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a fj s r o ;sr,. j v u WE have received by the Venilia a hand bill, dated May 24, with an official account of the ilTuc of the Eng’ifn expedition again ft Oftend. It is given in several letters, which of necessity occasions many repetitions, ihe following contains qvery important fadl. It may be neces sary however to observe, that the Bruges canal was the grand vc'u of the inland navigation between Holland. Flanders, and France; and its dcftru&ioft was conceived an object of such importance that Major Gen. Coote, who commanded the troops on the expedition, obfervcd, that if the furf fliould prevent the retreat of his men the success of the enterprile* would be a full compensation. Ihe whole-number of vefiels engaged in the undertaking were ?.i, large and finally principally gun boats; 3 seamen wcrQ killed and i6 wounded; the mlmber of soldiers made pri soners private accounts compute at 1300,, there is no ok tial Ilatement. LONDON GAZETTE EXTRAORDINARY. Parliament Jireet , May 22, 1 A difpatcb, of which the following is a copy, has been this day received by the Right Hon. Henry Dundas from Lieut, fcol. Warde of the firft regiment of guards, dated on board the Expedition frig3te, 3 o’clock/*, m. May 20, Sir,—Tn coufcquente of the Minerva frigate (on board •which v/cre the four light infantry companies of the firft tegiment of loot guards) having unfortunately loft her litu ation in tlie squadron under the command of Capt. Pophani of the Royal Navy, during the night of the 18th inst. the command of the remainder of the troops, from the acci dent, has devolved upon me; and I have the honor to transmit you the mbit correct account that I have been able to colleft. Early on the morning of the 19th in IT. the following tfoops, under the command of Major Gen. Coote, viz. Two companies, light infantry, Coldftream guards, Two ditto, ditto, 3d guards, itth regiment of foot, 23d and 49th flank companies, with fix pieces of ordnance, difimbarked, and effected their landing at 3 o’clock in the morning, to .the erftward of Oftend, and completed the object of the expedition, Hy turning a number of gun boats destined for the in valion of England, and hy so completely destroying the locks and bafon gates of the Bruges canal that'it was this morning without a drop of water, and as I underhand all the tfranf ports fitting at Fluffing were intended to lx: brought to Cflend and Dunkirk by the inland navigation, to avoid our cruisers, that arrangement will be defeated, and it will be a long time before the works can be repaired, as they were five years fiuifliing, and were efteemtd the moft complete works of the kind in Europe. Tlie troops had retreated and were ready to reembark by 12 o’clock the fame morn ing, with the loss of one rank and file killed, and one tea man wounded, but found it impofiible from the wind having incrcafed and the furf running so high as entirely to pre vent their regaining the boats; upon which, they took up a position on the Sand Hills above the beach, where they lay the whole of that day and night upon their arms, ihe c nemy, taking advantage of the length of time and the nignt, Collected in very great force, and soon after daybreak this morning attacked them on every fide, when, after a moft noble and gallant defence, 1 am grieved to add, they were under the necessity of capitulating to a very great superi ority of numbers. - • 1 herewith enclose a lift of the killed and wounded, and 1 have every reason to believe it correct. Lieut. Col. Hely, nth foot, killed. Major Gon. Coote wounded. Col. Campbell, 3d guards, wounded. Major Donkin, 44th foot, wounded. Capt. Walker, Royal artillery, wounded. ’ And near 60 rank and file Tilled and wounded. Henry Warde, Capt. and LkrJi_Gol.iJlguards. Capt. Bates, from Liverpool, incoming out of harbor May 26, heard a considerable firing of cannon, which he conjc&ured was the confluence of the receipt of fomc im portant intelltecnce favorable to the English. f Rhode IJland) July 13. Monday last failed for Canton the new and elegant coppered flop Ann and Hope, Capt. Benjamin Page. Capt. Samuel Snow, bf this town, who is appointed.Loi,ful for the United States atCanton, goes Supercargo of the ship. She mounts 1 x nine pounders, andcan.ues.6o fine fellows, by way of role and *Nw London, July 11* Arrived, (loop Profperky, J. firewfter, g | days from Point Petre, (GuadaloUpe.) Vitftor Hague-, finding that American vefiels were arm fed, decreed, That all the final 1 privateers should remain in port, and that all the national Hiips fliould lie manned, which were 2 brigs and 1 lhip; and all the inhabitants should be under, arms from the age oft 6to yo.- 1 he fthooner Little Sarah, Capt. Howe, which was mentioned to have been carried into Guadaloupe, was acquitted, after a detention of 3 weeks, and failed for New Fork; she was afterwards taken and carried into Antigua. The brig Hope, Church, from this port, is taken and •carried into Poit a Faix. Capt. Brew Tier mentions that Capt. Smith, of the ship Hunter, died of his wounds. New York, July 20. A Dutch Captain was hung at London on the Stli May for piaffing a counterfeit Bank note. The Tree of Liberty has been cut down in the cities oft .Zurich and Baile, and in the cantons of Swiis and Uri; and formidable preparations are going forward to oppole the French, who, thank God, to have enough to do ■with their newly acquired dominions. The town of Lictz, in Tyrol, on the 14th of April, was ahnoft consumed by fire. July 21. Yesterday morning, between 3 and 4 o’clock, a moft dreadful circumstance occurred at a French boarding Txmfe near the Exchange in this city. Madame Gardie, Jate of the Theatre, was ..in bed with her son, about n vears of age. Monlicur Ganlie, w!k> had cohabited with iicr a number of years, and who lodged in the fame room, got up, ordered the boy to rife, and got into her bed. Ihe boy hearing his mother cry out afkcd what was the uiattei? Air. Gardie ddired him to lie still; his mother had only tainted. Soon after, hearing a knocking against the par- tition, t>e got tip and went to the led, where he y e;md Mr. * Gardie in the agonies of death, and his mother lying dead in the bed. •’ It appears that he {tabbed her with anew carving knife in the left breast, which penetrated immediately to the heart, as The appears to have expired instantly. He was wounded in the breast, in two places, with his own hand,® and must ’nave died in great agony, as he had fallen from the bed on the floor, and covered with blood. Ihe Co roner’s Inquest brought in a verdict, that he was the cause of liei death, aff&ifcerwards committed silicide. The cause of this very dreadful catastrophe is attributed to extreme penury, and her refuting to accompany him to France, whither he was going shortly, having taken his paTfag". This refufal excited his jealoufv, though there does not appear any ground of the lufpicion. July~ 23. Yesterday afternoon arrived here from a cruifc, his Britannic Majeft) ’s frigate La Topaz, Capt. Church. Shortly after she came to The fainted the city with a difcliarge of 13 guns, which was returned from the fort. Capt. Miller, of the ftorip Industry, from Antigua, to this port, was captured, July 9, by tlie French privateer I‘chooner La Brave, Capt. Van Horten, a Jerfeyman; was retaken by tlie British sloop of war Thorne, Capt.Mowatt, from Halifax. Tlie French took every one of bis hands into the gangway, and gave them a- dozen lashes each. Capt. Miller, having been formerly acquainted with the Captain of the privateer, did not undergo this punishment. They took out the cabin windows, looking glasses, &c. stamped them under their feet, and said tliey wiHied it was John Adams! Mr. Samuel jor.es, peffengcr with Capt. Miller, was ft ripped of all he had except his money, which he had le creted; to obtain which they took him to the gangway, and told him he must fight a duel with Laban, Midihipman, or receive tlie lajh; he cliofe the former, and wounded his an tagonist in the left breast. The French, not wishing to be troubled with wounded people, left Lahan in Capt. Miller’s pofibflion, who brought him to New York, and has treated him with that attention which bespeaks the man of feeling. Philadelphia, July 24. The Brteifh frigate Affifter.ee, Cant. Hard)', is in Otd Kiln toads, 7 days from Halifax. Tlie French privateer Le Croyable, prize to the United States sloop of war Delaware, Capt. Stephen Decatur, was this day condemned in the Diftriift Court of the United States, to be fold by the Marshal, and the proceeds diilri buted as the law directs. The odicers of the privateer are on parole; the crew will probably be distributed in fome of the country gaols. The brig Fly, Brice, from this p ‘rt for London, was captured on her pailagc by two French privateers. The crew were taken out except the Captain and Mate, and ten Frenchmen put on board. Capt/lirice seized an opportu nity when three of the Frenchmen were below, and the other seven collected together about the after hatchways, to afiault them, with his Mate, (both unarmed) and after knocking down several of them secured the rest under the hatchway sand retook tlie veiled. The letters were ail saved. Died in this city on Saturday last, the Marquis de ROll - lately arrived from St. Domingo; lie firved as an officer in the American army last war, and being a Mem- - her of tlie Cincinnati his funeral was attended by all the Members of the Society then in town. George Town, ( Maryland J July 20. Last Sunday nig -t the store of Mr. Magill, between Blandenlburg and Queen Ann, was consumed by fire, together with its valu able contents, consisting of goods worth 10,000 dollars, the account boohs, and upwards of booSaaloliars in bank notes which Mr. Magill had a day or two before brought from Baltimore to pay for tobacco. Cbarlejlon , Augujl 4. Capt. Stev ens, from Cape Fran cais, informs, that the i'chooner Liberty of this port, from the Cape, is taken oy tlie Valiant, of 74 guns, and lent into Cape Nichola Mole. Yesterday a lVizeinaikr of a Spanlfifvefiet, called the Felix Compana, and several l'aiiors, arrived in town. They inform that they belong to a private veflei of war called the Lovely Lap, Cap;. An trill, of New Provi dence; that on a cruise they captured the above mentioned ship near the mouth of the Milfiiippi river, having only balaft on board; that she was ordered to New Providence, but was prevented from reaching there by contrary winds. Being fhortof provisions they bore away for this port, but failing to the leeward outlie bar they got on the Racoon Keys, at the entrance of Santee river, wleie flic was tot ally loft. ’ Died, on tie ad instant, about two o'clock, Mrs. Gracia Maria Turnbull, widow and relict of the late Dr. Andrew Turnbull, in ti e 63d y ear of her age. Much beloved and esteemed while living, her loss is deeply regretted by nu merous relatives auu friends, who will Tong-bear in mind hex amiable virtues as a Christian, and plealing manners as a gentlewoman. Augufi 6. Yesterday arrived the brig Amsterdam, Scott, Amsterdam. Extract Prom the log book of the brig Ainjlerdam . May 23d, at 1 />. m. fell in with Commodore Popham’s squadron, was boarded, and informed that they had de stroyed tlie principal par; of Oftend, the canal, tly dyke, and leveral bridges and gun boats; and loft 1000 men, prii’oners, with Gen. Coates, and another General. At 3 p. wiN Dover Caitle bore N. n. e. by compai’s, distant 4 leagues. The squadron coniilted of about 20 fail, ftnps of tlie line, brigs and cutters, fleering n. n. w. Augujl 9. The Senate of the United States adjourned tlie 1 3th’ ult. fine die• • ’ BROUGHT to Riceborough gaol on the 26th ult. A likely young country bom Negro Fellow, about 18 yea s old, 5 feet 7 inches high, lavs his name is NED, and that he was fold as tire property of the Efhte of Capt. Sanders at public lale in Savannah, and bought by Mr. • Champneys, who sent him to one of his plantations on this fide of Chatleftoir, fronr whence he run a wav four weeks ago. WILLIAM CORKER. Augujl u SHERIFF’S SALES. On Tuesday , being the 4 tb day of September -next, will he fold , at the Courtboufe in the City of Savannah The foil >wing Property* viz. TWO Families of Negroes, containing 13 in number seized as the property of John Macqueen, Esq. the suit of Andrew MUredii and Cos. A Lot of Land, containing acres, about two mile* from Savannah, near the Augusta road, now in the posses. fidh of Thomas M‘Call, Esq. seized as the property of Dr, John Hill, at the suit of John C. Smith, Esq. Aifo , at the fame-~tme and place , A House and Lot in tlie City of Savannah, in tlie Mar. | ket square, now occupied by Mr.-John Smith, merchant I seized and to be fold as the property, of John JoacliiA l Zubty. 1 - J ul y 3* U9B* Richard Wall, s. c. c. ?T RICHARD WALL , Esp Sheriff of CbTtbTn County. THE Lot, or Le ts, which you advertise for sale, at tlie inftanefi of John C. Spiith, as the property of Dr. John Hall, and now in my possession, was, on the 21st day of March 1794, fold and conveyed by John Hall and j wife to Isaac Polock, by Isaac Polock fold and conveyed, I on the 21st day of October 1795, to Benjamin Sims, and I by Benjamin Sims and wife foid and conveyed, on the 22d| day-of February 1796, to the fubferiber, as will appear by I the record of the title deeds in the Clerk’s Office of Chat. I ham county: You are therefore hereby forbidden to fell the I said Lot or Lots, under or by virtue of any execution a.I gainft the said Dr. John Flail, as they are legally my pro,! perty. THOMAS M‘CALL| Savannah , Augnjt 2, 1798. ‘Shqriff's Sale?. I On*the firjl Tuesday in September next , will be the Town cf Riceborough , between the hours of !'■ and 111 o'clock , by public outcry , ■ The iciiowing Lands: THAT valuable and well known Rice Plantation, ill the county of Liberty, containing 350 acres old lur| vey, 200 acres of which is laid to be ol the firflr quality o| inland fwatnp; 100 acres are cleared and under Fence; OJj tlie premises are a large barn anti other necessary buiklingsß ‘Fhe above tract is bounded weft by 1 honias Shepard’sH north by r Elijah Lewis’s, euft by John Mitchell’s, leuth b| John Mitchtll’s, Andrew’s, and Lilate ot’ John Bavis’B lands. Seized and taken under and by virtue of feven® executions as the property of the Lilate or Jolui Ilext, an® i pointed out by the AdminiTtrator. | 300 Acres, in the laid county of Liberty, bounded font® by Wilburn Gibbous’s, cait by the Lilate ol Droie’s, an® weft by John Dunham’s lands. 42 Acres, ii\ the laid count® of Liberty, bounded 1 outlie aft by J;unts Wood’s land, an® nortkeaft hy the Ella e of Gideon DovTe’s land. 2t®“ Acres, in (>1) m fount,, on Cedar Creek Swamp, boundt® on all li n land at the time cf fiirvey. Seu® and taU-n uilß and by virtue of an execution,.at tlie of Meffi i. U ooUh.mki and Sjx'irs, as the property ® James Wood, Eli), and pointed out by the defendant, g 200 iv* on Colonel’s Ill.uid, aujoiiung lands of Mitchell iv'iw Kfq. and is a very old survey. ico Aa® in Efiingharn county, in the diilrict of Ebenezer, northeast by ‘Savannah river, and on every other fide ® lands vacant at tlie time of survey, originally John Hopkins in the year 1759. Seized and taken and by virtue of several executions as the property Thomas E. Law, and pointed cut by the defendant. HI Conditions calh. JN 0 . JONES, s. l. c.| Riccborovrb, l6tb July , 1798. Sher if s Sales. I On the firji Tuesday in Ssf)t ember next , will be fold, I the Town cf Ricebcrcugb , between the hours cj A 111 o'clock , by public outcry , Forty-one iNegroes, I Seized and taken under and bv virtue of leveral execut* as the property cf the Estate of John HexU ■ ALSO, Six Negroes, _ Seized and taken under and by virtue of several exeau* as the property of the Estate of John Ltii. H Conditions calh. JN°. JONES, s. L-c® Riceborough , 28 th July , 1798. JM Ciry Sherff’s Sale. I On Tuesday the 4 tb of September next , will I public outcry , at the Courtboufe in Franklin ; ® between the hours of X and 111 o'clock a. ni. K A likely Negro Wench, n About 1S or 20 years of age, taken under exccutitjH the property of John Wyche, at the suit of Murohy, and Milledge and Parker, pointed oiu -’.‘® plaintiffs. G. R. DULL, s* c 'm| Augujl 2. AW BROUGHT the Workhonfe in Savannah, M gro Fellow, named Buck 4 about 5 fi et d| high, and about 40 years of age, speaks very ba i fays lie belongs to one Myer, in South Carolina. ■ Nov. 23,. 1797. Jacob 1 heiss, BROUGHT to the Workhoufi in Savannah, Fellow, named York, fays he bcl°ng s ® Yawnev in Cliarlefton; he u ab ut 5 feet 6 1.- and about 50 years of age, his breall is greatly a burn from powder, as he lays. r aM June 13, 1798. Jacob Tbeiss^^^l BROUGHT to the Workhouse in Savennah-jj® Follow, named Hearty , belonging to well of South Carolina, about 5 fret 4 f* K about 2 ; years of age, ijxiaks good Eagld 1. Auguj 26,1798. Jacob Thei^^M SAVANNAH PuiNTEf BV N. JOHNSTOS