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‘PHILADELPHIA, Abril 4. 11$ the House of Rcprefentativu ycftcrday a rnefTage was announced from the President of the L nited States* It was in the following words: Gentlemen of the Senate, and Gentlemen of the House of Representatives, In compliance with the request of the House oi Repre sentatives, expressed in their rcfolution of the ad of this month, 1 tranfmit.to both Houses the inftrurtions to and difpatchcs from the Envoys Extraordinary of the United States to the French Republic, which were mentioned in jny meflage of the 19th of March last, omitting only l’ome names and a few txprt (lions defiriptive of persons. I reqneft that they may be coniklcred in confidence until the Members of Congress are fully pofleffed of their con tents, and (hall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication j after which time I Jub tnit them to your wisdom. JOHN ADAMS. United Aprils, *79&* The above meflage having been read, the galleries and house were cleared of strangers, and the House was occu pied in reading the papers accompanying it until they ad journed, without making any order refptdYmg them. Before the meflage from the President was received Mr. G illatin presented a petition, filled by 40 of the Members of the General AfiVmbly of Pennsylvania, praying that, While it is conceived exjx.*dienl by the authorities the United State* not to declare war jgainft any nation, the peace of the country may not be hazarded, by permit ting our citizens, under any pretext, to arm mercliant veflels. Mr. Gallatin moved that it be referred to the Committee of the whole on the Bate of the Union; to •which Mr. Allen objerted, and hoped that, as the admis sion of a petition of this nature, signed by men holding particular offices in a state, and from thence claiming a more than ordinary attention from the House, might in troduce a dangerous precedent, it would be permitted to lie on the table for the present. April 6. After conftderable difeuffion the Senate on Wcdiiefday last determined to make public all the com inuniJpions lately received by Congress from the President t>f the United States relative to our difputc with France, (except the inftrurtions which were given by the Executive to our Commiffioncrs) by ordering 500 copies of the dii pitches to be printed; so that a few days will dtvelope the secret, to lie informed of which the public mind has for several days been very anxious. To gratify in fome degree that anxiety we give the fol lowing, as being what we have reason to believe a tolerably corn'd outline as far as it goes. When the last dispatches left our Ministers they had not been, nor were they likely to be acknowledged by the French Dirertory. They had however hail fome confer ences with two persons, (whose names are omitted by the President, and are delignated by the letters X and Y) who Informed them that they were comtnilfioned by Talleyrand Perigord, the Mmifter for foreign affairs, to wait on the Envoys Extraordinary from the United States, to state to tb cm upon what terms an advantageous treaty might be made with the French Dire&ory. These terms were: That, in the firft place, ‘a douceur of fifty thousand pounds sterling lliould be made to Talley rand Perigord ; and that, as the Dirertory were greatly in want of money, the United States rnurt engage to pur thafo from them a debt of sixteen millions of florins, due from the Batavian to the French Republic, (but which they are at prelent unable to pay) by way of loan to the French. X and Y stated that these were the only condi tions upon which the American Ministers could e A a favorable reception from the Directory. X and Y dwelt much on the power and resources of the French Republic, and of the consequences which mold in evitably enfuc to the United States from a war with France, referring to the fate of Venice and other countries whose vtcris had been inimical to the interests of France. Adding, that the Dirertory were well informed as to the divided state of opinion in this country, and that the milunder ftanding between the two Republics had been owing to mcafures injurious to France, which had been brought for ward and supported in the Government of this country by what we rail the Federal Party, but by what they call the Britijb Faßiott* That our Ministers had afterwards an interview with M Perigord himfelf, who informed them, that, before any negotiation could take place, it was indispensably necessary that the terms which had been propoled to them by X and Y flioukl be complied with. It does not appear that our Ministers have held any con ference with any of the Members of the Executive Directory themselves. Our Ministers fufjK-rt that Merlin, the Minister of Ma rine, is peculiarly intended in all prizes carried into French ports, and that it is not likely, therefore, that they will dim'mrftvm number. Baltimore, April 7. We have received tlie following letter from the iiibfyiber, who requests its publication. Gentlemen cf the United States of America, You will think strange of this, I suppose, but you mull h< on the look out. I allure you there are about 30 French privateers getting ready to cruise round the Capes of Vir ginia and round the northern parts of your country. lam confined here and cannot get awav. There is a repoit here that no Americans flmll be permitted to go to their native homes until they have farther accounts from Ame rica. 1 hey are taking your vessels as fall as they can. Uiey are muttering troops to fend away to all the islands. 1 hey -expert vou will declare war, and fay they are ready for you. 1 hey fav if you embargo your veflels “by God they no care.” You will hardly believe this true, but you tnay rely on it for fart—l am an American myfiHj m-,1 write you this as friendlhip to Americans. Z* , , Benjamin Ry leigh. Un board the (loop Twins, C. Francois. Alexandria, March 31. IV (hip Ann, Capt. Black, arrived this morning from Su Übes, after a passage of 48 days. During the time flie lay in St. Übes a French frigate of 40 guns was taken and brought into Liftxm by a Portu guese -64 gun flop, after an engagement of two hours and a lia.'f; and h it fa id to be tl e Cr ft -capture of a lliip of wr.r made by the Portuguese during the present war/ Severn French privateers (which very much inffftod that edaft) were also taker, and Hongntinto I.ifuvn about t !, e. fame tune; one of them is called the Dumoui ier, and carries 28 guns. The invasion of Portugal by the French and Spaniards was much talked of, and generally believed; a very great alarm was raised in Lilbon and different parts ol Portugal on that account. Norfolk, April 3. A number of the merchants of this place having requested of Col. Hamilton, the Britilh Coniul reliding here, to procure them a convoy, he intimated the fame to Admiral Vandeput, commanding the squadron now’ in Hampton Roads, who immediately ordered the Driver (loop of war, Capt. Sayter, for the above purpose. Ihe (loop of war, with a number of American merchantmen, failed on Friday last from tlie Roads. Arrived in Hampton Roads on Sunday, his Britannic Majesty’s (loop of war the Rover, Capt. Irving, 15 days from Antigua, having under convoy 9 fail of American merchantmen. Feterjlurg, April 13. George vVaiton of Georgia, ftnd John Steel ot Virginia, are appointed Commiilioners ■for treating with the Cherokee Nation of Indians, in tlie room of Fiilier Ames and Eufnrod Walhington, resigned. We leafn that it was generally understood in Philadelphia tliat a great contrariety of opinion existed in the french Dirertory, two of w/io.n voted for receiving our Extra Envoys, and two aglunit it; the fifth it was laid would not deckle. Charlefon, April 17. On Friday last the following melancholy accidtnt took place on Dewces Illand, in Glirift Church parifti. A party were out on a deer hunt, amongii which were Mr. 1 bonus and Mr. William Player: a deer was darted, which Thomas Player lire J at, at a time when his brother was <£/one fide of the deer, about 30 yards dillant; the (hot unfortunately struck a rail of a fence, from wliicli it glanced, and entered the back of William Player, and passed through his bowels: lit cried out, Brother, yon have Jhct me ; he then took up his gun and killed the deer; immediately after lie fell aid expired in 15 minutes, lie ha3 left four y oung children to lament his luduen death. April 18. Married hit evening, by the Rev. Dr. Keiui, Gap:. Francis Lightbourn, to Miss Sarah Long; a young lady whose attractive merit ensures every felicity that can be conttmpla.ea in ti e connubial ftat*i. With mental beauty's aid to move The heart to raptures, and the foul to.lovc. Married on Sunday evening last, by the Rev. Mr. Frost, Daniel W. Mongin, Esq. of Hi nonhead* to the amiable Miss Schepelia River- oi James Illand. Died yesterday morning, Mis. Caty Jacobs, widow of the late Mr. Jacob Jacobs. April 20. Yefttmay arrived the schooner Hawk, Dick ini'oll, Havana, 6 days. * Capt. Dickinibn informs, that an embargo had existed for a number of day s at the Havana, in conlequence of a fleet getting ready to fail for La Vera Cruz; it was taken off on the 10th mftaiit, when upwards of 20 lad left that port for different ports in the United States. Cape. Dickinfoii i/u.nns, that the snow South Carolina, Andrews, from this port for the Havana, laden with fait, had been captured by the Biitilh frigate Ihetis, Capt. Cochran, and lent to Halifax. • An order had arrived from Spain prohibiting the entry of all Britilh manufactures. From “ Lc Ikiincte Francaift” of yeferday* “ A Paris paper df the 13th of l'emuary iays, after mentioning the new appointments that iiavc.bet.-ii made by the Dirertory in the Diplomatic and Coni’ular Line, “ there is no change in our Legation to the United States; the wreck of the Legation remaining there vyill exercise their funrtions until the differences between France and the An glo Americans are terminated, or until they are recalled to France.” NASSAU, (New Providence) April 6. SINCE our last nave arrived here, a Spaniili lliip from New Orleans, for Havana, prize to the George and Ophelia, Coekouru; a Spannii brig from La Vera Cruz, for Havana, prize, to the Mary Anne, Cook, and George and Ophelia; trie American brig General Brooks, WheiunU, from Philadelphia, for Havana, with contraband goods, and the American brig Ihetis, Spngg, from New Orleans, for New Yor!;, under iufpicion of havmg enemy's property on board, both taken -by the Thetis -frigate* Capt. Cochran. The Duke’ of Orleans, his two brothers, and Count Mountjoy, were on board the brig 1 hetis when file was taken; they staid two days in the frigate with Capt. Coch ran, and were put on board a neutral Yeffel bound tor Havana. April I©. This morning returned from a cruise, his Majelly's (loop Swallow, Capt. Fowke, with the American lloop Harriet, from Charleilon, for Havana, detained oft lulpicion of having enemy’s property on board. On Tuefdav l.ut week the Squirrel and Swallow met with a iSeve-ro gale, in which both fiitlained lome injury. On their cruise they fell in with the Ihetis, Prevoyaute, and Lily men of war* Death. On Friday night, Lady Marr, widow of the late Major Sir Henry Marr. • April 13. On V . ditel’day arrived jierc, a large Spanilh schooner, laden with gunpowder, from Havana’ to Porto Rico, captured by the Lovely Lais, Artrill. Mahkiage. William Jones, Eiq. Alhftant Judge of the General Court, and J udge ot” the Court of Y ice Ad miralty, to Mil's Margaret Pear is, daughter of tlie late Col. Richaid Peai is, toonerly of South Carolina. .. CITY SHERIFF’S SALE. On Tuesday the ift day cf May next will be fold, at the Court house in Franklin ward, between the hours cj X and 111 o'clock , 37 Pieces Ranging Timber and 3412 Red Oak Staves, Taken as the property of Timothy M‘Kinney. PETER S. LAFITTTE, s. c. s. Savannah, if.tb March, 1798. BROUGHT to the Workhouse in Savannah, A Ne gro Fellow, named Buck, about 5 feet 6 indies 1 jgb, and about 40 yeait of age, (peaks very- bad Englilh, fays lie belongs to one Mrer, in South Carolina. AT ; -v. 23, 1797. * Jaco3 Thliss, Gaoler. SHERIFF’S SALES. On the frf Tuesday in May next , • All he fold, St tire Ccurtboufe in the city of Savannah, The following PROPER IY, viz. ONE Trart of Land, containing 400 acres, in county, on Turtle river, originally granted George Noddings; also, One other Trart, containing 400 acres, in said county, and on said river, granted Ann Rogers; the above land leized and to be fold as the property of Mr, Roswell King. Also, at the fame time and place, will be fold, Two Negroes, viz. Harry and Fanny, seized as the property of Thomas Burke, Esq. Five other Negroes, viz. Sally, Amie, Diana, Sally, and Alexander, to be fold as the property of Robert Mont fort, Esq. deceased. R. Wall, 3. c. c. Savannah, March afi, 1798. sHEKIFprSAi-ES. ‘ On Tuesday the if day cf May next , at the Ccurtbouft in the city of Savannah, will be fold, The foi.o t ing* LAND S, viz. 875 acres, granted Solomon Pendleton, in Jefferfon county, on Great Ogechee river. 575 acres, granted Matthew Ruffling, in Montgomery county, on the Oconee river. 287 1-2 acres, granted Nathaniel Hudson, in said county, and on said river. 575 acres, granted Seaborn Jon.es, in said county, on the Aiatamaha. 287 1-2 acres, granted Isaac Razer, in fail county, and on said river. 287 r-2 acres, granted William Thompson, in said conn, ty, and on said river. 287 r-2 acres, granted said Thompson, in said county, and on said river. 287 1-2 acres, granted Jeremiah Bugg, in said county, and on said river. 287 1-2 acres, granted Edward Boyd, in said county, and on said river. 287 1-2 acres, granted William Colfon, in said county, and on said river. 287 1-2 acres, granted John Rice, in said county, and on said river. The above lands are to be fold as the pi operty of Solo mon Pendleton, deceased, and pointed out by the defendant, March 28, 1798. R Wall, s. c. c. ‘ 5 SI iERIFFrS \ LES. ~ 0?i Tuesday the if day cf May next, will be fold, at the Court house in the city of Savannah, ALL that Trart of Land, adjoining the east common, containing 108 acres ol firft quality rice land, and about 50 acres of high land. Also, A House and Lot on faitl common, in Carpeftters Row. The above property seized as belonging to the Estate of Mr. John Peter Lange, deceased. Also , at fame time and place, will be fold, A Negro Boy, about 13 years of age, seized as the property of Major John Jenkins. March 29, 1798. R. Wall, s. c. c. FHERIFI *s Sale On the frf Tuesday in May next , will be fold, at tbt Courtboufe in the city cf Savannah , Th:eg. complete B>at Hinds, Being the remainder of the Negroes belonging to the Estate of Roger Parker Saunders, they not being here at the last sales. ATo, A small Sloop. 9 tb April, 1798. RICHARD WALL, sc. c. S H FtTFPrs ALES. On Tuesday the 7 th June next will be fold, at the Courtboufe in the City of Savannah, The following fradts of Land, Pointed out by the Executor of Solomon Pendleton, de ccafed, in order to pay the Arrearages cf Taxes due for 6 the year 1795 : 287 1-2 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed in the name of Samuel Pain, on the waters of Canouchie river, surveyed in January 1784. 287 1-2 do. in said county, in the name of Reuben Ba con, on Great-Ogechee river, iurveyed i oth March 1785* 287 1-2 do. in said county, in ti e name of William Avres, on Canouchie river, surveyed sth Ortober 1785* 287 1-2 do. in said county, in the name of Samuel Crawford, on said river, surveyed 4th Ortober 1785. 287 1-2 dr. in said county, in the name of Francis Parker, on said river, surveyed 2d Ortober 1785. 287 1-2 do. in said county, in the name of Jacob Da vis, on said river, surveyed sth Ortober 1785. 287 1-2 do. in said county, in the name of John Willi ams, on Bcgg gut. .. | • 287 1-2 do. in said county, in the name of John O’Neu, j on the Choopee river, surveyed January 1784. 200 do. in Cam len county, in the name of Robert Montfort, on Crooked river, (iirveyed in November *llsO do. in said county, in the name of Solomon Pen* dleton, on Great Setilla river. j 500 do. in said county, surveyed in the name of James Hume, and purchased at confifcated fates by Solomon Pendleton, on Great Setilla river. Six Lots in the Town of Brunswick, granted Solomo* Pendleton, viz. No. 19, 79, 217,. 218, 219, 216. Also, at the fame time and place, will be fold, A Hail Lot in this Otv, in Broughton ftreef, containing 30 feet in front and 9c feet in depth, seized l to be fold as the property of Mr. James Meyers, at the suit of Levi Sheftall. i9Lc> April, 1798. Richard Wall, s. c c /_ SHERIFF'S SALE.~ f ON Tuefdav the 7th day of June next will be fol > - c tlie Courthoufif, J A Mulatto Girl, named POLLY, 7 about i c years of age, seized as the property of R° ’i Montfort, Esq. deceased. R. W all, C * r Savannah, April 19, 1798. x § SAVANNAH: Printed y N. JOHNSTON asp