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a conliderable number of the;
r^°"l c come over to the.prince of Orange’s
fetch troojfc M
Ld?d* , . be in pofleflion of such informa
'ln os-cicr not at prc f cnt allow me to
tion ss ‘vf- 01 ‘ all de ca mp capt. Fitzgerald with
I c ; ,ar S ‘ is Lm-ely in mv confidence, and I request
P^)mond jiim t 0 his majesty us an olucer oi iu
jes-t0 a .; ■’ j intelligence. • . ,
r ior mental * Frederick.
r Tan’, lit, )OUi s,
’ . Ji Henry DurJas, &c.
fbertfr* *, !- pj; s Sicilian majeft)vin conference of
03''-; :r e ‘f j lt lnv.ral lord Nelftm, has created him duke
6' tcl ' v:a ’ , t 0 bim. a territory worth 30001. ftcr
!i,? ?er am-iu-m h?s war against Ruflia,
of*a design to spread deCpdtilm over all
at Berlin that the king of Pniffia has made two
r* Vo the French goVernment; one of them to e-
F r ”• L Fi-iland,’ and tire other to restore to him thecoun-
L ■ but that the directory have related to accede
L . c t-lipfr* propoation^*
t 0 Weber 11. Arrived last night, his majesty’s
, J n-Vr’aud Hind revenue cutter, from the lexel,
* Ci V J;;-!arrr left on Sunday last. The following day
v J nCi> ; ’ , n o, ia de was heard from the’interior of the coun
a,ieV V nukes it very probable our brave countrymen
h Wvdr.'T up their recent vi&ories, and that we nAy
f?. ‘\neftto receive intelligence of the enemy’s capital
havK'.g fciilen into the pofleflion of his Majesty’s arms.
a .Ml* v J>jr ‘
KINGSTON, (Jamaica) November 16.
THK American brig Friendfliip,. from lobago, with
rU m, taken by a French privateer, and ’afterwards
„ • t ken bv hi? maiefty’s brig Drake, arrived on Saturday.
Vhc American” (hip Planter, from Charleston, with
lumber, detained by his majesty’s fliip llnmderer, arrived
cn Monday. _.
November 23. The American flup Columma, from
the Milimppi, bound to Hamburgh, with tobacco, cotton,
sugar, and indigo, fenl in by his nmjefly’s brig Pelican,
arrived on i huriday. ‘• _ . r ,
T!;e Dutch East Jnciiaman Columbia, prize to the Caro
line Guinea man, arrived yeflerday.
November 30. His majesty’s fliip Solebay, Capt.
Povnts, arrived on Monday from a cruise, and brought in
with her as prizes, two French .corvettes, one of 20, the
other of iS guns, full of men, a brig of 14- guns, and a
{choosy of 10 guns. They were captured off Tiburon,
and were from Port au Prince, which place they left on
the 20th inst. for Jacmel, with ammunition, &c.. for the
forces of Touffaint, which are beficgmg Jacmel. 1 here
are 62 brass cannon, with carriages complete, in the hold
of one of the flops. _ <j
St. Jap de la Vega, November 23. Late yefteraay
evening arrived the American schooner St. Patrick-, from
Deroerara, bound to Boston, with sugar, coflee, fee. taken
by a French privateer, and retaken by his majtfty’s fl.ip
La Legere.
NASSAU, (Nnu Providence) November 26.
WE are favored with the following by a gentleman
of this place.
On the.night between Monday and Tuesday last the sky
exhibited a mold splendid phenomenon; from about 12
o’clock until nearfunrife the atmosphere was one continued
blaze of fire balls, and what are commonly called falling
liars; 50 at leaf! might have been counted in the space of
one minute, darting in every direction, and bursting with
a glare which often exceeded the brightness of the moon,
which was then nearly in the zenith; sometimes they ap
peared so near that people imagined there could have been
•heard a Idling noise as they palfed along, leaving a long
train behind them, which would remain fixed for fevcral
minute's, presenting a beautiful variety of colors, and gra
dually approaching to the appearance of a {lender white
t cloud'curling at length by the motion of the atmosphere;
sometimes, where a kind of explosion would take place, a
( ring of finoke would form like that from the mouth of a
cannon.* For ffcveral* days previous it had been uncom
monly warm for the time of the year, and by the few little
deads that were in motion the wind appeared to be from
fouthwefi, which generally indicates at this feafou the ap
proach r! coni winds; there was aconiiderable dew falling,
and notwkh(landing themoon (hone yery bright the air
sid a kind of finokey appearance. On the 1 uefday even
ing following there was a severe gale of wind from the
north, since which the wind has prevailed in that quarter,
md bar, continued remarkably cool for the season.
Extrr.cl of a letter from Exutna , dated tbe iZth cf
Nov ember, 1799.
<c On Monday night the 1 ith inflant, or rather on
Tuesday the 12th, a lingular phenomenon of the heayens
happened here, and must have been observe-d in town, and
clfewhere in places tliftant from 11s. What we frequent’
obierve of Single liars fliooting and blazing in a direction
towards tlw horizon: became general to 1 a great number of
liars nerd; on every lide about two hours before day, and
continued until daybreak, the liars fliooting one after an
other principally-in northerly and easterly directions-, and
‘forming tranfitorv fireaks of fire nearly as broad as the
Film cf my baud. The awfulnefs of this extraordinary
feene was probably lessened by the presence of the moon,
winch was just pall the full, and llione very bright,”
T. BOSTON, December 3.
c ‘ - Hamburgh paper of October 12 mewtwms-tbat
tiie .Attftrians have taken Pignerol by alfault, which
aoout 24 niles ibuthweft of Turin, and was by the Jaft
iccountr. poSPlTed by a part cf Championet’s army.
December 7. Capt. 1 .lowland arrived at
or > Monday last in 50 days from Hamburgh, which
piace he left tie I.3th October, and brings Hamburgh
Gazettes j the 121 U, which Hate that the allied army in
are said to have loft 6 or 7000 men. ,
Yeftealay morning arrived a cutter under the command
of licut, Hervev Kenyon, prize to the United States brig
Norfolk, capt. Bainbrklgje, which (he captured the 7th wit.
off the Cape. The cutter is.'laden with coffee, and was
bound from Jeremie to Cuba.
Baltimore , November 3c* The United States brig
Pickering has recaptured a brig from Charleston, which had
been taken by the French, and has ftnt her into Nevis.
The United States (loop of war has captured, and carried
into St. Kitt’s, a French privateer brig mounting 16 nine
pounders.
The Baltimore (loop of war has taken and font into St.
Bartholomew’s a French privateer, which had*on board 74
men, besides 36 American prisoners. The name of the
privateer our informant could not learn.
Norfolk , December 3. Yefterday’ at half pa ft one
o’clock, in the presence of a great concourse of people,
was fafely launched into her element, the United States
frigate Chelapeake, of 44 guns, commanded by Samuel
Barron, eftj.
SAVANNAH, December 26.
POSTOFFICE, j6 tb December, 1799.
THE Proprietors of tIW Savannah and Augiifta Stage
declining to run the stage twice a week, the Mail for
Augusta will for the future be dilpatched as before. Due
every Monday at noon, and every Friday at 1 o’clock
p. M. and will close every Tuef.lay at 11 a. m. and every
Friday at 5 p. M. I. BENEDIX, Pofltmaftcr.
UNION SOCIETY.
gTSr* The Members of the Union Society are cleared
to meet at the City Hall, precisely at fiudet, on Monday
evening the 6th day of January next, it being a Quarterly
Meeting. By order of the Prefiient,
PETE . 3. LaFFITTE, Sec’y.
Savannah, vjth December, 1799.
M A R I N E LIS T.A
Entered Inward.
Brig Recovery, Baird, Jamaica
Republican, Hodgkins, Ditto
Schooner Paragon, Adams, Boston
Brig Apollo, Burn!.am, New “York
Ship Hero, Huftey, Newport, Rhode Bland
Sloop Gull, Clarke, Middletown
Cinderilla, Phipps, j Charleston
Endeavor, Thornton, Providence, Rhode Bland
Schooner Clive Brunch, Remington, Ditto
Cleared Out.
Ship Lancaster, Willfon, Lanc.after
Schooner Debbv, Starr, New 3 ork
■ Savannah Packet, Keen., Charleston
Brig Helen, Patterfort, . ’ Jamaica
Schooner Barbara, Clay, Ditto
Sloop John, Paterson, * New Providence
Schooner Republican, Marflr, Ditto
Sloop Dove, Lufcomb, • Charlcjl n
Schooner Atlas, Bartlett, ■ Newburypqrt
Sally, Snow, * Kennebunk
George, Thornton, St. 1 homas’s
The brig Two Sillers, Smith, from this port, arrived
at Falmouth, in J amaica, on the 4th inst. having beat oil
two French privateers on the passage.
The Ihip Huntress of New York, which had been car
ried into a bay in Porto Rico by a privateer, has been cut
out by the boats of the * icilli. frigate Acaffa,. and carried
into Jamaica.
The schooner Ranger, Thurber, from Malaga for New
York, has put into Bermuda with her lads and rigging
much injured, and thc/vefiel leaky. •
The Ihip Mercury, from London, it is said, is arrived
at Tybee. A number of vessels from the northward are
in the river. „ ‘ T 1
The schooner Lvdia, Avery, of New London, menti
oned in onr lalt to have been driven ailiore on Tvbee, is
entirely left. • , r ..
L a st Tlmrlciay night mr. Venables, bricklayer, tei^
from one of the wharves into the l iver, and was drowned,
Ins corpse was found next morning and interred.
Died on the 15th inst. in Richmond county, gen. Elijah
” Died, December 25th, 1799, in the 54th year of ‘her
are, mrs. Snfannah, the wife of major John Wyld, of
and in Savannah. The ease and amiableneis of her man
ners, from early life, were among the leal! ol her accom
plilhments; a valuable portion of religious knowledge, and
. public proiblhcm.ol faith in the divine Redeemer of our
guilty f: e, diftinguifiied and adorned the morning of her
days; and in the important capacities of a wife and a mo
ther, for near 40 years, her temper and conduct rendered
her inefumable in these relations, and were highly orna
mental of her profefiion. Amidfl a variety of trying vi
ciftitudes file lias never Ireen unmindful of her privilege as
a member of a Cliriftian cliurch, nor destitute ol the plcc i
- hope inspired by undilfembled piety, bar more than
merely philolbphic were the patience, the fortitude, and
the placid relignation, with which she sustained her lalt te
dious illness,
She felt no u terror for a death -
Which gives repose in feftive bowers,
Where ne&ars sparkle, angels minilfer,
’ And more than angels lhare, and raise, and crown,
And eternize the birth, bloom, burlts of bliss.”
• The loss of mrs. W r yld to her intimate acquaintances will
be feelingly regretted,"and to her amiable daughters it must
be irreparable; but the pangs of reparation, after so long
1 and so endearing a union, are certainly felt in their utmost
acuteness bymr. IVy Id.
“ O the foft commerce! O the tender ties,
Close twilled with the fibres of the heart! ,
Which, broken, break-them, and drain off the foul
Os human jov, and make-it pain to live.—
When Jdcb friends prut ‘tis the survivor dies.”
schooner Mary Ann, tine 14,T0r cable wat then ovt,
read, cable was then cut. v
V . *
.. Paris, OSlibcr it.
3 he enemy have been “doyen from lx'tbre Muntz and the
blockade railed; t 0.000 peaiatits disarmed, and 3600 men
‘taken prisoners; t standard and 2 covered ammunition wag
gons; this took place in the different attacks from Seitz to
Muntz. This nv.nnc.nt it is laid the headqttvrters of the
French, Dutch, and Batavian army, .are returned to Alw
maer. “ • ‘ ’
Among the 1300 prisoners taken on the 4th inst. in the
battle of Caftricuni, by the French and Dutch troop;, is the
king ot England's regiment of ggards: tliis r gimrnt is com
poled oi lbme of tlie firft noble families in Ivr. gland.
Cun. lioftollant terminates his dffpatch.es from Holland,
alter tiic above \ i:\orv, with tliis paragraph: “ Tell your
iellow citizens that we deftroy the Englilh and Rulftan
armies, and tint republicans will always come oft'conquer
ors ot a coalition io inimical to the freedorfi of mankind.”
OShber 12. •
i lus moment we have received a letter from the Hague
by express, ‘dated the Bth inst. dating, that on the sth
there w ere fdine Ikirmiflies of out polls; the 6th ibtne paj
troll met and engaged; at noop all our army were in mo
tion; we attacked the EngKflt and Anglo Rnftlans; the *
former in the onset made a vigorous refiltaure, but their
disagreement and disunion with the Rtifhans having occa
floned an inactivity on tlie part of the latter, conlpiracy
enfiled, and then their defeat became general, and never
was seen t!;e like; in fhortthey have loft even their women,
el which we count 200; we cannot enumerate the number
cl ft.dii, but the fields are covered with them 3 leagues
distance. The Eiiglifli having retired into their fait in
trendiment, and dripped of every necessary, have de
manded to retire in a military manner, which lias been re
lufed. _ ‘Phis day they -are to be fmnmoned to furrcndcC
prisoners of war! The good genius of France has been
watchful and has come to our aid, but the courage of our
soldiers lias dill done more. At the departure of the ex
■ prels tlie headquarters of the French and Batavian army.
were.at Alkmaer.
(Signed) Palv, Editor of Amis des Lon
October 14.
The German gazettes fay that the Ruffians have obtain
ed fonje advantages in Switzerland, and that they mud
have made fome’ progress there, but the deficiency of mate
rials prevent them from giving a correct detail of their pro
ceedings.
CSlober 16.
The battle in which Snwarrow was defeated and put to
. flight took place at Altorf; Maflena commanded there in
peribn; he hatlprcvioufly lent to the diviiion of gen. Lc
courbe a reinforcement of 12,000 men.
; ; i-gA”
Taxes for 1799.
a the general digeil from the Receiver of “l ax Returns
for the year 1799, and is ready to collect the taxes for
said year at his office W r efl Broad flrert. Executions a
gainst DEFAUL TERS will be iflued after the full day of
February next, agreeably-to the Tax Art.
JOHN GIBBONS, t. c. c. c.
Sawfiinab, December, 1799.
CAUTI o n. :
THE Tax Collector, and others concerned in adver- i
tifing for sale 3000 acres of land, granted to Hen
ryk Middleton, and 2000 ■ acres granted to - William
Middleton, said by the Collector to he in Glynn county
and to be fold orithe 21st January 1800, for non-payment •
of taxes, are hereby notified, that all taxes due on tire
said lands have been paid as they beGame due, and regular
returns made in the name of the Efiate of William
Middleton, in Chatham county, where <ho agents of the
heirs of the said William Middleton relide, agreeable to
Jaw: Therefore an**laic or Tales of the whole, or any
part of the lands, for taxes, are forbid.
” W. Stephens, Attorney for the
Heirs of William Middleton.
t ?<tb December, 1790*
Five Dollars Reward.
RAN AWAY from the fubferiber feme time ago, A
NEGRO GIRL, about 16 years of age, named
MYRA, had on when file went away a white woollen
frock. All'll A NEGRO -W-ENGH, named NANCY,
of a light complexion, had cn when file went away a
brown negro cloth wrapper and checke.ed petticoat. They
are both lately from Africa, and speak but indifferent
Englifii. The above reward will be paid on their being
delivered to the fubferiber,. with an addition of 25 dollar*
on proof of either of them being-harbored by either a
white or blade person. MATTHEW JOHNSTON.
ZTP E N E D TII I S D AY,
Excellent Pineapple, Double and Single
Gi'oucelter CHEESE,
Just received by
JOHN J. -SLUYTER.
Savannah, December 5, 1799.
TAKEN UP near Chevalier’s causeway, ABROJVIT
BAY MARE, 13 or 14 years old, 13 and an half
hands high, has a swab tail, trots and paces, lias a brand
on the mounting shoulder which cannot be made out—
The owner may apply near laid causeway to
. John Caswell.
A* TEMPORARY HOSPITAL.for the Reception of
all A.merican Seamen is provided* by order of the
Colle&or of the Port of Savannah, in a healthy and elig
ible situation south of the city. Application may be made
to the fubferiber, w ho will take care that necefiary attend
ance, Sec. fliall be paid.
M.'BURKE, Health Officer P. S.
-.Savannah) Atk Septsmltr, 179.9. % .