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March 17* 1 12EQHGT4 LANDS— ■—lmportant Decaf on. MESSRS. William Paine, Nathaniel Prime, Comfort Sai/s, and others, gave to MelTrs. Samuel Sewall, and George Lane, a bond, in the penalty ®f 300,000 dollars, conditioned v/ithinagiven time tQ pro cure and deliver to them authentic documents of title to •one million acres of Georgia land; in consideration of which Med 3. Sewall, Dexter, and l-ane, and their asso ciates, delivered to them their notes for 220,000 dollars, payable in inflalments. An aftion was brought on the bond against Mr. Paine; and, after a full hearing in Chan cery on the bond, the Supreme Judicial Ctmrt on Wed nesday gave judgment for the plaintiffs in the full linn of 120,000 dollars, with the interest on the notes which had been due.-—Thus \lie conifideratien of the notes being eftab lilhed by this decision, it is presumed an amicable adjust ment will take place by a difeharge of this judgment by <he notes. New York, March 14* About half past ia o’clock yesterday morning the building lately occupied by Mr. W. Wilmcrding, but since by Mr. John Sperry, was discov ered to be on fire; ana, notwithftainling every effort to •xtinguifh it by a very large number of alfembled citizens, it could not be effedfed until that building, the house of Mr. Dunfcomb, and another of Mr. Stephens, Were de stroyed. Loneajler , (Pennsylvania) Ma'cb i> We have Ittft received intelligence from. ,Harrift>urgh, that John rfancs aad Charles McManus have been convicted ol the wilful murder of Mr. Francis Shitz, late of Shaefferftown. The trial of Francis Cox, the other accomplice, is, we art told, postponed till tlie ensuing Court. Philadelphia, March 14. Some time lafl January a French brig, of 16 guns, arrived at Surinam from France. On her passage fell in with an F.uglilh letter of marque, of 18 guns, from the coast of Guinea, with 365 (laves on board. During the engagement the Chip blew up, and 5 &f the fiaves only were saved. Gbarle/hn, April 9. Yesterday-arrived the brig Har riet, Slocum, Malaga, 76 days. Capt. Newton, of the schooner Sally, from Nevis, wai informed in Tortola, by the Captain of the Brltifti frigate 1/Aimable, that an American ship, armed with 20 guns, bad fallen in with a French privateer of 16 guns, belong ing to Porto Rico, to the windward of Anagada; that an engagement took place between them, in confluence of the privateer’s attempting to take tlie ship; after a serious Hflion, in which the privateer was considerably damaged, she struck to the ship, but the Captain took no further no tice of her than to tell him he was not his enemy, and that be had defended his property as he had a right to do, and then pursued her courfc. The names of the vessels were tiot mentioned. April Ir. Yesterday arrived the (hip Penelope, Flagg, Bourdeaux, 40 da^. The ship Eliza, Baas, failed from Bourdeaux with the Penelope; as did the Pomona, Walters, for Alexandria. Tlie ship Federalist, Pratt, was not condemned when the Penelope failed. Capt. Pratt was at Bayonne. By the ship Penelope, Capt. Flagg, which arrived yes terday in 41 days from Bourdeaux, we learn that our En voys had not then been admitted to an by the Dircftory; but three days before Capt. Flagg left Bour deaux he was informed by Mr. Fenwicke, our tionful, that be had received a letter from Gen. Pinckney, in which he mentioned that the Diredtory had appointed the aotli of March as tlie day on which they were to have an audience. A letter, containing the fame advice, had been received from Gen. Pinckney by Mr. Horry; who has t;-!:en bis passage from Bourdeaux in the flp Pomona, bound to Alex* andria. b All accounts by the Penelope, as late as the 20th Fe* binary, agree in faying, that a rupture between France uni. America depends on the meafufes the Government of tl;e United States may take relative to the condudt of tlie French; and that if hostilities take place they will begin by Americans making reprisals, fome declaration, or an alliance with tlie enemies.of France, as the French find too great advantages in the impunity of tlieir present conduct towards the United State* to change their lyfteni into de* dared hostility ; and it is thought they will not foften their present conduct towards us, or offer any real reparation for what they have done; on the contrary, they fay the in jury and insults come from us, and they themfeives ask indemnification. The gronteft exertions were making in all the ports of Trance to get ready tlie expedition for the invasion of Eng land. It appeared to be the determination of tlie French Government to facrifice every vessel they had rather than the feheme should fail; 300,000 men were to go on the expedition from Breff and two other ports; and every vef fet which could carry 30 men and upwards was in a state of requisition. It was said that tlie attempt would be made in 1V month of May. • • ~ By this veffrl a letter was received by a gentleman in this city from Gen. Pinckney, dated the 7th of February, fn which he fays that tliey were not yet received. On the .31st ult. a memorial was presented by them to the Execu tive Directory, requeftittg that tliey would furnifh them with the reasons why they were not acknowletlged; and If tliev were not to be received they would in a few days request paflports to leave the republic. No answer had been received at the date of the letter. April 13. ‘Hie schooner Betsey, Birch, of this port, wi taken under tlie island of St. Vincent by a fmalt Trench privateer; the privateer which took her was focn after captured bv 3 Britifli vessel. Capt. M < L’Harion, of the brig Julia of New York, which arrived yesterday from Tortola, was taken on the 6th of February last, on his passage from Demerara to this place, by a French privateer, which put a Pri2e Mailer and eight men on board of him, and ordered the vessel for Cuadaloupc; they took out the Mate of the brig and le %eral of the crew, and left two men and two boys with the Captain. Eight days after her capture, when the brig was cWe in with Baifcterre m Guadeloupe, there caine on a heavy fjjjttaJf, in w'mh Capt. M'LTiarion made an attempt ted ffoceeded in irtaking his vessel, by feenring the Frenc mep-acd gettinz possession of thrr arms. A few days af fell ia vi.li an Englifli fleet of frigates* on board one of which he put the Frenchmen. He then went to St. Kitt’s, where he got fome additional hands and pro ceeded to Tortola; from thence he was coni oyed by fome armed veScls clear of the trade winds* Capt. *l‘L’Harion fays that there, is featre a chance of an American vessel’s going clear amongst the Windward Islands, as tlie French capture all they meet with, and the English take all going to or coming from French or Spanifli ports. While lie lay at Tortola nine fail of American vessels Were bright in there, captured by the Britilh ; he could not kam names, as he was prevented from going on board of them \ one was a ship from New-York; and there was a schooner from Philadelphia, on board of “ which was a Mr. Franks as supercargo or passenger. KINGSTON , (jatr.aica) February 24* CAPT. Campbell, on his paffige from Norfolk, Vir ginia, on Tuesday evening tail fell in with the Ame rican brig Mary Caroline, Samuel Freeman Master, From Portland, bound to this island, that had been taken the proceeding Sunday by the French privateer schooner la Vengeance, lielonging to Cape Francoise, mounting 8 guns, fix pounders, and carrying 70 men. The Marv Caroline was to have beeri carried into Cuba. Capt. Campbell re took the brig, and took the Frenchmen, nine in number, on board his vessel, reinstating Capt. Freeman in the Mary Caroline, which vessel lie parted with off the Eift End. The Prize Master who was on board the Mary Caroline informs that the privateer, after capturing that vessel, flood ibr a /flip which In light, and which lie supposed she took, as he perceived fcvcral guns fired from the privateer, which were not returned by tlie ship. When the Mary Caroline was retaken the privateer was not at a great distance, and on being chafed by Capt. Campbell she made off. WAR OJbFICEor nil! UNITED ST A TES, January tlie ift, 1798. W HEP FAS frauds have been pradlifed in obtaining warrants for Bounty Lands, due to the Officers and Soldiers qf the late Continental Army, by the produc ti6n of forged instruments, to clieck in future such impofi tiiins, it has been thought advisable that all persons having claims for Bounty Lands, whether n their own right, as legal representative, or by virtue of any inftrurhent or deed of transfer, be required to forward their refpe&ive claims to the War Office, on or before the firft day of January, 1799, 111 or der that such claims may be duly examined, adjnfted, and determined upon. To substantiate such claim a Uriel obfervtmce of the rules heretofore issued from the War Office will be indifpenfabtefc and, in addition to what is required by tlie laid ruros, the certificate of the acknowledgment of a deed or power of attorney mu ft alfb let forth the place of rclidence and oc ci.nation of the claimant or person making fucli acknow lodgment; and, when the proof oi personal knowledge is by a witness or witncffcs> tlieir place or places oi refideuce mull be let forth in li e manner. JAMES MT-IKNKY,.-Secretary of War, ON the petition of Wiiliarti Rories and Sarah Holies, dating, that Isaac Laroche, late of tlie city of Sa vannah, in the state aforefaid, the father of the said Sarah Relies, was possessed of a deed of feoffment, given and signed by Ambrose Barr, bearing date the day of seventeen hundred and (ixty-feven, for all that 1 own Lot, in the town of Savannah, known by the number 17, be ginning at a stake on Joachim-ftreet* and running v. 12 deg. e. 132 feet, to a stake ; from thence s. 60 deg. e. 662 links to a flake on Joachim-street; and thence n. 78 w. 421 , feet 4 1-2 indies to the beginning; bounded n. e, -by a street of 40 feet, s. by Joachim-street of 40 feet, ani w. bv che Fann-ftrtet of 6b feet; which said lot is the figure of a triangle, and lies in Yamacraw; a copy whereof, as nearly as your petitioner could recoiled, was annexed to the laid petition, is now lodged in the Lterk’s Office, with an affidavit, pursuant to the ad oi sad February, 17651 that the said feoffment was loft or ddftroyed during the late war, and praying the benefit intended by the said act; and other circumftantiai proof being alio laid before the Court; it is ordered , That the deed of feoffment be tftabiiflifcd, as direded by the said ad, ontl.e laid William Holies and Sarah Holies tlieir publifliing a notice as therein required, and for the l'pace of fix months, in one of the public Ga zettes of this state, tinlefs cause lliall be lliewn to the con trary within the said fix months, or other matter lhall ap pear to the Court against the fame* Extract from the Minutes, James Bulloch, c. s. o. C. C. “ N O II c h. I T T THEREAS fhameful depredations have been com- V V niitted on the Illand of Great JVaJfav. ’groat proportion of the stock killed and carried off, and the ih’ell banks robbed, in order to prevent the future deftrudion of 1 their property, the Proprietors, in the moft positive man ner, forbid all persons from carrying dogs on, or hunting on that Island; and, to prevent tfiole from running Into an tiTor who may think they may combine to do so with im punity, they are informed that the island and its depend encies is now under tlie diredion of Mr. James Adams, who has orders to kill every dog that he finds there, to wliomfoever belonging. This, if severe, is indifpeniably neceiTary, and will meet the coincidence of every candid mind, as it is utterly impolTible to prevent stock from run ning wild where there is a continual hunting and firing of guns. Tliey also forbid ail persons taking shells from their iliell banks without permiifion firft obtained. All thole deteded in violation of the above notice will be, w ithout diftindion of persons, prosecuted to the utinoft severity of the law. March 13, 1748. I- O R SAL J\, CHEAP, A valuable Trad of Land, LYING on the River Alatamaha, containing 450 acres, tlie firft quality of oak and hickory land, bounded fouthwefterlv by the said river, northwesterly by lands of Lachlan M'Gilliiratv anl ormall other Giles by ’ lands vacant at tlie time <rf lurvey. For further particu lars Inquire of the Fi raters* December *s* 1707. LTTTcRS remeining in tkr Pcfrfxt tt Savannah on the ij op Ai -'l inpmt, which, if net hicn up, tot ft he icturntd on the ijl of juty rc\fthtGcnerut Pcjlojjtct a< dead letters. ~ . A. \T Anciaux. C pi. David Arty, ‘(hip Comm-rc*. X>| * Jamc* Afniftrcue. Jamc* Harkucf*, Au! Cxcck. Cap*. Alifty* D'an. Daniel Adams. B. B n*, at Gaidnet. • Beach, a. Mr,. Eoar qu n. Jol'ph Bfvan, t. Brickcll. Samuel &. Bunch, ~! j/hnflon and Roberrion. Capt. Jofcph fl. Jop bert. Witmalh Bacon, care Mr*, llnwcl. H-ztkiab Beall. Hubert Beiry. ‘ Jofcph B*r c h. Garton Bark’cr, care W Ilian* , Miote. jofeph Ball. Richard Bant, at Ebcnrzer. Charles Lew. Barer, care Cafhcn and Rabiufan. Wm. Palfhard. Ba rel, 2. John Biancli. William Bailer. Mrs, Bond, 2. Mrs. N Anne Bulloch. Brannal. C. Ma'hew Coaii, care of Mr. Scronton, pilot. Vv r iniam Clark. O-ecbee. J"hn Crozicr, care John Murphy. A. Coo* ner and Cos. Claadie.s Queratih, at Mirauit. Spencer Chiifto* pher, care J*hn Ga r d;ncr. Chaumoo. Mifa Chiffillc, care Bravrley Gorlfr y*. John •- unn nqham. Wm. Cooke. Scih Cobb. Ann Campbell C?pt. Folle; Cruft, Thornier Ranger. J m*j Cbrk. a. ]ame Cla’kr. Robert Campbell. J.rnes Clayct. Oziab C-awfoPd. B*ijm. Coks. Jcfrih Canley. John Crr>*i-r. Georae Champlin, on board ftiip Cammerce. TWomas Crfford, on boatd brig Jrfferfoo. Dean CuningUam, Kan Tau, New Provid “ce.* D J. S. Be M m'mollin, 5. Jofcoh Da Costa, khoonef | Harriot, Dv is-. D*rq. Providence, ! Doughty. Do iyg, Capti Peur D llion. Ann Durant, at Mr. j Cortheus. Henry Dn%, care George Rohertfon. I)ut hei! Heniv Darnil, Chs. D’ Lunoges. John Davis, care Gardner and Mi'chel. E. Jn >. F.flwards. C.-'p*. Ph ip Edwards, care Huiu;r, Prrftman, and Cos. Danirl Evens, ,t Brawicy God* fiev*. Willin’. E:ray: F James Furk, SiV. >iver. A’rxr Fi r e. Wi'ltamfon C. FH'ge fun. Wifliam Fm-'ei, r.ne M I.nofli. Thn.-ra, Friuc, brig B fton Pa ket. M -iue-u Fionant. Beriy Fuwlcr. G Richard Gamble. J mes Gaddv. Go-iichaud. Wm. Gardner. Baruch t, ibbons. Sblanna Gen at. . Anne Gan*. Valentine Griper. GfOtge Ci bois. J’hr B Gii.botis, a. Ch-rles Gee. Robert Girvcn, caie John G’ /ftu. H. I/rael Hatch. 2. Val nt't: Hs cher. Capt. Wil'lam Hall. Gideon Hageod, Sav. tiver. C p'. F.lifar Anf*lm Hi irs. Hwnter, Prellman, and Cos. Joflma Ham mond, fenooner Commerce. Mary Hu“loke. J. i-l#rriirgtn t care Jof. De Laval. J. j. Capt. D.thicl Innis. George Jones J ftn f-n. Sfce* pben Johnflop. James JoncS. Jacob Idle>, rate R, I>ennis. K. John King, Effii g! am eo. Col'-nel K’lkland, btv. liver, jAhn Kemp. Keating. Ma garc* Knapp. L. Them*. t'nitv Lodge. Grenadiers Lodge. Capt. Abner \V. Lovell, b;f>; Tothil!. Wm. Laug ton, care John M'/rj,.., M. Larrieu. Edward Lloyd. Ru hr. Leake, M. Salve. M rrell, brig Sally. M‘Cali and Bu.t<n. Miff Cornla. Marfbrll. Charles Morr’s W'lliam Monfo'd, bark. Mathew. Anth ny M L<od. Walter Maxwell. J'‘bn Mum fo:t. Rohe it M T yean 1 James Mon f rd. J fepb M‘Donald t care R ibejifrii, l.t'ke Mann. - Jchn M Ciury, care Hunter # P. and Cos. Grain: MSflr.r cf Me fens in Gecr-ia, 2. Wood ford Mabry. Ifssc Mcno s n jr. Robr. B. Meafe. T. Mortit. Jrtnc* Mo tit fort. A. M>Credie aid Cos. Wm. Mills juur. *W r ,rr ’ s i Augufl nr. H Niched* Col. George Naylor. Capt. W. O. Ephraim G’deWi “ ’ P. W'lliam P’ trine, i. Rrhf. Wtr. Powe T V"~r-..... min Putnam. Po'ier. Join Piles. Painck Powtll. JoWa Pa fl:y. F'-Hoci R. Rob rt Roddam, care S. Simon.*. John Rnbinfott. Jacob Ratrho on board fl iop Robert. John Robrfion. Tho mas Rhode*. David Rof!fn r on. Collin Reynolds, care Wm* Bell. Capt. Frednitk Raynolis floep Sally. Dun en Rofc. Ihankfull Rhodus. Sclsmon Tt-nmree, care Gardner and M trhel Samurl R'bfcv. Mi*. Ana Jadith Read, care Mr* M'lntofh. Sajah Pudulph. S. Abraham Strobhart. Rebecca Sills, cate V. Hatcher, James Scamtlon. Maty St ffdrd. Valrntire Sa'lc. - J.tfe Scutffgs. J. C. Sm’'h, 3. F.liza Sleigh. James Sholcs, 3, Benjamin Sum, cate C<>’. Gordon. The.rrfe Sr. Hubert. An drew Simpfor', on fcoa r d hr e, Do'Jy. Fzra Sampson. Capt, Benj C Shapley. James Shaw, Thos Schweigfcr fter. A le* Stewart, at Mr. iDillwn’ii. Ray Sands, s. B njfiir.i-n Sims, care W in. Wallace. T. Mons. Tcrriert. Y’m.Tajlor. Janies Turnbul'a. ,Af* Tanner. Robt, 1 homofnn. Capt. John B. Thurflwn, hrig Commerce. Barhe Tuhefonne. John Thom r on, 2. Andrew Tumbul 1 , rarr Mr. Cutnngham. Fnftgn Tot rant. U. Ph'bp Dimer, care Jno. Ingerfol. W. fedwd. White. Wm. Woodward. J ifrpHWifematt* care Ti?f. Gibbons. Capt. Elias Willard, Jaoes Wade* Jolin W'lfcn. Roily Ward, in Sav. ?eol. Bmpimin Wall. Robert W.lTun. J bn W'lli.ms, 3. M /es Wadd 1. Deuie* Wadfwonh. J. P. Wufon. Brnjamin Wiuclu Jler, 3. Joh* Wil'ey. Thomas W, by. John Waldron, 2. CoHo, J'>h* Henry Wood, 2, Y. Hemy Yoogt, Nassau, New P-ovideree. ir^aeYnnnj. W. H. LANGE, P. M. April 3, iyc,B. T EM DOLLARS REWARD. TANARUS) UN AWAY from the fubferiber, # j IV A Negro Fellow , named TOM, iM but had another name, avhich I believfc was ESAU; he is very black and like- I If, about 26 years cf age, 5 feet 9 oi* 10 inches high, very active and sen sible, and well known, both in Charles ton and Savannah, and on the roads leading to tlie above places. Any person harboring him fhaJl Ire dealt with to the utinoft rigor of the law ; and on delivering him to nic in Augusta, or in any gaol on the continent, (hall receive tlie above reward, and. all reason able charges, by me. G. DYSART* N* B. He went off on tlie 17th of February, TAKEN UP in Savannah, A Negho Wexch, who calls herfeif Hannah, and sometimes Kate, and fays it is two or three years since (he ran away from, Chariefton, that (he belonged to tlie widow of Thomas Smith, but believes that (he has been since fold to fom person in tlie country; (lie appears to be about 25 years old, iff rather a yellow complexion. Whoever (he belongs to may have her by applying to Matthew Motz, Keeper of the federal gaol, and paying charges of jdvertifing, &c* Savannah , 30 lb Sept. 1797. BROUGHT to the Workhonfe in Savannah, A Ne gro Fellow, named Buck , about 5 feet 6 inches high, and about 40 ye art of age, ipeaks very bad Engbnb fays he belongs to one Mycr, in South Carolina. Nov. 23, 1797* Jacob Thkiss, Gaoler. BROUGHT to the Workhouse in Savannah, A Ne gro Fellow, who fays his name is Pompey, about 5 feet 9 inches high, and about 35 years of age, fay* he belonged to Mr* John Coxe, deceased. 6 Tacob Theiss, Gader. SAVANNAH; Printed bv N. JOHNSTON and CO*