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5 Britifli fail cf the Ime, 4 frigates, and a parcel of India
men, armed en flute, having on board 12,006 troops under
the command of gen. fir Ralph Abercrombie. Thev are
not bound to England, but their deilination is kept a fe
cref; yet jt * s supposed they are going for Lisbon. Tliev
are watering, and will afterwards proceed to the west
ward.”
November 3. On Saturday last the President of the
United States arrived in this city, and took up his resi
dence in the houl'e appropriated to him by the commiflion
ers. Though not entirely finithed the part which is com
pleted will afford ample accommodations.
Lynchburg, OStober 4. Among the mimerousinflanc.es
of murder which have come to the knowledge of our read
ers we dare fay none have more claim to atrocity than one
committed, on Saturday Lift, on the person of” mr. Wil
liam- Alexander, deputy clerk of Robert Alexander, ciq.
(his father) of Campbell county. The particulars, ks far
as have come to our knowledge, we shall date, leaving,
•without comment, the community to judge of the horrid
act. Mr. Alexander and mr. George Poindexter left
Campbell courthouse together on Saturday about 3 o’clock,
and were seen 3 or 4 miles from that place, at mr. Andrew
Moreman’s, where they inquired the way to capt. Thomas
Cox’s, at which place they intended to dance that even
ing. Nothing more was heard of them until towards sun
set, when mr. Poindexter came in haste to capt. Robert
Alexander’s, (6 or 8 miles from where the body of mr.
Alexander was afterwards found) on foot, and told that
they had been attacked by fevcral negroes in the road,
that he had fortunately made his escape, though expected
mr. William Alexander was murdered. A search was im
mediately commenced, and the body of mr. Alexan cler
■found on Monday last, about one mile below the above
mentioned mr. Moreman’s, and 50 cr 60 fleps from the
road. On an inquefl being held thereon it appeared that
his throat had been cut quite across, his head and face
bruised in a moft (hocking manner, and his left ear cut
off; he was thrown in a small kind of a gully in the
woods, and appeared by the blood to have been dragged
from the road. We are told that mr. Poindexter’s hode
whip was lying near the spot very much bruited. Mr.
Poindexter was committed to gaol.
Raleigh , November 4. Died a few days ago, on
White Oak, in Wake, in consequence, it is fuppof’ed, of
eating muftrooms the night before, widow Collins, her
daughter, and grand daughter.
Charleston, November 10.
ExtraSt of a letter from licut. Charles Stcveart, com
mander cf the United States schooner Experiment,
dated the 3 d October, 180a.
“ We cruised to windward of St. Bartholomew’s till
the Ift of October, which day we fell in with and captured
the French armed (three malted) schooner Diana, out two
davs from Guadaloupe, laden with sugar, coffer, and cot
ton, bound to France, under convoy of a brig of 16 nine
pounders and 150 men. This schooner mounted 8 nine
pound carronades, (6 of which they threw overboard in
the chafe) and 45 men. On board of her we had the
pleasure to find gen. Rigaud, commander in chief of the
south of St. Domingo. This is the man, fir, that has
wrested millions from my countrymen; the depredations,
the piracies, plunder and murders, he has committed on
my fellow citizens, are but too well known in the United
States; and now the supreme ruler of all things has placed
him in the hands of that country he has moil injured.”
Supervisor's Office, Diftrihl South Carolina.
Charlefron, November 1,0, 1800.
Notice to Merchants and Masters of Vejfels , and to
the Pilots.
The Superintendant of the Lightboufe Eflablifhment at
• Charlefion, South Carolina, with pleasure announces, that
the CHARLESTON LIGHTHOUSE is now completely
rebuilt, having a secure Stairs within, built of (lone and
r brick, and an iron Lantern on the top, covered with cop
per, perfectly in every refpeft secure from any accident of
fire, wherein is now” exhibited a full and very brilliant
Daniel Stevens, Superintendant.
’November 14. Yesterday arrived the ship Courier,
Manley, Hamburgh, 67 days.
November 15. YefUrday arrived, the brig General
Warren, Bowman, Tobago, out 33 days, in distress,
bound to Savannah.
SAVANNAH, November 2c.
P oft office, November 5, iSco.
The Augufla Mail, (via Louuvillc) will, irom
henceforth, clofc every Monday, at 5 in the afternoon.
Isaac Benedix, P. M.
r MAR IN E LIS T.
Entered Inward.
Sloop Factor, M‘Coy, Charlefion
Schooner Indufiry, Ross, L|o
Sloop Rachel, Brown, 1)lU0
Earl of Wycombe, Taylor, Jamaica
Schooner Sally, Grifwald, New York
Lydia* Weft, Chnrlefton
Sloop Abigail, Olmsted, New Providence
Cleared Out.
Sloop Friendship, Waitmaji, Philadelphia
, Schooner Laurel, Hitchcock, New Yorjc
Ale dive, Rudolph, St. Mary s
Extracts from his Excellency the Governor's Meffi.tge
to,the- Senate and Route cf Reprcfent-stives.
The war which has for so many years desolated u.ll
- continues, and is likely so to do until the pride and
p-rfevvrance of one of the two great rival powers flnill yie.d
to the gallant conduct and determination of the other.
The United States have happily evaded apart in this
dreadful contest, in the cokirfe of which millions of fellow
creature s have been iacrificed to the manes of royalty and
the ambition of individuals. But although we have hitherto
escaped this declared warfare, a warfare almost as dtftrnc
live has been waged on our commerce by both thole pow
ers. aiel on the persons of otir citizens by one 0- them;
torn from then- country, their de-rtfi relatives and con
nexions, they have bu n imp.-dled on board Britifli {hips
fit war, compelled to fight their battles,- and to aifift in
me continuation of this plundering fvfiein against the
itates they_ belonged to. Should, however, the armed
nen.a ny so much, talked of prevail, we have room for
hope that that haughty nation, which at prefeni rules t!ie
ocean, with her fiat trampling under foot the laws of na
tions and hospitality as (tie liiieth, will soon be reduced
to .he neccility, as file .was at the dole of our glorious
•'evolutionary war, to refinquifli the kinglv contest, and
reflore peace to the world, for which the friends of huma
nit\ mud pant, and even the deipots of Hyp-ie appear to
Satiated with blood, RtuTia, Pruflia, and it Is af
iei Ltr<l luive withdrawn trom the coalition againlt
rcpublicanifm; Britain alone keeps up the flame, and lup
poits it by depredations on the trade of all nations. Al
though it cannot be the interest of tiie United States that
Either of thole powers fliould altogether break down the
other, it certainly is their interest tiiat they iliould check
each other, ;nd that fome limits should he fixed to the
maritime power of Britain, woo'e fhi-is pi-oudlv fvveep the
ocean from the northern to ti e fouthern* pole,” and whole
politics, inimical to every principle of government but
monaichy, would lead her to exterminate from t!ie cata
logue of weds the term republic. If we have to fear, it
is trom her, and the nature ot her government; and had
the coalition iucceeded in breaking down France, there
appears more than bare probability that our hapoy form of
government would hn-r been next attacked. It"is aflbrt
cd, and with ionic color of authority, that an influence
exifis in America, partial to Britiflutile, and ready for a
monarch: indeed the cor,fpiracy of governor Blount, ft 1 fled
in the inquiry after great expence; the million of mr.
Bowles to tne (.reek rsation, 10 which he was convoyed
by a Bi itifli flooptif war, and where he ffil! is, or hover
ing with tne tomahawk on the frontiers of Georgia; the
governor of Canada s audreis lmne tune lince to the north
etn tiioesoi Indians; and a variety of other < b cumflanccs;
warrant a li:fp:cion, if not Belief, that lome plan was in
agitation hostile to the con ft i tut ion and liberties of the
United ■■s.rtes. Jt is, on the other hand, declared 111 the
papcis. tna. the Rntiltt muuiret* lias afiured our govern
ment that. Bowles is not supported b” that power; ‘out is
it ufua! for llnps ot war to be employed in the escort of a
mere adventurer? whether, however,” this be or he not the
fad, it is a duty we owe our country, ourfllv ? s, and po
fteritv, to keep a watchful eye over “our republican rights
and confutations, and to refill every monarchical imprefiion
or influence winch wi. have reason to lament there Iliould
he 100 m even io: fuipi.mn of as being in exiitence among
us, an influence hostile to our independence and our rights,
which were purchased at the expence of oceans of the
blood of our fathers.
“ Hie papers and information refpccting Bevvies, to
which your attention will be more immediately drawn, as
being more interesting to this than to anv other slate in
the Union, together with my proclamation, issued in the
ponth of July lift, forbidding his en lifting or railing men,
which he attempted to do within this flute, will he “'found
in the bundle marked No. 1, and among them a moft in
lolent letter to myfeif, proffering amity and future corre
spondence, thinking, no doubt, as I have mentioned on
this fubjeft to the secretary of slate of the United States,
that as I was stigmatized as a Jacobin in tiie papers of
Georgia, and fome of the other Bates, I must be prepared
to join any party hostile to the United States. If to be
of republican principles, and to enjoy my own opinion of
public measures, and declare that opinion freely, constitute
a Jacobin, I do not deny the charge, for I am one; they
were principles ii.fiilled into me in the trying hour of 1776,
and 1 trail I (hall never desert them: But if to support the
United States, which was done by that proclamation, and
my offer to the agent of Indian affairs, as well 11s the go
vernment, of three, or even five thousand Georgia militia,
to crush gen. Bowles, constitute a federal ill, then am Ia
federalift. Ihe richest monarch-of Uiirope is too poor to
purchase my principles, or to (hake my linn adherence to
the conftitutiohs of our country.”
“ It is with pain that I am compelled a ficornl time
during my administration to lay the extraordinary and
contemptuous conduft of the corporation of.Savannah to
wards the government which created them before you.
“ In the latter part of the month of May left, in di
red! violation of their duty, and in opposition to the ad!,
entitled, “ An aft to oblige veflels and persons coming
from places info died with epidemic distempers to perform
quarantine, and to prevent the bringing into and spreading
malignant and contagious disorders in this slate,” pafled
December the 13 th, 1793, they not only permitted the
introdud!icn of the epidemic dilorder, the smallpox, into
that city, but by beat of drum, without deigning to no
tify the executive, as the law required, of its introdudlion,
they recommended general inoculation, whereby the dis
order, at that advanced ibalbn of the year, was shortly
spread over the whole counties of Chatham and Bryan. On
receiving fubfiantial information of its introdudlion, and
the rapid jpreading of the disorder, and taking into con
sideration, that, if not checked, it would communicate to
the interior and western counties of the slate, at a season
When the extreme heats of summer prevailed, and the crops
required the utmost attention; and further considering the
religious scruples which many of you, fellow citizens, who
repreflmt the weitern and interior counties, know to exist,
as to inoculation, and the great number of persons, white
and black, old and young, refilling among us, who have
never received the infedlion; I thought it inv duty toiffue
the proclamation, marked, with the papers and other do
cuments on this fubjedl, No. 4, interdicting and prohibit
ing the communication between Chatham and Bryan and
the other counties of this slate, which under Heaven, aided
by the vigilance of the juflices of the inferior court,
and the commanding officers of the militia of the
counties of Effingham, Bulloch, and Liberty, who have
deserved credit, etle&ually prevented its general commu
nication, and in all probability a mortality which would
have been dreadful, and, from the lot's of crops by the loss
of labor, perhaps a famine; for in many families, confifl
ing of eight and ten persons, I w;s informed not one of
them had received the disorder. .1 do not wish to enlarge
‘on this unpleasant proceeding, hut the corporation certainly
ac!c.i -i if men rmtiioir ’■ .. ft:' r . j ; i-o vc.-.- b arc. t-.air
ordinances above the laws pf the slate.
“ 1 he cxpei’ce accrued :n consequence of this contemn*
taous conduct has S- ; r. c niideraliV; it iiiuii be laid before
you, and the whole, m juilice. ought t:> be levied < n ti e
funds cf the city; and i fiiou’d ikcidedlv recommend it to
vou, were it not that the mi tunes and ii.-f.tit mcch.r.ics
and others reliding tn Itm-aimab. who !-.a\e unifbrnffy uil
approved and diltonntenanced tiiofe proceeding.-:, vcidc!
alio feel the weigl.t t>;’ tl.c t;-. Bhot-'d vou.r. c.lecenc',
however, induce you to leave tire c:tv charter as it fiaiicis,
iui not levy the expcnccs on tl’.eir funds, one thing is ne
ct fiary at ad events; it is r.eceflary to clip their wings, by
defining tutir powers and prolifliiting conllnktive rights.
!. as the charter ot Savannah., or the l avs authorizing
mayors courts, intended to operate beyond the limits cf
the city? I am informed that the corporation aflame the
power ot iiiuing process, awanli ig judgment, and enforc
ing execution, tiiroi.g'i Chatham county. The propriety
of corporations at all, in a government like curs, where
the laws ought to operate equally on ;d! the citizens, may
y.tii be qiiefli.mcd, but when they ael on aflumed powers,
cennteracling the laws of the Bate with their own local
ordinances, the, become real nuisances to the lute and
the people over whom tliev prefidt.”
* i *
Died at Augufla, on Sunday the pvh inflant, after a
lingering-illness, Peter Joln.fon Carnes, e lq. iblicitor
general of this slate, aged 28 years.
TO BE LEASED,
One II ilf vs the Let i\o. c, W.ifliin^tonWarcl,
a corner lot. plcafantly fituatrd on the B. •-, 60 feet front
and 4: feet dentin
A L S 0,
1 he Lot No. 38 Columbia Ward, front"rsrj
the louth common, near tiie burying ground, fio fret
front and 90 feet depth.
For terms apply to JAMES ROBERTSON.
r F HE fubfl rilier w ill be absent from this slate for a
JL few weeks, during which time he has appointed
jofl-ph ...flier and Robert Mackav, efqrs. his attornies.
Aug,ft 16, 1800. ANDREW M-CREDIE.
John Shoolbued vT T FON the petition of Johfl.
v erf us ft Shoolbrcd, praying tie fore*
Isaac lh i.yox. .- closure of the eqmtv oi redemption
of all that J’radl of Land, containing one thou fluid acres,
lituate and being on the river A1 itamoha, in St. Davids
parifk, now county of GJyrn, adjoining land of Alexan
der M-I.eod, winch f.tid tract of land was tire property
of Lachlan M‘Gil!ivr:iv, mortgaged bv tit fa id Isaac Dc- *
1 yon to the laid'John Shoolbred, for the fccurity of a sum
of money contained in a bond from the Did Isaac Delvcrv
to the said John Shoolbrcd, bearing even date with the
laid mortgage* and on motion of Mr. Bulloch, Attorney
for the plaintiff, it is ordered, That the principal, intc- ’
rcfl, and costs, upon the said bond and ittjrtgage*, be paid
into Court within twelve months from this date, and un
lels the fame shall be so paid the equity of redemption from
henceforth be foreclofed, and other proceedings take place,
pnrfuant to an a<f! of the Afiembly in such case made and
provided. And it is further ordered, in pursuance of
the find act, 1 hat this rule be publifked in one of the pub
lic Gazettes of this (late, at lead once in every month,
until the time appointed for payment, or served on the
mortgager, or his special agent, at leaf!,fix months previ
ous to the time the money is directed to be paid as afore
faid.
Extract from ihc minutes , this 16 lb day of October,
Jn 0 . W. Graves, c. s. c. g. c.
STATE OF GEORGIA, ? SUPERIOR COURT,
Liberty County. ft April Term, 1800.
Sarah Handley, administratrix”
of George Handley, efii. de- „ . . _ .-
cea p cc { • 1 1 ctition for icreclof
verfus 11 re *
Executors Samuel Elrert.
UPON the petition of Sarah Handley, administratrix.
of .the e slate of George Handley, deceased, praying
tiie foreclofilre of the equity of redemption of a trad! or
parcel of land, callejl Butte"vfield’s Point, containing five
hundred acres, situate, lying, and being, on Colonel's
Illand, in the county of Liberty, nearly opposite the island
of St. Catherine, and the found thereof, and adjoining
lands of colonel John Baker and lands of Thomas Young,
mid having such shapes and marks as are expressive and laid
down in the plat thereof, reference thereto being had may
more fully appear, mortgaged by the said Samuel Elbert
to the said Sarah Handley, her heirs and aligns, for the
security of tie sum of two hundred and eighty-four pounds,
equal in value to one thousand two hundred “and seventeen
dollars fourteen cents, with interest; and on motion of
mr. Harris, of count'd for the plaintiff; it is ordered
That the principal, interest, and cofls, upon the said mort
gage, be paid into court within twelve months from this
day, and unlcfs the fame shall be so paid the equity of re
demption will from henceforth be foreclofed, and other
proceedings take place, pursuant to the aft of afiembly in
such case made and provided. And it is further order
ed, in pursuance of the said aft, That this rule be nubl
lifted in one of the public gazettes of this Rate, at Waft
once in every month, until the time appointed for pay
ment, or served on the mortgager, or his special agent, at
lead fix months previous to the time the money is desired
to be paid into court as aforefaid.
TO P R I N T E R~S.
A few Demy Chafes for fa!c.
laquire of th Printers.
y TCP BLANK LAND CONVEYANCES for fife L
iV\e Printing Office in Broughton street.