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txpreS over land, who has made his Joy ‘.'ey in three
months and a half* , . -p
December 3 i. By the death of Michael Angelo Tay
lor Esq. M. P. without male issue, the sum of 300,000!.
eoes to found a college at Cambridge, pursuant to tlie wul
of his father, Sir Robert Taylor, the Architect*
The P uilian Resident at Hamburgh has officially de
clared that, so far from his Court having designs on the
liberty of the Hanfeatic Towns, his Sovereign was deter
mined to prote& them. .
The whole of the homeward bound Weft India fleet has
now arrived, excepting one veflel belonging to London and
one to Liverpool.
The Phebe, with La Nereide, her prise, and La Kevo
lutionaire, on Thursday warped into Branpool, Plymouth;
from whence accounts state that the new icudroyant is to
be launched on the 14th of February, the anniversary of
our glorious victory over the Spaniards, and to be immedi
ately prepared for the flag of tKe gallant Sir H. Nelibn.
The Count de Pombeira, with the Portuguese frigate, re
nuii.s at Falmouth, and will fail when the wind permits,
with the Flora, Warrior, &c. for Li/bon.
The 2d or Queen’s, the 25th and 29th of foot, are to
be immediately completed by drafts from other regiments,
and embarked at Plymouth for Ireland. The 2d and 29th
have been relieved at Falmouth by the Lancaftiire and
Somerfetfhire militia.
Sheernfs , January 1. The Court met this morning
about 1 o o’clock, and was infmediatcly cleared till 2 in the
afternoon; it was however near 4 o’clock before the doors
were reopened; when the Judge Advocate read the minutes
of the sentence nearly as follows: .
“ At a Court Martial holden on board his Majesty’s
fh'p Circe, in the River Medway, and continued fitting,
by adjournments, from the 4th of December 1797 to the
Ift day of January 1798 inclusive, in pursuance of an order
signed by the CommiiSoners for executing the Office of
Lord High Admiral of England, and directed to the Mem
bers who composed the Court to try Capt. John William
ion, late of his Majesty’s (hip Agincourt, upon certain
charges exhibited against him: The Court, after hearing
the evidence adduced on the part of the Prosecutor, and
the defence, together with all the evidence the Prisoner
chafe to bring fcr.vard; and, after having weighed the
whole maturely and deliberately, are of opinion, That the
Charges of Cowardice and Difafcclion [rave not been
proved againjl the fald Capt . Williamjbn; that the
other charges have been proved in part : Therefore the
Court pronounces the following sentence: That the said
Crrfit. John Wiiliamfon be put at the bottom of the Lift
of Pofi Captains, and be rendered incapable of ever
serving on board any of his Majefiy’s Jbtps.
“ Signed by the Court, &c.”
As soon as Mr. Binftead, the Judge Advocate, had
concluded the sentence, the President informed the Provost
Marshal that Capt. Wiiliamfon was no longer in his cus
tody, and the Court then diflolved. The Court was un
commonly crowded, notwithstanding which a perfect silence
and (tillnefs prevailed. Capt. Wiiliamfon, during the
whole of his trial, conducted himfeif with much firmnefs;
lie heard the sentence with fortitude, and on rctirin” bowed
to the Court* _
Dublin, Noioeitiber 23* The hotlfe of an hi hiftrious
man named Nicholson, a carpenter, who lived at Killbride
near the Curragh, was cn Sunday night last burglarioufly
entered by a gang of Defenders, Who with the” moft un
heard of cruelty beat out his teeth with a hammer, tore
his eyes from their sockets, and afterwards ripped him
open, and put abreast-let, a piece of wood, into his body,
by way cf opening it. Not content with this barbarous
and inhuman attack, they forced out his After, and, after
ufiog her in the moft savage and cruel manner, left her in
fuc’n a mangled condition as to make human nature revolt
at the light. —-
i ac home of l\lr. D. f owes, near Caftls IVlartyr, has
been burnt down by a body of desperadoes; and the homes
of Mr. Sherlock of Ratheormick, with several others in
the county of Cork, have been plundered of arms.
The remainder of a gang of 40 robbers, who have f or
Ibme time infefted the neighborhood of Cork, were pre
vented forcing the gaol of that city, by a difeovery imme
diately previous to the intended attack, the object of which
was to liberate Kelcher, one of their aflociates, under fen
tcnce ot dqatn. Several of this delperate aflociation have
been fecur
ihe home of Lord Grandifon is among the number of
those Which have been plundered of arms in the coun*y of
Waterford; 500 men went from his Lordship’s to the
hou.e of his steward, which they likewise ftriopei.
Waterford , November 2b. Saturday J. Boyle, M
Mountain, and J. Colly, were brought in here by a strong
party ot the sth dragoons, and committed to the co.tntv
gaol. The firft is charged with making, in the presence of
fome of the tecond Limerick fencibles, at Dungarvan,
the ftgns commonly used by the United Irishmen; and
tnat he did, at a public house in said town, in presence of
fome of the said regiment, drink as a toast, “ That the
guillotine may never want an edge while there is a Kin*
to be belieaded.” The two latter are committed for bein?
concerned in the murder of Daniel Cnaklv, Joan Coakly,
and Julian lobin theirfervant, at Two-mile Bridge, on
the night ot the #l, or the morning of of Octo
ber.
Rome, December 13. On Tuesday last the Secretary
of State received two couriers extraordinary, one expedited
bjr the President ot Lrbino, anj the other by Col. Bavick.
}.y brin S the news ot tlie invasion of the duchy of Ur
bmo, and the taking of tlie castle of St. Leo, by the Cif
a.pines. Ine Secretary, after having rendered an account
01 these unfortunate events to his Holinds, repaired to the
* liU'fter ot the breach Republic, with whom he had a
long conference. The Holy- fcither decided a little too
v fi r?i bnef i y Whkh he ackna wledged in all its
f rms tne CTalpme Repifohc, and named Major Bafli to
t 0 of Charge des Affaires of
5 the Minister departed in the night of Wed
-11*72: accora ? anie d bv two Aids de Camp, and preceded
lossier? cour ‘ ers °ne from and the
r-aer f rom the Pontlhcal It h m
” m artC ’--n° n the demand of Holy Father, has
w ** Chevalier Bafli tor the
T00*... of the Ciialpme army and the Directory.
We hope that by these wife medr.res the tnvalion will have
no other coiffequenccs.
Leghorn, December $3. Tire Jew Pried, Consul of
the Cifalpine Republic, arrived yesterday at Leghorn. The
Jews of this city, who for a long time have been exposed to
insults, felicitate them Pelves on this choice.
Vienna, December 2b. Count Eftcrhazy, our Am
bassador at Naples, is recalled. Count Raftunowikv, tlie
Ruffian Miniiter at our Court, has leave to go to Peters
burg. An official report of December Ift from Peterlburg
has the following contents: Whereas the Elector of Bavaria
has refufed to let the corps of Conde pass through his ter
ritories, his Mijefty the Emperor has recalled Baron Bah
ler, his Miniiter at Munich, and forbid, through his Mi
nister of State the Count Beiborodko, that the Bavarian
Legation iliall appear at Court.
Hague, January t. The Citizen Charles Delacroix, •
named Minister Plenipotentiary from the Republic of
France to the Batavian Republic, arrived at his place of
reiidence in this city the day before yesterday. His prede
ceiTor Noel will repair to Paris*
Paris, January t. The French have entered M.mtz;
the Austrians are in pofleffion of Venice and tlie Main.
January 3. The Chevalierd’Araujo,..who negotiated
the peace for the Queen of Portugal w ith the French Re
public, has been arrested and conducted to the Temple.
The Minister of Foreign Relations gives to morrow a
grand supper, followed by d’ball, to Gen.Buonaparte, and
his Ipoufe. There’ are more than 400 persons invited. The
Minister in his circular fays to the persons to whom it is
addrelfedi ‘ You will judge - proper, I am fare, not to ap
pear in any kind of dreis coining from the Ensrlilh manu
factures.’
January 8* The privateer Courageux of St. Mato has
Captured and carried into the illand of Brehat, the brig
Christiana of Bremen, laden with sugar, coffee, and indigo;
and the Fanny and Betsey, another American brig, with
a like cargo.
Council of Five Hundred . 15 Nivofe , January 4*
A Secretary read the following meflage:
“ Citizens Legislators,
u I his day, the 15th of Nivofe, and at the very hour in
which the Directory ad ire lies this message to you, the
mimici})al .adminiftratore, the justices of the peace, com
miffarieYof the Directory, and the officers cf the customs,
proceed in all the chief places of the departments, in ali
the ports and all the principal communes of the republic,
to the leiziire of Engiifh merehandife existing in France,
or introduced on its territory in contravention of the law
of the 14th Brmnaire, sth year. This is the nrft act by
which, when peace is given to the conttniut, the war de
clared a long time lince against England at length takes
the true character which belongs to it. The French will
not fuffer a power who endeavors to found her prosperity
on the misfortunes of other nations to raise her commerce
on the ruins of other people, and who, afpiriiig to the do
minion of the seas, wishes to introduce every where the
articles manufactured in her fabrics, and will receive no
thing from foreign industry, and who for a long time has
•enjoyed tlie fruit of her guilty fpeculationsr “
“ The English Government has k.pt in pay during the
war, with the produce of her fabrics, the coalesced forces.
She has violated all the principles of the rights of nations,
that The might (hackle the relations of neutral powers. She
ordered the leisure of provisions, grain, anil produce of ail
kinds, which Ihe thought deftimid for France* Slier h.s
declared contraband all which Ihe thought could be ufeful to
tha republic; flie wished to famiih it. All the citizens
demand vengeance. When (he dreaded tlie capture of
vessels failing under her flag (lie has corrupted foreign cap- *
tains “to take on board English nierchandifes, and thus to
introduce them by trick, by fraud, or otherwiie, into other
Hites, and particularly into the French republic.
u Ihe neutral powers should have been able to perceive
that titey lent succor to one oi the belligerent powers;
they serve one party also when they procure for it the
means ot augmenting its forces; the neutral powers ought
to have seen that England, in arreftmg the vdfels ot’ other
powers loaded in their retpeftive pprts and deftmed for
France, in amt fuftering to circulate any m inufictures but
those coming from her fabrics, eftablHheii an exclutive com
nlerce, ami that they ought to have demanded reparation
for lucji an attempt,
“ The Directory thinks that it is necessary to pass a law
wbrcfrthill declare, that the ftite of the vtfl’ds, in thaT”
which concerns their quality of neutral or enemies, ftiall be
determined by their cargoes, and that the Cargo Hull ue no
longer covered by the flag; in consequence, tliat every
veflel found at ffa Having on lioard Englilh produce or mer-
Chanaife for her cargo, in whole or in part, lhait be de
clared a good prize, whoever, may be the owner of this
produce or merchandile, which (hall be reputed contraband
by toe Angle faH, tnat tney Came from England or its
polfe(lions. It will be ufeful to'declqre also,. that, except
ui case ot stress of weather, the ports of the republic (hall
be (hut to all foreign veflels who in the courle of their yoy*
ages (hall enter into those of England.
“ The Directory demands of you to adopt these mea
fares; no neutral or allied power can complain of tJiun;
there is urgency for their adoption.”
Ihe proposition was adopted, l'he commiff. an is com*
nosed ot Lamarque, Villers, Blad, Borffiar, and Efcliaf
fereaux tlie^lder.
’ TIIII ■liwin
BALTIMORE, March u
j\ MONG the moft disagreeable of our duties we
X have feltlom felt more pain in relating tlie tale
ot wo than we now do in mentioning the loss of the
flap Anthony Mangin, Capt. Sanford, of this port, belone
ing to Mr. A. Brown jun. None of the crew are left to
tell the fad story of their misfortune, so that as yet parti
culars cannot be had, or formed on v by tonjefturef A
lidotwhoarn.cd Jaft evening from Norfolk informs that
the Mate s trunk, and several other articles of the above
vellel, were picked up, floating near the Middle Grounds,
on 1 uefday the 20th ult. and carried into the above place;
and 4m the veflel was supposed to have got on the break
ers, and dashed to pieces the preceding night, as the wind
blew strong at east, and a tremendous i’ea was rolling. The
‘V.V ;1 anJcar g° werepnncipaHy insured, so that their folk
vull be only part,ally felt; but the paifengers and crew,
there is but too much cause to believe-, hav* met a watery
grave. Cant. Sanford Was highly refpeftfed, and his fata
cannot but lie extremely aftlifting to his friends; this con*
folation, however, they have left, that, whatever calamity
may have befallen him, neither (kill nor care could have
averted it.
March 6* Ah Algerine bark arrived at this port yes
terday, after a padage of 85 days, having touched rit Ca
diz, and afterwards through stress of weather put into Porto
Rico to refit. She is commanded and navigated, we un
defftand, entirely by Algerines; the firft expedition of the
kind we believe ever made to our western world,
Cbarlefton, March 14. Yesterday arrived the brig
Aurora, Capt. Woodman, from Bourdeaux. The Aurora
left Bourdeaux the 22d of January, and the river the 23d,
as it was expecled another embargo would bo laid on.
Accounts from Paris as late as January 18 had been re
ceived at Bourdeaux, which stated that the American
Comi • Tiofiers had not been at that time admitted to an
audience, nor were they noticed. It was said to be their
invtuition to remain in Paris until they were received, or
ordered to ‘depart, in which case they would retire to Hol
land until tlie spring.
The report of the day in Bourdeaux was, that Buona
parte's brother, the French at Rome, had been
aflaffmated; that Gen.Berthier had marched with bis army
into that that the Pope had fled.
Several letters of the iatli and 14th of January mention
that Capt. Piatt, of .the ftiip Federalist, had gone to Bav
oivic toattendthe t^jaihis ftiip; that fronl the clearnAs
of his papers, and the cargo being American, they expell
ed (he woul dbe cleared. Capt. Woodman lays that two
days before he failed accounts of her condemnation were
received.
Capt. Woodman Informs that the Councils have decreed
the ccnfifcation of all British manufaftured goods in France,
and that the cuftomhoule officers had proceeded to search,
and had seized a great quantity of these goods. They have
also declared all veflels good prize wliicli may be captured
having on board English manufaflured goods.
l’he brig Jason, Weft, of Salem, and schooner ———,
Whitt'j of New York, failed in company with the Aurora
for this port. The (hip Diana, ■ - ■ 4 failed for New York
the fame dav. The (hip Eliza, Baas, was to fail the last
of January or early til February for this port.
March 20. Yesterday morning, between the hours of
3 and 4 a fire broke out in this city, in a back
building in Federal-street, near the corner of K"ng-ftreet,
occupied by Dr. Floyd* - When it was firft difeovered the
flames had got to a considerable height, and, before aflift
ance could be had, communicated to the neighboring build
ings, of which it destroyed 6 dwellinghou.es in King-street,
anl 3 in Federal-street, besides a number of stables and
back buildings.
By fome negleft the citizens wfire riot alarmed in dits
time; the bells did not begin to ring for more than half an
hour after the fire was ditcovered.
SAVANNAH, March 23.
THE Bill for repealing the Stamp Adi pafled thfc 28th
ult. in the House ot Representatives of the United
States, 51 Members voting for it, and 42 against it. It
was read the firft flfrse in the Senate on the if! inft* ind
the question bein* put for a second reading, it palled in the
negative, r 6 to 12*
Married on WednelUay last, Oliver BoWen, Eiq. to
Mrs* Ann Darsey, widow of the late Col* Dorfev.
|C7* I’HE INFORMER, No. I. will be attended to
as loon as poftible.
MARINE LIST*
ENfERED Inward*
Schooner Charlotte, Buck, Charleston
Sloop and jiR, Bow tr, Ditto
Schooner Sally, Griffing, Ditto
Sloop Uxbridge Packet, Bailey, St* Mary’s
Schooner Beticy, Chevalier, Ditto
Cleared Out*
Schooner Huntress, Fitch, New York
Brig Amelia, H< uftoun, Falmouth ind a Market
Ship Aurora, O'Connor, Jamaica
Brig William, Clarke, Ditto
Polly and Betsey, Mawney, St. Croix
Schooner Mark Anthony, Aydelott) r St. Mary’s
Sloop Sally, Lawrence, Surinam
Snow Elizaiieth, Robinson, Rhode Illand
Sdiooner Ranger, Delano, Tobago ;
Ship Neptune, Weft, - Copenhagen
Schooner Industry, Hoik, Charleston
Chance, Thomas, Martinique
Brig Nancy, M‘AUifter, Jamaica
Sally, Elkins,. Cowes or Deal
Sloop 1 <* nbow, Siffen, New York
Ship Swift Packet, Gnbben, Philadelphia
Schooner Befley, Clievaiicr, St. Mary’s
FOR SALE, CHEAP,
A valuable Trad of Land,
LYTNG on the River Alatatnaha, containing 45 and
acres, tlie firft quality of oak and hickory land,
bounded iouthwefterly by the said-river, northwesterly by
lands of Lachlan M'Gilfivray, and on all other sides by
lands vacant at the time of i’urvey. For further particu
lars inquire of the Printers. December 15, 1797.
N or ICR
in pursuance of the afl of the Legislature in
X such caie made and provided, application will be
made by us to the Judges of the Inferior Court for Chat
ham county, after tlie expiration of nine months from the
date hereot, for permiiiion to* fell and convey a certain
Dwellinghoufe and Lot of Ground, situate in Franklin
ward, known as No* 15 in tlie plan of the city of Savan
nah, part of the Eftats of Thomas Garnett, deceased, foe
the benefit of the heirs and creditors of said Estate.
Dated January'] Rachel Porter, Admrx.
2 3 79 8 * J William Pohter.
%* All persons indebted to the
Printers hereof are requested to make payment*