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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*