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, vfeMlc. the Dsnifti rtiip Sifters, Cap!* Pct.UK, S 4
ff{m Guernfcy. By her London pa|Krs have been
*Ld to the a. ft December* The pr.nc.pal amcles of
!*- nc9 are: That France has declared war against the
Naples and Sardinia: That the Britilh have cap
-3 Mahon and Malta, together with the troops and all (
thp flii’S of war at those islands: That a Britilh fleet had
% pars'd cfF Corsica, and an attempt would probaoly be
2L to conquer it: That the Turks and Ruffian* were
,lively engaged with considerable force to destroy the
French army in Egypt under Buonaparte, and had been
foccefsful in capturing the ancient Venetian islands of Ce
. /ante, and Cephaloma, and the port of Corfu* lhe
fubiea of an union between England and Ireland has ex-
Wd in the latter a degree of irritation as alarming as it is
c- neral, and is wnrmly opposed by every class of people in
that country, as tending to destroy and annul forever the
conffitutional and legislative independence of Ireland. Se
veral paragraphs mention the assassination of Buonaparte,
• but ‘ t |, e following contains the moft particular account of
that event. „
Norfolk, February 18.’ We regret that we were not
able to procure the paper of the 22d December, as it con
tains many interesting particulars, among which are, a pa
ragraph, dated from Mr. Pitt’s house in Downing street,
Hating, “ That Buonaparte, on receiving information that
Murat Bey was advancing against Cairo with a formidable
armv, had fumtnoned a Council of his principal officers, to
which the Chiefs that had joined him were invited, and from
whom he demanded the supplies ncceflary; on which a
Tripolitan Chief fired a pistol from under his cloak and (hot
Buonaparte; this was a signal for the othep to aft, and the
whole of the French Officers were put-to death.”
The fame paper also dates that the King of Prussia has
informed the Senate of Hamburgh he cannot confider Nap
pe,. Tandy a citizen of France, as he had not been a resident
for {even years. , *
The Barbary slates have landed 8000 men at Abcukir,
and retaken Alexandria.
Gbarlejlon, February 23. We have gathered no far
ther information on the fubjeft of the papers detected in
the Hamburgh vessel which can be relied on; a trunk was
yesterday found on board of her, the contents of which it
is said are of considerable importance.
February 25. Yesterday arrived the brig Confta’.it
Cronftedt, Forfman, leghorn, 98 days.
The brig Two Brothers of Altona, Capt. Schow, from
Li/bon, which place he left on the 1 ith of November, on
her passage, in lat. 37. long. 59. met with a severe gale
of wind, which carried away both marts, the rudder, two
men, and every thing upon deck. The crew were then
unable to guide the vessel, and flie drifted at the mercy of
the waves into the latitude of the Weft Indies. On the
25th of January one of the people died with hunger, and
it was agreed by the crew on board to cut him into pieces
and eat him, when fortunately, on the 26th, fell in with
the schooner Aurora, Capt. Cowls, of Boston, bound to
Charleftun, from Demerara, which supplied them with
provisions and neceffarfes, and took the vessel in tow to
the edge of the Gulf, where the cable broke in the night,
■when the vessel drifted again, until ftie fell in with a coas
ter from Charleston to Georgetown, commanded by Capt.
Harrison, who politely supplied the peopte on board with
water, and piloted the vessel into Bull’s Bay. The crew
were without water (even days, and for fix days eat only
of a cat and fome rats. |
February 26. Yesterday arrived Ihip Henricus Fourth,
Diedrickfon, Bourdeaux, 62 days.
We are informed that the Frenchmen who were taken
out of the Hamburgh brig Minerva, and confined in Fort
Pinckney, are now released from their close confinement,
and fuffered to walk about the fort, and that their baggage
has been restored to them.
Capture of a French frigate.
Capt. Snow, from St. Kitt’s, brings accounts of the
capture of the French frigate L'lnfurgente by the United
States frigate Constellation, Capt. Truxton. The parti
culars we have collected of this action are as follow:
On the 9th of this month the Constellation fell in with
the Infurgente off Nevis; they kept up a running fight
until they got off St. Kitt’s, when a close engagement took
place, which lasted near an hour, when the French frigate
struck.
Capt. Snow left St. Kitt’s on the nth instant, with 14
fail of American vessels, under convoy of the United States
brig Norfolk; as they came out they saw the two frigates
Handing for St. Kitt ; s. The Norfolk spoke the- Constella
tion. --r- ■
Capt. Williams, of the Norfolk, -on his return to the
fleet, informed them, that the Constellation had only two
men killed, and had received little or no damage. The
Infurgente had upwards of 40 men killed, had loft her main
top mart, and was conliderably damaged in her hull. The
Infurgente mounts 44 guns, and is one of the frigates which
brought out the Agents of the Directory of France to Cay
enne and Guadaloupe.
The engagement happened in the night; every gun fired
was heard in St. Kitt’s.
The Norfolk convoyed the fleet of merchantmen to lat.
21. and then returned to the Weft Indies.
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SAV ANN AH, March- 7.
PRICE CURRENT of COUNTRY PRODUCE, 6th
March.
Rice, (new) 1 dollar socents a 1 dollar 75 cents per 100 lbs.
Tobacco, 7 dollars a 7 dollars 12 J. cents per 100 lbs.
Cotton, (Sea Illand) 23d. a 24d. sterling.
(Upland) roller ginned, 13d. a i6d
machine do. 14ft. a 14JK
CpHb 6/ 2 cents per buflieU ‘
Beer Ikihs, 25 cents per lb.
Boards, 11 dollars per m. feet.
Scant!
Ranging timber, 15 -a 18, Georria meafureinent.
lumber. >White oak hog'he ad Haves, 16 a 18.
Red oak hngftiead ditto, 10 a iu
Shingles, (Ixwtetl) 303’.
. ; (rafted) 2 a a£
MA R I t Lls T.
Entered Inward.
Schooner Irifiuftry, Kofis, Chaiteftofi
Ship Lsncafter, Wilson, La:,carter and Martinique
Sloop Flora, Hammond, New York
Brig Eliza, Crowell, Boston
Arethufia, Smith, Providence
Sloop Ranger, Caldwell, Salem
Exchange, Bailey. Charleston
Schooner Friendlhip, Tnprell,, Grenada
, Cornelia, Auten, New York
Brig Rebecca, Wardell, :
Schooner Lark, Tobey, St. Vincent’s
Hester, Dickey, Trinidad
Brig Sally, Courtney, ** “ Charleston
Adventure, Harding, Jamaica
Nancy, Bond, St. Vincent
Ship Eliza, Brown, , Jamaica
Cleared Out.
Brig Hannah, Norris, Gottenburg
Ship Polly and Harriet, Cruft, Trinidad
Schooner Illinois, Brown, Jamaica
Ship Hope, Callaghan, Liverpool
Diana, Bolton*, , Ditto
Schooner Governor Beckwith, Morris, Barbados
Brig Peggy and Polly, Drummond, Ditto
Sloop Harriot, Stevens, ... Bermuda
John, Waterman, ■ New Providence
Brig Defiance, Atmore, Jamaica
Atlantic, A/kins, . - Surinam
Schooner Betsey, Lovett, Copenhagen
Sally, Griffing, Bruafwick
Sloop Union, Snow, New York
Capt. Bond, from St. Vincent’s, having favored us with
London papers to the 25th of December, we are enabled
to lay before our readers the following intelligence:
That Capt. Gifford, First Aid de Camp to Gen. Stuart,
arrived at the office of the Right Hon. Henry Dundas on
the 23d of December with an account of the surrender of
the illand of Minorca to the Britifti forces, who had not
loft a single man in the expedition.
That the Peterell sloop of war had been recaptured from
the Spaniards by the Argo, Capt. Bowen.
That the city of Leghorn has been taken by a detach
ment cf Englilh and Portuguese ships, having Neapolitan
troops on board.
That official advice had been received at the Admiralty
Office of the recapture of Malta, the French garrison hav
ing surrendered prisoners of war to Lord Nelson, who
commanded the fleets of England and Portugal which
blockaded the harbor, the Guillaume Tell, of 80 guns,
and the Diane and Justice frigates being made prizes.
That Gen. Mack, commanding the Sicilian army under
the King in person, had entered the Roman state, and
lummoned Gen. Championet to retire with * the French
troops into the Cifalpine Republic; a refufal, or his enter
ing the territories of the Grand Duke of Tuscany, to be
considered as a declaration of war.
That war had been declared by the French Republic a
gainst the Kings of Naples and Sardinia, and the Sardinian
Ambassador and Neapolitan Charge d J Affaires were arrested
and confined in their houses in Paris.
That an army of Ruffians had arrived in Bohemia.
That Thomas Grenville, Esq. had been sent by the
Britilh Court to Berlin.
And that a Court Martialh,ad honorably acquitted Capt.
Thompson and his officers for the loss of the Leander in
her engagement with the Genereux.
Appointments by Authority.
Rufus King, Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary for the spe
cial purpose of negotiating a treaty of amity and commerce
with the Emperor of all the Ruflias.
William Smith, Esq. Minister Plenipotentiary for ne
gotiating a treaty of amity and commerce with the Sublime
Ottoman Porte.
From the TRUE AMERICAN of February 19.
Our readers will perceive in the proceedings of the House
of Representatives yesterday an assertion by Mr. Parker,
that he was informed by a Member of the Senate that the
President had nominated a nets Minister to France. We
took fome pains to learn the truth of this, and are happy
to have it in our power to state, that the President yester
day sent a message to the Senate, in which he informed
that Body, that it had been, and still was, his determina
tion to adhere to his former declaration of not fending an
other Minister to France, unless he had assurances of his
being received as became the Representative of a great,
free, powerful, and independent Nation; but that, as he
had now received those assurances from the French Min;!-
ter, through Mr. Vans Murray, our Minister at the
Hague, he had nominated that gentleman on the part of
the United States. The President further mentioned in
his message, that his inftruftions to Mr. Murray (hould
be, not to leave Holland until- lie received unequivocal
assurances that he would be properly received, and that a
Minister equal in dignity was appointed on the part of the
Direftory to fettle the existing differences and conclude a
treaty.
Married on Saturday last, Mr. Thomas Robertson, to
Mils Rebecca EIOII, daughter of Mr. Elisha Eion, de
ceased.
ASSIZE for MARCH, i 799 .
THE Price of Flour being. 11 dollars per barrel, of
“196 lbs. nett, the weight of Bread for this month
must be as follows, viz. .
12 1-2 cents loaf. I 1-4 cents loaf,
lbs. oz* I lb. oz.
20 ] 10
JOHN GIBBONS, City Treasurer.
T w antedlmm ediate^y”
A MAN who his a family, and is well ac
quainted with the taking care of stock, to reside on the
Illand of Great Waffaw. A person of this defeription,
who can be well recommended, will meet with liberal en
couragement, by appljing to • S. WAIjL.
fan. 9.
I . tt'A.VfED iMMEDtATELr ,
AN OVERSEER to take charge of about
20 Negroes on Waffaw Illand; one with a small family*
and who is’ acquainted with the making of Lime, will be
preferred. - None need apply without being well recom
mended. ■
SAM* WALL,
NICHOL’ TURNBULL.
15*
Notice is hereby given,
THAT the fubferiber has loft A RED POCKET
BOOK, on the main road leading from Savannah to.
Augusta, (supposed to be loft between Ebenezer and the
Beaver Dams) containing a hole of hand for 700 dollars,
given by Daniel Moett, of Savannah, to John Walker, of
Burke county, and endorled Alexander Watt, dltted the
6th day of February, and payable in 91 days, and other
papers of no consequence but to the owner. Whoever de
livers the laid pocketbook, with the contents, to Groce
Scruggs, Stephen Pearce, or Isaiah Carter of Waynefbo-*
rough, fliall receive a reward of ten dollars.
Feb. 9, 1799. JOHN WALKER.
ABSENTED himlelf from mv plantation about the
11 th of* 12th instant, A NEGRO MAN, named
JOE; he is young, strong, a Hive, and artful, about 5 feet
8 or 9 inches high; when a boy he waited about house, and
attended me in Charleston, and since that’ in this state,
therefore well known; lpeaks plain Englilh, only when
attempting to speak faft Hammers a little. A fliort time
lince he was brought from on board a vessel at the riding
ground near Mr. N. Turnbull’s. A reasonable reward
will be paid to whoever will lodge him in gaol in this city,
with all necessary charges, if any*’ All Captains of vessels
and other persons are cautioned against harboring or carry
ing him away, as they will be profeemed as the law di
rects. N. W. JONES.
Savannah, 21J? February , 1799.
TWEN TY DOLLA Kb
SHALL be paid to any person who will lodge in the.
gaol of Savannah, t;he Negro woman FANNY, who
ran away in the month of June last, and has been long
advertised; flie has been so fully deferibed that a repetition
is considered unnecessary, particularly as flie is generally
kndwn in and about the city. The fame reward will be
paid on fatisfaftory proof that flie has been carried off bv
any master of a vessel, or other person, provided such person,
or any one concerned in her removal, can be come at.
JAMES JONES. :
BeJvidere, Bryan county , fitn. 3, 1799.
’ j—H—r I■ , p UN~AWAY~from the fiffifcrib
® i| XY cr’s boat on Friday morning the
*£-*, I 21st instant, A Negro Fellow, by the
l| name RIRRY, about 5 feet 2or 3
inches high, well made, fjieaks good
Englifli, has a blemilh in one eye, Mn
in one of the northern states, and is
supposed to be harbored on board fome
vessel bound to New York or Philadelphia. A reward of
ten dollars is offered to any person who will deliver him to
the Keeper of the Workhouse in Savannah; and if harbor
ed by a white person a further reward of 30 dollars will be
paid on conviHion, by applying to Meins and Mackay in
Savannah, or the fubferiber at liis plantation on St. Si
mon’s. S. WRIGHT.
December 25, 1798. 1 _
Robert Lindsay"!
versus >Petition for fcreclcfurc.
John Terete, j - ‘ — : —
State cf Georgia ,) Superior Court , September
Camden County. > Term , 1798.
UPON the petition of Robert Lindsay, praying the
foreclofure of the equity of redemption on the fol
lowing mortgaged premises, to wit: All that trail of land
on the river St. Mary, in the county of Camden, in the
state aforefaid, adjoining Buttermilk Bluff, being eight
trails, late the property of Jermyn and Charles Wright,
fold agreeable to the Ail of Confifcation, with the surplus,
being fix thousand and fifty acres, more or less; also an
other trail on the north point of Crooked river, likewise
fold agreeable to the Ail of Confifcation, having the
property of Knox, with the surplus, amounting to
l'even thousand and forty acres, more or less; also another
trail of eighteen hundred and eighty-eight acres, adjoining
the fame; also two trails of a thousand acres each, and one
of five hundred acres adjoining; together with all and lin
gular the rights, members, and appurtinancesPiOn motion
of Mr. Harris, Attorney for the petitioner: It is thereupon
ordered by the Court , That the principal, interest, and
costs, upon tlie mortgage, be paid into Court within
twrttfe n onths from this date, and unltfs the fame be so
paid the equity of redemption lhall thenceforth be foreclof
ed, and other proceedings take place, pursuant to the ail
of Assembly in such case made and provided: And it is
further ordered, in pursuance of the faicb ail, 1 hat this
rule be published in one of the Gazettes of this state, or
served on the mortgager, or his Attorney, at least nine
months previous to the time by which the said money must
be paid into Court as aforefaid.
Extraft from the piinutes, this 7 tb
day of September , 1798.
GEORGIA.
Notice is hereby given, that, in pursuance of the aft
of the in such case made and provided,
application will be made, in behalf of-the administrator
and heirs of Robert Harris, late of Chatham county, de
ceased, to the Judges of the Inferior Court of said county,
after the expiration of nine months from the date hereof,
for permission to fell and convey the following lands be
longing to said estate, viz. a traft of 200 acres at the
mouth-of Brier Creek, originally granted to John Street in
1767; 300 acres on Weftem Shore River, Camden coun
> ty, granted to, said Harris; 200 acres on Horse Landing
River, Camden county, granted to the said Harris.
RICHARD M. STITES, Attorney for the
administrators and heirs of Robert Harris.
Savannaby December 21, 1798.
BLANK MORTGAGES may be iiad f tU
Printers hereof.