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•. cftU fe the enemy have bound you In the chains of a <3.f-
C l neace is it a crime to break them? According to
Ks maxim of the Republicans, the only fraternal kils
which a tyrant should receive from us ought to be a mortal
Hln v directed against his bosom; and to speak m the French
manner, Brutus dabbed Csfar while he embraced lnm and
/•ailed him his son. ,
Thus then his Sardinian Majesty, though unarmed,
without fortreffes, and surrounded with Republican batta
lions, may dill aspire to the glory of delivering Italy.
The French troops are dilperfed over Piedmont under
the fahh of treaties. All that is wanting then is, to rouse
the patriotism of the Piedmontefe to sentiments of the mod
enthuiiafm, and that each man should aspire to the
honor of extending one of the enemies of his country at his
feet. These partial massacres will be more decilive for Pi
edmont than a pitched battle; and never will a judpoderity
ftiematize with the name of affaflination the energetic ads
0 f a whole People marching over the dead bodies of their
oppressors to the recovery of their 1 iberty. I hope that you
wuil make the value of these considerations be felt in the
Councils of his Sardinian Majesty, and that they will not
be opposed in a Court which has been so cruelly rendered
the vi&im of the Republicans, and which the coalelced
Powers take under their special protection.
Believe me to be with sentiments, See.
ExtraSl of a letter from the fame to the fame .
Naples, Odobcr 4, 1793.
I had finilhed my letter, when the arrival, from Berlin,
©f Monsieur the Baron D’Awervech, the secret Agent of his
Majefty, induced me to delay the departure of the
courier, in order to inform you of fome circumstances very
highly interesting.
The Baron D’Awervech, one of the mod active Diplo
matic Agents on the continent, and who seems to multiply
himfelf, that he may be prelent wherever he can serve that
cause which is to unite all the Princes of Europe against
prance, after having been at the Carlfruhe, as you know,
for the purpose of holding a conversation with Count Met
ternich, went off to Berlin, there to concert with Prince
Repnin the means of reattaching to the Coalition all the
powers who are interested. He is now arrived here; and,
after the conference which I have had with him, I cannot
but repeat how highly important are the observations which
I have taken the liberty of transmitting to you. The
Baron is to write to Monsieur N , (the Emigrant
Governor of Turin, whose name I have forgotten) defiling
him at the fame time to communicate the letter to you.
You will fee, Count, that Fortune must cease to rebel a
gainst us if we have only the courage to force her. The
genius of Prince Repnin, seconding .the vast conceptions
of the Cabinet of St. James’s, is preparing to convert into
mournful cypress those laurels with which the Republicans
have covered Italy.
Our brave Neapolitans, commanded by Gen. Mack,
will firft found the toefin of deftru&ion against the common
enemy; and from the summit of the Capitol we will an
nounce to Italy, we will announce to Europe, that the
hour of awakening is arrived. Then, unfortunate Pied
montefe, it is for you to break those chains which you are
conflrained to wear, for the purpose of striking w ith them
your oppreflors.
The Ligurian and Cifalpine Republics, which now ap
pear as political ramparts erected by France for her defence,
and for the subjugation of Italy, are about to be converted
into a volcano, which will swallow their protestors. The
demagogic furies already rage in the bosom of those Re
publics, their minds are exasperated, and the military force
is become the support of a turbulent faction. Their poli
tical state every day wears anew form. The French Ge
neral has of his own private authority destroyed the work
of his Government, bv annulling its appointments, and
replacing those whom it had dismissed. You must fee,
Count, of how much use this confufion is to us y and how
necessary it is that we should fieize on this happy occalion,
to offer ourselves as the avengers of all the discontented,
who. by so many arbitrary aSts, must have very greatly
multiplied.
I take the liberty, therefore, of recommending to your
particular attention the letter which you will communicate
to Monsieur (the Emigrant whose name lhave for
gotten.) j
I am, with the highest confickration, &c. &c.
Baron Acvervccb *to M. ———, Governor cf Turin.
Naples, October 6.
I arrived'here two days ago from Berlin. Prince Pig
natelli lias informed Count Prioca of the happy result of
the negotiation. In spite of the obstinate neutrality of the
King of Prulfia, and the timid fteps-of the Cabinet of Vi
enna, Prince R pnin will be able, by powerful alliances,
to nipport all the Princes who (hall be disposed to deliver
Europe from French influence; and the Britifli Govern
ment, uniting its efforts to those of Ruftia, will have the
glory of giving peace to the Continent, since certain pow-
Cj s, detaching themselves by private treaties, appear to be
hold with an incredible apathy toe subjugation of the rest
of Europe. They will, perhaps, hereafter reproach Eng
land for its alliance with the antient enemy of all Christian e
Princes, and her allowing the interposition of Ruftia in the
affairs of the Continent; but the extraordinary circum
stances which havp taken place compel her to a bold deve
lopement of her political (yftem. France is become a Co
sus which destroys the proper balance; it is therefore ne
cessary to create a powerful counterpoise. It must be con
fcHic, Sir, that no pbwer at present assumes fp grand a
character as that which Great Britain at this moment dif
pl.’ vsp her glory would necessarily be reflected upon all
t :ale states which fliall l>e disposed not to partake her dan
ger-, put to associate themselves with her triumphs: Pied
*n r.t, above all, should interest ufelf in her cause, since
England guarantees to it the refumptljn of its place among
t iu Continental powers, if, joining prudent circumfpedtion
to courage the must determined, it opposes to the French
legions, which inupdate that country, those partial attacks
to which the people, even the moft patient, feel themselves
excited by £. ientiment pi national pride, when raised to
iauatitifm.
’ Tb:s Baron Av.ervecb, the intimate friend cf Mr.
- is the f er-fi director cf the —— fpics cn the
Continent.
The Ambaffaddr from the Court of London to Berlin
has just concerted with Prince Repnin a measure the moft
bold that modem diplomacy could suggest ilMie present
circumstances, to put an end by force, as it were, to the
indecision of Austria. They will cause hostilities immedi
ately to be commenced by the Court of Naples: a treaty !
of alliance, offenfive and defenfive, concluded between
these two powers, will authorize his Sicilian Majesty again
to call to its aid the Austrian contingent; when all Europe
will be put in motion upon the (bores of the Bofphorus, as
upon those of the Danube; upon the banks of the Neiper,
as upon those of the Rhine; in order to precipitate them
selves eti majfe upon that nation of usurpers; and it is then
that the Thames, with a just pride, mixing itfelf with the
waves of the ocean, shall carry to all the European fliores
the triumphant laurel entwined by the olive cf Peace.
We propose war with the more security, finct; the ene
my is obftinatt'ly inclined to peace. He even supplicates
it as the greatest favor. The Directory, no longer haughty,
seems to break his iron forehead on the steps of ali the
thrones in Europe, in order to delude us with refpeft to
the gigantic aggrandizement of France, and the poverty of
its domestic resources. The enemy would thus deceive us
as to his real power, andperfuade us that he is actuated by
a-spirit of excessive moderation: but that Government
shall not make us mistake the essence which-constitutes it:
we know that tile-revolutionary effervefcence, which seems
hitherto to have formed its principal force, is at last ex
hausted by the continued efforts which it has so long di
rected against the repose of Europe. The French Govern
ment no longer regards the Cifalpine State as a rampart
which it can oppose to foreign attacks: even this new con
quest alarms its masters, by that factious spirit with which
we aliment the war, and by which we neutralize the kind
of regular policy which they endeavor to organize in that
country.
T he flames of civil war already rage in t?ie provinces of
Brabant; the Grifons will hold Helvetia in check; the Cif
alpines display a Republican quackery, but it is by their
demagogic turbulence that we shall cor i t them. Prince
Repnin has informed me, that all the imtruCUons which he
has sent to perfonagesof the greatest influence in Lombardy,
and \Vho wish to ref cue their country from the French yoke,
tend to promote the deftru&ion of Republicanism by its
own follies, in order to oppose to the influence of the Di
rector) even the principles of that liberty of which it con
stitutes itfelf the Universal Apostle. You therefore need
not have been furp ifed at the changes to which we provok
ed the haughty spirit of the French General who commands
at Milan; certain dilputes which took place between him
and the Ambassador Prove did not escape our attention.
J he Diplomatic Agent wished to modify the political
Iriftitutions ol the New Republic according to that spirit
of conciliation which seems to have been adopted by the
French Directory as their lyftem to consolidate their au
thority amidst the turbulence of faftion. But the General,
through a lentiment of jealous rivalfliip, surrounded himfelf
with all the revolutionary elements, which were in a state
of collision under the new organization. The Jacobin
Clubs were closed, and his palace became the rallying place
for the moft furious demagogues. He interposed 1 his mili
tary to protect the principles which were violat
ed, and to reeftablilh, in all their plenitudes, the rights of
National Sovereignty. He overturned every thing to in
oculate, as it were, the Cifalpine Republic with the per
fection of demagogy. The former Magistracy was restor
ed, and the work of the Ambassador was not only annihi
lated, but it was declared in proclamations to be injurious
to the political rights cf this Sovereign Nation under guar
dian Ih ip. j
The Ligurian Republic is about to feel the fame critical
convulsion. The French troops will be scattered in order
to proteCl this political jumble. It is then that Italy will
have it in her power to avenge herfelf on her oppressors.
Then the brave Piedmontefe soldiers will find the way
prepared for them to unite themselves under the fhndard of
the formidable Coalition. Such, Sir, is the plan concerted
by the vast genius of Prince Repnin, and of which you fee
the firft openings. You may affine your Court that Great
Britain has not formed an alliance with the Emperor of all
the Ruffias but for the purpose of securing the political ex
istence of every Prince who fliall find himfelf surrounded
by those revolutionary whirlwinds hitherto
fubjeCted so many provinces to die doiptfnon of Republican
FOR SALE,
A likely young Wench ,
A good cook, waiher, and ironer.
Inquire of the Printers.
April 2.
ASSIZE for APRIL, 1799. r
THE Price of Flour being 1 dollars per barrel, of
196 lbs. nett, the weight of Bread for this month
must be as follows, viz.
1 cents loaf. 6 A cents loaf,
lbs. oz. lb. oz.
21 1 4
JOHN GIBBONS, City Treasurer.
Eltate of Jacob Waldburger, Esq.
MR. Milledge, one of the executors named in the will
of Jacob Waldburger, Esq. having now qualified,
letters testamentary have issued including him as an a Cling
executor. If therefore there are any claims or demands
against the estate yet unexhibited or unfatisfied, all persons
so circumstanced are now, for the last time, called upon to
exhibit them to one of the fubferibers immediately for
settlement. Such persons as are indebted to the estate are
notified, that the executors do not feel themselves juftified
in giving longer indulgence than the firft of May next.
John Morel, “j
John Milledge, j> Acting Executors.
James Jones, J
Savannah, Jan. 3, 1799.
IO BE RENTED,
A LOT in Yamacraw, whereon is fir.all dwcllLng
heufe. Inquire of the Printers.
COTTON GINNING.
npHE fubferibers having their cotton ginning machinery
X in complete order, which, being impelled by water,
will enable them to carry on the buiinds on an extensive
scale, offer to gin cotton, with rollers, on the following
low terms:
They will engage to gin, clean, and pack, fit for market,
the black feed cotton, at the low rate of two pence per
‘pound; and, for every bundled pounds of good unginned
green feed cotton they may receive they will engage to re
turn twenty pounds of the fame cotton well ginned and
packed, the owners finding bagging* Persons willing to
have their Cotton well and expeditioully ginned must deliver
it at Mr. Ward’s plantation, opposite to Savannah, on Hut
chinson’s Illand, where the cotton can be landed from any
vessel drawing not more than five or fix feet water direftly
into the gin house. Apply at laid plantation, or to either
of the fubfcribSfc in Savannah, who will pay caih for good
black feed cotton unginned.
John P. Warp,
Hugh Ross.
Savannah, Augujt 27, 1798. *.
ABSENTED himfelf from my plantation about the
11 th or 12th instant, A NEGRO MAN, named
JOE; he is young, strong, aClive, and artful, about 5 feet
8 or 9 inches high; when a boy he waited about house, arid
attended me ip Charleston, and since that in this state,
therefore well known; speaks plain Englifti, only” when
attempting to fpealtfaft Hammers a little. A Ihort time
since he was brought from on board a vessel at the riding
ground near Mr. N. Turnbull’s. A reasonable reward
w ill be paid to whoever will lodge him in gaol in this city,
with all licCelTary charges, if any. All Captains of vessels
and other persons are cautioned against harboring or carry
ing him away, as they will be prosecuted as the law di
rects. N. W. JONES.
Savannah, 21 Jl February, 1799.
j" 1 ” 1 • 1 DUN AWAY from the fubferib-
Q 4 Xv er’s boat on Friday jnorning tie
-j*. I 21 ft instant, A Negro. Fellow, by the
name ot BILLY, about 3 feet 2 or 3
inches high, well made, speaks good
Englifti, has a blemifti in one eye, born
in one cf the northern states, and is
supposed to be harbored on board fome
vessel bound to New York or Philadelphia. A reward cf
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 conviction, by applying to Meins and Mackay in
Savannah, or the fubferiber at his plantation cn Sti Si
mon’s. S. WRIGHT.
December 25, 1798. *
Tv\EN i 1-EiVE DO.i LAk> REWARD?
=7, X3 UN AWAY from the fublcriber,
Q JV about the 1 ith February last, A
jgv likely Country-born Negro Fellow,
! named
c u and j o e,
23 or 24 years ot age, very black com-
i plexion, about 5 feet 3or 9 inches high;
lie has a wife on the island of St. Simon,
where it is probable he will secrete himfelf. The above
reward will be paid on his being delivered to the fubferiber
at his plantation at Midway.
AUDLEY MAXWELL.
liberty county, March 5, 1799.
iSVENTY “DOLLARS ~
SHALL be paid to any person who will lodge in the
gaol of Savannah, the Negro woman FANNY, who
ran away in the month of June last, and has been long
advertised; the'has been so fully deferibed that a repetition
is conlidered unneceflary, particularly as ftie is generally
known in and about the city. The fame reward will be
paid on fatisfa&ory proof that the has beer, carried off by
any master of a vessel, or other perlon, provided such person,
or any one concerned in her removal, can lie come at.
~ JAMES JONES.
Belviderc, Bryan county, Jan. 3, 1799.
G E O R G I ATI By Charles Abernethy, Regifler
(!•s. ) a* of Probats for the county of
Chas. Abernethy. j M‘lntofh, in the state aforefaid.
WHEREAS Mr. John Collins and Mrs. Jane Col
lins have made application to me for letters of
administration on the estate and effefls of Angus M‘Kay,
formerly of St. Andrew’s .parifti, now M‘lntofh county,
planter, deceased, as next of kin, These are therefore to
cite and admonilh all and singular the kindred and credit
ors ot the laid Angus MiKay, deceased, to be and appear
before me, at my office on Eagle Neck, the 25th day of
April next, to (hew cause, if any they have, why letter*
of fhould not be granted them.
Given under my hand and seal, the 25th day
of March, 1799, and in the 23d year of A-
merican Independence.
G E O R G I A.""J By Charles Abernethy, Register
( L. s. ) of Probats for the county of
Chas. Abf.rnethy.J MTntofh, in the state aferefaid.
WHEREAS Roswell King and William Cook,
Efqrs. have made application to me for letters of
adminifb ation on the estate and effects of Capt. Farr Wil
liams, late of the said county, deceased, as next of kin,
These are therefore to cit* and admonilh all and singular
the kindred and creditors of the laid •deccSfeff terbe-and ap
pear before me, at my office on Eagle Neck, on the 25th
day of April next, to fliew cause, if any they have, why
letters of administration should not be granted them.
Given under my hand and seal, the 25th day of
March, 1799, and in the 23d year of Ameri
can Independence.
NOTICE.
ALL persons that are yet indebted to the, Estate of
Stratford and Robert Brown, merchants, deceased,
are requeued to make payment as soon as pol&ble, in order
to dole the concern of that Estate.
Alexander Watt, Afting Adminiftrator*
Savannah, Feb . 12.