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attempted to land tlie troops about 40 teagu?s to the w t ft.
ward of Alexandria, .and adually disembarked a part of
one brigade, when they were immediately attacked, and
jooftly out off by the Arabs; a few were able to regain
the fliips: Finding it at length impracticable to effeft a
landing, and the troops becoming very he felt
himiilf under tlie necelfitv of returning to Toulon, where
he landed 1200 lick trocps, and thus closed the expedition.
Thus cut off from all means of funplying or reinforcing
■ their army‘in Egypt, that country was considered, by c
” very intelligent man in Marseilles, as completely loft to
France; and veffcls in that port, which had been loaded
several months for -Egypt, and were waiting for intelli
gence of Gantheaume’s success in order to their failing,.,
were taking out their cargoes, from despair of ever being
able to fend, them faftly to the place of their destina
tion.
JTev:-Torh, OBober 8. The country, in many parts
of this state and Jersey, is very unhealthy. In fome places
Whole families are taken down with the fall or bilious fever,
wtych often proves fatal in two of three days, with many
of the symptoms of yellow fever, yellowness of skin, black
vomiting, and bleeding at every pore.
October 15. Within the last 30 days there have been
no lei's than 60 foreign arrivals at Baltimore, 29 of which
were from Europe, one from Canton, and the rest from
the British and Spanish American polTeftions.
Capt. John Striker is appointed naval agent for Balti
-1 more, in the room of Archibald Campbell, efq.
OBober 16. A letter received here yesterday from
Philadelphia mentions that the fever had broke out in that
city, but that it was confined to particular parts of it.
In addition to the above, we learn from a gentleman just
arrived from Philadelphia that the mortality there was
greater than it is in this city, though he fays nothing a
bout the fever.
Died.cn Tuesday the 14th inffc.nt, in this city, of a
malignant fever, Moles Odingfells Alien, of Georgia,
aged 25 years, ton of the late rev. Moles Allen.
OBober 19. The board of health of Boston have
Hopped the intercourse between that city and New York,
Norfolk, and Charleston.
* DR, TILI.ARY’S REPORT.
Eeirig extremely anxious to ascertain with precision what
has been the number of deaths from malignant fever ftnce
its appearance among us this feafofl, as well as to procure
exaft information of the number and condition of thcfe
persons who at prelent labor under that disease, and ge- I
iieraily of the prtftnt actual state of our city, I am now |
enabled, by the poffeffiori of authentic materials, to pre- ;
sent a, view of it, which, if not thought gratifying, will
at least lay claim to the merit of being correft, and which
therefore challenges the icrutiny of any orfe to prove er
joneous or untrue.
From the 17th nit. to the ‘ 1 ft October eight persons have
died of malignant fever; from the lft to this day, the
18th of October, eighty-nine persons have died of the
feme 1 fatal.difeafe; io. that ftnce the middle of last month
to-the prefent.duy, out of upwards of iixty thcufand per
sons not more than one hundred have died-during a felly
month ,of a ’violentfall fever.
The citizens may be allured that this rijdbft is not taken
from {timid hearsay, nor from biify or intt-rtfted alarmists;
it is not drawi] from the mouths of panic-struck retailers,
•formed in groupes at every gaping idle corner; nor does it
boast the distinction of coming from a fciibbling correspond
ent of New York, and of rtipettability, to his intelligent
and quick communicating friend in Philadelphia; above
. all, I rejoice in faying, that it derives no authority from
‘the eagle-eved board of health of the city.of Philadelphia,
vigilant by land-why water, who can deuLt con- _
tagion on tire point of a boat hook, and fmeli pestilence at
a hundred miles dfftance, and who are as prompt in their
puuilhnient as they are lavilli of their pity; no, fellow ci
tizens, it is a report drawn from a source which, though fi-
is s olid; ft is taken from the record j of the deed.
The whole is in my polfelfion from the I.7th of September,
nun, women, and children, names, numbers, and dates.
To this obituary any person may have access who willies to
establish truth, fatisfy curioftty, Or remove doubt.
With :< itard to the number of new cases, as well as tfiofc
whir', were” on band, (though . unknown- and unreported
b'jfo.e the mayor's proclamation brought them out) I be
lieve I go to the utmost extent when I fay, that together
at this moment they do not exceed 30; of thele fome I
know are recovering, fome are doubtful, and fome will die.
Terror, for this season, however, has done its buftnefs
’ completely; the haunts of active life are abandoned; three
fourths of our citizens have fled, and have left the residue
without other bufvnefs than pen five contemplation, and just,
-to wonder what they are doing here.
Though we have neither had an epidemic fever, nor a
\ftate of air capable of generating or fupporti ig one, )et,
have had and full have the fever among us, tiiofe who
haVe left the city, would, I think, do well not to return
until there has been fome continuance of cold dry weather,
or they bring i’roft along with them.
James Till ary, resident physician.
Sunday.\QSl. jS.
Catf/iIK September 21. Horrid murder and silicide.
. —\ gentleman from Hurley, near Kington, Uliter
county, has given us the following narrative ftf one of
the molt {hocking and tragical catastrophes, which took
place yesterday iyjinight, that ever blackened the cata
’ ‘cgue of human events: The wife of mr. Josiah Deo, of a
pUJV called the Paltz, about two miles from Hurley, a
woman of exemplary character as to piety, modesty, and
fi.-r.fi hi lily, role in the morning, and went about the ordi
wmv buftnefs of her family, getting breakfaft, See. with
all her apparent checrfulnefs and composure. After
UrMk&ft Ike contrived to fend out al! her except
ing thre<; children, which file had designed for deftruclion,
vis. a boy about 9 years old, a girl about 7, (both of whom
were chiidreiyJjy a former hll found by the name of Zach
aririi Htiffihw).an infant daughter about 9 months old,
which ilie i.acl had ftnce her last snariage. Her nulband
fiie had peifunded to*go to a corn fieklat lome distance,
fee if then* were not creatures :n xnifclnef, a daughter
cf mr. Deo, by a former wile, a young woman, file lent
home with two children who nad fiept at her onfe the
flight and who belonged to mr. Deo s 1 r, liv-
ing in the neighborhood; a lad, also a foil of mr. Hio, by
. his fii-ft wife, /he told to go to a hatter's, about a quarter
of a mile distant, to get a flat, and to takte with him a child
between 2 and 3 years old, which, with,the infant above
mentioned, were the only two (he had had by mr- Deo.
Having thus arranged the family, /he told the'boy, one of
the viftims of her detufioft, that he might go with fome
boys who were at play nearby, while Ihe combed his lift
ers head, but not go out of call, as file would comb his
head also in a few moments. She then took the girl into
a back room, wiiich (he had darkened for the purpose, bv
letting dpwn the window curtains, and with a razor cut
her throat from ear to ear. The boy whom (lie had told
to go to the hatter’s, in the mean time, infttad of going had
seated himfelt bn the door steps, with the child, to wait, as
)ie fays, for his brother’s head to be combed, that he might
“go along with him; he heard the little girl cry out directly,
“ Don’t, mamma,'* and the mother. .rather fternly.reply,-
“ Hold your tongue;” fome faint struggles enl’ued, but
not enough to alarm him. The-mother then came to the
door and called the boy from plav, aiidffas ‘foori as he en
tered, took him to the back rdofn, and pjrformed tlie fame
operation as upon the girl, tlidugh not qiite so effectually,
i he boy at the door heard enough of thi tranficYion, to
gether with the recollection of having fecfi bis mother that
morning take a razor from behind a looking-glals and place
it under an oil cloth upon tlie table, to frighten him, and
he ran down a lane from the house with the child; lie had
not ran far before he heard a noise behind him, rfnd on
looking round difeovered his brother, (who in his ftrugglcs
had got away from his mother) with the- bloed {pinning
from his throat; he puffed him ft little* and then fell down
dead. Another (married) daughter of ran Deo, who had
been absent on this fatal morning,''happened at this moment
to arrive with her hu/band upoiE* the hu/band
took up the boy, and ptreeived be was dead and covered
with blood, but did not difeovier that was c'it,
till, after hafteuing to the house, wljere lie was witness to
the nioft shocking fpectac'le—tfiettadther, her little daugh
ter, and child, all with their throats cult, and Weltering in
their blood. A jury of inqueftff of which our informant.
was one, was immediately fummpritftty their verdict was,
MURDER and SUICIDE with one infruvaent, a ra
zor.
What could have been the oecafion of this melancholy
event is totally unaccountable,-unfefs it proceeded from a
midaken religious fanatieifm; it is, liowever, evident, froln
| a number of circumftanees, that tlie act was coolly preme
! dilated: The daughter who was sent away with the two
! children, on tlie Saturday prefcediiigy’iexpreffed a wifli to
be absent at a neighboring village tor two or three days,
observing that file had but little to do at The mo
ther replied, “ You will have enough to do on Monday.”
I lie daughter laid file did not know of any thing in parti
cular. The mother again replied, tliat it was no matter,
{lie might depend on having enough to do. It is fuppoftd
{he alluded to tlie bury ing of the dead. Another circum
stance, more striking, occurred after the dole of the me
lancholy feene; the neighbors, on. examining a chest for
linen to lay out the deceased, found in it articles exactly
necessary for the purpose, parcelled out for each individual,
and each parcel laid by itlell. ?vlrs. Deo was devoutly re
ligious, pr act long- prayer every night -in her family, yet
naturally cheerful and placid, apparently happy and con
tented in her lamily, vv.is h'gtiTv efteeilied in the neighbor
hood, and never difeovered tlie least trait ol insanity; fhc
was a member of the Congregational chuVcli, and bad par
taken of the’faerament a Week or fortnight before.
Cbarlefon , October 21. The fliip Two Friends* capt.
M‘Niel, arrived y efterday afternoon from Hamburgh, iaft
from Cowes, in 32 days. London papers to the isth
September have been received by tiffs arrival. They a3cT“
but little to our former stock of intelligence. The last
papers ftate,.that mr. Addington had rdigntd hij filiation
as prime minister, and that mr. Pitt was again to assume
the reins of government.
The Stifunnah, Penneger, from berce, has arrived at
Cowes. The Wade Hkmptorf had failed for this port;
and theCo'umUs, Ulieeffrorough, was to fail about the
20th of September.
The brig. Franklin, from Bourdeatix toffhis port, has
put into New Yoik in distress, for provisions and water.
October 22. l>y the arrival of the /loop Ranger from
New York we learn, that the United States frigate Boston,
having on board mr. kivinofton,’ the anibaffador from our
government to the republic of France, and mr. Sumter,
tlie secretary of the legation, went to sea on Thursday
morning last.
October 23. Yesterday arrived,’ the ftiip Volant, Pol
lard, Liverpool, 44 days; brig “Ffampin, Newell, Bour
deaux, 76 davs.
SAVANNAH,UkdtoWf 29.
MARINE LIS ‘IV
‘ Entered IswAßfi.
Schooner Tndiiftry, Ross, Charleston
Brig Edmund; Hands, Havana
Ship Comet, Brinton, Baltimore
Brig Ceres, Burnham, New York
REhORTED.
Schooner I'opdiam, Morrison, front Havana, bound to
Charleston.
Cleared Oirn 1
Schooner Betsey, Waterman, ’ - St. Mary’s
Alective, Rudolph, 0. Ditto
ITiree Sifters, Decala* St. Augustine
Brig John and James, Lindegre£n, Jamaica
Favorite', Jacobson, Cape de Verd
Ship Hercules, Ogden, Baltimore
Schooner Content, Saltus, St. Bartholomew’s
Sloop Salty, Church, ‘ St. Mary’s
’ ‘ *’
Elections of Members of the General Afembty on Mon-
day the stb infant.
For Bulloch County.
Charles M‘Call, Esq. Senator.
Lewis Lanier, Esq. Representative.
’ * For Montgomery Govttty.
John Jones, Esq. Senator. - y; ,
Low, Esq. ReprefenratWr*. 0 *
• “c iir .-. r.’
For IVi.f h’gton County.
John Watts, Esq. Senator.
Howard, Brice Hobfon, and—- Grice, Efqrst
Reprcfcntatives.
HT* NOTIFICATION.
THE Colleiftor’s Oflice is removed to Bull street,. near
the New Exchange. Oifice hours from nine until two
o’clock.
The payment of bon Is for duties due tlie U nitc J States, it
is expeCLd, will be attended to with that ft rift mercantile
punctuality which the high Commercial handing of the
City of Savannah leads to expeft and to demand*
OBobcr 29. THOMAS JOHNSON, Collector.;:
Cuftomhouib Bonds.
ALL fiich bonds as are now due the United States for
duties on the importation of merchand'lc, and not taken up
on or before the 15 th November next , will on that day,
without uiftinCtioii. be put into the hands of the District
Attorney lor recovery.
gjr A CASK OF LINES, No. 4,
marked I. I. G. was taken off the-wharf of Me firs. John
ston, Robertson, anl C>. while the Cleopatra was dis
charging. Information of tlx- sane will be acknowledged,
by __ JOHN J GRAY.
F O K S A L E,
lhe Farm Lot, No. i, Pcrcival
Ward, Holland Tubing, containing 45 acres old lurvey;
and
Two Farm Lots, Nos. 9 and 10,
in the Village of'Hampftead, containing together 10*
acres olei survey.
The vicinity of the above mentioned lands to this city
mult render them an object to oerlbns who wilh for fitua
t;oui-£or small farms near town. Vor terms apply to
JAMES ROBERTSON.
Savanna by ocjtb May , ißor.
—COTTON LAND.—
F O R S A L E,
A V ALUABLE Tratft of Land, on Great Setilla ri
-2_ jL ver, in the county of Camden, containing by old
survey 1500 acres, within 20 miles of the town of St,
Mary; it is at a good pitch of tide, not fubjeft to frefties,
and has a proportion of land lit for cotton, corn, and rice.
For terms apply to A. WATT.
F O R S AIE,
Georgia Paper Medium.
Apply to James Mackintosh.
IN COUNCIL
Savannah , Auguf 24, 1801.
Refjvcdy f I MI AT all fines imposed lor trading with
X or entertaining Negroes, or retailing
spirituous liquors without license, {hall be publiflied cnee
a month, stating the names of tlie persons fined, the na
ture ol the offence, and the amount of fucli fine.
And it is further ordered , Thai this resolution be
publiflied for 12 weeks fucceifivety in each of the Gazettes
of this city. ,
Extract from the minutes ,
Thomas Pitt, c. c.
XTOTICL is hereby given, That, at the e^iratioifpf
nine months from this date, an application will be
made to the Justices of the Inferior Court of Chatham
county to fell all that Lot, Part, or Parcel of Land, con
taining 60 tect in front and 90 feet in depth, being the
Eufternmoft Half Part of a Lot situate in the city of Sa
vannah, and fronting tlie market in Ellis’s square, known
in the plan of the laid city by the letter L, together with
the Buildings, Improvements, and Appurtenances, unto
the fame belonging, being the real estate of George Cud
dy, deceased, for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of
said deceased.
Joseph W?.LscHER,- att’y for Margaret Cuddy, adm’x.
December 25, 1800.
GTXIRGIA.TBTTnff 7 ard White, Clerk of the Court
( L. s. ) b> of Ordinary for the county of Chatham,
Ed. White.J in the state aforefaid.
WHEREAS Stephen Britton, of the city of Savan
nah, junior, hath made application to me for
letters of administration on the estate and effetts of George
Hardwick, late of tlie county of Chatham, diceafed, as
nearest of kin, Thele are therefore to cite and admoniflt
all and singular the kindred and creditors of the deceased
to file their objections (if any they have) in my office, on
or before the 21st day of November next, otherwise let
ters of administration will be granted him*
Given under my hand and sea!, in the city of
Savannah, the 21st day of Oflober, in the
year of our Lord 1801. and in the 26th year
c f American Independence.
“7 ASSIZE for OCTOBER, IXOI.
THE Price of Flour being 12 dollars per barrel, of
196 lbs. nett, the Bread inuft weigh as followss
1 cents loaf. cents loaf,
lb. oz. Ib. oz.
1 JOHN GIBSONS, Cfty-Treafurer.
iVVhNTY DOLLARS’KEVVAkD.
ABSENTED himfelf from me, about eight weeka
ago, A MULATTO FELLOW, named PETER;
being an artful fellow he may change his name; he is a
bout 5 feet 5 inches high, laughs when spoken to, chews
a good deal of tobacco, had on when he went away a
linen ftiirt, fwandown waistcoat, and elastic overalls.—
Whoever will apprehend said fellow, and lodge him in
Savannah gaol, or deliver him to meat Tipperary, in
Bryan county, (hall have the above reward.
W. MAXWELL jun.
Tipperary, OBober 8, iBoi