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3 ft * “ witn cat P* eu^ire ‘ Tc ate > 4V .he Lords of the Admiralty -have made Lieut. Price a v (icsDtain, and Lieut. Bourne a Matter and Commander, f r tlieir verv gallant defence of the island of St. Marcou. c uc , braverv well deserves a due reward. u Lieut. Butterfield, who commanded the Mars after the of Cijit. Hood, in the artion with I’Hcrcule, is pro ju-tt(! by their Lord [hips to tire rank of Matter and Com- Cr ’ PROCLAMATION. Peterjburg, May 5, 1798* BE it hereby. known to whom it may concern, to all Europe, and the whole world, that his Imperial Ruffian Ha jetty Paul 1. has ordered Ue following Proclamation be i'flued by me, Prince A’exandcr Bciborcdko, Firtt Mi nitter and Chancellor of his Imperial Majesty. % In consequence of the notification of the .Executive Di rertory of the French Republic of the 23d cl Nivofe, in the 6th year, importing, “ that if any Jhip befnffered \tipafs through the Sound with Engltjh commodities, of •••.thatever nation it may be, it Jhall be conjidered as a formal declaration of war against the French nation, ” Bus Imperial Majesty Paul I. has been gracioffily pleased to Lrdcr 2 a (hips of the line and 250 gailies, under the com mand of Admiral Kruse and M. de Litta, Knight of Malta, to proceed to the Sound, to prated trade in general against the manifeft oppression of the Diredory, as. iuch a proceeds ing is evidently contrary to the rights of all nations* His Ruffian Majesty gives his Imperial word to proted the free fom of trade with all his power, both by La and land, phich lie hereby requires the Diplomatic Corps to make mown and proclaim. June 5. The Hamburgh mail due on Sunday arrived his morning. It brings a rumor that the King of Pruiiia dll not accede to the demands of the French} that irench refiling at Vienna have been ordered .0 quit that apical; and that a pai t of the French army has been order d to march from'the coast towards the Rhine, to liaften by heii preftnee the negotiations at Rattaat, the invaiion of tngiand having been abandoned for the prd’ent. The i ;:ek provinces are stated. to be in a iUte of inlurredion, no the Turkifti troops to have been defeated in two battle? y the rebel Bailiaw. It is stated in 10-rie of the morning papers, but Sve know ot on what authority, that the i'oulon fleet putted the t.eights of Gibraltar on ti.e 26th ,uit. Gen. Buonaparte on hoard the fleet. Private advices received by the Dublin mefienger state, lat on Saturday another engagement took place between is Majesty’s forces and the rebels, in which near 509 of latter w’ere killed. When the letters Jefc Dublin on Saturday evening a efh engagement was expertel toenfue next day, (Sunday.) June 6. It is now confirmed that the insurgents in Fexford have gained fome advantage over the troops sent j.tintt them; ana that a corps under the command of Gen. awcet, after being defeated, had retreated to the fort of tincannon. A powerful body of troops is marching u untt the rebeL in that quarter, and we hope tney will 011 be reduced. They ate i'tii to ‘de in very great force. In tae North the inhabitants dilcover a warm spirit of i/afty; and in tine neighborhood of Cork, Limerick, &c. Jery thing is quiet, I The number of insurgents killed in Garlqw and the vici t} is confideruble. Ihe return from peri’ons in office in iat town states that 630 have fallen, exciuiive of thole that ive been kdied in various parts of the country. The hole number we are informed is not less than 2000. j ane 7. “An exprel's was yesterday received at the Duke ’ fork’s office, brought by a servant of Col. Campbell of ie guards, who was taken p; doner at Oftend. The ex tols stated that the above ollicer had died of his wounds; at Gem Coote was rapidly mending; and that our captive pops were well treated by the enemy. I e announced yesterday the arrival of Gapt. Brown, of b Majesty’s lhip the Defiance, at the Admiralty, with rtt q-'-’es from Earl St. Vincent. He came passenger in r George .picket, Capt. Bell, to Falmouth, and J let off lor London in a poll chaise and four* jWbfi! Gapt. Brown left the fleet about 14 days ago Earl ■* )’ mcent was off Cadiz with 18 fail of the line; Admiral with 2-iail of the line, was on a crui-e* and 4 ■icr flaps ol the line were gone up the Straits. The only H't °1 c ' lle fleet at Liibon were the-Blanch and Andromache t:ie Ltter was to tail for Oporto as convoy to the ■ct bound for that place, which was to be ready by the C? , J unc * Ihe whole fleet were in excellent order and ■Ki (pints. aTAuluin, May 29. I-ord Edward Fitzgerald, and 40 garrs confined foFffiigh treason, had -notice Jerved upon km on Saturday to prepare for trial on the nth of next Bint h. ■ ‘Fne Judges spoken of to preside at the Commission for lru ‘ arc ’J? a an r °n George, the Hon. Robert Day, and . Solicitor General. ■ Lord Edward Fitzgerald lies dangerously ill in the new cn, ndomuch that lurgeons deem it not fafe to attempt the ball and ilugs which are in his arm. He signed on Saturday Matt. ‘ b June 2. Yesterday evening 30 priffiners who were taken * c neignooihood ol Ncrragh were brought in here by “ v, , k cavalr y? and from lienee sent to the guard lhip. 10!1 2 t ‘ lem we a few of refpertabfo appearance, i v ’-'- jm ' vc tmderftand was au eftablilhed clergyman, ‘Vivopnefts. ’ r x:r j3s from different private letters * 1 1 ‘ ot-.-ng material has liappcned iince I wrote ; Lvcr .V hour new prisoners are • T and many L tiy L j" nailr -‘ T j Ol P s ar,J no ’ ,v m custody; 2 more were [7 i :i> ’ and 3 are to be executed to mo. row; lam Lk. r d p oine m y acquaintance ure among the I L I Qiall not die with grief* liv *’ °’ c Gc * i m t l le momine. This citv is per y'\ Ihe ccunrry will fhordy be l'o. In many 5',.., are d ai >erlcd . Only the counties of Wex- I ICklo *’ vcr y mountainous, are yet in ’ - S rcat * orc e is gone against them. ‘Credit ? tl bills ar e venr Well paid. b “ ,iac^ ll(!re Hill, iK-ar Bleilington, the le i Crawford, of Lilburn, from the . G ‘ = on H-aday, diicovered 6 pieces of cannon, Hg ‘ Vis VJ flogged tor guupowder. Cork is quiet. The O.artgdmcn in the North have altered rd,cdd men. Mr. La Touciie’s superb >man{ion in the county of . Kildare, Mr. Cranmer’s house, and several otliers,” liave been completely gutted. The insurgents have cut off the head of Mr. Spence, the Duke of JLeinfter’s Agent, and nailed his body to his own gate* Dr. Efmond is Hill aiive, but it is exported that he will be executed. Extrail of a an officer in Carlos, dated ThurfdayrLfl. u A-GotirtMaitial has been fitting here theffi two days; numbers have been hanged and (hot, among whom are many yeomen; Sir Edward Crolbie is laid to be deeply im plicated; he is now in custody, but not yet tried.’’ Lieut. Giinch, of the Rathcoole yeomanry, was yester day clearly Convirted of a conspiracy wit! w the rebels to cle fti’oy the corps w.iich he commanded, and surrender the town of Rathcoole to the rebels. From Carlow we learn that Sir Edward Crolbie, Bart, having been acculed, tried, and convirted of an intimate and criminal connexion with the rebel army, has iulTeretl the punifliment of death under martial law. Every day brings to our knowledge new arts of atrocity committed by the rebels. In the county of Wexford, a mong many instances of maltacre, the following excites particular detestation and horror: The Rev. Mr. Hayden, a Erotcftant clergyman, much esteemed, having had ibire of his neighbors to fpcr.d the evening with him) a Miss Gliftord, reliding in his house, whole beauty and virtues made her the admiration of the country, was requested to ling “ Croppie’s lie down;” Ihe did so, little thinking that her compliance would have been the cause of Ivr death. I'iie next ntorning the houle was attacked by a party of insurgents, and the whole family mafiaered with circum stances of the raoft horrible cruelty. Fhe servant who at tended the family at fnpper the preceding night (batched a pike from one of his brother demons and plunged it into the beautiful bosom of Miss Glitford, exclaiming at the fame time, “ There, you d-*—d w—, that for your Croppy fie down I” Four infants were not 1 pared, but tolled in heUifli sport on the points of the pikes! NASSAU , ("New Providence) July 17. YESTERDAY arrived liere, fcliooner Corporal Trim, Brodie, under American colors, from New Orleans for Havana, with naval stores, captured by the William and Mary; and a Spar.iffi brig, alio from New Orleans for Havana*, laden with lumbef, &c. captured by the George and Ophelia. July 19. The brig Sarah, Norvalh from Savannah fer this port, with lumber, &c. is loft on Egg Iflani Reef. July 20. On Weunefday afternoon the brig Polly, M‘Bride, from London, arrived here. She leu Porumouth on the Bth of iaftmonth with the East India and Weft India - fleets. - July 24. The trials of the five persons apprehended at Margate for high treason, held at Muiditone in Kent under a fpccial commission, doled, on the 21st cf May. I’he jury, after a conlideration of 40 minutes, gave in their verdirt, finding James O’Goigley guilty; and Arthur O’Connor, Joint Binns, John Allen, and-Jeremiah Leary, not guilty. July 27. An American schooner, she Olive, Alcott, of Brookhaven, from New York for Havana, was taken on the 27th lilt, by the Pblin, Ivin, a French privateer from St. Augustine. A few days after the Olive was re taken by the Britilh armed Hoop Seaflower, McLeod, and carried into Wilmington. A salvage of one eighth was al lowed to the recaptors, and on the Btlf inst. t!-e Oii\e again proceeded for Havana. On. the •3d inst. fne was loft on Abaco* The people, arid part of the cargo, confuting of dry goods, were Caved* Yesterday put in here in want of prot *Cions and water, the American brig Betsey, Gillies, of Norfolk, from Africa for Savannah, with a cargo of llaves. August 3* On Tuefiay the brig New Adventure, Sheer man, of Boston, from Goree for Flavana, with a cargo est Haves, arrived here, being font in by the Balakoo privateer. The brig Nancy, Swyer, arrived on WednelUay from London. She left Seithyad-with the Weft India convoy on the 13th of June, and parted from it at Madeira on the yd of last month. 1 ■mu nn 11 —“ PORTSMOUTH , ft New Hampshire) July 28* MR. Dorr has favored us with the following arrette of the French Dirertorv, which was handed’ to him by the Confulj who received it dirertly iron- Talleyrand, the Minister of foreign affairs, the day previous to tixfir failing. New Arrettc of the Dirtciory. The Minister of foreign a flairs to tlieC-unld General of the United States oFAmeriea. Paris, a<-jth Fiorcal , 6 tb year, ipti cf May, 1798. Git caen, I have the honor of informing you that, in consequence of an arretto of the Directory, dated 25 th inst. it is strictly forbidden that any veffei failing under American colors lhall, on%iny pretext whatsoever, enter into either of the following warlike ports, viz. Brest, l’Orknt, loulon, Demtrifque, or Rochfort. I hasten to communicate this intelligence to you, in order that you may take the nccef fary Heps of making it known to all American navigators. Salute h? Fr at emit: , (Signed) Ch. M* Talleyrand. Newbury port, July 27. This morning the United States brig Pickering, commanded by Capt. Jonathan Chapman, failed from this port for Boston, to take in her guns and complement ■of men. She failed down under a small breeze of wind and against the tide, but went through the water like a fine fail boat; She mounts 14 guns and carries 70 u-tn, is copper bottomed, and will doubtiefs, under the command ot Capt. Chapman, a gentleman of un doubted courage, *mature judgment, and real patriotism, with a crew which his urbanity and amiable chararter will give him the choice among our best seamen, do honor to our American uavy. Messrs. Merrills, the builders, have ac quired much credit by the masterly and punctual manner in which the work was executed* Boston, July 28. On Thursday evening the United States and Delaware ftiips of war failed from this harbor on a cruiie. July 30. Saturday evening last tame to town from T’orrfhsciUh, x,tcrc the” landed the day before fc-cm tk* fl.ip Tan erlanc, (iapt. Worfley, 60 clays Horn Eonruuuix, Messrs. James Prince, Edward Barnfield, and Jnfcph Dorr; They brought dispatches to the Piefidcnt from Mr. Gerry, our rafting Envoy .at Paris, which were forwarded from Portsmouth. Ti e United States brig Sophia had arrived at Havre about a week before their departure, and they saw an official letter from Mr. Humphreys to Mr. Fenwick) direrting him to supply all our captured seamen hi hts con sulate with 30 dollars, and obtain them a passage home* They all’o saw an official letter from Talleyrand to Mr. Fenwick, acquainting him that no American vcffels *vmild in future be -allowed to enter the ports of Toulon, l'Orientj Rochfort, Brest, or Dunkirk, on any pretence whatever* That the Abbe SSeyes has gone Envoy Extraordinary to Prulfia. I’hat Mr. Gerry was about quitting France; and Air. Humphreys had; after a fhoit tarry with Mr. Gerry, set oft’ for Montpelier to Mr. Pinckney. That the Com mission for the Army of England has been diffolred, and that army marched towards the Rhine. That the appear ances of a plentiful crop were never greater than at tl>e present moment. GharlcJion, August 20. Hie following, melancholy affair happened in our harbor yesterday: The Englilh schoo ner Saucy George, Capt. Burns, bound fer Murtiuico, as (he patted Fort Johnlbn, attempted to.fire afaiute; on firing the third gun the fire communicated to the magazine and Ihe blew up. Capt. Burns, Mr. John Robinson, the pijotj and 3 men who were in the .cabin, were never. Cqeipaftcf tiie cxplcfirn. Four young inch at’ this city, who were on. board, were picked up immediately after by fome boat? which were near; they w ere brought up, i!ef t .cratcly wound* cd; their names are Henderson, Patterson, M'Kellar, and Hunter; it was doubtful last evening whether either of them would survive. Ihe remainder of the crew, tonfifting of 7 or 8, were burnt, but not dangerously. ‘Fhe whole of the after part of the vett’el was deftroved, and a great part of her cargo floated out of her. It is said tliat tlie accident was owing to firing a gun to windward when die powder room was uncovered. A Negro man was drowned in assisting to save part of the cargo of the Saucy George. August 21. Yesterday arrived the trig Providence, Otto, Cowes, 70 days. John Swamvick, Esq. died in Philadelphia early in Aft* gust. August 22. The Britifti lhip Bellona cattle up to town yesterday from the Road. From infoimation received front her it appears that the veffei which spoke the brig Pro vi ce, nee, Capt. Otto, on Friday last, was die Britilh frigate Pievovante: a few hours after Ihe spoke the Providence Ihe fell in with the Bellona, and fome of the-officers mentioned that they had that day boarded a Bremen brig, bound to Charlettom . The Bellona is a private veffei of war, belonging to Greenock* 011 the 17th inst. a fiafn of lightning (truck her manmiaft-.md injured itconliderabiy; the Captain and several of tiie men were knocked down, but none were killed. A man convicted at Hamburgh, on the 27th of March) of having iftiied a forged note on the Brandi Bank of New York, his been fenteticed to 13 years intprifonment. Died, yesterday, at noon, Mr* John Patterson, one of the voting men that were on board t e oaucy George when Ihe blew up 01 Sunday. The bods of Air. Lowry; one of those who were killed by the explolion, was picked up yesterday. August 24* Died yesterday morning, Mr. Thomas Hunter, a native of Dundee, in Scotland, one of the un fortunate fufferers on board the Saucy George; a young man much refperted in this city in the circle of his acquaint ance. ” ‘NOTIFICAFION. THE Members of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, a*# the reibective Lodges by their properßeprefentatives, are defined to attend at the Long Room in the Filature, ia die City cf Savannah, on Saturday the lit day of Septem ber next, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, being a Grand Quarterly. Communication* By Order of the Right Worffiipful Grand Mailer, William Belcher, Grand Secretary* Savannah, August #2, 5798* i* o i< b A L E, ‘ , . AI OT and TWO STOR? | | Xl DWELLING!!OUSEin I I town of St. Mary, with a well pj J built kitchen and a large and small gfß Ji gjy oven, a good garden, a well of Jf~—Fn excellent water, with other con- JArif \ J leniencies, the whole forrounded with a g , .and icnce, near the river, and suitable either for. a ftoie or tavern. Conditions of sale may be made known on application to CAIG and CO. Savannah, lift August, 1798. ASSIZtThOR AUGUST, 1798. THE Price of Superfine Flour being 9 dollars pel* barrel, and of Fine 8 dollars per barrel, of 196 lbs. nett, the weight of Bread for this month must be as fcl* lows, viz* -**-* -12 *-2 cents loaf. 6 1-4 cents lea lbs. oz. ‘ lbs. oz. Os fuperfine or ill quality, 25 121-2 Os fine or 2d quality, 2 7 13 1-2 JOHN GIBBONS, City Treafureta July 31, i79 ? * IVantrd immediately t AN OVERSEER to take charge of a Rice Plantar?* on, for whom generous wages will be given. Nona need apply unless well recommended. Apply to JAMES SMITH. New Land , Liberty County, 9tb July, 1798. FOR-SALE, OR TO BE RENTED , A House and Half Lot, situate in Ewenfburgh, at present occupied by the fffifenber, to whom apply * MaBT