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tO *R, Benjamin Talllaferro, Efy- 73j *nd Abraham fealJ.
win and John Milledge, Efqrs. 43 each.
Lincoln County Election.
Federal Reprefentativcs. Abraham Baldwin and James
Jones, Efqrs.
State Senator. Thomas Murray, tlq.
Members of the Hottfe of Representatives. Robert
Ware and John M. Dooley, Efqrs.
Greene County Election.
Federal Representatives. Be jamin Talliaferro and
James Jones, Efqrs. _
State Senator. Davis Gremam, .Llq. .
Members of the House of Representatives. O. Por
ter William Fitzpatrick, and William Melton, Efqrs.
Married on Thursday last, Mr. John Courtney to Miss
Ann Judith Ried. On Sunday, Capt. Thomas R. Box to
Miss Ann Netherclift. * xk
Died at St. Mary’s, in childbed, on the t6th mil. Mrs.
Mary Hebbard, wife of Elihu Hebbard, Esq. and daughter
of Mr. Jofliua Halley, of Biddeford, in the diftrift of
Maine and date of MafTachufette. She was an industrious
and affe&ionale wiffc, and a tender motlier.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Augug ac.
LAST night the Turkish Ministry received important
dispatches from the Pacha of Rhodes; they bring
advice that several French frigates had arrived at that bl
and, which had been seized by the Pacha, according tp
the orders lately received from the Grand Signior. The
Pacha has likewise tianfmitted the following intelligence:
Tne Englilh Admiral Nelson having appeared unexpea
edly ‘before the harbor of Alexandria found there the
French fleet and immediately attacked it; the French Ad
miral’s fliip, on board of which Buonaparte had bee*, took
fire and was entirely consumed; the French frigates which
escaped into the open sea were not aware that the Porte
was inimical!v disposed towards France, and that hostilities
had already commenced; they therefore came to anchor in
ihe harbor of Rhodes and were immediately confifcated.
From the Captains of these frigates the Pacha of Rhodes
feceived the account of the deftrufUon of the French fleet,
and the principal circumstance's of that event. The Porte
immediately communicated this intelligence, by their in
tepreter, to the foreign Ministers. This day the Englifli
Minister, Sir Spencer Smith, received the confirmation of
this account. *
With relpecf to the army of Buonaparte we have re
teived the following intelligence. It had for fome time
maintained a portion between Rosetta and Cairo, but fud
den'y retreated to Damietta. In the vicinity of this town
the French were attacked by an army of 20,000 Arabs,
the greater part cavalry, under the command of Muftapha
Bey and two other Beys; an obstinate battle ensued; and
the Arabs fay, in their account transmitted to the Pacha
of Daniafcus, that they forced the enemy to retire with
considerable lols, and that the French afterwards made a
(land a few leagues from Damietta. Those accounts do
not fay why Buonaparte at fit ft, in dead of advancing a
gninfl the relidue of the Beys, should have retreated so
soon; but this is aferibed partly to the numerous cavalry
that covered the city of Cairo, partly to the inundation of
the Nile, which at this time is at the highest, and partly
to the difficulty which the French found in obtaining pro
visions where so many of the roads were laid under water*
The Porte has taken great offence at the invasion of
Egypt by the French, and regards it as an aft of open hos
tility; it confiders the projeft of Buonaparte as very de
grading to its dignity, injurious to its government, and
contrary both to tlie claims it has to Egvpt and the relati
ons which long existed between it and the Beys, who go
vern Egypt in its name. The French Charge d’Affaires,
Citizen Ruffin, and all those in employment under him,
have in consequence been put under arrest and confined to
their houses; the French residents here have been forbidden
to wear the national cockade in the streets and public places;
they had indeed before laid alide the cockade, from fear of
being ill treated by the populace, t who are violently in
censed against the French. The French Charge d’Affaires,
in consequence of an intimation from the Porte, has like
w.fie been obliged to take down the insignia of the French
Republic which he had put over the door of his hotel; simi
lar orders have been sent to all the towns in which French
Consuls 01 Vice Consuls reside, as the Porte fears attempts
at revolutionary movements; particular orders have like
wise been sent to Jiffy and Bucharest relative to the French
Conrnls there, as the Porte believes a fufpicibits correspond
ence is carried on there with fome Polish malecontents.
Naples, Augujl 12. On the 3d inst. arrived in this
port four Portuguese men of war; one of them mounts 120
guns, the second 66, the tlnrd 60, and the fourth is a fri
gate; the iquadron is commanded by the Marquis tie NiiTa,
and ordered to reinforce the fleet of Admiral Nelson, who
arrived at Syracuse on the 21 ft of July, and failed from
thence to Alexandria on the 26th, after he had been joined
by several Enghlh men of war. His Sicilian Majesty a
few nays lince drank coflee on board of one of the P6rtu
guefe (nips, commanded by M. de Puyfegur, a French
Emigrant.
Vienna, September 5. It is now asserted that Prince
Repnin will not have the command of the Ruffian army
which is on its march, but that it will be given to Prince
Ferdinand of vVurtemberg. The Adjutant General of his
Imperial Majefty', Baron Vincent, has been sent to meet
the Ruffian troops, and accompany them through the Aus
trian hereditary states. At the lame time a considerable
Ruffian corps, under the command of Field Marshal Su
w arrow, will march into Turkey to restore tranquillity
ther fy while another army of Ruffians, in conjunftion with
tie iuvks, will be'employed against Buonaparte.
Raj.e, September it. The inhabitants of the canton
•i Ldenvald, determined to perftft in their refufal of tak
■king tr.e oaths, intrenched themselves in a very advantage
ous lunation near Stantz, where on tlie 9th inst. they were
attached by Gen. Schauenbourg with a large train of artil
- Itry; one body of French crofted tlie lake and landed near
Stantz. and'another marched over the mountains, by which
roar,;-, the inturgents were furronnded; they however de
fended themselves with the moft obstinate valor; at lerigtn
v.\ e obliged to give way. and all their artillery, mm-
fnimltluft, foil mt?> tlie liaiils the vigors; their loft
is estimated at I*soo befttles wounded; the town of Santa
was“afmoft wholly destroyed.
Paris , September 14* By letters from Malta we are
informed that Buonaparte disembarked at Alexandria on
the 13th Meflidor, (July i ft) together with the whole of
his army; that having there concluded a treaty of amity
with tlie Arab Chiefs, be directed his columns along the
Nile towards Cairo, which he entered at the head of his
army on tlie sth Thenuklor, (July 23) and laftiy, that,
mailer of all. Lower Egypt, he was proceeding on his march.
By the fame letters we learn that die squadron of Ad
miral Brileys, which had anchored on the coast of Beguie
res, and was preparing to return to France, has been at
tacked by tlie Englifli squadron, superior to ours both in
the number and rank of the fliips; that on both tides the
action was sustained with art obstinacy wholly Unexampled
in hirtory; that during the action the French Admiral’s fliip
was burnt; that two or three fliips were funk; that others,
both Jtnglifh and French, were cart upon the coast, after
having loft their marts; and finally, that fome other French
(hips remained completely disabled oil the field of battle.
We are tmeaiy refpedting their fate.
. London , September 24. Capt. Kedtes, of the Boadicea
frigate, who was left off Bast with a squadron of fliips of
war, has sent advice to the Lords of the Admiralty by a
of Mis fliip, that 9 large (hips had failed from
Brest, (it is believed on the 16th inst.) of which one or two
were of the lirte; they are supposed to be filled with troops
for the iuvafion of Ireland.
The last French papers fay that the Brest squadron is
under the command of Admiral Morard de Gallies, and
that therd is iio doubt <?f its being destined to acl against
Ireland.
September 27. The Dublin mails arrived yesterday,
which brought letters and papers of the 20th inst.
They bring the very curiofls intelligence, that on the
morning of the 16th inst. the Fuench national brig Ana
creon, having on board Gen. Rey and tlie notorious James
Napper Tandy, Chef de Brigade, appeared off the little
town and island of Rutland, on the northweftcoall of the
county of Donnegal, a place so utterly unnoticed, except
for its convenience to the herring fifliefy, as not to be de
fended by a Angle folaier. . About $ o'clock tlie crew of
the brig landed; they were far the moft part Iriftimen, and
anxiously folicked information concerning tlie French army
landed at Killala; nothing could equal their deje&ion*
when they were told not only that the whole French force
had been destroyed or captured, but that they had been
joined by comparatively very few of their Irift. rebel
friends. The Anacreon was laden with many Hand of arms
to supply thole who should join the French army; but such
was the caution or the terror of the country people that,
as soon as the French appeared, they .retired to the moun
tain St
The refultof this expedition is thus stated in the Dublin
Journal:
“ Gen. Tandy endeavored, but with little success, to
persuade the filhermen of Rutland that he and his friends
came to deliver them from the if oppreflbrs; fome of these
untaught men were so ignorant ae ta aik the General who
those oppreflbrs Were. ‘
“ The General then iiTued two manifeftoes, in order to
convey his meaning more explicitly to tlie inhabitants of
Rutland; these manifeftoes, written and printed at Paris,
had little or noefiedl; t!ie*fifhe'men continued unconvinced
of their grievances, and the lotuitry people continued to
hide in the mountains.
“ Having made no more considerable progress in the
course of Sunday than the fe’mre of fome iheep and (wine,
which the French found in Rutland, Gen. Rey, Gen. Tan
dy; Gen. Blackwell, and funky ether Generals who ac
companied them, (for - it Ihou and feeiii that the Directory
deemed it necelfary to fend an army of Generals to the
deliverance of Irelarid) reembadted on board the Anacreon,
out of which not one muiket had been and flood
awav to the H. e.”
Oft ober 2. The long expe&ed news is come at last;
and, though not in a regular dispatch from Admiral Nelson,
it is transmitted to us through a channel that admits of no
doubt.
Yesterday morning Capt. Sutton, of the Princi of Wales
packet, which brought over the Hamburgh mail, arrived
at the Secretary of State’s office, charged with a dispatch
from Sir Morton Eden at Viennt, Which was delivered to
him at Cruxliaven after the mail >vas on board. By this
dispatch, which is dated the 15th of September last, we
learn, that on the 3d ult. the Mfltine cutter, Capt. Capel,
who was Ift or 2d Lieutenant of Admiral Nelson’s fliip, but
fuice promoted to the rank of Matter and Commander, ar
rived at Naples, with letters from the Admiral to Sir Wil
liam Hamilton. ‘ These letters contained advice, that on
the Ift of August our fleet attacked the ertemy ! s fliips near
Rosetta, and his whole line of battle (consisting of 13 fail)
w v as either funk, taken, or destroyed, excepting two fliips,
which the Paris papers repiefent to have taken fl.elter, one
in the island of Malta, the other in Corfu. This intelli
gence was communicated by Sir William Hamilton, at
Naples, to Sir Morton Eden, at Vienna, and was further
corroborated by letters from Prince Belmonte, at 1 riefte,
to the Neapolitan Minifler at Vienna. It is laid there was
a number of troops on board tlie Freiich fleet, whom it was
not thought neccffary to land at Alexandria.
The Admiral’s fliip, of 120 guns, commanded by a
Corftcan of the nanle of Calabianca, is burnt. A victory
more glorious and more complete is not recorded in the an
nals of our navy; nor has any of our naval triumphs been
so likely to produce a general good influence throughout
Europe. In this point of view we confider Admiral Nel
son’s victory as more important than the mere capture or
deftruclion of so many fliips. The Mediterranean is hence
forth placed under the direction of the Brit.fh flag. Ihe
Ruffian squadron has by this time palled the Dardanelles to
cooperate with our fleet in after ting the liberty of that sea.
Nothing can prevent the Turkish Government from em
barking troops in any part of tlie Ottoman dominions to
march against Buonaparte, who has advanced into an hos
tile country, and is now entirely cut off from France,
whence he cannot receive the leaf! succor. We cannot refill
indulging in the fond hope that this General is on tlie point
of terminating his brilliant but (iiort career in the &nds cf
Maltd, Tliich was tft Cnfurfe to the flfttiolf
the empire of the Levant, badly supplied with provisions,
and blocked up by our squadrons, will probably soon bo
refeued from the dominion of its new rulers. In fliort,
the people of Italy, relieved from the dread which the su
periority of their delpots in those seas naturally inspired,
have onljy to join hand and heart in their operations by land
to fliake off the galling yoke of tlie moft dreadful tyrantfc
that ever lorded it over the world.
Such is the brief (ketch of the immediate confequence*
of this important victory; but its effe&s will not lie confined
to Italy; the endless negotiations at Raftadt will alfo.fecl
its influence. These yvho suppose that it will accelerate the
conclusion of a general peace are grossly mistaken; the
French Government cannot maintain itfelf but amidst the
horrors of war; like the faiamatyler, it cannot exist but in
the midst offi ame sytheru 1e rs of the French Republic stand
in need of war to have a pretext for pursuing revolutionary
nieafures against their enemies in the interior; they stand
in need of war to balance, by fome ftlccefs in Germany or
•Italy, the total defeat of their naval force in the Levant,
as well as to employ their land troops, wliofe inaction might
prove extitmely dangerous to the present rulers of the great
nation. It is a-fad prognostic, yet an undoubted truth which
events will soon confirm, that hostilities will ere long bes
renewed on the continent; we sincerely hope with morn
success than has hitherto attended the continental war a
gainst France.
It is not the least important part of the hc\vs received
yesterday to know that Gen. Buonaparte’s dilpatches have
been doubly intercepted. His firft dispatch, dated from
Alexandria, on the Bth of July, was feut to France by ait
<7s i/e, which was taken by a Turkish vcffel before the
French bad time Fo throw the dispatches overboard; the
second dftpatch was taken by Admiral Nelson’s cruifers*
We have reason to believe that our Government is by this
time in complete pofleffion of all tlie further proje&s of the
French in Egypt*
On Sunday afternoon Sir Sydney Smith again left tow*
for Portfinouth, being appointed to a separate command*
As we know that an Englifli officer is about to leave this
country for Constantinople, to take the command of the
Turkish fleet, we think it highly probable that Sir Sydney
is the man.
The French Directory are Arid to have made propofitirtn*
to Russia and Austria to effedl tlie conquefl of the Turkish
empire and divide it between the three nations. If this b
acceded to the long projected revolution of Spain is to be
achieved without delay by Gen. Angereau, whose head
quarters are now at Perpignan, who is only waiting for
the conclusion of peace with Germany to enter the Spanifli
territory;
Yesterday arrived a mail from Dublin, which we have
the pleasure lb lay confirms the advices received on Sunday
of the total defeat of the rebels in the nortuweu of Ireland.
It appears that they were attacked on Sunday fe’nnightby
,Gen. Trench in the town of Killala, aud after a fliort coif
(lift .completely routed.
Tlie letters vary as to the number of rebels killed; feme
estimate their loss at 3500 men, while others mention
only 1000; the Wretched remnant, of their force (com
manded by fome of the French officers left behind) surren
dered at diferetion, and several of their Irifli leaders were
immediately executed.
The Billiop of Killala, so long a prisoner in the hand*
of the rebels, has by. this event recovered his liberty; nearly
306 Protestants, who had been captured from time to time,
have also been relcafed; these persons were continually in
hazard of a general massacre, from which only the interfer
ence of the French leaders could restrain the lavage Iriflt
rebels;
The Armagh regiment composed the greater part of the
troops under Gen. Trench in the attack upon Killala.
James Brup.h fen. ‘ r 6l
versus Petition for Foreclosure.
Robert H. Hughes;J
UPON tlie petition of James Bruer fen. praying the
foreclofure of the equity of redemption of all those
two trails of land, containing five hundred acres, more or
less, viz. one trail of four hundred acres, including the
improvements of James Bluer junior; the other trail of
one hundred acres, including the dwelling or other improve
ments of the said James Bruer senior; the four hundred
acre trail originally granted to James Bruer fen. and the
other trail of one hurtdred acres granted to Wil
liam Crawford; mortgaged to the said James BrUef fen.
for the leciirity of a sum of money in the said mortgage
mentioned; and on motion of Mr. Cuyler, Counsel for the
petitioner; it is ordered , That tlie principal, interest, ancl
• costs, upon the said mortgage, be paid into Court, or the
equity of redemption be from thenceforth Foreclosed: And
it is further ordered , That this rule be published in the
Gazettes of this (late, or served on the mortgager or hisr
Attorney, at least nine months previous to tlie time of the
money being paid into Court as aforefaid.
ExtraSl of the Minutes ,
John G* Neidlingeh, c. s. c. e* c*
May 11, 1798;
BOUGHT to the Workhouie in Savannah, A Negio
Fellow, named York, fays he belongs to one Mr.
Yawney in Gharlefton; he is about 5 feet 6 inches high,
and about 50 years of age, his bread is greatly scarred by
a bum from powder, as he fays.
June 13, 1798. Jacob Twr.rss, Gaoler.
ROUGHTto theWorkhoufe, A New Negro Wench,
named Phillis , has her country marks on her face
and left arm, speaks bad Englifli, is about 5 feet 4 inches
high, and about 30 years of age, has a long white Negre
cloth wrapper, and fays (he belongs to one Duncan.
Jacob Treiss, Gaoler.
November 12, 179H* ‘
r UP at the fubferiber’s plantation, Screve*
I county, on the main 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 (houlder 26, and on the near
buttock IN, trots and canters, about 14 hands high.
29, 1797. §T &rUM r&ARCE.