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THIRTY DOLLARS REWARD.
WENT away on Monday the 21st instant, HAR
MON, COURT. ER FISHER, an apprentice to
the under written. The said apprentice is about 18 years
of age, 3 feet 9 or 10 incites high, between a dark and
light complexion, has ffiort black hair; when spoken to he
speaks quick. The above reward will be paid to any perlon
apprehending the laid apprentice and delivering him to me
in Savannah. All reasonable expences will be paid. All
persons are cautioned againfl harboring, entertaining, or
employing the said Harmon Courter Fillier, under pain of
being prnlecptcd as the law direfts. It is supposed he has
gone to New York, he having leveral relations there.
JOHN GLASS.
Savannah, July 23, 1800.
VI E NaV A , April 16.
THE landgrave of Furftenburg is returned hither from
his million to St. Peterlburg, and is said to have
brought a very friendly letter from his Ruffian majesty to
our emperor.
At the particular request of his majesty the emperor of
Russia the farther inveffigaticn of gen. Frolich’s affair will
not take place, and it is said that he will again be em
ployed in the service. It is stated with fome degree of
certainty that fome Ruffian troops will again join the
Atillrian army in a Ihort time. Letters from Cracow and
Radom allure us that 40,000 Ruffians are on the frontiers
of Western Gallicia, waiting orders for advancing.
London , April 30. In the interior of the French re
public no occurrence of importance’has taken place, unless
it be a decree of Bonaparte for the issue of affignuts to the
amount of one million and a half Hurling, with which the
public creditor is to be paid at the exchange!
Letters from the Hague, dated April 21, Hate, that 12
sailors, who had lately returned to that place from Eng
land, and who were formerly on board the fleet command
ed by admiral Story, had been tried that morning at the
Texel, and sentenced to be ffior.
Presents to lord Nelson for bis services in the Medi
terranean, between Oblober 1, 1798, and October
*> 1799* £•
From his king and country, a peerage of Great
Britain, and the gold medal.
From the parliament of Great Britain, for his own
life and two next heirs, per annum, 2000
From the parliament of Ireland, not exactly
known, but supposed to be the fame as given
to earl St. Vincent and lord Duncan, per annum, r 000
From the East India company, 10000
From the Turkey company, a piece of plate of
great value.
From Alexander Davidson, efq. a gold medal.
From the city of London, a sword of great value.
Fiom ditto to the captains who served under his
orders in the battle of the Nile, a fwo"d.
From the grand fignior, a diamond aigrette, or
plume of triumph, valued at 2000
From the fame, a rich pelice, valued at 1000
From the grand fignior’s mother, arose set with
diamonds, valued at 1000
From the emperor of Russia, a mofl elegant let
ter, and a box set with diamonds, value 2500
From the king of the Two Sicilies, a mod elegant
and kind letter, and a sword richly ornamented
with diamonds, 5000
Also the dukedom of Bronti, with an estate, sup
posed per annum, 3000
Fiom the king of Sardinia, a molt elegant letter,
and a box set with diamonds, j 200
From the island of Zante, a gold headed sword
and cane, as an acknowledgment that, had it
not been for the battle of the Nile, they could
not have been liberated from French cruelty.
From the city of Palermo, a gold box and chain,
presented on a lilver waiter. Also the free
dom of the city of Palermo, which constitutes
a grandee of Spain.
The following account of the defence of a fmgle person
again (l a whole band of robbers is worthy of notice. In
a village in the county of Lippe the parsonage house was
attacked by about 40 men, who blocked up all the ave
nues, entered the kitchen window, and fcarched every apart
ment in the lower part of the house, but the principal attack
was made by about 12 or 14 men on the parson’s study.
As soon as he heard that attempts were made to force open
his door he had recourse to a mulket, charged, and pro
vided, with a bayonet, and two pistols, calling at the fame
time after-his servant out of the window of his bed cham
ber, when a voice commanded him to retire, otherwise he
would be fliot; but, without making any reply, he fired
off one of his pistols. He then went again to his study,
the door of which being very strong it was attempted to
open with, hatchets. ‘Notwithftanding the clergyman had
fired off another pistol through one of the holes that had
been made in the door his assailants persevered in their at
tempts to force it open. He perceived a number of per
sons armed with pistols, poles, &c. One of whom seemed
to command the rest, and at whose orders they had re
peatedly difeharged their fire arms. The clergyman con
tinued to thrust his bayonet through the apertures, which
so much enraged his assailants that they swore he lliould
die. It was of great advantage to him that the robbers
were provided with lights, and that he himfelf was in the
dark. He attempted to difeharge his gun, but it miffed
fire, and two other loaded pistols he was unable to find.
He called again after his servant, but received no answer,
an'd a second attack was made, and notwithstanding the
wounds which fome of them mull have received from his
bayonet, as appeared by the blood before his door, they
continued their attempts of forcing his room with their
hatchets, one of whfch flew in the room, palling the head
of the besieged. This caused a pause, and a Ihort con
sultation, during which the clergyman again called out
for assistance. The rpbbers then made a third attack, by
throwing a stone, about -59 pounds weight, and other
heavy things, against the door, the clergyman still defend
ing himfelf with the bayonet. A pitchfork, which they
thnffi through one of the openings, lie obtained pofcffiori
of, as weil as ieveral* other things. The robbers had
foiced open the door ot a room adjoining the parson’s bed
chamber, but were unable to force the latter. The noise
at length awakened a neighbor, who called out what was
the matter, but was answered by one of the robbers, “ no
thing,” and on repeating the inquiry was fired at. Four
persons who had guarded the lervant quitted their post,
upon which he made his escape, but guns were difeharged
after him. The robbers now made their fourth and kift
attack upon the study, four or fix men having brought the
ti unk of a tree, about ten feet long, with which they con
tinued their attempts to force the door, and succeeded so
far as to make an opening large enough for a person to
enter, and obliged the parson to retreat to his bed chamber,
where he again intrenched himfelf, but nobody attempted
to enter his study, whither he again proceeded. At length
he was happily relieved, a sentry having informed the rob
beis that they were in danger, upon which they extin
guiffied their lights and took to flight. Many of the ef
fects of this brave man were damaged, but very little car
ried oft. His example shews what dangers may be en
countered by a Angle person endowed with courage and
presence of mind. ITe is a great mechanical genius, the
lingular means of strengthening bis doors against the
greatest violence being of his own invention.
Mrs. Egerton, formerly well known on the stage, has
remarried her former husband, whom she left about 30
years ago.
a y 3‘ Intelligence was received at Plymouth on
Wednesday that 17 fail of French Ihips of the line, and
13 Spanilh, with troops on board, were in Brest harbor
leady for lea, having on board fix months provffions. As
the Spaniards have embarked 011 their own (hips all
their lick it is conjectured that they intend to return to
Cadiz.
_Mr. Dundas has accepted the office of keeper of the
privy seal ot Scotland, in con seq tie nee ol which he reiigns
his place of treasurer of the navy.
T ne right lion. William Windham removes to the si
tuation ot trealurer of the navy; and right hon. Thomas
Pelham is to be appointed secretary at war; but he is not
to have a feat in the cabinet.
Extracts of a letter, containing fome curious particu
lars relative to the capture of Seringapatam. By
an officer of the army before that place.
IF I ippoo had employed his powers with the military
flail which he was fuppoled to possess he might, with
out hazarding an engagement, by desultory Ikirmifhcs,
distant cannonades, and other hostile movements, have so
harqffed cur infantry, and weakened our cavalry, that a
great part of our baggage, stores, and ammunition, would
probably have fallen into his hand.), and the army have
been greatly impeded in its march to the place of its
destination. Moreover, as the rainy season was approach
ing, there i reason to believe that, had the fuitan em
ployed the force lie possessed with equal judgment and ac
tivity, tlie immediate object of the campaign would have
been defeated.
It had indeed been for fome time reported that Tippoo
was become fubjefit to fits ot mental derangement, and
the whole of his condu£l seems to juftify that opinion.
He had diliniffed all his faithful friends who had served
him long and well from his councils, and had called into
his service men of little experience or capacity, who won
his favor by flattering his caprices, and pratiffing an unre
sisting submission to his will. The former had always
difccuraged their mailer’s disposition to connect himfelf
with France, as pregnant with the mifehief it has lince
produced; while the latter promoted it for no other reason
but because it flattered his hopes of gratifying his resent
ment against the Britilh power in India.
T he importance of the fall of Seringapatam to the power
and commerce of Great Britain is not within the teach of
ordinary calculation. From every appearance of its im
proving state, the cultivation of the country, the number
of its inhabitants, and the advancing progress of its mili
tary establishment, that capital would in a Ihort time have
been impregnable; and the power of Tippoo Saib would
have been at least equal to the combined strength of the
European settlements in India.
The Englifli army, on its approach to Seringapatam,
fuffered very -little inconvenience from the fuitan having
destroyed the villages and laid waste the country in its
front; nor from the attempts that had been made to poison
the water in the tanks; because, contrary to Tippoo’s ex
pectation, we bad, by a deviation to the left, gained a
flourifiling and highly cultivated country, and got poffelfion
of the large fprt of Soocilly, which was full of cattle,
grain; and forage. Even to the very vicinity of Seringa
patam gen. Harris had the choice of his route; so that he
was enabled to lit down before it with all his relources for
the siege undiminished. The evil mod to be dreaded was
famine. The whole of our draft and carriage bullocks
died, and rice had risen to three rupees the pound on the
day when, the city was stormed; so that, if we had not
succeeded in the attempt, the consequence would have
been fatal to the army; and that we were not repulsed was
owing to the incomparable conduct and intrepidity of the
troops, as well as to the judicious means employed to
support and protect their extraordinary efforts.’ It may
be proper to remark, that, notwithstanding the errors,
committed by the fuitan in the defence of the place, no
thing less than the vast combined army in our service could
have carried the enterprise with success.
The hour of attack was fortunate, as numbers of the
enemy, and even the fuitan himfelf, had gone to take re
freffiment. On hearing the alarm he hastened back, when,
finding that the grenadiers had entered the breach, and
feeing his people falling around him, he made for a Rally
port, where, amidst a crowd of fugitives, he was over
taken and llain. It is not yet known by whose hand this
tyrant of the East was laid low; and it is supposed that
the jewels which he always wore about his person, and
which were now become the spoil of the fortunate soldier,
whoever he might be, are too precious to be hastily ac
knowledged. It was said that he constantly wore a ruby
ring, which was efteenjed by him as the nioft valuable in
his treasury; his tHrbjii alio was always adorned with a
.jewel of great value; and a pearl rosary was a continual
ornament of bis person; the pearls of which it consisted
were of uncommqn size and beauty; they had been the
collection ol many years, and were the pride of his dreis.
Neither of these precious articles have appeared iince the
sultan’s death. His body was found late in the evening
beneath a heap of others brought together in one promifeu
ous llaughter; he had been shot in the temples, and was
otherwile wounded, as it appeared, with a bayonet. The
rooted and barbarous antipathy which this tyrant manifeft
ed agauift European prisoners of all ranks in a former war
leems to have accompanied him to the 1 tft; above 20 un
happy stragglers from our army had fallen into his hands
in the courl’e of outmarch, whom he ordered to be put to
death; and among them a iittle drummer boy of the Scotch
brigade. Even his fmail motley band of French auxili
aries execrate his memory, as a nioft cruel tyrant; and
represent, with bitter imprecations, tl e ignominy and
hardfliips to which he fubjeCted them.
I he carnage on this occasion was much less than might
have been expected in a large city entered by llorm, and
filled with people whose oppofttion was continued in the
streets, and from the lioufts. By the efforts of the general
and others the effulion of human blood was soon reftrain
cd; nor in the course of that plunder which the laws of
war allow in certain cases was any defcncelefs inhabitant
killed, nor any woman treated with wanton brutality.
The plunder of the town was very great, and many of
the lbldiers, both native and European, possessed thernfelves
ot very precious effects in gold and jewels. Coniiderable
fortunes are supposed to have been made by persons of
higher rank in the way ot purcliafe. The houses of th®
chief firdars, as weil as of the merchants and ibroffs, were
completely pillaged; while the women, alarmed for their
peribnal lafety, emptied their coffins, and brought forth
whatever jewels they possessed. Fortunately, however,
for the army in general, the palace was secured. The
quantity ol money yet difeovered, though great in itlelf,
is by no means equal to what might have been expected
from the known extent of l ippoo’s revenues and expendi
ture. ( Many lacks of Ipecie it is supposed are not yet
found,’ and it is equally probable that they never will be
recovered.
CONJUGAL LOVE.
An Affectionate il i/e.——An houeft fcboolnmjler near
London, having a wife whom he loved very affectionately,
was so unfortunate as to pt-rcti’ e that Ihe conceived” a
tendre lor a fniart young fellow whoiii he engaged as
ullier. ‘Fhe poor man was rendered so niiferable,’ by the
perfidy and ingratitude of his rib, that he determine,l la
destroy himfelf. This refoluticn, after fome prefatory
reproaches, 1 be communicated to his wife, declaring that
he would that moment tuck himfelf up with his neckcloth.
To this the afflicted lady replied, “ Alas! my dear, coni
sider that neckcloth is very old, and can never sustain your
weight. Do (top a moment, my love, till I reach you
your new cravat /”
A Tender Husband —A gentleman in the city wag
for fome time yoked to a mate who had that amiable qua
lity of never receiving or supposing herfelf to receive any
injury without breaking Jilence. One day, observing her
contort whllpenng something to the maid, Ihe instantly
fixed her fangs in his face, tore up his hair by the roots,
and, m Ihort, fuftered passion so much to get the better
of her, that she was adually fujfocatcd by its violence.
The penitent poor husband was, no doubt , so overcome
with grief at the fad accident, that he forgot to iffe any
ot those methods recommended by the Humane Society
for the recovery of persons in his wife’s fixation. Indeed,
so anxious was he for her everlasting repose, that he gave
infant infir unions for her funeral, dire&ing moft parti
cularly that she fliould be buried with her face downward!
Being asked the reason of this, Why,” replied he, if
(he lliould happen to awake, the more llie /cratches the
deeper Ihe goes 1 ”
FOR SALE, ‘
At the Printing Office in Broughton street.
THE STEP MO 1 HER, a Novel.
ALSO,
Letters on Subje<Rs ol Importance to the
Haprinels of young Females,
Addrcffed by a Governess to her Pupils.
By Mifi Helena Wells, (an Authoress of great merh)
Daughter of the late Mr. Robert Wells, formerly of
Charleston, South Carolina. 1
john Robertson’
Hair ‘Broughton firect,
RESPECTFULLY informs his old customers, and
other gentlemen, that he purposes attending to dress
at the lodgings of those who may be pleased to favor hint
with their commands. He has now received a frefli as
sortment of hair of different colors, for making braids anT
elastics of all forts for ladies, and wigs, fealps, & c . fo*
gentlemen; any of which articles will be furniffied on the
lnorteft nonce and moft moderate terms, made aftei the
neatest and newest fafhion. Military balls for belts and
leather breeches may also be had of him.
N. B. His elastic wigs are approved of throughout the
continent. 6
FOR S A Ce,
A TRACT OF LAND, containing 300 acres, a great
part ot which is inland swamp, the remainder good
co ™ ° nthe Tbree Runs Effingham comity.
A TRACT, containing 200 acres, of the lame quality,
and joining the above.
1"4 1 R^G 1 °l 45 ° acres °f exceeding good provision
land, on Great Ogechee river, about 45 miles by land
from Savannah. 3
A TRACT of 150 acres river swamp joining tlie above.
Inquire of the Fruiters. * - -