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eus , readily attributed it td a rehearsal of the fireworks to be exhibited in the pantomime of Don Juan; but we have, from the evidence of persons on the Ipot, ascertained that it is to be attributed totally to accident, or the negligence of the fen ant whose duty it was to watch the fires in the drefiing rooms. Only one lhare of the property was insured; and when v/c contemplate the elegance of the building, the beauty of the architecture, and other ornaments, we rnuft deplore the less as a public injury. Great credit is due to our worthy fellow citizens of Ciurleftown, Roxbury, Dorchester, Cambridge, and other adjacent towns, for their spirited zeal and indefatigable ac tivity in affixing to stop tire progress of flames which, on the fir ft discovery, were alarming, and which with alinoft any other people would have carried deftru&ion far and wide. January 29. Capt. Meany, of the brig Rose, lately arrived from the Ille of France, informs that, previous to his departure from thence, accounts had been received there by an American gentleman from Madras, that, about the 20th of September last, two expeditions were fitted out of Bengal"; that immediately after their de parture they met with a very severe gale of wind, in which three of the largest transports belonging to one of the fquad rcns, having on board all the ammunition and military {lores, together with 700 troops, were totally loft, which obliged them to relinquilh the expedition. One of the fquadrpns, it was supposed, was destined against Batavia, the other against the Manillas. The remainder” of the squadron which had fuffered in the florin had returned to Bengal; ti e other had proceeded to the place of its deltina tion. In the fame gale an American Ihip, name not known, was loft in the mouth of the river Ganges, bound in, and every foul on beard perished. February 8. The (hip Fair American, Capt. Tredwell, brought a large reflecting telescope soy the College of New Jersey. It is 4 feet in length and 7 inches in diameter, and fitted up fer celestial observations in anew and mod complete style. This forms the last of 12 packages, con taining a neat and various apparatus for philosophical expe riments, the gift of the State to the College. Baltimore , February 5. The Lancaster German paper mentions, that on Thursday the ift inst. between the hours of 2 and 3 in the morning, there was felt in that town and its neighborhood a severe Ihock of an earthquake, which continued for several minutes; the shock was accompanied, it is said, with a blaze not unlike the burning of a chimney. Charleston , February 22. Yesterday arrived the brig Integrity, Gillender, New York, 5 days. A letter received yesterday by Capt. Gillender mentions that a vessel had arrived there from New Orleans, which brought accounts that all differences existing on the Mi ffi fippi between the United States and Spain had been amic ably fettled, and that the posts had been delivered up to the Americans. • * February 23. The (hip Canada, Capt. ScwaH, from Jamaica, which left theffbar on Monday last, returned there yesterday. The (loop Dove, which arrived yesterday from New York, brought in 60 tons of ice, to supply the icehoufe lately built at the upper end of-this city by Mr. Jeffup. February 26. Saturday arrived the brig Washington, Bonnell, Bourdeaux, 44 days; ship Randolph, M‘Clen tock, Kingston, 12 days, in distress, being bound to Ports mouth, New Hamplhire. The ship Catherine, a British transport, from Jamaica, in distress, is at anchor off the Bur, having loft her bow iprit and fore rnuft in a gale of wind; (lie has of troops on board. (hip Ariadne, Prior, bound to this port, and the hi Ig Benjamin Franklin, Jones, bound to Philadelphia, failed with the Wa'hington. The brig Aurora, Woodman, was to fail for thjs port a few days after the Waftiington. Cant. Boiinell was ready to leave Bourdeaux on the 20th of November, when an embargo was laid on, which de tained him in the river of Bourdeaux for 50 days. He iri | forms that every vessel in France Larger than 40 tons had [ been put in a state of requilition by the Republic for the use [of the army intended to invade England; that an army of I 150,000 men were on the coasts of Brittany, and other I troops were marching to join them. The number of pri- I vateers .out of Bourdeaux and other ports of France was lummenfe, and they had taken a number of prizes. Letters were receive 1 on Saturday by the Washington, ■slated as late as the 6th of January*. They contain very Bittle about our differences with France. On the 20th of MDecember our Comnriffioners had not been received or ac- Btnowledged by the Director / ; they still remained in Paris ■s private gentlemen, were unnoticed as public men, and ■rere not invited to the feafts which had been given in cele •ration of the peace with the Emperor, at which the Am '■affadors of all other powers at peace with France were nre- Opinions differed widely as to what would be the Hffult of their million; fome thought they would return Hi thout completing the business they were lent on ; others •ought they would remain fome time longer, art?! that it probable they would wait for further inft:ructions from would immediately be made on the part of againft America; but still every thing remained in bruary 27. Yesterday arrived the brig Hufe, King- in distress, out 36 days, bound to Savannah. Hhe (Lip South Carolina, Robertibn, left the Downs for f lsi port on the 20th December. fiiip Aurora, Capt. Brown, which arrived yesterday, on the ift of November last; 12 days after HBprung a leak, and with difficulty got into Falmouth in She left Falmouth on the 7th of January, and ■brag : letters from London to the ift of January. Ac ■counts by this (hip confirm those from Bourdeaux of our jHtnroys not having been admitted to an audience; and the opinion in London was that no speedy reconcilia jHion will take place between the two countries. ■ In confequer.ee of the many captures made of American IgHffch infurancs had risen to 15 guineas on veflels going to from America. Courts of England have eftahlifheii that all Ameri vuftls recaptured from the French are to pay one eighth salvage; and one per cent, on the salvage, broker age. Several neutral veflels recaptured from the French had arrived at Falmouth } the Major Pinckney, from the Mau ritius, bound to Amfterdlm, was one of them; (he Was under Danifli colors. Several neutral veflels had been Condemned in Holland* which made the Underwriters unwilling to insure veflels bound to that quarter. A fur ship, valued at 200,0001. insured at Lloyd’s cof feehoufe, had been carried into Bourdeaux. All American produce was very dull; cotton had got down to 2s 4d. riGe dull at 16s. y Insurance on neutral veflels between America and Ham burgh was 20 guineas. The following vessels had arrived from this port: Lu cretia at Greenock; Abigail at Portsmouth; Betsey at Liverpool; Mohawk at Penzance. The (hip Eliza, M‘Niel, arrived on the t ith of De.em ber in the Downs in 19 days passage; (he saved her insur ance. The brig at Gravefend the 23d December. . SAVANNAH, March 2. ON the 6th of February last, in the House of Repre sentatives of the United States, a meffige in writing w as received from the President in the following wprds: Gentlemen of the Senate , and Gentlemen of the House of ReprefetltativeSy I have received a letter from his Excellency Charles Pinckney, Esq. Governor of the state of South Carolina, dated on the 22d of October, 1797, encloffng a number of depciitions of witnefles to several captures and outrages committed within and near the limits of the United States, by a French privateer belonging to Cape Francois or Monte Chrifto, called the Vertitude or Fortitude, and commanded by a person of the name of Jordan or Jordain, and parti cularly upon an Englifti merchant (hip, named the Anca beffa, which he firft plundered, and then burned, with the rest of tlie cargo, of great value, within the territory of the United States, in the harbor of Charleston, on the 17th day of October last; copies of.which letters, and depositions relative to the fame fubjedt, received from the Collector of Charleston, are h rewi .h corrunumcated. Whenever the channels of kliplom itical communication between the United States and France (hall be opened I (hall demand fatisfadtion for the insult, mad reparation for the injury. I have transmitted these papers to Congress, not fo.much for the purpose of communicating an account of so daring a violation of the territory of the United States, as to (hew the propriety and necefiity of enabling the Executive Au thority of the country to take measures for protecting the citizens of the United States, and such foreigners as have a right to enjoy their peace, and the protedlion of their laws, within their limits, in that as well as fome other harbors which are equ ly exposed. JOHN ADAMS. United Staler, stb February , 1798. This message, with the documents accompanying it, was referred to the Committee for considering on proper mea sures for the protedlion and defence of the country. On the 12th in the Houle the question was taken on the resolution for the expulsion of Mr. Lyojl for dilbrderly behavior towards Mr. Griswold, When the yeas were 52, nays 44 ; but the Constitution requiring two thirds ( f the Members prefen’t to carry such a resolution it was not a greed to. The (hip Sally, Capt. Webber, left Liverpool the 26th or 27th of December, but we do not find any latß papers came by-her; all we learn is, that on the passage {he was boarded by a French frigate and privateer; that tome of the letters were destroyed, and others opened; and that one of the tailors having robbed Capt. Webber of fome money, it was restored to him, and the culprit put on board his vessel, to be dealt with as he (hoiftd think proper. The (hip Federalist, Pratt, from Charleston, is captured and (ent into France by a French privateer. The fliip Two Sifters, Reid, from this port, is arrived at Montego Bay. Deaths. In Oglethorpe county, January 31, Mr. James Hcughton. In on the 23d ult. Mr. John Paul Godfrey Zimmermann, and Mr. Alexander Rols Murray. %CT* The Property of the late Sir George Houftoun, advertised for file on Tuesday the 6th instant, will be fold on a credit to ift March, 1799, the purchaier giving good and fuificient iecurity. MARINE L I S T. Entered Inward. Schooner Chance, Thomas, Dominica Clariflu, Hopkins, Cliarltfton Nancy, Barney, Jamaica Ship Sally, Webber, (. Liverpool Brig Hannah, Kimpton, _ Tobago Schooner lnduftry, Refs, Charleston Sloop Hopeftill, Olney, Rhode Illand Brig Poliy and Betsey, Mawney, St. Croix Ship Neptune, Welt, Rhode Island Schooner John, Lemon, Port au Prince Polly, Jackson, Charleston Sally, Woodworth, Port au Prince Ship Commerce, Agry, . , Montego Bay Cleared Out# Ship Jenny M‘Pherfon, ~ Philadelphia Schooner Federal, Bartram, St. Bartholomew Savannah Packet, Todd, Charleston Brig Eliza, Lewis, Boston Schooner Ruth, Tinkham, New Providence Ship Shepherdess, Rogers, New York Schooner Jenny, Leavit, Ditto v Delire, Milligain, St. Mary Brig Dolly, Simpson, Jamaica Schooner Harriet, White, Havana lnduftry, Ross, Charleston Sloop Chance, Langley, St. Mary Oxford, Hammond, Ditto Schooner Clarifla, Hopkins, New York Sloop it a inbow, Jamiefor., St* Mary Schooner Bedev, Waterman, Ditto Sloop aw ain, Whitney, New York Schooner Jane, Tucker, Bermuda Brig Two Sifters, Arnold, S u Croix STATE of GFORQIA.T CITY or SAVANNAH. J ■By JOHN GLENy Mayor of the feud City• PROCLAMATI G *N. WHEREAS it hath been represented to the City Council, that divers mifehievous and evil disposed persons, under coyer of night, make a pra&ice, in a mod fhameful manner, of destroying the Public Property of this City, both ufeful and ornamental thereto, in order, there fore, to bring the perpetrator or perpetrators of such of fences to speedy puniftnnent, and to prevent .a repetition thereof, I do hereby, at the instance and confertt of the City Council, offer a reward of fifty dollars to any person who will give information of any person or persons concerned in such practices, to be paid on conviction; and it is hereby eameftly recommended to the inhabitants that they take proper notice of any future attempt of the like kind, and to give information thereof, as it is the duty of every good citizen so to do. Given under my hand, and the Teal of the Cor poration, at Savannah, this twentieth day of February, .in the year of our Lord one thou (L.S. ) sand seven hundred and ninety-eight, and in the twenty-second year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. By the Mayor, T JOHN GLEN, Mayor. Thomas Pitt, c. c.J THE fubferiber has for {'ale, on the molt reasonable terms, for calh, at his (tore in Bull street, opposite Meflrs. Hamilton and Hartridge, The following Articles, viz. London particular Madeira wine \ Second quality of ditto r By the quartercafk, gal- Port wine C lon, dozen, or bottle. Sherry ditto - * Jamaica ram New England ditto French brandy Hollandie gin London bottled porter by the groce, dozen, or bottle Coffee Loaf and brown sugars Molaffei Hyfon and bohea teas Black pepper Raisins Shelled almonds Nails of all kinds Crockery ware assorted Writing and wrapping paper Liquor cafes* A L S Oy Muslin (hawls Ditto aprons Linen and cotton handkerchiefs Oznabrigs by the piece or yard* Captains of veflels and others can be supplied with all kinds of groceries at the fhortefl notice. JAMES BELCHER. Savannaby January 25, 1798. Johnson, Robertson, and Cos. RETURN their sincere thanks to ’ their friends who have employed them in the Disposal of their Crops, and inform them, that they continue to tranfadl the Commission and Factorage Business, in all its branches, flattering themselves that they will ren der entire'fatisfaction. to'thofe who may employ them, by their attention, punctuality,'and dilpatch. They have-on Handy for Salty on loiv Tertnty Imperial, Y .. Hyfon, and >Tea; Young HyfonJ Paper hanging, Soap in boxes, Giafs ware, Prime beef, Superfine flour, ; Salmon in half barrels, ) Brandy, Hollandfe geneva, Mufcovado l’ugar in bog (heads and barrels, Jamaica rum, Coffee in hogiheads and bags, Loaf sugar in tierces, Nails and brads aflbrted, Bar iron ditto, Window giafs 8 by 10, A few bales Kendal cottons, Ditto white plains, Flaxen ozrtabrjgs; A quantity oFEnglffh gunpowder, F and FF j London bottled brown (lout. AH S Oy Rice, tobacco, and A few hundred buftiels Indian com. Savannaby December 14, 1797. SHERIFF* SALES. TO BE SOLD, on Tuesday ihr 6th day of March seat, at the Coii*thoufe in ihe couniy of Screven, The following Property, viz. Eleven Hundred Acre* of Land, including a very good new S*w Mill, a Dwel‘ingboufc-and Oat Building*, dn which rho defendant live*. Six likely Country born Negroe*, and Sixijr Head of Catlc. All fold under execution against John Greene fen. at the fuitof the Executor* of Benjaoro Wtll<amfon and Sarah M-ller. Also at the fame time and place, Two Huodred Acre* of Land on S*Vinnah river, of the foft qutltty swamp, fold a* the property of Caleb and Dauici Howel.it the suit of the Executes of Treutlen. ‘ JOHN BRYAN, S.S.C. eyhjanuarv, 1798. NEGROES FOR SaLE~ \ VALUABLE Negro Fellow, and his Wife, s £\ young wench, accustomed to house and plantation business; their Son, alx>ut 7 years old; the want of money only obliges their owner to offer them for sale. Any person inclined toparchafe may apply to the fubferiber in Screven county, 75 miles from Savannah, on or before the firft TuefHay in March next. JOHN GREEN* Screven county, January, 1798. ‘ ‘ 1