St.
Übes; ship Knight of Charleston, lately arrived from the
Havana.
Ship William, on her passage from Charleston, was
boarded by a French cutter, who robbed him of all his
papers, were treating him with great inhumanity, when a
Iquadron appeared in fight; they returned his register only,
and turned him adrift from the cutter in a final 1 boat alone,
his o.vn ship then at a considerable distance; the cutter
made fail, and shortly after was out of light. The squadron
was French, commanded by Commodore Barney, who treat
ed him with the greatest friendfhip, and very p litely gaye
Capt. Dockray a certificate of the above usage and robbery,
as a protection, in case he fell in with any of the French
cruisers, who might demand those papers which were loft.
February 8. In the Senate of the United States, Ja
nuary the 17th, 1798, a motion was made as folioweth:
u Refoived, That a Committee be appointed to inquire
whether any and what territory lying to the southward and
weftwaril of the state of Georgia belongs to the United
States, and to report a plan for governing the fame, and
that faicl Committee be empowered to report by bill or o
therwise.”
February 12. Yesterday arrived flop Louisa, Kea'n,
Bourdeaux, out 90 days, in diflrefs, was bound to Phila
delphia; brig South Carolina, Andrews, St. Übes, 67
d a y s * __ _______
SAVANNAH) February 16.
ON the 15th of January last the President of the Un
ited States approved “ An Aft authorizing the pay
ment of certain firms of money to the daughters of the late
Count de Graffe ;” by which each of the four are to be paid
annually 406 dollars for the space of five years from the
parting of the acf.
The Legillature of Virginia have parted an ad for tax
ing merchants. Those who fell annually to the amount of
20,000!. are to pay 40 dollars, others in proportion. They
have also parted an ad for restraining of gambling, agree
able to which all billiard tables, &c. are to be broken or
burnt if not taken down before the 9th of March next.
Died on Tuesday night last, Mr. John H. Roberts,
Tailor.
Capt. M'Allifter, of the brig Nancy, which arrived
yesterday in 22 days from Montego Bay, parted with the
homeward bound Jamaica fleet, and a number of American
vessels, off Cape Antonio, on the 4th inst. they were con
voyed by an 80 gun ship, four 745, and nine 44 gun fri
gates, under the command of Admiral King.
Several vessels have arrived in the river, the names of
which we have not obtained.
We have been favored with the following intelligence by
a gentleman who left Charleston on Sunday last:
“ Norfolk, February 3.
“ On Thursday arrived in Hamilton Roads, the fuow
William, Capt. Wells, 43 days from Lisbon, Found to
Baltimore. From Mr. Brandram, a gentleman who came
passenger in the above vessel, we hv information, that he
read in a London paper of the 27th or 28th of-November
an account of the arrival in London of one of the Ameri
can Com mi ffioners from Paris, but which of them he does
not recollect. He further informs, that he had it from the
bell .authority that Lord St. Vincent/with his fleet, and
the whole of the Britifti troops, were to evacuate Lisbon in
the course of a few weeks. The “Queen of Portug and had
forwarded 80 pounds weight of diamonds to Paris, in part
payment of the film stipulated for in the treaty made be
tween'her and France.”
M AKIN E L I S T.
Entered Inward.
Schooner Industry, Ross, Charleston
Ship Hamilton, Kilby, Jamaica
Brig Apollo, Robinfion, New York
Snow Elizabeth, Robinson, Rhode Bland
Sloop Camden Packet, Sinkins, Newport
Brig Eliza, I-ewis, Boston
Sloop Swain, Whitney, New York
Ship Sliepherdefs, Rogers, Ditto
Brig Sally, Elkins, Boston
Barque Martha, Coggcftiall, Charleston
Brig Boston Packet, Hull, St. Martin’s
Howard, New York
Schooner Harriot, King, St. Mary’s
Brig Nancy, M‘Allifter, , Jamaica
Schooner Betsey, Giles, - —f Charleston
Clearer Out.
Schooner Conception, Burnell, St. Augufiine
Ship ApoHo)- MoneriefF, Liverpool
Brig Beltona, Grooker, ‘ New York
Schooner Cornelia, Sammis, Curacoa
Sloop Lively, Furbos, Baltimore
Schooner Charlotte, Lufcomb, Charleston
Columbus, Smith, St. Croix
In luftry, Ross, Charleston
HHXXXTX X X X X X
T OST 1 , A RED MOROCCO POCKET BOOK, con-
I a uining a3O dollar 3ank bill, and sundry papers of
no-use to any person but the owner. Whoever delivers it
to the Printers fhal! have the Bank bill as a reward.
X o $ r,
BETWIXT Meins and Mackay’s wharf and the
Twelve Mile Stone on the Augusta road, last Tuesday,
A Red Cornelian Seal set in Gold;
device, a coat of arms; motto, “ P ro Patriot’ The
finder returning it to the Printers will receive Five Dollars
reward.
January 26. /''-O
On TitefJiry the 2jtb qjf February Inf. mil be fold, at
public auction ,
THE LOT IN JOHNSONS SQUARE
Where Mr. John Wallace lived, known by Wb, 3 T\ r
connel titfriug Derby ward. Conditions c7IT.
J. I). DICKINSON, Atuftioiiier.
iar I'/anted iMMErnlfEurT —
AN OVERSEER,
TO take charge of a tide swamp plantation near Sa
vannah, which has a high ground settlement. Very
liberal wages will be given to a man qualified. Inquire of
tlie Printers.
February 7, 1798.
hHERIFFs SALE. ‘
IFILL*BE SOLD, at the Conribo-ufe in tbe Taunt of
St. Mary , County of Camden, between tbe hours
of 10 and 3 o'clock , on Tuesday tbe 6 tb day of March
next,
A Negro Fellow, named Will, seized under execution
as the property of John Dilworth, at the suit of Gen.
Janied Jackson. Conditions cafti. The property pointed
out by the Plaintiff’s Agent.
J. M. Lindsay, s. c. c*
Sheriff’s Office, November 30, 1797.
FIFTY DIJLLATI-TREWARD.
RUN AIVAY from tbe fnbfcribcr at Savannah , tbit
morning, tbe Negro Man and Wench hereafter
deferibed:
T" 3 ---** -'--j XTED, a country bom fellow, near
GL l i or quite 38 years of age, about
5 ** eet 3or 4 inches high, speaks very
| p lain El 'g'i ff b has a very gross voice,
* so^a y ellowilh complexion, and is re-*
markable for having 6 toes on each foot,
■ and 5 fingers on each hand, has loft se
veral of his fore teeth, both above and
below, and has very thick lips, had on a brown jacket and
trowfers nearly new, and carried away with him a dark
London brown Droad cloth coat, with many other articles
of clothing.
JENNY, his wife, a country bom wench, about tlie
fame age and height of the fellow, of a black complexion,
lias a fiiiall fear on her left cheek, as well as can be recol
lefled, speaks very plain English, Has a {mall waist, and is
well made, is very sensible and artful; (he has a mother
and other relations in the Fork of Broad River, near Pe*
terfburg, Elbert county, where it is moft probable they
will hereafter proceed, should they not before be taken up.
Any person apprehending and delivering them to the
Keeper of the Prison at Savannah {hall be entitled to the
above reward. SaMuel WAll.
Savannah, November 24, 1797.
Fifty Dollars Reward
RUN AWAY last night from tlie
~ fubferiber’s house, the following
j vitlX Negroes: Sharper, a country borrt
’ \ feifyw, about 30 years of age, full 6
fret high, remarkably thick and strong,
y ellowifll complexion, pleasing coun
tenance, speaks plain English, walks
very upright, commonly wears his hat
inclined to the right fide of his head, exccffively artful,
and handy .at any work. Nanny, his wife, a country born
wench, about the fame age, 5 and an Half feet high, black
complexion, smiling countenance, very heavy” with child,
fjieaks plain Englifti, and commonly wears handkerchiefs
tied about her head and neck. Joe, her child, 5 years of
age; and John, his brother, 2 and an half. They carried
away their blankets, many articles of clothing, and fome
provilions. They were completely dressed with new suits
of dark London browii bath coating. Jt is fulpedted they
have gone to fome of the Carolina neighboring plantations,
where Sharper has a great number of relations and acquaint
ances. Any person that will secure them in the common
giol of Savannah shill be entitled to my warmest thanks
and the above reward. EMANUEL RENGIL.
■Savannah, January 4, 1798. ~
ln Cll / COUNCIL, January 29, 1798.
ON motion of Mr. Young, seconded by Mr. Robert
son,
Refoived, That notice be given in the next Gazettes of
the city, forbidding the faje of Twenty-five Negroes, ad
vertised by Mr. Norment, Tax Colle&or of Chatham coun
ty, as being forfeited to the state, the said Negroes being
confined by tlie Corporation, under the following clause of
a law of the state, entitled, “ All A<ft to organize the Mi
litia in the several new Counties of this State,” parted the 22d
February, 1796, as measures have been and are now taking
by the Corporation for carrying the said clause into effett,
viz.
“ And be it further enabled, That the Officers of the
Militia in the firft brigade in the firft division {hall be au
thorized and empowered, in their refpedrive patrol diftridts,
to apprehend any Negro, Muftee, or JMujatto, freeman
or freemen, Have or slaves, who {hall hereafter arrive in
any port of this state from any of the Weft India or Ba
hama Islands, and to keep such Muftees, Negroes, or Mu
lapjoes, in close and fate 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 are hereby authorized to cause luch free
man or freemen, slave or slaves, to be exported at the ex
pence of tlie importer or owner, which such importer or
owner is hereby made liable for, as well as for the expence
of apprehending or keeping such persons.”
Extraß from tbe Minutes ,
THOMAS PITT, C. C.
BROUGHT to tlie Workhoule in Savannah, A Ne
gbo Fellow, who fays his name is Pompey, about
5 feet 9 inches high, anefabout 35 years of age, lays he
belonged to Mr. John Coxe, deceased.
Jacob Theiss, Gaoler.
BOUGHT to the Workhouse in Savannah, A Ne
gho Fellow, named Buck, about j feet 6 inches
high, and about 40 years of age, speaks very bad Englifli,
fays he belongs to onS Myer, in South Carolina?
Nov. 23, 1797. Jacoi Theiss, Gaoler*