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•’ j , Augusta, ‘July 12.
Died last evening, commodore Oliver Bowen.
LONDON, April 21.-
SOME serious commotions lately prevailed in the Mau
ritius, in which many lives (European and natives)
were loft. At the date of the last advices, however,
tranquillity had been restored.
The the zenanah, or seraglio, of the sultan,
(of which the*e wer a fix hundred and fifty, including
thcfe belonging, to the late Hyder) have been treated by
government with the highest degree of refpeft, and are
placed upon a liberal eftablilhment.
Tippoo, who was ever a Have to bigotry and superstiti
on, on his accession to the throne of Mysore, baniihed
from Senanda and Badnoo. upwards of 70,000 of theif
Christian inhabitants. The immediate consequence was a
reduction of the revenues of those diftrids from 18 to 10
lacks of pagodas.
Black lace or gauze cloaks are much worn this spring,
throwing a cobweb (hade over the symmetry of nature.
Natural roses now adorn our budding beauties of baut
ton, though fome of the dowagers still give a preference’
to the artificial, in compliment to the prevailing taste of
the times. ,
April 23. On Monday fe’nnight one Richard Dart,
a grocer in St. James’s street, Portfea, was found mur
dered behind his counter. On examining him two wounds
were discovered at the back part of his head, and the
flcull very much fradurcd. From the form qf the Wounds
it is supposed he svas murdered by his own sugar hatchet,
by fome person or persons who had either found an oppor-,
tunity offeereting thcmfelves in the evening, or had broke
into his house during the night. As he had no inmates in’
his house, nor interCQurfe with any person, except his
uncle, who had access to his shop, this relative was taken
on suspicion into custody, and, on being examined by the
edroner’s inquest, such circumstances apjieared as to cause
him to be committed to Winchester gaol for trial. The
yerdidl of the jury was, “ Wilful murder againfi fome
person or persons unknown
The above unfortunate person was a remarkable diame
ter. He was generally known by the name of Dicky Dart,
the Wooden Grocer. He‘derived this title from his hav
ing apparently a very large flock of sugar,, which, however,
was well known to be nothing btr. blocks of wood covered
with paper and corded. His habits were those of penury .
and a sullen seclusion from all social intercourse. Although
pbffeffed of property to the amount of 30001. in deeds,
money, flock, &c. he was so miserably avaricious as to
deny himfelf the common fuflenance which nature requires,
and the cleanliness which health and decency indispensably
demand. “His bedding was rotted with filth, vermin, and
negligence. He had only two Hurts, and those in a mod
tattered condition* there were no ftgns of any other linen
about himfelf or his dwelling. His dress wasdillinguiflied
by his wearing all weathers five or fix waistcoats, a close
coat, and an old threadbare fpencer. But, with all this
shabbiness of attire, he had fome pretensions to beauifm;
for he constantly wore flour as hair powder, which he put
on with a sheep’s tail instead of a puff, tie was ftldopi
seen to eat, and when he was his food was never known to
be any meat, or scarcely any tiling else but dried crusts,
bifeuits, raw turnips, radifties, and such articles as required
little or no cookery. Although he would fuffer no female
to come near his house he had still a warm attachment to
wards the sex, and, to indulge himfelf in this propensity,
be spent the greatest part of the night in walking the flreets
in Jearcli of female companions; and, as this had been his
pradtice for several years, he had a numerous acquaintance
among the impures of the town. Many attributed this
flrange system of living to his having been early in life
disappointed in his honorable overtures to a favorite female
being rejedled. From this moment he loft all his accust
omed spirit, became sullen, retired, and felfifli, and all’o a
bandoned himfelf to the lowest state of degraded humanity.
Being in the habit, as above observed, of taking his no£l
urnal perambulations, he might, perhaps, have been fol
lowed home, and murdered by fome person or persons too
well acquainted with his secluded situation and consider
able property. However this may be, we trust that, as
murder is an adl of such atrocity as seldom fuffers the per
petrators to remain undifeovered, those who have been
guilty of the above horrid crime will not elude the pene
trating eye of Justice.
April 28.
Part of the following letter appeared in our paper of
Saturday; the whole of it is interesting , and is given
as the mofi important news by the lajl Hamburgh
mail.
You have had frequent occasion to read my opinions
concerning the conduct of the cabinet of Vienna. I think
h much better disposed, and infinitely more in earneftthis
talon, than at the opening of any former campaign. Gen.
Mel as moves like a snail in Piedmont, otherwiie Genoa
would have been taken by assault lome months ago. Had
Suwarrow retained the command but one month longer
that wished for event would have been inevitable. Gen.
Kray, who has succeeded to the archduke on th# Rhine,
is as active as he is brave, if not restrained by ministerial
command. The removal of the archduke is more through
the influence of a party in the cabinet, and of a near fe
male relation, than any inclination on his part, and while
that influence prevails he will never be fuccefsful. My
hopes are that Genoa is now in possession of the Austrians.
Melas removed his headquarters from Turin to Alexandria
on the 21st March, and announced to his army that the
campaign would open immediately; his army is at leafl
three times the force of the French. The situation of the
inhabitants of Genoa, and of the French army, is truly
deplorable; they are reduced to the last extremity by fa
mine, and by a pestilential sickness, which Maffena, it is
fiiid, has caught, and to which were he to fall a iacrifice,
it would be a blefling to humanity, for I confider him and
gens# Brune, Angereau, and Bernadotfe, as the mofi a
troclous of all republican villains, as occupying the moll
eminent rank in the ft ale of infamy.
Fifteen thousand Genoele peasants have joined the
Austrians to the east, and fix or seven thousand to the weft,
of Genoa: thole of Fontana Euona, in three regular battles,
have obtained complete vi<ftdries; “in the firft they killed
600 French, and made fome prisoners; in the second,
when, with four pieces of cannon and 40 mules loaded
with combustibles, the French advanced to burn their viU
lages, they were repulsed with the loss of 900 men, the
cannon, mules, and combustibles; and, in the third, com- /
manded by Maffena in person, who menaced them with
total deftruftion by fire and.fword, they left 2000 dead
upon the field, loft 2000 prisoners, besides 2 generals and
- officers. Maffena himfelf escaped with great difficulty ■
by sea. ,
“ Ihe authenticated capitulation of Kleber mufl have 6
already reached you. Wlieli he comes to learn that Ins
dispatches, and those of ionic cf Ins officers, have 1 “been
intercepted and publijhed, tfiat the name of Bonaparte,
who is now -absolute in France, and libs conduct, have
not been concealed in, these publications, it is no# improb
able that he and they will be defircus to change thuirdefti
nation, as well as the conditions of the capitulation. Thus
has ended the quixotic expedition of Bonaparte, in which
France has facrificed a large “haval force, and loft in mili
tary men and Teamen, artists and civil officers, at leafl
65,000 mcp. ‘Add to tjhis 40,000 men loft by the French
in battles, skirmishes, anjd . JCII epkiemy, since the winter
began. I .have a circumstantial detail of their losses in
killed during the; last campaign, amounting to 116,000
men; and it is now afcertaiifed that, beftdes wounded and •
maimed,, the number of prisoners made in battle and in
citadels in that ipace has exceeded 100,000 ftien. The
losses of the French in Holland, in Brittany, and La
\ endee, before the capitulation of the Chouan chiefs,
may with moderation be imated at 20,00# men, making
a loss to that ill fated country, by the expedition to- E
gypt, and in the courle of the last year, of no less than
341,000 pen. Ihe aggregate of this enumeration may
seem incredible, but nothing is more certain than that this
calculation does not exceed the truth.
“ Appearances at theprefent moment threaten a fperdy
opening of the campaign upon the Rhine; yet circum
stances threaten also to prevent it. France will not, nor
cannot, furnilh money to provide the wants of an army
which at this day does not exceed in every quarter 160,000
men.
“ The preparations made in Britain for a secret expedi
tion perplex France more than the Austrian army on the
Rhine, because it obliges her to line all her coasts with
troops, from the mouth of the Loire to the Groninguen.
France boasts ol having 25,000 men in Holland, but I
lufpeft there are not 15,090. There may be about 80,000
men upon the Rhine and in Switzerland, in Piedmont
raid Genoa about 30,000; and j 8,000 of those who were
in the departments are now on their march towards
Burgundy to form the kernel of the army of reserve. The
progress of this little army has been marked by feenes of
the moll wanton cruelty; the firft and second day of their
-march by Paris they, for want of proviiions and money,
plundered every place in their route, particularly Corbeil,
Melun, and Monterau, leaving l’uch deep traces of their
devastation as years to come will not be able to efface.
“ To balance this account of the military force of
France Aullria has an army of about 75,000 regulars, the
fineft troops in Europe; of Imperial contingents and re
gular militia 26,000; of Swiis, Bavarians, and Wirtein
burghers, in the pay of Britain, 23,000; making in the
whole an army, under gen. Kray, exclusive pf Tyrolians
and Grifons, of at least 123,000 men; besides ,an army of
obl’ervation, composed of about 30,000 Hungarians, on
the Danube, on the farther fide of Bavaria.
“ It is not improbable that Bonaparte and Sieyes, who
are not in want of fenle, judgment, and address, may have
fome meai’ures in contemplation very different from what
Europe is disposed to attribute to them. When the former
is lluelded from the attempts of Jacobins in Paris, at the
head of one army in Rurgundy, and within the call of the
main army under Moreau, he may perhaps offer such con
ditions as he could not have done without rilk at Paris;
perhaps he may verify something in the nature of what I
hinted to you * in the beginning of last January.
“ I forbear to touch upon theftrange caprices of Paul I.
he will be fortunate if, after having wafted the greaterpart
of the means of empire, he (lialJ find fiis power not re
trenched by his fubjedts; the last eighteen months of his
reign has been a series of inconliftencies and waste, a con
feqdence of which has been the saddling of Britain with
the maintenance of the worst and mofl expensive body of
men in the universe, the Condean army.”
* The refioration of monarchy.
• FINAL NOTICE.
ALL persons to whom the Estate of Joseph Watts,
late of Burke county, deceased, is indebted, are
requested to bring forward their demands, properly attest
ed. The situation of the Estate, from a decree of the
Federal Court, being very materially changed, requires an
immediate adjustment. And any person or persons who
are in polTeflion of Negro fiaves, or other property, of the
late Joseph Watts, are forbid the sale thereof, or removal
of the fame from this state, until the debts and legacies
of the Estate are paid.
Balthaser Shaffer, acting executor in Savannah.
March 27, 1809.
NOTICE.
ALL peffons having demands against the Estate of
John Currie, efq. late of Savannah, deceased, are
requested to render tliem in; properly attested, to mr. A
lexander Currie, at the residence of the dbceafed; and all
persons indebted to the said Estate are called on to make
immediate payment, that provision may be made for dil
charging the debts and legacies.
Alexander Currie,') Administrators,
Joseph Miller, with the will
Andrew M‘Credie, J annexed.
Savannah, loth June, 1800.
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All persons indebted to the
Printers hereof are requested to make payment*
j” - • I—l- Inr
From the LONDON COURIER. ~ .
The following lines were written by the late Henry
Man when on a tour into Wales in the year 178 c;
They were the efiufion of the moment , being written
cn a tomb Jlone in the adjoining church yard, while,
viewing the venerable Gothic pile.
On Llantony Abbey, in Momnouthfliire-
RETIR D from folly, ncrife, and ftrife, j
Frofo town, and all its buly culls,
Here let me mule awhile on life, ’ /
Beneath LI antony’s abbey walls. s
How many hearts have here grown cold,. -"A
That lleep thele mould’ring tombsramong? .- -. J
How many beads have here been told? -I
Flow many matins here been sung? .. ’
1 hougli arches link, and tow’rs lie low; ’’ “ --
Though fretted roofs are now no more.
Yet still enough remains to show ; q *
File builder’s/pride in days of yore. - ‘ •
Ah! solemn fceric; from vlejys like this . i
A pensive contemplation springs,
To think how iHfecure the bliss ‘
That rells on fubluiiary thin us.
tT * . t
Here when the morning breezes play’d
Oa flocks looje fcatt’ring o’er the’ hill,
The hoary fathers oft furvey’d
The circling mazes of .the. rill;
Or thoughtful pafs’d the noontide hour,
In Diaries renlote from cloister's cell,
Or kit the charms of fancy’s pow’r,
While lift’ll ing to the midnight bell*
Here on fome calm contented head,
i o these fequefterkl woods relign’d,
In moonlight walks has fancy Ihed
Ffer sweetest magic o’er the mind. --i
While fancy roams the furze clad heath,
1 here’s not a hut, there’s not a tree,
1 here’s not a (loping copse beneath,
But points a pleating charm to me.
011 this rude stone, by time long broke,
I think Ike feme pilgrim kneel,
I think I fee the center lmoke,
I think I hear the solemn peal.
But here no more foft music floats,
No holy anthems chanted now;
All’s hulk’d, except the ringdove’s notes.
Low murm’ring from yon beechen bough.
Come pomp, come pride, bring all your flute,
Come, view with me this mould’ring pile;
Come, learn how grandeur yields to fate, *
And bo all no more of Fortune’s fniile-*
Come, learn, but now the ev’ning low’rs,
See the pale moon her courle pursue;
Adieu, LI antony’s iylvan bow’rsl
Llantony’s Ruins, all—Adieu!
JOHN ROBERTSON,’
liair-Dt ejfer, Broughton fireet,
Respectfully informs his o id customers, and
other gentlemen, that he purposes attending to dress
at the lodgings of those who may be pleased to itvor him
with their commands. Fie has now received a frelh ak
fortment of hair of different colors, for making braids and
dallies of all forts for ladies, and wigs, Teaks, &c. for
gentlemen; any of which articles will be fumilhed on the
ihorteft nonce and moft moderate terms, made afte, the
neateil and newest fall,,on. Military balls for belts and
leather breeches may also be had of him.
N‘ B - His elastic wigs are approved of throughout th#
continent. 0
FIFTY DOLLARS REWARD.
I-- , ‘i D AvV A\ from the fubferiber
• 1V on the 7th of April last, a tall
in Countl T * 3orn Negro fellow, named
ADAM, marked with the finallpox#
vei 7 Remarkable for having long and
narrow feet, is very artful, and tells a
, plausible story, commonly has his hair
tied. The above reward will be paid
to any person giving fatisfadory proof of his being haw
borea or taken from this state by any white person who
can be corile at, or twenty dollars on his being delivered
to the gaoler of this place. JOHN EPPJNGER.
Savannah, June 24.
THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
•"— D AN AWAY from the fubferiber
@ 1 V on or about the Ift of March last,
S A Negro Fellow named Frank,
j a blacksmith by trade; he is about 5 feet
to or 11 inches high, rather of a yellow*
; ‘ complexion; from a natural bend in his
neck his head inclines very much to One
shoulder, fomuch as to be plainly disco
vered at a corifiderable dillance. When he firft absented
himfelf it was supposed he had gone towards Augusta,
where he long resided, and wrought at his trade With his
father. They then both belonged to Mr. William Wal
lace, merchant, and moved with him to this place about
four years ago. Frank is very jirtful and speaks good
English; he is also very well known in Augusta and Sa
vannah. The above reward, and all reasonable expences,
will be paid on delivering the above fellow to the fubferiber
or the Gaoler of this city. If he returns of his own ac
cord he will be forgiven, but if taken severely punilhed.
THOMAS BEGGS.
Savannah, Nov.. it, 1799.