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:n tl 9crupukfity+~3%p V G on fome horses near Bylina infilled that he might be emitted to pay for them, and begged that the proprietors Wht not, by an trJifcrcet generofty, force bun to ufc JJn gratuitously, tlie owners were prevail on, wd the Gtncral gave them drafts for the amount oft-**-- the Ex ecutive Directory of Ireland . HALIFAX, (Nova Scotia) September 15. THURSDAY evening the Prevoyante frigate retimed here from a cruise, and brought in with her, the ship Bernftoff, laden with sugar; fliip Little Mary, with mo lasses and sugar; brig Free Mason, ditto; brig William, ditto; and schooner Harriet, with sugar and fome cafti.— Tiiefe 5 veflels were part of a fleet of upwards of 50 fail from the Havana, convoyed by 3 or 4 armed veflels, which the Prevoyante fell in with on the 20th ult. in lon. 79. lat. 29. bound for different ports in America; 3 of them are under Danish colors. Philadelphia, OSlober 12. Yesterday arrived at Chester, the /hip Franklin, Capt. Jones, in 34 days from Bourdeaux. By this arrival we have received the following important letter; it may be relied on as authentic, as the r fcn&ure of Mr. Fenwick was is in his own handwriting: . j (copy.) . Paris, Augufl 21, 1798* Joseph Fenwick, Esq. Bourdeaux. Dear Sir, Thinking it as agreeable to you as irite re fling to our •ommerce, I hasten to inform you I have received to day an official copy of the arret of the Direftpry taking off the embargo laid on our veflels. This arret is not yet publifli d, but I hope it will be soon in every part of France, and ts course put into execution. Yours, &c. Fulwar Skipwith. On the nth of July, off Garthagena, the Lion, Capt. Dixoiva Biiti/h 64 gun /hip, fell in with 4 large Spanish frigates returning from Algiers, under the command of Commodore O’Neal. O’Neal ordered Dixon to strike his fcbfors: Dixon Laid he would think of it, and immediately rave O’Neal a broadside; an action commenced, which Tailed 2 hours, when O Neal made fail for Carthagena with 3 frigates, leaving under the care of the Lion the Dorothea •f 44 guns and 136 men, by whom she was conducted to Naples, where she arrived about the 4th August. The Dorothea had 30 men killed, and 45 wounded, who were font to an hospital at Naples. The Lion had 1 man wound td> since dead. The Lion during the engagement was so much encumbered with her cargo that she could not fire all |er lower deck guns. Baltimore, Octobor 20. At the close of the polls last •vening the votes for the candidates for a Representative from this diftrift for the House of Rcprefentatives of the United States were as follow; Smith, in county, • 1288 city, • • 1322 ► - 2610 > Winchester, in county, • 1010 city, . 901 —l9 TI Majority in favor of Smith, • 699 Norfolk, October 13. Last mght Capt. Keckwick loifted out his boat to come up to this place, and had drop ped astern of the ship, when a fucklen flaw upset the boat, fcy which we are sorry to fay a lady paflenger, by the name of Maria Hornby, and one of the seamen, lofttheir Eves; the whole of the letters for Norfolk were funk Hr the Captain’s trunk; Lad it not been for the timely affiflance ts a ftiip’s boat they mu ft all have perished. Peterjlurg, October 19. A paflenger in the fliip In- Ailtry, Capt. Rudd, fays he saw the Gazette account of an aftmn in Ireland between the Britilli forces and the French and Insurgents, by which it appeared tlie latter had been defeated ami totally cut off. Cbarlejloti, OSlober 20. Yesterday arrived, the schooner Amazon, Clark, Cork, 40 days; ship Mary, Ingalls, Cork, 40 days; ship Thetis, Crocker, C irk, 40 days. The frigate off the bar is the Constitution, Capt. Nichol fctt, not the Constellation, as mentioned in yesterday’s piper. OSlober 23. By the schooner Hiram a letter was re vived from Major H. Rutledge, dated New York, the *4th inflant, which informs, that Gen. Pinckney, with his fedy and daughter, arrived from Bourdeaux on the 12th. On account of the fever being in New York the General raided on tlie Jersey shore, and had gone to Elizabeth j..*''!*. Miis Pinckney was much recovered from her in oiinofition. Gen. Pinckney has accepted of his appoint ment a* Major General in the army, and would repair to l ar *d as soon as he had finifhed his business with •ie Officers of the Government. Gen. Pinckney returned in one of the veflels which went ts nags of truce to France. October 24. \efterday the veflels belonging to this bound for the Havana, failed from Rebellion Road, ■*i company with the Baltimore sloop of war; they joined the Constitution frigate without the bar. OSlober 2 s . Yesterday arrived the ft,ip Aftive, Rinker, * % J°H Tucker, Cork, 46 days; fliip Ameua, Marques, Cork, 46 days. OriF-Gr Thts morning anchored in our harbor, the \3i Capt* J. G. Bravoor. Said vessel was • , n . Philadelphia for Havana, but was captured 6 miles of the Moro Castle by a French privateer, t> 10 put a prize master and 8 Frenchmen on board, and , re r Cape Francois. Capt. Bravoor, the cook, one ieaman, were likewise left on board the Fair A- an, to assist the Frenchmen in working her. A few s- Ur the capture the Captain invited 2of the priva- i 1 down into the cabin to drink with him, where coo- and the seaman were prepared to receive them. *,* rcr -chmen accoitlingly went down to the cabin to re- C o eS * W^ere tbe y were immediately seized and .u Bravoor and his comrades then seized the arms ‘itnehmen, which they always left below, andpro- u on deck, where they soon compelled the remaining t * ie The cargo of the Fair American trails of dry goods and flour. - . - ‘-ns culottes were landed from the ship this after. are now fofojjy* lodged in the gaol of this thy. 1 fAT'ANNAtf, ttowriftwr f M A R I N E L I ST. Entered Iswxao. Brig Minerva, Adams, Bolton Amelia, Stotefbury, New Castle Edward, Curran, Liverpool Schooner Betsey, Rudutph, * S:. Mary’s Cleared- Omh Schooner Harmony, Laughton, t Cbarlefton Sloop Mary, Joad, Sunbury Died last Saturday, after a few days illness, Mrs. Su iannah Putnam, wife of Henry Putnam, Esq. one of the Aldermen of this city. Ypfterday a Jury sf Inquest was held on the body of Mr. Stephen F. Randolph, who died on Tuesday at the house of Mr. Joseph Berry; they gave it as their opinion that his death vas occasioned by blows he received, at the house of a Mrs. Reed at Yamacraw, from Jeremiah Vaf teen, and Patfey his wife, on Monday night last. Vaf teen and his wife, (with a man named Johnson, as a party concerned in Randolph’s death) have been committed to gaol. From Timothy Pickering, Esq. Secretary of State, to P. Johnson, Esq. of Prince Edward county, Virginia. CConcluded-from our lajl.) Tlie addreflers complain of the odious Alien and Se dition Bills.” I will therefore take tlie liberty to Late.the objects of those bills, now become laws; and this having been done already, in an excellent address to tlie citizens of New Jersey, now before me, I (halt content my/elf with making the following extracts, with foihe final! vari ations: u The Alien Law has been bitterly inveighed against as a dirtft attack upon our liberties, when in fact it assists only foreigners who are conspiring against us, rnd has no relation whatever to an American citizen. It gives au thority to the firft Magistrate of the Union ‘ to order ill such alienr. as he fliall judge dangerous to tlie peace and fafety of the United States, or lha.ll have reasonable grounds to fufpedl are concerned in any trealonabh; 0. fee it t ma chinations against the Government thereof, to depart out of our territory.* It is only neceflary to alk whether, without such a power veiled in fome department, any Go vernment ever did, or ever can, long orotecl itfelf. ’Fhe objects of this a& are strangers merely, persons not adopted and naturalized, a defeription of men who have no lot nor interest with us, and who even mnnifeft a disposition the moil hostile to this country while it afford ; them an asylum and protection. It is abfird to fay that, in providing by law for their removal, the constitution is violated, for lie mud be ignorant indeed who does not know that the con stitution was eftablillied for the protection and security of American citizens, and not of intriguing foreigners.” “ The Sedition Act has likewise been, fhumefully misre presented, as an attack upon the freedom of speech arid of the press; but we rind, on the contrary, that it preferibes a punilhment only for thole pelts of society, and disturbers of order and tranquillity, 4 who write, print, utter, or publish any falll, IVandalor.s, and niaticious a gainft the Government of the United States, or either House of the Cor.grefs of the United States, or tlfe Preli dent of the United States, v.ith intent to defame or bring them into conten.pt or disrepute, or to excite against them the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to -stir up sedition, or to tbet the hostile designs of any foreign honeft man can be justly alarmed at such a law, or can wifli unlimited permiflionto be given for the publication of malicious falfehoods, and with intentions the mod base? They who complain of legal proviftons for pu niflring intentional defamation and lies, as bridling the li berty of speech and of the press, may with C-quai propriety complain against laws made for punilKing aflault and mur der as reflraints upon the freedom of mens actions. Kecaufe we have the right to speak and publilh our opinions it does not necessarily follow that we may exercise it in uttering falle and malicious slanders against our neighbor or our Government,’ any more than w: may, under cover of free dom of aft ion, knock down the firft man we meet, and exempt ourselves from punilhment by pleading that we are free agents. We may indeed uie our tongues, employ our pens, or carry our cudgels or our muikets, whenever v>& please; but at the fame time we muff: be accountable and punishable for making fueK Improper use of cither as to In jure others in their characters, their persons, or their pro perty. We would on this fubjeft only add, that so tender and regardful have Congress beer, in “this mftance of our rights a r citizens as to have expressly declared in the law, that any perffon prosecuted under it may give in evident-* in his defence the truth of tlie matter contained in the publication, and that the jury before whom the trial fhU b fliall have a right to determine the law and the faft, under the direction of .he Court, as : .n other caffes. Hence there can be no conviction, unlets it appears, not only that the matter written, printed, or publhl.ed, was faife, but that it was scandalous and malicious, and done with wicked intent.” Allow me once more to turn your attention to France. You will recolleft that, in the dispatches from our En voys, it appears that the person designated by tlie letter Y. accompanied Mr. Gerry on the 17th of October to Mr. Talleyrand’s office, where Mr. Gerry having observed to Mi. Talleyrand, that Mr. Y. had that morning Mated to him fome propositions as coming from hhn, Mr. Talley rand declared, “ that the information given him by Mr. Y. was just, and might always bellied on.” Look'mg back one page in tlie dispatches, we find the propositions dated tliat morning by Mr. Y. to Mr. Gerry thus recited: “ He (Mr. Y.) then dated, that two measures, which Mr. Talleyrand proposed, being adopted, a restoration of friend fhip between the republics would follow Immediately; the one was a gratuity of fifty thousand pounds fterlmg; the other apurchafe of thirty-two millions of the Dutch referip tions.” The dispatches that had been publiflied in the , United States, having been republished in Europe, were translated into French and other languages, and thereby obtained a general circulation, except in France, where all the prefles being under the abfolate control of the Direfto ry, they h*vf not allowed the dispatches to be publiflied, but where, however! it wa* imoaftWe bat that fcajco^i fiiculd be mt?o2uceds and the Trench Rwlorf, and tkjf Mmifler lalleyrand, being aware how detestable theib conduft, as represented in the dispatches, mufl renfler them in the eyes of all mankind, wished to wipe away their i<* normny, and especially the reproach of corruption, in re* fpeft to the douceur or gratuity of fifty thousand pound* nerling demanded for their own pockets, by calling theii Agents who informally conferred with our Envoys * ceiW tsdn intriguers, 1 ’ as if they were unauthorized and unknown. Vv ith this view Mr. Talfoyrand affefts an utter ignoranc# . of thc Frfons designated in the dispatches by the lcttert Vv. X. Y. and Z. and in his letter of May 30th, with solemn grimace, reqaefts Mr. Gerry immediately to com municate to him the names for which those letters Hand* And Mr. Gerry, although he knew that Mr. Talleyran4 was much better acquainted with X. Y. and Z. than b+ was himfelf, having complied with’ this insulting requeftj Mr. Talleyrand makes a formal record of their names, and then publishes the c.orrefpondence between him and Mrs Gerry on this fubjeft, in oi-der to blind the eyes of th French jieople, and amuffc the world with the idea that tb French Government held in abhorrence u the fcandalou* proposition (as Talleyrand calls it) made by X. and Y with refpeftto the payment any sum wliatcver, intended to be pocketed in a corrupt manner.” Now the person de* fignate&by Mr. Y. ha ; since openly avowed himlclf, and is a Mr. Bellamy, a Genevan, belonging to a commercial lioufe, and residing in Hamburgh. Mr. Bellamy, in * paper publiflied there on the 25th of June, in his own via# * ? dication, declarer, that “ he had done nothing, said n<M thing, written aothing, without the orders of Citizen. Tal- ) leyrand.” Bat tliere is one other important faft relative* to this business, not mentioned in the dispatches frojp th Envoys, which ought to be imiverfally known, and of th® truth of which I have incontrovertible evidence; it is this* u The company at the private dinner to which Mr. Gerry was. invited by Mr. Talleyrand coufifted of X. Y. and Z. After riling from table X. and Y. renewed to Mr. Gerry, in the room and in tlie presence (though perhaps not in thtf* hearing) or 1 all *yrand, the money propositions which th# Envoys had before rejeftedl” And yet Mr. Talleyrand ha* aftefted ignorance v. ho were meant by X. Y. and Zl What < unexamnled effrontery! r riie precedmg obiervations and statement have bee* made With the view of conutiuricating correft and ufefuj information to the treeholdei'S of Prince Edward county; and I might have contented ntyfelf with Iraufmitting thei* to you for that purpose; but this evening having seen in n Philadelphia newlpaper an address from tire freeholders o£: Prince Edward county, in the date of Virginia, which upon comparing I find to be the fame with tlujt you requeftea me to deliver to the President. This premature publication of the address seems to Ihew that thp objed of the addreflV ers T va.: n<J. imply to urge the President to exert his confti-” tutional powers, on the er.rlieft occalion, in the repeal o£ the aft.3 Which the address had cenfurcd, and which could not be done until the next leffion of Congrels, but to pro* cure partisans to their unfounded opinions among the people* 1 therefore think it proper, and my duty, fine* the occafio* has been offered, forthwith to caufr, tliis letter to he pub* lilhed. i have the honor to be, Sir, Your 1110 ft obedient fervaat, TIMOTHY PICKEKINC. FOR SALJi., at the Printing Office in Broughton Jlret\ Price a quarter dollar, The CANNIBALS PROGRESS. O E, The Dreadful Horrors of French Invafioftf As displayed by the Republican Officers and Soldiers; i> their perfidy, rapacity, ferocioufnefs, and brutality, ex. ercifed towards the innocent Inhabitants of Germany. Tranflatd from the German by Anthony Aufrub, Efir. “ fhty flay the r-Jiaow f.nd the Jbangtr, tni Murder the JathttltJt. ** Pfal. “ They fd\,ctne. kt r.s l*y wait for flood. WtJkttU find all preeifU) jubjiunct , tvijhall fH*our hf>ujc< voith JpoV.'l . PIOY. Alfa, price half a dollar, OBSERV ATXONS on the Diffpute between the Unite® States and France; addrefled by Robert G. Harper, Efq* of South Carolina, to his Conflituents, in May 1797. With a Preface and Appendix by the Author. The third American edition. It has palled through five editions i* England. n o 1 i c k. : —* ALL persons having any demands against the Estate of Gideon Dowse junior, late of Liberty county# deceased, by bond, note, or open account, are requeued to fend them in to the fubferibers within twelve months and a day from the date hereof after, which time the affairs of said Estate will be closed, and all accounts not rendered will be excluded. N. B. No open accounts unattested will be received. Susannah Dowse, Admri% 05. 9, 1798. ~ T.~ Bhadwell,") Jos. LAWjun. J Admrs * inrr i c k. ALL jKrfons having any demands against the Eftat* 01 Gideon Dowse lenior, of Liberty county, ctaled, are requested to make them known to the fubferiber, by the ill of March ensuing, there being a necefiityjof theie debts being afirertaintd as soon as poflible. a* counts must be attested. Tbos. Bradwell, Exor. Get, 9, 1798. ‘AKEN UP in Savannah, A Negro Wench, whai A calls herfelf Hannah , and fornetimes Kate, and Cij s it is two or three years flnee Die ran away front Charleston, that Ihe belonged to the widow of Thoma# Smith, but beliefs that she has been since fold to fom* person in the country; she appears to be about 25 year* old, of rather a yellow complexion. “Whoever she belong* to may have her by applying to Matthew Motz, Keeper of the federal gaol, and paying charges of advertising, &c Savannah, 30 tb Sept. 1797. ROUGHT to the Workhouse in Savannah, A Ne gro Fellow, named Buck, about 5 feet 6 inche* high, and about 40 years of age, (peaks very bad fays he belongs to one Mycr, in South Carolina. 2g, 1797. Jafof T*JX) Gwfc