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Dtfmcnt, Maser, Having on board A CARGO of v 133 PRIME SLAVES, From the Coast of Africa, falcs of which will commence -on Thursday the 14th June next. Conditions cafli. Savannah, Mqy 30. R. WAYNE. * ‘'VSHERIFF’S SALIIS. ■0 tbefirji Tuesday in July next will be fold, at Rice borough, between the hours of X and ill o'clock, by public outcry, ’lhe following PROPERTY, viz. ALL that valuable and well known Rice Plantation, or Trail of Land, in the county of Liberty, in three separate surveys, containing, on a late resurvey, 800 acres in the whole, bounded eaftwardly by lands of John lainbright, fouthwardly by lands’ of John EUiatt, and northwardly by lands of the Estate ot John Hext. Coo Acres, in the said county of Liberty, in two fur. veys, lying on Gofhen swamp, which will be more parti cularly described on the day of sale. v That handlbme Situation on Colonel’s Island where John Mitchell fen. Esq. now resides, containing 130 acres, bounded weft by lands of the Estate of John Timmons, northwardly by lands of Peter Winn, Esq. east and south by fait rnarlh. ’ Also the following Negroes, viz. Sambo, Saul, Wally, Brgg, Rose, and Jacob; the fellow Jacob is a carpenter, ind has been run away upwards of two years, is still out, and will be fold as he runs. Two Lots in the Town of Sunbury, known in the ori ginal plan of the said town by the numbers 237 and 238. The whole of the above property seized and taken under and by virtue of fcveral executions as the property of John Mitchell fen. Esq. and pointed out by the said * At the fame time and place will be fold, Two Negroes, viz. Nelly, a young wench, and Prince, a small boy, seized and taken under and bv virtue of an execution as the property of the Estate of William Bacon, at tlie fait of.the Administrators of G. Dupont, and point ed out by the administrator. 50 Acres of Land in the county of Liberty, commonly called M‘Girt’s Cowpens, bounded on all sides by vacant land at the’ time of fuevey, taken under execution as the property of Robert Sallet, deceased, and pointed out by the executor. Three Negroes, viz. Dick apd Cealy, common field slaves; and Frank, a cooper; seized and taken under exe rtion as the property of tlie Estate of William Norman, ad pointed out by the administrator. 500 Acres of Land in the county of Liberty, bounded cn the east by Samuel Ruraley, and on every other fide by lands vacant at the time of survey, taken under execution as the property of Robert C. Baillie, deceased. Also 200 Acres of Land in the said county of Liberty, <®n N;rt!i 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 calh. JN o . JONES, s. 1. c. • Rtcebcrough, sotb May, 1798. ” N O T i C t. ALL persons having any demands against the Estate of Robert Richardson are requefteJ to rentier their ac counts, properly attested, to the fubferiber, at St. Mary’s; *n.l those indebted are earnestly solicited to make early pay ments. The public and the parties immediately interested are hereby cautioned against receiving, or in any wife bar tering tor, or paying a bond given by John Hunton, of Walhington, in Wiikes county, for the sum cf 920 dol lars, and a note given by William Adams for 24 dollars, (which said papers were with the papers of said Richardson at the time of his decease, and moft probably are now in the poffeflion of a Mrs. O’Neal or Mr. Jacob Cunes) with any other person bu t the fubferiber, who is the legal admi nistrator, and also fully authorized to fettle the Estate by ample powers from the widow of said Richardson. May 17. ALEX. CANDLISH. N O t i C E. ALL persons are particularly warned against purchasing any Negroes, lands,’ or otlier property, belonging to the Estate of John Rupoert, deeeafed, from any person er persons whatsoever, as the whole thereof is secured, bv the will ot the said John Ruppert, to the.lble and separate Uie of Ali-s. Burney during her life, and to her children ,aiter her decease. William Lewden.Y _ John Eppinger, J •^ xecutors February 21, 1798. FTo r 1 c 1.. ALL persons having any demands against the Estate Low, late ot Liberty County, deceased, are requested to fend them in, properly attested, to tlie jubienber, within 12 months and a day from the date bereot, after which time the affairs of the said Estate will oe doled, and all accounts not rendered will be excluded. , P .. . T ANARUS., John Jones, Adrnr. tturalf ehcity, Liberty County, March 28, 1798. FOR sal E, C HTEITp A valuable Trad of Land, YING on the River Alatamaha, containing 4 co n finl of oak and hickory land, bounded southwesterly by the find river, northwesterly by Lachlan M‘Gilhvray, and on all other sides by I h T f 2*3* ° f fUrVe y* For father P a rticu- of the Printers. December 1 , 707 . I AK ,f N , in Savannah, A Negro Wench, who X calls hcrfelf Hannah, and sometimes Kate, and I SiV tU ? or n three )’ cars since Ihe ran away from I A ** the. widow of I'homas I ™ h but , W that (he has been since fold to feme lSrL 0 nV n rt heCOUn f, r) ' ; ft,e a PP ears to be about 25 years I ? * r , 3 loW Whoever fhebefengs ap^mg W Matthcw Mot*, Keeper The 3. , There is a principle which has been much infifitd on by philosophers, and has been the foundation of many a Jyftem , that, whatever affdhon one may fed, or imagine be feels, for others, no pajp.on is or can be difinterefed. Hume. HTMtIE Informer is fetifible that he undertakes a talk _L that is by no means commensurate to his ability, when he endeavors to refute a principle which has a host of writers of the moft refpeclable authority to support it; his limited knowledge ought, to fink beneath tlie force of supe rior talents: But when the Informer refteds that the noble ness of his cause, which is no less than a vindication of’ human nature, Ihould,’ without any great exertion of in tellect:, bear him up. he is encouraged to proceed in the difculfion of the fubjefl he set out with. The Informer, in treating of this iubjcdl, will make few observations; he will state simple fads, and leave his readers to draw their own conclusions; if lie adopts worn out arguments he hopes their triteness will not be objected to him. The Informer has before declared, and-he again declares, that it is his intention to follow implicitly the sentiments of others when he feels confeious of their appli cability to the fubjeCt pf his paper. Many of his readers have not an opportunity to resort to books; then surely the design of comprising rin a small compals the opinions of the best authors, to be circulated in a newfoaper, rauft be laudable. But to enter upon the fubjedl of felf interest: It has been maintained by feme philosophers, who have only viewed the dark fide of human nature, that the actu ating principle of all human actions has been felf love; that whether we are directed by the impulse of friendftiip, or by the generous feelings of benevolence or patriotism; that although we are the moft enthusiastically loyal to theft: feelings; yet, with all oqr specious appearances, still felf interest reigns paramount, Those who argue in this way have drawn their lrafty conclusions by looking through a telescope at the little nesses of our nature, and on the other hand viewing through a microfc: pe its perfections; they have seen a few little contracted fouls, who have no regard to any thing beyond their own gratifications and enjoyments, and they “have from this sample taken it a? conclusive, that “ all is equally corrupted, ind that men, different from all other animals, and indeed from all oilier species of exifttnee, admit of no degree of good or bad, but air. in .every instance the feme creatures in different disguises and appearances.” We find this doctrine fepported by Epicures,’ AtticuSjT and Horace, among the ancients, and by’Hobbes and Locke in our modern days. From the dogmatifing of these philosophers we fliould be naturally led to suppose that, as they made profeflions of the opinion of the felfilh system, they’ could not feel the sentiments of genuine vir tue and benevolence, which can only be attached to the character of disinterestedness. Yet here we difeover the inconfi ‘ency of their doCtriiie, and the variance of their theory from their practice. The feelings which disinterest edness excite are in faCt so infeparabie from our nature, that, to divest ourselves of them, we must commit the greatest outrage upon it. The philosophers I have quoted are ftriCtly in point to prove, although they maintain a different opinion, that felf love is not our predominant paffipn. If we will take tlie trouble to trace their line of conduCl we will find that probity , honor, benevolence, aCluated them, without any regard” to felf. _ Does a man fight and die for his country, does he bestow his charity upon the poor, does he in short perform all the obligations which hem him in in this life, merely to gra tify a little sneaking paflion called felf love? Let us take a ftiort view of man through the different periods of his life; we will then fee that, so far from felf love influencing his conduCl, he can be.plaeed in no Ration or condition ot life, no relation or circuraftance, but there arise trom it so many obligations as must perpetually bar all felfifli confiderattons. In tlie season of youth and in experience he is hurried on by the amiable impulses of his nature, and difeovering the greatest love and disinterested ness towards his fellow creatures, without view to felf, or any previous reckoning how far hts aCtious may have a tendency’ to gratify the mean feinted paflion, felf interest. u Agreeably to this, observe how wannly, how heartily he enters into friendfhips—how di[interefted and unfulpici ous. in the choice of tliem—how generous and open in bis 11 protelfions!-—how lincere and honest in making'them good! —When his friend is in distress, what lengths he will go— what hazards he will bring upon himfdf—what embarrass ment upon nis affairs to extricate and serve him,” Can tlie philosophers poftibly call this felf’ interest? If we go a step farther, when he is in a more advanced period of his life, we will find him to have the fame motives for actions, I mean ui that period of his life when he is placed in the re lations of fether and husband; we tv.ll still fee him-here exeremng His benevolent affections, utterly forgetful of himlelf, intent only upon the welfare and hapoinefs of others; he is continually looking down the long vista of tiine, and clearing the way to make the progreli of his fa mily more easy; it is for this that he is haraifed, that he encounters almost all the ills that flefli is heir to, to make their iituation more comfortable, and to preserve them from poverty rs fome unforefoen accident Ihould take him from them. Does all this bear the complexion of felfilhnefs? Can human nature, in the stations I have represented it, ftdl retain the imputation of felf love, which has been so unjustly thrown upon- it? No certainly. Let us, in the next place, take a ftiort lketch of the lives of .a few great men, and then judge whether felf interest or its oppolite was their ruling paliion. was ent to picfent a decree from the .Alltrnojy of Greece to Alexander that Prince was so pltaf ed wit. Phocion s converfetion that he conceived a particu lar esteem for him; and in particxlar lie once font him a preleht of an hundred talents, which being brought to Ath ens, Phocion asked how he alone became so highly obliged to his txmnty, and being told that Alexander esteemed him the only good man at Athens he replied, “ let him then permit me to continue so.” One would suppose that Plio cion s circumftanees were foTndependent as to render it unnecenanr to accept cf Alexander’s bounty, but the story is very different, he was at the time that he fcomfully re jected Alexander’s present drawing water to wash his feet, anu his wife was kneading her bread. Though Aristides ‘ railed the city of Athens to the higlieft pitch of glory, V eftabhftjing her dominion, over so many people, fee himfetf continued poor till his death, esteeming his poverty as gferioiw as all the laurels he had obtained. Lycurgus, the famous legillator of tlie Spartans, wai defeended from Eunannts, one of their kings. * This print* ieft his kingdom to his etdeft son Polydeiles, who dyintf soon after, tlie right of lurreftion was supposed to defcena to Lyan-gns, who ’accordingly assumed tlie fuprenie autho rity; but he fib-fooner heard that the queen, his lifter in law, was pregnant, than he publicly declared that the kingdom belonged to her iff e, provided it was a male, and that he would exercise the regal authority only as the guardjan of his nephew. We find this wife man, ac this birth of his nephew, openly renounce His pfetenfions to the crown, and only anxious to fee are undisturbed the regal authority of his kin I man. But we may hot go so many ages back to difeover dainterefted c!iara<fle r s; we are able to produce in oitr own days a long train of illustrious men whose conduct will fuffioieiitly refute the principle of felf interest. “i he celebrated John Howard foent a life and a fortune in travelling from clime to clime in order to relieve the distressed; and we find him ‘going into the recesses of mi sery, cherifliing its wretched inha’, #nns, and in the profe eutron of his btfnevolent intentions encountering- nlamie peftitence, and disease.’ 0 r re> Dr. Goldfenth, the poet, the historian, and the natur alist, not only 1 pent the best part of his life in poring over his lucubrations, for which he received very little emolu ment, but, even when he Ihould have had in view titi proverb, that charity begins at home, we find him beftow-’ nig even his small pittance in charitable donations. I iiL Infoi mer copld onng forward many more in order to strengthen his pofr.ioti, that felf interest is not tlie pre dominant principle of man, but lie deems thg characters he •has brought upon the carpet will fuffice to vindicate human nature from the illiberal aspersion that has been east upon The Informer will conclude this number, which has al. ready exceeded the limits that he intended, by adducing another instance of die disinterestedness of our nature. ** In reading eccfefuftical history we fee the Ibvereigit pontiff, when clerical domination was at its height, laying fchenies from which he could not pofiibly derive any tem poral advantages hinifelf, but would - only serve in their remote consequences. to strengthen the bonds with which his successors might bind mankind. Dpon tlie whole we may draw this inference, that man is not that little contracted creature as those who have viewed him in an unfavorable attitude are pjealed to think him, but that, when he calls forth his benevolent affecti ons, or indeed when he is ftimuhted by the impulses of friendftiip, patnotihn, or philanthropy, he acts merely 2 uifinterefted part, and that the principle of felf interest is by no means his motive for action. L ASfIHAFFEHHURG, March 11.’ ON the 7th instant the French Ambuffadors at Raftadf were nearly an hour with the Minister d’Albini. Thi bufiuefs is now decided. Mavence, namely the electorate, preserves its existence, and the Eleaor remains Arch Chan cellor and Director of the Diet* ft he Deputation front •tlie electorate of Mavence directs the affairs at the negoti ation of the peace of the Empire until its. conclusion, and has the firft vote refpeCling the arrangement of indemnities* What the Elector has loft 00 the left fide of the Rhine he will gain on the right. Brujfels, March 15. In the waters of Belgia an em bargo of fix months is laid on 200 vefftls,. for which Go* vernment promises iudemnity. These vessels have beert taxed by appraisers to afeertain their refpeCtive value, so that if any Ihould be loft, or fall into British hands, Go vernment may know how much is to be paid to their former owners. In the month of April all these vcffels are to be at Dunkirk; their crews are taken into tlie pay of the Re public. All the officers belonging to the. army of England must leave their wives and -children at home. The Englishmen who are fettled at Dunkirk have a guard in their Tidufes and their-papers foaled, ft hus on the ift inst. the Etigliftt and Irilli, and likewise fome American houies, as well as the two American lliip at Bourdeaux, have been arrett ed, and leak put on tlie papers of the Artierican Consul there. u. % By order of the Dire dory all Englilh prifmers must be removed at least 10 leagues.from the leacoaft into the inte rior part ot the country, betaufe it is believed that the Engliili prisoners on parole m .the French channel ports have served the enemy as foies.. ft he embargo on the privateers in the French ports has beeu again taken offi, after their tailors were engaged in the fervjee of tlie French Republic. Tlie privateers must now looter foreign seamen, of for such as are not enrol led. Copenhagen, March 6. In consequence of the French decree concerning neutral vefftls which have Englilh goods on board tlie following Danilh vessels, belides two Raft: Indiamen, were captured and carried into French ports, viz. tlie Northern Lion, the ftVo Sitters, Maria, Charlotte, and Pandora. The last mentioned ibip, which loaded here', destined for St. Croix, is carried into Cherbourg, bccaufe the ship had touched at’ Portsmouth to take in fome Danilh paflengers and their goods for^the~placeoF^theirdeftination* ■ 1 TAKEN UP at tlie fuWcriber’s plantation, Screvet* county, on the ifram road leading fiom Savannah to Augusta, about the 17th May last, A BAY HORSE, about 8 or 9 years old, one hind white foot, blaze face, branded on the mounting /boulder 26, and neafr buttock IN, trots and canters, about 14 hands high. Augufi 29, 1797. STEPHEN PEARCE . BROUGHT to the Workhouse in Savannah, A Ne gro Fellow, named Buck, about 5 feet 6 inches high, and about 40 years of age, foeaks. very bad Engii/h] fays he belongs to one Myer, in South Carolina. Nov. 23, 1797. Jacob Theiss, Gaoler. Blank Bills of Exchange may be had ot the Printers hereof*