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X Bwfiridk, offer fcr sale, Theit Remaining Stock of GOODS, at a wry moderate advance, for mfh or orodtice, or*on a ihort mdk, - - A. W. JOHNSTON and CO. iubiqaber's ill Hate of health obliges him to leave 1 the state for a short time. He has appointed Meffre. Edward Harden and Robert Fiflrer bis attornies during his absence, to whom any persons having bufmefs with him are delired to apply* HAMPTON LI Iftft HR I DGE SHERIFF’S SALLS. On the firfl Tuesday in July next will be fold, at Rice horougb, between the Sours of X and 111 o’clock, by public outcry, The following PROPERTY, vis, ALL that valuable and will known Rice Plantation, or Tra& of Land, in the of Liberty, in three separate surveys, containing, on a late refitrvey, 800 acres in the whole, bounded eaflwardly by lands of John Lainbright, fouthwardly by lands of John Elliott, and northwardly by lands of the Estate of John Hext* 600 Acres, in the said county of Liberty, in two fur. veys. lying on Golhen swamp, which will be more parti cularly deicribed on the day of sale. That handsome Situation on Colonel's Island where John Mitchell fen. Esq. now resides, containing 130-acres, bounded weft by lands of the Mate of John Timmons, northwardly by lands of Peter Winn, Esq. east and south by fait niarih. t ir Allb tlie following Negroes, viz. Sambo, Saul, Wally, Pegg, Rofc, and Jacob; the fellow Jacob is a carpenter, and has been run away upwards of two years, is still out, and will be fold as lie runs. > Twb Lots, in the Town of Sunbury, known in the ori ginal planjjpf the said town by the numbers 237 and 238* The whole of the above property seized and taken under •nd by virtue of several executions as the property of John Mitchell fen. Esq. and pointed out by the said defendant. At tbt fame time and place will be fold, Two Negroes, viz. Nelly, a young wench, and Prince, and small boy, seized and taken under and by virtue of an execution as the property of the Estate of William Bacon, at the suit of the Administrators of G. Dupont, and point ed out by the administrator. eb Acres of Land in the county of Liberty, commonly tailed M‘Girt’s Cowpens, bounded on all Tides by vacant land at the time of furvey* taken under execution as tlie property of Robert Sallet, deceased, and pointed out by the executor. Three Negroes, viz. Dick and Cealy, common field Haves; and Frank, a cooper; seized and taken under exe cution as tlie property of the Estate of William Norman, and pointed out by the administrator. 500 Acres of Land in the county of Liberty, bounded on the east by Samuel Rumley, and on every other fide by lands vacant at the time of survey, taken under execution s the property of Robert C. Baillie, deceased. Allb 200 Acres of Land in the said county of Liberty, on North Newport river, adjoining lands of John Dollar, deceased, seized and taken under execution as the property of Robert Oswald, at the suit of Abraham Leggett, and pointed out by the defendant. Conditions cash. ]N°. JONES, s. l. c. Jliceborcugb, 30 tb Slay, 1798. SHERIFF'S SAtbS. W- On Tuesday the “July next eelll be fold, at the Courtboufe in tbe City of Savannah, The following Tiadts of Land, Pointed out by tbe Executor of Solomon Pendleton, deceased , in order to pay tbe arrearages of taxes due for the year 179 ? : iT 287 1-2 acres in Montgomery county, surveyed in the name ot Samuel Pain, on tire waters of Canouchie river, surveyed in January 1784. *B7 i-a do. in said county, in the name of Reuben Ba con, on Great Ogechee river, surveyed 10th March 1785. 287 1-2 do. in said county* in the*name of William Ayres, on Canouchie river, surveyed sth Oiftober 1785. 287 1-2 do. in said county, in the name of Samuel Crawford, on said furveyed 4th OOdober 178 <7. * 287 1-3 do. in said county, in the name of Francis Parker, on said river, surveyed 2d October 1785. 287 1-2 do. in said county, in the name of Jacob Da vij, on laid river, furvCyed sth October 178 287 i-a do. in said county, in the name of John Willi ams, on Boggygut. . 287 -a do. in said county, in the name of John O’Neil, on the Ohoopee river, surveyed 200 do. in Camden county, in the name of Robert Montfort, on Crooked river, surveyed iu November 1786. 1150 do. in said county, in tire name of Solomon Pen dleton, on Great SetilJa river* 500 do. in said County, Turvevedln the name of James Hume, and purchased at. confifcated sales by Solomon Pendleton, on Great Setilla river. Six Lots in the Town of Brujnfwick, granted Solomon Pendleton, viz. Nos. 19, 79, 217, 218, 219, 216. Also, at tbe fame time and place, will be fold, A Hill Lot in this Citv, in Broughton ftrrer, Containing 30 feet in front and 90 feet in depth, seized and to be fold as the property of Mr. James Meyers, deceased, at the suit of Levi Slrefjtall. All that Traft of Land, adjoining the East Common, containing about 108 acres of rice land and a .„bout 50 acres of high land, seized as ihe-property of Mr. •John Peter Lange. Three complete Boat Hands, being the re niainclerof the Negroes belonging to. the Estate of Roger Parker Saunders. A|fo, A Imall Sloop, belonging to said J JSO jVcres of Cotton Land in several tradh, Ut Mobley’s Ponds, in Burke county, to he fold asbelong ing to the Estate of Samuel Elbert, Esq. deceased, the former purcfiafer not having complied with the terms of fck* Richard Wall, s. c. c. Savannah, bib June, 1798. THE fubfcf&er finding it inconvenient for many per sons who wilh to become purchasers of his wharf k lots to attend the Tales thereof at Five Fathom Hole, there fore informs the Public, that the place of sale. is altered from thence to this city, and to be at the (tore of ‘William Belcher, on the 23d instant, at 10 o’clock, being the day and hour heretofore advertised; consequently those who are desirous of infpe&ing the premises have fufficietw tiirre to view the fame previous to ti e day of sale. NICHOL TURNBULL. Savannah, tjtb June , 1798. - Sluyter & Baker Hive received by the lattft arrivals, and For sale, kt tlreir Grocery and Liquor Store, in St. Julian street, in Mr. Hogg’s buildings,., \ Hyson tea Sugar Coffee Chocolate Ratlins London particular Madeira wine Bourdeaux brandy Jamaica and New England mm Holland geneva London and Philadelphia 4 porter in hogflieads V SAV ANN AH. June 8. “ v MARINE LIST. Entered Inward. Schooner Polly, Briggs, Montego Bay Ship Carolina, Malconr, London Brig Sarah, Norval, Kingston Cleared Out. Schooner Mary, Afhburner, Charkfton Sloop Robert, Briggs, Philadelphia Schooner Polly, .Coffin, New York Sloop Chance, Langley, St. Mary’s Tranfiation of tbe Condemnation of the American Schooner Comet , Stephen Miller , Mailer . Copy of the Order of Judgment lent from the Registry Office of Senegal to that of Goree. A Copy of the A&s of tire Registry of Senegal, in the Name of the French Republic, one and indivilible. Examination and Verification made in presence of tbe Citizen Malivoier , Chief of the Admiralty Court of Senegal , and of the Citizen Cbarbonnief, Grijfier rs the Colony,[of all tbe Papers , itPc. &c. C?c. relative so tbe Schooner Comet < f New York, Stephen Miller , Majler , taken on the 27 tb Ventofe by tbe French Privateer La Surprfe, Cdpt. Valentine* ’ Considering, \fi, Tuattlne-Captain of said fehooner had no mufttr roll to produce, idly , That at the time of his being taken the greatest part of his crew were Blades belonging to an Engliih Fac tory. ... .• i<- idly, That, by a letter .from Mr. Tilley to Mr. Fraser, and by an invoice of goods found ron board, it is proved the cargo, composed in part of powder, guns, and fabres, Was sent from tire Engliih Eftablilhment, Bance Island, in the River Sierra Leona, to another English Factory iu the Rionoonas* After haying examined Mr. Stephen Millet, Master of the said fehooner, together with Citizen Valentine, Cap- . tain of the privateer, the Captor, the said fehooner Comet, with her cargo, were declared good prizes, conformable to the 12th article of ads concerning prizes, of the 21st October 1744, which runs thus: “ Each foreign velfei fliall be accounted a good prize the crew of which fliall be more than one third of foreign ers, fubjeds of n enemy’s state; or which (hall not have on board a muster roll signed by the officers, publilhed at those neutral places from whence these veffols shall have - failed.” _1 , “ ■ And again, Conformable to the 2d and 3d articles of the resolutions of the Committee of Public Safety'of the 14th Nivofe, 3d year of the Republic: “ That all contraband and prohibited ttrerchanmfes to neutrals Hull continue to be liable to seizure, and tlut under inch a head arms, in struments, and ammunitions of war, of whatever kind they may be, ate included.” In consequence of which the fiid fehooner and her cargo fliall be delivered to the Captors, and fold on their ac count, according to forms preferibed. Done at Senegal, tlie 6th Priarial, sth year of tire French Republic, one and indivilible* t (Signed) Rlanchot, Malivoier, Ch ARBONNIEH. lejtions above mentioned. iji, Ine numer rou in tjßeftion was taken out of the Captain’s trunk while he was prisoner on board of the pri vateer. | idly, Those Blacks in question were free people belong ng to a town on Factory. Island/ at Islands Delofs, who had been {hipped the day before tlie fehooner was taken. idly, The letter iu question, which was found on board of tlie fehooner, mentioned that the property on board of ! the said fehooner belonged to Mr. James Munroe; that it was a balance es an account due said James Munroe from Mr. Tilley; and tire goods were for trade, and no other purpose whatsoever. The brig Abigail, of this port, Hugh Kinnear, Master, bound for Jamaica, was taken, on the 22d April last, off Cape Nichola Mole, by a lniall French privateer, and carried into Port de Paix. Capt. Kinnear writes his own ers that he was afraid both brig ami cargo would be con demned, as many American veflels had been, and, with their cargoes, fold. Five other vessels it was also expected would be condemned, a late decree from France ordering all bound toTngfifh ports to be thus dealt with; The (hip Felicity, Brook*; from Norfolk, is arrived at K ngfton, Jamaica, having beat oft* two French privateers on her paiTage. The brig Alexander, Alifen, which failed from Kirg- London and Philadelphia porter in bottles Superfine and fine best Balti more flour Crackers New Jersey pork Black eyed peafe Smoked aYid pickled her rings Mould candles ‘Far and turpentine A quantity of firft quality flint corn. : 'n tl;e.’ Caymanas on the 26th; the veifel loft, tbe crew laved. ‘Fire (hip Mercurius, Kelder, in 5 2-days from Ham. burgh, arrived at Charleftoo on Friday last. Port au Prince has been eyacuatfed by the Britifli. Tire’ account of Pensacola being in pofielfion of tlie Englifl., which was brought to St. Mary’s by feme ans, proves to be. without foundation. About 20 days a<?o tire Spaniards remained there, and were not even apJe. lrenlive of an attack from the English. The Northern papers continue to be filled with addrefles to the President of the United States exprefilve of their approbation of his conduft in the present lifuution of cur affairs. They contain also accounts of the captures of many of our vessels iu the Wcft.'lndies and on our coasts. The Convention, which met at Louifviile on Tuesday , the Bth ult. in order to revise the Confticution of this state and make such alterations therein as td'them might appear necessary, finifhed their biifmds and broke up last Wed ireflay fe’nnight. Died, on tire ult. at Sapelo river, in M < lnto{h county, Mrs. Mary M Kenzie, 89 years of age, of which foe lived 50 yeai,s in that county, without any sickness till her death. Died at. Port Royal, Jamaica, on tlie ift May last, Elizabeth Brown, a black woman, at the very advanced age of 124 years. PC7* T HE INFORMER, No. 3, will appear next week. ... ■ M E NT Z, March 5. THE Central Administration of tire Department of Mont Fonnere has iffued’ a proclamation, bearing date of the 28th February, to the inhabitants of that de partment, informing that they are for ever incorporated with the great nation, and that the Rhine is irrevocably fixed for tire boundary of France. You are no longer Pa*, latines, LLcxpontines, Mentzers, &c. (fays the proclama. tion) you are Frenchmen. Cologne, March 13. The provisional division of ci-devant German provinces between the Rhine and Meuse, and Rhine and Moselle, completed under the direftion of the CommifTary Rudler, has been approved of by the Ex ecutive. Dire&ory, ‘Fhefe new departments are far more extensive than tlie old ones, and contain each from 400,000 to 600, qoo inhabitants. They are composed as follow’s: 1. Department of Mount Tonnere comprehends the pa latinate on the left bank of the Rhine, the bilhoprics of Worms and Spires, and the Imperial cities of that name, I the duchy of Deux Fonts, the principality of Liege, and | the ele&orate of Mentz, weft of the Rhine. Mentz is the chief place, the feat of the Central Administration and of the tribunal?. 2. Department of the Sarre comprehends the territory I of Nassau Saarbruck, an and of a number of other petty prindes I and counts of the empire, near the old French frontiers, I tlie principality ot Veldenz, and the upper electorate of I lreves. Irevcs is tire Chief place, and the feat of the I Central Administration and of the tribunals. - I 3* Department of Rhine and Moselle comprehends the I lower electorate ot l'rcves, the principality of Simmem, I Rhelnfeff, and a part of the electorate of Cologne. Cob- I lentz is the chief place* and the feat of the'tribunals and of I the Central Administration. 1 4* ( Department of the Roer is by far tire largest, melt I peopled, and richest of the four. It comprehends the lower I electorate ot Cologne, the duchy of Juliers, Gueldrer, I laeves, Meurs, tire county of Ravenftein, and the Impe- 1 rial cities of Aix la Chapelle and Cologne. Aix la Chapelt? I is the chief place, and the feat of tbe Central Adminiftrat’f I on. Cologne is the feat of the tribunals. Pari.r, March 9, They’ write from Rochefort, that! the frigates La Lharente and La Decade are ready to be I put to tea, in order to convoy to Cayenne 460 persons cor* I demned to tranlportation. ihe Plenipotentiary Ministers. of the Batavian Republic■ have announced, that they receive no official letters in vvhichH they are called by any other title than that, of Citizen. I London, March 2. An extraordinary circuniftanuß is mentioned in the French papers which arrived on Wed*H liefday. A woman in the department of La Sarthe, dis-l liking the embraces of her. hulband, cited him before ll tribunal, con filling of her father, aged 66, her mother, I aged 67, and her lifter, aged 33. Before these judges fill accused him of intemperate conjugal affeiftion, of which !<■ was found gudty. He was immediately incapacitated brl the tribunal from repeating the offence. Strange as - thH ftojy may appear, the French journals state, that CharleH Prudhomnre, Mary Magdalen his wife, and tlreir daugiV ter, have been executed for this offence. The hufban; B Andre Ragot, is still alive. H Recaptureyf the General Wolfe*-*- The relation ■ this event, which did so much honor to two Britifli tafiK and a boy of 14, the aftors in it, is written by tlie bojß himfelf, a native of Salifburv: \ “ As we were on our paflage for Newfoundland, o;H the 19th of Oaober last, we were taken by the Girona■ French privateer, of 16 guns, from Bourdeaux, latituiH 26 30 north, longitude 34 weft. They took our CaptabH (Gleed) and n more of our crew on board tire privateer,■ and left our then Mate, Mr. W. Wellftood, Samudß Hufley, and myfelf, on board their prize, the Gcnerd* Wolfe, and sent 32 Frenchmen on board cf us in theaH stead, whole priloners ive were till the sth of November* following, when on the preceding evening Mr. YV ellfteo® sent me to inform Samuel Hufley, (for they were kept s* a great distance from each other, and I appearing to bcß fifty hoy was fuffered to go to and fro to any part of thej ship) that he, Mr. Wellftood, was determined to the recapturing the ship on the next morning, if he muel HuJTey) would stand by him. I delivered the sage, and returned with his anlwer, that he (Samuel H'-B fev) w ould stand by him so long as he ftiould have a dr* “of blood in his body. Accordingly the next morningß| while 7 °f the Frenchmen were Below at their Hufley having secured tire hatches, Mr. Wellftood lutely seized the Prizemafter by the collar, threw bks the deck, and told me to run for the arms which I previoully hid for the purpose. I delivered hici the f* of