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PROPOSA LS FOR P*INHNG BY SUBSCRIPTIOV. A NEW SYSTEM OF ARHI EMETIC, THE PRECEPIOK’S GUIDE: With A K EY, In r 'i V l*im s By JOHN O'KELLY. CONDITIONS. I. The work will be correctly printed on good paper, with anew type, and will be put to press when a fufficlent number of fubftribers offer. 11. It will contain nearly 500 pages. 111. The price to iubfcribers four dollars, and no money required till the work is delivered. Subscriptions received by Mr. Timothy, Mdfrs. Freneau and Paine, and Mr. Bowen, Printers; MetTrs. Bailey, Waller, and Bailey, Elliott street; Mr. Thomas, Tradd street; Mr. Young, Broad street, Charleston; and by Messrs. N. Johnston and Cos. Printers, Savannah. • 0 To the Encouragers of Literature , and the Public in general . IT is an unnecessary talk to descant largely on the im portance of Arithmetic to a commercial country, its indii penfable neceflity having recommended its study to many of the tnoft acute and ingenious mathematicians that nations can boast of. Influenced, therefore, by an earned desire to facilitate theprogrefs of youth', and of all who may make arithmetic their study, as well as by a zeal to contribute my endeav ors to any thing that tends to promote the commercial in terest of the community at large, but more especially of those who have honored me with their friendfhip and pa’- trcnage in the city of Charleston, I have undertaken to publilb, by subscription, a ne vly compiled SYSTEM OF ARI THME TIC, with A KEY to it, which has not been heretofore attempted in America. In tiiis Key the leading examples in each rule are exhi bited at full length, lb that a learner, by the eaiielt mental exertion, may acquire a competent knowledge of the rule. After having attained this, and arrived to a perfect idea of the arithmetical signs, all the succeeding examples and questions in each rule are so arranged, stated, and wrought, as to appear obvious to the weakest capacity. Some may be led to imigine that it tends to prevent the learner from calling forth that exertion of his own powers which is necessary for a competent acquisition of any foi ’dice: On examining, however, the methods in which the queftious are stated and wrought, it will be acknowledged, that, while there is nothing left too arduous or discouraging to the careful Icholar, there is Hill ample scope for fiich exercise and attention as may be necedary to impress upon the mind a lasting knowledge of the rule. In science, as well as in morals, example will ever en force and illustrate precept; and for this reason an operation Wrought at full length will be found of more service to Beginners than either the tedious direftions of a teacher, tor the u’eleis dilpiay of learning conveyed by an author In a lift of puzzling qrieftiens. | It is certain that mft arithmetical scholars art retarded py more difficulties in their progress than can pollibly be Attended to hy any tme teacher, however expert in his fcrofelfion. In many schools the time loft: on this occalion ■s very considerable, which I flatter myfelf must be in a treat measure saved by a proper use of the Key, Thole jtlfo who would wish to revile their 1 arithmetic after they pave been put to business may derive great affiftarice froul F wheu they can no longer apply to a teacher. I To such 4s are under the neceflity of being felf taught ■arithmeticians the Key must finely be a welcome acquifi kion. Moft treatises on arithmetic, even the mod approv ed, though affording an example or two wrought out at pill length in each rule, have notwitliftanding to many lurned out a cabinet of curiosities, which all their mental portions, without the aid of a teacher, were unable to ■nfold. It is then presumed, that when thus furnilhed pith a Key, any one, even of moderate abilities, with a klerab'e ft.are of attention, may, by proper application of p' a whatever difficulties occur, become after, not only If a fuperficial part, as is too commonly the case, but of ■he whole system, even of its moft uUlrule ami difficult derations. F Every attention has been paid to have tilt* work as cor ■ci as possible; and no expence will Ik: Ijuivd in the pub ■hing, lb as to have the lyftem executed in a manner ac ■fptable to a candid and difccriiing public, to whom every Mark of this kind must recommend itfclf by its utility ■ther than by any thing that can be said in a preface by ■s author. I Having obtained fufficient teft’imorty reiative Mr. ■•Kelly’s new system of arithmetic, and its key, con fined by eminent teaciiers of that science, we therefore ■commend it to the public as a work well suited to the ■ommerce of the United States, and particularly calculated ■> facilitate the improvement of youth- R. IZARD lenior, I HENRY Wm. DESAUSSURE, j &. BURKE, i ALEXANDER BARON. | May 16. s a l E, Cheap, p valuable Traft of Land, ft YING on the River Alatamaha, containing 450 ■Lu acres, the firft quality of oak and hickory land, funded southwesterly by the said river, northwesterly by ot Lachlan M‘Gilli\ ray, and on all other sides by r n ? at the time of iurvey. For further particu inqurre of the Printers. December 15, 1797. ■3 ROUGH! to the Workhoute in Savannah, A Ne- r J GR I ) Fellow, named Buck , about 5. feet 6 inches P ’. and about 40 years of age, speaks very’ bad Engliih, ■’ L he belongs to one Myer, in South Carolina. ■ x *797- Jacob Theiss, Gaoler. I * ALMANACS I ‘ r Printing Office in ftreet. TAKEN UP in Savarnah, A NegXo Wench, who calls herlelf Hannah, and sometimes Kate, and fays it is two or three years liuce Hie ran away from Charleston, that Ihe belonged to the widow of Thomas Smith, but believes that ftie has been fines fold to fome person in the country; Ihe appears to be about 25 years old, of rather a yellow complexion. Whoever ftie belongs to may have her by applying to Matthew Motz, Keeper of the federal gaol, and paying charges of advertiling, &c. Savannah , 30 th Sept. 1797* KINGSTON, (Jamaica) March to. THE lliip Eliza, Capt. Bird, with 350 Haves on board, bound to this port, was attacked to windward of Barbados by a French privateer of 14 or 16 guns, which she fought for a long time with great bravery. Just as the privateer was bearing away the Eliza blew up, and only 14 fouls were saved by the privateer, 6 of whom were Ne groes. The Captain and crew of a vessel loft on the coast were on board of her. So great was the explolion that one of the Captain’s books fell on board the privateer. ■ 11 1 lup mwBMWWi 1 .—imh CALCUTTA, O&obcr _ 4. ON Thurflay last official notification was received by Government, from the Company’s Resident at Luck now, of the death of his Highnd’s AiSph ud Dowlah, the Nabob Vizier, oil ThurlHiy the 21st ult. The dilpatch was read at the Council Hoard on Saturday,'when 49 guns, being the number of the years of his Kighriefs’s age, were fired, funeralwife, from the ramparts of Fort William, in commemoration of his demise. At noon on the following diy a royal salute was dif ch.vge 1 from the garrison; in celebration of the aeceflion of Mirza Vizier Aily to the government of Ills lately de ceased father. Mirza Ally, the newly appointed Vizier, is a yoiith of about 18 years of : ge, of very promiling disposition; OShber 26. “We have late accounts from Lucknow, detailing fome ‘cifcumftances not very creditable to the young Nawaub. His Highness has lately delighted in a liYjfing himfelf in cutting to pieces a number of beautiful goats, flierip, and other animals, the favorites of his late father. These operations of death are performed with lus Highness’s own hands. A few mornings finCe he amused himfelf with {hooting liorfes, and with great dexterity dis patched five of these ufefnl animals in the ccurle of as many minutes; His Kighnefs fecniei pierifed with the efficacy of his (hot. “ Two days ago,” add our letters, “ he severely horse whipped his brother, Loll Mirza Ally, for preftnning to confider himfelf the son of the late Nawaub. The deicend ants of Sujah Dowlah have taken great umbrage at this conduct, as Mirza is actually married to a grandaughte’r of that Monarch, a daughter of Mirza Jung Beg, the late Naaaub’s brother.” The particulars of the melancholy fate of the Roya* Charlotte, as stated in the accounts related from the offi cers on board the Britannia, are asHblhywSs The Britannia lay at anchor, about three pr four c'ables length distant from the Royal Charlotte, off Culpee. Each of these ships had on board 500 barrels of gunpowder, as a part of their cargoes, deftinei for the Cape. On Sunday morning, a little before i o’clock, the Iky became cloudy, which appearance Was fpon followed by thunder and fre quent flafties of lightning. The people cn board the Bri tannia were naturally alarmed, and in the hope of averting the effect of the lightning, (hould it chance to reach the ship, placed wet fwahs round the fore must and primps. The lightning continued, and at 24 minutes pad 2 o’clock, while intent on the danger of their own lituation, they w’ere stunned with the exploiiort of the Royal Charlotte. The violence of the concuftion w T as filch that for several moments they were unable to form any idea of the accident that had happened. As fob’h as the firft impression had fubfiied, and the dis astrous fate of the Royal Charlotte was afeertained, the Britannia’s boats were immediately got out, in the expecta tion of being able to render fome aififtance; but not a vestige of the ftiip remained; not an atom of her could be perceived. Every foul on board, to the number of 140 and up wards, perilhed. Capt. Smith, his third officer, {hip’s steward, an European boy, a Serani, one Seacunnie, and four Lafcars, were fortunately not on board. The perforis on board were as under mentioned. Mr. Stoddard, firft officer; Mr. Barnard, second ditto; Mr. Miffing, fourth ditto; Mr. Saunders, pilot; Mr. Gu trie, carpenter; Thomas Collins, Captain’s steward; Stephen Collins, one Portuguese gunner, one cook, two firvants, nine Seacunnies, 66 Lafcars, aad about 50 women and children* —r- The effeCl of the concuffioti was so forcibly felt in the Britannia that the tables on board that fliip which were not ladled down were overfet, and her windows shattered to pieces. A river lioop that lay at fome distance had her fails set on fire from a number of burning gunny were thrown on board by the explosion, and one of her people killed upon her deck. The fliock was d;ftin<ftly felt by a number of people in Calcutta, a distance of about 50 -miles from the place of the accident. The ring of one of her anchors and a copper bolt are said to have been found in the vicinity of Culpee, about three miles distant from where the ftiip lay. It cannot be doubted but this deplorable accident arose from lightning conduced down the foremaft to the powder magazine, which had been so injudiciously placed as to be built around the mast. The magazine of the Britannia having been conftnnfted on the fame plan, we understand that her powder is to be relanded, in order that her magazine may be Ihifted. PARIS, February 22. THE Duke of Goigi has been forced to pay a contribu tion of 200,000 Romifb dollars to the French. The sum of two millions was found in the Pope’s palace and immediately sent to the headquarters of the French General, Bertbier. The Pope was himfelf commanded to give an account of all the treafmes of his palace; he an fwered* that it was already in the hands of the French, one excepted, nfcick Jtt remarked tras hereditary to Previous to the entry of the French 12 Cardinals and 4 Prelate* were defivered to Gen. Bsrthier as the hoftagea for the fafety of the Republican troops; they are tUllm ciofe confinement. “I he property of those who did not clioofe to trust to Republican mercy has been seized and confifcated. A Cardinal, a Duke, and a Roman Prelate, are to be sent to Paris, to implore the pardon of the DireAory for the murder of G n. Duphot. The Pope’s- AmuaiTador has been set at liberty, and is on his return home. The property of Cardinal Mauray has been seized at Rome, and -will be fold for the benefit of the French Re public. t March 9. The Citizen Ballon has presented Gen. Bu onaparte and the Diredory a plan for conftruding anew defci iption of vessels, • which can neither be burnt or funk; they are to carry from 50 to 200 guns, and 8 or r 0,000 men. 3en. Bertbier has demanded of the kingdom of Naples 20,000 oxen. The Council of Five Hundred have concluded a treaty oftenfive and defenfive with the Cifalpine Republic. London, March 15. All the letters from the Engliih Prii'on Agent >n France are thought to be intercepted by order of tiie Diredory. Pr vate letters from the Hague mention that the Batav ian Government demurs, to accede to the propolitions of the Executive Diredory for prohibiting the entry of any iftecchandife or goods from Great Britain. Every person conversant with the trade to Holland knows that the Dutch cannot even subsist without a commercial intercourse with this country. March 17. By the loft accounts from Sir R. Strachan, who is now blocking up the port of Havre, it appears that there are nine frigates and corvettes in that port ready to put to sea. Ficm Brdt we learn that there are 20 fail of the line ia that port, of which 18 are fuppofeJ to be fit for lea, and of tliofe .9 were ready to fail at a moment’s warning. The Berwick of 74 guns, with 10 frigates, was in the outer harbor with fails bent on the 4th of this month, and the whole Itemed to be preparing for sea, but we have not heard that any of these vtlfels have yet come out. Dublin, March 13. Yesterday at n o’clock one of his ivlajclty’s Mefiengers, attended by a civil and military power, proceeded to the houle of Mr. Oliver Bond in Bridge street, upon an information which had been received by Government that the Provincial Committee of the United Irilhmen of Leinfter were to assemble there for the puipofe of treaion. A Committee of 1 4 Delegates were found fitting and immediately taken into custody, and many material papers containing proofs of a serious nature were found upon them. Mr. Bond was not in the room of the meeting, but papers afte&ing him are said to have been found in his pocket. I he papers seized are said to be of a moft treasonable nature, no less than to give up the country to the French. “The day fixed upon was Saturday last, the Anniversary of St. Patrick, which being kept as a feftival it was imagined that advantage cculd be taken of the inebriety of the people; and an attempt was to be made to seize all the. principal officers of Government. It was expeded that the I rench would have a force ready to cooperate with thft Irilh rebels, and thus decide the revolution by a coup da main. * March 15. The Privy Council has been fitting these two days 011 the examination of the prisoners who were apprehended on Monday last, and we understand that they have all been committed on charges of high treason. We have not been able to afeertain the precise nature of the evidence on which they have been charged, but we under ftan.l that the papers found upon the Provincial Committee of Leinfter, and upon the person of Mr. Bond, ! art-com plete with refpccl to the treasonable nature of their meet ingt an 4 tllc advanced progress of the open, arid direct re bellion which was meditated, and which we trust by the v igilance and exertions of Government will be entirely defeated. We understand the meeting at Mr. Bond’s were lurprifed at an early hour, so that pollibly all the Delegates were not arrived, but we have obtained a lift of fiich as appeared. Bailow, Peter Ivers, Laurence Griffin—Oueen’s county, Laurence Kelly, Peter Bannon—Kildre, G. Cummins— Meath, Thomas Reynolds, Charles Martin—County Dublin, Fat. Devine, James Rose—City Dublin, Thomas 1 raynor, Edward Hudson—Secretary, John M’Can, Head Clerk to Henry Tackfon. J * Oliver Bopd, and Dr. M’Nevin, (who is supposed to have spent part of fuimner at Hamburgh) have beeii also examined and committed. Mr. Jackson and his son, Mr. John Sweetma*. and Counlellor Emmet, have net yet undergone an examination. Some Jurtber inter efing particulars . We have been in great difinay and conftemation during tue last 24 hours. \ tfterday a party of military searched Leinfter house for Lord Edward Fitzgerald, who had been seen walking in the streets at his ease only a fliort time before; but the fearcii was in vain, as he had escaped. While the military were searching Leinfter house Oliver Bond and 16 others were taken up as they were fitting in Council, and were conduced under a strong guard to the caftie. As the Lord Chancellor was returning from thence to his carriages which was in the street, the mob outside, who were numerous, dosed round him so as to prevent his palling; on which one of the attendants requested him to step into a Ihop until the crowd was dispersed. This he re lured 10 ando > ar,c l putting his hands into his pockets he dr2w out a pistol from each, and holding them in his hands declared he w ould Ihoot the firft man that obftru&ed his pas sage. On this the mob gave way and opened to the righe and left, leaving him room'to pals to his carriage, which he did without further obftiuAion. About 5 o’clock his Lordlhip walked through the streets alone, Ihewing a pre sence of mind and a degree of courage which has always chara&erifed him. It b laid that Lord Edward Fitzgerald escaped by jumping out of a window, and that he was seen - to take the road to Manawar; bet it is not thought he can escape the kingdom.